The only artifact capable of saving the kingdom is in the hands

>>55235178
Party made up of a thief, a pygmy and an orangutan-mage. We will do fine.

Contact him and explain that he's got an artifact on his hands that a lot of people's lives are depending on, and if he could give just that up that would be grand.

>>55235178
I ask Scrooge nicely while explaining the situation. Then I offer him incentives and control of the Kingdom's finances, as well as a location he may operate tax free.

Also he can take anything from the villains once they are beaten.

>>55235474
Why ask him to give it up? Offer him to join, he will still retain possession of it and will be the one to use it. He may be a cheap, but he does right thing in the end.

Yeah, the thing is you can already reason with him given economic incentives, sometimes even humanitarian ones if they lead into good PR (and thus econ boons).

No need to steal unless theft triggers macguffin.avi

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>>55235178
Try to hire Arpin Lusène for the job.

>>55235178
Explain that if he doesn't help, all likelihood points to him losing everything regardless. If that doesn't work... Pluck him, stuff him, cook him, eat him?

>>55236131
Mh, good luck.
This is Scrooge at his prime there, in 1902. He stood up against the whole US army, alone, and won.

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I hire the one man good enough to steal from Scrooge.

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>>55235474
These. This is the only actual way to get it, you can't cuck McDuck

>tfw people still know you can't steal from McDuck and to just ask him for it

All the young fags must be in classes right now

>>55235178
Offer him a lucrative business deal. Meet up. Shoot him.

Plunder his stuff.

>>55236706
You think people haven't tried that already?

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>>55236706
Mrs. Beakley is jacked and will fuck you up

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>>55235178
Why not recruit him? After all, he probably knows more about the McGuffin than we do, and he is an elder god tier fighter.

Just explain that his riches would be worthless if the entire kingdom and its economy is destroyed.

>>55235178
You cant fuck mcduck, and he'll tear you apart for attempting to steal it. He's almost a decent person underneath his asshole exterior, so you'd be best off explaining how everything's connected to the end of the kingdom, and either rent it or ask him to come along and help out. Fighting him is pointless, as he would deny you out of spite for acting aggressive or dishonest with him

>>55235178
Just ask him for it. It has probably a tag with a price.

If it's Rosa's take on Scrooge, then he can even borrow you his 10 cent coin if situation is dire.

>>55236899
who?

>>55237442
>A situation so dire it would require the luck of his first dime.

I don't even want to know what this could be.

>>55235178
>Explain the value of the item,
>offer to give it back when we're done if applicable,
>and promise him loot and adventure if he comes along and brings it
Easy anon

>>55235178
>TRVE MODE

I cannot think of any scenario, system, setting or circumstance where the party doesn't wipe.

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>>55235178
When you say "best him in combat", do you mean at his current age, or as he was in his prime?

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>>55235883
>>55236639
>The Lupin family has been trying to steal the McDuck family treasure for three generations

>>55239564
King of Klondike Scrooge is essentially a force of nature when pissed off.

I bet he'd be bonus boss levels of lethal. As in "more broken on all levels than the actual final boss".

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>>55239564
>>55240541
King of Klondike Scrooge versus Big "Johnson" Bone fucking when?

>>55239564
>>55240618
King of Clondike Scrooge McDuck's lucky penny has through extremely unfortunate coincidence fallen in Jackie Chan's hands while he's holding a ladder in his left hand, a baby in his right and publically declares that he wants "no torabbu".

What happens?

>>55240676
he gives scrooge his coin and everyone is happy?

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reminder

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>>55240676
Scrooge explains that the lucky penny is merely a piece of sentimental value and asks Mr. Chan to kindly return it.

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>>55241316
http://career-end.donrosa.de/

>>55240690
>>55241316
What if Carmen Sandiego tries to steal it for a challenge?

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>>55241358
It still hurts

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>>55241358
No one writes and draws like Rosa.

>>55237480
>the luck of his first dime
It has no luck-powers.

>>55237911
Possibly - POSSIBLY - Dungeons the Dragoning MIGHT allow it, IF the entire party's Power 5.

>>55241399
She will steal it. While Scrooge is inhumanly capable, he isn't supernaturally capable of keeping people from stealing such items, even if he does put up a fight. Carmen is probably one of the few who could succeed in stealing his lucky dime. But stealing it is one thing. It is inevitable that Scrooge WILL get it back. Even if he has to chase her from Kiev to Carolina. From Berlin down to Belize.

>>55241316
While I adore Don Rosa; As an Italian Toppolino reader I will never accept that as Canon. Hiz os the minority view, everyone else portrays it as magical.Sorry Don, but you will never be the only Duck writer in my mind, I love too many others.

>13th Age
The lizardman eats him whole and we take advantage of this minor setback to take the artefact and fucking leg it while he eventually finds a way out of the non-Euclidian geometry that is that motherfucker's digestive system

>My Star Wars group
I'm pretty sure they could take him in combat, almost the entire party have Force sensitivity and lightsabers and could probably take a battalion of Imperial Army schlubs by themselves.
Even if they fall, they do have a rustbucket bulk cruiser with its own crew as a home base. The last man to go down turns on a transponder and McDuck's last position gets Base Delta Zero'd, then someone has the task of shuttling down and hoping that a. Their turbolasers made roast duck and b. The artefact is somehow salvageable

>>55235178
>has to steal it
So we can't ask nicely for him to help us out? I mean, we could get away with it for a few days at best because WIZARDS, but unless he knows that we don't want to keep it/sell it for money he could have gotten, we're not holding onto it for long.
>TRVE MODE
Come on dude, while half of them are ageless, they can still be killed

>>55236899
i wouldnt mind stuffing that duck, if you know what i mean

>>55236899
I'd like to show her my turkey baster, if you know what i mean

>>55236899
I'd fuck her, but i dont want a bill, if you know what i mean

>>55236899
I'd make a sex joke, but that would be fowl

>>55236899
Duck puns

>>55245879
>>55245899
>>55245937
>>55246018
samefag, but funny samefag.

>>55246146
woo woo

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>>55246152
you caught me.
glad i didn't ruffle your feathers

>>55235178
Ask to borrow it, and if he wishes, he can have a share of any treasure we find along the way.

Scrooge isn't a monster, and is always willing to earn money. Just don't try and fuck with the duck, even a primed, 20th level Schrodinger's Wizard has nothing on the duck.

>>55240676
Scrooge asks politely for it.
If Jackie Chan refuses, Chan is going down.

>>55246676
Jackie don't want no trouble though, so he'd have no reason to refuse.

>>55235178
We chain him up in a sailing casino while mocking him, his family and his mother's death. What could possibly go wrong?

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>>55235178
We walk directly into his office, and tell him we're with the Bureau of Land Management. We don't WANT to fuck with Scrooge McDuck but, frankly, we're an unelected bureaucracy with nigh unlimited authority and if he doesn't come with us and help us defeat this abomination, we'll declare his Vault a nature preserve for a breed of turtle that doesn't live there, set it on fire, shoot his butler, and then jail him for negligent destruction of government property. We can do that. We do it weekly.

>>55247520
This will work against Don Rosa's,Scrooge, as well as any Scrooge written by a Scandinavian - those stories have a pro-big-government slant.

>>55247520
Fuck off cliven