Together, these awesome crafters created 5 cards for specific individuals and 17 cards for random strangers.

Each card contained a positive message meant to inspire at least a smile on the face of the recipients.

As Break, Shadow Man, and Zetaman delivered cards around Portland Oregon’s Old Town Chinatown neighborhood, that’s exactly what happened!

Can our heroes keep these powerful catpires from further over-breeding? Can they prevent Vladicon V from being clawed apart?

A call from Planet Nus informs our heroes mowgoats are devouring all of the plants! They’ve tunneled under nearly all of the planet’s farms nomming all the plants from underground.

Our heroes jump in the rocket and hope Zetaman’s flying skills haven’t gotten too rusty. While en route, they discuss what can possibly be done about the 5-legged, blue, octagon shaped critters that are the troublesome mowgoats.

Break consults the onboard computer to find out more about them. Their stats are as follows:

Intelligence: equivalent to an average earth pig

Size: adult mowgoats often measure 3 foot by 1.5 feet

Weakness: light

Diet: non- discriminating herbivores

Method of communication: telepathy

Basically, we’ll be attempting to negotiate with telepathic, intelligent, mole-like goats.

Upon entering Nus’s orbit, Zetaman notices something odd about the planet, but didn’t know quite what until he felt the landing gear sink in to the ground. It would appear the mowgoats’ tunnels have depleted the molecular stability of the planet’s surface.

Using an escape hatch, we climbed out and oriented ourselves. Locals met us and explained they didn’t know how to communicate with the mowgoats but there were rumors of a mowgoat whisperer.

Zetaman and Shadow Man consult the intergalactic database and run a siphon program in order to determine the most likely hideout spot of this supposed whisperer.

Meanwhile, Break poked about our vessel looking for anything that might be useful. Only one jetpack with enough fuel was found.

They draw straws and Shadow Man wins the honor of donning the pack and making the journey. Zetaman and break wished him luck and waited nervously for his return.

Shadow Man finds the whisperer, Tim, in a cave just outside of town- a cave, which oddly still has plants around it.

With his consent, Shadow Man lassos Tim, tying them together much like tandem skydivers. They flew back to the nervous nellies atop the rocket ship.

With Tim’s help, the message “You are destroying this planet, draining all of the flora. The natives require these plants for their life source.”

Feeling ashamed and horrible about what they’ve done, the five mowgoats agree to make amends but they didn’t know what to do!

Nus is their home too and well, they get hungry and can’t go above gr4ound. Our squad contacts the planet’s best botanist and scientist, who collaborate and create cheepox, a plant that sprouts anew as soon as it’s cut.

Since only one part of the planet was all sinking-like, the Nusians and us planted cheepox all over this sector and a treaty was signed between the Nusians and mowgoats declaring that the mowgoats will only eat from this patch of the planet.

Happy to no longer be considered the nemeses of Nus, the mowgoats showed their gratitude for our help by un-sinking our ride. We then headed home to get all un-muddy-fied and eat huge bowls of salad.

The Squad decided to join the Isedinites’ celebration of planting day. Planting day was established to help maintain the atmosphere and food supply, also known as the “Festival of Isedious.”
On their lovely two-sun planet Ised in the galaxy of Dusnmo, we planted 52-acres of vines bearing a light brown, heart-shaped, fruit. Each vine was attached to lines running between two poles. In less than an earth month, the vines would zigzag their way between the poles, resembling something like a volleyball net.

After the planting, everyone celebrated with games and listening to live music performed by Ewuuk. Zetaman was none too thrilled with the music choice, so be busied himself with games of badminton and plain-runner shoes.

Meanwhile, Shadow Man practiced his not so subtle dance moves in front of the stage, grooving his heart out with a large sample of the locals.
Break was happily jumping in to piles of leaves and giggling with the younger Isedinites, not paying any mind to … well… anything that didn’t involve goofy, uncoordinated fun.
Once the festivities died down, and our heroes helped clean up, they happily but tiredly boarded the rocket for home.

Hill went out of his way to welcome Blaize in to the larger social community that many take for granted. For sharing his compassion, time, energy, and effort, he is an everyday hero and hereby nominated as this week’s honorary member of the Squad for Good.

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Shadow Man jots down his thoughts at one of the DETC workshops.

The following is a small window in to his journey towards a better life:

One year ago, nearly to the date, Rose began her 3-month stay in a physical rehabilitation facility. Her absence from home, especially during the holidays, quickly sent Shadow Man spiraling into a deep depression.

However, edging in on Rose’s 2^nd month away, just in time for Christmas, Shadow Man suddenly realized that maybe- just maybe- instead of gaining a sense of self from others’ needs, he needed to focus on his own needs and take care of himself.

Cleaning the house was overwhelming and he needed help completing tasks; he recognized that. However, there were things he could do on his own, be it cleaning or making himself smile. He seized those warm fuzzy thoughts and feelings, enabling himself to figure out the steps he needed to take to better care for his emotional, spiritual, and physical selves. Wait, who am I kidding, that was the first time he could remember even taking time to identify his needs in those areas.

He spoke with his doctor about improving his physical health, and made an appointment to speak with a nutritionist. Walking and exercising became a regular part of his daily schedule. Not to ignore his emotional and spiritual needs, he began meeting with a pastoral coordinator once a week. 

There weren’t unicorns in the end, but Shadow Man did see his world brighter. As his thoughts decided to play nice and get in line, he found himself surrounded by silver linings.

While returning home from their last mission, our heroes get a mayday call! The Planet Harvesters are not very happy with the havoc the Squidpi babies are causing. Without a care, they are zooming around in space looking for things to blow up! Just staring then blinking their big red eyes and BOOM! Asteroid confetti.

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Can our heroes help get these plants under control before they devour the entire planet?!?

The Squad promises to give it their best effort, and load up their ship with gear. As Zetaman gets behind the helm, Break crosses her fingers remembering how things went last time she flew with him.

Upon reaching Nom’s orbit, Zetaman makes a few rounds for the Squad to assess the situation from the skies. The planet is quickly becoming a light shade of purple! No greens, no pinks or yellows, just light purple.

Shadow Man: Holy Creepers!

Break: Hey, that’s the same color as my toenail polish!

Our heroes begin brainstorming ways to combat this issue with minimal casualties of Nomians. They decide that they need more information of the Nomians before a plan can be made. However, no one is in favor of landing.

Nurse Awesome draws the short straw of actually taking a sample from a live Nomian.
Break and Shadow Man get to work in the quarantine room, ensuring it is secure enough to contain the Nomian specimen and prevent Nurse Awesome from losing a limb.

Bundled up in protective gear, Nurse Awesome slowly enters the Q. Shadow Man offers moral support as the three foot Nomian snaps at her knees and looks a bit disappointed when it can’t penetrate her gear- well, as much as you can imagine a plant looking disappointed, you know, a bit wilty and such.
Taking a cue from Lion tamers, Nurse Awesome bravely swabs the inside of the Nomian’s “mouth.” Then she quickly drops the capsule top, securing the creature for transport back to the planet’s surface, before high tailing it out of the room. As she flees, she notes the “attack” was very similar to that of an Earth dog.

Nurse Awesome quickly gets to work in the lab. After adding a secret chemical cocktail to the swab, she examines it under a microscope and observes an enzyme that’s created after the Nomian eats. This particular enzyme allows the Nomians to reproduce when it is sprayed from their leaflimbs. She also describes the cells as making basic intelligent decisions regarding how they responded to chemicals during the testing.

Since Nurse Awesome concludes that the Nomians have some intelligence, the Squad decides it’s about time they learn about safe planting to prevent future over-reproduction. Though, with such a low sentience level, can they learn safe planting? Nope… pruning it is then.

Nurse Awesome carefully studies Nomian anatomy and determines various techniques of pruning. She teaches these to the Crittermen can co-exist with Nomians as their caretakers…. Once they’re no longer afraid of becoming dinner.

Luckily, Nurse Awesome thought to leave behind her protective gear for the Crittermen to reverse engineer in order to safely perform the prunings.

Wishing the Crittermen much luck, our heroes beam back to their ship and happily fly back to their planet where plants are plants and dogs are dogs.

Captain Wonderful, Zetaman, and Break were hanging out at HQ when the governor of Planet SweetTooth called. His planet’s usually soft and fluffy ground has hardened trapping the citizens where they stood!

After accepting the mission, Break researches the standard records for the planet’s surface, climate, and special conditions. Since she’s busy tending to her research, Zetaman gets a chance to use his student pilot license and flies them the three billion light years to Planet SweetTooth. All the way, Captain Wonderful firmly grips the emergency break… just in case.

As they approach the planet, Zetaman pilots the ship into the orbit around it. This allows him to look for a good landing spot and gives Break a chance to gather data regarding the planet’s current conditions. She compares the conditions to her notes and determines that only a great decrease in temperature could be the cause.

Zetaman find the perfect landing spot and skids about 10 kilometers away from it, landing the craft on a crystallized plateau.

Break rubs the spot on her forehead where it kissed the computer as a result of Zetaman’s top notch flying skills. Captain Wonderful begins picking himself up from where he was slammed to the floor. Zetaman just wipes his brow thankful that they didn’t explode upon impact.

Upon opening the hatch, our heroes find the temperature to be a bit nippy. After checking the actual temperature and reviewing her notes, Break reported that the weather was 23 degrees below the expected temperature range.

Noticing that the rate of energy necessary to freeze the planet, the heroes deduce that the drop in temperature is not a natural phenomenon.

Captain Wonderful further concludes that the change could not be the work of the snow cone kids because the method of freezing is vastly different. So, who could the villain be, they wondered.

Using his x-ray vision, Captain Wonderful tries to figure out if the surface will allow the Squad for Good to traverse its terrain. Due to the concrete-like composition of the planet, the surface has razor-sharp protrusions capable of shredding through the Squad’s clothing and worse!

Seeing a boulder nearby, Captain Wonderful uses his super speed racing over the spikes before they have a change to do their damage. Though, possibly not fast enough since afterward he feels something uncomfortable had worked its way into his boot, and he didn’t have time to unlace it and get it out. He mounts the boulder and uses it to bulldoze a path safe for his team.

Referring to Break’s notes (‘cause they’re awesomely useful), our Squad determine the shortest and possibly least frozen route to the Governor, who lives just one city over, and head out to meet her.

Zetaman speaks with the Governor, whose feet are inconveniently frozen where she stands. While discussing the effects of the planet wide freeze, the Governor exclaims: It’s the work of the evil wizard Hogglesloth!” You see, apparently there’s this cave dwelling, greedy paladin-thief, who is also a glutton for cotton candy, shiny jewels, and the power to rule them all.

Zetaman inquires further to gather more details about Hogglesloth. According to the Governor, Hogglesloth plans to take over the planet, reap all of the cotton candy from the planet’s surface preventing anyone else from accessing this major export crop, and make all of the natives do his dirty work for him.

Since the universe has a sweet tooth only satiated by cotton candy, Hogglesloth’s monopoly will lead him to pocket all of the space gold and jewels that he hasn’t already lifted from the Planetary Cavity!

The Governor directs the Squad to a cave on the edge of town where Hogglesloth was last reported to be. Captain Wonderful and the Squad boulder their way to the cave, and stop a mile from the cave’s entrance. Captain Wonderful bowls boulders toward the entrance, checking for booby traps. Good thing to. They triggered magical landmines with spring cages that caught each of the boulders! What a sneaky way to capture more “workers,” thinks Break.

The heroes use the cages as a catwalk and cross safely to the cave’s entrance, where they find a fire filled cauldron and scorch marks that could only be unlucky, unwelcome souls seeking an audience with the wizard.

Break cautiously inches towards the cauldron, when she gets within five feet; a bright purple ball of fire leaps out at her. She dodges it, but barely, then scampers back rejoining the others.

Referring to her research notes on all things magical and woo-woo, Break finds that a fire of green base and bright purple flame can only be extinguished by copsli crystal exposure. The unique bond pattern within the crystal absorbs the element necessary for the fire to burn.

As the heroes discuss where they could possibly find such crystal, what exactly they need to do to “expose” the fire to the crystal when they can’t get that close to it. Realizing that he finally has the time, Captain Wonderful unlaces his boot and shakes out that annoying… COPSLI CRYSTAL!

He hands it over to Break, who stifles a gag response to the smell of Captain Wonderful’s dirty socks. She uses her Rube Goldberg talents to ricochet the crystal off the cave walls and into the cauldron.

Tip-toeing past the cauldron, they sneak up behind the wizard, who is staring intensely through a gap in the cave wall that allows him to see the entirety of the cotton candy packaging plant. His hands moving like a conductor’s, orchestrate the movements of dozens of unfortunate native Sweet Toothians.

Captain Wonderful realizes that in all the excitement, he never put his boot back on! He motions to Zetaman, who takes the boot and heaves it in the Wizard’s direction and whispers: Well, the boot will knock him out if the smell doesn’t!

SMACK!

THUD

GROAN

The scary Hogglesloth lies somewhere buried under one of those stereotypical, overly ornate, Halloween costumes they call a robe- complete with pointy hat and shoes. No sooner did the tyrant hit the floor than the Sweet Toothians’ land and body movements returned to their fluffy and bouncy natural states with feet free to dance!

Captain Wonderful quickly grabs the tassels from the hat, finding a now unconscious wizard underneath, and decides to use the hat as a gag. That ought to keep him quiet if he wakes up. Captain Wonderful then binds the wizard’s hands with the tacky salmon- colored tassels before enjoying the now bouncingly amusing trek to Nimrod where he loads, a now slightly awake and very confused, Hogglesloth in to a cryogenic chamber.

The Governor and Sweet Toothians are so grateful that they gather 3 crates of their top shelf cotton candy for our heroes, who promptly return home eagerly pursuing the best sugar high EVER.

……bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy…….