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[Imp]

I mean using them to eat our foes. They're like horrific instruments of torture.

They fit in perfectly already.

"Ugh," Green Power nearly retches. "What foul beasts have you freed upon this ship!?"
"The very best that mutagens can build! Sure, they are a bit ugly to see..."
The Aliwhale Hydroblasts into mush another rasta man.
"And they're a bit heavy-handed..."
The Bearphant charges and impales on its tusks two more rasta-men.
"but they're just misunderstood critters in the end!"

So yes, steal the station and kidnap the crew. Good idea. The thing is,do we pay the creditors or tell them to suck our staff of cogs?

Neither.  What's ours is ours.  Now, if we get a mission about those or other creditors, that could be another thing.

Now, paying our minions and such, that's fine.  But those minions need pay no one else, especially not pay back debts earned before they came into our employ.  They are ours, and have no other master they need serve but us and those we place over them.

As such, their old ties are severed, as of our taking them.  There -are- no old debts to pay back, and no need even to contact previous creditors, not even to tell them to suck our staff of cogs.

[Naryar]

So yes, steal the station and kidnap the crew. Good idea. The thing is,do we pay the creditors or tell them to suck our staff of cogs?

We pay the creditors. Don't want to attract undue attention.

On that matter... the heroes know that we are using monsters as minions. We should therefore inquire about some transformative magic or shapeshifting monsters that would permit us to interact with the outside world without raising attention.

[Tomcost]

So yes, steal the station and kidnap the crew. Good idea. The thing is,do we pay the creditors or tell them to suck our staff of cogs?

We pay the creditors. Don't want to attract undue attention.

+1

[Cattani]

We have truckloads of money. Pay those suckers and give them to Chemista. It's not like we're using much money to begin with.

[shadenight123]

"We have to pay them?" Chemista looks at you incredulously. "Fine, but only because we'll mutate them in the end."
"Eh? What?" the 'voice' of the crew exclaims then. "M-Mutate?"
"Don't worry," you reply. "You'll all become snails in the end. I'm pretty sure it will make you all happy, right?"
"No snail will be harmed right?"
A cog smashes a snail by mistake with its clunky feet.
Then the cog whistles with its steam nose and looks away.
"Of course, of course," You nod.
"And what will we be transmitting?"
You muse it over, "We'll decide day by day."

Resource spent: Money.
You still have: Wagons of Money. Luxurious Items X2

You let the girl pay the debt collectors -shady guys who speak a mixture of Italian and interrupt every now and then with words like 'mamma mia!' and 'Luigi!'.
Then the zeppelin hooks the radio tower and within moments, you, your troops and the crew are up in the air flying back to base.
"I wonder what the snails will say," the woman covered in snails remarks with a dreamy gaze. "You think I'll have a cute shell?"
You cough and look sideways. "Oh, sure, sure, the mutagen is perfectly safe..."
Chemista looks at you with a deadpan gaze.
You whistle and look out of the window.
"My name is Snayla," she adds then. "And that one is Snaylo, Snaille, and Snai," she points to the other three crew members. "We are..."
"Yes," you interrupt her, "Yes -Yes...it's all right, I don't need to know any more really."

Weather the Storm

"The luxury cruiser Prometheus has been stolen! The hero GREEN POWER managed to survive, but is currently in the hospital for a bad case of perspiration and chemical imbalances due to shock. We also have received an urgent dispatch -it appears Snail News, the dead-last broadcast in the history of all broadcasts, has finally been torn down and removed. Or not! Their debts paid by some mysterious benefactor or outright imbecile, there is..."
Static fill the television as you watch Lord Gamington come down from the top of the lair with his entire body covered in oil.
The static soon leaves the place to your channel.
A red background, a EVIL OVERLORD logo on the upper-right corner, and Cerulean giving the news dressed like one of those female newscaster who wear camisoles and high heels with black jackets.
Problem being the clothes are actually inside of her 'jelly' mass.
"Hello!" she chirps. "Transmitting from Evil Overlord Lair, directly to your screens, is Evil Overlord's personal channel! Your newscaster is me, Cerulean!"
The Liondor rawrs as it flies down and lands on the desk.
"My assistant, Lionel!"
The Liondor rawrs again.
"And my co-newscaster for the day is..."
Psysquid takes the other seat and coughs politely.
"Worthless mortals! I am Psysquid, one of the great Dark Advisor! My screentime will be the most brutal as I delve deep into the horrors of the heroes association! But first, a picture of my awesomeness for you all to see!"
A picture comes in the background, showing Psysquid playing with his duck in the water of the submarine bay.
"Ah...who put that picture up!?" he screams the next moment.
Cerulean giggles, before saying.
"Well, dad didn't tell us what to say for the first broadcast, so let's wrap it up with this..."
here she coughs, before 'channeling' Chemista.
"YOU HEROES SHALL WOE THE DAY YOU FOUGHT AGAINST THE GREAT OVERLORD INCOGNITO!"
then the static returns and goes away, straight back to the normal broadcast.
Just in time to see the cameraman do something improper to the female newscaster.
...
You close the television the next moment.
And then you sigh.

You are now in Downkeep.

[Naryar]

Punish Cerulean for playing with fire inconsiderably.

Now they can locate us...

[shadenight123]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

No, of course they can't locate you. Or I would have given the choice to the players about it. She said 'Evil lair' not 'Island in the middle of the sea located at coordinates X and Y'. Don't worry.

[escaped lurker]

Convert the crew to our side. And then mutate them with their beloved snails.
Yeah, no. We do not need further such incidents. Here is hope their snailforms won't show violate content of a form we do not approve of within our standards. At daytime, at least, that is.

Also convert any crew and humans from the cruiser. Unless we have set them out in rescue-boats that is.
Anyone in for a were-phant sqad? If it fails, we could go werewolf, but that just lacks something...

For the show - how about guest-star Knighthowl making an appearance?
Showing a little live-feed of every-ones favorite mutt should show that we are buisness. As for the real show, give Lord Gamington a dance-show - if he wants, wich is almost sure-fire-thing. Let him show the world his moves, just as he wanted to!

The Sad-System will get the Metall-speared Werephant corpse, plus some magical crystals.
Because the later never can go wrong in any way, and make everything better to boot! We also want that thing out of the lair, because by now it should start to rott slightly. Which we really don't care for.

Conduct research into the construction of magic staffs.
If there is none to be done, just construct one after ceruleans wishes, and one as cogy as we can. For later use in cog-o-mancy.

[3man75]

Convert the crew to our side. And then mutate them with their beloved snails.
Yeah, no. We do not need further such incidents. Here is hope their snailforms won't show violate content of a form we do not approve of within our standards. At daytime, at least, that is.

Also convert any crew and humans from the cruiser. Unless we have set them out in rescue-boats that is.
Anyone in for a were-phant sqad? If it fails, we could go werewolf, but that just lacks something...

For the show - how about guest-star Knighthowl making an appearance?
Showing a little live-feed of every-ones favorite mutt should show that we are buisness. As for the real show, give Lord Gamington a dance-show - if he wants, wich is almost sure-fire-thing. Let him show the world his moves, just as he wanted to!

The Sad-System will get the Metall-speared Werephant corpse, plus some magical crystals.
Because the later never can go wrong in any way, and make everything better to boot! We also want that thing out of the lair, because by now it should start to rott slightly. Which we really don't care for.

Conduct research into the construction of magic staffs.
If there is none to be done, just construct one after ceruleans wishes, and one as cogy as we can. For later use in cog-o-mancy.

+1

[Knit tie]

Mutate the crew with snails and sacrifice the werephant corpse with magic crystals. Also do a double mutation-we need to see how they work- gorilla +rhinoceros+lion.

Do not punish Cerulean. She didn't do anything wrong. Instead think about how we can use the channel to spread truth and propaganda.

[Naryar]

+1 for converting the Snail News crew and then mutating them with snail-mutagen to our side. Hell, they'll be a meatshield at worst and comic relief at best. Or maybe a punching ball ?

There isn't anyone left alive on the ship. We only have dead rich people in there and riches.

Sacrifice a human corpse, a cog, a magic crystal, precious metals and a bunch of bones. Maybe we'll get some sort of steampunk half-mechanical undead. Who wouldn't want these ?

Mutate several zoo animals with human mutagen. Human-hippo ? Human-lion ?

Also do a double mutation-we need to see how they work- gorilla +rhinoceros+lion.

+1 for that. We need to explore multiple mutations, as well as fusing living animals together. Dr Moreau, hell yes.

[Tomcost]

We should use our new tv station to improve our image.

+1 to showing that we didn't kill Knighthowl, and Giving Lord G. a dancing program.

[Cattani]

+1 to the double mutations and throwing the werephant remains in the SAD system. And asking Knighthowl if he wants to appear in our channel.
These snail guys are seriously out-of-place. I mean everywhere, they don't fit anywhere in society; they should be naturally evil-corrupted since they're something of a social refuse. Anyway, mutate them with all kinds of things that crawl (give them choises if that can be done), or properly corrupt them and put them as our evil show crew. Also they should have an engineer and/or technician to keep things running in there, he may be of use to us.

I also think we could open some business, now that we're messing with that. You know, "Mastermind: World Conqueror"-style. Like pharmaceutics or making a big food producing company or such. We could use it to improve the image the people have on us, so they would listen properly when we show them the Heroes crimes. Also, if we have a brand that lots of people know and trust we are much more secure from being overthrown since we have popular support. We could even open some brothels for our succubi. Guys would love that, and it would be sure corruptions per week.

Just throwing out some ideas here. The worst part would be the start (like all RL companies). But it seems to me it can be done.

[Naryar]

I also think we could open some business, now that we're messing with that. You know, "Mastermind: World Conqueror"-style. Like pharmaceutics or making a big food producing company or such. We could use it to improve the image the people have on us, so they would listen properly when we show them the Heroes crimes. Also, if we have a brand that lots of people know and trust we are much more secure from being overthrown since we have popular support. We could even open some brothels for our succubi. Guys would love that, and it would be sure corruptions per week.

I agree. We have tons and tons of money, let's not just let it rest.

Succubi brothels... I'm not so sure. If people disappear around the brothels the heroes will notice.

although if it is to corrupt and implant sleeper agents in the populace... would be perfect.

[10ebbor10]

1) Letting Knighthowl appear in the channel will draw serious attention (heroic hero capture*), and might even result in his death. (Or brainwashing, but that is similar)

*He came alone, so I doubt that anybody knows he's here. Everyone probably assumes he's on some sort of secret mission.

2) I'm afraid we can't do regular broadcasts. Triangulation is a thing, but with the current tech level probably requires a long time to narrow down. Sporadically interrupting news broadcasts is probably the best we can do. For now.

On a side note, I do like the idea of Evil Investements Inc.