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H-Town Heroes Session 9
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Come and listen to this exciting season finale of H-Town Heroes!
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Transcript
Introduction and Character Setup
00:00:18
Speaker
Greetings, heroes. No, that's not how I start this one. Yes, it is. No, I call you citizens because I'm talking to the audience when I say greetings. Uh...
00:00:29
Speaker
Welcome citizens to another episode of Integrated Dice Management presents H-Town Heroes, a masks a new generation game.
00:00:39
Speaker
um I am your game master this session, maybe? Game master. Yes, I am your game master this session, Ron Bjork, as i I've been the game master the past several sessions, so you'd think I'd remember that. And with me tonight is Bill.
00:00:59
Speaker
Hey everybody, I'm Bill. I'm going to be playing Reese, AKA Iron Sand, and I'm really happy to be here. We also have the corpse burying Hayden.
00:01:11
Speaker
Hey, um not in this game. I don't, I don't carry corpses in this game yet. um We just haven't discovered them yet. I will be happy to inform you guys when I start carrying dead people inside my mental capabilities.
00:01:28
Speaker
Then we have um the the the person playing the character who might like a corpse that was buried, Frank. Hi, I'm Frank. um I'm not sure exactly what I mean by that. You might want to just like stand on that corpse and soak up that dirt. You know, that's good for a reason.
00:01:48
Speaker
i don't I don't like the implication implication that I'm now the just body disposal of this team. No, no, no. we have None of us have become that person yet. Yet. But all we're saying is that eventually this is going to be a role that you are going to need to achieve. Okay, well. Yeah, biodegrade the corpses. I'm pretty sure I can do that in a lot quicker than like four seconds. so ah But yeah, no, I'm Frank. I'll be playing Calix tonight. um I am the one that took the longest making food this evening. So I get the hat of of shame.
00:02:21
Speaker
You can't see it, but it's there. we have the person who speaks to corpses, Eric. Sorry, I had ah had to cough off Mike there for a second.
00:02:32
Speaker
I'm playing Ciro, also Nightfall. like His name is Nightfall. ah If I remember correctly, I think I just burned my hands off saving Frank or Calix and Fire Daddy went into a The Netherrealm with Siphon. not Not quite yet, but... No, you're on the way they're they're on the way. They're on the way. We're going to be opening up to some shit.
00:02:56
Speaker
So, yeah. let's ah Let's see what happens. Well, on speaking of see what happens, ah Siphon, take a powerful blow as you appear.
00:03:08
Speaker
I don't even know where you appear yet because there's flames the moment you appear.
00:03:15
Speaker
Is there way I can spend a doom track and do a adult power? What adult power were you thinking? Just shoving him away from me.
00:03:26
Speaker
um no Telekinetic. Wield your powers. Wield your powers. ah You could try that.
00:03:39
Speaker
If it's more contained, like I would more contain him. Like put an energy bubble around him and just be like, ah fuck you. yeah Yeah, you could give that a try.
00:03:52
Speaker
and Like to the point where it's trying to crush him.
00:03:57
Speaker
You're trying to crush him with your bubble? Yeah, like I'm really trying to like contain him and to the point where like I don't care that it's ah hurting him. Sure, go ahead and roll for it. I'll take a doom track and then this is directly engaged, right?
00:04:12
Speaker
lord have Yes,
Battle Strategies and Engagement
00:04:13
Speaker
yes. That don't sound like you admired and ultimately tell admire but Does he have to take a doom track if he's using a basic move?
00:04:22
Speaker
He's using the adult move. That's wield your powers, right? Is that what he's trying to do? Yeah. That's what he wants to do. Yeah. Any pluses or minuses?
00:04:34
Speaker
Not now. Full hit, baby.
00:04:42
Speaker
You know what? but i learned You did roll that. um
00:04:51
Speaker
ah I was also going to say, um another one looking at these adult moves, another one that might have been good was Overwhelm a Vulnerable Foe. Trying to breathe.
00:05:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:05:10
Speaker
No, those effects don't look very good to you though. so ah So you wield the power, so you get to choose two of those. So
00:05:22
Speaker
it's on the map. It's on the map wield your powers. um i'm looking ah There's not, you're looking at wield your powers. Yeah, you use the adult move, so it's wield your powers, not directly engage with threat.
00:05:38
Speaker
so
00:05:41
Speaker
Wait, create something useful from your environment, neutralize an opponent or threat, at least for now, or take hold of something vulnerable to you. This is a reminder. Tomorrow is trash day. What are you reading? that It's to the left of directly engage with threat. Did you scroll to the left?
00:05:58
Speaker
It's under adult moves. Wield your powers. This is reminder. Oh, there it is. Tomorrow is trash day. Frank, tomorrow's trash day, by the way. Yeah, I'm sorry.
00:06:11
Speaker
like a fucking trash out. I kind of need it on this thing.
00:06:18
Speaker
What does it mean take hold of something vulnerable to you? Your testes. Whatever. I will take the last two. Create something useful from your environment and neutralize an opponent or threat at least for now.
00:06:31
Speaker
Alright, so neutralize them. Obvious what that is. um You are, you know, you've put them in a bubble. Um... uh create something useful from your environment do you have an idea of what that might be i have an idea depending on where you teleported to um yeah i teleported into like my my pocket realm right yeah your pocket realm um what do you mean by what else by that So I think probably the create something useful from your environment could just be as simple as you neutralize them and manage to shove them into your prison thing. Oh yeah, that's what I was going to say. Yeah. yeah
00:07:14
Speaker
Which little bit of a, um what do you call it? um A very quick resolution to this situation. It's like a climactic fire daddy fight. For now.
00:07:25
Speaker
you You shove him into this prison thing um His flames erupt around him and stuff for a minute Your prison um ah
00:07:39
Speaker
wa Quivers for a second but seems to hold Okay So he's locked right Yes now I want to Go ahead I was going to say, now we switch back to the um scene that you just teleported away from. okay um Everybody else is back there in the hall. um And the flames have subsided. ah
00:08:14
Speaker
What is your name? Nightfall's hands are charred. Some, you know, Calix is surprised to find that he was not particularly burned. Calix is in a Groot-like
00:08:27
Speaker
dome formation over the group at the moment with his face looking inward at them.
00:08:35
Speaker
saying I have roots. Yeah. And that that's where you guys are. You guys don't even know that um Max is teleported away technically or siphoned.
00:08:50
Speaker
So ah Nightfall, like he has his hands on the Groot's back. No, Groot. Calix's back. His skin's all blackened and charred and everything and he just kind of falls down, because falls on his knees because it hurts.
00:09:03
Speaker
Right, like it's burned away his armor and stuff. He's like, ah. Is Siphon okay? anybody see Siphon? Oh, shit. Ah. ah Reese is going to run over. He's going to tear off a piece of his shirt and try to start bandaging up your hands.
00:09:21
Speaker
Yeah. That wasn't smart, huh? Oh, shit. Nah, you're fine. It's fine. Nah, nah, nah. You're fine. You're fine. we're go to get We're going to get you looked at. we're Don't worry. we're gonna you're You did great.
00:09:35
Speaker
You did great. All right, let's just get you bandaged up. Come on. So now I have shirt mittens.
00:09:44
Speaker
It's okay. If you're... at Just don't think about how much your nose is itching right now. And then Reese is going to walk out, going to turn to the rest of the group be like, you guys okay?
00:09:57
Speaker
Wait. where Where's Max? Where's Syphon? He was on the other side of the room. Wait, you do know my real name.
00:10:09
Speaker
I think everyone knows your real name. Yeah, I think everyone knows your real name, but...
00:10:15
Speaker
He was on the other side of the ball. but Well, my hot wannabe Latina girlfriend doesn't know. yeah know your name is max And she's not she's not here with you. no I know, but they just said my my real name in front of her because she's there and with them.
00:10:31
Speaker
No, she's not there. No, she's not there? thought she was. Who got kidnapped? You guys... Oh, do you mean Backswing. Yeah, Backswing's there. Backswing has seen you out of costume. Oh, yeah, she has. because Yeah, she has. Yeah, you pretended to be nephew or something.
00:10:50
Speaker
You were a Taco Bell date. Damn. no got has I'm doing this mostly just so i can do a drag to her. ah You took the most dangerous fire user in the and the known universe away from and your allies to your house to lock them up in your secret realm dungeon.
00:11:15
Speaker
So you can brag to your spicy Latina girlfriend. It was crazy. When you think about all that he's done just in the roles that we've had, it has proven that he is, without a doubt, one of the best fire users probably in the world. Because, seriously, 2,200 degrees just to get iron to liquid. If you're looking to destroy it, 2,500 and above when it starts being damaged.
00:11:38
Speaker
so um
00:11:41
Speaker
At that moment, ah what is her name again? Darkstrike comes over y'all's comms, because you guys have some sort of comms. um it's ah We've discussed this in the past. that the cooler yeah but She's like, yeah ah guys, um Siphon's signal just went dead.
00:12:02
Speaker
what What happened in there? Oh.
Post-Battle Reflection and Prison Escape
00:12:07
Speaker
That's just like him doing his thing. He's either dead. you You guys don't know he teleported away. Well, I guess so you know the Blazemaster is also gone, so... There's two things. either Then again, next?
00:12:22
Speaker
yeah yeah There's two things. He's either dead and burned beyond ashes. Like... as his ashes like And then i look at a pile of dust and I kind of kick it and I'm like like, that's him.
00:12:36
Speaker
Or... Or he teleported to his little like sex dungeon thing that he has. Right?
00:12:46
Speaker
While... ah While... ah ah Eric is going... Sorry. While Ciro is going... so While Ciro is going through... ah While Kieran is going through this, i'm going to be so also Googling the services of a professional healing hero.
00:13:02
Speaker
professional healing hero. Yeah. Any any heroes in the yeah immediate vicinity or just general area? definitely not hero Definitely not in the general area of, I forget the name of this town y'all are in, but this town out in West Texas. or Are we still in Fredericksburg?
00:13:19
Speaker
Yes. you are still in juburg You're in the woods outside. Well, you're in a facility in the woods outside of Fredericksburg. Yeah. Yeah, we're still in Fredericksburg. Okay. What if I look up in the Houston area?
00:13:32
Speaker
There are such heroes that exist. um None of them would be immediately available to you. ah but yeah this is an official This was an official mission.
00:13:46
Speaker
there would I'm sure we get there's some but way we could call in for medical assistance. it right Yes, it was an official mission. However, you guys did not tell...
00:13:59
Speaker
the school where you were going. Instead, you chose to cause mayhem at the school so that nobody would know, including the principal, your contact with agents, uh,
00:14:11
Speaker
that you guys were going to Fredericksburg. The only, the only adult adults who know you're in Fredericksburg are, ah Nightfall and what Nightfall's dad knows.
00:14:22
Speaker
yeah I think he knows specifically where you went to Fredericksburg. At least I don't know if Max told his mom exactly where he was going. i told him, um,
00:14:34
Speaker
I know you told your mom, but don't remember if you told her where. Maybe you did. um And Ironsad, I can't remember if Reese told his his guy or not. um No, he knows I go out. I sometimes go out and do his WG shit. I'm pretty sure that Nightfall specifically told his dad where he was going, though.
00:14:52
Speaker
Yeah, I have to. yeah
00:14:57
Speaker
Yeah. I work for my dad. I have to tell him where I go. yeah But yeah, you guys called. You guys did not tell your, um you know, your your principal who is your contact with Aegis and, you know, your your person who you you don't have a. Well, you guys don't have a direct line to Aegis necessarily. Not that you couldn't easily get a hold of them.
00:15:22
Speaker
I'm calling the principal parties, but. um So while you're trying to do that, bunch of armed ah so security guards, but like um not your standard not your like typical prison security guards. These are, you know. hu Like umbrella security?
00:15:46
Speaker
Sure, yeah. you know they're They're in like... um power armor is the wrong word, but you know, like high tech armor, high tech, they've got high tech gear, you know, stuff. This is a superhero world and it's a superhero prison. They're, they're armed to the teeth in, um superhero level.
00:16:05
Speaker
Well, gear that theoretically could get give them a fighting chance against super individuals. Um, and they come running around the corners, uh,
00:16:18
Speaker
And that they're like, would they even talk to you guys? I don't know if they would. Because they just assume you're all prisoners. Real quick, let's defer to the former former guard.
00:16:31
Speaker
Eric? Oh, yeah, they just shoot us. Yeah, that's what i'm thinking. Because they don't know you guys. Well, I mean, even even if they knew you guys, you're heroes staging a prison break.
00:16:44
Speaker
So, yeah. um These people come around the corner and open fire. I'm going to immediately use my... ah use my With laser guns.
00:16:54
Speaker
I'm going to immediately use my powers to try to make them all drop their weapons. I imagine the frame has to be metal, so i'm going to force them all to drop their weapons. If they're wearing armor, I'm going to force all that down on the ground.
00:17:05
Speaker
No, they're using the guns, laser versions of the guns that they use against Magneto in the and the movie. Well, I'll blast it. They're plastic laser guns somehow. No. They're plastic?
00:17:20
Speaker
No, they're not. it's If they have any metal, I'm basically just pull forcing as much of it to the ground. ah and if they have And if they have grenades on, I'm also... Go ahead and unleash your powers.
00:17:35
Speaker
Let's see it. Let's see it. here we go. One, two, three, here! Roll metal, daddy. Alright! so Yeah, Nate. Um, that is so on a seven to nine, um, mark a condition or I will tell you how it is temporary or unstable.
00:17:56
Speaker
I will mark a condition. All right. powers work as intended. Their guns, uh, basically pop out of their hands and hit the ground and all of the guards stare for a minute.
00:18:10
Speaker
um, and then the, you know, some of them, some of them do that. They look up and then run and two big, you know, buff guards, uh, do the, you know, those extendy nightsticks that cops have. They do that, except of course, these have some sort of weird ah electrical coil at the end of them um that, well, no, then they would have gotten, no, they just do the, they have some sort of regular non-metallic nightstick that they pop out and start, you know, approaching you guys.
00:18:46
Speaker
because I can't be the only one of these guys. I can't be the only one of my power they've ever seen. and so I guess... I guess we're going loud. So then I'm going to run forward and use one of my powers as superhuman strength to wrestle, fight, and engage these guys with my burnt-up hands.
00:19:06
Speaker
All right. So I will unleash my powers. Super strength! Or would it be directly engage a threat? This sounds like engage a threat, yeah. Oh!
00:19:19
Speaker
Am I dramatically under fire? You would have been dramatically under fire, but not anymore. Ooh, that's not a good one. all Alright, let's go, boys. So I run in there to do the fight with my bandaged hands.
00:19:33
Speaker
That's a miss. oh That is so appropriate, too. Okay, so on a miss, um basically, you ah essentially you're going to mark a ah condition. You go in to fight with them hand-to-hand, and because you weren't you're not used to your hands being burned at the moment, um they end up, you know,
00:19:56
Speaker
beating you with their sticks. um and you' And it's probably more your hurt hands that are causing you to mark a condition over the sticks. But actually, I guess, yeah, that's what's going to happen for this. There are special thingies I can do if they'll move, but that makes sense.
00:20:13
Speaker
Actually, I think now what I'm supposed to do is... um
00:20:22
Speaker
Yeah, I think that applies. Inflict a condition is all I need to do for the moment. um I got to get i gotta room you know get good at the combat in this game because it's ah so much more... like There's a bunch of things I can do, but they're so nebulous that it's like, well, this makes sense for you to just get hurt. so um What condition are you inflicting? That's what I'm trying to figure out. like the most So insecure sounds solid. Unfortunately...
00:20:51
Speaker
Yeah. Unfortunately, so solid start marking a bunch of them. They they don't always make sense, but yeah. um I'm unmarked right now. I've clicked angry first because it felt like I'd be mad at myself. But if I'm mad at myself, I think the most one that makes the most sense because I'm supposed to be super strong and then I just wasn't all of a sudden.
00:21:10
Speaker
I guess I'm insecure. yeah So yeah, you do all that. um And then one of the... ah you're You're fighting one guard. um Another guard throws a um some sort of grenade in the direction of the group. ah Calix, you haven't reacted yet. a grenade is flying towards you, Ironsand, and um the three people that you rescued. Backswing...
00:21:42
Speaker
uh uh what are those other people there are two other people maybe three i forget how many people we said were kidnapped um way back when uh it was nope these are the bad guys it was oh wait i've got character sheets for dossiers Um, Ember Flicker is there, Maya Rodriguez, um, Alex Chin, the limited telepath, uh, and Tyler Johnson, the guy who can manipulate gravity fields.
00:22:18
Speaker
Those are the other three, the three people who are kidnapped ah beforehand. You guys, um, in the, I think in the last episode I said, oh, you also see them come out of their prison cells, you know, when you guys,
00:22:30
Speaker
busted the place up. So you've got four people who are low-powered individuals along with you and Reese and a grenade flying towards you both.
00:22:46
Speaker
So that would
Encounter with New Foes
00:22:47
Speaker
be probably defend.
00:22:56
Speaker
Nice. um Nice. Rank! Yeah! it costs you ah
00:23:05
Speaker
On a hit, you keep them safe and choose one. So yeah, on a hit, you keep them safe and so choose one. um Add team to the pool, take influence over someone you protect, or clear a condition. So I think basically because it's your vines, so so no, because you've got a 10, you're not You don't have to mark a condition. In fact, you could potentially choose clear condition. You can add a team to the pool, take influence over the person you protected, um over someone you protected, which could be any of those, the five people you just protected, um or clear a condition.
00:23:42
Speaker
I think the reason it doesn't, so add team to the pool or take influence over someone.
00:23:50
Speaker
Potentially you could gain influence over Reese, uh, backswing, Ember Flicker, or those other two people I said. Um,
00:24:03
Speaker
wait, do you already have influence over Reese? Good question. Oh, you don't. Okay. Then, then add him to your influence thingamajig on your character sheet.
00:24:16
Speaker
I'll go ahead and outll add him to mine. Yeah. Um, And yeah, the so I'll say the reason you don't take a condition from this is, yeah, while it explodes, the vines you shot out. um And, you know, maybe that that's painful, but the conditions are mental damage, you know? So... um Much like when Eric's hands are burned were burnt, um they don't have necessarily an in-game mechanic. We might come up with something later, but it it worked out really well. yeah no I love how Eric's role reflected that his yeah hands are bent. He has mittens.
00:24:58
Speaker
Shirt mittens. T-shirt mittens. and So yeah, halix Calix catches the grenade. It explodes inside his van vines. um ah But, you know, he protects the group. Rhys, you were impressed by this, apparently. um and i And he gains influence over you. And then um back over to Max in your... your pocket realm.
00:25:28
Speaker
Blaze Master, you know, after the initial inferno he creates around himself, um his his ah flames die down, except for the flames in his eyes, and he stares at you.
00:25:42
Speaker
I was going to say coldly, but I guess that's impossible for him. With a burning rage. With a burning rage. Iain King had when he slaughtered younglings. Yes, but his voice...
00:25:54
Speaker
His voice is cold and he says, don't think this pathetic cell can hold me for a long, boy. I'll keep that in mind. And then I dig into his and try to steal the ability that he has to for his memory on how to control his powers.
00:26:10
Speaker
oh Because I've done it with the T-Rex on how to control his laser. And doing this with a human is probably a lot easier than understanding a lizard brain. that is Actually, that is highly true.
00:26:27
Speaker
That is accurate. Don't take fire daddy's And if I need to mark another Doom Track, I will.
00:26:34
Speaker
Now, this is a power. He's trying to die, bro. Yeah, no, this is 100% a power that feels like it belongs on a Track. No, is because my Doom overexerting myself and injuring innocence. Yeah. No, I'm sorry. Doom Track actually sounds like the actual name of the power, a power that is dooming to use.
00:26:57
Speaker
So go ahead and roll.
00:27:02
Speaker
i guess this would be unleash your powers.
00:27:07
Speaker
Any pluses or minuses? Do I get a bonus for having done this before? And he's kind of in my domain? ah No. Okay.
00:27:18
Speaker
Well. That's really good. shit. Oh. shit Nice! So I have had a plan for this. I'm trying to decide how a 12 affects that plan.
00:27:33
Speaker
Um... when you his mind, when so when you enter his mind um You find ah a a firewall, basically, inside his mind, which you are able to push through. On a 12, I don't think I'm even going to make you take a powerful blow for it.
00:27:54
Speaker
But you find that this guy's mind is... ah It is... Sufficient. He has Yes, he's got a very advanced mind. So you are digging around in here. um almost feel like I should... met Well... and And I don't, I don't care if I have to like cause mental damage, like I'm ripping through his mind. Right. Yeah. So, um, you're doing all that. Uh, Hmm.
00:28:23
Speaker
Cause unleash your power. I guess this technically would be directly engage a threat and you're doing the take something from them. Cause that's what you did before. Uh, So yeah, this is directly engaged a threat. So you pick two.
00:28:38
Speaker
Obviously you want to pick take something from them. What's the other thing you're going to pick? page thread
00:28:52
Speaker
I'm going to frighten the opposition. I'm going to frighten him. Okay. ah
00:29:01
Speaker
All right. In that case, ah you are going to take a powerful blow as you are burning through as you are digging through his mind he is his mental take guilty fire fortress yeah is well no it's the take a powerful blow so you'll roll for that um he is basically mentally attacking you back with mental fire um as you're doing all this so go ahead and roll just to see what happens um what do i roll ah So it is you you click the button that says conditions.
00:29:38
Speaker
And you want to roll low on tech. So a nine. So on a seven to nine, you choose one of those things. Where is it? take Probably the lash out verbally against a teammate doesn't really work.
00:29:54
Speaker
ah I'll mark two conditions. Because there's teammates nearby. Okay, so you mark two conditions. You do. um Suddenly his flames ah wink out and his eyes widen in horror.
00:30:07
Speaker
ah And he he stumbles. He he stumbles back. you know Not that he has far to stumble in this cell. And he he says, what did you do to me? Am I out of his brain right now?
00:30:21
Speaker
Yeah, I think him burning you back you know to like kicks you out of his his mind. But I did take his ability to control. Yeah, his pout his flames wink out. And then, because I like to think that this is in my domain,
00:30:37
Speaker
i i ah I pull out, like I hold out my hand, and inside my hand is like a like a little memory strand, and I go, this is what you're looking for, and you're never going to get back.
00:30:51
Speaker
And it like disappears, and or it goes like back into my brain. Holy shit. And I say... He, like, stumbles back from you, you know. um And is certainly horrifying. say, so enjoy your time here, freak.
00:31:05
Speaker
And then I dip out.
00:31:10
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, cool, cool. No, I'm good with that. um Yo, threat is threat thoroughly dealt with. i just have to edit. Why don't we just use that power on all the enemies we encountered from now on?
00:31:25
Speaker
Um... guess that would take a lot fun. So I believe, so for one, it's directly engaged in threat. It does open him up to damage. It can go wrong.
00:31:36
Speaker
um He has used it before. ah
00:31:43
Speaker
it's It poses the same risk as everything else. And I won't say that it's always going to work perfectly, you know even when you succeed. um yeah Hint, hint. but Oh yeah, no I know I'm on a clicking time bomb right now. um but yeah ah So yeah, you vanish and presumably you show up to the scene just as right after Calix stops the grenade from blowing everybody up.
00:32:16
Speaker
I think, I do believe we discussed that you going to and leaving your your pocket realm doesn't require um doom tracks to do that. So you can you can leave without a doom track.
00:32:29
Speaker
Because we talked about this and it was like, technically you can bring someone to your pocket realm without marking a doom. Well, you can go there without marking a doom track. But then we were like, well, but you should probably mark one because you're bringing someone with you, you know
00:32:45
Speaker
Okay. So I pop up and I see soldiers fighting my friends. Yes. Specifically, there are two big, you know, big buff dudes. One of them just threw a grenade. The other one is beating um Nightfall with a ah stick.
00:33:03
Speaker
It's not so bad, boys. I wear heavy armor. Yeah. Okay.
00:33:10
Speaker
ah oh yeah yeah i I guess if I could try to engage already once I pop out.
00:33:21
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. We need to we we should have rolled um the thing I always forget. When you um engage ah foe in battle or some crap like that. When you enter battle against a dangerous foe as a team,
00:33:38
Speaker
um So I was supposed to erase some pool. Oh, yeah. At the start of every session, um
00:33:50
Speaker
believe I'm supposed to bump us back down to two. So when you enter ah battle against a dangerous foe as a team, add two to the pool. So we're at two.
00:34:04
Speaker
um if So who do we think would be the leader of this battle?
00:34:12
Speaker
Because technically it started before ah max came back. so and Honestly, given the fact that you've... Nightfall is the one directly that who directly actually engaged them. I think i think you're actually the leader.
00:34:27
Speaker
And for the purpose of this battle, I'm going to call this battle the entire prison break. Not just these two guards. Gotcha. so ah So for the purpose of this battle, um yeah, Nightfall would be the leader. ah So do you have influence over every other teammate?
00:34:50
Speaker
We won't be counting backswinging them, the NPCs. Yes, I do. Yes, so that adds a team.
00:35:00
Speaker
So that bumps us up to three. um All right. What is your purpose in this? To get the fuck out. To get the fuck out. does that Does everyone agree? Yes. yeah Or do you have a different purpose to this fight?
00:35:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's about right. Yeah. So if everyone agrees, um you add another. So that's four. Nice.
00:35:30
Speaker
And then... ah Does anyone mistrust the leader or team? No. No. Now, is your... Yeah. Mistrust.
00:35:46
Speaker
Is your... ah Would we consider ourselves ill-prepared or off-balance? I kind of feel like you guys are off-balance. Yeah, yeah. Definitely. Yeah. yeah All right. So we've got three team in the pool to to spend if we need it.
00:35:59
Speaker
um So right now there's two two dudes. The other guards have run off. ah Who wants to act first?
00:36:10
Speaker
I think i will pop back. Like when I pop back and I see someone beating the shit out of Nightfall, I will um bam not vampire suck, but like start pulling out their their life force.
00:36:30
Speaker
Okay.
00:36:33
Speaker
And I do this because I want to cure angry by hurting that individual.
00:36:41
Speaker
Does that count? Because you are in a fight. ah hit hit You're already in a fight. ah Okay. I mean, that's fine. Yeah. So directly engage threat or freak?
00:36:55
Speaker
This will be directly engage a threat because you're just you're attacking.
00:37:04
Speaker
So seven to nine, um you choose one from the list.
00:37:13
Speaker
ah And which one are you attacking? missed that. one who's engaging Nightfall. Okay.
00:37:23
Speaker
I will resist blows. Okay, so he so um you go up there and ah sap the the life force out of him or whatever, and he drops.
00:37:38
Speaker
only had that You take him down. There's one left. The one with the grenade who is now wielding his stick again. i am going to fight the good fight and ah charge at the other guy, again with my hand all bandaged up.
00:37:55
Speaker
um But I can directly engage a threat by rolling savior instead of danger. Okay. So we will do that.
00:38:04
Speaker
Come on. Wow. By the way, both of those misses, both of those misses you mark potential. um Yeah. I leveled up from the first one.
00:38:16
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. So the, the guard um manages to like stop. trip you or something something you know emotionally traumatic i was trying so i was trying to because one of the things that i could do because the move doesn't allow me to if i fight the good fight i cannot so impress surprise or frighten so i was going to try to take the grenade right because that's the most concerning weapon left in so i was fumbling to try to get the grenade with sock hands Right. um You accidentally set the grenade off and go flying back, smack into the wall, and you take another condition.
00:38:58
Speaker
I will... Reese or Calix? um Yes. I want everyone to get a turn. There's no turn order, but I want everyone to go.
00:39:09
Speaker
Yes, I have a thing, if Frank, unless you unless you want to go, Frank. No good. Okay. um i am going Since he basically just threw a Nightfall out of the way, I'm going to launch... I'm going to manipulate my sand into and launch it in the form of a giant fucking fist.
00:39:32
Speaker
okay Okay. And as it's flying, it's it's turning from sand, it's compressing from sand into solid metal.
00:39:43
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:47
Speaker
I have these in the wrong place. ah You said that was directly engage a threat? Yeah.
00:39:56
Speaker
Okay. One, two, three, hit! Yeah, nice full hit! it Yeah, and so you you're going to down him, um but you you choose two from that list. Let's see. Directly engage a threat. Resist or avoid their blows.
00:40:13
Speaker
ah Take something from them. Create an opportunity for your allies and impress surprise.
00:40:22
Speaker
Me personally, i would resist. Well, there's no point to resist blows. There's nothing else coming our way. Well, if you don't resist his blows, then you he will have gotten off a hit on you in some form or fashion. so that i So then I will take a resist or avoid blows. okay Obviously, because I'm launching a fist out. A pair of keys to get us through this place.
00:40:44
Speaker
Sure, yeah. please wouldn't that Wouldn't that count to the same for create an opportunity for my... No, i wouldn't that wouldn't apply. it works either way. I'd say it it's either of those.
00:40:57
Speaker
ah You know. we did We teleported in here, didn't we? Yes. yeah great Great cost. Yeah. Okay, then yeah, I'm going to do exactly that and take something from them.
00:41:10
Speaker
And yeah, I'm going to go ahead and take the keys off of them. nice So after I launch this fist, this sand that turns into this big metal fist right at him, ah just as soon as it hits him, I also pull the keys off of his chest over to my hand. I'm like, we've got to get the fuck out of here. Let's go. All right.
00:41:32
Speaker
um
Aftermath and Regrouping
00:41:33
Speaker
Yeah, you get those keys and you guys start running out of the place. um Presumably, ah we're not going to try and teleport out, are we?
00:41:45
Speaker
no and For both characters with teleportation abilities, that is very risky. um And you've got a lot more people now. You've got a trail of four people following you. Yeah, and not going to lie, Nightfall, I'm sure. i'm At this point, I've got a metal ah metal plate that we're using as a gurney that I'm just kind of levitating with him on there. I'm assuming if you're cool with that, Eric.
00:42:14
Speaker
i mean, Eric can walk. ah Or Nightfall can walk. Well, he's not talking, so obviously he does need be on a gurney. I'm not bad, dog. i was I was saying, I forgot that I'm coughing, so I'm not coughing. bad. He can walk. He's a superhero. you know like He's getting the shit kicked out of him.
00:42:34
Speaker
Again, he feels really ah hopeless and insecure right now because of his lack of being able to do things because of his broken hands. have to fix that later. um so yeah you guys are charging out um backswing she grabs one of the sticks uh from from one of the guards uh ember flicker grabs uh conveniently grabs a lighter off one of the guards um The other two people, that they don't really do much of anything. um
00:43:07
Speaker
They're not. Well, one one of the guys, he's just kind of like hovering over the ah the blood and guts. ah By the way, did you guys ah take the lives of the guards that you hit?
00:43:19
Speaker
You don't have to. That was going to be my question. he had a grenade go off on top of him, right? Because, yeah, it threw me away, but did I get it and it blew up on me, or did it blow up in his hand? Because pulled the pin.
00:43:33
Speaker
Or was it more like a like a Star Wars... That is a decent question....droid, where it, like... It's basically an exploding taser. Okay.
00:43:49
Speaker
We'll say it was like a force grenade. like Like a... More of a concussion versus ah a frag. you. yeah Concussion still kills, though. They do, but these guards are wearing armor. These guards are wearing, you know... Superhero.
00:44:04
Speaker
Yeah. but Yeah, superhero resilient resilient armor. i forget I forget that they are technically wearing that. Yeah. They were just regular humans, which is why they went down in one hit each. But, yeah, um that they were just and enhanced with technology.
00:44:22
Speaker
Um... i just I just noticed something that's going to be... Okay, yeah. Alright. Yeah, okay, that's not that's not horrifying to hear at all. No, I just i just had a thought of... Little DM chuckles.
00:44:37
Speaker
yeah No, Eric, I'm sorry. Your chuckles are your are your literal tell. Out of curiosity, Rhys, is your power magnetism or just control of metal?
00:44:51
Speaker
Technically, it's ah it's it's called in the book pharaoh kinesis, which when I look it up, it's it does make its mentions... it mention It's not really distinct between metal and magnetism.
00:45:07
Speaker
Yeah. It seems to be that um metals that are more pharaohsic, which does mean technically more magnetic, is easier to control. Yeah.
00:45:20
Speaker
And I'm just kind of dumbing it down for a 19 year old. Cause obviously a 19 year old isn't Magneto. Cause Magneto has had, you know, so much time and, you know, practice.
00:45:32
Speaker
Google doesn't know what pharaoh kinesis is. yes Um,
00:45:41
Speaker
I'll just, I'll just have a bullshit answer for something later. Um, Okay.
00:45:49
Speaker
Uh, yeah. So you guys are running through this, uh, prison. Um, the, uh, at one point, the, the guy who, one of the, uh, the people who you rescued, um, Alex Chin, uh, he stops you and he's like, uh, there's the, there are guards waiting around, that corner. I can hear their thoughts or rather. Yeah.
00:46:17
Speaker
He's like, they've got an ambush set up around that corner. We should go this way. And you know he points the other way. that's That's his one contribution to the whole thing. ah And then you guys keep running.
00:46:30
Speaker
Can anybody use a I look at the like the other people because I don't have good hands right now. ah Any of you good with a gun? like a ah gun?
00:46:41
Speaker
In the open universe, Max would be. ah Max is or would be in the alternate universe? No, the alternate universe. Backswing says I can. So I give Backswing my Warhammer 40k bolter. There you go.
00:46:59
Speaker
That's spiky motherfucker?
00:47:03
Speaker
Does she got gloves? don't know. my problem. Through the gun. Yeah, she looks at the gun and is um like, well, I thought you meant like a a pistol or something, but I'll make it work. Yeah, I don't do pistols.
00:47:20
Speaker
and then the helmet twists in a weird way where you can tell he made a fucking face like what the fuck I don't do this the camera just like you know what's crazy is that yes 100% I can see that the camera just zooms in on your helmet in just the right way like in Mandalorian where you know you can't see that face yeah a face that you make Because let me tell you, the Mandalorian, one of the most expressive actors out there. And you never see his face.
00:47:52
Speaker
For sure it is. And it's not even it's not even the guy, it's even what's his bucket underneath that mask. What? Pedro Pascal?
00:48:02
Speaker
Yeah, it's not Pedro under that mask. it's It's another actor. i didn't on that i feel I did not know that either. Yeah, because Pedro's too short. yeah yeah They wanted someone taller in the suit. And so in everywhere that he has a mask off, it's why it's close up to his face. But everywhere else, he's he's taller.
00:48:22
Speaker
So he just dubs over all the speaking lines? Yes. I mean, you you can't see his lips. so But that's disappointing to hear. I'm just going to pretend that it's always Pedro Pascal under there. So because I've like listened to YouTube videos talking about how the actor is such a good actor because he's able to express emotion without even ever seeing his face, like just through the tilt of his head or his body language and stuff. Like they're like, that's hard. That is like hardcore acting.
00:48:56
Speaker
Yeah, and when you stop and think about it, that actor doesn' it isn't even actually the one speaking the lines. He just has to move his body in the way that those lines would come out of. Interesting. Okay. ah So you guys are running through the prison. um You know, you encounter a few other guards, but these are more regular guards. They're not any trouble for any of you. Yeah.
00:49:23
Speaker
Unfortunately, normal people versus superheroes, you know. Oh, you neither of y'all answered my question. Did you take the lives of those guards? No.
00:49:33
Speaker
No. Hey, I would not have. Yeah. No. I just drained him to the point where, because if, unless if you would let me clear a condition, I would have killed him.
00:49:44
Speaker
If you want to have killed him and clear a condition, i will allow it. can't go back retcon now uh can because it's you know we just said he went down um okay never mind we just won't but in the future if that's you know
00:50:05
Speaker
well it depends i would have allowed it because this guard might qualify as an innocent i would have qualified him as an innocent had you killed him um because he's just a guy trying to prevent criminals from escaping the prison, as far as he knows.
00:50:23
Speaker
But you didn't kill him, so I'm not qualifying him as an innocent for Doomtrak purposes. You were fighting in self-defense. But had you killed him, that would have been going too far um for the situation at hand. ah I feel like that...
00:50:40
Speaker
you know That's a very morally gray area, but like killing the prison guard who's trying to prevent you from breaking people out of prison um very a he versus knocking him out. you know i All right.
00:50:55
Speaker
So um you guys bust out the front doors of the prison um of this complex. ah You have to go up several flights of stairs. There's an awkward scene with all of you in the elevator um as like the blinking alarm lights are going off. But there's also just that elevator music um because this was underground an underground facility. And it's underground ah and it's taking quite some time to get up. Yeah.
00:51:23
Speaker
And finally you run out the front of the facility and there is a lowercase army as in, you know, like a dozen, ah guards in the, uh, the high tech body armor, um, with their, their rifles pointed at you, at all of you. Um, and you hear what sounds like a plane almost or a rocket, uh,
00:51:53
Speaker
approaching and then a gigantic armored figure um
00:52:01
Speaker
that I don't know how better to describe him. So we're going to go with this image that Chad GPT gave me because it couldn't give me anything better. um But this dude lands in front of you, it like in front of the army. Did that pop up for everyone?
00:52:19
Speaker
Yeah. uh the hulk busters basically it's not so it's more like let me go yeah it's the thought yeah it's it's you know it made it look very iron man like huge you know big old mech suit um akin somewhere between the hulk buster and the um the suit from iron man one the uh that the that what's his face made the bad guy um
00:52:48
Speaker
I don't know, oh Obadiah, whatever his name was. public i Yeah, his big suit. ah so Somewhere in between those, you know. um
00:53:01
Speaker
And it does have a lot of the, yeah all of these, like the the a bunch of blinking lights and stuff on it. um And ah very, very high tech. You see what, there's like a shimmer in the air around it as well.
00:53:17
Speaker
um and And then through through a microphone in the... Did I say the shimmer was in the air? A shimmer in the air around him. um And through the microphone on the suit, you hear in a deep voice, ah stand down, return to your cells.
00:53:36
Speaker
no No. We're not inmates. I give them the finger under the gloves. Yeah. both hands we're not inmates yeah you ingrates you we're professionals on the job the the suit that the you know he kind of turns towards you and he says correct you're not inmates you're criminals and then he raises his hand and fires a um a uh energy blast in your direction
00:54:09
Speaker
ah I'm not going to do take a powerful blow. let me, or let me, let me look at these moves. Let me see how they work. um Oops. I didn't mean to show the players again.
00:54:21
Speaker
Oh, you guys, y'all are able to see all his powers, aren't you? Yes. I've already read all of them. So it's all. Yeah. Well, um he's got up on the spot as well. You know, which as soon as he launches that, kid is there any chance I can try to put up a I can try to redirect my sand and turn it into a metal wall between us.
00:54:41
Speaker
Yes, so this energy blast is coming towards you guys, and you are allowed to react. Would that be defend? ah Yeah, you can do defend.
00:54:52
Speaker
Is there a man inside the suit, or is it just a suit? three here We don't know. Oh, dear. i love that it says, oh, dear. Yeah, I also, I, well, I appreciate that it says, oh, dear. I really don't like it because I would naturally say that.
00:55:09
Speaker
yeah Yeah, so... um I rolled a two. So unless someone else is going to do something, this energy blast... ah I'm going to defend... I'll jump in... Oh, Jesus Christ, dude.
00:55:22
Speaker
I love you. I know what I am. bandaged together. I know what I am and what I am as a hero. And I jump in front of my friend and take a pull on the chest because that's what I do.
00:55:37
Speaker
so i I jump in front of my friend and take it in the chest.
00:55:43
Speaker
Ron, I can shift up Savior and another label down, but Savior's at three. So now you choose. i And then i have to roll defend.
00:55:56
Speaker
So you thought it would make you shift Savior up and another light label down? Does it have to be Savior? For me, it is you can shift Savior up and another label down in addition to any other benefits from the move, even on a miss, if you do add one team to the pool.
00:56:13
Speaker
It says you can, um because if you shift Savior up, um you take a condition. Again? because Because you're at three. So you wouldn't want... It says you can, so you wouldn't want to shift Savior up. okay You just want to keep it where it is.
00:56:29
Speaker
At some point, we're just going wheeling you around the battlefield. Yeah. So basically... I still have the metal gurney up. This is one of those those things where I'm taking the wording as is. ah does It says you can or you or or you have to.
00:56:46
Speaker
Hey, that's fine. That's fine, buddy. If it says you can, then I say that means you don't have to, which is to your benefit. ah Okay. So then I'll roll defend, right?
00:57:01
Speaker
Which is savior.
00:57:05
Speaker
Which is my good one. So here we go. See how it goes. Come on. to That's also a miss. damn it But Kalix said he was jumping in front of them. So
00:57:22
Speaker
Kalix, you try now. I try to do the magic that I used on Kalix, but my hands are in socks. You know what saying? the magic doesn't work. It's like, shit! I see that going down, and I jump in front of him, and I take, i guess, a powerful blow.
00:57:39
Speaker
um you're Well, you would roll defend. Okay.
00:57:45
Speaker
Oh my god! ah so That's another myth. I think we're all about to take a powerful blow, boys.
00:57:55
Speaker
Unless Max is also about to up practice. Can Syphon what he wanted to do from the beginning? What was he going to do? Yeah, what were you going to do? He was going to grab on to Darkstrike and backswing and teleport.
00:58:13
Speaker
Yeah, you can do that. ah buddy that You slut! Darkstrike is not there. Oh, she's not? she backsw swinging one of the others Yeah, you left Darkstrike to go um ah watch over the ah the the office, basically, the office building.
00:58:33
Speaker
So she's back in town.
00:58:38
Speaker
Well, looking at Dark Backswing, does she look like she wants to stand and fight, or does she not want to be here? Does she look like she wants to fight? No, but she does she look like she would fight?
00:58:50
Speaker
For sure, i mean, but I don't think she would want to be there, no. I kind of have more pressing matters in my own realm right now.
00:59:01
Speaker
um
Strategic Planning and Team Dynamics
00:59:04
Speaker
So what I would like to do is touch backswing and teleport to what's your bucket the spider woman that I made for you one time the guy the woman own shadow oh yeah silkap shadow who take down blazemaster okay he left us love them we'll we'll deal with that in a minute ah the three of you take a powerful blow um not Siphon but the other three of you because you all failed
00:59:37
Speaker
But remember to mark potential, each of you, because you know you all failed. ah so i i just i just imagine i know So I just out my potential.
00:59:50
Speaker
I'm going to use Never Give Up next is the new move that I got from burning my hands off. When you take a powerful blow from someone far greater than power than you, use this move instead of the basic move. Roll savior. On a hit, you stand strong and choose one on a 7-9 mark condition.
01:00:06
Speaker
Okay, so you can roll that and the other two of you roll um the conditions button. I got a thing where it says when you take a powerful physical blow, you may roll as if you had two fewer conditions marked. If you do it on a 10+, you must choose to lose control of yourself in a terrible way.
01:00:22
Speaker
Okay, um and so presumably does it ask you if you can... If it asks you for a modifier, I guess, do a modifier of...
01:00:33
Speaker
minus two yes because you want to lower yeah it'd be minus two so what are we rolling so bill just click the conditions button um and calyx also do that if does it pop up with a modifier um it's a passive yeah but it came up with a passive yeah what which Which power is that one?
01:00:58
Speaker
I am not my buddy. Not choice. If you take a powerful physical blow, you may roll as if you had two fewer marked. So you still need to roll the button that says conditions.
01:01:09
Speaker
You have none marked. Yeah, I would be taking one it here. so well i'm But no, this is the way the...
01:01:22
Speaker
What I'm going to do is say that's a plus two. Or no, a minus two. Misses what you want on this roll. That's right. So, Calix, you... Let me read this.
01:01:32
Speaker
bad On a ten plus, you don't... So, that's good. On this, misses what you want. So, Calix, on a miss, you stand strong, mark potential, and say how you weather the blow.
01:01:44
Speaker
So, you're in front. So, this energy blast passes over you. What... what How does Calix... weather this blow you know what what's it like for him to be blasted with a massive wave of energy it does pass over you don't you fail to defend you failed to defend so um so i kind of like root myself in the ground and i'm trying to like divert the energy away and i'm just kind of like screaming in in tree agony all right only only other trees can hear it yeah
01:02:20
Speaker
But you don't mark a condition because you you missed, and this is the one roll you want to miss on. Does that mean I get two potential? One for and then taking it and then another for this thing? When take it this full ball. So, you get a potential for the five-year-old, and then you get a potential for that four-year-old earlier. Cool. Double potential, baby.
01:02:46
Speaker
On a 7 to 9, so you rolled 8, so you choose one of those things under Take a Powerful Blow where it says on a 7 to 9, choose one.
01:02:56
Speaker
All right. That was... glow seven seven nine you listen
01:03:07
Speaker
And then I get... Mine's a whole other thing. on a hit, you stand strong and choose one. I can add to the pool, or I can create an opportunity,
01:03:19
Speaker
or I can keep his attention. i think I'm going to get an opportunity or open. What are you choosing, Rhys? I'm going to pick... a struggle I'm going to struggle past the pain, and I'm going to mark two conditions.
01:03:33
Speaker
Okay, you mark two conditions. Which is going to be angry and afraid. Obviously, I'm afraid of the situation we're in and I'm angry because someone... Pucked off on He disappeared.
01:03:46
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Hey, don't worry. in it' calling and then night Nightfall, what are you doing? So I succeeded in my roll. Right on a hit, you stand strong and choose one. So what I'm going to do is get an opportunity or opening against my attacker. So the Calix is sitting there. It washes over him. He's doing good. So there's this like bright light where like it's supposed to have hit us and blown us to pieces.
01:04:08
Speaker
And then I'm going to like vault over him to directly engage. age ah
01:04:17
Speaker
with the opening that he, think him thinking he's got us, right? All right. So you, you're directly engaging a threat. Yes. And I'm going to use another one of my active moves, fight the good fight and roll savior again. Yeah.
01:04:33
Speaker
Which full hit. Nice. Nice. ah And I'm going to take something from him. So I want to break whatever it was that shot that big fucking beam at us.
01:04:45
Speaker
Can I do that? you You can break um yeah what the repulsor on one of his fists. Yeah, so i'm going to use like hammer fists to like sock hands together, smash it, and then yeah took away his ability to shoot us like that again, dickhead.
01:05:08
Speaker
All right. um So you do that. ah Yeah, so you smash him. he it the this He staggers back. um And then, let's see, I don't do my counterattacks. Well, I can randomly do my counterattacks, I believe. But ah primarily, you do them on a miss. the ah the So ah Hayden, who you teleported away backswing. Did you teleport one of the other people as well?
01:05:42
Speaker
Because there, it was backswing, and then you also had um there, Amber, Flicker, Alex Chin, and Tyler Johnson.
01:05:54
Speaker
So it was just backswing? He left everybody else. All right. Hey, I'm... I have a plan. I want to go through... the other you don't will We don't know that yet. It's already a bad plan, because he left us. Yeah.
01:06:10
Speaker
Have I ever abandoned guys? So, but yeah. um So, Max, ah you touch backswing and teleport her to Silk Shadow.
01:06:23
Speaker
um For the briefest moment, for the briefest moment, you see Silk Shadow, the the hero that you have that is like your favorite hero.
01:06:34
Speaker
Where's her picture? Have I not put, have I not made a sheet for She's ah in a separate category.
01:06:43
Speaker
she not an NPCs? Because
01:06:47
Speaker
i thought there was like one the teams maybe. I have a picture for of her on the computer on my computer, but I don't think I have created a sheet for her because we haven't actually encountered her yet.
01:07:00
Speaker
um Well, anyway, ah you see her for a split second. as she rapidly moves away from you through the air. Also you're falling. Also backswing is falling. um You guys are about a hundred feet in the air, maybe more. And a giant Kaiju is battling Silk Shadow and the rest of the golden trio, the ah town's top superhero. Thanks Ron for ruining my moment.
01:07:27
Speaker
the um So currently you and backswing are falling through the air. ah and Godzilla-like kaiju is is roaring in the background.
01:07:39
Speaker
Jesus. um But state i think not as you're falling, you you see off in the distance um the the Houston city skyline.
01:07:52
Speaker
Hmm. What time of day is it? I'll say you're you're over the water. um It's, ah you know, what time? You guys assaulted this place in the morning, so it's it's still morning.
01:08:04
Speaker
um Well, it's probably mid-morning to, have you know, maybe noon-ish now. um You are out in Galveston Bay. That's where you are. Yeah. So you don't see the Houston city. Well, you see the new, we did discuss that Houston, like, is way bigger in this world, so.
01:08:22
Speaker
It extends all the way down to where like halfway to Galveston. Galveston doesn't
01:08:29
Speaker
exist. Yeah, you're you're just out in the bay, you know, um falling towards the water. ah Backswing is screaming. um there a finger in your pooper?
01:08:40
Speaker
Nope. Every time, Frank. and This didn't work out. my My first action is to, once again... hold on to backswing and be like, sorry, and then teleport to principal powers.
01:08:55
Speaker
She said, well, when you reach for it, she said, um she said, no, stop. Not again. Not again. All right. Then I just teleport away.
01:09:06
Speaker
Okay. ah you just leave me they tarring You see her basically crawling up into like a ball as she's plummeting, you know as you vanish, and you see like ah the shimmer ah of the same kind of shimmer that appeared when she was first ah kidnapped, sort of.
01:09:26
Speaker
um So she's doing something with her kinetic redirection power stuff as she falls towards the wall. And yeah, you teleport away.
01:09:38
Speaker
The fight is still ongoing at um the prison ah place. um Guards have opened fire. ah Emberflicker and um the other guy are, well, the other two people are have ducked for cover. They're not really...
01:09:57
Speaker
Like, Ember is shooting out small bits of flames when she can, but she her powers are not very strong. One guy... She's B-tier at best.
01:10:10
Speaker
Yeah. Um... Yeah, she doesn't have i incredible power or anything. Definitely not the same as Blaze Master. She can't even create flame.
01:10:22
Speaker
Well, she can. it's just She can only create sparks. She can manipulate fire. um
01:10:31
Speaker
She's probably burning through her lighter fuel pretty quickly. um and But said she can manipulate fire? She can't create it? she can She can create like small sparks, but she has she can manipulate fire to an extent as well, which is why she she took a lighter.
01:10:52
Speaker
um Yeah, guards are shooting their laser guns around. It's it's it's chaos. um Big Robot Man is... ah
01:11:03
Speaker
He is going to... Let's see here... um
01:11:10
Speaker
Well, I guess I don't need to roll. He is, he's on a rampage. He's, what what are you guys doing? I guess he's, he's probably fighting, possibly hand-to-hand fighting both Calix and um Nightfall at the moment.
01:11:26
Speaker
This is just a set of things, because this guy is a big, strong robot and you two are big, strong hand-to-hand people while Rhys is more of a ranged fighter. I keep talking to Kalix and like I keep trying to like ah shoot him and like do like a double leg takedown. And I'm trying to get Kalix to get him distracted so that I can pull his legs out from underneath him and we can put him on the ground.
01:11:50
Speaker
right So the whole lot of knife, some kind of command or order at Kalix. And then Kalix, I don't know, what's Kalix doing when I do that? um I guess I helped.
01:12:04
Speaker
Yeah, you can roll directly, engage a threat, and spin the team with Kalix helping. i do I do that. So I will ah do, again, the fight the good fight. because And then spinning the team adds one.
01:12:19
Speaker
Yeah. So modifier one. Yeah. Submit. Nice. So what does it look like? Well, you pick two.
01:12:34
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:12:42
Speaker
So I can't do the bottom ones. I have to pick one of the other two because I used my move. ah Fight the good fight. So I'm going to take something from him again. I want to break another one of his palsy light things that I think is going to hurt us.
01:12:55
Speaker
okay And I'm going to create an opportunity for Reese to do some cool guy fucking eating metal shit. right. By breaking his arm thing.
01:13:07
Speaker
Yeah. So you break another arm thing. Um, and, uh, what was your second one? Oh, create an opportunity. ahice Yeah. Oh, and or i guess take looks so just in general.
01:13:20
Speaker
Yeah. So yeah, you're doing that. He is definitely going to land a blow on you then since you didn't resist or avoid his blows. So you'll have to mark a condition. Um, and, uh,
01:13:33
Speaker
Can I do my my passive thing again? Be the monster? Yeah, I am not my buddy. ah So that is when you take a powerful blow. This was...
01:13:45
Speaker
um That was just him hitting me because I directly engaged him with a with the team from Kalix. You haven't done anything technically yet. You can still do something. And take a powerful blow is like a specific action that I ah use against you, basically.
01:14:01
Speaker
Gotcha. Yeah. Do I got marker condition? No. no Nothing's been done. I did because when I took him thought he said I did too. Gotcha. So now you can do something because I've caused an opening for you guys.
01:14:18
Speaker
And so that opening will give you a plus one to your roll. i want I want to do beat a monster.
01:14:27
Speaker
Okay. What does that one do? What does that one do? ah When you frighten, intimidate, or count others with your monstrous form, roll plus freak on a hit. They are thrown off and make themselves unvulnerable to you, or they flee. On a 10 plus, choose one. On a 7 to 9, choose two. Ooh.
01:14:43
Speaker
Potential here. Alright, so roll plus one. Modifier bonus. commit Nine. So you choose one. On a 7 to 9, choose two.
01:14:57
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Oh.
01:15:02
Speaker
You hurt someone or break something you shouldn't have. You feel more of monster afterwards. Mark a condition. Aught to miss the reach. Nope. Okay. I frighten others you had no intention to care.
01:15:15
Speaker
So um after the ah Mr. Stargazer person that I just helped fight the monster um like takes the hit.
01:15:25
Speaker
I step forward and I like start growing into a larger size and I start screaming and tree, um which is, you know, just. Mostly just my we my leaves wiggling back and forth.
01:15:37
Speaker
ah yeah yeah shit And I grow i grow um slightly larger and more intimidating, and um I scare people that I did not intend to, i guess. OK.
01:15:51
Speaker
um And what's your second choice? Hurt someone or break something you shouldn't. There's a third option under there also. Yeah, you're more a monster.
01:16:02
Speaker
Nah, I'm just going to hurt someone or break something you shouldn't. So you tell me the things that happened there. oh ah you do something really scary. ah Yes.
01:16:16
Speaker
I roar in like, shiver my leaves and make myself appear bigger like you would with a bear. Yeah, I think you hurt something or break something you shouldn't have. ah The only thing I can think of that you shouldn't hurt, that you could hurt from this, is maybe in your frightening flailing, you hurt one of the people you're rescuing. Because anything else here you should ah is fine to hurt. Or you hurt one of your friends.
01:16:47
Speaker
Yeah.
01:16:49
Speaker
I mean, Nightfall just ah took some damage in front of me, and I was trying to, like, air the bodysuit robot thing. So, I mean, I i guess I could hurt him.
01:17:02
Speaker
yeah over nightball but Yeah, it doesn't say that this person has to mark a condition, so... nope just sub them Yeah, I don't know. You... hu All right, so you are...
01:17:20
Speaker
doing your crazy, scary stuff. And I don't know, you maybe Nightfall just sees this. Did you say he's also the one you frightened? No, it's it says those two things happen. So I frightened somebody I shouldn't.
01:17:36
Speaker
Well, maybe you frightened Nightfall and accidentally hurt him. You frightened others you had no intention, not had not intended to scare and you hurt someone or break something you shouldn't have.
01:17:46
Speaker
i would assume I'm probably freak out the people that I'm that were helping. yeah Yeah, you freak them out. um And maybe because of your just like crazy tree stuff flying all over the place, you accidentally toss Nightfall you know backwards, smacking him into the ground.
01:18:04
Speaker
that' fuck You gotta be kidding me. Jesus! That's a great leopard. Are you serious? People you're rescuing are cowering. The guy, the big guy,
01:18:19
Speaker
um ah
01:18:23
Speaker
he ah he he staggers back, you know, because he's just been hit. He staggers back. He sees Calix, you know, being weird, scary tree man and looks around the battlefield and then rockets engage and actually, doesn't yeah, he he flees because Calix's thing, one of the options, they either flee or make themselves vulnerable. So he flees.
01:18:50
Speaker
takes off into the sky. um The guards, all the guards, they're screwed. They're still there. They watch their their big robot guy fly away, and then and then they they like, you know, it's sort of that like, watch him fly away, and then they look back at you guys, drop their guns, and put their hands up.
01:19:10
Speaker
we We all just like fucking point to the sides, go over there, turn around, they go walk the fuck out. yeah I give them finger guns through the gloves nobody can see it. On the ground, hurt, and you're just kind of doing the finger guns.
01:19:28
Speaker
Yeah, like, there guys, this is fucking great. So, Syphon, when you reappear, you reappear, the robot man is is gone and the guards have surrendered.
01:19:41
Speaker
oh no, I teleport you from principal powers. Oh, you teleported to the principal. Okay. um The principal is ah sitting at his desk. um he well He's cleaning squirrel droppings off of his desk.
01:19:57
Speaker
And then you appear in the room and he's like, oh, oh, ah Siphon, okay, what are you doing here? We have a bit of a situation. So basically, long story short, you know, Blaze Master Boy? Yeah.
01:20:15
Speaker
He's currently in a pocket dimension of mine. Also, we might have staged a jailbreak.
01:20:26
Speaker
yeah okay i teleported to another superhero who was currently in the Gulf of Mexico. Sorry, Gulf of America. america And...
01:20:41
Speaker
and ah
01:20:44
Speaker
Yeah, apparently there's a Titan out there. i didn't know that. Oh, yeah, the ah ah the the Golden Trio are dealing with that right now. That's why they they couldn't go on that that mission that I sent you on with Darkstrike. So you broke Blaze Master out of prison?
01:21:06
Speaker
Not intentionally.
01:21:10
Speaker
Shush now, idiot. Is he contained? For now He's in my pocket dimension. I currently have his memory of how to use his power in my brain. Wait, does that mean you can use fire?
01:21:25
Speaker
No. Wow, that's pooped.
01:21:29
Speaker
that's bit That's a bit scary. There might be certain things that I would allow that to work with, but the power is part of his biology. um The fire.
01:21:40
Speaker
so um If it was a magic spell, sure. But... Yeah. yeah um So the principal is like, okay, ah let me contact the SCC and see what they can do about that.
01:21:58
Speaker
Okay. Wait, no, you broke him out of the SCC.
01:22:07
Speaker
why did you Why were you there? Because all these other superheroes are that were getting kidnapped, that's where they ended up. Huh.
01:22:21
Speaker
Okay, okay. Anyways, this is really important. Can you please just start making a phone call, too? Bro, you are so You are so much... So useless. Ha ha ha!
01:22:34
Speaker
Does principal powers have any powers or is he a normie? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. He does get get on the phone though. He gets on the phone with Aegis and starts telling them ah that there's something going down um at the prison.
01:22:47
Speaker
um and it's like And then he tells you that ah ah local Aegis is en route. They should be there in about 15 minutes. Okay. And then I go...
01:23:03
Speaker
Sorry about the squirrels. And I walk out. Wait, you know about the squirrels? No. So I... You know how I have superpowers, right? Obviously.
01:23:16
Speaker
aha i did dug in the memory of some squirrels and some squirrels are really fucked up in the brain.
01:23:24
Speaker
Yeah, they did. They did terrible things. I saw things I never wanted to see through the eyes of squirrels. It's even worse if you were there. And the principal shudders.
01:23:36
Speaker
I'm talking about sexual misconduct, Principal Panthers.
01:23:44
Speaker
Oh, dear. That's not appropriate for a teenage superhero game. No, I'm joking. What he talking about? Euphoria. ah Damn.
01:23:56
Speaker
Yeah, the principal, um he just shudders, and and then he gets back on the phone.
01:24:04
Speaker
So you just walk out?
01:24:08
Speaker
Yeah, and I'm just like, well, that was kind of fucked. I mean, I would assume my my teammates are still in trouble, and i have one more tick of my Doom track. I can teleport back.
01:24:22
Speaker
You could. To be fair, you guys do have comms. So, like, you could ask them, are y'all... do yeah Oh, okay. Yeah, I get comm, and I'm like,
01:24:35
Speaker
You guys are alive still?
01:24:40
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, we're alive. Oh, what's up? They surrendered. We were walking out. Shit. All right. Well. but We were kind of in a thicket there, but you know you left us. so but There's an envoy coming your way ah from the... Who'd you say it was again, Ron? Aegis.
01:25:02
Speaker
Aegis. There's an envoy from Aegis coming in about 15 minutes, so they should be there to help settle anything that might have just happened. like how we all just glanced past my Thank you very much. I assuming i assume you went and yeah got someone the higher up to do something.
01:25:23
Speaker
You could say that.
01:25:26
Speaker
Appreciate it. i had said out we were in a thicket. Oh. oh know Plant joke. Yeah. um i yeah I get it. I get it.
01:25:41
Speaker
that Yeah, I think I'm just gonna go and be like, damn, I really kind of fucked up the backswing. She's probably gonna die in a fucking lizard attack. Shit. Oh, well. She said no. Her body, her choice.
01:25:53
Speaker
Hey, guys, where's that, uh... Where's that other girl that we were that we came here with? The pro? Where's she at? She's on the comms too. She says, I'm right where you left me. ah Nothing interesting happening here at this. um Okay, I'm lying. There was nothing interesting happening. I'm about to be with you guys, but it sounds like the action's already over.
01:26:17
Speaker
And then like, you see her running up, um panting, because, you know, she just ran like the five, probably like 10 miles through the forest to get to you guys. and um Because y'all teleported there.
01:26:32
Speaker
Yeah. She comes running up and she's like, ugh.
A Waffle House Break
01:26:39
Speaker
We're all beat the fuck up. We've all taken so many conditions.
01:26:44
Speaker
I have like, wink. I got the truck gassed up and ready to go 10 miles back that way. She points into the forest. Yeah, let's ah let's go swing by Waffle House in Fredericksburg. I really need A Belgian waffle and some German sausages.
01:27:04
Speaker
I'm not feeding i want the fucking pla I want the fucking platter smothered and covered. That's what i'm saying, man. Largest coffee. Bro, my experiences with that establishment are freaking wild. A friend and I would skip first period, which woodshop, is a double period.
01:27:29
Speaker
um And we would go to a Waffle House and the waitress would flirt with my friend and we were freshmen.
01:27:41
Speaker
And I'm like, this is super effing illegal. Like, what are you doing? And she had she had a kid. She just wanted that D. That's where you're from. There's there's our innocent little Mormon Hayden. like Sophomore year is when I started cursing. so This is like still in my my innocent era.
01:28:04
Speaker
Sophomore year? That was when you started? Yes. he's He's a Mormon, Bill. I i know, but it's like, god damn. I think I've been saying fuck since I was nine.
01:28:16
Speaker
yeah And I stand by, this is where Hayden's, quotation marks, problem started. That waitress. In high school. That Waffle House. Yeah. That lady it with the kid, buddy.
01:28:30
Speaker
Right there. It all started right there. I was jealous of my friend getting the MILF. It was all downhill from there. Hey, no, you're good, man. Except she was like 24, supposedly.
01:28:43
Speaker
All right. I'm pretty... So let's continue this thing. So you guys head back through the forest. um Max, you're you're already back in Houston. um what were You guys go to Waffle House. Max, unfortunately, is going to miss out on Waffles. It's like that scene at the end of the Avengers movie, only instead of shawarma, it's at the Waffle House.
01:29:06
Speaker
Yeah, and then Reese is cutting up my food and feeding me because I have bad hands right now. Oh no, it's like I'm just making the i'm making the fork and the knife do it because I'm too tired to physically do it myself. And then Calix tries to give me chocolate milk and just pours it on me because he doesn't have Dexter's hand. ah Yeah, this all happens. I'm crushing up eggs. I'm crushing up eggshells in coffee grounds as a fertilizer for Calix.
01:29:35
Speaker
Ron, would you say that this is a triumphant celebration? I mean, sure, yeah. as ah As a side note, Ron, we discussed right previously we discussed previously how I make weird fruit things out of people's vitality. Can I use that to help yeah heal the hands of Nightfall?
01:29:53
Speaker
You can. I am making a smoothie. Okay. yeah A person's vitality smoothie? Ew! I'm behind the counter. They're just staring at me. It's a big tree man just trying to figure out what it is.
01:30:08
Speaker
It's a big plant. A tree monster's vitality. So, you know, it's it's it's a very plant-based smoothie, you know. yeah I mean, this can't be this can't be the weirdest part of their day. I mean, they work at a Waffle House. how How often can you not say that a tree man came in behind the counter to make a smoothie while an urban ninja does ah and float up at a floating fork and knife share ah and a dude in Aztec Warhammer 40k armor, all of whom are in this exact same place at the exact same time, just having the worst day, looking like shit.
01:30:45
Speaker
It's like a Tuesday for him. Yeah, that's gotta be like a... While a girl with a bow and arrow dressed like Batwoman or something sits and watches.
01:30:57
Speaker
In a world where people like this are so normalized, we have an actual corporation. oh yeah. This cannot be like that weird for them. I mean, this is a small town, so it's a little weird, but you know.
01:31:11
Speaker
um Fredericksburg? I think it's a small town, isn't it? i don't think for it's a decent... It's like a medium-sized place.
01:31:22
Speaker
It's a tourist trap. yeah that's true that Yeah, that part I know. It's a tourist trap, right? Population 11,000. I think I had Rhys do this last time, so... Calix, I'm gonna say it. I've said it before, I'm saying it again.
01:31:40
Speaker
If you weren't a freakish plant monster that you know probably hangs out with fairies and nymphs and dryads and stuff, you definitely like you know you could be part of the family, bro. You could be one of the guys.
01:31:55
Speaker
you I bring over the plant smoothie with Kale. You don't know where I got the Kale from. ah The team move. So when you share a triumphant celebration with someone, tell them whether you see them as an equal. If you do influence over me.
01:32:11
Speaker
Right? So if he already has influence over me, he gets to shift my labels. Is that right? ah Yeah. So you get to shift my labels, Frank. One up, one down. I'm going Xavier up and mundane down.
01:32:27
Speaker
I can't go Xavier up, Ron, and I can't go mundane down. like Wow. That's two conditions.
01:32:44
Speaker
so little me weird because it's like, that's what I am. that's price <unk> well It makes me afraid and guilty. her so right You're trying to say good job, but it's just it hurts you. ah For so some reason, Calix, your team moves don't show up on your sheet.
01:33:05
Speaker
so yeah you know You can click a thing to hide. Well, yeah, i tried to unhide it. My team moves are not hidden. I don't have team moves. yeah it doesn't even get weird It doesn't have a spot to even add them in.
01:33:19
Speaker
like he moves but then there are no things I had to actually go like look it up on the yeah yeah on the ah changed or whatever playbook. yeah They're on yours.
01:33:31
Speaker
they're on callet or They're on Reese. they're on i only have team moves. um Scroll down underneath your passive moves.
01:33:44
Speaker
but like it's Mine are right under my moment of truth. ah Bill, on your sheet, you've got active moves, then underneath those... Oh, I'm in the wrong spot entirely. Okay, I see where I am.
01:33:55
Speaker
Yeah, so team moves. Yeah, for some reason, it's not on Frank's sheet. ah I feel like I've mentioned this once before, like Yeah, gay I guess three or whoever and created these sheets just left it out. That's weird. Yeah.
01:34:10
Speaker
yeah But too weird toos to explain how um him trying to do team healing move or whatever the fuck um damages him, you know I like do a thumbs up and in the process, pour the smoothie all over him.
01:34:26
Speaker
but the yeah yeah That's right with the nails, bud. that's why That's why I get those conditions. But guess what? Your hands are healed. They sure are.
01:34:41
Speaker
That's funny. Reese stops ah stops ah manipulating you the fork and knife just ah ah to feed you and he just brings them up to your hands for you. he the not is his head is still on His head is still on the table.
01:34:57
Speaker
just they're still They're still in the mitten. Just to be clear. has Have they brought us our actual food yet or are we still waiting for food? yeah, I mean, sure, you're eating and stuff. Um...
01:35:10
Speaker
I'm asleep i must i have asleep in the eggs. Okay. Yeah, so... um good You know, you guys, after all this is done, you all eventually make your way... Huh?
01:35:27
Speaker
What were you going to do this i could do this to avoid... it doesn't matter. It still happens.
01:35:35
Speaker
yeah I could tell him no. He doesn't have influence over me, but it doesn't matter. It happens.
01:35:44
Speaker
um So yeah, you guys, you have your Waffle House. Max, what what do you do you know after you leave the principal's office? And like right before i burn now right before I leave, I'm like, don't forget principal.
01:36:00
Speaker
i do have a supervillain who might be able to escape containment. yeah i get that we We need to get that figured out.
01:36:12
Speaker
And yeah, Principal Powers, ah he he confirms and and and you know that's part of what he's talking to Aegis about.
01:36:22
Speaker
And so while they're enjoying enjoying that, I'm just like, are the squirrels still around or no? No, the school's, that's pretty much resolved. Is like school happening? no school is still closed down because the school is a mess.
01:36:39
Speaker
Yeah, i so ah while the squirrels might be dealt with now, the I still blew up the actual boiler for the whole school. Yeah. Yeah, there's some repairs that need to be done. um Squirrel feces that need to be cleaned out.
01:36:54
Speaker
um turns ah It turns out that the West Hall, ah west hall where all the ah where the sophomores go, turns out there's this bestness in there that has to be cleaned up. Yep, yep.
01:37:09
Speaker
My boy is going to have to fucking... Who's the teacher that I had to have some like random thing with? The class that I share the class with, ah Iron Sand?
01:37:21
Speaker
Teacher that you have a random thing with? Was that English or was that... There's a teacher that Miss Eleanor Finch, is that her? like She is... No, she's the home ec teacher, I think.
01:37:37
Speaker
um i think that's me and Ree, isn't it? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Isn't it on your character sheet somewhere or something about a teacher?
01:37:49
Speaker
i have I have influence over her because I'm actually good in her class. Yeah, the teachers aren't really there. The principal's there are cleaning his office, but mostly it's cleaning. Oh, I know. The reason why i ask is because I'm going to her classroom and I know where she keeps the snacks in a locked cabinet.
01:38:06
Speaker
Ah, okay. Yeah. And she has some good snacks in there and I can blame it on the squirrels.
01:38:15
Speaker
Yeah, it's in some questions somewhere, but I don't know where it is.
01:38:22
Speaker
Yeah, there's a teacher. i asked this like way early. and and um Is that there there was a teacher that ah like believes in you or something like that?
01:38:38
Speaker
and' I've never made a sheet for her. Because Miss Finch, I'm pretty sure, is the home ec teacher. So um yeah.
Addressing Consequences and Ethical Dilemmas
01:38:45
Speaker
OK. So we ah you know you guys eventually make your way back home. um the the yeah keep the The people you rescued, they go their separate ways. There's a um there's a what do you call it? A press conference from Gregory Kane, CEO of Sovereign Containment Corp. He's giving a speech about how
01:39:11
Speaker
um you know there was a ah ah what they thought to be a prison break situation. you know, at their their facility. But it turns out that ah bad eggs within the company were, know,
01:39:26
Speaker
working ah in concert with the uh with a known villain the mad arborist to um imprison heroes uh and capture and imprison heroes and this this will be dealt with the people uh have uh you know have been uh turned into the authorities and blah blah blah and you know uh whether you guys whether you guys believe this or not this is the story that the ceo is giving that um People within his organization were up to good. he knew nothing about it. Of course.
01:39:58
Speaker
um and he knew nothing about it ah of course That being said, he had a thorn in his side. that that being said yeah That being said, a number of convicts have escaped, including um ah including the villain Blazemaster, though he is said to be contained in another facility at the moment. um you so's a um Yeah, is in another castle.
01:40:25
Speaker
um yeah facility yeah your villain is the castle So now um I'm going to go through a montage of stuff. ah So we're at the end. Actually, yeah, we'll... well Let's do our end of session questions first. Does anyone have anything they want to do right before the end, before we do the end of session questions?
01:40:49
Speaker
Yes. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. Whenever we're done on our way home, we've got gone our ways for the mission. The mission's done. We've gone our way home.
01:41:01
Speaker
Nightfall, you're gonna get a message a message straight to you from from me. text? Yeah. I just needed to, and it's gonna go like, I just needed to ask from someone one who's been a hero the whole time.
01:41:18
Speaker
Today didn't feel like being a hero. Is... Is that normal? Felt like we were more of the bad guys today.
01:41:29
Speaker
So like, uh, it does that thing where he types and you can see the lines and then it stops and then more lines and then stops. And then, you know I mean Like he's really thinking about what he's going to say. And he's like, Oh yeah.
01:41:41
Speaker
Reese sometimes being a good guy means that other people have to think you're the whole, the whole hero villain thing is not real, right? Like the world is so gray.
01:41:58
Speaker
We're all so gray and the best you can do is, you know, my grandmother always says taking a bath in the light washes the away the stains of our sins.
01:42:14
Speaker
Right. And so sure we did some bad things today, but we also saved for people. And, you know, if according to that CEO is what he said is true, we expect,
01:42:28
Speaker
bo some kind of shit with that Matt Arborist guy. And if what he didn't say is true, he at least knows that he can't operate so boldly and openly in the daylight with his, uh, his own, you know, unique version of sin. Right.
01:42:43
Speaker
So what I would say to you, Reese, and this little message that I'm tight, we took a bath today, bud. And while we're not squeaky clean light, we are a light gray and that's all you can do today.
01:42:59
Speaker
and you did a hell of a job. Now, was that one of your playbook things, Bill? That was just... yeah No, i'm playing I'm playing the character.
01:43:10
Speaker
Well, yeah, but I feel like that also was your... um Oh, I guess that I guess that guy could use that to i guess to remove a condition. because But I don't actually have... Because blowing off steam for me require ah for my character requires a victimless crime. um That was a sort of...
01:43:29
Speaker
It doesn't really apply to either. It doesn't apply to your moment of triumph or your... The question... Well, I could say that maybe it was sharing a vulnerability or weakness. Yeah, it was. He thought he was he thought he was still bad.
01:43:46
Speaker
Yeah, and I feel like Eric's answer is good enough. um
01:43:53
Speaker
It's not exactly what your move says. Like... it would give you, but I feel like this was a sort of a mixture of comfort and support or whatever, but I think, um, I think you can clear a condition of your choice. Uh, cause that was sort of a comfort and support.
01:44:09
Speaker
Normally you got a roll for it, but I liked to the RP. So clear condition. All right. Do I get to remove one of my five? Good question. Uh,
01:44:24
Speaker
ah
01:44:27
Speaker
not cause you were comforting him technically. Yeah. All right. Now, Eric, I think you were going to say you were going to do something. Yeah. I'm going to ask my time passes questions to the group.
01:44:40
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Time will be passing after this, uh, session. So I guess you can ask them now. So, uh, so we'll forget. Whenever time roll to see how the members of my legacy feel or react to my most recent exploits. Before rolling, I have to ask you guys questions, and you have to ah answer yes or no.
01:45:00
Speaker
That's it. Yes or no. Right? So, has ah Nightfall been upholding the traditions of his legacy?
01:45:10
Speaker
What is his traditions of his legacy? So... Anti-magic. Anti-magic shit. yeah black Black and white. Black and white bad magic. get matter Yeah, heroes are heroes. Villains are villains. There's no's no coming back from it. It's pretty much you're either this way or you're that way. Pick a side. Yeah.
01:45:33
Speaker
Yes. Only it's between both morals and metaphysical. Keeping in mind, he's done two things specifically that his legacy would not like.
01:45:47
Speaker
No. this To be perfectly honest, yes, I do think so, because i would be say i would be seeing it as performing your actions to the spirit to the spirit of the intent as opposed to the literal definition.
01:46:10
Speaker
Siphon? Max? Ouch. How do I feel about the table? that's not building yourphon your prophey yeah he Is he knows he upholding his legacy? like his The traditions of his family. like Is he doing what he's supposed to do? I feel like he is you know holding to his roots.
01:46:37
Speaker
yeah Have the image of my legacy? have i maintained the image of my legacy So has the the image of the Empire of the Blood, right?
01:46:55
Speaker
The Blood of Two Empires. Has he been upholding the image of heroes who fight against the darkness?
01:47:03
Speaker
Fuck, that's a yes. Yeah. Like, no matter what, you're always charging into shit. So, yeah, I think so. And then, what do you think, Max?
01:47:15
Speaker
Yeah, I would say yes. And then have i made the other members of my legacy proud? do you think I've made them proud? No. Eww. Your dad seems like a dick, so no.
01:47:29
Speaker
it Have we ever... Can Mexican son ever make his Mexican father happy? What? it's not just my dad, right? It's my grandfather, my mom, my grandma. No, that makes it worse. can Can any child of a legacy this big impress the family?
01:47:51
Speaker
not's Not impress, it's just make them proud. you know Exactly, but still, at this point, can you make them proud? don't know. That's what I'm asking. Your mom, yes. Your dad, no.
01:48:04
Speaker
Considering I don't know your dad, who know if you were my son, I'd be proud of you. well i mean I'd be proud of you. Are you asking us the player us the character? the The character, I think. Well, is it the player?
01:48:16
Speaker
Have the other players answer. Oh yeah, it's not the characters, yeah. Yeah, it's the players.
01:48:23
Speaker
Okay, so this could be mad for as fuck. To be perfect, yeah. So, yes and two no, so that's a no?
01:48:34
Speaker
i so yes and no for me. You have to choose, bro. yeah i'm say I'm saying solid yes, but across both boards. I'm I'm thinking with all those answers, it's just going to be a net minus one.
01:48:49
Speaker
Minus one. Yeah. Boom. Wow. Nice. What does that do? On a hit, one of them offers you meaningful encouragement, an opportunity, or an advantage.
01:49:05
Speaker
ah Interesting. Something to think about for next time. Yeah. i guess All right. um I mean, what a would giving him another one of my fruits be considered an advantage?
01:49:17
Speaker
Oh, no, it's from his oh his family members is going to do something. Gotcha. Okay. ah Yeah. And then um so you guys drive home. And as you're driving um in this, ah you know, this TV show that is playing, um ah a a montage of scenes starts to play ah akin to what happens at the end of the show, Invincible, at the end of the season. Yeah.
01:49:45
Speaker
um where they show like what other characters have been doing. So um the montage begins. We see Razor Fist. Yes, Frank. No, I was going to say, so going to see people actually doing shit versus us just goofing off.
Season Wrap-Up and Future Challenges
01:49:58
Speaker
Yeah, this is out of care. I mean, this is, you know, out of character knowledge, but ah one second. we see razor fist sitting in a dank prison cell uh not one of the scc cells but a normal one his hands are wrapped in metallic inflexible gloves preventing him from closing his fists he can he can hear screaming the sound of something like a chainsaw a cloud of green foul smelling mist blows past the bars of his cell and starts billowing inside just before it reaches him something lands in front of him a respirator
01:50:30
Speaker
He reaches down and picks it up and then looks at the one who threw it to him. The mad arborist gives him a smile before turning the key to his door and opening the cell. The camera shifts.
01:50:41
Speaker
We see Kieran in the bathroom brushing his teeth. He's back home. um You can see his face in the mirror reflecting back at him. He finishes up, spits, then turns to leave. ah But the mirror, the reflection in the mirror shifts to a face bearing a dark crown with eyes swirling with the chaos of the abyss watching him go.
01:51:02
Speaker
ah We see Tasha in a dark void kneeling before a tall figure. Your influence over him grows weak, he says, and raises a finger.
01:51:13
Speaker
Tasha cries out in pain and collapses, um then struggles back to her knees. Get him back. Remove the distraction. Tasha looks up at him, and we see it as Happy Jack.
01:51:27
Speaker
Yes, master, she says, and pulls on the mask of JK. um The scene flashes again to a dark forest. A pair of green squirrels are... I fucking knew it.
01:51:41
Speaker
You didn't know. I had a, this I had, I thought we said it. I'm pretty sure we've said it before, but yeah. Um, The scene flashes to a dark forest. A pair of green squirrels are leaping from tree to tree, fleeing something, terror in their eyes.
01:51:57
Speaker
Something pursues them. A green blur flashes across the screen, and one of the squirrels vanish. The other one breaks from the tree line and darts across neighborhood rooftops until a large, green, animal-like, humanoid figure lands in front of it.
01:52:11
Speaker
The squirrel backs away and the figure says, You can't escape me. I will have my revenge. The squirrel frantically chitters something and the figure pauses.
01:52:22
Speaker
What do you mean you were just following orders? Whose orders? The squirrel chitters defiantly, but then the figure holds up the squirrel that vanished earlier. Who told you to cause all that chaos at school?
01:52:36
Speaker
Answer, or this one dies. The squirrel chitters, and the clouds part around the moon, lighting up the face of a transformed Karen, now a plant-squirrel-humanoid monster.
01:52:51
Speaker
Kalex. Of course it was Kalex. Camera shifts. Now we see a girl we've never seen before, but who bears a striking resemblance to Kieran. Facing off against a massive, eldritch monstrosity. A sly smile spreads across her face as she unleashes lightning and fire into the beast. Camera flashes.
01:53:10
Speaker
Jurassic is standing triumphantly in an underground base before an army of dinosaur-robot hybrids. Soon, my children, soon the world will be yours again. Clash again. That's right. We don't have dealt with this shit.
01:53:23
Speaker
Flash again, blaze master. We see him sitting in, in his cell in siphons pocket realm. He takes a deep breath, breathes in, breathes out, breathes breathes out.
01:53:37
Speaker
On the third breath, smoke comes from his mouth and he opens his eyes, which are burning with small flames. la Oh, dear. Camera flashes ah to a um a quaint neighborhood scene. We see Reese and Clara returning from a date. She gives him a kiss and then walks to the front door of her house. She opens it, then turns back to Reese and gives him an inviting smile.
01:54:05
Speaker
Camera flashes. we say kevin We see Kevin hunched over what looks like Kevin, if you remember Jaden's character. We see Kevin hunched over what looks like a highly advanced computer console of some sort.
01:54:20
Speaker
He tinkers for a few minutes, then lets out a sigh and presses a button. The console lights lights up and a holographic image of an alien face appears above it. Hello, Kevin.
01:54:30
Speaker
I am Musique. Keep previous settings or create new profile. Kevin ah hits a few buttons and the face disappears. The letters K-E-V-I-N appear and it hits accept.
01:54:43
Speaker
The letters blur and reform into a digitized version of Kevin's face. Hello, Kevin. I am Kevin. How may I assist you today? Oh, gods. We see backswing in costume.
01:54:56
Speaker
We see Baxley in costume, sitting across the desk from Principal Powers having discussion we can't hear. The principal is holding a paper which the camera focuses on. It's a resume. He sets it down, reaches a hand across the table, and says, congratulations. I think you're perfect for the job. It's been a while since we had a coach for superhero superheroics training as qualified as you.
01:55:18
Speaker
Um... Then the camera shifts to Darkstrike, sitting on a bench overlooking the city. Oh, okay. Then the camera shifts to Darkstrike, sitting on a bench overlooking the city at sunset.
01:55:30
Speaker
Footsteps approach and she turns around, spotting Siphon. Hey, thanks for coming. um You didn't use one of your creepy portals to get here, did you? You can answer, Hayden.
01:55:45
Speaker
Why am I there? she so She requested you to come here. She said, hey, thanks for coming.
01:55:53
Speaker
I have no other information than that. you just so okay You're just supposed to play along, Hayden. You got a text message saying she wanted to meet, and you guys are at a bench overlooking the city at sunset.
01:56:06
Speaker
No, i this I did not teleport here. I stole my dad's car and drove here. She chuckles, um and she says, Look, I just wanted to say um I appreciate everything you did in the last mission. um You know, you ah ah you guys, I mean, all of you did great. ah you You saved all the people. um And look, I just, I i feel bad. um
01:56:38
Speaker
I've been keeping a secret. ah I think you might suspect part of it. um But, ah and she says, Max, she says, Max, Max, I want to be honest with you.
01:56:54
Speaker
I guess she already knew you were Max because you revealed the whole backswing thing. so when When she says that, and I'm like, if you're about to give your secret identity, don't. If you're going to your feelings, dude. She says, no, I want to. And then she pulls her mask off revealing herself as Victoria. I close my eyes.
01:57:16
Speaker
Ah, the player couldn't you close his ears. She's like, really? She says, really? I'm trying to have a moment here. Child. let' say... made don't think you understand everything about what I am.
01:57:33
Speaker
I think I understand more than you do, actually. i I was assigned to help you guys with the missing people, just like Principal so Powers said, but but that isn't my real mission.
01:57:45
Speaker
My real mission is, and then before she gets a chance to explain, a there's a crack like thunder, and a ah literal crack in reality appears next to the two of you as a portal opens.
01:58:03
Speaker
um Victoria's eyes widen and she, you know, she jumps up taking a defensive stance. um You guys see the shadow of a figure um like walking, you know, you know, that kind of scene where you see someone walking,
01:58:18
Speaker
like I'm pretty sure this exact scene that's happening shows where they're walking towards the portal and you see like the silhouette of them getting bigger. Oh, yeah. um So you see that the shadow of the figure approaching the portal from the other side. And then out steps a woman who looks um very familiar to both of you, albeit several years older, and also seemingly cosplaying as a witch.
01:58:41
Speaker
Next to the adult Tasha steps another figure that Max immediately recognizes, though there is something very different about him. Max's father, Max Sr., steps forward and says, son, we need to talk.
01:58:56
Speaker
Boom, spring goes black, end of episode. Oh, ah oh credits begin to roll. Oh, oh.
01:59:08
Speaker
it bill Yeah, credits roll. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. Credits roll. What's up, Over the credit roll. Oh, yeah. What's up, Danger?
01:59:19
Speaker
perhaps I was your game master tonight, Ron Bjork, and with me was Bill. Hey, I was Reese, aka Ironsand. I had a great time. i am... Reese and Bill are both shook because it's like...
01:59:37
Speaker
I fucking knew it. I'm just going to say it. I hadn't heard. i don't know who you talked to. It gave insider information to, but it wasn't me. But I had suspicions.
01:59:52
Speaker
Um, yep. ah Also, Frank. Hi, everyone. I'm Frank. I played Calix. Uh, the wisecracking tree man. um If you you can look for me on social media and you might be able to find me if you look hard enough. ah During the credits rolling ah scenes are flashing by of the episode ah and there's one particular one where it's like it's just a section of like squirrels running rampant through the the school.
02:00:22
Speaker
it Just like an actual video, just like still pictures of the end of the year montage yearbook page where it just goes through all the squirrel photos and Karen's like Instagram posts up until a certain point.
02:00:38
Speaker
This is a squirrel like holding on to Karen's hair like ah a set of reins. Um... There's the the dancing janitor who is like standing next to the boiler and he's just kind of shaking his head.
02:00:53
Speaker
ah but like
02:00:57
Speaker
Now he Now he quit. He walked the fuck out. He's a side quest for later. Anyways. Yeah, we also had Eric. and yeah we also had eric heyp Hey guys, thanks for listening. I played Zero, Nightfall, and I am looking forward to seeing what all those sweet, sweet montages mean for our future.
02:01:21
Speaker
And Hayden. Hey, it was good to play this night. I'm excited to see what ah my dad has to tell me. Alright, thank you everybody for listening. um That ends Season 1 of H-Town Heroes.
02:01:37
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Stop recording. Bye.
02:02:37
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