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[Liber celi]

One Question: Did something relevant happen during the last ~20 posts? Don't get me wrong, I like discussions as much as the next guy, but I don't have got all day.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I don't think so.

[jasonred79]

Fair enough.


Positive suggestions:
1. Suggest Bob finds some way to get some serious income. Either a JOB, or through CRIME, or something. Investments will simply not generate enough cashflow for Bob, simply because he does not have enough CAPITAL. He has enough that good investments are a nice BONUS, but he doesn't have enough to retire on/live comfortably off.
2. Then suggest Bob gets his own transport. Even a scooter is better than having to rely on borrowing his mum's car all the time. Amusing as it is to read, it's quite a hindarance to commit acts of villiany. Especially since his mum isn't an active supporter of his supervillian career. (yet?)
3. Suggest Bob eventually gets his own place to live too. Eventually, a supervillian needs privacy. Realistically anyway. It's all very well for movies and cartoons for Captain Acne Teen to have to hide the plans to the White House whenever his mum wants to clean his room, but... Or, the other choice would be to inform his parents of his ambition of becoming a supervillian, and hope for their love and support???


Mundane as it might seem, cash is probably a huge concern for Bob at this point. He either needs to actually get a decent paying JOB, or he needs to multiply his networth by ...hmm... maybe 5 times or so. Within a short span of time, before inflation erodes that value.


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Also, on the subject of minions, or obtaining allies or similiar... someone said that Bob is not charismatic enough to convert captives via drugs, hypnosis, and other methods?
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mmm... It probably takes a LOT MORE charisma to get minions and allies via the normal channels of "looking like a leader" or "friendship" or all those other channels...

Well, anyhow, lots of people on thread seem to want Bob to obtain minions to do his dirty work while he works from the shadows... for someone without much charisma, drugs and hypnosis are probably a more likely solution than "how to win friends and influence people".

[RAM]

Drugs are expensive, unlikely to work short-term, almost impossible to work long-term, and tend to produce instability in its subjects.
Hypnosis will, at best, give someone a vague impression about you. Any such impression will have to be supported by your reality and compete with any impressions gained by measures taken to put them under hypnosis.
Other methods would, presumably, mostly consist of mental torture. Gaining that sort of power over people would require the ability to have them submit to you willingly or involve abducting and restraining them, which involves considerable risks. Even then it is far from guaranteed to succeed and will result in unstable minions. Still, it does work for cults...

[Thecard]

Bob could start a cult.  That would let us try drugs and hypnosis.  Also would attract people who are just crazy enough to be our minions.

[jasonred79]

Hmm. GM said that "making money is so mundane". And he mentioned Captain Killdozer.
It occurs to me that the players might have misunderstood Bob. Maybe bob has some secret compulsion to commit atrocities which do not benefit himself in any way?

If so... here's an idea. He could become COMMANDER NEEDLES.

His villianous acts? CHEAP and SIMPLE. He just buys lots and lots of fine,thin needles, and a wire cutter. Than he cuts all the needles with it, such that the pointy section is about 2cm long. Throws away the other part.
He then goes all over the country, and inserts these mini needles into children's snacks...

Oh, and to become a TRUE supervillian, he also sends out fliers and leaflets beforehand talking about a BIG SHOW coming to town, curtosy of COMMANDER NEEDLES! Full of excitement, drama, and human tragedy!

And after the first few victims are discovered, he sends out more announcements saying "Commander needles here! I see my show has started! How do you all like my needles so far?"

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Hmm. Thank goodness *I'M* not some crazy murdering psychopath... I'd be too good at it...  eek.

[Talvara]

Hmm. GM said that "making money is so mundane". And he mentioned Captain Killdozer.
It occurs to me that the players might have misunderstood Bob. Maybe bob has some secret compulsion to commit atrocities which do not benefit himself in any way?

If so... here's an idea. He could become COMMANDER NEEDLES.

His villianous acts? CHEAP and SIMPLE. He just buys lots and lots of fine,thin needles, and a wire cutter. Than he cuts all the needles with it, such that the pointy section is about 2cm long. Throws away the other part.
He then goes all over the country, and inserts these mini needles into children's snacks...

Oh, and to become a TRUE supervillian, he also sends out fliers and leaflets beforehand talking about a BIG SHOW coming to town, curtosy of COMMANDER NEEDLES! Full of excitement, drama, and human tragedy!

And after the first few victims are discovered, he sends out more announcements saying "Commander needles here! I see my show has started! How do you all like my needles so far?"

...

Hmm. Thank goodness *I'M* not some crazy murdering psychopath... I'd be too good at it...  eek.

welcome to the watchlist

[jasonred79]

Checking the dates on this thread... I'm guessing Connecticut made this whole topic much less amusing for everyone? ... yeah. Well, I dunno. So far, Bob's motivation seems to simply be to get rich. He doesn't seem to have any murderous intentions or desire to hurt anyone... maybe he'll turn out to be one of those supervillians that doesn't hurt anyone.
Like Despicable Me.
That'd be cool.

[jasonred79]

Over a month since this was updated? ... Officially dead? Y/N.

[RAM]

hrmmm, it doesn't look good, but anything can be revived if you put it on a table and electrocute it enough...

[javierpwn]

Unless you shock it too much, then you just fry it, and it has no hope of returning

[flame99]

Clearly you haven't learned of true dwarfiness: You must try again, no matter what, and never give up. A dwarf would have hope that it would return, and by Armok, it will!

[Donuts]

Yo, LordBucket. We are super busy bumping this thread. Y U NO UPDATE?!

[My Name is Immaterial]

I come with a lightning strike of information and summarization! Not to mention bumping.

To quickly summarize what happened in the last post: We went to ninjitsu class, twice, and it was painful. We gained Dabbling Ninjitsu Student. We asked if Gilbert was interested and offered to pay his fee, and he asked where we were getting the money. Micheal found a house:

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Good condition, big yard, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2.5 car garage. Seller's asking $23,900 for it. We can get a tenant within the week for $400/month

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lets take the deal, and use contrast water therapy to help with soreness (basically just an alternating hot-cold shower). Also, in our own time, practice manipulating objects with our feet while wearing the boots, as well as putting the uniform on and taking it off quickly.

We should also see if there are any cheap second-hand cars to rent/buy, and let Gilbert make his own mind up about the lessons.

Writing something

I'll say, Don't bring up the classes to Gilbert. maybe even discourage him a bit, by mentioning how sore Bob is (that's mostly because I consider him more of a RnD kind of guy who doesn't go out and risk his hide)
If we take the deal we'll be left with about 10K cash that isn't tied up.
with a rent of about 400 dollars a month it would take us 60 months to earn back the investment, of course if we need cash we can always put the house up for sale again, for a loss or a profit depending on... factors...
personally I'm in favour of getting the house. sure it sets us back in funds, but bolstering our monthly income feels pretty good.
Lets try to not take on any more physical regimes. I'm neutral towards improving/working on our writing skills.
next order of business though. learning some tips from Clara and Stan about raising some cash.

1. Try to join up with some organized crime. Join a protection racket, or drug selling, or underground fight club betting, or something.
2. Or do some solo criminal cash raising activities. Sell bootleg pirated games/ DVDs.
3. If you MUST restrict yourself to legal stuff... as least try to do something LUCRATIVE but DODGY... for instance, buy a massage parlor with girls that (unofficially!) offer happy endings... GOOD moneymaker, and good for building "rep" with the seedier group.

After that, the thread broke up into squabbling.