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@King crimson how transparent is full transparency?
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Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest
- Thread starter King crimson
- Start date
- Superhero
[X] [Aftermath] Engage in total transparency to attempt to assuage any fears of LexCorp being in the wrong by the public
- [X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Provide full medical care to the casualties while secretly gathering data to determine how & to what extent they were injured.
Since Lex isn't an idiot, presumably the transparency only extends to the event.
- [X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Provide full medical care to the casualties while secretly gathering data to determine how & to what extent they were injured.
Since Lex isn't an idiot, presumably the transparency only extends to the event.
- Location
- California
@King crimson Overall I'm ok with how things played out. While the interactions didn't quite work the best in our favor, they felt real. Good to see Diana's talk with Cassandra went well.
I feel like this sentence:
is what is causing some people distress, as it seems to trigger a "worst case scenario" response.
This reassured me:
I kind of want to go with:
[ ] [Aftermath] Smear Sinclair Batson's name as much as possible to make him look like a deluded schizophrenic who just happened to get lucky when getting past the guards
and just phrase it as the stress gave him a mental breakdown.
I feel like this sentence:
is what is causing some people distress, as it seems to trigger a "worst case scenario" response.
This reassured me:
I kind of want to go with:
[ ] [Aftermath] Smear Sinclair Batson's name as much as possible to make him look like a deluded schizophrenic who just happened to get lucky when getting past the guards
and just phrase it as the stress gave him a mental breakdown.
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- Location
- Singapore
@King crimson how's this? :-
[ ] [Aftermath] Write-in: Shift the blame onto others, more specifically a poor & beleaguered National Healthcare system. Begin a campaign for Healthcare Reforms so people who are Physically & Mentally ill can be better diagnosed and recieve help.
[ ] [Aftermath] Write-in: Shift the blame onto others, more specifically a poor & beleaguered National Healthcare system. Begin a campaign for Healthcare Reforms so people who are Physically & Mentally ill can be better diagnosed and recieve help.
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- Fifth Dimension
And it's something so common there's a name and a term for it. Think about it.
[X] [Aftermath] Make use of your control of the police to have it seem as though you were investigated while shifting the blame onto others, more specifically Lois Lane.
- Location
- Singapore
- Location
- Hala
Doesn't the name make it apparent clear?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I mean, I mostly just figured that Sinclair Batson wasn't going to get much of a say in the matter given that Mr. Mind has him pretty close to meat-puppeted.
Hopefully this means no Gamergate bro culture in the DCQU, what with one of the leading game design companies being led by a woman who, if bitterly jealous of Wonder Woman, is nonetheless a feminist?
Well, bonus points to Young Natasha. Also we need anger management and socialization for Jinx. Cassandra is a more disciplined person, I worry less about her.
Heh. Still a few things to learn.
Well, opportunity mostly-missed, but eh.
D'oh.
I... can't help but keep being frustrated that the people we get control over the actions of during these events, aside from Lex himself, tend to be exactly the people who aren't suited to the job of making connections and focusing on the bigger picture. At least last time, the people Carl interacted with, he tried to recruit or at least put in a good word with. Lisa... didn't really even try.
OK that's good. Morale boost if not co-op boost.
I like the cut of her jib.
Excellent.
...Uh.
@King crimson
Diana has been operating in or around Washington, D.C. for a couple of years and has had numerous opportunities to see major public demonstrations, events, rallies... I actually feel kind of sorry for her if she's ever attended the 4th of July festivities on the Washington Mall, which are absurdly crowded and packed and probably a lot bigger than would even fit in Centennial Park.
I strongly, strongly suspect that unless she has been deliberately avoiding crowds, even when doing so would make her seem a bit strange, she has seen a crowd like this at least a few times.
Sorry for the nitpick, but as a DC area native, I just think it'd be a bit surprising for someone to work as a senior government official for years and never see a big crowd. Wonder Woman, with her alter ego being Diana Prince, minor functionary in the Department of the Navy or something, might not see crowds much, but Diana Prince, who is at most one or two steps down the totem pole from a Cabinet secretary, would have seen a few in the past five years.
Also sheesh we are working on the stun weapons.
So Mr. Mind was after us. And... gutsy of Luthor.
Note: Either Sinclair was, or Mr. Mind is, a frighteningly good shot. No wild gunfire here as I understand it.
Well, shit, Mr. Mind went for the buffet AND the five-star dinner.
@King crimson , can we get a list of the brain-drained? Anyone we've dealt with previously?
[X] [Aftermath] Make use of your control of the police to have it seem as though you were investigated while shifting the blame onto others
[X] [Aftermath] Smear Sinclair Batson's name as much as possible to make him look like a deluded schizophrenic who just happened to get lucky when getting past the guards
I don't want full transparency when we have a pretty credible case for spinning this. And I do NOT want to blame the police and sour our relationship with them when the very nature of that relationship means that while we control them, they have dirt on us just by how we exercise that control.
Also...
[X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Provide full medical care to the casualties while secretly gathering data to determine how they were injured.
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- Hala
Smearing a mentally ill person... let's not.
I mean, I was down with this idea, but this looks so bad in the Public's eye. Hence, my change of heart.
Blame Lois for radicalizing people against LexCorp.
KC did mention that only two targets in Mr. Mind's eyes, were Lois and Luthor.So Mr. Mind was after us. And... gutsy of Luthor.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And he went for one of them.
Ring ring..I mean, I mostly just figured that Sinclair Batson wasn't going to get much of a say in the matter given that Mr. Mind has him pretty close to meat-puppeted.
Hopefully this means no Gamergate bro culture in the DCQU, what with one of the leading game design companies being led by a woman who, if bitterly jealous of Wonder Woman, is nonetheless a feminist?
Well, bonus points to Young Natasha. Also we need anger management and socialization for Jinx. Cassandra is a more disciplined person, I worry less about her.
Heh. Still a few things to learn.
Well, opportunity mostly-missed, but eh.
D'oh.
I... can't help but keep being frustrated that the people we get control over the actions of during these events, aside from Lex himself, tend to be exactly the people who aren't suited to the job of making connections and focusing on the bigger picture. At least last time, the people Carl interacted with, he tried to recruit or at least put in a good word with. Lisa... didn't really even try.
OK that's good. Morale boost if not co-op boost.
I like the cut of her jib.
Excellent.
...Uh.
@King crimson
Diana has been operating in or around Washington, D.C. for a couple of years and has had numerous opportunities to see major public demonstrations, events, rallies... I actually feel kind of sorry for her if she's ever attended the 4th of July festivities on the Washington Mall, which are absurdly crowded and packed and probably a lot bigger than would even fit in Centennial Park.
I strongly, strongly suspect that unless she has been deliberately avoiding crowds, even when doing so would make her seem a bit strange, she has seen a crowd like this at least a few times.
Sorry for the nitpick, but as a DC area native, I just think it'd be a bit surprising for someone to work as a senior government official for years and never see a big crowd. Wonder Woman, with her alter ego being Diana Prince, minor functionary in the Department of the Navy or something, might not see crowds much, but Diana Prince, who is at most one or two steps down the totem pole from a Cabinet secretary, would have seen a few in the past five years.
Also sheesh we are working on the stun weapons.
So Mr. Mind was after us. And... gutsy of Luthor.
Note: Either Sinclair was, or Mr. Mind is, a frighteningly good shot. No wild gunfire here as I understand it.
Well, shit, Mr. Mind went for the buffet AND the five-star dinner.
@King crimson , can we get a list of the brain-drained? Anyone we've dealt with previously?
[X] [Aftermath] Make use of your control of the police to have it seem as though you were investigated while shifting the blame onto others
[X] [Aftermath] Smear Sinclair Batson's name as much as possible to make him look like a deluded schizophrenic who just happened to get lucky when getting past the guards
I don't want full transparency when we have a pretty credible case for spinning this. And I do NOT want to blame the police and sour our relationship with them when the very nature of that relationship means that while we control them, they have dirt on us just by how we exercise that control.
Also...
[X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Provide full medical care to the casualties while secretly gathering data to determine how they were injured.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
Revealing what projects you are dealing with at any given time, revealing to the consumers every step you have taken in creating a product, providing a list of where the money goes and the internal systems and departments at LexCorp and providing the information on who you are meeting with and when. This can be dialed back in a write-in but the more details you reveal the harder it gets to hide anything.
This is fine as a write-in
That might be a mistake on my part. I will say that Diana has been avoiding crowds for the most part (the DEO was secretive as hell and didn't really interact with people and she's been busy as the Director of the DOMA) but you are likely correct in your assessment. I'll go back over it once I get things more in order in my life and possibly make the correction to change it from "never" to "rarely"
They are all people who are not hero units. Basically while Mr. Mind was at the event and he figured he had all the time in the world to eat he went after minor scientists who wouldn't be missed who while better than the average person are still nothing special since he knew that if he caused a panic or went after Luthor first he'd be unable to get more. Once he learned he was on a time limit he switched tacks and immediately went after the biggest payoff and his main target since he was running out of time and if he dawdled as he initially planned to do he would have no chance of getting the prize. Mr. Mind switched plans dependent on the context.
Mr. Mind ended up draining 23 people in total (24 if you count Sinclair who he decided to utterly erase every aspect of before he died except for his ability to feel pain and fear as a final screw you for messing up his plans to get at Luthor).
Before people move to throw Lois under the bus, please consider General Sam Lane is RIGHT THERE. For all their issues, Lois is the favorite daughter and General Lane is going to be considered both a direct witness and an authority on this kind of situation. Add that to his political pull, which is apparently enough to kill restraining orders, and you've got a dirty dealing heavyweight on her side.
And of course, you've got 'Clark Kent'. And Lois herself being the archetype of investigative reporting.
Framing someone in the court of public opinion who has a platform to preach with is hard enough without all that stuff.
And of course, you've got 'Clark Kent'. And Lois herself being the archetype of investigative reporting.
Framing someone in the court of public opinion who has a platform to preach with is hard enough without all that stuff.
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[X] [Aftermath] Make use of your control of the police to have it seem as though you were investigated while shifting the blame onto others
[X] [Aftermath] Smear Sinclair Batson's name as much as possible to make him look like a deluded schizophrenic who just happened to get lucky when getting past the guards
[X] [Aftermath] Smear Sinclair Batson's name as much as possible to make him look like a deluded schizophrenic who just happened to get lucky when getting past the guards
- Location
- California
[X] [Aftermath] Make use of your control of the police to have it seem as though you were investigated while shifting the blame onto others
[X] [Aftermath] Smear Sinclair Batson's name as much as possible to make him look like a deluded schizophrenic who just happened to get lucky when getting past the guards
[X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Provide full medical care to the casualties while secretly gathering data to determine how they were injured.
[X] [Aftermath] Smear Sinclair Batson's name as much as possible to make him look like a deluded schizophrenic who just happened to get lucky when getting past the guards
[X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Provide full medical care to the casualties while secretly gathering data to determine how they were injured.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Can you please dial back the 'bra' and 'bruh' jokes and the meme-ing about random quests that aren't related to this one? It's getting kind of frustrating, because you're engaging with the events in this quest on terms that don't really relate to the terms anyone else is using.
The problem is that, well, we DID have a mass shooter type infiltrate our event, somehow disable several scientists by means unknown (though we may be able to pass that off as an unrelated event and not our fault), and kill multiple security guards and hold a little boy hostage with a gun to his head. It's not a good combination and we could reasonably be subject to a lot of criticism for insufficient security measures.
In our defense, our security would probably have held out a lot better if there hadn't been a fucking telepathic mind control worm on the shoulder of the mass shooter in question, but we can't exactly use that explanation in-character.
This sounds like a high-DC Intrigue check, because we have to make it somehow look like Sinclair Batson was a major Lois Lane fan or something, when we have no evidence for that and no reason to believe we do. Also Lois hasn't actually published that many damning hit pieces on us, if any, because we've stopped her from digging up any dirt.
I think I'd rather leave the "other parties" nonspecific and NOT try to dump all the blame on a single target who may be hard to link to the shooter, but instead take advantage of whatever targets of opportunity we can find.
Succeeding matters more than hacking at Lois Lane's reputation. Let's not make this harder than it has to be.
Looks like. Or has some kind of psychic link to Slade that's making her ape him at stressful moments. Notice that she tore out her eye in a nightmare at some point before we hired her- that's fucked up. And how now she gets dysphoria from having two eyes, so we can't even give her a prosthetic.
Someone or some thing is trying to actively make over Rose Wilson into a gender-swapped version of her father. Which I don't particularly mind as long as she's on our side, but if it makes her erratic and prone to act against our interests, it's a problem I suppose.
Though in this case, I can't complain about her actions viewed in isolation; it's the context that made her problematic. Rose Wilson did the good-soldier thing, given that her markswomanship was up to the task of taking the shot.
OK this is a good idea.
Trying to throw Lois under the bus means we have to wrestle with Lois in a PR battle. There is no reason to think it will be EASY to discredit Lois with this. Unless Sinclair Batson has a convenient pre-existing Handshake page on which he's posted lots of Lois Lane articles criticizing us or something (and faking one up would be a mistake)... It could backfire badly.
I care more about successfully deflecting this shit-shower so that none lands on US, than I do about making sure that at least some of the deflected shit lands on LOIS. If both Lex and Lois have clean reputations after this, I call it a win; if Lex and Lois both come out moderately dirty, I call it a loss.
Yep! I was taking that as a given, though.
The good news is, we'll be behind our wards and security soon, and weird random people
But we're going to have to be very careful about public appearances. No book tours or anything.
The good news is, no one's going to question it if we expand and train up security after this.
With that said... the public may not even realize the scientists were killed as part of the same event that ended in Sinclair Batson's death. The scientists are catatonic or dead after being brain-drained; that isn't obviously something a bog-standard mass shooter type like Sinclair Batson appears to have been to the public could do. As far as they know, he was just a random lunatic with a gun.
I mean, this is one of the biggest mass gatherings likely to happen in Metropolis this year. Of course the police were there and coordinating with LexCorp security. That's normal.
@jonasquinn
Look, our relationship with the police in Metropolis is a valuable asset that we've spent several AP building up. If you REALLY want to jeopardize our control over them in a Trumpian fit of temper about how the people who we paid good money and effort to train, equip, and establish lines of influence over "screwed up" our event and how it's all their fault and none of it is our fault... you can vote to do that. But it's a bad idea and it risks pissing off Metropolis law enforcement. You know, the guys who have the legal authority to march into our building and just grab our stuff as evidence for anything they can get a warrant for?
Also, Sinclair Batson did manage to kill at least two of our security troopers. This wasn't all the police getting beaten up.
I think we'd be much better off picking a different strategy, NOT blaming the police or getting pissy about how the public is upset with our security... and instead using this event as a pretext to further train and upgrade our security forces so they aren't just redshirt mooks the next time something goes wrong.
I'm pretty sure she's legally an adult? Maybe eighteen or nineteen?
@King crimson , am I wrong here? How old is Rose Wilson?
We are known to be supporters of the police, and the police and LexCorp security troops worked together closely during this event, as they should have been doing. Given that there were casualties on both our part and the police's part, and that there are multiple dead cops involved and the cops do NOT like it when cops die... I think we'd better avoid trying too hard to blame the cops or get upset at the cosmic injustice of other people blaming us along with the cops.
I mean...wouldnt he support it as it forces Lois into his hands and out of press? This would get his backing
I'm sorry, what?
- Location
- Singapore
@veekie can I convince you to change your vote to my latest version?
[X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Make use of your control of the police to have it seem as though you were investigated while shifting the blame onto others, more specifically a poor & beleaguered National Healthcare system. Begin a campaign for Healthcare Reforms so people who are Physically & Mentally ill can be better diagnosed and recieve help.
- [X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Provide full medical care to the casualties while secretly gathering data to determine how & to what extent they were injured.
- Location
- Hala
Literally the lyrics of the song.... *facepalm*
No, memes about random Quest. *confused face*
Welp, Mafia thing is just a normal meme on the internet. Since it was humor I spaced it and the statement I wished to make before.
Take mah money
[X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Make use of your control of the police to have it seem as though you were investigated while shifting the blame onto others, more specifically a poor & beleaguered National Healthcare system. Begin a campaign for Healthcare Reforms so people who are Physically & Mentally ill can be better diagnosed and recieve help.
- [X] [Aftermath] Write-in: Provide full medical care to the casualties while secretly gathering data to determine how & to what extent they were injured.
Kufufu
Adequate at best
- Location
- What's it to ya?
When we successfully frame her for the deed (and we will) she will be all but rushed out the door of her office building and find her self "Persona non grata" in any office, thus driving her back to her father. The good general may not appreciate the (probably true from the outside view) defamation of his daughter but will greatly appreciate her no longer working in journalism, so it balances out and then some.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
I can check my notes but I'm pretty sure she was about sixteen when you hired her and as such she is around 18 or so. I'm not 100% sure though and I can say fairly confidently that she isn't old enough to drink in the US (she's under 21).
Rose's trait kicking in right there. She has a Killer's instincts. Their just not her own. I've been sitting on that little twist on why the trait was specifically named that for a while waiting to spring it when the time is right.
- Location
- Hala
Can we please not blame a mentally ill person (according to the media)?
Like, this would look so bad.
'Lex Luthor, Billionaire, and War-Profiteer blame the mentally ill person for the events that took place at Lexpo.' Just one random statement that might pop up in the media.
You know simon, when a phone rings you should pick it up.
Cause you'll never guess who called it.
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Non-canon fanart: Vixen vs. Superman
- Location
- Fifth Dimension
