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EoD Pt 2: 2075 Q2 Planning

A new quarter, new headaches. The good news Edgar is that you finished your mandates in the nick of time. The bad news is we have new orders coming in. You aren’t going to like this. The NOAA have a project for you, and orders from DARPA.


They’ve given us 3 fully functional nuclear warheads. This upc...

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EoD Pt 2: 2025 Q1 Results

[X] Plan: Supervillain Origin Stories

-[X

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EoD Pt 2: 2074 Q1 Results (Draft 1)

[] Plan: Mandates and Mayhem

-[] SECURITY

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Liberation Pt 6

[X] Plan: We Can Get You Ijin's Explanation

-[X] OMAC

--[X] Tell OMAC how we're working with Ijin to liberate the AutoPlanet, and offer to put them into contact with them.

-[X] CAMBON

--[X] The Bore-Holes

--[X] Server Complex 01

-[X] Offer Maxis a Deal

-[X] Secondary Positron Complex Iodex

--[X] GI...

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EoD Pt 2 Sidestory: Fate of Hawaii

It’s been awhile, dear reader. 

When the bombs were finally launched, the Hawaii laser tower would shoot down two nuclear bombs, failing to shoot down a third and overheating before it could fire a fourth shot. A drop in an ocean, its construction would coincide with ACME completing another expansion, another descending ring ...

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EoD Pt 2: 2074 Q4 Planning

[X] Plan: Robots and Prototypes

-[X] Sell

--[X] 1 SCIENCE

--[X] 2 OUTREACH

--[X] 1 Chems

-[X] Buy

--[X] +2 Funding (0/5 --> 10/5)

--[X] AlviCorp (0/20 --> 20/20)

--[X] Daisy Technological Enterprises (0/25 --> 25/25)

--[X] Better Think Initiative (0/25 --> 25/25)

--[X] Garra...

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EoD Pt 2: 2074 National Convention

You pulled into the lot in your government provided sedan, sweating, looking up to the bleak sky, wondering by what hubris that man had thought it wise to build a city in the goddamn Mojave of all places.


You reached into your pocket, pulling out a flask of whiskey, taking a long draught from it: you needed to be at least 100% b...

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EoD Pt 2: 2074 Q3 Results

[] Plan: Frustrating Facilities

-[] SECURITY (1 dice; +0)

--[] Local DoP K-9 Unit (New Orleans)

---[] 1 die + 1 Skulder: (0/150 --> 64/150)

-[] AGENT (1 dice; +0)

--[] The Sunken Parish

---[] 1 die: (17/250 --> 56/250)

-[] FACILITIES (0 dice; +0)

--[] Fortified House of Worship (Baton Rouge)<...

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Eve of Destruction Pt 2: Two McCoy's Day Off

Clancy currently sat in a darkened room, sipping the strongest coffee NEXT was capable of illegally smuggling in, the result of its brand newly stolen passenger jet making routes between certain parts of what few unoccupied regions of central america remained. Surrounding her was a puzzle, one that hurt her to look at: three corkboards covered w...

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EoD Pt 2: 2074 Q3 Planning

[ ] Wright Animation Technology [Patriots]: Television is how you get into the brain of the population. Cartoons are how you get into the brains of children: subliminal messages, designed to spread specific meme complexes designed to help throw off their indoctrination. You'll need a television broadcast studio, one operatin...

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Mysteries of the Tuatha Pt 2: Shadows and Devils

Lorgar Aurelion, the Seventeenth Primarch, High Priest of Chaos, aliases The First Heretic and the Urizen, was not happy. Not happy at all. The daemon primarch stared balefully at the creature that had incurred his ire, seated in his personal study. 


The space at first many would think was underwhelming: the sanctum of perh...

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Arkham Lounge Turn 8 Part 1

[X] [The Game of Death] Curse of the Mad Monarch: It started with the titular game: designed by one of the more occult minded members of the club, the first time it was played tragedy followed, all the players involved were horrifically injured in the following week, one after the other, in the order they had lost, until onl...

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EoD Pt 2: 2074 Q2 Results

[X] Plan: Orphans Now, Power Armor Later

-[X] SECURITY (1 dice; +0)

--[X] K-9 Kennel

---[X] 1 die: (28/75 --> 74/75)

-[X] AGENT (1 dice; +0)

--[X] The Wreck of the USS Hartley

---[X] 1 die + 1 Skulder: (0/150 --> 68/150)

-[X] FACILITIES (0 dice; +0)

--[X] Fortified House of Worship (Baton Rou...

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Liberation Pt 5

at[X] Plan: Diplomacy in Action

-[X] Vaul

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EoD Pt 2: 2074 Q2 Planning


[ ] Lil Patriots Military Orphanage [Patriot Party]: The orphans of today were the patriots of tomorrow! The Patriot Party wanted to help preserve the future of America by constructing a military orphanage for the children of veterans who had perished in the line of duty, and help prepare these sons and daughters ...

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EoD P2: 2074 Q1 Results

[X] Plan: Dipping Our Toes

-[X] SECURITY (1 dice; +0)

--[X] 1 die: K-9 Kennel (0/75 --> 28/75)

-[X] AGENT (1 dice; +0)

--[X] 1 die: Northern Atchafalaya Chemical Dumping Investigation (0/50 --> 61/50) COMPLETE

--[X] 1 Skulder: The Sunken Parish (0/250 --> 17/250)

-[X] FACILITIES (0 dice; +0)

--[...

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EoD Pt2: Turn 1 Planning

Warney stood on the sidewalk, waiting, holding an umbrella to keep him dry from the torrential rain: even with the great flood-walls, New Orleans found itself drenched during the yearly superstorms. Behind him was the down-town regional Department of Preservation headquarters, located in the heart of the cities downtown area. Three stories high:...

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Turn 7 Part 2: Flame, Pain, and Board Games

[X][Ghostfire] Ghostfires Patron

-[X] Felicity's uncle would send her the logbook of her ancestor, a pirate infamous for raiding slave ships during the height of the Triangle Trade. Their treasure horde was never found, but no one had the logbook to hint at its final resting place…


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Shrine Keeper Simulator Pt 7: Turn 3


[X] Plan: Who do you call? The Vet!

- [X] Host a workshop on crafting protective talismans... in the village, preferably, or at least away from anything sufficiently in disrepair to cause a scandal.

- [X] Market Stall Rumor Mill

- [X] Painstakingly create a warded ritual space to commune with the spirits and divine t...

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Arkham Lounge Turn 7: Buried on a Sunday

[X] [RAT] Classes at Gotham U: The Rat Piper would continue to hone their scientific acumen, using the money that would have been spent on food to instead pursue an education in one field or another, such as chemistry, biology, or some such.

-[X] Finance


[X][CURSE] The Curse of Blanchard: ...

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Dr. Feelgood, Or, How Warney Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb

The DoP headquarters was mostly unchanged, you amusedly noted as you walked up the steps. Despite the multiple billions of dollars of revenue it generated, the massive technological advancements, and serving as the lynchpin in your plans, it was largely the same building it had been when you first took office as the Director. 


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Turn 6 Part 2

[X][HOT] Diet Carnegie

-[X] Amadeus thought he could do better? Fine then. If nothing else it would ease Josiah's worries about his aunt, and maybe Amadeus would stop gripping about the asylum if he had his own to run. (Give Amadeus the money to build and run his own asylum.)



[X][Power of the Lounge] Propaganda, Accide...

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Arkham Lounge Turn 6: Rattus Robbery Record

[X] [RAT] Write In: Rat Breeding: The Rat Piper would, in fact raid Gotham University's library and retrieve a great many books… unfortunately they got a bit turned around and ended up in the (very limited and new) animal husbandry and selective breeding section. This would turn out to be an unexpected boon for the Piper, as they would slowly ...

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Eve of Destruction 2073 Q4 Results Finale

Lobby (Fund National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) (752/500)

It takes some palm greasing, some financial concessions, and Joe blackmailing an independent media firm with some very compromising pictures of their CEO, but you manage to convince congress to fund the NOAA: most of your support for the move comes from...

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Liberation! Pt 5.1: Betrayal

at[X] Plan: Diplomacy in Action

-[X] Vaul

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Turn 5 Part 2: The Rat, the Racist, the Rogue, and the Robbery

[X] [Power of the Lounge] Play a Frame Card: I don't like any of these choices, I want to make my own.

-[X] [Rat piper] A man who has fallen on hard times drank his money away, going to the bar to drink and then to a random warehouse nearby to sleep. It was there at the wareh...

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Arkham Lounge Turn Five: A Matter of Framing

[X][HEALTH HAZARD] Cauldron of Madness: A unique chemical reaction between some of the lower quality Bowman Moonshine when consumed with Witches Brew and a few other substances was capable of causing mood swings, auditory hallucinations, insomnia, and paranoia, among other symptoms. Bar causes psyche damage to p...

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Arkham Lounge Turn 4 Part 2: The Cinema, the Scholarship, the Singer, and the Cop.

[ ] Chief Garret: The Kanes still hadn't forgiven the Lounge for the Redfeather incident, and the latest news had given the affluent family to earn Josiah a permanent place on their enemy list. Garret was their pet dog: chief of the Bowery precinct in their pocket, one who was willing to bend the law when it suited their emp...

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Shrine Keeper Quest Pt 5: Turn 2

[X] Plan: Restoration and Exploration

-[X] Dr. Hurriyeh

--[X] Familiarize Yourself with the Shrine

-- [X] Repair Central Pagoda

--[X] Reconsecrate the Grounds

--[X] Train (Yaji)

--- [X] Protective Magicks

-- [X] Explore Location

--- [X] Village of Pavva-Ganuk

-[X] Yaji

-- [X] Check on t...

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Turn 4: Consequences and Crises

[X] [BOOKS] Private Means Private: Josiah would allow Abigail, Amadeus, and no one else. His library would be his alone, with permission granted only to the most select few he had deemed acceptable to intrude on his space. It would be his sanctum, his place of power, the beating brains of his operations.

[X] [PATEN...

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