DDD is an RP about being an evil mastermind. Your latest attempt at world domination/mass destruction/interior design has failed and you are now forced to move and start again.

With what remains of your cash you have bought yourself a new Lair in Yam City and are ready to begin your new Master Plan



The goal of this RP is mostly whatever you wish of it. There will be a variety of possibilities for earning money/increasing your influence available.

I've tried to make it rather open in terms of options. If you have another path you want to pursue, feel free to hit me up.

Your secret lair is your base of operations. If it is over run it is not the end so long as your mastermind escapes, but it will set you back greatly. The Ground Floor is for your front business (to keep the public from discovering your den).
You can build your Lair either up or down. Your lair must have an inner sanctum for your Mastermind to reside.


Examples:

Floor 2 - Inner Sanctum
Floor 1 - Surveillance
Ground Floor - Front business, Butcher
Basement 1 - Armoury
Basement 2 - Secret Laboratory

Floor 1 - Surveillance
Ground Floor - Front Business, Warehouse
Basement 1 - Secret Laboratory
Basement 2 - Detainment Cells
Basement 3 - Armoury
Basement 4 - Inner Sanctum (Emergency Exit installed)


Miscellaneous Purchases
Inner Sanctum, Free
Emergency Exit, $200
Extra Floor, $300


Rooms
Armoury, $200 - Allows your minions to wield firearms
Detainment Cells, $100 - Stash away fools you have captured for whatever reason you are capturing fools
Surveillance, $50 - Your cameras lead here. With a worker minion watching, you'll see most threats coming and have time to sound the alarm
Training Room, $50 - Allows you to upgrade Minions rather than purchasing whole new ones


Morgue, $150 - A source of bodies for your evil deeds
Sacrificial Chamber, $150 - Consort with nightmares and monsters from beyond the veil if you have a Ritualist running the show
Secret Laboratory, $150 - With at least one Scientist you can unlock really stupid things. It'll be great
Robotics Manufacture, $150 - Requires an Engineer but will allow you to create machines to do your bidding

Basic Minions
Thug $50 - Tough guys with more steroid-enhanced muscles than brains, Thugs like to break things and hurt things. Sometimes there is a beautiful shining moment in which they discover they can break and hurt things at the same time. This is known as Thug-Nirvana. Combat minion. Upgrades to Goon.

Goon $100 - Goons are much like Thugs except Goons can usually spell words more difficult than 'cat' thanks to classes at the local community college. Although they also like to hurt/break/both things Goons will prioritize your orders because they are smart enough to be afraid of death rays and shark-mounted lasers. Combat minion. Upgrades to Enforcer.

Enforcer $150 - At some point a Goon will decide upon his career path and more often than not that winding road leads to punching. No longer content with having more gains than the average gym junkie the Goon works hard at being a better kind of fighter. Mean, malicious and muscled, the Enforcer is finally the kind of employee an enterprising mastermind would be proud to hire. Well, maybe not proud. Less shamed perhaps. Combat minion. Upgrades to Beater, Soldier or Shadow.

Beater $300 - Harder, better, faster and indeed stronger than Enforcers are the Beaters. They've dedicated their lives to becoming the perfect fighter. Second to none in hand-to-hand combat and without hesitation when it comes to violence. They're also less flashy than soldiers due to their preference for getting up close and personal. Combat minion.

Soldier $300 - Many of the lesser minions, when asked about guns, will roll up their shirt sleeves and flex. The soldier is marginally less moronic and will immediately bring up his pride and joy: firearms. Although other minions will sometimes use firearms none have quite the training or artistic vision as the Soldier. Combat minion.

Shadow $300 - Sometimes violently smashing things is, oddly enough, not the solution to all of life's problems. As distressing as this information may be to some people there is a simple way of working around that. Hiring a stealthy individual for your nefarious thieving, espionage or assassination needs is always a perfectly acceptable measure. Infiltration and Combat minion

Workman $50 - More flimsy than a Thug but not mentally deficient. Not very skilled at anything but is good at doing basic things, like stocking the fridge, watching security cameras and diving in front of bullets. Work minion. Upgrades to Technician or Cultist

Technician $100 - Sometimes you need a minion with just a liiiiiiittle more in the way of education. You know, a minion who can actually do things. Should anyone cause damage to your property or possessions you'll need to fix them. Duct tape sadly is not the answer in some cases. That is where the technician comes in. A Technician keeps everything running nice and smooth. Work minion. Upgrades to Mad Scientist or Engineer

Mad Scientist $200 - Have YOU ever wanted to unleash hordes of giant bees upon your enemies? Do YOU want to outfit your mediocre henchmen with dangerous plasma weaponry? Introducing the Scientist, master of abusing the laws of nature and playing God. With this employee and a Laboratory you'll be riding your very own dinosaur in no time. Work minion. Upgrades into Action Scientist

Engineer $200 - Working in your robotics division to supply you with the greatest of cyborgs and androids. No domination is quite complete without a giant robot. Work minion. Upgrades into Combat Engineer.

Cultist $100 - Performing sacrifice is hard work. There's blood and screaming and you need like half a dozen mops to clean up sometimes. That is four more mops than a worker can use. Cultists are mindless sycophants who just like robes and chanting but they are useful. Work minion. Upgrades to Ritualist or Necromancer

Ritualist $200 - A person who consorts with demons. Having a Ritualist and a Sacrificial Chamber will satisfy all your devilish doomsday needs. Work minion

Necromancer $200 - Master of the undead. Necromancers can return Minions to life if they have been slain, as well as turning fallen enemies into minions. Work minion



Advanced Minions

Action Scientist $400 - Armed with some sort of energy weapon and possessing a PhD in both ass-kicking and theoretical physics, the Action Scientist is like a Soldier but with a bit more smarts. An Action Scientist can also be used as a Technician or Scientist when not blasting enemies with the power of SCIENCE. Work and Combat minion.

Once upon a time an enterprising mastermind ran a protection racket in a city. So long as people remembered to pay him money he would make sure that no "accidents" happened. He also had words to say to people who caused "accidents" at businesses he was being paid by, words such as 'broken kneecaps' and 'sleep with the fishes'. So successful was he that slowly his racket spread more and more until eventually everyone in the city was paying money for protection. No criminals dared commit crimes under his watchful eye and everyone gave him money.

It was at this point that he realized he had become a police force. The protection money was essentially taxes.

At first this disgusted him, but the lure of money was strong. He rebranded his organization as JUSTICE™, dedicated to stamping out the forces of evil (so long as the money poured in). Wealthy and powerful as he was the mastermind decided to expand his operations to nearby cities and now has a presence in every major city in the country.

For you this is quite bothersome. This means that as you grow powerful the forces of JUSTICE™ will pay more and more attention to you.

[Picture here, if applicable. If it is absurdly large, like, American McDonalds upsized meal large, please use a hider]

/// Note that if you are a robot, or alien, or fishthing, some things such as Sex will not apply to you. Replace it with Species instead. Some things, like if you're an alien who shoots eye lasers, may require you to also use an Ability for it.

Name: eg - Joey "Facestomper Soulflayer" Williams, terror of the online gaming community (If you want to have lots of silly names or titles, go nuts)
Age: eg - 12 (the majestic number, rare though as it may be, is the best answer to this question)
Sex: eg - Male (he identifies as an omnisexual genderqueer sea-cucumberkin but for identification purposes we're going with biology here)
Appearance: (if not using a picture, feel free to describe your dashing devilish doom-monger in delectable detail here)

Personality:

Ability:
Create two abilities. Can be technological, magical, social, combat. Anything. But keep in mind GM has the right to accept or deny them - don't go overboard

Skills:
Four skills. This is things like Hand to Hand Combat, Firearms, Stealth, Frugality, Observation, etc

Cash - $500

Lair
Floor 1 -
Ground Floor -
Basement 1 -

Minions

Name: Alice
Age: "12"
Sex: Female

Personality: Alice is in possession of an undoubtedly twisted, almost dream-like psychological profile. Her eccentricities and intense delusions are second to none, as is the same with her fondness for tea, cakes and girlish fun. While she could be called cruel beyond all belief, she conceals this nature behind a rather cute, refined persona, which seems to glean much contentment from simply watching as others have all sorts of fun.

While she can be a fickle, yet stubborn creature, she is easily fascinated with cute, girlish or otherworldly things, particularly those that relate closely to the fairytales of her delusions. One tactic which can prove invaluable in the face of her malice is to simply play along with her games, as one will often find themselves momentarily spared if they so much as pretend to play along with her childish fantasies.

Once slighted, her anger can burn with such intensity that she might (calmly, and with a lovely smile upon her face) lash out at those around her. This may, at times, cause her to unfortunately lose the support of her followers, particularly if they have to watch as their buddy from high-school is eaten before their eyes. In this sense, she could be compared to a great, childish beast, which throws a tantrum when it doesn't get its way.

Her end goal is to have the grandest tea party of them all, and to finish off with the most spectacular of cakes. She will paint over the world with her delusions to meet this end, as to be honest, she hasn't really got much else to do.

Alice's Perfect Tea Party
The power of overflowing youth possessed by the great Demon Lord, Alice, which can be bestowed upon others against their will to transfigure them into the form most suited for attending Alice's tea parties. To put it bluntly, they transform into little girls. Rather than a mere alteration of the physical form, this power could be said to be an all-encompassing conceptual curse that transmutes the victim's very existence into Alice's "Ideal Companion". Their minds, bodies and souls become little more than a guest to their mad host's whims, forced to attend her parties and feel the effects of her menace even long after their bodies have been taken by the sweet embrace of death.

This power of youth flows from every fibre of Alice's being, but its effects are not quite so easily tasted as her simply willing it. Her prey must either physically touch her, for some extended period of time, or directly consume an abnormally large amount of her essence; whether it be through perceiving her existence, being in close proximity to her or being affected by any magics she possesses for too long. Even thinking about her for too lengthy a period of time can have certain, detrimental effects on the mind, causing one's mental landscape to twist and warp into one in accord to Alice's tastes.

She cannot reverse the metamorphosis once it takes place, but conversely, neither can anybody else (unless through a means specifically designed to counter her influence.) Because it is a power formed on the basis of "Enforcing the user's delusions on the world", this ability is very much the first of the stepping stones that will pave the path to Alice's final, and most terrifying form. Man can only fail to imagine what horrors await the world if she ever gains more power than she already has.

Grow, Grow, Grow!
If her other power could be said to be an expression of Alice's delusions, this is more-so an expression of the "True" Alice's nature. She could be called a Demon of the highest calibre, a monstrous creature which feeds off the souls and bodies of others in order to strengthen her own existence and further her influence over the world around her. No matter how her mind or body may warp, she is at her core a being which "Consumes others", and she will always be driven in some way or another towards this nature.

Simply put, this power is the embodiment of a propensity for growth. By "eating" more, Alice may very rapidly increase her own power, stockpiling a wealth of souls which she may continue to bind to herself for additional strength. Through this, she may unlock the true depths of her demonic potential as well as add on to her already impressive delusions of wonderlands and fairytales. She gains what you could call an "EXP Bonus", and her parameters are as a whole quite a bit higher than most others (given how much she eats).

... She's recently been "Bankrupted", though, so her power isn't nearly what it may have once been. She'll need some time, yet, to reach a level where she's able to be a legitimate threat to the universe at large.

Hostmanship
Alice has hosted a fair number of Tea Parties in her time, and as such has gained quite an insight into how to best make everyone comfortable. While her idea of "comfortable" may differ from others, her hospitality and care for her guests shouldn't be underestimated, and her table manners could be said to be top-class.

Dresscraft/General Sewing
When one is finished turning an entire military platoon's worth of men into cute, obedient little girls, it does you well to know how to create a platoon's worth in cute, girlish dresses. Alice has honed this admittedly fairly useless skill to the point where her dresses are far above those constructed within the realm of mortals, and if she were willing to part with them to just any old person, she could likely sustain all of her economic endeavours on the wings of her dressmaking alone.

Alas, however, she has neither will or the motivation to do anything of the sort. So her minions will just have to subsist on Ramen Noodles and Tea, for just a little while longer.

Tea-Partying
Probably her most powerful skill of all, which is the skill of tactical, well-executed breaks. Alice's Tea Parties are to die for, and her talents in making the most magnificent party on each and every attempt is what makes her such a wonderful boss to work beneath. When it comes to her Tea Parties, Alice takes everything ab-so-lutely seriously, meticulously preparing each and every little detail, no matter how insignificant, to create the perfect and most enjoyable experience possible.

The Tea, the Cakes, everything HAS to be perfect, and it is. How could you possibly not enjoy such a pleasant party, with everything having been crafted with art, and effort, and care? You would have to be mad~!

Torture
Until Alice's reign of terror begins, it can be reasonably thought that there is virtually no way to make torture "Cute". Alice does anyways.