Week 2! Archetype: Mad Scientist
Traits: Researcher (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions: 1 Scientist, 4 Regulars
Cash: $5,870 USD
Resources: 120
Notoriety: 12
Lair: Under a Warehouse
Lair Accoutrements: 2x Giant Laser.
Weekly Actions: The plotting goes much better this week, So well in fact you might reinstate your minions youtube privileges. Your minions approach you with news of The Sentinel Project. Widely suspected to be a myth, your minions have confirmed its existence. The Sentinel Project is apparently about to reach a major breakthrough that will allow it to be deployed worldwide. Your minions suspect you have perhaps 2 weeks to make a move on this, before the project is completed. They still have no idea -what- the Sentinel Project is.
Your minions out to steal research manage to misdirect a few shipments by getting legitmate jobs as deliverymen. They manage to make off with 40 resources before anyone clues in.
+40 Resources, +5 Notoriety
Alas, your research progresses slowly.
Your blueprints are Fed-Exed to the drop sites specified by your Colleagues of Evil.
Physics Research : 6.31
Physics Unlocks: Giant Laser (10 Resources/Per)
Archetype: The Mastermind
Traits: Man With a Plan (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions: 5 Regulars
Cash: $7,650
Resources: 150
Notoriety: 14
Lair: House in Germany
Weekly Actions: Well. That was sort of a mixed bag. Your minions, arrogant and uncouth, assaulted the museum during broad daylight. They knocked out several guards and hapless tourists. The tapestry itself is lifted easily but during their cunning escape your minions were set upon on all sides by the police. They managed to fight their way through barely, and were only able to ditch the police after many many hours.
Still, the tapestry looks nice.
+12 Notoriety, as the police are well aware of your heist, And your intentions.
Lair Accoutrements: A Fine Historical Tapestry (+3 Minion Loyalty)
Archetype: Cult Leader
Traits: Cult of Personality (1)
Minion Cap: 9
Minions: 5 Regulars, 2 Thugs, 2 Scientists
Cash: $4,700
Resources: 100
Notoriety: 10
Lair: A small compound deep in the forest of the Blue Ridge Mountains of the USA.
Weekly Actions: Your minions assigned to plotting beg your forgiveness, but nothing seems to have caught their eye.
Comparatively, the theft of cash goes much -much- better. Bulging duffle bags are carted from a nondescript white van, and dumped at your feet by your minions and thugs. They beam with pride as they tally the count. +$1320. One even relates a tale of beating a police officer at fisticuffs.
+6 Notoriety
Your research starts and stops a significant amount over the course of the week. A breakthrough is not far off, though the minion assigned to be their test subject is looking a little sickly come the end of the week.
Your wire transfer of funds was rewarded, with a drop-off of some Giant Laser plans picked up by one of your minions on the way back from dry-cleaning.
Biology Research: 3.97
Physics Unlocks: Giant Laser (10 R/P)
Archetype: Layabout Playboy
Traits: Legal Eagles (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions: 5 Regulars
Cash: $10,750
Resources: 200
Notoriety: 6
Lair: A Luxury Cruiser
Weekly Actions: The mission starts strong! Your minions descend upon the archaeology camp guns out and ready to go. Turns out every single one of them was an Indiana Jones fan and the fighting was fierce as your minions attempted to seize the artifact. Your minions, through superior firepower and raw determination managed to gain the upper hand and subdue the archaeologists long enough to load the statue into a nondescript van. The escape is somewhat uneventful by comparison.
It looks very nice on the front of your boat.
Your minion manages to break the speedboat you deploy him in, you have to head back for him, and he is thusly unable to manage any thefts this weekend. He does steal a fellow minions wallet simply to show he can however.
Your plotting goes poorly, the minion in question came down with a bad case of seasickness.
Lair Accoutrements:
An Ancient Aztec Statue (+3 Minion Loyalty)
Archetype: The Mastermind
Traits: (Wo)man with a Plan (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions: 4 Regulars, 1 Scientist
Cash: $7,500
Resources: 150
Notoriety: 16
Lair: A warehouse on the outskirts of London.
Weekly Actions: The approach goes poorly. Your minions arrive at the university under cover of night, To find a pitched battle between campus security, and a grandstanding lunatic with some sort of robotic assistants. A news crew is innocuously filming nearby. Considering this lunatic seems to be occupying the building your minions have staked out as the location of the Robotics department, they wade into the fight.
Between the remnants of campus security and your minions, the lunatic is forced to retreat, posing dramatically and declaring that "you have not seen the LAST OF DOCTOR DOOM!". There's a brief bit of confusion where everyone thinks your minions are heroes.. Which is quickly rectified when they drub everyone into unconsciousness, steal into the robotics department and make off with every scrap of paper, every computer, and essentially everything that even -looks- vaguely important. Unfortunately, there seems to be some missing data.. You can still start research into the Robotics tree, but it'll likely suffer a few setbacks early on.
They even manage to kidnap a late-working scientist, and drag him along with the notes, back to your lair. He quickly succumbs to your interrogation and teaches one of your smarter minions good lab practices and what they need to make science happen. Apparently its pretty simple.
+4 Notoriety, Robotics Field Unlocked. -1 Regular, +1 Scientist.
(To explain the low notoriety gain.. Dr Doom totally jacked it all.)
Archetype: The Mob Boss
Traits: Streetwise (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions : 3 Regulars, 1 Thug, 1 Technician
Cash: $4,500 (+500/Turn)
Resources: 10
Notoriety: 19
Lair: A small mom and pop shop in small town US
Lair Accoutrements:
Workshop
1x Giant Laser.
Weekly Actions: By dint of good fortune, the fed-ex drop is secured and transported to your base. Giant laser plans are yours, and your technician immediately gets started on churning out a giant laser for your base. The workshop is also finished quickly, with no complications.
Turns out your minions are completely responsible for the latest wave of crime and terror sweeping small towns all across the US. Property is destroyed. Bridges blown up. Everyones talking about it.
+10 Notoriety.
The extortion..Doesn't quite go as well as planned. Turns out some people don't cave easily to intimidation. Also some of those people have guns, and fire first. Who knew?
Physics Research: 5.11
Physics Unlocks: Giant Laser (10 R/P)
Archetype: Mad Scientist
Traits: Researcher (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions : 1 Scientist, 4 Regulars
Cash: $5,000
Resources: 175
Notoriety: 7
Weekly Actions: In a fine opening move your minions manage to run the truck carrying the supplies off the road. A pitched firefight ensues between your minions and a local police vehicle that happened to be in the area. Your minions barely manage to load half the supplies before being run off.
+75 Resources
+7 Notoriety
Alas, your research makes no progress whatsoever. Noise and other distractions keep you and your minion from focusing.
Research: Physics 5.00
Physics Unlocks: Improved Batteries
Lair: Abandoned Warehouse
Archetype: Mob Boss
Traits: Streetwise (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions : 4 Thug, 1 Scientist
Cash: $3,830
Resources: 100
Notoriety: 6
Lair: An unassuming Casino.
Weekly Actions: Your various minions make small amounts of cash for you this week, It is a poor week due to some new anti-crime measures being put into place by the authorities.
Your minion tasked to work the massage parlour manages to overhear some juicy gossip regarding the delivery of a very expensive Persian rug to a local millionaire. Stealing it in transit would be remarkably easy.
+$170, +4 Notoriety
You summarily demote your minions, at the end of the week, having already hired their replacements
-4 Regulars,-$1600, +3 Thugs, +1 Scientist.
Archetype: Mad Scientist
Traits: Researcher (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions : 1 Scientist, 4 Regulars
Cash: $5,310
Resources: 0
Notoriety: 9
Lair: A small camp in a forest.
Lair Accoutrements:
Laboratory
A Small Bronze Statue (+2 Minion Loyalty)
Weekly Actions: Your minions tasked to thefts do quite well, bringing home a reasonable haul of $310. They are summarily rewarded for their efforts with high praise.
The police are however, talking about the activity. +4 Notoriety
The heist goes well, a traffic accident caused by one minion forces the delivery truck to have to reroute, and this rerouting takes it into an ambush by the other minion. The driver puts up a fight but is eventually brought down. Your minions, manage to nab the statue and drive off with it, only to be nearly pulled over for speeding. They panic and manage to lose the cops relatively quickly though.
+5 Notoriety
The statue is placed on display in the center of the camp.
Your personal research goes well, but regretably falls just shy of a breakthrough. You will be assured of it next week though!
Research: Physics 4.87
Research: Chemistry 5.23
Chemistry Unlock: Hallucinogenic Compound (1 resource/Minion[you have to add it to all your minions on the mission to get the boost], to add it to a mission, Gives +2 to all Combat+Stealth type rolls within the mission)
Archetype: Mad Scientist
Traits: Researcher (1)
Minion Cap: 5
Minions : 1 Scientist, 4 Regulars
Cash: $5,000
Resources: 0
Notoriety: 0
Lair: Abandoned Zoo
Lair Accoutrements:
Laboratory
Weekly Actions: Your 2 regulars set to plot quickly return to you, speaking of a auction house that is putting up a few interesting items. Specifics are limited. There might be something there you can make off with.
As far as your research goes, well, You got a modest success out of it, while your assistant made sure you were well stocked with everything you needed. You come up with an interesting compound that you dose your minions with, causing their focus to increase.
Biology: 5.20
Biology Unlock:
Passive +1 to all Plotting and Research rolls.
Action World News, Tonight!
Local authorities nearly intercepted a sealed communique between two nefarious forces of evil. It is thought that plans for the destruction of our fair country were being passed between the organization known as E.V.I.L, and the Boys of the U.S.A. Natalia Shields, an up and coming officer was on the scene mere moments after the hand off had been made, and was unable to intercept this dire missive. She was quoted as saying "We'll get them next time, they can't evade justice forever."
In other news, London was rocked this week by a clash between known villian, Dr Doom, and the nefarious Black Industries. They battled in a south london university that chooses to remain nameless. Black industries was successful, and they were able to abscond with enough data to start their own Robotics department, -and- noted scientist Enrique Bloom. This has been a blow that research in London will not recover from, for some time.
+6 Notoriety to both Cript and Happerry.
Notes on Loot Items. Yes, Many will simply buff your minion loyalty, and look nice. Some will do other things.
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