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Benders & Brews: S3: Episode 4 - The Five Trials (Part 2) · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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>> Speaker A: jasmine, oolong, green
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and white. Long ago, these four
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teas were skillfully brewed at the blissful brew.
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Then everything changed when the shops
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popularity threatened its existence.
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All Mister Okaron, the shops owner and tea
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master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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blissful brew the greatest tea shop in the
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world.
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>> Speaker B: Last time on benders and brews, an
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avatar legends podcast. The four of you are
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standing at the foot of an
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abandoned air nation temple.
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>> Speaker C: well, hello. My name is Guru
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Tapik.
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>> Speaker D: Is it haunted?
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>> Speaker B: No.
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>> Speaker C: I guess it is haunted. The spirit that resides
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here has no interest in eating your soul.
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The flesh on your bones will do just fine. Now
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it's just me here on Mount Kenkyo. I was
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alone until Okoran came to this
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mountain. We came to be good friends. He
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was fearful that something might happen to him.
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He asked me if I would be kind enough to help the
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children who he would send here
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to direct them to the clue he had left for all of
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you. So he had made use of some of
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the temples in their features to create a series
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of five trials.
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>> Speaker B: The first trial sits inside a cavern room
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above a deposit of lava that
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flows beneath the rocks. But it leaves the
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stones on the pathway across
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hot to the touch.
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>> Speaker E: I'm gonna try to extend that bridge.
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>> Speaker B: Okay, you grab onto the edge of this, and you
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basically pull the ground out from
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its connection to the wall, and you extend it
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ever so slightly to a point where
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everybody could cross. If you guys move into the next room, there's sort
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of just a doorway at the end of this bridge.
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The warmth from before, which was a very dry
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heat, is quickly replaced by a very humid
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heat. Features what seems to be a
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massive fuzzy balloon
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that's just stuffed in the doorway that would lead
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into the next room.
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>> Speaker F: I shall attempt to. Bugs bunny.
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>> Speaker B: Yes. You're able to create an opening and
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basically create a sort of secondary
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tunnel that goes around the balloon.
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>> Speaker D: Puzzle number three.
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>> Speaker B: You guys would step out of the doorway into a massive
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cavern with a humongous drop
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off of a divide that spans
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hundreds of feet in every direction.
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>> Speaker D: Okay, I'm gonna run back in the other room. Can I get the water particles?
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And just, like, push the balloon.
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>> Speaker B: When you put the cold air up to it,
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you notice just the very.
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>> Speaker D: Slightest deflation, the helium. bro?
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>> Speaker F: Oh, you did it.
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>> Speaker C: You got the balloon out.
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>> Speaker F: Okay. It's gonna be like the blob at summer camp. I'm
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gonna put a rock on one end, and
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I'm gonna jump onto the other end, see if
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I can't launch this bad boy all the way across the
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other side.
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>> Speaker B: Welcome back, everybody, to episode four
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of benders and brews season
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trace. That's three if you don't speak
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Spanish. Jumping right in. just a
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really quick shout out to our awesome
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friends Robzor 86, who left
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us an, ah, awesome five star review,
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alongside some other people who left us five star reviews, but they didn't say
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anything, which is cool. That's totally fine,
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totally acceptable. But I just wanted to highlight Rob Zor
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86, who said, great podcast,
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great show to listen to. Lots of exclamation marks
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in there. Love it. So just want to say thank you.
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>> Speaker A: Rob Zor 86, for that shout
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out.
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>> Speaker B: whatever the case, last time you
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guys were making your way through the air
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temple, the sort of abandoned air temple where you guys met
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Guru Tapik and he was leading
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you guys through the trials, and you guys
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did one where you had to try to make it across hot
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stones. Kind of a throwback to the one
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shot Bill and Brock adventure a little bit there. the second
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one that you guys had to do involved this giant
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sheepskin balloon that was kind of stuck in the doorway,
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keeping you guys from getting through. And third, and finally,
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which is where we left off at, you have this giant
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cavern that you're trying to get across. This just
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drop in the. In the mountain below you, or whatever you want to call
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it, there was a rope bridge. It's been split in
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two, so it's just kind of hanging there limp on either side.
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And, Mika, using some ingenuity, actually
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managed to go back and get the balloon out of the
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doorway and brought it into this room
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where. Where Brock is currently at this
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very moment prepping to do sort of like
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a double bounce situation to hopefully send
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him flying across the cavern.
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>> Speaker F: Myself and Bill are currently flying
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through the air, which.
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>> Speaker B: Wait, no.
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>> Speaker E: Didn't we do a dummy?
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>> Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
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>> Speaker B: Well, we did try a dummy. Yep. And Brock used a
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rock.
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>> Speaker F: It's a rock that's the same size as. Whoa.
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>> Speaker B: Yes.
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>> Speaker F: Me and Bill are currently falling
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towards the balloon as we speak.
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>> Speaker B: So the rock just about worked. but the
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concept was, it was more like, what was the thing? Like the pool.
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>> Speaker F: It was like the blob at summer camps.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah, everybody knows the blob at summer camp. That giant inflatable
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and you sit on one little spot, and then someone else.
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>> Speaker F: Jumps down from, like, the hot dog. Yeah, yeah.
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>> Speaker B: I mean, there's, like, they make lots of different versions of
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it, and then it, like, launches you, and you
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just go, like, flying or whatever. And it almost worked.
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The rock actually almost made it to the other side before it just tumbled
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into the ravine below. And so, Brock, you were like,
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hey, let's double bounce it. That'll add a little bit
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more oomph and hopefully a little bit more
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direction. horizontal direction versus
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vertical. But whatever the case, I'm getting way ahead of myself. I haven't even
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introduced you guys, so that people listening know who
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the heck is who, which, if you don't know who
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the heck is who, you should probably go back and listen through the show. I know we say
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that a lot here, but it's true. but whatever the case, we also have
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fun facts, of course, for every one of the characters. So we'll start to my
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right, Dave. Dave, who you playing?
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>> Speaker E: I'm playing Guo Han,
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the adamant earthbender.
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And are we doing facts?
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>> Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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>> Speaker E: Guo has socks he wears on
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his feet, but he has a left sock
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and a right sock. And each morning
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when he puts his socks on, he makes sure to put
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the correct sock on the correct foot.
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>> Speaker F: All right, that reminds me.
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>> Speaker B: And he gets it right every single time.
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>> Speaker F: That reminds me of a story
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of. So, basketball athletic
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socks. They will actually have the letter l and r on the
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socks. Really? Oh, yeah. They'll form, fit them
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to, like, get a left.
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>> Speaker B: No way.
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>> Speaker F: To, like athletic socks. Yeah, well, I was.
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We're, putting our clothes on before a basketball
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game, and one of the guys on our team went, dang it. I
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brought two different types of socks, and we're like, what are you talking about? And
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he's like, well, I brought an l sock and an r
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sock. And we're like, yeah, that's right. He's like, no, l stands for
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large. R stands for regular.
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>> Speaker B: There's no such thing as smalls mediums.
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>> Speaker F: he was dead serious, too. Oh, he
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brought two different, and that.
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>> Speaker B: Dude dealt with some major m foot
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warpage.
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>> Speaker F: The one time he brought the two correct
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socks. He was mad. Correct. Yes.
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>> Speaker B: I like to think that, like, he put them on that day, and he was,
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like, experienced, something
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he'd never experienced before, which was correctly fitting.
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Psy.
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>> Speaker F: I would have said who the person.
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>> Speaker B: Was, but, yeah, now that checks out.
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>> Speaker F: Awesome.
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>> Speaker B: Well, jumping out of order because of.
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So does Guo pin and l and r on his
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socks?
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>> Speaker E: No, he can just, he can feel it. Maybe it's
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an earthbender thing.
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>> Speaker B: It's similar to how Brock can grab a rock and know
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exactly how much it weighs. Guo can grab a sock and
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knows exactly which, but it goes
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all right, that's canon. Now, if we ever have
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these sock.
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>> Speaker D: Encounters, let's not have
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any more feet.
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>> Speaker B: Pigs
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awaiting a little bit out of
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order just because you had a whole story. Cameron,
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who are you and what's your character's? Interesting
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fact?
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>> Speaker F: Bill Doerr. I'm a stick bender.
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>> Speaker B: Nice.
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>> Speaker F: Yeah. And, Bill's fun fact is he
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really likes sushi and, like, seafood
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stuff.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, like, really.
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>> Speaker F: He really likes seafood.
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>> Speaker B: Interesting.
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>> Speaker D: And it, no, he's a pirate after all.
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>> Speaker F: That's true. Well, I was a pirate for one
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day, but as I've said in the past, my
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family was avid semen.
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Yes, seamen.
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>> Speaker B: Sailors.
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>> Speaker F: Sailors. No, they were avid beachgoers, and they would go
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out on the, my parents fishing boat a lot. okay. And so
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because of that, Bill, would go fishing a lot. Yeah. They
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would eat a lot of seafood, and his mom made fantastic sushi.
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And so now he's just like
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a big sushi lover. But there's not much
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sushi in the earth kingdom.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. That makes sense.
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>> Speaker F: So Bill's kind of been deprived of sushi for a
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good while.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah, no, that actually makes a lot of sense. You got, you've got the air
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nomads, which are very, like, non meat. They're very
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vegetarian.
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>> Speaker F: You could make sushi.
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>> Speaker B: That's true.
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>> Speaker F: Yeah.
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>> Speaker B: You can do vegetable sushi. you've got the earth nation, which
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really seems very, like meat and potato.
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>> Speaker F: Earthy food.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. You have the water
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tribe, which I feel like they're kind of,
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not to sound rude, but it's like we're making do with
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what we have within our region because there's a very harsh
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region within the kind of polar sides of the
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world, very cold, not super conducive
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to growth and things. And then if you look at,
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like, the fire nation, it's just like a whole line of
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islands, kind of like Hawaii or
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Japan. And, that just makes a lot of sense
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that it's very seafood oriented.
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>> Speaker F: Yeah.
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>> Speaker B: So.
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>> Speaker A: Yeah, no, right on.
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>> Speaker B: I like it. I like it. Very cool. Mika
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or Mikayla. See, your name and your character
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name are just too close. Throws me off.
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>> Speaker D: not sorry about it.
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>> Speaker F: Three seasons in.
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>> Speaker B: Fair enough. Yeah.
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>> Speaker D: In a few years of friendship.
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>> Speaker D: Ow. I am, I'm Mikayla. I play
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Micah. And Micah's fun fact is that she
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is double jointed in her thumbs.
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>> Speaker F: Whoa.
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>> Speaker B: That's kind of sick, bro.
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Did she do anything with that? I mean, she hasn't up until now, or at
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least now that we haven't.
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>> Speaker D: Seen it, but she hasn't really needed the
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opportunity.
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>> Speaker E: Advanced water bending
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techniques.
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>> Speaker F: Yeah.
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>> Speaker B: Integrate it into your movements.
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>> Speaker D: Yeah, right on.
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>> Speaker B: I dig it. I dig it.
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>> Speaker F: I hope that she gets, like, the.
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>> Speaker D: Right angles in her waterbending.
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>> Speaker B: I'm gonna find some, like, really
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disturbing, like, bone, popping sounds that I'm
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gonna integrate every single time you water
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bend as you use your double
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joints in your fingers just to really,
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like, irk the audience.
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>> Speaker D: They might like it.
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>> Speaker B: They might be into it.
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>> Speaker D: It might be some weird ASmr vibe to it.
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>> Speaker B: I don't know. Go back and do another Halloween
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episode. awesome. Fantastic. Last
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but not least, we've got Connor.
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>> Speaker F: What's up? I'm Connor playing
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broccoli the earthbender. his
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fun fact is, despite his name, he is not a
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fan of broccoli. Growing up on the cabbage farm,
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there's beef between them and the broccoli guys. You know,
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just an unfortunate coincidence that ended up
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being his name.
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>> Speaker B: They got some intense rivalry
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between the.
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>> Speaker F: Broccoli farmers and the cabbage farmers. Yeah, there's
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a, beef that goes back generations,
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and for some reason, they named their kid
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broccoli after their main competitors.
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>> Speaker B: They really just were focused on Brock. They did not.
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>> Speaker F: I was gonna say, I feel like this could be even a funnier joke where,
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like, one of the
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neighbors, like, suggest your dad was
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going around looking for names for his child, and one of your neighbors
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was like, what about Brock? That's a cool name. And started
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hyping it up, and then secretly, they're like, he's gonna fall for
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it, isn't he? And if
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Brock's dad anything like Brock.
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>> Speaker D: He probably made a bet.
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>> Speaker F: Or it was like, a Romeo and Juliet situation where, like,
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the broccoli woman married the cabbage
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man and then they had a child. I
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mend fences. They named him
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broccoli. You never know.
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>> Speaker B: Or perhaps broccoli is the
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proverbial Romeo in this situation, and you're going
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to meet a beautiful young
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cab.
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>> Speaker F: Broccoli based, a broccoli
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based girl named Cabbage.
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>> Speaker B: Cabbage.
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>> Speaker F: Cabbage. Cabbage cabbie
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last name is beige.
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>> Speaker B: Oof, that's. Oof, that's interesting. Cabbage,
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cabbage. And, yeah, things. Sparks will
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fly, romance won't ensue, and then
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a lot of people die, and that's where it gets really
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depressing. But that's the goal. Juliet?
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>> Speaker F: Yeah. Then, yeah. Yeah.
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That's Romeo and Juliet for you. Yeah.
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>> Speaker B: Sorry, everybody. But, hey, we'll look forward to
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that story further down the way. I'm
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Skyler. I'm your game master. interesting fact about
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me, since we were on the topic of basketball, I
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didn't know anything about the fact that socks
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were different either. But I also only
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played basketball for, like, three days back in high school.
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And then I said, I hate this more than anything in the
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world, so I quit.
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>> Speaker F: Yeah.
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>> Speaker B: And that's how I got into dungeons and drinking. No, no,
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I'm totally kidding.
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>> Speaker F: But anyway.
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>> Speaker B: Welcome to Benner to brew, season three, episode
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four.
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All right, everybody, so as mentioned before, you guys are
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currently inside the third, the big
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open cavern for the third trial. There's a giant
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sheepskin balloon, and on one end
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sits Bill. No, you're gonna
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double jump. So you're both up on the ledge, right.
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Right next to each other. Okay.
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>> Speaker F: Yeah.
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>> Speaker B: And then to be clear,
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Brock is launching. Bill.
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>> Speaker F: No, no, we're the other way around. We're like Lincoln arms
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and we're jumping together.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, the double bounce is.
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>> Speaker F: I don't know what we're launching. We're launching a rock
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roughly the size of. Yeah. Gohan
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shaped rock.
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>> Speaker B: So this is still practice.
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>> Speaker E: Roughly the size. But exactly the weight.
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>> Speaker F: Exactly the weight. He even
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picked up Brock. He even picked up Guohan right
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beforehand. He left him with one, one hand, tossed him a
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couple times up in the air.
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>> Speaker B: Yes, this is good weight.
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>> Speaker F: Good weight.
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>> Speaker B: Okay, so we've got the basic
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moves here. Helping, is an
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option. So I'm gonna say that one of you is gonna make
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a, probably a push
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your luck. Cause this really doesn't feel
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like.
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>> Speaker A: Rely on your skills in training.
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>> Speaker B: I'm gonna be honest with you guys.
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>> Speaker E: I just.
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>> Speaker B: I have high doubts that you guys have ever tried
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something quite like this before.
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>> Speaker F: You may.
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>> Speaker B: So I'm gonna say push your luck. But the other person
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can try to help or you can
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help. All you have to do is, mark fatigue, and
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it adds plus one to their role. So, I mean,
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again, you guys decide if you wanna do a help,
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it's up to you. But if you do, tell me who's doing the
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help and who's gonna roll. Push your luck.
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>> Speaker F: Okay, so I should probably push my luck.
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>> Speaker B: All right, so you're helping. You mark the
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fatigue. And, I mean, you're, like, literally helping. You
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and Brock are both jumping. Now, here's
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what I'm going to do if you guys succeed at this,
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because you can, as we've established
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canonically, you can tell the weight and things of
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rocks.
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>> Speaker F: Yes.
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>> Speaker B: If you succeed at this, I won't make you reroll
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or do anything for when you. When you bounce.
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>> Speaker F: Guo. Hooray. Okay, we get to. I
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rolled.
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>> Speaker B: So 1111
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plus plus one.
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>> Speaker F: Or is that, I got a nine. So plus two is eleven, plus
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his one is twelve.
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>> Speaker B: Holy cow, that's a perfect twelve. All right, all
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right.
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>> Speaker F: So.
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>> Speaker B: Holy cow, why can't I. Huzzah.
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>> Speaker F: Excelsior. There it is.
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>> Speaker B: On a ten plus. Your boldness pays off despite the
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cost. All right, so not only do you succeed, but you get a lucky
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opportunity. To clarify, I'm going to have the lucky opportunity that
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you can do this again, and recreate it.
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>> Speaker F: So sick.
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>> Speaker B: You guys bounce off of this ledge.
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>> Speaker A: And drop this rock at the same time, kind of
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as you're coming down.
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>> Speaker B: You guys all, with the rock, hit.
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>> Speaker A: The balloon at the same time, causing.
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>> Speaker B: This amazing double bounce scenario that launches
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the rock plenty well across the
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entire cavern. guru tapik watches in
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awe, his mouth gaping in
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incredulity as this rock makes it to
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the other end and comes to a soft roll
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just before hitting the cave wall on the other
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side.
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>> Speaker F: Well, ready for the real thing.
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>> Speaker E: Well, tally ho,
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lads. Load me up.
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>> Speaker F: Let's do it again. Same as before.
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>> Speaker B: You see, sweat dripping from the brow of guru
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Tapi because he actually flies
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himself over to the other side and gets ready to
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airbend. Pull Guo a little bit closer. If
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it looks like he's not quite gonna make it but doesn't
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believe it, well, he's just being cautious.
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Things can go wrong. But whatever the case, like I said, you don't
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have to roll again. You have successfully proven that you
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can do this. So you guys jump down
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alongside Guo, all timing it just right, just
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like you did with the rock. Guo, you are.
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You feel yourself hit the balloon and then you suddenly feel
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the rush of air as you get shot across the
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entire cavern. Your, heart rises in your chest
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as well as your stomach. Kind of like when you go down a roller coaster.
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>> Speaker D: Kind of like when he got shot out of the cannon at the circus.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah, he's got a lot of
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practice. Yeah, I was gonna say perfect form
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to, like, shoot through at like a bullet speed. You actually make
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it further than a rock does. And, guru Tapika is on
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the other side and he actually pulls the air around you to keep
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you from slamming into the wall just because you were
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better than expected.
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>> Speaker F: But sure enough, you make it to the other side.
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Is that what you yell while flying? Yeah. Yeah.
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Yell.
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>> Speaker E: Yell my name.
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>> Speaker B: Awesome. And then, obviously, since you were able to
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get him across, you could also get Mika
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across if she's down for that.
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>> Speaker D: Doubtful.
18:53
>> Speaker F: Doubtful. How else you plan on getting across? Hop
18:56
on. Guo was fine. Look. There he is.
18:58
Say I wave at glow. Who's across from
19:01
us?
19:02
>> Speaker E: Hey, guys.
19:03
>> Speaker F: I made it. Yeah, see? He's totally fine.
19:05
>> Speaker E: I'm gonna try to make a bridge from
19:08
this side.
19:09
>> Speaker B: Oh, that's a good idea.
19:10
>> Speaker F: Oh, but that's way less fun. No safety grip. It's
19:13
for. It's for us to Brock. Oh, well,
19:16
like, because once we watch Mika, we're just stuck.
19:19
No, no. see, we can't hop on. It's
19:22
fine. Look. Gloves. Fine. Yes. He goes.
19:25
Fine. Look, the air guy caught him. Yeah. I tell
19:27
you what. I can. So, since
19:30
I could, like, scale things, I may have to
19:33
roll again for this. But could I sit on the
19:36
balloon and then earth bend a
19:39
rock to come down? To come down
19:42
and launch me right now?
19:45
I mean, hypothetically, could I do that? Yeah.
19:48
So, like, we wouldn't.
19:49
>> Speaker B: You would jump at the same time, right? Because you tried it
19:52
with the rock sitting on it. It was the double
19:55
bounce that really kind of helped you guys. So you could have
19:58
the rock fall at the same time that bill
20:01
jumps. And that gives it, like, an excess weight, which
20:04
helps launch you a little bit further. I think that's how science work.
20:07
I could be wrong.
20:07
>> Speaker F: What if I had the added weight of myself
20:10
and Bill fall from
20:13
the top while I'm just sitting there? So
20:16
that way, the double bounce. Oh, okay. Just kind of
20:19
shoots me out.
20:20
>> Speaker B: Well, doesn't the double bounce itself create
20:23
additional.
20:23
>> Speaker F: I thought it was just the extra weight. Because the more
20:26
weight that falls on one side. Sure. The larger
20:29
the output of force. That's least what I
20:32
learned at summer camp.
20:32
>> Speaker B: You know what? I would say that because you're able to get a better
20:35
angle on the balloon. I'd say, sure.
20:37
>> Speaker F: Sick.
20:38
>> Speaker B: Okay, so we wouldn't necessarily.
20:40
>> Speaker F: I'm just thinking that so we wouldn't necessarily be trapped here.
20:43
If I were to launch. Once I launched
20:45
Mika, and then once I launched Bill.
20:47
>> Speaker B: Right, right.
20:48
>> Speaker D: I didn't even agree to this.
20:50
>> Speaker F: You're gonna be stuck on this side if you don't do it.
20:53
Snoozy lose. Bill, hop up. Let's go. Okay. All right.
20:56
>> Speaker B: Don't you need me to help you launch?
20:57
>> Speaker F: No, no. I'm gonna make a rock that's roughly,
21:00
like, even a little heavier than you. Okay. And I'm gonna
21:03
jump with this rock, and we're gonna launch you.
21:05
>> Speaker B: You know, this isn't the first time.
21:06
>> Speaker F: I've been launched across the a cavern with you,
21:09
Brock. oh. Yeah,
21:12
yeah. But, you know, this time's different. Second
21:15
time's gonna be better. There's a professional airbender on the
21:18
other side. I feel a lot safer this time.
21:20
>> Speaker D: Isn't he on our side?
21:22
>> Speaker F: He's on their side. He flew across.
21:24
>> Speaker B: No, he's right over there. Don't you see?
21:26
>> Speaker F: I mean, I got a nine again. He's waving. See? Hi,
21:28
guru.
21:30
>> Speaker B: He waves back.
21:31
>> Speaker F: See? There he is. All right,
21:34
well, Bill, let's do this. So
21:36
I'm going anywhere quick? Well, I actually. You actually are
21:39
going to go very quick. I will be.
21:42
>> Speaker B: All right. So you get you launched across
21:45
the cabin.
21:48
>> Speaker F: All right.
21:49
>> Speaker E: Casually. Casually.
21:50
>> Speaker F: Oh, casually. Yeah.
21:54
This is a lot nicer than last time I blew across the
21:56
cavern. Quite lovely where I was in pure panic
21:59
mode.
22:00
>> Speaker B: And Guru Tapik uses his airbending to kind of soften
22:03
your landing a little bit.
22:04
>> Speaker F: All right, last chance, Mika. Train's leaving.
22:07
I made it, and I'm a lot heavier than
22:09
you. Train's leaving.
22:11
>> Speaker D: Fine.
22:12
>> Speaker F: All right.
22:13
>> Speaker B: All right, Mika. Also, wing
22:16
gets launched across the cavern to the other side.
22:19
Guo, were you making a bridge?
22:22
Is that what you said?
22:23
>> Speaker E: I'm trying to make, like, a. An outcropping
22:26
that slanted a little bit to help with the
22:28
landing.
22:29
>> Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, absolutely. I would say as
22:32
an earthbender, with a little bit of time, I won't even make you
22:35
roll. It just makes sense that you kind of shape this.
22:37
I mean, it's mountain. It's literally just rock all around you. Plenty of
22:40
earth to work with. So, yeah, you shape this and maybe even in the
22:44
wall, kind of where everybody's kind of been landing up until now,
22:47
so that they can kind of slowly roll into it a little bit
22:49
softer.
22:50
>> Speaker F: Yeah.
22:51
>> Speaker B: And then. All right, so this time I will have you roll. So you're
22:54
launching yourself. So I will say that if
22:57
you want to make it. I know you rolled, but I'm just saying if
22:59
you want to make it a. Rely on your skills and training since you've done this,
23:02
like, three times now. Totally up to you.
23:05
>> Speaker F: I'm rolling.
23:05
>> Speaker B: It'll just be a different stat.
23:06
>> Speaker F: So passion would be better. Okay.
23:08
>> Speaker B: Yeah, that's totally fine.
23:09
>> Speaker F: Well, I rolled a nine. Okay, so it's either a nine
23:12
or an eleven. An eleven. Oh.
23:15
>> Speaker B: Oh, well, yeah, if it's eleven, then it just succeeds. So, sure enough,
23:18
your expert skills that we have canonically established
23:21
of being able to weigh a rock just
23:24
by feeling it.
23:25
>> Speaker F: I knew that would come in handy.
23:27
>> Speaker B: Yes, it was very well done coming up with
23:30
basically a superpower predator.
23:32
>> Speaker F: Yes. It's really obscure, though, if you
23:35
think about it. It's really obscure.
23:37
>> Speaker B: This is one of the exact situation.
23:39
>> Speaker F: Like, if we were to. It's either this or, like, when it's like
23:42
the. Guess the weight of the pig. I was gonna say, like, at the
23:45
carnival.
23:46
>> Speaker B: I guess it takes you guys to the carnival.
23:54
>> Speaker F: What are you? What are you. What?
23:56
>> Speaker B: You get this guy out of here.
23:59
>> Speaker F: He's a witch. Fantastic.
24:01
>> Speaker B: Well, you successfully make it to the other side. Easy
24:03
peasy. And, everybody's there. And
24:06
you guys follow, tapique to the
24:09
next challenge, next trial, whatever you want to
24:12
call it. All right, the fourth trial. So,
24:15
after crossing the divide and arriving on the other side,
24:18
you all find yourselves, coming down kind of
24:21
a long tunnel. And you start to feel a breeze blowing through
24:24
this tunnel, leading to the next trial. And the deeper that
24:27
you go, the more intense the winds start to slam
24:30
into you, until the tunnel finally opens up
24:33
into a room with a stair, a nice, like, carved
24:36
staircase, at the end of it. But the wind is
24:38
shooting down the staircase, and it is so
24:41
incredibly intense to the point where it's keeping
24:44
you from even moving forward. You're
24:47
doing everything in your power not to be knocked
24:49
back. Your goal is to figure a way to get up the
24:52
stairs and into the tunnel, which kind of
24:55
curves off to the side of where the wind seems to be
24:58
stemming from. And guru tapik, amidst all
25:01
the wind.
25:01
>> Speaker C: He shouts out, you know, it's not
25:04
always like this. This isn't even one of the
25:07
trials. You guys just picked a windy day to stop
25:09
by. If you want to wait a day or two
25:12
for this wind to subside, you're more than
25:15
welcome to, but I have a feeling you don't have the
25:18
kind of time. Unfortunately.
25:20
>> Speaker F: Indeed we are.
25:24
All right.
25:24
>> Speaker B: We will go forward with the idea that
25:27
everybody is shouting over the wind without us having to
25:30
shout.
25:31
>> Speaker F: What'd you say?
25:35
>> Speaker E: I couldn't hear you. Could you repeat
25:37
everything you said?
25:41
>> Speaker D: Can I just, like, freeze the air?
25:43
>> Speaker B: Freeze the air.
25:44
>> Speaker D: I don't know. We live in an area
25:47
where the wind hurts your face. That's true.
25:50
>> Speaker B: So you're just like, I want to cause pain to my phone.
25:53
>> Speaker F: Oh, shit.
25:55
>> Speaker B: I would say that the constant, like, movement of air would
25:57
probably dry out the air a lot more. So
26:00
there's not as much moisture even to work with right now.
26:04
>> Speaker D: Where's the air coming from?
26:05
>> Speaker B: So, at the top of the stairs, there's, there's the main tunnel that
26:08
kind of goes off to the left, and then there's just kind of like one
26:11
singular opening. And that seems to be where the wind is,
26:14
like, coming down into it's hitting this
26:16
tunnel and then following it down through the tunnel.
26:18
>> Speaker D: So one of our earth vendor bros can
26:21
just, we plug it up?
26:23
>> Speaker B: Yeah, may be able to.
26:24
>> Speaker F: How far away is it?
26:25
>> Speaker B: It's maybe like ten to 15ft away.
26:29
>> Speaker D: Just roll a stone in front of it.
26:31
>> Speaker F: Child's play.
26:32
>> Speaker B: All right.
26:33
>> Speaker F: Child's play. Play, right. Well,
26:37
yeah.
26:39
All right. So if it's like 1015ft away,
26:43
what kind of earth is around us right now that I could
26:46
use to plug this up?
26:47
>> Speaker B: well, it's inside this mountain.
26:49
>> Speaker F: Oh, so it's like all earth?
26:50
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
26:51
>> Speaker F: Okay, so could I. I'm,
26:54
gonna roll to
26:57
just rip out a hunk of stone
27:00
and just
27:03
whack it over into this hole and plug it
27:06
up in an attempt to stop this ramp.
27:08
>> Speaker B: Oh, okay. yeah. that one's definitely rely on
27:11
your skills and training.
27:12
>> Speaker F: That's with focus.
27:13
>> Speaker B: Yep.
27:13
>> Speaker F: Okay.
27:16
Six.
27:17
>> Speaker B: Six.
27:17
>> Speaker F: Oh, man.
27:19
>> Speaker B: That is a fail. Okay, so you go
27:22
to punch this chunk of rock
27:24
towards this opening and hopefully seal it up, and instead
27:27
you punch it. It goes, you feel like you punched it with all your
27:30
might.
27:30
>> Speaker F: Possible.
27:31
>> Speaker B: It goes a couple of feet, and then it just kind of seems
27:34
to stand still in the air for half a second before
27:37
being launched back at you guys and you narrowly dodge
27:40
out of the way.
27:42
>> Speaker F: Well, that's about all I can do. Anyone else got any? What are these
27:45
stairs made out of?
27:46
>> Speaker D: Whoa, bro, your turn.
27:48
>> Speaker F: is there any handholds in the stairs? Like, are they
27:51
roughly made or are they made with.
27:53
>> Speaker B: They're made pretty, like, nicely.
27:55
>> Speaker F: Honestly, they're pretty smooth.
27:57
>> Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I m mean, you guys aren't even quite at,
28:00
like, there's maybe like a five foot section before you get to the
28:03
stairs. And then the stairs go up, probably another 5ft, and
28:06
then that's where the tunnel kind of breaks away from where the
28:09
wind is coming from.
28:10
>> Speaker E: Stairs are smooth as Guo's
28:12
cheeks.
28:14
>> Speaker B: Good to know. Interesting character fact.
28:18
You did the same thing last episode where you said
28:20
something interesting about
28:22
Gon,
28:25
your character back.
28:27
>> Speaker E: Guo, seeing that there are no hand
28:30
or footholds, is going to try to make some.
28:33
>> Speaker B: Okay.
28:34
>> Speaker E: As he goes, he's going to try to, like, make
28:37
an end in the stairs to, like, a toehold.
28:40
>> Speaker F: Okay.
28:41
>> Speaker E: And then on. So just on one side of the
28:43
stairs, kind of. And then make handholds on the
28:46
side, on the wall.
28:48
>> Speaker B: Oh, okay. To kind of, like, pull on and so on.
28:50
>> Speaker E: Yeah.
28:50
>> Speaker F: Okay. Yeah.
28:51
>> Speaker B: Go for it. Do, do rely on your skills and training as well.
28:55
>> Speaker E: Got an eight.
28:57
>> Speaker B: Okay. So you do it imperfectly. So you start
29:00
to make your way up. You are sort of, with.
29:03
With earth bending powers, jamming your hands into the
29:06
wall. and as you start going, the wind
29:08
becomes, you know, slightly more and more intense, and
29:11
you start to feel your legs being kind of
29:14
lifted off the ground. you could
29:17
keep going, but you might have a
29:20
chance that you might get thrown backwards.
29:24
I'm going to have a push your luck after this. And if you
29:26
fail, I would say, if you
29:29
succeed, if you get a ten, you get a
29:32
full success, you'll make it. If you get
29:35
anything less than that, you take a
29:37
fatigue, and it's just a difference between whether you barely make it
29:40
or not.
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>> Speaker B: So if you get the seven to nine, you'll make it, but you take a
30:40
fatigue. If you
30:42
get anything less, you get thrown backwards and you take fatigue.
30:45
>> Speaker E: Guo's starting to be bullied by this.
30:48
>> Speaker B: Wind a little bit.
30:49
>> Speaker E: He looks back at
30:51
Bill just like, kind of for some
30:54
reassurance.
30:56
>> Speaker F: Bill goes, yeah. oh. Whoa. You seem
30:59
to be losing your foot in there. And he just kind of,
31:02
what is that voice? Oh, I don't know what
31:05
that voice. That's my pirate, my garden into me
31:08
scurvy.
31:08
>> Speaker E: Always from yelling over the wind.
31:11
>> Speaker F: Yeah, that's why I was trying to yell, but also
31:14
talk.
31:14
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
31:15
>> Speaker F: Oh, let me help you out there.
31:18
whoa. And, Bill's gonna grab what's in the air. His
31:21
feet are in the air? Yeah, he's starting to
31:24
grab his feet and just start shoving
31:27
him forward.
31:30
>> Speaker B: So you're gonna do help?
31:31
>> Speaker F: Yeah, I'm helping him by just basically stabilizing his
31:34
feet and, like, pushing them back down so, like, he can
31:37
be stable.
31:37
>> Speaker B: Oh, he's just putting him back on the good.
31:39
>> Speaker F: So you literally just shoving him back into the
31:42
ground.
31:43
>> Speaker B: All right, sounds good. So now you've got your feet back
31:45
basically on the ground. So you'll get a plus one on this
31:48
111.
31:50
>> Speaker E: Eleven.
31:52
>> Speaker B: Okay. So thanks to, Bill putting your feet
31:54
back on the ground, you start to press in, and the
31:57
stone itself kind of moves up behind your
32:00
feet, giving you kind of, like, little sections that you can hold on
32:03
to. And eventually you make it all the way to the
32:06
end, creating some holes in the wall and some sort
32:09
of footholds that someone might be able to use
32:11
behind you. Who m is next?
32:14
>> Speaker F: Oh, I'll follow him.
32:15
>> Speaker B: okay.
32:16
>> Speaker D: He's already there.
32:17
>> Speaker F: Yeah, I was already there. So I'm just gonna.
32:19
>> Speaker B: You just following after?
32:21
>> Speaker F: Yeah, I'm following him.
32:22
>> Speaker E: give me your stick.
32:24
>> Speaker B: Yeah, sure.
32:25
>> Speaker E: I reach around the corner, holding up.
32:27
>> Speaker F: I, like, push it up past him, like, under
32:30
his arm so you can just grab it while going. Yeah.
32:34
>> Speaker E: Like, I try to hang on to the stick and help you.
32:37
>> Speaker F: Oh, yeah. And I come up and he's a, he's a wind
32:40
blocker right now.
32:41
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
32:41
>> Speaker F: So it's easier for me to get up right now. So while
32:44
he's climbing up, I'm basically, like, putting my
32:47
shoulder into him and I'm, like, shoving
32:50
him forward because I won't have as much
32:53
resistance as long as I'm directly behind him. Yeah. Rather,
32:56
I'm shoving him,
32:59
I can hold.
33:00
>> Speaker B: Him up in front of me.
33:00
>> Speaker F: I don't, as long as he's holding on to stuff, he
33:03
just, I imagine in him, like, moving his hands
33:06
forward and, like, forming the wall around it to create, like, a
33:09
wall.
33:10
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
33:11
>> Speaker F: He's cramming a rock, climbing walls. And as he's going, I'm
33:14
basically shoving him up into the next spot so that he
33:17
can grab further ahead. Nice.
33:18
>> Speaker B: Nice. I like it. Okay, so, I'm gonna basically
33:21
consider you prepared because Guo essentially
33:24
prepared you with the grab
33:27
holds and so on and so forth. So you get plus one to
33:30
an appropriate roll. And you can do that after the
33:32
roll. it also allows you to avoid marking a
33:35
condition I don't think that's applicable sometimes. That applies to, like,
33:38
in combat situations.
33:40
>> Speaker F: So, do I have to roll or.
33:41
>> Speaker B: Yeah, do a, Let's do a push your luck.
33:43
>> Speaker F: Push my luck. Okay. nine.
33:46
>> Speaker B: Nine. Okay. I'm gonna give it to you, but because
33:49
you're not an earthbender and you can't shape it, I'm gonna say you take a
33:51
fatigue, in the process of getting to the other
33:54
side, just because it takes a lot more exertion in the
33:57
process.
33:58
>> Speaker F: Okay. Yikes. You're getting up there in fatigues, bud.
34:01
It's whatever.
34:02
>> Speaker B: All right. All right. Sounds good. who's next
34:05
between the last two of you?
34:07
>> Speaker F: So, what is Guo's in Bill's current
34:09
situation right now?
34:10
>> Speaker B: So they've basically gotten up the stairs and everything. They're
34:13
basically past where the wind is kind of shooting down.
34:16
>> Speaker F: You just follow us? Yeah. Can I just follow
34:19
that? Wouldn't it be better searched if I was in front of them because
34:22
I'm, like, a larger, stronger individual?
34:24
>> Speaker B: They already made it past. You were punching rocks,
34:27
and.
34:28
>> Speaker F: Whoa.
34:28
>> Speaker B: Was making, rock climbing.
34:31
>> Speaker F: Yeah. So, like, I might as well do the same thing Guo did.
34:33
>> Speaker B: All right.
34:34
>> Speaker F: Does. I mean, Mika, do you just want to, like, yoda
34:36
this situation and just.
34:38
>> Speaker B: Like, right on his bed?
34:39
>> Speaker F: Like, be it? Like, I would imagine if
34:42
Guo could do it, Brock should be able to do it. Cause
34:45
he's heavier. Okay. And he's.
34:48
I would imagine. Okay. Yeah.
34:49
>> Speaker B: No, I think that fits well with pushing your luck, since you're usually
34:52
stronger anyways and the sort of pathway
34:55
has already been made for you. But this is adding one extra
34:58
challenge that I would say pushes you to that point where
35:01
it's a little bit less, slightly less likely that you
35:04
might make it. All right.
35:05
>> Speaker F: So I'm rolling with push my luck.
35:07
>> Speaker B: Yes, sir.
35:07
>> Speaker F: That's with focus.
35:08
>> Speaker B: Yes, sir.
35:09
>> Speaker F: Seven.
35:10
>> Speaker B: Seven. Okay. So I'm going to say the same thing
35:13
as what Bill went through. So, between Mika on your
35:16
back and you trying to get, you start to
35:19
kind of feel a little bit tired by the end of this, the process, and
35:22
you end up. You do make it to the other side. With Mika
35:25
barely holding on, I like to think that she was, like, wrapped around
35:28
your neck and her feet were, like, flying back in the air as she was just
35:31
holding on for dear life. But, sure enough, you guys make it to the
35:34
other side safely.
35:35
>> Speaker F: Sick.
35:36
>> Speaker B: A little bit tired, though.
35:37
>> Speaker F: Do I got a mark of fatigue?
35:38
>> Speaker B: Yes, please. Worth it
35:41
to be able to Luke Skywalker some. A
35:44
yoda.
35:45
>> Speaker F: I wouldn't know how Mika would make it up otherwise. I was
35:48
just.
35:49
>> Speaker B: Yeah, that's how did the guru get up?
35:52
Oh yeah. So he, what he does is he places his
35:54
hands together he points them ahead of him and
35:57
then he pulls his
36:00
palm, palms out ever so slightly to
36:03
create kind of like this triangle shape. And he just
36:06
walks right through.
36:07
>> Speaker F: Why didn't we just ask him to do that in the first place? We just
36:10
followed him. Oh.
36:11
>> Speaker B: So the way that the air you can't see it.
36:14
It's not like in the cartoon where they obviously visualize it so
36:17
you can see it. But if you could see it the air sort of like
36:20
goes around him in like a perfect
36:23
curvature from where he's kind of got this
36:26
point that he's created. There is some airbending to
36:29
it obviously of him manipulating the wind to basically
36:31
go around him.
36:33
>> Speaker D: He's m like a boat in the water.
36:35
>> Speaker F: Yeah.
36:35
>> Speaker B: Ah, like a boat in the water. Which is funny that you say
36:38
that because as you guys walk into
36:41
the next room you see
36:44
instead of a giant cavern that just drops
36:47
down into darkness or lava instead you
36:50
see a wide cavern filled with
36:53
water and you can see in the
36:55
distance there's an opening. You can kind of see some light of
36:58
day out on that end and the water seems to kind of
37:01
drift through but ahead of you
37:04
oh you can kind of hear like a waterfall or something probably at the end of
37:07
it where it comes runs out of the mountain. But whatever the case
37:10
ahead of you across the water which is quite a ways,
37:13
it's like 100ft of water, you see
37:16
a an opening for
37:18
the next door. And this is the final trial.
37:21
This is something that he points out but he says I'm sure you.
37:24
>> Speaker C: Can guess that an airbender would have an easy time
37:27
putting some air in that sail making it across
37:30
the waters.
37:31
>> Speaker B: And he points over and there's like a little kind a of boat raft
37:34
or whatever you want to call it with a little sail on it.
37:36
>> Speaker C: But none of you are airbenders so that really
37:39
sucks for you guys. Anyways good
37:42
luck.
37:43
>> Speaker D: And something that you noticed, literally use a wave
37:46
to push us across the lake in the boat.
37:49
>> Speaker F: Sure.
37:49
>> Speaker B: You might be able to.
37:50
>> Speaker F: Yeah. Or could Brock just drop a giant rock behind us and
37:53
create more waves?
37:54
>> Speaker E: I just wanted to see again.
37:57
>> Speaker B: I just make this stuff and then I'm like I don't know whatever they come up
38:00
with.
38:00
>> Speaker D: Well I'm just saying to mister, oh.
38:02
>> Speaker B: You'Re talking to him. Okay so okay play the scene with
38:05
me.
38:06
>> Speaker D: Well can't I just like make a giant wave? Just
38:10
seems easy enough yeah, absolutely.
38:12
>> Speaker B: Yes.
38:12
>> Speaker C: I completely forgot. So, remember how
38:15
when you first arrived and you asked if this place
38:18
was haunted, and at first I said no, but then
38:21
I mentioned there was a flesh heating spirit.
38:23
>> Speaker B: Yes.
38:23
>> Speaker C: That we'd eventually get around to.
38:26
>> Speaker D: Yeah, sure.
38:27
>> Speaker F: Yeah, the ghost.
38:28
>> Speaker E: Yeah, I definitely slept super well.
38:33
>> Speaker C: This is where that spirit decides.
38:36
The spirit takes form of a massive eel named
38:39
Mole. Cursed to be
38:41
hungry. To be fair, all
38:44
of this is simply m.
38:49
>> Speaker E: Welcome to my world.
38:51
>> Speaker D: That's where I found my fox pup.
38:53
>> Speaker B: Oh, he's cursed.
38:55
>> Speaker C: I hadn't noticed him until just now.
38:57
>> Speaker D: he's been hiding in my skirt. You know, the wind
39:00
and cold air and
39:03
lava is kind of scary for a little dog.
39:05
>> Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
39:07
>> Speaker F: How long have you lived here, Mister Guru?
39:10
>> Speaker C: Many, many years.
39:12
>> Speaker F: And you have never once seen this
39:15
legendary eel monster?
39:16
>> Speaker C: I have always just floated over the water.
39:19
So, no, I've never seen the alleged
39:22
eel spirit.
39:24
M. Well, the interesting thing about
39:28
eels is they can sense movement within the
39:30
water. Just part of how they hunt their prey.
39:33
>> Speaker D: So you're saying don't create a giant
39:36
wave.
39:37
>> Speaker F: So, Mister Guru, could
39:39
you help us with this boat and push the
39:42
sales?
39:43
>> Speaker D: He's literally said he cannot help us with the
39:45
trial. Where are your ears?
39:48
>> Speaker F: I don't know.
39:49
>> Speaker C: Your friend is right. I'm not really supposed
39:52
to help.
39:53
>> Speaker F: I'm thinking about mud right now.
39:55
>> Speaker E: You're probably packed full of dirt.
39:57
>> Speaker F: Probably.
39:59
>> Speaker E: I mean, he hasn't. What day of the week is it?
40:02
>> Speaker F: I don't even know, man.
40:04
>> Speaker B: Your friends.
40:08
>> Speaker E: It's been a while since his shower.
40:10
>> Speaker F: Yeah, it's Wednesday.
40:13
>> Speaker B: If you guys had the funeral on Sunday, then it would
40:15
be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, about
40:18
Thursday.
40:19
>> Speaker F: So even if we get in this
40:22
boat and don't make waves, the movement of the
40:25
boat still gonna ripple the water.
40:27
>> Speaker D: Yeah, but so would his air. Filling the sails,
40:29
pushing the water.
40:31
>> Speaker F: But I'm just saying, like, regardless,
40:33
if this eel guy shows up,
40:36
you can just punch him.
40:38
>> Speaker B: I mean.
40:38
>> Speaker F: Yeah, but like.
40:42
>> Speaker B: How far do we gotta go? It's like
40:45
100ft.
40:46
>> Speaker F: Is there an air filled balloon
40:49
nearby?
40:51
>> Speaker B: Good luck getting that balloon all the way up. Through.
40:54
Up, here? Yeah, through the wind room. M.
40:57
What about a trebuchet?
41:01
>> Speaker E: Well, we can't fill the sail
41:04
with wind, so. Brock, it's
41:06
obvious. You need to fill it with
41:09
rocks. Just throw some rocks at the
41:12
sail.
41:13
>> Speaker D: Do not do that.
41:14
>> Speaker E: I want to see him do it.
41:16
>> Speaker B: I.
41:16
>> Speaker F: That's a brilliant idea.
41:20
That's funny.
41:22
>> Speaker B: What?
41:25
>> Speaker D: Hey, guys.
41:25
>> Speaker D: I need. I need to converse with my fellow
41:28
brethren about, my sad feelings
41:30
about Mister Okub.
41:33
>> Speaker F: What are you just
41:36
saying?
41:36
>> Speaker D: You need. I need a moment alone. with the guys.
41:38
>> Speaker F: Just us, mister.
41:39
>> Speaker C: Oh. Oh, yes, of course.
41:42
>> Speaker B: He walks. He just goes back to the wind
41:44
tunnel, I guess. Okay, guys,
41:47
that was a weird way.
41:48
>> Speaker F: Of saying, are we kidnapping the guru and forcing him to.
41:51
Why do you want. Because it's
41:53
easy.
41:55
>> Speaker D: This is the third room using his
41:58
wind powers.
41:59
>> Speaker F: How do we trick him to do that?
42:01
>> Speaker D: Air powers.
42:02
>> Speaker F: He's lazy.
42:03
>> Speaker D: What if he's not lazy?
42:05
>> Speaker F: He's only used his power.
42:06
>> Speaker D: Only asking us. We just need to figure out a.
42:09
>> Speaker F: Way I could wave my stick
42:12
really fast.
42:15
>> Speaker D: He always has a way of saying saving, us.
42:18
Yeah, yeah. So
42:22
one of you guys can just use, you know, dumb
42:25
plans and then.
42:26
>> Speaker F: Hey Brock. Don't plan, Brock. How you
42:29
go swimming?
42:30
>> Speaker D: Do not know.
42:32
>> Speaker F: But what I can do. I can make catapult. I
42:35
can make a catapult. I can make it
42:37
like what I used to launch the hot lead.
42:40
>> Speaker B: Oh, way to use trial number three to be get
42:43
through. Trial number five.
42:47
>> Speaker F: How do you know so much about
42:50
engineering weaponry? Well, funny
42:52
thing, he's like sokka.
42:55
>> Speaker B: I think that like good at fighting. Well,
42:58
you struggled a little bit.
43:00
>> Speaker F: I think that was more of a dig at my year in
43:02
engineering school. Oh, it
43:05
wasn't but yeah, that's funny. I thought
43:08
I could have been an engineer. Yeah. you wouldn't want me building your
43:11
bridges. speaking. Can we build a bridge? Can we just do
43:14
that? This again. 100ft bridge.
43:17
Can you do that? You struggled to make a two foot
43:20
bridge. You struggled to make any.
43:24
I can make wind with my stick.
43:26
>> Speaker D: How about I just make little waves in the water and see
43:29
how much water needs, to affect
43:32
the eel spoon.
43:33
>> Speaker F: I could just like skip rocks and do the same thing.
43:36
I could.
43:39
>> Speaker D: If I want to water bend the sailboat to
43:42
get us to the other side. That just seems
43:45
most easiest. Instead of just like
43:47
purposefully the water.
43:49
>> Speaker F: What if we got in the boat and then you did a giant
43:52
wave to push us across but while we were doing that on
43:55
the opposite side of the
43:58
river. Lake. Whatever. we just started dropping a bunch of
44:01
rocks and so the eel would
44:04
go over there.
44:05
>> Speaker D: He doesn't know where to go.
44:07
>> Speaker F: Yeah, like a dune.
44:09
>> Speaker D: But what if that backfires and he still comes
44:13
towards us?
44:14
>> Speaker E: Guo hops into the boat and starts
44:17
looking for a hat.
44:21
>> Speaker B: There's like one of them. One of them will like airbender
44:24
almost like. I don't want to say yarmulkes. Almost
44:27
similar. Yeah, kind of a fez.
44:30
Somewhere between us. It's like a short fez.
44:35
>> Speaker D: Wait, so are we not gonna try and
44:38
trick Mister Uru guru?
44:40
>> Speaker F: Guru? I mean, that could be a plan b. I think
44:43
we go with my genius plan.
44:45
>> Speaker B: Which one?
44:46
>> Speaker F: The kidnapping.
44:46
>> Speaker D: I'm a hardcore.
44:47
>> Speaker F: Well, so we can call kidnapping plan plan
44:50
C. Okay, plan C. Got it. I don't know. what are y'all's
44:53
thoughts?
44:54
>> Speaker D: I think I just. Let's just. Waterbend.
44:56
>> Speaker F: I think glove's got a sick hat on right now.
44:59
>> Speaker E: I'm sorry. I will only be addressed as captain.
45:02
>> Speaker F: Glow this again. Huh?
45:05
>> Speaker E: hey, there's a boat. Every boat needs a
45:08
captain. And I got the
45:10
hat.
45:11
>> Speaker F: He's got the hat. But if the ship goes down, so does. I'm
45:14
not listening to you, Brock. You're not the captain. Sorry,
45:17
mister.
45:17
>> Speaker D: Captain, whose plan do you want to go with?
45:19
>> Speaker F: Yeah, which plan do you want to go with? Oh, captain. Captain.
45:22
>> Speaker E: So many options.
45:24
>> Speaker F: Yeah, a lot of good options. What do you mean?
45:26
>> Speaker D: Tell you.
45:27
>> Speaker F: Some are way better.
45:28
>> Speaker E: So many options.
45:29
>> Speaker F: The one bad option is the kidnapping. No, that's a great
45:32
option. You moved it to sea. It's not that
45:35
good.
45:35
>> Speaker E: I think Micah just needs to try to push
45:38
us along with her waves.
45:40
>> Speaker F: Yeah, and then you guys drop
45:43
rocks. Works of me.
45:45
>> Speaker D: M.
45:48
>> Speaker E: Yeah, if we notice any, I'm.
45:50
>> Speaker D: Gonna start out with, slow,
45:53
low waves. And if.
45:54
>> Speaker E: Mister, we should
45:57
probably get the guru back in here before we
46:00
leave.
46:03
>> Speaker D: I'll go fast. Strong way.
46:05
>> Speaker B: Okay. I hop in the boat?
46:07
>> Speaker F: Yeah, sounds good. I'll, hop in the boat, too.
46:10
>> Speaker E: All, ah, hands on deck.
46:12
>> Speaker F: Okay, mister Guru.
46:14
>> Speaker B: And all of a sudden, guru to
46:16
peek. He peeks around the corner and he just gives you guys,
46:19
like, a thumbs up. Like, are you guys.
46:22
>> Speaker D: I'm gonna wipe my eyes a little bit. You know, just
46:24
really sell the part of, me talking about my feelings.
46:29
>> Speaker B: And he comes walking out real confident, and he just says,
46:32
well, I.
46:32
>> Speaker C: Sure hope you guys don't wake that spirit.
46:35
I'm pretty sure I don't stand a chance against a
46:38
spirit monster.
46:41
>> Speaker F: That's not foreshadowing anything at all,
46:44
mister Tuppe.
46:47
I wonder what's going to happen.
46:51
>> Speaker B: All right, so you guys are all in the boat. All hands are on
46:54
deck. Captain guo, I assume, takes the.
46:57
The front.
46:59
>> Speaker E: Yeah, the bow.
47:01
>> Speaker B: Mast, whatever it is.
47:03
>> Speaker F: Bow.
47:03
>> Speaker B: Bow of the ship. All right. Perfect. And,
47:06
Mika begins to make some. Some soft,
47:09
waves.
47:10
>> Speaker D: Mika, I'm gonna have without the thumb clicking.
47:13
>> Speaker B: Without the freaky double
47:16
jointed thumb clicking. Eo.
47:17
>> Speaker E: Calling thumb click.
47:18
>> Speaker B: Yes.
47:19
>> Speaker D: That only happens with my secret
47:21
mood.
47:22
>> Speaker B: Secret move. All right, perfect. So, I'm gonna have you do rely on your skills
47:25
and training, since this is something that you are
47:28
obviously pretty well adept to, is moving
47:30
water really.
47:34
>> Speaker D: Well. I got a five.
47:36
>> Speaker B: So, what's your good job? Excess
47:39
at the cost of a fatigue.
47:40
>> Speaker D: Absolutely.
47:42
>> Speaker B: Okay. So what we could do is what I.
47:45
Here's what I'll give you.
47:46
>> Speaker D: Reroll. Thanks.
47:48
>> Speaker B: I won't give you a reroll, but I'll make it a
47:51
soft success by saying that you could take the
47:54
fatigue and add your balance, add your
47:56
principal, which is what, right now?
47:59
>> Speaker D: Survival.
47:59
>> Speaker B: Survival. Okay.
48:00
>> Speaker F: Yep.
48:00
>> Speaker B: That fits. and then, because your friends are all kind of
48:03
taking position in the boat, and they're kind of maintaining
48:06
a balance as far as the boat goes,
48:09
I'll consider that, prepared. everybody
48:12
is prepared, and so that would be a plus one. That would make it a soft
48:15
success. So, with a rely on your skills and training,
48:18
on a seven to nine, you do it imperfectly. Okay,
48:22
so I hate this.
48:25
You can accept the consequences, or you can mark the
48:28
fatigue to, not accept the consequences, but
48:31
essentially, you're pulling,
48:33
and maybe the fear is kind of welling up inside of you,
48:36
kind of the nervousness of the situation, intensity of the
48:39
possibility. You've seen spirits. You yourself
48:42
are pretty much one of the only ones in the group.
48:45
Actually, Guo has seen them. But, aside from Guo,
48:48
you're the only one that's seen a spirit in real life, and you know
48:51
how powerful or kind of unexpected
48:54
they can be. And so you're pretty nervous, pretty scared as you
48:57
start to pull this water. And that fear causes you to go
49:00
a little bit more intense than you'd want to, and the waves start
49:03
to kick up a little bit harder as you move the
49:05
boat a little faster. But
49:08
you know that you're kicking up more water than what you'd like
49:11
to. So you can do that, or you
49:13
can cut the water,
49:16
like, just kind of pull away from the whole
49:19
thing, be like, whoa, it's too
49:22
much. What direction would you like to go?
49:24
>> Speaker D: Well, what happens when I get to all, fatigues?
49:27
Well, I would only be at four. I'm not at five. I just want to
49:30
know if I want to risk the extra fatigue or not.
49:33
>> Speaker F: Right.
49:33
>> Speaker D: Would it be wise?
49:34
>> Speaker B: Basically, once you have five fatigue, that's
49:37
fine. But if the game ever
49:39
tells you that you can either mark fatigue or take something
49:42
else, you have to take something else,
49:45
which would be conditions.
49:48
And then once you filled out all those
49:51
statuses, then you're knocked
49:54
out, I guess just stop.
49:57
Okay. So you stop and the boat comes to
50:00
a, stop as well. You guys are kind of, let's say you guys got to about maybe
50:03
25 or so feet and there's no
50:05
wind, there's no nothing. There's no moving in the water at this
50:08
point. Once you stop pulling the water,
50:11
everything is just still. As you guys sit there
50:14
in the boat, it creaks ever so slightly.
50:16
As you guys look into sort of the greenish
50:19
haze, water below you.
50:22
Nothing has appeared. But you guys are currently
50:25
amidst the doldrum that is this
50:27
lake in the middle of a giant cave.
50:30
>> Speaker F: Are there any paddles on this boat?
50:32
>> Speaker B: Paddles?
50:32
>> Speaker F: Yeah.
50:33
>> Speaker B: I would say yes.
50:35
>> Speaker F: Okay. I grab a sense. I grab a paddle.
50:37
>> Speaker B: Okay.
50:38
>> Speaker F: Yeah, get paddling.
50:42
Okay.
50:42
>> Speaker B: Just stick it in the way. If one person paddles, it
50:45
doesn't do much.
50:46
>> Speaker D: Nothing. You're just observing the water for no reason.
50:49
>> Speaker F: I paddle on my side, I'll paddle, I guess. And I run
50:52
to the other side. And I paddle on that side. Okay.
50:55
I run back to the other side. Paddle on that side. Well.
50:58
>> Speaker B: And then Mika picks up a paddle and then she takes over one
51:00
side.
51:06
And then you guys start to, Are you slowly
51:08
paddling or I just paddling.
51:10
>> Speaker D: Just paddling it up like an average pace.
51:12
>> Speaker F: Well, they're in the water. Okay. We're not going anywhere.
51:15
Quick, how far did we make it?
51:17
>> Speaker B: You guys are about 2020, 5ft.
51:20
>> Speaker F: And then they really, really good with a stick. The paddle
51:23
is like a flat stick. Okay. Okay.
51:26
So I paddle.
51:27
>> Speaker B: Yeah, you guys start to push forward ever so
51:30
slightly. It's slow progress for sure. and
51:33
every time you stick the paddle into the water, are you, are
51:35
you being cautious is my question. Or just kind of slapping
51:39
it in.
51:39
>> Speaker F: There like I'm not racing anyone.
51:41
>> Speaker B: Dip it into the water
51:43
slowly. Push.
51:45
>> Speaker D: We know the gravity of the situation. Yeah, we're not
51:48
trying to be mainy.
51:49
>> Speaker B: I just want to double check. Some people are like, yeah, just give.
51:52
>> Speaker F: Me a dang or, yeah, let's just kidnap him. You know,
51:55
it's a great idea.
51:57
>> Speaker B: And over the next probably 1015
52:00
minutes, you guys finally reach the other
52:03
side. And waiting there for you is guru Tapik.
52:05
>> Speaker C: And he says, well, patience, it's a
52:08
virtue.
52:09
>> Speaker F: Cool. Hop out.
52:13
Thanks for the help, bud.
52:14
>> Speaker C: And virtue needs to reward.
52:17
>> Speaker F: Hey, Guo, you know, once we leave the ship.
52:19
>> Speaker E: Oh, go was taking a nap up in the back.
52:24
Are we there?
52:26
>> Speaker D: Good work, crew Captain Mike.
52:29
>> Speaker B: That's one of those power naps. That people say are really good to kind of get
52:32
you going again. Yes.
52:34
>> Speaker E: Guo said his, his internal nap
52:37
clock actually didn't know
52:40
how long to set it, so he was, he was asleep until we
52:43
hit the other shore.
52:44
>> Speaker B: Sure. Do you keep the hat or do.
52:46
>> Speaker F: You leave the captain Gaude's behind?
52:49
>> Speaker E: No, I mean, he would, he would keep the cap.
52:53
>> Speaker D: It's become, you know, one
52:56
there.
52:58
>> Speaker B: It's kind of like, like I said, just kind of like a shorter
53:02
kind of. Yeah. So it's just a shorter version.
53:05
>> Speaker F: Like what a boo wears Abu ah. And
53:07
Aladdin.
53:12
where is like a mini fez on the back of his head.
53:14
But for him, compared to his head, but compared to his head,
53:17
it's still like mini.
53:19
>> Speaker B: Well, so it's like the same width or
53:21
diameter or whatever. It just, it's just
53:24
short. and it kind of like, there's
53:26
a little bit excess, fabric that kind of helps hold
53:29
it onto your head. I actually always been curious about that. Like, how
53:32
do they stay, stay on there unless you
53:35
have, like, little years.
53:37
>> Speaker F: Of practice, I guess. So.
53:38
>> Speaker B: It's quite a balancing act. but whatever the case, yeah, you
53:41
guys are on the other side, and guru tupiq
53:44
leads you to the final room. And,
53:47
it's sort of like an ornate door, kind of like you see in avatar, the last
53:50
airbender, where, you know, he has to, like,
53:53
blow into, you know, airbend into some of the, like
53:55
different, like, tubes and stuff. And then once he is able
53:58
to get all the tubes and the air is running through,
54:01
the door starts to open. And as it
54:04
does, you guys look inside this
54:06
room and it's a big, wide
54:09
open chamber. There's some pedestals that kind of stick
54:12
out from the ground. On each of the pedestals, there's
54:15
different items, most of which are, relics of
54:18
the Air nation and the air nomads that, you know,
54:21
special items. leaning against one of them is one of those air
54:24
gliders. There's some other obscure items,
54:27
and in the center, around
54:30
the middle pedestal
54:33
is Madame Yang,
54:36
or Hotly Fool's employee.
54:38
>> Speaker D: And this is where episode four ends.
54:49
>> Speaker A: Hey, everyone. Skylar, the game master for benders and
54:52
brews and the creative director over at session Zero Heroes
54:55
here.
54:55
>> Speaker B: I just wanted to give you a.
54:56
>> Speaker A: Quick outro before you head over to the next episode or call it
54:59
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guys share it with people that you know will enjoy it and
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then they can join in the community that we're creating that would make
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you a session zero hero yourself. And
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additionally, wed love to have you.
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>> Speaker B: Stop by on one of our various.
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>> Speaker A: Social platforms and interact with the channel. There you can
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find session zero heroes on Facebook, X, Instagram
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and Discord. We post all sorts of updates, clips,
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and even the occasional behind the scenes look at what were up
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to. And if youre ever looking for information on
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SZH or you dont use a podcast streaming
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site but you want to listen to our shows, you can do so by
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checking out our website at session zeroheroes.com. And while
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youre there, you can find out about the cast and the crew that make our
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show and provide the players voices in all of our various
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series. And if you're feeling especially
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cheeky, you can check out our merch store where
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we have a ton of designs and products to choose from,
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all of which help us pay the bills and keep the lights
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on. So once again, thank you all so much for listening. And
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remember to stay curious, stay heroic until we
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roll again.