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- At the Edge of Insanity
Various people of various species in various walks of life and stuck in various situations. And all related in some way or another.
May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)
- Thread starter Dr. Snark
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- star wars canon what canon tsundere dice ck2 quest actions have consequences all the credits all work and no play makes ciaran a dull girl best sister capitalism ho! despairing qm teetotaller society member gotta catch 'em all insanity looting off the rails sage dice approaching spicy sheev tsundere asajj
Various people of various species in various walks of life and stuck in various situations. And all related in some way or another.
Panory
The Omake Dragon
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Is this going to be a hero action for Silas going forward? Because I kind of want it to be a hero action for Silas going forward.
Congrats on making me pity a character in only one paragraph btw. Not just Larana either. I also pity the Hutt who finds out he enslaved Lady Ciaran's cousin. Probably the hard way.
- Location
- Somewhere, probably Earth
You mean Silas' wandering dick.
Let's be fair here, the only reason they're related is because Silas got more xenos booty than a James Bond!expy Rogue Trader
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Bones
Don't look behind you.
- Location
- Behind you.
Thanks.
... Excellent.
When did James Bond get XENOS booty? I don't remember that movie.
- Location
- Somewhere, probably Earth
I forgot to put in the Rogue Trader bit.
In retrospect, a Kirk reference woulda been better. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
- Location
- Arcadia
Well, regarding Larana Shayal, it would be simple enough for Ciaran to purchase and free Larana, a clean way of resolving the matter without aggravating the Hutts.
It has been said before, but something should really be done about Ciaran's Learning stat so that it is at least 20. I would like Learning to be one of Ciaran's better stats again.
Perhaps next turn, we should have the Silencer train. He needs to increase his Martial score, hopefully to become the highest of the hero units again, and with it, the bonus of Grievous' Martial score increasing to match. Perhaps we can spare Grievous next turn to go on that hunting expedition.
It has been said before, but something should really be done about Ciaran's Learning stat so that it is at least 20. I would like Learning to be one of Ciaran's better stats again.
Perhaps next turn, we should have the Silencer train. He needs to increase his Martial score, hopefully to become the highest of the hero units again, and with it, the bonus of Grievous' Martial score increasing to match. Perhaps we can spare Grievous next turn to go on that hunting expedition.
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on Larana Shayal, once we have the information, why don't we simply buy out the contract from the relevant hutt/owner? she ends up employed by us until she pays off the amount we paid to free her. It should be well within our ability to pay for casually unless she has particularly pissed off the hutt.
Dr. Snark
Exactly As Planned...Probably
- Location
- Right where I want to be
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
Sure that's what Ciaran would do, but it's not how Silas Cata would handle the situation.
Remember that way back when a rival crime lord tried to assassinate Ciaran, Silas responded by basically having them and their entire organization slaughtered to the man, regardless of cost.
The man will want blood when he hears about this.
- Location
- Asia
Our mercenary cousin has lost his marbles it seems.
- Location
- madison
I don't think finding out they unknowingly enslaved a friend or family member of someone who matters is exactly new for the huts, they probably have a standard response. Given our current standing with them they would probably apologize, and then reimburse and free her. A few thousand credits and a slave is cheap for good will with a near peer trade partner.
You can't go around letting hutts think they can get you to do things by enslaving your relatives. It's just too much hassle for everyone. Far better to make a statement that people will remember. Probably by pointing The Silencer at him and then waiting for it to show up on the news.
- Location
- Arcadia
Well, it is not like the Hutts knew that Larana was Ciaran's relative. Normally, it would be a simple enough matter to resolve. The problem that needs to be addressed is determining how to prevent Silas from going on a rampage. The Abyss Watchers aboslutely cannot afford to alienate the Hutts, especially not after gaining such close economic and diplomatic ties to them.
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- Location
- america
silas will have his revenge, then we will have a new baby cousin to embarrass and cuddle and give a new business because why not, family is family right?
lets help him, by covering it up or by saying we have no idea who the crazy that massacred a hutt compound is
Bones
Don't look behind you.
- Location
- Behind you.
Silas is no idiot, and his rage isn't all consuming.
Besides, what happened to that Hutt was an accident. Hutts trip down the stairs all the time.
In unrelated new, right before the update I had gone back over the original quest thread to do 'dice statistics' for all of the turns so far. It was... interesting.
So yeah, @Teron dice are very real. We only had three turns (out of 19) where the dice average were less than 50 (though never less than 47), while fully 12 of the 19 turns had average results of 60 or more, before any modifiers were added. That's better results than we received for a week ago for Turn 21, and those results had been cause for outright jubilation!
And that's not to mention the sheer INSANITY of Turn 5 -- a natural 100 (on our Naboo heist, no less), a full third of all rolls qualifying as natural crits, with an average of nearly 75 and no rolls less than 40. What devilry is this? (Needless to say, that was the turn we went from being a small-time gang leader in the Coruscant underworld, to being a real player in galactic-level politics. Poor Teron).
It also explains why the thread had such a panicked reaction to @Dr. Snark's first rolls in this thread, on Turn 20. We've never had rolls so low, and his dice average was more than 10 less than the lowest turn average that Teron had ever rolled. That includes the catastrophic Turn 11 -- the one where we rolled three duds in a row and got put in a coma for several months due to an assassination attempt. Yikes.
Anyway, all that work meant re-reading the last thread, and I picked out a few points that I had questions about. Unfortunately, my list of questions got so long that it'd be better to post them separately.
Here are the previous turns in this thread, as rolled by Dr. Snark
- Turn 22: dice average was 50.1 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 7. 2 of 14 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 21: dice average was 59.8 (highest roll was 94, lowest roll was 8. 1 of 13 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 20: dice average was 35.7 (highest roll was 63, lowest roll was 11. 0 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 19: dice average was 47.3 (highest roll was 89, lowest roll was 5. 0 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 18: dice average was 66.1 (highest roll was 93, lowest roll was 7. 2 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 17: dice average was 69.3 (highest roll was 92, lowest roll was 42
. 2 of 8 rolls > 90%) - Turn 16: dice average was 58.6 (highest roll was 99, lowest roll was 25. 2 of 8 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 15: dice average was 68.8 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 21. 6 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 14: dice average was 67.3 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 13. 3 of 16 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 13: dice average was 48.0 (highest roll was 97, lowest roll was 1. 2 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 12: dice average was 67.4 (highest roll was 91, lowest roll was 36. 1 of 14 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 11: dice average was 48.2 (highest roll was 87, lowest roll was 4. 0 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 10: dice average was 56.0 (highest roll was 93, lowest roll was 17. 2 of 13 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 9: dice average was 65.7 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 34. 2 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 8: dice average was 54.6 (highest roll was 82, lowest roll was 18. 0 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 7: dice average was 66.4 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 38. 3 of 12 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 6: dice average was 65.5 (highest roll was 92, lowest roll was 22. 2 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 5: dice average was 74.6 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 40. 3 of 9 rolls > 90%) <-- WTF is this?
- Turn 4: dice average was 69.5 (highest roll was 95, lowest roll was 52 . 2 of 10 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 3: dice average was 66.1 (highest roll was 97, lowest roll was 8. 2 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 2: dice average was 64.7 (highest roll was 99, lowest roll was 22. 1 of 7 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 1: dice average was 59.4 (highest roll was 94, lowest roll was 31. 1 of 8 rolls > 90%)
And that's not to mention the sheer INSANITY of Turn 5 -- a natural 100 (on our Naboo heist, no less), a full third of all rolls qualifying as natural crits, with an average of nearly 75 and no rolls less than 40. What devilry is this? (Needless to say, that was the turn we went from being a small-time gang leader in the Coruscant underworld, to being a real player in galactic-level politics. Poor Teron).
It also explains why the thread had such a panicked reaction to @Dr. Snark's first rolls in this thread, on Turn 20. We've never had rolls so low, and his dice average was more than 10 less than the lowest turn average that Teron had ever rolled. That includes the catastrophic Turn 11 -- the one where we rolled three duds in a row and got put in a coma for several months due to an assassination attempt. Yikes.
Anyway, all that work meant re-reading the last thread, and I picked out a few points that I had questions about. Unfortunately, my list of questions got so long that it'd be better to post them separately.
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Stealthy
Reverently Irreverent
- Location
- Roaming
So, here's the megalist of questions inspired by my re-read of the original thread. All questions addressed to @Dr. Snark, but I'd love to hear from others as well. There's a lot of content here, and some of it is pretty significant for where we are this turn. (Most significantly, IMO, is the fact that we've apparently owned property on Castell for the last decade!)
Should I add Kashyyyk to the list of an 'Abyss Watchers assets' when I update the map for next turn?
@Dr. Snark, how should we proceed here? It looks like we have a lot more planetary assets than we thought, so what does this mean for our new facility?
I'd be inclined to hand-wave the new 'base' as Ciaran pulling together all of her corporate assets under a single mega-corporate umbrella, while investing heavily in the Castell economy in order to take advantage of the planet's ties to the Perlemian Trade Route. The idea would be to use our status as a 'Neutral' trade partner to connect Castell (a Separatist-owned world) with its neighboring Republic-owned trading partners. Thoughts?
Ah-ha! We do receive a +5 default bonus for Lore rolls, thanks to those instructional holocrons. (Please add it to the first-page list).
In other news, if we explored the Jedi Enclave, does that mean we're familiar with the history of Darth Revan and the whole 'Knights of the Old Republic' storyline? That might be useful material, if we want to sway Anakin away from the Jedi Order. Also, you can remove Dantooine from the "Archaeological Expeditions" Lore options.
Do we still receive this bonus for Naboo-related actions? We haven't done anything with the planet for a long while, despite owning several trading posts & assets on the planet (from when we were helping the planet recover after the TF invasion). Ah, memories....
According to this, our facility on Neimoidia can actually produce any and all known Trade Federation vehicles. This would include:
- Multi-Troop Transport (the big ones that can transport 112 B1 battle droids on storage racks. Designed to be operated by B1 battle droids).
- Armored Assault Tank (1 big laser, 4 'small' lasers, and 6 launchers with bunker-busting & armor-piercing shells. Designed for battle droid use).
- Single-Trooper Aerial Platform (the 'flying pogo sticks' from Episode 1, used for scouting and anti-infantry. Designed for battle droid use).
- Vulture-class Droid Fighters (the mass-producible droid ships used by the Trade Federation in the Battle of Naboo)
- Hyena-class Droid Bombers (more autonomous than the vulture droid, these carry 4 proton bombs and 6 proton torpedoes, plus lasers)
- Rogue-class Starfighter (one-man customizable combat vessel that was the starfighter of choice for the bounty hunter Cad Bane. 'Nuff said).
Depending on how you define "a few groups of engineers", it seems we have invested in the Kashyyyk economy. Given the reference to "corporations and workshops", I'm inclined to think we were investing in precisely that: company ownership and engineering facilities on the planet. Granted we weren't successful enough for the "?" (presumably the Devastator production facility), but we still have investments in the system.
Should I add Kashyyyk to the list of an 'Abyss Watchers assets' when I update the map for next turn?
When I saw this in the Turn 11 Results, my first thought was: "Wait, we have companies on Castell?" So I did a bit of backtracking, and found this in Turn 8:
So... yeah. We just spent 200 credits to build/buy a facility just so we'd have a presence on Castell, and it turns out we already owned assets on the planet. And not just one asset, but multiple corporations' worth of assets. So much so that we were one of the parties responsible (along with the Commerce Guild) for bringing Castell out of a 10-year planetary Great Depresion.
Shu Mai was one of the Gossam who suffered during a devastating ten-year economic failure around the time of the Trade Federation's Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY. This depression came about after taxes on trade routes became more and more expensive, resulting in a lowered cost and demand for Castellian goods and services.[5] During the financial crisis, the situation became so severe for the saurian species that they were murdering each other over food, money and passage offworld. However, the Commerce Guild stepped in and effectively saved the planet from complete disaster. In return for dedicated Gossam servitude, the Commerce Guild bought massive amounts of Gossam property and gave their economy a kick start with a series of huge investments. Castell eventually became one of the prime locations of Commerce Guild manufacture. One of the Gossam employed by the corporation was Shu Mai, who, through her aggressive business skills and determined nature,[4] as well as her loyal support of the Gossam workforce,[5] slowly began to ascend the Guild's ranks, until she became its Chief of Property Resources.[1]
Mai was instrumental in bringing her homeworld out of its devastating financial slump, through expert negotiation tactics and occasional illegal activities. Mai was eventually given the chance of repurchasing Castell, which would drastically reduce the rent and tributes her species had to pay to the Guild, as well as freeing them from their slave-like servitude. Shu Mai did purchase back her home planet—but only for her own gains. After the purchase, she raised rents and ruthlessly forced her people to pay her large tributes. Her superiors at the Commerce Guild were highly impressed by this maneuver and it gained her great standing among her colleagues. Eventually,[1][4] after many ruined careers and mysterious accidents,[6] she was named the new Presidente of the Guild by her peers.
Mai was instrumental in bringing her homeworld out of its devastating financial slump, through expert negotiation tactics and occasional illegal activities. Mai was eventually given the chance of repurchasing Castell, which would drastically reduce the rent and tributes her species had to pay to the Guild, as well as freeing them from their slave-like servitude. Shu Mai did purchase back her home planet—but only for her own gains. After the purchase, she raised rents and ruthlessly forced her people to pay her large tributes. Her superiors at the Commerce Guild were highly impressed by this maneuver and it gained her great standing among her colleagues. Eventually,[1][4] after many ruined careers and mysterious accidents,[6] she was named the new Presidente of the Guild by her peers.
I'd be inclined to hand-wave the new 'base' as Ciaran pulling together all of her corporate assets under a single mega-corporate umbrella, while investing heavily in the Castell economy in order to take advantage of the planet's ties to the Perlemian Trade Route. The idea would be to use our status as a 'Neutral' trade partner to connect Castell (a Separatist-owned world) with its neighboring Republic-owned trading partners. Thoughts?
Is there an update for 'Outbound Flight' in our future? We had a whole series of actions investing in the project and maneuvering the expedition to avoid Palpatine's sabotage, but we've heard nothing from them (or our agents on board) in the last decade. One of the reasons Palpatine tried to sabotage the project (besides his usual 'kill all Jedi' antics) was due to his worry that Outbound Flight would encounter the Yuuzhan Vong and return to warn the rest of the galaxy of the impending danger (...which would cause more moderate voices to regain control of the peace process and bring the Clone Wars to a sudden end in order to deal with the threat of extra-galactic invasion). Will Outbound Flight play any further role in this quest?
Ah-ha! We do receive a +5 default bonus for Lore rolls, thanks to those instructional holocrons. (Please add it to the first-page list
).In other news, if we explored the Jedi Enclave, does that mean we're familiar with the history of Darth Revan and the whole 'Knights of the Old Republic' storyline? That might be useful material, if we want to sway Anakin away from the Jedi Order. Also, you can remove Dantooine from the "Archaeological Expeditions" Lore options.
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Dr. Snark
Exactly As Planned...Probably
- Location
- Right where I want to be
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
The droid fighters and bombers are a large part of the Oracle Fleet/Kiln Home Defenses.
As for the heavier vehicles, it's more of the fact that there's really not a good way to get them off of Nemodia without raising a lot of questions. You might need a better presence to figure that out. (Hint, hint.)
Sure.
Oooh, that's a thing. In that case, I'll retcon the cost of the base to being only 100 since you have those assets on planet, and in general the Castell base upgrades will be cheaper because of it.
The agents bailed out before the Flight proceeded past Chiss space. After that, any results would be so far out that it's not certain at this point. Stay tuned.
Ah-ha! We do receive a +5 default bonus for Lore rolls, thanks to those instructional holocrons. (Please add it to the first-page list
Why do you think Ciaran specifically chose the Hall of the Preserver to talk to Anakin?
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- Location
- Germany
Worst Sith ever. And this was not even their main-academy for future Sithlords, just an aside for lesser Sith.
Barely worth looting
- Location
- madison
ok, we have to go there. If only to make fun of the force ghosts. I mean, they legit called themselves the Brotherhood of Darkness! they could not have been more chunin if they spiked their hair, and waxed poetic about how ruthless and tormented they were.
- Location
- madison
oh god they really are. Honestly I think kylo ren is more reparative of the sith than the likes of Palpatine and Darth Vader. Which kind of makes sense when they literally get stronger by brooding.
- Location
- Latvia, Riga
What I'am concerned with is :
a) How Mother Talzin + Dathomir (all other Force-users) + Vectivus shall react with one another? Some light sided, some dark sided in addition with not-traditional ones like 'US' {the Balance .... yeah, sounds good, that's our side}? Yeah, time bomb *thumbs up*
b) Ciara's parents. Admit it, it might be ... interesting ... if she meet them, showing all her success, or playing them on "How my grandfather helped me save the Galaxy... no thanks to you, of course". Extra points if she reunites the extended family. PURE CHAOS Cata style!!!
c) Hutt Jedi, what - *slap*
See I can be nice as well, you you Baka!
a) How Mother Talzin + Dathomir (all other Force-users) + Vectivus shall react with one another? Some light sided, some dark sided in addition with not-traditional ones like 'US' {the Balance .... yeah, sounds good, that's our side}? Yeah, time bomb *thumbs up*
b) Ciara's parents. Admit it, it might be ... interesting ... if she meet them, showing all her success, or playing them on "How my grandfather helped me save the Galaxy... no thanks to you, of course". Extra points if she
reunites the extended family. PURE CHAOS Cata style!!!c) Hutt Jedi, what - *slap*
See I can be nice as well, you you Baka!