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Nov 18, 2016 1 hr 15 min

Villain Underground #27

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The group tries to come up with a name for Stephen. Raggie is not really helping much. Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Silicon Artist (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

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and welcome to another episode of Villan under ground. I am happy puke and I am your game mustard and let's get roared into the news. No, today we have some people gaming and they are going to be bad guys. And one, their name is Phil.

Hi, I'm Phil. I do the weather on the news. Two, their name is Cody. I do sports but I do it real bad.

Three, name is Ali. I'm that ditzy anchor that you just hate. And then we got Will. And I am your reporter on the field.

Back to you, Alex. Thank you. Thank you. And that's the crew we have today.

I'm playing this real play, Fate Base podcast about bad guys. Everyone's a why you got to tell people what it is, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I don't think you did you mention that we are in a canonical universe with the Amberville city heroes? You just did. Thanks for doing my work. I'm just on weather, man.

Many hands like work. As you can see here, the hurricane coming in. It's going into the canonical, the canonical conduct. Fire.

Fire. That's why Cody is stuck to sports. That's why I'm sports. That guy hit that hill got real hard.

That sports points got a lot of them. Back to you. You did that there. Touch down into that basket.

I don't know why I'm red deck for this. OK. So here we are. Who wants to give a quick rundown of what happened on the last episode of everybody touching their nose, except for Cody?

Five. Five. Fuck. Last time on Villains Underground, we decided to go to Villains Spooky Ground.

Ooh. All the ground. Oh, there we go. So we have tried to figure out a name for Stefan after kind of deliberating it for a little bit.

It turned to October 1st. And some spooky things start happening. One of my Knox's henchmen, I have henchmen. I wish I had henchmen.

Decided to round up all the feral dogs and put them in the basement. Later that night, they got out after Stefan kind of discovered them. And they decided to do some bad stuff, like eating my henchmen. Thanks a lot for that.

I have eight henchmen now. Fuck. I didn't get us, by the way. Yup.

I shot him in the head. So we decided to go through a spooky adventure where everyone got infected by this weird dogs. And we went to the basement to figure out what was going on. And we found Julian dead.

And so they started crawling up dead-eyes arms and Knox started going crazy while someone called an ambulance. And we discovered that it was some weird michijin from the future. But then everything got solved because, you know, spooky. Right.

OK. All right. So we leave off now. We find the villains in their house.

Everybody's been patched up. It's the next day. Twisted Arrow said when Golden Arrow wakes up, tell him whatever, whatever. And then he points at Steven.

And he's like, I don't know who you are, but you better be gone the next day because this is not an operation anybody can just walk in on. This is a myth, please. Yeah. When Golden Arrow wakes up and you all get back together, let him know that I have one last mission I'll tell you about in a couple of days.

You only got one more mission left like Golden Arrow now. Sure. Twisted Arrow. We will let Golden Arrow know of this, right, guys?

Yep. Twisted Arrow. Yeah. We're going to let Golden Arrow know.

Yep. And you, person that I've never seen before, leave my domicile and never return through the back door and then into the basement and shh. Just look at those guys. You guys talk like idiots in the new leaves.

That guy's the idiot. Right? I'm so glad my mind trick worked on him. Oh, you've got mind powers?

I mean, maybe I was really hoping that I would turn into a werewolf with the last nades. Oh, is that not canonical? Never mind. Ignore me.

It's canonical as fuck. OK. The next last goes. I really would have hoped that I turned into a werewolf.

Guys, were we on drugs? Why did we decide to do that? Like Cody Boker said in the intro. Everyone's nose starts bleeding.

What is going on? We should have checked out that candy before we just started eating it. I'm Rob. I don't know what you're talking about.

In a whole role of candy stickers. I feel funny. They're not stickers. It's kind of like the Scratch and Sniff doors.

You should need them. Do you mean the candy buns that come with those wax wheels? No, I'm talking about LSD. They put on like stamps and stickers and stuff.

Oh, yeah. Good. Robo, who are you talking to? Oh, God.

Robo, what happened to your Halloween programming? It's well in November by the time this episode releases. So I'm in normal. Oh, okay.

Robo, are you still in LSTs? Some governors come up and they fix the fourth wall real quickly. And they put some bricks down and fix the drywall. And they're like, don't break this again.

And then they... We'll keep pigbuds out of it. That's all folks. So, I mean, I can totally shift into Golden Arrow.

One question though, like what's going to happen if he tells me to use my powers? I mean, I can't do what Golden Arrow. I assume. Also, who is Golden Arrow?

Well, you talked to him, right? Oh, no, you didn't talk to him. You just like, you saw him go away and you were like, hey, I can replace that guy. Well, I saw him leave and I could replace him.

I kind of don't know what he does. He's real strong? Yeah. I kind of figured that.

And he can pick things up. I mean, like, you know, far away. Robo is going to... With his brain.

Yeah. Robo, I think I can help you. And he projects a film on the wall. It is called Who Is Golden Arrow?

And what does he do? It's a montage of things over the past, you know, a few years that Golden Arrow had been with Dylan's crew. It shows him lifting weights, lifting some more weight. It's in the background.

You just... As we go, where we rub. He's eating protein and then taking a poop. And then Robo says, oh, by the way, guys, drink lots of water over the next couple of days.

The rabies antidote is going to dry your right up. And then it shows some more like Golden Arrow pulling people's heads off, punching people's heads off, I guess. And then... Uh, throwing people off roofs.

Yes. Yep. Um, why did you guys spend time with this guy? He seems kind of like a dick.

I mean, we're villains. He's useful? You know, that's why I hired him. He was strong and had powers.

And he could be people up that I can't. I mean, okay, that makes sense. Like, he was kind of your bouncer. Yes?

Steve, if you're rubber, can you be the bouncer? I mean, like the bounce? Yeah, that could work. I'm still looking for names, kind of this, this point.

The bouncer is getting there. I don't mind it. Anybody got anything else to workshop here? Well, right now, we should probably stick with Golden Arrow at least while we are doing this.

But after this last mission, I think we'll have a few names for you after that. In the meantime, Robo Nova was going to search the live chat channel to see if there's any suggestions that he could find on the internet that would make sense. Uh, Reggie walks by and he's like, what about bounty balls? I'm punch Reggie in the fucking mouth.

Oh shit. Uh, uh, uh, noxix is head. He goes, oh my God, I'm going to have to re-number all of you. Shit.

Okay, Reggie, you're now henchman number three. Bell is now my number one. She is the leader of uh, should I have to be the leader of you guys now? Julian is unfortunately dead.

He, uh, he came across a devastating accident last night and... Oh, it seems like the accident was a bullet to the head. I cleaned up the body, cleaned up the body this morning. Oh, yeah.

Very productive. Maybe I should make you number two. Number two. What about you?

Can you name your dude? Silly-Puddy? Okay, Reggie, you're pushing it. Leave.

I punch Reggie in the mouth. And he's leaving you like, what about goofy-goo? I'm going to chase him down. I'm going to chase down Reggie.

You're like, oh, I'm going to get him. I'm going to give him a fucking... Bring me a little bit. I'm just in the yard, brick down.

I'm going to brick him down. I'm going to brick him down. I'm going to brick him down. Hey, I'm brick down.

Everyone else is coming up with stupid names. Why can't Reggie? I put him in the bricks. I put him in the bricks.

What does that even mean? You're part of the yard and I put him in the bricks. What does that even mean? Especially the head of the ground, Alex.

Okay, I see, okay. Show him who's the number one man dog in the yard. Oh, right now it's Bell. He's like, why don't you put anybody else in the bricks?

They didn't come up with stupid names. These guys are my best friends. That's sad, bro. Yeah, they don't think you're their best friend.

We've only known you for like two days. You guys for like two months. That sounds creepy. When you put it like that, please don't say that again.

You're basically your home intruder. Well, no, it's just like I kind of watched you guys and saw everything you did. So like a lawyer. In a non-sexual way, yes.

But also sometimes in a sexual way. So a stalker? No, you guys are making this sound a lot worse than I meant it to be. Can you be the stalker?

I like you all a lot. I like stretchy stalker. That's a good one. Good job.

We're about to buy five. We're about to buy six criminals. You just want to be a criminal. So I have a question for you.

Why are you in jail? Oh, stealing things, counting people. Mostly stealing things though. Okay.

What kind of things? I'm in old important computer software cars. Why don't you croak into a few banks before? That was fun.

Why not call yourself Gryft or Gryft or I don't know like what do they call it when? Did I, I'm sorry. Excuse me, Reggie. Did I, next time Reggie comes up with a stupid name shoot him in the face, please?

Okay. All right. Fine. We'll move, Reggie.

I don't care if you invented the Wii. Sorry, the super joke. His name is still Reggie. So the logical ones are kind of bouncer.

Gryft or what are ERs at the end of this? You know, I don't want to be boxed into that. You guys just have like cool names that are identified like these are more about what I do. And you know, what if I want to change lanes and you know, move on to something else?

What about rubber? No, no, no. You're a bad guy. Then I next time Robos up in the back.

Can you shoot him in the face? No, see, I can actually do that because I pay her. You don't pay her. You don't pay me.

Okay. Why do not pay her? Okay. We're going to need a, we're going to need a hookup.

We're going to have to contract a sign. What if I pay you, did I? Don't, I mean, I've got like some money, but you see what you're doing here? See, you can, whatever.

And then he just leaves. Did I dog again or are you still going to shoot me? Not just gone. Go ahead.

I don't care. I slipped that I like a thousand dollars. So we need this isn't enough to get me to kill a dog, much less a person. I just killed like six dogs yesterday.

Yeah, but they came at me first. Oh, I just don't want you shooting him. You don't want me to shoot him. You're paying me to not shoot.

Not yet. I took him on a brick. He knows what it is. Okay.

I guess I'll just chill and laugh at all the names he comes up with for you. What do you got, Reggie? What's that? What do you got for names?

How about the counterfeit? Interesting. Don't mind it. Forgery.

Ah, dupes. See, that one's kind of good. I'm actually trying. You can like, you can change into somebody else.

You can forge their identity by being them. Or how about every man? Every man makes me sound like a hero. And that's, I don't want to get boxed into that.

Forgery's kind of growing on me. Yeah, I can see it now. Like a suit with a pyramid with a eye. That's a Illuminati.

What does that do forgery? Well, it's like on the dollar bill. Oh, I guess so. Look, you know what it is?

It is on the dollar bill. I know. Yeah, I know that. I'm not going to put the American Eagle on my chest.

That seems counterintuitive. I'm a patriot still, but I'm not going to go wearing that flag. I'm not saying that. I'm just weird to associate with Illuminati on your costume.

The Illuminati aren't real. Whatever you say. Stephen mysteriously just standing there. How about the Silicon artist?

Oh, that's great. I like that. Silicon artist? Oh, I get it.

Jesus, Philip didn't get it for a second. Now I understand. I like it. I like it.

I think that's a pun, but still. It's a subtle pun. It's a subtle pun because my master didn't understand it. What?

Master? Those carpenters walk by and they're like, this fucking stupid. You're here every day. I don't fucking have a plaster like you guys.

You got to fucking stop. It's getting really expensive. They hang out in the background. Yeah, the Silicon artist.

I like it. Now, who makes our suits around here? Can you just stretch into your suit? Like, can you just make your suit with your powers?

Yeah. But then you technically be walking around naked all the time. Yeah, and I kind of don't have an eye for graphic design, really. And guys, you watch this.

That's weird. But you just, you just power down in a closet. Like, that's not that weird. Yeah, but you're walking around naked watching everybody.

Reggie's like, well, I do all my weird stuff at home. So unless you're following me home, what do you know that he does? No, I haven't followed you to ground river or avenue anymore. Hey, man.

Come on. What? Don't follow people home. It's drafting in here sometimes.

You have heating at your house. Okay. He leaves. I'm just saying Bill's a great homekeeper, like homemaker.

You may already go to one of them. That's all I'm saying. No, I respect him a lot. Reggie comes into your room.

He's like, no, okay, this new dude. I was okay with him for a minute, but he's super creepy. I don't like it. Hold on.

I'm writing more backstory for Reggie now. Very too, Bob. Bill. Bill.

Great home maker. Like, I don't like that he follows people home and like, people on our lives. That's not, it's not cool. You, okay, you realize that whenever, like, all of the things went down and everyone left and you guys say, do you set a contract, right?

I had you monitored. You never made anybody sign a contract. There was a bunch of contract. Well, I mean, that one time when that I wanted you to sign something for a check, there might have been something underneath it.

Look, here's the thing. When I accept the job from you, I get it. That's one thing. But this dude, he wasn't even part of your crew until just recently and then like he's telling me he's been following me home for months.

Okay. Um, Stephen pops down from the drips down. Sorry, it was just out of the nearest, like, he even grittings like not months. I've only literally been here like two months.

I followed you home maybe once or twice a day for like two or three weeks. It wasn't that much. See what I'm saying? This is fucked up.

We're villains. Right. But I mean, I still want some sort of privacy now and again. How is that possible now?

He told you that he only like looked you for like two weeks. I mean, after that you'll find it. Really? Cause I mean, he's super truthful and really forthcoming with all the information.

He actually, it seems like he has. He told us that he's a criminal. He's been in jail. He's been squatting here for two or three months.

All of the time not telling us any whatever. Okay. Reggie Leafs. Hey, Knox, you should really up your healthcare plan.

When I tasted Julian's blood, his blood sugar was pretty high. He had like three diabetes or he had some sort of diabetes. He should like institute more health screenings. I will look into that.

Knox kind of like turns his computer type stuff like that. It looks back. Is that all? It can be.

You want me to leave? Yes. That would be helpful. Thank you.

I exit through the door. I open it and walk out. I feel like I have to still feel like how I leave rooms. Yes.

All right. So is that all that? What are you guys doing now? What are you saying?

I'm not good. You said it's going to be a few days until the next mission. Okay. I feel like there's a few things that I want to do, but I want other people to talk right now.

Okay. Is everybody else doing anyone else want to do anything? I want to follow Reggie home. Is that where you're going?

Oh my God. No. No following Reggie home. I think I'm just going to work on my golden arrow impression.

Okay. Just to make sure you don't cause any ruckus there. Okay. Are you going to stay in Golden Arrow's old room?

For now. Yeah. All right. Some of the minions coming in there taking Golden Arrow stuff out.

And one of them is like, what do you want to put in your room, sir? Oh, you don't need to be saying sir to me, Belle. It's fine. Okay.

Do you want to just call you by the name you chose? Yes. Yes, I do. Okay.

We have it down here as silly con artist. I take a break. I take a break. I take a break.

Show yourself. I take. Can instead of like you actually doing this, can it just be you like sitting there like when you get angry, that's all you do. I take you.

I take you to the bricks. I take you to the bricks. And then it just like staring at you. Okay.

Just like I'm a man, man. That's what that's what Reggie put on the form is that you chose the name silly con artist. That's not true. Okay, what?

Did Reggie did that? Well, it looks like his handwriting, but I can't be sure. Who, like, what name did you choose then? Silicon artist.

Okay, that's what I said. Silicon space artist. Silly space con artist, right? I cannot handle this shit.

I'm orphaned to a dragon. I eat bell. Goddamn it. Quit killing my minions.

He's like here, maybe you could just, maybe you could just write it down. Oh, Alex, you know I can't spell. David, can you just care to not spell? No, I can't.

Okay. Philip, can I play camera? Yeah, so I spell it. Silicon.

I still like go from Travis. Because that was too good. Oh, now I have to give Travis a producer credit. All right, so you write it down.

She's like, oh, okay, now I see. All right. Hold up. Before we go any further, is that okay with everybody?

Yeah, personally, I'm a Silicon artist. It's your name. All right, I go with it. We have a robotic monkey called RoboNobo.

That's hilarious. RoboNobo is awesome. I mean, I'm not going to argue with you. All right, so I go with it.

All right. She's like, well, what do you need in here then, Silicon artist? Access to hot water. That's kind of about it.

Okay. All right. So I'll just take all the gold narrow stuff off out of here and let you be. Actually, hold up.

Just go ahead and leave all his stuff for now. You sure? Yeah. Just in case that twist arrow gets a chip on his shoulder and wants to come to the room for some reason.

All right. Let's just leave it as is. Fair enough. Yes, I shall become golden arrow.

I shall think like golden arrow. Okay. And I'm orphaned in golden arrow. All right, bellies.

I stare myself in the mirror as golden arrow. All right. What's everybody else doing? Cleaning my gun.

All right. Your arm still hurts. She doesn't need her arms. What's that?

She said cleaning her guns and he said her arms never mind. Yes, I'm cleaning out my guns as in my arm. Yeah, exactly. You like the gun show?

All right. So clean enough for guns. Robyn Hobbs. Robo is e-fragging right now and also searching for any kind of contacts or job information that might have been sent through from a twisted arrow.

All right. There's nothing yet. Knox. So, got a list of things.

First, I'm going to test what the bat and catcher's mitt does that I stole from the new paragons. It is a baseball bat and a catcher's mitt. Like that's it. There's like no, like I tried to put on the catcher's mitt and like I catch a ball and I throw a wall and then like he puts it on his face as a mask and he walks around for a few hours with it on.

Nothing happens. You feel like a jackass because you're not going to baseball, but other than that. So he just kind of, he's just like fuck and then just puts that away. Next thing he does is test out the suit.

He throws for a second. Can you repeat? He just goes fuck and then he puts it into a closet. Next thing he does, he tries to test out the suit.

Which one? The one that I stole from the new paragons. The next suit. It's a little unwieldy because you don't know the controls.

Can I like look up more about it? You can try to. When you activate it though, it seems to trigger a tracking beacon in the suit. Turn that off.

You have to roll, burglary to turn the tracking beacon off. That's a plus three. Okay. You're able to shut it off.

It's the last maniacally in the garage. Yeah, it seems like I have a bunch of functionality, but like you don't know how to control it. It seems like the code is written like by one guy for one guy and it's all proprietary. So it's like you don't know how this dude thought.

So like it's all very, very bizarre. So then I have to look up the dude who made the suit. The dude suit. Yeah, the guy's name was XL.

He was dead now. All right. I figure that is the extent of what I could do about that. Can I look at more information about Steven?

I guess so. I mean, you just get what's on public record is like whatever public records are available for like a serial criminal. His real name is not Stephen. Oh, so then no, you don't find shit.

We'll find shit about Stephen. No. Can I take? Obviously there's a video recording of the house, right?

So can I take his face and kind of like search it in police records? You try to do that. You don't find anything. Roll under, I don't know, notice.

Okay. I'm currently going to steal at some point. I got a negative three. All right.

No, it totally seems like the dude that can shape shift would usually use his actual face while walking around the house. That's not a notice roll. That's a fucking common sense roll. I knew that, but I'm also going to whatever.

I'm looking up to next. Fuck you. Did I have to use a real name? Yeah.

Can I look up any information about did I do? You always wear your mask? I took it off a couple times, but I put it right back on. Okay.

That I does have a record though. And she is like, there is records online about her. About like what she does or just like where she came from. You find a little bit of information mostly about Thwip, who is reportedly that I sister.

Okay. And is there any way I can get like maybe a fat face scan and maybe try to figure out who she is to? You can try, but you're not having much luck. You find mostly stuff with her in the mask.

Fine. No one wants me to look up shit about them. So I can reveal more of their backstory and maybe so I can play an evil thing just in case you all try to get started. I also want to talk with the minions.

I want to assemble them all with their one eyes and their weird hair on top of their head and their gillibodies. What eye? Minions? Oh.

Okay. I want to talk to the henchmen. Right. Gotcha.

Okay. You're talking to the henchmen. Don't play this out or do you want me to be like, Hey guys, tell me what you tell them. I'm going to kind of just have like a quick meeting about what happened with Julian.

Maybe kind of discuss how dangerous this job is and what they're getting into. Yeah. I'm also going to say something about like, even if you don't trust these people that we're working with, they're still under kind of the same mentality that we are kind of very pointedly looking at Reggie as I'm doing this. Reggie, just like what?

I'm doing my job. Mm hmm. Okay. You can say that all he wants, but he did some lip.

I'm also going to try and increase their health care plans and I'm going to look into hiring a psychologist. Okay. All right. What does everybody else do?

Anybody else do anything? Robo is trying to get information on the current going on of the filter girl corporation. Okay. You notice like there, there have been pretty much radio silence on them for a little while on the internet, but they do have a large facility.

The last thing you found is like there's a large facility being built in South America. All right. So that is the latest news. Anybody else?

You learn? Silicon artist is still staring at himself in the mirror. Okay. All right.

For like two days. Yeah. Getting into character. The couple of days goes by and Reggie comes into your room.

He says, Stephen Stephan and he says, uh, silly con artist, um, the twisted arrows coming in. You might want to shape, shape, shift or whatever you do. I have in, in the form of golden arrow. This is our time.

Okay. Just, just don't let your, your guard down. So the con artist. I walk by and I shoulder check them because I walk down.

It's like, Oh, silly con artist. Why are you continuing to do this to me? You just want me to make this fucking mention. I was like, all right.

Fine. I'll call you Stephan. Sorry. You were fine.

Everyone is calling you Stephan. Please. Please. Sorry.

Check it out. That's for sure. Please make Bill into a superhero. Please.

The black widower. What? Oh boy. He's just, he's neutral and he just wants to kill me.

Taking his husband to the bricks all the time. Okay. So it's just arrow gathers you guys. He's like, Hey, how's everybody doing?

How's everybody holding up golden arrow will just sit there menacingly. I mean, is this, are you actually going to start caring about us now? What's I'm just trying to make some talk. Fuck it.

Um, there's what you have one last mission to do. We're going to be flying out to Central America. There is a computer programmer. We need extracted who is currently in the possession of a militant group down there.

We need you to extract him and bring him to me. Sorry. I know you have a small talk arrow in your quiver. Oh shit.

I'm going to high five Steven slash golden arrow. Yeah. High five. Perfect.

So, uh, is that clear? Yes. No questions. What's clear is you're going to be sitting on the sidelines doing nothing again.

Uh, whatever. It's your job. I don't really care what you say. Um, are you ready?

I mean, you just give us this information now. So sure. Yes. We'll go without preparation.

Everyone get in the helicopter. Idiot. We're leaving tomorrow. If you fucking paid attention to anything, uh, we're leaving tomorrow.

Just so you know, so get ready and we will be gone leaving then. Okay. We're ready to be ready. He leaves.

Ooh, an extraction. Okay. Okay. Okay.

I was kind of picking up on that kind of vibe. Uh, and you still didn't really work. Uh, snapping next was just a cautionary thing. I have a deep seated fear zombies.

Um, so yeah. I saw Donna the dead when I was a kid and it kind of messed me up. Uh, intellectually. Yes.

Or emotionally. Oh, I wouldn't worry about it then. Zombies aren't real. They're made up thing.

Uh, Robo, that was literally a guy that we used to what we met. Called, grave rubber. And he had zombies. Like literal zombies.

I just thought they were just bad smelling dudes. They didn't wash very well. Well, I'm. They could have been that except for the decaying flesh.

I mean, that guy doesn't like come around often does he? Does he give much warning when he does come around? Well, he usually doesn't warm up to people really well. Yeah.

Good good. Um, just like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, he usually doesn't warm up to people really well.

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