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Operation Weihnachtswunder (A CK2 Style Quest to Save Christmas!)

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Well... Antarctica would certainly be good for poor Jack Frost. That said, "disengage from all the things" seems non-ideal.

On the flip side, the thing where Scrooge & Marley's is incredibly easy to find seems like it would combo really very poorly with Blitzen's contractual issues. I mean, I *also* want to make the house spirit happy, but... that's a very real risk.

As such... I'm only seeing two that *might* beat Scrooge and Marleys

[X] Antarctica
[X] Tokyo, Japan.

I think that hanging out with the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel could be kind of cool, and Antarctica... well, it's way out of the way, but there are at least synergies there.
 
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    • oh, using our store won? having to deal with being public may be a pain (and like @Sirrocco mentioned it'd mean having blitzen in easy reach), but at the very least we probably need to do less setup if we already have toy-production facilities, people employed and whatnot, so we can go straight onto the important things?

    ok, so to deal with our issue with being easy to find, I think that rather than fending off constant harassment it's probably worth taking a few steps to avoid our identity getting out if at all possible? we could at least try to avoid certain things that'd expose us early on in the quest, and worst case scenario with that is we get a grace period to set up without being messed with
    I'm not sure exactly what options would be available, but if write-ins are allowed/i predict options successfully I've got some ideas to try? i imagine to prevent getting exposed we'd need to both prevent people from noticing the supernatural stuff going on (and sharing that info) and to prevent the connection being made that the new Santa is Scrooge.

    for the former we may want to pre-emptively swear our employees to secrecy to avoid rumors getting out (presumably they'll see blatantly supernatural stuff if we're using the workshop seed to improve everything so can't be kept in the dark)
    and try to prevent anyone unrelated from noticing the movements of stuff like the sleigh/allies in the area so maybe we can use christmas spirit to upgrade the sleigh to travel underwater/disguise itself as a car? traveling by sea when moving off continents and blitzen getting in and driving it (as in, it's landbound functionality) might be a good bet to get around any satellite cameras or anything :P

    for the latter, we'd probably need to be careful with public action we do to stop people finding out that the new santa's name is scrooge. in most situatons we could just *not* say this, but with minimum intrigue it may be pretty hard. maybe if we use intermediaries like jack frost when he's better?
    and maybe if we have the time we could make a quiet marketing push to clear up that our business being called "scrooge and marley's" is just a cute branding thing, or other form of smokescreen? legally changing names may be a bit much/draw the wrong attention but you never know

    that's quite a lot of stuff admittedly so a total longshot that it'd work out/even be an option, but it's fun to guess at possibilities?

    perhaps more pratically, it may be worth trying to improve Blitzen's(and the reindeers we haven't saved yet) legal situation before getting sent to court about it, hopefully rolling +50 something in stewardship will help here?
    hmm, no clue what the contract says, but presumably the fact that slavery's illegal and Rudolph probably doesn't own the other reindeer to be selling them in the first place would help lower its legitimacy? so could be worth giving it a thorough look through if we get the chance, see if there's any vulnerabilities like that.
    I also imagine in mundane courts it might be somewhat difficult for amazon/midwinter to actually claim some we stole their reindeer, since it'd be be hard to prove Blitzen's the specific reindeer they "own" when we never did anything to steal it and also it travelled to a completely separate continent, especially if the supernatural side is being kept secret so they can't explain how it happened?. maybe we could help Blitzen get rid of any identification tags or the like to prevent them from being positively identified (and making it impossible for Amazon/Midwinter to "prove" blitzen is "theirs", perhaps swapping them with a completely mundane reindeer's if need be? that part may be slightly illegal, though...

    (any thoughts on these ideas? as a disclaimer, if anything above is too metagamey or not possible in the first place then that's totally fair, I'm just having a bit of fun scheming :)
     
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    Blitzen appears to be sapien and sentient. That would mean Amazon bought a person, that means slavery. Amazon has also probably defacto admited to the raindears being persons since Rudolf is probably management and probably has an employment contract. Is there a court we could turn to overturn their "ownership"
     
    So Amazon and co. think that they can just by out Christmas. Looks like it's time for the OG capitalist to teach them a thing or two.
     
    Burrkinator said:
    Blitzen appears to be sapien and sentient. That would mean Amazon bought a person, that means slavery. Amazon has also probably defacto admited to the raindears being persons since Rudolf is probably management and probably has an employment contract. Is there a court we could turn to overturn their "ownership"
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    my guess is that they own the reindeer and usually that would be legal, but because blitzen is a person it'd be slavery and thus invalid (so we just need to prove that, except it requires talking about magic :/). *should* be totally doable regardless, so the real issue might be from them throwing resources to drag out the case/force it to go their way(as is the stereotype for large corporations), or just bludgeoning us with it as an excuse/opportunity to try and ruin us? (there could also be some inconvenient magic thrown in the mix somewhere)

    So I'm thinking we may have better odds if we don't let them do all that and get the contract legally considered invalid *without* meeting in court, or at least try and make our case airtight before we get dragged there if possible. we probably don't want to actually confront them before our identity's revealed since anyhow (unless we can do it with a proxy or intend to catch them off guard, maybe?)
    though magically it may be harder to worm out of since it'd probably be more based on the spirit of the contract so i bet it needs a metaphorical victory or something, like being formally overturned or amazon/midwinter's copy being destroyed or something?
     
    Novus Ordo Mundi said:
    Malus: Defrosted - Your control over the cold has been pushed to the limit, and you are in danger of permanent injury or dying. You're going to need to rest. Especially in a cold place. You do not have access to Cold Magic. You cannot apply your bonus as an Adviser. You take a -25 Penalty to Survival Rolls. Any action You are a part of that has a Base Roll of 25 or lower immediately triggers a Survival Roll. A Critical Failure on any roll you are a part of kills you outright. This can be lessened or removed by resting in a cold place.
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    Need to get Frosty a nice liquid nitrogen bath.
     
    Alright, going to make some rolls.

    1) Butler 2) Maid 3) Majordomo 4) Aide de Camp 5) Royal Guard 6) Other (British)

    1) Male 2) Female

    1-100: Starting Strength (Even a 1 is Powerful)
    Novus Ordo Mundi threw 1 6-faced dice. Reason: First Roll Total: 2
    2 2
    Novus Ordo Mundi threw 1 2-faced dice. Reason: Second Roll Total: 1
    1 1
    Novus Ordo Mundi threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Last Roll Total: 45
    45 45
     
    Ah, a 45. Average power for what I have in mind.

    Burrkinator said:
    Blitzen appears to be sapien and sentient. That would mean Amazon bought a person, that means slavery. Amazon has also probably defacto admited to the raindears being persons since Rudolf is probably management and probably has an employment contract. Is there a court we could turn to overturn their "ownership"
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    So I can't say too much yet, as there will be a Stewardship/Occult action to examine the contract. But I will say you will have options. Though each one carries consequences in both the Seen and Unseen World.

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    (any thoughts on these ideas? as a disclaimer, if anything above is too metagamey or not possible in the first place then that's totally fair, I'm just having a bit of fun scheming :)
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    Have fun scheming! I love it! I can't guarantee everything is possible. (And the dice will have their say), but I do will what I can to take ideas into consideration.
     
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