Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
H-Town Heroes Session 5
10 Plays5 days ago
Join our heroes as they continue their investigation into the missing powered individuals, and a new hero joins their team.
Recommended
Transcript
Episode Introduction
00:00:18
Speaker
Welcome, citizens, to another episode of Integrated Dice Management presents H-Town Heroes, our superhero masks a new generation game. um For listeners...
00:00:30
Speaker
no Only a week will have passed since you heard the last episode. For us, it's been months? A year. a year Yeah, since episode 4 of this. It's been a while. We did all of the Vecna stuff.
00:00:44
Speaker
um So however long that took. ah But we're back to this game.
Character Introductions
00:00:50
Speaker
um And with me tonight Bilt.
00:00:58
Speaker
Hey everybody, I'm Bill. I'm gonna be playing as Rhys, aka Ironsand, and we're gonna have a great time. Gonna get back into character. Also Hayden.
00:01:10
Speaker
Hey, I'll be playing s Siphon, also known as Max Jr. I'm excited to see what tough shenanigans we get to tonight. And Frank! Hi everyone, I'm Frank. I will be playing Calyx, the Verdant Guardian.
00:01:26
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I'm ready for it, hopefully. Uh, if you have listened to the past few episodes, um, Jaden, uh, will not be joining us tonight for sure.
Discussing Jaden's Absence
00:01:40
Speaker
Unlikely that he'll ever join us again because he's, uh, he's got his own life. But if you have listened to our past Vecna season, you'll know he wasn't there for any of that either. So, um, uh, but we have Eric here.
00:01:56
Speaker
Hey guys, I'm Eric. I am playing Kieran O'Sullivan Mendoza, a hero named Nightfall. And I guess I've been on a sabbatical.
00:02:08
Speaker
Yes. nonmaticical Yes.
First Mission: Razorfist & T-Rex
00:02:10
Speaker
ah So, um to recap what has happened so far, in the first episode, our heroes ah started the day by defeating a ah bank robber by the name of Razorfist, whose character concept was, what if you punched, but it did slashing damage.
00:02:30
Speaker
They then went to school, did some stuff at school, ah okay ah Everybody did various things in class. um And then they went on their first official mission, which was to defeat a T-Rex, which was running around the park um and threatening some dogs.
00:02:53
Speaker
And tried being druid. You tried being a druid. You tried to read the mind of the T-Rex. um And you learned... and this was Well, you did learn that it was brought forward in time um and ah was had a um ah laser gun put in its mouth.
00:03:12
Speaker
um You also learned that episode that there is a race of aliens that have seeded the planet with technology some time ago. um you guys defeated the T-Rex, went back to class. um In the next episode...
00:03:31
Speaker
ah We had some more class shenanigans where Reese and ah si rees and Max got into a verbal-physical argument um and Calix had to remove them from the scene.
00:03:47
Speaker
ah Some other stuff happened. um Reese got a girlfriend. ah We met Victoria.
00:03:59
Speaker
um You guys went to a concert.
Concert Chaos: Illusions & Rescue
00:04:02
Speaker
And at the concert... I got cucked again. Yes. ah Siphon got cucked several times in different ways.
00:04:10
Speaker
um You went to a concert... i I didn't even know I was getting a girlfriend. I thought I was just making an actual friend. Well, I don't know. She kissed she kissed you on a mask. And she went on a date with you, so... I don't think that was a date. I thought we were just going to a concert. Well...
00:04:30
Speaker
That seems appropriate for your character. You did ask them to the Mystique concert, Bill. She asked him. Oh, snap. She's dominant. Yeah. i let I mentioned I liked the band.
00:04:42
Speaker
And we were and we and we i was like, yeah, I heard they were in concert. Yeah, I'd love to go. And at the concert, ah the band Musique likes to make illusions to go along with their music, except this time the illusions started attacking everyone.
00:05:00
Speaker
um elsa froze a bunch of people charizard burned a bunch of people there was a battle against tie fighters up in the sky ah and then um jester's kiss grabbed victoria uh brought her to the top of uh the tower of isengard whatever the tower's name is i don't know if the tower's name is isengard or the town but um And threw her off the tower.
00:05:26
Speaker
Max tried to save her, but wasn't quick enough, and um a hero swooped in named Skybreaker, who who saved her.
Skybreaker's Heroic Rescue
00:05:33
Speaker
um
00:05:37
Speaker
Calix finally destroyed the machine that was... ah ah projecting the holograms, and in order to do so, he used an innocent the person as a bludgeon.
00:05:50
Speaker
um That was, I believe her name was Frost or something like that, one of the members of the band. um Unknown if she has powers or if she just...
00:06:01
Speaker
did not have the type of powers that make her not susceptible to being used as a bludgeon. To be fair, didn't know if it was it was them that put the device there, or if it was well you did something else. To be fair, they you did use an innocent person to the shit out you. Well, they were um visibly in distress as they were being forced to continue playing, and in between their lyrics they were screaming in horror.
00:06:32
Speaker
ah So there was that that hint. um um But anyway, um you stopped that.
Max's Vision & Confrontation
00:06:40
Speaker
Max had another vision, um revealing that the technology of Muzeek may have been related to those aliens. Yeah.
00:06:51
Speaker
and uh then max and calyx had a little um bonding session um at the end of the the episode um which was very sweet and if you didn't listen to it you should go back to it but then max was uh sucked into happy jack's realm um where he learned uh
00:07:13
Speaker
origin of his doom and his powers that came from Happy Jack because his father sold his soul um for some reason and the side effect of that was Happy Jack. He confronted his father but his father was a dick and um and then the they had an argument and then the the the dad disappeared.
00:07:31
Speaker
Now, the last session, here are my notes from the last session. um These are more specific now, because to help remember if y'all didn't hear it.
Investigation: Maya Rodriguez Disappearance
00:07:42
Speaker
Reese and Max, near the beginning of the session, Reese and Max reveal their identities to each other.
00:07:47
Speaker
um Kalex sees the whole thing. So does Principal Powers. it's on It's unclear if Max put his mask back on before turning back around to Darkstrike or not.
00:08:00
Speaker
I couldn't tell. did. um So she didn't see your face possibly, but she did see Reese. However, Max does suspect Darkstrike is Victoria.
00:08:11
Speaker
um So I guess I should now premise why that was happening. You guys were called to the principal's office to go on a mission. There are some people who have disappeared.
00:08:22
Speaker
um Here is their dossiers, just to so y'all can remember who they were. um But those people disappeared.
00:08:34
Speaker
You guys were currently investing Maya Rodriguez, codename Ember Flicker, a firefighter slash YouTuber. um So let's see my next notes. iron sand and the verdant guardian go to the fire station and learn that amber flicker was last seen by the fire chief on tuesday which was the end of her shift it is now friday he does recall her talking to some salesman earlier but doesn't know anything about the guy or what he was selling nor does he have any pamphlets you guys looked in her locker there was nothing out of the ordinary there
00:09:06
Speaker
Um, and you are not able to convince the fire chief to show you the security footage from the building because he doesn't want to get fired. Um, Siphon and Darkstrike go to the police station and find footage of Ember leaving the fire station around
Siphon's Vision of Ember
00:09:22
Speaker
7pm. They follow the CCTV footage and eventually see her turn down an alleyway with no cameras and she doesn't come out the other side.
00:09:30
Speaker
Um, Siphon does think it would be cool if she went down into the sewers. Uh, Let's see. On the way to the alleyway, um i don't think you've told the rest of the party that you're going to the alley.
00:09:45
Speaker
um But on the way to that alley, Siphon um has Darkstrike drive and then activates his dark visions. He sees stars forming in space and planets forming and being destroyed and forming and being destroyed. And then he sees the Earth.
00:09:59
Speaker
He sees drones flying down and placing technological items around the planet. The vision shifts to a first-person view of someone walking down the street. They turn into an alley and think, this is a shortcut home.
00:10:10
Speaker
And then the next thing they know, there are flames everywhere around them. They try to control the flames, but they can't, and then they black out. When they wake up, they're in a really cold room. They try to make flames, but it's too cold and they cannot.
00:10:23
Speaker
Then the vision ends, and and you ask the question, where is she? And I give you the non-helpful answer of... The Vision says she's in a containment cell designed specifically to contain someone with her abilities.
00:10:37
Speaker
So that's what happened last episode. So... um
00:10:45
Speaker
You... ah Not you. um Siphon Darkstrike are on the way to this alleyway. ah Calyx and...
00:10:58
Speaker
ah Reese, are, um... I guess you're still at the fire station. Uh... I'm trying to think how to work airkin.
Team Communication Plans
00:11:10
Speaker
I did not come up with this idea.
00:11:12
Speaker
Um... Ron, you worked for this session? Uh, dude, I was catching up on everything. And then I've been working.
00:11:23
Speaker
And hiking. Uh...
00:11:29
Speaker
so since It makes the most sense for me to end up with Max so that it's even whenever you switch back and forth. Yeah. So um I think
00:11:44
Speaker
so you guys all have communicators so you can commune with each other. um so we we'll go to... ah
00:11:53
Speaker
Actually, I do kind of have a plan. I remember my plan now. um So, Syphon, are you updating the team on what you're up to?
00:12:08
Speaker
Or, Calix and Rhys, are you updating Syphon on what information you guys learned?
00:12:18
Speaker
Uh... I imagine, honestly, we'd probably shoot like send him a little communic communicate, you know little text message. Be like, hey, ah nothing out of the ordinary.
00:12:28
Speaker
Talks to a salesperson. Talks to some salesperson. Keeps being an asshole. Won't let us look at the security footage.
00:12:38
Speaker
All right. um Do you say anything back?
00:12:45
Speaker
Thank you, Iron Sam. He sends back a heart emoji. Okay.
00:12:50
Speaker
Alright then. ah So, um where is my NPCs? Real quick.
00:13:03
Speaker
Okay, well that's all he sends you. So I guess you you're driving along and you arrive in the alleyway then.
Alley Investigation
00:13:10
Speaker
Siphon, you and Darkstrike. Or she's driving, I guess, currently.
00:13:14
Speaker
um
00:13:16
Speaker
So what do you do when you get to the alley?
00:13:20
Speaker
And we're still looking for we're still looking for Ember, right? Yes. This is the alley that she went down and you didn't see her come out the other end.
00:13:31
Speaker
I thought I made an extra NPC.
00:13:36
Speaker
yeah You can say what you're going to do and stuff, but okay I'm prepping for the next thing that's going to happen. i was thinking if I just want to do like a dark vision. know Can I already do a dark vision? Nah.
00:13:50
Speaker
I'm going to do investigation. That would fall under which one again? Sorry, I have too many tasks. It'd probably be assess the situation, maybe.
00:14:01
Speaker
Or you can just go down the alley and look around first. Yeah, let's do that. ah So yeah, you go into the alleyway. um You had mentioned... Oh, it'd be cool if there was... ah yeah You had mentioned the sewers, basically.
00:14:16
Speaker
um There are... There is like a sewer you know drain probably on the sidewalk leading into the alley, but you would have seen if she went down that. The alleyway, though, doesn't really have a sewer in there.
00:14:30
Speaker
um There are... ah what
00:14:36
Speaker
is There's a rolling happening. Oh, BRB? Never mind. Okay. um There are... um
00:14:45
Speaker
There's a couple of doors leading into the back of some buildings, ah and there are signs of charred, like, trash that had fallen out of the dumpster that looks like it's been burned. There's there's just, like, scorch marks on the ground, stuff like that. So signs of a fire-based struggle.
00:15:06
Speaker
Can I see which way the flames were, like, hitting the brick or the cement or whatever it might be? Which way the flames?
00:15:17
Speaker
Maybe in like... wasn't available when was in high school. that it was available when I was in high school. dude i love that class hey it was available when i was in high school
00:15:35
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it wasn't available when i was there. that That became available literally like the year after I left. um What is this weirdness here? Okay. ah
00:15:49
Speaker
Does it look like she was fighting her way farther down into the alley, which I would assume is most likely the case.
00:16:00
Speaker
But in that in that case, does it look like she was trying to go towards like a certain direction in the alley? um So what you see is a bunch of scorch marks in a circular a pattern um around... Surrounded?
00:16:16
Speaker
Yes, around a central point where there are no scorch marks, roughly the size of a human being. what That was terrifying.
00:16:32
Speaker
I guess I look at Darkstrike and I say, do you think she lost control her powers or do think she was being gamed up on something?
Discussing Ember's Fire Powers
00:16:46
Speaker
I don't know. ah This looks like a lot of fire. I thought she was pretty low tier on her fire abilities. that She could just basically make sparks. It looks like maybe so something set her off or something tried to burn her.
00:17:04
Speaker
but She can like, minimally control fire, so if something was trying to burn her, she would be deflecting it. And from the Scorchmarks, it doesn't really look like a deflection. Does it look like a deflection, or does it look like a... It looks like she was surrounded by Scorchmarks. She was... She got really powerful for a second, or she was stopping some type of fire ability from attacking her.
00:17:29
Speaker
And it just vanishes right here, like there's no... there evidence farther down into the alleyway? or Like no dumpster that's smoldered or anything like that? No. I mean, there's some trash and stuff, but it looks like that was already on the ground. And that's why it was burned.
00:17:46
Speaker
ye
00:17:49
Speaker
There's no sewer grate nearby? No what? Sewer grate? There are no sewer grates. There are some doors into buildings, but they're not like right around where she was.
00:18:02
Speaker
um yeah but They just look like the back doors into buildings.
00:18:11
Speaker
I imagine if we tried to open these back doors, alarms would go off. Maybe. Probably. There's probably like a ah ah one of them is a ah back door to like a little Italian restaurant. One of them a back door on the other side of the alleyway to a nail salon.
00:18:32
Speaker
Um, it's you know It's the back door to businesses. There's like dumpsters back there, stuff like that. yeah
00:18:42
Speaker
I look up. Are there any so security cameras around? There are not. Hence why you couldn't um find the ah the footage. yeah and I was just wondering if like the individual but business owners would have put up like ah their own type of security.
00:18:59
Speaker
Like a ring camera or something similar. Um... trying to picture back doors that I've seen on businesses.
00:19:09
Speaker
Oh, I just rolled a six. Like, literally not a d6, so I just typed six.
00:19:16
Speaker
Okay, there are not. I guess? yeah ah
00:19:26
Speaker
i guess I look at Darkstrike and i say, well, unless you have a better idea at the moment, we start knocking on these back doors or going to the front doors and start asking around.
00:19:38
Speaker
Yeah, i guess I guess that's something we can do. um And then we're going to switch over to Calix and the Verdant Guardian and Ironsand.
00:19:53
Speaker
ah So you guys have hit a dead end. I am getting an echo. Okay, it's gone now. does mean um You guys have hit a dead end with the police chief so far. He seems ah he was like, or not police chief, the fire chief.
Fire Chief's Reluctance
00:20:08
Speaker
He says, I can't um give you ah access to the footage without like a warrant or something like that.
00:20:17
Speaker
And he's like, it's not that I don't want to. It's that you know there's laws I got to obey. Literally, I am legally not. Do what? Legally, I'm not allowed to. yeah How about you go get a warrant?
00:20:29
Speaker
It should be easy now. Except you're not actually police, so you're teenage superheroes. So, what I'm hearing is you don't care about your employee.
00:20:41
Speaker
So, if you guys want to go further with this, you can try to provoke him and do the provoke someone role, which is roll superior.
00:20:53
Speaker
so Superior. Alright. I'm not very superior, so Frank, you can have that. I'm looking for my character sheet. I can't find it. Oh, there I am.
00:21:05
Speaker
I named it weird. ah so I'm not very superior either, but... Let's see. That, unfortunately, is a miss. So, um when you provoke someone susceptible to your words, say what you're trying to get them to do, and roll on a 10, they rise to the bait and do what you want. On 7 and 9, they said...
00:21:24
Speaker
um Okay, so on a miss, it just doesn't work. um The guy's like, look, look, kids, I'm sorry, but ah
00:21:36
Speaker
I'll need some sort of, you know, it's it's a matter of privacy, not just for her, but for the everyone in the station. This is internal footage you're wanting to look at. Iron Sand is going to do, like, the frustrated teens, and he's going to be like, oh, no.
00:21:52
Speaker
yeah are you Are you attacking him? I'm doing be the Monster. but When you frighten, intimidate, or cower others with your monstrous form, roll plus freak on a hit, they are thrown off and make...
00:22:07
Speaker
themselves vulnerable to you, or they flee. On a 10+, choose one of these things. So he didn't get a 10+. Thrown off and vulnerable, or he flees.
00:22:19
Speaker
um and And so, he's getting all intimidated by you. he's here He's like, look... um Is 8 not a hit? 8 is a hit, but it's not a 10+.
00:22:32
Speaker
Well, okay, so... On a hit, they are thrown off and make themselves vulnerable to you, or they flee. And then on a 10+, you can choose one of these things. yeah On a 7 to 9, you choose 2. Oh, you can choose... They're thrown off.
00:22:53
Speaker
On a 7 to 9, choose 2. You frighten others you had not intended to. i I hate these um chat windows. Yeah.
00:23:04
Speaker
or these ah windows for the abilities. um The character sheet could be a lot better. I'm just going to post it in here so we can read it so I can read it. On a 7 to 9, choose two. You frighten others you had not intended to scare. you hurt someone or break something you shouldn't have.
00:23:22
Speaker
You feel like more of a monster, marked condition. On a miss, they react with violence, hatred, or paranoia. So, you choose two of those things.
00:23:32
Speaker
You frighten others you hadn't intended to scare. You hurt someone or break something you shouldn't have. Or you feel like more of a monster. so he
00:23:47
Speaker
They make themselves vulnerable to you or they flee. ah So he's he's basically going to flee the scene. He's like, look, I got to go. I've got work to do. And he like gets up and he's like, but he or now he's like look look, man, i got to go. I got work to do. there's there's the And he he like quickly exits, the ah starts heading out of the office like out into the main area where all the other firefighters are doing firefighter stuff.
00:24:12
Speaker
cleaning the equipment and junk. I don't know what they do when they're not fighting fires. Oh, I know exactly what they do. I used to do
Iron Sand's Intimidation Attempt
00:24:20
Speaker
Houston. They're posing posing for camera for for calendars, things like that. yes i turn I turn to Iron Sand. Is it Iron Sand?
00:24:30
Speaker
Yeah. I turn to Iron Sand and I say, quick, hop on the computer and do some magic. They do have a computer up in their tower. Computer magic.
00:24:41
Speaker
You know, actually, not a bad idea. Give me a second. Reese goes... Sorry, Einstein gets behind the computer, and he starts doing a couple little keystrokes, doing some was some shit from, like, criminal minds, and, like...
00:24:57
Speaker
hits He hits like three keys and a image, know alice and all of sudden zooms in and gets sharper, and it's like enhance. And then it zooms in and gets sharper again. The pixels just to say ah just don't stay the same size either. They perfectly render down, like like they do.
00:25:12
Speaker
I've seen csi I know how this works. okay now we're down to the like Okay, now... Does Reese have um supercomputer hacking skills?
00:25:23
Speaker
Because I don't remember that being one of his skill sets. Nope, he's no he's just a go-getter that used to i used to brett they used to do a lot of crime. Eric,
00:25:37
Speaker
<unk>ll never get e are you talking from underwater? I'm not. Is that better? Yeah. yes yeah fucking what's What's my role to try to see if I even if i even know what the fuck I'm doing?
00:25:54
Speaker
um Danger? Directly engaging a threat? i'm directly engaging a computer. I feel like this would be um more like superior. I'm not very superior. Let's find out.
00:26:07
Speaker
Superior or mundane, yeah, but um this is like more of Like regular computer enhancement stuff, not the supercomputer version. Because you've got ah you've got to find what you need first.
00:26:18
Speaker
Maybe... Well, assess the situation as superior. Um, I feel like that counts for what I'm doing. Assessing. I'm assessing the situation. I'm working the computer. The questions that go with it aren't the best. question Wow.
00:26:36
Speaker
wow Oh no. Oh dear. So in the password section, I type in C more buttons. Um, yeah, I think you type the wrong password so many times that it locks the computer.
00:26:51
Speaker
You accidentally put in your own own password. How did you net zero? He's got a minus two. one One, one, minus two. On your superior, you're minus two?
00:27:03
Speaker
Yeah. Give one second. No, I've got conditions. That's what my problem is. no Which is for assess the situation. i have yeah um I have the guilty condition right now, so I'm minus two on my assess the situation.
00:27:19
Speaker
Yeah, so... give this z be just goingnna be like but that's fucked So, because you failed... Because you failed, you can... um Oh, and Frank, you also failed once, so both of you mark potential on your sheet.
00:27:35
Speaker
I forgot all of my potential marks, so boxes are already filled. Okay, you can level you can level up instantly, so you're welcome to figure out um whatever you want for your level up ability. You will need your actual playbooks, which are...
00:27:53
Speaker
um
00:27:57
Speaker
Let's see. Lore. It's not the Lore Rules. All playbooks. No, no. Oh, I guess I've got to jump over to Google Drive and I'll share your playbook.
00:28:09
Speaker
but we have Don't we have all the playbooks over on the side?
00:28:14
Speaker
Uh... I guess not. oh Sort of, we have all playbook moves, but I don't think that's the same thing. No, that's for... i put that because some of the playbooks say take take a move from another playbook.
00:28:28
Speaker
um Hold on, i'll I'll link you your playbook real quick. ready You are the Reformed? Yeah. while we're While you're doing that, Iron Sand is going to turn to...
00:28:43
Speaker
the Verde Guardian, and he's going to say, I
Underworld Contacts & Static Jack
00:28:46
Speaker
have another idea. Give me a second. And from inside of one of his pockets, he pulls out a different phone. Not the phone he was just messaging Siphon on.
00:28:57
Speaker
It's completely unrecognized. And he's going to go through his contacts, and what's... Reef is going to use his friends in low places ability. Okay. And he's going to call Finch, his his ah underworld broker.
00:29:12
Speaker
okay
00:29:15
Speaker
And he's going to send him the message looking for information, disappearances on powered individuals. Recently, within the last two weeks, I think is when all of them were.
00:29:28
Speaker
So you'll need to mark obligation for him because you owe him more of a favor. Yeah, do. I know. That's an obligation to him.
00:29:40
Speaker
Okay. ah So you call up Finch and he's like, He's like, Reese, Reese, haven't heard from you in a while. How's it going, man? yeah it's you know, it's great. um You know, got kind of got betrayed a little bit, but, you know, still relining.
00:29:59
Speaker
im make I'm making it on the so on the outside. Yeah, I heard you when i heard you went legit. Yep. So what are you calling me for? Well...
00:30:10
Speaker
Well, ah you and me, we always worked well together, and I need some help with something. Now, the whole reason we're we're doing this is just... I just want you want wanna to see maybe some of those old favors.
00:30:24
Speaker
Maybe it might still mean a thing to You and you know, like, I'll owe you one.
00:30:31
Speaker
ah Well, what do you need? Well, I've got three individuals... ah One Maya Rodriguez, one Alex Chin, one Tyler Johnson.
00:30:43
Speaker
All of them with ah with either minor to mid-level powered individuals. All of them have gone missing in the last two weeks. Nobody knows what's going on. I don't know if there's more going on, but it seems that powers are being are being specifically targeted. All right. Well, that's that's pretty mysterious. what What do you need? Do you want me to try and find these people for you?
00:31:05
Speaker
No, i want you I want to invite you over for Christmas. Yes. wants you to i want you to find out I want you to find out anything you can on meet on these people. One of them, at least at least one of them actually has an actual persona. She goes by the name of Ember Flicker.
00:31:21
Speaker
All right. I can i can i can look into them, but you know you're going to owe me. I know it. I already owe you some, so just say just say i owe you and I owe you another favor. Okay.
00:31:35
Speaker
you yep, you owe me another favor, alright. And so he, yeah, he'll he'll look into that. That's not going to be an immediate help, but Finch is looking into it. Please, for the love of tell me that we get the same vanilla folder that Darktide had.
00:31:56
Speaker
He's
00:32:00
Speaker
like, here's everything I can find. goes We already have all that.
00:32:06
Speaker
so you so just gave you f about two like literally 10 seconds after you hang up um finch calls you back
00:32:17
Speaker
ah that was that was fast and he says he says something's going down right now head to this address and then he sends you an address and now we switch scenes and flashback a few minutes um so uh what's your character eric nightfall nightfall You're back in town.
00:32:36
Speaker
You're back in town from whatever secret mission you were doing. Maybe we'll delve into that later. But... um ah you ah showed up at school and ah the principal, principal powers, he wanted you to get get caught back, you know, caught up on your ah superhero um studies, you know, studies, I guess you could say.
00:33:00
Speaker
So he sent you out into the streets. He's he's got you hunting, ah ah going to hunt down this low-level criminal named Static Jack.
00:33:12
Speaker
Um... Static Yeah, Static Jack. he's he's been ah He's been dealing ah dealing drugs um to children and stuff like that down at the park.
00:33:22
Speaker
um he's He's done a few ah Grand Theft Autos. He's robbed a ah an electronics store. um Things like that. A bunch of petty crimes, but it shouldn't be too hard. He just wanted you to um you know like ease you back into things since you've been away for a bit.
00:33:42
Speaker
um So we so so you tracked Jack down to this park and... um You are currently in hot pursuit of this guy.
00:33:58
Speaker
um So, let's see. he Basically, you are running. he he Well, he is running from you at the moment. So, that's that's what the scene flashes to. You're chasing this guy. um he He basically spotted you coming and and took off running.
00:34:17
Speaker
So... i'm like, ah, they always run. Why do you always run? have magic. have magic. And I yell, I have magic. And then I try to unleash my powers and have like the road grab him. It melts.
00:34:32
Speaker
you know like a Heat up the asphalt, right? Then his feet sink. So what what are your powers specifically? ah Does it list them on this sheet?
00:34:47
Speaker
It don't. I have like a magic weapon. have a magic weapon, magic armor, and super strength. Because I have magic gauntlets.
00:34:59
Speaker
But you can you can manipulate the street? Well, I was trying to like... Because my thing is magic, and I use it to do magic out of the sword. Like, that's what makes it... Okay, so you're like you're like ah
00:35:15
Speaker
Yeah, just basic magic user. Yeah. um And then I use my items to do it. That's my items make me give me the ability to do what I do. Okay. like I have to be in my armor and all that to do cool guy stuff.
00:35:27
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, you can unleash your powers. Let's see what you get from that. All right. Unleash the powers. Which is freak, right? Yes.
00:35:39
Speaker
No situational thing.
00:35:44
Speaker
Okay, so it's a miss. So on a miss, I need to move these sheets out of the way so i can read the thingy. um On a miss with Unleash Your Powers.
00:35:56
Speaker
um I think it just doesn't hurt or doesn't work, um but you do mark potential. So when you unleash your powers to overcome an obstacle, reshape your environment or extend your senses, roll freak.
00:36:06
Speaker
Wanna hit you do it on a seven to nine, mark a condition or the GM will tell you how the effect is unstable or temporary. So ah yeah, you basically you do that. um But being the, you know,
00:36:19
Speaker
young superhero that you are you know you're not a master of your powers and you just you don't get the streets um moving like you wanted it to you know you crumple the ground a little bit but uh this guy static jack he's a nimble guy he um he manages to ah basically hop over your um difficult terrain uh and you know over the room yeah and he he keeps on running he turns around a corner you see several bright flashes and then when you get to that corner uh he is gone and there are similar to the scene that um siphon and ah
00:37:06
Speaker
Darkstrike found.
Static Jack's Disappearance
00:37:07
Speaker
um There are scorch marks all over the ground. there is a um There is a dumpster in this alley, but this dumpster has sort of been exploded. It's just like everything in it is blasted. The dumpster itself looks like it's melted.
00:37:25
Speaker
looks like it was it's melted um
00:37:31
Speaker
um on the ah the you know the outside, the the roads facing side of it. It's like melted. And yeah, so something bright and hot just happened around this corner.
00:37:46
Speaker
and um And then, yeah. And so, and Static Jack is nowhere to be seen. um It's even one of those it's even one of those those streets, those alleys that just end in in a building. You know, like there's there's just a wall at the end of the alley.
00:38:02
Speaker
um And while there is a door on that building, the door is closed and doesn't look like it's been you know kicked open or anything. And then I'm like, fuck! So he disappeared.
00:38:15
Speaker
Static Jack. Electricity, talking to yourself again. Stop talking to yourself. And then I ah ah would like to, ah guess, can you use Assess the Situation to like ask a question of the environment in general?
00:38:30
Speaker
Like what happened here? is there no specific questions? i I tend to let you because those questions are kind of limited to when there's like combat happening right now. Combat going on. Yeah.
00:38:44
Speaker
But it's the closest thing to ah to that, yeah. I'm going to try to use my magical education to determine if this was magic or technology, because magic's my wheelhouse. Technology belongs to Kevin.
00:38:55
Speaker
And so I'll get with Kevin and be like, hey, man, so these scorch marks, I have nothing to do with it. I've got to find this jag guy, or I get a failing grade, because i went on that sabbatical, you know? So try that.
00:39:08
Speaker
If that works, it didn't. OK.
00:39:13
Speaker
Nothing bad happens on a miss, you just look around and you're like, oh man, something burned this this dumpster. um not you else magic or not ah yeah And while this is probably too fast, um I mean,
00:39:30
Speaker
while while this yeah and it's not too fast, we'll say it wasn't too far away. ah Iron Sand um riding a metal encased Kalyx, who's just in like this metal cube that Iron Sand has created and only Kalyx's face is showing, um hovers and and lands in the ah in the alley.
00:39:52
Speaker
um Now you guys all know each other. ah Nightfall is part of your team. He's just has been away for a bit. um But yeah, Calix thumps down and then presumably Reese, you pull him out of the, ah that you you get rid of the metal on him.
00:40:08
Speaker
um So he can move. Before the metal goes away, Sandman, I know you like video games, but turning the plant into a creeper, not okay. Not ok okay.
00:40:20
Speaker
yeah Reese is going to turn to Halyx, who's going to be like, hey, can you do me a favor? Can you just hiss as you slowly amble down the
00:40:37
Speaker
Oh. it's Fuck. Eric, what's your what's your character's name? Nightfall. Oh, yeah. Nightfall, it's great to see you. He's going to go in for that show for that fist pump Yeah, yeah. think Don't turn my gauntlets into trash.
00:40:55
Speaker
I got you. No worries. Your shit's not ferromagnetic anyway. Hey, i just got a I just got a call from one of a guy used to know. We gotta get moving. There's something's going on.
00:41:07
Speaker
Well, this is where the something was going on.
00:41:12
Speaker
Oh, shit. My bad. Yeah. We're in the same alley now. same alley as we are do we see them uh no different alley different alley okay same alley as me yeah yeah if your buddy sent you here i was uh tracking static jack you know drug dealer electric fingers and then i do spirit fingers to my side yeah oh that's okay big guy yeah yeah oh that's a okay big guy yeah yeah You still have your arms made out of poison ivy.
00:41:45
Speaker
Don't appreciate that. Let me down. Let me down. Okay. All right. All right. Yeah. ah So the static fingers, happy fingers guy, he disappeared. I don't think this is magic. In fact, I'm going to say non magic.
00:42:03
Speaker
What do you mean he just disappeared? Well, he rounded a corner, a bunch of... you bright lights, and wasn't there. now there's all these scorch marks. And, you know, i mean... What was you only like that what was your roll, Frank? You gotta tell us why you're rolling.
00:42:20
Speaker
Um, I was trying to see if I thought it was magic. Uh, so you rolled assess the situation? Yep. Well, you failed. Um, so mark potential.
00:42:32
Speaker
Um, and, uh, i feel like maybe we I feel like maybe we're supposed to roll less often or something. Because you guys are going leveling up like crazy, but... Do I think there are or are not magic involved? So you can't tell.
00:42:51
Speaker
And I'm telling you, it was.
00:42:56
Speaker
Now, Kalyx and Ironsand, y'all both know you, that these um kidnappings or whatever have been a low-tiered, powered individuals. Static Jack meets that.
00:43:12
Speaker
His um powers are, he can build up a small small static electric discharges, um enough to give painful zaps, like a really bad, like You know, when you accidentally ah ah get some static electricity going, he can fry low-level electronics, and he can stick metal objects to himself or throw them weekly with static clink.
Scorch Mark Differences
00:43:35
Speaker
um He can also cause, like, minor interference in, like, radio comms and stuff. So effectively, again, he's mid low to mid-level power.
00:43:46
Speaker
Yeah. um he is He's a known entity. you know He's never committed crimes enough to keep him in prison. um And he's he's pretty quick. That's not a superpower. He's just a quick, agile guy.
00:44:01
Speaker
And he's rarely done enough to gain the attention of supers, so he usually can escape the regular cops. Yeah. But he's been to he's been to jail a few times. he's he's it's He is an adult. um He's not a kid, but he's been to jail a few times. just like to out yeah there is something wrong with our judicial system when we keep letting criminals like this go.
00:44:24
Speaker
You know, because he's got a good lawyer. I don't know.
00:44:29
Speaker
so this I would like to derail our investigation to look for this lawyer and put that person through like some sort of training on how to put their people back into jail.
00:44:42
Speaker
Calix, my big green buddy, you sound a lot like my Lolo right now. and
00:44:48
Speaker
ah but
00:44:51
Speaker
i missed I missed the last part of what you said. but
00:44:56
Speaker
You muted it.
00:45:00
Speaker
Is he talking? on hang up muted you mean I'm sorry, I muted it because as I was making a very funny joke, my wife came in with my dogs, so I didn't want you to hear the exchange. But what I said was my, uh, the prank sounded or Kalex sounds a lot like my Lolo. And then I corrected myself and said, oh, the sangre, at El Brujo de Sangre, the leader of my, you know, the two empires.
00:45:27
Speaker
Ah, Ron, out of curiosity, back in back in my previous life, did i have any direct workings with... Tickle fingers?
00:45:41
Speaker
Yeah. Um, probably not. He was lower tier than you. he he's just ah He's just a street thug level person. he he's a you know He's a petty drug dealer. He's done petty, um you know, like he's robbed an electronics store. He's stolen a couple of cars, things like that, but nothing nothing major.
00:46:03
Speaker
He took the batteries out of his ex-girlfriend's remotes. Well, he just fried them. that's what That's fucked. That's not cool. No, he was petty. So, i want Ron, I want to ask you for two things.
00:46:16
Speaker
Okay. One of them in shelter, one of them is ah ah will as a side thing as part of my level up. um Can I try to... unleash my powers to try to feel around to see if there's anything metallic that's not supposed to be there. you know like I'm fairly familiar with the feeling of you know construction material, rebar, nails, iron, that kind of shit.
00:46:41
Speaker
But maybe I might notice something that's not supposed to be there. Hmm.
00:46:49
Speaker
Go well
00:46:52
Speaker
actually That would honestly be, because of the way you're using it, would probably be another um ah assess the situation, but you're doing it with your powers, so I'm trying to think. Because these roles don't necessarily mean you use your you're not using your powers in conjunction with them.
00:47:10
Speaker
um
00:47:14
Speaker
Yeah, I figured that since I would actually actually be using my powers, I figured it would be an unleash instead. um Yeah, because Unleash is using your powers to to overcome an obstacle, reshape your environment, or extend your extend your senses. Okay, sure, go ahead and roll it.
00:47:31
Speaker
Ready? Full hit! That's a 12! That is a full hit. Alright, so it's not unstable.
00:47:42
Speaker
Pfft.
00:47:45
Speaker
Huh. What? I'm trying to think of what... i've I know... i'm trying to think of something metal that you would find. Because I want to give you something here.
00:47:57
Speaker
ah
00:48:03
Speaker
You... Hmm. it This one's hard. i've thought of something. Yeah, but you don't know what you don't know what hint I'm trying to give. I'm just trying to think of a metal version for this hint.
00:48:15
Speaker
Um... You find ah eventually, you know, after you don't find much. You know, you you sense everything's there that you expect to be there.
00:48:27
Speaker
But you do notice, we'll say, ah some car keys. they're They're ruined now um because of the ah the the scorching.
00:48:40
Speaker
But you find some car keys, ah and it has the logo of a i mean Let me look up...
00:48:53
Speaker
Actually, no, no, no. This would be, yeah, no.
00:49:01
Speaker
Let's see, it would be a, um I don't like any of these cars. I don't know. it's It's the car to a a yeah GMC van.
00:49:15
Speaker
Well, I guess a GMC is the only logo that you wouldn't know it was a van car, but...
00:49:22
Speaker
A GMC. All right, but so before I go any further with that, the other thing I needed to ask you for was for the playbook for the beacon, because that's one of my advancement options.
00:49:36
Speaker
um But aside from that, I'm going to turn over to Darkstrike, and I'm going to say... What direction was he running was he running in?
00:49:52
Speaker
And, you know, basically you just want to know what direction he was in. You meant me. Okay. Yeah, not Darkstrike. I'm sorry. He rounded the corner. I mean, I didn't see, like, there's obviously a wall here. I don't know where he thought he was going.
00:50:09
Speaker
But when he rounded the corner, and I keep doing the hand gesture, like, he rounded the corner, you know, and, uh, Flashy lights, scorch marks, he's gone. Okay. And magic. there um Okay. Well, I found his keys. Let's try to find a GMC van.
00:50:28
Speaker
GMC van. I grab them and I hold them up the size as I can and I start clicking the button.
00:50:36
Speaker
Is there a button?
00:50:39
Speaker
I'm assuming there is a button. Um... yeah told you you are hear the ah honking of a vehicle nearby.
00:50:58
Speaker
it. He found it. Let's go.
00:51:03
Speaker
Now, are you guys going to fill Siphon in on what's going on, or are you just going to continue investigating on your own?
00:51:10
Speaker
Otherwise, we'll move over to Siphon. ah Well, I'll go ahead and um i'll go and shoot them a message, let them know what we found, but if they're if they're having more luck on their end, they don't they don't have to come and help us at this point.
00:51:23
Speaker
Okay, let's pop over to Siphon and Darkstrike. So you get a message, while you guys are in that alley, you get a whatever message Rhys sent informing you what what's been what they are up to.
00:51:37
Speaker
um That Nightfall's back in town, and they have another guy who just now disappeared, Aiden. Oh, sorry. I zoned out.
00:51:48
Speaker
Say it one more time. um So they they sent you they sent you a message telling you what's going on. um You guys are still... Yes, yeah. Okay,
00:51:58
Speaker
um It sounds like they're in an alleyway right next to us then, or at least adjacent. Not adjacent, but not super far away.
00:52:11
Speaker
I say, what alley are you in? Uh, corner of Roosevelt and... I don't know how to pronounce that. That's French.
00:52:24
Speaker
Uh, Sandman. The French word?
00:52:28
Speaker
Uh, fuck. Yeah. so i'm sorry that the phrase I'm sorry. That's the French word for seal. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so Roosevelt and the...
00:52:39
Speaker
Funky seal word. France.
00:52:46
Speaker
I don't know the word either, I'm sorry! Yeah, so that's just like a few blocks off. yeah There might be a French named Streak in Houston.
00:53:02
Speaker
So it's scorched the same way from from the text I received? do you Did you send pictures, Bill?
00:53:11
Speaker
Yeah, why not? I did. I'm going to send pictures, and then I'm going to do, like, chibi poses next to the green guy and everything. like And then underneath it snaps, actually. I'm sending snaps.
00:53:21
Speaker
I'm with the green guy. What's up, bro? I'm Hack. Your boy's back in town. The gang's back together. Where's Cy-Cy? You know what saying? With, like, a really embarrassing nickname. And I send back, when the hell did Nightfall come back next?
00:53:37
Speaker
Did he finally get rid of his gondorrhea?
00:53:41
Speaker
Uh, only because your stepmom gave it to me. what ah'm like
00:53:48
Speaker
Good job being a a teen in 2025. I'm trying, bro. Yeah. ah So, from the pictures you see, while it is similar in that it um has surrounded a it's It's got the same circular, like, sort of thing going on.
00:54:09
Speaker
But these scorch marks look more jagged, um whereas your scorch marks might be... um Yours have more like char and ash, whereas these seem like more jagged and um perhaps a shorter exposure time.
00:54:30
Speaker
Hmm.
00:54:33
Speaker
Okay, so... Although this one seems to have done more physical damage to the ground and to the the dumpster and stuff. think there's like... Alright.
00:54:45
Speaker
And I assume that these do not connect in some way, shape, or form. The two alleys? No. But they're... It's not super far away. i But they're not like back alleys where like they do interlink and whatnot.
00:54:59
Speaker
This one was apparently just like a turned and dead-ended. um Yours is a link you know between two streets.
00:55:10
Speaker
I guess we'll go check in adjacent alleyway and see if like there's more of the Scorchmark, seeing if she was like trying to twist and weave around and get away from whatever it was.
00:55:21
Speaker
Okay. um Y'all go and check the next alley over, or I guess, do you go to the end of the street or something? I mean, you know from the footage that she didn't come out either end of the alley. Yeah.
00:55:35
Speaker
She disappeared. Or went in a building. Or flew. But that's not in her known power set. Or teleported, but that's not in her known power set. Yeah, I mean...
00:55:49
Speaker
So, I'm in the alleyway that she disappeared in. Were we able to see the footage from their alleyway?
00:55:59
Speaker
ah You didn't know that you needed to look at their alleyway, so. Oh. Because this literally is happening, just happened. Okay. I guess we'll go with the original plan and just start going into businesses and be like, hey, did you guys have a break-in?
00:56:18
Speaker
at all? Back doors will damage your alarms go off? um So ah just to save time, when you ask around, everyone's like, no, nothing strange. how I mean, we noticed the weird ah burn marks out back, but um I mean, this is, you know, we just figured some supers got in a fight or something.
00:56:53
Speaker
And then in the nail salon, they're just like, you have appointments? I look at Darkstrike, do you? She's like, um, looks at her nails. She's wearing black gloves.
00:57:05
Speaker
No, not right now. I don't know.
00:57:13
Speaker
Yeah, I guess we... I mean, just because... ah So when we when we watched the video, did it look like the video cut out, like there was any loop, or the video just kept running and it just ah showed anything he so i guess i'll retcon and say the cop did fast forward like several hours um you know and it just kind of showed people walking by you know uh other people occasionally go down the alley and come out the other end things like that so it doesn't look like there was a loop um happening um it looks like she went down and never came out
00:57:58
Speaker
there's no manholes in that
Child Witness & Video Evidence
00:58:00
Speaker
alleyway? No, not in the alleyway. Just the ones that you're carrying with you. So when you leave the nail salon, you see a um ah kid ah younger than you, you know because you're also a kid technically, but this is like a 10 to 12 year old um watching from across the street.
00:58:22
Speaker
And when he ah he you like spot him and then he like kind of ducks down
00:58:29
Speaker
Behind, I don't know, behind something. A trash can. There's a lot of trash cans in this area.
00:58:38
Speaker
Okay, not a trash can. One of those post office um those those boxes. Those things that you can drop your mail into. Yeah, the post office box. yeah It drops behind one of those.
00:58:52
Speaker
Darkstruck, I think he got a fanboy. I think he was looking at you. Look at me.
00:59:00
Speaker
Well, he he looked at you, and you saw you looked at him, and he ducked. He looked at you, here the and I looked at him, and he looked at me. i look over and go, and say, hey kid, what you doing?
00:59:19
Speaker
The kid peeks out, and he's like, ah are you are you guys heroes?
00:59:28
Speaker
Well, Darkstrike is. I'm just a guy in a suit.
00:59:35
Speaker
So should I read this? ah My phone is on auto-read, so whatever text I get, it just says. Read it out loud. You read it.
00:59:49
Speaker
Text from Nightfall. Or whatever you have me in your phone at.
00:59:56
Speaker
I probably have you as, uh,
01:00:01
Speaker
uh, man. Warhammer. Does Warhammer exist in this universe? Yeah. Warhammer Lerper. Larker. Text from Warhammer Larker. Bruv, heard you are rolling with a ghiat of a nighttime vigilante. Beats.
01:00:18
Speaker
Bruv. Beads. Beads.
01:00:23
Speaker
I just look over at Darkstrike. I am so sorry. she She, what little you can see of her cheeks through a mask, ah mask she just looks like she blushed or something and and laughs.
01:00:37
Speaker
and I look back at the kid and i say yes, yes we are. um and And he says... message said this private from iron sand it kind and just here did you get her Did you get her number?
01:00:55
Speaker
no let me talk her ah third text comes in and says talk to the child never won a great one brownies for us to try later
01:01:08
Speaker
Except that because Calyx has like a ah flip phone, you see Calyx is typing for like a good 30 seconds before that comes in. yeah um His metal, blind, blunted hands are like trying to type in his little screen.
01:01:24
Speaker
The kid says, were you looking into the dis into what happened to that girl? Yes. what do you How did you know about that? He he shyly comes over um and pulls out his phone and he's like, I so i recognized her from YouTube. I was going to go up and and talk to her, but um i ah here, just look. And he hands you his phone and plays a video.
01:01:47
Speaker
um And you see ah he's like, um he's like, oh my God, it's Ember Flicker. And you know he he like turns the the camera towards her and and she's walking.
01:01:58
Speaker
um She's like, I wonder where she's going. Ooh, I'm going to follow her. Maybe I can see where she lives, you know because he's just a dumb kid. And he follows her. um And ah I guess do it and assess the situation to see how much I'd give you.
01:02:13
Speaker
that is What is that rule again? Uh, superior. Superior.
01:02:24
Speaker
Situational penalty bonus? Uh, no. No.
01:02:30
Speaker
Okay, um well, alright, so you see her walk, you see her turn down the alleyway, um and ah you see a burst of flames surround her.
01:02:42
Speaker
um You can hear her her kind of like shouting, ah and the flames last for a few seconds, like maybe 10 seconds or so. um And then when the flames are gone, she is gone as well.
01:02:59
Speaker
But with the two, i won't give you I can't give you any more than that. but Doom track. Dark vision. Okay. ah your eyes what What do your eyes look like when you do that?
01:03:13
Speaker
of I think we agreed that it might... Was it a spectral thing of like where... Oh yeah, something the about to marry and that heart string scene yeah the thing.
01:03:25
Speaker
Yeah. The Happy Jack starts like doing the marionette Yeah. And like the memory plays. Or like whatever it is plays. So you do the doom sign. um and ah You see, how i also checked. it Yeah, and we reject I saw.
01:03:44
Speaker
um I was looking at your sheet and then and then a check mark. sure i did that Well, I just had it up and a check mark appeared as soon as you said, dooms doom sign or doom track or whatever. um ah So time,
01:03:57
Speaker
this time but ah Unlike your previous visions, rather than showing you um something from space and technology being seeded onto the planet and stuff like that, ah you see Ember Flicker.
01:04:13
Speaker
ah She is ah dressed in her like ah she's wearing curb you know fire firefighter stuff. Not like the whole jacket and everything like she's in the dress down you know when they're waiting for a call.
01:04:27
Speaker
um you you're talking to her um and she's like you know i'm just uh i don't think we really have a use for um for anything from uh hold on i need to get the remember the front from scc uh we we you know we put out fires we we don't have anything to do with that other stuff um and uh you hear your own words say um Well, we we just thought of ah we just thought maybe um you know it would come in handy for you if ah ah for for you you firefighters if you um if there was a villain on scene and you needed to yeah that was starting the fire and you needed to contain them or something like that. and
01:05:12
Speaker
um She's like, well, that's that's the police police's job. Have you spoken to the police? He's like, well, I have. they weren't they that They said it was out of their budget. And, um you know, the boss just told me, go ahead and and try here and, um you know, see see if the fire department was willing to fund that. And the conversation goes kind of back and forth for a while.
01:05:32
Speaker
um And eventually, you know, she turns him down. Yeah. and Well, she kind of gives him like, look, I'll have to talk to to the chief, but I don't think he's going to be interested. And, you know, eventually, Mr. Salesman. two looks like You don't know. You are the person.
01:05:50
Speaker
um i am Yes. ah You do know that you are. What do I think i look like? what Well, you don't have the thoughts that um you, Max, are thinking. You have the thoughts that he is thinking.
01:06:04
Speaker
um And he's not thinking about what he looks like. Things that you can tell from um what you are able to see in your you know peripheral without him looking directly. you You do know you are peering through glasses.
01:06:18
Speaker
um You are holding a briefcase. You're wearing like a brown plaid suit. um and That's probably all you would notice from... from you know i'm yeah that's all you really would notice ah you don't catch a reflection in a mirror or anything convenient like that.
01:06:39
Speaker
um But after you leave, you know you ah you um i'll hand her your business card um and then head out And you go and you get into this, uh, uh, you weren't looking at it. You just handed it to her.
01:07:01
Speaker
Well, yeah, but my character or my supposed person would have been handing the business card to them. And even I subconsciously, when I hand the business card, my business card to a client, I'm already thinking of where I'm going to be pointing out my phone number.
01:07:16
Speaker
and other points of content.
Sovereign Containment Corp Discussion
01:07:18
Speaker
experiment All right, I will give you, hold on, let me hide some of this info real quick um so I can show you all just the logo on the business card because I don't want you to see the full bio yet.
01:07:33
Speaker
So do all that, save. and wow So your business card, it's a, here's the logo on the business card.
01:07:46
Speaker
um The word sovereign is, this is, it's SCC. Now up at the top where it says those words, that's AI not knowing how to spell things, even though i it told it how to spell things.
01:08:02
Speaker
um It says sovereign containment corp. um And so yeah, you guys, support um its Sovereign Containment Corp. Suspicion confirmed, Ron. And so then you are able to um and that's where the vision ends um and then of course your vision allows you to ask a question which I must answer honestly. the Without the question, do I know what the SCC is? um Probably not.
01:08:40
Speaker
Let me think. Let's see. Because your character, he wasn't raised a hero or anything like that. He's only been a hero for a few years. and um Yeah, he wasn't. Yeah, so I don't think he would really know anything about them. When did my dad sell my soul?
01:08:56
Speaker
That's kind of up to you. Maybe he's born with it Maybe it's me. Maybe.
01:09:01
Speaker
It doesn't seem like it's been super long though. Like, I mean, more than a year, but not like for years ago, you know, like you weren't like four or something. in the last two or three years Yeah.
01:09:14
Speaker
Um, what's your question then?
01:09:21
Speaker
Your, your vision question. The super easy one to ask would be who, who was I in the, in the vision? Is that what you're going to ask?
01:09:32
Speaker
feels like I already subconsciously know. Yes, um that's my question. i You were Marcus Hawthorne, sales representative for Sovereign Containment Corp.
01:09:45
Speaker
Marcus Hawthorne.
01:09:51
Speaker
That's a villain name if I ever heard one. Toprun Containment Corp. Now, i remember me earlier when we switch back we switch back to van, and the is empty on the inside.
01:10:04
Speaker
You find pamphlet. Is it empty on the outside too? gree um you guys find this van um and the van is empty on the inside you do find a pamphlet um yeah on the outside too It, well, yes.
01:10:26
Speaker
um It's a black, well, actually, it's, I was going to say it's a black, um you know, blacked out Windows van, but no, it's it's just like a brown, well, it is a black van. the windows The windows aren't aren't blacked out or anything, but it's just, ah it's a van.
01:10:42
Speaker
um The van you know, empty of of people um though you do see a uh like a stack of business cards and some pamphlets and things like that um and some boxes in the back along with like several plaid suits um and uh uh all identical suits um And the business cards... He's got ugly suits and a creepy van? The business the business cards are to um ah SCC, Sovereign Containment Corp.
01:11:20
Speaker
Guys, where's
01:11:25
Speaker
my clue? but Sorry, I'm putting it in the notes right now. My personal name was Marcus Holt. Marcus Hawthorne. Ooh, does my thing give me a thing?
01:11:40
Speaker
That's the sad thing about this. There's not many places I can write my notes on my character. Yeah.
01:11:47
Speaker
Yeah. ah um Is this like a... So my legacy's been around for a while. Would my legacy have any knowledge of this?
01:11:59
Speaker
Um... So I think... so I mean, your legacy certainly might. um So I think that... Reese has certainly heard of Sovereign Containment Corp.
01:12:12
Speaker
Calyx, I doubt that's something you would have any idea of. um Nightfall maybe ah because you are part of the legacy.
01:12:23
Speaker
um and so But Rhys, you've definitely heard of it. This is the company that designs prisons for supervillains. Oh yeah, I've heard of it. Because this is this is the company that my grandfather gets really, really mad about.
01:12:39
Speaker
El Brujo de Sangre gets really mad about. He talks about him all the time. Like, why are we locking up? We should just kill him and drain their powers. Evil is evil, it always will be evil. I just re-shared it, except now it has the the bio. um you You guys are free to read that. Nice.
01:13:00
Speaker
You shouldn't be able to edit it but you can see it on, I think. yeah Yeah, I can't click it. Charles Darwin Dawson. Sorry. um I guess I will, for the audience, I'll read it.
01:13:11
Speaker
um Sovereign Containment Corp. was founded by the late Charles Dawson in the bustling metropolis of Houston during the Silver Age of Superheroes. Originally... as ah originally founded originally as a small startup specializing in advanced containment solutions for powered individuals.
01:13:27
Speaker
With a team of brilliant engineers and scientists, SCC quickly gained recognition for their innovative technologies and their commitment to public safety. As the city's populations of superheroes and villains grew, SCC expanded its operations, becoming the go-to provider for containment facilities and devices tailored to the unique powers and and abilities of each individual.
01:13:49
Speaker
Over the years, SCC forged partnerships with law enforcement agencies and superhero teams, establishing themselves as a trusted ally in the ongoing battle against crime. Among the notable villains that SCC has helped to contain are Blaze Master, a pyrokinetic supervillain known for causing chaos with his fiery abilities.
01:14:09
Speaker
SCC developed specialized containment chambers capable of withstanding extreme temperatures to neutralize his threats. I guess I don't need to read all of this description anymore. Shadow Serpent, a master thief able to manipulate shadows and darkness.
01:14:21
Speaker
And Techno Terror, supervillain who hacked into the city's infrastructure to to wreak havoc. um Recent news, Charles Dawson passed away two years ago and was replaced as CEO by longtime employee Gregory Kane.
01:14:37
Speaker
um I will say, ah okay, so Siphon, do you mention your vision seeing what you saw to Darkstrike?
01:14:51
Speaker
So is this like the... superhero or she's like part of my team or she like kind of low-key sleaze my comic page. Darkstrike? Yes. Darkstrike is, uh, was assigned by the principal to help, well you guys were assigned to help her, um, find these kidnapped people.
01:15:11
Speaker
But if, if it's possible that she could have seen it, she would have seen it. The vision? Yes. Oh, I don't think you can share the visions with people.
01:15:23
Speaker
And yes, i my eyes would have glowed or whatever they did in real. the and then I would have told her about it. Okay.
01:15:33
Speaker
um My eyes were blown. She like quickly pulls up her phone she's like, SCC, I've heard of them, and like pulls it up. and And so, yeah, you now have the same bio that the other guys did. you know she She pulls up the the Wikipedia page off on them real quick.
01:15:49
Speaker
like These guys capture, what they they build prisons for supervillains.
01:16:00
Speaker
where we know Marcus Holt was the last person to see this, most likely last person to talk to her before she disappeared. Not saying that he has any malintention, it's just, nah, he's a mal. Remembering the business card, was there an address or any type of... It's it's got, like, a phone number, email address, and stuff like that.
01:16:23
Speaker
I can call the phone number. um Rings a couple of times, and then... ah aye Guy answers the phone and he says, uh, Hey, is this Marcus?
01:16:35
Speaker
Mark, he, you just interrupt him before he can even speak. And he's like, uh, yeah, this is Marcus. How can I help you? We're tracking a person that you're the last person. Siphon, siphon, siphon. The superhero siphon. Oh, you, you don't know me.
01:16:49
Speaker
and Answer my question. what What was your question? Were you interested in Christ? Instead of trying to talk over me, sir, how about you listen to the hero?
01:17:02
Speaker
Okay, what what was your question, sir? You were last known to be in contact with an Ember. Ember Flicker?
01:17:15
Speaker
Yes. Or Ember the Manic Burning Person? No, I'm joking.
01:17:25
Speaker
After she turned down your offer, she disappeared. Ember Flicker disappeared? Maya disappeared? ah It appears so. So I've spoken to gods.
01:17:37
Speaker
I mean, yeah, i I spoke to her about so several, of it was on Tuesday. um i I spoke to her for, you know, 20 minutes or so, and she she wasn't interested in what I had to offer, and so I left.
01:17:53
Speaker
Went on to my next appointment. And look...
01:18:01
Speaker
um It would be pierce the mask to pierce someone. to That's sort of your insight check. Yeah. Where is that? what do i There's too many fucking candles. I can't see shit.
01:18:16
Speaker
Mundane.
01:18:19
Speaker
Goddamn. So he keeps on talking. He's like, ah yeah, I didn't... um I mean, does pierce the mask on a mist do anything bad?
01:18:30
Speaker
Doesn't look like it, no. um like i didn't or yeah I haven't spoken to her since Tuesday. um Look, it's it's really a bad time. some Someone actually stole my car keys and I'm i'm walking over to the police station to to see if they can um help me out.
01:18:48
Speaker
I guess I could have just called the police station, it occurs to me, since I have obviously have a cell phone, but this is God not realizing that he's stupid. um but yeah Someone just ah you remember with intelligent someone just um ah so someone stole my my car key, so I've i've got to go ah go talk to the police and give a statement.
01:19:10
Speaker
Yes, sir. You said you said that ah Siphon's phone is is set to automatically read out text messages? Yes. It is canon now.
01:19:23
Speaker
So a bunch of text messages have been coming through. him Yeah, and one of and one of them mentions the smelly creeper van. Ask him if he drives a van. Smelly creeper man. Well, I guess the the salesman is done talking to me.
01:19:41
Speaker
And then I turn to the kid and i go, sorry kid, that was just a lot that just happened. Um...
01:19:51
Speaker
The kid's like, that was that was really cool. Can I can can i get a selfie?
01:19:57
Speaker
And I look at Darkstrike. Darkstrike shrugs. She's like, do you want us to do like a cool pose or something? She like pulls out her bow and and and knocks an arrow and you know strikes a pose.
01:20:10
Speaker
Yeah, I'll take a selfie. Do you strike a pose?
01:20:15
Speaker
I more squat next to the kid and put like
01:20:22
Speaker
to two finger guns up to my temples. Yeah. And he gets it he gets a selfie with himself and then you guys in the background. yeah And then he runs off to go be like, Mom, Mom, like look, I met some some more superheroes.
01:20:40
Speaker
And then Mom's just like in the laundromat washing her clothes and she's like, Oh, you shouldn't run off like that. I didn't even know you were gone. No. yeah man you should pay attention to one.
01:20:53
Speaker
Lots of memes and gifs that are very inappropriate and content. So very inappropriateness and content, most leaning towards him making a move and getting shot down. a few about Kalix and Iron Sand having a weird relationship like that chicken superstar.
01:21:13
Speaker
And I go down also one tech question asking if plants eat. care off the Notification things like that. We can just flip that. Getting alerts.
01:21:25
Speaker
Yeah. I just do that real quick.
01:21:31
Speaker
I keep showing my text messages to iron sand and Kalex before I send them like I'm ruining his night. ah
01:21:41
Speaker
Fire's hand is over here just being a spoon. Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. So the kids video... Here's a question for you, GM. As I am... Sorry, man. Go ahead.
01:21:52
Speaker
No, go ahead. As I am ah amusing my friends, does that help them get rid of any of their... Have I comforted any of my friends by showing them how silly am? You could roll comfort and support. What's that? That's mundane, right? You roll mundane. Meow.
01:22:09
Speaker
Meow. have to ah You boys like it. You like it. So on a hit, they um mark potential, clear a condition or shift their labels.
01:22:21
Speaker
um So you two can do one of those things. I'm going to clear condition because I've got three of them. Okay. i'm going to i'm going to clear a condition because i've got three of them okay
01:22:37
Speaker
Yeah, I know I've been out of the loop for a while, boys. i I heard that y'all had a kind of a rough go fought, like, cartoons. Some shit. So, you know. It comes back. man There we go.
01:22:54
Speaker
Alright.
01:22:57
Speaker
and That's a nice little change. A little change that'd be like, yes, finally. No more of that.
01:23:04
Speaker
I'm a fucking kill. Yeah, so so the van, it's got several of those suits. It's got some pamphlets which you know kind of ah just showcases some of their containment facilities that they've built. and um and it's um yeah ah
01:23:26
Speaker
it's It seems like this guy's living out of his van most of the time, so maybe he's not a great salesman. Well, actually, you don't know it's the salesman, but you don't technically know it's his van.
01:23:39
Speaker
Huh? i like you like He works for that big corporation. like They must not be doing well. This dude lives in here. It smells like old Taco Bell and Taco Bell farts. And sadness. I fucking hate these bastards.
01:23:57
Speaker
how You have a reason. I can't tell you how many people I personally know that are inside of that place. I... I... Oh, buh-buh, you know. you know you You don't want to know where these these balloons come from, either.
01:24:13
Speaker
And then I keep looking at Iron Sam, he's like, all these people that I know are locked up, im like, well... I mean... yeah Buddy. yeah You know? i I get it, but the fact of the matter is is that no matter what your power is, they've got a cell that can turn it off.
01:24:31
Speaker
That's terrifying. I don't understand how they do it. Realistically, in india in the world I used to come from, they we've been trying to figure out how they do it for years.
01:24:44
Speaker
her Sorry, they've been trying to figure out how they do it for years for you know their own personal benefit. No one really can figure it out. market told So, Reese, how um how long has it been since you have ah stopped being a bad guy?
01:25:02
Speaker
Officially, I've been i've been on the straight and narrow for about two and a half years. Okay, okay. um some some Some prejudices take a while to go let you go away. Oh, no, no, no, yeah.
01:25:18
Speaker
Like how I've already demonstrated, I'm still not 100% kosher with the cops, and the cops really aren't that kosher with me. Yeah, you might remember that um two years ago, the CEO of um the company, ah SCC, had had passed away. That was like, you know, the the the villains and criminals of the town kind of threw a party for that.
01:25:42
Speaker
um That was two years ago. So you weren't you weren't a villain anymore, but that's probably something you would have would have been aware of. Yeah, you totally got that invite. Yeah, you definitely got the en invite. I was enjoying it more, but I definitely probably partied in my free time.
01:25:57
Speaker
Yeah. You know, probably but probably by myself. Didn't want anyone else to probably be involved in that, but I was probably happy about it. Yeah, and and so there's a new CEO to the company for the past two years.
01:26:17
Speaker
Interesting.
01:26:21
Speaker
And his salesman's car was stolen by a minor hoodlum. Keys were stolen. And then that guy disappeared.
01:26:31
Speaker
and see So, um after a while... we need to go do is go beat up the salesman. Yeah.
01:26:42
Speaker
After a while, a tow truck comes along, and um I don't know if you guys are still looking around the van. Real quick, before ah before the tow truck comes along, would we consider this something important?
01:26:55
Speaker
Yes. Consider what? The van. Would the van be considered something important? ah That's up to you.
01:27:05
Speaker
Reason being, I wanted to try to ah remove another condition, and but the condition to clear this condition, ah sorry, but what I need to do to clear this condition is hurt someone or break something important.
01:27:18
Speaker
So it has to be something important to you and that breaking it is like, we'll have consequences.
Ethics of Breaking Into the Van?
01:27:28
Speaker
Um, like breaking this van, ah especially since you don't know that whoever owns this van is bad. It's just some guy owns a van, you know, someone owns this van and you could break it. um there's no one around to really see you do it, you know, other than your friends.
01:27:49
Speaker
Um, i mean, they might get mad at you for some reason, but, um,
01:27:55
Speaker
I don't think okay casually breaking this van will properly blow off the steam. never mind. Alright, so what do you guys do? um After a while, a tow truck does come to take a what take the van away.
01:28:15
Speaker
the tow truck's trying to run around, know needs to be towed. Oh, um the the owner called in, said it was um ah his keys were stolen.
01:28:27
Speaker
ah and And yeah, so we're just here to... to He's having to tow back to ah back to his ah the office he works at. And how did he know it was here?
01:28:40
Speaker
Because he owns it. The keys were stolen, not like the van. Oh.
01:28:46
Speaker
Oh. I know this. I have not communicated this to you.
01:28:55
Speaker
well like well the salesman actually rate as good as I... turn to him. He's gonna be like, wait a second. His office?
01:29:06
Speaker
He... He has an office? That's what he said. he said, drop it off at the office.
01:29:16
Speaker
what are You your kid's supposed to be ah superheroes or something? He like he like looks you guys up up and down. um
Tow Truck & Van Investigation
01:29:23
Speaker
Don't worry. the The crime's already been reported to the cops.
01:29:28
Speaker
No, some kids were hanging around oh were playing around this van and obviously an unmarked van where kids are playing. There were some concerns that we had. but if it's this Also, look at the balloons, bro. Look at the balloons.
01:29:40
Speaker
Smells like Taco Bell farts in there. um kind of aoonon but He's like, look, I'm not here to judge, I'm just here to tow. And he he starts, you know, hooking his that chains up and stuff.
01:29:57
Speaker
Yeah, sure. I'm going to walk over to the other guys. We're 100% following this shit over to the over to this fucker's office.
01:30:08
Speaker
Yeah, 100%.
01:30:11
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. True, true, true, true.
01:30:15
Speaker
All right, so y' all the all the tow truck you know hooks it all up, starts starts going. how How do you guys follow? I don't know. can i have um I'm going to literally levitate. I'm going to do the creeper thing again. I'm going to sit on top of the little block while I move Kalex as the creeper, and I'm also going to go ahead and float back.
01:30:40
Speaker
Baby, don't tell me. Nightfall. I'm going to put Nightfall along with us. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to wait for the car. I don't like looking. No, no, no, no. I don't need you to carry me like a little baby.
01:30:52
Speaker
You've got a car? Sorry, baby boo. We ain't got a car. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm
01:31:00
Speaker
going to wait for i'm wait for i'm away for siphon in the mamacita. You know what I'm saying? Like... Don't carry me like a little baby. as you As you're saying that, you're literally going to start hovering off the ground.
01:31:13
Speaker
Put me down.
01:31:16
Speaker
I have a very large sword gun that I will put inside of you if you don't put me down. And then you'll fall. That's fine. won't die. How big is it? It's like the size of...
01:31:33
Speaker
like the size of That's about my leg. boy happy um So, Syphon, are y'all going to come and pick up Nightfall?
01:31:47
Speaker
I mean, they can try. He's not going to be there. Oh, you're still taking him? Even though he doesn't want to? Yeah, 100%. I'm going to shoot you, Bill. I mean, this sounds like something Frank would do. I think I'm going to literally look back and be like,
01:32:06
Speaker
Come on. And then you're going to keep on flying. you gonna You're going to do the come on and I'm going directly engage threat.
01:32:19
Speaker
but well Oh, I miss you. Something's going off in the air. That or or he does a cool like pops up up metal shield.
01:32:30
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, one, I do that. And then I'm going to unleash, I'm going to, can I roll freak to unleash my power and just temporarily remove the firing pin from his gun?
01:32:44
Speaker
ah you Well, you said already that your powers don't work on his stuff. Because they're not ferro kinetic or whatever. if why not be i did say Yeah, buddy, because they're made out of brass and obsidian.
01:32:57
Speaker
What's up? It's like I did it on purpose. What's up? and Well, actually, ah you never floated off. Then that means you never had any reason to shot at me. You just shot at me. Oh, we just assumed you encased him in metal like you do to Calix.
01:33:11
Speaker
Like you do to Calix. You do the same thing to me. Ah. I guess I could do that.
01:33:19
Speaker
Alright. Do you let him down now? Or or are we retconning the whole thing? um Because you couldn't move him without doing that.
01:33:30
Speaker
Yeah, we'll retcon the whole thing because, yeah, I forgot that I that i did say that. i can't ah I can't move him. we do I can't move him. You don't get that potential then. um moved it away. i got rid of You don't need no potential for PvP now.
01:33:45
Speaker
All right, so, Siphon, do you come along and pick up Nightfall? Gotta remember that name. night Nightfall. Yeah, it is.
01:33:59
Speaker
Just remember the best of the best comic that Batman ever had, Nightfall. I'm gonna go
Motel Observation & Salesman Confrontation
01:34:05
Speaker
grab a drink. I'll be right back. all right um
01:34:09
Speaker
So, Siphon, you were coming to pick him up?
01:34:14
Speaker
Yes. Alright, so you go to pick him up. Rhys and Calyx will arrive before you, before you I guess. um So the tow truck drives, it's about a 20 minute drive to wherever the tow truck is going and it eventually pulls into a um budget budget motel parking lot and um puts you know puts the car into a we creepier and corrossor into a ah parking lot into a parking spot. yeah
01:34:48
Speaker
um And then he like ah gets, so i guess this that he sits around for a minute um and then a random car, ah nothing special about the car, just random four-door sedan pulls up.
01:35:06
Speaker
ah A guy gets out of the back seat um and then the car drives off. ah And I guess, yeah, no, it's just, it's just,
01:35:19
Speaker
I don't know. Do y'all look at Do y'all? I would have tried to see a license. You're not there yet, Siphon. Well, by now, you you might be there by now. it's You weren't far behind. um Yeah, a car drives up. A guy gets out, and it's this guy.
01:35:36
Speaker
oh God, it's the salesman. I knew it. Why does he look like that? He looks like he would touch me in high school. um This guy gets out, walks over to the to the tow truck driver.
01:35:47
Speaker
um The tow truck driver, like, he gives him some money, and then the the tow truck drives off and leaves the van behind. um Salesman goes over to the van, grabs... This is entirely speculation and curiosity.
01:36:00
Speaker
Does he walk up with a way too much fucking energy? hide Oh, yeah, yeah. for hopeful Well, actually, he's looking a little bit um dejected at the moment. He goes goes over to the van, tries to open it realizes the tow truck driver must have locked it or something.
01:36:15
Speaker
Um, and it's like, fuck. And then he goes, goes up to the hotel. I mean, unless you guys interfere, he goes up to, um you know, it's, he goes up to the second floor, um, goes to a door swipes as little, actually now this, this hotel doesn't even use key cards. It's got, um, like the, you put a key, a key into the door knob, not even a, um,
01:36:40
Speaker
Not even a deadbolt. ah The knob, which is like the... While his back is going into the room, I look at everyone be like, does anyone know how to open a car?
01:36:52
Speaker
They have the key. They have the clicker. The key is run, but the clicker works. for Somehow.
01:37:02
Speaker
I look at Darkstrike. This is your mission. You go look in the truck. ah didn't they just do that? But okay, cheat she goes and she's like, God, it smells like Taco Bell in here.
01:37:14
Speaker
Why does it need... Why does it need... Why does it need so many of the same suit? um But she... look at the back. you'll find bullet You'll find balloons. It's really weird.
01:37:26
Speaker
She... arm reaches, she, she pulls her quiver off her back and, um, unscrews, uh, like a little, uh, unscrews the bottom of it. And there's like a, uh, uh, she, she pulls out like this thing from the bottom of it, which is, uh, uh, extra, what am I thinking of the word spot where stuff goes, you know, pouch, I don't know.
01:37:50
Speaker
Um, a compartment, a compartment at the bottom. And it's got, uh, some, some like, ah my phone is ringing. And it's nothing. Okay.
01:38:02
Speaker
She pulls out a compartment, pulls out a little a little um like kit out of the compartment, um and then sprinkles some dust in the ah in the van on the steering wheel and starts getting his fingerprints.
01:38:17
Speaker
um She's got a little, a small, like a travel size ah forensic forensic kit. yeah Is this the world where like all the superheroes exist, but No. About the same? um No. no i if you're if By that you mean like in our old game, no.
01:38:37
Speaker
um but yeah the superheroes that we The superheroes such as Spider-Man, which nobody really cares for Spider-Man, he's a real he's a crappy ripoff of the real-life superhero man Spider.
01:38:48
Speaker
Yeah. ah we We did discuss that in an episode. yeah but So the MCU, all of that's there. you know that There's superhero movies about fake superheroes.
01:39:01
Speaker
People are like, why do why don't y'all do a movie with the real superheroes? Like in The Boys. So but ah okay ah so i his watch so then I look up, while she's in there working, I lean over to Siphon, I'm like, look at her in there working a picture, little detective. and fairly price and play i that going to be on the other on the other side I want to go talk to the business person the salesman yeah
01:39:32
Speaker
oh yeah go talks on and he all of us all us need to go up to the door and just be like ah stop one i'm going alone
01:39:41
Speaker
ah You want to go alone? Yeah, I'm going alone. Okay. um Do you knock on the door? Did he close?
01:39:52
Speaker
I imagine does close the door. Yes, he close he he goes inside. Okay.
01:40:00
Speaker
I don't have an ability that lets me see the ship. I just have telekinesis, memory manipulation, vitality drain. don't know.
01:40:13
Speaker
the In the cheap motel, the blinds are closed? Yeah. Does anyone ever leave their blinds open?
01:40:22
Speaker
Only freaks would leave their blinds open. I can't see anything inside. Look up and look out my window. that's My blinds are open and open. You might be able to see just a small sliver of the bed or something.
01:40:38
Speaker
um his ah his the The jacket part of the suit, the suit jacket is thrown on the bed, um but you don't see him in the room. He might be in the bathroom or something.
01:40:50
Speaker
Yeah, I just wait there until he's like coming to the door, and then I'll like signal to... dark strike to like for her to get out and then I'll knock from the door.
01:41:03
Speaker
Okay. um Well, he doesn't come back to the door anytime soon. You do occasionally see the glimpse of him you know pass by the window or whatever as he's doing things in his hotel room.
01:41:16
Speaker
So then I i just... You hear the TV turn on. I'm just gathering information on him. Just gathering information on him. um getting fingerprints. in ah she she takes one of the business She takes a few of the business cards and a couple of the pamphlets and puts them into a baggie.
01:41:35
Speaker
um you know Just gathering evidence, ah this guy seems to be connected to what's going on. And then I'm like, cool, cool, cool. And then I lean over to the other two and I'm like, should we do stuff like that?
01:41:49
Speaker
like Is that what heroes do? that why she has an A? That's why she has an A. Right?
Heroism Ethics Debate
01:41:55
Speaker
while yeah While I'm up there, you say you see me take off my hoodie and put on a different mask.
01:42:03
Speaker
A different mask? Yes. why While he's putting on a new mask, rees sorry Iron Sand is going to be is going to talk to a dark stra is going to be ah pull up to be like,
01:42:17
Speaker
man so you know what you know like i don you
01:42:23
Speaker
You know my buddy Siphon, right? actually really He's actually really awesome. i didn't talk She glances at you and she's like... um she She glances at Reese, glances over at at you know Siphon up there, and then she's like, yeah, he's alright.
01:42:43
Speaker
I really can't get distracted, though. I'm distracted. I mean, know you're I mean i'd just like to point out for the good of the group, if we're trying to be sneaky, I am dressed like a giant meatball warrior of legend. Like I make Lancelot look soft.
01:43:04
Speaker
And that is literally tree beard from Tolkien, right? Like that's fucking fucking fucking
01:43:13
Speaker
like, we're not sleep the fucking parkking lot like this is and and this go somewhere This is a good point, she says. You guys kind of stand out like a sore thumb.
01:43:24
Speaker
um But I'm done in here. She's she's done getting the fingerprints, grabs a couple of things she's going to grab and gets out and quietly closes the door. Does she pick up my jacket? dark strike on Oh, you threw your jacket down? Is that what you said?
01:43:39
Speaker
I took off my jacket, put on a different mask while my back was turned. Well, she is over by the van. You would have just thrown your jacket off the hotel, like, second floor, you know, balcony type thing. I don't know if you... Do you call that a balcony when it's the room... The... Like, you know, y'all know what I'm talking about. Like, those hotels they... The balcony hallway?
01:44:00
Speaker
Yeah. good to Yeah. yeah It's the veranda. Veranda? Okay. for Veranda. All right. yeah throw my check it on Yeah, you know, they like they like it when they're thinking they're fancy.
01:44:15
Speaker
Okay, so you did these things. Are you doing anything else? No. You're just standing there? I'm standing there watching guard, and if Darkstrike tells me to come along, i will most likely come along, but I would like to talk to the salesman.
01:44:34
Speaker
um The salesman is currently laying in his bed. ah the TV is on
01:44:41
Speaker
it's it's I should say that i should probably say it's evening by now.
01:44:49
Speaker
It might be getting, you know, you some of you people, some of you you kids might be expected to come home at some point in time. um They know what my this job is. shit Iron Man is going up to his up to his door.
01:45:05
Speaker
He's going to break down the lock and he's just going to walk into his room. You gotta unleash your powers for that, homie. Yep. I mean, he probably is. I'll be home.
01:45:18
Speaker
ah
01:45:21
Speaker
So, i so freak breaking down a lock is not something that would be difficult for your character. You can just do it. um Okay, cool. So then, yeah, I'd literally just walk up, break down the ah break down the lock, and just walk in.
01:45:34
Speaker
How's going, buddy? We gotta to have the words. He's like, what what the fuck? And rolls out of the bed, um lands on the opposite side of the bed from you, and like pulls pulls the blankets with him, as if that's going to somehow defend him.
01:45:49
Speaker
Now I am going to roll free, and I'm going to turn some of the some of the sand that makes up my my jacket, and i'm looking continue I'm going to make these little wristbands and ankle bands, and I'm just going to literally hold him in place, so
01:46:08
Speaker
Uh-uh. Don't it. Do I need to roll for that? Um, no. Sweet! So then, yeah, I'm just holding him in place then. um Okay, he's like struggling. what What do you want with me?
01:46:23
Speaker
Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on. So we're gonna come up behind you because you got a head full of steam, right? So me and the plant man are coming up behind you. I'm assuming, Kalix, you're coming on me or you're staying with the hot chick by the car? Uh, I Yeah, I'll with you.
01:46:37
Speaker
She will, at this point, also come since Reese has thrown stealth out the window. Yeah, and so whenever he goes loud and puts him down and then, like, ties him up, like, I'm going to provoke Reese, right? And be like, hey, hey, that's not how we do things anymore.
01:46:53
Speaker
All right, Ironsan? There was a time where that was okay for what you are and what you were. But you're not that anymore. We don't do that. We don't do that. Fix it. Reese is going to look at him and like, he's not hurt.
01:47:07
Speaker
He's perfectly fine, and I haven't heard him. That means that he's perfectly within zero role. Cyclone, I agree with him.
01:47:20
Speaker
What? I'm changing, because I don't have the same mask on, I don't have my hoodie, I am not siphon right now. Oh, okay. Because I'm cyclone. Yes, I'm cyclone.
01:47:32
Speaker
And I say, no i was like, I look back at you i was like, hey, man, like, really, when you think about the people that you were afraid of back in the day, the guys were going to give you to his people, they wouldn't have done that to you.
01:47:43
Speaker
Because that's what villains do. And you're not that anymore. All out and, you know, craziness aside, that's not you anymore. I didn't I didn't hurt him. He's fine. Look at him. He peed on himself.
01:47:54
Speaker
Look at him. he's the so okay he's sort of He's, so he's afraid he's afraid, he's, as far as I can tell, he's unpowered. That's what they do. When they're afraid, they pee. But the fact of the matter is, he's not hurt.
01:48:08
Speaker
And as far as he's concerned, he's not going to be hurt as long as he answers all over all all these questions. I am quite concerned about being hurt, actually. I'm saying, can't someone steal a whole topic of debate with you? Hey, hey, hey, hey,
01:48:23
Speaker
okay We'll see if this works. Dawn's superior to influence my friend. You're provoking him? Yeah. Okay, so um you got an 8 on a 7 to 9.
01:48:37
Speaker
ah So basically you're trying to get him to release the guy or at least ease up on him? For PCs, on a 7 to 9, choose one. If they do so add to the team pool so I can make him...
01:48:51
Speaker
So yeah, basically Bill, he's trying to get you to ease up on this guy. If you do it, um you you don't have to do it. It's your choice. If you do it, it'll add a team to the team pool.
01:49:03
Speaker
um If you don't do it though, you mark a condition. If you refuse, if you keep um going in hard or whatever like you're doing. Probably. how did you how did you describe How did you describe it Nightfall?
01:49:15
Speaker
What you're doing? Yeah, how how how did you so how did you try to provoke the... and like and you're That you're acting like who you used to be, not who you are now. You're trying to change. And now you're being Iron Sand the monster, not Iron Sand the hero.
01:49:30
Speaker
yeah Okay.
01:49:33
Speaker
Iron Sand's gonna look at you. He's gonna look back at him.
01:49:39
Speaker
Fine. he's gonna he's gonna He's gonna release the sand. to the corner. <unk> go to go and he's going to go to the go to the corner And he's going to step down on the chair that's in there next to the free next to the free Bible that's ah that's probably still on the nightstand.
01:49:55
Speaker
And he's going to look he's goingnna you know post up right there on the chair. He's going to be like, and but he's not going to take his eyes off him. That's good, man. You did good. and he You did good.
01:50:09
Speaker
Y'all talk to him, and then I go over there and I'm like talking to you like, you did good. You all right. You know, um In my recent travels from Texas to Oregon and back and such, um not one of the hotels we stayed in had a Bible in the nightstand.
01:50:25
Speaker
I was like, what is this? i I've been ripped off.
01:50:30
Speaker
ah can i like more i
01:50:34
Speaker
um I need to see how many team y'all are supposed to currently have because I think I think three was left over. um
01:50:49
Speaker
Where is the thing on team? ah So you guys can go it can continue though. I'm just looking through the book for something. I will respond though. This is only of minor importance, ah the book looking.
01:51:05
Speaker
yeah You guys go ahead and ask the questions.
01:51:11
Speaker
what do you What do you people want with me? Look, man, you know that you're tied up with this so OCC thing. Obviously, you work for them. And from what I understand, somebody that we're looking for was talking to you before they disappeared, right?
01:51:23
Speaker
So, you know.
01:51:28
Speaker
Wait, wait. Someone just called me about that, and and he's like, are you the guy who just called me? I told you I didn't know anything about that. You're not. People lie.
01:51:41
Speaker
but I was like, yeah, yeah, I get that. Somebody probably called you. Somebody probably talked to you about it. Another superhero? Sure. People lie. So you told those guys, I don't know anything. But because of the amount of Taco Bell farts, the suits, the creepy balloons...
01:52:00
Speaker
Listen, i'm not the one I'm not the one who put those balloons in my thing. That was Frank's idea. No. He's like, look... I think he's going chime in at that point. He's going to be like, listen, you've talked to several people and one of those people that went missing even stole your keys.
01:52:18
Speaker
You're connected somehow. Wait, the guy who stole my keys went missing? What do you mean? Yeah.
01:52:27
Speaker
Well, we were trying to apprehend that man and he rounded a corner. Something happened to him. He disappeared. There were clues that matched the other disappearances left behind.
01:52:40
Speaker
And, you know, the thread seems to be you and OCC. So all about you, man. It's all about you. So look, that guy, he he, okay, I was walking, you know, through through the neighborhood um on my way back to the van.
01:52:58
Speaker
He approached me, um offered to, you know, sell me whatever he whatever he's peddling. And as a joke, I was like, well, how can I interest you in state-of-the-art containment systems from SCC and then I handed my business card.
01:53:13
Speaker
He laughed at me, shoved me to the ground, stole my keys and ran out and and um and then well i ran away. i don't know what happened after that. ah That was now probably an hour or two ago.
01:53:34
Speaker
and talked to you talked to and We already know that you talked to a Maya Rodriguez, but did you also talk to an Alex Chin or a Tyler Johnson? Alex Chin. Alex Chin. oh it just kicked me out of the game for some reason.
01:53:51
Speaker
I think I clicked exit game by accident. um
01:53:56
Speaker
Loading back in.
Alien Involvement Speculation
01:53:57
Speaker
um Hang on, let me bring up those dossiers again. um Alex Chin, can y'all hear me? Okay good, it was just a game. Alex Chin, um the ah oh, he was the telepath. ah I talked to him a while back, yeah. ah he um Actually, I'm not sure why i was i even talked to him.
01:54:21
Speaker
the the The boss told me, you know go and see if this guy's interested in our services. But ah he was, if I remember right, he's just a therapist. um So I don't know. What service are you offering exactly to these people? ah Well, any really any of our services technically. we are we We do have a new product and he he digs around he he goes he goes over to his briefcase hes and and opens it up and pulls out one ah pamphlet and he's like, well, we're actually offering a new product. it's um i He he um hands like hands, I guess, to Nightfall, because you're talking, hands the pamphlet to Nightfall.
01:55:01
Speaker
And it's like, this is sort of a um it's a... It's a product you canm ah that you... and so It's sort of a ah security system. It alerts you when um powered individuals our enter the perimeter of the the system, essentially.
01:55:17
Speaker
um it It scans them, alerts you of... ah their their power, um both type and approximate strength.
01:55:32
Speaker
it's It's one of our newest products. um I guess, I mean, the way I was spinning it towards ah Mr. Chin was, um ah you know, it can, it it can not all supers, or not all people who have superpowers realize that that's what's going on. Some people have very strange and disturbing powers, and, um you know, I told him perhaps this could use him he could use this to help him figure out ah exactly what those powers are and, and kind of alleviate to their, their fear of those powers.
01:56:09
Speaker
Hmm. What about Tyler Johnson? you you talk to him too? Tyler? Um, I talked to so many people. Hold on, hold on. He, he pulls out like a little notepad, uh, or no, he pulls up his, uh, out his phone and and scrolls back through the calendar and he's like, Oh yes, Tyler Johnson. uh,
01:56:28
Speaker
ah ah The guy who can fly, yes. Same deal. um ah um Talked to him. but said Yeah, kind of the same thing. Just tried to offer him our products. ah he um He works. He's an aerospace engineer.
01:56:48
Speaker
ah Again, you know, just... I just sent a group text message to the motherfucking boys because I didn't want to ask an embarrassing question in front of Darkstrike.
01:57:01
Speaker
Right? But, uh, yeah, so like let's have a text conversation. Did we do that? We did not. Because Tyler, if we're dealing with astronomical crazy alien shit, he's probably who the aliens are after, and everybody else is residual overflow. You know what saying?
01:57:24
Speaker
The ability sense surface thoughts and emotions, ability to generate small sparks through flames. There's also the electric guy who's now also been taken. So, electricity minor electrical interference along with radio waves, ability to generate small sparks of flames, sense surface thoughts and emotions, and reducing weight and gliding through the air, gravity minor gravity manipulation.
01:57:52
Speaker
Yeah, like, I could see Maya or going to this Alex guy because she's got spice and nostalgia from being a firefighter, right? And then Tyler's probably super fucking stressed out and then also has weird alien dreams and some shit.
01:58:05
Speaker
So he's going to Tyler. and tell He's going to Alex too, right? And then they meet in the hallway. They have a relationship. And then these all three get jacked by the aliens. I'm back. Right? And then the other guy gets jacked by the aliens because he's actually looking for the salesman because the salesman is currently selling...
01:58:22
Speaker
a thing that would let people know they were coming because supers quotation marks aliens with, you know, regular alien people powers is probably super too. Yeah.
01:58:35
Speaker
I say all that in a text message, a really long text message that goes to the group and all of our phones go off at the same time, except for dark strikes. um Yeah, while you were typing that, he was he was looking up Tyler Johnson, and he's like, yeah, yeah, Tyler. I did talk to him if I remember right. um he wasn't a very long conversation. he pretty much shut me down, wasn't interested. I gave him a pamphlet of my business card, and then I i i moved on.
01:59:07
Speaker
Your boss sent you to all of ah to ah to all to all three of them? um Well, Ember, I mean, yes, he did send me to all these. Ember, or Maya, Ms. Rodriguez, was not specifically who I was there to see.
01:59:26
Speaker
i was actually just there to try to sell our products to the to the fire department um to get them to sign on with the the new the new stuff. Right, but you spoke with her. Yes.
01:59:39
Speaker
Why you speak for specifically? The police chief, um I think he just didn't feel like talking to me. He he very quickly pawned me off on her.
01:59:51
Speaker
what's the name of your but What's the name of the boss that sends you your ah that sends you that tells you where you need to go, and who else have you spoken to since you spoke to all these people? ah i've He he um hands you Well, he kind of shows you his appointment list in the phone. um he has been to the police station. He's he's spoken to um a few businesses, um like ah a few contracting companies, some security companies.
02:00:22
Speaker
ah
02:00:24
Speaker
As far as you know, none of these people have gone missing. None of them were really... i mean, I guess there are names to all of them, but the only ones who have gone missing were those three and now this this fourth guy.
02:00:39
Speaker
anything is worth ten of so I mean, i just i just kind of i just kind of ah go around, make the rounds to anyone who ah might be interested in our services. To be honest, it's yeah let's sort of like door-to-door sales, except I'm going business to business.
02:00:57
Speaker
I will say this ah Mr. Chin and Mr. Johnson were unusual choices. Those were on the list. ah The list, I mean, it it just...
02:01:09
Speaker
it It comes from our our list of leads. i I couldn't tell you exactly who added those names to the list or well, Ember wasn't or Rodriguez wasn't on the list.
02:01:21
Speaker
um That was just to go talk to the fire station, but we get a list of leads that are compiled by um various ah lead hunters at corporate.
02:01:34
Speaker
Do you have an up-to-date list of leads? Uh, he, let's see. Um, now you're going to make me think of someone new.
02:01:46
Speaker
The next, the next target. Um, uh,
02:01:53
Speaker
but that's a, that's a good, uh, good idea. oh Okay. Um, various, he he hands you his list. This is like, this is at least the most up-to-date that I have.
02:02:04
Speaker
um And it's got a few, um you know, a couple more security firms, things like that. ah There is a, um there's also ah i get me I feel like you need to roll something um to notice anything specific about this list. ah o what Pierce the mask, maybe?
02:02:37
Speaker
Pierce the mask would be to look into his motives. This is the situation.
02:02:49
Speaker
yeah assess these system I guess you could do assess the situation um just none of those questions are great for looking at a list you know um but I want to roll to see if you would even notice anything out of the ordinary mirror whoever wants to look at the list I guess it makes more sense if it's me because your superior yeah i minus two I have a minus one in Monday and then I have petition of guilty
02:03:22
Speaker
So I can't mess the situation very well. Here we go. Superior. Submit. You it. Shit. God. Well. You're rolling awful tonight, bro.
02:03:35
Speaker
Yeah. well that's ah That's a miss. That's good for my guy.
02:03:44
Speaker
Throw it out there. Do I? Could I maybe also try to throw it out there? Yeah, I mean, we're all looking at the list trying to figure something out. I mean, this is just a bunch of letters and numbers and shit, man. This is a bullshit-ass itinerary.
02:04:00
Speaker
and That's right, i removed I removed a condition earlier. That means that I can i don't have a minus for this anymore. Doesn't matter. Wow. Can I roll just for the shits and googles? Sure.
02:04:14
Speaker
So it's mundane. Can roll for me since I'm not next to a little... No, it's superior because we're trying to assess the situation. Do i have to mainly put in my minus two?
02:04:24
Speaker
No, it does it for you. ah okay Okay. Also, Ron, since I failed that one... Everybody. Everybody missed. Wow. Did I didn get a minus... Oh, wait. No. Get added another potential since I failed that.
02:04:40
Speaker
Do what? Since we failed that, do we all get to roll out another potential? Yes.
02:04:50
Speaker
Big fail. How are we all sucking this back? How did all three of us roll in that one? I'm about to give you all the list.
02:05:01
Speaker
Maybe we can look at it again when we have more information. I a roll, I get a potential, right? Do I? Yeah.
02:05:12
Speaker
Just making sure every time i fail a roll. Okay, now have three potentials out of five.
02:05:25
Speaker
Do y'all remember who Shadow Strike works with? Or Dark Strike? She works with Silk Shadow. one of the One of the, oh my god, what did y'all name the superhero group? The Golden Trio, I think, or something like that.
02:05:44
Speaker
The Golden Trio? the the the one of the the top superhero um team in town um i feel like y'all called it the golden trio or something like that uh these are the names on the list of his next like several leads callahan legal group victor maddox ironclad protective services grayson pearson holloway llp sentinel risk management agent Ignore the Aegis.
02:06:13
Speaker
No, you know what? Sure, he'll go speak to Aegis. This is a subsidiary of the main Aegis company. Aegis, Vanguard Solutions, Marisol Delgado, Stroud and Vela's Attorneys at Law, and Black Arrow Security Group.
02:06:26
Speaker
It looks like there's two individual names on there, and the rest of them are corporates, or at least businesses. Yeah. I see those, too. Victor Maddox and Marisol Delgado.
02:06:41
Speaker
I look at Darkstripe and I go, do you recognize any of these people?
02:06:47
Speaker
yeah Do any of those businesses jump out to us for any Those arrows of security groups stand out to you and I like look or look at her bow. She's like, look. Not all archers know each other, gosh.
02:07:03
Speaker
It'd be cool if you did. It'd be real cool if you did right now. Like Matthew McConaughey cool. you Like, alright, alright, alright cool. You know what i mean?
Suspect Investigation Plans
02:07:14
Speaker
You'd be a lot cooler if you all did.
02:07:18
Speaker
I'm for it. i'm down. how Alright.
02:07:27
Speaker
I mean, I guess the the next thing would be to probably go and see these individuals. Maddox and Delgado first. Especially if none of these other things jump out at us. I guess we could goog them.
02:07:38
Speaker
We all have smartphones. Let's give them quick goog. Everybody grab a name. Goog it. no up I will 100% go with that, but on the condition that Eric, not and not your characters, Eric is never allowed to say goog again. That's fine.
02:07:57
Speaker
I won't say it. You know who will say it? Kieran's going to say goog all the time. Just give it a goog, boys. Now I actually want to hear now actually you want to hear it in person. you're totally You should find a time to say during a meeting.
02:08:09
Speaker
I will. Yes. I look at Iron Sand and I say, I swear if you look up Aegis Vanguard Solutions, I'm going to hit you. i'm not a I don't mess with Aegis, okay?
02:08:23
Speaker
not only Not only do I have that. Everyone knows Aegis. Yeah, I know that, but I've got bad blood with them and they have very bad blood with me. They do not like me. So who's looking and he doesn't like who who's looking into what?
02:08:37
Speaker
If we have to go talk with Aegis, I'm not going. i say I look at Darkstrike, I'm like, I think by default, though, you have to look up Black Arrow Security Group. I'm sorry. Fine.
02:08:49
Speaker
and then she pulls out her phone and starts Googling. It's ironic and funny. Come on. And the sales guy is like, so so do you think, you so you guys think that... Strong, willing participant in these disappearances? Yes.
02:09:06
Speaker
Huh. Yeah. Yeah, it's a conspiracy, right? Like, and it gets weird, man. I'm not gonna lie to you. Like, you know, everybody's like superheroes. Who needs them? Fucking aliens, bro.
02:09:17
Speaker
Right? Like Asian Aliens History Channel. Fucking aliens, bro. I don't fuck aliens. I mean, sure. I'm not saying it's foolishness, but it's fucking aliens.
02:09:28
Speaker
Yeah. You're missing out. Gummer conspiracy. Plan guy. Okay, man.
02:09:38
Speaker
So, I mean, with all that said, like legitimately, if there's anything else you got that you're like holding out on or you think it's like a little detail that don't make no sense, you know, like were they wearing like a weird button or, the you know, do they all have like the same color eyes, right? Or did their eyelids go sideways?
02:09:57
Speaker
I mean, though those three so people specifically –
02:10:04
Speaker
As far as I know, that there's there was nothing weird about them other than they all had powers. Why were you told to specifically go interview them? They were on the list. But why were they on the list?
02:10:16
Speaker
You just don't question what's on the list? My boss tells me to do something. I mean, my job is to... Are there other people? i feel like we've already been over this, but who is your boss? Well, I mean, by so my direct supervisor is um jake Jake Jones.
02:10:34
Speaker
The list comes from corporate. Oh, God. I guess we're burning down your entire office, dude. I'm sorry. i get there Are there other people in your position?
02:10:45
Speaker
If you have if you might want to update it. So I'm the only salesman here in Houston um right now. ah We've got a team, you know, that there are other salesmen in other cities um across the country.
02:11:00
Speaker
Well, across the world. Wow. Although we are primarily ah based in here in the U.S. We haven't quite quite and gotten a foothold in Europe yet.
02:11:14
Speaker
Are you going be staying here staying in town for a little while? I mean, he can't go anywhere, he doesn't have car keys. Well, I mean, yeah, I've i've got to finish the list. I mean, I've i got to make some money. I mean... Where do you go when the list is done?
02:11:30
Speaker
Uh... I... To corporate, I guess. I mean, i i don't go I don't get to go to corporate, no. I just call call up my boss and he emails me the next list. Okay.
02:11:42
Speaker
What's your boss's contact information? ah he He seems to hesitate for a moment and then hands, you know, kind of like pulls up his contact info.
02:11:56
Speaker
It's like, I mean, i don't think he'd like me giving this out to a random stranger, but he yeah he glanced. His eyes flicker over to Ironsand and then back to you, and then he shows you the the the number.
02:12:11
Speaker
The number Jake Jones.
02:12:15
Speaker
jay jim um By the way, you but you've been eating and way too much Taco Bell. You need to stop by somewhere and get some actual food.
02:12:26
Speaker
That's not processed trash. ah I had Burger King last night. What are you, health guru bannery? Jesus Christ! mean I'm going to say this again, and and if you stop early again after I say this, I'm going to slap you, and i don't care how many people are in this room to see it.
02:12:43
Speaker
Listen, do you see a i even a microwave in this hotel room? All I live off of is fast food, okay? um And then Darkstrike interrupts, and like, Black Arrow Security Group just looks like a regular-ass security group.
02:12:59
Speaker
um they they They sell private security to events and stuff.
02:13:05
Speaker
And I hold out 10 bucks and I say, hey, Marcus, I'll give you 10 bucks for Taco Bell just to piss off Iron Sand.
02:13:17
Speaker
I'm a Google Victor Maddox. He says, i i I'll never turn down some free money and text it. Actually, you know what? everybody just Everybody, let's just sit. We got time, right? Let's sit.
02:13:30
Speaker
Hey. We're gonna we're going to door dash some like good food. What's something you really wanna to eat, bro? Like you haven't had in forever. You know? but like what Irishman is going is going to like it's going to look over at you and be like, are you fucking serious?
02:13:48
Speaker
What, door dash?
02:13:51
Speaker
Bro, we can door dash our lobster. You know what I'm gonna sit we're just gonna stay here We're just gonna sit here and ordered an order door dash while we got while we got this guy. We could be getting some real information. Yeah, let's Google like you're supposed to. and The good Lord invented the smartphone.
02:14:06
Speaker
He gave Steve Jobs the inspiration to make that for you. Google with it. Give it a Goog. Yeah, we're giving some Googs out. I'm Googing this place up.
02:14:19
Speaker
He says, I pulled Nokia 7300 flip phone and look at it and look back at it. It said, we don't all have smartphones. Well, you're a plant. um He says, i you know, it's been a while since I've had Church's chicken.
02:14:37
Speaker
Good lord. Church's? You are in the hood, so let's order that shit. You know it's going to be Boston. You know what? Timmy Chans. I'm going change your life. We're getting Timmy Chans.
02:14:51
Speaker
and
02:14:55
Speaker
but Oh, fucking damn it. Okay. ah Darkstrike, you're looking up. Victor Maddox. There's not a lot on this guy.
02:15:07
Speaker
um You find, like, maybe, um
02:15:13
Speaker
like, a Facebook page. he Let me see what Google decided about this guy real quick.
02:15:23
Speaker
Oh, shit, dude. I love it. Do what? These are real people. I love it. Where did my bio on this guy go?
02:15:36
Speaker
I'm going to use my legacy LinkedIn account and Glassdoor to get all his profiles. Yeah, you get like a yearbook picture of the guy. um he's He graduated in 2021 um and he he he played some football.
02:15:56
Speaker
He played football in high school. um he's He's got a Facebook page. He never really posts anything but like um cat memes. The big comments that I'm looking at used to be the Border Directors of Legal Services and Incorporation by President Barack Obama on December 17, 2009. I think I pulled up the wrong guy. I'm going to Google the one I was going to say too now.
02:16:28
Speaker
Who is on Legal Group? I'm going look them up. Pierce and Holloway. The law firm.
02:16:42
Speaker
The Houston law firm. Interesting. So I've never logged into Facebook on my... Oh shit, the life. Hayden, did you say you googled one of these legal groups?
02:16:55
Speaker
oh shit the game's come into real life so haden did you just say you you googled one of these legal groups Yes.
02:17:06
Speaker
And it's a real legal group? its It's a law firm. So I just randomly generated those. The official name is Callahan Law. Real thing. Accident and Injury Lawyers.
02:17:17
Speaker
Okay, that's what it is. Holy shit, y'all. Ironclad Protective Services is also a real thing. Oh, yeah. For sure.
02:17:29
Speaker
Well, definitely if they're real things, they are exactly the company they are in real life. ah they They cover personal personal injury lawyers, burns, electrical injury, laceration, spinal cord, scarfing and disfigurement, wrongful death, insurance claims, product liability.
02:17:54
Speaker
Did you have ai generate that list? Yes. Because it yeah changed like individual names and things. but Yeah. Thirdal companies will do all these things. Yep, Sentinel Risk is also a real one. Yeah, Sentinel Risk Advisors. Yeah, so Victor Maddox, he he played football in high school. um he ah A few pictures on his Facebook are him like wearing different vintage watches.
02:18:19
Speaker
um And it says that he is in his profile, the the thing that says what your job is, he's Logistics Coordinator for Northbridge Freight Solutions. Yeah.
02:18:32
Speaker
He is not married. um Family relationships. ah His... Hold on. hey I mean, I'm just giving you some info.
02:18:44
Speaker
Because ChatGPT. I'm looking at Marisol Delgado. His father is Thomas Maddox, and his mother is Diana Maddox, and he has a sister named Eve Maddox.
02:18:59
Speaker
um Marisol... Does he have ah another brother named Az Maddox? No. No.
02:19:10
Speaker
Marisol? um What about his cousin? If one I see on LinkedIn.
02:19:19
Speaker
all black arrow ah Black Arrow is a real security agency, but they're rated 0 out of 0 stars and they're located on the Philippines. To say I'm not surprised. So let's see, and then Marisol, um that's who you were looking up.
02:19:37
Speaker
ah So she's got, um you find her, ah like her Facebook um profile or Twitter or something, because it didn't, it didn't hurle well, no, you don't find her LinkedIn, actually.
Background Check Revelations
02:19:54
Speaker
Damn. um her she's got a For her profile picture, it's like a blurry photo of a sunset of the um ah Houston skyline.
02:20:06
Speaker
um that get blurry Her ah cover photo, it it just looks like a poorly taken photo um when the sun is like you know kind of fucking with your phone's camera.
02:20:18
Speaker
She's got a black and white shot of a coffee cup on cluttered desk. coffee cup on a cluttered desk um Her occupation just says consultant.
02:20:30
Speaker
um Relationship status, single. ah She's got a few friends. um her
02:20:39
Speaker
Well...
02:20:43
Speaker
i'm I'm giving too much hints. Pierce the mask! okay Pierce her mask. Pierce mask. Pierce something. Oh, Pierce something. I probably shouldn't make you roll because you've got to be like looking for maybe you shouldn't roll that. i don't know.
02:21:01
Speaker
Why is so many misses? Well, I'm going to retcon that roll. You never rolled it. Um, because it's really not a piercing mass location. You do know her profile is very vague, very few posts, couple of friends.
02:21:18
Speaker
Um, this is the Marisol person, right? Yeah. Um, very Very few posts, just a couple of friends. It looks like a fake Facebook profile.
02:21:35
Speaker
I don't see any other thealuntary like other searches on quick Google searches anything like that. All those other things. that They seem to be just various security companies and law firms.
02:21:48
Speaker
No, I mean about Marisol.
02:21:52
Speaker
um Like any other Google searches on her? Is there like any other?
02:21:59
Speaker
Marisol, let's see.
02:22:03
Speaker
You find an article um like just some old like snippet from an article saying something about she um was listed as a suspect a in a ah
02:22:23
Speaker
car uh in a in a um what do you call it uh a car that what are the people that steal cars and then then um if i out are no they steal the cars and then uh strip them for parts and um yeah yeah she was listed as a suspect in a in a chop shop um ring or whatever uh but then was cleared um
02:22:52
Speaker
Have we ever followed a list any of the other people that went missing had previous records?
02:23:00
Speaker
You didn't delve deeply into other any of the other people. You've just got there um buy their dossiers that I gave you.
02:23:10
Speaker
to Go ahead and real quick Google Maya Rodriguez and see if anything comes up for like She was arrested five weeks. Maya Rodriguez comes up with, like, several pages worth of of TikTok YouTube videos.
02:23:23
Speaker
um her so Her saves, went her, like, saving a person from a burning building. um That's her one, like, besides being a hero of being a firefighter, that's her one, like, superheroic moment was when she, there's a building that they thought was...
02:23:42
Speaker
it They thought they had cleared the building and then they heard someone like, um you know, screaming from the second floor and this thing was a complete blaze so she charged in using her powers to not burn to death and save the person.
Salesman's Activities Monitoring
02:23:56
Speaker
um But were there like any previous to that? Like any news articles be like, this person commits arson or this person stole from XYZ?
02:24:09
Speaker
You do find a few um like A few comments and stuff saying, I bet she started that fire so she could she could save the day and stuff like that.
02:24:21
Speaker
But no actual... Nothing of saying like any charges have ever been brought against her.
02:24:27
Speaker
Those are just like random comments and they're often downvoted and stuff like that. downvoted. What if I also googled Alex Chen and Tyler...
02:24:41
Speaker
yeah Alex Chin, nothing comes up like that. He's never shown any, um
02:24:50
Speaker
what do you call it, any like superhero related activities or criminal related activities. um You find an article that he wrote um about aerospace travel, the, you know, something scientific, stuff like that.
02:25:06
Speaker
Stuff that's above my brain level right now.
02:25:12
Speaker
He's an aerospace engineer. Is he the one who's an aerospace engineer? ah No, he's the therapist. Never mind. That's what you find for Tyler. Just articles on aerospace engineer stuff. Tyler has never done anything. suit Neither one of them have done the super, um, thing.
02:25:29
Speaker
Similar stuff though with Alex Chin, just like you find, like you find his website, um, where you can like sign up for therapy with him and things like that. And you find he's got, uh, four and a half stars on, um on, on Google and, and various stuff like that. They seem to live, these two seem to have lived very normal, um, lives, uh,
02:25:55
Speaker
they just happen to have powers. Only um Ember Flicker ah
02:26:02
Speaker
has been you know kind of a public figure. um And then of course there's the guy who just went missing, Static Jack. He is a known um criminal um and has static electricity powers.
02:26:16
Speaker
wow Nothing in... yeah lead it was It was worth at least knowing. Yeah. um
02:26:25
Speaker
Yeah. So, and you guys look, you look into the various security companies. Like, I mean, they're businesses. So business always be doing shady stuff, but there's nothing like that stands out. And when you ask, if you ask the the guy, um he's like, well, with those, I'm just going to speak to whoever will talk to me.
02:26:46
Speaker
um ah With the the two named Marisol and whatever the other one was. um I can't remember at the moment. um Marisol and Maddox.
02:27:01
Speaker
matt
02:27:04
Speaker
Is that the name I said? Yeah. ah Victor Maddox. Marisol and Victor Maddox. He's like, those two, those are also two of those weird ones. um I don't know why they're on my list.
02:27:15
Speaker
ah But I have to talk, I'm supposed to go talk to them directly. you mind if we not stand near you, but watch as the aftermath of you talking to them?
02:27:31
Speaker
I mean, I don't know. after you're gone I don't know if I should be talking to anyone anymore if if they're all getting kidnapped. It's not your fault. You're just doing your job. You're going to go about business as usual until everything's figured out.
02:27:47
Speaker
And plus, it only helps find the ones that are lost now. um Okay. You have to do it. Okay, well, okay, who should I go talk to first?
02:28:04
Speaker
I turn to Darkstrike. i Two out of three, I win my assault.
02:28:11
Speaker
Are we playing rock, paper, scissors? Yes. Okay. How do we... ah We just go rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Okay.
02:28:22
Speaker
And I'll shoot. All right. Ready? One, two, three, go. Rock, paper, scissors. yeah Paper. yeah This doesn't work.
02:28:35
Speaker
um Both of y'all roll a D3. Whoever rolls highest wins. Okay. D3? He said D3 for some reason.
02:28:48
Speaker
I don't think I'm rolling the highest. Oh, shit. Slash goes before the R. Yeah. I'm doing the wrong one.
02:29:00
Speaker
What the fuck? So the slash is in the right place now, but it's the wrong slash. Yes. Is it r d three Slash Rd3, yeah. Alright, we both shot paper. Alright, let's... yeah that was a one and That was a one and a one.
02:29:21
Speaker
Don't you dare roll, don't you roll a three? Oh my god! why
02:29:28
Speaker
We both rolled a three, okay. Again. right That's a three and a one. ra you little one So does that mean we're talking to the other person? Victor Maddox? Yeah, you won.
02:29:41
Speaker
Okay, now, do y'all want to do that tonight, or do you want to to um wait till next week?
02:29:50
Speaker
Because it's, what, 10.30 now? Yeah. at this time thirty Yeah, it's 10.30. Probably best to wait until next week so I can plan next week. yeah um and Plus, we plus we found out and we found out some good information.
02:30:06
Speaker
yeah
02:30:10
Speaker
Um, you, you took it and why I wasn't expecting for you to ask to see who he's going to next. I don't know why I didn't think of that. That's, that was a good idea, but, um,
02:30:21
Speaker
So I didn't have anything prepared for who he'd see next, but that makes sense that it's like, let's see who he talks to next and see if they disappear. you know um So now I will prepare that scenario.
02:30:34
Speaker
um Newsflash, they won't disappear. No, I'm joking. Newsflash, nothing's going to happen for the rest to anyone else he talks to. Damn. They're on to us.
02:30:45
Speaker
Now I feel like there's no reason. yeah um Okay, so then at the end of the session, i have to do a thing.
Session Reflection & Future Plans
02:30:54
Speaker
i just gotta to find the thing.
02:30:55
Speaker
We have the end of the session...
02:30:59
Speaker
stuff that I say at all. Oh yeah, we're supposed to see if we work together as a group. Yes. All right, let me look at the book so I can find. Before, during, after the first session.
02:31:11
Speaker
Is that after the first session or all sessions? I know it's all sessions, but. Ah, session moves, page 86. At the end of every session, you guys will choose one, grow closer to the team,
02:31:26
Speaker
grow into your own image of yourself or grow away from the team so hayden what do you feel you did
02:31:35
Speaker
i was definitely very cooperative with dark strike and definitely tried to get so grow grow close goal i feel like we did i grew into the team Okay, so explain who made you feel welcome, give influence to that character, and clear a condition or mark potential.
02:31:57
Speaker
um Now, does she already have influence over you? I assume Darkstrike is who you grew close to.
02:32:06
Speaker
She does not have influence over you. so if that's yeah yeah So you can add her to you are influenced by her. I have influence over her. Yes.
02:32:17
Speaker
And now you are also influenced back. um And then you can clear a condition or mark a potential. Marking a potential does what again?
02:32:28
Speaker
That's the um experience point.
02:32:32
Speaker
I'll clear my guilt.
02:32:37
Speaker
All right. And then um Bill, did you grow closer to the team, grow into your own image of yourself or grow away from the team?
02:32:50
Speaker
In particular, I feel like I grew closer to the team, in particular to ah Nightfall. Okay. as you know he helped me come was because He kind of reminded me I'm not that person anymore.
02:33:06
Speaker
So you give influence to Nightfall. um So that means he has influence over you.
02:33:17
Speaker
I just added it to Nightfall. And then you can clear condition or mark potential.
02:33:26
Speaker
um I'm going to go ahead and clear condition. Okay.
02:33:32
Speaker
um And then Eric, same questions. Grow closer, ah grow into your own image or grow away?
02:33:43
Speaker
If he's here, he's muted.
02:33:48
Speaker
like Okay, we'll do Frank. Frank. My bad. Oh, wait, he's back. i mean I'm back. I'm back. I think I grew closer to the team because I want sweet, sweet text messages. Yeah. um So who made you feel welcome?
02:34:03
Speaker
Uh... Ironsand, because my best friend wasn't answering his text messages, but Ironsand giggled. Okay, Ironsand. So Ironsand, you, I believe, already have influence over him, because he was influenced by everyone. does. that means that I believe you get to shift his labels one up and one down of your choice.
02:34:24
Speaker
Oh, shit. Let me just double check, but I'm relatively certain that is what happened. Page 47...
02:34:38
Speaker
Oh, no, that's making the hair characters, so 73. Oh, that's 71. I'm like, this is not the page. 73, influence. um
02:34:53
Speaker
If you would gain influence over a PC you already have influence over, instead of marking any changes, you immediately tell them to shift one label up and one label down. So what do you think? One label up and one label down, Ironsand. What's he shifting?
02:35:06
Speaker
Alright, I'm going to shift Savior up and Mundane down. And then... Okay, good.
02:35:19
Speaker
Yeah, if your Savior had already been three... um then you would have actually taken a condition. ah Oh shit. Your mundane, um did you put that down?
02:35:33
Speaker
Okay. It just didn't change for me. um Oh, there it goes. so Weird. Okay. And then, um oh, and then you can clear a condition or mark potential.
02:35:45
Speaker
ah yeah good yeah Mark potential. And then Frank, i position same three questions. Grow closer, grow into your own image or grow away.
02:35:54
Speaker
Um... You kind of took a back seat this game. Yeah... Uh... What was the options again? Grow closer to the team, away from the team, or into your own image of yourself.
02:36:10
Speaker
Uh... Probably away from the team. Okay, so... Explain why you feel detached, and then take influence over you away from one of the characters.
02:36:23
Speaker
Uh, well, I felt like I didn't have a whole lot to contribute. Yeah, unfortunately. I'm a big, dumb tree person who, you know, is not super good at, like, the nitty-gritty investigation stuff.
02:36:37
Speaker
Not that I can't hop in, but... So the only character who has influence over you is actually Siphon, so you take that influence away from him. oh Aww...
02:36:51
Speaker
Boom. Okay, i took it a away for you. And then, who have have we done everyone? We did you, Hayden, right? Yeah, we did you first. we Hayden, we did yours, right? yeah And we did Bill, Eric, and Frank. Okay, that's everyone.
02:37:05
Speaker
ah So yeah, this was a little bit of a more chaotic game, I think, because i had to remember how to play for one. um But I'll have more of a plan next time.
02:37:18
Speaker
now that i I feel comfortable with the game again. ah
02:37:23
Speaker
I think I know what this song you shared is, but I won't click it because it'll play on the recording.
02:37:29
Speaker
I'm looking at your Discord post, Hayden. um I was your... I think I'm called something weird in this game. Storyteller?
02:37:41
Speaker
Probably just Storyteller. I was your Storyteller to- tonight, Ron Bjork, and with me was Frank. Hi everyone! I'm Frank, I was Calix.
02:37:52
Speaker
I had fun playing with you all and i hope you enjoyed listening. We also had Please tune in... Oh, ah go ahead, go ahead. No, it's fine, obviously. You paused!
02:38:04
Speaker
In-game and out of it, I'm unimportant, so just go ahead. You can find me on social media if you look hard enough. and That's all about all I got. Eric!
02:38:17
Speaker
Hey, I'm Eric. I played Nightfall. ah Glad to be a member of the team. and ah I think we did well. think we did well, boys. And Bill. I was Bill. I was Reese slash Ironsand.
02:38:30
Speaker
Had a little bit of a relapse back into the old ways, but thankfully with my team, I was you know kept in check. And I hope everybody has a great night. I love anyway i love you all out there.
02:38:44
Speaker
Thank you for listening. And Hayden. Hey, it was good being here. we For once in a little bit, we were actually competent superheroes.
02:38:57
Speaker
We're learning. That's strong word.
02:39:00
Speaker
Well, I was going to say you didn't do anything bad, but Bill kind of did, so... um Only a little bit though. care development It was a little bit of BDSM. Yeah.
02:39:14
Speaker
Uh, yeah. Um, you can find us, uh, on, uh, idmroleplay.twitch.tv slash twitch.tv. I don't, on Twitch, on idmroleplay.
02:39:27
Speaker
You can email us at idmroleplay at gmail.com. I just checked. We have no emails from you people. So, you know, I know you exist. Um, And also I created a Blue Sky account. I'm pretty sure it's just IDMRoleplay on there.
02:39:44
Speaker
um Because that seems to be the one that the podcasters are saying is taking the place of Twitter because no one likes Twitter anymore. ah Yes, IDMRoleplay.bluesky.social. I don't know if you need all of that to find us, but that's what it says.
02:40:00
Speaker
and um i thought Twitter was X now. Yes, it's X, and and ah the podcast community doesn't like it anymore. I never did anything with it, so...
02:40:11
Speaker
um But every podcast I listen to doesn't like it anymore. ah And that was our game for tonight. Have a great night, everybody. I'm going to end the recording, starting with Twitch, because that's the live one that I can't edit. Stop.
02:41:27
Speaker
welcome citizens to another
02:41:33
Speaker
Sorry, perfectly timed, my blood. You're good.
02:41:40
Speaker
You're just like Frank all over again, man. Welcome, citizens, to another episode of Integrated Dice Management presents H-Town Heroes. a Frank, why? Everybody else was going
02:42:04
Speaker
Alright, Frank, you can be the DM tonight. I'm just, I'm not DMing anymore. Welcome, citizens, to another episode of H-Town Heroes, brought to you by IDM Roleplay.
02:42:18
Speaker
I will be your dungeon. I'm Calix. I, Calix, will be your... Got Wood?
02:42:30
Speaker
I'm curious. Do you still call it Morningwood? It's Morning Glorywood. It's gross. Alright.
02:42:44
Speaker
all right
02:42:49
Speaker
felt brown
02:42:56
Speaker
Thanks everyone for listening. The intro and outro songs you heard today was Fox Soul Revolution, created by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com, licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 license, creativecommons.com, licenses by 4.0.
02:43:11
Speaker
The night is over, and have a great day, everyone.