Mad Plans 3, Take Two.

[mauve]

Does that mean we need to capture some flies, brainwash/blackmail them into being our allies, and then use them as our double agents in the underground (airbourne?) world of the flies? Because that would be cool.


Wait! Let's have bees! We need bees to be our minions. Or wasps. Or yellow jackets. It would be awesome to have an army of bees to do our bidding, or to slip into the realm of insects and start spreading rumors instead of double-agent flies. Think about it. A swarm of buzzy, stinging minions of yellow and black flying through the skies, stinging any who oppose us. We'd have a reign of terror in no time, as long as we find a way to make our particular bees incredibly loyal to us and completely immune to pesticide.

Besides, if we hire the right species of bee, our evil council will have an endless supply of honey. And if our enemies ever find a way to cut the electricity to our secret (not so secret?) base, then we'll have plenty of beeswax for candles. WE WILL BE NIGH UNSTOPPABLE!!

So yeah. I totally vote for bees.

[Sir Pinkleton]

...With "lazer beams" attached to their heads...

[Tendronai]

Yes, the honey supplies would be beneficial in ensuring that the bears stand with us. Lazer beams attached to their heads is okay, but only if there is enough room for that and a magnifying glass. That way, the flies will know that their failure is complete.

And don't forget the many other uses for beeswax! Like... umm... wrapping into balls and throwing at people. If we had enough, we could create the skull island out of beeswax. It would stand as an awesome reminder of the power of the bee.

[mauve]

If we wanted to get super evil and super creepy about it, we could keep a vat of molten beeswax in our base and then slowly lower our captured enemy flies into said vat via rope and pulley (string and pulley?). It would be like that wax museum horror movie, or some James Bond villain's evil plot.

I can just see the rows of dead flies preserved in wax, lined up on shelves. We line the hallway to our meeting chamber with them, so that when our double agent flies (if we have any) need to report to us, they have to walk down this hall in order to get to us. It'll be a gruesome reminder to them where their loyalties lie. One small sign of traitorous intent and it's the BEESWAX FOR YOU!

[Tendronai]

Yes, it would serve as a cruel reminder to all flies what their fate is. The only thing we need now is to convince the bees to join with us. If I remember the Simpsons correctly, a large pile of sugar is all we need.

Dipping someone in beeswax... heh heh heh... No one would oppose us when they found out the punishment!

[guy named bob]

Call me insane but what if we put the laser beams on the allied bears head. Make items out of beeswax after we build our skull shaped island of it and make beeswax relaxing candles which give out deadly gas which causes us to gain troops?

[Tendronai]

I enjoy the idea of beeswax brainwash candles. Bears with lasers is probably overdoing it, though. I mean, there's no need for that kind of thing. Whats the point of taking over the world if the bears have already lasered everyone?

Priorities, people, priorities!

[Khael!]

...But I like the scent of beeswax candles. Call me effeminate, but they were a refreshing change from those offensive Holiday candles during the blackout.

Be a real pity if I succumbed to one of my own deadly brain-soap death candles. And you know I would.

Bears eh? Make sure to get multiple varieties, as not all species can climb trees. We want that kind of versatility. Lasers or not. (I don't know how good a Bear's aim is.)

!!! You know what we do with our naturally buoyant & waterproof skull island? We embed the surface wax several metres deep with nanobots that can produce enough heat to soften and reshape the wax on command. Or turn it into a boiling pool. I haven't worked out the cooling mechanism yet...

Don't saturate all of the wax with nanos though - a precaution against melting the entire island should control of the bots be seized.

With the nanowax layer, we could effortlessly remodel the terrain with but a few commands. Our nemesis comes aboard our island? Get feedback from the nanobots as to his exact coordinates, then flash melt the area around him. :gonk: Blub!
Or sculpt out a hollow space with a very thin layer over top to act as insta-pitfall. Once the victim falls in and gets stuck to the floor (as it cools), the bots quickly close the hole, trapping him in a little bubble which muffles the screams as said nanobots enter his bloodstream through his lungs and begin disassembling his heart.

Wow I'm sick.

My personal suggestion however, is that the nanobots assemble the wax into a hugely-upscaled working fist. And... y'know, slapstick punch the intruders into the ground.

[guy named bob]

Over complicated island where nanites can affect the ground people walk on? Wait we would have a skull island being guarded by nanites and bees to protect it by air and bears with lasers on their heads guarding the ground?
Sounds like a nice place to start our world domination eh?

[Khael!]

Plus the island's effectively mobile.