Supervillain CEO (CK2 Quest)

[X] Politely decline it. You do not trust whatever gift Moira has to offer you.

There's nothing free with the fae. Everything they do is for their amusement. Accepting her boon means she will be free to send/redirect magical shit our way for shits and giggles especially when things are going according to plan.
 
[X] Politely decline it. You do not trust whatever gift Moira has to offer you
 
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[X] Knowledge of magic.
No. of Votes: 4
[X] veekie
[X] giodan
[X] john fox
[X] Nyssar

[X] Politely decline it. You do not trust whatever gift Moira has to offer you.
No. of Votes: 3

[X] True Love
No. of Votes: 2

[X] Ask Moira to tell us what she has been up to this year.
No. of Votes: 1

[X] magic detection amulets for the both of you
No. of Votes: 1

[X] Magic powers for both of us. (And also Nasira if Moira is cool with that.)
No. of Votes: 1


Total No. of Voters: 12
 
February 2013 - Trip to Scotland - Part 2
[X] Knowledge of magic.

"Magical knowledge," you answer after thinking over a few ideas, including just declining.

In the end, you go for knowledge as while this boon is stated to be free, that says nothing about how it might be twisted to Moira's amusement. Outside of info-hazards or biased perspectives or selective knowledge, magical knowledge is the safest thing to ask for. And given how the supernatural is becoming a more common occurrence, you have no doubt that the knowledge you are asking for will come in handy.

"A suitable gift," muses Moira before snapping her fingers.

You wince at the sudden influx of knowledge in your mind, almost doubling over by the onslaught of knowledge filling your head.

"Are you okay?" demands Joan, torn between looking at you with concern or glaring at Moira.

"I am fine," you reassure her, "I just wasn't prepared for all of the knowledge that I just received."

"If you say so," replies Joan, your wife relaxing a bit even as she shoots a distrusting look at Moira.

"Now that is dealt with, let's move onto business," says Moira cheerfully, apparently indifferent to your momentary distress, "What can you tell me about Lyn Corporation?"

What does Leo know about Lyn Corporation?
Stewardship Check, DC50: 20+25 = 45, Failure.


You think about it as you try to remember just what Lyn Corporation has been getting up to here in Scotland. They got plenty of influence and wealth that you put down to Moira using her magic to acquire while their business ventures are quite varied if you are being generous and whimsy if you are being honest. Lyn Corporation has their fingers in too many pies for you to have tracked what they have been up to in detail. You knew something was off due to how successful they had been despite their fickle nature of their attention, but you now know that is due to Moira's nature as what amounts to being a supernatural reality warper.

Unfortunately, none of that actually tells you what Lyn Corporation is up to or rather what current venture their impulse focus is currently fixed upon.

"I'm afraid not much," you admit, "I know that you have got many different eggs in different baskets and you have been oddly successful despite your lack of consistency, but the exact details I haven't been about to pin down."

"That's fair," agrees Moira sympathetically, "I don't know half of what my company has been getting up to either."

You resist the urge to scowl or sigh even if that bit of news isn't exactly surprising.

Talking Moira into a good deal.
Diplomacy Check, DC60: 11+37+10 = 58, Failure.


You spend the better part of the hour discussing potential deals with Lyn Corporation and possible collaborations between your respective companies. Unfortunately for you, this particular business discussion is unlike any you previously had. Moira isn't a business person and has only a vague idea of what her company is actually getting up to. Normally that wouldn't be a concern as you would use her lack of knowledge and your charm to lead her towards a conclusion that either benefited you or was mutually beneficial depending on how much you liked the other party.

With Moira, that isn't an option. The fairy princess is too fickle in her attentions, too whimsy to lead down a single path. She jumps about from idea to idea and while you finally reach an accord with her, it is nowhere near as good as you would like.

What deal do Leo and Moira come to?
[] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.
[] [Business] Moira lets you borrow some of her more talented employees for your own purposes. Boost Talented Office Works, Talented Researchers and Crooks on the Payroll by 1.
[] [Business] In exchange for White Dragon helping her with a job, Moira promises to give you a magical artefact from her family's vaults. Gain a powerful magical artefact in exchange for Nasira being unavailable for the upcoming turn.

Joan confronting Moira on her villainy
Diplomacy Check, DC75: 4+18 = 22, Critical Failure.


Unfortunately, what should have been a peaceful end to a day that turned out acceptably even if things hadn't gone as well as you had hoped was turned on its head by Joan playing superhero. While you admired and respected your wife, you are left wondering she is picking another fight with a powerful fae given how it turned out for her last time. Especially since Moira is significant more dangerous than the other guy.

"You said that you turned those muggers into mugs," says Joan in a quiet, but determined voice as you head towards the door, "How often do you do that sort of thing?"

You barely stop yourself from wincing at the sound of Joan's words. This is not a fight that you should be picking if only because you doubt your ability to win it.

"Every now and again," answers Moira, "Sometimes it is just lawbreakers who mess with me, other times it is annoying customer or disobedient employees. Occasionally I just need to disappear someone for a bit to carry out my plans."

"Joan…" you start in a warning tone, but she just ignores you.

"And when do you turn them back?" demands Joan, floating just above the ground, her hands clenched into fists.

"I do it when both remember to do so and feel like doing so," answers Moira, giving Joan a look of mild interest.

"That is unaccept-mphh!" starts Joan, but she cuts short as her body freezes in place and it takes a plastic shiny.

As you watch your wife shrink down, her clothing changes into her Sentinel costume while her stance changes into a hands on hips, chest pushed out pose. On the ground where Joan Goodman was hovering, now stands a plastic figurine of the Sentinel.

This sort of thing was what you hoped avoid today when you found how who Moira truly is. Now it has happened and you feel angry at the sight of Joan, your wife, being reduced to an object. It is not just any anger either, no, it is the cold fury that you feel when you see the more corrupt and harmful practices of society first hand. It is the rage that chills your body into a calm and lets you focus your mind on just what needs to be dealt with.

Leo gives a warning.
Diplomacy Check, DC100: 74+37+25 (Cold Fury) = 136, Success.


As Moira floats Joan up onto her desk, you look the faerie in the eye.

"Petty criminals are one thing that I am willingly to ignore," you tell her as you stare each other down, "But my wife is another matter entirely as the late Lord Elorshin learnt the hard way."

For a moment, there is silence and you can feel Moira giving you her full attention as she assesses you.

"I will deliver to your shared home tomorrow morning after I decided a fitting way to humble her," finally says Moira, "You can tell anyone who asks that she accepted an offer from me to spend some time as a personal guest of mine.

Deciding that is all that you will get out of her, you give her a curt nod before leaving.

Your jet is already heading back to Winchester within the hour, you onboard it.

***​

True to her word, Moira does deliver Joan back to you the next morning. A package arrives and you swiftly open it to find a note alongside a purple silk dress with golden trimmings. Even without the note, you figure out just what or rather who the dress is.

As for the note, it is a politely written message stating that Joan will return to home within a week's time and a suggestion to wear her often to avoid boredom on Joan's part. Plus a warning that excessive boredom for an object that used to be human can be damaged upon their psyche, damage that carries over if they ever return to human.

Said warning is backed up by your own new magical knowledge though your own knowledge also states that it would take more than a week for any permanent damage to set in and spending too long as an item can result in similar harm to the victim's mind.

Using Leo's new knowledge.
Learning Check, DC100: 67+30+20 = 123, Success.


Speaking of that newfound knowledge, you put it to use by giving a more detailed examination of the magic behind Joan's current form, to either find any waiting surprises and potentially a way to end the change early.

Unfortunately, you are unable to find the latter as Moira's magic is just too powerful and well-woven for you to stand a chance at breaking it or even countering it. Perhaps you might have a shot with more experience and knowledge, but for now, it is out of your reach.

That said, you do find a couple of additional spells that Moira neglected to mention in her note. The first that the dress is meant to flatter Joan's figure and anyone wearing her will gain that figure to flatter even if means making a woman out of a man. The second is that if Nasira specifically wears Joan, then your best friend will gain a copy of your wife's body.

The second spell is a bit concerning when you remember the conservation that the women in your life had on body-swapping while back. It is either just a coincidence or Moira had a way to find out about Nasira's mild desire. Regardless, you will offer Nasira the chance to look after Joan for the week.

Now you just have to decide how you will handle Moira putting you in this situation.

[] [Revenge] Plot your revenge. Moira make a mistake when she reduced your wife to a plaything of hers and you will make her regret it.
[] [Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.
[] [Revenge] Discuss it with Joan when she turns back and go with whatever she decides. She's the one who was wronged after all.
[] [Revenge] Write-in.

***​

So a somewhat successful update with update as despite your mixed luck with the rolls, you got a couple of things out of this affair, arguably three if you count getting knowledge on Moira Lyn. Speaking of her, I hoped I have done a sufficient job of portraying her as an inhuman being who cares for humans as playthings to amuse her, especially since this quest doesn't have her half-sister to moderate her behaviour. The occasional mortal can impress her enough for Moira to start treating them like a fellow person, but the vast majority of humanity is treated being beneath her and their desires are secondary to her own. She isn't an actively evil villain, but she is certainly a villain who will commit evil on a whim without a regret or second thought. She is also meant to be rather horrifying as while she is a generalist sorceress, Moira does specialise in transformation because she enjoys having that power over others and sense of control over them.

All in all, dealing with her is a double edged sword and you are somewhat unfortunate to have drawn her attention this early in the quest.

Please point out any spelling or grammar mistakes that you spot. Please quote them in the thread and explain what you think is wrong so I know what you are referring to. Feel to ask questions for more details and information.
 
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[X] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.

[X] [Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.

Do not get into a grudge match with powerful fae. Unless they did something permanent anyways. You care more about losing than they do.
 
[X] [Business] In exchange for White Dragon helping her with a job, Moira promises to give you a magical artefact from her family's vaults. Gain a powerful magical artefact in exchange for Nasira being unavailable for the upcoming turn.
[X] [Revenge] Discuss it with Joan when she turns back and go with whatever she decides. She's the one who was wronged after all.
 
[X] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.

[X] [Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.
 
Wow ppl are fucking weak and are just gonna let us be stwp allover
We entered a fae's demesne.
We accepted great and valuable gifts and were granted hospitality.
Our +1 was very rude and then assaulted the host, and got merely spanked as a courtesy to us.

The fae is not the one in the wrong here.
This sort of thing is standard issue if you deal with faerie, and a grudge match against a mage whose works you cannot overcome by either power or skill is laying your true goals to ruin for spite.
 
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Our +1 was very rude and then assaulted the host, and got merely spanked as a courtesy to us.
Actually Joan was invited as a guest just as much as Leo was.
This sort of thing is standard issue if you deal with faerie, and a grudge match against a mage whose works you cannot overcome by either power or skill is laying your true goals to ruin for spite.
While he stands no chance in a fair fight, Leo won't be fighting fair and with the right research, items and other preparation, Leo does stand a chance of taking down Moira even if it will be an uphill battle.
 
[X] [Business] Moira lets you borrow some of her more talented employees for your own purposes. Boost Talented Office Works, Talented Researchers and Crooks on the Payroll by 1.

[X] [Revenge] Plot your revenge. Moira make a mistake when she reduced your wife to a plaything of hers and you will make her regret it.
 
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hile he stands no chance in a fair fight, Leo won't be fighting fair and with the right research, items and other preparation, Leo does stand a chance of taking down Moira even if it will be an uphill battle.
More with regards that its a wasted fight - Leo would be committing a great deal of effort to this random offense rather than furthering his primary objectives.
 
[X] [Business] In exchange for White Dragon helping her with a job, Moira promises to give you a magical artefact from her family's vaults. Gain a powerful magical artefact in exchange for Nasira being unavailable for the upcoming turn.
[X] [Revenge] Discuss it with Joan when she turns back and go with whatever she decides. She's the one who was wronged after all.
 
[X] [Business] In exchange for White Dragon helping her with a job, Moira promises to give you a magical artefact from her family's vaults. Gain a powerful magical artefact in exchange for Nasira being unavailable for the upcoming turn.
[X] [Revenge] Plot your revenge. Moira make a mistake when she reduced your wife to a plaything of hers and you will make her regret it.
 
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Task: Business

[X][Business] In exchange for White Dragon helping her with a job, Moira promises to give you a magical artefact from her family's vaults. Gain a powerful magical artefact in exchange for Nasira being unavailable for the upcoming turn.
No. of Votes: 3
[X] cedeelbe
[X] gale
[X] giodan

[X][Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.
No. of Votes: 2

[X][Business] Moira lets you borrow some of her more talented employees for your own purposes. Boost Talented Office Works, Talented Researchers and Crooks on the Payroll by 1.
No. of Votes: 1



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Task: Revenge

[X][Revenge] Discuss it with Joan when she turns back and go with whatever she decides. She's the one who was wronged after all.
No. of Votes: 2

[X][Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.
No. of Votes: 2

[X][Revenge] Plot your revenge. Moira make a mistake when she reduced your wife to a plaything of hers and you will make her regret it.
No. of Votes: 2
[X] Lockheart
[X] gale


Total No. of Voters: 6
 
[X] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.

[X] [Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.
 
[X][Business] In exchange for White Dragon helping her with a job, Moira promises to give you a magical artefact from her family's vaults. Gain a powerful magical artefact in exchange for Nasira being unavailable for the upcoming turn.
[X][Revenge] Discuss it with Joan when she turns back and go with whatever she decides. She's the one who was wronged after all.
 
[X] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.

[X] [Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.
 
[X] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.

[X] [Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.
 
[X] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.
[X][Revenge] Discuss it with Joan when she turns back and go with whatever she decides. She's the one who was wronged after all.
 
[X] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.

[X] [Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.
 
[X] [Business] Moira agrees to use the accounting services of Goodman Corporation for Lyn Corporation. Gain +1 Profits with potential increases depending on how well Lyn Corporation does.
[X][Revenge] Discuss it with Joan when she turns back and go with whatever she decides. She's the one who was wronged after all.
 
[x] [Business] In exchange for White Dragon helping her with a job, Moira promises to give you a magical artefact from her family's vaults. Gain a powerful magical artefact in exchange for Nasira being unavailable for the upcoming turn.

Let's make friends and influence people. After all, we are in the fae's (sort of) good graces, even if our plus one is not.

[X] [Revenge] Let it go. Moira is a powerful wielder of magic and not someone to be trifled with, even by you.

Guys, I don't know if you noticed this but Joan has a bad time with the Fae. Last time, she got stuck married to the MC. This time, she turned into a dress. We need to give Joan busy work things to do so she stops messing around with magical creatures. Until we can get Joan to stop being lawful-stupid, we do not need to give the Fae more ammunition. Let's try not to involve ourself in a plot that will (likely) blow up in our face. We're a supervillain, not an idiot.

@Oshha is their going to be a vote or write-in for what we do with the dress/Joan for the week? Or do you already have something planned?
 
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