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Benders & Brews - Episode 1 - Booze Bending · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

• 0:03
  Jasmine, oolong, green and white.
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  Long ago, these four tees were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
• 0:11
  Then everything changed when the shop's popularity threatened its existence.
• 0:17
  All Mr.
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  Okran, the shop's owner and tea master, could do was to recruit four teenage orphans to learn his trade and staff his shop.
• 0:26
  A year has passed since the orphans were hired, and although their skills have progressed, they still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
• 0:34
  But I believe that they have the potential to make the Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the world.
• 0:41
  What's everyone's favorite tea? That could be both your favorite personal tea, if you want to share that, but otherwise, what is your character's personal favorite type of tea? Connor.
• 0:55
  What does Brock Lee enjoy? Well, personally, my favorite tea is like an herbal tea, like a citrusy type tea.
• 1:04
  But I have feel for him.
• 1:06
  He didn't have a lot growing up, so he's just got whatever sort of discarded fruit has fallen off a cart going by, and he just soaks it in hot water and drinks that galls of tea.
• 1:15
  Awesome.
• 1:16
  Alfalfa from the barn.
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  So anything and everything.
• 1:22
  Cameron, well, yours if you like.
• 1:25
  I don't know.
• 1:26
  I don't drink tea.
• 1:27
  You're not really a tea guy.
• 1:28
  I've never drank tea, really? So I have no answer either, because I don't know about teas.
• 1:33
  Cameron's favorite tea is a cold water final answer.
• 1:38
  And maybe a leaf water.
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  One time a leaf fell in it and he picked it out, and then he drank it and he said, okay, no.
• 1:48
  That's what scarred him from tea.
• 1:51
  Oh, gosh.
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  This is what tea is.
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  Dave, what is you and whoa.
• 1:58
  What is you and Han's favorite kind of tea? Well, my favorite is probably chai tea.
• 2:06
  Oh, okay.
• 2:08
  Right.
• 2:08
  I just poured myself some tea.
• 2:10
  We're having some French vanilla CPU, a black tea.
• 2:15
  We'll see how that tastes.
• 2:17
  I would say Guajan's favorite tea is a sort of spice tea, maybe with a little milk in there.
• 2:24
  Sure.
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  He's probably had quite a few different kinds of tea in his life, I'm sure the circus or the carnival and everything.
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  I'm sure he's tried quite a few different favorites from across the Lance.
• 2:33
  That's pretty cool.
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  Makala, mica, what tea is on the top of your list? My favorite tea is probably a green tea, or I like a raspberry tea.
• 2:51
  That sounds good.
• 2:52
  That's pretty good.
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  All right.
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  And what do you think Meeka would go for? I think she probably would go for most teas, but she probably likes the ones that are a little bit sweeter.
• 3:04
  Okay, cool.
• 3:05
  Awesome.
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  All right.
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  Like in the way that she adds sugar or just the natural sweetness.
• 3:09
  The natural sweetness.
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  Okay.
• 3:11
  So she likes them, like fruity and things like that.
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  Awesome.
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  Me personally, as the game master, I always like a green tea.
• 3:19
  I love mixing two teas together.
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  So usually what I'll do is I'll do green tea with, like, mint.
• 3:25
  Like a mint tea minty mint tea.
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  Anyway, that's mine.
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  All right, cool.
• 3:32
  All right, now we can jump in.
• 3:37
  As the sun begins to set and the usual customers come in from a long day of working to sit down and enjoy a nice cup of hot tea, four teenagers make their way through their duties amidst the Blissful Brew.
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  Mr.
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  Okuran, the owner, makes his way throughout the restaurant, greeting customers and calling orders to his staff members.
• 3:56
  As he does, we're going to go around and see as each individual is making their way through their duties at the tea shop.
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  So from the front of shop, one of the first people that greets any of these given customers is Bill Door, who approaches a small family, maybe mother, father, two kids.
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  They come in and they sit down at one of the tables.
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  It's kind of one of those seat yourself kind of establishments and quickly rushes over.
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  Bill Door.
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  Bill Door, what do you look like? What's kind of your character's seat? He's tall, about six foot tall.
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  He's lanky, and he's light.
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  Long arms, long legs.
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  Nothing in the middle.
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  Nothing in the middle.
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  Very skinny.
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  He is a floating set of ligaments in a head.
• 4:46
  Yeah, basically.
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  What clothes does Bill Door wear? How do you say? Casual, yet formal, I guess like a business casual in a sense.
• 4:55
  Yeah.
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  He wears his pants are kind of like long, flowing, kind of like pants.
• 5:01
  As for his top, though, he has kind of like a vest on, like an undershirt.
• 5:07
  The sleeves are rolled up.
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  Okay.
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  As this little family is sitting down, you come walking up to them, and what do you say? Hello, how may I help you? I am Bill Door.
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  I am the waiter here at the Blissful Brew.
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  May I take your order? I have the menu here.
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  You can bruise it for a little bit.
• 5:26
  Oh, thank you.
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  Thank you so much.
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  The mother says as you hand each well, you hand the parents a menu.
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  Do you have a kids menu, by chance? We have water.
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  Oh, well, I'll take two water.
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  Well, we'll all do a water to start off with, and then I'll let you know if you want to swing by in a couple of minutes and we should have some things picked out that we would like.
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  The husband doesn't really talk, like, at all.
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  He just as he nods and looks at the menu, he looks pretty focused.
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  Like, the second you hand it to him, he's just, like, scanning over it like you guys do at the Blissful Brew.
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  Serve some, like, mostly, like, pastries.
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  Not like, any meals, but just, like, little snack kind of items and stuff.
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  So there are some food options.
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  Okay, well, I would go to the back to get them their water and to give them time to figure out what they want for teas.
• 6:25
  Awesome.
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  And since Bill Door doesn't drink tea, and yet he found himself in this waiter position.
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  If they ask for his tea, he randomly pick one out.
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  Like, if they ever said yeah, he randomly pick one as the tea of the day and recommend it.
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  Okay.
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  It could be awful.
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  He doesn't know.
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  Yeah, because he's just like, they're all awful.
• 6:46
  Yeah.
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  Today we're drinking the tea of the day is lemon.
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  Just straight lemon.
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  Lemon.
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  It's just water with lemon.
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  Yeah, like a lemongrass.
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  Although I guess with Avatar, you can combine, like, any two things and make it a thing.
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  Okay.
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  But lemon berry.
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  Lemon berry.
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  Okay.
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  Lemon berry.
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  Lemon berry tea.
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  One of the kids like, mom, can I get a LemonBerry tea, please? And she says, okay, well, that's one order.
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  He'll have a lemon berry.
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  And then the other one kid, of course, being his kids, are like, a lot of lemon teach you.
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  Okay, we'll do two we'll do two LemonBerry teas.
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  Thank you.
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  And then the other two of us will have ours ready when you come back.
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  And so you rush off to the back to go get the waters and the two LemonBerry teas.
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  Remind me, Guo Han, what does he do at the shop? He would kind of fill in where needed.
• 7:55
  He would also be server busser.
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  He also kind of goes out, tries to drum up business from he does the advertising market.
• 8:06
  Sure.
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  All right, perfect.
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  So as bill door, as you're making your way towards the back, you stop by the counter where Guo Han is kind of like running the register.
• 8:15
  He's keeping track of the orders and the accounting side, otherwise of how much each customer owes.
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  And you let him know about the new table that you just add.
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  I need two lemon berry teas and the water.
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  Two waters.
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  I need two waters.
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  Make it snappy.
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  This is for table three.
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  And build or, like, hand counts the tables.
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  Yeah, it's three.
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  I think it's three.
• 8:56
  So you marked that down, Guo Han, and tell us a little bit about Guo Han.
• 9:01
  You did a little bit before, but Guo Han, he is probably the shortest member of the group.
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  He's only 5"1'.
• 9:10
  Okay.
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  He weighs 140.
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  So maybe slightly if you look at the BMI, he's got olive skin, like many of the Earth benders do, and Avatar, the show.
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  And those kind of same green earth bender eyes.
• 9:31
  He's got black hair, kind of in a bowl, cut short on the sides, longer on the top.
• 9:37
  He wears pretty much the same outfit that Uncle Iro and Zuko wear when they are working in a tea shop.
• 9:44
  Oh, okay.
• 9:45
  Those robes.
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  He's got a longer over robe, over pants, and a long sleeve tunic in the typical Earth bender colors, kind of the greens and yellows.
• 9:57
  Yeah.
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  Awesome.
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  Okay.
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  Very cool.
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  He also has, like, roundish wire-rim glasses.
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  Okay.
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  He's basically the Harry Potter of the Earth Kingdom.
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  The Earth bending.
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  Harry Potter Perfect.
• 10:12
  So as you're writing down and note taking the order, you're calculating their current total just so you have it ready, although there's a good chance that they're probably going to order more.
• 10:22
  You just like to have the numbers ready to go as you do that, and Bill Door passed that information to you out loud, you hear a voice from the back say, oh, two lemon berry teas and two waters coming right up.
• 10:38
  And both of you, you just kind of glance over really quick and you see the familiar face of Mr.
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  Okuran, who owns this tea shop.
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  He's the manager.
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  He's the owner.
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  So you guys know him? Well, of course, he's an older man, also wearing kind of similar clothes to Guo Han that is sort of this kind of earth kingdom robe style clothing.
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  He's doing an impressive feat of he's opening up the oven door with his foot because he's leaned back and pouring two LemonBerry teas that are sitting like the cups are already on a platter over on the opposite side of him.
• 11:17
  So he's pouring those he's opening up the stove with his foot.
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  He sets the t down as he finishes pouring the two cups of them.
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  To which he then leans forward with grabs a pot holder with his hand and pulls out a bunch of freshly baked.
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  Like.
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  Scones.
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  Sets that tray on top of the stove.
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  And then sets the potholder down.
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  Turns around.
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  Grabs a pitcher of cold water it'd be probably like a clay pitcher or something like that.
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  Starts pouring two of those into glasses.
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  And then Bill Door, you come over and you grab the tray from where he's got it all set up, and you take it over to the table.
• 11:57
  And as you do this, you notice two other figures who are both standing right next to each other as they furiously wash dishes.
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  They've got teacups? Not furiously.
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  Meeka? No, not furiously.
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  Tell me how Meeka is washing some dishes.
• 12:12
  I assume you're probably on washing duty, whereas Brock Lee is probably on drying duty.
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  I think theoretically that makes sense.
• 12:19
  Yeah.
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  Well, Meeka is a very nonchalant kind of gal.
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  She's pretty laid back, so she also doesn't like what's his name? Okra.
• 12:30
  Oh, Mr.
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  Okuran.
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  Okra.
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  She calls him Okra.
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  She doesn't really care for him too much, so she doesn't do probably her 100%, but she's using her water bending skills and washing the dishes.
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  Okay.
• 12:46
  All right.
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  And then what does she look like? What is she wearing? Is there any defining features that people would notice if they walked by and saw her? Yeah, she looks like a water bender from the Southern Tribe.
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  She has the same clothing.
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  However, it's not blue.
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  It's more of like a grayish tone.
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  Okay.
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  Obviously, the water tribes are very like they're together.
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  Oh, they're like very close knit.
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  Yeah, they're close knit.
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  So she didn't want to completely give up that part of her, but she didn't want to look like them.
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  Either.
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  So basically the same as higher as a waterbender, just gray.
• 13:29
  She has a burn mark that goes from her forearm to her hand.
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  Okay.
• 13:38
  And on her left hand, she also has only one earring.
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  Probably people would notice that just because it's kind of weird I don't have a matching set.
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  She is also a very small member of this group.
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  She is one inch taller than Mr.
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  Han over here.
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  Okay.
• 13:55
  She's five two, and she's pretty skinny.
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  She's like 97lbs.
• 14:00
  Oh, wow.
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  Yeah, she's very small, very opposite body type.
• 14:03
  Well, height wise, she'd be similar, but I digress any gas.
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  Okay.
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  And then right next to you is Brock Lee, who I again assume is drying the dishes.
• 14:12
  Yeah, he'll be drying the dishes.
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  Okay.
• 14:16
  You want me to go over? Yeah, go for it.
• 14:18
  What are we all seeing? So, Mr.
• 14:20
  Brock Lee, he's 17 years of age.
• 14:23
  He is six three, 225lbs, a very well built country boy, farm boy type.
• 14:30
  Brock didn't come from much, so he's wearing some very baggy and raggedy clothes.
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  Things like Aladdin-type pants and a very raggedy-type shirt.
• 14:41
  He's in the back of the house.
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  He doesn't need to worry about presentation or what he looks.
• 14:47
  He's got a green headband that pulls back his top knot of black hair.
• 14:53
  Okay.
• 14:54
  Got some beard stubble, because this is before OSHA.
• 14:56
  This is before all the FDA approved stuff.
• 15:01
  Of course, he doesn't have to worry about beard hair in the dishes.
• 15:07
  It's probably one of the most, like, bearded 17-year-olds you'll probably meet in your life.
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  Yeah, that is Mr.
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  Brock Lee.
• 15:17
  Awesome.
• 15:18
  Okay, perfect.
• 15:19
  Well, now we've seen the whole cast.
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  So as you guys are quickly scrubbing the dishes to make sure that you have enough for all the customers that are coming in, and Guo Han is writing down the numbers as the orders come in, Bill Door is rushing tray of drinks out to that table that just got here.
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  As you guys are all doing.
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  That mr.
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  Okuran, he calls out, I am running out to the back to check the inventory.
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  I will be right back if anything goes wrong.
• 15:52
  I'm sure you guys can handle it.
• 15:55
  Bill Door I don't know if you necessarily hear this since you're already rushing out back onto the floor, but I'd say the other three of you probably definitely hear that.
• 16:03
  As Mr.
• 16:04
  Okuran steps out one of the back doors to go check, you guys have kind of like a large shed-like, building in the back that usually holds all the inventory.
• 16:13
  It's kind of like a drive space to make sure that the leaves and other ingredients inside are kept good.
• 16:18
  There might be like some sort of icebox section of it that keeps cold ingredients like your milk and your creams and things like that also cold.
• 16:28
  So anyway, he steps out to that.
• 16:30
  It's pretty normal for him to do that.
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  Shortly after he does, though, and this is going to be something that Bill Door and probably Guo Han are going to see immediately.
• 16:39
  The other two of you are in the back.
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  But from the front door of the tea, a mid-40s man looking fairly burly, maybe a bit chunky, stumbles into the tea shop, laughing off the fact that or actually I'll describe that sorry stumbles into the tea shop.
• 17:02
  That's what he sounds like as he comes stumbling in.
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  He walks immediately up to he doesn't even sit down at one of the tables.
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  He rocks immediately up to the counter to Guo hot, and he says, what got the drink here? Oh, hello, sir.
• 17:17
  We serve a variety of teas here.
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  I don't care about you.
• 17:25
  What kind of booze you got.
• 17:29
  This isn't that sort of establishment.
• 17:31
  Well, I just got kicked out of the bar across the street, and that's the third one at night already.
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  And I just really want I don't care what it is.
• 17:41
  You got some lemon sake, hot cup? Did you say lemon berry? What? Bill standing behind him, just holding a tray with the water and lemon berry teas.
• 17:58
  If you got a lemon berry, like sake or vodka or whatever, as long as it's strong.
• 18:09
  Is it actually nighttime or what time? It's kind of like mid-afternoon, so the sun is starting to set, so it's not quite dark yet, but it's getting there.
• 18:20
  I looked the Bill out and I said, yeah, we can get some alcohol for you.
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  Wink.
• 18:28
  And I wink to Bill.
• 18:29
  Bill just stands there smiling really big.
• 18:32
  He's practiced his waiter smile for a long time, and he's basically nailing it now.
• 18:38
  Sure.
• 18:39
  He always is just smiling regardless of the situation.
• 18:42
  Well, the obviously intoxicated man, which you can easily tell from the smell, you could be 3ft away and probably notice that this man is pretty heavily intoxicated.
• 18:52
  He turns to you, Bill Door, and he says, well, are you going to give me the booze? Yeah, you have to take a seat first.
• 19:00
  Okay.
• 19:01
  That was corner one away from all the other people.
• 19:04
  That'd be a good one.
• 19:05
  Okay.
• 19:07
  He walks over and he sits down at that table, and then he just loudly starts singing.
• 19:25
  It's fairly loud.
• 19:26
  You can see any of the customers with tables, like, anywhere within, like, a ten-foot vicinity of his are just, like, kind of glancing over at him, and they look like, it'd be great if you shut up.
• 19:39
  And then they kind of look over to the front of the house like, are you guys going to do anything about this? Yeah.
• 19:44
  Bill Door walks over such his waters and teas down for that family, and he's like, excuse me, sir.
• 19:53
  It would seem like that man over there is being a little bit loud and a little bit annoying.
• 20:00
  My children are getting a little bit disturbed and kind of anxious, and I'm doing everything I can to keep them in their seats.
• 20:08
  Thank you so much for the tea.
• 20:09
  That'll help to comb them a little bit.
• 20:12
  I've heard lemon berries really good for anxiety.
• 20:15
  Yes, but a loud, drunken man singing is not very good for anxiety.
• 20:21
  It's not.
• 20:22
  He looks over in the corner towards the drunk guy.
• 20:28
  Other Earth's Kingdom cities.
• 20:33
  What are your orders? Oh, yes.
• 20:36
  I think we'll each get a slice of the ras berry lemon pies.
• 20:42
  Berry lemon pie.
• 20:43
  Got it.
• 20:44
  Raspberry lemon.
• 20:46
  Yeah, got it.
• 20:47
  Oh, thank you.
• 20:48
  Okay.
• 20:48
  Yes.
• 20:48
  And I think that's no trap.
• 20:50
  Okay, very good.
• 20:51
  All right.
• 20:53
  I think that's what we'll be ordering for the night.
• 20:55
  No tea? Oh, yes.
• 20:59
  Honey, did you want a tea? Green.
• 21:02
  Okay.
• 21:03
  He'll have green, and I will have jasmine tea.
• 21:06
  Okay.
• 21:07
  Bill Door kind of, like, mentally registers that and then goes over to Guo Han.
• 21:18
  It's like okay, so they want some raspberry lemon pies, two steel trap.
• 21:27
  What jasmine tea.
• 21:29
  And then he said green.
• 21:31
  Which is that, a tea or a color? Did he want the color? That's one of our basic teas.
• 21:38
  That one.
• 21:39
  Okay.
• 21:39
  And I'm going to go talk to that guy and see if he even has money.
• 21:46
  Can Meeka or Brock Lee hear anything that's going on? Are you, like, totally oblivious? No.
• 21:53
  As the guy continues to sing, he's getting louder and louder.
• 21:56
  And then if the sound is starting to reach you guys, if we can hear that over us cleaning the dishes, that's got to be loud.
• 22:04
  We're in the back of the house.
• 22:05
  We don't got to deal with them.
• 22:08
  I mean, if you guys do want to do anything, you just let me know.
• 22:11
  Okay, well, I'm going to turn to Brock Lee, and I'm going to say, I know how to handle this.
• 22:16
  I'll be right back.
• 22:17
  Okay.
• 22:18
  And then I'm going to walk, too.
• 22:19
  Okay, so you walk out to the front, and then you and Bill Door both approached the table with this drunken man who's now saying, I met a girl in the Water Tribes city, and she was also pretty.
• 22:36
  Hey, are you from the Water Tribe? You look like you're from the Water Tribe.
• 22:47
  I was born there.
• 22:49
  Those water tribe girls.
• 22:55
  I like them.
• 22:58
  I'm sure they've shown you a thing or two.
• 23:02
  Yeah, I bet so many things.
• 23:05
  Yeah.
• 23:06
  Money.
• 23:12
  I'm your waiter.
• 23:15
  Well, you can just wait on somebody else.
• 23:18
  Where's my booze? All right, please excuse my friend Bill.
• 23:25
  He's trying to invest.
• 23:27
  So you want some alcohol? Yeah.
• 23:30
  Good old stiff drink.
• 23:31
  Don't even care what it is.
• 23:33
  Hit me with it.
• 23:34
  All right, I know the best place that you can go.
• 23:38
  It's not here.
• 23:39
  We don't have but I'm already here, and he said he was going to bring me some alcohol.
• 23:44
  Yeah, but here's the thing.
• 23:46
  We're going to go across the street.
• 23:48
  We're going to take a right.
• 23:50
  Okay? We're going to go down some stairs.
• 23:54
  No, it's not that far, I promise or something.
• 23:59
  Yeah.
• 23:59
  I'm telling you, it has the best stuff.
• 24:01
  Not everybody knows about it.
• 24:02
  So we're going to do that, or rather you.
• 24:06
  I don't even have a drink with you.
• 24:08
  And at bottom these stairs, there's going to be a door and we'll just head on in there.
• 24:14
  How's that sound? I'll walk you through the door.
• 24:16
  We can see us on.
• 24:18
  I want you to roll a plead yes.
• 24:23
  Both dice? Yes.
• 24:27
  It's an eight.
• 24:28
  That'll be a soft success.
• 24:31
  They need something more okay, so on a seven to nine, they need something more evidence that this is the right course, guidance and making the right choice or resource to aid them.
• 24:42
  So he says to you, he said, I've been out of the bars in this city.
• 24:48
  This one doesn't sound familiar.
• 24:49
  How do I know you're telling the truth? Wait, time out.
• 24:53
  Yeah, so my thing says that I roll with passion if I'm goading or provoking choose two of those moves.
• 25:01
  So if that's when you want, you want to mark that down.
• 25:04
  Oh, so that's not one that I necessarily have, but you could because like I said, you get two of those right off the bat.
• 25:10
  So tell me, what is the roof and what does it say? Okay, so if I go or provoke an NPC into full hardy action, I say what I want them to do and roll with passion on a ten plus they do it on a seven to nine.
• 25:24
  They can choose one of four options.
• 25:27
  Okay, so if I rolled with passion, that would actually give me a nine.
• 25:31
  Right.
• 25:32
  So I guess he could choose to do it, but more intensely than I expected, and I'm taking off guard.
• 25:41
  Does he choose one of those options? Yeah.
• 25:43
  Okay.
• 25:45
  He does it but more carefully than I expected.
• 25:47
  They get an advantage against me.
• 25:50
  They don't do it, but they embarrass themselves and they mark a condition.
• 25:54
  They don't do it, but only catch themselves at the last minute.
• 25:57
  They stumble and give you an opportunity.
• 25:59
  Okay.
• 26:01
  This is a good opportunity for this one.
• 26:03
  Okay.
• 26:04
  So he says, I've been doing a lot of the bars on this day.
• 26:08
  Don't remember that one.
• 26:10
  And then he climbs up onto his table and he just starts shouting, this lady right here, she's alive.
• 26:18
  She's trying to get me to leave all united people.
• 26:21
  And I know how much everyone here loves me.
• 26:25
  So I just want you all to know that nobody should take her word for anything that she the table wobbles a little bit and he falls off the table and just crashes onto the ground.
• 26:37
  And all the people in the restaurant are as.
• 26:41
  He slowly picks himself up and he looks at Bill and he said, you did that? How do you jiggle my table? And he takes a swing at you.
• 26:50
  So now we're going to enter and we're going to enter.
• 26:54
  It's not combat per se.
• 26:56
  It's called an exchange, which I guess technically is combat.
• 27:00
  So basically the way that this exchange works, if you look at your sort of little cheat sheet, each one of you are going to pick which so on the exchanges, okay? So you're each going to pick whether you want to defend and maneuver, advance and attack or evade and observe.
• 27:19
  And with each of those you'll have, like I said, the moves which are on the right side of the sheet.
• 27:25
  So under defender maneuver, you can do ready, you can do retaliate, you can do season on advance an attack, you can strike, you can pressure, you can smash.
• 27:36
  And then on a evade and observe, you can test the balance.
• 27:39
  That's their personal balance, not their balance on the table, bolster or hinder or commit to.
• 27:46
  We all pick just the two of you who are involved in the immediate situation and then based on what you pick, we will go in order.
• 27:56
  So anybody that chooses to defend and maneuver will go first.
• 28:00
  Anybody that chooses advance and Attack will go second, and anyone that chooses evade and observe will go last.
• 28:06
  Bill Door.
• 28:07
  And Meeka, let me know what it is that you choose.
• 28:10
  Do we choose one of those things underneath of it when we choose it, or we just yes, you'll choose one of those.
• 28:16
  I'm going to evade, in and observe.
• 28:18
  Okay.
• 28:19
  And then Bill Door.
• 28:20
  What are you doing? Defend and maneuver.
• 28:22
  Defend and maneuver.
• 28:22
  Okay, and then underneath those, which one are you guys choosing? And you'll go first.
• 28:27
  We can start with you Parry.
• 28:30
  Oh, you're going to use your okay, so tell me what your ability does with Parry.
• 28:34
  Stop a fox attack before it connects.
• 28:36
  Choose a foe who used advance and Attack.
• 28:38
  This exchange.
• 28:39
  During advance and attack, mark the T for one for one to cancel the intact they use against you after they pay the cost.
• 28:46
  Okay, sounds good.
• 28:47
  Obviously this drunken person is going to be using strike.
• 28:50
  That's a pretty straightforward one.
• 28:51
  So Makala, you go ahead and you roll with focus too, I believe, right, okay.
• 28:57
  Twelve plus three.
• 28:58
  Oh, wow, that is 15.
• 29:00
  Okay, well that is a heavy success.
• 29:02
  So he's going to be using the strike.
• 29:07
  So for strike, it's a strike of phone range, forcing them to mark to fatigue, mark a condition or shift their balance away from the center of their choice.
• 29:16
  So basically you would mark to fatigue and you just literally cancel out his attempt to punch you and he takes it and he also takes fatigue, correct? Yes.
• 29:27
  Equal to what I took.
• 29:28
  Yes.
• 29:28
  So he'll mark two fatigue and you mark two fatigue and he completely whips it as you sidestep very expertly out of his way.
• 29:37
  Meeka, you said you're going to do bathroom observe.
• 29:41
  Yeah.
• 29:42
  Okay, which option were you going to take? Okay, I'm going to do the bolster or hinder.
• 29:48
  Okay, so you aid or impede a nearby character afflicting inappropriate.
• 29:51
  So roll with either creativity or harmony.
• 29:55
  I'm going to roll with creativity.
• 29:57
  Okay.
• 29:59
  Five.
• 29:59
  Five.
• 30:00
  Okay, so that's a miss.
• 30:01
  So what were you trying to do? Are you going to bolster the door or were you going to hinder the drum hit? Okay, how are you going to try to hinder him to keep him from successfully hitting from hitting Bill Door? Yeah, tripping.
• 30:19
  Okay, so you stuck your foot out and then he Whists, and then when he steps backwards, he steps over your foot.
• 30:25
  So it doesn't quite trip him, but he did miss, so no problem.
• 30:29
  Okay, so now at the end of an exchange, we can choose not to go into another round of exchange if you feel comfortable.
• 30:36
  But I would say that in this scenario, since he whipped it and he's still on his feet, he's going to just keep trying again.
• 30:45
  And he's not trapped or anything.
• 30:46
  So he's going to try to swing another punch awkwardly at Bill Door.
• 30:52
  So I'm just announcing, I guess, that he's probably going to be using the attack option again.
• 30:58
  And everybody, both of you can decide what it is that you would like to do in response to that.
• 31:04
  He says as he's about to throw his punch, you know, good dodge, man, throw another punch.
• 31:15
  Can I say Bill Door wants to sidestep the punch and grapple him and hold him and put his arm span his back.
• 31:25
  I guess let's call that seize a position since you're seizing behind him to sort of like grab him.
• 31:31
  So you're putting yourself into a position to hold him.
• 31:34
  I'm going to call it that.
• 31:36
  Meeka, what would you like to do? I want to go for the kill.
• 31:39
  And this man right here in a tea shop? No, there's this family nearby.
• 31:45
  They've got anxiety relieving tea.
• 31:48
  They'll be fine.
• 31:49
  No, you look around and the people around you are like, excitedly drinking their tea as they watch this fight go down.
• 31:59
  So I can choose a different basic technique so I advance an attack? Yeah, you can do that.
• 32:07
  Which option would you like to take within that strike? Okay, sounds good.
• 32:12
  All right, cool.
• 32:13
  So he is also striking.
• 32:15
  So Cameron, you're going to be rolling first with focus.
• 32:19
  This is to position nine.
• 32:23
  Okay, so that's a success.
• 32:24
  So you move to a new location, essentially.
• 32:27
  Let's see, any phone engaged with you can mark one fatigue to block this technique.
• 32:32
  He's not going to do that just because he's drunk.
• 32:36
  He's just trying to throw punches.
• 32:38
  So he goes for it.
• 32:40
  You dodge out of the way and then you step behind him.
• 32:43
  So you don't have him necessarily grappled or anything like that at the moment, but you are right behind him to do something along those lines if you wanted to hear shortly.
• 32:54
  Meeka, you strike.
• 32:56
  That's what you said, right? Yeah.
• 32:57
  Okay, so you strike.
• 32:58
  So roll with passion.
• 33:01
  Seven.
• 33:02
  Okay.
• 33:03
  So you strike a foe.
• 33:05
  That's a success.
• 33:05
  You strike a foe, forcing the no mark to fatigue market condition or shift their balance away from center their choice.
• 33:16
  He's going to take a condition, which is he is going to mark angry, which makes sense.
• 33:23
  How do you hit him? What are you doing to strike him? Can I just kick him? Okay, where are you kicking him at? Like, are you kicking him from behind? Oh, okay.
• 33:33
  You're kind of in front of him.
• 33:34
  You do a quick kick.
• 33:36
  He was not expecting you to attack him.
• 33:39
  Maybe it's because he might be a little bit misogynistic and he doesn't think like girls fight.
• 33:44
  Whatever the case, you kick him right in the stomach, and then he glares at you from the side like, you jerk.
• 33:52
  So he is now angry.
• 33:54
  So he will take a minus two to guide in comfort and assess the situation, which is ironic, because he probably already was taking a bit of a minus from assessing the situation, given his drunken state, but I digress.
• 34:07
  Okay, sounds good.
• 34:08
  So, Bill Door, you're currently standing right behind him.
• 34:11
  He just got kicked in the stomach.
• 34:14
  He is looking like he is about to just topple over and pass out.
• 34:18
  At this point, between the drunkenness, between being kicked and such like that, etcetera, as this is having Guo Han, what are you doing? As you're kind of seeing all of this go down? So as I see this kick off, I'm going to go into the back.
• 34:34
  Hi, big guy.
• 34:35
  I think they need you out there.
• 34:37
  But, hey, I have an idea.
• 34:41
  Maybe create an opening.
• 34:42
  Follow my lead.
• 34:44
  And I grab a cup, and I fill it with hot, dirty dish water.
• 34:51
  Oh, man.
• 34:52
  And I go out there, him.
• 34:56
  I approached him like, hey, Mr, your drinks ready.
• 35:01
  Booze on the house.
• 35:04
  I do like a free drink, and I'll be back for you in a moment.
• 35:09
  And he starts to hobble his way.
• 35:12
  He's like, I need a refreshment before I finish this bar fight.
• 35:17
  And he starts making his way over to GuoHan.
• 35:21
  Broccoli, what are you doing in this situation? So after Guo Han comes up to me, scoops up the dirty dishwater, say, oh, I got to see where this is going.
• 35:29
  Oh, absolutely.
• 35:30
  So I follow him.
• 35:31
  Okay.
• 35:32
  And I maintain a good distance where I can observe everything, but still what's it called? Intervene if I need to.
• 35:42
  I'm intervening.
• 35:43
  All right, perfect.
• 35:45
  So we're out of the exchange.
• 35:49
  Exchange? Yes, you're out of the exchange at the moment.
• 35:51
  That's the cool thing about the system, is that you can kind of jump in and out of exchanges really easily and really quickly.
• 35:57
  As he's making his way over to Guo Han, I'm assuming, Bill Door, are you following him from behind? Yeah.
• 36:04
  Okay.
• 36:05
  Because you've got your position behind him.
• 36:07
  You're ready? I was going to kind of meet him halfway so that I walked down, like, the center aisle or whatever, and he's walking from the side.
• 36:16
  So we meet kind of near the front door.
• 36:19
  Okay.
• 36:21
  So you kind of come to him more than he comes to you.
• 36:23
  Okay.
• 36:23
  I got over there.
• 36:25
  Okay, sounds good.
• 36:26
  And then, Meeka, are you following or what's kind of your position at the moment? Where was our position compared to the family? Sure.
• 36:40
  So you were maybe, like, two tables down because he was sitting in the corner, in the far corner table, kind of like the darkest little section of the room.
• 36:48
  Most people don't even use that table.
• 36:50
  Yeah, the aragorn table, if you will.
• 36:55
  So that was about maybe, like, two to three tables away from this family that's sitting there.
• 37:00
  There are a few other customers at some of the other tables between there as well.
• 37:05
  Well, I'm going to essentially just observe the situation, but in a sense where if I needed to jump in to prevent anything that would happen, where the family would be involved, like, I could block it.
• 37:19
  You know what? Okay.
• 37:20
  I mean, so you're kind of taking a potentially defensive stance if things go awry as this whatever Guo Han has planned out goes into place.
• 37:31
  So the drunk man approaches Guo Han, who's holding the tray, and he steps forward.
• 37:37
  It's about time you guys have brought me my drink.
• 37:39
  And he takes the cup.
• 37:41
  I assume, like, you're not holding it, or you're like, yeah, we got some hot, dirty sake for you.
• 37:48
  Yeah, I like it hot and dirty.
• 37:51
  And he picks up the cup, and he downs it, and he drinks the whole thing.
• 37:57
  He goes for it.
• 37:58
  He doesn't even really taste it at all.
• 38:00
  Well, I mean, he does, but he just says to you, yeah, that's the strongest.
• 38:09
  You guys really don't do too much with alcohol, that's for sure.
• 38:12
  Stuff tastes terrible, but it's definitely strong.
• 38:17
  This will get me back into this fight.
• 38:19
  I'll be just fine.
• 38:20
  And he starts to turn around to head back to this combat situation.
• 38:27
  What are you guys doing? Especially you, Guo Han.
• 38:31
  What was your thinking? Well, I wanted to try to use one of my moves.
• 38:36
  Okay.
• 38:39
  It's called this was a victory.
• 38:41
  Okay.
• 38:42
  When you reveal that you sabotage the building device or vehicle right as it becomes relevant, mark fatigue and role of passion.
• 38:50
  So I'm not sure if that would really apply.
• 38:53
  I mean, you sabotage his drink, so I can see that.
• 38:57
  So I'm going to reveal it by saying, oh, hey, listen, that was a dirty drink, but it was dirty dishwash water.
• 39:08
  What? It wasn't even booze.
• 39:12
  There wasn't alcohol in your dirty, dirty water.
• 39:15
  There may have been some fermented berries, I think.
• 39:19
  Okay, I got two.
• 39:25
  He says there was some text your dishwater.
• 39:31
  Yeah.
• 39:31
  I was wondering how that would taste like if you watch a bunch of tea cups.
• 39:36
  Would it, like, melt together? It's like an everything tear tea is that you were part of making it.
• 39:48
  We beat him the house special for free.
• 39:52
  And he says, Refreshing.
• 39:54
  And then he spins around and sees that Bill Door is standing there right behind him.
• 39:59
  So we'll jump back into another exchange, but now everybody is involved.
• 40:02
  So you can all decide on what move that it is that you would like to do and how you'd like to do it.
• 40:08
  And just let me know as you come up with it.
• 40:11
  Is anyone advancing and attacking? I was planning on pressuring.
• 40:16
  Okay, so you're going to intimidate the foe.
• 40:20
  What were you thinking of doing? I guess you're kind of revealing yourself to this guy for the first time.
• 40:26
  So this giant, muscular, stubble, bearded 17-year-old comes stepping out from the back.
• 40:33
  I like to think you're in an apron.
• 40:35
  I don't know why, but in an apron.
• 40:37
  Okay.
• 40:38
  All right.
• 40:38
  And then are you saying anything? Because you would go before he does.
• 40:41
  So this is before he swings.
• 40:43
  So basically, Bill Door just kind of sets up for a parrying stance.
• 40:47
  So he's just ready to counter whatever this drunken man does.
• 40:51
  You come stepping out.
• 40:53
  The drunken man standing there.
• 40:54
  He hasn't swung yet.
• 40:55
  It's like, sir, do you really want to get into an altercation now? Look at all these nice people.
• 41:01
  You're messing up their reasons.
• 41:03
  Why don't you just head outside and we can maybe take care of this outside? Oh, you got to roll with passion based on what you roll, and then we'll see how he handles it.
• 41:12
  Plus one eight.
• 41:15
  Okay, cool.
• 41:16
  So you can choose an approach, and that folk cannot choose that approach in the next exchange.
• 41:22
  Okay.
• 41:23
  So even after I pressured him, it'll be next exchange.
• 41:26
  So he might swing the punch now, but next exchange, you could tell him to not advance an attack because you want him to take things outside.
• 41:35
  Got you.
• 41:37
  Yeah, I'm your one.
• 41:38
  Okay, cool.
• 41:39
  So, yeah, he seems a little bit he's got the punch ready to go.
• 41:44
  You say this as you kind of step out from behind him.
• 41:46
  He hears your voice.
• 41:47
  He can hear that you've kind of got this pretty gruff, more intimidating voice coming from behind him.
• 41:55
  So he's going to swing this punch just because it's already prepared.
• 41:58
  But at the same time, he knows that you mean business.
• 42:02
  And so he's thinking, okay, if this doesn't work out, I'm probably going to just do what this guy says and we're going to take this outside and build you're kind of at the ready.
• 42:11
  Am I near the door? Yes.
• 42:14
  Could I do behind you? Yeah.
• 42:15
  Could I just have him charge me and then sidestep him and just shove him out the door? Sure.
• 42:21
  I'm going to mark you as prepared because you got behind him last time, so you're ready for what's coming.
• 42:27
  You clear prepared to take plus one to all appropriate roles, given the circumstance or you can avoid marking a condition, but I have a feeling that you probably want to direct that towards what you're about to do.
• 42:41
  Yeah, okay, perfect.
• 42:43
  So you're probably going to do an advanced attack, I'm assuming something related.
• 42:48
  I don't know what you would call this.
• 42:50
  Yeah, it's an interesting one.
• 42:52
  I want to say I'm going to call it a retaliate because he's about to swing at you, and you're going to kind of use that or my Parry.
• 42:59
  Or your Parry? Yeah.
• 43:00
  No, actually, Parry, I think, is a good one.
• 43:02
  So let's go for that.
• 43:03
  He's going to strike.
• 43:04
  Does anybody else have anything specific that they want to, or at the very least, is anybody else defending him? Maneuvering.
• 43:09
  Okay, so you are going to do your Parry.
• 43:11
  So go ahead and roll for Parry.
• 43:14
  Yeah.
• 43:14
  And I get plus one to those, right? Yes.
• 43:17
  All right.
• 43:18
  That's a heavy, and I got a plus one.
• 43:21
  All right, so one to one.
• 43:23
  Guo Han, do you have anything specific that you wanted to do? As far, I wasn't sure if you were going to advance an attack or if you wanted to evade him.
• 43:31
  Observe.
• 43:32
  I probably evade him.
• 43:34
  Okay.
• 43:34
  And then, Meeka, are you doing the same thing? Okay.
• 43:36
  All right, sounds good.
• 43:37
  So he's going to throw his strike Bill Door, is going to parry one for one.
• 43:43
  So you'll both mark two fatigue.
• 43:45
  Actually, exactly what happens that you wanted to happen is going to play out.
• 43:48
  So as he swings his fist, you expertly dodge out of the way, grab his arm with both of yours, and push him ever so slightly towards the door.
• 43:58
  His inertia already from his kind of awkward, heavy swing, pushes him and his feet to quickly step towards the door just to maintain his balance as he pushes through the doors, lands outside, and kind of just rolls onto the ground, kicking up a little bit of dust as he goes.
• 44:15
  So the four of you are all standing inside, kind of staring out as he goes.
• 44:19
  And then all of a sudden, all the people in the restaurant start to cheer and collapse because you guys just kicked out that rude man from your tea shop.
• 44:29
  He's laying there in the dirt.
• 44:30
  Is there anything that you want to do? As he lays in the dirt outside, the door, looks around, and then just kind of shuts the door and then wipes off the dust off his hands and then straightens his vest and says, all right, back to those orders.
• 44:54
  Okay.
• 44:54
  All right, sounds good.
• 44:56
  You don't hear from the man again.
• 44:58
  You assume that after you threw him out, he must have just hobbled away or who knows? Maybe there were a couple of guards outside that watched him get thrown out and kind of guessing from his demeanor, they picked him up and hauled him off to go sleep off his drunkenness inside of a cell or something along those lines.
• 45:15
  He went to go find that hot bar.
• 45:18
  Yeah, he figured, well, no luck in there.
• 45:20
  I think I'll go somewhere else.
• 45:22
  He started following what he can barely remember of your direction.
• 45:26
  Awesome.
• 45:27
  I think I am Shanked.
• 45:32
  He allegedly had money, so I don't know.
• 45:35
  Whatever the case, as you guys are kind of dusting your hands from the situation, mr.
• 45:40
  Okuran enters through the back of the shop and he hears all this cheering from all these people and he approaches the four of you and he's like, what in the world is going on? And with that, I think we'll end the session today.
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