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H-Town Heroes Session 6
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Our heroes investigate the Salesman and one of his contacts, meeting a new hero. They come up with a plan to discover what exactly is happening.. but nothing goes according to plan.
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Transcript
Introduction to Integrated Dice Management
00:00:18
Speaker
All right, well hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Integrated Dice Management.
Character Introductions and Technical Issues
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Speaker
ah Tonight we're once again playing ah H-Town Heroes, our masks game.
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ah And um I am your storyteller, I think is what I'm called in this game for tonight, Ron Bjork. With me tonight is Bill. Hey everybody, Bill. I'm going to be playing as Reese, aka Iron Sand, and I'm excited to get move on to the next chapter here.
00:00:56
Speaker
Don't worry, that's not a Decepticon. Bill just has intermittent internet issues sometimes. but and thought we'd fixed I thought he fixed his it internet issues.
00:01:07
Speaker
Don't worry about it. yeah um i mean we're all seat we all seem to be We all seem to be having some issues right now. so The internet's just bad. Yeah. know there's a self i category It's probably something to do with Elon Musk.
00:01:22
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Anyway, um there's Eric.
00:01:27
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Hey guys, I'm playing Kieran, the character Nightfall, ah the Warhammer LARPer. I'm ready to mess things up. My nickname is pronounced Kyro because his first name is Kieran.
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so Okay, that is not how I would have pronounced your Kieran name. um ah We also have Frank.
Game Mechanics and Influences Discussion
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Hi everyone, I'm Frank. I will be playing...
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I'm Halix the Verdict Guardian. um I'm a big tree man and not super good at investigating things. That's okay. um Also Hayden.
00:02:09
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Hi, my name is Fyfin, also known as Max Jr., who also cosplayed as Typhoon the other day. So yeah, we'll we'll see how it goes tonight.
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Speaker
All right. Um, so you guys may notice on the, uh, map, I put, um, an additional thing, ah at the bottom of it with some more moves.
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Speaker
Uh, cause last session I was definitely looking for those, um, uh, that page. Um, so it's ah start of session at the start of every session, the GM adds a team to the pool. So.
00:02:49
Speaker
We're up to five team, I guess. um let me So just to remind y'all what team and everything does. So when you enter battle, ah you can't stuff will happen when we enter battle. But basically you can end team to help ah one of your teammates, giving them plus one. You still have to.
00:03:12
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logically help them in the narrative. You can't just say, here's a team. you know You have to like be capable of actually helping them. um You may also spend team selfishly,
00:03:24
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um which ah you can also spend team to act selfishly. When you act selfishly, say how your actions ignore or insult your teammates, remove a team, and then you can shift one of your labels up and one down, thus also get thus giving yourself a plus one.
Recap of Previous Session and Jokes
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Speaker
um whenever time passes the gm will empty the team pool and restore it to one team oh so really it should be at two because time had passed since the last time and there would have been one from last time and one from this time because the same day uh and then another thing um that i ah don't think I've ever explained because I forgot about it so I've frequently said having influence over each other can be a good thing and stuff like that
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um
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Speaker
It's... So, when you have influence over someone, you can take plus one to all moves targeting them, including rejecting their influence. So that that means, you know, yes, when you attack them, you can have influence, but also if you do the comfort or support, you can, you know, heal them better.
00:04:37
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um You can take advantage of your influence by basically spending it. You lose influence over them, and then you can do one of several options. Give them a negative two... um to a move they just made after the role so you can turn up success into a failure um probably you'd want to be using that against someone you have influence over that's not on your team um inflict a condition on them or take an additional plus one on a move targeting them after the role which i guess you could well that's oh an additional plus one so like if you really needed to um
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Speaker
Like if you were trying to comfort and support your teammate and you just weren't quite there, you could then spend your influence and get an additional plus one. Yeah. So I didn't even know you could do that with the the influence. I just knew there were things you could do with it. So that is what you can do with it.
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Basically, you can use it to boost roles against people you have influence on or reduce their roles. um So it is useful to ah gain influence over your enemies in some way.
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um Which I think...
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Speaker
Yes, I believe with directly engage a threat, when you impress, surprise, or frighten the opposition, you can potentially call
Focus on Marisol Delgado and Sovereign Containment Corp
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that influence. I think that's in the more like detailed descriptions of the move.
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um
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Speaker
Where is it? this is already Basic moves, page 51. but Wordy?
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Speaker
I'm sorry that you can't handle words in this game. It is a wordy game. I just want to punch stuff and make vines grow out of me.
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Speaker
You'll get to
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Speaker
Okay, no, I'm pressing that that one doesn't do influence, but anyway. um But many villains are recurring, so you can potentially gain influence over them. um Anyway, the last time we played, um i first i could not listen to the previous episodes because I'm thinking it's because of the file format I uploaded in, but it doesn't matter.
00:06:53
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um ah Last time we played, I don't remember everything that happened. You guys continued to investigate what was going on. You eventually came across Marcus Hawthorne, the salesman, um who has interviewed the the all the missing people.
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Speaker
um As far as you guys can tell, he didn't realize anything bad was happening to them afterwards. Um... But you did learn that his next few um people he's going to interview, there are some, you know, various corporations he's going to go to. And then there are two individuals, um one by the name of Victor Maddox and the other one by the name of Marisol Delgado.
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So
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so those are the like two individuals he's going to to interview. um
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And y'all's plan was to kind of watch, like stealthily watch him do the interview with them and then tell the people to see if anything
Linking Sales Strategies to Disappearances
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happens to them. um Sure.
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Speaker
So that's that's the the plan that y'all came up with. um And I guess we open back up to you're still right there in the room with him unless y'all want to go and skip to interview him interviewing one of those two people.
00:08:19
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Yeah. Or if you want to do any research on those two people.
00:08:28
Speaker
Yeah, we tried to Google them, right? We tried to Google everybody. Yes, I did give you all probably some basic information on them. um Oh, I didn't make Victor Maddox. I tried, but then I realized I don't have a smartphone.
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Speaker
Wow. So you know that ah Victor... Let's see. I don't want everything to be visible. So Victor Maddox, what you guys were able to find out is that he is 34 years old and he is a logistics coordinator for a shipping company.
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ah You guys did find his address. I didn't generate an address for him. um But he's got an address. ah Y'all did look up the company he works for, which was Northbridge Freight Solutions.
00:09:15
Speaker
Why they not know him? It's a mid-sized logistics company specializing in domestic cargo transport and supply chain management. They handle everything from commercial goods to industrial equipment. And, you know, I showed y'all the page on them. So did I create a little extra blurb for them? I don't remember. Let's see.
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It's under empty.
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Speaker
No, I'm seeing if I did something over on chat GPT. I didn't. um Yeah, they are on NPCs. um Their NPC sheet only reveals to you the stuff I want you to see. ah And then there's marrri Marisol Delgado.
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um She is in her... Well, I guess I gave you her appearance. She's in her late 30s. I mean, that's this is what is visible to you right now. um She's in her late 30s with a wiry athletic build.
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Speaker
And blah, blah, blah. I'm not going to go through all her appearance.
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I guess also you would have come across her... um her socials, her social media. um She's got a ah ah Facebook profile.
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um ah Her profile picture is a blurry photo of a sunset over a city skyline. um And her cover photo is a black and white shot of a coffee cup on a cluttered desk giving off busy professional vibes.
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here it does um Occupation says consultant. um Hometown, Houston.
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Or hometown, undisclosed, current city, Houston. Relationship, single. um Bio, always moving. Coffee enthusiast. I post when I remember. um She's got a small friends list. ah A few of them you know are probably family members. They share her last name or whatever.
00:11:08
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um Her posts are sporadic, mostly sharing articles about urban development, self-defense workshops, or obscure memes with zero context.
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ah like go Yeah, rarely posts personal photos.
00:11:29
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So anyway, yeah, that's that's the um intel you got on her, a little bit more on her, um mostly because I told it to generate me a Facebook profile for her, and I didn't do that. um I guess ah during your Googling of Victor, you know you find out he works for the logistics company.
00:11:45
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um I believe I said he ah he was an athlete in high school. um He likes to collect vinches vintage watches. vintage watches um So his Facebook profile probably has him showing off his various watches.
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Interesting.
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So those are your two options, unless you want to just go talk to the, you did ask about those various um law firms and stuff and private security
Debating School Absence and Cover Stories
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companies. And he said he didn't have anyone specific he was going to talk to there, just whoever would talk to him.
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And this list...
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Speaker
He's just supposed to sell them stuff. um And the list comes from corporate. Comes from above his head. And what does this guy do exactly? He sells um stuff from the Sovereign Containment Corp. Which is a ah company. It's the leading provider of advanced containment and security solutions for powered individuals.
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um it's It's known for its most famous um people that it's helped contain are Blaze Master, a pyrokinetic supervillain known for causing chaos with his fire abilities, the Shadow Serpent, a master thief with the ability to manipulate shadows and darkness, and Techno Terror, a cybernetic supervillain who hacked into the city's infrastructure to wreak havoc.
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um Those are their like three. We imprisoned these guys. And you also know from your Googling last time that ah the founder and CEO, Charles Dawson, passed away two years ago and was replaced by but replaced as CEO by longtime employee Gregory Kane.
00:13:45
Speaker
Though you haven't looked into Gregory Kane as of last session. So.
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write Right, write right, right, right, right.
00:13:59
Speaker
Hmm. mean, you're welcome to look into them. I just, you haven't, so. How far can we look into them? I mean, you can do a basic Google search right now.
00:14:11
Speaker
We can Goog it, bro. Time to Goog. Consult the article.
00:14:19
Speaker
You consult Google. Here is Gregory Kane. um He looks like a fucking villain, huh? Oh, I need to. Yeah, it's okay. um Yeah.
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Gregory Kane, CEO of Sovereign Containment Corp. I'm not going to read through his whole thing, but longtime employee, stepped up into the role after the passing of the founder. um He's got a background in engineering and security, ah dedicated his career to advancing the mission of protecting the public from superpowered threats.
00:14:51
Speaker
um Under his leadership in the past few years, they've expanded its research and development efforts, um pushing containment technology to new heights. um He's a firm believer in proactive security measures and overseeing the creation of cutting-edge containment solutions designed to neutralize and even neutralize even the most unpredictable abilities.
00:15:10
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His philosophy, the best defense is preparation. um Some critics argue that his methods are more aggressive than those of his predecessor. Cain maintains that his vision of SCC is one of progress and safety in an increasingly unpredictable world.
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Speaker
yep, that's that's ah that's Gregory Cain. So, you guys, so what y'all want to do? Bye, Mom.
00:15:49
Speaker
Do what? That was so awesome. Oh, Who died? wow No, Bill. bill We lost Bill.
00:16:00
Speaker
up Well, I think...
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he's back.
00:16:10
Speaker
So Marisol Delgado is the only one that's not attached to a company of some sort, right? That that we know of at this point? So she's like the standalone super that could be snatched like the other standalone supers were snatched.
00:16:22
Speaker
yeah far as i get As far as i understand. So then I would say we should go after Marisol as she, like we should question her or send him to that one first because that seems to fit closer to the pattern.
00:16:36
Speaker
You know, if I was a decent superhero, I'm not very good at this. And everyone else has has disappeared after speaking to the sales guy, right?
00:16:48
Speaker
ah Yes. and These two haven't disappeared yet. They haven't spoken to him yet. Right. But it's... I don't want to... I'm not trying to fish for information, but it's probably a safe bet that we're that we that we're going to need to track him until... that we should expect him to probably get taken after talking to him, right?
00:17:12
Speaker
Probably. Possibly, yeah. I mean, that seems to be what has happened so far. We would have to watch him.
00:17:22
Speaker
Alright, I'm about to include an image. Marisol's the one y'all are talking to first. Sure. Yeah.
00:17:33
Speaker
Good, because I just generated an image for her that I now need to save. Nice, nice, nice. Gregory Kane, dude, kind of looks like Batman just a little bit. Sorry, Bruce Wayne, just a little bit.
00:17:47
Speaker
Yeah, he's clearly a good guy. He's Bruce Wayne. Sure. and i didn't know I didn't say that. he ah He's a ah billionaire philanthropist. Come on.
00:17:58
Speaker
Okay, I'm basing this off of billionaire philanthropists in the real world. They're all evil, so he's probably a villain. Alright, there's the picture I generated of her. I took the first one. so um Nice. hey She looks really badass.
00:18:18
Speaker
ah butprint um
00:18:22
Speaker
All right. So you guys are going to go. So the salesman obviously has her address um since he is being sent to go talk to her. So, you know, that's not hard to find out.
00:18:39
Speaker
Just, okay. Okay. um
00:18:45
Speaker
So I guess, salesmen, you guys... Well, this would this isn't... So it's going to be the following day. um And ah one issue is that you guys do still have to go to school.
00:19:05
Speaker
but i mean, do we? You can skip school if you want, know?
00:19:11
Speaker
Uh, question, Ron, do ah does Reese have any important and important tests tests today? i I'll say no. No, there aren't any tests today.
00:19:22
Speaker
You guys could probably get away with with skipping, um you know, with all of you skipping school at the same time.
00:19:33
Speaker
but think we just have to tell the guy that put us on this thing. in our grade that we're following up with our grade. yeah like That is true.
00:19:45
Speaker
I'll have a legacy member write us a note.
00:19:50
Speaker
You just got to talk to the principal. um I bring that up more because... um You guys know that the other kids at school, they're always trying to figure out who like who the superhero teams are because they know these teams get sent on like school missions and stuff. So anytime anything of interest happens, they're like, oh, who wasn't here today?
00:20:10
Speaker
Who do you think it is? yeah but we Because it it's school and it's it's gossip. you know They're all trying ah trying to figure it out. That's how how Reese got his girlfriend.
00:20:24
Speaker
Well, obviously, we're all on the robotics team because of the brain, right? as Kevin. robotics We're at a robotics competition today. and kind There you go. ah Yeah, but I don't know if you heard, but Monday, Kevin transferred to another school.
00:20:41
Speaker
ah but That still puts us on the robotics team. just means we're going to lose now.
00:20:48
Speaker
Because I know magic, not technology. And you just disintegrate from metal and I mean, Siphon sucks out people. Maybe you can steal a robot. Somewhere in another facility.
00:21:01
Speaker
Memories, right? And then... i i Robotics, if you're going for BattleBots, all I have to do is like break down one or two little things on the robot. I don't know what they do, but they'll probably help us win.
00:21:15
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Yeah.
00:21:18
Speaker
So I know that we talked about like how sneakily I can like delve into people's minds, right? aha I don't want to sneakily try to go into people's minds and like ah remove their first... like Especially with like the person who's only had sex once, remove the time that they had sex so they can't remember it.
00:21:40
Speaker
That's so fucked up. I can't remember losing their
Ethics of Powers and Planning School Absence
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Speaker
virginity. Every time you do this, you gotta roll Unleash Your Powers. Alright, doing it. There should be some sort of downside to this.
00:21:55
Speaker
I think there is a downside. um has to then have experienced that same memory from that person's point of view. he not He actually... i think i out all the girls He does.
00:22:08
Speaker
So you want to experience from their point of view them losing their virginity. Penetration. Yeah. um So, ah I will say, Hayden, you gotta remember, what brings you closer to your doom? Overexerting yourself and injuring innocence. I would consider this injuring innocence for them ah ah unless you do it to like someone who's clearly not innocent.
00:22:35
Speaker
Furthermore, unleash your powers. Did you really just point your finger directly at me, Really? Really?
00:22:45
Speaker
you totally did that furthermore there are penalties to unleashing your powers as well so um if you if you don't roll good enough so be were be warned uh iron sand i'm gonna search for your virginity
00:23:05
Speaker
oh fuck you find it it's in a jar i know i You're free to do whatever you want, Hayden. just just does he even you know So, anyways, are we going to school? like yeah Are we sending a representative from our team? are we just paging?
00:23:24
Speaker
Actually, with what Ron just said, it might just be better for only one person to be out.
00:23:33
Speaker
Because... one of the One of us stays on the trail and all of us, the rest of us, go back to class. Well, nobody knows that I'm back yet. Yeah. me I'm not back yet.
00:23:45
Speaker
I do have a public secret identity. I do have a secret identity, so nobody knows i'm nobody at school knows I'm a former villain for that reason. I don't need everybody thinking I'm still trying to read your shit.
00:23:56
Speaker
Well, both Reese and Max have secret identities. Calix, unfortunately, ah it's kind of, you know, he can't. Oh, excuse me. I will stealthily watch this person. Oh my god.
00:24:10
Speaker
bro Okay, so I can't hide as a person, but you'd be surprised how much like a tree I could look. You know what? That's a great point, and also, all you have to do is come in with a note and say, hey, I stayed out, I had this one black spot on my leaves, thought I might have had a little blight. You see it right here, right here, you see it right right right there.
00:24:31
Speaker
And it's just a fucking Sharpie spot with a line to it that I wrote on there that says this is the blight. laughter laughter
00:24:40
Speaker
You'll be like oh, sorry, I was sick. Oh, no, did you have the flu? No, this I think I've got leaf spot right here. Right right here. This is the point. You've got a magical wound.
00:24:53
Speaker
You've got pine needles. I still like the idea that somewhere in the county over, we like phoned in our robotics ah competition entry.
00:25:05
Speaker
It's just a tin can with a twig growing out of it
00:25:09
Speaker
ah what is a What is a tree if not a nature's robot? Yes, exactly. Exactly. that That was my addition to the robotic thing. was just a little twig.
00:25:23
Speaker
mud smile on the side of the robot. It's like all crooked. It looks like shit. excuse
00:25:33
Speaker
Yeah, no, but seriously, who's going to be the one going out and doing things?
00:25:39
Speaker
ah like i but I'm not back to school yet, so the two of us could go. and Oh, thank you. Oh, thank God. An adult going with the tree, thank God. Yeah,
00:25:54
Speaker
ah ge sure, that works. Yeah, so we'll go do superhero shenanigans and you guys can have a food fight at lunch. Oh, don't worry. We did that last week.
00:26:07
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ah Message us if anything if it messenger us if anything comes
Stakeout Preparation and Security Concerns
00:26:10
Speaker
up. I can fake i can fake a sick really fast.
00:26:14
Speaker
Yeah, so I guess if we're going to do this, I should probably turn off the juice, right? Look normal while we're walking around. Or should I keep on the juice because you're a giant tree man? Well, i imagine I would just you know figure out where they're going to meet at and you know tree myself into the ground.
00:26:32
Speaker
And then I can like ah be cool. We can be at a park and I'll be the cool fuckboy guy with a ponytail that is reading a book in the park. ah No sleeves on my shirt.
00:26:44
Speaker
That's what we'll do. He'll be my tree. He'll be my seduction tree. yeah So while y'all are while y'all doing that, Reese is actually going to turn back to the guy since we're still there.
00:26:56
Speaker
he's just going to walk up to him and be like, forget you ever saw us.
00:27:04
Speaker
the guy um blinks at you and he's like, ah oh, all right, I'll forget. but mean, yeah, you probably shouldn't tell anybody. I mean, no, i'm go look if look, if people are going missing because I talked to them, I want to know about this. Like I, but I am a professional.
00:27:23
Speaker
I'll, I'll act like um nothing's wrong. Yeah. I mean, you work for like a crazy mega corporation. That's probably super evil and stuff. So you keep it on the heart. So where are you supposed to go meet meet this chick at? I've got an appointment with her ah tomorrow at 2pm um ah pat at her residence.
00:27:48
Speaker
Oh, well, shit. I don't think the tree idea is to work.
00:27:55
Speaker
I understand he's going to turn to you. Can you control your size? like Can you become like a sprout if you wanted to? I don't think he can do that much from what you've discussed.
00:28:08
Speaker
ah He does have the transmuting flesh ability. um I think I can change my creature size by like one or something. If we're going by D&D rules.
00:28:21
Speaker
Yeah, like, I think you could get a little bigger, you could get a little smaller. um i do feel like, and I know you you've done, like, grow vines out to grab people, but you've also done the control vines type of thing as well, because you also have um plant manipulation.
00:28:39
Speaker
Plant manipulation, yeah. um So I think you're more, I think you're more limited on what you can do to your own body. Yeah. But then you can, you know, like... I think we should scout out her residence and see if I could, like, blend in with, like, trees nearby, or if it's gonna have to be, like, two hobos sitting on her stoop or something.
00:29:02
Speaker
that Also, make sure, you know, it's not, like, in the middle of it. She's happy to give you her address if you want, if y'all want to scout out ahead. and think we should do that.
00:29:14
Speaker
Yeah. Reese is also going to turn back to him one more time and he finally he's going to be like, and clean out the back of your fucking van. It's disgusting. Yeah, it does smell like Taco Bell.
00:29:25
Speaker
And the balloon is filled with the weird liquid. this is That's kind of your fault, he says, out of character. Because you guys decided that.
00:29:37
Speaker
We ordered food.
00:29:41
Speaker
um So all of you can all of you can go and scout this out, assuming you don't have a curfew. Oh, no, we're superheroes. I live by myself. so You're superheroes? I don't know if all of your parents know you're superheroes.
00:29:53
Speaker
I mean, Max's mom knows now. I haven't spoken to my dad in years. And I guess Reese doesn't have parents. No, I'm a 12-sorter. I've technically got somebody who is...
00:30:07
Speaker
both a halfway and a foster. So I am going to message him. I'm going to message Claude. He's the owner of the diner I work at. And he's going but I'm going to message him just be like, out on a job, can't talk about details, we'll be back very, very late.
00:30:25
Speaker
And then Calix, of course, he he just kind of lives on his own. His dad is alive, but...
Confrontation with Marisol and Plan with Backswing
00:30:32
Speaker
I don't know about your mom. And I guess Cairo's dad. but yeah Cairo's parents are superheroes, aren't they?
00:30:42
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, i mean ah I belong to a legacy of superheroes. i don't yeah know they yeah Everybody knows they're my parents. try to keep that hush. Well, they may not. No, they won't.
00:30:53
Speaker
pardonging a meory Do you you have a secret identity, right? You're... Yeah, Kieran Mendoza Sullivan. Yeah. Or Sullivan Mendoza.
00:31:04
Speaker
So, yeah, I mean, your your non-super identities are are um secret, I guess, but you know they probably you know that Nightfall is the next in this legacy.
00:31:15
Speaker
But yeah, but your parents would know you're a superhero because they're also superheroes.
00:31:23
Speaker
Yeah, it's me or it's my sister. Oh, they wouldn't know which one of you it is? No, they think it's me, but they also, because I'm the um'm the seventh son of a seventh son, so they think it's me.
00:31:36
Speaker
But my sister was born first, and we're twins, so she kind of messes with the legacy. Yeah. Yeah, my sister, Sorsha, Breitheart.
00:31:49
Speaker
The hero Breitheart. Yes.
00:31:59
Speaker
So to our viewers,
00:32:04
Speaker
Cairo has sent a text to Siphon saying, this dude is definitely going to die. Like 70-30, he dies slash lives. And then he sends a picture of a funny skeleton plopping on the ground.
00:32:18
Speaker
Siphon responds back, he's probably going to die. um Nightfall sends to Siphon, so what did I miss in school? Where where the fuck Kevin? And then...
00:32:29
Speaker
Max texts his mom, I'm going to be home late watching for people that might be disappearing. What's for dinner?
00:32:38
Speaker
Yes. Next follow back. Sorry, wrong number. Good God, it's from Iron Sand.
00:32:50
Speaker
Is this part of group or are y'all messaging each other? and no this is this is This is us. yeah If you're watching this on YouTube, you'll be able to see this. And you can see this on the Twitch stream.
00:33:01
Speaker
um So yeah, watch out, guys. They can see your in-game text messages. So don't text me too crazy. Oh, no, no, no. I'm good. I'm good. yeah Text to siphon.
00:33:14
Speaker
Your mom texts back and says so says, honey, you know I'm not comfortable with with this superhero stuff. You should probably just come home tonight. i And be safe. you pick
00:33:29
Speaker
What did you say? Because you're Hayden. The Ron said that made me feel a little something down deep. Because only Hayden would feel that. um Only if my sister said it.
00:33:42
Speaker
And now that's live to the internet, Hayden. You're welcome. I am fruit, motherfucker.
00:33:55
Speaker
and her So you guys are going to go, so are all of you going to go scout out this house? Yeah, I said that was the case, yeah. Okay. um
00:34:08
Speaker
So you, love so the house itself, it's just a normal um suburban style house. How old did I say this person is? she old enough to have a house?
00:34:20
Speaker
Wait. wait She... Did I give her an age? I don't know if I gave her an age. Yeah,
00:34:31
Speaker
yeah I did not give her an age, it doesn't it looks like. um But she's an adult. she's She's old enough to... She's got a house. um Yeah, she... Yeah, she's... yeah she's
00:34:43
Speaker
She's adult age. So to you guys, she's ancient, you know, anyone over, over 25 is ancient to a teenager. So ah ah yeah, you, her house, it's, um it's not a big house. It's just like one of those small cookie cutter homes. There's a single tree growing in the front yard.
00:35:03
Speaker
um It's, it's not very big yet. You know, it's, it's, It's just a, you know, was planted couple years ago. Well, it was planted at already like, you know, five feet tall or whatever. It's like, you know, one of the, so it's had a couple years to grow a little bit, but it's not very big.
00:35:18
Speaker
There was probably a whole bunch of trees in this neighborhood. They cut all of them down, every single tree in the neighborhood. and replace them with crappy trees you know that are small, um as they do. ah Crappy small trees. shit hurt you know She's got a backyard that's about 10 feet um you know deep and and as wide as the house. ah
00:35:40
Speaker
um She's not on a cul-de-sac. ah It's one story, you know probably two bedrooms, one bath. starter home.
00:35:50
Speaker
ah starter home um No lights... Well, the porch light is on. um No lights inside are on. Is there enough... I would become random tree A random tree in yard?
00:36:04
Speaker
Well, she has one tree in her yard. And every house on this street... Every house on this street has single young tree. Alright, Kalix. We either need I don't think going to work. we can see how...
00:36:18
Speaker
how how that works in the future. And if you're trying...
Finalizing Stakeout Plans with Humor
00:36:26
Speaker
If you're thinking about breaking into her house through a window, all of her windows have those, you know, those really annoying bushes with the spiky leaves?
00:36:34
Speaker
Those are below all the windows. Oh, my God. Oh, God. oh Dude, you know those, like, giant, like, plants that, like... giant gray plants that like go into a single point at the end of their leaf?
00:36:45
Speaker
Yes. so was one yeah Have you ever been stabbed in the ding-dong by those? ah Not there, but i've been stabbed I've been stabbed in the arm by them. I think those plants should be illegal. Yeah, I got four four of them went through i went into my thigh one time. One of them went all the way through went all the way through like the skin then back out Hayden, you'll be glad for one of those when somebody runs up and stabs you and steals your flow zone and you have to stitch yourself back together using ah using your shoelaces and the needle on the end of that plant.
00:37:21
Speaker
straight up sometimes the old and then keep them on my truck um So and i have a thought can i try to use my powers to make us invisible with magic you can unleash your powers and try Are you referring to like the large blue agave plants?
00:37:42
Speaker
Yeah. yeah yeah yeah I had one of those stab me in the ass and I turned around because freaked out. And I got stabbed in the ass by a second one that was on the other side.
00:37:52
Speaker
any Any situational bonus or penalty to me trying this, Ron? No. Does it give them penalty or bonus? Oh, boy. Okay. So... i try to make some um So on a miss with this one, it just fails. um You do mark potential, um but nothing bad happens on a miss, at least.
00:38:15
Speaker
I feel like there should be something bad that happens on a miss with this ability, but it doesn't. It just doesn't work. I look down I'm like, I think...
00:38:25
Speaker
You try to cast the spell and it fizzles out.
00:38:34
Speaker
this ah This whole texting is great audio, guys. It's great ah great for our audio format, for sure. so you know how you take when you text another person that has a similar phone to you, it'll show like the three dots? How are you texting your tree?
00:38:50
Speaker
Is that a phone? I have a phone. It's been discussed. don yeah Yeah, it's just an older model. It's the tap to text. Remember, hit three hit like three times to get to one letter? Yeah.
00:39:02
Speaker
I made the joke that it's like like a Nokia 7900 or something. No, it's probably one of those phones for elderly people that have the big buttons. Yeah. Hey, what do why mykids don't have? ever call me.
00:39:18
Speaker
So, like, so like You know how when you text somebody, you'll have like those three little ah dots show up? Or when somebody's texting you, the three little dots will show up? Yeah.
00:39:30
Speaker
That's what was happening while was trying to type out wall. Oh, okay. um
00:39:39
Speaker
Hold on. What's this person's name? Because I just remember Darkstrike looks over at you and she's like, you know, you could just get a phone and use voice to text.
00:39:52
Speaker
I look back at her i'm like and like, how did you know was texting? I watched you. Are we in class right now? or I'm standing right next to you. It's still my time. still standing this at night. Okay. we're still sitting yeah okay And she says, so are we just going to look at the house? um Do you guys want to stake it out and see wait for someone to come back? or She might be asleep in there.
00:40:14
Speaker
um So, again, to describe the house, no lights are on inside, but the porch light is on. um There's no car in the driveway. But it does have tiny it does have it does have one of those garages that are you know connected to the house, so the car could be in the garage.
00:40:30
Speaker
Any cameras around the house? um There's a ring doorbell. And a sign that says protected by ADT, but you don't see any security cameras other than the doorbell.
00:40:42
Speaker
a Okay, so my standing around and just be a tree idea is not to work here, so. Unfortunately, you are larger, if maybe not taller, but you're bulkier than any of the trees that are in this neighborhood.
00:40:58
Speaker
I am, I think, seven feet tall, so i'm definitely taller than her tree. Yeah, her tree's like five or six feet tall.
00:41:06
Speaker
we're just trying to like scope out something. I guess so. Can we like assess the situation or whatever to see what's going on around us? or You can assess the situation.
00:41:20
Speaker
Well, I failed at magic. Meow. Meow. Woo! ah That is a hit. um So on a 7 to 9, you may ask one of those questions, or if none of them really help, you can reword, you know, keep it in the theme of those questions. But, you know, um
00:41:42
Speaker
you can ask one question, basically. ah
00:41:48
Speaker
And the the question time, yeah, okay, you see them. Yeah, is there anything here that's, like, obviously sketch? Right? Like, ah we're supposed to be looking at her house, so it's her, like, I don't know, some kind of, like, magical residue or some fucking... ah Well, he hasn't talked to her yet, so then they she wouldn't have disappeared yet.
00:42:10
Speaker
Yeah. um Actually, i was wondering, what given the fact that she's already on their list, Does it feel like there's any... If I was to like just reach out with my senses, does it feel like there's any strength metal around like in places where it obviously shouldn't be there? You have to unleash your shield for that.
00:42:28
Speaker
You would yeah i have to unleash your powers. um kind that I guess for me... what ah So what I'll say, you asked if there's anything sketch. um So as you're examining the house, you catch the glint of something kind of um hidden in one of those spiky bushes.
00:42:49
Speaker
um Yeah, you see you see ah the the glint of something reflecting inside the bushes.
00:42:59
Speaker
I guess I'll move to the bush to see where the fuck that is, though because we're as about as sneaky as a I'm fucking balling a China cabinet right now. While he's doing that, I'm going to go ahead and unleash my powers.
00:43:10
Speaker
Okay, let's see the result of that. A full hit! Okay. um So... that's going So you sense several objects containing metal um scattered around. Some of them are in the bushes. One of them's on that tree.
00:43:28
Speaker
um There's one, like, up in the the gutter. Kind of, like... And um in ah in a few various places around the property.
00:43:39
Speaker
um And its nightfall, when you approach the bush and get close to you spot a um ah hidden, and by hidden I mean physically just hidden in the bush's camera.
00:43:53
Speaker
It's not anything highly advanced. It's a normal... like security camera, but it's just hidden in the bush rather than sitting right next to the door, you know, where or like right there where everyone can see it.
00:44:05
Speaker
um So she has, and that is also one of the medical metal objects that Reese has sensed.
Action Scene and Tactical Discussions
00:44:13
Speaker
And presumably if you look around, the other objects are also cameras like hidden in the branches, you know, they're kind of facing around the property, facing, you know, facing the ah property and the entrances into the home, stuff like that.
00:44:27
Speaker
but they're they're just out of the way. they're They're hidden instead of in the open, and like everyone has their cameras in the open. so And yes, that means Nightfall, you're right there on... I mean, all of the cameras are catching all of you, but you're right there on camera walking right up to one of our cameras.
00:44:45
Speaker
Yeah, I look like whenever somebody doesn't truly understand how a security camera works, I'm like sticking my visored eye all the way up to it like, what the fuck? Yeah, I love that a camera And I say, oh, that's a camera out loud. We're like, oh, she's she's watching us.
00:45:02
Speaker
She's paranoid. She's watching us and she's paranoid. We should probably take cover. Yeah. And I do need to look for something real quick in this book.
00:45:13
Speaker
ah
00:45:23
Speaker
I know I have GM. Oh, there it is. 171.
00:45:28
Speaker
i'm I need to put this into my documents so that I can have, so I don't have to flip through the book for this and just screenshot this. Because there are like, you know, certain GM moves that I can use at times.
00:45:41
Speaker
um So
00:45:46
Speaker
one of my GM moves are reveal the future subtly or directly. Like, what does that even mean? Marisol Delgado is going to remember this.
00:45:58
Speaker
Yeah. You're to the top left of your vision. Alright, so are you guys going to hide? ya You said you're going to go hide?
00:46:11
Speaker
i mean, I was like, we should take cover or something, because take my immediate thought that she's paranoid like this is with C4 attached to them waiting for us. Yeah, Rhys is actually goingnna pull up he' actually going to pull up his hood and he's to start walking, and he's going whisper back, yeah Were you not in costume?
00:46:28
Speaker
i want about I was, Reese. Oh, yeah. No, I was, but I don't... but usually wouldn't Usually from his perspective, whenever you're sneaking out at somebody or anything, when you make a camera, make it look like you're just moving along.
00:46:45
Speaker
Yeah. So he's going to whisper back to you like, guys, I don't know if y'all ever committed a crime, but maybe get out of you of the fucking camera. Let's go. Move along.
00:46:58
Speaker
I'm already wandering in her yard. So, Eric, where does Nightfall try to take cover? I slap myself against the wall of her house.
00:47:10
Speaker
And are you in your full-on Space Marine? theyally yeah okay safe police yeah I should probably come up with a lighter version of this gear.
00:47:22
Speaker
Yeah, ah a um recon outfit. Yeah, a recon outfit for sure. Yeah. um You, ah so yeah, you ah slap yourself against the wall.
00:47:35
Speaker
um Just in time for a person to swing down and swing down from the roof and kick like, or that they like land right where you just were.
00:47:49
Speaker
um And I'll, let me put the picture of this person real quick. I got a handout. Choose a file.
Setting the Trap and Detailed Planning
00:48:00
Speaker
where Where is? Where'd where'd they go? They should be in here. Oh, there it is. OK. I
00:48:10
Speaker
just got to wait for to upload real quick. thought I had already done that. All that eating noise just showed up on there. My bad, dog. No. and The person who swings down and tries to... ah um She thwacks a metal quarterstaff down in the place where you were standing.
00:48:32
Speaker
um Here's what she looks like. That's definitely not her. um Keep in mind, AI generates these things. ah so um She does appear to have five fingers, so that's impressive.
00:48:48
Speaker
ah Although something's going on on that. Nope, it's just angled weird. Yeah, she appears to have five fingers. Good job, AI. um Yeah, this person leaps down from the ceiling and, you know, so smashes a staff into the ground right in the spot you just were. So you narrowly avoided that.
00:49:06
Speaker
um And what do you guys do? Are we fighting? Immediate reaction. That's up to you.
00:49:15
Speaker
Uh... I guess if I see this, I just i just look at her and wave.
00:49:24
Speaker
but What does everybody else do? I'm going to unleash my powers and try to hold her in place with magic. Because I'm doing really well with that today. but Actually, Reese is going to do the same thing as soon as he as soon as he saw our land.
00:49:39
Speaker
To her metal staff. so on It wouldn't be unleash your powers. That would be directly engage a threat. directly engage a threat. And now do I want to... proposal they What are you doing, Bill?
00:49:54
Speaker
I'm going to try to... eat a i mean Usually when I see somebody, I just usually try to reach for any metal that's on their person to try to hold them in place if I don't fully ah fully see what's going on.
00:50:06
Speaker
And I imagine dark eyes, uh, we already started walking away, so I would probably see the least, so I'm probably just trying to generally unleash my power and try to control, uh, manipulate movement.
00:50:18
Speaker
Try to, uh, halt that. Hmm. By kind of just reaching out any metal in that area. Okay, I guess you can roll and we'll see what happens. Um, but, uh, I think Eric would probably react first since he's literally right there.
00:50:34
Speaker
And then Kalix, what were you going to do? um Siphon just waves. I'm sorry, Typhoon. Or are you Siphon again? No, I'm Siphon. I'm Siphon now. I have my original mask on.
00:50:46
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:50:50
Speaker
Go for it. Kalix? go for it
00:50:58
Speaker
kala Oh, I've been muted this entire time. i was like, man, are talking over me and ignoring me. Okay. um i say, guys we should make like a tree and leaf.
00:51:12
Speaker
ever And then I smack with my sword. Okay. okay. You are directly engaging. Well, I mean, like, so there's the wave like, hi, and then he's trying to grab her thing, and then I'm swinging my sword at her, and then we should make, like, a tree and leaf, and then I guess I'll flat blade her. o Okay. Right? but Oh, wait.
00:51:36
Speaker
Do I end the rules that I use my skills or engaging a threat? Are you what... ah For what I was saying, I was doing unleashing my powers or engaging a threat.
00:51:48
Speaker
So, I'll give you this. If you engage a threat, you will directly target her. um Whereas if you unleash your powers um and you don't get a 10+, it'll be more um more random what happens.
00:52:10
Speaker
Because you you just said, so yeah, if you if you unleash your powers and get a 10, I'll say you unleash them right at her like you intended to. But if if it's not a 10, then it's going to be more the environment.
00:52:29
Speaker
What's that? Oh, see, that's tough because I feel like engaging the threat would be more... It would be obviously more streamlined, but I also feel like, given the situation, that I was already walking away technically the furthest and didn't fully see what was going on, and it's dark, and I don't have any way of seeing that.
00:52:48
Speaker
I feel like it makes more sense to roll the freak instead. Alright. going to hit it with the danger. Danger.
00:53:03
Speaker
Missed. Alright, so you missed. I did too. but Both of you missed. Alright. um Yeah, I think ah you... Okay, so um because you missed, ah this means they counterattack against you.
00:53:19
Speaker
um So you... ah when you switch So you swing your sword. um She ah reaches up with her hand her hand,
00:53:31
Speaker
her hand like hits the flat of your blade, moves with it, ah redirects your swing, and causes you to like flip backwards um onto the ground behind you.
00:53:46
Speaker
but um Reese, you unleash you know you unleash your powers, but you miss, so your powers just kind of... um You hit a nearby child's bicycle and crumple no.
00:53:58
Speaker
child's bicycle and crumple it who ah but child There is no child on the bicycle. He just left it laying on the ground in his front yard, as children do.
00:54:09
Speaker
Little kid riding. Well, he shouldn't have done that, and now guess what? He probably won't leave his bike out outside overnight no more. Bill, you monster. you I gotta to tell a story now.
00:54:21
Speaker
um Me and my brother... and all cold If we left our bikes out on the street overnight, we would expect them to be gone or ghost-rided into a ditch. Yeah, so me and my brother, you know, we'd leave our bikes out, as children do.
00:54:34
Speaker
And one day, we went out looking for our bikes, and they were gone. ah And they were gone for like two weeks before my dad finally revealed that he had locked them up in the garage where we couldn't see them as punishment for us leaving them out.
00:54:51
Speaker
Ron, you're dead. Yeah. saw a move.
00:54:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I said.
00:55:01
Speaker
But yeah. ah So yeah, she flips you onto the ground um and and then she and then she was going to counterattack, but then she sees Reese destroy her neighbor's child's bicycle and set and spins around and and like gives you this like what the yeah what the fuck look. And then she's going to throw a um ah baton and at Reese.
00:55:30
Speaker
um
00:55:33
Speaker
I will say, however, ah you may choose to dodge in whatever way you you choose. This is a generic baton. so Well, I guess Reese is not invincible, so if if you don't dodge, it'll smack you.
00:55:47
Speaker
But it's not a take a powerful blow. It's not a take a powerful blow type situation. She's just throwing a baton your way. no I'm absolutely going to try to dodge. Do I need to roll anything for that? ah No, you don't have to roll. I think this is something you could do. This was just kind of a um I won't say half-hearted, but because she threw it in anger at you, but um it was more of a not well-aimed throw.
00:56:11
Speaker
um and And then she says, who are you people? What do you what do you want with me?
00:56:22
Speaker
Do we have a team name? and No, you guys have not chosen a team name. I have mentioned that a couple of times.
Meeting with Marcus and Observations
00:56:31
Speaker
Do we have a leader? you So as children, as children ah your leader changes from fight to fight, which we have not officially... If you keep fighting, if you keep fighting um we'll do the inter-fight with a dangerous foe.
00:56:47
Speaker
I'm
00:56:50
Speaker
i'm just kind of waiting to see what's going on. that girl that oh That other like sidekick that's to a main hero that's with us, isn't she technically the one leading this group right now?
00:57:01
Speaker
um You could consider her the leader, but the thing is, that's only if you are fully entering combat. like This was just kind of like the quick opening scene to, you know, you jump in and and stuff happens, but now now there's a pause in the...
00:57:19
Speaker
Yeah, there's a pause in this, and it's kind of up to you guys if you continue to be aggressive or not, because she just asked a question, what do you want with me?
00:57:28
Speaker
I guess I can say
00:57:33
Speaker
we don't want to expose your identity if you don't want your identity exposed. However, we have reason to believe the person that may or may not live here, may or may not have people chasing after them,
00:57:47
Speaker
And we may or may not be trying to protect said person. This is going to add in allegedly. My head hurts. Your head hurts?
00:57:59
Speaker
Too many words there. yeah you You don't have a you don't have a brain here, Plant. Hey, why do you think it's so hard for me to think? wow um She tags a moment to consider your words. And...
00:58:13
Speaker
um shia She glances over you guys and she's like, weren weren't you guys those kids who were... and she By you guys, she kind of waves in the direction of the three of you who are not right next to her.
00:58:30
Speaker
um In giant armor. And she's like, weren't you guys the kids who ah who stopped what was going on at that concert?
00:58:42
Speaker
Yeah. or chance She does appear to relax now, and she's like, why? So wait, someone is, you think someone's chasing me? No, but somebody might be coming for you.
00:58:56
Speaker
Somebody might be coming for me? I don't know if you are the person that we're supposed to be looking for. feel like her having powers is a kind of a thing. Yeah.
00:59:08
Speaker
yeah yeah Yeah, but I guess we shouldn't be surprised. She was an individual on that sales guy's list. So far, everyone he's spoken to has been a low to mid-grade suit. She considers for a moment. She's like, well, why hold on a minute.
00:59:24
Speaker
um Glances at the house, seems to think for a moment, and she's like, okay, you guys obviously figured out who I am, which means who told you who I am?
00:59:40
Speaker
We don't know who you are. yeah we we just got your name from a salesman with a... and we know What do you call it? Leads list? or that when When you say, we don't know who you are, she she looks a little disappointed.
00:59:56
Speaker
And she's like, nobody knows who I am. You... ah How much of a superhero fanboy like for all superheroes in town do you think you are?
01:00:09
Speaker
like Only the hot ones. She's a hot one, bro. Hayden. No. I'm sorry. No.
01:00:21
Speaker
There is something I'm looking looking for, and I cannot find it in this book. but By chance, does she look like any ah and and superhero I would be familiar with from my side of things?
01:00:34
Speaker
um If you guys just want to give me a... ah man mundane role. Because that's kind of like the knowing about people role.
01:00:45
Speaker
um oh
01:00:50
Speaker
I was going to say, Rhys, you can have a plus one to this because you tend to know about um superheroes because they were after you. yeah I failed. I also failed.
01:01:03
Speaker
i also failed um
01:01:07
Speaker
um even with a fun mark Mark potential. I don't know if I should have y'all be marking potential on just random bullshit rolls I told you to do, but um might as well.
01:01:20
Speaker
um Honestly, um I don't feel like this is the type of thing that should earn me any potential. So if it's the same with you, I'm not going to add any to that one. But I am going to take that one from my... Yeah, yeah okay. I agree. Maybe not more potential from this this thing.
01:01:35
Speaker
This was just... yeah have I haven't heard of this. Yeah. um the other two The two of y'all, though, can roll as well. um Eric and Hayden. I'm assuming this is definitely not a soup that I've ever fought or been arrested by or, you know, from right. Magic?
01:01:50
Speaker
No. What am I rolling? Just mundane. oh We're just doing a kind of generic, have you heard this person? ah Okay. So Max. yeah Of course he has.
01:02:08
Speaker
A cute Latina superhero. He knows who she is. Max, this is Backswing. um she is a... once a promising young vigilante. career never quite took Her powers were not... she she was once a promising young vigilante vigilany her career never quite took off um she her her powers were not They just weren't you know showy enough. Her personality... I guess I should be playing her as blunt. Her personality was just a little bit um abrasive for you know to to gain fans. um she never gets a flashy yeah She never gets the flashy victories that other heroes get because her powers aren't flashy.
01:02:49
Speaker
What are her powers? She ah has the power of kinetic redirection. She can absorb the momentum of physical attacks that hit her and redirect it elsewhere. um Works best with melee strikes.
01:03:02
Speaker
um um But she can you know redirect attacks and throw them back at the attacker, the force of those attacks. um She's also skilled in hand-to-hand combat and is like good at um tactical analysis, stuff like that.
01:03:17
Speaker
But um her superpower just her superpower and attitude in general never made her popular with ah with the the fans, which, you know, that sort of thing.
01:03:29
Speaker
So what did you say her name was? Backswing. Backswing, okay. So rolling back about 10 seconds, before we, she's like, you guys don't know who I am? I'm like, well, yeah, you're backswing.
01:03:44
Speaker
Now she's just surprised that you know who she is. we Now Reese is going to actively like turn to you as soon as you say backswing. so Yeah, what? she She's backswing.
01:03:56
Speaker
Super hot, super smart. She generally dealt with low level like street level crimes because she's really not powerful enough to be taken on villains and stuff most of the time. Reese is going to turn to her. Were you on any were you on ever on any cases that involved large-scale weapon sales or less-than-ideal transfers from other countries?
01:04:21
Speaker
Are you asking if she's a perfect cartel? No. Listen, some of the work I did involved selling weapons, okay? Okay. a Hey, sometimes I had moved something. Okay, leave me alone. She says nothing like that. I've busted several, um you know, ah shipments of drugs being brought into town and stuff.
01:04:46
Speaker
I broke up a um ah a small human trafficking ring. Human trafficking.
01:04:57
Speaker
It exists in Houston. We don't... like In real life. In real life. that told why i had Yeah, i've got some I've got some standards. I don't mess with either of those things.
01:05:08
Speaker
So, okay. No chance you ever arrested me then. You don't look familiar. Well, I mean, you you don't look familiar from for my job.
01:05:23
Speaker
I mostly deal with street-level crimes. art sanded or Iron Sand here. almost called it Art Sand. Art Sand over here. on yeah
01:05:37
Speaker
and So hold on. So what's going on? Do you think someone might be after me? So there's a people disappearing.
01:05:48
Speaker
um There's been three disappearances so far of different people. ah We... found a guy who talked to each one of those individuals before they disappeared.
01:05:59
Speaker
um And so we went and spoke with him, and he has you on his list of people he's supposed to go talk to. So we are assuming there is some sort of connection there.
01:06:11
Speaker
And everyone that's disappeared either is either low to mid-rank in powers, or just a a mildly recognized to not very recognized super of some kind.
01:06:23
Speaker
which now seems to fully fit the bill. And no let me guess, ah you guys were scoping out my house to to see if there's anything strange going on. You wanted to look for a place to observe me and then use me as bait to lure whoever is doing this.
01:06:39
Speaker
Exactly that. wouldn't put it that way. one put a chant way yeah yeah No, no if she hit it on the nail. i think it was i think it was like I think it was honestly 100% that way. and now After I found out she had cameras, I was going to redirect them to wherever they were talking. um she she says ah She nods and says, alright, let's do it. when am i supposed How do we do this?
01:07:06
Speaker
So it's supposed to be tomorrow um at your meeting with What's-His-Nuts? I don't remember what his name is, but you apparently had a meeting on the phone. The salesman for SCC. Oh, that guy? Yeah, you're going to meet with a sales guy tomorrow. Sometime afterwards, you're going to disappear.
01:07:22
Speaker
Huh. Well, that's the suspected chain of events. It was? did think it was kind of weird that he wanted to talk to me, but he said he had some like low-level tech that would be useful to me.
01:07:34
Speaker
said he might be able to up my up my my game at catching criminals. so Well, he just works for that company, but it just seems like people are disappearing after he talks to them.
01:07:49
Speaker
what What was it that he was trying to sell you on? Well, he he just said he had he said he had some things that might help me in and you know my my work.
01:08:00
Speaker
ah and i be honest like i responded to um you know one of those emails uh i'm on a you know back in school i signed up for a mailing list uh for you know to she she lists off the name of some like superhero um like superhero magazine um that like sells superhero gear um but i never expected them to reach out to me those are kind of like uh You don't reach out to them, they reach out to you if they think you're worthy of buying their stuff.
01:08:36
Speaker
Now I feel like that guy was ah lying to us because he didn't mention that shit at all.
01:08:44
Speaker
Yeah, I tried to ask him why and he completely blew off the question. um And we're bad detectives. Out of out of character, I'll say that is unintentional.
01:08:56
Speaker
it um In character, i think that was completely intentional. We should go talk to that again. again I mean, out of character, I'll say, ah yeah I guess I did say he doesn't know why he was supposed to talk to this person. but yeah it was big Yeah, because it's about the containment units. You're right. you're like wildoff containment units Well, to be fair, what he said was he didn't know why he was supposed to go talk to her.
01:09:20
Speaker
What? He was supposed to go talk to her. You know, I could have officially summarized this information if y'all just let me do some dark shit. To be fair, she said dark shit that she responded to to an email. So this is me trying to save myself here.
01:09:37
Speaker
yeah yeah Above the table, completely forgot I said he didn't know why he was meeting up with her. So we'll say she got an email to schedule um a sales pitch, basically.
01:09:52
Speaker
He's just walking into sales pitches not knowing what he's got to pitch until he gets there. yeah right So you're going to come here and talk to me about this particular gear? ah Yeah, sure. yeah Yep.
01:10:06
Speaker
yeah For the most successful um containment company in the U.S., they don't have um the best salesmen, it seems. But when you're the only containment company in the U.S., you don't need good salesmen.
01:10:25
Speaker
Okay, so yeah. What have we done? So she seems totally down to being and used as bait. Yeah, that's fine. We can do that. We can do that.
01:10:37
Speaker
Maybe when you meet him, are you going to meet him as back backstrike? Strike back? Well, um I probably was, but it doesn't really matter because SCC already knows, knew who I was um because i foolishly signed up for um a mailing list when I was in school and didn't have a secret identity name yet.
01:11:06
Speaker
So, really, bitch? I'm not proud of it. I signed up when I was like 12. twelve Hey, ah Siphon and Ironsand, you can do your things not in a costume, right?
01:11:25
Speaker
Yeah. My powers are natural. So what if, hypothetically, right, you're Delgado, well, Greg Beck's nephew, and you're visiting, so when she's having her meeting, you're, like, in the house,
01:11:44
Speaker
close playing the xbox and the rest of us are supered out in the garage you know what saying so then we got like another body in there that can do and then i do like kung fu moves like you know fucking give him little fucking and give him a judy chop give him a fucking judy you know what i'm saying back swing and i go do i look like i can be your nephew
01:12:11
Speaker
i You look like a guy in a mask. And a hoodie.
01:12:18
Speaker
Hey, before we... have ah Can we go inside and talk about this not out in the yard? some That's fair. Yeah, she says, yeah, she and invites you inside.
01:12:31
Speaker
um that she offers you guys some... um Hold on. I gotta remember the name of it. It's delicious, but I can't remember the name of it.
01:12:40
Speaker
ah She offers us horchato? No. That is delicious. The Abuelita hot chocolate. Oh, that is really good. She offers y'all some hot chocolate.
01:12:56
Speaker
And I drink that shit up. Yeah. um And makes you know makes makes that up for for the children.
01:13:07
Speaker
You kids want some hot chocolate? Sure. I'm not doing accents, by the way. oh she is She is Latino, but i am um the white I, the white man, am not going to try any accent other than white man accent.
01:13:22
Speaker
yeah read ah rheesus i I mean, I tried English accent, which is, you know, can be white man. It's usually white man. And i went hang up I went king of the hill with it. so I don't know if you've heard that episode yet, Eric.
01:13:40
Speaker
But It might be in season one. No, it's in it's in season one, I think. When I was trying to play. yeah um But yeah, I can't do accents.
01:13:54
Speaker
um yeah So y'all can continue talking inside over hot chocolate. um But yeah, she is down for um being used as bait. And yeah.
01:14:07
Speaker
yeah and if And if it doesn't, she's like, and if it doesn't ah end up getting me kidnapped, then ah I get some cool new gear.
01:14:18
Speaker
Which I kind of need. Yeah, I mean, that little... i appreciate your... and I do the Judy move, that's like I do Kung Fu again, like I appreciate those moves, but that's like a... mean, you play horseshoes with that stick, right? You don you put it in the ground? Kind of crazy. You fight bad guys with that?
01:14:38
Speaker
Fight street-level thugs. And look, I can i can redirect a decent amount of four. I survived a car crash once. I appreciate that. I genuinely do.
01:14:51
Speaker
i mean, but like, you know, the first time put on this, fought an Eldritch Abomination from the equivalent of Inuit Hell. Like, Inuit Hell came, and I fought like a demonic Norwalk.
01:15:06
Speaker
You know? And so it's just... You fought narwhal? dichotonic you understand me. It's not It's not It's not not me. not me. It's me. It's not It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. not not not me. me. not me. It's me. It's not me. It's It's not me. not It's not It's not me. It's not It's not not It's me.
01:15:19
Speaker
It's not me. It's not It's not It's It's not me. It's It's not me. ah me. me. me. It's not It's not me. It's not It's me. not not It's not not It's It's It's not me. It's not not It's It's me. It's not me. It's It's me. It's me. not me.
01:15:35
Speaker
but I'm not going to go back into the time that you're looking in the mirror naked, okay? No, it's not that. it's just That was so specific.
01:15:50
Speaker
I mean, yeah, but maybe not right now. Also, can you pay me money for that? Because I feel like that's like having a Netflix you know subscription where you get to look at my cool stuff.
01:16:03
Speaker
Yeah? That's true, yeah.
01:16:09
Speaker
So shall we fast forward to the next day? It sounds like um all of you are going to this instead of doing the one person stays and everyone else go to school. Yeah, yeah. But who's going to be the... who's goingnna be the Are we going to hide in the garage and somebody's close by?
01:16:25
Speaker
i'll be I'll be the nephew. say 100%.
01:16:31
Speaker
i like it that wicker ball hundred i said bo from on like
01:16:39
Speaker
100% straight face, I say that. You volunteer to be the nephew? How about... Hear me out, Kalix. You stand in that laundry basket, and now you're a ficus. that you Interesting. I have specific things I can use against your specific class.
01:16:58
Speaker
hate this to you, but alright. I'm a wisteria vine at... wisteria tree at the best, or at the worst. you know I understand that. I don't know plants that well. So if you stand in this basket, you're a ficus.
01:17:13
Speaker
I stand in the basket. She looks at you and she's like, I think i think that's not going to work. um look What if he turns around so his face is in the corner and the only thing facing towards the guy that's meeting you is possibly those human-shaped cheeks.
01:17:30
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? and then you point out that He's got arms, legs, and a flesh he didn't situation That's always been the joke. that's why he think that I want to do my my flesh manipulation thing. He's seven feet tall. Reduce in size.
01:17:48
Speaker
Now he's five feet tall. I try to make myself plant like... I merge my arms like with my head. Unleash your powers to see how well you do with this.
01:18:05
Speaker
Come on, Talix. Obviously, you're you're channeling Ficus, but you want to be bonsai'd out. You want to be nippy. At least powers. Okay.
01:18:22
Speaker
On a 7 to 9, you can mark a condition or I will tell you how the effect is unstable or temporary. um How is it unstable or temporary?
01:18:36
Speaker
um It is temporary in that you can only hold this form for a little while because you've never done this before. um yeah Do I look like a wisteria?
01:18:47
Speaker
You do. like like guess you you You pull off what you were trying to do. wait ah just stand there for the duration. Yeah, I mean, I'd say right now it lasts maybe like 10 minutes or so.
01:19:02
Speaker
um you You feel like you could probably hold it longer if you really tried, but it's the middle of the night You don't need to hold it right now.
01:19:11
Speaker
the The appointment's not till 2pm tomorrow. Alright. I undo it. i'm like how How was that?
01:19:20
Speaker
That actually wasn't half bad. Okay, i I'll do that and somebody else play ah Siphon. I'm sure you've got... no um Maybe, yeah, Seth, you probably have a a gaming console of some kind.
01:19:34
Speaker
Uh, yeah. Alright, you bring that, you you just sit on the couch and play games. Wait, what time of day is this going to be? 2pm.
01:19:48
Speaker
We should totally be in school. the like It might be suspicious to have an obvious teenager playing video games on the couch. I'll pretend to be sick.
01:20:01
Speaker
I mean, are you going to be out of costume when you're doing that? Yes, I'll be out of costume. Okay.
01:20:10
Speaker
That means you have to show this person your secret identity. That's okay. Even though your secret identity is just you're going to put a mask on. Well, he can also make people forget.
01:20:21
Speaker
so oh that's true. That is true.
01:20:25
Speaker
Okay, sounds like a plan. Darkstrike looks like she was about to say something and then says, I'll wait in the garage.
01:20:39
Speaker
Did you want to say something to the group Darkstrike? No, no, I'll wait in the garage.
01:20:46
Speaker
you can You can pretend to be a fake as with me. Yeah, you can dress up like a monkey and then hang up upside down inside the ficus. Or if you want you can also hang out in a room upstairs since you seem to be more of a range fighter anyway.
01:21:05
Speaker
Yeah, if you speak Spanish, you can yell at me as my abuelita. Oh, you can sit on my head and snipe people from up there. I am the same age as you. I don't think it that um pretending to be here in your aunt works.
01:21:22
Speaker
I'll just... I'll wait on the i'll wait on the roof. Now you're getting worse. First it was a garage, then it was upstairs. Now it's the roof. what are you can if youre what husband' Wait, no. The roof is actually a bad idea. Yeah, don't go on the roof. We don't know how they're disappearing. If it's drones or something else that comes from above, you can be pretty...
01:21:41
Speaker
but What's coming? That's a good point. um You know what, Darkstrike? i hope want is Actually, she looks at she looks over at backswing Marisol, and she's like, what's what's how how ah what's the condition of your attic?
01:21:59
Speaker
And she's like ah she she just shrugs. She's like, um it's fine. And then she like jumps up and to to where she can like touch the ceiling and does this like weird shimmery thing and disappears into the ceiling.
01:22:14
Speaker
And then you hear her stepping around in the attic. but Is this middle of summer? It's going to be hot up there. No, it's the school year. Did y'all know that she could do that? it is I don't remember exactly when I said it is, but I'm pretty sure it's in fall.
01:22:31
Speaker
um Because this was like near the beginning of your senior year. This is fall in Houston, yeah? It is probably going to be 10,000 degrees in that attic, and this girl is wearing black leather. She is going to roast. she's shit you You're going to wonder why she's not helping out in the fight, and it's not going to be because I forgot about her. It's going to be because she's dead.
01:22:54
Speaker
She's dead. She's dead. Yeah, she's she sounds like she's up in the attic now, but she seems to have like phased through the ceiling into the attic.
01:23:08
Speaker
Alright, alright, alright, alright. And then I guess the rest of us are supposed to go to the garage. This is a tomorrow thing, though. Does she get to stay up there all night, or...?
01:23:21
Speaker
She phases and plops drops back down, and she's like, you know what? I realize I don't need to stay in the attic all night. i should I should probably go home before my mom starts freaking out.
01:23:35
Speaker
That's not a bad idea. What's that like? Seriously.
01:23:44
Speaker
and i should probably And I should probably send in a report to to Silk Shadow.
01:23:52
Speaker
Yeah, something about ah something about this has to do with SCC. So ge if there's any issues... If there's any issues between the two, there might be some kind of a connection here. Yeah.
01:24:07
Speaker
Alright, so... um We can fast forward to tomorrow. what' It's 8, it's 10 o'clock for you guys. We didn't get much done. Do y'all want to keep going? I can keep going.
01:24:18
Speaker
um we can We can at least go little bit further. um So ah well we will fast forward to tomorrow, 2 p.m.
01:24:29
Speaker
Right around that time, you see Mr. and Salesman, um Marcus Hawthorne, come come walking up. He's wearing his his, just to remind everyone what he looks like, he's wearing his his plaid brown suit and weird glasses. What time and day does he fill up? 2 p.m.
01:24:49
Speaker
it is too late in the day to be coming to be coming up with that much fucking energy. Shit. He is full of energy. He's a
High-Tech Sales Pitch and Video Games
01:24:56
Speaker
salesman. Um, and he knocks on the door, ah out, no longer in costume. Marisol answers the door. You guys are all in position, um, in your various places.
01:25:09
Speaker
Uh, Max, you're sitting there on the couch, um and Narasol invites him in and leads him over to the kitchen table that you can see through the door to the living room so you can kind of see slash hear the whole exchange.
01:25:23
Speaker
um He starts off by asking some, you know, some various information about her. Like, he he does appear now to have um some more information on her ah that he pulls up in a tablet.
01:25:38
Speaker
Um, he knows she is a backswing. Um, he knows that, uh, he, well, I say he knows he is reading from his tablets. Um, you know, your backswing, you applied, 15 years ago for, ah um a disappointment.
01:25:58
Speaker
um And so this is just us following up. Looks like ah yeah he he kind of like skims through some stuff and it's like, looks like we can offer you some um ah some various high-tech restraints. And you know he he kind of goes through some list of like some like ah magnetic handcuffs and some just like Batman- like utility belt gear level stuff, um but not Batman's crazy technology level stuff. um Just like what's in his belt.
01:26:31
Speaker
You know, things to restrain thugs, you know. um He's like, we've got this ah this metal um that we can make yourself a new staff out of. It's made out of this material that I think you might find um ah goes along pretty well with your... ah your kinetic redirection powers, this this metal actually absorbs kinetic energy.
01:26:54
Speaker
um And um it's ah it's definitely not vibranium. It goes through a list. It's mostly, though, restraint but like restraining stuff, um ah smoke grenades that like, or or um not smoke grenades,
01:27:16
Speaker
Sleep grenade? What am I thinking? You know, uh, sedative, um, grenades that you can throw into a room and knock out, you know, knock everyone in the room and put everyone in the room to sleep. Things like that. Knockout gas.
01:27:28
Speaker
Knockout gas. That's the word. Um, and, uh, After a while, he hands her his business card. They shake hands and he's like, we'll we'll ah we be in touch. um She did like say she wanted to order a few of the things. and So he's like, we'll be in touch and we'll have your your orders. um While they were actually talking... ah The staff's pretty damn expensive.
01:27:54
Speaker
That's what Reese actually texted Marisol. He's like, how much does he want for that metal staff absorbs energy? ah five now $5,000. Holy shit.
01:28:06
Speaker
And yeah, she passed she passed on the staff. um which Yeah, she spent a few hundred dollars, you know probably like a thousand bucks on various things like that.
01:28:21
Speaker
um He gives her his business card, shakes her hand, and then they um they leave. Or he leaves.
01:28:30
Speaker
And then she kind of sits there, watches his car his creepy van drive away. um and And then she's like, I guess it's safe to come out now. Unless you guys just want to like stay hidden and wait to see if something happens.
01:28:49
Speaker
I offer her controller number two. um
01:28:55
Speaker
She takes it. Dope. and you all play some video game for a little while. And then she's like, well, ah but's nothing's going on. um Maybe you have to go outside to get ah kidnapped or some shit. What do your cameras say on the outside? What's going on?
01:29:14
Speaker
she She checks her phone, and she's like, na no alerts or anything like that. um i mean, these aren't high tech. these that They're just regular security cameras that I hid.
01:29:26
Speaker
But no motion alert. Well, that there's a spider in front of this one. Damn pest control company. They said they were going to get rid of our spiders. my sucks they're always setting off They're always setting off the camera.
01:29:40
Speaker
ah woke me up at 2 a.m. the morning.
01:29:50
Speaker
To remind our audience, we may not have mentioned this in a while, we all do pest control. ah kept yeah And bug on camera, very common complaint.
01:30:05
Speaker
um So she's like, okay, I'll try, try i guess I'll go and I'll make a Taco Bell run. yo So she goes out to the car. She had to remove the car from the garage.
01:30:20
Speaker
um She drives in. He's going to step out. He's going to be like, let me go with you. You don't need to go anywhere alone right now. Probably he should go with me since he was the one who was already seen with me rather than another teenager with me.
01:30:37
Speaker
very upon Damn. Unless you want to hide in the trunk. are you Are you kidnapping all the teenagers in town? I'm not. I guess I throw my controller at... I throw the two controllers at Iron Sand and Warhammer Wannabe.
01:30:54
Speaker
Yeah, we! That's still a treat. Yeah, the ficus is still there. you attic And I'm like, but but hey... she We're going to Taco Bell. Oh, bring me back a quesadilla.
01:31:11
Speaker
Yeah, give me one of those mailboxes. Oh, cheese, we need a crunch. She comes out of the attic. that Calix, do you want to breathe, my dude?
01:31:25
Speaker
Does he breathe? He breathes to his skin, right? No, he looks like he's sucking in. Don't you see it? He's like holding his breath. I'm still trying.
01:31:38
Speaker
He's really got to do his role. yeah All that happens when I look at him is I just see his meaty butt cheeks and I'm like, whoa! um You went through all that trouble. still had to struggle with all that cake, dog.
01:31:50
Speaker
Goddamn, why does that ficus have an ass? Yeah. Vicky's got it once.
01:32:05
Speaker
um Okay, so I guess her and Max, unless Reese are going to hide in the trunk or something, her and Max will drive to Taco Bell. Do you have any sort of trackers or anything we can give these guys?
01:32:17
Speaker
um you can share your location on your phone. And then Darkstrike's like, oh, wait, I've got one. And she like um clips it to the... ah She's like, well, I guess I should put it on her, um not the car.
01:32:30
Speaker
um So she gives it to her. Yeah, she gives it to Backswing, who I guess right now is not Backswing, but Marisol. How did you find that? LAUGHTER
01:32:45
Speaker
ah
01:32:49
Speaker
um very look Look at the group text on your phone. On your phone. um just talk that is That is some meaty-ass buttcheeks.
01:33:05
Speaker
but
01:33:07
Speaker
eric Eric just busts out a picture of a tree with buttcheeks out of nowhere. you know He just had this ready to go. um I just typed in tree with a booty.
01:33:20
Speaker
Did you just Google search that or something? yeah it's just Google search tree with a booty. ah but Actually, I found a better one because it's what he's dressed up as now. Here it comes.
01:33:44
Speaker
Oof. Oof.
01:33:50
Speaker
and nice alright So
01:33:58
Speaker
you guys drive to Taco Bell um and ah nothing happens along the drive to to Taco Bell. um You get your like spilling all the deep lore I know about her persona.
01:34:12
Speaker
It's like, why why do you know so much about me? I'm just a... I'm not a big hero.
01:34:20
Speaker
ah You know what? Don't answer that. My only reaction is the teenager blush. No reason. like she She just sighs. She's like, well, maybe we should drive around a little bit more before we head back. See if anything happens.
01:34:35
Speaker
um So you guys are driving around. um She ah turns down a ah ah street. She it's It's, you know, what, like three or four in the afternoon. You know, she was probably talking to the sales guy for like an hour.
01:34:52
Speaker
um And he showed up at two. So it's like three or four, somewhere around there. So ah she turns down to a street. um There's nobody on this street.
Force Field Incident and Vision of Aliens
01:35:01
Speaker
ah And um she's driving along when all of a sudden ah the car, you actually, ah because you're Because you're in the car with her, Max, take a powerful blow. Roll to take a powerful blow. um As a shimmering field of force pops up all around the car, and you'll slam halt.
01:35:28
Speaker
to a halt
01:35:31
Speaker
as the kinetic energy of your car is redirected back at the both of you. um So when you take a powerful blow, you click the... um It is the button that says conditions, basically. yeah smart it'll It'll do the math for you, I think.
01:35:50
Speaker
No plus or minuses? No.
01:35:55
Speaker
A seven. So... um On a seven, you choose one of those things. You lash out verbally and provoke a teammate to foolhardy action or to take advantage of your influence and inflict a condition.
01:36:09
Speaker
That doesn't really work since you, I mean, I guess you could lash out at her. um You give ground, opposition gains, and opportunity. That one could work if you want to choose that. Or you struggle struggle past the pain of smashing, basically being brought to an instantaneous stop. um o Mark two conditions.
01:36:29
Speaker
Yeah, you would mark two conditions. Do you mark a condition at all? um Oh, no, you don't. Okay, only if you choose to mark two conditions.
01:36:46
Speaker
So your options are basically get give the opposition an opportunity or mark conditions. So it would be like they get to snatch her.
01:36:56
Speaker
Guilty and angry.
01:37:02
Speaker
You mark guilty and angry. OK. So you guys, smat you know, you you thankfully, you were wearing your seat belt. um yeah yeah The airbags do go off.
01:37:14
Speaker
um Oddly, though, when they smack into you, um they you don't feel it, and they blow back away from you. um Because kinetic energy, I don't know if that's how it works.
01:37:27
Speaker
the They don't smack into you as hard as an airbag normally would, but you... um Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what I'm saying. The kinetic energy of the airbag was also stopped as it smashes into you.
01:37:41
Speaker
Yeah. And um she's like, oh, shit, what's happening? you know And she she ah reaches down like between the seat and grabs one of her batons. And um there is a shimmering force field around you guys, um which she grabs her baton and ah gets gets out of the car.
01:38:05
Speaker
um And the moment she steps out of the car, you see the force field start shrinking um to no longer encompass the car. It's starting to shrink towards her. um and ah and yeah And and it it's it's moving pretty quickly. you have you can You can shout that, but you have a moment to react. My moment of reaction would be like lunging over to like grab her.
01:38:29
Speaker
You lunge over to grab her. Yeah, you can use defend.
01:38:36
Speaker
Where's Defend Savior? Oh, that's a flat zero. Yeah, let's see how it should have gone with him Fuck. gosh. When you defend someone or something from an immediate threat, roll plus Savior. For NPC threats on a hit, you keep them safe.
01:39:01
Speaker
On a 7 to 9, it costs you... um And then on a miss, you fail to to save them, essentially. ah Yeah, so you weren't quick enough. The force field um shrinks around her, um and she it shrinks down, and then all that happens is ah she's gone, and a business card falls to the ground.
01:39:24
Speaker
Doom sign. Okay. reg All right, you have a dark vision? Yes. um All right, so your eyes, you know, do whatever it is they do. I always forget. I think they go wide or something. No,
01:39:39
Speaker
no the the the arms of my doom pop out of my... Oh, that's right, yeah, the marionette stuff. And ah no one's around to witness this, but yeah, so you see...
01:39:54
Speaker
ah
01:39:57
Speaker
you see um you're in outer space, and and it goes kind of quickly this time. You see technology being thrown down to the Earth. um you You do glimpse those aliens that you glimpsed before.
01:40:10
Speaker
ah and um And then the scene switches to... um You hear a ah You hear a man, um two men, I guess, speaking, and one of them's like, are you sure about this, sir?
01:40:27
Speaker
And the other man is like, yes, the heroes, they the the so-called heroes are taking over this world and they need to be stopped. Right now, these are just test runs, but soon we'll take them all.
01:40:41
Speaker
and um And then you get to ask your question.
01:40:46
Speaker
Okay, you got
01:40:52
Speaker
Where is she and all the others right now?
01:40:56
Speaker
Um... Oh man, I could just be an ass and give you the same answer I gave you the last time you asked that question. But... Well, well yeah, I was truthful.
01:41:09
Speaker
Um... They are in a containment facility... Containment facilities designed specifically... Give us an actual truth! Give us an actual truth! plot! Fucking genie.
01:41:19
Speaker
Um... Yeah, so ah I think that even happens. You start to get that answer from the vision, and then you're like, no, goddammit, where specifically?
01:41:31
Speaker
And then a um you see ah a GPS coordinates. I'm not going to, you know, lay out some, speak out some numbers, but ah you see that, colon yeah um and yes, ah it burns into your cornea, but it's fading quickly.
01:41:52
Speaker
um i think as you come back to yourself, ah maybe do a um
01:42:00
Speaker
superior roll to remember that quickly and write it down. This will be... Yeah. I think this will be one of those non-XP rules.
01:42:13
Speaker
You get most of it down.
01:42:17
Speaker
On a five, I'll say you get most of it down. But you can't remember the last few numbers. um On that one, no. But on the one before it, yes. um I don't think I should have y'all mark but potential on my bullshit rules I make you do. like That aren't within the scope of the game's rules. Yeah.
01:42:36
Speaker
just because we do a lot of just like random, let's see what happens when you do this roll. And don't need y'all to level up that quickly. ah I think this is a good you know place to start wrapping up. you know We'll do our end of session questions and stuff. But yeah, you presumably will contact your yeah people.
01:42:56
Speaker
um Nice, nice, nice. So what do you do after this happens? You you remember those numbers. You managed like, type them into your phone or something. um what What do you do as you come out of that vision?
01:43:13
Speaker
me
01:43:17
Speaker
I probably curse a lot. And then whatever metal, like, don't know, there's there's like ah a mailbox or like a UPS thing. And I just go, and I throw that thing, like clear across the skies.
01:43:32
Speaker
but Okay. Yeah. Because he almost never uses it, but he has telekinesis. Mind powers. Yeah. like Are there people around? Oh, I say you do? No, you're in an alleyway with nobody there.
01:43:49
Speaker
Or not an alleyway. alleyway no It wasn't an alleyway. Y'all just turned down a street that nobody happened to be on. okay that's That's how I described it this time. yeah But there was no one around. look up at the skies and go, fuck you aliens!
01:44:06
Speaker
Aliens. I'm not saying it's aliens, but aliens. His visions almost so far, every single time, almost, have had something to do with an alien.
01:44:21
Speaker
you get to see an alien lane in person. so This presumably happened sometime in the past when they see Earthquake technology. You know what? I could have portaled and gone with her.
01:44:34
Speaker
I just saw that. you You could do that, yes. buttle and But i think save how I think we should save that for next next time. yeah And then we can't eat and we can't get to you.
01:44:48
Speaker
Marisol, I'm coming for you, babe. Man, I've got the word salesman spelled misspelled on this guy's... ah Good, keep it. He's a salsa man.
01:45:02
Speaker
Salsa man. Uh... Salsa man. theyy Did anybody take one of his business cards? It's on the ground.
01:45:13
Speaker
On the ground. When she disappeared, the business card remained. Oh, the business card. Then back out of the house where... um we was caus have on to try It was the business card. Take the business card. It's got a tracker in it.
01:45:32
Speaker
I mean, so does she. Oh, sorry. She got to... um ah know our Our boss gave her what gave her a tracker already. So you guys are sitting around back at the house.
01:45:43
Speaker
You guys are sitting around back at the house and Hayden's just, or um s Siphon's busy throwing mailboxes around. He hasn't told y'all what's happened yet. Yeah. and i and wonder And Darkstrike's like, Darkstrike's like, huh, looks like they've been stopped on this random street for a little while.
01:46:06
Speaker
And she sends you a
Alien Involvement Suspicions and Salesman Confrontation
01:46:07
Speaker
text. Everything good?
01:46:13
Speaker
And then she says, yeah oh shit, I just lost the signal. now she she Now she calls you.
01:46:21
Speaker
I pick up the phone. like you can You can hear a mailbox flying.
01:46:30
Speaker
Siphon, what's going on? her ah What's her name? Backswing signal just went just just went dark. Yeah, I know.
01:46:41
Speaker
what What happened? She's gone. She's got some she's got you on speakerphone. She what? ah She puts you on speakerphone. So the rest of the group can hear. Yeah, I know. Some force field popped out of fucking nowhere and now she teleported away.
01:46:57
Speaker
do you have the Taco Bell?
01:47:01
Speaker
I'm going to kill you when I see you, Tree Man. Force field. Like, what what did the force field look like? What did it do? did you see what directions you were thinking?
01:47:13
Speaker
But don't worry, the aliens are back.
01:47:16
Speaker
You're not serious. What aliens? The aliens. The aliens that we dealt with last time that I told you about? Well, he's had three visions that have involved aliens seeding the planet with technology, though. You guys have not seen any of these aliens, though. Each time you have encountered the technology involved.
01:47:38
Speaker
The first, I think, was the T-Rex laser gun, maybe? the the second, one of them was for sure um the computer of Muzeek.
01:47:49
Speaker
That was alien tech.
01:47:54
Speaker
maybe thell Maybe the T-Rex didn't have anything to do with aliens. I think it was just Muzeek and then this so far. he's just He uses those dark visions a lot. so Yeah.
01:48:07
Speaker
Trying to run through them. He wants to get his doom happening. Then I have to figure out what the hell I'm gonna do about that.
01:48:17
Speaker
It's like, well, um so the force field, what happened? like Last time you said in that one vision you said it was flames surrounding her.
01:48:28
Speaker
But that wasn't a force field. That was flames.
01:48:34
Speaker
don't know, the aliens do what they fucking want, and then you hear another Maalox go flying. Maybe... She is... Maybe she tried to use her powers to defend herself against the Force still to fight out, and so she was surrounded by flames, right?
01:48:47
Speaker
Because she makes fire. And then I saw Bright Lights, which might have been Spark Tickler, or whatever his name was, trying to get out of the field. Did she sign any paperwork...
01:49:03
Speaker
She bought some stuff. Yeah. Are there contracts that she's... We do know that... na She might have signed a receipt on on ah on the tablet.
01:49:16
Speaker
Is there anything left to hide? She was signed a receipt on her tablet. But we know that... um What's her name? ah The fire girl. The firefighter. ah
01:49:29
Speaker
What was her name?
01:49:32
Speaker
Ember Flicker. Yeah, we know that Ember didn't buy anything. She... she ah That... She ah shut that guy down.
01:49:44
Speaker
he did He still gave her his business card, though, didn't he? i would assume so. Was there anything... That's what salesmen do. After she disappeared?
01:49:59
Speaker
Don't you have his business card?
01:50:02
Speaker
Yeah, it's about a block that way I've been throwing mailboxes.
01:50:07
Speaker
You put the business card in the mailbox? No. I mean, she's laying on the floor. Oh, okay. She's walking around throwing mailboxes. dark track doesn't she have a bunch of his like Doesn't she have his business cards and pamphlets?
01:50:20
Speaker
Yeah, we took some from the from the van and she like starts examining it.
01:50:28
Speaker
Can I sense any metal or anything inside of it? Like like small components, a tracker, anything like that? You can unleash your powers to try. Yeah, I'm going to do it.
01:50:41
Speaker
A nine. Okay. So um
01:50:46
Speaker
you can mark a condition or I will tell you how the effect is unstable or temporary.
01:50:54
Speaker
Unstable or temporary works. Okay, so you do sense metal, um a small amount of metal, in the, like, logo part of the business card.
01:51:06
Speaker
um But as you sense it, it begins to vibrate, and then the business cards, all of them, you know, just, like, x like little like little explosion.
01:51:17
Speaker
And, you Darkstrike, like, jumps back and and and throws them down, and and they they, like, self-destruct.
01:51:23
Speaker
Yeah. I'm sorry, I was not trying to do that. I was just trying to see if there was anything mechanical in them. I'm so sorry. She's like, I'm guessing there was...
01:51:39
Speaker
There was metal in there, so... Yeah, was... Some sort of tech, yeah. Well, we just lost whatever tech it was, thanks to my dumbass.
01:51:50
Speaker
Well, we know where he stays. Let's go get some more.
01:51:57
Speaker
right Yeah. Oh, that's actually good. That's a plan. And this time we're going loaded for bear. I'm sorry. I look like an iron scent.
01:52:07
Speaker
um I'm sorry. Yeah. ah So you guys, y'all want, you you go to um back to the hotel. where he is. Yeah, we pick up a siphon on the way.
01:52:19
Speaker
yeah So they pick you up. um As you pull into the hotel parking lot, you see the guy's van. um The the door to the like sliding door to the van is open.
01:52:32
Speaker
And the inside um has then it has been emptied of pamphlets and business cards. that The Taco Bell trash is still there. ah God damn I asked him to do one thing!
01:52:50
Speaker
Yeah, nope. The Taco Bell trash is still there. but And, uh, yeah, the sliding door to the van is wide open. Joe is going to remember this.
01:53:03
Speaker
Uh, but you are at the hotel, so you can go up to his room. Yeah, we go. i don't he's gonna be there. Yeah,
Discovery of Salesman's Death and Emotional Release
01:53:10
Speaker
no, fuck it. I'm kicking the door in. Yeah, no, re Reese is fucking for a walking for right behind you. He's fucking pissed.
01:53:16
Speaker
You kick the door in? And inside you find a lot of blood. And in the bathroom, you find him. um oh she You know, basically but beaten to death.
01:53:30
Speaker
Bludgeoned to death. Is he completely dead?
01:53:35
Speaker
Yes. There's not a role for checking that. He's he's been killed. What role do I have to roll to check that? It wouldn't require a roll. That's not a roll type of thing.
01:53:45
Speaker
um He has been killed. um And I think that's where we'll end it for tonight. begin CPR.
01:53:54
Speaker
You begin CPR. um roll ah ri roll act Roll... Well, hold on. Roll defend. Defend?
01:54:05
Speaker
Yeah, that would be safe. for Protecting someone. Defend. Savior, yeah. ah yeah now it's It's a fail. um Unfortunately, he's he's been yeah he's been dead for too long.
01:54:21
Speaker
I'm going to unleash my power my powers. i'm gonna ah My powers are going to surge out and destroy some of the surrounding metal in the room. So you just unleash them in anger? Yes.
01:54:32
Speaker
yeah and then i grow and I grow a flower out and place that on his body. i think I think Unleashing It in Anger, you can do so do that um with no problem. Oh, also both... Oh yeah, that's blowing steam. i can actually justniphphon Both Siphon and y'all can um clear angry if you have it because you broke something.
01:54:55
Speaker
um Although yeah I guess it's break something important, but I feel like that's blowing off steam. that that It counts. you know I think i would like ah would like to use some team. Okay.
01:55:08
Speaker
And I am going to go against my legacy. All right. And roll Freak to speak with the dead. Okay. using and magic Use dark magic to speak with the dead.
01:55:22
Speaker
All right. That's what going do. So what can I get out of... yeah I can do a plus one with team, right? So if you're using team selfishly, you have to do it in such a way that um ah insults or, ah hold on, what does it say? Because when you do that, you're using it selfishly. When you act selfishly, say how your actions ignore or insult your teammates.
01:55:47
Speaker
Then you shift one of your labels up and one down.
01:55:53
Speaker
Oh shit. ron real fast while while he's doing that can i ask what i just did could i potentially take off the insecure condition because the to clear that take foolhary action without talking to your team
01:56:09
Speaker
yeah because um if you're choosing that then i'm goingnna say but cut to call it foolhardy you've damaged some integral structure in this building oh shit but We're just stacking bodies.
01:56:24
Speaker
how I mean, I don't know that it necessarily would be me using it selfishly, though, if I'm going to speak with the dead to make him... Yeah, that's the thing. I don't think you could use it that way. Now, if you could find a way that someone could help you, you could spin team without using it selfishly and get a plus one for the roll. Yeah.
01:56:42
Speaker
I think the only one who might have something that theoretically could help is Hayden with his mind-based stuff. But you could also say they're helping you by helping you create like a ritual circle or something. you know like They don't have to help by having magic. They can help by performing parts of the ceremony.
01:57:00
Speaker
can ah Can Calix make parts of himself like different plants? No.
01:57:09
Speaker
But he can manipulate existing plants.
01:57:15
Speaker
youreing Wait, Halyx is an existing plant. Yes, so I can manipulate myself. mean everybody' a specific Like if i if I made it a thing where like I need a specific flower, he could make the flower for me?
01:57:28
Speaker
ah No. I can make something that looks like that flower. I get you. So if I, like, guys... If it's a common flower, I might have a seed in a cracker crevice hidden away.
01:57:39
Speaker
I'm gonna be like, alright right guys, so, uh...
01:57:46
Speaker
I got to do some like weird magic and that means I have to take my helmet off and yeah. So ah I'm going to need Siphon's help and Reese or Iron Sand. I don't know that you're Reese, right? Iron Sand, I need you to make a, I draw a symbol.
01:58:07
Speaker
I draw a big symbol on a piece of paper and I'm like, I need you to make this in the floor.
01:58:14
Speaker
Got it. it's a Draw like some kind of crazy. And like and then i look at Siphon and I'm like, you remember that time we we talked to my uncle? We got to do that again.
01:58:27
Speaker
Sweet. Alright, so because they're helping you, they don't need to roll. they just We spend the two team that is in the pool. I'm not going to delete all of them because I need one of them so that I can i just send it to GM Lair there.
01:58:44
Speaker
um And you spin those two teams, they help you, and um so you'll get a plus two to that roll whenever conditions or modifiers come up. Alright, so... Freak.
01:58:56
Speaker
I just put two, or do I need to put plus two? two i just brought to Two is probably fine. Alright, I'll see what happens. That's good, you would have had a six. It would have been a fail.
01:59:09
Speaker
So, um I guess this counts as an unleash your power. yeah Okay, so you can either mark a condition or the effect is unstable or temporary.
01:59:22
Speaker
So I am going to be able to temporarily speak with a dead man. Well, I decide if it's what I tell you how it's unstable or temporary. So yeah, how it's unstable or temporary. So I would be choosing unstable, not...
01:59:38
Speaker
No, no, I choose that. Oh, no, I get what you're saying. i was saying yeah In my head, as the GM, it would be like this or that. I mean, it's going to be temporary. It's going to be temporary no matter what. Yeah, I'll probably go guilty because I'm going against the legacy.
01:59:53
Speaker
Okay. That's what I'll do. yeah Had you chosen the unstable or temporary, he would have been um barely aware, you know, type of deal. But you managed to... um Now, how does this look when you speak to the dead?
02:00:10
Speaker
So, ah how do we make this look? Because going to be like, creepy. Yeah, are we talking, like, his corpse reawakens, or does his ghost appear, or, like... Like, he sits up, and momentarily, he's like, ah! he Like, he's reliving the last moment of his life thing, right?
02:00:27
Speaker
And then the magic grabs him, and he looks at me, and he locks eyes in a very, like, he can only see me. Right. And which is why I have to take the helmet off because he has to see my eyes And so while he's staring into my eyes, we can have a conversation.
02:00:43
Speaker
And whenever we stop having that conversation, it's done. Right. And he's dead again. Yeah. And he's like, what, where am I? What is this? Well, you were dead. So why am I so cold?
02:00:55
Speaker
Because you're dead. And his eyes widen for a moment, but then because you got ah you didn't choose unstable, he he seems to realize that you're correct.
02:01:08
Speaker
And he's like, yeah. Something came in here. right Something came in here and killed you. And we'd like to know, what can you tell me about what did this to you?
02:01:20
Speaker
And then I started like, ah I can't look at anybody else, so I'm like making gestures for like pen and paper and like write down questions that you want me to ask and
Reviving Salesman for Answers
02:01:29
Speaker
then pass it to me. you right Or like say them so that I can repeat them.
02:01:33
Speaker
That kind of thing. let's put it Let's put a limit on these questions, though. Because these are these aren't the adult powers. yeah So I'm going to say five questions. Five questions. So we want to know what did this to you. That's number one. i guess I know I haven't asked an actual question yet.
02:01:49
Speaker
I'm kind of setting the ground rules. yeah About to fuck it D&D. Let's go. ah So yeah we were going to end it.
02:02:02
Speaker
This dead guy sits up. I think that's a great panel of a comic book. He sits up and I tell him, you're dead. And then and we can then we can stop, I guess. Yeah, this chapter, we got to wait till next week for the next chapter.
02:02:14
Speaker
Artists can only work so fast. I'm good with that. Or if you want to ask your questions, then we end it. But if you want to take a week to think of those questions, then that's also a good. I'll throw in their, their idea. they's so Hold on. Let's end it. And then we'll talk for a second.
Conclusion and New Release Schedule Announcement
02:02:31
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. So yeah, he sits up, you tell him he's dead and then we will stop there. So um cool. Cool. All right. I was your storyteller for the evening, Ron Bjork. And um you can find us on,
02:02:48
Speaker
You can message us on bluesky at IDM roleplay. You can message me on there. i don't remember where. um at Hold on, let me see, because I created one for IDM roleplay and one for myself.
02:03:04
Speaker
Not that anyone you know looks at these things. Myself doesn't matter right now. You can also email us at idmroleplay at gmail.com. Follow us on Twitch. um you might be well if You might be watching us now. You're not, though. I don't think we have anyone watching.
02:03:17
Speaker
um And, yeah, my name on who knows what it is. It doesn't matter. um ah With me, we also had Frank. Hi everyone, I'm Frank.
02:03:30
Speaker
um I played Calix, the Verdant Guardian. i feel like we got a lot of good material for the arc comic to all set up. um Hope you enjoyed listening, and keep a lookout for us next week.
02:03:45
Speaker
And Hayden. Hey, it was good to be around this time, and I'm excited to see what happens next on Arun. And we had Bill.
02:03:57
Speaker
right ah Had a great time. ah I'm really excited to see where where we go oh where we go next. I am having a lot of fun with this. The roles are both meaningful and hilarious, and I love them all.
02:04:14
Speaker
And I love you all. And ah who's left? Eric. hey um Eric was playing... Kieran and I just brought a bit back from the dead and offended the legacy. So let's go.
02:04:30
Speaker
Offended the legacy. All right. Thank you, everybody. wolf on up from his eye And I'm going to hit stop recording. Here's...
02:05:10
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you
02:05:26
Speaker
Hey everybody, just wanted to let you guys know, going forward at least until the end of summer, we're going to be releasing episodes every other week after this one. This is because everyone on the show here does pest control and the summer slash spring season is very busy for us.
02:05:43
Speaker
And so a lot of times we have to skip a week because there are no days when any of us get home in time to play at all. um So if I was releasing every other week, it would be impossible because we wouldn't have an episode every other week.
02:05:58
Speaker
So yeah, the podcast will be every other week until we are caught back up. Or well, until things slow back down. That is all. ah Twitch may still be weekly sometimes, but yeah, the episodes will be every other week.
02:06:14
Speaker
So that's all. by Bye bye.
02:06:21
Speaker
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02:06:36
Speaker
The night is over, and have a great day, everyone.