>>3017028
>[]Pharmaceutical and Medical
Easiest to market results: Pills and medical equipment looks pretty benign.
Higher starting CHEM and BIO, lower starting PHYS and MECH.
Generates goodwill easier with consistently working inventions, especially from civilians.
Bonus to experimentation with Virus-type Agents.
Not as immediately profitable, due to regulations on sales.

>[]Civic Works
Highest paying projects, funding is massive.
Higher starting ENG and MECH, lower starting BIO and PHYS.
Generates goodwill easier upon completion of projects, but not during.
Bonus to construction and securing Agents and Experiments.
Lots of direct interaction with non-Umbrella people, makes it difficult to hide things

>[]Weapons Development
Niche market, but high paying clients.
Higher starting MECH and PHYS, lower starting CHEM and ENG.
Generates less goodwill from civilians, but more from non-civilians.
Bonuses to Augmenting Agents/Organisms.
Higher risk of espionage and sabotage, both from rival companies and nations.

>[]Biological Engineering
More difficult to market products, but still very profitable.
Higher starting BIO and PHYS, lower MECH and ENG.
Slower generation of goodwill, but will generate lots from high-profile clients.
Bonuses to experimentation with Parasite-type Agents.
Umbrella higher ups love it, generating more Umbrella Approval.

>[]Energies Research
Very difficult to market, but worth much scientifically.
Higher starting PHYS and CHEM, lower starting MECH and BIO.
Civilians have very little effect on goodwill since they don’t really understand what you’re doing. Non-civilians generate at a regular rate.
Bonuses to experimentation with Nonstandard-type Agents.
Requires much less space for regular experimentation.

>>3017031
>[]Weapons Development

As a note to the mechanics, here's your general stats. You'll be starting with 25 in each primary stat as a base. Dice rolls are d100s, trying to roll under the target number.

Primary Stats:
>CHEM:
Your lab’s aptitude at chemistry.Used for any chemical or pharmaceutical creations and interactions, such as vaccines, serums, synthetic materials, and medicine.
>ENG:
Your lab’s aptitude at engineering.Used for any non-mechanics-based engineering creations and interactions, such as infrastructure, construction,
>BIO:
Your lab’s aptitude at biology. Used for biologic creations and interactions, such as synthetic organs, engineered species, bioengineering, and surgery.
>MECH:
Your lab’s aptitude at mechanical engineering. Used for robotics and weaponry creations and interactions, such as turrets, firearms, automated facilities, and cybernetics.
>PHYS:
Your labs aptitude at physical sciences. Used for nonstandard experimentation and interactions, such as particle and waveform research, energy manipulation, and understanding exactly how things work.

Secondary Stats:
>Staff:
Split into several substats (Scientists, Security Members, etc) this represents how much manpower you have to devote to a project. The more you put in, the faster or easier projects get done.
>Funding:
How much dosh you have. Funding is the pool of points required to keep things operating, and each piece of infrastructure you have takes up part of your funding cap. You also spend funding on actions like researching, acquiring new specimens, espionage and counter-espionage, and bribery.
>Goodwill:
How much favor you’ve generated in the community and at large with the rest of the world for your actions. The more of this you have, the more it works towards raising your profits, helping people accept your new creations, and lowering Suspicion.
>Suspicion:
How much people suspect there’s something weird happening at your facility. Goes up whenever something causes the details of your experiments or creations to reach the public. The more suspicion, the more you’ll have to deal with civilians trying to figure out what’s going on.
>Umbrella Approval:
How much Umbrella supports your work and believes in what you’re doing. The more of this there is, the more resources you can call on Umbrella for and the more de-facto funding and support you have from your parent company.

>>3017031
>Biological Engineering

>>3017031
>Civic Works

>>3017031
>[]Biological Engineering

>>3017031
>Civic Works
We will conquer that pesky civilian suspicion or die trying.

>>3017031
>Biological Engineering

>>3017031

[X]Biological Engineering

>>3017031
>Biological Engineering

>>3017033
>>3017040
>>3017044
>>3017045
>>3017053
>>3017056
>>3017060
>>3017071


Biological Engineering it is! Your newfound laboratory has chosen a specialty, granting a +15 to BIO and PHYS, but a -10 to MECH and ENG. As a note, this doesn't actually preclude you from doing civics works projects, it just means that's not your main focus and its not the kind of thing that you might get hired for on a regular basis. You'll start with 10 Scientists, 3 Security, and 3 Interns. Interns don't add much on their own to things they work on, but after a few turns can specialize into any other type of staff member.

However, your specialty is only part of your new laboratory. What is equally as important is your location! Where do you want Umbrella to set you up?

>[]USA (The Arklay Mountains)
>Pros
Mountainous: Easier to build underground facilities.
Established: Near enough to major population center Racoon City and the Umbrella Pharmaceuticals branch there that if you need help or people, it's easy to find.
Unlocks access to: T-Virus Samples.
>Cons
Greater Oversight: Being so close to a main Umbrella location means that even if they're nominally not supposed to, they'll be keeping an eye on you for anything amiss.
Mountainous: Difficult to transport things in and out of the mountains, few roads.

>[]USA (Dulvey County)
>Pros:
Backwater: Civilians impact goodwill less negatively, as they're few and far between.
Abundant: The surrounding bayou and coast are filled with wildlife, making finding experimental subjects much easier.
Unlocks access to: Mutamycete Samples
>Cons
Leery: The locals are naturally highly suspicious.
Remote: A smaller capacity for staff, due to a lack of nearby housing.

>[]Europe (Rural Spain)
>Pros:
Self-Contained: Civilians keep to themselves, raising suspicion much less.
Empty Woods: You have lots of space to expand and build without contest.
Unlocks Access to: Las Plagas Fossil
>Cons
Rural: More difficult to get Scientists and educated workers.
Illuminated Stirrings: Attracted the attention of a local religious group, watching your actions curiously.

>Continued in next post.

>[]Africa (Kijuju)
>Pros:
Easy Access: Between shipping and nearby cities, you have access to a higher number of staff and options for obtaining resources.
Grey Markets: There are a lot of nearby countries, armies, and groups that will buy things no questions asked.
Unlocks Access to: Uroboros Sample
>Cons
Unstable: Nearby hostilities between warlike nations could spill over onto you.
Regime Change: Politics are capricious at best, meaning that the people you've bribed or made a rapport with could be overthrown any day.

>[]China (Lianshiang)
>Pros
Cosmopolitan: Near a huge population center and with lots of options for hiring all manner of qualified staff.
Astride the River: Easily able to acquire resources and items thanks to the city's shipping industry.
Unlocks Access to: Chrysalis Fragment
>Cons:
Crowded: Very little room to expand facilities with ease, and lots of potential casualties in the event of a problem.
Image and Marketing: Faster Growth/Decay of goodwill and suspicion, due to the population.

>[]Pacific Ocean (Kermadec Trench)
>Pros
Private Island: Lots of space to build as you wish, both for housing and facilities.
Everyone Knows Everyone: Much harder for espionage and sabotage actions to work against you, due to remoteness.
Unlocks Access to: Abyss-infected Fish
>Cons
Isolated: Much harder to get new staff, due to remoteness.
Storm Warning: Tropical storms and other weather can interfere with experiments and damage facilities.

>>3017112
>>3017110
I'm in favor of Africa to be honest. If we keep a tight hold and consolidate power we will be able to form a strongpoint that will hopefully alleviate our cons.

>>3017115
it'll be interesting at least, and as long as we make our laboratory-fortress formidable we might be able to become a major local power to boot with the stability we can offer.

>Khayoss is a ladda

>>3017110
>Europe

>>3017110
I actually wanted Brazil, the murder capital of the world where missing people wouldn't fall that much into the scales, buuut...
>Africa

>>3017112
>Africa

>>3017112
>Africa

>>3017112
>Africa


we will probably need to have more security near our lab or hire mercs.
just to be safe.

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>>3017145
>>3017141
>>3017136
>>3017148

lets go bois

>>3017112
>Africa
Who says we can't control the regime from the shadows eventually.

But we gotta keep an eye out for guys who look like they can crush boulders with their bare hands.

>>3017149
>>3017150
do you think that some states could sell us whole villages and even their populations ? or just the land near our lab ?

>>3017153
We could provide jobs. Incorporate the whole village. Like Crane Naval Base.

>>3017149
>>3017115
>>3017136
>>3017141
>>3017145
>>3017148
>>3017150
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
Well then, It looks like you've been set up in the Kijuju Autonomous Zone, a West African country. The native language is Swahili, the people are surrounded by all manner of civil conflicts, and your team of sixteen has been dropped right into the mess. You'd call it a joke, if you couldn't see the raw opportunity ahead of you in this war-torn place.

Speaking of which however, who are you?

>Pick a name, age, and gender, as well as physical appearance.
Keep in mind that you're established enough in Umbrella to be getting your own new experimental laboratory, so you're probably on the older end, barring strange circumstances. However deep you want to get into this is your choice.

>Choose a specialty.
Pick a primary stat for you to specialize in. Actions which you work on directly will get an additional +20, so long as they correspond with that stat.

>Choose a goal
Choose an underlying focus of your character. What drives them? What has set them on this path?

>The Visionary
You have a dream. A quest. Something within you calls out to show the world your brilliance, to create something that proclaims to the universe that you have made it, and that you are unlike all the rest of the squabbling masses because of it. You will not rest until the world itself sees your brilliance, and bows before the force of your ideal.

>The Humanitarian
You want to make the world better. You’ve seen the horrors that humanity enacts, that nature causes, and that the world seems to let by and you’ve had enough of it. If nature won’t give you a solution, you’ll make one, and you’ll make the world a better place even if you have to drag it there kicking and screaming.

>The Conqueror
More than anything in this world, you desire. You desire what others have, you covet what lies outside your grasp, your endless hunger simmering beneath the surface. On your own, you don’t have the strength to take what you so desire but you aren’t alone and you have the power to extend your grasp. With your work, you won’t stop until it all lies beneath your reach.

>The Perfectionist
You want to be better. As you are, you are weak. Falliable. Mortal. Trapped in a decaying prison only to last a meager handful of years, unable to realize the endless dreams you carry. If there is but one goal in your life, it is to make it so that you no longer have to worry about a limit to any of your goals at all.

>The Experimentalist
The world is a magical place, filled with so many strange and marvelous things, and you want to see them all. You don’t care about the purpose, the reasoning, the why, so much as you do the sheer visceral joy in finding or creating a new experience, a new existence, a new being. The world is nothing but an endless procession of dominoes, and you are eager to see what results you can cause next.

>Write In

Oh yeah, and also, any ideas for what you want to name your new lab? It's official designation is "Umbrella Labs, Darwin Initiative Branch 01-Kijuju Autonomous Zone", but that's more than a bit of a mouthful.

>>3017157
Name: John Frye
Age: 52
Gender:Male
Specialty:Physiology
Goal:The perfectionist

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>>3017157
> Fr. Dr. Vlad Haddox- the 3rd son of a slavic immigrant family in the U.S. He pursued theology and became a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church, until he experienced a loss of faith after being told to be quiet with some church dirty business. Became interested with the Lord's creation and later sought a doctorate in biology. Aged approx. 50-60. Worked his way up Umbrella corps ladder after being noticed for his work in dog breeding
>Stat: BIO
>Goal: I could see Humanitarian, Conqueror, Experimentalist, or Perfectionist for this dude.

>>3017157
>Speciality: prosthetics/cybernetics
>The Perfectionist

rest I don't really mind

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>>3017157
>The Humanitarian Conqueror
We were an idealistic scientist, once. College made us weak, overly-focused on academic achievements and blind to the true powers that powered scientific progress.
All that changed when we were assigned to a post in Mbuji-Mayi, even then a major civilian centre in the mess that was Congo.

The civil conflicts over the rare resources that the accursed heatlands of the failed state did not leave you without scars, but it made you stronger. You now know that some people will not be open to benign, civilised intervention - you need force to back up your goodwill, force that is not available to a simple scientist working in a staff of similarly soft-hearted babies. You will make these denizens of the Dark Continent become human, whether they like it or not.

Name: Dr. Heinrich Eisenblut
Age: Mid-60s
Gender: Male
Physical appearance: See picture
Specialty: Biology, focus on physical enhnacement

>>3017157
>Mark Knight
>35
>robust
>BIO
>The Conqueror


i don thave any idea for the write-in. also is just an idea, so i can support others.
(i have chosen robust and 35 because we are in Africa and work in a bio lab of umbrella.)

or we can mix it. there are a lot of possibilities.


>>3017168
something like the "forge of knowledge" ? or it doesn t make sense ?

>>3017170
I'll vote for this I think we should go perfectionist/humanitarian as they work well together. Let us create a better humanity in gods light and image!

>>3017168
I was going to say the " Kijuju-Umbrella Nature Preserve & Research/Experiment Facility"
>>3017175
I put forward Vlad, but this isn't bad either. I loved that guy from Avatar
KUN-REF

>>3017168
Site-13

>>3017177
It's more that you're technically an umbrella subsidiary, and as such can have your own entire name and corporate identity. Like if you were a pharmaceutical lab, you could name yourself something like Apollo Medical Research. Just a name for your actual public face, despite your nature as an umbrella subsidiary.

Just pointing out, we'll need to look out for TRICELL since we are in their backyard.

>>3017183
Oh I see, so we're not just a faceless appendage of the Umbrella Corp. In that case, I'd change it to "Regentropfen Laboratories"

>>3017170
Going with this
>Humanitarian/Perfectionist

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>>3017157
Name: Viktoria Petrovna
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Speciality :BIO
Goal : Perfectionist + a little conqueror

>>3017168
Biocurse.

>>3017175
i change to Heinrich

>>3017188
good name.
>>3017170
Vlad is like one of the 3 priests in the picture ? (for physical appearance)


>>3017183
do we have more bonus if we are old ? (i guess even some minus too since we will be an old man in africa)

>>3017198
>Keep in mind that you're established enough in Umbrella to be getting your own new experimental laboratory, so you're probably on the older end
I figure being old and fit is a pretty good balance

>>3017198
There's no inherent bonus to being old, though it can affect interactions with particular characters, depending on when you have to actually show up and interact with people.

So that's a majority for Heinrich then?

>>3017201
Not majority yet, since there's 3 supporters for Vlad the Improver as well as 3 for Heinrich

>>3017200
ok

>>3017201
right now is :
-1 vote for john frye
>>3017169


-3 Vlad Haddox
>>3017170


-one for an unknown/random perfectionist
>>3017174


-3 for Heinrich Eisenblut (wait where is the 3 one ?)
>>3017175

-0 Mark Knight


-1 vote for Viktoria Petrovna
>>3017194

>>3017204
I counted the anons who suggested the character themselves as a +1 to their own posts

>>3017205
ah ok.


so should we use a dice ? wait for more votes or try to have just one idea ?

>>3017194
+1 on this because priest dude and colonization of Africa 2.0 isn't for me

>>3017208
no offense but htere is literally write little conqueror on Viktoria

>>3017194
female RE chars gain more insanity points
+1 too

>>3017175
I’ll support this.

Putting aside the character decision for a moment, is everyone good with the name Regentropfen Laboratories for the lab's name?

>>3017194
For our background : Viktoria was a child prodigy. She was one of the youngest graduate of Moscow State University. She worked for the Russian government, creating poisons, diseases and various bioweapons. Her life changed dramatically when her first child was born with genetic defects. Ever since then she worked for a cure to this and to perfect the human condition. Umbrella recruited her with the promise of large funds to help her achieve her goals.

>>3017222
It's okay
>>3017225
It's an interesting backstory so I'm going to vote for Victoria

>>3017222
at what point in the resident evil timeline does this quest play?

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>Dr Robert Honeydew
>Appearance: Pic related jk jk pic related with a human skintone
>Age: 60ish but looks slightly younger due to being bald
>Bio
>The experimentalist

Conquering? Perfecting the human life form? Helping humanity? Who cares! This guy lives for science in its purest form. Nothing makes him happier than pushing the current boundaries of science, and everything including ethics takes a back seat to a potential breakthough.

Also has a revolving door of interns. Poor things never seem to last long with him...the longest lasting was that lanky ginger guy Bender, or was it Beaker?

>>3017194
tossing my name to female as well

>>3017229
At the moment, we're in 1990, eight years before the Racoon Incident. There's still plenty of time before shit hits the fan.

Alright, that's looking like a pretty sizable amount for Viktoria. As it stands, here's the current character sheet.

Name: Viktoria Petrovna
Appearance: Young woman, brown hair, red glasses, wears a lab coat and black lacy blouse.
Age: 36
Speciality: BIO
Goal: Perfectionist (also a little bit of Conqueror)

Lab Name: Regentropfen Laboratories
Specialization: Biological Engineering
Location: Kijuju Autonomous Zone, Africa

Umbrella Approval: 10
Funding: 5

CHEM: 25
ENG: 15
BIO: 40
MECH: 15
PHYS: 40

Staff:
Scientists: 10
Security: 3
Interns: 3

Goodwill: 0
Suspicion:0

>Current Effects
Easy Access: Between shipping and nearby cities, you have access to a higher number of staff and options for obtaining resources.
Grey Markets: There are a lot of nearby countries, armies, and groups that will buy things no questions asked.

Unstable: Nearby hostilities between warlike nations could spill over onto you.
Regime Change: Politics are capricious at best, meaning that the people you've bribed or made a rapport with could be overthrown any day.

Actual starting post will be coming shortly.

>>3017241
wait why Regentropfen Laboratories ?

i vote that because of Heinrich, it doesn t make sense with Viktoria

>>3017245
Regentropfen = Raindrops
Our mother company is Umbrella, so it doesn't -have- to be associated with Heinrich
Also Heinrich and Viktoria had the same amount of votes (4), why did she win?

>>3017245
Very true! I'll remove the name, but if you come up with a better one more fitting to her, I'll incorporate it.

>>3017241
I assume her background is included too?
And a suggestion, the other characters suggested here should appear as part / future part of our staff

>>3017247
There's 5 actually
>>3017194
>>3017208
>>3017211
>>3017228
>>3017232

>>3017254
Ah I miscounted, carry on

>>3017247
then something in english or russian.

>>3017248
How about Genov laboratories?

Maisha Foundation
It's Swahili and means "Life"

while public goodwill is not that important in Africa, it's still a front

>>3017262
>>3017257

or in swahili. approved

>>3017262
Yeah this, it's also a good double meaning since Viktoria is doing all this for the life of her child.

Also seconding >>3017249 in that Vlad, Heinrich and not!Bunsen Burner >>3017230 turn up as staff at some point.

Between a former priest, a guy hell bent on African colonization and a muppet this offshoot of umbrella may have the weirdest staff of the lot, and that's saying something.

>>3017275
Heinrich could be the Chief of Security, not sure what title Vlad the Improver can hold

>>3017282
Heinrich is most definitely chief of security

Honeydew could be a bumbling evil scientist under Viktoria

Vlad could be....idk the 'face' of the business while also part of the sciency stuff. He could be the go between person for Umbrella main branch and this lab since he's worked there a while? Or the person who deals with clients (who may be a bit leery of leaving 'delicate' business like this in the hands of a relatively young woman.)

>>3017249
I won't guarantee anything, but the rest of the characters are definitely going to be available options for Specialists, once you make the effort to recruit them. Specialist units are ones who, like you, give bonuses towards research and projects that tie in with their respective specialties.

>May 11th, 1990, Kijuju, KAZ, Western Africa.
The car had picked you up from the KAZ airport in Mawingu while it was still dark, a sleek thing out of place on the dusty and often dangerous roads of the Kijuju Autonomous Zone. You suppose it was Umbrella's way of showing their power, but you couldn't care less. Your focus instead was on the file in your bag, the piece of paper proclaiming you the new director of the first of the Darwin Initiative laboratories. Your ambition hadn't gone unnoticed, and now it seems that Umbrella wants to put it and you to the test. Flicking through the pages, you go over the intentionally bare-bones facility you've been given. It's a reclaimed prison facility, a small one originally used by an older and now defunct Kijuju regime to house political prisoners. As it stands, it's squat, defensible, and filled with ample space for you to retrofit it into whatever you need. The current beleaguered government wasn't using it anyway.

You've been given a team of sixteen to start your new laboratory, and you familiarize yourselves with their dossiers while mulling over possible names for your new facility. You have ten scientists, all qualified though not outstanding, and three eager young interns. Additionally, you have three members of security staff, something you think you might have increase in the future given the ever-encroaching crawl of the Royal Imperial Kijuju Army, a political insurrectionist group supporting the currently ousted former dictator. For any construction, you'll have to settle for hiring locals on a temporary basis until you can muster the funds to get permanent contractors who you can trust to keep secrets.

As the car pulls up in front of your new facility, your eyes flick down to your bag, noting the other, far more dangerous cargo you carry. When you touched down at the airport, you had been met by a man from umbrella with blonde hair and black sunglasses, who had congratulated you on the chance of a lifetime you'd been given. He had handed you a small vial, hermetically sealed with a coiled, black mass inside "To keep things interesting." he had said. Pah, as if you needed help.

The car pulls up to the new facility, and you go to greet your new employees and get to work.

>>3017299

>Actions
Actions are divided by weeks. Unless stated otherwise, each turn is about a week of work.

>You have yourself, 10 Scientists, 3 Security, and 3 Interns.
Choose actions. Each scientist/security guard you add to a project adds a +5 to the roll for progressing in that project. Interns add +3. More complicated projects will require more successful weeks of work, and may consume materials and resources.

>Unlocked Projects (can be done by any staff)
Contact Kijuju (Familiarize yourself with the local government and see what they might want)
Survey the Surroundings (Get a feel for the local area. May unlock new projects and research)
Ferment Inspiration (Spend 1 funds and roll to have one or more of your scientists spontaneously create or unlock a new piece of research.)


>Unlocked Research (can only be done by scientists, interns, or applicable specialists.)
Research the Uroboros Sample (Figure out what the strange man gave you.)
Survey the Fauna (Search the surrounding countryside for wildlife that might make good test subjects)
Survey the Flora (Search the surrounding countryside for plants that might make good test subjects)
Improve the Facility(Figure out what you need to make things better)

I'll be heading to sleep after posting this, will continue after I wake up. It'll be dice rolling to start it off.

>>3017300

>Survey the Surroundings
1 Intern 3 guards and 1 scientist
>Research the Uroboros Sample
1 Intern, us and 2 scientist

>Improve the Facility
1 Intern and the remaining scientists

>>3017300
reclaimed prison facility...

Action:
>Survey the Surroundings
1 Intern 3 guards and 1 scientist

>Improve Facility - everyone else
>hire contractors and cleaners from the locals to make the facility truly workable for medical, pharmaceutical and biological purposes
https://youtu.be/sIs501ktFfQ?t=43
in that breath we draw the attention of the locals that we look to work with them a little and that we give good salaries, maybe even recruit people in for more permanent jobs

We can't start to work if we don't have top notch tools, we are doing science and are not fooling around.

>>3017299
First specialist I would go for (when the option comes up) is the Security guy since we are in a dangerous area

>>3017317
+1
>>3017300
I support the Maisha Foundation name for our lab. It's good cover for our work and it's not entirely a lie since our main motive is to cure our child.

>>3017352
and it's pronouncable. While I speak German, I don't like my german in my english quests

>>3017317
changing
so we can start


even if i would prefer to recruit later from the locals (it would be better to have more people from our own first)

>>3017157
>Swahili
>West African
>>3017300
Is it too late to throw a vote in for Heinrich? Victoria's character is just uninspiring to me.

>>3017422
too late


so the swahili it s just spoken in eastern, central and southern africa.

Well I missed the important char gen.

>>3017422
I feel the same, to be honest. I saw the voting earlier but couldn't post because I was somewhat busy. Viktoria's backstory is basic bitch tier, to the point you could call it clichéd. The others are much more interesting. The premise is still interesting though, and it wouldn't be the first time I've seen a good story develop despite a lackluster lead character.
>>3017300
>>3017317
supporting

Holy shit op. How much did you prep for this? It seems very thought through

>>3017175
Missed Char gen. I wanted to be Heinrich

>>3018138
Same

>>3017422
>>3017609
As a note to the Swahili thing, that's the official language as per Resident Evil 5, despite how little sense that makes. I'm just rolling with it.

>>3017609
I'll be endeavoring to make Viktoria's backstory and character a little more nuanced than what she has to start. There's definitely stuff to work with there, it'll just take some effort to show. Heinrich is definitely going to show up as well, though if not as a recruitable Specialist, then as the head of a different branch of the Darwin Initiative, and therefore one of your direct competitors. Heinrich is definitely not going to be simply vanishing.

>>3018004
Not a ton, surprisingly. Pretty much wrote up the start yesterday for an hour or so, and then while the vote was going through for the next parts, wrote up the following ones

Actual post coming soon.

>>3018222
Will we be able to pick up a USS Squad or two if we get enough Umbrella Approval?
I'd like a couple of Big Boy Kill Teams eventually.

>>3018222
Vlad and Heinrich should appear somewhere.
Have we decided what genetic defect her child has?

>>3018225
Definitely! That's actually the kind of thing you'll be spending Umbrella Approval on. Approval is both what you'll roll against to requisition resources, new staff, and other such considerations for hire from Umbrella, but you can also spend it to purchase things directly.

>>3018237
We have not, though I have some ideas. Feel free to suggest some!

>>3018250
How much Umbrella Approval does it cost per HUNK mission? At least 5?

One last bit of bookkeeping before we get set up that I forgot to do last night.

>Survey the Surroundings (1 Scientist, 3 Security, 1 Intern)
Someone roll 1d100 for this. Each staff member adds a +5 (or +3 in the case of the intern), but to a specific event that would apply to their staff. Effectively this will end up being three rolls, one for Scientists, one for Security, and one for the Intern.

>Improve Facility (You, the remaining 9 scientists, locals)
Hiring the locals for this will cost you one Funding, but will guarantee completion within the turn. Otherwise it would be an ENG roll.

Rolled 21, 49, 46 = 116 (3d100)

>>3018339
In order, scientist, security, staff. Unless you want seperate d100s with modifier for some reason.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>3018339

>>3018351
I had meant that it would be one roll, split into three results based on what bonuses happen, but that's fine too.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>3018339

>>3018365
That's fine too. Should probably get dice rules sorted out anyways.

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>3018339
Lurking this thread but I'll give my dice a toss in here and see what happens.
Rolling for Intern.

>>3018250
Possible disorders, CF, haemophilia, down's syndrome, or we can make up something original

>>3018374
I had mentioned them up when explaining stats, but here's a more in depth look.

>DICE RULES
Dice are d100 rolls, with the goal being to roll under your stat. Assigning staff to a roll adds a bonus to it, raising the target number to roll under. Rolls will either have a stat assigned to roll under, or if they wouldn't apply to a stat at all like the non-directed Survey rolls, apply for each type of staff assigned.
Failure works on a scale based on how far it was from the target number. Within 20 from your target number and the failure is more of a complication. More than 20 from the target number and your failure is more severe.

Also just making sure, you're spending that funding on hiring civilian construction workers to finish this turn, right?

>>3018389
>Also just making sure, you're spending that funding on hiring civilian construction workers to finish this turn, right?
Yes
Are you taking the 3d100 or the 3 1d100

>>3018442
If I misunderstood the dice rolling, that's on me. He should take the separate rolls since they followed the rules proper.

>>3018446
I decided just to use the first roll from that 3d100, which ended up being nice considering it was the best of the bunch.

>Turn 1 Results

>May 18th, 1990, Kijuju, KAZ, Western Africa.
Your first week at your newly christened Maisha Foundation laboratory was both paradoxically busy and without progress. You spent your week setting up your new facility to your specifications, hiring teams of local contractors from Kijuju proper to help you retrofit the new building, install the generators and electricity, and set up your facilities. While you acknowledged the danger and potential security issues of letting in civilians into your new facility, the fact that your facility is currently empty of any actual research mollifies your concern. Directing your scientists and interns, you assemble your laboratories in record time. You should be ready and able to start working this coming week.
>Hiring the contractors cost 1 funding, but finished everything in record time.
>You have unlocked a total of 4 slots for research or projects. This is the space you have available in the facility as it currently is for specific projects and research opportunities.

However, your decision to send out your security staff alongside a scientist an an intern has paid great dividends. While heading out to survey the local area, your survey group ran across a militant gang heading out from Kijuju. After a tense first meeting, they identified themselves as a militia aimed with going out to strike against the RIKA forces further out in the KAZ, in retribution for attacks further out from Kijuju proper. While you parted on a relatively tense note, they would be potential buyers for some of your more combat or medical-based creations to help in their fight against the RIKA.
Additionally, your scientist found a local species of large-jawed bat living nearby that might make a good test subject, being large, hearty, and numerous. Your intern on the other hand found a strange looking flower that you think might have some kind of interesting stimulant properties, his conversation with the locals pointing to stories about how it was used in folklore to grant worthy warriors strength.
>Obtained contacts with the "Mkono wa Haki", an anti RIKA militia.
>Obtained access to Shovel-jawed Bat.
>Obtained access to Red Flower.

How do you want to spend your next week?
>Slots in use:
0/4 (Only matters for research.)

>Unlocked Projects
Contact Kijuju
Survey the Surroundings
Ferment Inspiration (Spend 1 funds and roll to have one or more of your scientists spontaneously create or unlock a new piece of research.)

>Unlocked Research
Research the Uroboros Sample (Figure out what the strange man gave you.)
Survey the Fauna (Search the surrounding countryside for wildlife that might make good test subjects)
Survey the Flora (Search the surrounding countryside for plants that might make good test subjects)
Research the Shovel-Jawed Bat (It's a local bat, but it might be a good test subject for something else)
Research the Red Flower (Ancient folklore might have actual basis in fact.)

>>3018472
>Research the Red Flower (Ancient folklore might have actual basis in fact.)
>Survey the Flora (Search the surrounding countryside for plants that might make good test subjects)
>Research the Shovel-Jawed Bat (It's a local bat, but it might be a good test subject for something else)
>Survey the Fauna (Search the surrounding countryside for wildlife that might make good test subjects)
Honestly I want to put off doing research on the Uroboros Sample for the time being because of how much we're gonna need to make sure that shit doesn't go wrong.

>>3018497
>>3018472
Wait a minute, I'd like to take off Survey the fauna and the Shovel-Jawed Bat research. Mostly because I'm not sure if that's also gonna cost us funding.

>>3018497
>Honestly I want to put off doing research on the Uroboros Sample for the time being because of how much we're gonna need to make sure that shit doesn't go wrong.
But then when will we get the Umbrella brand traditional cartoonish evil and incompetence?

>>3018497
>>3018501
>>3018502

Also remember to spit up your scientists and interns for how you want to distribute them among the rolls. You have yourself (who gives +20 to BIO rolls), ten scientists (Who give +5) and 3 interns (who give +3)

>>3018502
Gosh darn it! We can do that later when we build up our empire! How else will the protagonists of a RE game handle our shit ton of puzzles and mazelike buildings if we pop our load too early!

>>3018472
>>3018472
>Survey the Flora (Search the surrounding countryside for plants that might make good test subjects)
>Research the Red Flower (Ancient folklore might have actual basis in fact.)
Give us an even split, put ourself on the Red Flower. Give the survey team some guards too.

>>3018510
Oh shit, you're right! I completely forgot.

>>3018507
When we set up the lab, we installed the Umbrella required emblem locks, sliding puzzles and death traps right? If it doesn't take four emblems, three hours of backtracking and a goofy number puzzle to get into the breakroom fridge I'm going to be unhappy.

>>3018526
You haven't set up the required emblem locks YET. That's due to using civilian contractors. Actually retrofitting your security to make things proper Umbrella can happen once you hire some actual proper contractors.

>>3018534
We can make a contest of it at least. The employee who comes up with the best puzzle design gets a raise.

>>3018540
I like your idea, it gives initiative to the employees and we get our bullshit puzzles.

>>3018472
5 scientists, 2 interns, 2 guards
Survey the Fauna (Search the surrounding countryside for wildlife that might make good test subjects)
5 scientist, 1 intern, 1 guard:
Survey the Flora (Search the surrounding countryside for plants that might make good test subjects)
Us:
Research the Red Flower (Ancient folklore might have actual basis in fact.)

>>3018575
Alright then. I'll need three rolls of 1d100, one for the Survey the Fauna, one for the Survey the Flora, and one for Research the Flower. Each is rolling against BIO.

Survey the Fauna target number is BIO (40) +25 from scientists + 6 from interns. Guards give no bonus to survey, but in the event of complications, can safeguard the loss of other staff. Total number to roll below is 71.

Survey the Flora target number is, for the same reasons above, 68.

Research the Red Flower is BIO + your own 20, giving a target number of 60.

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>3018624
Rolling for Survey the Fauna

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>3018624

>>3018629
Rolling for ourselves btw

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>3018624
Rolling for flora

>>3018637
>>3018629
>>3018625
noice

>>3018659
I was legit expecting to fail the roll.

>>3018138
>>3017609
>>3017422
I'm just glad people liked the character I wrote up in ten minutes

>>3017422
I prefer this char.

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>>3018625
>>3018629
>>3018637

>May 25th, 1990, Kijuju, KAZ, Western Africa
Sitting at your desk looking over your reports from your employees, you have to remark that while this week hasn't benefited your funds any, it has given you a lot more material to work with. Your team surveying the local fauna has managed to find two local plants with some significant traits that might be worth looking at, while your the team surveying fauna has come back with one. The group seemed excited about it though, so you figure it might be worth a look.
>Unlocked access to the Yatevo Tree, a local, vine-like tree that is purportedly carnivorous. Your survey team found several corpses near it, though actual evidence of its abilities is missing.
>Unlocked access to the Kijuju Protea, a beautiful blooming flower initial tests show to have strong analgesic and antiseptic qualities.
>Unlocked access to the Ngome Crocodile, a massive species dwelling in the swamps to the south of your base. Ngome Crocodiles huge, aggressive, and have a uniquely adapted thick, partially layered hide that acts as shockingly protective armor.
However, your week has been focused on a much more tantalizing and interesting subject: The red flower your intern brought back. Looking over the stories they gathered from the populace, you took to researching it yourself and found wonders. The flower naturally houses a form of non-carcinogenic mutagen virus, one that seems similar to some of the Tyrant Virus samples you've worked on at Umbrella. However, this virus seems more...mutable. Unfinished almost. If you could find more of these flowers, you might be able to push its mutations towards a specific goal. Maybe even...
Luka, your son, your only son, lying in that bed, color draining from him as blood filled his lungs, his eyes glazed over in pain, silently mouthing 'mama, mama'. He had cried so much. You could only sit there and do nothing as the cuts failed to heal and your own cursed blood caused him to lose his.
...well, maybe a lot of things.

How do you want to spend your next week?
You have 10 Scientists, 3 Security, and 3 Interns.
>Slots in use
1/4
Research the Red Flower (1/3 successes. Next research will require allocating but not spending 1 funding)

>Unlocked Projects
Contact Kijuju
Survey the Surroundings
Ferment Inspiration
Scout for Clients (You're going to need money eventually. Maybe you should try and seek out potential buyers for commissions?)

>Unlocked Research
Research the Uroboros Sample
Survey the Fauna (Requires allocating 1 funding to survey more, having to reach further out into the swamp)
Survey the Flora (Requires allocating 1 funding to survey more, having to reach further out into the swamp)
Research the Shovel-Jawed Bat
Research the Ngome Crocodile
Research the Yatevo Tree
Research the Kijuju Protea

>>3018939
How much funds do we have now

>>3018939
>scout for clients
>research the kijuju protea
both of this should let us make money soonish hopefully

>>3018967
At the moment, we have 4 Funds, with 0 allocated. Allocating funds simply takes up those funds to keep the research or project running, and is considered effectively "Cancelling out" whatever profit you might generate via costs. Spending Funds is more of a large, lump-sum cost like hiring the construction crew during week one.

>>3018978
can we always research 4 things or could we also focus all research on 1 or 2 things ?
how many actions can we do with security and interns every week ?

>>3018984
You can do as many actions as you wish with any staff members, but at the moment you only have enough space for four Research actions, some Project actions, or Testing actions (of which we have none yet) at a time. Expanding your facilities will give you more slots, though at the moment that is locked due to a lack of any actual income, as is hiring new staff.

You can focus research on as many things as you want, just keep in mind that it's a matter of more guaranteed success due to more staff working on it or a less guarantee on a much faster timeframe. Your security, while unable to help on research, will be able to help on more types of actions and projects later.

>>3018939
>Scout for Clients
Us 3 scientists and 2 guards.
>Research the Kijuju Protea
The rest

i feel we need to get started relatively soon on BOW development so i'm going to say
>Research the Ngome Crocodile
3 guards 2 interns and 4 scientist
they would make for great shock toopers
and last nut not least
>Research the Uroboros Sample
ourselves and the rest of the staff that's not doing anything

>>3018939
>>3018991
well then i propose our interns go
>scout for clients
while we research
>red flower
>ngomo crocodile
>kijojo protea
with 4,3 and 3 researchers respectively
this should let us get some incoem soon aswell as diversify our research and product options early

>>3019001
We need clients to get hard cash and expand our lab first

>>3019003
Seconding this. From from what I gather our security members don't give boosts to our research rolls? If they don't let's have all of them tag along with our interns.

We need to be able to generate funding on our own before we meet up with the regime, we don't want the Kijuju to be our sole source of income.

>>3019022
>>3018939
Forgot to link to main voting post.

Also I'm keking that Heinrich the wannbe African conqueror might be stuck somewhere completely different.

If he turns up as the competition he's gonna be the biggest thorn in out side for sure, if running Viktoria out means he might get a foothold in Africa.

>>3019022
The odds would be too low if we spend only 4 and 3 scientists

>>3019032
Don't we have 10 scientists, 3 security, 3 interns?

So wil split the scientists 4/3/3 for flower/croc/protea and send the 3 interns + 3 security to scout for clients.

I'm a bit confused if security members boost research rolls or not, which is why I wanna send them with the interns for better odds with clients.

>>3019035
Security members do not boost research rolls at all, unless otherwise noted (research or testing that requires them will note so).

>>3018999
This

>>3018999
+1

>>3018999
I'll support this. We need to get funding soon.

>>3018999
>>3019041
>>3019045
>>3019054
Alright, give me two rolls of 1d100, the first with a target number of 44 (Base 25 + 10 for security, + 3 for each scientist since this roll doesn't actually use any of their science)
The second is for the research, and is target number 99 (40 BIO + 20 from you + 35 from Scientists, +9 from Interns.) It's basically guaranteed, but there's always a potential for failure.

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>3019075
Rolling for contacts

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3019075
look at me roll

>>3019080
>5 on a TN of 99
oh boy

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>>3019079
>>3019080

>April 1st, 1990, Kijuju, KAZ, Western Africa
Regretfully, you had to put your research into the strange red flower on hold for the week, simply due to monentary concerns. For as much as you want to get back to it, making sure your laboratory is well funded and functional takes precedence. As such, you sent out some of your staff members to search for potential clients for commission-based work. After all, it's easier to work towards a solution than it is to grope blindly in the dark for progress. They were more than a bit successful, and managed to return with requests from three different groups to prove you have the capability before they think of opening up more lucrative relationships with you.
>Unlocked Client: Kijuju Autonomous Zone Democratically Elected Council, or KAZDEC, is the current governing body of the KAZ, after having overthrown the previous dictatorial government. Going off of their knowledge of you as an Umbrella subsidiary, they would like you to produce something to help with the significant amount of injured soldiers and civilians from RIKA attacks within their borders. They are willing to pay 2 Funds, with a 4 turn deadline.
>Unlocked Client: Mkono no Haki, the people's extralegal militia taking the fight to the RIKA, have asked for you to develop something to help their millitiamen against the better-trained and equipped RIKA soldiers. They are desperate enough that they will accept any kind of creation, so long as it aids them effectively. They are willing to pay 1 funds, with a 6 turn deadline.
>Unlocked Client: Royal Imperial Kijuju Army, the forces of the former dictator-in-exile, have asked you to create a pet for His Highness, as a gesture of your ability and fealty. Said pet must be lethal, well-trained, visually impressive, and able to fight on his behalf. They are willing to pay 5 funds, with a 10 turn deadline, but have hinted towards danger if you fail.
However, while your team was meeting with the locals, you and your scientists managed to find something far more interesting. The Kijuju Protea's analgesic properties are beyond what you imagined. While not able to heal wounds like the Arklay Mountain Herbs, the Protea instead allows for temporary disassociation of pain from impeding with mental action when imbibed, and its antiseptic qualities prevent infection in applied areas as well. It is a fantastic substance, and already you can see possible uses for it in your work and in the surrounding market. One of your interns even brought up the idea of potentially marketing it as a combat stimulant, considering the climate around here, and you can't say it didn't come to mind for you too.
>Unlocked Project: Protean Painkillers (CHEM based, creates a pill-based painkiller that doesn't interfere with mental faculties)
>Unlocked Research: Protean Serum (CHEM based, try to synthesize a millitary-strength painkiller that allows soldiers to fight without feeling their wounds.)

>cont.

>>3019114
How do you want to spend your next week?
>Funds
4/4

>Staff
10 Scientists
3 Security
3 Interns

>Slots in use
1/4
Research the Red Flower (1/3 successes. Next research will require allocating but not spending 1 funding)

>Client Requests Accepted

>Client Requests Available
KAZDEC: Create something to help with the injured soldiers and civilians. 2 Funds, 4 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Reduced goodwill gain.
Mkono no Haki: Create any weapon (BOW or otherwise) that could help them against the RIKA. 1 Funds, 6 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Relationship status set to "Distrusted"
RIKA: Create a BOW for His Highness. Must be lethal, well trained, and visually impressive. 5 Funds, 10 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Relationship status set to "Distrusted", possible attack.

>Unlocked Projects
Contact Kijuju
Survey the Surroundings
Ferment Inspiration
Protean Painkillers

>Unlocked Research
Research the Uroboros Sample
Survey the Fauna (Requires allocating 1 funding to survey more, having to reach further out into the swamp)
Survey the Flora (Requires allocating 1 funding to survey more, having to reach further out into the swamp)
Research the Shovel-Jawed Bat
Research the Ngome Crocodile
Research the Yatevo Tree
Research the Protean Serum

I'm heading to sleep for tonight, will continue tomorrow! Let me know if there are any questions.

>>3019116
Would allocating more funds than necessary to a project increase the odds of success?

>>3019116
using domestical animals/plants from near villages in research is a problem/possible ?


if we can it would be really cheap and we can start using the Uroboros sample already, or just start experimenting with other things.
since we have take some contractors and other people, they count as auxiliaries right ?
how much it would cost to have more people ?
(prices for interns, scientists and guards)

for expanding the base/ the actual buildings/ or create new structures ?

is possible to have vehicles ? (civilian and military ones)

sending results and detailed reports back to Umbrella can give us founds, more people, equipment , vehicles ecc.... ?

>>3019116
the painkillers are good for the KAZDEC request, we should make a base one to sell officially and send to Umbrella as well while holding back the potential for now.
As for Rika we could augment some dogs to be safe, as a show of goodwill on our side to have interest in working with them.
in general we shouldn't make BOWs without some sort of failsafe like at least a depandancy on something only we can synthesize

>>3019116
>Protean Painkillers
4 Scientists, 1 Intern
>Protean Serum
4 Scientists, 1 Intern
>Survey the surroundings
1 Scientist, 2 Security, 1 Intern
Gonna go ahead and leave 1 Security in reserve in case the other scientists need him. May as well get the Protean projects out of the way to get those sweet funds.

>>3019172
Whoops, forgot last Scientist. Ferment Inspiration with him

>>3019175
Scratch that, I'm dumb. Put that scientists to work instead on the painkillers, and ourself on the serum

>>3019192
>>3019175
>>3019172

Red flower also appears to be a good stimulant I suggest we research that ourselves more along with the pain killers

>>3019116
>Protean Painkillers
US and 3 interns
>Research the Ngome Crocodile
5 Scientists, 2 guards
>Research the Protean Serum
5 Scientists, 1 guard

Also accept the KAZDEC request. The crocodile could be modified as pet.

>>3019317
Supporting this

>>3019317
+1

>>3019217
If I remember my RE lore right, from what we've found out during our basic research of it, there's a damn good chance that the Red Flower is the Progenitor Flower. We should probably top of research of that as soon as we can, since it's the basis of all the silly Umbrella viruses.

I also want to point out, that any BOW we create and give to the Mkono or RIKA, needs to have a failsafe in it that either lets us turn it off, or lets us control it.
I'm thinking Uroboros/Progenitor Hybrid Crocodile.

>>3019317
Can we accept all the requests? Nothing saying we can't play all sides at once

>>3019402
Yeah I don't see why not we have the materials for all three

>>3019402
While I like the idea of playing both sides, the only animals we know of to work with are bats and crocs. I'm pretty sure we're gonna want something a bit more extravagant than either of them for the RIKA's Highness

>>3019387
I'm in full agreement of the failsafes.

>>3019317
>The crocodile could be modified as pet.
Can we give them pink or purple skin? Because the idea of a Giant Purple People Eater brings a smile to my face.

>>3019443
I think a giant purple people eater would be an excellent present.

>>3019447
Can you imagine fighting one in a RE game? It would just be very silly.

>>3019402
>Nothing saying we can't play all sides at once
It would require more research, but it'd be fun to combine the Protean Serum with a severely weakened strain of Uroboros that gives slightly enhanced stamina and strength for a short time.
Rig it up, so the more you use it, the more you become susceptible to a secondary control failsafe that would let us control the soldiers like we would with our BOWs.

Probably have to wait until we have a couple cleaner crews though, so we can discreetly dispose of anyone that overdoses and becomes an angry uncontrollable tentacle monster.

>>3019475
Or we could tell the leadership about the side affects if they overdose

>>3019492
That would probably lead to them either not using the serum, or deliberately attempting to overdose their troops causing us to be flooded in angry uncontrollable tentacle monsters.

>>3019495
This^
These aren't first world countries we're talking with, this is africa. Where life is cheaper than literal dirt.

>>3019495
>>3019497
You have a point. We should sell it in small prepackaged by dose shots. Like epipens.

We can call the... umbrella pens

>>3019501
>umbrella pens
That is a terrible thing that you should feel bad for. Let's do it.

>>3019475
let do some tests first. it s not things like this can be done in a month.

we can use some domestical animal first (cheaper), then wild ones.

after that test on humans.

plus we can improve it. and our clients can accept the suggestion to let just a squad of soldiers use it for sometime.
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in the mean time the base need to be expanded (greater laboratorys, hospital, canteen,
homes for employees, orphanage, some big warehouses, dozens of towers on the perimeter, better roads, perhaps a small airport, more guards and contractors, more interns, numerous vehicles {such as helicopters, jeeps, camions, armored support, battle tanks, artillery .... and the list goes on just for don t appear weak}, minefields,
detection sensors and safety cameras, military radars, a fortified control room, a communication room, anti-air turrets ecc....
***then for outside we can offer to build a good road network near our base, perhaps
wells for neighboring villages.
even schools and better agricultural fields.
***here we can make us famous in all the world for being a really good company, if we create a video with some journalists on our base and the near villages.

it could backfire but i doubt we can shoot ourself on the foot if we do thinghs right from the start.

any ideas on how to do money alone ?

without clients or founds from umbrella.

perhaps offering basic medic treatment ? training recruits for some of the factions ? some drug plant/normal plants cultivation (cocaine ecc ?) ?

>>3019514
Okay, so. Expanding the base is a good idea and all, however we run into one major problem: All that shit requires money.
To get money, we need product, to get product we need to research crazy ass serums and viruses.

We have access to an Uroboros Sample, a Progenitor Sample, A painkiller flower. a bat, a croc, and a carnivorous tree. Not to mention that, again, we are in africa where domestic animals and wild animals are far more expensive then human life. We can literally vanish a village for test subjects and nobody will care here.
Also, we're an Umbrella Researcher, if you want to do things ethical and polite join a different company.

>>3019557
We do things unethically but its important that we appear ethical to everyone on the outside. Gotta keep that image.

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i just had a really bad idea
we should try to do what HE did

>>3019557

no I just want a good facade when we inevitably become important. but that s for the future.


>>3019547
and here i have suggest other ideas for have founds.

i want a strong economic base like everyone but if we can variegate it, let s do it.

>>3019561
Yeah, but there's no reason to start with livestock and wild animal testing when human lives are worth less then dirt.

Luckily we're in africa, our biggest ethical problems come from NGOs and shit.

>>3019572
Well let's kidnap villages that are far enough away it doesn't look like us at least.

So at the very least someone wont think. Huh alot of villages around that new umbrella base are just disappearing. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

>>3019576
Oh yeah, totally.

>>3019557
>Also, we're an Umbrella Researcher, if you want to do things ethical and polite join a different company.
There's a difference between wanting to do things ethical and polite, and shitting where we eat.
Ontop of things looking weird like people near the Umbrella lab disappearing, there's also the factor that we have no backup plans in place if shit goes wrong.

>>3019592
Nobody said to shit where we eat though and we have no backup plans for anything we do. At this point, whatever we do will end up with us holding our dicks.

>>3019602
>Nobody said to shit where we eat though
It's an idiom
>and we have no backup plans for anything we do.
That's why I mentioned before about not wanting to make BOWs right off the bat.

>>3019514
>>3019547
>>3019571


Same guy here


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(For other idea for have founds a nuclear reactor, solar panels or wind turbines. That will give us even eletric autonomy. Maybe even set up Mines for good minerals ? Should we build underground at a certain point [for containement rooms ecc. ..] ?)
Now i think that for taking the human tests, there are five ways :


1
Offering to a faction the possibility to give a "new type" of punishment to political prisoners or criminals.


2
Requesting from a faction civilians for tests, and tell them to avoid to be suspected

3
Go ourself in taking them.

4
False flagging an infection in villages and take them.

5
Buy them from not the major factions : essentially from modern slaves merchants.

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>>3019602
>>3019592
Ah fuck I forgot a word in my post.
The idiom I was trying to use was "not shitting where we eat."

>>3019317
Support

Crazy umbrella schemes are fun but we need to wait until our facility is upgraded and fully defended and contained before getting to the crazy parts

>>3019641
The solar panels will be a good idea since it's usually sunny in Africa about 90% of the time.
The mines might be a bit tricky to set up but it will be a good source of currency to have.

>>3019641
Y'know what I just realized? There might be Dinosaur bones in Africa.
And with Dinosaur Bones, we might get sum of that Dinosaur DNA.
And with that Dinosaur DNA, we can have Dinosaur BOWs.

>>3019654
True


>>3019655
. ... just imagine the fountains of money we will make with those, military representatives will just flood us with requests if they are good !


At that point the Umbrella will become our subsidiary

>>3019654
>usually sunny in Africa
you know Africa is an entire continent with rainforests too, right?

Either way, stable electricity is not a given when in africa, which is a huge problem for their medicare.
We need to be energy autarkic and offer any abundance to the nearby populace, or at least the public infrastructure like the hospitals
while, yes, we can just turn generators off when we don't need more electricity it would not be efficient.

source: I'm an engineer

>>3019687
Yes I am aware that Africa has rainforests as well. I'm just pointing that Solar Panels can be a good thing to use due to how sunny it can be in the Desert/Savannah of Africa.
Quick question: would Geothermal Power Plants be of any use in Africa? I know next to nothing about it other than the fact that it's a thing that requires heat and it was brought up in the Jurassic Park books.

>>3019691
*Desert/Savannah portions of Africa
Fucking hell I really need to double check my posts beforehand.

any other ideas for make money ?
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other thinghs that we can have when we are big :

a lawyers' office.
and if we have really good products for the civilians [safe and good] , Infrastructures for selling them in other countries . (or we can just use the Umbrella for selling them, but our profit could not be that high)
>>3019687
>>3019691


wait wait ... what about selling good clean water here ?! we can take it, purify it and sell it !
well it seems we have a good amount of ideas for the future. The Maisha Foundation has a bright rich future here and we can hope even in the rest of the world.

>>3019699
I was meaning to offer the energy pro bono, but if we go into the energy and water business then it's certainly only for additional funds.
We certainly have the method for it, but water for an entire area is a different dimension of volume.

but...

BUT!

It gives us the opportunity to easily poison the water supply to create an illness we can easily fix.
And/or a means to blackmail anyone, like if we have a direct line to any faction

>>3019699
Purifying water would be a good start, albeit we might need a Purification plant, and that's gonna cost some funding. But it might be of use to us since we won't have to drink the water straight from the rivers.
Now that I think about it, due to how HIV and Ebola are a thing, I wonder if we can make a minor (disease) cure on the side that can take care of the effects of either. The side effects being you turn into a giant monster, but at least you won't have AIDS or Ebola

>>3019703
Let's just create a virus-curse that turns humans into organic water purifiers.

>>3019706
But would they also handle the shit tons of chemicals we put into the water that might also turn the frogs gay?

>>3019706
We could always create a strain of sentient leeches that think they're people.

>>3019713
Of course, I think our goal should be to retroactively prove Alex Jones right. We need a lizard person virus.

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>>3019703
>>3019705
>>3019706

>>3019720
Why not people that we turn into leeches.

always for the future : should we create a spynetwork that control the region for us ? so if the "good guys" or some rivals start arriving we can know that and take some "hospitality countermeasures".

>>3019742
last thing : offering to to university students to work here is a bad idea ? i mean they would be cheap for payment and will probably arrive just to starting their careers and have something on their curriculum.

>>3019746
Yeah I think that would be a good idea we can spin it as a humanitarian effort too for them so they get community service credits. We can have them work on the good thing we do like power water purification, painkillers/regenerative drug. Not everything we do it evil. Just the fun stuff.

Woah, sorry this took so long. Today really ran away from me. Post with required rolls will be incoming soon.

>>3019131
Not at the moment, though it's something you can do in the future. At the moment shoving more money at a project isn't actually enough, because you don't have the facilities to really use that much money.

>>3019144
Contractors from the people are paid on a by-project basis, but hiring new people is something that is basically locked by total funding. Once you have more than a certain amount and the place to house them, you can get more staff.
Vehicles are also totally possible, and requisitions are doable, but spend Umbrella Approval, a resource that you will also have to roll against sometimes in regards to events directly with mainline Umbrella.

>>3019402
You can accept any number of requests, just make sure to keep track of their deadlines.

>>3019547
Really once you start making products and selling them, you'll be able to pull in money, and things like offering services and making your own labs more self-sustaining will gain you more funds by the virtue of reducing costs, but your biggest moneymaker will always just be actual products out in the world.

>>3019691
As a note, the area of the KAZ you're in is mostly scrubland, but you're very close to the nearby Ndipaya wetlands, a large area of open swamp. Kijuju itself is also relatively close to the coastal city of Bahari, so you can go out there with relatively little effort. The jungles to the south are more difficult to get to still, but also present.

All these humanitarian effort ideas are fantastic by the way, definitely remember them for when we have the funds and time to set them up. There's no better way to entrench yourselves then to help the community.

>>3019317
Alright, here's the required rolls.

>Protean Painkillers
1d100, target number is CHEM + 20(Us)+3(Interns)=48
>Research the Ngome Crocodile
1d100, target number is BIO + 25(Scientists)=50. Guards will significantly improve chances of survival and safety, in the event of a failure.
>Research the Protean Serum
1d100, target number is CHEM+ 25(Scientists)=50. Guard will prevent any lasting danger in the event of a failure.

>Accepting the KAZDEC request
When you phone the number for the KAZDEC offices, the man who picks up sounds nothing short of exhausted. He introduces himself as Akida Amechoka, the current Secretary of Health for the Kijuju Government, and brightens up slightly when you mention you'll take the case. He and his people are constantly dealing with the influx of refugees from more rural Kijuju, fleeing the depredations of the RIKA and other, less organized brigands. While haggard, he's earnest, and seems to be someone that will be easy to work with.
>Unlocked contact: Akida Amechoka, KAZDEC Secretary of Health.
(What this means is that in the future if you need to contact KAZDEC, you have an in, though at the moment he probably won't help you much, due to lack of goodwill.)

Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>3021148
>1d100, target number is CHEM + 20(Us)+3(Interns)=48
gonna bite this one

>>3021150
should not have bitten that one

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>3021148
>Research the Ngome Crocodile
1d100, target number is BIO + 25(Scientists)=50. Guards will significantly improve chances of survival and safety, in the event of a failure.


"Come on good croc come here, we are totally not trying to steal our childrens and eggs"

>>3021153
>"Come on good croc come here, we are totally not trying to steal /your/ childrens and eggs"
it knows

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>3021148
>>Research the Protean Serum
>1d100, target number is CHEM+ 25(Scientists)=50
Here we go

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>>3021171
>imagine getting eaten by a giant reptile while our coworkers flee like little girls

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Let's not kid ourselves, we know where this Croc Research is leading.

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>>3021150
>>3021153
>>3021178

>April 8th, 1990, Kijuju, KAZ, Western Africa
Your fourth week was an absolute, unmitigated disaster, with only the lucky work of one of your research teams salvaging anything productive out of it. The first problem was during your research into the Protea, what should have been a simple and painless (hah, the irony) endeavor. Instead, one of the centrifuges you were using broke and when you were trying to fix it, it activated violently and dramatically. The resulting explosion of glass and Protea-solution took the lab off limits and embedded glass shards all across your body. While the scars are minor, you found a much less enjoyable side effect of the prototype serum: You can't feel pain. At all. While most would see this as a boon, you know all too well that without pain to alert the brain of danger, you have a significantly higher chance of seriously hurting yourself without realizing. On the positive side, your debilitating and possibly permanent condition has spread some stories among the staff, after your interns saw you stand up and brush yourself off like nothing happened, shards of glass sticking out of your skin and calmly fetch a dustpan. A small, desperate part of you revels in it. You are something more than human now, even in a minute way. Now you just need to refine it. Hone it. *Perfect* it.
>You are now unable to feel pain. This has made you more impressive and foreboding to your workers, but is dangerous.
In other, terrible news, your team researching the local Ngome Crocodile was met with similar, if less life-changing results. The Crocodiles were aggressive, difficult, and injured one of your scientists and the security officer who rescued him from the beast's maw. They'll be out of commission for the next two weeks.
>1 Scientist and 1 Security locked for two weeks, due to mauling.
Your Protean Serum research team on the other hand pulled out a fantastic success, saving this week from being a *complete* mess. They managed to formulate an inject-able serum that completely disassociates the pain centers of the brain. The subject still "feels" the pain, but only as an acknowledgement that it exists, bypassing any panicked responses. Your first real creation!
>What will you name it?
>Unlocked Project: Protean Serum production. Takes 1 slot, generates 1 wealth every 4 turns from sales, not counting any commissions or direct sales. Possible option for Mkono no Haki commission.

>Cont.

>>3021198
How do you want to spend your next week?
>Funds 4/4

>Staff
>9(1) Scientists
>2(1) Security
>3 Interns

>Slots in use
1/4
Research the Red Flower (1/3 successes. Next research will require allocating but not spending 1 funding)

>Client Requests Accepted
KAZDEC: Create something to help with the injured soldiers and civilians. 2 Funds, 4 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Reduced goodwill gain. Turn 1/4.

>Client Requests Available
Mkono no Haki: Create any weapon (BOW or otherwise) that could help them against the RIKA. 1 Funds, 6 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Relationship status set to "Distrusted"
RIKA: Create a BOW for His Highness. Must be lethal, well trained, and visually impressive. 5 Funds, 10 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Relationship status set to "Distrusted", possible attack.

>Unlocked Projects
~~Contact Kijuju~~ (No longer necessary, via accepting KAZDEC request.)
Ferment Inspiration
Protean Painkillers (+15 on next attempt.)
Protean Serum Production (1 funds/4 turns, takes 1 slot.)

>Unlocked Research
Research the Uroboros Sample
Survey the Fauna (Requires allocating 1 funding to survey more, having to reach further out into the swamp)
Survey the Flora (Requires allocating 1 funding to survey more, having to reach further out into the swamp)
Research the Shovel-Jawed Bat
Research the Ngome Crocodile (+15 on next attempt.)
Research the Yatevo Tree

Knocking out for tonight again, since I have work tomorrow. Will be running for much longer starting around 4pm PST tomorrow though, due to working an overnight shift.

Hah, awesome. Thx for run. I like this mc a lot.

>>3021199
Since it seems we accepted the KAZDEC thing we should follow up on that.
And if possible try the Ngome Crocodile again.

>>3021199
>Protean Painkillers (+15 on next attempt.)
Us, 4 scientists, 1 guard
>Research the Ngome Crocodile (+15 on next attempt.)
The rest

Did you check the dates correctly? How did we jump to April from May? >>3021198
X-142 Painkilling serum

>>3021297
supportign this
we shouzld start producing the next turn after though we need the money

>>3021198
>>What will you name it?
Berserker, of course


do you have a preference on how we should suggest what research to do, because I'm still somewhat unsure, and/or we can streamline the process

We have 4 slots, but are they passive research or do we have to allocate the projects into them (we currently have 4 available projects, but one slot is already taken)
Or are those 4 slots for projects and research?

Personally I think that the slots should be areas of our facility to be specialized for one current project.

I know what I want to suggest in terms of research, but I'd like to know the full extent of your rules, possibly in a gdocs in next op so it can be looked up whenever needed and us commenting on it for questions.

>>3021297
I don't think we need a guard on painkillers, put him to the crocodoc and I support

>>3021198
???
I thought we were using the best roll for all three checks?
>>3021297
Supporting

>>3021297
Sounds good to me
Supportin

>>3021297
+1

>>3021297
support

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I wonder what'll happen if you mix the painkillers with methamphetamines?

>>3021198
>>What will you name it?
Go Go Juice.

>>3021198

I thought we were doing umbrealla pens

>>3021297
Also while I'm supporting this. I want to change the public name to "Melody" for the serum

>>3022878
Here's another vote for changing the name. X-number is hella generic and difficult to remember. How about something that relates to focus, since that's what the drug helps with.

>>3022899
I stand by berserker

>>3022899
We need an Umbrella Number Name and a Marketing Name. They have a bunch of stuff named U-03 and VP-17, but also have Safesprin and Adravil.

>>3022899
>>3022912
X-142 Painkilling serum is plenty good for an official by the books name.

But I recommend for the public name Melody because it seems like something a painkiller made by a altruistic pharmaceutical company.

>>3021297
Whoops, totally flubbed the date there! Should be June, not April.
As for those rolls:
>Protean Painkillers
CHEM+15(Repeated Testing)+Us(20)+Scientists(20)+Security(Chance of preventing serious consequences in case of failure.)= TN 80
>Research the Ngome Crocodile
BIO+15(Repeated Testing)+Scientists(25)+Interns(9)+Security(Chance of preventing serious consequences in the case of failure)=TN 89

>>3021370
When it comes to slots, they're parts of the facility that you're doing a piece of ongoing research in. I'll be actually updating the research and projects to show turn/amount-of-success timers, that way you can better gauge how long slots might be held up for. HOWEVER, when it comes to projects, all you need to do is just assign an applicable staff member to it (in the case of the Protean Serum, any scientist) and let it sit. More staff on it will speed up its rate of production to a certain point, but you don't need to actually roll for anything. They'll just keep working on it.

>>3021389
That best roll thing was for the Survey the Surroundings roll that you did with a combination of Scientists, Security, and Interns. Because it has different effects based on what type of unit is doing it, I had that be one roll with different target numbers for each unit type.

>>3022878
>>3022899
>>3022912
>>3022912
>>3022941
As a note on the name, you can totally have a proper serial number name like "X-133 Protea Serum" and give it a common use name like Berserker or Melody or what have you. Naming conventions are up to you all, though if you want to use a theme for it like how RE:Rev named its bioweapons after things from Dante's Inferno, I'd be glad to research and offer suggestions.

Rolled 1, 28 = 29 (2d100)

>>3022988

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>3022988
Alright for crocodile

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>3022988
Alright with all these drugs we should develop some sort of injection system, combined with armour.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3022988
You should take the first roll from this. >>3022996

Rolled 6, 11 = 17 (2d20)

>>3022988

>>3022912
Eh. Berserker implies some sort of uncontrollable aggression, which is not what the serum does. How about "Achelin" or "Akeline"? Similar to the etymology for morphine (Morpheus, greek god of dreams) except it come from the goddess Achelois, which apparently translates to "she who washes pain away".

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>3022988
These rolls maaan

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>3023042
wow, really flubbed that roll

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>3022988
Rollin

>>3023042
Supporting Achelin.
With it being used in a war there'll be a nickname for it soon anyway.

>>3023051
Look on the brightside, you got a 7.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3023042
Achelin sound already like a product.


Support
Achelin type zero for the first batch we make ? Wait do we need structres for producing them ?


Rolling for the Protean Painkillers

Good thing this is a roll under quest.
This is a roll under quest right?

>>3023310
This is a roll under quest, and has already been rolled, I'm just in the process of typing it up.

>>3023314
Are you taking the first roll? The crit 1?

>>3023457
I am, yes. The first rolls crit 1, and the second rolls 56.

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>>3022996
>>3023015

>June 15th, 1990, Kijuju, KAZ, Western Africa
Last week was a disaster only barely saved from complete failure, but this week has more than made up for it. Your first real product, the X-142 Analgesic Serum, or "Achelin", is a masterwork worthy to announce your presence. Distributed in the form of stainless steel injectors, a shot of Achelin completely detaches the autonomic responses of the body from pain for the next 3-6 hours. While overdose and other side effects are definite possibilities, you've made something that you know will sell well on the market, in both the medical and military sectors. And not only that, but you've developed a more civilian version as well, in a stroke of absolute genius. While working on synthesizing a more mundane painkiller from it, you managed to isolate a separate compound within its structure by sheer chance! This separate compound is responsible for the "detachment" effect within it, and while useless on its own, could be retrofitted to affect different senses and things beyond just pain! The possibilities are tantalizing.
>Unlocked product: Protean Painkiller (A civilian variation of the Achelin serum. Generates 1 Funds/3 turns)
>What will you name it?
>Unlocked research: Detachment Compound Specialization (A strange compound that detaches sensory information. When you take this research, specify a sense to attempt to research and detach.)
To cap off your week in excellent form, your second research team took it right back to those damned crocodiles! The few pictures you got of interns wrestling shut and binding their mouths gave you a smile, but more important was the research they conducted. The Ngome Crocodile's natural armor is an ecological marvel, created by its own body metabolizing heavy metals in its diet from eating various fish in the mineral-rich Ndipaya Wetlands and then storing them in its shell as it grows, its own musculature building from the slowly increasing weight over the course of its life. With enough manipulation, you could possibly even have them create proper armor, or metabolize precious metals from waterborn trace elements into cohesive metal deposits. If you can make it work, these will be well worth the hassle.
>Unlocked Experiment: Armored Ngome (Can you selectively modify them into having actual armor? 0/1 Successes)
>Unlocked Experiment: Treasure Ngome (Can you selectively modify them into gathering and refining specific minerals? 0/2 Successes)
All in all, a good week.

>AN: A note on Experiments. Experiments always take up one slot to perform, and are based on a number of successes to attempt a result, with multiple successes taking multiple turns. As a note, there will always be some kind of result from an experiment, but based on the number of successes and failures, it maybe very different than the intended one. You will unlock more Experiment options as you unlock more research and products, ESPECIALLY mutagenic Agents.

>Cont.

>>3023572
>>3023572
How do you want to spend your next week?
>Funds 4/4

>Staff
>9(1 Injured, 1 week left) Scientists
>2(1 Injured, 1 week left) Security
>3 Interns

>Slots in use
1/4
Research the Red Flower (1/3 successes. Next research will require allocating but not spending 1 funding)

>Client Requests Accepted
KAZDEC: Create something to help with the injured soldiers and civilians. 2 Funds, 4 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Reduced goodwill gain. Turn 2/4.

>Client Requests Available
Mkono no Haki: Create any weapon (BOW or otherwise) that could help them against the RIKA. 1 Funds, 6 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Relationship status set to "Distrusted"
RIKA: Create a BOW for His Highness. Must be lethal, well trained, and visually impressive. 5 Funds, 10 turn deadline. Consequences for Failure: Relationship status set to "Distrusted", possible attack.

>Unlocked Products
Protean Painkiller Production (1 funds/3 turns, 1 slot)
Protean Serum "Achelin" (1 funds/4 turns, 1 slot.) (Usable for Mkono no Haki request)

>Unlocked Experiments
Ngome Armor (0/1 Successes)
Ngome Treasure (0/2 Successes)

>Unlocked Projects
Ferment Inspiration

>Unlocked Research
Research the Uroboros Sample
Survey the Fauna (Requires allocating 1 funding to survey more, having to reach further out into the swamp)
Survey the Flora (Requires allocating 1 funding to survey more, having to reach further out into the swamp)
Research the Shovel-Jawed Bat
Research the Ngome Crocodile (+15 on next attempt.)
Research the Yatevo Tree
Research Detachment Compound Specialization (Pick a sense)

>Note
Next week, your Interns will have accrued enough experience to differentiate into another type of Staff if you wish. You may also keep them as interns, to save for when you can hire different types of staff than what you currently have.

>Ngome Armor
1 Security, 4 Scientists, 1 Intern.

>Protean Painkiller Production (1 funds/3 turns, 1 slot)
The rest. Gotta try to get this out quick.

If possible ask KAZDEC for one more turn to produce Protean Painkiller Production

>>3023580
Sounds good to me.
Say when the interns are able to be different staff, I was thinking that one of them goes for Scientist and the other two go into security. Mostly so that we'll have an easier time with the Croc experiments and anymore infield trips.

>>3023575
Accept the Mikono no Haki request
Protean Serum "Achelin" (1 funds/4 turns, 1 slot.)
3 scientists and an intern

>Protean Painkiller Production (1 funds/3 turns, 1 slot)
3 scientist 1 intern

Research the Red Flower (1/3 successes. Next research will require allocating but not spending 1 funding)
3 scientists and yourself

>>3023580
We only need one scientist to produce the serums so....
>Protean Painkiller Production (1 funds/3 turns, 1 slot)
1 Scientist
>Protean Serum "Achelin" (1 funds/4 turns, 1 slot.) (Usable for Mkono no Haki request)
1 scientist
>Research the Yatevo Tree
Everyone else

Samples of the serum should be given to KAZDEC for their request. Have the Painkiller given to our son to ease his pain.

>>3023575
>research detachment compond
Focus on sight.
If we're able to make the compound airborne we'll essentially have a more potent and (hopefully) less severe from of tear gas.
Perfect for military and law enforcement applications.

>>3023610
Samples of the *painkillers should be given to KAZDEC

>>3023610
As a note, since that might have been confusing, your son is dead. Anything in Spoilers will tend to be a flashback, or an internal, not entirely conscious kind of dialogue.

>>3023622
Woops. Ignore that then