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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Golden Bee" data-source="post: 9874297" data-attributes="member: 7041055">Night at El Morro“If you don’t cooperate, Miss Midas, your government is prepared to revoke sunlight privileges.” May 10, 1936.After the disaster of the last mission, Devika assembled a massive team. Extra chairs had to be brought into the New York office; besides her normal employees and hangers on, she's hosting the very peeved Nizam of Hyderabad, an FBI representative, and a major from the British Air Force.The hostages are held in an old Midas facility, war-torn Spain, or in the hideout of the recently rebooted Red Jasmine cult.Aloria Midas is being held upstate. “Interrogate a millionaire” is all Captain Ivanova needs to hear before she volunteers. Her husband Josiah P Diamond volunteers to play good cop.The captain entered the interrogation room and told the prisoner that, without cooperation, she would be begging to clang a tin can in Alcatraz. When she didn’t get a rise out of the prisoner, she suspected something was wrong. She gestured to her husband who punched Aloria as hard as he could, opening a metal compartment in the robot's chest! The automaton tried to jump to the ceiling, but the captain intercepted it with her riding crop. (The COs then shot it full of holes.) A look through Aloria records and personal correspondence showed no big movement of materiel; the prisoners weren’t in America. How did she slip from prison? A blank envelope suggested Flatlantean magic.In India, Zelda (with a truly ludicrous expense account) put up bounties for information regarding the resurgent cult. The Nizam was the Earth's richest man, and while his forces were able to crush a series of hideouts, the prisoners weren’t on the subcontinent either.Trudy Truman used her reporting connections (and the ZSS’s long-distance plan) to find out about the situation in Spain. It was hard to get people to go on the record about a war zone. The RAF, grateful for past favors, shared aerial reconnaissance. It seemed likely that the prisoners were there.Trudy sniffed — she had the keenest nose of any muckraker — and realized someone new had infiltrated the offices. The masked figure claims to be El Fantasma, but the Aussie kept him distracted with blather until Clara showed up. El Fantasma introduced himself again, which brought Rafe over to see what all the fuss was about. By the third time he had to explain his secret order of Spanish revolutionaries, he demanded that Trudy just write it down.With the hostages located generally, it was time to plan. Tacito said that a small strike team would be the most judicious. (A few people argued that teenager Devika shouldn’t be invited, but that made her want to go more.) The position was offered to Captain Ivanova, but she had no interest in putting her neck on the line to rescue the daughter of the richest man on earth. She had already fought in a war to free Russia.Penny An’te, Hawaiian gambler pistolero, was brought on instead. (The final team was Penny, Devi, Clara, JP, Tacito, and El Fantasma.)Despite a panicking, plane-hating Clara, the group successfully parachuted into Spain. There, returning to the village of San Simeon, the group snuck… And sneaked… and used stealth… And kept a low profile. Luckily, [non-player character] El Fantasma was really good at this. The ZSS’s contribution to the plan (use a bunch of gunpowder to distract the soldiers of the fortress and draw them out) failed, so it was back to sneaking.Finally, the group arrived at the base, where they also had to sneak, but it was easier. Devi easily opened the enemy vault, finding inside… The new leader of the Red Jasmine! He blasted her with a mental whammy, but before her eyes could even start to water, <a href="https://genius.com/The-lonely-island-rocky-lyrics" target="_blank">her lawyer hit the priest with a sucker punch left and a sucker punch right, then 22 consecutive sucker punch rights.</a>Elsewhere, Clara retrieved her rifle, sending its thief into retreat. As the group headed to the holding cells, they found an odd sight: Mercurio, Mexican demon lawyer! He tried to lie, but Penny was an extremely good judge of character. Then, after explaining that he had helped broker the deadly alliance, Mercurio tried to slip back to the underworld. Devi shoved a rolling chair towards the center of the room, confusing the Devil’s Advocate. Tacito, boxing champion, jumped off it and sent the demon back to hell with a few less teeth.The group rescued the prisoners, then headed deep into the mountain. The villains were clearly excavating the rare Atlantean material that had made up so many of the artifacts.Waiting for them at the dig site was the ringleader: Esteban, the Silver Knight of the Silver Circle. The masked man claimed that he had expected the group days ago. Penny asked him who he was, and he responded that his family had survived for hundreds of years.Esteban tried summoning minions, but Clara and Penny laid down a tide of bullets. JP and Devi were able to grapple him, but his face fell off… Revealing a completely metal one with a radio microphone! He pounded the Atlantean lode, causing a ringing earthquake. Before fleeing, Penny took the moment to read him to waste. Despite his strong willpower, she brought to bear every fault of his entire plan, from his physical absence, to his idiotic companions, to his inept base design and even his supposedly perfect family tree. Somewhere nearby, Esteban smashed his radio transceiver in fury.The group fled, and having rescued smuggler Ivo along with the rest of the prisoners, were able to exfiltrate Spain with little incident. Back in New York, Clara put her rifle Betsy above her bed, retiring her last gift from her grandfather. She then began cleaning and reassembling her present from Penny and Devika: a factory new, military only M1 Garand.Penny’s insults guaranteed retaliation, but it would be angry and off-balance. If you can’t avoid a fight, make your opponent extremely angry.Penny:[ATTACH=full]431679[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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