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H-Town Heroes Session 7
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After a long hiatus we are finally back. Our Heroes speak to the dead and discover the location of some bad guys, but to get there, they have to go on a road trip!
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Transcript
Introduction of Characters and Session Setup
00:00:18
Speaker
Welcome, citizens, to another episode of Integrated Dice Management management Presents H-Town Heroes. I am your Game Master, maybe.
00:00:30
Speaker
Whatever it is in this game, I can never remember. Ron Bjork, and with me tonight is Bill. Hey, I'm Bill. Gonna be playing as ah Reese, aka Ironsand. And i think we're gonna have a good time good time tonight.
00:00:47
Speaker
We've also got Eric.
Frank's Gaming Distraction
00:00:50
Speaker
Hey, folks. I'll be playing Nightfall. Here to hopefully smack some faces or something today. Be great. And Frank.
00:00:59
Speaker
Here. I'm Frank. um I'll be playing myself at some point. Indeed. a Are you playing a video game right now, Frank? I'm in the middle of an online multiplayer game, and I wish I could stop it, but I can't.
00:01:15
Speaker
Well, finish your match, okay? And hey, man. Hey, here. We're going to be playing a pretty sweet game, I hope.
Recap and Recent Events
00:01:25
Speaker
um The last session, we all it was almost a lot a lost episode, but I managed to re-download it and save it.
00:01:36
Speaker
ah Thankfully, i Craig had not yet deleted the audio, but last episode, um, you guys tracked down one of the people that the salesman was supposed to pitch his name. Her name was, um, is it this one?
00:01:56
Speaker
I know her superhero name was backswing. Oh, Marisol Delgado, uh, AKA backswing. Um, And you convinced her to go to this interview um so that you could watch it and follow her. There were some like shenanigans with Calyx being a shrub um and clapping his butt cheek once, specifically.
00:02:22
Speaker
um And then ah these the whole sales process kind of just went uneventfully. the guy left. ah He left her with his business card. So you guys got in the car.
00:02:36
Speaker
Well, Siphon and Marisol got in the car and drove around for a while.
Car Attack and Vision
00:02:42
Speaker
They were going to get Taco Bell. Yeah, they were going to get Taco Bell. And then the car was...
00:02:49
Speaker
attacked by a, and thisz by some sort of force field. Um, and Marisol was, uh, vanished away. Um, leaving behind only the business card.
00:03:01
Speaker
Uh, Siphon had a vision, um, of a first person view of a guy going on some rant about, um, needing to get rid of all the superheroes. I forget. Did you find out who that was in the vision?
00:03:16
Speaker
No.
00:03:19
Speaker
Okay, I don't remember. I literally just listened to this like an hour ago, but I don't remember if I said you saw yourself in the mirror or anything like that. So we don't remember, so I won't tell you um who it was. ah But a rant about how superheroes need to be or supers need to be stopped and they all need to be gotten rid of and stuff like that.
Investigation Begins
00:03:39
Speaker
um Then you guys regrouped. You went to track down the salesman. um You found out he did not clean his van out of the Taco Bell stuff, but ah all of his pamphlets and business cards were missing from the van. And when you went into his hotel room, you found a lot of blood and then you found him dead on the floor. And then...
00:04:02
Speaker
i and then what's your new What's your character's
Spirit Summoning and Interrogation
00:04:08
Speaker
name? Nightfall. well With the help of Siphon and the others cast a ritual to summon that guy's spirit back from the dead to question him. So we open up with the guy sitting up.
00:04:22
Speaker
Is it his spirit that's sitting up or his body sitting up? His body sitting up and I have to lock eyes with it body. His body sitting up and and he being very confused. say well Where am I? What what is this?
00:04:36
Speaker
yeah and then the because of the connection, we worked this out, right? We worked this out on the outside. Siphon is the one that speaks to me for him because we're using your Oh, yeah yeah, That's right. He's speaking through your voice. Yeah, as long as no one's hand is going up through my rectum, we're good.
00:04:52
Speaker
Yeah, it's just a ghost popping in me. I could just text you everything the ghost is saying. I could text you what the ghost is going to say, but I think I'll just speak for the ghost.
00:05:02
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ron's voice is now my voice. Yes. So, you know, pause for ah for the group. Did any of you boys come up with any questions? and I can only really think of like the the common ones of like, who killed you?
00:05:19
Speaker
Yeah. Or who are you? How do we get... And like the other questions are followed. Like, did you know them? Or like, what... Or like, how do we get... How do we actually get... How do we actually get into, you know, the this place...
00:05:35
Speaker
Well, I don't think he knows about this place, right? like mean, he does work for them. like I think this is just my personal opinion, is that like that he's the unsuspecting conduit for these these kidnappings.
00:05:55
Speaker
Yeah, well, there was like some kind of... and his business cards, there was some kind of like... Technology or something. opened So, Ironsand sensed some sort of metal in the business card, but because he rolled 7 to 9 unstable, ah the business, the metal, or the, yeah, i guess the metal just kind of dissolved.
00:06:17
Speaker
um And, you know, you you weren't, since you didn't know what it was, you couldn't reform it.
00:06:26
Speaker
Okay. Okay, so, ah Oh, as part of his um vision, ah
Suspicions and Corporate Connections
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Speaker
Siphon also got some partial GPS coordinates.
00:06:43
Speaker
But you guys have not looked into that yet either. Oh, that's right. He did get GPS coordinates. Partial GPS coordinates, which, to be fair, are probably useless in real life, but they will give you something of use in the game.
00:07:02
Speaker
the field in the middle of nowhere. I was like, if I gave you like two numbers from each, the latitude and longitude, that wouldn't be very useful. If I gave you just latitude, well then sure, you could say it's somewhere on the earth at this line or you know just one or the other. So that's not how it's going to work, but it'll be more useful than that.
00:07:25
Speaker
Where in Russia? Not specified! That's a problem. If it was just a latitude or just a longitude, you wouldn't know if it was in Russia. It would be somewhere, you know, somewhere on that line around the entire Earth.
00:07:46
Speaker
And then you also got a question about who's actually answering the question. You know, it's like, wait, do you believe that this place is part of that country? And they're like, yeah. Yeah.
00:07:58
Speaker
But it's not. I believe it is. but The GPS coordinates put you somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico. And then when you put it into Google, it says, this location does not exist. Did you mean Gulf of America? No. does autocorrect you to Gulf of America if you try to type in Gulf of Mexico. Yeah.
00:08:21
Speaker
does it not ah It doesn't autocorrect, but when you like try to drive to the Gulf, like put in directions, it changes it to directions to Gulf of
School Chaos Planning
00:08:28
Speaker
America. anyway Are you sure you didn't mean Gulf of America?
00:08:31
Speaker
Yeah, basically. Enough of pi on around most people all They renamed the god the Mall of America to the Mall of Mexico. Okay, that's funny. Alright, questions. Your questions for this ghost. Was the Mall of America in Mexico?
00:08:49
Speaker
No. Like Wisconsin or something. Up north. It's like that four-story mall with an ice rink in it. Yeah,
00:09:02
Speaker
yeah honestly, who killed you? Did you know them? What powers did they have? that's that You get five questions. That's three. but um No, I'm just i'm i'm throwing them out there. I'm not asking. Oh, I got one. It's really important.
00:09:19
Speaker
Why didn't you clean up a Taco Bell? God damn it. Did you ask that question? No. In character, okay. that's
00:09:31
Speaker
So in like, in setting up the ritual or whatever, I would have explained to everybody like, I can't talk to you, but you can talk to me. I'll be able to hear you. So if you want me to say something to it, say it to me and I'll say it to it.
00:09:43
Speaker
Right? Why is the guy that probably should be asking the questions the one that can't ask the question? who silent
00:09:54
Speaker
oh no all right Dramatic effect happened here.
00:09:59
Speaker
So, uh, my opinion, yeah, first question should be who killed you? And then if he gives us, I don't describe what killed you. Can we do that?
00:10:13
Speaker
How did you die? Describe how you died. yeah Can you describe how you died, including who killed who actually was doing it? Alright, and then...
Executing School Sabotage
00:10:26
Speaker
Did you know anything about the disappearance? it did your genuine would did you like Did you know anything about the disappearances?
00:10:32
Speaker
Oh, that's a good follow-up. Does he have to answer? her I believe he has... I think... i I don't remember we rolled for it. I don't remember if we talked about that.
00:10:45
Speaker
um But, yeah. I feel like you would have to answer given the spell. Otherwise, it would just be a ah wasted spell. Like, how frequently would you come across somebody who just really doesn't feel like answering the question?
00:11:00
Speaker
that's why often Often with these spells, often with these spells, uh, they you know the the spirit or whatever or demon or whatever you're trying to commune with, it has to answer, but it doesn't it can answer. you know Sometimes they have to answer honestly, but they can do it cryptically, you know things like that. um so it Yeah, like the way that the patron or whatever has been dealing with Siphon in general, right? like Telling him the truth, giving him the answer, not the answer you want, right?
00:11:30
Speaker
yeah but thats but we Yeah, but that's happy to me, though.
00:11:36
Speaker
Yeah, and this is the like creepy salesman times a thousand. It's like Alex on steroids. Hey, man. How are you doing? It's good to hear from you. It's good to see you. I've never seen Alex trying to sell anything. it ah He tries to sell you all the time, Frank.
00:11:59
Speaker
Every time he shakes your hand, bud. Yeah. That's him turning on that charm, buddy. that's That that is what that is. oh yeah I thought it was just friendly. No. Yeah, but there's always levels.
00:12:12
Speaker
Always levels. Every time I ever interacted with him, I felt like he was trying to sell me something. yeah i feel like we I feel like we should delete this part of the episode just in case Alex decides to be awesome and support us. I don't work for him.
00:12:28
Speaker
pat Joke's on y'all. Alex has actually secretly been subscribed to us the whole time. Oh my god. like bo bit Yep. It makes complete sense.
00:12:42
Speaker
The boss was here all along. Fuck. All right. We're off to a chaotic start this this morning. i I don't know about you guys. am on my second alcoholic bre beverage. so I am not drinking an alcoholic
00:13:04
Speaker
beverage. All right. My vote for first question is on ah who killed you? Or I guess how did you Google this? which Which one was it that we were talking about? Was it who killed you or how did you die? Which should be the first question.
00:13:24
Speaker
like It was like what or how did you die? Die. And then i mean we got more, right? but How did you die? and then I guess the next questions will come off of what that is, like what those answers are, right?
00:13:38
Speaker
Did you know? we have to ask them back to back to back? dominoes or can we like ask hear a refrain and then ask again did you know that the supers were disappearing or did you know about the business cards i don't fucking know and how to properly word that one
00:14:06
Speaker
why did they kill you
00:14:13
Speaker
I mean, it was us, why we worth It's going to hit just a little different when it's but you know when you find out, oh, yeah I am actually the reason.
00:14:24
Speaker
Where are they?
00:14:28
Speaker
You beg about to ask a qualifying question. she All right. So, Nightfall is there with his helmet off. Sarah pulled back.
00:14:42
Speaker
ah His eyes are glowing a little bit. Hair ruffling slightly in the breeze. That's not existent. Yeah, the magical breeze. like the energies There's energy in the room, right? and Oh, yeah. ah Did we learn this guy's name? I'm sure we did.
00:15:01
Speaker
You did. um Let me check what it was. i think it was George. so His name was Marcus. It was some shitty salesman named Kup. It was Marcus Hawthorne.
00:15:13
Speaker
All right, Marcus. Marcus, look at me. I need you to focus on my voice. i only have you here for a short time. and need to know. It hurts.
00:15:25
Speaker
Okay, what what do you need to know? That was question number one. Oh, God. That's his question. No, he asked a question. You said... I didn't ask a question. I'm trying to throw away all the questions.
00:15:41
Speaker
The rules of magic allow five questions, Marcus. You will only feel pain for five questions. So focus on my voice. Who killed you?
00:15:53
Speaker
I don't know who it was. ah i i didn't know him, but I think I've heard his voice before. That was a wasted question.
00:16:05
Speaker
It wasn't. yeah And y'all thought my Taco Bell question was a bad question. It was a bad question. We still learned something. he recognizes the He recognized the voice. That is true.
00:16:19
Speaker
ah So we can change it for our next question. Our question can be, where did you hear his voice before? Yeah.
00:16:26
Speaker
Marcus, focus again. Go back into your memory. Go back into your memory. Where did you hear the voice before? ah it was It was when I was on the phone with...
00:16:39
Speaker
When I was on the phone with corporate one time, he i i don't remember what he said, but I heard him in the background, and I i remember the voice because it was so weird. It was it was a sinister voice. Maybe maybe British?
00:16:57
Speaker
yeah okay But like, scary British. snake producer mallo drley had a little gravely. I think he means Australian.
00:17:09
Speaker
No, not Australian. Definitely not Australian. it was It was definitely more British, maybe maybe maybe be Scottish or Irish. It's weird, but anybody heard that? Because i like ben to bent over and so and whispered that to Caleb. It's as if the Dungeon Master...
00:17:28
Speaker
looked up a voice and the guy's nationality is the description said he's he's irish but he spoke in a british accent yeah those irish very british the man's thing british people those goddamn irish why did the
Mad Arborist Connection
00:17:46
Speaker
sinister man why did the man with the sinister voice the man from corporate why did the man from corporate with the sinister voice kill you He said that i was that I betrayed the company working with you people and that he had to tie up loose ends.
00:18:05
Speaker
key He took all of my stuff and and then he he killed me with... I guess he can he he's being helpful. He killed me with with the weirdest thing, with shears.
00:18:18
Speaker
like Or not shears. With ah hedge trimmers. this like e Edward Scissor Tans? Hedge Triggers. automatic and those automatmaticic ones that are kind of like a chainsaw, but skinny. Oh, shit.
00:18:33
Speaker
Oh, I know who it is. Just so I'm clear. Guys, he's my own cynicism.
00:18:43
Speaker
Somehow, by by the way, somehow he is speaking to you, but his throat is like shredded. Oh, yes, because it's coming out of Siphon's mouth. Yeah, that's true. Siphon's like in my ear, like a creepy little. all my mouth I'm sorry, i't i know just needed to I feel like I just need to specify real quick. So, when you say hedge trimmers, you do mean like those kind of semi-chainsaws with the big teeth?
00:19:06
Speaker
It's not a chainsaw, but it almost looks like a chainsaw? No, I'm asking Ron. Yes.
00:19:14
Speaker
Yeah, like like those. This guy got killed with all his head trimmers. Guys, i know I know I'm usually not super helpful, but like my archdiocese is the Mad Arborist.
00:19:26
Speaker
I haven't got that. Iron Man turned into my whole body to look at you, dude. I turned my whole body to look at you.
00:19:40
Speaker
Just...
00:19:44
Speaker
I forgot that. ah ah um ah mark Now, something you would know outside of Calyx, now that you've made that connection, the Mad Arborist weirdly has Bane's voice, like a british a kind of British but scary voice.
00:20:03
Speaker
he He speaks like Bane, I decided. i say I say that too. is it Is it Bane or is it a weirdly high-pitched Bane? I feel like it's a high-pitched Bane. No, I'm not capable of... It's that one. I can't do high-pitched.
00:20:19
Speaker
oh I decided on this because I decided he was... ah I was envisioning a scene where he was um speaking to you um before you became his arch-nemesis and he was like, Calix.
00:20:32
Speaker
i I have to admit, I'm fascinated by you. You know. So, yeah. you the ah You think the mulch is your ally. You merely adopted the mulch. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see life until I was already a man. That is was not very good. You know what's the most fucked up thing ever? That character's supposed to be from Venezuela.
00:21:02
Speaker
The Mad Arborist? What? Oh, Bane. Yeah. ah
00:21:12
Speaker
Yeah, I came up with that voice today because I just, for some reason, I was picturing the first time you met the Mad Arborist and that's the voice that happened in my mind. I'm like, okay, well, that's apparently his voice now.
00:21:26
Speaker
Just of curiosity, as he jacked? Because I don't think I can honestly listen to somebody with that voice and not and just laugh. So he is... ah Here's what he looks like.
00:21:39
Speaker
that lord Is that him? Yeah, that's the picture I went with. but That was the one I liked. no and The other one was a little... I liked this one because it was a little more sinister-y, I think.
00:21:52
Speaker
um And AI doesn't know how to spell arborist, but, you know. Or anything, really. It didn't come up for me. That's booty meat. Me neither. I don't have it either. That's odd.
00:22:05
Speaker
I thought you decided to with the one that was like...
00:22:10
Speaker
Hold on. We find him. Let me try again. There he is. I have it now. and that's perfect. it I have a few pictures of him. I ended up going with that one.
00:22:23
Speaker
um But I have several pictures. I thought just had to go with that one, the one in Discord that i just dropped. i am I'm sorry about that, y'all. I'm sorry. I didn't need to laugh that hard. I'm good.
00:22:37
Speaker
Wow. That was also one I was looking at. was like, this one seems more like a super film, though, but if you would rather be that guy... You know what? Frayden's went from actual Dane guy to hipster Bane. Yeah.
00:22:55
Speaker
I can only imagine the way there's a bow tie and stuff. He's got one of those super intricate crates and he does a slow part. I'm also good with that guy, but this guy weirdly looks more like a pest control guy.
00:23:08
Speaker
ah Yeah, I can kind of see that. yeah i mean I guess he could spraying a weed killer. I've just been imagining him as like a hipster like gardener person.
00:23:19
Speaker
But i mean this guy works too. Oh, you saw your awful hell of a douchebag. Yeah, I ended up going with that guy. because well when When we were talking, I think we ended up wanting you to have a little bit more of ah ah a villain villain as your nemesis versus a joke villain.
00:23:40
Speaker
so Yeah, I think you're right. okay So that's kind of why I chose that picture because he looks a little more like a villain.
Ghost's Revelation and Fredericksburg
00:23:47
Speaker
He's got that do he's got that jug of Roundup that he breathes in as his Bane juice.
00:23:52
Speaker
yeah Shots us straight in. oh All right. Okay. so i pull I pull up that picture, the the Matt Arborist picture that you you submitted to the Rolls 20 on my little Nokia phone.
00:24:12
Speaker
And I'm like, guys, it's it's this guy. And I show it to him. And the ghost, well, I don't know. Could the ghost see? No, the ghost has to look at Eric. yeah He's got to look at me.
00:24:25
Speaker
um So two more questions. Does anybody have any input on what they want me to ask? <unk> What I have left is do you know where... I have a suggestion.
00:24:38
Speaker
is the ah Do you know where we can find lovingff man ah yeah any more of the business cards? business ah ah I know that they come from an office. I only know this because I had to pick them up one time.
00:24:58
Speaker
um But they come from an office out of Fredericksburg.
00:25:04
Speaker
Wait, okay, hold up. Rewind. So, my arch nemesis is part of corporate control villains? Or control supers?
00:25:16
Speaker
we I don't know, I don't know. he goes for Roundup.
00:25:22
Speaker
I'd say it. Fucking competition.
00:25:29
Speaker
We got one left. He's a double-edged player. Guys, i have a feeling that it isn't actually that guy. It's Matt Arborist, but I don't think he was for real. like like We need to find out. Well, I guess it doesn't matter.
00:25:45
Speaker
We got one question Did y'all hear my answer to that question? Yeah, Fredericksburg. I know that they came out of an office in Fredericksburg. I picked them up more once.
00:25:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:02
Speaker
which Fredericksburg is, if any of you'a y'all's characters know where that is, it's not close. No, it's not. That's a lot.
00:26:14
Speaker
We'd have to skip school. yeah We already skipped school. have like a private jet thing. We could just help. We could be there. We could skip school again. Well, you can ask for ride. We could the past film.
00:26:29
Speaker
Like, we school's right across town! Why would we need a private jet to get across town? and Well, for, you know, those those battle situations where we have to go long distance. One last question. One last question.
00:26:43
Speaker
Okay. Siphon, you got anything?
00:26:49
Speaker
except feeling this ghost's fingers down my... Never mind. Um, I don't think I have anything.
00:27:01
Speaker
ah wow
00:27:04
Speaker
I guess before I let you go, we have one last question. I'm trying to think. like does add we We know who it is now. It's my arch nemesis.
00:27:16
Speaker
yeah We have a lead on where to check out. Should we ask him if he has like any next of kin or anybody who needs to know the truth about his death? No, that doesn't matter. We'll just leave that up to the... That's the whole society.
00:27:30
Speaker
like That's a waste of a question.
Decision Time: Mad Arborist or Fredericksburg?
00:27:39
Speaker
who. We have the how. Is anybody else going to get another standalone guy that they're doing? because we had from his list From his list of guys he was going to go talk to, had a bunch of businesses and two standalone people.
00:27:54
Speaker
One was the lady who just like went missing, but there was another guy. so if other guy was The other guy was Victor Maddox. and we have that information i got it. i got it yeah now that you're dead Now that you're dead, who would the company send to finish your list?
00:28:16
Speaker
oh well Well, I don't know. I imagine that someone else from the sales team.
00:28:23
Speaker
That was sweet. But we don't we don't interact with each other.
00:28:33
Speaker
Well, that's five, so... That's it. And then he he wails in agony as his corpse falls back down.
00:28:45
Speaker
o I always imagine we were looking at like a spirit, not like the whole corpse stood up. The corpse sat up, but it was speaking through Hayden's mouth. Yeah, and then Hayden had to do like this like creepy ah Asian horror thing where he was like sitting right next to me and he whispered the answers directly into my ear.
00:29:03
Speaker
He had all of his hair forward and he just bent over so that you could only just barely see his eye through his hair. yeah it just sounds like some ASMR stuff. It was. That's exactly. like That was the voice we were hearing was ASMR siphon.
00:29:15
Speaker
yeah Okay. um Give me one second. I'll be right back.
00:29:25
Speaker
Okay, well, we have the who, the what. And we do also know this Victor Maddox guy is the next is the next um person that's going to be spoken to. So, second verse, same as the first. this this kind to This time, we just can't leave him alone. did we put a track Did we put a tracker on the lady, but it like the tracker stopped or whatever? Yeah, but the tracker itself was actually left behind. Only her only she actually went. Hmm.
00:30:01
Speaker
But it is interesting. So that I understand it's actually going to turn to everybody and say this. It is interesting how when she had the least amount of supervision by us is when they chose to strike.
00:30:15
Speaker
They've got to be watching all of the marks they're going to go talk to.
00:30:22
Speaker
and they know we're we're looking at that next person, but we can't do... Do we have the capability of like dressing somebody up as that next person and having them vanish?
00:30:32
Speaker
Maybe? That's not a thing. Whoever... If we can just get there by the time that they get the business card, we can take the business card because that seems to be the only common denominator.
00:30:47
Speaker
And there is some kind of tech inside of that. I can feel the metal in them.
Chaos Unleashed at School
00:30:52
Speaker
The benominator? Yep. Definitely a benominator. Alright, I'm back. I'm back.
00:30:59
Speaker
Okay, so corpse falls down.
00:31:05
Speaker
God, I hate that. Yeah, I don't like it too much either. Dude, I could literally feel his death. Yeah. Yeah, same. that is It's probably a suck that's feeling your breath on my neck.
00:31:20
Speaker
You know? I'm not a blessing. you Can stuff you feel how much Taco Bell he's eaten? Because I feel like it's been a lot. No, I couldn't get past the amount of a bludgeoned death that I was receiving.
00:31:36
Speaker
Yeah, that was the the question I was going to ask. is So you felt his death. could you Did you see it, too? Only what he saw. Did you see the attacker?
00:31:49
Speaker
Did it look like this guy? and i show I hold up that my phone again. So did i do i I'll say, yeah, you saw the attacker. He was wearing a hat and sunglasses, um, taller than the salesman, um, but not by a whole lot. Uh, so he was kind of concealed. It was dark in the room. Um,
00:32:09
Speaker
It could have been that guy. ah You see like a bit of the the gray or white hair underneath the hat. But he wasn't you know decked out. He did have a hedge trimmer, but he wasn't decked out in all this stuff in the picture.
00:32:23
Speaker
Was it a hedge trimmer or was it the thing that he's got in his hand in the picture? i mean I'm going to say it's the thing in the hand because obviously that's better than the hedge trimmer. but Yeah, that's more believable than the hedge trimmer.
00:32:35
Speaker
The weird hedge trimmer-like Machete gun. It looks like a fucking bone saw on the host steroids.
00:32:44
Speaker
Mmm, just a battery-powered bone saw. My original view of it was just a hedge trimmer, but I, you know, we'll say it was that thing. My issue with it being a bone saw is the reverse direction of the actual, like,
00:32:57
Speaker
blade part. Well, we'll say that image is not perfectly accurate. It functions like a hedge trimmer. Well, and so I'm saying if it's two blades that look exactly the same, just with ah ah opposite facing duration, that just kind of went back and forth, then like like ah you know how like a bread knife, one those like electric bread knives, it's got two knives that kind of go back and forth.
00:33:19
Speaker
Yeah. um If it was that just with those blades on it, just with with reversed, um, mines on the other side, it would be a perfect edge trimmer.
00:33:31
Speaker
So. Yeah.
00:33:35
Speaker
Not that it mattered. Yeah. By the way, when I was looking for what this guy's weapon is, I came across this object.
00:33:46
Speaker
um I'm dropping it in Discord. And just, I want whatever this is. Oh yeah, that's the the saw thing that goes goes weep, weep.
00:33:58
Speaker
It does that? Okay. yeah I don't know, it looks like a chainsaw monster. yeah this one So the chainsaw actually pivots. like The chainsaw like will go up into that top guard part and it'll come down and cut through a branch.
00:34:14
Speaker
Okay, so it's so it so it's so specifically meant for branches then. Okay. yeah You could probably put somebody's arm in there and and do some work. I was like, I've never seen this thing before, but I want one. It's a long maintenance tattoo. When I was looking for a replacement for my chainsaw on a stick, I found that. And like, that's neat, but also very... You know, it can only fit the diameter of that hole, and so if you have a branch you're trying to cut bigger than that, you're screwed.
00:34:45
Speaker
Hmm. Still a nice, like, 50 thing, but... So yeah, you guys, what's your next move? Do you know where this arborist likes to hang out, Calix?
00:34:58
Speaker
um Well, i mean, he's a supervillain, so no.
Nightfall's Family Concerns
00:35:03
Speaker
But like person I could probably take us to like his normal stomping ground, like see if we can't backtrack his... ah
00:35:15
Speaker
Sorry. See if we can't backtrack his... um
00:35:20
Speaker
special order salt thing. Oh, I'm just going to make some shit up on the spot because you know I probably know the guy. um He uses a very specific type of weed killer combined with a very specific chemical.
00:35:38
Speaker
He mixes it himself and only a few places sell it and very few people actually purchase it. So we could probably see if we can track it. that That works. That works.
00:35:51
Speaker
That works.
00:35:54
Speaker
So should we go straight for the arborist, or should we do something with this Victor guy? I also, I will say that one of the manufacturers of that is in that other place that he said that he went to to get the business cards.
00:36:09
Speaker
And so just to give you all a reminder, yeah, to give you all a reminder of the things you learned, you're pretty sure the mad arborist was his killer. Um... do You know that there is apparently an office in Fredericksburg.
00:36:23
Speaker
um You also have some partial ah GPS coordinates from Siphon. um oh I believe those are the various things that you've found out so far.
00:36:38
Speaker
The GPS coordinates, do they take you up in the air or do they correlate to someplace on the earth? Would it correlate to Fredericksburg?
00:36:47
Speaker
i'm no man we so I don't know where that is so uh uh let's see what's her name again um dark strike who's been there the whole time um she's like well we could uh yeah she she pulls out her um her phone she's like well what are what are those numbers we could type them in I didn't give you specific numbers so you give her what you remember um She types it into her phone and nothing comes up. and she's like h you know types types it into like
00:37:23
Speaker
she she ah She does some stuff bla you know technical stuff that doesn't make sense because this wouldn't work in real life, but this is a comic book. um and she's like It looks like it's somewhere in the hill country.
00:37:38
Speaker
Is that near Fredericksburg? Yes. well I got good sausage. You wouldn't need any sort of like major technical stuff. You could literally just pull out a map and be like, okay, this area has those partial GPS coordinates on it. Like we knew where Fredericksburg is part of it, right? so Yeah. and And that's not something that you could just type into Google easily. Like Google would be like, these aren't. Yeah. But yeah. um Yeah. No, you're able to say that. Yeah. It's somewhere in the Fredericksburg area.
00:38:08
Speaker
And I do know that one of the manufacturers, like one time when had to track them down, one of the manufacturers of that chemical has a base near there, or their processing plants there. Perfect.
00:38:21
Speaker
there anybody that we're supposed to be reporting all this information to that's above Darkstrike?
00:38:28
Speaker
No. um You guys were just told to figure out what's going on. um You weren't given any directives or anything. um the reason that you're working with is it i'm leaving The reason that you're working with Darkstrike as opposed to um um what is her name, Silk Shadow, is or the reason you guys are investigating this as opposed to any of the the bigger superheroes is they are you know they're dealing with with some other problem right now.
00:38:57
Speaker
you know right yeah the the whatever you guys did come up with a name for their team, but I already forgot it. so um For the the prime superhero team in in ah Houston.
00:39:13
Speaker
um But they're busy doing something else. you know They're dealing with justice. Team America World Police. that That wasn't what it was. but It was something about three. yeah There was the word three in the name.
00:39:28
Speaker
So there's only three of them, men and then Silk Shadow is one of them, apparently. um But whatever they're... They're you know they're dealing with Justice League-level threats. You guys are dealing with Batman-level threats. so
00:39:44
Speaker
Yeah, i just have to tell the... ah Who's crappier than Batman? The Arrow-level threats. i don't know. Ooh, that's insulting. Despite all of that...
00:39:55
Speaker
The Batman-level threats you know include people like the Joker. So, you know. bat The thing is, Batman-level threats are city-level threats, usually, not world-level threats. so
00:40:09
Speaker
Although we've added a second city into this threat. projects It's up to you guys if you report to somebody. yeah i You were just told to figure this out. yeah I feel like your direct supervisor would be the principal of the school. Yes, your direct supervisor is is principal powers.
00:40:27
Speaker
Which I have yet. I'll offer to him for now and then make a plan to get back to get doing this. Because we are still missing school and Ron mentioned last time that If we're all out at the same time, some of us who have you know secret identities, are kind of it's kind of going to be a little obvious.
Siphon's Family and Investigation
00:40:45
Speaker
Calix is already not hiding his. So it can be a symbol. When Calix is out and all the same people are out, they're probably us.
00:40:57
Speaker
So as as Bill's character, Reese, says that, we switch to a view of the classroom that Calix should be in, and there's just a tree sitting on his desk.
00:41:10
Speaker
a little shrub. yeah just little shrub. It's in a pot. Alright, I'm going to ask ChatGPT to generate a complicated image and I don't think it's going to work. but And then and then ah ah one of the students walks by and goes to dab up the tree.
00:41:26
Speaker
Right? Like he like... yeah Because if you've seen one tree, you've seen them all. elementary him might be in a mood He's not talking to anybody.
00:41:38
Speaker
yeah and He ain't moving. He's just sitting there.
00:41:42
Speaker
I mean, to be fair, I probably don't really talk to a whole lot of people in school either. Yo, I am Fruit, bro. What's up? ah Actually, you know what? Iron Sand is actually going to ah message his sponsor slash boss. Ask him to send in a sick note for him.
00:42:05
Speaker
That way there's some kind of an alibi. Yeah, but the children are going to still be there.
00:42:13
Speaker
Yeah, but at least... The children will still notice that you're all gone. Minus the the random Trump person. Yeah, that's what my bill that's why Bill was saying this instead of Reese. but bill ah But what I was saying was maybe at least one or two of us should go back to class.
00:42:30
Speaker
ah Ron. So you know how at one point I was like, I want to like infect squirrels? Uh-huh. Can the squirrels be the ones that move the faux Calyx around the stool?
00:42:49
Speaker
ah Sure. Nobody is fooled by this, but they just don't question it. Because everyone knows Calyx is a superhero, so they're just like, oh, well, he must be on superhero business. yeah Clearly he's out saving the world. There's just like a couple of squirrels just like pushing the pot around the stool.
00:43:13
Speaker
and Sorry. Okay, anyways.
00:43:18
Speaker
I find too much annoying at so That also being said,
Travel Planning to Fredericksburg
00:43:25
Speaker
ah while i well yeah I do think at least some of us, like, I don't know, ah like, Nightfall, are you actually officially back in school yet?
00:43:35
Speaker
I mean, no. I never really showed up. So, there's that. All right, I've got a couple decent images. I could still be on vacation. For principal powers. just got to decide which one I like. I feel like this is the kind of thing where we should try to make an appearance just, you know, to protect the image, ah but not all of us, because I don't want all of us coming back at the same time so they don't fully connect the dots.
00:44:09
Speaker
well what did i like um i don't anybody going to frederick I don't want to split the party right before we go over to Fredericksburg because I feel like that's a big next step. Okay, yeah I've got principal powers.
00:44:20
Speaker
Looking at principal powers.
00:44:26
Speaker
Let's see. Now, I want everybody to understand when I say this, I'm not pointing fingers directly at anyone, but when we split up for Taco Bell, that's when we lost Delgado. Right?
00:44:37
Speaker
So if we send two members to Fredericksburg or three of us or one of us, I feel like we're just setting ourselves up for failure. What happens whenever they decide that we belong in whatever box or prison or whatever it is that these guys are putting us in?
00:44:54
Speaker
You know?
00:44:57
Speaker
Who's Delgado? Backstrike. Oh, gotcha.
00:45:01
Speaker
backst strike strike oh gotcha ah I forgot that was her name. I'm sorry. That was Frank, not Taylor. Yeah, yeah.
00:45:12
Speaker
So, if we're going, we all go together. If we got to figure out a way that we can stagger our disappearance from school, you know, so be it. You know, I could have... I got it. It's perfect. We just burned the school down.
00:45:26
Speaker
We probably shouldn't do that. but Yeah. here zero
00:45:32
Speaker
Most days. But if we... If there were to be like... i don't know... A gas leak overnight. And nobody went to school that day.
00:45:44
Speaker
That's way to do things. I watched this thing one time... Where where these people put stink bombs... Into the air recirculation system... In the school. And they had to close the school for a couple days.
00:45:57
Speaker
Maybe we could call in a favor from Kevin. He's got all those cool tricks.
00:46:03
Speaker
I mean...
00:46:05
Speaker
I could just sabotage the boiler and just explode and just explode the back corner of the of the school. so exploding Exploding part of the school is bad, but burning it down is fine. This part, there won't be any students back there and hardly any of the staff actually go back there except for the janitor, but that's only to us to get a couple of the cleaning supplies.
00:46:30
Speaker
As long as he's not there when I sabotage the thing, we've got five minutes. yeah like You just make sure that Mr. John's not back there. We all like him. He's fast. He's literally the dancing janitor.
00:46:44
Speaker
she I love the dancing janitor. He's our school's janitor. but mean like just I can just plant some stinkhorn. I can just plant some stinkhorn mushrooms in the AC event, and then they'll have to close the school down to figure out what's going on. Until they find the mushrooms...
00:47:03
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, the the school, I don't give a shit. what is What if... I can't decide between these two pitchers for principal powers. What if... You got time. We're bullshitting right now. You're planning, yeah. nothing what if What if a bigoted phone call comes in and blames Calix's squirrels that says they're rabid?
00:47:32
Speaker
And then animal control has to come and get the squirrels.
00:47:38
Speaker
Because they're just they're all over the school. And then it's just somebody who hates supers or hates plant people. but One on the left, please.
00:47:49
Speaker
ah One on the left, please. One on the left, please. All right. and discoursed scored all And Discord. Oh, and Discord.
00:47:59
Speaker
I thought you were laughing at my rabid squirrels. You were laughing at Ron. like five score let see do ah For the YouTube, yeah for for anyone who's probably not in Twitch, there he is. That's Principal Powers.
00:48:18
Speaker
this is This is my junior year history teacher. He just looks so disappointed in me. He is. Don't worry, bud, he's disappointed in me with everything.
00:48:33
Speaker
You and your rabid squirrel.
00:48:38
Speaker
Goddamn squirrel. You say you have like five of them, but are they like, ah
00:48:45
Speaker
you know, could they play the part? Could you like, you know chief human you know, pull pull pull a cronk? That's the issue. He doesn't have the ability to speak to animals.
00:48:57
Speaker
Are they still animals at this point, or are they more plants? oh That's a good point. Maybe you've got ability to speak to them on ah on a superficial level. Like... communicate with them whole Their root system shares the same type of fungus and it allows them to communicate. ah The mycelia network?
00:49:17
Speaker
Yes! I saw that in a documentary. It was really weird. They said that fungus is the the internet of trees. Yeah. I think that was in character. That was in character. it's the And so they like they tweet each other, right? Like, hey, it's dry over here. And so then the plants take less water, right? Or, oh, shit, there's a fire.
00:49:41
Speaker
And then they send more water. you know, it's like it's they just apparently plants can talk. I mean, I know you can talk, big guy. All right? I know. But not your regular ones. You're super.
00:49:54
Speaker
Yeah. You're super. but like communicate I communicate with my squirrels, but I didn't know how. I just i just kind of did it. Yeah, it's because you're all connected by, like, epic toe jam. You know what I'm saying? like you got like I have to be, like, within proximity, so I'd have to go back to school to tell them to act rather.
00:50:15
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, no, the squirrels would need to like literallyly need to, like, plant themselves in your root system, but then you'd be able to understand all of their thoughts.
00:50:25
Speaker
but I mean, like, is your plan for the... Do you just... Does your ficus stay at the school? The ficus with the booty, does it just stay at the school? You know?
00:50:35
Speaker
he He stays in the corner of the principal's office. Well, no. don't have that they They have pots at my my house. we We come back and we just kind of chill.
00:50:48
Speaker
I have some Mountain Dew with my squirrels. if You gotta be careful, though. That's bad for a root system. that's jail
00:50:58
Speaker
So like, I don't know, man, like there's a couple ideas, stink bombs, stinky mushrooms, rabid squirrels. I mean, something that all, all of those, all of those, right um I think that we should limit the damage that we actually do to the school.
00:51:14
Speaker
oh an album I have another idea. pointed i can just take some I could just take take some stinkhorn and grind it up and then just smear it all over the squirrels and have them run throughout the the school. you know if they you know If they're just squirrels, couldn't they just go up into like the ceiling and chew some wiring and shut down the power to the school?
00:51:37
Speaker
They would have to shut down school for the day to get power back up. I mean, they might they might be able to. like I like all of these ideas, and so I'm going to we should do all of these ideas.
00:51:53
Speaker
So, you know, blow up the back corner, have rabid, pinky squirrels chew up wiring, just all of it. All right, well, Siphon, don't take this the wrong way. You look like the type guy who has...
00:52:07
Speaker
creative language skills. Can you come up with a slur for big fruit over here and call the school, talk about rabbit squirrels. You do the stink horn thing, cover them up with that smelly fungus juice.
00:52:22
Speaker
And then, yeah, I mean, we're ah we're good, right? Like that's all the things. Yeah. i splited with fools a sirls Power and send in, send in a hate crime.
00:52:33
Speaker
Yeah. We can do that. And so the the goal of all the all of this is to shut down the school for a few days so that no one notices you're missing? Exactly. yeah Okay, okay. ah and a like Actually, Reese is going turn to y'all be like, is this the kind of thing that we should that we should ah tell the principal about? or No, most of them are not.
00:52:56
Speaker
These are cheeky shenanigans, and he doesn't need to know anything about our cheeky shenanigans. You know what saying? I hear you.
00:53:05
Speaker
Let's see here. what I feel like a roll is going to need to happen. which For which one of us? We all have a part to play here. Right? Yeah. um Well, okay.
00:53:21
Speaker
We could just say it's allk it's it's mostly just like a school prank. Yeah, and it's kind of maybe for you, unleash your power since you're manipulating the squirrels. and fucking about the squi and they feel like in the squirrels It sucks. i was so you know I may be joining ah an Avatar game, and I was reading through the the cus the moves in Avatar, and they've got a move called Push Your Luck, which is whenever you try to do some bullshit, basically, that has no other move. yeah I mean, I guess, yeah, it Mundane is a good one.
00:53:54
Speaker
could roll the flag. may do. I think I'm going to have... At least one of you roll mundane, but I'm going to use the rules from the Avatar game for push your luck on on how it works. So on a hit, works exactly how you want.
00:54:12
Speaker
Or on a hit, it works. Out
00:54:18
Speaker
um out of curiosity... i have money call But there's a cost, basically. And on a 10+, yeah. Should I roll Freak instead of Mundane? Most of it's from me and my...
00:54:30
Speaker
Yeah, was that was the question I was going to ask. Yeah, you could just... Which one of us would be best to roll this?
00:54:38
Speaker
well It does seem like Kalyx is doing the most of it. i mean, we could throw in some other shenanigans. Like, you could walk through the screen all of the fire extinguishers or something, or the...
00:54:55
Speaker
I could try to use Vajic to set off fire alarms. you could You could sabotage the wiring, right? You could touch the wiring. Is Hayden still gone? He did say BRB, so I assume... Yeah, I guess he's still gone. So I was going to say you also got a dude who can erase memories, but, you know... Yeah, I was like, he hasn't chimed in.
00:55:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:20
Speaker
Yeah, we could do the...
00:55:24
Speaker
All right, so I'm thinking... Galix will roll Unleash Your Powers to control the squi squirrels, and then one of you maybe do the Push Your Luck for the other shenani type of shenanigans. So there's a few things.
00:55:40
Speaker
Eric, you might want to do the Push Your Luck one, because my mundane is at minus one. That was and so what So you're you're you've got squirrel shenanigans. What else are y'all doing that doesn't involve the squirrels?
00:55:54
Speaker
Calling a racist bum threat. Yeah, the that's... Whoever has the best mundane should call in the threat. Okay. then Now, that one will be provoke someone because you want them to... So that's superior.
00:56:09
Speaker
i have a zero in superior for mine. It's too bad you don't have Kevin. He's got a three. I'm looking at his sheet. I have a zero in superior. So one of you does superior and then one of you does the mundane, I think.
00:56:23
Speaker
so And then since Hayden's not here, we'll just not worry about him at the moment. Well, whichever one is going to be the least important, I can almost guarantee I'm going to roll like trash either way.
00:56:35
Speaker
Okay, let's go with ah the Unleash Your Powers first. i brought To convince the squirrels. you know to To control the squirrels. That's good. That's a 9. So... um So I go back, we go back to ah my house to collect some stinkhorn. I grind it up.
00:56:56
Speaker
I go back to the school and like, ah i peer my head into the window, into the classroom. And I kind of like make a chirping noise to make the squirrels look over at me.
00:57:07
Speaker
Most everybody can see my head, but it's fine. Now, um one thing. On a nine, you either have to mark a condition or i will tell you how the effect is unstable or temporary. who hello hello I'm going to go with unstable and temporary.
00:57:27
Speaker
Okay. I want to see what the other things happen first. I make creepy noise. The weirdly infected squirrels come running over, jump out the window, and I smear stinkhorn all over them.
00:57:42
Speaker
I tell them the plan and set them loose. Okay. Now, um who wants to go next? who ah So the superior is the...
00:57:55
Speaker
What's the superior world role for? The call in the bomb threat or something, whatever y'all are doing. I feel like, and this is going to sound, I'm going to do the superior because I don't want my boy to call in.
00:58:06
Speaker
Okay. To do, to do. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay. Yeah. Cause he's, he's reforming himself. So I'm going to, I'll do this part. I'm sorry. He's probably also better at the news.
00:58:19
Speaker
Oh, you know what, Bill? You might not even have to do push your luck. Don't you have a move for doing mischief? Minor misdemeanors? ah Actually, yes, I do. Specifically, i think mine is, yeah, blowing off steam. When I commit a misdemeanor from small victimless crime, I can clear a condition.
00:58:36
Speaker
But I don't have any conditions to clear, but I don't see why I can't just, you know... Well, okay. You... you You do that, but I'll still do the roll then. i didn't know if it was attached to a roll or not, but it's not, so No, just all literally way just to move. So literally it would just be either call either calling in a bomb threat or, ah well, actually, I think I would actually be technically calling it a bomb threat. and No, Eric said he wants to do that one, so you don't have to. don't have closets But you'll just do the mundane um causing general mischief in the school as well.
00:59:15
Speaker
Alright, so I'm going to call in disguising my voice as, I don't know, somebody else like to the best of my ability. Hey, that stupid mango growing swamp thing looking viney plant dude has fucking rabid squirrels running through the school and shit.
00:59:33
Speaker
I saw them, they were coming towards the school, they were foaming at the mouth. Slur for tree person. um Leapers. Did it roll? I don't see a roll.
00:59:45
Speaker
That's because i opened it in another page. they probably popped up It probably popped up asking a you for modifiers. That's the slur for play. Okay. Alright.
00:59:56
Speaker
So, um on a miss, when you provoke someone susceptible to your words, say what you're trying to get them to do and roll superior. um out They stumble for a PCs.
01:00:11
Speaker
I mean, I think it just means they don't do what you want, but... They don't believe that the squirrels are rabid. I've noticed that the rulebook um has additional information on those, so let me check if it says anything extra.
01:00:25
Speaker
All right, so...
01:00:31
Speaker
When you provoke someone... It usually tells me, like, in the full page of...
01:00:45
Speaker
Nope. Okay, yeah, I guess that they... um Like, okay, we'll look into that. You know. or we'll we'll We'll look into them, in okay? And then... um And he hangs up.
01:00:58
Speaker
ah And um so, yeah, you don't know what's going on with that. And then the mundane general mischief. Come on, Ries. Oh, please don't stop!
01:01:11
Speaker
Oh, you suck! All right, so... I think on that one, um per the Avatar rules, ah because I like that move. um Let's see.
01:01:27
Speaker
Well, basically what happens is you have to carry out, you know... risky action, quote unquote. um So ah it's not so much that this is dangerous to you, but it's that you, whatever it is you're doing, what what do you think you're doing right now?
01:01:46
Speaker
to what What general mischief are you causing to get people get school to close?
01:01:53
Speaker
ah You know, I was gonna Oh, this is gonna be so fucking stupid.
01:02:01
Speaker
I was going to just scroll up sabotage the back boiler so that it back so that it backfills and eventually explodes. Okay.
01:02:12
Speaker
it it's um how um It's after hours, so i and it shouldn't take long to explode. It shouldn't explode before anybody gets here. Okay. So...
01:02:24
Speaker
so As you are in there, like, getting ready to mess with the boiler, the dancing janitor enters the room and spots you, and he's like, hey, what are you doing in here?
01:02:38
Speaker
Kid, get get out of here. And, you know, he's like... Lee's going to immediately turn to him and and launch four chunks of metal, and they're going to wrap around his arm both his his wrists and both his legs, and then he's just going to float him out in as far away as he can.
01:02:57
Speaker
He's going to be pulling back to the T-pose all the way down the hall. Well, I now know what the consequence to this action is. All right. oh yeah but you fun um that Your stuff with the boiler will do as planned.
01:03:16
Speaker
So the boiler will do as planned. The janitor got thrown out of the thing. The squirrels are covered in shit, and they're running through the school.
01:03:25
Speaker
Okay, so the squirrel issue will happen. um the the The person who answered the phone did not seem to pay much attention when you um ah called in the squirrel threat.
01:03:40
Speaker
um But basically, this is night. like So you guys won't know the answer of this worked until morning anyway.
01:03:53
Speaker
So are you guys just heading out? Regardless of you know knowing the results? No, I don't know the results, but I forgot to ask. was i When I went to the school to do this, I was still dressed up as Iron Sand, wasn't I?
01:04:10
Speaker
Yeah, or if you would prefer to have been dressed up as Reese, either are fine with me. But make sure and tell me now. I am still dressed as Ironsand.
01:04:21
Speaker
Definitely if I'm doing this kind of mischief, I don't want to be i don't want to be appearing.
01:04:29
Speaker
I'm just taking some notes.
01:04:33
Speaker
So Kalix unleashed stinky squirrels into the school. You messed with the boiler. and As soon as I send the ah the flying vendro s sorry the dancing janitor away, I'm going to immediately text Syphon.
01:04:48
Speaker
And I'm going to be like, we might have a problem. I might need you to clear somebody's memory. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. Why does it sound like for four of the exact same emoji? Yeah.
01:05:02
Speaker
All
01:05:07
Speaker
right. Okay. um and then i and presume so so So just so you know, Hayden, what's been going on is they are attempting to cause chaos at school to close it down for a few days so that y'all can go to Fredericksburg. um I also tell them to smear themselves on random surfaces just to leave the scent around. So what has happened so far is Calyx has unleashed stinky squirrels into the school who are going around and spreading their stench.
01:05:38
Speaker
who that these And he rolled 9 and chose unstable. So something unstable will happen, um which I will not reveal at this moment.
01:05:51
Speaker
Well, he chose let you know if he chose to let me decide if it was temporary or unstable. And I guess I've revealed that it's unstable. Iron Sand was manipulating the boiler to make it explode um after you leave, presumably.
01:06:05
Speaker
ah And ah the the the dancing janitor, need to put that in because you guys said he was a dancing janitor. Famous dancing janitor. um is this the guy in real life?
01:06:17
Speaker
the famous dancing janitor what caught him, but Ironsand threw metal at him and sent him you know floating out of the room. ah and Eric's character, Nightfall, called in a squirrel threat. yeah Well, basically, he just warned them that there were rabid squirrels running around the school.
01:06:35
Speaker
um But the person who answered the phone, um which you would recognize his voice, it was the principal principal powers, um he he so did not seem to take it seriously. so Yeah, yeah,
01:06:49
Speaker
ah By the way, re ah Bill and Eric, both of you can mark a experience... whatever it's called in this game. The experience point. um The potential? Yes, because you both failed to roll.
01:07:01
Speaker
Yeah. um then so And then... And then Ironsand texted you, Hayden, Siphon, about you might need to wipe someone's memory. So you can...
01:07:16
Speaker
your character presumably has been in on all the shenanigans. Yeah, was about to ask, was I notified of any of this bullshit on? Yes, you presumably were notified of this craziness. I'm assuming you were part of the conversation. This is so much what teenagers would come up with that it's perfect for this game.
01:07:34
Speaker
ah Yeah. As bad, as terrible as this plan is, it's a teenage plan, so it's great. the ah The stink horn smells like rotten meat and dog poop.
01:07:46
Speaker
That's what... ah Yeah. s scrolllls are covered o So, yeah, Siphon, you get that message about we might need to wipe someone's memory. Hmm.
01:07:59
Speaker
Well, don't know who this someone is, right. all right I messaged back immediately. It's the dancing janitor. We need to take away the the last 24 hours of his memory. I'm sorry.
01:08:11
Speaker
Somebody give me the name of the dancing janitor. Or does nobody know his name? Oh, no, no. Everybody knows him because he's like... No, I said does nobody know his name?
01:08:23
Speaker
no, no like Because he would be that guy that like everybody loves. John. is that as is that going to be his name, John? Yeah. John... uh gotta give him a fun name fun last name candy there you go uh the dancing janitor candy with a seat yeah we'll see because he makes he makes tick tocks of himself dancing dances like at lunch and stuff right but he does when it's really inappropriate like some kid threw up on the floor and he's got to throw the sand on it and he's doing like moonwalk tossing his hand
01:08:59
Speaker
you know yeah Like he finds joy in his the shittiest parts of his job and the kids love him for it. yeah John Candy, Dancing Janitor. And occasionally he comes that he comes and he sits down with the kids and you know gives them like ah advice about their life because every high school needs one of those people. Oh yeah. yeah All right.
01:09:18
Speaker
That's a new NPC that I'll have to make. John Candy. Technically, he does not have any powers, but he likes to say that his that his power is dance.
01:09:31
Speaker
And actually, he does have his power. And super old. He's super, super old, right? He's been the dancing janitor at this high school where superheroes go forever. 50, 60 years. Crazy, right?
01:09:44
Speaker
And so he knows... all these secret identities and stuff because the kid's going, sit in the boiler room with John Candy and he gives him life advice. I know it's hard being a superhero, you know, that kind shit.
01:09:57
Speaker
Uh-oh, uh-oh. Does he know your secret identity, Iron Sand?
01:10:04
Speaker
Yeah, he does. and and not for Not for anything, basically exactly for the reason that all of this happened. One day...
01:10:15
Speaker
um Reese was so changing out of his ah you know hero costume and the January came in ready to clean and and of course being the dancing vanderd he doesn't just walk in he like powers into a room so there's no preparation for getting a fight in him this is yeahly now this is now two people who have caught Ironsand changing his clothes in that closet
01:10:45
Speaker
Okay. yeah let's iron understand you need a find know man ok if it's If it's relevant, I'd like to check in with my family or not with it the legacy. Okay. right With my superiors before we go to Fredericksburg and at least give them the rundown.
01:11:01
Speaker
So who are you going to check in with? And are you going to tell them that you're working with me? That I'm what? ah You're not going to tell them you're working with me, right?
01:11:12
Speaker
No. I mean, no i um I have to work with iron sand and siphon because of the school thing. Like i have, you're on my, I don't have a say in who's on my team.
01:11:26
Speaker
and just got, I got, you know, oh, I got, the principal assigns the team. I didn't, I had no say in that. Like, do I like them? Yeah, sure. They're great guys.
01:11:36
Speaker
I can't not do my assignments. You know, those are my lab partners. We're in you know the lab portion of superheroing. I can't not do that.
01:11:50
Speaker
Good point. Good point. You made a great point. ah So who are you talking to? Are you talking to your dad? Yeah. Okay, hold on. your ah Alejandro Mendoza, El Cruzado Nocturno, the Eldritch Guardian.
01:12:09
Speaker
ah ruthless bond mildre nine what mac mo okay ah A ruthless but honorable Eldritch Knight, Alejandro leads the family's battles against supernatural threats. His relationship with Ciaran is strict.
01:12:25
Speaker
ah Kieran is strict, believing his son has yet to prove himself. Wields La Espada de las Estrejas Kidas, a blade. is that too And I knew i knew what La Espada meant because in our last superhero game, there was a villain named La Espada. A blade said to have been reforged from a fallen star. Okay, so your dad... is the pon starts with Yeah.
01:12:52
Speaker
i'm I'm fucking so happy that I knew that i knew what that meant. You knew what the Fallen Star meant? No, i knew i knew I was like, wait. when When you said it, I was like, wait, the Fallen Star?
01:13:04
Speaker
And i was I was just really happy with myself that I actually knew that. I was literally telling myself, no, that's not right. ah um Yeah, so your your dad, what what would your dad be doing on a random Wednesday night or whatever the day of the week it is at school? Oh.
01:13:23
Speaker
What's a, what's a, he's probably watching something really bad on TV. Okay. Like, nice. Like it's like, it's his show, you know, like ah this is now, so it wouldn't be Vikings, but it would be like, he'd be watching Vikings, the equivalent of the house of the dragon.
01:13:40
Speaker
He's watching house of the dragon house of the dragon. Cause he thinks it's silly. Right. Like he thinks it's cause he's fought dragons. Okay. I'm saying like, he's, he's fought actual fucking dragon. So he thinks it's awesome.
01:13:52
Speaker
that all these Hollywood types know what a dragon is and what it does, it's very fire, right? And so he he watches it so that like the way that, that i don't know if you've ever watched the movie with a guy that was in the military or a cop, and he's like, uniforms don't look Like that. They would do that.
01:14:10
Speaker
so He does that. so you well house is the dragon You walk into your house and he's got you know he's got a beer on on the like the table next to him. He's got a bag of Doritos. And he's like, Kieran, get over here. Look at this bullshit.
01:14:23
Speaker
these Don't they know dragons have four legs and wings on their back? Papa, it's creative license. that I mean, you know, Hollywood doesn't understand the concept of a wyvern. You know, a wyvern. They don't get...
01:14:36
Speaker
you know, it's just, it's easier. It's disrespectful. I get see. See Papa. Yes, it is. Just don't know what home One onen's parts are all in Spanglish.
01:14:52
Speaker
What are you doing out so late? ah well, it's, uh, the lab for the school. Uh, the, the principal has me working with the team where we're trying to solve a case about, uh,
01:15:05
Speaker
ah the the lo a and right the the UFOs that they had at the concert. Because when I was in the training with Sorcia, when we were in the training, the team went and they did the they did the thing with the that concert where the aliens showed up.
01:15:24
Speaker
And so we're doing the follow-up. Actually, i was coming to tell you, I'm going to Frederick on a field trip to do some more solving, right? Some more it heroing You know?
01:15:38
Speaker
All right. Now what you're, would he be like, pro would he have a problem with that or be like, I mean, he would, he would think that the, Fighting this is stupid because to him aliens are just like, that's another word for demon or something, right? Because his family does eldritch horror. Like if they fight something from space, it's like Cthulhu-like shit, right? Like that's his, that's what his family does.
01:16:02
Speaker
They don't do something as simple as aliens. Because how many superheroes do you know are, because that's what is that he's holding his fingers. All right. Pinch of aliens. Those are sna heroes like a not aliens superheroes.
01:16:15
Speaker
Bill, take over the dad. I got to go do a thing real quick. It won't take long. Okay. last As soon as you say that, Eric, he goes, ah.
01:16:28
Speaker
ah buy by buye It's my job. It's my homework. I have to do it. We will do it we work and win. The team. You know the team. You already know the team. I know you're going to make the face.
01:16:39
Speaker
It's ah Siphon. He makes the face. the the The Swamp Thing, Galix, El Futo, you know, it's the... And then...
01:16:54
Speaker
And then... ah hello And then the the new kid, Ironsan. Yeah, we're going to be working with Ironsan. Oh, i like I like how he gets Ironsan and I get the Swamp Thing. That name's that am familiar.
01:17:13
Speaker
Is that a villain? He's like ah he was a henchman. You know, he was a note. like a You wouldn't even notice him when you do your thing. It would be like me and Sorcia would take care of him. You wouldn't even notice him. He's reformed.
01:17:29
Speaker
No, he like a real costume. He wears like his tactical gear. He looks like a SWAT team member. He's reformed. You like him? He's reformed.
01:17:40
Speaker
but yeah Yeah, that's why he goes to school with us, Pops. don't you ever turn your but Don't you ever turn your back on him. onceever her Never, never. Yeah, he has no problem. He has no power over my armor. It's obsidian, right? And the sword, he can't touch me.
01:17:57
Speaker
You know, why I'm safe. Magic, you know, he's got science. I got magic. or I guess technically maybe his is magic or it's like mutant stuff, right? Like the plant, like the swamp thing, right? And then...
01:18:09
Speaker
there All right, I'm back. i How long have you been how long he been pretending pretending to be a hero? Damn. hes I mean, as he came to the school, he got enrolled, right? like he He's in the school now. That means they trust him.
01:18:25
Speaker
you know What's the ah you know pause for the call? Big? is it Is it Shield or whatever? Who's the... Aegis? yeah ye he just Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:18:36
Speaker
ages trust him right they they put him in the school with all the other kids so you know he got a bad rap you know maybe his parents weren't as understanding as you and my mom right or abuelo he didn't have any know you know he didn't have anybody in this corner so you keep an you keep an eye on him he does anything one toe out of line you you let me know he'll i'll make sure you go back to prison yeah well he's a good kid pops you know he did He's a good kid.
01:19:08
Speaker
They're all good. They're all good. But I just wanted to you know, like, I'm going to pack a bag. We're going to on the field trip, so going to leave. Just checking it.
01:19:21
Speaker
All right, Eric. Did you enjoy two white men pretending to be your father? No.
01:19:30
Speaker
Next time, I'll let you be my Irish mother. It'll be great. There you go. I could probably do that a little better, but I'm prop possibly drunk enough for it.
01:19:43
Speaker
I'm a bit my boy. Get back in my feelings. Look, Bill was only slightly more qualified to play a Hispanic person than I am because he's got Hispanic in-laws.
01:19:59
Speaker
but that no that that and doubt It would be awesome if you could hit the SAP button on anything I'm saying. Yeah. um Alright, so... SAP button?
01:20:15
Speaker
Oh, dear God, Ron. What happened? No, I know what SAP... I think I know what it is. certain just to I just switch it over to fucking dub me over. fuck Oh, yeah, yeah. Well...
01:20:30
Speaker
um um Anyway, um so yeah, you tell your dad, and we we move on from that. ah And... All right, what... Let's see. Hayden, do you need to interact with your family, are you just going to go?
01:20:52
Speaker
um i My mom was surprised that I was a super... we but I don't think I necessarily tell her unless she digs at me. for It's all empty. Yeah,
01:21:11
Speaker
yeah your mom wouldn't ah oppose you going because she's still freaked out over the whole thing in general. She's like, oh my god, be safe. um I'm still working with your uncle to try and figure out what to do about your father.
01:21:28
Speaker
Okay.
01:21:31
Speaker
ahma What time is it for y'all? How much further do i want to go? That's up to you guys. we have a r bro Does anybody know how we're getting to Fredericksburg?
01:21:44
Speaker
Does anyone what?
Vehicle Dilemmas and Humor
01:21:46
Speaker
I don't have a car. i've Whenever I needed to go, whenever Reese needed to go places, he either flew, ah you know, manipulating metal around his body, or he drove, you know,
01:21:57
Speaker
Someone else's vehicle. Max, I think, had a car for the concert. None of... Well, neither of your cars were suitable to transport Calix.
01:22:08
Speaker
Right.
01:22:12
Speaker
um unless ah Unless Nightfall has some sort of a magical vehicle. um i Or if maybe your dad got you like a van or Volkswagen bus or something.
01:22:28
Speaker
Or a convertible.
01:22:32
Speaker
but Given his height, would convertible actually work? I mean, you know... um I could try to teleport us there. Yeah, you could try to teleport them there. There's also Hayden technically. did you say that?
01:22:47
Speaker
Hayden technically has a... ah ah Or Siphon technically has a teleport ability as well. i do.
01:22:57
Speaker
um I mean, I get asked to use the... ah We get asked to use one of the Legacy's transport methods. And if I recall...
01:23:11
Speaker
that cool
01:23:14
Speaker
And if I recall, don't you have a thing where if you ask them for help, it's something? Yeah. Yeah. I have to do the the momentary check-in and they could help me if if the crew says...
01:23:28
Speaker
that I get a bonus that could potentially help us with travel.
01:23:34
Speaker
On a hit, they would give us meaningful encouragement and opportunity or an advantage. Where is that? ah At the bottom, whenever time passes.
01:23:46
Speaker
Oh, okay. We'll see how the members of your legacy feel about and react to your most recent exploits.
01:23:56
Speaker
Oh, yeah, technically that's the... um That's later. That's a later thing, yeah. That'd be like after we got back from Fredericksburg. Mm-hmm.
01:24:09
Speaker
I mean, if he's got a car, we get all pile in his car. Max got car? Let's go. it's ah It's not ideal for transporting Kalix. I guess he could sit on top, strap him down like a Christmas tree.
01:24:21
Speaker
I asked the internet. We need wish some Bundy cords.
01:24:29
Speaker
It says that 75% of teens, 60% of teens have at least some access to a car of some kind, especially in suburban and rural areas. So we could get a car. We got to ask to borrow yeah a van.
01:24:42
Speaker
Dad, I was wondering, because of the field trip like funding, they got to support the football team, less the super team. So We need a ah car. i was wondering if we could take the ah the ah the car.
01:24:58
Speaker
And so that's going to be the move provokes someone. um So you roll superior. Why would we be trying to provoke someone when we're asking a favor? i and So provoke is essentially persuade, intimidate, any of those type of things.
01:25:16
Speaker
ah when you provoke someone susceptible to your words, say what you're trying to get them to do and roll. Right. yeah There we go.
01:25:26
Speaker
The, the, the negative consequences won't typically be as bad because this is just a friendly person you're trying to provoke. um Yeah, no, he just starts cussing you out in Spanish and says, okay, I get it. I get it. I get it. Yeah.
01:25:43
Speaker
yeah And then he tells you to bring him another beer. And I do so on my way out the door. Yeah. To tell the team I couldn't get away.
01:25:53
Speaker
ma sort Yeah, I couldn't get the ah via Armada. He wouldn't let me take the Armada. God damn it. My dad wouldn't let me take the Armada. I told him we were...
01:26:07
Speaker
i' told him we were feels sort um mean we This feels remarkably weird, but also like a little bit of PTSD because I don't know about y'all, but I 100% remember asking and not being able to take a vehicle.
Darkstrike's Mysterious Truck Acquisition
01:26:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah. um
01:26:28
Speaker
Let's see here. So... Dark Strike. Um... yeah yeah yeah She she ah says, you know, i I might be able to get something. um and And she gets on her phone and starts texting.
01:26:47
Speaker
And then after a little while, ah she says, okay, okay, I think I've got a line on a pickup. um And, to more more texting. And yeah, she eventually acquires a pickup truck from y'all for you guys. It's not the best truck. it's It's not, you know, she's borrowing it from a friend. what She actually, actually, um she's like, okay.
01:27:15
Speaker
ah She glances at um Siphon for a second and then says, um I've got someone who's going to let us borrow a ah pickup.
01:27:25
Speaker
Um, And ah
01:27:31
Speaker
actually, you know what? I'll just go get it myself. And then she's she's like, i'll be I'll be back in and in an hour. That was Darkstrike. That was Darkstrike, yeah. um So she's a little little sketchy about that, but she says she'll be back in an hour.
01:27:48
Speaker
do Do you do trust her to go and do this, or or does her sketchiness um cause you to become suspicious? Why she seem sketchy? Yeah, because she's kind of weird about it.
01:28:02
Speaker
Because she looked she looked at you and then and was about to say something and then was like, um ah actually, I'll just go get it myself. there Yeah, I'm sorry. That kind of speeds me out just a little bit.
01:28:15
Speaker
Would I have to do Pierce the Mask or some shit? um Let me look at Pierce the Mask. Just...
01:28:24
Speaker
I mean, you yeah, you could do it. ah Or assess the situation. is It'd be more Pierce the Mask. But it's... I'll say that that most of the questions...
01:28:38
Speaker
um Yeah, you can do Pierce the Mask. ah
01:28:46
Speaker
Just see what you get.
01:28:53
Speaker
Do I get a plus one for having influence over here? um Yes. I forgot that is the thing. If you have influence over a person you're rolling against, you get a plus one. That was a rule we discovered last time. so Seven. eight um Well, seven to nine is ask one.
01:29:14
Speaker
so I just get to ask one of those questions? or Yeah, yeah. no Obviously the last question is not particularly useful to you since you already have influence over her.
01:29:32
Speaker
don't know. Maybe the first question, what are you really planning? but was that Well, she is really planning to get you all right.
01:29:44
Speaker
right So yeah, you you believe she's getting a ride. You can't figure out why she's being sketch about it. She's about to steal a truck. But yeah, she she like takes off. um Does anyone follow or you just going to let her do her thing?
01:30:00
Speaker
I say, hey, Dark Shark, I'll help you. ah um you know what Iron Sand is going to follow as well because yeah that feels that feels skeevy and the last time it felt skeevy she's already heard about me following so we don't need half the time following for this truck it's fine if if Reese says that um she's like got look okay it's to do with my my secret identity okay oh okay that's fine whatever I don't follow okay and then she do I follow
01:30:36
Speaker
Kayla, do you try to follow? course she does. Yeah, goes a couple blocks, and then you like come around that street corner, and you don't see her there, and then she steps out from behind a... um Because these always seem to be what are in my game, a trash can, steps out from behind a dumpster, it's like, you're not exactly suited for stealth, ah a big guy.
01:31:05
Speaker
i just I just wave. Look, it's it's it's it's it's... I'm getting it from someone from, you know, my regular life, and I'd rather nobody know what that is.
01:31:20
Speaker
Could you not follow me? You just seem kind of sketched, and I was making sure everything's okay. you know It's all fine. um i just... Yeah, I'm not quite ready to share who I am, okay?
01:31:34
Speaker
I mean, I'll tell you I am.
01:31:37
Speaker
She chuckles. She's like, um...
01:31:42
Speaker
She, she, uh, leans towards you and and winks and she's like, we knew each other from before. And then she runs off again.
01:31:53
Speaker
Wait, what? You knew her before, bro. You knew her from before. You knew her in the pre-earth existence. The pre-earth existence.
01:32:03
Speaker
that's how If that's how you want to take that, that's not what she meant. but um And she runs off. everything What do I got to roll to see if I can figure out what she's talking about? ah um I guess pierce the mask, but it won't be one of these questions. You can just say, what the hell did she mean? Hold on. I rolled 20.
01:32:23
Speaker
I don't know what happened to it. I thought I had a window open with it on that. It would be mundane.
01:32:31
Speaker
I have a window of roll 20 somewhere, but I don't know where it to... some have I have several taps going. Well, you just reappeared in the game, so I think that window was closed.
01:32:42
Speaker
Oh, that's a big possibility. Pierce
Journey to Fredericksburg
01:32:45
Speaker
the mask? Mundane? Mundane, yeah. but Nope, you don't know what she meant by that, but she takes off and loses you during your confusion.
01:32:54
Speaker
I think she used to make coffee. Probably. um So about an hour later, she comes rolling up and um Siphon, she rolls up in a vehicle. You haven't seen this in a while, ah but you recognize the vehicle. It's um Tasha's dad's old truck that he keeps sitting out back. He doesn't really drive it anymore because he got a new truck.
01:33:21
Speaker
um But it's and it's like an old, like, F-150 from like, I don't know, the like early 90s, late 80s. um And he comes rolling up in that. She comes rolling up in that in her costume.
01:33:35
Speaker
And it's like, all right, I got the vehicle. Calix, sorry, but you can't have shotgun. You're in back. There's a visible disgust look on my face.
01:33:49
Speaker
I climb in the back and like the shocks are shot. That probably, though, um confirms your suspicion of who she is. so Yeah.
01:34:00
Speaker
And she does kind of, like, not make eye contact with you um as as everyone piles in. shotgun I and I pat her thigh and go...
01:34:11
Speaker
Well, this is a bench seat with only one you know one long bench and nothing in the back. you know And then there's the truck bed, so there's not a back seat. So how many people are getting in the in the cab and who's getting Well, there's what, four of you? Calix, obviously, is in the back.
01:34:26
Speaker
um So ah in that case, Nightfall, do you also get in the cab or do you go in back? and And same for Iron Sand.
01:34:38
Speaker
which one of Which one of you two get in the cab with Siphon and Darkstrike? There's no backseat. Or you can all pile in the back. you know There's no backseat. It's one of those old, that the single cab with a bench seat.
01:34:56
Speaker
Stick shift. It's stick shift. yeah i feel like But it's this kind of stick shift. It's the stick shift it's the stick shift that's up on the steering wheel. Not the one on the ground, yeah. I don't know there i was imagining whoever is in the middle was just straddling the stick shift. like that That would be funny, but I decided that um um that wouldn't make hayden for that yeah that would make yeah that would make Hayden too happy. So yeah so here's the flex.
01:35:23
Speaker
Siphon, which one of your boys do you want riding with you in the cab? That's very true. I mean... It'd be funny as hell to see Nightfall. my armored cutod in the middle hey guys just every time Just every time you drop like a shitty line, he doesn't say anything. he just His armor just slowly turns his head towards you.
01:35:52
Speaker
i mean The only one that makes sense is Iron Sand, but i feel like Iron Sand just one of those people who wants to ride in the back of the bed. ah no, he called backseat. He wanted to be up there with Well, he wanted the back seat, but there is no back seat.
01:36:06
Speaker
So you want to be on the bench?
01:36:11
Speaker
Iron Zay? Say again? Do you want to be on the bench or in the back bed? With Taylor. I think... Oof. you know what just for comedy because i think it would be funnier i want to sit in want to sit in the back with calyx and you should sit in there with the eye with the armored with the armored aztecs 40k definitely gets the door seat that way you can like at least lean out the window
01:36:43
Speaker
whenever we start loading i try to just sit in the middle right like i just and you you guys are like come on man, really? like the over Here's the thing. and like I've already said this the ah the shocks are shot.
01:36:56
Speaker
you get on the right side, it's going to be leaning to the right and back because I'm in the back. That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. Yep. All right. So yeah. And then you guys all get into your various spots.
01:37:10
Speaker
She ah pops it into first and um it does that loud like popping sound and and a bit of fire shoots out of the exhaust um as it backfires. and And then you all head off down the road.
01:37:24
Speaker
um Reese out up to the front, the clutch, use the clutch. I'm not used to the way when it's on the steering wheel. and And then she you know but she she does know how to drive clutch or yeah, she knows how to drive stick. She's just not used to those old trucks that they were on the steering wheel.
01:37:43
Speaker
So it takes her a little bit to get used to that pattern versus the floor pattern. you know um Have I ever actually driven one of those? I've been in one of those, but I don't know if I've gotten a drive.
01:37:55
Speaker
i don't know if I had, i I don't know if I ever was able to drive it. I don't think I've ever actually driven one where it was up on the steering wheel, but my dad had one.
01:38:05
Speaker
um Yeah. Anyway, and you guys take off to the long drive towards Fredericksburg. Maybe the reason Nightfall got into the front was because he thought like the AC would be blowing on him or something, but no. Windows. Thankfully, it's got those it's got those triangle windows, you know, the ones that that fold inwards. so Oh, thank you a lot. Yeah.
01:38:27
Speaker
So you got that. lets
01:38:31
Speaker
Um, and yeah. i'm looking something up real quick. Okay. This is a four hour drive. Yep. You guys are going to get there.
01:38:42
Speaker
You guys, uh, I use my plant manipulation to like make a chair in the back. Nice. I mean, Reese could do the same thing with the metal.
01:38:54
Speaker
It's of my own body. So I just sit on myself. ah myself. I should know myself. you know Yeah, it's only a four hour. It it is a four hour drive.
01:39:06
Speaker
And it's the middle of the it's the middle of the night, so traffic's not going to be bad. you know i like have the seat next to me for Reese.
01:39:15
Speaker
I can go over. can go over. I shut down. I grow like just bushes around the edges of the be of the bed, so it kind of looks like he's just hauling a bunch of bushes.
01:39:28
Speaker
so it doesn't look weird if a cop pulls up and see this. Yeah, yeah. um Besides the weird leading truck. ah i mean fair How many times in Texas have the cops pulled people over for for for riding in the back in the in the tail?
01:39:46
Speaker
In my life, never. so Yeah, well I know. Never mind either.
01:39:53
Speaker
I grew up doing that kind of crap. That or my dad usually, my dad preferred ah vans over trucks. And, but we would all be piled in the back of the van with no seatbelts and no actual seats because we hold motorcycles. So he ripped out the back seats.
01:40:10
Speaker
And so, yeah, it was just like a big powwow in the back of the van. That was fun too. Um, anyway, ah Yeah, so four hours later, unless you guys want to do any chit-chatting on this drive, you'll pull into Fredericksburg probably around like 7, 8 a.m. And...
01:40:31
Speaker
and Oh, man, this is so uncomfortable. Does this thing, so it's old, so it doesn't have, like, a modern radio or anything in there, right? Well, it's got a um an AM FM radio, and it's got a um a CB.
01:40:47
Speaker
Now, I don't know if anyone still uses CB, so I don't know if you'd get anything. it's been a I haven't had a CB radio in a long time, but... Oh, CB. I It's definitely got a cassette player. It's not old enough to have an A-track.
01:41:09
Speaker
so I don't know. I assume cars had A-track players. I don't know. Back in the day, they did. for sure Yeah. But it it would be old and it will be around the cassette age. It's got a CB cb radio and then your you know your standard but staticky AM FM radio.
01:41:27
Speaker
ah To our younger viewers who are listening to this, once you couldn't get music on demand, you had to go to the radio and tune in to various stations. And when you travel to other cities, you'll lose the stations that you're used to.
01:41:45
Speaker
um And AM radio is a bunch of old people talking. Yeah. Or religious stations. Or religion. Bad, racist, like, music.
01:41:57
Speaker
Yeah, and a CB radio is what truckers use, possibly, still. I don't know. break one manner this so Cruising to Fredericksburg, I hand the CB radio out to Iron Sand so he can talk on it, because I know he wants to.
01:42:14
Speaker
And then I play Fetty Wap songs on a JBL speaker our whole drive. To fucking Fredericksburg. Because that's how the crew rolls up. Listening to 1738 and trap Queen.
01:42:27
Speaker
like day twenty four mean a break number one night or This is ah this is the Sandman going down highway 290 come back over. I was it going out there saying man, this is um ah
01:42:43
Speaker
Big Bob over 10 for a big box. No, yeah, what you hauling day? That's classified Sandman, but you sound kind of nice.
01:42:56
Speaker
Got a bird of mail.
01:43:01
Speaker
You sound like you're going to... I'm so i sorry, but Big Bob. I didn't quite catch that. You want to you want to repeat that last that last comment? I'm pretty sure you heard exactly what I said.
01:43:13
Speaker
You sound like got a bird of mail. Over. Which road means you're going to have it on, Big Bob? I'm driving down the 16. I had to look up what highways are there.
01:43:31
Speaker
You ever make your way over 290 side, you can you give me a call back. You you and me, oh, we're going to have some words. All right. I'm going to make a stop at the...
01:43:46
Speaker
it goes i presumably there's a truck stop here but you know um anyway ah yeah so you avoid um an awkward situation with the trucker um and ah ah the awkward situation with the trucker what are you talking about you what I caused the awkward situation with the trucker what are you talking about that's fair um Yeah, so you guys pull into
Arrival and Breakfast Plans
01:44:14
Speaker
town. ah The the um office of Sovereign Containment Corp, Fredericksburg Branch, is doesn't open until 10 a.m.
01:44:28
Speaker
So do you guys, ah are you all going to bust up in there? Are you going to stake it out? you going to go get some breakfast? um What's the plan here? We'll get time for breakfast tacos.
01:44:42
Speaker
There's an old German bakery and restaurant. There's um a Java Ranch coffee. Okay, you want some breakfast tacos? Hold up. Let's shout out to Taqueria Machetes.
01:44:59
Speaker
Yep. That's what we're going to call it. They open at 7 a.m., so they're open. It's 8 a.m. I'm going to spread everybody else. Y'all want some? Y'all want some?
01:45:11
Speaker
Is that good? He's going to turn to everybody be like, y'all want some tacos? Oh, yeah. Who doesn't want tacos? oh Guys, one of my large regrets of living in Oregon, breakfast tacos that are good are hard to find.
01:45:29
Speaker
yeah And then then they'll be impossible if you move out of out of... Well, I guess it depends on where you where you move out of country, I guess.
01:45:41
Speaker
Oh, yeah. to about that one for a second. True, true. Some countries will have decent tacos, others may not. I still, i mean, this isn't accurate to British people, but I remember watching The Office and there's a...
01:45:59
Speaker
I don't remember the character's name, but she's she's from England. And um she's like, i ordered, ah she's like, i think I'm going to go get a ah taco. And she has no idea what tacos are. So she's like trying to eat it, like standing straight up and trying to just like, she doesn't know to turn it sideways to bite on it, you know?
01:46:19
Speaker
And yeah, I don't know Anyway. um What? It was stupid. Anyway, it's an episode of The Office.
01:46:27
Speaker
jim sends Jim goes to get tacos and he's like, ah how much for three tacos? They're probably going to be like $20, $40. Yeah. coti yeah Anyway. Yeah.
01:46:41
Speaker
yeah So you guys stop for breakfast tacos. ah
01:46:46
Speaker
And let's see if what are these tacos here look like? to Are they good ones? Yeah. I want Bistec and Chorizo with ah both the ah the Salsa Rojo and Verde.
01:47:00
Speaker
It looks like they've got a bunch of mixed some mixed drinks with Tajin on the rims, so you know you got that going for you. I don't see breakfast tacos.
01:47:11
Speaker
Huh? An 80-inch?
01:47:15
Speaker
All right, I see a taco. Yep, okay, they do have breakfast tacos. um I see some cilantro in there, so that's good. you know I see some grease coming out of that taco, so you know they're good. Okay, so these are these are okay tacos. you know it's ah ah No, it's 4.8 stars, so they might be good.
01:47:35
Speaker
But also, some people think things that are terrible, they give five stars. and I'm like, what is wrong with you crazy people who reviewed this? This place sucks. Granted, that's more, you know... Okay.
01:47:48
Speaker
That's pretty tasty looking. I need stop looking at this restaurant. I miss good Mexican food. You can't always move up out of Fredericksburg.
01:48:04
Speaker
Gonna have to stop it stop at this place. Alright, anyway. um Yeah, so you guys get some some breakfast. ah They do not serve you alcohol. We're not going to besmirch the name of this restaurant. um You are minors.
01:48:23
Speaker
Although nobody knows what Calix is. I'm not saying he. He's obviously an adolescent wisteria tree, okay?
01:48:36
Speaker
Um... you tu tu So what is your plan? What what? o There's a place called Catfish Haven. I don't there's not good catfish here either.
01:48:50
Speaker
Oh, that's not good catfish. That picture. That's some crappy catfish there. That's the wrong batter. I don't even think that's catfish. That looks like cod or something.
01:49:01
Speaker
Where's the catfish? Okay, there's there's some capping. All right, it's the proper batter, but it looks burnt. Okay, anyway, enough of that. um yeah so So what's your plan on this place? Are you planning on busting in there? Are you going to go in stealthy?
01:49:18
Speaker
Or are ah you're gonna so you're going to stake out the place?
01:49:27
Speaker
i mean, I guess the smart thing would be to...
Disguise Strategy for Office Infiltration
01:49:31
Speaker
stake out the place a little bit, but he's not going be moving around in his dickhead gear, right?
01:49:41
Speaker
Yeah, guess... Do they do tours?
01:49:47
Speaker
ah It's a small office building. ah You guys do drive past the place. This place does not look like it's a main office or anything like that. This just looks like a small satellite office.
01:49:58
Speaker
So why he had to come here to get the business cards? you know You didn't ask him. It looks like there are any but any other like bullshit sales guys that are that are heading into the office.
01:50:12
Speaker
No, it doesn't open until 10 a.m.
01:50:17
Speaker
Okay, y'all. I have a suggestion, but it's dumb. i mean... Alright, let's hear it.
01:50:26
Speaker
What if one or multiple of us We go across town, we buy so we buy a couple of really bullshit sales guys out outfits, and we walk in, except for Calix.
01:50:41
Speaker
And we just say, we're the new hires. We need to get some business cards before we go and talk to any of the any potential clients.
01:50:57
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah.
01:51:02
Speaker
I mean, you guys have all seen my face, so I guess I could do it.
01:51:07
Speaker
I've shown my face to everybody to everybody here, so like so we honestly, everyone except Kalix can do it. Oh, and obviously not. I put my tie, I grow a tie out. You would probably know that it's not, wouldn't be ideal for Kalix to go into the company that seems to have been kidnapping um superheroes.
01:51:29
Speaker
Granted, they've been low-powered superheroes, and I don't think Kalix would be considered um a low-tier. Although he's ah he's young, but he certainly has to be at the potential to not be low-tier. He doesn't get a tier yet.
01:51:46
Speaker
You get a tier when you graduate. Yeah. Okay, buddy. I i appreciate i appreciate that the effort and the tie is looking great.
01:51:57
Speaker
But... um I think we got to go with the people that can pass as mundane for this one. And you're going to need to keep an eye on things out here. You herbalist.
01:52:11
Speaker
I'm just saying, I don't i don't think don't think that they're going to want somebody that obviously has powers. That doesn't seem to be the people that they're hiring for this.
01:52:23
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. That's what I always hear. Good job interview. Oh, we're not looking for a plant monster.
01:52:33
Speaker
i mean Listen, buddy, we destroy all these buildings if it that makes that if it matters that much to you. And also, it yeah you know you're you're looking for jobs in the wrong places. You need to go and apply at the home and garden section at the Walmart or the Lowe's. Like I told you, you would be good. did. they Somebody tried to buy me. It's my own.
01:52:51
Speaker
if you Were you wearing your name tag? Yes! And the tie! Were you also wearing the apron? were you admit You didn't wear the apron, did you? All of your phones vibrate as you get an alert from the school saying that school today has been cancelled.
School Closure and Plant Disturbance
01:53:13
Speaker
Um... due to a terrorist attack on the school. ah Oh, fuck. You also see various messages from, like, on, you know, I don't know, Twitter or Facebook or whatever, whatever the teens are are into these days, you know. um Probably not Facebook. TikTok. There's TikTok video of somebody, like, screaming and running from a um ah like, flood of boiling hot water. Yeah.
01:53:44
Speaker
as plant squirrels surf the wave down the hall and as people run from it um reports of the squirrels smelling really bad and biting some people uh yeah and the school has been flooded and and it's a mess you know all of those failures slash unstable it's a mess but school's canceled Nobody noticed that you guys are missing. We did it. Good job. Does it say how Lamp school will be canceled for? Did it what?
01:54:17
Speaker
Did it what? Does it doesn't say how Lamp school will be canceled for? i Yeah, unknown. At this moment, they have to assess the damage.
01:54:29
Speaker
What?
01:54:31
Speaker
yeah And with all that water damage, it's how the stinkhorn on the the squirrels, like we're going to have stinkhorn growing out of the walls. It's at least cancelled for the rest of the week. um I guess this is Thursday morning now, so it's cancelled at least through the end of the weekend.
01:54:47
Speaker
ah that Dancing janitor's kind got a lot of work to do cleaning up that and cleaning up this place.
01:54:58
Speaker
I don't think my disguise to work anymore.
01:55:04
Speaker
The other issue, the other thing, um I think Calix, there's not really like a spot check or anything in this game, but I guess I'm going to have you roll.
01:55:18
Speaker
I don't feel like it'd be superior because I want you to roll something related to your powers. So maybe, maybe go ahead and roll freak. And I just want to see what, what you get. So Calyx, that's a full hit. You kind of as the sun comes up, you know how like when the sun comes up, flowers will kind of reopen their blooms and, you know, all of the plant life just seems to get a little happier when the sun comes out. So it's probably 830 9 a.m. m by the time you are done with breakfast. The plant life in this town, not
01:55:53
Speaker
not happy at all. um you can't You don't know what's wrong, but it's not this is not a... ah The plant life here feels off.
01:56:05
Speaker
But Frederick is known for the peaches. With the 12, you can sense that whatever's bothering the plants seems to be coming from outside of town.
01:56:18
Speaker
Guys, there's there's something wrong here. i can I can feel it in my roots. What do you mean? Did the fungus in there tell you there's something going on? No, it's more of you know just just a root steep feeling.
01:56:36
Speaker
Yeah, that's the fungus. That's the toe fungus. Your roots are yeah your toes. Are they roots?
01:56:43
Speaker
are they roots If your toes were able... So I was using the analogy like it's not bone deep. Like you have like a bone deep chill. they don't have bones.
01:56:54
Speaker
i like the It's like a roots deep. and You know, it's the basis of my, my you know, self.
01:57:04
Speaker
That's how i was using that analogy.
01:57:07
Speaker
Like and how? Heartwood deep? Yeah? Heartwood deep? Sure, heartwood deep. fellow Like, they're not happy. There's there's something there's something not right um There's something direction?
01:57:24
Speaker
outside of town in do i know a vague direction Yeah, you point in a vague direction. I'd have to look at the map to figure out that direction. And if I do that, and I'll end up clicking on more Mexican restaurants, and that's a bad idea. There's something in ah to the north. It's to the north. um was ah Yeah, to the north, north of town.
01:57:49
Speaker
in In that direction. there's There's something that that's making the plants unhappy that way.
01:58:01
Speaker
Well, mean, it sounds like the arborist, right? guess it's better to go that way instead of breaking into this joint. you start to make it To make plants happy. does Does your guy not do that? No, I mean... Well, he's a mad he's the mad arborist, so he just kind of does crazy stuff with plants. And then I make a... You know? i He wants to trim him.
01:58:24
Speaker
Trim the edge. You know? That's what we should call you, the hedge. Yeah, he does, for some reason, consider... He considers Calix an abomination. Or something like that. I forget exactly what we decided.
01:58:37
Speaker
But he doesn't like Calix because of what Calix is. Calix, the Brambo God. the
01:58:48
Speaker
I am the Verdant Guardian. We've discussed this. I'm not changing it No, no, no. It's like in his in his mind, like this guy that wants to kill you. Oh, that's good. The Bramble guy.
01:59:00
Speaker
The Bramble guy talks to me. As far as you know, this guy doesn't have any powers. He's more of the mad scientist type villain as well, so. Maybe not. Yeah.
01:59:13
Speaker
edge This edge speaks. Yeah. ah ah Oh god, I completely forgot that is um that he has a human-shaped bubble ass.
01:59:25
Speaker
Yeah, he
01:59:29
Speaker
does. Yeah, he clap he has clappable cheeks. Out of curiosity, if someone was to walk up and smack him on the on his tree ass, would it jizzle like an ass or would it be hard like wood?
01:59:43
Speaker
It'd be hard like wood. Hard like wood.
01:59:49
Speaker
Hard leg wood. Alright, so let's go north to go handle the arborist.
01:59:55
Speaker
Yeah? Yeah. I'm down. Alright, so you're you're you're gonna go follow the feeling instead of ah investigate the building? Yeah. Alright, we should do both. Um...
02:00:09
Speaker
It's 1037 for you guys. so why don't Why don't we go do this and leave Darkstrike here to go ahead and keep an eye out on the building. And stake it out. Yep, yep, yep, yep. and then we don't that holds off to what She does for most of her stuff anyway.
02:00:24
Speaker
Yeah, she's the NPC, so she's good for stuff like that. And she's better detective. She's totally not my GMPC.
02:00:38
Speaker
Trying to, I feel like there's something that got cut off at the bottom of this thing. If you are are seeing the map thing move around a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. There's a little bit that got cut off at the bottom. So had to shrink it a little bit.
02:00:51
Speaker
um I guess I could also just made the map bigger, but whatever. Actually, I could just move this up, make it bigger. So it's easier to read. Why is it so small?
02:01:03
Speaker
Oops. Oh God. Do that. world is moving. There. Now it's slightly bigger. And both things are fully on the screen. Okay.
End of Session Reflections
02:01:19
Speaker
So do we want to call it for the night? You guys are going to go go i investigate this ah feeling that Calyx is having? Yeah, I feel like this is a good stopping point.
02:01:32
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like the next time we can go straight into investigating these Fredericksburg peach trees. Yeah, I feel like I have an idea of the answer to these questions this session, but end of session questions.
02:01:46
Speaker
um We will start with, ah I'm just looking at my Discord. Bill, did you go grow closer to the team, grow into your own image of yourself, or grow away from the team?
02:01:59
Speaker
um
02:02:02
Speaker
You know, this time I am going to say I grew just probably a little bit further away from the team because, yeah, while it was part of the plan to get school canceled for a reason, i did still kind of revert back into those old old tendencies, you know, doing crime and stuff.
02:02:19
Speaker
When I just, you know, destroyed the boiler.
02:02:23
Speaker
Would that be growing into the image of yourself because you still think of yourself as a villain? Or at least not as a hero.
02:02:35
Speaker
Like you want to be a hero, but you think you're not. Oh, that could be actually.
02:02:44
Speaker
Yeah, actually, that does actually make sense too. Because yeah, I didn't i didn't really grow necessarily grow apart from anybody and I didn't have any negatives. I actually had several positives with people, but You know what? Yeah, because I would honestly still probably, it would probably still be weird to see yeah to see myself as and call myself a hero. So yeah, I can see that. happen I can see that being the case.
02:03:09
Speaker
So you shift one label up and another one down. um I feel like label, ideal labels of that could either be like danger because you to damage something or maybe superior.
02:03:24
Speaker
So I feel like kind of superior and mundane are too, you know, they're the opposites. Mundane is the normal person, whereas superior is the like. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to increase danger and decrease superior. Okay.
02:03:43
Speaker
Um, Eric, grow closer, grow into your own image or grow away from the team. think I grew closer to a team. Okay. Explain who made you feel welcome. Give influence to that character.
02:03:58
Speaker
I think everyone has influence over you. yeah So whoever you give the influence to will get to shift your labels.
02:04:09
Speaker
Um...
02:04:12
Speaker
but give it to you know whoever you feel like you would have given influence to in the first, yeah no if they didn't have it. like Whoever you grew closer to, basically.
02:04:25
Speaker
Well, I think because of the... A couple of answers, right? I think overall, the whole team I grew closer to because i feel like I took a more commanding voice of the group this time like to get the plan put together to for shenanigans.
02:04:40
Speaker
Yeah, and and also you were basically you know the deciding factor on you know the our on our questions when we were asking the guy. and then But then I also you know magically did a thing with Siphon again.
02:04:53
Speaker
so food So instead of it being the whole group, Siphon one-ups everybody with that, so Siphon, I'm influenced by you, and you get to shift my labels. Yeah, Siphon, without knowing what his labels are, you get to move one up and one down.
02:05:08
Speaker
Yeah, um... What would I do?
02:05:15
Speaker
a You'd probably fuck. I do need to double check what happens if you go above a three just in case that's what you do.
02:05:28
Speaker
Well, don't think i did that. No, I mean, two short if if he bumps you above a three and that one stat of yours, i need to double check what happens. would
02:05:41
Speaker
Plus one superior and minus one savior. All right. You're safe.
02:05:54
Speaker
And then, ah so, yeah, he did that. Now you also, um he already has influence, so that's why. And then you get to clear condition or mark potential. I'm going to mark potential.
02:06:10
Speaker
Yeah, you do have the guilty position. Okay, cool. You advance.
02:06:15
Speaker
All right, so you get to do that. And then... Nice. You'll get a base. well We'll need to figure out an end character or reason that you suddenly have a ah place.
02:06:30
Speaker
I think it'll depend on how this goes at the end. Okay. um Frank, did Calix grow closer to the team, grow into in his own image of himself, or grow away from the team?
02:06:44
Speaker
Hmm.
02:06:48
Speaker
Grow closer to the team. All right. So you may give influence to one of the characters on your team. ah You can include Darkstrike as well, because she was there.
02:07:00
Speaker
As
02:07:04
Speaker
ah sort of part of the team.
02:07:07
Speaker
um I guess I should have told that to you too, Eric, but... I just, that just popped in my head, but it wouldn't have made sense for you in Darkstar. I don't think it makes sense for, well, she did do that wink thing at you, so it could work for you.
02:07:22
Speaker
I mean, you were confused by it, but.
02:07:29
Speaker
I'd probably say.
02:07:33
Speaker
i mean, if somebody already has influence over me, then does it matter? Well, they shift your labels in that point, in that case, without knowing what your labels are. I was thinking ah Nightfall.
02:07:48
Speaker
Okay, Nightfall. Maybe Iron Sand. Yeah, Iron Sand. Actually, i don't think you're influenced by either of them, unless it's just not on your sheet. Hold on, let's see. Iron Sand.
02:08:02
Speaker
influenced Siphon and Nightfall. No, you have influence over Siphon and Nightfall. Oh. um I have influence over Ironsand and Kalex. Yeah, and Ironsand does not have influence over you. So, yeah, he gains influence over you.
02:08:18
Speaker
So, i'll add since I'm looking at your sheet right now, Bill, I'll add that you have influence over Kalex now. All right, that sounds perfect.
02:08:29
Speaker
And then, yeah, Frank, just add that to you are influenced by Ironsand. Where's that at? Here, I'll just add it.
02:08:41
Speaker
It's under influence. um OK, so then you don't have to do the label shifting, but you do get to um either mark potential or clear a condition.
02:08:53
Speaker
I guess I'll mark a potential. That puts me at 5. Everybody leveling up this game. OK.
02:09:00
Speaker
Level ups happen so fast in this game. The Avatar one is much slower, it looks like. I'm nearly there. I'm nearly to my next one. So that was Frank and then ah Hayden.
02:09:14
Speaker
so Did Siphon grow closer to the team, grow into his own image of himself, or grow away from the team?
02:09:21
Speaker
I mean, Siphon didn't do much jack shit this round. um Yeah, he got to be a zombie. Yeah, I probably helped out with the team since I was being ah a meat puppet.
02:09:33
Speaker
Yeah, boy.
02:09:37
Speaker
So grow closer. So who do you give influence to?
02:09:43
Speaker
Probably Warhammer. Okay, you are not... No, you are you currently influenced by him? not. Okay, so... I have Influencer for him, but he doesn't have Influencer for Okay, so go ahead and add him as you are Influenced by.
Game Mechanics Discussion
02:09:59
Speaker
So... so I don't remember if I said this during the game last time, but when you have influence over someone, you get a plus one on rolls involving them.
02:10:09
Speaker
And then there's a way to spin that influence. um I don't remember the details on that, but um I'd have to find that page again. But yeah, you can, when you're rolling against someone, even if it's a good roll, you get a plus one on, ah you know, against them. Oh yeah. When,
02:10:31
Speaker
If you have influence over someone, take one plus one to all moves towards them. um You can also basically spend that influence and lose it to give them a negative two on a move they just made or inflict a condition on them or take an extra plus one against them.
02:10:51
Speaker
So a plus two. um So yeah, that's what influence is for. Because you can get influence on the bad guys too. um like Some of you might have... Well, I guess none of you really have influence over any of the bad guys right now. but Although Siphon could be argued that he has influence over... um
02:11:14
Speaker
Taser Fist or Razor Fist. All I'm going to say here as well is that one person i have influence over is one of our teachers, m and Mrs. Finch.
02:11:25
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And I asked just now remembered that one of my contacts also has the last name Finch. So now I'm wondering. Huh. Interesting. That was not planned, but that's, you know, maybe it's her husband or something, or maybe it's them. Yeah.
02:11:44
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah, we'll have to look into that later. Okay, and I think that's everything that happens at the end of session. Do I clear like any... Oh, yes, you get to either clear a condition or mark a potential.
02:12:01
Speaker
I'm going to mark potentials because then will get me up to clear the potential. What happens if I get another row potentials done? ah Once you've marked all five, you get to take an advancement.
02:12:14
Speaker
What does that do? So these character sheets don't show it, so you'd have to look at your character sheet over on Google Drive. um okay I'll send.
02:12:28
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I already dropped Bill's link, but I'll send the other. Eric, do you have your sheet or do you want the link to? Who all have held up?
02:12:38
Speaker
I don't think Frank leveled up this this time around. so just leveled up, yeah. Oh, you did? Okay, then I'll drop both of your sheets real quick. just ah ah I should probably like link those sheets onto your character sheets for you.
02:12:52
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Yeah, I just pulled up the advancement track on Google. so Okay. Playbooks. So you are the... Hayden is the doomed. So here, copy link Here it is in Discord.
02:13:11
Speaker
um And then i'll I'll link both of those. I'll link your sheets to all your character sheets so that you we don't have to keep just sharing the link. um Yeah, so advancements. um I know that Doomed is... Oh, yeah, no, it's under Advancement. There's an Advancement thing. And keep in mind, once you have, I think it's five of those level-ups. Yeah, five, you can start taking stuff from the second Advancement list.
02:13:34
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Mm-hmm. And we haven't discussed Moment of Truth, but if any of you unlock your Moment of Truth, it's at the top of the playbook, the the PDF. I don't know if it's on the Roll20 sheet. But that is essentially within the confines of what your Moment of Truth says. You basically become GM for a few minutes.
02:13:56
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So you that is like your character... um It's your character's shining moment. And you can only use that twice in the entire game. you you When you unlock it first you you and then use it, it's gone forever until you unlock it the second time.
02:14:12
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And then once you use it again, it's gone forever again. So at least per playbook. you know If you change playbooks, then you get new moments of truths. But it's basically ah two two times in the game. So it's supposed to be like...
02:14:25
Speaker
Like, Hayden, if you had Moment of Truth and you saved it until your doom comes, you could totally just use Moment of Truth probably to get around your doom. um Yeah.
02:14:36
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So, but yeah, so it's like you're you become temporary GM and decide what happens within the description of your Moment of Truth. You know. Hey, Ron, do you have a link chance? Oh, only get Moment Truth after how many times you get in the advancement?
02:14:51
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Well, you can unlock the first Moment of Truth right now. um Yeah, the second time, though, is after it's in the the in the lower section. um I have access to my moment of truth because on the last level up, I went ahead and just unlocked it. So I do have access to it. I'm not using it yet. yeah Yeah, I know. It's something to hold on to because it's like that's supposed to be like your care like your character's like season finale defining moment, um except you get two of them potentially if you unlock it a second time.
02:15:27
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But yeah, it's like you you get to take over for ah for a minute and and basically within reason what you say goes. Yes.
02:15:39
Speaker
Yeah. um You can't be like, ah, I unlock my moment of truth and rule yeah, I conquer the earth, you know. um But you get to basically like, oh crap, we're fighting against a monster that we can't defeat. up I'm going to use my moment of truth and I defeat it, you know.
02:15:57
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in an epic way. Oops. I clicked show the players on on your character sheet, Eric. I don't know if it showed anything, but... No.
02:16:09
Speaker
Oh, I'm looking at it. Okay, yeah. Anyway. um Yeah, so I was your dungeon your game master tonight. I looked it up. It's game master. Your game master tonight, Ron Bjork, and with me tonight was Hayden.
02:16:23
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Hey, it was good to be here. We... Definitely setting up for an interesting game. um We also had Frank. Hi, everyone. I'm Frank.
02:16:36
Speaker
Calix. I had fun. I'm glad you were able to join us on our adventure. You can find me on social media if you look hard enough, and I will sometimes stream Sunday mornings on the IDM roleplay forward slash twitch.tv.
02:16:54
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um Not to be confused with Calix Stone Creamery. We also had Eric. You you guys, hope you have a good night. on ah Or day, lunch break, or toilet visit. I'm here playing Nightfall.
02:17:13
Speaker
Kieran, the legacy. and We'll see, I think, if we finish in Fredericksburg, how his legacy feels about him. And last but not least, Bill. everybody i was iron sand had a great time uh as it stands right now going to be going to be moving over to blue sky pretty soon so i'm not going pushing the twitter anymore But I'll be under the exact same name there. If anybody is interested, just a reminder, I mostly just post art and other art bait stuff.
02:17:48
Speaker
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02:18:00
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02:18:12
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02:18:33
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02:18:48
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ah It's probably not as bad now. um But anyway. You should go back to season one and re-listen to that audio. It'll be it'll shock you. Yeah, if you think our audio sucks right now, it's weird that you're only listening to the most recent episode and not the first episode. But yeah.
02:19:06
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Good night, everybody. Stopping recording.
02:20:11
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