Welcome to my Candy Store! (Willy Wonka Management Quest.)

12- Sell! Sell! Sell!
[X] Plan new selection
[X] Ice Mice: A packet of small, mouse-shaped mints. They could make the consumer's teeth chatter and squeak!
[X] Upgrade Storage (200 > 400. Costs: 5 Wealth.)

You decided to add on even more room for storage to the building, sure... it cost a little bit, but you were sure you could recoup the loss easily enough with the sales you've had.

Storage has been upgraded. 200 > 400. Next upgrade is: 400 > 800. Costs: 10 Wealth.

And then, you'd gotten the results for the Ice Mice that your newest employee, Fred was working on...

Ice Mice Research Roll: 93.

And it was pretty damn good. The mouse-shaped mints were exceptionally... minty! Taste-testing made your teeth start to chatter and squeak about, oh! It was a simply fascinating experience.

"Oh, F-Fred. I-I do believe that you've created s-something simply... m-m-marvelous! Great j-job!" You said with a chattering grin, as you pat your employee on the back.

"Th-thank you s-sir!" Fred said, his teeth chattering and squeaking like that of a mouse.

"W-well, you're welcome Fred! N-now! J-Joe! Let's get to work!" You said, your grin growing wider.

"Of course Mr. Wonka," Joe said with a kindly smile, as he went over to the front desk, and you opened the doors of the store, it was time for Wonka's Candies to open, and for Wonka Bars and Laffy Taffy to be sold!

Wonka Bar Sales: 189.

Laffy Taffy Sales:
149.

The candy sales had managed to extraordinarily exceed all possible expectations that you had!

And now... it was time to count up the coins, and see how much money you had made from the day of backbreaking work!

You have gained 32 Wealth.

You lose 5 Wealth from Upgrades, 3 Wealth from Joe Bucket's Employment, 3 Wealth from Fred Morter's Employment, and 1 Wealth from Advertisements. In Total: 12 Wealth.

You now have 81 Wealth.


You'd managed to make a neat profit from the candies due to a mixture of Joe's kindly appearance, and him helping people around the store, and you were just sure that the Ice Mice will be an absolutely smashing hit when they hit the shelves!

"Jolly good work everyone! Now, let's all go home for the day!" You said with a grin, as you, Joe, and Fred had gone to your respective homes.

You had a fairly humble small house, right across the street from your store, where you'd had various ideas for your candies in notepads, along with sketches of what they just might look like.

And then, you went to bed.

You woke up the next morning in a start, you had so much work to do! Oh, you loved your job!

Quickly getting ready for the day, you had briskly walked across the street to your store, where you saw that there was a lot more work to be done! And you had to be the one to do it.

What do you want to do? (Top 2)

[] Research some more Candies.

[] Work on making Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice for the people to eat.

[] Upgrade the Building again.

[] Hire another Employee to help man the store.

[] Go on a trip to find some exotic ingredients for your sweets.

[] See if you can strike some deals with grocery stores to stock your candies on their shelves. (Would not recommend for now, you might want to wait until you reach at least a Candy Production of 1000.)

[] Advertise your Store some more.

[] Buy a Lottery Ticket (Cost - 1 Wealth for each ticket; Condition- no bonus dice, DC of 100, if successful, it gives 100 Wealth)

[] Improve Knowledge and Imagination (Improve Willy Wonka's Bonus to Research Rolls)

[] Try your hand at making an online service for the store.

[] Write-in (Write-in a custom choice):
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Next Sale Turn, you will sell Ice Mice. That is, if you choose to make more candy... which you're obviously going to do.
 
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Okay, it's been over an hour, and I just have to ask... why isn't anybody voting?
Yep, what the other guy said. Right now I shouldn't even be awake, but I accidentally slept 5 hours before my proper time.
[X] Plan With the Frizz No Way
-[X] Improve Knowledge and Imagination (Improve Willy Wonka's Bonus to Research Rolls)
-[X] Go on a trip to find some exotic ingredients for your sweets.
 
[X] Plan The Candies must flow
-[X] Work on making Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice for the people to eat.
-[X] Hire another Employee to help man the store.

We need an Employee to specialize in matters of Candy production. It's our biggest bottleneck now, with all that storage space lying around and two dies to sales per candy, and I want to finally free up an action to do something other than making more bars to fill our storehouse each turn.
 
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X] Plan With the Frizz No Way
-[X] Improve Knowledge and Imagination (Improve Willy Wonka's Bonus to Research Rolls)
-[X] Go on a trip to find some exotic ingredients for your sweets.
 
[X] Plan Get Another Upgrade
-[x] Work on making Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice for the people to eat.
-[x] Upgrade the Building again.
 
[X] Plan The Candies must flow
-[X] Work on making Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice for the people to eat.
-[X] Hire another Employee to help man the store.
 
Alright then, voting has closed and here are the results!

Adhoc vote count started by Yite on Nov 2, 2021 at 2:50 PM, finished with 18 posts and 14 votes.

  • [X] Plan The Candies must flow
    -[X] Work on making Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice for the people to eat.
    -[X] Hire another Employee to help man the store.
    [X] Plan With the Frizz No Way
    -[X] Improve Knowledge and Imagination (Improve Willy Wonka's Bonus to Research Rolls)
    -[X] Go on a trip to find some exotic ingredients for your sweets.
    -[X] Improve Knowledge and Imagination (Improve Willy Wonka's Bonus to Research Rolls)
    -[X] Go on a trip to find some exotic ingredients for your sweets.
    [X] Plan Get Another Upgrade
    -[X] Work on making Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice for the people to eat.
    -[x] Upgrade the Building again.
 
13- New Prospective Employees?
[X] Plan The Candies must flow
-[X] Work on making Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice for the people to eat.
-[X] Hire another Employee to help man the store.

Well, to start things off, you had filled up the storage with Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice, it was nice to have a new candy to finally be able to sell after all this time.

Wonka Bars, Laffy Taffy, and Ice Mice have been restocked. (400/400. For more Storage, upgrade the building)

Afterward, you decided to hire one or two new employees for Wonka's Candies. It's obviously time to expand the business.

You had gotten four people to come in, wanting to work for Wonka's Candies, which was honestly? More than you expected.

43: The first up was a fairly average young man named Michael Johnson. He seemed like a decent enough person. He'd probably be the most useful making the candy itself.

11: Secondly, was a large, balding, sweaty, fat man with rotting teeth, he said his name was Doug Smith. He seemed to be the... lazy sort, and you'd heard rumors of him selling company secrets to the highest bidders.

91: Thirdly, Ruby Williams had returned, she still seemed passionate about candy. And really seemed to want a job here. And you were inclined to allow her to join.

26: And finally, was a reedy, young woman named Gertrude Reeds, she seemed like a real... rude, nagging woman, and didn't seem to have much skill when it came to candy making, sales, or anything really good for your business.

After looking through the resumes of your prospective employees, now, it was time to decide who to hire to work at Wonka's Candies. You had quite a few options to choose from.

And hey, this time you were confident in being able to fill the store with two new employees... you'd have to either get a new store, or make some renovations to your current one to get more employees, though.

Who do you hire to work at Wonka's Candies?
[] Hire one.
-[] Michael Johnson.
-[] Doug Smith.
-[] Ruby Williams.
-[] Gertrude Reeds.
[] Hire two.
-[] Michael Johnson.
-[] Doug Smith.
-[] Ruby Williams.
-[] Gertrude Reeds.
[] Don't pick any of them.
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Can I just say... remember, you can make posts of your candy/employee ideas and I'll put them in the Apocrypha.
 
[X] Hire One.
-[X] Ruby Williams.


Just sayin', I knew we had the wealth to get more last time we tried hiring employees.
I could see the merit in hiring Michael, but really he's on the low-end of the scale, and Ruby's fine enough.
I'm surprised she even came back. Besides that, we can go for hiring more when we want more employees later, since just grabbing them because we want quantity only lowers the quality of our goods and workers.
 
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