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Benders & Brews: Season 2 Recap - The Doug Cut · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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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. Okeron, 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 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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  The scene opens on all of you
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  standing inside of a large room. Various,
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  pews lining large, windows
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  have sunlight shooting in through it, but it's kind of
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  a deep orange sunlight as it's kind of nearing
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  towards the afternoon. The late afternoon. Yes, the
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  golden hour. Exactly.
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  Your now dead friend Mr. Okaron
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  lays motionless inside
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  of a stone casket.
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  And, the rest of you, as well as a number of community members,
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  are all lining these benches that I previously
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  mentioned. And a man at the front of the room
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  is finishing up his long winded speech
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  about Mr. M. Okaron and his service
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  to the community and the amazing tea shop that he
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  ran and just how generally nice of a guy
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  that he was, how kind hearted he
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  was. The doors of the
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  area suddenly swing open, the big, like, double heavy
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  double doors or whatever. And you all turn
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  because it's quite loud. And there's Madame Yang standing
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  there in the doorway and she
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  says, is the.
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  Ceremony not over yet?
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  And turns to let the door close
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  behind.
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  I feel like Brock is feeling a bit remorseful in that,
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  he felt he could know, helped Mr.
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  Okeron as well, during the fight, but he was
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  just too tunnel visioned on
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  the coyote boars.
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  what about Guohan? What's Guohan feeling
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  right now?
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  I guess he's feeling sort of regression, like
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  he's closed off, feeling a bit
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  lost.
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  Okay, what is Bill Dor feeling right now?
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  Like he's a failure.
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  He swore to himself he wouldn't let something like this
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  happen again, and
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  now he's going very much on a slippery
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  slope.
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  what about Mika?
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  I would say that she is definitely feeling
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  different emotions on the inside than she does on the outside.
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  She was probably closer to Mr. Oprah than she let
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  people believe. But I would say
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  on the outside she's more stoic. And then
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  on the inside, I would say she's pretty much just like in
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  denial of the whole situation.
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  And a man approaches you and he begins to tell
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  you or talk to you all. And he says, my name is
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  Mr. Wu and, I represent a
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  government office that's responsible for items to
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  be passed on to others when
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  someone passes away. You four were the closest
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  to Mr. Okaran. given that he
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  owned a tea shop and had a number of tools
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  and utensils and et cetera, as well as, of course,
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  the building space itself, it
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  seems that it's a little bit up in the air
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  as far as, who it's supposed to go to.
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  unfortunately, we couldn't find a will.
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  Legally speaking, I can't
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  technically hand off anything to you.
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  That was his.
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  Well, what's going to happen to the tea shop? The
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  lady over there?
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  And he points over to Madame Yang and he
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  says, she was inquiring about it as well. It seems
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  that she has some interest in possibly
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  purchasing the building
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  itself, the tea shop and the various resources
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  within. So, again, I just wanted to let you all
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  know, if a document isn't presented by the end of the.
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  Week, one week's time, eh? I suppose I'll
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  be seeing you all then.
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  She turns and starts to head towards the door as
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  well.
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  Yeah, we can't. Mavie, yang, take over.
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  You hear a voice from the darkness. The
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  darkest corner of this small temple area.
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  Go over
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  here.
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  Sure enough, there's a man in a dark
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  cloak mysteriously sitting in this
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  dark corner, almost invisible. he takes off
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  his hood. He's got long,
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  dark brown hair, very masculine
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  features.
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  He says, my name's
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  otra, but most.
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  People just call me Strider.
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  I was, actually a good friend of
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  ogrons.
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  He, wanted me to give you this. He gives you
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  a letter. It's like a sealed envelope
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  with, like, a wax Seal on the back. It's just a
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  letter to all of you. but it basically just talks about
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  how much he cared about all of you. He felt that there was something
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  that might happen that might cause him harm
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  or possibly death. And he wanted to make sure.
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  He was scared to keep the will in the house
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  or in the tea shop. And so he's hidden
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  it and he wants you all to find
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  it. Who's Bill?
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  This specific one is for you. Strider
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  leaves.
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  Oh, I can read it while we walk. I guess back to the
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  shop. It says,
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  bill, my boy, you're tried and true. I
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  now bestow a gift to you. When on the
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  seas, a ship we met and a pirate ship we were
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  beset. You and I were taken captive on an
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  island where we adapted, although in danger we
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  resided and quietly our time abided
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  until the moment of opportunity. You and I escaped
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  in unity. Return yourself to island shores and
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  the next clue will soon be yours. Return to
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  the past. Look through the back. Use the flame in your heart
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  to reveal the map. And once you arrive,
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  don't forget about the tea bill. You remember where you were
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  on the boat with me. You created a combo so strange in
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  my mind it did in print. So look to your creation of
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  mango and mango.
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  And that's where it stopped.
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  So you head back to the tea shop.
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  You guys should know the full story to be able to help me
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  with this because I'm completely lost, honestly.
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  Well, we were captured by pirates.
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  Mr. Okran and I were when we first met. It
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  was a weird trade deal is what happened to us.
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  It was some fire nation general that
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  organized the whole trade deal as well.
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  We got put on a pirate ship.
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  And then we helped the pirate crew for a day. Mr.
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  Okra made them a bunch of tea and I swabbed the deck and also
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  knocked out a guy with a bow staff, so. Always
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  been good at that, I guess. and then we escaped on a
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  dinghy with a bunch of his tea
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  and we landed on the shores not
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  too far from here. In that dinghy. I don't know.
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  Just reading this, it says, return yourself to island
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  Shores and the next clue, still New York.
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  So part of me thinks that if.
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  We went back to the exact same spot where know washed
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  up, that might.
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  Be where we go.
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  I'm going to hand it to Guohan
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  the riddle.
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  And as you go to hand
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  Guohan the piece of paper, you
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  can kind of feel a little bit of the heat from the candle in the middle
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  of the table that's giving you guys light. And
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  as the map passes by and that heat kind
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  of emanates towards it, you notice
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  some sort of scribbles on the back of
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  the paper. You bring it a little bit closer to the
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  candlelight and you realize that on the back of this
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  page is a map leading to an island.
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  Island known as Whale Tail island.
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  So that's where this map seems to be
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  leading you.
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  Should we head down to that shore, see if we can find anything?
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  Do we have enough time?
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  Looks like we're going on a trip, guys. I gotta go pack a
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  bag for Dilbert.
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  You wake up the next morning. To some extent, this
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  has reignited some of the fire that might
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  have been lost by, the depressing
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  circumstances. You head out and one place
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  that you know of in town that offers
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  sort of travel assistance. It's like a travel
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  agency. And you're like, okay, well
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  I'm not necessarily going on a paid vacation per se,
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  but I'll go check it out and see if they can give me information.
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  Maybe you arrive and there's
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  the lady at the front desk. There's somebody
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  talking to her. And rather than her greeting you,
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  this person just turns around. It's an old man, he's
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  crooked almost at a 90 degree angle of his
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  back. turns around and sees you all.
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  And he says where are
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  you three go for going?
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  Where are you headed? Are you going on vacation?
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  Whaletail island.
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  We don't really offer much of,
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  Water travel here at our agency but we
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  could get you across the mountains to the shores.
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  It's right over by Shin village.
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  That's where you want to go.
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  How long does a trip like that take us?
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  Oh, if you go my way, usually it only takes
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  about a day.
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  We only have six. And can you start
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  taking us there now?
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  Yeah, of course I can.
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  I'm ready to go.
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  The name's Rooney. All right, on our
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  way.
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  And he starts to lead you guys through. And it's a pretty
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  straightforward shot to the mountains themselves.
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  It's pretty uneventful until about like four
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  or 5 hours through. You guys, start to
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  notice that there's like a pathway that started to become
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  carved out into the mountains.
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  Why aren't we walking on this path?
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  Why are you taking us over here?
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  Oh yes, it's under
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  construction right now. See, just up ahead.
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  And he points and you can see some dust that
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  seems to be rising like a dust cloud.
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  They're working on a way through the mountain
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  but it's not done yet.
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  You do eventually come up to where the cloud
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  is kind of rising from and sure enough, there's a
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  bunch of what look like earthbenders that seem to be
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  like stomping the ground and moving rocks
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  and stuff out of the way as they're making this pathway
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  through. As you guys are
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  leaving the scene of the construction work
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  in your wake, you suddenly hear
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  a huge explosive
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  sound
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  and you can feel the rocks and such around you,
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  rumbling and shouts and screams coming from over in
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  the construction area.
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  My fox dog starts running towards it.
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  All right, I'll run after it. No one else will.
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  No, I'm running after.
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  As you guys make your way up towards the
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  construction site, you see before to you
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  a giant collection of
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  rocks that seems to all be combined to
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  itself as if a humanoid shape
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  with two arms and two legs, no real
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  head per se. but on the top of where the
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  head would be is a small red gem that glints
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  inside the sunlight. And as, Rooney
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  approaches, and you guys are all seeing know happening below
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  you in the ravine where they were digging out, he says,
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  oh, my gosh.
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  It'S a mountain spirit.
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  As it starts to just smash, smash,
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  smash through this construction zone. Obviously
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  angry for some reason.
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  I'll hop down and try and help the construction
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  workers.
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  All right, sounds good.
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  Brock's not an observed type of guy.
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  You're in the scene, you're standing there.
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  Some of the, dust cloud has kind of, like, overtaken you.
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  You cough a little bit as you wave a little bit out of your face.
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  So I guess as I get down there, I'll try and
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  help as many of the people that the earth
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  spirit is not attacking.
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  Zeke is just watching. Bill's just watching.
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  Same here.
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  All right.
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  Guohan's gonna just move
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  to save cover, make sure there's nothing
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  above him that's gonna ruin him.
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  So back over to Connor. Connor, you've pulled some people
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  out of the way, gotten them kind of a safe distance away. There's
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  still maybe like, three workers that are, like,
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  battling this thing actively.
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  I guess I'd have to just go and help the three workers
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  as well.
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  All right.
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  I mean, I can't just leave them hanging.
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  All right.
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  So I will ask what is my best way in?
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  As in, like, into this fight square?
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  Yeah. So you can kind of tell there's, like, a
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  direction to its movements. So
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  that suggests that it has a front and that's where it's attacking
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  at. and it has a back and it doesn't seem
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  to be aware, even though it doesn't have, like, a head and eyes,
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  it doesn't seem to be aware of what's behind it. So
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  if you were able to get behind it, you'd probably be in
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  a better position.
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  Yeah, I guess. What can I use to inflict the most
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  damage?
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  Something about that gem that's
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  sitting kind of almost on top of where its head would
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  be seems significant to you.
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  The fact that it's so contrasted and so different
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  from the rest of its just rock body. It really feels
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  like that holds some sort of significance
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  over this creature or spirit or
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  whatever it seems to be.
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  So what I'm going to try and do is I'm going to try and climb up some
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  piles of rocks behind it. I'm going to try and jump on
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  top of it, and, I will try and
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  strike the gem, and I will
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  try and dislodge it.
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  So you use that to get yourself on top of this rock
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  monster. it definitely takes notice that you're there.
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  Like, it can feel you on it. And so it kind of, like, is
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  confused. It's moving around, but you've managed to land
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  on it in such a way that you get a nice, stable position. It's
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  a big creature, so it's definitely enough of a platform
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  for you to steady yourself on.
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  I will get on top of this thing.
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  Okay.
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  And it's squirming around, trying to shake me
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  off, and I'm just starting to wail away at
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  the gem on top of its head.
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  Okay.
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  Or on top of its body.
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  It's freaking out. It's nervous, and it's becoming
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  less and less, you could almost say connected. You're
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  actually watching as you're slowly pulling this gem
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  out. You can see some of the chunks of
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  rock actually falling from its body. Yeah.
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  The rest of you three are seeing him, like, riding
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  cowboy on top of this rock monster.
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  I want to assess the situation. I think
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  Brock's gonna die.
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  What here can I use to help
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  Brock? I'm gonna say in. So what's my best
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  way down the side of this mountain?
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  you do see a fairly thin
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  but flat rock that you almost wonder if you could
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  sled down the side of this hill safely and
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  quickly. additionally, there are a
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  number of sort of outcroppings of
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  rock that if you wanted to, you might break into
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  chunks. And using your earthbending, maybe kick
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  or throw towards the monster to give a
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  distraction while he tries to rip
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  this gem out of its head, I will.
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  Attempt to destroy this gem.
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  You raise your hand above your head. You come down hard,
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  as, earthbenders do. They don't fear the
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  rock as it's coming towards them, per se. So you feel very
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  confident as you come down. You break the rock. As
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  your fist makes contact with it, the gem
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  itself breaks free, from the
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  creature's head. It flies up. As it
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  does, the creature starts to kind of, like, wobble and so
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  on.
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  I'm going to look at those rock
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  colonnades or whatever on the side of the
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  hill. I'm going to attempt to take
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  out the small piece of stone that's holding
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  the pillar up, or get, like, a small rock, like,
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  get momentum, to roll into that and to
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  cause some.
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  Sort of avalanche, you rush over to one of these
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  outcroppings that sort of angled at just the
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  right spot on the top of this hill,
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  that you're sort of on, and you break out a chunk of it,
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  allowing the brock to tumble forward and start
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  rolling down the hill. As you mentioned, Brock, you
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  have just ripped the gemstone out of its
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  head. And as it wobbles and starts to destabilize,
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  you leap off this beast. You've got the giant gem in
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  your hand, and, the beast is down. As
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  it hits the ground, all the rocks that make up
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  this spirit, as they said, just sort of
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  start to roll away.
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  Oh, I think I might have seen or heard
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  stories about something like this.
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  This is just a theory, mind you. But I think what
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  you've got there is known as
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  the heart of the mountain.
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  Some say that the heart of the mountain homes
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  a guardian spirit, and each mountain
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  has one.
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  Well, if we're all cursed about
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  this, I'll take the blame for that. I will
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  say a big ol oops on that.
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  So you guys all get a good night's rest. you, wake
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  up the next morning. And so you guys continue
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  on through the mountain range. And
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  slowly but surely off in the distance,
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  you can see the outskirts of
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  chin village. I'm going to just head out. So, good
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  luck to you guys.
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  Bye bye.
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  And he turns
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  180 degrees to walk his 90
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  degrees self back through the mountains.
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  What if we start by checking where
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  me and Mr. Okeron first showed
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  up here on the boat? And if we can't find anything there, then
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  we can go talk to pirates, the. Sorry, rather,
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  the traders, around here, the ship
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  captains, and get us a boat.
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  you guys make your way to the beaches
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  of chin village. I, mean, you look at the
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  map again, and it's not showing any
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  kind of x or anything on the beaches of chin
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  village. It does cross through chin village like the
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  dotted line, but the x is at Whaletail
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  island. And eventually you approach, what
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  seems to be a massive festival going on. And
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  people are celebrating, and there's
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  little shop vendors that are
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  selling. They're selling all sorts of like, they look like
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  sea serpent masks, kind of like different
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  colors and such like that. There's people selling food.
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  There's people selling what look like
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  fancy wood blocks that kind of have, like, a
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  rounded shape to it. There's a lot of people wearing green,
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  and there's a lot of people wearing red. And you notice that
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  people wearing green seem to be avoiding
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  or maybe in a small one person to one person
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  disagreement with somebody wearing red. There's like a
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  big podium or whatever. there's like a big
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  pillar, like a short pillar, like for putting something on,
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  right? And somebody walks out wearing
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  some very nice fancy clothes.
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  Attention, everyone. It is time for the
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  festival's proudest tradition, the
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  revealing of the scales. Before I
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  reveal the scales, I want to thank the people of
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  Quinchao village for joining us here today for
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  the festival and bringing their scale along with
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  them. As always, since it is
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  Chin village's time to shine, I will be revealing
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  the scale bestowed to us. The green
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  scale.
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  And he pulls back the curtain,
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  and everyone gasps. And you guys are kind of
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  unsure as to why they're all gasping. And
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  inside of this glass case that he has
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  set on this pedestal, there's a
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  large, red, sort of ornate scale. Look,
• 19:10
  everyone's gasping. And then you start to hear people throughout the crowd
• 19:13
  saying, where's the green scale?
• 19:15
  Where is it? Someone's stolen it.
• 19:18
  Everyone remain calm. We are sure to find
• 19:21
  the green scale. I'm sure it was a simple
• 19:23
  misplacement. Never fear.
• 19:26
  There are two mayors, each from a different
• 19:28
  town, standing up on the stage. They are
• 19:31
  panicking. the one mayor seems to be, like, trying to calm
• 19:34
  everybody. He's waving his hands around.
• 19:35
  Guys, maybe we should get out of here before things get any
• 19:38
  crazier. Let's try to get a boat.
• 19:40
  All of a sudden, the mayor looks over towards you, and he says,
• 19:43
  them?
• 19:44
  Who are they? Quick, grab
• 19:47
  them.
• 19:47
  And a group of guards surrounds you, and, he
• 19:50
  says, bring them to me. So as they lead you back behind
• 19:53
  the stage, he insists that the guards
• 19:56
  search all of you, search them for the
• 19:59
  scale, and they give you quick pat down.
• 20:01
  And he says, no scale. And they
• 20:04
  say, no scale.
• 20:05
  Sir, why is this scale such a big deal?
• 20:08
  Shui shui is the great serpent spirit that resides in the
• 20:11
  waters immediately surrounding Qin village. And
• 20:13
  spanning all the way to Quinchao
• 20:16
  village. She is incredibly powerful and
• 20:19
  has chosen Qin village as her home. And to prove
• 20:22
  this, she has left us with her beautiful green
• 20:25
  scale.
• 20:25
  And then all of a sudden, the other mayor, the
• 20:28
  female mayor, comes bursting back. She wears all
• 20:31
  black.
• 20:31
  That right there is a bold faced
• 20:34
  lie. You know as well as I do
• 20:37
  that the red scale, which is the
• 20:39
  true scale, mind you, was given to
• 20:42
  Quin Chow village and has been deemed her
• 20:45
  home, not chin
• 20:47
  village.
• 20:48
  And they start to bicker back and forth.
• 20:50
  Oh, yes. My apologies. The
• 20:52
  important matter right now is to find
• 20:55
  the scale that has been stolen so the festival
• 20:58
  may go on. I feel as though I can trust you
• 21:01
  to help us find it, if you would be so
• 21:04
  willing to help us. If you do,
• 21:07
  I will ensure you have free travel to
• 21:10
  whale tail island. You see, the festival
• 21:13
  we're holding takes place every year, but not always
• 21:16
  in the same place. Siwan Shue
• 21:18
  shui gifted chin village with her beautiful green
• 21:21
  scale. Apparently, Quincha village just so,
• 21:24
  happened to produce their phony red scale at the
• 21:27
  same time. Rather than start a war over which scale
• 21:30
  was the real one, as Shueishuei's scale was supposed
• 21:33
  to represent peace, we decided to
• 21:35
  simply alternate which village would hold
• 21:38
  the festival each year, with the respective
• 21:41
  village presenting their scale. I
• 21:44
  can gather up the suspects that I have some suspicions
• 21:47
  about as far as having something to do with this
• 21:49
  case. And you can talk to them one by
• 21:52
  one in my office, perhaps
• 21:55
  putting.
• 21:56
  A lot of trust in four outsiders
• 21:59
  you've just met.
• 22:00
  M I don't have much choice.
• 22:02
  And he holds out his hands to shake, and, you notice that
• 22:05
  he has black gunk all over his
• 22:08
  hands, maybe like ink. He looks down at his hand and he sees the
• 22:11
  ink and he goes, apologies.
• 22:13
  That must have happened earlier.
• 22:15
  Of the people on this list, how many people do you
• 22:18
  know have had access to this
• 22:21
  shard? The scale?
• 22:23
  Let's see. There was me, of course,
• 22:25
  but, I obviously didn't
• 22:28
  do it. Then you have Councilwoman Lin.
• 22:32
  Councilman Young has a key to the
• 22:34
  storage building where we keep the scales during the
• 22:37
  festival. Of course. There's Cato. He's
• 22:40
  the guard for the storage building, so of course, he
• 22:43
  had access to the scale.
• 22:45
  There's also Mayor Yu. When she and
• 22:48
  her people of Quinchao village arrived, she and
• 22:51
  I visited the storage building to place their
• 22:54
  fake red scale in there. She
• 22:57
  was accompanied by Councilman Huan, who
• 23:00
  is her right hand on the council.
• 23:02
  So, this morning, when you checked on it, can you
• 23:05
  recall, exactly what happened?
• 23:09
  yes, of course. So,
• 23:12
  this morning, Councilwoman Lin and
• 23:15
  I were running around ensuring that everything for the
• 23:18
  festival was ready when the people of
• 23:21
  Quinchao village arrived. I met with Mayor Yu and
• 23:23
  Councilman Huan, who joined myself and
• 23:26
  lind to the storage facility. Keita
• 23:29
  was already there keeping guard. He used his key
• 23:32
  to let us in. Mayor Yu set
• 23:35
  her fake red scale down on the pedestal
• 23:38
  next to where we keep the true scale, which was in
• 23:41
  its case, covered over with a thin
• 23:44
  cloth, which is part of the
• 23:46
  reveal. Then the four
• 23:49
  of us left, and Kato locked the door
• 23:52
  behind us, and that was that.
• 23:54
  Who's to say that, Mr.
• 23:57
  Squid? Ink? Hands over here. And I
• 24:00
  point at Wu very unapologetically. Who's to say that
• 24:03
  this guy didn't take it and put it in,
• 24:06
  like, an ocean thing. And that's why he had a running
• 24:09
  with squid. That's why he's got black ink on his hands.
• 24:11
  Unless you can explain the ink.
• 24:14
  Oh, yes, I can
• 24:16
  absolutely explain that for you.
• 24:19
  See, earlier, after I
• 24:22
  met with Mayor Ewan, secured the scales at the
• 24:25
  storage facility, I realized I had
• 24:28
  forgotten my scroll with the speech I had
• 24:31
  prepared for the unveiling ceremony. So I
• 24:34
  rushed back to my office, and in the process of
• 24:37
  grabbing it, I knocked over my ink
• 24:39
  wellen and spilled ink everywhere.
• 24:43
  That's how it got all over my hands.
• 24:46
  Wait, may you is
• 24:49
  gone. Perhaps she has stolen it and is trying to hide
• 24:52
  it. Quick. Guards, find Mayor Yu and
• 24:55
  bring her to me promptly. I will be at the
• 24:58
  storage facility with the detectives.
• 25:01
  I think you took it.
• 25:03
  That's what he just said.
• 25:05
  Oh, that's a double meaning because, yes?
• 25:08
  Is this guy's name mayor? Me?
• 25:10
  No, his is Wu.
• 25:12
  He is me.
• 25:12
  And I am. Oh, gosh. No, you
• 25:15
  did it. No, I didn't. I say,
• 25:18
  not you. You can do
• 25:21
  this, Abbott.
• 25:23
  All night.
• 25:23
  So he takes you guys over to a facility. It's
• 25:26
  a very basic stone
• 25:29
  hut. it's a one floor.
• 25:32
  It's not very big. It's
• 25:35
  basically just a small storage facility. It
• 25:38
  has no windows. It just has
• 25:41
  one door. And it is an iron door with
• 25:44
  a lock, like a space for a
• 25:46
  key. you arrive there, and you
• 25:49
  see mayor Yu is standing there arguing
• 25:52
  with the guard
• 25:55
  that is standing there. And you can hear from
• 25:58
  a distance. She's saying, you don't understand.
• 26:01
  I must get inside because I need to check
• 26:04
  on Quin chow village's scale.
• 26:06
  This is when you guys arrive. And, of course, mayor,
• 26:09
  mayor Wu.
• 26:10
  Says the criminal does return to
• 26:13
  the scene of the crime.
• 26:14
  If you must know, I came here to
• 26:17
  ensure the red scale is still
• 26:20
  safe, as your storage facility
• 26:23
  is obviously not as secure as you
• 26:26
  promised me.
• 26:27
  Then, of course, they start bickering.
• 26:28
  I guess we're just going to go.
• 26:30
  In and, Mr. Cater, if you'd be so
• 26:33
  kind as to allow us entrance to the facility.
• 26:36
  He opens the door, and you guys go inside.
• 26:39
  inside there's a number of just kind of boxes that
• 26:42
  are all nailed tight shut,
• 26:44
  scattered across the room. Some of them have, like, big, heavy
• 26:47
  blankets over, them. Mayor Wu walks over and he points at
• 26:50
  it and he says, yes.
• 26:52
  So as you can see, atop this pedestal here
• 26:55
  is where we keep the scale in a glass case.
• 26:57
  Now the facility is really where the security
• 27:00
  measures are focused. The glass case does not
• 27:03
  feature a lock. It's more there to keep the scale
• 27:06
  from getting dirty and such.
• 27:09
  Anyways, a white cloth normally sits on top
• 27:12
  of the glass case and it is removed during the
• 27:14
  ceremony.
• 27:15
  Mr. Mayor because I did actually kind of
• 27:18
  notice something at one point. I was making
• 27:21
  my rounds around the storage facility as I
• 27:24
  do. I was on my 27th round in
• 27:26
  fact and all of a sudden
• 27:29
  I heard some weird jingling sound of some
• 27:32
  kind. but by the time I got over here
• 27:35
  there was nothing there but I did see something running
• 27:37
  over into the bushes just past, right over
• 27:40
  there.
• 27:40
  And he kind of points off to the distance, not too far off, maybe
• 27:43
  like 2020, 30ft.
• 27:46
  Like I said, I don't know what it was but he's just
• 27:49
  somebody wearing black.
• 27:50
  It looked like.
• 27:51
  Let's take a look at this stone
• 27:54
  pedestal here. Glow and approach
• 27:57
  it and look for.
• 27:59
  Any hidden panels,
• 28:01
  compartments you feel around the
• 28:04
  entire pedestal. You're looking for any obscure
• 28:07
  divots or anything sort of out of the
• 28:10
  ordinary and you
• 28:13
  don't seem to find anything on the
• 28:15
  pedestal. But as you are
• 28:18
  checking the sort of the bottom of the pedestal where it
• 28:20
  touches the ground you do notice a couple of
• 28:23
  footprints or rather
• 28:26
  boot prints. Do the shoe prints
• 28:28
  that were spotted, the heavy
• 28:31
  set ones, do they lead out
• 28:34
  the door?
• 28:35
  Yes.
• 28:36
  Do they lead towards that bush? So you are
• 28:39
  following these footprints and as you follow
• 28:42
  them you realize they do lead out towards the
• 28:45
  bush. Is there anything in the bush? there
• 28:48
  is nothing that seems to be in the bush
• 28:50
  except cloth
• 28:53
  inside that seems to be smudged with
• 28:56
  some sort of black substance.
• 28:58
  Perhaps whoever stole the scale
• 29:01
  has black.
• 29:01
  Residue on their hands.
• 29:03
  Mr. Now I can see where your
• 29:06
  mind is going and the conclusions you are making but again,
• 29:09
  I assure you I was not the one that
• 29:11
  stole the scale.
• 29:13
  That's what they all say.
• 29:15
  I feel we need to see your office. Mr. Wu.
• 29:17
  We'll meet the suspects in your office.
• 29:20
  Yeah, call them all there right now.
• 29:23
  That's an order.
• 29:25
  Okay.
• 29:27
  He turns to Cato and he.
• 29:29
  Says, kato, since the green scale is no longer
• 29:32
  here your duty guarding this area is over.
• 29:35
  Your new order is to go and find these
• 29:38
  people.
• 29:46
  At this very moment you are being led back
• 29:49
  by Mayor Wu to his office
• 29:52
  and he has sent Councilwoman Lin
• 29:55
  to go out, his kind of assistant, second
• 29:58
  in command to go find the key
• 30:00
  suspects that he believes could be involved in this case and
• 30:03
  bring them to his office. So all of you
• 30:06
  shortly, are led to a fairly
• 30:09
  ornate, kind of town center style
• 30:11
  building, that's a little bit taller than all the rest, a little
• 30:14
  bit more decorative than all the rest of the buildings around it.
• 30:17
  You're led Inside, and shortly after taking
• 30:20
  a couple of hallways, find yourselves in
• 30:23
  some sort of a courtroom.
• 30:24
  This is my office, or rather, the
• 30:27
  council room, which my office is connected to.
• 30:30
  As you guys finish, looking around his office and start
• 30:33
  to step outside, the door flies open to this
• 30:36
  area, and in walks councilwoman lin.
• 30:39
  Keto and I have brought you everyone you requested,
• 30:42
  sir.
• 30:42
  Before you stands a number of people. You have
• 30:45
  councilwoman Lin. She goes down the line and introduces each
• 30:48
  of these people to you.
• 30:49
  This right here is Ley, and you.
• 30:51
  See before you a man. He's wearing very drab, kind
• 30:54
  of semi ruined clothing. If you were to approach him,
• 30:56
  he smells very much like seawater. In
• 30:59
  one hand, he holds a fishing rod.
• 31:02
  He falls to his knees, and he
• 31:05
  says, please, I beg of you, please.
• 31:08
  Return the great shuei shui scale to
• 31:11
  us.
• 31:11
  Standing next to him is another very well dressed
• 31:14
  man. He also stands fairly upright.
• 31:17
  Yes, apologies. My name is Councilman
• 31:19
  Young. As a councilman, the act of theft is
• 31:22
  quite beneath me, so I can't imagine any
• 31:25
  reason for me to be here at this moment.
• 31:27
  Standing next to him is a
• 31:30
  very stocky man. He wears
• 31:33
  a sort of a long cloak and
• 31:35
  skirt, and he has kind of a,
• 31:38
  leather apron over top, and he wears large leather
• 31:40
  gloves. He has some black substance kind of on his
• 31:43
  face. Looks like some kind of ash as well. He's holding
• 31:46
  a large hammer, but something that would be used
• 31:49
  more as a tool as opposed to a weapon. Yup.
• 31:52
  My name's way. Not really sure why I've been
• 31:55
  called here to this lineup. I don't even like this old
• 31:58
  festival. This whole thing is a bunch of baloney, if you
• 32:01
  ask me.
• 32:02
  As he speaks, he kind of motions with his hands, and you can kind of
• 32:05
  hear a number of things jingle on his body. As you see,
• 32:08
  he's got a number of pieces of metal
• 32:10
  or keys or et cetera, kind of just
• 32:13
  strapped to him in different places. Obviously, you have Mayor
• 32:16
  Yu. Not too far away from her, you
• 32:19
  see another very stiff looking
• 32:21
  man, standing, very forthright.
• 32:24
  Yes, the name's Juan. Councilman
• 32:27
  Juan, that is. Needless to say, I'm
• 32:30
  absolutely furious about the proceedings and handlings of
• 32:32
  today, and I feel as though we need to all be more
• 32:35
  concerned about the red scale as it is
• 32:38
  real.
• 32:38
  next to him, you see a small, old
• 32:41
  crookedy man who is shoving
• 32:45
  some pie into his face. And when
• 32:48
  he notices that you look at him, he quickly
• 32:51
  hides the pie into his
• 32:53
  cloak, and he pulls out a small bag
• 32:56
  of crackers and starts munching on those instead.
• 32:59
  What are you looking at?
• 33:00
  Where even am I?
• 33:02
  Ah, finally, the last character in front of you. He is a
• 33:05
  very well dressed, kind of plump
• 33:07
  man. he's starting to get some balding on the middle
• 33:10
  kind of. Of his head.
• 33:12
  Well, hello. My name is
• 33:14
  Nia. I am a traveling salesman from
• 33:17
  the village of Qin sho. I would like to
• 33:20
  establish that I must be innocent, as
• 33:23
  the scales which are represented by both
• 33:25
  villages are my primary source
• 33:28
  of income.
• 33:29
  You are free to ask any questions that
• 33:32
  you might have or make any
• 33:34
  observations that I can maybe give some hints
• 33:37
  to.
• 33:37
  I got some questions for Mr. Wei.
• 33:40
  Yeah.
• 33:41
  I saunter up to the man.
• 33:43
  He looks up, at you, and.
• 33:45
  He puffs out his chest.
• 33:47
  He says, what do you want from me, big boy?
• 33:50
  I was about to ask, are you a blacksmith?
• 33:53
  Yeah, I make all sorts of things. Weapons,
• 33:56
  tools, doors, door locks.
• 33:58
  So you don't seem too into, this whole
• 34:01
  festival here, sir.
• 34:02
  No, but I don't like it. It's a bunch of hullabaloo.
• 34:05
  It's a bunch of lies to make money off of the people.
• 34:08
  I see. So, during all these
• 34:10
  festivities, was anybody coming into your shop,
• 34:13
  or is.
• 34:13
  It just kind, of a slow day for you here today?
• 34:16
  Well, I, typically use the festival day as
• 34:19
  a sort of catch up day where I can finish up a bunch of
• 34:22
  the orders I've got on my list without getting any new
• 34:25
  orders in throughout the day.
• 34:27
  Nobody really saw you until just now. Is
• 34:30
  that a fair assessment, sir?
• 34:31
  I suppose that's a fair assessment.
• 34:34
  You seem to have, some disdain towards the scale
• 34:37
  here, sir.
• 34:38
  Oh, yeah. That scale is a big old
• 34:40
  phony, though.
• 34:42
  Which one's the real one?
• 34:43
  Neither of them is real. They're both
• 34:45
  fake.
• 34:46
  And to this mayor, Yu and Wu both Go.
• 34:49
  The audacity.
• 34:50
  So, anybody else want to take a.
• 34:52
  Crack at this interrogation? Hey, you
• 34:55
  and I point over at the guy sobbing
• 34:58
  in ash. Do you know. Do you have a boat? Yeah, I've got
• 35:01
  a boat. You know how to sail it? Yeah.
• 35:03
  How many can it fit? It can hold about four people in
• 35:06
  it.
• 35:06
  We just need you to take the. What is it called?
• 35:08
  Whale.
• 35:09
  Whaletail island.
• 35:10
  Whaletail island. I will happily provide passage to and
• 35:12
  from Whaletail island to anyone that can.
• 35:15
  Return the lost scale to our village. Mayor
• 35:18
  Wu.
• 35:19
  Yes?
• 35:20
  I need something from you.
• 35:22
  Okay.
• 35:23
  I need you to send somebody to the
• 35:25
  kitchen and bring back a
• 35:28
  jar of cinnamon.
• 35:30
  Okay.
• 35:31
  And a glass of milk.
• 35:33
  Councilman, young rushes off, to go get
• 35:35
  the things, and a couple moments later, he returns.
• 35:38
  Thank you. And I drink the glass of milk. Oh,
• 35:41
  man, that pie made me thirsty. And then
• 35:44
  I go over to Cato.
• 35:47
  Kato. Oh, yeah. Come
• 35:50
  confer with me. You heard a coughing at
• 35:52
  some, Oh, yeah, yeah, I think I
• 35:55
  did.
• 35:55
  there's a little bit. That's what alerted me. And then I came running
• 35:58
  over and.
• 35:59
  You heard a jingling?
• 36:01
  Oh, yeah, lots of jingling.
• 36:03
  I go over to the first person in line to,
• 36:05
  Lee. I scoop a big thing of
• 36:08
  cinnamon. Open wide. Yeah. Ah. I stick
• 36:11
  the spoon down his throat. I look to
• 36:14
  Cato, and he coughs. What do you,
• 36:17
  didn't, really sound like that. That was a bit too much
• 36:20
  phlegm in that one.
• 36:21
  So we need four spoons to
• 36:24
  sort of expedite the cough test.
• 36:26
  Oh, man. We're gonna need your first three favorite
• 36:29
  spoons.
• 36:30
  So can we kind of just line them all up and just at
• 36:33
  the same time just shove spoons of cinnamon into
• 36:36
  their mouth?
• 36:36
  You wanted, wei the blacksmith.
• 36:39
  You wanted councilman young.
• 36:41
  Councilman young, Mayor Wu. The three of you stand
• 36:44
  across from four individuals. You prepare
• 36:46
  four spoonfuls of cinnamon. You stick it into
• 36:49
  mayor Wu's mouth, and you, councilman
• 36:52
  Young goes.
• 36:55
  Wei goes, all right, I'm
• 36:57
  gonna need some jumping jacks.
• 36:59
  But everybody else get a jumping.
• 37:02
  Mayor Wu, he seems to have some keys on his
• 37:05
  person. councilman Young also has keys
• 37:08
  on his belt similar in number. Of course,
• 37:11
  Kato wearing some fairly heavy armor
• 37:14
  and having some weaponry.
• 37:15
  Oh, jeez, I'm really jingling.
• 37:17
  Wei the blacksmith, he also
• 37:20
  has a copious amount of jingling. And
• 37:23
  Kato looks over at him and.
• 37:24
  He goes, man, you're jingling about as much as I
• 37:27
  am.
• 37:27
  Mayor Yu, the other, also,
• 37:30
  she has a variety of jewelry on her person. so she
• 37:33
  jingles a little bit. It's a very light jingling. and then
• 37:36
  naya the merchant, he, too, jingles quite
• 37:39
  a bit when he jumping jacks. And that's about
• 37:42
  it. Everybody else seems to be fairly just cloth
• 37:44
  movement.
• 37:45
  Can we just have the guard shake down all of these people
• 37:47
  simultaneously? This hurts my brain. Can I try
• 37:50
  earth bending in a way that sort of
• 37:53
  shakes everybody down at the same time.
• 37:55
  You stomp the ground and
• 37:58
  twist your foot, which causes the
• 38:00
  sand or stone underneath their feet
• 38:03
  to sort of become coarse and then quickly
• 38:06
  resolidify, sealing their feet into the
• 38:09
  floor. And then as they start to kind of panic
• 38:12
  a little bit, you slam your other foot down, which raises a
• 38:15
  platform into the air and immediately twists in
• 38:18
  such a way that cause. Or you use your arms to kind of
• 38:21
  twist it in such a way so that they're all sort of upside down
• 38:23
  to some extent. No scales fall out?
• 38:25
  No.
• 38:26
  Excuse me, Mr. Brock. This investigation is
• 38:28
  turning into torture.
• 38:30
  You shake and you shake and you shake, and they're all
• 38:33
  crying out in anger and some
• 38:35
  fear, and many.
• 38:37
  Put me down.
• 38:39
  A voice cries out, all right,
• 38:42
  it was me.
• 38:43
  Please, I did it. Just put me down.
• 38:46
  You look and you see way the blacksmith called
• 38:49
  it.
• 38:49
  That's right. I did it. I had to show the
• 38:52
  people that he wasn't real.
• 38:54
  And he reaches into a hidden pouch
• 38:56
  inside of his apron, and he swings
• 38:59
  his arm down, and he throws the
• 39:02
  scale at the ground with all the force he can
• 39:05
  muster. As the, scale hits the
• 39:08
  ground, fragments start to break off and
• 39:11
  shatter in every direction as it starts to almost
• 39:14
  disintegrate upon touching the hard floor. And
• 39:17
  everybody's just frozen, stunned.
• 39:19
  We found your scale.
• 39:20
  You're welcome.
• 39:21
  See you later. And Mary Yu
• 39:23
  finally speaks up, and.
• 39:24
  She says, I knew it. Their scale was
• 39:27
  fake. No scale from a spirit beast
• 39:30
  would possibly shatter in such a way. It's
• 39:33
  obviously a glass replica. I knew
• 39:36
  it.
• 39:36
  Oh, yeah, that scale is a big old
• 39:39
  phony. Neither of them is real.
• 39:42
  Well, then I guess we'll just have to
• 39:45
  test that.
• 39:45
  So they're headed to the ball. So the people from Chin Village are.
• 39:48
  Like, let's go see the scale. Let's go destroy the
• 39:51
  scale.
• 39:52
  You guys are following as this mob sort of makes its way to
• 39:55
  the facility. You just see this group of
• 39:57
  angry people walk out of the facility
• 40:00
  carrying the glass casing that has the
• 40:03
  red scale inside of it. And they seem to be starting to make
• 40:06
  their way towards the town square. And eventually they
• 40:09
  make it to the town square. And Mayor
• 40:11
  Wu stands up in front of him, and he says, people of.
• 40:14
  Qin and quing Chao village alike, I'd like to
• 40:17
  garnish your attention for the moment. We've decided
• 40:20
  as a group that we are going to test the
• 40:22
  reality of the red scale once and
• 40:25
  for all.
• 40:26
  And he just chucks it straight at the ground.
• 40:28
  And mayor, you screams out, no.
• 40:31
  As it falls and shatters onto the
• 40:34
  ground. And everyone goes.
• 40:36
  And now we know that both the scales were
• 40:39
  fake and these two.
• 40:40
  And he points at both the mayors.
• 40:42
  One of the perpetrators of the whole thing. They've been
• 40:44
  lying to you good folks all this time. So now
• 40:47
  I ask all of you, what are we going to do
• 40:50
  about it?
• 40:51
  You see, the two mayors are whispering to each
• 40:54
  other at the moment, and they step forward
• 40:57
  and they say, congratulations.
• 41:01
  Yes. You solved the mystery of the fake
• 41:04
  scales. Yes, that's
• 41:07
  it. we've had this contest going for years, unbeknownst
• 41:10
  to all of you. Be sure enough, these
• 41:13
  strangers, and of course, way,
• 41:15
  was also involved in solving the mystery. Well
• 41:18
  done to all of you. You've won the
• 41:21
  contest. Yes, and next year, we're going to
• 41:24
  do it all again. But we will switch
• 41:27
  it up, make it a new mystery. That way it keeps things
• 41:30
  fresh every year.
• 41:31
  But what about Shui Shuei?
• 41:34
  Ah, yes, well, Shue shue will
• 41:37
  always be there watching over us, whether or
• 41:39
  not we have her scales.
• 41:42
  Oh, okay.
• 41:43
  Paray shui shuei.
• 41:45
  And you watch as the festivities kind of start to
• 41:48
  go back to normal a little bit.
• 41:50
  Well, that was a bit awkward,
• 41:53
  to say the least. I suppose things are
• 41:56
  in order. Well done in solving the mystery.
• 41:59
  I'm sure we can get someone to get you over
• 42:02
  to Whaletail island right away.
• 42:04
  Lei, would you mind taking these
• 42:07
  wonderful folks to Whaletail island?
• 42:10
  Oh, yes, of course.
• 42:12
  Thank you very.
• 42:13
  Right.
• 42:14
  and eventually, you push your way through that crowd and you
• 42:17
  find yourself at, the docks. And with that,
• 42:20
  you guys take off into the waters
• 42:23
  towards the island in the distance that you know is
• 42:26
  Whaletail island. As you guys are approaching,
• 42:28
  the waves kind of hitting against your boat. As
• 42:31
  you guys make your way towards this island, and it gets larger and
• 42:34
  larger as it comes closer and closer to you. You can
• 42:37
  see in the distance, kind of off on the left
• 42:39
  coast of this island. there seems to
• 42:42
  be a flagpole that
• 42:45
  outcrops from a sailing
• 42:47
  vessel. you're a little bit more towards the
• 42:50
  right section of this island's
• 42:53
  coast, so you're not going to collide with this pirate
• 42:56
  ship or land where the pirates may be
• 42:59
  set up. But you do assume that there are pirates that are
• 43:01
  actively on this island. After a few moments, you
• 43:04
  eventually do near the sandy
• 43:07
  beaches of whaletail island, or at least the
• 43:09
  sandy beaches where you're landing. It's got a very pirate
• 43:12
  y cove kind of a feel to it, right? And looking at your
• 43:15
  map, you're able to see where it is that you have
• 43:18
  landed on the map and where you need to go
• 43:21
  next. So Bill, I guess, starts leading the
• 43:23
  way. Stuff looks familiar. a little bit. I mean,
• 43:26
  obviously, it's a bit more overgrown. You're in a bit of a different
• 43:29
  area than where you remember. And you look at the map
• 43:32
  and some of the maybe rock formations or some of the details on the
• 43:35
  map, you're like, oh, I think that's where we originally
• 43:38
  landed at. Is the x near, like, the coast? No,
• 43:41
  it's actually kind of, like, north
• 43:43
  of the middle of the island. And from what it
• 43:46
  looks like, the x is there in the
• 43:49
  forest. So what I'm suggesting we do is.
• 43:51
  Just walk around the outside of the.
• 43:52
  Coast so we don't have to go.
• 43:54
  Through the middle, run into any pirates we don't need to mess with.
• 43:56
  Know, even though I was a great pirate, they probably remember
• 43:59
  me for how great I was.
• 44:01
  Pirate? Wait, you were a pirate? Yeah.
• 44:03
  Well, for, like, a day or.
• 44:06
  Yeah.
• 44:06
  Oh. Sweet. Yeah.
• 44:07
  And my name is definitely Bill Dore, so don't question
• 44:10
  that again.
• 44:12
  The more you say that, the less I believe you.
• 44:14
  Okay, fine.
• 44:15
  You want to know my real name? Okay.
• 44:17
  It's Ash. Okay. My real name's Ash. Thank you. I
• 44:20
  prefer Bill. Following the map, you eventually find
• 44:23
  yourself near, a cave. You enter
• 44:26
  into the inside of the cave and discover a large chamber
• 44:29
  with a massive hole in the center of the
• 44:32
  ceiling where sunlight enters through at the
• 44:35
  top. The cave is large and has giant
• 44:37
  gem like stalagmites which refract the light
• 44:40
  that comes in through the top of this cave,
• 44:43
  across the entire cavern. Although it's
• 44:46
  incredibly beautiful, to add to this beauty, there
• 44:49
  are plants that have sprung up thanks to this light,
• 44:52
  this sunlight that's able to get inside of this cave
• 44:55
  all throughout the cave, crawling up the
• 44:57
  sides of the rocky walls, as well as
• 45:00
  filling the entire floor with various foliage.
• 45:03
  that seems to almost be organized in a really
• 45:06
  interesting way.
• 45:07
  And what are all these bushes here? take a
• 45:09
  closer look as you.
• 45:10
  Kind of lean down towards it. So you recognize a lot
• 45:13
  of these plants that are in here, as stuff that Mr.
• 45:16
  Okaran used in the blissful brew tea
• 45:19
  shop. I think we just start sniffing till.
• 45:22
  We find some mint. Oh, yeah, guys,
• 45:25
  just follow our nose.
• 45:26
  Guo, you and Bill both manage
• 45:29
  to sniff your way over to the mint.
• 45:32
  And sure enough, as you approach it, you can see
• 45:35
  a small corner of what looks like
• 45:38
  a wooden box. Seems to be peeking out
• 45:40
  from the mint leaves. you open
• 45:44
  it, up and inside, you find a small
• 45:46
  stone tablet that seems to feature
• 45:49
  a map like drawing on it. But when
• 45:52
  you look at the edges of this tablet, you
• 45:55
  feel as though maybe it's been broken
• 45:58
  and there might be more pieces to it. Additionally,
• 46:01
  you find a small letter on the back of this
• 46:04
  letter. It says, to Bill. And then there's
• 46:06
  another letter that's folded similarly with a
• 46:09
  stamp on it. and this one says, to Guao.
• 46:12
  And that's everything that's in the box. Bill's reading it
• 46:15
  himself, sentimentally first, and then he's going to read
• 46:18
  it to everyone.
• 46:18
  Well, I'm salty. I only got a box for
• 46:21
  apparently my fox.
• 46:24
  Where's your fox dog business?
• 46:26
  There's something hidden.
• 46:27
  Follows me around everywhere.
• 46:29
  You ever figure out his name?
• 46:30
  Po guao has his own letter.
• 46:33
  did you want me to read it?
• 46:34
  Yeah. Guao, you're up next, my
• 46:37
  friend. When we first met, you were still working
• 46:40
  for the carnival. I know that we all
• 46:42
  have things in life we look back on and despise
• 46:45
  or wish never happened to us. But always remember
• 46:48
  that those experiences are there to strengthen
• 46:51
  us.
• 46:52
  And the fact that we push on.
• 46:54
  Shows that we are stronger than the things that try
• 46:57
  to hold us back. Never let anyone or
• 46:59
  anything hold you back. Lo. The coming
• 47:02
  quest of this hunt will rely heavily on you, my
• 47:05
  boy. But don't think that doesn't mean
• 47:08
  you won't need your friends. I have three
• 47:11
  instructions for you. One, look
• 47:14
  down to the bottom for your next destination.
• 47:17
  Two, read between the lines
• 47:20
  and seek.
• 47:20
  Out an old friend of mine. And
• 47:23
  three, remember the tune. You'll need it
• 47:26
  again soon. Pull some strings to hear the
• 47:29
  music ring.
• 47:30
  There are a series of
• 47:33
  letters, kind of randomly throughout
• 47:35
  your letter that are written in a
• 47:38
  red ink. Mmayuyiny. And
• 47:41
  U.
• 47:46
  Bill clears his voice to read the letter.
• 47:49
  And well done, Bill. I knew
• 47:52
  you'd remember our first encounter. I'm a man who never
• 47:55
  forgets his tease. In this box, you will
• 47:58
  find a piece of the map that, when placed alongside the rest
• 48:00
  of the pieces, will allow you to find the will
• 48:03
  that I have left behind. Also,
• 48:06
  once you do find the will, and I know you
• 48:09
  will, and take the tea shop for
• 48:11
  yourselves, remember this cave. I encourage you to
• 48:14
  make good use of it. And always remember two things.
• 48:17
  Treat nature with nurture and kindness, and it will show
• 48:20
  you thanks. And always make sure to invest in the
• 48:23
  long term rather than make single use of your
• 48:26
  efforts.
• 48:27
  Mika, you are holding the box that was given to you
• 48:30
  because people thought that was the only thing that was left from
• 48:33
  Mr. Okuron. You notice a, small, sort of,
• 48:36
  like, extrusion at the bottom of the box,
• 48:38
  that causes your fox dog to get uncomfortable and
• 48:41
  unable to sit in the box because it's kind of poking it a
• 48:44
  little bit. So it climbs out, and you see that there's a
• 48:47
  small metal, sort of insignia at the bottom
• 48:50
  of it. The small metal thing in the
• 48:53
  box seems to be one of those, like, made in
• 48:56
  whatever. And it reads made in Yudao,
• 48:59
  which is a small city that you know
• 49:01
  of that's in the earth kingdom. the second thing that you
• 49:04
  notice as you're bringing it over here is you can
• 49:07
  feel something on the side of the
• 49:10
  box that seems to kind of protrude ever so
• 49:12
  slightly. And there's sort of like a pull
• 49:15
  string, almost obviously.
• 49:16
  okay.
• 49:17
  You pull it and you hear a
• 49:20
  small melody.
• 49:30
  Does ring familiar to something you remember
• 49:33
  hearing back in the day and even playing on
• 49:36
  occasion back in the day when you were in the circus.
• 49:39
  Kind of a common circus
• 49:41
  tune.
• 49:42
  It's the ticket sales theme.
• 49:45
  How long were you in a carnival for?
• 49:48
  All my life. Basically, my
• 49:50
  parents sold me to this carnival,
• 49:53
  so I just had to do whatever they told
• 49:56
  me. Guys, looks like we're going to
• 49:58
  Udao.
• 49:59
  We're on Whaletail island. That's at the very bottom of the map.
• 50:02
  Udao is in the earth kingdom, you said?
• 50:05
  Yes. Think we're supposed to meet somebody
• 50:08
  there.
• 50:08
  Mayu.
• 50:09
  Yinyu.
• 50:10
  You hear a voice from behind you at the entrance of the
• 50:13
  cave.
• 50:14
  A bunch of kids just chilling
• 50:16
  in a cave on my island.
• 50:19
  And as you turn around, you see a large group
• 50:22
  of pirates all blocking the entrance to the
• 50:24
  cave, staring at you.
• 50:26
  Should have kept moving and not trauma dumped. This wouldn't have
• 50:29
  happened.
• 50:30
  They have captured you, and they are
• 50:32
  taking you back to their ship. They take you aboard,
• 50:35
  and they tie you up, just kind of binding your hands and your
• 50:38
  legs and then kind of letting you sit down on the
• 50:41
  ship. the captain starts to pace back and forth in front of
• 50:44
  you, and he says, you kids,
• 50:47
  you thought you.
• 50:47
  Could hide your secret about the treasure.
• 50:50
  From us, but what you didn't realize
• 50:53
  was that calconi. And he points at one of the
• 50:55
  crewmates. He's a very well dressed. He is like frilly
• 50:58
  clothes on. You almost could wonder,
• 51:01
  out of game that he probably belonged to Prince's, like,
• 51:04
  band.
• 51:05
  yes. Calconi was in chin village, and he.
• 51:08
  Noticed your whole escapade and overheard some
• 51:10
  conversations about a, secret hidden
• 51:13
  treasure you guys are headed towards.
• 51:15
  Well, we believe it's possible we're supposed to
• 51:18
  go to Udao. Load up.
• 51:21
  Get ready to sail. We are headed to
• 51:24
  Udao.
• 51:25
  Once you guys are on the water, he looks around,
• 51:28
  he says, all right.
• 51:30
  First of all, for the business of what kind of
• 51:33
  benders are you? Got to know that before we get any further,
• 51:36
  it's important.
• 51:37
  But if you give me an answer I like, I'll, untie
• 51:40
  you.
• 51:40
  Untie the lot. If they're just a bunch of earthbenders.
• 51:43
  And non benders, they're not gonna cause us any trouble out here on the
• 51:46
  sea.
• 51:46
  That does mean we can put them to work. Alright,
• 51:49
  break.
• 51:50
  Go.
• 51:50
  Get to work. Hey, what, what's your name?
• 51:53
  My name is Captain
• 51:55
  Rockfoot. I'll tell you the
• 51:58
  story.
• 51:59
  Once, not too long, ago,
• 52:01
  I used to be known as Captain
• 52:03
  Luckyfoot, but then
• 52:06
  we were attacked by a, ah,
• 52:09
  creature straight from the depths of
• 52:11
  hell. We call it Kuma.
• 52:14
  The gator shark leapt onto our boat,
• 52:17
  bit off milucky leg and jumped right back
• 52:20
  into the waters to feast on it.
• 52:22
  All right, so with that, you eventually finish your
• 52:25
  meal, you bring it upstairs and the entire crew kind
• 52:28
  of collects around this big old
• 52:31
  pot of food that you guys have prepared. and everybody
• 52:34
  kind of starts to spoon out bowls of
• 52:36
  this delicious stew and you guys all are
• 52:39
  called over. The captain seems to allow you guys to eat
• 52:42
  with the crew. the captain occasionally will shout, like.
• 52:45
  Well, we're already on our way, so what's the point? And stop it now.
• 52:48
  And then he'll say, I don't think.
• 52:50
  That there is much of a treasure for us to hide at the
• 52:53
  animal.
• 52:53
  They seem pretty questionable. all of a sudden, you
• 52:56
  hear another character, somebody that you haven't met yet,
• 52:59
  he's a bit younger, you might have at least seen him, but you haven't
• 53:02
  talked to him or whatever the case, he shouts out,
• 53:05
  captain.
• 53:06
  Captain, I see it. It's here.
• 53:09
  And the captain immediately just freezes and he turns his head
• 53:12
  and he says, you see what, zazu? He
• 53:15
  says, it's the beast. All
• 53:18
  of a sudden, it leaps from
• 53:20
  the waves and you see this massive, hulking
• 53:24
  gator shark fly through the air,
• 53:27
  over the hole of the ship and back into the
• 53:30
  water on the other side. And the captain shouts out,
• 53:33
  it's him.
• 53:34
  It's Kuma. Everybody
• 53:36
  to your stations.
• 53:39
  Kill that gator shark.
• 53:51
  let's call you
• 53:52
  interns, I don't know, find a
• 53:55
  place on the ship where you can help.
• 53:57
  All things considered, helping the crew in this
• 54:00
  moment is probably with your best interest, because the last thing you want to do
• 54:03
  is end up in the water with that thing.
• 54:05
  Can I grab some harpoons, and then go down to the
• 54:08
  cannons.
• 54:08
  So, you grab two harpoons. They're fairly heavy,
• 54:11
  so you grab one in each hand, and you kind of take off
• 54:14
  running down to the ship's, core.
• 54:17
  Whoa. Grabs his mop,
• 54:20
  looks down at it and tosses it aside
• 54:23
  and goes. And grabs a bow and arrow.
• 54:25
  Bill, door.
• 54:27
  What are you doing?
• 54:27
  Harpoon.
• 54:28
  You're grabbing yourself a harpoon, getting ready, because it's like a
• 54:31
  bow step, pointy at.
• 54:33
  All right, Mika, I am going to run to the, front
• 54:36
  of the ship, okay. And just stand there for a
• 54:39
  moment.
• 54:39
  Brock, you're running down to the cannons with the
• 54:42
  harpoons. What are you doing?
• 54:45
  Can I load the harpoons into the
• 54:47
  cannon? That was the worst that could happen,
• 54:50
  right?
• 54:51
  So downstairs, you run into a young guy up
• 54:54
  front. His name is Zazu. Based on the context clues you
• 54:57
  received from the captain shouting back at him. he's a younger
• 54:59
  man. he's wearing, like, a fire nation
• 55:02
  headband on his head. His hair is kind of spiked up. He's
• 55:05
  got black powder, like, all over his face and
• 55:08
  hands. And his clothes are pretty dirty.
• 55:11
  He's like, oh, hey, how's it going? Are you
• 55:14
  helping me with the cannons?
• 55:15
  Yeah, I'm down here to help with the cannons.
• 55:17
  All right, so cannons are loaded.
• 55:18
  They're ready to go. We just got to get this thing just right. We got to make sure that we
• 55:21
  hit him. Okay. So you load up. There's a
• 55:24
  cannon already in there, but you just jam one of those harpoons into
• 55:27
  the cannon, hoping for the best
• 55:29
  harpoon that you jammed in.
• 55:32
  He is also impaired, as he now has
• 55:35
  a harpoon jammed into his side.
• 55:38
  the cannonball fires out and
• 55:40
  slams into the water, causing a massive sort of
• 55:43
  explosion, and it causes the gator shark to
• 55:46
  go flying into the air, for
• 55:49
  guao. And, well, actually, all the other three of you, you
• 55:52
  can see this happen. You see this
• 55:54
  giant gator shark fly up into the
• 55:57
  air. You are going to be doing your bow and
• 56:00
  arrow. So your arrow flies out
• 56:02
  with key accuracy, slams into the
• 56:05
  shoulder of the beast, which goes,
• 56:09
  very angry. Bill, you are also
• 56:12
  advanced in attacking. You see Guao
• 56:14
  successfully shoot an arrow at this beast
• 56:17
  flying through the air, and you feel like you should
• 56:20
  be equally, if not more capable than
• 56:23
  Guao to hit this beast. So you focus for a
• 56:25
  moment. You curl that out, sort of to prove to
• 56:28
  yourself and to prove to everybody else that you are
• 56:31
  capable. This harpoon flies through the air, slamming
• 56:34
  into the beast, hitting him. in sort of the ribs
• 56:36
  area. Mika, what are you up to over at the
• 56:39
  front of the boat?
• 56:40
  I'm invasion observing who's around me, I.
• 56:43
  Guess, currently around you. you
• 56:46
  see an earthbending
• 56:48
  woman. She is holding a harpoon.
• 56:51
  She's kind of probably in like, her late
• 56:53
  40s. she's wearing sort of the green garb
• 56:56
  that a lot of earthbenders seem to, wear.
• 56:59
  I will help the lady.
• 57:01
  What do you say to this woman as she's getting
• 57:04
  ready to hurl this harpoon towards this creature?
• 57:07
  You're so awesome.
• 57:08
  and she looks over at you and she says, well, thank
• 57:10
  you, and she turns back to what she's doing, her hand, and you could
• 57:13
  see like a little smirk in her face.
• 57:15
  And she pulls back, far back and.
• 57:18
  Hurls this thing towards the creature, which
• 57:21
  is swimming towards the boat at this point, and he's already landed back into the
• 57:24
  water. And you m see it go into
• 57:27
  the giant fin that comes out of the water with
• 57:29
  that, you've kind of created or gone an entire
• 57:32
  round with, this creature, who now
• 57:35
  swims underneath the boat, and you can feel the entire
• 57:38
  ship move as it does. So he is going
• 57:40
  to, simply dive under the water. You don't see him, and when
• 57:43
  he comes back up, it looks like he has ripped out all the
• 57:46
  arrows and harpoons that were stuck inside of him.
• 57:49
  Could I do a defensive maneuver
• 57:51
  of.
• 57:52
  Putting down a defensive net?
• 57:54
  Net is an option, but we need more
• 57:57
  firepower. Time to pull out all the
• 58:00
  sacks.
• 58:00
  All right, well, everyone's pretty dang distracted right now, so
• 58:03
  nobody's stopping you from running to the captain's quarters and
• 58:06
  bursting through the unlocked doors. You look around the
• 58:09
  room, you see a number of different things. There's a
• 58:11
  wardrobe, there's a bed, obviously,
• 58:14
  which of course, some, you think maybe some things could be stored under the
• 58:17
  bed. You're not sure. And then there is a
• 58:20
  chest. Like a large, almost treasure chest esque
• 58:23
  looking chest.
• 58:24
  Whoa. Opens the wardrobe and picks out a funny
• 58:27
  hat to wear. I picked the one with the biggest,
• 58:30
  floppiest feather. And then I open the chest.
• 58:33
  Actually, you do see a sack of something. It's
• 58:36
  kind of heavy. It feels like maybe there's
• 58:39
  like some kind of sand or something inside of there. But you grab
• 58:42
  that sack of earth and you rush on out
• 58:45
  of there. It's like a medium sized sack full of
• 58:48
  dirt and rock and gravel and so on.
• 58:51
  This is mostly small rock, but I mean, with earth bending
• 58:53
  abilities, you have a lot of leeway with that,
• 58:56
  and.
• 58:56
  I run back towards the battle.
• 58:58
  A sack and a hat. The captain's going to be pissed.
• 59:01
  All right, so everybody else was doing advance and attack.
• 59:04
  I'm going to make a loud yelling noise, and
• 59:08
  he's going to get real scared. So
• 59:11
  I'm assuming you're throwing the net first
• 59:14
  before you scare it away. I orders the office,
• 59:17
  loud noises that scare him into my net. He is now
• 59:20
  unable. You make some loud noises and having
• 59:22
  being trapped, he's freaking out, he's panicking.
• 59:25
  In that case, I will fire the
• 59:28
  cannon. So you do.
• 59:29
  So, ball again shoots out of this cannon,
• 59:32
  slams into the water, knocking it up in the air,
• 59:34
  preceded by a
• 59:37
  harpoon that goes flying and jams itself into the
• 59:40
  netted creature. everybody else watches as this
• 59:43
  netted monster comes flying out of the water,
• 59:46
  flailing about, trying to claw its way out of this net.
• 59:49
  Mika.
• 59:50
  Hey, dude, give me your bow, okay?
• 59:52
  Please.
• 59:54
  I have no idea what I'm doing.
• 59:56
  Okay, why don't you go, like, sit in the back of the boat or something?
• 59:59
  As, you're readying this bow, the woman next to
• 1:00:01
  you, you feel a reassuring hand on your
• 1:00:04
  shoulder. She says, you caught this last
• 1:00:07
  fire away. And your arrow flies straight
• 1:00:10
  into the netted mess that is this gator
• 1:00:13
  shark. sinking into its form,
• 1:00:15
  it untangles itself, causing even more
• 1:00:18
  exhaustion, on itself. And then it quickly turns and
• 1:00:21
  starts swimming intensely towards the
• 1:00:24
  boat. And he slams into the side of the
• 1:00:27
  ship, causing a massive hole to open up inside the
• 1:00:30
  hole. Everybody begins to panic as they're
• 1:00:33
  thrown about on the ship. in every which way,
• 1:00:36
  the captain has the wheel, he's trying to steer it,
• 1:00:39
  sort of maneuvering around, but also staying
• 1:00:42
  within range of the shark, the gator shark. And,
• 1:00:45
  yeah, try to keep it so that people can fire at it and do whatnot.
• 1:00:48
  Brock, go ahead.
• 1:00:49
  Where is this guy?
• 1:00:49
  Right, okay.
• 1:00:50
  Yeah, so he slammed into the boat, and then now he's swimming
• 1:00:53
  away. It looks like he might be gearing up to do another one.
• 1:00:56
  So I grab the harpoon and leap off
• 1:00:59
  the boat.
• 1:01:00
  Everybody freezes. You fall through the air and land
• 1:01:03
  right on the nape.
• 1:01:04
  Yes. So I'm on there.
• 1:01:06
  So what's the deal with this grappling
• 1:01:09
  harpoon?
• 1:01:09
  Like a harpoon gun with a rope attached to
• 1:01:12
  it, and it is at the back end of the boat.
• 1:01:15
  So I go up to the guy who's on it and I
• 1:01:18
  say, you're taking too long. let a guy
• 1:01:21
  with a fancy hat take over. Yeah,
• 1:01:23
  I'll try to shoot it at the beast.
• 1:01:26
  Okay, Mika, you were going to also do
• 1:01:29
  advanced attack, right?
• 1:01:29
  I was going to use my water bending skills, squeezing like
• 1:01:32
  a python as.
• 1:01:34
  You stretch out your hands to try to control the
• 1:01:37
  water. It's just too strong of a current for
• 1:01:40
  you to be able to kind of control this much
• 1:01:42
  water. You, find it difficult to sort of get a hold on it,
• 1:01:45
  which works out in your favor in the sense that this
• 1:01:48
  lady doesn't seem to know what you're doing. She's actually a little bit
• 1:01:51
  confused because she doesn't see any water, really, like, getting
• 1:01:54
  moved around in an unnatural way. She's not going
• 1:01:57
  to suspect that you are a waterbender. So, once
• 1:02:00
  again, the gator shark is going to swim towards the boat
• 1:02:02
  and slam into it. Everybody is shaking
• 1:02:05
  again. Rock is having a time of his life right now.
• 1:02:08
  He is broccoli standing on
• 1:02:11
  top of the very beast you all are
• 1:02:14
  trying to, destroy.
• 1:02:15
  Well, first I will strike. The way I want to
• 1:02:18
  strike is I will take the two
• 1:02:20
  harpoons, I will excalibur
• 1:02:23
  them into his neck, and then kind
• 1:02:26
  of jump on him to make sure that they're, like, they're really.
• 1:02:29
  In there, really deep in there.
• 1:02:30
  All right. You're snapping off the tips of the
• 1:02:33
  harpoons inside of the monster. Her.
• 1:02:36
  So it can't just rip the harpoon out. Moving
• 1:02:39
  on to Guo. You have the
• 1:02:41
  grappling spear gun.
• 1:02:43
  I, don't want to hit brock. Let's see. I
• 1:02:46
  aim for the tail, but sure.
• 1:02:49
  Enough, Guo's aim is true and
• 1:02:51
  slices right into the tail, piercing
• 1:02:54
  straight through and sort of like grabbing on the other side because
• 1:02:57
  harpoons kind of have that protrusion. so it is, like,
• 1:03:00
  sufficiently grabbed. You can see the rope that
• 1:03:02
  leads all the way back over to the ship. you have
• 1:03:05
  essentially lassooed, this beast.
• 1:03:08
  Guo.
• 1:03:08
  Yeah. Guo's gonna try to start
• 1:03:11
  reeling bad boy in.
• 1:03:13
  Bill, you got a harpoon in hand. You hurl that
• 1:03:16
  harpoon towards the beast, it flies true.
• 1:03:19
  Mika, you've got your bow and arrow in hand, or your
• 1:03:22
  bow in hand. At the arrow, at the ready, firing it in. You
• 1:03:25
  could fire two arrows if you want. I'd be down with that.
• 1:03:28
  Obviously, two of them at the same time.
• 1:03:30
  You take a second arrow, and your
• 1:03:33
  earthbending friend is standing next to you, and she says,
• 1:03:35
  oh, you're pretty confident, I see. And you
• 1:03:38
  fire both arrows, both of them flying towards the gator
• 1:03:41
  shark. Brock, you quickly dodge, diving
• 1:03:44
  behind the, fin that sticks out of the water, both of
• 1:03:47
  them right where you were standing moments ago.
• 1:03:50
  It comes down to the gator shark's turn.
• 1:03:52
  But as, you hold on,
• 1:03:55
  it thrashes in the water a couple of times, and
• 1:03:58
  it just pulls against the rope that's jammed into
• 1:04:01
  its tail, and it finally just gives up.
• 1:04:04
  Captain. Captain. We got him. We
• 1:04:07
  caught him.
• 1:04:08
  And, everybody starts to cheer, and they're excited as
• 1:04:11
  they see this, the non moving creature. And sure enough, they
• 1:04:14
  pull it onto the ship. They lay it out before you. It's this massive,
• 1:04:17
  massive, hulking creature. The captain pushes
• 1:04:20
  his way through the crowd, and he looks at it, and.
• 1:04:22
  He, well,
• 1:04:25
  look who got theirs.
• 1:04:28
  So after waking up the next morning, the ship approaches the
• 1:04:31
  city of Yudao and begins pulling into the docks, where
• 1:04:34
  they plan to leave the ship and our gang, along with a group
• 1:04:37
  of pirates led by the captain, who will follow them
• 1:04:39
  ashore and continue to seek.
• 1:04:41
  Out the alleged treasure.
• 1:04:42
  Of course, our heroes don't want these tag alongs.
• 1:04:45
  And so they decide to leap off the rear of the ship into the
• 1:04:48
  waters below and swim themselves the short distance to the
• 1:04:51
  wooden ship docks awaiting for him.
• 1:04:53
  All of you manage to reach the docks. You pull yourself
• 1:04:56
  up out of the water. there's an old fisherman looking
• 1:04:58
  dude, but not so much old. I don't know, maybe middle
• 1:05:01
  aged, just, kind of sitting there fishing. He's looking at all of you as you
• 1:05:04
  pull yourself up from the dock, and he just goes,
• 1:05:07
  oh, I never.
• 1:05:08
  Seen fish like you before.
• 1:05:10
  Terrified, clutches his bucket of fish and
• 1:05:13
  jumps into the water. So you guys quickly find the
• 1:05:16
  square, per se, the big bustling area.
• 1:05:19
  One thing that you start to notice is that, there's
• 1:05:22
  definitely become a very heavy fire nation
• 1:05:25
  population in the area. You, see fire nation guards,
• 1:05:28
  you see businessmen and businesswomen wearing
• 1:05:30
  fire nation. The red garb with the little
• 1:05:33
  flame insignia on them. It seems like a
• 1:05:36
  normal city. Everybody seems, for the most part,
• 1:05:39
  happy.
• 1:05:39
  Yeah. Is there any other tea shops or
• 1:05:42
  herbal ingredient shop?
• 1:05:44
  And then you kind of come around to the front of it, and
• 1:05:47
  the sign above the door
• 1:05:49
  reads, hot leaf juice company. But whatever the
• 1:05:52
  case, you approach the front counter, or maybe one of the
• 1:05:55
  servers. Anyone in particular?
• 1:05:57
  What about an old person who's drinking
• 1:06:00
  tea?
• 1:06:01
  Sure, there's plenty of those there.
• 1:06:02
  Any of them playing pie show?
• 1:06:05
  sherp?
• 1:06:05
  Yeah, Bill.
• 1:06:06
  Go insert yourself into their pie show conversation.
• 1:06:09
  You do this all the time with old timers. So I'm gonna walk
• 1:06:12
  over to some older earth people, and, I'm going.
• 1:06:15
  To examine the board, as I walk up to
• 1:06:17
  it, you walk up and you say, close game.
• 1:06:20
  And both of them pause, holding the first piece that they
• 1:06:23
  have to put on. And they look at you and
• 1:06:26
  they're.
• 1:06:26
  Like, I guess it could be.
• 1:06:30
  What you make it. I mean, since
• 1:06:33
  two seasoned pie show players like yourselves,
• 1:06:36
  it's going to be a close game.
• 1:06:37
  My name's Gray, and this is my
• 1:06:39
  associate foe.
• 1:06:41
  And both of them kind of motion for you to sit with them, and.
• 1:06:44
  They'Re like, so you're knowledgeable, about the game.
• 1:06:47
  Would you like to sit and watch us play?
• 1:06:50
  I can't stay long.
• 1:06:51
  We're here looking for someone.
• 1:06:54
  Who are you looking for? My yu. Yin yu.
• 1:06:56
  And as you say that name,
• 1:06:59
  the pieces just kind of slide out of their hands, and
• 1:07:02
  they both have kind of these gaping open mouths, and
• 1:07:05
  they quickly look around, and they kind of lean in, and
• 1:07:08
  they say, I don't.
• 1:07:10
  Know where you're from, but it is not
• 1:07:13
  wise to shout the name Mayu
• 1:07:15
  Yinyu when the Fire Nation is around.
• 1:07:18
  Why? You're asking about him, but you don't
• 1:07:21
  even know him.
• 1:07:22
  Well, I was sent to talk to him.
• 1:07:25
  By who?
• 1:07:26
  his name was Okaron.
• 1:07:27
  And one of them is like, okaron.
• 1:07:30
  I think I remember Okaron. He was the
• 1:07:33
  traveling team merchant Grey. Oh,
• 1:07:35
  you're right. Foe he was. Oh, he was a very
• 1:07:38
  nice man. He played pie show with us. If you're an
• 1:07:41
  associate of Mr. Ogron, then there's no
• 1:07:44
  reason not to help you. he's a good man, and I believe
• 1:07:47
  he's close friends with Mayu. I believe
• 1:07:50
  he mentioned something about him performing at some event
• 1:07:53
  he was doing or something like that. But, it's fairly
• 1:07:56
  important that you not speak that name
• 1:07:58
  loudly or much at all in public.
• 1:08:01
  He is, an entertainer, of sorts. But he's also
• 1:08:04
  a leading member of the local
• 1:08:07
  rescue team squadron here in Udao.
• 1:08:10
  rescue from what?
• 1:08:11
  Look around you. Can't you tell?
• 1:08:13
  I see fire nation.
• 1:08:14
  They've come in, as ambassadors. They've
• 1:08:17
  started to integrate into the politics. They started
• 1:08:20
  enacting certain rules and laws that
• 1:08:23
  befit their purposes and their ideas,
• 1:08:26
  and, they're starting to kind of push us earth
• 1:08:28
  nation citizens out.
• 1:08:31
  So what is the rescue squad doing?
• 1:08:33
  Well, they're trying to stop them. If you are searching for
• 1:08:36
  mayu yinyu, mayu yinyu
• 1:08:39
  will find you. Try the performance
• 1:08:42
  hall.
• 1:08:42
  Thank you, gentlemen.
• 1:08:44
  And Bill's going to stand up from his seat and reach
• 1:08:47
  to give them.
• 1:08:47
  Both a handshake, they shake your hand and
• 1:08:50
  then, just before you let go of foe's hand, he
• 1:08:53
  pulls you closer.
• 1:08:53
  He's like, bill, be careful.
• 1:08:56
  Fire nation is always listening.
• 1:08:58
  So you guys head out, and you kind of just start making your way
• 1:09:01
  down the dirt pathway. In the
• 1:09:04
  distance, you can see a very ornate,
• 1:09:07
  beautiful building. There are large
• 1:09:10
  fabric outdoor curtains that kind of hang from the various
• 1:09:13
  windows and such. It's a very classy building.
• 1:09:16
  There's a wall that kind of goes around it. It's not super
• 1:09:18
  high, maybe like 8ft or so.
• 1:09:21
  Inside you can see there's some greenery that's very well
• 1:09:24
  kept. definitely feels like a very classy place.
• 1:09:27
  We're sopping wet still, probably for
• 1:09:30
  sopping wet teenagers.
• 1:09:31
  You guys approach, there's a back entrance and it's sort of like
• 1:09:34
  a stage left exit kind of a thing.
• 1:09:37
  It's got sort of like, some kind of a sign on it that says
• 1:09:40
  actors only. So you guys step through this
• 1:09:43
  side door and you guys find yourself on the sort
• 1:09:46
  of back stage. You can hear
• 1:09:49
  a woman is on stage at this very moment and she
• 1:09:52
  seems to be singing in a very high sort of opera esque
• 1:09:55
  voice. It's not a performance. It's not like a
• 1:09:58
  big show at the moment. It's probably somebody
• 1:10:00
  rehearsing.
• 1:10:01
  Is there anybody else backstage or is she the only person here?
• 1:10:04
  Yes, actually, there is somebody else backstage. There's somebody, holding
• 1:10:07
  a clipboard. And right now they don't notice you because
• 1:10:10
  they are very intently going through the names.
• 1:10:13
  And it's kind of dark back here, but you can see just past
• 1:10:16
  them. It seems like there's a line of other people that has
• 1:10:18
  begun sort of behind other women, some young, some
• 1:10:21
  old, all dressed in sort of, dressy
• 1:10:24
  kimonos.
• 1:10:25
  So this is like an audition of sort. So,
• 1:10:28
  Mika, you can go in that line.
• 1:10:30
  Blend in.
• 1:10:32
  I'm literally soaking wet. These ladies
• 1:10:35
  are in beautiful kimonos.
• 1:10:37
  Yeah, that's your stick.
• 1:10:38
  I'll just use my water bending skills.
• 1:10:40
  Pull the water off yourself and get in line.
• 1:10:43
  All right, so as you guys are walking towards it, this man
• 1:10:46
  turns around. he's kind of an older guy.
• 1:10:48
  He's got kind of a long goatee that hasn't quite started to
• 1:10:51
  gray yet. But the wrinkles around his eyes and his
• 1:10:54
  cheekbones kind of protruding, definitely
• 1:10:57
  suggests age and sort of frailty. As you guys
• 1:11:00
  walk to the back of the line, you get some looks of
• 1:11:03
  disdain from the various women that are lined up.
• 1:11:05
  So you are auditioning?
• 1:11:07
  You guys told me to.
• 1:11:09
  Do you actually get in line? Are you dry at this point?
• 1:11:12
  Yes.
• 1:11:12
  She dried herself.
• 1:11:13
  While we're walking the rocks that Brock
• 1:11:16
  has, could I bend them into the shape of
• 1:11:19
  a clipboard? Because you can get anywhere with a clipboard.
• 1:11:22
  So you guys find the green room, and sure enough, there are a
• 1:11:25
  number of snacks and drinks in here.
• 1:11:28
  And there is one person sitting in there.
• 1:11:31
  It's just a young woman. she's not dressed in a kimono.
• 1:11:34
  She's dressed in just kind of casual clothes. She has her hair up in a
• 1:11:36
  ponytail. she has big rimmed glasses
• 1:11:39
  on, and she also is holding a clipboard. And she
• 1:11:42
  kind of looks up as she sees the three of you walk in, and she
• 1:11:45
  goes, oh, are you here for the
• 1:11:48
  job?
• 1:11:48
  Since I have my official clipboard, I.
• 1:11:50
  Could just be like, oh, I was.
• 1:11:51
  Just escorting these guys here. And then, can I keep looking around?
• 1:11:54
  you could do that. Absolutely.
• 1:11:55
  On that, yes. So she believes that you are somebody
• 1:11:58
  important. she says, ah, have
• 1:12:01
  you always worked here?
• 1:12:04
  I'm kind of new around here, but they put me on here, and
• 1:12:07
  these guys came and found me and said they were looking around for you, so
• 1:12:10
  I just came and dropped them off. I just started working
• 1:12:13
  in the acquisitions department, where we're looking for, all those new
• 1:12:16
  actors and such.
• 1:12:17
  Oh, well, then you and I will probably be
• 1:12:20
  working quite closely together.
• 1:12:22
  Yeah, it appears that way.
• 1:12:24
  Yeah.
• 1:12:24
  I'll see you around.
• 1:12:25
  I'll see you around too. And she just kind of
• 1:12:28
  blushes, and she just watches as you lead
• 1:12:31
  off, and then she just kind of looks at her clipboard. Who's in?
• 1:12:34
  Oh, in charge. Well, it's a little bit up in the
• 1:12:37
  air right now. previously, it was, an individual. You
• 1:12:40
  may have heard of him. His name was Mayu Yinyu. but
• 1:12:43
  he is since. How do I
• 1:12:46
  say this? gone into some activities
• 1:12:49
  the theater doesn't necessarily want to directly
• 1:12:52
  support, but he's no longer involved. Brock, are you just,
• 1:12:55
  like, waiting outside?
• 1:12:56
  I think I've just kind of been wandering around looking for
• 1:12:59
  Mayu yinyu.
• 1:13:00
  There's dust around what looks like a perfect
• 1:13:03
  shape of a picture frame in certain spots. And then, of course,
• 1:13:06
  the wall behind where this picture frame would have sat is, like, completely
• 1:13:09
  clean. So, yeah, just to, imply that
• 1:13:12
  the artwork has since been removed, probably
• 1:13:15
  of my.
• 1:13:16
  Can I go back into that
• 1:13:18
  interview room?
• 1:13:19
  You step inside, and, actually, she's standing right there by the door.
• 1:13:22
  She was kind of, like, walking out just as you walked in and you both
• 1:13:25
  bump into each other. Her glasses fall off onto the
• 1:13:28
  ground.
• 1:13:29
  Can I reach down and grab it with her? Like the
• 1:13:31
  rom coms, both your hands.
• 1:13:34
  Touch each other as you both reach for her
• 1:13:36
  glasses.
• 1:13:37
  So what happened to Mr. Yinyu last?
• 1:13:40
  He was one who sent me out.
• 1:13:42
  he announced that during a performance,
• 1:13:45
  he sang a piece that alluded to the idea that he was
• 1:13:48
  involved in a sort of rebel organization
• 1:13:51
  here in the city. And apparently there were some
• 1:13:54
  leading individuals from the Fire nation here, and,
• 1:13:56
  they kind of picked up on his subtle
• 1:13:59
  message and they were not happy.
• 1:14:01
  he disappeared after that. He went
• 1:14:04
  into hiding, I guess. The Fire nation
• 1:14:07
  has a very large prison structure that
• 1:14:10
  they've actually built. Kind of on the outskirts of town,
• 1:14:12
  actually.
• 1:14:13
  Oh, what's your name?
• 1:14:14
  my name's Sonuma.
• 1:14:17
  Sonuma, okay. I'm Brock. Nice to meet you.
• 1:14:19
  Meanwhile, all this is happening. Mika,
• 1:14:22
  it's finally your turn.
• 1:14:24
  I kind of stumble out on the stage and
• 1:14:26
  then strat to the middle.
• 1:14:29
  You see a very rotund, man
• 1:14:32
  and woman both sitting out there. they both look at you
• 1:14:35
  intently.
• 1:14:35
  And the woman says, well, go on.
• 1:14:38
  What will you be performing for us today?
• 1:14:41
  I'm going to do an
• 1:14:44
  interpretive dance. Yeah. And I just
• 1:14:47
  kind of look at them like, are you going to play something?
• 1:14:50
  Do you have anything specific?
• 1:14:52
  Literally anything? I'm just going to move my
• 1:14:55
  body, like, different watery ways.
• 1:14:58
  Okay. Very water tribe. You're starting to get out
• 1:15:01
  of breath, but you're committing to this dance. And it
• 1:15:04
  is interpretive. They are absolutely
• 1:15:07
  flabbergasted as they watch, as you do these wave
• 1:15:09
  motions to the point where you seem
• 1:15:12
  like you are water. And they see
• 1:15:15
  these, the clothing that you're wearing. It's not the
• 1:15:18
  fancy kimonos that the.
• 1:15:19
  Other girls were wearing.
• 1:15:20
  It's something that really suggests
• 1:15:23
  water tribe. And so they're seeing this pairing of the
• 1:15:26
  attire mixed with the cultural
• 1:15:29
  forms that waterbenders use. And
• 1:15:31
  they're astonished.
• 1:15:33
  It was beautiful.
• 1:15:34
  they clap and they say that.
• 1:15:36
  But was quite impressive. I've never
• 1:15:38
  seen anything like that. Where in the world did you come
• 1:15:41
  from? Where did you learn to dance in such a way?
• 1:15:44
  I'm just very in tune with the water.
• 1:15:47
  You absolutely are. Please. Yes.
• 1:15:50
  All of a sudden, as they're getting excited and
• 1:15:53
  everything like that, an owl cat flies into
• 1:15:56
  the theater and swoops down low just
• 1:15:59
  past the heads of this man and
• 1:16:01
  woman that are congratulating you. The,
• 1:16:04
  creature sort of flies low, and you notice
• 1:16:07
  a small piece of paper fall from one of its
• 1:16:10
  talons.
• 1:16:10
  I'll grab that.
• 1:16:12
  You catch this piece of paper. At the moment, with
• 1:16:15
  everybody swinging and the craziness going on, it doesn't
• 1:16:18
  quite feel like the time to read it.
• 1:16:20
  I was pretty proud of myself and more happier than I
• 1:16:23
  have in the last couple days.
• 1:16:24
  Did you get the job?
• 1:16:25
  Did I get the job? Is that even a
• 1:16:28
  question? Obviously, Brock, I got the job. Oh,
• 1:16:31
  wait, guys. I also got a note. This weird, like,
• 1:16:34
  outcast thing just came swooping in and dropped something,
• 1:16:37
  and I picked it up.
• 1:16:38
  So you open up the note, and you're surprised at the amount of writing
• 1:16:41
  that's on it? It's in very fine print, but it's also very
• 1:16:44
  well written, and it reads. So you want
• 1:16:47
  to speak to Mayu? Unfortunately, we, the
• 1:16:50
  udao faction of the rescue team squadron, will
• 1:16:53
  need to see proof that you're not a fire nation spy
• 1:16:56
  by hitting them where it hurts in a way that no
• 1:16:59
  fire nation sympathizer would dare to do.
• 1:17:02
  Luckily for you, I'll give you a choice between
• 1:17:05
  the three. Pick one and attach it to the owl,
• 1:17:07
  and we'll send the details for the task. Do the
• 1:17:10
  task, and we'll tell you where you can talk to
• 1:17:13
  Mayu. And you see three
• 1:17:15
  bold options below. One,
• 1:17:19
  sabotage. Two, steal.
• 1:17:22
  Three, break free. As you circle
• 1:17:24
  sabotage, you look up because you hear a noise, and it's
• 1:17:27
  a. As the
• 1:17:30
  owlcat swoops down and lands on sort of
• 1:17:33
  just like, a pole, like a part of the wall.
• 1:17:35
  I'll tie it.
• 1:17:35
  You guys are outside the theater as the hour
• 1:17:38
  of noon kind of starts to draw near,
• 1:17:41
  your owlcat returns with a new
• 1:17:44
  note. It simply says,
• 1:17:47
  there's a factory in Udao that has
• 1:17:49
  been repurposed to make large scale
• 1:17:52
  weapons. We need you to break into the
• 1:17:55
  facility and, hit them in several key
• 1:17:58
  points in order to severely disable
• 1:18:00
  it.
• 1:18:01
  Nothing a trusty clipboard can't get us into.
• 1:18:04
  On the backside of the note, it lists the three
• 1:18:06
  areas of this factory they need you to
• 1:18:09
  disable. Right. The furnace, the assembly
• 1:18:12
  line, and the casters. the facility
• 1:18:15
  itself has, it's large, it's
• 1:18:17
  massive. It does not have a huge amount of side doors
• 1:18:20
  or windows. Instead, it has two men
• 1:18:23
  guarding the large iron front gates, both
• 1:18:26
  dressed in fire ocean garb.
• 1:18:29
  I go up and say, I'm with
• 1:18:32
  OsHa, sir. I'm here to do a little check
• 1:18:35
  of, your construction site, make sure everything's up to
• 1:18:38
  code.
• 1:18:38
  You see it from OSHA. What exactly
• 1:18:41
  is Osha?
• 1:18:42
  I go onto these sites, and I make sure that
• 1:18:46
  your workers are safe, not in
• 1:18:49
  a dangerous situation
• 1:18:51
  while, they're making
• 1:18:55
  what appears to be a roof here for this
• 1:18:57
  building. Yeah, I'm going to have to bring out my whole Osha
• 1:19:00
  here. So if you give me ten minutes, I'll be out of your hair.
• 1:19:03
  We'll all be out of your hair in about ten minutes here. All right,
• 1:19:06
  so we'll go up to the roof.
• 1:19:07
  They are definitely patching up a. They've
• 1:19:10
  removed a whole section, a hole,
• 1:19:13
  like, H-O-L-E section in the roof. You
• 1:19:16
  look inside, you can see all the way down to the production floor.
• 1:19:19
  There's people in there working. there's a large
• 1:19:21
  furnace. You see metal going into this
• 1:19:24
  furnace, and then you see shovels that are pulling it out,
• 1:19:27
  gets moved over to one of the assembly lines. It
• 1:19:30
  gets dumped into the various
• 1:19:31
  casters. The casters are what form
• 1:19:34
  the metal into the pieces that are then transported
• 1:19:37
  over to the production crew, who put the pieces
• 1:19:40
  together into these large scale sort of
• 1:19:43
  machines.
• 1:19:43
  I got to come here and, check out the hole that you guys are
• 1:19:46
  working on. Just make sure everything's all right. And I just climb down the
• 1:19:49
  hole, bro. I flaunt the power of the
• 1:19:52
  clipboard wherever I go.
• 1:19:53
  All right, guys, maybe we can find some
• 1:19:56
  uniforms.
• 1:19:57
  You notice sort of like a doorway. It's just one of those
• 1:20:00
  swinging doors, kind of like what you'd see at restaurants that lead into
• 1:20:03
  the kitchen, kind of that sort of setup. and you
• 1:20:06
  see a couple of people walk out of them, and
• 1:20:09
  they are actively retying their
• 1:20:11
  aprons on. So you guys head back there. As you open
• 1:20:14
  the door, there's a couple of people eating. They kind of see you come in,
• 1:20:17
  and they kind of look at you a little bit, like, funny. Like,
• 1:20:20
  who are these people? They're not wearing the aprons and stuff, but
• 1:20:23
  they don't really question you. You see another door,
• 1:20:25
  just, another swinging door. You see two sets of them. Each one has
• 1:20:28
  a plaque above the wall. One of them kind of shows the depiction of a man, and
• 1:20:31
  one shows the depiction of a woman. You open up one of these
• 1:20:34
  drawers, and you find, some common
• 1:20:37
  person's clothes. That's not what you're looking for. So you
• 1:20:40
  continue opening more, some of the other drawers, and sure
• 1:20:43
  enough, eventually you find some aprons that match the ones
• 1:20:46
  that everybody else out there are wearing.
• 1:20:48
  additionally, you find some very heavy
• 1:20:51
  gloves, able to sort of resist heat to some
• 1:20:54
  extent, just because they're such a heavy material. And
• 1:20:57
  you also find some,
• 1:20:59
  hats to protect your hair.
• 1:21:02
  You find some boots as you guys step out
• 1:21:05
  from what was basically the break room. you see
• 1:21:08
  another individual not wearing an apron, but
• 1:21:10
  rather wearing some finer clothes with
• 1:21:13
  a, same hat but not
• 1:21:16
  the same rest of the clothing. And he is also wearing
• 1:21:19
  a clipboard.
• 1:21:20
  And he says, you four.
• 1:21:23
  And then he sees Brock's clipboard.
• 1:21:25
  He goes, oh, sorry. You three get
• 1:21:28
  back to work. What are you doing? Your break's been over for
• 1:21:31
  a good five minutes now. Sorry.
• 1:21:33
  I was holding him up.
• 1:21:34
  And he comes walking over and he.
• 1:21:35
  Says, let me see that.
• 1:21:37
  This is not for your eyes, sir. This is above
• 1:21:40
  you. My clipboard is larger than yours.
• 1:21:43
  There we go.
• 1:21:44
  I am more important.
• 1:21:45
  He's going to back down, but he's going to keep watch.
• 1:21:48
  he now dislikes you. You are
• 1:21:51
  that coworker that he couldn't
• 1:21:54
  necessarily deny that you might have more
• 1:21:57
  power than he does. But man, he's going to find
• 1:22:00
  a way to shut you down.
• 1:22:01
  Let's go back into the break room and eat some people's
• 1:22:04
  lunches.
• 1:22:06
  That would really spark things, man. Next
• 1:22:09
  thing you know, you start walking around.
• 1:22:10
  Great idea. That way we cause discourse.
• 1:22:13
  He's like, oh, yeah.
• 1:22:15
  You start walking around to the employees and you're like, you guys ever
• 1:22:18
  heard of a thing called union? You got these
• 1:22:21
  three underling employees standing in front
• 1:22:24
  of you waiting to be assigned some work.
• 1:22:26
  I'll tell Guohan. you go over to the assembly
• 1:22:29
  line. Mika, you go over to the furnace.
• 1:22:32
  Mika, you make your way over to the furnace and
• 1:22:35
  immediately, the closer you get to it, the more you're hit with
• 1:22:38
  the just emanating heat that comes off of it. It
• 1:22:41
  is a massively hot fire.
• 1:22:44
  there is a few people that are manning this furnace
• 1:22:47
  area. you see people that are kind of overseeing the
• 1:22:49
  metal that goes into it. they'll kind of make sure that
• 1:22:52
  it's in the bins. It's not sticking out in any way that would make it
• 1:22:55
  bump up against the furnaces. They're operating this
• 1:22:58
  massive bellows, that's pushing air
• 1:23:01
  into the heat. And of course, every time that they press down on these
• 1:23:04
  bellows and the air goes shooting into this furnace, you can
• 1:23:07
  feel that heat emanate even more as kind of the
• 1:23:10
  air pushes the heat outwards, and helps to keep
• 1:23:12
  this fire going. obviously you know that
• 1:23:15
  your goal is to sabotage
• 1:23:18
  this furnace. Obviously. Nearby you can see
• 1:23:21
  the assembly lines. there are the assembly lines where people
• 1:23:24
  are putting the things the pieces together. There are the assembly
• 1:23:27
  lines where people are putting this broken up pieces of m
• 1:23:30
  metal onto, or like, the ore for the
• 1:23:32
  metal. And that's what's getting transported into the
• 1:23:35
  furnace itself, potentially.
• 1:23:37
  Take one of those broken pieces of
• 1:23:40
  metal and try and tear the fabric.
• 1:23:42
  And you find a long piece of protruding
• 1:23:45
  metal. It looks like it could have been an old spear
• 1:23:48
  of some kind, possibly. but it's kind of
• 1:23:51
  bent and warped.
• 1:23:53
  I am going take it and
• 1:23:55
  hide it within my skirt dress
• 1:23:58
  thing.
• 1:23:59
  Nobody notices around you. You do this. as
• 1:24:02
  you are doing this, somebody over on the
• 1:24:05
  bellows collapses. They're just sprawled
• 1:24:08
  out on the floor. They're completely unconscious. one of the
• 1:24:11
  sort of manager people, in fact, it's the same one that was just giving
• 1:24:14
  brock some crap just moments ago, comes rushing over
• 1:24:17
  and he points at you and he says.
• 1:24:18
  I need you to run bellows.
• 1:24:20
  He kind of follows off after the
• 1:24:22
  employee that passed out. As he's being hauled away by, like, a
• 1:24:25
  guard, he's just kind of pulling him by his arms.
• 1:24:28
  You, take hold of the bellows, kind of following in
• 1:24:31
  suit with the other person that's doing it.
• 1:24:33
  I'm just here to reach around and.
• 1:24:36
  Just poke a hole.
• 1:24:37
  Yeah.
• 1:24:38
  Sure enough, as you lift up,
• 1:24:40
  you stab very carefully.
• 1:24:43
  I'm imagining you have the spear kind of hidden
• 1:24:46
  by your leg. And so you kick your leg out
• 1:24:49
  in such a way that it kind of shoots the spear out from
• 1:24:52
  underneath your skirt and pokes it into it so that definitely
• 1:24:55
  nobody would see that you do this. you kick
• 1:24:58
  so hard that the spear actually pokes all the way
• 1:25:01
  through this bellows and out the other side. And
• 1:25:04
  as you push down, the air just kind of comes out the
• 1:25:07
  side and it deflates really quickly. So
• 1:25:10
  the other person on the other side just kind of, like, falls really quickly to the
• 1:25:13
  ground and then scrambles to get up.
• 1:25:14
  And they're like, oh, no.
• 1:25:16
  They just have no idea what to do in this situation. And they're
• 1:25:19
  really worried about getting in trouble.
• 1:25:21
  I'm gonna panic with them.
• 1:25:23
  everybody's panicking at this point. They're freaking out. They're
• 1:25:25
  shouting back and forth at each other. The furnace
• 1:25:28
  is definitely down right now. let's jump to
• 1:25:31
  the casters. Bill, you're on the
• 1:25:34
  casters duty. you approach, you
• 1:25:37
  see these large stone or various stone
• 1:25:39
  casters. They are just, inlaid with sort of a
• 1:25:42
  shape for a specific piece of whatever these things
• 1:25:45
  that they're building is. As they
• 1:25:48
  move on a conveyor belt. Like much of the things in
• 1:25:51
  this, room, as they move by sort of
• 1:25:54
  the other end of the furnace, there's some containers that go
• 1:25:57
  into the furnace. They pull out the molten metal, and then they
• 1:26:00
  dump it into these casters. the casters come
• 1:26:02
  around a long ways to get to your area,
• 1:26:06
  giving, the metal some time to cool. Your
• 1:26:09
  job, as you look around and see the other people
• 1:26:12
  working, is to turn this
• 1:26:14
  caster upside down and make sure that the
• 1:26:17
  metal comes out of it. Anything that happens to the
• 1:26:20
  casters would cause a lot of
• 1:26:23
  problems.
• 1:26:24
  How do you break a caster?
• 1:26:26
  You see that over on the side? there are
• 1:26:28
  some hammers that are used. you watch as one of the
• 1:26:31
  employees, they're shaking the caster. It's not coming out. So
• 1:26:34
  they go over, they get a hammer.
• 1:26:36
  Is there a sledgehammer?
• 1:26:37
  Yes.
• 1:26:38
  Okay, I'm going to grab it. I'm going to walk over to my stand.
• 1:26:41
  I'm just going to kind of lean on my sledgehammer.
• 1:26:43
  I'm going to be like, hey, what's.
• 1:26:44
  Going on over there? Some of the people kind of, like,
• 1:26:47
  glance over at you, but they look a little like they don't want to
• 1:26:50
  glance at you because they're worried you might glare at them
• 1:26:53
  again.
• 1:26:53
  I'm not gonna leave my station. That's how you get in
• 1:26:56
  trouble. I know the clipboard guy.
• 1:26:58
  I'm gonna point at Brock.
• 1:27:01
  I just kind of nod back at him, give him a thumbs up.
• 1:27:03
  I'm just gonna look up for my clipboard, and I'm just going to look
• 1:27:06
  at, I'm just going to point at bill.
• 1:27:09
  They all look at you, and they.
• 1:27:11
  Say, what do you want us to do?
• 1:27:13
  Just run over there, see what they need help with.
• 1:27:15
  What about the casters?
• 1:27:16
  I got it. And sure enough, a, fairly large
• 1:27:19
  migration of the caster department starts
• 1:27:22
  to head over to go see what's going on over at the
• 1:27:24
  bellows.
• 1:27:25
  All right?
• 1:27:25
  And then I'm going to put the.
• 1:27:26
  Sledgehammer on my shoulder and start walking towards the
• 1:27:29
  caster. Particles flying up towards him as
• 1:27:32
  he's plowing through with a big old smile on his face.
• 1:27:35
  Whoa. You're over at the assembly line
• 1:27:38
  station. This is technically before all this
• 1:27:41
  craziness has gone on, but as you approach, you see people
• 1:27:44
  with a number of various tools. You take a piece,
• 1:27:47
  you put another piece in it, you take a bolt,
• 1:27:50
  and you tighten that on it. And then you set it down, and each person
• 1:27:52
  looks like they have kind of more of a specific. They grab very
• 1:27:55
  specific pieces that are on the assembly line.
• 1:27:57
  Let's grab a whole tool belt.
• 1:28:02
  All right. So, this assembly line, is it made out
• 1:28:05
  of. Is it like a belt?
• 1:28:06
  Yeah, it's kind of just like a sort of a
• 1:28:09
  rotating belt. So, you actually see on
• 1:28:12
  either side, these assembly lines, there's literally a
• 1:28:15
  dude that has to just crank the assembly line. That's
• 1:28:18
  just all he does all day, is just cranks the assembly line so that
• 1:28:21
  it's constantly moving.
• 1:28:21
  So I'm going to take the crowbar and try to pry
• 1:28:24
  off, like, the side of the assembly line,
• 1:28:27
  like, the guard that's keeping all the stuff
• 1:28:30
  on the belt.
• 1:28:31
  You start doing this, and somebody approaches you. He's holding
• 1:28:34
  a clipboard. Actually, you know, it is the same guy as before.
• 1:28:36
  There's, like, one manager guy that's been.
• 1:28:38
  Working here in this area, and he.
• 1:28:41
  Says, what exactly are you doing?
• 1:28:44
  Oh, I just got to take this fender off
• 1:28:47
  here to lube the bearings.
• 1:28:49
  Sorry about that. I, didn't mean to confuse
• 1:28:52
  or get, into your business. yeah, you do what you gotta
• 1:28:55
  do. So, Guo's gonna use the
• 1:28:58
  hammer now to, like, well, he's just gonna crawl
• 1:29:01
  underneath this part of the assembly
• 1:29:04
  line, and he's gonna take the wrench
• 1:29:06
  and just start untightening
• 1:29:09
  bolts underneath there.
• 1:29:11
  Okay.
• 1:29:11
  He's going to take the bolt completely off,
• 1:29:14
  and then just, like, chuck it.
• 1:29:15
  You pop it off, and as you do, things start to
• 1:29:18
  buckle a little bit on the assembly line, and you can
• 1:29:21
  hear it just to, like, a
• 1:29:24
  stop. This is happening just as the massive
• 1:29:27
  distraction over at the bellows is happening. they've all
• 1:29:30
  gone to investigate the bellow.
• 1:29:32
  Okay. So then I just take the hammer, and I start whacking
• 1:29:35
  the crank, but.
• 1:29:36
  You bend it horribly into, like, a warped
• 1:29:38
  situation, and you do this from piece or section
• 1:29:41
  to section until all the sections have sort of a
• 1:29:44
  different problem that's wrong with them.
• 1:29:54
  It's, the four of you have completed your task.
• 1:29:56
  You've sabotaged your pieces. Yeah. How are you getting
• 1:29:59
  out of here?
• 1:30:00
  I mean, I got the clipboard.
• 1:30:01
  I'm just gonna walk out the front door.
• 1:30:02
  Walk out the front door.
• 1:30:03
  There's the two guards that are just outside the door, and they say,
• 1:30:06
  hey.
• 1:30:06
  what's, where are you guys going?
• 1:30:09
  I just got some four new hires. we got to
• 1:30:12
  take them on a full tour, and I got to take them on the
• 1:30:15
  outside. Just, show them around.
• 1:30:17
  what's going on in there?
• 1:30:19
  Oh, inside?
• 1:30:20
  Yeah.
• 1:30:20
  There's, like, shouting and stuff.
• 1:30:22
  there's some of those company disputes. Some people
• 1:30:25
  wanted to ask for dental insurance.
• 1:30:28
  Could you imagine if we had dental? That's
• 1:30:31
  why we got these new hires. They don't know about the
• 1:30:33
  union.
• 1:30:34
  Anyway, sorry, don't mean to bother you. have a great, I don't.
• 1:30:37
  Know, rest of orientation. And as you guys are
• 1:30:39
  making your way down the path, you can start hearing
• 1:30:42
  escalated shouts and such from the factory as
• 1:30:45
  more and more things. You start to see. actually,
• 1:30:48
  the billowing smoke from above starts to dissipate
• 1:30:51
  ever so slightly. And you notice there's quite a significant
• 1:30:54
  less amount of that smoke. and
• 1:30:57
  as you walk away, proudly, a voice
• 1:30:59
  emanates from behind you and he says,
• 1:31:02
  hey, that one's pretty well done in there.
• 1:31:06
  And you turn around. Standing before you is
• 1:31:08
  a fancily dressed man in
• 1:31:11
  ridiculously colorful clothing. And he
• 1:31:13
  says, the name's Mayu
• 1:31:16
  Yinyu. It's great to meet all of you. Where are you guys
• 1:31:18
  from? What made you so interested in the, Well,
• 1:31:21
  myself and the rescue team
• 1:31:24
  squadron.
• 1:31:26
  We worked for Mr. Okuron and, Mr.
• 1:31:29
  Okuron.
• 1:31:29
  Now, see, there's a guy. There's a guy.
• 1:31:32
  There's a guy right there. There's a guy, there's a nice
• 1:31:35
  guy. Good guy.
• 1:31:38
  Still running that tea? Get that tea shop opened up.
• 1:31:41
  I'm just kidding. I know he got that tea shop opened up.
• 1:31:43
  I saw him a couple of weeks ago.
• 1:31:45
  Mr. Okaron, right?
• 1:31:46
  He's dead. This guy has been pretty, know,
• 1:31:49
  smiley and chuckly and real
• 1:31:52
  charismatic. But, you definitely see a, real
• 1:31:55
  sadness kind of fall across his face.
• 1:31:57
  How'd you know him?
• 1:31:58
  Oh, man, me and Okaron, man, we went way back.
• 1:32:01
  He came to, you dao. I was
• 1:32:04
  performing. but I had a sore
• 1:32:06
  throat. Anyway, so, he gives me this.
• 1:32:09
  Tea, and he's like, this will fix you right up.
• 1:32:11
  He does a pretty good impression of, Mr. Oak run. And, I
• 1:32:14
  drink that. And, man, I don't think I ever
• 1:32:17
  sounded better. I'm not going to lie to you. Yeah, man, I'm going
• 1:32:20
  to miss that guy.
• 1:32:21
  But he, for some reason, carefully
• 1:32:24
  hidden his will behind a
• 1:32:27
  series of riddles, puzzles I
• 1:32:30
  got Will scavenger hunt,
• 1:32:32
  and you were the next clue.
• 1:32:35
  Interesting. Well, that would explain the
• 1:32:38
  weird package I got from him. A couple of weeks
• 1:32:41
  ago, he sent me this weird package. I opened it up
• 1:32:44
  and there was a Columbia in there. There was like a weird
• 1:32:47
  letter in there, and it mentioned something
• 1:32:50
  about some kids that would come
• 1:32:53
  asking for it.
• 1:32:54
  Do you have that Columba on you?
• 1:32:56
  All right, so that's where things get a little bit
• 1:32:59
  complicated. Hey, we're really close to that
• 1:33:02
  factory. Why don't you guys come with me back to the
• 1:33:04
  base? He leads the way and he takes a few twists
• 1:33:07
  and turns, but he kind of keeps you guys just on the outskirts of the city.
• 1:33:11
  So he takes you over close to the edge of the cliffside and he
• 1:33:13
  pulls back some bushes and you see what looks like
• 1:33:16
  one of those mail shoots, kind of like what you saw
• 1:33:19
  in the avatar shell, right. the mail shoots that
• 1:33:22
  they use to move little slides that they can send
• 1:33:25
  packages all across the city on, right. And they got one of these mail
• 1:33:28
  shoots and they got a little cart on the top of it's pretty wide,
• 1:33:31
  large cart. You could probably fit a few people in it. there's like
• 1:33:34
  maybe three of these carts sitting up there.
• 1:33:37
  And he's like, all right,
• 1:33:39
  this is how we get to the base.
• 1:33:41
  Hop on in.
• 1:33:42
  So you're able to push yours onto the, track, and that
• 1:33:44
  kind of, again, inertia kicks in and you guys start going down. It is
• 1:33:47
  a pretty wild ride, but as you guys kind of come around this
• 1:33:50
  curve, you can see that what it does is it kind of just
• 1:33:53
  shoots you right into the side of the cliff. There's a big
• 1:33:56
  opening and you just go right inside. And sure enough,
• 1:33:59
  eventually, you can see a light at the end of the tunnel. And as
• 1:34:02
  you guys come to the end of that, it opens up into this
• 1:34:05
  massive cave. As you guys kind of slide
• 1:34:07
  into this, you can see, small
• 1:34:10
  buildings actually passing by you as you kind of come
• 1:34:13
  in. And you see people, there are people in there. There's
• 1:34:16
  hundreds probably of people that are inside of this cave. And
• 1:34:19
  eventually your cart slows to a stop and there's kind of
• 1:34:22
  like a little end of the track section as it slows.
• 1:34:25
  and as you guys reach that, there's a couple of guys,
• 1:34:28
  earthbenders there wearing earthbender uniforms.
• 1:34:31
  And as you guys get out, they kind of like use some earthbending to
• 1:34:34
  kind of start pushing the carts back up the
• 1:34:36
  mail chute. Welcome to the rescue team squadron base. I'll take
• 1:34:39
  you guys over to kind of the main area. You, guys can meet
• 1:34:42
  the other important people like myself,
• 1:34:46
  and, yeah, we can, kind of get you guys informed on
• 1:34:49
  what the plan is. There's training areas where rebel
• 1:34:52
  soldiers are working on their fighting styles and their
• 1:34:54
  bending. there's medical bays where healers are
• 1:34:57
  taking care of the weak and sick. Not all of them. You
• 1:35:00
  can look and you see that not all of them are rebel soldiers. Some of them are
• 1:35:03
  just kind of general citizens. There's children, there's
• 1:35:06
  elderly, Earth kingdom, water
• 1:35:08
  nation, et cetera. Just
• 1:35:10
  individuals just kind of seem to exist here. So as
• 1:35:13
  you guys, continue following Mayu, you come to what looks
• 1:35:16
  like a big, kind of open concept
• 1:35:20
  facility, where there's a big circular table
• 1:35:23
  kind of in the middle of this space, and
• 1:35:25
  there's a number of individuals that are kind of bent over it. And as you
• 1:35:28
  guys enter, you see a map of what looks like, it's kind
• 1:35:31
  of a 3d map, actually, because, again, earth bending. It's all
• 1:35:34
  little, like stone miniatures, and they're all kind of analyzing it
• 1:35:37
  or pointing out spots and talking to each other. And
• 1:35:40
  as you guys are walking in here, Brock, you actually
• 1:35:43
  notice a familiar face here.
• 1:35:45
  Oh, do I?
• 1:35:46
  Yes.
• 1:35:46
  You see, Sora, your friend who
• 1:35:49
  helped you break out of prison, and you hear a shout
• 1:35:52
  out, oh, my gosh.
• 1:35:53
  Brock Lee, what in the world are you doing
• 1:35:56
  here? Did you finally decide to join up with us? Right now,
• 1:35:59
  we're in the middle of a planning session, actually. I'm glad he
• 1:36:02
  can make it. What's going on?
• 1:36:04
  And Mayu looks at me. He's like, hey, yeah, I,
• 1:36:07
  found these kids. they kind of answered our little, like,
• 1:36:09
  help wanted ad. Mayo yinyu kind of starts pointing everybody out, and he's
• 1:36:12
  like, well, I better introduce all these guys. all right, so
• 1:36:15
  right over here, you got general ming. he's kind of the lead
• 1:36:18
  figure. And standing before you, you see this very
• 1:36:20
  stern, gray bearded Earth kingdom
• 1:36:23
  dressed. You know, he's got a lot of badges on his earth
• 1:36:26
  kingdom armor. Then mayo points at
• 1:36:29
  Sora, and he says, this is Colonel Sora
• 1:36:32
  bola. it sounds like Brock. You guys
• 1:36:35
  already know each other, so, I mean, that's kind of helpful. you guys see
• 1:36:38
  Sora, she's actually about your age, but she, too,
• 1:36:40
  wears some very nice earthbending kind
• 1:36:43
  of military clothes. She has a couple of badges as
• 1:36:46
  well. They're different badges. If you look back closely, they're
• 1:36:49
  different badges than what the general has. Mayu continues. He
• 1:36:52
  points over, he says, this is a, major Sato,
• 1:36:55
  and Sato is wearing a waterbender.
• 1:36:58
  He is also an older man, very thin,
• 1:37:01
  unshaven. He has these large, wide brimmed
• 1:37:04
  glasses on, and he reaches up and he adjusts them
• 1:37:07
  with one of his central fingers,
• 1:37:10
  like some sort of anime
• 1:37:12
  protagonist. He points over to the next person.
• 1:37:15
  He says, this is Captain Lena. And you
• 1:37:17
  see a woman standing there, and, she gives you all a smile, and she's like,
• 1:37:20
  hey, it's great to see you guys here. It's great to have, some more, people
• 1:37:23
  helping us out. she just seems like a bright person. The
• 1:37:26
  clothing she has on doesn't elude that she's
• 1:37:29
  part of any particular nation. It's sort of like
• 1:37:32
  gray colors. He continues. He says, over
• 1:37:35
  there we got Dr. Takahashi. He's
• 1:37:37
  our medic. And you see another man. He's, just
• 1:37:40
  kind of standing at attention. He's just got a nice smile, but he seems
• 1:37:43
  very silent, and he just gives you a very kind nod.
• 1:37:46
  Next up, we got, engineer
• 1:37:49
  Nakamura and technician Kim. I mentioned
• 1:37:51
  them both together because. And they kind of, like,
• 1:37:54
  put their arms around each other and they wave. It's a nice couple.
• 1:37:57
  They're like, maybe in their 40s, early
• 1:38:00
  40s, because they're together. They're married. so,
• 1:38:03
  yeah, Nakamura and Kim, they're like,
• 1:38:06
  wow, it's so great, so great to have you guys here.
• 1:38:09
  It's always great to see you next
• 1:38:11
  generation taking part in what we do
• 1:38:14
  around here. And then, of course, we get back to
• 1:38:17
  myself, mayu yinyu. I'm kind of, the
• 1:38:19
  voice, some say, the face of the
• 1:38:22
  rebellions. I lead a lot of the protest stuff. some of the more
• 1:38:25
  like putting up posters that
• 1:38:28
  say up yours to the Fire nation. That
• 1:38:31
  kind of good stuff. Sora steps forward and she says, so.
• 1:38:34
  A basic rundown of the current situation. This is
• 1:38:36
  actually our new permanent base that you're currently standing in.
• 1:38:39
  It's a lot better than our old base, which was actually above
• 1:38:42
  ground. And because of that fact, it didn't really work out
• 1:38:45
  too well. See, about a week ago, the
• 1:38:48
  Fire nation actually caught onto our activities and discovered our
• 1:38:51
  base. So we had to flee down here, which wasn't a huge
• 1:38:54
  issue, except for the fact that in our hurry to leave the
• 1:38:57
  old base, we left some pretty important plans and documents
• 1:38:59
  behind. If the Fire nation gets their hands on them,
• 1:39:02
  we're going to be in hot water.
• 1:39:03
  Is that where our music box is?
• 1:39:06
  Mayu steps in. He's like, yes, that's where I left
• 1:39:08
  the Columba.
• 1:39:10
  Everything that comes out of his mouth, I feel
• 1:39:13
  like is a lie.
• 1:39:15
  Mayu yinyu seems like a great guy to
• 1:39:17
  me.
• 1:39:18
  Mika, quote, you love everybody.
• 1:39:21
  That's not true. Well, for one, the carnival
• 1:39:24
  owner, because he treated me like a
• 1:39:26
  garbage slave dog and a lot of words.
• 1:39:29
  Made me do all sorts of nasty stuff.
• 1:39:32
  I don't know, I just think you're not very trusting, Mika.
• 1:39:35
  why would I be?
• 1:39:36
  The general continues.
• 1:39:37
  He says yes. the specialist isn't expected
• 1:39:39
  until tomorrow morning, so we have a narrow
• 1:39:42
  window tonight to break into the facility.
• 1:39:45
  Specialist is, a fire nation guy?
• 1:39:47
  Yes.
• 1:39:48
  Do you know who it is?
• 1:39:49
  Yes.
• 1:39:50
  Our sources tell us that they've called for none
• 1:39:52
  other than Wang Long. We've had dealings with
• 1:39:55
  him quite a few times, actually. Sora, you're
• 1:39:58
  familiar with him?
• 1:39:59
  Know him? He was a guy Brock and I had to get through in order to
• 1:40:02
  escape that prison camp.
• 1:40:03
  You were in the prison camp? If I remember right. Well, last
• 1:40:06
  I heard of the guy, he was taking a bunch of weapons over to the
• 1:40:09
  earth kingdom to go destroy countrysides.
• 1:40:11
  So, timeline, you got this guy, Wang long,
• 1:40:14
  becomes some sort of big shot for whatever reason in the
• 1:40:17
  fire nation has a bunch of big
• 1:40:20
  mass weapons of destruction built over the fire
• 1:40:23
  nation, brings them across the water
• 1:40:26
  into the earth nation, uses them to attack the
• 1:40:28
  village that Brock apparently
• 1:40:31
  lived at, turned it into a prison camp
• 1:40:34
  where Brock was held. We send
• 1:40:37
  Sora in to bus him out and,
• 1:40:40
  well, I guess the rest is history. That's the
• 1:40:42
  biggest difficulty that we've been having with the
• 1:40:45
  rescue team squadron is he just keeps
• 1:40:48
  attacking these border cities,
• 1:40:51
  these small little cities out on the outskirts of the
• 1:40:54
  earth kingdom, and
• 1:40:57
  they just claim that we're dealing with pirates
• 1:41:00
  or we're doing this or stopping criminals.
• 1:41:03
  Know so and so is a refugee from the Fire nation
• 1:41:06
  mainland and all this other so, you
• 1:41:09
  know, higher ups in the earth
• 1:41:11
  kingdom just don't take it seriously. So we got to move
• 1:41:14
  fast.
• 1:41:15
  Yes, tonight.
• 1:41:16
  I'll go. you guys go.
• 1:41:18
  Mika. You hear a
• 1:41:21
  voice?
• 1:41:22
  No.
• 1:41:23
  As you turn around and it
• 1:41:26
  simply says, mika. And
• 1:41:29
  you turn around and none other than
• 1:41:32
  your dad. And he sees you and
• 1:41:36
  his legs literally just like, tremble,
• 1:41:39
  and he just falls. Like, he just buckles. He can't keep
• 1:41:42
  him up anymore. and he just holds out his hands.
• 1:41:44
  He's like, mika, is that really you?
• 1:41:47
  I just fall to the ground where I met.
• 1:41:49
  He picks himself up and he just runs over
• 1:41:52
  to you and he gives you a big old hug.
• 1:41:54
  Mika. I never
• 1:41:57
  thought I'd see you again.
• 1:41:58
  I thought you were dead.
• 1:41:59
  I thought you were dead.
• 1:42:01
  You're the one who disappeared in a
• 1:42:04
  giant avalanche.
• 1:42:05
  I woke up at the bottom of the mountain covered in
• 1:42:08
  snow, and I spent days just digging through the
• 1:42:11
  powder in hopes that you were okay. But I don't
• 1:42:14
  understand. Where did you go? How did you
• 1:42:17
  get here?
• 1:42:18
  I found some old man, and he took care of
• 1:42:21
  me for a while.
• 1:42:21
  I worked at his tea shop for a while.
• 1:42:23
  You worked at a tea shop?
• 1:42:25
  But he's dead.
• 1:42:27
  Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I wish
• 1:42:30
  I could have had the chance to thank him for taking
• 1:42:33
  care of you.
• 1:42:34
  You guys spend some time kind of sharing your stories up
• 1:42:37
  until this point. Back and forth. He says, well, we were
• 1:42:39
  actually getting ready to head out. I wasn't sure if Mika was going to come with
• 1:42:42
  us. I mean, you'll still be here when we get back, so, not
• 1:42:45
  to, like I said, pull her away while you guys are having such an important
• 1:42:48
  reunion, but, he can just come with. I recruited your
• 1:42:51
  dad. It's going to be interesting. Mayu continues to lead you
• 1:42:54
  guys on. As you guys approach the area
• 1:42:57
  where this rebel base is
• 1:43:00
  located at Mayu, yinyu stops and he says,
• 1:43:03
  quiet.
• 1:43:03
  I hear something.
• 1:43:04
  And he looks over at Mika's dad, and he
• 1:43:07
  gives him a nod. And using some of the very,
• 1:43:10
  capable, sort of water nation trained stealth
• 1:43:13
  tactics, Mika's dad kind of just disappears into some
• 1:43:16
  bushes very quietly, and he comes back and he says,
• 1:43:19
  I'm not sure what happened, but it seems we're too
• 1:43:21
  late. The specialist, Wang Long,
• 1:43:24
  is already here?
• 1:43:26
  Yes, it seems like Wang has already arrived,
• 1:43:29
  but it doesn't look like they fully unloaded their gear. So
• 1:43:32
  there's still some time to sneak in and recover the plans, if we're
• 1:43:35
  quick about it. What can we see from here, guys?
• 1:43:38
  So, yeah, as you guys look, you can see against
• 1:43:41
  the sort of darkening, late, afternoon,
• 1:43:43
  early evening skies. You can see some of the
• 1:43:46
  lanterns have been lit throughout the facility, causing little
• 1:43:49
  areas to sort of pop against the darkness
• 1:43:52
  behind it. there's
• 1:43:54
  1234 lights that shine at
• 1:43:57
  the front of this facility where you hide in the bushes maybe
• 1:44:00
  100 yards or so away from, and you
• 1:44:03
  can kind of peek through and see the
• 1:44:06
  various fire nation soldiers bringing crates
• 1:44:09
  and some other things over to the front. They seem to be kind of
• 1:44:12
  unpacking. that's where Mayu yinyu kind of
• 1:44:15
  points these out. And he says, that was kind of where a lot of,
• 1:44:18
  the living areas were. There's a large building in the
• 1:44:21
  center on the east. Entire back end is, like,
• 1:44:24
  kind of the big main area. It's, a courtyard
• 1:44:27
  surrounded by, sort of a three story
• 1:44:29
  building.
• 1:44:30
  I would like to assess the
• 1:44:33
  situation.
• 1:44:33
  All right, so you remember seeing the diagram or sort of
• 1:44:36
  like the miniature setup that they had of this base. you
• 1:44:39
  kind of start to look over the base and you kind of associate, like, oh, yeah,
• 1:44:42
  okay. I see what they had back at the
• 1:44:45
  rescue team squadron. Their big,
• 1:44:48
  fancy table where they were talking about the plan. You can see
• 1:44:51
  how the building layout looks, based on. From
• 1:44:54
  memory. You remember that on the east
• 1:44:57
  and west side, all the way to the back, close to
• 1:45:00
  where the command center is, but not quite there. You remember there were sort of
• 1:45:03
  like living quarters or something along those lines in
• 1:45:06
  that three story building that sort of surrounded this
• 1:45:08
  courtyard. And they had windows. they
• 1:45:11
  mentioned that those windows were sometimes boarded up. But
• 1:45:14
  at the end of each building, on
• 1:45:17
  each floor, they had sort of a transition spot where
• 1:45:20
  there was a stairwell. And the stairwell was an open
• 1:45:23
  concept. mayu Yinyu turns to Mika's
• 1:45:26
  dad and he says, well, Mactuck, do you and I, maybe we could
• 1:45:29
  sneak around to the east side and
• 1:45:32
  the kids can sneak around to the west side, and that just increases the
• 1:45:35
  chances of, success. And, of course, for all of us. You
• 1:45:38
  see a little bit of hesitation from Mack tuck as he kind of looks over at
• 1:45:40
  Mika, like, oh, I don't really want to separate from everybody.
• 1:45:43
  I grab his hand, kill squeeze before.
• 1:45:46
  He leaves you, a squeeze back. And he gives you a nod and
• 1:45:49
  a smile. And he and Mayu yinyu run off
• 1:45:52
  towards the eastern side of the building to try to get
• 1:45:54
  around and kind of take the same route that you guys are going to go through.
• 1:45:57
  I will attempt to take the rocks in Brock's rock
• 1:46:00
  sack and bend them
• 1:46:03
  onto the walls. So it's like rock
• 1:46:06
  climbing walls.
• 1:46:07
  So, yes, you are able to make a
• 1:46:10
  sort of rock climbing wall. Whatever the case, you guys
• 1:46:13
  manage, to get to the top, hop in through this
• 1:46:15
  old, windowsill, and you enter
• 1:46:18
  into a very dark room. There's not a whole lot of light that comes
• 1:46:21
  through here. it sort of feels like an apartment room in
• 1:46:24
  a sense, just, like an old, rickety apartment room. There's a small
• 1:46:27
  bed in there and there's a dresser.
• 1:46:28
  Did he tell us what we're looking for?
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  Planned?
• 1:46:32
  In hindsight, we probably should have ironed those details out
• 1:46:35
  before splitting up.
• 1:46:36
  Okay.
• 1:46:36
  can I go to the door and open it?
• 1:46:39
  Yes, absolutely, you can. And as you do, light
• 1:46:42
  starts to come inside, and you realize that they
• 1:46:45
  have lit lanterns along this
• 1:46:47
  balcony area. So you peek out and you can see
• 1:46:50
  the courtyard below you, and you can see that on
• 1:46:53
  the sort of ground level. There are a couple of guards
• 1:46:56
  that seem to be kind of patrolling along there.
• 1:46:58
  What should we be on the lookout.
• 1:47:00
  For when we go out of this door here? So you notice
• 1:47:02
  that there are a handful of guards that seem to have kind of
• 1:47:05
  spread out through this facility. They're already doing some
• 1:47:08
  preliminary searches, and of course, they're the ones that
• 1:47:11
  probably lit these lanterns that are spread out. And then you notice
• 1:47:14
  that on the second floor of this
• 1:47:16
  area, there's also somebody that seems to just kind of be making
• 1:47:19
  rounds. He's checking in all the little, apartment
• 1:47:22
  rooms that are on that floor. you wonder if maybe there's
• 1:47:25
  one on your floor that you just don't see at the moment because like I said,
• 1:47:28
  it's a big sort of semicircle.
• 1:47:30
  Let's get moving, guys.
• 1:47:31
  We're pressed for time.
• 1:47:32
  Let's go.
• 1:47:33
  Sure enough, you can see off in the distance
• 1:47:36
  there is, in fact, a guard on your floor. And he
• 1:47:38
  stands right in front of the double doors that you can
• 1:47:41
  tell open into that big center room, which is the command
• 1:47:44
  center.
• 1:47:45
  Guys, look out. The wang gang's in the building.
• 1:47:47
  Is there, like, side rooms?
• 1:47:49
  You find maybe m three to four different
• 1:47:52
  rooms that all are unlocked and able to get
• 1:47:55
  into.
• 1:47:55
  That represents the bathroom there, one
• 1:47:58
  unlocked close by the guard.
• 1:48:00
  He'd be about 15 to 20ft away
• 1:48:03
  from it. What is your plan here?
• 1:48:05
  Well, I want to make the water to come
• 1:48:08
  out of the apartment door. So this
• 1:48:11
  guard feels like something is
• 1:48:14
  amiss. He has to go check it out.
• 1:48:16
  He is standing there. He's waiting, and then all of a
• 1:48:19
  sudden, he feels something touch his foot.
• 1:48:22
  He looks down, and he sees that there's water that
• 1:48:24
  seems to be running up, and it's on his foot. And he
• 1:48:27
  thinks this is strange. And he looks over and
• 1:48:30
  he's following where the water is coming from. And he sees it going
• 1:48:33
  into, or rather it's coming out of one of the apartment
• 1:48:36
  rooms. He goes to investigate it. He approaches one of the rooms. You guys
• 1:48:39
  are all maybe crouched into one of the open apartment
• 1:48:42
  rooms that Guo had discovered were unlocked. And
• 1:48:44
  you watch as he opens up the door to this room. He notices
• 1:48:47
  that it's locked. And so he shakes it a little bit, and he
• 1:48:50
  goes, oh, And he's not giving up. So he decides to kick it in.
• 1:48:53
  So it makes a loud crash as he does a
• 1:48:56
  little bit of noise, but the door flings open. You hear another
• 1:48:59
  guard shout over what's.
• 1:49:00
  Going on over there.
• 1:49:01
  And he looks out and he shouts back, no worries.
• 1:49:04
  I'm just investigating something, and the door.
• 1:49:06
  Was locked, and you hear the guards.
• 1:49:09
  Shout back, oh, okay, no worries.
• 1:49:11
  so he's obviously put them off of
• 1:49:14
  maybe noticing some noise. They might think, oh, it's just that
• 1:49:17
  guy that's dealing with that room. He goes into this room, and he
• 1:49:20
  kind of just disappears into the darkness as he's investigating
• 1:49:23
  this mysterious water run.
• 1:49:24
  To the main door.
• 1:49:26
  As you guys make your way over to the door, you look down over
• 1:49:29
  the balcony area, and you can see Mac took
• 1:49:31
  and Mayu Yinyu are on the
• 1:49:34
  second floor. And they peek out from opposite side
• 1:49:37
  from you guys, and they peek out from one of the apartment rooms. They
• 1:49:40
  see you guys, they give you guys kind of like a thumbs up. You guys reach the
• 1:49:43
  main doors of this command center, and you push
• 1:49:46
  them open. And inside is very similar
• 1:49:49
  to what you saw back at rescue team squadron base that you
• 1:49:52
  were just at. There's all sorts of scrolls and maps and all sorts
• 1:49:55
  of other things. No one's in here.
• 1:49:57
  Can we jam the doors so no one can walk in?
• 1:49:59
  I mean, there's definitely some furniture in here, obviously. There's that large
• 1:50:01
  table that I just mentioned. Bottom line, all four of you get
• 1:50:04
  around this table, set it in front of the double doors that lead
• 1:50:07
  into this room, and they are the only doors that lead into this room.
• 1:50:10
  Where is the Columba, and where are these alleged important
• 1:50:13
  plans that Mayu Yinyu is trying to
• 1:50:15
  find? You're kind of
• 1:50:18
  rummaging through some of these desks and drawers and
• 1:50:21
  such like that. You actually see it just sitting there on
• 1:50:24
  a chair in a corner of the room.
• 1:50:26
  Where can we find plans?
• 1:50:28
  You look around and you see, like, a variety of various
• 1:50:30
  scrolls and other documents and so on
• 1:50:33
  and so forth. It's really hard to tell which ones
• 1:50:36
  are plans and which ones could
• 1:50:39
  just be who knows what.
• 1:50:41
  Is there, per chance in this room, like,
• 1:50:43
  one of those long tubes that you put, like,
• 1:50:46
  papers in. I'm going to just start,
• 1:50:50
  rolling up papers and just stuffing it
• 1:50:53
  inside the tube.
• 1:50:54
  I got an idea.
• 1:50:55
  I'm going to grab the. The ground and just sort of
• 1:50:58
  fling it up. Kind of like a mall
• 1:51:01
  has those sliding garage door
• 1:51:04
  type gates. Grab the floor and
• 1:51:07
  barricade all the papers behind
• 1:51:10
  said constructive wall. I'm, making sure they can't
• 1:51:13
  get to these papers while we try and go get
• 1:51:15
  someone who can maybe tell.
• 1:51:17
  Us what we're looking for. So, as you bring up these
• 1:51:19
  walls, there's definitely a bit of a slamming noise that kind of
• 1:51:22
  emanates, and eventually you hear the double door.
• 1:51:25
  Somebody outside the double doors tries to open them. You hear the voice say,
• 1:51:28
  what's going on in there? Commander, is that you?
• 1:51:31
  Yes. Who is that? I don't recognize your
• 1:51:34
  voice.
• 1:51:34
  And the slamming against the door gets more and more
• 1:51:37
  violent, and then eventually there's a crash as he sort
• 1:51:40
  of, like, punches through the door. And then all of a
• 1:51:43
  sudden, he.
• 1:51:44
  Goes, wait a minute.
• 1:51:45
  Oh, crap. His arm that he just
• 1:51:48
  punched through the wall or the doors with is now kind of
• 1:51:51
  stuck.
• 1:51:51
  I got this. And Bill's just going to walk up. So he punched through
• 1:51:54
  one of the double doors, right, and stuck in it. So Bill's just going
• 1:51:57
  to open up the other
• 1:52:00
  one and just whack him in the back of his head.
• 1:52:03
  So you quickly pop the door open, he looks at you very
• 1:52:05
  confused, and immediately
• 1:52:08
  he is knocked out.
• 1:52:09
  After I do that, can, like, head down that
• 1:52:12
  hallway and turn the corner and see if I see
• 1:52:15
  Mayu and McTuck.
• 1:52:16
  They just came up the top of the stairs,
• 1:52:19
  and they seem to be running towards you.
• 1:52:21
  Okay, I'm going to wave them over.
• 1:52:23
  All right.
• 1:52:23
  While he's doing that, can I pull the guard out of
• 1:52:26
  door and steal his uniform?
• 1:52:28
  Sure.
• 1:52:28
  Absolutely. McTuck and Mayu, they run
• 1:52:31
  by the corner. Then they look into the command center, and
• 1:52:34
  they see the other two waiting for him in there. And they're like, okay,
• 1:52:37
  he's got it covered.
• 1:52:38
  Got the Columba. We weren't sure where the plans were.
• 1:52:41
  We just started grabbing everything, but there was too much. So
• 1:52:44
  Brock built this wall to protect him until you got
• 1:52:46
  here. Oh, yeah.
• 1:52:47
  There's a handful of important documents I can grab real quick.
• 1:52:50
  Well, all things considered, I think we got just about everything.
• 1:52:53
  almost be tempted to just burn the rest.
• 1:52:55
  I got this. It's my lantern.
• 1:52:58
  So whatever the case, once we start this, we got to get going, because they're
• 1:53:01
  going to notice pretty fast when, a whole bunch of fire starts
• 1:53:04
  kicking in. As you guys run out, you hear.
• 1:53:06
  A guard shout, hey, what's going on over there?
• 1:53:08
  And it's the guy from across the way. When he's looking over
• 1:53:11
  at you, and he's kind of pointing at you guys, he looks over at
• 1:53:14
  Brock and.
• 1:53:15
  He says, who are they? Stop them. I got them. Don't
• 1:53:18
  worry about it. I got them myself.
• 1:53:20
  Yeah, you get them.
• 1:53:21
  Get them real good.
• 1:53:22
  Oh, look, they're going that way. They're going that way.
• 1:53:25
  I got them.
• 1:53:26
  And I just run.
• 1:53:26
  You start to see some bright lights start to emanate from the
• 1:53:29
  command center as you know that your two
• 1:53:32
  adult coworkers in this mission have
• 1:53:35
  probably started the fire. And sure enough, just
• 1:53:38
  before you disappear into one of the apartment rooms that you guys
• 1:53:41
  came from, you look back and you see Mayu, Yinyu
• 1:53:44
  and, Mactuck sneak out of the room and start
• 1:53:46
  heading back over to the east side. One by
• 1:53:49
  one, each of you runs to the window, and you start climbing down onto the
• 1:53:52
  ground floor. You guys have reached the bottom. You're about to
• 1:53:55
  decide where to go. And sure enough, coming from around the building, you
• 1:53:58
  see Wang long himself. Wang long looks
• 1:54:01
  over towards you. He squints his eyes, and he
• 1:54:04
  sees you, Brock. And something in him. You can see
• 1:54:07
  something in his eyes. He recognizes you.
• 1:54:10
  He squints in a glare of hatred
• 1:54:13
  and distaste. Bill, you look back as
• 1:54:15
  well, and you have memories of this
• 1:54:18
  man and some of the
• 1:54:20
  experiences, both on the boat and even before the boat,
• 1:54:23
  that you remember him being involved with. they all
• 1:54:26
  come flooding back into your mind as you start to
• 1:54:29
  race away around the corner of the building. with your
• 1:54:32
  friends, you guys are able to escape into the darkness and
• 1:54:34
  eventually meet back up with Mayu, Yinyu and Maktuk. As
• 1:54:37
  you all, as a group, head back towards
• 1:54:40
  the slide. That'll take you back to the
• 1:54:43
  rescue team squadron. You guys arrive
• 1:54:46
  back at the rescue team squadron base,
• 1:54:49
  short of breath, partially from running
• 1:54:52
  all this way, and also from the big slide, exciting slide that
• 1:54:55
  you got to take for a second time, you're awarded with some
• 1:54:58
  medals of your bravery. You all become
• 1:55:01
  sort of honorary, members of the rescue team
• 1:55:03
  squadron. What you're left with is you have the
• 1:55:06
  kalimba, the next clue that's on your list that Mr.
• 1:55:08
  Okaran has left you. Having remembered the music box that was
• 1:55:11
  part of your last gift, and an instruction to
• 1:55:14
  Guohan that there was a series of
• 1:55:17
  notes, sort of a little diddy, a little song that he would need to
• 1:55:20
  play.
• 1:55:23
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• 1:55:26
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• 1:55:29
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• 1:55:29
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