Session 24

Session took place on the 7th of October 2023.

Notes were taken by Respawn.

## Recap - Villain Auction

Rhys goes on a stakeout for a week for X. No explanation, but he does a good job following a dude around for a while. Favor repaid!

Rick calls Alyssa and Rhys, to ask them if they have gotten invites to some sort of .. Bad Guy event? They say no, he’s pleased, and says he’s not going, but Amanda Waller is, and they should stay out of it.

They immediately don’t stay out of it, contact the Godkillers and ask around. And have Julie ask around. Apparently “Dr. Psycho” is having a fundraiser event in DC to fund his evil schemes. At the same time, Muse contacts Julie telepathically, asking for help, because she’s being kidnapped in DC.

Julie goes to the Washington Monument, because it’s the only place she knows in DC. Alyssa and Rhys join her, and the three of them invite A Fuckload of People to Operation “Get Muse”. It turns out more heroes have been taken, and the Justice League knows about it, which means the roster ends up looking like this:

Starfire, Kon-El, Raven, Miss Martian, Constantine, Black Orchid, Timothy Hunter, Dr. Fate, Hellboy, Damian, Charles Dante, Herja, Omen, Arsenal, Speedy, Red Hood, Trinity, Nanet, Anika, Iris.

Alyssa breaks her promise to Rick, and tells Respawn about the bomb in Rick’s neck, and how it’s tied to the heartbeat of Amanda Waller. Respawn immediately tells the Godkillers that Amanda Waller is off limits, with the explanation “There are fail-saves in place, tied to her heart beat, and the consequences will be devastating.”

X asks for a favor yet to be determined in return, and Respawn accepts.

Our Heroes divide:

* Floor: Raven, Miss Martian, Omen. Black Orchid, Dante
* Magic bois: Constantine, Timmy, Dr. Fate,
* Team Heavy Hitters: Kon-El, Hellboy, Julie, Herja, Trinity, Nanet, Anika, Iris
* Blasty bois; Starfire, Vee
* Roof bois: Respawn, Red Hood, Arsenal, Speedy
* Sneakos: Furtim, Damian

Furtim and Damian sneak in to find the hostages, acting on intel from the Floor Team who have been eliminating possible holding locations. On the floor, Captain Marvel is auctioned off to Black Adam, Muse to Charles Dante (who was there with the promise of helping save Muse), City Boy to Catwoman, Salem to some rando, Yara Flor to Ares, and Circuit Breaker, Nightwing, and Zatanna are rescued by Furtim and Damian, teleported to the Oblivion, and out of range for Dr. Psycho.

Meanwhile, the other teams move in in a pincer move, to prevent as many villains as possible from leaving, with each team playing to their strengths, and fighting off specific people. Roof boys are taking pot shots at stragglers. For a split second, Respawn thought he saw Ra’s al Ghul, and it throws him off for a bit.

While Furtim returns with Zatanna and Nightwing, leaving Curcuit Breaker in the hands of Ricky, Damian has gotten a hold of Salem, who is pushed through a convenient Oblivion door, and they begin working on securing the mind controlled hostage heroes. Damian points out City Boy specifically needing to get freed, and they make that their focus.

During the fight, Julie fails to convince Herja not to kill people, and when Harley joins the fight on the anti Dr. Psycho team, Julie also fails to convince her not to kill people. Or specifically Dr. Psycho whom Harley claims to be an unrepentant narcissistic misogynist who deserves nothing more than to burn in hell, but most importantly everyone else deserves to have him removed from the world. She flattens his head with a giant mallet she somehow has.

Outside, Respawn uses his new god given rifle to (NON LETHALLY!) take down Julie’s evil cult brother who has a name probably. Inside, all the heroes are rescued and un-brainwashed thanks to there being no brain to have done the washing, which is a valid and normal sentence, and [THESE VILLAINS ARE APPREHENDED], [NUMBER] of them having been escapees from the Crucible.

After the fighting ends, Respawn invites the Godkillers, including Furtim, over (to a safehouse or hotel room or something), to show them his cool new gun he got for his birthday. It’s an enjoyable night until Angel corners Respawn, trying to coerce him into either giving her his Hephaestus forged rifle, or get her one of her own. Respawn refuses, as 1, it’s his, 2, she hasn’t earned it. She doesn’t like that, and threatens to find a way to kill him, or worse someone else if he doesn’t just comply.

Respawn announces he doesn’t like Angel to the rest of the room, who are (almost) all under her influence and go “Naww dog, she’s great”, and he ends up going home dejected, to cuddle with Rick on the couch and watch Mamma Mia!, without explaining anything. He can’t tell Rick he’s afraid of Ra’s al Ghul (whom Rick also doesn’t know is connected to Rhys at all), or about what happened with the Godkillers (because he doesn’t approve), and he can’t admit to having gone to do exactly what Rick said he shouldn’t, and fuck around at the villain event.