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Benders & Brews - Episode 9 - Maze Runners · 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 skillfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
• 0:11
  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.
• 0:26
  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.
• 0:34
  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.
• 3:16
  And welcome back to the Avatar Legends.
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  Real play, Podcast.
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  That is benders and bruise.
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  I thought I'd switch it up a little bit there with kind of saying the title after Benders and Bruce.
• 3:31
  Yes, Benders and Bruce.
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  Thank you, Mikayla.
• 3:34
  Ouch.
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  Harsh criticism.
• 3:36
  I thought you said benders and booze.
• 3:38
  Oh, booze.
• 3:39
  Sorry.
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  No, that'll be our Halloween episode.
• 3:42
  Welcome back, everybody, to episode nine.
• 3:45
  So today's question.
• 3:47
  I've got everybody here today, which is pretty awesome.
• 3:50
  Two episodes ago, we didn't have our man Broccoli Connor playing Broccoli.
• 3:57
  And then last week we didn't have Michaela playing Mika.
• 4:01
  We had boys night.
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  Boys night.
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  I don't know what the one previous to that would have been called.
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  We didn't for it.
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  It doesn't feel right when you say it, but I wanted to say it's night or something.
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  I gave you guys the boys night.
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  I suppose that is technically true.
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  The technical fair point.
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  Without you, we were able to have boys nights anyway.
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  So, question of the day.
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  or tea or maybe some specific soothing tune they like to listen to? Maybe they got like, a little music box or something.
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  Freaks everybody else out, but you enjoy it.
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  What do you got, Mikaela? What helps Mika get a good night's sleep? Well, she doesn't like to sleep, so she just does stuff until she passes out.
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  Like read a book, take a walk, star into the abyss.
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  She does sing, though.
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  We did experience that diary.
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  She reads her own diary? Yeah.
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  That sounds almost narcissistic like, I wrote it and I'm going to read it.
• 5:40
  I mean, I don't know, unless it's like, proofreading I was sad.
• 5:47
  Here's the limerick about my button that I lost.
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  Well, we all kind of mentally unpack that one.
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  Or Bill, what do you use? Cameron playing Bill.
• 5:57
  Rather.
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  What do you use to get a good night's sleep? Answering for Bill, not Cameron.
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  But you can answer for Cameron afterwards if you want to.
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  Nothing I do, honestly.
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  Picture Bill, he just like, lays there and then eventually he's asleep.
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  No, he's one of those annoying people that as soon as he said hits the pillow, he just like sleeps.
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  That is correct.
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  How is that not annoying? You know, we're not going to unpack.
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  It's annoying because we're all jealous about it.
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  Takes him less than a minute to fall asleep.
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  Goodness.
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  Once he lays his head on a pillow, like full 10 seconds, he starts counting his depends on the day he won.
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  I was just going to ask actually, in that 1 minute between his head touching the pillow and him falling asleep, what does he do? What does he do? Yeah, what's he doing? Does he count sheet? Does he mind blank? Oh, okay.
• 6:51
  He just zones fully out.
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  Yeah, he doesn't dream either.
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  It's pretty impressive.
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  Do you do that thing where he likes no, I'm joking.
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  He actually does have something.
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  He does, but he sleeps in.
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  The pitch black is dark, but he sleeps with his staff in his arms.
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  It's like his pet.
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  It's like his full body weeboo pillow.
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  Sometimes he smooches it in his face.
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  Right.
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  Is staff have a name? No, he does not have a name for his staff.
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  He has a staff and I said it's end infection.
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  Anyway, it's interesting.
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  Okay, so he cuddles with his bostaff.
• 7:41
  I wouldn't really say cuddles.
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  He just feels more secure.
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  It's like a secure thing.
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  And also it makes him feel safe.
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  Right? Is that what secure means? Yeah, safe.
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  Secure.
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  Yeah, basically.
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  I don't know, he always wants to feel like he's prepared.
• 7:59
  I guess if anything happens, it's like why you don't sleep nude.
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  Fire starts, you have to run out.
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  Completely new and can't relate to that the whole ordeal.
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  So, you know, in case of a robber breaks in.
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  Well, he's got his staff right there.
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  Firemen are like, oh, that guy's naked.
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  We're not going to help him.
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  No one place pranks on Bill while he's sleeping because they're afraid he'll just whack him with his staff while he's sleeping.
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  Classic.
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  Classic.
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  Awesome.
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  Brock learned that the hard way.
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  Yeah, through a rock.
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  In return it's fine.
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  I would jump over to Brock for his answer, but I just have a weird thing about the order in the table.
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  Nobody knows the order.
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  Yeah, but you would know the order of the table if you follow our discord and saw the picture that Cameron just posted.
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  I'm not in it.
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  You can just assume.
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  All right, so Dave playing Guo Han.
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  What does Guo do to get a good night's sleep? So Glow goes to the upstairs of the shop.
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  It hangs a hammock in the top rafters above an open window.
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  And he gets in there and he sleeps so he can hear the sound of the passing traffic.
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  Otherwise it's a little too quiet for him.
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  He's used to the hustle and bustle of the carnival and the weird animal noises.
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  So better than nothing.
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  Yeah, it's not quite the same.
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  No, I can totally relate to that.
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  Moving over to the final player, I've got Connor playing Brock.
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  What does Brock got to do to get a good night's sleep in this dang town? So growing up in the farm, in the farmlands yes.
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  You got a lot of big critters that could come and try and eat you.
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  Goodness.
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  I know, it's terrible.
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  So the way Brock learned how to sleep from a young age is what I might affectionately call the Minecraft first Night in Hardcore.
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  Okay.
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  The earth bends a chunk of earth out of the ground, steps into it, makes himself a little bed and then shuts the top.
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  As for protection, obviously, from the largest.
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  Do you leave like, a little air home? No.
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  He suffer tape every night.
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  No, you don't need it in mind.
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  That's why he sleeps so good.
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  Brock enables cheats so that he doesn't have to breathe.
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  So that's only if he's out in the wilderness.
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  If he's at home, he'll just make a stone bed, stone pillow and a stone blanket.
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  It's like a weighted blanket.
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  Yeah, it's exactly like a weight.
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  You make your bed every night? Yeah.
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  Earth bend the blanket above him and he'll slam it down onto his torso.
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  So the blanket is now flush with the top of the stone bed.
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  Okay.
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  So his body is inside the rock.
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  You're like, mummifying yourself.
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  He's like Han Solo and carbonate every night.
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  Is it like one of those kids toys? Not an etched sketch where you put your hand in it and then little needles stick out? Yeah.
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  The other side like a hot tub and carbonite situation.
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  Exactly like that.
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  We all put our face into it even though we know like 100 kids have probably had their hands all over that.
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  Because you're just like, what would it look like in that way? No one short sheets his bed.
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  That's right.
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  Yeah, that's right.
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  Oh, man.
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  When he goes to the mattress store and they're like, do you prefer them soft or fur? It's called a Pen art board.
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  I want a rock.
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  I want a rock.
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  That's awesome.
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  All right, perfect.
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  Well, with our questions about sleep out of the way, let's get back to where all the characters are actively not sleeping in.
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  and Bill are both hanging out over at the Blissful Brew booth.
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  We've got Connor actually, I'll come back to that.
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  We've got Mika, who is masked and wandering about the mansion, as far as we know, not sleeping.
• 12:43
  That's correct.
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  In her mask, trying to participate in this strange game that she suddenly has kind of found herself participating in all of a sudden at this Rich party.
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  Ironically, also wearing a mask and fancy attire, is Brock, who has just managed to drop Madame Yang, who was in another room through the wall, sort of dropped her into a hole.
• 13:11
  He's trying to put her to sleep.
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  It's a real sleep based episode for how awake everyone is.
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  So I'm going to kick things off with Brock just because I'm sure we're all concerned.
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  What are you going to do now that you've got Madame Yang in a hole? All right, so I got Madame Yang in a hole.
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  I got Madame Yang in a hole.
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  I'm going to go into that room.
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  I'm going to go into that room that Madam Gang was just in.
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  Okay.
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  There are two individuals in there with her.
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  Don't forget that.
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  Technically three.
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  There's the Hypnotized employee, and then there's the two that she had that were, like, guarding the door when she wasn't there.
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  Right.
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  So in that case, I still have the lines on the floor, so I'm going to Earth Bend, just do, like, one little sidekick thing sidekick.
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  And conjure a lid on top of the hole that I just put out of it from the other side still in my little other room.
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  Like your pet.
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  Okay.
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  So they are about to reach out for two side bodyguards, whatever.
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  About to like, they're surprised, obviously.
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  Everybody's taken aback when the whole initially opens up and just swallows Madame Yang into it.
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  They're taking aback.
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  So before they can respond and grab her hand and try to pull her out, you kick the floor, shooting this rock slab outwards, covering the hole, putting a lid on it, much like you've done a couple of times now to keep Dilbert inside of his little makeshift aquarium you guys have created.
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  Yes, they are very surprised.
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  They are looking about.
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  Madame Yang is furiously shouting from inside of this hole, let me out.
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  Let me out this instant.
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  Unbelievable.
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  And they are just unsure what to do.
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  Okay, so how many people did Madame Yang pull aside before? I think you said there were, like, what, two dozen? Yeah.
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  So how did that we'll say two dozen? Did she pull aside before this interaction here? Do you want me to include the one that's in there right now or not include that one? Not included.
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  Okay.
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  So it'd be like three.
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  Like three.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  She didn't get very far, and then, of course, there's one in the room right now who is equally confused, pretty startled, kind of just backing up and just standing against one of the walls.
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  Just kind of, like, very just like I said, confused, scared.
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  The person he works for and who is very controlling of him or her, just got swallowed up by a random hole in the floor and then reseals over the mouth has closed, so to speak.
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  So let's go with he is very confused.
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  All right, so I'm going to walk out of my room.
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  Walk out of the room I'm in.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm going to conjure up Earth Bend, I should say, not conjure a stone wall on the inside of the room next to me as I walk out, and I go and confront the old man again.
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  Okay.
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  So that way they can't get out.
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  Okay.
• 16:28
  Sounds good.
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  Basically.
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  Yeah.
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  So keeping them from being able to get to the door in the first place.
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  Okay, yeah, you do that.
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  So you basically pull up a wall on the inside of this room, causing them to be unable to get to the door.
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  Got it.
• 16:43
  All right, sounds good.
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  You've essentially trapped them all into this space for the time being.
• 16:49
  All part of the plan.
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  I'm going to go talk to that guy that said he was with Madame Yang in the last episode.
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  Okay, sounds good.
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  All right, so you head out, and sure enough, he's still standing there, kind of eyeballing the booth from a distance.
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  The Blissful Brew booth from a distance.
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  Now, you had talked to him before, didn't you? Yeah, I talked to him.
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  Okay, cool.
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  And he says, oh, yes.
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  Hello.
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  It's you again.
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  Yeah, I actually just met Madame Yang, the woman who said that you're here with yes, I just talked to her.
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  She's a wonderful woman.
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  We just had a lovely conversation.
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  She sent me out to come get you.
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  She said she needed you for something.
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  Okay, where is she at right now? She's towards the back.
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  I can take you there if you want.
• 17:42
  Yes, of course.
• 17:44
  It would be great.
• 17:45
  Absolutely.
• 17:45
  This house is amazing as it is.
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  It's so large and filled with so many rooms.
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  I would lose myself if I lived here.
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  The amount of cleaning a person has to do.
• 17:59
  Yes.
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  And he follows you.
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  I mean, he's just kind of rambling on as you guys walk.
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  Okay, so as we're walking up to it in conversation, I bring down the wall from the inside as we're walking up.
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  I hide it with a sneeze with a little okay, I do that.
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  The old combo.
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  So I opened the door, or I let him go first.
• 18:29
  Oh, okay.
• 18:29
  I let him go first in there.
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  And can I just try and close the door behind him and then build a wall on the outside? Okay, let me play this out.
• 18:39
  So you say, oh, she's in there.
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  Basically, you've lowered the wall and everything.
• 18:44
  He opens the door, and immediately a fist flies out and just punches him right square in the face, and then they grab him.
• 18:55
  So one bodyguard is, like, on one side inside the door.
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  Obviously, they saw when the wall came down, and they quickly prepared themselves by the door to attack whoever came in.
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  The other ones on the other side of the door grabs him, who is now kind of stumbling a little bit because he just got punched in the face, pulls him into the room, slams them up against the wall, in which case you reseal.
• 19:16
  Okay.
• 19:17
  So they grabbed him and throw him against the wall.
• 19:19
  Can I go back into my room and listen in? Yeah, absolutely.
• 19:24
  All right.
• 19:24
  Do I need to roll for that? Because I think I had to roll last time.
• 19:26
  Yeah, give me just another I mean, I'd say between the two activities of getting the timing just right with the wall and then going and listening.
• 19:34
  Let's rely on your skills and training.
• 19:37
  Is that for bringing the wall down on time or for listening? Let's just go with more listening.
• 19:45
  Okay.
• 19:45
  It does feel a little weird because what if you failed or something? Rely on skills and training.
• 19:50
  That's focused.
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  All you're hearing is like Charlie Brown adult voices.
• 20:05
  All right.
• 20:06
  I guess if anything, the one thing that you do notice is that they don't sound, I don't want to say like violent, but kind of like aggressive.
• 20:14
  They sound like things have cooled down.
• 20:17
  Possibly once they realized who it was to the extent of, they're not obviously wailing on them and probably apologizing.
• 20:24
  Okay, so at this point, I'll just go back into the party and I'll try and mingle amongst the people while thinking of a next move.
• 20:34
  Okay, sounds good.
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  With that, I'm going to cut back over to the duo at the Blissful Brew.
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  You guys are fiercely serving customers as they come by, filling up tea cups, filling up sort of those side ingredients, whether it be the honey jar or the fruit things along those lines that you can kind of decorate or put into your teas, whatever the case, the sugar.
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  You guys are trying to keep everything stocked and everything.
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  And then Mr.
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  Okran, he approaches you guys.
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  He is, like, sweating.
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  He's actually sort of taking the top half of his robe off at this point.
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  He's been both working super hard with a lot of physical activity while he's been making this tea.
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  And then to top it off, the tea is like the big pot is over a fire.
• 21:28
  So it's very hot.
• 21:29
  Where he's working from, mr.
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  Omar? That's right.
• 21:32
  So he stands there in front of you in quite a state.
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  He says no.
• 21:42
  Bill, we have a bit of a problem.
• 21:45
  We're running out of ingredients.
• 21:47
  It seems that whatever is going on with the hot leaf juice inside, all the customers have come out here for tea on such a beautiful night as this.
• 21:55
  I can't imagine why not.
• 21:57
  And so we serve too many customers and we don't have much left.
• 22:04
  I'm not really sure what to do.
• 22:07
  Do you guys have any ideas? Yeah, we're down to our last crack of honey.
• 22:14
  What a bother.
• 22:23
  I love how you conveniently waited.
• 22:25
  What a bother.
• 22:26
  What a bother.
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  Wait for laughter.
• 22:41
  She stopped somebody from going to the market, so there must be some place nearby where we could get some more ingredients.
• 22:48
  You might be right, but the thing I worry about is whether or not they're even still open.
• 22:55
  It is growing quite late.
• 22:59
  It looks like it's about maybe 08:00 or so, maybe nine.
• 23:04
  Do you know where Brock is? I haven't seen him in quite a while.
• 23:10
  Miki either.
• 23:18
  Occasionally.
• 23:19
  It's been two episodes.
• 23:21
  Brock's busy stealing our teacups, apparently.
• 23:26
  And Mika is gone.
• 23:30
  Mika died.
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  And Mr.
• 23:33
  Ogre falls on his knees and he starts you can't tell if it's sweat or tears, but you assume by his coughs of emotion that it must be tears.
• 23:42
  At this point, I don't understand what could have possibly happened to her.
• 23:49
  No, I think Mika just got caught up in the party spirit and it's like a night such as this, I'm not going to work.
• 23:59
  Oh, that is a relief.
• 24:03
  This is what you think of me? You had me so worried.
• 24:07
  Do you just assume that we just disappear for a couple of hours? We're dead, Mr.
• 24:11
  Ocaron.
• 24:12
  Well, not unless someone looks me in the eye and says that they're gone.
• 24:15
  Gone for good.
• 24:17
  Bill, we need to work on your good.
• 24:21
  You said she's gone.
• 24:23
  Like really gone.
• 24:25
  Well, I'm sorry, Random.
• 24:27
  I suppose.
• 24:27
  Sorry, random patron.
• 24:29
  This is no, we'll get you your teeth in time, obviously.
• 24:35
  He doesn't even have a mask on because he lost the game already.
• 24:38
  He just leaned over like well, he did say he's gone.
• 24:43
  Sure, yes.
• 24:44
  Also, could I get some more honey? We're down to our last smack roll, apparently.
• 24:52
  No baller, no bowler.
• 24:55
  Is that what he says? It's very a lot of input from the bottom.
• 25:00
  And he walks away drinking his raw.
• 25:03
  As the person who actually knows nothing about tea, I have zero solutions for the situation.
• 25:11
  That's okay, Bill.
• 25:12
  I appreciate the honesty.
• 25:15
  Yeah.
• 25:15
  So I can just leave.
• 25:17
  Hold on now.
• 25:18
  Can you go find Brock? Find Brock? Sure.
• 25:23
  I guess I can find Brock.
• 25:24
  I mean, I kind of know what he looks like.
• 25:25
  He's currently in disguise, so that's a little weird.
• 25:28
  That's true, that's true.
• 25:29
  We worked together for five years.
• 25:31
  Yeah, because he showed up and took our tea in disguise.
• 25:35
  And then I assumed someone was just stealing our tea, and then Brock was like, no, it's me, and started winking at me under a mask, which I was so confused because a lot of people have been winking at me under masks tonight.
• 25:47
  Are you telling me that Brock was able to wink at you? I'm so proud of the boy.
• 25:53
  He's been practicing his wink.
• 25:54
  He always blinks instead of winks.
• 25:57
  And I've tried everything to try.
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  I've held his eyelid open for him, anything it takes, because he was really intent on learning the wings.
• 26:06
  And I can't believe tonight was the night.
• 26:08
  Mr.
• 26:09
  O'Connor, have you ever been told that you just do too much for us? I know nothing is too much for you guys.
• 26:16
  I love all of you so much.
• 26:18
  Brought so much joy to my life.
• 26:21
  I wish I could have seen it.
• 26:23
  Seeing Brock wink for the first time would have been like watching a child learn from can I leave now? You're going to come back, right? No, I'll be gone.
• 26:35
  And with that, Bill just starts walking away with his staff.
• 26:41
  Such a jerk.
• 26:42
  And he turns around, he says, watch the shop, Guao.
• 26:46
  Okay, I'll do what I can.
• 26:49
  All right, so, Bill, you walk off into the party.
• 26:53
  Brock, you said you were just going to go mingle.
• 26:56
  Yeah, just sort of blend in, keep a low profile.
• 26:59
  I guess I could probably go back and check out the Blissful brew.
• 27:03
  Sure.
• 27:04
  Well, then on your way, you actually run into Bill, who obviously isn't wearing a mask, and he more or less notices yours.
• 27:12
  And Bill is a pretty attentive guy, so he remembers which mask and stuff you were wearing and catches you.
• 27:18
  Bill walks up behind Rock and he's like, oh, there's the tea culprit I've been looking for.
• 27:24
  And it scares Brock.
• 27:26
  Okay.
• 27:27
  You steal two glasses, two what do they call it? Two teacups.
• 27:33
  And suddenly you're labeled as a criminal.
• 27:37
  What are you doing out here? Why aren't you in the pop up shop? Well, you see, there's been a how busy is it around us in your immediate space? Yeah.
• 27:48
  I'd say you're probably still inside the mansion, so pretty busy.
• 27:52
  Bill's going to kind of usher Brock to the side.
• 27:57
  Okay.
• 27:59
  Under his breath he's going to say, well, you and Mika have done a great job because apparently every single customer from Hot Leaf has just been coming to our stand and now we're out of supplies.
• 28:12
  What kind of supplies do you need? Like everything.
• 28:15
  I have absolutely no idea because I don't know.
• 28:19
  Tea.
• 28:20
  Mr.
• 28:21
  Oakron just said we're out of ingredients.
• 28:23
  Well, it just so happens I know where some ingredients are.
• 28:27
  Like the ones you start ditched for us? Yeah.
• 28:31
  They may or may not have been launched into the topiary maze in the backyard.
• 28:38
  You threw them into the maze? I didn't throw them.
• 28:43
  You launched them.
• 28:44
  Yeah.
• 28:45
  That is cooler, I will admit that.
• 28:47
  And if I can get a bit MEA here, if I recall correctly, my role made it to where they're all condensed in one location.
• 28:55
  So we find one card, we can find them all, and then we would not be in the weeds if that's where ingredients are.
• 29:04
  Let's just go right there and start looking, I guess.
• 29:06
  All right.
• 29:07
  How good are you with I'm a natural and I'll let you don't weaken me, that's my thing.
• 29:15
  Apparently you just mastered it.
• 29:18
  Yeah.
• 29:19
  Mr.
• 29:19
  O'Connor.
• 29:20
  How? He held my eyes open.
• 29:22
  What a guy, right? What a guy.
• 29:25
  That's one way of describing bill starts leaving to go to the maze.
• 29:31
  All right.
• 29:32
  I guess I'm by myself.
• 29:36
  Hey, everyone, skyler the game master, here to share with you another review we received on itunes from one of our amazing listeners who took a little time out of their day to share their appreciation for the show.
• 29:47
  Great.
• 29:47
  Like a warm cup of tea.
• 29:49
  The story is best described as a slice of life with dash of crime.
• 29:53
  The characters and their lighthearted antics, which include kidnapping a cephalopod, balances the show's serious foundation of giant corporations obliterating small rivals in a quest to create a bland culture that can be easily commodified and sold.
• 30:09
  Overall, this show has been a delightful surprise.
• 30:12
  The premise a local tea shop struggled to take back a contract from a national tea chain creates a fun, intimate, and focused story, a big contrast from the epic adventures of the Avatar franchise on which it's based.
• 30:25
  A sprinkling of sound effects and voice acting, as well as excellent editing, makes for polished product anyone, not just the fans of the show, can enjoy.
• 30:36
  We the cast of Benders and Brews podcasts.
• 30:38
  Just want to say an absolutely massive thank you to Willow for writing such a thoughtful review.
• 30:44
  It's audience response like this that really makes the show and all the hard work that we put into it totally worth it.
• 30:51
  If you listen to itunes or you have an Apple account, it would really mean a lot to us if you would also take the time to drop the review there and let us know how we're doing.
• 31:00
  It helps the podcast and assists in promoting the show through the Apple podcast platform so that others can find and enjoy the podcast as well.
• 31:08
  And it sure would mean a lot to all of us who spend hours recording and editing the show.
• 31:13
  Once again, a huge thank you to Willow for this review.
• 31:16
  Now let's get back to the show.
• 31:21
  Brock, you can follow me if you want.
• 31:24
  Can I launch you in maze? Do we no, I don't want to go.
• 31:29
  Okay.
• 31:31
  Walk through a maze.
• 31:33
  All right, so Bill, you head to the back.
• 31:37
  Mika, what are you doing? Yes, I was supposed to find an outfit so I'd be more into disguise.
• 31:42
  Right.
• 31:43
  And then I was going to go into the maze just for kicks and giggles.
• 31:47
  Okay.
• 31:47
  Because you've found an outfit at this point.
• 31:49
  Oh, well, then I'm in the maze or headed to the maze.
• 31:52
  Okay, you're headed to the maze.
• 31:54
  Whatever time goes.
• 31:55
  So you are headed to the maze.
• 31:57
  You have gone too, right? That's right.
• 32:01
  What kind of mask do you have on? I don't know what you look like.
• 32:05
  Foxmax kitsune.
• 32:09
  So she's headed to the maze and you see Bill as he is also approaching the opening of the maze.
• 32:18
  And obviously he doesn't recognize you.
• 32:20
  You just look like a partygoer with a mask on and everything.
• 32:26
  But you recognize him because he does not have that kind of stuff on.
• 32:31
  Just putting that info out there.
• 32:32
  I mean, if you want to do something with it or not, whatever you want to do.
• 32:37
  They just kind of walked past.
• 32:38
  The stranger goes, excuse me? Like Shimmy's pastor.
• 32:44
  Left or right? I'm going to follow him like a shadow.
• 32:48
  Always go right.
• 32:49
  That's what my papa taught me.
• 32:52
  Standing outside of the maze is a servant.
• 32:55
  And they go, are you going to go into the maze today? Yeah, I'm going right okay, well, just so you know, there a map.
• 33:04
  No, there's no map of the maze.
• 33:06
  That would really be more of a natural.
• 33:09
  But just to forewarn you, there are rumors that a spirit lives inside of this maze.
• 33:17
  We love that.
• 33:18
  What kind of spirit do you say that? Yeah.
• 33:20
  Okay, is it the spirit or not? I don't believe so.
• 33:26
  Okay.
• 33:27
  They say it is the spirit of lost things.
• 33:32
  And they say if you find it, it will help you find something that you've lost, but only if you can solve its riddle.
• 33:43
  Really? Okay.
• 33:45
  I guess I'll solve it.
• 33:46
  I am a little high strung right now.
• 33:49
  A lot of stress in the party and stuff, and no promises.
• 33:54
  Anyways, I'm walking in now.
• 33:56
  Okay, well, have a nice time in the mates.
• 33:59
  Nice time.
• 34:00
  Sounds like you could have used GuoHan in the spirit of secrets.
• 34:06
  Isn't Quohan the smart one of the party? Like, you can go get them? No, Bill, he's determined see, that's the problem with Bill.
• 34:15
  He's determined to find this crate because that was the mission he was sent out on.
• 34:19
  And he would feel like he would look like a bit of a duplicate if he came back empty handed because of a little spirit.
• 34:28
  Can I make this really difficult for you? Because if he's only going to go right, I want to go left.
• 34:33
  That's what's going to make things really difficult.
• 34:36
  All right, so Bill goes right.
• 34:40
  Are you actually going to go left? I thought you were following me.
• 34:43
  I was, but then they say left, and you say, no, I'm going right, and then I go left.
• 34:48
  I'm not listening to instructions from a stranger.
• 34:51
  Bill was taught very well by his parents about avoiding strangers.
• 34:55
  I'm not talking about you as a servant.
• 34:57
  Rich people can still be strangers, Mikayla, but they don't look like a servant.
• 35:03
  The other person was a servant because he said, I'm not taking directions from a stranger, much less a servant.
• 35:14
  All right, so Bill, you go to the right and you're walking along and stuff like that, and eventually you come across like another couple that's I say another couple.
• 35:26
  You come across a couple that is walking through the maze romantically, holding hands, giving each other Google eyes.
• 35:34
  They see you, they're like and they kind of act like they weren't canoodling or anything until you pass them.
• 35:45
  And then you walk a little further and you start to realize that there's a lot of couples in this may because you pass like, maybe one or two more couples giggling amongst themselves, things like that.
• 35:59
  It's kind of awkward eye.
• 36:01
  You a little bit weird because you're by yourself.
• 36:03
  You kind of get the feeling that the whole idea of going into a maze at night is really a couple's thing.
• 36:09
  I mean, obviously you have a mission, but I digress.
• 36:12
  At one point, you actually hear someone shout, hey, honey, I found a.
• 36:17
  Banana mango over here.
• 36:19
  What's that doing in this maze? What direction is that coming from? It's coming from, like it'd be straight ahead of you, minus the fact that there's hedge walls straight in front of you.
• 36:32
  Can Bill stick his hand through the hedge wall? Yeah.
• 36:36
  Does it go out the other side? You'd have to take maybe two to three steps to get all the way through.
• 36:43
  I can build just, like, back up and just jump through it.
• 36:47
  Since you're doing it this specific way, I'm going to say push your luck.
• 36:53
  Nine.
• 36:54
  Okay.
• 36:55
  So you successfully just kind of start plowing through these walls in this maze.
• 37:02
  The downside is that you get, like, real scraped up pretty bad.
• 37:06
  You take a fatigue.
• 37:07
  Am I on the other side now? The people who said something on the other side? Yeah.
• 37:12
  You see a man in a very fine robe.
• 37:16
  He's wearing a mask, and he's standing there holding a banana mango, and he's shouting for somebody, and then he's ho.
• 37:26
  He sees you just, like, burst through the maze.
• 37:29
  He touches his banana mango.
• 37:31
  I tripped.
• 37:32
  Are you okay? No, I tripped.
• 37:35
  Oh, dear.
• 37:35
  Mail.
• 37:36
  Yes.
• 37:36
  Let me help you up.
• 37:38
  Take my hand.
• 37:39
  Sure.
• 37:40
  Bill takes his hand, stands up.
• 37:44
  Bill just kind of walks around and then just starts looking for a crate or something, I dare say.
• 37:50
  What was it that you are looking for? Those mango.
• 37:54
  The mango thing you got there.
• 37:57
  Well, I can give it to you after I showed my fellow news.
• 38:00
  I don't care if you keep it.
• 38:02
  That came from something else, but it came from the ground, so I don't really want to keep it.
• 38:08
  I don't want it either.
• 38:10
  I'm just looking for tennis.
• 38:12
  I'll toss it once I've oh, yes.
• 38:16
  Well, I found a trail of fruit leading just over behind the corner here.
• 38:21
  The Bill is going to look around the corner.
• 38:22
  Does he see a trail? Yes.
• 38:24
  Is it like, laid one after another? No.
• 38:28
  Okay.
• 38:33
  Bill is going to start.
• 38:34
  He's going to say, oh, thank you.
• 38:36
  That's exactly what I've been looking for.
• 38:39
  I was lost in this maze.
• 38:41
  Can't even find my fiance.
• 38:43
  But I should help you find something.
• 38:47
  I love your laugh.
• 38:49
  Oh, thank you.
• 38:50
  Okay, I'm leaving now.
• 38:51
  Bye, sir.
• 38:51
  Bye.
• 38:52
  Have a nice lord, you got roasted for being single.
• 38:57
  Yeah.
• 38:57
  He never actually had a fiance.
• 38:59
  He's just been shouting for, like, somebody that doesn't even exist.
• 39:04
  Maybe he'll find someone else who is also lying about a fiance, and it would be perfect for each other.
• 39:11
  He'll have a lovely night with his banana mango.
• 39:14
  Oh, no.
• 39:15
  Anyways, we are Smoothies Hillies.
• 39:19
  Many smoothie adventures.
• 39:22
  Follow the trail.
• 39:23
  All right, so you follow this.
• 39:25
  Well, it's a very short trail because you quickly find the crate.
• 39:29
  Oh, look at that stuff.
• 39:30
  It's like one of the corners is busted, and that's where stuff kind of spilled out as it hit the ground.
• 39:36
  The fruit itself, for the most part is integrity, especially the stuff that's still inside the crate.
• 39:40
  It's just like one of the corners kind of just like got obliterated and some of the fruit kind of spilled out on the trail a little distance just from the impact.
• 39:50
  They're going to kind of pick up close fruit and they just kind of rub it on his vest and he's just going to place into the crate and then he's going to pick up the crate and then start heading back the way he can.
• 40:00
  All right, pick up the crate.
• 40:03
  You're transported to a graveyard.
• 40:08
  It was a port key.
• 40:13
  What game are we playing? We have left Avatar legends, and we have entered Avatar Dungeons and Dragons.
• 40:22
  Okay, so you're basically you start picking up all this fruit and stuff like that.
• 40:26
  Now when you say you go back the way you came, does that include plowing through several hedges? No, I would just go back down the way I came and then I would just hop through the hole I made right.
• 40:37
  And then just go back that way.
• 40:38
  Okay, all right, sounds good.
• 40:40
  Yeah.
• 40:41
  I mean, after a while it takes you maybe a little bit longer, like you have to double back a couple of times, but all things considered, you're eventually able to figure out where it was that you were supposed to be my natural amazes.
• 40:51
  Sure, but whatever the case.
• 40:53
  Yeah.
• 40:53
  Okay, so you make it outside of the maze.
• 40:57
  I go back to the Blissful Brew stand.
• 41:00
  On your way back, you notice hot leaf juice employee that's walking by and just out of the corner of their eye you see them notice you and see your crate full of ingredients labeled with their logo on it.
• 41:21
  Oh, is it? I guess I wouldn't know that.
• 41:24
  I didn't look that's okay.
• 41:27
  And turns and starts walking somewhat aggressively towards you.
• 41:33
  Does Bill see this? Yes.
• 41:36
  He's just going to keep walking the same way.
• 41:38
  He's going okay.
• 41:39
  Eventually this employee, this HLJ sounds so weird to say.
• 41:45
  It like that employee approach or manages to catch up to you and they're like, hey, what do you think you're doing with that box? I'm taking it to my stand roll.
• 41:56
  A trick.
• 41:57
  I know you might not intentionally mean it as a trick, but the way you phrased it, technically, I mean, you could be like five.
• 42:03
  Oh, okay.
• 42:04
  He sees that you have the Blissful Brew uniform on and he says, what are you doing with our fruit? This must be the fruit that's been missing all day.
• 42:17
  Bill is going to quickly, obviously glance at the side of it where we now see for the first time it's got a clear logo on it because I found it in the maze and I figured something lost in the maze clearly isn't being used.
• 42:40
  My tea company, I was just in the maze and I was like, hey, my company could use this.
• 42:45
  I feel like you guys must have taken it and stashed it in the maze until later.
• 42:51
  If we wanted it, why didn't we just take it? Because then people would have seen the big old logo on the box when you guys first started.
• 42:59
  It would have been like, what's up with that? I didn't actually see this logo, so clearly that would have been a problem earlier.
• 43:07
  Yes.
• 43:07
  Well, now that you've seen it, you know that it doesn't belong to you, and I give it back.
• 43:12
  Yeah.
• 43:15
  He seems like he's getting kind of upset, and he starts to grab the box, like he's going to try to rip it out of your hands.
• 43:23
  Hey, buddy, no one likes your guys'tea.
• 43:27
  Well, because we don't have all our ingredients.
• 43:30
  That's not what I've been hearing.
• 43:31
  I've been hearing it just tastes bad.
• 43:33
  And honestly, because we don't have all our ingredients, they all come into our stand.
• 43:37
  I've already had a couple of your friends trying to steal our tea, and I had to beat them off with a stick, this stick.
• 43:43
  And he kind of like motions of the stick behind him.
• 43:45
  So, like, I want to do it to you, but I will do it to you.
• 43:49
  Just let go of the tea, and I'm going to leave you alone.
• 43:53
  All right.
• 43:54
  Roll.
• 43:54
  And intimidate nine.
• 43:57
  I'm going to do it to him.
• 43:59
  If he does anymore and he has to pick one of these options.
• 44:03
  But he gets to pick yeah, he's going to attack you, but he's off balance.
• 44:10
  So I'm going to mark a condition for this hot leaf juice employee.
• 44:15
  Exchange.
• 44:16
  Exchange.
• 44:17
  Okay.
• 44:17
  So he is marked angry.
• 44:19
  I know an action I want to do.
• 44:23
  Okay.
• 44:23
  But I don't know what it would fit under.
• 44:25
  Okay.
• 44:31
  When he advanced to me to toss the crate at him so that he would catch it, and then when he was going to catch it and he would be off balance by the weight, he's quickly catching.
• 44:42
  Bill would take out his staff and then sweep his legs.
• 44:45
  Right.
• 44:48
  Let's call it a strike, because one of the options on strike is to have them mark a condition.
• 44:54
  And so what you could do is mark a condition to have them basically sun.
• 44:58
  Yeah.
• 44:59
  Okay, that makes sense.
• 45:00
  Okay, sounds good.
• 45:01
  He's also going to take the advanced attack options, but players, I believe, roll first, so feel free.
• 45:06
  Go ahead.
• 45:07
  And years twelve.
• 45:10
  Oh, wow.
• 45:11
  Okay, so you get to pick, like, give them away.
• 45:14
  Double check here.
• 45:17
  You can mark one fatigue.
• 45:20
  You'll learn technique.
• 45:21
  You can use one practice technique.
• 45:23
  You can use two basic or mastered techniques.
• 45:27
  So you have quite a bit of options here.
• 45:31
  Honestly, if you wanted to, you could just do I think, technically speaking, you're not supposed to take the same one twice, but I don't see an issue with it, especially given the way that you described it.
• 45:42
  If you wanted to strike twice, since the first one is to essentially throw the box at him.
• 45:49
  Can I, for example, strike him, which knocks him to the ground and then pressure him? Yeah, definitely.
• 45:57
  Okay.
• 45:58
  Yeah.
• 45:58
  If I do that, then I knock him to the ground.
• 46:00
  And then because my idea was after he spoke to the ground, he's got this crate, like, in his hands, kind of like stumbled around.
• 46:07
  Maybe he even dropped it.
• 46:09
  We could say that he's trapped.
• 46:11
  Since you can market condition, you could say he's trapped.
• 46:13
  I don't care which one it is, because regardless of how he lands bills, then just going to point the staff at the side of his head.
• 46:20
  Okay.
• 46:21
  And he's going to say, I'll be taking that box of crate.
• 46:24
  I'll take that crate now.
• 46:26
  Okay.
• 46:27
  So I'm just going to say, yeah, okay.
• 46:28
  So you throw the crate at him like you said you would.
• 46:31
  Him being ready to attack you, it throws him off balance.
• 46:35
  He's not expecting it, so he catches it, but in the process falls backwards.
• 46:40
  Now this 70, 80 pound crate of fruit is on top of him, and he's just, like, laying there practically sprawled out.
• 46:47
  He's trying to push it up.
• 46:48
  You put your bow staff up to his head and you say, I'll be taking that fruit now.
• 46:54
  And he says, okay, yeah, go ahead and take it.
• 46:57
  It really hurts.
• 46:59
  Okay.
• 47:00
  And then Bill is just going to give him a look that's like, don't mess with me.
• 47:07
  And he's going to slide the staff back onto his back and then just pick up the crate off of him.
• 47:13
  Okay, sounds good.
• 47:14
  You pick up the crate, the guy kind of lays there for a second.
• 47:19
  He's kind of just trying to catch his breath, essentially.
• 47:25
  So he's not bothering you.
• 47:27
  Okay.
• 47:28
  Bill is going to just kind of pick up the crate and he's going to start walking away.
• 47:34
  Okay.
• 47:34
  Eventually you do see that you kind of, like, look back and you notice that he does stand up.
• 47:39
  He looks pretty beat up, and he just kind of limps back into the mansion.
• 47:46
  Bill assumes that won't be the last of him, but he already has a plan.
• 47:50
  Now that he knows that there's a marking on that crate, he's going to turn, look at them around the box.
• 47:58
  Was it only on one side of the box? I'd say like, one on each side, on the wide sides or whatever.
• 48:03
  Yeah.
• 48:04
  Okay.
• 48:05
  So he's going to hold it on those logos.
• 48:08
  That's how he's going to hold it.
• 48:09
  So his hands are like, kind of covering those logos.
• 48:11
  And then when he gets to the crate, it's going to be like, oh, Mr.
• 48:14
  O'grand, look, I found some fruit.
• 48:16
  Maybe we can make more fruit teas.
• 48:19
  Oh, my gosh.
• 48:20
  Where did you find this fruit? Funny enough, I found them in a hedge maze.
• 48:26
  What? Apparently, I think he was part of a game.
• 48:32
  I don't know for sure, but I like the mask game.
• 48:36
  I figured fruit and tea sounds good.
• 48:40
  He reaches over hold on.
• 48:44
  He takes Bill, then walks over to the cart, sees an open spot, and he's just going to turn the cray over, flip it over, and just dump all the fruit into the coconut.
• 48:54
  We don't want to bruise it.
• 48:57
  This fruit has been through worse.
• 49:03
  He's like, oh, take a look at it.
• 49:04
  See it? Yeah.
• 49:05
  When Mr.
• 49:06
  Oakron looks down, bill is then going to snap the sides of the box on the SNY side of the box when he's not looking.
• 49:12
  Oh, okay.
• 49:13
  He's sure he's going to care, and he'll look up.
• 49:14
  He'd be like, oh, the box was bad.
• 49:16
  I'll get rid of it.
• 49:17
  And they'll just start taking pieces.
• 49:19
  And he finds, like, you want to throw them in the fire? Yeah, you find the fire.
• 49:23
  And it just saves me a trip to go get more wood.
• 49:26
  Finds the fire, tosses them, and then he walks back.
• 49:29
  He's like, yeah, there you go.
• 49:30
  How long? These ingredients are exactly what my recipe calls for.
• 49:37
  Oh, wow.
• 49:38
  This is quite a strange did they plan this explicitly for us? I feel like they planned it for us in hot leaf juice.
• 49:44
  They would say, oh, let's take their ingredient list and let's get them a restock and hide it on the rich people.
• 49:52
  Bill, I tell you why.
• 49:53
  No, but the rich people that were in the hedge maze really were loving these fruit.
• 49:58
  They were.
• 49:59
  One guy wouldn't shut up about it.
• 50:02
  We did open up this game to the whole party, but I felt like fruit and a maze versus fruit that's accessible to all, and a tea would be slightly better.
• 50:13
  So that's why I kind of took it for myself.
• 50:14
  I didn't ask anyone.
• 50:16
  Maybe I should have asked, like, Stephen with a V, but, you know yeah, well, we're here now.
• 50:22
  I'm sure.
• 50:24
  Why else would a crateful of fruit be amazed? That's too ridiculous to possibly be, like, a storing place.
• 50:33
  Some of these fruits have to be kept cold.
• 50:35
  Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
• 50:36
  It just seems ridiculous.
• 50:37
  Anyway.
• 50:38
  Well, fantastic.
• 50:39
  Fine.
• 50:39
  Bill, you did very good.
• 50:41
  I'm very proud of you.
• 50:42
  Thank you.
• 50:42
  Oh, thank you.
• 50:43
  That means a lot.
• 50:44
  Oh, yes, absolutely.
• 50:46
  Calling me blown away.
• 50:50
  Anyway, let's get to work.
• 50:51
  Let's get this t going.
• 50:53
  All right.
• 50:53
  And Bill just kind of takes up his usual position in the front to serve customers, and I guess he's now promoting the fresh fruit tea that they just got right on stock.
• 51:05
  Now, Guo, out of curiosity, while they were gone, we'll do a little bit of backtracking.
• 51:10
  Is there anything you were up to specifically? You had a lot of customers coming by.
• 51:17
  They wanted tea.
• 51:18
  You were kind of, like, training just a little bit left you guys had in the pot.
• 51:23
  You might have even been, I don't know, watering some down, maybe adding a little extra water to it to make it last.
• 51:30
  Mr.
• 51:30
  Ocaron, obviously, is just doing his best to really just maximize the ingredients that you guys have left.
• 51:37
  Yeah, he was doing, like, flights of tea samples to make the most use of what they had left.
• 51:48
  Sure, yeah.
• 51:51
  Some of the people would walk by, and they'd be like, oh, is this alcohol to you? N d.
• 52:01
  If you supply your own B-Y-O-D.
• 52:06
  Bring your own drink, you say.
• 52:12
  And then he calls out, he's like, you bring us raspberry colgio? He's talking to me? No, he's talking to just a passerby service.
• 52:24
  And the servant says, yes, right away, sir, and brushes off back into the house, and shortly after brings out a bottle of this wine, which he then takes some flights of your you just call them flights, right? Yeah, the glasses.
• 52:40
  Right.
• 52:41
  Okay.
• 52:41
  He starts pouring just a little bit of wine in each one of them, and he starts kind of, like, handing them to some of his friends that he's gathered around him.
• 52:49
  He's like, oh, it's trouble.
• 52:53
  This is quite electable.
• 52:56
  I could heat that up for you if you wanted to.
• 53:00
  Sure, yeah.
• 53:03
  He puts it in a pot and heats it over the fire to allow it to kind of, like, fully mix into itself.
• 53:13
  Okay.
• 53:16
  Quite the experience.
• 53:18
  I made this for you, Drake.
• 53:22
  My hot tea wine.
• 53:25
  The irony of the situation is that it's actually brought more customers over, because now you've got these people, these high society people that are just excitedly sipping away at this tea wine that they've kind of helped discovered, and they're like, who.
• 53:43
  Do you serve this at your tea shop, or is this one of, like, the late night specials? It's kind of a secret menu item.
• 53:55
  You ever heard of that? No.
• 53:59
  Many secrets, but not about a secret menu.
• 54:02
  Only those in the know can ask for it, you know? Well, does that mean that I now know and I just tap my nose? He taps his nose back.
• 54:18
  He's like, is that guy who asked for the cordial still around? Yeah, he's the one you're talking he's kind of taking the lead on this one.
• 54:32
  Hey, would you mind we're actually running low on some of our supplies.
• 54:38
  Would you mind getting that servant to bring us some more of this cordial? Of course.
• 54:44
  Excuse me, servant, could you supply them with whatever you need? I would like to make sure that this drink is kept on tap all night long.
• 54:56
  Thanks.
• 54:57
  I appreciate that.
• 54:58
  I'm a little young to be asking for that.
• 55:00
  He'd probably take oh, yes, of course.
• 55:03
  I see.
• 55:04
  That's funny.
• 55:05
  Yes.
• 55:06
  If you guys keep this coming, I tell you what.
• 55:09
  I'll make sure everybody stops from this whole party stops by y'all boo.
• 55:13
  When I left the stand to look GuoHan in charge, I did not expect it to come back to it.
• 55:20
  Turned into a bar.
• 55:23
  He's running an eelery over there.
• 55:26
  He's gone for 15 minutes.
• 55:29
  This is what Guohai dreams of doing when Mr.
• 55:32
  Okran gives the shop to him eventually.
• 55:35
  You know what the real dream all? It started with him giving that one really weird drink to that young guy and how his dreams he liked it.
• 55:46
  What else can I make? And then I think that the real humor to this, too, is that GLOW's idea to make tea wine is obviously greatly receptive by people, but global idea to hold a block party got shot down pretty dang fast because beating people up and stealing from rich people is waiting.
• 56:07
  I was secretly trying to get his alcoholic tea out there.
• 56:13
  We shot it down.
• 56:14
  So he's like, I've got a different way.
• 56:16
  Until they're all gone, man, this is going to be, like, the next big thing.
• 56:20
  Mr.
• 56:20
  Ogron is so, like, focused on trying to make sure that all his ingredients last.
• 56:26
  And whatnot that? He has no idea that he's doing what he's doing.
• 56:31
  But obviously it's working.
• 56:34
  Yeah.
• 56:36
  When he's stoking the fire, guo is just, like, pouring the wine into the kettle right next to him.
• 56:44
  He turns his bag and he pours them into it's.
• 56:48
  Okay, everybody here is an adult.
• 56:49
  I'm spiking the tea.
• 56:52
  Oh, gosh, we are going to have to okay, well, after people prefer this over hot lead.
• 56:58
  Yeah, that's right.
• 57:00
  They got more than they were bargaining for.
• 57:02
  So you continue to do that or eventually bill comes back.
• 57:06
  This is what happens when we have two characters that both start with b.
• 57:11
  Bill could come back.
• 57:13
  Yeah.
• 57:17
  Bill returns to blissful Bruce booth to find that there are even more people there than when he left excitedly getting drinks.
• 57:29
  Right now at your booth, you're almost confused as to where is it all coming from.
• 57:37
  You had that conversation with Mr.
• 57:39
  O, and I'm like, oh, some of this fruit would be perfect for a garnish new drink I came up with.
• 57:52
  And bill's going to kind of take a little guild aside with the freeze.
• 57:56
  Go.
• 57:56
  Hey, what's this special order they keep asking for? Like, they keep coming back asking for seconds and thirds, and I don't remember this secret menu.
• 58:06
  Oh, yeah.
• 58:07
  Also, by the way, Bill, every time someone asks for the secret menu, I swear, do they wink? They wink at me.
• 58:13
  Oh, come on.
• 58:16
  And they tap their nose.
• 58:18
  That's right.
• 58:19
  They're asking for a secret menu and winking at me.
• 58:22
  What did you do while I was gone? Don't tell Mr.
• 58:26
  Okeron, but we were running out of stuff, and I was trying to stretch it as much as I could.
• 58:34
  I was doing, like, samples and flights of different kinds.
• 58:40
  And then this one guy, that guy right over there.
• 58:43
  Oh, the guy in wine for his fifth? Yeah, the one staggering.
• 58:51
  He asked for some wine, some cordial like fruity wine, obviously.
• 58:57
  Wines, fruity, extra strong.
• 59:02
  He was putting it in his drink and that gave me an idea.
• 59:05
  Maybe we could heat that up.
• 59:07
  So I did, and that's what's in the kettle right now, you see, like Mr.
• 59:14
  Ocron happily.
• 59:18
  Oh, I fully understand now.
• 59:20
  Okay.
• 59:21
  You know what? I love this idea.
• 59:23
  I think it's going to bring even more customers as it has.
• 59:27
  We really need to keep this hush because I'm pretty sure Mr.
• 59:30
  Oakron does not have a liquor license.
• 59:35
  Yeah, especially if he finds out a how do you say minor was the one serving the liquor.
• 59:42
  I think that might be even more of an issue.
• 59:46
  The worst comes to worst.
• 59:47
  Go.
• 59:47
  Han.
• 59:48
  I'll take the blame.
• 59:49
  Don't worry about it.
• 59:50
  And they'll just kind of turns around and goes, special order coming right up, and we'll give them a wink.
• 59:56
  Wonderful.
• 1:00:00
  And I'll work on making some fake mustaches just to get to keep you around.
• 1:00:06
  Guan, you're the man with the plan.
• 1:00:08
  He was going to turn around looking guan, put a little bit of hair off of his head in just fashion, stuck it to his upper lips.
• 1:00:25
  Mika, who is currently wandering through the maze.
• 1:00:29
  I'm not wandering.
• 1:00:30
  I know where I'm going.
• 1:00:31
  She knows exactly where she's going.
• 1:00:33
  Where are you going, then? The center of the maze.
• 1:00:36
  Okay.
• 1:00:37
  Sure enough.
• 1:00:37
  How would you know? You're there sure that there's some elaborate thing in the middle of the maze.
• 1:00:42
  That's how most fancy mazes are once you get to the middle age, I think.
• 1:00:46
  Oh, that's where all the people crates never ended up in the middle of May.
• 1:00:50
  They're not looking for the crates you just went to.
• 1:00:53
  I'm trying to hide from everything.
• 1:00:55
  I think she assumed Bill was going through the maze.
• 1:01:01
  I think she's like, racing Bill secretly.
• 1:01:04
  No, I'm not racing.
• 1:01:05
  I'm literally going into the maze so people can't find that's smart.
• 1:01:09
  But you got to be prepared for some riddles and also for a lot of people making out.
• 1:01:16
  Yeah, as long as I don't have to make out, that's fine.
• 1:01:22
  I would certainly hope not.
• 1:01:23
  Because your character is under 18, right? No, she's like, 1817.
• 1:01:30
  I think we all agreed everyone here is 17 but Guo Hon, who is 15.
• 1:01:35
  Yeah, I'm 17, so I guess I'm still a minor.
• 1:01:38
  That's why I thought, so the last one here should be serving alcohol.
• 1:01:43
  14 year old.
• 1:01:46
  That's why Bill was like, I'll take the blame, if anything, because a 17 year old serving alcohol is a little more forgiving than whatever, a 14 year old serving outcome.
• 1:01:57
  Okay, so, Mike, I'm going to have you roll and assess the situation.
• 1:02:02
  You just can't take it, then.
• 1:02:04
  I'm so good at what I do.
• 1:02:05
  Well, one of the questions in here is literally, what is my best way out in or through what's assessed the situation? It is creativity.
• 1:02:12
  Creativity.
• 1:02:14
  That's 1111.
• 1:02:15
  Okay.
• 1:02:16
  So you can actually ask two questions out of the list.
• 1:02:19
  So the list includes what here can I use to blank you insert the blank.
• 1:02:24
  Who or what is the biggest threat, what should I be on the lookout for? And what's my best way in, out, or through? And then there's also who or what is in the greatest danger? Well, I obviously want the best way in outer through right.
• 1:02:40
  To get to the center.
• 1:02:41
  Okay.
• 1:02:41
  Yeah.
• 1:02:42
  You're able to essentially deduce your way through to the center of the maze.
• 1:02:48
  What should I be on the lookout for? Okay, actually I'm going to use that.
• 1:02:52
  So part of what since Mika is literally just on her way to the center of the maze with the idea of just trying to avoid people finding her.
• 1:03:03
  Basically what she's on the lookout for.
• 1:03:05
  It's also about what she's on the lookout for more what she finds.
• 1:03:08
  She finds a strange.
• 1:03:10
  Glowing sort of like a cloudy wisp that leads her through the maze if she chooses to follow it.
• 1:03:19
  Yeah, why not? So as you follow this weird, strange, glowing blue whisk, you are able to find your way to the center of the maze.
• 1:03:28
  And in the center of the maze is a spirit.
• 1:03:33
  It resembles sort of like one of those eye eyes.
• 1:03:37
  A-Y-E-A-Y-E? They're kind of like, almost monkey looking.
• 1:03:41
  They have huge eyes.
• 1:03:43
  They're very small, and it's sitting there wearing clothes.
• 1:03:48
  And as you kind of look around, you can keep it.
• 1:03:51
  Well, we'll get to that.
• 1:03:55
  I'm glad for one that Bill door did not run into the spirit.
• 1:03:59
  Both staff would have probably hit it if it would have just went right through it.
• 1:04:05
  I don't think this is a real spirit, something that you notice as you approach this.
• 1:04:12
  You look around, you've been really focused on this mist, and obviously the walls of the hedge maze kind of obscured your view.
• 1:04:18
  But as you've stepped out into the center, the world and the sky around you do not look like they did read more like an auburn, kind of a burnt orange color.
• 1:04:31
  And something just feels really foreign about where you stepped into and the spirit actually is sitting facing away from you, but its head turns like an all the way around to look at you with its giant eyes and it says, hello, my name is Usire.
• 1:04:57
  Welcome to the center of my maze.
• 1:05:02
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