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Aug 28, 2015 1 hr 13 min

Villain Underground #1

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We join a new crew of villains, hoping to break out of jail. They make some enemies, and some friends, and see some familiar faces. Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. super hero comics for your ears! This game's master is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Black Legolos (Fred - @Ithinkimfred) and Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_)

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Welcome to the first episode of Villanunderground with me is Fred. Hello. Cody. I'm ready to be bad.

Phil. Hi. And Will. Hello.

And we are we're bad guys. Yeah, we are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, this isn't the BDSM podcast?

Oh, it can be, they're not mutually exclusive. OK, good. Good. Good.

If you want to know what characters are playing, go listen to episode zero. If not, then fucking buff luck. Good. Nothing from playing Golden Arrow.

Wait, did that scrub your playing out? Is that what we're doing now? I just told them, good fucking luck. Now you're going to give them hands.

Don't call them. Don't call them. I'll give them one. There's one of the five.

Or is it four? Listen to episode zero. Yes. Listen to episode zero.

What the sea? If not, then you don't give it shit enough. Whatever. You know, big big big.

See, I have an average area of relationship with all audiences. I don't know why. I just do. You're supposed to cultivate them, not like bash them down into oblivion.

No, that's why I'm not very successful. OK. All right. So we're back, guys.

You guys ready to do your first batting? Yes. You're ready to do your first batting, but too bad, because you're all in jail. You've been pinched.

OK. You've all been pinched for various crimes, but you are in a metahuman prison, and you have not been transferred or processed yet. So you're like in a processing center. That is designed to hold in metahuman.

And all four of you are in the same sidewalk. So did we know each other beforehand? When you did that? We knew each other beforehand, right?

Yeah. All of those stories have taken place. Now, but you all got pinched on maybe different things, unless you want to have been pinched on the same thing. But you've all been pinched.

You haven't been processed, so you're not like fully worked through the system yet. You're just kind of, you were picked up, or stopped by some sort of hero. And then you were all brought here to wait until you can get moved to a facility where you could be properly processed. So now describe this metahuman prison to completely stop our powers, or how are we kind of constrained?

Yes. Yeah, basically, if you have any metahuman magic or whatnot, there are safeguards that kind of block it. So fill your psychic powers are kind of dulled by a psychic wave that's kind of pulsating to the prison. Will your business, even though your robot has been kind of stifled by blockers so you can't get any of your go-go gadget monkey stuff?

There's like a V-ship on me. Yeah, there's like a V-ship. Fred, they took your bow away. Damn it!

That's the way power comes from. And Cody, you're there. I'm no longer a child. I'm a whole man.

You are, but they haven't processed, so they haven't taken all the proper information yet. They just know that you're a bad a year in here. For some reason, something fucked up. And they put a 13-year-old in Supermax.

So well, since we don't have our powers, I'm out of ideas. Yeah. I have a question. I talked to you this before.

Am I still disguised? Do I have my impenetrable headset on so they can't actually see my face? The entire mask? Does your character have a mask that can't be removed?

Yes. That's probably one of the reasons you're a 13-year-old in Supermax, because they're like, well, we'll figure out a way to peel the mask off in a bit. We don't have time to deal with this bullshit. Just put him in a sock here.

So you're kind of in a, you're all in a sub-lock together. And the reason that Robo-Nobo isn't put in a scrap yard, or whatever, is because a couple years ago, there was a bill passed that anything with sentience is considered a life form, so they have to be treated as such. So even though you're a robot, you have to go through the legal system like everybody else. OK.

So you're all sitting there in a sub-lock seat, eating grub, or whatever you're doing. And you're all around the same table. Well, Robo, I'm glad that they didn't scrap you. It's a good thing I paid off that senator.

Well, I'll be back to get that bill passed. Don't Robo-Nobo put that too far down. I wish you wouldn't call me that front of others. What are we eating right now?

It's just prison slop. Robo-Nobo kind of paused at it and throws it on the table a little bit. Robo-Nobo, not like this food. For those of you only listening, what scared just a robot he decided to talk into a pot to keep a robot.

Do the production levels of this podcast as you can. It's good shit. We'll see how that works. Sounds good.

Robo, don't play with your food. That's uncat that. Sensibilized. Walking through the mess hall are two other villains that you guys have heard of.

You haven't really ever done a job with them, but they're nefarious for being just kind of small time crooks, but they're pretty dangerous. They're kind of on the fringes because we don't really have a motive other than having a great time and busting shit up. Their names are splinter and blister, and they're usually a duo. And they happen to be in the same cell block as well.

And they are walking through the mess hall. And you notice them. Well, what do you guys think? You want to ride it?

I think that would be the best way to get out of here. We need to create the destruction. Well, well, we fuck up those two. Jeg, let's go fuck up those two guys.

They're walking by splinter and blister. But they have to take it. They have to take it by bow and all of my power. Well, fucking throw a fork set.

I don't know. We got to trade food in front of us. We'll think of something. It's all right.

Can I pull out like this makeshift ship? Be like, here you go. I found this on one of that contacts in here. Gave me this when I entered.

Jesus. Who do you come at you? OK. You hear some hustle and bustle from some of the guards as well.

There seems to be a hub about not splinter blister. They kind of walked by. But there's another hub about the guards. What are we doing?

Yeah, can I listen in to it? Yeah. Do a notice? Yeah, you can do that.

Roll me a notice or an investigate. Yeah, no. Just either one. Investigate this plus two.

OK. All right. So I got a one, a two, a six and a five. So that is a zero plus my investigate of two.

OK. That's good enough. You hear him talking about how there has recently been a capture of a major villain player. And they are upping security to try to house her.

And she is in transit. And she'll be here within the hour. And some of the guards seem to be panicking about it. Hey, guys.

Looks like they're bringing a big player in here. I think this could be our chance to get out. We maybe just started right. I don't know if that's a thing that somebody suggested or anything.

We could do that. And guard seam on edge. Let's use that to our advantage. That sounds like a button.

I don't know. We could try to dig out also. I don't think that's going to be something that's going to be possible. I nod my head towards Rebel Nubo.

He's chewing his food with his mouth open. And there's some oatmeal type material falling out on the table. Is he staring off into the back of the room? It's going to be exactly what he's doing.

He'll be useful in other ways. I'm not sure about this riot. You can't find it. Not sure about this riot.

But we definitely could use this big player. What do you want to do with Eric? Like, I don't know. Maybe we could incite the guards to be a little bit more well scared of her or him.

I'm assuming. They sent her. They sent her, OK. I'm only assuming.

Give me one second. And Knox is going to get up from the table and walk over the guards. And I didn't know if you guys wanted to continue talking while he goes talk to one of the guards. You're going to talk to one of the guards, Knox?

Yeah. All right. One of the guards is going to stand around. You approach.

I would. I would have. I would have. We're going to have some company tonight.

That's none of your business in mate. I have many businesses, I would say. But I don't give a shit about any of them. Oh, you would.

I would have business with this recent inmate. And I think that you would have business with her as well. You can not give a shit if you want. But she might not give a shit when she splatters your face all over this concrete.

Look, kid, whoever you are, I get paid not a whole lot to take shit from you. The only pleasure I get is busting kneecaps of people like you who step out of line. So can you go back to eat your food? They're going to be locking down in like five minutes.

Just enjoy the food while you can, because she's coming in. Well, you enjoy your last meal as well. There. Go over there, bitch.

I'll try to make eye contact with Knox and raise my eyebrows. Like, try it. I look back at the door like the guard. I look back and just do a little thumbs up in front of him, just so the guard doesn't see you.

So are you writing right now? I will start writing right now. Because, as my aspect says, there's always a way out. Golden edo, you might need to calm down.

I don't know if a riot right now is a smart idea. Well, we've got five cents a lockdown. So like four and a half or? In the streets where I am from, there is a saying.

Yeah. The enemy of my enemy is our friend. Maybe we can use this major inmate that is coming in and have them aid us in our escape. Now, once you say having a riot before our little friend comes in would be a little bit more advantageous to us.

She would be entering an already chaotic zone. She could provide a little bit more chaos. You know me. I'm an OG.

I will do whatever you guys want to do. That's what? We can make, I mean, I guess we don't have to do it today, but we should probably get out of yours as possible. Like, I've grown tired of this surrounding.

Robonobon needs charges anyway. A little bit of time passes. You're like, all right, everybody back to yourselves. Oh, gosh.

They're big enough to get back to yourselves, everybody. Can I try to? So we're setting a rage. Is that correct?

This is what we're doing right now? This is opportune time because they're going to be opening doors a lot of inmates that go back to their cells. This is probably the point where we want this to happen. You are currently not in a position to outnumber the guards, really.

There are a bunch of them trying to shuffle people back into cells. So they're kind of in control of the situation. They're not quite off-kilter if you're trying to look at them strategically. Can I try to levitate a food tray at Splinter or Blister?

Your powers are currently blocked, bro. Can I have a redwood tray at Blister and Blister? Yes, you can throw a tray at them. I'm throwing a food tray at Blister, I guess.

OK, 46. I have a 654 to 3. So that's plus neutral neutral? Yep, absolutely.

So it would be plus 2, and then you'd plus your 4. For shoots, plus 6. So 6. Pretty much, that's pretty epic.

That's your thing. I think described in the book as fucking amazing, or I don't remember the adjective they used. But you did well. You flung a tray at him.

Do you want to describe what happens when you hit him with a tray with your fantastic, as well used? So you threw a tray fantastically at him. Yeah, so being blind, being something that I deal with, my hand starts to kind of touch over the table, looking for something, and in my mind, I can recall my food plate. So that's the first thing I grab.

I kind of do a quick spin, and I just hurdle the food tray end over end seamlessly, and it just knocks Blister in the back of the head. Kind of making his eyes go across the eye for a second, and then he comes to, and probably isn't reached. OK, all right. You knock him in the back of the head.

The splinter and Blister stand up. Blister hurt. They start swearing. And you're like, you motherfucker, you're going to pay for that.

You set up a bit. And the guards come on. Raddling on things. Splinter and Blister, while really angry, abide by the guards.

And they start heading back, but they're looking at you. We don't know they're looking at you. They're talking in your direction. And they're like, when we got out of here, you're going to pay for that motherfucker.

You just fucking watch. Can I use a provoke to get a reaction out of them? Nice. Go.

Yeah, you can go for it. OK. So I roll four die. Good.

Five, six, six. Three plus, one neutral. Two, my plus two provokes. So it's a five provoke.

OK. Describe your provocation. OK. After hearing their threats as they turn around, they're walking back, Robonobo just starts going.

And all the food that he had been eating since he's a robot, he hasn't actually been digesting it. He's just been like, mashing it and storing it in his system. Shoots out and slaps Splinter across the back. Oh, no.

You're just trying to make enemies right away. I'm just not bothered. OK. All right.

Splinter really irritated turns around. He's like, you motherfuckers, I'm going to fucking kill you. And then the guards, like, they zap him with cattle prods. I said, that's happened.

Then they bring him to the ground. And then one of the guards looks over at you guys, like, you better fucking watch it. Go back to your fucking cells, guys. I'm about this bad up.

If I didn't hate these guys right now, and I thought this was funny, I'd be real pissed. I fucking go back to yourself. What is happening? What just happens?

Robonobo no feel good. Oh, Robon. Oh, and then I'll tell Black like it last. Oh, the monkey just vomited on some guy.

That's my boy, Robon. Yeah, it's great, but you know what would be really awesome. Ryan! Do you just say that?

I will actually, yeah, I screamed it. And I'm going to fight a guard. Jesus Christ, OK. How comfortable are you with killing me now?

Oh, game over. I feel like that's going to happen. All right, you're going to try to fight the guards? Yeah, so I have, I'm going to punch them in the face, so using an unarmed attack.

So because my stunts, this is put them up. I get a plus one to fight wall unarmed. And then I have a plus two and one. So I will roll 4d6s minus 3 plus 3, so 0.

OK, so pretty. You just punch the guard and you. All right, so it makes other inmates get up and start writing as well. You punch this one guard in the face.

You kind of knock him down. A handful of other guards come running up, and they're like cattle prodding other prisoners. One of them comes running up and tries to cattle prod you. See how this works.

You got three, so you can use your defense. OK, so how do I do this? You can roll what if you have a power that lets you use physique instead of fight. You can do that, but if not, then you would just use your fight.

So I'll use fight. So I'll still get that plus three because it's a fight. Oh, no, I guess it's unarmed. He's using a weapon, so I don't get that.

Well, you're on armed. You're fine. So you get that. You get three fights.

Too many Christmas. Minus two for my dice roll plus three, so plus one. OK, so he rolled the three, so he hit you for two. So that means you would mark off your physical box two, or three.

So over three or four. I'm going to do two. As the right starts happening, I'm going to get Ro's attention to be like, that man over there insulted your father. I think you need to teach him a lesson in obedience and respect.

And I don't think you'd do anything with that. Yeah, which man are you pointing at? I'm going to point to the guard that I was talking with before. Oh, OK.

Now, we're in the general population area, I guess, with the cells. Yeah, OK. Is there like loose objects around? Is there like a bunk?

Are they like attached? Or anything to the walls? Or is it like you're kind of in the mess hall, so there's tables where the tables are bolted down, but you have these plastic launch trays that are just kind of around. OK.

So Robonobo starts breathing heavily, and he stands up on his hind legs and goes waddling forward, and he's just raking all of the plastic lunches and he's off the table in the direction of the guard. Are you rolling for a scalar? Are you trying to create an advantage? Let's create an advantage.

Not an attack, but let's use that. Let's see, too. Yeah, let's cause an emotional state on the guard. OK, are you going to roll for both of that?

Yeah, I guess it would have to be that. OK. OK, so minus 3 plus 1, minus 2. So it's going to be a 1.

OK. All right, so you're creating an advantage. He's off kilter. So yeah, he's a bit off kilter.

Are you doing it to the guard that attacks Phil, or different guard? It's the one that Knox pointed out, said that he was insulted by. OK, I thought that was a different guard from the one I was attacking. Yeah, that's a different guard.

OK, who's next? Well, I would go in order to promote our notice. But what do you want? I would like to start it.

I don't know. There's not really no ways of attacks, but can I also use provoke in that guard? And as Roba Noba clears off that table just kind of like menacingly, I'm just in the background. And just staring at the guard and kind of do that little throat slash thing across my neck.

Like to intimidate him. Do attack versus will. OK, go for it. That will be 5 and 6 and 2, 1.

So I got a 0, but I got a plus 4 provoke. Nice. OK. So you hit him with a 4 provoke?

Yeah. All right. He seems pretty terrified. He's not advancing with some of the other guards that are kind of swarming around.

OK. Black and I don't know. Would I be able to inflict damage with these plastic trees? To these normal guards?

Yeah, probably. So if I just use them as kind of like projectiles, that'll be fine. Yeah. OK.

If you could just paint the picture, there's one on Phil. Yeah, there's one that's fighting Phil. And there's one that both Roba Noba and Knox are intimidating into oblivion. Because it's like that guy's missile.

What's that? Oh, there's other guards swarming around. There's some other prisoners that have tried to rise up, but they're getting brotted and pushed back into cells. OK.

Excellent. And you said that the one on Phil pulled a teaser? Yeah. He was like a teaser kind of braid.

OK. So then I will use a food tray and I'll spin it at that one. That's attacking the golden arrow. OK.

OK. So it is just 4 dice, right? Yeah. 2, 5, 6, 5.

So that's 3. OK. Then 3, 8, 6, 5. Oh, Jesus.

3 plus 4. Yeah, my chutes are plus 4. So right. Yeah.

And he got minus 2. So the difference is 5. So you're the one that's hitting Phil, right? Correct.

So I want to throw the food tray at his arm and make him tease himself because I knock his arm back over his body. OK. Yeah. That's how it happens.

He's going for another swing on Phil. And then the tray hits him right in the wrist just well enough that he tays himself in the face of all's over. Is that good? Yes.

And then I'm like, I got to go back golden arrow. All right. The guard that you guys are intimidating, he runs out of the hall and pushes the panic button. Oh, shit.

Large metal doors come crashing around the area. The doors was not locking off the mess hall from the rest of the prison except for the cells up above on the walkway. So the mess hall is closed off in the hallways. And then you like alarm goes up.

He fled. That happens in a few more guards come swarming around you. Robinobo and Black Leghroof. You got two swing.

You got swing coming. Well, Robinobo is at a negative three. Black Leghroof is at a zero. It's swinging at you.

OK. So do you exactly need to defend right now? Yeah. Yeah.

Do you choose a field of role or do you just do something like a specific thing we're rolling for? Yeah. Unless you have something that allows you to defend against physicals. Yeah.

So you roll a fight. So then it's 46 again? Yep. OK.

Unless you say something like you want to acrobatics out of the way, then you can use acrobatics. Got it. So I have a one, three, three, five, which is a zero, right? Two neutrals, a positive and a negative and then I have a plus two to fight.

Right. So then you're out of two. So you successfully defend against his feeble attack. OK.

And the guy that's coming up Robinobo, he's going to attempt to, see, he got a two neutral minus one. So he got a plus one to his plus four athletics. So he'll have a five athletics. Nice.

OK. All right. So he just, he totally ate backflood all the way. Yeah.

He actually does the, he leans back and rolls backwards and keeps rolling a couple of times. And when he gets up, he does the pat on the top of his head and goes. OK. OK.

All right. Your guys go, wait, who has a plus two? I have a plus two. I would have a plus four with my mind's eyes static points.

I got a plus two. All right. So Fred has the highest. Who has the next two as plus two?

I do. Knox does. OK. Co then will.

He doesn't have a notice. Oh, does, I have a plus one. Phil has the plus one, right? Yeah.

OK. All right. So it's Fred Cody, Phil and Will. Right.

So that's the order. So Fred. So you said that somebody had attacked me and missed. So they're kind of like in melee range.

Is there an issue with me trying to break away and throw something? Is that like a concern or is there a disengage? No. I would just do it.

OK. Just describe it in a cool way. So as this guard is like coming at me attacking me, I'll see. I'll my toe as it's shuffling along the ground hits another food tray, that indicate to me that there's another thing I can use as ammunition and I'll like kick it up and grab it with my hand and then just like spin it right into his face.

Good. Go for it. Go for it. Wait.

Two, four, four, six. So that's a zero, but plus four for my shoot. OK. Well he rolled a straight zero.

So he described how you knock this guard out. Oh, it just cracks him right in between the eyes and you can just see his eyes go cross-eyed and he just like slumps to the ground and pees himself Okay, all right Cody. Oh, sorry. Maybe she's Knox I've been trying to figure out how to do actually do this the entire time Knox is going to look around the room and try to Like find anyone that he would know personally within the prison itself to create an advantage of I've like I've got an ally here kind of like point somebody out and like like call them over Okay, so you're like trying to connect up with yeah, I don't know if I was used notice or contacts Um, you would probably use contacts.

Let me get a list of characters Okay, I could always make somebody up You can do that. I mean if you want me to make up somebody I can make up I have a gigantic list of characters I can just pull somebody down So you're trying to convince like one of the inmates to fight for use that was happening I'm trying to convince one of the inmates come over and fight like we're like essentially together So even if like the guards start swarming us we have like strength and numbers. Yeah, yeah, okay Okay, so you're trying to call someone else to your cause basically do we roll contact to see how powerful the person is or just like Contact to see if they actually come over or Context or old see how powerful okay. All right, so that's that is a two fours a two and a one so plus one plus contacts Which is a plus two so be a three you see a guy whose name is burn so uh who who you Worked with so I knocked kind of like slowly steps on top of one of the one of the tables They have in the middle room and he looks around and he goes he just kind of like shouts as best he can go hey, but He looks over at you like I've got more awesome jobs if you want them come over here and help me out All right He doesn't get just from the the couple of dudes he was fighting left So as he kind of steps off the table He'll reach up for a high five and as burn goes by they'll both like slap hands and go sit like both of them slap hands And they both kind of like turn to the side go sizzle Alright Okay, um, you know burn because he's part of a group called the additives their villain group for the audience Okay, yeah, and I'm gonna create the advantage of Having a little sizzle put a little sizzle on it Yeah, so whenever someone wants to oh not not the editors the very sorry getting getting my language mixed up He's part of the curves so basically you can invoke that I don't know exactly how you can invoke that What the fact that you have no yeah Well anybody can really but you just you've successfully increased your career, okay, okay?

Golden arrow alright So I think I want to do Sort of a combo I want to try to break a tray in a way to make a shiv So I don't want to combine like athletics or physique with crafts which I have crafts crafts Craft you do remember Cody did have a ship that he handed you shit wait handed it to me Didn't you hand it to him because he wanted to start a riot. Okay cool So I'll grab a guard that's on the ground and hold the shiv up to his neck and try to get the others to stand down Okay, all right, so you're gonna roll like an intimidate or I have the closest thing I could do is provoke I mean for my says what I mean. Yeah, okay, right? All right, so Three and four which are zero two for negative one six four plus one so I just have a plus one provoke Okay, all right you provoke like so you're just yelling at all the guards to stand out.

Yeah, tell them to get back or I'll cut this guy up Okay, all right Robodobo okay is the is the one guard still on me that was swinging or The last thing he did was swing on you. So it's yeah, it's your turn. Okay, the doors. No.

Yeah, okay So the area that ran you said it had a an upper ledge to it was kind of like the yeah, like a balcony Yeah, okay Would I be able to use my physique? To try to overcome by pulling up a table to use it as a ladder to get to the top So you're just trying to get up there. Yeah, I want to use the Zeke to try to use one of the bolted tables to get up to the second floor Oh, you you just got you're just a monkey man. You can just do that.

Oh, okay Like if I just jump up there climb up there myself Yeah, the way fate works is you say I'm a this I can do this and then I Either say you have to make a roll. So basically you're just trying to push your luck. Oh, so you say I'm a monkey man I'm gonna climb up to the balcony. Okay.

You did it. You're a monkey guy. Okay. Yeah, let's do that I Retreat from the guard up the pole to the second floor.

Okay. All right. You won't climb up to the balcony is that all you're gonna do? I Wave to everyone else to follow me Okay, all right.

All right. Um the guard seeing that golden arrow has threatened to murder one of them They they all kind of the back off from the prisoners and I'll start heading towards the lockdown doors That they're kind of retreating from so they're kind of locking you all into the mess all they're like dragging the other guards out So their turn is basically they retreat you so the prisoners are basically loose in the Mess all area and you have one guard with a shiv that your shift to his neck all of the other guard type retreated back out of the Panacroodors and then close behind themselves. So you have successfully taken control of the mess all area. Thanks I would like to utilize my notice and we're in see what I could do to like maybe lift some keys off of this Hostage of ours.

So you're gonna feel them up. Oh, yeah, all right. You find he does have an ID badge on him. Okay Obviously, I can't tell what he looks like but does he look like any of us like any of you.

Yeah, just I guess Would we be able to like? Somethings of the same and then like have golden arrow bring us out like as the host as me as the hostage No, yeah, they're watching you guys They're telling you to let let go let go of the man who have the shift to his neck. They're not getting their eyes off of I wish I could like manipulate the guy I'll kind of scream in the direction be like let us out of here and you can have our guy your guy back The guards like we can't we can't do that man. Sorry.

It's Can't just let you out of a prison. Y'all done the crimes. Y'all's got to do the times I was pretty good to see anybody have any other ideas Didn't work You hear a loud bang from outside Like though in the whole building kind of shakes boom and the guards are kind of like what the what was that? Someone was starting to panic like get the arm in the unit with the arm in units sounds like you got a bigger problem than us One of them turns right.

I'll deal with you later. You pieces of shit and he goes run away Then you hear another bang for the lights flicker and then you feel you can kind of feed your powers coming back. Oh shit Oh, just returns me Spicy air at me what's his hand out robin oboe? Robin oboe you you can now use your devices and abilities, okay?

So there's a there's a locked door, right? Yes, okay. That's it came down like a Porcupus like gotcha Mmm, okay, so if I use one of my fate points to use my Swiss monkey wrench ability to activate that can I use like a craft ability to make a bomb? Yeah, I'll let you manufacture it as well so somehow okay Well So so robin oboe quickly runs around the cafeteria into the kitchen area He starts swallowing some cleaning supplies and some baking soda and a couple of other chemicals He runs up to the door and he has this pain to look on his face and starts going And puts his hand under his legs and begins excreting a plastic eak into his hands And it starts wiping it onto the door.

Okay. Well, this takes a minute. What is everybody else doing? I have a stunt.

It says whenever an ally has one or more stress knocks can use provoke to create an advantage I want to provoke golden arrow And giving him the advantage of Let's see here What I was thinking about doing was trying to manipulate somebody on the other side To open right I want to try to give you an advantage on that See this is where like my experience with fate comes in I just I want to give him like a plus two or something on his next role By using like okay, just describe to me what you're trying to do like you What do you know? I still kind of like walk up behind golden arrow and just kind of say you can't see your you can't exactly provide for your family If we're locked in here now, can you and then just kind of like in rage so you're trying to you're trying to motivate him to Right, right provoke him to do better. Okay All right, I see what you're saying. Okay, so do you have to spend a few point for that or is that something you could just do when they have a Stress the that's the restriction that I put on it provoke usually can't give an advantage But I just have that as a limitation to it Okay, so you're like manipulating him into right because he's not doing so well right now.

I can't right I kind of like that. Okay, so Phil he has Provoked you into trying to do that Giving you a plus two to your next something Okay, so like you now have the advantage of motivated Sure like all right calm down now. She's get this So I'm gonna use my mental powers and go hey, hey guard you should open up we can help you fight that person And do a deceive to one of the guards on the other side. Okay, so that's a plus three and then he's got a plus two So it'd be a plus five total.

All right, that's pretty good. That is a one three five and six So plus one and then plus five so six okay All right, he seems to believe you he doesn't do exactly what you wanted He's not letting you out. He's like well, I'll let you have it on your own and then he runs away So now there's no one on the other side Sorry Knox It worked he abandoned the door You have removed another obstacle before robo does his thing is he shitting right now? What are you doing right?

Well robo With another of the inmates to see if they'll essentially write it with us and you know once we blow the door you'll come with us So you're trying to build your numbers even up more correct. Okay, you could do that All of you listen up we're gonna break out of here. I would like for you to join us strength in numbers What do you say? One three four five so that is even and then I have a report one so I guess one report Okay, so you get kind of a not great guy Oh Yeah, you get a guy you like he doesn't see you don't never seen him before he just kind of a nondescript dude You he's like yeah, that sounds like great you what is your name John?

There's Johnny B right? Yeah, Johnny. I'm Johnny B Alright, John you be my eyes and you will direct me. I put my image.

Wait. What fucker you can't see Yes, I am light why they give you one of them white sticks with the red part Did we have those? Seeing I don't yes Johnny B is now Walking stick and now they must rely on your help Okay, all right, okay, um So robin oboe you successfully plastic the door and blow it open Um and as you guys are leaving the door you notice a yell from behind you Um and floating or on the balcony there is a man who is now coated in like a wooden armor and he's got two long Pieces of sharp wood and there's a man next to him who's like glowing green with radiation in his hands And they're like get back here You motherfuckers and then the guy made of wood throws the two pieces of wood and go in the ground And then the guy with the green hands shoots a big radiation blast and like blows a big hole in the wall Kind of like these guys style. Yeah, is this a winter and blister?

Yes, that's what you're listing. Oh shit They're they're real mad at you So they didn't attack us they attacked the wall or they did it. Yes. Yeah, they were drawing your attention They're like, don't get out.

Don't leave bitches. Don't fight as motherfucker They are pretty renowned for being kind of ruthless and tough So you have a way out or you can try to stay and fight these guys homies listen up If they get the defenses back up then we will not be able to use our powers We must band together and break out of here then we could squash this beef Are you saying that to them? Yeah, all right. They're not known for being super reasonable But they they they've made their turn and you guys um, are you guys gonna go or you're gonna stay?

I'm gonna bolt Yeah Well, there's always a way out. So I'm gonna take it Is all of you bolting? Yeah Down the hallway as soon as the door bloom. All right, you have you have bern and uh johnnie bee had Um as you guys are running through the hall, um, that seems pretty desolate actually like you don't notice many people around The building shakes again the lights turn off and the emergency lights come on And then you feel all of your powers come back um, and you hear a lot of Shouting coming from multiple directions.

Um, you can go either east or west I just direction to you choose. I say west Is there any way I can figure out who the new the new person coming in was? Um if you probably would have talked to the guards, but they're not Uh, is there a do we know which road like the access road is which direction is it like east or west? Yeah, um from what you recall, it's uh west wait.

Don't we have the one prisoner with us? Can we just use him as a guide? Yeah, so that guard Um, did you take the guard with you or did you drop him? Uh, actually I probably would have kicked him to the curb Yeah, he would slow you down throw him across the room more or less.

Can I Can't burglar his keys Uh, he just had a badge that was like an electronic swipey badge, but the the lights are all off now and all the doors are kind of a jar I'll grab it anyway just in case Okay. All right. So you're already like running through the hall. You're gonna go east to west Have a west west All right, so you start heading west.

Um, you come across uh, there's like a like a big open room area and um So the hallway keeps going and then kind of there's a room off to the side you see in this room. There are four uh guards with uh large weapons and they're all pointed at a person who's in like in the middle of them and she's on kind of like a Hannibal Lecter style melee cart. She has um, like a face mask protector on her Her arms are bound in like these big metal things that are connected together so she can't move them Like she's completely strapped in. Um, she's got like wild eyes and her hair is just fucking crazy And they're all just kind of like they're all just pointing their guns at her terrified And as you're walking like her eyes are kind of darting back and forth and they lock on to you guys What do you guys think about what help us this route help us this route?

Hey, what's the sister? Are you talking about? Sorry Oh shit. I am lying.

I do not see I think we found our little friend from before that was making a ruckus But uh, looks like she's in a bit of a trouble Yeah, uh black legless. There's a girl that's like all like Bandaged up well, not bandaged like in a street jacket. She looks kind of nuts. Oh, but there's like four guards You know me.

I am a sucker for the pretty voice Well, she's not talking. She's like in a weird mask That is why we must free her so she can't like eat me We must free her so we can hear her voice then I will judge her beauty The building shakes again. I don't think it's her doing that But she's looking at you guys pretty intently. I think we need to help our uh little dumbs on distress out All right, let's kick ass.

What kind of the guards don't notice you. They're all super fixated on her Can I use stealth to get behind one of them and try to incapacitate them when we all make a connection? Absolutely. Okay, roll stealth.

All right. I think my stealth is a plus two. It's a plus three all right Three four and five so that's one success plus three is a four total on self. Okay, you're stealthily stealthing behind them Like john to be in tow He's he stood by he's not very stealthy.

Yeah, I'll keep him behind I like I it was it was really just for appearances You know, I want to let him know how powerful I am just shit not my companions with these other people And now I just self off and they may be seen he disappeared Okay, is is there like a way I can notice a latch or something like a major latch on her like On our straight deck or anything that like someone can throw something at or maybe uh golden arrow can lift off I kind of want to like notice. Um, yeah, she's basically like two big gauntlets without fingers and they're like connected in the middle. Okay. Yeah, that makes Um, yeah, but there's like a there's like a device in the middle that's kind of blocking them So yeah, you can see the device in the middle.

I would say it's funny because I'm trying to use a notice for such a create advantage But I don't it's like if I notice something I'm not sure if I create advantage Can I roll for it to see if he can he can actually do it or Yeah, yeah, you can like if you're trying to roll for an advantage Then you can say like I'm going to try to notice the way that this can happen Okay, I'm gonna see if I notice a way to actually remove her gauntlets and then okay, uh three fives and a three Which would be plus three plus a two me five Okay. Yeah, you can uh you can kind of see a way to get them undone Are you gonna? I'm gonna look over to golden arrow be like you can see on a gauntlets There's a little mechanism right there if you just pull the pin. I think her hands will be free I was just gonna smash it Like face bombs just pull the pin on it with your power.

Oh, okay So if it's my turn, I'll do that okay, um it is your turn. Okay, um so yeah Uh, so I would use my physique to mentally pull the pin without getting happy to get closer to her Not gonna lie. I forgot I had these You're too busy on getting small exactly all right, so I rolled a one a five a and then two sixes So plus two to my physique, which is plus four Okay, so plus use That's fucking epic you put in like a boss And I pull I pull the pin and it just shoots into one of the guards like stomachs really hard No damage, but I want him to know what's there all right you jab one of the guards and he's like what the hell robin obo is your share Um robin obo goes running into the room and he's going to use a uh, well I don't know would this be a fight or a um if he's gonna use physique to push the guard in the back into the Other guard that's that would be if that'd be a fight. Okay.

Well, he's gonna attempt to do that. Okay Are you just gonna create an advantage or are you trying to damn it? Um, I'm trying to I'm trying to do damage at this point. Okay, so that's that two my students neutral at a Plus two provide to try to damage you Um, got a negative one.

He takes one damage. Oh That was kind of a surprise they they just noticed you like what the heck and then uh Since their surprise Fred your stealthed up behind him One of them just got hit in the gut with a pin and the other one got pushed over a little bit So yeah, I will uh push him off the radar. What do you use fight? Um, yes, unless you have a different skill that you think would work.

Well, I also want to use burglary to take his gun while I push him off So I just do burglary or Um, I'm gonna just say that you can just roll fight for it. Okay. Um, and if you roll good, you get the gun to chat All right, so I only have a plus two to fight. Um, do I get any bonuses for stealthing and sexing and stealthing?

Um, he's completely unaware he will not get the defense. Oh, okay It will be naturally zero perfect and if these aren't the rules to fate, I'll give it shit All right. Oh Double sixes. Um, so that is two plus two.

It is four Four plus so four total. Yeah. All right. You get the you get the gun to push him over the railing.

Oh, He does the wheel help scream. Nice. Well, uh, wait, so you always roll four dice, right? Yeah, I forgot to roll another two dice.

I'm sorry. Oh For some reason I thought the plus two and fight meant two dice a lot Uh, uh, shit one and two so that puts me on a two, but he had no defense so probably Right. So you you still get like you um are able to grab the gun, but you don't have it ready to shoot Yeah, like you just have it by the end and he still goes tumbling over the go I still get the wall room. Okay.

Yeah Because it's too good All right. Um, so that's yeah, so Go knocks your turn. Oh Should I realize I was expecting already? Uh, yeah, because you guys got surprised like you guys were doing stuff before they noticed now They're like, whoa, let's go to yeah, you should make sure she doesn't like kill us I don't know like make it make her on our side seem to be pretty good at that.

You know a lot of people like yeah do Should I have to roll contacts actually know who she is or can I just know who she is? You um, you can roll I'm gonna kind of like walk up and as the pins kind of being pulled. I'm not sure if she's released it yet I'll just kind of like remove another like small latch on it and I'll take it off as and then I'll be like Well, I hello darling. I didn't think I'd see you here Uh Three one and a two and a five so that is a total of a plus one on top of the contacts of two so it's a total of three You as you get closer you couldn't recognize her far away because she's not in her costume She's not in her outfit.

Um, but as you get closer you do realize that it is somebody named dark bell Who she is one of the four members of the biggest baddest villain team Like she's she's like world class. Does she kill? Um, she she does but she's like She doesn't indiscriminate kill. Yeah, okay.

It's like collateral damage kill. Yeah. Um, she doesn't really care about human life But she doesn't really go out of her way to murder people. She's not the Joker.

She's yeah What was the she was in? Um, the chaos committee And it was dark bell. Yep. Yeah, they're good things so much better than ours.

Oh, what was yours again? That was beef palace. Oh I thought it was a palace princess. So I'm just like I'm just gonna release her.

I'm just basically take off the thing and be like Well, hello there darling. Okay. Um, gold was a real dirty girl Are you doing girl? Oh, I look darling.

How are you? Halfway through puberty. Do you want to go to the prom? Super villain prom So, uh, I think golden arrows just gonna try to split he kind of helped her she doesn't seem to be doing anything.

What's not her turn yet? Yeah, oh, that's yeah, that's kind of Well, no, I guess Could I I mean I have plus two in context can I roll or would I know her just from her down? Um, yeah roll context? I mean because she's not in her outfit like her costume is pretty iconic.

Okay, so All right, it's three and four two and a six so plus two. Okay. Yeah, you recognize her It's not super like a organizer. Oh shit dark bell.

Um I mean we kind of helped you set you free. You want to help us get all the way out of here? Um Okay, she doesn't say anything. There's still a sleeping on her face, but um, But her hands are just being released.

So after robin oboe she will go Okay, okay, robin oboe. Okay. Um, there's still those dards up there. They're like what the heck they're like you and uh You and black legless have Officially distracted them from what's going on.

Okay. Are they are they on the same level as we are? Uh, yeah, you're up on the precipice now because because Fred and Cody decided that there's a precipice with a Right Let's see I would like to use my athletics to create an advantage for black legless. Okay.

Okay, so what I'm going to do Uh, it is a It's a minus one on my athletic. So it'll be a three athletics Okay, to like what are you doing and what was the nature of the advantage? Okay, so um what I want to do is uh Go running as fast as I can and do a baseball slide behind one of the uh one of the guards and kind of push myself up On my hands and knees at about uh level with his knees behind him Yeah, and then look over at black legless and I'm gonna wink We give him the signal Okay, so like you're trying to like distract the guard or put him off his valent Yeah, I'm creating a situation where he could possibly uh push this guard over or do something But it's uh however he interprets the signal that I'm giving him Okay, he's doing the classic like okay push him over and then he'll follow for me thing Mm-hmm. Okay.

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