Go with cute, simplified is overrated.
The Seven Seals above Texas.
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Okie dokie
Turn: 2.5 Midway Vote on the Company HQ Location
Okay so could every player who voted for the "become an agent action" tell me what colour pattern they want roughly and I'll slap something together. Try not to make it too similar to the butter field bandits as I'll be filling in that "Agent" icon with the colours of your choosing to reflect you on the map.
Also make sure to tell me if you want to deploy this turn or not, deploying will be a big deal because when you're out in the field you can't vote on allocating company funds. Also tell me if you wish to take more of a *interest* into your field of research
Also here is a Secondary Vote I need everyone to vote on before we go to the next turn. The other vote is still open but yeah
Picking a New HQ Location - Turn 2.5
The hard work of one of our fellow shareholders over the last few months has brought great results. They have discovered a number of locations where we could establish a new HQ with a little bit of investment from the team. The establishment of the HQ will have the following benefits and draw backs.
Benefits:
+ Higher chance to succeed in actions in the region with the HQ
+ Shareholders inside the HQ will be defended by HQ guards
+ All new agents will spawn from the HQ
+ The area with the HQ in it will become more friendly and loyal to our company
+ The HQ will give a boost to all funding gains.
Draw Backs:
- The HQ is a physical location that can be attacked, whilst safer than just being kidnapped by a van on the street at the moment. A proper assault could bring down the entire company
- The HQ will make everyone more aware that the Company does in fact exist
Locations to place the HQ:
[] Capital Area: Almost the heart of Texas and the centre of the Texan State Government and many business interests! If we establish the HQ in this area we can be sure to know that the Texan State Government will become more friendly with us and our understanding of development theory and actions will gain a boost for as long as our HQ is here.
[] Rio Grande: Let's place the HQ where our magic research facility is! It is putting all our eggs in one basket but by having our facility and HQ so close together we can benefit and (and suffer) together from all the joint successes of the magic department!. This will make global awareness of our actions go up but in exchange will give us a boost to Magic and Seal research and give us total control of the area due to the lack of other influence here.
[] Houston Area: The view out to the sea is great here! Being so close to a major port in Texas will ensure that we can meddle with global affairs more closely. Placing our HQ here will give a boost to our Charisma Actions and our Charisma Theory, giving us a real edge in international and internal politics.
[] Panhandle: It's a simple life out here but one that we can hide quite well. By establishing our HQ away from the busy cities and far from our mistakes at Rio Grande we can bet the world will slowly forget about us. We also might be able to get away with more things being so far away from the centres of attention. Setting up our HQ here will give a boost to our Stealth Theory and a overall boost to all Stealth Actions. We will also gain control of the area.
[] Coastal Bend: We have a few friends in the coastal bend looking for a surge of investment and are interested in what we'd done. If we set up our HQ in this area, they promise to give us a cut of their offshore Texan oil rigs that dot the coast of Texas. They also promise to give us aid in moving our agents around the place. Setting up here will give the Company a massive boost in funds, Movement Theory and control of the area.
Previous vote is still open if you want to change your idea or vote on the Turn 2 choices.
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Could I do blue with grey stripes?
And I guess I'll deploy to investigate at the old hq, and what would taking an "interest" do?
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It gives you more powerful cards go start with at a random cost depending on what stat you're becoming interested in
Hrm. We ball, gimme an interest in investigation/perception
[X] Capital Area: Almost the heart of Texas and the centre of the Texan State Government and many business interests! If we establish the HQ in this area we can be sure to know that the Texan State Government will become more friendly with us and our understanding of development theory and actions will gain a boost for as long as our HQ is here.
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[X] Capital Area: Almost the heart of Texas and the centre of the Texan State Government and many business interests! If we establish the HQ in this area we can be sure to know that the Texan State Government will become more friendly with us and our understanding of development theory and actions will gain a boost for as long as our HQ is here.
Helps us infest the Texan State Government.
Plus a bonus to development.
Which has upgrades to money income + the 6 stats.
Helps us infest the Texan State Government.
Plus a bonus to development.
Which has upgrades to money income + the 6 stats.
Give me dark purple with orange highlights, also do not know if I'm doing it right, but deploy me for [The Research the Research!] , also also put my interest in magic.
I want a fuchsia icon
Deploy me this turn, and the interest is magic
[X] Panhandle: It's a simple life out here but one that we can hide quite well. By establishing our HQ away from the busy cities and far from our mistakes at Rio Grande we can bet the world will slowly forget about us. We also might be able to get away with more things being so far away from the centres of attention. Setting up our HQ here will give a boost to our Stealth Theory and a overall boost to all Stealth Actions. We will also gain control of the area.
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Viewer Creation: Artwork of the Heavenly Seal
Heavenly Seal mascot complete
To: Board of Directors
Subject: Research splitting
From: Strix
As proven in the below email Dr Ashcraft is unable to comprehend the deeper possibilities at play and as such is unfit for certain avenues of research. As such it is necessary for the assembly of an alternative research team that can explore from unorthodox angles. I've linked a file of personnel that may be suitable for such tasks should the measure be approved by the board.
In addition, I would like to request more funding for the acquisition of more potential OOPs to be split among the teams. This round of acquisition will focus on the more provable items with potential utility or resale value.
Lastly I shall be moving to aid in reclamation of the facility following reports detailing the less then gentle hand of our assets. The well will be secured. Upon my honor as a member of [Redacted]
Subject: Research splitting
From: Strix
As proven in the below email Dr Ashcraft is unable to comprehend the deeper possibilities at play and as such is unfit for certain avenues of research. As such it is necessary for the assembly of an alternative research team that can explore from unorthodox angles. I've linked a file of personnel that may be suitable for such tasks should the measure be approved by the board.
In addition, I would like to request more funding for the acquisition of more potential OOPs to be split among the teams. This round of acquisition will focus on the more provable items with potential utility or resale value.
Lastly I shall be moving to aid in reclamation of the facility following reports detailing the less then gentle hand of our assets. The well will be secured. Upon my honor as a member of [Redacted]
Re:Board
Subject: Research Difficulties
From: Dr. William Ashcraft
First I would like to thank the Board for their continued research opportunities. After my hasty rise to head of research due to the tragic loss of staff I was worried my tenure at this company was over but the continued funding and addition of Objects of Power (OOPs) to study has reinvigorated my dedication towards finding an explanation behind these phenomena.
However I must question the directions of the board. There is no place for calling on "Gods" in science. If we are to create a scientific theory behind these phenomena then we need clear rigorous testing and controlled variables then semi magical gobbledok. These new directives calling for worship of Odin are nothing but absurd and a violation of rights granted by American law.
In addition I would like to repeat my requests for a permanent laboratory and the research notes of the previous team. The difficulties of getting accurate readings let alone controlled variables in this space is significant.
Lastly, as I would rather not end emails on a bad note the research into OOP 23 has proven successful with notable increases in combat performance in the team it is assigned to regardless of personnel assigned to each team during the testing rounds. Due to difficulties with future research and an abundance of further OOPs it has been cleared to be used by security personnel.
Subject: Research Difficulties
From: Dr. William Ashcraft
First I would like to thank the Board for their continued research opportunities. After my hasty rise to head of research due to the tragic loss of staff I was worried my tenure at this company was over but the continued funding and addition of Objects of Power (OOPs) to study has reinvigorated my dedication towards finding an explanation behind these phenomena.
However I must question the directions of the board. There is no place for calling on "Gods" in science. If we are to create a scientific theory behind these phenomena then we need clear rigorous testing and controlled variables then semi magical gobbledok. These new directives calling for worship of Odin are nothing but absurd and a violation of rights granted by American law.
In addition I would like to repeat my requests for a permanent laboratory and the research notes of the previous team. The difficulties of getting accurate readings let alone controlled variables in this space is significant.
Lastly, as I would rather not end emails on a bad note the research into OOP 23 has proven successful with notable increases in combat performance in the team it is assigned to regardless of personnel assigned to each team during the testing rounds. Due to difficulties with future research and an abundance of further OOPs it has been cleared to be used by security personnel.
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[X] Capital Area: Almost the heart of Texas and the centre of the Texan State Government and many business interests! If we establish the HQ in this area we can be sure to know that the Texan State Government will become more friendly with us and our understanding of development theory and actions will gain a boost for as long as our HQ is here.
GildedSergeant
Tarnished Gold and Rattling Bones
- Location
- Over There
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Coastal Bend: We have a few friends in the coastal bend looking for a surge of investment and are interested in what we'd done. If we set up our HQ in this area, they promise to give us a cut of their offshore Texan oil rigs that dot the coast of Texas. They also promise to give us aid in moving our agents around the place. Setting up here will give the Company a massive boost in funds, Movement Theory and control of the area.
So anyone got a good idea for what we should offer to the Heavenly Seal as sacrifice?
Printed out spreadsheets?
The will-to-live of prisoners forced to participate in another meeting-that-should-have-been-an-Email?
Stacks of money because it's a corporate god?
A copy of our research notes?
GildedSergeant
Tarnished Gold and Rattling Bones
- Location
- Over There
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Article: Harbor seals frequently congregate in harbors, bays, sandy intertidal zones, and estuaries in pursuit of prey fish such as salmon, menhaden, anchovy, sea bass, herring, mackerel, cod, whiting and flatfish, and occasionally shrimp, crabs, mollusks, and squid
More seriously, probably whatever's important to our people. So, money and magic theory would probably be most potent.
Salmon stuffed with money and magic it is thenArticle: Harbor seals frequently congregate in harbors, bays, sandy intertidal zones, and estuaries in pursuit of prey fish such as salmon, menhaden, anchovy, sea bass, herring, mackerel, cod, whiting and flatfish, and occasionally shrimp, crabs, mollusks, and squid
More seriously, probably whatever's important to our people. So, money and magic theory would probably be most potent.
- Location
- portugal
[X] Capital Area: Almost the heart of Texas and the centre of the Texan State Government and many business interests! If we establish the HQ in this area we can be sure to know that the Texan State Government will become more friendly with us and our understanding of development theory and actions will gain a boost for as long as our HQ is here.
Turn 3: The Crows are Watching us.
Turn 3
Global News
England: Royalist forces have been seen overrunning checkpoints set up by parliamentary forces, the outskirts of London now fall under the iron hand of the throne as diplomatic talks in New Castle continue to fail. King Charles, seemingly driven mad by the shattering, is demanding that all of the Kingdom of England is meant to heed every call and command of the Royal Family, having seemingly forgotten the split of powers between the parliament and the monarch. An attempt to car bomb his royal highness resulted in the King walking away from the flaming wreck without any harm even at his age. The International Community is protesting heavily but few wish to deploy forces whilst trying to bring back public order within their own countries.
Vatican City: As the complete media blackout continues, the Italian army and government prepares to launch a police action into the city state to work out where thousands of people disappeared too. Guards in colourful clothing have been seen peering out from the Vatican city holding spears for some strange reason.
Middle East: A massive new deployment of American and Coalition forces has reached the shores of this war torn landmass, The City of Jerusalem is quickly brought back into a state of order via the iron hand of Coalition Forces. A new alliance is being discussed to react to threats around the world that have seemly been empowered by this "shattering", now seemly just called "The Coalition" there are plans for the HQ to be built in Brazil due to the fact that the country is completely protected by the impacts of the shattering for a reason yet not explained.
Global Relaxation: Even with the war in the UK, the chaos in the middle east and the strangeness in the Vatican City, things are getting back to order. It is strange to see ghost hunters now being employed by businesses and all sorts of occult businesses are now being considered legitimate but as the world works out ways to bring order back to things. The shattering grows to no longer be an "end of the world event" but more a strange awakening to a new field of science. Global Panic -10
Texan News
The Texan Government is open to engaging with our company. After we promised to build our HQ within the centrelands of the Texan Government, they decided to approach us by granting us an unused building we can inhabit ourselves. Whilst not as safe as building our own HQ from nothing, it would save us a lot of time and make our relationship with the State Government even closer. As long as we avoid any talks of nationalizing our work.
Paranormal Business Experts have taken over east texas and deployed its own agents to the field but their media blackout and skills in acting in stealthy ways have made it impossible for us to realise how they are doing this and what strengths their new agent has.
Butterfield Thugs: Our elite and professional thugs are truly showing their worth this turn, deciding to spent the season driving around the state and fucking around, at least they helped us again break into the facility deeper. Facility Control +10
Donald Darf's Deployment: One of our Shareholders have decided to get their own hands dirty and have deployed directly to the field. Focusing on learning as much as they could about all the aspects of magic… but the muttering sometimes is concerning
You drew:
| Devotion | Charisma 1 | Magic 1 |
SolAnon1's Deployment: One of our Shareholders have decided to get their own hands dirty and have deployed directly to the field. Focusing on learning as much as they could about all the aspects of magic… but the muttering sometimes is concerning
You drew:
| Devotion | Charisma 1 | Magic 1 |
SomeDude134's Deployment: One of our Shareholders have decided to get their own hands dirty and have deployed directly to the field. Focusing on learning as much as they could about all aspects of perception, but now they've seen things that no human should have ever seen.
| Nightmares | Perception 1 | Perception 1 |
AGENT RULES
So as agents you play the game quite differently than organizations do (you were playing as an organization before). You draw a limited number of cards per turn at random from a pre-generated deck (that you don't know about unless it is studied).
All you are aware of at this time is you have 7 cards in your deck, and can only draw 3 at a time. This improves over time but this is already quite powerful considering each level 1 card is worth roughly equal to 50 funds.
So now with your cards drawn, you tell me which ones you want to play and which ones you want to discard. Most of the cards are self-explaining, however I will explain Nightmares and Devotion to the players.
Devotion is a special sort of tier 1 magic card. You can use Devotion for magic and seal actions however each time you use Devotion something strange will happen and you add another Devotion card to your deck. If you're not careful and you draw too many Devotion cards in one turn, you'll lose yourself to it.
Nightmares work almost exactly the same but instead it is used in place of perception as Somedude is finding information out of his nightmares that they shouldn't have in the real world, but the more they lean on this the more nightmares they'll get until their character is consumed by the truth of this world.
Also you can't vote on company plans whilst actions! Have fun yous all.
Matters of Interest
Our company mascot has begun to fill our employees with a warm feeling. Well that's good news
Shareholder Actions
It was an almost overwhelming vote by all shareholders on the board for us to set up our HQ in the Capital Area and almost overnight we got approached by dozens of development teams supplied by the Texas Government, they clearly want to sway us over but we aren't going to say no to free resources.
+10 Development Theory
+30 Relationship with the Texas Government
-20 Company Control
Shhh: Dozens of old agents and company workers found quite a brutal end, in fact due to the sheer amount of shareholders leaving the company office to move into the field, you managed to get quite a lot of work done with the sheer extent of funds that were provided to you… some of the deaths were quite creative.
-30 Awareness. People barely know we exist anymore, even the Texas Government is forgetting our ties to the shattering.
+2 Stealth Theory
+1 Combat Theory
The Research the Research! Oh no… Well we got to give it to them, the butterfield thugs know how to mess up an area, thank god for modern day recovery technology. We managed to not only recover most of our seal research but the shareholder on this duty managed to see a few holes that our previous scientists failed to see.
In fact he did such a good job that if we get access to our seal breaker we might be able to break the second seal already!
Seal Research Recovered.
Breaking the Second Seal: +50.
[X] Call upon a divine, Odin.
Research into false gods and gods from games didn't seem to work, so instead we focused our attention and magic theory into calling upon the wisdom of Odin. Odin was the great magician among the gods and was associated with runes. He was also the god of poets.
At first we didn't seem to get any results and the department was quite disheartened at the lack of results until someone noticed that every morning more and more crows began to surround the research facility. It became ridiculous one morning as we counted almost a thousand crows one morning spending all day crying out at our facility. The scientists are scared and excited at this weird display more so when we could trace magical energy coming from every single creature in the sky.
So the gods are real some mutter? It is certainly a strange display but we can't deny that by focusing on a god from history seemingly provided a real result. After a few more months of research we had to stop the study after the facility we were using froze in the middle of the Texan summer and one of our more risky scientists was taken away by the flock of crows.
They do seem to try and avoid the nearby churches as well.
+3 Magic Theory
+The gods are real?
Company Status
We don't exactly know the hard numbers of anything…
We are losing control of some elements of the company to the Texan Government
We have almost taken back control of our facility with the seal breaking machine, only a few more turns.
We aren't even known to the global community anymore
The UN is indifferent to us
The Texan State Government is trying to convince us to join them in full.
We aren't even discussed almost the people anymore
The Global Community is indifferent to us
??? thinks ???
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The other Shareholders hate us and formed their own company.
Choices:
Damage Actions:[] 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?
[] A few pipe bombs to the nearby company made up of those stakeholders that backstabbed us?
Perception Actions:
[] 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)
[] Facility Perception Part 2: Further investigation into getting deeper into our facility
[] Agent Shakedown: Let's see what our agents are good at.
[] What's going on in the UK?
[] What's going on in Rome?
[] What's going on in Brazil?
[] The Coalition? Let's learn more about this anti-divine military group being set up by the UN
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!
[] 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.
[] Hide Our Agents: now that we have our own agents on the field en masse, they may find themselves the target of our foes, let's help hide them so they can't be found.
Development Actions:
[] Improve Company Revenue: Making number go up is a must if we want to do more ourselves
[] Improve Company Abilities: If you want a job done correctly, do it yourself. Let's improve our own abilities. (Pick one of the 6 stats to study and see how the company can discover more about the world)
[] Time to improve with knowledge! We can spend our knowledge on improving the company, upgrading agents or to upgrade the company as a whole. This can be used to increase discipline of agents as well
[] Take the Texan Offer and allow them to give us a HQ. This will automatically give us a HQ allowing us to influence the world to a much greater extent, let's just hope it's not bugged.
[] Build our own HQ: We have our own design in mind… but we thank the government for its kind offer nonetheless.
[] We have gotten such a surge of development knowledge, that we could go further than just recruiting agents… we could begin the establishment of a PMC.
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.
[] Sweeten up the X: (Pick if you wanna charm the Texan government, a nearby faction or even a local region.
[] Build some Distance: We love the Texan Government, we do! But not quite that much, let's make sure they don't sink their roots too deeply into our organisation.
Movement Actions:
[] Agent movement: Spend 50 funds per movement to allow our agents to move around Texas without relying on their own means
[] Begin moving recovered assets to our HQ if we believe it would be safer in the heart of Texas than the middle of nowhere.
Magic Actions:
[] Catch the Bird: Last time I checked crows weren't meant to have 3 eyes.
[] We now know a god we can call out too, perhaps we should repeat our experiment at summoning a divine creature?
Agent Actions:
Can only be done by agents:
[] Return to Shareholder Duties
[] Play as many cards as you want and redraw up to max hand size.
- Combat Abilities and Cards can be used for any combat related task such as breaking into the facility, dealing with other agents, damaging buildings or taking over an area with force or causing unrest.
- Perception Abilities and Cards can be used for discovering more about the world, get more news next turn, find out what's happening in the local area or apply the Perception to a facility or agent to get knowledge out of it.
- Stealth Abilities and Cards can be used for hiding your actions or the actions of your peers and the company, as well as making certain people disappear. Setting up traps or misleading the NPCs can all be done with Stealth and use this to decrease global awareness of the company
- Movement Abilities and Cards just let you move yourself and assets around the game map.
- Development Abilities and Cards: Usually not handled by Agents.
- Charisma Abilities and Cards: Use this to improve friendships, take over regions of Texas and to interact with the international community or national community.
- Magic Abilities and Cards: Use this to discover more about the arcane secrets of the world, interact with the facility, discover new methods of breaking the seals or to deal with divine threats
This is a WIP system but it's all here for us to have fun.
Remember everyone! I am extremely happy for anyone to do write-ins, the game system behind this is really easy and flexible and I'll say no if something is too out there for the game. Therefore even if you got a "bad result" this turn, doesn't mean I allowed you to go on a dead end, only 1 seal is broken, remember so just bid some time.
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So if I wanna play my cards I just choose this?
I guess there'll be a midway vote where us agents choose said cards
Nah just pick that action and play whatever cards you want. Everything done this turn