Page 719 - City of Villains, Part 4

It’s easy to have a favorite type of character to play, or to rag on others for behaving certain ways. But over many, many campaigns, we are encouraged and driven to experiment and try new things, even stuff we’d made fun of before. And if anyone’s going to joke about it, it’s going to be the people who’ve been there with you the whole way.

Long-Face: Where do we start?
Mane-iac: If we’re to fight a team, we need to be a team as well.
Pharaoh Phetlock: That’s a surprise? Like, duh, genius. I’m not built for solo.
Smudge: GLURGH!
High Heel: …Oh, I see. In-character, we’ve worked alone ‘til now. But we can’t quite team up in jail.
Mane-iac: We’re villains, dear. We don’t stay long. Now you might have been wondering where the sixth member of our “rogues gallery” has been hiding. Well, she happens to be our “outside pony.”
Pharaoh Phetlock: Wait, what?! How come we were captured and she wasn’t?
Mane-iac: She likely went into hiding the moment those Power Ponies entered the city. A wise decision, as it turned out, but it’s difficult to be the greatest thief in Trotham when superheroes are on patrol. So she has as much stake in this as we do. That’s why I’ve asked her to “stop by” as soon as…
SFX: (FOOOOOM)
DM: Preceded by an explosive charge, Shadowmane bursts into the cell block!
Shadowmane (Applejack): You’re welcome. How’d you like your equipment back?
High Heel: I certainly won’t complain!
Pharaoh Phetlock: Shadowmane? Seriously?
Shadowmane: Shaddup.
Mane-iac: You make a lovely rogue. It suits you quite well.
Shadowmane: I’ll appreciate the irony later.