Latest / The Teamup Play Show Podcast / S1-Ep.32: He Had a Great Fall
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily Pad production. This is the
- 0:06Speaker 1: Team Up Play Show podcast. Welcome to the City of Bones.
- 0:39Speaker 2: The people of the city of New Babel have decided
- 0:43Speaker 2: that they want a chance to elect a new leader.
- 0:48Speaker 2: But the old leader has a problem with that, and
- 0:53Speaker 2: the True America Gang has a problem with that.
- 0:57Speaker 1: And we got a problem with both of Then that's right,
- 1:01Speaker 1: the problem just got pro problem.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Yeah, that is every much. My problem has got problems.
- 1:11Speaker 3: The True America Gang has detonated explosives at the foundation
- 1:15Speaker 3: of the Mayor's skyscraper and it is falling. It is
- 1:20Speaker 3: falling southeast and thus will crush a lot of very
- 1:24Speaker 3: wealthy cono homes.
- 1:27Speaker 1: It is twenty What does the real estate market?
- 1:34Speaker 2: It is twenty five. L's up and down. And I
- 1:37Speaker 2: want to try something a little new, guys. I want
- 1:41Speaker 2: to try two rounds of a utility challenge.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Utility.
- 1:49Speaker 2: So, because it's not technically combat, we're not going to
- 1:52Speaker 2: worry about energy for.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Multiplying like doing multiple utility actions.
- 1:57Speaker 2: You you also get to move either before or after
- 2:01Speaker 2: your utility action. Okay, we will be worried about energy
- 2:06Speaker 2: for high checks of course as always.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Sure. Okay, so two rounds or two phases.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Two rounds. Wow, Okay, this thing will be falling for
- 2:15Speaker 2: two rounds. Okay, sure, there is a ton to think
- 2:19Speaker 2: about getting done. There's a lot of people in the building.
- 2:22Speaker 2: There are a lot of people going to be crushed
- 2:24Speaker 2: by the building. The city council, the mayor, Manny Ellington
- 2:31Speaker 2: are all in the in the higher levels of the building.
- 2:34Speaker 2: As a group, you need to succeed two titanic checks,
- 2:39Speaker 2: two godly checks, and two epic checks for a perfect
- 2:43Speaker 2: save meaning no one dies. Everwing is part of this,
- 2:49Speaker 2: so she is also going to be doing actions, and
- 2:54Speaker 2: you guys will be able to get to do all
- 2:55Speaker 2: this because rock Fist and Dark Blade are in combat.
- 3:00Speaker 2: They are actually doing combat with the True America Gang,
- 3:04Speaker 2: who is who is like looting and going crazy at
- 3:07Speaker 2: the base of this thing on the opposite side of
- 3:10Speaker 2: it falling, so that they are.
- 3:11Speaker 4: Oh sick on you, Oh man, I just imagine them
- 3:25Speaker 4: them just all they're really trying to do is sing
- 3:28Speaker 4: sing this song.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, I don't know any the other lyrics
- 3:32Speaker 1: to it.
- 3:34Speaker 2: I just imagine they're trying to sing their song while
- 3:36Speaker 2: this is happening, and rock Fist just comes in and
- 3:39Speaker 2: just starts to punch them.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Baseball, would please? Coach? Ready to play?
- 3:47Speaker 3: Take me up to the crime spree? So does all
- 3:52Speaker 3: of this make sense?
- 3:54Speaker 2: So?
- 3:54Speaker 1: I yeah, I think so. You tell us yes.
- 3:59Speaker 5: So it's not that our only option is to do
- 4:02Speaker 5: utility actions, but that's that's that's why we show be
- 4:05Speaker 5: to one and it doesn't cause energy to do multiple utility.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Correct and you get to move in between each action,
- 4:12Speaker 2: or you can move before or after every action, so
- 4:15Speaker 2: you don't have to take movement actions generous. However, reaction
- 4:20Speaker 2: actions still take away your third action. So if you
- 4:23Speaker 2: use a reaction to help someone on a specific check,
- 4:27Speaker 2: that could get taken away.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Cool. Yes, makes sense. Okay.
- 4:30Speaker 2: The mayor's tower that he has made his hoard that
- 4:36Speaker 2: he sits upon keeping wealth and riches from the people,
- 4:41Speaker 2: begins to crumble as he sits on top of it.
- 4:44Speaker 2: Let's re order, Ready.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Spaghetti, don't stop you kvid Toppy, do one, Johnny do
- 4:55Speaker 1: apostle on your face your hell ay it so fast,
- 5:07Speaker 1: I'm focused, don't go leave linguin grow a pear angel hair. Whoa, sorry,
- 5:16Speaker 1: I got real a.
- 5:18Speaker 3: It's fun nice in real life. I say, Ready, Spaghetti,
- 5:21Speaker 3: whenever I leave my house, cute.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Phone, keys ready spaginning.
- 5:27Speaker 3: I say, phone while keys and pizza. I got everything
- 5:29Speaker 3: I need is my little run like.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just a cartoon, little cute guy.
- 5:36Speaker 3: You like your house, put on my hard hat, my
- 5:40Speaker 3: lunch box, and sometimes there's pizza in there.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Anybody get over?
- 5:45Speaker 2: Five?
- 5:47Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 5:47Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 5:48Speaker 1: Eight? I got a seven, the gentleman's eye long one,
- 5:56Speaker 1: long top one, the long top one eight eight an
- 6:06Speaker 1: what do you get? Quanta? Five? Five? Five? I got
- 6:15Speaker 1: a five bow tie pasta.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Truly the people's seven five, people's seven, Oh my god?
- 6:25Speaker 3: And seven is a gentleman's eight. Yeah. The seven eight
- 6:31Speaker 3: is the gentleman's seventh. Wait, a gentleman's eight basic mathy yeah,
- 6:42Speaker 3: and the five is the people's seven.
- 6:45Speaker 2: Before any of you get to go Jumping off of
- 6:49Speaker 2: a nearby building is a purple dragon mac. They shout
- 6:56Speaker 2: to you, their voice distorted by their mask. I got
- 7:02Speaker 2: many purple energy blades pop out of their boots and
- 7:07Speaker 2: they start almost skating against the building, blitzing upward, crashing
- 7:16Speaker 2: the glass as it falls.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Sweet so cool, Dynamite one are the coolest barnies out there.
- 7:26Speaker 1: I love him, I hope he looks happy. Family with
- 7:33Speaker 1: manny as is skating up. It says, clean up, clean
- 7:40Speaker 1: up everybody, everywhere. We will. I hope you love me.
- 7:49Speaker 3: I hope the name is like barn, but then like
- 7:51Speaker 3: dash E and then like a bunch of numbers and ship.
- 7:55Speaker 3: It's a fucking cool dragon. Yeah, sure, sure it is
- 8:01Speaker 3: skating on.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Its energy blades up the building. That's it.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Okay, paper phantom, you're first, all right, I'm on a
- 8:12Speaker 3: big old zeppelin. How far away is this zip from
- 8:17Speaker 3: the building? Two l's two l's uh, I think yeah,
- 8:22Speaker 3: first and foremost, I want to try and put out
- 8:25Speaker 3: some big paper sales and see if I if I can,
- 8:29Speaker 3: I'd like to try and move the whole zeppelin to
- 8:33Speaker 3: try and catch the building or at.
- 8:36Speaker 1: Least prop it up for a bit.
- 8:37Speaker 3: Wow.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Very fun.
- 8:39Speaker 2: So something else I forgot to say is that if
- 8:42Speaker 2: you choose to maintain an action that you think is helping,
- 8:47Speaker 2: Like so, you know, if something seems to be helping
- 8:50Speaker 2: and will continue to help and you want to keep
- 8:52Speaker 2: doing it, you can maintain that action and it will
- 8:55Speaker 2: go from the top check, which is the Titanic check
- 8:59Speaker 2: down too a godly check the second time, even if
- 9:02Speaker 2: another Titanic check hasn't yet happened, So.
- 9:05Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if the order of operations here
- 9:07Speaker 3: is try and like capture this zeppelin with my utility
- 9:10Speaker 3: and then if I have it, move it to.
- 9:12Speaker 1: The building would be the thing I'm doing.
- 9:14Speaker 2: I guess I think all you're doing is using a
- 9:17Speaker 2: utility action to try to do both at once. You're
- 9:19Speaker 2: you're trying to capture it and move it into the
- 9:22Speaker 2: right zone. I'm fine with being one agression.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Love it.
- 9:25Speaker 2: This is a Titanic check. So I'm rolling a D
- 9:29Speaker 2: twenty and a D eight. It costs two energy from
- 9:32Speaker 2: the power in use and you have a minimum of ten.
- 9:36Speaker 3: Okay, what am I? What's my skill? I'm rolling for
- 9:39Speaker 3: this ban Bolway. This will be a mite check. Beautiful
- 9:46Speaker 3: plus your paper Okay, you're tough.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Get tesh three three? Oh no, I rolled a seventeen.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Oh no?
- 10:04Speaker 1: The paper phantom build?
- 10:06Speaker 6: Well what do you do?
- 10:06Speaker 3: Yeah? I try to like build a bunch of big
- 10:10Speaker 3: billowing paper sails atop the zeppelin to turn it into
- 10:13Speaker 3: a big ship.
- 10:15Speaker 1: And I guess, I don't know, I rip a hole
- 10:18Speaker 1: in it or something.
- 10:20Speaker 2: You build these beautiful sails, it catches in the wind,
- 10:24Speaker 2: rips through them, and you are tumbled off.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Rigel your turn.
- 10:31Speaker 7: Rigel Kirby's style is streaking down from the heavens.
- 10:36Speaker 1: I fly past pp and I yell the people. Get
- 10:41Speaker 1: the people.
- 10:43Speaker 7: Flying further down past Barney. I yell, grab more than
- 10:48Speaker 7: one guy. I get pretty low, pretty low on the building,
- 10:54Speaker 7: like just low of its center on as it's falling,
- 10:59Speaker 7: and I murmur to myself.
- 11:03Speaker 1: My lady, I wished for the power to save I
- 11:09Speaker 1: with my flight star fly straight toward the building.
- 11:13Speaker 7: I'd catch it with both hands on a corner and
- 11:16Speaker 7: I try to prop it up.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Yes, roll, this is a Titanic check. Roll a mic
- 11:26Speaker 2: plus strength here, Jamir, all right, my plus strength. That's
- 11:31Speaker 2: a twenty that empowered twenty.
- 11:34Speaker 1: I rolled. I rolled fourteen.
- 11:37Speaker 8: Oh.
- 11:39Speaker 7: Jamir is trying to stop this massive thing from falling.
- 11:44Speaker 1: And I feel the end of my strength. And then
- 11:50Speaker 1: he opens his eyes and they're glowing gold.
- 12:06Speaker 9: And stars are pouring out of my back, little ones,
- 12:12Speaker 9: and they are shooting to various points around the building
- 12:16Speaker 9: and like flying into the building to help me.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Quanta your turn. Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit.
- 12:22Speaker 5: As I'm zipping around an electricity, Okay, and I would
- 12:27Speaker 5: like to appear with Rockfast and Bright Blade and amidst
- 12:33Speaker 5: the True America Gang, and as I do, send out
- 12:38Speaker 5: an electrical blast to all of the True American Gang
- 12:42Speaker 5: and say stop this and help us, and I would
- 12:45Speaker 5: like to change their minds to stop the fighting and
- 12:48Speaker 5: to start running in and getting people out.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Fix what they did.
- 12:54Speaker 2: Yeah, roll a coax check plus your control electricity.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Maybe my name should have been Tricia. Ooh like Electricia.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Electricia too late? That's right. Now I have a name
- 13:08Speaker 1: for my baby.
- 13:09Speaker 3: Yeah, it's how easy would be to go back and
- 13:12Speaker 3: edit thirty one episode.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Oh god, now I have a name for my baby.
- 13:17Speaker 1: I add it to the list for the Eranie and
- 13:20Speaker 1: Joshua's baby.
- 13:21Speaker 2: This is fully against what they want to do, and
- 13:25Speaker 2: thus the Titanic check makes a lot of sense here.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Sure nineteen I rolled in eighteen. The True America Gang
- 13:37Speaker 2: all looks at you. They see you crash into the ground,
- 13:43Speaker 2: your eyes plasma, your hands and feet the same.
- 13:51Speaker 1: What do you do, Quanta, stop this and help us?
- 13:55Speaker 5: And my voice crackles with electricity as it gets in
- 14:00Speaker 5: their brains and changes their minds of.
- 14:03Speaker 1: What they want to do. In this moment, not.
- 14:06Speaker 5: I'm not controlling their actions. I change their minds to
- 14:10Speaker 5: control their actions so that they are choosing.
- 14:13Speaker 2: To do it. The true America Gang is goofy as hell.
- 14:16Speaker 2: They have leather jackets.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Turn Bruce Springs.
- 14:24Speaker 3: That's Bruce sixteen right, nothing against Bruce Springsteen, by the way,
- 14:28Speaker 3: makes shadow that sounds correct.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Their goofy as hell. They have leather jackets with sleeves
- 14:35Speaker 2: cut off that are red, white and blue. They have
- 14:38Speaker 2: boxing boxing gloves with with nails in it, and bats
- 14:42Speaker 2: with with spikes.
- 14:44Speaker 1: They're very goofy.
- 14:45Speaker 2: In this moment, they all look up quant as energy
- 14:49Speaker 2: runs through all of their eyes, and all of the
- 14:52Speaker 2: ones in this area start rushing to get people out
- 14:55Speaker 2: of their homes. It's Everwing's turn. Everwing Rachel, Rachel, what
- 15:01Speaker 2: what should I do?
- 15:07Speaker 1: Okay? Okay, okay scanning.
- 15:09Speaker 2: She looks, uses her HUD to look up and down
- 15:12Speaker 2: the building to see everyone. She gets a count. There's
- 15:15Speaker 2: a lot, there's there's one hundred people in here, and
- 15:19Speaker 2: she starts bashing into different zones to get people.
- 15:24Speaker 3: Come on. Every week, she's gonna roll one of these
- 15:27Speaker 3: godly checks. Now we're on level cock. Okay, would someone
- 15:30Speaker 3: roll a D twenty and a D four for me
- 15:32Speaker 3: as the g D I got you real good dice,
- 15:36Speaker 3: I rolled dice, I rolled up low number which is good?
- 15:40Speaker 1: Right? That is good? Great? Six three on the D
- 15:43Speaker 1: twenty three on D four gentleman's seven, gentleman's seven. What
- 15:49Speaker 1: what keep a yeah? Keep up, Johnny.
- 15:53Speaker 3: A seven is a gentleman's eight, A six is a
- 15:56Speaker 3: gentleman's seven, and a five is the people's seven.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Yep, she is going to roll a ready check plus
- 16:05Speaker 2: her flight which is two D six's Oh what did
- 16:09Speaker 2: you roll?
- 16:10Speaker 3: Six?
- 16:12Speaker 1: Doable?
- 16:13Speaker 3: Oh?
- 16:14Speaker 1: I get it.
- 16:14Speaker 7: Ethan was rolling for the bad thing. Yes, I thought
- 16:19Speaker 7: was rolling for the good guys. But no, Ethan's on
- 16:21Speaker 7: team Evil builds today the part of building falling gold
- 16:30Speaker 7: everwing rolls five.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Damn.
- 16:34Speaker 2: She smashes in and out of the building, does grab
- 16:36Speaker 2: some people just because there's fails like you have to
- 16:39Speaker 2: succeed on all these for a perfect save. She does
- 16:42Speaker 2: save a bunch of people, getting them out and clear
- 16:45Speaker 2: towards where they will not be hurt. We're back up
- 16:48Speaker 2: to the top paper, Phantom. You just had a serious
- 16:51Speaker 2: fail of trying to winsail this zeppelin. It's so big
- 16:56Speaker 2: it's so heavy you couldn't do it. What are you
- 16:58Speaker 2: doing now?
- 16:58Speaker 3: Yeah, as I'm in free fall, Jason, just you see
- 17:02Speaker 3: like the shot like almost iron Man said, like inside
- 17:05Speaker 3: the paper mask, just like whatever.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Maybe I should just just give up. It doesn't matter anymore.
- 17:13Speaker 1: My head's not in the game. I can't let you
- 17:17Speaker 1: do that.
- 17:18Speaker 3: Arthur's gonna take the wheel and we'll try and save
- 17:22Speaker 3: some of the people by paper portaling into the building
- 17:26Speaker 3: and pulling them through some paper.
- 17:28Speaker 1: Awesome, Carrie Underwood start singing.
- 17:31Speaker 2: I'll let you roll, Arthur take the wheel. I'll let
- 17:35Speaker 2: you roll sneak or ready here fall.
- 17:39Speaker 1: You know what I want?
- 17:41Speaker 2: This is a godly check, so it costs an energy
- 17:44Speaker 2: D twenty four.
- 17:46Speaker 3: Twenty four from me, Jesus, I rolled a twenty one
- 17:51Speaker 3: Wow Wow double wow, guy wowowow triple.
- 17:57Speaker 1: Well, Rigel, it's your turn.
- 17:58Speaker 2: If you want to do the same thing here as
- 18:00Speaker 2: you are doing keeping the building from falling, you can
- 18:05Speaker 2: just roll a godly check, which that would be the
- 18:07Speaker 2: case anyway, I suppose.
- 18:08Speaker 1: But it's up to you. What are you doing? I
- 18:10Speaker 1: think I am gonna do it. I think Yeah.
- 18:13Speaker 7: Rigel's muscles are burning, his eyes are glowing as he's
- 18:18Speaker 7: maintaining more flight stars than he ever has.
- 18:22Speaker 1: And to keep my limbs from veiling, I.
- 18:27Speaker 7: Send almost like a I like charge my fists with
- 18:30Speaker 7: a magic glass and just to get that magical energy
- 18:34Speaker 7: to try to keep.
- 18:35Speaker 1: My hands from breaking. All right, and do I have
- 18:42Speaker 1: to take another ep? The Titanic was two? Okay, take
- 18:52Speaker 1: one more? Ooh, sixteen.
- 19:00Speaker 2: That's the second godly check as Rigel's strength as he
- 19:04Speaker 2: sees his allies getting people clear both on the ground
- 19:08Speaker 2: and in the building, is able to maintain this powerful
- 19:15Speaker 2: flight star holding up an entire building.
- 19:19Speaker 1: Quantity. Your turn, Oh boy, boy boy.
- 19:23Speaker 2: You see the true America Gang being faithful to your orders,
- 19:26Speaker 2: going into buildings, getting people out, causing a little bit
- 19:29Speaker 2: of a panic even though there's a loud noise, but
- 19:32Speaker 2: giving these people time to get clear.
- 19:35Speaker 1: Great. Ooh ooh, I'm just not strong. Hey, fuck it.
- 19:44Speaker 5: You know what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna zip
- 19:47Speaker 5: around to the side opposite from Rigel. Wesend out to
- 19:52Speaker 5: lightning whips each corner from where I am where I
- 19:56Speaker 5: am to the corner of each building and starting a.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Fucking awesome in the other direction. Two lighting whips go
- 20:03Speaker 2: out on the corners. You're pulling back, roll a mite
- 20:09Speaker 2: check plus your life?
- 20:11Speaker 1: All right?
- 20:16Speaker 5: Oh shoot right, and that's not energy or it does
- 20:21Speaker 5: cost energy? Okay, it's it's possible. I've got a D
- 20:25Speaker 5: ten in a D six here.
- 20:26Speaker 1: That's good. Seven. I rolled a short top one wait
- 20:32Speaker 1: seven short one on top one long top one short
- 20:35Speaker 1: top one is one.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Wait. I rolled a short top seven, which is a one. Great, Quanta,
- 20:43Speaker 2: that is a critical success.
- 20:45Speaker 1: What happened?
- 20:45Speaker 9: Wow?
- 20:48Speaker 10: All right?
- 20:48Speaker 5: Quanta not believing that she has the physical strength to
- 20:52Speaker 5: make this happen. As her lightning whips attached to the building,
- 20:56Speaker 5: all of a sudden, she's back in the grid as
- 20:59Speaker 5: they connect.
- 21:00Speaker 1: With power lines in the building, and she can see it.
- 21:06Speaker 5: She sees the map and starts pulling on all of
- 21:08Speaker 5: those points within the building, which is all the fuck over.
- 21:12Speaker 2: You can also start to see the pinpoints that are
- 21:16Speaker 2: weak in need need reinforcement. You start to pull the
- 21:21Speaker 2: building back, and Jamyr pushing it back. The two of
- 21:24Speaker 2: you begin to steady it and it might not fall.
- 21:29Speaker 2: Everwing's turn. Everwing is going to remain just zipping into
- 21:34Speaker 2: the building, crashing through the windows, trying to get people
- 21:36Speaker 2: out of here using her hud really got one more
- 21:40Speaker 2: guys flight plus ready with someone roll a D twenty four.
- 21:43Speaker 5: Me.
- 21:45Speaker 3: Reprising his role is falling as falling building. I've got
- 21:51Speaker 3: a twelve.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Jackie rowls a five.
- 21:54Speaker 2: She smashes in does get some more people, but not
- 21:59Speaker 2: quite enough to make us fully safe here. We're into
- 22:02Speaker 2: phase three, y'all, wife, and there's only one more check
- 22:05Speaker 2: to do, paper Phantom, it's your turn.
- 22:07Speaker 3: So Arthur's been zipping around saving people. Jason's like fully
- 22:10Speaker 3: checked out at this point. The building is like close
- 22:14Speaker 3: to stable. What's the council and the may are doing?
- 22:16Speaker 3: They're still in this building, right, They're just up on
- 22:19Speaker 3: top yep. For kind of a free action. I'll let
- 22:21Speaker 3: you do a sense check here. Sure if you can
- 22:24Speaker 3: grasp what's going.
- 22:25Speaker 2: On those paper since that's only four, I rolled in
- 22:31Speaker 2: a simple check, which is a D six, and I
- 22:33Speaker 2: rolled a six. You can't quite get a hold of it.
- 22:36Speaker 2: You do, see dragon mech shoot crazy out of the
- 22:41Speaker 2: top of the building and just start skating.
- 22:43Speaker 1: Downward with Manny Ellington on their back. Rachael told you
- 22:48Speaker 1: more than one clean up clean up.
- 22:54Speaker 3: I guess then, as part of this if I can
- 22:57Speaker 3: move before, I'll try and just paper portal my way
- 23:01Speaker 3: up to the council room to just get in there first, Okay,
- 23:06Speaker 3: so yeah, I just pop out of their briefings, pop.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Out of their paper. They're all sitting here, panicked, looking
- 23:12Speaker 2: out the window, looking at the heroes try to save
- 23:15Speaker 2: this building from going under. The cameras are falling and
- 23:17Speaker 2: going have gone off. It's chaotok up here.
- 23:19Speaker 3: Mayor's up here. Yes, from within the paper Phantom's voice,
- 23:26Speaker 3: this might be on a chance, I'm gonna try.
- 23:30Speaker 1: And steal the mayor. Great, this will not help the No,
- 23:39Speaker 1: of course not, of course it won't.
- 23:41Speaker 3: Sure selfishly, I want to kidnap the mayor into a
- 23:44Speaker 3: paper portal.
- 23:47Speaker 2: Awesome, roll a ready or sneak check to grab the mayor,
- 23:54Speaker 2: portal them out, paper portal them out of here. This
- 23:56Speaker 2: is challenging. I'm only a D ten twelve nine.
- 24:01Speaker 5: Hey wow, what do you do?
- 24:05Speaker 3: Uh yeah, favor Phantom. It's like slowly ascends out of
- 24:09Speaker 3: a paper on the desk of the boardroom, the council
- 24:13Speaker 3: meeting room, this this ebony desk. I grab the mayor
- 24:17Speaker 3: by the collar and then we both just sloop right
- 24:20Speaker 3: back into like the binder as it closes vanishing.
- 24:27Speaker 1: They're coming with me?
- 24:29Speaker 2: What The mayor freaks out as they get pulled into
- 24:34Speaker 2: the paper realm naturally.
- 24:44Speaker 1: Right, Jel, it's your turn.
- 24:51Speaker 7: Just a little, just a little more, yeah right, just
- 24:56Speaker 7: gonna keep pushing. I can't even see anymore. I feel
- 25:01Speaker 7: like my bowls are about to break, but I keep
- 25:05Speaker 7: it pushing. One more mte and strength to check Jamir
- 25:08Speaker 7: against a D twenty.
- 25:10Speaker 1: I believe in you, guys.
- 25:11Speaker 3: I'm out of here.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Fuck y'all. Ooh, I rolled back, I got seven, I
- 25:21Speaker 1: rolled eighteen.
- 25:24Speaker 2: Jamir, you begin to fall just too tired, Quanta, you
- 25:30Speaker 2: feel the building getting pulled that way.
- 25:32Speaker 1: As Jamir's anchor.
- 25:33Speaker 7: Leaves, the stars twinkle out as ja bear in free fall.
- 25:39Speaker 5: Rchel, oh, what's the what's the Praetorian guard doing? What
- 25:46Speaker 5: are the Cono police doing?
- 25:48Speaker 1: They have pretty much panicked and are scattering True America
- 25:54Speaker 1: gang over random?
- 25:55Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 25:56Speaker 5: All right, okay, one more Okay. With the feeling of
- 26:03Speaker 5: Rigel falling, I would like to send out a pulse
- 26:09Speaker 5: to anyone.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Else in the building to run opposite to my poll.
- 26:15Speaker 5: Since I lost Rachel's anchor, convince anyone left in the
- 26:19Speaker 5: building to run to the other side totally to create
- 26:22Speaker 5: a counterbalance with their ty's this giant building.
- 26:28Speaker 3: Oh that's fun, Pirates of the Caribbean style. Yeah yeah,
- 26:32Speaker 3: shout out to the pib all in sync in sync too,
- 26:37Speaker 3: just like that's super fun stuff. Roll and you get
- 26:42Speaker 3: to roll your freaking Cox check.
- 26:44Speaker 1: I was looking for it.
- 26:45Speaker 3: Cox plus control electricity against an epic check.
- 26:49Speaker 1: This is a D twenty, he seems sad. Twelve.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Everyone us over to the other side of the building,
- 27:04Speaker 2: and the building rights itself and then in the holes
- 27:09Speaker 2: made in the foundation by the bombs, it sinks down
- 27:14Speaker 2: into it and stabilizes.
- 27:18Speaker 1: Not a scientist, but should that work? I'm trying to
- 27:25Speaker 1: do win noises as I'm falling.
- 27:27Speaker 2: It's Everwing's turn. She swoops in and grabs you, and
- 27:32Speaker 2: you wake up.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Good job, Rigel, you did it. You did it. We're done.
- 27:38Speaker 1: We're done. We did it. There's still a lot to
- 27:46Speaker 1: do clean up here. Yeah, get Bernie on this.
- 27:54Speaker 2: What are you guys doing in the in the in
- 27:56Speaker 2: this disaster, there's still members of the True American gang
- 27:59Speaker 2: that are about looking to get.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Why was I just helping people? I want to go
- 28:05Speaker 1: back to fucking shoot up.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't stay in your transfer forever. They come
- 28:11Speaker 2: out of it. There's still a lot of commotion here.
- 28:15Speaker 2: What are you guys doing. I mean, I've got a
- 28:17Speaker 2: bit of a zag from where we guys where you
- 28:19Speaker 2: guys might be zigging.
- 28:20Speaker 1: But what do you guys want to.
- 28:21Speaker 7: Yeah, Also, it's up to you. I don't know how
- 28:24Speaker 7: much Rigel is like capable right now, like after doing that.
- 28:30Speaker 1: No, No, you're good.
- 28:31Speaker 5: It was.
- 28:31Speaker 2: It was like a temporary pass out. But you come
- 28:35Speaker 2: back with with your energy and everything we got.
- 28:38Speaker 1: We they never officially the judge never officially said it was.
- 28:42Speaker 1: It was done.
- 28:43Speaker 5: So, uh, I'm gonna I'm gonna go back up and
- 28:46Speaker 5: get the cameras back back running. I'm gonna go up
- 28:49Speaker 5: and I uh moved through the wires of the building
- 28:52Speaker 5: into the room where since the cameras.
- 28:55Speaker 7: I'm gonna I'm gonna tell people to evacuate the surrounding
- 28:57Speaker 7: area just in case this building comes down.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to clear the area. I head back
- 29:03Speaker 1: up to the council chambers. Okay, Jamiir is gonna float
- 29:06Speaker 1: around yelling Jamiri yah.
- 29:09Speaker 7: Jamiir is like on a flight star like kneeling at
- 29:12Speaker 7: punched over like. Everyone, evacuate the area.
- 29:17Speaker 1: It is not safe. Leave your mansions, evacuate the area.
- 29:22Speaker 1: This is not a drill. Phantom. Phantom, come in? Where
- 29:27Speaker 1: is the phantom? I think I want to take the
- 29:30Speaker 1: mayor to the womb to beat his ass up and
- 29:33Speaker 1: interrogate him. What okay?
- 29:40Speaker 3: So yeah, as you guys call in the radio, you
- 29:43Speaker 3: just here hear the paper phantom. Come to where it began.
- 29:48Speaker 2: Fuck Quanta. You get up to the city council room.
- 29:53Speaker 2: It's unstable. The city council is not there. They have
- 29:58Speaker 2: started taking the stairs down, but you start to track
- 30:01Speaker 2: them down. As they started taking the stairs down, the
- 30:04Speaker 2: True America gang members that are left and hanging out
- 30:07Speaker 2: started taking the stairs up, and you sense the two
- 30:11Speaker 2: groups collide. They meet around in the middle at like
- 30:14Speaker 2: floor twenty, and that's where the city council is.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Is the judge still here? The judges with them? Shit
- 30:21Speaker 1: all right? Zip down there where that's happening.
- 30:24Speaker 2: You see a True American member with a bandana of
- 30:29Speaker 2: the flag and an AK forty seven. He has his
- 30:33Speaker 2: gun pointed at the whole city council and he has
- 30:36Speaker 2: them on their knees all.
- 30:37Speaker 1: Right, this is what you get.
- 30:40Speaker 2: Take off those masks, now, boys, let the people see
- 30:43Speaker 2: your pretty faces before they get blown to hell.
- 30:47Speaker 1: I appear in front of the gun.
- 30:52Speaker 5: Hey, I hate these fuckers too, but they just voted
- 30:55Speaker 5: to let your guy Henry have a chance.
- 30:58Speaker 1: We're done.
- 31:00Speaker 2: He starts firing right at you. What do you do
- 31:04Speaker 2: do I need to roll for that, And it's like
- 31:07Speaker 2: you're you're so powerful, Like what do you.
- 31:09Speaker 1: What do you do?
- 31:10Speaker 5: My lightning whip immediately knocks shoots out, knocks it straight up,
- 31:16Speaker 5: so the gun is shooting up and then that knocks
- 31:20Speaker 5: him off balance and he falls down the stairwell into
- 31:23Speaker 5: all of his buddies like bowling pins.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Yeah, they all tumble down the stairs for a bit.
- 31:29Speaker 1: You turned to the judge. I think this guy beneath me.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Oh damn heck, just kidding. It was an apple pie.
- 31:46Speaker 1: You look to the judge and the city council.
- 31:48Speaker 5: I pull out the video camera that I took with
- 31:50Speaker 5: me from the council's office. I connect it through my
- 31:53Speaker 5: own power back to the broadcast, pointed at the judge
- 31:55Speaker 5: and say say the thing.
- 31:57Speaker 1: Say the thing you have to say.
- 31:58Speaker 3: Yes, the council has ratified the vote of the people,
- 32:05Speaker 3: and there will be an election held this year for maya.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Yes, and I cut it.
- 32:12Speaker 2: Is there anything you do with the city council or
- 32:14Speaker 2: do you just let them go?
- 32:15Speaker 1: Let them go? Thank you for your service today. They
- 32:20Speaker 1: all kind of like tip their hats.
- 32:25Speaker 3: Gary Stephenson takes his full mask off, winks at you
- 32:28Speaker 3: and smile.
- 32:29Speaker 1: I wink in his you a big thumbs up and
- 32:32Speaker 1: give a slow nod at a boy.
- 32:37Speaker 2: Yes, you see that Quanta on the big megascreen broadcast
- 32:42Speaker 2: has dealt with the vote being ratified. God, you are
- 32:48Speaker 2: up above the people trying to get them to move on,
- 32:54Speaker 2: and you hear screaming.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Help, help, Nope, get away from me, get away from me.
- 33:01Speaker 7: Help one of those days to beer flight stars over
- 33:06Speaker 7: to check out what's going up.
- 33:08Speaker 2: You see some of the debris has fallen and made
- 33:14Speaker 2: a sort of basin that a woman is trying to
- 33:19Speaker 2: crawl out of. You recognize her, the mayor's assistant. True
- 33:25Speaker 2: America gang members jump down into the basin, brandishing sticks
- 33:30Speaker 2: and guns and baseball bats and boxing gloves.
- 33:35Speaker 1: Help help help, oh man, don't.
- 33:41Speaker 5: Make me do.
- 33:47Speaker 8: Jaber stands on the edge of the basin and says, hey, Americans,
- 34:01Speaker 8: do you really want to do this right now?
- 34:04Speaker 1: Or do you want to go home?
- 34:05Speaker 2: Roll a cox check, Jamir, All right, this is a
- 34:08Speaker 2: difficult check. I'm rolling a D twelve. Could I add
- 34:11Speaker 2: my strength because they saw me hold up a building? Baby, Yeah,
- 34:16Speaker 2: I'd allow it.
- 34:17Speaker 3: They I only I only beg because my coax is trash. Ooh,
- 34:23Speaker 3: I got a thirteen, Dad. I rolled a long top one,
- 34:28Speaker 3: which is a seven.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Nice or a gentleman's eight mm.
- 34:37Speaker 2: They look up at you, your metallic blue boots standing
- 34:42Speaker 2: around their head level, and they just say, no, no, no, we.
- 34:47Speaker 1: Don't want we don't want to do that. We'll go home.
- 34:50Speaker 1: We'll go home why? And they run off.
- 34:54Speaker 2: The woman the mayor's assistant, puts a hand as she's
- 35:00Speaker 2: trying to claw out of this basin, right by one
- 35:04Speaker 2: of your boots.
- 35:06Speaker 1: The election day, Jamiir flies off.
- 35:11Speaker 2: Paper phantom one note that I want to make. When
- 35:16Speaker 2: you popped up into the mayor's office, you made a
- 35:20Speaker 2: note of the book you popped out of, And as
- 35:24Speaker 2: you teleported away for the first time ever, you brought
- 35:28Speaker 2: the book with you. I'm not even sure why, and
- 35:32Speaker 2: it fumbles next to you as you pop up in
- 35:35Speaker 2: the womb with Mayor Adrian Stephenson. You can worry about
- 35:40Speaker 2: that later, sure, but that happened.
- 35:44Speaker 3: Yeah. Do I get the sense just having grabbed this
- 35:46Speaker 3: guy does He's like a normal human as far as
- 35:49Speaker 3: I can.
- 35:49Speaker 2: Tell, just having grabbed him and wrestled him down. The
- 35:54Speaker 2: paper Phantom, who is not a strength the based hero
- 35:58Speaker 2: is much stronger than Mayor Adrian Stephenson.
- 36:02Speaker 3: Great, Yeah, I'm gonna chuck him against a filing cabinet
- 36:06Speaker 3: down here. Ah, files are gonna like fly out of it,
- 36:10Speaker 3: painting his arms and legs.
- 36:12Speaker 1: Ah, how what are you?
- 36:14Speaker 3: I'm your worst nightmare. Oh yeah, you've caught the paper
- 36:18Speaker 3: phantom on a bad day. You've caught me on a
- 36:22Speaker 3: bad day, bitch. He tries to rip down the paper,
- 36:26Speaker 3: but is stuck against the wall.
- 36:28Speaker 1: To your power.
- 36:30Speaker 3: I'm tired of you and all these bullies in the
- 36:33Speaker 3: city thinking they can rule over us, press their boots
- 36:38Speaker 3: down on our necks.
- 36:39Speaker 5: No more.
- 36:40Speaker 3: In fact, before my friends get here, before the mob
- 36:43Speaker 3: gets here, and everyone gets to take a piece, we're
- 36:47Speaker 3: gonna have some fun. And then three ring binders are
- 36:52Speaker 3: just gonna start slapping them around as like one light
- 36:58Speaker 3: bulb like hangs and angles, casting shadows on the wall.
- 37:03Speaker 7: The guy's getting paper cuts with a sunch, looking at
- 37:07Speaker 7: the blank face of paper mache under a broad hat.
- 37:14Speaker 2: The mayor of New Babbel, who is still the mayor,
- 37:18Speaker 2: gets absolutely slapped around by a paper phantom.
- 37:31Speaker 1: What do you do with him when it's over? When
- 37:33Speaker 1: you've had your fill? How long is that? Yeah?
- 37:39Speaker 3: I imagine it's probably like I want to be like
- 37:41Speaker 3: pretty beaten, pretty beaten up. Yeah, and yeah, definitely some
- 37:46Speaker 3: some paper cuts and bruises and stuff. But as he's
- 37:50Speaker 3: you know, I've I've kind of worn him down and
- 37:52Speaker 3: also worked out some horribly managed aggression.
- 37:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna pull him up.
- 38:01Speaker 3: So he's like kind of standing against the filing cabinet,
- 38:05Speaker 3: put a sheet of paper between his fingernail and his finger.
- 38:11Speaker 1: Eah, coward, coward, une. You know who you're doing this to.
- 38:21Speaker 1: You know who still holds power in this town? Power
- 38:27Speaker 1: for what? What's your game, Stephenson? You think you can
- 38:32Speaker 1: manipulate everyone?
- 38:33Speaker 11: What do you have.
- 38:36Speaker 3: Loading over the mob, loading over all the council members?
- 38:40Speaker 3: What's what's her endgame in this?
- 38:42Speaker 2: Just a rule? You wouldn't get it. Your power is
- 38:47Speaker 2: given to you. I had to take mine, kill me
- 38:54Speaker 2: if you're gonna no, and if you don't, I'm coming
- 38:58Speaker 2: after you.
- 38:59Speaker 3: You'll only wish you would dead. Slices fingernails. Oh no,
- 39:07Speaker 3: it's only a matter of time before Cordula comes. What
- 39:10Speaker 3: do you think the mob's gonna do to you worse
- 39:12Speaker 3: than me? You can talk, you can save yourself and
- 39:16Speaker 3: I'll just float you out to no man's land, make
- 39:19Speaker 3: a new life for yourself.
- 39:20Speaker 1: What do you want me to say? What do you
- 39:22Speaker 1: need to know? In this moment?
- 39:28Speaker 3: Jason like kind of comes back into control. Uh oh,
- 39:33Speaker 3: like unaware of everything leading up to this moment. Excuse me,
- 39:40Speaker 3: put my finger to my head piece. M guys, Hello, hello, Jason,
- 39:48Speaker 3: you're okay.
- 39:49Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good. I may have blacked out briefly. I've
- 39:53Speaker 1: got the mayor. What I got the mayor? Do we point?
- 40:00Speaker 5: He?
- 40:01Speaker 3: He asked me a very salient question, which is what
- 40:04Speaker 3: do I want to know? And I don't actually have
- 40:06Speaker 3: a good Wait wait, wait, do you mean you saved
- 40:09Speaker 3: the mayor?
- 40:09Speaker 5: Or?
- 40:09Speaker 3: You got the mayor? Like, look over at him, just
- 40:15Speaker 3: tied up. I got him, he's here.
- 40:20Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't mean to maybe do this
- 40:24Speaker 1: but what can we use this? Well, I don't sense
- 40:29Speaker 1: you nearby. Where did you go? Uh? I think I'm
- 40:32Speaker 1: in the womb, my womb, Yes, the womb, Yeah, yeah,
- 40:40Speaker 1: what I don't know. I was falling and then something
- 40:46Speaker 1: else took over. Yeah, okay, we're give us a second.
- 40:51Speaker 1: We're on our way. Okay, Yeah, just don't do anything
- 40:55Speaker 1: you'll regret. Jason. I turned back to Dirk, who I
- 41:00Speaker 1: i'd been speaking to. No sign of her swift. No,
- 41:03Speaker 1: I didn't see her. I didn't censor either. Interesting.
- 41:08Speaker 3: Uh.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Phantom says he's with the mayor. Maybe maybe she is two.
- 41:15Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I don't know if everything she said
- 41:19Speaker 1: was a lie. Perhaps they are not allies. I mean
- 41:22Speaker 1: that would have been the time for her to show up.
- 41:24Speaker 2: Right, That's what I'm thinking. We'll clean up here and
- 41:28Speaker 2: go find the Phantom. If you need to rock fist. Hey,
- 41:33Speaker 2: we didn't die, so lucky, so lucky. And did you
- 41:40Speaker 2: do a fist bump with rock fist? Yeah, a rock
- 41:45Speaker 2: fist bump. The two of you rush to the womb, yes,
- 41:49Speaker 2: way across the city. Shoot, and you make your way
- 41:54Speaker 2: down there and find Jason with a tied up and
- 41:58Speaker 2: bloody mayor who is heaving for air and looks beat
- 42:05Speaker 2: to a pulp. Guys, whoa, hey, whoa man, the fans
- 42:12Speaker 2: have did this?
- 42:14Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I've been feeling a lot of big feelings
- 42:19Speaker 3: that I may have put the Mayor's face on those feelings.
- 42:23Speaker 3: Holy shit, But baby, it's still good right that we
- 42:29Speaker 3: have him and he's willing to talk and cooperate.
- 42:32Speaker 5: I gotta stop, just stop talking for a second. I
- 42:35Speaker 5: want to sense like how well the mayor is doing,
- 42:40Speaker 5: and an attempt to branch again the sense blocking that
- 42:47Speaker 5: I tried to do before, but block his hearing temporarily.
- 42:52Speaker 1: Cool?
- 42:53Speaker 2: Yeah, you sense over and without a role for for
- 42:57Speaker 2: his well being. You sense it. He's been beat within
- 43:02Speaker 2: an inch of his life, but he is alive and
- 43:05Speaker 2: he will live okay, And then roll a branching check
- 43:09Speaker 2: for disailing his hearing.
- 43:11Speaker 1: It is just a godly check for you.
- 43:13Speaker 12: Yes, just a god I am one of those. I'll
- 43:19Speaker 12: take cokes for you here, Oh coxlear because of ears?
- 43:25Speaker 1: Nice? Yeah, that was pretty nice. That's pretty good. That
- 43:28Speaker 1: was pretty good.
- 43:28Speaker 2: Fourteen I rolled to seventeen. Oh that's not so nice
- 43:32Speaker 2: or sorry, I rolled an empowered twenty ooh even stronger,
- 43:37Speaker 2: you're not able to block his hearing right now?
- 43:39Speaker 1: Too much crack this one. Let's shall we step aside, gentlemen.
- 43:45Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not going anywhere.
- 43:46Speaker 1: I'd like to at least try to move out of
- 43:48Speaker 1: your shot. Then. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, you're in the womb.
- 43:52Speaker 2: There are eyeless stay heads staring at you, all, having
- 43:58Speaker 2: witnessed the paper intom's atrocity.
- 44:03Speaker 5: Oh I put both my hands on phantom shoulders. Can
- 44:10Speaker 5: I talk to Jason please?
- 44:14Speaker 1: Mm hmm? Hi, Hey, what's up?
- 44:23Speaker 3: So all those drawers opened up? Huh yeah, just all
- 44:27Speaker 3: at once. It's kind of falling and lost lost it
- 44:32Speaker 3: for a little bit there. But I mean the mayors
- 44:35Speaker 3: deserves some of this, right. I'm not a bad person,
- 44:40Speaker 3: am I. I'm not the one to say that, but
- 44:48Speaker 3: either way, we are now in a big mess. I
- 44:52Speaker 3: mean we've kidnapped the sitting mayor of New Babble and
- 44:57Speaker 3: tortured him.
- 44:59Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Yeah, the vote was going through the moral high ground.
- 45:07Speaker 1: You know, is could have leveled a bit with this.
- 45:15Speaker 1: I guess this is in my brain what I thought
- 45:17Speaker 1: the mob maybe would want. Why why do we want
- 45:22Speaker 1: what they want? Well, we made a deal with them.
- 45:25Speaker 3: I don't know we.
- 45:29Speaker 1: I did.
- 45:31Speaker 3: Look, I get that it's a mess. I'm prepared to
- 45:33Speaker 3: take responsibility for the actions here. But do we I mean,
- 45:37Speaker 3: we can't just like let them go now right?
- 45:42Speaker 5: We have to.
- 45:43Speaker 6: We have to.
- 45:44Speaker 1: Jason also, maybe not the time, But why here? I
- 45:51Speaker 1: don't know. And you see like under the hood and
- 45:58Speaker 1: her eyes showing hurt in Ronnie's eyes. I guess I
- 46:02Speaker 1: thought no one would no one would come here. Yeah,
- 46:07Speaker 1: it's a tomb quote. You could you don't have to
- 46:12Speaker 1: stay if you could be and Jason will talk? Yeah, okay?
- 46:19Speaker 1: Is it through the electricity of the building in a way?
- 46:22Speaker 1: Jim here puts both his hands on the fato of
- 46:28Speaker 1: Jason's shoulders. I take off my mask and look him
- 46:39Speaker 1: hard at his eyes, and I say, I want to
- 46:45Speaker 1: talk to the pato.
- 46:48Speaker 3: Paper curls back up over Jason's face, blank expressionless. Be
- 46:54Speaker 3: careful what you wish for. Hey, you made a mess.
- 47:01Speaker 3: Don't pretend you're not happy about it. He's directly responsible
- 47:05Speaker 3: for your friend's death. You don't want Hey to see
- 47:08Speaker 3: this happen. Deserves worse than this. You don't fuck with
- 47:14Speaker 3: my friend Jason like this. Do you understand me? Jason
- 47:19Speaker 3: has proven himself an incompetent host, and yet he's.
- 47:25Speaker 1: The only reason you're still here. Right for now, ask
- 47:32Speaker 1: your questions to the mayor. I'll handle it.
- 47:38Speaker 7: Starfire burns on my right hand as I hold it
- 47:42Speaker 7: close to the paper. You give Jason back control. Don't
- 47:55Speaker 7: you ever pull this kind of shit again? And what
- 47:59Speaker 7: will you do if I don't?
- 48:02Speaker 1: I'll burn you to ash. That's a promise.
- 48:09Speaker 3: You just see a little wet paper smile creep across
- 48:14Speaker 3: the Phantom's face lights up. A cigarette blows the smoke,
- 48:20Speaker 3: and Rigel's gestures to the mayor as the paper unfurls,
- 48:27Speaker 3: Jason realizing he's smoking.
- 48:32Speaker 7: If I've been smoking, Jason not a bad guy, mister Mayor,
- 48:38Speaker 7: You're gonna come with us, maybe maybe just me. I
- 48:48Speaker 7: put on my mask before I turned to face may
- 48:51Speaker 7: Or Stephenson.
- 48:52Speaker 1: What do you do with him, Jim? I take him.
- 48:56Speaker 7: I take him up to the street, holding his hands
- 48:59Speaker 7: behind his back like a purp walk And I am
- 49:03Speaker 7: calling out for an officer of the law.
- 49:06Speaker 1: Where are what part of the city? A get is
- 49:09Speaker 1: the woman? The woman is in northern ask.
- 49:12Speaker 7: Great, I call for an officer of the law. I say,
- 49:16Speaker 7: this man was trying to interfere with a free and
- 49:19Speaker 7: fair election and a certification by sitting city council members.
- 49:25Speaker 3: Before we before you maybe get the attention of an officer.
- 49:29Speaker 3: I don't again, this may be Johnny. You can say
- 49:31Speaker 3: if you'd like this or not. But I'm kind of
- 49:34Speaker 3: wondering if the dice should decide if the Phantom should
- 49:38Speaker 3: act here or not.
- 49:40Speaker 1: Okay, because I kind of feel like maybe there's a little.
- 49:45Speaker 3: Let's get some here.
- 49:47Speaker 1: The Phantom might might attack Rigel in this moment.
- 49:50Speaker 2: Okay, Rigel moves to take the mayor away from the
- 49:55Speaker 2: Phantom's grasp. Jason right now, putting out the cigarett. The
- 50:00Speaker 2: Phantom started smoking. Struggles within himself, Arthur the og Phantom,
- 50:09Speaker 2: Jason as mister crinkles, Let's not forget, Let's not forget
- 50:14Speaker 2: all pretty much compartments of Jason's being at this point.
- 50:21Speaker 2: Roll a sneak, check Jason and decide here if a
- 50:27Speaker 2: success means that the paper Phantom would act, or if
- 50:33Speaker 2: the paper Phantom would fail.
- 50:35Speaker 3: If I'm rolling a sneak, I think it would be
- 50:38Speaker 3: that the Phantom would succeed and take over. I think
- 50:42Speaker 3: so makes sense, which unfortunately sneak is the highest die
- 50:45Speaker 3: so yep, so just a flat flat sneak here the scene.
- 50:51Speaker 2: Flat sneak, and then I'll be rolling an epic check,
- 50:56Speaker 2: which is a D twenty D.
- 50:57Speaker 1: Twenty verse D twenty. Oh my gosh, the Battle with thirteen.
- 51:04Speaker 1: I rolled to sixteen. Oh oh well, it's clothes.
- 51:09Speaker 7: Wow.
- 51:10Speaker 2: The paper phantom rises up in Jason's heart, trying to
- 51:16Speaker 2: take over again. What does Jason do or Arthur do
- 51:21Speaker 2: in this moment to push the phantom back down as
- 51:25Speaker 2: he sees his friend take the mare away?
- 51:27Speaker 3: I think inside the paper dimension. As the phantom strides forward,
- 51:32Speaker 3: both Arthur and a child like Jason and mister Quinkles
- 51:35Speaker 3: wrap their various paper parts around the phantom, just holding
- 51:39Speaker 3: him back, the paper tearing straining, and they crumple the
- 51:45Speaker 3: phantom back down, and Jason is left in the womb
- 51:49Speaker 3: street clothes, knowing that if he lets the phantom out again,
- 51:54Speaker 3: it might not go his way.
- 52:02Speaker 2: And as Jamiir takes the Mayor away to the authorities
- 52:07Speaker 2: who have an insane amount of evidence to hold him
- 52:10Speaker 2: for a time. Sure, sure you notice the book that
- 52:14Speaker 2: you came in through Jason in your full self here
- 52:19Speaker 2: for a moment notices a book.
- 52:22Speaker 3: Oh I love books. Yeah nice, I'll pick it up,
- 52:27Speaker 3: put my glasses on. They're all like cracked and fucked
- 52:30Speaker 3: up from the fight.
- 52:31Speaker 2: Oh. It is a journal, a notebook, and the first
- 52:34Speaker 2: page says property of M. E. Manny Ellington is less
- 52:38Speaker 2: it's you, Jason, it's yours. I'm Ny Ellington. As you
- 52:43Speaker 2: leave through the pages walking back to Jamir's house, it's
- 52:49Speaker 2: less of a notebook or a diary, and it's more
- 52:51Speaker 2: of a ledger, and within are listed the amounts of
- 52:56Speaker 2: money and the names of the people who Manny Ellington
- 53:01Speaker 2: gives money too. Pizza Hub incredibly detailed. Under each entry
- 53:09Speaker 2: the reason there's listed, the reason they need money, personal
- 53:16Speaker 2: details and thoughts about the person and their family. There's
- 53:20Speaker 2: like the amount of their need, and then an option
- 53:22Speaker 2: like a checkbox for extra help, which is either checked
- 53:26Speaker 2: or not, and many are he carries candles, Ok, the
- 53:29Speaker 2: amount he gives his staggering and as you begin to
- 53:32Speaker 2: do some kind of mind math, just seeing like a
- 53:35Speaker 2: thousand here, thousand there, thousands here, just do a paper
- 53:39Speaker 2: sense check here for notable names. As you listen to
- 53:45Speaker 2: the ink pressed in.
- 53:47Speaker 1: To the page. Gotcha, do you just want the flat power.
- 53:50Speaker 1: You want a sense plus paper. Sense plus paper makes sense.
- 53:58Speaker 2: Do investigate plus pay percent it's actually average check. I'm
- 54:02Speaker 2: only a D eight, I got a nine.
- 54:04Speaker 1: I got a five. So you're gonna get all the
- 54:07Speaker 1: names that you would recognize. Here.
- 54:09Speaker 2: There's one that says Zara Hadad slash Maria Wilson and
- 54:13Speaker 2: for their reason just important work. You see Ronnie Wyatt
- 54:18Speaker 2: under his name it says fool deserves another chance, question mark,
- 54:22Speaker 2: and then surgery Elain Nakira brave restitution. The name Henry
- 54:28Speaker 2: hilland is here it says noble wife's condition. And then
- 54:33Speaker 2: you see the name Lilah Jennings, who's Jamiir's sister, hard worker,
- 54:37Speaker 2: standard pay, and then the extra box is checked. Those
- 54:42Speaker 2: are the names you might recognize. The three of you
- 54:47Speaker 2: eventually arrive back at Jamir's manor after a harrowing day.
- 54:56Speaker 1: Truly are do we still have? I voted takers is ruined,
- 55:04Speaker 1: but she still has it. Oh my god, you guys,
- 55:06Speaker 1: I forgot to vote no this all time. That's the
- 55:11Speaker 1: worst thing you've done today.
- 55:13Speaker 5: Truly, goddamn quantas there in the main part of the house,
- 55:20Speaker 5: just in her street clothes drinking some tea. When you
- 55:24Speaker 5: guys arrive, I'm betta take a shower, if that's all
- 55:30Speaker 5: right with everybody.
- 55:31Speaker 3: Probably not gonna do much, but I am curious if
- 55:34Speaker 3: there's any information in the Nest.
- 55:38Speaker 1: Computer that might support some of these logs.
- 55:42Speaker 3: Curious about Yla Jennings if any of Manny Ellington's files
- 55:46Speaker 3: are available.
- 55:48Speaker 2: The Nest computer has none of Manny's information in there. Okay,
- 55:52Speaker 2: then I'll just go fall asleep on a cot. Jabir
- 55:55Speaker 2: starts the shower with this full costumee still.
- 55:58Speaker 1: On sad costume.
- 56:01Speaker 11: Shower takes off piece by piece as he sees the
- 56:05Speaker 11: bud of dirt drip down the drain. He's excited that
- 56:11Speaker 11: we would that we did it, but he's scared of
- 56:18Speaker 11: before his friend.
- 56:21Speaker 5: Quanta SIPs and tea and Sticky rolls into the room.
- 56:27Speaker 5: Hey money, and she picks him up off the floor
- 56:32Speaker 5: and just kind of holds him for a second and
- 56:34Speaker 5: then curls around him and starts to cry onto his
- 56:39Speaker 5: robot head.
- 56:43Speaker 3: As you cry on too, Sticky's head a projector what
- 56:49Speaker 3: a dependent clone.
- 56:52Speaker 1: Projector now Sticky, Now.
- 56:59Speaker 2: He shows you another woman who's crying. He's making some
- 57:03Speaker 2: sort of connection in his circuitry. Huh yeah, okay, fine,
- 57:10Speaker 2: Jasmine Dukes is there, she says through tears. May May,
- 57:17Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven. Sorry, Sticky, Sorry, transfer recording to main hub.
- 57:22Speaker 2: The recording of Jasmine goes up to the main.
- 57:25Speaker 1: Screen in the lab.
- 57:28Speaker 2: YEA, if anybody sees this, Adam, if you somehow survive
- 57:35Speaker 2: and see this, I'm so sorry. I've put a sedative
- 57:41Speaker 2: in your in your tank for a while. I couldn't
- 57:44Speaker 2: bury looking at me anymore. Sticky is recording pans over
- 57:51Speaker 2: to Adam in his tank and he's no longer a fetus,
- 57:54Speaker 2: but he looks like a toddler three year old. No, no,
- 57:58Speaker 2: over here, Sticky, Adam, Adam, if you see this, we're
- 58:03Speaker 2: getting forced off world tomorrow. We're taking most of our research,
- 58:08Speaker 2: but not all. There's enough that you could keep our
- 58:11Speaker 2: work going. Your mind will be sharp, clever. We've given
- 58:16Speaker 2: you the best parts of your father and myself. I'm
- 58:20Speaker 2: so sorry. I can't take you with me, but I
- 58:22Speaker 2: won't kill you. I won't rob you of the chance
- 58:26Speaker 2: to make you.
- 58:28Speaker 5: Oh.
- 58:28Speaker 1: I hope you do.
- 58:31Speaker 2: We'll be up in the stars with the angels. If
- 58:35Speaker 2: you can find a way out there, try to get
- 58:37Speaker 2: to us. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I love you.
- 58:41Speaker 1: That's all.
- 58:42Speaker 2: Sticky, go to your port. I've got to shut you
- 58:45Speaker 2: down now. Sticky goes over to their port. She leans
- 58:51Speaker 2: forward and flips a switch. But Sticky, Sticky did something clever.
- 58:58Speaker 2: As Jasmine walks away, he keeps recording.
- 59:00Speaker 1: He stays on. He doesn't let himself get shut down entirely.
- 59:06Speaker 2: The Sticky in your lap keeps showing you holographic footage
- 59:13Speaker 2: at great speed. His camera pointed directly at the tank
- 59:17Speaker 2: in which Adam Duke's floats.
- 59:20Speaker 1: Well, this is fucking sad. The room is dark except
- 59:24Speaker 1: for the dim and eerie light of the tank of
- 59:27Speaker 1: the blue bio fluid. The boy grows. He grows quickly,
- 59:32Speaker 1: and he grows in great strength.
- 59:33Speaker 2: He grows until he looks like a ten year old boy,
- 59:36Speaker 2: his body absolutely shredded.
- 59:39Speaker 1: He wakes.
- 59:40Speaker 2: He looks much stronger than any ten year old should.
- 59:44Speaker 2: He starts punching the glass once, twice, three times before
- 59:48Speaker 2: he spills out, cutting his flesh and sinew in multiple places.
- 59:52Speaker 1: He cries out.
- 59:53Speaker 2: He begins to walk around, looking for anything. He survives.
- 59:59Speaker 2: He starts reading books. The research of his parents that
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: they left. He watches the final video from Sticky of
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: his mother and he moans in agony and longing.
- 1:00:10Speaker 7: Ah.
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: Sticky Pait plays quickly over much of his surviving and reading,
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: but then he slows down to show you a specific
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: night boy. He's clothed himself and seems to be growing
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: at a more natural rate. He breathes deeply and he reads,
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: but then there is a pounding on his door and
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: a call NVPD who's in there? The boy looks surprised
- 1:00:33Speaker 2: as an NBPD swat unit smashes through the door. They
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: burst in, They throw gas. They hit the boy with
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: beat sticks. He gets up and he begins to tear
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: them apart, ripping them limb from limb, going absolutely berserk.
- 1:00:50Speaker 3: Oh my god.
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: Blood and viscera fill the hologram, and then a police
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: officer gets thrown towards the desk Sticky is poured it under.
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: The collision breaks his tread and knocks Sticky off port.
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: He slowly runs out of power and turns off until
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: he shows an image of you turning him back on Quanta,
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: and he shuts down the hologram. Sticky begins to buzz,
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: riding around the room, happy to have shared the information
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: that got hidden.
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: From the world. I'm glad someone's feeling good about themselves.
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: And that's where we'll end this episode of the Team
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: Up play Show podcast.
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: Diggity Dag.
- 1:01:44Speaker 5: Spicy If I recognize this guy, so Spicy.
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- 1:01:58Speaker 1: that makes Duke's mayo right, This is the we know
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: how it gets so delicious.
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: Save Duke's mayonnaise for the chat Cave. I won't have
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: it here. Let's go over to the check cape. Guys,
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: we will talk all about this on our post show,
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: The Chat Cave. It's over on our Patreon, Patreon dot
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- 1:02:22Speaker 2: and we'll see you next week with another episode.
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: Goodbye, bye bye.
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- 1:03:27Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening, heroes.
- 1:03:47Speaker 10: And that's the end of the episode. Goodbye episode. But
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