The crew dives back into the chaos of "Murder World" in this nail-biting conclusion to the "Incursive Entertainment" campaign. Christian Ashley takes the reins as GM while TJ Blackwell and Evan Garcia navigate a wild mix of characters, including the ever-sassy Jessica Jones and the teleporting Nightcrawler, all while trying to figure out the devilish schemes of Arcade and the Joker. With stakes higher than a kite on a windy day, our heroes confront not just robotic foes but also their own fears and doubts, all thanks to Psycho Pirate’s mind-bending antics. As they grapple with the absurdity of their predicament, they discover that sometimes the real battles are fought within. Get ready for some clever twists, a sprinkle of humor, and a dash of unexpected teamwork as they strive to save reality from falling apart—again!

The second part of the 'Geeks on a Roll' series takes our eclectic group of heroes on a wild journey through the twisted landscape of Murder World, where they must confront both their pasts and their most notorious foes. Under the guidance of GM Christian Ashley, players TJ Blackwell and Evan Garcia dive into the chaos with characters: Jessica Jones, Nightcrawler, Hondo Ohnaka, Friar Tuck, Alfred Borden, and Tinker Bell. As they navigate the bizarre challenges laid out by Arcade, the stakes skyrocket when they discover that the iconic Psycho Pirate is actually a machinated decoy, leading to revelations about deals with the devil, Neron. The players’ banter is lively, filled with witty humor and clever observations, as they strategize against sentinels that morph into familiar foes, all while exploring profound themes of faith and choice. Will their unique blend of skills and absurdity be enough to survive the madness of Mojo's realm? Listen in for an adventure that’s as much about character interaction as it is about thrilling gameplay, all wrapped in an entertaining package of geek culture and theological musings.

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• Christian Ashley, as the GM, masterfully blends humor and tension, creating an engaging environment where characters like Jessica Jones and Nightcrawler must confront their pasts.
• The essence of teamwork shines as each character's quirks contribute to overcoming challenges, illustrating that collaboration leads to unexpected victories.
• The ethical implications of entertainment and its influence on personal beliefs are explored, prompting players and listeners alike to reflect on their consumption of media.

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What happened on the last episode of Geeks on a Roll?

Well, we had our intrepid group of heroes and other people go up in Gotham City apparently, but maybe not where they were trying to figure out who let out a threatening message. That was they had found out the secret of reality. They were going to destroy it. And they had stolen the Psycho Pirate.

Our heroes question mark again found what seemed to be the body of the Psycho Pirate was actually a robot.

And they have discovered that Neron, the devil who had made a deal with Psycho Pirate years ago, knows that he's still alive and that his deal is still intact. But they, they all refused. Well, most of them refused an offer to sell their souls to Neron.

And now they have discovered that they are actually in Murder World, headed by Arcade, who has been hired to kill everyone involved.

So I say all that in light and I am your dungeon master for today for Geeks on a Roll, Christian Ashley, you can't see on YouTube because I'm continuing to have camera problems for some reason. I am joined of course by the number one tabletop player of all time, TJ Blackwell. How's it going, tj?

Good, thanks.

Okay. And of course, by the second time he's played, now that he's gone through the first session, Evan Garcia. How's it going, Evan?

Howdy, howdy. Doing well.

All right, would you guys real quick like to remind everyone your characters you picked before we head any further, we.

Got Jessica Jones as the private investigator. We have, we have Nightcrawler as our mutant, A con man we have in Hondo Wanaka and our priest, Friar Truck. Friar Tuck. Tuck from the Disney version.

And the magician we have on tap is Alfred Borden from the Prestige, Christian Bale. And the one and only Tinkerbell is our, is our magical girl.

Right, so the team has now been confronted by Arcade. They are now in Murder World. In front of you.

As Arcade is still on the screen in front of you, you see more panels opening up underground and a group of sentinel, human sized sentinels appear. They are in the form of different people familiar to our group. One of them is the Purple Man. The other is Azazel, Nightcrawler's father.

But isn't just Azazel. It's actually split in three ways. A half. Excuse me. A third of it is Azazel, a third of it is Mystique. And a third of it is destiny.

Hondo sees a sentinel of savage opress, Briar. Tuck sees the Sheriff of Nottingham, not dressed as himself, but dressed up as Martin Luther Alfred sees with a hammer. See?

And the 95 theses ready to go. Robert Andrew Andra. However the heck you say it in the film. And last but not least, Tinkerbell sees not Captain Hook, not Wendy Darling.

She sees herself. They are now all heading your way.

Okay. And these are they just like sentinel power level. We all lose. We lost. We're dead.

If not, Nightcar will actually speak up. And he says okay, even he doesn't have the money for all this. He goes cheap on stuff like this. They're just meant to distract us.

They're not actually as powerful as we think they are.

All right, so Nightcrawler would kick us off and he's. He's teleporting to meet him.

Now.

I'm not going to make you roll attack rolls. I want you to describe how. Do you fight your worst villains? Or do you have other people attack them? Do you go head on? Who does what?

Friar Tuck is gonna try and stay back. You know, he doesn't. Never seen a robot before. Not quite sure what's going on outside. You know, he just saw his first one and it was dead.

And now, you know, these six are trying to kill him. Five, Six. Six. I was right the first time. As usual. So far, Tuck is not trying to get too involved.

You know, he'll throw a chair out in front of one every now and then, get it to fall. Jessica just. Jessica's ready to fight. It's boxing time for. For Jessica. Alfred, you know, will do his. Do some tricks. Try and.

Try and shift focus with what he's.

Able to do now. Maybe, maybe two heads are better than one.

Maybe. Probably. I. Yeah. I don't know if he would feel threatened enough here. Of course Hondo has a weapon on it. Nightcrawler. Yeah. Hondo has a blaster.

Jessica's plenty strong. Nightcrawler can handle, you know, not actually his father or Mystique like Nightcrawler can handle these with. With relative ease.

I'm not sure if he would play his hand yet.

Yeah. What you notice is that Night Carlo was exactly right. These aren't actually sentinels. They were made in the form of them.

But also the form of people that are enemies against our heroes here. Because Arcade was going for shock factor, hopefully to overwhelm all of you before they killed you.

But enough of you were able to get enough of a will to fight back against them. To where no one was really under any threat. Describing the fight as you did, that works for me. No roles necessary. You do defeat these faux sentinels.

Alfred, he takes one of their power supplies to bring him back to his friend Tesla and see what he can do with it.

He most definitely can, Hondo. If he wants to salvage something like that, he can too.

Oh, he does.

They have enough room on their persons to carry these objects around. Obviously they don't know how they work. But you know what? That doesn't matter. They know that someone else can if they pay enough.

Hondo doesn't care. He's picking out whatever looks the most valuable.

Okay. And you will notice on the screen is a very kind of distraught Arcade. It's kind of like that was the real opening act and it didn't work.

I probably should have put bullets in those fake machine guns earlier. But that's Arcade's fault as he always goes more grandiose instead of simplistic. Why don't you just shoot him?

He says, obviously you have just defeated the first round of what I had planned for you today in Murder World. I. I definitely had more time to prepare more things. And it's easy enough to tell. Like he's just blabbering on.

Who would like to make a perception check big to notice any way out of the room or anything peculiar about the room?

Definitely Alfred. I think Jessica, while he's ranting, will probably smack one of the machine guns into the rest to get him to stop.

Maybe maybe break the conference table in.

Half and go ahead and give Alfred advantage on this, considering that he's once again two heads are better than one.

That's true.

Given what we learned, that's a natural 20.

Oh, well, there you go.

Do another one and a three.

Behind the screen is a viewport. But no, it's a reflection of the viewport which is above you right here and now where Arcade is standing.

Alfred will kind of tell Jessica. Nightcrawler motion up. Nightcrawler will bamf over to Arcade, grab him. Jessica will launch herself. You know, okay, I will say that.

They attempt to do this. Nightcrawler is kind of forced back by some unknown once again, force is probably the best way to put it. Like he's.

You can see him like halfway there, but he's propelled backward. Jessica, when she makes contact with that field, same thing. And you can see like Arcade kind of panicking is like, oh, thank God that worked.

But it's also that no insight check needed. Like, oh, that took the first round. I don't know about the second one. And as he's doing that, Alfred points up and says he's not alone.

And what you see is this figure kind of happily dancing around like hasn't been noticed yet by Arcade. And you see someone in a green and purple suit with pale skin ruined by chemical exposure many, many years ago. Slicked back green hair.

And you hear this giggling that I'm not going to try and replicate because I can't do. The hammel says, well, I guess the jig is up, Arcade. And next. Snap. Okay, he kind of chuckles and looks down at all of you.

Says, do you really think the clown prince of crime was going to allow something like this to happen in his city while the bat fink is gone? Especially an interloper from some other universe? Or if that's what's really happening at all. Look who he selected. Oh, how delicious.

I did this pro bono. I just had to see what happened. Yes, yes. Ah, yes. The failure of a superhero. Ah, pathetic, really. The priest of little faith.

He thinks he has faith, but he doesn't, of course. Ah, that's the demon who thinks himself a man while also calling himself homo superior. He rattles on and on about the rest of you.

Says, well, joke is here, baby. What do you want to know, Jessica?

Straight to the point. What's your role? You know, why are you involved? And what happened to Psycho Pirate? What do you know?

And why are you bleeding?

Oh, found that out, did we? Well, well, well, Chick is up on that too. And he points to his side. Psycho Pirate gave a little more than he could. He was very valiant for a villain.

And let's just show them the rest, my dear friend.

And he kind of grabs a remote control, presses the big red button on it, and you'll see Psycho Pirate's body kind of delivered kind of like Joakim at the beginning of Arkham Asylum style to you all. To view, here he is. Why don't you give the good people a good interview? Why were you so necessary today?

And you can see Psycho Pirate is just kind of like dejected, kind of really just messed up with everything that has gone on here. And I want everyone in the room to make me a wisdom saving throw. Okay, this will kind of be a group check.

I will give different modifiers based on everything else.

I will start with Friar Tuck, if you want to start with just.

Oh, no, this is a group check.

Just one. Just one check.

Yes.

Okay.

And I will say that you will be rolling with advantage. You don't know why.

Okay, I rolled a seven. Evan, if you want to roll the other half of our advantage, roll now.

Yep, all Right, Two.

Oh, yeah. You know what we'll say? That's good enough for an 11.

So what that gets you is the psycho pirate kind of fidgets and strains, and you see the Medusa mask on his person. What was once three masks has now become one, and there's vibrations emanating from it.

And you all feel this wave of depressive thoughts and doubt and the inability that you'll ever succeed at anything again. And, like, you don't fully give in. I guess we'll go Pathfinder rules on this. Like, you didn't succeed, but you didn't fail either.

We only failed by three.

Yeah. Four is like, there's still heroic resolve, or what counts as heroic resolve in all of you, but you can't quite do anything about it.

It's hard to even try to speak. But what Friar Tuck does here is that there is that voice that he knows just instinctively came from that presence he felt earlier.

He says, I am not the presence. That's the D.C. version of God, But I do serve him. It's not time for me to reveal myself just yet, but I have been told to aid you as best I can.

The Justice League are not here in full, but at least one of them is. And you see Friar Tuck just, like, hearing these voices from another being and also kind of Nightcrawl at the same time.

He doesn't hear the fullness, but due to his kind of connection to his faith, there's almost like this temporary link where he feels a little more resolved. Picking up, like, you guys aren't ready to do anything just yet. It's almost like your second win will come, but not right now.

Okay?

So we will do our best. Friar Tug does not quite abandon his faith and hold out. See what's planned next. Friar Tuck will try and connect with that voice.

As he's doing so, you see the Joker. Like, it's kind of odd.

Like, most of you are aware of the Joker as a person to an extent, or maybe half of you is probably a better way of putting it. And there's some odd movements, like, almost like a. Oh, I'll stop, and he'll move this way instead. And it keeps making these little, like, noises.

Jessica's on the level. Jessica's there. Yeah. That's not. That's not the Joker. That's another. Another robot.

And she's looking at him. And, like, the movements aren't janky like a robot.

They look like a person who knows they're supposed to be acting like this person, but they haven't like, fully committed to the role yet.

No, Nightcrawler's assuming Mystique.

Some shapeshifter Alfred is seeing what kind of trick he's trying to pull.

Yeah, I will say Nightcrawler would go. My mother would never be that stupid, that imperfect in a role. Like, she might let something slip up, but she wouldn't say pop.

Like, at the end of almost every sentence, the Joker is saying. She wouldn't be moving that erratically either. Like, she would have studied the role and gotten it down pat, so it's not her.

He's trying to think of other shape shifters that he knows. Reed Richards. If he was able to do this, he would have been better for the role. And obviously, he's a hero. Who. Who's this?

It's not Mysterio, because, like, he's noticing these things. Mysterio wouldn't let a flaw like that in a system. It's got to be a shapeshifter of some kind. But he's not familiar with them yet. Well, maybe.

Maybe he is. Give me a history check. At disadvantage, because he's still reeling from everything.

Well, I rolled a two. Evan, do you want to roll the other half of our disadvantage? Could be worse.

Eight. Eight. Not worse than six, unfortunately. Unfortunately, not enough to kind of help you out here.

But, like, once again, like, just like earlier with Arcade and the imagery from the carnival stuff, he knew he's experienced someone like this before or has heard reports of him or something.

Like, it's really hard to tell, especially as his mind is going, like, crazy from, like, the feelings that he's getting transmitted to his head from this psycho pirate Alfred. Oh, gosh.

Alfred can't notice enough to call it. Tinkerbell's just kind of in her mood. She was. She doesn't have a bottle to sulk in.

Actually, you know what? Tinkerbell bringing her up is kind of important right here.

Now, Hondo will call out then.

Anything that's going on. I said a Tinkerbell thing. Made me think for a moment.

She doesn't know anything about all the superhero nonsense and the like that's going on here, but she still knows. What a happy thought is she. She could. She knows that she's got to get back to Peter Pan, complete this mission like he's her one and only.

Hondo doesn't want to die. His immense sense of self preservation, I think, can get him through the funk he's survived scarier encounters he can survive. This one.

Is helping Jessica Jones out in her. In her panic. Yeah, she's freaking out.

Yep. Friar Tuck will try probably to be true to his Persona and help calm her down, while Hondo is thinking about how to get back home and get.

Get all of this sold, all this crap he's picking up.

So in the midst of all this, this, that now most of your characters know this isn't actually the Joker, but the rest you might as well be. He's still hopping around, saying pop at the end of every sentence, almost every sentence.

He's like, you all don't even know what's going on here, do you? All the grand ceremony here, the spineless things watching you. Oh, I want to tell so bad. That's not my rule.

Oh, oh, you have to cut for commercial anyways. And he pauses. He's looking at his watch, looking back at you, looking back up.

And when you see them look up, all of you notice, easily enough, the same camera drone that Jessica and Nightcrawler first saw. There is one inside there, and there are multiple inside the room you're in.

And they start off with that green and purple hue, but they end up with that diseased, yellowish look. Like, think of skin that has been left out in the sun for too long, but refuses to disintegrate, refuses to decompose.

Kind of awful and terrible like that.

Nightcrawler, can he catch one? And can Jessica catch one?

Nightcrawler? Well, no, you're still stuck where you're at, like, kind of in place based on a psycho pirate's attack on you.

But I'm gonna give Nightcrawler another chance, this time even in the midst of this, with advantage. Because this should be more apparent now that he's seen more of these.

Okay, with advantage, we'll both roll one.

Yeah, sure.

Okay, I rolled a two.

Throw 12.

Okay.

Way better.

This way better realization goes. No, it makes too much sense.

And this gives Nightcrawler enough strength of will to get up and resist whatever was preventing him from teleporting in the first time. Whatever they did the first time weakened it enough. He's gotten inside. He's got all three swords around the Joker.

He says, answers, what is he paying you? You see the Joker freak out, and likewise, Psycho Pirate freaks out.

Not enough to get rid of his effect on everyone there, but the Joker is, like, sweating profusely in their pink and purple droplets going down his body. And you see that the wound that was earlier red is becoming purple in pink. And that the red.

Earlier, if you had rolled a little higher, you would have noticed it wasn't really human esque blood.

But right now, as you see the Joker kind of shifting back and forth into a shape that is much leaner than the Joker with a strong conical strange head. You see the impossible man.

Thank God.

I thought I was trapped by Nightclaw.

Purple.

He says. Please, please don't kill me. He paid me. He paid me. I was trying to bring my planet Pop up back. Pop pop. We sacrificed it for every go to Galactus.

My entire race died. And I wanted to get it back. And he was going to give me money to help so I could bring someone to make it a new planet.

And we could recreate our species there.

Well, Nightcrawlers have to say, free my friends and cycle.

Please, please let them go. Psychopaths. I can't. He won't let me. The ratings. The ratings. And Nightcrawler say I don't care what Mojo thinks. Let him go.

As you see this figure appear on the screen behind you. Well, that cat's out of the bag. But who cares? Ratings are higher than ever, baby.

It's time for the Mojaverse to continue our special little journey here. As we continue to abuse the time stream of multiple realities. Keep it live. Commercial break again, baby. And he looms down to all of you.

Hello, puppets. Ready for an explanation.

Quickly.

Oh, Nightcrawler. I thought you would have figured this out much sooner.

Like, I knew it was a huge risk putting you here, given all the times you've had to face me, your lovely little X team. But you know what? It just felt right. All these people here, like they didn't really have a relationship to me.

But that's not really the purpose either. Oh, it's all about getting more people watching.

And you notice that like whatever passes as commercial for the Mojaverse doesn't last that long because this has all been streamed. He's saying. Oh, I guess this is time for the villainous monologue. I'm fine. I'm fine. I was going to do this anyway. I prepared.

I was just hoping it would take a little longer. We do have sponsors we need to consider. Won't you think of the sponsors? Of course. Not this aunt. Okay. Why did I do this? You know me, Kurt.

Yes, I know your name. I know all about you. Know about your family, little friends. There are some of my highest rated episodes and seasons ever are showing you.

But you just weren't good enough. You Kept losing me ratings. You kept losing me sponsors. I had to think bigger. Better. If you weren't good enough. What about other people? Get them.

Pluck them away. So I started looking at other realities in the Omniverse out there. Saw this whole crisis thing.

Saw this poor little man, this poor, poor little Psycho pirate. And like, you can see a projected image of him there, but he's not actually physically there.

And he's, like, pretending to stroke the Psycho Pirate's back. It's like he needed purpose again. They forgot about him. He knew everything that happened before. And I felt so bad for the man.

But he also had something really great. He can make people feel, can't he? Can't you Psychopirate? You making everyone watching this right now feel they're feeling a lot.

They're feeling like they need to watch Mojo Vision, baby. Even at the cost of everything else. Don't you delightful little idiots know what an incursion is?

You've all been plucked away from your realities where you're not supposed to be, and reality's fighting back. You're not where you're supposed to be, so your realities are out of whack.

Oh, it's a lovely day for me because this is going to be the end of everything. And I've got the exclusive rights to stream it all because no one else thought it up. Mojo's a genius.

And not a single person watching this right now is going to stop. I'm going to livestream the end of all existence and make a killing off of it. And even if it means I have to go with it. But you know what?

I don't think I will. I think I'm going to be the God of what comes next. Oh, the ratings are the best. The best I've ever been. And there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Can Honda shoot through the viewport?

Yeah, you can definitely do that.

The one that Psycho pirates behind?

Yes.

Can you try and just, like, hit Psycho Pirate? Set it to stun? If he has a. If he has a blaster capable. I don't know if I ever seen. If I remember Hondo ever stunning somebody.

I'm sure he's scrupulous enough that, like, if he needed to stun someone, he'd have that setting roll to hit. I would say this is the disadvantage because he's still been affected.

He hasn't had any opportunities like the rest of them to try and resist it better. Six.

Okay, six.

Six. Okay, so that is enough to.

The initial blast is able to shatter the window because it is a concussive force that this isn't designed to like protect against. But all that does is it gets glass around. Nightcrawler is, is able to get out of the way. The Impossible man isn't hurt, but Psycho Pirate is.

Should be a little easier to aim at him. Now. If you tried it again, it wouldn't be at a disadvantage. Would just be a regular roll.

Oh, he's going to try again.

Okay.

Except for, you know, stun blast is meant to be that, you know, it's not that hard. You can hit that.

Well, they don't have the technology here to resist blasters.

No, they don't. That'll be it for 12.

Okay. So in so doing he's able to hit, let's say, you know, 17. Sure make a made up numbers. Beats whatever passes for Psycho Pirates ac.

And he starts like shaking even more and shaking and shaking. You see like the Medusa mask on his face kind of like continuing to swirl and swirl and swirl.

So like he is out, but the mask's effects are still around for right now. But he's alive and there's still a possibility if you know what to do to get rid of this.

Now we give everyone else another chance to do a wisdom saving throw.

This time with advantage as that angelic voice appears once more in Friar Tuck's ears and in Nightcrawler's ears and says, children of the Most High, resist.

All right, Evan. One and one. You roll. I roll. I roll seven. Another two. Oh wait, no, this is seven. I also roll a seven.

So now that there's not an active mind behind it, it's a lot easier to resist even at the central point of where it's coming from. So like the, it's not stopped. But given your earlier role and now this current role, you feel like it's a lot easier for you to get past the effects.

And at that same time you're able to move around. You're conscious again. The Impossible man is all like freaking out.

You see the very like tax Avery kind of movements and the like, it's like wasn't part of the deal. If you destroy all reality, then I can't remake my world. What? I wasn't even supposed to kill anyone. It was all supposed to.

The arcade is a robot and he goes over to the Psycho Pirates Medusa mask and he's like enveloping it with his body to see if that could do something to try and block its effects. It looks like it has something to do, but pop Up. And physiology isn't, like, designed to resist the effects of a Medusa mask.

Like, he's trying to make amends, but it's done something to make it even easier for you to move.

Okay, with this. Jessica can move now.

Yes.

She will pick up one of the pseudo sentinel bodies and try and just kind of put it on top of, you know, get a little cavity, put Psycho Pirate's head inside of it without breaking his neck.

Okay. Yeah, easy enough. She knows her own strength.

Like, even weak and woozy as she is right now, like, she can punch a hole big enough to, like, tauntaun him into. This does so, like, once again, with the impossible man around it and now this fake faux sentinel around it, like it's weakening the effects.

It's not completely done because that's not what they're designed to do, but, like, it's having an effect. And it's like Mo just starts laughing at you all and says, all your efforts are for nothing. It's already started. There's nothing you can do.

The real God has spoken. And as you've all managed to get up there, you kind of realize, oh, we can't actually reach him. We don't know where he is.

And as that realization hits, you do see another figure there flashing into existence beside you. The voice Nightcrawler and Friar Tuck heard from earlier has appeared. And Mojo's taken aback, like he doesn't recognize who this is. Who's this?

C. Lister. And this figure in white angelic wings robes looks back over to Mojo and says, a true angel of the presence, Zariel of the Justice League of America.

And he points to all of you without grabbing you, and teleports you to Mojo's throne room. Mojo is accompanied by Spiral and Majordomo, but they weren't prepared for your presence.

And now you have an angel who's part of the Justice League at one point in time joining you. Describe how you beat the hell out of Mojo.

Well, for Nightcrawler, freeze them first with her stuff so everyone can get some good shots on them.

Yeah, like as part of the spineless ones. Mojo is connected to all this stuff. He is not able to move around on his own. That's why he requires a little crab stuff.

And connected to the machinery, she rips it off. He's completely and utilized, helpless, like Spiral, Major Domo.

They're hired to protect him, but they also know when they've lost, so they're looking towards new management here in the Mojaverse.

Yeah, Spiral Diecar. Will look at Spiral. Yeah. Really end of the universe. Really. A man paid the most for nothing can't spend money in a universe that doesn't exist.

If he truly was going to become the God of the next, maybe he would have remembered me. Someone was going to do it at some point in time.

Jessica Jones. She doesn't care how many arms Spiral has.

Plucking them.

Well, she might. Jessica might rip them off. But they are disheartened. Mojo is helpless. Jeska will swing him around like a. Like a beanbag.

Like, you know, swinging a beanbag. Like it's a big pillow fight. Just to really hammer home the fact that they have lost at this point. Alfred just popping in when he can.

He'll get a good shot off here and there, but he doesn't really have to do so much. Nightcrawler. Would Nightcrawler just kill him here? Definitely stop the stream. Alfred would go over, try and see if he could.

Hondo would go over, figure out if he could stop the stream.

You can't do that. Think of the sponsors, think of the revenue. I entertain them. They need me.

Hondo will imply that he could be paid to not do this.

Anything.

How much?

What do you need? What? Name your price.

He will look at Nightcrawler like, what's. What's a lot of money here in this world?

More than he has.

What, like a big number? What's a big number?

Offer it anyways. Offers a couple trillion.

Two trillion credits.

You really got me. My advice. Hands off me, woman. Ah. It's yours. It's all yours.

I give up in my account.

How do I get a bank account?

He's gonna give up because he can't figure out money.

Looking at you, at Honda, kind of amused, being like, obviously this isn't a good man, but it's kind of amusing to see a bad man hurt another bad man. He's like, that can be arranged.

All right. Honda will end the stream anyway now that he's gotten his agreement because he's, he's a con man. He's not evil.

You double crossing madman. I'd never. And Mojo kind of chokes on his own words. It's like, well, only if it made me more money.

And with that, you have successfully defeated Mojo and his mad scheme and you have won the day as a team. How is everyone feeling? All right?

A little maybe overpowered.

Friar Tuck is shocked, like, what just happened?

Friar Tuck is definitely concerned.

Alfred.

Alfred's a little annoyed that, you know, he's not, he wasn't Just observing some simple tricks. Observing actual spatial manipulation and the like.

Was trying to figure out if it was real.

Yeah.

All right, so now's the part where we tally everything up. We start first with the mission status. The mission status was to protect the psycho pirate originally.

The later mission was to protect all the Omniverse. You succeeded spectacularly at both. You didn't do any of the things that I thought you might do that might have gotten you negative points.

Like, your team actually worked pretty well. So I'm going to give them a 10 on this one. Mm. Teamwork.

For the most part, you were rogue agents with different ideas, but you did work together, so I can't justify you giving, like, a high score. But what does it. What does seven feel like? You feel like that's earned.

Yeah. We have quite a few people who aren't particularly team players,.

So which kind of gets me into sustainability. This is going to be a low one for me. Like, forced to work together is one thing. Oh, by the way, Alfred was fake, too. That didn't really come in.

This was all part of Mojo's plot from the beginning. You were never in Gotham. You were in some pocket dimension. So sustainability.

I got a two, maybe.

I think that's generous.

Yeah. It's not a team that stays together.

Strength, on the other hand. Got some heavy hitters here, but you also have some people who are way above their station. Friar Tuck brought some faith into this.

That's actually something I had planned for. If you at any time mentioned that he was praying, it would have sped things along, and that got Zariel involved way sooner than he would have.

I did. He prayed over the bodies.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, especially when you mentioned the Lord's Prayer, like, that really heightened it. Your will be done.

Well, God's will was for Zariel to intervene at some point in time. It depended on your Friar Tuck's faith as well as Kurtz.

He knew better not worry about the other people, so that increases your strength because, yeah, oxborden is like a regular dude who does regular stage magic. Then Tinkerbell brings in a strength of her own, so I'm actually going to throw in.

What, do you think?

An 8 is fair?

I think so. I mean, we don't have any, like, you know, insane heavy.

Heavy hitters like Jessica Jones obviously, is like, your. Your highest tier there. Honda's a regular guy, but he's also got weaponry that other people wouldn't have on them. Yeah, that works for me.

Nightcrawler as well as heavily trained, it has access to teleportation that could allow him to do many things. How about fun?

I think it's a super fun team. I think adding Nightcrawler to any team makes it super fun. I love Nightcrawler.

Antinkerbel, Alfred, Worst case scenario, he could entertain anybody who doesn't love love. A little magic and actual magic with Tinkerbell and Alfred, you know, could put on the two man show.

Yeah. I think she's the Debbie Downer of the group. So I'm removing one point for her, but I'm giving you a nine.

Yeah. Hondo is also like a funny guy.

Constantly bringing out drinks.

Yeah.

If you were actually all going to make a deal with Neron and force Zariel to intervene to save you from making a stupid deal, he would have appeared much sooner and he would have been less active if that had happened. Plus one point. If you notice the cameras, which you did. So there's one. Oh, that's on me. Oh, I'm so stupid.

I completely forgot there was going to be a section in that room where you were going to see a claw machine in the midst of everything. And the audio issues and camera issues, I forgot about it.

You could have potentially added long shot to your group and his presence was going to be super fun. So that's on me. I screwed up. Since his power is mutant ability. Well, not really mutant ability.

If he's not a mutant, he's more engineered is luck, probability, manipulation. A lot of your roles would have been affected by that. So yeah, I apologize. I completely forgot about that in the midst of everything.

Okay, we'll take the points in reconciliation.

You know what? I think that's fair. Plus three points.

This only would have happened if you had attempted to make the deal with Neron and then you were able to convince Zario to actually join your cause instead of leaving you behind after he had saved you from making a stupid deal. So that doesn't matter. You didn't really convince the Impossible man to join you. He kind of did that of his own accord.

So I'm not going to put that one on there. Plus four points because you didn't kill the Joker.

I imagine if someone that was a possibility, it's like obviously it would have been the Impossible man. That would have led to him not joining you or helping at all. If you had attempted to kill the.

Joker,.

You didn't really try to convince the psychopirate that he's only held back by his own will self worth. So no five, five points there. And you didn't figure out the identity of the true mastermind before the reveal yourselves like the role did.

Yeah, but like you yourselves didn't figure it out. So let's see. 1, 3, 4.

So that's 7 extra points and that will bring your total to 43, which is 5 beneath the the top score, but still a really great one. What do you think? How do you guys feel about your team right now?

Hey, that's not bad. It's not bad.

That's a hall of fame to me.

I think you guys worked with a lot. I threw reveal after reveal after you and you, you, you kept it pretty well.

I mean, what was our first, the first time we did geeks on a roll? What our team gets 30s, like 30 something? Yeah, Josh is strict.

All right, so final question. A lot of the ideas behind this were what do we consume entertainment wise? Mojo obviously is like the worst possible example.

So that's why I picked him as the main villain for all this. The cameras were supposed to be a clue.

The gallo kind of hue, the purple and green was a misdirect that he was purposely doing to make you think it was the Joker or something like that. But they could always reveal their true form, which why you saw the true diseased yellow skin ish kind of tone like him. But like, what do you think?

How does engaging with the entertainment media available to us help or harm our theology?

I mean, I think you definitely have to be mindful of what you consume. Some people are more susceptible than others, so you kind of have to know where you're at.

How much like incoming information affects your perception of your view, you know, your perception of your faith. So it's still to me just kind of depends on your tolerance.

Yeah, you got to be careful not to get sucked up into something that is kind of inherently defeatist. You know, morbidity, you know, stuff that's morbidly entertaining. Like, let's stop watching Beast Games, guys.

Come on.

But it definitely those like subliminal messages, not, not saying they're intentional, but kind of some little information that can be conveyed through a lot of things that we watch can affect the way you feel about, you know, your theological viewpoints. So it's just important to be mindful. Check in with Yourself that was gonna.

Say, check your checkpoints, you know, like, check your different. Your perspective on things and see if you still feel the same way about them and stuff.

And like, and like he said, like, everyone has different tolerances, but you just have to be aware of your thresholds.

Well, put, like, very few things out. There are things that I would call, like, harmful. Like, they are intended to be harmful or unintended and unintended to be harmful.

But even things that otherwise would be okay are not going to be good for someone else. Like, there's some people who are fine with the violence in Game of Thrones but hate the nudity.

There's some people who hate the nudity but love the violence. Like, if that's something that you're not good on, don't watch it. Like, watch something else.

You don't need to consume everything simply because someone else does. Breaking Bad TJ finally caved in and watched everything.

But if you're against villain protagonists, if you're against, like, drugs and everything like that being portrayed the way they are in the show, they're still evil, but there's still some people out there who say that they're positive in the show, then don't watch it. That doesn't mean in and of itself that Breaking Bad is an evil show or Game of Thrones is an evil show.

But if it offends your sensibilities or it's something, you know, you can't handle, sometimes both. It's healthy if you're not to engage.

Yeah, I know a lot of people when, you know, I'll be on Twitter.

A lot of video game discourse has been heavily derailed through the discourse a couple years ago around Doom, like Doom's accessibility mechanics and like the. I think it was for Doom Eternal, someone was complaining that. Just something.

I don't remember what it was, though.

Something made the game too easy. And Bethesda was like, you control the buttons that you press, and media consumption is kind of the same way you.

You control the media you consume, at least generally, you know, aside from advertisements. You control the media you consume.

Yes.

You control the buttons you press. You know, if you feel like something is having a negative effect on you, stop. I.

When I was in high school, like, my last couple years of high school, pretty much all I listened to was metal, mostly like Amana Marth, like Viking metal, which I still do sometimes, but I was in a bad mood a lot.

I have a similar experience with that one, too. It's when back when Brian had Welch first became A Christian. And he released his first album. I was into metal, into different scene.

But that album for some reason was super like just affecting me. What made me bitter, my wife. She wasn't my wife yet, but like she was like, hey, weird. Like we were gonna go see him at.

See him at Rock the Universe, but. But she said that, that, that I didn't feel excited. Like. And it was just. I don't know what it was just. It just brought me down.

And I've never really experienced that with like. That was one of the first times where I'm like, oh, wow, this stuff can kind of affect me, you know, Know. So, so.

And which was ironic to see him play at a Christian show at Rock the Universe. And while he's playing, I'm thinking about the. The depressive mood I was in that he, that he. That he forced upon me.

So quote unquote, you know, it's like, this is weird.

Yeah. So you got to be careful. If watching a show put. Puts you in a bad mood, like you gotta stop or like.

Or like even seeing people reactions to things that can kind of die, that can kind of throw me off and that can kind of narrow down my viewpoint and make me forget about the good in. In the way that people can do it.

And there's a lot of bad faith reactions out there that get so much attention and sometimes I forget that there's a balance. More nuanced approach to things. And there's a time to. There's definitely a time to confront some of that bad faith stuff, but it's not a double time.

Yep. There's a big difference between a show or a movie or a song. Even sparking a question and sowing doubt.

That's an important distinction. All right, gentlemen, we also have a special bonus question we're going to be doing.

Actually. No. Yes, I do. Speed Racer. Speed Racer. I know. It just did its theatrical release. So like this is.

This is going up too late to warn everybody to go see it in theaters. But I feel pretty comfortable saying that it's the Wachowski's best film.

Okay.

Feel pretty comfortable saying that.

I've been wanting to re. Watch that.

Yeah. So good.

What I was thinking about, I don't know why was the end of was the end of she Hulk and with thick heaven robot and the storytelling from that and.

That.

And my mind is going to.

The.

Most Superman movie where Where Alex has all the monkeys on the computers affecting things and affecting the ratings online and stuff like that. I think that's something that a Mojo.

Would do perfectly in character. I'm gonna kick myself again because my recommendation for this was also going to be the long shot miniseries from the 80s.

Mojo showed up in for the first time.

Yes. Where we learned about him and all that mess he fights with she Hulk and Spider Man. I'm kicking myself so much over that.

It would have been so much cooler if he was there and all. The episode also would have been longer and even when we split him up into two. We're almost at another hour here.

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