Never Show Your Hand: Mezmerella hides 1/4 of her true Martial score from external forces.
Do It All The Time: Mezmerella gains a +10 to all rolls involving Supervillainy. Real Supervillainy, not simply criminals who wear masks out of convenience. It can come from her, or someone else, but the capital S Supervillainy must be there.
These traits are fairly neat. I would guess that Mez would use her full twenty Martial if her life was in danger- no point in hiding your full capabilities if you don't use them when seriously threatened.
Do It All The Time was pointed out to have proc'd on Moles, I would guess that it worked because the Phantom Blot's moles are about Supervillany as you could get. I'm not sure about where else it might proc, but this could be useful for any number of situations. I do hope we'll be able to use it.
Dragging her package out the front door, Mezmerella looked around, before her eyes landed on a 1974 AMC Gremlin sitting by the curb.
....
"I- what?!?" Mirage asked, hurrying out the doors to where Mesmerella was even now trying to stuff a corkboard into the front seat of a very sad looking car. Mezmerella kicked the corkboard and finally managed to force it in, breaking off the side mirror in the process.
So this is definitely set some time before Mr. Moseby's First Day. The car was outside of DEI and Mez only just put the corkboard in it.
"Ask when we're driving, if we hurry we can still run Coyote's lookalike over."
....
Acting more on premonition than legal observance, Mirage buckled her seatbelt.
I love both of these two lines. They're just nice and short with a bunch of hilarity packed into them.
"It's almost like someone took one of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Inators and scrambled the letters, it's illegible. I'm pretty sure I've even read some of them, but I can't process it, the fallbacks I've set up kick in and I just wake up on the floor." Mez grumbled. "Are you getting this down, by the way?"
"Of course I am." Mirage replied, shifting the corkboard slightly to reveal the tablet she was operating off of. Mez scoffed and started tying more strings together on the cork.
I love it that Mez is used enough to DEI that she defaulted to Inators as a comparison for bizarre effect that can't be explained with any logic whatsoever. Mirage also just typing down the answers instead of using the corkboard
The records say that Max kid did an entire spy network on his own. I asked him, and he seemed just as confused, but also thought he did it alone. Could you imagine?
Lol. Definitely not. I would have sworn one of us pointed this out but I can't for the life of me figure out where it would be.
You said you had to be bailed out by the Phantom Blot, who is, incidentally, here, for reasons we apparently don't know."
I guess this can be taken as confirmation that Dougal La Mancha is the Phantom Blot?
The entire cafe stared at the two blatantly disguised aliens as they went about their snack run. What were they? Mutated hippos? Extremely unlucky Supers? Dear god.
The fact that Jumba and Pleakley just walk around like this is absolutely hilarious and fitting. It's even funnier that the crowd just rolls with it.
It was like stargazing for the faintest and most distant of celestial orbs. To see it, you had to not look at it. Hold it in your mind without focusing on it. See the hole without looking for what was missing. Believe that there was something there while your mind was fully certain there was not.
It was pointed out to me that this is probably how the Blot remembers to search for Russ and gets through the memory block.
I wonder how Riddle was able to get past without seemingly this much effort.
The little trinket had been a useful find, if not particularly necessary.
....I hope that the Blot took it and we need to recover it rather than it getting damaged or something like he mentioned in the letter. That was our single best RER, it'd be annoying if the DC got even higher than it already is.
Mezmerella shot a hole through the sign with her gun.
And she's driving through town doing this. I suppose that
Danville Doofania is at least used to this sort of thing.
"Mezmeralla, why aren't we slowing down?
"Why aren't we slow-
I hope she did this knowing it was a Toon car....
But you can't fault her style.
As the vehicle finally came to an abrupt stop slamming against a pile of wooden crates containing ACME-brand crash dummies, the figure plastered across the front went flying through the air, landing in a disgruntled heap right at the feet of-
I have no idea how it could have gotten from here to the Lobby and I am eager to learn more.
Mezmerella shoots him with her 9mm.
She really likes that gun doesn't she?
"Why did you try to escape without our help!?" Mezmerella yells as she sprints towards you.
"I don't know, it usually worked fine for- just get over here!"
"Now!" The Blot declares as the runes begin to glow. "The real entertainment can begin!"
And now onto Part III!
I was personally imaging it might send out some kind of signal which would attract Artemis/LEP's attention to the fact we have a Fairy artefact
That's fearmongering. We got it from Drusselstein. An RER of
eighty eight. The single highest RER roll in the quest! It's not like the fairy book Fowl bargained to see had this sort of problem.