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S1-Ep.41: Seems Hard and Bad · 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. Hey, Johnny here.
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  Speaker 2: Just starting this episode with a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: content warning. There are some events in this episode that
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  Speaker 2: resemble the horrible current events and actions of ICE on
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  Speaker 2: the people of our country. I planned these events well
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  Speaker 2: before the more recent and very public terrorizing and murdering
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  Speaker 2: and capturing that ICE has been engaged in at the
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  Speaker 2: behest of our president and those who support him. And
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  Speaker 2: instead of rewriting these events, we've decided to leave them in,
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  Speaker 2: in hopes to highlight the deep evil that's happening.
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  Speaker 3: In our country.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes art and story help us to determine what is
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  Speaker 2: truly wicked in the real world. That is to say,
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  Speaker 2: if you're against the evil in the events of this episode,
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  Speaker 2: you ought to be against the evil that is happening
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  Speaker 2: against the people of color in our nation at the
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  Speaker 2: hands of ice. Anyway, hope you enjoy the episode and
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  Speaker 2: sorry for preaching.
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  Speaker 3: Previously In the City of Bones.
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  Speaker 2: To begin this transaction, to begin the flow of gold
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  Speaker 2: into this city, to start a second founding age, the
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  Speaker 2: golden age of New Babel, there are some things we
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  Speaker 2: need from you. There is allowed no powered individuals here.
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  Speaker 2: The lawlessness and communism of what you endearingly call the
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  Speaker 2: chute is no longer allowed. Those living there must be
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  Speaker 2: removed and processed. The day people will not be a
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  Speaker 2: comfortable part of the tourist experience for those visiting, if
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  Speaker 2: allowed to remain in their current status, they are to
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  Speaker 2: be reverted to their initial purpose. Day people, you may
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  Speaker 2: join the police force and serve the people around you
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  Speaker 2: as you were intended to do. Or you may take
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  Speaker 2: a service role for a valued member of society.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the Paper Phantom. And I want to use you
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  Speaker 3: and your technology. I want you to help me remove this.
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  Speaker 3: And I point to the book. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: be the Paper Phantom anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Jason, here are our findings in layman's terms and my
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  Speaker 2: suggestions for procedure. The book and the bulwark within you
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  Speaker 2: do not seem dependent upon you. However, your body does
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  Speaker 2: depend on them. Many of your bodily functions are being
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  Speaker 2: maintained by the power of that thing, primarily your circulatory
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  Speaker 2: and respiratory systems. Your heart and lungs were crushed into
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  Speaker 2: nothing when you united with the book. They are not present,
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  Speaker 2: and the book is somehow allowing you to live. All
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  Speaker 2: that said, we can try an operation. There is no
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  Speaker 2: precedent for this, so I cannot guarantee success, but we
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  Speaker 2: may be able to perform a transplant, the book for
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  Speaker 2: a new set of lungs and a heart. Ellington has
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  Speaker 2: a good relationship with the hospitals in the city, and
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  Speaker 2: I've found compatible organs. Come by in two days if
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  Speaker 2: you'd like to proceed. My medical team predicts a 93%
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  Speaker 2: chance of success. The announcement from the American ambassador has
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  Speaker 2: shaken this city. People are fickle. People like shiny things.
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  Speaker 2: The promise of wealth, free and easy, is too much
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  Speaker 2: for the people of your city. They clamber like starved
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  Speaker 2: rats at the promise of more. The cost is small, right?
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  Speaker 2: Get rid of the heroes, displace the shooters, and enslave
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  Speaker 2: the day? Those things don't affect your average new babble
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  Speaker 2: Bones or Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Bones being the most common name after Jasons. Your average Jasons.
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  Speaker 1: Your average Jasons and your average Bones.
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  Speaker 3: Be better, Bones.
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  Speaker 2: In the course of a couple days, day businesses are
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  Speaker 2: boycotted and vandalized. The shoot entryways are surrounded by protesters
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  Speaker 2: and agitators who harass shooters going in and out. They
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  Speaker 2: do so unchallenged by the race. The statues of the
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  Speaker 2: heroes of the founding age are torn down and written
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  Speaker 2: upon them in red paint is the battle cry of
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  Speaker 2: the people. Leave us alone. Not a month ago they
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  Speaker 2: cheered for you. Now they curse your name and unknowingly
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  Speaker 2: move against your kind. What do you guys do?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like, we gotta keep protecting people. They may
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  Speaker 1: not want us to anymore, but I think we're still
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  Speaker 1: out there patrolling and, you know, protecting shooters as they're
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  Speaker 1: coming and going from the shoot, and Stopping people vandalizing
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  Speaker 1: businesses as we see that. And, you know, all the
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  Speaker 1: other stuff that we would do around the city when
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  Speaker 1: we would patrol. Right?
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  Speaker 3: Rigel is.
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  Speaker 4: The line for the first time between Rigel and Jameer
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  Speaker 4: is starting to blur. As Rigel is spending almost all
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  Speaker 4: of his time in the chute or near it. Being
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  Speaker 4: visibly seen and.
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  Speaker 4: Fighting viciously, protecting shooters, and protecting the shoot itself. Scared
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  Speaker 4: that his people, his family, their whole way of life
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  Speaker 4: will be destroyed.
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  Speaker 3: Jason is retreating back to what he knows, his library,
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  Speaker 3: his books, using the letter from Manny Ellington, offering surgery
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  Speaker 3: to remove his powers in his book as a bookmark.
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  Speaker 1: And quanta's doing her best to protect businesses all of
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  Speaker 1: them day and human and the vandalism and violence happening
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  Speaker 1: around the city stopping that as she can and helping
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  Speaker 1: rigel at the shoot quanta and rigel every time you
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  Speaker 1: go out now as a hero new rifles are trained
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  Speaker 1: at you Quanta, you saw.
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  Speaker 2: These kinds of rifles in your vision of the Evo War.
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  Speaker 2: They shoot metal spikes that carry a neutralizing agent of
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  Speaker 2: your Evo gene. Rigel, your sneak is not very good,
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  Speaker 2: but your might and your strength are. One day as
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  Speaker 2: you go flying out, One of these hits you from
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  Speaker 2: an unknown place.
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  Speaker 3: I stop.
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  Speaker 4: I take it off my back, inspect it, and then
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  Speaker 4: crush it in my palm, and I turn to try
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  Speaker 4: to see the direction from which I was shot.
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  Speaker 2: Make a sense check as you turn and look.
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  Speaker 3: Sense is not my best.
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  Speaker 2: It's an average check. I'm rolling a D8.
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  Speaker 3: I got a three.
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  Speaker 2: I rolled a six. You can't find the person, but
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  Speaker 2: I think even on this fail, you understand that trained snipers,
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  Speaker 2: this well-trained to hide from you, aren't a part of
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  Speaker 2: the New Babel police force.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like New Babel police training.
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  Speaker 4: Rachel, if I may, Rachel's going to fly to Jason Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Which one? There's so many Jasons in the city. Your father,
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  Speaker 3: your brother, your shoot fruit, shoot dogs.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to fly to Jason Turner, actually.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jason Turner.
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  Speaker 3: I'm also Jason Turner. JT, go home.
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  Speaker 2: Before you get to Jason and have a talk with him,
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  Speaker 2: I do want Quanta to do a role here because
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  Speaker 2: every time.
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  Speaker 3: You go out, you are shot at with these spikes.
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  Speaker 2: Jameer, as you crush it, you realize that the neutralizing
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  Speaker 2: agent wouldn't work on you.
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  Speaker 3: You're not an Evo. But they still hurt, certainly.
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  Speaker 2: Quanta.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You got to dodge these things. We're going to do
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  Speaker 2: a general check here for like a week's time of
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  Speaker 2: you not getting hit with one of these. If one
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  Speaker 2: does hit you, we'll do that when we'll say within
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  Speaker 2: this episode, there will be a time where one hits you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So roll a ready check.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to add.
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  Speaker 2: Or street smarts.
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  Speaker 1: I will do ready and I would love to add
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  Speaker 1: lightning reflexes.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I'm rolling a difficult check. Because there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people aiming at you to shoot.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm rolling a D12.
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  Speaker 1: I'm rolling a D10 and a D6.
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  Speaker 2: I rolled 12 on my D12.
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  Speaker 1: I rolled a 10 and a 6. I rolled 16. Maxed.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: All three rolled max.
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  Speaker 4: We all rolled max. We all rolled max. Do the
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  Speaker 4: probability on that, listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listeners.
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  Speaker 3: We're not gonna. We're not scientists.
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  Speaker 1: We're not statisticians.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember fifth grade, man. Or estheticians. Statisticians, estheticians, statisticians.
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  Speaker 2: Quanta, every time you go out as Quanta, you're shot
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  Speaker 2: at by these spikes. How does Quanta avoid them?
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  Speaker 1: I think the first few times she's surprised, but they
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  Speaker 1: miss her. And then she.
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  Speaker 1: Registers the like signature like she does with people of
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  Speaker 1: those guns and the energy so that she just kind
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  Speaker 1: of starts at first like really actively looking for them
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  Speaker 1: but then eventually like her brain accommodates that to become
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  Speaker 1: like a passive ability that she's just tracking where these
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  Speaker 1: are so she before they even fire she can turn into.
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  Speaker 2: Lightning and move out of the way very cool yeah
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  Speaker 2: With the two of you remaining as heroes and continuing
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  Speaker 2: to do patrol, a few other things that happen before
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  Speaker 2: we get to Jameer going to hang out with Jason.
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  Speaker 2: You notice there are power dampening bonds starting to show
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  Speaker 2: up on police. And then you also notice that there
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  Speaker 2: is a para-police-like organization. Is that the right way to
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  Speaker 2: say it?
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  Speaker 4: Para-police?
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  Speaker 2: Parapolice?
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  Speaker 3: Like they're parachuting or like flying?
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  Speaker 2: No, like they're outside of the government. They're outside of
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  Speaker 2: the New Babel paramilitary. There's like a paramilitary group that
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  Speaker 2: seems to be supplying these things to the New Babel
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  Speaker 2: police and are actively walking throughout the city as well.
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  Speaker 2: You also both have interactions with people, the people of
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  Speaker 2: the city.
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  Speaker 3: Jameer.
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  Speaker 2: There's a group of shooters that are being harassed. People
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  Speaker 2: are throwing food at them as they enter into their home.
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  Speaker 2: The shoot coming home from a day's work in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Not just food, but sticks, even rocks here or there
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  Speaker 2: thrown at people just trying to get home. How does
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  Speaker 2: Jameer deal with this? Jameer will just send out a.
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  Speaker 4: hail of flight stars to just block a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: these projectiles and floating above them will yell down that's
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  Speaker 4: all it took for you to turn against your neighbors
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  Speaker 4: for you to want to enslave and exile your fellow
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  Speaker 4: members of New Babel a little bit of money and
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  Speaker 4: A little bit of money, that's all it took to
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  Speaker 4: buy your souls? Money you haven't even seen?
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  Speaker 2: Roll a glory check, Jameer.
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  Speaker 3: That Jameer is good at.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's glorious.
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  Speaker 2: This is a difficult check. I'm rolling a d12 again.
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  Speaker 3: I'm also rolling a d12.
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  Speaker 2: I rolled a seven.
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  Speaker 3: I got a ten. Ten.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the people look downcast. Look at the things
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  Speaker 2: in their hands that they had thrown or planned to
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  Speaker 2: throw and look embarrassed. One of the crowd, though, stands
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  Speaker 2: in defiance to you, Rigel. We don't need you anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Leave us alone. It's your fault now we're not going
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's your fault now we're not going to get anything.
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  Speaker 3: What was that, big boy?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, hold on.
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  Speaker 3: Try it again. Hold on.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody, be quiet. He's gathering his fucking thoughts. What's he
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  Speaker 4: going to say? Try again, big guy. You're so sure
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  Speaker 4: that your new leaders aren't captors? You're so sure that
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  Speaker 4: they're going to give you everything you've ever wished for.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you're sure of, huh? That's what they said.
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  Speaker 4: That's what the guy on the TV said. And the
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  Speaker 4: guy on the TV can't.
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  Speaker 2: Lie, right?
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  Speaker 3: Right, smart guy?
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  Speaker 2: We don't want you anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Speak up.
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  Speaker 4: Speak up.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: We don't.
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  Speaker 3: I can't hear you. This guy is being petty.
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  Speaker 1: Bones?
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  Speaker 3: Is that you?
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  Speaker 4: The line between Rigel and Jameer is starting to blur.
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  Speaker 2: This guy eventually backs down and this sad huddle of
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  Speaker 2: people move on and then the shooters as you float
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  Speaker 2: down on your flight star, Jameer, reach up, touch the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of your flight star, touch the edge of your cape.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Rigel. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Just a chorus of thank yous. Of course.
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  Speaker 4: Go on in.
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  Speaker 3: Go on in. Be safe.
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  Speaker 2: We still believe in you. We still believe in you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Take care of each other, please.
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  Speaker 2: Quanta, there's... you notice something on your patrol quanta. There
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  Speaker 2: are hundreds of abandoned buildings in New Babel, just not
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  Speaker 2: enough people for what was built here. There are abandoned malls,
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  Speaker 2: abandoned warehouses. This paramilitary organization begins to set up camps,
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  Speaker 2: living quarters, shabby cots, and storing food there. And they
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  Speaker 2: start marking them as... Day buildings, spelled D-A-Y.
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  Speaker 3: Quanta finds one of these. It's an old warehouse.
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  Speaker 1: What the... What are you up to now? I will
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  Speaker 1: turn into plasma and enter the network in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Scope it out.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting set up basic generators. The electricity in this
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  Speaker 2: building doesn't work. Some of the plumbing doesn't work. They're just...
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  Speaker 2: getting like basic lighting in there to house.
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  Speaker 3: People.
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  Speaker 1: Quanta gets ready to destroy, like starts to like charge
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  Speaker 1: up to destroy the generators they're creating. And then like
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  Speaker 1: a thought hits of like, they're still going to put
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  Speaker 1: people here. If I make conditions worse, they're still going
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  Speaker 1: to put people here And I will have made it
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  Speaker 1: worse for them. And then starts to panic a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and shoots through the city's electricity to find Gabe
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  Speaker 1: and her parents. I think I would go to my
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  Speaker 1: work first because that would probably be the most vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: rather than my home.
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  Speaker 2: Your work has been A brick has been thrown through
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  Speaker 2: the front glass. People have come in, destroyed everything. And
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  Speaker 2: Gabe is in the back, sweeping up, cleaning up.
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  Speaker 1: I just show up as Quanta.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, you're okay. Hey, I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: long we'll be okay, but. They didn't hurt me. They
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  Speaker 2: just busted everything up.
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  Speaker 1: We're closed. We're closed. It's not worth it, you being
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  Speaker 1: here by yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry?
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  Speaker 2: Well, just sorry this is happening to us.
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  Speaker 1: We have nothing to apologize for.
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  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I have shit to apologize for, but not
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  Speaker 1: to do with this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think my friend would be okay with you coming
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  Speaker 1: to stay with us.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: It was scary.
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  Speaker 3: I bet.
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  Speaker 1: I hug him.
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  Speaker 2: He hugs you back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to let Rigel know. that you're coming over,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm taking you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. You take Gabe over to Rigel's and- Tube time.
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  Speaker 2: You touch base with your moms.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And dad. He's there too.
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  Speaker 3: And your dad.
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  Speaker 2: You touch base with your family.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Ronnie, this is horrible.
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  Speaker 1: Is everybody okay? What's happened?
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  Speaker 2: We're all okay. We're all okay. Sandy is on the
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  Speaker 2: telephone just spouting intense legal jargon in every direction.
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  Speaker 3: Intense legal jargon. That's how the world changes.
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  Speaker 2: Intense legal jargon. Intense legal jargon. They can't do this.
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  Speaker 2: We have rights. Just screaming into her cube. Your dad
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  Speaker 2: comes over Gives you a big hug. Oh, dad.
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  Speaker 5: Ronnie.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Both are good.
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  Speaker 3: Ronnie, hey.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: This is horrible.
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  Speaker 1: Are you three safe here? Can I take you somewhere else?
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  Speaker 2: It seems like Kono is the safest from what's going on,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know how long it'll last. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: know the way.
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  Speaker 1: You know the way through the Through the pneumatic tube tunnels, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess I do, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The second you smell something scary, please take yourself and
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  Speaker 1: Mom's there.
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  Speaker 2: He shrugs, looks at Sandy. I don't know if she's
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  Speaker 2: gonna take this lying down.
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  Speaker 1: She shouldn't have to. No.
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  Speaker 2: But she's a fighter, just like you.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be okay, dear.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be okay. Mommy, she... Brings over a little bag
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  Speaker 3: of chocolate chip cookies.
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  Speaker 1: Baking cookies at the end of the world, huh, Mommy?
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  Speaker 2: She shrugs. I don't know how long I'll have access
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  Speaker 2: to my kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: Oof. Your dad puts a hand on your shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, things like this, it's all the rage right now.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get through it.
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  Speaker 1: What I learn, I'm learning. It's been all the rage
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  Speaker 1: throughout all of history. And some people don't get through it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's so. Well, just in case stuff is going
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  Speaker 2: to happen, I wanted to tell you, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was worried and tried to kind of control if you
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  Speaker 2: were going to do the whole quanta thing or not.
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  Speaker 2: And I just wanted to tell you that I'm so
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  Speaker 2: proud of what you've done. And I'm more proud that
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  Speaker 2: you're doing it now still. You don't deserve their hate.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Dad. I'll try to believe that.
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  Speaker 3: Love ya.
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  Speaker 2: Both your parents here, your mom's Sandy still on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Both your parents here give you a kiss on the
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  Speaker 2: head as you move on.
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  Speaker 1: Think i'd like to before i leave like reach into
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: if you'll allow i don't know if you want me
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to branch for this but with control electricity like do
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: they have a security system yes i would like to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: like put kind of kind of similar to like when
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the phantom like gives people cards that they can write
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: on i want to like create like a blip in
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: their security yeah that like i'm aware of and connected to.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of like you did with the Wraith. Yes, yes.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: But this one, like, then I could feel, like, if
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: their security gets tripped or, like, if there's, like, louder
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: than usual activity or something like that.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: That I could be aware of it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Jason is reading books using the letter
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: from Manny. That promises a 93% chance of success on
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the transplants as the city's going wild around him. What
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: is he thinking right before Jameer shows up?
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Jason is... He's received, you know, an
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: influx of... The library's kind of done with construction at
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: this point, but.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: New books are coming in from America that he's got
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: a shelf. He's got to rebuild the collection. He's like
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: trying to work on that. Just trying to figure out
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: if he can go back to his old life all
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: the while in the library, as he's working, putting books away,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: reading books, the, the suit, the phantom cloak and hat
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: is hovering in the corner separate from him. He doesn't
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: want to hold it in him anymore. He's just trying
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: to lose himself in the work and the books and
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: ignore the outside world. There's, white billowing sheets over lots
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: of the empty bookshelves. Very Phantom of the Opera style.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: The unopened library.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And Jameer shows up to see his friend.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Jameer changes secretly in a tomb nearby, crawls out,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: and knocks on the big door.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Jason opens instinctively before seeing who it is. Sorry, we're
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: not actually open yet. Still rebuilding the collection. Yeah, I know.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: It's me. Oh, hey. What's up?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: You see bags under Rigel's eyes, bloodshot.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Hey, man. Long time no see. Yeah, yeah, it's been
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Oh, did you want to, sorry, you
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: want to come in? Please.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Jameer comes inside. You got anything to, uh, drink in
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: this place? Um, I think there's some old tea bags, um,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: that didn't get burned.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Tea sounds great. Tea sounds great. Yeah, I think so.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: It was like Arthur's weird old, his old man tea.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Smooth move.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all smooth move. Is that okay? Smooth move
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: or sleepy time? Which one you feeling? Um, Not sleepy time,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: so let's go smooth move. Nice, that's what I've been
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: taking a lot of, so cool. Are you okay? You
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: seem kind of fucked up. Yeah, I'm pretty fucked up, man. Yeah,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: seems like a lot going on out there. I don't
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: really want to deal with it. Seems hard and bad.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: It's a.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Lot of true colors are being revealed and I don't
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: like what I'm seeing. Yeah.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: It's hard because we were fighting to protect the city
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: and it seems like the city kind of turned on us, huh?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: They're about to.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: They're about to eat their own, Jason. For the promise
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: of money?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Money?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: They're about to round up the day and the shooters
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: and do God knows what with them. I'm getting sniped at,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: flying across the city. I don't even know where Quanta
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: is right now. I don't know if she's okay this moment.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, every second, it could all fall apart. Safer
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: to keep your head down, not go out dressed as
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: a star man with glowing fish bracers? It really was.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: But a lot of shooters would get fucked up if
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I wasn't flying around.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, what can we do? Who do we punch
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: in the face to fix this? You know, I really
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: wish I had.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Some smart guy who's read a lot of books with
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: me to help me figure that out.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Like I'm trying to get out of a hero business
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: before it's too late. Maybe you should think about doing
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: the same thing.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, business is not booming.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: So I mean, you've got your family, right? That's something
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: wherever the shoot ends up being, you'll still have them.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: jason jason i don't got no one man i got
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: this room hey pages in space i guess arthur's gone
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: the phantom was just me all along let's go back to.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Being alone.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: You got me jason You got me, man. Yeah. And
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: you got Quanta. Like, you guys are always welcoming. here
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: if you need something.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: But no no no no no no the last week
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: has been hell but I know my friend and I
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: know that if you're not out there trying to be
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: part of stemming this tide Then you must be going
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: through your own hell.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: In here... And I'm sorry I let you go through
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: it alone for this long man... But what... What the
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: hell's going on? Look I'm not like you... You are Quanta... Okay?
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I can't... Rally the people and... I don't know... Kiss
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: babies or whatever... I'm a fucking murderer dude.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: I am Jason Turner, murderer. I'll be whatever the city
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: needs me to be, but I don't know what that
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: is right now. So like I said, if you want
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: to call on me when you need help, I'm here,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: but it might not be for much longer.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: What?
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: That scary shit. What does that mean for much longer, Jason?
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: What are you saying?
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Jason pulls the bookmark out from a book across the
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: library and flutters it into Jameer's hands so he can
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: see Manny Ellington's letter. While that's happening, I pull a
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: lever that unfolds spiral staircase like origami to the secret
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: loft I installed. If you got anything you want to
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: say to the Phantom, today might be the last night.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: You're thinking about.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Letting that crazy guy fuck with your book, dude?
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. This could kill you, man. Well, I clearly
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: don't deserve this. I don't have control over this. If
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: this is who I am, I don't want to be
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: able to just kill people on a whim. I'm sorry
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: for everything that's happening, but I don't know if I
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: can help.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: You didn't cause what's happening, so you don't need to
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: apologize for it.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: You're damn right I forgot to vote twice. Henry Ellington
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: built the room you're standing in, by the way.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: And Manny Ellington paid for my grandma to become the Everwing, which.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Is probably what got all of my hold.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Ball rolling so it's all fucking confusing and dirty I'm
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: not the greatest at determining whether things are right or
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: wrong okay when things are simple black and white good
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: guys bad guys that's easy like words on a page
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: but what's happening now it's messy you're right just like
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: you had a freaking demon of destruction thing put in
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: your body. Yeah, and that demon of destruction's name is
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: fucking Jason Turner, alright? No, that demon of destruction's name,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Hey. But that was not you.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: That was another thing, and then it fucked with you,
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: and then we had to go inside of you and
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: untangle some lingering.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: confused threads just and now you get to choose who
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: you are I am I'm choosing this is it it
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: doesn't I'm sorry you don't like it I library is
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: closed see you around Jameer whatever we were this team
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: special magic knights or whatever it's done City's changing. Yeah.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Rigel looks to the front door. The city is changing.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: It's pretty scary. think you can handle it.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Jason I'm a blunt instrument and they see me coming from.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: A mile away every time I.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Want the bad people that are trying to kill what's
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: left of the good in this city to be afraid.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: And I can't do that no But you can. As
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: soon as I get this godforsaken book out of my chest,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: you can have it. You be the paper phantom. I
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: spent my whole life bouncing around foster home to foster home.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: My only friends were books. I kept my head down,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: and I survived. That's all I know. I'm not a hero. Okay.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Keep the letter. You're my friend. You're my friend. I disagree,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: but okay. If you see Quanta, tell her I'm sorry.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I can pass along that message. Jason, what are you
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: eating for dinner tonight? You don't look like you've been eating, man.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Just been drinking a lot of smooth move tea, man. God,
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: there's like no calories in that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: You're eating your body, man. It's fine. No, no. I'll
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: get some pizza up or something.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Me, you, Quanta... Let's go to the fucking Grimace King...
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: And let's eat some shit today.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Please. Just burgers, no work. That's all I'm asking right now. Fine.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: I've got my.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: My surgery scheduled, so... In fact.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Your surgery is scheduled before dinner tonight.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, shit. I'm not supposed to eat for 24 hours.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: I've been drinking nothing but Smooth Move. I don't know
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: if that's going to do anything for the anesthesia.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: But you make plans with your friends to get dinner
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: knowing that before that event, you are set up to
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: be at Manny's.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I'll see you there, Jason. 6.30. See ya.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Bye, Joel.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Walks out of the library, and Jameer cries.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And the time comes for Jason's appointment with Manny Ellington.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I'm a little nervous. Does Jason go is my question.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Get this out of me.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Get out of here, Kool-Aid man.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Nobody asked you to fuck with our friend's superpower.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Okay. Hate that red Kool-Aid bellied man.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: You enter Ellington Electric, and the young woman is at
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: the desk.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, this lady.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Hi, Jason.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: No barbs this time. I know it's a big day.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Thanks. Yeah, I mean, if I die, it's been very
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: educational speaking with you. Thanks.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: She takes you back to an operating room. It's in
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: the same area of this enormous plant where you have
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: sensed Hannah Hill and being experimental. You sense other kind
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: of experimental names for different Biochemical engineering They're making a
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Shrek overview They're making In one room they're making a Shrek.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: An abomination Oh shit god Wait a second Is.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: This the kind of levity we need after After.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: They're baking a Shrek That's our amount of time spent
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: On talking about how much we watch Shrek rot.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: I know That's all I can think about.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Manny is there In the room, there are several doctors,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: many of them preparing things. Jason, I'm a little surprised
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: that you came, but glad you did.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, uh.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Seems like... The city's not interested in super people anymore, and...
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Just the push I needed.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: What is happening in the city right now is... A shame.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: My father and his father... Supported heroes, and it is
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: sad that the city no longer does.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Really? Your father and father his father's cool father.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Yes but today is not about that today is about
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: you you finding yourself ascending jason through the muck and blooming.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: At last i guess you're looking that way.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Don't look at this as a step backward, but as
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: a step forward to what the new you will be.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Well, 93% chance of it still being Jason Turner.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: He gestures to the table.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: All right. I know you said that it's a high
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: probability that everything goes okay, but in case it doesn't,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: I hand... Manny Ellington, a letter. It's addressed to Quanta
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: and Rigel.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: You could leave it sealed, Dovey. He wouldn't say thank you.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: I wasn't thinking. You're welcome.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: He says, I've got the reckoning. Of course, Jason, we
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: will get this to your.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Friends, but.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Everything will be fine. I have faith.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I had something like that.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: There is much for us to do, but while you
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: are waiting for the anesthesia to kick in.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: I know all about the magazines you have here. They're
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: not good. Oh, we'll throw on a TV for you. Oh, okay.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: TV pops open in the room you're in, in the wall.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Nice. You should consider updating your magazine selection, I'm just saying.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: The power to.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: See all paper it's amazing.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah well highlights that's already been completed it's you know
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: it's fun.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: The doctors around you are getting ready for the procedure
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: they bring in a bunch of stuff there's you know
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: cooler with what you assume would be the organs there's
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: you know the trays with all the tools that they
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: need they're washing Manny goes outside of the room to
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: a viewing room Where he will watch and one of
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the doctors comes over. The TV that's just been playing.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Like, I don't know. It's me, Steven Starr reruns. No,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: it's something like chill. It's like... Bird documentary. Yeah, it's
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: really slow.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: What is Hacky Sack?
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: And the manufacturing process behind it. Look at the beans
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: in there. The stitching. slow panning of all the parks
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: in New Babel. I'm Jason Turner.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: It's not super interesting.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: And this is Parks and Hacky Sack.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: But it just slows down and zooms in on all
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: the hacky sackers in the city.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Wow, what form. Some people study years to accomplish the
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: perfect arc. Let's watch.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: You can't hear any of it, but You watch this,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: and as you're watching.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Subtitles.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: As you're watching, there's an abrupt cut, and it goes
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: to an active feed in the shoot. The police have
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: rallied behind a single figure in the station. Thunderfist Ron
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: stands in riot gear. His right arm is covered, but
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: you can tell it's different. He raises it, forms a fist,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and a clap of thunder is heard as one of
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: the doctors pauses, about to have been putting the anesthesia
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: in the IV, and says, wait, turn this on, what's happening?
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: You hear Thunderfist run. Bravest and finest of this city,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: we've been waiting for this day for a long time
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Today we restore order. We combat lawlessness and communism. Don't
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: let them fool you. Their darkness will spread and they
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: will force.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: A new way of life onto you. Onto us. We
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: won't have it.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: It's a new day. We stand here in the station
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: and the myth of the wraith has no power over us.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Let's clear him out, boys. The police line begins to
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: move on the shoot. The shooters stand. The camera pans
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: over to the shooters. They link arms and stand in
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: a line. And they sing proudly the anthem of the shoot.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Jameer hasn't shown up yet. Quanta hasn't shown up yet.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: It's all happening too quickly. And then you see some
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: horrible images. The army of police officers moves into the shoot.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: They break through the line of shooters with their batons
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: and their shields. They fire tear gas into homes. They
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: burst through doors and drag people out of their houses. Old, young,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: and everyone in between. There are bullies, Jason. An old
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: man is dragged out of his house. One of the
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: paramilitary officers yells, He pulled a knife on us! Throws
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: him into the middle of four cops who circle him
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: and begin to beat him. You doubt the old man
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: will survive. The doctor looks... Shakes his head. Jesus Christ.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: She said he's going to hell. He's about to put
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: the anesthetic in your IV. What does Jason do?
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: A quandary.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: A quantus quandary.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: As you decide, take a minute to think.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: I know this is a big moment. Sure.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: And it is your moment. Jameer, you are in the
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: shoot a lot right now, around it, having left Jason. Sure,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: you have dinner plans, but this does not go on
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: long without you knowing about it.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming you are blitzing towards the shoot. Shit, shit.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Rigel, again. barely just throws on his helmet, not
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: even like full costume, and is just flight starring through
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: the city, low and fast, trying to avoid snipers by
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: being just a few feet above the ground. Quanta, Quanta,
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: if you're on comms, I'm so sorry, but it's the shoot,
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: the shoot.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: I need help. They are... They're in. The police, they're in.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: I need help. I'm coming.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I finish shutting down the brains of a couple thugs
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: that were attacking a juice business. Put them to sleep
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: in front of it and then blast towards the chute.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Rigel, you hear in your earpiece, Jameer, what's going on?
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: It's Jackie. Jackie, it's so bad. It's so bad. You
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: got to fly. I'm scared. The chute, Thunderfist Roddy's got powers.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: They're trying to destroy the chute right now.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Right now.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: You hear across the city the cry of Everwing ripping
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: through the sky. Okay, I'll tell the boys. You know
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: that Rock Fist and Bright Blade are about to join you. Quant,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: do you feel it as the heroes of the city
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: converge on the shoot?
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Shit, I never got Joshua's phone number. Cube number.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: And Jason, you sit here watching these events on the
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: TV about to be put to sleep and lose your powers.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I did. Then I said the
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Phantom has it, right? He wrote down his phone number on.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: A piece of paper. Josh has been texting me nonstop.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Josh has been.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Texting Jason.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Sorry to interrupt this serious moment.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: No, it's fine. I think Jason looks at the doctor, nods,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: and goes to lie down ready for surgery. And before
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: the needle goes in, something is going to pull him
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: into the paper that's lying on top of the... the office,
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: the surgical table, and he's going to get sucked into
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: the paper dimension by something. Okay. Vanish.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Okay. I want to keep going with you. Before you
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: do that, Manny, you hear Manny's voice out in the
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: real world?
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Jason? Jason?
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Jason. I've got to find you. I can't
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: let you go.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: What?
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: I can't let you get in the way of my plans, Jason.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: What is happening must happen. But you are pulled down
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: into the paper dimension, Manny's voice echoing as that happens.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Jason is looking up like, You know, as if sinking
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: into a pool with just this one opening that is
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: the paper he fell through, hearing those words echo. And
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: he touches down on something in the darkness. And finally,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: for the longest time, he hasn't heard the voice. But
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: the phantom emerges from the shadows. Time you and me
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: had a little chat. I don't have anything to say
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: to you. Okay, I want you gone. You think taking
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: the book out's gonna make me go away? I've been
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: with you since the beginning, Jason. Always been there. Don't
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: you remember? The Hendersons. The fire. You've always had a troubled,
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: dark side. The book just let you express it. Well,
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: then all the more reason to take your power away.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: If you're just gonna hurt people, what's the point? You
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: still think you're the main character?
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: No.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: No. No, I don't want to be the main character anymore.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I am. Jason, you're not the
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: main character. You're the author. What? You created me. I'm
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: a tool for you to use to control. Point me
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: in the direction and I'll do what needs to be done.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: You heard him. Can't trust Manny or Adam or whatever
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: the fuck his name is. You might have lost a lot,
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: but there's more that you could lose. I'm the author,
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: so we're... We are separate. Separate, but stronger together. Let's
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: help them. But you have to choose. Not gonna let
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: them get hurt. We are not gonna let them get hurt.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Fuck yes. And the phantom is gonna come out of
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: the paper on the surgical table and... uppercut Manny in
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: the face and make his way, if he can, to
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: try and help his friends.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: You come out of the paper, uppercut Manny in the face.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: His jaw doesn't budge.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Crumple.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Ow. I can't let you stop this. He reaches out
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: to grab you. We'll stop right here. Rigel, you arrive
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: at the chute first. They've already made it a few
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: L's into the chute and are terrorizing the homes there.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: You see smoke. You see fog. You see batons. You
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: see broken shooters lying on the ground. You hear a
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: garbled song of the chute still trying to exist in
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: this space.
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: Rigel is going to flight star to like the back
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: of like this mob of police following Thunderfist Ron and
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: Rigel's just gonna start knife handing officers in the knees
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: just kneecapping motherfuckers just just not lethal still but just Fully,
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: they will never walk the same again. Just knife hands
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: all the way through. Their grandchildren won't be able to
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: walk with Papa like I'm just fucking their legs up.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Rigel arrives to protect his home.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: The pops!
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Working his way Towards the front of this mob. Quan,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: do you arrive next?
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Where do you arrive?
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: I go right for Thunderfist. Appear in front of him.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: What do you say?
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: You know what always comes after lightning? I grab his
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: temples and try to shut him down. Okay.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Next, Everwing zips into the chute from the front of
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: the station and goes to the very front of the
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: line of police and starts defending, knocking back officers, trying
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: to stop their forward movement. Rockfist blasts out of the ground,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: having smashed his way up from the tunnels.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: He dies.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: He blasts right into the center of this police crowd.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: This is bad. Starts just smashing officers and the bright
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: blade flips over them in the back with you. Rigel
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: sees what you're doing and starts following less blunt, but
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: just starts cutting Achilles heels as he.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: Follows your lead.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: And that's where we'll end this episode of the Team
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: Up Play Show podcast.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Remember last episode when we just had like a cute
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: fight with an old man?
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: It feels so long ago. Now these guys will never
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: walk with their grandchildren. We're going to stop it there.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: There's a huge fight coming, obviously. Huge fight.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Massive.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: We will talk about this episode in the chat cave.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Worried about my energy levels for this, y'all.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Too high.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: It's too much.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: We've eaten too much food and we won't talk about
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: food at all in the chat cave. Giggly, giggly, giggly.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Giggly, giggly, giggly. Come over to the Patreon. That's where
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: our chat cave is. Chatcave.com.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Patreon.com.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: We don't know where that website goes.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Patreon.com slash TeamUpRPG. Come over there to join the chat
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: cave where we will talk about these insane and exciting events.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: And we'll see you next week with another episode.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: Goodbye.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: Did I do chat?
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: That's a joke from the last chat game.
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: They don't know that. They don't know that. Come to
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: the chat game. Find out. Yeah, find out why we
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: talked about Urkel. You'll never... No, no, no.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Spoilers. Goodbye.
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: Goodbye.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: I'm cutting it now. Spoilers.
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: That was Ethan Goldman as the Paper Phantom. Stephanie Fackler
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: as Quanta. Ben as Rigel. and Johnny Wilson as your
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: game director and the creator of Team Up. If you
• 56:42
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• 56:49
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• 56:53
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• 56:58
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• 57:02
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• 57:05
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• 57:11
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening, heroes.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, man, that's another episode over. But it means I
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: get to shout out our superheroes. What's up, superheroes? Shout
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: out to Crank Billeris and Mava Amada. Touch tips. Shout
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: out to Korn. Her high score at bowling is 156. Hey,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: it's Gio and Brandi. We love the podcast and team up.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Keep it up, please. Shout out to Troy Davidson. Shout
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: out to Matt, who's really trying to become an American
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: this year, and we don't know why. The year's almost over, Matt.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Audra, who just demolished yet another bowl
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: of mashed potatoes.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: Give it up.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Jen, who prefers the Star Wars prequels
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: to the original trilogy. Shout out to Chris, who is
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: currently on the Merlin birding app. Shout out to Pac-Man, Pidgey, Norm,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: and Stetna McCringle for saving Christmas in 2024 from the
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Yule Lads and Santa's evil twin brother. Shout out to
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Farmer Bob and Mama Robin, hummingbirds and seahorses. Shout out
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: to Brian, the Colorado home hero. Working with him is
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: rolling an empowered 20 in a clutch moment. Shout out
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: to Kevin Feldman. Shout out to Christina.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: Hey, Christina.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the Lusinator. He lost for our wins.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Cam, who's currently pro pineapple on pizza.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: You are all our superheroes. Thank you so much. We're
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: going to keep saying thank you. And I just want
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: to say thank you again. because that's what I'm here
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: We love you.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Thanks for helping our dreams come true. And if you're
• 58:53
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• 58:59
  Speaker 3: Bye-bye.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: This has been a lily pad production.