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Benders & Brews S2 - Episode 5 - Mystery of the Stolen Scale (Part 3/Finale) · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  Uh.
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  Jasmine, oolong, green
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  and white. Long ago, these four
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  teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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  Then everything changed when the shop's
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  popularity threatened its existence.
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  All Mr. Okeron, the shop's owner and tea
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  master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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  orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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  shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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  hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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  still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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  But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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  Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the
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  world. Last time on
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  Benders and Brews an Avatar legends.
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  Podcast. Uh, you guys came to Chin Village? Uh,
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  there was a massive festival going on that had something to do with
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  a strange serpent, uh, scale. They
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  revealed the scale only to find that it had
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  been stolen. Uh, the key characters that you've met so
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  far mayor Wu.
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  Well, this is my office.
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  His counterpart, Mayor Yu, who is from
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  Quinchao Village. Cato was the
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  patrolling officer that was guarding the
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  facility where the scale had been stored.
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  Uh,
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  the name's Huan.
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  Councilman Huan, that is.
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  My name is NIA.
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  Um, I am m a traveling salesman from
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  the village of Chin SHO.
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  What are you looking at? Where even am
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  I? What am I doing here?
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  Old Man Gunja is known as, uh, our,
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  um, crazy man. Is that a
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  thing?
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  So I learned nothing. And quo
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  you have a pie.
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  Hey, everyone. Due to some big life events going on and
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  adjustments to the schedule, we were unable to record an opening for this
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  episode where normally each player would share an interesting
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  fact about their character. Nevertheless, we've got a great
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  episode coming your way, and plenty more before we're done with
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  season two. We've been looking into some interesting new ideas
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  which might be coming your way as well, so be sure to keep an eye out for those
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  announcements. Now sit back and relax as we jump into
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  episode five.
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  So, anybody else want to take a crack at this
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  interrogation? I guess I'll take a
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  turn. Hey, uh, you and I point
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  over at the guy sobbing in ash.
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  Okay?
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  Uh, do you have a boat?
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  Yeah, I've got a boat.
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  You know how to sail it? Yeah. How many can it fit?
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  It can hold about four people in it, but not if I plan on
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  fishing.
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  Or we're not going to fish.
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  This is starting to sound a bit foreboding.
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  We just need you to take the what is it called? Whale.
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  Whaletail island. Whaletail island.
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  I will never sail again. I will not eat
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  nor sleep until the scale of the great and
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  powerful Shue Shu Wei is found.
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  Do you know any other fishermen that could just take us on their boats?
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  Yeah. Who? Like who?
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  My friend group is made up of successful fishermen with their own
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  boats.
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  You give me a name. Just take me to one right now. He looks over at
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  the guard, and the guard just goes I give him a
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  thumbs up.
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  This is important, guys, okay? I need to
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  go to Whale Tongue Island because we only have, like,
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  three days, right?
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  I will happily provide passage to and from
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  Whaletail Island to anyone that can return the
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  Lost Scale to our village.
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  This is important because I think these stones on it.
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  I have a hunch, and us four
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  detectives, we need to go check this
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  hunch out.
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  But none of us fishermen sailed the night before or the day
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  during the festival out of respect for the Great.
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  Shui Shui, I'm sure. Yeah, but
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  do you think in, uh, guilty person would
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  follow the rules?
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  I suppose not.
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  Exactly. So this is for Shue Shui.
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  I will happily, joyfully, even provide
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  three individuals precisely one two way
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  trip to and from Whaletail Island
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  to any group that finds the scale and returns it.
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  To our no, no, I think it's on the island. I need
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  to go now. And Mayor Wu says,
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  I suppose it's possible. Yeah, I'm confused why he's so
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  hesitant to go there. I feel like it's
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  there and he doesn't want to take us. Uh,
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  you're just gaslighting this entire village.
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  I'm trying to get through an
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  island as fast as I can. Uh,
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  do you even remember why we have to get to Will? The
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  treasure? What treasure? Insurance
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  treasure. Uh, his will. Oh, yeah.
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  That's the whole reason we're here. So I'm going to
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  repair wills from now on.
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  Insurance.
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  Treasure. Insurance treasure. My grandpa
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  died, and he left me some insurance treasure. Clearly,
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  Bill has no care for this stone at all
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  and wants to get to that treasure.
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  He is quickly skipping every step possible
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  to get there. Couldn't tell by you just pointing guys and
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  saying, Arrest him. Hey, again,
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  speedy process. Do justice
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  anyways. Guilty till proven is. Anyways, if
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  you're not going to take me to search for
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  the scale, I.
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  May never sail again.
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  I need a boat pronto to get to that island because I think
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  it's on it.
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  You will have quite the difficult task for yourselves trying to find
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  a non believer in this village with a boat willing
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  to give you a ride anywhere.
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  You know, the more you describe this, the more it sounds like it's hidden there,
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  because why would someone go to search there if
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  all the sailors are refusing the sail anymore?
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  Well, most of the sailors don't typically go to that island
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  anyways, because it's full of pirates.
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  Even more reason a pirate took it.
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  Oh, my word. And how the story has
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  grown even more even more reason to go
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  there now. And
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  I look directly at the mayor and go, I'm
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  making good points here, and you got to agree with
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  me.
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  I suppose it's possible. But why would the Great Shui Shui allow
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  her scale to be stolen away from the very island she gifted? It
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  to.
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  Why would.
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  Because her realm is within the water. Of course.
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  She doesn't come onto the land.
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  Her realm is in the water.
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  What? Can we check for it on a boat? Yeah.
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  Why are we staying landlocked for this search? What if
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  the scale went back into the water? A
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  returned home? Oh, no
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  one thought of that way. Uh, do you have any agnostic
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  woodworking friends who make a
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  boat for us? Because apparently everyone's refusing. Uh, can we
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  just take a boat? Mayor, mayor, no one's going to be on these boats,
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  nor ever sail one again. They're going to be
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  free use for mayor Wu sits there silently
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  for a moment. He thinks and he thinks, wait.
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  If you're right, and the green scale was taken back and returned to
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  the great sea serpent herself in the watery depths, then
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  that must mean that the green
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  Scale was the real no, no.
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  If any scale would be taken back by her
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  Majesty scaliness, it would be ours,
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  because ours is the real one.
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  How do you know yours are then?
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  Well, it wasn't stolen because it was back in the
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  storage facility. We just saw it.
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  It's probably not there anymore.
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  You don't think that's true, right?
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  Well, it's true.
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  Most of them. No, it couldn't be. We
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  swapped guards with our guards. They
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  can be trusted. I assure you, it's gone.
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  Uh, so anyways, let's get on that boat and let's
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  do some searching.
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  Whale. Come on, everyone. Whale
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  tail island, here we come. We're sway.
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  Sway scale. Yeah. Shu schweichway scale.
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  Bill just starts walking out the door.
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  What's going on? I think we're getting on a
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  boat. Bill is walking straight to the
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  dock where the boats are. Uh,
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  everybody's kind of confused. So they're not
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  stopping you? Yeah, and guess what? They
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  can't say I'm stealing because they know exactly what I'm doing with
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  this boat. If I start taking one,
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  uh, I push the map. I don't know if that's how that
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  works. Well, you can steal
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  a car and a police. What are they going to do? Chase me down
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  on the water with all the people who refuse to get
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  on the boat? What were you asking, Dave?
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  Mayor Wu.
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  Uh, yes.
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  I need something from you.
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  Okay.
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  I need you to send somebody to the
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  kitchen and bring
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  back a jar of
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  cinnamon.
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  Okay.
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  And a glass of milk.
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  All right. Councilman Young.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Rung to the kitchen and bring me back a jar of cinnamon and a glass
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  of milk. Straight away, sir. What could you
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  possibly want with just get
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  the ingredients.
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  Yes, sir.
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  And, uh, Councilman Young rushes off, uh,
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  to go get the things. And a couple moments later, he
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  returns with a small jar of powdered
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  cinnamon and a glass of milk. And
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  he hands them to yes, uh, thank you. And
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  I drink the glass of milk. Oh, man, that pie made
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  me thirsty.
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  And then I go over to
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  cato. Cato. Oh,
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  yeah. Come confer with me.
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  Okay. All right, so
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  let's go over your story again. All
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  right. You were
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  guarding
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  the temple or the vault? Guarding the
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  vault. You said you went around
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  about 27 times. Oh,
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  yeah, I did about eight more laps
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  when you guys left before they brought me here.
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  Oh, got you. And you said
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  you heard a coughing at some point?
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  Uh, oh, yeah, I think I
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  did. That's what alerted me. And then
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  I came running over and by that
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  time, whoever it was, was gone. But like I said, I
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  saw someone in the bushes. And you heard a
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  jingling? Oh, yeah, lots of jingling.
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  So you heard a cough and a jingle.
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  All right. Yeah, it's like some kind of, uh what,
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  like a sneezy Santa Claus
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  bag of tricks? Yeah. All
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  right, we got this line up
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  here. Hang, um on.
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  And I go back
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  over to where the old man was
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  and he's sitting there.
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  I grab one of the spoons off the ground.
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  Hey, now that's my fourth favorite spoon.
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  I just need to borrow it. Ah, all right.
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  But you better bring it back and with interest.
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  Okay. Not sure what that means,
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  so I wipe that one off on my
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  shirt, my robe, and
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  I go over to the first person in line.
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  Um, go to
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  Lee. Okay.
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  All right, Mr. Lee.
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  I scoop a big thing of cinnamon.
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  Open wide.
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  Okay, but this is kind of weird.
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  Yeah. I stick the spoon down his throat.
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  I looked at Kato and he coughs. What do
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  you, uh didn't really
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  sound like that. That was a bit too much phlegm in that
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  one. Alright, Mr.
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  Lee, I need you to jump
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  up and down. Give me some jumping jacks.
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  Jumping jacks, okay. Are these for shui
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  shui?
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  Yep, for shue shui. It's doing jumping jacks very vigorously.
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  12345
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  and, uh, he's very quiet as he jumps. You
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  just hear the rustle of his clothing. Um, he
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  kind of sets his fishing pole against the
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  wall since that's awkward. It's hard to jumping
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  jack with that, but otherwise, yeah, that's all you hear. Ah.
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  I go over to talk with Mika.
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  I'll be right back.
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  8910.
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  Yep. Keep going. Mika. Mika.
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  All right, so at the crime scene, we found
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  what was it? The cloth. Do we have the
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  cloth that had the ink on it?
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  Guys? I think it was left in the
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  think it yeah, I think Bill had it, I think and left it in
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  the bush when he went to
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  man. I probably should have gathered that piece of material
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  evidence. Uh, one of the guards steps forward and he
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  says, I couldn't help but notice I heard you
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  say the cloth. Are you talking about this
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  cloth? And he holds out a white cloth
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  with black smudges all over it. I found
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  it over at the I was there when you guys were investigating.
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  I saw you guys take it into the bush, and I thought, hey,
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  that's evidence. Uh, I'd rather
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  not get blown away.
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  It's a little irresponsible, but that's all right.
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  Well, this guy is
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  either using his noggin or
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  tampering with evidence. I can assume it's
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  the first one. All right,
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  how can we test
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  this smudged material
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  to what's on
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  these people? Because a lot of these
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  guys in this town are apparently
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  filthy. The only,
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  uh, people who seem to have the
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  smudges are Councilman Young.
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  Mayor Wu.
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  I can read my own handwriting, I swear.
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  Well, Mr. Lee had that sort, uh, of black
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  powder on him. Mr. Lee had the black powder and the
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  Blacksmith. Those are the four that
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  I mean, I got literally nothing out of my conversation from the
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  Blacksmith, but I'd start with those four. So we
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  need four spoons
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  to just sort of expedite the cough test.
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  Oh, man. We're going to need your first
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  three favorite spoons.
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  No, not all my favorite spoons. Just don't
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  forget, you guys are renting these, so I expect
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  interest when you bring them back.
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  So can we kind of just line them all up and just
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  at the same time, just shove spoons of cinnamon
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  into their mouth? Okay. All right. Who did you
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  want? You wanted. Uh, Wei, the blacksmith.
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  You wanted Councilman Young. Councilman Young.
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  Mayor Wu. Okay. And Lay.
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  And Lay. All four people.
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  Oh, no, we already tried lay. Yes. Let's try
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  him again just in case that wasn't a good enough cough
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  while doing jumping checks. Well,
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  he hit 20, and now he stopped. Hey,
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  I said to keep going.
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  I thought you said I only had to do 20.
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  Okay, uh, yeah, I'm down for, uh,
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  shoving cinnamon in their mouth just to try that cop
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  test with anybody who might match that ink. All
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  right, guys, we need your help
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  over here. All right, so the four of you
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  I'm not here. Oh, yeah, you left you're
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  at a boat. All right, the three of
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  you stand across from four individuals,
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  and, uh, you prepare four
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  spoonfuls of cinnamon. And
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  Cato says, well, you guys
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  are looking for kind of more of a
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  that's what it sounded like. It sounded like
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  thank you. Like a ghost. Like
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  coffee. Actually, we've already
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  tested Mr. Lee. Kato.
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  Uh, we better test you. Me?
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  Just to make sure it wasn't your own cough you
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  heard. Okay, so we stick the
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  spoons in their mouths.
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  It sounds
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  awful close to what your
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  cato. Well, it wasn't me.
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  Spiky dude startled
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  himself with his own, um, cough.
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  Probably ran to go see where the noise came
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  from. In an armor jingle.
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  He just saw some shadow in the bush.
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  What was that noise? Wearing some black clothes over
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  there. What was that noise?
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  What? Just for clarity's sake, what's the other people
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  sound like. Okay, so you go through them. Uh,
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  councilman. Uh, well, we'll start with Mayor Wu.
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  You stick it into Mayor Wu's mouth, and he says
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  uh, Councilman Young goes
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  write that down. Write that down. Wei
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  goes and, uh,
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  that's the three you haven't heard yet. So
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  Wei, councilman Young and Cato. So
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  only one was not like the.
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  Second one was the most accurate.
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  The last one was the second one was the
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  most accurate. The second one was the farthest. His original
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  cough was you're not even in the room. How do you hear these coughs?
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  Literally, the second person who's the mayor.
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  Or the Councilman Young? Was the second one. Uh,
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  Councilman Young? Uh, yeah. The second
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  one not counting Cato, right? Oh, not
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  counting Kato. That was way. Which one is the second
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  one out.
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  Of the last three?
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  We just yeah, okay, that was
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  Way. No, I thought it was
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  oh, no, uh, it was Young. Yeah, because
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  young Mayor Wu approaches
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  you. He has a glass of water in his hand and he's
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  rinsing out the, uh, cinnamon taste from his
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  mouth.
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  And he's like so what clues did we get
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  from that? Is the cough relevant
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  to the case?
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  Yeah, why don't you let us worry about the details of
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  the case, mister?
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  My apologies. I was simply
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  curious about the current status of the case.
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  Uh, we don't want, uh, to have
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  him hiding any jingles.
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  Mayor Wu, you don't want him hiding any jingles? What do
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  you mean? All right, I'm going to need some
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  jumping jacks.
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  4142-4344
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  Lee, you can stop.
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  Good work, Mr. Lee. But everybody else get
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  a jumping everybody
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  there, everybody there starts doing
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  jumping jacks. Uh, you listen for
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  a fairly reasonable intensive jingling. Uh,
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  Mayor Wu, he seems to have some keys
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  on his person. Not a lot of keys, but just like one
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  thing of keys on his belt. And it makes a bit of a small
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  jingling. Councilman Young
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  also has keys on his belt, similar
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  in number. Uh, he also has a couple of
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  looks, uh, like medals, like kind of military style
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  medals. Uh, those also jingle a little bit.
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  Of course, Kato wearing some fairly heavy
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  armor and having some weaponry. Oh,
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  geez, I'm really jingling.
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  Kind of like the guy I heard earlier at the thing.
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  He was really jingling too.
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  I sound almost,
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  um, wei, um, the blacksmith,
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  he also has a copious amount of
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  jingling. And Kato looks over him and he goes, man,
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  you're jingling about as much as I am,
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  Mayor. Uh, yu. The other,
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  uh, also, she has a variety of jewelry on her
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  person. So, uh, she jingles a little bit. It's a very light kind
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  of, um, jingling. Um, yes,
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  more of like a tingling. That's right. And, um, then,
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  naya, the merchant is, uh, doing
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  some very, uh, what's the
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  word I'm looking for? He's not getting far off the ground. He's a
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  fairly heavy man, but, uh, he too jingles quite a
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  bit when he jumping jacks. And, uh,
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  occasionally a coin pops out of his pocket and he
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  quickly stops jumping jacking. Jump
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  jacking. Jack. Huh, I never thought about
• 21:14
  that before. Uh, to pick up the coin, puts it back in his
• 21:17
  pocket, goes back to jumping jacks. He's definitely heading
• 21:20
  towards out of breath very quickly
• 21:23
  and that's about it. Everybody else seems to be fairly
• 21:25
  just cloth movement
• 21:29
  sound. So we got
• 21:32
  six people that are jingling, but
• 21:35
  three of them just hear those people
• 21:37
  jingling. Three of them, um,
• 21:40
  match the black stuff and the
• 21:43
  cough,
• 21:45
  I guess. Four if you count Kata. What about
• 21:53
  Naya? Yep. As Mr. Naya was jumping,
• 21:56
  I remembered we found that,
• 22:00
  uh, deep boot print
• 22:03
  in the mud. The
• 22:06
  boot was about uh,
• 22:10
  uh, it was bigger than Kato's boot. Two hands.
• 22:14
  Mhm. It's a fairly large boot. Was that two
• 22:16
  of my hands or two of your
• 22:21
  man? I can't remember. Two of
• 22:28
  it might have been Bill's hands because Bill was the one that found him. It
• 22:30
  was slightly bigger than Kato's boot
• 22:33
  print. No, it was yeah,
• 22:36
  yeah, we need Bill.
• 22:39
  Well, he's, uh, at a boat probably.
• 22:41
  Just so there's
• 22:44
  also always the possibility of who's actually wearing
• 22:47
  boots, um, in general. Mr.
• 22:50
  Naya. Yeah, just who's wearing
• 22:54
  can you can just look around the room and see who's wearing boots?
• 22:57
  Okay, people wearing boots. Uh, Wei, the
• 23:00
  blacksmith cato, of course, is wearing
• 23:02
  boots. Lei, uh, the fisherman, is
• 23:05
  wearing boots. Councilman Juan from
• 23:08
  Quinchao Village is wearing boots and
• 23:11
  Naya is wearing some boots. But they're very
• 23:14
  like fancy boots. They have a little bit of a
• 23:17
  heel to them.
• 23:19
  And just to clarify from your remembrance,
• 23:22
  the footprint you saw did not have a heel. It was a very
• 23:25
  standard, more of a work or
• 23:28
  military boot versus a
• 23:30
  decorative fancy boot. Can we just have the guard
• 23:33
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  This hurts my brain. Only there was one person here
• 23:40
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  Can I try Earth bending in a way
• 26:41
  that sort of shakes everybody down at the same
• 26:44
  time? You
• 26:46
  could do, like Toph does
• 26:49
  when she tries to give Aang a
• 26:52
  massage and she just stomps the
• 26:54
  ground while he's on that little section
• 26:57
  of tiny columns. And then all the columns will
• 27:00
  randomly kind of shoot up and poke him in different spots on
• 27:03
  his back, like in a really intensive and
• 27:06
  that might shake some people. See, I was
• 27:08
  thinking I Earthbend
• 27:11
  to where their feet are stuck in
• 27:14
  rocks oh. And then put them upside down. And then I sort of
• 27:17
  lift the floor up and
• 27:20
  just yonk, it over.
• 27:23
  So everybody's upside down. Uh, I would
• 27:26
  say I will for this, but absolutely.
• 27:29
  Give me a rely on your skills and training,
• 27:32
  and that rolls alongside. This
• 27:35
  could go
• 27:37
  actually, I'm going to say push your luck, because
• 27:40
  this explicitly says a fairly risky
• 27:43
  situation. And this is a fairly
• 27:46
  risky situation. Do I have any, uh,
• 27:49
  modifiers? Uh, this would fall
• 27:51
  under passion. Passion. Okay. Is
• 27:54
  Brock familiar with a dead fault
• 27:57
  trap? Yes. As you
• 28:00
  can see, I'm just ready to
• 28:05
  so nine nine.
• 28:08
  All right. Uh, it succeeds,
• 28:11
  but it costs you to scrape by. That means
• 28:14
  it's going to have to cost you something. Okay.
• 28:17
  You stomp the ground and
• 28:19
  twist your foot which causes the
• 28:22
  sand or stone underneath their feet
• 28:25
  to sort of become coarse and then quickly
• 28:28
  resolidify, sealing their feet into the
• 28:30
  floor. And then as they start
• 28:33
  to kind of panic a little bit, you slam your other foot down,
• 28:36
  which raises a platform into the air and
• 28:39
  immediately twists in such a way that cause
• 28:42
  or you use your arms to kind of twist it in such a way so that they're
• 28:44
  all sort of upside down to some extent, or
• 28:47
  sideways at the very least.
• 28:50
  Nobody panic. We're just going to try and
• 28:52
  expedite this whole thing and I just kind of like shake
• 28:55
  them up and down and uh you're simply trying
• 28:58
  to find what's in their pockets. Yes. I'm just going
• 29:01
  to see if anyone has the scale on. Oh, just straight
• 29:04
  up. Uh uh.
• 29:07
  No scales fall out? No. Could I
• 29:10
  hold them there until someone just
• 29:13
  speaks up and says they had the
• 29:16
  scale? I, uh, would say yes, except
• 29:19
  for by scraping by, it lasts for a quick
• 29:21
  moment before you're unable to
• 29:24
  hold the bending anymore and everybody kind of drops to the ground
• 29:27
  upside down and hurts themselves a little bit. You
• 29:30
  hear a series
• 29:39
  well, and uh, as they're all
• 29:42
  picking themselves up all grumbling and angry, mayor Yu looks
• 29:44
  over.
• 29:45
  And he says, let's not do that
• 29:48
  again, please.
• 29:49
  We won't have to. I don't
• 29:52
  know. I think we should do it again. I mean
• 29:55
  underneath, uh underneath let me roll
• 29:58
  underneath where Niall was, there's like a large
• 30:01
  pile of coins falling out of his pocket
• 30:04
  and he just starts like scooping them all up and he's.
• 30:06
  Like, um this is starting to become
• 30:09
  excruciatingly painful.
• 30:12
  So can we all agree nobody wants to do that again?
• 30:16
  There's the resounding. Yes. So I
• 30:19
  won't have to do it again if whoever took the scale
• 30:22
  will speak up.
• 30:23
  Excuse me, Mr. Brock. This investigation is
• 30:26
  turning into torture.
• 30:28
  I think you're the one who wanted to put his
• 30:30
  faith in a bunch of strangers and this is
• 30:33
  the result you get.
• 30:34
  I would like to hear what the young lady has to say about
• 30:37
  this.
• 30:37
  I roll the ten, sir.
• 30:43
  You, uh, once again, slam.
• 30:46
  Hey, what are your principles, by the way? My
• 30:49
  principle like my balance. Yeah. I am,
• 30:52
  uh, a force plus two. So if you want to count that, I'm at
• 30:55
  twelve. Yeah, well, it's going to have to go up
• 30:58
  to no, uh, it's going to go up again
• 31:00
  though because you're leaning more towards
• 31:03
  force again. Well, yeah. Classic
• 31:06
  Brock. Am I right? So 13.
• 31:09
  Yeah.
• 31:11
  To just try and hold people upside down until
• 31:14
  somebody talks. All right. Because I'm getting tired
• 31:17
  of this, sir. All right. You
• 31:20
  shake and you shake and you shake and they're all
• 31:23
  crying out in anger and some
• 31:25
  fear and many put me
• 31:28
  down.
• 31:28
  Release me.
• 31:30
  I'm not the one who stole it. Put me down.
• 31:32
  I'm so sorry.
• 31:34
  Excuse me.
• 31:35
  I feel like you're not.
• 31:37
  I feel like that is a lie.
• 31:41
  Does anybody in this time, does anybody speak
• 31:44
  or anything else? Any new information? Uh, they
• 31:47
  fear what you might do to the person who stole it.
• 31:53
  This can all stop if someone speaks
• 31:56
  up. All right? We're going to adjust it. So we're going to say that
• 31:59
  you did it again, but this time, let's run it as an
• 32:01
  intimidate, okay? That
• 32:04
  way, uh, you pick one that they
• 32:07
  can't choose from the list. It'd be the same role. It's the same
• 32:10
  role because it's still with passion. Um, so
• 32:13
  of the options they have, they run to escape or get back up. I'm going
• 32:16
  to say that's not an option. As it is.
• 32:19
  Um, they back down, but keep watch. They give in with a
• 32:22
  few stipulations, or they attack you. But off
• 32:25
  balance, the GM marks a condition on them.
• 32:28
  So I pick one they can't do. Correct.
• 32:30
  Uh, they can't attack me. Okay,
• 32:33
  so if they also can't run right,
• 32:36
  then they either have to back down, but
• 32:39
  keep watch, or they have to give in with a
• 32:42
  few stipulations. What does that mean? Back?
• 32:44
  Yeah, it's like they're going to
• 32:47
  attack you. So it sounds
• 32:50
  to me like someone's given in.
• 32:56
  This guy was probably fuming right? Now I'm not fuming.
• 32:59
  Trying to figure out how they would handle this. This
• 33:02
  whole story he's woven together over hours
• 33:06
  is now just kidding. All right.
• 33:08
  Finally, a voice cries
• 33:11
  out.
• 33:11
  All right, it was me. Please.
• 33:14
  I did it. You spoke me down.
• 33:17
  So I'll flip everybody over. Okay,
• 33:20
  and so who said that? Uh,
• 33:23
  you look and you see way the blacksmith called
• 33:26
  it. Mr. Blacksmith,
• 33:28
  sir, would you like to
• 33:31
  explain yourself?
• 33:32
  That's right. I did it. I had to show
• 33:35
  the people that he wasn't real.
• 33:37
  In fact, he says, and he reaches
• 33:40
  into a pouch, a hidden
• 33:43
  pouch inside of his, uh, apron,
• 33:45
  and it's got, like, a little button on it. And he unbuttons it, and he
• 33:48
  swings his arm down, and he throws
• 33:52
  the scale at the ground with all the force he
• 33:55
  can muster from a standing position.
• 33:57
  And you can see as you kind of turn and everything
• 34:00
  goes into slow mo
• 34:03
  as Mayor uh, Yu
• 34:06
  and Mayor Wu kind of
• 34:09
  no. And
• 34:12
  as the, uh, scale hits the
• 34:15
  ground, fragments start to break
• 34:18
  off and shatter in every direction as it starts
• 34:21
  to almost disintegrate upon touching the
• 34:24
  hard floor, until there's only about half a
• 34:27
  scale left, and the rest of it is just shattered across the
• 34:30
  ground. And everybody's just frozen,
• 34:32
  stunned. We found your scale.
• 34:35
  You're welcome. See you later. Uh, no,
• 34:38
  it's probably not the mayor. I mean, we
• 34:41
  found the scale. Kind of looks around, really
• 34:44
  awkward.
• 34:44
  Well, uh,
• 34:47
  this is awkward.
• 34:49
  And Mayor Yu finally speaks up, and.
• 34:51
  She says, I knew it. Their scale
• 34:54
  was fake. No scale from a spirit
• 34:57
  beast would possibly shatter in such a. Way.
• 35:00
  It's obviously a glass replica. I
• 35:03
  knew it.
• 35:04
  Um oh, yeah. That scale is a
• 35:07
  big old phony. Neither of them is
• 35:10
  real.
• 35:10
  Well, then I guess we'll just have to
• 35:13
  test that theory. And Mary Yu
• 35:16
  says or sorry, Mary.
• 35:18
  Wu says, yeah, I think we should just go and test
• 35:21
  that theory.
• 35:21
  Well, now, I don't think that's really
• 35:24
  necessary.
• 35:25
  But it's your scale where Will story is.
• 35:27
  Well, no, I don't think that's
• 35:30
  really necessary.
• 35:32
  People start filing out in almost an angry mob out of
• 35:35
  the office, like, well, actually sorry, let me
• 35:37
  rephrase. People from Chin Village. What's that?
• 35:40
  I thought the scale was there.
• 35:41
  There's two scales. There's two scales? Yeah. So there's the one
• 35:44
  from Quinchao village.
• 35:45
  Yeah.
• 35:45
  So where are they leaving it's? In the
• 35:48
  vault? Yeah. So they're headed to the vault. So the people
• 35:51
  from Chin Village are like, let's go see the scale.
• 35:54
  Let's go destroy the scale. And then the people from
• 35:56
  Quinchao Village are like, oh, no, wait. I don't think
• 35:59
  this is necessary at, uh, all it's their
• 36:02
  song.
• 36:06
  Um, Bill, where are you at right now? On the boat.
• 36:09
  You, uh, just walked straight like you beelined it for the docks.
• 36:12
  I'm already on a boat. Okay, you're on a boat. I've
• 36:15
  been, uh, prepping. Okay?
• 36:18
  Everything in me wants to just take off. What are your prep? I
• 36:21
  know that would completely
• 36:24
  derail everything, so I'm not
• 36:27
  okay.
• 36:30
  But I'm preparing everything, making sure the
• 36:33
  boat's nice. It's good. It can fit all of us. Okay.
• 36:35
  My principles are trust and self reliance.
• 36:38
  Okay, well, since you're not leaving, I'm not going to move
• 36:41
  it. If you left, that would 100% push you
• 36:44
  towards self, but you're not doing that. So, um,
• 36:47
  whatever the case, uh, you see from a distance
• 36:52
  yeah, that's what I was getting to, is you can kind of see
• 36:55
  there's sort of like a break, sort of an alleyway almost,
• 36:58
  between a couple of the buildings. And you can kind of see the doorway
• 37:00
  to the, um, courthouse, if
• 37:03
  you will, or the city hall. And you see a flood of all the people
• 37:06
  that you had just seen before start flooding out the doors. And
• 37:09
  they all seem to be chanting, and they're in a mob, or some of them
• 37:12
  are looking really concerned and stuff, and they all seem to
• 37:15
  be making their way. Uh, the storage facility is
• 37:18
  actually not too far from the docks. You can actually see
• 37:21
  the back of it from where you're at, and they all seem to be making their way
• 37:24
  towards it.
• 37:27
  You just chilling the boat? Yes. Okay. All
• 37:30
  right, sounds good. I'll jump back over to you guys. Prepping.
• 37:33
  Just prepping the boat. Sounds good. So back over to you guys.
• 37:36
  Uh, you guys are following as this mob sort of makes its way
• 37:39
  to the facility. And, of course, the guards
• 37:42
  that are waiting from Quinchao Village at this facility
• 37:45
  are very surprised to see this group. And, uh,
• 37:47
  Mayor Wu says,
• 37:50
  I do.
• 37:51
  Believe I'm going to need entrance into the facility,
• 37:54
  if you don't mind.
• 37:55
  No, don't let them inside. They're here to
• 37:58
  destroy the scale.
• 37:59
  And they're like, well, it's their facility. We really can't stop.
• 38:02
  They're here to destroy the.
• 38:06
  You know, at that know, the mayor pushes
• 38:09
  them out of the way, and Keto walks up. He's like, oh, I got the
• 38:12
  keys of this thing, so I'm going to open it.
• 38:14
  He opens it up, and they all start walking inside.
• 38:17
  And then, of course, Bill from the boat, you're seeing all
• 38:20
  this happen in front of you, having no context to any of this.
• 38:23
  You just see this group of angry people
• 38:26
  walk out of the facility carrying
• 38:29
  the glass casing that has the red scale
• 38:32
  inside of it. And they seem to be starting to make their
• 38:35
  way towards, um,
• 38:37
  the town square. And you notice that
• 38:40
  one individual in the group, it's just one of the guards, seems
• 38:43
  to be holding the half broken
• 38:46
  scale green scale from Chin village. So obviously
• 38:49
  somebody found it, I guess, and also
• 38:52
  broke it. The rest of you guys kind of
• 38:55
  follow this mob as they make their way to the town square.
• 38:57
  And, uh, again, Mayor Yu is
• 39:00
  truly panicking over this whole scenario.
• 39:03
  No, please don't harm the scale. Please.
• 39:06
  It could be very fragile. This is wholly
• 39:09
  unnecessary.
• 39:10
  She's trying to get it back, but you've got a pretty angry
• 39:12
  mob that's keeping her away from it. And eventually they make it to
• 39:15
  the town square. And of course, everybody from the festival
• 39:18
  is kind of waiting there. And they all turn around,
• 39:21
  and, uh, the Mayor Wu
• 39:24
  stands up in front.
• 39:25
  Of him and he says, people of Qin and Quing Chao
• 39:27
  village alike, I'd like to garnish your attention for the
• 39:30
  moment. We've decided as a
• 39:33
  group that we are going to test the reality
• 39:36
  of the red scale once and for all.
• 39:39
  And he just chucks it straight at the ground,
• 39:43
  and Mayor You screams out, no
• 39:47
  as it falls and shatters onto the ground.
• 39:50
  And everyone goes. And then, of
• 39:53
  course, the uninformed people who weren't there for the rest
• 39:55
  of the situation start going. The green scale is
• 39:58
  real. They hold up the green broken scale, and
• 40:01
  everyone goes. And then it just gets really
• 40:04
  quiet. Can we just slowly
• 40:07
  walk towards
• 40:09
  just I just want to slowly walk towards
• 40:12
  silently. You're doing, like, a very cartoonish
• 40:15
  like as you back. I'll
• 40:18
  just I'm just going to slowly and silently make my way over to
• 40:21
  the boat. Okay. Mika and Guao, what are you guys
• 40:24
  doing? Is Mr. Wei
• 40:27
  here? Yeah, he was part of the angry
• 40:30
  mob, so he was happy at the idea that we're about to
• 40:33
  go smash the other one.
• 40:35
  Honestly, this worked out better than I possibly could
• 40:37
  have imagined.
• 40:39
  One of those reporters. Mr. Way. Mr.
• 40:42
  Way, uh, how did you know the scale was a fake.
• 40:45
  Well, as I'd mentioned before, I knew right
• 40:48
  from the beginning that the scales were fake because,
• 40:50
  well, why would a magical spirit
• 40:53
  beast be dropping the scales off itself in random
• 40:56
  villages? You ever seen a snake?
• 40:58
  They don't drop scales. They shed their horse
• 41:01
  skin. And that's how I knew
• 41:04
  it.
• 41:05
  Uh, thank you for your comment.
• 41:08
  And now we know that both the scales were
• 41:11
  fake. And these two and he points at both the
• 41:14
  mayors, one of the perpetrators of the whole thing,
• 41:17
  they've been lying to you good folks all this
• 41:20
  time. So now I ask all of you, what are
• 41:23
  we going to do about it?
• 41:25
  And, uh, you
• 41:28
  see, Lee is like,
• 41:31
  sprawled out on the ground, like sideways
• 41:34
  tears streaming down, like clearing the ash off
• 41:37
  of his face as they go.
• 41:40
  He's just crying silently,
• 41:43
  though. It's like a, uh, deep cry
• 41:46
  that's internal. It's almost entirely
• 41:48
  internal. And you can see that his entire
• 41:51
  soul has been crushed and his entire
• 41:54
  existence is now no
• 41:57
  longer. As he's realized that
• 42:00
  neither of the scales are real, you wonder. You're
• 42:02
  like, man, I bet a guy like that, if one of the scales was
• 42:05
  broken, he'd probably just move to the other village and be like, yeah,
• 42:08
  no, it's all good, because this was the real one all
• 42:11
  along. No, they're both fake.
• 42:14
  His reality is shattered. And, uh,
• 42:17
  Wei stands there and he.
• 42:18
  Says, what are we going to do about
• 42:21
  it?
• 42:22
  And, uh, you see the two
• 42:24
  mayors are whispering to each other at the
• 42:27
  moment, and
• 42:30
  they step forward
• 42:33
  and they say, mayor, uh, Wu, since
• 42:36
  it's his village, technically.
• 42:37
  He says, well, uh, all I have
• 42:40
  to say is that, uh, the three.
• 42:42
  Of you and he turns to you guys
• 42:45
  and looks a little surprised because it's just you and Mika
• 42:48
  at this point. Whoa.
• 42:50
  Uh, congratulations.
• 42:53
  Yes. You solved the mystery of the fake
• 42:56
  scales. Yes, that's
• 42:59
  it. Uh, we've had this contest going for years.
• 43:02
  Unbeknownst to all of you, be,
• 43:05
  sure enough, these strangers and of
• 43:08
  course, Way was, uh, also involved in
• 43:11
  solving the mystery. Well done to all of you.
• 43:14
  You've won the contest.
• 43:16
  Yeah, I did it. And he
• 43:18
  turns to the people and.
• 43:19
  He'S like, yes, and next year we're
• 43:22
  going to do it all again. But we
• 43:25
  switched up. Make it a new mystery.
• 43:28
  That way it keeps things fresh every year,
• 43:31
  and you all have a chance to try and solve it.
• 43:34
  And as he's saying this, lei kind of starts to pick
• 43:36
  himself up off the ground a little
• 43:39
  bit.
• 43:40
  A, uh, contest. A, uh, contest.
• 43:42
  But what about Shui Shui?
• 43:45
  Ah, yes, well, Shue Shui will
• 43:48
  always be there watching over us, whether or
• 43:51
  not we have her, uh, scales.
• 43:53
  Oh, okay. Hooray. Shue
• 43:55
  Shui.
• 43:57
  And you watch as the festivities kind of start
• 44:00
  to go back to normal a little bit. Music starts to play in
• 44:03
  the background. The vendors are shouting
• 44:06
  out to buy food and there are some
• 44:08
  games to play and everybody kind of starts to go back to
• 44:11
  it. And, uh, mayor's approach you
• 44:14
  and Mika?
• 44:16
  Well, that was a bit
• 44:19
  awkward, to say the least.
• 44:21
  I suppose things are in order.
• 44:24
  Well done in solving the mystery and
• 44:27
  we appreciate you all joining in on the
• 44:29
  festivities. I'm sure
• 44:32
  we can get someone to get you over to
• 44:35
  Whaletail Island right away.
• 44:38
  Ley, ley, would
• 44:41
  you mind taking these wonderful folks to
• 44:44
  Whaletail Island?
• 44:45
  Oh, yes, of course.
• 44:47
  Thank you very much.
• 44:48
  All right, I just got to take care of one thing
• 44:51
  here. I'm, um, going to go
• 44:54
  and find the old man.
• 44:56
  You you ate my pie
• 44:59
  and now I'm out of crackers. And you took
• 45:02
  all my spoons. Where are my spoons?
• 45:05
  Where is my interest payment?
• 45:07
  Here's your spoons. Here's your spoon. He starts just sucking
• 45:10
  on the spoon. Each, uh, one he like, takes each
• 45:13
  one individually and sucks on it for a second. And I've also
• 45:16
  brought you this. And I pull out an
• 45:19
  empty glass of milk.
• 45:22
  A little trickle in the bottom. He grabs it out
• 45:25
  of your hand and he just sticks his nose into it, goes.
• 45:32
  It'S m fresh.
• 45:34
  But that's not it. Did I pull out a half
• 45:36
  full bottle of cinnamon?
• 45:40
  He jams his nose into that and goes.
• 45:45
  Also fresh. All right, have a nice
• 45:48
  day. Thank you. You're a good boy.
• 45:51
  Yes, you are.
• 45:53
  Back up slowly.
• 45:54
  Bye.
• 45:55
  And run away.
• 45:58
  Lose myself in the crowd. Yes. All right.
• 46:00
  Um, and eventually you push your way through that crowd
• 46:03
  and you find yourself at, uh, the docks. You see
• 46:06
  Bill standing out on a boat. Um, you see Lay
• 46:09
  walking up and.
• 46:10
  He says, oh, wow, you found my boat very
• 46:13
  fast and got it ready
• 46:16
  for sailing. Did I leave it like that?
• 46:19
  Well, I must have gotten a bit excited for the
• 46:22
  festival and completely forgot about putting things.
• 46:26
  Like is everyone here? Think so?
• 46:29
  I think so. Mika here. Mika, are you
• 46:33
  all right? Good. All right, we turn around. There's Mika.
• 46:36
  Oh, she's just standing there on the
• 46:38
  boat, quietly.
• 46:42
  Uh, so he climbs onto the boat and with
• 46:45
  that, you guys take off into the
• 46:47
  waters towards the island in the distance that you
• 46:50
  know, is Whaletail Island. So they were,
• 46:57
  uh, uh, it took a
• 47:00
  little so that means Way stole
• 47:03
  it. Yeah, he stole it.
• 47:05
  If he didn't have any buttons sewn into his jacket, it would have
• 47:08
  been over a lot quicker. But what does that mean?
• 47:11
  What does that mean? Uh,
• 47:14
  I don't know. Why did you get the guards to shake him
• 47:17
  down? Did you just point to him and say, shake that guy
• 47:20
  down? Sort of,
• 47:23
  yeah. Brock, what's up? Did
• 47:25
  you Earth bend?
• 47:29
  Nah. You.
• 47:34
  I can't earth bend, Brock.
• 47:39
  No, I don't know what you're talking about. Okay.
• 47:42
  You should have been there. It's one of those jokes. You should have been there. I
• 47:45
  had to be there. It was a rigorous multi step
• 47:48
  investigation. Ah. Uh,
• 47:51
  there's a lot of steps. That's probably why I left early, because it
• 47:54
  sounded like a lot of work and
• 47:57
  I was starting to suspect Kate.
• 48:01
  I think he was too dumb to do
• 48:05
  know. I thought that was maybe an act.
• 48:10
  All lies have an element of truth to
• 48:14
  know. So the biggest lie was
• 48:17
  just they were fake? Both, I'm assuming.
• 48:20
  Yeah, both. Uh, that's what the crowd was.
• 48:23
  Yeah. I saw the first broken one, and then I saw them carrying away the
• 48:26
  second one. And then I heard the crowd go. I heard a loud
• 48:29
  gasp, so I figured that's when they broke the second
• 48:32
  one. Yes. Ah.
• 48:35
  That's when I came out here. Uh, switched
• 48:38
  the place pretty quickly,
• 48:40
  like you did something wrong. I did nothing
• 48:43
  wrong. Okay. Uh, he's really
• 48:46
  wanted to come boating with good
• 48:49
  little Broding. Little Broding.
• 48:52
  That's right. And then Mika showed up behind us.
• 48:56
  How long were you standing here for?
• 48:58
  Literally the whole time.
• 49:01
  The whole time? I was fixing the boat. She's just watching
• 49:04
  you. She's just been
• 49:07
  silently watching you, just like, from the shore. You watched me
• 49:09
  do all of that work and didn't even offer to help?
• 49:14
  I just saw you meant with you guys. I've literally been here the whole
• 49:17
  time.
• 49:17
  Oh, okay.
• 49:19
  Well hey, Ley, how far is it to
• 49:22
  this island? It's not that far. We'll
• 49:25
  be there soon. Are you sure you're in any condition to
• 49:28
  drive a boat? Um, having your whole
• 49:31
  religion just tear it away from you. You know,
• 49:34
  I'm definitely in a bit of mental
• 49:37
  turmoil, but I like to see, and
• 49:40
  it relaxes me. And,
• 49:42
  uh, I'm close to shui shui
• 49:45
  here, so, uh, I feel like I'll be
• 49:47
  okay. All of us are in a bit of turmoil,
• 49:50
  too. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
• 49:53
  What's wrong? What's wrong?
• 49:56
  Uh,
• 49:59
  we're searching for a will.
• 50:02
  Well, where there's a will, there's a way. That's
• 50:05
  right.
• 50:08
  Man, Bill, I was distracted with this whole
• 50:11
  festival. Now you gotta bring me back to reality. I
• 50:14
  mean, that's all I've been thinking about, this whole
• 50:17
  like that's why I didn't really care about the stone or any of
• 50:20
  that, because why should I worry about their problems? I have
• 50:23
  bigger problems of my own right now.
• 50:26
  Yeah. Sorry to be real Debbie
• 50:29
  Downer guys, but, uh, I want
• 50:32
  to find that treasure, so
• 50:36
  I got my priorities straight. I
• 50:39
  want to make sure you guys do, too. You still have that letter that Mr. M.
• 50:42
  O'cong gave you? Yeah, I did. I
• 50:45
  might have cried a little when I read. So can you read it again?
• 50:48
  I kind of forgot what it, uh yeah,
• 50:51
  maybe next time. Maybe when we get to
• 50:54
  land, that would make more sense, because that's when we
• 50:57
  actually have to track down pieces and stuff,
• 50:59
  like step by step. Yeah, but from a man who's
• 51:02
  got his priority straight. He should have it memorized.
• 51:06
  I don't even have the letter anymore. You just said you had
• 51:09
  it. No, I gave it to Mika. Did you not just
• 51:12
  say 10 seconds ago you had it?
• 51:14
  When did you give it to me?
• 51:15
  When you kept badgering me about it.
• 51:20
  You literally just said that you have it.
• 51:22
  We all say stuff, Brock. We all
• 51:25
  say stuff. We're all changed, people.
• 51:28
  You changed in 20 seconds. Oh, I still
• 51:31
  have it. Phil's just
• 51:34
  padding his body looking for it,
• 51:36
  nervous, like, oh, crap. Oh, yes,
• 51:39
  here it is. I never gave it to Mika. So what's it
• 51:42
  say? So we got some time to think about it
• 51:45
  before we get to Whaletail Island, because time is of the essence
• 51:48
  here.
• 51:48
  I think it'll be that much more dramatic if we save
• 51:51
  the reading of the letter again for next
• 51:54
  time.
• 51:59
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