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S1-Ep.40: Moonslayer · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily pad production.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: This is the team up play show podcast.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Previously in the city of bones.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: There is a new mayor, and he gets to work
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: right away, fulfilling his campaign promises. About a week in,
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: he brings in an ambassador from the United States. Whoa.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: The ambassador is Devin Sandell. Devin enters New Babel with
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  Speaker 2: a staggering number of trucks with goods. The trucks are
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: guarded by masked gunmen. He does this... With great pomp
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: and circumstance, the crowd cheers for the American aid and
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: the people of New Babel act as though it is
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  Speaker 2: finally raining after a hundred year drought.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the paper phantom and I don't know that I
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  Speaker 3: can handle all the things that I did or all
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  Speaker 3: the things that the phantom should do. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: I can do this, man. And I want to use
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  Speaker 3: you and your technology. I want you to help me.
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  Speaker 3: remove this, and I point to the book. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be the paper phantom anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Paige is off of her hospital bed on a floating,
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: not like hover tech, but on a floating gurney. Over her,
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  Speaker 2: there are two straps that glow blue with zero point energy.
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  Speaker 2: The guy turns his head, looks at you, He's in
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  Speaker 2: a trench coat. He's bald. He has scruffy face hair.
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  Speaker 2: He says, ah, shit. Hey, kid, listen, I need to
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  Speaker 2: take her.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: The cloak flies back, covers me up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Dukes up, swords out. His big trench coat flies back.
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  Speaker 2: He pulls out two guns. I wouldn't try it, kid.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Brock. Does that mean anything to you?
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  Speaker 2: Brock Danton, does that mean anything anymore? Moonslayer? I represent
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: the Evos of Io. We're changing. We're de-evolving. An entity
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: of pure evolutionary energy popped up on our scanners. So
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  Speaker 2: for the first time in fucking decades, I'm back on Earth,
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  Speaker 2: and I think she can help us.
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  Speaker 3: You say you're a fan of the paper phantom and
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: his vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Well, I don't think you know me that well.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to attack him. All right. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: When the Great Depression didn't stop, when the Earth was
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  Speaker 2: crying out for a savior, before the Evos were hated,
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  Speaker 2: Brock Denton was born into the world. His Evo abilities
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  Speaker 2: were only ever speculated. No one has ever really known.
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  Speaker 2: It's believed that he didn't even know. He was never righteous,
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  Speaker 2: but he was a great Evo. He made hard choices.
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  Speaker 2: He did great things. He created and then launched the
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  Speaker 2: bombs of life, which, if you remember, were evolution-accelerating and
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  Speaker 2: terraforming mega-ballistics. The reason for his infamy is that he
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  Speaker 2: sent the first one at the moon. The story goes
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  Speaker 2: that due to miscommunication, he killed thousands of humans that
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  Speaker 2: had already begun to live on Luna. They were waiting
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  Speaker 2: on the terraformation and were supposed to be in orbital
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: space stations when the BOL struck. But they weren't. Since then,
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  Speaker 2: the moon has been off limits and no one really
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  Speaker 2: knows what havoc the BOL caused there. Brock claims that
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  Speaker 2: he did nothing wrong, but it's blurry. But when the
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  Speaker 2: world decided Evos were a threat to safety, he was
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  Speaker 2: an easy scapegoat. He fought back. He helped save the
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  Speaker 2: world and he wasn't going to be forced off of it.
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  Speaker 2: But in the end, he was. And with all the
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  Speaker 2: world's Evos, he went to Io after the death of
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  Speaker 2: thousands in the war. Now he stands here. claiming that
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  Speaker 2: the Evos on Io are losing all their power and
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  Speaker 2: will soon die out. He thinks Paige could help. I'll
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  Speaker 2: fucking kill you! Roll order. You win these, brother. No doubt.
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  Speaker 3: With the righteous justification of I don't want to do
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  Speaker 3: what you want to do.
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  Speaker 2: My love. My love. What'd you get? Six. Paper Phantom.
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  Speaker 3: Yay. Paige is on.
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  Speaker 2: a floating gurney, floating platform strapped down by zero-point energy belts,
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  Speaker 2: and floating next to Brock, who's trying to take her
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  Speaker 2: to space. It's your turn. What are you doing? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: fuck yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Nice. Do my friends, are my friends in order here
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  Speaker 3: across the city, or this is just a solo me
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  Speaker 3: versus this man?
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome to call out to them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll get on the comms real quick. Just a
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  Speaker 3: little free action. Phantom to Quanta, Phantom to Rigel.
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  Speaker 2: I spit out the day-to-day that I'm drinking at family dinner.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: What's up? I need backup.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I'm at the station hospital. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I'm coming. On our way. Gotta kill this man.
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  Speaker 2: This is fully out of the blue, so you two
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  Speaker 2: are going to roll a ready check against a normal
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  Speaker 2: threshold roll from the GD. So I'm rolling difficult, which
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  Speaker 2: is a D12.
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  Speaker 1: Long top one. Seven.
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  Speaker 2: Seven. I rolled a nine.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: I got a two.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh. Yikes.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Does it? Quanta, you'll get here in two phases. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's not bad. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like after
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  Speaker 2: two phases. Uh-huh. Rigel, you'll get here after two rounds. Ooh. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you were going to say two days.
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  Speaker 2: Two days. So six phases, Rigel.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: Poof.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then with my action, I am just going to
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  Speaker 3: charge up my cloak. I'm going to pull every piece
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  Speaker 3: of paper in this hospital floor and room, all of
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  Speaker 3: the charts, every label comes to me.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, that was satisfying. Yeah, like a card shuffle. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's Brock's turn. He looks at you. I got to
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  Speaker 2: remember kind of what voice I was doing. I'm Brock Danton.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Brock Danton. I'm a dumb bitch.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was like that.
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  Speaker 1: I need to kidnap an innocent person to save my world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like a weenie-like, I think. He looks
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  Speaker 2: at you. His gun's pointed at you. Sorry to do
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  Speaker 2: this to you, kid, but everybody's going to die without her. He,
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  Speaker 2: for a free action, pushes a small remote in his
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  Speaker 2: hand and... As his action action is just going to
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  Speaker 2: use utility with his guns, he lifts them straight up,
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  Speaker 2: blasts them both through the ceiling. An enormous hole is created,
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  Speaker 2: and a beam from his spaceship comes down right where
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  Speaker 2: Paige is. He steps out of the beam, and Paige
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  Speaker 2: is going to, from here on out, every phase, go
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: up two Ls. I mean, that's pretty dope. Okay, Aaron.
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  Speaker 2: But not this turn. Not this turn.
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  Speaker 3: The beam has been initiated.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. I have questions about that. Pretty sick.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll have to pry them out of your dead body, Danton.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, man, I like your whole thing. I
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  Speaker 2: like what you got going on. It's good to know
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  Speaker 2: there's powered heroes back on Earth. Hey, your time is done.
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  Speaker 2: Don't try and suck up to me. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: kick your ass. All right. Your turn, Phantom. Great.
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: I'm going to attack him. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Go for it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's poo it. I'm in the same L, I assume.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you guys are just in this small hospital room. Cozy.
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  Speaker 2: With one of the nefarious heroes of the founding age.
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  Speaker 2: Infamous heroes of the founding age.
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  Speaker 3: I think what I'd like to do here is blind
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  Speaker 3: him as well. I'm going to put an amp on this,
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  Speaker 3: a power amp, to try and blind Brock Danton. So
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  Speaker 3: my cloak is going to try and wrap around his face.
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  Speaker 3: And I've got 12 damage coming at you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Oh, I like that. Oh, fuck. Your cloak goes around.
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  Speaker 2: I'm too old for this shit. As your cloak wraps
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  Speaker 2: around his face, he is going to defend against that
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Burning his reaction to defend. For his defense,
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  Speaker 2: he rolls a d12 and a d4. I rolled two ones. Hey, hey. Whoa,
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  Speaker 2: that's bad. Go back to space, old man.
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  Speaker 3: Damn, that sucks for me. Maybe he is too old
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  Speaker 3: for this shit.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Maybe he is too old for this. Two ones.
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  Speaker 2: That is ten damage. He's going to reseal. He reseals
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  Speaker 2: for one. So he takes nine damage. Ouch. Dang, dude.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And he'll be blinded for, since it's my cloak, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be five phases.
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  Speaker 2: Blinded for five phases. Paper on his face. I'm too
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  Speaker 2: old for this, trying to get the paper off of
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  Speaker 2: his head. It's a good look for you. Yeah, fuck you. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm rusty. This isn't fair. Fair fight, man to man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm rusty. He's grumping. He's grumping. He's grumping. He's really
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  Speaker 2: good at grumping.
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  Speaker 5: Back in his day, back in his day, grumping was cool.
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  Speaker 2: Is grumping still cool?
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: When Quanto arrives, Dubstep starts playing. Grumping.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting stuff. Okay, it's Brock's turn. What's he going to
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  Speaker 2: try to do? Brock your body. Yeah, yeah. His head
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  Speaker 2: covered in paper. He pushes a little button on his
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  Speaker 2: gloves and his boots start blasting out fire. A little
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  Speaker 2: rocket like purple energy. And he goes up in the air,
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  Speaker 2: out the hole, unable to see. He bashes into part
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  Speaker 2: of the ceiling, has to come back down a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and goes up out of the roof, the hole he's made,
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  Speaker 2: and goes down. We don't really see where he goes,
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  Speaker 2: but he goes out of here. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Paige lifts up an L within the beam.
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  Speaker 2: Rises up. You look up the hole. You don't even
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  Speaker 2: see what she's going to, but she is going up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't want to find out. Quanta. That's
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  Speaker 2: two phases. Great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Enter the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I, um, on my way, I take off, uh,
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  Speaker 1: snap sweatpants and, uh, and a windbreaker got my outfit
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  Speaker 1: underneath and just in two jumps across the city as
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  Speaker 1: lightning from building the building, finding my friend's location and
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  Speaker 1: crash into the room.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Brock Danton from history is here. Nice.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: I don't see anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I wrapped paper around his head and he flew through
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  Speaker 3: a hole in the ceiling. A different hole. I think
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  Speaker 3: he made a distinctly separate hole than this hole.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same hole.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he went through the same hole.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, I'm just flying toward the beam. I see a
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  Speaker 2: sky beam. Oh, shit. I'm an idiot.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I expand my senses out to find him.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: And Paige. So first roll a ready check. You enter
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  Speaker 2: the order here.
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  Speaker 1: Four.
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  Speaker 2: Far. Far. Far slug.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you're going to go after the paper phantom.
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  Speaker 1: Great.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back around. Sounds good. So we're back
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  Speaker 2: up to the top, phase three, round one. Phantom, your turn.
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  Speaker 3: I am going to move.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to, as a free action character, grab
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  Speaker 3: page and move the full, I believe, remind me, is
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: my permanent bonus applied to my movement, if I'm using
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: movement power, or no?
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: It's just the energy level. Your permanent bonus is added
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  Speaker 2: to your total movement.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So that means that with my cloak now at
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: level four, I can move 12 Ls.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Pretty good. So I'm going to go one L up.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: To get her, grab her, free action, and then just,
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  Speaker 3: I'll make a separate distinct hole this time. I'll, like,
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  Speaker 3: break through the window or whatever and look at Quad
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  Speaker 3: and be like, find Danton, kill him, I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 3: her safe. And I'm gonna start, like, gliding out the
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: window with Paige as far as I can go.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: What's your strength, Jason? How many EPs do you have
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: in strength? So that means you cannot carry a person
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  Speaker 2: without having your movement.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, so that means I can only go six One
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  Speaker 2: to get her and then five away.
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  Speaker 3: Deal.
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: Math. Still so far.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: And just for the record, she's on like a hover
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: gurney of some sort.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm surfing on it.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: I'm surfing on her wind sails out, wind surfing style.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: True love style.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: That's true love.
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  Speaker 3: When you surf on your true love.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Who hasn't? Surfboard. So we got to like ask
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: these questions for this. This combat is very specific. Yeah.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: You can't really fly.
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: No.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: You kind of coast. Glide. You glide and coast. Falling
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: with style. You fall with style. Fucking Buzz Lightyear style.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of styling. So I think six L's away. You're
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: not any L's up anymore. No, no.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: I would be the same or lower.
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  Speaker 2: Cool. I leave that to you. Roll a strength. Just
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: roll a might check here. Plus your strength.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, might plus strength. You mean two defaults?
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll ask you, do you want to stay? So, sorry.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Let me say all of this. The hospital you're at
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: is four L's up within the space barge. Are you
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: trying to stay that level or are you trying to
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: go down?
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Down is better. I think a wave, if he wants up,
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: I want down. So down is fine with me. Good thought,
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: good thought.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Logic. Sound logic.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: There's that classic paper phantom logic.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: The PPL. Me go down? Ride lover like surfboard?
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Yes. You and Paige glide down, surf down, excuse me.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: You're on the ground in the station. Nice.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Quanta, your turn.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Now I push my senses out to find Danton. Find
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: the person Jason is talking about.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Roll a sense check. He's not trying to hide from you,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: so I'm not going to roll for him. I'm just
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: going to roll a challenging check. Okay. I rolled a five.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I rolled a ten. Oof. Popping in here like this,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: you're a little frazzled. You can't find out exactly where
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: he is.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I'll just move out of the building then. Lightning whip myself,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: like zip out of the hole and stand on the edge.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Start looking around with mine own eyes rather than my
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Evo eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, over the edge of the space barge. The space
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: barge is on like a curved part of the hull.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: And so when he shoots up, the hole is kind
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: of curved with the ship. You just look down as
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: you get to the top of this hole, which is
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: now six L's up. And you see him on the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: ground level just like smashing into the hole. Like, fuck, fuck, paper.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Still on his face. All right.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I also have 12 L's of movement now with my
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: lightning whip.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Can I make it down to him? Yeah, certainly.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: That's crazy knowledge. Kaboom.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that D10, or my energy being 10, plus the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: two permanent bonuses.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Tasty. That is tasty. Hearty. What was that? What
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: was that big boom? Fuck, I can't see shit. It's me.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I'm a boomer.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Wait. What?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: What?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: No, I was the greatest generation, I think. I'm fucking old. Yeah,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: you listen to dubstep, you old man.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: He tried to stay with it for longer than most, everybody.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I got caught up. I can only get caught up
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: so many times. Yeah, that's fair. You can't ask me
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: to enjoy 70s rock and then dubstep. Who says? Fucking
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: get the paper off me. Good questions. It's Brock's turn.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: He used his reaction, so he's done. Paige is with you,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: so she does not get pulled up an L. So
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: he's been blind for two phases now, so three more.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Fun for me. Interesting. We start a new round, which
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: is we start a new round, second round. Paper Phantom,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: you're up.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I think I'm just going to keep moving with Paige
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: down the street far away from the building. I guess
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: in whatever direction Jameer would be coming from. Like toward
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: the manor, I suppose. Sure.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Citywide. You move another six L's with Paige.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I do a kickflip.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Quanta, your turn.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Ah, ah, hey. I will... I see he has guns. Yeah. Great.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I see he has guns.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I will use control electricity to try to power block
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: his guns by making his body impulsively grab.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Them and toss them to the side. Okay. And it's
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: close up, so I'm going to roll with precision. Six. Oh,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: so you're attacking.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Got it, got it.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Attacking with an amp. A power block as an amp.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Cool.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: That's correct. Sorry. That's okay.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Six damage?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yes. And he's blinded. He's blinded, so he can't react? Mm-hmm.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Suck it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just, like, stick my pointer fingers and middle
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: fingers into, like, his neck to try to get, like, at, like.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: The vagal nerve. Damn. And make him toss his guns.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Two on his resilience. So he takes four damage.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: And is power blocked. Yes.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: For three phases, he doesn't have his guns.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Very cool. He is also out of hit points. He
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: drops down to the ground.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, shit. Falls down. Man down? I say in the comms.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And his guns drop out of his hands.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Ow.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Ow.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I'll pull up on the nose of the hover bed
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: and turn us around to look back up. Do we
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: see what the beam is connected to by chance from
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: here being so far away? You still don't see.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: What's up there. Like it's just going into a cloud
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: or something? It's the night sky. You're not certain. It
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: is Brock's turn. He is going to roll a get
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: up check.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, he can do that too, huh?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, fuck you guys. I invented the get up check.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: You kids don't appreciate it. Back in the day. You
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: just can get up whenever you want. We had to
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: fight for getting up. Sorry. I don't know what came
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: over me.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: That's a spot on, Brock Danton. We're finding something.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: He's like, getting it up isn't as easy for me
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: these days.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, there we are.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: We found it. We found it. Sir, I did not
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: need to know that. He has I'm still here, which
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: means he can roll his get up checks as an
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: empower check. So he adds his rocket boots to this.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. I like the idea of his limp
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: body just being rocket booted around.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Rocket booted north. I like just lapsing it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Like one of those toys, like a zebra, a giraffe,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: where you push the bottom and all its bones go slack.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: And he also has a D20 in guts. Very good.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: He rolls 15, which beats his death points by a lot.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: So he rolls a get up check. Man, not down. Man,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: not down. His boots lift him up. He shakes his head.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: And as a reaction, he reaches into his pocket. This
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: is the action he's doing. He stabs himself with a
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: little stem, with a little syringe. Green liquid goes into
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: his veins.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: What's he doing now, guys?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Doping? Okay. As a reaction, he heals himself for 13,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: which is his full HP. That's a lot. He sits up,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: looks at, well, doesn't look, but he sits up. His
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: head is still covered in paper. Guys, hey, calm down.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Can we, let's, can we talk about this, please?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I widen my stance and squat a little bit in preparation.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I can do this so many times. This is going
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: to be exhausting. Well, I could do it all day.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah. Are you guys talking up there? I don't know.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I think I just used a trademarked phrase, though. Yeah,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: can we say that? I don't know.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I can last longer than four hours. Going back to
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: boner references.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: He did need assistance in getting up.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Paper Phantom, your turn. I think what I want to do,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: and I don't know if there's special rules for this
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: or not. Because I want to hide, but I don't
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: necessarily just want to hide me. I want to conceal Paige.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I want to hide her. That's what I'm going to do.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I think it's the same. It's just going to be
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: a more difficult check. I think I'll have you roll
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: your sneak die low, and then you're just rolling against
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: his sense. Sure.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: And for flavor here, what I'm doing is I'm covering
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: her up in like a cocoon of paper and then
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: making a bunch of them. So there's just like a
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: shell game of paper all over the place.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: He is going to roll this sense low because he's
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: blinded by your paper still.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Makes sense to me.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: He got two.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: All right, so I can do sneak plus cloak.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: You got this. You beat a two.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You beat a two in your paper sleep.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I probably will. Yeah, that's going to be a... 25.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You're able to hide you and Paige easily. Sorry, 23.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: My math was wrong.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, in that case. Just a 23. Quanta, your turn.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Stay down.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: No, come on, kid. I will use the energy to
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: attack again.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Similarly, up close with control electricity, an attempt to power
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: block his stems. So make him do the same thing
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: with any stems he's got in his jacket to just
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: impulse throw them about himself.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good. His guns are on the ground. Classic.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: You guys got to keep track of the phases that
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: you have conditions on him because I can't. Okay. That's
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: a lot. Let me do a little mark. Is it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Counting from the phase that it starts or the next one?
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Let me do a little marks.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I believe he's only blinded for one more phase then.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: He can't have his guns for this and the next one.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Six again. Six again. He already burned his reaction healing.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: So he gets as high as he can roll on
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: his resilience, which is two. Takes four damage, and he
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: takes the rest of the stems out of his pockets
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: and throws them. What am I doing? Why am I
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: doing this? What is going on?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: You messed with the wrong girl.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Hey, I was a big deal back in the day,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I promise. We're the big deal now. It seems like it,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm glad you're here. I just need to save
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: my people. Let's find another way.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but let's find another way.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Look at who you're talking to. You don't think I've
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: thought of every other way? Maybe not.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I had to dip into my resilience EPs.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Just let the record show. Let the record show.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Let the record show.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I'm burning energy. Strike that from the record. We have
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: a stenographer. Happy death. But we don't release the transcripts.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: We still let Spotify make us sound crazy when we
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: say things like.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: The auto-caption.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's Brock's turn. He is going to roll to try...
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: He is going to finally try to... Well, it's only
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: one more phase. What's he going to do? You're hidden.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Big Boa, Big Boa. What?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: You're hidden from him.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: There's no way he... He can't use his guns. He
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: can't use his pocket evolution. What is he going to do?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: He's just going to shoot off with his boots towards
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the direction the paper phantom went. Can I react to trap?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: You can. I would like to do that, please. What
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: do you do to try to get him?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Lightning whip him around his rocket boots as he's flying past.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: You do so, and then a zero-point energy shield exists
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: around his rock-a-boots real quick as it comes in contact
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: with different energy, and your lightning slips right off.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: He has unseen escape. He cannot be trapped.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Nice. Phantom, he's headed your way. Phantom, you look and
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: you see... Rigel, where are you?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I'm coming.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I'm flying as fast as the fucking star goes. You
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: see this old man blasting towards you with purple rocket boots.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Very zigzag, drunken-like flying. Is everything chill over there, guys?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: It's about to be.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, good.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Paper Phantom, back up to you, phase three.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Rigel's not available yet, correct?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: No. At the end of this phase, Rigel will enter order.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: The end of this phase, Rigel will enter order.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Those spot on Johnny impressions.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: What the fuck is going on? You guys are already
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: beating my in-game guy really bad. We're just feeling cocky.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: On my way.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't matter that I'm 12 L's away from
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the building now at this point.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: That Rigel wouldn't be near me. No. Okay, fine, fine, fine. No.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: No.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I'm letting you guys travel insane distances from, like, across
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the city. If we did the math, you wouldn't get
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: here for, like, Guanta said.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Here we are. Days. Paper Phantom. Paper Days. Paper Phantom,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: it's your turn. What are you doing? All right. You've
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: built a lot of little paper cocoons. Yes. And pages
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: in one of them. Yep. Both of you. And you
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: are in the same one?
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I'll say we're in different ones.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, you guys are in different ones. You've built a
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: little roulette, cocoon roulette. What are you doing?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I'll charge up from here.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Ooh. Sounds good. Quant to your turn. I reacted.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Brock reacted. Rigel shows up. How do you show up, Rigel?
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Rigel's flying on his flight star. I just am going
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: toward the sky pillar. So do I see a page at, like,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: In this sky pillar? No, she has been moved well
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: out of that.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah. I think what you do see is
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: you see a bunch of little paper cocoons. You also
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: see a flying man with paper on his face blasting
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: towards those cocoons. The paper now falls off of his face.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: The Phantom can no longer hold it. And Brock Danton
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: is here. I'll let you where to go, Rigel, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: then roll your ready check to enter order. Okay. I'll
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: be over the guy. I don't know.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: His name, but I'm like, is this the guy trying to...
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Why are we mad.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: At this guy? I see him. He's got paper on him?
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: He's trying to abduct Paige, take her to space.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's serious. I got four on my ready. Okay. Okay.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I've rolled so ass this whole... You guys all rolled
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: better ready than him.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I think we're same order, Rigel.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. What'd you roll?
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: All three of us are, right?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Did you roll? Oh, yeah, because we're together. All three
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: of you, yes. Crazy. Remember when I was so excited
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: when I said he rolls a D12 and a D4
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: for his defense?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I thought it was so fun.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: It was pretty sick. And then I rolled two ones.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: That's what happened. Ones are on the die for a reason.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Fuck this game. You know what? Fuck team up.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Fuck team up. Ben. Yeah, Ben. I don't even care.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: What's up? Rigel, you want to be above... brock how
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: far how high above he's on the ground floor but
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: flying yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: I'll i don't want to be too far i'll just
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: be like three l's above just watching over him making
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: sure he doesn't move or do anything crazy.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah he's uh cool he's like in the process of
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: of moving when you arrive back to the top paper.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Phantom he um he can have his guns back but
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: he flew away from where he dropped them.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: His guns, he says, finally. He puts his hands out.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: The paper comes off of his head, and the guns
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: fly from where they lay in the dirt towards his hands.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: He catches them both and then keeps soaring. He sees
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: now Quanta, Rigel, and the paper cocoons. I'm just a
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: guy in the sky. He doesn't know I'm a text. Yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: he doesn't know.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Maybe he's a friendly. I'm assuming I'm still far away
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: from him in some way. You are six ales away
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: from him. Six ales away?
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Perfect.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: What I'd like to do is move. The way I'm
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: moving is through the paper dimension. I just want to
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: go from the paper cocoon I'm in to one that's
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: near him, still hidden if possible.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Ooh.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Happy to roll more sneak.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to be within his ale? Yeah. Okay, yeah.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I won't even make you roll sneak for that. Because
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: there's no chance in hell he's going to be your sneak.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Two. The ones are on the die.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: The ones are on the die. Man, there's always a chance.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's roll.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Believe, Johnny. Don't give up. Fucking believe. He didn't. He's
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: giving up. He didn't wear all his stuff. It's in space.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: All his stuff's in space.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I just forgot my stuff, guys. That's why I'm sucking
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: so bad. I just forgot my stuff.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: It is a poor artist that blames his tools.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, I forgot my blue pills. I rolled a two. 17. Yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Glad we took time Quality time Of the team up
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: play show podcast But who doesn't have to roll those
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: ones Fucking Quanta your turn How many L's did he
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: travel away from.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Me Four L's away from you Quanta.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Awesome I will Attack with my lightning whip And How
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: many E pieces does it take to pull Nah, I
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: won't amplify that. I will just attack.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Okay. Ranged, so I'm rolling precision. Seven. Seven damage? Yes. Okay.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: He's just going to roll resilience. He rolls two, so
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: he takes five.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And he, no, after this phase, he'll have the stims again.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Never mind. Okay. Jameer, your turn.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Rigel's like, hold on, guys. I'm going to try something.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: And Rigel's- Take him down. Rigel's going to do nothing.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: And a bunch of stars are going to start twinkling
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: around him as he hovers above this guy.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Okay. Cool. It is Brock's turn. The attack from you, Quanta,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: strikes his back as his guns hit his hands. He
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: spins quickly with their momentum and fires two enormous blasts
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: at you. They look like small orange suns. He's attacking you.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: What is it? It's a one. I rolled a one.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Two damage coming at you. Fuck me.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I will zeal. I made this cool guy. He's cool, guys.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: We've done nothing but dump on him. And our favorite
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: character in the campaign is Bones.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's actually us that are going to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: come out looking bad.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Because of who we love. Oh, no. I rezeal for
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: all of it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: I dodge and I say, hey, I'm the one who
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: does the frying around here.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: What? Did you joke? These are heroes. We're just joking.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Heroes of Earth. You know. Otherwise, you know, you cry.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I've been sitting around for too long. Back up to
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: the top. Paper Phantom. He can have his stems back.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: I'm all charged up. I'm going to bust out of
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: the cocoon nearest to him and Just punch him right
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: in the face with a huge paper fist.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Brock paper fisters.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Brock paper fisters. Damn. That is nine damage. That's not nothing.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: You are rolling that D. He's got to react to that.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: And remember, guys, what's really cool about him is he
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: rolls a 12 and a four for his defense.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Pretty good.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I'm impressed. I rolled a seven.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: And zero on his resilience. The fist comes down. A
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: perfect sphere, a perfect see-through purple sphere encapsulates him. It's
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: a little zero-point energy bubble, and it melts away as
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: the fist blasts through it and still hits him for
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: two damage.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: I think two damage. Get hole-punched.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. We make jokes here on Earth, bitch. No.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: All right, where the fuck did you come from? You guys,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: you guys are good. Quanta, your turn.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I will, I really don't want him to heal up again,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: so I'm going to move within his L.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm going to do. Okay, Rigel, your turn.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Rigel's stars begin to fall around him faster, and his
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: eyes glow, and he opens them and looks down, and.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I had my turn.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Hey, buddy?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: You gonna help us out? Oh, he's gone full star boy.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I think I know what he's doing. Oh, okay. At
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: least that makes one of us. What is he doing?
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I don't like it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Don't worry about it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I don't like what you're doing.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to save all the Evos in the world.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: You're trying to make life less inconvenient for them in space.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: That is a terrible reduction of what I'm trying to do.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: You would hurt this Evo if you did that.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Me.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Because I'm one.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: She's Evo.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Wait. Surprise. First of all, it's cool that Evos are
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: back on Earth, but why would I hurt you?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Because you'd be taking my friend away. My friend's friend.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: I'll bring her back.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I try to make eye contact with the paper phantom
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: who's nowhere to be seen. I try to make eye
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: contact with Rigel whose eyes are full of stars.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: What is he doing?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Let's maybe talk then instead of you just taking her away.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: I tried.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Doesn't look like it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Paper phantom. Oh, wait, no. No. Brock gets to go.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: He is going to spend an energy. And blast at you, Phantom,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: now that you've revealed yourself. Oh, you are there. Okay,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: then I do make eye contact with you. Sure.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: I've just got a paper face.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, shit. I'll cut little eye holes. Huh? Huh?
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: It's cool. What Rachel's doing is good.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Okay. His blasters, he sticks them just right into your stomach.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Blows them both. and I hopefully don't roll like ass.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I rolled four. I rolled four.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: He's going to add an amp to this. Got to
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: say that before you roll. That's all I have to say. Okay.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: So Raziel for two.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: For two, so you take two damage? Mm-hmm. He has
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: enhanced amplifier, so all he has to do is two
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: damage to do a stun attack. If you do at
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: least two damage, target is stunned, cannot take movement actions.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: For phases equal to half of the energy level, which
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: is five. For five phases, you can't take movement actions.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: These orbs hit your stomach. And then they create an
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: orange energy cage around you. My microbiome. Paper Phantom, it's
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: your turn. I'm stunned, right?
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: You can't take movement actions. You can take all other actions.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: I'll just punch him again. Yeah, there you go. Actually,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: do I want to turn or? I think what I
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: want to try and do is if I can't move,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: I'm going to.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Wrap him up in paper and try and hold him
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: where I am. Nice.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: I can't react to him with his unseen escape, but
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I can try and trap him now, right?
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Hmm. Hmm. Yes, you can try to. There's that PP logic.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: You can try to grapple him. Grappling is always a
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: might check, but plus your paper. He can roll might
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: or ready. He's going to roll ready, plus his rockaboots.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: 11.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: No permanent bonus on this, yes?
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Correct. I also got 11.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Ooh, I will react and use my always helpful.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Yay! Okay. Just need that one.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to get money. I will use my lightning reflexes.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I see the paper, like, not quite wrapping around, and
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: at the last minute, control the venium that's in the
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: venium lace paper to.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Fill in the little gap. I will give a power
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: point from my support pool to.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: The paper phantom. Okay, you only beat him by one,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: so he's only going to be trapped for one phase,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: but he can't move for the next phase. Can't take
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: a movement action. Should I give more? I can give more?
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: How you looking up there, star boy?
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: The next threshold is you had to have beat him
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: by five. Oh, okay. I'll just do the one. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: think we're good. What is he doing up there? Don't
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: worry about it. I'm lost too. The paper that was
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: a fist tries to grab him. He rocket boots to
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the side. Rocket boots to the side. Gets out of
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: your way. But then the electricity wraps around him as well.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Brings him down to the ground. It's Quanta's turn. I reacted.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: It's Brock's turn. He reacted. Or no, it's Rigel's turn.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Rigel having done nothing for two turns.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Two phases.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: All of a sudden, he stops chanting.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: The stars... Stop.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: Rotating, forming the outline of the Pisces constellation right in
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: front of him. I have spoken to Starfolk. They never
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: mention the likes of you.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Die!
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: And Rigel is going to Kirby Warpstar style fly down
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: as hard.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: And fast as he can.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: Magical energy filling his fist. I've never been more sure
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: you're a bad guy. And I'm... I'm just gonna use
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: his ultimate.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Yay! Wow. On Brock Nanton. Yes. Hell yeah. Worth it. Okay, so.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: This is dope. We're all, like, Quanj and I are
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: holding you in place, ready for you to Kirby down
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: on us.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: It's freaking awesome. It's like we rehearsed this. Yep. Jameer.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Or I should say. We didn't. Rigel, you get two
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: actions for your ultimate. Which two actions are you doing?
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Rigel is doing movement and attack.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Roll your damage.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: So as I read the rules, I get to combine
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: up to how many powers for this?
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: I think three. Yeah, I'm combining all three of my powers.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: One of them has to be, two of them have
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: to be the powers with which you're using your actions, right?
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: So your movement.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, flight stars, I'm using two EPs.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: And then magic blasts, I'm using two EPs as my
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: fist that I'm leading with is resilient with starfire. And
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: then strength, I'm using two EPs.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: And you'll likely, once you've moved, you'll be in close-up range,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: so you get.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: That plus two bonus for a total of 21 damage.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: So you just roll all those dice?
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I got to roll them. Wow.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Wow. Wow.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Kill Brock Danton before he says anything.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how deeply are you going to let us fail?
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: I'm positive this is the right course of action.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: It is. It's awesome. Rigel's shooting star falling asteroid smashes
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: into the ground. Brock Danton looks up at the last second. Oh,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: that's what he was doing. An explosion of star fire.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: He had two HP.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: So he goes down to zero. What I was looking
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: up for is that if in a single hit, I
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: think I thought about a rule one time that kind
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: of like D & D, if in a single hit
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: you take all of your death points, then you're actually dead.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: But that is not a rule.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: You're actually dead.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Well, and I would assume that Rigel's trying not to
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: deal lethal damage here. I.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know what Rides is trying to do.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: I would assume, but I don't know.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to do lethal, but yeah. Rides was
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: never trying to do lethal, but Rides was assuming he
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: was dealing with some cosmic otherworldly, you know, body snatcher.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: So he was not holding back.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Does it eat into the death points at all?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: No.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: So he's still, he goes down with six death points. He,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: as he's down, this enormous explosion happens. He's not fully dead.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: He looks up to you, Rigel.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: That was a big one. He pulls in his pocket
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: and pulls out like a little white hanky and just
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: waves it. Listen, kid, stop. Hey, stop, please. He speaks
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: good English. As the shockwave of Rigel hits the ground
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: and bursts out into the city around you, the station
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: around you, It disintegrates all of your cocoons, and Paige
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: is hit with it. Paige's eyes shoot open. White beams
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: come out of them, shooting into the sky. There is
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: a burst of energy that comes from her that rivals
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Rigel's burst of energy. She breaks free from the bonds.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: starts floating in midair. She is surrounded with white energy
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: that flows like a river and dances like fire. Her
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: hospital robes burn off and are replaced with an iridescent
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: white suit, the gloves and boots of which are lavender.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: And she takes in her surroundings for a moment. Paige? Paige,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: you're awake. Oh, shit.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: What's going on?
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I blame you for this. Okay. It's okay, Paige. Paige, relax.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I'll unfurl my cloak.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: It's me.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: It's Jason. Paige rushes towards you. Like flying rushes. Flying rushes.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: She's face to face with you, Jason. In a split second.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: And she throws her arms around your neck. Jason.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: I didn't... I didn't know if you'd remember me.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Of course I'd remember you. Don't be silly. You're okay.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: I'm okay.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're more than okay.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: I'm... She steps back, not knowing how to finish that sentence. I'm...
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I am. But I can see.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: I can see things. I can see.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: Everything.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Nothing. You're the phantom. I was... I.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: See now that I was stupid not to realize.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I lied to you. I forgive you. I
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: forgive you, Jason. I forgive you. I understand. Oh, man. Well....
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: That means we can... be together? I'd like that. We need...
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: I need to figure out what's going on.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: We can help.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Okay. These are my friends. Yes. She looks at you,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: looks beyond your masks. I've met them at the funeral. Hello.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Hi. I'm pretty tired. Good to see you. Good to
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: see you as this. Did I do that to her?
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: Hey, Susan.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: No, no, she got hit by a bunch of radiation
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: before that.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: Do you want, do you need, like, a snack? Are
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: you good?
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: Reg was just laying down on top of Brock Danton. Like,
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: their bodies are, like, forming a plus sign. I'm just
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: going to hold this guy here.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Good work, buddy. He says, hey, man, that was a
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: good hit. I've been hit by a lot of different stuff.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: That was a really good one, really good hit.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Hey, we don't need your patronizing tone, you fuck.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not patronizing. I honestly... that was a really good.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: Hit well now you've waved your little handkerchief you're fucking
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: done okay no I'm done she's not coming with.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: You Paige Neal's down next to Brock you are in
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: a roundabout way my creator what What do you mean?
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: I haven't been to Earth for a long time. Haven't
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: lain with anyone. Haven't lain with an Earthling for some time. No,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: not like that. Quanta wrinkles her nose. Lain? Yeah, lain.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: You guys don't say lain anymore?
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: No.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: No. No, even I don't say lane.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Nigel kind of shifts away from his middle section. I think.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: I think what she's trying to say is she got
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: hit by the technology that you helped develop.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: The morphogenetic field generator.
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: That's the one.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, MFG, okay. Well, hey, we need your help. She...
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: touches his head her head snaps back her eyes go
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: white she looks at you Jason I have to try
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: to help.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry well you can help from here you don't
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: have to go you just got back please don't leave
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: I can't help from here What about... He made the
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: technology you said. Why doesn't he just shoot someone else
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: with morphogenetic field generator rays?
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: That's not all that was in me, Jason. Something else.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: I was someone else before that. Yeah, you were Paige.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Paige Wright. I'm still Paige. But I can help them,
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: so I have to. He's right. Many will die. He's right.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: I don't care about them.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: They're not even... It's.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: Not even on this planet. It's not like going across town.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: You've never been out of the city. You're going to
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: go to space? I can help them. I have to try. Well,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: then I'm coming with you.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: This city needs you, Jason. Fucking barely. I'll come back,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: and we'll save this city together. But I have to
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: save Io.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: I just... I can't lose you.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: She reaches up, grabs your face, kisses your mouth. And
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: in that moment, let me show you. Your vision goes
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: black and then the two of you are flying together
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: through space in your mind's eye. She goes to Io
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: all the way out orbiting Jupiter. Look, this is me now.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: This is what I can do. A pittance of what
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: I can do. If I tell you I'm gonna come back,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come back. I guess.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: It just doesn't... Doesn't feel fair. You know, forget what
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: this guy wants, this guy's world. What do you want?
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: What about you and me?
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: I can't. want to be with you and save people
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: I can't want both things.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm trying to give this up so that we
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: could be together I don't care about this not as
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: much as you.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: That's that's okay but I want to help you always
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: wanted help you know me You know me well enough
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: to know this is what I would do, right?
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: I'm the same Paige. I'm the Paige you love.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: If I just left these people to die, when I
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: could help them, would you still love me?
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: I guess that wouldn't be very Paige-right of you. I
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: just sort of figured after getting crushed by the generator,
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: you might not feel the same way.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: About what?
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: My friend looked in your brain and said it was
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: all different.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Gone. I have been remade. But I'm still Paige. The
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: two of you fly back through the solar system into
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: your body. My underpants are on backwards.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: She looks at you. She looks at you. Oh, I'm sorry.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: She snaps her fingers. Your underpants turn around. I understand.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: I'll be back.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: I know. Wait for me and watch the sky.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: I will.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: She.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Gestures to Brock. Are you coming? Oh, yeah. One second.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: Where's my stems? He crawls through the dirt, grabs a stem,
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: pokes himself. Hey, listen. Sorry, you guys, about the fight.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: I'm really impressed with y'all. I'm really impressed. I really am.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not being, not pandering. You guys beat my ass.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: I got to get back in the gym.
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: Well, don't go stealing our people without, you know, asking
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: if they want to be taken.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know the lesson. They were trying to take
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: her while she was unconscious.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is our city. You can't just, yeah.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, good to know.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: You may be a big deal, but you can't just
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: waltz into somebody's city and somebody's hospital room and steal somebody.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: Also, can you tell me everything about the Age of Heroes?
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe next time, kid. No, please. I need to know.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: That was patronizing. Paige grabs Brock. They are covered both
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: in a white bullet of energy, and they both launch
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: into space. What a woman.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Woof.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: You just quietly put a hand on Jason's shoulder from behind.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: I put my hand on your hand. Paper covers my
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: face back up. Thanks for being here, guys.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: With that, come out of downtime. What? That's our downtime? Dang,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: I was going to go to Grimace King.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: I was going to do that. Got to take my
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: pills to get up from downtime.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: I forgot my blue pill.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: Wait, we are done, right?
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Or no?
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think we just wanted more
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: falling action, but.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: No, no more falling action. Okay, at the end of downtime,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: as we come out of downtime, two things happen. One, Jason,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: you get a letter. You get a letter from the
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: tubes from Manny. Jason, here are your findings. I'm not
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: going to do Manny's voice because you're reading it. Jason,
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: here are our findings.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: In layman's terms.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: In layman's terms. You guys going to keep doing this? Yeah.
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: I kind of like the Jason reading, but that was
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: just me.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll shut up then. No, no, no. I'm not everyone.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Some people might be really into the also quant.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: Also quant to doing an impression of the Mandarin from
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: Iron Man 3.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Or into hearing the letter read thrice over just a
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: beat behind every other word.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: You can just tell us the content of the letter.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: It's fine. If people need to know the information.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: Jason, here are our findings in layman's terms and my
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: suggestions for procedure. Within the book, there is a gateway
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: to a vast and endless source of energy. It is
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: an energy that eats away at everything around it. It
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: is an element we have no name for. But that's
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: neither here nor there, really. Just interesting. Between that space
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: and us is a bulwark. A bulwark. Bulwark. A bulwark. Bulwark. Bulwark.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Between that space and us is a bulwark, a sentinel.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: It has no physical components or structure. We can only
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  Speaker 2: assume its presence due to the fact that the energy
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  Speaker 2: beyond has not devoured you nor our entire world, to
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: be frank. All that to say, the book and the
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: bulwark within you do not seem dependent upon you. However,
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: your body does depend on them or it. Many of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: your bodily functions are being maintained by the power of
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: that thing, primarily your circulatory and respiratory systems. Your heart
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: and lungs were crushed into nothing when you united with
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: the book. They are not present, and the book is
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: somehow allowing you to live. All that said, we can
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: try an operation. There is no precedent for this, so
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I cannot guarantee success, but we may be able to
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: perform a transplant in the book for a new set
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: of lungs and a heart. Ellington has a good relationship
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: with the hospitals in the city and I've found compatible organs.
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  Speaker 2: Come by in two days if you'd like to proceed.
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  Speaker 2: My medical team predicts a 93% chance of success. Love,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Manny Ellington. Adoringly, Manny. Adoringly, Manny. That was bad. The
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: first two weeks of Henry Hillen's mayorship come to a close.
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  Speaker 2: With that, the American ambassador takes the stage on a
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  Speaker 2: small platform on the steps of City Hall. He is
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  Speaker 2: recorded and broadcasted throughout the city. New Bible. My name
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  Speaker 2: is Devin Sandell, and I have been blessed to be
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  Speaker 2: among you these past two weeks. I have fallen in
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: love with this city. This city is what America is
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: all about, and it deserves to become, again, the jewel
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: of our nation. Let me assure you. What drugs is
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: this guy on? He's blazed out of his mind.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, I'm crack cocaine.
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  Speaker 2: This is really important stuff. Let me assure you, the
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: wealth I brought with me here is a fraction of
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  Speaker 2: what the United Nations is dedicated to making this city
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: what it once was. What I brought was meant to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: act as reparations for decades being separated from the world.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: What is to come is for regrowth, and then the
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: abundance of these great people. This crowd that has gathered roars.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: The decisions are not mine. So I was shocked when
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: I was greenlit to tell you what the world wants
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: to bring. They want to make every citizen of New
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: Babel wealthy beyond your wildest dreams. In exchange, of course,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: for tearing down your walls, revealing the secrets of space
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: travel kept here, and becoming a historical destination for visitors
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: and tourists. To begin this transaction, to begin the flow
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: of gold into this city, to start a second founding age,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: the golden age of New Babel, there are some things
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: we need from you. You, the great people of this city.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: There has been great progress in the first measure that
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: the world outside requires you to take. Organized crime must
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: be dealt with. It has run rampant. Second, there is
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: allowed no powered individuals here.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: There it is. The United Nations will not support any
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: humanitarian funds to this city while they operate. Whether it
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: be or not, it smells too much like the great
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: atrocity and manipulation of the evils of old. So for
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: the good of your people, heroes, he says with air quotes,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: go into hiding. If you refuse, your mayor has been
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: equipped to neutralize you. Third, the lawlessness and communism of
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: what you endearingly call the shoot is no longer allowed.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: Those living there must be removed and processed. We have
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: gifted you enough to rehouse them in affordable housing units
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: in what you call no man's land. It will be
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: easier for you shooters if you do not resist. See
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: it as a gift in lieu of being punished for
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: decades of lawlessness. Fourth.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: Fourth.
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  Speaker 2: Fourth and... Fourth and... Fourth and finally, the day people...
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: will not be a comfortable part of the tourist experience
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: for those visiting, if allowed to remain in their current status.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: They are to be reverted to their initial purpose. We
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: have missives from the Evo William Blainer of his plan
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: for the day machines. They were meant to be protectors,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: but as you have changed, you are much more docile
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: machines than that, and thus your options are these. Day people,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: you may join the police force and serve the people
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: around you as you were intended to do. Or you
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: may take a service role for a valued member of
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: society to be paid in room and board. You will
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: find your programming fulfilled and you will be satisfied. This
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: will be a quaint and exciting view of the servicing
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: machines as outsiders visit. I'm going to puke. Do these things,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: New Babel, and the wealth of the world will be
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: yours once again. And that's where we'll end this episode
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: of the Team Up Play Show podcast. Wowie wowie wowie wow.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah. Let's do it for the gold.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: Give us the cash.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: You know, Steph's willing to be a slave so some
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 5: other guy can get it really rich.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: So bones can get rich. You know what? For bones, anything.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: It is his city. I was a goddess, but this
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: is his city. All right, let's save it for the
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: chat cave. Come on over to the chat cave. It's
• 1:07:31
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• 1:07:35
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• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about this. and other fun stuff. Uh,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: we will see you over there and we'll see you
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: next week with another episode. Goodbye. Bye. So scary. So scary.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: Four things. Bad. Most of the bad guys. Yes. Months
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: before our heroes meet. May I continue then? You've been
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: the only one I've found willing to listen. So it
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: does me good to speak to you. There is more
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: to say. I'm glad I found you. Yes, please.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: I'm eager to hear more.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: I ate. I grew. I learned. I dug through my
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: parents' old research and gleaned much about their study of genetics.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: I found that the work they had done on my
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: mind increased my ability to intake and retain information. Then
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: the time came when I discovered that the work they
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: had done on my body gave me strength and speed
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: beyond that of an average man.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: And how would you have discovered such a thing, so isolated?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: A tactical squadron of New Babel police were sent into
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: my parents' old lab and asked, Afraid and ignorant, I
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: slew them all. Their bullets hurt me, but it was
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: not enough to stop me. So as Hercules, I strangled
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: the snakes that had come into my crib.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: There are many young gods and legends who show such
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: violence in their early years, not knowing their power.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: Are you saying you believe me, Deacon, that I am
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: God remade?
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: There's much, much I'd like to hear before I make
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: any kind of pronouncement. Also, I would ask, you accredited
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: your power of strength and of mind to your parents'
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: work in science. Would that not contradict your belief in
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: your own godhood?
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Well, this is why I've come to you. I've started
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: to think that their work maybe has nothing to do
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: with my strength at all. or is at least in
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: service to my godhood. If their work had the effects
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: that they wanted it to, why did none of the
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: other subjects survive? I would have perished like the others
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: if I was not a reincarnation of God, for gods
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: do not die. Like your Christ, I rose from a
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: dark grave.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: So it could be.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: To be continued.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 6: That was Ethan Goldman as the Paper Phantom, Stephanie Fackler
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: as Quanta, Ben as Rigel, and Johnny Wilson as your
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: game director and the creator of Team Up.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: And special thank you to Matt Jacobs as the Deacon.
• 1:10:36
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• 1:10:53
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• 1:10:57
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• 1:10:59
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• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening, heroes. Well, that episode
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: is over. And that's sad, but it was quite the doozy.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: And now I get to shout out our superheroes. Shout
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: out to Crank Bilris and Mava Amada. Touch T.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: Shout out to corn she hates onions.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: Hey it's joe and brandy i always cough when i
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: do this one we love the podcast and team up
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: keep it up please meow meow his his shout out
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: to troy davidson shout out to matt who's really trying
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: to become an american this year we don't know why
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: shout out to audra who just demolished yet another bowl
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: of mashed potatoes give it up shout out to jen
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: prefers the Star Wars prequels to the original trilogy. Shout
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: out to Chris, who is currently on the Merlin Birding app.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Pac-Man, Pidgey, Norm, and Stetna McCringle for
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: saving Christmas in 2024 from the Yule Lads and Santa's
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: evil twin brother. Shout out to Farmer Bob and Mama Robin,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: hummingbirds and seahorses. Shout out to Brian, the Colorado home hero.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: Working with him is rolling a nat 20 in a
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: clutch moment. Shout out to Kevin Feldman, Shout-out to Christina.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: Shout-out to the Lusinator. He lost for our wins. And
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: shout-out to Cam, who's currently pro-pineapple on pizza. You all
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: are our superheroes. We couldn't have done this without you.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: We're going to say thank you so many times, and
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: it won't be enough. Thank you for helping our dreams
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: come true. If you'd like to join this courageous group
• 1:12:52
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