I've issued the reboot command from within RB, but there are a couple apps that were running that are preventing the reboot from happening. Can you include a forced reboot option? Is that possible?

You can force a reboot by entering

sudo shutdown -r now

into Terminal.app, yet it requires you to enter your superuser / 
root / admin password or set the suid bit on the shutdown command. 
None of both is recommendable or really viable imo.

Best regards, 
Felix Schwarz 

here is the script, just paste it in the script editor, change your admin password and save as an application. 
To make sure that no one can read the content of the script and find out your password save it with the "run only" option also.

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do shell script "shutdown -r now" ¬ 
password "yourAdminPassword" with administrator privileges

Yet, compiling the script will most likely not hide your password, as 
strings - other than source code of course - are usually stored as 
plain text across all compilers.

Best regards, 
Felix Schwarz