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Syndicate Name: Nu-U BioGenetics

Syndicate Fluff: Following the success of the Human Genome Project, and completed mapping and sequencing of the DNA of most terrestrial life, the next oobvious step would be moving from old and unscientific 'breeding' to direct engineering. Nu-U specializes in Anthropomorphic - Human - engineering and improvement, ranging from simple visual and health improvements, to major changes such as adding of limbs or fur, to combat-intended enhancements. They prefer to go through other corporations to field-test the latter.

Colour: Lime Green

Starting City/Region: San Francisco

Chairman Name: Duke Nelson III

–Grit:[0]

–Guile:[1]

–Acumen:[4]

Chairman Fluff: Duke Nelson isn't a biogenetisit. He's a businessman who understands his research scientists, how to cajole them in profitable directions, and how to reward them with bouts of pure research. Nu-U is the outgrowth of a company founded by his Grandfather, and run by his Father before him, and Duke Nelson IV is currently working as a lab supervisor and earning his way up through the ranks. As such, Nelson tends to take a long view, as opposed to a short. Good practical innovations have come from interesting results of pure research, after all!

[DON'T FILL OUT]<except Headquarters name>

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations:

Assets: [Pistols]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Nu-U Towers(HQ)]

Chairman's Edge:

Chairman's Heel:

Conglomerate's Edge:

Conglomerate's Blindspot:

Technology:

>>14498

Addendum to

>(Syndicate)

Nu-U can produce more than modern man had dared dream. You can augment your agents' Grit at the cost of their Guile and Acumen. Corporate actions may be explicitly carried out by heavily Bio-modded personnel, granting +5 to violent actions or those requiring preternatural reflexes\health\unhuman features like gills\wins, but…

Reviled by Many:

One man's dreams are another man's nightmares. Publicity of your bio-engineer operatives generates heat. If any of them got caught committing a crime, it would generate two times the heat.

((Me too! I always ask if anyone remembers it in the irc but no dice. I was Mr. Lee, by the way–played rather briefly)).

>>14492

Syndicate Name: Genesis Bio-medical

Syndicate Fluff: Welcome to Genesis Bio-Medical. Creator of many of the miracle drugs that now make much of the known world free of dangerous diseases today. What you may not know is the history of Genesis. Created by a group of German immigrants in a void left in the medical business after the collapse of the market. Taking the pieces Genesis was built up into what it is today. Enough time has been wasted, welcome Professor, and have a good day.

Colour: Orange

Starting City/Region: East coast of America

Chairman Name: Wilhelm von Schlangenbaum

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

>>14550

forgot Chairman fluff:

Wilhelm is the grandson of the original chairman of the company, Winston von Schlangenbaum. A genius man and formerly a scientist for the company. After the recent loss of the last chairman due to mysterious circumstances Wilhelm has taken the mantle and chosen to show his genius can be applied to the market.

>>14508

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Coffee Co: People look the other way when you make their coffee. -1% to any Heat gain.]

Assets: [Pistols]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Player's Name [HQ]]

[Coca Fields]

Lovely Personality:

Any acumen check gets a +5.

Heart Problems:

Any sudden starts could put you into cardiac arrest. You'll survive, but it'll take its toll–you get -5 to Grit rolls and -5 to any Grit situation you're involved in.

COCAINE!:

The wonders of the white powder fuel your corporations output. Once a turn, re-roll a corporate action.

Drug Abuse:

Jesus fucking Christ you're putting cocaine on the counter. The health risks alone make keeping up a customer base difficult. Whenever you lose Solvency, lose an extra 1%.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Agriculture I] [Narcotics II]

>>14537

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Kurosawa Holdings: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can expand in Japan] [Deutsche Comp LLC: e-War resistance is raised]

Assets: [Pistols] [Hackers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Øivind-Kurosawa International Towers]

Ghost:

Reclusive, intelligent, powerful–and now with a huge software giant at his back. Øivind-Kurosawa gains +5 on any roll to generate money, and is harder to detect in general.

Boy Genius:

Even cutting edge tech gurus can seem incompetent compared to you. -5 to rolls directly dealing with your personnel.

Giants of Industry:

The combined powers of Germany and Japan work wonders in industrious progress. You gain +5 on rolls to hostile takeover a company.

Old (Bad) Blood:

The Powers That Be don't know a lot about you and your old, powerful family–this worries them. Expansion yields +1% Heat. If the Old Guard need a scapegoat, you'll be their go-to man.

Technology:

[Software Engineering III] [Accounting I]

>>14550

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Big Pharma Inc: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

Assets: [Pistols] [Tear Gas]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [HQ]

Science as Usual:

Your experience in the field allows you to personally complete Projects, rather than using an R&D slot to do so.

Mysterious Circumstances:

Sometimes people in your way disappear–people in your own organization. -5 to attempts to recruit new agents

Future Drugs:

People love getting healthy. Also, fucked up. +3 Wealth every time you finish a new Pharmaceutical or Narcotics project as people rush to have the latest thing.

Future Bugs:

Disease is manufactured, engineered, and sold to the highest bidder–the Powers That Be may tap you to take care of any manner of issues. They'll compensate you, of course, but refusing the call may raise your heat. After all, in the year 207X, there is only business–the CDC is defunct.

Technology:

[Medicine II] [Narcotics II] [Accounting I]

>>14552

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Big Builders INC: +0.5 Wealth/turn, +1 to construction rolls][IdioTV: -0.5 Wealth\turn, Outlet to manipulate public opinion]

Assets: [Pistols]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters]

Easy Nature:

+5 to recruit Agents–you're just easy to talk to, man.

Un-extraordinary:

You're good at business, but you lack a certain pizzazz. The Old Guard will occasionally show up to outbid you for a company just because.

BIGGER and MORE!:

You gain +3.5 Wealth a turn and gain +5 to constructing anything!

Buckling Under the BIG:

Any turn you spend more Wealth than you gain, lost 5% stability as it all begins to spiral out of control.

Technology

CONTINUE'D

>>14589

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+1/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [HumaniAIDE: -1% Heat/turn, -0.5Wealth/turn] [Warfighters4Hire LLC: +1Wealth\turn]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles] [Lobbyists]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters]

Experienced Operative:

You know the ins and outs of activism–and how to shut it down. +10 to any rolls involving shutting down "concerned citizens" or fellow corporations' demonstrations.

Old Peacenik:

Your former career can be brought up at inconvenient times, and you made enemies amongst the Old Guard and Powers That Be alike. Your Agent actions in territories adjacent to or within territory controlled by these powers -5 your roll, because they've got an eye out for you.

Tax Free, for a Fee:

You can establish tax shelters for other Syndicates. This generates a mutual +1Wealth\+1Wealth.

Rotten to the Core:

It's startlingly easy for investigative journalists to dig up dirt on you. Vulnerable to heat via publicity of your money-making affairs.

Technology:

[Propaganda I] [Accounting I] [Crow Control II]

>>14594

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Tonnes of Guns!: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can produce 1.5/turn as a free action with a 25% chance of increasing Heat]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties:P.K.C ShIza Tower

Respected in the Rhineland:

Your Chairman gets a +5 to expansion and company acquisition within Germany proper.

Ruthless:

Occasionally you'll edge someone out of a deal while getting territory or corporations. And it'll be the wrong someone. DM will roll a d10 to see if you take additional Heat during such actions (~20% likelihood).

Anything You Like:

You can establish Black Markets that count as Significant Properties: in any territory, generating +1 Wealth/turn. You can flood them with certain kinds of arms and drugs to have variable effects on the local population.

Jack of All Trades:

Research rolls are at a -5 because you're so diversified.

Technology:

[Ballistics I] [Narcotics I] [Cyberware I] [Black Marketeering I] [Accounting I]

>>14624

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Oil & Gas Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn] [Farms United: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

Assets: [Pistols]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters]

Planning and Execution:

+5-25 to any action you've spent an earlier action preparing (depending on how well the other roll went).

Checkered Past:

You're a deadlier man than you appear, and that can put some people on edge. -5 to gaining new Agents/

Growing Stronger:

+10 to extract raw resources/create facilities to do so, +5 to Expansion.

20th Century Mindset:

You haven't exactly gotten with the "cyberware, katanas, and trench-coats" vibe. -10 to researching futuristic technologies.

Technology:

[Agriculture II] [Heavy Industry II] [Accounting I]

>>14636

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Lasers Limited: +10 to all LASER RELATED RESEARCH]

Assets: [Laser Pistols]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters]

Genius, Evil Mind:

Can help finish weapons Projects instead of using an R&D slot, gets a +15 to doing so.

Literally A Villain:

Anytime something gets slagged with lasers you take an extra 1% of Heat because, oh gee, who did the evil thing with lasers? Maybe it was PROFESSOR LASER!

Laser Sharp, Laser Smooth:

Mass fabrication comes easily to you, what with all the lasers and whatnot–+10 to manufacturing Assets for yourself or others.

One Note:

-3 to researching non-laser technology.

Technology:

[LASERS III] [Accounting I] [Mad Science I]

>>14552

Technology :

[Accounting I] [Heavy Industry II] [Showbiz II]

MUPdate waits until after I get out of class, but for now the floodgates are open.

Rolled 67, 97, 82, 99 = 345 (4d100)

>>14653

Syndicate Name: Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate (Formerly SAP Deutschland)

Syndicate Fluff: The result of the German entrenched and highly secretive Øivind family's sudden desire to cooperate with the fresh-faced Japanese Kurosawas, Øivind-Kurosawa has recently pushed to acquire the massive SAP Deutschland and a number of smaller utilities, software and advanced design agencies across Germany, Øivind-Kurosawa is an unexpected and highly interesting phenomena. The conglomerate's formation and extremely rapid spread, as well as the sudden desire of the formerly almost asceticly reclusive Øivinds has been cause for concern amongst some in the high-tech industry in Europe and Japan, as have the significant military and political capabilities both families are well-known to posses.

Colour: Blue

Starting City/Region: Walldorf, Germany

Chairman Name: Nichols Øivind

–Grit:[1]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[2]

Chairman Fluff: Nichols Øivind isn't a man with a long wikipedia page. He probably won't be listed in many magazine covers, and he is, by all accounts, a soft-spoken man who rarely speaks and shies away from public performance.

Few will ever understand just how much power he holds.

Nichols has three children that he never sees, instead spending his time cutting international deals and in backroom conferences, or burying himself in ancient works and tomes. His massive home is almost like a museum, in that it hosts a humongous variety of works thought lost to history and priceless artifacts, some practically radiant with power. Nichols is, despite his immense personal wealth, not a greedy man - the money is just a means to an end. That end is, of course, untold and unforseen power. Few things escape the gaze of a 187 IQ child prodigy who made untold billions in his youth through inside banking and exploiting connections - but the truth behind it all has. Not for long. Not anymore. Power, one way or another.

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Kurosawa Holdings: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can expand in Japan] [Deutsche Comp LLC: e-War resistance is raised]

Assets: [Pistols] [Hackers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Øivind-Kurosawa International Towers]

Chairman's Edge: Ghost -Reclusive, intelligent, powerful–and now with a huge software giant at his back. Nichols Øivind gains +5 on any roll to generate money, and is harder to detect in general.

Chairman's Heel: Genius - Even cutting edge tech gurus can seem incompetent compared to you. -5 to rolls directly dealing with your personnel.

Conglomerate's Edge: Giants of Industry - The combined powers of Germany and Japan work wonders in industrious progress. You gain +5 on rolls to hostile takeover a company.

Conglomerate's Blindspot: Old (Bad) Blood - The Powers That Be don't know a lot about you and your old, powerful family–this worries them. Expansion yields +1% Heat. If the Old Guard need a scapegoat, you'll be their go-to man.

Technology: [Software Engineering III] [Accounting I]

1. Nichols will personally be attending to the start-up and consolidation of the Asgaard Group as a personal Øivind holding (though under the Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate, associated closely and publicly with the Øivind family), using the international security network as a base for some heavily-armed and highly-skilled military strength. As with most private military companies, Asgaard is hardly expansive - but that will change, with effort. [+5]

2. We will need to expand our customer base and power throughout Germany, by consolidating our regional offices and expanding our marketing and production capabilities. SAP had a relatively insular base, and expanding our physical goods, as well as our marketing capabilities, should be top priority.

3. The Kurosawa end of the conglomerate must be immediately acted upon as well. Consolidate the Kurosawa holdings across Japan into a Tokyo-based primary corporation - perhaps [Kurosawa Advanced Design]. Japan's environment makes for excellent design and fabrication of software and technology, especially when working with SAP's best, and production in Germany comes at cuttingly low rates.

4. Research [High-Tech I], or similar. Our artifact and research abilities are currently stunted, and expanding our horizons would do miles of good. As well as serving Nichols's personal interests.

>>14670

>>14508 (You)

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Coffee Co: People look the other way when you make their coffee. -1% to any Heat gain.]

Assets: [Pistols]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Coca capital] [HQ]]

[Coca Fields]

Lovely Personality:

Any acumen check gets a +5.

Heart Problems:

Any sudden starts could put you into cardiac arrest. You'll survive, but it'll take its toll–you get -5 to Grit rolls and -5 to any Grit situation you're involved in.

COCAINE!:

The wonders of the white powder fuel your corporations output. Once a turn, re-roll a corporate action.

Drug Abuse:

Jesus fucking Christ you're putting cocaine on the counter. The health risks alone make keeping up a customer base difficult. Whenever you lose Solvency, lose an extra 1%.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Agriculture I] [Narcotics II]

________

1. Howdy partners ! What a lovely Apple grove you have here ! You are some mighty good farmers if I do say so myself. *puts arm around farmers shoulders*

You see that little coffee shop in the distance? Yea I just opened up and I wanted to give you your 1st cup on the house ! Then in about an hour how about we sit down and talk bizz.

[buy out and own small local farming company]

Lovely Personality+5

Spend +5 money

2. Expand ! We need more shops for out customers!

3. Hire me some smooth talking agents.

4. Look into anti-espionage tech for my coffee shops and HQ. Badges for the workers, eye scanners for offices, camera outside and inside shops.

Rolled 76, 42, 46, 39 = 203 (4d100)

>>14679

Rollin

Rolled 94, 91, 65, 39 = 289 (4d100)

>>14680

Might want to roll as well

>>14681

Pouring Cocain on action number two. Expanding is always easyer with the white stuff

Re-rollin

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>14684

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>14675

Øivind-Kurosawa Orientation for New Employees, draft 17-C

ØIVINID-KUROSAWA CONGLOMERATE - 'Redefining Humanity's Scope'.

Welcome, valued employee of Deutsche Comp LLC (An Øivind-Kurosawa Corporation), to the new global frontier of the virtual reality. Led by President and CEO Nichols Øivind, along with majority stockholder and board chairman Susumu Kurosawa, Øivind-Kurosawa systems work hard twenty-four seven to ensure a better quality of life worldwide, and to oversee the unstoppable forward march of humanity. We're glad to invite you into our family, Mrs. [SYSMERRO- NO EMPLOYEE NAME REGISTERED], and to welcome you as a part of most efficient and competitive corporate group in the world today. Advanced research and design starts right here at Øivind-Kurosawa, and the new bar for artificial intelligence, unconventional design and computing, and high-tech global advancement begins today, with YOU!

We're overjoyed to have a brand-new [SYSMERRO- NO EMPLOYEE POSITION REGISTERED] working with us today to make the world a better place. We hope you find the rules of your binding contract fair, and we encourage you to take up any suggestions or thoughts with your sectional manager. We here at Øivind-Kurosawa pride ourselves on being an inclusive and highly comfortable network, suited to fit the needs of all of our employees. Please remember that all cybernetic and extrapersonal enhancements must be registered with your regional office in your employee file. Thanks for reading - now it's time to get to 'Redefining Humanity's Scope'!

ATTACHMENT FORM S5VGZ-82

I've heard some good things about you. You're perfectly aware of the heavy tasks that have been asked of you, and I wouldn't have sent you contact if I didn't believe you were capable of it. If you can prove as valuable as I have been led to believe by your list of accomplishments for you age, then your time at Øivind-Kurosawa is going to be extremely lucrative, and, unlike nearly everyone else on the great blue ball of ours - you've got the unique opportunity to truly help redefine humanity itself.

Don't disappoint me.

- Nichols Øivind

>>14675

Agent "Nicky"

Grit: 2

Guile: 3

Acumen: 0

Handler: Not present for physical Ops yourself, you are not wounded in espionage\attacks you carry out that go south unless your enemy has [Biofeedback].

Gain 1d100 actions. Serve your Syndicate loyally, zum Heft.

Rolled 13, 76, 95, 20 = 204 (4d100)

repost as per request.

Syndicate Name:PsychoKinetic Corporation AKA P.K.C

Syndicate Fluff:Established shortly after the recent economic depression P.K.C has been eagerly awaiting it's chance to bite down on the market and cash in. Needless to say it's finally gotten it dealing in expensive weaponry,drugs and cybernetic enhancements they really do have everything you only have to ask.

Colour:Dark Forest Green

Starting City/Region: Germany

Chairman Name: Josef Werchznste

–Grit:2

Action-y business.

–Guile:2

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:1

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff: With a thick german accent his english isn't all that great so expect to be conversing in german, other than that he makes a ruthless opponent willing to take whatever means necessary to ensure a profit

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Tonnes of Guns!: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can produce 1.5/turn as a free action with a 25% chance of increasing Heat]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties:P.K.C ShIza Tower

Respected in the Rhineland:

Your Chairman gets a +5 to expansion and company acquisition within Germany proper.

Ruthless:

Occasionally you'll edge someone out of a deal while getting territory or corporations. And it'll be the wrong someone. DM will roll a d10 to see if you take additional Heat during such actions (~20% likelihood).

Anything You Like:

You can establish Black Markets that count as Significant Properties: in any territory, generating +1 Wealth/turn. You can flood them with certain kinds of arms and drugs to have variable effects on the local population.

Jack of All Trades:

Research rolls are at a -5 because you're so diversified.

Technology:

[Ballistics I] [Narcotics I] [Cyberware I] [Black Marketeering I] [Accounting I]

Let us expand our operationz ja? Open up ze black markets in china and russia, flood ze chinese market with opium and ze russian market with Assault rifles make sure it iz ze good stuff.

Our second order of business is to expand our glorious empire we shall start wiz poland and make our way upwards towards russia.

Our third order of business is opening up shop in more of deutschland , we must get ze proper hold on our own turf ja?

Finally I vish to began conducting research on better vays to sustain our black markets or in ozer words create a more powerful market to drive our economy

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>14695

That game was the best

>>14696

Hell yeah man.

>Note to self, get Cheesy Snacks

Rolled 68, 80, 14, 97 = 259 (4d100)

>>14653

Syndicate Name: Genesis Bio-medical

Syndicate Fluff: Welcome to Genesis Bio-Medical. Creator of many of the miracle drugs that now make much of the known world free of dangerous diseases today. What you may not know is the history of Genesis. Created by a group of German immigrants in a void left in the medical business after the collapse of the market. Taking the pieces Genesis was built up into what it is today. Enough time has been wasted, welcome Professor, and have a good day.

Colour: Orange

Starting City/Region: East coast of America

Chairman Name: Wilhelm von Schlangenbaum

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

Wilhelm is the grandson of the original chairman of the company, Winston von Schlangenbaum. A genius man and formerly a scientist for the company. After the recent loss of the last chairman due to mysterious circumstances Wilhelm has taken the mantle and chosen to show his genius can be applied to the market.

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Big Pharma Inc: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

Assets: [Pistols] [Tear Gas]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [HQ]

Science as Usual:

Your experience in the field allows you to personally complete Projects, rather than using an R&D slot to do so.

Mysterious Circumstances:

Sometimes people in your way disappear–people in your own organization. -5 to attempts to recruit new agents

Future Drugs:

People love getting healthy. Also, fucked up. +3 Wealth every time you finish a new Pharmaceutical or Narcotics project as people rush to have the latest thing.

Future Bugs:

Disease is manufactured, engineered, and sold to the highest bidder–the Powers That Be may tap you to take care of any manner of issues. They'll compensate you, of course, but refusing the call may raise your heat. After all, in the year 207X, there is only business–the CDC is defunct.

Technology:

[Medicine II] [Narcotics II] [Accounting I]

1. Help out R&D

2. Hire on some agents.-5

3. Expand our influence area.

4. Begin creating a new drug. One that will cause a person's limbs to go numb so that they can't move and then they will experience massive hallucinations. This combination should cause drug users to experience LSD like hallucinations without the fear of breaking something.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>14700

Agent "Nicky"

Fluffy Bits:

What is a young woman well versed with computers and equipment supposed to do in a world dominated by MegaCorporations? Of course there have always been those who have sought to hack and steal secrets, selling them for insane sums of money, Nicky however never had an interest in such deals. Life is far too short and far too nice to be ended prematurely by pissing of the wrong people.

A handler most of all Nicky's talents lie in the organization of people and the obtaining of information. Whether or not this will help or hinder her success joining the Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate remains to be seen.

Grit: 2

Guile: 3

Acumen: 0

Handler: Not present for physical Ops yourself, you are not wounded in espionage\attacks you carry out that go south unless your enemy has [Biofeedback].

1. First day on the job and it certainly wasn't going to be an easy one. While the company seemed to specialize in Artificial Intelligence it was still far too early for Nicky to be able to use the company's own products to further her intelligence gathering work. Nicky was well aware that her work very much depended on being able to circumvent defensive systems either through utilizing backdoors or by directly deploying others to gain access to the systems.

Any company seeking protection would either purchase a protective system or develop it's own. The prior usually had some backdoors, the latter however posed more of an issue. While they had no backdoors these systems would still find themselves in development and this would give Nicky the opportunity to gain access to them.

Utilizing middle men, dispensable phones and the usual safety proceedures Nicky would try to bribe programers' of other countries to purposely integrate backdoors into their systems in exchange for payment. These would naturally prove helpful in the future.

[Guile: 3]

Rolled 98, 67, 6, 86 = 257 (4d100)

>>14700

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Syndicate Name: Nu-U BioGenetics

Syndicate Fluff: Following the success of the Human Genome Project, and completed mapping and sequencing of the DNA of most terrestrial life, the next oobvious step would be moving from old and unscientific 'breeding' to direct engineering. Nu-U specializes in Anthropomorphic - Human - engineering and improvement, ranging from simple visual and health improvements, to major changes such as adding of limbs or fur, to combat-intended enhancements. They prefer to go through other corporations to field-test the latter.

Colour: Lime Green

Starting City/Region: San Francisco

Chairman Name: Duke Nelson III

–Grit:[0]

–Guile:[1]

–Acumen:[4]

Chairman Fluff: Duke Nelson isn't a biogenetisit. He's a businessman who understands his research scientists, how to cajole them in profitable directions, and how to reward them with bouts of pure research. Nu-U is the outgrowth of a company founded by his Grandfather, and run by his Father before him, and Duke Nelson IV is currently working as a lab supervisor and earning his way up through the ranks. As such, Nelson tends to take a long view, as opposed to a short. Good practical innovations have come from interesting results of pure research, after all!

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [DirectGineering Corp: +5 to Genetic Engineering Research]

Assets: [Pistols] [Claws]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Nu-U Towers(HQ)]

(Chairman)

Long-term Thinker:

Duke Nelson the III makes the Syndicate resistant to Solvency shocks and personal actions to improve Solvency or increase Wealth generation receive a +10.

I'm No Scientist, But:

Over reliance on incentivization has made Nu-U virile, but increased R&D costs. Gain +2 Wealth cost to all R&D Project Completion actions.

(Syndicate)

Beyond Man:

Nu-U can produce more than modern man had dared dream. You can augment your agents' Grit at the cost of their Guile and Acumen. Corporate actions may be explicitly carried out by heavily Bio-modded personnel, granting +5 to violent actions or those requiring preternatural reflexes\health\unhuman features like gills\wins, but…

Reviled by Many:

One man's dreams are another man's nightmares. Publicity of your bio-engineer operatives generates heat. If any of them got caught committing a crime, it would generate two times the heat.

Technology:

[Bio-Engineering III] [Accounting I]

In Progress

-

-

Actions

Chairman Personal Action: Expansion of Market.

Corporate Action: Hire an Agent.

Corp or R&D Action: Research Commercial Applications of Bio-Engineering III

R&D Action: Research Bio-Engineering IV

Director's Audio Log, 16.May.207X

"Getting the initial kinks out of our new systems progresses. Reports from DirectGineering subsidiary are positive, with a good initial flow. Lab reports that our understanding of BioEnginering is probably better than anyone else's on the planet. Should darn well be, I pay them enough [laughter].

"New business, I'm taking a personal interest in expanding our marketshare into neighboring areas. That should shake things up. Meanwhile, I'm directing NuU officers to begin recruitment of an Agent. I can't be everywhere at once, no matter how much the Cloning Department says I can be [laughter].

"In addition, we're looking on developing some practical and marketable applications of our Bio-Engineering abilities, while also still investing into pure research down that line. We'll see how it goes. Yes Todd, I know that it's a bit on the pricey side. This is a long term investment. I'm not interested in short term gains that'll have a heavy price to pay down the line."

Rolled 12, 4, 90 = 106 (3d100)

>>14768

[[These 3d100 are World Faction events. They will effect the next turn.]]

>>14672

1. Recruitment goes poorly. No candidates.

2. You manage to spill over into a neighboring region. +0.1 Wealth/turn

>gain 1 region

3. You make some headway on dodging fees and restrictions to launder yet more money offshore.

Improved Tax Shelters [4/10]

4. You make progress towards Crowd Control III [9/20] (your +10 is for the acts of suppression, doesn't cover the research)

>>14678

1. You have acquired the [Asgard Group: -0.5 Wealth/turn]–research better Accounting for higher base income.

>gain [Private Soldiers] asset

2. SAP takes Germany by storm, expanding up and down the Rhineland. +0.9 Wealth /turn

>gain 9 regions

3. You find the Old Guard have an iron grip on business in Tokyo, but you set up across the bay in Chiba and spread around the region.

>gain [Kurosawa Advanced Design][HQ: Japan], attacks on your holdings in Japan will be directed here

4. You gain [Nanotechnology II: 5 Wealth] as a Project. Spend the Wealth and designate it again for R&D to gain the Technology. <<due to your critical success you gain [Nanotechnology I] without the need for a project>>

>>14679

1. You get [Local Yocal Farming Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn.] Higher Agriculture will modify this business's income

2. You expand, gain +0.9 Wealth/turn, and gain [Portland Dicksocks: +0.25 Wealth/turn, great for parties]

>gain 9 regions

3. You find the following agents

>Amanda James: Grit 0, Guile 2, Acumen 2

>Donald Defferson: Grit 1, Guile 1, Acumen 1

>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

>Choose one, gain 1d100 for their actions

4. You make progress towards [Counter Intelligence I] [2/10]

>>14680

1. Gain a +25 to your next expansion into Africa; you spot a corporation to act as your HQ: Africa as well, which will come free with the expansion assuming it succeeds.

2. [Heavy Metal Co: +0.25 Wealth /turn, +1 to construction rolls]

3. You find the following candidates:

>Biff Bifferson: Grit 2, Guile 0, Acumen 2

>Glover Yowels: Grit 1, Guile 1, Acumen 2

>Djeff Kawloon: Grit 0, Guile 1, Acumen 3

>Choose one, gain 1d100 for their actions

4. [Mineralogy I] is at [2/10]

>>14695

1. You really get the works!

>Shashka Jolnyov: Grit 1, Guile 3, Acumen -1

>Doffmar Varshkan: Grit 3, Guile -1, Acumen 1

>Herman Blefnof: Grit 1, Guile 2, Acumen 1

>choose 1, add 1d100 for their actions

2. Plans backfire! +1% heat as the Powers That Be wonder what you're up to…

3. You… a LOT of Australia. +1.2 Wealth/turn

>gain 12 territories

4. [Laser Rifles II: Wealth 3] has been gained as a project. Spend 3 wealth and designate it again to gain the tech. <<critical success, gain [Laser Rifles I] the tech and [Laser Rifles] the asset for free>>

>>14719

1+4: [Stroke LSD] Asset gained, [Narcotics III] achieved for free–[Narcotics IV: Wealth 6] is available as a Project. Target it with R&D to polish it off later.

2. You get some decent options:

>Roff Marlson: Grit 3, Guile 2, Acumen 1

>Janet Dekari: Grit 2, Guile 3, Acumen 2

>Vaulin Vile: Grit 3, Guile 3, Acumen -1

3. Expansion blows up in your face–no progress is made.

>>14727

1. Nicky gains some headway and has a few leads–her Guile lets her know of a man in Tokyo who could hold all the keys… Asset Acquisition of [Crypto Backdoors] is [4/10]

>>14732

1. +1.1 Wealth/turn,

>gain 11 territories

>gain border: High-bucks–Grit Actions targeting either side by the other no longer require transportation to achieve

2. You find a few decent offerings.

Dr. Vendermyn: Grit -1, Guile 1, Acumen 3

"Jak" Yepris: Grit 2, Guile 2, Acumen -1

Venitia Dawkins: Grit 1, Guile 1, Acumen 2

3. Bio-Engineering III suffers major setbacks.

4. Bio-Engineering III sees a large resurgence in another lab! [7/10] progress.

>>14769

extreme apologies, we hold until 10pm for others

>>14678

>>14769

>addendum

+0.5 Wealth /turn from your new-found Japanese holdings

>>14773

… also

>+5 regions

>>14694

1. Your plans to open up Black Markets don't go very well.

2. +0.7 Wealth/turn as you expand eastward towards Poland

>gain 7 regions

3. +1 Wealth/turn as you expand into more of Germany

>gain 10 regions

4. Black marketeering research is lackluster, sadly.

>10pm

Wealth: 9(+2.65/turn)

Pull: 5.5 (+.5/turn)

Regions: 10

___

Agents:

>Amanda James: Grit 0, Guile 2, Acumen 2

>Donald Defferson: Grit 1, Guile 1, Acumen 1

>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

_____

Puppet Corporations: [Coffee Co: People look the other way when you make their coffee. -1% to any Heat gain.][Portland Dicksocks: +0.25 Wealth/turn, great for parties][Local Yocal Farming Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn.]

Assets: [Pistols]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Coca capital] [HQ]]

[Coca Fields]

Lovely Personality:

Any acumen check gets a +5.

Heart Problems:

Any sudden starts could put you into cardiac arrest. You'll survive, but it'll take its toll–you get -5 to Grit rolls and -5 to any Grit situation you're involved in.

COCAINE!:

The wonders of the white powder fuel your corporations output. Once a turn, re-roll a corporate action.

Drug Abuse:

Jesus fucking Christ you're putting cocaine on the counter. The health risks alone make keeping up a customer base difficult. Whenever you lose Solvency, lose an extra 1%.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Agriculture I] [Narcotics II]

________

1. Personally attend leadership conference in Portland and see if any young entrepreneurs there. Perhaps I might end up acquiring there biz after a cocktail or two [get me some more corps]

+5 because people love me

2. Expand toward Canada ! They are cold up there and will need coffee!

3-4. Speed up that [Counter Intelligence I] [2/10] baby !

5.>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

Sleep with local politician maybe get me some lobbyist !

Rolled 98, 84, 31, 59, 83 = 355 (5d100)

>>14808

Every time

Rolled 34, 92, 74, 23, 3 = 226 (5d100)

>>14769

[Fill Out]

Syndicate Name: Nu-U BioGenetics

Syndicate Fluff: Following the success of the Human Genome Project, and completed mapping and sequencing of the DNA of most terrestrial life, the next oobvious step would be moving from old and unscientific 'breeding' to direct engineering. Nu-U specializes in Anthropomorphic - Human - engineering and improvement, ranging from simple visual and health improvements, to major changes such as adding of limbs or fur, to combat-intended enhancements. They prefer to go through other corporations to field-test the latter.

Colour: Lime Green

Starting City/Region: San Francisco

Chairman Name: Duke Nelson III

–Grit:[0]

–Guile:[1]

–Acumen:[4]

Chairman Fluff: Duke Nelson isn't a biogenetisit. He's a businessman who understands his research scientists, how to cajole them in profitable directions, and how to reward them with bouts of pure research. Nu-U is the outgrowth of a company founded by his Grandfather, and run by his Father before him, and Duke Nelson IV is currently working as a lab supervisor and earning his way up through the ranks. As such, Nelson tends to take a long view, as opposed to a short. Good practical innovations have come from interesting results of pure research, after all!

Wealth: 11(+2.1/turn)

Pull: 5.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 12

Borders: High-Bucks

Agents: [Dr. Vendermyn: Grit -1, Guile 1, Acumen 3]

Puppet Corporations: [DirectGineering Corp: +5 to Genetic Engineering Research]

Assets: [Pistols] [Claws]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Nu-U Towers(HQ)]

(Chairman)

Long-term Thinker:

Duke Nelson the III makes the Syndicate resistant to Solvency shocks and personal actions to improve Solvency or increase Wealth generation receive a +10.

I'm No Scientist, But:

Over reliance on incentivization has made Nu-U virile, but increased R&D costs. Gain +2 Wealth cost to all R&D Project Completion actions.

(Syndicate)

Beyond Man:

Nu-U can produce more than modern man had dared dream. You can augment your agents' Grit at the cost of their Guile and Acumen. Corporate actions may be explicitly carried out by heavily Bio-modded personnel, granting +5 to violent actions or those requiring preternatural reflexes\health\unhuman features like gills\wins, but…

Reviled by Many:

One man's dreams are another man's nightmares. Publicity of your bio-engineer operatives generates heat. If any of them got caught committing a crime, it would generate two times the heat.

Technology:

[Bio-Engineering III] [Accounting I]

In Progress

-Research: Bio-Engineering IV [7/10]

-

Actions

Chairman Personal Action: Director Nelson oversees further expansion of markets.

Corporate Action: Construct Improved Research Facilities

Corp or R&D Action: Attempt further Commercial Applications of Bio-Engineering III

R&D Action: Continue Research Bio-Engineering IV

Agent Actions

-Dr Vendermyn is to find and acquire a biotech firm within our territory.

Director's Audio Log, conversation with Lab One Supervisor:

"Yes son, I know. Just… clean up Lab One, and start over again. Maybe port some of the data over from Lab Two, see if that'll help. Either way, continue on that line of research, and maybe we'll be able to get some further assistance. I hired a new guy, a Doctor Vendermyn. He seems on the level, but I'm having him scout out a new subsidiary to buy. If that works out nicely, then we'll be able to focus some more resources your way. In addition, we're going to be doing those improvements to Lab One you've been asking for. I did remove the luxury items from your office, though - you're not going to be in there forever, you know! Meanwhile, I'm heading out to the Midwest to oversee some further expansion, so I won't be home for dinner like I thought - send my apologies to your wife for me, would you? I'll make it up when I get back."

>>14808

Yeahyus, 10pm

Rolled 17, 70, 58, 79, 47 = 271 (5d100)

>>14769

Syndicate Name: Genesis Bio-medical

Syndicate Fluff: Welcome to Genesis Bio-Medical. Creator of many of the miracle drugs that now make much of the known world free of dangerous diseases today. What you may not know is the history of Genesis. Created by a group of German immigrants in a void left in the medical business after the collapse of the market. Taking the pieces Genesis was built up into what it is today. Enough time has been wasted, welcome Professor, and have a good day.

Colour: Orange

Starting City/Region: East coast of America

Chairman Name: Wilhelm von Schlangenbaum

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

Wilhelm is the grandson of the original chairman of the company, Winston von Schlangenbaum. A genius man and formerly a scientist for the company. After the recent loss of the last chairman due to mysterious circumstances Wilhelm has taken the mantle and chosen to show his genius can be applied to the market.

Wealth: 14(+1/turn)

Pull: 5.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents: Janet Dekari: Grit 2, Guile 3, Acumen 2,

Puppet Corporations: [Big Pharma Inc: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

Assets: [Pistols] [Tear Gas] [Stroke LSD]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects: [Narcotics IV: Wealth 6]

Significant Properties: [HQ]

Science as Usual:

Your experience in the field allows you to personally complete Projects, rather than using an R&D slot to do so.

Mysterious Circumstances:

Sometimes people in your way disappear–people in your own organization. -5 to attempts to recruit new agents

Future Drugs:

People love getting healthy. Also, fucked up. +3 Wealth every time you finish a new Pharmaceutical or Narcotics project as people rush to have the latest thing.

Future Bugs:

Disease is manufactured, engineered, and sold to the highest bidder–the Powers That Be may tap you to take care of any manner of issues. They'll compensate you, of course, but refusing the call may raise your heat. After all, in the year 207X, there is only business–the CDC is defunct.

Technology:

[Medicine II] [Narcotics III] [Accounting I]

1. Start researching more on medicine while R&D works on the Narcotics IV project.

2. Expand our influence.

3. See if we can buy out another business to act as a front.

4. R&D will work on the Narcotics IV project.

5. Have Miss Dekari work on convincing those that don't want us to expand to have a change of heart.

>>14908

Oh dear

>>15011

Wealth: 11.65(+3.85/turn)

Pull: 6 (+.5/turn)

Regions: 17

___

Agents:

>Amanda James: Grit 0, Guile 2, Acumen 2

>Donald Defferson: Grit 1, Guile 1, Acumen 1

>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

_____

Puppet Corporations: [Coffee Co: People look the other way when you make their coffee. -1% to any Heat gain.][Portland Dicksocks: +0.25 Wealth/turn, great for parties][Local Yocal Farming Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn.]Brighteyes Startup: yields +4 Wealth when you spend 1 Pull (as a free action). +0.5 turn/base]Counter Intelligence I: Visor Headsets]

Assets: [Pistols] [Lobbyists]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Coca capital] [HQ]]

[Coca Fields]

Lovely Personality:

Any acumen check gets a +5.

Heart Problems:

Any sudden starts could put you into cardiac arrest. You'll survive, but it'll take its toll–you get -5 to Grit rolls and -5 to any Grit situation you're involved in.

COCAINE!:

The wonders of the white powder fuel your corporations output. Once a turn, re-roll a corporate action.

Drug Abuse:

Jesus fucking Christ you're putting cocaine on the counter. The health risks alone make keeping up a customer base difficult. Whenever you lose Solvency, lose an extra 1%.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Agriculture I] [Narcotics II]

________

1. Personally trow a party at [Portland Dicksocks:] to ensure my safety. Invite all the subscribers to entrepreneur magazine and mingle with the crowd. Provide all the refreshments at my cost to ensure good times

[get me some more corps]

+5 because people love me

[Portland Dicksocks:]-location

[Coffee Co]-drinks

+1 pull to help

2. Expand toward Those moose kissers ! They are cold up there and will need some love!

3. [Counter Intelligence I: Visor Headsets] I want me some toys ! Research some more !

4. Use my Lobbyists to get me some congressmen !

[increases my pull]

5.>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

Commences [operation [seduction]]

Rolled 96, 81, 52, 5 = 234 (4d200)

>>15011

Syndicate Name:PsychoKinetic Corporation AKA P.K.C

Syndicate Fluff:Established shortly after the recent economic depression P.K.C has been eagerly awaiting it's chance to bite down on the market and cash in. Needless to say it's finally gotten it dealing in expensive weaponry,drugs and cybernetic enhancements they really do have everything you only have to ask.

Colour:Dark Forest Green

Starting City/Region: Germany

Chairman Name: Josef Werchznste

–Grit:2

Action-y business.

–Guile:2

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:1

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff: With a thick german accent his english isn't all that great so expect to be conversing in german, other than that he makes a ruthless opponent willing to take whatever means necessary to ensure a profit

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Tonnes of Guns!: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can produce 1.5/turn as a free action with a 25% chance of increasing Heat]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties:P.K.C ShIza Tower

Respected in the Rhineland:

Your Chairman gets a +5 to expansion and company acquisition within Germany proper.

Ruthless:

Occasionally you'll edge someone out of a deal while getting territory or corporations. And it'll be the wrong someone. DM will roll a d10 to see if you take additional Heat during such actions (~20% likelihood).

Anything You Like:

You can establish Black Markets that count as Significant Properties: in any territory, generating +1 Wealth/turn. You can flood them with certain kinds of arms and drugs to have variable effects on the local population.

Jack of All Trades:

Research rolls are at a -5 because you're so diversified.

Technology:

[Ballistics I] [Narcotics I] [Cyberware I] [Black Marketeering I] [Accounting I]

Order our men to start flooding the U.S blackmarket with cocaine.

Expand further outwards towards russia.

Start conducting research on better weapons.

Continue trying to research better drugs.

Rolled 32, 64, 77, 34, 15 = 222 (5d100)

>>15045

Rolling dice is hard to rember

>>15068

Re rolling 4 becuase I'm greedy

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>15071

Son of a….

Rolled 55, 75, 67, 77 = 274 (4d100)

>>15011

[Fill Out]

Syndicate Name: Nu-U BioGenetics

Syndicate Fluff: Following the success of the Human Genome Project, and completed mapping and sequencing of the DNA of most terrestrial life, the next oobvious step would be moving from old and unscientific 'breeding' to direct engineering. Nu-U specializes in Anthropomorphic - Human - engineering and improvement, ranging from simple visual and health improvements, to major changes such as adding of limbs or fur, to combat-intended enhancements. They prefer to go through other corporations to field-test the latter.

Colour: Lime Green

Starting City/Region: San Francisco

Chairman Name: Duke Nelson III

–Grit:[0]

–Guile:[1]

–Acumen:[4]

Chairman Fluff: Duke Nelson isn't a biogenetisit. He's a businessman who understands his research scientists, how to cajole them in profitable directions, and how to reward them with bouts of pure research. Nu-U is the outgrowth of a company founded by his Grandfather, and run by his Father before him, and Duke Nelson IV is currently working as a lab supervisor and earning his way up through the ranks. As such, Nelson tends to take a long view, as opposed to a short. Good practical innovations have come from interesting results of pure research, after all!

Wealth: 11.2(+2.1/turn)

Pull: 6.0(+.5/turn)

Regions: 13

Borders: High-Bucks

Agents: [Dr. Vendermyn: Grit -1, Guile 1, Acumen 3]

Puppet Corporations: [DirectGineering Corp: +5 to Genetic Engineering Research]

Assets: [Pistols] [Claws]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Nu-U Towers(HQ)], [Lab: California]

(Chairman)

Long-term Thinker:

Duke Nelson the III makes the Syndicate resistant to Solvency shocks and personal actions to improve Solvency or increase Wealth generation receive a +10.

I'm No Scientist, But:

Over reliance on incentivization has made Nu-U virile, but increased R&D costs. Gain +2 Wealth cost to all R&D Project Completion actions.

(Syndicate)

Beyond Man:

Nu-U can produce more than modern man had dared dream. You can augment your agents' Grit at the cost of their Guile and Acumen. Corporate actions may be explicitly carried out by heavily Bio-modded personnel, granting +5 to violent actions or those requiring preternatural reflexes\health\unhuman features like gills\wins, but…

Reviled by Many:

One man's dreams are another man's nightmares. Publicity of your bio-engineer operatives generates heat. If any of them got caught committing a crime, it would generate two times the heat.

Technology:

[Bio-Engineering III] [Accounting I]

In Progress

-Research: Bio-Engineering IV [7/10]

-

Actions

Chairman Personal Action: Try to improve our Income

Corporate Action: Find and acquire a Biotech firm.

Corp or R&D Action: [Commercial Eye Colorization: Wealth 2]

R&D Action: [Bio-Engineering IV]

Agent Actions

-Dr Vendermyn: [Recovery Turn]

Intrasystem Email Record

From: Chairman@nuuhq.com

To: Vendermyn.R2@nuuhq.com

Re: Recovery

Richard;

No clue what happened. I'm sending some people to look into it, but I'm being told there's nothing to pick up on. I want to send my personal wishes to get better, and would like to invite you up here for lunch tomorrow to discuss things. You weren't hired for this gritty stuff, so I think we'll keep you here to manage some labs from now on.

/Duke

Rolled 49, 10, 20, 91, 14 = 184 (5d100)

Chairman Action: Annoyed at previous failure, Alex vows never again to go in without forward planning - plan for expansion in SE Asia

Corp Action: We need protection and/or muscle - look to acquire a security firm.

R&D: Work on [Mineralogy I]

R&D 2: Work on [Advanced Oil Drilling I]

Agent: After being severely reprimanded for his failure, Djeff is being sent to Vietnam to build contacts and start preliminary expansion there

Syndicate Name: Resource Alliance: Worldwide

Syndicate Fluff: The syndicate listed on stock exchanges across the globe as RAW has two driving interests - Materials and Power. Everything starts somewhere, and RAW wants to be that somewhere - from ore to oil, fertilizer to fuel, if it can be found in the ground they'll dig it up, process it and sell it for profit. Of course it's not just about digging it up and selling it - power generation, processing, shipping and the heavy equipment necessary for all of the above all come under RAW's portfolio - vertical integration is one of the keys to their success.

The other key, they've found, is a willingness to get their hands dirty, in pretty much every way - many valuable resources can be found in unstable or protected regions, and the ability to lean on politicians or act with a heavy hand has benefited the company many times - they are the power company, and they like all sorts of power.

Colour: Red

Starting City/Region: Moscow

Chairman Name: Alexander Billiton

–Grit:[2]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[1]

Chairman Fluff: A brusque and powerful man with a shadowy past and a flair for strategy, Alexander Billiton acts carefully in public, but he always acts with strength, supported by extensive legwork and planning. With a background in field ops and having worked as a lobbyist in several countries, Billiton's experience suit's RAW's plans perfectly, and his forceful business style has seen much success. As Sun Tzu said, "The epitome of strategy isn't winning every battle, but winning without fighting." - likewise, Alexander prefers to arrive at a meeting with the result he wants already secured through the positioning and pressure his the company can provide. Personally he is reasonably skilful, speaking fluent English, Portuguese and Russian, with passable French and German, and he excels in planning and logistics. If rumours are to be believed he also has a fair few other, even more dangerous, skills, but none of his underlings are stupid enough to enquire too deeply into their boss's past

Wealth: 11.45(+3.45/turn) [+1 Pending from Tax Shelter]

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents: Djeff Kawloon: Grit 0, Guile 1, Acumen 3

Puppet Corporations: [Oil & Gas Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn] [Farms United: +0.5 Wealth/turn] [Heavy Metal Co: +0.25 Wealth /turn, +1 to construction rolls]

Assets: [Pistols]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects: [Mineralogy I] is at [2/10] [Advanced Oil Drilling I][1/10]

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters][Dark Continent Branch Office][HQ: Africa]

Planning and Execution:

+5-25 to any action you've spent an earlier action preparing (depending on how well the other roll went).

Checkered Past:

You're a deadlier man than you appear, and that can put some people on edge. -5 to gaining new Agents/

Growing Stronger:

+10 to extract raw resources/create facilities to do so, +5 to Expansion.

20th Century Mindset:

You haven't exactly gotten with the "cyberware, katanas, and trench-coats" vibe. -10 to researching futuristic technologies.

Technology:

[Agriculture II] [Heavy Industry II] [Accounting I]

Rolled 39, 82, 59 = 180 (3d100)

>>15011

Agent "Nicky"

Fluffy Bits:

What is a young woman well versed with computers and equipment supposed to do in a world dominated by MegaCorporations? Of course there have always been those who have sought to hack and steal secrets, selling them for insane sums of money, Nicky however never had an interest in such deals. Life is far too short and far too nice to be ended prematurely by pissing of the wrong people.

A handler most of all Nicky's talents lie in the organization of people and the obtaining of information. Whether or not this will help or hinder her success joining the Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate remains to be seen.

Grit: 2

Guile: 3

Acumen: 0

Handler: Not present for physical Ops yourself, you are not wounded in espionage\attacks you carry out that go south unless your enemy has [Biofeedback].

1. Work on the [Crypto Backdoors] has proceeded a little bit slower than initially anticipated however this was nothing to worry about as Nicky had not given any estimates to her shadowy superiors. The process would continue for some time in order to improve upon her work and ensure easy accessibility into the rival companies' security systems.

4/10

Guile: 3

>>15123

Ignore the latter two rolls idk why I did that.

Rolled 18, 27, 93, 15, 97 = 250 (5d100)

>>15011

Syndicate Name: Genesis Bio-medical

Syndicate Fluff: Welcome to Genesis Bio-Medical. Creator of many of the miracle drugs that now make much of the known world free of dangerous diseases today. What you may not know is the history of Genesis. Created by a group of German immigrants in a void left in the medical business after the collapse of the market. Taking the pieces Genesis was built up into what it is today. Enough time has been wasted, welcome Professor, and have a good day.

Colour: Orange

Starting City/Region: East coast of America

Chairman Name: Wilhelm von Schlangenbaum

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

Wilhelm is the grandson of the original chairman of the company, Winston von Schlangenbaum. A genius man and formerly a scientist for the company. After the recent loss of the last chairman due to mysterious circumstances Wilhelm has taken the mantle and chosen to show his genius can be applied to the market.

Wealth: 13.5(+2/turn)

Pull: 6.0(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents: Janet Dekari: Grit 2, Guile 3, Acumen 2,

Puppet Corporations: [Big Pharma Inc: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

Assets: [Pistols] [Tear Gas] [Stroke LSD] [Psychotropic Gas]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [HQ]

Science as Usual:

Your experience in the field allows you to personally complete Projects, rather than using an R&D slot to do so.

Mysterious Circumstances:

Sometimes people in your way disappear–people in your own organization. -5 to attempts to recruit new agents

Future Drugs:

People love getting healthy. Also, fucked up. +3 Wealth every time you finish a new Pharmaceutical or Narcotics project as people rush to have the latest thing.

Future Bugs:

Disease is manufactured, engineered, and sold to the highest bidder–the Powers That Be may tap you to take care of any manner of issues. They'll compensate you, of course, but refusing the call may raise your heat. After all, in the year 207X, there is only business–the CDC is defunct.

Technology:

[Medicine II] [Narcotics III] [Accounting I]

1&4. Medical research

2,3,5. Make sure the take over of that other company goes smoothly. 7/10

>>14769

Syndicate Name: Laserian Industries

Syndicate Fluff: Laserian Industries specializes in the fine field of energy, lasers, holograms, lasers, wireless technology, and of course, lasers.

Created when not so world famous evil genius and Mastermind PROFESSOR LASER decided to retire after a long life of scheming and plotting to take up work in buesiness. In truth, he was never actually good at the espionage and sneaky stuff, but he was an excellent scientist. His efforts did not go unrewarded and he earned a sizeable base, loyal workers, scientists, and money, which will make a fine basis for his new business.

Colour:

Starting City/Region:

Chairman Name:

Professor Maximilian E. Ville

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[0]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[4]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

Known in most circles as "Professor Evil" he is a genius at all things electromagnetic, particularly lasers, with which he proudly armed all his evil minions and soldiers with during his time as an evil genius. Now aged and seeking to relax from the business, he's looking to transform his evil organization from world domination to business and commodity sales, hoping to make a profit from his advanced technology and science.

Wealth: 12(+1/turn)

Pull: 6.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Lasers Limited: +10 to all LASER RELATED RESEARCH]

Assets: [Laser Pistols] [Laser Rifles]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 1%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters]

Genius, Evil Mind:

Can help finish weapons Projects instead of using an R&D slot, gets a +15 to doing so.

Literally A Villain:

Anytime something gets slagged with lasers you take an extra 1% of Heat because, oh gee, who did the evil thing with lasers? Maybe it was PROFESSOR LASER!

Laser Sharp, Laser Smooth:

Mass fabrication comes easily to you, what with all the lasers and whatnot–+10 to manufacturing Assets for yourself or others.

One Note:

-3 to researching non-laser technology.

Technology:

[LASERS III] [Laser Rifles I] [Accounting I] [Mad Science I]

Minions

>Shashka Jolnyov: Grit 1, Guile 3, Acumen -1

Projects:

[Laser Rifles II: Wealth 3]

>>15065

Thankfully you invest in bodyguards–you’re barely five steps out of the office before thermal weapons cut them down to a man, but you’ve got enough time to roll back inside and activate the PANIC BUTTON.

Samantha is [SHAKEN] after her close brush with grievous injury, and takes a -5 to any action next turn.

2. +1.1 Wealth\turn

>gain 11 regions

3. Things with the [Pilot Programme] are stalling and investors are beginning to withdraw.

>You’ll need to try again next turn or risk losing the project

4. Gain project [Crowd Control III: Sonic Suppressor Tanks, 4 Wealth]

5. Agent Orange, never much of a business man, smuggles massive amounts of riot suppression tech into Africa, his only compass the highest bidder.

+3 Wealth, gain corp [Dark Continent Shipping: Facilitates smuggling between Europe and Africa]

>>15088

You find a short-term profit opportunity and pounce on it. +5 Wealth

2. gain corp [A Big Bod For You: +0.5 Wealth/turn, they specialize in tissue growth, fat reduction, and general re-sexifying–use this as you will]:

3. Things pan out! Gain corp [Eye Tint You: +1.5 Wealth\turn], and +1 Wealth as the initial rush sets in

4. Gain [Bio-Engineering IV: Chaotic Telepathy, Wealth 7] project.

>shadowy investors are interested in this project

>they will cover 3 Wealth worth of the project if you agree to share the tech with them once it’s done–they’ll take measures to ensure they’re not double crossed

>y/n?

>>15116

1. Alex draws plans up for an Asia HQ in Bangkok, and a stratagem to net him several regions’ business along the way.

2. Nobody’s interested in selling. Just wasn’t your day at the market.

3. Work comes along, slowly–[5/10] on [Mineralogy I]

4. Gain project [Advanced Oil Drilling I: Subaquatic Rig, 3 Wealth]

5. Djeff was in a bad spot, but his business acumen let you walk away with something–you gain +0.2 Wealth\turn, and

>2 regions.

The lack of a link to contiguous territory with an HQ renders these regions vulnerable to hostile acquisition.

>>15123

“You’ve done it! At least, in theory–someone still needs to activate the backdoors.”

Øivind-Kurosawa

>gains

Project [Crypto Backdoors: Probing Sequence (Discrete)]. R&D will need to polish this off to obtain the Asset.

>It is physically placed in your Germany HQ, the only place it may be stolen from–however, if a Discrete project is destroyed or stolen, it ceases to exist or is transferred to the offending party.

>>15158

1&4. Medical research

2,3,5. Make sure the take over of that other company goes smoothly. 7/10

1,5. You manage to make a minor breakthrough into further medical technology that helps the R&D team do something really wonderful. You gain [Medicine III] and the project [Medicine IV: Omni-Vaccine, Wealth 8]

>individuals advertising themselves as Chinese Humanitarians are interested in co-funding this project

>they will cover 4 Wealth worth of the project if you agree to share the tech with them once it’s done–they trust you to do honest business and make good with the technology exchange once the research is done

>y/n?

2,3,4. You obtain [Totally Legit Corp: +1 Wealth/turn, acts as a front–can absorb up to 5% Heat. After you divert 5% incoming Heat to TLC, it will lose 1% Heat a turn. Once it has reached 0%, you’ll be able to divert Heat again.]

>>15170

1. [pick one (1) of the following, gain d100 for their actions]

Dick Brickus: Grit 2, Guile 1, Acumen 2

Jack Bougher: Grit 3, Guile 2, Acumen -1

Elias Strump: Grit 1, Guile 1, Acumen 3

Jackreck Delvin: Grit 3, Guile -1, Acumen 1

2, EVERYTHING's bigger in Texas! +1.2 Wealth/turn

>gain 12 regions

3. +1 Wealth and +0.5 Pull from establishing yourself as a provider of services and goods. +0.25 wealth/turn from tolls and service fees.

You think you could set up a company to run infrastructure around here…

4. Things are looking up, up, UP! [Upscaling I][6/10]

Rolled 84, 68, 63, 10, 77 = 302 (5d100)

>>15187

1. Corporate

"I STILL DEMAND MY ELECTRIC COMPANY!"

2. Chairman [Bonus] + 3-4. R&D

"I DO NOT JUST DEMAND TO HAVE LASER RIFLES.

I DEMAND TO HAVE /THE/ LASER RIFLES. THE BEST LASER RIFLES IN THE WORLD. UNTIL NATIONS IN THE WORLD SEE HOW MUCH BETTER THEY ARE THAN ACTUAL GUNS. I HAVE ARMED MY SOLDIERS WITH LASER RIFLES FOR YEARS AND THEY ARE BETTER THAN LEAD!"

Spend 3 wealth on the project [Laser Rifles II]. PROFESSOR LASER GETS HIS HANDS DIRTY AND ACTUALLY ASSISTS IN LASER RESEARCH

5. Shashka Jolnyov

"Shashka! This is your first mission. I'm going to put your. . .feminine skills to the test.

Go out and find whoever is in control of the major electrical companies and the grid in our section of Australia, and do whatever you can to get us information on them that we can use to blackmail them to our will! Or if you can find other ways to "motivate" them to give us control of the power grid, do so."

Guile: 3

Rolled 22, 67, 3, 23, 79, 44, 19, 26 = 283 (8d100)

>>14769

Syndicate Name: Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate (Formerly SAP Deutschland)

Syndicate Fluff: The result of the German entrenched and highly secretive Øivind family's sudden desire to cooperate with the fresh-faced Japanese Kurosawas, Øivind-Kurosawa has recently pushed to acquire the massive SAP Deutschland and a number of smaller utilities, software and advanced design agencies across Germany, Øivind-Kurosawa is an unexpected and highly interesting phenomena. The conglomerate's formation and extremely rapid spread, as well as the sudden desire of the formerly almost asceticly reclusive Øivinds has been cause for concern amongst some in the high-tech industry in Europe and Japan, as have the significant military and political capabilities both families are well-known to posses.

Colour: Blue

Starting City/Region: Walldorf, Germany

Chairman Name: Nichols Øivind

–Grit:[1]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[2]

Chairman Fluff: Nichols Øivind isn't a man with a long wikipedia page. He probably won't be listed in many magazine covers, and he is, by all accounts, a soft-spoken man who rarely speaks and shies away from public performance.

Few will ever understand just how much power he holds.

Nichols has three children that he never sees, instead spending his time cutting international deals and in backroom conferences, or burying himself in ancient works and tomes. His massive home is almost like a museum, in that it hosts a humongous variety of works thought lost to history and priceless artifacts, some practically radiant with power. Nichols is, despite his immense personal wealth, not a greedy man - the money is just a means to an end. That end is, of course, untold and unforseen power. Few things escape the gaze of a 187 IQ child prodigy who made untold billions in his youth through inside banking and exploiting connections - but the truth behind it all has. Not for long. Not anymore. Power, one way or another.

Wealth: 12.4(+2.4/turn)

Pull: 5.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 10

Agents: [Nicky]

Puppet Corporations: [Kurosawa Holdings: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can expand in Japan] [Asgaard Group: +0.5 Wealth/turn][Kurosawa Advanced Design((HQ: Japan))][Deutsche Comp LLC: e-War resistance is raised] [Crypto Backdoors: Probing Sequence (Discrete)]

Assets: [Pistols] [Hackers] [Private Soldiers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Øivind-Kurosawa International Towers]

Chairman's Edge: Ghost -Reclusive, intelligent, powerful–and now with a huge software giant at his back. Nichols Øivind gains +5 on any roll to generate money, and is harder to detect in general.

Chairman's Heel: Genius - Even cutting edge tech gurus can seem incompetent compared to you. -5 to rolls directly dealing with your personnel.

Conglomerate's Edge: Giants of Industry - The combined powers of Germany and Japan work wonders in industrious progress. You gain +5 on rolls to hostile takeover a company.

Conglomerate's Blindspot: Old (Bad) Blood - The Powers That Be don't know a lot about you and your old, powerful family–this worries them. Expansion yields +1% Heat. If the Old Guard need a scapegoat, you'll be their go-to man.

Technology: [Software Engineering III] [Accounting I] [Nanontechnology I]

1. Nichols will personally work to expand and renovate Øivind-Kurosawa International Headquarters - we will need it as a primary staging point and center of operations for future… eh… movements. We will need the top class of equipment and arms for them, as well.

2. He will also see about modernizing and expanding the Asgaard Group - the thousand or so elite soldiers won't cut it. For our purposes, we will need many more boots, of the highest possible quality. And soon, I am to think.

3. Facilitate further expansion throughout German regions. We must push our market further.

4. Additionally, move to expand into the Japanese market - as much of it as we can possibly claim before the sleeping dragon of the Old Guard awakes.

5. Nanotechnology II wealth spending.

6. Begin to make inquiries and research into artifacts, both ancient and modern. If the theories are to be believed, this could yield most lucrative gains for Øivind-Kurosawa. Of course, few are true, but the ones that are…? Imagine the power if properly utilized. Our international leads should be able to lead us onto some valuable, rare movements.

7. Begin research into Artificial Intelligence designs.

8. Finish off the Crypto Backdoors probing sequence, ASAP. Fine work, Nicky.

>>15195

Syndicate Name:PsychoKinetic Corporation AKA P.K.C

Syndicate Fluff:Established shortly after the recent economic depression P.K.C has been eagerly awaiting it's chance to bite down on the market and cash in. Needless to say it's finally gotten it dealing in expensive weaponry,drugs and cybernetic enhancements they really do have everything you only have to ask.

Colour:Dark Forest Green

Starting City/Region: Germany

Chairman Name: Josef Werchznste

–Grit:2

Action-y business.

–Guile:2

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:1

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff: With a thick german accent his english isn't all that great so expect to be conversing in german, other than that he makes a ruthless opponent willing to take whatever means necessary to ensure a profit

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Tonnes of Guns!: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can produce 1.5/turn as a free action with a 25% chance of increasing Heat]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties:P.K.C ShIza Tower

Respected in the Rhineland:

Your Chairman gets a +5 to expansion and company acquisition within Germany proper.

Ruthless:

Occasionally you'll edge someone out of a deal while getting territory or corporations. And it'll be the wrong someone. DM will roll a d10 to see if you take additional Heat during such actions (~20% likelihood).

Anything You Like:

You can establish Black Markets that count as Significant Properties: in any territory, generating +1 Wealth/turn. You can flood them with certain kinds of arms and drugs to have variable effects on the local population.

Jack of All Trades:

Research rolls are at a -5 because you're so diversified.

Technology:

[Ballistics I] [Narcotics I] [Cyberware I] [Black Marketeering I] [Accounting I]

Our first action,use as much force as it takes to stage a hostile takeover of that stupid slant eyed cocksucker that's been undermining our entire operation, we will force the fucker out of our territory.

Second action we need to continue expansion as much territory as possible.

Thirdly finish ze research on better weapons

lastly try to get those damn drugs researched or we will get nowhere.

Rolled 57, 34, 2, 15 = 108 (4d100)

>>15198

Rollan to remove filthy gook out of germany as well as the rest of our actions.

>>15196

1. Nichols has the business acumen to make the most of a sub-par situation. You gain the [Assault Rifles] asset, although Nichols thinks a perimeter defense could do a lot to deter attackers–one could be bought at great expense, or the necessary technologies to develop defenses developed in-house.

2. Revise

>[Asgaard Group: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

to [Asgaard Group: +1.5 Wealth/turn, large enough force to deploy to (as a free action) strategic checkpoints across a region you own–makes it safer but suspends 1 Wealth/turn from the corp as other contracts are passed by.]

3. You take -2 Wealth as complications arise.

4. You've got just enough initiative to slide into Tokyo.

>Old Guard to the far North in Japan take notice, but are unable or unwilling to act

>The Powers That Be to the west observe your actions,

Old (Bad) Blood

>they up your Heat by 1% as you're put on watch-lists and increased in potency in their internal threat assessments

5. You acquire Nanotechnology II.

6. You find a dig site in your African holdings that hold promise…

[Artefact Archaeology Project (Discrete): Wealth 5] Located in -> [Africa HQ]

7. AI research is stalled.

8. Gain the asset [Crypto Backdoors]. Guile actions relating to cyberspace\hacking are advantaged, and on Grit actions you have a chance to confuse automated defense IFF codes for a crucial moment.

>>15198

1. You don't have much in the way of transportation and don't share a border. -5

Your arms are evenly matched, [Assault Rifles] to [Assault Rifles].

You deploy henchmen to go bang up shit with the Øivind-Kurosawa logo on it.

You have thugs, he has Private Soliders. -10

Your current Combat Standing is 32. Defender will roll a d100, then I will post results.

2. +0.3 wealth/turn as you gain ground

>gain 3 regions

3. The project is a disaster, a crate of experimental armor piercing rounds goes off in testing. -1 Personnel

4. You make some inroads. [Narcotics II][4/10]

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>15198

>>15201

Rolling for meta-defense.

Rolled 33, 7, 72, 23 = 135 (4d100)

>>15201

Quitting,because people are throwing a fucking hissy fit over meta.

>>15205

[Private Soldiers] respond to the scene as some thugs from P.K.C start busting windows and firing warning shots. They don't get many shots off.

Because one side won by more than 25 they take no casualties.

>>15198

Roll 1d6 to determine casualties.

Rolled 1, 1, 95, 72, 55 = 224 (5d100)

>>15191

Syndicate Name: Genesis Bio-medical

Syndicate Fluff: Welcome to Genesis Bio-Medical. Creator of many of the miracle drugs that now make much of the known world free of dangerous diseases today. What you may not know is the history of Genesis. Created by a group of German immigrants in a void left in the medical business after the collapse of the market. Taking the pieces Genesis was built up into what it is today. Enough time has been wasted, welcome Professor, and have a good day.

Colour: Orange

Starting City/Region: East coast of America

Chairman Name: Wilhelm von Schlangenbaum

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

Wilhelm is the grandson of the original chairman of the company, Winston von Schlangenbaum. A genius man and formerly a scientist for the company. After the recent loss of the last chairman due to mysterious circumstances Wilhelm has taken the mantle and chosen to show his genius can be applied to the market.

Wealth: 17.0(+2/turn)

Pull: 6.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents: Janet Dekari: Grit 2, Guile 3, Acumen 2,

Puppet Corporations: [Big Pharma Inc: +0.5 Wealth/turn] [Totally Legit Corp: +1 Wealth/turn, acts as a front–can absorb up to 5% Heat. After you divert 5% incoming Heat to TLC, it will lose 1% Heat a turn. Once it has reached 0%, you’ll be able to divert Heat again.]

Assets: [Pistols] [Tear Gas] [Stroke LSD] [Psychotropic Gas]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [HQ]

Science as Usual:

Your experience in the field allows you to personally complete Projects, rather than using an R&D slot to do so.

Mysterious Circumstances:

Sometimes people in your way disappear–people in your own organization. -5 to attempts to recruit new agents

Future Drugs:

People love getting healthy. Also, fucked up. +3 Wealth every time you finish a new Pharmaceutical or Narcotics project as people rush to have the latest thing.

Future Bugs:

Disease is manufactured, engineered, and sold to the highest bidder–the Powers That Be may tap you to take care of any manner of issues. They'll compensate you, of course, but refusing the call may raise your heat. After all, in the year 207X, there is only business–the CDC is defunct.

Technology:

[Medicine III] [Narcotics IV] [Accounting I]

refuse, as we don't need the help funding the project.

1&4. Begin work on the Medicine IV project.

2&3. Expansion!

5. Have Agent Janet dig a bit on those Chinese Humanitarians.

Syndicate : Nu-U BioGenetics

Agent Name: Lisbeth 'Kali' Summers

Agent Fluff: Lisbeth was a goddess with a sniper rifle. No matter her target, no matter her objective she always took them down. She hired herself out to the highest bidder and trusted her partner to watch her back when things got dicey. That part of her life ended when her partner sold her out and the enemies she had been hired to suppress and kill dropped a ten story building on her. She survived, but her arms did not.

She approached Nu-U for one reason and one reason only. To get them back. In her own words, she sold her soul for them. Nu-Genetics decided to test out several experimental procedures on their new asset and Lisbeth got her arms, back plus a few extras as well which has since earned her her new nickname. Kali.

Colour: Pink

–Grit:[3]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[0]

Addendum: the 4 was the research propaganda, but I think I accidentally cut it out. It's still on the list, though.

Rolled 35, 58, 83, 78, 85 = 339 (5d100)

>>15190

Syndicate Name: Nu-U BioGenetics

Syndicate Fluff: Following the success of the Human Genome Project, and completed mapping and sequencing of the DNA of most terrestrial life, the next oobvious step would be moving from old and unscientific 'breeding' to direct engineering. Nu-U specializes in Anthropomorphic - Human - engineering and improvement, ranging from simple visual and health improvements, to major changes such as adding of limbs or fur, to combat-intended enhancements. They prefer to go through other corporations to field-test the latter.

Colour: Lime Green

Starting City/Region: San Francisco

Chairman Name: Duke Nelson III

–Grit:[0]

–Guile:[1]

–Acumen:[4]

Chairman Fluff: Duke Nelson isn't a bio-geneticist. He's a businessman who understands his research scientists, how to cajole them in profitable directions, and how to reward them with bouts of pure research. Nu-U is the outgrowth of a company founded by his Grandfather, and run by his Father before him, and Duke Nelson IV is currently working as a lab supervisor and earning his way up through the ranks. As such, Nelson tends to take a long view, as opposed to a short. Good practical innovations have come from interesting results of pure research, after all!

Wealth: 12.3(+4.1/turn)

Pull: 6.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 13

Borders: High-Bucks

Assets: [Pistols] [Claws]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Agents: [Dr. Vendermyn: Grit -1, Guile 1, Acumen 3]

Puppet Corporations:

-[DirectGineering Corp: +5 to Genetic Engineering Research]

-[A Big Bod For You: +0.5 Wealth/turn, they specialize in tissue growth, fat reduction, and general re-sexifying–use this as you will]

-[Eye Tint You: +1.5 Wealth\turn]

Projects:

-[Commercial Eye Colorization: Wealth 2][Completed]

-[Bio-Engineering IV: Chaotic Telepathy, Wealth 7]

Significant Properties:

-[Nu-U Towers(HQ)]

-[Lab: California]

(Chairman)

Long-term Thinker:

-Duke Nelson the III makes the Syndicate resistant to Solvency shocks and personal actions to improve Solvency or increase Wealth generation receive a +10.

I'm No Scientist, But:

-Over reliance on incentivization has made Nu-U virile, but increased R&D costs. Gain +2 Wealth cost to all R&D Project Completion actions.

(Syndicate)

Beyond Man:

-Nu-U can produce more than modern man had dared dream. You can augment your agents' Grit at the cost of their Guile and Acumen. Corporate actions may be explicitly carried out by heavily Bio-modded personnel, granting +5 to violent actions or those requiring preternatural reflexes\health\unhuman features like gills\wins, but…

Reviled by Many:

-One man's dreams are another man's nightmares. Publicity of your bio-engineer operatives generates heat. If any of them got caught committing a crime, it would generate two times the heat.

Technology:

-[Bio-Engineering III]

-[Accounting I]

In Progress

-Research: Bio-Engineering IV [7/10]

-

Standard Actions

1,Chairman Personal: Lobby government for

2.Corporate Action: Ad Campaign for Puppet Corps

3.Corp or R&D Action: Project Development: [Bio-Engineering IV: Chaotic Telepathy, Wealth 7][spent 7 wealth]

4.R&D Action: [Pure Research]

Agent Actions

5.Dr Vendermyn: Medical Application Research

>>15284

Fluff

Directors Log, 18 November 207X

"Found a short term contract that we could fill easily, and got most of the resources needed to plow until this new development. Telepathy! Even a wild talent, simply the knowledge of it existing opens up whole new avenues. I'm glad these extra resources showed up, though, as an offer from a group that wouldn't fully identify themselves was fairly tempting, they'd foot part of the bill and get the research data. I turned them down as politely as I could, and let them know we might be interested in selling them the data after the fact. If they would identify who they were.

"Other than that, the Eye Color changing project finished up nicely. Eye Tint You is projected to do quite a bit of money over the long term. Who needs colored contacts anymore! Also obtained ownership of a… health company, mainly in terms of muscle growth, fat reduction, etc. I'm going to see about getting its throughput improved, though. Perhaps an ad campaign."

"Doc Vendermyn is back up and running, which is good. I'm going to keep him in-house for now, until I'm certain he's up to speed, but for now he's going to look at how to apply our stuff for better medical purposes. Formally giving him a title of "Assistant Director of Applied Bio-Genetics."

"The researchers down in the labs have earned a bit of Pure Research. Gave them a moderate amount of funding, and told them I want a good report fairly often. Set my son to supervise and handle most of their non-scientific paperwork. Ah, memories. That used to be me."

>>15219

"Obtained the services of a woman who goes by Kali, after we replaced her arms, and added some additional. I'm going to be giving her additional intiative. Security isn't my expertise, so I'll let her proceed in improving our Security and Defenses in how she feels needed. Also giving her the Assistant Director of Security position."

Rolled 94, 71, 69, 17, 32 = 283 (5d100)

>>15191

Chairman Action: Planning has paid off, and the time to strike at the old guard has coincided brilliantly with our planned expansion into South East Asia - expand in SE Asia, looking to take the closest light grey territory.

Corp Action: Find and purchase a "private security" company to protect our holdings. Or, at the very least, hire mercenaries.

Corp Action 2: Establish shipping between Africa and Asia - there are ports in both our territories, and we have at least some of the industry for building ships, so through building and buying we should be able to establish our our own shipping line

R&D Action: Further work on [Mineralogy I] - got to find places for our lovely new drill

Agent: Djeff is still getting some serious frowns, but for establishing a toehold in 'nam he gets a reprieve. He's sent back to Moscow to work on expansion and looking for investors there

Syndicate Name: Resource Alliance: Worldwide

Syndicate Fluff: The syndicate listed on stock exchanges across the globe as RAW has two driving interests - Materials and Power. Everything starts somewhere, and RAW wants to be that somewhere - from ore to oil, fertilizer to fuel, if it can be found in the ground they'll dig it up, process it and sell it for profit. Of course it's not just about digging it up and selling it - power generation, processing, shipping and the heavy equipment necessary for all of the above all come under RAW's portfolio - vertical integration is one of the keys to their success.

The other key, they've found, is a willingness to get their hands dirty, in pretty much every way - many valuable resources can be found in unstable or protected regions, and the ability to lean on politicians or act with a heavy hand has benefited the company many times - they are the power company, and they like all sorts of power.

Colour: Red

Starting City/Region: Moscow

Chairman Name: Alexander Billiton

–Grit:[2]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[1]

Chairman Fluff: A brusque and powerful man with a shadowy past and a flair for strategy, Alexander Billiton acts carefully in public, but he always acts with strength, supported by extensive legwork and planning. With a background in field ops and having worked as a lobbyist in several countries, Billiton's experience suit's RAW's plans perfectly, and his forceful business style has seen much success. As Sun Tzu said, "The epitome of strategy isn't winning every battle, but winning without fighting." - likewise, Alexander prefers to arrive at a meeting with the result he wants already secured through the positioning and pressure his the company can provide. Personally he is reasonably skilful, speaking fluent English, Portuguese and Russian, with passable French and German, and he excels in planning and logistics. If rumours are to be believed he also has a fair few other, even more dangerous, skills, but none of his underlings are stupid enough to enquire too deeply into their boss's past

Wealth: 11.9(+3.47/turn) [+1 Pending from Tax Shelter]

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 15

Agents: Djeff Kawloon: Grit 0, Guile 1, Acumen 3

Puppet Corporations: [Oil & Gas Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn] [Farms United: +0.5 Wealth/turn] [Heavy Metal Co: +0.25 Wealth /turn, +1 to construction rolls]

Assets: [Pistols][Subaquatic Rig](is this the right location?)

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects: [Mineralogy I] is at [5/10]

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters][Dark Continent Branch Office][HQ: Africa]

Planning and Execution:

+5-25 to any action you've spent an earlier action preparing (depending on how well the other roll went).

Checkered Past:

You're a deadlier man than you appear, and that can put some people on edge. -5 to gaining new Agents/

Growing Stronger:

+10 to extract raw resources/create facilities to do so, +5 to Expansion.

20th Century Mindset:

You haven't exactly gotten with the "cyberware, katanas, and trench-coats" vibe. -10 to researching futuristic technologies.

Technology:

[Agriculture II] [Heavy Industry II] [Accounting I] [Advanced Oil Drilling I]

Rolled 1, 87, 71, 48, 24 = 231 (5d100)

>>15195

Wealth: 15.5(+5.85/turn)

Pull: 8.5 (+.5/turn)

Regions:24

___

Agents:

>Amanda James: Grit 0, Guile 2, Acumen 2

>Donald Defferson: Grit 1, Guile 1, Acumen 1

>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

_____

Puppet Corporations: [Coffee Co: People look the other way when you make their coffee. -1% to any Heat gain.][Portland Dicksocks: +0.25 Wealth/turn, great for parties][Local Yocal Farming Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn.]Brighteyes Startup: yields +4 Wealth when you spend 1

Pull (as a free action). +0.5 turn/base]

[SeAttledLove: Prostitution startup, their app’s gimmick is it connects prostitutes and John’s for water-bound love making on unmanned barges ferrying goods around the city. They’re making +2 Wealth/turn… for now.]

Assets: [Pistols] [Lobbyists] [Visor Headsets]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Coca capital] [HQ]]

[Coca Fields]

Lovely Personality:

Any acumen check gets a +5.

Heart Problems:

Any sudden starts could put you into cardiac arrest. You'll survive, but it'll take its toll–you get -5 to Grit rolls and -5 to any Grit situation you're involved in.

COCAINE!:

The wonders of the white powder fuel your corporations output. Once a turn, re-roll a corporate action.

Drug Abuse:

Jesus fucking Christ you're putting cocaine on the counter. The health risks alone make keeping up a customer base difficult. Whenever you lose Solvency, lose an extra 1%.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Agriculture I] [Narcotics II]Counter Intelligence I]

________

1. So the old guard are feeling the stress of the market ey? Hey I can understand maybe I can go down there and help them out a bit

+5

Spend 1 pull

2. Expand towards Hawaii and the the bottom of South America. The US is getting cramped fast.

3. Build a secondary base in Hawaii, the coconut lovers will be a great port to control.

4. Research [counterintelligence 2], I want no business with spies against me.

5.>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

Janet let's find us a company that could help build us more pull per turn. Maybe that police station needs new repairs ? Have a talk with the chief.

10th Syndicate, no more for now.

>NOTICE: you're on some small-ass islands. Investing in aerial or water transport assets will be key to safe, swift expansion

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [S'executive Solutions: +1 Wealth/turn, can be deployed anywhere to attack foreigners]

Assets: [Shotguns] [Guns for Hire] [Katanas] [Cyber Eyes]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters]

Better, Faster Strong, Harder:

The Chairman seeks to reforge his soldiers. All R&D into Cyberware gains +10.

Ancient Foes:

A hafu, he is accepted in neither China nor Japan due to his mixed blood. -10 to acquire companies or expand within China or Japan using Chairman's agent action.

Modern Warfare:

Producing soldiers is the name of the game. Re-roll any Corporate Action attempting to up personnel, acquire personnel [Assets], or install Cyberware in your employees below 50.

Causing Trouble:

Stability tends to be good for the businesses of 207X, and those who like instability like it contained geographically. Deploying your units to Japan, Australia, Europe, or North America will generate 2% extra Heat.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Cybernetics II] [Melee Training II]

Rolled 100, 6, 2, 15 + 10 = 133 (4d100)

>>15321

Syndicate Name: The Eyes of Madness

Syndicate Fluff: The Eyes of Madness is an organization devoted to the training and creation of Black Ops agents and mercenaries, giving them to the highest bidders. Not only that, but they are arms dealers and makers of cybernetics, allowing them to branch into and fill the current void of warfare tech.

Colour: Deep purple

Starting City/Region: Hawaiian Island

Chairman Name: Kelvichio Yuolin

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff: An american born man with a mix of japanese and chinese blood. He has decided the world is stagnant, and views the creation and training of agents as a way to change the whole world!

Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [S'executive Solutions: +1 Wealth/turn, can be deployed anywhere to attack foreigners]

Assets: [Shotguns] [Guns for Hire] [Katanas] [Cyber Eyes]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Nu-Eyes Island]

Better, Faster Strong, Harder:

The Chairman seeks to reforge his soldiers. All R&D into Cyberware gains +10.

Ancient Foes:

A hafu, he is accepted in neither China nor Japan due to his mixed blood. -10 to acquire companies or expand within China or Japan using Chairman's agent action.

Modern Warfare:

Producing soldiers is the name of the game. Re-roll any Corporate Action attempting to up personnel, acquire personnel [Assets], or install Cyberware in your employees below 50.

Causing Trouble:

Stability tends to be good for the businesses of 207X, and those who like instability like it contained geographically. Deploying your units to Japan, Australia, Europe, or North America will generate 2% extra Heat.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Cybernetics II] [Melee Training II]

1. "Tomiko, please, do tell me why we lack any assets that will swiftly allow our units to get on and off site quickly? Mmhm, oh really? That so? Well then from what I see the main issue is that the initiative has mot been taken to secure said vital assets. Now if you would kindly gather some planes and boats, I am on my way down to assist in that. See you soon."(Secure air and sea assets)

2. "Yes this is Yuolin. Oh is that so? Let me just check our resources first…we seem to have whats necessary. Yes you may proceed with your research, do not fail me James."(Attempt to acquire military contracts)

3. "Hmm this list of possible agents seems worth my time…and money." Yuolin sends an order to pick up people he deems worthy of joining The Eyes of Madness.(Acquire agents)

4. "How are you doing today Hichin? Thats good. Please remind why we dont own these islands right outside my window. Your working on it you say? Well then inform me when you make progress on that. In the meantime give me some info on our R&D's progress on the new technology." (Research Cyber Neural Network)

Rolled 24 + 10 (1d100)

>>15325

Rerolling roll 3

Rolled 56, 99, 74, 8 = 237 (4d100)

>>15204

Syndicate Name: Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate (Formerly SAP Deutschland)

Syndicate Fluff: The result of the German entrenched and highly secretive Øivind family's sudden desire to cooperate with the fresh-faced Japanese Kurosawas, Øivind-Kurosawa has recently pushed to acquire the massive SAP Deutschland and a number of smaller utilities, software and advanced design agencies across Germany, Øivind-Kurosawa is an unexpected and highly interesting phenomena. The conglomerate's formation and extremely rapid spread, as well as the sudden desire of the formerly almost asceticly reclusive Øivinds has been cause for concern amongst some in the high-tech industry in Europe and Japan, as have the significant military and political capabilities both families are well-known to posses.

Colour: Blue

Starting City/Region: Walldorf, Germany

Chairman Name: Nichols Øivind

–Grit:[1]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[2]

Chairman Fluff: Nichols Øivind isn't a man with a long wikipedia page. He probably won't be listed in many magazine covers, and he is, by all accounts, a soft-spoken man who rarely speaks and shies away from public performance.

Few will ever understand just how much power he holds.

Nichols has three children that he never sees, instead spending his time cutting international deals and in backroom conferences, or burying himself in ancient works and tomes. His massive home is almost like a museum, in that it hosts a humongous variety of works thought lost to history and priceless artifacts, some practically radiant with power. Nichols is, despite his immense personal wealth, not a greedy man - the money is just a means to an end. That end is, of course, untold and unforseen power. Few things escape the gaze of a 187 IQ child prodigy who made untold billions in his youth through inside banking and exploiting connections - but the truth behind it all has. Not for long. Not anymore. Power, one way or another.

Wealth: 17.2(+3.4/turn)

Pull: 8(+.5/turn)

Regions: 10

Agents: [Nicky]

Puppet Corporations: [Kurosawa Holdings: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can expand in Japan] [Asgaard Group: +1.5 Wealth/turn, large enough force to deploy to (as a free action) strategic checkpoints across a region you own–makes it safer but suspends 1 Wealth/turn from the corp as other contracts are passed by.][Deutsche Comp LLC: e-War resistance is raised]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles] [Hackers] [Private Soldiers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 1%

Projects:

Significant Properties:

[Øivind-Kurosawa International Towers (HQ: Europe (Germany))] - [Crypto Backdoors] (Guile actions relating to cyberspace\hacking are advantaged, and on Grit actions you have a chance to confuse automated defense IFF codes for a crucial moment)

[Kurosawa Advanced Design (HQ: Asia (Japan))]

[Africa HQ] - [Artefact Archaeology Project (Discrete): Wealth 5]

Chairman's Edge: Ghost -Reclusive, intelligent, powerful–and now with a huge software giant at his back. Nichols Øivind gains +5 on any roll to generate money, and is harder to detect in general.

Chairman's Heel: Genius - Even cutting edge tech gurus can seem incompetent compared to you. -5 to rolls directly dealing with your personnel.

Conglomerate's Edge: Giants of Industry - The combined powers of Germany and Japan work wonders in industrious progress. You gain +5 on rolls to hostile takeover a company.

Conglomerate's Blindspot: Old (Bad) Blood - The Powers That Be don't know a lot about you and your old, powerful family–this worries them. Expansion yields +1% Heat. If the Old Guard need a scapegoat, you'll be their go-to man.

Technology: [Software Engineering III] [Accounting I] [Nanotechnology II]

1. Nichols will focus on establishing a center for our African Archeology Project in Tanzania, giving us a small enclave of controlled lands, as well as setting up our African regional headquarters [Øivind-Kurosawa Afrika] and overseeing the promising dig site.[Set up African HQ with land in Tanzania, activate project]

2. Focus our corporate efforts on expanding our market in Germany. Fill out the unclaimed land of our nation.

3. Additionally, advance our expansion in Japan. We are being watched now, which means it is a race - we must acquire as much regional power as we can before confronting the resting dogs of Asia.

4. Pursue AI research.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>15204

Syndicate Name: Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate (Formerly SAP Deutschland)

Syndicate Fluff: The result of the German entrenched and highly secretive Øivind family's sudden desire to cooperate with the fresh-faced Japanese Kurosawas, Øivind-Kurosawa has recently pushed to acquire the massive SAP Deutschland and a number of smaller utilities, software and advanced design agencies across Germany, Øivind-Kurosawa is an unexpected and highly interesting phenomena. The conglomerate's formation and extremely rapid spread, as well as the sudden desire of the formerly almost asceticly reclusive Øivinds has been cause for concern amongst some in the high-tech industry in Europe and Japan, as have the significant military and political capabilities both families are well-known to posses.

Colour: Blue

Starting City/Region: Walldorf, Germany

Chairman Name: Nichols Øivind

–Grit:[1]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[2]

Chairman Fluff: Nichols Øivind isn't a man with a long wikipedia page. He probably won't be listed in many magazine covers, and he is, by all accounts, a soft-spoken man who rarely speaks and shies away from public performance.

Few will ever understand just how much power he holds.

Nichols has three children that he never sees, instead spending his time cutting international deals and in backroom conferences, or burying himself in ancient works and tomes. His massive home is almost like a museum, in that it hosts a humongous variety of works thought lost to history and priceless artifacts, some practically radiant with power. Nichols is, despite his immense personal wealth, not a greedy man - the money is just a means to an end. That end is, of course, untold and unforseen power. Few things escape the gaze of a 187 IQ child prodigy who made untold billions in his youth through inside banking and exploiting connections - but the truth behind it all has. Not for long. Not anymore. Power, one way or another.

Wealth: 17.2(+3.4/turn)

Pull: 8(+.5/turn)

Regions: 10

Agents: [Nicky]

Puppet Corporations: [Kurosawa Holdings: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can expand in Japan] [Asgaard Group: +1.5 Wealth/turn, large enough force to deploy to (as a free action) strategic checkpoints across a region you own–makes it safer but suspends 1 Wealth/turn from the corp as other contracts are passed by.][Deutsche Comp LLC: e-War resistance is raised]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles] [Hackers] [Private Soldiers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 1%

Projects:

Significant Properties:

[Øivind-Kurosawa International Towers (HQ: Europe (Germany))] - [Crypto Backdoors] (Guile actions relating to cyberspace\hacking are advantaged, and on Grit actions you have a chance to confuse automated defense IFF codes for a crucial moment)

[Kurosawa Advanced Design (HQ: Asia (Japan))]

[Africa HQ] - [Artefact Archaeology Project (Discrete): Wealth 5]

Chairman's Edge: Ghost -Reclusive, intelligent, powerful–and now with a huge software giant at his back. Nichols Øivind gains +5 on any roll to generate money, and is harder to detect in general.

Chairman's Heel: Genius - Even cutting edge tech gurus can seem incompetent compared to you. -5 to rolls directly dealing with your personnel.

Conglomerate's Edge: Giants of Industry - The combined powers of Germany and Japan work wonders in industrious progress. You gain +5 on rolls to hostile takeover a company.

Conglomerate's Blindspot: Old (Bad) Blood - The Powers That Be don't know a lot about you and your old, powerful family–this worries them. Expansion yields +1% Heat. If the Old Guard need a scapegoat, you'll be their go-to man.

Technology: [Software Engineering III] [Accounting I] [Nanotechnology II]

>>15325

The highly caffeinated chairmen of High-bucks has come to a realization. Other chairman have been attacked, raids and senseless violence is going on all around. If he's going to build a profitable empire he's going to need protection, he's gonna need friends in high places. He knows of one great soon to be superpower of the world that would be the chairman of The Eyes of Madness. Grabbing The phone he dialed up the chairman to discuss terms that are mutually beneficial to each of us.

Rolled 92, 70, 13 = 175 (3d100)

>>15331

((I don't know why it rolled there.))

1. Nichols will focus on establishing a center for our African Archeology Project in Tanzania, giving us a small enclave of controlled lands, as well as setting up our African regional headquarters [Øivind-Kurosawa Afrika] and overseeing the promising dig site.[Set up African HQ with land in Tanzania, activate project]

2. Focus our corporate efforts on expanding our market in Germany. Fill out the unclaimed land of our nation.

3. Additionally, advance our expansion in Japan. We are being watched now, which means it is a race - we must acquire as much regional power as we can before confronting the resting dogs of Asia.

4. Pursue AI research.

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>15210

>>15333

>zombies

>skynet

If worse comes to worse and they both take over the world our next builders going to be badass

>rolling to see if humanity makes it

>>15332

Yuolin looks down as his phone rings. He was not expecting any calls for the next few hours, so this may be important. Leaning back in his chair he hits the speaker function.

"This is Yuolin speaking. Who is this?"

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>15191

Agent "Nicky"

Fluffy Bits:

What is a young woman well versed with computers and equipment supposed to do in a world dominated by MegaCorporations? Of course there have always been those who have sought to hack and steal secrets, selling them for insane sums of money, Nicky however never had an interest in such deals. Life is far too short and far too nice to be ended prematurely by pissing of the wrong people.

A handler most of all Nicky's talents lie in the organization of people and the obtaining of information. Whether or not this will help or hinder her success joining the Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate remains to be seen.

Grit: 2

Guile: 3

Acumen: 0

Handler: Not present for physical Ops yourself, you are not wounded in espionage\attacks you carry out that go south unless your enemy has [Biofeedback].

1. With no direct orders to abide by it would probably prove best for Nicky do go ahead and improve her Guile by expanding the various network of sources and associates she already had beforehand. The general rule of having a guy for something was having to have the guy before having a problem you needed to have a guy to solve the problem for in the first place.

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>15335

Howdy, this is the chairman of high-bucks. There seems to be some matters that could be mutually beneficial to each other, I know that most Of your executive phones are on recording, if you could be so kind to turn off those recordings I would like to discuss business with you.

[enter previously agreed-upon pm information here]

>>15338

Did not mean to roll even though it was really good roll

>>15338

"Ah yes, I know of you. Tell me would you be willing to trade technology and manpower?" Says Yuolin, entirely unfazed. "If need be we could come together for a more formal talk. What do you say?"

>>15340

Sounds wonderful! Let's grab a cup of coffee and talk.

>>15341

(Where are we meeting?)

>>15345

Somewhere on my turf, it doesn't really matter. Posting in the thread is just a formality that we don't even have to do, the real deals happen in PMs, which we already did.

>>15367

Alrighty then. Welp every deal is done, flash forward to end of talks.

Yuolin shales your hand, wishes you a good day, and leaves.

>>15325

1. You gain the assets [Attack Choppers+] and [Warships]

2. Nobody’s interested.

3. Yet again, no-one bites.

4. Researchers barely make any progress. [Neural Networks][1/10]

>>15330

56, 99, 74, 8

1. gain [Øivind-Kurosawa Afrika][HQ: Africa]

The project is at [6/15], it requires no further Wealth allocations but there have been complications with the digging.

2. +1.6 Wealth/turn. Most of the north is yours but the Powers That Be have an operational stranglehold on a key region to the south.

>gain 16 regions

3. +0.7 wealth\turn

>gain 7 regions

4. AI research is just more bust.

Rolled 20, 78, 60, 58, 65 = 281 (5d100)

>>15420

Syndicate Name: Nu-U BioGenetics

Syndicate Fluff: Following the success of the Human Genome Project, and completed mapping and sequencing of the DNA of most terrestrial life, the next oobvious step would be moving from old and unscientific 'breeding' to direct engineering. Nu-U specializes in Anthropomorphic - Human - engineering and improvement, ranging from simple visual and health improvements, to major changes such as adding of limbs or fur, to combat-intended enhancements. They prefer to go through other corporations to field-test the latter.

Colour: Lime Green

Starting City/Region: San Francisco

Chairman Name: Duke Nelson III [Grit: 0, Guile: 1, Acumen: 4,]

Chairman Fluff: Duke Nelson isn't a bio-geneticist. He's a businessman who understands his research scientists, how to cajole them in profitable directions, and how to reward them with bouts of pure research. Nu-U is the outgrowth of a company founded by his Grandfather, and run by his Father before him, and Duke Nelson IV is currently working as a lab supervisor and earning his way up through the ranks. As such, Nelson tends to take a long view, as opposed to a short. Good practical innovations have come from interesting results of pure research, after all!

(Chairman)

Long-term Thinker:

-Duke Nelson the III makes the Syndicate resistant to Solvency shocks and personal actions to improve Solvency or increase Wealth generation receive a +10.

I'm No Scientist, But:

-Over reliance on incentivization has made Nu-U virile, but increased R&D costs. Gain +2 Wealth cost to all R&D Project Completion actions.

(Syndicate)

Beyond Man:

-Nu-U can produce more than modern man had dared dream. You can augment your agents' Grit at the cost of their Guile and Acumen. Corporate actions may be explicitly carried out by heavily Bio-modded personnel, granting +5 to violent actions or those requiring preternatural reflexes\health\unhuman features like gills\wins, but…

Reviled by Many:

-One man's dreams are another man's nightmares. Publicity of your bio-engineer operatives generates heat. If any of them got caught committing a crime, it would generate two times the heat.

Wealth: 17.4(+4.5/turn)

Pull: 7(+.5/turn)

Regions: 14

Borders: High-Bucks

Assets: [Pistols] [Claws][Escorts (Sexual)][Unstable Telepathy]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Agents: [Dr. Vendermyn: Grit -1, Guile 1, Acumen 3]

Puppet Corporations:

-[DirectGineering Corp: +5 to Genetic Engineering Research]

-[A Big Bod For You: +0.5 Wealth/turn, they specialize in tissue growth, fat reduction, and general re-sexifying–use this as you will]

-[Eye Tint You: +1.5 Wealth\turn]

-[South Beach Bitches: +0.5 Wealth\turn]

Projects:

-[Commercial Eye Colorization][Completed]

-[Bio-Engineering IV: Chaotic Telepathy][Completed]

Significant Properties:

-[Nu-U Towers(HQ)]

-[Lab: California]

Technology:

-[Bio-Engineering IV]

-[Accounting I]

-[Medical Applications I]

In Progress

-Research: Pure [SOMETHING BIG!][5/?]

-

Standard Actions

1.Chairman Personal: Research in Accounting improvements to hire additional Agents

2.Corporate Action: Mexican Expansion.

3.Corp or R&D Action: Construct Psionics Research Center

4.R&D Action: [Pure Research][5/?]

Agent Actions

5.Dr Vendermyn: Military Application Research

>>15420

>>15219

[META] Did I get missed? Or do Player Agents not get a bonus?

>>15453

Get on IRC?

Rolled 86, 37, 78, 51, 29 = 281 (5d100)

>>15420

Wealth: 20.35 (+6.15/turn)

Pull: 7 (+.5/turn)

Regions:27

___

Agents:

>Amanda James: Grit 0, Guile 2, Acumen 2

>Donald Defferson: Grit 1, Guile 1, Acumen 1

>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

_____

Puppet Corporations: [Coffee Co: People look the other way when you make their coffee. -1% to any Heat gain.][Portland Dicksocks: +0.25 Wealth/turn, great for parties][Local Yocal Farming Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn.]Brighteyes Startup: yields +4 Wealth when you spend 1

Pull (as a free action). +0.5 turn/base]

[SeAttledLove: Prostitution startup, their app’s gimmick is it connects prostitutes and John’s for water-bound love making on unmanned barges ferrying goods around the city. They’re making +2 Wealth/turn… for now.]

Assets: [Pistols] [Lobbyists] [Visor Headsets]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 14% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Coca capital] [HQ]]

[Coca Fields][Cocaine Coco-Nuts][HQ: Pacific Islands]

Lovely Personality:

Any acumen check gets a +5.

Heart Problems:

Any sudden starts could put you into cardiac arrest. You'll survive, but it'll take its toll–you get -5 to Grit rolls and -5 to any Grit situation you're involved in.

COCAINE!:

The wonders of the white powder fuel your corporations output. Once a turn, re-roll a corporate action.

Drug Abuse:

Jesus fucking Christ you're putting cocaine on the counter. The health risks alone make keeping up a customer base difficult. Whenever you lose Solvency, lose an extra 1%.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Agriculture I] [Narcotics II]Counter Intelligence I]

________

1. Buy a military base from a local unstable government.

+5

Spend 1 pull to ensure I talk with the right people.

2. Expand into Africa preferably near pic related. Using kefikas warships as help.

3. Gift keifka

[Accounting I] [Agriculture I] [Narcotics II]Counter Intelligence I] and if counterintelligence to finishes in time that as well

4. Counter-Intelligence II is at [7/15]

5. Janet knows the power that can come knowing the right people. She continues to help things go smoothly.

>Janet Kaksyn: Grit 0, Guile -1, Acumen 3

[4/10] towards the asset [Friends in Blue Places]

Rolled 41, 37, 72, 30 + 10 = 190 (4d100)

>>15421

>>15421

Syndicate Name: The Eyes of Madness

Syndicate Fluff: The Eyes of Madness is an organization devoted to the training and creation of Black Ops agents and mercenaries, giving them to the highest bidders. Not only that, but they are arms dealers and makers of cybernetics, allowing them to branch into and fill the current void of warfare tech.

Colour: Deep purple

Starting City/Region: Hawaiian Island

Chairman Name: Kelvichio Yuolin

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff: An american born man with a mix of japanese and chinese blood. He has decided the world is stagnant, and views the creation and training of agents as a way to change the whole world!

Wealth: 11(+1/turn)

Pull: 5.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [S'executive Solutions: +1 Wealth/turn, can be deployed anywhere to attack foreigners]

Assets: [Shotguns] [Guns for Hire] [Katanas] [Cyber Eyes] [Attack Choppers+] [Warships]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Nu-Eyes Island]

Better, Faster Strong, Harder:

The Chairman seeks to reforge his soldiers. All R&D into Cyberware gains +10.

Ancient Foes:

A hafu, he is accepted in neither China nor Japan due to his mixed blood. -10 to acquire companies or expand within China or Japan using Chairman's agent action.

Modern Warfare:

Producing soldiers is the name of the game. Re-roll any Corporate Action attempting to up personnel, acquire personnel [Assets], or install Cyberware in your employees below 50.

Causing Trouble:

Stability tends to be good for the businesses of 207X, and those who like instability like it contained geographically. Deploying your units to Japan, Australia, Europe, or North America will generate 2% extra Heat.

Technology:

[Accounting I] [Cybernetics II] [Melee Training II]

1. Give High bucks access to my technology and assets

2. Buy out/Secure mercenary groups in the area near high-bucks military base(gain them as assets/agents/personnel)

3. Research neural networks[1/10]

4. Research cyber limbs

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>15458

Rerolling roll 2

>>15480

Welp old roll it is!

Rolled 66, 60, 83, 22, 73 = 304 (5d100)

>>15420

1.Chairman Action: - If you fail to plan, you plan to fail - time to plan the next move - from the Bangkok HQ Alex plots expansion to Korea

2. Corp Action - General Expansion - cautious and controlled, the order for general expansion goes out to all our regional HQs

3 Corp Action 2 - Power is Power - construct (or develop, if needs be) power plants to gain money and political presence. Start in Africa, but look to do it in other places as well .

4 R&D Action. Keep working on dat Mineralogy

5. Agent Action. - Nights in Bangkok - it has become apparent that as a corporation we're falling behind; Djeff is sent to find us tech and research companies to acquire.

Syndicate Name: Resource Alliance: Worldwide

Syndicate Fluff: The syndicate listed on stock exchanges across the globe as RAW has two driving interests - Materials and Power. Everything starts somewhere, and RAW wants to be that somewhere - from ore to oil, fertilizer to fuel, if it can be found in the ground they'll dig it up, process it and sell it for profit. Of course it's not just about digging it up and selling it - power generation, processing, shipping and the heavy equipment necessary for all of the above all come under RAW's portfolio - vertical integration is one of the keys to their success.

The other key, they've found, is a willingness to get their hands dirty, in pretty much every way - many valuable resources can be found in unstable or protected regions, and the ability to lean on politicians or act with a heavy hand has benefited the company many times - they are the power company, and they like all sorts of power.

Colour: Red

Starting City/Region: Moscow

Chairman Name: Alexander Billiton

–Grit:[2]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[1]

Chairman Fluff: A brusque and powerful man with a shadowy past and a flair for strategy, Alexander Billiton acts carefully in public, but he always acts with strength, supported by extensive legwork and planning. With a background in field ops and having worked as a lobbyist in several countries, Billiton's experience suit's RAW's plans perfectly, and his forceful business style has seen much success. As Sun Tzu said, "The epitome of strategy isn't winning every battle, but winning without fighting." - likewise, Alexander prefers to arrive at a meeting with the result he wants already secured through the positioning and pressure his the company can provide. Personally he is reasonably skilful, speaking fluent English, Portuguese and Russian, with passable French and German, and he excels in planning and logistics. If rumours are to be believed he also has a fair few other, even more dangerous, skills, but none of his underlings are stupid enough to enquire too deeply into their boss's past

Wealth: 15.55(+5.95/turn) [+1 Pending, from Tax Shelter]

Pull: 5.5(+.5/turn) [whoops, forgot to count this before]

Regions: 34

Agents: Djeff Kawloon: Grit 0, Guile 1, Acumen 3

Puppet Corporations:

[Oil & Gas Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

[Farms United: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

[Heavy Metal Co: +0.25 Wealth /turn, +1 to construction rolls]

[Africa-Asia Connect: +2 Wealth\turn so long as your Africa HQ and Asia HQ remain intact]

[Defensible Corporate Structures: can be deployed to regions to keep control, your HQ gains the brand [Emergency Response Teams]

Assets:

[Pistols]

[Subaquatic Rig](is this the right location?)

[Private Soldiers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects: [Mineralogy I] is at [5/10]

Significant Properties:

[Player Named Headquarters]

[Dark Continent Branch Office][HQ: Africa]

[Bangkok Rounder][HQ: Asia]

Planning and Execution:

+5-25 to any action you've spent an earlier action preparing (depending on how well the other roll went).

Checkered Past:

You're a deadlier man than you appear, and that can put some people on edge. -5 to gaining new Agents/

Growing Stronger:

+10 to extract raw resources/create facilities to do so, +5 to Expansion.

20th Century Mindset:

You haven't exactly gotten with the "cyberware, katanas, and trench-coats" vibe. -10 to researching futuristic technologies.

Technology:

[Agriculture II] [Heavy Industry II] [Accounting I] [Advanced Oil Drilling I]

Non-Action Action: >>15456 enter into discussions with the Ambassador Foundation about Tax Shelters. And their ambitions in Africa

>>15480

Lol

>>15420

Syndicate Name: Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate (Formerly SAP Deutschland)

Syndicate Fluff: The result of the German entrenched and highly secretive Øivind family's sudden desire to cooperate with the fresh-faced Japanese Kurosawas, Øivind-Kurosawa has recently pushed to acquire the massive SAP Deutschland and a number of smaller utilities, software and advanced design agencies across Germany, Øivind-Kurosawa is an unexpected and highly interesting phenomena. The conglomerate's formation and extremely rapid spread, as well as the sudden desire of the formerly almost asceticly reclusive Øivinds has been cause for concern amongst some in the high-tech industry in Europe and Japan, as have the significant military and political capabilities both families are well-known to posses.

Colour: Blue

Starting City/Region: Walldorf, Germany

Chairman Name: Nichols Øivind

–Grit:[1]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[2]

Chairman Fluff: Nichols Øivind isn't a man with a long wikipedia page. He probably won't be listed in many magazine covers, and he is, by all accounts, a soft-spoken man who rarely speaks and shies away from public performance.

Few will ever understand just how much power he holds.

Nichols has three children that he never sees, instead spending his time cutting international deals and in backroom conferences, or burying himself in ancient works and tomes. His massive home is almost like a museum, in that it hosts a humongous variety of works thought lost to history and priceless artifacts, some practically radiant with power. Nichols is, despite his immense personal wealth, not a greedy man - the money is just a means to an end. That end is, of course, untold and unforseen power. Few things escape the gaze of a 187 IQ child prodigy who made untold billions in his youth through inside banking and exploiting connections - but the truth behind it all has. Not for long. Not anymore. Power, one way or another.

Wealth: 18(+5.8/turn)

Pull: 8.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 34

Agents: [Nicky]

Puppet Corporations: [Kurosawa Holdings: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can expand in Japan] [Asgaard Group: +1.5 Wealth/turn, large enough force to deploy to (as a free action) strategic checkpoints across a region you own–makes it safer but suspends 1 Wealth/turn from the corp as other contracts are passed by.][Deutsche Comp LLC: e-War resistance is raised]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles] [Hackers] [Private Soldiers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 1%

Projects:

Significant Properties:

[Øivind-Kurosawa International Towers (HQ: Europe (Germany))] - [Crypto Backdoors] (Guile actions relating to cyberspace\hacking are advantaged, and on Grit actions you have a chance to confuse automated defense IFF codes for a crucial moment)

[Kurosawa Advanced Design (HQ: Asia (Japan))]

[Øivind-Kurosawa Afrika (HQ:Africa (Tanzania))] - [Artefact Archaeology Project (Discrete): 6/15]

Chairman's Edge: Ghost -Reclusive, intelligent, powerful–and now with a huge software giant at his back. Nichols Øivind gains +5 on any roll to generate money, and is harder to detect in general.

Chairman's Heel: Genius - Even cutting edge tech gurus can seem incompetent compared to you. -5 to rolls directly dealing with your personnel.

Conglomerate's Edge: Giants of Industry - The combined powers of Germany and Japan work wonders in industrious progress. You gain +5 on rolls to hostile takeover a company.

Conglomerate's Blindspot: Old (Bad) Blood - The Powers That Be don't know a lot about you and your old, powerful family–this worries them. Expansion yields +1% Heat. If the Old Guard need a scapegoat, you'll be their go-to man.

Technology: [Software Engineering III] [Accounting I] [Nanotechnology II]

Rolled 91, 26, 48, 30 = 195 (4d100)

>>15512

1. Operations in Africa have been going quite well, I think. Nichols will continue to, for the moment, personally oversee the region. Oversee work at our excavation site (6/15) and spend [1 Pull] to carve out land in Tanzania (look it up on a map) as specific Øivind-Kurosawa-exclusive land. Our enclave must be protected. (Gain territories + Continue project)

2. Corporately, we will expand our computing and electronics system at Deutsche Corp and SAP central, for more advanced international control and information-gathering. Played correctly and applied with proper upgrades and development, this should simultaneously tighten our control and solvency, increase our international pull, and allow us to dominate the field of cybernetic warfare and information. This will not be cheap - spending [8 Wealth], and [1 Pull] to get the best.

3. It's time to start pushing into the field of augmentation, so we can dominate the ground as well as the servers. Start with the basics. I want full enhancement suites capable of granting wireless connectivity and full-range cybernetic warfare capabilities to our private soldiers, as well as basic mechanical/biological enhancements. Most importantly will be the development of our on-the-go wired capabilities for ground soldiers - imagine the capabilities of soldiers that can rig an automated car to crash with their minds, bring down helicopters and tanks in flames, cause smartlinked guns and enhanced blades to be unable to function? We'd be unstoppable.

4. Begin AI research, in coordinate with our cybernetics research. The base-grade AIs we can create will likely only be able to provide assistance with our enhancement suites, but with the resources we give them, even such basic inbuilt capabilities would be very powerful when coupled with enhanced soldiers. Not to mention the possibilities given by creation of full-blown, large-scale AI systems, and integrating them into our networks.

Rolled 88, 80, 48, 66, 99 = 381 (5d100)

>>15420

Syndicate Name: Genesis Bio-medical

Syndicate Fluff: Welcome to Genesis Bio-Medical. Creator of many of the miracle drugs that now make much of the known world free of dangerous diseases today. What you may not know is the history of Genesis. Created by a group of German immigrants in a void left in the medical business after the collapse of the market. Taking the pieces Genesis was built up into what it is today. Enough time has been wasted, welcome Professor, and have a good day.

Colour: Orange

Starting City/Region: East coast of America

Chairman Name: Wilhelm von Schlangenbaum

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

Wilhelm is the grandson of the original chairman of the company, Winston von Schlangenbaum. A genius man and formerly a scientist for the company. After the recent loss of the last chairman due to mysterious circumstances Wilhelm has taken the mantle and chosen to show his genius can be applied to the market.

Wealth: 20.5(+2/turn)

Pull: 7.0(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents: Janet Dekari: Grit 2, Guile 3, Acumen 2,

Puppet Corporations: [Big Pharma Inc: +0.5 Wealth/turn] [Totally Legit Corp: +1 Wealth/turn, acts as a front–can absorb up to 5% Heat. After you divert 5% incoming Heat to TLC, it will lose 1% Heat a turn. Once it has reached 0%, you’ll be able to divert Heat again.]

Assets: [Pistols] [Tear Gas] [Stroke LSD] [Psychotropic Gas]

Personnel: 13

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [HQ]

Science as Usual:

Your experience in the field allows you to personally complete Projects, rather than using an R&D slot to do so.

Mysterious Circumstances:

Sometimes people in your way disappear–people in your own organization. -5 to attempts to recruit new agents

Future Drugs:

People love getting healthy. Also, fucked up. +3 Wealth every time you finish a new Pharmaceutical or Narcotics project as people rush to have the latest thing.

Future Bugs:

Disease is manufactured, engineered, and sold to the highest bidder–the Powers That Be may tap you to take care of any manner of issues. They'll compensate you, of course, but refusing the call may raise your heat. After all, in the year 207X, there is only business–the CDC is defunct.

Technology:

[Medicine III] [Narcotics IV] [Accounting I]

1&4. Continue work on the Medicine IV project. 7/10

2&3. Start recruiting some more personnel.

5. Here are your plane tickets Agent, good luck.

>>15497

[Ambassador Foundation]

The Foundation greets the Resource Alliance.

1.The Foundation would like to reassure the alliance that the ambitions of the foundation are merely to establish a nominal footprint on the continent so as to distribute certain pertinent commodities not readily available. It will not extend beyond the nominal holdings in Nigeria. The foundation has no real interest in the continent given the low population density.

2. The Foundation of course welcomes any desired tax shelters for The Resource Alliance, of which The Foundation will begin establishing.

>>15457

We are delighted to inform you that your request for a number of Laser Rifles for the amount of 15 gold is accepted!

We look forward to any additional business requests your corporation might make.

Syndicate Name: Laserian Industries

Syndicate Fluff: Laserian Industries specializes in the fine field of energy, lasers, holograms, lasers, wireless technology, and of course, lasers.

Created when not so world famous evil genius and Mastermind PROFESSOR LASER decided to retire after a long life of scheming and plotting to take up work in buesiness. In truth, he was never actually good at the espionage and sneaky stuff, but he was an excellent scientist. His efforts did not go unrewarded and he earned a sizeable base, loyal workers, scientists, and money, which will make a fine basis for his new business.

Colour:

Starting City/Region:

Chairman Name:

Professor Maximilian E. Ville

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[0]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[4]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

Known in most circles as "Professor Evil" he is a genius at all things electromagnetic, particularly lasers, with which he proudly armed all his evil minions and soldiers with during his time as an evil genius. Now aged and seeking to relax from the business, he's looking to transform his evil organization from world domination to business and commodity sales, hoping to make a profit from his advanced technology and science.

Wealth: 17.5(+5.5/turn)

Pull: 8.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents:

Puppet Corporations: [Lasers Limited: +10 to all LASER RELATED RESEARCH]

Assets: [Laser Pistols] [Laser Rifles]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 1%

Projects:

Significant Properties: [Player Named Headquarters]

Genius, Evil Mind:

Can help finish weapons Projects instead of using an R&D slot, gets a +15 to doing so.

Literally A Villain:

Anytime something gets slagged with lasers you take an extra 1% of Heat because, oh gee, who did the evil thing with lasers? Maybe it was PROFESSOR LASER!

Laser Sharp, Laser Smooth:

Mass fabrication comes easily to you, what with all the lasers and whatnot–+10 to manufacturing Assets for yourself or others.

One Note:

-3 to researching non-laser technology.

Technology:

[LASERS III] [Laser Rifles III] [Advanced Laser Rifles] [Accounting I] [Mad Science I]

Minions

>Shashka Jolnyov: Grit 1, Guile 3, Acumen -1

Projects:

[Vehicle Mounted Laser Array of Terrifying Capacity(Discrete): Wealth 10]

Companies: [Australian LIGHT and POWER: +1.5 Wealth/turn, allows you to more effectively extort your Australian territories into compliance with your schemes]

Rolled 10, 15, 5, 98, 8, 14, 81, 17, 70, 46 = 364 (10d100)

>>15189

1. Chairman

PROFESSOR LASER decides to look through his old closet for his old laser battle armor. . .just in case he needs it. It's a big bulking thing looking surprisingly like Darth Vader, with a laser sword, laser shield, and laser gun

WITH TARGETING LASER. Which is actually damaging. For double the laser damage!

Where is that thing anyway?

2. Corporate

Manufacture and produce a number of our fine LASER RIFLES to the High-Bucks syndicate

3-4. R&D

MOUNTED VEHICLE LASER OF TERRIFYING CAPACITY?

WELL WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!

[Vehicle Mounted Laser Array of Terrifying Capacity(Discrete): Wealth 10]

5. Shashka Jolnyov

Shashka decides to back up her ability to intimidate by practicing martial arts.

>>15420

2. Corporate

Aquire more land!

3-4. R&D + 1. Chairman

SOLID HOLOGRAMS.

Yes Gentlemen, SOLID, holograms. . .that can touch stuff and feel like the real thing!

Imagine the possibilities! The potential for fun!

Recreate any character or person or thing and hold them in your hands, interact with them as though they were really there. Children could duel it out with lightsabers safely or we could sell replica simulators of tanks, aircraft to anyone. Video game armies battling it out on your coffee table.

Doctors could operate not with flimsy robot arms, but a doctor could operate on a solid hologram of a patient in one room while a solid hologram of a doctor mimic's his actions in the next!

And let's not forget the adult aplications. . .

MAKE IT SO!

5. Shashka Jolnyov

Shashka assists in alluring more Austrial property owners and bureaucrats to giving more land to the laser company.

Rolled 53, 86, 93 = 232 (3d100)

Raouling four events.

Rolled 35 (1d100)

1. Train the Security Officers of Nu-U that I've been assigned in spotting threats like snipers and bombers. I know what to look for given I've slipped through tougher checkpoints myself and I can give lessons on what the common techniques are for smuggling weaponry into position.

Syndicate : Nu-U BioGenetics

Agent Name: Lisbeth 'Kali' Summers

Agent Fluff: Lisbeth was a goddess with a sniper rifle. No matter her target, no matter her objective she always took them down. She hired herself out to the highest bidder and trusted her partner to watch her back when things got dicey. That part of her life ended when her partner sold her out and the enemies she had been hired to suppress and kill dropped a ten story building on her. She survived, but her arms did not.

She approached Nu-U for one reason and one reason only. To get them back. In her own words, she sold her soul for them. Nu-Genetics decided to test out several experimental procedures on their new asset and Lisbeth got her arms, back plus a few extras as well which has since earned her her new nickname. Kali.

Colour: Pink

–Grit:[3]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[0]

Bonus : +1 to Grit when assassinating from range, [Cybernetics] assets do not outclass you for strength.

>>15497

1. Alex, taking into consideration Old Guard present, locates an Eastern Manchurian\West-northern Korean firm to buyout as the spearhead for a Korean expansion.

+20 to executing this plan

2. +0.6 Wealth/turn

>6 region

3. You seize [West African Power: +0.25 Pull\turn, -0.5 wealth\turn]–it isn't doing so well these days economically, but it's always managed to stay afloat because the right people always get what they want.

4. Gain the tech [Mineralogy I]

5. Djeff manages to get in good with [BioGrowth Bangkok: +0.3 Wealth\turn, +2 to R&D relating to biology, genetics, or biological engineering]

>>15512

1. You complete the excavation and gain a new significant property,

[City of the ???][Research Site].

You think there's much you could learn there…

+1 Wealth\turn,

>10 regions

as you push for Tanzania

2. Your main HQ gains [e-War+]. You gain the project, [Mesh Dominance I: e-Hegemony].

3. [Cybernetics I] at [4/10]

4. [AI I][3/10]. Efforts to synergize fail as team leaders lack a shared vision.

>>15514

1&4: You gain Medicine IV and the project [Medicine V: So You Want To Live Forever? Wealth 11]

>Chinese Humanitarians approach you offering to finance 5 wealth worth, in return for sharing the fruits of your labour with them

2&3: +10 Personnel as the recruitment drive goes swimmingly!

5. Janet goes and discovers MANY INTERESTING THINGS [iRC me to get a full report]

>>15516

1. Sadly for PROFESSOR LASER, the suit didn't make the packaging and shipping so well–it's all broke`d to bits. Gain project [Repair the Laser Armor, wealth 7(Discrete)]

2. There's an explosion on the assembly line. Involving lasers. Sadly, nothing is left to ship.

3. Gain the [Vehicle Mounted Laser Array of Terrifying Capacity] asset. If you'd ever like to deploy it on a Grit action or defense, please refer to it by name or acronym (VMLATC).

4. Regrettably, the VMLATC goes off and lays waste to a city block in transit. It is recovered, but you gain +10% Heat.

5. Shashka punches some bags, but it doesn't do much.

\\\\

2. Things don't pan out with expansion.

3&4. gain the project [Solid Holograms I: the Walking Blue Light, wealth 3]

5. gain +0.3 wealth\turn,

>3 regions

>>venturing west along the coastline may elicit Acquisitions of Opportunity from the Old Guard

>>15797

You're [3/5] of the way to granting Nu-U HQ the [Perimeter Defense] tag.

Rolled 81 (1d100)

[Chairman Roll v. Old Guard]

Grit:[2] Action-y business.

Guile:[2] Espionage-y business.

Acumen:[1] Business-y business.

Rolled 73 (1d100)

Almost done whipping these lackluster security guards into shape boss.

Want me to do anything else with the department specifically?

1. Train the Security Officers of Nu-U that I've been assigned in spotting threats like snipers and bombers. I know what to look for given I've slipped through tougher checkpoints myself and I can give lessons on what the common techniques are for smuggling weaponry into position. (3/5)

Syndicate : Nu-U BioGenetics

Agent Name: Lisbeth 'Kali' Summers

Agent Fluff: Lisbeth was a goddess with a sniper rifle. No matter her target, no matter her objective she always took them down. She hired herself out to the highest bidder and trusted her partner to watch her back when things got dicey. That part of her life ended when her partner sold her out and the enemies she had been hired to suppress and kill dropped a ten story building on her. She survived, but her arms did not.

She approached Nu-U for one reason and one reason only. To get them back. In her own words, she sold her soul for them. Nu-Genetics decided to test out several experimental procedures on their new asset and Lisbeth got her arms, back plus a few extras as well which has since earned her her new nickname. Kali.

Colour: Pink

–Grit:[3]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[0]

Bonus : +1 to Grit when assassinating from range, [Cybernetics] assets do not outclass you for strength.

Rolled 45, 36, 6, 12, 37 = 136 (5d100)

[The Ambassador Foundation]

Syndicate Fluff: The Ambassador Foundation was established in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union by a group of former Thatcherites looking to exploit several tax-evasion loopholes in the tax code of the United States. Since then, the foundation has grown to considerable size and prestige to the point of assuming the nominal “big dog” status as both a non-profit and corporate nexus. This makes the foundation extremely insidious insofar as maintaining a public image, but also maintaining the legitimacy of states where it operates. The Foundation, as one might suspect, is malevolent: it ships arms, topples democratic goverments, and maintains a debris ring of corporations and states that serve to fuel whatever goal it seems to have. Unfortunately, the beneficent goals the foundation once had are no longer, and the individuals joining the foundation now see it as a viable career option after or before they join public office. The Foundation's stock-and-trade is democratic overthrow and "development preparation" – an admixture of terrorism, armed overthrow, and extractivism.

Colour: Light Blue

Chairman Name: Samantha Debourd

Chairman Fluff: Samantha Debourd is the current acting chairwoman of the foundation. Though a social reformer during her youth and the anti-war movements of the early 2040s, Samantha has since turned heel into a greedy narcissist after being hired by the foundation. Unfortunately for the world, Samantha also seems to have retained many of her insights about the lower classes – this makes her insidious insofar as operating in strife-torn areas or managing public dissent.

Grit:[2] Action-y business.

Guile:[2] Espionage-y business.

Acumen:[1] Business-y business.

Wealth: 13.0 (+5.3/turn)

Pull: 1(+1.25/turn)[+.25]

Regions: 33

Agents: Agent Orange: Grit -1, Guile 5, Acumen -2 [Wounded]

Puppet Corporations:

[AMB Aide: -1% Heat/turn, -0.5Wealth/turn]

[AMB Shipping, Africa]

[AMB Public Relations PMC: +1Wealth\turn]

[AMB Financial: +1 Wealth\turn from Tax Shelters for both parties]

Assets: [Pistols][Assault Rifles][Lobbyists & Paper Pushers][Sonic Suppressor Tanks]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects: [Propaganda II: Subliminal Messages, 3 Wealth][Improved Tax Shelters: Pilot Program, Wealth 3]

Significant Properties:

[The Ambassador Campus, London][Ambassador Afriqa][HQ: Africa][AntiRiot Systems++]

[Midlands Synergies: Nuclear Power for most of Britain, +0.25 pull\turn]

Technology: [Propaganda I] [Accounting I] [Crowd Control III]

Experienced Operative: You know the ins and outs of activism–and how to shut it down. +10 to any rolls involving shutting down "concerned citizens" or fellow corporations' demonstrations.

Old Peacenik: Your former career can be brought up at inconvenient times, and you made enemies amongst the Old Guard and Powers That Be alike. Your Agent actions in territories adjacent to or within territory controlled by these powers -5 your roll, because they've got an eye out for you.

Tax Free, for a Fee: You can establish tax shelters for other Syndicates. This generates a mutual +1Wealth\+1Wealth.

Rotten to the Core: It's startlingly easy for investigative journalists to dig up dirt on you. Vulnerable to heat via publicity of your money-making affairs.

—

On Hold

–

———

[Actions]

1. [Expansion, Britain]

2. [Increase military/equipment]

3. [Research: Improved Tax Shelters Pilot]

4. [Research: Propaganda II Pilot]

5. [Agent][Incapacitated]

———

1. With the old guard smashed, Samantha orders another wave of expansion into Britain. "They fucked with the wrong girl, that's for sure. I'm going fuck them all up and make them shit on the sidewalk." [Lobby for expansion, Britain]

2. The foundation, seeing armed threats, attempts to militarize. It expands security and begins to develop the infrastructure more resembling a state. [improve/expand military]

3. The corporation begins to work on revising tax shelters. They need to be up to snuff to attract potential suitors. [Improved Tax Shelters: Pilot Program, Wealth 3]

4. Research continues on the Propaganda pilot program. [Propaganda II: Subliminal Messages, 3 Wealth]

—

Agents

—

5. Orange relaxes because he's injured. The gunshot wound wasn't that bad, really.

Rolled 74, 95, 81, 28, 25 = 303 (5d100)

1.Chairman Action: - In need of a hat - plan expansion to Panama

2. Corp Action - Megacorp Attains Seoul Headquarters (hopefully) - roll for expansion into Korea

3 Corp Action 2 - Power Profitability - Invest some (4) wealth in turning West African Power around, profit-wise. The politicians who sold it to us will recieve their share, if we do well enough

4 R&D Action. - Growing More - research improved GM crops

5. Agent Action. - Recruitment drive - somewhat tired of jetting all over the world, Djeff looks for a second agent to join the team, to allow better local focus. Ironically this recruitment process will have him travelling even more furiously than before

Syndicate Fluff: The syndicate listed on stock exchanges across the globe as RAW has two driving interests - Materials and Power. Everything starts somewhere, and RAW wants to be that somewhere - from ore to oil, fertilizer to fuel, if it can be found in the ground they'll dig it up, process it and sell it for profit. Of course it's not just about digging it up and selling it - power generation, processing, shipping and the heavy equipment necessary for all of the above all come under RAW's portfolio - vertical integration is one of the keys to their success.

The other key, they've found, is a willingness to get their hands dirty, in pretty much every way - many valuable resources can be found in unstable or protected regions, and the ability to lean on politicians or act with a heavy hand has benefited the company many times - they are the power company, and they like all sorts of power.

Colour: Red

Starting City/Region: Moscow

Chairman Name: Alexander Billiton

–Grit:[2]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[1]

Chairman Fluff: A brusque and powerful man with a shadowy past and a flair for strategy, Alexander Billiton acts carefully in public, but he always acts with strength, supported by extensive legwork and planning. With a background in field ops and having worked as a lobbyist in several countries, Billiton's experience suit's RAW's plans perfectly, and his forceful business style has seen much success. As Sun Tzu said, "The epitome of strategy isn't winning every battle, but winning without fighting." - likewise, Alexander prefers to arrive at a meeting with the result he wants already secured through the positioning and pressure his the company can provide. Personally he is reasonably skilful, speaking fluent English, Portuguese and Russian, with passable French and German, and he excels in planning and logistics. If rumours are to be believed he also has a fair few other, even more dangerous, skills, but none of his underlings are stupid enough to enquire too deeply into their boss's past

Wealth: 21.50(+6.35/turn) [+1 Pending, from Tax Shelter]

Pull: 6(+.75/turn)

Regions: 40

Agents: Djeff Kawloon: Grit 0, Guile 1, Acumen 3

Puppet Corporations:

[Oil & Gas Co: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

[Farms United: +0.5 Wealth/turn]

[Heavy Metal Co: +0.25 Wealth /turn, +1 to construction rolls]

[Africa-Asia Connect: +2 Wealth\turn so long as your Africa HQ and Asia HQ remain intact]

[Defensible Corporate Structures: can be deployed to regions to keep control, your HQ gains the brand [Emergency Response Teams]

[West African Power: +0.25 Pull\turn, -0.5 wealth\turn]

[BioGrowth Bangkok: +0.3 Wealth\turn, +2 to R&D relating to biology, genetics, or biological engineering]

Assets:

[Pistols]

[Subaquatic Rig](is this the right location?)

[Private Soldiers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects:

Significant Properties:

[Player Named Headquarters]

[Dark Continent Branch Office][HQ: Africa]

[Bangkok Rounder][HQ: Asia]

Planning and Execution:

+5-25 to any action you've spent an earlier action preparing (depending on how well the other roll went).

Checkered Past:

You're a deadlier man than you appear, and that can put some people on edge. -5 to gaining new Agents/

Growing Stronger:

+10 to extract raw resources/create facilities to do so, +5 to Expansion.

20th Century Mindset:

You haven't exactly gotten with the "cyberware, katanas, and trench-coats" vibe. -10 to researching futuristic technologies.

Technology:

[Agriculture II] [Heavy Industry II] [Accounting I] [Advanced Oil Drilling I][Mineralogy I]

Rolled 37, 91 = 128 (2d100)

>>15905

Rerolling 1 and 2

>>15874

>>15516

In that case the Alliance would very much like to set that up (as of >>14908 and >>15011)

Is this an action that needs to be rolled for by you?

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>15981

Reroll action #2

Rolled 67, 28, 95, 95 = 285 (4d100)

>>15811

Syndicate Name: Øivind-Kurosawa Conglomerate (Formerly SAP Deutschland)

Syndicate Fluff: The result of the German entrenched and highly secretive Øivind family's sudden desire to cooperate with the fresh-faced Japanese Kurosawas, Øivind-Kurosawa has recently pushed to acquire the massive SAP Deutschland and a number of smaller utilities, software and advanced design agencies across Germany, Øivind-Kurosawa is an unexpected and highly interesting phenomena. The conglomerate's formation and extremely rapid spread, as well as the sudden desire of the formerly almost asceticly reclusive Øivinds has been cause for concern amongst some in the high-tech industry in Europe and Japan, as have the significant military and political capabilities both families are well-known to posses.

Colour: Blue

Starting City/Region: Walldorf, Germany

Chairman Name: Nichols Øivind

–Grit:[1]

–Guile:[2]

–Acumen:[2]

Chairman Fluff: Nichols Øivind isn't a man with a long wikipedia page. He probably won't be listed in many magazine covers, and he is, by all accounts, a soft-spoken man who rarely speaks and shies away from public performance.

Few will ever understand just how much power he holds.

Nichols has three children that he never sees, instead spending his time cutting international deals and in backroom conferences, or burying himself in ancient works and tomes. His massive home is almost like a museum, in that it hosts a humongous variety of works thought lost to history and priceless artifacts, some practically radiant with power. Nichols is, despite his immense personal wealth, not a greedy man - the money is just a means to an end. That end is, of course, untold and unforseen power. Few things escape the gaze of a 187 IQ child prodigy who made untold billions in his youth through inside banking and exploiting connections - but the truth behind it all has. Not for long. Not anymore. Power, one way or another.

Wealth: 24.8(+6.8/turn)

Pull: 9(+.5/turn)

Regions: 34

Agents: [Nicky]

Puppet Corporations: [Kurosawa Holdings: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can expand in Japan] [Asgaard Group: +1.5 Wealth/turn, large enough force to deploy to (as a free action) strategic checkpoints across a region you own–makes it safer but suspends 1 Wealth/turn from the corp as other contracts are passed by.][Deutsche Comp LLC: e-War resistance is raised]

Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles] [Hackers] [Private Soldiers]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 1%

Projects: [Cybernetics I 4/10] [Mesh Dominance I: e-Hegemony] [Artificial Intelligence I]

Significant Properties:

[Øivind-Kurosawa International Towers (HQ: Europe (Germany))] - [Crypto Backdoors (Guile actions relating to cyberspace\hacking are advantaged, and on Grit actions you have a chance to confuse automated defense IFF codes for a crucial moment)], [e-War+]

[Kurosawa Advanced Design (HQ: Asia (Japan))]

[Øivind-Kurosawa Afrika (HQ:Africa (Tanzania))] - [Ancient City (???) (Research Site)]

Chairman's Edge: Ghost -Reclusive, intelligent, powerful–and now with a huge software giant at his back. Nichols Øivind gains +5 on any roll to generate money, and is harder to detect in general.

Chairman's Heel: Genius - Even cutting edge tech gurus can seem incompetent compared to you. -5 to rolls directly dealing with your personnel.

Conglomerate's Edge: Giants of Industry - The combined powers of Germany and Japan work wonders in industrious progress. You gain +5 on rolls to hostile takeover a company.

Conglomerate's Blindspot: Old (Bad) Blood - The Powers That Be don't know a lot about you and your old, powerful family–this worries them. Expansion yields +1% Heat. If the Old Guard need a scapegoat, you'll be their go-to man.

Technology: [Software Engineering III] [Accounting I] [Nanotechnology II]

1. Nichols will fill out our African territories in Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi and Zimbabwe, claiming those countries as Øivind-Kurosawa dominion as he pursues research in our unveiled, ancient city in the heart of the Botswanian jungle. Who knows what secrets it might hold?

2. Our main HQ in Germany will continue to develop [Mesh Dominance I: e-Hegemony] as we expand to fill out the rest of German land,claiming more territory as our exclusive marketing rights. Soon, all of Deutschalnd will be exclusively ours.

3. Continue our basic Cybernetics research. Ensure that there is strict cooperation with AI project leaders and Nanontechnology integration - if applied properly, combining these three technologies will make our soldiers able to stomp over anyone who stands in our way.

4. Continue AI project research, and integration with nanotechnology and cybernetics for in-soldier integration and wired supersoldiers.

Rolled 49, 30, 67, 68 = 214 (4d100)

>>15825

>Syndicate Name:PsychoKinetic Corporation AKA P.K.C

>Syndicate Fluff:Established shortly after the recent economic depression P.K.C has been eagerly awaiting it's chance to bite down on the market and cash in. Needless to say it's finally gotten it dealing in expensive weaponry,drugs and cybernetic enhancements they really do have everything you only have to ask.

>Colour:Dark Forest Green

>Starting City/Region: Germany

>Chairman Name: Josef Werchznste

>–Grit:2

>Action-y business.

>–Guile:2

>Espionage-y business.

>–Acumen:1

>Business-y business.

>Chairman Fluff: With a thick german accent his english isn't all that great so expect to be conversing in german, other than that he makes a ruthless opponent willing to take whatever means necessary to ensure a profit

> Wealth: 10(+1/turn)

>Pull: 5(+.5/turn)

>Regions: 1

>Agents:

>Puppet Corporations: [Tonnes of Guns!: +0.5 Wealth/turn, can produce 1.5/turn as a free action with a 25% chance of increasing Heat]

>Assets: [Pistols] [Assault Rifles]

>Personnel: 15

>Solvency: 75% [How solid your Syndicate's control is]

>Heat: 0% [How much the powers-that-be want you dead]

>Projects:

>Significant Properties:P.K.C ShIza Tower

>Respected in the Rhineland:

>Your Chairman gets a +5 to expansion and company acquisition within Germany proper.

>Ruthless:

>Occasionally you'll edge someone out of a deal while getting territory or corporations. And it'll be the wrong someone. DM will roll a d10 to see if you take additional Heat during such actions (~20% likelihood).

>Anything You Like:

>You can establish Black Markets that count as Significant Properties: in any territory, generating +1 Wealth/turn. You can flood them with certain kinds of arms and drugs to have variable effects on the local population.

>Jack of All Trades:

>Research rolls are at a -5 because you're so diversified.

>Technology:

>[Ballistics I] [Narcotics I] [Cyberware I] [Black Marketeering I] [Accounting I]

Oh we ave forgotten to do zings yes? Firstly let us start hiring soldiers, no let us hire the best mercs in the world a lot of zem.

Move into germany more ja?

Thirdly let us research ze ballistics more ja?

Lastly we shall research drugs more ja?

DM Fiat:

>Player-controlled Agents are now "Free Agents."

>The only thing this changes is that they now no longer count against the Accounting-linked Agent cap.

Rolled 77, 19, 99, 92, 88 = 375 (5d100)

>>15811

Syndicate Name: Genesis Bio-medical

Syndicate Fluff: Welcome to Genesis Bio-Medical. Creator of many of the miracle drugs that now make much of the known world free of dangerous diseases today. What you may not know is the history of Genesis. Created by a group of German immigrants in a void left in the medical business after the collapse of the market. Taking the pieces Genesis was built up into what it is today. Enough time has been wasted, welcome Professor, and have a good day.

Colour: Orange

Starting City/Region: East coast of America

Chairman Name: Wilhelm von Schlangenbaum

–Grit:[1]

Action-y business.

–Guile:[2]

Espionage-y business.

–Acumen:[2]

Business-y business.

Chairman Fluff:

Wilhelm is the grandson of the original chairman of the company, Winston von Schlangenbaum. A genius man and formerly a scientist for the company. After the recent loss of the last chairman due to mysterious circumstances Wilhelm has taken the mantle and chosen to show his genius can be applied to the market.

Wealth: 20.2(+3.2/turn)

Pull: 7.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 1

Agents: Janet Dekari: Grit 2, Guile 3, Acumen 2,

Puppet Corporations: [Big Pharma Inc: +0.5 Wealth/turn] [Totally Legit Corp: +1 Wealth/turn, acts as a front–can absorb up to 5% Heat. After you divert 5% incoming Heat to TLC, it will lose 1% Heat a turn. Once it has reached 0%, you’ll be able to divert Heat again.]

Assets: [Pistols] [Tear Gas] [Stroke LSD] [Psychotropic Gas][Omni-Vaccine]

Personnel: 23

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Projects: [Medicine V: So You Want To Live Forever? Wealth 11]

Significant Properties: [HQ]

Science as Usual:

Your experience in the field allows you to personally complete Projects, rather than using an R&D slot to do so.

Mysterious Circumstances:

Sometimes people in your way disappear–people in your own organization. -5 to attempts to recruit new agents

Future Drugs:

People love getting healthy. Also, fucked up. +3 Wealth every time you finish a new Pharmaceutical or Narcotics project as people rush to have the latest thing.

Future Bugs:

Disease is manufactured, engineered, and sold to the highest bidder–the Powers That Be may tap you to take care of any manner of issues. They'll compensate you, of course, but refusing the call may raise your heat. After all, in the year 207X, there is only business–the CDC is defunct.

Technology:

[Medicine IV] [Narcotics IV] [Accounting I]

1&4. Research better accounting.

2&3. Expansion!

5. Have Agent Janet make sure our Chinese friends have a bit of trouble with their plans. This could be good for making us look good.

>>16010

>>MSG: Work Agreement

Øivind-Kurosawa extends an invitation for a temporary contract until such conflict between our corporation and the Pschokinetic gang is concluded. For an offer of [5 Wealth] to seal this contract, we would be offering you a starting of [1.5 Wealth] per completed assignment within the framework of your contract, plus additional hazard pay that will be negotiated on an individual basis. Please respond quickly, or this offer may be extended to additional prospectives.

- Nichols Øivind, Chair and CEO

>>16010

Mein dearest frauline, it has come to our attention we require an agent for a time as we have been targeted by a rival business, note we use this term loosely. We are willing to offer you double what our competitors are offering.

Josef Werchznste-Head of P.K.C

>>16010

>Nu-Eyes Agreement Plan

We here at Nu-Eyes wish for your services, and are willing to give you[7 wealth] with another 1.7 wealth per completed assignment. All necessities, transport, and technology shall be provided, along with any needed enhancements or upgrades.

>>16015

>>16014

>>16012

It is a policy of mine to not accept contracts where the objectives are not plainly laid out, at this time I am considering the offer of Øivind-Kurosawa because their terms are plainly laid out, if you wish to contest this contract please lay out your contract terms and objectives or you will not be considered.

>>16010

Stat alocation

>Grit: 3

>Guile: 1

>Acumen: 1

>>16017

>Contract Terms

Nu-Eyes requires your services in the takeover of africa. Due to high amounts of conflict in the area nu-eyes wishes your support in stabilizing the region from south africa onward. You will be provided allied personnel, laser rifles, air and water assets, and support from another corporation we are allied with. Upon the takeover of africa or a reasonable portion of it you will be asked whether yoy are willing to renew your contract or not. For your benefit you will be given access to black ops files, intels befitting your clearance level, and cybernetic enhancements.

>>16021

To narrow down on our ojectives we wish a few things of you in africa. Espionage concerning corporations and local government, the sabotage of enemy corporate capabilities should the need call for it, defense of specific high priority objectives, and in extreme circumstances your assistance in assaults on enemy locations, all while provided with technology and allied assets.

>>16012

Updated to 9 Wealth at origin, 2 per completed assignment, plus full nanotechnological and cybernetic implantation with personal AI link to our unbreakable mainframe.

Free Agent

Syndicate:

Agent Name: Jeremy Phorcys

Agent Fluff: Life in this new world is in a never ending flux. Corporations form, rise, and fall like waves. Under the cover of the sea however, structures stand eternal. Phorcys was born into the world beneath the waves, his parents both highly accomplished scientists in their own rights. His mother was a leading researcher in bioengineering in relation to marine animals.

Perhaps it was due to this that Phorcys is more comfortable under water. From a young age, he was scuba diving and engaged in spots in the sea. After a stint in college studying cybernetics and bioengineering, Jeremy enlisted in the US Navy. Shifted into their R&D division, he developed a number of technologies that proved too innovative for them. Discharged, Jeremy started a small company dedicated to his ideas. With funds running low, he is force to sell his research to fund his ideas.

Character art

http://tomedwardsconcepts.deviantart.com/art/Poseidon-crew-diving-suits-348705836

>>16027

Very well, as soon as the initial payment has been transferred to my account I shall take on my first assignment.

Rolled 32, 5, 92, 79, 42 = 250 (5d100)

>>15804

Syndicate Name: Nu-U BioGenetics

Syndicate Fluff: Following the success of the Human Genome Project, and completed mapping and sequencing of the DNA of most terrestrial life, the next oobvious step would be moving from old and unscientific 'breeding' to direct engineering. Nu-U specializes in Anthropomorphic - Human - engineering and improvement, ranging from simple visual and health improvements, to major changes such as adding of limbs or fur, to combat-intended enhancements. They prefer to go through other corporations to field-test the latter.

Colour: Lime Green

Starting City/Region: San Francisco

Chairman Name: Duke Nelson III [Grit: 0, Guile: 1, Acumen: 4,]

Chairman Fluff: Duke Nelson isn't a bio-geneticist. He's a businessman who understands his research scientists, how to cajole them in profitable directions, and how to reward them with bouts of pure research. Nu-U is the outgrowth of a company founded by his Grandfather, and run by his Father before him, and Duke Nelson IV is currently working as a lab supervisor and earning his way up through the ranks. As such, Nelson tends to take a long view, as opposed to a short. Good practical innovations have come from interesting results of pure research, after all!

(Chairman)

Long-term Thinker:

-Duke Nelson the III makes the Syndicate resistant to Solvency shocks and personal actions to improve Solvency or increase Wealth generation receive a +10.

I'm No Scientist, But:

-Over reliance on incentivization has made Nu-U virile, but increased R&D costs. Gain +2 Wealth cost to all R&D Project Completion actions.

(Syndicate)

Beyond Man:

-Nu-U can produce more than modern man had dared dream. You can augment your agents' Grit at the cost of their Guile and Acumen. Corporate actions may be explicitly carried out by heavily Bio-modded personnel, granting +5 to violent actions or those requiring preternatural reflexes\health\unhuman features like gills\wins, but…

Reviled by Many:

-One man's dreams are another man's nightmares. Publicity of your bio-engineer operatives generates heat. If any of them got caught committing a crime, it would generate two times the heat.

Wealth: 21.9(+5.3/turn)

Pull: 7.5(+.5/turn)

Regions: 22

Borders: High-Bucks

Assets: [Pistols] [Claws][Escorts (Sexual)][Unstable Telepathy]

Personnel: 15

Solvency: 75%

Heat: 0%

Agents: [Dr. Vendermyn: Grit -1, Guile 1, Acumen 3]

Puppet Corporations:

-[DirectGineering Corp: +5 to Genetic Engineering Research]

-[A Big Bod For You: +0.5 Wealth/turn, they specialize in tissue growth, fat reduction, and general re-sexifying–use this as you will]

-[Eye Tint You: +1.5 Wealth\turn]

-[South Shore Services: +0.5 Wealth\turn]

Projects:

-[Commercial Eye Colorization][Completed]

-[Bio-Engineering IV: Chaotic Telepathy][Completed]

Significant Properties:

-[Nu-U Towers(HQ)]

-[Lab: California]

Technology:

-[Bio-Engineering IV]

-[Accounting I]

-[Medical Applications I]

In Progress

-Research: Pure [SOMETHING BIG!][11/?]

-Research: [Accounting II][2/15]

-[Psionics Lab][USA][6/10]

-[Military Applications] [5/10]

Standard Actions

1.Chairman Personal: Expand North America, Eastward

2.Corporate Action: Research in Accounting improvements to hire additional Agents continues

3.Corp or R&D Action: Psionics Research Center Construction Continues

4.R&D Action: [Pure Research][11/?]

Agent Actions

5.Dr Vendermyn: Military Application Research

6.Kali: CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SENT [[Please contact DMW on IRC]]

>>16025

You receive an contact from DirectGineering Corp, a leader in Bio-Genetics research, interested originally in your research, but quickly shifting into acquiring your services directly. Opening offer is a 5 wealth signing bonus, with an additional 1.2 wealth income [per turn] thereafter. DirectGineering and it's parent company would acquire your research, and you would get the title of Director of Special Projects at DirectGineering.

>>15797

You are summoned to the offices of Director Nelson. The summons contains assurances that you are doing an excellent job and Nu-U plans on retaining your services, but a wrinkle has come up regarding said retention: Namely, we lost your contract and need to renegotiate [META: Going to set up how much I pay you.]

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>16022

Free-Agent

Syndicate: Whoever is paying me at the time.

Agent Name: Sarah Wu

Agent Fluff: A prior service member in the american army Sarah was discharged when she lost an arm, and both legs in an IED explosion, with the advent of cybernetics she saved up her money and severance pay and replaced her missing limbs and has begun to hire out her services as a mercenary or assassin depending on the requirements of the job. Having a bit of success with bodyguard missions she used the pay to buy this abandoned oil rig and has begun turning it into her base of operations. If asked she'd say her favorite jobs would be search and retrieval of personnel, quick, simple, but has that added thrill of everything going FUBAR and it getting real fun.

Starting Region: Abandoned Oil Rig off the coast of iceland

Stats:

>Grit: 3

>Guile: 1

>Acumen: 1

[Bonds of Patriots]

You saw things that will never leave you, and you shared it alongside others. You were discharged, but your comrades in arms did not forget you, and now they are running the show. The Powers That Be are more willing to turn a blind eye to your activities–but orders are orders, and they won't hesitate to open fire if you find yourselves on opposite ends of a conflict.

Actions:

1. Until such a time as I have received initial payment and my first assignment from Øivind-Kurosawa I shall train to improve my grit.

>>16025

[Aquatic Researcher]

You may use your action to research. +5 on R&D rolls you make towards researching anything aquatic.

[[you can distribute 5 attribute points yourself or have me do it]]

>>16025

Yadda, yadda, yadda, funded 5 wealth initially and 1.5 wealth a turn

>>16025

Yadda, yadda, yadda, funded 5 wealth initially and 1.5 wealth a turn.

>>16029

Director's Notes:

"Accounting research went poorly. Shuffled that over to some Corporate types, maybe they can get a handle on it. I'm going to focus on getting some more cashflow, we'll need it shortly due to Agent acquisitions. Somehow got to my notice we weren't paying Kali; calling her to my office to fix that.

"Psionics and Telepathy. I didn't believe it until it was demonstrated. Decided to dedicate a research lab for it. Perhaps that would lead to a true Nu-humanity.

"Boys in the lab insist they have Something Big!. Capital letters and excited punctuation. Probably let it go a bit longer before start coughing about reports. Meanwhile, Dr Vendermyn's research into military applications continues. Maybe I'll have him go over and start coughing."

"Expansion into Mexico proceeded nicely, although hints of Old Guard action would be triggered if we went further. I'm not thinking we're ready for that, so I'm letting sleeping lions lie.

"Got a great opportunity to snag a new Agent by the name of Phorcys. Highly interested in Aquatics research, both on mechanic and biogenetic. Sending him an offer, although my gut feeling is that he'll not want to become a solely held asset."

>>16025

Mr Phorcys, we here at the Resource Alliance request your oceanographic expertise - in return for your services we will construct a base to your specifications in a place of your choosing using our aquatic dig/drill rig.

Further specific actions will be rewarded separately, price on consultation