Turn 1: The first developments of the new world.
It has been a rough few weeks. None of you have quite worked this hard for years however it was all worth it. It felt good to see the faces of your coworkers appear on the screens as you all connect to the video meeting, all too far apart to meet in one place and most of you trying to keep a low profile whilst things cool down.
First things first, the international scene. The world is slowly recovering from the shock horror of a global surge of madness. Yet these ghostly sightings and strange events that many can't explain aren't going away, a research lab in Huston is investigating a new energy source that they are pinning was discovered the day the world cracked. Checking business logs you all realize that this research lab is in fact funded by previous shareholders of the Company, the bastards are running away with our research and trying to make a profit off it!
But anger might need to wait, the international community is setting up a global meeting to work out what the hell just happened and whilst that is a few months away. Well some are concerned that it won't be that hard to track down who is at fault.
Now let's discuss the internal matters, everyone has kept very busy so let's see who did what.
A Shareholder spent the last few weeks trying to get a copy of all company logs and finances to work out where the company stood and whilst it's not looking pretty they did manage to snag some temporary funds for the company on top of useful information..
Company Finances: 500$ a turn. +250$ for the next turn. Money is currently evenly split between shareholder votes.
We sent some thugs to distract the media and the police in the area that we think our secret facility is in? It worked well, a few bashed reporters forced local police to come lookin, a few bashed officers effectively shut down the local township due to its tiny size. This will likely backfire in the long term but for now we are positive that not a word will get out about our facility.
+10 Facility Control. We aren't in control by far but we now can make more dramatic leaps into taking control.
-10 Awareness. The International and National community grows blind to our crimes and discoveries.
Whilst we are in the area, we finally found out where our facility was! We discovered that it was east of the city of El Paso. Drive down route 62 and right by the tiny village of Butterfield is a barely kept road that splits off and travels north. Up that route is the entrance to our facility covered in police tape and sealed off. Thankfully the officers were unable to get into the facility, but our thugs in the local area are equally as skill less.
Although some of the thugs seemly gained some knowledge of investigation and exploring during this time frame and that knowledge has been safely tucked into company records for later use and training.
Facility Discovered.
+1 Perception Knowledge.
Some of the shareholders got together and went spending. Odd skulls, strange gems and dolls that stared into your soul when you were asleep. Whilst a number of objects from all sorts of cultures seem to be able to produce some trace amounts of this "energy" we've discovered near the rip in reality. It's those that have been used in religious contexts that are more likely to contain this energy. We also worked out that not only objects used in traditional religious contexts, our current most powerful object is one used by a cult that was engaged in blood rituals before being shut down by the authorities.
+2 Magic Knowledge
+10 Awareness. Odd purchases stir attention.
It was hard to catch those rats, they were fast and they hid faster. Thankfully the greedy idiots were at least easy to trick and many hostile shareholders are now dead but the others are a lot more careful due to our failed attempt to get them all in one go.
+10 Company Control: We almost control all the strings, but a few still remain outside our iron rule.
Whilst the company was unable to come together as a single entity and agree to tell the world the truth and the entire truth about what happened. Two shareholders felt it was very important to at least interact with the world and ease them into the future that they helped make. By funding scientist projects and recovery projects and sharing knowledge on how to bring some of these crises to a halt, we did raise suspicions about our knowledge but the international community is thankful for the aid.
+10 Awareness: The world is questioning us…
+10 Relations with every faction in this world.
+The Company has unlocked Charisma Actions
+1 Charisma Knowledge
Not a bad few weeks at all, now let's see where we should go from here?
In play Agents: Butterfield Facility Thugs (Army Unit, Untrained, Unskilled, Knows mostly combat abilities and 1 movement ability, drew only combat abilities this turn, Loyal)
Damage Actions:
[] Stake the Shareholders: The bloody slime are not only stealing our ideas! Their stupidity will out us if we don't act. We must break their heads and take control of the final loose leads of the company.
[] Facility Control: Bring up some heavy equipment and bribe the local authorities to allow us to blast into the crime scene. This may damage the facility but do we have the time to spare?
[] Cover up blood with more blood: Bashing all those cops and media reporters is gonna get attention on us, unless we decide to do the same to whoever looks into it? (Dangerous)
Perception Actions:
[] With this new discovery, we will need to split Texas into regions of interest that we can sway and deploy our agents into. (Unlocks the Game Map)
[] We should look for a new location to put the company HQ, where all our main operations will occur.
[] Hired Help: See if we can find any agents to work for us. (This aids in the action economy by providing NPC helpers that can be assigned to task)
[] Find out another way to break into our facility, secret codes and IDs must be found somewhere?
Stealth Actions:
[] This company didn't ask for money for the buy in. You all had to do dirty deeds to even be a minor shareholder. God knows what sins the major shareholders did to get where they are. Let's cover this up!
[] Wait, they can think as well? It is easy to think we are the only players in the game, but if you think the other minor shareholders aren't ready to have you strung up, you'd be wrong. Let's make that harder.
[] Cover up our actions. By ensuring that we continue to cover up our actions as we take them, hostile forces won't be able to begin building a portfolio on us.
Development Actions:
[] Plan A Company HQ. We must establish a base of command to operate outside of. The previous one has been looted already after the death of the CEO.
[] Improve Company Resource Gain. We need to begin harvesting resources for use down the line.
[] Improve Company Abilities: If you want a job done correctly, do it yourself. Let's improve our own abilities.
[] Time to improve with knowledge! We can spend our knowledge on improving the company, upgrading agents (which we don't have any of) or to upgrade the company as a whole.
Charisma Actions:
[] The International Scene is angry and even with our help at dealing with dozens of issues around the world, tens of thousands still died… let's try and butter them up more.
[] We should encourage international disharmony, the longer they don't attend that global meeting the more time they spend on not investigating this surge of power. We need to stay ahead and we can't stay ahead of the entire world so we must split them apart.
Movement Actions:
[] Whilst we have thugs at the Butterfield facility, they aren't organized enough to be moved around like a useful asset
Magic Actions:
[] We gained a lot of magic knowledge over the last few turns, but without our facility we find it hard to use. Although we could try and make a makeshift lab and see how flexible this energy truly is…
