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This is the fifth and final episode of our games
of Friendly Neighborhood Superhero, a solo RPG
about protecting, befriending, and improving
a community by Cat Scratcher Studio. The other
two welcoming district hoagies. I can't believe
thesaurus .com would betray me like this. There's
nothing I can do about it, unfortunately. I've
already recorded it. Joining me today are Gwen
Frankenstein and Jeff Stormer. If you want to
hear more of Jeff playing superhero games, go
tune into Party of One to hear Kieran Gillen
and him play Apocalypse Keys. That's fucking
exciting. Sneak preview for little old me. That's
great. Okay, cool. So it's day four. Okay, so
this will hopefully be our final day. Day of
Friendly Neighborhood Superhero. All right. Day
four. Here we go. Let's begin with a rolling
to start my day. I love, by the way, that in
the rule book, it says a session should take
about half an hour. And it has fully taken me
like three weeks to record this. Let's see what
I was doing when I came across a problem. Oh,
my God. I rolled a three. You were at your day
job when suddenly a crime. Yeah, that's pretty
much what it's like. That's a five more running
errands. Running errands in this case, I think
is Kelvin has decided to pick up groceries for
Ms. Juarez. So he's got two giant bags of groceries
in hand, you know, heading up the walking up
the boardwalk. He's doing the thing where he's
trying to carry too many groceries in one trip
rather than make several smaller trips. He's
hit up like three or four different stores. And
people have asked him if he needs help and he
has turned it down every time. And I think for
the first time that I've been playing this game,
we're going to start with a crime and not a neighbor
needing help. Great. I'm excited about this.
This feels great to me. We are helping a neighbor
this morning. There's a lightning speedster who's
trying to... Bring eternal darkness through the
mafia. 14. An alien weaponsmith. 19. Wants to
move the neighborhood through time. Or 17. Wants
to build a giant robot. mind controlling the
authorities or an army of animals so it's either
an army of animals or building a giant robot
or mind controlling the authorities to move the
neighbor moving the neighborhood through time
feels good and like that opens up a really interesting
uh wrinkle in the process which i think is very
compelling both making it an alien weaponsmith
like this especially since this might be the
last day of this of this chapter of this particular
playthrough It feels pretty good to like have
a confrontation with the Cronenberg Foundation
and to expose that they are also aliens from
the future a la Highlander to the quickening.
That feels great. That feels great. Like and
the idea that they are specifically like moving
the neighborhood through time and mind controlling
the authorities like this energy, this cosmic
energy has been bleeding through the city. It
has, you know, triggered superpowers in people,
people much like Thermal and Animatronic, who
we met yesterday. I think the honest answer in
my head, and this is perhaps somewhat unavoidable
and also. uh very very heavy i'm gonna just throw
in like a content warning for government uh abuse
of state power but like i picture that this is
you know partnering with the police to uh establish
this group of people with these powers as a threat
x -men style and outfit police with these like
pieces of technology that would activate these
sort of power beacons in empowered individuals
allowing them to sort of like activate gateways
and possibly finally pull open this gate with
this demon prince like this is sort of the culmination
of that plan let's help an anxious journalist
recover a stolen item all right And you know
what? One of the things that the book says is
you can, you may instead roll for both tables
at once, creating a huge situation in which the
neighbor needs help because of the crime and
both happen at the same time. I think that because
this is most likely going to be my last day of
the game, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
So the local snobby activist. Oh no. This already
feels like it's going to be a problematic portrayal.
How old are they? Six. Being to whom time is
meaningless. I mean, that's great. That means
they're protesting something weird as hell, probably.
And what do they need my help with? Carrying
their groceries? Okay. Okay, okay, okay. So we
get a call from a contact at the local TV station,
QPNR Golden Pastures, and there we hear from
local journalist Terrence Maloney, and Terrence
says, uh, hi, uh, uh, uh, is this, is this the,
uh, hotline for, um, the Blue Shepherd? Uh, yes
it is, how may I help you? Yeah, I'm calling
from the TV station and our weather prompter
is missing. I don't know what happened, but it
looks like it's been stolen in the night. No
problem, neighbor. I'll be there shortly. Okay,
let's put these pieces together. So first off,
this is a being to whom time is meaningless.
I got one of these before and it was like an
alien. This could be another alien, could be
a ghost, ooh, cyborg, or android. This is an
android. And the thing about that is that their
groceries, which they need help carrying, it
isn't just food, it's like, it's power, right?
Or it's batteries, it's metal, it's WD -40. It's
stuff that a robot needs to live. Meanwhile,
okay, I'm going to roll for the personality of
the lightning speedster to see if I get a little
bit more determined. That makes sense. Just again
to see. Worried. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to put
that on the back burner a little bit, but that
just makes me think that maybe they don't mean
to be explicitly villainous. There's something
they're genuinely worried about and they think
they're solving, but they're doing it in a really
shitty way. We'll see. We're now at a question
of how do we stop this? And I think the answer
is we have to expose to the public what the Cronenberg
Foundation is doing. I think that's what has
to happen here. And so I'm going to look at my
abilities. and decide like i think like we're
seeing this crackdown happen like we're seeing
this ramp up of militarization and maybe even
kelvin's plan to like partner with uh councilwoman
joella is like kind of backfiring and the cronenberg
foundation is using that to go on the offensive
so how do we bring that out into the light how
do we expose this in a way that like is definitive
and will make a difference who boy does jeff
feel that phrasing uh 2025 and who boy is that
a lot to take in here we go i'm at the cafe and
i think what it is is that like i actually start
this one not not as orbit this is just trina
getting off shift and this android neighbor i'm
gonna name them r44ll -3 rally because you know
they're an activist android They're walking by
and their steps are slow. We live in the same
building or something. We're like neighbors.
And I walk up and I'm like, how's it going? Can
I give you a hand? And they're like, yes, I waited
too long to buy backup batteries. And so I am
very low power and can't charge properly until
I get home. I will get there, but I'm in power
saving mode. So it's very slow. This would be
a great help. If you could carry these for me.
I'm in person mode, not hero mode. Okay. Yeah.
So I'm helping to carry their groceries and just
walking really slowly beside them. And they're
like, oh, if only somebody could lift me. And
I sort of eye them and I'm like, you know what?
Actually, let me call Orbit. I bet that she might
be able to give you a hand. And I hand them their
groceries back. And they don't get that far.
They're moving very slowly. They go and change.
I come back as Orbit. And I'm going to try and
lift them. Rolling a power roll. I am using my
signature ability. That gives me 3d6. And this
is the thing they're impressed by. So I get...
It's not resisted. So 3d6. I need a 5 or a 6.
1, 5, and 2. Okay, so I do it. Mark progress.
and my streak oh i know one of the things they're
snobby about i forgot that one of the things
going on in this place is the like science and
magic unity and i think this android is a little
grumpy about it is cool lives here whatever but
like as i lift them up they're like remind me
the source of your powers is technological right
and i'm like oh actually uh it's moon magic and
they're like And I wonder if this is their activism.
A lot of magic, like, droids can't do? They can
do some, but there's some that is very much,
like, channeled physically and needs, like, blood
and body stuff. I don't want this to be a Star
Wars droids don't have the force ass thing. But,
you know, there are just certain, like... Similarly
to how most organic human people can't conduct
electricity, for instance, in the way that this
character would be able to, there's a lot of
very organic physical magic that they can't do.
And they are worried, maybe correctly, that leaning
too hard into magic is going to systematically
cut people like them out of doing things. And
so that is just like, they happen to be somebody
who shows up to the meetings. town hall to make
sure that the balance of that is actually being
kept in balance and that it isn't leaning too
far in that direction. That's sort of their pet
cause. I mean, step one is we can't expose anything
if we don't have evidence. Step one is having
to like obtain clear evidence of the Cronenberg
Foundation's role in activating these superpowers
and Morak and more specifically their role in
like arranging a partnership with this demon
prince on the other side of a dimensional gate,
which is a lot to take in. I'm going to invoke
my signature ability here. I'm going to use skill
because I think I'm like stealthily breaking
into a facility, which means I'm rolling five
dice. It is not opposed because a heart is the
opposed matter here. And that is a single five,
which gives me a point of progress. As we're
walking, somebody falls into step beside us.
And in a too casual voice is like, what you got
there? And I like give them a weird side eye.
And I'm like, sorry. They're like in the back.
What you got? Sorry. Who are you? And they try
to rip the bag out of my hands. I think I'm going
to, I'm going to try and use, I'm going to use
power. I'm going to try and do a power roll here
to keep hold of it. But they are trying to just
steal these groceries from me. And this is resisted
because I have a streak because I succeeded with
a roll earlier, but I am using my signature ability.
So that's going to be 3d6 and one has to be a
six. One, five, one. Nope. No luck. I'm just
going to take the extra die and mark a point
of destruction, which I think is the bag splitting
and these batteries and things just falling all
over the street and smashing. And I'm just like,
hey, what's the big idea? And this is a member
of the mafia. They're trying to escape. Do I
want to roll to grab them first? Yeah. I think
it'll be a skill roll because it's about like
moving quickly, like trying to grab them before
they run away. And I am in fact using my signature
ability because I'm exerting gravitational pull
on them to try and make it harder for them to
get away. And so that is three plus one, 4d6.
And ooh, they are a mafia member. They are resistant
to skill. Okay, so this is 4d6 and one of them
needs to be a six. Three, one. Three. Three.
Nope. Okay. So I'll mark a point of discredit.
I will not mark an experience. I'm just, oh,
oh, right. I had an extra die. It was a five,
so I still fail. But I need to just remember
that. Okay. Um, so like I've broken into the
facility. Uh, we see Kelvin like melt a window
and, you know, freeze a camera so that the glass
shatters on it and is cruising through this facility.
He still has to hack into a system. But he's
been studying this wrist gauntlet, so I'm going
to get an extra point here. This is going to
be mined. I'm not going to be able to use my
powers on this necessarily, but I do have an
extra dice activated because I've been studying
this wrist gauntlet and like the technology the
Cronenberg Foundation have been using. Again,
not opposed. I just need a five. Oh, this is
a good time to roll a failure is the thing. And
that's a point of miscalculation. I'm going to
take the extra dice here and not the point of
experience. And I think that things are going
to escalate in a very big way. I mean, security,
you know, rushes in and baby, we are in a fight
scene and I am rolling five dice because I think
that. Thermal is done playing the fuck around.
These private security forces are about to get
a big old fireball to the face. So I don't manage
to grab them. They manage to get away. And I'm
going to give chase is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to put rally down for now and just
sprint after this person, which I think is a
power roll, which is resisted. So let's see.
I have a two in power. I'm using my ability.
To try and, you know, bounce and be fast. Maybe
even try and get in front of them. Ooh, wait,
yeah. I'm going to make this a skill roll. It's
going to be resisted anyway because they are
resistant to skill. But rather than just like
barreling after them, I'm going to try and use
my gravitational powers to like... hit the perfect
angle while jumping off of something and whip
back to land in front of them rather than chasing
behind them. I'm going to try and just like hop
and get in their way. Three points in skill,
one point from my signature ability and one point
from failing the last roll brings me to 5d6 and
one of them does need to be a six. Three, two,
four, four, one. Rough. okay mark a point of
discredit and this is just like i totally miscalculate
the like i i my my my powers are stronger i'm
not used to how much stronger they are right
um and this is a point of discredit not of destruction
because i used skill and so it's like uh i just
look goofy i like I'm super awkward in the air
and land roughly and it just looks like I don't
have total, I don't have control over this because
I didn't in that moment. I messed it up and I
don't catch them. I'm still behind them, at least.
I'm not, or funnier to me, I think I land in
front of them, but like too far ahead in front.
They see, I wanted to land like right in their
way and I managed to get in front of them, but
I'm like a block ahead. And so they look and
like their eyebrows go up and they just dash
into an alley. That's five dice. That is one,
six, three twos and a three. Jesus. Great. Good,
that's a second point of progress. We are tearing
through these security guards. This is a very
elaborate fight scene. I mean, you know, dragon
punches and big fireballs freezing people's guns
to their hands and then, like, slamming them
into the wall. Very, like, imagine, you know,
laser beams and fireballs mixed in with the hallway
fight from Daredevil. That's the vibe of what
we are getting here. But... crucially that means
we still don't have the footage that we need
what's my next plan to try and catch them i do
think at this point i'm just throwing myself
at it right like i'm like okay shit i just need
to catch up and i'm levitating i'm bouncing i'm
scaling a wall and trying to just like get them
and so this is going to be a power roll which
i have a streak in so it is resisted I am using
my signature ability. I have an extra die from
failing. That brings me to 46. I needed to be
a six. Two. Three. Five. Two. Fuck, man. Okay.
Destruction. I catch up to them. I go to tackle
them. I miss and I just take out a dumpster.
Just explode it everywhere. Oh my god. If I get
another destruction point, then I... Okay, I
wasn't paying attention. If I get another destruction
point, then that's the thing that I do. So, careful.
Me and my dog put on our outfits and we go and
we superhero. Now I suspect that in this town,
if the weather prompter has gone missing, then
that means someone is probably trying to use
it to control the weather. That seems to be the
sort of thing that occurs around here. And I'm
going to roll a d20 to discover what villain
may have made off with the teleprompter in order
to integrate it into their weather control device.
It is an evil mastermind. Well, I think I could
have told you that. Oh my god, their name is
Brainstorm, obviously. If I crashed into a dumpster,
it's easy to imagine we're in an alley. So I
think the thing that I'm going to do here, my
final attempt to just get this person to stop
running, is I want to pull a fire escape. We're
like in an alley. I'm going to pull a fire escape
down in front of them. Not actually yank it off
the wall, hopefully, but like trying to just
very carefully target the ladder to hopefully
fall down in front of them and make them stumble
for long enough that I can catch up. And so I
think this is a skill roll. They do resist it.
I have an extra die from failing and I've got
my signature ability. That's 5d6. I need a six.
Five, four, one, one, six. Hey, what's up? Yay,
I did it. Okay. I'll move my streak to skill.
I think we're going to have to take a different
approach here. I'm going to have to broadcast
something. I'm going to make another mind roll.
I'm going to take another third dice here. And
we're going to broadcast a signal out to the
city. If I can't get into their records, I'm
just going to have to do it live. Again, not
opposed. Five or six. That's a six. That's what
we needed. That's a third point of progress.
I yank the fire escape down in front of them.
And... They stumble. They try to dodge around
it, but the wall's right there. They try to dodge
the other way, but it slows them down just enough
that I can catch up and I grab them and I'm just
holding them in my gravity. And I'm going to
try and just be like, who are you? What was that?
And this is going to be a heart roll because
I'm trying to intimidate them into telling me
what the fuck that was. I am using my signature
ability because it's scary. They're trying to
get away and they can't. and i'm just holding
them there without even directly like they managed
to you know break my grip i'm holding their arms
they managed to open one of my hands but they
can't pull their arm away from my palm because
i'm using my gravity and so this is going to
be 3d6 and just needs to be a five or a six four
two one oh my god do i want to spend a super
point yes i'm going to spend a super point which
means i can add 2d6 to that. And this is just,
I'm having to really push my powers to hold them
still, you know? I think that if they kept trying
to pull away, it would work eventually. I'm trying
to just supercharge myself in this moment to
keep them still for long enough that they stop
trying to fight and are scared into giving up
the goods, the information. Roll two more d6,
and hopefully one is a five or six. One. And
a four. So, go to five misreadings. Oh, should
you fail your test after going super, add points
to the respective attributes drawback equal to
your ability power level. Okay, so I'm one point
away from an ending in heart achievement, which
is inspiration, and drawback power and heart,
which is destruction and misreading. Oof. they're
not intimidated first of all right um they're
just laughing in my face and they stop fighting
just long enough that I kind of relax because
I like I said you know I was having to really
focus on boosting my powers in that moment to
hold them there but wouldn't be able to do it
for a long time they relax just long enough that
I do and then they yank away and they're just
like wow yeah if you're the best this city's
got no wonder And I'm like, no wonder what. And
they just essentially disappear. A car rolls
up to the end of the alley and they dive into
it and they are gone. This has brainstorms fingerprints
all over it. There's a telltale low pressure
front around brainstorms layer. And the thing
is, I bet you. Bet you that vampire can probably
sense pressure. It's probably pressure sensitive
because, you know, dogs like freak out when there's
a rainstorm. That's the thought I'm having. Is
this power or skill? I'm going to fudge it and
see it's skill because my skill is higher. Yes,
I succeeded. I succeeded on both dice, which
is very exciting. oh my god i'm so scared i need
to check if i end the game immediately if i hit
the points because it could really happen anytime
keep playing through days until a reputation
reaches 10 then end your journey but i think
it's at that lend so i think that i'll finish
the day regardless i think that's what i do okay
so i think i finished the day but it could really
be anytime okay oh gosh because here's the thing
i want to go back and and help rally the only
Thing that Rally doesn't resist is power. If
I fail another power roll, that's it. If I fail
another heart roll, that's it. What we're going
to have to do here, and I think this might unfortunately
be heart, but I think I can invoke a second dice
here at the very least. Trying to see if there's
anything else I can do to game this, or if I
could shift it to something else. My plan is
to is to contact Naleverfood from the other side
of this gate to basically like get him monologuing,
which I think has to be heart. But I do have
a second dice here. Maybe I'm going to invoke
a third dice here because I'm using I've got
this technology and maybe what it is is that
I want to bluff him into thinking. That I know
more about the plan that I have, like, broken,
cracked the gauntlets, cracked the things than
that I understand his plan to get him monologuing
about that plan into the microphone that I have,
like, hacked and broadcasted out to, at the very
least, Councilwoman Joella, if not, like, news
reporters citywide. That's a five and a three.
I dropped my third dice. The tension is so real.
That's a six. Let's go. Uh, he bites right into
it and starts gossiping about the deal that he
made with the Cronenberg Foundation. Okay, I'm
not gonna go back to Rally yet. I am going to
try and just, like, if this car was close enough
that this person was able to sort of back away
from me and just leap into the car when somebody
inside threw the door open, I am gonna try and
just throw myself onto the car to follow them.
This is a power roll. I am using my signature
ability both to throw myself and to try to theoretically
hold on to the car and I might end up going super.
I think I can go super five times and you can
like recover super points by spending XP, but
I had forgotten to use it at any point. And so
I never did that. So it kind of works. I got,
I've got all of those for this, this run. I have
two points in power. I'm using my ability. I
just failed a roll and I'm taking the extra die
from that. 46. It just needs, one of them needs
to be a five or a six. One, five, six, and six.
Okay. Okay, good. Up to three progress. Move
my streak to power. And yeah, I managed to hurl
myself onto this car. And now, I mean, the four
progress dice that I'm going to roll here, this
ties into mine because I'm just seeing if my
plan worked. This is going to be a five or a
six. That's a five and a six. That's what we
needed. That is a sixth point of control. We
are one point of control away from ending and
finishing the game and achieving a win condition.
People listen. People tune in. Their plan is
exposed. I mean, you know, obviously I don't
think the authorities are going to do much about
it because they have money and people with money
are immune from the law. uh kids unionized workforce
but i think that like we do have to at least
at the very least it's going to open up the possibility
for a like a confrontation with crystal cronenberg
as she stares down like her plan exposed uh knowing
that i know everything we're going to have our
final big confrontation which i'm very excited
about this leads nicely into my crime So rather
than make this be a day consisting of two discrete
events, I think it makes sense to just roll the
d20 again here. So they are trying to move the
neighborhood through time by terror. No, that
doesn't make sense. No, I already did an army
of robots. I mean, technically, we already know
their method. Their method is... controlling
the weather so i'm just gonna pick one i mean
mind controlling the authorities makes sense
yeah so they are strong to my mind and heart
i'm going to try and get in one of the windows
which uh let's say that they've unrolled a window
to try and like push me off is this a is this
a is do they have guns is that a thing in this
universe or this specific like is that the they're
the mafia so i feel like they have to but it's
also a weird science magic town oh my god a magic
mafia yeah they don't have guns they have staves
one of them they've opened the window and they're
trying to just not even do magic at me to shove
me off with a magic staff and i'm going to try
and very carefully like make my way in the window
i'm not brute forcing i'm trying to just like
i'm i like hold on to the staff and i'm trying
to just like very carefully not falling off the
car get into the car through this open window
So yes, this is a skill roll. Yes, they resist
it. But I have three points in skill. I'm using
my ability. I did just succeed a roll, so I think
that's it. 4d6 and I might go super after. If
I still failed, that would also end it. Oh boy.
Oh boy. Okay. So let's do 5d6 first and one of
them has to be six. No, 4d6. One of them has
to be six. Four. Four. One. Okay, I, should I
try to go super? It needs to be a six. No, I'm
just gonna take it. Okay, I'm trying to like,
like I managed to reach, I get my arm in the
window and I'm trying to like arc myself to get
in and I just, I pull at the, on the wrong thing
with my gravitational force and I actually roll
the window up by accident and I have to snap
my arm back. Oh, I'm in such a place. Okay. So
she is an alien weaponsmith, which means mind
is her resisted asset, which, uh, okay. We'll
deal with it. We'll deal with it. We'll deal
with it. Uh, I'm going to roll skill plus power
immediately because I think that like, she is
bringing down every like security measure, every
drone gun, every like security soldier. And first
things first, I just got to get to her and I
got to like evade being shot or knocked unconscious.
Five dice. That's two fives, a six. That's enough.
That's enough. That's a success. I mean, Thermal
is now the most in his element that he has been
maybe this entire game. The thing I'm going to
try and do is something that I'm not very good
at, which is using my brain. effortlessly disarming
guards and you know melting drone things this
confrontation is so long in the making i think
he finally like just walks into her office she's
kind of staring him down and i'm gonna do something
a little bit funky i'm gonna roll 2d6 uh She
immediately turns and blasts an energy blast.
She is, of course, one of the empowered individuals.
I rolled for power. I got energy effects. She's
going to turn and shoot a lightning bolt. I think
I'm going to have to roll out of the way. This
is still five dice because I'm using fire to
basically fly around the room. This is now an
opposed roll because I've got my streak active.
It don't matter though, because that's a six.
That's a success. That's an experience point
to success, baby. Let's cook. We are cooking.
That is a second point of progress towards this
battle. she is bringing everything down uh and
you know i think i i'm able to deflect it i'm
throwing fireballs and ice shields uh this is
the first real superhero thing that we've seen
um because i think what has happened is she is
trying to catch me in the exact same gambit that
i caught them in which is that she has been recording
this and she's going to use the fact that i am
attacking her as like a public pr fodder propaganda
So I need to, like, definitively, I need to,
like, outsmart this and show definitively that,
like, she is using powers and exposed that she
is, like, a complicit part of all of this. That's
a six. That's a six. That's a success. That's
a progress and an experience. I think, crucially,
like, what he's doing here, what Thermal is doing
here is... He's playing defense. He's not throwing
any offense. And in doing so, he's like very
calmly explaining, you know, what she did, what,
what, uh, what, uh, Neville or food, what the
lever food said. Like he's a clearly explaining
all of this while using his powers to defend
so that he, you know, targeted it's targeted
pacifism and then like waiting waiting for the
right moment to strike back like it's he's playing
he's specifically playing to the cameras a little
bit uh we're getting a little bit pro wrestling
which i'm very excited about i'm on the top of
this car they haven't managed to knock me off
yet they're swerving they don't want to have
the windows open now because i tried to get in
the car when they did that they're just swerving
the thing i want to try to do is calculate a
gravitational pull on the car that will just
like we're nearing a bridge and I want to just
pull the car towards the lake because at least
they won't be able to get away and I will be
able to like get them out of the car to safety
but you know they'll be in the lake and I'm trying
to calculate angles so this is this I think is
a mind roll I am using my ability another die
from failing that roll 3d6 one two Six. Yay.
So I manage to get the right angle that the car
ends up at the lake. Go up to four progress.
We've got three progress. I want to go for one
or two more. I would like to have one more progress
point before I try and solve this. I think that
like if we're going to end this, I think she
does have me in a position where if there's a
move that I make and it's on camera, they're
going to use it against me. So I'm going to melt
these cameras. that's a five and a six that's
a progress uh going beyond melting the cameras
because i think that like uh i think there's
actually a more ambitious maybe master plan that
we can like put this whole thing to bed with
i am like specifically like melting computer
wires and things to set up uh like and also the
cameras to kind of like block this away and i'm
gonna roll once with power plus ability I've
got the cameras melted. We're locked in the room.
She is, you know, crackling lightning from her
eyes and throwing lightning bolts. I am going
to specifically blow up the computer console
that controls the restraints on the portal to
force her to have to deal with that and me. So
it's four dice to get a fifth point of progress
here. And that's a six. That's a fifth point
of progress. I'm going to try and just pull the
car out of the lake with my powers. But then
they will be, like, in my control, you know?
And probably the car won't be able to go because
it's full of water. This power roll. And I'm
using my ability. 3d6. Need a 5 or a 6. 3. 5.
And another 5. That's okay. Okay. We're up to
5 progress. That's great. I pull the car out
of the lake. I think we start to hear, uh, Nevler
food, like start to like punch through the punch
through the portal. She's kind of in a panic
mode moment of like, it's not yet. It's not time
yet. Like we're not, we're not at full, you know,
um, or actually I like, because her ultimate
plan was to have, uh, Nevler food come out. Like,
I think what I actually want it to be is maybe
triggering a meltdown. Like all this energy is
going to flood into the streets and cause like
an absolute catastrophe. And she's kind of. A
little bit panicked. Obviously, like, you know,
you can't rule the world if it's been burned
to ash. So, forcing her into a position where
she has to shut down the operation. That's the
play. Like, you know, you were playing with fire.
He's going to say, you were playing with fire.
Here's the whole damn inferno. And we're going
to roll five dice. This is mind. It is not resisted.
It is resisted. Mind is resisted. Crap. Great.
Okay. Five dice. We need a six. And I am going
to try and solve this problem. Unbeknownst to
me, the leader of the mafia is in this car. I
am holding the car just barely above the water.
Sorry, about the road. So the tires can't gain
traction. And I do that until the engine sputters
out from getting soaked in water. And I put the
car down. And the door opens. And this like scary...
And hot woman in the best, the most perfectly
tailored suit of all time steps out, looks me
in the eye. And she's like, oh my goodness, all
of this for a little shoplifting? And I like
kind of laugh and I'm like, stealing from a person,
not from a store. And I guess that's worse. I
don't know. But also I know how this town works.
And I know you're up to something. I just don't
know what it is. And... I want to try and convince
her to tell me what's going on because I don't
even know what the villain's plan is yet. I haven't
none of this has come up. I want to get her to
tell me what's going on and give up. Kind of
like give her a more appraising look. And I'm
like, what? What's your crew doing holding up
tired droids on the street anyway? She smirks
a little. She's like, well, you're right that
there's more going on. I'll admit, I thought
it would be more exciting than it has been. And
I'm going to roll to try and solve this problem.
This is heart. We're talking. I have five points.
One of the angles I'm thinking of here is that
she's like, this, this, this mafiosa thinks that
maybe I'm more interesting than the lightning
speedster who has hired her crew. And so he's
thinking of abandoning the mission for that.
And also theoretically is kind of like, it's
not worth it. We didn't really think that there
would be this much pressure on us this quickly.
You're clearly very determined. So she's pretty
close to just throwing it away and finding me
more interesting than the lightning speedster.
5d6. And just one of them needs to be a five
or a six. Four. Six. Two. One. Three. Doesn't
matter. Had. Six. Oh, I'm so sorry. that's a
six that's what we needed that's what we needed
that was a six great good okay wonderful we did
it uh the plan was a success she shuts down the
operation um and i think uh like she shuts it
down he uh Not great because that's supposed
and it's already opposed that like as she shut
down the operation that he had been broadcasting
everything back into the summoning room with
the Velra food so that now it is known that like
she abandoned the plan to bring him to the surface
has accepted like I know that you can't. be brought
to justice via the authorities. But if you backstab
a demon prince and shut down the project, the
terms of his agreement, he's not going to be
very happy with you. And Thermal flies off, disappears
into the night, and goes about his day. And that
is my seventh point in inspiration. So we're
good, no matter what happens. I got my achievement
ending. And it is very much, I'm just realizing
how much I love the stupid sexual tension ending,
of course. She, like, looks me up and down. And
she's like, can you lift the car again? And I,
like, sort of, like, disgruntled, confused look.
And she just steps away from it. She's been leaning
on it. She just steps away and gestures. And
I do. I lift it a little. I step forward and
lift it and put it back down. And she's like,
huh, how'd you learn how to do that? I just sort
of shrug, gesture to the sky. And she's like,
ah. Sure. Well, gonna be honest, I've been out
of town for a little while. Me and my whole crew
have. And so when someone contacted us with a
job, it seemed like a really good opportunity
to move back. And you know, I think moving back
is a good idea. She puts a hand on the hood of
the car and it's just steam starts rising out
of it. She's evaporating all the water out of
it with magic to make it work again. And she
says, Because this town really is as interesting
as I remember, actually. Looking me up and down,
I like step back a little and flush. And she's
like, look, I'll call my people off. The rest
is up to you. But why were we robbing tired droids?
Because somebody really has it out for people
with a little bit of spark. You know what I mean?
And I'm like, I do not. And she laughs. And she's
like. Go to this abandoned warehouse. You know,
she she just says an address and gets back in
the car and they drive off. All right. Now we
get to help out a neighbor. Eighteen, five, ten.
A caring community leader carrying their. Oh,
crap. I forgot Mrs. Juarez's groceries. Shit.
Oh, God. Oh, no. Brainstorm is trying to create
a time displacement zone and they need the. the
parts from the tv station so they know what the
weather will be like when we get there and they
are trying to mind control the mayor into believing
that the tv broadcasts which are saying that
it's december 27th 1978 are correct and they
will convince everyone including the mayor That
it is still the 70s and therefore cybercrime
legislation doesn't exist yet. And therefore
they can't be prosecuted. This makes perfect
sense for a superhero comic. Shh. It does. Shh.
I'm going to go to this abandoned warehouse.
The lightning speedster is in there. And I had
wrote that they were determined and worried.
I like the idea that they're doing this for a
good reason, but they're doing it in a terrible
way. They're trying to... Bring eternal darkness.
And I do think it is literal. They are trying,
they targeted this droid because they're genuinely
trying to destroy sources of electricity. It's
only step one, you know, but they're like, if
I want to take out artificial light, that's the
first thing. And I think it's like, lightning
speedster. They recently gained powers in weird
circumstances that was like some you know demigod
is like i'm gonna be bringing i'm gonna crash
the sun into the earth i'm i'm gonna light forever
and is is this demigod is like drawn towards
light and is is wants to like make everything
brighter and is a god of light pollution and
this gave this person powers in this is a crossover
They have their whole other thing going on in
their series. And they were like, we just need
less light. And then maybe this horrific goddess
will ignore us. It'll be worth it. And they were
the one to bring the mafia in to do this. But
that's the plan. I don't know that yet, but I'm
just explaining what the plan is. And they are
at this warehouse. They don't have good control
over their powers yet, right? Like there's just
broken shit everywhere because they keep accidentally
like running through walls as they're trying
to get control of their powers while also trying
to stop this, this, this thing. Oh, no. Oh, God,
no. I got too wrapped up in the aliens and the
dimension portals, and I was going to pick up
her groceries. I got seven texts, all increasingly
angry, but in a way that feels like she's not
mad. She's just disappointed. Oh, I'm so sorry,
Ms. Juarez. All right, I got to go get groceries.
I got to get groceries. I mean, I'm using my
powers here because speed is the name of the
game. So we are blasting off with fire and all
the speed in the world. That's going to be five
dice. Anything that's not heart is resisted.
So I need a six here, but I got five dice. That
somehow is not five dice. That's fine. That is
a point of discredit. The way to help Terrence.
And stop this would be to boost the TV signal
coming from Terrence and counteract the TV signal
coming from the low pressure front secret lab.
Stores are closed. It's been a long enough time
that like stores are closed and I'm going to
have to like figure something else out. Uh, we're
going to go mind to see if like, again, if I've
got any favors that I can call in, I can't invoke
my powers here, but I do have a third dice. That's
a six. Okay. That's a progress. That's our first
progress. Uh, and that's a resistant role. So
that's an experience point. Great. Good. Fine.
Wonderful. Because this is the climactic fight
of this arc of my comic book. Probably the first
thing that they're going to do with their technology.
Oh no. Brainstorm's secret. underground tv station
is broadcasting on a frequency that incapacitates
all the local dogs i can hear it because of my
special dog powers i can hear it as like you
know when they had that thing that was like supposed
to stop teenagers from hanging out places so
they played a noise that was annoying to teenagers
and no one else could hear i can hear A terrible
noise, but I can work through it. It completely
incapacitates vampire and all local dogs. So
I think the first thing that I want to do is
try and catch them. It's not that they're running
away from me. It's that they don't know how to
stop. They are like caught in a loop. I walk
up to this warehouse and I'm looking for them
and I can't find them. And then they run by me.
Then they run by me again. And it just becomes
like, oh, you can't. You don't know how to stop.
And I think this could either be power or skill.
Is it precision? Because I think I'm going to
use my gravity. I'm going to try and catch them
in my gravity and slow them down enough that
they can stop. And is that like a big show of
my power? Or is it about making sure that I get
in their way? I think it's power because it's
like I have to rely on them to like angle towards
me. And I'm just trying to like provide enough
gravity that they slow down. So, got a 2 in power.
I am using my ability. So I'm rolling 3d6, and
it just needs to be a 5 or a 6. 6, 2, 6. We're
good. Go up to 6 progress. What can we do to
amplify our signal? Oh, I bet you there's like
a superhero satellite, like the Justice League
used to live on a satellite. I can link the system
here up with the... existing satellite uplink
from the superheroes briefly giving me enough
time to broadcast hey it's 2025 you dinguses
it's not 1978 i wasn't even born in 1978 chances
are neither were you it's a little meat cutie
right in that like they are pulled towards me
and i literally catch them in my arms and i'm
like hi and they're like hi Thanks. I am. Ow.
And I like carefully put them down on the ground
and they're like rubbing their legs. And they're
like, I don't really get why. If I can go super
fast, it hurts. I'm so sore. I've been running
all day. And I sit beside them and it's going
to be another heart roll. I'm going to roll my
progress to try and talk them down because I
think it's really easy. They don't want to be
doing this. And I just sit beside them. I'm like,
yeah. Don't have a lot of control over your whole
deal, huh? They shake their head. Is that why
you hired those witches to steal light bulbs
or whatever it was? They like laugh and shake
their head. They're like, no, it was stupid.
And they explain the whole thing that I was talking
about earlier. And I'm like, whoa, heavy. And
I know heavy. Kind of, you know. pull something
closer with my gravity and they laugh shakily
and i'm like look i uh i sympathize but i think
there's got to be another way right and they're
like yeah yeah probably i don't know what though
i shrug i'm like you know what i normally do
is uh ask some other people you know when i can't
figure something out and they're like who would
i ask and i gesture towards the town that we
are just outside of. And I'm going to roll 66.
And this is a heart solution, theoretically.
Just need five or six. Two. Two. Five. Five.
Six. One. All good. I only have seven check marks
because that's what we're going to, but I added
another one so that I can go to eight. And, uh...
Yeah, I have convinced them to stop this plan.
I think they're like, I gotta make a couple calls.
They have to call off the goons in a few different
cities who were all trying to just destroy electricity,
basically. That was their overall goal. It wasn't
very well organized. This was not a good plan.
And I've convinced them to stay in this town,
at least for a little while. We're going to do
a big crossover series once this arc has wrapped
up for me. It's great. Everybody's been looking
forward to it. They love... Everyone has wanted
these two to meet. I don't know why yet, but
they have. I've got some people that owe me a
favor. Kelvin does a lot of things and makes
a lot of people owe him a lot of favors. If the
stores are closed, at least I know people that
I can kind of cajole into letting me into their
stores after hours. So I'm going to see if I
can get there. Without, uh, get there on time
with my powers. That's an enemy to six. That's
a six. Somehow a one out of five dice is a six.
That's a great, that's wonderful. We're able
to like get around the city using powers and
ice slides and all those kinds of fun superhero
things. So first I'm going to roll mind to see
if I can successfully connect my signal to the
local TV station. Yes, I can. Yay. And unfortunately,
next I have to roll heart to know if I convince
these people. No, I don't. Oh, our favorite sci
-fi program from the future is on, I hear people
in the neighborhood mutter. Damn. Damn and blast.
i'm gonna roll skill again it's gonna be i mean
it's already resisted so i'm gonna roll skill
again using power to like now that i got the
stuff i just got to get it to her interesting
what does a failure look like here uh extra dice
next time I'm still technically wanted by the
authorities and I am zipping around the city
and there is going to have to be a power. Like
I'm going to have to do power plus special ability
to avoid getting caught by the authorities as
I try to rally these. That's a very Spider -Man
sequence, but I'm very excited about it. I need
a six year. I'm getting an extra dice for that
experience point. I needed it because that is
one dice out of five is a six. So that's a third
point of progress. Blowing through, you know,
blowing up cop cars and like smashing windows
and freezing things and then giving them a tap
so that they crack in like a spider web. Throwing
grocery bags in the air as I hit people with
like a fiery sort of like M. Bison fiery spear.
You know, doing real superhero stuff, but all
while juggling bags of groceries. I'm going to
bring them with me. I'm going to be like, hey.
Let's start meeting people. And maybe you can
buy, you owe my friend some stuff. And now we're
going to go back to Rally, who is still in slow
motion picking up their groceries. And I grab
the receipt and just quietly hand it to the lightning
speedster. And they very quickly dash off to
the grocery store. I help clean the rest of it
up, salvage what's there. And I tell Rally, like,
My friend's replacing your stuff. They'll meet
us at your place. You want to hop back on? We'll
take you home. And they're like, yes, I would
appreciate that. I'm going to roll one more skill
plus power. So that's five dice. Again, need
a six. Just trying to get these damn groceries
back to her place. How did I fail this again?
How did I fail this again? What is happening
here? That is a sixth point of discredit. Signal
interruption. Dogs. Oh, I know. I'll steal a
plot beat from Back to the Future and go and...
If they believe that 2025 is the sci -fi far
-flung future year, I'll go to a sci -fi nerd
and convince them that I'm a time traveler. And
I require them to... I will go to the 1978...
No, this doesn't make any sense. This whole plot
doesn't make any sense. It's happening, though.
I'm going to go, you know, do kind of a repeat
of the same riff, which is like, uh, I love that
he's got these groceries and it's just like an
ever increasing, uh, number of like people involved
in this. And now there's press and councilwoman
Joella is watching and calling for his arrest
and his capture. And so like now there's a whole
media circus. So I've kind of just got to like
figure out like while I'm here and I am taking
so many things here, I'm taking an extra dice
for that role. I'm taking an extra dice for Councilwoman
Joella being on the scene. I'm rolling four dice
here and rolling mine to see if I have somebody
that I can hand these off to amidst the chaos
to get those groceries to Miss Juarez. That's
a six. Okay. That's a fourth point of progress.
Great. That's a fourth point of progress. I'm
going to go to the public library and find the
local sci -fi. club because they have to meet
in person because they believe it's 1978 and
they therefore don't know how to meet online
anymore and I will convince them as a group that
I'm from the future which I will do easily because
I have modern technology with me and they'll
be like oh my goodness look at that that worked
they believe me I'm from the future I need your
help to restore the future I bet some of you
are CB radio guys. I bet we can use that signal
somehow. My friend Hero is a bike messenger and
is doing rideshare stuff. And so he happens to
be nearby. I'm going to slide him this bag of
groceries, slip him an address, and I'm going
to roll four dice with heart to see if they get
to Miss Juarez in one piece. I'm gonna roll my
66 progress. This is power, because I'm lifting
them again. And I've been doing a bunch of shit
since we last met, so this is genuinely difficult.
I guess I can throw my ability on there, right?
So let's just say it's 76. Whatever. We're all
good. Yeah, we're gonna amp up the CB radio broadcast,
and so I get an extra... die we're gonna get
all of the sad dogs belonging to the sci -fi
club people to all howl into the radio transmitter
and we're gonna broadcast that and see if we
can just drown out the bad guys tv signal by
being louder that's a six that's what we needed
that's a success that's a point of inspiration
six right away we're good And we can! Oh! Echoes
throughout the town. Everybody's waking up as
if from a dream. Looking down, going, why the
hell am I wearing 70s clothes? Have we been stuck
in a time loop? Uh, sorta. And now that everybody
realizes, wait a minute. That's not the weatherman
that's usually on our TV. Terry, where are you?
And Terrence is going to make his triumphant
return to the studio. And Terrence is going to
punch out the new weatherman who is, of course,
Brainstorm. And Brainstorm, I've decided, has
probably got some, like, cyborg parts. So he
punches the guy and he crackles in a way that
punching human flesh shouldn't. And short circuits
Brainstorm's storm brain. She gets her groceries
and we're all happy. I'm going to mark a power
achievement. And yeah, I carry them home. Speedster
meets us there and helps set all their stuff
up and apologizes a bunch. And Rally looks at
them super judgmentally for all of the trouble.
I'll bring, I think I'll even bring Speedster
home to crash on my couch. That's where we go.
Let's end this day and finish it up. I think
I'm going to recruit Terrence as a new superhero.
Stay tuned next week, folk, for the adventures
of Blue Shepard and the Weatherman. I don't know
if that made any sense to anybody, but... Our
show is over for now. Same dog time, same dog
channel. Good night all. Why did this weird light
goddess give somebody super fast powers? I don't
know. Oh, speed of light. Never mind, I do know.
Fast. We're good. Don't worry about it. The thing
I'm going to permanently solve is... The goal
of bringing eternal darkness because for better
or for worse, we now have this person who has
related powers to light in town. Doesn't matter
because we're not going to play that out, but
it's true. I purposely didn't get any XP really,
except for one during that. So we're just going
to go to ending the journey. We landed in an
interesting place. It is the end of our day and
it is the end of the final day of our playthrough.
After a long time of fighting crime and helping
neighbors, you can finally stop and see how your
actions changed your neighborhood. When one of
your reputations reaches 10, or in our case 7,
it means you have done all you could for your
community, either by achieving improvements or
by showing ways your neighbors can contribute
to a happier, peaceful life, even if through
your shortcomings. When you've earned 7 points
in a single achievement, it means you have reached
a larger, long -term solution for all of your
neighborhood's problems through acting according
to that reputation. It's time to create a scene
about the ending of your journey, detailing all
the changes brought by the reputation you've
built. However, we ended up with seven points
in two separate categories. So I'm going to answer
both of these questions. I have six points in
destruction, discredit, and misreading, but I
managed to also get eight points in inspiration.
Holy shit. We begin with control. Your journey
as a hero has allowed you to understand the neighborhood
and its problems like nobody else. You know every
little detail about it, and you have a detailed
plan to solve any issue that may ever show up.
Describe how your planned contingencies protect
your city from harm. Kelvin did odd jobs for
people. And I think what this looks like is like
a job posting board. Or like a community... like
a community outreach group like a like a neighbor
not quite not a neighborhood watch but like a
neighborhood like service org like it's like
neighbors helping neighbors right like i think
like he kind of people start you know People
owed him favors. He owed other people favors.
And that went from knowing that he had a friend
who was doing rideshare and that he could, like,
hand them a bag of groceries to knowing that
he has a councilwoman on file if he needs a city
council. And if that councilwoman needs a vigilante
to hate on, she's got that. Like, deals and favors
are a thing that this character has traded in.
And I think, like, that has taken the shape of...
neighborhood itself inspiration among all your
great accomplishments none compared to the most
important of all you made your neighborhood feel
seen appreciated and understood Sure, it was
nice that you were able to defeat the villains
and rescue all those cats from trees, but the
reason those deeds meant so much was because
your neighbors knew that to you they mattered.
Even the villains felt seen, and you showed them
there was another way. Describe how your actions
brought your community together and inspired
love and peace. How did you, your neighbors,
the redeemed villains, and the new generation
of heroes work together to turn the neighborhood
into a more kind and accepting place? I did actually
redeem three of my four villains, right? The
mercenary, the speedster just now. There was
the Mafiosa, who wasn't explicitly a villain,
but, you know, has some stuff. The Beaver, Captain
Bucky, Captain Buck, has been tricked, question
mark, into helping the electric grid. All of
these people that were causing problems, even
the very first person, like, who was trying to
blow up the town square, goes through, like,
an accountability and rehabilitation process.
And begins to be a contributing member of society
again. Not in a hashtag productivity makes you
a person way, but in a like, I'm not going to
do evil things. I'm going to help people kind
of way. And it's just like, it's so obvious that
we already, we're already a weird town. We already
have this very unusual unity between science
and magic. And we just need to love harder. We
need to open our arms and invite people to be
with us. And we can do that. We do that. We pull
people in, even when they are trying to target
us. We have a hilariously high villain redemption
rate because we can always find somewhere to
put people. It helps that I think we got a lot
of, there's a lot of moral grayness here, you
know? There's weird magic users, covens, evil
scientists who just... We manage to channel their
ambition into something that is overall productive
and good. Like Captain Buck. We allow them to
be recognized for the good things that they do
and it feeds that in them. We're just really
good at finding places to put people to get what
they need and to contribute. And it's great.
My smaller things, like that is the biggest one.
But for misreadings, which is one of the ones
I got at least half in. Describe what measures
your misreadings inspired the community to take
in order to better understand people and solve
their problems. What sort of social programs
did your journey help kickstart? What did those
programs accomplish? I think it's exactly, it's
just, it's very similar to what we were just
talking about, right? It's programs to help people
learn how to apply their skills in different
areas to show them that there is, they have a
choice. That even if they have everything I touch
lights on fire. power. They don't have to be
an arsonist. They can cook things if they want
or blow glass and be a metal worker. People come
from all over, I think, to come to these programs
and it's great. There's also the destruction.
Describe how your neighborhood developed ways
of protecting themselves from any kind of destruction
and of helping each other recover when destruction
strikes. How did you help them rebuild, resist,
and implement ways of teaching new heroes how
to control their powers? I mean, shit, that's
the same thing. It's those same programs. And
I think, you know, there's this big, ooh, part
of this is about, like, trying to help train
this speedster to control their super speed.
And they run into somebody else who can't control
their powers and bring them back and start training
them and it just spreads. And they sort of amalgamate
into the, like, learning how to use your powers
in a way that's nice -ies. So it's also like,
okay, first, before 101, level 100, being in
control of them so that you can choose what to
do with them. And I think like part of the thing
here is that I retire a little, right? Which
I will get into, like, I'm not as necessary because
all of this stuff is happening. And I think I
really, I loved helping to fix, when I went and
just like used my powers to lift stuff at construction
sites. I was like, oh, this rules. Wait, can
I just help build things? Oh, yeah, that's what
I want to do. And that's one of the things is
that we're good at rebuilding because that's
one of the things that I move into and our processes,
processes, whatever, really ramp up around that,
which is necessary because we have a bunch of
people coming to us who don't have control of
their powers. Or are really inclined to act out
because they haven't learned how to channel them
appropriately. And I'm just there helping. Helping
to rebuild. But not actively getting in their
way. Just doing cleanup. Which is nice for me.
Then I've got Discredit. All the times you got
yourself in trouble for not being particularly
good at kicking ass and taking names were a lesson
to your neighborhood. Superhero work is hard
and only those prepared should engage with it.
That's why you inspired the best generation of
heroes that ever lived, taking your failures
as a showcase of what not to do. How did you
and your community help in that process? What
sort of measures did your neighborhood implement
to make superhero work easier and safer? This
one's hard. I think what we see is like a black
town car pull up and like men in black step out
and they've got like gauntlets and we see kind
of fire behind their eyes and like demon runes
kind of running across their skin. and a rusted
old van pulls up in front of them and like six
people roll out of it in also makeshift haphazard
superhero costumes uh one of them's got a baseball
bat one of them uh we see like uh one of the
there's a robot driving so we clearly can see
that like animatronic is here helping in some
capacity and They have formed a neighborhood
defense league. Nobody's going to come fuck with
our neighborhood because we've got six people
with powers that can roll up if we need it. Oh.
Oh. This comes in part from a conversation between
me and the speedster. I said to them, you know,
when I was convincing them to come help, to give
up their brief dalliance into a life of crime,
I ask other people for help. I don't try to just
figure things out on my own. And at a certain
point, you know, they point out to me that that's
not always true. I end up doing a lot of stuff
by myself. And it's because there was no one
else to help. And so the thing about this is
that teamwork becomes really emphasized. Not
relying on one person. Ever. Always being able
to call for backup. Always being able to disseminate
information. Crowdsource. Brainstorm together.
Work together. Solve things as a community. Not
even just, not even through powers all the time,
you know? Just through working together. knowing
what you're good at, knowing when to ask for
help. And that becomes extra important, even
among people who have a tendency to like get
a little individual and isolate. Don't do that.
Be part of a team. This neighborhood is taking
care of itself very like tangibly, intangibly,
practically, theoretically. And I, I mean, this
started with me. I dropped out of school, right?
And I was living here. So I think one of the
things is, My mothers return home. They see someone
sleeping on the couch. Everyone's startled. And
then they chill. We talk about what's been going
on. And I think, I think we're talking about
what they were up to. We're talking about the
moon. And I learned that they're trying to build
a little base or something on the moon. And the
thing that happens is that I'm like, can I come
help? and they say that they weren't planning
on going up there, but that I can. I can go for
a little while. They can arrange that. And I,
having realized in my time in the construction
and repair how much I just love building stuff,
and it'll be harder on the moon because my powers,
I think, won't be as effective. Maybe. I don't
know. Probably. Though I have been training them
more. I don't know. You'll have to check out
that series to see. But for now... I have seen
this neighborhood taking care of itself, taking
care of each other. And I'm going to go hang
out on the moon for a little while. Do some building.
It's going to be great. As for where Kelvin is,
I think that he's just kind of, you know, maybe
we pan over and we just see him in the pinball
arcade. He's just got he's he's getting that
high score tonight because for once the neighborhood
doesn't need him for anything. And he's going
to enjoy that. And that is the end of our game.
Yay, we saved golden pastures. Hurrah! Good luck
out there, Orbit. This has been Folio, an actual
play podcast about solo and otherwise self -paced
TTRPGs. To find where you can find the show,
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and I finished our games of Friendly Neighborhood
Superhero by Catscratcher Studio, found at Catscratcher
.itch .io. Everything I mentioned here is linked
in the show notes. Thanks so much for listening.
Take care out there. Let me know what you thought.
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in the first episode, I rarely solicit, like,
hey, if you listen to the show, talk to me. But
hey, if you listen to the show, talk to me. I
don't know. There's a blue sky. There's an email.
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