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Prepare to be Jacked Up 3.0: The Jack is Back! (Cartoon Network Villains Victorious Quest)

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[ ] Plan Groundbreaking for a eviler tomorrow.
- [ ] (Martial) Jackbot Patrols: DC: 50/80/120
-[ ] (Stewardship) Expand Underground Base: DC: 30/60/90/120 (Eggman)
-[ ] (Learning) Hybridized Jackbot Weapon: DC: 50
-[ ] (Intrigue) Island Hopping: DC: 30/60/90/120 (The Hong Kong Gang)
-[ ] (Occult) Chasing Ghosts:
--[ ] Chinese Spooks: DC: 60 (Le Mime)
-[ ] (Diplomacy) Recruit V.I.R.U.S: DC: 50 (Robotgirl)
-[ ] Jack Personals
--[ ] Practice Knife Throwing Skills
--[ ] Research Fellow Evil Scientists
--[ ] Hire Someone you Skipped Over
---[ ] Heather/Charmcaster
-[ ] Le Mime Personal
--[ ] Enforce The Mime Language
-[ ] Dr.Eggman Personal
--[ ] Rebuild a Random Badnik
-[ ] Robotgirl Personal
--[ ] Learn from Mr. Spicer
-[ ] Hong Kong Gang
--[ ] Where the Heck is Circe???

Expand Underground Base; Keeps our base of operation on the down low and allows for hidden factories.
Hybridized Jackbot Weapon; Easy to reach robotics action. We can save the scaling DC ones for when Eggman is free.
Island Hopping; It's what the gang is good at and we can gain a lot.
Chasing Ghosts: Chinese Spooks; It's where we are located, best to know what's around us.
Recruit V.I.R.U.S; Sounds like a good option for Hacking. Put him on the Villain Forum Vengeance and we can even add spoiling things into the vengeance.
 
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Other plans have a significant lead and look good, but I wanted to pitch this.

[X] Plan Many Hands Makes Light Work
-[X] Jackbot Patrols
-[X] Expand Underground Base (Dr. Eggman)
-[X] Hybridized Jackbot Weapon
-[X] Hire A Detective
--[X] Inch High Private Eye
--[X] Pollution Solution
-[X] Island Hopping (Hong Kong Gang)
-[X] Research Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts (Le Mime)
-[X] Recruit V.I.R.U.S (Robotgirl)
-[X] Tinker With Jackbots
-[X] Research Fellow Evil Scientists
-[X] Hire Someone you Skipped Over
--[X] The NumberNumbers
-[X] Host Evil Mime Classes
-[X] Rebuild a Random Badnik
-[X] Learn from Mr. Spicer
-[X] Take What You Can from Quarry's Stuff

Okay, plan breakdown.
Jackbot patrols, secure what little territory we have.
Expand Underground Base, allows for further expansion like the Jackbot factory without costing secrecy, which is pretty important while Jack's building up.
Jackbot weapon, honestly a bit of a filler until we can get Eggman or someone else to assist on Learning Actions. It is useful though and a long term benefit.
Hire a detective for the pollution solution. It's a problem happening right in our backyard. Dealing with it sooner is better than later, but it also costs funding, so...
Island hopping. Potentially very lucrative, should outweigh the costs of hiring the detective and get other resources.
Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts, lower DC than investigating Shen Gong Wu, useful resource acquisition.
Recruit V.I.R.U.S., we need people and a hacker could be pretty good.

For personals
Tinker with Jackbots improves the Jackbots once we're able to start producing them en mass.
Research Fellow Evil Scientists, gives more options for recruitment and might get somebody off the bat. Either letting Eggman stay in Stewardship or free him up for Learning collaborations with Jack.
Hiring the NumberNumbers, right now the Hong Kong Gang is our hybrid Martial/Intrigue Unit of choice.
  • Without knowing the details of how Robotgirl's transformation works mechanically (in the show, they couldn't stay transformed for long, so that may lock her to the lower Martial Score for actions, but can temporarily use her super mode in an adventure or something until/unless she gets upgraded). She's also our Diplo hero right now, so...
  • NumberNumbers, as pointed out, are probably martial/intrigue as well, meaning we have both categories covered
  • Alien tech?
  • Have another hybrid martial/intrigue for adventures.
Evil Mime Classes, mooks good.
Rebuild Random Badnik, another robot minion to boost to Eggman's stats or help patrol our territory while we're still building up numbers.
Learn From Mr. Spicer, she needs to learn more about villainy before she gets too involved with work that'll make her quit or rebel. Better to corrupt her personally, especially since Jack is only so evil right now (even if he does canonically have the potential to take over the world). Her learning about villainy that doesn't match Jack's would probably not be great.
Looting Quarry. As a personal, probably not time limited, but I don't want to chance that. More resources for Jack. I'd like to do both looting the temple (please no Sapphire Dragon...) and looking for Circe, but the latter's probably an adventure if she can be retrieved, so I'd like to be ready for that adventure since that might be an urgent situation.

TLDR, I'm going hard on keeping Jack's head down, recruiting, and grabbing resources, so we can get setup ASAP.
 
I've never dealt with DVV. This is actually my first quest, too. I can add thoughts though...

[X] The Little Conquerer: I mean I guess that's easy
[X] Expand Underground Base: The monks already have some underground infrastructure to their temple. Make sure it's up to code, and kick out...hrm...recruit any squatters.
[X] So... Nanites: You've got two robotic geniuses with tiny robots in them. If they're not good to have inside, you can probably remove them with effort...or reprogram...maybe extract to use in other goodies...shoot, that could be like the robotic equivalent of dark magic if the way to get them is a blood draw. Wait, what am I saying?!?
Pollution Solution and Space Based both have my eye. If either of those is part of a tie, consider this a tiebreaker?
[X] Research Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts: Importantly, test whether one can be collateral in a you-know-what.
[X] Collaborate with evil youth: Egghead's old and experienced but you could use people more your speed. He's good to have around, no question...

Practice Figure Skating and/or Practice Knife Throwing Skills: Another tiebreakerish because I don't think I can literally do both, again, system unfamiliarity. Practice makes perfect and the Xiaolin losers weren't perfect, but they put in good work and proved the importance of training. Practice, practice, practice.
[X] Host Evil Mime Classes: I'm biased, I like mimes. If they learn mimery before evil, I'm happy.
[On the nature of] Enforce The Mime Language: Sign Language doesn't need to be the only thing spoken around the base, but if everyone can speak a secret language with their hands - even a newly made-up bodge/kludge (like Nicaraguan Sign Language), just for Jack's Pack - that can be a perfect secret communication methodology for bespoke situations.
[X] Rebuild a Random Badnik: Jack needs an example of what you've got in store.
[X] Learn What "Evil" Is: Morality is good, but in a place like this it's not a quick way to get ahead.
[X] Where the Heck is Circe???: I mean, I don't know neither, so

(...should I put a fancy name on mine? Plan Research and Rebuild?)
 
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Night Shyne said:
(...should I put a fancy name on mine? Plan Research and Rebuild?)
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Generally VV quests like this do use plan format, since the votes are so complicated. You also want to explicitly assign heroes to actions, so that their stats will be added to the action, the way you've written this, it'd just be using Jack's stats.

I'd suggest referencing the other plans to see how to format your own. It's something I'm doing as well.
 
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Generally VV quests like this do use plan format, since the votes are so complicated. You also want to explicitly assign heroes to actions, so that their stats will be added to the action, the way you've written this, it'd just be using Jack's stats.

I'd suggest referencing the other plans to see how to format your own. It's something I'm doing as well.
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I'll leave mine as it is...this time. The overhead on the questmaster isn't likely to come to play unless there's draws along the line.
Actually, do draws happen? The type where two plans hit about the same and floater votes or lesser plans make up differences and split the plan?
 
Night Shyne said:
I'll leave mine as it is...this time. The overhead on the questmaster isn't likely to come to play unless there's draws along the line.
Actually, do draws happen? The type where two plans hit about the same and floateru votes or lesser plans make up differences and split the plan?
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No. Plan format. Plan with the most votes goes through. In the event of tie a tie breaker is most popular though some QMs do run offs or roll a dice to decide.

Other than the occasional even more complex quest most CK 2 or 3 quests will use plan voting as it's cleaner and easier to actually figure out what is winning than a loose vote like this.
Night Shyne said:
[X] The Little Conquerer: I mean I guess that's easy
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In the future you'll want to avoid writing justifications on the same line in the vote is in. Even in none plan votes most people aren't going to have the same justifications added as you which messes up the website's tally system.
Night Shyne said:
[X] The Little Conquerer:

I mean I guess that's easy
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Okay. Fine. Lemme try again then. How I might twist things to work for me.
Night Shyne said:
The Little Conquerer: I mean I guess that's easy
Expand Underground Base: The monks already have some underground infrastructure to their temple. Make sure it's up to code, and kick out...hrm...recruit any squatters.
So... Nanites: You've got two robotic geniuses with tiny robots in them. If they're not good to have inside, you can probably remove them with effort...or reprogram...maybe extract to use in other goodies...shoot, that could be like the robotic equivalent of dark magic if the way to get them is a blood draw. Wait, what am I saying?!?
Pollution Solution and Space Based both have my eye. If either of those is part of a tie, consider this a tiebreaker?
Research Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts: Importantly, test whether one can be collateral in a you-know-what.
Collaborate with evil youth: Egghead's old and experienced but you could use people more your speed. He's good to have around, no question...

Practice Figure Skating and/or Practice Knife Throwing Skills: Another tiebreakerish because I don't think I can literally do both, again, system unfamiliarity. Practice makes perfect and the Xiaolin losers weren't perfect, but they put in good work and proved the importance of training. Practice, practice, practice.
Host Evil Mime Classes: I'm biased, I like mimes. If they learn mimery before evil, I'm happy.
Enforce The Mime Language: Sign Language doesn't need to be the only thing spoken around the base, but if everyone can speak a secret language with their hands - even a newly made-up bodge/kludge (like Nicaraguan Sign Language), just for Jack's Pack - that can be a perfect secret communication methodology for bespoke situations.
Rebuild a Random Badnik: Jack needs an example of what you've got in store.
Learn What "Evil" Is: Morality is good, but in a place like this it's not a quick way to get ahead.
Where the Heck is Circe???: I mean, I don't know neither, so
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Buncha justification line-by-line, followed by the vote-friendly summary

[X] Plan Research and Rebuild{
National{
-[X] The Little Conquerer (Mime)
-[X] Expand Underground Base
-[X] So... Nanites (Eggman)
-[X] Space Based (Robotgirl)
-[X] Research Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts
-[X] Collaborate with evil youth (HKG)
}Personal{
-[X] Practice Knife Throwing Skills
-[X] Host Evil Mime Classes
-[X] Rebuild a Random Badnik
-[X] Learn What "Evil" Is
-[X] Where the Heck is Circe???
}}

in a programmer format I'm comfortable with. This work okay? Up to code, all that?
 
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Night Shyne said:
Okay. Fine. Lemme try again then. How I might twist things to work for me.

Buncha justification line-by-line, followed by the vote-friendly summary

[X] Plan Research and Rebuild{
National{
[X] The Little Conquerer (Mime)
[X] Expand Underground Base
[X] So... Nanites (Eggman)
[X] Space Based (Robotgirl)
[X] Research Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts
[X] Collaborate with evil youth (HKG)
}Personal{
[X] Practice Knife Throwing Skills
[X] Host Evil Mime Classes
[X] Rebuild a Random Badnik
[X] Learn What "Evil" Is
[X] Where the Heck is Circe???
}}

in a programmer format I'm comfortable with. This work okay? Up to code, all that?
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Add - just before the [

Night Shyne said:
[X] The Little Conquerer (Mime)
[X] Expand Underground Base
[X] So... Nanites (Eggman)
[X] Space Based (Robotgirl)
[X] Research Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts
[X] Collaborate with evil youth (HKG)
}Personal{
[X] Practice Knife Throwing Skills
[X] Host Evil Mime Classes
[X] Rebuild a Random Badnik
[X] Learn What "Evil" Is
[X] Where the Heck is Circe???
}}
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In all of these, and your good. Don't put it before the single one with Plan at the start.
 
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If I needed further nesting I'll bear that in mind too. Say, this:
-[X]Action(Specifier)
like passing in a variable. That okay too?
 
[X] Plan Of (Beginning) EVIL!
-[X] (Martial) The Little Conqueror: There's a village or something next to your base. Why not just walk in and declare yourself it's new boss?
-[X] (Stewardship) Expand Underground Base: Your base is pretty rad, but there's not much room for any major infrastructure. Thankfully, you can always go DOWN, which should help you keep certain things a secret.
--[X] Assign Dr. Eggman
-[X] (Learning) So... Nanites: *Apparently*, the entire Human race got infected by nanites some time ago. You don't really remember that happening, but, you may as well check to see what's up with the ones in your body.
-[X] (Intrigue) Island Hopping: It's an evil villain tradition to build island bases, and most of those tend to get abandoned so newer, much larger ones can be built. Why not raid what's been left over to see if you can find anything useful?
--[X] Assign The Hong Kong Gang
-[X] (Occult) Chasing Ghosts: While you're familiar with certain types of monsters, like Cyclops, there's still plenty of things out there that you've never even heard of before. Why not check and see if you can find any new supernatural pals to replace those stupid traitors?
--[X] Chinese Spooks & Assign Le Mime
-[X] (Diplomacy) Ask your parents to get some business contacts (Dc: Variable)
--[X] Assign Robotgirl
-[X] (Jack Spicer Personal) Tinker With Jackbots: They're your creations, so you know them like the back of your hands.
-[X] (Jack Spicer Personal) Practice Knife Throwing Skills: What you ACTUALLY wanted to learn as a kid. Well, no time like the present.
-[X] (Jack Spicer Personal) Hire Someone you Skipped Over (Can be taken once) - The NumberNumbers
-[X] (Le Mime Personal) Enforce The Mime Language
-[X] (Dr. Eggman Personal) Talk to Orbot and Cubot
-[X] (Robotgirl Personal) Learn What "Evil" Is
-[X] (Hong Kong Gang Personal) Where the Heck is Circe???
 
Adhoc vote count started by Boohoo the 3rd on Jan 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM, finished with 40 posts and 16 votes.
  • [X] Plan Jack Pack, Disperse!
    -[X] Jackbot Patrols: DC: 50/80/120
    -[X] Rich Boy Connection:
    --[X] The Addams Family DC: 85 Robotgirl
    -[X] Expand Underground Base: DC: 30/60/90/120 Eggman
    -[X] Hire A Detective
    --[X] Inch High Private Eye
    ---[X] Pollution Solution
    -[X] Island Hopping: DC 30/60/90/120 The Hong Kong Gang
    -[X] Build Dude-Bot 2.0: DC: 30/60/90/120
    -[X] Chasing Ghosts:
    --[X] Japanese Spooks: DC: 80 Le Mime
    -[X] Hire Someone you Skipped Over (Can be taken once)
    --[X] The NumberNumbers
    -[X] Tinker With Jackbots
    -[X] Practice Figure Skating
    -[X] Enforce The Mime Language
    -[X] Rebuild a Random Badnik
    -[X] Learn from Mr. Spicer
    -[X] Where the Heck is Circe???
    [X] Plan Keeping Our Heads Down
    -[X] Jackbot Patrols
    -[X] Expand Underground Base (Dr. Eggman)
    -[X] Build Dude-Bot 2.0
    -[X] Pollution Solution (Hong Kong Gang)
    -[X] Research Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts (Le Mime)
    -[X] Recruit V.I.R.U.S (Robotgirl)
    -[X]Jack Personal
    -[X] Le Mime Personal
    -[X] Dr.Eggman Personal
    -[X] Robotgirl Personal
    -[X] Hong Kong Gang
    [X] Plan Many Hands Makes Light Work
    -[X] Jackbot Patrols
    -[X] Expand Underground Base (Dr. Eggman)
    -[X] Hybridized Jackbot Weapon
    -[X] Hire A Detective
    --[X] Inch High Private Eye
    --[X] Pollution Solution
    -[X] Island Hopping (Hong Kong Gang)
    -[X] Research Non-Shen Gong Wu Artifacts (Le Mime)
    -[X] Recruit V.I.R.U.S (Robotgirl)
    -[X] Tinker With Jackbots
    -[X] Research Fellow Evil Scientists
    -[X] Hire Someone you Skipped Over
    --[X] The NumberNumbers
    -[X] Host Evil Mime Classes
    -[X] Rebuild a Random Badnik
    -[X] Learn from Mr. Spicer
    -[X] Take What You Can from Quarry's Stuff
    -[X]Action(Specifier)
    [X] Plan Of (Beginning) EVIL!
    -[X] (Martial) The Little Conqueror: There's a village or something next to your base. Why not just walk in and declare yourself it's new boss?
    -[X] (Stewardship) Expand Underground Base: Your base is pretty rad, but there's not much room for any major infrastructure. Thankfully, you can always go DOWN, which should help you keep certain things a secret.
    --[X] Assign Dr. Eggman
    -[X] (Learning) So... Nanites: *Apparently*, the entire Human race got infected by nanites some time ago. You don't really remember that happening, but, you may as well check to see what's up with the ones in your body.
    -[X] (Intrigue) Island Hopping: It's an evil villain tradition to build island bases, and most of those tend to get abandoned so newer, much larger ones can be built. Why not raid what's been left over to see if you can find anything useful?
    --[X] Assign The Hong Kong Gang
    -[X] (Occult) Chasing Ghosts: While you're familiar with certain types of monsters, like Cyclops, there's still plenty of things out there that you've never even heard of before. Why not check and see if you can find any new supernatural pals to replace those stupid traitors?
    --[X] Chinese Spooks & Assign Le Mime
    -[X] (Diplomacy) Ask your parents to get some business contacts (Dc: Variable)
    --[X] Assign Robotgirl
    -[X] (Jack Spicer Personal) Tinker With Jackbots: They're your creations, so you know them like the back of your hands.
    -[X] (Jack Spicer Personal) Practice Knife Throwing Skills: What you ACTUALLY wanted to learn as a kid. Well, no time like the present.
    -[X] (Jack Spicer Personal) Hire Someone you Skipped Over (Can be taken once) - The NumberNumbers
    -[X] (Le Mime Personal) Enforce The Mime Language
    -[X] (Dr. Eggman Personal) Talk to Orbot and Cubot
    -[X] (Robotgirl Personal) Learn What "Evil" Is
    -[X] (Hong Kong Gang Personal) Where the Heck is Circe???
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