Amberville Heroes #48

Hello and welcome to another episode of Amberville City Heroes. I am the Game Mustard Happy Pughan. I am here with four Rhett, Rooten, Fruit Salad, Motherfuckers. We've got Shannon, Banana.

Hi. Yeah, you kind of did a name again, but that's what you always call me, so it's not the different. Yeah, Jake Blueberry's. Okay, the Melon Boller.

James, the Giant Beach. Pcons and Fettucches Go Well. Hey. In Sophie Strawberries.

Uh, da da da. Yep. Don't know. Don't know.

What do you mean you don't know you? What do I say? Bruce Island? Yeah.

All right. Sure. Good. I was easing my way back into names.

I wasn't ready to jump back into it. I've been hurt. I need to be gone. Okay.

I heard you. I heard you do it with the villain's the other night and I was a little heartbroken. I do. I do host another show.

I thought that this might be a surprise. What I thought was uncool that she had to kick Mike back out of bed that night is fuck up. It's all set. He's having a good D.

Okay, so. Not what I'm at. It's good. It's good.

I'm sure. I'm not sure. I'm at. I'm at a crossroads because we believed that a large man would go to a buffet.

Our intuition was correct. This is a detective show. Yes. Yes.

Yes. We're trying to find Remin Bessalt. Yes. That was like six episodes ago.

We should be caught up by now. No change. Anyway, rubber maiden was with us. Right?

Yep. And if a memory serves the plot in the quality of a meringue. Yes. Yep.

It's a real thing. Basically take meringue put it in the oven and you get these kind of crispy marshmallow-y treats Nice. Fancy. Awesome.

But yeah, the plot hinged on that. Yes. And we all pulled together and obscurity pulled through made the best Marine killer whale has ever tasted. Was lettuce to some warehouse?

Yes. He gave us some information of where they took them to assault marine, right? Sure. Yeah.

Yeah. So we went and investigated and there were a loading warehouse and obscurity did some reconnaissance and bug some trucks that they were loading up. And then we kind of just sat back and waited to see where they went, let us do another warehouse with, what's their name? Baby.

Yes. Annabelle, baby and Omega, April, maybe excuse me. She's like a big multi-billionaire, you know, so it's some big rich joke. And a big ape with a jet back.

And I'm guessing like a flash Gordon, a yeah, like a picture flash Gordon, but like, but it's really, yeah. He's not like a super intelligent girl, right? No, he's intelligent for a gorilla. He's dumb for him.

He may not know how to use that jet back very well. No, no, he's like compared to other apes. He's real smart. Yeah.

So aside from a bo megah and it's a warehouse, what was happening on query side of fence? I was having a query side of fences that they were meaning to lose all of their memories. And fund evidence that essentially someone's mind controlling them when they were unconscious and have no memory of it and doing shit. So they kind of are struggling to deal with it and eventually decide to just give up the superhero costume and leave town, but not before talking to Wayfarer and giving Wayfarer a bunch of information by their past.

All right. So what we will start is with a query. What are you doing? They are off doing their thing.

I'm going to steal city. All right. You are traveling to steal city. Yes.

You arrive in steal city. OK, I'm going to the Irons Building. Try to find iron justice. All right.

You encounter iron justice. Great. Are you just out in public? No, I'm trying to go to his office and set up a meeting with his receptionist and wait there until he gets there.

Oh, OK. I'm dressing in disguise. So I probably look like just like a middle aged woman wearing a, I don't know, a caddy shirt. OK.

Sounds good. Yeah, eventually you are allowed to his office. Pretty standard fair. I'm going to ask if I can close the door to iron.

Like, sure, go ahead. OK, great. Jeffrey, do you recognize me? I do not.

OK. I need to do something right quick. And I don't want you to react negatively. I'm not going to hurt you.

Whoa, whoa. Querry is going to reach into their jacket and then hold up what kind of looks like a little box, almost like a vapor egg or something off like that. Right. And then press a button and about five or six little robotic insects crawl out from the walls in the bookshelves and they crawl where the box is.

And they say, you probably guessed by seeing the bugs that you have been bugged by me on Querry or see. I'm here because I need your help. OK. What do you need from me?

Well, I'm in a tough position. I am losing my memories. Someone is driving me around. When I'm not awake.

And I'm concerned because what the information I collected can be used for great evil. Fair enough. My problem is that not that I want you to step in and take care of the problem, but that the person who's taking me over will gain access to that information. And I don't have a way to stop them from doing that.

I think I can help you. I would like to put it in your trust. Well, if you trust me, I have some people I would like you to talk to. OK.

I'm going to hand over what looks like a credit card. I'm going to say, after I hand you this, Jeffrey, I will never touch this information again. OK. Don't know what's in there.

I don't know what's going on. And I'm looking to put some of this behind me. All right. Well, come with me and I'll help you out.

OK. All right. We're going to cut back to obscurity. Mm-hmm.

You were sneaking into warehouse. Trying to. Monkey phone chip. Monkey.

This big gorilla. Big gorilla man. This is Russian ad chip. He's rushing it?

Yeah. Remember? He was a Russian ad chip. Oh boy.

Yeah. Can I have a trink on? Can I have a trink on? You can have a.

Yeah. You can have one. OK. I'm a.

He is attacking you first though. Oh. So he is going to try to shoot you with his laser gun as well. He's going to damage.

What do you do? Try to pull out a trink on and shoot him. All right. Roll shoot for your trink gun.

Well, my non-existent shoot. You used a little machine. I don't. I got like a zero.

I'm a girl. Even OK. He's not hit by you for non-shoot. Did it hit anywhere?

Anyone hit a box. OK. Did you remember to take the safety off? Probably not.

The box is out cold. All right. He's close enough now. He's going to punch you.

You dodged his gorilla punch. Your turn. I'm trying to move out of his path to start. All right.

And then I might well I'm obviously close to him if he can punch me. He's just beating towards you via a racquet bag. OK. I'm going to take a trink dart in my fingers and just poke him.

All right. You're going to try to roll. You're going to try to roll fight to poke him with a trink dart. Sure.

That's what I need to roll. OK. Roll fight. You got it too.

I also got it too. All right. Defend it with some ties. Hey, this is his turn.

He tries to grapple you. How does he know where I mean, aside from me flinging stuff at him? He's big though. He grabs you.

Roll. Roll notice. Like, is your question? How does he know you're there?

Is that your question? How is he being that accurate? Or OK. OK.

You do notice that he has a space helmet on and a visor down. And the visor seems like there's a yellow arrow that's pointing directly. Like, when you move to the side, it follows you. OK.

So space helmet is detecting where you are. OK. Yeah. So he's got you grappled.

He has a plus two advantage of that you're grappled. I'm stabbing him again in arm. Ooh, you got him. All right.

You have a plus two advantage. You can use on him of Drowsy. He's going to use his plus two advantage immediately to while you are grappled, he's going to rocket pack to the ceiling and into a girder. Good.

He's rocket packing you up into the girder. You're now flying in the warehouse. Who was outside? Waifur and Grab a Girl.

They both still outside. No, I'm not. That's just me. Where was Waifur?

Remember I went back to Amberville to watch over the city because bad things happen every single time we leave. That's right. I forgot that. Yeah.

So you're still at home. OK. Grab a girl. You're still waiting outside.

Yeah. You've heard nothing. OK. So it's a bunch of time.

It's like, am I just like, man, she should be back by now. No, no, no. No, sneaking takes a while. So you're just in some lightning books kind of fly by for a pretty.

It's kind of a serene night. I'm going to assume there's like elevator music playing when it's going on. Yeah. You get like, you get Twitter notification.

Yep. Nice. I'll respond. Somebody said something about something you commented on like vacation photos or whatever.

Vacation. You like somebody had a vacation photo. Like they went to like some national monument. You're like, oh, that's great.

And they responded with it. It was a lot of fun. Well, it's Twitter. I said, I probably responded with some few pictures.

I have a girl sent for you. What was that guy that you left at the bottom of the ocean? Hey. He knows his way back.

I had a really great time without you. Why you got to be like that? Security. Back to you.

But plus too, he is drowsy from the injection that you gave him. It's your turn. OK. Grabbled in front of him.

Yeah, he's got like you in like a big bear hug, like your wrapped in his arms facing outward. Oops, I hit things facing outward. Facing outward. Like my face isn't like in his chest.

Oh, yeah. He's got like your chest-to-chest. Oh. Your top-to-top.

Your half-trot. Oh, I'm going to try to tickle him. OK. To get him to let me go.

Are you going to try to use your plus duper being drowsy? Yes. You're just trying to create your go-k. So you're using a plus two to create yet another advantage of tickles.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Go. You have a plus two because you're using his drowsy. Six with plus two. Oh, baby.

Some skilled tickle in. So now you have two plus two uses of giddy. He doesn't drop you, but he is giggling now. Okay.

Now, yeah, he's no longer drowsy. He's giggling and there's two uses of the plus two big. This is a weird play. You can't shoot a gun, but you're like, I got the back of his knees.

Tell him a neck, neck joke. It's all be over. Um, he tries to throw you at the ground. Okay.

Athletics. Yeah. I'll let you do athletics. Try and land on my robot feet.

Yeah. I'll let you do that. That sounds good. So I got to two.

All right. You take a little bit of fall damage. You take two damage. Okay.

And Annabelle starts walking in the direction and she says, I don't know who you are or why you're here, but this is the largest mistake you've ever made. He is pretty big, but I really want my friends back. That means I guess. All right.

What's your turn? It's too far away to tickle again. Is I the, I mean, I'm trying to say the tranquilizers, if they hit full effect. Uh, yeah, you, you, you doubled that into two uses of, of Giddy.

He's kind of punch struck now because you've tickled him into Giddy. Okay. I'm going to start moving closer to her. I'm going to try to lead him towards her.

All right. That's all you're doing for this turn. Yeah. Uh, so he comes in for another blast of laser.

He shoots his laser wars. What else can I'm scared to have a burst? Like, itching power. Anything.

I just think it's funny that the way she fights is tickled at the chocolate. Laxed. Hopefully. Christian.

Don't shoot. I'm going to try like duck and roll. All right. Well, I thought it was.

Behind Miss Baby. All right. I got a one. All right.

You take another one. Plats. He's an equal of diamondy, baby. All right.

He can see with another one. She, she doesn't seem to know where you are. Cause she can't see the invisible, but she notices that he's shooting closer to her now. So she's like kind of trying to stand up his line of fire.

I'm going to shout out on my communicator. As you hit your communicator, all you hear are static. Well, that's no good. That's bad.

What do you try to say? You're communicating. Help big gorilla. Okay.

You hear nothing. That's static. Oh, she says all of my buildings are shielded. Oh boy.

So no help is coming here. I'm going to go behind her and grapple her from behind. You're trying to fight her? You are able to grapple her.

OK, the people may have plans on the ground and it looks like he's about to charge. She holds her hand up and she says, who are you? What do you want? I'm a security from Amberville.

I want my friends, Reem and Basalt back. You thought sneaking into my private facilities was the way to do it. Well, yeah. Yep.

Seems that way. Maybe it wasn't the best idea. Guarantee you it wasn't. Who are you looking for?

And why do you think that I have them? Was led here by someone who delivered them to one of your warehouses. Are you willing to talk or are you here to assassinate me? I'm not here to assassinate you.

I just want to my friends back. Are you willing to have a conversation with them? Are you willing to do so without hurting my friends? Don't know who your friends are.

We might be able to work this out in the civilised manner. OK. Will you let me go? Will you back your ape off of me?

Are you happy? Stopped. No, but once I let you go. Yes.

I'll let her go. OK. She says the best way to start a conversation is by skulking in someone's private facilities. You know, I have full within my right to protect my property.

Fair enough. She brushes her coat off. Now I can't see you. Are you going to show yourself?

Not yet. How can I put you at more at ease? Can my friends join? Who are your friends?

My other teammates. Who? Wayfarer and gravity girl. I suppose.

But be aware that all my buildings are shielded and no recordings will come out of here. OK. That's them. All right.

I'm going to go fetch my friends. So Wayfarer is not here. Is that correct? No.

OK. Wayfarer is day back now. I guess I'm not getting Wayfarer. I'm going to go get your gravity girl.

All right. Grab the girl you are interacted with. OK. A voice.

I have no where. Yeah. Hello. Hi, not great.

There's an incredibly large eight. Oh, she'd like to talk. The eight points a time. No, Miss baby.

Oh, OK. If you'd like to come along for backup, sure. OK. They're like an office in there or something.

I have no idea. I didn't get very far. OK. I got monkey hugged and laser shot at me.

Oh, geez. Wait. Monkey has guns and shit. Monkey has a lot of things going on.

OK. He can see where I'm at, even when I'm invisible. Sounds useful. Indeed.

So anyway, we can't record anything, but she wants to have a conversation. OK, let's go. OK, right. So you go back in there is a deed like upper and upper room in the warehouse where there's like a small office.

And she she and a mega are in there. Are you still visible? Yeah. OK.

I see one of you. Are you not going to talk unless I I prefer not to talk to random abyss. Not a random abyss of nothing. Well, then show yourself.

I like to talk to do business face to face with someone I can see. OK, all right. Fine. I will please meet you.

Don't think I've encountered you before. Either of you. Now you're relatively new to us as well. I don't appreciate people breaking into my facilities.

I was outside. Thanks. She did it. Not me.

So I just want to assume that you actually have your own volition breaking into my I walked in. Yes. So you did not have a group decision. No, I'll just say your thing.

Case things go wrong. OK. So what did you need for me? What do you want?

You want to be a result paper making dude and a big stone rocks meant guy. Stone rocks. That guy. Yes.

Always made out of stone rock. No, he's a guy, but he can summon stuff to him. OK. And the guy makes paper.

He controls paper. Controls paper can ease this fair enough. Now I might have come across these individuals. Why?

What made you think that I had? We had an inside tip that they were delivered to one of your warehouses. OK. Do you have any association with Riot Girl?

No personal association at all. Or why should I be dealing with your warehouses? I do a lot of independent research funded from a lot of different areas. Sometimes people provide me with subjects with that research.

I don't ask where they come from and I don't ask where they go. I cash checks and I provide facilities for different avenues of research. Sometimes people bring in subjects. I think this riot girl maybe have worked with someone who had hired me to do independent research provided subjects and took them when I was done with research.

So you don't take volunteers. I don't. You just take random people drop off to you without question. That might concern if they're not on the up and up.

That's their problem. It's don't tell. They're your research products. Yes, it would be.

You talk about doing things correctly and yet you're OK with just taking random people and performing research on them. They're not random. They're given to me by whoever asked me to research on them. I don't know by what means they cured them and I'm not one to ask a contractor where they got their materials.

Seems pretty shady. We see things differently. I said all you needed. But you said you may have seen these two.

I may have, yes. They sound vaguely familiar. Is there a way for you to find out if you have seen them for sure? That's a lot of digging through paperwork and if they were part of a specific project, I can tell you the conclusion of that project within the bounds of whether or not it's legal for me to say.

Back orders and non-disclosure agreements aside. You have a record of who brought you subjects? Yes. What which project are you?

I don't know about it. Project is. But massacre. It's part of it.

I do know of him. Yes. He has brought be quite a bit of business in the recent months. Our business had just concluded actually.

OK. He had a series of subjects that he had brought in for a project. And after we were done, I gave him back his research subjects and he took them away. And with the discoveries that we made through the research, we split equally as per our contract.

So they come to you alive and leave alive? Yeah. I mean, they were heavily sedated for the most part, but I did not capture any of them. But the same person picks them up and straps them up.

So if you're looking for your friends, the massacre is probably the person to talk to. I'm sure he's fun to talk to. I've only passed in conversation. Can you tell us what the research was?

I'm sorry. I'm not a school shooter group and some guy works and such. It would be a breach of contract for me to tell you. Plus I would want any patented research or technologies that we've gained through that research to be following the hands of some trench coat invisible person and whatever you do from where you're from.

Amberville. Yep. Some podant city in the south. I have no need to get tangled in your affairs.

And I don't want to get an illegal dispute of ownership of rights and patents or finicky things. I understand. Anything else you need for me? Keep speaking about legal and legal and legal and legal this illegal that illegal.

Yeah. It's legal for you to work with these criminals, procuring random people. I don't know that they're randomly brought me research subjects that they told. I am very committed knowledge on where those come from.

Saying you're not really dealing with law abiding citizens here. If you're that concerned with legality. So you're talking more spirit of the law rather than letter of law. I suppose.

Well, I'm more of a letter of the law, Gail. And to me, I don't know where they came from. It seemed legitimate on paper. I was not part of their illegal activities.

That's the end of my knowledge. How long do you know how long ago these research projects were? Within the last few weeks. For these two individuals specifically?

It was a whole batch of individuals that were experimented with. I was slightly were volunteers. OK. And I'm not going to spin the face of someone contracting me to do research by questioning where they get their subjects.

It should be bad form. You are saying the inferiority of this person. I am. A little bit.

It's 40, 20. They're big monkey. Now, is this the conclusion of our business? We wasted enough time talking to you.

At least we know to go to Mascara. OK. OK. Yeah.

I suppose that's it for now. I send you one to have conversation. Please during business hours, make an appointment. Yes, I am.

Breaking and entering isn't really in the confines of the law. You are so endeared. And a curtsy and smile at her. OK.

Jesus, I love it as you leave. All right, where do you guys go? Go back to rubber faydens. Yeah, I guess so.

It's closest. All right. Oh, Wayfarer. Yes, we're checking the city.

Good for me. It seems relatively quiet and calm. That's unusual. I mean, you stop muggying in a robbery and put out a fire here and there.

But I mean, there's no big dumb idiocy happening currently. It's like the Fates hate me. There is some activity at the Church of Orion. OK.

If you care. Sure. What are those we who know what's up to? They're doing they're doing like a big demonstration outside.

They have like all these lights and like a major festival. OK, I'll go see what that's all about. They're all kind of rejoicing and having drinks and like lighting like paper lanterns up in the air up to the stars and like, sorry, it's all right. Is it like doofus new year?

Yeah, I guess I was kind of doofus new year. They're just like celebrating. Oh, Ryan and his glory. OK, I guess I'll keep an eye on it because it's a festival and tends to attract a lot of attention.

OK, a lot of people that aren't part of the church are like, oh, what's this about? And like talking and everyone's like, oh, this sounds really nice. And it's kind of like a big warm thing. Everyone's giving hugs and bracing and they're like, like, we love this community.

I don't understand human holidays. Yeah, so they're having a merry old time. OK, good for them. Other than that, the next seems relatively common in quite a neighborhood.

It's actually kind of a lot of paper lanterns falling in the air, which is kind of pretty. So yeah, like it seems to be like a big old hug fest. They're like inviting people to go on door to door and like passing out cookies and shit. So they're all like gathering the village and join hands and start singing where it's on.

Yeah, so it seems kind of like a Google Christmas kind of thing. Oh, boy. At least searching for their lost princess. They're not searching for any lost princess.

OK, they're just they're just they're just talking about Orion's the same room of mankind. You know, your friend. It's your boy, young Orion. What up?

He's got a belt. This is literally the only thing I know. He's got a he's got a belt. All right, so I am the Greek God of belts.

Leather belt. Oh, he's got a four-speed for same watch out. So all right. So we have fun here.

That's good. God. All right. James, you just said I love that song.

Hell yeah, I do. It's my ring tolling point. James. Query.

How do you just take it into a satellite? OK, cool. Space. And he's like, if you are being controlled by somebody else, it's probably they just have you walking around.

Yes. So if you would volunteer to get to the cell, this will keep you safe while we do the research. Can you provide me with clothing? Yeah.

I'm going to take the outfit off and be like, most of this is weaponized. Put it somewhere where no one's going to touch it. Yeah, they give you they give you an option. There's like a normal outfit.

There's a jumpsuit that some of the civilians on the satellite wear where they work on. I'm definitely getting an MST 3K jumpsuit. Yeah, boy. So yeah, it's a pretty it's just a color jumpsuit.

Oh, you choose the color because red. OK, the red, not the blue, not the yellow, but I'll go with the blue. OK, all right. You get a blue jumpsuit.

All right, you got a blue jumpsuit. He's like he calls in a few people to people walk in God sent and a purple loose right coming. OK, he's like, I know you probably know, but this is God sent. He's our resident magician.

He knows all sorts of magics and he will be able to tell if magic is happening. And this is a purple loose drive. She is associated with a very powerful second. I'm going to point a godsend and say to Monica, rising in Mongolia and I'm going to point a purple loose drive and say the Chicago grand case.

Yeah. Yeah. So we're trying to figure out what's happening to you, say, psychically and magically, see which one of these is the case. And if neither then take it around, but these are the most powerful men to person.

I know I'm talking about this before he leaves. I'm going to say I would like to pull him aside, but I'll just sit there and sit. OK, before he leaves, what do you say? I'm just this.

You know, I do not come to you with any ulterior motives. I monitor people a lot. I know. You're the one that I can trust.

You don't turn your back on people and you don't give up. So thank you. Even if you came here with alternative motives, I would help you. And I know that you know that I just want you to know that it's appreciated because that's not the sort of thing that I know for doing.

Well, it's literally what I would do for most anybody. Just there's something. And they get to work magicing and psychicing. It's a bit weird, but it takes some time.

All right, back to a security and gravity girl. You leave the warehouse. What are you guys doing now? I'm back to Rubbermaidens place.

OK. I mean, letting her know. All right. Go back to her main.

Yeah. She's like, so what's up? Baby wasn't very helpful. No, she's not.

She's terrible. Yeah, I don't like her at all. No, she's like, we've been trying to get her on something for forever. I got squeezed by a big ape.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Kind of hurtin. Gotcha. I guess we need to talk to Mascurr, but I'm kind of tired of talking to bad guys. So you want to track him down?

Kind of have to. I think I think I might be able to help you out with that. Yeah. Yeah.

So you guys, well, I don't know where it is. I'll probably get wayfarer. Right. Well, we should probably get your career together.

Mine are a little bit busy and I can put some on the watch in the town. You need me to help you. I will. That would be wonderful.

I should probably heal up a little bit first. Yeah. So why don't we go to your town? Crash there for a bit, get your people together, heal up, and then we'll track this dude down.

OK. So I'm not fun talking to talking to bad dudes either. I like it. I mean, sometimes you have to swallow your pride and team up with a bad dude, but like for the most part, it's not fun.

Stupid, snooty sour faces. All right. So we're going to go. We're going to go back to your home studio.