<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg4750789#msg4750789">Quote from: NotoriusBEN on 07-06-2011, 01:32:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I cant find a way to spin this or salvage the situation.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>On this world, or at least this PART of this world, yeah, you're probably going to have to retreat and regroup.  But I wouldn't say you cannot spin and/or salvage the situation, especially on other worlds.  The whole incident was almost certainly filmed... but as I've said before, there is no such thing as bad publicity... especially for an action flick.<br/><br/><strong>"The movie so radical they blew up the theater!"</strong>Will NOT scare the crowds away, trust me!<br/><br/>If you use Darius as a scapegoat... (and he'll implicate Baromir and Cortez's group about the same time he'll give a friendly hug to a Chaos Demon...) you can probably avoid most fines... if not all of them, and the movie will still sell out if you sell it right.<br/><br/>Perhaps a Commerce, or Charm, or Deceive roll (or all three) would be appropriate to help the media campaign with the most positive (and profitable) spin.  But I don't see why you cannot still make a profit on the movie (and the toy rights...)<br/><br/>For other sources of profit in the near future, using Darius's Ultramar Heraldry scroll to finish the "Ultramar Candidate Endeavor" should add a profit factor to the moral and crew rating bonus you'd get on the Alexander... and the new character I am creating will also increase the group's profit factor.<br/><br/>So there are three potential increases to our profit factor in the near future.  The power gamer in me wants to ask... is there any reason why the group can't make brand new acquisitions each time?  Once when the movie brings in profit, once when the "Ultramar Candidate" brings in a profit factor, and once when the Noble Born, (and independently wealthy) captain of the Everest joins Cortez's ranks of minions...<br/><br/>I'm expecting therefore that we'll be able to do a LOT of spending in the near future.  We may just be able to cross off some serious acquisition heavy endeavors in the near future as well...<br/><br/>I'm now expecting Baromir to give Darius his (last) marching orders.  The only real question now is will Baromir decide to have Darius simply give himself up, or send him to kill the Archbishop (or try) first.