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S1-Ep.35: Catch Up · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily pad production.
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  Speaker 2: This is the team up play show podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Previously in the city of bones.
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  Speaker 2: When you crest and come over the highest skyscraper in
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  Speaker 2: the city, which is probably the highest thing is maybe
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  Speaker 2: the space barge, maybe there's one or two buildings that
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: are higher, your flight star disappears. Then tell me, Rigel,
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  Speaker 2: wielder of starfire, what would you have of her? She
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  Speaker 2: will free you from your curse. but also can allow
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: new power to be yours. This isn't good. Her mind has...
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  Speaker 2: It's a traumatic brain injury, and I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: she'll be like if and when she wakes, but she's
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  Speaker 2: going to be out for quite some time. And she'll...
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  Speaker 2: Will she have her memories? Like I said, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: With this kind of injury... There's no telling who will
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  Speaker 2: wake up. Your body's awake. Back in Jameer's living room.
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  Speaker 1: Is the lamp still hot?
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  Speaker 2: Standing over you is a concerned-looking Maria, both the Veniam
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  Speaker 2: Knight brothers, and Jackie. Ugh. It's been almost a month
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  Speaker 2: in the real world, and the election is in three days. Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: The heroes of New Babel wake from a journey within Jason.
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  Speaker 1: I was in my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Jason's journey.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the halal homies?
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  Speaker 2: Jason was forced to confront the compartments he'd been creating
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  Speaker 2: with the help of his friends. The murdering version of
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  Speaker 2: the paper phantom has been defeated. You wake here in
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  Speaker 2: Jameer's den and all your friends are around you. Before
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  Speaker 2: the hubbub of worried questions begin, how is Jason feeling
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  Speaker 2: in this moment about the work that's been done within?
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  Speaker 2: What's new and what feels the same? Oh boy. I, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I murdered a man. I hurt all those people. It
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: was me. And he's going to throw up a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of black ink. Whoa. The carp. The carp. Let it out, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: You're awake. You're awake. You're awake.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to have to throw that carp. Why am
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: I so fucking hungry?
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: Because you guys have been, this is Jackie, freaking out.
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  Speaker 2: Because you guys have been out for almost a month.
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  Speaker 2: What the fuck?
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  Speaker 1: A month?
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  Speaker 2: No, no. Oh, man. Yes, almost a whole month. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: it's wild.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: I look down and see that I've been put in
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  Speaker 1: my corgi pajamas and we're in the cots in the nest.
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys like bathe us.
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  Speaker 2: In a whole month? You took care of us? What happened? Paige,
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  Speaker 2: where's Paige? Paige hasn't been by. Well, she's up? No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just Jackie.
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  Speaker 3: Have my family been fucking scared.
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  Speaker 2: To think I'm dead? I went by your family's, Jameer,
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  Speaker 2: because I know them, and they seemed okay. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've never just disappeared. I told them you were okay.
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  Speaker 1: Did Dirk or someone talk to my family or Jill
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  Speaker 1: or Gabe?
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  Speaker 2: Dirk is there. Yes, I told your family that you
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  Speaker 2: were safe. I didn't want to freak them out. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't know what was going on. But you were breathing
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  Speaker 2: and your bodies weren't deteriorating without food or anything. You
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  Speaker 2: seemed to be sustained somehow.
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  Speaker 4: Did a small fucking weirdo child run in here scurrying
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  Speaker 4: and telling you about shit in the sewers in the
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  Speaker 4: electrical grid?
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  Speaker 2: Maria is there.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it would have been nice to miss her scurrying.
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  Speaker 2: Were we looking for that? We were just waiting for
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  Speaker 2: an update. Yeah. That's okay. Oh, God. We had so
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  Speaker 2: much shit.
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  Speaker 3: We were going to fuck with those councilmen who didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, we got to vote.
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  Speaker 1: Are we too late to vote?
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  Speaker 2: I already missed the first election for you.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: The election is in three days. There's still time.
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  Speaker 1: I can still get my sticker.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Hang on.
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  Speaker 4: I run over to any reflective surface and look at
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  Speaker 4: my face. How's my mustache coming in?
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  Speaker 2: Roll a guts check.
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  Speaker 1: Is my body a reflective surface?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's up to you. You have opal light.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it'd be like a fun house.
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  Speaker 2: Mirror okay nice yeah I'll just like grab your head
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  Speaker 2: and use your forehead try and look at.
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  Speaker 4: My mustache that's a seven oh yeah I gotta roll
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  Speaker 4: on a guts check not.
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  Speaker 2: Bad a simple check because you're an adult man and
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  Speaker 2: you haven't you've been out for a month so and
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  Speaker 2: a month I rolled a four oh.
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  Speaker 4: My god it's like very sparse and shitty.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah look at that buddy It's.
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  Speaker 2: All I ever wanted.
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  Speaker 4: It's too bad Arthur's not here to see it.
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  Speaker 2: Rock fist comes up to you, pats you on the back.
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  Speaker 2: I learned that patting while you were out. Pat, pat.
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  Speaker 2: Feel good? Not 100%, but thank you. You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you deserve all the pats, buddy. That was.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: What we went through in there was what you went
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  Speaker 1: through in there.
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  Speaker 2: I do not feel very good. So it's like a
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  Speaker 2: reverse Narnia.
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  Speaker 3: All that stuff happened in there for us pretty quick,
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  Speaker 3: but out here so much time has passed.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't listened to that VHS.
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  Speaker 2: Jackie says, it's been a short time for you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't feel that long. like hours maybe a couple
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  Speaker 2: few hours i mean it was dreamlike so time was
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  Speaker 2: squishy but it we never like went to bed and
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  Speaker 2: woke up and we.
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  Speaker 4: Were in bed where were you oh it's hard to
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  Speaker 4: explain but i've just been calling it the paper dimension
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  Speaker 4: okay wait.
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  Speaker 1: I look at the signals in jason's body is the
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  Speaker 1: book still there The book is absolutely still there. You've
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  Speaker 1: got the book, so what did you do?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: What happened in there?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I definitely didn't pull us in, but somehow when
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  Speaker 4: Rigel killed the Phantom, it let us out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not 100% sure. Did I kill it? Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: still got your shit, right?
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  Speaker 4: Paper? Paper?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I'll try. Uh, paper on. The paper wraps around you,
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  Speaker 2: as it always has. Well, since you got your powers,
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  Speaker 2: of course. Sure, sure.
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  Speaker 1: Aw, a little baby wrapped in paper. Pretty cute.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I had the paper powers in me all along.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I think the book in your chest probably
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  Speaker 3: has something.
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  Speaker 2: To do with it.
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  Speaker 4: You know what's kind of bullshit is you guys are
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  Speaker 4: like children of destiny. And I'm just like, I got
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  Speaker 4: randomly shot.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, you were in the prophecy from the scurry
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  Speaker 1: baby suit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as a fucking tree. God damn it. They're awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Why am I so fucking angry? I don't know. I would,
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  Speaker 2: to defend myself.
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  Speaker 1: He actually is just laughing. Like, it's great to see
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  Speaker 1: you angry, actually.
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  Speaker 2: Don't. Look at my mustache.
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  Speaker 1: I poke him in the book. No.
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  Speaker 4: Ow.
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  Speaker 3: I'm more of a grandchild of destiny. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: my grandma was the chosen one. I'm just kind of
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  Speaker 3: drafting off her chosen one-iness. I haven't done the work.
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  Speaker 3: I just got to make some wishes. But anyway, your
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  Speaker 3: journey is valid and your struggle is real.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Shut the fuck up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be supportive. Can you print a t-shirt
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  Speaker 1: that says that?
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  Speaker 2: Right now, it's not easy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not printing anything right now. We got work to do, okay? Yeah, yeah, okay. God.
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  Speaker 2: I need therapy so bad. I gotta see my mom. Fuck. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta check in with some people. Like, how's the city?
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  Speaker 1: I look around at the Rockfest and Dirk and Jackie
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  Speaker 1: and Maria.
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  Speaker 2: The city?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, were you guys able to keep things afloat
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  Speaker 3: while we were down?
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  Speaker 2: Did you think we were dead? Maria says, there has been...
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to say it. The city has
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  Speaker 2: taken a break from... They... They kind of... came together
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  Speaker 2: in Missing You. Anything that's gone on, Rock Fist, Everwing,
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  Speaker 2: Dark Blade, have been able to figure it out. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a new guy. What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Is it?
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  Speaker 2: He's been sliding around on these strange slides he creates,
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  Speaker 2: and then he shoots hexagons at people.
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  Speaker 1: Yes!
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  Speaker 3: No way to know who that is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that could be anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's out there doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he popped up maybe because you've been gone, but
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  Speaker 2: the city has missed you. They're calling for you. People
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  Speaker 2: are wearing costumes and holding up signs. Where have our
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  Speaker 2: heroes gone type of thing. I got to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe let's eat and then get out there.
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  Speaker 2: Shit, yeah. Fuck. The halal homies. So hungry. Did you
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  Speaker 2: guys eat it when we went down? Rockfish says. Did
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  Speaker 2: it go to waste? Rockfish says, yes.
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  Speaker 4: I ate.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody should enjoy it. Thank God. That was good? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Better than going to waste.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I would hate to hear that good food went to waste.
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  Speaker 2: It was good for me.
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  Speaker 1: So good.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Get me the mayo, the cracked pepper, some bread, and
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  Speaker 3: whatever meat is in the fridge.
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  Speaker 2: Right away, Rockfest says. Thank you, Rockfest.
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  Speaker 1: What of the mayor? What are people saying he's up to?
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  Speaker 1: Or what is he doing?
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  Speaker 2: Everwing says we haven't heard from him. My understanding is
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  Speaker 2: that he's still in ask in prison. Any sightings of
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  Speaker 2: your sister, Darkblade? Or contact?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: None.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Any recent Wraith activity that's worth noting? People have been
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  Speaker 2: leaving the shoot alone. And so, no. No Wraith.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I grab a hoodie from off the coat
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  Speaker 4: rack filled with large oversized hoodies, a rice cracker, and
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  Speaker 4: just in my mouth start heading outside, just leaving.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hey, hey. I got to check on Paige.
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  Speaker 3: Jameer's giving himself a birdbath in the kitchen sink and saying,
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  Speaker 3: I understand.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be on comms. You'll be on comms? All right,
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: all right. We'll check in later.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck.
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  Speaker 2: Be safe. The three of you come to and are
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  Speaker 2: attempting to deal with the new reality of the city.
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  Speaker 2: As you go off your separate ways, trying to see family,
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  Speaker 2: trying to find Paige, here's... The lowdown. Here's what you
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  Speaker 2: get through just wandering the city again. After an event
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  Speaker 2: like the explosion of the mayor's skyscraper, you may worry
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  Speaker 2: that with no leader, the city might devolve into chaos.
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  Speaker 2: But as you get back into the city, you realize
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  Speaker 2: that's not the case at all. The whole city saw
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  Speaker 2: Rigel holding up that building by himself. They saw Quanta
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  Speaker 2: make sure that the judge ratified the vote to give
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  Speaker 2: the people a chance. They saw the phantom saving lives
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  Speaker 2: from inside the building. Something powerful happens when you love
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  Speaker 2: your enemies. The city saw you save yours. And they've
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  Speaker 2: been celebrating you. Like I said, costumes have been popping up. Phantom, Rigel,
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  Speaker 2: and Quanta costumes all. There have been... Jameer, you pass
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  Speaker 2: a comic book store next to the shoot. You see...
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  Speaker 2: Issue one of Rigel the Paper Phantom and Quanta. Gotta
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  Speaker 2: get three of those. There have been parties in your honor,
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  Speaker 2: signs celebrating your deeds. When you had not been seen
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  Speaker 2: for two weeks, the city came together to await your return. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there was chaos here and there, but the general feeling
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  Speaker 2: was that we're going to be good until the heroes
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  Speaker 2: get back. The mayor has been kept in prison, you
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  Speaker 2: find out. Some of his staff as well, including... taylor's
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  Speaker 2: killer katherine jameer you find out that that was thanks
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: to jackie you can have a conversation with her about
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  Speaker 2: that later the true america gang has slunk back into
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  Speaker 2: the old city hall and has kept quiet after their
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  Speaker 2: defeat you all sought to make the city a better
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  Speaker 2: place with your heroism some targeted use of your powers
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  Speaker 2: and inspiring the people to achieve higher standards it seems
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  Speaker 2: you've done so you still.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Gotta turn george olsen's money into dust It's on the list.
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  Speaker 2: So the one thing that has been raging and raging
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  Speaker 2: is the mayoral race. This is happening in three days,
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  Speaker 2: the election. Yum, yum, yum. As you watch some of
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: the news and catch up on some of the, catch
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: up on magazines and newspapers, watch some news, here's what
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  Speaker 2: you find out. The Soma campaign has been working hard
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: to build its base. They started testing a ground-based morphogenetic
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: field generator in no man's land west of the city.
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  Speaker 2: It's housed in the very end of the chute and
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  Speaker 2: is beginning to pour forth green from there. It's a
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  Speaker 2: striking image that's used in a lot of... Just like
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: out in the field now, not in the dump. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's a striking image used in a lot of Cordula's
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  Speaker 2: marketing campaign. Is that safe? It's my least favorite kind
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  Speaker 2: of field generator, I'll say. What's the problem? She's been
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  Speaker 2: touring the city with her son, making speeches in all
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  Speaker 2: the neighborhoods, bringing along the fresh produce of the biodome
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  Speaker 2: and now no man's land. It seems like her message
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  Speaker 2: has got to the gangs as well. You guys were
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  Speaker 2: privy to that conversation. There is very little crime that
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  Speaker 2: isn't regulated by the gangs, and during her campaign, they
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  Speaker 2: go pretty silent. They have reached their people, and the
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  Speaker 2: movement for Cordula as a mayor feels powerfully grounded in
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  Speaker 2: the sweat and tears of the real people of New Babel.
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  Speaker 2: Her message is simple but potent. Wealth and power to
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  Speaker 2: the people. A New Babel for New Babel. Henry Hilland
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  Speaker 2: has been struggling. Tag terrorism, Tag being the true America gang,
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  Speaker 2: has been an obstacle for him. They do everything they
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  Speaker 2: do in his name He has vehemently disavowed them. You
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  Speaker 2: guys find tape recordings of that and newspaper articles. He
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  Speaker 2: called for their arrest. He personally led a raid on
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  Speaker 2: Old City Hall attempting to get them out. See him
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  Speaker 2: in a Kevlar vest with a gun in his hand
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  Speaker 2: in some of the pictures trying to rush into City Hall.
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  Speaker 2: If you remember, he used to be a police officer.
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  Speaker 2: Despite these hurdles, he's made some very clever moves. He's
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  Speaker 2: worked hard to use his wealth to rebuild the library,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: fix hospitals, cover any damage the city has taken through
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  Speaker 2: recent battles, including the blowing up of the mayor's building.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the big one. With the support of
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  Speaker 2: Cordula and the new city council, the new city council,
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  Speaker 2: Cordula and... Henry decided that the new city council would
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  Speaker 2: be those poor people that Mayor Stephenson had forced to
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: be the false city council. They had been found in
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the building being held there. But with the support of
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  Speaker 2: Cordula and the new city council, Henry Hillen has begun
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: to print American money and set up an exchange program
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  Speaker 2: for new Babylonians. If you remember, that was one of
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  Speaker 2: his major claims that the mayor was hiding the American
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  Speaker 2: mint from From New Babel. So he is immediately delivering
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  Speaker 2: on that claim. Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: We got New Babel bucks. We got Phantom bucks. We
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  Speaker 1: got American bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta get that exchange rate. Yes. And it is a
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  Speaker 2: generous exchange rate program. So if you bring in your
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: New Babel bucks, it's a 50% increase. What if you
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: bring in your Phantom bucks? Yeah, what if Phantom bucks were?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: You can try. There's also a small flat bonus taken
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: from the mayor's immense wealth that has been hoarded in there,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: and it's being given back to the people. If you
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: come in to change out all your money, you can
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: get a tiny mayor bonus as well. Deep down, though,
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  Speaker 2: his message remains the same, to become a part of
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  Speaker 2: America again. This is the city you wake up to.
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  Speaker 2: You have three days until the election. We're not going
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: to go into like full downtime, but like these three
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  Speaker 2: days are yours to do with what you will. What's
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: the priority, gang?
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got to vote.
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  Speaker 2: Like it'll make a difference.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Before we vote, I think immediately I would eat my sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: I would, again, I'd want to kind of like, what's
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: it called?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Unmask life almost.
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  Speaker 3: I would want to like, Ask Jackie, like, what lie
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  Speaker 3: have you been telling my family? And then I want
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: to get over there and see my people.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would want to check in with my parents
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and Gabe and Jill and then maybe just like be
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: watching the news for like when I see like Joshua
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  Speaker 1: out taking care of a problem. and just like go out,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: ask Quanta and help. And that's how I find him again.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I'm certainly interested in hunting down page, seeing what her
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: situation is. If she's woken up, that's like priority number
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: one for me. I would like to check on the
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: status of the horrible glowing egg and Under the city.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I joined for that.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: And then since I don't have anyone like that I
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: could really talk to, I guess like Manny would be
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: maybe like the only philosophy person I know who would
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: be like maybe understand what's going on. Who knows both
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Jason and the Phantom?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Unless you have better ideas about who
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: to talk to. I got no one.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: This is where I wish we had a mental health
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: real life advertiser we could plug. Some telehealth service.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: But we don't have Jason. You're not getting a dime
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: from us. Not a red cent.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: New fab letter help.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: No, don't say wow to that. Let's say it's a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: patronizing love because that's what I deserve.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I can plug in anytime and check
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: on the power station.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Well, yeah, you seem like you really
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: want to plug in.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like already reaching for an outlet in the nest. Yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I'll just see what's going on.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe we could like walk down there and look with
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: our fucking eyeballs.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we could do that too, but I could, you know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I could get like a little head start peek. Okay. Okay.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: We can walk. Okay, just chill out with the electricity stuff.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: You're like shaking right now. No, I put my hands
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: on my legs.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Okay. Look at my mustache.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: What mustache? Aha!
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Jason is not happy.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I see your beautiful month-long grown mustache.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Look, I grew up In the system. I've seen this before.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I think you might have a problem.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: What?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: With what?
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Well, whenever you're ready to admit it. I got you.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I don't have a problem. Let's go in the freaking tubes.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go in the tubes. I don't have a problem.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: You have a problem.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Guy's going to check on the fire rock thing. Yeah,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: see if it's down there. Yeah, you go down there
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: to the spot and nothing has changed with the fire rock.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: It's still a big old fire rock that's kind of
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: pulsing with red light in the veins.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I guess that's good, question mark?
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's not feeding off of the city
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: still or anymore since we stopped that.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't love that it's just down here, but...
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know if there's anything we can do.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Um, I could sense again. Cause before I, there was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: like still some kind of personhood in there. I can
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: see what I can see.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think developed.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I think without a role, you maintain the same information
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: that like there is some humanity left in this thing
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and it is growing.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I can't, I can't really get a good read on it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So I'm just going to, I'm just going to take some.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Power over here. I don't think you need any more power.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I just, you know, I want to get a good
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: read on it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do with the power?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: It's going to help me see inside the rock cocoon.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Are you sure?
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Well, if that's what you said is true, then I
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: guess I believe you.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I feel I grab onto a nub. What were we
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: calling them? Nubs?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Nubbins. Nubbins.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I grab into a nubbin just to... Just to, yeah,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to get some, to feel some of that city power.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, you're able to. Even though I can see
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: in the cocoon without it. Latch on to the city
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: grid and tempted again to push out into the rest
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: of the continent. Everything that's connected.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I want to see the world again.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You do. I just freeze up. Just do it crazy.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Just freeze up.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: This whole time too, Jason has just been still in
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: a hoodie, street clothes, hands in pockets. I'm just going
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: to put a big, like very specific, like paper talisman,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: like a piece of tape that you'd put over a door,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: you know?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And so if the cocoon rips, I just want to know. Sure.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Smart.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I mark it with specific magical rune symbols that I've
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: seen from the book. And just, if these break anywhere
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: in the city, hopefully should get notified.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: You were out for a month. I'm just joking.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: You did scare me. Yeah, there's still somebody in there.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: The world is so big.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Are you 100% sure that it's healthy to plug into
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: the entire grid of the United States power system?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Lucy the scurrier said there's room.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, you're just acting kind of weird.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: This is coming from you?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I should know.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Weird how?
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Weird how?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: You just seem like desperate for more juice.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's good juice. Right.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: But if you wanted to stop, you could stop.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: So could you stop? Yes. Great. I mean, like I'm asking.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Earlier you said, we don't need to plug in. We
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: can walk down there.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: And then you did plug in just then.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Well, just now, because I wanted to see, because it
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: gave me the extra juice so I could see in
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the rock, the lava rock cocoon thing.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Just promise me you won't do it anymore.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Because you could stop. You said you could.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can stop. But what if, like, it helps, though?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Helps me do stuff.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Helps me be more powerful. And what if that's what
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I have to do to help the city?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know. More power isn't always a good thing. Yeah,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: that's just that.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Gets to her a little bit with where she's come from.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're right. You, yeah.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: You're right about that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: That's the first time you've ever said that?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: That you're right about something?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Can't be. I think so.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Can't possibly be.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: If only someone was recording it, but I think.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: You could listen to me. In 35 plus hours of
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: our interactions.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: In all the episodes of our life, I don't think
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: you've ever said I've been right before. Well, you're right
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: about this.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Jameer, you wanted to check in with Jackie first or
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: go home first?
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, while Jameer is splashing red wine vinegar on
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: his sandwich, he's saying, Jackie, guys, I'm so sorry. I
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: must have scared you guys shitless. That was crazy. Jackie,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: what lie have you been telling my parents as to
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: why I disappeared?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I told him, you're not going to like it. Oh, shit.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, you had to do what you had to do,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: but what did you do?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I told him you were hooking up with a girl
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: in SAS and that you didn't want to leave. What?
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Too much fucking. I got pussy whipped for a month? Yeah,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: that's what I know. It's weekly. I know it's weak,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: but after the first week, like after the first few days,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I really had to commit to the lie, you know? Shit. Okay.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: It's not a bad one for the first few days.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I can actually work with that. I think, um, thank you. Genuinely.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Thank you for saying something. I'm sure they weren't happy,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: but it's better than nothing.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And, and Jamir, um, I found Catherine. Jameer stops. A
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: little bit of salami hangs from his mouth. You guys
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: left so quickly after the mayor's building fiasco that I
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: stayed there to do some cleanup with the Venium guys
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: and I found her. I punched her a few times.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: And I wasn't super proud of that. And then I
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: took her to Elaine. And she's in jail. So she's
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: been in prison. Yeah. I was... I know I wasn't
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: as close to it all as you, but I was
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: as close to Taylor as you, you know. Yeah. No,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: thank you. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: getting her off the streets.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: She was a danger. Okay. Where's my costume? Oh, we
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: put them all in the nest. Okay. I'm just going to.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Do a fly around, make my presence felt, and then
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to home. So thank you guys
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: for taking care of us and the house and the city.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you. It means the world to me. Thank you,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: says Rockfist. You can... be asleep for a whole month.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I can I don't like to it was on accident.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: You know okay thank you can I sleep for a
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: month I wouldn't try um okay yeah Jameer rinses off
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: his dirty fingers in the sink, runs down to the nest,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: changes quickly, flies through the tubes, and hits that new
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: babble air. And I do a.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Little zip around the city. I'm flying low. I'm wanting
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: to be seen.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and as you do, you notice that there's quite
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: the reaction to you being back. People cheer for you
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: as you fly by, shouting Rigel. And, you know, the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: whispers of, he's back. Not the whispers, but the hollers
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: and yells of, he's back. They're back. The heroes are back.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: As you blitz by. I'm back, baby. We're back.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: All of us.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: We're back.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rigel's flying around.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Also, while I'm flying, just to test it, Rachel's going
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: to see how high he can fly.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: With his new mistress giving him powers. Classic Pisces thing
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Pisces always be flying so high.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: They're flying high.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: To test their new mistress powers. Jameer, you climb and
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: you climb. You look to your left, look to your right.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Start passing buildings higher and higher. Skyscrapers. You get past
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: the space barge, which is the highest thing in the city.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: And you keep going.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I'm going to just keep going to the upper, lower, upper, lower, upper,
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: ducker atmosphere.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know. The upper decker atmosphere. The upper decker.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I think he said ducker. Yeah, dude.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: The upper decker.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I did. I said it. Well, hang on. An upper
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: decker is when you poop in the top part of
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: a toilet.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: What's an upper ducker? Is that when you put a
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: duck in the top part of the toilet?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So cute. But you have to leave it open so
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you can paddle around.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then when you flush, sometimes a feather gets
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: in the bowl and you're like, where's that feather from?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Hilarious prank. You got upper ducked. I got duckled. Jameer.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I got to sit in the duck chair. Love getting duckled. Jameer,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: you get up to the ducker atmosphere and you start
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: to get cold and the air starts to thin and
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: your body you know like soon you'll start taking damage
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: and your body won't maintain itself through the atmosphere but
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: you get high.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Okay this is awesome let's go and yeah i i
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: tilt my flight star back down you tilt your flight
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: star back down you cover You cover your head and
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: your arms with blue starfire as you ignite and burst
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: back into the Ducker atmosphere or whatever.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: And then, yeah, go toward the chute, change secretly, head home,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: and knock on the door.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: We'll jump back to you in a minute. Jason, first
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: thing you want to do? Page, please. Go see Page. Page, please. Yeah,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I'll go.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: I'll go perhaps to the hospital, maybe like outside of
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: visiting hours and sneak in, just trying not to be seen. Again,
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: street clothes, hoodie, but using paper to badge my way
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: in and climb through windows and see if she's still asleep.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Jason, you slip through into the space barge infirmary, which
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: is enormous. It's basically like a a hospital, and they
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: operated as such for the people of the chute and
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: the station. The page that you had built within was
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: awake when you made it to her tower. This page
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: is still in a coma, sleeping.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you can hear me, or if
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: you even know who I am, but I just wanted
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: to come and tell you I'm the paper phantom and
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I love you. And if I have to keep one
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: of those things and lose the other, I'll keep you.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I kiss her on the forehead and I jump out
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: a window.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: As you open the window to jump out, roll.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Break the glass and jump out the fucking door.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I'm out. Time to die. I said the thing, I'm done.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I said it. Roll a spirit check, Phantom. And you
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: can choose here if you added any powers to that
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: kiss or if it was just....
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: An empowered kiss. We can empowered kiss.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: A kiss of life.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: That's sexy.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I kiss your fucking ass. It was a platonic forehead kiss.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Kissing with lightning reflexes?
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, we can step out of this for just a second.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: You shouldn't kiss people. While they're unconscious without their consent.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: We know this. Yes, we know this. If people are
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: in a coma, their mouth does not taste good. No.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: You don't want to kiss their mouth. The human mouth
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: is bad, guys. It is bad. It's a bad place.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Someone probably wiped off her forehead. I think that's what
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to say.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be gross.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Anyway. No, forehead is safe.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: This is a difficult check. I'm rolling a D12. Okay.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: For your loved one.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Four. Rolled a seven.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Paige does not wake in this moment. And you jump
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: out the window.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was good. Yeah, solid sound.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I won't even add a sound or I'll put that
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: next to a sound and we'll see which is better. Yeah,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I open the window, jump out, and then punch it
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: behind me just to be clear. Great.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Quanta or Ronnie, what do you.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Want to do?
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I think I will similarly to Jimmy or Rigel go
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: out in my costume next.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: And then plan to find family and friends.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: You burst out into the city in your costume. People
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: are shouting your name. Cheering for you as they see
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: you on rooftop gatherings and in parks. Very excited you've returned.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I reach out my senses into the radio and cubes
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and TVs to see if there's any emergent event happening
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: that Hexaguy might be at.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Reach out into the different radio systems in the city.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I'm standing on a roof like Daredevil, twitching my head around.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Very cool. Bank robbery in process in Kono. All units,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: all units in the area. I believe. They wouldn't say that.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I believe.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I believe. Kind of. It's kind of like.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a robbery.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: It could be 20 stories tall. It could be 40
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: stories tall. There's no way to know.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Somewhere between 20 and 40.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Hexaguy has showed up. Hexaguy is there. Hexaguy is on site. Kaboom.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I say to myself and then cringe.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Whoa, that was so good. You should put the kaboom
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: in next to that kaboom. Sounds better.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: No, I say it to myself without kaboom. And then
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I kaboom. To head to the bank.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: You head there. The police have lined up. It's a
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: big bank in Kono. The police have lined up outside
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: with their firearms pointed towards the front entry door. And
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: you hear commotion inside.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I head for a utility box to turn to plasma
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: and ride that inside.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: You do so. You get inside. The pieces of you
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: coming back together through the electricity. You see Joshua, you assume.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Someone throwing up hexagons as shields to block bullets. He
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: thrusts his arm forward and out of his knuckles comes
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: a sword-looking shape made of hexagons. He punches a guy
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: with that. who's far away, throws him across the room.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Hex guy is here. He's wearing all black and just
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: a balaclava over his head.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Classic start.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I hang out in the electricity just for like a
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: few heartbeats watching this go down and then strike in
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: back to back with him.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: As you watch, he gets hit in the back with
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: a club hammer As he's disarmed, this guy of his gun,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: he is new and sloppy. But you then come up
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: behind him back to back.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: And I reach out and just put my hand on
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: the chest of the guy that hit him and say,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: good night.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: And friesle him. Friesle.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Him. Frazzle him.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Frazzle him to sleep. Roll a knowledge check. Plus your
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: control electricity is challenging. So I'm rolling a D10.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Six.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I rolled a seven. He gets shocked, but he doesn't
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: fall down. And then Hexaguy swings an elbow around and
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: And out of his elbow grows a length of hexagons
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: to try to slice at you. Hey, hey, hey, it's me.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: It's Quanta.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: Quanta.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: Quanta.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Whoa.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Hey.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I'm in over my head.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Let's take him out.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: How do you and Joshua take these guys out together?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I... Get out my whitening, my white, my whitening whip.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Your whitening whip?
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: My whitening whip.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I used it on my teeth.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's, that's Quanta's next, uh, uh, uh, what's the word?
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Collab with a brand.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with a whitening whip. Quanta. X. X.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Toothpaste.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Toothpaste brand.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Feel the whitening. Feel the whitening. Quantically whitening. Chase the whitening. No,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: it's ride the whitening. Ride the whitening.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: You feel it on your teeth though. And it's got the,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you know, like, you know, you know, back when, uh,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: toothpaste had like confetti in it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Back when it was fun.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Back when toothpaste was fun. It's like little lightning shaped
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: confetti in there.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I daydream about that for a second. And then I
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: get out my lightning whip and, uh, His hexagons are
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: not conductive. I start taking out guys at further range
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: because he's more close up right now. So I start
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: around and letting him take the closer guys.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Your whip goes out. He ducks under it, trying to
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: leave you space and starts punching the rest of these guys. Eventually,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: you guys handle them all. These are normal bank robbers.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: You're able to give them over to the police and.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: That was a lot of guys for one little bank.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, there's big stuff going on with the money.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: If they get all this, turn it all in with
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: American Exchange.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Anyway.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Makes sense.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: You got a rooftop to take me to? Sure.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: You guys zip up to a rooftop nearby. So where
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: you been? Asleep.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I called. I'm sorry.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Asleep.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was a whole thing with my friend. We
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: were stuck in a different dimension and asleep for a month.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Whoa. Okay.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I want to ask more questions, but we only have
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: so much time.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is kind of it. Every day is You're
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: getting stuck in a dimension where you're holding up a
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: falling building.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys were amazing, by the way. Thanks. It
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: was incredible.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's good to see you out here.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fucking you got to me, and then you guys
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: saved that whole building from falling down, and then I was...
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Being a fireman and there was a fire and they
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: weren't going to bring the trampoline in time. And so
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: I had to build like a huge slide for the
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: people and I did it.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw the newsreel.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: It was cool. And then the news started calling me Hexaguy, which... Solid.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Is it? I like it.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: I was thinking like Bone Shield.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Isn't that your dad's name?
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, my dad's name is Bones.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Dad giveaway.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something there I probably should deal with. But anyway,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: that's a bad idea. Hexaguy is fine, I guess.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with it. It's good to see you.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: You too. You know, if you could see in me
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: like I can see in you, you'd see that.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: You can see in me? Yeah. Did we go over
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: that before? I don't think so. Yeah, I don't. What
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: do you mean you can see in me?
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I can. Electricity is everywhere.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Even in our bodies.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Really? Human. Yeah.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: So anytime you move, anytime you feel something emotional or physical,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I can see it.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Wow. You can't see me, though. Oh, interesting. Yeah.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: But my suit kind of. Shows me sometimes.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. That's why it changes color.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but sometimes I control it.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, like a mood ring?
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like that, I think.
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: What color is it now, Quanta?
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Blushing. Blushing pink.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: He says, what does pink mean? Is it good?
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, I'm frazzled.
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: Okay. Okay.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I interrupted you. If you could, if I could
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: see you like you could see me, but I kind
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: of can with your suit, I guess. Yeah.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: So if you see, it's like, I kind of turned
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: like a little bit of orange in there. Um, I'm
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: scared too. When I put on the mask is what
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: As you know, as much bravado as I put on nowadays.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: So thanks for being out here, even though you're scared.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Thanks. I'll be around if you guys need a, you know,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: need a pretty worthless bonus guy.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Not worthless.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not doing great. These things are hard
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: to control.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: You'll get better. Yeah, you know, we're kind of building
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: a group, a team.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: So I'll talk to the guys. All right. Let me know.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: I haven't been out for a month. I got to
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: go check on some other people.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Okay. Good to see you. You too.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Bye.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: He looks as you go away, makes himself a giant
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: slide down to the ground and slides on down. Jameer,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: you want to check in with your family? Jameer takes
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: a deep breath, knocks on the door. And starts crying. Oh, God. Oh, God. Mama.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Mama.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Your mom comes to the door, opens it. I'm so sorry.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: I messed up so bad.
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: I messed up so fucking bad.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: She grabs your wrist, pulls you into the house, and
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: slaps the back of your head as you come in lovingly.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Where have you been, Jameer?
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: She said I couldn't leave. She took my phone. I
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: didn't have a phone, sorry. She said I couldn't leave.
• 47:12
  Speaker 7: She didn't let me use the phone.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: I was just trying to show her I was a
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: good guy.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: And then she broke up with me. Tamir, what have
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: I told you about crazy women? Everything there is to know.
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: I messed up so bad. Listen, she wasn't a good person.
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure about it. I'm fucking so confused.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: I'm so confused. What did she do to get you
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: in there, Jameer? What can we learn? What can we
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: look for next time? I don't want to talk about it.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: You don't want to talk about it? You've been gone
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: for a month, honey. We haven't seen you.
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: She was very attractive physically, okay?
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Your dad's sitting at the table reading a newspaper. Dad,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: I missed you so bad. I'd go over and hug you.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: I missed you, buddy. Hey, I heard you were getting...
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Don't say anything else, please, Dad. You were getting it.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: I fucked up. I messed up. I messed up.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: So bad for so long.
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: I don't know how it got this bad.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: It's okay. We've all made mistakes. Yeah, Jameer, go ahead
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: and roll a lie check with your family here. My
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: lie is a D4. I mean, maybe let him roll high.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: His performance was great.
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: It was.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, roll high, Jimmy. Yeah.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for pleading for me, guys. Ooh, I got
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: a five on my DCs.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Paid off.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: They both have D4s, so they can't beat you. Okay. Oh, shit. Numbers.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Your mom rolled a four and your dad rolled a one,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: which makes a lot of sense. That's pretty on track.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: Your mom does narrow her eyes certainly at a close,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: a close fail.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: It's like the radio in the background is like, the
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: hero Rigel was spotted finally back after a month. Yeah.
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: Family is the most important thing in my life. I
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: wasn't thinking straight.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: I wasn't thinking straight. Your dad gives you a hug.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: It's okay, son. We all make mistakes. We all mess up.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: It's okay. I messed up big.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Guys, it's been like a month almost, and I haven't
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: even stopped by for a meal.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be that guy. You're not, Jameer.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: You made a mistake. Your mom's like, yeah, you don't
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: want to be that guy, Jameer. If you keep down
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: this path, you will become that guy. You understand what
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I'm saying?
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: She ended things, and I know it wasn't my choice,
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: but I think now I've learned to not make the
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: choices that got me in that place. It was so dark.
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: And then there'd be brief moments where the light was
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: so bright and everything was perfect. And then it would
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: get real dark again for a while. But the good
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: times were enough to keep me going.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Your dad is nodding along with you, trying to get
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: back to his paper. Your mom says, Jameer, you sound
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: like a fool. What you're saying is foolish. Listen to yourself.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Listen to your words. She's like all over your ass
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: about this.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: You're right. No, no. This is on me. This one's
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: on my head. I need to get wiser.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: And Jameer barely sustains the lie with his family here. Perfect.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Got to get that sass ass. Ooh. Piece of sass.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: That's what they say. Best ass is in sass.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: The best ass is in sass. What else did you
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: guys want to get up to in these three days
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: before the election?
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: I want to chat with Manny. Catch up. Talk to
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: someone who's an adult.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: How do you go about finding Manny Ellington?
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I guess I sort of assumed he'd be
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: like at his job or something, or I Could look
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: up his library card information.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: See if I got his address. I think you can
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: go to Ellington Electric. It is an enormous space on
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: the very edge of the west edge of Koso. So
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: it's in Colorado South. It's a huge and beautiful complex.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: And there are windmills on the southwest side of the city.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: that go out into no man's land, and that's what
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Ellington Electric pulls from. Oh, sure, like wind turbines. Yes. Gotcha. Sorry,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: wind turbines. Everyone calls them windmills. I knew what you meant. Oh, great.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: I like to imagine the old rickety wooden ones now. Yeah,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: they're just grinding up, like windmills are like grinding up flour. Yeah,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: he's grinding up flour.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: He has his one personal pet project where he's milling things.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Like the old school.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: I like my peas freeze-dried and milled, Jason.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Who do you go in as? Just as Jason. You
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: go in as Jason. You come to the front desk.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Everything in here is pretty imperial. Stark, white, a lot
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: of light. The lady at the front desk narrows her
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: eyes as you walk in.
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: Hi. Hi, I'm here to see Manny Ellington. Did you
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: have an appointment? No, I just need to return something
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: to him. I pull out the book. Manny Ellington's book.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: It's just an important piece of information that I need
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: to deliver to Manny Ellington personally.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I know him. You know him? What's your name? Jason Turner.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Jason Turner? Okay. Okay. Wait right over there. She gestures
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: to some chairs that are built into the side.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: Of the wall.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Whoa, fancy. You like working here? What?
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: It seems like this is a cool... I like all
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: the wind stuff and the stark white architecture. It's very fashionable.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: Working here is awesome. Oh, it seems like you're really
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: excited about it. I actually really like it. I'll just
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: sit in these chairs.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Manny said that I need to work on my people skills,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: so he put me at the front desk. He's a wise,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: wise man. I also need to work on my people skills. Really?
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: What helps?
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Sometimes being loud, finding an outlet. Take a seat.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: I'll be with you shortly.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: Are you?
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: She calls up Jason Turner, and in a bit, Manny
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: comes down from an elevator. Jason. Hi, Mr.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: Ellington.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: It is good to see you. Do you have a minute?
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Of course. I am surprised to see you, but it
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: is delightful to see you in my place of work. Normally,
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: I see you at yours.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: They're working on rebuilding it, I hear, so I haven't
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: been by yet. Yes, Hilland has a lot of plans
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: for this city. Sure. Come on up, please. Thanks. I
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: love your architecture. You ride the elevator with Manny into
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: the floor that is his office. It opens. And whereas
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: the rest of the building is pretty stark and... square
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: and imperial and lacks color. Immediately as the elevator opens,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: you notice beautiful carpets, rugs laid out, gorgeous patterns and
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: fine stitching. You notice books on the walls. There are paintings,
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: beautiful paintings everywhere. Jason probably isn't an artist, but they
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: look impressive. There is a painting of a man, a
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: light in the top left corner. The light pours through
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: his mind, and behind him he holds his heart. And
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: the light pours through his mind into his heart.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: That's a cool painting. Thank you. It is meant to
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: be Augustine the Saint. Oh. You see, also, there's not
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: a desk in here. There are beautiful couches, and the
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: couches surround a pool indoors, and the pool is not
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: for waiting. It is a shallow pool, and it has
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: lotus flowers blooming out of it. Oh, this is quite
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: the office you have here.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: I was a little worried after, you know, your name
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: on the council got exposed, but it seems like you're
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: doing good.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: When you are true to who you are, true to
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: the people that you've promised to serve, they know what's real.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: That's interesting you bring that up. Do you mind if
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: I talk to you honestly, Mr. Ellington? I don't have
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of other people to talk to, and I
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: don't know. You seem trustworthy. I.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Could never and would never attempt to replace your lost father.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: But I can speak to you as an older brother,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: one that can help in times of need. Well, I
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: guess first things first, then.
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: I hold out my arms, clench my fists, and turn
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: into the paper phantom right in front of him.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Whoa. Bom-bom.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: We've met before. His eyes widen. Well, well, well. That
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: is interesting.
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: I pull back the mask and everything's still paper phantom,
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: but now just Jason's head exposed on top. I'm having
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: a bit of a rough time here. You see, for
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: a long time, I thought the phantom was some.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: magical.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: entity that lived inside this book controlling me making choices
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: for me doing things on my behalf but I recently
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: figured out that it was me all along I'm the
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: paper phantom and I don't know that I can handle
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: all the things that I did or all the things
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: that the phantom should do I don't think I can
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: do this man.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: He smiles. Consider the lotus flowers here. They cannot grow
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: in pure and clean water. They need muck, murk. I
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: have to bring in mud, not only in the base
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: of the pond, but as they grow. sprout. I keep
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: them here to remind me that we are all growing
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: into the most powerful version of what we can be.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that sentiment, but consider the lotus flower. It
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: floats on top of the water.
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: I am drowning. The reason I came here to you,
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know if talking about this will help, but
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: I've already failed a little bit at the magic of this.
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: And I want to use you and your technology. I
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: want you to help me remove this. And I point
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: to the book. I don't, I don't want to be
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: the paper phantom anymore. I made the phantom before, and
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: if I keep trying to put my anger there, it's
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: just going to reform over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have any of the coping skills, the tools
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  Speaker 4: to handle how to process my feelings.
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  Speaker 2: I never did. I can't do it. I don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't before, but perhaps you do now. What gives
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: you that impression? You're seeking wise counsel. Yeah. Thinking beyond yourself. Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't... I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Who I am without being the paper phantom. And so
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: I just want to go back to before. When it
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: was just Jason Turner. They're almost done rebuilding the library.
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  Speaker 4: I can go back to my life, my job. I
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: don't have a reason to fight anymore. What was your
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: reason in the first place? I didn't... It wasn't my reason.
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  Speaker 2: It was just a.
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  Speaker 4: I thought a separate voice telling me to. Telling me
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  Speaker 4: to fight. Telling me to take things I wanted. I
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: was selfish. I hurt people.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: I killed people, Mr. Ellington. I can't be trusted with
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: this power. I don't want it. I didn't bring up
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: the lotus to say that you are blooming. I brought
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: it up to say that you are in the muck.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: You are sprouting, and you're in the dark, the dark night,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: before you bloom. Perhaps blooming and floating on top of
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: the water will mean the phantom is no longer a
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: part of you. But perhaps, perhaps not. Enough with the riddles.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Can you help me or not? I don't know what
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: you ask. I have no... I am not a magician.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: I am a... I am a scientist.
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  Speaker 4: My best understanding from the books I've read is some
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: kind of quantum entanglement. The book and me, me and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: the book, it's the same thing, taking up the same space.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: Shouldn't be possible, but if there's anyone in this city
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: that could undo it, It'd be you.
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  Speaker 2: I will need to run tests. And I will need
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: to make a plan. Sure. Just don't tell my friends.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: I don't think they'll understand. What has been said remains
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: between us and the flowers. Oh, by the way, here's
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: your ledger back. He widens his eyes. Thank you. I
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: was so worried. If this fell into the wrong hands,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: it could certainly be bad for me.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, it.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: All made sense to me. You've got money and you're
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: doing good things with it, I think. Maybe the only one.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad that it fell into your hands. Into
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: the hands of the paper phantom? Just Jason for now.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: Just Jason for now. Well, come back for testing.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: After the election. There's a lot going on. Yeah. You
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: got it.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: It was good to see you. You too. Thank you
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: for trusting me. Of course. And he sees you out.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Do you guys want to do anything else before the election?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Did we miss anything?
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: I mean I would go back to work.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah you go back to work I'm so sorry Look at.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: My face.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: Ronnie sorry Where have you been Did somebody come by
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: and tell you No I'm so sorry I was like
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: in a coma.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: For a month A month I'm so sorry It was
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: like a whole thing with With.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: The paper phantom Oh my god Um, listen, I was
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: trying like to, you know, I kind of built like
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: a mystique around you journey, like journeying in like the
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: zone of the mind or whatever.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly what I was doing.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, good.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: So you nailed it. Yeah.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: People liked it. They're really, uh, getting excited for you
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: to come back.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: So.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, well thank the God in you for that.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. I, I just did what I could. Thank you. Um,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Gabe has kind of kept people, uh, Excited to see
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: you return. Nice.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: The second second coming of Veronica Dyson Cantor.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Good way to spin it.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks, friend. Yeah, sure. You checking with Jill and your family?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: They're all super concerned that you were gone. What do
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: you spin to them?
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, my dad knows that I'm Quanta. And I
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: feel like I haven't talked about it with my moms,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: but they got to know some things up. So I'll
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: just say I was I was with new friends.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: And they really needed me.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: It's lame. I know. I'm sorry.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: OK, honey, whatever you want us to believe. We were
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: just worried. That's all. I know.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: I really I'm sorry how much I make you worry.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Just check in, okay? Sandy says. Just check in every
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: now and again. Shoot us. Do you need, like, I
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: can buy you a cube. You want me to buy
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: you a cube? No, don't buy me a cube, Mom.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: It's okay. That's all I need. I just need you
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: to check in every now and again.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, I'm sorry. It's okay. We love you. Thanks.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: I pulled Jill aside after family dinner. Hey, have you
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: gone to visit your co-worker, Paige Wright?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: I have, yeah. Took her flowers the other day. Why
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: do you ask? How do you know her? Wait, how
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: do you know her?
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: I know somebody who knows her.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool. And I heard, obviously, about the accident. Yeah, terrible.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: I rolled my ankle real bad.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: Well, obviously, you know.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: You know I know somebody who was there. Oh.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: She would not have seen the phantom. Oh, right.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: She just popped out of paper. Anyways, is there anything
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: you can do for her?
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I didn't think about it. We're working with
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: a lot of experimental stuff. Nothing that I would want
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: to use on a person yet. It's so new.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I saw. It was like her
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: mind was like her brain was like erased. But rebuilding rapidly.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Like I could see all the connections being made new.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: I mean the MFG could have Some sort of influence
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: on heightened healing, react evolutionary. She starts mumbling a bunch
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: of science stuff. That's interesting. That's interesting. Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: I just thought I would tell you what I know
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: if it could help her.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: I'll go see her again. I'll look into it. Okay. Also,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: good to see you.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Good to see you.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Sorry you were out so long. Me too.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Love you.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: Bye.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: You catch up with the famine page. Jill. Sorry, the
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: famine Jill. Is there anything the three of you want
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: to do to... Vote.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: Vote.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Vote. Vote.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, just me?
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: Yes. Get it out. Get it. Rock the vote.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: We're going to rock the vote. We're going to rock.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: This, the vote. Other than voting, is there anything you
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: want to do to influence this election? The people... Are
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: excited that you've returned. They've seen Rigel and Quanta running
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: through the city again. They are asking, the people ask
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: for the opinions of the heroes of this city. Do
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: you do anything to reach the people or do you
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: let it lie as it is? Rigel would talk in
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: front of a camera. Yeah.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: Grabbed while he was flat around and someone asked him.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: You go right up into the camera. I fucked up. Oh, mommy.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: Puppy.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: It's a very puppy. I fucked up. I fucked up. Oh, mommy. Mommy. Sorry, mommy.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: I'm fucked up.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 4: Nah, Chase is too self-absorbed. He's not doing shit. Election
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: can happen. He's going to forget to vote.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Again. Yeah, I think Conta is happy that they like
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: with what they've done. And I think I think that
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Jason saying sometimes like power, you can have too much
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: power has like stuck with her for a few days
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: because it feels so similar to conversations she's had with
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Jillian before. And that kind of stops her from trying
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: to influence the election further. Okay.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Rigel, there would certainly be an opportunity for you
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: as you're flying around. Rigel, Rigel, come down. Come down.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: The people want to know.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: It's good to be back, everyone. Thank you for taking
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: care of the city while me and my friends were away.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: And where were you, Rigel?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: We were fighting some battles. We'll just keep it at
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: that for now. But this city has protectors. Not just
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: us who wear capes and fly around, but All kinds.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: All shapes and sizes out there. Well done, New Babylonians.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. But the election is coming up, Rigel. What
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: are you and what are your thoughts and the thoughts
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: of your fellow heroes? My hero friends and I will
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: be voting.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: Not as Rigel, Quanta, and the paper phantom, but as
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: New Babylonians that we also are.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: Know that. And the current mayor is behind bars. And
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: I believe that's where he should stay. And do you
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: have an opinion about what would be better for the city?
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: Cordula Soma or Henry Hilland? I do have my opinions.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to express them in the ballot box.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your time. And Rigel flies off. The
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: day before the election arrives, the city is quiet. And
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: as the sun breaks over the horizon and splits the clouds,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: a sidewalk sweeper comes upon a gruesome sight, which is
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: then reported and then broadcasted to every screen in the city.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: Sofia Eldanta, Darius Jackson, An unnamed Irish gangster, the Oyabun
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: Hasagawa and Cordula Soma, are found dead on the steps
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: of City Hall. What the? No. Their bodies have been
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: strewn across the stairs, and there is a message written
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: in blood. Judgment Satisfied. And that's where we'll end this
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: episode of the Team Up Play Show 5.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: Cordula, no. No. Unnamed Irish mobster. Unnamed Irish mobster.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: He was my favorite one.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: I'm going to find the real guy.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: The fire slug must have killed them.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: We will talk about this episode and our thoughts about
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: what happened here in the chat cave. Oh no, our
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: city's tummy.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Was so satisfied and now it's going to be all
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: rumbly again.
• 1:12:57
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• 1:13:00
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• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: we'll see you next week with another episode. Goodbye! Bye-bye.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 7: Bye.
• 1:13:22
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• 1:13:26
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• 1:13:31
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• 1:14:13
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• 1:14:17
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