Thanks. I don't consider it a priority immediately, but maybe soon. Does it count as 'cold' research for purposes of Snart and Lincoln's special Learning bonuses?
I mean, he's also so powerful that the only things that can defeat him are God and things directly and uniquely connected with himself.
Yes it does
I totally see where you're coming from but what I would argue is that Lex is the kind of super villain that sees Earth as his planet and humanity as his people, if some demon thinks he's going to wipe them out or enslave them or whatever the fuck demons do then he has another think coming and whilst it would be great if other people could be trusted to handle the situation none of them are as capable as him and unfortunately likely to fall victim to incompetence, bad luck or one of the other litany of problem that plagues lesser men so he might as well deal with it. Especially if it gets him recognised by those in the know as the man who defeated an ancient demon trying to destroy Earth
I'm already planning on Pamela+Oswald for "Hire New Executive," personally; I mentioned that at some point. As for Lucy- well, if we do "Meet With Lucy," and we put Lucy alone on it, we have only a slim chance of failure. I was figuring to put Lucy herself on it, just because I expect better results from the meeting between Lucy and Lex if Lucy is, y'know, focusing on it?
I'm pretty sure the DC of 5 factors in Future Construction. And if you want to vote for 'build apartments,' go ahead; I respect that.
I knew you already planned to have Oswald and Pamela on the executive so just meant to add Lucy
This is true of every threat. We should try to be prepared to handle as many threats as we can, but that doesn't mean spending effort looking for trouble that we could put towards expanding our capabilities or killing Superman('s reputation). There's too many world-ending threats for us to seek out and pick fights with all of them.
If we're looking at this from an in character perspective I'd argue that it's very out of character for Lex to know about a magical pocket dimension that he can access very easily and learn from and completely ignore it for no reason since he doesn't know about Trigon yet and even if he did I don't think that would stop him
We could fold Mercy in for +5+10; we don't need her on Martial/Intrigue as badly as we usually might. Plus it would make IC sense for Mercy to be part of the team personally vetting our candidates.
True, although as we've learned with Dr. Moon and Dr. Helfern, C-list and D-list characters can still be... problematic if they have strong obsessions.
In fairness, you have a point- though at a bare minimum I'd like to have Cerise back in action and maybe recruit or train a third adult magician before we dive into deep magic. Magic is an area where most of Lex Luthor's resources and talents and assets are relatively useless and the playing field is much closer to level between us and potential enemies. It's an area where many potential opponents have centuries or even millenia of experience acting, while we have only years of experience.
Eh, that still wouldn't make it a guaranteed success and would put the roll out of the exosuits at risk of failing, assuming that's what Mercy is assigned to like you originally suggested, I think you're right that just the two of them will be enough
Fair enough, that makes sense to me
I still think the best thing we can do for Karl, besides getting him a better therapist and keeping him away from Moon, is help him get some revenge on Kobra
Oh I'm not saying we should dive right in straight away, just that we should initiate communication with them as soon as we can so that we can learn from them before they get wrecked and when Raven gets stranded on earth she at least knows some people that knew about Azarath
Oh agreed, we should definitely hold off on antagonising Kobra for a while
My old plan predates Roxy being boosted into a Martial 29 (?) juggernaut. And several actions have changed. It'll have to be updated significantly and should be considered at best an outline.
I am not averse to that.
Basically yes. When I hired him I hoped he knew cool shit like how to do brain transplants, but he... doesn't, really.
I certainly hope so!
Turn 20 or 21 depending on some background rolls.
Good, I really want to give Carl the ability to control earth or metal
And that is why we made sure to get force field generators from the load of alien salvage we had Dr. Ivo work on.
I'd rather have all our units stick to learning languages and only upgrade them with the Everyman Project. Cybernetics is a pain since tech upgrades with every generation/breakthrough and constant surgery is too much downtime. I want our Hero Units to have the best stuff, not minor boosts that could inhibit future growth.
Well, I don't consider the plant formula a "minor boost that could inhibit future growth," personally. You have a fair point about Felicity, and we should probably kick that can down the road a ways since it's not like we have mind-enhancing cyberware to upgrade her with in the first place. If we did, at some point I'd rather have to invest in another round of surgery every dozen or so turns as we kept improving the tech, then never get the upgrades at all.
Can I haz 100 exp? 🐱
Honestly we don't have our fingers in a lot more pies than a real billionaire corporate guy very well might, and we're leading in several sectors.
I mean, the last several turns have been plan votes, for all intents and purposes, in that a whole lot of people copy-pasted the same list of X options and voted for them. What's bothering you is a perceived lack of long range planning, and letting us vote each individual turn for a plan wouldn't necessarily fix that.
That's a fair point. On the other hand if we do that, we should probably drop "Create a school for metahumans," because those tasks place overlapping demands on the attention of our best Stewardship heroes and are unlikely to succeed impressively without it. Our online banking is a disappointment in large part because we never put sufficient heropower on it, and if we're gonna go into online storefront operations, I want to be the next Jeff Bezos, not the next whoever the person who founded eBay is.
