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Granted. No one thinks you are a real ninja because no one knows what real ninjas were, really. You get rejected by your friends when you try to explain to them. Bright side, you have no more stupid friends. Dark side, all of your friends were stupid.

I wish that humanity had a charismatic, benevolent, and competent leader.

CRAP.
THAT IS NOT AN ACTION.

REPAIR APERTURE SCIENCE AND DETERMINE STATE OF LABORATORIES. WITHOUT DESTROYING THEM.

For proper super-villainy we need super-powers or minions, and irradiating ourself seems like a bad plan. Ideally we would have some measure of anonymity too...

Irradiation is for the unlikely event that risking the end of the game is worth the insignificant possibility of superpowers.

Perhaps we could design criminal activities. Find a vulnerable target, observe its patterns, plan an effective escape, account for evidence. Give the design to someone desperate enough to perform criminal activities scripted by an unknown party, drug addicts would seem likely candidates, if it works, they pay you for the next one and you gain some credibility, if it fails, they hopefully lacked the mental faculties or opportunities during the meetings to provide any identifying information about you. It would be a start to a master-mind role...

We need to figure out some sort of realistic, profitable villainy. Figure out an idea for something that fits those criterion, and I'll help refine it,

How many subterranean z-levels do we have to work with?

People haven't edited TVtropes to remove mention of it enough

One of these days...which tropes is it, again? I'm a troper, I can fix it.

How about we make a huge building with a one- or two-level chapel in it, and build another chapel for another god on top of that? Chobofrin or Chucheedrin might have a chapel underground.

Mosaics.
Make lots of colorful stone and metal blocks, and make floors out of them. Make a bunch of cobalite and pitchblende dwarves facing off against some gabbro and serpentine goblins, on a field of marble.

Arched ceilings.
d-r will be our friend.

Vaults.
Store valuables in sealed rooms, guarded by a locked door and a system that can seal off the door with an iron floodgate and floods the corridor. Put valuables in with minecarts, and only open them when the caravans come.

Light.
Put some magma pits and channels around, with grates or something over them. This has the additional benefit of using magma.