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[Egan_BW]

Grumble fine I'll be peer pressured into this.

Mgold special for Princess Professional, The Chorist, and Brick.

Attend baby mission with a full stack. Baby can suck it up, I'm not sending Princess anywhere without friends.
Also, call in my Watch crossover.
Don't attend in person, instead using the Night Map. This should allow me to utilize the whole team's mental power together.
Mentat is invited to join the Night Jaunt, if he finds that preferable to using a host.

Spoiler: PUNCH! (click to show/hide)

Team Name: PUNCH!
Leader: Mistress Extra
Fame: +8 (+3 1/5) [Finishing Off Dark Humor: +1] [Fighting the Red Hand: +1] [KICK Spinoff: +3]
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, Youthful Cells Bulletproof Armor, Stealth-Tech, Concealed Shotgun, Friends with Extra, Trusts Extra, Loves Extra, Red Hand enemy #1 | +2 +2
The Chorist | Hypnotizing Singing, Song of Synchronicity, Vibrational Shifting | Religious, Good-Looking, Optimistic, Youthful Cells, Hazmat, Stealth-Tech, Cathedral invasion expert | +8 +1
Brick | Enhanced strength and toughness | Risk-Taking, Muscular, Greedy, Youthful Cells | +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]

Grumble fine I'll be peer pressured into this.

Mgold special for Princess Professional, The Chorist, and Brick.

Attend baby mission with a full stack. Baby can suck it up, I'm not sending Princess anywhere without friends.
Also, call in my Watch crossover.
Don't attend in person, instead using the Night Map. This should allow me to utilize the whole team's mental power together.

Spoiler: PUNCH! (click to show/hide)

Team Name: PUNCH!
Leader: Mistress Extra
Fame: +8 (+3 1/5) [Finishing Off Dark Humor: +1] [Fighting the Red Hand: +1] [KICK Spinoff: +3]
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, Youthful Cells Bulletproof Armor, Stealth-Tech, Concealed Shotgun, Friends with Extra, Trusts Extra, Loves Extra, Red Hand enemy #1 | +2 +2
The Chorist | Hypnotizing Singing, Song of Synchronicity, Vibrational Shifting | Religious, Good-Looking, Optimistic, Youthful Cells, Hazmat, Stealth-Tech, Cathedral invasion expert | +8 +1
Brick | Enhanced strength and toughness | Risk-Taking, Muscular, Greedy, Youthful Cells | +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

Imagine being scared of a baby lol

[Stirk]

So am I going to have to take out both the shark and the main base since nobody else figured out how deployment limits worked in 14 mission phases?

[Glass]

Don’t worry, the Watch will try to deal with the shark tearing up our porch. I’ve just been busy.

[IronyOwl]

I guess the Dandy Lads have nothing better to do than handle #1, if nobody else wants it.

All four Dandy Lads investigate #1: What Is He Building Down There?

Spoiler: The Dandy Lads (click to show/hide)

Team Name: Dandy Lads
Leader: Jack Dandy
Fame: 7 (+3 Avg Fame, +1 Inherent, +1 Unswap Charity, +2 Defeated Crimson Plague)
Income: Opulent [Broke|Tight|Modest|Comfortable|Opulent]
Reputation:
+1 Silver Row
+2 Old Town
+2 Mireton
+2 Downtown
+1 Montgomery
+1 Atomic Heights
+1 Docks
Cross-Over: Cutting Edge
Cross-Over: Marion Man (responsible for returning to custody afterwards)
Electrogirdle: wearer gains powers "Super Strength", "Super Jumping" and trait "Tires easily" while it is worn.
Focused: Heroes are more likely to gain new and distinct powers, but team size is capped at four
Supercar: Arrive at the scene as quick as your rivals who are a neighbourhood closer!
Sponsorship: Cannot take [Deadly] missions!

Base
Base Size (base size mod): Small [Tiny (+0)|Small(+1)|Appropriate(+2)|Large(+3)|Vast(+5)]
Base Description: Abandoned lab in Atomic Heights
Base Location: Atomic Heights
Maximum Team Size: 3 [2 + (the smaller of Base Size Modifier and Fame)]

Ethos
Killing: We never kill
Civilians: Saving civilians is the number one goal
Collateral Damage: We pay for any damages we make

Name: Jack Dandy
Gender: Male
Appearance: A tall, handsome man with a muscular frame, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a cleft chin.
Alter-ego/backstory: Jack Dandy was born Donald Arthur Whisk, but took up a more pleasing stage name at the age of 13. At 15 he landed a breakout role as the spunky sidekick in a cheap but popular science fiction flick, which taught him that not only could he succeed as an actor, he could inspire people while doing it. As he grew older, he transitioned from heroic supporting roles to the main man himself, but he never lost the humility and enthusiasm that made him so popular with audiences. One day during a difficult shoot, a costar was almost crushed by a collapsing prop before Jack was able to leap to his rescue from some thirty feet away. Jack Dandy has been inspiring and entertaining on a bigger stage ever since.
Powers:
-Hyper-Athletics: Peak gymnastic performance that pushes past the edge of what was previously thought humanly possible.
-Skill Mimicry: Jack can, with focus, perfectly copy a skill he has previously observed
--He can reflexively mimic his opponent's attacks, making him near impossible to beat in hand-to-hand combat.
-Time Echoes: Jack can leave echoes of himself that repeat what he's just done in the same space. These echoes disappear if they touch him.
-Temporal Collapse: Jack can collapse nearby ongoing time-altering effects
-Wound Transference: If Jack has time copies active, any wounds he suffered will be displaced onto them instead.
Traits: Charismatic, Heroic, Vain, Unsure about The Man In Grey, Indefatigable, Wealthy, Missing Ear, Confident in Lotus Petal, Friends with Lotus Petal
Fame: 4

Name |   Known Powers | Traits | Fame
The Man in Grey | Disappears involuntarily when his safety is threatened | Mysterious, Altruistic, Quiet, Calm, Distrusts mindcontrollers, Sympathy for Vile Viola, Conspiracy Theorist, Spy, Wary of Lotus Petal, Feeling overlooked, Crush on Haste, Golden Eye, Loose Cannon | 4
Long grey trenchcoat, grey domino mask, and grey fedora
-The Man in Grey gets better at moving around while disappeared and tricking himself into feeling threatened enough to vanish, allowing limited range invisibility and intangibility (he can't really perceive anything in the real world when vanished).
-Phase Musculature: Each time Man in Grey disappears due to legitimate danger, he comes back stronger.
-Emergency Teleporter: A good guard against fatal attacks, but they may be taken out of fights prematurely.

Lotus Petal | Uncanny Knife-Throwing, Gymnastics, Weakness Spotting: Brutus intuitively senses the weakest point | Extrovert, Focused, Returning Knives, Unapologetic, Friends with Jack Dandy, Clawed | 2/2
Moves with a blur of silks
-Slowmo Fighting: the area around Lotus Petal massively slows down when fighting, allowing her to perform acts of wire-fu slow motion fighting

Name | Known Powers | Traits | Infamy | Fame | Motivation
Haste | Speed aura, Slow Aura | Charming, Cowardly, Greedy, Wary of Lotus Petal, Crossover: Watchtower, Respects The Man In Grey, Clawed | 1 | 3 | Money
-Haste has an improved application of her powers: she gets much better at speeding and slowing different parts of someone, making people run into walls, trip over, accidentally hit themselves with flailing limbs.
-Self-Weakness Sense: Haste has a danger sense for wherever she's currently most exposed

[Stirk]

The Spork stays home to make a Demagnetizer using his knowledge of super magnets. Since magnets have become our greatest enemy in the fight against E-corp. Boosted item making is in effect!

Tin Soldier gets the Marigold's Special to not be half-melted anymore.

Tin Soldier, PB, Lord Bombarrel, and Toytown will head to #1 to finish off E-Corp once and for all! We'll probably show up after the Dandy Lads but this mission is probably setting things up for the final round. The Watch said they have the Shark, but we are willing to send Jennifer to help them not be able to eat the entire squad if necessary. Otherwise we'll be saving her for the big finish.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team Name: House Edge
Leader: Tin Soldier
Fame: 7.4+6 | 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, Autonomous body part production| Comedian, Gimmicky, Charming, Fed Up with Dying, J-less, CrackShot, Ageist, Respects PB, Enemy of E Corp, Horrifying Clones| 10 | 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 (at least against Lasers) | 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, Youthful cells| 15
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, Rube Goldbergian |2 | 6 | Getting and Staying out of prison
Toytown | Creating tiny automatons,Automaton intelligence aura | Single-Minded, Hates Surprises, Genius, Meticulous, Enemy of E Corp, Values Toys the most | 3

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

Got a less impressive funeral than the Mangler:
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

[Glass]

Hmn. I was going to be splitting the team between the shark and E Corp, but it’s looking like E Corp is probably going to be handled without my input being needed.

Expect me to post the team’s actions tonight.

[VermilionSkies]

Spoiler: Route Horizon (click to show/hide)

Team:
Team Name: Route Horizon
Fame: 13 (9+4)
Income: Broke

Reputation:
Old Town: 1
Warrens: 0
Downtown: 1
Hermitage: 1
Greenbelt: 1
Mireton: 1
Docks: 3

Leader:
Pathfinder | Gliding, Perfected Spacial Awareness, Blast Off, Lone Hero | Blunt, Quick-Thinking, Extreme Sports Afficiando, Self-Sacrificing, Respects Reverso, Martial Artist, Believes in Route Horizon, Respects Endless Highway, Friends with Reverso, Acting In Endless Highway's Memory, Notable Scar, Bullet-proof Armor, Eagle-eyed, Highly Effective Pneumatic Gauntlets, Stealth-tech, Co-ordinated | 9 Fame | 2 Infamy

Base:
Base Size (base size mod): Appropriate
Base Description: Route Horizon works out of a specialized garage provided by Mayor Bigby.
Base Location: Oldtown
Maximum Team Size: 4 1

Ethos:
Killing: We kill as a last resort.
Civilians: Saving civilians is the number one goal.
Collateral Damage: We don’t care about property damage if it helps get the job done.

Misc:
Unable to recruit.
Crossover: Animalia

Time to punch out a shark. Pathfinder deploys to Mission 5.

"This is a classic, y'know? Punching sharks has been cool since humanity knew how to sail."

_{(I would speak in favor of clemency but Pathfinder doesn't meet the conditions)}

[Glass]

Spoiler: The Watch (click to show/hide)

Team Name: The Watch
Leader: Frostara
Fame: 11 (37/10 + 2 [Defeated The Crimson Plague] + 3 [Founded Watchtower] + 3 [Founded Watchpoint])
Infamy: 7 (37/10 + 1 + 3 [In Cahoots With The Odd Squad])
Income: Comfortable
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, Respects 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, Respects 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, Helpful, Close to going supernova, Control Belt!, Evasive, Friends with Retry, Impressed with Jennifer, Dating Jennifer | 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, Respects Dr. Light, 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, Feeling mangled, Loyal to Big Baby | 4
Doctor Light (Dr. Evelyn Light) | Junksuit, Devices that control and transform | Old, Clever, Kind, Enemy of the E Corp, Resourceful, Paraplegic, Robotic Legs, Over-Protective, Creaky | 3 Fame, 8 Infamy
Slugnut ("Darrick") | Slingshots, Pistol-shooting/loading | Quick, Ugly, Indefatigable, Mean, Hazmat, Loyal to Big Baby | 2 Fame, 7 Infamy
Cephala ("Elena") | Regenerating Tentacle Arms | Known Killer, Broken Probation, Ruthless, Ingenious, Terrifying, One-Eyed, Stealth-Tech, Selfish, Catacomb Sneaker | 0 Fame, 8 Infamy
Keros | Immortal Wax Body | Fabulist, Fearless, Loves Cephala, Tiny, Quick-Thinking | 1 Fame, 7 Infamy
The Mangler II (The Greatest Mango! "sigh") | Powersuit Construction | Vengeful, Calm, Inventive, Mangler Power Suit 2.0, Feeling mangled, Loyal to Big Baby | 4 Infamy | Mangling

Other Notes
Have control belt designs
1 Crossover: Cursed Legacy
3 2 Crossovers: Watchtower
1 Crossover: Route Horizon
1 Crossover: Animalia
1 Crossover: Thornrose
1 Crossover: Watchpoint
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.

David's on a date with Jennifer, and Mango Man is making armor for frogge.
Dr. Light will go to Oldtown to speak on behalf of the clemency program and the Watch. She is going entirely unarmed and will explicitly not resist arrest if that is the decision that people come to, to display trust and goodwill. Keros, though unable to take part in any combat missions, might be able to assist here? (3.1)
Although further events have rendered it suboptimal, Cephala is going to fight Muldoon, and she won't be left unsupported. Slugnut and Wiffle will also be working to clean up E Corp. (1)
Retry and Psyla will try to deal with the antimatter shark tearing up their neighborhood. Watchtower and Watchpoint will also be called in for assistance. (5)
And finally - very reluctantly - Frostara will go meet up with Punch, to talk to the giant psychic baby. (2) Despite the fact that this is probably a terrible idea. Psyla's insta-reincarnation is needed to fight Landshark. Her own mental abilities might give her the ability to better resist whatever might happen.
That doesn't mean she's taking any unnecessary risks, though.
"Listen. Extra. Yes, I'll come. I don't think it's a good idea, not in the slightest, but yes, I will be there. Just - we sent three people there. They would not give us any more than the barest details, and there have been clear behavioral changes. Sending more people is not likely to help. The whole dream map thing you've got - yes, I remember the mall. I remember the mall very fucking well. The dream stuff you've got, using it is a good idea. That's not the part I have an issue with, what I have an issue with is that I am quite certain that sending extra people will not help. It's been tried multiple times, it has failed almost all of them. I- yes, if you insist on calling in the favor, I'll come, but it's-"
She stood there a moment, before putting her phone on the table and sighing.
"She hung up."
Caroline pat her on the shoulder. Allison groaned.
"It's a bad idea! It's an obviously bad idea! And now I'm going to be in the middle of it! Ugggghhhhh." She leaned back into the couch, rubbing her face. Then, after a moment, she sat forward again, determined expression on her face.
"Fuck it. Cara, get the team."
"So. We owe Punch a favor. And Extra has decided to call it in for talking to the baby."
Slugnut, Wiffle, and Mangler weren't present. It was quickly apparent why.
"That's not a good idea." Evelyn's eyebrow was raised; she knew what was coming.
"I know that, doc. She wouldn't listen. And, frankly, the rest of you are needed for other missions, so I'm the one who's going. So. Before I potentially go out and get brainwashed by a baby, I want to make something clear."
At this, Allison pulled a folded piece of paper out of her pocket, and opened it onto the table in front of her.
"Here, in writing, so that I can't take it back later. If you guys notice anything weird about me after the mission, you have not only permission, but orders, to reinstate Cara as leader of the Watch."
Caroline's eyes widened at that; she took a small step back, held her hands out vaguely in front of her, and then abruptly looked and gestured at Sarah.
Sarah, however, looked thoughtful. "Cara." The woman in question looked slightly more nervous. "I will admit that I have had... criticisms, of your leading style before. I will also admit that I was wrong about them. I have worked with David since then." "What is that supposed to mean?" Sarah ignored him.
Dr. Light put an hand on Caroline's shoulder. "Listen. Kiddo. You've done it before, you did it for a while. You made the Watch. I was here for part of it. I won't say you haven't made a few mistakes, but I promise you, you've made fewer than most. Your heart's in the right place, and that counts for more than you'd think."
Caroline took a breath. Another.
Her eyes hardened, and she nodded.


Then the slightly-sticky wax weight of Keros slipped into her hair, and the gathering became rather more chaotic.
ADDENDUM: Frostara will specifically be serving as Mentat’s realspace ride.

[Kashyyk]

Frostara receives a text message from Nitrox:

Hey pal! We heard you'll going to check out the Psychic Baby thing other in Sandup. You'll be passing by anyway, so Mentat was hoping you could give him a lift? He got invited over, so hopefully you'll avoid any trespass shenanigans. Peace!

If Glass agrees, Chap Stick instead helps clean up the Grey Compamy.

[Glass]

One (1) response goes back:

Thank God. *Yes*, happily. I’d much rather be there for a real, official reason than just because. Just let me know when and where to meet up with you, and I’ll see you then.

[notquitethere]

MISSION PHASE 14 REPORTS

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

The Spork stays back at base and tinkers away at his latest invention, the Unmagneticwavedeformer, or Unmag for short. This should disperse magnetic fields in a broad blast.

* * *

The Advisor and Bolt Blue got to a nice quiet restaurant in Montgomery, one of the few areas of the city relatively free from drama. They're both dressed in smart casual civilian-wear, though feeling a little awkward out of their costumes. Here, eating Italian food, they're just Brody and Bolt.

Midway through the spaghetti course, Chase says, "Remember our first mission together?"

"The jewellers? Against Haste and her goons?" Bolt says, "We made such a mess of that place."

"We! I wasn't the one chucking hale everywhere!"

Bolt laughed and the pair polished off a bottle of wine together, and ate on to dessert. It was nice having this easy accord. Having someone you could really know. With such an uncertain lifestyle, it was good to have someone to trust.

"I'll get the bill," Bolt says at the end of the meal.

"No, allow me," says Chase, with just a little hint of command.

"Just this once..." Bolt says. "But I'm getting the next one."

"So there's a next one?"

Outcome:
The Advisor and Bolt Blue gain trait "Dating within the workplace"

* * *

Nitrox and Camarada take a late evening gondola ride along the waterway. Not a true river, this bit of waterway is mostly the result of reclaimed swampland and is usually very calm. Nitrox and Camarada are wearing their off-duty clothes. In Nitrox's case, smart jeans and shirt. Camarada is still dressed like a 1920s newsboy in slacks and a doughboy hat, only without the mask.

"It's real dope to be able to see you again," Nitrox says, as he guides the gondola with the long pole.

"I was worried it was going to be permanent," Camarada replies. She's lying back, hand draping over the side of the boat, trailing in the water. "I've been thinking..."

"Yes?" Nitrox says, a little too eagerly.

"It's nice what you're doing for the Baron. He's not a bad guy really, just misdirected."

"I think sometimes heroes and villains are just playing a big game," he says, "but when people really get hurt it becomes serious. He's starting to really understand that."

Camarada nods. "Still, I thought I'd got things rough with my latest evolution but that guy just has one big arm. I guess that's what happens when you experiment on people."

"People and dogs, apparently," Nitrox says.

"How'd you first get your powers? I got mine when my ex tried to throw a chair at my head," Camarada says. "Didn't work."

"For real? Woah." Nitrox says, thinking about whether she's still single but knowing that it wouldn't be tactful to ask. Instead he says, "I got my foot caught in a outflow vent during a swimming tournament. The water still gives me the heebie-jeebies."

"I get it. I swore off romance after that. It had never worked out for me, and what with what I do, it'd be too complicated. Secret identities, working all night, you know?"

"Not even, uh, with another hero?" Nitrox says, looking up at the moon and trying to keep his tone casual.

"No way bro," Camarada says, "Can you imagine? If it's in the team it just makes it awkward for everyone else, and if it's out of the team then you've got two people who might die or be dismembered on any given day... it's not worth it."

"Huh, I guess not," Nitrox says. He gives himself a moment, listening to the gentle lapping of the water. At last he says, "You know... I might try swimming again."

"What, now?"

"No, no, when I'm ready," Nitrox says. "But I think I will be ready one day soon."

Outcome: Nitrox loses "Crush on Camarada" and gains "Friends with Camarada". Camarada gains "Friends with Nitrox"

* * *

The Mangler II makes a special made-to-measure armoured suit for Anuran. He puts in jets in the boots for enhanced jumping, a smoke-bomb launcher in one arm, and a net-caster in the other. He makes the suit green to match the frog theme.

* * *

Void, or David as he's personally known, goes on a date with Jennifer who is just known as Jennifer. Jennifer had picked David up from his place, and in her presence he looks basically normal. She's wearing a pencil skirt and sensible blouse. They take a cab to Mireton, to a fancy brunch place that Jennifer recommends.

"I love this place, they do great mimosas," Jennifer says, when the pair sit down.

"I don't know what that is, but let's have some," David says, in his best normal-person voice.

"So what do you do for a living, David?" Jennifer asks.

"Uh... just the heroing at The Watch," he says. "I don't have much of a secret identity or anything. I spent most of my working life as a lab test subject, you can't really put that on your CV."

"Oh tell me about it," Jennifer says. "I've been doing this freelance work for the E-Corp but their HR department is a nightmare to work with. Can I get a decent reference out of it? No I cannot!"

"I don't know how you could work with those monsters!" David says, properly reflecting on her complicity for the first time.

"Hey, they paid pretty well," Jennifer says. "I mean every big company does things you wouldn't always agree with but it's a dog-eat-dog world out there, right? Does being in The Watch pay well?"

"It's mostly just room and board and a small stipend, we're always broke," David says. "But there's more to life than making a living."

"Oh here come the mimosas!" Jennifer says.

_{"i think I'd like to go home..."} Void whispers.

OUTCOME
Void loses trait "Dating Jennifer". Void gains trait "Dedicated to The Watch".

Spoiler: #1 What Is He Building Down There? (click to show/hide)

Deep under the catacombs of the cathedral, in twisty tunnels of stone, lined with caskets and piles of skulls, Cephala creeps invisibly in the darkness.

She slinks around, following signs of use, deeper and deeper into the corridors. She first notices the lasers as little red dots all over her body. Then the lights flicker on and she finds herself in a brightly lit concrete tunnel, wavering red and blue light that strips away the camo field on her suit.

Metal clamps shoot out from the walls and slam her down to the ground, suppressing her tentacle growth. Several robots roll out, with circular saw attachments and grabby arms. In a nimble metal suit with a dozen retractable legs, a pigfaced man squeals with delight at the capture.

Projected on one of the blank concrete walls, Dr Muldoon's face appears. "Well if it isn't 612! We had such high hopes for you. Still... 955 here has developed a most useful secondary use for wayward subjects. You see, within you is a font of such incredible power. My theory is your bodies are quantumly entangled with distant stars. Until recently we had hoped to harness it indirectly, through recapturing the Void. But now we have moved beyond that... The technology we use is so power-intensive, but with you as a source there is no telling what we might achieve! We made you... and now we will unmake you! Pignacity, if you'll do the honours..."

(A mile away, Toytown is slowly packing the mobile-town while the others pace back and forth, waiting for the tinker to finish.)

Attached to Pignacity's suit is a large metal wheel, arcs of lightning crackling across it, creating a stasis field within. Cephala is plunged into the field and her body glows and her tentacles pulsate as her connection to her power source is tapped into.

"Not so fast, you porcine menace!" Jack Dandy shouts, bursting into the corridor. He's flanked by Haste, Lotus Petal and the Man in Grey. The Lads have come in full force.

The robotic suit shoots out its grabby arms. The Man in Grey fades from view, while Lotus and Jack speed away. Haste side-steps and the arm goes wide.

"Did you think I didn't have a counter for speed??" Pignacity squeals. "EAT LASERS!"

The corridor lights up with hundreds of high powered laser blasts. Haste's danger-sense sends her diving back around the corner while the pigman is talking. Lotus Petal front flips in slow-motion around lasers which slow as they near her. She slow dances with death, spiralling through the air, running along walls, flipping onto her hands and up into the air again. As she moves, she hurls her teleporting knife at the gunports. All the while, Jack strides forth to engage the suit in hand-to-hand combat. Echoes of time clones appear behind him, dying horribly then fading from view as each takes the laser damage aimed at Jack-prime.

Meanwhile, in another part of the warren of catacombs, Wiffle and Slugnut are regretting their decisions. They had ran headlong into a tunnel and had become mired in a wall of difficult-to-see slime. A giant slug seeps through a tiny crack in the wall and slowly begins smothering the pair. "I'll take a mangling over this!" Slugnut cries.

With a trail of dead echoes behind him, Jack rolls forward, leaps back, jumps onto the echo of his rolled form, and slowly leaps through the air in unison with Lotus Petal. A flailing robot arm hurtles towards Lotus Petal but bashed aside by a reappearing Man in Grey, even stronger than before. Picnacity is rapidly sped and unsped by Haste, disorienting him as the heroes simultaneously punch out the helmet, aided immensely by the Man in Gray's phase-enhanced musculature. Lotus Petal rapidly stabs a hole in the screen protecting Pignacity and Jack leans and grabs the pigman out.

"Your days of making evil devices for E Corporation are over!" Jack declares.

Pignacity laughs. "Don't you realise, this was all just a delaying tactic!"

Back in the tunnels, Tin Soldier, multiple PBs, Lord Bombarrel and Toytown finally arrive. They then spend a very sticky few moments rescuing Wiffle and Slugnut out from the slime. Lord Bombarrel cooks up a dissolving bomb and PB's form a chain to pull them out. The slug monster has disappeared but the heroes were rescued before they drowned in the slime.

The ground rumbles. The Dandy Lads climb out of the catacombs into the cathedral grounds, carrying a rescued Cephala, much drained from her misadventures. They also drag out a Pignacity, the architect of much of E Corp's technology.

The earth cracks and the tarmac (recently remade after Lavagirl-related damage) bursts open. A collosal machine 100 feet high climbs out of the earth on a thousand mechanical legs. The machine is steadily expanding, grabbing arms, lasers, and high-power magnets ripping parts from nearby buildings to encorporate into it. Besides the arms and legs, the core of the machine is heavily armoured with layer-upon-layer of metal.

Deep inside, Doctor Muldoon directs the collosus. Power without limit... so long as more Evolved can be snatched for the rendering!

Appearing on a nearby rooftop, Spawn of Satan and Lost Tide, the remaining members of Cursed Legacy, gaze up at the megalith. Spawn sends out torrents of hellfire but it does little against the steadily-growing machine. Before they can be swallowed up, House Edge intervene.

Waves of PBs head around the area, helping people evacuate. Tin Soldier clambers up the fire escape and gets in the way of a sprawling metal tendrils before they can swallow Cursed Legacy up. He absorbs the metal, growing larger in the process. But it doesn't last long. Pignacity built in counter-measures specifically to stop him, and it's not long before the ripping magnets are deployed. As the building is torn apart, everyone on the roof jumps onto a big net unfurled by the thousands of Toytown denizens.

The only person left behind in the chaos is Slugnut. He tries to get away, but he's so covered in slime still that he's too slow and is swallowed up by the machinery! The other heroes withdraw in time. Tin Soldier knows that Spork is working on anti-magnet tech. This isn't over.

OUTCOME
Mission: The Watch: Failure, Dandy Lads: Overwhelming Success, House Edge: Success
Pignacity is taken into custody.
Cephala: Gains trait "Traumatised". Gains power: "Unlimited energy source". Cohesion check success. Gains trait "Vengeful"
Slugnut: Gains injury "Slime Covered". Gains power "Unlimited energy source". Captured by Muldoon.
Wiffle: Gains trait "Liability". Gains -1 fame (ignominy of having to be rescued)
Man in Grey: +1 fame. Loses trait "Wary of Lotus Petal"
Jack Dandy: Loses "Unsure about the Man in Grey", gains "trusts the Man in Grey"
Haste: Gains +1 fame. Gains additional opportunity.
Lotus Petal: Gains +1 fame. Gains additional opportunity.
Tin Soldier: gains cross-over Cursed Legacy
Lord Bombarrel: Gains +1 fame.
Toytown: Gains additional opportunity.
PB: Gains +1 fame.
Mission Reward: Dandy Lads and House Edge gain +1 rep in Hermitage.

Spoiler: #2 Unknown Scion (click to show/hide)

Why'd it have to be psychics?

Frostara shudders, knowing that Mentat can hear her. She stands in the elevator heading down to the secret laboratory base in Sandup. There's no sign of any security on the upper level, Muskrat is long gone.

"Thanks again for doing this," Mentat says inside her mind.

"It's nothing," Frostara says, modest as ever. "This isn't the first time I've headed into a secret E Corp lab, but hopefully it's the last."

The doors click open and a wiry looking man in a white lab coat meets them. Armed security guards stand to attention a few paces behind in a well-lit concrete-lined corridor.

"You must be... Frostara," the man says checking a clipboard with names and headshots. "I am Doctor Davies."

Frostara takes a deep breath to keep her cool. This is one of the monsters behind some of the worst of E Corp's many atrocities.

"Pleased to meet you Dr Davies. Frostara is my host, as permitted," Mentat says telepathically.

"Very well, come this way..." Davies says, leading Frostara deeper into the facility. "I should probably apologise. But I shan't. We were doing important work... work which could have saved humanity. But Muldoon has gone too far. This baby may be our last hope. I see that now..."

A final set of doors swish open revealing a cosy chamber with plush soft carpeting and soft lighting. Around the edge of the room, dozens of technicians type away at a screens, directed by mental instructions that Mentat senses as a torrent around the space. In the center of the room is a crib. Tucked in under a blanket is a young baby, with a greatly enlarged head. The baby appears asleep. A nearby side table has a bottle of milk gently warming up.

* * *

Meanwhile, team PUNCH! dream. They enter into a spaceless space that links the collective unconsciousness. They were told to come alone but there was no way that Mistress Extra was going to let Princess Professional just walk into the unknown like that. That's how heroes get killed in Zircon City. So they played it safe and slept on a big rug in their new apartment in Dusk Beach.

Following the Night Map, Mistress Extra led the team through a series of dreams heading towards where they believed Big Baby would be. Princess Professional at her side, sensing the connections between people; the Chorist cherub-like; Brick, rolling like a stone; Chiffon, nervous, but excited to be in this strange space.

Through different dreams they travelled, opening doors into bedrooms and train carriages, stumbling through nightmare woods and elysium fields. At last they found the dream of the baby.

Warmth. Milk. Confusion. Fuzzy impressions of faces.

"It's just a baby?" the Chorist says.

"It's just a baby," Mistress Extra confirms, relieved.

At the fraying edge of this simple dream istapping, clacking, buzzing, voices murmering. They could just about make out a conversation happening without them...

* * *

as expected

The voiceless voice is a smear of an idea that streaks across Frostara's mind.

why did you helpmakediscard this bodyhostmind

Mentat reflected on the circumstances— the offer at the end of a lecture to take part in a science experiment, the need for more cash for the team. It was a big payout! But he never thought it would end like this. Before he can begin to try to express this, the baby gets the picture.

as expected

"What's going on here? Are you well taken care of?" Mentat says.

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"The child is well cared for," Dr Davies says. "But the psychic mind considers itself a separate entity. It grows more intelligent and knowledgable by the hour."

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"Muldoon has taken hold of the last resources of the E-Corp," Davies explains. "He's found a way to harness evolved power as an energy source. It was everything we dreamed of and more, but he knows he will be stopped by your kind if he doesn't act aggressively. What he starts now in Zircon won't end here. He's going to take over the whole world. This power is truly unlimited!"

"We've got to stop him!" Frostara blurts out.

"It may be too late," Davies says. "E-Corp have been looking into inducing powers, the Exalt program. It started out crude but with the baby's mental resources, we made huge leaps. The Corp had hoped to take Retry, with time control properly harnessed, this could be prevented before it began... Still, Mentat and Princess Professional would make ideal candidates."

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OUTCOME
Mission: The Watch: Success, PUNCH!: Null Success, Protection Inc: Success
Frostara: Gains additional opportunity.
Mentat: Gains trait "Responsible"
Mission reward: The Watch, PUNCH!, Protection Inc. gain special mission access.

Spoiler: #3 Future of Forgiveness (click to show/hide)

The court proceedings were interminable. One by one, various speakers came to give statements, while a panel of stakeholders weighed up the pros-and-cons of continuing to allow such a lenient approach to superheroics.

Zirconia, despite suffering from a fever and sneezing the whole way through, speaks clearly about her reformed ways. How she fell in with a bad crowd before but her new team has given her a renewed purpose.

Dr Light, formerly known as Dr Hijank, and then Verdigris, speaks eloquently about her regrets over the car mayhem, the giant laser standoff, the bridge destruction and other incidents. When there are powerful conspiracies arraigned against you, her Odd Squad were forced into ever more drastic action. But now they are prepared to continue to pay their debt to society through working with the authorities.

Brouhaha is less impressed. He speaks in favor of the clemency program, and the villains he's helped stop since being part of the Bro Club, but expresses the view that the Watch have long gamed the system for their own agenda. They're not playing by the same rules as the rest of the evolved in Zircon City.

All throughout, Mayor Bigby sits nearby, making notes, and occasionally asking clarifying questions. Clearly he's emotionally torn. Midway through the tribunal, he is almost literally torn in two by a missile.

Mortar blasts a hole in the court wall and slowly levels her bazooka at the mayor. The ex-villains in the stand leap into action, Brouhaha sends a sonic boom towards her. It's met by another small explosion centered around Mortar herself. Before the dust can settle, a rocket blasts out of the tower of smoke, directly at the villain stand.

Dr Hijank and Brouhaha are blasted into pieces. Zirconia survives, her diamond skin saving her. She dazzles Mortar in place while the court guards disarm and arrest the mercenary. On her person they find coded instructions implicating Maxine Power in an attempted assassination of Mayor Bigby. This is linked to earlier assassination attempts involving a piano dropped from a great height.

The tribunal makes a summary judgement: the Clemency program has been of immense benefit in making positive use of evolved in times of great crisis and should continue. Dr Light and Brouhaha, in their sacrifice, showed what was possible for all Evolved. However, due to their abuse of the system, the Watch are prohibited from taking part in future clemency, and Cephala, Slugnut and Keros are requested to return to prison.

While Mortar is being hauled away, a swarm of thousands rats bursts out of the sewer, snatches the villain, and drags her back through the manhole!

OUTCOME
Mission: Protection Inc: Success, Bro Club: Mixed Success, The Watch: Mixed Success, Gray Company: Success
Brouhaha: Murdered.
Zirconia: +1 fame, Gains injury: Ears ringing
Dr Light: Murdered.
Mortar: +2 infamy.
Ratking: +1 infamy.

Spoiler: #4 Dragnet (click to show/hide)

Protection Inc.'s dragnet against the Gray Company was made a lot easier for them when they took on Baron von Woof. The Baron knew the location of the Gray Company's HQ, as his former team (Escher in particular) had expanded the base a number of times. So instead of trying to lay an ambush along various main streets in Warren, Chapstick, Crackler, the Baron and Reflux wait outside the old bomb shelter, along with several of the Baron's dogs.

"I DON'T RECALL THIS GARAGE DOOR BEING HERE..." the Baron says as they stand on the dingy street in front of a large gray metal double-garage door next to the unassuming empty lot beneath which the Gray company's base sprawled.

The doors whirred open and two gunmetal super cars purred within, before blaring out at high speed. The heroes scattered, but not before Crackler switched off the electrics in one of the cars, causing the steering assist to die mid-turn.The vehicle locked into a tight spin, only stopped by Chapstick glooping the vehicle in place.

The doors lifted straight up like a Delorian, and Dread Fool flipped out, followed by Buzzoff, a dozen tiny drones, and Escher.

"YOU STOLE MY TEAM!" the Baron shouted. "YOU SELL OUTS!"

"You're working with the white hats man," Buzzoff shouted back. "You're the sell out!"

"We were on our way to go help you guys out at—" Dread Fool starts to say, but it's too late. The fight has begun. And after all... it wouldn't do to have people think they could just camp outside your secret lair. That wouldn't be fair.

The two teams were well matched. Protection Inc. had some hard hitting offence powers, both at range, and close up with the Baron's immense arm. But the Gray Company were hard to hit. Buzzoff was already mobile in the air, riding on a cloud of flying drones, using more of them as a screen. Escher had stretched the street to twice its normal length. Dread Fool was cartwheeling around, dodging Chap Sticks glue projectiles.

"Throw me!" Reflux says to the Baron. The ex-villain hurls his new team mate across the ever-lengthening street. As hurtles over Dread Fool, she turns his costume into lead, freezing him in place. She lands hard on the asphalt.

Crackler tries to short-circuit the drones, but Buzzoff has wised up to this trick and has a drone with a lightning rod take the hit and then redirect a blast of electric power down on the heroes. Chapstick shoves Crackler out of the way and gets hit. With that Buzzoff flees into the sky.

Escher runs towards a shop front when one of shop door when one of the dogs leaps up at him, having sprinted the distance with ease. He cries out in pain, shoving off the hound and scrabbling into the shop. The doorway takes him to some distant place through his warping powers, and he closes the connection behind him.

Protection Inc. grab Dread Fool, who is chuckling to himself. This wasn't entirely what he had planned, but it's within acceptable parameters, so long as the others do their job...

"LAUGH ALL YOU LIKE," the Baron booms, "YOUR VILLAIN DAYS ARE DONE, UNLESS YOU GET PICKED UP ON CLEMENCY IN WHICH CASE..."

OUTCOME
Mission: Protection Inc.: Mixed Success. Gray Company: Mixed Success
Dread Fool: Captured. Gains trait "Patient"
Buzzoff: +1 Infamy. Gains trait "Indifferent"
Escher: Gains trait "Escape Artist", gains injury "Dog bite"
Chapstick: Injury: Electric burns. Gains opportunity.
Crackler: Gains trait "Indebted to Chapstick" Cohesion test mixed success, gains "Heroing is hard"
Reflux: +1 fame. Injury (bruised heels)
Baron von Woof: Gains trait "Respects Reflux". Passes team cohesion, gains "Committed to Protection Inc." Dogs cause some damages in the area, but it's minimal.
Mission reward: Protection Inc. gain +1 rep in Warren.

Spoiler: #5 Shark Attack! (click to show/hide)

A huge number of heroes swoop in Downtown to try to rescue civilians and stop the shark monster currently tearing through restaurants. Its maw is a swirling pit of anhilation, its body twenty foot long, its skin hardened and covered in steel-strong bony-spurs that catch at the stonework.

From Stoney Island, Watchpoint have arrived. Landshark can swim through earth, so Ziggurat's towers are no good, but he sets about creating bollard blockades on incoming roads all around the area to prevent more people getting near. Bantum Boy flaps about, warning civilians away, while Lady Lefant from Watchpoint creates parachutes out of people's clothing so they can jump from high windows and escape faster. Plumbaris goes with the attack team.

Retry and Psyla are co-ordinating the strike, Psyla keeping psychic links with team mates, while Retry freeze-frames and assesses the situation, rewinding and sending in teams to save civilians before the shark gets to them. From an outsider's perspective, she seems to stay stock still and in the middle of the chaos of torn sidewalks and smashed shops, but in her mind she is shuffling through timelines, slowing down and thinking through the possibilities, and communicating at the speed of thought with Psyla who transmits the orders out to the other heroes.

Pathfinder flies up high, spotting the beast when it dives under and re-appears elsewhere in the neighbourhood. On the ground, Watchtower from Leadville attempt to stop the thing. Saluki speeds to each new location, with a tiny Bitter Candy on his shoulder. Anuran, having recently rejoined the team, leaps through the air along with them, made lighter and able to jump further with Plumbaris' weight manipulation.

Even with the high level of co-ordination, it's difficult to keep track of the shark beast. At one time, Retry has to choose between letting Plumbaris be swallowed up by its maw, or directing Anuran to get there in time and risking her frog friend. After trying the permutations, she sends in Anuran (with Psyla's psychic help). He leaps through the air and lands in the middle of the street, next to Plumbaris outside a sushi joint. The shark bursts out of the tarmac below! Anuran leaps just as the shark does, and snatches one of his frog legs. In 4/5 timelines, he's swallowed hole or loses a leg, but Retry manages to edge things around to saving him, and in the true reality he leaps out of the way just in time.

"Saluki, bring it to the square!" Psyla transmits the thought to the speedster. When Landshark re-emerges, runs in front of, it drawing the monster out towards an open square, while the others clear it of stray civilians. Saluki throws Bitter Candy to Anuran, who leaps up (lopsidedly) to throw the marble-sized hero to Pathfinder.

The heroes then enclose the shark standing around the edge of the square as it tears up the paving. Psyla stretches an invisible sphere around them of telekinetic force, attempting to wall the beast in, all around. The sphere blasts up the concrete and stone slabs and topples statues, but as Landshark gets to its edge, the force starts fraying.

"I'm not strong enough... yet!" Psyla shouts, before sprinting headlong towards the beast. She drops the sphere and hurls herself directly into is open maw!

Psyla LXII emerges moments later from a side-street. She's wearing silver robes and a head band with a single glowing eye in the centre.

"We end this now!"

The shark swims through the earth directly towards her. The new Psyla waves her hand and hurls Landshark up into the air. She strains with the immense mental concentration to move so great a weight. The great shark-man is suspended with the rocks and pipes, floating up in the air. Plumbaris steps in, making every other hero in the area much much heavier, stealing the weight from Landshark until he weighs almost nothing.

Pathfinder swoops in and grabs the beast by the fin and directs him through the sky, speeding towards the bay while it still weighed so little. Reaching over, she jams Bitter Candy into one of Landshark's huge nostrils, his thrashing having no force behind it. As she moves to let the beast go, her suit catches on the lumpy spurs that cover the beast's body. When Landshark goes full weight over the harbour, she misses the water and smashes the beast straight onto the deck of a private superyacht, smashing down two floors. Pathfinder twists around in the air to avoid the impact.

Inside Landshark, Bitter Candy crawls his way up into the creature's brain and expands full size, splatting out in a mess of brainflesh. He staggers out onto the boat and looks at the dead monstrosity. Another fine mess. Lying tangled up with the creature is Pathfinder, groaning in pain.

"That fall should have killed you!" Bitter Candy says.

"I felt myself freeze up with the impact," she says, "but I feel fine!"

"You don't look fine..."

Where Pathfinder had frozen herself in impact along with the shark, when unfreezing, parts of the shark's bone spikes stuck out from her shoulders, like the skeleton of angel wings.

OUTCOME
Mission: Route Horizon: Mixed Success, The Watch: Success, Watchtower: Overwhelming Success, Watchpoint: Success
Ziggurat: Gains trait "Respects Plumbaris"
Plumbaris: +1 fame.
Bantum Boy: Loses trait "Crazy"
Retry: Gains trait "Hero manager"
Psyla: +1 fame. Psyla dies and a new Psyla appears, more powerful than the last
Pathfinder: +1 fame. New power: "Impact immunity: Pathfinder puts herself automatically in stasis on heavy impact." Gains trait "Bone spikes" -1 rep Downtown due to unpaid damages.
Saluki: +1 fame, gains trait "Co-ordinated"
Bitter Candy: +2 fame
Anuran: +1 fame, loses trait "Depressed"
Lady Lefant: Gains trait "protective", gains trait "Impressed with Bitter Candy"
Outcome: The Watch, Route Horizon gain +1 rep in Downtown

Spoiler: #6 Healing Science (click to show/hide)

Película and Lexicon have a stay at the sparkling new Advanced Widgets lab, being prodded with needles and questioned by an unceasing carousel of medical specialists. Marigold believes good progress is being made, even if it isn't moving as quickly as she'd hope. Further clinical trials are put on hold while chaos engulfs the city. Without time to deal with accounts, Marigold goes ahead and pays the last participants directly in gold bullion.

OUTCOME
Película gains trait "Wealthy"
Lexicon gains trait "Wealthy"

OPPORTUNITY PHASE 14


All opportunities have been turned into cross-overs for the final opportunity phase! The unaffiliated heroes of the city team up with the regular teams to fight the good fight, or flee while they still can!

Spoiler: Cross-Overs (click to show/hide)

The Watch

+1 Cross-Over Watchtower, Watchpoint, and Bitrot.

Protection Inc.

+1 Cross-Over Public Enemy, Black Box

The Dandy Lads

+1 Cross-Over Don Jetman, Marigold, Brutus

Bro Club

+1 Cross-Over Chunky Town

Route Horizon

+1 Cross-Over The Woman Lamp

PUNCH!

+1 Cross-Over Captain Georgia, KICK

The Gray Company

+1 Cross-Over Monkeypaw

House Edge

+1 Cross-Over Beacon Blazes, Constellation Aurora

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RECRUITMENT PHASE 15

There is no time for recruitment in the chaos, but team members may still be let go (but not Spun Off). Given the extraordinary circumstances, the Mayor has opened up clemency to all teams except The Watch (due to the outcome of the tribunal) and the Gray Company (for trying to assassinate the mayor): everyone gains a cross-over with one villain for the duration of the fight, but only if they face down the Monolith. Teams may do this even if they already have a clemency villain on their team, as the arrangement is only temporary with the promise of a sentence reduction for all villains who take part.

Players should co-ordinate so they don't pick the same people for cross-overs. Marion Man is already taken.

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.

Spoiler: Recruitment Pool (click to show/hide)

POSSIBLE TRYOUT ATTENDEES
Name |   Known Powers | Traits | Fame/Infamy
Jennifer | Normality Field | Boring, Friendly, Unheroic | -1
Black Box | | [hidden], [hidden], [hidden] | -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
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
Ascupart (Formerly Choler) | None | Poetic, Angry, Imposing, On Parole | 0/3
Karma Kid | None | Child, Vindictive, Calm | 0/2
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
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
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

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, Co-ordinated | 5
Bitter Candy (Geoff) | Shrinking | Jaded, Practical, Authentic, Hates Nitrox, Hates working with kids, Machine-assisted tiny legs | 3/1
Lady Lefant (Doris) | Ranged Fabric Control | Ostentatious, Witty, Self-Assured, Hates Plumbaris, Protective, Impressed with Bitter Candy | 8
Anuran (Jacques) | Mutant frog powers | Super frogsuit, Shifty, Inquisitive, Overconfident, Saddened By Losses | 6

WATCHPOINT - Stoney Island
Ziggurat (Javier Pahuac) (leader) | Tower Creation | Practical, Intelligent, Inhibited, Hates Crowds, Attention to detail, Respects Plumbaris | 7
Plumbaris (Fillan Doyle) | Ranged weight manipulation | Crude, Playful, Educated, Loves Lady Lefant, Amused by Muffin Madness | 10
Bantum Boy | Short-Ranged flight, Hyperkicking | Child, 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

KICK
Name | Known Powers | Traits | Fame
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
Atla | Can turn Gigantic, Heals when shrinks | Happily Swapped, Serious, Resourceful, Outspoken, Stealth-Tech, Bulletproof Armor | 3/0

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
Aunty Anti | Power Inversion Field | Anti-Evolved, Conspiracy Theorist, Tenacious | 1 | Neutralising the Exalt Evolved
Reinita | Age-Draining | Known Killer, Youthful, Heartless | 4 | Immortality

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 Humming | 3 | Uncovering Project Exalt

E CORP
Doctor Muldoon | Mad Genetic Science on Evolved | Optimistic, Genius, Haphazard | 0 | Saving the world!!
The Visk | Radio-Controlled Slug Monster | Huge, Quiet, Hardy | 1 | (Mindless)
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
Doctor Davies | None | Pessimistic, Clever, Meticulous | 0 | Saving his career

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
Pignacity | Technological Power Emulation and Countermeasures | Focused, Amoral, Inventive | 2 | Devise cunning devices
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
Maxine Power | None | Machiavellian, Hates Evolved, Ambitious | 2/4 | Gaining power
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
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

RETIRED
Suffrage | Teleport, was able to mind-swap others | Known Killer, Tired, Cruel, Righteous | 4 (infamy) | Enjoying immense wealth

MISSION PHASE 15

The final showdown has begun. Every hero must decide whether they stay and fight, or seek to flee the city! There is not time to go on personal missions. Reputation may be spent without limit in any area for civilian assistance. If you have more than one cross-over with  the same team, you may split them up.

Spoiler: Goods and Services (click to show/hide)

Memorial: Pick a neighbourhood: -1 income and the final teams of all heroes who died in that neighbourhood gain +1 rep in that neighbourhood.
Marigold's Special: Heroes can have their wounds targeted by AWE's limited Refresher, as a public service. Lose 1 injury, and gain trait "Youthful cells". Due to the experimental nature of the tech, heroes can only have the treatment once.
Local Assistance: -1 rep in a neighbourhood. This turn, gain +1 to your mission roll in that neighbourhood.
Liquidation: Remove "Wealthy" trait from a hero. Team gains +2 income levels, and hero gains trait "Bankrolling [team]".
Repayment: Remove "Bankrolling [team]" and decrease income by 3 income levels, and hero gains trait "Wealthy"
Supercar: -2 income level, gain asset "Supercar". Arrive at the scene as quick as your rivals who are a neighbourhood closer!

Suits - (A hero can upgrade their suit with any of these simultaneously)
Armor Suit: -1 income level, and a hero of your choice gains the trait "Bulletproof Armor"
Mirror Suit: -1 income level, a hero of your choice gains the trait "Laser-Proof Armor"
Chamo Suit:  -1 income level, a hero of your choice gains the trait "Stealth-Tech"
Hazmat Suit: -1 income level, a hero of your choice gains trait "Hazmat"

Spoiler: Tags (click to show/hide)

[First Come]: Whichever team gets there first will resolve the mission, others don't get a look-in
[Time Sensitive]: Teams which get there first get the first attempt and might resolve things before the other teams arrive
[Heroes: X]: Only the first X heroes to arrive will be able to do this mission.
[Y Limit]: Only heroes who meet Y limitation will be able to go (e.g. fame, size, power-type, trait)
[Deadly]: All but the toughest or hardest to harm heroes risk injury, and possible death.
[Deadly: Bullets][Deadly: Lasers][Deadly: Gas][Deadly: Environment]: A specific deadly threat which will only hurt those who don't have suitable protection. Some environmental effects may require multiple kinds of protection.
[Harrowing]: The cohesion of teams will be pushed to its limit.
[Recurring]: This mission will keep appearing until someone succeeds, though there may be consequences for not attending to it, and the difficulty may escalate with failed attempts.
[Mutually Exclusive]: Twinned missions, where one team cannot send someone on both sides.
[High Profile]: Guaranteed individual fame for all attendees.
[Punishing]: Failing this mission will have severe personal consequences.
[Side Quest]: This mission can be done before taking on another non-side quest mission.

#-1 Villain Missions
If you are a villain team, you may undertake personal missions, or any of the following. Villains may private-message their actions.

Spoiler: Villain Missions (click to show/hide)

1: Heist: Rob somewhere to gain income
2: Kidnap: Capture anyone (usually for a bounty)
3. Murder: Assassinate a target
4. Team-Up: Join the villain team on any of the missions below; if you succeed, you'll share in the benefits; either way, they will owe you a cross-over.

#1 Flee Overland
[Mutually Exclusive][Harrowing]
You could head out through Greenbelt to take refuge in another city. The apocalyptic team, The Cleansing, have decided that this is the day of reckoning and all who flee from it are full of sin (the Monolith's first act on appearance being to take our the Spawn of Satan seems to have been interpreted as a Sign). They have been spotted in the area, stopping outgoing traffic.
1A [Harrowing]: Flee to Leadville
1B [Harrowing]: Flee to Las Destinos
1C: Stay and fight the Cleansing so other people can leave the city

#2 Flee Overwater
[Mutually Exclusive]
You could get out on the last ship in the Docks, heading to Stoney Island. Unfortunately, Aunty Anti believes this to be a plot to seed Exalt Evolved into other cities, and is waiting at the docks to defeat anyone with powers heading out that way.
2A [Harrowing]: Flee to Stoney Island
2B: Stay and fight Aunty Anti so that others can leave the city

#3 Fight the Monolith
A collosal self-expanding moving metal spire is consuming the city for parts, starting with Hermitage. It is fueled by Evolved that it snatches and every hero that approaches risks annihilation. In the heart of it, Dr Muldoon sits, intent now on nothing less than global domination! If the world won't let him help them, he'll have to take command of it himself! If the robotic arms and magnetic stripping powers of the monolith weren't bad enough, he also has the deadly gas of Muskrat and the immense slime generation of the Visk at his disposal. Stopping this will require five teams working in unison!
3A [Punishing]: Keep the robotic super-magnetic grabbing arms occupied
3B: [Deadly: Gas] Take out Muskrat
3C: [Deadly: Environment] Take care of the Visk
3D: [Punishing][Deadly:Explosive]: Blast a hole in the monolith for the strike team to enter
3E: [Deadly: Lasers][Deadly: Bullets] Take part in a strike team into the heart of the monolith

#4 Holding Cell
[Mutually Exclusive][Time Sensitive]
During the chaos of the ever-expanding monolith, the Warren police station is severely undermanned. Waiting in a cell for his team to break him out, is Dread Fool.
4A [Side Quest]: Break Dread Fool out
4B: Guard the station against a likely breakout attempt

#5 Baby Science
[Mutually Exclusive][Punishing]
Big Baby, the psychic entity housed in a very small child, has been working away in a breakaway splinter lab with Dr Davies. They have been building on forbidden E-Corp Exalt program techniques and now believe that they have found a way to hyperpower someone's baseline abilities. The risks are high, but perhaps great power could stop this thing? Anyone who is successful will be sent on to fight Muldoon in Hermitage immediately after, and so there's only time for a handful of heroes to be tested to the limit this way.
5A [Heroes: 4][Limit: The Watch, Protection Inc, PUNCH! only][Side Quest]: Submit to Hyper-Enpowerment
5B [First Come]: Shut down the Big Baby lab

#6 Stolen Valour
[First come]
Karma Kid and Ascupart have reported that the Red Hand (who have tried to recruit them) are hiding out in Silver Row, hoping that the heroes are either killed by the monolith, so they can stop it and get the credit... or stop the monolith so they can swoop in, kill the heroes, and take the credit. Either way, they plan on forming the new order for the evolved after all this settles. They're likely to take flight if busted.
Special: whoever takes this mission gets an Ascupart & Karma Kid cross-over

Spoiler: Neighbourhoods of Zircon City (click to show/hide)

You will arrive at the scene quicker to missions in your own neighbourhood.



Downtown: Commercial and financial centre of the city
Oldtown: Political and historical centre of the city
Docks: Warehouses, wharfs and derelict cargo ships
Dusk Beach: Waterside nightclubs and casinos, most alive at night
Silver Row: the famed shopping and culture hub
Atomic Heights: An area with a concentration of scientific and technological companies
Montgomery: A middle-income urban neighbourhood, home to the large Montgomery Park
Warren: A low-income urban neighbourhood with many narrow alleyways
Greenbelt: the semi-rural outskirts of the city where the very wealthy have their estates
Sandup: Ongoing reclamation project in former swamp; currently a huge construction site
Mireton: Old mixed-income neighbourhood, now full of trendy cafes
Hermitage: wealthy suburban neighbourhood, home of the Zircon Cathedral

[Maximum Spin]

"..."

"I'm tired of this."

Attempt to recruit Jennifer. The Bro Club's founding rule will have to be suspended in this time of crisis.
"This needs to stop. All of it."

Talk our way into 5A (spending all Sandup rep, and, indeed, any other rep that might help, and any/all crossovers), hyper-empower Jennifer, and put an end to superpowers. Then murder the unpowered Gray Company members in cold blood.

[crazyabe]

[UPDATED FOR REFERENCE, NOT TURN]

Spoiler: Gray Company (click to show/hide)

Team Name: Gray Company
Leader: Johnson Peter William Richards, "Dread Fool"
Fame: 0
Infamy: 5 (team infamy - +2, 'works with the legion') (member infamy 3,1,4,5,5) - averages out to +3.5(3.6) = +3)
Neighbourhood reputations: +1 Warren, -2 silver row
Income: Broke(0)
Cross-Overs: None
Identity: Antivillains

Base
Base Size (base size mod): Vast(+5)
Base Description: Old Bomb Shelter
Base Location: Warren
Maximum Team Size: 7 [5 + 2]

Ethos
Killing: [We kill people]
Civilians: [whatever gets us paid is the most important thing]
Collateral Damage: [We don’t care about property damage if it helps get the job done]

LEADER
Name: Johnson Peter William Richards "Dread Fool"
Gender: Male
Appearance: white male, roughly 6 feet tall, could be described as "unnaturally thin"- Wears a particularly ugly jester costume alongside an eerie full face mask.
Alter-ego/backstory: Johnson Peter William Richards had a rather lonely upbringing, mostly because of his name- being called "dicky dicky dicky DICKY!" by all the other kids at school didn't help him make any friends at all, which is rather sad as his name is the only thing his parents left him before they abandoned him at an orphanage and sailed away on their private yacht reportedly worth only marginally less than a small manor in Greenbelt. This loneliness is likely what drove him to the "wrong crowd", which eventually lead to working for petty super villains and minor gang-lords. Recently, he has come to the rather odd conclusion that "Superheros must be paid better then generic minions"- and decided to see if going 'legit' is all its made out to be.
Power: "Killer Clown" - "Uncanny Co-Ordination: Dread Fool can juggle any number of objects, walk on his hands or ride a unicycle along a tightrope, with perfect control over his physical co-ordination."
Traits: Mercenary, Ex-Villainous Henchman, Cheerful, Bankrolling Gray Company, Patient, [CAPTURED]
Fame: 0
Infamy: +3

MEMBERS
Name |   Known Powers | Traits | Fame/Infamy
Rat King | Gestalt Intelligence, Rat Bodies, Ice-Shielding | Unfathomable, Unsettling, Omnipresent, Assessing Dread Fool | 0/1(+1)
Escher | Permanent Architectural Warping | Irritating, Wily, Happily Swapped, Escape Artist, Dog Bite | 0/4 | Money
Mortar | Scrap gun creation, Immune to Explosions | Sharpshooter, Careful, Ungainly, Prepared | 0/5(+2) | Fulfilling mercenary contracts
Buzzoff | Drone tinkering | Credulous, Easy-going, Grifter, Animal-Lover, Observant, Indifferent  | 0/5(+1) | Covering the cape (under)world

Asset: Supercar, Supercar2