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Benders & Brews: S3: Episode 12 (Part 2) - Taking Back Gaoling · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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Skylar: jasmine, oolong, green
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and white. Long ago, these four
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teas were skillfully brewed at the blissful brew.
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Then everything changed when the shops
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popularity threatened its existence.
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All Mister Okaron, the shops owner and tea
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master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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blissful brew the greatest tea shop in the
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world. Last time
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on benders and brews, an avatar Legends
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podcast, you see a figure
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sort of hopping down the rocks. It
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is a black cat like creature
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with crow like wings. It actually
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approaches Guo Han. Interesting.
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I have interacted with very few
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living humans, but you I have had
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the pleasure of meeting twice. It seems
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you have assisted me quite a bit, little human. And
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for that, I am once again grateful.
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As thanks for defeating Banfu, I
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will offer you all these rewards.
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The first is an opportunity
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to quickly arrive at the next destination
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on your list. The city of Gaoling.
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I also give to each one of you these two
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stones. You can use these stones to
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offer a message, a plea for help
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to someone living in your realm, to aid you in
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your endeavor. So this is the last piece of the map,
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and it is a kind of drawn out
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picture of a, maze. This is the
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Yotaku mansion. Bug to that portal.
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So you guys are all inside the spirit world.
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Using these stones is better than not using them, right? Getting
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somebody to help you out is going to be better than
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not. So who are each of
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you contacting to assist?
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Cameron: I'll bring Sora. That seems like the best possible
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idea.
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Dave: If Brock's bringing a rescue team squad
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member, maybe I shouldn't say. See if their leader will help.
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Mayu Yin Yu.
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Cameron: I know who I'm gonna summer. He sees his
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brother, Ember.
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Mikayla: Okay. I'm thinking about, my father.
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Skylar: and as you guys are making your way along, you see something off in the
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distance is. Mister Okaron. Mister
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Okaron. Y'all give him a nice big hug. I've been kind of
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watching as you guys have made your way through this entire
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journey. And it's hard to say this,
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but it's time to say
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goodbye to each of you. But at least we had
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a goodbye for real this time. And not a goodbye,
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or sort of just an ending. An abrupt ending, like
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we had before. goodbye, everyone.
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Cameron: I like to imagine that as all of
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our comrades pass through the
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spirit realm. They'll pass a quick pick stop at
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the blissful brew.
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They'll get a tea to go, right?
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Skylar: Yeah.
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Mikayla: Who's making the tea?
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Skylar: There's a version of each of you that's running your
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normal positions, but
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they don't talk to you. They kind of, like, shadowed,
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sort of silhouetted. That's creepier. Yeah, it is kind of
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creepy.
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Cameron: It's just a version of ourselves.
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Skylar: I feel like you'd walk in there and you'd see that, and you'd be like,
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nope, never mind, never mind.
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Cameron: I turn around.
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Skylar: This feels like a spirit trap. You guys step
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through the portal and find your guys
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in front, or sort of on the outskirts again,
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of gowling and standing
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around you. It's the people that you contacted
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are right here waiting for you, and they're all kind of. Some
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of them are even stepping through the portals at the same time that you
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guys are. But, yeah, there's just a handful of portals that all seem to
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appear around here. And you guys are there
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with all of your friends that you
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contacted.
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Mikayla: I'm, gonna give my dad a.
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Skylar: Hug, and he hugs you back. Wow.
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Mikayla: That's it.
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Skylar: Okay, that's good. okay, so,
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as you guys kind of observe the scene, you look over to the city
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of gaoling, the place that you have been familiar
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with for the last at least one year, if
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not longer, depending on when each of you kind
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of joined the blissful brew crew. You can
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see off in the distance, there
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are signs that point
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towards things not being right in your
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city that you are familiar with. there
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are no earth nation
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guards, that you can see. I like to imagine
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that you guys are up on a hill, so you're able to get kind of a nice look over.
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Over a decent chunk of the city. You don't see the earth nation
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guards. Instead, those earth nation guards seem to have been
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replaced with fire nation guards.
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Mikayla: Oh, my goodness.
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Skylar: instead of citizens kind of making their way back and forth
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throughout the city, doing their various business, visiting
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friends, stopping at the various restaurants
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and tea shops and everything like that,
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instead, you see
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hot leaf juice elites
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making their way as if they're looking for
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something or guarding areas, kind of just
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making, their way back and forth across certain paths.
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And instead of
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some of the various other kind of
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activities and goings ons that you guys are used to,
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you see a handful of members
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of the bloody porcupine pirate
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crew also making their way back and forth throughout
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the city. The bloody porcupine pirate crew,
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the ones that you guys got captured by his girlfriend.
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Cameron: I'll just saunter up.
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Skylar: You don't see her, but you see some of them. You see like
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maybe one or two, and you're like, wait a minute, I remember that guy from the
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ship.
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Cameron: She's, playing hard to get. I see.
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Cameron: Like you say, all this while Sora.
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Skylar: Is standing right next to me. Oh, that's right. She
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just looks sad. Whatever the case,
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these, you see these things ahead of you and you realize
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that in some way, Madam
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Yang seems to have taken over the city
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of Gaoling in an attempt to stop you
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using every resource at her
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fingertips.
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Cameron: Disposal.
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Skylar: Disposal, also a good word. So
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your goal now is to get to the
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maze, find the will and go
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take it to the mayor's office, which is in
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the center of town, of course, and have it
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stamped by Mister Wu, I believe his name was,
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who approached you at the funeral and told you about the whole
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situation in the first place. He is kind of that office
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position, whatever you want to call it, for
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this kind of thing.
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Mikayla: Really not making it easy, I know.
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Skylar: But your friends are here to help make it easy,
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er, easier
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friends slash family for some of you.
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Mikayla: Okay, I'm just gonna start walking towards the maze.
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Skylar: Wow, okay. Are you going like around town?
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Kind of the outskirts before. Okay, all right.
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Mikayla: Probably. I mean, I feel like that would be the most discreet
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jumping on the rooftop. Just kidding.
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Skylar: your dad definitely kind of like looks at the rest of you and then
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follows, and then the rest of you guys are watching as
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they're kind of headed towards the maze.
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Cameron: So Mika's taking the direct approach. Okay,
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so I catapult us in there.
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Anyways, anyways, that would be great,
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actually. Nice throwback for the rest of the
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new folks here. Hi.
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Skylar: They all like, wave. They're all looking at each
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other kind of like, hello. Shake hands.
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Cameron: anyways, our goal is we need to get to the
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maze. There's a maze in the back
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of a rich person's house.
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Skylar: The.
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Cameron: Yotaku. Yep, the yotaku
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family. There's a maze. We have a map to where
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the will for a tea shop
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is in that maze. We're here to save that
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tea shop, and today's the last day we can
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save it. If we don't have it turned in by then, we lose possession of
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it, whatever. That tea shop is very important to the
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three of. Well, the four of us, but she took off, so.
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The four of us.
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Skylar: I like to think that somebody, I'm not 100%
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sure necessarily who it is. But somebody shouts up, they're like
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what? What's so special about this tea shot?
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Cameron: Let's just say it means a lot to the four of
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us. And the man
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who is running it just passed away.
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Mikayla: Passed away?
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Cameron: Well, you got killed. No, you got
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killed. and basically this is our
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home.
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Dave: It's my home, at least.
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Cameron: Yeah, it's been my home for
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still can be, once we save it.
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so that's what we're doing and well, I guess we all asked
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you guys to help us,
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I guess make our way to the maze.
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Skylar: there's some short momentary murmurs, but
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otherwise everybody kind of looks at you and they, they all just kind
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of. They give you a quick nod of affirmation
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and then they kind of stand at attention to some extent.
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m may definitely steps forward and he's like,
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well, let me ask you this. Where do you, where do you want us? Cuz
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I'm sure we could just go along with you to this maze.
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Dave: Sure.
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Skylar: But maybe it'd be even better to go have us
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maybe stir up some trouble in town or help in a specific
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way.
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Cameron: So I was thinking about it
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right now, now that I'm seeing everything going on
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here, but what do you, what do you say Brock and guo to
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like once we get this
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will, we're gonna have to take it to that mayor's office. You know
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if I'm Mister Wu, right? Who's to say madame
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yang being smart, knowing we need to get this will
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damn. Probably put like a bunch of guards right outside that
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place. So what if we send them to
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go clear out those guards or find us other
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way into Mister Woo? Or maybe get Mister Wu out so we can meet
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him in a separate place or something.
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Well, if we have them do that for us,
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I'm good with that.
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Dave: Sounds like a good idea.
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Cameron: I gotta go crack some skulls, I
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think.
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Cameron: Yeah, I think that's where more people. So I say you three go do
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that.
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Skylar: Okay.
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Cameron: I though they don't know where that is.
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Skylar: I'm sure we'll find it.
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Dave: It's in the center of town.
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Skylar: Yeah, the mayor's office.
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Cameron: It's like the biggest building in the center of town.
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Skylar: Yeah, the big fancy one. I think I could see from here.
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Cameron: Yep, that's the one. Yeah.
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Skylar: Oh, perfect. All right. All right, you three two,
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you're with me. And may kind
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of like leads away and heads into town. the rest of you guys
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going towards the maze? Yeah. All right, sounds
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good. So you guys make your way through sort of the
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outskirts of town. You know that the
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Yotaku mansion kind of sits on the eastern kind of
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edge to some extent. Obviously, it's a big house with a big
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maze and everything like that. All of that kind of comes with
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having to be on the outskirts.
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Right? so you are able to get there
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pretty easily. no problems. But as you guys are
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going, obviously, you do have a couple of moments where you have
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to kind of like duck and dodge behind some trees or some bushes or something
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along those lines, as you guys see, fire nation
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guards that pass by or kind of peek out from
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between the buildings on the outskirts of town and so on and so
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forth. but whatever the case, you guys eventually make
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it to the Yotaku estate, which,
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unlike most of town, seems fairly unguarded.
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Why would anybody send guards up to the
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wealthy Yotaku family's estate? Who cares?
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If someone even were to get into town that they didn't want
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here, who cares? and thankfully, that
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seems to have been the mindset. So you guys go
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to the backyard of the. The very large and
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ornate backyard, well kept, of the Utaku
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estate. And there is the entrance
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to the maze, the entrance that
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bill or ash really, obviously would recognize and
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that Micah definitely recognizes. Having both
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gone into the maze itself. Brock also probably
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recognizes it, having launched his fair share
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of, hot leaf juice, goods
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and teas into the very maze.
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Mikayla: Just to clarify, I did catch that up on,
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Skylar: Yeah, no, that's. That's good.
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Mikayla: On the wall.
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Skylar: We don't have to do that in game. That's good.
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all right, so you guys are there in front of the maze, and you've got this map,
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the pieces of the map all in front of you to show you. Well,
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really, the one piece of the map is the key one in this situation
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to get you through the maze to where
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Mister Okaran hid this
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map. Or. Sorry, Will, is
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there any way we.
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Cameron: Can launch ourselves right to where
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the.
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Skylar: Map says weird, gives you a map and you say,
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but can we get a shortcut?
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Cameron: Can we
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just.
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Mikayla: We're basically on borrow time right now.
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Skylar: Yeah, you guys are on the 7th day at this point.
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Yeah, just FYI,
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like, we look up.
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Dave: And that moon is awfully close.
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Skylar: It's. Yeah, it's right. The day is
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getting growing late, ever so
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slowly but surely.
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Dave: I was making Majora's mask riff.
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Skylar: Oh, okay. Gotcha.
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Cameron: I thought it was a, avengers reference.
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Skylar: So let's get it real low, buddy.
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Cameron: In the movie where Black Widow and Hulk are
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in love.
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Skylar: A weak, real steamy relationship there.
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Cameron: All right, let's follow this stupid map.
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Dave: So where does this map say it's at? Is it in the
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center or not in the center?
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Skylar: No, it's actually kind of off to a kind, of
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odd section of the west side of
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the. The maze. Something that basically
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was pretty discreet. Nobody. Nobody would look here for any
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reason. It's just such an odd spot.
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Dave: Well, launching ourselves does seem cool, but
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also sounds like a good way to.
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Skylar: Get lost or hot or
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separate or hurt, or we might want to just.
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Cameron: Stay low, otherwise us to where we need to be.
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Cameron: No, Brock.
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Skylar: that's one. One good. Out of about
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six baths, we just.
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Cameron: Brock, can you not read maps, too?
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Cameron: I can't read.
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Mikayla: Well, it's just, like, you know, dot, dot, dot,
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arrow, Xbox.
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Cameron: Oh, I can read that. Hey, can I read that? I can read that.
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Mikayla: Yeah. Here you go. Yeah, you can be the leader.
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Cameron: Well, if I believe you.
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Skylar: Could ever make.
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Cameron: You'll lead us through the maze.
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Cameron: Ah, all right, fine. So let's see.
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Mikayla: Okay, wait, wait, wait.
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Cameron: What is this maze made? It's just a hedge maze.
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Skylar: It's a hedge maze.
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Cameron: Just drove running through the hedges.
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Skylar: Wait, it's not our hedges.
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Mikayla: Who.
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Cameron: Why'd you make him leave?
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Mikayla: Will is in the maze?
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Cameron: Yeah.
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Mikayla: Why the heck would he put the will in the
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maze?
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Skylar: Last place anyone would look.
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Cameron: Probably buried Mika.
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Mikayla: So you'd think it would be, like, somewhere
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important to him instead of some.
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Skylar: Random person look in a place that's important to him. They'd
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be like, all right, what do we know about Mister Okaran? Well, he knows
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him pretty well. Yeah, she grew up with.
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Cameron: She's his ex lover.
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Mikayla: Anyway, whatever.
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Cameron: Okay, what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna take this
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map. Okay. Where in the maze
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does it say this treasure is?
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Skylar: So it's, Like I said, it's just kind of in a really odd spot
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on, like, the western section of the maze.
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Cameron: Is it on any edge? Is it somewhere in the middle?
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Skylar: Yeah, kind of close to the edge. Like, the far outskirts of
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it. there's like a. There's sort of, like, a twirl, and
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it's only, like, partway through the twirl. It's not even, like, at the very
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center of this little, like, twirl in the hedge. It's just, like,
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in one.
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Mikayla: Can I try to water bend the, plants?
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Cameron: Like, take the water out of the plants and make them shrivel?
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Mikayla: Well, that, or just, like, just tunnel.
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Skylar: My way through that's what I'm.
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Mikayla: Shortcut. That'd be disgrace.
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Skylar: Okay, okay.
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Mikayla: I guess that's fair. But then you probably
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have more success with that than me. Plant bed.
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Cameron: But if I do that, then I'm by myself. So what
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I'm gonna do is I'm gonna line it up
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as close as I possibly can on the x
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axis.
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Skylar: Okay.
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Cameron: And I'm literally going to erect some
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walls and just walk straight.
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That is my hope.
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Cameron: Through the maze?
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Cameron: Through the maze. And just.
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Mikayla: Well, the walls would. You'd still have the head.
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Skylar: What if you made, like, an arrow? Like, if it's like
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two walls that kind of come together at an angle, and then you
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just kind of, kind of plow.
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Cameron: Plow through, essentially. Make a plow.
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Skylar: Right.
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Mikayla: Because that's not industry at all.
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Cameron: Well, it's effective.
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Skylar: Oh, you want to draw attention to the wall. It's like something
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that you could hold in your hands, and then you could kind of just run
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through.
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Cameron: It's got a giant player.
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Skylar: It's a big shield, basically.
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Cameron: I like that we have a literal map we could be following, but
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we're just trying to figure out other ways.
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Cameron: Don't say we.
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Skylar: We.
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Cameron: Me and Mika, I say we
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just go through the maze. They're not that hard.
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Dave: Let me bring up an argument from the past. What
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if we just walk?
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Cameron: Yeah, I like that idea. Actually, we're also in a rush,
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so let's just run a little if you.
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Cameron: Want to be boring.
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Skylar: Sure. All right, I'm gonna
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move this along. You all enter the mains, and
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following the map, the course of maybe
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ten minutes, you are able to reach
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the very spot. And sitting there.
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Cameron: Wow.
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Dave: How fast was that?
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Cameron: That was pretty good time. A lot faster than getting lost
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by destroying the maze itself.
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Skylar: You don't notice it at first, but at
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a certain point, your foot comes down at a very specific spot,
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like, pretty much exactly where the x is. Like, if you were to,
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like, really just zoom into it, this is
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technically the exact spot that the x is
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sitting on. Your foot touches it, and you realize that the grass
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here is turf. It's more just like
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a turf cover. And it seems to be
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kind of a little bit off here. Like, it's not fully attached to the
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ground. It's a little soft, whatever the case. And you lift
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up, sure enough, it's like a literal cut in the
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grass, that you can lift up this piece of
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turf, and underneath there is a box,
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and you remove that, open the box, and
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inside is a sort
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of tall envelope with a
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fancy string that kind of, like, clasps it
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closed and you undo that. And inside is a
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very fancy document on really nice
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paper, beautiful papyrus type
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paper, and it outlines Mister
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Okaron's will, signed, dated,
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and stamped with
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whatever the mayoral office of
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stamp of gowling is, on the piece of
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paper you have found after all of
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this time and all this journeying,
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the will of Mister Oprah.
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You have proof that shows that you
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have ownership, or you have been left ownership of
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the blissful brew. Man, what a twist that would have been. As if you
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get the will and then it says, I leave everything
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I own to
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Mika's fox dog.
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What? No. it is. It does
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mention that you guys are to be the owners,
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basically, co. Four way owners, whatever you want
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to call it, of, the tea shop and everything inside
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and all the assets that he left behind, basically.
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so you have it, you spend another. It probably
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takes you less time to get out of the maze than it did to get you
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into the maze. so probably the whole ordeal probably took about
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15 minutes. For
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those that want to rub it in Brock's face or something.
19:51
but anyways, I can get us.
19:53
Cameron: Out of here in 10 seconds.
19:54
Skylar: That's true. whatever the case,
19:57
you guys get to the edge of the maze and you
20:00
have the will, and you're good to go.
20:01
Cameron: All right, now, time to plow through. Let's do this.
20:05
I mean, are we trying to be discreet still?
20:07
Cameron: Yes. Brock.
20:09
Cameron: Why am I even here?
20:11
Mikayla: We have the will. Why would we want to draw
20:13
attention and be like, hey, guys, we have a will.
20:16
Come and get us once it's too.
20:18
Cameron: Late, you know, then you can go beat people
20:21
up.
20:21
Cameron: Oh, my God.
20:22
Skylar: You have the will, and you had
20:26
the way. You don't have to make another way.
20:28
Oh, I don't know. There's something.
20:33
Cameron: Yeah, whatever.
20:37
I want to beat people up.
20:38
Cameron: let's go, and we'll probably see people you can pummel
20:41
on the way.
20:42
Cameron: Okay?
20:42
Cameron: That's all I ask.
20:43
Skylar: just as you're saying this, as you guys come around the corner of
20:46
the Yotaku mansion, sure enough, there is a group of
20:49
four pink dressed,
20:52
hot, leaf juice elite employees that seem to have
20:55
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Mikayla: I'm gonna water slap em.
21:56
Skylar: All right, well,
21:58
if that's the case, we can jump into the combat exchange.
22:02
Cameron: So if she's going, I'm going.
22:05
Skylar: All right, let's all pick your
22:07
approaches.
22:08
Cameron: I'd like to use my winning is everything,
22:12
but I should probably hang on to that.
22:14
Cameron: I was gonna say you need to hang on to that.
22:16
Skylar: Yeah, yeah. I mean, if everybody wants to also roll with it. Just
22:19
so we have those ready to go.
22:23
Wow.
22:24
Cameron: Wait, we're rolling?
22:25
Skylar: Yeah, you might as well just do the roll now and then. That way, we
22:28
have it. No rerolls. Just roll your
22:31
dice.
22:34
No comment. All right, did anybody take
22:37
defend and maneuver?
22:39
Cameron: No.
22:40
Skylar: No. All right, we're jumping straight to advance and
22:43
attack. Who took advance and attack?
22:46
Me. One, two.
22:47
Mikayla: Well, I mean, I'm slapping them all.
22:49
Skylar: That sounds like an advance attack for sure. All right, sounds good.
22:52
Does anyone have a preference on you? Goes first.
22:54
Cameron: Well, make it.
22:55
Skylar: Did announce it first. Yeah.
22:56
Mikayla: Let's go on, bro.
22:58
Skylar: Well, all right. What do. What did you roll?
23:00
Mikayla: I rolled a. I'm trying to see what I add to it.
23:03
Hold on.
23:04
Skylar: Passion.
23:05
Mikayla: I, ah, got an eight.
23:08
Skylar: An eight. All right, so you get to use one attack or one
23:11
option. Basic technique.
23:12
Mikayla: I'm gonna strike them.
23:13
Skylar: Strike them. all right, use your water. You slash out with
23:16
them. I'm, striking them all. Forcing. At least, you know,
23:19
one of them. Technically, it says, foe. So you hit one of
23:22
them. forcing them to mark two. Fatigue.
23:23
Mikayla: Yeah, you know, breaks up the water. You know how that works.
23:25
Skylar: Yeah. I'm gonna say that you mark, or they mark to
23:28
fatigue. I think, we'll just keep things pretty
23:31
straightforward. You slap him with some water. He feels some
23:34
pain. He takes a step back.
23:36
Mikayla: Maybe he cries for his mom.
23:37
Skylar: He cries for his mom. We all know that they've all
23:40
been taken from, well, the orphanages. Now,
23:44
I forgot about that. Well,
23:47
Brock's over there, and he's like, oh, I was thinking about killing him,
23:50
but, I mean, not the
23:53
orphans. Not the orphans. All right, with that
23:55
being said, what are you doing, Brock?
23:58
Cameron: I kill him. First off, I rolled an eight.
24:00
Skylar: Okay. So you get one move.
24:02
Cameron: I will use my earth gauntlet.
24:03
Skylar: Oh, okay.
24:04
Cameron: Little throwback.
24:05
Skylar: Yeah.
24:06
Cameron: So I'll go up to, I guess, the biggest one
24:09
of the bunch.
24:10
Skylar: Yeah.
24:10
Cameron: I'm just gonna walk up and just wrap
24:13
my fist with earth and just
24:15
uppercut.
24:16
Skylar: I freaking love that move. It is pretty sick. All right,
24:19
sounds good. And you're doing a strike, I'm assuming, or no, yours is.
24:22
Yeah, that's our move.
24:23
Cameron: So I mark a fatigue, but I inflict a condition,
24:26
or two fatigue, and I can also knock them out of
24:29
reach, but obviously, I don't want to do that.
24:31
Skylar: Oh, okay.
24:31
Cameron: I mark they either take do fatigue, or they take.
24:34
Skylar: Okay, sounds good. let me ask you this.
24:37
Do you have a preference on which they take?
24:39
Cameron: I mean, I would say two.
24:41
Skylar: Two fatigue. Okay, so it's the same guy. Two fatigue. Is it the same
24:43
guy?
24:44
Cameron: Yes. well, the biggest of the bunch.
24:46
Skylar: So I would say the biggest of the bunch stands in the front, and
24:49
Mika probably would have slapped him.
24:51
Okay, so immediately what happens?
24:54
These four are standing there ready to meet you. They probably got maybe
24:57
weapons or if they're a benda, whatever the case, they're taking a
25:00
stance. Mika steps out immediately,
25:03
just whips one of them with water.
25:06
Mactuk looks like he's about ready to jump in there and help out,
25:09
but just before he can, Brock just keeps walking like everybody
25:12
else, stops as Mika does the whip and everything,
25:14
and is getting ready. Brock just keeps walking right through,
25:17
kind of like, pushes through the crowd, scoops up a chunk
25:20
of rock into his hand or earth, and
25:23
just uppercuts this dude just
25:26
knocks him back. I mean, he's, he's, he falls, like,
25:29
10ft away from the group, and he's out. He's unconscious.
25:32
So you guys have, like, three dudes left at this point.
25:34
Sick. Bill. Ash. Gosh, I'm
25:37
gonna have to get used to that. Ash, what are you
25:40
doing?
25:41
Mikayla: Should we write it on his forehead?
25:44
Cameron: Oh, can I
25:47
pressure all of them?
25:50
Skylar: It says, foe.
25:51
Cameron: Well, what I'm doing is I'm just gonna take,
25:54
I'm gonna walk next to Brock after he
25:57
completely annihilated a dude, and I'm just going to, like,
26:00
grip my.
26:00
Mikayla: What about me?
26:03
Cameron: Anyways?
26:09
run.
26:11
Skylar: Well, I'm gonna guess that. Okay. So the way the pressure works is you're
26:14
basically saying which of the combat approaches they
26:17
cannot take next exchange. Yeah, they don't.
26:19
Cameron: I don't want them to advance an attack.
26:21
Skylar: Okay.
26:21
Cameron: Them to. He paid an observer defender manufacturer.
26:24
Skylar: Okay, wait.
26:25
Cameron: I want them to run, so not advance an attack.
26:28
Skylar: Okay, sounds good. whoa, you're taking
26:30
evade and observe. Okay,
26:33
sounds good. I would say that they
26:36
are put off a little bit by the situation,
26:39
but they take a step back.
26:40
Cameron: Right.
26:41
Skylar: They're a little bit nervous. but instead of
26:44
retreating entirely, they are going to
26:47
bolster or hinder. And the way that. What that looks like
26:49
is three, or four more step
26:52
out from the area around the
26:55
mansion outside, and, kind
26:58
of join their group, and they feel a bit bolstered
27:01
by the situation, so. Whoa, what are you
27:04
doing with your evadent? Observe.
27:07
Dave: so I want to test their balance.
27:09
Skylar: Oh, okay.
27:09
Dave: Then I roll the six.
27:12
Skylar: Okay, that's just shy.
27:14
Dave: So, what can I do to make that?
27:17
Skylar: you can take a fatigue, and you will
27:20
be able to use one option.
27:23
Dave: Okay, so I'll take the fatigue.
27:25
Skylar: Okay.
27:25
Dave: And then I'm going to test balance. So I take another
27:28
fatigue, and I'm going to
27:32
challenge engaged foe's balance. So
27:35
I turn to them and say, like, what?
27:38
You guys, give it a rest. What
27:41
are you even fighting for? You're fighting
27:44
for this lady sick. She
27:47
brainwashes children.
27:48
Skylar: Well, when you put it that way, they respond, and they say
27:52
almost at the same time, like in a kind of eerie,
27:54
creepy. You can tell that they're obviously under her
27:57
direct hypnotic. Hypnotic control. They
28:00
say, we serve Madam Yang's
28:02
orders. Madame Yang said,
28:05
find the intruders.
28:08
Kind of came out like a rhyme a little bit.
28:12
Dave: So what would be their principle?
28:14
Skylar: So their principle, at least under their. Their
28:17
hypnotic state, is loyalty.
28:19
Dave: Loyalty.
28:20
Skylar: All right, so with that, they have, like I
28:23
said, like, three or four, additional members that have just joined
28:26
them. before you guys all take your next
28:29
approach, as you guys kind of get your stances
28:32
ready to get into a slightly larger fight than you were
28:34
expecting, all of a sudden, an
28:37
arrow comes flying out from behind you and
28:40
slams into the ground at the foot of
28:43
one of these hot leaf juice elites.
28:46
Not in the foot, just to emphasize. Just like, at the foot. Like a warning
28:49
shot. No, not Mactuk. Cause he's
28:52
standing right next to you and he's not holding a bow. you guys
28:55
turn, and coming out
28:57
from the mansion are a group of
29:00
well dressed individuals all wearing
29:03
masks. And as they kind of
29:06
come up behind you guys and almost take
29:09
stances, alongside of you, one
29:12
of them, who seems to be leading the group, he kind
29:15
of lifts his mask ever so slightly, and he looks over
29:18
at ashe, and it
29:20
is mister Yutaku.
29:23
And he says, he kind of gives Bill, like, a quick
29:26
wink, and he says, I
29:29
said I'd help you out when the time came.
29:32
So you guys get going and save that tea
29:35
shop, and I expect you guys to
29:38
cater my next event.
29:40
Cameron: Well, thank you.
29:41
Skylar: Yeah, we got your back.
29:43
Dave: Sounds like a party. Thanks.
29:46
Skylar: And they all have, they all have, like, these kind of, like,
29:49
really vintage. I say vintage, that sounds
29:52
archaic. crossbows, like, very early
29:55
crossbow. I don't know if those were really, like, in avatar. I know
29:58
everybody had, like, bows, but these are, like, wealthy people,
30:01
right? They all, like, have seen kind of the weapons of the
30:03
future. And even though the weapons of the future aren't, like,
30:07
how we look at them necessarily, I think there was, like,
30:09
a really early version of crossbows that could exist.
30:13
And so that's what they have, right? They all have these, and they're pointing
30:16
at the hot leaf juice members who immediately are kind of like,
30:19
oh, we're a bit more outnumbered than we thought.
30:21
And they look like they're trying to decide, like, how they want to
30:24
continue. But, whatever the case, they're definitely focused on
30:27
these enemies at hand, knowing that they obviously can't
30:30
capture you guys while they're there. And so their
30:33
focus is now drawn away from you, giving you an
30:35
opportunity to escape.
30:38
Cameron: I say Bill just starts running away.
30:41
Skylar: All right, sounds good. Do you guys.
30:42
Cameron: Come on, guys, let's go.
30:44
Mikayla: Yep.
30:44
Skylar: All right, sounds good. You guys run off and you guys head
30:47
down, into the city of gaoling,
30:49
headed towards the mayor's office.
30:53
As you guys are making your way through town, do
30:55
a, let's say, rely on your skills and
30:58
training.
31:01
Just kind of across the board, because you guys are trying to be kind of stealthy,
31:04
a little bit sneaky, trying, to make sure that you don't
31:07
alert the various characters that are out.
31:10
Cameron: Here, rely on your skills and train.
31:11
Cameron: That's old.
31:12
Skylar: With what?
31:12
Cameron: Creativity.
31:13
Mikayla: Focus.
31:14
Cameron: Oh, can you be with creativity?
31:17
Well, then I got a five.
31:18
Mikayla: I got a six.
31:20
Skylar: Five, six.
31:24
Mikayla: It's not a character for the.
31:26
Skylar: So you guys are able to bypass a
31:29
group of fire nation guards, that make their
31:32
way across. But for the three of you that failed,
31:35
as you guys are rounding another corner,
31:38
you kind of find yourselves in a semi
31:41
alleyway. It's kind of got a narrow exit that'll be
31:44
difficult to get through, especially when a group of
31:47
three pirates are standing there guarding
31:50
it. Of course, of the
31:53
three that are here, you have Captain Rockfoot, who
31:55
immediately goes and goes, ah. well, we got
31:58
lucky, didn't we? with him is
32:01
first mate Bango, who
32:04
was my best friend. Yeah, allegedly your best
32:07
friend. And, of course, the fan
32:10
favorite deckhand Kalcone, who
32:13
says, ah, wonderful to see all of you once
32:16
again.
32:19
And, of course, Captain Rockfoot kind of, like, punches him
32:22
in the chest, and he goes, I told you every
32:25
single time. I handle the
32:28
initial introductions. But, sir, we have
32:31
actually been introduced to them once before. We've, seen
32:34
them actually, a couple of times now. You
32:36
don't think that I am aware of that? Just shut
32:39
up, you big oaf. Anyways, you kids
32:42
know that you're quite outmatched,
32:45
so it would be in your best interest to just come
32:48
with me quietly. I don't want to alert
32:51
anybody else to your presence. You
32:54
don't want to alert anybody else to your presence? And if I
32:57
am the one that takes you straight to Madame Yang myself,
33:00
I'm the one that gets the cash.
33:03
But I'll have to tie you up, of course.
33:06
Mikayla: You actually think we're gonna come with you? What
33:09
a joke.
33:10
Skylar: I was really hoping you'd make it easy on
33:13
me.
33:13
Mikayla: Absolutely not.
33:14
Skylar: well, you're definitely gonna have to fight,
33:17
then.
33:18
Mikayla: I am a water slap him.
33:20
Cameron: Cool.
33:21
Skylar: Mika runs into every situation. Water slap
33:24
water. You like that video?
33:25
Mikayla: What I do with my little thing of water?
33:29
Skylar: I mean, you're making a good point.
33:31
Cameron: We never learned any other moves throughout the campaign.
33:33
Dave: I was gonna say, all right,
33:36
let's. Let's make this.
33:37
Mikayla: I'll make this one pack of puffs.
33:39
Dave: Set down the hats, huh?
33:41
And walk away.
33:44
Skylar: We.
33:45
Dave: No one has to get hurt.
33:46
Skylar: Hats? Wait a minute.
33:50
You must have been the one that stole my
33:52
fancy hat, which makes him.
33:55
Mikayla: The captain, which means we don't have to listen
33:58
to you and either do your little doo buddies.
34:01
Cameron: That's pirate code.
34:02
Skylar: That's part of the code.
34:02
Mikayla: Yep.
34:03
Skylar: He wasn't just my captain. that was my captain's
34:06
hat. Exclusively for weddings, which I
34:09
don't wear.
34:10
Mikayla: Often took a wedding hat,
34:13
which means wow's
34:16
the,
34:16
Cameron: Wow.
34:17
Mikayla: Whoa. Captain.
34:19
Cameron: At weddings, we don't have a wedding.
34:21
Mikayla: And your little duck swabbers don't have to
34:24
listen to you, either.
34:25
Skylar: Captain Rockfoot kind of like, solidifies his foot
34:28
into his, you know, rock foot that he has
34:31
into the rock below him, and he kind of leans forward and he says,
34:34
well, I'm wearing my
34:37
hat.
34:37
Mikayla: Captain hat.
34:39
Skylar: Where's yours?
34:40
Mikayla: And then I water slap him.
34:44
Skylar: this feels a little outside of combat. Just do it. Just do
34:47
a quick. Rely on your skills and training. Or maybe even push
34:50
your luck. Yeah,
34:52
do a push your luck.
34:54
Mikayla: Okay.
35:00
Seven. Ah.
35:01
Skylar: Seven. Okay. Mixed success. You
35:04
are able to slap him in the face,
35:07
but you
35:10
see that bongo is
35:13
at the ready. And he kicks
35:16
up a, chunk of rock that comes
35:18
flying towards you and hits you in the
35:21
shoulder, giving you a fatigue.
35:23
Mikayla: And that's when my dad says, not
35:26
my favorite daughter.
35:27
Skylar: not my favorite and only daughter.
35:30
And he leaps forward and
35:33
slams his fist into the face
35:36
of broccoli. No, I'm totally.
35:40
I heard that you impregnated
35:45
travels. Yeah, we're travels.
35:48
No. He slams his fist into
35:50
bongo. and he kind of looked back,
35:53
looks back at you guys, and he says, going without
35:56
me. I'm gonna finish these pirates off
35:59
myself. You guys have something more important to
36:02
do?
36:03
Mikayla: I'm gonna say, aye, aye, captain, and give him a wing.
36:07
Skylar: Her dad, Mac took. Yeah. oh.
36:09
Cameron: Okay.
36:09
Skylar: I was doing a little bit of a gruff voice, and that kind of sounded like the
36:12
captain. The captain just starts fighting.
36:15
You guys get out of here. I'm gonna hold them off.
36:18
They're like, we're not even doing anything unless you tell
36:21
us to.
36:22
Dave: This be a mutiny.
36:24
Skylar: I got a captain. Whoa.
36:27
Cameron: Can you imagine how crazy of a.
36:29
Skylar: Twist that would be if the captain commits the
36:32
mutiny? We should write a screenplay, guys,
36:35
on.
36:35
Mikayla: Our next one shot.
36:37
Skylar: Yeah, the pirate captains commit mutant.
36:40
Cameron: All right, let's just make a break for it
36:42
again.
36:43
Skylar: Once again, you guys make a break for it. thankfully, this
36:46
time, this alleyway has put you very close
36:49
to the mayor's office, which is what you are trying to
36:52
achieve. you can see it just in the distance, but as
36:54
you approach, and you kind of, again, ducking and diving between
36:57
the various buildings and houses and businesses,
37:00
you guys see that? Sure enough, you are right in your
37:03
assumption. There are a lot of guards
37:06
outside of this space.
37:09
Mikayla: Brock, tunnel your way, I get bugs bunny my
37:12
way.
37:14
Skylar: okay, but the mayor's office is kind of like a metal building, I'd imagine.
37:17
Or it has elements of metal in them. And so you can tunnel
37:20
underneath, but there might be a foundation.
37:23
Does it have metal floors, maybe wood
37:26
or wood floors?
37:28
Cameron: Well, this is.
37:29
Mikayla: I can break out times they have.
37:31
Cameron: Dirt floors if I can break through,
37:34
like, solid stone. I feel
37:37
like woods breaking.
37:40
Skylar: Yeah, that's true. you guys, see
37:43
this whole situation, and all of a sudden, you see Mayu yin. You
37:46
kind of come stepping out very confidently towards
37:49
some of the guards. And he starts playing a song.
37:52
And he's like, hey, check me out. Check me out over
37:55
here.
37:55
Cameron: Look at this.
37:56
Skylar: And he's playing this little song, and the guards, I mean, it's like
37:59
the. The british royal guard. I mean, these guys, they don't even
38:02
blink. they are. They are giving you nothing.
38:05
And he's trying everything. And then, you know, maybe Sora
38:08
comes out and she's. She starts going like, oh, look at
38:10
me. I'm a, rescue team squadron member. You guys are
38:13
totally after me. Nothing. These guys just
38:16
stonewall. Ember. Ember comes out and he's kind
38:19
of just like, I don't really know how to
38:22
contribute to this, but, I'm an annoyance.
38:25
I'm causing a scene. I'm causing a
38:28
public disturbance. Guys,
38:31
I don't think these guys care.
38:33
And they're all doing all their goofy,
38:36
jittery stuff. and it's not
38:39
really working. maybe they're catching the attention of. Maybe
38:42
one of the pirates. The other pirates is walking by, and he
38:45
stops and he's like, what is this? This is
38:47
ridiculous. and, like, maybe a couple of hot
38:50
leaf juice. People walk by and they're trying to get their
38:53
attention to, like, tell them to go away. We're trying to
38:56
conduct some kind of search or something like that, you know, just yelling at
38:59
them. whatever the case, you guys, here
39:02
kind of nearby, down kind of another dark alley
39:04
here, over here.
39:06
Hey.
39:10
Dave: Who'S there?
39:13
Skylar: And, peeking around the corner, you can just barely
39:16
see Chicra, my
39:19
bfF. Yeah.
39:22
Your relationships gonna change now that your dad's back?
39:26
Mikayla: He died. I said we don't have a good relationship.
39:30
Cameron: Oh, yeah?
39:31
Skylar: Your dad's not with you right now?
39:33
Mikayla: What a schmuck, you know, leaving his daughter to fend for
39:36
herself.
39:42
Skylar: A great opportunity to have your dad with you when you run
39:45
into Chicra again.
39:47
Mikayla: Okay, I run over to Chicra.
39:49
Skylar: Oh, wow. You're excited. Okay.
39:53
Just, like, the friendship level that I just did not
39:56
expect to have been reached by you two in such a short amount
39:58
of time, and the fact that she was literally your enemy and you
40:01
guys got in a big fight.
40:04
Cameron: a lot happened in the short period.
40:06
Mikayla: She doesn't remember. Brock threw her through a wall. She doesn't
40:09
remember a lot of memories.
40:13
Cameron: Last thing she remember was the night before at the party.
40:17
Cameron: Oh, what's your favorite thing?
40:18
Cameron: That was really nice.
40:18
Skylar: Yeah, we both hated our dad.
40:20
Mikayla: The last thing she saw was me standing next to her. And then all of a
40:23
sudden, nothing.
40:26
Skylar: Was just a blur. whatever the case, as you rush
40:29
over there, you come around the corner, and you see she's there,
40:32
as well as the big giant guy, and
40:35
the kind of scrawny dude with some
40:38
sort of back problem, who. He was kind of
40:41
whiny and annoying before, but all three of those,
40:44
or those three are there. the only person you don't see is the,
40:47
the leader. The kind of rockabilly hair, wooden
40:50
katana guy. And chica's like, hey, I
40:52
saw you guys having some issues over there, trying to get. Are you guys
40:56
trying to get in the mayor's office or something?
40:57
Mikayla: Ah, yeah, absolutely. We were trying to do that.
40:59
Skylar: Okay. so
41:02
you guys are probably in a hurry.
41:04
Mikayla: Are you saying there's a secret tunnel?
41:06
Skylar: No, there's not a secret tunnel.
41:08
Mikayla: Okay.
41:08
Skylar: I was gonna give you guys a full rundown about how, like, we got rid of the
41:11
leader dude. I don't remember what his name was. we got rid
41:14
of him. I took over. I'm trying to, like,
41:17
rebrand our image, you know, not try to, like, take care or
41:20
take advantage, of local businesses and stuff like that
41:22
anymore. Kind, of more going for, like, a community help
41:25
bond. I don't know. Things have just kind of changed and stuff since you guys
41:28
disappeared and felt kind of bad when, the old guy
41:31
that we were, we were getting money out of died.
41:34
That really sucked. so just kind of felt wrong.
41:37
Mikayla: You don't have to tell me about that.
41:39
Skylar: Yeah. So, anyway, we want it. We want to help. Needless to say,
41:42
we want to help. So, I. So my
41:45
dad's office is also in there. And so sometimes when I
41:48
wanted to, like, sneak out of there, I would just.
41:51
There's like a. There's like, a rope. It's like a clothesline that I stole from
41:54
my house, and I connected it, and she points up, and
41:57
sure enough, up above you, there's sort of a spire that
42:00
comes off of the mayor's office and attaches to a
42:02
chimney, coming off of a nearby business
42:05
building. She's like, it's. I mean, it's a little bit of a
42:08
delicate situation. I handle it just fine.
42:10
Mikayla: It's okay. This guy I point to, guo, he was
42:13
in the circus, so.
42:15
Skylar: Oh, yeah. Okay.
42:16
Mikayla: He, he probably can do that. Easy peasy.
42:18
Skylar: Yeah.
42:19
Cameron: Trapeze.
42:19
Skylar: Guo.
42:22
Mikayla: tightrope dabbled.
42:24
Skylar: He dabbled. That's more than most can
42:27
say.
42:27
Cameron: He dabbled.
42:28
Mikayla: Otherwise, I was gonna say we could try to touch the soldiers, because
42:31
that, took them
42:34
out of the trance at the factory.
42:35
Skylar: But these are fire nation soldiers.
42:39
Mikayla: Okay.
42:42
So, yeah, type rope it is.
42:45
Skylar: I mean, you don't have to, like, walk across it like a tightrope.
42:48
Mikayla: I mean, zip line it. You got it, girl.
42:50
Skylar: Yeah, you. I mean, yeah. However you feel. I
42:53
don't know about zipline, but you could probably, like, swing
42:56
across in a sense or something. I don't know. Anyway, but, yeah.
42:59
Yeah. and they lead, you over to a section
43:02
wherever they've kind of, or at least maybe she has in the
43:04
past, stacked up, like, a whole bunch of boxes and crates,
43:07
so that she can get up alongside the wall of this building
43:10
and onto the rooftop. And then from the rooftop, she's
43:13
able to get over to the rope itself. So you guys follow
43:16
along. And as you guys approach the
43:19
rope, I'm going to have you guys
43:22
push your luck. Except for Guo, since he does have
43:25
experience with it, I will let him do rely on his skills and
43:27
training.
43:28
Cameron: What do we roll?
43:29
Cameron: Push your luck with, passion. Push your luck.
43:31
Skylar: Yep. Passion.
43:32
Cameron: Ten.
43:33
Skylar: Nice. Okay. Nine. Nine. All right.
43:36
Mikayla: Seven.
43:36
Skylar: All right.
43:38
Dave: Nine.
43:39
Skylar: Nine. Okay. Sounds good. Okay, so,
43:41
Brock, you, since you got a perfect success, how do you,
43:44
like, easily make your way across this
43:47
tightrope situation?
43:49
Cameron: I'm thinking Brock takes a bit of
43:52
earth and kind of forms himself a
43:54
little. A little triangular bar.
43:57
Skylar: Oh, okay.
43:58
Cameron: Like a little triangle. And he just kind of hops on and zip lines
44:01
across.
44:01
Skylar: Zip lines across.
44:02
Cameron: And Brock, being the forward thinker he is, did
44:05
not make any for the others to
44:07
use.
44:08
Skylar: He made it across. He's like, these things are great. They're,
44:11
like, cool. I mean, I guess I've
44:14
got one.
44:14
Cameron: And then Bill just.
44:16
Cameron: Oh, yeah.
44:16
Cameron: He tosses his bo staff over, and he jumps after him.
44:19
It's a little more clumsier because it's a. As
44:22
a stick and not like a triangle, but he makes
44:25
himself across, too.
44:27
Cameron: I guess Guo could also use that because he
44:30
is also an earthbender.
44:31
Skylar: Okay, so, Bill, you hop up with your
44:34
stick, and as you're going, what happens is
44:36
that your stick starts to kind of, like, lean. Like, it's just not a perfect
44:39
balance the whole way across. and at some
44:42
point, you. You are so far over on one
44:45
side that it starts to scrape your hand as you're kind of ziplining
44:48
across. so you're gonna take one. Fatigue done.
44:51
since it. Yeah, it's.
44:53
Cameron: I've been through worse pain.
44:55
Skylar: All right, sounds good. So your arm or your hand is a little bit
44:57
sore. By the time got a little bit of like a kind of a rug
45:00
burn or rope burn. but otherwise, I mean, you've made it
45:03
across. Micah, you also got a
45:06
seven. Seven. So imperfect. how are
45:09
you going across this?
45:10
Mikayla: monkeying it.
45:11
Skylar: Monkeying it. Okay, so I think similar
45:14
situation as you're going across, you,
45:17
just, you know, the muscles in your arm and so on and so forth. You know, it's like,
45:19
going across the monkey bars as an adult, and you're like, man, I haven't done this
45:22
in forever. And when I was a kid, I had, like, no weight that I
45:25
had to lift as I was going across. so you also take a
45:28
fatigue as you get to the end, and you are just kind of
45:31
exhausted. Your arms are all, you know, jelly
45:33
and stiff and all this other stuff, they're really
45:36
sore, so you'll do that. And then, Guo, you also
45:39
had a seven to nine, right?
45:42
Dave: Yep.
45:43
Skylar: Okay. how are you going across this? Are you doing the
45:45
full walk across like a tightrope?
45:48
Dave: Yeah, I'm going to try to walk across.
45:50
Skylar: Okay. you start to go across and you're
45:53
almost to the end, and then all of a sudden you kind of
45:56
lose your balance a little bit. It's been a while since you've done this. you're
45:58
just barely able to catch yourself.
46:01
but the whole thing is kind, of terrifying.
46:04
And I'm going to have you, Mark, was it afraid? Is that
46:07
one of your conditions?
46:09
Dave: Yeah.
46:09
Skylar: Okay. I'm gonna have you, Mark, afraid as you kind of look
46:12
down below you and see how far up that
46:15
you are. and it just kind of leaves you as
46:18
you. You're able to make your way across. And your friends kind of help
46:20
you, grab you at the end and kind of pull you over.
46:24
but it's kind of left you with that kind of anxiety. your heart's
46:27
beating really fast and it's just kind of left you with a,
46:30
wow, that was really close. I could have just died right there.
46:32
kind of situation. But whatever the case, you guys have made
46:35
it across. And you guys
46:38
can, open the window to the mayor's
46:41
office and you can hop down into sort of like a common
46:44
room with, like, hallways, that lead to the various
46:47
offices. There doesn't seem to be any guards or
46:49
soldiers inside of this building. So you have an opportunity
46:52
to try to find Mister Wu's office and
46:55
navigate there from this point.
46:58
Cameron: Okay, look for Mister M. Wu's office.
47:00
Skylar: All right. So you guys hop down you're making your way through the
47:03
offices. I don't know if any of you have really ever been
47:06
to the mayor's office or had need to go to the mayor's office, in the
47:09
time that you've been here at Gowling. But, eventually it's
47:12
got one of those signs on the wall that's like Mayor Wu
47:15
or, no, not Mayor Wu. He's over in Qin village or
47:18
whatever. M just like all these different individuals
47:21
with little numbers next to their names to show
47:23
which offices they're in or which floor they're on. And
47:26
eventually you're able to find Mister Wu's
47:29
office and you open the door.
47:32
Mikayla: And freaking Madame Yang.
47:35
Skylar: Inside, there are two chairs seated,
47:38
in the office, their backs turned towards you.
47:41
And as you step inside, the familiar faces
47:44
of Madame Yang and General Wang
47:46
long turn to greet you with
47:49
snooty smiles. in front of them is
47:52
a large, you know, nice, ornate sort of
47:55
government desk. And behind that, tied to
47:58
a chair, is Mister Wu, who you recognize from
48:01
the funeral, the guy that you need to
48:03
officiate this certificate,
48:06
this will. And Madame Yang
48:09
turns and she says.
48:10
Mikayla: Well, it looks like I owe
48:13
you some money, general long.
48:17
I truly didn't think this group
48:20
of bumbling children would make it here
48:23
after all. And yet
48:26
here they stand.
48:28
But rather than ask how you kids
48:31
manage to pull off such a stunt,
48:34
I think the more important question
48:37
is, what are you going to do
48:40
now?
48:49
Skylar: Hey, everyone. Skylar, the game master for benders and
48:52
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48:55
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