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Akula and I were talking about about the contact-drugs-on-designer clothes thing, and it's looking more and more like a potential calamity of beautiful proportions.

Without Poison Use and knowledge that they are dealing with drugged clothes, everyone in shipping and processing risks exposing themselves. And rich Korbahlians have already been established as preferring outside goods, so there is going to be shipping. When people do know, there's a real temptation for them to grab a high unless you are giving them an opportunity to sample your expensive contact drugs too.

Imagine some goons in our warehouses busting open a crate full of shirts and rolling around on them for the high. Better yet, imagine what happens when street dealers start grabbing them and cutting the drugshirts into little pieces for resale.

"Hey- Hey guy, guy! You wanna fix? I got some primo Sleeve right here. Just rub the fabric square on your arm and you'll feel reeEEEeal good. Trust me man, you gotta experience this."
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actually... I went about that wrong. What if we just pumped addictive gases into the boutiques?

Hmm... actually, better plan. Complimentary cookies in every boutique. Cookies which have Devilweed (BoVD) as an ingredient. It's low addiction, but it has no overdose effect, and it's cheap (6gp/dose). If we just let people eat to their content (but have our staff taking care to not let them faint from Wis damage) as they shop, they will eventually fail the save. The effects of Devilweed are 1 pt Wis damage (lowers Sense Motive against our employees' sales pitches), +2 Str for 1d3 hours (we don't care), and the shaken condition due to being easily confused (-2 on those sense motive checks).

Maybe we just limit people to 7 cookies, flat. Most people should be able to stay conscious after 7 points of Wis damage, and -5 to 7 (including shaken penalty) to sense motive checks should make most people pretty susceptible to sales pitches. Honestly, the average person has a decent chance of failing 1 DC 6 will save in seven, I think.
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Kinda seems pointless people will just take cookies and not buy cloths it would be better to just open a pastry shop and slip a drugged pastry in with every bakers dozen.......

God why is it every time the economy takes a down everybody always winds up a drug dealer or opening a speak easy.
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Note: Drovak is not lying. However, he may be playing up the degree to which his druidic order cares about Korbahl's economy substantially. He'll almost certainly need to prove a working model before other like-minded druids get interested.
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Oh, the druids. Ok, yeah, I was a bit confused.
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What do we want to call our team? Personally, I like "The Hydra Consortium". It suggests a few things about how this game could play out.
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Allusions to hydras don't say good things about our continued chances of employment as one of the heads that get cut off so two more can grow... :tongue:

Also, this conversation makes me wish John had remembered to prepare spells.
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List of ten ideas for a group name

1) "the investers" like the ones from the venture brothers who wore pin stripe suits and can phase through walls or peoples flesh

2) "team gecko" like gordon gecko don't think spelled gecko right but my phone does not have spell check and my computers still busted

3) "the new dealers" if you guys are still set on selling somthing addicting this seems apropriatly irronic

4) "the one percenters" I'm not sure what percent of the population are adventurors in the setting but one percent is the place holder

5) "murder inc" because were some tough jews or because were murder hobos

6) "The combination" nuff said

7) "heavens vault" sounds cool plus u know vault

8) "the horde hunters" we hunt dragon hordes but may be we keep the name to ourselve when were not around alaince players

9) "team eco" it works with out current mission and if we fail we can become eco terrorists without changing our name also its cool because its close to echo

10) "the six propheteers" its got prophet because were destinened to fix the economy but also sounds like profet because you know monny oh yeah and the musketeers bit two
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gecko would be correct for the animal, the character was named Gekko.
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Omegonthesane wrote:Allusions to hydras don't say good things about our continued chances of employment as one of the heads that get cut off so two more can grow... :tongue:
"Don't mess with the Consortium. Take out all but one of their team, and the survivor will just bring everyone back as badass undead so they can come after you again the next day. Possibly accompanied by the reanimated bodies of some of your friends."
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#10 just makes me think we need a Captain Prophet...

Also, I'm going with New Dealers.
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Hail hydra! imortal hydra! we shall never be destroyed cut a limb and two more wil take its place we serve none but the master as the world shall soon serve us hail hydra!

I realy don't like the idea of taking a name from a corny fake terrorist organization
Not to mention the green and yellow costumes are auful
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Post by Grek »

I'm fine with Hydra Co as our name. Why not?

And, as far as business plans go, I think a simple one to start is fine. Let's get a silk weaving and stitching line set up using those new automatic looms. Orcs are good at turning cranks for hours and hours.
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Yeah hydra co works as well for me to that or the six privateers those 2 are my favs
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flare22 wrote:9) "team eco" it works with out current mission and if we fail we can become eco terrorists without changing our name also its cool because its close to echo
I just love the forward thinkingness of this.

Personally, I like The Investors. I like Team Gekko too, but there's no in game reason for it.
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If gangs are on the rise we can solve three problems at once by creating a state prison complex we can encorage the government to allow for privatly owned prisons and private investigator buisinesses to be built this will increast the number of jobs and reduce crime and if the gangs are made up of unemployed youths we can also reduce the unemployment rate as well
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If we're going into the privatized prison industry, we might as well just start producing Liquid Pain.
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Hey now, that's an insult to Liquid Pain.

Far as name goes, I'm withholding my endorsement until we've had some more time to see which way we're going. My ideal title would actually be something that screams satirical think tank/special interest.
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Clearly our designer boutique needs to feature chainmail bikinis in the summer and leather bikinis and loin clothes in the winter.
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I wonder if they even have any good beaches were a chian mail bakini could be worn
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Hey, did Thane mention the Phase Spider thing to the rest of the group?
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Post by Avoraciopoctules »

Good question. Drovak has a follow-up argument planned if our initial one is less persuasive than desired, and he was going to make a pointed reference to phase spiders in it.
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so why is no one posting? are we done already i was having fun
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Post by Avoraciopoctules »

You wanna know what happened? Dominions 4 happened.

(Also, I'm waiting for a second vote on the choice between stealth and loot/speed)

EDIT: Actually, forget the second part. For some reason I thought this was the Gilded Throne thread.
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