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Benders & Brews - Prequel Episode #1 - Bill Door · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  Uh,
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  jasmine, oolong, green
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  and white. Long ago, these four
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  teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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  Then everything changed when the shop's
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  popularity threatened its existence.
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  All Mr. Okuron, the shop's owner and tea
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  master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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  orphans to learn his trade and and staff his
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  shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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  hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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  still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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  But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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  Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the
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  world.
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  Imagine, if you will, a story.
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  But not the usual story, which steps in through
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  your front door, but rather through the back
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  door. I'm talking about a back
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  story. But back doors won't be the only
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  doors discussed in today's episode. No, not
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  today. We will be looking into the story
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  of Bill Dor, an
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  unsuspecting child living a seemingly normal life in the
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  Fire Nation. Unsuspecting of what, you may uh, ask?
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  Unsuspecting that he is about to enter
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  the prequel zone.
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  Ash? Ash, where are
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  you? I can't
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  find you. I'm dead. Ash.
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  Help. It
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  help. It hurts.
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  Oh, you look like you've experienced quite the
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  dream, my child. Are you all right?
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  Um, yeah, I'm fine.
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  I have some tasty lavender chamomile tea
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  for you if you'd like. Could add a little
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  warm milk, mix it in. Should help you get a
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  peaceful sleep if you want.
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  No, thanks. I'm not really a fan of
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  tea.
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  Not a fan of tea.
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  Apologies. I don't think
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  I could be friends with someone who doesn't like tea.
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  That's fine. I'm not really on this ship to make friends
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  anyways.
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  I was kidding. But, uh, I tell you what. Uh, you
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  take your chances with my tea, and I'll take my
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  chances with being your friend. What do you
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  say?
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  Sure. I don't see why not. I don't have anything else better to
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  do. But don't think you'll get me to start liking your tea.
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  I'm all for learning how to make it, but actually liking the
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  stuff, well, that's a different story.
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  M all
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  right, fine. That works for me. You
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  get some rest, my child.
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  Welcome. How can I help you?
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  The name is General Wang Long.
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  Are you Jasper BERTNEY?
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  That's me. Oh, and this is my son, Ash. He's
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  just stopping in to hand off my lunch. I forgot from home.
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  What can I do for you, sir?
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  I hear you're quite the engineer.
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  Well, I do what I can. What
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  can I do for you, General?
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  I'm in need of a weapon.
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  Okay. What kind of weapon?
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  Uh, that's what I'm not sure about yet. Something
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  big, something
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  powerful.
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  Is there something specific that the Fire Nation needs it for
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  a, uh, specific purpose, yes.
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  I'm trying to take out an Earth Nation village with
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  it, so it needs to be able to withstand and
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  bust through rocks, dirt, that sort of thing.
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  Wait a second. An Earth Nation
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  village? I'm confused. Are we at
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  war?
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  War? No, not currently.
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  Just need to test out the Fire Nation's
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  capabilities, determine how capable we
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  are should we need to go to war
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  in the near future.
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  And you want to do that by testing out a war machine of
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  my design on an Earth Kingdom village?
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  That is correct. Why do you make it sound like that's a
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  problem?
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  That's a war crime. You must be
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  joking, right? Um, this can't possibly be
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  sanctioned by the Fire Nation military.
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  I beg your pardon, Jasper, but I am, um,
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  a representative of the Fire Nation army.
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  Consider my orders as if they are coming straight
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  from the lips of the Fire Lord himself.
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  Now, can you make me my
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  weapon or not?
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  Whether I can or can't is irrelevant, uh,
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  because I won't. I won't allow my designs to be
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  used in the prospect of attacking the lives of the innocent.
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  Now, if you don't mind, General, I have a lot
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  of work to do. If you need me to get the door for you,
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  I can, but otherwise it's behind you.
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  If you would be so kind.
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  This is not the end of this
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  discussion.
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  I believe it is. Good day, sir.
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  Dad, is everything okay?
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  I'm not sure, son. I've heard others speak of
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  similar things that have me concerned about the priorities of our Fire
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  Lord.
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  In school they said we should never question the Fire
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  Lord.
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  I know they do, son. But just remember that
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  sometimes what society deems correct isn't always
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  so. It's important that you always remember to
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  think for yourself and think critically. Never
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  take things at face value. And of course,
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  always stick up for what's right, no matter what.
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  Protect the innocent. Guard those who are weaker
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  than yourself. Do you understand?
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  Yeah, I understand, dad.
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  Good boy. Now head on back home.
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  Your mother is probably wondering where you got off to.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Well, uh, it looks like you managed to get a
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  good night's sleep after all. No more
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  nightmares.
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  No. And you're kind of creepy.
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  Did you watch me while I was sleeping or something?
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  No, but, uh, I did grab you breakfast before it
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  was all gone, since I knew someone decided to sleep
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  in.
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  Uh. Thanks, I guess.
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  So my name
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  is Mr. Okuron. Or at least that's what they
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  call,
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  um
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  rope. Your name is
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  Rope?
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  No, it's door. It's a door.
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  Door. All right. Is that
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  your first or last?
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  Last. It's last.
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  Well, thank goodness. What's your first?
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  Uh,
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  what are normal first names?
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  Normal first names? Uh, I don't know.
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  Uh, tau? Pima? Uh,
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  Akota? Yuka. Bill.
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  Oh, Bill.
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  Yeah, it's Bill. It's Bill.
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  Your name is bill, uh,
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  Dor.
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  That's right.
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  Well, nice to meet you, Bill. Door.
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  What do you mean we're behind schedule?
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  I have direct orders from the Fire Lord
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  himself. If they are not followed to the
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  letter, there will be hell to pay, and
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  it will be paid with your head.
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  Oh, crap.
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  What's wrong, my boy?
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  Nothing. I just, uh.
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  Damned captain has no idea how to sail a
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  ship. Unforeseen delays, my
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  rear. Hey, boy,
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  come here a moment.
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  Yes, sir. What do you need?
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  Take off your headband. I want a better
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  look at you.
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  I'd rather not, sir.
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  I am a general in the Fire Lord's
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  army. You will do as I say,
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  and you will look me in the eye when I speak to
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  you.
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  Well, uh, you see, I got a really bad haircut,
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  sir, and I'd rather not. No one see it, and I'm awfully
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  embarrassed about it.
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  Come here.
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  Uh, there.
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  Yes, you look very
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  familiar. I'm sure I know you
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  from somewhere.
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  Uh, uh, you must be mistaken, sir. I
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  don't know you.
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  I've never seen you before, so how.
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  Could you possibly recognize.
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  Ah. Uh, general. Uh, you found my
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  grandson. I've been looking all over the ship for him.
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  There you are. Bill, come help me finish prepping
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  the tea. Uh, just because we haven't opened our tea shop yet
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  doesn't mean that we can't get some customers as we travel.
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  This your, uh, my grandson?
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  Yes.
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  You two run some kind of tea shop, eh?
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  Oh, that's. Oh, rather. We will be
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  opening it soon. We're, uh, headed for Gao Ling
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  now. Uh, I'm still thinking of a name, but I'm leaning
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  towards the Blissful Brew. Ha.
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  Uh, gao ling. That's an
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  Earth Kingdom village? Yeah.
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  Uh, yes, sir.
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  I'll give you a piece of advice, old
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  man. You'd be better off heading back to
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  the Fire Nation and opening up a hot leaf
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  juice franchise. Not much stake in
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  starting a business in the Earth Kingdom, I'm afraid.
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  Uh oh, well, uh, it's funny you should
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  say that. I actually just quit working for hot leaf
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  juice.
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  That was a foolish decision, old
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  man. Hot leaf juice is the best damn
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  tea in all the land. But, hey,
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  it's your life to throw away.
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  Well, I'll keep that in mind. I appreciate
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  the advice, General. Have a nice day.
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  Hey, boy.
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  Uh, yeah?
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  What's the best tea you and your grandpa
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  make?
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  Uh, mint uh, mint
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  mango. Yeah, mint
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  mango? Yeah.
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  Mint mango. I've never thought of that
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  combination, but.
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  Could be worth a try.
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  We could make it the special back at the tea.
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  Yeah, sure.
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  Yeah.
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  I just don't know what to do, Margaret.
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  I don't understand how he can do this. It's your
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  factory. You don't have to make them what they want.
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  Uh, I know, but he's a
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  general. In these days, that means a lot more
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  than it used to.
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  I just don't understand. There hasn't been a war
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  with the Earth Kingdom in years. The Fire Lord hasn't
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  even announced there has been any sort of incident.
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  It's an unprovoked attack. For
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  what reason, I can't imagine. But my factory and I
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  will have no part of it.
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  I'm proud of you love, um, standing up for your
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  principles.
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  Well, someone has to. I've made things for
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  the Earth Kingdom. They've always been good customers
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  and they're good people. I won't be a part of
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  needless violence against them.
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  They sent soldiers to my house.
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  What could they want?
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  I'm not sure, but it can't be
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  good.
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  You're going out there?
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  I must.
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  Uh.
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  Jasper.
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  Grab her, too.
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  Uh.
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  Stop. What is the meaning of this? Leave, uh,
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  my family alone.
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  I'm afraid we're far past that. You
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  see, as I had mentioned earlier,
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  I am on orders from the Fire Lord himself
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  to procure weapons in order to successfully
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  take over an Earth Kingdom settlement and
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  turn it into a prison camp as part of a
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  great conquest plan the Fire Lord has in place.
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  Now, I'm not going to be the one to
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  upset the Fire Lord when he finds out
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  that one of the best engineers in the Fire
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  Nation won't make him what he wants.
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  So I give you the opportunity
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  to make this easy on me and
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  on yourself. Agree uh. To
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  begin design and manufacturing of the
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  weapons I want, or
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  I will be forced to take drastic measures.
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  I will not make your weapon so you could attack the
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  innocent. I will not stand for
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  unnecessary violence.
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  Uh, that is quite
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  unfortunate. Then I must
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  do this the hard way.
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  Leave her alone.
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  Stop.
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  Oh, but you're doing this to
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  her, not me.
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  Enough of this.
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  This is between you and me, not her. You
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  have a problem with me?
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  Then we will deal with it.
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  What? You want an agni
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  kai ha?
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  Uh.
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  My sources tell me that you're not even a
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  firebender. It would be a pointless
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  endeavor. No. I
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  like my way much better.
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  So here's how this will work. I
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  won't harm you or your family
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  if you simply do as I ask and
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  allow us to make use of your skills and
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  factory to make what we want.
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  Deal? That
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  doesn't sound like a yes.
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  Your wife is quite beautiful.
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  It would be most unfortunate if her beauty
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  was tainted by a burn scar.
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  No. Stop.
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  You're a monster.
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  Like I said, you're the one doing this
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  to her, not me. I've
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  made a very generous offer.
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  I'll even throw in a little extra.
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  Agree to my terms, and I won't.
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  Send another soldier into your house to.
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  Rip your children from their pets and
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  teach them not to play with fire.
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  You've already lost one son to the plates, have you
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  not? Shall we make it another?
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  Fine. I'll design your damned war
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  machines. Just leave my
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  family alone.
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  See, I knew he was a reasonable
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  man.
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  I expect to see the designs completed in two
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  months and a first prototype in three
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  months after that. I know your team works
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  fast, and I expect that same speed as
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  I will be heading out after I get this. The
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  settlement we have in mind should be the perfect opportunity
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  to see how capable your machine is.
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  It's a fairly small village, after all.
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  Even if your weapon is a flop, it won't take
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  much for us to overcome the farmers that live there.
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  You know, uh, I'm not trying to get all up in your
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  business or anything, but, uh, I couldn't help but
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  notice that, uh, the general sure seemed to
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  recognize you.
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  Well, whether he was about to or not doesn't matter.
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  We tricked him. That may be true, but,
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  uh, I fear that he still seemed a bit
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  suspicious. He might not be as fooled as
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  we hoped.
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  Well, I'll figure that out if it comes to that.
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  Well, if I might be so bold as to ask,
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  why does he recognize you?
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  Why are you so interested?
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  Well, I figured that now that you're my
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  grandson, it sure would be nice to have a bit of
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  honesty between us all.
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  Ah, right.
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  Yeah. Fair.
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  My real name isn't actually Bill.
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  Oh. Well, I figured that much out already.
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  What? How? Well, firstly, neither Bill nor
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  dor names I've ever heard attached to anyone I've ever
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  met in the Fire Nation, and I grew up there.
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  Oh, you did?
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  Mhm. And secondly, the combination
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  is one of the worst fake name attempts I have ever heard
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  of.
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  Okay. That bad, huh?
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  Well, the worst one was Pippin
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  Padalopsacopoulos, but we, uh, can keep your Bill
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  door disguise going.
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  I greatly appreciate that.
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  So, the general, uh, he's not looking for
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  you, is he?
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  No, he's not looking for me. It's just
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  purely coincidence. He's about half the
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  reason why I ran away.
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  Ran away, you say? Uh, what's the other reason?
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  I don't really want to talk about that.
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  Of course. No pressure. Your life is your
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  own. I'm simply an old man trying to help.
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  I appreciate that. I've, uh, been meaning
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  to ask you.
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  Ask away.
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  Well, given that the general is on this
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  ship with us, and M, like you
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  said, he seems to be suspicious of me. And
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  it's not like I'm really doing anything anyways, just
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  on this boat here.
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  Uh, you want to work with me and maintain your cover so he doesn't
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  catch on to your identity.
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  Yeah, that's what I was meaning, if
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  that's all right.
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  Oh, Bill, my boy, I wouldn't have it any other
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  way. Now, if you're going to be my
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  grandson, I'm going to have to teach you how to make
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  tea.
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  I brought you your, uh, lunch again today, Father.
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  Very good, son. Now run along
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  home. The factory isn't safe for you
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  anymore, not with all these soldiers around these
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  days.
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  Dad?
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  Yes, son?
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  You don't want to design these weapons, do
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  you?
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  No, son, I
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  don't. They will only bring harm to those they're
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  used against.
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  Then why are you doing it?
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  I thought you said always stick up.
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  For what's right and never back down, no matter what.
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  I know, son, but sometimes you're put
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  into a position where there are two right decisions, but
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  each have a bad outcome. And there's not much you can
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  do but pick the one that has the closest impact to
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  you. And in my case, I
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  chose to protect my family because that's all
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  I have control over.
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  Are you saying that if it wasn't for me,
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  mom, and my brother,
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  you wouldn't be able to stop making these machines?
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  It's not that simple, son. And don't blame
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  yourself or anyone in our family.
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  This is a choice I had to make for me.
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  And General Long is the one choosing to bring harm to.
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  Well, Mr.
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  BERTNEY, I just got back from the
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  testing range, and I have to say
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  you are absolutely the designer they say
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  you are. Those machines pack
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  quite the punch.
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  I'm glad you're satisfied with the product.
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  Will you be on your way so that my factory can go back to
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  the manufacturing we are quite behind on.
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  Now, whereas I will be heading
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  out for the Earth Kingdom.
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  Unfortunately, your factory will need to
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  continue manufacturing more of my weapons.
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  What?
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  That wasn't part of the deal.
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  Well, that's just the thing. I
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  had sent word to the Fire Lord that your machines were
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  functioning up to, if not
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  above expectations, and
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  he insisted that he have more
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  made for each battalion. Learn
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  to take a compliment, my friend.
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  This is my factory, and I will make no more of
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  your machines.
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  You could take the designs elsewhere and.
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  Have another factory work on them for you, if you like them so
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  much.
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  That would slow production down by months.
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  No. We will continue here until
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  further notice. And you will continue
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  making them that. Or must I
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  pay your family another visit?
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  Mhm.
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  Fine.
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  Good. I'll be heading out, but I'll
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  be sure to check on the progress once I've conquered the Earth
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  Kingdom village and finish building up the prison
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  camp there. I'll be sure to have any
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  passing generals stop in and experience the
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  capabilities of your machines. In the meantime,
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  I'm sure they'll be quite eager to include one
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  of them under their own command.
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  You need to go home, Bill. It's not
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  safe.
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  Yes. Yes, sir.
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  Um,
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  last, um, call for all passengers heading to the Earth
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  Kingdom.
• 20:44
  Let's see. I've got the money, the new clothes,
• 20:47
  some food from the market. I don't think I forgot
• 20:50
  anything. It'll be a couple days before they realize I've left
• 20:53
  the island, and by then, it's too late.
• 20:56
  I'll, uh, be one less thing forcing dad to do the wrong
• 20:59
  thing.
• 21:00
  You got your ticket, boy?
• 21:02
  Uh, yes, sir. Um, right here.
• 21:04
  No adults with you lads? No.
• 21:06
  Um, I'm off to stay with my mother. Uh, she's
• 21:09
  an Earth Kingdom noble woman.
• 21:10
  Oh. And where's your father?
• 21:12
  Eh, well, after mother got caught,
• 21:15
  uh, him with a young nomad woman, she divorced
• 21:18
  him.
• 21:19
  That's plenty of details for me, thank you very much.
• 21:22
  I'm sorry I asked.
• 21:24
  The sleeping quarters are uh, in mid deck, and breakfast is at
• 21:27
  06:00 a.m. Sharp every morning. You're welcome on the
• 21:30
  main deck anytime, and especially so if you start to get
• 21:32
  seasick. Welcome aboard the Wavering.
• 21:35
  All are aboard. Crew, lift
• 21:38
  the anchors. We're off to the sandy shores of the
• 21:41
  earth kingdom.
• 21:44
  Bill, wake up. Something is happening on the deck.
• 21:47
  I think we're being boarded.
• 21:50
  Boarded? Um, what do you mean?
• 21:53
  Pirates.
• 21:56
  All right, everyone up. Hand over your
• 21:59
  valuables, please, sir. Uh, this is a passenger
• 22:02
  ship. We have nothing of value. You
• 22:04
  shut your mouth, old man. My sources
• 22:07
  have assured me there's something valuable on this ship that's
• 22:10
  being transported.
• 22:13
  The weapon. What was that, boy?
• 22:16
  Uh, nothing.
• 22:17
  He's hiding something. Men, get over
• 22:20
  here. Grab these crates here.
• 22:26
  Oh, wait. No, please. Those are my tea
• 22:28
  ingredients. Oh, yeah? Any of
• 22:31
  them rare? Incredibly so.
• 22:34
  Perfect. No,
• 22:37
  please stop. You could damage them. I
• 22:40
  need them for when I get to gaoling.
• 22:42
  What is the meaning of this? I
• 22:45
  don't take kindly to pirates, especially
• 22:48
  when they're on my ship.
• 22:50
  You're a ship? I thought this was a passenger
• 22:53
  ship.
• 22:53
  Let's just say the fire nation army is making use
• 22:56
  of it to remain incognito.
• 22:59
  Oh, we didn't sign up for soldiers.
• 23:01
  I figured as much.
• 23:04
  Don't move.
• 23:05
  Uh, Abbaso, what do
• 23:08
  you think you're doing?
• 23:10
  You wouldn't want me to hurt these innocent
• 23:13
  passengers, now, would you?
• 23:14
  I wouldn't lose any sleep. Over.
• 23:16
  Okay, okay, but, uh, what if this
• 23:19
  whole ship went down?
• 23:21
  What are you talking about?
• 23:23
  Uh, well, if this is simply just a
• 23:26
  passenger ship, then I doubt you have any sort of
• 23:28
  weapons on it. My ship, on the other hand, is
• 23:31
  well armed with cannons, ready to fire. Try
• 23:34
  anything, and I'll give the order to shoot.
• 23:37
  All right. So it seems we have a
• 23:40
  standoff. What do you want?
• 23:43
  Our sources told us that this ship is
• 23:45
  transporting something incredibly valuable.
• 23:48
  I see. And who is this source?
• 23:51
  Oh, I'm not telling you.
• 23:53
  Let's make a deal then. My
• 23:55
  soldiers and I will let you leave completely
• 23:58
  unharmed and with whatever supplies
• 24:01
  you can carry in one trip. In
• 24:03
  addition, I will give you this.
• 24:07
  All you have to do is tell me the name of your
• 24:09
  informant and where I can find them, and
• 24:12
  we'll just pretend like this whole ordeal
• 24:15
  was just a misunderstanding.
• 24:18
  All right? Deal. But we are taking the boy
• 24:21
  as well. If anyone tries anything in the meantime,
• 24:24
  I'll just feel a whole lot better having a
• 24:27
  hostage with me. Wait. No.
• 24:29
  Quiet, old man. Agreed.
• 24:32
  All right, you bunch of salty sea dogs, grab a
• 24:35
  creative loot and let's get out of here.
• 24:40
  His name is Chang Sanani. He's the
• 24:43
  owner of a traveling carnival. We came across them
• 24:45
  as we were leaving the Western air temple. He said
• 24:48
  they had just come from the fire nation and saw a production
• 24:51
  factory producing some kind of special
• 24:54
  new machines. And that one of the prototypes
• 24:57
  was being loaded onto the ship.
• 24:59
  I see. And did he say where he was taking his
• 25:02
  carnival next?
• 25:06
  I believe he said they were sailing for Senlin
• 25:09
  village now.
• 25:10
  Sen lin village, you say? Uh, how
• 25:13
  perfect. Uh, this gold has been well
• 25:16
  earned, my friend. May the ocean
• 25:19
  waves be in your favor as you travel from
• 25:22
  here.
• 25:22
  Yeah, sure. Whatever. Have a nice day. All
• 25:25
  right, men, let's go back on the
• 25:28
  ship. Please, sir, uh, you
• 25:30
  must take me with you. What kind of operation
• 25:33
  do you think, Abraham? No, I'm no passenger
• 25:36
  ship. But, sir, the boy,
• 25:39
  he is my grandson. Then I'll be sure
• 25:42
  to train him up into a fine member of Mikru.
• 25:45
  Well, then, let me join your crew as well,
• 25:48
  sir. What? We don't
• 25:51
  have much need for fat old men on my
• 25:53
  sheep. I'm a master of tea
• 25:56
  making. A,
• 25:59
  um, master, you say? Well, there's no
• 26:01
  prize awarded for humility, I suppose.
• 26:04
  I tell you what. I've been having some
• 26:07
  pretty nasty nightmares lately that have been
• 26:10
  keeping me, uh, up. You come along and make me a
• 26:13
  pot of your best nightmare deterrentee. And
• 26:16
  if I get a full night's sleep tonight, you could stick
• 26:19
  around. If not, well, then
• 26:22
  I throw you overboard. That
• 26:25
  sounds like a fair deal to me.
• 26:27
  And with that, you find yourself being called aboard
• 26:30
  the pirate ship as the crew tosses their loot
• 26:33
  onto the deck, releases the ropes from the passenger ship
• 26:36
  you were just on, and sails into the night.
• 26:39
  So, Bill Cameron, as
• 26:41
  bill, you find yourself, uh,
• 26:44
  on board a pirate ship. You and Mr. Okaron
• 26:47
  both, they've just stolen a bunch of his rare, uh,
• 26:50
  tea ingredients, crates of them. So, uh, those are on
• 26:53
  there with you. They're currently, uh, putting those off to the
• 26:56
  side, kind of where they keep a, uh, handful of other
• 26:59
  boxes of who knows what kind of stuff they've looted
• 27:02
  or supplies or whatever the case. Um, you and
• 27:05
  Mr. Okaron are standing there on the front deck. Uh,
• 27:08
  the pirates are all fairly well
• 27:10
  armed with swords and,
• 27:13
  um, other potential weapons.
• 27:16
  Uh, definitely not a situation where you feel
• 27:19
  like if you tried something, it'd be tough to get away with it.
• 27:22
  Potentially. So what would you like to do?
• 27:26
  Um, are they directing us anywhere?
• 27:29
  Um, as it currently stands, you have one big
• 27:32
  guy just kind of standing there next to you. Uh, they don't have
• 27:35
  you tied up, though. Uh, again, they have their
• 27:38
  weapons out. They assume that you're smart enough to know don't try to
• 27:41
  run.
• 27:43
  Yeah, I guess I would just follow
• 27:46
  them and see where they lead me. I figure they're probably going to
• 27:49
  take me to wherever
• 27:52
  they keep hostages. I don't know.
• 27:54
  Sure. Um, yeah. So after
• 27:57
  a couple of minutes of standing there waiting, as kind of the crew
• 28:00
  gets everything together, the, uh, captain actually runs
• 28:03
  over. When you first got on the captain ran over to
• 28:06
  the kind of main, uh,
• 28:08
  steering of the ship and was basically
• 28:11
  just he looked a little nervous in the sense that, uh,
• 28:14
  he wanted to make sure that you guys
• 28:17
  were well away before he decided to
• 28:20
  come and deal with you guys. Essentially, he didn't want to be
• 28:23
  able to see the ship that you were just on because he was know, what if Wang
• 28:26
  long tried something or whatever the case? So,
• 28:29
  as you guys are waiting, you eventually get out of sight of that
• 28:31
  ship, and, um,
• 28:34
  he comes and he approaches you, and he, well,
• 28:37
  well, two new members of the
• 28:40
  crew. Well, what should I do
• 28:42
  with you, eh? And Mr. Okaron says,
• 28:45
  uh well, uh, I could, uh,
• 28:48
  start getting that tea ready for you if you show me
• 28:51
  to the kitchen or whatever it is that you usually
• 28:54
  prep any meals in. He says, Ah, yes. You can head
• 28:57
  down to the next deck, and you'll meet Cookie.
• 29:00
  He's the one. He's our chef down there, and
• 29:02
  he can get you all set up for whatever you need. I expect that
• 29:05
  tea in my hands in let's
• 29:08
  see, the next 20 minutes or
• 29:10
  so you should have a pot of boiling water
• 29:13
  ready for you. So that's one step you don't need to deal
• 29:16
  with. Mr. Okaron
• 29:19
  turns to you, and he says, well, Bill, I suppose we better do
• 29:22
  what he says.
• 29:23
  I guess so. Do I have to go
• 29:26
  there?
• 29:27
  Oh, if you want to go to your room I can show you to your
• 29:30
  room instead.
• 29:30
  Will I get a room?
• 29:32
  Yes. The two of you will be bunking together.
• 29:35
  Cool.
• 29:36
  Uh, well, as
• 29:39
  long as he can follow through with his promise. Otherwise, it
• 29:42
  might be a room just.
• 29:43
  For you, milad, because you're gonna
• 29:46
  wait. What?
• 29:47
  Well, if Mr. What did you say your name?
• 29:50
  Uh, Okran. Well, if Mr.
• 29:52
  Okaron here can't help hold his promise
• 29:55
  and help me get a good night's sleep, well,
• 29:58
  I'll be sending him to be feasted on by the bull
• 30:01
  sharks. Oh.
• 30:05
  Well, um then, uh, Bill turns, look at
• 30:08
  Mr. O'Hara and says, well, you better, uh, make a
• 30:11
  mean pee or else, uh, you'll be in big
• 30:13
  trouble.
• 30:14
  Uh, I've helped people before with
• 30:17
  calming, soothing teas to help with a good night's sleep.
• 30:20
  I'm not worried about my skills. Uh, if
• 30:23
  you just need to rest, that's fine with me, Bill.
• 30:26
  So, wait. There's teas that help
• 30:29
  with sleeping?
• 30:30
  Sure. There's teas that help with a lot of things.
• 30:34
  Huh.
• 30:35
  I may have to try one of those someday.
• 30:37
  Oh, sure. Are you having trouble sleeping, Bill?
• 30:40
  Well, sure, but I don't think now's the time to talk about
• 30:42
  that.
• 30:44
  I tell you what I mean. I usually make things in bulk.
• 30:47
  So I could bring you a cup of tea if that's
• 30:50
  all right with you, Captain. Sure. It makes me
• 30:53
  feel a little better that you wouldn't try poisoning
• 30:56
  the boy with the same tea you try poisoning me with.
• 30:59
  I mean, I'm his grandson, after all. You won't just try it. You'll
• 31:02
  give me the good stuff.
• 31:03
  Oh, I would hope so. I'd, uh, be a little
• 31:06
  bit concerned of your family dynamics if, uh, he tried
• 31:09
  to poison you.
• 31:12
  All right. Follow me, boy. And, uh, you
• 31:15
  Mr. Okaran. Like I said, next deck
• 31:18
  below, you'll find Cookie, you'll find the kitchen.
• 31:20
  Get to work.
• 31:21
  Well, I'm no help in the kitchen, though.
• 31:25
  No, I just mean okrat.
• 31:27
  Oh, okay.
• 31:28
  You can come with me, and I'll show you to your room. Oh, okay. Sick.
• 31:31
  Yeah, that works.
• 31:32
  Uh, so he takes you and, uh, so
• 31:35
  basically, on the sort of second
• 31:37
  or yeah, second deck, front end of the ship.
• 31:40
  I don't know the terms of the four sections.
• 31:43
  There's a poop deck, and there's the.
• 31:45
  Spear and the starboard. Yeah, all that
• 31:48
  stuff. I don't know ship terminology. Maybe I should have studied up
• 31:51
  on it beforehand, but whatever the case, in the front
• 31:53
  most portion of the ship, that's where, uh, the crew
• 31:56
  sleeps. Um, it's also where you have the sort
• 31:59
  of port colors that open up for the cannons and things like that.
• 32:02
  I think that's the correct term. Um, so,
• 32:05
  basically their thinking is if things were to happen and
• 32:08
  they needed people to be on the cannons, like, ASAP,
• 32:11
  they'd be right there, and it would wake everybody up, too.
• 32:14
  That would that's right. Uh, in the back section, on the other
• 32:17
  hand, that's where they've got, like, the kitchen and everything else. So Mr.
• 32:19
  Okaron follows you guys down the steps into
• 32:22
  the second, uh, deck, or whatever. He goes one way,
• 32:25
  you guys go the other way. Uh, the captain, he leads you over.
• 32:28
  He opens up a door, um, into
• 32:31
  a room. It's a pretty crammed
• 32:34
  room, and you kind of assumed as much you've been in, obviously,
• 32:37
  you were just in the other ship, and it was pretty crammed space.
• 32:40
  Um, just more because of the amount of people that were there. This
• 32:43
  one's more crammed because the space is limited. But
• 32:46
  basically, it's like two to a room. It's like a dormitory, maybe
• 32:49
  a little bit smaller than that than a college dormitory.
• 32:52
  Um, it's quaint. So he
• 32:55
  says, all right, there you go. There's your
• 32:58
  room. Have yourself a good night's sleep. But I
• 33:01
  expect you up in Atom in the morning at
• 33:04
  the break of dawn, helping out with the ship.
• 33:07
  Oh, yeah, sure.
• 33:09
  All right. Do you have any prior experience with
• 33:12
  boats, my boy?
• 33:13
  Yeah, I used to
• 33:16
  work on a boat back, uh, in the day.
• 33:19
  Uh, well, not really. It was a family boat.
• 33:22
  Uh, all they
• 33:25
  had me do was mop.
• 33:27
  Well, perfect. Then I guess I know exactly what to
• 33:30
  have you do here. Perfect.
• 33:32
  I'm good at that.
• 33:33
  There you go. I like the spirit, but I
• 33:36
  better see you in the morning or
• 33:39
  I'll be pretty dang. Upset I have to come wake you up
• 33:42
  myself?
• 33:42
  Oh, no. I usually wake up pretty early. I thought you
• 33:45
  mean I was going to jump off. And I'm like, I'm not that good at
• 33:48
  swimming.
• 33:48
  Oh, no, I'm not too worried. It's going to be
• 33:51
  quite some time before we even reach land.
• 33:53
  Where are we going, anyway?
• 33:55
  A small island right off the coast of the Earth
• 33:58
  Kingdom. It's, uh well,
• 34:01
  I don't want to spoil the surprise, but it's a little
• 34:04
  hideout us pirates use. Also. It's close
• 34:06
  by the not too far from the port where we usually
• 34:09
  do a lot of the trade. And from what we steal and loot.
• 34:12
  Oh, you like stealing and looting, don't you, boy? Well,
• 34:15
  as much as any pirate, that's what
• 34:18
  I like to hear.
• 34:19
  Uh, yeah.
• 34:20
  All right. You get some sleep, lad. You've had a long
• 34:23
  day getting kidnapped and
• 34:25
  all, he says as he closes the door behind
• 34:28
  him. And there you go. Uh, you're at
• 34:31
  your room on your own,
• 34:33
  chilling.
• 34:35
  And just like that, I have another, uh, one of
• 34:38
  my, uh, characters. I've played RPGs as
• 34:41
  that is a pirate.
• 34:42
  Yeah, just like that, you've got another pirate now, another
• 34:45
  pirate character. You've solidified the pirate
• 34:47
  title.
• 34:50
  Um, yeah, I guess I would just is it late at
• 34:53
  night?
• 34:53
  Yeah, I'd say it's. I mean, you were sleeping when you guys
• 34:56
  got boarded. So, I mean, yeah, it's probably pretty
• 34:59
  if not early in the morning.
• 35:01
  Honestly, I would lay down.
• 35:04
  I was just in the middle of sleeping. This probably whole situation
• 35:07
  has probably been like 30 minutes. So I'm probably
• 35:09
  still tired.
• 35:10
  Oh, yeah.
• 35:11
  So I'll just go to bed.
• 35:12
  Okay. All right. Um, as you
• 35:15
  fall asleep and maybe 30 minutes or so
• 35:18
  in, uh, you hear the door to your room open. I don't know if it
• 35:21
  necessarily would awaken you or not. I don't know how
• 35:24
  deep or light of a sleeper that Bill is
• 35:27
  about.
• 35:28
  Middle if it's quiet, he won't hear it.
• 35:30
  I would say, uh, it's just enough noise to kind of
• 35:33
  like pull you out of whatever cycle of your
• 35:36
  REM that you're still
• 35:39
  know you got your eyes closed. And it would take you a half a second
• 35:42
  to just drop back into sleep. But basically, you just hear Mr. M.
• 35:44
  Okaron, come in. Um, you hear him set
• 35:47
  something down on the there's like a
• 35:50
  dresser next to your bed. You hear him set it down
• 35:53
  there. It clinks, so you assume it might be like a cup of
• 35:56
  tea and like a little saucer or something. Um, and then you
• 35:59
  just hear him, ah uh, kind of
• 36:02
  some rough rustling of cloth as he changes into
• 36:04
  something else. Or just gets into bed and gets under
• 36:07
  the covers. And he too, goes to sleep
• 36:11
  on his own bed, on
• 36:14
  his own cot.
• 36:15
  Or whatever they have
• 36:17
  anyway.
• 36:18
  Uh, yeah. And then otherwise, uh, you wake up the next
• 36:20
  morning and, uh, mr.
• 36:23
  Ogaran is still snoozing, but it's pretty early,
• 36:26
  or at least you assume I can't really see because you're inside
• 36:29
  of the ship. Uh, well, I would almost argue you
• 36:32
  open up the door and they keep the port colors
• 36:35
  open because the waves weren't super heavy.
• 36:38
  So obviously water wouldn't have been splashing around inside of through
• 36:41
  the windows. And yeah, there's uh, just
• 36:44
  like a very orange light kind of starting to
• 36:47
  come in. So you know that it's about dawn and,
• 36:50
  uh, you look back, you see that yes, indeed, he did bring you
• 36:53
  a cup of tea, uh, last night. But by this point
• 36:56
  it's probably reached lukewarm
• 36:58
  temperatures. Um, but otherwise,
• 37:01
  yeah, uh, it's dawn.
• 37:03
  All right.
• 37:04
  Ah.
• 37:05
  Bill swings his feet around and off the bed
• 37:08
  and he's just sitting there waking up.
• 37:12
  He starts just kind of talking himself under his
• 37:14
  breath. M. So looks like they
• 37:17
  didn't kick the old man off anyway out of it.
• 37:21
  The tea must have been good enough
• 37:24
  to, well, not have him sleeping with the
• 37:27
  fishes. And Bill leans
• 37:29
  over at the cup and he like, sniffs it. What's
• 37:32
  it smell like?
• 37:33
  Um, trying to
• 37:35
  mean, do you think Bill has ever
• 37:38
  smelled like at least lavender before?
• 37:41
  Yeah.
• 37:41
  Okay, so it definitely has like a nice lavender scent to it with
• 37:44
  something else that you're not entirely sure. Um, just
• 37:47
  because it's something that's probably very tea
• 37:50
  oriented and since you're not somebody that likes tea, it wouldn't have
• 37:53
  necessarily caught his nose.
• 37:54
  It just catches lavender.
• 37:56
  Sure. Definitely lavender.
• 37:58
  He, uh, picks up the cup and he just takes
• 38:01
  a sip.
• 38:02
  Okay. Like, um, I said, it's reached lukewarm,
• 38:04
  so it's not hot or cold tea, which
• 38:07
  is normally the two types of tea that a person would drink.
• 38:11
  But, um, it's pleasant. It's
• 38:13
  pleasant. It's very peaceful feeling. I'm not
• 38:16
  going to say that you get overwashed with a sense
• 38:19
  of just peace and
• 38:21
  soothingness or whatever, but it's a little bit
• 38:24
  relaxing.
• 38:25
  But does it taste like tea?
• 38:27
  Yeah.
• 38:30
  And as you do, uh, uh,
• 38:33
  you know, kind of jolts awake and he says, I
• 38:36
  hear someone spitting out tea.
• 38:39
  Uh oh. Bill, you're awake?
• 38:41
  Yeah.
• 38:42
  This tea really woke me, uh, up.
• 38:45
  I tell you what, I had not got enough
• 38:48
  sleep. My 8 hours is really thrown
• 38:50
  off. Do, uh, you know what time it is?
• 38:55
  Best guess around seven.
• 38:57
  Seven.
• 38:58
  I usually always just wake up around then.
• 39:00
  Oh, okay. So probably about dawn.
• 39:03
  I suppose it's about time wake up.
• 39:05
  When the sun comes up.
• 39:06
  Yes. Uh, well, I suppose we
• 39:09
  might as well get at it. Were you
• 39:12
  tasting the tea? Yeah. Well, what did you
• 39:14
  think?
• 39:15
  Tastes like tea.
• 39:17
  Okay. Wasn't fond of that's a very broad
• 39:20
  statement, Bill.
• 39:20
  I just don't like the flavor of.
• 39:24
  It.
• 39:24
  Did feel it did feel a little, I don't
• 39:27
  know, soothing. So maybe if
• 39:30
  I'm having a bad dream or something, I could drink that.
• 39:33
  I'd probably choke it down. But, I mean, if it
• 39:36
  helps give you peace, then it'd be
• 39:39
  like taking medicine. Sometimes they
• 39:42
  taste a little bad, but it helps. Okay,
• 39:45
  I don't know if you have medicine.
• 39:47
  No, absolutely, yes. Uh, I've used it
• 39:50
  myself.
• 39:50
  Honestly, when I ever got sick, my mom would bring me this
• 39:53
  weird soup thing, and it was, like, bubbling, and it
• 39:56
  tasted funky. And I
• 39:59
  would drink it.
• 40:00
  Tasted awful.
• 40:01
  I'd have to hold my nose and everything, but
• 40:05
  believe it or not, next day I felt right as
• 40:07
  rain. Brand new. Bill
• 40:10
  it's amazing the things that, uh.
• 40:12
  A good hot liquid can do, or.
• 40:15
  Soup or whatever the case, whatever magical
• 40:17
  soup, or in this case, your magical
• 40:20
  tea that keeps you on this ship due to a man.
• 40:23
  Well, I would say there's no magic in it, Bill. But,
• 40:26
  you know, tea is a mysterious
• 40:29
  thing, and I've spent my whole life learning it. And
• 40:32
  I have to say, there might just
• 40:34
  be some sort of a magic to tea. I truly
• 40:37
  think so.
• 40:38
  Is it because your secret ingredients love?
• 40:40
  It very well might be, Bill.
• 40:43
  Okay, I'm going to tell everyone. And ruin your
• 40:46
  secret?
• 40:47
  No, that's all right.
• 40:50
  Well, uh, like I said, I suppose we better get
• 40:53
  moving before the captain wakes up and gets mad at us. Uh,
• 40:56
  I don't know what they've got planned for us.
• 40:58
  I'm going to be swabbing the deck.
• 41:01
  Okay.
• 41:03
  I don't know what they're going to do. Probably have you make
• 41:05
  tea all day.
• 41:07
  That sounds fine to me.
• 41:10
  Uh, Bill, uh, I hope you feel
• 41:13
  the same way that I do, and that, um, we probably
• 41:16
  can't stick around on this
• 41:18
  crew if, uh, the opportunity
• 41:21
  arises.
• 41:23
  I think I have a plan. Okay, so, while we
• 41:26
  were talking, you were gone. I talked to the
• 41:28
  captain by ourselves, right? And he
• 41:31
  started talking. I asked him where we were going, and he said we're going
• 41:34
  to, like, a pirate hideout right out it's, like,
• 41:37
  on an island right outside
• 41:40
  the Earth Kingdom.
• 41:42
  Oh, okay.
• 41:43
  And so I was thinking, well, since we're going to both get to the Earth Kingdom,
• 41:46
  you could just stay with these pirates till they get to the hideout, and
• 41:48
  then, I don't know, maybe make a
• 41:51
  break for it, then find out if we're at the pirate hideout.
• 41:54
  There's probably going to be smaller boats or something, and we
• 41:57
  just get our way to the mainland.
• 42:00
  He said it was close enough that they could go to a close
• 42:02
  dock, do trading on the mainland.
• 42:05
  So that's my plan.
• 42:07
  Okay. Yeah, no, that sounds good.
• 42:09
  Until then, we just bite our time, I guess.
• 42:12
  Make friends with the pirates. Make them think we're
• 42:15
  not trying to run, so that if we do run, they won't expect
• 42:18
  it as much.
• 42:18
  Sure. Yeah, that sounds like a good plan to me. All
• 42:21
  right, well, let's get to it then. Yeah. All
• 42:24
  right. Uh, you just find me probably in the
• 42:27
  kitchen and if you need anything.
• 42:28
  No, yeah, I'll probably be in the know getting my food.
• 42:31
  All right, sounds good. And, uh, with that, you guys both
• 42:34
  kind of split up and, uh, Mr. Okaron heads
• 42:37
  back over to the kitchen, assuming that's where they want him. And then you head up to
• 42:40
  the top of the deck to wait further orders. Um, so
• 42:43
  as you arrive up there, uh, you see the rest of the crew
• 42:46
  all seems to be kind of gathered around and they're all whispering amongst
• 42:49
  themselves. Seems like something might be off.
• 42:51
  And, uh, as you approach them, you start to
• 42:54
  hear some, uh, of what they're whispering about. And they're like, I don't know where
• 42:57
  he is. Uh, he's
• 42:59
  always out here, he's never late. Uh,
• 43:02
  he's very punctual. And so I don't know what it is that,
• 43:05
  uh, why he wouldn't be here.
• 43:08
  I'm laughing because a pirate just used the word
• 43:11
  punctual.
• 43:13
  He's very punctual.
• 43:14
  I was like, what kind of pirates am I surrounded by?
• 43:17
  Well, uh, uh, what's that
• 43:20
  pirate game we've played like a few times with, uh,
• 43:23
  forgotten water for on water? Yeah. There's all
• 43:25
  types of pirates. True.
• 43:27
  There's the spoken pirate.
• 43:29
  Yeah. The one that's like, well, I'm a college educated,
• 43:32
  but you know what? This is the job I found.
• 43:34
  Um, I'd rather be a pirate.
• 43:36
  Sure. Exactly.
• 43:37
  So that pirate's on this yeah.
• 43:39
  He's like well, he's always quite punctual. I don't know why he
• 43:42
  wouldn't the.
• 43:43
  Other pirate looks at him, goes, punctual. What does that mean?
• 43:45
  Why he hasn't been stabbed before? Well, I mean, he
• 43:48
  has, but not lately.
• 43:51
  He said what? No, not
• 43:53
  punctured. Punctual,
• 43:56
  you dang college grad, you.
• 43:59
  I can never understand what you're saying.
• 44:01
  Anyway, that's what you hear, Bill. Just kind of
• 44:04
  if there's like a group of them, he's going to try to
• 44:07
  slide into the back of them and just kind of like,
• 44:10
  listen in to what they're saying. Try to figure out who they're talking
• 44:13
  about.
• 44:13
  Okay.
• 44:14
  He doesn't see the captain, right?
• 44:15
  Correct.
• 44:16
  So he might be assuming that's who they're talking, right?
• 44:19
  Right. Yep. And uh, after a couple of more
• 44:21
  whispers between them, you do catch somebody say like, well, I
• 44:24
  don't know what to do. If the captain's not here, where are we supposed
• 44:27
  I mean, I know where we're going, so I guess we'll
• 44:30
  just keep I don't know. Uh,
• 44:33
  the first mate seems to be kind of like leading this charge. So he's the one
• 44:36
  talking. He's like, I don't know. I don't know where the captain
• 44:39
  is. I'm not going to go barging into his
• 44:42
  room and wake him up if he's sleeping.
• 44:45
  And someone's like, well, what if he's dead? And they're like,
• 44:48
  wait a minute, the tea
• 44:52
  m. There must have been something sketchy about that
• 44:54
  tea. Uh, okay, uh, I'll
• 44:57
  go check on the captain and uh,
• 45:00
  the rest of y'all head down to the kitchen and grab that tea
• 45:03
  maker because obviously he's up to something. And they're
• 45:06
  yeah, yeah. And they start getting, like, kind of up in arms. They're all getting their swords
• 45:09
  up. Let's get the tea maker. He poisoned the
• 45:11
  captain.
• 45:12
  Bill's going to be like, there was.
• 45:14
  Nothing wrong with that tea. But all
• 45:17
  of them all kind of turn to look at you and they're all kind of glaring at you
• 45:20
  and they're like, it's the new boy. And
• 45:23
  the first mate guy, he says, well, what do you know about the
• 45:26
  tea?
• 45:27
  Well, a couple of things. First off, um, I know the old
• 45:30
  guy. He's my grandpa, so I know he wouldn't
• 45:33
  poison anyone. And second, he gave me the
• 45:35
  same tea. Um, so
• 45:39
  the tea is fine, honestly.
• 45:40
  If I was to take a best.
• 45:42
  Good guess, the tea is to help with
• 45:44
  sleep. Maybe he's just having a really
• 45:47
  good sleep.
• 45:48
  Uh, the well spoken pirate off in the
• 45:51
  corner, he says, well, I believe, m, that he might just
• 45:54
  be in cahoots with the old man.
• 45:56
  Yeah, he's my grandpa. Not really cahoots, though. I mean, go
• 45:59
  check on him.
• 46:00
  He's probably asleep. And the first mate's
• 46:02
  like, all right,
• 46:05
  that sounds fair. All right, everybody wait right
• 46:08
  here. And they all watch as he because obviously the
• 46:11
  captain's got his room right up by, uh, the
• 46:13
  top of the deck, kind of by the steering
• 46:16
  wheel. I feel bad. Someone's going to be like, you
• 46:19
  idiot. That's not what it's called.
• 46:20
  I think it's just called a wheel.
• 46:21
  A wheel?
• 46:22
  Yeah.
• 46:22
  So, uh, he knocks on the door and there's no
• 46:25
  answer. And he tries the door and
• 46:28
  it's locked. And he jiggles it a little bit and he goes,
• 46:32
  okay, one, two, three.
• 46:35
  And he just slams himself up against the door, knocks it
• 46:38
  wide open, and he
• 46:41
  stands there for a second. He's like, Captain, captain,
• 46:44
  are you all right? And all of a sudden, the captain
• 46:47
  comes walking out, pushes past him. He says, Why'd you break open
• 46:49
  midor? I was having the nicest rest
• 46:52
  I've had in quite a long time. And you come
• 46:55
  breaking in my door. You burst
• 46:58
  in here, making all kinds of noise, waking me up.
• 47:02
  What are y'all doing standing around? Get to your jobs.
• 47:05
  You know where we're going. You know what you do. And
• 47:08
  everybody's just kind of like, awkwardly with their
• 47:11
  mumbling and stuff. They just start to disperse and head off to their
• 47:14
  jobs. And the cats who comes down, he's like,
• 47:17
  well, I definitely won't be throwing that tea maker
• 47:19
  overboard. I tell you what, he's a stand up
• 47:22
  guy. Made the best tea I've ever had.
• 47:25
  You that boy.
• 47:27
  Uh, sir, yes.
• 47:29
  Uh, well, uh, where's your grandpa?
• 47:32
  He's down in the kitchen.
• 47:33
  Uh, well, I'll have to go down there and thank him. Uh, what are
• 47:36
  you up to?
• 47:36
  I mean, he'll probably make you a morning brew, too.
• 47:39
  Uh, yeah, that sounds good. I wonder if he does
• 47:41
  coffee.
• 47:42
  He does everything. I bet he'll make a great one that wake you up, give
• 47:45
  you spirits for the day.
• 47:47
  Yeah, that sounds good to me. What are you doing, boy?
• 47:49
  Uh, have they given you your mopping bucket yet?
• 47:52
  No, I was waiting for anything.
• 47:55
  You there, calconi, give him his mop and
• 47:57
  bucket. We could
• 48:00
  do the well spoken yes, Captain.
• 48:03
  I'll get him his mop and bucket right away. Follow
• 48:06
  me, child. And the
• 48:09
  captain kind of goes walking off down towards the stairs to go,
• 48:12
  you assume, to talk to Mr. O'gran. This, uh, new guy,
• 48:14
  Calcone. He, uh, approaches you.
• 48:17
  He's a built man, but, uh, he's kind of dorito
• 48:20
  shaped where you can tell he kind of skipped a lot.
• 48:22
  Of leg day, but he doesn't he.
• 48:24
  Skipped all the leg. He's got scrawny little legs, but he's got, like, big
• 48:27
  built arms. Uh, if he was any more
• 48:30
  muscular, he probably wouldn't even stand on his legs. He'd just, like,
• 48:33
  walk around on his giant arms, do a mug shot. Uh,
• 48:36
  and he's bald. He kind of looks like one of those early
• 48:39
  English boxers.
• 48:40
  Giant mustache.
• 48:41
  He has a huge handlebar mustache. He
• 48:44
  looks just like in the posters, those guys that do the box
• 48:47
  fisticuffs. And he says, well, boy,
• 48:50
  since you joined our crew, uh, uh,
• 48:53
  he said mopping bucket. Yeah. Follow me. And
• 48:56
  he starts walking away with his big arms, and you
• 48:59
  find this little closet. And, uh, he opens the
• 49:02
  door, and he just kind of shows you in. And he's like,
• 49:04
  well, uh, I can't get it because, uh,
• 49:07
  my big shoulders. But if you want to go in
• 49:10
  there and get your mopping bucket, couldn't.
• 49:12
  You just turn sideways?
• 49:14
  I could try.
• 49:15
  And he turns sideways.
• 49:19
  And you hear, like, the sound of the frames around the
• 49:22
  door is, like, creaking as he's trying to fit himself in
• 49:25
  there. And he's like, I got it.
• 49:27
  Um, you ever
• 49:30
  put your hand in the cookie jar and you grab the cookie
• 49:33
  and you can't get your hand out? I feel like that's where we're at right
• 49:36
  now.
• 49:36
  You can get back. I'll get them.
• 49:38
  All right. I feel like I keep accidentally
• 49:41
  doing an accent.
• 49:42
  Uh, this guy, he's a half pirate.
• 49:44
  Half strike, and it just slits into exactly.
• 49:49
  So, uh, he lets go of the mop, and he pulls his
• 49:52
  entire self out of this closet. And,
• 49:54
  uh, kind of looks a little embarrassed, I guess,
• 49:57
  as you'll just kind.
• 49:58
  Of slides by him and grabs the bucket and
• 50:01
  mop.
• 50:02
  He says, uh, well, it usually takes about a day
• 50:04
  to start, uh, at one end of the deck and end up
• 50:07
  at the other end of the deck. And, uh, mop your
• 50:10
  way from there to there. Uh oh, breakfast.
• 50:13
  Yes. Uh, that'll probably be ready here in about
• 50:17
  ten minutes.
• 50:18
  Okay. I just figured I'd follow the crew.
• 50:21
  Okay. Yes.
• 50:22
  Uh, well, what do I use
• 50:24
  for the water?
• 50:26
  Oh, yeah. See, all you do is you take a rope and you tie
• 50:29
  it around the bucket, throw it overboard.
• 50:32
  Uh, don't lose the bucket. We lose a lot of buckets, uh, throughout an
• 50:35
  entire journey.
• 50:36
  Got it.
• 50:36
  And, uh, for different reasons. And, uh, mopping the floor
• 50:39
  should not be one of them.
• 50:40
  Okay.
• 50:40
  And then you just pull it back up and you dump the water on the ground.
• 50:43
  You just start swabbing.
• 50:45
  So I just use seawater?
• 50:48
  Yeah.
• 50:48
  Okay. I can do that.
• 50:50
  All right. I mean, it's clean enough. The salt
• 50:53
  really, uh, helps to disinfect things.
• 50:55
  You're the professional here.
• 50:57
  There you go. Uh, if you do need soap, uh,
• 51:00
  which you usually don't, we've got some in the
• 51:03
  closet there. Uh, it doesn't take a
• 51:06
  lot. Basically just kind of wash your hands in the same water and
• 51:09
  then it'll kind of set it up and then you just go from
• 51:11
  there. Okay, I can do that. All right.
• 51:14
  Good to hear, boy. Uh, if you need me, I'll be
• 51:17
  around.
• 51:18
  Oh, and the name is Bill.
• 51:20
  Oh, Bill. Oh, yeah. Nice to meet you. Uh, like the
• 51:23
  Captain said, my name's, uh, Karconi.
• 51:26
  Nice to meet you.
• 51:27
  Nice to meet you, too. Glad, uh, to have you on board.
• 51:31
  We're pretty rough, but, uh, I think all things consider, we're a pretty good
• 51:34
  gang of pirates.
• 51:35
  I'm going to be the best pirate.
• 51:37
  Oh, lad. Little
• 51:40
  cheeky, cheeky lad. You. Yeah.
• 51:43
  All right, well, I'll see you later. I got my own work to do. And Bill,
• 51:46
  don't lose that bucket.
• 51:47
  Bill grabs the bucket them up, and then also some rope
• 51:50
  that's in there and heads up to the front
• 51:53
  of.
• 51:53
  The boat, I guess. All right.
• 51:55
  And just gets to swabbing.
• 51:56
  All right. Ten, uh, minutes later, breakfast gets brought
• 51:59
  up. Mr. Ochron is with the, uh, cookie.
• 52:02
  Yeah, Cookie, who you meet who's a big burly
• 52:04
  guy. Real, ah, rough and rowdy looking. Looks like he
• 52:08
  probably hasn't bathed in quite some time. Kind of smells like he hasn't
• 52:10
  bathed in quite some time. Um, big old
• 52:13
  loppy chef's hat on his head. Big old gross
• 52:16
  looking apron. Like, he wipes his like the apron.
• 52:18
  Has more food on it. Absolutely.
• 52:22
  And, uh, they just kind of serve things up. And I don't
• 52:24
  know if there's anything you needed to do during that.
• 52:26
  Otherwise, just grab a quick bite of these.
• 52:29
  Okay.
• 52:29
  If there was tea, he would not drink it.
• 52:31
  That's fair. If there's water, he would drink there's water. And then
• 52:34
  there's obviously some form of the alcohol
• 52:36
  ale or grog or something.
• 52:38
  Along those lines, he would just grab the water.
• 52:40
  You can tell that, um, just something that
• 52:43
  you point out. Uh, a lot of people grab the
• 52:46
  grog. And then, uh, mr.
• 52:48
  Okaron kind of like you see him, he gets kind of pushy with the tea.
• 52:51
  He's like, just go ahead, take know, try it,
• 52:54
  whatever. And you actually notice that a lot of people,
• 52:57
  after they try the tea. They're like, oh. And they'll
• 53:00
  put their grog down and then go back for either a larger
• 53:03
  cup or like a second serving of the tea or whatever
• 53:06
  the case. So it's definitely a pretty popular choice. Okay,
• 53:09
  so, um, otherwise you get back to work.
• 53:11
  I have a feeling that in this whole
• 53:13
  campaign, this whole Sea series, that, uh,
• 53:16
  Bill might be the only person who will not like Mr.
• 53:19
  Okran's tea.
• 53:20
  It's very possible. It's very possible.
• 53:23
  I mean, at least everybody drinks tea. So it's like Mr.
• 53:26
  Okron can take their favorite tea and make it in such a way
• 53:29
  that's, like, it's just.
• 53:30
  Funny that every single character we've met has
• 53:33
  enjoyed the tea. And then there's just Bill, one
• 53:36
  of the people who works there. He's just like, I'll like it.
• 53:39
  Yeah, well, hey, that's, you know, the
• 53:42
  fun character. Troy is an interesting
• 53:45
  character. Exactly.
• 53:46
  He's the only person in this whole universe that doesn't.
• 53:52
  I'll take a water. Let me
• 53:54
  dip any leaves in that water. No, just water. Just water.
• 53:57
  Fresh water?
• 53:59
  M, that's right. So, uh,
• 54:01
  over the course of the day, you see
• 54:04
  mostly just water as you're mopping. But as it
• 54:07
  gets later into the afternoon, you start to see land
• 54:10
  and someone shouts out, island
• 54:12
  home. And, uh, by the
• 54:15
  end of the night, once you pretty much finish
• 54:18
  swabbing the entire deck, uh, you guys eventually make
• 54:21
  landfall at this island that they've, uh,
• 54:24
  kind of called their base. And
• 54:27
  just off into the distance you can just see the
• 54:30
  sight of land poking up over the
• 54:33
  waters. Uh, what you assume is the
• 54:35
  Earth kingdom. Kind of where that all begins. Everybody kind
• 54:38
  of starts, uh, working to get off the ship. They're
• 54:41
  mostly hauling stuff. The, uh, captain comes up to you and he says,
• 54:44
  good job, boy. I see that you made it all the way across the deck.
• 54:47
  Very impressive. Uh, you can stash that
• 54:50
  back over into, uh, the closet
• 54:53
  where you got it and then, uh, just grab a crate and start
• 54:56
  bringing it onto the island. We're going to unload all this
• 54:59
  loot and then we'll restock
• 55:02
  whatever we need to as necessary.
• 55:04
  Okay.
• 55:05
  So are we at the island then? Yes, we're
• 55:08
  now not parked, but like anchors Away
• 55:11
  the dock.
• 55:11
  At the, uh, island, there's a little dock that
• 55:14
  it's kind of janky built. You could tell the pirates themselves
• 55:17
  probably put it in, uh, for their ship, but yeah.
• 55:20
  Okay.
• 55:21
  So Bill is going to, uh, when
• 55:23
  the captain walks away, right?
• 55:25
  Mhm.
• 55:26
  He wants to look over the side of the
• 55:29
  boat. Is there land there?
• 55:32
  Like directly over the side of the boat? Yeah. Uh,
• 55:36
  so there's that skinny dock that I was talking about and then that
• 55:39
  connects to the yeah.
• 55:40
  So there is no land there, right?
• 55:42
  Not directly next to the boat, no.
• 55:44
  Okay. When Bill was in
• 55:47
  the closet getting the mop and stuff, was
• 55:49
  there multiple mops or just this one?
• 55:52
  Uh, yeah, I'd say there'd maybe be maybe two
• 55:55
  or three.
• 55:58
  Um, anyone? Is there a side
• 56:00
  of the boat that no one's on,
• 56:04
  so it's probably turned sideways?
• 56:05
  Yes.
• 56:06
  Okay.
• 56:07
  So yeah, most people would be getting off on the one.
• 56:10
  So if the boat is facing this way, most people are
• 56:13
  over on this side where the dock is next to it and they're getting off.
• 56:16
  So this whole side of the boat over here probably doesn't have very many people on
• 56:19
  it, if any at all. Okay.
• 56:20
  Uh, Bill's just going to take all that in and he's going to start walking
• 56:23
  back to the closet. And when he
• 56:26
  gets to the closet, he, uh,
• 56:29
  is going to.
• 56:33
  Shut the.
• 56:33
  Door behind him and the
• 56:36
  closet.
• 56:37
  Okay.
• 56:37
  And he's going to take the mop and set it
• 56:40
  down, turn it, and
• 56:43
  then take his foot and he's going to snap off the end of
• 56:46
  it.
• 56:46
  Okay.
• 56:47
  Um, the bow staff. He is making a
• 56:50
  makeshift bow staff, which is his weapon
• 56:53
  of choice, which he did not bring with him
• 56:56
  because it was at his house. And he skipped that step
• 56:59
  to come straight here.
• 57:00
  Right. Well, you didn't think you'd need a weapon. Correct.
• 57:01
  He thought he was going to be fine and they figured he'd get
• 57:04
  a new staff at the ah, because
• 57:07
  like I said in the way back in, uh, the main
• 57:10
  story, I said he never named it.
• 57:13
  So it wasn't like close to him. It was just he likes having a
• 57:16
  staff with him. That one wasn't like his
• 57:19
  lifelong one. It was no new one he got.
• 57:21
  Sure.
• 57:22
  Uh, anyways, he breaks it. He makes a makeshift bow staff and then
• 57:25
  he kind of just like tosses it on his back. Just kind
• 57:28
  of puts it he doesn't have a strap for it like he
• 57:30
  normally does, so he can keep some M back. So what he does
• 57:33
  is he kind of just uh, slides
• 57:36
  it to his back, like, uh,
• 57:39
  through his shirt and slides it also
• 57:42
  down his pants as well that he's wearing.
• 57:45
  So then he's just got this giant stick that's just like all the
• 57:48
  way running from the leg up to his back.
• 57:51
  Okay.
• 57:51
  He's going to have to walk a little stiff legged, but he doesn't want
• 57:54
  anyone to know that he's got this right.
• 57:56
  Okay, that makes sense.
• 57:57
  And then he peg leg walks because now
• 58:00
  he has a stiff leg that he can't bend. And he's
• 58:03
  going to try and nonchalantly walk over to the rest
• 58:06
  of the crew to
• 58:09
  get, um, one of those packages sure. He
• 58:12
  talked about.
• 58:13
  Yeah. Okay. So yeah, you're able to get over there,
• 58:16
  although be it, uh, pretty awkwardly, uh,
• 58:18
  grab a box and then start kind of heading off. It's definitely
• 58:21
  very awkward getting off the ship on the ramp. Oh, yeah.
• 58:24
  No, that's very hard.
• 58:26
  They definitely, probably are giving him weird voices.
• 58:28
  They are. They are. And uh, the one well
• 58:31
  spoken pirate guy, Carl Coney. Uh, he comes up to you, he
• 58:34
  says, I say, boy, uh,
• 58:37
  what seems to be the problem with your leg? Oh,
• 58:40
  your ligament.
• 58:42
  My life? Yeah. It's
• 58:44
  ligaments.
• 58:46
  It's stiff.
• 58:47
  I have not worked on a ship in a long time. And
• 58:50
  the waves and the movement and.
• 58:52
  This leg is just real sore.
• 58:54
  I kind of slipped with it earlier on some rope.
• 58:58
  First day of pirate life.
• 59:00
  First day of pirate life. And you, uh, get
• 59:03
  stiff.
• 59:04
  All that swaying back and forth while you swab the
• 59:07
  deck. I tell you what, uh,
• 59:10
  it does a number on you.
• 59:11
  Some good sleep. And I'll probably be right as random.
• 59:14
  That's right. Maybe, uh, your grandpa can make you some nice
• 59:17
  tea.
• 59:17
  Oh, tea.
• 59:18
  I don't like stuff, really.
• 59:20
  I know he makes a m mean tea. I've heard.
• 59:23
  Uh, personally, I'm not a fan of.
• 59:25
  Tea, but I don't know. But I guess
• 59:28
  more for us.
• 59:29
  Yeah, more for you, exactly.
• 59:30
  All right. Fair enough. Well, uh, yeah, uh,
• 59:34
  after a few days or so, I mean, you'll be back on land anyway,
• 59:37
  so I suppose it'll probably all
• 59:40
  wash away here soon. Yeah.
• 59:41
  Well, if you don't mind, I'm going to go. This box is rather heavy.
• 59:44
  Oh, sorry. Yes, of course.
• 59:45
  And Bill just kind of keeps
• 59:48
  hobbling his one leg forward down this
• 59:51
  ramp.
• 59:52
  You're really pulling the pirate look off.
• 59:54
  He really does look like a pirate because he looks like he's got an
• 59:57
  actual peg, a foot instead. But he's
• 1:00:00
  not bending his leg.
• 1:00:01
  He has a third pick, like tossing.
• 1:00:02
  It in front of him as he's walking.
• 1:00:04
  Um, so after a few goes or
• 1:00:07
  so, uh, you eventually get all the boxes off the ship
• 1:00:10
  that they're expecting to and, uh, you guys kind of head in and
• 1:00:13
  you find that there's actually, like I don't want to say, like, a whole
• 1:00:16
  village, but it definitely looks like maybe a small
• 1:00:19
  village had abandoned or maybe the pirates had run them out.
• 1:00:22
  Who knows? And so they've kind of taken over. So there's some
• 1:00:25
  actual housing structures and stuff like that. And, uh,
• 1:00:28
  what happens is a lot of the pirates, they start a big fire in the
• 1:00:31
  center of the little village. Mr. Okaron's out
• 1:00:33
  there, uh, Cookie has like this giant looks like, uh,
• 1:00:37
  some sort of a porcubore or something,
• 1:00:40
  uh, over the spit. And he's just like, roasting that up
• 1:00:43
  for everybody. So a lot of people are playing some
• 1:00:45
  instruments or dancing around. Just kind of having a good time. We made
• 1:00:48
  it to port.
• 1:00:49
  We got some good loot.
• 1:00:50
  Wasn't as everything we expected, but we're
• 1:00:53
  here. It's kind of a home coming home. So, uh,
• 1:00:56
  everybody seems to be in pretty good spirits for the most part. The captain kind of
• 1:00:59
  just sits by and watches. He's sitting over by the fire, uh,
• 1:01:02
  just kind of laughing. He's having some drinks.
• 1:01:05
  He's talking to. A couple of the crew members, things along those lines.
• 1:01:08
  Okay.
• 1:01:09
  Um, Bill's going to make his way to wherever he's
• 1:01:12
  probably following someone ahead of him with a box. And he just follows
• 1:01:15
  him to wherever that is.
• 1:01:16
  Right? Yeah. I mean, they put all their boxes down. This is all
• 1:01:18
  after yeah, all the boxes are kind of so after he.
• 1:01:21
  Sets his box down, he's going to see if there's an opening for him
• 1:01:24
  to kind of, like, slide away into the shadows behind the building.
• 1:01:27
  Okay.
• 1:01:30
  Give me a push.
• 1:01:31
  Your luck.
• 1:01:37
  Okay. So basically, you successfully
• 1:01:40
  are able to sneak behind one of the buildings. But as
• 1:01:43
  you do so, you can hear the Captain,
• 1:01:46
  uh, say something to the effect of,
• 1:01:48
  uh, you there, Mr.
• 1:01:51
  Ogron. Where's your boy, uh, your
• 1:01:54
  grandson? So basically, you know that they
• 1:01:56
  might be looking for you to some extent,
• 1:01:59
  uh, in the near future, but as of the moment, you are out of
• 1:02:02
  sight.
• 1:02:03
  So they know I'm m not there to some
• 1:02:05
  extent.
• 1:02:06
  Like I said, I mean, you could be in one of the buildings. It's going to take
• 1:02:09
  a while for them to look around the immediate, like.
• 1:02:11
  Where we might think I'm still on the ships.
• 1:02:13
  Exactly. Yeah. It could be either of the thing. Okay.
• 1:02:16
  Um, well, when I sneak past the
• 1:02:18
  buildings, I wanted to look around.
• 1:02:20
  Okay.
• 1:02:21
  Just get an idea of where it is. My goal
• 1:02:24
  is I'm looking for, like, a dinghy.
• 1:02:26
  Oh, okay. Yeah.
• 1:02:27
  Um, from this island, can
• 1:02:30
  we see the mainland?
• 1:02:31
  So you can just barely see the mainland kind of peeking
• 1:02:34
  up in the distance. Uh, you know where
• 1:02:37
  it was. You could see it from the ship pretty well.
• 1:02:41
  Um, you kind of look around. So for the most part, outside
• 1:02:44
  of this little village, let's call it, um,
• 1:02:47
  which is not too far from the docks,
• 1:02:49
  it's pretty well like jungled and things along those
• 1:02:52
  lines. Um, but you do eventually, I mean, you kind of make your
• 1:02:55
  way back over to the dock. And you do notice that near the dock, they have a
• 1:02:58
  handful of dinghies, little rowboats
• 1:03:00
  or what have you, um, that are stationed there in the
• 1:03:03
  sand, kind of tied down, just really simple. Just tied
• 1:03:06
  to, like, a nearby tree or something like that, so they don't float
• 1:03:09
  away. If the tide were to come in.
• 1:03:11
  A little high, bill's going to make his way over to those dinghies.
• 1:03:13
  Okay.
• 1:03:14
  And then just slide into one of them.
• 1:03:17
  He's going to just take out his bow staff and slide it
• 1:03:20
  into it. Just kind of just lay it down.
• 1:03:22
  Okay.
• 1:03:23
  And then he's just going to go back to the, uh,
• 1:03:26
  pirate where everyone else is.
• 1:03:27
  Okay. So as you walk in, the pirate Captain, he sees you and he
• 1:03:30
  says, oh, boy, I was wondering where you were
• 1:03:33
  at. We were just looking for you. How was your first day on the
• 1:03:36
  crew?
• 1:03:38
  They'll grab to the back, and he's like, I'm
• 1:03:41
  awfully stiff to be.
• 1:03:42
  He's got his sea legs coming in. I see.
• 1:03:46
  Well, that's too bad that we came aboard, uh, onto the
• 1:03:49
  shore, because, uh, usually if you stick around
• 1:03:51
  on the ship for a few days in a row, it makes it a lot
• 1:03:54
  easier to just fully transition in real quick. But,
• 1:03:57
  uh, not much we can do. Unless you want to go sleep on
• 1:04:00
  the boat now.
• 1:04:02
  I'm fine out here.
• 1:04:03
  All right. Well, anyways, we are just having
• 1:04:06
  some fun. Uh, no responsibilities, too much in the morning.
• 1:04:09
  We're, uh, planning on just resting up for the next day
• 1:04:12
  or so, and then we're going to take our spoils over
• 1:04:15
  on the schooner over to the mainland, and we'll
• 1:04:17
  do some trading. I wasn't sure if you wanted to come along for that.
• 1:04:21
  Oh, that'd be cool.
• 1:04:22
  Yeah. Yes. Learn a little bit about what it is to sort
• 1:04:25
  of negotiate and, uh, maybe intimidate some of
• 1:04:27
  the businessmen over there
• 1:04:30
  into giving us some pretty good deals. Yeah.
• 1:04:33
  I mean, I want to learn everything on how to become a pirate.
• 1:04:36
  That's my boy.
• 1:04:39
  Well, all right. Well, you just, uh, enjoyed yourself.
• 1:04:42
  Have some, um, fun at the party, enjoy
• 1:04:45
  some of the food. Uh, your grandpa's making
• 1:04:48
  tea, but I know that's not really a thing from what I've
• 1:04:51
  heard. Uh, so just, uh, enjoy yourself,
• 1:04:54
  boy. Uh, you've earned it. I'm pretty proud of
• 1:04:57
  Ginyon for a kid that we found on a
• 1:04:59
  passenger ship and kidnapped. I'm pretty impressed by how well you've taken
• 1:05:02
  to this, by the way, boy. Where's your parents?
• 1:05:07
  Dead.
• 1:05:10
  Good.
• 1:05:11
  Yeah, I'm perfect for a pirate.
• 1:05:13
  That's right. You have such a good spirit about it that you're
• 1:05:16
  almost freaking me out. You're so cool with it.
• 1:05:18
  It happened a long time ago.
• 1:05:19
  Ah.
• 1:05:20
  I was living in an orphanage in the Fire Nation, and then
• 1:05:23
  I got sick of it. So then I wanted to try something new, so I was
• 1:05:26
  going to the Earth Kingdom. Um, and honestly, being a
• 1:05:28
  pirate is something new, I
• 1:05:31
  guess.
• 1:05:32
  Well, we're happy to have you. Like I said, I'm pretty
• 1:05:35
  impressed by how well you've transitioned into it. All
• 1:05:38
  right, well, everybody have your fun, have your good times,
• 1:05:41
  and, uh, we'll figure things out tomorrow morning.
• 1:05:43
  Now. Did Mr. Okeron hear that?
• 1:05:46
  Yes.
• 1:05:47
  Oh, okay.
• 1:05:48
  Anyways yep, like, uh, I said, people kind of continue to party.
• 1:05:51
  Mr. Okeron just kind of sitting by a big old pot of tea. He's just
• 1:05:53
  keeping stirring it, pouring it for people as they come. Know? He
• 1:05:56
  seems really excited when somebody comes to get a little cup of tea.
• 1:06:00
  Bill just kind of chilled by the.
• 1:06:02
  Fire with Mr.
• 1:06:05
  O'gron, or kind of.
• 1:06:06
  Near Mr. O'ron also near Cookie, because he wants some of that
• 1:06:09
  fish. Not the tea, but the fish or whatever he was cooking.
• 1:06:12
  Yeah, uh, it was like, uh, a wild
• 1:06:14
  boar. Yeah. You
• 1:06:17
  absolutely can get first pickings of that. Oh, yeah.
• 1:06:20
  You watch him as he just cuts off a big chunk and just starts
• 1:06:23
  handing chunks out to people and stuff like that.
• 1:06:26
  And he's kind of know, doing what Bill
• 1:06:28
  kind of does, where he kind of stays quiet and he just sits back and
• 1:06:31
  observes everyone. He's like, taking in the moment, the
• 1:06:34
  music, the, um, watching people coming to talk to Mr.
• 1:06:37
  Okra and stuff. He's trying to kind of pick up more
• 1:06:39
  on too.
• 1:06:41
  Oh, okay.
• 1:06:41
  Just observing him. Well, if there's anything, this is the guy
• 1:06:44
  he's claiming to be his grandpa. Probably should try
• 1:06:47
  and figure out more about him.
• 1:06:48
  Sure. Well, if there are any specific questions that you want
• 1:06:51
  to ask, you could definitely do an assessment. Sure. Go for
• 1:06:54
  it. Watch.
• 1:06:55
  I'm going to fail this. Rolling. You went
• 1:06:58
  blind? No, I, uh, actually rolled
• 1:07:00
  a ten.
• 1:07:03
  Oh, wow. Okay. So on a ten plus, you get to ask two of,
• 1:07:06
  uh, the questions and you also get a plus one ongoing
• 1:07:09
  when, uh, acting on any of the answers for whatever
• 1:07:12
  that might entail.
• 1:07:13
  These questions are a little weird for this situation because
• 1:07:16
  they're usually like, if.
• 1:07:17
  You'Re in trouble right. Yeah. Feel free to kind of
• 1:07:20
  reword them based on whatever is that you're kind of looking
• 1:07:23
  for.
• 1:07:24
  But I will say that these are kind of
• 1:07:27
  important because Bill is
• 1:07:30
  currently also Wallace in here and they're doing all this. He is scheming
• 1:07:33
  on how he's going to escape. Uh,
• 1:07:36
  he's trying to figure out how he's escaped. And I think
• 1:07:39
  his first one is, uh,
• 1:07:41
  what is his biggest threat. So if at any
• 1:07:44
  moment he's planning on running with Mr. Okra,
• 1:07:47
  what does he think will be his biggest threat to stop?
• 1:07:50
  Sure. I, um, would definitely say
• 1:07:53
  that if the crew were to find out too
• 1:07:56
  quickly, um, he would worry that
• 1:07:59
  given the time it's going to take for him and Mr. M Ogron
• 1:08:02
  to row to the shore, once you get there, you're
• 1:08:04
  probably okay, you can probably find some way to either hide or get away.
• 1:08:07
  But if you weren't able to row there fast enough before the crew
• 1:08:11
  figured out that you were gone, I mean, their ships
• 1:08:13
  are much faster, whether it be one of their schooners that they use,
• 1:08:16
  or whether it be the main ship, which you doubt they would probably
• 1:08:19
  use.
• 1:08:20
  Well, when Bill heard, uh, the plan of
• 1:08:23
  them going to the mainland, they can bring Bill with them.
• 1:08:26
  I was thinking that would be a better chance to break away because they'll be in
• 1:08:29
  a know, he can just hide between like
• 1:08:32
  he can just run off and hide between buildings and alleyways
• 1:08:35
  and stuff. And it'd be a lot easier for them to get away
• 1:08:38
  on in the city than row into the city.
• 1:08:40
  Sure.
• 1:08:42
  Um, his biggest worry right now is Mr.
• 1:08:44
  Okuron. He knows he's young and nimble and
• 1:08:47
  can get away quickly. But he's not so sure about an
• 1:08:50
  old dude, right?
• 1:08:54
  Is he going to be a liability? Can you
• 1:08:57
  bring him along and stuff?
• 1:08:58
  Okay. Yeah. Okay.
• 1:09:00
  Uh, uh, I'm going to
• 1:09:03
  ask, uh, what here can I use to escape?
• 1:09:06
  Okay, um, so obviously you have the
• 1:09:08
  dinghy. Uh, if you were to do it that way, you
• 1:09:11
  know that they have a schooner. And you know that schooners, uh,
• 1:09:14
  based on whatever amount of knowledge Bill might have about
• 1:09:17
  ships, he knows that it's a small,
• 1:09:20
  uh, vessel with sails, so it's a lot
• 1:09:23
  faster comparatively to most
• 1:09:26
  things. It's a very speedy boat. Um, so
• 1:09:29
  that would be really useful. Um, let's see.
• 1:09:32
  Obviously, you've already kind of come up with the idea of
• 1:09:34
  just waiting until they take you along in the first
• 1:09:37
  place. Uh, let's see, what else could
• 1:09:40
  you use to escape?
• 1:09:43
  Um you know, in the back of your mind that if
• 1:09:46
  it came down to it, you could also if you just needed
• 1:09:48
  to lose them or maybe create some sort of
• 1:09:51
  a diversion or distraction. If you were to run into the woods,
• 1:09:55
  you wonder this island based on
• 1:09:57
  cleaning the deck while you were cleaning the deck on the way over here, you kind of
• 1:10:00
  got a glimpse of a pretty decent amount of the island. It's
• 1:10:03
  a fairly large island, so it would take them quite a while
• 1:10:06
  on foot, uh, which, you know, is kind of almost like a
• 1:10:09
  weakness to these pirates. They're not on their ship.
• 1:10:12
  They're not where they're experienced. If they're just running around an island, they might know the
• 1:10:15
  island pretty well, maybe. Um, but whatever
• 1:10:18
  the case, if you could sneak into the woods and hide,
• 1:10:22
  um, it would take them a long time to probably try to
• 1:10:25
  find you amidst the jungle.
• 1:10:29
  I would say that's a pretty solid overview of the things
• 1:10:32
  that you could potentially use.
• 1:10:33
  Okay, that's it.
• 1:10:36
  All right.
• 1:10:36
  Just sit there and take in.
• 1:10:39
  Sure, sure. Um, honestly, some of these pirate
• 1:10:42
  guys are willing to party pretty much almost the whole
• 1:10:45
  night through. Uh, I don't know how much you
• 1:10:47
  might hit a certain point. Mr. O'gron, he hits a certain
• 1:10:50
  point for sure where he puts out the fire, and he's like, well, the
• 1:10:53
  tea here in the pot should be good for another, maybe one
• 1:10:56
  to 2 hours. So feel free to enjoy it.
• 1:10:59
  Uh, until then, fill your own cups. Uh, I'm going
• 1:11:02
  to bed.
• 1:11:04
  Bill would join him.
• 1:11:05
  Okay, sounds good. So Bill kind of falls after him, and he's like,
• 1:11:08
  well, Bill, what are you thinking as far
• 1:11:10
  as a possible escape?
• 1:11:14
  Well, there's two ideas, okay.
• 1:11:18
  And I'm going to pitch both of them to you, because,
• 1:11:21
  honestly, both ideas
• 1:11:24
  stem from you.
• 1:11:25
  Sure.
• 1:11:27
  The first idea is,
• 1:11:29
  uh, we're going to the shore tomorrow. At least I am I'm
• 1:11:32
  not sure if you are. I'm not sure if you talked to the captain
• 1:11:35
  yet. He wants to bring me along to train me.
• 1:11:38
  Right. I did talk to him. Uh, he said he
• 1:11:41
  was a little bit concerned at my, uh,
• 1:11:43
  motives and didn't really want to bring me along. He's worried
• 1:11:46
  I might try to run off.
• 1:11:49
  I suppose maybe you could tell him you need some specialty
• 1:11:51
  ingredients.
• 1:11:52
  Well, um, m maybe, yeah, I might.
• 1:11:54
  Be able to I mean, I bet that would work.
• 1:11:57
  That's true.
• 1:11:58
  But then while we're there, we just take off and
• 1:12:01
  leave. We're on.
• 1:12:01
  Off. Right.
• 1:12:02
  Hide in the city. Find somewhere to building to hide in or
• 1:12:05
  something. Uh, my worry
• 1:12:08
  for that plan is I don't know how good you are at
• 1:12:10
  running and escaping and
• 1:12:13
  stuff.
• 1:12:14
  I like to think I make do, but, uh,
• 1:12:16
  I'm sure within the city, there'll be options. Maybe
• 1:12:19
  we can, uh, see something. Sure,
• 1:12:22
  yeah. Grab a cart.
• 1:12:25
  Yeah. I mean, I think I'd be strong enough to pull you in, like a
• 1:12:28
  ripshaw or something.
• 1:12:29
  Maybe there's a way. I mean, I'm not
• 1:12:32
  usually one for theft, but if we're stealing from pirates,
• 1:12:35
  I suppose that's a different I mean.
• 1:12:36
  We'Re pirates right now. I think we're allowed to steal
• 1:12:39
  right now.
• 1:12:40
  I suppose that's a fair way to put it. Uh, but I was
• 1:12:43
  thinking maybe if we could, uh, maybe find some
• 1:12:46
  money over here that we could use
• 1:12:49
  to buy a horse and buggy or something
• 1:12:52
  along those lines, and then we could just ride right out of town. Or
• 1:12:55
  even just a pair of, uh man, I can't think
• 1:12:58
  of what they're called. Ostrich horses.
• 1:13:00
  Ostrich just says I have
• 1:13:02
  money. I don't know how much
• 1:13:05
  money that is.
• 1:13:06
  Oh, yeah, because he said he grabbed somebody, I don't know, like
• 1:13:09
  ten gold or something.
• 1:13:10
  Would that be enough to pay for a cart?
• 1:13:12
  Um, I don't know if it'd be enough to buy one, because I have.
• 1:13:15
  Money and I have a ticket, so I didn't use that money for the ticket.
• 1:13:17
  Right. It might be enough to hire, uh, somebody
• 1:13:20
  to take us somewhere. I don't know if it'll be enough to buy it,
• 1:13:23
  but maybe that's all we'll need. If we can get to, like, a
• 1:13:26
  nearby town or something like that yeah.
• 1:13:28
  And then we could just hide away.
• 1:13:29
  Yeah. Yeah. And figure know where to go next.
• 1:13:33
  The one sad thing, of course, is I don't think I'll be able to
• 1:13:36
  bring all these ingredients with me. But I suppose
• 1:13:38
  there's not much we can do about that.
• 1:13:40
  I mean, with the rate the pirates are going right now, these ingredients are going to
• 1:13:43
  go fast anyways, so if we stayed here, your ingredients wouldn't
• 1:13:46
  last long.
• 1:13:47
  No, you're right. You're right. Bill brings a tear to my eye.
• 1:13:50
  But it's replacing hey, at least they're enjoying in the oh,
• 1:13:52
  that's true.
• 1:13:53
  That is true. Yes.
• 1:13:56
  Well, uh, and the second plan,
• 1:13:59
  you've already seen Gung Ho for the first one, so you're probably not even going to like
• 1:14:02
  the second one. But if we're worried about
• 1:14:05
  getting caught in the city,
• 1:14:09
  we could wait until everyone's asleep and take a
• 1:14:12
  dinghy and.
• 1:14:12
  Rode a boat shore
• 1:14:15
  tonight.
• 1:14:16
  Tonight? I already have a dinghy ready.
• 1:14:19
  Mhm. I mean, that's not a bad idea either. I mean,
• 1:14:22
  everyone's either drunk or asleep or
• 1:14:25
  both. Yeah.
• 1:14:26
  There might be a lookout, though. But I could knock him
• 1:14:29
  out.
• 1:14:29
  All right. Uh,
• 1:14:32
  if that's the case, I mean, I could go load a couple of my
• 1:14:35
  crates onto it.
• 1:14:37
  Yeah, that way you get some of your stuff.
• 1:14:39
  That's right. Um,
• 1:14:43
  I suppose it's tough. Well, I tell
• 1:14:46
  you what, uh I tell you what.
• 1:14:49
  If they catch anyone, they'll be catching me.
• 1:14:52
  And there's a chance that I might not be able to go to shore for the time
• 1:14:55
  being anyways. Yeah,
• 1:14:58
  but I mean, you could still get out of here
• 1:15:01
  when they take you to shore. So I mean, we could give this a
• 1:15:04
  try. And if it doesn't work, there's still hope for you to get out of here
• 1:15:07
  and then I can figure something out in the meantime, I suppose.
• 1:15:10
  Are you sure about that?
• 1:15:13
  I don't want you to be put in danger or something. I
• 1:15:16
  mean, they were just about to throw you overboard.
• 1:15:18
  Yeah, that's true, I guess.
• 1:15:20
  How much do they like your tea and want to keep you around?
• 1:15:22
  That's true. I mean, at the very least, I feel like if they kept me
• 1:15:25
  trying to escape, they'd just make sure that I couldn't do that anymore.
• 1:15:28
  They just chain you to a wall.
• 1:15:29
  And make you keep make tea all.
• 1:15:31
  The is that what you want?
• 1:15:33
  It's like Michael Jordan. Yeah, Michael Jordan,
• 1:15:36
  but with well,
• 1:15:39
  uh hmm. HM. Making tea is my life dream,
• 1:15:42
  but I'm not sure if that's the conditions I'd want to do it in.
• 1:15:45
  Um I don't know. What do you think Bill should
• 1:15:48
  be again?
• 1:15:50
  My plan stems from you. Because
• 1:15:53
  I don't want to say the.
• 1:15:55
  Uh.
• 1:15:57
  I don't know what the word would be for it, but basically you're the, uh,
• 1:16:01
  liability in this case.
• 1:16:02
  Because either way, I know I could.
• 1:16:03
  Probably get away fine. Like, if I went to that boat by myself right now, I don't think
• 1:16:06
  they would catch me missing. I know I'm strong enough. I could get away,
• 1:16:09
  right? Or if I wait till morning, that's.
• 1:16:12
  Probably what I would do without you.
• 1:16:13
  I would wait till morning and just take off in the city. I know I'm fast,
• 1:16:16
  I know I'm quick. I know I've, uh, got street smarts.
• 1:16:19
  Sure, I could get away. It's just
• 1:16:22
  you. And the thing is, I'm not trying to
• 1:16:25
  be mean and say you're like no, I'm
• 1:16:27
  just saying I know you're older and I know we have to work around
• 1:16:30
  that. No, the last thing I want to do is
• 1:16:33
  abandon you. You helped me back on
• 1:16:36
  the bow, and, uh, now I want to help you on this
• 1:16:39
  bow.
• 1:16:39
  Sure. Well, let me ask you this,
• 1:16:42
  Bill. How confident do you think you could take
• 1:16:45
  out a.
• 1:16:50
  Have a how would
• 1:16:53
  you say? I've been training with bow staffs my
• 1:16:56
  whole life, and I've made myself a bow staff,
• 1:16:59
  and I can get it anytime I
• 1:17:01
  want.
• 1:17:02
  All right, well, I
• 1:17:05
  may just be an old man, and, uh,
• 1:17:08
  I understand that, but I want to make sure
• 1:17:11
  that you have a chance for sure
• 1:17:14
  at getting out of this. Uh, pirates are no place,
• 1:17:17
  um, for a kid or an adult, for
• 1:17:20
  that matter. But I'm going to help.
• 1:17:24
  Let's try the dinghy, and if it doesn't work out, there's still an
• 1:17:27
  option for you.
• 1:17:27
  You'll take the fall.
• 1:17:28
  Sure. Of course.
• 1:17:30
  Are you sure?
• 1:17:31
  Yes, I'm sure. I'll figure something out afterwards.
• 1:17:34
  All right, well, you get your
• 1:17:37
  crates.
• 1:17:37
  I will.
• 1:17:38
  All right, I'm going to go knock out a
• 1:17:41
  lookout.
• 1:17:41
  All right, sounds good. I'll start loading up my stuff, and then, uh
• 1:17:44
  yep, just meet me at the dinghy when you're ready. And
• 1:17:47
  with that, you two split up in the dog of
• 1:17:50
  the jungle. Okay.
• 1:17:51
  So Bill's goal right now is
• 1:17:55
  he wants to get to that dinghy.
• 1:17:56
  Sure.
• 1:17:57
  And, uh, he wants to get to that dinghy and get his bow staff.
• 1:17:59
  Okay.
• 1:18:00
  But also looking for the lookout, because he figures
• 1:18:02
  there will be a lookout, maybe one or two.
• 1:18:05
  And he wants to find the lookout that would be on that side
• 1:18:08
  near the boat. Probably would even be on the boat.
• 1:18:12
  If Bill's thinking like that, he doesn't really know pirates and how they
• 1:18:14
  do it, but he figures they would be one on the boat.
• 1:18:17
  And since the boat's near those dinghies, he
• 1:18:20
  would have to get to that boat.
• 1:18:22
  Right. Yes. And you're 100% right. So you run
• 1:18:25
  back to the dinghy, you get your bow staff, you hurry over to kind
• 1:18:28
  of the main section of the little dock. And
• 1:18:31
  on the deck of the ship, you see there's a pirate.
• 1:18:34
  He's kind of slowly drinking his
• 1:18:36
  way. It's the well spoken pirate.
• 1:18:39
  Why not?
• 1:18:39
  He's fun.
• 1:18:43
  He's up kind of like hanging off the side of the deck with his
• 1:18:46
  legs kind of dangling there, sitting there. Uh, he's having an
• 1:18:49
  occasional sip from, uh, his bottle of
• 1:18:51
  grog or whatever the case. Just kind of keeping an eye
• 1:18:54
  over the dock, keeping an eye over the waters and stuff. And, uh,
• 1:18:57
  you see, at the moment, uh, he seems to be
• 1:19:00
  shouting back and forth between Mr. Okaron, Mr. Rokuron standing
• 1:19:03
  there with, uh so a lot of the crates are kind of stacked up
• 1:19:06
  right there by the dock.
• 1:19:08
  Yeah.
• 1:19:09
  Off the sand, off the beach, but not too far from the ship
• 1:19:12
  because they just kind of wanted to get it off and have just leave
• 1:19:15
  it there. Right.
• 1:19:15
  So they can then move the schooner.
• 1:19:17
  In the so, you
• 1:19:20
  know, Mr. Okran's.
• 1:19:21
  Standing there, and the guy's like, what.
• 1:19:22
  Do you think you're doing? And he says, oh,
• 1:19:25
  well, I'm just, uh, moving some of these crates around to
• 1:19:28
  a different position. Don't mind me. You go back
• 1:19:31
  to whatever it is that you're doing. He says, oh,
• 1:19:35
  what the hell? Uh, that's not even the
• 1:19:38
  voice. That's his drunk voice. That's
• 1:19:40
  right. Yeah. As long as you're not
• 1:19:43
  taking a ship, I don't really care.
• 1:19:46
  And he's like, all right, well, you have a wonderful
• 1:19:48
  night. And he's like, I
• 1:19:51
  will. And, uh, Mr.
• 1:19:53
  Okran, like I said, you just see him
• 1:19:56
  take, uh, his crates and start moving them
• 1:19:59
  over towards the area with the dinghy. And
• 1:20:02
  he's kind of looking back like, oh, boy, this is a little bit awkward. So he just kind of
• 1:20:05
  like, starts moving. He's more just
• 1:20:07
  reorganizing these boxes so that his stuff is in its own
• 1:20:10
  pile so he can quickly just start grabbing them and loading them on.
• 1:20:13
  But he's not entirely sure what he's going to do because this guy is.
• 1:20:16
  Kind of he's just kind of getting them ready. But he's not moving.
• 1:20:19
  Right. Because it would look really suspicious if he started throwing them into
• 1:20:21
  the is.
• 1:20:22
  Uh, he the only lookout Bill can see. There's none
• 1:20:25
  on the land. Just this.
• 1:20:26
  Right, right. Okay.
• 1:20:27
  And of course it's uh
• 1:20:31
  uh, he's bill is
• 1:20:34
  going to start hobbling up the
• 1:20:37
  because he's now stashed his bow staff back into
• 1:20:40
  its now hobbling pirate
• 1:20:43
  wobble.
• 1:20:43
  Hey.
• 1:20:44
  Thankfully, this is the one guy he already had this cover so
• 1:20:47
  he can get away with it. Hobbling
• 1:20:49
  up to the boat.
• 1:20:50
  Cal Cody sees it and he says, oh, my gosh,
• 1:20:53
  boy. Back again with those sea legs.
• 1:20:56
  What are you doing here?
• 1:20:57
  Well, I was talking to the captain, right? Uh
• 1:21:00
  huh. And he asked me how I
• 1:21:03
  was doing day one.
• 1:21:04
  Right.
• 1:21:04
  And I told him I was rather stiff right from the sea.
• 1:21:07
  I can see that.
• 1:21:08
  And he said a pirate
• 1:21:11
  usually gets over their sea legs quick. If they don't get off
• 1:21:14
  the boat, that means they're always on it. They're sleeping for the first few
• 1:21:17
  days. I'm sure that happened with you, right?
• 1:21:19
  Uh, yeah.
• 1:21:21
  So I was thinking about that, and I was like, you know what? It'd probably be better
• 1:21:24
  if I slept on the boat than out there. Sure, it's probably going to be rougher
• 1:21:27
  than the nice beds on the land,
• 1:21:30
  but at least I'd be on the water. And then my sea lathes would come
• 1:21:33
  in.
• 1:21:36
  Faster, sleep on the boat. I can dig the initiative.
• 1:21:39
  I've got no problem with it. I'll be on this boat myself.
• 1:21:41
  In fact, um,
• 1:21:44
  all right. Okay.
• 1:21:47
  Uh, Bill's just going to kind of walk past him and he's
• 1:21:50
  going to make his way over to, uh,
• 1:21:53
  the closet.
• 1:21:54
  Okay.
• 1:21:54
  And he's going to go, hey, Cal, come
• 1:21:57
  here. What is so wait, I forgot to say before
• 1:22:00
  he did that he's going to take out his bow
• 1:22:03
  staff and hide it around the corner so
• 1:22:06
  Cal can't see it, but he can quickly grab.
• 1:22:08
  Sure, sure. All right. So, uh, yeah, Cal
• 1:22:11
  comes hobbling over to you. He's not,
• 1:22:14
  like, super drunk, but you can tell that every once in a while
• 1:22:17
  he steps he looks a little bit like a slight
• 1:22:20
  sway. Yeah, exactly. A slight sway. And he says I
• 1:22:22
  say, Boy, what is it that you, uh, need?
• 1:22:25
  Well, look at this. And Bill points into the
• 1:22:28
  closet, and he's pointing at the broken mop head that's
• 1:22:31
  just laying there.
• 1:22:33
  I said, don't lose the buckets. And here
• 1:22:36
  we are. We got a broken mop. It's
• 1:22:39
  a good thing we got three.
• 1:22:42
  And when Bill sees him leaning down to look at it
• 1:22:45
  and stuff, he's going to grab the bow staff around the
• 1:22:48
  corner. Okay. He stands back up. Bill's just going to take
• 1:22:50
  a giant crack at the back of his head.
• 1:22:52
  To knock him gosh. Okay. All right. So
• 1:22:55
  we're jumping into a this, uh.
• 1:22:57
  Combat, or would this be more like, rely on my skills and
• 1:23:00
  training because it's not technically a combat?
• 1:23:03
  Uh, now.
• 1:23:06
  If combat.
• 1:23:07
  Yeah, no, I'd say that's a fair point. Yeah. Let's try to rely on
• 1:23:09
  your skills and training. See if you can really knock him in the
• 1:23:12
  head with your bow.
• 1:23:13
  I mean, I've practiced.
• 1:23:14
  Sure.
• 1:23:15
  Let's see if my okay, well, I just rolled a
• 1:23:18
  natural twelve. You whack it right over
• 1:23:21
  the head.
• 1:23:21
  At the mix of between his drunkenness
• 1:23:24
  and the direct hit right onto the back of his
• 1:23:28
  balding noggin. He
• 1:23:31
  goes, oh, my.
• 1:23:35
  And he falls in. But it's so awkward because, like I
• 1:23:37
  said before, his body is just massive or his
• 1:23:40
  upper body is, I guess. So he's kind of, like,
• 1:23:43
  awkwardly stuck, like, kind of wedged into the
• 1:23:46
  door. But he's unconscious.
• 1:23:48
  So when Bill saw it was
• 1:23:51
  Calconi, he really didn't realize that he needed to like,
• 1:23:54
  if after he knocks him up, he's got to tie him up and trap him and
• 1:23:57
  stuff. And he realized this guy couldn't get into the closet. So if
• 1:24:00
  I got him into the closet knocked
• 1:24:03
  out, how would he get out?
• 1:24:06
  But I mean, like I said, he's kind of jammed into the
• 1:24:12
  doorway, push.
• 1:24:13
  With his foot, just try to get this guy right through the
• 1:24:16
  door.
• 1:24:16
  I think over some
• 1:24:19
  time, you're finally able to get him jammed into this
• 1:24:22
  little closet, and you could tell that when
• 1:24:25
  he wakes up, he is going to have
• 1:24:28
  so many kinks in just every part
• 1:24:31
  of himself. It's going to hurt
• 1:24:34
  so bad. He's going to have so many bruises.
• 1:24:36
  Partially because you had to kick him in. Probably the
• 1:24:39
  dog. Massive, big old concussion on
• 1:24:42
  the back of his head.
• 1:24:44
  Concussion. And this guy's not in a good spot.
• 1:24:46
  Right, bill, once he's fully in, he's going to
• 1:24:49
  push his legs in, which is not going to be as hard because those legs are tight.
• 1:24:52
  Right?
• 1:24:52
  The legs are tight. So
• 1:24:55
  he's not going to jam anything in the door. He doesn't want to hurt him, right. More than
• 1:24:58
  he has. Um, and he's going to grab,
• 1:25:02
  uh, uh, the mop head that he broke off, and he's just going to
• 1:25:05
  set it on top of his bald head.
• 1:25:06
  To give him hair. He's got, like, white
• 1:25:09
  dreadlocks now, and.
• 1:25:12
  Bill kind of just does, like, a slight smile. And
• 1:25:14
  he's like, sorry, bud,
• 1:25:18
  but I, uh, had to knock out someone.
• 1:25:20
  And he just shuts the
• 1:25:23
  door. All right.
• 1:25:24
  He thought about tying him up, but then he was like, this
• 1:25:27
  guy was so hard to get into this that if
• 1:25:30
  he does wake up, he's probably going to be stuck in here anyways.
• 1:25:33
  They're going to have to cut him out, probably.
• 1:25:36
  Yeah, they have to. Two guys grabbing legs
• 1:25:38
  and pulling poor calconi.
• 1:25:41
  Uh, and then Bill grabs his boat. Well, he still has it,
• 1:25:44
  but he shuts the door and takes
• 1:25:47
  off down the all.
• 1:25:48
  Uh, right. Sounds good. So, yeah, you get off the
• 1:25:50
  ship and you run down, and Mr. Okron.
• 1:25:52
  Is like, oh, clear.
• 1:25:55
  Great. And Mr. Okeron comes out, and I'd
• 1:25:58
  say between the two of you, quickly loaded up onto the
• 1:26:01
  dinghy.
• 1:26:01
  And then Mr. Okran hops in, bill unties
• 1:26:04
  the rope, and then he gets in the water and just starts
• 1:26:07
  shoving.
• 1:26:07
  Yeah, yeah. And it takes a little bit obviously, it's a
• 1:26:10
  bit weighed down now, uh, with the ingredients. But sure enough, you get
• 1:26:13
  it onto the water and you guys start rowing. Rowing
• 1:26:16
  and rowing and rowing. And you're getting tired, but you're rowing
• 1:26:18
  and rowing. And then, um, honestly,
• 1:26:21
  with nobody, uh, everybody's either, like I
• 1:26:24
  said, asleep or partying or drunk or whatever
• 1:26:26
  the case, or in a closet.
• 1:26:29
  That's right. I mean, there's nobody to really come after you guys.
• 1:26:32
  Uh, in the back of my mind when I wrote this, I kind of thought to myself how cool
• 1:26:35
  it would be to have a ship chase. We can save that for
• 1:26:38
  another day. I guess so, because all things considered, you guys took care
• 1:26:41
  of pretty much all your bases. And, uh, you row up to
• 1:26:44
  the shore by early morning, uh,
• 1:26:47
  to the shores of,
• 1:26:49
  uh, this little, uh, Earth
• 1:26:52
  Kingdom City, uh, where you can
• 1:26:55
  tell that it's kind of especially the area where you row up and
• 1:26:58
  your dinghy seems like a pretty rough and rowdy kind of space,
• 1:27:01
  obviously, because they've been trading with pirates and stuff like that.
• 1:27:03
  But otherwise, you guys get there and, uh, within the next
• 1:27:06
  couple of hours, you're able to find somebody who's
• 1:27:09
  willing.
• 1:27:09
  To, uh, give you the next city over.
• 1:27:11
  Take us to the next city, and then from there, you guys can make
• 1:27:14
  your way over to Gao Ling.
• 1:27:17
  Okay. Then we give a
• 1:27:20
  little tip to the one guy to be like, uh, you
• 1:27:23
  didn't see us this morning.
• 1:27:24
  That's right. That's right. And he's like, uh, I was
• 1:27:27
  just hauling. Supplies.
• 1:27:28
  There you go.
• 1:27:29
  Which wouldn't even be a lie because you guys put a lot of supplies in
• 1:27:32
  there.
• 1:27:32
  We appreciate it.
• 1:27:34
  All right, well, you guys have fun.
• 1:27:37
  And I guess we go on our way
• 1:27:39
  to Galling then.
• 1:27:41
  All right, sounds good.
• 1:27:42
  Cart to cart, I guess.
• 1:27:43
  Cart to cart. Or even well, I guess you guys can't really go on
• 1:27:46
  foot because you got a bunch of ingredients. But, um, I'm sure
• 1:27:49
  there'd be a few times on your journey where you
• 1:27:52
  guys stop and you'll throw together a little pop up shop or something.
• 1:27:55
  And Mr. O'Connor will make some tea with some of the ingredients so it
• 1:27:58
  gets a little bit easier as time goes on to get where you're
• 1:28:00
  going. But, um, you make some money from the pop up shop,
• 1:28:03
  you use it to pay for the next cart. Yeah,
• 1:28:06
  exactly. And then eventually you guys make it there. And,
• 1:28:10
  uh, here he has a building all picked out that
• 1:28:13
  he's, uh, already discussed with somebody, probably by mail or
• 1:28:15
  by messenger hawk or something like that. So, um, you
• 1:28:18
  guys are about pretty much ready to get moved in.
• 1:28:22
  And actually what he does is, uh, he
• 1:28:24
  leaves you there to kind of get things all set up and
• 1:28:27
  things. He has to go and run out a couple other
• 1:28:31
  errands, uh, to kind of procure more ingredients and
• 1:28:34
  get some more supplies and things like that. All of which will
• 1:28:37
  work into how he meets some of the other members of, uh,
• 1:28:40
  the Blissful Brews crew.
• 1:28:41
  So while I'm setting up for the Blissful Brew and getting
• 1:28:44
  everything ready, I'm guessing the building is a
• 1:28:46
  little abandoned kind of thing. So Bill
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  basically just took it upon himself to
• 1:28:52
  fix everything and Mr. Okran left him some
• 1:28:55
  money.
• 1:28:55
  Sure.
• 1:28:56
  Buy supplies to fix everything.
• 1:28:57
  Absolutely.
• 1:28:57
  So in these it could be months, I
• 1:29:00
  think we said, like Bill, uh, was there for a
• 1:29:03
  year before, uh, other people showed up.
• 1:29:06
  Definitely before everybody showed up.
• 1:29:07
  Yeah, he was like a year. So in this year, Bill just basically turned
• 1:29:10
  the Blissful Brew into like the.
• 1:29:12
  Nicest establishment he could.
• 1:29:14
  Awesome. And then I guess do all
• 1:29:17
  three characters come at once?
• 1:29:19
  Uh, so the order of which they would have come and joined
• 1:29:21
  Bill in getting this place ready. So obviously we would have started off
• 1:29:24
  with Bill, uh, next it would have.
• 1:29:26
  Been if it was Brock, that would have been great. A very
• 1:29:29
  helpful hand to help out.
• 1:29:30
  I think Guo would have come pretty hey,
• 1:29:33
  he would have helped, right? That's
• 1:29:36
  right. Brock would have come third and then Mika would have
• 1:29:39
  been the final.
• 1:29:40
  And would she have come, like, probably when we were finished with
• 1:29:43
  it?
• 1:29:43
  Probably, yeah. Uh, she pretty much just kind of joined as part of the
• 1:29:46
  staff right off know, working right off when she
• 1:29:49
  got yep. Yep. Okay. Yeah.
• 1:29:51
  I guess Bill would
• 1:29:54
  know Brock and Gua Han more than uh, Mika.
• 1:29:57
  Yeah, quite a bit.
• 1:29:58
  Which would make sense because Gua Han
• 1:30:00
  and Brock both are more open about their past than everyone
• 1:30:03
  else, but Mika's more closed off, which makes sense because she's
• 1:30:06
  the newest of the group.
• 1:30:07
  That's right.
• 1:30:08
  And then there's Bill, who's the oldest in the group, and it's still probably
• 1:30:11
  the most closed. Right.
• 1:30:13
  So, yeah, he talks about current things
• 1:30:16
  and stuff. Not so much like, here's my whole past and
• 1:30:19
  my backstory and where I came from.
• 1:30:20
  The players do know that he's from the Fire Nation and he
• 1:30:23
  was the first one to meet Mr. Okeron, right?
• 1:30:26
  Yep.
• 1:30:26
  But that's all they know about him.
• 1:30:29
  Exactly.
• 1:30:29
  And for some reason, I don't think any of them have questioned his name.
• 1:30:32
  Unlike Mr. Okaron.
• 1:30:33
  Yeah, exactly. They're like Bill dor.
• 1:30:36
  There's a guy named Brock Lee in our group.
• 1:30:38
  That's right.
• 1:30:38
  Like Bill Door is nothing compared to that.
• 1:30:41
  Nobody knows how to.
• 1:30:46
  Pronounce.
• 1:30:47
  So yeah, awesome.
• 1:30:48
  There it is.
• 1:30:49
  We got it. Bill's prequel. There's bill's
• 1:30:54
  prequel. Thank you everyone for listening to our first
• 1:30:57
  prequel episode. We hope you enjoyed it. And before you go, I
• 1:31:00
  want to say a massive thank you to all the following
• 1:31:03
  voice casts that we procured for this episode and how you can find
• 1:31:06
  and support their amazing talent online. All
• 1:31:09
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• 1:31:12
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• 1:31:14
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• 1:31:17
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• 1:31:20
  talent for their productions. Here's our cast
• 1:31:23
  list. Wang Long is played by
• 1:31:27
  Hitoshura, Jasper Burtony by
• 1:31:29
  Chaz Ravenell, Margaret Burtony
• 1:31:31
  by Yumafusion, the
• 1:31:34
  Ship captain by Festive
• 1:31:37
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• 1:31:39
  M voice Acting You can find all of their
• 1:31:43
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• 1:31:48
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• 1:31:51
  Uh, of course, Bill Door was voiced by
• 1:31:54
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• 1:31:57
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• 1:31:59
  Skyler. Next time we're going to be sitting down and listening to
• 1:32:02
  a particularly spooky
• 1:32:05
  prequel episode in light of the upcoming
• 1:32:07
  Halloween 2022. What's that? Spooky prequel, you
• 1:32:10
  might ask? That's right. It's
• 1:32:13
  Wohan's mysterious backstory as he travels
• 1:32:15
  along with a crazy cast of characters in
• 1:32:18
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• 1:32:21
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• 1:32:23
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