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Benders & Brews S2 - Episode 8 - Scary Sharks and Nice Pirates · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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Uh.
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Jasmine oolong, green
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and white. Long ago, these four
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teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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Then, everything changed when the shop's
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popularity threatened its existence.
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All Mr. Okeron, the shop's owner and tea
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master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the
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world. Last time on
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Benders and Brews an Avatar Legends
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Podcast and then you turned.
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Around, only to find out that you were surrounded
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by pirates, and they have captured
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you and they are taking you back to their ship.
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You kids, you thought you could hide
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your secret about the treasure from us? The box was made
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in Udao.
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Uh, is that where we need to go?
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Okay, get ready to sail. We are headed
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to you now.
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Captain. Captain. I see
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it. It's here.
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You see what, Zazu?
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It's the beast.
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When you see a large scaled
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fig inside the water coming
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towards the boat, it leaps from
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the waves and you see this massive
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hulking gator shark.
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Everybody to your
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stations.
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And welcome back to another episode of Benders and
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Bruise. Before we get any further into this comedy
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goal, let's get some character facts. Are you
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upset? That's good. Um, Mika. You got
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a Michaela aka Mika. Do you got a starting
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fact for us?
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Um, Mika is an only child.
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It is a true fact that anyone could find
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out by listening to her prequel episode. So if you haven't done
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that, definitely go do that how many siblings
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we have? Man, I sure do love when
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somebody's interesting fact about their character is a promo
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for one of the previous episodes.
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Makes my job a heck of a lot easier. This made my
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path a lot easier.
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Uh oh, what have I done?
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Playing Bill? Bill has two younger
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uh,
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that currently was that
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supposed to he
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at this time? This point in time,
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no. Gotcha.
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Which you can find out sort of more
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about. It's very alluded to in Bill's
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prequel episode. Yeah, two younger
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brothers, but one is no longer is
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there a National Prequel Day? Because I hope this
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episode falls on National Prequel Day.
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National Prequel Day is, uh, that what we're doing for our
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facts? We're just teasing prequels.
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No, actually, I just was going to say how many siblings I had because Nika
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said how many siblings she
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prequels.
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Okay.
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Uh, Guo is really good at pod
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racing.
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Yes. Hold on
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a second.
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Gosh.
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Guo, what universe are you
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playing? This isn't a Star Wars
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RPG.
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Actual fact is so
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quo. He's got his list
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of food places he
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wants to hit. Every place he
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goes, he tries to find the hot
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spots or the hole.
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In the walls that maybe tasty spots.
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Yeah, tasty spots.
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Something else you can find out about. Listen to the Bill
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and Prague hot pot
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spots.
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Nice.
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OOH, I love hot pot.
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I've never actually had it. Oh, it's so, uh,
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like, he takes, like, a notes. He
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has a journal that's pretty much just for himself,
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though he doesn't try to publish it or anything.
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He also has a secret
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grading method.
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Like, he'll leave, uh, a
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mark in the stones, like, either on the
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doorway or somewhere on the building,
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somewhere in the restaurant, or, like, outside on the
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sidewalk. And it's, uh,
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like the Guo grade or something.
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Oh, my gosh. You're doing a Yelp
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meets, like, the hobo speak or whatever they
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called that back in the day where they used yeah. The signs where they would, like,
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mark, like, this friendly, or these people don't like
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homeless people, so stay away.
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Ah, thieves can't for hobos.
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Yes.
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To put in DND terms.
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Yes.
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So it'd be like, I don't know. Uh, the
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first lowest grade would be like, uh,
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some pebbles on the ground. And then the second one
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would be a boulder with some pebbles on the
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ground.
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Okay.
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A bunch of boulders in the pebbles on the ground.
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Boulders are good.
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The more rocks, the better. In
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Guao's grace.
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So what about the blissful brew?
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There's never rocks in front of it.
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Yeah, they haven't really focused
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on food that much.
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That's true. Like a hot pot
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bevy's only what is the
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highest number of boulders that a restaurant has received
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from?
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Why do the standard five?
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Oh, okay.
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Next one be, like,
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the pebbles in the boulder and the
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footholds with the other boulders and then a
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mountain. And then the fifth
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one would be turns out the
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mountain was a volcano. No.
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Uh, nice.
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I like it.
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I dig it. That's pretty cool. He's got a
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rating system for that's.
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Awesome.
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All right, cool. Cool.
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I'm waiting for Brock to be like.
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Wait, Gohan's the one leaving these
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I've been chucking them at Birds.
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I've been following this system for years.
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I thought just every restaurant did it.
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Yeah. Huh.
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I thought that was something they were doing. I just
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love the volcano places. Really
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good. Uh, all right,
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Brock.
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Brock.
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Um, Lee Connor playing broccoli. What's
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an interesting broccoli fact.
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Well, if, uh, we're doing more sort of plugs for
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previous episodes, brock, uh, is
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able to tunnel underground, but it's
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only like Bugs Bunny, where you can easily see,
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like, little mounds of rocks coming
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up from the surface. Yes, you can tunnel
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underground like Bugs Bunny.
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Something else we recently discovered in the
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recent prequel episode of Bill and
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Brock's little one shot adventure, which, of
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course, you can listen to, like, many of the prequel episodes.
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Hey, you know what? Kudos to Dave for coming up with
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an interesting
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that actually is pretty mine wasn't even a
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prequel.
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It's adjacent, but it wasn't until you.
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Met I guess mine wasn't even a prequel either.
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No, that's fair.
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All right, well, with that and interesting information,
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uh, who knows if we will even make it to
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Udao, where we might find some restaurants
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with volcano ratings. Who knows?
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We'll find out. Well, maybe today, maybe next
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episode. Who knows? Uh, but for now, let's jump back into
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vendors and brews.
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All right, everybody. So where we last left off,
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you guys were captured on the pirate ship. You talked to some of
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the crew members to kind of get an idea of who it is that you are
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on board with. The Captain is
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forcibly making you sail to Udao,
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a, uh, Earth Kingdom city that
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Mr. Okuron had referenced in his recent
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clue, telling you to go there to get the next piece of the map,
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which will eventually lead. You to the
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will that you are looking for in order to save the
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Blissful Brew and keep it from getting taken
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by your rivals. Hot leaf
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juice. All
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that being said, uh, you're currently on the pirate
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ship, and suddenly you
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spot a massive creature swimming towards the
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ship in the distance. It is a
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massive gator shark, which they have
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named Kuma.
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That's right. Uh, this
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giant gator shark has leapt over the ship and back into the
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water, but it is not leaving the area. It seems like
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it is hungry. It is interested in attacking the
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crew of the bloody Borcupines
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ship. And you are currently aboard
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said ship, so it's after you just as
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much as anybody else. You also know that the captain himself,
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Captain Rockfoot, once known as Captain
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Luckyfoot, had his leg
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bitten off by what is allegedly this exact
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same gator shark, and
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he is hungry for revenge. As you
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stand on the deck of the ship, the captain is shouting
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orders to everybody, you there, get over to the
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guns. Zazu, Raza,
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get onto the bow of the ship. Uh,
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Tomo, you take, uh, whatever the.
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Other side of the ship is.
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I don't know ship terms. I apologize.
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Stern.
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Stern, starboard.
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Uh.
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Everybody get to your appropriate positions. You know what that
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means. Kill that gator
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shark. Uh, you four, let's call
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you, uh, interns,
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I don't know. Find a place on the ship where you can
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help. All right, so I'm going to give you guys a kind of rundown of
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the various resources available to you on the ship to help
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you in this fight, because as it currently stands, you are
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in a piece of wood floating down
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in the ocean, and there's a massive,
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monstrous beast attacking the ship. So,
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all things considered, helping the crew in
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this moment is probably with your best interest, because the last thing you want
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to do is end up in the water with that thing. All
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right, so, uh, you look around, all of you look around. You
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see a variety of different things that you could possibly use as
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weapons or involved in some way, shape, or form.
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Uh, you have nets that you could use to
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hopefully slow down, trap, or otherwise
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exhaust this creature, allowing for others to do
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other various attacks.
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There are harpoons, which you can take a hold
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of either stabbing at the water if it gets
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close or throwing into the water as it passes
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by. And then of course, you have bows and
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arrows. Uh, same thing. Uh, you do
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know that, uh, obviously once an
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arrow kind of hits the water, it's going to kind of throw off its
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ability. Just like in movies when you see somebody shooting
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bullets into water, how the bullets kind of
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they slam into the water and then they slow down and they sink.
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So you only got so much, I don't know,
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damage you can do with that. But it is an option.
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Um, additionally, for one
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individual person, you could take a hold
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of the Grappling harpoon, which sits inside
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of a gun like device. Uh,
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kind of works off some, like, clockwork gears
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on the rear end of the ship. Uh, there are
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cannons inside of the ship which one could
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fire as well. Other than that, that's pretty
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much the key things.
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Oh.
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Alternatively, you could take command,
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um, which you currently, uh, that spot is being
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taken, so I'm not going to really suggest that.
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But if it weren't being taken and somehow
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fell to you, that is an option. And it could kind of help
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out with, uh, mhm.
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Yeah.
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As a future option.
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Uh.
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Uh all
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right. Going down the
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line, his other
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leg.
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Is this like a Captain Hook situation?
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Kind of, yeah. How do you not hear the clock? There's
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no clock. It's a mix between kind of like a
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Captain Hook meets Moby Dick kind of a situation.
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Yeah.
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Um, going down the table is there,
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um, what would each of you like to do? Connor?
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Broccoli. Uh, where's broccoli headed?
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Can I grab some harpoons and then go down to the
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cannons?
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Uh, yeah, sure,
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you can do that.
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That's interesting.
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All right, so, uh, you grab two harpoons. They're fairly
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heavy, so you grab one in each hand and you kind of
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take off running down to the ship's. Uh,
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core. Uh, sue is standing there. She
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watches you do this because she's also grabbing one,
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getting it ready to throw, and she's like, where the heck are you
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going?
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To the cannons.
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Why?
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Don't worry about it.
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Uh, okay.
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I'm not going to stop you. I'm pretty focused.
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Whatever.
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Get yourself killed, I guess.
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Clearly you're not focused if you're paying attention to what
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Brock's doing.
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Good thing it's my weight.
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I can tell exactly how much these
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are.
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25 pound metal.
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Uh.
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What are you doing?
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Guo grabs his mop, uh,
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looks down at it and tosses it aside
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and goes and grabs a bow and arrow.
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Nice.
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All right, you get your bow and arrow. You've got like a little quiver
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of arrows next to you. And you start. Readying your bow.
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Pulling that string taut.
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Yeah.
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It's going to try to use his
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instincts and fire this bow.
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Yeah. Are you?
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Not particularly, no. All right,
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fair enough. You can't use no carnival.
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They might have had something like that.
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Honestly.
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All right.
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What would be their Valentine's Day?
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Like special Valentine's Day
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cupid.
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Like all hearts day or yeah.
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Lovers day. The day
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of two lovers. Uh, well, I don't know. They might leave it
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open. The day
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of lovers. Lovers.
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That'd be like an oba shooting lover's Day.
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Yeah.
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Lovers day. It works great with Mother's Day.
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Mother's Day.
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Lovers.
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Lovers Day. That's right. For all the couples out there
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or soon to be.
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I don't know.
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All them lovers. That's all them lovers. Um,
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brought a bill. Bill door. What are you
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doing?
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Harpoon.
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You're grabbing yourself a harpoon? Getting ready. Because it's like a
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post step pointy. Fair point. Fair point. I
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like it. All right, mika
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takes command.
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I assume the position.
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I am going to run to the front of the ship
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okay. And just stand there for a moment.
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Okay.
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You just doing, like, lookout or something. Pose like
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a t.
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On top of.
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The world, I'm flying Captain
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Rockfoot.
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What are you doing?
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You're going to get your leg bitten.
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Um, off.
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Just like, why do
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I care? He says as he's dangling his good foot
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over the side of the boat. I wonder
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how he lost the first one with these poor life
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choices he makes. I'm going to start
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with Brock. Brock, you're running down to the cannons
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with the harpoons. What are
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you doing?
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Can I load the harpoons into the cannon?
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You know what? I'm not going to stop you, that's for sure. I'm
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very intrigued on how this is going to, uh,
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uh, happen.
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What's the worst that could happen?
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Right? So downstairs you run into a young
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guy. It was the same guy whose voice you heard last episode that
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called out having seen the gator
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shark up front. His name is Zazu, based on the
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context clues you received from the captain shouting back at him.
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He's a younger man. Uh, he's wearing,
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uh, uh, like a Fire Nation headband on
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his head. His hair is kind of spiked up. He's got
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black powder, like, all over his face and hands,
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and his clothes are pretty dirty because
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of this. But he's like, oh, hey, how's it
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going? Are you helping me with the cannons?
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Yeah, I'm down here to help with the cannons.
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Right on.
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In case we run out of cannonballs. I got some harpoons
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here.
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I've never tried that before. That seems like a pretty cool idea,
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though. All right.
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I like you.
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I like you seem like a fun guy to blow stuff up
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with.
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I like you, too.
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All right, uh, so cannons are loaded. They're ready to go.
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We just got to get this thing just right. We got to make sure that m we hit him.
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Okay.
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All right. Slam into him just here. Really
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knock him out with his cannonball.
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Dude, when this is over, we got to hang out.
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Oh, absolutely. Uh, do you like
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stew?
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Yeah, I love stew.
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Oh, I love stew. All right, sweet. Maybe we can get some stew from Cookie if
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we survive this thing.
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Yeah.
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All right. Uh, do you want to load
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those in now, or are we just going to fire a regular
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cannonball? I think we might have to put
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it in. When there's a cannonball inside of it, I don't know if it'll just shoot
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out by itself. With
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explosions, you got to create a lot of sort, uh, of pressure
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that's built up, and then it just you got to
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enclose that. That's why cannonballs work.
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Right.
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They fit right inside the cannon.
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Right.
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And then it blocks up any space for the
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explosion to not hit it. You know what I mean?
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I did not think that through. So, yeah, let's do
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that.
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All right.
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Just like yes, let's shove one of those in there. This is a terrible idea,
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and I love it.
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I love it.
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I'm excited. All right, so you load up. There's a cannon
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already in there, but you just jam one of those harpoons into the
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cannon, hoping for the best. Um, roll
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me. Uh, you're doing advance and attack.
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All right.
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Which I think everybody except Mika
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is Mika. Uh, I'm assuming you're going to do, like, a
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beta. Observe.
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Okay.
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I rolled a ten.
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A ten, nice. All right.
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I will defy the laws of
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physics.
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These will have kind of, like, special
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things that I've kind of created. They're basically like their own
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moves, um, by using these weapons.
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Um, so it's already kind of locked in. It's just whether or
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not they succeed.
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Mark two fatigue. Mark a condition or shift their
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balance away from center. Destroy something in the
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environment. But that doesn't include the gator shark,
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does it?
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I mean, he's in the environment.
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And.
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Then I just emerge. I am the captain
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now. So these are going to be I'm going to
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just consider these basic
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techniques. So technically, you could do two.
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Well, I would only be able to strike and smash, right?
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Well, yes, but also, this is going to count as one
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of them. Um, this is, like, kind of a custom
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attack. So using the cannonball is
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its own basic move.
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Well, the harpoo is in there, too, right?
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I'm just counting that with it.
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But then otherwise, uh,
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you could choose an additional advance in
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attack. Basic technique.
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Basic technique. So the strike pressure
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or smash.
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Okay.
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Try to figure out a way to fit that in.
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So if I were to say smash okay, and it says
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destroy something in the
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environment, does that include
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the crocodile shark?
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It's really just I mean, you successfully did something,
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so I'm not going to do something that counts against you in this
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circumstance.
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But in the environment. It's
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either the water, the
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ship, or the cannon.
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Otherwise,
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can I destroy the water? Just blow every
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inch of water could.
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Blow it out of the water.
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Would that kill it, or would that just make it mark a couple
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of.
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Extra fatigue on the, um, it would open
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up accessibility for people, say, with the
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bow or harpoons, to have an
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easier chance at hitting it.
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I'll blow it. Well, with the harpoon, though, I
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should probably at least be able to pierce it, I would think.
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Right.
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But, like, the harpoon could pierce it and the cannonball
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could get it out of the water.
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Yeah, that makes sense. That actually does make sense.
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I'll do that.
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Okay, cool.
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But I do mark one fatigue.
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I believe so, yeah. All right. So he is marking
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two fatigue from the harpoon
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that you jammed in. He is also
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impaired as he now has a harpoon
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jammed into his side. The
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cannonball fires out and slams into the
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water, causing a massive sort of explosion. And
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it causes the gator shark to go flying into the
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air, um, for Guao and
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well, actually, all the other three of you, you can see this
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happen. You see this giant gator
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shark fly up into the air. Um, it is now
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kind of not floating there.
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It kind of looks like something just left out of the water, but
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it looks like in an awkward sense, so it's not in control
21:43
of what it's doing. Right now, you are
21:45
going to be doing your bow and arrow. Would you like to
21:48
roll me in? Just roll it
21:51
as you're watching it.
21:53
Jump over you with your arms
21:55
out.
21:58
He's wiping his hands on his robe.
22:01
It's moth water.
22:03
Oh, no.
22:04
It's all slick. Um, you can
22:07
reroll your lowest dice, uh, that you
22:10
roll because of the fact that, uh, Connor's kind of opened up an
22:13
opportunity for you to hit this creature.
22:16
Well, there you go.
22:18
I got a eight.
22:20
All right.
22:21
Awesome. So with a seven and nine, you get to use
22:24
the basic technique, which in this case is the bow and
22:26
arrow, um, which deals, uh,
22:29
it deals a single fatigue. So
22:32
your arrow flies out with key
22:35
accuracy, slams into the shoulder of the beast,
22:37
which goes, um,
22:40
very angry. Uh, some of the pirates around you,
22:43
uh, kind of look over at you and they're nodding their heads in
22:46
some impress, like, whoa, he's a pretty good
22:48
shot. Uh, but then they quickly turn
22:51
back to focus at the matter at hand because
22:54
it's a big, scary beast. Um, Bill,
22:58
you are also advanced in
23:00
attacking. You've, uh, got a harpoon in your hand.
23:03
Are you throwing it or okay, go for
23:05
it. Four.
23:08
Awesome.
23:11
Before I make any jokes here,
23:14
you have the opportunity to, uh,
23:17
shift your balance away from center to use one
23:19
basic technique, which in this case would be hurling
23:22
this, uh, harpoon. If you would like to do
23:25
that. Which way? Uh, away from
23:27
center. So as long as it doesn't go towards
23:30
center, whichever direction you're already on the move of,
23:33
I suppose that would head towards more self
23:36
reliance, which doesn't make sense
23:39
here, as I just completely missed. Well,
23:42
you wouldn't miss. Oh, okay. That's sure, why not?
23:45
Let's make some fun character. All right. Growth here. There you
23:48
go. You and I say, I really want to
23:50
do this. You see everybody
23:59
you see Guao successfully shoot an arrow
24:02
at this beast flying through the air, and you
24:05
feel like you should be equally, if not
24:07
more capable than Guao to hit this beast.
24:10
So you focus for a moment. You curl that out sort of
24:13
to prove to yourself and to prove to everybody else that
24:16
you are capable. This harpoon flies through the air,
24:19
slamming into the beast, hitting him, um, in sort of
24:22
the ribs area, um, dealing an additional
24:25
two fatigue to this creature,
24:28
which now falls back into the water. Minka, what
24:31
are you up to over at the front of the boat?
24:36
I'm invading, observing.
24:39
Going to who's around me,
24:42
I guess.
24:43
Um, yeah, good question. Great question. Um, currently
24:46
around you specifically,
24:48
um, you see an Earth
24:51
bending woman. She is holding a
24:54
harpoon. She's kind of probably in her
24:57
late 40s. Um, she's wearing sort of the
25:00
green garb that a lot of Earthbenders seem to
25:02
wear. She also kind of has, like, a
25:05
dirty like, I work with I work
25:08
with my hands. Yes, I work with my hands kind of a
25:11
thing going on. Um, you can kind
25:13
of smell, uh, what smells
25:16
like sort uh, of the smell of, like, hot
25:19
iron. She kind of has that about her and kind of
25:21
smell yes, that smells interesting
25:23
smelling. Um, additionally, near her, you
25:26
see another man. Uh, he is wearing some very
25:29
fine clothes, which seems OD. He is holding a
25:32
bow and arrow. He looks very awkward with said
25:35
bow and arrow. Um, very nervous. He's a
25:38
slight amount rotund. Uh, he's wearing
25:41
some orange clothing, which makes you wonder if maybe he
25:44
has some relation to the Fire Nation. But you're not sure.
25:47
Um, but he definitely does not look very confident.
25:50
I guess I am going to
25:53
Bolster or Hinder, which means I can aid or impede
25:56
a nearby character.
25:58
Okay.
25:58
I will help the lady.
26:01
Okay.
26:01
What do you oh, actually, I guess you have to roll it first.
26:04
Yeah. Um,
26:07
I got a four.
26:09
Okay.
26:10
You can choose to move your balance away from center
26:13
if you would like to, um, use a basic
26:15
technique anyways.
26:17
Sure.
26:18
Okay.
26:18
Which way are you moving?
26:20
Um, well, I suppose I'm leaning towards friendship,
26:23
because I'm trying to help.
26:25
Yeah, absolutely.
26:26
You help somebody.
26:27
Yeah, I'm trying to.
26:29
Awesome.
26:30
Very cool.
26:30
Yeah.
26:31
What do you say to this woman as she's getting
26:34
ready to hurl this harpoon towards this creature?
26:37
You're so awesome.
26:38
Okay.
26:40
And she looks over at you and she says, well,
26:43
thank you. I appreciate that.
26:45
Welcome.
26:46
And she turns back to what she's doing her hand, and you could
26:49
see, like, a little smirk in her face, uh, on
26:52
her smile. And she pulls back, far
26:55
back, and hurls this thing towards the
26:58
creature, which is swimming towards the boat. At this point, he's already
27:01
landed back into the water, and you see it go
27:03
into, um, the fin that kind
27:06
of the giant fin that comes out of the water
27:09
and, uh, sticks inside of it. She's like, oh, God.
27:13
Thank you.
27:14
She seems really excited and happy to have somebody standing
27:17
by to support. Ironically, uh, the
27:20
Rotund man, uh, standing next to her,
27:23
fires his arrow and just goes shooting off into the, like who
27:25
knows where, completely missing the
27:28
target. Both, uh, of you kind of look over at him,
27:31
and he's just like,
27:33
oops, sorry. And, uh,
27:36
with that, uh, you've kind of created or
27:39
gone an entire round with, uh, this creature
27:42
who now swims underneath the boat and you can
27:45
feel the entire ship move as it does so well,
27:48
since he needs to evade and observe, because that's the last action
27:51
on here, he is going to, um, simply
27:54
dive under the water. You don't see him. And when he comes back up, it looks like
27:57
he has ripped out all the arrows and harpoons
28:00
that were stuck inside of him. That doesn't mean that damage hasn't been
28:03
done. Um, obviously, he still has a couple of gaping
28:06
wounds from them, um, but he's pulled them out to kind
28:08
of refresh, uh, himself.
28:11
Is this crocodile shark, like, a humanoid type
28:14
thing, or is he ripping him out with his fin?
28:16
Yeah, he's got, like, claws, kind of like an
28:18
alligator does, but a little bit more extended.
28:22
I don't want to say that he has quite a humanoid, but it's
28:25
a little bit more so than your standard alligator. Like,
28:27
he's got a little bit more reach. He's also got his
28:30
long mouth that he can grab things
28:33
from and pull them out. Um, but given the size of his
28:36
body, he's able to kind of turn and bend himself
28:39
in order to reach these spots.
28:41
Got a lot of these spots.
28:43
Okay.
28:44
All right, moving forward, what option,
28:47
uh, would each of you like to take?
28:49
I will seize a position.
28:52
All right.
28:55
Okay.
28:56
I will advance and attack.
28:58
Okay.
28:59
Anything defensive, I can do. I mean, it's really all about the
29:02
narrative. So, I mean, if there's an option in
29:05
there that you want to kind of deviate
29:07
towards something within the narrative, I mean,
29:10
you tell me if you see one of the options within defendant
29:13
maneuver that you feel like
29:16
fits. He's attacking the underneath our
29:18
boat. He has swung underneath your boat, and then he has kind
29:21
of resurfaced on the other side. And he seems to be a little
29:24
bit refreshed from getting out of the line
29:27
of fire. Could I do a defensive
29:30
maneuver, uh, of putting down a
29:33
defensive net. Net is an option. You could go
29:35
grab a net if that's what you want to do.
29:37
Yes.
29:37
Um, so that is actually an advance and attack,
29:41
but the things that it
29:44
does is sort of like
29:47
a debuff in a sense, I guess you could call it. Again
29:50
using kind of more go for it.
29:51
Okay.
29:52
All right, sounds good. So you'll do advanced attack. What are you
29:54
doing? Perfect.
29:57
Is there anything at the front of the ship that I
30:00
could use to attack with?
30:02
Possibly, uh, the
30:05
guy that had his bow and arrow? Uh, definitely.
30:07
Probably would happily hand it over to you if you asked
30:10
for it.
30:11
All right, I'll give it a shot.
30:12
Okay, sounds good. I'll put you down as advanced and attack.
30:15
Pretty pleased.
30:16
Okay. I think at this point, even if
30:19
he didn't just hand it to you, I feel like your friend
30:21
that you've just made would just glare at him and be
30:24
like, anyone's better than you while you're
30:27
sitting there saying nice things to her. She would just yeah. All right,
30:30
perfect. So we got some advanced attacks. Dave is going
30:33
to defend a
30:36
newer to seize position.
30:37
Right.
30:38
All right, Dave, I'm going to kick things off with you. Then go, uh, ahead
30:41
and make that roll.
30:43
Aches. Awesome.
30:44
So that lets you do the season of position. What,
30:47
um, are you doing to move to a new location? To
30:50
engage or disengage or overcome
30:53
negative status decks or danger.
30:55
So whoa. Thanks to himself.
30:59
Man, this spell is actually pretty good, but
31:01
we need more firepower time
31:04
to pull out all the sacks
31:08
Eddie runs.
31:09
Wait a minute.
31:10
Captain's quarter?
31:11
No way.
31:13
All right, well, everyone's pretty dang distracted right now, so
31:15
nobody's stopping you from running to the captain's quarters and
31:18
bursting through the unlocked doors.
31:21
That is what I do. And I scan the
31:23
room for this
31:26
alleged sack that
31:29
Bill was talking about. That's
31:31
due time.
31:32
All right, sounds good. You look around the room, you see a
31:35
number of different things. There's a wardrobe. There's
31:38
a bed, obviously, um, which, of course,
31:41
some you think maybe some things could be stored under the bed. You're not
31:44
sure. Um, there is a small bedside
31:47
shelf or what do you cabinet. And then
31:50
there is a chest. Like a large,
31:52
almost treasure chest esque looking chest.
31:55
I thought it would have been funny, if you're like.
31:57
There's a bed, there's a wardrobe, there's a sack of
31:59
rocks. There's a chest. This
32:02
particular you don't know where the sack of rocks is? Do you
32:05
care to look in any of the that could be in
32:08
any of these things. Which would
32:11
you like to check?
32:16
Opens the wardrobe and picks out a funny hat to
32:19
wear.
32:19
You find several, and they're all pretty,
32:22
like straightforward captain hats with big old feathers
32:25
coming out.
32:26
I picked the one with the biggest floppiest
32:28
feather.
32:29
All right, perfect. You got one with a nice big
32:32
decorated green. I'm trying to think of an animal
32:35
to mesh with peacock
32:37
chunk from goonies who just disappears
32:40
halfway through, and at.
32:41
The very end, he just shows up.
32:42
As a giant pirate.
32:45
He's like, I'm the captain.
32:48
Bird horses. But a peacock horse. A peacock horse.
32:51
Yeah.
32:51
Okay. Which would explain why it's even bigger than
32:54
a normal peacock feather. This
32:57
massive feather coming out of the side of it. It's so gaudy.
33:00
It's just ridiculous.
33:01
And then I look in. Open the
33:04
chest.
33:04
All right. You open the chest. Actually, you
33:07
do see a sack of something.
33:10
It's kind of heavy. It feels like
33:13
maybe there's, like, some kind of sand or something inside of there. But
33:16
you grab that. There's, um, also a number of other things. There's some
33:18
papers, there's some scrolls, there's some maps. There's, um,
33:21
a couple of fancy
33:23
goblets, um, maybe even, like,
33:26
a couple of pieces of jewelry that maybe the
33:29
captain has taken from previous treasure
33:32
grabs and kept for himself.
33:34
I can't know
33:37
what a, ah, description in
33:40
my mind of these pieces.
33:42
Okay. All right.
33:43
Just for future reference, take anything.
33:45
Okay, sounds good.
33:46
All right.
33:47
So you grab that sack of earth and
33:50
you rush on out of there.
33:52
Is this a truck in the sack?
33:54
Is it actually, yes, it is. It's like
33:57
a fairly large, like, medium sized sack full of
34:00
dirt and rock and gravel and so on.
34:03
It's mostly small rock, but, I mean, with earth bending
34:06
abilities, you have a lot of leeway with
34:08
that.
34:09
And I, uh, run back towards the battle.
34:12
Awesome.
34:13
All right, sounds good. You've got your sack
34:15
and a hat.
34:16
And a hat.
34:17
A sack and a hat. The captain's going to be pissed.
34:21
His two most favorite things.
34:24
You're going to find out what captain the new captain. The
34:27
new captain. Everyone's going to be like, all right, captain. He's going to be
34:30
like, oh, excuse me, I am the captain. And
34:33
Guo's going to be like, I think I'm the captain. I've got
34:36
the bigger feather and a
34:38
sack. What do you got? Um, stupid
34:41
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34:43
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All right, so everybody else was doing advance and Attack,
37:59
if I remember correctly.
38:00
Yeah. Okay.
38:02
Very cool. All right, so anyone in particular would
38:04
prefer to go first? I
38:07
rolled. All right, Bill rolled. What do
38:10
you got? 1010. Oh, all right. Very
38:13
nice. Okay, so you can pick two nets, apparently.
38:16
That's right.
38:16
You can pick up to two techniques. Basic
38:19
techniques include one of them being the net. What
38:22
other basic techniques? Well, there's strike
38:24
pressure, smash pressure.
38:27
Pressure. Trying, uh, to intimidate the crocodile shark.
38:30
Yeah.
38:30
With my really intimidating net.
38:32
Okay.
38:33
I'm going to make a loud yelling noise, and
38:37
he's going to get real scared. So
38:40
I'm assuming you're throwing the net first
38:43
before you scare it away. I orders the office,
38:46
uh, loud noises that scare him into my net. Okay,
38:49
so basically, with pressure, first of all,
38:52
you throw the net over, and sure enough, it catches onto the
38:55
back of this beast that's swimming through the
38:58
water, um, causing it to start thrashing about.
39:01
It is now trapped, which is ironic that you're going to
39:04
pressure it scared away, allegedly. Um, but I guess
39:06
with pressure, you choose an approach that they cannot
39:09
choose, uh, in the next exchange. So,
39:12
wait, when they're trapped, approach being they
39:15
maneuver, advance and attack, or evade and observe so they can't do
39:18
any of those? Yeah, you choose one of those.
39:21
They're trapped.
39:22
I'm going to do evade and observe so they can't
39:26
they'll be too scared to try and break out of the net.
39:30
A combination of three conditions or
39:33
fatigue to escape. Dang okay. Uh, you
39:36
said evade and observe or.
39:37
What did you say?
39:38
Yeah, evade and observe. He can't take any of those options.
39:41
Okay. Ah, yeah. Cool.
39:43
Awesome. Um, he is now unable
39:46
you make some loud noises and having being trapped,
39:49
he's freaking out, he's panicking. Uh, he will not be
39:51
evading and observing. Next. Sandra
39:55
right, right. Should, uh, make loud screaming
39:58
noises. Yes, absolutely. Usually the shooting works
40:00
pretty well from the get go, but the shouting noises doesn't
40:03
hurt. Fantastic. All right. Brock or Mika?
40:06
Uh, any preference?
40:07
I can go.
40:08
Brock so I still got that second
40:10
harpoon. So I'll go back up to the deck
40:14
and, uh, try and harpoon him
40:16
while he's in the net. Okay. Uh,
40:20
I just actually needed to see the
40:23
position. Okay, well, then, that case, I will
40:25
fire the cannon.
40:28
Adam so they do have two cannons,
40:31
um, conveniently on either side, but currently it's
40:34
on the same side as you shot from before. Um, so
40:37
you can load that up and fire it. But just keep in mind that if it's
40:40
on that side again, you'll have to reload the cannons before you
40:43
can start firing them again.
40:44
Right.
40:44
Just something to keep in mind, but yes, absolutely. Go for it.
40:47
So when I roll just making sure yeah.
40:49
Do I add that plus two from if it's
40:52
related to force, which I'm assuming this is sure on
40:55
top of the passion.
40:56
Yeah. Okay.
40:58
Well, in that case, I can get a bit more ludicrous.
41:01
Uh, I'll fire the cannons,
41:04
try and finish them off in the nets.
41:06
Eight. All right.
41:07
Yes, that's a success. You can definitely fire the cannons, so
41:10
you do. So, uh, ball again, shoots out
41:13
of this cannon, slams into the water, knocking it up in the air,
41:16
preceded by a
41:19
harpoon that goes flying and jams itself into the
41:22
netted creature. Uh, everybody else watches as this
41:25
netted monster comes flying out of the water,
41:28
flailing about, trying to claw its way out of this
41:30
net, um, in the mess that it has created.
41:33
Mika, you come
41:36
rushing over. What do you say to this guy to get this bow and arrow? Out of
41:39
curiosity? I know we kind of like hypothetical that
41:41
situation, but it's funny to act it out.
41:44
Um, I run over there and I say, hey, dude, give me your
41:47
bow.
41:48
Okay? Please.
41:51
I have no idea what I'm doing.
41:53
Okay, why don't you go, like, sit in the back of the boat or something?
41:56
That sounds phenomenal.
41:57
Okay, bye.
41:58
All right.
41:59
Um, why am I taking ordra?
42:01
I don't know.
42:02
She told me something I wanted to do anyway, so that works
42:04
out.
42:06
Captain.
42:08
She'S putting her name in the hat. Mcglow is
42:11
wearing the hat. That's right.
42:13
I got a three.
42:14
All right, well, that's a failure unless.
42:16
You count my reroll. Then I got an eight.
42:19
Don't count the reroll.
42:22
Wait, actually, what I will let you do is what we did before, which
42:25
is you could reroll. So you rolled two ones, right? Yeah,
42:27
you could reroll one of those ones.
42:29
Okay, then I got a, uh, six
42:32
total. That's still yeah.
42:36
If you would like to succeed, you can
42:38
move your balance away from center.
42:41
Which way would I move? I got to choose.
42:43
You have to move it away from center. So whatever direction it's already
42:46
headed, you got to keep pushing it, man.
42:48
I have to go towards friendship again.
42:50
You got to learn to rely on your friends.
42:51
Well, if that's the case, as you're readying this
42:54
bow, the woman next to.
42:56
You says you're awesome.
42:57
Wow.
42:58
She can see that you're a little iffy on it.
43:01
You're shaking. Uh, probably. Thoughts about
43:04
your past go through your head and some things that
43:07
happened which you, as the listener, can find out more about.
43:10
If you listen to Mika's prequel, there.
43:12
Is a whole bow and arrow scene huh.
43:14
But there is a very important bow and arrow scene ah, that, again
43:17
runs through your head, involving your father, involving some,
43:20
let's say, failures on your part, um, that may
43:22
have led to some intense disaster that is now, like
43:25
I said, flashing through and reminding you of that. And that
43:28
fear starts to well up inside of you. But then you feel a
43:31
reassuring hand on your shoulder as
43:35
this Earthbending woman or Earth Kingdom woman, um,
43:38
a little bit dirty. Her hands got some gunk
43:41
on it or whatever. She's got it deep in her nails. But you feel
43:44
her reassuring you on the shoulder. She
43:46
says, you got this last fire
43:49
away. And you fire this shot.
43:51
I have a whole merida on my side.
43:55
I did not expect that.
43:56
But sure enough, it kind of came out that way. If you had the chance
44:02
to change your balance, would you do it?
44:05
If it meant hitting the gator shark.
44:09
Trust the bow.
44:11
Yes.
44:11
And you do. And your arrow flies straight
44:14
into the netted mess that is this gator
44:17
shark, um, sinking into its
44:20
form and dealing it. More exhaustion as
44:22
it flails about in the air. It lands back
44:25
into the water, um, still entangled.
44:29
And, uh, it
44:31
untangles itself, causing even more, uh,
44:34
exhaustion on itself. And then it quickly turns and
44:36
starts swimming intensely towards the
44:39
boat. It is going to also be doing an advanced attack
44:42
and it is doing a smash
44:45
it swims towards a boat. I don't have to roll because I'm the
44:48
DM M and everything I do succeed. Um, he
44:51
marks another fatigue and he slams into
44:54
the side of the ship, causing a massive hole to open up
44:57
inside the hole. Everybody begins to panic as
45:00
they're thrown about on the ship, um,
45:03
in every which way. Everybody on the boat
45:05
has become impaired as it rocks violently
45:08
back and forth and starts to sort of tip to
45:11
one side as the ship begins to take
45:14
damage and take on water.
45:16
Take on water a little bit. Good thing I can
45:18
swim, but would.
45:20
You want to win the water beast
45:23
inside of it? All right, going into another round?
45:26
No, I just use the water to.
45:27
Help me float that's one way.
45:31
Why bother swimming when I can make the water do all the swimming for
45:34
me?
45:34
Exactly.
45:36
All, uh right, everybody choose your next
45:38
maneuvers.
45:39
So what's going on with the ship? Does it have a bunch of
45:42
holes in it now?
45:43
Uh, just one that you assume, uh, probably
45:46
inside, like, the lower deck hole of the
45:49
ship.
45:49
Yeah.
45:49
Where is in relation to the cannons where I'm at right now.
45:52
So it would be the deck just below yours.
45:57
Can I jump onto the net, onto the beast?
46:00
Well, he got out of the net.
46:01
You can jump on.
46:02
He has to spend, like, a bunch of exhaustion or other
46:05
conditions in order to get out of it, but he
46:08
did.
46:09
And just to make sure I no longer have
46:11
any harpoons. Correct.
46:13
You are all out of harpoons.
46:15
Well, then I will seize position.
46:18
Okay.
46:18
I am also going to, uh, defend
46:21
and maneuver.
46:22
All right, we got another defendant maneuver.
46:24
Can never get tired.
46:25
Two defendant maneuvers. What about you two? Bill
46:28
and Mika. What are you guys doing?
46:31
Not jumping on the oh, that's good.
46:34
Nobody else I guess there is a net in the water. It's just
46:37
floating there. It's all slashed up.
46:39
But they're letting the
46:41
Internet they want.
46:43
To see what you made of, uh.
46:44
Like nobody else is hidden this thing.
46:46
They are yeah. No, you see people really
46:49
bad. Well, some of them are very bad,
46:52
but, um, you do see some of them trying to do things. The
46:55
captain has the wheel. He's trying to steer it
46:58
sort of maneuvering around, but also staying
47:01
within range of the shark, um, the gator
47:03
shark, and try to keep it so that people can fire at it.
47:06
And do whatnot?
47:09
Where's, my friend? Where's Bengo?
47:12
Uh, Bengo is also kind
47:15
of near the head of the ship. He's shouting out orders in the
47:17
captain's dead, so the captain's kind of steering while the
47:20
first mate is shouting orders, uh, to the
47:23
crew.
47:24
Okay, about this gator shark yeah. Is he more gator
47:27
than he is shark, or is he more shark than he
47:30
is. Gator.
47:31
That's a tough one.
47:32
Can he breathe air like gators can go on
47:35
land, right?
47:36
Yeah. Uh, he can do that.
47:39
Uh, does he have the neck of a gator or shark?
47:41
He has the neck of a gator.
47:43
And the head of a gator.
47:45
Yeah.
47:46
But kind of a body of a shark with
47:49
the tail of a sort of a mix in between.
47:52
Um, and then he's got the sort of army leggy
47:55
things coming out of the sides like a gator, but they're a little
47:58
bit more like built and longer so that he can kind
48:01
of move them around a little bit. But, yeah, he's got, like, some big old
48:03
muscles. He's a beast of the sea. Uh, but
48:06
then his, uh, sea beast, if you
48:09
will.
48:09
A sea beast. Yeah.
48:11
And they're webbed, of course, uh, it's a dangerous
48:14
creature.
48:15
He didn't know that. I'm impulsive and stupid.
48:17
I desperately hope we get some cool fan art.
48:20
I want to, uh, kill
48:23
it. I want to say that's an advance in
48:26
attack. I feel like that's what it would fall
48:29
under.
48:31
Unless you're yelling that maybe you're trying
48:34
to oh, yeah.
48:38
Does he understand English?
48:40
He understands yelling loud
48:43
gibberish like many
48:45
do. Uh, but you don't know for sure whether or
48:48
not he understands, uh, English
48:53
staff to the top of the noggin.
48:56
He might just BOP him on the nose.
48:58
That's what I'm going to do. BOP him on his nose, uh,
49:01
next time he shows his big schnau.
49:04
Okay.
49:05
Teach him a lesson.
49:06
Teach him a, uh, thing or two from Gua
49:08
Lingualing.
49:13
I believe you have a move for that, don't you? Kind of the what is
49:16
it?
49:17
Perry?
49:17
Uh, don't you have Perry? So if he
49:19
tries to attack oh, yeah, attack the
49:22
attack. There you go. This portion of and
49:25
that's advanced and attack. I say no
49:28
defending manure. Interesting, because it's my
49:30
specialty. Remember, I'm a defense
49:32
specialist, so I'm going to show my thing or two from
49:35
Guiling. All right, fair enough.
49:37
All right. Sounds good.
49:38
Mika, what do you did you decide? I did this dumb on
49:41
the Wild Coyote bulls back.
49:45
Um.
49:47
Well, he can breathe air, so I can't
49:50
take the water away from.
49:51
Him and make him well.
49:52
If you exhaust him to the point where he doesn't have any
49:55
fatigue left, then he goes down
49:58
too.
49:59
I know, but I'm telling you, my ideas
50:02
are backfiring because I'm asking questions,
50:04
clarifying questions, and then my
50:07
ideas won't work.
50:08
Don't think.
50:09
Act.
50:10
Well, it's going to take all the water away from its
50:13
face, but it can breathe air. So what is that going to
50:16
do?
50:17
Drowning.
50:19
You take all the water and you force it
50:22
into the nose.
50:24
Into his nose.
50:26
He's got the whole ocean worth of water.
50:28
Alligators have, like, things that close their nose.
50:31
And I hit it with a one.
50:32
Two punch right in the nose. Uh,
50:35
there's also tickle its armpit
50:38
do you have any ice bending?
50:40
Dang.
50:40
I was going to say throw some dirt
50:44
or I mean, all things considered, you could also
50:47
flavor some of your basic moves
50:50
with the idea of, like, I'm going to
50:52
use water bending in this way to
50:55
do a strike, or I'm going to use it to
50:58
smash or whatever the case.
51:01
I'm, um, going to try to use my water bending.
51:03
Okay.
51:04
So I'm using an attack in.
51:06
All right, so who is doing the
51:09
defendant maneuver? Uh, Bill is.
51:12
I'm seizing a position.
51:13
All right.
51:13
So we'll go with Brock first, just because we'll go in table order. Brock, go
51:16
ahead. Do your check. All right.
51:18
Uh, well, first, um,
51:21
is he still under the boat, or is he like,
51:25
where is this guy?
51:26
Right, okay. Yeah.
51:26
So he slammed into the boat, and then now he's swimming away. It
51:29
looks like he might be gearing up to do another one.
51:32
Okay.
51:32
So from where I am, do I need to roll first,
51:35
or I need.
51:36
To it's better to roll first just because you could totally
51:39
fail, and that's going to kind of change things.
51:40
Got you.
51:41
So is this still considered with force.
51:43
Or is it I don't think so. If you're just moving
51:46
through different I mean, what is it your goal is?
51:48
I guess so my goal is to end up
51:51
on top of him.
51:52
That would be seize a position.
51:55
Okay. I could see how this is what's the alternative to
51:58
force?
51:59
Uh, care I guess I could see.
52:01
How this could be considered force.
52:02
Sure.
52:03
Okay.
52:04
Since you're taking the leap and you're
52:06
forcing yourself onto it
52:09
right.
52:10
I don't like how that sounds.
52:12
Is that what
52:12
you're
52:15
combative way?
52:17
Yeah. It's up to you. If it's for sure.
52:20
Yeah, we'll go with it.
52:21
Okay.
52:24
That is a six.
52:27
And then did you do the minus two to, like, physical stuff for
52:30
impaired.
52:31
Oh, I marked one fatigue oh.
52:32
To get rid of it.
52:33
So I don't think that hit it is
52:36
not.
52:37
But, um, you could choose to move.
52:39
Your balance and for a success.
52:42
For a success.
52:43
Might as well.
52:44
How far are you?
52:44
I am plus three on the force side.
52:47
So you're almost over the edge.
52:48
Yeah, pretty much.
52:49
I mean, the irony is that what you're doing almost feels like
52:52
an over the edge kind of action to do.
52:55
But whatever the case, everybody watches as
52:58
you leap first. Oh,
53:01
yeah.
53:01
Explain.
53:02
So I go up to the deck.
53:03
Yes.
53:04
I grab a couple more harpoons that weigh exactly
53:07
20 pounds because he knows this.
53:09
And then proceed to jump
53:12
onto I try to get on the back of his
53:14
neck, because fun fact, crocodiles,
53:17
if you can get the back of their.
53:19
Necks, it's a gator, not a crocodile.
53:22
About gators or crocodiles, if you can get the back of their
53:25
neck, they can't touch you. And also,
53:28
they don't have enough power.
53:29
To open their mouths, which is why you can keep them closed with
53:32
tape.
53:33
So I grab the harpoons and
53:35
leap off the boat.
53:37
Everybody freezes. Everybody on the boat, like,
53:40
stops for a moment and just stares in kind of
53:43
awe, but also just like, what in the
53:45
world? He's insane.
53:48
And that's where I want to be. All right.
53:51
And I mount this.
53:53
You fall through the air and land right on
53:57
the nape. I was going to say
53:59
the fin. Uh, that's like, just
54:02
something you can see from outside.
54:04
Gotcha.
54:06
Yep.
54:06
So I'm on there, and that's
54:09
all I can do. Right.
54:11
I can't try and stab.
54:12
Okay.
54:13
That's what I do. I'm on the Gator shark now.
54:15
All right, sounds good. Bill, you're going to be doing the
54:18
Perry nine nine.
54:20
Nice. Okay.
54:20
Did you take into effect seven seven? That still
54:23
succeeds. All right, so you're doing a Perry,
54:26
basically, uh, when it attacks if it attacks
54:29
you, you're doing blow for blow, right? Correct.
54:32
All right, sounds good. Whoa, wait, did it attack? What
54:35
happened? Well, it'll attack on its turn. Yeah,
54:38
allegedly.
54:39
I mean, you just told it it.
54:40
Couldn'T have been observed.
54:41
I was, uh, trying to defend and
54:43
maneuver a position.
54:45
Oh, shoot. I'm sorry. I should have gotten to you first, but that's okay.
54:48
What's your position that you're
54:51
achieving?
54:52
Eight.
54:53
All right, so what's the deal with
54:56
this Grappling harpoon?
54:58
Yes, so there is a Grappling gun harpoon.
55:01
It's like a harpoon M gun with a rope attached to
55:04
it, and it is at the back end of the boat.
55:07
So I go up to the guy who's on it, and I
55:10
say, you're taking too long.
55:13
Let a guy with a fancy hat take
55:16
over.
55:18
Um, I'll have you, um, do
55:21
a push your luck, but I'm going to give you an advantage on
55:24
it because you have the captain's hat, and
55:27
at the very least, it's going to surprise him.
55:31
All right, well, that does it for sure. He
55:34
immediately steps back and he's like, all right,
55:37
wait a minute. But by that point, you've already got your
55:40
hands on the controls of this harpoon gun, and you're
55:43
turning it around.
55:44
I say, good thing I got these sacks of rocks
55:47
for this,
55:49
um,
55:52
harpoon with a rope.
55:54
Yeah.
55:56
I'll try to shoot it at the beast.
55:58
Okay.
55:59
So that is its own, um,
56:01
action. Yeah. Okay,
56:04
perfect. Yep. So that'll be an advanced and attack.
56:06
Mika, you were going to also do advanced attack,
56:09
right?
56:10
Yeah.
56:10
Okay, cool. So what are you.
56:17
Going to use? I was going to use my water bending skills.
56:20
Okay.
56:21
And squeeze him like a python.
56:25
Okay.
56:25
So you're going to use the water that's around him to kind of, like, pressure
56:28
him in and squeeze him a little bit.
56:30
All right, perfect.
56:30
Yeah. Uh, go for that roll.
56:33
All, uh, right.
56:34
Really bad today. Do you want to shift your
56:37
balance? No, actually, it's, uh,
56:40
four.
56:41
What? Right.
56:41
Because you guys are m
56:43
fatigue well.
56:45
Either way, I'm still not succeeding unless they shift my
56:48
balance.
56:49
Okay, well, here's what I'll tell you. As you stretch
56:52
out your hands to try to control the water, it's
56:55
just too strong of a current for you to be able
56:58
to kind of control this much water. You, um,
57:01
find it difficult to sort of get a hold on it, which, um,
57:04
works out in your favor in the sense that this lady
57:07
doesn't seem to know what you're doing. She's actually a little bit
57:09
confused.
57:10
Like, Are you all right there, Les?
57:13
And, um, because she doesn't see any water, really, like,
57:16
getting moved around in an unnatural way, she's
57:19
not going to suspect that you are a waterbender. So there
57:22
is a positive to that.
57:27
I watched the bow when he hit the ship, I'm
57:30
assuming.
57:32
All right, so, uh, once again,
57:36
the gator shark is going to swim towards the boat and
57:38
slam into it. Everybody is shaken
57:41
again. This, um, time, everybody's grasped down a
57:44
little bit after the last one. So,
57:47
uh, you're not impaired. You're not as impacted as before because
57:50
you've sturdied yourself from the last impact. But you can
57:53
feel that the ship has been dealt more damage.
57:56
And, uh, you fear that if it were to take any
57:59
further damage, uh, you'd be in a bit of a
58:02
predicament. So, um, jumping back over to
58:04
everybody, what are we doing next?
58:08
Oh, he didn't attack you thought he wasn't going to
58:10
attack me.
58:11
He knew you were going to parry.
58:13
No, I knew he was going to attack the boat.
58:16
Here's what I'll say. Here's what I'll say. I just stood there on the
58:19
boat.
58:19
And just stood
58:22
there.
58:23
If you want to just stare at him
58:26
rammed into the side, that's a fair point.
58:32
If you want to huck a harpoon at him, I'll let you huck a
58:35
harpoon at him. He did get you don't, uh, have to roll anything. You do
58:38
it. All right.
58:42
Come up here. I don't,
58:48
uh,
58:53
m.
58:56
As he slams into the side of the boat, you have an
58:59
easy shot to huck a harpoon downwards
59:02
at. It slams into him, almost hitting Brock.
59:05
Who. You were like, oh, yeah, he's down
59:07
there. That's Gualing style for you,
59:10
Basley.
59:12
Awesome.
59:12
Uh, all right, everybody choose another
59:15
technique.
59:17
Yeah. You do damage.
59:17
Yeah, I got attacking.
59:20
Apparently you can't defend
59:23
the ship all
59:24
handsome.
59:31
Tie a rope to make what's, uh,
59:35
Bill doing? He's going to get a rope tied to him and
59:38
then jump to the side of the boat.
59:42
It swims away each time to try to do another.
59:47
You're going to keel, haul yourself.
59:49
Yeah.
59:51
I don't know what I'm going to do.
59:53
This is dumb. I can't use my stick because it's not long enough.
59:56
Only I had a giant, like, 20 foot stick.
59:59
I could look.
1:00:04
I was just going to say, as you think to yourself,
1:00:07
if only I had a 20 foot stick, you look over and you see the
1:00:10
mast of the ship and you.
1:00:11
Think.
1:00:16
I grab it 2000
1:00:19
pounds.
1:00:22
This is like something out of one piece.
1:00:26
We're on a boat.
1:00:27
That's right.
1:00:28
This is fiction. You're not wrong. So
1:00:31
far, so big. You don't have a way to
1:00:34
disassemble the mass from the rest of the ship.
1:00:37
Just kicks it really hard.
1:00:39
Really hard.
1:00:40
All right.
1:00:41
What if you did the
1:00:45
one piece? Oh, that's a good one. Instead
1:00:48
of me doing the bow staff.
1:00:50
The goal in smart.
1:00:51
Turn the ship really fast so the
1:00:54
master but what if
1:00:56
you assess the situation?
1:00:58
What here can I use to wield the
1:01:01
master of the ship as a bow staff? So you just got to roll
1:01:04
that situation. He can't deny you
1:01:06
there.
1:01:07
All he's going to say is you can't, uh
1:01:10
well, I assessed roll
1:01:13
with nothing.
1:01:14
All right?
1:01:15
That's all they can there's nothing wrong with that.
1:01:18
You can jump on jump on them with me, then hit him
1:01:21
with your bow staff.
1:01:21
Uh, it's funny because I said this to Michaela.
1:01:23
I said, if I was playing my.
1:01:25
D D character, I would have instantly jumped on this.
1:01:27
Right, right. Well, the thing is, this character is
1:01:30
not an
1:01:34
done.
1:01:35
No.
1:01:37
What are you trying to say?
1:01:38
He's courageous.
1:01:41
You're lucky Brock can't hear you from where he's at
1:01:44
right now.
1:01:45
Brock is having a time of his life right now.
1:01:47
He is?
1:01:49
Yeah.
1:01:49
So I'll attack him with a heart pound.
1:01:52
Yeah.
1:01:52
All right, you do that. What are you doing,
1:01:55
Mika?
1:01:56
Um, well, I'm on the back of his neck.
1:01:59
I don't know.
1:02:00
You do have more arrows if you wanted to shoot arrows.
1:02:03
Do I still have my bow or.
1:02:04
Did I lose it? No, you still have it.
1:02:06
I'll try that, I guess.
1:02:07
Okay, sounds good. So is everybody doing advanced and
1:02:10
attack, then?
1:02:11
Think so.
1:02:12
Okay, sounds good. No problem. Um, Connor, we'll start with
1:02:15
you, broccoli. Standing on
1:02:18
top of the very beast you all are
1:02:20
trying to, uh, destroy.
1:02:22
So I roll a six, seven, 8910
1:02:25
eleven.
1:02:25
Holy cow. Well, you got an opportunity to take two
1:02:28
basic techniques and you have two harpoons in your
1:02:31
hand. Yeah.
1:02:32
So I am going to well, first I will
1:02:35
strike. The way I want to strike is I
1:02:38
will take the two harpoons and just
1:02:41
excalibur them nice. Into
1:02:44
should I do the eyes or the neck? I will excalibur
1:02:47
them.
1:02:47
One eye and one neck, please.
1:02:50
I will excalibur them
1:02:53
into his neck okay. The both of
1:02:55
them. And then kind of jump on them to make
1:02:58
sure that they're like they're really in there.
1:03:00
Really deep in there.
1:03:01
All right.
1:03:01
You jam these deep into the neck.
1:03:04
Blood starts to shoot out from either side as
1:03:07
you jam it deeper and deeper, pushing as hard as you
1:03:10
can and then giving it one more push down
1:03:13
with your body to make sure that they have
1:03:15
truly stabbed deep within this creature's.
1:03:18
Body.
1:03:19
Um, what are you doing with your second basic technique?
1:03:21
Second basic technique? So I guess whatever's
1:03:24
left of the harpoon sticking out, I can
1:03:27
use Smash to break them off, and then
1:03:30
I guess I can go for the eyes.
1:03:32
You'd have some sticks in hand, I guess.
1:03:35
Yeah.
1:03:36
Because you just have the ends of the harpoons, but
1:03:38
yeah, sure.
1:03:40
Okay.
1:03:41
Whatever the case, you're snapping off the tips of
1:03:44
the harpoons inside of the monster
1:03:47
so it can't just rip the harpoon out and
1:03:49
be cool. It's going to have, like, literal metal inside
1:03:52
of its body.
1:03:53
Yeah.
1:03:53
And then whatever is left sticking out from the skin,
1:03:56
I break off and try and jam them in the eyes.
1:03:59
All right, sounds good. So you got a mark of fatigue,
1:04:02
but you don't get to jam them in the eyes just yet.
1:04:05
Obviously, you've used both of your moves.
1:04:07
Right.
1:04:07
Um, but smash would allow you to mark a fatigue to
1:04:10
break these harpoons off. Inside of it, you
1:04:13
kind of use a mixture of your legs, and then
1:04:16
I'm going to say that these have, um, wooden
1:04:19
handles because otherwise I'm going to be really impressed if you're
1:04:22
able to just kind of kick this
1:04:25
harpoon and snap it in half.
1:04:27
Right. I forgot about that.
1:04:29
No, that's all good. Uh, one way or another, you're able to either use
1:04:32
its body and, like, the hard scales and just the
1:04:34
pressure and adrenaline running through your veins to
1:04:37
break this harpoon, um, so that the
1:04:40
handles are in your hands. They're, kind know, broken at a
1:04:43
sharp angle. So you could potentially
1:04:46
use these later on. Moving on to
1:04:49
Guo, who's also advancing,
1:04:51
attacking. You have the
1:04:53
grappling hook gun. It's not a grappling hook. It's a
1:04:56
grappling spear gun.
1:04:59
Doohickey. And you're following
1:05:01
along as this beast is moving. You're kind of using
1:05:04
Broccoli as a little bit of a target since he sticks out
1:05:07
really high.
1:05:08
Uh, I don't want to hit. Brock
1:05:10
let's see. I aim for the tail.
1:05:13
Tail. Okay. All right.
1:05:15
A difficult shot.
1:05:17
Yes, definitely.
1:05:22
Holy cow. Well, you are fired.
1:05:25
Would you like to do anything in addition to this?
1:05:28
I blow the feather out of my face.
1:05:33
This guy is, like, over there, and everything goes
1:05:36
into slow mo as he's just berating you about how
1:05:39
you do not have the
1:05:42
sufficient training to be using
1:05:45
this device. And you don't care.
1:05:49
Everything in the background goes completely silent as you carefully
1:05:52
take aim and fire.
1:05:55
Pictures like the, uh,
1:05:58
arcade or the carnival game where you're shooting the
1:06:01
beam of water.
1:06:02
Yes, water gun at the target,
1:06:06
and you've got a dead eye right on the bullseye,
1:06:09
and your harpoon flies through the
1:06:11
air. Brock you see it as it comes towards you. You panic a
1:06:14
little bit. You kind of, like, hide a little bit behind the
1:06:17
fin just to hopefully make sure that it hits that instead
1:06:20
of you. But sure enough, GLOW's aim is
1:06:23
true. And slices right into the tail,
1:06:26
piercing straight through and sort of like, grabbing on the
1:06:29
other side because harpoons kind of have that protrusion.
1:06:32
Um, so it is, like, sufficiently grabbed, you can see the
1:06:34
rope that leads all the way back over to the
1:06:37
ship. Um, you have essentially
1:06:39
lassooed, uh, this beast, Guo,
1:06:42
and you do get to choose another basic technique if
1:06:45
you would like to.
1:06:46
Guo is just going to go grab a
1:06:49
net okay.
1:06:51
And get it ready. All right, sounds good.
1:06:53
I'll allow that.
1:06:54
It's not technically a move, but I think it makes sense. No, I
1:06:57
think it works, actually. Uh, before you do that, there
1:07:00
is like a crank on the gun to kind of, like, pull
1:07:03
in the rope like a reel. So it's almost like a big
1:07:06
fishing pole. If you wanted to, you could
1:07:08
use that as a way of pressuring it to
1:07:11
keep it from doing, um, a specific maneuver
1:07:14
next round.
1:07:15
Yeah. What?
1:07:15
I was going to try to start reeling.
1:07:19
Bad boy.
1:07:20
Um, do you have a preference on something that you don't
1:07:23
want it to do? They didn't observe attack, advanced attack,
1:07:26
or defendant?
1:07:27
Uh, okay, perfect.
1:07:31
All right, sounds good. Bill, you got
1:07:34
a harpoon in hand. You just watched as not
1:07:37
only did your friend, who did get onto the beast
1:07:40
stabbed into it, but you also saw your other friend
1:07:43
expertly snipe the creature, which is now
1:07:46
on a rope, and he seems to be kind
1:07:49
of wrestling with the rod, trying to pull him
1:07:51
in. That's a success. You
1:07:54
hurl that harpoon towards the beast. It flies
1:07:57
true. Um, Brock is definitely probably getting
1:08:00
nervous as he's sort of like, pseudo dodging the weapons
1:08:03
coming from the ship and slamming into it.
1:08:06
I guess not. But at the same time, he's skilled enough
1:08:09
to make sure that he's not getting hit. Or maybe the Gator Shark is just
1:08:12
large enough that it's taken him, um, rather
1:08:15
than Brock getting hit on top of him.
1:08:17
That's just par for the course for me. Have I ever thought anything
1:08:20
through? And have we made it out of
1:08:23
every situation?
1:08:25
That's true. Um, Mika, you've got
1:08:28
your bow and arrow in hand or your bow in hand at the
1:08:31
arrow at the ready, firing it in.
1:08:33
Yep.
1:08:33
For that roll.
1:08:34
Yeah. Kill it.
1:08:36
Shooter.
1:08:38
Shoot, shooter.
1:08:41
I actually did something useful.
1:08:43
What'd you get? Nice. So you get to
1:08:46
actually choose two if you'd like to. You could fire two
1:08:49
arrows if you want. I'd be down with that.
1:08:51
Obviously two of them at the same time.
1:08:53
Oh, all right, that's fine. We'll flavor it that way. So
1:08:56
you take a second arrow and your Earthbending
1:08:59
friend is standing next to you and she says, oh,
1:09:02
you're pretty confident, I see. And you fire both
1:09:05
arrows, both of them flying towards the Gator Shark.
1:09:08
Brock, you quickly dodge diving, um, behind
1:09:11
the fin, uh, that sticks out of the water. Both of
1:09:14
them right where you were standing moments
1:09:16
ago.
1:09:18
Uh.
1:09:20
It comes down to the gator shark's turn.
1:09:23
But as you, uh, hold on,
1:09:26
it thrashes in the water a couple of times and
1:09:29
it just pulls against the rope that's jammed into
1:09:32
its tail and it finally just gives up.
1:09:35
It lays still, uh, in the water.
1:09:40
Bobbing, there uh, in the water. Guo,
1:09:43
you're on the end of the gun trying to reel it
1:09:45
in. The guy that's watching, he's absolutely
1:09:48
astonished. Um, you're sitting there trying to reel it
1:09:51
in. You look over and he's just got this big like his mouth is just wide open
1:09:54
having seen you shoot at its tail. Um, but then he snaps
1:09:57
out of it. He rushes to your side and helps you start to reel
1:10:00
it in. And he's shouting out, captain,
1:10:03
captain, we got him.
1:10:04
M, we caught him.
1:10:06
And uh, everybody starts to cheer and they're
1:10:08
excited as they see this non moving creature. Whatever
1:10:11
the case.
1:10:12
Ah, dead.
1:10:12
Yes, it's dead.
1:10:15
Um,
1:10:17
Brock, uh, you're standing on top. What are you doing
1:10:20
as you stand atop this now dead creature?
1:10:23
Well, if they're reeling it in, I should probably try and climb
1:10:26
up the.
1:10:26
Rope to get okay, so you climb onto it and
1:10:29
start to kind of shimmy your way back up as the creature starts
1:10:32
to sink a little bit. And you're like, oh, I'm running out of platform.
1:10:35
Perfect. So um, the crew eventually
1:10:38
manages to reel it all the way up next to the boat. And with a little bit of
1:10:41
help, they're able to pull it on up. They use some more nets, they use some
1:10:44
more stuff. And sure enough, they pull it onto the ship.
1:10:46
They lay it out before you. It's this massive, massive hulking
1:10:49
creature. Sure, the captain pushes his way through the
1:10:52
crowd and he looks at it and he says,
1:10:55
well, look
1:10:58
who got theirs.
1:11:00
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1:11:03
the rest of you, having taken out this massive
1:11:06
beast next time.
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