The Saviors of Sunset City

If you're looking for the location the campaign is named after, see Sunset City.
The Saviors of Sunset City, often referred to as The Superhero Campaign or simply Sunset City, is the tenth campaign held by the members of Flafa. It is the fourth campaign DM'ed by Chris-tian Mothman. The campaign features Kaiju as Mayor Strongarm and Kickbutt, FennekinGalaxy as Oracle, Deeto as Spinflux, Lord of the World as Terraformer, Inkunn as The Alchemist, C.D as 10, Ding Dong as Big Red, and Grey as Void Empyrean and White Lion. The campaign is the first to feature personalized antagonists, and the first to follow an entirely mission-based structure, in the vein of the first half of Bitter Creek. Prologue sessions began on September 3rd, 2023 and ended on September 25th, and the campaign proper started on September 26th, before ending on December 5th, with Kickbutt getting dedicated solo sessions on December 10th and 31st, 2023, as well as January 15th, 2024. Spinflux got a dedicated solo session on March 10th, 2024, and 10 and White Lion got a duo session on April 23rd, 2024. Oracle's solo session has yet to happen, but is planned to do so. 
== Storyline ==
=== Prologues: ===
==== Terraformer's Prologue: ====
Terraformer comes across the horrors brought about by his awakening, and Superior Earthshaker is not far behind. Earthshaker asks if he did it, and Terraformer gives an "I guess" in response. He tells Terraformer that he was like him once, and that the best thing to do would be to try and right his wrongs. He saves an old lady from some rubble, a guy from a ravine, and a guy from his car. After this, Earthshaker seals an earthen seam, and after a timeskip he intercepts a Hader Labs robbery by the Automaton. Mr. Superior shows up, explaining that Earthshaker has since died, and they are going to fight Sheh L'Grath in space, and that Earthshaker would've loved to have him on the team, and offers to invite him. Terraformer gladly accepts.
==== Oracle's Prologue: ====
Oracle gets a premonition and sees a graphic scene at a candy store. She goes into the candy store, seeing one clerk with his brains bashed in, another paralyzed in fear, and candy spilt or missing everywhere. She claps her hands in the face of the living clerk, trying to discern what happened. The clerk said it was terrible, saying that the guy killed Clark, the other clerk. She finds a sucked-on lollipop, a baby bottle nipple, and a torn up Build-A-Bear Workshop advert. She sees nothing wrong, until she hears a "goo goo gaga" from behind her. It's Big Baby. She punches Big Baby, only for it to bounce off, and he punches back. Oracle slices Big Baby with a psionic sword, causing him to cry. Oracle suffers pain from the cry before Oracle comforts him. Oracle is then met with the voice of Pinball, who asks her to take his place in The Superiors for a bit while he fights an intergalactic threat. She gladly obliges, and watches as the police try and fail to stuff Big Baby into a police car.
==== Big Red's Prologue ====
Big Red is sent to kill a troll squatting under a bridge, and punches him so hard in the face that he breaks his whole face, with the troll retaliating and getting shot, but before Big Red could secure the kill, a man steals his kill, huffs an unknown drug, and threatens to bag "two fantasy fuckers" for the price of one. Big Red tries to get him to stand down. The man tries to shoot him, misses, and gets tackled, with his head getting slammed into the ground, breaking the man's nose. Big Red collapses the bridge by throwing Soulshaker into it, and takes light damage from the fall. Trickmaster reassembles the bridge, with Soulshaker's body being missing. Big Red notices part of the bridge is missing, and that maybe a gateway swallowed Soulshaker whole. Trickmaster offers Big Red a deal to have him take his place in The Superiors while they fight Sheh L'Grath, and Big Red takes a long rip of his cigar, and blows it in Trickmaster's direction, saying sure.
==== Spinflux's Prologue: ====
Kai fights two bank robbers, before a school bus flies at him. He dodges and checks the criminals who were crushed, seeing their broken legs. As he walks in the direction of the bus, before he encounters the panic-filled New Orchard High School. He finds Finn in the gym, yelling at him to leave the student alone, grabbing his attention. He puts the kid down and exclaims that while he thought he killed Cole, he'd be happy to kill him again. Kai taunts him, getting him to chase him out of the school, and into the parking lot. Kai stops running and faces him, telling him he'll beat his mind back to normality. Spinflux summons his wheel, and spins God's Wrath, teleporting all innocent creatures to safety with his Godly Action. Spinflux runs up to him trying to hit him with the wheel's lever, but he misses. Charging at him with enlarged antlers, Life-Form gets stuck in the wall. After being hit in the head by Spinflux, he enhances his muscles to pull himself out of the wall. From the wall erupts some rubble, which Spinflux throws at Life-Form's head. Spinflux spins for another power to even the odds, receiving a Penguin Zord that flies in prompting Life-Form to fly away in fear. Superior PSI-Kick flies in to ask Spinflux (or Cole Ardeat as he calls him) to join the Superiors in his place, of which he obliges.
==== 10's Prologue: ====
10 chases down the villainous Berry Buffoon, who has kidnapped a child and ran on stilts, and chases him into a hallway, turning into Rath. He pulls out his claws and slashes the Buffoon's stilts. the Buffoon juggles the child and throws balls at 10 and misses, with 10 lunging to grab the child, succeeding and bringing him to safety. The Buffoon pulls out a snake balloon and tries to fight 10, hitting him. 10 cuts down the stilts fully, and the Buffoon retaliates, missing his snake balloon strike. 10 shoves Berry Buffoon into the wall, and tells him "Let me tell you something, Berry Buffoon! You're not going to eat any more organs, the only thing you're allowed to eat is bananas. Go back to the fucking circus." Buffoon breaks free and misses with the snake balloon. 10 puts his claws away, and punches him in the stomach, feeling too sick to retaliate, and 10 hits him again. Matter Man tries to snipe his kill, taking the Buffoon at knifepoint. 10 tries to tell him to stop, failing but figuring out his motive, money. He tries to offer to fix him, but Matter Man reveals that his leader is trying to fix him. Matter Man accepts 10's offer to settle this like men, fighting it out while the Buffoon is incapacitated. The Buffoon is thrown to the side, and 10 pulls out his claw, and punches him. Matter Man makes a huge fist, fighting him. 10 turns into Demonsion, redirecting his massive fists into him. A stretchy hand comes to pick up the Buffoon, as Matter Man makes a sword and gets reflected. As Demonsion tries to make an escape, the hand grabs the Buffoon, and Matter Man is sucked into a portal, not one made by Demonsion. Mindstretch is revealed to be behind the grabbing, and offers 10 the opportunity to join The Superiors while the real team fights Sheh L'Grath. 10 agrees, and Mindstretch carries the Buffoon to jail in a similar fashion to how the Buffoon carried the child.
=== Session 1: The Next Generation of Heroes (9/26/2023) ===
Starting Characters: 10, Oracle, Terraformer, Spinflux, Void Empyrean, The Alchemist, Mayor Strongarm, Big Red
As the Superiors are about to leave to fight Sheh L'Grath, Mr. Superior shows the people that will replace them the Superiors’ supercomputer. It shows a map of the city with active crimes/missions to be done. Their first task as official heroes is to go to a school assembly for Martin Hopkins’ Hopkins House for Gifted Individuals, wherein they are given a tour. While on the tour, he tells them that Mindstretch and Hopkins built the school some twenty years ago to help superpowered individuals learn how to use their powers. Such superpowered individuals formed a crowd in the gymnasium that the new team would be speaking to.
Spinflux starts the speech by telling the kids and young adults not to let evil invade their mind, and to focus on having a good life. Strongarm gives every student money before 10 continues the speech, telling them not to do drugs, and that they’re all special. Armstrong continues with the next segment, telling the students that they are not just the future of Sunset City and the Superiors, but they’re also the future of America. Void Empyrean tells them they are on the right track to being the next step to improve the city and make it what they strive for, and to be proud of themselves. The Alchemist tells them to stay in school, and to do drugs, before Void amends this, saying for them to not do drugs. Oracle chimes in, saying that knowledge is power and knowing is half the battle, before Big Red tells the kids that although the world is crap, and people will be scared of them, but the students shouldn’t be scared of each other, and should work together to make the world better.
After this mission, the squad finds out that Pillow Monger is trying to enter Bert Blythe’s Super-Tailor shop on a non-hero day, and they need to stop him. When they enter, Pillow Monger attempts to smother Bert, before Spinflux pries the pillow off of him. Big Red attempts to calm Pillow Monger down and take him outside, but this fails, and 10 tries to convince Pillow Monger that he is just having a bad day, which he already knew. Strongarm offers to buy him a new suit as a gift, which Bert allows, and Pillow Monger happily backs off after that. Bert offers the squad his services, and tells him he will offer them credit as a referral bonus. Strongarm upgrades his suit before leaving to handle some mayoral duties.
The team returns to the computer to find that Elm Tower Memorial Hospital is under attack. When they arrive, they see that a man was stabbed multiple times, and a woman is visibly scared. Dr. Ramona Paean is being chased by a villain by the name of Murmur, who is screaming for her to help him. Spinflux spins his wheel and gains Power 35: Anxiety Inducement, but backs away as to not escalate the situation with it. Void puts up a wall of flames in front of Murmur, separating him from the doctor. Oracle slowly approaches, reading his aura, seeing purple. She attempts to calm him down, but fails. Big Red intimidates Murmur into giving up, and Void encases him in another wall of flames. Big Red picks Murmur up like a baby, and Oracle uses her mind magic to calm Murmur. Big Red asks him what’s wrong, and Murmur tells him about the voices. Big Red knows that feeling. Void approaches Dr. Paean and has her call the psych ward to send an ambulance for Murmur to get the help he needs. Oracle calms the third patient while Dr. Paean heals the stabbed patient in an instant. Void and Big Red ask Murmur about the voices, and he says they started after his dad tried to kill him. Murmur is sent to the psych ward, and the squad returns to their base.
The squad’s next mission involved them stopping a drug deal involving the Road Crew. When they got there, Hot Rod was being harassed by Hindsight, being blackmailed with information on a woman named Angela that Hindsight would leak if he did not let him collect Bliss. This blackmailing made Hot Rod into a temporary minion of Hindsight’s. Spinflux spun his wheel again, getting Power 17: Conscious Separation. Oracle manifests her Psionic Scythe and attempts to use its sharp edge to intimidate Hot Rod, which fails, before Void manifests a wall of flames behind Hindsight to cut him off from the drug supplies. Big Red tackles Hot Rod and knocks him to the floor, before the Alchemist misses a potion throw on Hindsight. Spinflux attempts to use Conscious Separation on Hindsight, but fails, before 10 transforms into Spitter and spits on Hindsight, knocking him backwards into the flame wall. Hindsight slips in the goo before Oracle gets a premonition of Hindsight giving the drugs to some man in a trenchcoat. She tried to swing her scythe at him but missed. Void knocks out Hindsight before Oracle called the police to have them collect the drugs.
Void interrogates Hot Rod, threatening that Big Red would do something terrible to him. Hot Rod revealed that he worked for Gridlock, a member of the Road Crew, and that his envoy is supposed to be arriving soon. Hindsight and Hot Rod are put in the squad’s custody, and through Spinflux checking their persons for items of interest, the squad comes across a tape recorder in Hindsight’s pocket. Once played, the tape says: “This is your operator speaking. Don’t worry, this was just a test message. Making sure we know what we’re getting into before it’s too late. Careful out there, a big storm is on the horizon. Until we meet again.”
Void Empyrean is elected by the team members to be their leader, and he comes up with the name of their team: The Echelon Eight. The Echelon Eight go to their next mission, helping local hero Puck fight Baghead. Void suggests that he, Spinflux and Big Red fight Baghead head-on, and 10 and Oracle should focus on rescuing civilians. Terraformer would be staying back to keep watch on their prisoners, and the Alchemist would be serving both roles, healing the injured civilians or heroes.
Once there, Spinflux spins his wheel to receive Power 80: Vampirism, before starting to burn due to the natural sun. Void uses his flame to blot out the sun, allowing Spinflux to do his thing. Void tries to light Baghead’s bag on fire before pulling the bag off of Puck’s head. Big Red shoots Baghead through the thigh, before everyone watches him crawl like a spider up the wall, before he receives a hit from Puck’s puck launcher. Baghead dives at Spinflux, missing, before being swarmed. He spins his head in all directions to see he is truly trapped before Void knocks him out, watching his head re-contort all the way back around in the opposite direction to reset itself. Big Red picks up the unconscious Baghead before he is interrogated by Void, prompting him to tell Void that he was planning on robbing the nearby jewelry store before being chased into an alley by Puck. Void gives Puck Bert’s business card and shrinks his flames to take the form of a cloud above Spinflux’s head that would follow him. Puck joins as an honorary member of the Echelon Eight.
=== Session 2: Shanghaied (10/3/2023) ===
Starting Characters: Oracle, Spinflux, Terraformer, The Alchemist, 10, Big Red, Void Empyrean, Puck
Before heading out, 10 took a brief moment to swim in Sunset City’s beach water, which may or may not contain blue dyes. Spinflux went to Elm Tower to collect a bottle of assorted pills, swallowing one that happened to be a sleeping pill. Big Red and 10 stop at Bert’s to buy suit upgrades before Big Red goes back to Elm tower to buy antivenom. The Echelon Eight decide to go help local heroine Short-Circuit fight her nemesis, Moth Mogul. Void opts to guard the prisoners during this time, putting Big Red in charge of everyone else in the meantime. The squad headed to Honey Heath Butterfly Garden and noticed an unusually high amount of moths present. 10 transformed into Diamondhead and Spinflux spun his wheel, landing on Power 23: Superior. Spinflux throws one of the moth nests at Moth Mogul, who carefully caught it and put it down in front of him. 10 encases Moth Mogul in a crystal cocoon while Short-Circuit frees the moths. Terraformer lands a successful ground strike on Moth Mogul’s balls before 10 drop-kicks him, getting Moth Mogul arrested. Big Red offers Short-Circuit a business card and she joins the Echelon Eight as an honorary member. Oracle asks Short-Circuit about One Piece, and upon hearing about her interest in it, recommended the manga piracy site she uses. When Oracle offers to watch One Piece and chill, Short-Circuit accepts the watching One Piece part, but not the chill part.
With three desired missions at hand, Void delegates tasks. He sends himself and Big Red to help rescue civilians from a fire, sends Oracle to give an anti-Asphalt Bliss PSA, and sends Spinflux, 10 and the Alchemist to intercept a hijacking of a PS5 delivery truck, with Terraformer and Short-Circuit guarding the prisoners in the meantime.
When Big Red and Void got on the scene of the burning building, they noticed a kid with orange hair lamenting that it was an accident, and he didn’t mean to set the building ablaze. Big Red takes off his new shirt and jumps through the wall, despite already being inside the building. Void and Big Red start searching the rubble before the third floor collapses above them. Big Red finds an old woman in the rubble and jumped out the window, while Void found two ladies, taking them outside. Going back in, Void found a man, getting him out, before the final ceiling started to collapse. Big Red held it up, buying Void just enough time, down to the second, to rescue a young boy from the fire. The building collapses on Big Red right as Void jumps out of the building with the boy. Big Red survived the collision.
Meanwhile, Spinflux, 10 and the Alchemist make it to the site of the van, which was currently careening down the wrong side of the road. 10 transforms into Fasttrack and carries the Alchemist on his back, the latter using his potions to make a sticky goo to trap the van and hold it in place. When the robbers exit the van, Spinflux is waiting for them before the others arrive, and spins his wheel, landing on Power 75: Name Calling. He shouts random names three times, getting three civilians who are called to him like meat shields. He sends all three of them to beat up a robber, before later summoning Terraformer and Mike Tyson. Spinflux’s first command for Mike is to “fuck the robber”, which he attempts, but fails to do. Mike is very talkative during the encounter, before the Alchemist tries to freeze one of the robbers with an ice potion. He missed horribly, accidentally freezing Mike Tyson. 10 uses his super speed to punch a robber into a stack of PS5 boxes at mach speed, knocking him out. After stopping the robbers, Spinflux used Name Calling to summon Mike Tyson to his location once again, freeing him from the ice before sending him home with a hot chocolate.
Oracle is sent by herself to do an anti-drug PSA targeted at Asphalt Bliss, discussing the health issues with it and the problem with addiction, comparing addictions to making children into supervillains. One kid asks about supervillains being really cool, to which she responds that she would deal with him if he was a villain. When the kid asks her about the hypothetical situation in which she is killed by him, she jokingly replied that she would kill him first, making the kid extremely upset and lowering Oracle’s social standing.
When the Eight return to base, they find Short-Circuit panicking, and Hindsight missing. Oracle attempts to calm her down, to no avail, before Big Red intimidates her into telling them that a portal opened from right underneath Hindsight while Short-Circuit was watching. Spinflux spins his wheel to try and get something useful, landing on Power 47: True Sight. He and 10, transforming into Fasttrack, decided to sweep the town for traces of Hindsight. Big Red heals himself, and while he’s doing that, Oracle finds some residual aura energy from Hindsight, noting its green color, deducing that Hindsight’s friends had to be on the other side of that portal.
Big Red partially strangles Hot Rod, trying to get information, with Void using his flames to intensify the intimidation factor. Big Red doesn’t get much information out of him immediately, other than that Hot Rod has heard that crime-linked people would sometimes just disappear from custody through the floor thanks to green portals. Big Red and 10 remember that their nemeses had disappeared through similar portals. Deeming Hot Rod out of information, Void left to use his flames to intimidate Moth Mogul into talking. Moth Mogul tells of a character called the Operator, that no one sees, no one knows, and one that only comes to people, not having a known location. Oracle remembers this figure from the tape they found on Hindsight’s person, and gets suspicious. Spinflux and 10 soon return, not having found any trace of Hindsight. Wherever he was taken, he went FAR. Void used a spear of flame to injure Moth Mogul before 10 transformed into Rath, interrogating Hot Rod to brutal effect.
According to the Superiors’ database, the three portal-based Supers up to this point were Gateway, who died in 1989 after a fatal electrocution, Immortal Portal, who died three years ago fighting alongside Neon Knight against the Dragon, and Egress, one with no info on them other than their existence. By the time 10 transforms back, he realizes that Rath has beaten Hot Rod into a coma, after which Void forbids 10 from turning into Rath without supervision. 10 transforms into Fasttrack once again to take Hot Rod to Elm Tower before the Eight take a rest.
They soon get a call from a local detective Super, Normalcy, who called about a villain he can’t remove the powers from. When the Eight get there, Big Red recognizes the belligerent villain, Soulshaker. Big Red primes his gun in preparation, while Oracle readies her psionic blade, Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Superior once again, and 10 transforms into Swampfire. Void lays down a field of flames around Soulshaker, preventing him from leaving right away. At the start of the battle, Oracle shifts her psionic blade into a spear and throws it at Soulshaker, missing horribly. Big Red breaks Soulshaker’s nose for a second time before Void jumps in, also going for the face, with Spinflux joining in on top of both of them in the face-hammering frenzy. The Alchemist throws an ice potion, barely missing Soulshaker but slowing him and everyone currently around him. Soulshaker levitates away from the heroes pounding on him before casting a spell around all of them, dealing heavy damage to Void and Normalcy, and moderate damage to the others. Oracle uses her spear to vault upwards and kicks Soulshaker out of the air before repeatedly striking him with her fists. 10 uses a blast of fire to ignite Soulshaker before Big Red shoots him in the stomach, knocking his supply of Asphalt Bliss to the floor, ending the battle prematurely as Soulshaker no longer had access to his painkillers.
In celebration, Terraformer hits the griddy and Spinflux hits Orange Justice on Soulshaker’s body, before Void removes the flames from him. 10 transforms into Fasttrack and jets Soulshaker to Elm Tower, before Normalcy joins as an honorary member of the Eight.
Back at base, Oracle takes a moment to flirt with Short-Circuit, saying that her goggles were cute, and telling her that she wonders how pretty her eyes are underneath. This causes Short-Circuit to blush. Big Red intended to come up and say something to embarrass Oracle, but instead tells the pair that they’re in love and hands Oracle a celebratory beer.
=== Session 3: The Death of Void Empyrean (10/10/2023) ===
Starting Characters: Oracle, Spinflux, The Alchemist, 10, Big Red, Void Empyrean, Short-Circuit
The party takes a brief pit-stop at Chilly's, wherein 10 buys an ice cream, Big Red and Spinflux buy chips, the latter also buying gas station sushi, and the Alchemist buys gas station sushi too. The Alchemist eats the gas station sushi he bought right after Spinflux tipped the cashier, and the Alchemist soon gained an insatiable compulsion to eat human flesh. Mayor Strongarm went to the bathroom of the gas station, taking a poop before immediately leaving, never to be seen again. 10 transforms into Diamondhead to prevent himself from being eaten by the now-cannibalistic Alchemist, who then dives at Spinflux, trying to eat his arm. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 73: Miracle, which caused a swordfish to fly through the window of the gas station, slapping the Alchemist with its tail, causing him to snap out of his cannibalistic frenzy. The Alchemist ate another roll of sushi, healing a minor amount of health.
Void has some other duties to handle, so he makes Big Red the temporary leader of the Eight, delegating Oracle, Void (when he returned) and Spinflux to make sure TV hero Flurpman didn’t get hurt when he went to stop an illegal gun shipment, and putting himself, 10 and the Alchemist in charge of saving the family of a burning building.
As Oracle, Void and Spinflux arrive at the scene of the shipment, Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 53: Direction Reversal. Flurpman shoots a cone of Purple Flurp at the robbers, doing minor damage. Realizing that they had a water-based hero, Spinflux calls Short-Circuit to aid them, with her saying she’d arrive in a few minutes. Void uses his flames to empower himself, Oracle and Spinflux before charging at a robber, instantly knocking him out. Spinflux hit a robber in the shins with his cane before Oracle attempted to swing a psionic hammer at one of the robbers, who ducked under it. When a robber attempts to shoot Flurpman, Spinflux redirected his direction to shoot instead at one of the other robbers, killing him instantly. Spinflux then took heavy damage from Heartburn’s fire breath before Short-Circuit arrived to aid the party. Flurpman made a puddle of Purple Flurp underneath Heartburn, which Short-Circuit dashed through, zapping it and electrocuting Heartburn before Void delivered a hefty face-punch to Heartburn. Oracle attempts to trip Heartburn with a sweeping kick, but somehow misses. When Heartburn tries to breathe fire at Void and Spinflux again, Spinflux redirects it back into Heartburn’s mouth, with Void sidestepping out of the way. Heartburn smokes from the mouth and falls down, before Flurpman misses his Flurp blast, hitting Void for minor damage instead. With the shipment stopped, Flurpman joins the Eight before Short-Circuit calls the police to have the place cleaned up.
Meanwhile, Big Red, 10 and the Alchemist arrived at the scene of the fire, with Big Red seeing the same orange-haired boy once again. 10 transformed into Big Chill to freeze the fires and add ice structures to increase its stability, with the Alchemist using ice potions to aid him while Big Red looks for the survivors. He finds a boy, a woman and two other boys, each being taken out of the building by 10. The orange boy returns to the scene, crying to his mother about how he didn’t mean to set the building on fire. His mother comforts him, saying he has his dad’s powers, and just doesn’t know how to control them yet. When asked, the mother of the boys said their father was the former Superior Prometheus. 10 asks Curtis’ mother about training him to help him control his powers, to which she is glad to let him go train with them. Curtis, under the name Scorch, joins the Eight.
After the Eight return to base, they receive a call from Dr. Ramona Paean about a tape she found on Soulshaker’s person. The tape reads as follows: "Seems like you're not the only ones out to get me. That's okay. I can take on a few more challengers. It's in my blood to persist. Literally. Until we meet again."
Just then, they receive a distress signal from Hader Labs, who is currently being raided by Matter Man. When they get there, they are joined by Holo-Girl, who opts to help them in saving the laboratory. When the Eight arrive at where Matter Man is, they see Dr. Hader tied to a chair. Matter Man kicks the chair away before it is sucked into a green portal. 10 transforms into Ball Weevil and Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Name Calling once again, using it to summon Mike Tyson, Christine Weston Chandler and Clayton Ray Huff.
Matter Man charged at Dream, knocking him into Big Red, who threw him at Matter Man. Dream vomits from the damage. Void uses his flames to melt the floor beneath Matter Man, descending with him to prevent the innocents from being hurt. Spinflux sends his minions to jump on top of Matter Man and beat him up. Oracle jumps in too, attempting to attack him with a psionic staff, having the hit absorbed by Matter Man, but successfully trips him with the staff on a second hit. Matter Man unleashes a shockwave, dealing no damage to 10 and Void, dealing minor damage to the other Supers. Dream dies in the shockwave, and Chris-Chan is seriously hurt, but Mike Tyson toughs it out, keeping in the fight. Spinflux spins his wheel once again, landing on Power 82: Cursed Energy, unleashing a lethal Hollow Purple attack on Matter Man, as well as inadvertently using it on Void Empyrean, who was restraining Matter Man in a grapple. The attack obliterated Void, leaving nothing but ashes and dust behind, much to everyone’s shock and dismay, but Matter Man somehow survived. 10 transforms into Brainstorm, holding Matter Man with his telekinesis to prevent Matter Man from being saved by one of Egress’ portals. The portal comes as expected, but instead of taking Matter Man, it instead spits out a tape, which said: “So what if you banged up Matter Man a bit? I have Dr. Hader. I just wanna play some pool with the guy, is all. And as long as he cooperates, he will be able to leave without a hair missing from his balding middle-aged head. Until we meet again.”.
Everyone is angry at Spinflux for what happened, but moreso at the fact that Void was gone than the fact that Spinflux did it. After taking Matter Man to the base’s bio-scanner to try and identify him, it doesn’t work, spitting out the error “Genes Obstructed”. Oracle, the Alchemist, 10 and Big Red leave for the base’s bar, drinking their sorrows away while discussing plans for Void’s memorial service. 10, being only 16, instead opts for apple juice instead of alcohol. Meanwhile, Spinflux spun his wheel, hoping to get something to better the situation, landing on a miraculous Power 56: God’s Wrath, using this power to revive Void in an instant. Void IMMEDIATELY delivers a backhanded slap to Spinflux as payback, not helping Spinflux’s mental state. The Alchemist bought another roll of gas station sushi, gaining the ability to speak fluent Japanese. He goes back to the bar, speaking fluent Japanese, scaring everyone there, especially Oracle who already is fluent. The Alchemist told the crew that they were “all gay”, being translated by Oracle shortly after, much to the shock of 10. The Alchemist began saying the infamous Shadow the Hedgehog copypasta in Japanese, getting interrupted by a shove from Big Red. Returning to the base, everyone is shocked to see Void back, but Spinflux is nowhere to be seen. Big Red gives the new members business cards for Bert’s, and because Scorch needed a suit, they got a referral bonus from Bert for doing so. Oracle asked the honorary members present for Void’s death their thoughts on the situation, to which they responded with shock and fear.
Meanwhile, Spinflux sat in his room, eyeing a rope in his hands.
=== Session 4: Taking Out the Trash (10/17/2023) ===
Starting Characters: Oracle, Spinflux, Terraformer, The Alchemist, 10, White Lion, Short-Circuit, Normalcy, Scorch
The Eight come to realize that Void is missing, and in his place stands a new hero: White Lion. He tells them that Void asked for Lion to take his place while he sorted some business out, but he did not actually state what exactly. The Eight, with their new teammate in tow, travel to the bank to stop the Aces from robbing it.
Once at the bank, Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 61: Iron Manipulation. 10 transforms into Diamondhead just before the Ace of Diamonds threatens the teller of the bank. Oracle goes after the Ace of Spades, somehow missing both a hammer strike and a staff sweep. White Lion does heavy damage to the Aces of Clubs and Hearts with his whip, before the Alchemist throws an ice potion beneath the pair of criminals. Oracle slides under the Ace of Spades with a kick, tripping him before slashing him with a psionic blade. Spinflux entraps the Ace of Spades and the Ace of Diamonds within an Iron Grasp. Big Red soon comes on the scene, having returned from a visit with his wife. White Lion subdues Clubs and Hearts before the Alchemist traps the Ace of Spades with a sticky potion. 10 takes down the Ace of Diamonds while Spinflux finishes off the Ace of Spades.
After this, Terraformer, Big Red and Oracle return to Bert's to max out their suit upgrades, and Spinflux and 10 came too, only getting the mid-level upgrade. Terraformer stops to get an ice cream cone before Big Red transfers leadership of the Eight to 10.
The Eight soon travel to the Old District Glass Factory to aid local super Rewind fight the supervillain Glassmaker. Glassmaker traps Rewind in a glass shell, intending on using him for "the masterpiece" before Rewind reverses time on his arm to remove it from the glass and break his face free. Spinflux spins his wheel and lands on Power 14: Pyrokinesis, perhaps the worst power to get against a glass villain. Despite this, 10 also intentionally transforms into Swampfire, intending to melt Glassmaker. Glassmaker soon attempts to encase Spinflux, Big Red and Scorch in glass, before Oracle attempts to push them out of the way, being unsuccessful in doing so. Despite this error, the only one successfully encased was Scorch. White Lion fails to pull Glassmaker with a spell card, instead using his whip to pull him within grappling range of Big Red. Big Red successfully restrains Glassmaker long enough for the Alchemist to light Big Red on fire and progressively melt Glassmaker. Before this happens, however, Glassmaker is able to trap Oracle and the Alchemist in glass shells. 10 reactively transformed into Big Chill to avoid being glassed himself.
Spinflux uses his pyrokinesis to make a fire plume from the melting pot, successfully melting Glassmaker but making everyone realize the mistake they made with this route. Oracle escapes from the glass before Lion attacked Glassmaker with first an ice card, then a generic spell card. Big Red punched the goopy Glassmaker, getting his arm stuck in him. Glassmaker slowly climbs Big Red's arm, intending to swallow him whole, before Spinflux spins again, landing on Power 5: Hyperspeed. Spinflux uses this newfound speed to free the Alchemist, taking him to Elm Tower due to his injuries. Terraformer soon encases Glassmaker in a stone shell, allowing everyone to cool him down and shatter him. The Eight put Glassmaker's shards into a trash bag, taking it with them.
The Eight, after delivering Glassmaker's shards to base, travel to a local gym to stop a bomb threat, with 10 and White Lion staying back to find out what to do with Glassmaker's shards. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on God's Wrath once again, using it to delete the bombs explosive components, rendering it inert. They find a note on it that says "Got you again, Vituoso!". They ponder what this meant before noting the giant flying football above the city.
=== Session 5: The Human Element (10/24/2023) ===
Starting Characters: Oracle, Spinflux, Terraformer, The Alchemist, 10, White Lion, Short-Circuit, Normalcy, Scorch
10 begins by visiting Matter Man within his cell. Curious, he asks Matter Man how he’s doing, to a disgruntled response from the prisoner. He asks what Matter Man’s name is, and in an attempt to convince Matter Man to do so, he tells Matter Man that his name is Leo, and he’s 16 years old. Matter man yells at 10 for cursing him with metal skin, to which Oracle questions what he did. 10 explains they had a bad altercation that made Matter Man end up this way, after which 10 offers to fix Matter Man’s affliction. His watch then begins to repair Matter Man regardless of Matter Man’s choice, crumbling the elements off of him and removing his powers, returning him to normal. No longer a threat, Oracle uses her newly-unlocked telekinetic abilities to pull apart the pieces of Matter Man’s bindings and pull him out of them, with him kicking and screaming the whole way until he was gently put down on the floor. Big Red glares at Matter Man from above, before picking him up and taking him to the Superiors’ bio-scanner. The scanner tells them his name is Ryder Fleming, a 19-year-old who was a resident of Hopkins House.
The Eight soon go to see Hopkins and ask him a few questions, with Big Red picking up Ryder and taking him with them. Martin Hopkins thanks the Eight for bringing him one of the missing pupils, and notes that Ryder is no longer afflicted with his mutation. 10 explains what he did to Ryder’s DNA, repairing it, and asks about the other missing kids. Martin explains that there were six missing students, one of which they have found. The others were Lochan Chaudhary, who could see into the past, Seth Chase, who can control water, Wilfred Christmas, who Martin expressed concerns about him needing to “feed”, Ryder himself, a smart boy named Malachi Martel, who Martin expressed concerns about his small ego, and shortly after recalls that Finn Kodar had disappeared a year ago from the school. Martin explained that his school houses Super people with bad home lives or uncontrollable powers, and that while he was not a super, his wife and child were killed in the collateral damage from a super battle, and did not want that to happen again. Martin mentioned an earthquake that took Seth’s family from him, and Spinflux immediately questioned Terraformer, looking at him, with Terraformer sheepishly saying that they don’t talk about the earthquake. Hopkins reassures the Eight though that if anything were to happen to his school, he would be prepared, pulling out a shotgun.
Confused, the Eight leave Hopkins House, trying to put the pieces together. 10 asks Ryder why he worked for who he did, and he said that the boss promised to fix him. When asked about whether or not he knew the other kids, he said he did, bringing up numerous dumb kids and a beautiful lady, as well as a dude in a trenchcoat. He remembers in particular that the “dumb Indian kid” gave the trenchcoat guy drugs.
Looking for answers, the Eight travel to Elm Tower. While there, 10 and Spinflux go to check on Hot Rod. He does not look very good, and in an attempt to get a beneficial power, Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 36: Laughter Inducement. He tries to use this power on Hot Rod to no effect. Meanwhile, the other members of the Eight are visiting Soulshaker, with Dr. Paean overseeing their visitation. Big Red walks up to Soulshaker, pressing his hand on top of where Soulshaker’s gun wound is. He tells him that he has questions. Big Red asks Soulshaker about runaway kids, and upon Soulshaker not knowing which kids in particular, due to villains running into stray kids all the time, White Lion hands him the files. Soulshaker recognizes Hindsight and Matter Man on that list, and admits that Hindsight gave him Bliss, which he remarks he wishes he had at that moment, though Dr. Paean had to take it away from him. Oracle tries to take a peek inside of Soulshaker’s mind with her newly-unlocked mind-reading capabilities, seeing that he hoped Big Red didn’t beat him up, but fails to travel deeper when she attempts to. While probing his mind, Oracle has to hold Big Red back with her telekinesis to prevent him from doing anything rash. 10 and Spinflux soon return, with 10 transforming into Diamondhead and picking up Spinflux, who uses his laughter on Soulshaker to little effect. Big Red tries to push on Soulshaker’s wound once again, but Lion pulls his stone hand off of Soulshaker. Big Red presses anyway, making Dr. Paean rush in to try and stop him, and Soulshaker, after screaming in pain, tells them that he works for the Operator.
Using this information, Big Red calls for a team huddle to discuss their plans. Big Red suggested to use Soulshaker as a mole to get closer to the Operator. They opted to have Spinflux try and convince him, though due to his power he got laughed at whenever he got close. He had to move away to get out of range, and yelled the message to them. Spinflux offered for the Eight to pay Soulshaker’s medical bills in exchange for him being a mole, but unfortunately he does not take the offer, due to having sufficient medical insurance. Big Red offers a lower sentence, but due to Soulshaker likely having the death penalty looming above his head, he declines that as well. Lion speaks with Soulshaker one-on-one, and in the meantime, Big Red and 10 arm wrestle, with Big Red tearing 10’s arm off and destroying it, only for 10, as Diamondhead, to grow a new one. Soulshaker tells them that he will have his brains blown out by the Operator if he becomes a mole, but White Lion uses this to pigeonhole Soulshaker, saying that Soulshaker can either be the mole and have the Eight protect him from the Operator, or they could tell the Operator what Soulshaker’s told them and not protect him from the consequences. He agrees to be the mole, and prepares for entry.
Meanwhile, the Eight decide to pay a visit to local hero Vituoso in his blimp floating above the city, thanks to 10 using Demonsion’s portals to take everyone up there. They tell him about the bomb at the gym, and he tells them that that was Prankstermind, who is obsessed with Vituoso. He tells them that apparently Prankstermind is not a big fan of kids’ health. He tells the Eight that the bomb Spinflux deleted the explosive components from was actually a glitter bomb, and Oracle notes that that makes sense due to the presence of a note inside the bomb. Why would an explosive bomb have a note inside of it if it was going to be destroyed? Vituoso offers to come with the Eight to take out Prankstermind, and joins the Eight as an honorary member. They go to another previous bomb site and find a word scramble inside the bomb that, once deciphered, reads “Time to spread fun and joy at Honey Heath Park!”.
When the Eight arrive, they find a massive bomb with a revolving bottom section, and on top of it was a clear dome containing a dancing Prankstermind. Once inside, Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 51: Chef, an absolutely worthless power in this kind of scenario. 10 transforms into Brainstorm, and the team quickly solves the first part of the first puzzle, a word scramble. This is of no use, as there was a second component, and they were quickly rushed to the second room with a number of labeled buttons, with a message on the wall saying “The clue lies just over the rainbow”. They get the wrong order of buttons, being swung to the next room, a riddle involving an elephant and a hippo taking a bath, with several colored buttons underneath. They press the wrong button and find a room with a pedestal with a button on it, and the number 3 beneath it. On the wall above there was a message saying “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. They hit the button, and after close to twenty minutes of losing their mind between the different rooms, Spinflux finds the solution to the first puzzle’s word jumble, being “NO SOAP RADIO”. He has a bar of soap dropped on his head from above, with the number 1 carved onto it. Close to 10 minutes later, they solve the elephant puzzle, getting multiple cans of paint with the number 4 on them. Lastly, they finally hit the buttons in the right order after several failed attempts due to Big Red and Terraformer’s haste leading them to making mistakes or interrupting each other’s button presses. Despite nothing being in the doghouse prior, a dog exits from the house after they solve the puzzle, with a number 2 on his collar.
They finally activate the pedestal on the end and raise up to find Prankstermind, who flees rapidly. 10 transforms into Big Chill and tracks Prankstermind down through the dome, finding him trying to escape through a back hatch. He freezes the hatch, cutting Prankstermind off, after which Prankstermind receives multiple kicks to the balls from Spinflux and Terraformer. The Alchemist, in a severe move of overkill that upset Vituoso and most of the Eight, lit Prankstermind on fire with a fire potion. 10 transformed into Fasttrack and quickly took Prankstermind to Elm Tower. Dr. Paean immediately heals Prankstermind’s burns, but now Prankstermind needs therapy out of fear of the Alchemist, and vows against villainy out of fear, much to the sadness of the Eight.
After this, the Eight find Golden Boy in Honey Heath Park, who sucks the life force out of a familiar man with glasses, turning him into a lifeless husk. 10 intends to transform into someone else to stop Golden Boy, but mistransformed into Rath. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 20: Slowed Perception. Terraformer is hit by a blast from Golden Boy before White Lion unleashes a lightning ball from a spell card, but this does not damage Golden Boy. Oracle knocks out one of Golden Boy’s batteries with a psionic boomerang before Terraformer makes a wall around the civilian batteries, closing it into a dome, trapping them and cutting off Golden Boy’s connection to them. 10 chucks a ball of dirt into Golden Boy’s eyes, before Big Red outdoes this feat by grabbing a whole boulder of dirt to throw at him. Spinflux re-spins his wheel, landing on Miracle, which teleported his civilian batteries away, only allowing Golden Boy to feed off of the Eight, making him much weaker. Oracle knocks the flying Golden Boy out of the air with a psionic hammer strike before punching him in his oh-so-glorious face. Spinflux spins his wheel yet again, landing on Power 77: Ego. Oracle soon takes heavy damage from a blast from Golden Boy, being later healed by the Alchemist, who proceeded to throw a sticky potion into Golden Boy’s hair. Normalcy uses this opportunity to remove the powers from the narcissistic supervillain, pushing him into a sinkhole Terraformer made, rendering him a non-threat. Big Red insultingly flicks cigar ashes into Golden Boy’s hair before Golden Boy is asked why he worked with the Operator. He tells the Eight that the Operator told Golden Boy that he could fix him. While Golden Boy was still crying about the condition of his hair, Spinflux orders Oracle to “pull out a titty and feed Golden Boy” to try and stop him from crying, much to her disgust and vehement refusal. Golden Boy is captured regardless, and the Alchemist manifests a milk bottle from an unknown pocket on his suit, giving it to Golden Boy to shut him up.
After this, the Eight investigate a report of an active shooter at Home Depot named Nolan Porter, who claims that the Earth needs to be cleansed. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 63: Overclocking. Nolan aims his gun at Normalcy, to which Big Red responds by putting his stone hand in front of the detective’s body in an attempt to block the shot. This is moot, however, as Nolan misses his shot anyway. Big Red responds to this with a shot to Nolan’s knee before 10 transforms into Swampfire, whipping Nolan with a vine that knocks the rifle out of his hands. Spinflux uses his overclock to overclock everyone’s teamwork and White Lion’s speed. The Alchemist hands Nolan a live ice potion, which freezes Nolan and allows him to be arrested.
After this, the Alchemist quickly buys a piece of gas station sushi, which he eats, throws up in perfect condition, eats again, and heals to full health. 10 tampers with his watch, and seemingly nothing happens.
=== Session 6: Blood in the Water (11/7/2023) ===
Starting Characters: Oracle, Spinflux, Terraformer, The Alchemist, 10, White Lion, Short-Circuit, Normalcy, Scorch
The Eight are given a tape by the police, found on Golden Boy’s person. It reads: “I sort of knew you’d beat him. I’m not stupid. He’s built on a poor foundation, a lot like that Hopkins House place. We all think we can fix the world, but frankly that's out of reach. After all, losing everything you have will make you see the world through a new lens. Until we meet again.”. The Eight does not think much of it at this moment.
10 and Spinflux pay a brief visit to the newly-opened Chili’s, with the former buying a margarita and a banquet. 10 and Spinflux both tip the waitress, before the party strategizes their next move with a newly-released Class system. They swap Scorch for Holo-Girl for more team variety and travel to a blood bank being attacked by vampiric supervillainess Lifeblood. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Overclocking once again. 10 mistransforms into Toepick before Normalcy is targeted by one of Lifeblood’s blood tentacles. Oracle leaps in front of Normalcy, blocking it with her shield. Lion uses ice cards to prevent the flow of blood through two of the tentacles before using a pickup line on Lifeblood, who blushes in response. Spinflux attempts the same thing, to no avail. Feeling empowered by a lack of bitches, Spinflux punched Lifeblood in the face, prompting Lifeblood to lift the stream underneath Spinflux’s legs up, hitting him extremely hard in the balls, bringing him to his knees and near collapse before spawning new tentacles. The Alchemist throws a love potion at Spinflux and Lifeblood, attempting to allow Spinflux to woo the woman, but it fails to have any effect on Lifeblood, only working on Spinflux. Oracle frees a boy from one of Lifeblood’s blood streams, with Short-Circuit doing the same to a local mime. Holo-Girl shields Spinflux from further damage before Normalcy attempts to use his cancelation power on one of the tentacles, failing due to it being a construct. 10 transforms into Fasttrack before Lion uses another pickup line on Lifeblood, embarrassing her more.
Spinflux spins his wheel once again, landing on Power 99: Zords, summoning the Penguin Zord, which crashes through the ceiling. Oracle and Short-Circuit sever the final two blood streams, weakening Lifeblood and giving Lion the perfect opportunity to rizz her up. Back at base, Lion asks Lifeblood why she does what she does, to which she responded that she needs to feed on blood to survive, before pulling one of presumably several blood bags from within her coat out, sipping on it like a Capri Sun. White Lion jokingly tells her that she has a new blood bag, to which Big Red breaks down the door and tells her not to be a slut. Oracle reads Lifeblood’s aura and peeks into her mind, finding out that she is partially genuine in what she has said up to this point. Oracle decides for everyone to trust Lifeblood until they have a reason not to. Despite this, Big Red does not trust her anyway. Spinflux spins his wheel again, hoping to land on something useful, landing on Power 44: Advanced Luck. Oracle reveals to Lion that Lifeblood can subsist off of standard human food, but it is far less effective and makes her feel ill. White Lion opts to stay back at base to “keep watch” on Lifeblood.
After this, the remainder of the Eight leave to help local heroine Fauna fight her nemesis Blight. He is seen robbing a man, and threatens to touch him, which he does right after the Eight arrive, dissolving the man into dust. Frightened with the prospect of 10 heroes fighting him, he dissolves a nearby wall, jumping into a gym, being quickly ensnared by Spinflux, who spun Iron Manipulation. 10 transforms into Big Chill and phases through another part of the wall before Big Red punches through it, knocking that section down completely. He shoots Blight in the stomach and leg before Terraformer uses Tsuchinami on him and a quick use of some conveniently-placed pocket sand, blinding Blight and allowing Oracle to knock him out with a psionic boomerang. After this, Fauna joins the Eight.
The Eight soon hear of Flood attacking a beach, prompting them to strategize with which allies they bring with them. They switch Holo-Girl with Fauna and Short-Circuit with Vituoso before they made it to the beach. Flood opens with a tidal wave that roars behind him, imminently approaching. The citizens flee as Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 85: Energy Applial. After Oracle comes up with the idea to use the sand against Flood, Big Red throws Lion at Flood, attempting to have Lion grab Flood with his whip and throw him into the sand, but due to Flood being made of water in this moment, it fails and Lion is flung through Flood and into the water below. Big Red retaliates by chucking a large boulder's worth of sand at Flood, some of which he absorbs, giving the Eight solid material to use against him. Lion throws two ice cards at Flood, freezing a portion of his body and giving them more material to use. Flood prepares for the tidal wave to crash onto his opponents, to which Oracle responds by encasing herself, Vituoso, Normalcy, 10, and Spinflux in a giant sphere of psionic energy, saving all of the teammates closest to her on the battlefield. The others weren't as lucky.
The Alchemist was fully swept under the water, whereas Big Red, Terraformer and Fauna sustained heavy damage. The wave shatters Oracle's barrier but leaves those inside unharmed. Damaged, Terraformer remarks that this is what killing someone's parents does, before quaking the beach and hurling as much sand as he could at Flood, making him heavier and slower. Spinflux tries to use Energy Applial to evaporate the entire lake, but it fails, only turning a small amount of the water into steam. Oracle tries to use her mind magic to pacify Flood, failing her first attempt but succeeding a second, prompting Flood to descend to the shore and break down crying. He feels terrible for what he has done, but was blinded by revenge. Terraformer hugs Flood, soon being joined by the rest. Flood acknowledges that you cannot change the past, and forgives Terraformer for killing Flood's family. Flood remembers that the Operator gave him a tape to make sure the Eight found. The tape reads as follows: "Well done land-lubbers, you stopped the distraction. This was the storm I was talking about before, but there's another one coming right this way. Batten down the hatches and get ready for the biggest day of my unnatural life. Until we meet again.".
After this, the Eight decide to pay a visit to Elm Tower to check on Hot Rod. Dr. Paean has to drop the bombshell that Hot Rod didn't make it. Spinflux, out of desperation, spins his wheel, trying to land on something that would help, instead landing on Power 50: Endless Development. 10 mourns the loss of Hot Rod, worsened by the fact that Hot Rod only entered crime to pay for his sick mother's medical bills. Dr. Paean tries to comfort 10, telling him that it's an important lesson to be learned, to make sure that doesn't happen, and that superheroes accidentally killing villains happens all the time. Oracle gives 10 a hug, patting him on the back in an attempt to comfort him, telling him that even she didn't see it coming.
Later on, 10 decorates Hot Rod's grave with flowers adorned with a strange watermark, before he and Big Red decide to visit the family of the man Blight killed and deliver the news, telling John Brown of his brother Steve's death. John celebrates, calling his late brother a dickwad due to him being a wife-beater. The Eight celebrate the death of a terrible person before visiting Soulshaker to discuss the next stage of the plan.
Soulshaker soon tells the Eight that the Operator stopped talking to him after he agreed to be their mole, instantly reasoning that Hindsight must've known about their discussion. Oracle and Big Red offer him their protection, and when Oracle makes a statement about her foresight proving he'd survive, Spinflux laughed very hard.
The Eight soon leave to question Martin Hopkins about what the line in Golden Boy's tape could mean about Hopkins having a poor foundation. 10 figured that the forbidden basement may have some skeletons within, and transforms into Big Chill to take a peek. Trying to gain a useful power to aid 10 in the investigation, Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on God's Wrath a third time, using his divine action to resurrect Hot Rod and teleport him to his mother's hospital room.
As the remainder of the Eight leave to speak with Hopkins, 10 continues his search, phasing through the floor and asking "Hello?" to no response. He quick-changes to Swampfire, lighting his finger like a candle to have enough light to see. All he sees are carpentry tools and workbenches.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Eight visit Hopkins. They ask about the line, to which Martin is shocked, claiming he didn't understand. He explained that there was carpentry equipment in the basement from the building's construction that was overseen by Mindstretch. When Big Red asked Martin about his and Mindstretch's history, he tells them that they were college friends, Mindstretch going into intellectual stuff and Martin going into teaching. When asked if Mindstretch had family, Martin suspected he didn't, due to his wife leaving him due to the superheroing. His childhood family died all together during a robbery, one he only survived due to his stretchy nature making him bulletproof. When Big Red asked if Mindstretch left with the other Superiors, Martin reminded him that the whole event was televised.
Martin keeps going, telling the Eight that Mindstretch's ex-wife, Deborah, worked with the Daily Trumpet, a local newspaper. Spinflux, trying to get a useful power to get more information, spins his wheel again, landing on Power 52: Necromancy, which he cannot use in the situation he's in. After further searching, 10 finds a note in one of the drawers about a woman named Madeleine, telling the reader to find her.
Oracle attempts to prod Martin's mind for more information, being blocked out by some presence. Big Red asks if Martin knows Soulshaker, and Martin does not remember for a moment, until suddenly unlocking a memory of the janitor, Rusty. Oracle speculates that Hindsight may be behind this, and that his powers might be evolving as Oracle's are, giving him a new ability that is allowing him to steal memories from people. Oracle calmly drops the bombshell on Martin that five of his missing kids have ties with the Operator, prompting Martin to explode with anger, promising justice at any cost. Big Red speculates that Soulshaker may have recruited them, prompting Martin to want to shoot Rusty if he ever set foot on the property again. Oracle calms Martin down, telling him that Rusty's on their side, and that they don't know what his role was in this. 10 reunites with the Eight before Martin takes them to Rusty's room, finding various drug paraphernalia. 10 finds a message from Madeleine in Soulshaker's drawer, prompting him to make the conclusion that they were for Soulshaker.
10 radios Soulshaker and asks about Madeleine, recognizing her as a coworker he worked with once, presumably while working with the Operator's goons. Big Red asks if Soulshaker's name really is Rusty, to which he verifies it, stating his full name to be Rusty Samuels. Soulshaker confirms to the Eight that he didn't recruit the missing kids, claiming to be the last one the Operator brought into his scheme. Martin remembers Madeleine suddenly, remembering her as a woman he used to date that was a stewardess. Whenever Martin would ask if Madeleine has powers, she would always deflect the question. He remembers that Madeleine went on extended leave 2 weeks ago, presumably for mental health reasons, the same time the majority of the kids went missing. He remembers that Madeleine's last name was Geiger, and that the kids loved her very much.
Martin starts to ponder why his coworkers and pupils were involved with the Operator's scheme, and shortly after Soulshaker remembers Madeleine's power of opening gateways. He remembers that Madeleine has not been seen in a long time. Oracle makes the connection that Madeleine is likely Egress. The Eight decide to pay Madeleine's room a visit, finding that it is clean and almost empty in a way. 10 finds a locket in Madeleine's drawer, a picture of what is presumably her and Martin. Martin had forgotten the picture, but questioned how he could, saddened because he loved that woman and forgot the memories they shared, almost as though they were selectively pruned from his head.
10 tempers with his watch again, but nothing seems to happen.
=== Session 7: Lights, Camera, Action! (11/14/2023) ===
Starting Characters: Big Red, Oracle, Spinflux, Terraformer, The Alchemist, 10, Vituoso, Normalcy, Fauna
The Eight visit the Archer Street Comic Shop on its opening day, wherein Spinflux buys one of each of the four issues remaining on the shelves when they get there: Puck #2, Neon Knight #48, Flurpman #1 and Normalcy #87. After sharing the literature with his comrades, 10 asks Normalcy about how he felt about the story being published. He tells 10 that he thinks it was stupid that the Author knew about it all, but he is glad it was anonymized. Spinflux disapproves of Normalcy’s abandonment of a child, sealing her away, giving him the disapproving side-eye.
The Eight answer two problems at once, the collapse of Hader Labs and a hostage situation at a bank. 10 elects himself, Spinflux, Normalcy and Flood to stop the collapse, and for Oracle, Big Red, the Alchemist and Soulshaker to stop the hostage situation. When 10’s team enters Hader Labs, they find that the building is collapsing inward upon itself, like a singularity, and they find out that Dr. Nicholson is supposedly at the epicenter. They go to a higher floor, finding debris and electrical fires. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 18: Fusion, and fuses with Normalcy, rolling again to decide the fusion’s unique power, getting Power 89: Cut. 10 transforms into Big Chill, freezing a wire to the ceiling while Normalflux cuts apart the debris. They make it to the floor that Dr. Nicholson is on, finding that she is almost crushed, but also suspended in the air. She stabilizes the reaction, finding out that she reverse-engineered the mutant gene, accidentally giving herself gravity powers in the process, giving herself the name Freefall. She wishes to give these new powers a field test, being invited to join the Eight after the event.
10 tampers with his watch, but nothing happens.
At the bank, a hostage approaches Big Red, grabbing at his shirt and wanting his help, before quickly fleeing. A different one rises and tries to punch Big Red, who grabs his little tiny baby arm, getting punched by the hostage’s other arm. Big Red tries to intimidate the hostage, to no avail, finding his eyes to be bloodshot. The doors suddenly close as a voice enters Big Red’s head, not swaying him as other hostages begin to rise. The Alchemist uses a goo potion, trapping all but three of the hostages. Oracle uses telekinesis to gently push an old lady hostage into it, also tripping 2 others into it with a sweep kick. The villainous voice, revealing himself as the Amoeba, tries to enter Oracle’s mind, but Oracle’s mind instinctively fights back, causing the Amoeba to stumble back in from where he left prior, foaming at the mouth before passing out.
10 elects Oracle and Short-Circuit to go on a date stopping a serial jaywalker who keeps playing chicken with traffic. Oracle approaches him, asking why he keeps doing that, to which he exclaims that he’s Vinny Finito and that he can do what he wants, later punching Oracle. Oracle catches the punch, attempting to elbow Vinny in response. He dodges, citing his Finito Luck before bolting away. Oracle and Short-Circuit follow him, and when they catch up, he calls them the Super-Bitches. Oracle is livid, and tries to use telekinesis to pull him up to her. He punches the TK hand, leaving him wide open for Oracle to kick him in the balls. Stunned, Vinny is trapped in a psionic butterfly net Oracle created. Oracle and Short-Circuit walk Vinny to the local jail, wherein a cop thanks the pair but forgets their names. Oracle reintroduces themselves to him, and the cop retorts that Big Red is cooler, much to their chagrin. Oracle and Short-Circuit hug, and Oracle tells Short-Circuit she did a good job. Short-Circuit instead replies that Oracle did a better job.
Later, Big Red, Soulshaker and Spinflux leave to handle a counterfeiting ring helmed by the Counterfeit King. Big Red threatens Soulshaker, telling him not to do anything funny, which Soulshaker says he already knew what would happen next. The Counterfeit King calls the trio super-freaks before Big Red strips to only his pants, allowing Spinflux to light him on fire before Counterfeit King absorbs the money and grows much larger. Spinflux sets Counterfeit King and one of the belts ablaze with fire plumes before Counterfeit King consumes more of the money, repairing himself but only barely outpacing the burning. Big Red, still on fire, jumps inside of Counterfeit King, getting dozens of paper cuts in the process. Spinflux uses Inferno Overdrive, critically incinerating Counterfeit King. As he dissolves into soot, he tells them that like change in couch cushions, he will be back. After this, 10 tampers with his watch again, and nothing happens.
The next mission is helping escort the PowerBoyz past their entourage of paparazzi. 10 delegates this task to himself, Oracle, Spinflux, Terraformer and Flurpman. Soon enough, Poizyn, Barry Bluster, Jay-See and Keith Shriek all arrive, with the members of the Eight present as their bodyguards. 10 transforms into Swampfire and dons a pair of sunglasses. Spinflux puts some sunglasses on as well. Spinflux spins his wheel and lands on Slowed Perception. Eventually, they pass Jacob Quinn, photographer for the Daily Trumpet, and is shut down by the PowerBoyz. A fangirl jumps from the crowd at them, slowed and dealt with by Spinflux’s gaze. Flurpman blasts some Purple Flurp into the thirsty mouths of the crowd as they find Deborah Hart from the Daily Trumpet, who also does not get a response from them. They are met with a male fanboy, who is slowed down and cringed at by Spinflux before they make it to the stage.
After this, they leave to help local hero Drasticman fight… himself? He holds his head as he tries to prevent his evil side from coming out, trying to keep them away, as he’s spent too much energy. Big Red and Oracle approach him, attempting to calm him before Drasticman emits an energy pulse, knocking the two away and dealing heavy damage. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Conscious Separation before Big Red gets lasered by Drasticman. Big Red tries to shoot Drasticman in the head, but Drasticman absorbs the bullet. Soon enough, Spinflux is able to separate Drasticman’s evil side from his body, making it float around, allowing Drasticman to come to his senses. Big Red falls over and passes out before Drasticman thanks Spinflux now that he has another chance to fight his evil side. Spinflux shills Bert’s services to Drasticman, but this does not amount to anything. Drasticman joins the Eight as Big Red awakens, still naked from the fight with Counterfeit King, breaks into Freefall’s room and offers her a business card to Bert’s.
The Eight take a brief visit to Elm Tower to recover their injuries, before Big Red goes on a quick pit-stop at Bert’s. Bert shows him a brand-new suit, made for him as a contingency, and Big Red also buys a pair of gym shorts. Normalcy soon recalls that Dr. Nicholson sampled his blood, speculating Soulshaker may have tried to do the same before when he cut him. 10 asks Soulshaker about this, and Soulshaker confirms their suspicions, but does not know the reason why the Operator asked him to do this.
Soon, Sunset City is attacked by an alien race known as the Ging Gongs. The Eight and all of their allies arrive on the scene, finding Jacob Quinn at ground zero. 10 transforms into Fasttrack and Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Cursed Energy. 10 scans one of the Ging Gongs, unlocking a new transformation, BulkUp. Oracle encases Jacob in a bubble of psionic energy for his own protection, much to his chagrin as now his footage will be purple. Spinflux uses Max Blue to suck in and wipe out a majority of the Ging Gongs in an instant, slaughtering the rest with Hollow Purple. After the Ging Gongs flee, 10 tampers with his watch, to no avail.
The Eight soon investigate a suspicious mural at an abandoned building made in varying shades of red, adorned with decapitated heads and other viscera. 10 transforms into Brainstorm in an attempt to investigate the situation, later being led to a slaughterhouse where The Curator stands above his exhibit. Several body bags dangle from the ceiling, people of unknown origin. Shortly after, the Curator jumps from his railing and snaps most of the bones in his body, causing him to immediately die. 10 quick-changes to ChemiKill to unwrap the bodies while Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 70: Possession, a useless power at that moment. When 10 unwraps the first body, he finds scratches in his back saying “All for you.”. After unwrapping and identifying the rest of the bodies, 10 tampers with his watch once again, unlocking something as of yet unknown.
=== Session 8: Burning Bridges (11/21/2023) ===
Starting Characters: Oracle, Spinflux, Terraformer, The Alchemist, 10, Big Red, White Lion, Soulshaker, Holo-Girl, Flood
The core Echelon Eight, sans Lion and Terraformer, travels to a forest that shouldn’t have been there that had suddenly appeared. Thornweaver stands at the end of the forest. 10 asks Jacob Quinn, who is also there for some reason, what happened. Jacob said he didn’t know, but thinks it makes for great headlines. 10 transforms into Fasttrack to escort Jacob out of the way before Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 78: Spots. Thornweaver tells the Eight that they will not enter his sacred garden, to which Spinflux defiantly portals through any and all vines Thornweaver laid out to deter them. He tells of old blood in the city caked with sin that he intends to cleanse. Big Red manifests a beer out of an unknown pocket and offers it to Thornweaver, who refuses to come with them. Upon refusal, Big Red puts out his cigarette on one of Thornweaver’s plants, alongside Alchemist setting a burst potion loose on the forest. Thornweaver retaliates with several vines, interrupted by Big Red shooting Thornweaver in the trachea. He did not intend for this shot to be a potentially mortal wound, thinking Thornweaver would survive it due to his lack of knowledge of human anatomy. Spinflux portals Thornweaver to Elm Tower before he and Terraformer leave to respond to an active school shooting.
When the pair get to the school, the active shooter, a kid with his dad’s rifle, attempts to shoot at Terraformer, missing. The kid admits he killed a bully, and Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Necromancy. Terraformer uses an earth pillar to knock the kid’s gun out of his hands before Spinflux grabs the kid, taking him to the authorities. The Alchemist comes by later on to resurrect the fallen kid with a resurrection potion.
Later, White Lion went on a recruiting mission, helping Yokai Mask fight the Burning Man. Burning Man was quickly defeated by Lion and Yokai Mask exploiting his incompetence, with Yokai Mask joining the Eight as an honorary member. After this, 10 tampers with his watch, unlocking an unknown form.
Soon, Spinflux, Lion, Big Red and the Alchemist responded to alarms at an art museum, finding the PowerBoyz?! Robbing it?! Apparently, Jay-See has failed at being their lookout, prompting Poizyn to exclaim that the only reason they invited him was for him to be their lookout, now regarding him as fully useless. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Name Calling, bringing in Mike Tyson once again, Vinny Finito and former U.S. president Barack Obama in his first wave, later bringing Chris-Chan back, as well as Nicolas Cantu and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Jay-See soon got vaporized by Barack Obama, with the others soon being taken down by White Lion.
After this, the core members of the Echelon Eight find the Petitionary trying to get a petition signed to make whiny politicians play violent video games. Upon Big Red agreeing to sign it, Spinflux signs everyone else’s names without their consent. 10 insults the Petitionary, having a shovel promptly swung at him in response. 10 quick-changes into Big Chill to phase through the hit, after which the Petitionary insists he’s not harassing anyone before going to pee against a nearby public building. Big Red forces the Petitionary to turn around, getting peed on as a result. 10 freezes Petitionary and his pee, prompting Spinflux to snap the pee stream in half, and using Power 1: 100% Muscle Usage, a power he wasn’t seen spinning but used anyway before slamming it into Petitionary’s throat like a knife. 10 quick-changes into Fasttrack and brings Petitionary to Elm Tower, prompting concern from Dr. Paean.
Big Red takes a brief detour to Bert’s to get his suit cleaned, being hypnotized by the washing machine before going out to buy cigarettes and scotch. After this, 10 tampers with his watch, unlocking another unknown form.
After this, Lion, 10 and Spinflux help local heroine Mole fight known supervillain Void (not to be confused with Void Empyrean). Void is feeding his insatiable hunger by eating a local soup kitchen’s supply of soup, using it as ammunition after 10 transforms into Toepick, then Ball Weevil. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on God’s Wrath and using it to revive everyone who had died in the past 24 hours, encompassing Jay-See and 149,999 others. He spins his wheel again, landing on Cut. Lion soon throws 10 at Void, prompting 10 to bounce off of him and shoot him with a ball. He quick-changes into Fasttrack to dodge a hit from Void before Spinflux has a realistic depiction of a panic attack. White Lion then whips Void exactly once, knocking him into some of the soup and prompting Void to give up. Spinflux shills Bert’s services to Mole before she joined the Eight as an honorary member.
The Eight soon see reports of flames furling from a warehouse. Before heading out to investigate, Norman is nominated to take Strongarm's spot in the core Eight due to his prolonged absence, and he and Big Red shake hands.
When the Eight arrive at the warehouse, a sense of dread falls over them, as they see that the flames are purple. Having an inkling of what happened, they head in, being met by a mysterious burning man encased in the familiar purple flames. Cackling in a distorted voice, the new villain seems unstable. 10 transforms into Armodrillo as Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 24: Battle Shifting. 10 asks the villains motive, not exactly getting a clear response, but does find that the villain has given himself a name: Phantasm. With a snap, the room's flames creep closer as he moves to light Big Red's cigarette, who is disgusted at the ethanol-esque taste. Before the battle, Phantasm cackles, stating that he has “One piece of advice for you before we start: Don’t blink.” Someone blinked.
In an instant, Phantasm teleports behind the Eight, creating a Black Well to pull them into. Big Red attempts to jump at Phantasm, being knocked away by a thunderclap coming from a snap of Phantasm’s fingers. Big Red immediately charges at him, oddly being let punch Phantasm. Phantasm then vanishes, Oracle still able to see him through his aura. Defensively, Big Red picks up a massive boulder of earth and holds it to himself as a shield. Every time one of the Eight insults Phantasm, he maniacally cackles it off. Spinflux activates both Adaptive Resilience and Precision Focus, throwing a rock and missing. The second throw miraculously hits Phantasm. Oracle, able to see him, attempts to put Phantasm in a bubble to alert the team where he is, being prevented by Phantasm launching Abyssal Chains at her, of which she breaks free from instantly. Phantasm is forced to decloak by doing this, and Oracle summons a set of psionic kunai for later use. 10 uses Armodrillo’s signature move Hydraulic Hustle before the Alchemist and Holo-Girl are sucked into the Well. Spinflux spins his wheel again in hopes of getting a better power, laning on Zords. He uses this to summon a penguin Zord for himself, a jaguar Zord for the Alchemist, an elephant Zord for Oracle and a gorilla Zord for Holo-Girl. The Zords combine into one unit, sending a combined barrage of lasers at Phantasm. These lasers are absorbed by Phantasm’s cards, promptly sent back at them. 10 quick-changes into Big Chill to dodge as Normalcy is thrust into the Black Well.
In a fit of desperation, Phantasm activates his desperation technique, Final Stand. As he does this, genuinely having the Eight close to the brink, a man clad in black armor leaps from a jet above and attacks Phantasm, thinking he was Void. Turns out this was Savant, who accidentally saved the Eight and allowed them an opportunity to escape. Before they leave, they learned that Phantasm had latched onto Void’s soul upon his resurrection and escape from the abyss, slowly burning his ties to the mortal world away and taking over his body and mind. By proxy, the cost of his soul for Final Stand had instead spent the soul of Void Empyrean, destroying it. As they flee, Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Cursed Energy. Spinflux threatens Phantasm as they leave, and the Eight get to watch as Void’s soul dissipates, the last remnant of him being the ability to see his face one final time, dead and unrecognizable, as Phantasm escapes from Savant’s clutches. The Eight return to base, finding a small ember of Void’s signature black flames in his room. Big Red drinks out of anger as the others mourn.
Later on, the police searched the warehouse where the battle took place, finding another tape from the Operator which stated: “Sorry about the interruption. Kid’s just a little mad that I chose an esteemed scientist over an 11-year-old to help with my work. In other news, expect the skies to gray, not from rain, but from ash. It’s time I burn these bridges I’ve built, so that my plan can go off without a hitch. Maybe I could start with the one that’s been the biggest thorn in my side. Who knows? Until we meet again.”
=== Session 9: A Plan in Motion (11/28/2023) ===
Starting Characters: Oracle, Spinflux, Terraformer, The Alchemist, 10, Big Red, White Lion, Kickbutt, Soulshaker, Holo-Girl, Flood
Before the Eight set out, 10 arrives in swanky new armor, followed closely behind by his #1 fan, Kickbutt. Thanks to a donation from 10, Kickbutt is able to upgrade his suit at Bert’s shop, before Oracle does the same to help the Alchemist do the same. After this, 10, Spinflux and Kickbutt all go to Chili’s, before quickly leaving after Kickbutt finds out they don’t carry chocolate bars. Kickbutt leaves to raid the trash of Chilly’s, finding a half-eaten Snickers bar that he then proceeds to eat.
After this, the Eight travel to stop a riot in a jail caused by a failed execution. 10 calls up Puck to ask what he is doing, to which Puck responds that he isn’t doing anything. After 10 brings up the riot, Puck rushes onto the scene, alongside Oracle, 10 and Kickbutt. The newly-created Super, now calling himself Circuit Breaker, shocks the fence them and the prisoners are inside of. The Petitionary shows his face in the prison, personally having a vendetta on 10. Circuit Breaker fails to shock the heroes, after which 10 transforms into Ditto and starts swarming the Petitionary. Kickbutt pulls out one of his dad’s guns, using it to shoot one of the crooks while flipping the bird at him. Oracle summons a set of psionic kunai, missing the throw, then cartwheeling towards her intended target and tripping him with a sweep kick, causing him to stumble back into the electric fence and be incapacitated.
Puck follows suit, knocking a crook into the fence with his hockey stick, after which Oracle blocks the retaliation efforts with a barrier. Circuit Breaker misses his electric attack on Kickbutt, being hit in the balls as payback. 10 further splits and clobbers the Petitionary with 4 clones. Kickbutt attempts to smash Circuit Breaker’s balls in with a hammer, failing miserably before Oracle grabs another crook and shoves him into the fence. Circuit Breaker tries to attack all of 10’s clones in one strike, unfortunately catching the Petitionary in the crossfire. After this, 10 and his clones hit the griddy before clobbering the Petitionary some more, defeating him. Kickbutt stabs Circuit Breaker in the balls with a knife before Oracle humorously manifests a psionic vuvuzela, trying and failing twice to hit Circuit Breaker over the head with it. Kickbutt smacks Circuit Breaker out with a hammer hit to the eye before Puck deals with the last crook.
Big Red, Spinflux, the Alchemist and Kickbutt soon leave to handle a villainous super-couple while Short-Circuit and Oracle take a break to go on a romantic date night at Longhorn Steakhouse, during which Oracle gives Short-Circuit a funny plushie, earning some Rizz Points that have zero monetary value. Arriving at the jewelry store, the four heroes find Smoke and Mirrors, and upon asking Smoke’s age, Big Red gets attacked. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 32: Nets, before Mirrors phases behind Big Red, attempting to get the jump on him but missing her chance. Big Red tries to punch Smoke, but Smoke sublimates and travels through Big Red’s punch, reappearing on the other side. Big Red grabs Mirrors instead, trying to throw her at Smoke, who rematerializes for the sole purpose of catching his wife and preventing her from being harmed. Spinflux ensnares the villainous power couple before the Alchemist doubles down with a sticky potion. Smoke escapes the trap, punching Spinflux before Mirrors reflected herself, making multiple duplicates. Spinflux punches Smoke hard enough that he instantly rematerializes, kicking him in the balls shortly after.
After this, the Eight leave to investigate the murder of two attorneys, asking the local police for information. Thanks to the coroner, they figure out that the weapon used to kill the two was 100% a sniper rifle. Big Red investigates the body while 10 transforms into Brainstorm. 10 notes that the blood spatters on the wall behind them point downward, ensuring that the shot came from above. After a quick call for Holo-Girl’s help, they are able to trace the bullet casings, not finding much of note. Holo-Girl hacking into the street cams leaves a similar result. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 40: Master Parkourist. 10 transforms into Fasttrack to sweep the streets for clues before the Eight split into two teams, with Kickbutt, 10 and Big Red pursuing the sniper, identified as the Silencer.
10 transforms into Magnetude before Big Red leaps after Silencer, tackling her to the ground and knocking her mask off. 10 quick-changes to Demonsion and portals Kickbutt and himself over to the now-unconscious Silencer, allowing Kickbutt to prolongedly ogle Silencer’s tits. He lets out an involuntary awooga, prompting Big Red to attempt to smack him, instead being deflected by 10 with a portal.
After this, 10, Spinflux, Big Red, Oracle and Terraformer leave to help local hero Neon Knight fight his nemesis, the Dragon. 10 tells Neon Knight to “SLAY, KING!” before Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on Power 83: Divine Messenger. He uses this power to cast a divine light on the Dragon after he readied his blade and struck Neon Knight. The Dragon laughs off this endeavor before Terraformer summons Hofferson, the stone dragon, to fight the Dragon. Hofferson bites the Dragon before Oracle uses her telekinesis to pull Spinflux out of the way of 10’s next plan, manifesting a psionic sword after she does so. 10 then executes Manuever 19, transforming into Spitter to coat the ground beneath the Dragon in goo, transforming into Blip to electrify it, dealing heavy damage to the Dragon. Spinflux removes his limiter before using Divine Light again and healing himself. Terraformer summons a big fist to fight the Dragon with before Oracle mounts Hofferson, using her psionic sword to slash the Dragon for heavy damage. Big Red then leaps onto the Dragon’s face, punching him repeatedly until the Dragon slips in the Spitter goo, being knocked out from the fall. Big Red keeps punching the Dragon until Spinflux tries to stop him. 10, as Blip, uses his cutesy eyes to try and dissuade him from going further. 10 then scans the Dragon, unlocking him as a new transformation he calls “Spitfire”. After this, 10 fails to tamper with his watch and Spinflux shills Bert’s services to Neon Knight, who joins the Eight as an honorary member shortly thereafter.
After this, it is time for Spinflux to face his demons and fight Life-Form. Life-Form attacks local hero Flux before Spinflux goes forward, apologizing to Life-Form for not stopping his insanity sooner. He tries to convince Life-Form to stop fighting, but fails. Spinflux spins his wheel, landing on True Sight before rerolling for Power 79: Laser Vision. He shoots at Life-Form’s legs, still trying to talk him down. Later, Life-Form charges at Spinflux, dealing heavy damage before the Alchemist misses an ice potion throw on Life-Form. It freezes enough of him to be effective, however, and 10 transforms into Armodrillo to fight back against Life-Form in a duel, later quick-changing to Blip to dodge a hit. Flux lifts a dumpster, trying to throw it at Life-Form, but it just so happened that that was the one Kickbutt was standing on. Kickbutt carefully dismounts as Flux flings both that dumpster and another smaller can at Life-Form. Normalcy attempts to strip Life-Form’s powers away, only partially working, allowing Life-Form’s arm to meld into a semi-human shape until a strange mass overtakes it once again, re-integrating the arm. Life-Form giggles after this before Spinflux rerolls once again, landing on Power 100: Jackpot!, and using it to spin and land on both Cursed Energy and Spots simultaneously. He uses Red to knock Life-Form into a loop of portals before Big Red finishes his kaiju form transformation, smashing Life-Form with his stone right hand. Big Red tears Life-Form in half, somehow not killing him but giving Spinflux an opening to try and talk sense into Life-Form. Life-Form refuses to reform his ways, telling the Eight that everything’s gone to plan and that the Operator has exactly what he needs. He tells them that Egress will save the other rivals, and that the Eight won’t be ready. Flux joins the Eight as an honorary member. After this, the Eight find another tape from the Operator which reads: “Great work, now I don't have to hire a construction crew! All I needed was for Life-Form there to get a gander at the kid with the magnets for long enough, and now the build can be completed. Until we meet again."
Spinflux takes a brief solo adventure to help local hero Crossknight fight the Martyrs, coincidentally landing on God’s Wrath when he spun the wheel. He used this power to create a training room to train against Phantasm back at base before respinning, landing on Power 88: Impale. He uses this to stab one of the Martyrs, revealing a bomb strapped to him. Spinflux and Crossknight defeat the Martyrs soon after, with Crossknight becoming an honorary member of the Eight.
=== Session 10: End Transmission (12/5/2023): ===
Starting Characters: Spinflux, Terraformer, The Alchemist, 10, Big Red, White Lion, Kickbutt, Normalcy, Holo-Girl, Flood
The party begins by buying new comics from Archers’ Street Comics, finding Crossknight #1, Nightwalker and Owlet #1, Short-Circuit #12, and Yokai Mask #1 for sale. Spinflux buys them all.
The party encounters a burglary at a Monk Enterprises warehouse, with Owlet, Nightwalker’s sidekick, at the ready to help them stop it. Inside, they find some Aces, along with Abyss, an anglerfish-esque supervillain. Kickbutt sneaks in and knocks out the Ace of Spades with a hammer, alerting the Ace of Clubs to their location, and Alchemist throws a potion which causes a very loud bang at Abyss, doing minimal damage. Kickbutt annihilates Clubs’ kneecaps with his hammer before Terraformer summons golems to help fight Abyss and the remaining Aces. Alchemist utilizes combined sticky and burst potions to roast Abyss alive, and 10 comes in with new transformation Tourniquet to heal the Ace with the violated kneecap. Abyss falls over after Owlet kicks him in the head, dropping a tape recorder. Terraformer grabs it, and it says "Figures that trying to rob the wealthiest man in Sunset City wouldn't pan out. That's okay, not like I didn't wage several other thefts at the same time. Until we meet again." Owlet joins the Echelon Eight as an honorary member, before the party goes off on their next mission.
Their next mission takes them to an empty lot, where the Road Crew is posing another drug trade, this time headed by the Paver, a greasy emo boy. The party goes in guns blazing, and the Paver makes a pool of tar. Spinflux rolls Power 45: Power Bluff, and after dodging a glob of tar, 10 turns into Big Chill and freezes him, rendering him a non-threat.
The party then goes to rescue Road Crew informant Gearshift from Gridlock, the leader of the Road Crew. Big Red calls him an asshole and tries to shoot him, before being stuck in place by Gridlock’s Red Light. In retaliation, Gridlock gets turned into swiss cheese by Big Red, who unloaded his entire clip into the man. 10 switches to Fasttrack and runs him to Elm Tower Memorial Hospital.
The party runs into a masquerade ball and are trying to pick out the masked thieves intending to rob the venue. Kickbutt makes an awkward comment about himself being an awkward virgin, to which one of the masked people says that even the autists can dance here. 10 dances with one of the men, seeing a bulge in his pocket, asking if the man was happy to see him. 10 spins the man to Kickbutt, and Kickbutt finds a diamond in his pocket. Kickbutt kicks the man in the balls, and while he’s doing that, a female vigilante grabs the diamond with a grappling hook and runs off with it. Fasttrack chases her down, before the Scavenger throws the diamond into the air, with it blowing up not long after. Scavenger then explains that she was hired to get rid of the dummy diamond the venue was given by the Masqueraiders, who foolishly stole the dummy diamond. 10 offers to recruit her and give her a home, to which she obliges, joining the Echelon Eight as an honorary member.
The party comes across a man spreading illness in Honey Heath Park, and is targeting various homeless people. The Alchemist asks him why he’s doing this, and the man says he’s trying to cure various diseases, but is failing miserably with his concoction, causing illness. He wants to do something good before he dies of lung cancer. Spinflux spins and gets Power 97: Gravokinesis, though this has no reasonable application. Kickbutt yells from a safe distance for him to stop, which works.
Normalcy gains a lead on The Operator’s location, through ties between The Aces and The Operator, which lead them to Dollface, the boss of the Aces. The party combs through various floors of security, with Scavenger and Owlet joining the battle, with the party finally arriving in Dollface’s office. Big Red tries to interrogate him, smashing the table in the process, which causes The Aces to point at Big Red, which Dollface tells them to stop, before 10 switches to Fasttrack and takes their guns. 10 tries to stop Big Red from grabbing Dollface and fails, with him asking who the Operator is relentlessly. Dollface says he doesn’t know his name, before Big Red reiterates the question, pushing him through the glass of his tower’s window, to which Dollface still doesn’t answer. Dollface gets dropped out the window before 10 catches him and brings him back up. Dollface thinks that Big Red is no longer serious, and doesn’t get frightened by any of his threats, before Big Red grabs his head and begins to compress it, Spinflux tries to stop him, also failing, before Big Red slams him into the floor so hard that it creates a hole in the floor and cracks Dollface’s wooden head. Spinflux spins his wheel and lands on Power 67: Creature Creation, which doesn’t help stopping the tyrant. Big Red tries to pluck out Dollface’s eyes, before Dollface finally gives him some information they can use. He gives the Operator money and he transfers it to various accounts and outlets. Holo-Girl traces these outlets, and one of the outlets is the Hopkins House Foundation, which confirms many in the party’s suspicions of who The Operator is. Dollface is arrested, and the party go on their final shopping trip before hunting down The Operator.
Big Red buys 2 6-packs of beer, 3 red wines, and 27 candy bars of indeterminate type. Spinflux buys an antivenom, Revitalizing Remedy+, an aloe solution, and a bottle of pills. Terraformer buys his final suit upgrade and a Revitalizing Remedy+. White Lion maxes his suit upgrades.
The party comes to Hopkins’ House, and finds the building ablaze, with particular commotion coming from the cafeteria and gymnasium, with Martin nowhere in sight, which is out of character for him. The party splits up, with Savant and Golden Boy (now bald) being found in the gym. With multiple students hiding under the bleachers, two students are ready to assist. Build-A-Boy rips off his arm, and The Gentleman calls upon his butler Jeeves, who manifests as a powerful spirit behind him. Big Red begins his transformation, with Terraformer summoning Hofferson once more. Big Red finishes his transformation and throws Savant around like a ragdoll, mutilating his armor before finally slam-dunking him through the basketball hoop, destroying his helmet and revealing the 11-year-old genius Malachi Martel underneath. Golden Boy, outnumbered, tries to fight back, before being given a weave made out of Alchemist’s sticky potion, before being hit in the spot on his head where his energy shield ran out, rendering him inert.
Meanwhile, in the cafeteria, Life-Form and a newly kitted out Hindsight are terrorizing the students, including Gus, a boy who isn’t sure he can stand up to them, before Hudson, clad in his stone skin, reassures him he can. Spinflux tries to talk Life-Form out of this, before saying that it is going to end here and now, and Life-Form screams a primal scream of sheer fury. Spinflux spins his wheel and lands on Power 96, Nanomachines. Spinflux throws tables at Life-Form, and flips him off. White Lion vigorously whips Hindsight after vaulting the tables, trapping Hindsight with the last strike. Life-Form charges at Spinflux, hitting a table that 10 avoids. 10 turns into Eye Guy, blasting Life-Form with ice before turning into Brains and hitting him with a psychic blast. Kickbutt knocks Hindsight out with his hammer, before Gust tries to blow air at Life-Form, failing miserably even by Barry Bluster standards. Stone hits Life-Form with a table, and Spinflux hits Life-Form with nano blades, before respinning, landing on power 94: Earthbending. White Lion whips Life-Form, before Life-Form throws a table, knocking Gust out. 10 turns into Magnetude, magnetizing a table into Life-Form, before Kickbutt kicked Life-Form in the balls.
After this, an old-timey radio is found by a student, which says "Remember the big day I was talking about? It begins tonight. Best part? It means I can finally see my kid again. Until we meet again, for the final time."
A massive energy spike is reported in an Old District warehouse, and Big Red buys new Jordans from Bert, before drinking himself to unconsciousness. Armodrillo successfully wakes him, and gets headbutted in response, before Big Red grabs all eight of his celebratory Cuban cigars worth $6000.
In the factory, Martin is seen on top of a massive machine, with Egress being sent to distract the party. Spinflux spins his wheel and lands on Endless Development, while 10 steals Martin as Fasttrack before attempting to use Brains to mind control him, failing miserably. White Lion punches Egress in the face, breaking her sunglasses, before Terraformer breaks the apparatus with a controlled Tectonic Shift. Given the time of day, Martin explains that the machine was built to negate his powers with a higher level of energy which would allow him to kill himself, as he is immortal and wishes to die, tired of his life and wishing to see his family again. Spinflux respins, landing on Pyrokinesis, before Kickbutt gives Martin the advice only a 13 year old virgin could give, in that Martin should’ve lived his life to the fullest for them, instead of clinging onto their deaths. Big Red gives him the advice only a 70 year old World War II veteran could give, that alcohol helps. Spinflux spins again, causing the Miracle to give him God’s Wrath, which he uses to revive Martin’s family, make them immortal, and give him a killswitch in the Eight’s headquarters only he could use, which kills all three of them. Martin is subsequently arrested.
Dr Russel Hader is recovered, with the Superiors returning home to Earth shortly after, without any significant losses. Spinflux has Terraformer lock him into the training chamber so he could atone for the many murders he’s committed.
== Notable Memes ==
* Strongarm being a proud patriot
* Big Red
* Puck being useless
* Baghead
* Fortnite dances
* One Piece
* Mike Tyson
* Ice Tyson
* Gas station sushi
* Purple Flurp
* Dream
* Hollow Purple
* Golden Boy being a milk baby
* Pocket Sand
* Super-Bitches
* Vinny Finito
* PowerBoyz
* The Ging Gongs
* Obama
* Gumball
* Kickbutt
== Trivia ==
* The Saviors of Sunset City is the second time two campaigns back-to-back were from the same DM, the first time being with Travescot and Bitter Creek, both helmed by Fenn. This is the first time Chris has done two campaigns back-to-back.
* The Saviors of Sunset City featured the debut of Lord of the World in Flafa D&D, and featured the return of Ding Dong, who hadn't played since Travescot.
* The Saviors of Sunset City is the longest campaign to date, with 10 sessions in total.
* The Saviors of Sunset City has the largest party to date, with 29 total members, beating New Nestor's record of 27.
** Including former members, the number goes up to 31.
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