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Transcript
Amanda: Last time on Join the Party.
Eric: Wyvern recapped what happened at the underwater base while the LT3 faced off against Gutenberg. January was extremely on edge. Emily Slaughter snapped and the Sommelier and Tuff Stuff broke the kidnapped out. But Carmen shakes everyone out of the reverie of the story to remind us that oh, you know, shit's happening and a whole lot of reporters are outside. Live from Laketown city. It's Saturday night. Let's get the party started.
[JTP Intro Theme Music]
Eric: As you three pull on your spare costumes that you have at Dr. Morrow's place, you hear the layers are just, like, low rumbling of lots of people outside of the door. You step to the front of the house and Carmen slips by you as she's like:
Eric (as Carmen): Everyone just settle down!
Eric: As the door closes behind her. And you're at the front of the house, in front of Dr. Morrow's big doors that you remember walking into more than a year ago at this point. You hear behind you.
Eric (as Dr. Morrow): It's funny now that I quit. I think that we've hit the big time.
Eric: And you turn around and Dr. Morrow is carrying January in her arms. She has, like, changed into the science outfit that she has. It's just, like, whatever jeans she got her hands on and like... like your mom wearing a shirt that she only uses for painting. And you remember and she was wearing, like, another lab coat before and goggles and she didn't have that, it's just the outfit. And January is in, like, a sleeping set that you would give to a teddy bear. Like, it's light blue with white piping and a little sleeping hat.
Brandon: Aw so cute.
Eric: And she's, like, cradling him almost. Like, keeping his neck up and his eyes are just, like, kind of open and close like he's sleepy and but also, like, out of it. And she says:
Eric (as Dr. Morrow): I think all in all we did make the right decision. I know I kind of put you in this decision in the first place but I think we chose good. Well, why don't you go meet your fans?
Eric: And the door opens up and, like, 50 Reporters just pour in being like:
Eric (as Reporters): Oh, Vulcani! Vulcani! Vulcani, can I ask a question? Kilonova! Kilonova, over here. Kilonova! Kilonova! Multitool! Multitool, stretch over, stretch over. I want to talk to you. I want to talk to you.
Eric: And just like this crowd just piles in it. All of them want to talk to you.
Brandon (as Milo) : I can't wait to tell them all that Anubis is the only one true god.
Julia (as Val): Milo I swear to God!
[Brandon laughs]
Eric (as Carmen): And you also hear Carmen say, "Stop it! Stop, One at a time please. You're running me over!"
Amanda: Respect the woman please.
Eric: But still inside Dr. Morrow is hoping that you think that it all ultimately went okay.
Amanda: I'm gonna pull everyone in for a group hug.
Julia: Aw.
Brandon: Milo's on the couch so or he's gonna...
Julia (as Val): Milo get up. You're in this group hug.
Eric: You're standing now.
Brandon: I die.
Eric: You're now... you're now fine. Everyone put on new clothes.
Brandon: Yeah, Milo put on new clothes and then got back on the couch because he's milking this for all it's worth.
Amanda: That's okay. You can be at butt level for the hug.
[Brandon laughs]
Eric: If only someone had long enough arms to hug everyone.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: Definitely, definitely able to loop him in.
Eric (as Dr. Morrow): I think Dr. Morrow says, Well, do you want me to come with you? I think I don't want to take this moment away from how well all... how well you all did. I can tell you what to say. What [stutters] would you like me to do?
Brandon (as Milo): I think maybe we need to stand on our own this time.
Eric (as Dr. Morrow): Sure.
Julia (as Val): Plus you got January and we shouldn't be exposing him to loud noises after the ordeal that he has gone through.
Brandon (as Milo): He has very sensitive hearing. He's a rabbit.
Eric (as January): I am.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda (as Multitool): I'm so sorry.
Julia (as Val): We're not making it weird.
Eric (as January): Thanks for not making it weird.
Amanda (as Multitool): January I'm so sorry we cannot protect you.
Eric (as January): [sighs] It's okay. I know you were out there doing something. Was it cool?
Amanda (as Multitool): It was pretty sick. There's a video.
Eric (as January): I'll watch it later.
Amanda (as Multitool): Yeah, you... you go ahead. Go rest.
Eric (as January): And then January, like, shifts in Dr. Morrow's arms and just, like, buries his head into her chest and just like, "I'm sleepy now. Take me... take me away."
[Amanda sobs]
Julia: It's so cute.
Brandon: The cutest.
Eric (as Dr. Morrow): So, I think Dr. Morrow nods and says, "You all got it. Have fun out there. Smile. Tell them, like, fun answers, even if they're not the right ones."
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda (as Multitool): Okay.
Julia (as Val): Take a leaf out of your book. Alright.
[Brandon snickers]
Eric: So, this is what Dr. Morrow had said on the video is that she had admitted that she had started the LT3 that she was bankrolling in, that she was involved with you three, and that she had lied to everyone, even if it was by omission and that she is going to step down from being the mayor. Do any of you want to do anything before you get out there? You got a moment?
Amanda: No, I'm... I'm ready.
Brandon: Look at my cantrips.
[Amanda and Julia laugh]
Brandon: I'm gonna cast guidance on myself--
[Eric laughs]
Brandon: -- like I need.
Amanda: Nice.
Julia: Can you spread the wealth a little there bud or it's all just for you?
Brandon: I think it can only be one, so sorry.
Julia: That's okay. I'm just joking.
Eric: We will... Don't worry. There will be moments for you to see if you can hold concentration on that my man.
Julia: Oh, boy.
Amanda: Yikes.
Eric: Incredible. For this, because we're kind of resetting everyone's fame modifiers here.
Amanda: Oh.
Eric: Don't worry about your fame modifiers. Just worrying about your charisma. Okay. Yep, there are people mobbing the front door. I think it's your chance to go out there.
Amanda: Let's do it.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Hell yeah. You try to open the door and people are pressed too hard against it.
Julia (as Val): Val just very loudly goes, "Move! You want to ask us questions we have to get outside."
Amanda: Yeah, I'm gonna stretch my arms out and use them like crowd control devices and just slowly wave forward. Pushing everybody gently back about 10 feet.
Brandon: I love that.
Amanda: Except Carmen. She can tuck down ther.
Eric: I love... I love the idea of this is like a plow.
[Eric laughs]
Amanda: Yes. Exactly. Just like a snow plow.
Brandon: I love it. Milo's gonna cast Gaseous Form on his lower half so he's just gonna float in.
Amanda: Incredible.
Julia: Can you hold concentration on both of those at the same time?
Brandon: No, it was just for flaves, Julia.
[Amanda laughs]
Eric: Kilonova is coming in fully ghost bottom like he's, like, in a cartoon.
Brandon: Mhmm.
Eric: Truly. Like he's the Aladdin Genie. Like, his bottom is just like the little flute. Yeah, I got you. I like that.
Brandon: But it still has a juicy rump.
[Amanda and Eric laughs]
Julia: Guess it's dump truck asses week established.
Eric: Canonical dump truck ass.
[Brandon and Eric laughs]
[Crowd noises]
Eric: Alright, so you go out and it's like walking from an insulated area. Like out into... your walking in from your house out into the cold. Like, immediately it is just sound everywhere. be like:
Eric (as Reporters): Kilonova! Kilonova, come here. Over here. Kilonova and Vulcani! Hey, Vulcani, over here. I'm from the Italian newspaper
[Amanda laughs]
Eric: And there are some people, they're like, (in a high-pitched voice) "Oh my god! Multitool, we're your... I love... I love your whole thing, it's so nice."
Amanda: All the news that's sweet to eat.
[Brandon laughs]
Eric: And hell yeah. I think that they're gonna ask you some questions. You all ready?
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: I was born ready. I was made for this.
Eric: Hell yes. Hell yes. Roll initiative, but instead please use your charisma modifier.
[Dice clanks]
Julia: I got a 12.
Brandon: I got a 14.
Eric: Hell yeah.
Amanda: 9.
Eric: 9. Oh, highest charisma Kilonova, perfect.
Julia: Weird.
Amanda: Yes. Just as always.
Eric: Everyone knows.
Eric (as Lydia Mille Zola): Oh, Kilonova, Kilonova. Lydia Mille Zola of the... of the Laketown City Report. Can you tell us what happened? What... What was that? What was that stream? Can you just summarize what was going on from your perspective?
Brandon (as Kilonova): Well, you know, like it is our job to do, what happened is that we were saving lives and helping people.
[Amanda laughs]
[Julia snorts]
Brandon (as Kilonova): There was a villain on the loose, trying to destroy our town, and we took care of it because we love this city, we love you, and we're always here to protect you.
Eric: Hell yeah. With advantage, give me a performance roll, man.
[Dice rolls]
Eric: Oh, Natural 20.
Amanda: What?
Eric: Let's go.
Julia: That was a real Natural 20 answer. So, like, I appreciate the dice backing you up there.
Amanda: It was. It was like a perfect non-answer.
Brandon: Yeah Eric, you can't get me to... trying to remember things.
Eric (as Lydia Mille Zola): That was fine. Lydia says, "That's such a beautiful answer. I'm so glad that you're representing my town, our little town, Laketown City, the town. It was so wonderful that everyone was able to see what you were able to do out there. The fact that it was beamed into everyone's television over. I don't know how you were able to put that together, but I think that that was quite beautiful.
Brandon (as Kilonova): Thank you. We think so too.
Eric (as Lydia Mille Zola): Was that, like, from your ghost powers? You were able to hook up to the... the psychic network because everyone has a loved one who is a ghost living in their apartment or home. And they all went to the television and they showed you to do that. Is that how you did it?
[Julia snickers]
Brandon (as Kilonova): Lydia, we need to talk after this. You... how do you know all that?
[Julia huffs a laughs]
Eric (as Lydia Mille Zola): I knew it! I've been listening to the Spirits Podcast and they talk about ghosts all the time.
Brandon (as Kilonova): No, no, no, no, that was the thing called the internet. Have you heard of it?
Eric (as Lydia Mille Zola): So, there are ghosts living in the internet?
Brandon (as Kilonova): Yes.
Eric (as Lydia Mille Zola): Oh okay, right.
Brandon (as Kilonova): There's wires under the sea and the ghosts take the information through the wires to the other... No, the villain thought he could embarrass us online, but surprise; No one can be embarrassed online. So here we are.
[Amanda and Eric laugh]
Julia: I just imagined Carmen just eyes closed being like, "Dear God help us all."
Amanda: What brand of deodorants Carmen works, I need it.
[Brandon laughs]
Eric: With a Nat 20, Carmen is in the crowd, but it's like distinctly doing a different thing than everyone else. So, there's, like, 15, 20 reporters. It's... this is pretty late at night at this point. So, it's like people with, like, t-shirts and tank tops with, like, suit jackets pulled around it. Some people are just straight up still wearing their pajamas. Like, it's very much like I have pulled on my boots, but I'm still wearing flannel pajama pants and a night shirt on top of it for some of them. So, you see all of this, and there's a scene in Ocean's 11 where everyone is watching the casino get destroyed.
Amanda: Mhmm.
Eric: And everyone turns around to it except for the three guys in Ocean's 11 who are just looking still at the stage. So, you see, like, 2000 people look one way and, like, Matt Damon look the other way. And he's like, "That's Carmen in there." She is like a log on a sea and she... everyone is, like, trying to get your attention and she's just like, stone-faced. She's just like, "Okay, alright."
[Amanda laughs]
Eric: And she, like, gives you, like, a small thumbs up from there.
Brandon: I, like, give a small thumbs up back and, like, wink and maybe there's a little, like, diamond dust, stardust in my wink because I learned a lesson from Carmen. Wink.
[Amanda laughs]
Eric (as Carmen): She makes a face she's like, "What was that?
Amanda: Stop. Stop. Don’t make it weird. It was fine.
Eric: There's a video camera right there." Like, even six and a half news has a camera... has a camera guy.
Eric: Oh, Vulcani. Hey, Vulcani, what's going on?
Julia (as Val): Hey, what's up.
Eric (as Gustavo): [stutters] This is Gustavo Sumdaro from Little Dulce, what's going on?
Julia (as Val): Not much. What's going on, man? Thanks for coming out.
Eric (as Gustavo): Val thanks. I really appreciate everything you're doing for us here at Little Italy. I love it. But yo, [stutters] Who... who exactly was that the way... that you were fighting against? We do -- we didn't catch his actual name, but we had heard that the name John Press was being read out. Can you tell us a little bit more about that for me to tell about readers at Little Dulce?
Julia (as Val): Yes. So, as far as we know, his real name is John Press. He is the CEO, I think, of Movable Type, which is a venture capitalist firm, and he's going by the street name and, like, the dark web handle: Gutenberg. And he has been... he's been causing mischief for quite some time now.
Eric (as Gustavo): A follow up question. Do you think that you took care of him and it there's not gonna be any problems with that kind of guy anymore?
Julia (as Val): No. Unfortunately, he is still out there but we are on the case and we are going to make sure that he is brought to justice.
Eric (as Gustavo): Oh, is he gonna be, like, outside of my house and looking in and try to steal all my things?
Julia (as Val): No.
[Eric laughs]
Brandon: He is a pervert though so who knows?
[Eric laughs]
Amanda: Uh-oh.
Eric: Uh-oh. Whoops. Oops. Yeah, make a performance roll for me.
[Dice rolls]
Julia: I got a 14 + 3 for a 17 which takes us--
Eric: Hell yeah.
Julia: --to a Nat 20 as well Brandon. Goddamnit!
Eric (as Gustavo): He's like, "Alright, I'll follow up about how you feel about your... your favorite restaurants in little Italy, we will follow up later.
Julia (as Val): I love El Popo.
Eric (as Gustavo): Oh, nice. I'll write that down.
Eric (as JC): Um, excuse me. Multitool, can I get your attention over here please?
Amanda (as Multitool): Yes.
Eric (as JC): Jesus Crocketts, Technology Times and... and things.
Amanda (as Multitool): What?
Eric (as JC): Jesus Crockett, [stutters].
Brandon: That was gonna go so differently in my head.
[Amanda laughs]
Julia: It can’t be Jesus.
Eric: No, it's Jesus Crockett.
Julia: Okay.
Amanda: Okay.
Eric (as JC): My friends call me JC.
[Brandon laughs]
Julia: Great. Sure they do.
Eric (as JC): It's true. Jesus Crockett, Technology... Technology and Business Times, how are you doing? Thank you so much for meeting with us here at your secret base.
Amanda (as Multitool): Didn't agree to a meeting you just showed up and tried to break the house so get on with it.
Eric (as JC): Interesting. Love that follow up. That's wonderful. What could... could you explain more about your and the Laketown City 3's relationship with former Mayor Dr. Cassandra Morrow and how all of that came together for us?
Amanda (as Multitool): Well, first, she has not yet resigned the posts. She is not yet former mayor, so just to get your fact checking straight. But secondly, Dr. Morrow put together the LT3 to help encourage us to use our powers for the city and instead of, you know, not using them in our... in our daily lives. And ultimately, today felt that her talents would best be used not as the mayor and as a private citizen, but listen, it's something that you... you can ask her, you know? We don't speak for her and she doesn't speak for us. We are, you know, we are our own people and we're here ultimately to defend the people of Laketown City.
Eric (as JC): A follow up question for all of you. Where is she right now?
Amanda (as Multitool): Dr. Morrow is, to our knowledge, recovering from the battle that she was on the frontlines of as you saw in the video trying to defeat John Press as he kidnapped and unlawfully imprisoned various citizens of Laketown City.
Eric: Nice. Make a performance roll for me.
[Dice rolls]
Julia: [whispers] Good job.
Amanda: 18.
Eric: Oh, 18.
Julia: Oh, fuck yeah.
Brandon: Noice!
Julia: We're... we're killing this interview.
Eric: Hell yeah.
Amanda: My campaign two dice were rolling like trash, so I... I brought out the bisexual dice, and they're on our side.
Julia: Smart.
Eric: Hell yes.
Julia: Good choice.
Eric: Alright, here's what I'm gonna say with an 18. You look out there past Jesus Crockett. And you see Carmen mouthing something to you and with an 18 you can suss it out. She's mouthing to you, "Preempt them on the relationship."
Brandon: Yes, Pizza and Tuna are dating. Do you need to put that out there?
Eric: They're gonna ask about Tegan.
Amanda (as Multitool): Oh. I think that's a good reminder too that a lot of private citizens of Laketown City were drawn into this vendetta that John Press alias Gutenberg, as he hides behind many, many layers of internet trolling identity and doesn't even show up to his own fight pretty cowardly of him if you ask me. They were drawn in without being asked. People were kidnapped from a charity fundraiser and unlawfully imprisoned. And it's important that you respect the... the boundaries you out there with your recording doodads, pens, and websites.
Eric: Yeah, go at the media. Perfect. Love it.
[Brandon heaves a laugh]
Amanda (as Multitool): It's important. We respect what you do, you respect what we do. We... we come out here and talk to you. And it's important that you give people some... some time to recover as well, including my... my partner, Tegan Murphy, formerly of average bear.
Eric (as JC): She confirmed Tegan Murphy! Oh my god, Tegan Murphy. Follow up on that still Jesus Crockett Business Times.
Amanda (as Multitool): I do remember.
Eric (as JC): Where... where exactly... I think Jesus Crockett has the tallest man bun you've ever seen.
Amanda: That checks out.
Eric (as JC): And he says, "Follow up to that, were they working with Gutenberg, aka John Press? They did... They were former colleagues.
Amanda (as Multitool): Tegan was fired from their job as soon as Movable Type took over Average Bear along with a number of extremely qualified and in a role colleagues of yours and the press. So, I would suggest that you look very deeply into what Movable Type is invested in and the kinds of decisions and changes that they've made.
Eric (as JC): Wonderful.
Brandon (as Arnold): Um, hello, hello. This is Arnold. The weekly tomorrow.
[Eric snorts]
Amanda: Nice.
Eric: Wonderful.
Brandon (as Arnold): I have a question for... for all three of you. It's inevitable that all mask vigilantes will eventually get their identities revealed. Do you just want to go ahead and tell us who you are or... What do you feel about the ethics of masks?
Eric: Brandon, I'm giving you 10 points because I was literally going to ask that question.
Amanda: Yay!
[Brandon and Eric laugh]
Eric: 10 points! 10 points!
Amanda: Good question.
Eric: Hell yes. Yes.
Brandon (as Arnold): Specifically, Vulcani. I mean, like, come on. We all know.
[Amanda and Eric laughs]
Julia (as Val): First off, rude. Second off, who are you Arnold, huh? Who are you?
Brandon (as Arnold): I'm from The Weekly Tomorrow. I'm a reporter.
Julia (as Val): What does that mean? You didn't give me a last name Arnold.
Brandon (as Arnold): Palmer.
Julia (as Val): Cool. What's your...
Amanda: An obvious alias.
Julia (as Val): What's the address?
[Eric laughs]
Julia (as Val): In case I want to stop by.
Brandon (as Arnold): I'm not gonna tell you my address, Vulcani.. What's your address?
Julia (as Val): Exactly. So, why would I tell you this personal information about myself when people are after me already?
Brandon (as Arnold): Well, that's what I'm asking.
Julia (as Val): I'm not gonna.
Brandon (as Arnold): Okay, good.
Julia (as Val): Cool.
Brandon (as Arnold): I’m glad.
Julia (as Val): I'm glad... I'm glad we had this talk, Arnold.
Eric: The Daily Tomorrow is the New York Post of Laketown City. I love it. There's gonna be a pun in it. It's like, "Masked or Unmasked?" that is the question.
Brandon: Yeah, exactly.
Amanda: I have to make a roll, one second.
[Brandon laughs]
Eric: Ooh.
Amanda: Multitool unzips her cowl and takes off her goggles.
Julia: Hey, what the fuck?
Brandon: What?
Eric: Someone in the crowd says, "Who are you?"
[Brandon laughs]
Eric (as someone in the crowd): Who are you? Should we know you are?
Amanda (as Aggie): No, my brothers and sisters are more famous than me. My name is Aggie O'Hare, and I'm Multitool.
Eric: Aggie, we didn't talk about this. Holy shit.
Brandon (as Arnold): You hear Arnold say, "My work here is done," and then fade into the mist.
[Amanda and Eric laugh]
Julia (as Val): Who was that guy?
Amanda (as Aggie): The Weekly tomorrow? What does that even mean?
Eric: Oh my god. Okay, I think a few of them are stunned and then eventually Carmen goes,
Eric (as Carmen): What?
[Amanda and Brandon laugh]
Eric: And then, everyone starts taking photos. I think that everyone then shifts towards Aggie. I will say Aggie at this point, and they mob you with questions. Fuck it. Amanda, let's fucking do it. Rapid fire. Aggie, why are you... How did you get into this?
Amanda (as Aggie): Laketown City from the time I was born and a stretchy kid so...
Eric: Have you always been stretchy?
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah.
Eric: If you have powers, I mean, everyone in your family has powers?
Amanda (as Aggie): Oh, no, no. I'm... I'm the... I'm the one that's... that's doing... that's doing this. And these are the skills I have to bring to bear to the world
Eric: Make a deception roll. That's 100% a lie.
Julia (as reporter): That wasn’t really an answer!
Amanda: 19.
Eric: 19?
Brandon: Ooh. Damn.
Eric: Let's go. With 19, it's not a 20, so I think someone says, "Hey, but like are... Hey, what about your brother, Ryan? He's incredibly talented and many things. Are you sure?
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah. I'm sure. It's very annoying. I wish that any of them success has to do with powers, but it sure doesn't.
Eric: [Laughs] Wonderful. Does that... does Tegan Murphy know that you're... that you have powers?
Amanda: Wink into the camera.
[Eric exclaims]
Julia: Wait, of course Tegan Murphy would know that she has powers. She's been dating Multitool, not Aggie.
Eric: Yeah, it was a bad question, Julia.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: Everyone is caught off guard.
[Brandon laughs]
Julia: I just wanted to be sure.
Eric: I'd be like, "Hey, Vulcani! Vulcani, Kilonova, do you guys also want to show your faces?"
Julia (as Val): He... she just asked me. I said no.
Amanda (as Aggie): No, leave them alone. Listen, this is... this is. [Aggie sighs] Everything I've ever wanted to do, and... and loved and cared about has been to do with Laketown City and this is how I can give back to Laketown City and... and make it my everything. And I'm... I'm ready to do that. I'm a proud employee of the Park's department, and that's what I do in my daily life. But I can, you know, also prevent wildfires, metaphorically, by helping root out crime and make a productive way for powered individuals to contribute to society here at home.
Brandon: And I'll see you prevent actual... a lot of actual real wildfires too.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, yeah, it's really important. Just don't smoke.
Julia: Also, this is gonna make her dating life, like, so much easier.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah. And listen, this is nice too with my parents, with my siblings, with my classmates from... from North Country Secondary, so this is... this is me. You have my Twitter or whatever, and you can get in touch with me, but I meant what I said. It's... it's not any of our choice, what we are born with, and whether or not you choose to embrace your powers to put them to use to make them part of your daily life or not, or to contribute to society in a way that won't endanger your family and friends and daily life, that's a call that all of us have to make individually and what way more of us make them I think most of you realize.
Eric: Hell yes. They continue to mob you and pepper you with questions, but I think that we can skip... we'll skip through all that. But I think that that people are still sticking around and you're going to ans -- to answer a lot more questions. I was gonna end it there. But like, this is like, oh, [stutters] renewed vigor. There's there is a fucking story here.
Brandon: I think in the comic book adaptation of this story, you see the panel of Milo's face, and then a flash of white panel, and then you see him imagining his name on a newspaper of... of national distribution, and thinks of his birth parents, and then another flash and thinks of the balance sheet of the museum, which is pretty bad. And then a flash of Lucas, and then it flashes back to Milo. And Milo steps forward and shows his face and says:
Brandon (as Milo): I'm Milo Lane, and I have an important announcement. My dad, Hank Lane, will be running for mayor of Laketown City.
Amanda: What? What?
[Eric exclaims in surprise]
Julia: What is happening?
Eric (as someone in the crowd): Who are you? Who is that?
Amanda: Oh my God.
Brandon (as Milo): My name is Milo Lane. I'm an excellent bowler. I also have superpowers, and I have a dead cat named Tuna.
Eric (as Tuna): I'm ready for my close-up.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon (as Milo): You will never see Tuna. They're invisible.
Eric (as Tuna): I'm right here.
[Amanda and Brandon laughs]
Eric: Holy shit.
Amanda: Hell yeah, dude.
Eric: Oh my god.
Amanda: Julia, you don't have to. I promise.
Julia: I wasn't gonna.
[Amanda laughs]
Eric: Oh my god. Um, I think all of the reporters... There is a frenzy of questions between the two of you because, like, I, Eric, am surprised that this is happening. And I can only imagine that people who were pulled out of bed to go report on this story and be like, "Oh, we're gonna go report on Dr. Morrow our mayor bowing out of the... bowing out of the mayorship and maybe, like, through omission lying to Laketown City about there being a superhero team. And now they know about the superhero team. You guys are all famous for fighting this guy, who is John Press, and they're putting this together. But now they have to come up with new questions, and they don't know who you two are. So, it's not like... it's not like, it's like, "Oh my god."
Amanda: Tony Stark is Iron Man.
Eric: Yeah, like Tony Stark, the billionaire who invented all those things. It's like, "No, you guys are just some dudes," and I think that maybe one of the reporters are like...
Brandon: Eric, I just want to say you're forgetting that Milo Lane is the most famous person in Laketown City.
Julia: The most famous person in Laketown City.
[Amanda laughs]
Eric: Oh, Brandon. I was just gonna say because their reporter, someone's like, "From the museum?"
Brandon (as Milo): Yes!
Eric: You showed me how electricity works.
Brandon (as Milo): From the MMFK, MMFK, [stutters] from the museum in Laketown City, please visit with your family and children today.
Amanda: mmfk.org.
Eric: You taught me how broadcast television works, because, like, I didn't know. It's like waves and energy.
Brandon (as Milo): You trusted me with your knowledge, and I hope you trust me with your safety.
[Amanda snickers]
Eric: Incredible. You know what? Here's what I think happens.
[Dice rolls]
Eric: I... Okay, no. I rolled a Nat 1. Carmen was going to try to push to the front to start, like, moderating it for you as your actual PR person, but she tripped. And now, she's...
Julia: Oh no.
Eric: She cannot get to the front. So, yeah, whatever you all want to say, I think that this is just, like, they're standing in front of you, and they want to hear what's up. I think that they're just like... it's just, like, mics in your faces at this point. It's like there aren't questions. It's just like, "What's ha -- what is happening here?"
Brandon (as Milo): I believe that we need responsible leadership in Laketown City. We've gone without it for far too long. Dr. Morrow's scientific advances have been wonderful, and made this city what it is today, but tomorrow we need a mayor with integrity and respect for its citizens. And I'm also encouraging all adults, currently public facing superheroes to reveal their masks and join our new program where we help young people with powers. I'll think of a name later.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: Aggie is stunned and just makes eye contact with Vulcani.
Brandon: Except for Vulcani. Vulcani is fine.
[Brandon snickers]
Julia (as Val): Thank you.
Eric (as Reporters): Hey, so does that mean that you don't think that Dr. Morrow had integrity and wasn't doing that beforehand? Especially someone who organized you and it seems like was running your whole thing?
Brandon (as Milo): I have a tremendous amount of respect for the person that Dr. Morrow is and the scientists that she is, but any leader who will willfully omit certain important parts of city business should be in the private sector doing good on their own.
Eric (as Reporters): Okay, what does Hank Lane do? What's his job?
Brandon (as Milo): He's been in public service for 30 years.
Eric (as Reporters): Okay, but like, what's his job?
Brandon (as Milo): He's worked for 30 years keeping our city safe at the Office of Technology Assessment. He loves this town. He loves this city. And he'll make, you know, turn down the right lane for Laketown City. Hank lane.
Eric: Incredible. Make another performance check.
Amanda: Wow.
Eric: And I'll give you an advantage because you got that Nat 20 before.
Brandon: Okay.
Amanda: I'm lovin' it.
Julia: I can't wait to see what Hank's reaction to finding out--
Amanda: Oh, yeah.
Julia: --that he's running for mayor is.
Brandon: Me too. 17.
Eric: Okay. 17. Alright. No, no follow ups for me.
Julia: No notes.
Eric: Wonderful. Hey, Julia, what... What's going on with our good friend, our spicy friend Vulcani?
Julia: Vulcani doesn't know what to do right now. Vulcani is just, like, standing there like, "What the fuck is happening? What the fuck are you two doing? Why did you not tell me we were gonna do this, I would have prepared. Maybe not out loud but, like, people are gonna get talked to after this meeting."
Eric: That's true. If only they both had their phones at it. They weren't... they weren't devoured in the previous thing.
Julia (as Rose Gold): Excuse me. Rose Gold for freelance for Cosmo.
[Brandon and Eric laughs]
Julia (as Rose Gold): I have a quick question. So, in regards to your team and the political support that it had previously, you know, being formed by the most powerful political entity in Laketown City. Without that support, are you concerned about the potential for vigilante persecution?
Amanda (as Aggie): I think it's essential that powered individuals and the government and private sector all have an opportunity to work together for the common good. And I think it's important that there is some regulatory body or community organization that helps us compare notes and work together instead of at odds with each other. I think this is a perfect example of how Gutenberg is using the amassing and hoarding of wealth as an individual to wreak havoc and act lawlessly. That can't stand.
Julia (as Rose Gold): Follow up question. I know that you've had some troubles in the past with Councilman Burdock. Are you concerned that now that you don't have the political protection of Mayor Dr. Morrow, that he might try to pass legislation that would be not good for the three of you?
Brandon (as Milo): We can live in fear all day long.
[Eric snickers]
Brandon (as Milo): But we will face the challenges head on as they come. Councilman Burdock, we encourage you to come and speak with us about these issues so we can come to an amicable conclusion.
Amanda (as Aggie): What he said.
Julia (as Val): Quick follow up. We are not afraid of Councilman Burdock.
Brandon (as Milo): We're not afraid of Councilman Burdock.
Julia (as Val): No one's living in fear out of the three of us.
Brandon (as Milo): Correct. Well, sometimes me but that's for unrelated reasons.
Julia (as Val): Unrelated reasons that have nothing to do with superheroing.
Brandon (as Milo): Right.
Eric (as Carmen): Carmen is, like, sweating. It's like, "I'm living in fear."
[Amanda and Brandon laugh]
Amanda: Aggie just mouths sorry.
Eric (as Carmen): She gives two thumbs like... like... like erratic thumbs up. She's like, "Okay, here we go."
Brandon (as Milo): Any more questions, please direct them to our press representative, Carmen. She's the best.
Julia (as Val): Give her coffee.
Brandon (as Milo): Good night.
Julia (as Val): Good night.
Eric: Hell yeah. I think everyone turns around like sharks looking at a... at a minnow.
[Brandon laughs]
Julia: And we fucking book it.
Eric: Yeah.
[Eric laughs]
Eric: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Amanda: We run back inside.
[Midroll music]
Amanda: Hey, it's Amanda. What... What's that that I hear? Is that... is that holiday bells jingling? No, no, no, that's not... it's not bells. It's more like, um, it's like enamel. Yes, that's what it is. That's the sound of our new enamel pins in our merch store. And normally, of course, I open these with like a, you know, like a nice soft anecdote. And there is truly nothing like another queer person in real life. Like, saying I like your pins as a way of saying, "I am also gay in here." And that's just, like, a wonderful part of adulthood. So, there's that but also, we have some amazing new pins in our merch store and I have to tell you about them. You can get your TIME SHARK Pin. That's right, it has glitter. The PET PILE which is all of the pets of Campaign 2. Tuna, who glows in the dark by the way IRL on the pin, and pizza, and sushi, and campaign 2 Join the Party logo pins. That's our beautiful D8 logo with the atomic kind of like spire around it. The hula hoop around it. 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[Midroll SFX pings]
Amanda (as Aggie): We ran back inside, shut the door. Aggie is gonna, like, lean back against the door and... and look at Vulcani and Milo and be like, "I'm scared to check my phone now."
Brandon (as Milo): I gotta call my dad. I'll be right back.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah.
Julia (as Val): Hey guys. What the fuck?
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah.
Eric: Remember, you both, with your Nat 1s from before, both of you have lost your phones.
Brandon: Milo goes into the British UK room and uses the phone booth.
[Eric laughs]
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah. Someone find me a landline.
Eric: Incredible. Yeah, holy shit. Alright, what do y'all want to do next?
Brandon: Eric, did we break your game?
Eric: No. [stutters] Hey, here's a fun thing. I didn't write any notes for today because I figured shit would pop off.
[Brandon cackles]
Eric: What would you all like to do?
Brandon: I want to explain my actions that we--
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: --did to our DM.
Eric: What's up? What... What are you thinking? This is in between arcs. Let's... let's talk about it. Let's work it out.
Brandon: For me, Milo was thinking that, like, having his name out there in a newspaper that's a national distribution would get him one step closer to maybe finding his birth parents.
Eric: Sure.
Brandon: And he was thinking like, we need a new mayor and he has to be someone good. There's no one better than his dad, Hank Lane, so like he did in third grade when they asked for volunteers for the field trip, he signed them up without asking.
Amanda: Incredible.
Eric: Wonderful.
Julia: I feel like Vulcani wants to follow you into the room to hear that phone call.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: You should.
Julia: Because there, like, I have to hear his reaction to this. I genuinely just have to.
Eric: I like the idea you two barge in there and turn on the light and it goes, "Rule Britannia."
[Amanda laughs]
Julia: I hate that.
Amanda: For Aggie. So, I had the thought and then I decided if I rolled a D20 and it was 1 to 10, I wouldn't. And if it was 11 to 20, I would. And then, I rolled a 20.
[Eric exclaims in excitement]
Julia: Oh my god.
Amanda: And so, I decided to go all in. And I think for Multitool specifically because, like, the thing with Preserver, right? Is that she had such a rooted identity and community out of costume.
[Eric hums in agreement]
Amanda: That being kind of anonymous in costume, serving this larger purpose, working in this different way was kind of thrilling. For Multitool, her life is a lot more solitary. And she doesn't have, like, those bonds with people to hang out with, you know, those routines, the regular order at the newsstand, being in touch with people that you grew up with the same way that she did in the other timeline.
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: And so, I think that this opportunity that someone really, like, served her on a platter in the face of victory and if people, you know, wanting to know about them and their job and... and learn their names, that it's a little bit appealing. And Tegan super had to know Aggie's identity sooner or later. And so, this is a good enough way to do both. And I think to... the recent conversations with her siblings, you know, they're all adults, they can take care of each other and Aggie doesn't have to, you know, live a smaller life to protect her family the way that she thought she once did.
Eric: Incredible. I like that a lot.
Amanda (as Aggie): I will, as soon as they get to a landline, call Tegan and then Quinn and just be like, "Quinn, this happened. I'm sorry. Goodbye."
Julia: Didn't we leave Tegan at Dr./Mayor Morrow's house?
Eric: Tegan went home.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: You left Tegan there. And then Tegan was like, "I'm gonna head to my apartment." So, Tegan is not there.
Julia: Gotcha.
Eric: Just to clarify.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Holy shit. Okay. I'm going to say, Milo, and Aggie don't have their phones, right? So, I'm going to privilege Julia here. Val has their phone. What do you want to do? Is Val interested in figuring out what happened here?
Julia: Val was just, like, slightly in shock and not interested in, like, really discussing what happened.
Eric: Sure.
Julia: They just need to fume for a little bit. So...
Brandon: Literally smoke coming off of them.
Julia: Oh, 100%.
Eric: You get a phone call from a unlisted number.
Julia: I guess I answer it?
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): Well, I don't have a television. But if I did, I would have seen you up there with two regular citizens. Is that what you wanted? Is that what you've turned down the time working with the family for? Was it worth it?
Julia (as Val): We're not doing this again. Not again.
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): I'm fine. I wish you would come. I thought that you were going to come pick me up, I guess. But we... I'm fine.
Julia (as Val): I hired the woman who was pulling things out of her body to come rescue you. You're welcome. Also, you tried to corrupt a young teenage boy and that wasn't okay.
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): He kept calling me grandma.
Julia (as Val): I figured that would piss you off.
[Brandon snickers]
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): Do you like him?
Julia (as Val): In what way?
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): In the if-my-favorite-relative-likes-them-enough, I won't have I won't take care of him.
Julia (as Val): Yes. Please don't murder this young teenage boy.
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): Fine.
Julia (as Val): Thank you. How were you? How was the rescue?
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): Fine. I got... My favorite pashmina is a little wet, but it's okay.
Julia (as Val): Well, if you take it to Mr. Parisi, I'm sure he can, you know, make sure nothing happens to it.
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): Child, I know more about Mr. Parisi that you would find in three dictionaries.
Amanda: No!
[Amanda cackles]
Julia: That... that's gross. Why would you say that to me? I'm your flesh and blood. Why would I want to hear that?
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): Is it gross or is it enlivening?
Julia (as Val): It's a little gross.
[Amanda laughs]
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): Or is it thrilling?
Julia (as Val): It's super not thrilling for me.
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): Fine. Well, I just wanted to tell you of the courtesy, the reason why I was calling is I hope in the coming weeks and months I can count on your vote.
[Amanda gasps]
Julia (as Val): Oh, come on.
Brandon: God damn it.
Julia (as Val): You know you have, like, literal mob connections, right? Like, you've literally run part of the mob. Someone's gonna find out about that.
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): And so did John Frederick Kennedy, both senior and junior.
Julia (as Val): I mean, neither of them were literally heads of their families in mob cities.
Eric (as an Unlisted Number): You know what is a mob city? The United States of America!
[Brandon laughs]
Julia (as Val): No one is arguing that!
[Amanda cackles]
Eric: I think that scene ends there as you two go back and forth about what that means exactly, and you catch up on what's been going on in Laketown City a little bit. And eventually... eventually she thinks someone is calling her on the other line.
[Amanda laughs]
Eric: She says, she has to go.
Julia: It's like four in the morning. Okay.
Amanda: Stunning.
Eric: Wonderful. Alright. So, no one can get in contact with Milo or Aggie. So, I think it's up to you to what you want to do. What do you want to start putting in motion now?
Brandon: I'm going to immediately call my dad from the UK phone. And then--
Eric: Hell yeah.
Brandon: --I need to go immediately after that, go to, like, a convenience store. Grab four burner phones, and go give them to my friends and say, you know, like:
Brandon (as Milo): You're the only people that have this number. This is my direct hotline. If anyone tries to fuck with you even a little bit, you call me immediately. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Eric: Hell yeah. Yeah. I think that, like, your friends would do this in reverse order. I think your friends are just like, "Nice. Now I can, like, say I know Kilonova."
Brandon (as Milo): I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Maybe don't make it, like, super high profile in case, you know, you're a target kind of thing. Live your life normally, but like, don't wear a shirt that says, "I'm Kilonova's friend," you know?
Eric (as Lucas): Lucas reaches for his phone, and is like, "Oh, I need to look at an email really quick."
[Amanda and Brandon laugh]
Eric (as Lucas): And while Lucas is doing like... he's like, "Okay, that's fine, but why don't you tell me when I was gonna die?"
[Amanda laughs]
Eric: Cool. Yeah. Let's... and then we'll flash forward. We'll flashback to that, and I think this is you calling your dad. You were just crammed into this phone booth with, Vulcania, are you still looking in?
Julia: Oh, like pressed against the glass.
[Amanda laughs]
Julia (as Val): What's he saying?
Eric: Put it on speaker. I don't know if you know how.
Julia (as Val): Put it on speaker.
Brandon (as Milo): Vulcani, go away. This is a private conversation.
Julia (as Val): No.
Eric: I think it rings once. twice, three times. And then.
Eric (as Hank): [Yawns] Bud. Hey, you know, when I told you you could call me at any time that was, like, when you were 16, and if you were drunk and needed a ride home. [groans] What's up?
Brandon (as Milo): Hello, Governor..
Eric (as Hank): So you are... Are you drunk?
[Amanda and Brandon laughs]
Eric (as Hank): Do you need a ride home? If you do, I'll put on my pants.
Brandon (as Milo): I'm in a phone. I'm in a phonebox at Dr. Morrow's house. I just thought. You can't see that. Now I get it. Now I see it in my head and I hear how it sounded, and it doesn't make sense to you.
Eric (as Hank): Oh, okay. Alright. Yeah. Okay. Tell Cassandra I say hi. Yeah.
Brandon (as Milo): Gross, not going to.
Eric (as Hank): To over the I... I just. Well, I -- you. I'm so -- what's happe -- [groans] Yeah, yeah. Milo. What's... what's up? What's going on?
Brandon (as Milo): Hey, Dad.
Eric (as Hank): Yeah.
Brandon (as Milo): Have I ever... Have I told you recently that I love you a lot.
Eric (as Hank): No.
Brandon (as Milo): I love you a lot.
Eric (as Hank): Okay.
Brandon (as Milo): And you love me, right?
Eric (as Hank): I love you so much.
Brandon (as Milo): And you would never, like, disown me over something I did, right?
Eric (as Hank): We've had this conversation before, but if you became a supervillain I do not think I could be... I don't think I could love you.
Brandon (as Milo): Oh, good. Okay. Well, that didn't happen. That's the worst thing that could have possibly happened. I'm not a supervillain. [Sighs in relief].
Eric (as Hank): Worst thing. No.
Brandon (as Milo): So good.
Eric (as Hank): I absolutely not, bud. Bud, no? So, what?
Brandon (as Milo): Something else did happen though. I did put you in the running for mayor but I'm not a supervillain so... [Sighs in relief]
[Silence and Static]
Eric (as Hank): [Blows a Raspberry]
Brandon (as Milo): Hello, are you still there? This is... this phonebox is a little bit. Do I need to put another quarter in? Another... [in an English accent] another pound in?
Julia (as Val): Pam pam pam. Milo, what did he say?
[Amanda laughs]
Brandon (as Milo): Go away!
Eric (as Hank): Did I wake -- You know we have training for this, but did I wake up in an alternate reality where Dr. Morrow isn’t Mayor and no one runs against her ever?
Brandon (as Milo): Have you? Did you go to sleep at, like, 6pm again?
Eric (as Hank): I... Yeah,.I've been doing this mindfulness thing where I go to bed at 10 but I turn off my devices starting at 8:30.
Brandon (as Milo): Oh, boy. Okay. Well, long story short big scuff them up with the bad guys. We... we won, people are kidnapped, we got them back, Dr Morrow felt bad, felt guilty, Dr. Morrow decided not to be mayor anymore which is I think the correct decision, so she's going to be stepping down. We had a big press conference where I showed my face to the world and so did Aggie. Oh, Aggie is stretchy pants. What's your name?
Amanda: Multitool.
Amanda laughs]
Julia: Stretchy pants!
Brandon (as Milo): Aggie is Multitool and...
Amanda: Stretchy Pants to my friends, please.
[Brandon snickers]
Eric: Stretchy pants if you nasty.
Amanda: Yeah.
[Eric laughs]
Amanda (as Aggie): That's... that's Tegan's pet name for me like, we're stretchy pants.
Eric: Oh my god.
[Brandon laughs]
Brandon (as Milo): Aggie is Multitool. And also, during that same press conference, I took it upon myself to put you in the running for mayor because there's no other good candidates. I did the mental calculations, you know? My superpower makes me really smart, and makes me believe that you're the only one who could do this properly. Did I tell you that I'm a genius and I only make right decisions? Great. Cool.
Julia: Bang, bang bang. He's lying.
[Brandon laughs]
Eric (as Hank): Milo, I love you. That was a rash decision, but I guess you can't take it back because that would make you a liar, so.
Brandon (as Milo): Let me...
Eric (as Hank): Hey, put Tuna.. put Tuna on the phone.
Brandon (as Milo): Okay. Tuna! Tuna!
Eric (as Tuna): [Groans] I'm here.
Brandon (as Milo): Phone's for you.
Eric (as Tuna): Okay. Get out.
Brandon (as Milo): No.
[Amanda and Brandon laughs]
Brandon: And I... And Tuna pushes me out. Phases me through the phone booth.
Eric: Yeah. Tuna phased, puts a paw your shoulder, turns you invisible and then, like, and since it's frictionless, like, pushes you through the air like it's frayed. Like you're in space.
Brandon: And then I put my ear up to the phone booth next to Vulcani.
Julia (as Val): Wow, he wants to talk to the cat over you, huh?
Brandon (as Milo): Fu -- Hey, hey, fuck you.
[Amanda laughs]
Eric: Yeah. They talked for, like, 15 minutes, and it's silent. I don't know how Tuna did that.
Amanda: Wow.
Eric: But it's... it's generally silent, and then Tuna then sticks their face back through the... phases through the... the phone booth and says, "You can get back on. I'm done."
Brandon (as Milo): Did you just want, like, a lullaby or something? What did you talk about?
Eric (as Tuna): No. Like strategies. You owe me catnip.
Brandon (as Milo): Are you going to be his campaign manager?
Eric (as Tuna): No, I'm a cat.
[Amanda and Brandon laugh]
Julia (as Val): I don't know. Would have been a good choice.
Eric (as Hank): Yeah. Tuna gives the phone back to you, and your dad says, "Okay, we're gonna have to get a lot of things straightened out real quick, because lots of people are going to have to get real cool with a lot of things. But thank you for thinking I'm the best person to do this."
Brandon (as Milo): Hank, you're my favorite. You're my favorite dad and my favorite person.
Eric (as Hank): You're my favorite dad and my favorite person.
Brandon (as Milo): Oh, no. We are in an alternate reality. Something's gone wrong. We have to go back.
Eric (as Hank): I'm going back to bed.
Brandon (as Milo): [in an English accent] Alright, Governor, chip chip cheerios, sleep good.
Eric (as Hank): Okay.
Brandon (as Milo): Am I gonna embarrass you being your son as mayor?
Eric (as Hank): You could never embarrass me.
[Brandon huffs a laugh]
Amanda: Aw.
Brandon (as Milo): Alright. Good night, dad.
Eric (as Hank): Good night, you.
Eric: Click. Hell yeah. Hey, my good friend Aggie. What are you--
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: What are you doing? What are you doing?
Amanda (as Aggie): I think right before Vulcani follows Milo into the UK room. I just want to, like, make eye contact with you, and like, put my hands like I am praying and just be like, "Very sorry. You can definitely yell at me, and we can do the thing where, like, you punch me but I stretch back. It's like for fun but also anger. I may have to go. I have to go talk to Tegan, but I just... Sorry."
Julia (as Val): Good luck with that whole love life thing now that you can actually be honest with your partner.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. Okay.
Julia (as Val): Get those kisses in.
Amanda (as Aggie): Oh my god. Go find Hitomi also. That as well.
Julia (as Val): Okay. Let me embarrass you right now because I'm a little bit mad, alright?
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay. Okay, you're right.
Julia (as Val): [Groans] Fine!
Eric: Aggie make a dexterity saving throw.
Amanda: Ooh. 11.
Eric: 11, with an 11, as the three of you are all talking to each other and catching up about what just happened afterwards. As Aggie, you try to slip away. All of the superheroes who are in the living room just... just stormed in and are all just like, "What? What is that? What is happening?"
Amanda: Yep.
Eric: I think it's Taxonomy, Wyvern, Hive, Fritz Brightstone is there, Emily Slaughter. I think you hear a crashing of a skylight as you hear, "What the fuck is going on guys?" As Flyboy is coming to get in there, and they just mob you and be like, "What is this?"
Amanda (as Aggie): I'm gonna gesture to Vulcani like, "Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead." And so, you... you follow Milo. You guys deal with that. Okay guys, I did not plan this. I should have consulted with all of you, but it really just overtook me in the moment. I decided that for me I needed to unmask. Kilonova then decided to say that everyone should unmask. I don't share that opinion. So, we... we should have some kind of meeting. It is four in the morning. I just need to tell my partner my secret identity. Also, I think you guys who only date in costume, I don't recommend it.
Eric: From the back Hive is like, "Awkward."
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: And the bees are like, [imitates buzzing bees].
[Players laugh]
Amanda (as Aggie): Can you guys, like, give me a lip balm or something? Tegan loves lip balms. Like, can I actually bring them over to them, like, that'd be great. Anyway, I'm getting distracted.
Julia (as Val): Yeah, get those kisses in Aggie. You need that lip balm.
Amanda (as Aggie): Oh my god. Oh my god.
Eric (as Wyvern): Wyverns like, "Get those kisses in," and --
Amanda (as Aggie): You're literally a child!
Eric (as Sour Anthony): Oh, yeah. Get those kisses and fuck you, dude.
Amanda (as Aggie): Fuck you, Sour Anthony! Fuck you!
Eric (as Sour Anthony): Fuck you, dude!
Brandon: God, he's such a pervert.
[Eric huffs a laugh]
Eric (as Emily Slaughter): Emily Slaughter stepped forward and says, "I think it's incredibly brave of you to follow in my footsteps and devote and unmask vigilante out there. Now, I don't want to pressure anyone else for having to do this, but I think it's wonderful that you've chosen to do this and Milo you as well. We can all talk about the ways to prevent your loved ones from getting attacked by villains and keeping them in peril and everything. We'd hoped. Well, I'll call--
Amanda (as Aggie): Emily.
Eric: --in the lab about--
Amanda (as Aggie): Emily.
Eric: -- all of that.
Amanda (as Aggie): Emily. Emily, I would love to hear from you.
Eric (as Emily Slaughter): Yeah.
Amanda (as Aggie): Not right now. Guys you got to shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up, okay?
[Brandon and Eric heave a laugh]
Eric: Make an intimidation roll for me.
Amanda: An 8.
Eric: Emily Slaughter.
Amanda: Do I have more luck point? It's still the same day.
Brandon (as Milo): I'm gonna cast Guidance. I'm gonna cast Guidance.
Julia (as Val): Not in the room
Brandon (as Milo): Shut up!
Eric (as Emily Slaughter): She says, I know you've been through a lot and you didn't want to attack me like that right now. Just... let's get some time on the calendar. We... You... you get Multi, you get Milo's.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, one on one.
Eric (as Emily Slaughter): And Vulcani can be there.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah.
Eric (as Emily Slaughter): No, all of us... we'll do all of it together just--
Amanda (as Aggie): Great.
Eric: --give it some time. I know you weren't--
Amanda (as Aggie): Great.
Eric: --trying to attack me there, right? We're... because we're... we're allies. And we all have similar, we're stakeholders here.
Amanda: I'm going to make individual eye contact with every other hero in the room to commiserate as Emily talks to me like that.
Eric: Taxonomy. looks down to the ground and then turns into a small cat.
Amanda: Oh no.
[Imitates meowing]
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: But you make eye contact with each individual be, which is pretty good.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: Awesome. Love it. Are they working on Chapstick?
Eric: No.
Amanda: Fuck.
Brandon: They're such busy bodies.
[Amanda hums]
[Julia groans]
Amanda (as Aggie): Anyway, this is all to say that I honestly appreciate the things that each of you did today and brings to the table except for, fucking, you. And then I point at Flyboy.
Eric (as Flyboy): What did I do?
Amanda (as Aggie): Fuck you!
[Brandon laughs]
Eric (as Flyboy): God. Someone unmasked your fun.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda (as Aggie): We should definitely talk. We should definitely meet. Sorry about the house, it went down. I genuinely think that we are going to be able to help people more and do better after this. And I know that I am going to be first in line to learn about doing a better job.
Eric: Sure.
Amanda (as Aggie): I very have to go.
Eric: I think they still are, like, mobbing you and asking questions, but I think you can still just like get out of there.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: You just take, like, two giant stretchy steps over them.
Eric: Amanda, use your powers!
Amanda: But what I do, you see, is that I'm standing talking to them. And one of my legs just sneaks backward and stretches all the way out, lands itself where I want to go and then [Yoink SFX]. I just roll backward.
Julia: Incredible.
Eric: Can I just do some Foley really quick, Brandon?
Amanda: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Brandon: Yep.
[High-pitched whistle slowly going low-pitched]
Eric: Can I... can I try another one?
Brandon: Yeah.
[Low to high-pitched whistle]
Brandon: Okay, one more take for me.
[Boing bouncing SFX]
[Amanda laughs]
Brandon: Okay. Nice. Nice. Nice. I like it.
Eric: Hell yeah. Yeah, you're driving over to Tegan's place. What are you thinking on the drive over there?
[Amanda grumbles]
Julia: No thoughts just, [grumbles]
Amanda: I think that apart from taking the whatever, like, civil service test is required to join the... the forest department, Aggie has never done a thing just for herself. Even responding to Emily's original call, even joining the LT3, you know, it was all at the behest of somebody else or to... for a higher and bigger purpose. And this is too in its own way, but it is. It's like, I don't know, someone like taking a shot for the first time or like...
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Going bungee jumping or taking the training wheels off. It's just like, "We're doing this! And there is a terror and there's a thrill and she's like, "I hope... I hope Tegan thinks I'm pretty."
Eric: I'm going to roll really quickly, and I'm going to roll for disadvantage and I'm gonna explain why.
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: I didn't think about that fear of, like, you've never seen my full face, do you think I'm still attractive?
Julia: What if you think I'm gross?
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: Okay. I rolled a 12 and a 2, and Tegan has +1 constitution for a 3.
[Julia snorts]
Eric: The reason why Tegan rolled with disadvantage is because they're watching TV. All of a sudden News Break comes on, special breaking news at Dr. Morrow's mansion, superheroes reveal themselves. And Tegan has a pretty good emotional constitution and is able to deal with it, and understands that maybe you weren't comfortable telling them just yet, but then they see their ex-girlfriend, Rose Gold, asking you a question, and they're having a little bit more of a hard time dealing with it. When you drive up, have you kept any stuff at Tegan's place?
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, I think some sweats, toothbrush.
Eric: Cool.
Amanda (as Aggie): Phone charger, stuff like that.
Eric: Cool. Yeah, all that stuff is in a laundry basket on the street.
[Julia gasps in shock]
Amanda: No!
Eric: And there's a note on it. That says--
Brandon: Just kidding. Come in. I'll still love you?
Eric: No, that's not what it says.
Brandon: No!
Eric: There is a note on it that says, "For my masked girlfriend. You left your stuff here." And it is on... it's on the street outside of Tegan's building.
Amanda: I'm going to stretch up to their living room not bedroom window and knock softly.
Eric: Tegan is sitting on their couch with the TV on and their head in their hands. And as you knock softly on there, they ignore you.
Amanda (as Aggie): I know it might not make it better but I did do this in part for us.
Eric (as Tegan): At least open the window. I can't hear you.
Amanda (as Aggie): I open the window.
Eric (as Tegan): Thank you
Amanda (as Aggie): I'm sorry I couldn't talk to you first. I wanted you to be the first one to know but this wasn't premeditated. It... it's... something came over me. I'm sorry.
Eric (as Tegan): I wasn't even expecting that you were going to tell. I'm sure other people knew your secret identity. You didn't know I didn't have to be first but, like, fuckling everyone else in this entire city needs to know before me? I just...
[Silence]
Eric (as Tegan): Between not being able to put anything together at the gala earlier that there was something going... going on and this. I am the worst investigative journalist in the entire world.
Amanda (as Aggie): You are not.
Eric (as Tegan): I am!
Amanda (as Aggie): You are not. You were so good that the biggest supervillain in Laketown City was so scared of you that he had to fire you from your job, so you wouldn't dig in to what he's doing. Listen, you can be upset. I -- you should be I get it, and I can go but the only thought on my mind when I was staring down those cameras and heard that question and realized that I did not want to lie anymore, was that I wanted to be able to take off the mask in front of you. And I'm sorry I didn't do it the best way I could, in fact a kind of bad way.
Eric (as Tegan): Yeah, it's pretty bad.
Amanda (as Aggie): I do have an artisanal hive of bees working on the farm for you for what it's worth.
Eric (as Tegan): You talk to bees now too?
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda (as Aggie): That... that dude from the gala with the cast thing.
Eric (as Tegan): Oh, Hive.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, yeah. Rescued him from an underwater lair. If you want space, I will go but if you would like a extremely stretchy girlfriend blanket, I can do that too.
Brandon laughs]
Eric (as Tegan): [Scoffs] Fine, get your stuff in but you can't go through the [stutters] front door. You have to stretch through the window.
Amanda (as Aggie): No problem. And then, I think for humor, Aggie's going to do, like, an inchworm. Like, she'll inch in foot by foot.
[Brandon snickers]
Eric: You inch inside and Tegan gets up and closes the window and says, "Okay. Girlfriend blanket. Now."
Amanda: Aggie stretches out to be 12 by 12 feet and then plops down right on top of Tegan. Only their nose is exposed.
Eric (as Tegan): Too... it's so comfy. I wasn't expecting this. I can't be mad, ugh I can't be mad in a girlfriend blanket.
Amanda (as Aggie): You can be mad.
Eric (as Tegan): I'm mad under the girlfriend blanket.
Amanda (as Aggie): It's very hard to be mad under a blanket.
Eric (as Tegan): [pouts] I'm mad. [pouts].
Eric: Hell yes. Alright, we will put a pause there as like, hey, let's level up a little bit, shall we?
[Players cheers]
Eric: I think all of you have deserved a lethal level up as a treat, after all I've put you through. So, let's go from 10 to 11.
Amanda: Ooh.
Eric: Why don't you talk about your hit points and some cool stuff that happened to you.
Julia: So, val is now up to 104 hit points.
Eric: Chonky.
Brandon: Geez.
Julia: So many hit points.
Amanda: Whoa! Chonky lad!
Julia: I've never played a character that has had over 100 hit points. It's great.
Amanda: Chonky lad.
Eric: Chonky.
Amanda: And they're our lad.
Julia: And so, Val took another level in barbarian, not sorcerer. So, level 10 barbarian, level 1 sorcerer. At level 10, the Battle Rager which is Val's subclass gets a thing that's called "Battle Rager Charge." However, it's basically the same thing that I got with the charger feat. So, Eric and I talked it over and we created the Supercharger Attribute. So, as a bonus action, you may use your bonus action to dash and when doing so may attack once as a free action. However, you must use the full movement of the dash. Attack gains +5 or can be used as a shove of 10 feet and I have to, when I'm making that attack, use my Battle Rager Armor.
Eric: So now, if Vulcani dashes, Vulcani can all... still has an action but also gets one free hit, but will Vulcani needs to, like, use the full dash. It's like you'll have to run around 60 feet somehow.
[Amanda snickers]
Julia: Fully just, like, embracing the Sonic the Hedgehog vibe that I got for them when I created them so...
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: You're becoming more and more the move: Rollout from Pokemon
[Amanda laughs]
Julia: Truly. Truly I am.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: That'd be a good hero name.
Eric: Rollout, it would be a great hero name.
[Julia hums in agreement]
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: For Milo. Nothing massive. Do you guys want to guess how many hit points he has now?
Eric: 3.
Julia: 70.
Amanda: 74.
Brandon: I'm disappointed in all of you. It's 69.
Julia: Well, goddamnit.
Eric: Yeah!
Amanda: No!
Eric: Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice.
[Brandon laughs]
Brandon: And then the only other thing I got is 16 level spell slot which is cool. So, I have a bunch of new spells to choose from. Some like Wind Walk where I can basically turn everyone into gaseous form.
Amanda: Damn.
Brandon: Which is cool. One called Transport via Plants.
[Julia gasps in shock]
Eric: Oh, that's a good one.
Julia: Neat!
Brandon: And then, really importantly, I got a spell just called Heal.
Eric: Nice.
Brandon: Which in my opinion is it's very not recreative, but you just regain 70 hit points.
Amanda: Oh damn.
Brandon: So,--
Eric: Holy shit!
Brandon: --that's neat.
Julia: That's super good.
Amanda: That's awesome.
Brandon: And because I died and I use my Audience with the Death feature, I decided to use that again and I moved my strength modifier to -1 and my dex to +3 so now my initiative is now a +3 which is nice.
Eric: Hell yes. Very smart.
Brandon: And that also means that my armor class is now up to 16.
Amanda: Ooh!
Julia: It's very high.
Eric: Wonderful. I'm gonna have to come up with more shit to fuck you guys up with.
Brandon: Should not have told you that.
[Amanda and Julia laugh]
Eric: Hey, lots was going on. And I think after you talked to your dad and Tuna comes back, and you see that Tuna says:
Eric (as Tuna): I think I learned a lot about how to protect people and I would like to, like, if you're gonna do this we're gonna do it together. Anubis, like, showed me this... this cool thing that I can do. You want to... do you want to see it
Brandon (as Milo): Yeah, I do.
Eric: And then Tuna hits you in the face with a paw.
Julia: Yeah!
[Amanda laughs]
Eric (as Tuna): I'm just kidding. That wasn't... that isn't what it is.
Brandon (as Milo): You're so funny Tuna. Where'd you get? Did you go to comedy school for jokes?
Eric (as Tuna): I did. Anubis and I do improv together. We kill.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: Underground blinks.
[Eric laughs]
Julia: Oh my god!
Eric: Tuna jumps off of your... of your shoulder. I think this is still in the UK room in the... in the Britannia room and jumps on to a chest of drawers that has, like, I guess like, just like a... like a tea set on it, you know? And Tuna does the cat thing where Tuna, like, pushes a teacup over to the side and then looks at you right in the eyes and then pushes it one more time and it goes over the side. And then, Tuna, like, swipes their paw into the air and, like, the air around the teacup kind of, like, wobbles and vibrates and then the teacup just kind of, like, bounces and lands kind of flat. Like, it goes and over teakettle as it is, but it doesn't break at all. And Tuna's like, "I can do that."
Brandon (as Milo): You can knock things off the shelf?
Eric (as Tuna): No, I can make things... Well, I can always. Yeah, I can do that all the time but I can make, I don't break the... but I can keep things from breaking when I do it like that. And now, Tuna has the reaction called Alter Timeline.
Julia: Ooh.
Eric: Once per long rest, Tuna can. If someone is within 10 feet of Tuna, Tuna can change all damaged dice rolled to one.
Amanda: Ooh.
Brandon: Oh, sick!
Eric: So, for example, if someone was attacking and did 66 +, let's say, 6 damage, it would be 6 + 6 and would only be 12.
Julia: Wow.
Amanda: That's huge.
Brandon: That's awesome.
Eric: Yeah. So, that is only once per long rest and Tuna needs to be within 10 feet of that character. So, if you send Tuna away, Tuna has to do it.
Brandon (as Milo): I give Tuna lots of good scritches and say, "Good job Tuna."
Eric (as Tuna): I'm the best. I'm the real superhero. Maybe you're my sidekick.
Brandon (as Milo): I don't think so.
Eric (as Tuna): But I think so. It's Tuna and Kilonova.
[Amanda and Julia laughs]
Brandon (as Milo): I don't think so. But, okay.
Eric: Oh also Tuna, just make it clear. Now also... now that Tuna is leveled up you can decide who can see Tuna or not.
Brandon: Okay. Cool.
Amanda: Yay!
Eric: Yeah. Wonderful. So, let's go on to get the friend not Agatha. It is.
Amanda: Margareth. That's me, Margareth Mary. Aggie can stretch into a few more things at level 11 basically she has three more forms. So, I could always do my Extendo Arms and Legs. I could do Rubber Ball and I could do a trampoline before. Haven't done the trampoline much in the show yet but now I have three more. One, I can do Sheet Constriction, so in my way of the stretch monk subclass from No Capes jointhepartypod.com/merch, I can wrap myself as a sheet around an enemy. If I grapple an enemy with a sheet, I can deal two times my martial arts di plus strength or dex, whichever is higher.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: Cool!
Eric: So while you're grappling, you can suffocate them and, like, really squeeze.
Amanda: Yes.
Julia: That's so cool!
Amanda: It's the mean version of the Girlfriend Blanket.
Eric: Yeah.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: I can... I have a feature called Sailing Away, which is when I use Step of the Wind. I can gain flying speed equal to my regular speed till the end of my turn when I become a big ol' sail.
Julia: That's so cool.
Amanda: And...
Eric: Sail!
[Brandon laughs]
Brandon: Oh no.
Amanda: And I have Fluid State, which basically means that I can melt into liquid. And it's similar to the spell Gaseous Form but instead of having flying speed and being gaseous and being able to, like, go anywhere I want, I am like a malleable liquid. So, I can, like, go under a door or up a wall but not, like, across the room diagonally.
Eric: I modified it a little bit from what I wrote in NO CAPES, so all of your Rada heads out there. So instead it's like liquid form, so you can use 20 feet, but you can kind of, like, get into, like, any liquid you can occupy whatever space you would like.
Amanda: Yeah. And then finally, I gained Stretching Dodge, which means that in addition to my Monk Evasion, I take half damage from attackers that I see as a reaction, just automatically because my body can stretch around the attack.
Brandon: That's awesome!
Amanda: And I'm up to 81 HP.
Brandon: Noice!
Eric: Incredible! I still keep looking down and being like, how do you have 50 feet of speed? Monks are scary, man.
Julia: Monks are very scary.
Amanda: I love monks.
Eric: Monks--
Amanda: And yeah, up to 11 key points as well.
Eric: There you go,
Julia: Dang, so many key points.
[Amanda hums in agreement]
[Ominous music begins]
Eric: Let's end with one final scene here. Somewhere in Laketown city, maybe we'd, like, zoomed out all of the way. We see the entire city in the middle... in the middle of the night. The stars are out, but equal to that amount of glow is everyone's television. Anyone who has their television on had a breaking news cut to the stream, put together by Gutenberg at that time where he was absolutely ready to dunk all over you, make Dr. Morrow upset, but what they saw was him threatening you, you threatening him back. Fritz Brightstone was there which is wild because he should be training. If they're gonna win the Stanley Cup this year, why is Fritz Brightstone helping superheroes?
[Julia hums in agreement]
Eric: Wild! And then, I think we zoom in and we cut through, like, some clouds and it's a secured ware in Laketown City exactly we're going. Then we... we zoom in on a unassuming building and we keep going in. It is foggy in there, but the fog clears and it seems that we're inside some sort of Spa as someone has poured water on hot stones. It goes.
[Sizzling SFX]
Eric: And everything is, like, brilliant white tile. And there are, like, beach chairs set up in there. Over in the side, there's, like, mud baths. Someone is walking around with a pitcher with, like, a lots of little pieces of cucumber on it, and someone else is coming over bringing over towels. And it seems like all of the chairs are filled. And somebody... and then we look a little closer as the steam dissipates. And well, there's... there's Gutenberg, and there's Triplicate, and there's Gutenberg, and there's Triplicate. And every single person in this spa is either Gutenberg or Triplicate.
Julia: Jesus.
Eric: And then, like, there's a Triplicate holding a pitcher and says:
Eric (as Triplicate): I want to switch. I want to be one of the fancy ones now.
Eric: And the... another Triplicate says:
Eric (as Triplicate): No, I just got this one.
Eric: And over on the side, there are two massive baths. It's shimmering off white that is just filled to the brim with ice and water. And inside with their... their arms and only their... the tops of their shoulders and their heads peeking out are very tired and bruised-looking. Gutenberg and Triplicate. Gutenberg raises his right arm out of the ice bath in a slosh and moves his fingers around in swirling motion and creates three-inch-tall versions of Kilonova, Vulcani, and Multitool, looking up at him from his hands with a blank expression, Gutenberg says:
Eric (as Gutenberg): I guess this is how the game is going to be played. You know my name, I know yours. The game is on.
Eric: He crushes the figures in his hand and says:
Eric (as Gutenberg): Luckily, I can make my own players.
Eric: Triplicate yawns and says:
Eric (as Triplicate): [Yawns] I'm gonna need a massage before we deal with this. Me! Come over here.
[Amanda and Brandon laughs]
[JTP Outro Theme Music]
Transcribed by: John Matthew Sarong