England: News from the Lion and the Unicorn shows that royalist forces have failed to breach any further into parliament defenses. London and the surrounding countryside may be flying the banner of the mad king but parliament forces have managed to keep them trapped. This is weary news for the King of England as rumors have it the coalition is planning to act in the following turns to bring order back to the war torn kingdoms.
Vatican City: Italian army and police forces have been sent into the Vatican city to investigate what is going on, some patrols go missing and others find themselves lost in such a small place? GPS tracking shows that they sometimes walk in circles when walking in straight lines and appear in locations sooner or later than they should have. One thing is for sure, it is strange to see footage coming out of the Vatican with every holy cross removed from every location and yet the icons to Jesus seem to be untouched. The Italian government has hired the aid of coalition researchers to work out a safe way to the heart of this issue. The heart of the Vatican.
Middle East: Order and Justice has been brought back to the sands of the east. That is if your justification is foreign exploitation is good and your order is missiles raining hell about the warriors of the eastern states. Nonetheless the surge of power in the east has seemingly sapped away after the coalition taught military forces operating in the area new sites to target to keep these embolden terrorists at bay.
-10 Global Chaos, the world is almost fully relaxed apart from the issues in the Uk and the Vatican City.
Brazil: A superpower by 2030? A popular joke on the internet by many after the sudden surge of investment and interest in this nation, it may not be far off if they can work out what exactly is making them immune to the damage that the shattering did to the rest of the world. Although horrors have been seen in the amazon rainforest as dark clouds build far from the secure and safe north. Whatever trick the Brazilians have discovered seemingly can't protect their entire country. On the plus side the illegal timber harvesting operations in the rainforest have met a sudden and gorey end.
The Texan State government has released a volley of recruitment advertisements to all the people of the glorious and wonderful one star state! Whilst the federal government battles with another budget shut-down that seems extra abhorrent even for American politics. The Texan government has made moves for a massive expansion to the Texas State Guard in preparation to "defend the state". A number of excuses have been provided from refugee crisis to crime wave but most believe it has something to do with the shattering.
Paranormal Business Experts have been quite quiet this turn… what are they plotting or are they just savouring the wealth and freedom they've gained ever since leaving us?
Butterfield Thugs: Under the close supervision of the in field shareholders, The Butterfield Thugs decided that breaking into the deepest rooms of our facility with more explosives may be unwise if they wish to remain on payroll. But that does bring up a strange issue, they are somewhat useless here… perhaps we should spend resources to redeploy them to another task? In the local area as thugs or in another area as… information and rival suppressors?
Donald Darf's Deployment
| Hand | Movement 1 | Magic 1 | Magic 1 |
Ahh movement, the ability to transport yourself, others or resources and relics to other locations. 1 movement is enough to move easily within a region or somewhat quickly to a nearby region, any further travel will require further investment.
SolAnon1's Deployment
| Hand | Movement 1 | Magic 1 | Magic 1 |
It seems like the magic is in the heart of the cards, worth the risk to bet it all on the divine?
SomeDude134's Deployment
| Hand | Movement 1 | Stealth 1 | Nightmares |
Months of horrific nightmares has rewarded this shareholder with even more nightmares. +1 Nightmare in the deck. It seems like the terrors of the night has encouraged this shareholder to hide from the world alas they have more control than that… for now.
Our researchers have been making greater leaps in judgment of late and yet even these nonsensical assumptions have somehow resulted in successful research. The colder the room the researchers are working in the greater the leaps in logic and the greater the reward. One scientist however was found dead after freezing himself to death to try and make a truly divine assumption. A Valknot was found frozen and drawn in his own blood.
+1 Magic Knowledge
+??? Someones… or somethings out there have become more interested in our actions.
Butterfield Thugs
The Butterfield Thugs one morning received a lovely bit of fan mail from a nearby local that they helped save whilst travelin around and building PR and securing estates for the Company. On the fan mail was a wonderful picture of the crew clearly drawn by someone who appreciated them. They've all had a rough life before this gig and whilst the work isn't easy, it feels good to be appreciated and to be doing work with a greater goal than just bashin the next man.
+1 Card for the Butterfield Thugs, +1 Charm
An Enthralled Population of Permian Basin
Rio Grande is somewhat distrusting of the company still after the tragedy at their facility whilst most of texan has forgotten they certainly haven't. But the region of the Permian Basin seems to be enthralled by this adorable little critter and it is a massive hit within the communities of the region.
+1 Loyalty in Permian Basin to the Company
The Rumours of a Maddened Fire Department
Some say that after a major fire occurred in Phoenix Arizona that small living birds of fire were seen flying out of the burned out location, no lives were lost but it seems a dozen sanities were as the HR and local mental health facilities were overwhelmed by this surge of gossiping men and women.
It seems like nonsense but the world is strange and after this event many more people are beginning to believe in magic.
-5 global awareness and suspicion.
Magic is clearly becoming commonplace and it can't be the fault of only our company.
Shareholder Donald spent weeks attempting to learn more about the arcane and whilst success hasn't hit just yet many minor breakthroughs have been made. They feel at the edge of learning a new skill, a new talent or a way to trick the world into behaving in unholy ways but they can't help but feel his mind getting exhausted even after the smallest of learning attempts.
+1 Talent in magic, minor breakthrough is soon. Try and tell the GM about what path with magic you want to follow, whenever more brute force, witchcraft, defence or any other method you can think of.
His attempt at making the locals like the company mascot is mixed, it is quite a cute mascot however it is just a cute seal. The locals like it but they don't exactly have any reason to think about it day to day and the Shareholders eager passion for this mascot is cute yet somewhat strange.
+1/5 Support for the company in the local region.
The Shrines to Columbia and Uncle Sam, our patron deities! Some of our employees are creeped out at the idea of turning the founding fathers into something… beyond human but the materials are purchased and the shrines are built. Glorious Statues to the very people who created this wonderful nation, however even when gazing upon these statues that were built with love, passion and as many magical items as we could find. Nothing happened.
A few months would go by and every time we attempted to provoke a response out of these shrines all we'd hear is the mocking echoing laughter from the flock of crows that have been watching us attempt this.
- An Inactive Shrine to the Patron Deities of the United States of America
The Texan government was extremely pleased by the fact that we took their offer. Within days they gave us the keys to a truly massive tower that was filled to the brim with bugs and spyware. We did expect this but what we didn't expect was the Texan government blackmailing and threatening our agents that worked towards debugging the tower, it was a slow and brutal attempt but we believe we got all of them? Although we can't help but feel that we really didn't get all of them…
Company Control -25.
HQ Established
HQ Actions Unlocked
Funds Doubled from 500 to 1000 per turn.
Catch the Crows.
You'd assume that three eyed birds would be easy to find and catch considering how strange they look and how we have guns. That was oddly enough not true. We spent weeks trying to gun those birds out of the sky, catch them with nets or bait them with food and almost at every attempt they would avoid us entirely. We say almost every attempt because one evening one of these strange creatures found itself inside our newly established HQ and someone closed the door on it.
We declared this a lucky but disappointing victory but considering the crow enjoys spending its time mocking us with its laughter and we swear it steals food out of the company fridge which it should not have access to. Well we believe it may not be as trapped as we think it is and it's just here to watch us, at least we've proven to be interesting.
+1 Three Eyed Crow?
Shareholder Somedude would gaze into their dreams and contact his agents and spy networks to discover what is going on with the world. Most of their traditional skill set would be used to break deeper into our facility. Whilst not managing to take over the entire facility yet in merely a few weeks the talented spy and master of perception would use every trick in the book to break dozens of our most secure defenses. Almost the entire facility is back under our control and we believe the room where the divine creature that slayed most of the facility staff is just a few more floors down. Soon we will have access to the seal breaker again and we now know how far away we are.
+20 Progress. 70/100 progress. 30 progress remaining until we can use the facility and the seal breaker again.
Finally, after days of hard work. Shareholder somedude would trap themselves in their own nightmares and learn about the world while dodging the horrors of their mind. They would focus their mind on the Coalition, the strange international order of companies, governments and organizations that are working together to smash any element of magic and divine that they can get their hands on. Strangely enough you'd assume such an organization would be extremely anti-religion however most coalition soldiers and agents are wearing either crosses and other religious artefacts or wheels and 8 pointed stars for those who don't show belief.
Yet one evening when the shareholder would be gazing into the depths of their own dreams, one masked coalition agent would gaze right back.
+1 Nightmares, draw too many nightmares in 1 turn and you will succumb to the horrors of the mind.
Shareholder SolAnon was more focused on trying to link the power of devotion and magic to the company seal. The sheer focus on trying to catch the power of the divine and channel it into our company mascot via prayer and animal sacrifice did prove some results even if not many.
Prayer barely worked, we are unsure if this is due to the low amount of people we are able to get praying to a picture of a seal or the lack of devotion behind the act. Some researchers wonder if praying to a plushie or statue or a trinket of our company mascot would provide more easily trackable results instead of praying to an overall concept.
The animal sacrifices interestingly enough did provide some results, by following traditional methods of preparing an animal for sacrifice and giving up the entire corpse to the idea of our company mascot would result in a surge of trackable divine energy however small that surge is that would quickly disappear into the local area. Intent seems to play a big role in the release of energy as we found out that sacrificing the animal with plans to use the meat later for another purpose would cause no divine energy to be released, we had to truly give up the animal in full and let it rot away or burn away in total with no personal gain for ourselves or community.
The Devotion would however rot our poor Shareholders mind and they would find themself muttering about the divine more often.
+1 Devotion, gain too much and you may walk too far into its blinding light in your journey for holy and unholy knowledge
Working together with the other shareholders at making our Mascot popular would begin to work, whilst it wouldn't be enough to create funds for the company, our reputation did improve with this rebranding to a new cuter face and some people did buy our plushies and gossip about its almost enthralling cuteness.
+10 Relations with the People.
We don't exactly know the hard numbers of anything…
Some of our agents boldly work for the Texan government whilst taking our pay checks, alas the stranglehold of a government creeps around our throat.
We have almost taken back control of our facility with the seal breaking machine, only a few more turns. 70/100.
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.
The people love our cute seal, but don't really show much affection to the company or it's vague goal.
The Global Community is indifferent to us
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The other Shareholders hate us and formed their own company.
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Nothing like a late night post, sorry for this being late but life is busy as ever
I'll have the choices out in a day or two, I didn't quite prepare for the HQ actions just yet. No map update.
