Session 16

Session took place on the 5th of August 2023.

Notes were taken by Donna Troy

## Recap

### Preview

Polychrome gets an anonymous call from a voice-modulated stranger about missing-person cases: Maria Alvarez, Jared Smith, and LaShanna Jones. They were last seen last week at the Historic Halcyon Theater. Said mysterious stranger, "C", invites Polychrome to team up with them to investigate the theater. She agrees, telling him to meet her team by the clock tower at Half Moons Campus. Meanwhile, Renee Montoya calls Rhys to meet her at the police station to discuss urgent business. She gives Rhys the same information that "C" gave Polychrome, with the additional context that she had sent two officers to investigate these disappearances last weekend. They haven't been heard from since. Worried that more people are going to disappear, she presses Rhys to look into it.

At the campus, the team meets "C", who is revealed to be Officer Kasun Thomason. He apparently has a superpower, which allows him to do anything, albeit averagely: "C's get degrees". Rhys shares the context about the missing police officers. C tells them that the incidents had happened all on the same night at the theater. The movies currently being screened were Murder on the Malta, a crime noir film, 14 Samurai, a... samurai movie, The Good, The Bad, and The Bad-Looking, an old Western, Super Swell, an animated kids movie, Someday Maybe, a romcom, and Captain America: Civil War... whatever that last one is about. After hacking into the box office data, the team gets ready to go to the theater in Kasun's civvie car. Donna is shown to be... seatbelt-challenged. Also genital-challenged. The car ride is an... ahem. experience. Being a sane person, Rhys takes an Oblivion door to the theater bathroom.

When they decide to split up, C pairs up with Vee first, but when Donna is disappointed at this, he quickly changes his mind to go with her to Someday Maybe. Rhys keeps Alyssa from going alone and goes with her to Civil War. Vee decides to start with 14 Samurai. Vee's theater is full of weebs, and she takes lengths to not be noticed. Civil War goes pretty uneventfully. The romcom reminds Donna of her girl friends... and of herself and Kaldur.

### Whodunit

Polychrome gets an anonymous call from a voice-modulated stranger about missing-person cases: Maria Alvarez, Jared Smith, and LaShanna Jones. They were last seen last week at the Historic Halcyon Theater. Said mysterious stranger, "C", invites Polychrome to team up with them to investigate the theater. She agrees, telling him to meet her team by the clock tower at Half Moons Campus. Meanwhile, Renee Montoya calls Rhys to meet her at the police station to discuss urgent business. She gives Rhys the same information that "C" gave Polychrome, with the additional context that she had sent two officers to investigate these disappearances last weekend. They haven't been heard from since. Worried that more people are going to disappear, she presses Rhys to look into it.

At the campus, the team meets "C", who is revealed to be Officer Kasun Thomason. He apparently has a superpower, which allows him to do anything, albeit averagely: "C's get degrees". Rhys shares the context about the missing police officers. C tells them that the incidents had happened all on the same night at the theater. The movies currently being screened were Murder on the Malta, a crime noir film, 14 Samurai, a... samurai movie, The Good, The Bad, and The Bad-Looking, an old Western, Super Swell, an animated kids movie, Someday Maybe, a romcom, and Captain America: Civil War... whatever that last one is about. After hacking into the box office data, the team gets ready to go to the theater in Kasun's civvie car. Donna is shown to be... seatbelt-challenged. Also genital-challenged. The car ride is an... ahem. experience. Being a sane person, Rhys takes an Oblivion door to the theater bathroom.

When they decide to split up, C pairs up with Vee first, but when Donna is disappointed at this, he quickly changes his mind to go with her to Someday Maybe. Rhys keeps Alyssa from going alone and goes with her to Civil War. Vee decides to start with 14 Samurai. Vee's theater is full of weebs, and she takes lengths to not be noticed. Civil War goes pretty uneventfully. The romcom reminds Donna of her girl friends... and of herself and Kaldur.

### The Prestige

The four of them arrive at an airport. Donna is Captain America, Rhys is Bucky, Vee is Scarlet Witch, and C is Falcon. When Alyssa is nowhere to be found, Donna grits her teeth in a rage. They fight Iron Man and his team, violently. Donna nearly kills War Machine, but Rhys-Bucky talks her down. Still holding onto her bitter feelings, Donna relents, ending the scene.

The group finally find themselves in the movie that Donna and C had been watching: The romantic comedy. Vee and Donna are with one another in the second-story bedroom of a house. Confused as to where the boys are, they have a gay moment start to wonder if they need to kiss to fulfill the scene. The boys, meanwhile, are dressed in women's clothing outside. C is apprehensive to proceed, though with Respawn even more unaware of what needs to be done here, C takes the initiative to throw a rock at the window to get the girls' attention. Donna reacts fiercely at first, believing it to be an attack. Vee assuages her, going to the window in her stead. There, she and C make the "Someday Maybe" confessions to one another. Donna and Rhys are schmeckle dorfed. The scene ends.

Alyssa did not actually die. She awakens in a theater, with all of the missing persons, who seem to have been subsisting off of popcorn and coke. They had been watching them (not only the team, but also the cops who had gotten sucked in) go through the movie scenes. Alyssa tries to teleport everyone out to the Downtown police station, which has results similar to when she tried to take her and Rhys to the Oblivion (as in it doesn't work).

### Post-Credit Scene

Vee, Rhys, Donna and C awaken in Alyssa's movie theater, but not in the seating area with everyone else. They arrive in the screening room, where they see the projector playing the last scene that they had completed. Vee eventually escapes when she's the first to look directly into the projector, which teleports her back into the real world. However, this can't work for everyone. Alyssa volunteers to whoever has them trapped in this space to let her friends go in exchange for her. Then, Alyssa vanishes.

Alyssa comes face to face with Klarion, the Witch Boy, an insufferable magical trickster who had put this scheme together out of boredom. They spar with sass back and forth, trying to get each other to break, though ultimately comes to no avail. Vee spends her time tracking down Ricky, who is able to make his way to the theater and talks aggressively (and publicly) to a... cat? Though there isn't much explanation as to what's going on with the cat, Ricky convinces Klarion to let everyone go, and find his fun somewhere else. Klarion indulges him... for now.