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S1-Ep.22: Podi-Yums · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily Pad production.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Team Up Play Show podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the City of Bones.
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  Speaker 2: Elena Ebarka was a Titan of an Evo, A hul
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  Speaker 2: kingwoman gifted with strength and speed. She was chosen to
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  Speaker 2: be the head of security and policing as the Venus
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  Speaker 2: Pilgrims planned to begin a new society in the stars
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  Speaker 2: all those years ago. To her great dess, for she
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  Speaker 2: was a humble woman. She was put on the new
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  Speaker 2: Babel ten dollar bill, and the New Babel Prison was
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  Speaker 2: named after her. It sits on the west side of
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  Speaker 2: the city, in no man's land. There and Angel the Doll.
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  Speaker 2: Your former client Ronnie is taken to the psych ward
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  Speaker 2: of a Barka prison. There she is to stay and rehabilitate.
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  Speaker 3: Yay, rehabilitation. Let's hope.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure it can't be worse than reality.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy, oh, no, no comments. Dear Jamir has one more
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  Speaker 2: downtime point. I believe in Threadchasing, you were going to
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  Speaker 2: seek out the Wraith, Jamir.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna look for the Wraith.
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  Speaker 2: How are you going about such a task?
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I'd probably spend like one day just
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  Speaker 3: kind of flying around the shoot in costume, and then
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  Speaker 3: think to myself, hold on a sec I got a
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  Speaker 3: friend who's fastest light and can feel bodies through their
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  Speaker 3: tingling neurons, and I'm I'm gonna circle back. See if
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  Speaker 3: Quantus free to help doing some scanning. As we're looking
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  Speaker 3: for an elderly superpowered gunslinger or sentient gun.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know ghost gun like imagine Clippy exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I love imagining Clippy. I just hey, I just love
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  Speaker 4: imagining Clippy and a sentence.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like you're making it out line.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like you're reaching for your hip. Great, so
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  Speaker 2: coming Quantas coming along?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it'd be good to think about something else
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  Speaker 1: after what happened at Angel's house and all that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, I really appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, might be helpful to have someone sneaky too.
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  Speaker 4: I'm already here. Come out of the shadows.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you can just travel through paper whenever you want,
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  Speaker 1: I'm never going to get used to that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's convenient, I'll say that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm so glad that you popped out
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  Speaker 1: of that Shu's face.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're looking for the Wraith spelled with a doubu.
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  Speaker 4: Is there another spelled helps well, because you feel paper
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  Speaker 4: and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Oh, so if they have like a name tag
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  Speaker 3: or or like I don't know, if people wrote like, ooh,
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  Speaker 3: the wraith was here. Let me put this on a
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  Speaker 3: piece of paper stable to I don't know. Well, didn't
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  Speaker 3: you get into a scrape where the wraith showed up?
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  Speaker 3: I did. That was at the end of the shoot.
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  Speaker 3: But people, there's stories of the wraith all in the shoot,
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  Speaker 3: up and down left right center.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe we can start with where you've actually seen them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's start there.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll take care to where the fight was.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been to the shoot before.
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  Speaker 4: I've been once. I'm pretty much an expert. M It'll
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  Speaker 4: be good for your faces to be seen. People will
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  Speaker 4: appreciate seeing you there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this face. I pulled my cowl up over my.
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  Speaker 3: Nose, exactly your your masked faces, you know, seeing that
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  Speaker 3: heroes like yourselves are proud to be in the shoot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of course, I'm just I'm a little embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been before.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great place.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see it.
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  Speaker 3: I hop on a flight star offer a hand to
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  Speaker 3: the phantom.
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  Speaker 4: I'll just glide covide behind you.
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  Speaker 3: Very cool.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I'll hold onto one corner of your star.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty dope.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take the hand that was harder to.
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  Speaker 2: Jason, and you guys fly over the top of the
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  Speaker 2: curved concrete tube that used to be used to keep
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  Speaker 2: the belching fires of the space barges away from the citizens.
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  Speaker 2: As you head west, you head very very west to
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  Speaker 2: the very west end of the chute, where the city
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  Speaker 2: becomes no man's land. You might imagine that as you
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  Speaker 2: get that far west, before the city turns into nothing,
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  Speaker 2: there is there's a lot of industrial factories, industrial district
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  Speaker 2: as you get to the end of the city, and
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  Speaker 2: here was where Jamir had his fight with the flog
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  Speaker 2: as they were trying to enter and steal the fruits
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  Speaker 2: and veggies of the hut.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, you you get here, Everybody, go ahead and roll me.
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  Speaker 2: You can roll a sense check, you can roll I
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  Speaker 2: think sense. If you're just kind of looking around, this
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  Speaker 2: isn't much investigation going on, But you can roll investigation
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  Speaker 2: too if you're If you're looking for clues, both are
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  Speaker 2: D six is for your bowie.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do sense and have my scan open, looking for
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  Speaker 1: an elderly marksman or the gun itself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll hit it with some paper cents, just if
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  Speaker 4: there's any who writing numbers on bullet casing shells.
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  Speaker 1: I rolled the highest I can roll on both die s.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, this is a Titanic check a D twenty plus
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  Speaker 2: a D eight. My two can't beat it, no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't roll well, I rolled a seven.
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  Speaker 3: You roll bad? Nice?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a seven. I cry to the tissues
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  Speaker 4: float up out of my pockets. That's so convenient. You
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  Speaker 4: could just make those. Yeah, you need to choose them.
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  Speaker 4: You guys want maybe money.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe later.
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  Speaker 4: I'll manifest a cigarette.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about allergy season, you know, maybe in
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  Speaker 1: the spring. It'd be nice just to.
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  Speaker 3: They have little pocket tissue things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but those run out and then you got to
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  Speaker 1: get another one.
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  Speaker 2: Jason and Jimmy, you guys look around just using your eyes,
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  Speaker 2: trying to sense paper, not able to see anything special. Jimmy,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably looking for footprints or bootprints out in the daylight,
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  Speaker 2: out out where you thought the bullets might be coming
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  Speaker 2: from Quanta. You scan over the area and you and
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  Speaker 2: something on the top lip of the shoot.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's something up there, Guys, I'll wish undo
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  Speaker 1: my scarf as my whip and retract retract it up,
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  Speaker 1: magnetize it to the top of the shoot and reverse
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  Speaker 1: mission impossible.
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  Speaker 3: Myself up, very cool, Jason and I hover up.
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  Speaker 4: I know you can add this out effects later, but
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  Speaker 4: I just out loud say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jimi, or flies Jason up. As Jason goes, you
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  Speaker 2: look down Quanta and you see like a utility box,
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  Speaker 2: just like a chest that would hold.
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  Speaker 3: Cleaning tools for shoot cleaners.
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  Speaker 2: There's a ladder on like that goes up the side
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  Speaker 2: of the huote that leads to this spot. This would
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  Speaker 2: be a place for maintenance in the olden days when
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  Speaker 2: the shoot was used for its primary purpose, now obviously abandoned.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a padlock on this small chest.
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  Speaker 1: Who wants to do the honors?
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  Speaker 3: I can uh take a crack at it, Jimmy subversed
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  Speaker 3: to himself. Way too pleased with that half joke. As
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  Speaker 3: I try to crack.
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  Speaker 2: Open the lock, Yeah, Jimmy, or no role, you're strong enough?
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  Speaker 3: Oh hell yeah? He just he just breaks in half
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  Speaker 3: like a cracker man, like a buttery round crack.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, it's not a huge chest. It comes up to
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  Speaker 2: your shins. You open the lid. Yeah, you open the
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  Speaker 2: lid and inside you see a small disc. This is
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  Speaker 2: what's pulsing with energy?
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  Speaker 1: WHOA do I can I discern anything else about it?
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  Speaker 5: Is?
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  Speaker 3: What's it?
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  Speaker 2: There's no writing on a blank CD. Is it similar
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  Speaker 2: at all to the ever heart pulsing?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Let me maybe describe it better. It's a it's a
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  Speaker 2: disc like a CD. No, it's larger sorry, like a record.
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  Speaker 1: Like like a like a VHS tape rolled up.
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  Speaker 2: No, I would say instead of saying small disc, I
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  Speaker 2: would say it's a small platform that one could stand up.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's static sort of energy. Yeah, kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a static shock disc. But it's it's hardware, it's it's metal,
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  Speaker 2: it's uh you. It doesn't have any buttons or lights.
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  Speaker 3: That you can see.
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  Speaker 1: What about wiring?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wiring certainly on the inside.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that's it's giving off electricity. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what this is.
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  Speaker 3: Quanta, how much did you beat me by that?
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  Speaker 4: Roll?
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  Speaker 3: Seven?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's more than five?
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  Speaker 3: Truly?
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  Speaker 2: You focus?
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  Speaker 1: Wowson, it's like it's like white noise.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Keep going just helps me tune out everything else.
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  Speaker 2: You focus on beating me by seven you can follow
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  Speaker 2: the trail of energy and power through blank space.
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  Speaker 1: What like, I can see what it's connected to.
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  Speaker 2: Just connected to the electric grid of the city. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: but the space above the disc, you can feel energy
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  Speaker 2: floating from that empty space through empty space. Two points
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  Speaker 2: all along the chute and in the station.
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  Speaker 1: It's Jayson, keep going, keep going. Yeah, I can like
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  Speaker 1: there's like points it's connected to. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: kind of like when I sense where lightning's going, uh huh,
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  Speaker 1: like through through the air.
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  Speaker 4: Do you mind which can you show me the points?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a piece of paper not on me?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like electrify my finger so that I can
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  Speaker 5: like burn a map of new Babble onto the piece
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  Speaker 5: of paper.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You have this little map now, Jamiir. You look at
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  Speaker 2: it and you remember immediately a map that at one
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  Speaker 2: time Jackie showed you of her following the Wraith around. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and and sightings claimed sightings kind of cryptid style sightings.
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  Speaker 2: And Jackie's map was much more crude and much more sporadic.
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  Speaker 2: But you can kind of see the outline of the
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  Speaker 2: same general shape.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, I think the Wraith is using these to summon
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  Speaker 3: itself or appear or something.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm, at the very least set up some kind
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  Speaker 4: of sniper's nest or maybe the raithase these Hello.
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  Speaker 3: I start tapping on the disc. Hello, are you the Wraith? Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Woah wah wah wah wah wah wah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like I I can travel through these points?
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  Speaker 1: What if they can too? Whoa what if it's someone
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  Speaker 1: like me? I don't know, I mean I can't. That
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  Speaker 1: would be crazy bend bullets. I haven't tried.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: So do we just wait at one of these points?
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  Speaker 1: Or should we?
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  Speaker 4: Should we take it? Is that wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's plugged into the grid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can.
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  Speaker 4: Let me. Let me ask you a question. Shoot, if
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  Speaker 4: the Wraith shows up here right now? Yes, what do
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  Speaker 4: you want to know from them? Why do we need
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  Speaker 4: the Wraith?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I want to know if the race on
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  Speaker 3: our side and if they'll help us. They're one of
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  Speaker 3: the most powerful superheroes that I know about.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if these devices are connected, maybe instead of taking one,
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  Speaker 4: we could send a message. And I looked at Quanta. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: leave leave a note in some respects.
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  Speaker 3: In some respects, yes, or also literally, we can leave
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  Speaker 3: a note.
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  Speaker 4: Also, let's do literally leave a note. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know where we're going to get paper at this hour.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys have a fond preference.
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  Speaker 1: Oh can you can you print? Can you print words?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Whoa, that's not overpowered. That doesn't break the game. If
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  Speaker 4: I can do things in comic saying, let's do let's
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  Speaker 4: do typewriters new Babylonian typewriters.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good good curning.
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  Speaker 4: What what's curning the space between the letters?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, very readable.
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  Speaker 1: I'm adding that to my vocab curning.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of note do you leave for the race?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 3: We know the thought that right, right right? What do
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  Speaker 3: you want to say? Rachel? Dear Wraith, Hello, this is Rachel.
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  Speaker 3: We fought together once.
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  Speaker 4: You saved me like you behaved so many others. Please,
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  Speaker 4: the city needs you again and we heroes need your guidance.
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  Speaker 3: If you okay? Sorry? Knowledge question? Would I would? Would
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  Speaker 3: I know that the Wraith did? Did the Wraith ever
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  Speaker 3: interact with ever Wing back in the day? Would I
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  Speaker 3: have any knowledge of this?
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  Speaker 2: The Wraith is not a hero of olden times, just
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  Speaker 2: a legend of the shoot us to leg a modern
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  Speaker 2: a more modern legend of the shoot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're getting this message, meet us back here
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  Speaker 3: at one am on and then whatever the date is,
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  Speaker 3: three days from now, got it? Sincerely Rachel.
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  Speaker 4: And it's Rachel with a W in front of no
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  Speaker 4: oh game, just a straight up r Yeah, print off
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  Speaker 4: this note, ding folded up, leave it. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you want to also try and communicate with the
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  Speaker 4: electrical signals to do something, but we can just leave
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  Speaker 4: this in their little case.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see if I can at least send some kind
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  Speaker 1: of pulse that would, if they could track, it, would
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  Speaker 1: lead them back to this spot.
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  Speaker 4: Like a notification you've got mail, let them know that
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  Speaker 4: they've mailed.
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  Speaker 1: Just a little vibration in their wraith the pocket. I'll
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  Speaker 1: put my hand on the disc and focus on those
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  Speaker 1: points and just try to give a little, like a
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  Speaker 1: little blip of different energy coming from this spot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, handsom, Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just yeah, one one big way. If they're close by
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  Speaker 1: to one of these that they would feel street they
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  Speaker 1: can march check with control electricity.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is a difficult check. I'm only a D twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Oh pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I rolled a seven eleven. So to your understanding, of
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  Speaker 2: this device and of your powers. You feel like you've
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  Speaker 2: left a signal.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the best I could do without just
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  Speaker 1: traveling to eat to these places.
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  Speaker 3: That's good. Thank you, This is exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for bringing us.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, are you guys doing anything right now?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Do we have like a Bob Mob b a Bob Moss.
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  Speaker 4: Bob Ross, Bob Moss, Bob Boss.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't there a Bob Ross convention? We got a bit too.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta break some schools today. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't there a meeting of the families tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Is that tonight?
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  Speaker 2: That would be tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm ahead of schedule.
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  Speaker 3: So what we're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna do is we're gonna come out of downtime up
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  Speaker 2: time up Timbo tonight. There is the debate between those candidates.
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  Speaker 2: So what I kind of want to do is like
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  Speaker 2: put you guys at the manor hanging out eating popcorn,
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  Speaker 2: catching up face mask night and watching the debate.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, perfect debate party.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jamir, did you make any debate themed snacks?
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, debate theme snacks? Yes, if you were dude, you
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  Speaker 3: say that one. That's a stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Jimiir, did you make any snacks for the debate?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you got it setups long, but the worthy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, these guys, I just come up with this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think the theme for the night is sweet
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  Speaker 3: versus spicy. So there's a lot there's there's kind of
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  Speaker 3: two sides. You know, you got like neutral bassis, you
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of like pita chips, and then it's like,
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  Speaker 3: do you want to go like a sweet cinnamony dip
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  Speaker 3: or do you want to go like a spicy hummus
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  Speaker 3: with lots of peppers in it dip?
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  Speaker 4: The two political parties being as sweet as spicy and
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  Speaker 4: new Battle. The snacks are just showing the diversity of
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  Speaker 4: choice and they're enjoyable, yummy.
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  Speaker 2: Maria is there with Jamir getting ready the podiums and
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  Speaker 2: setting out some tea and some drinks. You guys are
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  Speaker 2: snuggling in for a night of watching this debate.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Jason, I've been meaning to ask him. How are
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  Speaker 1: you holding up?
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  Speaker 4: Oh great, I'm like still in full paper gear, like
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  Speaker 4: wearing a giant trench coat in Fedora's doing great?
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  Speaker 3: Never better?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean, Well, we're here whenever you want
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  Speaker 1: to talk, Yeah, like politics or oh about Arthur? Oh
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  Speaker 1: oh and the library.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well I'm gonna step out of my The trench
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  Speaker 4: coat is going to stay in place, and I'll just
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: step forward out of it like like a doctor strange
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: cape situation that stays upright behind me. And you see
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  Speaker 4: now that Jason has almost like a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: like a scruffy, crappy beard and bags under his eyes.
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  Speaker 4: He's not slept in a week. It's got like sweatstains
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  Speaker 4: on his T shirt. Yeah, I get I should be
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  Speaker 4: honest with you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Please, Arthur isn't, strictly speaking, literally dead. I look at
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  Speaker 3: Quanta the nervous. No, no, guys here right now with us.
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  Speaker 3: He's in the room. Where is he in the room, Jason?
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  Speaker 3: Is he on the count?
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  Speaker 1: Anyone here besides us?
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  Speaker 5: No?
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I know you guys think I'm crazy, but I literally
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: mean he's right here.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Please explain, Jason. We're all listening.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Fine, I lift up my shirt and Arthur's face manifests
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: in Jason, I live between your nipples closing down, shirt down.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: No, I'm real, I'm real.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I I can I can I touch you? Art?
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: What? Why would you?
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I guess I don't.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I just want to because I can't sense what's happening
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: in this paper void in Jesus chest I'm just curious.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: No, no, I'm in here now, I'm I'm the void warden.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, thank you. I put my shirt down like
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: the dog and yeah, yeah do you want to do
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: you want to say Arthur? Okay, lit my shirt back up. Yes,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: it's just like the dog that lay down in the
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: puppies that were the bombs of life.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, and the vision exactly.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: But my brother Brian, he was he was in the
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: book before me, yes, and before I died. I transferred
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: my spirit in here. So we're just talking to this
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: chest head.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my eyes are up here.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Guys, do.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Not show peopul this, Jason. This is fuck.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: It's really what's.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Wrong with your dad living between your nipples?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't my dad living between mind nipples?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Do I have to say it? Because I did? Did
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I not need to say that? Did that go without saying?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Maria grabs the remote to the TV at starting?
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: But anyway, I just wanted to let you guys know
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: that Arthur's here always in a weird way, which is comforting.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: The intro to new Babel News sweeps over.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I reluctantly tear my eyes away.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm just eating popcorn. Now does that?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Does he eat it too?
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: No?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: That's what can you feed him? I could, I guess,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: get all stuff in there. I don't know, get crumb
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: in the pages.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yes. Sure.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You see the televised debate, there is a single moderator
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: and two podiums. On the podiums on the right is
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Cordula Soma, and then on the left is Henry Hill
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: and Connor Signer. You guys kind of missed the intro
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: as you were talking about talking to Arthur in Jason's chest,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: and so Connor the moderator, Connor Signer of New Babel News,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: is starting with his first question, Now, why mess with
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the status quo? People are content and happy. This may
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: have ran on, don't try to fix what's not broken?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Are you trying to fix what's not broken? Both the
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: candidates laugh and glance at one another.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Henry says we're here.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: To debate each other, but I can speak for both
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: of us, saying that your statement and the following question
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: were so full of assumptions and lies. Cordula says, yes,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: of course, people are not content, and perhaps a very
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: few powerful and wealthy people are happy, but most of
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: the city is not wealthy and not powerful.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Tell of Cordula.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Henry says, there is much that is broken and much
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: that needs fixing. Though I disagree in important matters with
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: my opponent, I believe she would be a far greater
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: mayor for the people of the city than our current situation.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Correct out of the race, Cordula says, I agree. I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: want to bring about real change. But Henry is an
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: honorable man, even though he is locked in an antiquated
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: way of governing.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Hell, yes, antiquated way of governing. Sorry, are we just
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: yelling at the TV.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I'd be disappointed to lose, But Henry would be a
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: much better mayor than Mayor Stephenson, who is a crook
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: and a liar and an abuser of power.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Well, this is polite.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Now ask us a question that matters to the people.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Connor, whoa spicy This is the spicy part of the debate.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Let's give me that spicy dip.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: They drone on about stuff for a while, and you
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: guys can take the time in between two catch up.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Oo.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, Jason, So this is magic? Is this like as
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: best as you understand it?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Is this like Arthur's soul is like still living, He's
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: like getting new experiences and changing it, evolving. Or is
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: this like a crystallization of your thoughts and ideas and
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: memories of Arthur manifesting in yourself.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, huh?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Let me yeah.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Let me just first say, since it's debate and night,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: let me say thank you for that excellent question, Rojo.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I'm just wondering, like you're saying, he's not dead. Is
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: this like a mufasa he lives in you?
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Or is this like his soul is literally now cohabbing
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: your body with your soul. I think the answer is yes, yes,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: I mean right, he's in there, like he talks to
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: me and sees stuff and says stuff and we disagree.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: So I I think there's a degree of him that's
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: still alive. He does seem a little don't tell him this,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: but he does seem a little grumpier, a little little
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: little more wily than than before. I don't know if
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: it's like the annihilation stuff or living just being bored
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: in a paper void.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Jason. I mean, respectfully, I disagree with
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: myself all the time.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: That hard both of you, as you look at Jason
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: and ask this prime question, Jamir, both of you roll
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a spirit check as you look at Jason, Jamiir, You're
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: welcome to add some magic to this quantity.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: You can add your sense while you're doing that. I'm
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: trying to feed chips into the book.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I'm a little distracted watching that. I feel like I
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: should roll low.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Ooh, roll a roll a spirit check against them. Jason,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: are we empowering here?
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yes? You can add a paper something or something, yeah,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: pepier whatever like represents your connection to the book and
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: the spirit realm there.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Sure, okay, I got an eleven.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Ten, I got a twelve.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Ten, eleven twelve quantity. You're distracted by Jason trying to
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: feed paper Arthur.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why I even asked. It's yeah,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: of course, you can't feed chips on paper, getting hummus
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: all over the pages.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Christmas Roger, you remember your latest interaction with powers beyond
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: magic that's out there in the world, and you channel
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: some of that. You remember Alethias saying there's realms beyond
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: your own that hug and encompass your world, and you
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: dig into that thought a little bit as you search
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: for Arthur within Jason. Arthur twelve is not a mega success.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: But I think you gather that when Jason says yes
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: to both things, there is a way in which he's right.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: The Arthur that speaks out of Jason is for the
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: most part, and this is sensitive information, so do with
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: this what you will. But for the most part, the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: voice that speaks out of Jason is Jason's idea of
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Arthur and who he is and what he was, whereas
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Arthur's presence is somewhere through this portal that is Jason.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: WHOA. I'll just say, I'm glad your dad's still with you.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Brother.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Oh thanks? Yeah, I mean losing the library and my job,
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: and you know, the mob knowing my identity, it's it's
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: all a lot.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: It's a lot.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I've been there. It's it's tough. I'm sorry.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll have to figure out something we have to do.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys have noticed. I haven't
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: slept in like a week.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks that way, buddy.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: I also haven't had access to a shower. Do you
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: mind if I shower? Please write? I mean, I can turn,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: I can get the water warmed up.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Brother.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll tell you.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: What pause do we have pause?
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: No?
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Well, Connor continues, you guys missed a couple questions, but
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: he says, no, why don't you discuss your competence in
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: keeping this city safe?
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: As a former criminal?
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: He looks at Cordoula and he puts quotes around the
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: word former. As a former criminal and a disgraced police lieutenant,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: how can you promise to keep people safe as our
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: good mayor has Cordula talks about crime reform and trying
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: to give more money to the people than to the police.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Henry talks about intensely. He goes at Cordula for being
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: weak in this point. He talks pretty ardently about police reform,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: getting the bad police to Ebarka, and cleaning up the
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: corrupt city by uniting the police under the mayor's office
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: so there's more supervision and regulation.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: I think that moderator was being sarcastic. Hard to tell.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: It's just I hate how much the mayor controls.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean they're right. It's not like the
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: city's been particularly safe since we've since we've been at work,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: you know, we've had a couple of giant monster freaks.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: There's definitely a superpowered day person from a bygone era
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: out and about loose in the city. We don't know
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: if she's danger to herself for others. What else am
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: I forgetting? Oh the Wraith? Were still gonna find the wraith?
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is crazy thought. Do you think you would
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: move the needle if any of us like got in
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: front of some cameras, like talk to the citizenry of
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: our fair city, or like endorsed a candidate, or just
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: endorsed a not candidate. You know, just said, hey, vote
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: your conscience. But if your conscience is telling you to
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: not have a vote, then don't listen to your conscience. Yeah,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: then vote this come bag out before he destroys our
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: city forever. End of sentence.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah maybe that's better then, because we don't know exactly
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: how the city feels about us being heroes. Yeah, so
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: maybe coming out in favor of somebody might do more
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: hart than good.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, Jillian said that that are our profiles is
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: you know, like people. She knows people are generally positive
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: about us. She also told me, I mean, with what
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: they were talking about with the police. She also told
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: me about this crazy thing in Koso where people were
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: just having a part. Oh, my god, Rachel, you were there.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: She was telling me about it. Really, the people were
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: just having a party and they were drinking, and then
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: seven pm rolled around and the police just started shooting
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and rating.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: It was terrible.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: It's things are out of control and they're only going
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: to get worse if this.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Mayor is allowed to have another term. We haven't even
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: seen the darkest shit. I think, Oh, is this that
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: story with thunderfist Ron. I think I read about that.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: What thunderfist Ron? Is that what we're talking you now?
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: That's all I remember from the article.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, OHO's thunderfiest run.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: He's a guy, cool guy, cool guys.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: So cool.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: No, he's an ass hat.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Ask for a hat and thunder for a fist and
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: ron for a name.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: He doesn't even have like three strikes giving himself like
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: thunderous fist abilities.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: It's all just bullshit. You can be thunder fist.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Quanta after lightning.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Oh sorry, true? Oh I could do. I wiggle some
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: paper and make like the thunder sound.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Dude, if you ever like turned evil though, thunderfist would
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: be a fud like dark alter ego for you.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, are you planning on becoming evil?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not planning on becoming a bad cop.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, just like just like imagine you but instead
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: of like all lit up, it's like all like dark,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: like black light.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would. I want to see if I my
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: suit could do that.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you could probably uncover some gross crime scenes.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Maria, Maria, what was less than this casuals gleed And
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: what of the economy?
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Our current mayor has generated so much wealth through job
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: making for the people of this city, and neither of
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: you are really in a place to do that sort
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: of thing. Cordula answers about giving wealth back to the people,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: which is her continued talking point, creating enough fresh food
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: through the space barge to supply food so that the
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: people of New Babel don't have to rely on the
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: dry dock or Shabrath farms as the soul providers. She
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: talks about expanding the biodome tech into No Man's Land
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: to provide even more. She talks about supporting small businesses
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: and creators of goods in the city, trying to build wealth. Here,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Henry talks about the wealth of the world around them,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: predictably that could be given to New Babbel through talks
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: with the outside world. He talks about the things promised
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: to New Babbel. He talks, he brings up the mint
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: again and that the American mint has been gifted to
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: New Babbel, that they could print American money. He has
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: talked about trade. He talks about trading some of the
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: scientific secrets with the outside world to build wealth here.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: And they go on about this for a bit. So
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: quata having checked in for a sec, Howard, what's going
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: on with the church these days?
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: It really seems like nothing like things have kind of
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: gone quiet. The council quiet spread out, They're not meeting
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: as far as I can.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Tell, and honestly makes me a little more nervous. I
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: don't know why, but the c NBD always gave me
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: the hebgbis.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, as it as it rightly should. And I
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: still hate the part that I played in it. But
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: oh I am I had a third day vision?
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: What what?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I I kind of stayed stayed at the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: X really late.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: And wait what you have stayed at the X?
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: No, what we call the Y.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I stayed at my exes? Was it the Z?
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: I think it might have been Z or the NB.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I say, the X Y or Z.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of stayed late and uh kind of
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: like forced myself into a state of drowning in the pool.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Oh dark.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just what I could think of, and I
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: went back into a vision. Oh I saw you guys
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: would probably both be so interested in this.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: I saw.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I think I saw part of the Eva War. Whoa,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I saw a tempest. Do you know who that is? Rachel?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I'm engineer, Sorry, a masked dunmasked It's Rachel.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: You've certainly heard the name Tempest.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've definitely read some comic books, heard a
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: couple of stories. Never knew what was true.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: She seemed like she was kind of like me, maybe
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: more like weather. Yeah, but I saw her death, oh shit,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: trying to protect the Evos in New Babble because they
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: were just coming after them, even like we saw, like
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: we all saw together, Johnny.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Would there be like Eva War history books or is
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: this like a very unreported history?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: No, there would be, Uh, it certainly could have been taught.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Would Jason have read any of those books? Yeah, rollan
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: knowledge check. What are you trying to remember here?
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Just if there's if there's any other context about the
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: EVO wars and and specifically how Tempest.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Is connected to it.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I suppose sure, or just an average check to see
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: what you remember from school.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: I wrote a.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Five gooby Booby, But I think I think both Jamir
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: and Jason. Jason, you probably remember a little bit more historically. Jamir,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: you just know kind of anecdotally from stories and comics.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: The Tempest was EVO hero like she was both. She
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: was an activist for the EVO people while at the
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: same time just trying like she wasn't you know, you've
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: heard of Blaine or you've heard of brock Dan and
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: those guys were more like politicians and trailblazers of that sort,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: where she was a true hero while at the same
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: time being a true EVO activist.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: Interesting, So you're saying that this was this Tempest was
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: an EVO yeah, but also connected to the source of
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: your power, like.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: The Yeah, yeah, I talked to my sky Mommy. I
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: don't know, I think the Earth. I think the Earth
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: is talking to me.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: My dad lives.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I know, like you, I put my head yeah, and
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: she she seems yeah, she told I think I'm an
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: EVO but I'm not. I'm not human, but I think
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I'm an evo. Devo s no, I like it?
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Or yes, a divo?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Ronnie is far? Are we looking at her? And there's
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I think there's she. She showed me somebody else who's
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: an evo, but he's a human. I haven't got around
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: to going to check on him, but she showed me
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: where he is. So maybe that we could add that
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: to our list of things, you know, maybe below mob bosses.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: But yeah, and.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: That's kind of my number one priority.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: But he looked he looked scared.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Hey, you can always add him to our home for
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: wayward weirdos in your basement here.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be I don't know if I want to
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: live with him or anything. That'd be you know, kind
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: of weird.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Understood, understood, mm hmm. But another powered person out in
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: the city. That's that's kind of insane, right. Yeah.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Actually i've met him before I knew this about him. Yeah,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: this is seems like an interesting question that they're asking
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: the candidates.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Connor takes a handkerchief out of his pocket and wipes
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: his brow. He's getting pretty sweaty. He says, no, Miss.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Josh, now, Miss Soma, you or crime boss leader? Are
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: you not leader of a gang, and Henry, I'm not
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: sure you're much better. The True American gang has been
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: doing acts of criminality in graffiti In your name is
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: not really a.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Question, but criminality and graffiti.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Graffiti and graffiti should have fuck of you square loitering.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Cordula talks about plans to give the gang to her son,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: the Soma Prince, and cutting.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Ties as a crime boss.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: She also speaks again about regulating crime instead of imprisoning
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: and demonizing. She says some pretty extreme stuff.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Sure she might be losing the people here, but she's
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: speaking to the shoot that's for sure.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: There's some talk about like legalizing certain things that would
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: certainly scandalize people.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Lies.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Oh I met, My moms are clutching their pearls.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, people be clutching.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: I wonder what the regulations would say about a giant
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Shakespearean speaking Rhino man. Is that a crime? Is it
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: a crime?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: He hasn't asked me questions about any of that, or
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: like about us, Yeah, that's true, asking about us.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, are we going to be in this debate?
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: I think we would come up naturally at soo.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Henry condemns any violent and criminal acts of the True
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: America gang sternly weak. He says that their passion is
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: admirable but misguided, and he's planning to meet with their
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: leaders to try to re aim their passions. You guys
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: have heard about the True America Gang from from time
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: to time. Now. They've been a gang in the city
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: for a long time. They're not one of the you
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: know four five or the five regional gangs. They are
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: their own thing get together throughout the city. They have
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: been kind of the laughing stock of the gangs in
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: New Babbel.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: They ride around with American flags.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: They yes, they they they patch together American flags that
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: are normally wrong because like there's they yes, there's books
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: about it, but they don't you know, they don't care
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: too much. But it's a lot of red, white and blue.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of skin side of the heads, mohawks,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: a lot of hover bikes, a lot of chains, boxing
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: gloves with spikes out of them.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: They're kind of yeah, they're kind of like.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: A clown gang situation. But with Henry hilland coming into
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: such a public place in the city's view, they have
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: been empowered and have been doing a lot more activity,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: hailing Henry as kind of their Messaiah Messianic type take
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: us back to the Promised Land. Some pretty dangerous religious talk.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Oh I don't like that.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like anyone who has eagle painted on
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: their pants.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it is stupid to think
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: that rejoining America will help any of New Babbel's problems.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: But I mean, those clouds are mostly harmless compared to
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: some of the shit the Mayor's gonna do in the
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: next few months.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Maybe we just don't know what's out there, you know,
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: we've been cut off from so much sources of knowledge.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Like it's I mean, it's just like shit, right, Like,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, we don't know, you know, that's the problem.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: It could just be fields of emptiness, or America could
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: have evolved and developed well passed what we're doing here.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows what what che us become?
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Look what the world did to Evos before. And I'm
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I think I'm one and I'm I'm I'm not human? Like,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: does does the rest of the world know that my
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: people exist? Like I I'd be really I'd be really afraid.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Guys, we should take a road trip.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: What's a road trip?
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: I read a book about it. It's like a trip.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Was it a VHS of a Britney Spears.
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: Mm hm, yeah, it was an adaptation of a VHS
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: of a Britney Spears movie. Is that Crossroads?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that movie is about.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: It's about red Chepulse.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I just see the VHS cover like in my memory
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: of going to a blockbuster as a thirteen year old.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: But yeah, maybe at some point we should try and
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: at least peek our heads outside a new babble if
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: we can just see what's going.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: On out there.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe once I figure out how to make people see
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: what I want them to.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, try it again real quick.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: All right, I try to make Jason see me as Maria.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to look like Maria.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, roll a Cox check plus your control electricity. All right,
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: this is a challenging check. I'm only a D ten.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Is this an attempt to branch?
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: If it was in the past, listeners, I'm sorry.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I rolled pretty good at eighty.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Oh I rolled a six. Yeah, I just be mean
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: by more than ten. So what happened?
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Oh? Can you do? The close my eyes and then
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I open them because I have to see, and I
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: go in Jason's brain, find his ocular nerves, find where
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: they connect to his brain, and plant that I look
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: like Maria.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Maria, it worked? What worked?
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Maria?
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Come here?
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: DC two of her?
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Which one's the real? Maria impostures it's me.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: It's me. Oh, we both have lawless Irish accents.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, prove it with your Irish accents, Maria.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Jimi or as you start to see the debate winding down,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: you think of your encounter with us.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, since we're sharing crazy and or dope shit
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: that's occurred recently, it does make anything cool for breakfast
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: feel relevant to mention. No, but I did talk to
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: an aliens human slave per what what?
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: So I did a magic ritual. It worked.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: It was very exciting and in the process the outcome
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: of the ritual was I got to speak with a
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: being from another realm, the realm being one of the
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: moons or orbiting things around Jupiter. Whoa and out there
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: there are star people, kind of aliens embodying the heavenly body,
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: but they have human servants that kind of attend to
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: them best I understand it, and they took them from
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Earth a long time ago. They're kind of watching us.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: They're checking up on us, but they're in a long
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: standing beef with the Gin, like the one that gave
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: me powers. They're very distrusting and long term enemies of
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: the Gin. So that's a weird thing. And they they.
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: Told me that technically the condition I am in they
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: would consider a curse, not like I got magic wishes
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: and my dreams are coming true.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: They would say, like, I'm cursed.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: You're one hundred and more ripidness is a curse.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Apparently it was in some ways. Yes, that's ra mean,
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: you bet your curse. I'm okay for now, but it
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: is food for thought.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, is this how the rest of our lives are
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: going to be? Just every day? Is something paradigm shattering?
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: What there's aliens in their wheeland there at war with
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: and they have humans as slaves, and they orbit Jupiter,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: and that they gave magic powers that they think is
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: a curse to Jamiir.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, that your dad lives between your nipples and that
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: I have a sky Mommy.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: Doesn't seem that crazy when you say it. It's a
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: little crazy, Jason, It's.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: All right, it's pretty crazy.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Debate and a final question, then it's gotta be like like,
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: pulls his shirt up open a little bit and dabs
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the sweat on his chest.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Having a good night.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: And what of the new mashed heroes that are running
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: around working outside the law?
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what will be done about them?
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: I bet they're gonna be pro hero I hope.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Cordula does talk about the help that the heroes have
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: been to the city, especially to the people of the shoot.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Nice love Cordula.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: She brings up jam on the shoulder, she brings up
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: the flogs attack, she brings up rigels specifically in defense
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: of the shoot.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: She says, they are fighting the fights that the rest
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: of us would quell at.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: If I get to be mayor, I try to meet
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: with them, plan with them for the good of the city,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: support them, ask for their support of me. Henry does
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: get a little bit bothered by this question. He talks
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: about the world being willing to make deals with New Babble,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: but he does talk about them still being very afraid
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: of the EVO threat.
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: See Yeah. He says, any.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Hero with supernatural powers would be seen as a reason
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: not to trust us. They would need to be held
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: to the letter of the law, which is why I
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: want to unify the police under the mayor's office, and
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: that's also that the world can trust new Babbel Again,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: he talks about how the anti EVO propaganda has really
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: been cemented into the history in the world outside.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: What about new Babbel trusting the world. Doesn't the world
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: have to prove itself to us?
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: Speak on it.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: The debate ends. It seems like it was a well
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: attended and widely watched event.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I kind of feel bad for Connor. I mean, maybe
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: he's complicit with the mayor, but maybe he's going to
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: get in trouble, getting in danger. I don't know.
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well, so this reminds me. I guess like
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: our other number one priority should probably be to make
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: sure that people can vote right, like their voat gets
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: counted most How how far away are we from I
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: don't know. I'm doing the Jason voice. Hey, Johnny, two weeks,
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: two weeks ks, that's what I thought. All right, So
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: we're there's two more weeks of open voting, yes before
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: the city council has to ratify, and they plan not to.
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: We've got a list, yes, of all of our masked
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: council members. We've got to figure that out. And I mean,
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it makes sense to put one
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: thing in front of the other. But I don't know.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: The Irish Mob just being out there and knowing who
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: I am is not a good thing to just let
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: hang too.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: So no, your safety is important.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: Well, and I worry a little bit. I mean I
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: worry a lot about Page. I gave her a gun.
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: It's fine, but you know, anyone could have seen you
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: guys at Arthur's funeral, Like if anyone from the Irish
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: Mob is paying attention, like, it's possible they could figure
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: out who you guys are and your families.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: It's just you have to deal with Shay. Yeah, yeah,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: we do.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's long term solution would be ideal,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: but short term, if I can get close, I can
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: probably do to them what I did to the Church council,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: at least make them forget tap his brain. Yeah, seems
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: like a smart, elegant solution if well, I I hope
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: it's still worked, and I hope that I didn't create
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: more dolls.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, it seemed like what you did with that poor
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: woved was different, right, like you were to you You're
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: turning off stuff, like big stuff, not just like a memory.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, you're right, I'm just that really shook
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: me up.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: No, it was tragic, truly.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's my fault. She's at a barker. She
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: should still just be living her silly, rich life in
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: that mansion.
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: I understand what it feels like to create your own enemy.
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: Shay wouldn't be in this position, Arthur wouldn't be the
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: way he is. The library would still be here if
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: I had just not killed Seamus.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Is Maria on the route?
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, she probably is?
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: Then I.
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: I yeah, to be like crunches abated ship and his
• 56:44
  Speaker 8: eyes wide and yeah, I immediately like sense, well Maria
• 56:49
  Speaker 8: is feeling you sense that?
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: Maria?
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: A wave of sadness runs over her, a wave of anger.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: You kill you killed my dad? Oh yeah, I mean
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to you. When when did you
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: want to talk to me? That sounded like an accident.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to get a slow move out of the room.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, I slide off the couch and followed to me.
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: Or I didn't. It was right after I first got
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: my powers. I didn't mean to, but he took someone
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: close to me and I lost control. And I'm really sorry.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: Aren't you meant to be a hero. I never.
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: Never set out to one, but I do want to
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: try and make sure that what happened to him doesn't
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: happen to anyone else. And I know your brother's dangerous,
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: but I won't hurt him.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: Maria's hands.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: Go white around her teacup until it breaks and falls
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: to the floor. I'll need time, sure, let me know
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: if she starts walking out, Yeah, towards her apartment.
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: Well, that went about as well as I would have
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: thought it would go. Yeah, you're all done that, guys,
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: It's okay. You all can take a shower and a
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: recovery resked here.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: At Jamir's manor.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: I need it so for recovery rest.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: You can roll your strength die to get back EP
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: as well as your resilience die to get back HP.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: Just once, because it's just one night.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: You've got five.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: One EP.
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: My EPs are back to full. Everybody nice, really nice, feels.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Me ooh and only one hit point?
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Can I like flow? Not in combat? Can I just
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: like when i'd see like a I don't know, somebody
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: I don't like like paper. I guess it has to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: be energy from a being, right?
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Is that what I'm siphoning a being yes, and most
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: people walk in the streets have four EPs. I mean
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: that's a general tend to take from them, I guess,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: but they'd be super tired if yeah, energy vampire style right,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: start boring people with fun facts from pieces of paper.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I'm also gonna use the full support pool on my
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: control electricity before we rest help my fire poker stab
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: wound heal up a little bit more nice, still only
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: about half hp.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: I'm twenty seven out of twenty eight guys.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: Ooh nice. Yeah, I guess if I use my supart pool,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: I can heal back up to full. I was close. Shower.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: What can I roll for shower? Johnny, roll a shower,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: roll a shower. Chick glory glory, Yeah, I just you
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: start hearing singing from the shower.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: During the night of the next day, there is the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: family meeting you've heard about Quanta that you track down
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: the info of. You know it starts at seven, that
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: was kind of a general time. Starts in the evening,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: and it's smart. It is in the station. You didn't
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: really get an address, you just got the word cargo hold.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: We can find it between the three of us. Jimiir
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: roll a knowledge check about cargo hold.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: Knowledge is detailed five, it's a basic check. So I
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: rolled a D four. I rolled a one.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: Jimiir, you know what the cargo hold is. It is
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: the literal cargo hold of the space barge yep, and
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: it has been turned into the party zone of the underworld.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: You it's the kind of thing that shoot, parents talk
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: to their kids about, like you don't want to end
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: up going to the car, exactly.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Like Quanta's parents even touch.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Like I heard about this thing. I can't believe the
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: news told me.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: There's this you stay away from.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a hell in the in the station. Jason
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: has heard of cargo paints.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: There's a Yes.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: How are you guys going? How are you showing up
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: to the cargo hold? You're going as heroes, You're going
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: as cyvys.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: What are we thinking?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe with a little bit of hero underneath, just in case.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: Lady in the street but a freaking the sheets, Yeah
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: that's what I was thinking. No, I'm referring to sheets
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: of paper, guys, That's what I mean. Lady in the street,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: but she freak the freak, A sheet in the sheets,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: sheet in the sheets. Yeah, a lady in the street,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: but a sheet in the sheets. Yeah, I'm I'm into that. Yeah,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: let's do it right, Fucky, we ball.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: Put on my baggy cargo pants for the cargo hold
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: the shorts tube top for the tube time.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: We're having to get there. You guys head to the station.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: I've like folded my clothes down into my cargo pants
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: and I can use electricity, no nice, roll them up
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: over my body.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll just do it like paper tie T shirt
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: classy and the rest of my outfits shlooped into my
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  Speaker 4: chest ready to deploy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, to Beir's go an extra baggy to hide his costume,
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  Speaker 3: especially baggy bat baggy pants obscure. The boots will have
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  Speaker 3: the figureless gloves on. That feels appropriate. Also, go it
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  Speaker 3: heavy makeup to try to uh not reveal who my
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  Speaker 3: identity is to passers by.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good idea. I should put on more eyeliner.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like at a party like this, you can't
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  Speaker 4: go you can't go too heavy shod love You're so.
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  Speaker 1: Right made a thick cat eye in a black light eyelighter.
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  Speaker 2: When you walk the streets of New Babbel, the space
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  Speaker 2: barge feels like it's always looking over your shoulder. Its
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  Speaker 2: enormity is stunning. As you walk up to it, Jamir,
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  Speaker 2: you're a little bit more used to it. Jackie lives
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  Speaker 2: in the station, so you've been close to it before,
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  Speaker 2: but approaching it from this angle. Just walking up to it,
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  Speaker 2: I think Jason and Ronnie, the two of you are
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  Speaker 2: struck with the scale of the thing.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, big barge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I've been up there, but this feels small.
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  Speaker 2: It was built to carry almost half a million people
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  Speaker 2: up into space at one time. On the back end
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  Speaker 2: of it that does face face west, the gigantic door
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  Speaker 2: has been laid down as a ramp. On the side
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  Speaker 2: of it, neon strings of lights have been thrown up,
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  Speaker 2: nice funneling the masses into the pulsing party that is
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  Speaker 2: always going on Saturday nights in the cargo hold.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, I kind of wish we weren't working, but this.
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  Speaker 4: Is this is the scariest social situation I've ever been.
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  Speaker 1: I clink my arm through Jason. Let's get to work, boys.
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  Speaker 2: You walk up the ramp, it is a huge space.
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  Speaker 2: The core gang monitors the perimeter and the entry and
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  Speaker 2: exit ways, and the first thing that you encounter, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a row of almost like a flea market,
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  Speaker 2: mixed with food truck lot, mixed with farmers market, mixed
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  Speaker 2: with with like booths of an intense of carnival like.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long stretch. All kinds of good goods are sold,
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  Speaker 2: legal and illegal. In the center of it all, though,
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  Speaker 2: is the thing that really draws your eye. It's an
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  Speaker 2: arena that's been built.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There are rising bleachers that hover staggered off the ground
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  Speaker 2: around it, and this is where the thralls sit to
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  Speaker 2: watch the arena. And in the arena there are gang executions,
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  Speaker 2: exhibition and parody matches and honest to goodness fights in
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of martial arts practices, boxing, judo, knife, etc.
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  Speaker 2: There are gun fights.
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  Speaker 4: There are zero.
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  Speaker 3: There are zero gravity fights.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that guy brought a knife to a gunfight. I
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  Speaker 4: know you can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: That's the one rule.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I brought gravity.
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  Speaker 2: They use the motion tech from the space Age. There
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  Speaker 2: are laser sword fights. If you can imagine it, it
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  Speaker 2: happens here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I can imagine it.
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  Speaker 2: You look up and on the ceiling of the cargo
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  Speaker 2: hold there are built in glass boxes that you enter
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  Speaker 2: from the floor above. They contain the movers and shakers,
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  Speaker 2: the fixers and the flaunters. There is a large box
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  Speaker 2: directly in the center of it all. That is where
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  Speaker 2: the crime lords meet and wave down at the crowds.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, there is a zero gravity fight going on
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  Speaker 2: in an electrically charged cage. There are two fighters that
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  Speaker 2: have small booster packs and laser swords, and they control
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  Speaker 2: their own movement. They are fighting against a giant rhinatar man.
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  Speaker 2: What rhinano for a body? Man for a body I knewus?
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  Speaker 1: I knew him once, Horatio.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we'll end this episode of the Team
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  Speaker 2: of Play show podcast r OH.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to do some Farmers Market shopping.
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  Speaker 1: Stop at the booths on the way because a friendship bracelet.
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  Speaker 4: Friendship bracelets. I want to get fire great sparklers.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if all this exists in the chat cave
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  Speaker 4: I think we're slated to talk a little bit about
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: the Minions Cuthulhu movie.
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  Speaker 3: Correct happening.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks heroes. Oh, I know it's sad, but this week's
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  Speaker 4: episode's over. But the good news is we now get
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  Speaker 4: to shout out our super heroes so quick. Shout outs too, Crank,
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  Speaker 4: bill Us and Mava Amada touch twos. I imagine they
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  Speaker 4: fuse into one. Shout out to Corn she hates onions.
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  Speaker 4: who's really trying to become an American this year and
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  Speaker 4: we do not know why. Shout out to Audre just
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  Speaker 4: demolished another bowl of mashed potatoes. Everyone give it up
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  Speaker 4: and go check on her in the hospital. Shout out
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  Speaker 4: to Jen, who prefers the Star Wars prequels to the
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 4: original trilogy. Shout out to Chris, who's currently looking at IMDb.
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  Speaker 4: Same Dog, Same Shout out to pac Man, Piggy, Norm
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  Speaker 4: and Stettna mckringle for saving Christmas in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 4: from the Yule Lads and Santa's evil twin brother. Shout
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  Speaker 4: out to Farmer Bob and Mama Robin, hummingbirds and seahorses.
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  Speaker 4: Oh oh oh hey everyone imagine it uh. Shout out
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  Speaker 4: rolling a nat twenty in a clutch moment. It looks
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  Speaker 4: out to Kevin Feldman, shout out to Christina Hey, shout
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  Speaker 4: out to the Lucinator he lost for our wins, and
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  Speaker 4: big shout out. Welcome to the family, Welcome to the
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  Speaker 4: Justice League.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the.
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  Speaker 4: League of Extraordinary cool People. Shout out to Kam our
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  Speaker 4: newest superhero. Yeah, welcome. With great power comes great responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. We couldn't do this without you.
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  Speaker 4: We'll keep saying thank you until you're deeply, deeply uncomfortable,
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