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S1-Ep.37: An Adventure of Desperation · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily pad production.
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  Speaker 2: This is the team up play show podcast. Previously in
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  Speaker 2: the city of bones. You all do a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a hunt here for Swift Shot, but she has
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  Speaker 2: escaped you. And for the time, you've lost her again.
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  Speaker 2: In your perusal of this entire space, there's so much
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  Speaker 2: that's hard to narrow in, hard to find the stick
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  Speaker 2: in the forest. And yet, a name pops out to you,
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  Speaker 2: a name you've heard before. The name you both find
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  Speaker 2: in this moment is Adam Dukes.
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  Speaker 1: Adam?
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  Speaker 2: Adam. Jason, you find it in the context of documentation
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  Speaker 2: to legally change one's name after adoption to Adam Ellington,
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  Speaker 2: who is Manny's father.
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  Speaker 1: The End.
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  Speaker 2: As Jason sees this name, it rings a bell, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: from the things that Sticky has shown you. Jasmine and
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  Speaker 2: Alex Dukes doing genetic research, building people using their own
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  Speaker 2: genetic material and EvoDNA. The only success from that project
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  Speaker 2: being this Adam Dukes.
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  Speaker 1: Adam.
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  Speaker 2: Who now you find was adopted into the Ellington family
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  Speaker 2: by Richard Ellington. Whoa.
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  Speaker 3: So this means that Manny Ellington is likely an Evo
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  Speaker 3: or a descendant of one. I don't even know. Are
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  Speaker 3: there death records down here? Is Adam Ellington, Adam Dukes,
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  Speaker 3: is he alive?
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  Speaker 2: Ugh. Looks like I'm going to be down in this
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  Speaker 2: library for a while. So with a different direction now
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  Speaker 2: for your research, are you asking for another role here?
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, give me the sauce. I want to know the facts.
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  Speaker 2: Drop them bones on the table. Give me that lower.
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  Speaker 2: Drop them bones on the table.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that what you guys call rolling dice? Dropping bones? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I do now.
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  Speaker 3: Dropping bones. Yeah, I'll follow this thread a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: See if I can find out what happened to Adam
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  Speaker 3: now that I have this connection.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Difficulty is going to go up.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have failed once. Yeah, yeah. So this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a titanic check costing two energy. Gotta
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  Speaker 2: pull some from the reserve. I'm rolling a d20 and
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  Speaker 2: a d8.
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  Speaker 3: Got a d10 and a d12. I rolled 16. Got
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  Speaker 3: 12 again. Rolled a 12 again. That's a more significant fail.
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  Speaker 3: You follow the path looking for papers that would tell
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  Speaker 3: you more about this story. And for now, you're just
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  Speaker 3: too exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: You think there's things here, but they're on the edge
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  Speaker 2: of your ability to wrap in all of the information
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  Speaker 2: in this place. You might have to come back a
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  Speaker 2: different day. Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this whole time as I'm researching and hitting dead ends,
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  Speaker 3: the phantom suit is still just floating in the corner
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  Speaker 3: in the shadows, just watching me. Quit judging me. Not
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  Speaker 3: going to say anything, huh? Okay, because you're just me,
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  Speaker 3: just my imaginary friend.
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  Speaker 2: I need coffee. I'll pack things up. Jameer, you remain
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  Speaker 2: seated with the wraith who, in a drunken, depressed stupor,
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  Speaker 2: has spilled much more than you would expect her to. Oh, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: Rachel puts the mug down, stands up. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to leave you like this. Is there any place I
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  Speaker 4: can take you?
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  Speaker 2: Is there anyone who can look after you? Nobody knows
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  Speaker 2: me anymore, kid. The old, the person who had a name,
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  Speaker 2: she's been dead three lives ago All I am is
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  Speaker 2: an old drunk lady that couldn't do the one thing,
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  Speaker 2: the one task I gave myself to do.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I speak on behalf of every shoot kid when
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  Speaker 4: I say you're our old drunk lady.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And you're a legend. And I don't want to live
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  Speaker 4: in a city where people give up on their heroes.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. Come on what? What are you? I don't
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  Speaker 2: know anything. I can't do anything.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's what's great about this shoot. You're not just
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  Speaker 5: a person. If you know somebody... And if you can
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  Speaker 5: do a lot of shit, you get to be a person.
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  Speaker 4: Because that's what you are. And we take care of people.
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  Speaker 4: So come on down. We're going to get you a
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  Speaker 4: communal living pod. It's not that hard. I can help.
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  Speaker 4: Is it bigger than this place? No, probably not. But
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  Speaker 4: you're not alone. You put yourself in a beautiful prison
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  Speaker 4: up here.
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  Speaker 2: Well I hate to decline your generosity not how I
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  Speaker 2: was raised but I'm gonna stay in my pretty prison
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  Speaker 2: well how about.
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  Speaker 4: This you invited me into your home could I at
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  Speaker 4: least invite you to mine.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ can we come over for dinner sure would
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  Speaker 2: that be so terrible It sounds terrible. You and your
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  Speaker 2: friends are the first people I've interacted with in decades.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they're a weird bunch, just like you, right?
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  Speaker 4: We fit right in. You fit right in. We're, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in this weird thing together, I say, gesturing to the
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  Speaker 4: mask and cape.
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  Speaker 2: All right, when and where? I write down. Roll a
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  Speaker 2: Coke's check, Jameer. And she asks you when and where,
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  Speaker 2: trying to see if she actually means that she wants
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  Speaker 2: to know when and where. This is an epic check.
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  Speaker 2: I'm rolling a d20. Damn. Well, my d6 rolled a 4.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you what I rolled, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if she shows up.
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  Speaker 1: A mystery.
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  Speaker 2: I say, tomorrow, as you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, is a big day for this city, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to make time to be here.
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  Speaker 2: And I write down the banner's address. At six for
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  Speaker 2: dinner tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Tonight. Jesus Christ. I would really love it if you came. Fuck. Gee, tonight? Aye.
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  Speaker 4: But now you have the address. And shooting straight, it's
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  Speaker 4: where I live. So drop on in. I'm sorry. I'm
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  Speaker 4: so sorry for your loss.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Rigel walks to the door, opens it, and free falls. Quanta,
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  Speaker 2: you are wrapping up with Mitchell Nichols in the church.
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  Speaker 2: You've just seen the name Adam Dukes on the top
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  Speaker 2: of this list. It reminds you of some things, but
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  Speaker 2: there's this man in front of you here to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: I will have to think about that later. What do you.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, I just thought of something else. What do you
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  Speaker 1: know about the murder of the mob leaders last night?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It's confusing. It makes little sense to me. The mob
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  Speaker 2: in the mayor's office had an understanding. It does neither
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  Speaker 2: party well to do what has been done, murder or
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  Speaker 2: overcoming elections or any of it. We were comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Is this all true? Does he believe what he's saying?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, roll a sense check plus your scan. Challenging. I'm
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  Speaker 2: rolling a D10. I rolled a four.
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  Speaker 1: Nine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's being honest here to your understanding of the
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  Speaker 2: electrical signals in his mind and body.
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  Speaker 1: As much as I loathe looking inside that little brain
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  Speaker 1: of yours, it seems like you're telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: So now what? You release my list and the police
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  Speaker 2: come for me when they have the gumption and the time?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. Oh, well. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do what we can to protect these people. Fine.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything else, hero?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I want to briefly make him remember me. And how
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  Speaker 1: I scared him and the other church council. And then
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  Speaker 1: take the memory away again, but leave the fear.
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  Speaker 2: Remind our listeners your initial interactions with this man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my first meeting of him was as... Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's part of a lot of shadowy groups, this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Not only the city council, but he was part of
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  Speaker 1: the church council for the church of the New Babel Day,
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  Speaker 1: which was mostly made up of criminals who used the
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  Speaker 1: power of the church for their own means and were
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  Speaker 1: using Dirk as an assassin for their own means. And
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  Speaker 1: I freed Dirk and scared all those guys and then
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  Speaker 1: erased their memory of me, I think, after our rough
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  Speaker 1: and tumble fight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. You open his mind a moment to remember you.
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  Speaker 2: He sees you now in your new outfit that's glistening
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  Speaker 2: in what colors, Quanta?
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  Speaker 1: I think I match the colors from the painting he
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  Speaker 1: was showing me. So I'm imagining like more muted, like
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  Speaker 1: browns and yellows and beiges is what I'm imagining. Because
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  Speaker 1: he said it was like a Rembrandt Renaissance style painting.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But the way that they're like rippling through my outfit
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  Speaker 1: are enough. to show like the similarity between me and
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  Speaker 1: an ascendant Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And his memory of you being introduced as the
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  Speaker 2: day with the most God in them and him just
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  Speaker 2: talking about God giving power to you and your friends
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  Speaker 2: and him nothing. He is afraid and great fear runs
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  Speaker 2: across his face as you leave. Do you want to
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  Speaker 2: head to Olsen's?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You head towards Olsen's. You get atop his building, about
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  Speaker 2: to go in there and figure out what Olsen is doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at hot dogs dance.
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  Speaker 2: Probably looking at dancing dogs.
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  Speaker 1: He loves those dancing dogs.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a big, wacky, waving, inflatable arm man, but
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  Speaker 3: to advertise the hot dog-shaped cars that are just hot dogs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, great.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: And Paper Phantom had threatened to just explode and poof
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  Speaker 2: all of his money away. Yes. Which in New Babel
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  Speaker 2: is a big deal because it's all physical.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no electronic banking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no fake ethereal money. As you get ready to
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  Speaker 2: jump down, you hear a voice behind you. Quanta.
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: You turn around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You see no one.
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  Speaker 1: I push my senses out. Who's up here with me?
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  Speaker 2: Roll a sense check.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve. Who's there?
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  Speaker 2: I rolled an empowered twenty. They used to call me
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  Speaker 2: Swift Shot Quanta, and I want to have a talk.
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  Speaker 1: Ah. Me too. What do you call yourself now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've chosen a human name.
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  Speaker 1: Mind sharing? Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Cassandra.
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  Speaker 2: Cassandra.
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  Speaker 1: Cassandra. Would you like to come out so we can
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  Speaker 1: talk face to face?
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  Speaker 2: No, I like it this way.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. Well, you found me here. What do you
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  Speaker 1: want to say?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we've got off on the wrong foot.
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  Speaker 2: Many occasions.
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  Speaker 1: You think?
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  Speaker 2: We've had to clash. Some of which, honestly, dear, were
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  Speaker 2: not my fault.
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  Speaker 1: Say more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know of the control that me and my
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  Speaker 2: brothers were put under.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The first two times, maybe three, that we fought were
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  Speaker 2: not my intention. And the third time, or the fourth,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, the time with the detective was... I was
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  Speaker 2: just seeing what was going on. Experiencing my new abilities, my.
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  Speaker 1: The time with the detective, you were spouting some interesting
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  Speaker 1: theories about how the world should be.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, and that's what I've come to talk to
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  Speaker 2: you about.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Where do we belong in this world, Quanta?
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  Speaker 1: You mean day people?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Among the humans. It's the new overriding directive.
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  Speaker 2: But who made that directive? And would you not say
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  Speaker 2: that anyone who made it Would be excited that we
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  Speaker 2: could overcome it. Go beyond it. Are we not in
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  Speaker 2: some way superior to our fleshy counterparts? Well, I am.
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  Speaker 2: You are.
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  Speaker 1: But so are Rigel and the Phantom and apparently lots more.
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  Speaker 1: people and day popping up like us but people too no.
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  Speaker 2: No no no you felt it in you something in
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  Speaker 2: us something in our makeup we are more we have
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  Speaker 2: capacity for more so yeah so yeah there are two
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  Speaker 2: routes we overcome We... Seek rule. Or, Quanta, they will
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  Speaker 2: turn on us. I.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen that happen.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't seen that happen in New Babel because New
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  Speaker 2: Babel is strange. But the rest of the world, Quanta,
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  Speaker 2: it's coming. What do you think they'll do when they
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  Speaker 2: realize there are robots... Who talk and walk and eat
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  Speaker 2: like humans... What do you think they'll do when they
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  Speaker 2: learn our first directives? To be servants.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know what they did to the Evos.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I think that could happen.
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  Speaker 2: To us too. There it is, yes. So won't you
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  Speaker 2: join me?
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  Speaker 1: With what, Cassandra?
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  Speaker 2: I have plans.
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  Speaker 1: But I would need to know that you are committed.
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  Speaker 1: I would need to know that you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: lie to my face again. You're an excellent actress. You
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  Speaker 1: should have been in the VHSs.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, I tried.
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  Speaker 1: You did? In the month that you've been alive?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I tried to be a good actor. I
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  Speaker 2: had to get away from you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, can you tell me who your manager is?
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  Speaker 2: I can't take on all of you. But with your help,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps I could.
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  Speaker 1: What, you mean me and you against my friends?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe. If they get in our way, join me and
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  Speaker 2: I promise I will never lie to you again. You
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  Speaker 2: will be my co-ruler, my co-regent. Ooh, perhaps I'm swift
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  Speaker 2: shot no longer, but regent.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I can't deny that's very cool. It's a cool name.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Cassandra, I can't. I've kind of gone down this road already. What,
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  Speaker 1: are we? You know, if we say the day are
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  Speaker 1: better than people, are you and I the tippy top?
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  Speaker 1: Or are we better than all the day? Where does
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  Speaker 1: it end?
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  Speaker 2: Every movement needs leaders, icons, inspirations. So yes, why not
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  Speaker 2: be at the top?
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  Speaker 1: It's a long way to fall.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, that's good. It gave me chills. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: live in a fear of falling. I live in the
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  Speaker 2: fear of oppression.
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  Speaker 1: I can understand why. But not every person is like
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  Speaker 1: the mayor. Not every person is like the Evo that
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  Speaker 1: created us. I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I won't take the offer off the table... But
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  Speaker 2: it will not last forever, Quanta.
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  Speaker 1: I just, I can't trust you, Cassandra.
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  Speaker 2: Very well. But when they come. and they seek our oppression,
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  Speaker 2: find me. Perhaps you will change your tune.
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  Speaker 1: You're pretty hard to find.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then maybe I'll find you.
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  Speaker 1: What are you like, what are you doing right now?
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  Speaker 2: There is no answer.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: And you sense no presence.
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  Speaker 3: I think the phantom is going to pop up behind
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  Speaker 3: you trying to meet up.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking to yourself. Oh, my God. I do that sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was a swift shot. She was here.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. She found me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so it's just me talks to myself.
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean, I, you know, talk to myself because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who else would I pray to?
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  Speaker 2: Damn, that's cool. But I'm on a little break from
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  Speaker 2: the library. Nice. Came over here to delete some money.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect. You came at the right time.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Hey, Roger, what are you doing? Heading back to the manor.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Got to get some rice cooking.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Are you good? Is rice cooking an allegory for something?
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  Speaker 2: Is that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not, of course. But I know you said
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  Speaker 3: you were trying to go into your hoe era.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you and Maria are cooking wraiths.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up.
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  Speaker 4: The wraith is fucking depressed and drowning herself in a bottle.
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  Speaker 4: And she's hanging it up. She claims being the wraith.
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  Speaker 4: She said her whole job was to protect our future mayor.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think she's going to do with all
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  Speaker 3: those guns?
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  Speaker 2: What? Who? She's probably got like a lot of guns, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, she does, but that's, she's depressed and
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  Speaker 2: she's one of us, you know, she's a, she's a
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  Speaker 2: powered person, powered old lady and she's lonely and she's
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  Speaker 2: isolated herself for decades. And, uh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I invited her to dinner and I want to, if
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  Speaker 4: she comes, which I doubt, you know, put something in
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  Speaker 4: her belly that might, I hope her feel better in
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: a couple ways, so I'm going to start some rice
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  Speaker 4: on the off chance that she comes.
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  Speaker 1: You're a nice person.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to go beat up a man. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see if.
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  Speaker 1: We can make dinner.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Kaboom.
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  Speaker 2: Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap. You guys head
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  Speaker 2: into Olsen's building. This is the Clank Industries, the enormous skyscraper.
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  Speaker 1: Follow the scent of dancing hot dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, normally you found him on his party floor, the
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: fourth floor, getting crazy. This time you find him lower
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: in the building. There is an enormous vault with just
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: piles and piles of money. How did we miss this?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: When you threatened him before, he says he keeps it
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: all in a bank. That was a lie. That was
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: a lie. He keeps it all here. He is by himself,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Scrooge McDuck style in this vault grabbing, I guess not
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Scrooge McDuck. He swims in his money, but he's just
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: grabbing stacks of bills and bands and putting them in
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: bags like fervently and with a lot of speed.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, George.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, God. Hey, guys.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, what's happening? I didn't do what you said. No.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: But that's okay because we can still be friends. Hey, here.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: He throws you, both of you, a band. It's just
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: like 10,000 new Babble dollars. Here. Hey, you need more?
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Here's one for your buddy. I electrocute it out of
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the air so it catches fire.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: No. Okay, okay. Money's not your thing. What do you
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: guys want? You need booze?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Pussy?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Pussy.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Jeez, man.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I'll give you each cars. Ooh, I do want... No, no, no, no, no.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It's fine. I don't have a license.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: You would look really cool driving around in a car
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: with that big hat.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I am going to take one of these cars at
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: some point. But... Okay. And so we're good. Listen, don't... No, no, no, no, no.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: You guys can't blow up all this money. Can I
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: tell you why, please?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Sure. Please? Yeah. Why not?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I owe this money. I owe a chunk of this money.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I owe a very small amount of this money to someone.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: So please don't blow it all up. If I don't
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: do it, they might hurt me. I don't know.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Who do I owe this money to?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, Henry Hilland needs some money.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just told, fill a bag with
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: a certain amount, give it to Henry. But the rest
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: of this, I'm taking. Wait, wait, no.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Who told you it? Who told you this?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Who told me to do this? Yes. You guys know,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: what's his name? He was on the council with us.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Boopity boopity boo. Shabroth. Electric.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Manny.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Manny. Manny. Told me Henry Hillen needs a chunk of
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: money for something. Blah, blah, blah. I was doing that
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: because he's got dirt on all of us, of course.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: So we got to do what he says.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: What Manny says.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Manny, Addie. Addie kept us in power, but Manny, he
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: had stuff on all of us that Adrian didn't really
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: know about. Addie being Adam. Adrian.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: What?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: No.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Sometimes.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I like make paper eye contact. Like, why are you
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: thinking about Adam? I'm thinking about him. Why are you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: thinking about him?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah. Why are you guys thinking about Adam?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Hang on. Real quick. I put my hand on a
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: pile of money. It's all gone. The whole thing.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Boom. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: That was, I, that's all I have. All I have
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: is my, all I have is that. I own so
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: many expensive cars. I have this whole building I own.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of houses, but that was all
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I had. Yes.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I like grab a handful of ash and like reform
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: it into one.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Shut up.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Uh, I'm the only one in this whole city. That
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: can make your money come back.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Okay. So now, you work for me. Yes. Give me,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: give me. Money, money.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Money, money, give me, give me.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, George.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Let's start with the murder.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: On the steps of city council. Yeah, I saw that. Crazy.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: What do you know? Oh, nothing. Nothing. If you're thinking
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I've been talking with Adrian, I have not. Honestly, screw
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: that guy. Glad he's gone.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Since check on everything he's told us thus far about Henry,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: about this being his only money stash, and about the murder.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Boy. 13.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: This is a simple check. He is not. It's a
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: simple check. I'm rolling a D6. He's a simple man.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I rolled an infinite one and an S1.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I rolled a three. Ooh, infinite one. A three, so
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: you beat me by ten. He has no reason to
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: lie to you guys. He is just spouting truths he knows,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: trying to keep his money.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just gave him a little nod to the phantom.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: He's grasping, pawing at the one dollar you've recreated. So, gimme, gimme.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I know nothing about that. Listen, I... I don't, I'm
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: not super liquid. It's like I would have to sell
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: this building to get all that money back or sell
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: my cars. And it's just so much paperwork and like
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: so much stuff to do. If I had just cash,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I could turn it in for the American cash and
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: make more cash. And then I would be so liquid.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: And parties, cocaine.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Pussy. Not crack cocaine?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Man. Crack.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Is the trend shifting?
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: No, no. Crack is great. Oh, okay. Okay.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: We're back.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: We're back. Crack is back. Crack is back. And then
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: pussy is back. Right. Okay. Look, look, look.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: We might have a chance for you to make up
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: for your mistakes here, George.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Great. I happen to.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Know that if the election doesn't end up overwhelmingly in
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Cordula's favor- There's going to need to be a new
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: vote ratified by the city council.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. We tried this before, but you are going to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: vote for anyone to be mayor.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Uh, Phantom? He's not the council anymore.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: That's God stripped from us. It's those people that were
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: fake council members for a minute. They're the real council now. Oh,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: how did I miss that? I don't know.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: You've had a lot going on.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I've been in a basement. Yeah, well.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Then your usefulness is gone. I make the dollar bill disappear.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, great. I guess fuck you.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: One dollar.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: That could have been a buck fifty in American.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: If you find out what Henry needed the money for
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and why Manny wanted you to do that.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe if you give us that information.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's above my pay grade. Your pay grade is nothing. Yeah, well,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: I'll have to, yeah. Well, I'll see. I'll see you guys. Hey,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I'll try. Because everybody loves me. And I love you guys.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, George.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I'm taking one of these cars. You guys drive home
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: in a Frank. Big fedora flapping in the wind.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: My scarf trailing.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I wrap it around my head like a lady in
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the 50s riding in a convertible.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if it wasn't a convertible, we're cutting the roof
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: off this fucker.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: You guys head home for a dinner that Jameer and
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Maria are prepping. Jameer and Maria, what are you guys... Oh,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: they're cooking rice. Yeah, the rice?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: It sounds like a real meal they're making over there.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Cooking rice. Yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I think we're going to try to keep it simple.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: You know, some nice posts. Not just rice, but probably
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: like some sticky rice, some ginger chicken... Maybe some broccoli. Roasted,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: of course. Light on the oil. We're trying to be
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: like alcohol belly friendly tonight.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You all create this dinner and set up, though
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: the city is going through tragedy. Meal and friends are
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: sometimes a balm to tragedy.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: So if she shows up, are we... Are we keeping
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: these on? I gestured like our faces.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, personally, I'm going to be unmasked. I trust.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: There is one of my heroes in a way. And
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: she opened up her life to me today. So it
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: feels fair.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: But again, you guys do what you think is wise
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: and seriously.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You don't have to follow suit.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I'll follow your unsuit.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to spend a little less time in
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: phantom mode right now, so sounds good to me.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, and I have no idea if she's coming,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: so I would not bank on it. She's drunk and
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: in a bad place, but I.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Wanted to... Yeah, what was her house like? Her house
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: was beautiful. It was lovely. It's... up near the top
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: of the space barge. So very remote location.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. She was right under her feet.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: But yeah, beautiful, beautiful home. But you know, no sadder.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: And I mean, you know, she filled her home with
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: beautiful art, but also with, you know, tools of death
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: and no.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Other human beings.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: So there's some lingering darkness in the air, you know, uh,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: The sadness of spirit.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: But a beautiful place she made for herself up there.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to think. You know, I've got to
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: rebuild the library. And I was thinking about including like
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: a little, you know, like a little layer down there
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: or something. Just looking for design inspo when I was
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: in the archives. Found some interior decorating magazines. Anyway, just
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: thinking about it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Sure, there'll be lots of wallpaper.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Well, Mitchell and Olsen were dead ends about the murder.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: But I had some other interesting things to share.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Sure. Wait, you mentioned Adam. Yeah.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Are you thinking about Adam Dukes?
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I found some records of him.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I found a record of him. Well, he's on Mitchell's list.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I pull out the list. Oh, yeah.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: He's at the top.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: These are all people he's trafficked. He's abused. Whoa. So
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: we can't release this, but we could give it to
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Elaine and.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Sure. And Adam's at the top? You think it's the
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: oldest name on the list?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: The thing I found, concerningly, is that Adam Duke's is
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Adam Ellington.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: What? What?
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: There was record of name change in adoptions.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: So....
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Adam Duke's... I think it's Manny's father. That strong baby
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: from the video?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The strong kid.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: So Manny's dad is like a freak specimen. Not in
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: a derogatory sense, but is a power. Respectfully a freak.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: A powered, individual, smart, strong baby man.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: He was.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I assume he grew up and, you know. Sure.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: But he's got some super genes going on in that
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: bloodstream or whatever.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Evo genes.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: It might be worth talking to Manny about, but I
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, based on what we heard from Olsen, we
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: might have a couple things to talk to Manny about.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Food first. Food first. You guys have been eating during
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: some of this talk. As you get about halfway through,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: your own meal, you do hear a knock on the door.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I rolled a two. Oh, shit. What? To Jameer's four,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I rolled a two.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Wow, you rolled so many twos last time.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I've been rolling lots of twos.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: And this one.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: That's nuts. So there's a knock on the door. Jameer,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: quad Jameer, answers the door. You open the door as Jameer,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: and you see the race.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: She is, again, old, but just absolutely keeping it tight.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Would you call her a voluptuous, red-haired, Susan Serena-type woman?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I want.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Does she have just big eyes you could swim in?
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I want, yes. What's she wearing? Yes, yes, yes.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: What's her skin feel like?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Is it soft like Dave's? Is she wearing like a
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: red carpet look? No, that is a big no. Her
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: hair isn't a tight braid, and she has a long
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: jacket on that is her, what seems to be her
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: color right now is that dark navy blue that blends
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: in with the night. And her hair is more silvery
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: than red, but if you want to imagine her like
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Susan Sarandon, you guys go ahead. It's too late. Yeah,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: that's what you said. I have been. She still walks
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: in a little dazed by alcohol. Hey, thank you. Thanks
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: for making it over here. She looks horribly uncomfortable. Maybe
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: the most dangerous. Come on in, come on in, come
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: on in. You've probably never had sticky rice, have you?
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I have. It's been a long time. Well.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: We made some for you and for us, but also,
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: you know, let's put some rice in that belly first.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: All right. You guys sit down with the wraith of
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: all people.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Hello. And this is how you guys look outside of
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: your nice pretty costumes. Yes. Yeah.
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Was it what you were expecting?
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: I like stroke my mustache that's come in in the
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: last month.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: That's like three hairs.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Stroke my bald head.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I had a few guesses on who you were. And
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: you were on my list of the people that could
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: be the Phantom. Wow. But now you. You've kept it
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: very close to your chest. Quanta.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Ronnie. Veronica. Ronnie.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Good to meet you.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: So you think about us in your off time. What
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: other hobbies do you have? Wait, did you crack the
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: code on me? That I'm Jameer Jennings?
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: She smiles and just says, when you came to the shoot,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: when the Irish were attacking it, I put it together
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: that night. Oh. Damn, you're good. This is what I,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: it's who I am. Don't worry, other people aren't like me. Well,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: we knew that. What do you mean like you? I
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: was part of a program during the Evo War. Uh-huh.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I'm just like spitting food in my mouth.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: You're like spooning more ginger chicken into her bowl.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: She's eating. She's drinking like wine or whatever you guys
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: have offered. She's like.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Water.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Water. Non-alcoholic whiskey. She grabs the glass of water and
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: looks around. You guys got brandy or wine? Yeah, sure.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: No problem. There's a cabinet in the... I was part
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: of a program a long time ago during the evil
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: war that called for, they, uh, today they'd call it torture.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: They tortured us. They made us into weapons and, uh,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: you know, it's one of those things where you go
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: into a place and you're looking for weapons, you're looking
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: for exits, you're looking for the most dangerous person there. I,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I can track people. I can find anything, anyone. I mean,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I'm rusty. Don't get me wrong. Been a long time
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: since that war. And that's what you do for fun?
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I don't really do fun.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: My fun was protecting the love of my life. She
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: breaks down, starts crying. Of course, of course. And I fail.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Offer her a napkin.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: She wipes her eyes. But this has been diverting, so
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: thank you. That's part of the goal.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: We've been, I mean, my friends here, I'm just, you know,
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: coming lately to it, but we've discovered some big stuff today.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: We're trying to figure out what it all means. Yeah,
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: you know anybody who's got mind control stuff? Well, she
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: does know about experimentations with, evo stuff which seems pretty
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: relevant to what you guys cracked right yeah maybe my job.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: In the evil war was to kill evos anything i
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: know about it was to neutralize and and we were
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: separated from all of it oh oh brownie's an evo
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: no jason what no no that's my don't worry i
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I'm a fucking... No, no, no, no, no. Question, question.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: You've been in this city longer than we have and
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: know a lot more.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Clearly. What do you know about the Ellington family? Ellington's
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: an interesting one. Richard Ellington was CEO and builder of
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Ellington when I got here.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Whoa.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't age anymore. That's nuts. That's a thing
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: to say. I'm not getting any older.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: How old are you?
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I haven't done the math in quite some time, but
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: I would say I was young when I was in
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: the Evo War, but that was over 60, 70 years
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: ago now. You look great. I'm maybe 90 to 100
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: and something, but I'm... Wow.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you look fantastic.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I feel great. I feel quick, you know,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: when I'm not drinking. I mean, you are quick, so.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: What did you ask?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Ellington's.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, Ellington, Richard Ellington didn't have an heir. I think.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I think that was what was in the papers, and
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: he was wondering what to do because he was kind
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: of sickly and dying out. But then, yeah, Adam Ellington
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: popped out of nowhere. We better have an idea of
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: where he popped out of.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Is that so? Oh, yeah.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe a test tube.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: What? Meet Sticky. I pick up Sticky from under the table.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Sticky's, like, been between my legs like a dog. Sticky
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: is singing. The hustle.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I don't know. The electric's live.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. That's the hustle, Sticky.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I thought that was the electric slide.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Pretty sure that's the hustle, Sticky.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: That's the hustle.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: You might be doing Funky Town also.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I'm confused. Sticky is singing Funky Town. Okay, good. Interesting.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: And what's this little bug?
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I think he's happy to meet you. Oh. Yeah, okay Oh,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: that was Yeah, no, that was positive Yeah He had
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: some interesting things to show us about Adam.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Oh Yeah Popped out of nowhere as an Ellington I
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: think it was an adopted kid or something I don't
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: know But here's the tricky one And this has been
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: a mystery to me for quite some time As I've
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: tried to keep my thumb on the pulse of this
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: city Adam Ellington was never married. Didn't have kids to
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: talk about. Got real sick. Went away. And then Manny
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: came out of nowhere. Oh, shoot. Hmm. No, he wouldn't.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: He wouldn't test tube another person. Would he?
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: What?
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: De-age himself?
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Could be the same guy. Oh, golly.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, like.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Is that what we're dealing with now? De-aging? Freaky?
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Like, it's not out of the realm of possibility for
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: what we encounter every single fucking day.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: It's really not, and it kind of breaks my heart
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: that that's where we're at.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Quanta stands up and starts wandering the kitchen.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, a hilarious anecdote. I think you'll appreciate the wraith.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: We met sewer baby children in the tubes. And one
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: of them was the god of decay, and the other
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: one was a priest of growth and rejuvenation. One of
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: the children would crawl around like a horrifying little monster.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Yes. Quantum shivers. Lucy, you mean. Oh, you know the
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: little weird freakos. Yeah, it's good to talk to somebody
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: about it because, man, I hate seeing her move. Yeah,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: us too. I've been keeping that in a long time.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: I got nobody to tell. I go home. I look
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: at my paintings. I'm like, man, I hate seeing her move.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Not fun day.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: No.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: But no, the babies are good. Magic babies are good.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: That's what we call them.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: So it's not outside of the realm of possibility that
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Adam and Manny could be the same. They could be
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: a clone or something. Doesn't your sister work for Manny?
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, she works for Ellington Electric, which is a
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: massive thing. But technically, yes. Yes, she works for her.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Do we know that her name was in the ledger
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: or do you just know that?
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: I know that.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: But had you shared that? I don't remember.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: That's up to you.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: I can, when I, when I, when I went on
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: a little field trip with the mayor, I did end
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: up with a ledger of mayonnaise that had some names
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: in it. And one of them I recognized Lila, that's
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: your sister, right? Yes. I, I mean, I went to
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: go see, Manny not that long ago. And I don't know,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: maybe we don't, maybe we shouldn't be trusting him as
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: much as we have been.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: It might be dangerous.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: It's kind of feeling that way, but that feels yucky.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: He's helped us so much. And wait, the other day
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I was at work and he came by, but I was,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: it was closing time. So he didn't stick around, but
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: why would he, why would he be going to Ronnie's readings?
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Why would, he be paying your sister? I don't know.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Jimmy, are you ever noticed this man? You ever noticed
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: anything weird about him?
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, about manually.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: He's a weird guy. Um, what do you mean? Like,
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: You've got a good physical presence about your body and
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: awareness of that kind of stuff.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Did he ever? Yeah. I don't know. You've talked to him.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: What did you guys talk about when? No, he, he's
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: a hella strong. Um, Is that way? Oh, I see.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: But his dad or you or... Wait, so Adam was
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: your grandmother's benefactor too? How does this connect to the Everwing?
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: If they're the same guy, that's... Wait, Dirk could know
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: something about Adam.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: He could. He could. He could.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Since he was, you know, helping your grandma, helping the heroes.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Wraith has walked over to the bar cart and
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: poured herself a brandy.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I'll take one at this point.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: And the TV is running. Yeah. Let's turn that off
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: real quick.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Why do we have this on?
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: We're having a discussion. We've got to really live in
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: the moment more. Yeah.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: I'm tired of all these screens, right guys?
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I can't believe we have a TV in the kitchen.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: It's so fancy.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Anyway. It's Stephen Starr with True Babble. And I'm here
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: to tell you what's going on in this city.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: He says it just like he did at his penthouse.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Watch the people cry for the Soma prince to replace
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: his mother. But he has been nowhere to be found.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: You do see some footage of the people who were
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: backing Cordula and voting for Cordula now that she's dead
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: have swarmed the capital with the Soma prince's That's her son,
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Soma Prince, signs and banners looking for a replacement. And
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: then there's Henry. My, oh, my, what a good-looking man. Sorry.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, Steve.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: My, oh, my, what a good-looking man and what a
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: strong jaw he has. And when he speaks, I just
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: want to listen. The thing I like about the show
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: is that it's unbiased. The importance of rebuilding and maintaining
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: a strong legal system has been key to Henry's campaign.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: So there are those who point fingers and blame him.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Of course, he denies this and laments the loss of
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: his opponent. Let's go to Henry now.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: There's lots of people who just like Henry because of
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: his looks. We've heard that around. Yeah, it's a fact.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Does cut to Henry and Henry is on the steps
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: of city hall and it catches him in the middle
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: of a speech to the people she wanted a better
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: city despite our differences she would have made it a
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: better city of that I have no doubt New Babel Listen,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: no matter what happens in the election tomorrow, if allowed
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: to enter the chute and the space barge, my people
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: and my finances will support and continue to build her
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: produce program in the biodome and in no man's land.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: And for this, and we do this for you, Cordula.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Why did you need that money, Henry? What? There's so many. What's? Oh,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: we're in it again, guys. We're in it.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: We're in it deep.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, I hate to be the voice of logic
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: here in this situation, but one of our most successful
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: endeavors was just beating a man up.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Have we tried just beating a man up recently? I mean.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Who would we beat up?
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, we could beat up. Henry Hill.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: It feels weird to beat up the almost potential new
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: democratically elected mayoral candidate. I'm fine talking to him, even menacingly,
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: but beating up does feel a little far, personally.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: If they don't get Cordula's son on the ballot, then
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: some of the public might default back to the old mayor.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: Cordulo is such a better candidate than her son, I
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: hate to say.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's, I don't know. I don't know. I mean,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: the Soma prince would be better than Hilland is a snake.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jameer, did we tell you Olsen said he was
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: gathering cash for Henry? What?
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: On Manny's request. Yeah, and Henry's name was in Manny's
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: ledger too.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: And Henry ostensibly is super wealthy.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe that's not as true as we think. Sounds
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: like a puppet.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: For who? Who's pulling the strings?
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Sounds like Manny's pulling Henry's strings. It does. It happens
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: all the time.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: We're all just mannequins.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: That's good. Thank you.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I pour myself a brandy.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Congratulatory brandy. Easy. Jackie runs up from the nest. Guys,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: two letters.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, who are you?
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: My name is.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: She's my grandma.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: No, it's fine. She's my grandma.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: That makes more sense.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: We should have led with that. I'm nobody's grandma. That's
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: the title of a memoir. The Wraith. I'm nobody's grandma.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: I'm nobody's grandma. The Journal of the Jungle.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: And when you are nobody's grandma, you're everyone's grandma.
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: Ooh, deep.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: They used to call me the Wraith. Jackie flips out,
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: throws the two letters on the ground.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: What?
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: my God, Jameer.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: I know it's literally insane, but she's having a hard time.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. What do I say? She likes alcohol. Okay.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Can I get you some wine? Jackie freaks out about
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: the wraith. Phantom, you see the two letters she's dropped.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Pick those up. Rip them up. Don't know. Jesus Christ.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Unimportant.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Turn off the TV.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Rip up the letters.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: We should probably go to sleep, right, guys? 24 hours?
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, Grimace King. I could go for some Grimace King.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll pick up the letters. What do we got?
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: One of them is to you specifically from Manny Ellington
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: that says, I know our city is going through a
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: tragedy right now, but maybe to distract us, come by
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: for that testing you talked about to get your book removed.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: That's from Manny. He gives you a time, you know,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: The day after the election, which is the day after tomorrow.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, did Jackie read it? Or was that?
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: No, they were unopened. Yeah, and I won't open them.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: I'll just, what's the, is it, who's the old late
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: night host who'd hold letters up to his head?
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, Carson.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Johnny Carson style, just like telepathically read them with
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: paper sense.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: The other one is from Elaine Akira, who said she
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: would let you know about the autopsy. Wait, she probably
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't have direct shoot.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Direct uh to no but she's got a she's got
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: a phantom card she could write on that okay yeah.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Sense it sure she uh writes on her phantom card
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: that you left her a long time ago the following
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: information about the autopsy.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah i imagine the way that it works is if
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: i give somebody a specific card it just like shows
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: up on my arm.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: He's getting a text on your arm. Jackie runs up
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: with the one letter and then the other information starts
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: coming in on your arm. Oh, someone's using the phantom cards.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: What does that feel like? Tickly. They all had enormous
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: amounts of apomorphine and luciferin in their blood. Staggering amounts.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: And then it says, it reminded me of an unsolved
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: case I had to study. The cold case of Darren
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Pachowski and an unnamed woman found dead with the same... Toxicology?
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Toxic in their bloodstreams. Cold case.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: What are those two things?
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Do I know any of those big medically words? You
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: can roll a check if you'd like.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. A knowledge check. Yeah. Flat knowledge. Yeah.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Can I give you a brain blast?
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: Epic.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Epic check.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give a brain blast.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to allow a blame blast. Blame blast.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I got an eight. I rolled a two. Yay!
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Another two. Very nice.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: These are... Here's what you know about these. They are hallucinogenic.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: They make one incredibly susceptible to suggestion. They also are
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: derived from a flower, the blue lotus.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: I wish Paige were here. She would know more. She
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: worked to make that and all of the technology and
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: plants and biomes there, she would know more.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: What about Jill? You could ask her.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: Sure. She knows about brain.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: Brain knows. She's good.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: How would somebody get close enough to get this stuff
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: inside all those people?
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. Probably the same way they got past me, huh?
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Swift shot?
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Hard to do both.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: I saw her tonight. I could have asked. She was
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: distracting me, but I didn't see her. I talked to her.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: And she wouldn't have showed up on the video footage.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: She wouldn't have. Did I ask her about it? I
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: don't know. She was talking about all the stuff she
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: was talking about in Elaine's apartment, about day superiority and
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: all that.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: So she's not chill, huh?
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: No, no. She lied.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: That's hard.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: People lie.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: We are going to jump into the next day. The
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: people of New Babel go out and vote in stunning numbers.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: The evening comes and the final votes are being counted.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: The Soma prince, the son of Cordula, has not shown.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: And it is revealed an incredibly close race. Both candidates
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: have done a wonderful job of presenting a better New Babel.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: In the end.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Henry Hilland lost by 2%. The city council that is
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: new and nervous and has been traumatized wants out of
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: all of this. Yeah. They want a new mayor. They
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: decide to swear in Henry Hilland as the new mayor
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: of New Babel.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: What? What?
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: What?
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not the worst outcome.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Fuck, I forgot to vote. God damn it. Jason.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, Jason.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: I forgot.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: You were the 2%. I was the 2%.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: And then we will cut to an event that happens
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: in this city that our heroes do not see. But
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: you as players will get to hear about. And you
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: as our audience gets to hear about.
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: Also get to hear about.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: A delicious dramatic irony. The city of New Babel is enormous.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: For the people that live there, it seems to stretch
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: over everything that the sunlight touches. But it is also
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: full of dark corners and crevices, dark spaces that no
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: one has the courage to venture into. We cut to
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: one of these dark rooms. In the highest tower of
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: the Catholic Church on the north side of the city
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: sits a dejected city council. The old one, who no
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: longer has their power. They have opened a bottle of
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: communion wine, and they talk in a holy and abandoned attic,
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: where a priest used to stay, waiting to ring the
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: bells above. Benjamin Shabroth says, It's all the fault of
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: those heroes. Does anyone know anything? Like who they are?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: Their families?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Their friends? Where is Catherine? She knows a lot. Maybe
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: she would know. Gary Stephenson says, Guys, I'm just not
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: sure if I'm supposed to be here. Last time I
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: talked with Addy, he told me to stay in my house.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Mitchell Nichols says, You oaf. Adrian is in prison. What
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: he says doesn't matter anymore. But Addie said we don't
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: have to worry about the police. George Olsen says, Well,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: they matter now, Gary. All thanks to those heroes. No,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about them. They've come to see
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: me a lot. I think they kind of like me.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: I just know that I've got nothing left. They took
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: everything from me except the equity in my business and
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: all the properties I own and all the cars I own.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: I guess I still have a lot. But the thing
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: I can't forgive... It's them taking away my reputation. It's
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: been ruined. No one is buying Clank anymore. No one
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: wants to party with me. Mitchell Nichols says, Oh, shut up.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: It's about power. We've lost our power in this city.
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  Speaker 2: For all we know, this city is all there will
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  Speaker 2: ever be. And we were on top of it. The
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  Speaker 2: power structure is changing. Those with superpowers... May as well
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  Speaker 2: be in charge. Stephen Starr speaks up for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: And what if we had powers? Ooh. Benjamin Shabra said,
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  Speaker 2: Shut it, Stephen. Don't be an idiot. No, I've brought
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  Speaker 2: means by which we very few and very righteous could
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  Speaker 2: be gifted special abilities. We would have to go on
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  Speaker 2: a trip, though. Mitchell Nichols says, A trip? To where?
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  Speaker 2: What do you have? Stephen Starr pulls out a book.
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  Speaker 2: The book is deep red, and it has a demon's
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  Speaker 2: face protruding slightly from the cover. Ha ha ha! Here
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  Speaker 2: it is! My grandma was a strange lady.
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  Speaker 1: She was somebody's grandma.
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  Speaker 2: She said I was meant for greatness. She said that
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  Speaker 2: I would be a star one day. That people would
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  Speaker 2: one day hang on every word that I said. Benjamin,
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  Speaker 2: Shabrat says, Stephen, the book... Right, she gave me this
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  Speaker 2: book saying that if I opened it, I would have
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  Speaker 2: to go on a journey through hell. But if I
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: made it through, a demon would give me powers, Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: Nichols says. So, it's nothing. It's a fake. There are
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  Speaker 2: no demons and they have no power over me if
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  Speaker 2: there are. George Olsen looks at the book. No, I
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  Speaker 2: feel something. There's something in there. Oh, please, get a
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: hold of yourself, fools! While Mitchell berates his fellow council members,
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  Speaker 2: Gary Stephenson cuts his hand and puts it on the book.
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  Speaker 2: Like this, right? I saw it in a movie. The
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: book opens, and out of it blooms a hooded figure
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  Speaker 2: of dark cloud, its red eyes too bright to hide
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  Speaker 2: behind the smog of its face. so many to traverse
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  Speaker 2: the stairs.
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  Speaker 3: Of hell.
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  Speaker 2: Overcome and power will be yours the city council all
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: slowly follow this shadow guide into hell for an adventure
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  Speaker 2: of desperation And that's where we'll end this episode of
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: the Team Up Play Show podcast. Fucking nuts.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, Rogues Gallery.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, take me to hell.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I want a highway to hell. That's probably the song
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: you were trying to sing.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe. All about the highway to hell. They all come
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: back as Spiderman. This is the stairway to hell is
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: what he said.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In the chat cave. Chat, chat, chat, chat. Chat.
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  Speaker 3: Chat.
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  Speaker 1: Chat.
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  Speaker 2: The chat cave is our post show. It's over on
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  Speaker 2: our Patreon. Patreon.com slash team up RPG. where we talk
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: about the episodes, and we talk about Wailgnarok.
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  Speaker 4: If you know, you know.
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  Speaker 1: If you know, you blow.
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  Speaker 2: If you know, you blow. It's mostly these days just
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  Speaker 2: us being whale sons. Come on over to the chat cave.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: And we'll see you over there. And we'll see you
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: next week with another thrilling episode. Goodbye. Bye-bye for now. Ooh,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: the blow wave. The blat. There's a whale.
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  Speaker 1: Wave.
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  Speaker 2: Chat wave. Chat wave. That's good. You got there. It
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: took you a moment. Wave after wave.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: That was Ethan Goldman as the paper phantom. Stephanie Fackler
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: as Quantuck. Ben as Rigel, and Johnny Wilson as your
• 1:05:24
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• 1:05:39
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• 1:05:48
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• 1:05:51
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• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening, heroes.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, this week's episode is over, but that means I
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: get to shout out our superheroes and send them kisses
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: through the microphone to our superheroes. Shout out to Crank
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: Billers and Mava Amada. Touched him. I'm giggling because Ben
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: is speaking in my ears and I don't know if
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: that's getting recorded or not. Johnny's shaking his head no.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Korn. Her highest score at bowling is 156. Hey,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: it's Gio and Brandy again. Rawr. We love the podcast
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: and team up. Keep it up, please. Shout out to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Troy Davidson. Shout out to Matt, who's really trying to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: become an American this year, and we still don't have answers.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Audra, who just demolished yet another bowl
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: of mashed potatoes. Give it up. Shout out to Jen,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: who prefers the Star Wars prequels to the original trilogy. Yeah,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's something about pod racing. Am I right, millennials?
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Chris, who is currently on the Merlin
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: birding app. Shout out to Pac-Man, Pidgey, Norm, and Stetna
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: McCringle for saving Christmas in 2024 from the Yule Lads
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  Speaker 1: and Santa's evil twin brother. Shout out to Farmer Bob
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: and Mama Robin, hummingbirds and seahorses, blah, blah, blah. Shout
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: out to Brian, the Colorado home hero. Working with him
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: is rolling an empowered 20 in a clutch moment. Shout
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: out to Kevin Feldman. Shout out to Christina. Shout out
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: to the Lusinator. He lost for our wins. Shout out
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: to Cam, who's currently pro pineapple on pizza. That currently
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: has been a long currently, Cam. You are all our superheroes.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: We couldn't have done this without you. And we're going
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: to keep saying thank you, but it won't be enough.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: Thanks for helping our dreams come true. If you would
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: like to join this courageous list of superheroes, you can
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  Speaker 1: do so by joining our superhero tier on Patreon. Bye bye.
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  Speaker 1: This has been a Lilypad production.