Lair For Rent: A Superhero Dungeon Core by Skyler Grant

Author:Skyler Grant [Grant, Skyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Before we did anything else, we still had a problem—and an opportunity. Angelic forces would be coming for the key. Jules thought that if we just let things go like last time we’d have similar results. Some vastly overpowered angels would show up and blow our headquarters to fragments and that would be that.

But there were ways around that. Heroes played with honor. It was a glaring flaw and one that could be exploited.

As such, we issued an honorable challenge. The silver key was in my possession—me being an E1 villain and his team—and if the angels wished to challenge us they could so in twelve hours. If they won, they could claim possession of the silver key.

If they lost, we demanded the return of our tenant.

It didn’t take long to get a response. Our terms had been accepted, and they would be sending a likewise E1 team to face our lair and have a fair fight.

I was quickly learning that most heroes and villains had their own junior league equivalents. STRONG recruited from organizations like the CCC located on college campuses. I didn’t really understand angelic hierarchies, but I figured they had their own youth teams.

While it would be a bad idea to base all our defenses upon an angelic attack, some defenses to specifically target them would be smart.

We only had about $50,000 left in the bank and we had to get creative in our financing. DTV, a demonic television network, was interested in broadcasting things and I managed to talk them into a $150,000 advance for the broadcast rights, plus thirty minute interviews with all involved on our side, and an additional half million bonus if we won.

That gave me enough funds to bring in a demonic priest who was soon glowing red and issuing sinister-sounding chants over water storage tanks. I already had some steam traps rigged throughout the complex. They were now going to be fueled by unholy water.

It would help, but it wasn’t an ideal solution. Holy water was particularly effective against demons for a reason—it was elementally opposed to them. Demons were creatures of fire and darkness, which was why things like water and holy light were so effective against them. By that same token angels were also creatures of water and light. If I really wanted to hurt them I needed darkflame, a rare element that combined both properties.

Unfortunately, rare proved to be just that. I scoured the markets and couldn’t find anything. There were a few powered who utilized darkflame, but their rates were out of our price range.

Niles thought he had a technical solution. It cost us the rest of our advance, but we soon had a whole new assortment of tanks to load into the walls and strap to the backs of our henchmen.

“It is quite simple really. I mean, theoretical, but I think it should work. One of the tanks is your standard flamethrower, extremely nasty to anything not a super and even any angels aren’t going to like it much,” Niles said.

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