The next Kaiju has emerged in the Java Sea. It might hit Java, or Borneo, or Celebes. It looks as strong as the 'normal' full strength kaiju, and not the slightly weaker one which was encountered at Tel Aviv.
There is one lead scientist up for bid this month.
There are two somewhat outlandish devices on the black market today. First up is the Hummerwagon, an extremely large SUV jacked up futher and placed on giant solid rubber tires. It's been stretched a bit to fit what looks like some kind of modified 75mm turret mounted recoiless rifle. The madman who made this also says that the rounds are custom rocket-powered things intended to do even more punch. Minimum bid is 50
The other is Black Helicopter man. This time he has made a second drone transport chopper, but this time he's went for speed instead of toughness.
You have never seen a helicopter that is nearly this fast, and it's incredibly frightening. You figure that it can never safely transport anything, but you should be either able to alter it into an effective flying bomb, or give it some kind of robust fixed weapon of artillery cannon size.
If you bid on this, indicate if you want the weapon varient or the flying bomb varient. Minimum bid is 100.
ADD
Business
You suffered no casulties in the battle of Tel Aviv.
Your budget has gotten a slight increase to 690/month.
Your infantry manages to recover 1x Kaiju Skin and a Kaiju Brain.
Base (New Mexico) 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10
-> Modern Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium), 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> Wolverine Silverized T-55 with muzzle accelerator?, 35. Escape Threat 6.
Large Airstrip, 20
Barracks, 10.
-> Infantry Platoon
Small Lab, 10.
-> Hoplite Exoskeleton Project, 1 month left
Large Lab, 30.
-> Jaeger Project. 1 month left
Small Lab, 10.
-> Manportable* nuclear arms, 8 months remaining
Kaiju Lab, 20.
High Energy Physics Lab, 100
Large workshop, 30,
Stores, 0
->Internal Checkpoints, 20
->Storage Vaults, 20
->Hardened Perimiter, 30
->4x Kaiju Muscle samples
Total Upkeep: 385/month.
Base security rating: 13
3 x Lead Scientists, one will leave after one more month.
5 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Bone
1 x Kaiju Brain
Money: 314
Funding: 690/month.
Happytime Atrocities, Inc.
Political
Your only casulty during the battle was your Battered Combat Jet. It got missiled to death.
Your funding has been slightly adjusted to 800/month.
Your infantry manages to recover 1x Kaiju Skin and 1x Kaiju Muscle, in chunks.
Base (Hong Kong) 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hanger, 10
Large Hangar, 10
Large Hangar, 10
->Flying Box, 20. (Medium, capacity 1xSmall.)
Large Hangar, 10
Aqua Giant Hangar, 10
->Russian Submarine, 20. (Huge) (Boat) (Slow)
Large Airstrip, 20
FriendCo Omnihive, 125
-> Gatling Insect Swarm.
Barracks, 10
->Infantry Platoon, 10
PR Centre, 40
->Acid-Washed Tank.
Small Lab, 10
->Giant Aquatic Dockyard, two months remain.
Kaiju Lab, 20
->Kaiju Dissection Annex, 20
Kaiju Lab, 20
->Kaiju Dissection Annex, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Stores, 0
->2x Kaiju Muscle samples
->1x 40mm Gas Grenades.
->1x High Quality Body Armour.
->2x Processed Kaiju Muscle
->6x Processed Kaiju Skin
->10x Kaiju Acid
->1x Kaiju Communication Rectifier
Internal Checkpoints, 20
Security rating: 11
Designs:
PR building, 200, 2 turns to build.
Kaiju Dissection Annex, 100, 1 turn to build.
Giant Aquatic Hangar, 50, 1 turn to build.
Giant Laboratory, 250, 6 turns to build.
Total Upkeep: 445/month.
3 Lead Scientists. One leaves after this month, one after two more months.
4 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle
4 x Kaiju Guts
Money: 500
Funding: 800/month.
Emerald Robin:
Intel
You suffered no casualties during the battle, and recieved a significant funding increase to 575/month.
Your infantry managed to recover one Kaiju Skin and one Kaiju Muscle.
Intel on the new kaiju is that it is strength 15, has extra toughness and regeneration, and that defensive glass system which was seen on the giant snake in Nouméa. It's armed with a missile launcher and some new weapon that seems strength based.
There is also a second kaiju in the waters of the South Atlantic. This one is identifiable, as it's attacked a city before. It's basically a giant monkey with sword-arms and the ability to blast shockwaves at distant targets with them, notable for quickness and strength, as well as tough bony plating similar to an exoskeleton.
Base (Greece), 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Airstrip, 20
Barracks, 10
-> 51804 Infantry Platoon 10
Barracks, 10
Large Hangar 10
-> Battered Combat Jet with Dual-Warhead Missiles and Valencite Explosives. 40
Medium Hangar 5
Medium Lab, 20
-> Neko Armoured Infantry, 3 months remain.
Small Lab, 10
-> Extraversal Research & Development Facility, 1 month remains
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Small Workshop, 10
Intel Hub, 20
Kaiju Detection Array, 40
Stores, 0
-> Damaged Placebo: GMG Technical + armour kit + ERA + NA Grenades (20)
-> 3x Kaiju Gut Sample
-> 1x Advanced ERA armour
-> Blueprints for Happytime Atrocity's PR Centre
2 Lead Scientists. One expires after this month
3 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle
1 x Depleted Uranium rounds for small arms.
8 x Operatives from the Hand.
Base 2, (Greenland), 10
Barracks, 10
->518-Omega-1 Lazy Finches: Infantry Platoon, 10.
Kaiju Detection Array 40
Designs:
Laser Technical. 50. Zippy four-wheel drive truck armed with a powerful bed-mounted laser. This design may be combined with the technical armour kit design to be produced in one turn at a cost of 75.
Technical Armour Kits. 25. Adds armour to unarmored small vehicles like Technicals. Also applicable to artillery pieces. Qualifies for combination with the Advanced ERA plates.
Advanced ERA plates. 25. Improves armour on any small, medium or large vehicle that is already armoured.
Kaiju Detection Array: 200 cost, increases detection of Kaiju incursions. 4 turns to build, 1/base max.
Small Laser Drone, 6 months remain
Intel Teams:
Council of Funding Nations -> looking for orgs
Happytime Atrocities.
USSCCI
ADD
Total Upkeep: 335/month.
Money: 350
Funding: 575/month.
"Coke" Knights
Black Market
You've recieved a very dramatic funding increase to 925/month. The council is very pleased with your performance and hopes it will continue in the future.
Your infantry platoon has recovered two very strange unidentified organs. Most kaiju organs have some clear functionality, but at this time you aren't certain what these ones do. Maybe after processing them, it will become clearer? Right now they're both lumps of strange blue flesh.
One is a very hard, almost metal-hard bony encrustation around some kind of softer centre.
One is a soft, somewhat ephemeral organ like a spleen, but it doesn't have the blood supply of what a spleen would have.
Here are your black market offers for the month.
one crate of advanced DU Subcaliber Sabot Tank ammunition, for increased penetration. Price is 25. These rounds are incompatable with other payloads, such as the USSCCI's new Valencite explosives.
one RD-102 Robodog. It's a metallic wolf the size of a small horse, armed with razor sharp teeth and a spiky, whip-like tail. It looks impressive enough, but you aren't certain how good it'll be fighting on a kaiju scale. Will take up one equipment slot on an infantry platoon, (of their three total) as it requires a local operator. Price is 50.
There is a fleet of cut-rate transport choppers available, late of the airmobile Egyptian commando corps. You may purchase an unlimited number of these for 40 units each. They seem as fully functional as normal transport choppers, that is, capable of moving units up to the size of an artillery piece.
Base (Peru), 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10
Large Hangar, 10
Large Airstrip, 20
Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon 10, with DU small arms and dual-warhead rockets.
Large Lab, 30
-> Armoured MRLS project. 6 months until completion.
Small Lab, 10
-> Personnel Force Fields project. One month left.
Small Lab, 10
Kaiju Lab, 20
High-Energy Physics Lab, 100
Large Workshop, 30
Medium Workshop, 20
Listening Post, 50
Stores, 0
-> (Artillery Piece) 10 -> Currently in Lima.
-> Artillery Piece w EFFG-II and Valencite explosives, 20
-> Artillery Piece w EFFG-II and Valencite explosives, 20
-> 4x Dual Warhead missiles.
-> Tank-load of advanced thermal smoke generators
-> 5x DU Ammo for small arms.
-> 1x Dual-Warhead ammo for infantry rockets.
-> 1x Kaiju Heart
-> 3x Processed Kaiju Guts
Infiltration teams:
Council of funding nations: schmooze campaign
USA: schmooze campaign
Brazil: schmear campaign
China: schmooze campaign
Council of funding nations: ready.
Designs: Electromagnetic Force Field Generators, Mk I. 50. Applicable to all vehicles of small, medium or large size, improves toughness.
Designs: Battered Combat Jet. 200.
Electromagnetic Force Field Generators, Mk II. 50. Applicable to all vehicles of small, medium, or large size. Extra toughness.
Total Upkeep: 400/month.
2 Lead Scientists.
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle
2x Unknown Kaiju Organs.
Money: 615
Funding: 925/month.
USSCCI
Military
You have recieved a significant funding increase from the council, to 625/month. Nice!
Your infantry platoon has managed to recover one chunk of Kaiju Muscle.. and one strange organ. This one resembles a bag of canned pasta, with a translucent sack wrapped around blue mush with flecks of structure inside it. You really don't know what to make of it.
Base (Florida) 10
Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport. (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10
-> Battered Combat Jet with Valencite explosives, 40
Large Hangar, 10
-> Battered Combat Jet with Valencite explosives, 40
Large Hangar, 10
-> T-55, 5
Large Airstrip, 20
Proving Grounds, 20
Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon, 10
Large Lab, 30
-> Sarissan Jet project. 2 months remain.
Small Lab, 10
-> Stabilized Valencite Explosives. 2 months remain.
Medium Workshop, 20
Large Workshop, 30
Large Workshop, 30
Large Workshop, 30
Stores, 0
-> 1x Kaiju Heart
-> 5x Processed Kaiju Fat
-> 1x 40mm Gas Grenades
-> 1x High Quality Body Armour
-> 1x Cut Down Autocannon
-> 1x Processed Kaiju Muscle
-> 3x Infantry SAM Launchers.
Designs:
Battered Combat Jet: Large, Cost 200, Power, D. AP, E. Range, D. Payload, D. Speed, C. Armour, F. Durability, F. (Flies) (Ammo-Short)
Artillery Piece: Small, Cost 50, Power, E. AP, F. Range, D. Payload, D. Speed, F. Armour, -. Durability, F.
Air Transport, Cost 100, Power .. AP, .. Range, .. Payload, .. Speed, F. Armour, -. Durability, F. (Flies), Capacity 2xMedium.
Matryoshka Transport: Large, Cost 125, Power .. AP, .. Range, .. Payload, .. Speed, F. Armour, -. Durability, F. (Flies), Capacity 1xMedium, 1x Large.
Valencite Explosives: Payload, built in batches of 18 (3xD payload) Improves power score +1 rank if power is the same as payload. +2 ranks if payload is two or more ranks above power. Cost 25.
Total Upkeep: 345/month.
3 Lead Scientists. One expires after two more months
2 x Kaiju Muscle
1 x Unknown Kaiju Organ
Money: 355
Funding: 625/month.
Dr. Unpleasant.
You don't really have any of the red Hulk Juice anymore, but you can certainly whip up a new batch! It came out yellow this time.
Does certainly add bulk to the Kangaroo. Quite a lot of it. Should certainly be tougher now, with some lovely slabs of muscle.
As for speed, it remains really bouncy, and is more so now, but you can't really say it's fast enough, moving about equivalent to a speeding automobile. You'll try to work in a little extra treatment if you have spare time during the next stages of work on the kangaroo.
Base Details:
Command Chamber
Mad Science: Low quality chemistry lab
Awesome Drug Front income +16
Large Lab Zone: Literal Giant Kangaroo
Money: 124.
Upkeep: (110/month)
Income: 28/month.
Ashley Flare.
Igors really are handy.. always there with the next tool you want. Always closing or opening doors. Always checking on the bug Jaguar to make sure it has a new boulder to play with or some extra food to keep happy.
You feel with one around you could manage to run two projects at once, if you were to build a second Lab Zone. In the meantime he should be useful.
Oh yes the jaguar can climb fine. It isn't better at it, now that it's all sharp, but it can absolutely still climb.
It is also being properly contrary as only cats can be, so it is somewhat unwilling to show the ability off on demand, being more interested in digging through walls instead of following orders.
You remain quite confident that it will be happy going off to battle should you wish. You did not take away the hunting instinct.
Base Details:
Command Chamber
Igor
Agent's Lair
-> Collectivist Wasp Hive Organism
Mad Science: Biology Lab.
Large Lab Zone.
-> Extra Bug Jaguar. With Pincers and Explosives! And +2 sharpness.
Money: 143.
Upkeep: (120/month)
Income: 12/month.
Lord Silver.
The harpoon is fighting you, that's the only explanation for this! I mean, you tried strapping the rocket on, and that worked. And you strapped the other rocket on for the spinning mechanism. And you slapped on a counterbalance and hooked it up to spiral energy. And you changed the whole design of it into a much superior drill-like shape.
And now it doesn't work! Or rather it does work, but not nearly as well as you'd like, with some of the parts interfering with each other, and the rockets not firing at the approprate times. You've only made it a little better so far, darn it!
Base Details:
Command Chamber
Mad Science: Laboratory of Evil Physics.
Mad Science: Laboratory of Evil Physics II: Morally Gray Physics.
Large Lab Zone:
->Black armoured AFV with lightning drill harpoon.
Agent's Lair:
->Minions of E.V.I.L.
Mercenary Barracks.
1x Processed Kaiju Bone.
1x Processed Kaiju Skin.
Money: 214
Upkeep: (150)/month
Income: 12/month.
Claudia.
It's pretty easy to steal things when you can block vision over entire blocks! And when you have a bunch of yetis that are quite capable of lifting heavy things.
The only unfortunate part is the lack of good targets. It seems the local banks only had a few million dollars and a few hundred safe deposit boxes, with only some gold and jewellry in them, so it wasn't nearly as profitable as you think your next heist will be, where you promise yourself that you'll properly find the right target.
(Gained 160 cash, +1 Strike. Now at 1.)
And, of course, leaving your base is always the cause of stuff breaking down and requires actual money to pay for it.
Base details:
Command Chamber
Mad Science: Chaos Theory Supercomputer
Medium Lab Zone. The Rainbow Fog Machine
Agent's Lair:
->Barrel of Monkeys
2x processed Kaiju Fat
Money: 98.
Upkeep: (100/month)
Income: 12/month.
It is now the Purchase Phase of October, 1999.