You know, I wonder whats going to happen next turn, chimera goes into Compton, or they (and everyone else) spends the entire week looking for infiltrators once they realize the number of people who are actually working for us.

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THIS QUEST IS NEWBIE FRIENDLY

The plot summary here:

>http://ironmaster.wikia.com/wiki/Plot_Summary

Should get you up to speed on everything that's happened so far without trawling through the archives, which can be found here:

>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Super%20Villain%20Quest

Just in case you want to trawl through the archives anyway.

THE IRON MASTER
Health: 1 (3)
Power: 4 (12)

Athletics: 2
Cunning: 3
Technology: 4
Insight: 2
Observation: 3
Nefariousness: 2
Stealth: 1

Powers: Super Strength, Super Speed, AI, SynthSkin, Model T, Mobile Dolls, Ghost Whisperer, Deathless

>Link to rules (including powers list): http://pastebin.com/jgDrRens

Action Points:

The Iron Master: 1/2
Julio Pedone: 2/3
Rica Rivera: 1/2
Red Death: 2/2

Resources: 14
XP: 0

well throw a call to Kestral and ask her how her fight with Asrael went, seeing as we probably didn't actually see it.

Talk to our doctors and find put what wonderfully SCIENCE they've been up to.

Send a few rat bots to scour the sewers on what Chimera's been up too

send some ghosts to find out what Kestral's dad and Durnad have been up too

>>21271264
Okay, could you describe the two remaining hound sets? between the Hounds and Stalkers we have subverted, we should have a very good idea about their stats. Also, look on the internet for companies looking into cloning.

>>21271347

Your Stalkers were there for most of it, so you generally know what happened with the Kesterl vs. Asrael fight anyway.

Your doctors work on the science you tell them to, and otherwise spend their time playing Minecraft. So.

Chimera has withdrawn from the tunnels except those beneath their own territory, where they're starting to set up some hideouts, guard posts, and workshops.

How are ghosts supposed to find two people in a city of fifteen million?

>>21271365

Both Hound sets are weaker than the Lunatic Hounds, but not by much.

Also, I accidentally copy/pasted the wrong rules link. The current rules are here: http://pastebin.com/cVXaZb4x

Additionally, some people have asked about spreading some propaganda for your side. I've decided this will operate off of Cunning and Insight rolls, TN 9. I've also decided v.0.7 of the rules will include expanded corporation rules (though again, mostly for posterity, since LA isn't set up to use them) as well as rules for media and public image, and hopefully also some stuff for politics. That should roll out some time during Act III, at which point we'll have basically an entire city simulator to work with for when we do another Super Villain Quest.

We need to find out whatever happened to Mesmer and his girl!

>>21271491
So bruisers. Rica or Red death(whoever is better at it) will lead the Platinum Guard in an attack to flatten one of the hounds sets.

Oh, also, now that we're done with the big spectacular fight, there's still the question of what you want to do with the captured Bouncer. Offer him a job or punt him back to the Towers?

>>21271597
I suppose we could try to offer him a job. Point out that we already control the Lunatic Hounds, and the Stalkers, and have Red Death and Mask working for us. He can either work for us, and be on the winning team and have another chance to beat up behemoth live the high life, ect. or not.

>>21271597
job
wake him up dangling from a rope in a ware house mecs at the reddy and terminators.

"hey wake up " plasma blast the rope down
"we can do this one of two ways 1 you leave town its mine. 2 you stay work for me making a good pay it comes with a hell of a health package

>>21271700
still think this approach is dumb

>>21271556

Rica mega-flattens the South Street Hounds, destroying the set two-and-a-half times.

>>21271645

Are we going with this?

>>21271597
yeah, lets try to offer him a job.

Actually if he refuses, do not put him in towers just tell him to stop involving himself in gang war

Alright, you offer Bouncer a job as one of your henchmen, offering wealth and power against...Not wealth and power. Bouncer demands that he be placed in charge of Compton, otherwise he says no deal.

>>21271849
sure, why the hell not?

>>21271849
Fuck up and you'll have bigger problems than the towers to deal with.

>>21271849

I predict he will bite us the moment he senses weakness, even if it would be "faked" weakness.

>>21271939

I can't tell if this is a vote against agreeing to give him Compton or not.

>>21271939
yea, and then his gang gets armor and lasers joy. Oh well we can always throw mechs at him again if we have to

How would that work? Is he seriously demand completle control of compton as an independant gang head? Because if so, no for a ton of reasons. Starting with the fact that he is shit gang leader

>>21271973
That or, you know, just have his "Specially made" armour and weapon blow up while he's wearing them.

>>21271849
Only if you can be the biggest distraction ever
get him some bright red armor and a plasma Gatling gun

>>21271975
Agree, he can administrate, but he is *not* his own gang head.

>>21271975
>control of compton as an independant gang head
Yeah is this the case? If so then hell no,

Let him "control" compton, with us making policy desicions. (Basically we let him play kingpin, be we make all the important desions, like those that cost an AP)

To clarify: Bouncer isn't asking to run Compton as an independent gang leader, but he is asking for the authority to do more or less whatever he wants with the region itself. Meaning whether or not things like your standards for the treatment of the girls in your employ apply or not depend entirely on his whim.

>>21272074
So we cant enforce standards of practises on him?

>>21272155

Basically, yeah. You'll have control of major actions that require AP, but details are up to him.

>>21272164
And from what I read, he's not exactly the brightest, most kind hearted fella, right?

>>21272193

Indeed he is not.

>>21272231
Imma say no then. We can always just toss him in a crate and ship him to Hong Kong if he becomes a problem.

>>21272247

Alright, Bouncer refuses to join you if he can't have his little empire, so are you sending him to Hong Kong or the Towers or just punting him onto the streets and telling him to play nice or else or what?

Meanwhile, what are you going to do with your remaining actions? People have mentioned getting some propaganda going for you and also figuring out what happened to Mesmer and his girlfriend.

>>21272301
KO him and ship him to Hong Kong, it'll make for a great story.

Also let's sink some actions into Propaganda, start filling people in on the evils of scientology, and get Julio and Red Death on tracking Mesmer. I figure Julio can talk to people, Red Death can possibly track.

>>21272301
lets try figure out what happened to Mermer's girl.

And ship him to Hong Kong, putting him in Towers will make other Red like us less. Bouncer might be a pain in the ass but he is OUR pain in the ass

>>21272330

Who's going to be doing the propaganda stuff? The stats for that one are Cunning and Insight, remember, so you'll want people who have lots of that.

Red Death turns up nothing, but Julio's able to find a lead while investigating the Santos Espada (and hey, does it ever feel good to not have Dead Eye taking potshots at him every time he steps out of Palos Verdes). It looks like Asrael has a couple of muggle friends, at least a few of whom are former members of the Santos Espada. They're kind of bitter about it, but irritating Asrael is never a good idea.

>>21272367

Sounds like Hong Kong is the most popular destination, so off he goes. Should be the last you hear of him for a while.

>>21272372
Okay whoever's good at that stuff will do that, others start tracking.

Okay, first we need to take out the last hounds. Have Red death lead our hounds to take them out. Then we can build sets and spend our remaining AP doing other stuff.

>>21272424

Which set is Red Death going to be using for that?

>>21272372
send Ghosts to sweep Santos Espada region to see if they find the girl or any leads

>>21272440
Lunatic hounds

>>21272528

Right. Red Death successfully flushes the Rim Street Hounds out of South Gate with the (somewhat reluctant) assistance of the Lunatic Hounds. That clears out Compton, but the Turf War event isn't completed until a single gang (or alliance) owns the whole thing.

>>21272442

Eastside is big and your small and unreliable cadre of volunteer ghost spies aren't going to be able to find like seven out of the millions of people in there.

>>21272671

By the way, this leaves Julio and the Iron Master with one action left each.

>>21272677
Okay, what neighborhoods are available? I vote we buy up two of them and then let the Ronin temporarily occupy the last two. The understanding being that once they deal with the Santos, they move these sets over there.

(West Compton - Arms)

(East Compton - Drugs)

(South Gate, Compton - Hookers)

(Lakewood, Compton - Drugs)

>>21272677
Lets have IM follow up that lead then

>>21272799
Build sets first, for more money, next week we will follow the leads. Okay, put a specialist on the Hooker neighborhood, and a worker on the arms.

>>21272853

Any names for those sets, or should I make something up?

>>21272853
the more time we waste, the lesser chance that we succeed. So lets not waste another week without doing anything about this

>>21272897
because if we don't wrap up the area this turn chimera will come in and start yoinking stuff. And then we will be in a nasty gang war with one of the two most powerful gangs in the city. And the names are Brass legion and copper legion

>>21272897

Oh, my. As usual, if a disagreement can't be resolved by votes, roll a d20 and highest roll wins.

>>21272924
okay, you convinced me then

bump?

>>21272934

Or that.

Okay, you put down those two sets and then the glass turns. Act III starting for real now.

There is an attempted crackdown on the Brass Legion, but it doesn't get anywhere, and all that really happens is a few cops get roughed up while trying to arrest your masked minions. The Ronin put down a Samurai set on East Compton, but ignore Lakewood, because they can't even break even on a Drugs neighborhood. Then they launch their attack on the Santos Espada, having all three of their Samurai sets attack their counterparts in the two Santos Espada Verdugos sets. One of them goes down, but the other stays up, and the Samurai sets take some lumps at the same time. The battle escalates as the Ashigaru pour into Eastside, and soon the region is rife with street fights, drive-bys, and the occasional shootout.

The Family takes the opportunity to suppress a number of irritating police precincts they've been meaning to deal with for a while now, which leaves about half the cities precincts out of commission.

The Santos Espada respond, founding the Santos Espada Angeles Sangrientos in the vacant neighborhood and using their spare funds to boost their damaged sets. The Santos Espada retaliation collapses several Samurai and Ashigaru sets, leaving Downtown half empty.

With Long Beach and Hollywood completely free of police precincts and most other regions at best half-patrolled, Chimera must feel that taking extra heat is not much of an issue anymore. That, or they just don't care. Either way, their stealth craft is back and they use it to slip straight past your shielding set and hit the Dream Boy Legion's hideouts in Avalon. This doesn't result in a whole lot of damage, but the set was always extremely flimsy, and immediately collapses. The government sends up fighters to try and find the thing, but no luck. It's vanished in an instant.

This, naturally, precedes an attack on your territory by their main forces. The usual shadow war on the surface is combined with heavy gunfire in the tunnels below. The Second Aggressor Division attacks the Silver Guard but does little damage, however the First and Third team up to attack the Platinum Guard. Though the Third Aggressor Division takes heavy losses, the Platinum Guard collapses completely.

The news is so busy delivering stories about the imminent victory of Team Red and the bombing in Avalon that they don't even seem to notice the meteor that lands on Catalina Island. It doesn't escape your notice, however.

Action Points:

The Iron Master: 2/2
Julio Pedone: 3/3
Rica Rivera: 2/2
Red Death: 2/2

Resources: 24
XP: 0

4th week of May wat do

Oh, also, new event:

Sting of the Chimera
Objective: Destroy the Chimera bomber
Reward: 3 XP

Primary target is the first aggressor division. Punch through that and hit the 1st logistics, which is their primary money maker. Then take out the weakened third.

>>21273685

What sets attack where, using whose actions?

Man, I didn't read this for a while and a whole bunch of stuff happened.

We are still trying to be good people, right? Minimizing casualties and all that?

>>21273567
well that's nice, have the IM have a droid grab it and put it in a container preferable an air proof one

>>21273750
BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, meh workin' on it

>>21273567
What? A meteor?
Lets see what's up with that.

Also, we need to work on that lead, find Mermer's girl!

>>21273738
Okay, lunatic hounds attack 1st agressor with Rica at the helm. If its still standing (and it probably will be) have her atack again with the steel guard, our other elite. Then we will send in our two bruisers. (if necessary julio can make two more bruisers giving us a number of combat heavy sets equal to chimera's entire force)

>>21273852
In the middle of a war with the most powerful gang in the city.

>>21273928
>Implying the meteor does not contain a superhero, supervillian, or rare space-substance

Go check out the meteor.

>>21273928
who gives a fuck, there's a fucking meteor on our island

>>21273961
>>21273974
No problem with that, we'll save the meteor for our last action. This is one of those annoying parts of the quest where we have to stop everything we have been doing and fight off some immediate threat. Of course, in the aftermath we can't always do what we wanted to do before. Oh, and lets see if we can't convince kestrel which target to hit this turn.

are we going to try the propaganda thing and who should we use for it?

>>21273874

I see no objections to this, so let's roll with it.

Rica leads the Lunatic Hounds to attack the First Aggressors, and with her at the helm, the First Aggressors only barely cling on, and the Lunatics take fairly minimal damage themselves. Rica follows up with the Steel Guard, which successfully finishes it off.

Action Points:

The Iron Master: 2/2
Julio Pedone: 3/3
Rica Rivera: 0/2
Red Death: 2/2

Resources: 24
XP: 0

>>21274153
how averse is Red Death to joining the fight on Chimera?

>>21274153
Do we know how tough first logistics is?

>>21274183

Well, none of your henchmen are thrilled to be fighting such a powerful opponent, especially since they got to make the first volley and have got that bomber running for them again. But he is, if anything, more willing to fight them than anyone else; he's helped you fight them before and it worked out alright.

>>21274153
Hey, is it possible to use our resources to invest in/start an actual, above-board business?

Do we have the stealth-finder mechs statted in the wiki?

>>21274318

Yes, that's been possible for a while. Not only that, you've actually done so. It's called Droids Do, you have I think two separate franchises going right now.

Mechs aren't infinitely reconfigurable anymore, so the old Skyfire mech build is unavailable (though it can be unlocked again for only 2 XP), and the build might not be valid under the current rules.

>>21274211

You know that it's pretty damn fragile.

>>21274386
Ah, I see. Out of curiosity, can a set change its specialties in business?

I say take out 1st Log, trying to cause as little collateral damage as possible.

>>21274508

Gangs will be able to reorganize themselves and thus change the way the businesses work for all their sets (or at least, all the ones they made rather than nabbing from another gang), but right now exactly how that'll work is still not set in stone.

Which set is going to attack First Logistics, and who's going to take the action to do it?

>>21274386
It isn't legal. Take have red death take a bruiser set and smash it. They're arms dealers with one arms nieghborhood, this set has to make them tons of money.

>>21274728

What about Droids Do is illegal? It just sells robots to rich people.

It's not the Silver Guard's lucky day. Although they're able to do some damage to the First Logistics, they're unable to collapse it completely.

>>21274801
Crap, have red death attack the set directly.

>>21274888

Though Red Death is discovered while moving towards the First Logistics' positions in Santa Ana, the First Logistics Division just isn't able to put up much of a fight. He takes only minor scratches, and First Logistics is finished off.

>>21274801
Old skyfire build isn't legal

>>21274974

Oh, yes. The basic concept should still be workable, though.

Not to mention, I can think of two other ways to bring this thing down. I promise it isn't unbeatable.

>>21274971
Okay, julio founds elite set in compton giving us xp. I'M takes that set and smashes the weaker of the two agressor divisions

>>21275025
Well, I'm shit at strategy, but I daresay I am good at ideas.

Here's some of them, for your consideration.

Look for what's not as stealthed. Jet fuel deliveries, a building that happens to slide open to a bigass hangar, whatever.

Make floating balloon bombs that explode on contact. If they sense something coming, they shut down, so the only thing that sets them off is the stealth fighter. (this one probably isn't a good idea)

If we have a good idea of how it's built, we might be able to find the hangar by cross-referencing the places the bomber has shown up with how far it can fly. Probably has too long a range for that though.

Hack a satellite to look for it.

By the way, how much collateral damage is this gang warfare causing, and is it possible to take steps to reduce this though training in targeted strikes/operations?

>>21275038

Sounds good. Name of the set?

>>21275164

The collateral damage is mostly that there's an extremely sharp rise in victims of violent crime. Any set that you founded (you can tell because they'll have Hookers as their primary business) will generally be making more precise, surgical strikes, and will be causing less collateral damage, as opposed to your sets bribed over from the Hounds and Stalkers, who generally don't give a shit. You can't really train those guys, you can just disband the sets and replace them. Either way, the affected areas are far from a warzone.

People are kind of freaking out about that bomber, because it actually shot missiles at your hideouts and shooting missiles at US cities is Not Okay. But there's not a ton that the city can do about it right now short of declaring martial law...Which is on the table, but they aren't that desperate yet.

>>21275292
I'm surprised that martial law hasn't been declared to be honest.

Does Red Death have action left? Have him follow up on that lead he found

>>21275292
The Radical Renegades

>>21275292
Cobalt Killers?

>>21275313

The Red Death is out of actions. After you put down the new set and have it attack, your points will look like this:

Action Points:

The Iron Master: 1/2
Julio Pedone: 2/3
Rica Rivera: 0/2
Red Death: 0/2

Resources: 9
XP: 0

>>21275643
which one is more likely so succeed in following that lead, Julio or IM?
Whoever it is, have them do it

>>21275685

Julio (barely). Also, I guess I'll go with the Radical Guard as the new set, in order to keep the naming scheme consistent.

So the Iron Master takes the Radical Guard and attacks the weakened Third Aggressor Division, and they collapse under the attack. Julio, meanwhile, heads over to Eastside to investigate the rumors Red Death discovered last week. Unfortunately, he's not able to learn much more. Asrael is very good at covering his tracks.

That leaves you at IM 1/2, Julio 1/3, everyone else 0/2.

Oh, also, you have completed Turf War and earned 4 XP.

>>21275795
Fuck, Red Death is better than Julio in this regard, right?

>>21275909

Yes, he is.

>>21275795
Okay, lets check out that meteor then

>>21275795
What set did we expose when we took out the second? If its real weak, have julio take a bruiser and beat on it. Kestral can either clean up, or go after the agressor set. We have I'm send mechs to investigate the asteriod

>>21275996
fuck Chimera lets show them why you don't fuck with the mad robot master lets go Mechagodzilla on there asses use that sweet xp

Oh I forgot to mention. Have kestral convince team blue to focus on chimera, if they take them out this turn, the city should be able to restablish some robery precints before anyone can expand, on the count of us all being broke and unable to expand fast enough. 8t has the benifite of being true

>>21277090
We don't have enough XP. My planned expiditures were for monster form which would allow us to flatten anyone in the city once we get cloning (and mathew's body back). We would have to unlock its set first though.

>>21277331
we got cash just as good

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>>21277090
You are acting like a child.

Not to mention a Mechagodzilla would result in insane levels of destruction. Not good for PR.

>>21277387
and it would certainly have martial law declared

METEOR already.

Rolled 32

>>21277387
You sir are an ass hat :P

>>21277430
not for long we have it retreat to the water sink it and set off one of those reactors in the water ever one thinks it went boom and we save it for another day.