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Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest

What sort of tone should I shoot for with this Quest?

  • Go as crack fueled as you can we want Ambush Bug, Snowflame and Duckseid

    Votes: 30 7.7%

  • Go for something silly but keep a little bit of reason

    Votes: 31 7.9%

  • Adam West Camp

    Votes: 27 6.9%

  • Balanced as all things should be

    Votes: 195 50.0%

  • Mostly serious but not self-involvedly so

    Votes: 73 18.7%

  • Dark and brooding but with light at the end of the tunnel

    Votes: 12 3.1%

  • We're evil and we don't want anyone to be happy

    Votes: 22 5.6%
  • Total voters
    390
  • Poll closed .
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Also I'm curious to see what people can figure out from the alias used. There are three Easter eggs/ secrets in the alias used.
 
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Simon_Jester said:
[X] [Enhance] Cybernetics
[X] [Enhance] Bone growth formula
[X] [Enhance] Venom

Venom is deniable and not illegal in Vlatava. The bone growth formula is weird enough that Count Vertigo may hesitate to use it, but hey, more human test subjects is probably good. Cybernetics is something we already sell anyway.

[X] Plan No Creepy Stuff
-[X] [Show] The Adventures of Johnny Peril an action show by Percy Howdell
-[X] [Show] Tales of Terror by Paul Vasseria
-[X] [Show] Rex the Wonder Dog by Bob Topinazemiche
-[X] [Ad] Flakies Cereal
-[X] [Ad] Big Belly Burger
-[X] [Ad] Soder Cola
-[X] [Ad] Taco Whiz
-[X] [Ad] Fordman's (a department store)
-[X] [Ad] Haly's Circus

This avoids fueling our competitors (potential competitors in Keystone Motors' case) and avoids us advertising gambling and cigarettes to children, and hopefully avoids us running a show by the Joker. God I wish he'd quit stalking us. o_O

Anyway, the one iffy thing here is that we don't get access to Maxim Zarov. Maybe we should want that. Mari would be pissed though.
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Im in Favor of Zarov, i mean we wanted to take green initiatives anyway and i dont think big game hunting is gonna crash going green, we will just have to take green initiatiative and i think Zarov is worth it.

Also im genuinely amused by Joker, especially since he didnt try to trick us but more annoy us because that Name was dead giveaway.
 
King crimson said:
The basic premise of the show is it's a documentary where he goes out hunts and captures the animals without killing them all the while explaining stuff about their biology and behavior. Stuff you could show to kids but arguably a bit cruel to the animals.
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What kind of captures are we talking here, on a scale from Crocodile Hunter to King Kong?
Is there room to add caveats like "run this stuff past Pamela and/or Mari first"?
As a leading figure in environmentalism, LexCorp should have some nature show on its channel. If we turn this down we should try to get another one lined up.

What did Joker actually send us? There has to be more than just the title, right? Could we just forward the pitch to Batman since that's clearly the target demographic?
 
Torgamous said:
What kind of captures are we talking here, on a scale from Crocodile Hunter to King Kong?
Is there room to add caveats like "run this stuff past Pamela and/or Mari first"?
As a leading figure in environmentalism, LexCorp should have some nature show on its channel. If we turn this down we should try to get another one lined up.

What did Joker actually send us? There has to be more than just the title, right? Could we just forward the pitch to Batman since that's clearly the target demographic?
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA not only solution for The Nature stuff but also something to throw back at Joker.
 
King crimson said:
Welcome to one of the three types of Joker relationships, the one where you just want him to leave you the hell alone but he won't cause he thinks it's funny (the Joker is petty enough to stalk someone who cut him off in traffic years ago just to call them back for a laugh at their expense). Coincidentally this is also the relationship Batman has with him only his case is even worse.
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[Clenches fist]

Just one more way that Bruce Wayne is outcompeting us...

Come to think of it, imma let him have the "gets more personal attention from the Joker" prize.
 
Torgamous said:
What kind of captures are we talking here, on a scale from Crocodile Hunter to King Kong?
Is there room to add caveats like "run this stuff past Pamela and/or Mari first"?
As a leading figure in environmentalism, LexCorp should have some nature show on its channel. If we turn this down we should try to get another one lined up.

What did Joker actually send us? There has to be more than just the title, right? Could we just forward the pitch to Batman since that's clearly the target demographic?
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More crocodile hunter then King Kong for now. It's ultimately Oswald's decision so there isn't room for caveats (it's yes or no to run the show and it's his job to do that).

A twenty minute animated pilot of a clown and the mayor of Happytown (who resembles the mayor of Gotham) getting into whacky hijinks.

Can't mail the pitch because you don't know who Batman is or how to contact him. Furthermore the pitch was mailed from New York so you have no reason to send it back to Gotham.
Defiant Roar said:
@King crimson

Maxim Zarov's Animals of the World. What exactly is the show ? since i presume we would be able to know what it is exactly, especially since its not Joker show.
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The basic episode format is Maxim goes to some remote location and talks about an animals biology and behavior as he attempts to catch it on his own. Once he catches it he points out some stuff up close on the animal and then lets it go.
 
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King crimson said:
More crocodile hunter then King Kong for now. It's ultimately Oswald's decision so there isn't room for caveats (it's yes or no to run the show and it's his job to do that).
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Hm. Well, I trust Oswald to listen to Dr. Isley (co-op 1.3, as I recall). I'm now convinced Zarov's show isn't creepy and will add it to my own plan.

Can't mail the pitch because you don't know who Batman is or how to contact him. Furthermore the pitch was mailed from New York so you have no reason to send it back to Gotham.
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New York is literally right across the Hudson river from Gotham.

If we deduced IC that the Joker might be involved (which we might not, admittedly, and Oswald very likely wouldn't), then the part where it was mailed from New York proves absolutely nothing except "the Joker can hitch a ride over the George Washington Bridge."

It is approximately as effective a means of hiding the Gothamite roots of your action as our efforts to, ahem, "h i d e" the Sword of Beowulf.
 
@Negation
@LollipoPReapeR
@HavocOrder0999
@Defiant Roar

I've become convinced Zarov is OK and included his show in my plan.

[X] Plan No Creepy Stuff
-[X] [Show] The Adventures of Johnny Peril an action show by Percy Howdell
-[X] [Show] Tales of Terror by Paul Vasseria
-[X] [Show] Rex the Wonder Dog by Bob Topinazemiche
-[X] [Show] Maxim Zarov's Animals of the World
-[X] [Ad] Flakies Cereal
-[X] [Ad] Big Belly Burger
-[X] [Ad] Soder Cola
-[X] [Ad] Taco Whiz
-[X] [Ad] Fordman's (a department store)
-[X] [Ad] Haly's Circus
 
So I can see the obvious Easter egg in the alias LAUGH. I don't have any clue what Hermodriso is. But Ignatius was a character in a book called confederacy of dunce's so it's probably a reference to that. My last guess is that a nonagaon is a figure with nine sides and nine angles and it looks kinda like a circus tent from a birds eye prospective. Anybody else have thoughts?
 
Simon_Jester said:
@Negation
@LollipoPReapeR
@HavocOrder0999
@Defiant Roar

I've become convinced Zarov is OK and included his show in my plan.

[X] Plan No Creepy Stuff
-[X] [Show] The Adventures of Johnny Peril an action show by Percy Howdell
-[X] [Show] Tales of Terror by Paul Vasseria
-[X] [Show] Rex the Wonder Dog by Bob Topinazemiche
-[X] [Show] Maxim Zarov's Animals of the World
-[X] [Ad] Flakies Cereal
-[X] [Ad] Big Belly Burger
-[X] [Ad] Soder Cola
-[X] [Ad] Taco Whiz
-[X] [Ad] Fordman's (a department store)
-[X] [Ad] Haly's Circus
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That makes it exactly identical to the plan I posted before yours but as long as people are voting for it great.
 
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Erumpet said:
That makes it exactly identical to the plan I posted before yours but as long as people are voting for it great.
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Sorry, I honestly lost track. Hang on a minute.

@Negation
@LollipoPReapeR
@HavocOrder0999
@Defiant Roar
@ThatGuyWithIdeas

I am officially withdrawing my "No Creepy Ideas" plan and endorsing @Erumpet 's plan for Lightyear Entertainment. Note that I disagree with @Erumpet (and others) about sharing the bone growth formula with Vlatava. In its present state I doubt it will be of much interest to the US military, but Count Vertigo might be interested.



[X] [Enhance] Cybernetics
[X] [Enhance] Bone growth formula
[X] [Enhance] Venom



[X] Plan: PR blitz
-[X] [Show] The Adventures of Johnny Peril an action show by Percy Howdell
-[X] [Show] Tales of Terror by Paul Vasseria
-[X] [Show] Rex the Wonder Dog by Bob Topinazemiche
-[X] [Show] Maxim Zarov's Animals of the World
-[X] [Ad] Flakies Cereal
-[X] [Ad] Big Belly Burger
-[X] [Ad] Soder Cola
-[X] [Ad] Taco Whiz
-[X] [Ad] Fordman's (a department store)
-[X] [Ad] Haly's Circus
 
Honestly you guys, I don't care too much about the TV aspect of this vote, apart from the obvious (clown etc). Are we thinking too much into this? I mean will this have any appreciable effect on the game?
 
LollipoPReapeR said:
Honestly you guys, I don't care too much about the TV aspect of this vote, apart from the obvious (clown etc). Are we thinking too much into this? I mean will this have any appreciable effect on the game?
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I mean, some of the choices (does the Totally Not Coca-Cola brand advertise on our channel or not) don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Others may have more consequences (i.e. running Zarov's TV show might give us access to a very proficient hunter/investigator hero unit).
 
[X] Plan No Creepy Stuff
-[X] [Show] The Adventures of Johnny Peril an action show by Percy Howdell
-[X] [Show] Tales of Terror by Paul Vasseria
-[X] [Show] Rex the Wonder Dog by Bob Topinazemiche
-[X] [Show] Maxim Zarov's Animals of the World
-[X] [Ad] Flakies Cereal
-[X] [Ad] Big Belly Burger
-[X] [Ad] Soder Cola
-[X] [Ad] Taco Whiz
-[X] [Ad] Fordman's (a department store)
-[X] [Ad] Haly's Circus
 
@Defiant Roar

That vote is literally identical to "Plan: PR blitz." And vote fragmentation is a thing; @King crimson shouldn't have to curate multiple identical plans.

I already changed my vote to that because it was Erumpet's plan. Are you open to doing so?
 
Simon_Jester said:
@Defiant Roar

That vote is literally identical to "Plan: PR blitz." And vote fragmentation is a thing; @King crimson shouldn't have to curate multiple identical plans.

I already changed my vote to that because it was Erumpet's plan. Are you open to doing so?
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Oh sorry brainfart didnt realize the vote fragmentation
Changing vote
[X] Plan: PR blitz
-[X] [Show] The Adventures of Johnny Peril an action show by Percy Howdell
-[X] [Show] Tales of Terror by Paul Vasseria
-[X] [Show] Rex the Wonder Dog by Bob Topinazemiche
-[X] [Show] Maxim Zarov's Animals of the World
-[X] [Ad] Flakies Cereal
-[X] [Ad] Big Belly Burger
-[X] [Ad] Soder Cola
-[X] [Ad] Taco Whiz
-[X] [Ad] Fordman's (a department store)
-[X] [Ad] Haly's Circus
 
[X] Plan: PR blitz

Has Robin even appeared yet? We might end up stopping it if we bring enough publicity/sales to the circus.
 
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