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Benders & Brews - Episode 8 - Boys’ Night! · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

• 0:03
  Jasmine, oolong, green and white.
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  Long ago, these four tees were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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  Then, everything changed when the shop's popularity threatened its existence.
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  All Mr.
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  Okran, the shop's owner and teammaster, could do was to recruit four teenage orphans to learn his trade and staff his shop.
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  A year has passed since the orphans were hired, and although their skills have progressed, they still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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  But I believe that they have the potential to make the Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the world.
• 0:41
  Last time on Benders and Brews an Avatar Legends Podcast we've got two individuals, Bill and Guo, who are both helping Mr.
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  Okran set up.
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  On the other hand, we have Rock and Mika, who have disguised themselves like members of the hot leaf juice.
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  Or take a banana.
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  You and you, I need you to go with Cove all into town and bring me back some very important tea ingredients.
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  He has a list.
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  She points at me.
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  Yes, I'm going to drop my banana peel on it, and then I'm going to be very dramatic and falling in hopes that I knock some of their tea glasses over.
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  Yep, sure enough, you come crashing down, knocking down a pretty pefty handful of cups.
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  One more slip up like that, and you're fired.
• 1:27
  Now get out there and get me those ingredients.
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  I'm going to turn to the guy who has lists, and I'm going to say, why don't we divide up things on the list so we can get more work done faster? He kind of just tears the list in half and then hands you guys one half.
• 1:42
  I take it.
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  See, I remember everyone getting into the cart back in Boston, say, and I don't remember seeing you.
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  And then he takes up a fighting stance.
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  You better give me that paper.
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  And then scram.
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  And so you use your sweat and you subtly bend it underneath you to make a puddle of mud, and you slap that paper into the mud and run away.
• 2:02
  Over at the Blissful, Bruce Stand, if you could come with me, we are having the opening ceremony.
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  He has a few words he'd like to say, and thanks to everyone that has made this party possible.
• 2:14
  Sure, I'll go ahead.
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  I'll stay and defend this thing.
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  All right.
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  Welcome, one and all, to the annual summer bash.
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  Do you want to come up on stage with me? Yes.
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  We have a much more quaint tea shop, mr.
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  Okuron's Blissful Groove.
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  I, like trying to raise my fist.
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  People got to dig the energy.
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  They're like, okay, the plot kind of grows just a little bit.
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  As many of you know, I am an avid mask collector.
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  So as a special event tonight, take yourself a mask and put it on.
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  The game will play like this.
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  It is your duty to determine those behind their masks.
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  The only one mask member remains that individual be pronounced the winner and take home a nice bag of 250.
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  There's a table set up, a whole bunch of spirit masks.
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  Obviously miss the one.
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  I am going to go into some of the rooms of the house looking for a different piece of clothing.
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  And welcome back to Benders and Brews and Avatar Legends.
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  Actual play Podcast, where we actually play Avatar Legends.
• 3:22
  Ironically, last week last episode rather, we didn't have Connor, aka Broccoli, with us.
• 3:28
  This week, we have Connor, aka Broccoli with us.
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  What's up? But we do not have Michaela, aka Mica with us.
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  But that's okay.
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  Mika did a lot last episode.
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  And so we're going to give her a little bit of a break, and we'll check back in with the three bros, the three boys of the group, or men.
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  I don't know, wherever it's going to be an episode of Guys Being Dudes.
• 4:01
  Welcome back to another episode of Guys Being Dudes.
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  Shaw.
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  Dude Shaw.
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  We've got surfer dude.
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  We've got I don't know, what would that be, David? What is that? Pizza delivery board.
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  Yeah, got your pizza.
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  And then whatever Cameron's version of a dude is.
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  Jeez, bro.
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  Anxious dude.
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  Cool.
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  The one that's always like, we should be doing this, guys, I'm hungry.
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  I need some snacks.
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  All right, perfect.
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  So we're jumping into things right off the bat.
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  Before we do, though, I just want to remind everybody that you can obviously find this podcast.
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• 5:05
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• 5:06
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  Just throwing that one out there before we just jump right in.
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  Drama.
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  loop.
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  Okay, so to start us off, we are going to asking you guys your character question for the day.
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  Today's question is, what does your character want to grow up to be? Whether that be a job or some other dream, aspiration whatever you want to call it, career, hobby.
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  But whatever the case, what do you want to be when you grow up? Cameron, do you want to start us off with Bill Doors? Sure, I guess.
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  Bill Door wants to be like his dad.
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  That's his goal.
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  His dad is an engineer and he's highly regarded in his community, and his dad is always a protector of the family.
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  And those are the three qualities, job quality and respect that Bill Door wants.
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  Right on.
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  Learn a little bit about Bill Door today in this boy's night and this boys night.
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  Boys nights for feelings and sharing.
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  Dave A-K-A GuoHan.
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  Guaujan GuoHan also wants to be similar to Bill Door dad.
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  No, just kidding.
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  But he secretly does want to be a dad, not like in the near future.
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  But he looks at these father figures and he looks back on his life so far, and he wishes that he could be that person for somebody, somebody to take care of them, somebody to watch out for him, to provide for them, to be that support.
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  But it's kind of secretly because he doesn't really think he can do it.
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  He wants to step up and be what he never had.
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  But he scared maybe the past and the influence that had on him might be too much for him to push past.
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  Right.
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  Doesn't know if he can rise above.
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  Wow.
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  emotional.
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  Sizing.
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  All right, Connor, just bring us home.
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  I don't got any emotional thing, I think, for Broccoli.
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  I feel that even though the Earth Rumble career, which we might be getting into in some episodes coming up stay tuned.
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  That's right.
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  The Earth Rumble career started out for only providing for his family with some extra money.
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  I think he's really taking a liking to it.
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  So I think he wants to sort of overtake the league, so to speak.
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  Okay.
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  Be the best in the nation from the Rumble.
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  There you go.
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  I like it.
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  That's right.
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  Yeah.
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  We're going to get emotional and we're going to get sentimental.
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  Wrestle.
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  We're going to wrestle.
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  Afterwards, we're going to smash each other with you.
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  Like a proper Boyd night sleepover.
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  I think we've already figured out the title for this episode.
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  Perfect.
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  That saves me a lot of thinking.
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  If it were to come down to me as the DM, my goal is to I'm going to be the very best, the best that ever was.
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  Catching them will be my real testing.
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  Training them will be my cause.
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  Is that in Avatar again? I've only seen the movie.
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  Why do you have to ruin it? Why have you ruined boys night? This is when everyone pulse new pillows.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, with that being said, and with us knowing a little bit more about everybody's character, let's jump into geronimo.
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  Last time, we found ourselves at the start of the big party that we've been kind of looking into and waiting for and leading up to pretty much this whole time.
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  So the party has begun, things have started.
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  Guests have arrived.
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  Guests have been getting tea, no less, which is obviously a key importance to all of this.
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  We have quo and bill are hanging out with Mr.
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  O'Rourke, trying to keep things tip top into the utmost quality.
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  Over at the Blissful Brew booth, on the other hand, you have Mika, who's nobody's really for sure where Mika is, but she's somewhere out there doing her Roguish thing around the party.
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  And then we have good old Brock Lee just hanging out in disguise.
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  Undercover.
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  There's another word I'm blanking on, but it's basically just incognito.
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  Incognito over at Hot Leaf Juice booth, posing us as one of their many employees, and that's where we're actually going to pick things off.
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  So, Brock, when last episode, we didn't have these.
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  So what was Brock Lee doing at the time when everybody else was kind of getting everything ready and finishing putting those final touches on, setting up? So last I recall, I traits Hot Leaf Juice and their company While they were all setting up, I was able to secure a couple of crates full of tea and cups and whatnot, and if I remember correctly, I catapulted them into the maze that's right in the backyard.
• 12:07
  And from there, I believe I just tried to go on and blend in.
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  Can I ask, is the party fully started right now? Well, I was going to give you an opportunity.
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  If there was anything that you wanted to do in the short in between before the party fully got kicked into place, there's anything you wanted to do? If not, if you were just keeping your head down and laying low until opportunity arose, that's totally fine.
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  I think I will do that.
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  I'll try and lay low until I'm able to sort of sabotage them again.
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  Sure.
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  All right.
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  Well, then let's just jump right in.
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  The party is in full swing at this point.
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  They have held the opening ceremony, which you would have seen go down during the opening ceremony.
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  The owner of the house, Mr.
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  Yotaku, he presented a game to the people that were in attendance.
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  This is sort of a masquerade game where everybody changed into a new outfit and put on a mask.
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  And there's a monetary prize going out to whoever can sort of be the last mask standing.
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  As they go about the party, they can try to guess and say, hey, I think you're so and so.
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  And if they get it right, the person has to take their mask off.
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  If they get it wrong, they have to take their own mask off.
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  So it's a very difficult game of clever determining and deduction.
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  And you knowing that you were helping with the boot, that wasn't the most interesting thing ever.
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  It was kind of intriguing, but you were like, Well, I'm not participating, so who cares? But the thing that was kind of neat was you watched during the opening ceremony.
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  You got to see Mr.
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  Ocaron and Guo went up on stage as he was kind of the owner of the house.
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  Mr.
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  Yuki was kind of having each of the caterers come up, giving everybody that was in attendance kind of a brief description of what it is that they serve.
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  So that way they knew if I go up to their booth, what am I looking at here? Nobody likes to go to those parties, and they see something fancy and they grab it and they go to take a bite.
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  It's like something really weird, like it looked like cheese, but it turned out to be like this weird flavored tofu it's.
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  Kind of a courtesy to let everybody know what it is.
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  Yeah, like when you're six years old and you think there's ice cream in the middle of the table, and you take a big spoonful and it was just a ball of butter the whole time, when they scoop it just right, it does kind of look like ice cream.
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  I've seen that happen before.
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  May or not be based on a real life event.
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  The secrets that come out during boys night.
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  Yeah, but anyway, so you got to see them go up on stage.
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  Glow did this a little bit while he was up there.
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  We kind of raised his fist and sort of almost victory symbol, and it got the crowd kind of excited.
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  There was some energy to it, so they were feeling it.
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  They're excited to be at this party, so they went right along with it.
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  And it was kind of cool to see that.
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  But otherwise you're back to work at the Hot Leaf juice booth, and things are heated right now at the Hot Leaf Juice booth.
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  Oh, yes.
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  Madame Yang is pacing back and forth.
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  She's actually wearing a mask.
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  But you know who she is.
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  I don't know if I've ever canonically met Madame Yang.
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  I think you saw her from a distance approaching when she was getting out of the Hot Leaf juice cart.
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  When they first approached, mika was outside, tried to drop water on them.
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  You were out there as we were heading out to the cart.
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  So you would have at least seen her.
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  But to be honest with you, a lot of things give her away.
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  Between her hairstyle, her height, her very just kind of intimidating, imposing figure, you almost wonder if she's just wearing the mask more for fun.
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  Like everybody knows she is, and she's just trying to kind of, like, play along with the whole game and stuff like that.
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  So you're not sure if she's really participating per se, but you also know because she's been yelling at all of the employees pretty intensely for the last since the party started, basically, she's very frustrated about missing ingredients.
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  Some employees, actually, she had sent out to go get ingredients came back.
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  They only came back with half of what she needed.
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  She's pretty upset with them about that.
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  In turn, they're upset, so they're kind of like, beaten down on everybody else because they're in trouble.
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  And you always kind of want to pass the blame to the next person.
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  Things along those lines.
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  So there's that going on.
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  Everybody's really stressed out, and you're kind of in the middle of this, where you're in an interesting position of I'm glad to see that everybody's stressed out, but it is kind of annoying to have people yelling at me.
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  Yeah.
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  Tell me about what are you up to right now? Which job position are you kind of holding right now within the business plan? I got a couple of ideas of what I could be doing, but it's sort of depends on what the layout of this hot leaf juice booth is.
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  So for now, I'm just trying to blend in, pick a job that seems like it needs to be filled and keep my head down as of right now.
• 17:19
  But I would like to know how hot leaf juice operates with their tea.
• 17:26
  Do they wait to pour it until somebody orders it, or is it sort of like there's tea on the table already poured in their cups, and people will just walk up and grab it? Right.
• 17:36
  Well, it's funny you say that.
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  You said you were looking for a job to be filled, and ironically, the thing that came to mind was perfect.
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  He's filling cups.
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  Okay.
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  So it's a whole, like, two tables that are just covered in saucer and tea cup, and then you've got a couple of people, one of which I assumed would be yourself, withholding teapots and quickly pouring more tea.
• 17:59
  If somebody comes by and they take a cup, and then they walk over and there's another table that has some other things they are very big on, the employee is doing it all for you.
• 18:09
  So nobody puts their own honey in their cup.
• 18:12
  The employee scoops a little bit out to tell me when or is it in their cup.
• 18:18
  This is perfect.
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  Yeah.
• 18:19
  So I am filling teacups.
• 18:22
  Ready for this? So I'm filling teacups, but in my right hand, I've got the teapot, like the handle.
• 18:33
  The left hand is, like, supporting it, but in my left hand, I have the little bag of tiny rocks.
• 18:39
  Oh, okay.
• 18:40
  I sneakily put one tiny rock in each cup as the thing is pouring.
• 18:47
  Okay.
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  And when I see, like, somebody picks up the teacup, I earth bend the rock back to me, breaking the cup.
• 18:55
  Oh, no.
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  Spilling tea everywhere.
• 18:58
  And how often are you doing this? Every ten cups.
• 19:03
  What was my wife ten cups? Every ten cups, I put a little pebble in, and I wait.
• 19:10
  Okay.
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  I wait for someone to grab the cup and start drinking.
• 19:14
  Sure.
• 19:15
  I'm going to say that nobody would suspect anything for sure, at least for the first three.
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  But rolling a trick with creativity.
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  Okay.
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  So I have a plus one.
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  Creative.
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  Okay.
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  Awesome.
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  It doesn't work, does it? I don't know.
• 19:36
  That was so clever.
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  It works the first three times, but they start to get kind of frustrated.
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  A couple of the employees are looking at you, and they're like, I don't know what you're doing.
• 19:47
  If you're cooling the cups cooled or something, and you're pouring the hot liquid too fast, I don't know what you're doing, but you need to go somewhere else.
• 19:55
  Go help them lift the fresh tea out from the bat and pour it into the separate you're a strong guy.
• 20:03
  Go do that.
• 20:04
  Is that still in this area, or do I need to go somewhere else? I mean, everything's happening within their section of the ballroom.
• 20:11
  Okay.
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  So, I mean, it's just, like, a few tables over.
• 20:13
  They've got the big heating bat where they're heating up the teeth, and somebody will pick up a section of it and kind of start pouring it into very carefully into the teapot, which will then take over and into the cups.
• 20:27
  Can I do the same thing, but with the VAT? It's like a metal VAT.
• 20:30
  Okay.
• 20:32
  All right.
• 20:33
  But as you go over there, madame Ying, she disappeared for a little bit.
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  Like, she went to go look around.
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  She comes back.
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  She looks just as flustered, if not more flustered than she did before.
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  She's sweating.
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  She's red.
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  She takes off her mask so that you guys can see her, because, again, she's not really, like, participating participating in the whole mask for a game.
• 20:54
  And she says, okay, I want everyone's attention.
• 21:01
  Earlier, I discovered there was a mole among our ranks, someone pretending to work for hot leaf juice in order to sabotage us and make us fall behind.
• 21:15
  And I have a theory that she was not working alone.
• 21:21
  One of you, I believe, is working with her, and I will have none of that.
• 21:28
  So I'm going to have a little sit down with everyone, starting with you.
• 21:36
  And she points out one of them not you brought to you, but just a different one.
• 21:40
  And you watch as they start walking through the ballroom and over, kind of out of sight, still in the building.
• 21:47
  They didn't go out the front door.
• 21:48
  You can kind of see the front door to the house from where you're at.
• 21:52
  It sucks for Gary.
• 21:53
  I bet he's probably the mall.
• 21:55
  That guy has been rubbing me the wrong way all night.
• 21:57
  I don't know about you guys.
• 21:58
  So did Madame Yang.
• 22:01
  How many hot Leaf Juice employees are we talking here? We're talking probably about almost a dozen.
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  She comes fully staffed.
• 22:09
  She has multiple people in one spot.
• 22:11
  The one thing that she has going right right now with everything else that's going wrong is that she has enough employees to keep things moving.
• 22:21
  She doesn't have all the ingredients that she needs to make the tea the way that she wants it.
• 22:26
  And you recognize that as somebody that was serving helping to pour the tea? The ones that you didn't chatter, you did notice that some people just were like, it's okay.
• 22:36
  It's nothing special, so they don't seem really, like, inspired by any means by this tea.
• 22:44
  It's not what it's supposed to be.
• 22:45
  That's true, because you got rid of a lot of ingredients.
• 22:48
  Obviously, you had destroyed some of their glasses.
• 22:51
  So the way they've made up for that is they just have an extra couple of their employees that are furiously washing through tea cups, trying to get them back out and clean as quickly as they possibly can, which, again, has affected the rest of the staff.
• 23:03
  Obviously, having fewer people to make sure that things are running correctly and smoothly is not easy on those that have to kind of make up the difference.
• 23:12
  So we'll switch over to Bill and Glow.
• 23:18
  So Bill and Glow, you guys are over at the Blissful Brew, and you guys are experiencing a little bit of problems of your own.
• 23:25
  Ironically, with all the failure that Hot leaf Juice has been experiencing, you guys have experienced a lot of that success from that.
• 23:35
  Customers are kind of like, the tea over there is not all that great.
• 23:38
  Let's go outside.
• 23:40
  It's a nice day.
• 23:40
  It's a nice afternoon.
• 23:42
  We can watch as the sun reset, enjoy the fresh air, and I heard they've got some pretty good tea out of there.
• 23:48
  On the other hand, now, obviously, that's a great thing, but the negative side is now you've got quite a big line of customers that are starting to develop outside, and it's getting to be a little bit of a lot between three people.
• 24:02
  And Mr.
• 24:03
  Oak Brown is trying to make sure the team is being made correctly, so he's working hard to get that done.
• 24:08
  Bill, you're directly serving the customers, I assume, and then you're kind of an in between guy.
• 24:16
  I mean, you've got a couple of different options and jump around between, I suppose.
• 24:21
  I'm helping, Phil.
• 24:22
  I'm helping.
• 24:24
  Steep stakes are high, and you got to let it fly.
• 24:27
  That's right.
• 24:28
  Now, as things are growing in the hustle and bustle of these customers coming through.
• 24:34
  Bill, out of the corner of your eye, you do notice that that guy from earlier, that guy that you saw that looked a little sketchy, seemed to be probably a fire vendor somewhere around your age, maybe a little bit older.
• 24:46
  He's still kind of scouting around the area.
• 24:49
  He's kind of left the gazebo, and he's kind of trying to slowly kind of, like, make his way closer.
• 24:54
  Real nonchalantly as best you can.
• 24:56
  Now you've caught him already as, like, a sketchy figure to keep an eye on.
• 25:00
  So you notice as he is kind of moving in, you're not like, oh, man, you've really tricked me, but he is moving in.
• 25:07
  Can I just keep glancing at him while I'm helping people? Yeah, if you want to take a moment to turn around and maybe do something intimidating or something, you can definitely turn around.
• 25:18
  He's behind me.
• 25:19
  Yeah, because you have your booth which is right next to kind of the pathway, like, the big main path that a lot of people come down.
• 25:25
  The gazebo is kind of back behind you.
• 25:28
  There's a hedge between you and the gazebo.
• 25:31
  Okay.
• 25:31
  If you want.
• 25:32
  So when I turn around to get more ingredients that stroke Run is using to prep, I figured I was taking orders and getting side ingredients while he did all the cooking stuff.
• 25:44
  Sure.
• 25:44
  When I turn around to go grab more ingredients from our little cart, I see him, and I just stop, and I just give him, like, a depth layer.
• 25:53
  Okay.
• 25:54
  Do an intimidate.
• 25:57
  Okay.
• 25:58
  You get to pick one that they cannot choose from that list, which is they run to escape or get back up.
• 26:06
  They back down to keep watch.
• 26:08
  They give in with a few stipulations, or they attack you, but off balance, so you can choose one they don't get to choose.
• 26:15
  I don't want them to attack.
• 26:16
  That's my last case.
• 26:18
  Sure.
• 26:18
  I can't choose that one.
• 26:19
  Okay.
• 26:20
  He's too scared to attack.
• 26:21
  Okay.
• 26:21
  That's the best way he is going to run.
• 26:25
  He's going to escape to get back up.
• 26:27
  I see him run off.
• 26:28
  Yeah.
• 26:29
  After Bill sees him run off, he just kind of grabs his ingredients, and he turns around and goes back to helping customers with an award winning smile.
• 26:37
  That's right.
• 26:39
  That's why they put Bill up front out of ten.
• 26:43
  Wow.
• 26:44
  Anything specific or anything that you wanted to add that you'd be doing? I mean, while all this is going on, we're trying to keep up with all these customers.
• 26:54
  I'm keeping an eye out on the game that's going on.
• 26:59
  Yes, the masquerade.
• 27:02
  Okay.
• 27:03
  Are you hoping for anything specific, like catching slip ups or not sure.
• 27:08
  What else? Like maybe trying to figure it out yourself? I don't know how many people you would necessarily know in the area.
• 27:14
  Or a subtle hint of jealousy.
• 27:16
  Gohan and wanting to play, or maybe keep giving sidelong glances over.
• 27:24
  Cool.
• 27:24
  Thank you.
• 27:25
  Party.
• 27:26
  Sighing really loudly behind him.
• 27:32
  I noticed nobody's going after Madame Yang.
• 27:35
  I think they're all scared of her.
• 27:37
  Probably they just all assume that everyone knows who she is, but I guess no one's bothering to just go guess her.
• 27:46
  That's my best guess.
• 27:48
  You think she'll get got before the end of the party? I think she'll be the last one standing.
• 27:55
  She's the last one standing.
• 27:56
  It clearly means people are more scared to tell her what her name was than anything.
• 28:01
  Well, you want to put some money on it? What are we betting on here? What we always bet on toilet duty.
• 28:10
  Toilet duty.
• 28:12
  I got some coins jangling around in my pocket.
• 28:17
  Okay, what are you betting on? I bet she makes it to be the last one.
• 28:25
  Oh, yeah.
• 28:25
  Okay.
• 28:26
  I feel like it's a super simple bet for me to win.
• 28:30
  I'm going to say, yeah, you're on.
• 28:33
  And I have a whole two copper bet on that one.
• 28:38
  That's my life savings right there.
• 28:41
  All right, you're on.
• 28:43
  All right, moving forward, we got another bet going on.
• 28:46
  This one not with bathroom.
• 28:51
  Just waits.
• 28:53
  He just waits until he's serving customers, and he waits till someone with a mass comes up.
• 28:59
  He goes, hey, could you help me out with something real quick? After you giving them their tea, do you see that lady with the really tall hair over there working at Hotlease Juice? Could you just walk over and say, hey, you're Madame Yang for me? I'd be appreciative you'd win me some money, I suppose, plus it betters your chances of winning.
• 29:24
  And Bill gives them a wink, and from underneath the mask you see him give you a wink because you can just see their eyes.
• 29:30
  Obviously you can see he gives you a wink and then he takes his teeth.
• 29:34
  He kind of heads off in that direction.
• 29:37
  And then Bill turns around and looks at Gohan and gives him a wink.
• 29:50
  one thing that you do notice is that the few times you guys see Madame Yanks is there set up on the inside of the mansion.
• 29:56
  When you guys see her, she's usually like just like, shooting by making her rounds, just looking for people, whatever it is that she's up to.
• 30:07
  But she's racing about building that account for the fact that she's probably too quick to stop.
• 30:14
  Nobody's guessed it because they can't even they can't even stop her.
• 30:17
  She says, let's keep going.
• 30:19
  She's like sasquatch.
• 30:20
  People see a glimpse of her, and when someone tries us our conversation with her, she grabs one of her Hunchman and just shoves them in front.
• 30:27
  Talk to them for me.
• 30:29
  It's like when you get served and noticed to go to court.
• 30:33
  If they can't say your name and they serve you, then they can't give you the service.
• 30:38
  Right? Are you Madame Yang? No comment.
• 30:43
  Walks away.
• 30:45
  Didn't call it.
• 30:46
  You asked little known fact about Madame Yang, former high school track star, even in high heels.
• 30:55
  Well, Mr.
• 30:56
  O'Brien turns and he says, can confirm.
• 31:00
  They yell out that piece of detail in your very lengthy backstory, Mr.
• 31:04
  Oak run.
• 31:06
  My apologies.
• 31:06
  I never even got to high school.
• 31:08
  So what's in high school? Okay, well, then he just continues to talk while we're serving TV.
• 31:14
  She was involved in every organization, but I never really heard that she actually didn't.
• 31:21
  Anyways, I'm going to jump back over to Brock.
• 31:28
  I did notice they were talking about that fire vendor looking guy, looking shady over at our tea stand.
• 31:37
  You said the rich people, they all change clothes, right? That's right.
• 31:40
  Are their clothes all in a conveniently placed closet somewhere? When he made the announcement, he had mentioned that they had distributed, so everybody had brought a second outfit when they came, they had distributed everybody's second outfit.
• 31:58
  That they would change into into the many rooms in the mansion.
• 32:02
  Everybody kind of as part of their invitation and been told, like, which room they would have their stuff put inside of.
• 32:08
  So, you know, that pretty much walking into just about any bedroom in this house.
• 32:11
  You'll probably find a nice, probably not pile of clothes.
• 32:14
  They'll be nicely folded and waiting for their owners to return to get them.
• 32:18
  Or even you wonder if, maybe, given the high society of all those, they might honestly just be delivered back to the houses by the end of the night.
• 32:28
  So there might be staff members that are actually going through the close right now and taking them back over to their houses, but there's going to be some that definitely, by this point, have not been collected yet.
• 32:38
  Okay.
• 32:39
  Because I got to change out of the hot leaf juice stuff, so I'm going to go try and find a bedroom that's got any sort of clothes that are relatively my size, try and change into those, and I want to go confront this firebender guy.
• 32:56
  Okay.
• 32:57
  Just before you can leave, as you're kind of, like, making your way out, one of the hotlife juice employees and starts yelling at you, kate, where do you think you're going? Get back here and help.
• 33:10
  I am helping.
• 33:11
  Some of these glasses broke, so I got to go grab a broom.
• 33:14
  You don't want people stepping on our broken porcelain and blaming us, right? Oh, jeez.
• 33:18
  I didn't even notice those, therapies being so focused.
• 33:21
  Yeah, no, that's a good point.
• 33:22
  That's a good point.
• 33:23
  Okay.
• 33:25
  Yeah.
• 33:25
  I don't know where the closet is, but I'm sure if you ask one of the staff members who can help you out yeah, I'll find it.
• 33:30
  No worries.
• 33:31
  All right, hurry back.
• 33:33
  We need all the help we can get right now.
• 33:35
  I believe it.
• 33:36
  I see all you guys scrub and stuff.
• 33:37
  Don't worry.
• 33:38
  I want nothing more than the scrubs and pops.
• 33:40
  Yeah.
• 33:41
  Because it makes Madame Yang happy.
• 33:43
  Those are, like, weird hand things.
• 33:47
  I'm doing the rock on, but I don't know.
• 33:49
  He's doing something else.
• 33:50
  Italian.
• 33:52
  It makes them Madam Young happy.
• 33:55
  I just sort of, like, trying to play along, but it's obvious that I have no idea what the hands on is.
• 34:00
  Makes her happy.
• 34:02
  Yeah.
• 34:02
  I'll be right back.
• 34:04
  And as you're walking away, you see Matt and come back with the previous employee that she took with her, and they kind of look a little bit out of it.
• 34:12
  They kind of look their eyes are a little bit, like, wider.
• 34:15
  Their pupils are a little bit dilated.
• 34:19
  They walk a little bit stiff, and as soon as she brings them back, they go straight to work.
• 34:24
  She doesn't even say, like, all right, get back to it, or point at a job until they start doing it.
• 34:29
  They just get to it.
• 34:30
  Did she trug this man? No.
• 34:33
  If that's a question for the Doctor.
• 34:35
  I have not.
• 34:37
  Not a broker.
• 34:50
  So obviously, as she brings that employee back, she points at another one and takes them off to go talk to them or whatever it is.
• 34:58
  So you kind of see which direction they're going in and I don't know.
• 35:01
  Where are you headed? I'm heading the polar opposite direction from them, trying to find just a room with clothes and a mask.
• 35:10
  Okay.
• 35:11
  All I need.
• 35:12
  Sure.
• 35:12
  You very easily are able to find a bedroom with clothes in it.
• 35:17
  You go by a couple that have staff members in it that are, like, folding up clothes, and they're like, okay, these belong to so and so and so.
• 35:26
  The kind of idea was that you leave your invitation on the previous close.
• 35:30
  That way they know who they belong to and things like that.
• 35:33
  They're getting ready, but eventually you kind of figure out, like, oh, they're going room to room.
• 35:37
  So I'll just go to the next room that they're not at, grab some clothes out of there.
• 35:40
  So you're able to find some clothes, but you cannot find a mask.
• 35:43
  When the people lose the game, where do they put their masks? Do they keep them, like, in their pockets or they throw them away? You see, most people hand them off to a staff member.
• 35:53
  I wonder if maybe somewhere in the back rooms where the staff are operating from, there might be an opportunity to figure out where it is, if they're keeping them.
• 36:05
  Am I already wearing the new clothes? That's up to you.
• 36:08
  Do you want to be wearing them or do you want to wait? Yeah, I'm wearing the new clothes.
• 36:11
  Okay.
• 36:11
  I'm going to change the new clothes.
• 36:12
  Okay.
• 36:14
  You are now wearing some very ornate, earth vendor kind of high society robes.
• 36:22
  So I want to go up to one of these staff members.
• 36:28
  I'm going to tell them, like, hey, I never received a mask, and I still like to join in this game if it's not too late.
• 36:36
  Is that possible? Did you already change your other clothing? I did.
• 36:43
  Oh, dear me.
• 36:45
  Yes.
• 36:45
  Please follow me.
• 36:47
  Yes, come with me quickly.
• 36:48
  I will get your mask.
• 36:49
  Don't let anybody see you.
• 36:51
  I don't want you to feel like you've had the game ruined for you.
• 36:55
  Absolutely.
• 36:57
  I will make sure.
• 36:58
  Okay.
• 37:00
  He's got, like, an empty platter.
• 37:02
  He was, like, handing out our nerves or whatever, and he has an empty platter.
• 37:04
  He holds it up, but he's not sure where to hold it up next to you because you're a reasonably well, you are a reasonably tall guy.
• 37:11
  We know that.
• 37:12
  And so he's trying to cover your face, but then he's like but also he's wearing the clothes, so I need to cover the clothes and, like, oh, which is more recognizable.
• 37:21
  And then finally he gets you into the back room.
• 37:24
  Oh, my.
• 37:25
  Hopefully, nobody will easily screw you.
• 37:28
  Just follow me.
• 37:29
  And I will get you to one of the masks.
• 37:32
  We can find a mask for you.
• 37:33
  Thank you.
• 37:34
  I really appreciate it.
• 37:35
  It's honestly my fault.
• 37:37
  Don't worry about it.
• 37:39
  I took a little extra time in the bathroom with the misses, if you know what I mean.
• 37:44
  Oh, for sure.
• 37:48
  They won't ask questions.
• 37:51
  Yeah.
• 37:52
  And he does look very awkward when you say this.
• 37:54
  So he just quickly rushes you down the hall and takes you to a room and inside the room.
• 38:02
  So any masks that are being brought back in.
• 38:05
  You kind of wonder if maybe they're.
• 38:07
  Like.
• 38:07
  Collectibles.
• 38:08
  Because as you look around.
• 38:09
  Staff members that are bringing them back in are putting them in very specific places within the room.
• 38:15
  And so the staff member that you're with, he looks at you and he says, feel free to pick any of the masks that are in the room, except for the one in the center.
• 38:26
  That is Mr.
• 38:27
  Yotaku.
• 38:28
  His pride and joy, you might say.
• 38:31
  You got it.
• 38:31
  I will absolutely not even consider touching that one.
• 38:36
  You have been a great help.
• 38:37
  Thank you so much.
• 38:38
  Oh, Jesse, please let me know if you need anything else.
• 38:41
  He bowed his way out of the room very quickly, bows multiple times as, like, every step back he takes is another bow, and then eventually he's back out.
• 38:51
  Okay, so obviously I need to get this.
• 38:59
  Is it, like, on a stick, like, a Masquerade mask, or is it and it's inside of, like, a glass case.
• 39:06
  Okay, but you don't know whether or not the last case is, like, a locked case or anything.
• 39:14
  I might need Indiana Jones.
• 39:16
  That's true.
• 39:19
  I might want to come back for that.
• 39:21
  Okay, so where you drop a giant boulder on it.
• 39:26
  It is Rock signature.
• 39:29
  Just when in doubt, smash it with a Mash.
• 39:31
  It with a rock.
• 39:33
  Rock was cheering for the boulder when he watched that movie.
• 39:37
  When I grew up fighting a young blind girl, the molder is over his conflicted feelings.
• 39:52
  All right, so in this storage room, is it just masks, or do they just have boxes? Masks, and there are other stuff.
• 40:01
  So this is more like a display room, so it's pretty much all masks.
• 40:07
  Okay.
• 40:08
  You get the impression that Mr.
• 40:10
  Yotaku has a thing for masks.
• 40:13
  And there are a lot of different kinds of masks too.
• 40:15
  They're regular, like, kind of traditional Masquerade masks.
• 40:19
  There are masks very similar to the blue spirit mask, kind of along those lines.
• 40:25
  So a lot of spirit masks which have sort of tie strings in the back to hold them to your head rather than having to hold it.
• 40:34
  There are, like, Kabuki style masks.
• 40:39
  Anything that you could kind of think of that has kind of like a Chinese, Japanese, even, like, Korean kind of a tone to it in our world, you could probably find a version of it here in this room.
• 40:55
  Okay, so I want to grab a mask that can tie in the back.
• 41:01
  So I have to hold it.
• 41:03
  Yes.
• 41:03
  Because if I'm confronting this guy, I don't want to have a disadvantage of only having one hand.
• 41:09
  Yeah, I've never really understood that at masquerade balls.
• 41:11
  I'm like, you guys are going to dance.
• 41:12
  You guys are going to grab your drinks and stuff, and you're going to hold a little stick mask the whole time.
• 41:18
  Yeah, I never understood that.
• 41:20
  So I'm going to go grab a mask.
• 41:22
  Let's go with the blue spirit mask.
• 41:23
  That's very cool.
• 41:25
  Classic.
• 41:26
  Wellback, it might clash with the green of my earth benders higher.
• 41:31
  So I don't want to stick out like that because it could be spelled bad news because rich people love to match colors and such.
• 41:38
  I see.
• 41:39
  So I'm going to grab just a regular black and white kabuki mask.
• 41:43
  Okay.
• 41:43
  That ties in the back.
• 41:44
  I'm going to remember where this room is because I really want to grab that mask, that other mask, and I want to go just back the way I came.
• 41:53
  But I want to make sure that the servant is out of the way.
• 42:01
  I want to make sure that I'm not going to run into anybody until I hit the floor where everybody's at? Okay.
• 42:06
  And I go just cross the floor, and I go and try and confront that fire vendor.
• 42:13
  Okay.
• 42:13
  I don't know why I'm gesturing.
• 42:16
  Okay.
• 42:18
  Yeah.
• 42:19
  You walk out of the room, and another key point is any staff members that you do see that are anywhere in the area, they just very quickly, like, bow.
• 42:27
  They're like, oh, if you need anything, please let us know.
• 42:30
  Kind of a thing.
• 42:31
  Nobody's accusing you of anything or anything.
• 42:33
  They don't assume anything.
• 42:34
  They get nervous at the idea that you're back here because they're like, oh, man, we must have messed up.
• 42:39
  Is he an angry customer? Coming back here to be like, oh, man, that banana I ate earlier was a little off or something.
• 42:47
  So they're glad that, honestly, you walking past them is like, oh, so you easily make it back out onto the floor.
• 42:56
  As you do, you look over to the hot leaf juice area, and you see, madame Yang has brought back the employee that she took as you were leaving.
• 43:06
  This one also has kind of that very wide eyed kind of off.
• 43:11
  Like, you wave your hand in front of them, they might not react.
• 43:14
  Just seems odd.
• 43:17
  Goes back to work.
• 43:18
  She's about to call over the next one, when all of a sudden an individual runs inside and starts whispering in her ear something that obviously you can't hear.
• 43:29
  Yeah.
• 43:30
  Got a feeling she's like, hypnotizing these mans or drugging them or both.
• 43:38
  There is no war in Boston.
• 43:42
  Judy.
• 43:43
  My name is Judy.
• 43:45
  Can I ask them their name? Judy.
• 43:47
  They don't recognize me, so I could go ask them their names.
• 43:51
  No, I got to stay focused.
• 43:54
  We must so many possibilities.
• 43:55
  We must stay focused.
• 43:59
  So this Firebender guy, can you give me a brief description? I was not here with no, that's fine.
• 44:06
  I mean, there wasn't really much description, I guess, before either.
• 44:09
  That's my bad.
• 44:10
  So he is wearing whereas most of the employees are wearing kind of like a pink and related tone outfits for the hot leaf juice with the logo on it and stuff like that.
• 44:23
  He is actually just in a very simple robe that features kind of like red tone colors.
• 44:31
  So it's like kind of adjacent but not directly like that kind of pink that all the other ones have.
• 44:39
  So he's a hot leaf juice Floyd.
• 44:41
  You assume that he must be if he's whispering to Madame Yank, but he doesn't have any insignia on him to suggest that he is.
• 44:48
  All right, so I'm going to go up to the Blissful Brew table.
• 44:54
  Okay.
• 44:55
  I'm going to oh, man.
• 45:13
  up to the Blissful Brew, grab two teacups.
• 45:18
  I'm going to kind of wink at them just to sort of like Blissful Brew, and I'm going to walk over to the guy.
• 45:27
  Do you wink at either of them in particular? I went at both of them at the same time.
• 45:31
  They mistake it just for blink.
• 45:36
  Did you see that guy give us a weird blink? Why do you just steal our teacups? What did he even ask? He just walked up and walked away with them.
• 45:45
  He think he knows they didn't even have teams.
• 45:51
  Well, no, the audacity of these rich people, not you.
• 45:55
  And he looks at the house, not you.
• 46:02
  Oh, no.
• 46:03
  It feels stupid.
• 46:05
  Well, why are they on the table if they're going to be empty cups? They're preparing.
• 46:11
  I go back and I grab cups.
• 46:13
  Always return.
• 46:19
  Have you guys? It's me.
• 46:21
  Give me some tea.
• 46:22
  I don't know if they know who I am for my voice, but they should know.
• 46:26
  Okay, riddle man.
• 46:29
  Thank you.
• 46:30
  Guau hangs your name.
• 46:37
  Yo, it's me, Brock Rock.
• 46:39
  I know Brock.
• 46:41
  I'm going to go talk to Mans over there.
• 46:43
  That's giving us some weird looks.
• 46:45
  Just be prepared.
• 46:47
  If something goes down, don't tell Mr.
• 46:50
  Oakler.
• 46:51
  So I go and I grab the restaurant.
• 46:53
  Standing right there.
• 46:54
  Just don't worry about it.
• 46:59
  Sorry.
• 47:00
  He's absorbed in his crack.
• 47:02
  He started mixes and stuff.
• 47:04
  So I grabbed two full teacups.
• 47:07
  I walk over, saunter, if you will, to this van.
• 47:11
  I hand him one of the teacups.
• 47:13
  I'm like, yeah, it's a good party going on out in there.
• 47:16
  So why are you just chilling out here? Why don't you go inside and join the fun, the festivities? So this guy turns to you and he says, oh, yes, my name is Timothy.
• 47:29
  Like the least intimidating.
• 47:31
  My name is Timothy.
• 47:33
  It's very nice to meet you.
• 47:35
  May I ask? Oh, of course.
• 47:38
  I can ask who you are.
• 47:39
  You are the best part.
• 47:40
  My apologies.
• 47:42
  Of course.
• 47:43
  I've seen you out here.
• 47:44
  You haven't really been mingling amongst the rest of us.
• 47:48
  What's been up out here? What's so exciting out here? Oh, you must forgive me.
• 47:53
  Call me a tenant soul.
• 47:56
  I don't always have as much need or initiative to socialize with people.
• 48:04
  Not that I'm not enjoying our conversation.
• 48:08
  You have me intrigued.
• 48:09
  I'm not from around here.
• 48:10
  I'm actually from Basin SEI.
• 48:13
  The big sea? Yes.
• 48:17
  Well, as I heard that one of my favorite tea shops from my hometown is here.
• 48:23
  I'm in town visiting, so my hometown visiting Blissful Brew.
• 48:27
  I've always loved their tea.
• 48:28
  And I saw you looking over at their stand over there and thought maybe you were a little too shy or something to go up and get some, so I went ahead and I brought you some of my favorite tea in the Earth kingdom.
• 48:39
  And he looks at the tea and he says, well, thank you.
• 48:46
  And he takes the tea cup, and he goes in for a sip.
• 48:52
  And he takes a sip.
• 48:55
  Yes.
• 48:57
  Okay.
• 48:58
  Very good.
• 48:58
  Yes.
• 49:00
  I'm glad you enjoy it.
• 49:01
  It's funny.
• 49:03
  I have a feeling you got to be here for some reason, even if you're not the most social soul.
• 49:08
  So if you're not the most social and that's not your reason for being here, what brings you over to this party? Oh, well, you might say that I was somebody's plus one.
• 49:19
  And where are they at? I haven't really seen you interacting with too many people here.
• 49:25
  Oh, it feels like you've been watching me now.
• 49:29
  No, not at all.
• 49:31
  I mean, one man standing outside by himself is a little hard to miss.
• 49:35
  Oh, my.
• 49:37
  Wow.
• 49:38
  The irony that a person doesn't really like socializing, yet he ends up standing out more than anyone else.
• 49:44
  I suppose.
• 49:45
  Yes.
• 49:46
  If you want to blend in, you really got to get up in there.
• 49:49
  You make a fair point.
• 49:51
  Yes.
• 49:51
  No.
• 49:52
  I am here on behest of Madame Yang.
• 49:57
  Madame? As I said, I'm a close friend.
• 49:59
  One might say her plus one to the party.
• 50:02
  Okay.
• 50:03
  Not like that, of course.
• 50:06
  No romantic relations, I assure you.
• 50:09
  Just strictly platonic.
• 50:13
  I see.
• 50:14
  Well, I best leave you here.
• 50:18
  Otherwise you might think I'm trying to interrogate you or something.
• 50:22
  No.
• 50:22
  You enjoy your night.
• 50:23
  Yes, of course.
• 50:25
  And she was well so, with that new information, I go back over back over to the Blissful Brew, drop off my teacups, and I'm talking to Guilhan just Guild Han.
• 50:37
  Honestly, because if I talked to both of them, then it might look a little spicious to Mr.
• 50:43
  Ocaron.
• 50:44
  That man over there is with Madame Yang.
• 51:06
  we're pretty packed right now with customers lined up here partygoers? Yeah, but what do you think we should do? If we can get some more information out of them, we can know.
• 51:24
  So we can know what he's trying to do because he's just standing out there on his own.
• 51:31
  There's no reason for him to be standing there.
• 51:32
  He's with Madam Yang.
• 51:34
  He could be helping her out.
• 51:35
  Maybe he's got to be up to something.
• 51:37
  We could lure him in by leaving a seeming opening in our awareness.
• 51:48
  What do you suggest? Well, maybe he's trying to even the score with what you guys are doing over there.
• 51:57
  But you wouldn't know it was us.
• 52:00
  But has Mika been found out? You wouldn't know.
• 52:07
  You haven't seen me in quite a while.
• 52:08
  Actually, regardless of who's doing it, they got to see how successful we're doing over here.
• 52:17
  They got to.
• 52:17
  Not like that.
• 52:18
  True.
• 52:20
  Do you think if he's going to try something, I think we should lure him into it.
• 52:39
  sure.
• 52:41
  So are you just sticking around by them while you think if I walk around and mingle, there's a chance? Well, Madame Yang wouldn't know his name because I got a mask in a new disguise.
• 52:56
  I'm going to try to nonchalantly follow Madame Yang as she's pulling off those people to the side.
• 53:01
  Perfect.
• 53:04
  Yeah.
• 53:05
  I'm going to try and try and follow her and see where she's taking them.
• 53:10
  Okay.
• 53:11
  One of the most fearful things that a DM can ever say to you, which is I was hoping you would do that.
• 53:17
  But before we cut over to that, we'll jump over.
• 53:20
  As you walk away, we'll cut over to Bill and wow.
• 53:27
  I want you guys and I know this is kind of more of a sort of D and D style move to do this, but I want you guys to both roll.
• 53:34
  Or one of you can help and one of you can roll.
• 53:37
  It's up to you guys for an assessment situation.
• 53:41
  Something as you guys are getting things done, something just feels off.
• 53:46
  Your spider sense is tingling.
• 53:48
  Something just doesn't seem right.
• 53:51
  Mr.
• 53:51
  Okran is super focused making sure everything is man.
• 53:55
  You guys noticed something is not right.
• 54:00
  I got an eleven.
• 54:02
  Nice.
• 54:03
  I got it, too.
• 54:04
  Nice.
• 54:05
  All right.
• 54:09
  They're badgering me with orders.
• 54:11
  Right now.
• 54:11
  You are lost in the soft and the fact that you look a little intently at each one as they pass by because you really want to see who else is winking at you and why and who else is going to just steal our cups.
• 54:25
  Also, that because it's happened once already.
• 54:28
  That's right.
• 54:29
  How many other times has it happened without paying attention? Running off with your cup.
• 54:33
  Explain that.
• 54:33
  You say that up.
• 54:34
  So while you get to ask a question from the list of questions, actually, I think you get because you got an eleven and you get a plus one ongoing when acting on the answer to these questions.
• 54:47
  So you'll get a plus one for a role relating to doing something about whatever the answer the question is.
• 54:53
  So the questions that you have the option to ask what here can I use to blank? Who or what is the biggest threat, what should I be on the lookout for? What's the best way out in or through and who or what is in the greatest danger? And I feel like there's a few of these questions that the answer is probably going to end up being the same, but in a good way.
• 55:19
  What should I be on the lookout for? Okay, perfect.
• 55:22
  So you should be on the lookout for some sketchy individuals who might be trying to at the very moment seal your tea ingredients from right out of the hand cart.
• 55:36
  And sure enough as this kind of like inkling in your mind of I feel like we need to keep an eye on things and make sure nothing's being taken from something in your mind clicks.
• 55:48
  You think, wait a minute, if we destroy the ingredients or some of the ingredients from hot leaf juice, they can't get it from elsewhere.
• 55:55
  Because you remember Mika came back and she said she destroyed half the list and all this other stuff and you're like, where else could they get the ingredients from? Yeah, exactly.
• 56:06
  Probably from you guys.
• 56:08
  And as you turn around, you see two individuals wearing hot leaf juice outfits that look like they are rummaging through your hand cart.
• 56:17
  Who is the biggest threat? These guys.
• 56:26
  One of them is pulling a box of ingredients out at this very moment.
• 56:31
  And you think all it would take from is to get too far away from you that you can't chase them or even just the idea.
• 56:39
  Like if they ran into the grouping and the party, just like the various partygoers, you might lose them in the crowds and that would obviously be a problem.
• 56:47
  Okay, so we have partygoers are still actively lining up here.
• 56:54
  True.
• 56:54
  Yes.
• 56:56
  I'm going to take a couple of cups of tea and pretend to trip and throw it on the car.
• 57:03
  Okay.
• 57:03
  Hot tea coming at him.
• 57:05
  Okay.
• 57:08
  This is why I almost feel like this would jump us into a combat situation.
• 57:15
  Take them out.
• 57:16
  Well, hot.
• 57:19
  Sure.
• 57:20
  I would also be like Bill, our ingredients, look out.
• 57:28
  Good thing he said look out.
• 57:30
  Because Billy's like, yeah, our ingredients, nice.
• 57:35
  They're pretty solid.
• 57:37
  People are loving them.
• 57:40
  When Bill hears that he would immediately turn around these guys, these guys scrumaging through our cart.
• 57:48
  And you would immediately flick up his bow staff which he's had on his face entire time.
• 57:52
  Yes.
• 57:53
  And you also had a plus one.
• 57:55
  You were prepared.
• 57:57
  You were technically prepared.
• 57:58
  The other guy.
• 57:58
  But I would say that you were prepared.
• 58:00
  I never took it off my foot.
• 58:01
  Right.
• 58:01
  You were prepared for the concept that somebody might try to sabotage.
• 58:06
  That's what I'm going to say.
• 58:06
  So technically, both of you have plus one, and we are going to call this an encounter.
• 58:13
  So we're going to call this a combat situation.
• 58:16
  Kill him.
• 58:17
  So you guys will each be picking a combat approach to take this turn, as will they to make my grand kill dead.
• 58:26
  I don't think that's a normal term in Avatar, but hey, I only watch the movie.
• 58:31
  Just love to remind us.
• 58:32
  Focus, people.
• 58:34
  All right, so we're going to encounter.
• 58:35
  What would you guys like to do? What is your combat approach going to be? Are you going to defend and maneuver? Are you going to advance an attack, or are you going to evade and observe maneuver? You're going to defend in maneuver.
• 58:46
  Okay, I'm going to advance an attack.
• 58:49
  Yeah.
• 58:49
  We're on this legendary tea cup attack.
• 58:53
  Well, if that is the case, then rolling with folks.
• 58:57
  Yes.
• 58:57
  If you don't know anything about build, he is not the offensive fighter.
• 59:00
  He is a defensive fighter.
• 59:01
  He is called the Guardian for a reason.
• 59:03
  That's true.
• 59:05
  And then, Guao, since you're doing advanced attack, you will roll with passion.
• 59:08
  Plus, of course, ten.
• 59:10
  Okay.
• 59:11
  You get a plus three.
• 59:13
  Yes, I do.
• 59:14
  You get a seven.
• 59:16
  Okay.
• 59:16
  All right.
• 59:17
  My thing is plus three.
• 59:19
  We will start with bill, you rolled a ten, so that means you have a number of options, but you get to choose.
• 59:27
  Yeah.
• 59:28
  Choose one.
• 59:28
  One from the list.
• 59:29
  Yeah.
• 59:30
  So mark one fatigue to use a learn technique, use one practiced technique or use two basic or mastered techniques.
• 59:39
  It says use two basic or master.
• 59:41
  Could I use one of each? Sure.
• 59:43
  Okay.
• 59:43
  Because I want to use divert, and then I want to use retaliate, because they combo together.
• 59:51
  Divert is the special fighting technique for the Guardian.
• 59:56
  Okay.
• 59:56
  And it says in this case, it's kind of a little word.
• 59:58
  It says step into the way of blows intended for allies.
• 1:00:01
  I want to say the ally is the cart.
• 1:00:03
  Oh, okay.
• 1:00:04
  And when it says when an ally within reach within the cart suffers a blow, this exchange, which I assume has been taking stuff out of the cart, you can suffer it for them.
• 1:00:15
  I basically can just step in the way of the cart.
• 1:00:19
  I just basically put my body between them in the cart.
• 1:00:21
  Sure.
• 1:00:21
  And then I'm going to use retaliate.
• 1:00:23
  And retaliate is steal yourself for the blows.
• 1:00:26
  Each time a phone inflicts fatigue, a condition or shifts your balance, I inflict one back at them in return.
• 1:00:33
  Okay.
• 1:00:34
  And it says if I use Italia along with my dessert, I deal with additional fatigue.
• 1:00:38
  Oh, okay.
• 1:00:39
  So no matter how much fatigue they do, let me take back plus one.
• 1:00:42
  Okay.
• 1:00:43
  Got it.
• 1:00:43
  All right.
• 1:00:44
  So what you do is bill you nimbly, having your staff prepared at your feet.
• 1:00:50
  You kick it up, catch it in the air, and immediately start to sprint over towards the wagon, probably doing some acrobatics in the air as you kind of, like, jump and kind of like, catapult forward with your bow staff and then maybe, like, flip in the air as you do and landed front of the cart.
• 1:01:06
  Blocking them from access to grabbing any more items and preparing yourself for them to make any sort of attempts to do so.
• 1:01:17
  They also chose to defend a maneuver.
• 1:01:19
  Theirs was to seize a position, and their plan is to escape the scene with the two boxes, or at least yeah, like a box and maybe like a crate or something.
• 1:01:31
  A small crate that they each have in their hands.
• 1:01:34
  But any foe engaged with them can mark one fatigue to block this technique and stop them from getting away.
• 1:01:41
  Does it go for either of them? Yes, I'll do that.
• 1:01:45
  Okay.
• 1:01:46
  Makes sense.
• 1:01:46
  Since you're up there, you're, like, bending the card.
• 1:01:51
  The content will hand it back.
• 1:01:54
  All right, perfect.
• 1:01:55
  All right.
• 1:01:56
  And then we will hop over to Gua.
• 1:01:59
  What are you doing with your advance in attack? You said you rolled a seven, so you get to GM.
• 1:02:04
  So I'm going to strike.
• 1:02:09
  strike.
• 1:02:10
  Okay.
• 1:02:11
  That's right.
• 1:02:12
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:02:12
  Because you're spilling tea on them.
• 1:02:14
  That's right.
• 1:02:14
  How do you brew and you fling hot scalding tea onto them, which hits them on probably the hands where they're holding these crates or these boxes.
• 1:02:30
  Go and they scream as they take.
• 1:02:35
  I do want to add I find it funny that Gohan said he was acting like he was trapping and spilled the tea, but it still managed to say a catchphrase before I did it.
• 1:02:44
  Actually, that's how he greets customers.
• 1:02:57
  they keep making him go into the back and wash dishes.
• 1:03:00
  He's never gotten to use it.
• 1:03:03
  All right, I'm going to mark them as stunging.
• 1:03:07
  Yeah, exactly.
• 1:03:08
  I'm going to mark them as stun so they are caught off guard.
• 1:03:11
  They can't act or respond for a few seconds until they steady themselves.
• 1:03:15
  Given that they just had hot tea spilled on them, I think that fits.
• 1:03:19
  And then Bill trips them.
• 1:03:20
  Correct.
• 1:03:21
  Oh, boy.
• 1:03:22
  They've been hit with the one two combo, hot tea and sweeping the legs.
• 1:03:27
  All right, so with these guys stunned and such, you guys have the option.
• 1:03:31
  You can continue to maintain the exchange, or we can kind of drop it for the moment.
• 1:03:36
  If you guys wanted to do some more, like, handle this more of a role play direction, what would you like to do? Cursed out those not that option.
• 1:03:51
  I would say that they did drop the boxes that they were holding.
• 1:03:54
  Given that they're surprised by both of you, and Guao kind of spilled hot tea on their hands, I would assume that they were probably wearing clothing.
• 1:04:03
  So really, the tea really only scalded them where they didn't have clothing.
• 1:04:06
  On, which would be there.
• 1:04:07
  Like, they didn't have gloves or anything, so it makes sense that they drop it.
• 1:04:11
  So they're both on the ground.
• 1:04:12
  I wouldn't say they're necessarily on the ground, but they're startled and they're stunned.
• 1:04:17
  So they're not, like, running away at the moment.
• 1:04:19
  They're kind of baffled that you guys would just come out of nowhere at them.
• 1:04:24
  Bill is just going to point his staff at them and take a stance, like above the t.
• 1:04:30
  He's going to just say, back off, or else you're going to get a stick to the head.
• 1:04:36
  And you notice that their eyes are fairly wide and their pupils are kind of dilated.
• 1:04:43
  And they both say, at the same time almost eerily.
• 1:04:46
  Madame Yang wants these.
• 1:04:48
  And what Madame Yang wants, Madame Yang gets.
• 1:04:52
  And then the bill is going to kind of, like, kind of, like, step in this way forward.
• 1:04:58
  He's basically just kind of, like, pushed back.
• 1:05:01
  His goal is to push them away from the t, and then he's going to kind of slide them with his feet over the quo, put these back in the car.
• 1:05:10
  They're not aggressive.
• 1:05:12
  They're not, like, leaping down to grab it or anything like that.
• 1:05:15
  They just kind of seem like they're not really sure what to do right now.
• 1:05:18
  They've been caught, but they also seem a little bit out of it.
• 1:05:22
  And they also kind of have this I don't really want to leave without it kind of a look in their eyes.
• 1:05:27
  Look, I don't want to hurt you, but, like, we're running a business here, and we need that tea.
• 1:05:34
  And look, we got nice customers wait, and we don't need to cause trouble.
• 1:05:40
  Get out of here.
• 1:05:41
  Feed it, bozos.
• 1:05:43
  I'll have you guys here.
• 1:05:45
  Bill, I'm going to have you rolled, but you're there with him.
• 1:05:49
  You can help him.
• 1:05:52
  Actually, hold on, Mark.
• 1:05:56
  If it should give them a plus one if you'd like to.
• 1:06:10
  Either one, I suppose.
• 1:06:15
  Okay.
• 1:06:16
  All right.
• 1:06:17
  So you did intimidate.
• 1:06:18
  You rolled a seven.
• 1:06:20
  All right.
• 1:06:21
  They're going to give in with a few stipulations.
• 1:06:24
  They're going to start backing away, and their stipulation is just simply Adam Yang.
• 1:06:30
  They'll not be happy about this.
• 1:06:34
  Bill Dor is going to step forward again.
• 1:06:36
  He's going to just put his step down by side.
• 1:06:38
  He's going to say, well, Bill Door ain't too happy about this either.
• 1:06:43
  Bill Door got, like, a southern no, I wasn't trying to go no, bill Door ain't happy about what you two are doing here.
• 1:06:55
  Gone cram.
• 1:06:56
  I'm glad Bill Door is not Larry the Cable guy.
• 1:07:00
  Appreciate that.
• 1:07:00
  Same here.
• 1:07:02
  All right.
• 1:07:04
  They back away, and then eventually they actually turn around.
• 1:07:08
  After almost bumping into a partygoor as they were walking backwards, they turn around and they walk forward the rest of the way back into the mansion.
• 1:07:19
  All right.
• 1:07:19
  And build over turns around.
• 1:07:21
  Is Guajan loading? Yeah, I'm picking up the stuff and putting it back where it belongs, restoring it.
• 1:07:42
  Excuse me? Let's get back to where it comes.
• 1:07:48
  And then Joe is going to walk back up to the table, and he's going to lay his boast back underneath.
• 1:07:54
  Okay.
• 1:07:55
  He's going to wipe off the front of his, like, dust off the front of his vest and straighten it in his tie, and he's going to go, sorry for giving you quite a show back there, but got to defend the business.
• 1:08:09
  So he grabs his note fan and goes, may I take your order? And the woman standing in front of you winks and says, okay, well, I'll take something hot and spilled all over me.
• 1:08:24
  I'm sad I missed out on that lady.
• 1:08:27
  Hotel.
• 1:08:37
  RT is quite hot.
• 1:08:39
  It may burn you.
• 1:08:41
  Alcoholic drink names.
• 1:08:43
  Like, what was the one Emily ordered the other day? Sand in your shorts on the beach Insects on the beach.
• 1:08:49
  Yeah.
• 1:08:49
  So it's like, hot.
• 1:08:51
  She didn't want to order the Sex on the beach.
• 1:08:53
  Coming back over to Brock.
• 1:08:58
  So you managed to follow Madam Yang to hand this employee to this room.
• 1:09:04
  It's kind of like a farther into the back, whatever.
• 1:09:08
  There are two hot leaf juice employees that seem to be standing outside the room, but these guys kind of look like the guy that you confronted earlier.
• 1:09:16
  You assume they're hot leaves employees because they're waiting for her, but they're not wearing any necessarily, like, insignia or anything like that.
• 1:09:24
  So there's one on each side of the door.
• 1:09:25
  As soon as she brings that employee over there and they go inside, these two kind of go in with her, and then they close the door behind them.
• 1:09:33
  Okay.
• 1:09:36
  Is this one particular room the only one in this particular hallway, or there are multiple rooms in the immediate area? There are some other rooms in the area.
• 1:09:45
  All right.
• 1:09:47
  I'm going to try and get as close as I can to that one room.
• 1:09:50
  Okay.
• 1:09:50
  So I'm going to go is it like a bedroom, or is this lead down another hallway that they're going in? It's another bedroom.
• 1:09:57
  Yeah.
• 1:09:58
  Okay.
• 1:09:58
  So I'm going to go down this hall, and I'm going to try and get into one of the bedrooms that's right next door to Jason.
• 1:10:06
  Sure.
• 1:10:07
  Okay.
• 1:10:07
  Yeah.
• 1:10:08
  You're able to do that? Okay.
• 1:10:09
  I don't have to confront anybody about it? No.
• 1:10:12
  You noticed that there's no clothing in on the beds.
• 1:10:14
  Do you assume the staff probably already, like, grabbed the clothes that were in here and they took them out? This is pretty much just an open bedroom.
• 1:10:20
  Nobody's in there for any other reason.
• 1:10:22
  Okay.
• 1:10:23
  So I go into this bedroom, and I put my ear up to the wall sure.
• 1:10:27
  To try and listen in on what's going on in the other room.
• 1:10:29
  Okay.
• 1:10:30
  I'm going to have you rely on your skills and training, and that will be focus.
• 1:10:36
  So I get no additional focus.
• 1:10:42
  Ten.
• 1:10:42
  Nice.
• 1:10:43
  Okay, perfect.
• 1:10:44
  So you do it.
• 1:10:44
  Yeah.
• 1:10:45
  You successfully are able to hear everything that goes on in this room.
• 1:10:48
  So as you're listening, you can hear Madame Yang on the wall.
• 1:10:51
  You hear, like, some shuffling around as this person has sat down on the chair.
• 1:10:55
  Whatever the case, you hear her ask, what is the finest tea in the land? And the employee that she has sitting in there responds, the tea that grows on Madame Yang's trees.
• 1:11:15
  All those things you say out loud that sounds weird.
• 1:11:18
  You pre wrote that.
• 1:11:19
  That's what I was oh, boy.
• 1:11:22
  You pre written stuff out loud that sounded somewhat cryptic and somewhat something else.
• 1:11:43
  Now get back out there and do what I've hired you to do.
• 1:11:47
  And then you hear that there's a little bit of shuffling, and then the door opens, and they head back out.
• 1:11:54
  Do all of them leave, or do those other two still stand? The other two still stand guard? Yeah.
• 1:12:00
  Are these rooms one of the walls made out of here? Are they made of the paper walls, or are we talking, like, concrete, wooden rock wall? What's the interior looking like in here? I would say that they are stonewalls.
• 1:12:18
  Well, I'll give you that.
• 1:12:21
  Little old me here, the earthbender present.
• 1:12:27
  I will bend a small broccoli or not small, but a broccoli sized doorway down into the ground, and I want to go through there into the other room, bring the wall back up, and I want to investigate what's going on in this other room.
• 1:12:43
  Okay.
• 1:12:44
  Yeah, you're able to do that.
• 1:12:46
  You enter into the room, and you see it's a very simple room.
• 1:12:51
  It seems like all the furniture, for the most part, has actually been moved out of the way to the edges of the room, kind of against the wall, except for one chair in the middle, and then one chair across from it, kind of facing each other.
• 1:13:03
  And right in between this, if you look up on the ceiling, there's a large, small chandelier that's hanging there.
• 1:13:10
  And then from the chandelier, there's a sort of long gold chain with a elongated diamond shaped green stone on it, and it kind of just sways back and forth ever so slightly.
• 1:13:23
  Okay.
• 1:13:25
  So from this, I'm judging that Madame Yang is, in fact, hypnotizing her employees.
• 1:13:30
  Is it obvious to tell which chair Madame Yang is in and which chair the employees go in? Yeah.
• 1:13:36
  The chair that you assume the employees go in looks to be set a little bit closer to where the pendulum swinging.
• 1:13:43
  The other one is set a little bit further back.
• 1:13:46
  Okay.
• 1:13:46
  So what I'm going to do what are the floors made out of first? Are they also stone? They'd also be stone, yeah.
• 1:13:51
  All right.
• 1:13:52
  This is going to be a stretch.
• 1:13:53
  What we're going to do, I'm going to stand with my back.
• 1:13:58
  So facing the wall, I'm standing with my back to the chair, my arms on either side, and I'm an earth bend.
• 1:14:04
  Two straight lines in front of me.
• 1:14:07
  Okay.
• 1:14:07
  I'm using his measuring points into the next room.
• 1:14:12
  I make another broccoli sized wall in the wall, and then I go back in and I wait for Madame Yang to bring in another employee.
• 1:14:22
  Okay.
• 1:14:22
  The two lines that you're making so hold on.
• 1:14:26
  Explain that to me.
• 1:14:27
  So do you want me to explain the full plan or just like yeah, I mean, I'm not here as DM trying to stump, you know, I'm not going to met a game or anything like that, so yeah, feel free.
• 1:14:40
  Let me think.
• 1:14:40
  As far as, like, I don't know.
• 1:14:42
  I kind of wanted to play out.
• 1:14:43
  Let's let it play out for the audio.
• 1:14:45
  Okay.
• 1:14:45
  So I make two very small, like, very small thin lines across the floor.
• 1:14:52
  Okay.
• 1:14:53
  Unless you're looking directly at it, it's not going to be noticeable.
• 1:14:57
  Okay.
• 1:14:57
  But the lines go through, but essentially yes.
• 1:15:02
  Through the wall into the other room where I'm going to be.
• 1:15:05
  I make a broccoli door.
• 1:15:08
  I go through into the other room again, and I put the door back where it was.
• 1:15:13
  Okay.
• 1:15:13
  So it says if you were never there and you're back in the bedroom that's next door, and then you've got these lines that are they impressed or exercised? Very slightly impressed.
• 1:15:27
  Okay.
• 1:15:28
  But if it's a stone floor, it's going to just look like it's going to nobody really noticed it.
• 1:15:36
  And they go into the next room where you're at.
• 1:15:38
  Okay.
• 1:15:39
  Sounds good.
• 1:15:40
  All right.
• 1:15:41
  And then you wait for maybe another five minutes or so, and then, sure enough, you hear the door on the other side open again.
• 1:15:47
  Madame Yang steps in, and you start to hear a little bit of shuffling as an employee and her two senator specialty subordinates step into the room.
• 1:15:59
  They sit the employee down on the chair.
• 1:16:02
  They start going about their questioning.
• 1:16:06
  Okay.
• 1:16:22
  okay.
• 1:16:22
  All right.
• 1:16:24
  To trap an enemy into the Earth, and they become trapped.
• 1:16:29
  Okay.
• 1:16:29
  So you're kind of like a cushion kind of thing where you pull okay.
• 1:16:32
  But it's like a pit.
• 1:16:35
  Sure.
• 1:16:37
  So I would push her down, and she'd be in a pit.
• 1:16:42
  Sure.
• 1:16:42
  Okay, so do I have to roll or just mark two fatigue? I think you just mark two fatigue.
• 1:16:48
  All things considered, it would technically be a combat move, but we're not in combat, and she wouldn't know to react.
• 1:16:53
  So I'm going to say just go with the stipulations of what it costs you.
• 1:16:58
  That lady be underground.
• 1:16:59
  All right.
• 1:17:00
  So you do your maneuvering, and suddenly you hear sort of a crashesque kind of more just like an earth against earth, stone against stone, sliding sound and suddenly you hear and with that, we're going to call it at night boys night.
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