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H-Town Heroes Session 1
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Join us in a new campaign as we play Masks: A New Generation. Listen as our heroes The Verdant Guardian, K.E.V.I.N., Iron Sand, Knightfall, and Siphon take down villainous threats and navigate the complexities of high school at the same time.
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Transcript
Introduction and Character Setup
00:00:18
Speaker
Welcome, heroes, to another episode of Integrated Dice Management Presents... whatever we're calling this superhero game. Um... we'll figure That's a weird name for a game. like Yep, it is.
00:00:31
Speaker
ah We're going to be playing Masks A New Generation. Um... And we've created our characters. And so now we're going to intro our players, starting with me, the Dungeon Master. Or in this game, it's called the Game Master, which I think is... No, in Vampire, it's called Storyteller.
00:00:53
Speaker
um You all know me. I am Ron Bjork. And with me tonight is Bill. Hey, everybody. I'm Bill. I'm going to be playing... um the reformed his name is reese last name unknown and with a spoon not that one and both his former villain name as well as his current hero name are both iron sand he's trying to change the appearance himself and during the day he's a regular kid gone back going back to school and uh during most of his free time he works at his uh
00:01:35
Speaker
At his sponsor's restaurant.
00:01:38
Speaker
Um... How old is Reese? Uh, he is 19. nineteen 19. Okay. but And, um, I didn't mention this before, but all the characters are... i Unless someone decided to be younger, they should be seniors in high school.
00:01:55
Speaker
Um... Uh, so... Does Reese... and um' And I've got a question for each of you. Does Reese... have a crush on anyone in or outside of the team.
00:02:10
Speaker
Oh, oh, oh. So, okay, we're talking okay we're talking high school romance now. Okay. yeah thirteen guys we room for jesus
00:02:23
Speaker
Jesus probably a superhero in this world.
00:02:28
Speaker
His power is- he has transmutation abilities, that's what it lets him walk on water and change shit into other shit, like water into wine.
00:02:40
Speaker
yeah So you have a thing for an underage child. ah you was a man! He had a full beard and everything! Shut up!
00:02:50
Speaker
But in all seriousness. im Okay, this is going to be just a little awkward. But he actually does have a crush on someone from his past. as Someone he actually used to work with. And what's crazy is that he doesn't even know what she looks like.
00:03:12
Speaker
All he knows is that he worked with her. And she goes by the villain by the villain named Jester's Kiss, or JK.
Character Backstories and Dynamics
00:03:19
Speaker
No, fuck you!
00:03:23
Speaker
It's on the villain. It's the villain.
00:03:26
Speaker
youre an We worked together in the past. I like the way i like the way she does her if she does her job.
00:03:35
Speaker
That's job with air quotes, everybody. Yeah. um
00:03:42
Speaker
All right. So next up, that that was Bill playing Reese. Next up, we've got... um
00:03:50
Speaker
Let's go with Frank. Hi everyone! You might know me from other roles like Cole and Cole. In this game I'll be playing Cole. No, ah my name's gonna be Calix in this one.
00:04:06
Speaker
ah He is, i don't know how old he is. Did I even put down an age? He'd be high school age. He's a tree, he doesn't have an age anymore. Well, he he has an age. I just don't know what I put... ah he just I'm sure I come up with something. just going to say he's like 16.
00:04:22
Speaker
sixteen me Sure. 16-year-olds can't be in senior year. Smart ones can. Oh, they have to be senior years? Okay, well, fuck it. 17 and a half.
00:04:35
Speaker
Okay. To make things easier. um What all are we supposed put into this part just just tell a little ah a little about your character what his character class is and whatever you would like to reveal at this moment gotcha um so uh my character's name is calyx my superhero name is the verdant guardian i am oh god what's the playbook name the transformed The transformed.
00:05:04
Speaker
um I am a tree person. Or, to be more accurate, I'm a... Fuck, what's that flower called that I was talking about the other day? You were talking you were talking about the... Oh, shit.
00:05:19
Speaker
ah
00:05:24
Speaker
Ten seconds? I'm just rolling up. I'm trying to find it. that drop it in discord. Wisteria. Wisteria. So I'm actually a combination of Wisteria and human.
00:05:34
Speaker
um Wisteria is a a vine that can be also like a tree or a bush. Um, and it has a bark-like texture, but still its greenery, its new growth is typically green, the flowers can be anywhere from white to like purplish in color.
00:05:53
Speaker
um Super pretty plant if you look it up. Anyways, um I was combined with the wisteria through a combination of um abuse from a parent and a magic elixir from an ant.
00:06:13
Speaker
I feel like that's enough info. Yeah. Yeah. um it's So, does Kaylee have any... She works at a biotech facility. She? The ant, yes. on oh that The The ant.
00:06:27
Speaker
The ant. My ant. Not like an ant that's in an anthill, but ant hill but how that used is like your parent's sister. um and So, not counting your aunt, which I don't know if you would consider her a close family member, but does Calix have any siblings, cousins, or other family members that he's close to?
00:06:53
Speaker
So he, Calix is an only child. um His mother died when he was really young. she had a
00:07:04
Speaker
what wouldn't she had a ah ah love for plants in and and gardening and things like that and so that he could be close to her. He started doing that, um, to get away from his abusive father. um Yeah, she had a green thumb.
00:07:20
Speaker
Um, but other than himself and his father, he lives, uh, mostly in or used to live mostly in the greenhouse behind his house. Um, whenever his father would come home drunk or whatever, but past his father and his aunt, no close siblings.
00:07:37
Speaker
Um, his aunt has a daughter, ah that Calyx was at one point friendly with, but not exactly friends with.
00:07:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:07:53
Speaker
And what does she feel about your transformation? um She feels partially responsible because she's the one that talked her mother into um sneaking the ah growth elixir from the biotech company um to try to make Calix slightly more happy in his otherwise dreary life.
00:08:17
Speaker
Alrighty. um Now, Calix does have um a ah friend. Actually, ah friend of all of them, but he's not here tonight. That is whoever Jaden is playing.
00:08:29
Speaker
Possibly named Brad, but he might change that name. um But Jaden's not here right now. He will probably join us in another episode. um And the last member of our cast, last but not least, is Hayden.
00:08:47
Speaker
hey um I'll be playing Syphon, who is also known as Max. ah Max Jr. specifically, you might remember him from The Vampire, the son of my vampire, Max.
00:09:00
Speaker
In this world,
00:09:05
Speaker
Max's dad took the deal to, well, took a deal to get his son to have powers, since he was
Superhero Battle Begins
00:09:16
Speaker
disapproving of his son being a mundane person?
00:09:23
Speaker
Um...
00:09:25
Speaker
Hayden or Max, ah he's already got some pre-established NPCs in his life that we'll reveal later. um The point of these questions are to create new characters for me to use and or torture.
00:09:42
Speaker
So there is a teacher or part of the faculty that sees promise in you. Who are they at the school? They don't know your... Well, they don't have to know anything about your superheroic side.
00:09:55
Speaker
Is this for each of us or is this one just for Hayden? This is for Hayden. So there's a teacher that sees potential in teacher and or part of the faculty that sees promise in you. Who are they? I'm going to say calculus teacher.
00:10:11
Speaker
Your calculus teacher.
00:10:16
Speaker
You want to spout off a random name for them?
00:10:21
Speaker
Hmm.
00:10:25
Speaker
once Do we have to take calculus? You don't have to, no. Okay. If, you know, if you're smart enough, you can.
00:10:36
Speaker
I'm a tree person. I don't think I probably want to be into calculus.
00:10:41
Speaker
Let's just say... Norma Glass. Norma Glass, okay.
00:10:49
Speaker
Good name. Alright. Yeah, um your tree person, you know, he...
00:10:56
Speaker
is um probably ah wondering why he's even being forced to continue to go to school. but you know um
00:11:06
Speaker
So this school that you guys go to is... um
00:11:12
Speaker
Well, I guess I should talk more about the city we're in. We're in the city of Halcyon City, which is the let's call it origin city of superhero like superheroic activity in the world.
00:11:24
Speaker
The first superheroes came from here. um The first supervillains came from here. The city is so used to superactivity, they've gotten really good at cleaning up after it as well. The school that you guys go to, Halcyon High, is... ah a school for both ah supers and non-superheroic individuals.
00:11:45
Speaker
The school does try to maintain anonymity for its super students. However, people like Calyx, unfortunately, you can't exactly hide what he is. um They have protocols for when disasters happen and these heroes are called upon.
00:12:01
Speaker
And in fact, there is a sort of after-school program for heroes, Now, as seniors, you guys um are sometimes actually sent out on missions into the city.
00:12:14
Speaker
ah Speaking of which, um we the the camera you know shifts and we see a parking lot with vehicles upturned, flipped around. you hear car alarms going off.
00:12:30
Speaker
ah There are people screaming and running. And let me do a D3 real quick.
00:12:38
Speaker
And I also have a text message.
00:12:47
Speaker
Two. And Reese, although I think right now you are Ironsand, there is Subaru being tossed at you.
00:13:03
Speaker
there is a subaoo being tossed at you um We have gone in media res. A Subaru is flying in your direction. I use my ah ability to control metal to stop it slowly so that I can see if there's anyone inside of the Subaru.
00:13:22
Speaker
So what I'm going to need you to do is you are going to... ah you in order to do that... Okay, so is your intent more to stop it or more to save the people inside?
00:13:37
Speaker
Are there people inside? Yes. We'll say yes. Oh, then it's then it's to save them. Okay, so you're going to roll the move. um what Where are the moves? ah
00:13:52
Speaker
They're not on this sheet. Okay, then I need to bring that up so I know what the heck I'm talking about. um it's I believe it's the move Defend Someone. Basically, you're going to roll Savior. Okay.
00:14:05
Speaker
Um, I should have printed this out. Oh shit. This is going to be, this is going to be rough. We've got a negative to this one. Let's start. Okay. Here we go.
00:14:18
Speaker
Okay. So that's going to be a situation bonus penalty. Anything? Uh, nothing right now.
00:14:29
Speaker
I got three. oh Okay. it counts That's too low for me. It counts as a miss. It does. And that's too low for me to even have someone help you.
00:14:40
Speaker
ah So um this is the first roll of the game and you are defending someone or something from an immediate threat roll plus savior for NPC threats on a, on a hit, you keep them. set So basically you missed, um which means the, uh, uh,
00:15:00
Speaker
for PC threats, okay. um This car... So, being the young, inexperienced hero that you are, um and this is a stressful situation, you weren't able to ah you know get your hands up and and get your powers focused on time.
00:15:17
Speaker
um You were able to probably like twist the car a little bit and at least get it upright, but it still slams into the ground right where you are.
00:15:28
Speaker
um And you're going to... I wasn't planning on this to happen so quickly, but you're going to do the thing called take a powerful blow. um So in order to take a powerful blow, you actually want to roll low.
00:15:45
Speaker
um okay in this case, there is, let me see, it should be on the sheet somewhere. um Is it not?
00:15:59
Speaker
I could have sworn it oh Oh, where it says conditions, you roll, just click the dice next to the word conditions.
00:16:07
Speaker
okay can condition
00:16:13
Speaker
Okay, so we're going to roll that.
00:16:21
Speaker
Okay, so a hit is not ideal. I got rolled a seven. All right, so on a seven, um I need to print this page out so I don't have to keep switching windows.
00:16:35
Speaker
ah On a seven, choose one of the following. ah You lash out verbally, provoke a teammate to foolhardy action or take advantage of your influence to inflict a condition on a teammate.
00:16:48
Speaker
You give your ground and your opposition opposition gets an opportunity or you struggle past the pain and mark two conditions.
00:16:58
Speaker
Oh, and conditions are actual damage, aren't they? Yeah. And they can be cleared you know even in the course of combat. and I'm not going to have a mouse for a second because i got to plug in my printer.
00:17:09
Speaker
okay And I don't feel like... I mean, you can keep talking. Oh, crap. Nope, I can't do that. What are...
00:17:21
Speaker
What was the second one again? The second one is um
00:17:30
Speaker
go ah the second one was you give ground and your opportunity opposition gets an opportunity i'm gonna go ahead and give ground okay now give me just a second because i need to plug this into the back of my computer okay so i can print this and not have to keep switching windows my printer's wi-fi stopped working um And I've just been plugging it into the front of my printer or or my computer and unplugging my microphone.
00:18:01
Speaker
But I kind of need my microphone right now. Either that or oh yeah i don't know if I've got an extra spot on the back. Screw it. I will unplug my microphone temporarily. um i will be back in a couple seconds.
00:18:14
Speaker
We are recording again now.
00:18:17
Speaker
So I'm gonna cut all this part out, but you know, just, so there are basic moves that everyone can do. um And then there are the moves on your character sheet.
00:18:28
Speaker
um So Bill did two basic moves so far, the defend and the take a powerful blow. um
00:18:36
Speaker
So you just, you, okay.
00:18:41
Speaker
Edit back in now. All right. um So you just... what What option did you choose, Bill, of those three things?
00:18:51
Speaker
Give ground. Okay. um Now, before we unpack what that what happens with that, now we're going to do what normally happens at the start of a fight. um We're going to...
00:19:04
Speaker
do the, the move called, um it is a team mechanic um called when you enter battle against a dangerous foe as a team.
00:19:15
Speaker
um So now the, the, the, the episode kind of flashes back a little bit and shows like what, what started this fight? There is a, let's just call him a villain.
00:19:27
Speaker
You know, I mean, he is a super, is he really a super
Battle with Razor Fist
00:19:31
Speaker
villain? You know, I don't know, but, um, uh, a villain named razor fist has decided to attack, uh, um, attack the, uh, Halcyon city bank.
00:19:42
Speaker
Um, he has a, uh, he's, uh, a, a crime boss in town who has superpowers. um He has the power to punch things and then from his fist is like an invisible slash of... of um My original concept of this character was he punches things and does slashing damage.
00:20:06
Speaker
um But he can punch and cut through like steel or concrete or whatever. And it's not a blade the size of his fist that slashes through. It's the size of whatever he's cutting. So if he punches a car, it cuts through the entire car at whatever angle his fist was at.
00:20:24
Speaker
Um, And so he has super sharp fists. um And he's also got the basic super strength. Like he tossed a car at you. just So he was attacking the bank. You guys were on scene. You were the first on scene.
00:20:39
Speaker
um And when you enter battle against a dangerous foe, um you get what's called team. ah Team is a pool of bonus points that you can share with each other basically the game starts with one um so automatically you're at one team ah you can spend team um to help another character uh, and give them plus one on their role, or you can spend team to act selfishly.
00:21:13
Speaker
When you act selfishly show, say how your actions ignore or insult your teammates and then spend a team and shift one of your labels up and one down, which essentially like also gives you a plus one bonus.
00:21:25
Speaker
Um, but you kind of piss off your teammates doing that. Um, Usually the best way is to spin team by helping someone. um So I'm going to make like just a little circle token or something for team circle.
00:21:43
Speaker
Surely there's a free token I can take for this.
00:21:49
Speaker
What we got here? Just from the web, I just need a circle, something easy to spot. It'll be easier once I change the background, but, um,
00:22:02
Speaker
Let's not go with the skulls. Here, this is just a coin. um
00:22:08
Speaker
Might as well make the the new background real quick, just so we can all see how to do things in this game. um
00:22:19
Speaker
Drop this here.
00:22:28
Speaker
Move over the map.
00:22:35
Speaker
Send this to the map layer.
00:22:39
Speaker
Yeah, those are all the basic moves. um And then you start the game with one team, which will have a token. All right, so when you enter battle, automatically two more of these tokens are added.
00:22:54
Speaker
um And then... ah
00:22:59
Speaker
ah Okay, and then I asked ask some questions. So, um who do you guys think would be the leader of your... Now, the leader changes from battle to battle. It's who's leading in the moment.
00:23:10
Speaker
But just for this is a bank robbery, you know, with a villain, who do you all think would be the leader um in this fight of you guys? Between the three of you. If you don't have a consensus, we can just take who, which one of you has the most influence over the others. Okay.
00:23:28
Speaker
Frank doesn't have influence over either one of you and is not influenced by either one of you. ah Or Calix. Reese.
00:23:43
Speaker
Why do you have influence over yourself? i have i dont so im not I don't influence anybody, but I do have i am influenced by Jaden's character. Okay, so this isn't working out so far. And then siphon.
00:23:57
Speaker
um i mean I would gladly take the leader position if it has to be done. It's just a ah temporary like who's in charge. Yeah, no I'll do that. yeah okay Which member of the team says Titans go yeah Yes, basically, for this fight. ah So right now, Siphon is the leader.
00:24:17
Speaker
ah Okay, so the leader does not have influence over every other teammate, so he does not... So you don't get bonus points for that. If everyone has the same purpose in the fight. So um there is this guy who is trying to rob a bank, Razor Fist, and he has ah bunch of goons working for him.
00:24:37
Speaker
um Each of you, we'll start with Calix. Or no, we'll start with Siphon. What do you think your purpose in this battle is? What is your primary goal? End it quickly.
00:24:50
Speaker
End it quickly? Yeah.
00:24:54
Speaker
Cole, what or Calix, what would your primary goal be?
00:25:00
Speaker
um To... fuck I don't know. ah Lessen the impact to other individuals. And then, Rhys?
00:25:14
Speaker
Get people out of the way. Okay. So, you all don't share the same goal in this fight, because so Siphon wants to end it quickly. The other two of you want to protect the people around you. um So your your goals, so that doesn't give you a bonus point.
00:25:30
Speaker
um Do any of you distrust Syphon?
00:25:38
Speaker
Right now there's no reason in story for you to unless you want to decide right from the get-go that you distrust him. But do either of you distrust Syphon? No, probably not. Specifically, no.
00:25:53
Speaker
Okay. um Then we don't lose a point. And then ah for this, I'll say, if is your team ill-prepared or off-balance? I'm going to say no. You're not unprepared. You guys were um sent to to deal with this, so you're you're prepared for this. So you guys have three team points. You can spend that to help each other out and or spend it selfishly, but that causes other teammates to be mad at you.
00:26:18
Speaker
Okay. So um the fights, you know, kind of just started. The goons are in the bank already, but Razor Fist was standing outside to watch for heroes and you guys arrived and he immediately chucked a car at Reese's.
00:26:39
Speaker
So um now there's no initiative in this. So you guys can um kind of try try to like let each other take turns, but you say things and do them as you think of them, basically.
00:26:54
Speaker
um There are a bunch of goons standing outside with guns who will soon be opening fire on you as well.
00:27:08
Speaker
What do you do? I guess I would do
00:27:15
Speaker
directly engage a threat. Oh, and just just to remember, that yeah the thing that just happened um is a car just smashed into Reese who gave ground. So you you dodged out of the way, basically. Roll plus conditions. Yeah, you dodged out of the way.
00:27:35
Speaker
But, oh, it gave the up opposition opportunity, so I should make them do something first ah because they have an opportunity. So let me double check what moves I gave. Razor Fist.
00:27:48
Speaker
um Okay, I'll say that the opportunity actually, or the thing that happened is Razor Fist called in his backup and a bunch of the goons from inside came outside and are preparing to open fire.
00:28:01
Speaker
So that that's what happened from that.
00:28:05
Speaker
um Now, ah Hayden, you don't have to say you want to directly engage a threat. Basically say what you're going to do, and then I'll say which move that best represents.
00:28:16
Speaker
um okay Because sometimes you might say you're going to do something, but then I'll decide it's something different than what you thought it was, like which dice roll you do.
00:28:29
Speaker
because of but but yeah if you So what what is your plan? What are you going to do?
00:28:36
Speaker
um While he's calling to the the goons to come out and attack us, I guess he like turns away to shout into the bank. That's when I'll use my ability to start digging into his mind.
00:28:52
Speaker
Don't you have to be up close and touch him for that? or I don't think he will talk about that. Okay.
00:29:00
Speaker
But I would imagine it's from a distance. Okay. um and what do what's your intent to do? Like, what are you trying to do to him? um Catch him off guard, you know, and do like a sneak attack to a like end it quickly.
00:29:17
Speaker
so i can So you're just trying to like damage his his psyche. you're not You're not going for finesse and to try and cut out specific memories or anything? Yeah. Okay.
00:29:28
Speaker
um Then yeah, I'll go ahead and say that's directly engage a threat. So you roll danger. Any pluses? No. Minuses. No. Yeah.
00:29:40
Speaker
So a 9, and yes, I did add... Okay, I just wanted to check your dice and make sure it's they're adding the stuff and stuff. So a 9. um On a 7 to 9, pick 1. Now, if one of you wanted to help him in some way, um you could bump that to a 10.
00:29:55
Speaker
um And you just basically spin the team and describe how you help him. If you can think of a way to help him. It doesn't have to be helping him with his psychic attack. It can be you know, also distracting the guy or attacking or something like that.
00:30:09
Speaker
Uh, when do we, when would we announce, announce that just whenever you tell us or, yeah, if you want to say you're helping him, um, say it now and say what you do to help.
00:30:21
Speaker
Uh,
00:30:24
Speaker
I don't know if it would actually be helping him, if it would be helping him directly. So I don't, I don't think this qualifies. Well, what what were you thinking? and I was going to try pull the... I was gonna try to pull the guns out of everyone's hands.
00:30:41
Speaker
He... That... Yeah, that wouldn't directly um affect ah Razor Fist himself, so... Yeah, so that's... Frank, did you want to help in any way? You don't have to. With a 9, I think it's gonna hit it, right?
00:30:55
Speaker
A 7 to 9 is the lesser effect. A 10 or higher is the better effect. um both Both of them still hit.
00:31:04
Speaker
Um...
00:31:07
Speaker
I don't know what I could do to help him along with his mind spike. You could, like you know, throw vines at him, like distract him so it it distracts, you know, he's not focused on the mental attack. you know you So maybe maybe I'm mu confused, but are we inside the bank? Are we outside the bank? You are in the parking lot. Yeah, you're outside.
00:31:29
Speaker
Okay. And he's in front of the bank? Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, well, in that case, I've got a be the monster
Post-Battle Aftermath and School Life
00:31:41
Speaker
move. Would that help?
00:31:44
Speaker
Well, you can just, I mean, let's see. What does your be the monster do? um When you're frightened, or when you frighten, intimidate, or count others with your monstrous form, roll plus freak on a hit.
00:31:56
Speaker
They are thrown off and make themselves vulnerable to you, or they flee. On a 10 plus, choose one. ah So, for helping, you don't need to use a move. Just say you do something, you know, describe you doing something helpful.
00:32:09
Speaker
I'm using a move. Now, you can definitely do that as your move whenever, you know, it's your turn. Okay. So... um so in My character is basically a sword and shield like fighter type person, right?
00:32:26
Speaker
Yeah. That's how we did it. um But I also have the ability to manipulate my own body. So I would stomp forward and shoot tendrils of myself through the concrete...
00:32:42
Speaker
and try have it try to burst up in front of him to him. Yeah, that's a good distraction. That works. Bumps you up to a 10. arm So on a 10+, you pick two of these options.
00:32:56
Speaker
ah One thing about directly engage a threat is... You expose yourself to also being damaged when you do that. It trades blows. But your options are resist or avoid their blows, take something from them, create an opportunity for your allies, impress, surprise, or frighten the opposition.
00:33:14
Speaker
ah So yeah, and and with take something from them, you can be creative. You can like take the high ground or you know things like that as well. It doesn't have to be a physical object.
00:33:27
Speaker
It can't be take your life. um Unless maybe they were about to die. But yeah, it it has it can't be like, I take their life from them.
00:33:41
Speaker
Do I know what memory I stole? I think because you were being not precise, you you wouldn't necessarily know. You're just shredding at his mind. Okay. Although if you want to choose take something from them and haven't having and have taken a specific memory, you could. Okay.
00:34:00
Speaker
I'll go ahead and do...
00:34:05
Speaker
Create an opportunity for your allies. Okay. And... Frighten the opposition. Okay. um Yeah, so I think the opportunity that you create is the fact that he is definitely, like...
00:34:21
Speaker
um you know, holding his head and screaming in pain. And yeah, he's quite frightened. um Did I give him that? Why did I close this? Leave that open.
00:34:35
Speaker
I'll say you inflict a condition on him. He is now frightened um or afraid rather. um And yeah, so um anytime you inflict a condition on a villain,
00:34:50
Speaker
I immediately react with a move. ah
00:35:00
Speaker
Okay, we'll go with the afraid condition move. um So I react, yeah, anytime you basically damage a villain, I react with something. um He's going to throw up blocks and walls. So he's basically going to start, ah you know, first he's like screaming and, um you know, cowering and stuff. and And then he's just going to start punching the ground around himself.
00:35:26
Speaker
He's still distracted, but he's punching the ground and stuff, um creating sort of like a moat or trench around him. One of you guys can now do something, either Bill or Frank, since Hayden just did something.
00:35:39
Speaker
um ah Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and focus my powers onto as many of the gu of the goons that just came out, of their guns. i'm gonna just try to yet just I'm not doing anything fancy. I'm just trying to try to pull them and yank them out of their hands.
00:35:54
Speaker
Alright, that's going to be an unleash your powers. Alright.
00:36:13
Speaker
Alright.
00:36:19
Speaker
all right Oh, sorry. I was freak. I should have told you freak. Okay. On an eight, um unless unless two of you can spend teams somehow to bump him to a ten.
00:36:33
Speaker
only have three teams. Yeah. Or two now, right? Nobody spent. Oh, yeah. Someone did spend team. That's right. Yeah. Frank helped. um How much condition does he need until we win the fight? ah You don't know.
00:36:48
Speaker
Damn it. different villains have different amounts though. ah So on an eight, you, ah so it's counts as a hit. So you do pull their guns from them.
00:36:59
Speaker
However, it's, ah you can either mark a condition or I will tell you how the effect is unstable or temporary.
00:37:12
Speaker
How many conditions do we have until we're out? You've got five conditions. Okay.
00:37:25
Speaker
So, yeah, you can either mark a condition or or I'll tell you how the effect is temporary or unstable. is that and i I'll go ahead and mark angry. You're going to mark angry? Alright. Yeah.
00:37:37
Speaker
Um... So you mark angry, their guns come flying away from them and basically to wherever you want them to go. you know They go blasting off into the sun or whatever.
00:37:48
Speaker
um And all of a sudden the goons are unarmed and ah they are basically... you At least the ones outside, you've more or less rendered them harmless to you guys anyway. They they look down at their empty hands, you know do the like blink, and if this was a comic book, there'd be like question marks over their head or something.
00:38:10
Speaker
And then they start fleeing the scene. um And Razorfist is shouting and saying, get back here, you cowards. Frank, what do you do? Or Calix, the Verdant Guardian, what do you do?
00:38:23
Speaker
Um, so I would probably, the because I originally stated that my, my point was to try to like keep innocence from being harmed in this scenario.
00:38:36
Speaker
Correct. Are there any innocence around? There are people inside the bank as well as, um, people just running around and screaming outside the bank like idiots.
00:38:48
Speaker
Okay. Um, the I would try to position myself in such a way that I can protect the most people as possible.
00:39:01
Speaker
Okay. um I would say to figure that out, unless you've got a move from your playbook, you might want to um assess the situation. Okay.
00:39:15
Speaker
Maybe. Sure. So that would be rolling superior. Okay.
00:39:25
Speaker
That is also an eight. So you can answer i ask one of the questions from that list. You should be able to see them on the map. But where, what tier can I use to blank? What tier is the biggest threat? What tier is in the greatest danger? Who is the most vulnerable to me? Or how can we best end this quickly?
00:39:42
Speaker
um you can You can also reframe the question. like you know You could say, what's the best way to protect the... um the innocents and things like that. But ideally they want you to use those questions, but you know, if none of them apply at all, then you can use one of the other ones.
00:39:59
Speaker
Or you can make up a question rather. um What here is in the greatest danger? Is that supposed to be what or who?
00:40:11
Speaker
It applies to either, you know. um So the thing or people in the greatest danger would definitely be the hostages inside. um The people outside are now safe.
00:40:26
Speaker
Okay, so in which case, I want to get inside the bank Okay, um you can do that. You can just run inside the bank. um And that is something that you that a hero can do easily enough with without an issue.
00:40:41
Speaker
um So you you ignore Razorfist himself and run inside the bank. Man, you can barely, I cannot read this. ah The part where it says your name, you know.
00:40:53
Speaker
Oh, you're going to use your... But if you highlight it, it becomes a lot more readable. I'm going to use Unstoppable. When you smash your way through scenery to get to or away from something, roll plus danger on a hit, the world breaks before you...
00:41:07
Speaker
and you get what you want. On a 7 to 9, choose one. Mark a condition, leave something behind, or take something with you. On a miss, you smash through, but leave devastation in your wake, or wind up somewhere worse.
00:41:19
Speaker
Fun, fun. Alright, go ahead and roll that. I did. Oh, that's the 9. So the 9 is, um, mark a condition, leave something behind, or take something with you.
00:41:34
Speaker
Um... I don't understand the question. ah So you break through. That's fine. That happens. ah You get what you want. On a seven to nine, you choose one of the following. Mark a condition.
00:41:50
Speaker
um Leave something behind or take something with you. Mark a condition on them mark condition? On yourself. Why would I want a mark condition on myself? If you have no reason to leave something behind or take something with you.
00:42:05
Speaker
um You left us behind, Nimnitz. I mean, yeah, that... You could choose that. That works. Yeah. You leave your your allies behind. Okay, there you go.
00:42:15
Speaker
So I, like... Let's see, you've left them behind to fight Razorfist on their own. Well, I'm just trying to, like, move myself yeah into the bank to be a war. you know what? Actually, that's 10.
00:42:29
Speaker
um Because you get plus one ah but ah going forward on acting on those that information. You knew that the people inside were in danger.
00:42:41
Speaker
And so you're trying to get inside. um So yeah, you... you you smash your way through the scenery to get to or away from something. Yeah. You get to the people inside. Um, and you see the, uh, that you not only see a bunch of goons, um, you know, there are some working on the vault and some with guns pointed at the hostages.
00:43:02
Speaker
you smash through and knock the gun wielder, the people pointing towards the hostages, they go like ah several of them go flying, um, and, you know, smack into the the far wall and are knocked out.
00:43:16
Speaker
Um, yeah, there are still the people trying to open the vault and like one or two people, um, who have now turned their guns towards you. Um, Less awesome.
00:43:28
Speaker
Yeah. um All of a sudden, and another super superhero appears on the scene.
00:43:36
Speaker
Does he? What? Oh, Jake. He's been in here for a a second. Has he? Oh, okay. He must be in Discord. He hasn't been talking. I'm here. Oh, you're in the... i crap I didn't want to interrupt. I mean, you're already playing, so... ah forbe Oh, thank God. It didn't screw up the recording either.
00:43:56
Speaker
Cool. I watched as he as he joined, just to make sure. thought for sure he was ah he was still over in Discord. talking about anything and we were ignoring him.
00:44:07
Speaker
So, Jaden, just so you are aware of what's happening um there in a fight outside of a bank, Frank is inside a bank, against a villain named Razor Fist, ah who has the ability to punch things and slash through them with his fists.
00:44:23
Speaker
ah um So, yeah, well, the three of them have done something. Let's say Jaden... Well first, since you're here, ah did you ever come up with a name for your character?
00:44:39
Speaker
I did not, but say so it's and say anything other than Bradley somebody. Bradley somebody.
00:44:49
Speaker
Just come up with name? Kevin. yeah I like Kevin. Kevin. Everybody likes Kevin. All of y'all, name name a Kevin that you didn't get along with.
00:45:01
Speaker
My dad. Parents don't count. You never get along with your parents. Kevin Bacon. There's no chance you'll ever be listening to this, but if you are, I got along with you fine, Dad.
00:45:14
Speaker
Brett, Arnold, Tanya, Francisco, Safwan, Ishmael, Ariel, Zachary. Well, here's my question. Do you still want Iron iron to be part of your name? because it has to be something No, because that was conflicting. Oh, okay.
00:45:30
Speaker
Is it recording me, or am I talking in Discord? No, you're being recorded. yeah Okay, good. It's just not showing any sound waves for me. We're getting recording we're seeing on our But your yours are coming in a lot slower than ours are, though.
00:45:44
Speaker
Well, his are very loud, at least on my end. i think he's referring to the speed that's going from left to right, but I think that just has to do with the time we've been recording just since time he's been recording.
00:45:55
Speaker
yeah I also just talk really loud, so i'm sorry. Yeah. ah Are you going with Kevin? Yeah, I'll go with you Kevin. Okay. um Yeah, less so... No.
00:46:10
Speaker
um so So go ahead and introduce yourself real quick. um to like To the audience? To the audience to them and to your character. your Introduce your character to the audience.
00:46:22
Speaker
Okay. What's up, y'all? My name is Jaden. I'm sure you've heard me in many episodes because y'all have been listening to every single one. um But I am now originally Bradley, Iron Brad, but now I'm Kevin.
00:46:40
Speaker
And then I'm just going to have my superhero name be Kevin, but all you know caps, and it's going to be an acronym at some point. I just have to come up with that. Nice. okay Okay. We'll skip the – We'll skip the extra questions until after the battle, um because actually the question I was going to ask your character applies to the next thing that will happen in in the game. so Perfect. So Kevin um arrives on scene. He he was he was a little late getting here, but he's here now. How do you arrive?
00:47:13
Speaker
I'm like flying in from my with my iron suit, but like it's a prototype. So I'm like doing really bad. Like I'm yeah, and that's why I'm so late. Like I'm like trying to catch myself all over the place with my rockets and stuff like that. But like I'm struggling, but I'm like trying to fly in.
00:47:30
Speaker
um might even crash. Like the first 30 ish minutes of the first Iron Man suit. yeah Yeah, but like i'm I'm like, I threw it on and it's just trying to come help y'all.
00:47:43
Speaker
Like, I didn't even get to test it yet. Just all of a sudden, we all just here. Yeah, I look up and see him. I'm like, bro, you should have borrowed your mom's car.
00:47:52
Speaker
It's like, sorry. now so Does your suit have... All of sudden, a thumb comes up, and from inside the suit, you hear, airbags worked! Does your suit have a Jarvis-like AI?
00:48:09
Speaker
Yes, but it's it's also super prototype right now. and What is his name? Okay. Its name is also Kevin. Yeah, it's Kevin. It's just me. Its name might as well be Siri. Okay, um, Kevin, uh...
00:48:23
Speaker
Your suit um it you know displays a a bit of a tactical um you know relay of the scene. ah You see that there are a bunch of thugs who are running away. Their weapons are scattered on the ground near... ah Bill's character, Ironsand.
00:48:42
Speaker
um And ah you don't see Calix, but you do see a giant, a large hole in the wall of the bank. Presumably that's where he is. And Siphon is hands up doing some mind-controlling stuff to Razorfist, the villain, who is currently punching holes in the ground and screaming in pain. What do you do?
00:49:06
Speaker
Do we know the villain's name, Razor Fist, or did we just guess? He's a known entity, yeah. He's a known villain. Gotcha. What's the last thing you said, what do I do?
00:49:18
Speaker
Yeah, what do you do? um I get up, like, really, like, like and I don't even, like, crack my back. I'm like, oh, don't worry, guys, the cavalry's here. and then, like, I just, like, uh...
00:49:29
Speaker
I don't have it. like my My rockets aren't propulsed yet. like For whatever reason, they weren't working. So I just like rip off one of my rockets on my arm and just throw it at them. Okay.
00:49:41
Speaker
That sounds like like h mark one directly engaging a threat, I think. um You're directly attacking him. Is there any penalty?
00:49:52
Speaker
So what you do is you roll danger. That might be provoking someone. Yeah, yeah. It's such a petty act. Whoa, really? What is your intent with throwing this rocket at him?
00:50:03
Speaker
Hopefully it'll blow up on him, right? And and harm him. Yeah, then that would be yeah directly against him. Yeah, I was about to be like, that seems like such a petty act. It might just provoke him to get pissed off. If it doesn't blow up, I'm sure it will. well um Provoking is usually ah and and ah verbal thing.
00:50:23
Speaker
um Or flipping something off. yeah but yeah you You throw your rocket at him, so roll danger. okay Do I have a situational bonus or penalty? No.
00:50:36
Speaker
okay A hit. um So on an 8... ah when you directly engage a threat rule danger on a hit, you trade blows. So you will harm him on a 10 plus you pick, Oh no. On a seven to nine, pick one of the following resist or avoid their blows.
00:50:54
Speaker
Take something from them, create an opportunity for your allies or impress surprise or frighten the opposition. Uh, surprise. Okay. um Yeah, he's definitely surprised by this.
00:51:08
Speaker
um he's He sees the... So you didn't choose resist his blows, which means he has to hit you back. um That's fine. So what I think happens is he um he manages to... like He spots your...
00:51:26
Speaker
your um rocket incoming and he punches in the air and sends his fist blade out into the air, which causes the rocket to explode halfway between the two of you, um you know not throwing you both back um and you mark a condition.
00:51:42
Speaker
um So you both have been tossed and you both take damage. Choose one of the conditions that you think applies most to what just happened. um Probably angry right now. Yeah, angry is usually the easy one to pick ah for the beginning of a fight.
00:51:57
Speaker
Yeah, so you're angry now. um The good news is ah he does that. He gets thrown back and smashes into the wall um and and then slumps down and does not get back up.
00:52:09
Speaker
oh He... Well, i he does... fights... the villain of the fight is over there's still what's going on inside so let's let's go ahead and unless anyone else is going to run inside um if we want to shift back to frank or to uh to calyx um now that everyone is uh now that the guns have been broken down i'm going to start uh heading heading inside but uh i'm so i'm being really careful about things so it's probably going to be just a minute okay um can i go again
00:52:46
Speaker
yeah um Would I feel like I have like a better chance of like focusing and on a specific memory of his? Because I've already invaded his mind?
00:53:02
Speaker
Now that you're not just like um attacking him, yeah, you could definitely try to unleash your powers and go for specific memories. What would that be? Unleash your powers is Rolling Freak.
00:53:15
Speaker
I have a plus one in it. I guess I could try. um
00:53:22
Speaker
What would be a good memory of his that I'd rip away from him? Let's try
00:53:33
Speaker
um his first kiss. Oh, that's a good one. I was going to say the birth of his first kid. I don't know if he's got kids. Okay. But a man like that who looks like Dean Winchester, he's probably got a few kisses.
00:53:47
Speaker
Yeah, good point.
00:53:51
Speaker
Alright, do I roll in any situational bonuses, penalties? No.
00:53:56
Speaker
Oh, shit. Yeah, you take whatever you want to take from him. Like, can I take multiple things? Uh, yeah. Your powers are working fine right now. Makes sense since combat is over.
00:54:10
Speaker
So I choose two of the... ah ah No, this is Unleash Your Powers. So you just do what what you want to do with your powers. Okay. um I guess... I... You know, and take what I was looking for.
00:54:26
Speaker
What's your character's motivations in in taking these memories? um Because the guy the guy's knocked out now. Okay. I took him because it's like a really... Blowing impact.
00:54:39
Speaker
And I hope that the more he is...
00:54:44
Speaker
punished, the less evil he will do. so like Because he knows eventually I'll come back around and keep stealing memories from him, so how about he just quits his shit and stops doing it?
00:54:56
Speaker
okay Before he becomes like a mindless void. yeah Yeah, he's basically just cowering and and begging for mercy now. um right And that's when I yell into the bank...
00:55:11
Speaker
And I say... because i Do I know if the other robbers are still in there? Can I see into it? Yeah, you can see through the front doors. Okay. And I call up to the other goons and I say, Look at your leader!
00:55:26
Speaker
He cowers down on the floor. Now that sounds like you're trying to provoke them into something. Okay, I'll take it. So, for that, you roll plus superior.
00:55:41
Speaker
Any bonuses? So what are you trying to get them to do first before you roll? like what's your Do you do the same or give up? Give up? Okay, yeah. and then And then go ahead and roll.
00:55:54
Speaker
Any bonuses? No.
00:55:58
Speaker
A six. Unless someone wants to help me and I can get a seven. So yeah, someone else can join in on this provoking and and also start yelling insults at them or whatever, however, you know. Oh yeah, well I'm absolutely going to be doing it. Be like, yeah, you got your asses beat by teenagers. Yeah.
00:56:15
Speaker
Be like, Yoohoo! Do we really have to come in? um So there's only two teams here, so you can't get them up to a 10, but yeah, one of you can spend a team to bump him up to a success.
00:56:29
Speaker
um So yeah, you guys join in on the ah taunting of them. um So on a 7-9...
00:56:38
Speaker
Alright, hold on, let's see. On a 10+, they rise to the bank and do what you want. On a 7-9, they can instead choose one. They stumble, you take plus one against them. They err, you gain a critical like opportunity. Or they overreact, you gain influence over them.
00:56:54
Speaker
Hmm.
00:56:57
Speaker
I think they are going to err, and they are, they, including the guys trying to get into the vault, are going to stop what they're doing. They're going to come after Siphon, not noticing the fact that, forgetting the fact that a big tree man just burst through the wall and is coming for them.
00:57:20
Speaker
so That is a horrifying thing to say, by the way. This is a chance for for the Verdant Guardian to finish them off if he desires. Finish them off as in like... Whatever he wants to do to them.
00:57:34
Speaker
Murder. Kill him. You guys aren't really killers. Do it. Do it. Let your rage consume you. Yeah, Frank, you can go if you want.
00:57:47
Speaker
Okay, um yeah. it your So... yeah They put it back on you. i run in and or I ran in and i put myself between the hostages and the people, knocking some people in the process.
00:58:00
Speaker
Then the people that were trying to get into the vault got distracted by the people outside for some unknown reason. um You know the reason.
00:58:11
Speaker
Well, yeah, I know the reason. But like somehow that is what happens yeah for some reason. Uh, yeah, so what would it take to just, like, I guess at least the powers?
00:58:24
Speaker
Um, so one of my powers that I can control my body and stuff. Yeah. Whatever the fuck. Um, I want to just fill this entire room with just writhing tentacles.
00:58:37
Speaker
Okay. Oh. god What's up with you and tentacles, bro? Nope. I'm not going in. I'm not going in. Damn it. it's It's vines. Go ahead. Unleash your powers. That would be roll plus freak.
00:58:51
Speaker
Freak. Frank's about to smack all of us. An eight. um Nope. So on an eight... ah You can either mark a condition and it works however you want it to, or or I can tell you how the effect is unstable or temporary.
Player Discussions and Strategies
00:59:12
Speaker
um You tell me how it's unstable or temporary. Alright, it is unstable because um you did exactly what you said, filled the entire room with vines, and you have now accidentally entangled all of the hostages and your friends as well.
00:59:29
Speaker
And everyone is now entangled by these vines, except for Siphon, and actually I don't think Kevin went inside yet either. ah Mm-hmm. So Siphon and Kevin are not captured, but Reese, they are not doing the thing that happened in the episode that shall not be mentioned, but they have pinned you down. um This is only PG-13, this episode, okay?
00:59:57
Speaker
I have to remember, these are all still teenagers. They have to get past the 10 minutes of YouTube. That's even better. We've been recording for a minute. We are well past 10 minutes of 10 minutes on YouTube. I'm sorry. Yeah. um Yeah. And so to be now, what does happen is like you've trapped everyone um and the cops do eventually, you know, they do arrive on scene and start arresting the bad guys.
01:00:25
Speaker
The fight is basically over. You, you take out the, the goons, the goons have no chance against the heroes um in small numbers like that. Um, So I imagine i can move through my vine explosion. I would like to take out the the people first.
01:00:43
Speaker
but Probably my crew first, then the the hostages. And then once the police arrive, then take out the baddies. Yeah. And for a little while, like for the next couple of days, they're going to be in there hacking away. Well, I guess this is these vines are a part of you?
01:01:01
Speaker
Or is it from plant control? Uh, so I have plant control and control of my body, right? Uh-huh. Yeah. Is that what it was? Yes. Hold on.
01:01:12
Speaker
Where do I see that? Plant affinity and transmuting flesh. Uh, I do need to ask because... Where is that, though? It's in your bio right at the top. I also do need to ask, since I was formerly a hero, ah sorry, a villain, do any of the cops, when they get there, do they give me any shit? Uh-huh.
01:01:30
Speaker
They definitely give you the side eye, but they're here to arrest some other guys right now. Okay, while they're giving me side I'm going to be giving ah giving them stink eye right back. Yeah, yeah. And I'm just going to be very quietly trying to just a shit to them, but not getting in their way.
01:01:47
Speaker
Just like... flipping them off when I get the opportunity and shit like that. We don't have a good history. Mocking him, rocking right behind him. Would you ah commit attempt to commit a mis misdemeanor or small victim this victimless crime to blow off steam?
01:02:01
Speaker
Oh yeah. Absolutely. What do you do? Can I bust in and do that too so I can get my angry out of here? now because it' say antagonize You antagonize the cops. is a ah move specific to his playbook.
01:02:16
Speaker
I am going to... well Okay, so I am going to... Yeah. I'm going to surround my fist in the sand, and it's going to condense and harden into a metal fist, and I'm going to smash out one of the cop's one of the cops headlights.
01:02:33
Speaker
Okay, okay. Yeah. You can clear your your anger condition from doing that. You also would have been able to clear that condition... ah Well... To clear angry, you can hurt someone or break something important. um ah I guess a cop car is kind of important.
01:02:53
Speaker
um
01:02:57
Speaker
Kevin, you also have angry. Now, you could join in. That's what I'm saying. right If you hurt someone or break something important, you can get rid of angry. but you also That's what I'm saying. so and And he just came outside and did that.
01:03:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, well well, once the cops showed up, because, again... Luckily, the cops are distracted. but Again, I'm also going to assume that there's probably going to be that awkward moment where the cops are like, uh, get down on the ground.
01:03:27
Speaker
Yeah. No, we could just be like, oh, that happened during the fight. Yeah, i do you want to break another fight? That's true, but... I just want to rip off, or, like blow like, blow up, not, like, blow up the full car, but, like, blow off the lights on top.
01:03:42
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Y'all go outside and, and you guys are using the cops. God damn. Y'all do annoying. We've got history. You definitely do some mischief. Um, Jaden, because you broke something, uh, important.
01:03:54
Speaker
I'm going to say a cop car is important. Um, because this could change the way the cops view you guys. Um, I mean, obviously already view bill is bad, but, um, yeah, but because you broke something important, you can also clear angry.
01:04:07
Speaker
Um, And the other two of you don't have conditions right now, so you're good. ah Yeah, and um the cops, you know, they come, they arrest everyone, and then the camera changes scenes because, you know, not that that was the quick opener to episode one. um And we're going to change scenes, but first I'm going to go grab another drink because I ran out of drink. I'll be right back.
01:04:31
Speaker
I also need to go to the bathroom. Okay.
01:04:36
Speaker
um So Frank and Hayden, I have a couple of options for acronyms. I want to i want run it by you all. All right. So the first one I came up with was, I don't i don't think too good, but I mean, it kind of makes sense. It's Kinetic Energy Virtually Infinite Nanotech.
01:04:53
Speaker
Okay. I don't really like it too much because feel like it doesn't like roll into itself. Yeah, exactly. But it does kind of explain it. Right, but the second one I like a lot, and this third one I like a lot. It's it's a mouthful too, but it actually makes more sense.
01:05:08
Speaker
Knowledge Enhanced Vigilante in Nanogear. Love it. okca That's like literally me. And then there's – is it Kinematic Kinematic? Kinematic.
01:05:20
Speaker
i don't but sort can kind I don't know what the hell that means. Kinematic exoskeleton via intelligent networking. But yeah, I think the second one... Knowledge enhanced vigilante and nanogears is pretty good. Yeah. that well like yeah Knowledge enhanced vigilante and nanogear. Yeah, that's good.
01:05:43
Speaker
That's something... Totally something the brain would come up with.
01:05:48
Speaker
Yes, I'll cut myself to Knowledge Enhanced Vigilante and Nanogear. Please let me know if that's how you actually talk. do um I can. can be super stupid and nasty and dirty. That's how he talks whenever he's not in the suit.
01:06:05
Speaker
He's got a voice. He's got voice. that makes me sound super Chad, but whenever I'm out of it, I'm just like... I like i feel like that's... According to my research. That should be more of like your secret identity. you You take on that role, not that you are that person.
01:06:19
Speaker
Or maybe it's like a secret like second i identity or like a second ah personality. like I have like an evil side that's all like weird and gremlin-like, and then like kind of like my normal smart side. I don't know. That might be weird. I just think that voice would get on everybody's nerve, having to listen to it all the time outside of combat and outside of doing super stuff.
01:06:39
Speaker
So I feel like... well We had a look at the Slippy Two Hands. We had a look at the Slippy Two Hands, okay? Slippy Two Hands is where it's at. all right all right We'll get back into the game. Anyways, yeah, sorry. oh ah the The camera changes scenes and we... we that in In view is the outside of Halcyon City High.
01:07:04
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um Camera zooms in, ah shows each of you your... um You know what? Let's see. Everyone give me a D4.
01:07:16
Speaker
Hold on, I can't find my mouse. Oh, there we are. We're rolling an actual dice, y'all. Holy fuck. The downside of having three monitors. You lose your creature sometimes. Three, two, three!
01:07:28
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And four. So, um... Who rolled the three? who is The threes are Bill and Frank. Okay, so, um...
01:07:40
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Calix and Reese, you guys are in Let me just... Random classroom
01:07:49
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generator. What? I need a random class. Give me a random class in school. Jim. Science. Mathematics.
01:08:01
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you You two are um together in science class. Home econ. Okay, you two, Reece and Kalix, are sitting in science class. um Can we make it home economics? think be hilarious.
01:08:14
Speaker
Okay, y'all are in home ec. pulled it down.
01:08:20
Speaker
Oh, or human or all up humanitarian class? yeah and humans You're in home ec. No, nobody knows that they're... Well, Calix is obvious, but... Nobody knows!
01:08:30
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Well...
01:08:35
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Yeah, the rest of you have secret identities. Kevin... what Somebody here can't hide it. It's your first name, Kevin. um Okay, Kevin, you are in mathematics class. and ah Reese and Calix are in home ec. And we'll say that Siphon is in gym class because I feel like Siphon is not a gym class kind of kid and that will be funny.
01:08:56
Speaker
um so Siphon actually does UFC outside of school. Does he really? Okay. He does. In whole mech, we're making brownies today. um How about let's say it's calculus because hates... was about to say that!
01:09:09
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mrs glass Mrs. Glass's class, he just hates calculus. Okay, in that case, um i we'll put... Okay, screw it. You two are in the same class together as well.
01:09:25
Speaker
Just It just works that way. just kidding. um Since wants to be in calculus. I have a question. oh Before you ask a question, i want to ask the character question that I have for Jaden.
01:09:37
Speaker
um ah who is the person, and you can't choose Siphon, I want new NPCs, who is the person in your class who is always trying to cheat off you? and do you Probably Hayden.
01:09:50
Speaker
no, no. You can't choose me choose him. Oh, okay. um we're We're creating a new NPC. and And do you like it when they do this or hate it? So who are they and how do you feel about them cheating off you?
01:10:01
Speaker
I probably hate it because I'm a nerd. Okay. And who ah it's it's It's a guy named Billiam.
01:10:11
Speaker
Billiam. Really? off God damn it. I feel like Bill would have cheated in Calculus. and Every fucking where I go, no matter how and no matter how old I've ever been, ah since I went started going by Bill, that's the name that's followed around. Billiam.
01:10:29
Speaker
Billiam? Wait, Bill's not your name?
01:10:36
Speaker
His name is William. That was a joke. Okay. Bill was about to have a fucking meltdown. No, yeah, that was a joke. I'm sorry, guys. You have no idea how many people don't actually know that Bill is short for William.
01:10:51
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it's It's funny. Like Dick's short for Richard for some reason. Right. my book Robert. it doesn' a lot of the a lot of the names, a lot of those nicknames don't make a lot of sense. but I think Ron's trying to say something. Yep, sorry. all right Oh, I do have a question.
01:11:06
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Go ahead. go ahead No, no, no, ask. As a plant person, Do I eat food? That is up to you. You photosynthesize. yeah outside I feel like I just... You just sit next to the window all day long. I just photosynthesize and drink water.
01:11:24
Speaker
I feel like that's the best. And of course, like, eat random eggshells. How did he get rid of his waste? Does he produce CO2? I create CO2 and dirt. literally consumes it all.
01:11:38
Speaker
He just... shits out dirt? Not shits, it's probably just, you know... It just falls out of your mouth? No, it probably just, like... His stomach probably works like a composter. You, like, open up, like, a little flower in the head and dirt just falls out?
01:11:56
Speaker
I like the idea of, like, I have to, like, blow out my crevices, because dirt just kind of... crevices Well, okay, so, if you have a plant... So he's got crevices literally everywhere.
01:12:07
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if you have a plant, and you put, like, stuff that can decompose and stuff, but like, I have an Elkhorn in my front yard. If you put like eggshells and banana peels and things like that in there as they decompose, um they create a very rich soil inside of this oak one.
01:12:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's composting. No, you use it less like compost. You break down natural ah vegetable vegetable scraps and other natural ingredients to make a high nutrient rich mulch. Anyways, point being, mulch boy.
01:12:39
Speaker
Yes, so to the question, um or as to the answer. So if I'm in home ec, wouldn't I be like taking the scraps and leftovers and making my own food out of that?
01:12:53
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Yes, you would. We will all be literally feeding it to you. at air Everybody's making brownies, and I have a mush of flour. We just shit in a bag and hand it to you. Dude, i had I knew a guy in high school who actually had that surgery done.
01:13:08
Speaker
You actually can't you actually can't use ah use poop if it's from any creature that eats meat. You can only use herbivorous poop. and That's crazy. Get vegan.
01:13:20
Speaker
Wait, so does that mean that...
01:13:24
Speaker
You can theoretically use ah so yeah night soil from a human, you like regardless if they're vegan or not. You can't, it's just the nutrient of the nutrient value isn't quite right for plants.
01:13:39
Speaker
Exactly, because... like So the Martian's wrong? Or did he ah eat enough potatoes? No, so night soil is is the word for human excrement yeah coined back in the...
01:13:54
Speaker
Now, there is so there is a lot of benefit to to using natural fertilizer well that does have... All right, compost boy. That's what I'm going to refer to you now.
01:14:05
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well the thing This is great content, by the way, everyone. whole I'm creating some custom stuff real quick. In the Martian, the whole reason he dipped the poop the potatoes in the poop was so that they had nutrition at all because he was planting in Martian soil with no natural microbes or anything.
01:14:22
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So it's it was literally his only hope of actually adding microbes to help the potatoes grow. and Yeah, I guess it was kind of a Hail Mary at the end, too. It honestly, honestly, like it's a, it's a really good movie. The Martian is such a good movie.
01:14:39
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The book. and I read the book. I listened to it on audible. Yes. v retails like I like, was like that back when I really wasn't about cussing and all that. I was like, gosh, dang.
01:14:50
Speaker
I had to turn it off after like a first like literally minute. I love you then as much as I love you now. I've listened to The Martian like at least seven to eight times.
01:15:01
Speaker
It's a great book to listen to. i have not actually i have not actually listened to it, so I think that's what I'm going to do. Yeah, I've never even read it, so that's probably what I'll do too, just listen. The movie was great. The book was pretty awesome. like They had both had their ups and downs. The Martian did get a little slow as in book form in certain spots, but overall it's a laugh fest most of the way through.
01:15:25
Speaker
Do you think that the movie was as good as it could have been? um I think it could have been better, but I feel like that is the case for all book-turned-movies. Adaptations, yeah.
01:15:37
Speaker
All right, I'm ready when you guys are. Anyways, so... All that to say, do what so your food is what? my My food is, like, off-cast of of of manufacturing, like... Or, you know, like, shells and banana peels. Just give you trash.
01:15:54
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yeah Yeah, pretty much. Only the natural stuff. So, like, the vegetable scraps and, like, eggshells, all that, just feed it to them. But also water and salt. I don't necessarily need the foodstuffs, and I don't, like...
01:16:11
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like I can go a long time without like actually ingesting, but I do need to ingest occasionally because of the nutrients value that I'm not receiving from normal food. can probably still eat normal food, but you know processed food is not as nutritious to plants as non-processed.
01:16:29
Speaker
Boy's got to get that Whole Foods market. Yeah, Murr's straight up organic. You guys ready? Yep. Yes, sir. um So you guys are sitting in your various classes um ah and I've got a custom move that I'm going to have.
01:16:44
Speaker
Well, you can choose to roll this or not. um The move is when you try to do well in class. So do any of you want to try to do well? Oh, me. 100%.
01:16:55
Speaker
Yes. im i I'm trying to incorporate. So three out of four. I want to fail miserably though. you know We'll see what you roll. We'll see how that goes.
01:17:06
Speaker
How do I negatively affect it? Watch, you're best student that she's ever had. um Let's just see. we've got We'll start with Calix and Reese. When you try to do well in class, roll either mundane or superior. whichever so Whichever works best and or you think applies best to the situation.
01:17:33
Speaker
I have negative one mundane, so that. Yeah, yeah. Oh, goddammit! Okay, hold on. Oh, fuck. Oh, god. i I'm equal score in both.
01:17:44
Speaker
oh I'm going to roll... Fuck I'm going to roll fucking superior. Okay. Oh my gosh, okay. That's a nut.
01:17:56
Speaker
That's a nut. Wow. Alright, so on a hit, so we'll start with Kalyx first. On a hit, um you do well. ah you you you do well um On a 7 to 9, choose one of the following.
01:18:10
Speaker
um And I will probably make these better later because I just did this off the top of my head. um Someone cheats off you and you gain influence over them. You cheat off someone else and gain and and they gain influence over you.
01:18:24
Speaker
Or you just get a better than average grade.
01:18:29
Speaker
Always take the influence. I want i want to take influence. This is a new build. This is for Calix. ah So take influence, give influence, or I just do better than average.
01:18:42
Speaker
yeah um I want to say better than average. Okay, so you just you do better than average. um But nobody, like, the teacher will know that, of course, but nobody you know in class, like, nothing nothing comes of it right now. That's your mundanest version other than failing.
01:18:59
Speaker
um Now, Bill, you get to choose two things. One from that list, which I'll go ahead and post the list, just so we... have it. Is that there on the map?
01:19:10
Speaker
No. This is a custom move. So you can choose one of those, but then the 10 plus also gives you... um You can also choose one of the following. Ooh.
01:19:22
Speaker
Ooh. for football so the other So you choose two of these, um one from the first three and one from the second three. But the first three is you impress the teacher and take influence over them.
01:19:35
Speaker
You impress the teacher and she shows you off in front of the class. They make fun of you, give the class influence over you. Or the same thing happens, but one person in particular in class is impressed and you can take influence over them.
01:19:53
Speaker
Okay.
01:19:56
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Can you describe the teacher of this class? Oh my, are you trying to seduce the teacher? Shut up! Influence doesn't mean you seduce them. No, yeah, i want i'm kind of I'm kind of curious because it might determine what I what i do. no let me um Just give me two seconds real quick. I'm 19, I'm young, I'm stupid. Y'all are in home ec class, right?
01:20:17
Speaker
yeah You're 19 in a high school, bro? He got held back a couple grades. Rough. I didn't have a traditional childhood, okay? So I just happened to be within the age... Traditional childhood? Are your parents LGBT affirming?
01:20:32
Speaker
Okay, so we're going to have to cut that part out.
01:20:38
Speaker
okay I I'll just give you I've got it ah Mrs. Eleanor Finch um Miss Finch is a warm and nurturing presence in the classroom with a kind smile that instantly puts her students at ease her gentle beautiful nature make her a favorite among the student body she has a petite frame and is always impeccably dressed favoring cozy cardigans and floral printed dresses that reflect her timeless sense of style She has silver streaked hair often pulled back into an a neat bun, although a few loose strands frame her face, adding to her friendly charm.
01:21:10
Speaker
She has wireframe glasses, um sparkling eyes. Oh, her eyes sparkle when she discusses her favorite subject, home economics. She's often seen bustling about the classroom, offering encouragement and guidance to her students. So she sounds like an older older woman.
01:21:25
Speaker
Yeah. But, bro... Bill is target. ah some Influence has nothing to do necessarily with attraction. That's what he thinks it is. We're teenagers. We're dumb like that.
01:21:40
Speaker
Well, no. It just means somebody cares. It means someone cares about your opinion. Yeah, now it's actually more for my specific backstory. yeah Y'all can find out if y'all are interested.
01:21:52
Speaker
Y'all just gotta to go and talk to him. But he's going to pick... I'm winking at you all. So, first from the first list, he's going to pick Someone Cheats Off Me. I Want to Take Influence Over Someone.
01:22:05
Speaker
Okay. um I'll give you the name of that student in just a moment. um but But what's your second option?
Influence and School Dynamics
01:22:14
Speaker
I want to impress the teacher and take influence over over her Over her as well. Okay. um It should be known all adults automatically have influence over you.
01:22:24
Speaker
um They can lose that influence later, but ah um but they they start with influence over you. And you can both have influence over each other. Like you both can care about what each other think about Mm-hmm.
01:22:41
Speaker
All right. um So let me just note that down so we will know that later. So
01:22:51
Speaker
what was the teacher's name? Her name is Miss. Where'd it go? I know the last name was Finch. It was Mrs. Finch. Mrs. Eleanor Finch.
01:23:10
Speaker
Okay, I've got that noted. And then I just need the name of the student. And the student's name is Clara Rojo.
01:23:21
Speaker
Ooh.
01:23:26
Speaker
Cheated off of me.
01:23:31
Speaker
Okay. Thank you very much. Characters will eventually get backstories, images, and everything. Maybe they'll be super, maybe they won't. You don't know. that's why Oh, exactly. Just out of curiosity, and this is, you know, just Bill the Player being an absolute asshole to Ron the Dungeon Master because he's got to do this, but... Can you describe Clara?
01:23:52
Speaker
Okay, sure. Describe another NPC, please. I mean, i i would do this on my own if I wasn't being on the spot, but... um
01:24:07
Speaker
Gotta love that dead air for the entertainment value. I will cut out the dead air. ah good god that's that's That is a very good idea.
01:24:21
Speaker
Are you wanting general appearance or um stuff about her? um Okay, she's a senior, um as the rest of you, bursting with creativity and ambition. With her fiery red hair cascading down her shoulders in wild waves, she exudes confidence and individuality.
01:24:42
Speaker
And that's yeah know if that's where I'll stop on her for now. Because, of course, ChatGPT gives me a massive description all about her. yeah Because ChatGPT doesn't understand in a few words.
01:24:57
Speaker
Okay.
01:24:59
Speaker
Yeah.
01:25:02
Speaker
You can try telling it to give you less of a description. see what I know. I know, but I'm not going to worry about that right now. There's your quick description of her. Sorry, that was that was the last I had. Okay. Um...
01:25:14
Speaker
I would like to point out that I'm annoyed that I did well and then he stepped up and did amazing and like fucking everybody in the class was like, oh my god, he's the best. ni name I'm a tree. I made brownies. I should get something.
01:25:36
Speaker
You got brownies, my dude. Sorry, I'm really good at cooking.
01:25:46
Speaker
um And then, Hayden or Jaden, were you guys doing this as well? Doing... i they I was doing the thing. The try. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I choose not to try.
01:26:00
Speaker
Okay. then Then yes. um You just, you know, you do... ah Basically, if you choose not to try, you just, you know, do... um not no Nothing noteworthy, you know.
01:26:14
Speaker
There's no chance of massive failure, but also no chance of massive success.
01:26:20
Speaker
ah so So this is calculus class. um You, Kevin, can roll superior or mundane and see what and rules you get. yeah
01:26:36
Speaker
So same thing as Bill, you get the same options. You get to choose one of the bottom three and one of the top three. Oh, Jaden, you got a full hit. Yes, sir.
01:26:48
Speaker
I'm going come. I definitely want to do the someone cheats off me. Probably the same person. ah And then maybe I tell the teacher by impressing her that he did that.
01:26:59
Speaker
Okay. Nice. Tattletail. Yeah. Then they make fun of me. Yeah. There we go. Oh, okay. You'd just pick that. They make fun of you one. Great. Yeah. You're giving the whole class influence over you No.
01:27:13
Speaker
No, yeah. Oh. That's fine. Influence is fine. It's not a terrible thing. yeah um That makes sense for a nerd, bro. Oh, yeah. You are affected by the opinions of the class.
01:27:25
Speaker
So that one dude, did I write his name down? Yes. um So Kevin or Billiam. um Oh, God. Billiam's my bully.
01:27:38
Speaker
ah Man, this gives me such weird names. Oh. Well, what do you want? A female or male name? No, no, no, no. I'm just i'm trying to choose a last name real quick.
01:27:49
Speaker
Unless you want to throw a last name got at me. Billiam Johnson? Billiam Johnson. Okay. Really?
01:28:00
Speaker
yeah um so I'm not even going to go into my name because I know that we're putting seeing this on live. but god did Let's just say it's it's close enough that it's funny. let me ask what Let me ask, what is his middle name?
01:28:14
Speaker
but so we'll leave We'll leave that up for interpretation. Okay, so um I will add these things to your character to sheet later, but one thing to note The entire class gained influence over you.
01:28:30
Speaker
That includes Siphon, if he did not already have it. um Siphon, he already had it over each other. Okay. So an interesting thing happens with that. Because he already has influence over you, Siphon, you get to choose to raise one of...
01:28:49
Speaker
um Kevin's labels, his stats, and lower one. um So which one do you want to raise by one? And and he doesn't need to tell you... He can't tell you what the stats are currently.
01:29:00
Speaker
So which one is going up and which one's going down? um Make it... You know, it should make sense to the situation, I guess. But... um Actually, it doesn't have to. You can do whichever you want. Because, yeah, this is what you think of him.
01:29:16
Speaker
um I guess I would... Raise his superior. Okay. So your superior will go up by one, and then which one is he lowering? And then I will lower your...
01:29:33
Speaker
Savior.
01:29:35
Speaker
You've got some weighted stats right now, Jaden. I know. I took a guess. I was trying to min-max you. No, it's We're really min-maxing you. Okay.
01:29:47
Speaker
I'm about to nuke the city on accident. Yeah, um yeah and so this is... Okay, so now um you guys, you you do your classes and class lets out and it's lunchtime. um you guys do ah Do you guys sit together?
01:30:05
Speaker
I mean, can we say that we're friends or not? You're a team teammates. Wait, so this school is forly for superheroes, right? Yeah.
01:30:17
Speaker
Are we friends with your teammates? That's not an answer to the question. This is a school of mixed individuals, super and non-super, and um those whose identities can be protected are protected.
01:30:33
Speaker
um You'll see how that works, and it's not perfect, but you'll see how that works like in in a little bit. um In that case, I probably wouldn't sit with them because... Right, it'd be too obvious. It'd be too obvious.
01:30:47
Speaker
Okay. I was thinking that, didn't want to say that because I've already made Will, man. Yeah, I see how it is. Well, Kevin is your friend. re ah Reese is the type that is that if no one stops him, he's go to make his after he gets his food, he's going to make his way to the library.
01:31:06
Speaker
yeah I immediately started with project. Do recall that Kevin is your friend. That is true. And you guys were friends before he changed, so it wouldn't wouldn't be suspicious for kevin to hang out with you still what is suspicious is that everyone knows that kevin was friends with calyx before he changed everyone also knows that calyx's teammate is a superhero named kevin right that's
01:31:37
Speaker
right that's that's what i was thinking too i was like i probably one of those things where it's like it's kind of obvious like what what's up with my watch type shit you know you also don't have to you don't have to have a secret identity um i just encourage it because it adds layers to the game you know but i i mean i definitely think i will but like you said like there's probably a lot of you know anyone with a brain on their heads in their heads you know the thing about super smart people is they don't have a lot of common sense so um that's true You're like, yes. And it stands for something, you know? Like, they might they might know the acronym, too. So it might be like... That might throw them off a little bit.
01:32:17
Speaker
But anyway, um yeah. So would you go sit with Calix? Yeah, I think so. And then... um Reese is going to the library. ah and, and Max is looking for, um, Tasha who he quickly finds.
01:32:34
Speaker
Um, just, I guess, uh, Tasha can be visible to everybody. Um, I mean, you guys saw the picture, uh, when I was choosing them, but, uh, this is Tasha. Um, Max is the childhood friend.
01:32:49
Speaker
Uh, they, they, they basically grew up together. um And she constantly reminds me. Huh? And she constantly of reminds me of a sad fact.
01:33:02
Speaker
Yeah, and she she's you know she's already at the lunch table, and you know she waves over at you. um One thing you know about Max is he gets to sit at the the the cool girls' table with you know all of her friends.
01:33:17
Speaker
Nice. And you know they all wave you over. You got to be grouped into her friends? yeah You have two options. You either pretend to be gay and get into the sleepover or, you know... Oh, no. I'm straight.
01:33:30
Speaker
Very straight. I mean, he gets him he probably still gets going to the the sleepover. She just has him in the brother zone. He's not her brother, but she sees him as a brother.
01:33:43
Speaker
um Depression. Yeah. And she's like, oh, hey, Max. um And she doesn't know you're a superhero. ah Yeah. So she's like, um how how was the ride to school this morning? I didn't see you on the bus.
01:34:00
Speaker
Flashback. The camera flashes briefly to you like um me torturing a man and it flashes back. and go, oh, it was I woke up late and I just walked to school.
01:34:15
Speaker
Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, we missed you on the bus. You should have seen it. um Simon totally mooned an old lady ah driving behind us. And Simon has a hairy butt.
01:34:29
Speaker
that That would not have been a pleasant sight. i It probably wasn't. I don't know. was in the front.
01:34:38
Speaker
um And yeah, you guys like to chat with each other. She sits in the front with her her group of friends. um
01:34:49
Speaker
Because she likes to get off the bus quick. um um what So um you guys are you know chatting. It's just general lunchtime. um ah And then, ah Reese, what are you doing in the library?
01:35:05
Speaker
Literally, I'm just...
01:35:08
Speaker
eating away from everybody else and just reading a book. he's that kind of and He's that kind of antisocial. Yeah, yeah. Are you seriously going to make an antisocial character in a game where it's all cooperative?
01:35:21
Speaker
Oh, no, no. Well, I'm basically antisocial. um it's It's fine that he's antisocial because that just means I get to um like push people on him and stuff. Yep, sing my mouth.
01:35:34
Speaker
Yeah, so the... Let's see. Where's that thing I just did? ah I'm not like the most antisocial. Like if someone comes and talks to me, I'm going, but I'm going to actively be like in my free time, just try to get some level of quiet.
01:35:52
Speaker
Yeah. um So ah you're sitting in the library and ah and then after a minute, um you hear the the clack of um a tray being sat down across you and you look up to see ah Clara Rojo, the girl who is cheating off you.
01:36:11
Speaker
And she um or was. Yeah, she was cheating off you. That's right. um just like, hey, thanks for for not ratting me out back there.
01:36:22
Speaker
um I know that class is stupid and meaningless and and demeaning to women. But at the same time, like my mom really cares if i if I'm good at baking. And and quite frankly, I'm not.
01:36:35
Speaker
so So copying you was was really helpful. It's all good. To be honest, we're only in the baking portion now. Only a portion of Home X is actually related to cooking.
01:36:46
Speaker
Later on, we're actually going to be going through general homemaking as well as balancing checkbooks and stuff. So it's actually fairly, you know, useful.
01:36:59
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I didn't know. like I know ah Miss Finch is is just you know all about cooking. making the food and having it ready for, you know, in time for dinner, you know, um, I guess Mr. Finch must, uh, must be pretty old fashioned.
01:37:18
Speaker
Yeah. I honestly took this class because of the life skills kind of have to pick some stuff up.
01:37:27
Speaker
All right. I gotta, um, it's like, well, um, yeah, I just, just, uh, Wanted to say thank you. do so It's all good. It's all good. Don't worry.
01:37:41
Speaker
You'll pay me back. Yeah. Well, you really saved me back there. um So, yeah. And and know she is so she is doing a thing called she is trying to shift your labels.
01:37:55
Speaker
um So when you shift a label or an NPC shifts yours, It means that um they're trying to change the way you view yourself. um She is trying to shift your savior up and your danger down.
01:38:09
Speaker
um If you... ah You can um reject this... ah Reject her her ah influence... Hold on, let me see. um
01:38:23
Speaker
Oh, she can't do it unless she has influence over you. um
01:38:29
Speaker
I think.
01:38:35
Speaker
Yeah, never mind. She can't shift your labels because she doesn't have influence over you. Although you are welcome to give anyone influence you want if you think you care about what this girl thinks. But it sounds like he doesn't.
01:38:47
Speaker
He does not care what she thinks, but he is going to say that it's fine. Just if I ask you for a minor favor at some point, just hear me out.
01:39:00
Speaker
Um, okay, sure. aye will do that. And then she kind of, um, is, is weirded out by the awkward situation.
01:39:12
Speaker
And so she's going to, uh, yeah, she's gonna take, take her tray. No, she's going to be even more awkward and just sit there and like, finish her food. Jesus Christ.
01:39:25
Speaker
and that But she finishes it. like She doesn't fully finish it. She takes a few bites. And then... um And then like text she's like, okay, well, um I'm gonna... I guess I'm done. And she gets up and and leaves.
01:39:40
Speaker
He's literally going to lift his eyebrows and be like, what made you think you i wanted I wanted you to be here? Does he say that? No, kind of he kind of gives off just the and just just the general impression.
01:39:51
Speaker
Yeah. Um...
01:39:56
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, she she definitely just wanders, you know, leaves, but yeah. I'm still, y'all, I'm still learning I'm in default aggression, okay? I, let me look at the moves here and see if,
01:40:12
Speaker
if there's one that's kind of, I don't think there's anything really like that, unless you were attempting to figure out why she's there, assess the situation might work, but other than that, yeah.
01:40:23
Speaker
um That's only if you were actively trying to figure out what the hell she wanted.
01:40:29
Speaker
But, yeah, so she leaves. don't think he would care about it at this point. Yeah. Her star sign is Ares.
01:40:40
Speaker
Ares? What the fuck? Her star sign is Ares?
01:40:47
Speaker
Anyway, um so yeah, that's that happens. Kevin, you are not sitting with Kalix, correct? Or are you?
01:41:02
Speaker
as Did Jaden fall asleep? What? No, I'm here. Jaden, your name is Kevin. um ah so um I didn't even hear you say Kevin. I just heard blah, blah, blah, and then I heard Frank's name. So are you so are are you sitting with Calix, or are you are you all not together right now?
01:41:19
Speaker
No, we're sitting together. Okay. um So what are you guys up to? what are you all chatting about?
01:41:24
Speaker
oh So when you come and sit down and you look at my tray, it's not the food that's in the food line. It looks like i went like dumpster diving behind the school.
01:41:37
Speaker
It's got some eggshells and some like banana peels and some three-day-old green beans.
01:41:48
Speaker
And I'm just munching away.
01:41:52
Speaker
Well, I don't know. i might Since I got like publicly embarrassed in class, I might just be quiet and just eat too. Yeah, Calix was also maybe not embarrassed, but he was annoyed, you know, because he tried and and then got shown up by Reese.
01:42:10
Speaker
But I mean, if you guys are just going to sit there awkwardly, that's fine as well. um
01:42:17
Speaker
I won't force ah ah character interaction. um We can move on to the next thing. Okay. okay I'm just getting a picture real quick. um but One thing I want to ask Tasha.
01:42:31
Speaker
Okay. Hey, are you going to be on Helldivers later tonight? I asked the group at large, I guess. Are are they like, what type friend group are they?
01:42:42
Speaker
um I think she's probably a little bit. She's popular, but also like um popular, but has that nerdy side to her. You know, like, I mean, most,
01:42:55
Speaker
people these days do play video games and stuff. um
01:43:01
Speaker
she ah She said, oh, um actually, i was kind of um was going to be busy tonight. um But maybe, yeah.
01:43:14
Speaker
OK, yeah. okay yeah if If I got time, for sure. Is there just American? that's I just need American.
01:43:26
Speaker
for the name generator. Like I'm okay with with some non-American names mixed in, but this is set in America and it's given me nothing but like really off the wall names.
01:43:39
Speaker
Yeah, you know, there's no way and no way in America that would happen. Well, like we've got OluwasegunnymphusOberti. yeah nope gary Are you looking for just like random names? to you Yeah, it's just the random name generator I happen to be using. It's given me too many um ah really... Cleo Humphreys?
01:44:02
Speaker
It's like, make the name make sense. It's not hard. that's that's ah That I feel like there is no excuse. But yeah. um Oh, well, I mean, that probably makes excuse in whatever country that's from.
01:44:18
Speaker
um I just have it set currently to all country, well, all name types everywhere. um But I don't see just like, and I understand why, quote unquote, America is not an option because America is a melting pot. But also there are some very common American names.
01:44:35
Speaker
No, yeah, that's the that's the exact point I'm making. There's literally no chance in hell that you would come across that person. yeah, it'd be extremely unlikely.
01:44:47
Speaker
Anyway. Um, uh, you know what? Someone said Cleo Humphrey. I'll use that name later.
01:44:57
Speaker
One second. ba back Okay. Um, yeah. Okay. Uh, so she said, maybe, um, she might be on later. Uh, And lunch ends, you guys go to your next class, and the day's going as usual when the um ah siren goes off for a, a what do you call it? a um Fire drill? Dismissal?
01:45:25
Speaker
Not a dismissal, a fire drill. Not a fire drill, a super drill in which people basically, and so the way it works, or I guess I should wait for Bill to be back. Okay.
01:45:40
Speaker
Oh, it's like a secret. Well, no, no, no. I'll explain it when Bill gets back.
01:45:48
Speaker
This is how it operates for how the school handles its supers.
01:45:54
Speaker
I back. Okay, so you guys are, you know, in your regular classes. The day's going, and then the alarms start going off for a, um you know, an event in the city, a super...
01:46:05
Speaker
you know, super villain type events. Um, and, uh, these alarms, um, go off either. Well, they go off pretty much anytime there's one of these events.
01:46:18
Speaker
Two in one day is kind of rare. Um, but one of them was before school and you guys just happened to be, you know, the nearby, um and decided to show up. That was an outside of school, a non-school sanctioned superhero, superheroic activity.
01:46:32
Speaker
Um, So the alarms go off and what happens is the students all know they're supposed to go down into the bunkers. so All the students also know that random supers, there are more than one presumably superhero team in the school and those teams are randomly selected to go and deal with whatever threats.
01:46:54
Speaker
um Now the students are never sent to deal with anything big. um
01:47:00
Speaker
through the school. um Now, if you guys go do something on your own, that's different, but through the school, the the school basically decides if this is a learning experience for senior superheroes, you know, seniors as in the high school age seniors, um not old people.
01:47:15
Speaker
So, um And if there is, then it selects one of the teams somewhere in the city. It may not even be in this school. um Everyone goes into their, you know, sort of get into shelter drill.
01:47:27
Speaker
And then that team is kind of plucked from the the line um stealthily. Now, students might notice that one and that and some people are missing. It's not perfect.
01:47:38
Speaker
But they subtly, you know, basically the four of you were randomly selected, obviously, for this. um Well, your team was selected and each of you get like a special, you know, you've all got like a, you know, and an app or something that um the school uses to do.
01:47:56
Speaker
to, you know, more or less summon you. And it's your guys' turn to go and and deal with the threat. um every team Every team in the city ideally gets to deal with at least one threat in the year.
01:48:08
Speaker
But this being Halcyon City, a lot of times you get to do more than one. But this is your guys' first one um since since the since your senior year started. wherere We're in the, ah you know, the it's let's say it's... um It's September right now.
Mission Briefing: T-Rex Threat
01:48:24
Speaker
So there have been a couple other threats, but you guys weren't selected for that. um But finally, your team is up for an officially you know sanctioned thing. You guys will get a grade um all on this.
01:48:36
Speaker
um And so you all know that you're supposed to meet basically in the principal's office.
01:48:45
Speaker
so So do you all head there? Yes. How do we get notified? Yeah. and that It's like an app on your phone, I guess. Okay. um i I go there.
01:48:59
Speaker
yeah I shovel the rest of ah the rest of my food into my mouth real fast and and yeah yeah's make start making my way. Yeah, there'd be no real reason that you, at this point in the game, that you wouldn't want to go there. Because right now we're assuming that all of you want to be part of this superhero team. That's one of the basic assumptions the game says to make in the beginning.
01:49:18
Speaker
Now, that might change over the course of play. um You guys all arrive in the principal's office. And, oh man, I should have come up with a name for this guy. um Whatever. The principal,
01:49:31
Speaker
um mr ah Mr. Powers. Mr. Powers. Mr. Powers, yep. ah Principal Powers.
01:49:42
Speaker
From Sky High. Yeah, I caught it. ah no one knows No one knows if Principal Powers has Powers himself. um But he is a um ah liaison with Aegis, the government-run superhero-type monitoring-type thing.
01:50:02
Speaker
um in town. Here is the lore on them if you want to bother. The Advanced Expert Group for Intervention and Security. um the The school gets to run this program with the through Aegis. Aegis basically um classifies threats that can be dealt with by the students.
01:50:22
Speaker
um And the principal calls in and is like, oh, yes, yes, um oh, good, Calix, Kevin, Reese, Max, i and actually, you know what?
01:50:34
Speaker
He doesn't have to know your secret identities. You guys can show up in costume um because it's even protected from him. um Because he's just a liaison. He's not an actual member of Aegis.
01:50:47
Speaker
um But he's like... um I mean, obviously he knows Calix and Kevin. um I show up fully costumed up with masks.
01:50:58
Speaker
And Siphon, do you as well? Yeah, I show up in my costume. Which you can see on my thing is... just barely a hi early ah mask a mask and a hood um and some sunglasses and it's like oh yes yes excellent excellent uh i see the team has arrived um but have have you guys thought of a team name for yourselves yet i know it's just the beginning of the year and you're only just just recently an official team but um you know it's if you if you want to register with aegis uh after you graduate you'll need a you'll need a team name so just just keep that in mind um
01:51:38
Speaker
that's just The Grasslandians. No.
01:51:44
Speaker
that the Okay, well, um yeah let's just put that back on the back burner. Let me tell you about this threat. So Aegis has classified this as a level level three threat.
01:51:56
Speaker
No Assyrians. There's a T-Rex running loose in town, and you guys are going to go and deal with it. T-Rex?
01:52:07
Speaker
and he ah he ran Oh, I'm sure you guys can handle it. A T-Rex, that's just a, like I said, it's just a Class 3 threat. um And he um he gives you guys the location, and he says, there will be an Aegis shuttle waiting for you outside. Let's let's let's get it going. And there's like a, um ah you know, a secret door in his office that leads to, you know, basically a parking lot that is...
01:52:31
Speaker
um it's It's in a section of the school that's like fenced off and everyone knows it's where the superhero um kids get to like head off with Aegis.
01:52:42
Speaker
um but But, you know, um there's there's a ah there's ah ah van waiting for you guys. It's big enough for Calix. They knew which team they were coming for.
01:52:54
Speaker
There's just like a specific section on it that's just way bigger than the rest. Yeah, there's just a big chair in there. It's got, um, I mean, they're used to big bulky superheroes, you know, and it's got like X, you know, reinforced, uh, suspension and stuff. So, you know, barely sags when he gets in.
01:53:11
Speaker
Um, and, uh, and then the, once you guys all get in the van, it speeds off to the, to your desk, to the destination. Um, uh, a few minutes later, you guys arrive at, uh, um, you, you arrive outside of, uh,
01:53:26
Speaker
basically the central park of this town. um And you, ah yeah, you hear the thunderous footsteps of what you presume would be the T-Rex. um And you do see the T-Rex out there.
01:53:39
Speaker
um There are people running away from it, um but currently it's not directly threatening any any anyone close up yet.
01:53:49
Speaker
um It is kind of charging through the park, heading for nearby streets. And the driver but driver looks back through the ah the window. The van has like one of those limo-style windows, and he's like, good luck out there, boys.
01:54:05
Speaker
If you need help, be sure to radio in. And then the back doors of the van pop open. Real quick before we all jump out, I am going to tell the rest of the group that if you see a lady whose arm is looks like it's half half dinosaur, or like she's half dinosaur, she's probably got something to do with this.
01:54:32
Speaker
ah I'll leaf you to that then.
01:54:43
Speaker
How fucking dare you. yeah All right. And so just then the T-Rex burst onto the scene. It it burst through the trees.
01:54:55
Speaker
um And as the, you guys jump out of the van and the driver drives off and, um and starts heading for ah ah heading for the dog park.
01:55:09
Speaker
Guys, this might be a prickly situation. Are you reading this off somewhere? Can I get on your phone? that one I see like a huge page of puns.
01:55:21
Speaker
That one's striking. Yeah. i ah As the T-Rex goes, i want tole I want to shape some my sand into... ah and Before you do that, since we are entering a new battle, um when you enter a battle against a dangerous foe as follows a team, automatically add two to the team pool. um So...
01:55:44
Speaker
One. Nice. Two. um Who do you think is the leader right now? Bill, you were the first two are about to act, so um you might be leading this fight.
01:55:55
Speaker
i don't know. My pun was pretty good. I feel like I should lead. Wait, how is a T-Rex going to be prickly? Let's prank lead. Okay, I mean... ah No, I was just making a joke. i There's no way.
01:56:10
Speaker
It also, you know, Ironsand has an idea of who might be behind this. Like, he seems to be the one in the know, so it might make sense for him to be ah in the lead for this fight. You're right.
01:56:23
Speaker
um being the leader doesn't necessarily mean you do anything leadery um uh it doesn't require it anyway um so uh what is each of your purposes oh wait no does the leader have influence over every other team member no he doesn't um he he doesn't have influence over anybody uh i don't think um who bill No, i I am influenced by greece ah you are? Okay.
01:56:53
Speaker
um So that is missing on his character sheet. I'm influenced by Kevin.
01:56:58
Speaker
Yes, you're influenced by Kevin, but you have influence over over Max there. um But you only have influence over Max, so you don't have influence over the entire team.
01:57:11
Speaker
ah Okay, so each of you state your purpose in this fight, ah starting with the leader.
01:57:20
Speaker
What do you see as your your goal in this battle, Rhys? um Wait, what was the dinosaur do doing? It is heading for the dog park within the big park. You know, within the human park.
01:57:33
Speaker
And there are dogs. People are trying to wrangle their dogs as the dogs are barking at the T-Rex. Of course, fucking dumb dogs. Yeah. I am going to say I'm going to try to slow it down. If anyone sees Caesar, try to not ah try to knock her out. no this This is out of character. What is your goal for the fight?
01:57:57
Speaker
ah To be perfectly honest, my overall goal is actually to try to get Jurassic to owe me a favor. Okay. um It seems unlikely that the others will share that goal, so I'm going to already say, since you guys don't know her, then your purposes don't all match up.
01:58:17
Speaker
um Does anyone distrust the leader? um Does anyone distrust um Reese Ironsand?
01:58:29
Speaker
How long have you been working together as a team? don't Probably less than a month. Probably no more than like two months.
01:58:37
Speaker
And during that time frame, has he been less than trustworthy at any point? That's up to you guys. I mean, him and I bonded over attacking a ah police car. He used to be a villain.
01:58:52
Speaker
Yes, but I am one to let bygones be bygones. You're perfectly willing to say you all trust him. Yeah, I do. Like, he hasn't done anything yet to make you guys lose trust in him.
01:59:05
Speaker
Is your team ill-prepared or off-balance? um He told you was a T-Rex in advance, so i don't you're not unprepared for this. You you know it's a T-Rex. so Are we trying to kill the T-Rex or divert the T-Rex, or what are we trying to do?
01:59:19
Speaker
They didn't tell you what you're trying to do. Okay. It's a goddamn T-Rex. It should be extinct. yeah Let's make it that way. trying to stop the T-Rex, yeah.
01:59:30
Speaker
And I also said that I'm going to be one of the guys working to slow it down. Yeah. But wait, guys. We could potentially make a lot of money opening up a Jurassic World.
01:59:43
Speaker
That always ends horribly in the movies, bro. People get in the T-Rex. The T-Rex takes several steps towards the dog park and then roars into the air.
01:59:57
Speaker
You see that lodged in its mouth, like attached inside its mouth, is some sort of cannon. And when it roars, lightning shoots up into the air from the cannons.
02:00:09
Speaker
oh I always get sweaty palms before a battle. And then it continues in the direction of the in innocents innocent dogs and their owners.
02:00:21
Speaker
yeah are attack I'm allowed to just act, right? Yeah. Okay, well I just go straight into the dinosaur's memory. Okay. Rip it. And and while like while he's doing that, I'm going to start i'm going to shoot me um i'm gonna be shooting sharp sharp metal shit at it to try to slow it down.
02:00:40
Speaker
Any ah penalties or bonuses? It sounds like you're both directly engaging it. um We'll start with ah Max, so go ahead and roll danger.
02:00:51
Speaker
Any bonuses or negatives? No.
02:00:55
Speaker
ah Okay, so on a nine, um you pick one of them. ah You will trade blows unless you resist or avoid their blows. You can take something from them. You can create an opportunity for your allies or impress surprise or frighten the opposition. bill Can he take its memories?
02:01:14
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. um So I'll say if you didn't take something from them, you're just kind of tearing at its mind, but if you wanted to take specific memories, you could do that.
02:01:27
Speaker
But take something from them can mean a lot of things.
02:01:33
Speaker
Like, but one of the examples I was like, you could take the high- Can i take the cannon out of its mouth? That's I was thinking. you If you choose that as your option,
02:01:45
Speaker
I'll say yes. You won't be able to physically take it out of its out of its mouth, but you may be able to take its ability to use the cannon on you. Ooh, take its memory on how to use it.
02:01:59
Speaker
Yeah, I will take the ability for it to use its cannon away. Okay, so what you get while blasting through its memories are that it...
02:02:12
Speaker
It doesn't know how to use the cannon, it knows how to roar, and the roar activates the cannon. um So you erase its memory of how to roar. However, that's not the easiest thing to do, and because you didn't resist or avoid its blows, the T-Rex you know is in the process of roaring, and as you start roaring,
02:02:36
Speaker
wrenching at its mind, it turns its head towards you and a spew of lightning blasts over you before you shut off its vocal cords. um So you will need to mark a condition as you take damage back.
02:02:48
Speaker
What should mark?
02:02:56
Speaker
So all of us have to take that? No, just him. Okay. Um...
02:03:01
Speaker
um
02:03:06
Speaker
I'll get angry. Okay, yeah. um And then... ah Iron Sand, you were throwing metal shards at it. um Are you doing this to harm it or to slow it down?
02:03:19
Speaker
because i am trying I'm trying to slow it down to eventually stop it because I don't know what it is. So that's going to be Unleash Your Powers.
02:03:30
Speaker
think So that is Roll Freak. Uh... Oh, I did directly engage, my bad.
02:03:42
Speaker
Oh, yeah, you did. yeah Well, that's still full hit. um Yeah, so you describe how you... um I start launching... i start launching shards of my sand directly forward and as it comes up to the t to the T-Rex it forms around its neck and around its legs and it forms chains that latch onto the ground and I'm just manipulating the metal and hold and trying to hold it in place. Okay.
02:04:15
Speaker
Oh, I need to mark my T-Rex on the damage he took. Yeah, so yeah, you you managed to hold it in place, at least for now. um And where'd you go, T-Rex? Oh, I guess I can show you the image I found for t the T-Rex NPCs.
02:04:34
Speaker
um While this is not an intelligent T-Rex, I had to give him this name because it's one that ChatGPT suggested, and I loved it.
02:04:47
Speaker
Nice. so Yo, that's perfect. Voltasaurus. So his tongue is actually the cannon. Yes. So it's like a mechazord.
02:05:02
Speaker
Yeah, the a cannon has... No, it is a flesh and blood T-Rex. The cannon has been surgically implanted into his where his tongue was, basically. I don't want him to lick me.
02:05:13
Speaker
um Real quick, with ah with the fact that had a full hit on that last one, can i also say that I am manipulating the sand around his mouth to keep it shut after seeing it shoot off once?
Chaos at the Dog Park
02:05:27
Speaker
um That can be part of what you're trying to do with it. Okay. yeah ah So now, Kevin or Calix, what are you guys up to?
02:05:38
Speaker
I would like to run forward and try to scare of the people and the dogs away. Okay, so you're trying to provoke these people to leave. Well, I have a Be the Monster. Okay.
02:05:52
Speaker
So roll that or and describe what it does. or i can look at it as well.
02:06:00
Speaker
Seven is a hit. So Be the Monster. On a hit, they are thrown off and make themselves vulnerable to you, or they flee. um I guess... I'm trying to make them all flee.
02:06:15
Speaker
Yeah. Is something missing from that? Hold on. Let me double check the... Yeah, I was pretty sure there was something. Yeah, let me... ah But it says on a 10+, choose one.
02:06:27
Speaker
Yeah, I just... Is it one of those two options, or... Be the monster... Oh, yeah. um On a 7 to 9, choose 2. Oh, yeah, we're missing a bit.
02:06:41
Speaker
On a 10 plus, choose 1. Let me copy the rest of that into there so you can see it. ah
02:06:49
Speaker
I don't know how that didn't get copied into there, but that is what happens with the copy-pasting of this stuff.
02:07:03
Speaker
So on a 10+, choose one. On a 7 to 9, you got a 7, so choose two. You frighten others you had not intended to scare. You hurt or hurt someone or break something you shouldn't have. Did you put it in there?
02:07:17
Speaker
Yes. You feel like more of a monster. um It should be and be the monster down at the bottom now.
02:07:26
Speaker
I'm refreshing page because it didn't look like anything changed.
02:07:39
Speaker
There it is. Nope. Nope, it's not there. That's weird. Be the monster. Did I put it in the wrong spot? No, it's there now.
02:07:50
Speaker
um For me.
02:07:53
Speaker
Can you they flee ah it's ten plus choose one can you scroll down
02:08:06
Speaker
Nope. oh Oh, there it is. Okay, it's just not scrolling right. I scrolled inside there and it didn't scroll. Got it. Yeah, I also posted it into chat.
02:08:20
Speaker
You frightened others you had no intention to scare. You hurt someone. Wait, have choose two of these? While you choose that, I need to go run and do something real quick. up by right back.
02:08:40
Speaker
Okay. I'm going to choose you frighten others you had no intention to scare.
02:08:50
Speaker
and you hurt someone or break something you shouldn't have.
02:09:03
Speaker
I'm back. What did you choose? um You frighten others you had no intention to scare and you hurt someone or break something you shouldn't have. Hmm.
02:09:15
Speaker
Okay. So you did you choose what that is or do I choose what that is? If you've got an idea, ah you can go for it. I think the people that you had not intended to scare.
02:09:28
Speaker
um you i want to scare babies. Well, there might be some babies there, but um you'd probably want to scare those people away. I think the people that you frightened that you didn't intend to frighten are actually um the the teachers who are watching this fight.
02:09:48
Speaker
um Now, what did you break or hurt? you have any idea for that? I... I broke the fence around the dog park when I was trying to jump over it.
02:10:03
Speaker
Okay. That works. And the dogs for each other. Yeah, so the people flee from you. um They didn't get scared from the T-Rex, but of course the tree man, they're like, oh no!
02:10:17
Speaker
Yeah, they run away from you. And um ah you don't know this, but you also frightened your teachers in this moment. um Actually, instead ah instead of that one, can we do the, you feel like more of a monster afterwards?
02:10:31
Speaker
Yes. So mark a condition, GM's choice. um I'm going to have you mark insecure.
02:10:38
Speaker
Yep. um For future reference, to cure insecure, you need to take foolhardy action without talking to your team. Oh, that's no has to be full art It has to be foolhardy action, by the way.
02:10:53
Speaker
um ah that You can also be cleared by someone comforting and supporting you in a couple other ways. What about foolhardy? Kevin, your turn. Kevin, what you up to?
02:11:09
Speaker
Kevin the Sleeper. Kevin! Jaden, you're Kevin. Wait. Oh my gosh, I am so dumb. I am so dumb. Did you ask what I'm going to do? Yeah.
02:11:20
Speaker
Alright, so can I use a round to ah make a weapon with my thing and then use it let me next time? Let me see what you... says specifically, you've got always prepared when you have a chance to restock your surprise. have to you So we'll say you've already restocked. You have two gadgets.
02:11:41
Speaker
You can unleash your powers, um which is roll freak. Oh no, roll superior. um but When you... on Lease your powers by producing a brand new invention or gadget from your supply.
02:11:55
Speaker
Spend one of your gadgets and roll superior. So yes, you can just roll superior and have a gadget. Okay. I basically want to like hone in every like weapon that I have like accessible and basically just hone it into like one single just giant shot at this thing.
02:12:14
Speaker
So you're using your existing gadgets to create a new super weapon. Yeah, like just like smash like if I could just use both gadgets and just just like mash them together and just shoot this guy. oh Roll superior to see if it works.
02:12:35
Speaker
Ooh. A miss. Okay, so let me see. It counts as unleash your powers. So on a miss... Um, and I don't know how anyone could help you do this.
02:12:49
Speaker
Um, although they can, if they can come up with a way that they could have helped you, they could help you. So what were you trying to do? Just make a... He's trying to make a super weapon.
02:13:01
Speaker
You can also act selfishly and spend one of the team points on your own. um And either... ah So someone can help you or you can act... Now, this won't work for you, though.
02:13:15
Speaker
um Because you can... It won't help you anyway. you When you act selfishly, you shift one of your labels and your label can't shift above three. ah So it actually wouldn't boost this role. So there would be no reason. So this is just a flat miss unless someone can come up with a legitimate way they would somehow be able to help you invent a super weapon. and I ah don't personally... Well, feel like that Bill could like formulate some sort of like iron pieces or something for me.
02:13:45
Speaker
Yeah, Bill, if you... Yeah, if that's what you what Bill wants to say, if if he wants to help you, um you could... Yeah, you do have metal metal power, so you could help him... I mean, something that I could have done when I disabled the the the laser... um Well, i guess I removed how it knows how to roar.
02:14:07
Speaker
Yeah, it doesn't know how the laser works. Yeah. But I guess while it was like shaking its head around and freaking out, it could have broken a piece off, an important piece, and it would have come our way.
02:14:20
Speaker
If you'd rather say that than it not being able to roar.
02:14:26
Speaker
no I don't. ah Unless if Bill's going to help him out, then I will do that. Yeah, Bill, do you want to help him out? I... Yeah. I think Bill makes Bill, you make more sense because of your metal manipulation powers.
02:14:43
Speaker
Yeah, I think I'm going to go ahead and yeah, I'll help out. So you see what he's trying to do and you run over and um you're like, how can I help? And, you know, he he directs you on what he needs and you make it happen.
02:14:55
Speaker
I throw some like just ginormous words, but I know you're smart too, so it just kind of like works. and then like Everyone else is like, what the fuck? You throw out something smart. I respond back with, so dumb it down for me, and then you just tell me a general shape.
02:15:13
Speaker
um Circle here. So now um you've done that. Now I need to make a move. I forget which one did I mark. I'm pretty sure i'm marked Angus. So does that turn it into a seven?
02:15:25
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. um So it's now a success. That being said, it's just a 7. So it is either... um So on a 7 to 9, you can mark a condition or i will tell you how the effect is unstable or temporary.
02:15:42
Speaker
is Is it one or the other? like ah not I'm not going to go with the first one. I don't want to do another condition. But is it is it either... i get to decide. Okay. Well then, yeah, I'll do the second one.
02:15:52
Speaker
Okay, it's definitely going to be unstable. This is a one-off. um But it's going to give you a plus one to directly engaging a threat. ah
02:16:05
Speaker
And then... um Now that the T-Rex, he's been standing there long enough, he's got to make a move. um He's going to use the move Break the Environment and bust free of um of ah of Iron Sand's prison that he's kind of um and you know done around him.
02:16:28
Speaker
ah Let's see.
02:16:34
Speaker
aren Did he say shards, though? So is it like super jagged? I'm not, I mean, it breaks free of it, is basically what happened. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah. and um And then the T-Rex, doesn't remember how to roar, so it's not going to roar at you guys.
02:16:50
Speaker
But, you know, it is now charging towards um the person with big gun and and person ah who threw metal at him.
02:17:02
Speaker
And I guess also Siphon is over there.
02:17:07
Speaker
Only... um Wait, isn't it... yeah This T-Rex's tongue is a giant cannon, isn't it? Yes.
02:17:17
Speaker
I'm going to... I should have just made a remote. I'm going to manipulate the... me I'm going to force the metal that is that giant cannon to just stop. Alright, that's an unleash your powers.
02:17:32
Speaker
Or make it melt in his mouth, because it already doesn't work. Yeah, that's roll freak. I can't i can't i can't ah heat it up, I can only manipulate it. roing Why do you have that picture?
02:17:43
Speaker
Is that Bill? Yes. ah It looks like it says Joe on his shirt. Hey, another young Bill picture. Let me just save that. what I need all of the young Bill pictures. Wow.
02:17:59
Speaker
That's D2 Bill. Hey, why are you holding your Delta Duster with no gloves on, huh? Hey, I have a worse video of him with Delta Dose. Do you not see the bags of Delta Guard in my back in my back seat? What the fuck is that about?
02:18:15
Speaker
Fuck, haven't seen Delta Guard in years. Fuck, I still had hair. Are we sure that doesn't say Joe? It might have been a spare uniform. That definitely says Bill.
02:18:29
Speaker
I zoomed in. It says Bill. It might say Bill. So Bill, you unleashed your powers. um It's a 7 to 9. So again, you can either mark a condition or I'll tell you how it's temporary or unstable.
02:18:44
Speaker
i am Go ahead and tell me how it's temporary or unstable. Okay, it is unstable. As you begin breaking down this um this weapon, ah it, you know, it... it causes it to overload and explode.
02:19:00
Speaker
um The T-Rex is hurled backwards, but there's a massive explosion um destroying a ah ah large portion of the park, and you need to take a powerful blow.
02:19:12
Speaker
um So ah roll the button that says conditions, and you want to roll low.
02:19:25
Speaker
oh roll low. Roll low.
02:19:29
Speaker
you any conditions? more hey Actually, low is good. So low, on a miss, you stand strong. Mark, oh, I haven't been doing this. um So go ahead and mark potential.
02:19:41
Speaker
um And I'm going to roll back through the rolls real quick. um Potential should be on your sheet. It'll say potential. You may have to scroll down for it and mark one of those. Yeah, it's fairly near the bottom.
02:19:53
Speaker
And let me just do some adding real quick. Jaden, you missed... Oh, no, no, you bumped that up to a success. Anytime you miss, you mark potential. um okay That is how you gain experience in this game.
02:20:06
Speaker
um What was this roll for? This was a superior from Max Jr. at some point on a six from a while back.
02:20:18
Speaker
Did you fail any rolls, Max? Yes. Where are you getting these pictures, bro? That's kind of weird. It's from Facebook. Okay, well, we'll just, um since i i I'm not sure who else has I need to lock down Facebook. I see a three back here. That's definitely another miss from from Bill.
02:20:36
Speaker
So Bill, mark another one. I don't think anyone else has missed anything. um All right. Yeah, I got to remember that. Anytime you guys fail, um you get experience.
02:20:50
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, so you took a powerful blow, but you stood strong and marked potential. um And say how you weather the blow. How do you weather the blow of this explosion?
02:21:03
Speaker
um i i ben I, you know, form my sand like like in a big half dome around me to shield to shield myself. Okay, now here's another thing.
02:21:16
Speaker
Because you were right next to Cannon Boy or Super Weapon Boy, he's also going to have to take a powerful blow, but you could roll to defend him if you choose since you're also defending yourself.
02:21:27
Speaker
And I'll give you a plus one on that roll. I will do that. Defend is roll Savior. All right, my Savior is still minus one, but you said I get a plus to that? Yeah.
02:21:48
Speaker
yeah oh That's with the plus one? Yeah, that's with the plus one. Okay, there is two team in the pool. um ah So...
02:22:02
Speaker
um Siphon and um Kevin, if y'all can also build up this defense in some way.
02:22:15
Speaker
Can I use it while doing... like doing a move You'll get to do a move after this. um But just say, you know, don't you have like telekinesis or something? I do. That's what I was planning on yeah So you you could easily just like, you know, throw a car in front of them to take, you know, and bo boost it one or something. and then and so it's It's just a giant blast coming their way? It's a giant blast heading their way because he overloaded the weapon.
02:22:45
Speaker
Um...
02:22:49
Speaker
I guess with my telekinesis, couldn't I have like...
02:22:57
Speaker
crunched the tongue?
02:23:01
Speaker
Well, the reason this is happening is because the tongue is exploding. Okay. um Yeah, I guess I'll go ahead and
02:23:13
Speaker
lift up part of the year area. Yeah, lift up part of the the pathway of the ah park. and And then um Kevin, Jaden, how will you add to this defense?
02:23:27
Speaker
um I guess I'll just like slap my watch and be like, Kevin. Please turn up my my ah my shields. Okay, yeah. that That's perfectly reasonable.
02:23:42
Speaker
um That spins the last two teams, but that bumps you up to a seven. um On a seven to nine, you you protect them, but it costs you. Expose yourself to danger or escalate the situation.
02:23:54
Speaker
What would you like? We might as well escalate it. I'm about to take care of it. Oh, sorry. bill Because he's the one doing the defending right now.
02:24:06
Speaker
ah
02:24:11
Speaker
Shit. Sorry. um
02:24:16
Speaker
What does escalate the situation mean? That's up to me.
02:24:23
Speaker
That's for me to know and for you to find out. So wait, what am I rolling? You're not rolling anything. You've already rolled. um Now you've, with the help of team, you've successfully defended him. However, it costs you. You can either expose yourself to the danger or escalate the situation somehow.
02:24:42
Speaker
And I'll tell you what escalating the situation means. i'll I'll take the hit for him. Okay. So you take the hit. Now here's what I'm going to say.
02:24:53
Speaker
ah You take the hit.
02:24:56
Speaker
But, um,
02:25:01
Speaker
where does, okay. You keep on a hit, you keep them safe. Okay. So, um, yeah, you expose yourself to danger. So you take the hit.
02:25:14
Speaker
Now what you can choose to do now, because you also got a seven to nine, you can choose to add a point of team to the pool, which I shouldn't have deleted all of those. I need to keep Okay.
02:25:24
Speaker
You can add team to the pool as a side effect of this. You can take influence over the person you protected, so you could gain influence over Jaden. Or you can clear a condition, basically canceling out that hit you just took.
02:25:37
Speaker
either I would personally either add ah Yeah, I want to go ahead and add add one to team. Okay, so you will still take the hit then. um So mark one condition.
02:25:48
Speaker
All right.
02:25:53
Speaker
The good news is you only took a normal blow, not a powerful blow from that.
02:25:59
Speaker
What condition are you marking? um
02:26:06
Speaker
I am going to pick...
02:26:18
Speaker
Insecure. Okay. Now, um Siphon or the Verdant Guardian, neither of you have done anything in a while. um Do either of you have an idea of something?
02:26:30
Speaker
I guess with the barrier that I constructed on them, I'm just going to go ahead and I was lifting it up to go ahead and block them. And with all the shrapnel, I'm just going to throw it right at them. Okay. Directly engage the threat. Roll danger.
Subduing the T-Rex
02:26:46
Speaker
Alright, that's a hit. So on a 9, you trade blows and then you can pick one of the options. resist Resist or avoid his blows. Take something. so if I resist or avoid their blows, do they still get damaged? Yes.
02:27:02
Speaker
okay um They'll always get damaged from this, and then this is but they have the ability to damage you back um unless you resist or avoid.
02:27:20
Speaker
I guess I'll... I want to create an opportunity, but... Okay. I don't know how much life... Do I know how bloodied this thing is? um It's looking beat up, but, like, yeah, it's... It's a but still going for It's still going right now.
02:27:37
Speaker
Okay, I'll i'll resist. Okay. um So yeah, in that case, yeah, um you resist his blow, so he's he's not able to get an attack in on you, um which makes sense. He wasn't close to you at the moment.
02:27:50
Speaker
And I will mark another condition on him.
02:27:55
Speaker
But anytime a villain gets their conditions marked, I immediately do a response. um And that one is afraid was marked. Okay.
02:28:12
Speaker
Hmm. It's going to lash out without thought or threat, or I can do one of its other two moves.
02:28:23
Speaker
Oh, no, it can't do that anymore because that's been disabled. um Yeah, I guess it's just going lash out ain't like in in in fear and like you know just last throw its tail around, like swing its tail around and knock over like some some some like you know power light like light posts and things like that. But it's just lashing out and in anger right now. But it's not actually um doing anything too concerning at the moment.
02:28:51
Speaker
um I mean, it's concerning in that it's damaging you know the infrastructure of the city. but um And then, Calyx, what are you up to?
02:29:04
Speaker
um Guardian. I am going to throw myself, or I'm going to run and try to throw myself at the feet of the T-Rex and wrap myself around his feet.
02:29:18
Speaker
With the intent of harming him or of of stopping? like Stopping the rampage. Okay. um unleash your Unless you've got a playbook move, it would be unleash your powers, but I know you've got unstoppable smashes through scenery. That wouldn't be it. It'd be the monster. I only have the two, so no. HP unleash powers.
02:29:40
Speaker
Which is freak. Yes. Now, would you say this is a foolhardy move?
02:29:51
Speaker
take foolhardy action without talking to your team i don't plus you because this is like your style of fighting you know true um you get a full hit so uh you sweep the legs on this thing and knock it to the ground um uh And yeah, it's on the ground now. I'm going to say anyone who makes a move against it um gets a plus one on the next thing.
02:30:23
Speaker
whatever Hey guys, I have him rooted. who but yeahke That's how you steer the teachers watching us.
02:30:38
Speaker
um Anyone? So ah that was i will go again Siphon and Calix did something. Do Ironsand or Kevin. Kevin, you still haven't used your super weapon. and It's got a one-off use.
02:30:57
Speaker
J-Den. Oh my gosh. What'd you say? Do you want to attack this thing with your gun? Yes. My super weapon. Yeah. So that would be directly engage a threat. Um, and it will have a plus two bonus because Frank gave you a plus one plus your gun gives you a plus one. Okay. Your, your, your special gun.
02:31:21
Speaker
So that puts it at an eight. That is a hit. um So on a hit, you trade blows. Yeah, that's what the plus two would have been a failure. um Yeah.
02:31:33
Speaker
ah So on a hit, you trade blows. um You will deal damage to it, but it will somehow deal damage to you in return unless you choose the resist and avoid your blows option.
02:31:45
Speaker
You get to choose one of these. Resist or avoid their blows, take something from them, create an opportunity for your allies, impress, surprise, or frighten the opposition.
02:31:55
Speaker
Uh, I'll, I'll, uh, resist. Okay. By like doing like a super jump almost. And then kind of just like boosting myself into the air. Okay. Yeah. Um,
02:32:07
Speaker
And it makes sense because it would have been hard for that the thing to attack you. Otherwise, I would have had to come up with something. So you blast it with this this ah gun. Now, unfortunately, this destroys the gun because it was unstable um based on the role when it was created.
02:32:26
Speaker
um However, you blast this T-Rex, severely wounding it, and it lets out... It doesn't know how to roar, so it lets out a groan and then um like slumps and lays still.
02:32:41
Speaker
it's It's breathing slowly and and obviously in pain, um and but no longer fighting. um Does anyone want to do anything else before Aegis moves in to to clean up the situation, basically, and and and contain this T-Rex?
02:33:03
Speaker
I would like to do assess the situation by diving into its mind and finding out where this T-Rex came from. Okay, um so roll superior. Do I get any pluses or minuses since it's conked out?
02:33:17
Speaker
No.
02:33:20
Speaker
a And there's not enough team to get you to a success. So you dive into its mind, but the problem is this is the mind of an animal. um from what the The one thing you do learn is that this T-Rex, while it may have ah a cannon for a gun, is just a T-Rex.
02:33:40
Speaker
um You know that you you sense its fear and its confusion and stuff, but it's just a T-Rex. Because you missed, you get to to mark a potential.
02:33:51
Speaker
um But yeah, the only thing you learned from that is that it is a it's it's just a normal T-Rex. It at least was just a normal T-Rex. you know Obviously, someone installed a gun in its mouth. but i think we need to rewind and look at the words, GoMul T-Rex.
02:34:10
Speaker
Because it's 2024-2024.
02:34:12
Speaker
but Yeah, I mean... yeah So there's some sort of time travel or something that happened. Yeah, if if this was the the, you know, several million years ago, it would have been a normal T-Rex.
02:34:25
Speaker
ah Now, to be fair, T-Rex is popping up in Halcyon City. and Dinosaurs have popped up before. Portals to you know other worlds and time travelers and stuff. All of that's normal stuff. for That's why the ti this T-Rex was only a Class 3 problem.
02:34:40
Speaker
um You guys are allowed to deal up to a Class 5 in high school. so um
02:34:49
Speaker
and And I just made that up on the spot. Don't ask me what the maximum classification is because I don't know. I feel like this was rather easy for a class 4 threat. Class 3. 3. Oh, okay. That's that's more accurate.
02:35:01
Speaker
Yeah. um So I want to try to... drink yes i was gonna go I have a Doom. I want to overexert myself. I'm pissed off that I couldn't... I'm already angry.
02:35:12
Speaker
Are you sure? You don't need to overexert yourself. You can use your Dark Visions, which would have the same effect. If you're trying to get information.
02:35:26
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it it does the same thing.
02:35:30
Speaker
you saying your condition? No, he's... So being the Doom, he's got um a special thing going on. Yeah, so with dark visions, mark your Doom Trek. You have a vision about the situation at hand. After the vision, um ask the DM a question, and they will answer honestly.
02:35:47
Speaker
Okay, so I have to like tell you a The way this works like... I want to specifically find out who installed this laser in its mouth. Okay, so the vision you get, um you... And this is all happening while you're still trying to get the memories, and you're you're having trouble, but then you tap into the darker power that dwells within you, and you suddenly are transported in your mind, transported back to...
02:36:16
Speaker
whatever period of time a T-Rex would normally be in, you feel your body, the Triassic period. You feel, not that the T-Rex knows anything about that. um you You feel big and powerful and and you are the, you know, you're basically the king of the jungle. You're stalking through through this this jungle and and um you you are hunting a wounded um ah Triceratops that, ah you know,
02:36:46
Speaker
is somehow wounded. Um, you can smell its blood and you're hunting it. Of course, you don't know the word triceratops. You know, the word food, um, you know, the English word for food. No.
02:36:58
Speaker
Um, yeah, but, uh, so you're hunting and you see it and it is, um, stumbling along, trying to get away from you. You go to bite it. And then this weird portal,
02:37:09
Speaker
This weird round thing of waving light opens up in you and you roar in fear. You don't know what this thing is. And the the portal moves and kind of swipes over you.
02:37:22
Speaker
And the next thing you know, you're in this this strange cave. um the The walls of this cave are perfectly smooth and... your you your own face reflects back at you in these walls as if as if you were looking into a still pond, um except it's on all four sides of you and there are strange there's strange sunlight coming from above.
02:37:44
Speaker
um ah Gas fills the room. um I guess you might see this as fog or something like that, or maybe swamp gas. Fills the room and you find yourself getting sleepy.
02:37:56
Speaker
The next thing you know, you're awake and um ah and rampaging through this strange forest. And what are those small little prey animals that are making noises annoyingly at you? And there are weird...
02:38:13
Speaker
slightly bigger prey animals trying to pull the small prey animals away from you. And then all of a sudden you're attacked and, you know, um and then the words, ah um you know, the, the, the, the vision fades and um the answer to your question comes to your mind. What was your question again?
02:38:33
Speaker
who Who installed this laser? ah the The name Jurassic. ah No, no, no. Better. Well, I already told you Jurassic. The image of a person. Well, what about the ah crazy scientist?
02:38:45
Speaker
The name Jurassic comes to your mind and you get the image of I'm just going to now add this to Hayden's ability. If you go to NPCs, you'll find Jurassic. You see her.
02:38:58
Speaker
Your character won't know this entire backstory, but you see her image and hear the name Jurassic in your mind. um Followed by creepy clown laughter.
02:39:12
Speaker
um So as i as that happens, I like fall down on the floor because ah I probably imagine that was immense pain for me too. yeah Yeah, you felt everything the T-Rex felt. And then after a moment...
02:39:25
Speaker
I remember Reese saying the name. or before i guess i know is before you I guess I know his real name. why you know re Yeah, I think y'all would know each other's names.
02:39:37
Speaker
um Unless you don't. That's up to you guys. um Do I know your name, Reese? I would know Frank's name. yeah And everyone knows you.
02:39:49
Speaker
I feel like since me and Max, or not Max, what is your name on here? Siphon. Siphon. Reese. I don't know. Yeah, Siphon. ah He, ah since we have influence over each other, I feel like, and since we've opened up to each other, I feel like we would probably know each other's names.
02:40:07
Speaker
Yeah. But i I don't know if we know Bill's name. That's up to up to you, Bill. Do they know that you are Reese? Um... They do not.
02:40:19
Speaker
Didn't we sit together at lunch? No. Reese sat away from everyone. i sure um Now, Calix saw Reese in class, but that but Reese always shows up in costume to these missions.
02:40:32
Speaker
So, yeah, you don't have to know that he is Ironsand. ah Okay, but before you can question Ironsand about this, um the Aegis trucks are all moving in.
02:40:42
Speaker
They've got, like, you know, these cables and they they are and shoot, like, a net over the T-Rex, and they're they're working on... um getting the T-Rex onto a big ah trailer and, and are hauling it off.
02:40:57
Speaker
ah And um ah the the driver, you know, ah walks up to you guys and says, you did a good job, kids.
Performance Evaluation and School Assignments
02:41:06
Speaker
um All of this will be sent back to your, your, to to Mr. Powers and, and i he'll, ah he'll give you, um you know, your, your grades.
02:41:16
Speaker
um You know, I'd say this one was a pretty big success. Nobody got hurt. um he doesn't know that your teachers that Calix frightened the teacher ah but um he's like nobody got hurt and you know if you guys are lucky enough for this to be your only assignment this year then I'd say you're gonna pass with straight A's and he's like ushers you guys back into the van now you can talk to each other on the drive back if you want well did want ask you really quick yes oh go ahead oh um well what were you gonna say Frank
02:41:51
Speaker
I was going to say, but before we we jump into the van, I wanted to say something to the guy. Okay. um Did any dogs get hurt?
02:42:04
Speaker
ah He looks at a um tablet and he's like, ah looks like no, no dogs were hurt. No animals were hurt during the filming of the ah this episode. fake Thank God. I'm glad the dogs would okay. And then he turns and winks at the camera.
02:42:21
Speaker
um I was hoping the dogs would be okay. Well, they were. That was another pun. What? The dog would.
02:42:32
Speaker
ah um But I wanted to ask you, is it like, are they, are we, are is Aegis kind of like the men in black where like, uh, like normal people don't know what's going on no They kind of wipe everyone's memories. No, no, they don't do that. Everyone in town knows about superheroes and all this craziness.
02:42:50
Speaker
Um, this is them. Um, okay.
02:42:56
Speaker
Yeah, Bill, we're we're wrapping it up. um There's some questions that got asked for end of session. um Yeah, so we're so you guys are want interrupt yeah you guys are driving back to school. And, you know, unless there's something you want to get out on the drive, will we'll start the end of session questions.
02:43:17
Speaker
So I guess when we get out of the car, I turn to... Iron Sand. And I say... Didn't you mention someone by the name of Jurassica?
02:43:29
Speaker
Uh... Yeah... Um... Uh... Someone I used to know. She's better... all Better than likely anything dinosaur related. She's she's the one you go to first.
02:43:45
Speaker
Alright, well... I know that she's behind it. Yeah, but... The question is though... Why...
02:44:11
Speaker
Okay, so end of session. um At the end of every session, each of you choose one of these three things that I'm posting into chat. um Either you grow closer to this team, explain who made you feel welcome and give influence to that character.
02:44:27
Speaker
and clear a condition or mark potential, or grow into your own image of yourself, explain how you see yourself and why, shift one label up and another down, or grow away from the team, explain why you feel detached, and take influence... take influence over you, away take influence away from another character.
02:44:49
Speaker
They just worded that weirdly. Hmm. Hmm. So do you feel like you grew closer? grew i definitely think I felt like I grew closer because everyone supported me on their roles. Okay.
02:45:07
Speaker
So then which person or or people would you like to give influence to first? Probably Bill. Okay. um So you give influence to Bill and then you can either clear a condition or mark potential.
02:45:21
Speaker
Your conditions do carry over to the next stories. I marked a potential. now i'm you I'm actually going to do the same. Okay, let me finish Jayden.
02:45:31
Speaker
So you already have influence over Bill. So what happens is you now get to shift one of Bill's labels. Bill doesn't tell you what his stats currently are.
02:45:42
Speaker
You get to shift one up and one down. I'm going to shift up his ah danger and shift down his mundane. So, and why are you doing this? Like, why does your character view him in that way?
02:45:56
Speaker
ah Because I feel like he had really good attacks, so I feel like I would support him. I would be like, hey, bro, you did really good on, you know you know, putting him all together, blah, blah, blah, blowing up his mouth. Yeah.
02:46:10
Speaker
Okay. um So, Bill, danger goes up, mundane goes down. I saw you already moved mundane. Yeah, i move I moved danger too. i just didn't I just haven't left the thing yet. Oh, okay, okay. um Alright, and then Bill, you said you were going to choose the same thing. So which teammate are you closer to?
02:46:28
Speaker
um Given the fact we're going through we're going through the conversation and we work together on two fights on two fights now, I'm going to go ahead and say that I'm giving influence Oh, wait, why wait, wait.
02:46:41
Speaker
You gave influence to Bill... Bill did not already have influence over you. So, actually, Bill, your labels didn't shift. um You just gained influence over um Kevin.
02:46:55
Speaker
Oh, no, he's already influencing me. Yeah, but you didn't have influence over him. He gave you influence over him. So, so yeah, you just need to add you have influence over Kevin.
02:47:07
Speaker
Okay, I got that. And then put your labels back where they were. i I went ahead and just did it. Okay. And then now who are you giving influence to?
02:47:19
Speaker
I'm going to give influence over to Hayden. Okay. Max. Sorry. Hayden gains influence over... Or Max gains influence over...
02:47:33
Speaker
Over Reese. Or no, over Ironsan, because you don't know he's Reese. But I will say, Max, is your identity known to the team?
02:47:44
Speaker
I'm going to say no.
02:47:49
Speaker
Okay, so, yeah. Specifically put, then, that you have influence over each other's superhero names. um if Okay, so, Bill... has given influence to... Or Ironsand has given influence to Siphon, so Hayden, add Ironsand to a person who has influence over you.
02:48:11
Speaker
Or that you have influence over them.
02:48:18
Speaker
And then... ah
02:48:22
Speaker
And then, okay, so that was Bill and Jayden, so Hayden or Frank, who wants to go next? Sorry, I have a question.
02:48:33
Speaker
that yeah that pert That person from Arceus, did they say that this was our only, if this was our only encounter? He said, if this was your only assignment this year, then I'd say you passed with flying colors, but you might have more. It's random.
02:48:47
Speaker
Well, we had the one before school even started. That was not a school sanctioned. That one wasn't sanctioned. That one wasn't great. that you guys just showed up Can we turn that in as extra credit? Technically, no. If you mention it, you might get in trouble for it.
02:49:02
Speaker
Because they would prefer you not, but also they're not going to outwardly punish you for doing good. Like, it all went well. So you're fine, but it wouldn't count as extra credit. um Lame. Okay, so who wants to go next? Hayden or Frank?
02:49:18
Speaker
ah I can go. we choose We choose two of these, right? One of those. Oh, one. I would say i grew away from the two.
02:49:29
Speaker
Okay. So explain why you feel detached and take influence away from someone who has it over you. and This is more of... And, of course, it's about Reese and the brownies earlier.
02:49:45
Speaker
Okay. Wait, do I know Reese's Reese? is ree Do you just know him as Reese? I don't know him as the superhero that we're in a team.
02:49:55
Speaker
no. Okay. All right, then I guess not then. Okay. Because there's more about the brownies than anything else. True, true. but All right, so one of the other two then. Then I would say grow into your own image of yourself.
02:50:08
Speaker
Okay. ah
02:50:12
Speaker
And so one label goes up and one goes down. Okay. It says explain how you see yourself and why. Yeah. And Freak can't go in any any higher, by the way, so... Uh, so... Pierce Mask, Comfort for Support, Summer 5, and... Superior, Assess the Situation, Wiltson, I'm gonna take Superior up and... Freak down.
02:50:43
Speaker
Um... And so... The... I, like, me personally, or me as the superhero? The superhero. Okay. Um... So, he realized that he may not be the planner.
02:50:59
Speaker
You know, he's more of the muscle. Um, before this, he thought he was pretty intelligent, and, you know planning out things was ah an interesting thing he liked to do, but it wasn't, like, a big deal.
02:51:10
Speaker
Yeah. But he's realizing more and more that he's more like Groot than he is... ah Not Groot Groot's not a character Drax?
02:51:23
Speaker
yeah Yeah, he's more Drax than he is ah No, i I didn't want to make that comparison oh You can make that comparison out of character but Well, I have to do it in character in this game world So i' I'm more like the hammer No, I'm more like the anvil than I am the hammer Okay
02:51:46
Speaker
That makes sense, right? Yeah. and i hate it makes sense yeah And then Hayden? I was going to say the same thing. i grow into an image of myself. Okay. um i'm I'm just like a... i am the hammer.
02:52:02
Speaker
Right. um I just tackle things head on, and that's how I always saw myself, and so I just become more confident, and that's how I handle these situations.
02:52:13
Speaker
So what are you raising and lowering? I'm going raise my danger. Makes sense. And then I'm going to lower my savior. All right.
02:52:23
Speaker
Okay.
Session Summary and Player Interaction
02:52:24
Speaker
And so that is um how we end the session. And so now we'll end the episode. um And so, yeah, that was fun. i you know, tried to make us do a bunch of the mechanics of it um ah by just doing a couple of fights to get all the different moves in so we could kind of see how everything works.
02:52:45
Speaker
The only things we didn't do was, and that can probably come up next time, we didn't comfort or support anyone. We didn't pierce the mask. um Ah, you know, that technically is what I should have made you roll, Hayden, when you were trying to find out the...
02:53:01
Speaker
motive who did this um it should have been pierce the mask but that's fine um you guys did provoke someone so really the only two we didn't do was comfort and support and pierce the mask but um those two things can come up they can happen in battle um but you know they can also happen after the battle um But anyway, ah I was your game master this session, Grombjork.
02:53:29
Speaker
And you can contact us on idmroleplay at gmail.com. With me tonight was Jaden.
02:53:40
Speaker
What's up? I was Jaden and I am Jaden for the rest of my life. um I was playing, my gosh, I can't even figure it out. Kevin and his superhero name is Kevin because it works.
02:53:53
Speaker
And it a great one. It obviously does not, but it's a good one and see y'all the next one. ah We also had Bill.
02:54:05
Speaker
Hey everybody, i was Bill. I was playing Reese, who was also known as Iron Sand. You can find me on Twitter or X, whatever it goes by now, at Bill's Above. i mostly post art and other type stuff. Don't forget to pay at commission artists.
02:54:25
Speaker
Pay your artists. And I hope everyone's have had a great time listening to us, and I hope everyone out there knows that, once again, I love you. Yeah, don't be a monster like the rest of us and use AI to do your art for you.
02:54:39
Speaker
um
02:54:42
Speaker
If I um had an artist who could immediately, you know, give me um my art, I would pay them if I had the extra money. If I didn't need it immediately, I would pay them if I had the extra money. But um um anyway, um we also had Hayden.
02:55:03
Speaker
Hey, it was a good game tonight. um Definitely got to advance. So, I liked it. and ah And then Frank.
02:55:18
Speaker
Hey everyone, I'm Frank. I played Calix, the Verdant Guardian. I had to look it for a second.
02:55:29
Speaker
Um... you know I hope we were able to plant a liking for this game in your minds. ah You can find me on places if you look hard enough.
02:55:44
Speaker
um I also will occasionally stream on idmroleplay.twitch.tv I believe it is. Or whatever that is. It's idmroleplay at twitch.tv.
02:55:55
Speaker
um You can also find me on socials if you look hard enough. So yeah, uh, might May your days be filled with sunshine and photosynthesis. And good night, civilians, and may your heroes protect you.
Conclusion and Credits
02:57:03
Speaker
Thanks everyone for listening. The intro and outro songs you heard today was Fox Soul Revolution, created by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com, licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 license, creativecommons.com, licenses by 4.0.
02:57:17
Speaker
The night is over, and have a great day, everyone.