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Benders & Brews - Prequel Episode #2 - Guo Han · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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Uh.
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Jasmine, oolong, green
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and white. Long ago, these four
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teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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Then, everything changed when the shop's
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popularity threatened its existence.
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All Mr. Okuron, the shop's owner and tea
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master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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orphans to learn his trade and and staff his
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shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the
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world.
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Welcome, welcome. Step right up. Have we got a
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show for you tonight, folks. That's right. A tale of
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awe and wonder, adventure and high stakes.
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A tale about what?
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Who?
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What do you mean?
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The stories about the cleaning boy.
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Well, that doesn't sound at all interesting. I
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mean, it's a heck of an interesting tale, folks.
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You won't want to miss out tonight. So grab yourself a ticket,
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buy yourself some fireflakes, and hurry inside to
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get yourself a seat. You won't want to miss out on this theatrical
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masterpiece critics are calling the story of the
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century. I will be there your host, Skylar
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Gorset, and ringmaster of this here carnival. And the story
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is about to begin right about
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now.
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This is the boy?
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Yes.
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And you know what will happen if anyone were to find out about
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this transaction.
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We're aware.
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Good. The sale of people is illegal,
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but ownership isn't.
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What are your plans for the child?
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Not that it should matter to you, but I
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need a younger body to help me with the needs of the
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carnival. Setting up, taking down
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all the hard physical labor.
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But he will be taken care of?
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Yes, of course he
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will. I need him strong and healthy, after
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all. But why should it matter?
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You're selling him, yes?
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Yes.
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Perfect. Then here is your money, and
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I'll be on my way. But first, a, ah,
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signature from each of you, please.
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Perfect. Then here is your money, and I'll
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be on my way.
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Did we do the right
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thing?
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We have no other choice.
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That was so much fun. Let's
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go down the mudslide again. Okay,
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I'll race you.
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Wish I could be going down, um, the mudslide.
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Whoa. Quit daydreaming. Once you're
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done sweeping the camel fence enclosure needs to be cleaned
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out. And then you can move on to feeding the
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hog monkeys.
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Yes, sir.
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Hey, you want to come play with us? We're
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going to the country catapult game, if you want to come along.
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I can't. I've, uh, got
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chores.
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That really sucks. Too bad you can't be a normal
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kid like us.
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You're telling me.
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Whoa. Over here.
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Maribel, what are you doing?
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I'm taking my break.
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Who's going to keep things running at the kissing
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booth?
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Sure. Walter can handle things for the time being. Come on, let's
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go play some games.
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Okay. Which one?
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You pick.
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All right, so we're going to
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jump into playing a little bit of this
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game that you have chosen, uh,
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which was the pebble
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throw game. Basically, the way that
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this game is going to work, Dave,
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Aka, is that, uh, as you're
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standing there with Maribel and you guys
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know, watching as they set up for this game, an
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earthbender who's running it, his name, you know, it
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is, uh,
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Bolton.
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And Bolton, uh, takes two big
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stomps into the ground, and a
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number of various earth pillars just kind of,
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like, shoot out, um, all perfectly
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cylindrical, right?
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Yeah.
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Um, and on top of each of them, you
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see these clay figurines. And, you
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know, know, you personally, and Maribel, of course,
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would know that Bolton actually makes these. He's kind
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of an Earthbending artist, and.
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That'S what he does.
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So he has these they're not super detailed, you know, that he's
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capable of making really detailed ones. It's completely irrelevant, but
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I'm just putting it out there. But he makes these ones just kind of like
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a basic general shape. So there might be one that's, like, the shape of
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a person, or one that's the shape of a
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frog squirrel. Uh, or
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one that's the shape of
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hog, uh, monkey. A hog monkey. Or a
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spicy dragon fruit.
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So anyways, the goal of the game is you
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have a handful of five
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pebbles, and your goal is to use those
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pebbles and throw them. Or, I mean,
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technically, nothing's stopping you from doing some sort
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of subtle earth bending, uh uh, to
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break these. And when you do,
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you get a prize.
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There's a number of stuffed animals,
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um, kind of classic things that you would get
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from
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a carnival booth.
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Right.
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So, like, small toys to big toys.
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Hopefully, they don't have any food prices
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stuck inside of these figures.
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No. Well, and the prices themselves are
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actually on the yeah, they got them, like, on the wall. Um,
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that makes sense. Yeah. So
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let's say there's about ten different, uh, clay
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like, figurines that you can hit and
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smash. Um, so it's entirely up to
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you which ones you want to aim for. I can give you a list of what's
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up there. Um, so they have one
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of each. They have a waterbender, an
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earthbender, a firebender, and an airbender.
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And you can kind of tell based on, like, they're doing some kind of a movement
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or something that kind of implies what they do. Um,
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there is the frog squirrel that I mentioned.
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There is so what is that, five? Okay,
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I didn't come up with this beforehand, so I'm just trying to make
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it up on the spot.
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Okay.
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You said there's the hog monkey. Um, these are all
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animals that would be at the zoo
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or the zoo section of this carnival.
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So there's a, ah, camel fence. So that puts us
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at seven. Um, and then
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the other three are all, like,
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fancy foods. So one of them is, like,
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a custard pie. But the downside of
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it is that it's sitting like, it
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would like, if you were serving somebody the pie sitting there rather
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than like, they turn it upside and make it a big, just circular
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target that'd be easy to hit. And M, that's kind of obviously
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advertising for the, um,
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custard catapult game. Um,
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they also going back to the animals. They have a
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butterfly fish because that's kind of a throwback to another one of
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the games that's available. Um, and then
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finally they have I don't think I mentioned it
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yet already, aside from referring to
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it earlier. But they have the spicy dragon fruit, which is kind of
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like their specialty. So
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those are your ten targets you can hit. Uh, you know
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that each one has a different colored stone inside
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that's worth, like, a different number of points. So green stones
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are worth one. Blue stones are worth three,
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and Redstones are worth five. Uh, the big
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prizes, like your giant stuffed animals, those are
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like, 25 points. And
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then they're like, in increments of, uh well,
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they'd be in every increment from, like, 25
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down to one.
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Yeah, whatever you want
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to pick out and throw something at.
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I'm going to start it out
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easy. I'll show you how it's done. Maribel and
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I line up my sights on the hog
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monkey.
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Okay, um, I'm going to have you roll
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a um, are you using any kind
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of earth bending? Are you going to play
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it honest?
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Yeah, I'm going to use my pinpoint aim.
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Oh, okay.
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It's a good idea.
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Uh, which is one of my fighting techniques.
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Right.
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So I'll take the time I need to line up a perfect
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shot and become prepared.
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So this is kind of a preparation. Before you even take the
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shot, you're, like, scoping it out. You're like, all right, I got it in my
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sights.
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Yeah.
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Awesome.
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Uh huh.
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Okay, throw this fling this rock at the
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hog monkey. Man, that thing looks
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pretty realistic, actually.
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Sorry, bud.
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All.
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Right, so I got an eight.
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Eight.
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Okay. I would say that is a success.
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So you flick this, uh, stone,
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uh, forward. It hits the hog monkey. The hog monkey
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shatters and out pops a green gem.
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Ah.
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Nice shot, Guo.
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Ha.
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Solid hit. You haven't seen nothing yet. Which one do
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you want me to hit next?
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Maribel wants you to hit it from, um, or hit the,
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uh, see if you can hit the rainbow fish.
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No problem.
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I'm just going to go for it on this one.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah.
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Got
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a 910,
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actually.
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Awesome.
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Okay, so that's going to fly forward. It hits the
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rainbow fish, and sure enough, red
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gem pops out. Very well done. And,
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uh, Bolton picks it up off the ground, and he
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brings it over and hands it to you with the other one. So you've got
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a red and, uh, a green so far. So that's a total
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of six points.
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I'll go for the camel font next.
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All righty, try this on for
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size.
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Nine.
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Nine. Okay.
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That's another hit you haven't missed yet.
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Wow.
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Amazing.
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Um bolton's.
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Pretty impressed. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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I suppose, uh, this is pretty impressive.
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And he walks over. You didn't even see it on this one, uh, because
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the camel fin is such, like, a big
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piece. Uh, but he picks around the little clay
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chunks and stuff, and he pulls out a blue. So now you're
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up to nine
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points. You've got two stones left.
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All right, time to catapult
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this custard.
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Uh, nine. That's another
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hit.
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Nice shot, Guo.
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Successful again. Uh, he walks over to the
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shattered pieces and pulls out a green. So
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you now have a green. So you are at ten points even,
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I believe.
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All right, I'm looking over my targets and
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seeing, what do I think is.
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Going to.
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Be the heart, the most challenging one?
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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All of the people
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are pretty tricky to some extent,
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right. The ponzi side is they're all doing some kind of a pose.
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Usually that involves some sort of a
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bending, looking like, you can see, like, water, but it's
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obviously clay. You can see kind of like a pump
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of air. So, I mean, to some extent, that's kind of,
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uh, convenient to help you hit
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it. But, I mean, the figure itself is a
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little tricky if you were to do it wrong.
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Right.
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There's a lot of potential for that. Other than
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that, uh, the frog squirrel, uh, that one
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also is very small.
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Uh, I'm going to go for the
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earth bending figure.
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Okay, sounds good.
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I like, cover my eyes.
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I'm just
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kidding.
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Now I need to focus on this
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one. Okay, guo, you can do this. And I take,
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uh, pinpoint aim.
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You pinpoint aims again.
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So, um, I become prepared. I get plus
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one on my roll.
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Okay.
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Eight.
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All right, perfect.
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Yes.
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That's just enough to hit it. I barely flip it,
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but you clip it. It, like, spins around, and then
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it just falls onto its little platform and it shatters when
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it actually falls.
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You did it glow. You won.
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Then, uh, Bolton goes, oh, that was.
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A close one, but sure enough, you got it.
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So he walks over and he picks out a blue.
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You have officially accumulated 13 points,
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which is roughly, like, maybe a slightly bigger than
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medium prize.
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Solid.
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So looking over the prizes, like I said, I mean, it's kind of like
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so your ones are going to be things
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like marbles and
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little plastic ninjas. Uh, no, I'm just kidding.
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Uh, but kind of along those same lines, like,
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maybe a little small treat.
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Uh, they have, uh,
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frozen spicy, uh, dragon fruit chunks. So that's kind of like
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I said, the whole spicy dragon fruit thing is kind of their specialty.
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So obviously they have those kind of at the lower end of the
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prizes, um, moving up into your
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medium prizes, you have kind of
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regular size stuffed animals, maybe
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some, um,
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masks, uh, small hats
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or costume pieces. Just, like, little things, though. And then,
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of course, at the top, you have your giant stuffed
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animals. You have, uh,
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very ornate pieces
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of pottery or clay
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pieces. Or you also see that he has
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very detailed versions of some of the figures that you actually
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just shot at with the clay. So, like, when he does his
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stuff. And some of them, um, on
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the absolute highest tier. So, like, at your 25 points, they're
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actually, like, he's painted them personally.
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Uh, so those are kind of like.
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The super rare
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things Gross sees on the low end of the
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price, like a
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small bag of stone marbles or
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oh, yeah.
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And, yeah, those are probably, like I'd say, if it's a small
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bag of marbles, probably, like, maybe five or
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six points.
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So he'll get that and be like, these are
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pretty neat.
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There's our callback to
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yep.
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And he'll put that, uh, bag away
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in his pocket.
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Can you even call that a callback?
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That's, like, a foreshadow.
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Yeah, I don't know what the term is for
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that.
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Okay.
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Um, and then he's going to look at
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the masks, because he's probably got maybe enough
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for medium yeah, somewhere in
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there, um, he's going to pick out, uh,
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this rainbow fish mask, since Maribel
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wanted me to hit the rainbow.
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Fish.
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Um, like,
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here, Maribel. This would look great
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on you. Of course.
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Anything would. Awa, you shouldn't
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have. You're so sweet.
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Uh, so yeah, I'll get that off her.
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All right.
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Perfect.
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And with that, uh, you and Maribel have just had, uh,
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a good 1015 minutes break playing one
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of the games at, uh, the carnival that normally you guys
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wouldn't get a chance to play. So you've had a little bit
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of fun.
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Well, thanks for convincing me to sneak off,
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Maribel.
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Well, thanks for having some fun with me. It's no fun watching
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everyone else have a good time playing the games and watching the shows we
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put on and not getting to enjoy them ourselves.
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Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
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Well, I better get back to the kissing booth. Walter's lips are
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probably chapped having to run things by himself at this point.
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Nah, uh, I'm sure the customers are just waiting for you
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to come back. You're a much better kisser than
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Walter.
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Oh, yeah?
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You think so?
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100%. Well, then, here's an extra special thank you for
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me, then.
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Ah.
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Well, uh, quick, hide over.
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Here.
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What is it? It's Jane.
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See? Oh, crap. I'm supposed to be
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feeding the hog monkeys.
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I know. Why do you think I told you to hide. You don't want to be
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caught slacking off.
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It looks like he's with someone. I've never
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seen that guy before.
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That's a pirate. What? I've seen their
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type before.
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Trust me.
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Wow.
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A real life pirate.
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Don't get the wrong idea, Guo. I know, some people like
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to glorify pirates, but the reality is that
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they're bloodthirsty monsters who will do anything
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and everything for a little gold. You don't want to
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get mixed up with them.
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Got it.
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Looks like they're headed to Chang's tent.
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I'm gonna get up close to the tent and see if I
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can hear what they're saying.
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What? Don't do that. What if they catch you?
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Don't worry, Maribel. I'm pretty sneaky, you
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know.
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Just be careful,
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gua.
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Oh, you know I will.
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Uh, where is it?
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I want to see it.
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Uh, you, uh, know how this works.
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Payment first. Not until I
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see it.
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Fine.
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See for
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yourself. It's beautiful.
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Yeah.
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Now give me the information.
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Fine. I have it on good authority that there's a passenger
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ship leaving Fire Fountain City carrying
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a number of high tier
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valuables.
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How good of authority?
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A production worker from the factory mentioned it.
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So I went down to the docks and saw them loading a
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bunch of stuff onto a passenger ship. So I
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asked myself, why the heck would they put
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anything other than passengers on a passenger
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ship?
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Right?
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That is quite
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strange.
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Exactly.
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So I went down to one of the pubs at the docks and got into
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a chat with one of the crew. He was pretty
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drunk by that point and spilled a lot of
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the details.
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Did he say what they were loading.
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In? Well, not
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exactly, no.
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I ought to take that missing information.
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Out of your payment. Wait.
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No.
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Please.
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Tell you what.
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I'll, uh, give you the antique piece of junk as
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we agreed, but if I find out there ain't
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nothing worth my time on that ship, I'll be showing up
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to your carnival next week.
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And taking back what I'm
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owed. Understood? I assure you
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the info is good. Don't you
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worry.
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It better.
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Be.
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By the way, what do you want that old
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scepter for, anyways?
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Oh, uh, it's just, uh, a
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collector's item. I'm a big fan of
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the Creator, is all.
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Well, think the spirits for collectors like
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you? You people make up the majority of my.
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Business.
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Ha.
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Stupid pirates. You have no idea the type
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of power this scepter holds inside of
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it.
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I wonder what is so special about that, uh, scepter.
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Uh, boy, what are you doing outside of
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my tent? I thought I told you to go take care of
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the camelphin cage.
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Oh, well, uh, I
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finished, sir.
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Then why ain't you feeding the hog monkeys?
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Oh, uh, yes, sir.
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Uh, honest, sir. I swear, if it weren't
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for me, this carnival would fall apart, thanks to
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lazy good for nothings like.
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You. So then the pirate guy
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says, hey, your intel better be good, or
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I'll come back here and slice you limb from limb
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before throwing you into the sea for the squid sharks to
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eat ya. And then the pirate gave him some sort
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of scepter that Chang said was
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special. Man, I wonder what's so special
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about it? Yeah, well, you
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guys weren't there, so how would you know.
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Anyway?
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Well, it looks like the carnival is wrapping up.
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You'll have a good night's sleep. Better get yourselves ready
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to entertain more people.
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Tomorrow.
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I know. Life sucks when you're stuck inside a
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cage. Trust me, I'm just as trapped as you guys
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are. Chang says he has a paper of ownership that
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applies until I turn 18. If I try to run away, he'll
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send bounty hunters after me. He likes to remind me
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of that.
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Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, my boy.
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Uh oh, uh, sorry to startle you. My
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name is Okaron. Well, I suppose people call
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me Mr. Okaron, but I'm not big on
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formalities.
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Well, it's nice to meet you, Mr. Okaron. My
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name's Guo. What, uh, brings you to the
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hog monkey cages?
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Oh, well, uh, I actually just finished making a deal
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with your carnival owner for some exotic fruits he brought
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from one of your previous ventures to the Western Air
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Temple.
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Oh, gotcha. Uh, did you trade him a scepter
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as well?
21:50
I'm sorry.
21:51
Oh, my bad. It's just that earlier tonight,
21:54
some pirate guy met with Chang and traded him a scepter for
21:57
some information about a passenger ship leaving
22:00
Fountain City.
22:01
That is concerning.
22:04
Especially since I'm headed to Fountain City in the morning
22:07
to grab some ingredients. And I'll be taking
22:10
a passenger ship back to the Earth
22:12
kingdom.
22:15
Afterwards.
22:15
But I'm sure that can't be the same
22:19
ship.
22:19
Uh, well, I better get back to the chores.
22:22
Got to finish so I can get some sleep know, do
22:25
it all again tomorrow.
22:27
Oh, well, of course. Sorry I bothered.
22:30
Um, say, uh, uh, Guao?
22:32
Oh, yeah. Everyone deserves their
22:35
freedom. I hope that someday you're able to
22:38
get yours. You seem like a good
22:41
kid. And once you've left here, I'm opening a
22:44
tea shop in Gao Ling. So if it's something
22:46
you're interested in, I'll always have a spot for
22:49
you there.
22:51
You just met me and you're offering me
22:53
a job?
22:55
Well, I've been told I have an eye for picking out the
22:58
good from the bad when it comes to people.
23:01
I apologize if I'm being too forward, but I've always had
23:03
a passion for helping out lost souls in
23:07
need. You seem like a good kid. I know
23:10
you'll be able to escape this cage this carnival has
23:13
put you in. And once you do,
23:15
just know you're not alone and you have a
23:18
home that will happily welcome you.
23:21
Wow.
23:22
Uh, that's very generous of you, but
23:25
I doubt I'll ever get out of here.
23:26
Don't give up so easy. You'll find a way to free
23:29
yourself from your shackles.
23:31
I guess I'll just see what happens
23:34
anyways.
23:35
Oh, yes. Uh, sorry. I
23:38
understand finishing your chores. I hope to see you
23:41
someday soon, Guo. Have a nice
23:44
night.
23:44
What a strange old.
23:51
Man. Guo, over here.
23:53
Hey, Maribel. Gee, it's a busy
23:56
day today. What's up with that?
23:58
I'm not totally sure. I think I heard someone say
24:01
that there's some sort of special holiday or something.
24:03
It's the harvest moon. It marks the beginning of the crop
24:06
harvesting season.
24:07
Oh, khalik. I didn't see you
24:09
there. So, uh, a harvest festival, eh?
24:12
Sounds pretty cool. What are you doing over here? Aren't
24:15
you running the custard catapult game?
24:18
It's been so busy, I ran out of prizes. I
24:20
think there are more back here.
24:25
Somewhere. Ah.
24:26
Uh, here they are.
24:27
So how do they know to celebrate? Who decides when
24:30
the crops are ready?
24:32
It's the moon spirit. Tonight will be a full moon. Good
24:34
for a waterbender like myself.
24:37
OOH, a full moon. That sounds pretty
24:40
solid.
24:40
Yeah, that would be beautiful.
24:42
It is also a warning.
24:43
A warning?
24:45
It is said that when there is a full moon, the gates of
24:47
the spirit world are open. Spirits may walk among
24:50
the living, so be on the lookout
24:53
tonight.
24:53
I thought the spirits were good, though.
24:57
Sure, many are good. But there are evil spirits
25:00
as well. Ones that want to do us harm.
25:02
You sure do know a lot about the spirit world,
25:05
Cleek.
25:05
Or.
25:05
We from the water tribe have always been very close with the
25:08
spirit world. I know firsthand how dangerous
25:11
they can be.
25:12
Well, Guo and I will definitely keep our eyes out for any
25:14
evil spirits tonight.
25:16
And your other senses, too? Uh, some
25:18
spirits cannot be seen, but they can be heard or
25:22
felt or even tasted.
25:23
What do you think a spirit tastes
25:27
like?
25:27
The world of spirits should not be taken
25:30
lightly. Just last night during my meditation,
25:33
I could sense an evil right here in the
25:36
carnival camp. Something dark is brewing.
25:39
I fear what tonight will.
25:43
Bring.
25:43
What do you think that was all about?
25:45
I'm not so sure. Kalik has always
25:47
been, um kind of a strange guy.
25:50
You've got that right.
25:53
Whoa.
25:53
Where are you? I told you to have more
25:56
custard pies ready an hour ago.
25:58
Oh, jeez. I better go.
26:01
See you later
26:07
tonight.
26:08
Phew.
26:08
I am absolutely exhausted. To think
26:11
a holiday would bring the whole crack in town out
26:15
here. Uh, sir, uh, uh, those are actually for
26:18
employees only. You're not supposed
26:23
to what's wrong with your
26:27
face? Stay away from me.
26:28
Stay away. Get back. Get.
26:36
Back.
26:38
Maribel. Whoa.
26:39
Whoa.
26:39
Are you okay? You look like you've seen a ghost or.
26:43
Something.
26:44
I'm not sure. Maybe I have. Or maybe it was one
26:47
of those evil spirits kalik was talking
26:49
about earlier.
26:51
Whoa.
26:51
You're not supposed to let Kalik's stories get to you. Or are
26:54
you just trying to scare me?
26:56
I'm not kidding around, mayor. Though I saw someone
26:59
over there, but his face is all messed up, like some
27:02
kind of dead guy came back to life.
27:04
EW, that's really gross. Guo. Not
27:07
funny.
27:07
I'm not trying to be
27:11
funny.
27:11
Hey, there, buddy. Uh, I think you've had way
27:14
too much to drink. You need
27:17
to go.
27:21
Dead.
27:22
But you've been dead for two years.
27:25
How, uh, can.
27:28
You oh, my gosh. You were right.
27:30
Come on, you've got to get out of here.
27:33
I've got check on Walter. He's back at his tent taking
27:35
a break.
27:36
Are you sure that's a good idea?
27:38
I'm not going to leave him there to unknowingly get attacked by whatever
27:41
those things are.
27:43
Okay, well, meet me at the head tent
27:46
in ten minutes.
27:47
Okay?
27:47
Got it. Dave Woahhan has just
27:50
discovered these strange monsters have taken over
27:52
their carnival, and, uh, they seem intent
27:55
on attacking the people there. You just
27:58
promised Maribel that you would meet her at the main tent in, like, ten
28:01
ish minutes, and, uh, you watched her rush off
28:03
to go save her kissing booth
28:07
partner. Not like that kind of partner, but just
28:09
like, coworker, um,
28:12
who is over in his tent taking his
28:15
break from kissing people for
28:18
money. And you find
28:21
yourself standing there amongst a massive, just
28:24
panicking crowd of people who are running this way and that way throughout
28:26
the carnival, knocking things over, uh,
28:29
pushing through tents, going into tents, rushing out
28:32
of tents in fear as something follows them from
28:35
behind. What are you doing?
28:37
Oh, my goodness. This
28:39
is madness.
28:42
Madness. This is no.
28:45
Okay, sorry. Um, what would
28:48
Globe do?
28:51
WWGD.
28:51
Get your WWGD bracelets
28:54
today. Wwghd
28:57
globe. Han could be where's Han is.
29:00
Last name.
29:00
All right, so Guo's, he's
29:04
thinking he's got to meet up with Maribel
29:07
at the main tent, the head
29:10
tent. Um, but they're going to get
29:13
out of here. They're going
29:15
to need probably something to get
29:18
through this crowd.
29:20
Sure.
29:20
This madness. Okay, so
29:23
he's going to
29:26
go back to the
29:28
camel font cage
29:31
okay. The camel font pen,
29:34
um, and try to get a ride.
29:37
Okay.
29:37
All right, so you rush back over to,
29:40
uh, something, you know, the path to, no matter what,
29:43
because of how many times you've had to clean it and feed
29:46
the camel fence. You rush over to the camel fence
29:49
tent, and there it is. Uh, it definitely looks a
29:51
bit spooked. It seems to be a little bit fearful, uh,
29:54
of the situation at hand with people running by, screaming. It's
29:57
not used to this kind of noise. Noise for sure, with the
30:00
carnival sounds and everything, but not this kind of noise. Um, and it definitely
30:03
looks very skittish.
30:06
Hey, easy there, peanut. Calm
30:10
down. Uh, I got something for
30:14
you. And go
30:17
to the nearest trash can and pick out, like,
30:20
some popcorn or something,
30:23
okay?
30:24
There's plenty of that. I mean, you wouldn't even have to go to the trash can.
30:26
Somebody probably dropped their bag
30:30
of fruity popcorn or
30:32
whatever.
30:35
Fireflakes.
30:35
Somebody dropped their bag of fireflakes on the ground.
30:37
So I'm going to try to get peanuts attention
30:40
with this carton of
30:43
popcorn okay? Um, and draw its focus away from
30:46
all the chaos going on around it.
30:48
Sure.
30:49
Let me have you, um oh, interesting.
30:52
Okay.
30:52
I was about to have you rely on your skills and training, but I think it'd be
30:55
more appropriate to do a comfort and
30:58
support. Comfort or support? So it says when you comfort
31:01
or support another well, it says person, but in this
31:04
case, it's an animal. You're going to roll with
31:08
harmony. And, uh, if you hit, they
31:11
must.
31:11
Decide if they open up to you.
31:15
Okay.
31:16
Easy, girl.
31:17
I got a nine.
31:20
Okay.
31:21
Uh, yeah, that's a hit. Um, it will decide
31:24
to open up to you. You are a friend, and it knows well,
31:27
you've fed it, you've cleaned up after it, you've spent time with it. So
31:29
it is definitely, honestly, uh, glad that you
31:32
are there. And you can tell it is very scared,
31:35
but it's glad to know that you're there. So
31:38
it instantly comes rushing up to the fence over
31:41
by where you are and nuzzles you a little
31:44
bit and eats, uh, a little bit of the
31:47
popcorn and seems to be a little bit calmer now
31:50
that you've come, a familiar face is there to kind of calm it
31:53
down.
31:54
Okay.
31:54
All right, so Guohan's going to need to.
31:58
Get peanuts.
32:00
Uh, like, what do they call it?
32:03
A palaquin or something like
32:05
the platform that goes on top of it so.
32:08
You can ride on top. Oh, okay. Yeah, I know what you're
32:11
talking about.
32:12
Kind of like a saddle, but it's more of just like a
32:15
box platform.
32:17
Okay.
32:17
Uh, you know that it is kept, I mean, in the, uh,
32:20
tent pretty close by to the.
32:25
Skull.
32:25
All right. Going to be hard getting this on
32:28
you by myself, but I'll see what I
32:30
can do. Might have to
32:33
use a little
32:36
earth.
32:37
Bending, something we've never seen before.
32:39
Yeah.
32:40
So GLOW's gonna lead Peanut
32:42
over here, and he's gonna
32:45
basically just gonna position the saddle on
32:48
the ground and then make some pillars coming up.
32:51
So it'll be basically like
32:53
an improvised.
32:55
Carport for this elephant.
32:56
Okay.
32:56
Yeah, no, I see what you're saying. So two columns come
33:00
up holding, uh, the sides of
33:03
this, uh, platform piece. And then you're just going to walk the
33:05
camel fent under it and then lower it down
33:08
on top. Uh,
33:11
again, because it knows you, it trusts you. It doesn't seem
33:14
to be bothered by this at all. It allows you to
33:17
do your thing to get it taken
33:20
care of. Um, but as you
33:23
are strapping it in, a, uh,
33:25
sound comes from behind the tent and seems to be making
33:28
its way towards you. And it sounds
33:34
like and you turn to see that one of those horrific
33:37
creatures that you ran into earlier is walking towards you
33:40
with its arms outstretched in sort of a
33:42
limp fashion. And it moans as it continues to
33:45
move towards you.
33:47
M oh, sweet custard. Where'd
33:50
you come from?
33:52
River island. What does this thing
33:55
look like? It's human being.
33:58
But it is just grossly.
34:00
Ah. Wadded. And one of its
34:03
eyes seems to be popped out of its
34:06
socket and just kind of hanging there. Real
34:09
grossly. The thing that doesn't intrigue you is that it's
34:12
not losing blood anywhere. Um, it
34:15
just looks like it's
34:18
goopy, like it's, like I said, molding or rotting for
34:21
some time.
34:22
Decomposed, you might say.
34:26
You.
34:29
Stink.
34:30
Hey, the carnival is close, bud.
34:32
No.
34:32
After hours visits, it continues to move.
34:35
Towards you as if it hadn't heard.
34:39
You.
34:40
I'm going to grab, uh, the
34:42
broom, the poop broom off of the
34:46
wall. Stay back. I know where
34:49
this has been, and trust me, you don't want to come
34:52
any closer.
34:53
Uh, do an intimidate, which is
34:55
with.
34:58
Passion.
34:58
With passion, I get a
35:01
ten.
35:02
Okay, so on a ten plus, uh, you
35:05
pick one of the options, and they are not allowed to choose it. So
35:08
the options are they run to escape, to
35:11
get backup. Um, they back down, but
35:13
keep watch. They give in with a few
35:17
stipulations, or they attack you, but off balance,
35:20
and I mark a condition on them.
35:22
Okay. I don't
35:25
want him to get back. Uh, up.
35:28
Okay, that is a good point. I didn't think about that. Um, well, with that
35:31
being said, he is going to attack you, but off balance, uh,
35:34
you use the broom. As you intimidate him, he
35:37
keeps moving closer and you start poking at him. And it
35:40
actually trips him, uh, up. I'm going to as strange as
35:42
this might sound, I'm going to mark this zombie
35:45
as afraid. You
35:48
just knocked him down, and he was not expecting that.
35:51
And now he is very confused. Or
35:53
it rather is very confused.
35:56
Also.
35:56
I already just threw the term zombie out there. I broke the
35:59
first rule of zombies, which is you never call
36:02
them zombies. You call them walkers
36:05
or the undead or, uh,
36:08
I don't know, what else have they used out there?
36:11
Rotters.
36:11
Whatever the case, it is now afraid, which gives it
36:14
a minus two to intimidate, um, and
36:17
call someone out.
36:18
Correct.
36:18
Which in this case, intimidate is kind of the key thing.
36:21
You've knocked it over. You've seen how kind of I don't want to
36:24
say fragile, per se, but how kind of uncoordinated
36:27
they are. So to you, they're a little bit less scary,
36:30
um, to an extent. Uh, it is starting to pick
36:33
itself up off the ground. What are you going to.
36:38
Do?
36:39
I'm going to grab one of the buckets,
36:41
uh, also on the side of this
36:44
pen and see, like, take this,
36:47
you smelly lout dunk.
36:50
Um, it over his head. Pull
36:53
the old skyrim chop.
36:56
Keep the bucket on the sneaker. All
36:59
right, perfect. I'm going to say that this is an
37:02
exchange at this point.
37:04
Okay.
37:05
Uh, so I'm going to switch over to my combat
37:08
moves. So I would put that
37:11
under evade and observe. And I would call that
37:13
a bolster or hinder, and in this case,
37:16
hinder, he is going to be doing
37:19
defendant maneuver. He is simply going to be seizing a position, which is picking
37:22
himself off the ground. So as he picks himself up off the
37:25
ground, you're going to roll, uh, with
37:28
creativity or harmony, and we'll see if you're
37:31
able to hinder him with a bucket on the
37:34
dude creative.
37:37
Nice. Um, they only got a four four total.
37:40
So you go to put this bucket over his
37:43
head, and he's able to kind of just dodge out of the way, and the
37:46
bucket falls onto the ground. And now it's kind of close by him,
37:48
and you're like, oh, I don't know if I want to reach past him to try to
37:51
grab it, because he's right there, and he's kind of
37:54
gross and spooky.
37:56
I got it on my
37:59
hands. Gross.
38:01
So stay back.
38:06
Uh, do you want to continue with the, uh,
38:09
exchange, maybe try another move on
38:12
the list?
38:13
Yeah. Okay.
38:14
I got to try to lead him underneath, uh,
38:17
the saddle that's still suspended.
38:20
Okay.
38:20
Um, and away from the camel
38:23
font.
38:24
Okay.
38:25
Um, I would call that I mean, I would say
38:28
seize a position. Probably be the best bet
38:31
here. So you'll be doing defendant maneuver. Uh,
38:34
he is going to be doing an evade and observe, and he is going
38:36
to also be doing a bolster hinder to
38:39
basically just try to grab you. Um,
38:42
so you'll get to roll first.
38:45
Focus.
38:46
I got a ten or no, a twelve.
38:48
Oh, my gosh.
38:49
Wow.
38:49
You have a list of things that you can do, uh,
38:52
including choosing two different options, uh,
38:55
basic or mastered techniques, or using a
38:58
practice technique, or marking one fatigue to use a
39:01
learned technique.
39:02
I'm going to do one of my
39:05
learned techniques.
39:08
Okay.
39:08
Um called Pinpoint Aim.
39:11
Okay, tell me a little bit about Pinpoint
39:14
aim.
39:14
So Pinpoint Aim says, take the time you
39:17
need to line up a perfect shot,
39:20
become prepared in the next exchange. If
39:23
you advance an attack roll with focus
39:26
or passion. If you choose strike, you do
39:29
not have to mark fatigue to choose what
39:31
you inflict.
39:33
Okay.
39:33
So in this case, uh, the idea is
39:36
that he's going to go underneath.
39:38
This thing, and I'm going to drop it on him. Okay,
39:40
sounds good. All right, so you use that time,
39:43
you use your technique to get under the camel fin
39:46
in the right spot and really set things up for
39:49
your favor. The, uh, zombie was going to use bolster to
39:52
hinder, but you got away, and so it
39:55
is unable to impede you, but it
39:58
does follow after you. So it's moving your way
40:00
at whatever you'd like to do next.
40:03
So I'm going to just be like,
40:06
hey, buddy, what's.
40:10
Up?
40:10
And then I'm going to lower my pillars
40:13
and drop the thing off.
40:16
All right, sounds good. Uh, I won't make a roll for it
40:19
because it's lifted the pillars as it is. Uh,
40:22
so these come crashing down. I mean, all
40:25
things considered, it kind of would fall under, um,
40:28
a smash, I
40:31
suppose.
40:32
Yeah.
40:32
Be advanced and attack.
40:34
Yeah. Okay.
40:34
So I'll have you roll with that just to since it
40:37
is technically one of those, I guess.
40:40
Yeah.
40:40
So I can roll with focus, art, passion. I have plus one
40:43
to both.
40:44
Awesome.
40:44
And then since I'm prepared, I also get
40:47
a plus. Do they stack?
40:49
Yeah, I think so.
40:52
13. Holy cow. Yeah, I did get you got a
40:55
13.
40:55
Nice.
40:56
Okay, so again, there's that list of all the different things that you can
40:59
do. Getting a ten plus mark one fatigue to use a
41:02
learn technique, use one practice technique,
41:04
use two basic or mastered
41:07
techniques. I'm going to strike
41:10
them. Strike?
41:12
Yeah.
41:13
Like, physically, or you're just going to do the thing you had talked
41:15
about?
41:16
I do the thing. Okay, sounds
41:19
good. That's a basic method. Yes, basic.
41:22
So technically, you could use two.
41:25
Right.
41:25
And then as part of my pinpoint aim, I
41:28
don't have to mark fatigue to
41:31
choose what I inflict.
41:32
Correct.
41:33
You're going to do, like, strike
41:35
twice.
41:36
Okay.
41:37
Um, actually, no. Uh, yeah. Mark
41:40
two fatigue and then,
41:43
uh, trap them.
41:44
Yeah, that makes sense.
41:45
Okay.
41:46
I was kind of hoping you would. All right, so you are doing
41:48
two strikes. Um, describe to me what two
41:51
strikes are, since one is, like, dropping the thing
41:54
on him. Is there a second thing?
41:55
Well, I mean, it's the thing hitting its head, and then
41:58
it hitting the floor.
42:00
Okay, sounds good. All right. So not only does
42:03
this platform piece come falling down onto
42:06
this undead creature, uh, it knocks
42:09
it flattening it up against the ground, holding it
42:12
down, holding it trapped. It is, uh,
42:15
obviously exhausted. It tries to get up. It
42:17
cannot lift this platform that's on top of it. So it
42:20
is basically completely disabled at this
42:23
point on the ground, struggling underneath the
42:26
weight of this sort of platform saddle
42:29
type deal.
42:30
A solid hit by Guo. Did you see that
42:33
peanut? Did you see
42:36
that? Oh, well, now your saddle's, uh
42:40
all wow.
42:41
Great.
42:42
How do you feel about killing bareback
42:45
peanut? All right. Uh, maybe I can find some rope
42:48
or something. Uh, so I got to look around.
42:49
And find it does have some on
42:53
its, like, a muzzle almost. Not some sort of
42:55
mouth, but just like a rain.
42:57
Yeah, I guess this will have to
43:00
do. Um, so, yeah, I'm just going to climb
43:04
up.
43:05
Um, it's a little uncomfortable, but you're able to do it. You've had
43:08
many years of experience writing animals at the zoo. Usually,
43:11
uh, a lot of people put you in charge of kind of getting them
43:14
ready.
43:15
Yes.
43:16
All right, girl, let's
43:19
go find those
43:22
kissing.
43:24
Fools. Awesome.
43:25
So where are you writing off to?
43:27
I think I'm just going to head towards the kissing booth.
43:30
Okay, sounds good. Um, you start heading over towards
43:33
the Kissing Booth, and, uh, things
43:36
are starting to die down a little bit, but you can definitely
43:38
still hear some various screams
43:41
and shouts of terror throughout the carnival. Kind
43:44
of more on the outskirts. You're kind of a little bit more towards the
43:47
center of the carnival ground, and you make it to the Kissing Booth.
43:50
And, uh, there's not too many people around. But, uh,
43:53
what you do see is Khalik
43:56
himself is, uh, he looks like he's hiding behind
43:59
the kissing Booth, and he sees you coming and
44:01
he says.
44:03
Goo, what are you doing on the camel fan?
44:06
I'm getting out of here.
44:07
Khalik, have you seen all these dark spirits that are
44:10
around? They seem to be quite dangerous.
44:12
Yeah, you've seen them, too. That's why I'm hitting the
44:15
road.
44:16
Something is very wrong.
44:18
Very wrong indeed. Gotta get out of this
44:21
mess. Get out where it's clear.
44:24
Yes. Okay.
44:25
Do you mind if I ride?
44:27
Yeah, yeah, come on up.
44:28
Uh, many thanks.
44:29
He hustles uh, up. He's not quite as practiced as you are on getting onto
44:32
the ammo, but he manages to get up eventually.
44:35
Klik.
44:36
Kalik.
44:36
Have you seen Mirabelle
44:38
or Walter?
44:40
Unfortunately, I have not. Not since we were discussing
44:43
things at the Kissing Booth earlier.
44:45
Uh, no. Well, maybe she headed
44:48
to the head tent anyways.
44:51
Yes, and we should check on Chang while we're
44:54
there. Something tells me that he has something to do with
44:57
all.
44:58
Hmm.
44:58
You know, you could
45:01
be right.
45:02
And, uh, as you guys ride, uh, it doesn't take you too
45:05
long. I mean, it's not like a hugely sprawled out
45:08
carnival area. But, uh, eventually you do get to the
45:11
main tent standing out front, holding a
45:14
scepter, which now kind of has a, um, light
45:17
glow around the sort of ball of it on
45:19
the end. Um, is Chang
45:23
himself, and he seems to be
45:25
almost beaming with happiness at the
45:28
moment.
45:29
And he says, Ah, yes, my
45:31
boy GuoHan and my main man, Calic.
45:34
Two strong hands to help me with the next step of the
45:37
plan. Oh, and it looks like you've brought a pack
45:40
animal, too. How perfect.
45:42
Chan?
45:43
Yeah.
45:43
What on earth are you doing?
45:45
What are you talking about, boy?
45:47
And what's the deal with that staff
45:49
anyways?
45:50
What, this old
45:53
thing? Well, that shouldn't really matter to you
45:55
right now. What does matter is that
45:58
you and Calic take that big beastie into town and start
46:01
loading it up with all the money, goods and valuables you can
46:04
find. I'm talking jewels, gold,
46:07
family heirlooms, whatever you can find. Once we've
46:10
got everything loaded up, we can take it over to the next town
46:13
with us and sell it all off. We're gonna
46:15
be rich.
46:17
What?
46:17
I can't believe what I'm hearing right now.
46:20
What? The people here are terrified,
46:23
running around, hiding. Now is the
46:26
perfect time for the looting to begin.
46:29
Chang, do you have anything to do with what's going on
46:32
here?
46:32
Like I said, you don't need to
46:35
be asking any questions. All you need to
46:38
do is exactly what I tell you to
46:41
do. Or do I need to get the paperwork out and
46:44
remind you who owns you?
46:46
And, uh, Khalik leans forward and he says, Go.
46:49
Oh.
46:49
That staff in his hand, it seems to be glowing with some kind
46:52
of spirit energy.
46:53
I think that no, it
46:56
can't be.
46:57
What is it, Kalik?
46:58
I think Chang is using that staff, uh, to control
47:01
these evil spirits.
47:02
Is that ah.
47:03
What's going on? Oh, it's worse than
47:06
I thought.
47:07
Kalik shouts out, uh to chang. He says,
47:10
Chang, I don't know what kind of evil spirit magic
47:13
you are working with, but I think you are out of
47:16
your league, and I think.
47:18
You need to get rid of that staff.
47:20
Uh and Chang says what?
47:23
Get rid of the staff? Heck,
47:25
no. I had to trade some valuable information to
47:28
some dangerous men for this staff, and now
47:31
it's all I've got. But, boy, is
47:34
it
47:36
something. Now, I'm going to tell
47:39
you one more time. Take
47:41
that camelphant into town and start
47:44
looting up. If you don't, well,
47:47
Calic, I'm going to have to fire you.
47:49
And Kalik says, Jang, I don't know.
47:52
What you think you're doing or why, but the power of the
47:55
spirits was not meant to be possessed by human
47:58
hands. You need to get rid of that staff
48:01
immediately.
48:01
And he climbs down from the camel fintech, and as
48:04
he does, Chang raises the staff,
48:07
and some of the, uh, undead in the area start to kind of
48:10
start moving towards you and congregating
48:13
around.
48:14
Says Calic, I'm going to
48:17
give you one last
48:20
chance. Join me. Do as I say,
48:23
or face the
48:26
consequences.
48:27
Kalik starts kind of turning around, very fearful, looking
48:30
in every direction, not sure what to do, as these things are
48:33
starting to surround him.
48:34
You've gone too far this time,
48:37
Chang. I don't give a dang about
48:40
your paperwork. I'm not
48:43
your dog. Khalik's one of my few friends
48:46
here in this miserable place. One of the few
48:49
bright spots in my monotonous day
48:51
of chores and dung
48:54
and mushy fruit that
48:56
sometimes stinks. Where do you get that
48:59
stuff, anyways?
49:00
From the same shady characters that gave
49:03
me this staff. Maybe you and
49:06
Calic need a bit of a rundown on what this staff is
49:09
all about. To properly motivate you,
49:12
to follow orders. See,
49:14
this staff was created by a very special
49:17
blacksmith living in the North Pole. He hunted down
49:20
and trapped a grave spirit there and fused it
49:23
with this staff. Without that spirit of
49:26
the grave to guide lost souls to the
49:29
afterlife, those who died in the area were trapped right
49:32
along with it. And now I
49:35
control all those souls who are able to possess
49:37
the bodies of the deceased, and they
49:40
do whatever I say. If I
49:43
say attack someone, they do it. If
49:46
I say take things, they take
49:48
them. Heck, if I were to tell them to
49:51
eat someone, they do that,
49:54
too.
49:54
Uh, where is Kalika? Is he still on the elephant
49:57
or the camel font?
49:59
He got off, and he's standing just on the ground right
50:02
next to the camel.
50:03
Fin.
50:04
As these undead creatures are kind of starting to move.
50:09
In. Yet another creature in a cage to add to
50:12
your
50:15
menagerie.
50:16
Well, that's what the carnival is all.
50:18
About, isn't it, Guo? Uh, creatures in
50:21
cages performing for the paying audience to
50:23
see.
50:24
Well, that's one ticket I won't be buying.
50:27
Oh, yeah? And what are you going to
50:29
do about it?
50:31
Suck stones? Chang and I pull
50:34
out my pouch.
50:35
Of pebbles from
50:38
my no, that totally checks out. Okay, so,
50:41
yeah, you have this pocket full of pebbles. What are you doing with these pebbles?
50:44
I'm going to try to shoot
50:46
one at Chang's fingers
50:49
to get him to drop this
50:53
staff.
50:53
Uh, because you have this bag of pebbles from
50:56
the game in the first place, that would suggest to me that you
50:59
have involved yourself in either running the game
51:02
or at the very least, helping with it a few times or two. So I'm
51:05
going to call this rely on your skills and training.
51:08
So guo is he's
51:10
envisioning?
51:12
Yes.
51:12
That weak spot.
51:13
Uh, yeah, I would definitely say that because you have a lot
51:16
of training with this, I'd say you definitely have a plus one.
51:19
Sort of a preparation, in a sense of doing this
51:22
little maneuver here. As you shoot this rock towards
51:25
his fingers, as you're about to shoot this
51:28
pebble, maribel and Walter come running out
51:31
towards the main tent, which is where you told them to meet
51:33
them.
51:34
Guao I what's going on?
51:37
And for a moment, Chang
51:39
is distracted by the fact that these two figures
51:42
you were kind of expecting it, know they had to get
51:45
here eventually. But Chang is a little bit distracted, having seen
51:48
two more employees and having a lot to focus on at the
51:51
moment. So he's a little distracted. So I'd say you have a
51:53
plus one on top of it.
51:55
Roll with focus. I got a seven.
51:58
You got a seven. You do it imperfectly.
52:01
The GM tells you how your approach might lead
52:04
to unexpected
52:06
consequences. Accept those consequences or
52:09
mark one fatigue. So the consequences of
52:12
you missing could cause you
52:15
to hit Chang
52:18
himself. And that won't be enough to knock, like, outside of
52:21
his hand, but in a way that doesn't knock the staff out
52:24
of his hand, and that might make
52:27
his anger and attention turn towards
52:29
you instead. So right now, he's kind of
52:32
focused on taking down
52:34
Khalique.
52:35
Yeah, that sounds good.
52:38
Okay.
52:38
Sounds good. So you fire this little
52:41
pebble out of your fingers, kind of like a kid playing marble.
52:44
You just right between your thumb and
52:46
index finger, and it goes flying forward, and you're hoping that
52:49
you can hit his hand to knock the staff out of his hand,
52:52
but instead, you hit him
52:55
smack dab in the
52:57
chin.
52:58
Boy, I'm going to have to teach you
53:01
a lesson.
53:02
And he moves his staff, and he points it over at you. And
53:05
all the zombie creatures start to move towards
53:08
the camel fence with you riding on top of
53:12
it. And as this happens, that's
53:15
when Maribel.
53:16
She shouts, guel, what's going on?
53:18
Ah. Uh, walter Maribel.
53:21
Perfect timing. I've got bags in the tent.
53:24
Grab them and start looting the town while I take care of these
53:26
two troublemakers.
53:28
What?
53:29
Looting?
53:29
What are you talking about? What's going on? And what about all
53:32
these monsters attacking everyone?
53:34
And then she sees that the monsters are all kind of standing
53:37
around, and then she know Chang
53:41
pointing the staff towards you, and everything starts to kind of click in
53:44
her head as she sees that the zombies are moving towards you. The
53:47
staff is pointed at you. He just talked about teaching you
53:49
and colleague a lesson. And she realizes that
53:52
he's obviously the one that's in control of these
53:56
creatures.
53:56
Look out, Maribel. Chang's totally
53:59
lost it.
54:00
She's gonna rush towards Chang in hopes
54:03
of tackling him or something along those lines. And
54:06
he takes a swing at her, and he hits her in the
54:09
head with his big old scepter, and
54:12
it knocks her to the ground, and she just lays
54:15
there. Maribel, no.
54:17
You dirty, rotten hog monkey.
54:20
I didn't want to have to hurt your friend,
54:22
Guo, but I'm going to have to continue hurting them
54:25
until you do as I say. So what
54:28
is it going to be, boy?
54:31
That's what I'm going to be like. So,
54:34
from my experience working with this
54:36
camel font, it's got one of
54:39
its moves in the show. Is this, like,
54:41
fancy dismount. Okay, so I'm going to
54:44
be like
54:47
peanut dismount.
54:48
Okay.
54:49
I'm going to slide down the
54:52
trunk.
54:52
Okay, sure. Uh, yeah, go for, uh, another. Rely on
54:55
your skills and training. You're really doing a
54:58
lot that fits GLOW's character things that he
55:01
would do at the.
55:05
Carnival.
55:06
That's going to be a six.
55:08
And then this would be another thing that I would give you a plus
55:11
one on, just because, like I said, you've done it a lot. You've worked
55:14
with this animal a lot. You'd hit the seven. The,
55:17
uh, possibility of failure involves
55:20
not, uh, landing quite the way that you wanted
55:23
to. You might crash into
55:26
a zombie. You might fall,
55:29
uh, flat on your face, something along
55:31
those lines.
55:32
Um, I'm just going to take an exhaustion.
55:34
Okay.
55:35
Take your maximum effort.
55:37
All right, sounds good. You take the fatigue and then
55:39
describe to me what it is that you are jumping off
55:42
this camel fent and doing in such a fancy way.
55:45
So I'm just going to try to
55:48
fly directly at, ah, Chang.
55:51
Okay, sounds good. You go flying towards
55:54
Chang, and you crash into the van, and both of
55:56
you hit the ground, and the scepter rolls
55:59
out of his hand, and both of you kind of do that thing where you
56:02
both look up and you see the Scepter laying there, and you both start
56:05
scrambling for it. I mean, I assume you scrambled.
56:11
For.
56:13
Scepter, but as you're scrambling,
56:16
uh, Khalik leaps forward and
56:19
grabs Chang's foot, and he is
56:21
basically helping, which is going to give you that plus one. He's going to mark
56:24
a fatigue in order to do that, but he's able
56:27
to help a companion. Chang tries to
56:30
pull away from his grasp, and he manages to, but it
56:33
gives you a little bit of initiative, but you really got to scramble for it,
56:36
and it causes you to kind of, like, strain yourself in a way that kind of
56:39
causes some pain. So, um, that's why it causes, uh,
56:42
a fatigue in order to grab, uh, it but now you've
56:45
got it. You've got it in your hand, but Chang is still crawling
56:47
towards.
56:51
You.
56:51
We're both on the ground crawling. I'm trying
56:54
to scramble up, um, and
56:56
disengage and get my legs clear.
56:59
Okay.
57:00
Um, yeah, it's trying to get up in a
57:03
way.
57:04
Uh, all right, you're able to do that.
57:07
Like I said, with the help with Kalik and everything, you're, uh, able
57:10
to scramble your way up onto your feet. You're
57:12
standing above Chang with this
57:16
scepter.
57:16
Uh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now, let's not do
57:19
anything hasty here. You give me back
57:21
the scepter, and
57:24
I'll give you 30% of what we loot from the
57:27
town. How about that?
57:29
So what does the scepter look like?
57:32
So, it is like a
57:34
wood stick staff. It's a nice,
57:37
sturdy stick, and it's kind of scraggly along
57:40
the way as it comes up. And then it has, like, almost
57:43
a roots, as if it was like a
57:46
sapling that got ripped out of the ground. And the roots are kind of
57:49
curled around the scepter sphere at
57:52
the end, uh, which is
57:55
green color. And as you hold it, you can kind
57:57
of feel this very powerful,
58:00
um, spirit energy sort of, uh, pulsing. You can feel it
58:03
kind of almost come all the way to your wrist. Almost
58:06
a refreshing feeling, um, but with
58:09
a hint of sting to it. Just a hint of sting
58:12
to it.
58:12
Uh, so I gaze at this staff.
58:15
I'm like, all right,
58:18
spirit, time to set you free. I'm going to try
58:21
to plant the staff into the
58:25
ground, uh, using earth bending okay.
58:28
And then going to attempt to do,
58:31
uh, kind of spin with both arms. So
58:34
the staff is planted, and I'm going to spin around with
58:37
both arms and do kind of like
58:40
a 360 with my arms coming
58:42
up okay. At, uh, 45 degrees
58:46
to bring a chunk of earth, like, out of the
58:48
ground.
58:49
Okay.
58:50
Kind of like, uh, how people do what is it, hammer
58:53
throw?
58:53
Yeah.
58:53
So it's kind of like, the hammer throw, and you're about
58:56
to smash it into the stone at the end of
58:59
the scepter.
59:00
Yeah, I'm trying to plant the scepter so it's,
59:02
like, half into the ground.
59:05
Okay.
59:05
And then just, like, shear off the top half
59:08
with this
59:11
rock strike.
59:12
Perfect. Awesome.
59:13
You spin. You spin, and
59:16
then you hear Chang
59:19
scream, shatter the top half of, uh,
59:22
the stone on the middle of the scepter. And you watch as
59:24
the glowing energy that was inside of it
59:27
sort of forms into a
59:30
shape. Uh, it turns darker. It goes from, like, that
59:33
bright, glowing green to a deeper green.
59:36
Deeper to the point where it turns into a black. And
59:39
before you, you see, um, a
59:41
large black cat,
59:44
but, uh, its paws, like, kind of outstretched. And you see that
59:47
it has feathery, crow like
59:50
wings, um, that kind of connect its arm to
59:53
its body. And then you notice that the
59:56
tail that's sort of, um, moving
59:59
back and forth isn't just like a regular tail. It's actually
1:00:01
a snake with the very end of the tail
1:00:04
being the head of the snake. And
1:00:07
the spirit, uh, looks you in the eye, and
1:00:10
it says, thank you for
1:00:13
releasing me. And it turns
1:00:15
to Chang and it says,
1:00:18
although I am unable to do anything in this form
1:00:21
to humans, know that
1:00:24
my words will be taken to the utmost
1:00:26
of authority. And you can expect
1:00:29
an unpleasant place inside
1:00:32
of Deku when you pass. And as
1:00:35
it says that, it flies away. And Chang is just
1:00:38
his face his jaw is just dropped as he
1:00:41
stares. Something inside of him just
1:00:44
seems in full doom and
1:00:47
despair mode, and he just has no words to
1:00:50
speak as he watches this creature fly away.
1:00:52
And as Gwell watches it fly away, he's,
1:00:55
like, just kind of talking to himself. He's
1:00:58
just like, you're free,
1:01:02
spirit. Free to go home to
1:01:05
a place where you belong.
1:01:07
Kalik steps, uh, up beside you, and.
1:01:09
He says, you've done very well, Goo.
1:01:12
Who knows how long that poor spirit was trapped inside
1:01:15
that cage, unable to continue its purpose in
1:01:18
life.
1:01:18
Thanks for your help.
1:01:20
Kalik.
1:01:20
Of course. Couldn't have done it without you.
1:01:22
No need to thank me, Goo. Your good intentions and
1:01:25
clever skill stop Chang and his evil
1:01:27
intentions.
1:01:28
Maribel. Walt, are you okay?
1:01:31
And, uh, Maribel,
1:01:34
you notice that Maribel's not actually lying
1:01:36
there anymore. Uh, she actually comes
1:01:39
from inside of the main tent. She walks
1:01:42
up to you, and she hands you
1:01:44
some papers, and she says, I'm
1:01:47
okay, Guo.
1:01:49
I snuck into Ching's tent while he was distracted and
1:01:51
got these.
1:01:52
Uh, and you look at these papers, and
1:01:55
they are, uh, sale receipts,
1:01:58
essentially, for the purchase of you when you
1:02:01
were but a child.
1:02:02
The papers.
1:02:04
Don't touch those. Those are mine.
1:02:07
Give them back to me.
1:02:08
Well, it's got my name on
1:02:11
it.
1:02:12
And Khalik kind of steps in front of you to
1:02:15
keep him, uh, from getting any closer.
1:02:17
And he says, you, you have
1:02:20
held.
1:02:21
Ownership over this boy. How dare you, you
1:02:23
filthy slaver. Sign the papers over to the
1:02:26
boy.
1:02:29
Immediately. And why should I do that?
1:02:31
Uh, that grave spirit said it would ensure you a
1:02:34
dark place in the deepest parts of Deku.
1:02:37
Um, but as someone who speaks with the spirits
1:02:40
often, perhaps I can quell its anger and restore
1:02:43
your fate after death to that of the rest of
1:02:46
us. Or perhaps I can speak with
1:02:49
other spirits who can corroborate your evil deeds
1:02:52
tonight and talk the fates into sending you even
1:02:55
deeper into hell to atone.
1:02:56
For your no, wait
1:02:59
a second. Let's work out a deal, all
1:03:02
right? Um, okay, how's
1:03:05
this? Quo can have weekends off. That's a
1:03:09
fair okay, okay. He only
1:03:12
has to work
1:03:15
weekends.
1:03:17
Fine.
1:03:17
What's one kid? Give me the paperwork.
1:03:20
I'll sign it.
1:03:22
I can't believe this is happening. And I don't know,
1:03:25
I'm just, like, in a rush over,
1:03:28
like, with my arm on Maribel and the
1:03:30
other one on Walt as
1:03:33
I come up
1:03:36
to just get a better view of him actually signing
1:03:38
these papers.
1:03:40
All right,
1:03:42
here. Just take it
1:03:45
and you can get out of here. I don't
1:03:48
want you at my carnival anymore.
1:03:53
Yippee. Do an Anakin
1:03:56
Skywalker.
1:03:57
Yippee.
1:03:57
As I raise these papers into the
1:04:01
air, uh, actually, I throw them into the air. I'm like,
1:04:04
uh, oh, wait, I need
1:04:06
those.
1:04:07
Shoot.
1:04:07
And, uh, your friends help you pick all up all
1:04:10
the papers and get them back to you. And
1:04:13
Maribel kind of looks at you a little bit sad, and, uh,
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she.
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Says, so, Guo, where will you
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go?
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Well, I think I'm going to seize a man
1:04:23
about some tea.
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Um, with that, we will end the prequel
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for.
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GuoHan M. Thank you so
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much for listening to our special GuoHan prequel
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episode. Before you go, I want to take a moment to say an additional
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Chang Sinani was voiced by FM voice
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acting. Khalik and Guohan's father were both
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Williams Gorsu. Of course, GuoHan was voiced
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Skyler.
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