Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Which is why in a fight we need to cheat as much as possible, even something as simple as blowing smoke into our enemy's face would work.
Lighting the Candles (RWBY Criminal Empire Quest)
- Thread starter Azecreth
- Start date
Well...
We do have basic snark. Can you think of a way to apply that in combat?
We also have a great special asset, so our chances aren't that low.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Yes Snark can do a lot in a fight, if we use it right we can get under the enemies skin and make them angry. Which would cause them to be reckless and above all else make them oh so predictable.
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Rather, what can't snark do? I'm more concerned that we only have basic snark. Clearly, this should be our priority when leveling up.
While canon Roman is not above an unfair advantage I think you're giving his abilities to little credit.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
That's just the lowest form used to initiate combat. Honestly if we can get some tear gas and goggles I'm sure we'd have a field day with it.
- Location
- ⇙
[X] Commercial District
[X] Oh ho ho, in your genius you've managed to create a few improvised flashbangs. They aren't the most effective, and the resources you put in were massive, but surely they'll aid in a heist right? You just really hope they wont catch anything on fire... (+6 Special Assets: Improvised Flashbangs)
[X] Torchwick Inc.
Roman's a venerable business owner.
[X] Oh ho ho, in your genius you've managed to create a few improvised flashbangs. They aren't the most effective, and the resources you put in were massive, but surely they'll aid in a heist right? You just really hope they wont catch anything on fire... (+6 Special Assets: Improvised Flashbangs)
[X] Torchwick Inc.
Roman's a venerable business owner.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Also wouldn't Aura protect against tear gas?
InfiniteDaze
Too lazy to leave the house
- Location
- I wish I could stay
...I'm scared for Remenant.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Probably helps but it would still cause the other party problems.
Unless they have Aura as well, XD Granted we haven't yet seen it go up agaisnt gas so we'll have to wait and see I suppose.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
[X] Commercial District
[X] Out of nowhere, your Uncle's Nephew's Third Cousin, his best friend, and a couple others show up at your door needing a job. You could really use the extra muscle, and so now you have several more goons in your employ ready to do whatever you say. Or at least try. (+5 Men)
[X] Roman's Candles
Starting manpower seems like the best in the short to mid term. And we need a cane and Neo desperately.
[X] Out of nowhere, your Uncle's Nephew's Third Cousin, his best friend, and a couple others show up at your door needing a job. You could really use the extra muscle, and so now you have several more goons in your employ ready to do whatever you say. Or at least try. (+5 Men)
[X] Roman's Candles
Starting manpower seems like the best in the short to mid term. And we need a cane and Neo desperately.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
So a couple of ideas for business ventures.
- Illegal Casinos
- Underground Arenas
- Certain drugs (Preferably the kind of stuff that gives us a consistent income, we want our junkies functional enough to make money to keep coming back)
- Weapons trafficking
- Smuggling
- Extortion
- Grand theft auto
- Illegal Casinos
- Underground Arenas
- Certain drugs (Preferably the kind of stuff that gives us a consistent income, we want our junkies functional enough to make money to keep coming back)
- Weapons trafficking
- Smuggling
- Extortion
- Grand theft auto
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Then we need to get a weapons shop as a front business, it'll service those combat school brats (thus giving us an idea of what they can do if we ever encounter them and allows us to pick out those we could recruit) but in reality it covers up us smuggling in and selling illegal weapons. After all even if they detect them when we import them it's very easy for them to think nothing of it since we are after all a weapons shop.
I suggest finding a way to work in a way that doesn't make us look like a criminal organization.
Several petty thefts would be much more low profile than an armed robbery. Let's start small and as low profile as we get before we have some more fire power (and the cane). Once we have enough tools to deal with low level beacon students we can start the more high profile stuff (dust shop robbery, etc).
Getting the white fang as an allied organization would also be nice, but we need a bit more power for them to consider us as someone worth talking to.
@Azecreth, 2 questions:
Would you mind sharing the information on how we can build/acquire our very own Melodic Cudgel?
Will write-ins be generally accepted during the quest? Or will we always have to choose among few pre-made options?
Several petty thefts would be much more low profile than an armed robbery. Let's start small and as low profile as we get before we have some more fire power (and the cane). Once we have enough tools to deal with low level beacon students we can start the more high profile stuff (dust shop robbery, etc).
Getting the white fang as an allied organization would also be nice, but we need a bit more power for them to consider us as someone worth talking to.
@Azecreth, 2 questions:
Would you mind sharing the information on how we can build/acquire our very own Melodic Cudgel?
Will write-ins be generally accepted during the quest? Or will we always have to choose among few pre-made options?
Does it protect against Oxygen?
Then I doubt it stops something as non-physical as an gas.
Azecreth
Giant Monster All Out Attack
- Location
- United States of America
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I will generally accept write-ins, yes.
As for Melodic Cudgel, if it exists already then you'll have to find it and then steal/earn/buy it, and if it doesn't then you'll have to make it yourself or have someone do it for you.
But since I know how much you want the pimp cane, I will say that Melodic Cudgel does exist already, and you just have to find it and then get your hands on it.
Azecreth
Giant Monster All Out Attack
- Location
- United States of America
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Your mooks have Aura. And while you could theoretically unlock it, you probably don't want mooks with sealed aura anyway.
Will there be options to train them so they don't suck quite as much?Your mooks have Aura. And while you could theoretically unlock it, you probably don't want mooks with sealed aura anyway.
I mean, we seem unlikely to get as many people as, say, White Fang apparently have access to, so focusing on quality looks best.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
So, like 10 mooks total, plus us and Neo? Ideally, they all get names and stop being such Redshirts?
Azecreth
Giant Monster All Out Attack
- Location
- United States of America
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Yes, you will, though the more time you spend devoted to actual training is less you can spend to collecting resources/doing other stuff with them.
Yeah, basically.
We should take a page out of Beacon's book, get some elites here that can mow down enemies.
Make something like teams, prepare to grind stats and then we get our own little niche for how we do things.
The city already has plenty of mooks available, we might as well make sure we go for as high a quality as we can practically manage.
Sure, we might get some nameless mooks, but I think the best deal is making sure our people are competent and capable of doing shit without us having to hold their hands every step of the way.
Could even set it up so after a while our mooks train others for us.
Way I see it, the higher quality they are, the more they can all individually do.
Aura's described as a protective shield, it doesn't stop teammates from touching each other but it does stop Grim form hurting them, I see no reason why it can't stop poison.