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[IronyOwl]

I'm also concerned about ezmoding Brutus because that doesn't actually get anyone's powers back and our odds of containing him are... nebulous. Negotiation is waaaaaaaay riskier but likewise has a bigger payoff if it works.

i bet if you kill him all the powers come spilling out of his corpse like a lootbox

Highlander style power inheritance would be very appropriate but it's a risky thing to rely on.

Also the Dandy Lads do not kill, so it doesn't help us specifically very much.

[Stirk]

We are willing to send Jennifer and the bola launcher to easy mode #6 if the Dandy Lads want to help us hit an E-corp location instead of giving the guy all your powers.

Dandy Lads are contractually unable to hit a [Deadly] mission without the appropriate protection, so it's possible but expensive for us to get in on that.

I'm also concerned about ezmoding Brutus because that doesn't actually get anyone's powers back and our odds of containing him are... nebulous. Negotiation is waaaaaaaay riskier but likewise has a bigger payoff if it works.

If we have enough access to research him, we can probably copy his power stealing ability like what happened to Jennifer and Retry.

[crazyabe]

i bet if you kill him all the powers come spilling out of his corpse like a lootbox

the question is, do *you* get his powers? do they go to random people? or do they return to their original owners? given this world, I'd bet more on the first two options.

[Maximum Spin]

Almost my entire team - Lexicon, Bolt, and Brouhaha - need to rest, while Chase goes around hustling up some merchandising deals to increase income.
Meanwhile, Lexicon immediately calls in his favor with Sol Heart to go have a heart-to-heart with Brutus and get him to stop stealing everyone's powers. He's not sure if that 'cold' trait will block the emotional control, but if it doesn't work, he'll just chalk it up as "revenge for blabbing about the emails."

[Egan_BW]

You can heal one injury from each of your heroes for free the small cost of contributing to highly experimental mad science.

[Glass]

Spoiler: The Watch (click to show/hide)

Team Name: The Watch
Leader: Frostara
Fame: 11 (35/9 + 2 [Defeated The Crimson Plague] + 3 [Founded Watchtower] + 3 [Founded Watchpoint])
Infamy: 3 (6/9 + 1 + 2 ['Murdered' Odd Squad 'in cold blood'])
Income: Tight
Identity: Big Tent

Base
Base Size (base size mod): Vast (+5)
Base Description: Ruined Pro Evo arena
Base Location: Downtown
Maximum Team Size: 9

Neighborhood Reputations
Atomic Heights: +2
Greenbelt: +3
Sandup: +2
Silver Row: +2
Old Town: +1
Warrens: +2
Montgomery: +1
Hermitage: +1
Downtown: +2
[All else neutral]

Ethos
Killing: We kill as a last resort
Civilians: Saving civilians is the number one goal
Collateral Damage: We try to act with precision but don’t can’t pay for damages

Leader
Name: Allison Goldstein/Frostara
Gender: Female
Appearance: An attractive young woman with dirty blonde hair kept in a ponytail and grey eyes. She wears a light-blue form-fitting ice-skating uniform, decorated with a subtle pattern of snowflakes. Somewhat less subtle is that the snowflakes on the back are clustered in such a way as to give the impression of a clock face.
Powers: Creates ice walls, Ice skating, Ice jets, Blood freezing
Reactive ice shielding: Frostara can generate ice when attacked to instantly shield against injury
Traits: Hates Longfire, Modest, Good-looking, Tactical, Indebted to The Watch, Trusts Retry, Cool Under Pressure, Deadly, Organized, Protective of Bantum Boy, Uncomfortable with psychics
Fame: 5

Leader Founder
Name: Caroline Frisk (real name)/Retry (“super” name)/DeterminedDreamer (online username)
Gender: Female
Appearance: A young woman with short, auburn hair and red eyes that lack pupils, instead consisting of a seemingly endless set of concentric rings. While fighting crime, Retry wears a long, dark-green hooded coat over a suit of gold-looking armor, as well as a heart necklace. Presumably, the armor's interior is padded to similar comfort levels as her older clothing. She wields a pair of tonfas.
Alter-ego/backstory: Caroline, like many people with too much curiosity and free time and not enough sense of self-preservation, decided that it would be fun to go explore an abandoned facility to see if she could find anything interesting. For a variety of reasons, this was an enormous mistake, as some facilities are either abandoned for a reason or are less abandoned than they first seem. Now, she’s not exactly talking about any of the specifics of what happened, but it certainly seems that she regrets what she did. Except for the small fact that it doesn’t seem she ever actually did it, and her accounting of what day it is was off by one.
Power: Stable Time Loop: Retry casts herself back into the past, or perhaps she foresees forward... in either case, with concentration and over short periods, from her perspective appears to reset the position of reality from a few seconds to minutes.
Time Freeze: Retry can stop time for everyone, including herself, to give herself more time to think and work out a scene.
Traits: Tries Everything, Thoughtful, Mute, Bulletproof Armor, Fearless, Concerned about Psyla, Friends with Void, Ex-Leader
Fame: 10
Infamy: 1

Members
Frostara (Allison Goldstein) | Creates ice walls, Ice skating, Ice jets, Blood freezing, Reactive ice shielding | Hates Longfire, Modest, Good-looking, Tactical, Indebted to The Watch, Trusts Retry, Cool Under Pressure, Deadly, Organized, Protective of Bantum Boy, Uncomfortable with psychics | 5
Retry (Caroline Frisk) | Stable time loop, Time freeze | Tries Everything, Thoughtful, Mute, Bulletproof Armor, Fearless, Concerned about Psyla, Friends with Void, Ex-Leader | 10 Fame, 1 Infamy
Void (David White) | Micro-blackhole centered on self, Supernova blasts from absorbed energy, Apocalypse/City-destruction, Dazzling Sunbeams | Inscrutable, Unsettling, Helpful, Close to going supernova, Control Belt!, Evasive, Friends with Retry, Self-Doubting | 4 Fame, 1 Infamy | Use his powers for good, figure out E Corp?
Psyla LXI ("Sarah"?) | Insta-reincarnation, Increasing Psychic Power, Mysterious inter-dimensional assistance | Cold, Resourceful, Determined, Tactical, Doubts about Retry's leadership, Respects Frostara, Team Player, Thinks Void is a liability, Youthful Cells | 8, 1 Infamy
Wiffle (I don't think he remembers that he didn't share his name) | Floating, Impervious | Ethereal, Calm, Misunderstood | 4
Verdigris (Doctor Hijank) (Dr. Evelyn Light) | Junksuit, Devices that control and transform | Old, Clever, Kind, Enemy of the E Corp, Resourceful, Paraplegic, Robotic Legs, Over-Protective, Creaky | 2 Fame, 8 Infamy
Slinger (Slugnut) | Slingshots, Pistol-shooting/loading | Quick, Ugly, Indefatigable, Mean, Hazmat | 2 Fame, 7 Infamy
Neat Spirit (Cephala) | Regenerating Tentacle Arms | Known Killer, Broken Probation, Ruthless, Ingenious, Terrifying, One-Eyed, Stealth-Tech, Selfish | 0 Fame, 8 Infamy
The Mangler II | Powersuit Construction | Vengeful, Destructive, Inventive, Mangler Power Suit 2.0 | 3 Infamy | Mangling

Other Notes
Have control belt designs
1 Crossover: Cursed Legacy
3 Crossovers: Watchtower
1 Crossover: Route Horizon
1 Crossover: Animalia
1 Crossover: Jennifer
Chiffon (Mari Chang) made a baking company decided against selling superpowers, and joined Punch
RIP Sally "Sixpence" Agreste
RIP Johanna Freedman, the Miraculous Mirror Maiden
RIP Muffin Madness, we never even learned your name
Free will is real! As long as you’re not mind-controlled, at least.

The Watch seems like they need some help, ask for a favor later in exchange for 2 funds.

Take one Watch crossover, thank you for your contribution.

Psyla gets Marigold's Special for her rat bites.
Void will go to deal with the Sandstorm, with the assistance of Jennifer. Jennifer will have the control belt, so that Void can safely cut a way through the storm for her without risking her shutting down his powers. When they reach Gaffer, Jennifer will turn off the control belt to shut down both Gaffer and Void, and presumably get out of the area safely with both of them. (2)
Frostara, without much she needs to do, having recently healed, and with the Watch constantly needing money, will attend Marigold's medical research. (9)
Retry, Doc, and Psyla will attempt to break Thornrose out before E Corp can break her like they broke Harpoodle. (3)
Cara hugged Evelyn, who chuckled.
"It's good to see you again, too, kiddo."
Mangler, Wiffle, and Slinger (given a Hazmat suit) will endeavor to deal with Muskrat and either stop E Corp from fucking around or save whatever poor soul those idiots brought into a likely-painful existence. (4)
The Mangler was at something of a loss for words.
"That is the name you've chosen, right? What's the issue?"
"You're- you're the first one to actually call me that, though." He looked like he was tearing up.
Naturally, Wiffle had to ruin the moment.
"Oh, worry not. You shall still remain the team's favorite mango."
The Mangler shot his teammate a dirty look as his last chance at dignity shriveled up and died.
Finally, Cephala will scope out the E Corp HQ. The team can't afford the mirror suits necessary to tackle the place safely yet, but with her invisibility, Cephala should be able to work out a plan of approach. (0-6)

[Stirk]

True, true. Not sure where you intend to set-up, but you could have a plan here.

If I set him up on a tall building in Old Town he'd be able to snipe at #1, #3, #5, #6, and heck #9 if Marigold ends up some E corp mindcontrol from that time she was kidnapped. #6 would be close enough for retaliation since it is actually in Old Town. I'm not actually sure if Mireton also counts, but if it does he could also shoot into #2 from the same position. Old Town is just kinda a great central location. I guess Luke lucked into being placed there.

But spreading the Spork out like that is completely unnecessary if other teams are already handling those missions so I can have him focus on the big fight for this turn. Oh right other teams are also a thing. I guess I could use other teams for spotters too.

Anyway the Spork sets up a sniping position in Old Town with a clear line of fire to E-corp HQ. Tin Soldier, PB, Lord Bombarrel, and Toytown will move in full force at #5 to cut off the head of the snake. PB and Toytown get all their toys - including the Antievobolauncher, guns, and all the literal toys. Be prepared to face giant robots. A PB will be the designated spotter, since he can do it without being distracted and has the marksmanship knowledge necessary to perform that position well. Try to touch base with that new invisible hero that never attempted to murder us in the past, since from past experience it seems like E corp likes to make gadgets to counter their enemies and we're at the top of that list.

Nobody actually likes us Down Town and the feelings mutual so we can't call for local assistance.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Name: House Edge
Leader: Tin Soldier
Fame: 6.4+3 | 2
Income: Broke

Base
Base Size (base size mod): Large
Base Description: among the musuem's archival collections, hidden behind a freize of the god Fortuna.
Base Location: Old Town
Maximum Team Size: 5

Ethos
[Pick one from each set of options]
Killing: We kill as a last resort
Civilians: Stopping the villain is the most important thing
Collateral Damage: We pay for any damages we make

PB | Limited Self-Replication, Can absorb any living person| Comedian, Gimmicky, Charming, Fed Up with Dying, J-less, CrackShot, Ageist, Respects PB, Enemy of E Corp| 9 | 0
The Spork | Gadgets?, Techsense (Knows how to create power nullifying technology, blowtorches and magnets), Fireproof| Forgiving, Irritating, Pyromaniac, Obsessive, Hates Giant Robots, Disfigured by fire,Friends with Lord Bombarrel, Enemy of E Corp| 3 | 1
Tin Soldier | Metal Absorption, Metal Skin, Advanced Mechanics, Immortal? | Legend, Cunning, Heroic, Authentic, Veteran, Indebted to House Edge, Respects Spork, Quick (for his age), Believes in House Edge,Respects PB, Impressed with Lord Bombarrel, Enemy of E Corp| 14
Lord Bombarrel | Unusual bomb-making | Known Killer, Old, Prepared, Mad, Ingenious, Friends with the Spork,Enjoys being in House Edge, Observant, Enemy of E Corp |2 | 6 | Getting and Staying out of prison
Toytown | Creating tiny automatons | Single-Minded, Hates Surprises, Genius, Meticulous, Enemy of E Corp | 2

Local Fame:
Old Town +3
Mirton +1
Silver Row +3
Warren +1
Montgomery +1
Docks +1
Greenbelt +1
Atomic Heights +1

Loads of untraceable guns
Antievobolauncher
Super Strong Super Heavy magnet
Powerful Blow Torch
Railscopipe
Mobile Toy Town
Bakal Crossover X1
Jennifer Crossover X1

Wait was the hand thing also a Star Wars reference? Is an E Corp executive going to be revealed to be his father?
Name: Luke Teach
Gender: Male
Appearance: An out of shape man in his 30s with male pattern baldness. Wears an overpriced suit with armored lining. What's left of his hair is black, with dark brown eyes.
Alter-ego/backstory: Luke was a janitor at the local university before awakening his powers. With no close friends or family, he was considered by most people to be a loser. One day gambling at Big Pig after a night of drinking he was caught in the middle of a super hero battle, which would have certainly killed him if it was not for his powers awakening. With his new found powers he immediately begun amassing wealth and success. Feeling unfulfilled after having success handed to him (and perhaps spurred on by his new found desire for conflict) he decided to go into the super hero business, setting the place he discovered his powers as headquarters out of a sense of nostalgia.
Power: Probability Manipulation: Ambient physical distortions and enhanced dexterity resulting in uncanny "lucky" aura. Gadget arm, I swear I had it on my sheet at some point.
Traits: [Lucky], [Out of Shape],[Self Indulgent], [One Armed]
Fame: 5

[Kashyyk]

The Baron has unfortunately gone too far this time. Somewhere along the way he moved on from Keyfabe psuedo-crime into actual real crime. And we let him get away with it.

It is time to right this wrong. Nitrox, Mentat, Camarada, Película, Chap Stick, and Zirconia will attend the Kaijoodle calamity (#1).

Meanwhile, The Woman Lamp will join the Watch in Mireton (#2), in case they need some fire power, or an eye in the sky.

Crackler will visit Marigold for some research (#9).

Also, an Armour suit is bought for Película.

Spoiler: Protection Inc. (click to show/hide)

Team Name: Protection Inc.
Leader: Mentat
Fame: 5⅞ _{[4⅞ + 1]} | 1⅜ _{[⅜ + 1]}
Income: Tight (1) -> Broke (0)
Identity: Powerhouse - You're much more likely to gain powers, but also much more likely to destroy scenery or face injury in the line of duty
Cross Overs: Odd Squad (??)
Neighbourhood reputations:
Docks +1
Downtown +1
Mireton +1
Montgomery +2
Old Town +2
Sandup +2
Silver Row +2
Warren +1

Members
Name | Known Powers | Traits | Fame
- Mentat | Mindreading, Weaponised Telepathy, Telepathic Infectious Humming Infliction, Distributed Intelligence, Psychic Hub, Reactive Ice-shielding | Charismatic, Protective, Self-important, Bankrolling Protection Inc, Friends with Camarada,  Respects Bittern, No physical form | 8
- Camarada | Can't be directly attacked, Ignored (unless actively suppressed) | Altruistic, Forgiving, Charming, Conciliatory, Tactical, Fearless, Reckless, Friends with Película, Respects Mentat, Friends with Mentat, Dedicated to Protection Inc, Guilt-Ridden | 3
- Crackler | Electricity Manipulation | Known Killer, Friendly, Comedian, Improviser, Enemy of the Scarlet Plague, Respects Nitrox, Bullet-proof Armour, Hazmat | 8
- Nitrox | Unstoppable power attack??, Air walking | Heroic, Fabulist, Fear of Drowning, Crush on Camarada, Loyal to Protection Inc., Redeeming the Baron, Cathedral Invasion Expert, Bullet-proof Armour, Hazmat | 7
- Película | Illusionary Projections, Functional Invisibility | Teen runaway, Loves animals, Bankrolling Protection Inc, Hates Crowds, Berserk, Hazmat, Bulletproof Armor, Friends with Camarada, Friends with Reflux | 5
- Zirconia | Diamond-like Skin, Dazzle | Local Knowledge, Carefree, Manipulative, Finds Crackler Amusing, On Edge, Hazmat | 3 3 | Money
- Chap Stick | Glue Generation | Polite, Carefree, Ostentatious | 1
- The Woman Lamp | Flaming Hair, Fire Bolts, Jet-Fire Propulsion | Hates Mimesis, Tempestuous, Trigger-Fuse, Forgotten, Overwhelmed | 4
- Alba | Feline Abilities | Cute, Adopted Película, Accepting of Camarada, Mentat Body Host, An actual cat | -

Base
Base Size (base size mod): Huge (+5)
Base Description: A couple of roomy apartments
Base Location: Warren
Team Size: [2 + min(5⅞ vs 5)] = 7

Ethos
Killing: We kill as a last resort
Civilians: Saving civilians is the number one goal
Collateral Damage: We pay for any damages we make

[notquitethere]

MISSION PHASE 13 REPORTS - A

Spoiler: #0 Personal Missions (click to show/hide)

Various heroes rest, healing wounds. Chase looks into a new income opportunity through merchandising. See opportunity phase.

Cephala investigates the HQ, see mission below and opportunity phase.

Spoiler: #1 Kaiju-Pup (click to show/hide)

Protection Inc. arrive late to Silver Row, having battled to get out of the sandstorm that has engulfed the area around their base. By the time they get there, the giant Harpoodle has torn out of the square. They follow the trail of destruction until they reach a nearby shopping mall. The very same mall that had once been targeted by Doppelswap, now has its roof torn open, and a giant dogman smashing its way through. Fortunately, it's after hours and only a handful of security guards are around.

A pack of dogs has accompanied the Legion of Wickedness, and they accompany Baron von Woof and Buzzoff on their robbery spree. They've come to some terms with ex-member Escher and his new team, the Gray Company, who are aiding in the theft. Escher has made the inside of the mall forecourt cavernous, but even with its huge size, it's taken up by the Harpoodle. Surrounding the forecourt are the upper walkways of the mall.

"How are we going to stop that thing?" Zirconia asks the others as they come out on a middle walkway.

"You all keep it occupied and I'll take it down. Just stay out of the main forecourt!" Nitrox says. He focuses on the beast and begins charging his power attack.

Protection Inc. leap into action. Chap Stick and Zirconia head out on distraction duty, with Mentat in their minds. Camarada and Película, Team Invisible, head off to stop the Gray Company.

The giant smashes a pawn on the upper walkway, and an unlucky security guard falls. Chap Stick sprays a wad of glue at the man, safely sticking him to a wall. Zirconia runs up a flight of stairs. In the spatially warped environment, the lifts are non operational and the stairs seem to take forever. At last she reaches the upper concourse and is face to face with the canine, twisted maw of the beast. Up behind great ragged ears, sitting on its head is Baron von Woof.

"YOU'LL NEVER STOP ME NOW!" he bellows.

Harpoodle in reaction, takes a claw and sprays a cascade of every-regrowing razor-sharp giant claws. They slice into every part of the mall, and those that hit the Protection inc. heroes are stopped by an instant wall of protective ice. Zirconia is rained on with so many claws that she is frozen completely in place. But that's just where she wanted to be. Her sparkling diamond skin enchants the Baron and his steed.

Mentat confirms that there's mentally nothing inside Harpoodle: his mind is just raw pain and instinct, nothing of his prior humanity remaining. The Baron is also hard to occupy, there is something uncanny about his mentality. His memories don't add up.

The entire mall creaks, as the cracks grow across the concrete. Harpoodle himself is like having a continuous localised earthquake. In desperation, as the building shakes around her, Chap Stick sprays glue everywhere, focusing on conjuring forth a quick-drying variant.

Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of the mall, along twice-twisted corridors, Película and Camarada come upon a novelty goods shop. Through the smashed-open window, they see Dread Fool playing around wearing a stolen pickelhaube, and Escher opening a way into the safe. Película is careful to project an image of the mall in front of them, giving herself functional invisibility in that direction.

Unfortunately, across the way, hidden within a rack of dresses in a high end fashion retailer, Mortar has been keeping lookout for her team, and she spots Película from her un-illusioned side. She racks a rocket in her gun and sets it loose on Película and Camarada. The pair of latinas are alerted to the rocket by it whistling towards them, a split second before it lands.

The explosion smashes out the rest of the windows and fills the area with smoke. Dread Fool stops his tomfoolery, grabs the loot bag, while Escher warps a quick escape route for the pair, via the shop where Mortar was hiding. They're not around when the smoke clears and Película and Camarada are still standing.

"That was a close one, amiga!" Camarada says, the shrapel and blast marks conveniently missing where she was standing, leaving a Camarada-shaped silhouette in the dust on the ground.

"¿Que?" Película says, her ears ringing. Next to her a hard light projection of herself dissipates. She marvels at her newfound capabilities, as the mall begins to rumble more. Camarada moves on to clear the last straggling security from the mall before it collapses.

As the huge building rumbles around him, Nitrox is desperately focusing. His power attack is just a cover for his real ability to sense and manipulate oxygen. This allows him to cause people to pass out, but it requires a lot of focus to do it safely. With the huge beast, he's focusing on Harpoodle's lungs, but he knows he may cause hypoxia in the general area if he's not careful. He only hopes that the others will get the Baron clear in time.

Película arrives back at the foodcourt, the beast still mesmerised by Zirconia. The Baron is bellowing on its head. She tries punching Harpoodle with a hard projection of a fist, but it doesn't have much force to it. So she tries the same trick on the Baron and punches him clean off with an imaginary boxing glove. Chap Stick slams him against a wall as he falls, but he isn't stuck long, as he wrenches himself clear with his one giant hand.

Buzzoff's drones swarm into the area and the Baron grabs on to go, dodging glue and hard light. They would get away but Mentat tracks down Buzzoff's mind, finding him hiding nearby. He takes the fear and anguish felt by the guards and projects it Buzzoff's mind, rendering him insensible with the overwhelming feelings. This throws off the drone control. The Baron leaps down onto a walkway and begins running back towards Harpoodle.

It is then that the great beast collapses, unable to breath, spraying one last load of razor claws as it slumps through the rest of the mall, destroying everything in its wake.

The Baron turns to flee and is knocked down cold by a Camarada he didn't see coming. When he comes to, Nitrox is standing over him.

"You went to far this time bud," Nitrox says.

"THE THRILL COMPELLED ME!" the Baron booms. "TO BE AMONG SO GREAT A HOUND!"

"The best thing for you now is to come in quietly," Nitrox says. "The revolving door of the local prison means you'll be out soon enough I'm sure."

"ALL THE GREATEST VILLAINS HAVE DONE TIME..." the Baron concedes.

The others have gone to help free Zirconia from the ice and hunt down Buzzoff's hiding place. When they find it, they find a warped door behind it, leading to the other side of the mall. Buzzoff and The Gray Company are long gone.

OUTCOME
Mission: Protection Inc: Overwhelming Success; The Gray Company: Overwhelming Success
Harpoodle is dead. Baron von Woof enters custody. The Legion of Wickedness is disbanded.
Nitrox: Nitrox true power revealed: "Oxygen Manipulation: Nitrox can sense and control nearby oxygen". Unpaid damaged mean -1 rep in Silver Row.
Mentat: Gains an opportunity. Gains trait "Impressed with Zirconia".
Camarada: New power "Ignored by Area Effects". Gains an opportunity.
Película: +1 fame. Gains new power variation "Hard light projections". Gains trait "Half-Deaf"
Chap Stick: +1 fame. Gains new power variation "Quick-hardening glue"
Zirconia: +1 fame. Loses trait "On edge" as she becomes more confident in the strength of the team. Gains injury "Feverish"
Dread Fool: +2 infamy
Escher: Loses "Legion of Wickedness defector" trait (they're cool now). +2 infamy.
Mortar: Gains trait "Prepared". Gains +1 infamy.
Mission Reward: Protection inc gain +2 rep in Silver Row and +2 temporary team fame "Defeated Harpoodle and the Legion of Wickedness". The Gray Company gain +2 income in loot, -2 rep in Silver Row.

Spoiler: #2 Sandstorm (click to show/hide)

The sand storm envelops the mire in a thick haze. At the edges, its just an omnipresent dust in the ait. In the center, you cannot see your hand in front of your face, and when then wind blows it scours skin from the bone.

Three brave heroes head into the storm. Void from the Watch is here, his hand on the dial of his control belt. Alongside him is Jennifer who is working freelance today and is wearing a face mask to protect herself from dust inhalation. Finally, the Woman Lamp, most recently a member of Protection Inc., comes, in her red supersuit and her hair on fire.

"I'll scout ahead!" The Woman Lamp says, before launching herself into the air, powered by her jet boots.

Void takes the lead through the streets. With his belt turned off, sand begins hurtling into him from the area. Occassionally, the void surges and street-loads of sand dunes drift as a vast wall directly into him.

A safe distance a street behind, where their fields of effect aren't overlapping, Jennifer walks in Void's wake. Void strolls carefully towards the center of Mireton. The chic cafes are boarded up and the streets are empty as everyone has either left the area or holed themselves up inside. Lights flicker from the sewer grates: a sign of inhabitants taking refuge in the huge tunnel network below this part of the city.

Void reaches the a whirling pillar of sand, not far from the secret lab where they first found him. This is Gaffer now. He turns on his control belt as he approaches and signals for Jennifer to hurry over. Her normality field has an immediate effect as soon as she gets close to the pillar.

The sand that was whirling in a vast spire collapsed in a heap. Void and Jennifer clamber over the new donut-shaped sand  dune and in the crater within, a withered man lies on the ground.

His parched skin is interlaced with glass fibres, his hair and clothes have scoured away. The power of the sand flowing through him was all that had been keeping Glasser alive. His body had wasted away over the long time pouring out the sands. Jennifer merely brought an interruption, but one that stopped him dead.

"That's that then," Jennifer says. Even now the sky begins to clear.

Void wonders what happened to the Woman Lamp. Halfway across the neighbourhood, after being overwhelmed by the storm, unable to handle the new winds being drawn into Void's vortex, and with no proper environmental gear to help her, the Woman Lamp had crashlanded head first into a sand bank, dousing her flames.

She pulls herself out, her hair lighting up red then blue with burning fury. "ARRRGGHHH!!!" she cries, her voice hoarse from eating sand. She just wanted to make something of herself with this return to heroing. Would nothing go right?

OUTCOME
Mission: The Watch: Overwhelming success. Protection inc: Overwhelming failure.
Void: Gains an opportunity. Gains trait "Impressed with Jennifer."
Jennifer: +1 fame. Gains trait "Impressed with Void."
The Woman Lamp: Gains trait "Bad cough", gains injury "sand burns", fails cohesion check, gains trait "Annoyed with Protection Inc.", leaves Protection Inc.

Spoiler: #3 A Rose By Any Other Name (click to show/hide)

"I should tell you, I used to work here," Verdigris (aka Dr Hijank) says as she walks around the perimiter of the Montgomery laboratory. Psyla and Retry are with her, as they scope out the razorwire fence that surrounds a nondescript white brick building nestled in among a large greenhouse. The ground between the fence and the greenhouses is filled with various fixtures: coils of water hose, wheelbarrows, bags of gravel.

Retry raises her eyebrows in alarm.

"You worked for E Corp?" Psyla asks.

"In the late 90s through to the mid-00's, I was in their materials division," the old woman says. "Back then there were chemical vats and a robotics workshop here. I found out the research they were doing and I didn't like it. Took the Squad and I've been looking after them since then."

A squad of security guards on the other side of the fence spotted the heroes. They take up position behind the garden fixtures and call for orders.

There's a hiss of walkie-talkie conversation, then shortly the guards begin opening fire.

The heroes fan out along the fence. Retry has to replay a few times to make sure Psyla doesn't get shot.

Psyla draws a line of force repulsion between her and the others, mangling the fence in between. Verdigris takes the lead moving in. She lets bullets spark off her as she rushes the guards. They fallback, unsure of what her suit might be capable of, and the heroes move into the grounds of the lab.

After carefully pushing through like this, wave by wave, from the grounds to a greenhouse, through the corridors of plants, and into the compound of the lab itself, they at last fight there way to the place where Thornrose is caught.

The handsome hero is strapped to a table, a large laser hanging directly above, pointed at his chest. His skin has turned plant-green, and thorns line the maps of veins across his body. Instead of hair, petals unfold. Hijank holds the door, releasing obscuring smoke from her suit into the corridor behind them. The others search the room. Retry (after many attempts) guesses a keycode override on one of the machines and manages to download a plain text file of notes before the system shuts down (see subjects.txt below).

"He seems to be alive," Psyla says to the others, telepathically.

"You better believe I am," Thornrose says, his eyes opening revealing rose-coloured irises. "They kept saying they were nearly at the threshold. Now, are you getting me out?"

Psyla splits the bounds and helps the kidnapped hero up.

"Let's go!" Verdigris cries, rushing out against the guards beyond, acting with Retry to create a distraction so the others could escape. In sum, it was a successful extraction.

OUTCOME
Mission: The Watch: Overwhelming success
Thornrose enters the pool. Cutting Edge is no more, so all outstanding cross-overs are now with Thornrose.
Retry: Gains trait "Respects Psyla", loses "concerned about Psyla" trait
Doctor Hijank: +1 fame. +1 opportunity,
Psyla: Loses "doubts about Retry's leadership", gains trait "respects Verdigris (Dr. Hijank)"
Reward: The Watch gain Thornrose cross-over.

Spoiler: Subjects.txt (click to show/hide)

NOTES ON ZO-SUBJECTS

Most experiments unviable. Viable results:

ZO-0028 - First success! Canine combination. Very disappointing and uneven power expression. First test of the Tabula Rasa also successful. Released into general pop as start of Open Lab Protocol.
ZO-0098 - Second canine success. Much more impressive results, but even more mentally impaired. TR was hardly necessary. OLP'd and later recovered for the Exalt project.
ZO-0108 - Starting with an orangutan as base, raised by caring (if overly superstitious) human handlers. No real power expression other than enhanced intelligence (for its kind). Scheduled for dissection but released during the escape of ZO-0612, ZO-0282.
ZO-0282 - Combination with swine. Relative success but power expression was not useful for current research paths. Scheduled for OLP when escaped with ZO-0612 and ZO-0108.
ZO-0341 - Rat combination. Poor power expression. Dissected.
ZO-0346 - Second rat combination. Generative tissue considered very useful, but quickly died of cancerous growths. Dissected.
ZO-0471 - Combination with venomous spider. TR a success. OLP'd with intent of maximising local conflict for new SHE expression. Unfortunately, spider venom proved too deadly and the subject too volatile. After killing ZO-0108, ZO-0471 was later destroyed by ZO-0612. Disappointing.
ZO-0612 - Squid combination, highly generative, incredibly useful. We planned to keep in house- possibilities in research unparalleled. TR'd repeatedly due to its belligerence. Consumate escape artist, eventually broke out with 0108 and 0282. We suspect complicity of Dr. Light who went AWOL about this time while on the synthetics project, just as it was showing some promising results. Still, in OLP environment, they have been instrumental in generating more SHE subjects for Zircon City, so perhaps it is for the best...
ZO-0647 - Combination with slug. Very suggestible with right inputs. Limited research value, kept at Lab 03 for security purposes.
ZO-0798, ZO-0808, ZO-0809: Rare sequence of success with frog subjects. SHE increased metabolic rate is much higher than normal. One dissected. Two frozen for later study, later escaped in lab break-in.
ZO-955 - Second viable porcine subject. Highly intelligent. Potentially useful power expression. Kept at Lab 03 for future study.
ZO-1023 - First viable piscine subject. Highest metabolic rate yet. Kept at Lab 01 for waste disposal purposes. Cheaper than a furnace and just as effective! Difficult subject to study due to exreme belligerence and invulnerability.

ZO-Project effectively canned in favour of more promising Exalt direction. ~1% viability, high instability of results, and high leak rates have led to the closure of this research pathway at this time.

Spoiler: #4 New Life (click to show/hide)

"I've got a bad feeling about this," Slinger (AKA Slugnut) says. His pig-face is covered by a shiny new mask, just about visible through the pane of his bulky hazmat suit.

"Hmmm?" Wiffle says, staring up at the skies. He's being held by a piece of string and pulled along by the Mangler II, who is stomping along in his suit. Together the three of them have very slowly made their way through the sandstorm in Mireton and headed up to Sandup where the latest lab is.

"The Watch is a meat-grinder, you see that right?" Slinger continues, warming to his theme. "They've got this tight core of untouchables. If you're lucky and you pass the crunch, they'll retire you out, start your own team in some other fuckup city. But the unlucky ones, they get squeezed out. Killed. Retired. Kidnapped. You know?"

"You're saying we're the fresh meat and this mission is the mangle?" the Mangler II says over the team's comms. The lab facility is almost in sight, along a street still lined with mirrored walls from a previous power fight.

"I thought a mangler was used for laundry, not meat," Wiffle says.

"WHAT?!" the Mangler II is outraged. "You're saying I might as well be called Laundromat?!"

"Alright can it, we're here," Slinger says. He points to a private parking lot with a small office in the center. From the outside it doesn't look anything like a lab. "Apparently there's a lift in there."

The three of them pass around the car barrier and into the parking lot. They get to the site office, and peer through the grimy window. Inside, they see Muskrat, leaning back asleep at a security desk. The floor is littered with beer cans. The villain is dressed in a yellowing vest and has a three-day stubble. An ashtray overflows on the window sill with stubs of rollup cigarettes.

"I don't want to test this suit in the field," Slinger says. "That's what you're hear for. Mangler?"

"Time for a little deconstruction..." the Mangler II says. Instead of attempted to open the door to the office he wrenches off the entire side panel. Inside Muskrat stumbles away and reflexively pours out a wave of green gas.

"You sure like the smell of your own shit," Slinger says, leveling his slingshot and sending a solid beanbag straight at Muskrat's head. He follows up with a second one to the groin and a third to the gut. The villain is left groaning and writhing in pain on the ground.

They find the life and with a bit of trial and error, they steal a keycard from Muskrat and open it up.

"You first Whiffle. Call on the comms if its safe to come down. We don't hear from you and you don't come back, we'll get backup," Slinger insists.

Whiffle shrugs and heads on down. The others wait. And wait. And wait. Mangler II considers leaving while he has an opportunity. But being on the run sounds like a pain. He just needs to survive the mangle a little longer...

"It would be more epic if we went in with guns blazing and rescued him now instead of going back for backup..." Slinger says. Out of the folds of his suit, he draws one of his trusty pistols. Mangler II starts powering up his chaingun. The pair enter the lift.

They return back to the Watch base later, unscathed. "Weird encounter," Slinger says. "There was just this giant psychic genius baby down there, everyone running around doing what it wanted. He said he'd dismantled the lab and relieved the staff of their jobs as they were unethical and that we should go. So we did."

OUTCOME
Mission: The Watch: Failure
Mangler II: Cohesion check mixed success. Gains trait "Feeling mangled". Gains trait "Loyal to Big Baby"
Wiffle: Gains trait "Feeling mangled". Gains trait "Loyal to Big Baby"
Slinger: Gains +1 infamy (brutality). Gains trait "Loyal to Big Baby"

Spoiler: #5 E-Corp HQ (click to show/hide)

"This is a fine mess we've got ourselves in this time," PB says. Three PBs, Tin Soldier, Lord Bombarrel and Toytown are all bound by magnetised chains, stuck to a metal strip on the ceiling. A giant high powered laser is slowly searing its way towards them from across the large test chamber. Below them is a large pool of water, within which is a giant shark with human legs. It keeps leaping up out of the water to snap at them, only just out of reach.

"It's easy for you to be calm, you're going to survive this!" Toytown shouts. Toytown hates surprises, and walking into a trap like this is the worst kind of surprise. The others had all arrived to the mission first and had apparently scoped the place out. But E-Corp had been prepared.

"Yes but I don't have to like it!" another PB snaps. "No one wants to be the clone that doesn't get to merge back home!"

"LB, can you reach one of your cherrybombs?" Tin Soldier asks, keeping on track.

Lord Bombarrel is laughing at the situation, enjoying the traditional villainy that went into such a delightful trap.

The laser hits Tin Soldier first. His metal begins melting and he screams with the searing heat.

One PB is popped next by the laser, while a second wriggles free from his belt and drops into the pool below. The water froths red and the room is filled with the sound of crunching bones.

A crack team of little toys manage to extricate Toytown in time: tiny cables are wrapped around the hero and with a tiny controlled detonation, he's freed from his bounds and swung to safety at the side of the chamber.

The third PB spams out half-formed clones, shooting a disembodied hand from his own chest, across the room to the laser, where it crawls along and starts pulling at a side panel.

"Here are the co-ordinates my friend!" Lord Bombarrel chatters away to the Spork on their comms. Spork, on a roof about a mile away, lines up a shot with his new railgun.

A few seconds later, there's a huge boom and a hole the size of a volleyball appears on both sides of the room. The shot explodes a small sticky bomb LB had kicked out of his boot at the wall, which sprays a strong alkaline solution into the room, including into the pool. The giant shark flips itself out in pain, right up into the room, knocking into the laser, knocking it off course. Meanwhile the PB hand gets into the device and starts pulling out wires at random until it powers down.

"Just as planned!" Lord Bombarrel laughs.

A television in the corner of the lab flickers on. On the screen is Doctor Muldoon. He is grinning wildly.

"Are those new power expressions I can see?" Doctor Muldoon asks. "This exaltation process: extreme stress through life-threatening circumstances, is the best producer of new capacities."

Tin Soldier continues screaming in pain.

"Of course, each new application requires ever increasing extreme exposure, and not all subjects survive..."

Bits of PB float to the top of the water.

"But you have seen the results for yourself. Such power! Never before attained! Join me at E-Corp, and such power could be yours!"

Lord Bombarrel considers the matter. "It's tempting doc, but I've already rigged the building to blow!"

Everyone looks at him.

"In about... two minutes time!" LB sets off a series of timed explosives that knock out the magnetiser in the wall, as the surviving PB uses a grappling gun borrowed from Spork to swing the rest of them clear of the shark.

Moments later, the surviving House Edge members run out of the office tower where the HQ are housed just as it explodes, collapsing down storey by storey on itself. Job done?

Shortly after, The Watch HQ receive a transmission of footage from Neat Spirit (AKA Cephala). She had recorded footage from her body cam, sneaking into the base after House Edge, watching them get caught. The footage cuts out in a bang just as she descends steps into the basement. Poor signal or the building collapsing on her?

OUTCOME
Mission: House Edge: Success
Landshark enters the rogue gallery
Tin Soldier: +1 fame. Gains trait "Half-melted". Invulnerability confirmed vs lasers: internal organs etc. continually move and encase themselves in metal protective layers. It's very painful.
PB: +1 fame. Gains new power "Autonomous body part production". Once this PB was merged, all future clones now have the trait "Horrifying"
Lord Bombarrel: Gains trait "Rube Goldbergian"
Toytown: +1 fame. Gains new power "Automaton intelligence aura: when Toytown is near the toys, they behave independently with considerable resourcefulness". Gains trait "Values Toys the most"
Mission reward: House Edge gain +1 temporary team fame "Blew up E-Corp HQ"

Spoiler: #5 Addendum - Old Town (click to show/hide)

Spork is up on a roof of the cultural center in Old Town realigning his railgun when he sense someone watching him. Four huge stone men are walking across the roof. Guiding them from the back is a wiry man in huge sunglasses wearing a giant floppy hat and a pink feather boa, leapord-skin print trousers about ten sizes too big.

"Who you meant to me?" Spork asks.

"I'm the Delectable, Delightful, De'lovely Daddio, 4-D," the man says, "And I'm about to whoop your ass, son, on behalf of the Stoneface Gang."

"Is that so?" Spork says, before screaming, "EAT FLAME!" He levels a flamethrower on the stonemen and unleashes a full cannister of searing heat. When the flames die down, the stonemen are scorched but unharmed, and ever closer.

The ones nearest reach out to grab the gadgeteer when they hit an invisible wall. All four of them are soon thumping on space around Spork and his railgun. They're suddenly blasted aside. Stone chunks rain down across the roof. Iron Gavel has arrived and relishes the opportunity to go all out with his hammer.

4-D backs off into Sol Heart who 'persuades' him to come in quietly.
OUTCOME
4-D enters custody.
Spork: +1 Fame.

[notquitethere]

MISSION PHASE 13 REPORTS - B

Spoiler: #6 Et tu? (click to show/hide)

The hard rock of the Watch's old base had been pulled straight out of the river below by Ziggurat. A long rock walkway leads from the outcropping to the shore. The Dandy Lads drive their new super car straight along the walkway up on to the outer platform of the base.

All four Dandy Lads head in. The Watch have cleared the place out completely. There are only a few signs left of occupation. It is only a matter of time before the empty rock halls, spiral staircases and cosy nooks are all spraypainted or re-occupied by fresh squatters (hero or otherwise).

They find Brutus, in his toga, sitting at a window eating grapes and watching the water below.

"This villainy is beneath your mighty potential," Jack Dandy says.

"Why did you steal our powers? And at so bad a time too!" Lotus Petal follows up.

Brutus looks over at the three, with the Man in Grey sidling off to the side, and Haste hanging at the back, cautiously.

"I saw four villains and I did what I do," Brutus said.

"I'm not a villain!" Haste insists. "I mean, I knocked over a few jewelry shops, sure... but that's all behind me."

"She's done much more good than harm," Jack insists.

"And I'm not a villain at all!" Lotus Petal says.

"Someone matching your description has been robbing convenience stores Downtown recently," Brutus says. "And you were with Choler, who committed many atrocities in Dark Humor, and the Karma Kid, who was accessory to several Crimson Plague murders."

"And what are you doing here then? Huh?" the Man In Grey accuses. "Come to steal more hero powers?"

"It is clear to me from my time in and out of The Watch that they are acting as a front for criminal forces," Brutus declares. "You may not be aware, but outside of Zircon city it would be quite unheard of for brutal power supremacists to be admitted into a nominally heroic team... and yet The Watch has admitted several of them. Strange no?"

The Man in Grey starts to draw connections in his mind. They could be part of the Exalt project... The Watch, watching... like the Illuminati eye... hiding in plain sight...

"That's all besides the point," Jack Dandy cuts through. "We are not villains and power supremacists. Lotus Petal is merely suffering from a rogue time clone. We are heroic to the core. Why, Haste's speed won the day at the great Crimson Tide battle!"

"My Man single-handedly stopped Dark Humor the first time they were caught!" Haste says pointing to the Man in Grey.

"Lotus Petal set up a charity to help the doppelswap victims who couldn't afford to unswap!" The Man in Grey points out.

"Jack captured Escher, the bank robber who made such a mess of the Zircon City Bank," The Man in Grey points out, before mumbling, "I mean like Sanguine he also escaped from jail but we did it right the first time..."

"Do you want to suffer the slings and arrows of outrage at stealing powers from Zircon City's finest?" Jack says. Anyone else would sound pompous, but his self-confident delivery carries it.

Brutus slowly eats another grape while he ponders. "It seems I misjudged you. Very well... this is not something I've done before but... I believe I could return your powers. Come here all of you." He holds out his hand to shake.

Haste takes a step back. No way is she touching this guy. He has radioactive power-stealing detachable hands!

The Man in Grey steps forward and shakes his hand. "I believe his intentions are true. My danger sense hasn't set off."

Jack Dandy puts his hand on his friend's shoulder. He beckons over the others. Lotus Petal and Haste step forward and put their hands on the Man in Grey. They feel a shiver as something passes through them. They hope fervently that it's not a dose of gamma radiation.

"It is done." Brutus says. "I will see you in the great fights to come." And with that he strides out the room.

Haste and Lotus Petal only realise they've been given the wrong powers when he's already gone. And soon in time Jack and the Man find out that they've been gifted something too...

Constellation Aurora had been sent for a heart to heart but they arrived too late, The Dandy Lads got to Brutus first in their supercar. Instead Constellation Aurora went to save Spork when they saw the flamethrower light from the nearby roof.

OUTCOME
Mission: Dandy Lads: Success
Jack Dandy: Gains power "Wound Transference: If Jack has time copies active, any wounds he suffered will be displaced onto them instead."
The Man In Grey: Gains power "Phase Musculature: Each time Man in Grey disappears due to legitimate danger, he comes back stronger."
Haste: Gains power: "Self-Weakness Sense: Haste has a danger sense for wherever she's currently most exposed"
Lotus Petal: Gains power: "Slowmo Fighting: the area around Lotus Petal massively slows down when fighting, allowing her to perform acts of wire-fu slow motion fighting"
Mission Reward: +1 crossover Brutus

Spoiler: #7 Cleansing (click to show/hide)

Cursed Legacy come to the defense of a mansion filled with wealthy ritual-performing satanists, who are attacked by the Cleansing who are joined by Auntie Anti, acting opportunistically, and targeted by Animalia who come to even the score.

At the end of the evening, the satanists are safely protected, absconded away by the efforts of Spawn of Satan, Reflux and their new recruit Lost Tide. The mansion does not survive the rescue attempt, destroyed by Reflux accidentally destroying a load bearing wall, and Spawn being too easy with the hellfire, their powers harder to control with Auntie Anti's presence.

Bloodmoon is crippled with guilt by the Sin Reaper and staked to the ground by a piercing hawthorn tree by Joshua Tree, killing her. Bittern and Woodchunk get through with injuries, the latter developing an unusual new power which allows the pair to get away with alacrity, despite being assaulted by an unpowered Vile Viola.

Before they fully get away, Auntie Anti causes Reflux's power to backfire on her, petrifying her as an obsidian statue.

OUTCOME
Bloodmoon: Killed.
Bittern: Injury: vine-whipped. Gains trait "Respects Woodchunk"
Woodchunk: Gains power "Tanuki balls(!)". Gains trait "Frying pan based concussion"
Reflux: Dead? Turned into an obsidian statue.
Spawn of Satan: +1 fame. Gains trait "Vengeful"
Lost Tide: +1 fame. Gains injury "Dehydrated"

Spoiler: #8 Base Invasion (click to show/hide)

Pain. Pain is what PUNCH! shared as they lay beaten on the floor of their base.

The ambush had been a sound idea but they didn't account for Ascenso's unique powers. As soon as he reached the threshold of the empty nightclub floor where Brick was standing in bait and the others were hiding with stealth suits, Ascenso gained a bevy of new powers from being in the vicinity of the others.

Mistress Extra, Princess Professional, the Chorist, and Lynxxx were hiding, waiting, and Ascenso became enriched by their hidden presence. He gained a nightmare voice and situational flexibility, which combined well with the phase throwing and the peak physicality he got from his own team: the evil Lotus Petal, Wispa, and Master Tusk

"They're hiding, three or four of them!" he shouted, starting a melee of staff blows, explosive phasing and an excessive number of daggers. Even Brick was hurt from a Wispa attack, large parts of his thigh blown off completely. The others were similarly pushed around. During the fighting, the Chorist tries to sing and gets stabbed for his trouble. Before another dagger can hit the floor swallows him up.

Ascenso chuckles, holding his final knife. "I'm going to enjoy this next part..."

He doesn't get to enjoy the moment for very long, as Pathfinder emerges. She swoops through the door, charges Ascenso with an explosive step off, punching him with her pneumatic gauntlets. Then she engages in a ballet of brutality, ducking away from Wispa and smacking down Master Tusk and the Evil Lotus. Their enhanced physical conditioning keep them in the fight long enough to regroup near the DJ booth.

They are about to charge again when a side door bursts open and several tonnes of sea water pours into the room. On the cusp of the wave ride Atla and Pockette in Pockette's giant umbrella, turned over as a makeshift boat. Pockette repeatedly spams portals to try to get off the crazy ride, losing track of which leads to where in the mad confusion.

Pathfinder and the beaten PUNCH! heroes fall through one of these portals and emerge back at the dock. A few moments later Pockette and Atla climb out too, the portal closing behind them. Chiffon is waiting on the wooden deck of a wharf, looking about with concern.

"Oh wow, you will not believe the trouble we've just had!" she says.

OUTCOME
Mission: PUNCH! Failure. Route Horizon: Success
Pathfinder: Gains trait "Co-ordinated"
Mistress Extra: Gains trait "dagger phased in stomach"
Princess Professional: Gains injury "staff-related bruising"
Brick: Gains injury "exploded thighs"
Chorist: Gains injury "stab wounds". Gains new power "Vibrational Shifting: The Chorist can gently move through solid objects without leaving much trace."
Lynxxx: Gains injury "concussion"
Mission reward: PUNCH! gain -1 rep in Dusk Beach from mercenary (actually from dropping the ocean on the nightclub district)

Spoiler: #9 Healing Science (click to show/hide)

Frostara and Crackler assist Marigold with her research. Her scientists make excellent headway studying the recently healed tissue, but they are still looking for more participants.

OUTCOME
The Watch gain +2 income.
Protection Inc. gain +2 income

Spoiler: #10 Golemtown (click to show/hide)

A number of PUNCH! heroes were sent to deal with gangsters at the docks. There was Atla, the giantess who got her powers after being doppelswapped; Pockette the parosol-twirling hapless portal making mercenary; and Chiffon, the baker of power-giving pastries newly returned to active heroing, with her power today being a mist-form.

As they make their way over from neighbouring Dusk Beach, a debate starts up.

"What even is an evolution?" Atla asks. "Like how can making portals be something to do with your genes? It makes no sense."

"I dunno," Pockette says, before mumbling, "At least I'm not breaking conservation of mass or the square-cube law."

"Or your cakes," Atla says to Chiffon. "Don't they prove that everyone has power potential?"

"Maybe," Chiffon says, "But I always thought it was because I'm rolling the dough by hand. Maybe some DNA from my hands is getting into it that way. They're really just borrowing something from me, no?"

"I don't think Spontaneous Human Evolution is spontaneous human or an evolution," Atla says at last. "It's a divine  plan."

"Or aliens," Pockette suggests.

"We're going to find a scientific solution one day, I'm sure..." Chiffon says.

Ten minutes later, the three of them are engaged in close combat with three eight-foot high stone men, fighting on a pier leading to a fishing boat where they hoped to find the leader of the Stone-Face Gang. Chiffon had taken on a mist form. The jettee was already creaking under the weight of the stone men when Atla makes herself more gigantic and the whole thing collapses. The stone men sink into the deep water of the port. Atla stands up with the water at her middle, Pockette perched on her shoulder.

The enhanced engines on panga-hull fishing boat rev, and the vessel begins to speed away. Chiffon coalesced her mist form on Atla's other shoulder. She pulled a muffin out of special pounch for baked goods, and offered it to the giantess.

"This should be teleportation," she says.

Atla opens her mouth and Chiffon throws the relatively tiny muffin in. Moments later, Atla blinked out of existence. Chiffon turned back into mist but Pockette was dropped into the water.

Atla appeared above the fishing boat. Landing with a creak of metal, the boat sank dangerously low in the water. Gangsters onboard opened fire with uzis, which didn't do much. At last, one tried a bazooka and Atla staggered off the boat and shrunk to normal size to heal again.

The fishing boat sped away and Atla was left floundering in the deeper water. Pockette, climbing back onto the wharf, leaves an unopened portal on the docks, then shoots a second portal above Atla and another portal on the docks and then jumps through, landing in her umbrella, opened up to form a make-shift boat for the pair of them. Atla pulled herself aboard.

"Damn, they got away!" Atla says.

"No, no, here's how we spin it, this is a win because we scared them off. No way the Stonefaces are showing their face around here," Pockette assures her. She points to the portal above them, which is now out of reach with the drift of the water. "I'll just open one below us back to the docks..."

Pockette, Atla, and the water in the docks all pour through the portal. But instead of going back to the docks, she accidentally links it back to a previously unopened return portal back at the base. Riding the floodwaters through the twisting corridors of the base, they manage to pick up the rest of PUNCH! and Route Horizon before ending up back through the portal at the docks she'd meant to to link to in the first place.

After checking over the copious injuries and catching each other up on progress, Mistress Extra demanded Pockette to quit flooding their home.

"I... don't think I can," Pockette says. "Now I think about it, there's always been a safety aspect to my portals, I can't cut them off when significant mass is moving through them. Stops me accidentally cutting people in half with them I guess. Guess that water is going to flow until I die now..."

OUTCOME
Mission: PUNCH! mixed success
Atla:   Fame +1, -1 income for damages incurred
Pockette: Fame +1, -1 income for damages incurred
Mari: Fame +1, gains trait "impulsive"
Mission rewards: +1 income from mercenary. +1 rep in Docks.

[notquitethere]

OPPORTUNITY PHASE 13

The Dandy Lads
1. AWE have been clearing through a warehouse of Don Jetman's inventions that never saw the light of day. He had a body-mounted short-range teleporter based on a device recovered from Carmen La Plaga's body after the Crimson Plague fight. It was set up to teleport someone back to HQ when injured, only it is quite sensitive and would teleport someone for a bloody nose as much as for a gunshot.
Offer: A Dandy Lad hero gets an Emergency Teleporter a good guard against fatal attacks, but they may be taken out of fights prematurely.

Bro Club
1. Bro Club have spent a lot of time hanging out, resting at the clubhouse in Sandup. One day they get a letter from Joshua Tree. He says that there's a lot of bloodshed to come, but for all their prior bonds of brotherhood he doesn't want to see him come to blows.
Offer: Joshua Tree will avoid attending any mission that the Bro Club are attending, but Bro Club will gain +1 Team Infamy (Turning a Blind Eye)
2. Chase looks into a way of making some money through merchandising. He talks with various toy companies, bag makers, design agencies, until he feels ready to make a deal...
Offer: +3 income from merchandising deals, but the team are contractually obliged not to take too many risks that will jeopardise toy lines: -1 income for each Deadly mission attended.

The Watch
1. The Mangler II is spending more and more time with his new teammate Wiffle and its starting to rub off on him...
Offer: Mangler gains "Calm" but loses "Destructive"
2. Inspired by Chiffon, Anuran wants to return to Watchtower, only he wants to take proper precautions and asks if his allies might consider making him some custom frog-themed gadgets
Offer: Anuran enters Watchtower, loses "Depressed" and gains "Frog Gadgets" trait, but someone able to make such a gadget misses the next mission phase
3. Gain Cross-Over with Watchpoint
4. In the secret passages leading from the basements of the E-Corp HQ, Cephala finally manages to get signal and send a message to the team. She could pursue Dr Muldoon to his bugout in the tunnels under the city.
Offer: Cephala gains "Catacomb Sneaker" trait and is first on the scene in the next Dr Muldoon mission, but cannot be reapplied elsewhere that phase.
5. Dr Hijank (Verdigris) misses her friend Keros (Bitrot). She considers asking him to return as a friend, rather than an active hero.
Offer: Keros would be present at the base and would be count as a team member for cohesion and fame/infamy purposes but could not actually be assigned onto missions.
6. Void has rarely met anyone he can just be normal around without any technology getting in the way. He'd like to go on a date with Jennifer!
Offer: Void gains trait "Dating Jennifer" and loses "Self Doubting" and "Unsettling", but misses next mission phase.

Route Horizon
1. Pathfinder was effective in the last fight but she wonders whether she should be throwing herself head first like that. Wasn't that what got Endless Highway killed? But then... isn't throwing yourself headlong into danger what a hero should do?
Offer: Pathfinder gains trait "Tactical" but loses "Self-Sacrificing" and "Acting In Endless Highway's Memory"

PUNCH!
1. PUNCH! need a new base ASAP. There's a recently emptied one in Old Town, that used to be owned by The Watch... but a more secret base might be better?
Offer either:
A: PUNCH! move to the huge river base, but it's public knowledge that that base is reoccupied.
OR
B: PUNCH! downsize and move to a large totally anonymous apartment in their beloved Dusk Beach, but two team members will have to leave the team.

Protection Inc
1. Distraught by Reflux's stony predicament, Película wants to see if Marigold will try and use her experimental Refresher to undo the damage... despite the possible risks.
Offer: Reflux is healed and joins Protection Inc. as a grateful member but Reflux gains trait "Unstable Time Position" and Spawn of Satan gains trait "Resents Protection Inc".
2. Mentat is saddened by the loss of a once promising hero, Harpoodle. Perhaps a memorial for all the heroes lost in the line of duty might be appropriate?
Offer: Pick a neighbourhood for the memorial and +1 neighbourhood rep for each team that lost a hero in that neighbourhood, but -1 income to organise (SPECIAL: this opportunity can be applied for as many neighbourhoods as you like, so long as you have the income).
3. Camarada knows that she and Película could have been killed by Mortar if they hadn't got lucky... someone should do something about these rogue villains, surely?
Offer: The Gray Company are the subject of a mission in the next phase, but Camarada loses trait "forgiving"

The Gray Company
1. The Company came off with quite a haul. It might take someone some time to get the fancier bits properly appraised and safely fenced off.
Offer: +1 income, but a team-member of your choice is locked in for the next mission phase and this can't be Rat King.

House Edge
1. House Edge are sent an anonymous message with camera footage of Slinger and Verdigris with voice recordings and gait analysis indicating that these are actually the supposedly dead villains Slugnut and Dr Hijank. Further evidence suggests that 'Clear Spirit' and 'Bitrot' must be Cephala and Keros, respectively. This could be an explosive revelation if it got out, and could be a big career move for whoever revealed it...
Offer Either:
A: House Edge gain +2 team fame "Unveiled The Watch Deception" and the Watch lose 2 Team Infamy "Murdered Odd Squad in cold blood" but gain 3 Team Infamy "In Cahoots With The Odd Squad" and the Odd Squad members of the Watch would gain their original infamy scores.
OR
B: The message is ignored for now (it can be revealed for the same effect at any future opportunity phase).

[notquitethere]

RECRUITMENT PHASE 14

NOTE: The 15th set of phases will be the last in this game.

Removing/Changing Team Members

Spoiler: Letting Members Go (click to show/hide)

Players may remove existing team members in one of four ways:
Let Go: Thing didn't work out. Team member leaves. -1 attendee at the next tryout (this malus can stack if you fire multiple heroes).
Run Out: They'll never work in this town again! Team Leader gains "Hates [team member]" and the team member gains "Hates [team leader]" and leaves the team and gains -1 fame from the ignominy.
Revolt: The team leader is thrown out! The old leader gains "Hates [team name]", -1 fame from the ignominy and leaves the team. Pick a new team leader.
Hand in: Any team member with Infamy greater than their Fame may be handed in to custody. The ex-team mate gains "Hates [team name]" and is placed in custody, and is also barred from the Clemency program. This is the only way of removing a team member who is currently unreformed and on a team with Clemency.
Spinoff: Pick at least three team members (who have fame higher than their infamy, and have each been on at least one non-personal mission) and choose a new team name. They leave the team permanently to set up their own spin-off team in a nearby city (choose Stoney Island, Las Destinos, or Leadville).* Gain +1 team fame for each member lost this way, and randomly gain an opportunity every opportunity phase or a cross-over from the new team.

*Stoney Island: Small island town dominated by a carnival, once a tourist spot now completely overrun by Crimson Plague .
Las Destinos: Large city famed for its nightlife and casinos; like if Dusk Beach was a whole city.
Leadville: Medum-sized post-industrial city. Run down, lots of unemployed, a fertile recruiting ground for powered gangs.

A team member can be promoted to the new leader without a coup: the old leader gains -1 fame and the "ex-leader" trait, and the new leader gains +1 fame.

Hiring
Everyone who has slots may either seek to recruit one hero from the recruitment pool OR they may hold tryouts to fill all slots. You may instead propose a team merger with another team, if your team has enough room to accommodate all new members. Villain teams recruit from the Rogue's Gallery instead.

Due to the Mayor's Clemency: in addition to any other recruitment, hero teams may take one one villain in custody onto their team (ignoring requirements like fame and max team size). Once they are redeemed (fame higher than infamy), you may recruit again in this way. Villains recruited still count towards your team size as normal. Villains have fame 0 by default.

You can't recruit someone with a higher fame than your team's fame. Villains recruit with Infamy instead of Fame. If two people try to recruit the same person, I'll flip to see who gets to them first.

Spoiler: Recruitment Pool (click to show/hide)

POSSIBLE TRYOUT ATTENDEES
Name |   Known Powers | Traits | Fame/Infamy
Jennifer | Normality Field | Boring, Friendly, Unheroic | -1
Skinslip | Skin-Manipulation | Grotesque, Rational, Flexible | 0
Spyte | Poison barbs | Vindictive, Subtle, Incisive, Hates Cutting Edge, Bristly, Unhinged | 1/1
Public Enemy | Hated By Everyone | Cowardly, Debater, Tolerant | 1
Thornrose | Flower blooming, Fencing, Photosynthesis, Plantform | Vicious, Charming, Good-Looking, Enemy of E-Corp | 2
Captain Georgia | Super strength and durability linked to peanut consumption | Strong, Serious, Blunt | 4
The Woman Lamp | Flaming Hair, Fire Bolts, Jet-Fire Propulsion | Hates Mimesis, Tempestuous, Trigger-Fuse, Forgotten, Overwhelmed, Bad cough, Annoyed With Protection Inc. | 4
Ectoboy: Channelling Ghost Powers | Child, Spooky, Inconspicuous, Hates Sandup, Afraid of Lasers, Empathic, Cursed | 4/2
Brutus | Permanent Power Absorption, Detachable Limbs, Magnetic Control, Radioactive Touch, X-Ray Vision, Astral Projection | Cold, Analytical, Unfaithful, Self-Perfecting, Cathedral invasion expert, Cunning, Lone Wolf | 11
Lavateen | Lava Generation, Social Media Manipulation | Teenager, Popular, Good Looking, Inauthentic, Cathedral Invasion Expert | 14

RIVAL TEAMS
CURSED LEGACY - Hermitage -1 rep in Downtown, +4 rep in Hermitage
Spawn of Satan (leader) | Fireproof, Horns, Hellfire, Flame-Stepping, Stone-Fist | Child, Hates Joshua Tree, Satanic, Wild, One-Handed, Berserk, High Standards, Vengeful | 5
Reflux | Matter Transformation | Turned To Stone, Teenager, Vengeful, Determined, Distrusts Ectoboy, Unnatural Appearance, Friends with Película | 1
Lost Tide | Salt-Kinesis, Axe-Fighting | Teen Runaway, Secretive, Responsible, Angst-Ridden | 1

CONSTELLATION AURORA - Silver Row
[Leader] Sol Heart | Love, Aura Sight | Forgiving, Ever Broke, Trusting, Honest, Hates Cephala, Guilt-Wracked, Inspiring | 6
Iron Gavel | Super-Strength, Giant Hammer Fighting, Hammer Blast | Hates criminals, Brutal, Connected, Respects Sol, Protective | 7
Mimesis (Marianne) | Invisible Walls and Platforms | Irritating, Veteran, Well-Meaning, Respects Iron Gavel, Committed, Loyal | 6
ANIMALIA - Greenbelt
-3 Sandup Rep
Bittern | Wings, Water control | Pacifist, Ecologist, Impressive, Intolerant of Unevolved, Shellshocked, Respects Woodchunk | 1/6 | Saving the moorland habitat of local bird species
Woodchunk | High Speed Clambering, Biting, Tanuki Balls | Athletic, Vicious, Gimmicky, Unsure about Animalia | 1/1 | Exercise
BEACON BLAZES - DOWNTOWN
Reverso | Long-Range Gravity Warping | Intense, Secretive, Loyal, Brawler, Respects Longfire, Unrelenting | 4
Longfire | Teleports Fireballs, Poison Smoke | Hates Frostara, Allergic to peanuts, Brave, Cunning, Vengeful, Laser-Proof Armor, Brawler, Friends with Reverso, Dismissive of Pathfinder, Mourning Ponche | 6/1
CHUNKY TOWN - MONTGOMERY
Lovehandles | Self-Inertia Manipulation, Repulsion Force | Hates Lynxx, Slovenly, Comedian, Destructive, Slow | 5/0
Dangerfield | Terrain Warping, Traps | Cunning, Perceptive, On Parole, Over-Confident | 5

RETIRED / OTHER WORK
Bitrot (Keros) | Autonomous Removable Arm on Verdigris' Suit Immortal Wax Body | Fabulist, Fearless, Loves Cephala, Tiny, Quick-Thinking | 1/7
Bakal | Metal absorption and repulsion | Old, Religious, Kind, Too Old For This | 0
Ascupart (Formerly Choler) | None | Poetic, Angry, Imposing, On Parole | 0/3
Karma Kid | None | Child, Vindictive, Calm | 0/2
Marigold | Gold Transformation | Known Killer, Wealthy, Spendthrift, Fear of Drowning, Owner of Advanced Widget Enterprises | 3
Songstress | Infectious Song | Enthusiastic, Melodic, Out-Of-Shape, Mute, Looks up to Windbow | 5
Anuran (Jacques) | Mutant frog powers | Shifty, Inquisitive, Overconfident, Depressed, Saddened By Losses | 5
Windbow | Bow & Arrow Trick-shooting, Small object shaping | Strong, Withered Arm, Crotchety, Old, Wise, | 8
Don Jetman | Production logistics, Flying suit | Control Freak, Self-Assured, Muscular, Wealthy, Teenager, Former Owner of Advanced Widget Enterprises | 10

MISSING/DORMANT
Name |   Known Powers | Traits | Fame
Black Box | | [hidden], [hidden], [hidden] | -1

Spoiler: Teams in Other Cities (click to show/hide)

WATCHTOWER - Leadville
Name |   Known Powers | Traits | Fame/Infamy
Saluki (Thomas O'Byrne) | Heightened smell, Hyperspeed running | Elegant, Thoughtful, Lazy, In love with Chiffon, Bullet graze, Respects Anuran | 4
Bitter Candy (Geoff) | Shrinking | Jaded, Practical, Authentic, Hates Nitrox, Hates working with kids, Machine-assisted tiny legs | 1/1
Lady Lefant (Doris) | Ranged Fabric Control | Ostentatious, Witty, Self-Assured, Hates Plumbaris | 8

WATCHPOINT - Stoney Island
Ziggurat (Javier Pahuac) (leader) | Tower Creation | Practical, Intelligent, Inhibited, Hates Crowds, Attention to detail | 7
Plumbaris (Fillan Doyle) | Ranged weight manipulation | Crude, Playful, Educated, Loves Lady Lefant, Amused by Muffin Madness | 9
Bantum Boy | Short-Ranged flight, Hyperkicking | Child, Crazy, Happy, Looks up to Frostara | 5, 1 Infamy

SHEAKFROW - Stoney Island
[some number of clowns]

DODGY LADS - Leadville
Nimbus | Sticky Light Projection, Threat Sense | Sickly, Observant, Disciplined  | 3/2
Daring Dart | Slowed Time Perception, Perfected Acrobatics | Show-Off, Athletic, Precise | 4/3
Freight Train | Invulnerable, Explosive Charge Attack | Thick-skinned, Superficial, Self-assured | 5/4

Spoiler: Rogue Gallery (click to show/hide)

You may substitute team infamy for team fame when recruiting villains.
ACTIVE
Name | Known Powers | Traits | Infamy | Motivation
Monkeypaw | Bad luck aura | Ingenious, Blissed Out, Frugal, Reckless | (4 fame) / 0 | Fed-up with heroism
Landshark | Matter Destruction , Giant Shark-Body | Ravenous, Unreasoning, Vicious | Feeding
Aunty Anti | Power Inversion Field | Anti-Evolved, Conspiracy Theorist, Tenacious | 1 | Neutralising the Exalt Evolved
Reinita | Age-Draining | Known Killer, Youthful, Heartless | 4 | Immortality
Buzzoff | Drone tinkering | Credulous, Easy-going, Grifter, Animal-Lover, Observant  | 4 | Covering the cape (under)world

RED HAND
Master Tusk | Enhanced Physique?, Staff Fighting? | Strategic, Learned, Power-Supremacist, On Parole | 4 | Building a new team
Ascenso | Combined versions of nearby powers | Evolved-Supremacist, Intense, Gourmand | 0 | Reviving a Crimson Plague 2.0
Evil Lotus Petal | Uncanny Knife-Throwing, Gymnastics | Crimson Plague Sleeper Agent, Extrovert, Focused, Returning
Knives, | 2 | Reviving a Crimson Plague 2.0
Wispa | Phasing, Explosive Unphasing, Smoke Merging | Unfeeling, Curious, Easy-Going | 4 | Feeling Something

THE CLEANSING
Joshua Tree | Rapid Plant Generation, Bark Armour | Religious, Neat, Respects Bittern, Holy Warrior, Respects Lexicon, Known Killer, Uncompromising | 2/1 | Cleansing Zircon City of the demonic host
Sin Reaper | Emotional Inducement Wave | Religious, Jolly, Manipulative, Paranoid |  0 | Cleansing Zircon City of its wickedness
Vile Viola Melancholy (in the Prelate's body) | None? | Dissociative, Delusional, Self-Absorbed, Unpredictable, Infectious  | Uncovering Project Exalt

E CORP
Doctor Muldoon | Mad Genetic Science on Evolved | Optimistic, Genius, Haphazard | 0 | Saving the world!!
Doctor Davies | None | Pessimistic, Clever, Meticulous | 0 | Saving his career
Muskrat | Toxic Gas Generation | Known Killer, Careless, Hardy | 3 | Getting the respect he feels he's due

BIG BABY
Big Baby | Vast Psychic Potential (including, telekinesis and mind convergence for rapid-learning) | Highly Organised, Curious, Protective, Enemy of the E-Corp | 0/0

IN CUSTODY
Big Joe Pike | None | Heartless, Relentless, Clueless | 0 | Hunting Big Game
4-D | ?? | Gimmicky, Coward, Sense of Humour | 2 | Fulfilling mercenary contracts
Gigaman | Enhanced strength and durability, Laser eyes, Flight | Insane, Unreliable, Friendly, Animal-Lover | 2 | Smashing Annoying Ants
Johnny Knifehands | Knife Hands | Known Killer, Washout, Angry, Quick, Hates Bloodmoon | 3 | Knocking the Heroes Down A Peg
Phlegm | Pleasure-inducing fog | Lazy, Calm, Hedonistic, Infectious Humming | 3 | Have fun
Flea | Super-Jumping, Short Beam-Based Weapon Creation| Known Killer, Daredevil, Power Supremacist | 3 | Get into exciting fights
Humming | 3 |Discovering The Truth About The Exalt Project
Black Rat | Contortion, Poison Blade Fighting? | Flexible, Quick, Power Supremacist | 4 | Proving herself
Marion Man | Puppetry (puppets and corpses) | Sinister, Clown, Prepared | 5 | Build a vast clown army
Hypnobeat | Music-Powered Deep Suggestion | Misogynist, Calm, Power-Supremacist | 5 | Making sweet music
Baron von Woof (leader) | Superior Throwing Arm, Canine senses | Gimmicky, Hates Cats, Brash, Respects Nitrox, Dog Companions, Dog-Whisperer | 5 | Becoming Zircon City's most infamous villain
Anthrax |  Advanced Biohacking | Slapdash, Quick, Power-Supremacist | 6 | Creating a superior life-form
Weeping Pus | Unclosing Wounds | Grotesque, Unstable, Strong | 6 | Forget about his situation
Lazard | Deadly Lasers | Known Killer, Bloodthirsty, Unpredictable | 6 | Destroy the moon
Doctor Black | Good shot? | Indefatigable, Power-Supremacist, Prepared | 7 | Revenge


DORMANT/RETIRED
Name | Known Powers | Traits | Infamy | Motivation
Suffrage | Teleport, was able to mind-swap others | Known Killer, Tired, Cruel, Righteous | 4 | Enjoying immense wealth

Here's a reminder of the Tryout process, from the OP.

Spoiler: Tryouts (click to show/hide)

If you hold a tryout, 2d4 heroes will attend. You will fill all empty spots in your roster with heroes according to the criterion you pick. Unpicked heroes will remain in the recruitment pool for future rounds.
Criteria
Versatility: The widest range of powers will be picked.
Power: The most impressive powers will be picked.
Team Cohesion: The heroes who least despise one another and your existing team members will be picked.
Renown: Pick the most famous heroes first.

[Egan_BW]

Move to the apartment. Lynx, Pockette, and Atla get spun off to Los Destinos as "KICK".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lynxxx | Enhanced climbing and acrobatics | Hates Dogs, Vivacious, Brash, Risk-tolerant, Respects Ectoboy, Connected, Bulletproof Armor, Stealth-Tech, concussion | +4 +2
Pockette | Portals | Hapless, Happy-Go-Lucky, Amoral, Lackadaisical | +1 -1 | Getting successful as a bounty hunter
Atla | Can turn Gigantic, Heals when shrinks | Happily Swapped, Serious, Resourceful, Outspoken, Stealth-Tech, Bulletproof Armor | +3

Spoiler: PUNCH! (click to show/hide)

Team Name: PUNCH!
Leader: Mistress Extra
Fame: +5 (+3 1/5) [Finishing Off Dark Humor: +1] [Fighting the Red Hand: +1]
Infamy: +4 (+1 0/5) [Enforcers (Permanent): +1] [Legion's Expansion (Permanent): +2]
Income: Tight (+1)

Base:
Base Size: Large (+3)
Base Description: some apartment
Base Location: Dusk Beach
Maximum Team Size: 5

Ethos:
Killing: We kill as a last resort.
Civilians: Saving civilians is the number one goal.
Collateral Damage: We pay for any damages we make.

Reputation:
Downtown: +2
Oldtown: -1
Docks: +0
Dusk Beach: -1
Silver Row: +0
Atomic Heights: -1
Montgomery: -1
Warren: -1
Greenbelt: -2
Sandup: -1
Mireton: +0
Hermitage: -1

Team:
Mistress Extra | Nightmare Possession, Dreamwalking | Energetic, Hedonistic, Sadistic, Cat-like grace, Mental Fortitude, Tinnitus, dagger phased in stomach, Bloodthirsty, Stealth-Tech, Friends with Princess, Respects Princess, Loves Princess | +4
Princess Professional | Understanding complex organizational structures | Conventional, Punctual, Confidential, Loyal, Forgettable, Attentive, Bulletproof Armor, Stealth-Tech, Concealed Shotgun, Friends with Extra, Trusts Extra, Loves Extra, Red Hand enemy #1, staff-related bruising | +2 +2
The Chorist | Hypnotizing Singing, Song of Synchronicity, Vibrational Shifting | Religious, Good-Looking, Optimistic, Hazmat, Stealth-Tech, Cathedral invasion expert, stab wounds | +8 +1
Brick | Enhanced strength and toughness | Risk-Taking, Muscular, Greedy, exploded thighs | +2 | Fulfilling mercenary contracts
Chiffon (Mari Chang) | Bakes pastries which grant powers | Introverted, Kind, Neurotic, Bullet Proof Armor, Wealthy | +2

Asset: Night Map
Crossover: The Watch

[Stirk]

We almost actually made it to the end? Honestly I thought you would have got burned out by now. This is like the second time in B12 history a game managed to make it to its stated goal.

Can I use the Marigold's Special with my Team Identity? If not I'll have to use the videos to blackmail Retry so we can make our own to fix Tin Soldier's eternal internal torment.

[notquitethere]

We almost actually made it to the end? Honestly I thought you would have got burned out by now.

The end is in sight! I bit off a lot more than I should have, but it's been fun for me to write so I'm confident at making it to the end.

Can I use the Marigold's Special with my Team Identity?

Marigold's Special is a Service, not a Good, so you can buy it.