Meanwhile In The Sony Negaverse
Lawsuit Mini-turn
The Soundabout. Such a glorious concept. A simple idea but surprisingly tricky to actually create. It was an idea worth millions... no
BILLIONS.
It should have been yours. It
WILL be yours.
Damn George Lucas Damn Bruce O'Brian and Damn Lucas Films!
Parralel Design Your Ass! They Stole it and everyone knows it.
Information Gathering: It is a possibility however unlikely that Lucasfilms has an trick up there sleeve to stop you from getting control of your rightful property and restitutions. A few discreet payment shall ensure that there are no surprises in the courtroom. Reward Lucasfilm Collecting the facts roll revealed. DC:??? Payment Write in: $500,00 USD Roll:4
Those fucking gaijin took your money! The so called spies never reported in, the private investigators couldn't get past the front door and to top it all off your "man on the inside" turned out to be part of Lucasfilms security team.
Result: Failure. Funded Lucasfilm security's "Pizza and Donut Extravaganza".
Collecting the facts: To reclaim your rightful property you need every scrap of information about the Soundabout at your disposal to fight this.
Roll: 75.
As expected of your workers every bit of information you have about the Soundabout is gathered and prepared diligently.
Result: Everything you know about the Soundabout/Walkman is ready for trial.
Assemble the lawyers: To go against a large company such as Lucasfilm requires a large and well prepared legal team. Gather the best you have.
DC: variable Roll: 48.
Sony's legal team in ready to go and believe you have a winning case. You also hired a number of other lawyers outside of the company for good measure. You weren't able to get everyone you wanted. Some had prior commitments and some were unwilling to deal with Lucasfilms overinflated reputation. But you are confident it will be enough.
Results: A decent legal team assembled.
The only question now is are you willing to go the next step and commit to the lawsuit?
[]Yes
[]No
►Inhabitant
Not good on the security roll but the others not bad.
Still
Lucasfilm Soundabout ? Unthinkable. Also weird sounding.
Giving up without a fight?
Shamefur Dispray
So
FOR THE HONOUR OF SONY
Voting yes.
►FuddQueen
TO WAR!!!
But seriously can someone tell me how big a deal a walkman is? Besides the money of course.
►Inhabitant
The international Japanese image as the high tech futuristic foreign land was significantly helped by the widespread distribution of the sound about. Here was a piece of future tech you could hold In your hand and see it was real. the future was now and here it was. What else were you going to buy from those SONY guys?
That level of marketing cannot be understated. Like a potential plus 50 to marketing when we launch new product understated.
Also there's the huge pile of money to be made for owning the rights for the 80's IPOD
►Thanmarcue
Guys I can't shake the feeling that going to court over the walkman is a bad idea. What if Yaduck dice try to screw us again? Remember when we tried to buy out Lucasfilms originally?
►Yaduck
Hey my dice aren't that bad.
►Cyberjensen
Remember Death Eater quest?
►Yaduck
…Point taken.
►Tassadar
Yaduck has a point. His dice have mostly behaved themselves on this quest. And the flub when we tried to buy out LucasFilms last time wasn't that bad. Just getting chewed out with no mechanical downsides besides having take an action to buy United Artists the next turn. Besides It's a clear cut case of theft.
►Inhabitant
The basics of the case are solid. George and Marcia Lucas marriage is on schedule to be on the rocks so they are likely to be distracted. Not sure what Bruce's skills are but he's an actor not a tech savant.
So unless a film company with no tech development arm spent an ungodly amount of money on a legal department, and has solid evidence they invented it first?
The rewards for winning should be good.
►Vimes
Hey if we loose the Walkman we could always try to compensate by making the
RAWMAN-3000-Portable-Vinyl-Players,vinyl records have been the norm for decade so people could be interested in it since they wouldn't need to buy any tape, just using their good old beloved vinyl record.
►Dietrich Knickerbocker.
I've heard worse ideas lol
After the vote
►Herzog Wilhelm von
Ok so I've been away for a while but as the original author of this quest I've got to ask. Who the hell is Bruce O'Brian and how did he steal the walkman design for LucasFilms?!
►Yaduck
Do you remember that bunch of OC's I was rolling for when I was helping with the quest? The ones who were just meant to appear as minor characters from time to time? While most of them have been doing okish (except that poor bastard in the soviet union) Bruce however has been rolling like crazy.
As for stealing the Walkman you'll learn the truth of that soon.
►Tassadar
Dammit Yaduck dice.
►Herzog Wilhelm von
Sigh…Indeed
►Cyberjensen
This is that OC Hogwarts Teacher all over again!
►Thanmarcue
I Fucking told you!
►Dietrich Knickerbocker.
So Vimes, tell me more about that Vinal player idea.
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Ok just got done with the Negaverse chat. Let me know if you have a problem with your Negaverse selves.
