Q4 2015
Bigaction: Put a half-billion of money in form of stocks (drawn slowly and widely-spread) into a front fund, encouraging engineering graduates into work in the robotics industry.
Bigaction: Suggest to Dronetics board of directors that the company should put some PR money into the fund, in order to encourage freshly-trained people to join the field we lead in.
Bigaction: Discretely search for a scientific research group already looking into forcefields, and evaluate how likely said group would be in working for Dronetics/partnership to fund their research.
Small action: Spend a few evenings seeing how much I can work out by myself about what the contents could be (Size of data within, amount of repeating patterns, etc)
If the answer is "Learn Nothing Meaningful", [bigaction] hire a cryptanalysis team (Give them a $10m budget for the project) and set them to work on the data I've extracted from the book.
[1] You draw money for the fund and hire some people managing it. When you check the fund later you find out that money is all granted for various non-enqineering focused schools. After talking with the hirelings you realize that job description was far too vague so you can't even blame them.
[2] Board of directors think that there's enough engineers on the field and encouraging more people joining will only benefit Dronetics' competitors.
[5] Whole forcefield technology is still mostly in science fiction books and only little of actual reasearch is done. Boeing for example has been granted a patent for system that uses electrical arcs to heat air into plasma which will protect object against shockwaves. They probably want to keep it all for themselves, but if you were to provide theoretical proof of better tech not using their patent, they would probably be very interested. As would be most of military forces around the world. And law enforcement. And organized crime.
[3] You make some progress with the book. Color and shape of the bookmarks are key for ordering text fragments, but there's few possible ways for arranging it all. So pertty much nothing meaningful.
[5] Your work ad for cryptoanalysis people attracts number of world's best people. [2
+1] They find out that the symbols on bookmarks are extremely obscure modifiers for key ordering. They are delighted by the system and feel like they should be able crack it soon.
Personal financial situation:Your stock value follows avarage economic raise, increasing their value bit.
Name: Faheema Naish
Sex: Female
Role: CEO
- Quarterly income: ~11 mil $
- Cash: 9.696 bil $
- Stocks: 11.95 bil $
- Other assets: 7.25 bil $
- Total wealth: 28.896 bil $
OtherSDD disk, wished from evil gods. Contains comprehensive research data about treating parasite infections.
The Da Vinci Code. Numerous bookmarks. Contains heavily encrypted message.
A team of cryptanalysists working on it. Feel like they can crack it soon.Mysterious prismatic glass cube. Wished by Gilbert Carmichael.
German company producing bipedal robots for search-and-rescue purposes as well as for military models.
Contact the hidden underground laboratory located in Antarctica that The Scorch uses to secretly develop new methods of environmental destruction (Other Assets: 3 Billion dollar value). Tell the lab team to focus their efforts on the research and development of a rapidly-spreading virus that specifically targets the aquatic life found in saltwater environments, such as the ocean. This virus should be capable of causing death or total paralysis to infected sea creatures. If the team succeeds on this project, they should also verify whether this virus is capable of mutating or spreading in such a way so that it can affect non-sea creatures. It would be preferable if it couldn't, but even if it can, the virus could still be useful. Invest another Billion dollars into the laboratory to help them succeed on this project.
Contact my highly-paid team of accountants and financial advisers (Other Assets: 3 Million dollar value). Tell them to begin implementing financial strategies that will increase my quarterly income substantially. Tell them that it is acceptable if these strategies incur a significant cost three years from now.
(I may add more actions if I have time and can think of anything else to do)
Message all previous clients. Tell them that The Scorch is offering a 10% discount for missions involving the destruction or pollution of lakes, rivers, dams, and other freshwater bodies of water. As The Scorch performs these missions, take samples of the aquatic life and send these samples back to the lab, to be used later.
Scan the news for any reports of scientists experimenting on enhancing animal intelligence
[6
-1] The Antartica laboratory uses certain variant of swine-flu as a base for their research and succesfully developes a lethal virus. It is very lethal after almost completely symptomless growth period. For a virus it is quite stable and unable to infect mammalian lifeforms, which unfortunately means dolphins and whales won't be infected either.
[3] So far their suggestion is to buy more profitable stocks sell unprofitable ones while they still have value. They also want to know if you find...
an alternative sources acceptable.
[1] Your customers turn out to be quite hypocrites. They thank The Scorch for they past services but announce they have experienced an enlightenment and seek more nature friendly means to boost their business. They reveal identity of few of your field operatives to Green Peace who are quite infuriated by existance of your organization. Mentioned operatives are found out later dead in forests. You can expect heavy interference from Green Peace in your future operations.
[4] You find none of such reports. Only thing that is even related is Gen-Sys using apes to test new drugs to improve human immune response.
Personal financial situation:Your stocks do little better on avarage than others.
Name: Forrester Finch
Sex: Male
Age: 55
Role: Head of a secret organization
- Quarterly income: ~5.3 mil $
- Cash: 5.005 bil $
- Stocks: 10.3 bil $
- Other assets: 2.997 bil $
- Total wealth: 18.302 bil $
Other3b$. Hidden underground laboratory in Antarctica.
3m$. Highly-paid team of accountants and financial advisers.
Secret international organization specializing in stealthy environmental sabotage and destruction.
Antarctica laboratory has developed lethal virus targeted on aquatic life. It kills its hosts after a month long symptomless growth period.
Has causedenraged movement withing Green Peace.
Advocate for agricultural advocacy bills.
Get a team together, to read through the data, and start plans on a bunker in Nunavut.
[3] Your support moves few bills forward, but not enough to make big difference. Eh, you have time.
[2] You job as a politician seems to be very demanding. It leaves you too exhausted to do anything after the day is over. All you want is cuddles from your husband, who's happy to provide.
Personal financial situation:Even your stocks seem to suffer from your lethargy. It's probably unrelated, but value goes down anyway.
Name: Sherri Jones
Sex: Female
Age: 50
Role: Politician
- Quarterly income: ~10 mil $
- Cash: 11.26 bil $
- Stocks: 9 bil $
- Other assets: 5.25 bil $
- Total wealth: 25.51 bil $
Other- Unmarked SSD drive. Contains jet blueprints by Icarus Skies.
- Unmarked SSD drive. Contains blueprints of advanced hydroponic farming devices and techniques.
Set my engineers on working out designs for self-sufficient underground facilities.
Get an estimate for land costs in as northern a part of Nunavut as I can manage while still staying on the continent.
[3
+2] These guys work out an excellent plan, very detailed and thought out. They employ wide range of existing and proven technologies and leave possibilites for upgrades. Single facility with this design could host 1000 people with option to expand.
[2] That's Boothia Peninsula, isn't it? Well north of arctic circle. Anyway, land over there costs much more than elsewhere within Nunavut. Not the most expensive area, but near damn top anyway. Or do you want actual numbers here? For some reason I do understand piecewise's hate for numbers little...
Personal financial situation:Apparently you have same stocks as Sherri Jones. Too bad.
Name: Gilbert Carmichael
Sex: Male
Age: 63
Role: CEO
- Quarterly income: 12 mil $
- Cash: 11.09 bil $
- Stocks: 11.087 bil $
- Other assets: 4.76 bil $
- Total wealth: 26.937 bil $
OtherHighly educated engineers and skilled workers.
These proud men and woman cost you 5 million per quarter.
They have static roll bonus +2.
A 70m$ ranch somewhere in Arizona.
Perfect design for self-sufficient underground facilities.
Produces tobacco and spirits.
Vile and very competent legal department.
schedule a conference with them and apolagize saying I wanted to make sure we would have the proper funding.
[4] After thinking it over, board of executives agree with your decision. They still would appreciate if you were to keep them up to date.
Now this NASA meeting. [2] It doesn't go well. After their scientists review your papers they are in opinion that it is too theoretical. It needs more work and research than they are willing to put forth. They are already spewing their budget around too much. At least they don't inform press about result of the meeting and media kinda forgets whole thing.
Personal financial situation:Your stocks suck too. Buy better ones.
Name: Van Relsing
Sex: Male
Age: 32
Role: CEO of Icarus skies
- Quarterly income: ~13 mil $
- Cash: 2.263 bil $
- Stocks: 10.25 bil $
- Other assets: 13.5 bil $
- Total wealth: 26,013 bil $
Other- Pile of papers. "Study on developing more efficient rocket fuels." Seems revolutionary but too theoretical.
A company producing jets and jet accessories.
Economical rise continues slowly on all fields. There's hope that recession ends soon.
Q1 2016
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