The British Isles in chaos. Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English republicans have been seen fighting on the screens of London today. Ever since King Charles the Third declared martial law over the united kingdoms without giving the people any reason at why, unrest has been skyrocketing over the Kingdom. The British military is in disarray as multiple branches disapproved of the Monarch declaring his right to control every aspect of British society after the great shattering of the world a few months ago. The British Parliament has renounced his highness yet the Church of England seems to be supporting the King's every move. It has been a puzzling few months in the United Kingdoms and seeing the priests of the Church of England remove every cross in London is a everso more baffling sight.
Nonetheless even with international pressure and most of the Isle turned against his highness, the infamous red coated royal guard somehow are pushing into the countryside surrounding London, we are unsure at where this development will lead as the king seems to be able to grant his royal guard unnatural strength when he is near them. This weakness however has forced the royalist forces to be stuck in the outskirts of london, unable to project power further.
The British Parliament and the Royalist forces are in diplomatic talks in the new British parliament being held in Newcastle.
Over in italy even more confusion can be found, the Pope has locked himself and the micronation of the Vatican City away from the outside world, all communications has been cut off and the government of italy is debating the use of military force to see what is happening to the thousands of locals
Conflicts in the middle east heat up as terrorist groups manage to overwhelm American deployment of troops with a strength and speed that baffles American tacticians. American tacticians need reinforcements or to decrease the scope of American operations as small bands of terrorists have managed to hit deeper and harder than they ever did before.
Strange news from Brazil has emerged as well, or well the lack of it? Brazil for some strange reason has been noticed as one of the few regions in the world where the shattering did the least damage and they barely are feeling the impact of these "strange" events compared to other countries. We do not know why but many afraid of what's happening to the world are looking to Brazil for ideas.
The Texan state government seems to be taking proactive steps at increasing governmental control of the state. More So than just the usual monopoly on violence that states employ to keep control, they are in fact redeveloping government agencies and putting together something big… and the local regions are being brought into line with the Texan State Government via a massive charm offensive. They are also looking around for any hostile activities within their state… We are wise that we didn't do anything big this season.
Texan State Government Actions:
Charm x 4 (3 uses)
Perception x 1 (1 Use)
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Those other stakeholders must have realized we were onto them, they have disappeared into the shadows and we were unable to catch them. They are also developing new magic tech as seen by the trinkets entering the marketplace that do seem to lower local magic energy levels somehow?
On the good or bad news, we've discovered the location of their site and the name of their new business. Paranormal Business Experts and Facility 1 located in East Texas. We should try and deal with these rival shareholders, diplomatic efforts might be difficult after our attempt at killing them all.
700$ Split 7 ways. 87.5$ invested into each action:
Find a way in:
With the funding from the company and a few months of time, we were able to find a few secret codes and IDs from workers that fled the jobsite after the crisis. Somehow managing to get out before the lockdown protocol which explains why our research is being leaked already. Damn fools, on the plus side we have access to old experienced workers that we can blackmail back into working for us.
Control of the Facility 20/100: We are getting in, but we have a long way to go
Unlocks: Blackmail workers to work for us again.
Cover up our actions:
Some of our shareholders don't like how much attention we are getting, so they decided to go on a charm offense and threw dozens of media experts and old employees found by another shareholder under the bus to ensure we couldn't be traced
-15 attention. In a more peaceful time people would talk about us, but we have managed to become quite hidden in this era of chaos, we will be fine until things calm down again.
Stake the Shareholders:
They slipped away from us, they knew we were coming from a mile away and we couldn't get any of them! But we did manage to take control of the final backdoors of the company, we will need to target our rival company more directly in the future.
We were unable to kill the other shareholders, they were able to establish their own company.
+ Total Company Control.
Locks: Kill the other shareholders.
Improve Company Abilities:
If you want a job done correctly, you do it yourself. The butterfield thugs are just dumb brutes and most of our employees and professionals are dead or gone so one shareholder decided it would be a good idea to look into improving our abilities with magic.
We tried to melt magical objects back into their default state to see if they would keep the magical energies which proved to be a dead end. We tried to mimic magical objects by making replicates and yet that provided few results as well. It was slow and bothersome research and for weeks nothing felt like it was sticking but we did make a few interesting discoveries.
Someone thought it would be funny to stick the ritual knife at the end of the their gun to give it "cursed" powers, it was all fun and games until we realized that the bullets shot out of the rifle in fact kept magical energy for a few seconds after being fired, impacting with more force especially against other magical objects.
We also found some promise regarding emotions, if someone could mimic the emotions that the magical object was crafted with whilst using it, it seemingly empowered the object to a further extent.
One thing that made the research extremely different was some sort of energy that kept blocking the magic. We have no clue where this energy is coming from but it makes our research extremely difficult and hard to replicate.
-2 Magical Knowledge (Was shot)
+1 Magical Knowledge
+Can use magical knowledge to enhance basic combat abilities to the next tier.
+Discovered an anti-magic energy field?
The New Company HQ:
It was a ugly start, but it was the beginning of our new home. Cermet and steel was stacked up and thousands of contractors were put onto our payroll, we aren't quite ready to build the new company HQ. However, once built it will give us a safe place to operate out of and allow us to reach deeper into the wealth of the state.
Company HQ Progress: 23/100
Call upon the divine:
We decided to begin experimenting with small secret alters and trying to attract the attention of supernatural beings whilst making up our own. our scientists (if you could call them that) called out every name they could, from the tribal spirits of America to the gods of the old world, to gods from video games and fantasy books. Nothing quite worked for a while until one strange day.
It started off as any other normal day but one of our employees was found screaming in the research room and huddled in the corner. We thought we made a breakthrough however it appeared that nothing occurred and the CCTV showed nothing. How strange, the poor bugger's brain functions have dropped by almost 70% for the last few weeks and he has effectively been in a coma, thankfully it seemly is increasing again so we might not need to pay the family off.
Game Map Unlocked: Check the thread marks.
+Unlocked the Map and Map based events
Hired Help:
Realising how many jobs need to be done and how few hands we have at the end of the day, a few of our shareholders got together and started to hunt the open market for talented and skilled individuals. It isn't looking very good but it is a start.
+Unlocked Agent Hiring and Training
Butterfield Thugs:
The Butterfield thugs had a surge of energy over the last few months, I've never seen these poor man excuses for mercs ever work as hard as they did. Sadly we should have likely realised that a butch of bored violent thugs alone next to our secret facility could have been a bad idea.
Bored out of their mind after getting the inspiration to inflict extreme violence onto someone or… something? They decided to unload their strength and anger into the defences of our facility to great success!
+20 facility control, we are getting into the facility, almost half way!
-50 Seal Research… they burnt everything they could
+1 Combat Knowledge
We don't exactly know the hard numbers of anything…
We believe we are in complete control of the company.
We barely have any control of the facility that belongs to us.
Global attention is only off us due to the chaos in the world being greater.
The UN is indifferent to us
The Texan State Government is watching us
People spread rumours about us.
The Global Community is indifferent to us
??? thinks ???
??? thinks ???
The other Shareholders hate us and formed their own company.
(I'll post the choices soon, a lot of unlocks this turn so I can thinking)
