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The Spectacular Golden Goblin

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HoratioVonBecker said:
Oh right, that's what I forgot. The call is still going!
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Given that we have strong reason to believe that he folks in the car are the folks in the van, that may be a good thing. Presumably our own microphone is able to survive the laughter well enough?

Well-argued regarding the laugh, it (as usual) is well-suited to solving the fight quickly - that's just quite a bit of collateral damage. Might be able to reduce it by getting close and keeping it weak, but it depends on how urgent you think resolving this is compared to saving the windows of half a dozen cars.
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I think at this point that a bunch of car windows are a small price to pay. There are buildings on fire.
 
HoratioVonBecker said:
It should, if it wasn't crunched too badly. You have spares. No guarantee the call will survive, though.
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Well, sure... but it sounded like the "call" was actually inside the truck anyway, right? I suppose that "negotiating with terrorists" is a possibility, but that seems at least as likely to result in bad things as it does good things, given that they know a lot more about what's going on than we do.
 
Possibly. They probably don't know you know yet, and you don't know much about what they actually want. (I will sometimes write organizations as monoliths, but not always. More information does exist to be extracted. Also, I'm going to add that to the Assumptions post.)
 
Wait, is the only thing about the laugh just the volume? Surely we'd just immediately blow out whatever speakers it would be played from?
 
I'm a little concerned that the plan is too focused on the immediate threat and ignores the other vans, could we use smoke bombs or something to try and stop someone else in the vans shooting us or something?
 
Dark as Silver said:
I'm a little concerned that the plan is too focused on the immediate threat and ignores the other vans, could we use smoke bombs or something to try and stop someone else in the vans shooting us or something?
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As far as I can tell, the vans all left. Now, they might turn around and drive back here, but trying to keep on the lookout for them to maybe come back and eventually fire on us while we're in melee with one of their own means not paying as much attention to the woman who's right here and making an respectable effort to beat our face in. I'm thinking... one issue at a time?
 
HoratioVonBecker said:
Hm. Anything more specific to this opponent? Self-referencing quips are a good backup, but it's better to space them out.
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"You know that outfit makes you look frumpy, right?"
"Really? The Shocker?"
"So... how do these things work, anyway?" (shock her with her own weapons) "Oh. I see." (shock her again) "Huh. this is kind of fun." (do it a few more times)
Make some reference to how her outfit ended up, like "You're a little... cracked, aren't you?"

That's all I can come up with on current resources. Anyoen else?
 
Sirrocco said:
"You know that outfit makes you look frumpy, right?"
"Really? The Shocker?"
"So... how do these things work, anyway?" (shock her with her own weapons) "Oh. I see." (shock her again) "Huh. this is kind of fun." (do it a few more times)
Make some reference to how her outfit ended up, like "You're a little... cracked, aren't you?"

That's all I can come up with on current resources. Anyoen else?
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I, um. Hm. These have been helpful, and I want you to know that. But I ...also can't use most of them for hero quips, because they seem kinda cruel and/or sexually creepy?
Relatedly, the idea of riffing on her name is a good one, but this isn't Shocker (who's primarily a shockwave villain). I'll see what I can do to drop the villain's name earlier next time.
 
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HoratioVonBecker said:
I, um. Hm. These have been helpful, and I want you to know that. But I ...also can't use most of them for hero quips, because they seem kinda cruel and/or sexually creepy?
Relatedly, the idea of riffing on her name is a good one, but this isn't Shocker (who's primarily a shockwave villain). I'll see what I can do to drop the villain's name earlier next time.
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No... that was actually another creepy one.
If you don't know the reference, you're probably better not knowing the reference.

I am apparently not good at hero quips.
 
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Hmm not that good with quips, but I'll see what I can think of later.
 
'You thought you could cow me?"
"Man, those rods are just bull."

I'm trying here. Part of the problem is that we don't have all that much to work with here for stuff about the person we're fighting with. They're wearing some sort of protective covering, they have a glass faceplate, they wield a big cattle prod that can split into two little cattle prods, and they're pretty good at it (but probably not a super). That's pretty much it.
 
Sirrocco said:
No... that was actually another creepy one.
If you don't know the reference, you're probably better not knowing the reference.
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(I actually did catch the reference, I just thought it was multi-layer.)
Sirrocco said:
I am apparently not good at hero quips.
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No time like the present to learn, then! I need to figure this out too.
Sirrocco said:
'You thought you could cow me?"
"Man, those rods are just bull."

I'm trying here. Part of the problem is that we don't have all that much to work with here for stuff about the person we're fighting with. They're wearing some sort of protective covering, they have a glass faceplate, they wield a big cattle prod that can split into two little cattle prods, and they're pretty good at it (but probably not a super). That's pretty much it.
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Wow, you've been working hard! Sorry, perhaps I should've mentioned more of her visual details, or even had her introduce herself. Still getting the hang of comic-to-prose adaptation.
 
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