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H-Town Heroes Session 8
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In this session the heroes track down the location of a facility, and face off against a mighty foe.
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Introduction of Characters and Setting
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Welcome. Every time. Yep.
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well
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but welcome
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every time ye Welcome, yeah welcome heroes to another episode of Integrated Dice Management presents H-Town Heroes.
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Almost said Houston after dark. Yeah, you did. I am your game master this evening, Ron Bjork, and with me tonight is Frank. Hi, everyone. I'm Frank. um Thank you, Ron, for the generous welcome. I'll be playing my character, Calix, the Verdant Guardian for you tonight.
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It's going to be great. An even more generous welcome to our second player, Hayden. Hi. Tonight's been an interesting night, and I'm chilling down with a Nutella Putters peanut butter sandwich.
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A Nutella play. Nice. Also, I found my chocolate chips, so that's on here, too. There you go. playing Siphon or Max Jr., whichever one you want to call him by.
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um Well, it depends on what he's dressed as, I guess. ah Next up, we've got Eric. Hey, guys. Here to do some fun, fun, fun superheroing.
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I'm looking forward to rolling the JVL speaker out there with some Fetty Wap as we kick a door in. was going to say, we are definitely supers, but are we heroes? That's a great debate. You know, you guys have been fairly heroic.
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um And ah last but not least, Bill. Hi, I'm Bill. I'm going to be playing as Reese, Iron Sand, and i cannot wait to see how we almost fuck it up tonight.
Recalling Past Adventures and New Mission
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ah All right, so um last episode, ah we investigated further into what's been going on with all of this stuff. You guys talked to a dead man um and basically figured out that ah there's some stuff going down in Fredericksburg, Texas. Why Fredericksburg? Because I was looking around the hill country for an area that seemed suitable for this place, and that was the nearest town.
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um Currently on fire. Currently on fire. There's a giant. Is it really? Okay. Yeah. Like crazy fire there. yeah Damn.
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So yeah, you guys um set up some school shenanigans to... to um get school closed for the day. We also met ah night Nightfall, right?
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Is that what it is? dad Nightfall's dad, um
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played awkwardly by both Bill and myself. It was great. good You guys were fine. and And then um you guys went on a little road trip to ah to Fredericksburg. um Siphon recognized the car the truck that you guys were in belonging to ah his, I guess, former crush, Tasha, um confirming in his mind who he thinks Darkstrike probably is. um Although he might also think it's Tasha. I don't know.
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ah Um, and, uh, you guys arrived in Fredericksburg, you had some tacos for breakfast, and then you, uh, Calix sensed something wrong with the plant life in town and, uh, kind of was able to pinpoint the direction you needed to go. You guys decided to go that way, leaving Darkstrike to monitor the Sovereign Containment Corp branch office, um, to see if anything goes down there while you guys strike out into the wilderness.
School Chaos and Investigation
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Who just left?
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Frank left. um While you guys strike out into the wilderness to ah hunt down potentially the mad arborist or whatever the heck is going on out there.
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And Frank is back. the I um was sitting here and then my lights went out and then it came back and so I got back on. Yeah, so we ended the last episode as well, um or near the end of the last episode. I mentioned some some ah new some tweets and news of the school closing down. And just here's here's some of the tweets, which you guys have already seen, but now our audience is.
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Yeah, we need these. Tweet one, ah at cool chris at cool kid Chris says, Pulled up to school and saw like 20 squirrels just vibing outside the front doors. This day already feels cursed. Hashtag Monday mood.
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At emmygamergirl. Walked into school and immediately smelled something. Like gym socks and rotten milk had a baby. What the fuck is going on? ah At jakethesnake. Bro, there's a squirrel in my locker. How did it get in my locker?
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Oh, it's a reverse DDT. yeah At Queen Brittany. OMG, y'all. The basement is flooded like Titanic style. I just saw Mr. Reynolds or or I just saw Principal Powers waiting through the cafeteria in his socks.
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ah At Drama Queen Jess, just heard over the PA, due to unforeseen circumstances, all students should remain in the hallway. So school's canceled, right?
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At Noah for Prez, Noah for Prez. A squirrel bit Karen. I repeat, squirrel bit Karen. She screamed so loud, I think I went deaf. At Jimbro Mike says, Karen's running around yelling she has ro rabies.
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Principal still trying to tell us it's fine while standing on his desk. This school is a joke. Emily T says, the janitor just quit right there in the hallway. He saw a squirrel jump out of the vents, threw his mop, and walked out the front door.
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um Update, the boiler exploded. The school is literally flooding. The squirrels are wet now and angry. At Hobby Boy, principal just announced over the PA, due to extreme circumstances, school is closed until further notice. LFGGG.
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um I don't know what that actually means. Let's fucking go. Yeah. yeah am i In my childhood, it meant looking for a group. Oh, my God.
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At Brittany again, one of the squirrels is chilling on the school mascot statue like it owns the place. This is squirrel high now. ah At the real Karen, y'all, I'm going to the hospital. It hurts. If I get rabies, I'm suing.
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um At Danny devoted, some guy just yelled, the squirrels have taken over and ran out
Forest Corruption Discovery
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the emergency exit. Iconic. And then at news for you breaking local high school closed after boiler explosion and unexpected squirrel infestation. More details to come.
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And then principal Miller tweets. We're aware of the situation and working to resolve it. Please stay calm. There is no squirrel threats. that at Noah4Prez again. Bro, he just said no squirrels threat while standing on a table surrounded by squirrels. And that's the last the last tweet of the day. I'm sure many more happened throughout the day, but you guys are on mission. re reese is going to Reese is going to pull out his phone and he's going to tweet back in. Yo, just heard crazy rumor. Is Karen possibly Darkstrike?
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No. Leo, just so you know, your boy generated ton. One more. God bless ChatGP. God bless. Yeah, yeah. I even have, like, a stream of consciousness from Karen where she's turning into some kind of squirrel creature. That's great.
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I'll post those. I'll post those for everybody to read at their ah at their leisure. andza Reese immediately also underneath it posts a ah article an article ah that has been made basically with ChatGPT and just, explaining that Karen could possibly be her.
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So, uh, at Noah for president, um, responds to your tweet and says, LMAO. What Karen can't even do a pushup. No way. She's dark strike. She tripped bro. She tripped over her own backpack last week and cried for like 10 minutes. Dark strike. Nah, nah. I'm going to respond back in bro. What is she's just pretending?
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Yeah, that's exactly what you responded. Do it responded with a good like 15 to 20 more tweets to your thing. I'm not reading them all that way. I'm just fuck i fucking around. It's all good to fucking move on. Otherwise I'll never stop. OK, OK. Remember that one YouTuber that became a boxer? I can't remember his name. um Well, you're remembering going to go get another drink. yeah Is he that one? Is he that one that beat up an old dude with all of the well does that Alzheimer's?
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yeah Jesus. Yeah. Remember that one video he posted about like, oh, hey, there's a dead guy in the woods? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn't that like Paul or something? Yeah, Jake Paul. By like posting a picture of the dead cells and be like, look what I found.
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Wait, was it a YouTube star? I thought that Jake Paul was ah was a Viner. It's him and his they they did um they they saw They did all that shit. Yeah, they did all of it. Okay, I'm back.
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I forgot to line up my dreams. Am I allowed to post a selfie with the dead salesman? The dead salesman? I mean, you're allowed to do whatever you want. That probably wouldn't go over well.
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If it's X, it's fine. ah the the kind of to be fair, that is that I guess. My X is like, no, it's fine. no To be fair, I guess it is X. I guess it is X now. What I wanted to do was my, is like,
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do the the memory thing on a squirrel. Like, one of the things that I talked about. What the fuck? Uh-huh. Trying to make a squirrel either think that it was a human or get all the squirrel memories of one squirrel and put it in someone else and like now there's just a brain-dead squirrel laying on the floor.
00:10:54
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Well... why you A brain-dead squirrel? i thought we were doing this so that we would we wouldn't be noticed that we were gone. Yeah. Um... but there has to be at least one squirrel left looming around.
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Sure, you can do that when we get back, but right now, you guys are trekking off into the forest in search of whatever's causing the plants to be unhappy. Slash... in here I am so sorry, Iron Sand. yeah Slash presumably um to find the missing... ah ah What was her name? um Second Raid.
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Marisol Delgado. backdogato Yeah. Backswing.
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so yeah you guys are currently heading out of town. You've left Darkstrike behind to monitor the um ah situation at the... the the the the SCC branch office where the business cards supposedly come from.
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And y'all are heading off into the woods. um Let's see. There's probably a move you should roll to to find stuff, I'm sure.
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But what what are you guys doing as y'all head into the woods, I guess? Oh, wait. Start of session. oh and know a Start of session means I just add another team to the pool.
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Since we're just walking out into the woods, would we be in costume or would we be dressed like normal, like normies? If we're doing superhero shit, I'm basically always in costume.
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Yeah, I would assume you're in costume right now, but that's up to you guys. i mean, you you do have Calix with you as well as Nightfall, and Calix is always in costume, so...
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And you're going to potentially bust into some sort of facility and or fight um a mad arborist. Or both.
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What
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the fuck? Well, Frank knows how to track him. Are we just like... Mad arborist. does he like He likes trees or he doesn't like trees, right? Like, is he covered in fucking... Not Chlordane. What is that shit called?
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a He's mad. He's mad, so it's hard to say. what's yeah What's he angry about? He does stuff with plants. Mad as in insane. ah I mean, we're walking around with a giant tree yeah and he and a Warhammer 40k cosplayer, so... he views ah He views Calix as an abomination for some reason.
00:13:47
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That makes sense. He effectively is. He's basically Swamp Thing. That is effectively correct. ah ah like You can have your alternate opinions, but you're wrong.
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ah So you guys are heading off into the the the woods slash hill country in the general direction of the feeling that Calix got. um Are you guys just tweeting all over the place? Yeah.
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and I'm just posting the things. Yeah. paying attention. And... Calix, you definitely feel as you enter the... as you exit town that um the general wrongness feeling that you got in town is definitely building as you head out of town.
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Um... You still don't know what exactly it means, but there's definitely some weird stuff going on with the plant life. You see ah plants growing here that don't normally grow here.
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um Like things that wouldn't normally grow in this this environment are growing. um Whereas the the normal trees seem pretty unhealthy and stuff like that. and it's just It's just general weirdness right now.
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Do you guys want to do or say anything? How many people in these posts that you posted, Eric, were people turning into squirrels or turning into...
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Just Karen turning into a squirrel. but ah There's two. JT and Karen. ChatTPGPT said that they met the Squirrel King. i wasn't aware that I wasn't aware we had a Squirrel King involved, but they met him.
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ah
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Well, I mean, if ChatGPT says it, it must be true. Yeah, yeah. You know? sp haven but given i have to read through if an a have to read through all that and they decide what's canon. If AI gives you a result, it's it's true. so that's Yeah, I know.
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Many law cases have happened. Um...
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um
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If
Battle with the Mad Arborist
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lawyers can use ChatGPT to help build their case ah their case files, then um then we can use it for our game. Obviously.
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i'm gonna I can add whiskey to my cream soda. you should all You should have already been doing that. I just had a whiskey and Dr. Pepper. I'm on my second drink now.
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one, two, oh, I'm still working on my second one, too. I'm going to turn to Calix, and I'm going to ask him, hey, what's going on? Like, this doesn't feel quite right.
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ah I just finished reading all the messages from Eric, so what? you could the The forest has... ah The trees in Fredericksburg that supposed to be there are dying, and there's, like, tropical shit and, like, shit from tundras. Yeah, shit that shouldn't be here.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And since you're our Swamp Thing, we want to know, like, ah can you talk to the Earth? Can you, like, you know... Can you access the green... The colors of the wind?
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Um... I bend over and i like dig my hands deep into the soil and i stretch out my little root phalanges. Um, and I would like to commune with, with the, the nature.
00:17:34
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All right. So I'm thinking that's either, it's either unleash your powers or possibly assess the situation. um I'm looking at the questions.
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Uh,
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Who here is most vulnerable to me? How can we best end this quickly? What here is the greatest danger? Yeah, like that's more, huh Who here is the greatest danger? what the What's dangerous?
00:18:02
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Yeah, I feel like, i mean, that's probably a better answer. Assess the situation, the closest role we've got to you trying to figure out. I mean, you are trying to figure out what's happening, so.
00:18:15
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ah That's an 8. So on an 8. ah You can ask one of those questions. Feel free to reword it to fit the situation. Because those, I think, yeah.
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Or in question similar to one of those. Hold on. I need a second screen open. Hold on.
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Duplicate. Duplicate. So I can see the the actual questions on the screen. Okay, I love this this hashtag and the very last thing. Hashtag Squirrel King lurks.
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i haven' got I haven't gotten to all to all of them yet. I'm i'm still on. i haven't read any ah I haven't read any of them yet. I just saw that at the end. Also, I had my kids verify that the language in there was appropriate for that age group.
00:19:05
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Nice. So my teenagers proved that this is how they would say it.
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um what what was what was I being asked you're asking you are assessing the situation i know um what what did what did they ask me like what's going on what's going yeah what's what's happening yeah like what the fuck is this that's ah's a you know palm tree or a moss um so none of those questions kind of line up with that um Yeah, you can just ask me a question that's the same thing. all this being caused by wacky herbalist?
00:19:52
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the wacky herbalist The mad arborist. He's your villain, Frank. Frank, you gotta start actually making it seem like you actually have problems with this, because you get close, and it's like, oh, goddammit, Frank.
00:20:09
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ah From everything you can tell, yes, definite definitely. I don't know how much the plants actually speak to you and in you know words or whatever, but...
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um I feel like be more of a vibe. I'm just vibing out. like It's definitely the vibe that the mad arborist has done this. um You sense that it is in a it's it's a fairly large area um surrounding an area that has not been touched by him.
00:20:47
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So there's a large area in a big circle around a smaller circle. Yes. And inside a smaller circle, it's normal. Yes. Got it. So is this set up in like biomes or is there like something from a tundra mixed with something from a a mountain mixed? It's mixed up all weird. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
00:21:07
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I was like, oh, he's making a minecraft world or something um he's making the the world that he's making the level from um the hunger games uh uh the second time she went in you know the the map from that oh yeah no he's not doing that that would be funny okay so i withdraw my little roots phalanges and i stand back up and i'm like the the the The plants whisper of a corruption spinning from that direction, and I point towards the circle.
00:21:46
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Yeah, and it's a large area. you know it's it's probably like you're You're probably looking at like an hour hike out into the wilderness. In that direction, not in that area. Yeah.
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So, hold on, let me get my... Various GM ability page. ah Did I make a handout for it?
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I know I said I was going to, but I don't remember if I did.
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um Not there. It's in Nope. Did bookmark it? I probably didn't, knowing me.
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Oh, yep. I did bookmark it. Yay. OK. um In the physical book. Okay. um So you guys are walking along um or flying along or however you want to do something, do it.
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And... and The corruption doesn't technically get any worse. um it It stays about the same as it, you know, it's you're you're in the corrupt zone now. It's all equally corrupt for the most part.
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um you You definitely can tell that, you know, off in the middle, ah there is the untouched area. um But the area you're in is like a perimeter around it.
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ah As you are walking, however, you guys feel the ground around you start to rumble um as something large begins approaching you.
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um And ah you all turn in the the like sound of the giant footsteps. And you see a big, bigger than Calix, probably we're talking like...
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12 to 15 feet you know like two stories or something i don't know um a big
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probably not with glowing eyes but this picture has glowing eyes tree monster approaching you guys um i just shared to players so theoretically it oh my god it yeah it looks like a giant pre gnome yeah pop um yeah well giant A giant ah tree monster approaches um and riding on its shoulders is the mad arborist who, you know, obviously Calix, you recognize him.
00:24:15
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And from up on his high perch upon the shoulders, he's like, so we meet again, Calix. Calix. that's a terrible I should have known you would be here. I'm terrible. I don't do voices good.
00:24:30
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I should have known you would be here.
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and um Matt Arborist, the time has come for your dastardly deeds to be taken accounted for. I'm not good at this. He ah he laughs and he says...
00:24:49
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you'll, he says, you'll have to get past my creation. You see, when I saw you, i thought you were an abomination. And, but then I realized I could make something better.
00:25:02
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And here he is. He's completely under my control. Not like you. And, and then the, the mad Arborist like stands up on the shoulder and then he falls backwards.
00:25:17
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Um, And, uh, like kind of does a, uh, a reverse, like yeah he spreads his arms out, you know, to his sides and then falls backwards off of the thing.
00:25:27
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and you, and, and then you don't hear him hit the ground. He he's just gone. Um, as far as you know, he doesn't have powers like that. So you don't know what's going on there. He, he's not a teleporter or something. Maybe he merged into the tree. Maybe who knows, maybe he landed quietly and ran off when you weren't looking But he vanished, and Big Tree Monster um makes a roaring sound that is not actually a roar. It's more of a high-pitched roar of the sound of... of
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of i of You know that sound when yeah when you ah blow on a blade of grass and it does that high-pitched noise? Except this is like hundreds of them happening. Yeah, it's like hundreds of them happening as once as he blows the air out through his beard.
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And then he charges.
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at you guys. I want to shoot him.
00:26:26
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you guys can can react to it. So this game doesn't have an actual initiative order. um okay So yeah in that case... So as I was talking, can I go ahead and do something real quick?
00:26:37
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Sure. um I want to step forward, um because I was in the front of the group talking, I'm assuming. i take a couple steps forward and summon my my shield and armor and sword. Yeah. um and What does it look like when you do that?
00:26:52
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i I imagine it's like one of the like 1990s magic girl transformations.
00:27:02
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of but Have you ever seen have you ever seen Digimon where the giant cactus turns into a flower girl?
00:27:13
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yeah that's great Is it it's it's iss a more Sailor Moon? No, it's more like... Where you suddenly make it? Suddenly I'm human again and the trees just grow back over me. No. um Well, we have already established that Calyx has a fleshy dick, so...
00:27:32
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Yeah, well, it's it's a barky dick, but yes. um And a very tight ass, apparently. No, it's I step forward. um as as As I'm stepping forward, um the bark like just engorges out of my shoulders and chest.
00:27:49
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Does it now? And like, solidifies into some bark-like armor. ah The sword just kind of appears in my hand. It's a very like, if you blink, you miss it type of transformation.
00:28:03
Speaker
hmm. When did he get a sword? Where did you get a gun? So I stab my shield and my sword into the ground like side by side and I'm going to shoot vines out of myself and try to restrain him so that I can have like the group get into it.
00:28:21
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Okay. Restrain. So that's not that would be unleash your powers then. Okay. Because you're not you're restraining not damage. You're a freak. and lee Does he have ah influence or does the other guy have influence over him?
00:28:37
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Oh, where hold on. We've got to start that um just starting a battle thing. um ah When you enter a battle against a dangerous foe, where are you? um When you enter a battle against a dangerous foe, add two to the team pool. Okay.
00:28:56
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Cool. There's a lot in there. weve Yep, we've got five. Nice. Okay, so I think... we would so I think Calix is leading this battle. um yeah Do y'all agree? So does Calix have influence over all of you? He has influence over making
00:29:20
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i have has influence over me. I have influence over Calix, but apparently according to this, this does not go the other way around. Okay, so we don't get that one. If everyone has the same purpose in the fight. So, Calix, what is your purpose in this fight?
00:29:40
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um To stop the giant creature. And would the rest of you agree with that general purpose? Yes. Yeah.
00:29:51
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purpose of stopping this giant tree. Yeah, i'm being I'm being charged by a bearded tree with all with horrid glowing eyes. So, yeah, i want to stop that. Okay. um Eric, I assume... Yeah.
00:30:07
Speaker
Okay, so yeah, you guys all have the same purpose, space so um that is another team. ah And then we've got... if Do any of you mistrust Kalix?
00:30:21
Speaker
In this situation, no. I don't think so. All right. and is your team ill-prepared or off-balance? i I don't think you'd be ill-prepared or off-balanced because you were expecting a fight. You just weren't expecting a fight with this thing.
00:30:35
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Mm-hmm. So... um I believe then that... Yep. So you guys have six team to spend and the fight has begun.
00:30:47
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um so remind me again, what does team do? So you can use team um to add a bonus to another character's role, um but you have to be able to help them actually in the narrative.
00:31:01
Speaker
So you have to describe how you help them. You can't just say, I spend a team to help them. You can also can also... I just had a crazy echo. Still, what's going on?
00:31:12
Speaker
Who is Echo? Hmm. Test, test, test. Okay, it seems to have stopped. Okay. um That was weird.
00:31:23
Speaker
Wait, nope. Nope. I think it's a Bill.
00:31:28
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Should be.
00:31:31
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Can y'all hear me? bill are Okay. Let's try it. Let's let's continue. Y'all can hear me? Yeah, we can hear you. Okay.
00:31:42
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Strange. um And so then you can also spin teams selfishly. When you act selfishly, say how your actions ignore or insult your teammates. Then you spin a team, and you can shift one of your labels up and one of your labels down, um thus giving you potentially another plus one.
00:32:03
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So just to... The easier way to use it to help each other, but yeah. Yeah. So is it... leader's influence over your teammate, blah blah blah. Anyone working with a team can spend team one for help with a teammate. Okay, could I actually roll one to try to um help Kalix?
00:32:25
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You would just spend one, but Kalix needs to roll his Unleash's Powers first. but I'm sorry, excuse me.
00:32:36
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So that is a nine, which is the the mixed success. um You can spin team to help him, ah whoever wants to. What's the downside of a mixed success on that one?
00:32:49
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So on a mixed success, mark a condition, or I will tell you how the effect is unstable or temporary. I would actually like to give him ah i like to give him a plus one ah plus one by using... t ah used ah but I'd like to use one one ah team point to give him a plus one. yeah by yeah I'm going to...
00:33:10
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transform my jacket which is more or less just floating sand um into a pair of like circular saw blades and i'm going to chuck them both straight at straight at this thing's legs okay so hurt its legs while he's restraining it um ah So that bumps him up to a 10, which means it is 6 use. So you're ah how do you restrain it, if you want to describe that, Frank?
00:33:41
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So you know I slam my shield, my sword down, um and I kneel down, and I shoot like vines out from my body. into the soil, they rush across the field, and they, like, wrap around its body, climbing all the way up to its arms and torso, and, like, just draws it in.
00:34:01
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Like he's being hugged by a wisteria vine. Okay. I will say that he is restrained, um so the rest of you can get a move against it. Okay. Okay.
00:34:15
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And I get i say, but go! And like I'm obviously struggling here, even though it's not a struggle. Yeah. yeah It's a struggle. It's a victory monster. You just succeeded.
00:34:32
Speaker
I am going fight the good fight and pull some punches while attacking the tree monster. So I'm going to go ah flat of the blade and smack the dog shit out of it. And then, uh, and then, uh, going to fire a round off at the same time, which kind of doesn't feel like I'm pulling punches.
00:34:52
Speaker
How do you non-lethally shoot somebody? It's a magic gun, bro. In the arm. Shoot him in the arm, you know? Or the leg. I'm going to shoot him back in that leg that you just cut because I'm going to try to blow it off.
00:35:05
Speaker
it's like Oh, yeah, good one. And you try to non... What's what's it called? Non-fatally shoot some of the bone arrows. So that is a miss. ah That's a critical miss, brother. That's too well. Let's see. you can He could potentially be bumped up to a seven if three of you help him.
00:35:24
Speaker
um I'll help. No, that's worth it. three Three team isn't worth... Okay, yeah, okay. That's a good point. I'm kind wrapped up and hold them down as it is. Yeah, so so on a miss, always on a miss, marked potential. um And ah so you missed... So um as you miss ah the the the the monster...
00:35:50
Speaker
you You jump at him trying to slash slash shoot his leg with your your crazy gun blade thing. And it swipes at you with its massive hand, smacking into your armor and sending you flying. Take a heavy blow. So you roll for that. It's on your sheet. I think it's the button set marked it ah that says conditions. And on this roll, you want to roll low or take a powerful blow. Yeah.
00:36:18
Speaker
but got damn So you rolled ah you rolled a nine. um So on on a nine, if you look on ah it's on the, you know, under basic moves, bottom right, take a powerful blow. You choose one of those options.
00:36:34
Speaker
Can I spend a team to hamper him so he doesn't do as well? I don't think you can spend team on but on this one.
00:36:45
Speaker
So you lash out verbally, provoke a teammate to foolhardy action, or take advantage of your influence to inflict a condition on them. um You give ground and your opposition gets an opportunity, or you struggle past the pain and mark two conditions.
00:37:09
Speaker
Oh.
00:37:12
Speaker
siphon come on man jesus ah if You're marking it. I was just thinking of what I could do. So you mark a condition. So you inflict a condition on Siphon?
00:37:25
Speaker
No, I lash out and provoke a teammate to foolhardy action. Oh, foolhardy action, yeah. Alright, so you got you gotta do something foolhardy. And I'm flying away. And then like crashing through all these trees backwards. It's that scene from...
00:37:40
Speaker
yeah it that it' that scene for the ground Yeah, it's that scene from fuck it from fucking Hercules where the where the centaur punches Hercules he just flies through the air into the rock.
00:37:57
Speaker
So I think in that case, Siphon would be next up.
00:38:03
Speaker
Since you've been provoked into foolhardy action. So you said this guy was rooted into the ground, right? He's being held in place by Calyx.
00:38:17
Speaker
Oh. I guess that also makes it foolhardy. I'm going to use my kind like kinetic power and try to yeet this motherfucker.
00:38:30
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. and With Calyx holding onto him. Go ahead and... okay go ahead and I feel like that would be a directly engage a threat, I guess.
00:38:51
Speaker
Because I could argue it's also unleash your powers, but I feel like, so unleash your powers is overcome an obstacle, reshape your environment, or extend your senses, whereas directly engage a threat, you trade blows. So he would have, we'll see. Yeah, go ahead and directly engage a threat.
00:39:08
Speaker
See what you get. okay Any situational bonuses or penalties? No.
00:39:16
Speaker
a full hit. So you pick two from that list.
00:39:23
Speaker
That was directly engaged. it that it I want to...
00:39:34
Speaker
Taking something from them would be dope, and then create an opportunity for your allies. What can I take from them? like pa You could take Kalyx from them. yeah well because Is it the Mad Arborist attacking the tree?
00:39:54
Speaker
The Mad Arborist is nowhere to be seen. um So the tree, take his ability to walk. Can't move now.
00:40:02
Speaker
Yeah, I was thinking about something like when i rip him out of the ground. like you You rip it. though Okay. Like, it's just run ripped off. You rip his legs off because Calix was holding onto them.
00:40:16
Speaker
Yeah. um So, take something from him, and what was your other one? Create an opportunity for your allies. Okay. So I'm basically giving a bonus to a teammate?
00:40:32
Speaker
Yes. So it is currently tossed up into the air. Frighten the opposition.
00:40:45
Speaker
We'll go for opportunity. Okay, so you've now created an opportunity for your allies as well. um So the opportunity, I would say, would be um the fact that...
Mad Arborist's Escape
00:40:57
Speaker
He's up in the air, and it's going to be some landing time.
00:41:01
Speaker
Yeah, he's up in the air. He is, you know, um missing some legs. And, yeah, he's falling.
00:41:15
Speaker
um so Iron Sand, you have not gone yet. or because Also, because you got that 13, I'll say that um while the action was foolhardy and had you rolled lower, I might have done something to Calix because you rolled basically a crit.
00:41:31
Speaker
Calix, you're not harmed by this action. ah Thank God. Yeah. yeah
00:41:39
Speaker
So the monster is flying through the air and you hear its weird high-pitched wail.
00:41:46
Speaker
While he's flying through the air, Rhys is going to re-engage his ah saw blades, and he's going to try to split the monster down the middle like a tree going through a lumber mill.
00:42:00
Speaker
That can be directly engage a threat? Oh, I forgot something. least how Because you did not choose create an opportunity for your allies. um as you are ah As you throw him up into the air, um a ripping him out, he does roar in pain and shoot a um like ah a stick spear um at you, which hits you you know hits you in the shoulder or something. you know and ah so you
00:42:33
Speaker
Because you didn't resist or blow his blows, you you trade blows. So you hurt him, but he hurts you back. he throws this He shoots this spear off at you as he's flying up into the air, and it hits you, and you mark a condition.
00:42:48
Speaker
Me or Hayden? ah Hayden.
00:42:52
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:54
Speaker
I shouldn't have any conditions left. Or still. i So what happens again? He just throws something? He throws a basically throws up like blast ah ah ah sharpened you know stick at you.
00:43:13
Speaker
um So whenever you directly engage a threat, you always trade blows unless you choose the resist or avoid their blows, which you did not do. So that means you do take a hit from him.
00:43:26
Speaker
So and right before, you know as he's flying upwards, he shoots that down at you and hits you. I'm going I'm going to take Insecure. Okay. And the reason why I'm Insecure is because it rips a hole in my crotch.
00:43:39
Speaker
oh My god. Good thing you didn't need it.
00:43:45
Speaker
Sir. Alright, so now Siphon, you say yeah you can do your thing.
00:43:58
Speaker
Now, now ah sorry, not Siphon. Now, Ironsand, you can do whatever you were about to do. Sorry. So, yeah, as he's flying through the air, I'm going to re-engage my saw blades, lumber mill. I just needed it ah right above him I'm going to try to saw him in half.
00:44:12
Speaker
With those, but, well, technically I have two saw blades, so they would technically go be going from the top of his head down through his eyes and all the way down through his torso, but either way. Would that be ah directly engaging a threat or unleashing my powers? Sawing him in half is directly engaging a threat.
00:44:29
Speaker
Nice.
00:44:34
Speaker
And Hayden gave a plus one, right? You get a plus one to this role because he created an opportunity for Yes. Okay. All right.
00:44:46
Speaker
Let's submit that. Seven. Seven. um Which means you get to choose one of those options. All right. Let me move this out of the way real quick. All right.
00:45:04
Speaker
All right.
00:45:08
Speaker
Somebody listen to the news? Yeah, something's going on back there. I'm going to go ahead and... because these most i don't yet Because I don't see a reason to take most of these, I'm going to choose ah resist or avoid ah avoid their blows. Okay.
00:45:24
Speaker
So yeah, you you don't saw him in half, but you saw into him for sure. um It's not enough to kill him. Yeah. ah But you definitely deal some damage to him.
00:45:37
Speaker
And then he slams down into the ground. ah the The tree monster you know struggles back to its nubs that used to be legs.
00:45:50
Speaker
And yeah, yeah it it it it lunges, it like lashes out at you, but you you avoid his blow. um And ah so, Calix, we're back to you.
00:46:05
Speaker
You still gotta learn these fights better, because I don't do things unless you guys miss. Or in very specific times.
00:46:18
Speaker
ah
00:46:21
Speaker
I'm just holding on to some legs now, huh? Yes. yeah i stand but Can you incorporate him...
00:46:32
Speaker
I do have a plant affinity, so well theoretically, maybe? like i guess that's more of a I guess that's more of a DM of more of a dm question. like would Would Calix, in theory, be able to assimilate into the legs?
00:46:46
Speaker
ah Probably not in a single turn. That's something that would probably take time. Damn. Damn, damn, damn! Yeah.
00:47:00
Speaker
I just jump into his his legs and, you know, start walking around like a mech. ah Well, didn't you ever watch Zoids whenever he starts to get, like, the attachments for a Zoid? Well, is the the tree thing, I'm guessing, is dead at this point?
00:47:21
Speaker
No. Oh, it's it's ah it's lunging at you guys like it was the Black Knight having had his legs chopped off, ah but only being a flesh wound. Yeah.
00:47:36
Speaker
So I have this vitality drain feature of my class now. ah um What would vitality draining consist of? That is up to you you. took the power vitality drain. Right, but do I get anything out of it, or does it just drain the vitality of it?
00:47:56
Speaker
It would... so Theoretically, could I like begin draining its vitality and shove it into Hayden's character, who just got shot in the dick by a thorn?
00:48:08
Speaker
So... ah hes wound I didn't get shot in the dick. I got a hole in my pants that's not revealing my micropenis.
00:48:19
Speaker
Yeah, well, the only way to heal um conditions, unless it the only move that heals conditions is comfort or support, unless you have a class move that does that, or a a playbook move that does that.
00:48:33
Speaker
um I believe Vitality Drain would be more of a...
00:48:39
Speaker
Even if Hayden, if Siphon's penis had been blown off, like you could use you could do that and use Unleash Your Powers to heal that, but it wouldn't heal his condition. or mean that would have me getting yeah it it It wouldn't heal his um hopeless kind or his insecure condition that he's marked. That has to be healed with comfort and support.
00:49:03
Speaker
But it could like... but But I would say that it could this isn't could it could heal. it could It could heal the physical wound. It's not the psychological.
00:49:14
Speaker
Not the psychological wound. Okay. ah It's canon now. I have my penis. um Okay. Well, in that case... ah But it just says vitality drain. it doesn't It's not vitality give. Okay.
00:49:32
Speaker
In most games that have a vitality drain, it's not a damage health. Usually when it specifically says something like vitality drain, usually it's like a vampiric ability.
00:49:43
Speaker
Right, like a heel self type thing. but yeah You drain his sexual vitality. You drain my vitality. So, okay. oh the way The way I envisioned the vitality drain, at least in my brain canon, was that I would shoot my roots like into the body of the victim. Me?
00:50:03
Speaker
yeah um and then like suck the vitality out of it or a second scenario that i thought of would be like i lay a seed into their body using my vines and that seed would like suck their life into like a vitality fruit o So you use leech seed on them. There you go. Why are you impregnating me, bro? He's not doing to you. He's doing it the tree monster. Why you gotta impregnate tree like that? I am also a semi-tree creature, so it's only natural. Does the tree turn you on?
00:50:39
Speaker
i am also a semi-tree creature so it's only natural yeah ban you on So, so um the question is, can both of those things be it, or is going to be a one or the other type of thing? Hmm.
00:50:55
Speaker
That's a DM question right there. Hmm.
00:51:00
Speaker
I feel like they're two very different things. So, I would say one of those. Alright, which one sounds more fun? I mean, you can do weird stuff with the fruit thing, so...
00:51:16
Speaker
i
00:51:19
Speaker
i like I like the fruit thing, honestly. yeah Sure, like being able to shove my vines into people and like suck their soul from their body and sounds nice.
00:51:30
Speaker
But like if I'm able to inject like multiple seeds into their body and they grow like multiple little fruit trees off of them... and like they That's great. i love it. Let's do with that.
00:51:40
Speaker
so okay hot i do i do I do that. I guess that would be directly engage a threat because you're trying to damage it. that's Okay. You're giving Tree of Life a whole new meaning, bro. That's a danger. That's a seven. hit So you choose one from the list.
00:52:04
Speaker
Let me find the list.
00:52:09
Speaker
Resist or avoid the blows. Yeah, that means you he can't harm you back. Create an opportunity for your allies. Impress, surprise, or frighten the opponent.
00:52:23
Speaker
um I'm going to go with impress, surprise, or frighten the opposition. Okay. So, like, I stand up and I take, like, a ah menacing step forward and I shoot some more vines um because the ones that were holding onto the legs, you know, retracted back.
00:52:39
Speaker
um they like shoot up out of the ground around the tree monster and they like start stabbing into its back as it's crawling forward um and it can feel its life force being drained as small little trees start growing out of its back Yeah, and the tree thing, it's it's wailing in pain.
00:53:03
Speaker
ah Remember, wailing for this tree monster is the sound of grass whistles. Yes. so It's more like thrashing about, and um since you did not choose resist or avoid blows... Now his beard is made out of thousands of blades of grass, so it sounds like the screaming.
00:53:18
Speaker
You actually, um as you are doing this to him... ah the mad arborist steps out of a nearby tree, um, and says, what are you doing?
00:53:33
Speaker
Or what are you doing? to madam What are you doing to my creation? and he throws, um, a pair of mini chainsaws at you, which smack into you, um, uh, dealing damage to you, market condition. Um,
00:53:51
Speaker
that bitch, uh, and ah yeah and And he throws these these chainsaws at you, and you you stumble back, and then he um he he throws down what appears to be a smoke bomb, except that Calix, this smoke bomb, I don't think the chainsaws were that big of a threat to you, because they're terrible ah they're a terrible ranged weapon.
00:54:15
Speaker
But the smoke bomb he throws down... um ah between you and the the tree thing um burns your your bark. um Not with fire, but with herbicide. um And ah that's the thing that actually causes you to mark a condition as the mad arborist kneels next to his writhing um tree monster.
00:54:42
Speaker
And then he looks up at you. Can I defend Calix? Uh... Yes. um Yeah, go for it. I am, and I am going to defend Calix.
00:54:56
Speaker
Well, I will say because this is the result of Calix's attack, he has to take that hit. um milk cant I don't think you can block him from taking the the trade blows, which is essentially what has happened.
00:55:15
Speaker
um I'm marking angry. Okay. but you could defend him from a further attack if a further attack comes. Because this was, while I made the Mad Arborist be the one to do the attack, this was the result of directly engage a threat.
00:55:31
Speaker
Yeah. This was on a hit trade blows. um So he has to take that. um So yeah, that happens. You marked angry. The Mad Arborist kneels next to his um creation, and then he looks up at you, and you see you see fear in his eyes. And he's like,
00:55:50
Speaker
um He's like, I, uh, or no, no, no, not fear. Maybe he, he sees the, the little trees growing out and he, you see, he's impressed by you. And he says, I have, I have to admit Calix or it's damn it. I can't do a Bane voice. Hold on. Let me listen to Bane real quick. her star how my bogu and i'm I have to admit Calix.
00:56:17
Speaker
I did not expect this from you. you've defeated my, my child. ah And he, he stands and takes a step back and, um, holds his, uh, his, his, um, shears defensively before him. um and says, you clear, you, you really are the abomination. I thought you were.
00:56:47
Speaker
And, uh, um what What do you do, or any of you do? um but was to I'm going to clear my angry by hurting someone or break something important, and I would like to like break just break the arborist.
00:57:04
Speaker
I want to do Be the Monster. um It says, when you frighten, intimidate, or cow others with your monstrous form, roll plus freak on a hit, they are thrown off and make themselves vulnerable to you.
00:57:15
Speaker
Okay. um And I want to yeah kind of roll that into ah hurting him. Yeah. So, let's see if this hits or not. Wow. Okay.
00:57:26
Speaker
Bam! Nice! So, like, you know, I did the whole stabby, stabby thing to the the tree person. He steps out, throws the chainsaws, and then throws the herbicide.
00:57:37
Speaker
um you know i You know, take a couple steps back and I'm like, oh remember like, I hold my face and he says his little dialogue and I look forward and I'm like, You want a monster?
00:57:50
Speaker
i can be the monster. And like, I would like to like step forward and just rush the head of this tree thing. Okay. Yeah. if And like, I just, I like flop forward and like just slam my, my, my foot down and its head just explodes.
00:58:11
Speaker
It's going to like flash green I core all over the mad arborist. um now instead of appearing impressed, you do see his eyes widen in fear. um He takes a step back from you. And, um you know, as I imagine the scene of the the entire like team is getting ready to you know join you and in this attack, um just before you guys can hit him, he twists something on his his like wrist. the...
00:58:44
Speaker
and um the the the grass around his feet quickly grows up and and covers his body and then sinks back into the ground and he is gone.
00:59:00
Speaker
If I take a foolhardy action, can I cure my insecurity? ah What is your foolhardy action? Portal to him. Okay. That's pretty foolhardy.
00:59:14
Speaker
Yeah, you could you could certainly do that. And also you'll have to mark a doom track as well. I feel like I would just end up in the dirt though. Like he's just in the ground. Like he's not. He didn't like teleport away. And then I'd end up like six feet under the earth and be like, fuck.
00:59:32
Speaker
Yeah, that is actually free point. Yeah, it's up to you. It's up to you. Wait, if does ah so he the grass covered him like your out that grass covered him up with all ah with all those tools that he was wearing, right?
00:59:44
Speaker
Yeah, and then he like sunk into the ground and and the grass went back to normal. ah As he's sinking into the ground, can I sense where his tools are? Yeah, it'd be a tough...
00:59:56
Speaker
ah You can roll Unleash Your Powers. Alright. Alright! It doesn't count as far already anymore. You guys know what I'm doing, so I can't do that anymore. Hayden, do you teleport into the ground? No. Wait, it's... Oh, shit!
01:00:09
Speaker
i got ah I got a 14 for a kapow! I don't think I've ever gotten or one of those. so Basically, what happens,
Rescue Mission in High-Security Environment
01:00:19
Speaker
on what you sense, like, you sense his tools for, like, the briefest moment, but they are, like, faster than you can move Not quite what you would call teleport, but incredibly, incredibly fast, rapidly just like going off into the distance. Not towards the center either. Not towards the center of this um place.
01:00:43
Speaker
ah Just like away, I guess. All right. If you, with a 14, back in the direction of Houston. Uh, goddammit, we just got here. Uh, so, and he's gonna, uh, Reese is gonna turn around to y'all, and he's gonna reform his, his saw blades back into his jacket, and he's gonna turn y'all, goddammit, we just got here, four hours down the fucking drain, guys, we gotta go back. He just went back in the direction of Houston.
01:01:13
Speaker
Aren't we here?
01:01:16
Speaker
And then you guys hear over your comms, Darkstrike chimes in and she's like, guys, guys, I just got something. The backswing signal, it's back. she's she's right She's not that far away from you guys.
01:01:33
Speaker
Like maybe a half mile away. In the direction of the center of the city. Yes. can't have figured as much. but I would like to step forward and pluck the fruits off of the the tree thing.
01:01:49
Speaker
And we'll figure out something to do with those later. And um I actually into my barky real, food real quick. I actually Reese wants to walk up to Calix and he wants to ah put his hands on his back.
01:02:07
Speaker
Shoulder? Can you reach? I'm like seven foot something. Oh, fuck. That's a question. You can reach up to his shoulder. I'm going to jet. You know what? Actually, I'm going to turn some of my sand into like a skateboard shape just without the wheels. And I'm going to use it to hover up to you and put my hand on your shoulder.
01:02:27
Speaker
And I'm just going to kind of say, hey, you're not a monster. And it sounds like you're rolling. You are comforting and supporting him. I don't know if he has any conditions right now. does. Oh, okay. Well, then there's no reason to roll for it. but Yeah, but honestly, being ah as a former villain who is trying to go right, that's I just wanted to do that.
01:02:55
Speaker
Yeah, you did hell with a job there, Tree Man. You're almost as good as... ah i don't know. You could be part of the... Empire. Yeah. I mean, if we let monsters in.
01:03:08
Speaker
You know. You did a hell of a job, man. um but What I'm trying to say you did it you did a great job. like You know, like I fucked it up and you did a great job. so I kind of want teleport anyways. You know, asking it.
01:03:25
Speaker
You're going after the arborist? No. Frank. Teleport too. Yeah. back You get to shift my labels.
01:03:36
Speaker
ah Okay. Do I just choose random labels to shift? Yes. yeah One up and one down. Okay. um Let me pull up the labels again.
01:03:49
Speaker
Oh, it's because I already have a thing open. um I'm going to say your mundane goes down. all right.
01:04:01
Speaker
And your superior goes up. All right. What's... Because mundane is comfort or support. does that terrible shift Does that shift anything up past three or down past two?
01:04:20
Speaker
Nope. Okay.
01:04:23
Speaker
um Okay, yeah. Basically, if you have to shift a label that can no longer shift... um Instead, a negative emotional state that instead you mark a condition, you know?
01:04:37
Speaker
Gotcha. If you see yourself as too much of an extreme, then it starts messing you up. And neither label shifts in that case. But yeah. Because there's always one up, one down, you know I turn back to Iron Sand and and I nod and say, um no matter the...
01:04:55
Speaker
the Sometimes I try. People still view me as a monster. Some days you just have to be it.
01:05:06
Speaker
And then I turn back around, like facing a away, like i said lean down and place my hand on the body of the tree creature and say a prayer to the forest.
01:05:23
Speaker
I probably fucked him up a little bit, you know? don't know. Do you think you... Say that out loud. I probably fucked him up a little bit. killed another tree. He killed, like, effectively his brother.
01:05:36
Speaker
Sort of. I mean, cousin at best. Yeah, then looking at it, you think that was a that was a dude once? like a Like a regular guy? Or was it like a like tree beard? Yeah.
01:05:49
Speaker
I don't know. I will say, um Calix, with your plant senses and whatnot, you don't sense any human bits in this thing. It seems to be all plant. Now, whether or not it was human to begin with, you don't know. But did I overhear ah Kevin? oh I wasn't quiet.
01:06:10
Speaker
That was all out. You are Kevin, right? No. zero No. Syrian. Kirin. Yeah, Kyro. I'm calling you Kyro. yeah cairo i'm calling you kairo kian kian slash night ki ki What?
01:06:24
Speaker
what is your name and Kieran Nightfall or Cairo zero, whatever. i don't know how to pronounce that one. Can we delete Kevin? So i I keep getting Kevin and and Cairo confused here. I'll move them to NPCs.
01:06:38
Speaker
There we go. That works. Okay. I'm like, there's only like one option that it could be. Obviously. No, there's two. Okay. 50, 50 shot failure. Anyways, um I turn my head to the side and I say over my shoulder to to Cairo, um
01:06:56
Speaker
um I sense no humanity left in this creature. it It was just an unwilling servant of the mad arborist.
01:07:12
Speaker
this and mean At least it wasn't like a you know magical creature from the fairy world and shit like that. And then I wink at you real hard. You know? Like, cause...
01:07:25
Speaker
Yeah, that'd be weird. I'm just sitting here thinking that he winks while forgetting he still has his helmet on. yeah For sure. For sure. He does the bodily dad motion of winking where they do like the little shoulder dip and the nod the head. That definitely happened. like the And you're like, what the fuck? ah Thank you.
01:07:53
Speaker
I just use a leafy brow and and turn my head back to the creature. um and So Reese is actually going to turn to y'all and he's going to be like, um where's Max?
01:08:07
Speaker
Wait, Max already teleported? Yeah, when I said F it, on I disappeared. Oh, okay. I didn't know you actually did that. We we didn't notice because we were we were focused on Kalix. So that's why I was like, guys, where's Max? I like how you use my human name, though. Oh, shit. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That was a that was a bill fuck up. ah Guys, where's Siphon?
01:08:28
Speaker
Okay, so Siphon, you teleported to Backstrain? I completed the new Doomtrak. So I'm going to charge the bolster, which marked your Doomtrak to use an adult move one time.
01:08:41
Speaker
Nice. And you teleported to backswing? Yes. Alright, so Calix, you appear... Not Calix.
01:08:53
Speaker
Siphon. you appear and a um You appear in a... in a gray...
01:09:05
Speaker
metallic cell with no windows, no visible doors. um There is light from above. It's what do you, what are those? um Is it fluorescent? Yeah. There's a single like fluorescent lights above um and you see, ah and there's, there's a bench and a bed um and like a little like closed off area for like an area with, um, like one of those half walls, uh, uh, for, for a toilet. Um, it's a prison cell. Um, you do see backswing in the cell. She is not carrying that staff. Um, uh, and she's not wearing her mask either. She, the mask is just like, she threw it on the ground. Um, they knew, they know who she is anyway. So she's just like, she is sitting on the bench. Um, um,
01:10:03
Speaker
leaning against the wall and then when you suddenly appear in her cell she's like what the fuck and go siphon hey backswing dude it was crazy i you literally disappeared like I had no idea where you are yeah that's one of my abilities I can just pop up what took you so long like I said you disappeared I could not sense you otherwise I would have done this a long time ago
01:10:33
Speaker
Okay. Are you you're going to get me out of here? Yeah, give me one second. And I do unleash my powers, I guess. And I just like aha just try to punch a hole through the wall with my telekinesis.
01:10:47
Speaker
Okay. Go ahead and roll for it. i feel not I feel like not enough movies like functionally use telekinesis. um like They just do the the stuff everybody already knows, not all the other shit.
01:11:03
Speaker
So what I'm going to say to this, ah normally unleash your powers. I could use my bolstered. I forgot. What is an adult move? So adult moves. um is that ah It's up. it's It's on the map there. um It would be wield your powers.
01:11:20
Speaker
Well, no, no, no. That's.
01:11:23
Speaker
You wield your powers over. Yeah. I think in this case, yes, it will be wield your powers. It'd be the plus freak. You don't see on the map adult moves. Right next to the basic moves.
01:11:36
Speaker
Oh, there it is. Oh, oh yeah. beginning um yeah i was so It's okay Hayden was literally over here doing the same thing What the fuck is an adult move? I don't know that you need to use this for this Let me see, take a hold of something vulnerable to you Create something useful from your environment Neutralize an opponent or threat At least for now so please So it is essentially unleash your powers But more precise And it doesn't have that Uh
01:12:07
Speaker
it doesn't have the seven to nine, um, unstableness. I mean, I guess you can use it if you want to mark your doom track and then you don't have to. so I was going to say with that seven, um, that something was going to happen and you would choose two ah
01:12:32
Speaker
I mean, I think neutralizing opponent or threat um applies. The other two don't really apply to this situation. Maybe... The threat as in being encased in a small room.
01:12:46
Speaker
Yeah, the other two don't really apply to this. um But essentially what happens, what I'll give you, is um you have... you do this ah and you blast through the wall and you feel the force of your telekinetic blast being redirected back at you. But because you are using the adult move, you are able to then nullify that force as well.
01:13:12
Speaker
um Because her powers are kinetic redirection, and you use kinetic energy to blast out of this That's what was thinking. he was like this room would have only been suited to her superpower, so that's why I could use my ability in here. And yes that's why I decided to use the most powerful ability I have.
01:13:33
Speaker
Yeah, it works. You get out, you neutralize it from blasting back at you, which would have happened um had you not done um the adult move. um Alarms, of course, start going off immediately.
01:13:47
Speaker
um Backswing grabs her mask, and she's like, I don't know what they did with my stick, but it doesn't matter. Let's get out of here.
01:13:56
Speaker
There's probably one out in the courtyard with the shred of my dignity laying on it. ah use So outside, ah you find a long...
01:14:09
Speaker
you know A corridor with other doors, you know so cell doors, um going off in both directions to to your left and right. Meanwhile, back in... Backstrike. Just real quick, I look at Backstrike and I'm like, figure out how to turn off those alarms. We need to save everyone that's in here.
01:14:27
Speaker
She... It's like, uh... I don't know how to turn off alarms. Start smashing shit, then. She nods, grabs um a piece of shrapnel from the door you exploded and throws it at one of the speakers.
01:14:45
Speaker
And that alarm stops, but it doesn't stop the alarms in the ah the entire place. you no computers or anything? No, you guys are in a long hallway. um Yeah, with other cells. ah
01:15:01
Speaker
Meanwhile, back in the forest, um yeah, Siphon disappears. Uh... You guys don't... You, after a moment, do start hearing the ah hearing alarms in the distance.
01:15:15
Speaker
You don't hear the explosion of him blasting the door, but you do hear some alarms in the distance. i I shake my head and look at the the other two, and I'm like, who wants to make a bet that that was Siphon?
01:15:31
Speaker
And then, ah yeah, it is. Hold my hand, so let's not make this weird.
01:15:36
Speaker
I hold his hand. And then, Ron, I am going to use do do do do my new thingy. I have that like magical sanctuary that gives me magical things, and I'm going to stomp on magical art helicopter me to Siphon, because I took a piece of his hair, and he doesn't know that.
01:15:56
Speaker
Why did you get a piece of my hair? Oh, it was the pube on the floor. That's what it was. But you get to tell me what I have to do, one to four things, before I can do that. I have to tell you to do one to four things. Oh, also, I have a question. um let me Let me double check that power. That's from the doomed, right?
01:16:16
Speaker
Yeah, I'm using the sanctuary. to sanctuary like I'm using something from the sanctuary to do it. yeah so Since I used my adult move one time, does that mean I get rid of bolstered now?
01:16:28
Speaker
ah It says you can only do it once. Mark your doom track to use an adult move one time. No, I think you could mark the doom track again.
01:16:39
Speaker
um hold on let me okay see here so basically every time i want to use them don't move i just have to mark my doom track until you unlock them yeah there's also infinite powers which sounds awesome which says mark your doom track to use an ability from any playbook one time that's pretty good i think though it's like let's see Notes on your moves. For infinite powers, you can use an ability from any playbook, meaning one of the abilities listed at the front of each playbook, like acrobatics or telekinesis. This doom sign gives you temporary access to new powers so you can unleash your powers and directly engage your threats in any way.
01:17:21
Speaker
doesn't say anything. So I think it's each time you mark your doom track. Okay. Yeah, basically what it's saying is you don't get, like, access to that power continuously. You just get it for that one moment.
01:17:32
Speaker
Okay. um So, and then you're doing sanctuary. my doom track um
01:17:46
Speaker
An aid or assistant lifetime. Let's just do difficult access. When you call upon the resource of your sanctuary across calls to solve a problem, say what you want to do. The GM will give you one to four conditions you must fulfill to meet your solution.
01:18:01
Speaker
First, you must blank. You'll need help from blank. Your team risk danger from blank. The best you can do is a lesser version. You'll need to mark one box on your doom track, which you don't have one. You'll have to obtain blank.
01:18:15
Speaker
So I'm not going to do that. You'll have to obtain because um unless I could say you'll have to obtain one of Hayden's hairs, you know, or I can say, ah
01:18:29
Speaker
To get to Siphon, um you'll have to you and your team will have to risk the danger from traveling because you' you're you're following his trail. You must travel through the realm which Siphon travels from travels through when he teleports.
01:18:48
Speaker
um I don't know if you guys ah
01:18:53
Speaker
watched the old 90s X-Men cartoon. don't The good one. The good one. um Yeah. I believe this was from the good one. um There's an episode where Nightcrawler kind of slow teleports by accident and discovers that he's passing through this demonic realm. Yeah, that's actually that's from x X-Men ah Evolution, and he gets a special item... Oh, it's not a good one, okay. He gets a special item from Forge, which allows them to ask finally answer, where are you teleporting through? But then they find out, oh shit, it's hell.
01:19:32
Speaker
Complete with sulfur and everything. What I'll say is um Siphon isn't actually aware that he's doing something like that, but every time he teleports, he passes into into Happy Jack's realm.
01:19:48
Speaker
um oo You guys can do this teleport, um but you risk danger from passing into Happy Jack's realm. um And that danger comes in the form of taking a powerful blow, each of you.
01:20:03
Speaker
ah Can I who can i re it can i can i ah ah throw in a team? A team point to try to mitigate?
01:20:14
Speaker
Team doesn't work on take a powerful blow. um But basically you you guys teleport, but you take a powerful blow doing so. So each of you will have to roll the press the conditions button, the roll conditions.
01:20:31
Speaker
And I'm doing this because we've
Chaos in the Perilous Realm
01:20:33
Speaker
discussed what happens if... Oh dear. No, no. You rolled good, actually. Um... You want to fail this roll. So, uh... Calix, as you pass into this unnatural realm, um yeah You, ah take a powerful blow, and you must choose one of those, ah those from the seven to nine list.
01:20:59
Speaker
Um... Whereas Nightfall will have to choose one from the 10 plus list. ah So Calix, you can lash out verbally, um provoking someone to foolhardy action or take advantage or or influence to inflict a condition. I feel like the condition will be more appropriate, but you give ground ground or you struggle past the pain and mark two conditions.
01:21:22
Speaker
um And then Nightfall, you've got to look at one of those top ones. Yeah.
01:21:31
Speaker
This is the reason I'm doing this is because we've discussed what would happen if Max were to bring someone on his teleportation. And that is essentially what you've done.
01:21:43
Speaker
So, um, what if I gave ground?
01:21:49
Speaker
Well, that means like when we land, it's, it could be bad. We could show up in a bad place. Right? Yeah. I think that that would probably work.
01:22:01
Speaker
And then I guess I will lose control of my powers in a terrible way. in this In this situation, it's your opposition gets an opportunity. Like, there's no opposition in the teleport except things in Happy Jack's realm.
01:22:15
Speaker
That's when we land. When we land, the opposition can have an opportunity. Or it could be something to do with Happy Jack. yeahha We are traveling through hell, and Happy Jack is effectively an older-than-time entity, so...
01:22:34
Speaker
Um... Okay, so... Siphon, you passed, so you... um You stand strong, mark potential as normal, and say how you weather the blow.
01:22:46
Speaker
Um... So you... I think... so I feel like I'm going to describe to you how you weathered the blow rather the than you described. So Siphon.
01:22:59
Speaker
The former villain. Not Siphon. Sorry. sorry god Iron Sand. yeah iron sand you The former villain. um yeah You already know your darkness. you've You've faced it. You've stood up against it.
01:23:15
Speaker
As you teleport, you feel... these dark thoughts that that you feel the darkness and you weather it by pushing it away. Like this is old news to you. um Also you feel that, and this is all happening in the instant of a teleport. You feel that an entity notices your presence and senses your lack of innocence and turns away from you.
01:23:42
Speaker
um Oh dear. Yeah. yeah So you appear without issue. um
01:23:51
Speaker
Calix, you... and Just so I'm clear, you did say that I like felt that that thing's present. You felt something look at you and then turn and and turn away. like Look at you. Somehow you knew it was sensing your lack of innocence and it turned away from you. Calix...
01:24:11
Speaker
so hey like thing i'm innocent Calix. ah something than me As you pass through this realm, ah time stops around you.
01:24:22
Speaker
um And you are face to face with um
01:24:29
Speaker
a big clown face that's looking down at you. ah And it's like, well, well, I wasn't expecting to meet you.
01:24:43
Speaker
And he he considers for a moment, ah and he says, it's nice to meet you, Calix. We'll be speaking soon. And then you disappear, and you you appear. And then and you appear and in the facility, in the hallway.
01:24:59
Speaker
And then, um Nightfall, when you appear, you lose power control of your power of your powers in a terrible way. Feel free to describe that. and So where do we land? You guys landed. You were teleporting to Max.
01:25:12
Speaker
ah Or you were following his trail, I guess. So you land in the room just you know the room that he landed in. They are out in the hall um you know just trying to... Well, like you appear basically as she destroyed one speaker.
01:25:27
Speaker
We land so hard.
01:25:31
Speaker
hard. He lands hard, but then he loses control of his powers. Everybody lands and like, ah you know, ah Reese, I don't know, like does anybody superhero land? Does anybody superhero land? like We're all holding hands and then we teleport and then would how do you guys show up?
01:25:49
Speaker
I'm just standing there. No superhero landing necessary. ah Rooted as a tree to the forest. ah I kind of...
01:26:02
Speaker
shoot. I actually just kind of like dart it, like do a dart for like a dart forward and a surprise and like a 90 degree turn landing, like ah put the full brakes on land. Okay. So as we show up, everybody like tries to do their thing. Like Calix is just standing there.
01:26:19
Speaker
You start to try to move, but then you feel like you knew that I was strong because of magic, but you didn't know really how strong I was. And you try to jerk away, but you can't because I'm holding you still.
01:26:31
Speaker
Right. And then I just start like ah almost like seizing. Right. And then ah my eyes roll back. They turn black. And then a voice that isn't mine. You don't know this is voice. Right.
01:26:42
Speaker
Look at all these children. Look at you. Look at you. And then just an explosion of like dark, shadowy, magical flame just rolls off my body onto the two of you and through the hallway, burning, melting, destroying all kinds of shit.
01:27:02
Speaker
And then it's just a laugh. Like, it's just like a maniacal villain laugh. I almost feel like this is another take a powerful blow for everybody in the place. Except, except for Nightfall at this point.
01:27:16
Speaker
And then, uh, and then like Or maybe not to take a powerful blow. Maybe just um everyone marks a condition. A single condition. That feels right. Like yeah the crazy maniacal laughter. The flame is rolling down the hallway and it's like you think you can save the boy but he's mine.
01:27:32
Speaker
He's mine. And then... yeah that but What's going on exactly? you Sorry, I got it. A lot. which A lot of shit happened. Did you do hear about the whole everything that happened during the teleport?
01:27:48
Speaker
Yes, I heard that. Okay, so this is him. So so now he's losing his powers in an awful way. he says some scary stuff and then Dark Flame blasts through the entire facility. Everyone marks a condition.
01:28:05
Speaker
That's the short and sweet of it. um Could I potentially engage him so I don't have to mark a condition? a and I don't think so, because this is a this was just a blast that went flying out.
01:28:24
Speaker
um this was the This was the end result of a bad roll, essentially. Much like when you directly engage a threat required you to take damage.
01:28:35
Speaker
I'm going to fall to insecurity. I'm going to take insecurity because I feel like, given... Night falls. He's been, you know, therere ah there for me at my lowest and seeing him go is kind of probably going to shake, you know, some of the improvement I've been making.
01:28:54
Speaker
Yeah, everyone marks the condition. I'm taking um guilty. Okay. Like, I, you know, we could have just walked here and instead, um you know.
01:29:06
Speaker
Yeah. All this happened. Back swing marked um afraid.
01:29:18
Speaker
What is max marking?
01:29:22
Speaker
I'm going to do angry. Okay. um On the plus side, ah the alarms ah stop because they've been burned.
01:29:36
Speaker
at least the speakers the speakers at least have been burned. That's one way to stop that noise. And it's probably dark flickering light now. um And stuff like that, yeah.
01:29:50
Speaker
Uh... And you know what? In a terrible way, it's pretty bad to hurt your friends, but it's gotta be it. It's a terrible way.
Prisoners' Emergence and Blaze Master Confrontation
01:29:59
Speaker
um Cell doors start opening.
01:30:03
Speaker
but
01:30:07
Speaker
Or like, you it's they're not necessarily opening, but you hear that like thing of their locks disengaging. Um... And, you know, slowly cell doors start opening as prisoners start looking out. um You do recognize from pictures ah the... um ah Who was... Let's see, the the other missing three. um I'm looking for Clara.
01:30:34
Speaker
Clara was one of them, I believe. No, Clara is not one of them. um yeah I don't think I created character sheets for these ones. ah but Yeah, they were but they were the... three the fire lady and i Yeah, the fire person. Yeah, Flickerfingers or whatever the fucker name is.
01:30:51
Speaker
Unfortunately, um let me bring up my notes real quick. ah That's all good. that That's great and all that those you you see those people poke their heads out.
01:31:02
Speaker
um However,
01:31:09
Speaker
one person that um all of you recognize from like
01:31:16
Speaker
super super super ah super history class. um Super history class? That's not fucking good. Oh, You recognize someone step out. ah ah He's much older than the pictures you've seen of him, but you still recognize his face.
01:31:34
Speaker
Blaze Master, the pyrokinetic supervillain known for causing chaos for with his fiery abilities and the first um person that SCC The thing that they are most... The one they're famed, their first big catch.
01:31:53
Speaker
He steps out of his cell and looks to the left, looks to the right, sees you guys, and um raises a flaming hand and like salute towards you guys, and then turns turns away from you. He's not currently...
01:32:08
Speaker
interested in fighting because he thinks you guys are here to spring all the the convent you know the criminals he he doesn't know that other stuff has been going on this was a prison or is a prison o ah shit we have too much else on our hands to worry about this right now guys i could reese' Reese is going to turn to those three that just came out of the cells. All y'all, go with them. Now!
01:32:35
Speaker
And he's going turn towards... What did you say his name was? Blaze Master. Blaze Master. Finger fucker. Yeah. And he's going to fully break down his jacket into...
01:32:51
Speaker
ah Honestly, just into multiple multiple, like, probably floating sharp sharp projectiles. And he's gonna say, Blaze Master, stop!
01:33:03
Speaker
I have a question for Ron. Ask. I shall maybe receive. i have a containment system in my sanctuary.
01:33:14
Speaker
Uh-huh. I could just portal him to my sanctuary.
01:33:20
Speaker
Theoretically, yeah. You could portal him. I wouldn't just let you do that. You'd have to engage the guy. yeah. But that's what my goal would be.
01:33:35
Speaker
So would I be able to, would it have to be a roll that I have to touch him or something? Yeah, i think this would turn into a fight. A fight I wasn't prepared for, but i'll make I can make it up off top of my head. Or we can leave this as a cliffhanger.
01:33:48
Speaker
It is almost 10 o'clock. Yeah. Do you think this is the kind of thing we could... this is He's a supervillain, not just a normal B-ranked villain. So do you think he's the kind of guy that we could take out in only 30 minutes?
01:34:02
Speaker
Probably. He is like one of the supervillains.
01:34:08
Speaker
ah man and um No? From back in the... back and that He's the ones that... He's like one of the guys that... um ah like the the the probably someone that possibly, well, maybe not Eric's, maybe not the legacy would have dealt with someone like him um because he's not an eldritch whore.
01:34:31
Speaker
But ah you know he's one of the villains that was put away by people like um Silk Shadow and her teammates.
01:34:42
Speaker
The dead ones? Her teammates.
01:34:49
Speaker
No, not her dead one. By the top super. No, sorry. I'm just being a douche. Actually, no. Silk Shadow's young. It would be the generation before. like he is He's like from your parents' generation, but he's like one of the big guys from your parents' generation. One of the big villains from back then.
01:35:07
Speaker
the The Silver Age of Heroes. Or no. I guess would be the Golden Age, because you guys are the the age that is yet to be named of heroes.
01:35:22
Speaker
So we're trying to decide if we're going to do this or not right now?
01:35:27
Speaker
I'll say i don't I don't have anything prepared for this guy. so ah I would be fine ending it tonight so I can prep a crazy battle. yeah um But if you want to like... let's Let's leave it on a better cliff. If you want to toss your your shards at him...
01:35:45
Speaker
Yeah, actually, instead I'm actually going to break him down in just by a few extra seconds because i'm sure he's I'm sure he's no stranger to this. I'm actually going to break ah break down all my projectiles and basically just try to wrap him and just try to like wrap him up, like put steel cable around him.
01:36:01
Speaker
okay just I'm assuming he can probably make his way out of it. We're not going to do a roll. We're going to do a cinematic ending to this episode. You shoot these... you You shoot your these um steel cables in his direction, and he you know because you alerted him, um you know you told him stop or whatever you said. um yeah he turns, sees the the the metal flying at him, and raises his hand and sends a wave of flame down the hall, and you use that There are a couple of people who have stepped out between him and them. Now, this this is just a cinematic ending. The wave of flame goes down the hall. It doesn't reach you guys.
01:36:44
Speaker
ah yeah It goes, you know, maybe 20 feet down the hall, vaporizing... um both the metal that you sent flying at him, as well as a couple of people who are also running in the hallway, um the flames disappear and you see ash, ah you know, the ash of their, the, the, the other, you know, the two people who were incinerated along with your, your metal ah molten metal on the ground. And then the episode, you know, ends.
Flame Attack and Sacrifice
01:37:15
Speaker
Well, I kind of wanted to clear my condition.
01:37:20
Speaker
How are you planning on doing that? I would like to jump forward and unleash my powers to try to create a giant wall. So ah guilty is make a sacrifice to absolve your guilt.
01:37:31
Speaker
um And so i was going to like try to jump forward and create a wall with my my vines. So kind of I am grouped. this kind of maker sacrifice, I feel like it would cause another condition on you, though. Yeah. yeah I'll take it. cause you're gonna You're going to take a powerful blow.
01:37:51
Speaker
I'll take it. Okay. um you this for So yeah once they yeah, we'll say that I know what I am and I'm going to throw the tree man out of the way because this just happened and I'm just going to take it full in the chest, bro.
01:38:07
Speaker
Because I know what I am. least I think I am. can like that I think it still counts for you um because you were going to do it.
01:38:20
Speaker
ah And then he does that. I don't know. Would it still count for Calix?
01:38:29
Speaker
um
01:38:32
Speaker
Yeah, so these flames are coming towards you guys. They vaporize Iron Sand stuff. Calix jumps forward to try and stop it. um And as Calix's...
01:38:50
Speaker
shield you know wall that he's created burns um then so yes you still take it you you'll i think are you connected to this wall yes yeah so it'll still hurt you buddy yeah so it still hurts um i think you would also take well maybe not take a powerful blow maybe just mark a different condition um You clear one, but then get another.
01:39:17
Speaker
Because I don't see any way you could stand up to flames and not take a condition. um So the way I'm imagining it's not necessarily a wall. It's more of like a sphere, like in ah Guardians of the Galaxy...
01:39:31
Speaker
Well, I don't think the sphere necessarily works because you're in ah you're in ah a hallway with like a ceiling and all of that. um You're not like in a big open area. This is fire blasting down the hall towards you guys. Well, I mean, like how in in that scene, how he becomes part of the wall.
01:39:52
Speaker
Yeah. yeah yeah wow yeah then They're in a bubble of him. so And then to save my friend, I slap my hand on his shoulder. So when it should burn and hurt him, it's going burn and hurt me instead because I feel guilty about the things that I've done to all of them.
01:40:07
Speaker
Right? Like, that's my... the I'm using a move. Bye! Okay. Okay. Y'all, I just y'all i just did a random Google search just to see how high a temperature the ah my metal it would take to melt my metal.
01:40:21
Speaker
He's playing with temperatures at least 2,200 degrees. ah yeah He's playing with comic book temperatures, okay? The walls are somehow not going to just collapse all around you, although they will be melted. It's going look like a warped-ass painting.
01:40:40
Speaker
All of that should happen, but it's not going to be that bad. But yeah, so, yes, so, Calix, you'll trade one condition for another, I think, um of your choosing. I'm not sure which one you would choose. Maybe the condition you gain is, like, angry because then...
01:40:58
Speaker
um, nightfall instead, ah pushes you, you know, yanks you back as your shield, you know, that the shield you have formed around of yourself starts failing. Um,
01:41:13
Speaker
And tosses you aside. So it's less that. like ah The burn doesn't happen. like It's hitting Calix, but he doesn't feel any of it. It goes into me. Because use the magic to redirect it. So instead of him being hit, like I'm taking everything from him.
01:41:27
Speaker
Oh, so so you're not so he doesn't take the condition, but you do? Yeah, I guess. Well, I... If he wants to clear that guilty or whatever it was, um which one is it you're trying to clear, Frank? Guilty.
01:41:44
Speaker
Yeah, if you're wanting to clear guilty, i think I'm trying to decide if you would still need to take another condition. um I mean, Eric, what is this move you're using?
01:41:59
Speaker
So I have a move called ah I Know What I Am. Once per scene, when you defend a teammate, you can shift, save, you're up, da-da-da-da, even on a miss. If you do, add one to the team pool.
01:42:11
Speaker
Even on a miss. So you still need to roll defend? Yes. so Okay, so I guess... Oh, but you rolled... Is that... No, that's not your most reasonable. I guess roll defend and see what happens first.
01:42:25
Speaker
And submit. You got it. Yeah! A nine... 7 to 9, it costs you. 7 to 9, costs you.
01:42:35
Speaker
okay well. um So you're already adding one team to the pool from your move, right? Yep. And then choose something from that list again. And then... Oh, wait, no. On a 7 to 9, it costs you. Expose yourself to danger or escalate the situation.
01:42:55
Speaker
Add team, take influence over someone you protect. So you get those things. but then you also expose yourself to danger. so okay. So you passed, so...
01:43:09
Speaker
add a team to the pool, take influence over someone you protect, and clear. Do you get all of those? no, no. Wait. For NPC threats on a hit, you keep them safe and choose one.
01:43:24
Speaker
Oh, you choose one of those. okay But then because you're exposing yourself to danger, you'll take the powerful blow instead. Yes. Calix, going to say you still clear guilty because your character didn't know this was going to happen. um But I have a condition.
01:43:43
Speaker
You won't take a condition, I think. Okay. um And then, Eric, what are you doing from those three options? Uh... I added team to the pool because of already, right? You already did that, yeah. I'll clear my guilt.
01:43:59
Speaker
Okay, you clear guilt, and now you take power flow. Don't roll another 10.
01:44:08
Speaker
Whatever you do. Yeah! Hey, that's what you want. all right to want to miss one On a miss, mark potential as normal and say how you weather the blow.
01:44:19
Speaker
So, um, you can still take physical damage just so you know, it's just not the emotional damage, you know? So the, like I'm sitting there and Calix, you know, for a moment is like,
01:44:32
Speaker
for just the second he feels the heat and then he doesn't. And it's like, I don't know, in my head, I can see the plant man getting ready. Like he winced, like it was going to hurt. And then suddenly he's like, Oh, my powers are working. This is working.
01:44:43
Speaker
It's working. And so like, he's getting all pumped up cause it's working. And then behind him, my skin is shriveling on my hand and my armor is starting to roll up and melt. But then he sits there is trying to like rebuild it. And like my flesh is just burning off my hand at the same time that I'm,
01:44:59
Speaker
keeping my friends safe in this moment. Like all the magic is just... Yeah. And I think that is how we'll end the episode. With ah with with the flames surrounding you all. did Were you going to do something? Yeah, I was going to touch him.
01:45:18
Speaker
ah I don't think you can get to him right now. Unless you portal behind him.
01:45:26
Speaker
I mean, there's movement speed in this game.
01:45:31
Speaker
There's not movement speed. There are flames coming down the hallway that you would have to go through unless you teleported. I am totally willing to teleport and then teleport again.
01:45:42
Speaker
I feel like that should be something for the next episode, though, maybe. cause Well, no, you can do that. So yeah, describe what you do, and then we'll describe what happens because of that later. So I will mark a doom track. I teleport behind him, like right behind him.
01:45:58
Speaker
so my arm is already touching him. Okay, and... Yeah. Were you planning on portaling him with you out of there, or were you planning on draining his memory or something?
01:46:11
Speaker
Portaling him with me. Okay. ah So you appear behind him, um your arm already touching him, and then the two of you disappear, so you'll need to mark two Doomtracks, basically. Okay.
01:46:23
Speaker
the flames yeah The flames wink out, and that's where the episode ends. you guys you know are You guys are blinking, and Max yeah Siphon and Blazemaster are gone. Hayden, are about switch characters or something? I feel like this is the kind of thing that you do. i feel like this is kind of thing you do. you are You're going so far into the Doom track that it's like, are you trying to get this new character? Hayden is all about trying to get that Doom to happen.
01:46:52
Speaker
He gets a couple of times at it, right? So what brings me yeah my Doom is injuring Innocence and over-exhausting myself. I chose those two because that's... Or using your powers, you know, but... Yes.
01:47:03
Speaker
Your Doom powers.
01:47:06
Speaker
I don't think you've over-exerted yourself yet. But really, i'm just trying to show off a backswing right now. ah ah Yeah, what is your... Where is your Doom track on this thing? I have two more Dooms to go.
01:47:19
Speaker
Oh, fuck. Two more total before Happy Jack has to... No, it's actually three. Yeah, because he gets one more after that. Yeah, you fill all your light your powers. and yeah I get five ticks per Doom track.
01:47:36
Speaker
So, yeah, so you still have two Doom signs and then you have to fill out your then you have to fill out the track one more time for the Doom to arrive. So seven. I have 13 left to go.
01:47:49
Speaker
Yeah. I love how it says, your doom arrives, confront it and perish. It is possible. It's possible to survive it, but it's supposed to be very difficult. That's why we're here.
01:48:06
Speaker
That's why we're right that's all the homies are here. yeah butpa um End of session. ah End of session. We still have to do the questions. um And I've got some thinking to do because, hey hey, I mean, you could easily just abandon the dude and teleport back to, you know, you don't have to fight the guy, but I'm going to prep in case you do fight the guy.
01:48:29
Speaker
just guy dan by Well, I don't think he teleported to Happy Jack. Although you have to teleport to somebody. So think of net for next episode, think of who you teleported to. You could teleport to Happy Jack. It does say appear in a scene with anyone you want.
01:48:44
Speaker
Yes. the direct phrase. Yeah, you have to teleport to somebody.
01:48:51
Speaker
so So who are you bringing Blazemaster to, basically, is what you'll need to decide. um We can discuss this during the week, though. ah Okay, so end of session. This was a this was a good one.
01:49:06
Speaker
much happened. At the end of every session, choose one. um Let's start with... ah ah Let's see. The first person on the list here is Nightfall.
01:49:17
Speaker
Did you grow closer to the team, grow into your own image of yourself, or grow away from the team? I grew into my image of myself. All right. Explain how you see yourself and why, then shift one label up and another down.
01:49:36
Speaker
So i ah try to use my powers and i am not as gifted as I think I am magically. But the thing that I am good at is fighting like the team thing. I'm good at the team thing.
01:49:55
Speaker
yeah And in the end, after having hurt the team so badly, i knew that the one thing I could do is, ah you know, I know who I am. Yeah. I'm not fall.
01:50:07
Speaker
right And so that's what I did. that man i was an Nightfall. Shift one label up and one down. So we're going to go superior down because I'm not as good as I think I am.
01:50:22
Speaker
And then I'm Nightfall. And I use Magic. And I feel like we'll probably discuss some like probably non-mechanical consequences as well. Oh, yeah. um Yeah.
01:50:35
Speaker
But ah um next up is Calyx. Grow closer to the team. Grow into your own image of yourself or grow away from the team. Oh, don't like this dragon. It's definitely one of the first two.
01:50:51
Speaker
Yeah, I would agree.
01:50:56
Speaker
I feel like there was some solid teamwork here, but... There was definitely some solid teamwork. I also feel like, while it's not necessarily a good image of yourself, you definitely grew into the image of yourself when you, you know... Well... Yeah, you you keep... You know you embraced the monster. Yeah.
01:51:16
Speaker
True. ah Yeah, image of myself. So which labels do you think you're going to... which labels are you going to shift? One up, one down. One up, one down. Yeah.
01:51:29
Speaker
Mundane down. up. Okay.
01:51:39
Speaker
if Are you going to do that or you want me to do it? I'm doing it. Okay. um
01:51:50
Speaker
That gets you up to save your one. Mundane zero. ah Uh... Ironsand.
Reflection and Growth
01:51:57
Speaker
Grow closer to the team. Grow into own image of yourself or grow away from the team.
01:52:02
Speaker
up For this one, since Ironsand, felt like, you know, he was directly, you know, he helped fight the monster with his team and his own mind helped support a member of his team and then also directly engaged of a villain...
01:52:22
Speaker
just escaping. I feel like he would have grown into an into the image of himself that he wants. that he wants the okay idea The idea of the he of the type of hero that he wants to be. yeah
01:52:36
Speaker
So, one label up and one label down. Alrighty, then. I'm gonna move... and And you can't move danger. Well, you can't move it up. yeah I'm gonna go ahead and move Savior up and...
01:52:51
Speaker
superior down.
01:52:57
Speaker
Alright. Your superior is pretty low. but Yeah, it is. I'm shit at assessing the situation. ah I read no cues. Siphon, I don't know what you're going to choose, but grow closer to the team, into your own image, or away from the team.
01:53:16
Speaker
um I took a lot of Doom, so I'm going to say I grew into my own image. Okay, so shift to label up and one down. know Shift up Savior since I was doing dumb things to save someone. yeah and then I'm going to shift down Superior because obviously I can't assess the situation and be like... hu It probably won't be best just to leave my teammates and say, hey, come the normal way.
01:53:48
Speaker
um All right. oh yeah all of them drink All of you did grow into your own image of yourself this time. um And do any of y'all have special... I know Reef has a... When time has passed. Eric, do you have some special end of session thing?
01:54:10
Speaker
i have when time has passed. like When this is done, we would go back home and then I have to report. And then they get to tell me what they think I'm... If they think I'm who I am.
01:54:21
Speaker
Okay. All right. Well, in that case, um that was the end of the episode. I've got some planning to do. And um yeah, this was, I think, a pretty good good episode. ah I was your game master, Ron Bjork. With me tonight was Eric.
01:54:40
Speaker
Hey, guys. I'm Nightfall. And I messed it up but I saved it at the end. Right? Yeah. Yeah. There you go. And Frank. Hi, everyone. I'm Frank. I played Calix. I had a great time.
01:54:54
Speaker
ah we We did some fun stuff. And yeah, I appreciate y'all listening. You can find me if you look hard enough on social medias. ah I'm on some of them.
01:55:07
Speaker
So yeah. ah Bill. Hey everybody, I'm Bill. I was playing Reese, aka Ironsand. Had a great time tonight. ah You can find me on Twitter at Billzebub.
01:55:23
Speaker
And you can find me at BlueSky at the same handle. ah but Are you on there yet, Bill? ah think I'm pretty sure I said it. I looked for you, but... let me double to I'll double check and make sure I'm...
01:55:36
Speaker
blue i double check I'll double check and make and make sure that I actually finalize. There's a good chance I did everything and just didn't finalize all my shit. its Blue Sky is the app that a lot of people are moving to away from Twitter. um Definitely a lot of the podcasters are moving to that, so I figured we'd do that.
01:55:53
Speaker
um Which, by the way, on Blue Sky, you can find us at IDM Roleplay. um And you can also find me at something on Blue Sky. um Pat Verillion. And then Hayden.
01:56:08
Speaker
Hey, it was good to be here. I played Syphon and Max Jr. um I'm definitely excited to see what happens when I take Flame Boy through The tickle zone.
01:56:24
Speaker
The tickle zone. Yeah. and then well We'll decide something on that. It's tickle time, motherfucker! The reason why he's going through tickle zone is because he's going through my doom.
01:56:35
Speaker
yeah Yeah. So, when... like Like I described with the Nightcrawler thing, anytime he tele you teleport, um Siphon passes through Happy Jack's realm. He just isn't cognizant of him doing that.
01:56:51
Speaker
um And that's the same thing that happened to all of you, which actually, Frank, I also will need to um discuss with you because you ah have drawn the interest of Happy Jack. Dun, dun, dun. Yeah. Yeah.
01:57:05
Speaker
And so, yeah, um good episode, everybody. I'm going to stop some recordings now. All right. Yeah. So much happened.
01:57:16
Speaker
Yeah. Dude, this was a good one.
01:58:13
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