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- 0:02Skylar: Jasmine, oolong, green
- 0:05and white. Long ago, these four
- 0:08teas were skillfully brewed at the blissful brew.
- 0:11Then, everything changed when the shops
- 0:14popularity threatened its existence.
- 0:17All Mister Okaron, the shops owner and tea
- 0:19master, could do was to recruit four teenage
- 0:22orphans to learn his trade and staff his
- 0:25shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
- 0:28hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
- 0:31still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
- 0:34But I believe that they have the potential to make the
- 0:37blissful brew the greatest tea shop in the
- 0:39world. Last time on
- 0:42benders and brews, an avatar Legends
- 0:44podcast. You guys step through the portal on
- 0:47the outskirts of gowling. The people that you
- 0:50contacted are right here waiting for you, so you're able to get
- 0:53kind of a nice look over. Over a decent chunk of the
- 0:55city. those earth nation guards seem to have been replaced with
- 0:58Fire nation guards, hot leaf juice elites, a
- 1:01handful of members of the
- 1:04bloody porcupine pirate crew.
- 1:06Cameron: Our goal is we need to get to the maze. We have
- 1:09a map to where the will for a
- 1:12tea shop is in that
- 1:15maze. We're here to save that tea shop.
- 1:18That tea shop is very important to the three of. Well, the
- 1:20four of us.
- 1:21Skylar: What's so special about this tea shop?
- 1:23Cameron: This is our home.
- 1:24Dave: It's my home.
- 1:25Cameron: At least once we get this will,
- 1:28we're gonna have to take it to that mayor's office.
- 1:30Skylar: all right, so you guys are there in front of the maze, and you've got this map. The
- 1:33pieces of the map to get you through the maze to where
- 1:36Mister Okaran hid this will.
- 1:39You all enter the maze, and following the
- 1:42map, over the course of maybe ten
- 1:45minutes, you are able to reach the very
- 1:48spot. There is a box, and
- 1:50inside is a very fancy
- 1:53document, Mister Okaron's will. There is a group
- 1:56of four pink dressed, hot.
- 1:59Ah leaf juice elite employees that seem to have
- 2:01just been waiting for you.
- 2:04We serve Madame Yang's orders.
- 2:07All of a sudden, an arrow comes flying
- 2:10out from behind you. Coming out from the
- 2:13mansion are a group of well
- 2:16dressed individuals, all wearing
- 2:18masks. It is Mister Yuutaku, and
- 2:21he says, I said I'd help you out when the time
- 2:24came. You kids know that you're quite
- 2:27outmatched, so it would be in your
- 2:30best interest to just come with me quietly.
- 2:33Mikayla: And that's when my dad says, not
- 2:36my favorite daughter.
- 2:37Skylar: Not my favorite and only daughter.
- 2:40And he leaps forward and
- 2:43slams his fist into the face
- 2:46of, bongo. Going without me. M I'm
- 2:49gonna finish these pirates off myself
- 2:52down kind of another dark alley here. Over
- 2:54here. Hey. Peeking around the corner, you
- 2:57can just barely see
- 3:00chikra, my BFF.
- 3:02Yeah, we wanna help. So my dad's office
- 3:05is also in there. You're able to make your way across and your friends kinda help
- 3:08you, grab you at the end and kind of pull you over. You
- 3:11guys have made it across. Can open the
- 3:13window to the mayor's office. And
- 3:16eventually you're able to find Mister Wu's
- 3:19office and you open the door.
- 3:22And inside, Madam Yang and
- 3:25General Wang long.
- 3:26Mikayla: What, ah, are you going to do now?
- 3:36What does Wang Long have to do with this? The whole
- 3:39tea shop? Oh, general
- 3:41Long. He and I have
- 3:44been friends for quite some time.
- 3:4820 years,
- 3:5025 perhaps.
- 3:52So getting the aid of him and his
- 3:55soldiers was simply a matter of
- 3:58asking.
- 4:00Skylar: And he just kind of nods and he's like, what?
- 4:02Helps hot leaf juice. Helps the
- 4:05fire nation's efforts.
- 4:08Mikayla: Their tea is repulsive.
- 4:12Skylar: Says you.
- 4:13Mikayla: Have you tried it?
- 4:15Skylar: Of course I drink it.
- 4:17Mikayla: She must have you under her spell too.
- 4:19I'ma slap him, see if it gets.
- 4:21Skylar: Him out of it.
- 4:22Cameron: Are you actually going to slap?
- 4:25Skylar: Wait, wait, wait. Are you doing a, ah,
- 4:28hand slap or a water slap?
- 4:31Cameron: Man, you ain't messing around.
- 4:34Skylar: Hand slap to wake him up.
- 4:37How dare you call her.
- 4:39Mikayla: You have to do the hand touch, don't
- 4:42you?
- 4:42Skylar: Or. No, we.
- 4:43Mikayla: I guess we just hurt them and then they're.
- 4:45Skylar: Yeah.
- 4:45Mikayla: Oh, what's. Yeah, so I guess it's
- 4:48fine. I'll. I committed.
- 4:50Skylar: Okay. Do a push your luck.
- 4:53Mikayla: Passion.
- 4:54Skylar: Yeah,
- 4:57man.
- 4:59Mikayla: Like 6777.
- 5:02Skylar: Okay, so you're able to do
- 5:05it, but it's gonna cost you. you slap
- 5:08mister, wang long across the
- 5:10face and he turns to glare
- 5:13at you and he, I imagine he probably like,
- 5:16grabs you by the collar and just starts to lift you up,
- 5:19bro. And he says, nobody
- 5:22touches me.
- 5:23Mikayla: Too little, too little, too late for that.
- 5:26Skylar: I really had to stop myself from saying, like, nobody touches
- 5:28me unless I want.
- 5:34Cameron: Another thing.
- 5:34Skylar: I just stopped myself from saying, no.
- 5:37Cameron: One touches Wang long. No one touches
- 5:40me.
- 5:41Skylar: Wang.
- 5:45Cameron: I like to step up. I'm calling back
- 5:48an old friend. Earth sinking. Something Madame Yang is much
- 5:51acquainted with. I don't even need to
- 5:53roll because I can just mark two fatigue. But can I roll to see
- 5:56if I just do it successfully without fatigue?
- 5:59Skylar: Is that an option?
- 6:00Cameron: Oh, Synchafa mark two fatigue. To trap an enemy
- 6:03well and we.
- 6:04Skylar: Would jump into a combat exchange.
- 6:06Mikayla: Well, my slap didn't well work that.
- 6:09Cameron: If we're rolling for it. I got a twelve.
- 6:12Skylar: Okay.
- 6:12Cameron: And so I
- 6:15go to sink. So I
- 6:18rolled a twelve.
- 6:19Skylar: Yes.
- 6:20Cameron: So I will first Earth
- 6:22sink Madame Yang into the ground.
- 6:25Skylar: Okay.
- 6:25Cameron: She is effectively now marked as trapped.
- 6:27Skylar: Yes.
- 6:28Cameron: And so she is about, like, her waist is
- 6:31only sticking out.
- 6:32Skylar: Yes.
- 6:32Cameron: So now for dealing with Wang.
- 6:35Okay, I'm gonna walk up to him, and
- 6:38I'm gonna just try. And without the earth
- 6:41gauntlet, mind you, I'm gonna go up
- 6:44and I'm gonna try to knock him off
- 6:47balance. So, essentially what I'd like to try and
- 6:49do is just kinda still
- 6:52keeping at a distance. He essentially sticks his
- 6:55foot in the ground and, like, a
- 6:58little ridge comes up, like, a little ramp comes up
- 7:01and sweeps him off his feet.
- 7:03Skylar: Okay, so. Okay, perfect. So are
- 7:06you trying to get him to mark a condition,
- 7:09basically. or you're trying to give him a
- 7:12status effect? I would say.
- 7:13Cameron: I would say he's probably in hair at the
- 7:16very least.
- 7:17Skylar: Okay, sounds good.
- 7:18Cameron: Or marks a fatigue if he falls.
- 7:20Skylar: Okay, so, yeah. Okay, so we're gonna say that this is a
- 7:22smash, because you're disabling something
- 7:26in the environment by something. We're talking about Wang
- 7:28long, and it is going to force him to be. You said
- 7:31impaired, right?
- 7:32Cameron: impaired or mark of.
- 7:34Skylar: Okay, sounds good. so, okay, so that's what will
- 7:36happen. you sink Madam Yang into
- 7:39the floor, causing her to become trapped. She now will have
- 7:42to, expend some fatigue in order to break
- 7:45herself out of this trap, as she currently is. But
- 7:48we'll get to that later. Whatever the case, once you get that,
- 7:51meta, or I would say Wang Long is kind of surprised. He looks over,
- 7:54and as he looks over, you take that as a opportunity
- 7:57to jump forward and slam into
- 8:00him, knocking him backwards. He drops
- 8:02Micah, and he hits the back of the wall. He is
- 8:05now impaired. Books are probably falling
- 8:08down all over him or something along those lines. So he's a little bit
- 8:11off, at the moment, not necessarily taking any
- 8:13fatigue, but he is impaired. Is anybody else taking
- 8:16advance and attack? All
- 8:19right, Guo.
- 8:20Cameron: I am as well.
- 8:21Skylar: Oh, okay. Guo, what are you doing?
- 8:23Dave: Oh, that's not great. I got
- 8:26a. Still got a seven.
- 8:28Skylar: Oh, well, hey, you still get to take one move.
- 8:30Dave: You said mayor. you.
- 8:33Skylar: and it's not mayor. He's just. This is,
- 8:36the office of deceased
- 8:39possessions. And then in parentheses,
- 8:42parentheses, not possessions that are deceased, but
- 8:45the possession. Yes. He's tied up over in the
- 8:48corner. Yeah.
- 8:49Dave: Tied up, like, to the chair.
- 8:51Skylar: Yes. Yep.
- 8:52Dave: Perfect.
- 8:53Skylar: Okay, perfect.
- 8:56Dave: I'm going to smash the chair.
- 8:58Skylar: Oh, all right, sounds good. Okay. so, Guilhan,
- 9:02you leap over the desk with some, some
- 9:04circus level deftness, and
- 9:07you, I'm, I don't know, punching the chair.
- 9:11Dave: yeah, I guess I'll like,
- 9:14put my hand in my
- 9:17rock collection bag.
- 9:18Skylar: Okay.
- 9:19Dave: And punch the chair.
- 9:21Skylar: Okay, sounds good. So you're kind of doing like a, maybe a lesser version of
- 9:24the earth gauntlet. Yeah, that Brock does.
- 9:26Dave: A bag assisted version.
- 9:29Skylar: So you're doing, smash then, I'm assuming.
- 9:32Dave: Yeah.
- 9:32Skylar: Okay, sounds good. So you, mark a fatigue and
- 9:35you smash, you destabilize
- 9:37the environment around you by destroying this
- 9:40chair. And thereby, I would
- 9:43say, let's call it empowering
- 9:45the individual that was inside of it, which is,
- 9:48woo, the office
- 9:51person, for lack of
- 9:53better terms. So wu is free. He starts to kind
- 9:56of, he kind of pushes off the, the ropes that
- 9:59they had tied him in because now they're loose because he's not being held to a chair
- 10:02anymore. And he's like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
- 10:05you. We'll jump over to ash.
- 10:07Cameron: Yes. So I walk over as this
- 10:10is happening, and I pull out
- 10:13my bo.
- 10:14Skylar: Staff, start beating, man.
- 10:16Cameron: I mean, and I pointed directly at Wang
- 10:18Long's face, okay.
- 10:20Skylar: As he's kind of picking himself out of the books and
- 10:23wiping off all of the books off of him.
- 10:25Cameron: And I look at him
- 10:28and I say, you recognize me.
- 10:31Recognize me now?
- 10:33Skylar: And he kind of pauses for a second and he looks up at
- 10:35you. And then as he
- 10:38looks, his eyes start to get wide and he says,
- 10:44all the burton he boy.
- 10:46Cameron: And as he says that, bill, like, turns his bo
- 10:49staff and fire, like, comes at the end of
- 10:52it.
- 10:52Skylar: Oh, yeah.
- 10:53Cameron: Like going at him, it just starts burning at the end of the bo
- 10:56staff. And he goes, I
- 10:59would stand down. You know what I've done
- 11:01before. You know what I'm willing to do,
- 11:04and I'm now willing to do it again.
- 11:06Skylar: Dang. Oh,
- 11:10are you using pressure?
- 11:11Cameron: Yeah.
- 11:12Skylar: All right.
- 11:13Cameron: I rolled a seven and I'm using pressure. And I don't want him
- 11:16to advance an attack.
- 11:17Skylar: Okay, sounds good. Yeah. you see
- 11:19this fire that's coming out of your
- 11:22hands, reflected in his eyes, as his eyes grow
- 11:25wide. And whether it's be from the
- 11:28thought that, I would go as far as
- 11:31to imagine that I think a lot of people in the Fire
- 11:33nation, or at least the community that you were from, might honestly
- 11:37think that ash is dead at this point. I mean, he
- 11:40just disappeared. They don't know where he went or where
- 11:43he is. I think there are a lot of people, especially, you
- 11:45know, someone as callous as General Wang
- 11:48long probably saw the posters and thought, yeah, you know, that
- 11:51boy's. That boy's gone. He's probably dead.
- 11:54And so whether it be just an instance of
- 11:56realizing that you're not dead, you're still alive and
- 11:59you're standing there right in front of him and, holding the
- 12:02staff and the flames to him. I think
- 12:05all in all, is just a lot of shock going through his head.
- 12:08And in his terror, he is unable
- 12:10to, push himself to advance and attack.
- 12:13Madame Yang is definitely going to
- 12:16remove herself from the trapped position, so she's
- 12:19going to take some fatigue for
- 12:21that.
- 12:22Cameron: But how does she do it?
- 12:24Cameron: I need to know.
- 12:26Cameron: Okay, so eating them alive.
- 12:28Cameron: Is she an earthbender?
- 12:31Skylar: No, she's an earthbender. She's the avatar, because
- 12:33she just established that she's a firebender a couple episodes
- 12:36ago. Oh, yeah.
- 12:38Cameron: So how did she get out the first?
- 12:40Skylar: Because minions or something stupid.
- 12:44Mikayla: But how did they know she was in the ground?
- 12:46Skylar: I don't know.
- 12:48Mikayla: How can you hear somebody screaming under
- 12:516ft of dirt?
- 12:53Skylar: That's why they have bells of stone. She
- 12:56just started clawing her way out. But I gotta.
- 12:59I gotta finish what she's doing this time. Okay, so she breaks
- 13:02free, from it. She's obviously
- 13:05furious. She, too, calls
- 13:08forth her flames
- 13:11as she rushes towards,
- 13:14probably Brock who put her in the ground in the first
- 13:17place.
- 13:17Cameron: I'm a put her in the ground.
- 13:18Skylar: Again, and she is going
- 13:21to take three strikes against
- 13:24you.
- 13:25Cameron: Now, why would you go and do that?
- 13:26Skylar: well, that's just, you know what it is. so you are going
- 13:29to have to make a set of either two
- 13:32fatigues each or mark conditions.
- 13:35So.
- 13:36Cameron: Well, what about balance ship?
- 13:39Skylar: nope, that's not an option.
- 13:40Cameron: Well, I guess I'll be angry.
- 13:42Mikayla: That makes sense.
- 13:44Cameron: Insecure
- 13:46and troubled.
- 13:48Skylar: All right. As she strikes out with sort of these,
- 13:51like, flame fist attacks,
- 13:54slamming into you, you feel all these sensations
- 13:57of burns across your body, possibly
- 13:59reminiscent of your time in the prison
- 14:02camp.
- 14:03Mikayla: Well, I was going to do defendant maneuver.
- 14:05Skylar: Okay, and then what are you taking within there?
- 14:08Mikayla: I'm gonna seize a position, okay. Which means I
- 14:11can use my slippery eel hound,
- 14:14which means, reminder,
- 14:20Cameron: Foes.
- 14:20Mikayla: must mark an additional two fatigue to stop me, and I can
- 14:22take, I can bring any alleys
- 14:25within reach when I retreat.
- 14:28So, mister office boy.
- 14:31Oh, be within reach.
- 14:33Skylar: Yeah, sure. Now that he's out of the chair.
- 14:35Mikayla: And, like, who has the will?
- 14:38Skylar: Oh, that's a good.
- 14:39Mikayla: I don't think that was ever determined.
- 14:42Skylar: I am gonna say that because he was
- 14:45leading the group. Great rock
- 14:48has the will.
- 14:49Cameron: You made him later.
- 14:51Skylar: It's true.
- 14:52Mikayla: Is brought by me as well.
- 14:54Skylar: yeah. Getting beat to crap.
- 14:57Mikayla: Okay, well, then I'll take Mister man,
- 15:00and we'll go to the, like, opposite.
- 15:03Skylar: End of the room.
- 15:04Mikayla: Yeah, he's at least away from
- 15:07the evil people.
- 15:09Skylar: Okay, sounds good. All right, so you pull him away, said
- 15:12he's out of the situation, safe. away. He just turns to
- 15:15you and he's like, thank you. Thank you. He just keeps saying
- 15:18thank you, whether it's to guo or to you. Just turns to you,
- 15:21just starts kind of like, bowing and saying thank you.
- 15:22Mikayla: He's in choc.
- 15:24Skylar: Yeah, he is.
- 15:25Mikayla: Maybe he'll extend our.
- 15:27Skylar: Oh, yeah, 24 more hours.
- 15:30you do, actually, it's a good thing that you pointed that out because as you look
- 15:32outside, it is starting to,
- 15:35sunset is about to begin. You see the
- 15:38colors of the sky start to begin changing into their
- 15:41various tones. as far as business hours
- 15:44go for this office, you're running out of time.
- 15:46Mikayla: Can I say I yell at Brock as I'm running?
- 15:49Skylar: Yeah, as long as you say what you're
- 15:52saying.
- 15:52Mikayla: No, I'm just saying Brock to try and get his attention, to
- 15:55see that, hey, I have Mister man.
- 15:57Skylar: He looks over and immediately gets just
- 15:59punched by Madame Yang again, not like, in
- 16:02addition, it's like one of them gets
- 16:05distracted.
- 16:08Cameron: Do I, like, fly back, or am I still.
- 16:10Skylar: No, no, no, she's not. It's not those kind of punches. It's not like,
- 16:13big, huge.
- 16:14Mikayla: It's just like, you know, boxing punches.
- 16:16Skylar: Yeah, yeah. Okay. Then we get to,
- 16:18Wang long. So he is staring up at
- 16:21bill directly into his eyes, and he
- 16:24says, and this is kind of an interesting use of this move, I think. he
- 16:27says, so you kill your
- 16:30brother, and then you run away,
- 16:33abandoning the family, leaving them
- 16:36to mourn. And he is doing a move called
- 16:38seek vulnerability. So he's looking for
- 16:41a weak point, in this case, kind of emotionally.
- 16:44and this will apply to the next time that he is
- 16:47able to deal fatigue or a condition to
- 16:50you. it allows him to shift your
- 16:53balance as well.
- 16:55Cameron: Okay. Yeah.
- 16:56Skylar: So that's what he's doing. And then aside
- 16:59from that, because he gets a couple other moves as
- 17:02well. he's basically just gonna bolster
- 17:05himself, to stand
- 17:08up, and he's going to
- 17:11become pre
- 17:14paired for whatever comes
- 17:16next. So then we go into the next exchange. Who is taking
- 17:19defend a maneuver. Defendant maneuver. Okay, sounds
- 17:22good. Bill, what are you doing with.
- 17:24Cameron: Defendant Manu, am I the only one taking defendant maneuver?
- 17:27Cameron: Like, is this the next exchange?
- 17:29Skylar: Yes. Yeah, yeah.
- 17:31Cameron: I mean, I'm advanced.
- 17:32Dave: I'm going to.
- 17:33Skylar: Okay, sounds good.
- 17:35Dave: Defended.
- 17:36Skylar: Yes. All right, let's start
- 17:38with ash. That was quite the roll there.
- 17:4315, correct. Holy crap.
- 17:46Wow. All right. Sounds good.
- 17:49Yeah, absolutely. That's insane. All right, well,
- 17:52you get two. Two, techniques from the defendant maneuver
- 17:55approach.
- 17:56Cameron: well, I need to get Brock out of here,
- 17:58so I'm gonna be like, Brock, you
- 18:01gotta go again. Get out of here.
- 18:04I can take both of them.
- 18:06Cameron: That ain't gonna happen. I'm not gonna.
- 18:09Cameron: You've got you know what, and I'm like, you're
- 18:12insecure. And I, like, shove him. Like, I
- 18:15kind of, like, back into him.
- 18:16Skylar: Okay.
- 18:16Cameron: Like, kind of take a power stance between
- 18:19basically the two of them. I see is, like, coming at us,
- 18:22and Brock is, like, kind of between both of them. So I'm basically taking
- 18:25a stance where I'm, like, between both of them and
- 18:28Brock.
- 18:28Skylar: Yeah.
- 18:29Cameron: And I am just, I'm gonna
- 18:31divert.
- 18:32Skylar: Okay.
- 18:33Cameron: Which is any attacks that Brock, I will take.
- 18:35Skylar: Okay.
- 18:36Cameron: And then I'm going to use a
- 18:39retaliate. So each time a person
- 18:42hits me while I'm redirecting that, they'll take damage.
- 18:45Skylar: Nice. That's a good combo. That's a really good
- 18:47combo. Like, you're forced to attack me, and then I'm gonna deal
- 18:50damage to you when you do. That's. That's a solid one.
- 18:52Cameron: Yeah.
- 18:53Skylar: Awesome. Okay, sounds good. And then, Guo Han, you are also
- 18:56using a defendant maneuver.
- 18:58Dave: Yes.
- 18:59Skylar: oh, yeah. What did you roll?
- 19:01Dave: I got a seven.
- 19:02Skylar: Seven. Okay, perfect. You can take a move.
- 19:04Dave: So I guess I want to go over to Brock,
- 19:07and I don't know what
- 19:10would, like, when you move to.
- 19:12Skylar: A new location, is that a full
- 19:15season position?
- 19:17Dave: What does that entail?
- 19:18Skylar: I think, like, within a small room like this. It's not
- 19:21really that big of a deal, you know, I gotta run over.
- 19:24Dave: To Brock, and I'm going to take cover in the
- 19:27form of, like, pulling up a small earth wall.
- 19:29Skylar: Yeah, absolutely.
- 19:30Dave: I'm going to say, brock,
- 19:33do you have the will?
- 19:35Cameron: I think so.
- 19:36Mikayla: In the way?
- 19:38Cameron: Yeah, it's right here.
- 19:39Dave: Quick, hand it over.
- 19:41Cameron: I'll give it over to go.
- 19:42Skylar: Okay.
- 19:43Dave: And then I'm gonna,
- 19:46like, dash. I'm gonna, like, hide the will, tuck
- 19:49it in my robe and run over to Micah.
- 19:51Skylar: Okay, sounds good. Awesome.
- 19:53Dave: And hand it and say, I've got the will.
- 19:55Skylar: All right. All right, sounds good.
- 19:58I'm, gonna say that because he
- 20:01cannot take the advance and attack,
- 20:04General Wang Long is also taking Caesar position.
- 20:07He, is
- 20:10readying himself to give himself.
- 20:13So he's gonna give himself favored.
- 20:16as he kind of prepares himself to take this attack, he's kind of
- 20:19shaking himself off of this sort of
- 20:22intense realization, this surprise and so on and
- 20:25so forth. as far as. As Bill goes. And
- 20:28then he is also going to retaliate
- 20:32to prepare himself for incoming
- 20:34attacks from whoever that might be. I think that's. I think
- 20:37he is. He is pretty well focused on Bill at this point,
- 20:40given the sort of attention grabber that
- 20:43Bill has used, or ash, rather. is
- 20:45anybody using advance and attack?
- 20:48Cameron: I'll be using advance and attack.
- 20:49Skylar: Okay, sounds good. What are you. Oh, did you roll
- 20:52to?
- 20:52Cameron: Well, yes, I rolled a twelve, but I would also like
- 20:55to invoke my winning is everything.
- 20:58Skylar: Oh, boy. Here we go.
- 20:59Cameron: Where, pray tell,
- 21:02are Wang Long and madame Yang in relation
- 21:05to me at this very moment?
- 21:07Skylar: well, madam Yang, is. Oh,
- 21:10man. I like to think that Madame Yang is
- 21:12right behind a rock wall that Guo just threw
- 21:15up between the two of you. And then Bill
- 21:18is also standing there, kind of by your side.
- 21:21And I would say that
- 21:24Wang Long is to his left in front of him, and
- 21:27madam Yang, again, is to, like, just off to his
- 21:30right behind this. This wall that guo just put
- 21:32up.
- 21:33Cameron: So. Okay, roll with me on
- 21:36this.
- 21:36Skylar: Okay, I got my dice.
- 21:38Cameron: Roll. Roll with me on this. So
- 21:40I would like to take the earth
- 21:44bending abilities that I have,
- 21:46okay, to essentially
- 21:50form small spheres, right? That
- 21:53will pin them to the back wall of this
- 21:55room.
- 21:57Skylar: Pin both of them if possible,
- 22:00and.
- 22:00Cameron: Then if they're next to each other, the next plan would be
- 22:03to then dropkick them both
- 22:06through said Wallace,
- 22:09because with this
- 22:12condition fit, I am then favored in the next
- 22:14exchange, right?
- 22:17And, I am m able to add an additional
- 22:20basic or mastered technique. And I would imagine that falls under smash
- 22:23because I'm destroying said wall, right?
- 22:26So essentially, I plan to
- 22:29ninja star them to the wall, right.
- 22:31Rocks, and then drop kick them out
- 22:34of.
- 22:35Skylar: Okay, kind of jump up and just
- 22:38so your. Your,
- 22:40whatever it takes to win or whatever it's called, move. I mean,
- 22:43it's gonna apply to one person,
- 22:48so you get. You get your pick. I mean, I'm all for this plan,
- 22:51for sure, but you're gonna have to take your pick on who it is
- 22:54you're gonna do this to.
- 22:55Cameron: Well, it makes most sense for me to do it to Wang
- 22:58long. However, madam Yang seems to be the more
- 23:00prevalent threat at the moment.
- 23:05I should probably do it to Madame Yang. Okay,
- 23:08so from behind the thing, I kind of
- 23:10pop up ninja star over the top of the
- 23:13wall.
- 23:14Skylar: You could probably lower it if you really wanted to. I'm not
- 23:17gonna stop you from doing that.
- 23:18Dave: Or use it.
- 23:19Skylar: Or use it. Or. Yeah, you use the
- 23:22wall itself, and then just, like, push out.
- 23:24Cameron: Push her and pin her against the wall using just the wall.
- 23:27Skylar: Oh, yeah.
- 23:28Cameron: Then I drop the slab.
- 23:30Skylar: Okay.
- 23:31Cameron: Essentially forming a. Madame Yang
- 23:33shaped the.
- 23:35Skylar: Slab, replaces the wall perfectly. But,
- 23:38yeah, there's a hole behind it that got created. As you hear her
- 23:40go, whoa. She gets thrown into the
- 23:43other room. Okay, perfect. So,
- 23:46you use your first move to your
- 23:49sort of, like, dirty fighting. this is going to shift
- 23:52your balance twice, I believe.
- 23:54Cameron: Yes, my balance twice, I would imagine it goes towards
- 23:57force.
- 23:58Skylar: Yes, I would agree. And then the second move that you're
- 24:01using, I'm guessing, is smash.
- 24:03Cameron: Yeah.
- 24:04Skylar: Okay, perfect. So you're gonna take a fatigue for
- 24:07that. And you are. Let's see.
- 24:09Cameron: Well, I mean, if I'm taking a fatigue regardless, then I'll use my
- 24:12earth gauntlet, because then that marks two fatigue on Wang
- 24:15long. Because if a smash only charge.
- 24:17Cameron: Smashing.
- 24:18Skylar: Well, she's gonna take it.
- 24:19Cameron: Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think I'm all
- 24:22set.
- 24:23Skylar: I'm gonna say that she's once again trapped
- 24:26because she's not even in the room anymore. So
- 24:29in order to get back into the room, she's gonna have to exert herself
- 24:32in some way, shape, or form, whatever that looks like.
- 24:34Cameron: I imagine she just, like, if I keep doing this, she's just
- 24:37gonna try and, like, claw her way and just
- 24:40collapse.
- 24:41Skylar: Yeah, something like that.
- 24:42Cameron: She's gonna keep using all this fatigue just to get
- 24:44back in the fray.
- 24:46Skylar: Yeah, she's gonna. She's gonna
- 24:49weaken herself for sure. and so, in fact, she
- 24:52does, because it's her turn. Nobody else is using advance and
- 24:55attack. Right? Okay, perfect.
- 24:59Yeah, yeah, but she's gonna do different. Different.
- 25:02Yeah. I put my pencil.
- 25:04Cameron: She can take the mayor, mister Wu, and get out of
- 25:07there.
- 25:07Cameron: Just gets it stamped, and we're done.
- 25:09Skylar: Yep, that's true. okay, so madam Yang is
- 25:11taking three fatigue once again.
- 25:14what you see is that from the other side of this
- 25:17wall, similar to, like, Star Wars
- 25:20Episode one where Qui gon Jinn and Obi Wan
- 25:22Kenobi stabbed through the door with their
- 25:25lightsabers. So does Madame Yang. Stabbed through a chunk
- 25:28of wall with her incredibly hot,
- 25:31firebending, skills and just kind of carves
- 25:34out a circle, exerting a lot of her bending
- 25:37ability and energy in order to do so. But, she cuts a
- 25:40hole through the wall and kicks it through and
- 25:43steps through. She just looks ragged. I mean, her hair is
- 25:46a mess. Her outfit is filthy at this point, covered in
- 25:49dust from your attack. and of course,
- 25:52she looks royally upset.
- 25:55so she basically, she used that, to get
- 25:57through, and then she is going
- 26:00to rush forward, and once again, in
- 26:03her rage, in her insanity, she is
- 26:06going to strike three times. these are going
- 26:09to be headed to Bill. so, Bill, you're going
- 26:12to take a combination of three sets of either two
- 26:15fatigue or conditions,
- 26:17but you are dealing how much back to
- 26:20her?
- 26:21Cameron: Six.
- 26:22Skylar: Six fatigue.
- 26:23Cameron: Yeah.
- 26:23Skylar: So you expertly and nimbly,
- 26:26fight back with your bo staff, able
- 26:29to maybe not necessarily
- 26:31dodge her attacks because obviously you're taking them, but every
- 26:34time she hits you, you're able to return that blow
- 26:37with another blow. she is now
- 26:39angry, and I would say
- 26:42troubled, as well as incredibly
- 26:45exhausted. Fantastic. last but not least,
- 26:48we have Mika. Mica, what are you doing? You're doing
- 26:51evade and observe. All right, so
- 26:54you clear a fatigue. Did you roll?
- 26:57Mikayla: I'm pretty sure that's just a five.
- 26:59Skylar: You wanna take the ex. The fatigue.
- 27:00Mikayla: It's not the six, but still not.
- 27:03Skylar: Do you have any fatigue right now?
- 27:04Mikayla: Yes.
- 27:05Skylar: Okay, so you clear a fatigue, and then you would gain a fatigue
- 27:08if you would like to use. So you could just leave it as is. Yeah,
- 27:11yeah. if you'd like to use a move. Anyways, so
- 27:14what are you doing?
- 27:15Mikayla: I am going to, I
- 27:18think, both or hinder.
- 27:20Skylar: Okay.
- 27:21Mikayla: Which means I can aid or impede a nearby character
- 27:23in an appropriate status.
- 27:26Skylar: Okay.
- 27:27Mikayla: Which the only ones near to me.
- 27:29Skylar: Is Guo and
- 27:32the guy, this guy, mister Wu.
- 27:34Mikayla: Can I make him inspired?
- 27:36Skylar: Mister Wu?
- 27:37Mikayla: Yeah, he's a little chicken right now, so I want to get his head in
- 27:40the game. So he'll sign the stupid will.
- 27:42Skylar: So he just, like, snaps out of it. Okay, so what are you saying to him?
- 27:46Cameron: Not very good.
- 27:52Skylar: Yeah, I was gonna say or do. What do you
- 27:55say? Or do I like that actually. That'd be hilarious.
- 27:57Mikayla: I would. Yeah, I'll slap him. And they said, I'll say,
- 28:00dude, focus.
- 28:03Skylar: oh. yes. What?
- 28:05Dave: What?
- 28:06Mikayla: Sign the will, bro.
- 28:08Skylar: The will. And he looks over at the
- 28:11paper. guo han has it, right? And you
- 28:13gave it to Mika. Okay, so, Mika, you slapped down the paper in front of
- 28:16him.
- 28:17Dave: But I said I had.
- 28:18Skylar: And he looks at it and he goes, oh, yes, of
- 28:21course. Mister Okoran's will. You're the
- 28:24kids. I remember you from the funeral. Yes, of course.
- 28:27and he's looking around, he's like, I need
- 28:30a pen.
- 28:32Cameron: What?
- 28:34Skylar: Somebody get me up.
- 28:35Mikayla: I have one. I draw on the hem of my
- 28:38dress all the time.
- 28:39Cameron: Oh, yeah. Fun fact.
- 28:41Skylar: Oh, my gosh. A fun fact coming
- 28:44into play.
- 28:44Mikayla: Suck it.
- 28:46Skylar: You hand him the pen.
- 28:48Mikayla: Do not.
- 28:49Skylar: I'm saying he's taking it. He's taking it.
- 28:54And see what happens.
- 28:56Cameron: Okay, we're gonna do another exchange.
- 28:59Skylar: We'll do one more exchange
- 29:01just to see where things go from
- 29:04here. who's taking defend and maneuvered?
- 29:06Cameron: I am.
- 29:07Cameron: I probably should.
- 29:08Skylar: Okay. All right, that's two. All right, guys, roll for
- 29:10it.
- 29:11Cameron: What do I roll with again?
- 29:13Cameron: Eleven.
- 29:14Skylar: focus.
- 29:16Cameron: Nine.
- 29:16Cameron: nine.
- 29:17Mikayla: Okay, so I think. Can I.
- 29:19Skylar: Sure.
- 29:20Mikayla: Because could I, like, ready myself
- 29:23for oncoming? Like, if he's gonna sign it, like, I
- 29:26would like to watch and make and, like.
- 29:29And, like, prevent damage coming
- 29:32our way.
- 29:33Skylar: Yeah, no, absolutely. Go for it. Roll. roll with focus as
- 29:36well.
- 29:37Mikayla: 13.
- 29:38Skylar: Holy cow, you guys. Saving all these big rolls for
- 29:41the very end? Okay, so, Brock, you're getting.
- 29:45That is a phenomenal roll. Geez. Especially for right
- 29:48now. Okay, Brock, you are.
- 29:51We'll start with you. You get one move, I will
- 29:54seize a position. Seize a position? What position are you
- 29:57seizing?
- 29:57Cameron: I will get into a place where I can protect Mister
- 30:00Wu.
- 30:00Skylar: Okay.
- 30:01Cameron: In this exchange.
- 30:02Skylar: Okay, I, will just sort of.
- 30:04Cameron: Ready myself over there to.
- 30:07Mikayla: You don't even know what's going on, mister. I'm gonna
- 30:10throw people out the wall.
- 30:11Cameron: I mean, it's working.
- 30:14Skylar: Okay, so you're. Okay, so you're gonna do ready then? Well, I
- 30:17mean, you can. You can move over there.
- 30:19Cameron: I'll say.
- 30:19Cameron: Sees the pit. Well, I would imagine he sees. Well,
- 30:22if Guo Han took the will from him
- 30:25and went over towards Nisha, he would. I would imagine he
- 30:28ain't that smart, but he would probably at least know that.
- 30:30Skylar: Oh, okay.
- 30:31Cameron: Some importance going on over there.
- 30:33Skylar: All right. you get to overcome a negative status effect
- 30:35if you have one.
- 30:37Cameron: I have several.
- 30:38Skylar: You have conditions, but not necessarily a
- 30:40status. Like doomed.
- 30:42Cameron: Yeah.
- 30:42Mikayla: These are your statuses?
- 30:44Skylar: Yeah.
- 30:44Cameron: No, I ain't got none of those.
- 30:45Skylar: Okay, you're safe from those. But that's okay. You take up a position
- 30:48and you are guarding, anyone from
- 30:51getting. You know, somebody would have to definitely exert a little bit extra energy
- 30:54if they wanted to get past you and attack
- 30:57mister you or stop him, what he's doing, so. Awesome.
- 31:00Fantastic. ash, you had a
- 31:021011. Okay, perfect. So you get two.
- 31:05Cameron: I'm doing basically the same thing,
- 31:07diverting into retaliate, but I'm like
- 31:10standing a little more like. So Brock moves out of
- 31:13the room, and now everyone is out of the room room. So
- 31:16Bill's basically. And take a defensive stance, like right at
- 31:18the doorway. And it's like anyone who wants out of this
- 31:21room has to go through.
- 31:23Skylar: Oh, okay. So we're saying, okay, perfect. Awesome. And
- 31:26then are you doing anything else as well?
- 31:27Cameron: So you had retaliate and to divert, which
- 31:30is if my allies were to get attack, it goes to me.
- 31:33Skylar: Sounds good. Awesome. Very good, very good. So, you take up a stance,
- 31:36probably like right next to Brock, basically. I would say so, yeah. Yeah.
- 31:39The two of you are basically blocking anyone from getting to mister
- 31:42Wu. And then who else? Mika, you said you were
- 31:45also gonna do a defendant maneuver.
- 31:47Mikayla: Yeah, yeah.
- 31:48Skylar: And then you rolled a 13. You get to pick two
- 31:50moves.
- 31:51Mikayla: Oh, well, I was gonna. Ready.
- 31:53Skylar: Okay, so you are ready. I
- 31:56would say that you are prepared.
- 31:59Mikayla: Yeah.
- 32:00Skylar: Okay.
- 32:00Cameron: Inspired.
- 32:02Mikayla: Yeah, I am inspired.
- 32:04Skylar: Oh, wait. Yeah. Ah. Oh.
- 32:05Mikayla: Remember?
- 32:06Skylar: Yeah. Yes. The hug had left you guys
- 32:08inspired.
- 32:09Mikayla: Can I, like, ready and retaliate?
- 32:12Skylar: Yeah, absolutely. So you ready? So basically, the
- 32:15three of you all take a stance next to each
- 32:17other. Yes, it was absolutely. Just to
- 32:20make sure that this man can sign
- 32:23this. Dang will. just out of
- 32:26curiosity, Wohan, what approach
- 32:29were you planning on taking?
- 32:30Dave: they didn't observe.
- 32:32Cameron: Okay, so that's gonna write this on his memoir.
- 32:34Skylar: That's right. That's gonna be bottom
- 32:37of the list. So, obviously, I would say
- 32:40that both Madame Yang and Wang Long
- 32:43are both going to do advance and attack, and they
- 32:46are going to. I mean, all they can really do
- 32:49at this point is all just full
- 32:51strikes. So I would say that between
- 32:53Mika and Bill, they're both gonna
- 32:56strike three times. So that means
- 32:59between the two of you, however you guys
- 33:02decide, there's two fatigues.
- 33:05Each of these.
- 33:06Cameron: These strikes take four of them.
- 33:08Skylar: Oh, wow.
- 33:09Cameron: And basically Bill,
- 33:12well, I'm taking any attack to make. Okay,
- 33:14so four of the six go to Bill, and Bill,
- 33:17like, stumbles to the ground.
- 33:19Skylar: Okay.
- 33:19Cameron: Hands on his knee.
- 33:20Skylar: Right, okay.
- 33:21Cameron: And then as, like, they're starting to. To make like, a break past
- 33:24them to go towards, like, micah or whatever. I'm
- 33:27gonna use a move I haven't used yet. Called
- 33:30not done yet, I ain't heard no bell.
- 33:33Which is basically once per. In
- 33:35exchange or in full encounter, I basically,
- 33:38once I lose all of my condition, everything.
- 33:41Skylar: Yeah.
- 33:41Cameron: I can basically recenter myself,
- 33:44stand back up, and just can go until the end of that
- 33:47exchange before I knocked.
- 33:49Skylar: Wow. Okay.
- 33:50Cameron: So I basically stand back up, and as they try
- 33:53to, like, rush through, I take the final two blows.
- 33:56Oh, wow.
- 33:56Skylar: Okay.
- 33:57Cameron: And each blow is six. So
- 34:00I deal six more fatigue. Back to both.
- 34:02Skylar: Back to. Holy cow.
- 34:05Okay, so I should
- 34:08have done something different.
- 34:10Cameron: Well, in case of.
- 34:11Skylar: Yeah, if anything went to crap, you've.
- 34:14Cameron: Guys have never seen build do this, so.
- 34:16Skylar: Okay, so I, I imagine that both of them
- 34:19kind of come at you guys just straight away,
- 34:22and maybe my.
- 34:23Cameron: My friends catch me. Yeah.
- 34:29Skylar: They.
- 34:29Cameron: Scott Sterling, me. They pick my limp body
- 34:32up and.
- 34:33Skylar: Force me to pulling it. Toby
- 34:35Maguire.
- 34:38So I like that. I like that.
- 34:40Cameron: So he can take it.
- 34:43Skylar: Madam Yang and Wang long leap forward. And
- 34:46before Mika can even step in and start, you know,
- 34:49taking these blows, Bill immediately jumps in. He's used
- 34:52to this. This has kind of been your thing pretty much this
- 34:55entire game, is that you have
- 34:58stepped forward and taken the blows for somebody else. So
- 35:00immediately, the two of them in an angry rush,
- 35:03seeing Mister Wu behind the three of
- 35:06you, this wall that you've created, created, starting to reach
- 35:09down with this pen. And he's about to sign these papers. And all
- 35:12they have to do is they need to stop him from doing this. They rush
- 35:15forward and just with reckless abandon, start
- 35:17wailing on Bill, who's not only taking
- 35:20every blow, but dealing some back, until all of a sudden,
- 35:23Bill falls to his knee.
- 35:26He starts to lose his balance. He falls backwards,
- 35:29but behind Bill is
- 35:32Mika, Brock. And he looks over, and he can see,
- 35:35whoa. Over in the corner of the rooms as well, doing his
- 35:38part.
- 35:38Cameron: And mom was here
- 35:41too.
- 35:44Skylar: And they pick him
- 35:46up off the ground. And
- 35:49he shakes himself a little bit. He kind of brings
- 35:52himself back. He recenters himself as he thinks
- 35:55about his amazing friends that he's had this entire time, who
- 35:58always have his back and are at the ready to
- 36:01bring him back up again. And he takes another
- 36:03fighting stance. Madame Yang throws another
- 36:06punch. Bill takes it, just takes it straight up,
- 36:09right in the chest, and immediately uppercuts with his
- 36:12bo staff, knocking Madam Yang backwards, who
- 36:15just falls to the ground. Her hair a mess, she's
- 36:18crazed, her eyes moments ago, just
- 36:21with this horrifying look of just anger
- 36:24and, sort of villainy, honestly. Evil,
- 36:27maybe. And she falls to the
- 36:30ground, and she does not get back
- 36:32up. He looks over at Wang long, someone that's kind
- 36:35of been a villain in his eyes ever since he was a kid.
- 36:38Wang long strikes out again. Once again,
- 36:41Bill takes the hit in the shoulder and
- 36:44returns it, putting Wang long in a difficult position.
- 36:47Not unconscious like his, associate, but
- 36:50definitely weakened. Wang Long is still up,
- 36:52but we do still have Guo Han with
- 36:55his evade and observe. What are you doing? Or what
- 36:58did you roll?
- 36:59Dave: I guess, first of all, I rolled a 13.
- 37:01Skylar: Holy hell, you guys with
- 37:04your high rolls at the end. All right, so what is Guo
- 37:07Han doing? Who's still in the room?
- 37:09Dave: So, Guo Han seeing, Wang long still up in attack.
- 37:12He's kiddehe. Eat
- 37:15dirt.
- 37:16Skylar: A classic Guo Han line.
- 37:18Dave: You flamin leaf steamer.
- 37:23Cameron: Wait, she's, she's dead, though.
- 37:25Dave: I know it would have worked better for.
- 37:28Skylar: No, it's good. It's good.
- 37:29Cameron: I like it.
- 37:30Skylar: Oh, he's an associate of a flaming leaf.
- 37:32Dave: He drinks the tea.
- 37:33Skylar: That's true. He's a part of the problem.
- 37:36Dave: So that move causes him to stumble and
- 37:39lose his footing.
- 37:40Skylar: What is, what is the move you're doing? Just out of curiosity? Ah, what is it
- 37:43called?
- 37:43Dave: it's called eat dirt.
- 37:45Skylar: Oh, okay. You weren't kidding. Okay.
- 37:48Dave: Yeah.
- 37:49Skylar: It's called eat dirt
- 37:53leaf steamer.
- 37:55Dave: So he's impaired and unable to choose, defend, and
- 37:58maneuver in the next exchange.
- 38:00Cameron: Oh, wow.
- 38:00Dave: So you, like kind of trips?
- 38:01Skylar: Yes.
- 38:02Dave: Brawls on the ground is, like, wide open for
- 38:05counter attack.
- 38:06Skylar: It's kind of like, the classic. What's, what's the
- 38:08bard. Typical bard move. And, yes,
- 38:11it's a classic vicious mockery. Guo, like,
- 38:14shouts this insult at him, and for a moment, he's just
- 38:17so thrown off at this point, he just got
- 38:20wailed on. And then on top of it, you know, he's
- 38:22feeling insecure. And I'm gonna mark that as
- 38:25such, because he's feeling insecure, because he's getting wailed on by a group of
- 38:28kids. And not only is he
- 38:31insecure and therefore vulnerable, then all of a sudden, this other
- 38:33kid from the back of the room shoots an insult his way,
- 38:36and it's just that little tipping point to just really
- 38:39slap his ego into place. And he kind of
- 38:42steps back just a little bit, maybe out of physical
- 38:45exhaustion, but also out of just a sense of mental
- 38:48exhaustion as, he's slammed by this
- 38:50insult, this one's more just for fun.
- 38:53Dave: I'm gonna bolster
- 38:55mister, you woo.
- 38:58I keep saying mister wu, and I
- 39:00gotta open my pouch,
- 39:05take out Dilbert. Say,
- 39:08Dilbert need some ink.
- 39:14Dilbert squirts some ink into my
- 39:17hand and I hold it up.
- 39:20Cameron: What an unexpected.
- 39:23Cameron: We got Dilbert in the finale
- 39:26and.
- 39:26Skylar: You rush over and sure enough, as he's
- 39:29touching down to the paper, initially he's like, oh,
- 39:32no, there's no ear.
- 39:35Cameron: And then all of a sudden, Guo.
- 39:37Skylar: Reaches, like I like to imagine you don't even come out of the
- 39:39room. You just reach between, like Brock and
- 39:42Micah or something, and there's a handful like
- 39:45a palm full of just eight. And he just kind of looked
- 39:48at it.
- 39:48Cameron: He goes, oh, thanks.
- 39:51Skylar: And he dips his little quill pen in there and he
- 39:54goes, he reaches down and he
- 39:56signs Mister
- 39:58Okaron's will.
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- 41:06with okarans will signed the remainder of your
- 41:09fight against Wang. Long is short, seeing his
- 41:12allies unconscious and the mission failed in the form
- 41:15of the drying ink on the document in your hands,
- 41:18he leaps out the office window, using his
- 41:20firebending to propel him to the ground below. He
- 41:23shouts some quick orders to his men to retreat from the city,
- 41:26and by the time you can rush to the shattered window, theyre
- 41:29already fleeing towards the outskirts of gaoling. Almost
- 41:32immediately, the people of the city begin to rush out of their
- 41:35homes, chasing the pirates and the pink clothed hot
- 41:38leaf juice employees from the town, which
- 41:40shortly before was held hostage by these
- 41:43villains. You all, on the other hand,
- 41:46don't focus on this as tears well up
- 41:49in your eyes looking at the document that you have
- 41:52searched the world for resting in your
- 41:55hands, signed with your names listed as
- 41:57the new owners of the blissful brew.
- 42:00Mikayla: Mica's definitely not crying.
- 42:01Skylar: Oh, she's just bending the water, really quick out
- 42:04of her eyes so that nobody can tell.
- 42:06Cameron: I'm pretty sure Bill's knocked out.
- 42:08Skylar: Bill is probably unconscious or like barely
- 42:11awake. Yeah, and he's crying for many reasons because
- 42:16I've been so.
- 42:18Cameron: I've been hurt.
- 42:20Skylar: As the sun comes to a rest over the city of
- 42:23Gaoling, causing the shades of Orlando orange and Violet to
- 42:26drift into darker, cooler colors, notifying the
- 42:29city citizens at the time to turn on the various
- 42:32lamps and lanterns that float above their streets and
- 42:34storefronts. Four exhausted teens step
- 42:37out from the mayor's office, their goal,
- 42:40one that only spanned the last week, but possibly
- 42:43influencing the rest of their lives, finally
- 42:45complete. A new sheet of paper is
- 42:48clenched firmly in Bill, or should I say
- 42:51Ash's hand, one that symbolizes the entire
- 42:54life of the teen's old friend, now passed on to
- 42:57the rightful recipients. As the team walks the
- 43:00streets of the city they've begun to call home. They watch
- 43:03as the light of the Fire Nation soldiers disappears in
- 43:06the distance, their proverbial tails between their
- 43:08legs, the pirate crew nowhere to be seen, and
- 43:11Madam Yang being thrown out of the city by the local
- 43:14guards along with all her cronies. Slowly
- 43:17and wearily, they approach their friends who help
- 43:20them along the way and stand at attention with gleaming
- 43:23smiles, knowing the final hour has come to a close
- 43:26with an overarching victory for their side. You
- 43:29all make your way to the outskirts of town where the spirit
- 43:31portals brought you, and awaiting you are new
- 43:34portals for your allies to return home. Sora
- 43:37turns to Brock before offering a hug to her old
- 43:40friend, a gleam of hope sparkling in her eyes.
- 43:43Cameron: I can give her a bro hug.
- 43:44Skylar: yeah, you give her a bro hug. Which almost adds
- 43:47insult to injury. Probably. She seems
- 43:50disappointed by this.
- 43:51Cameron: Wouldn't be funny if we kissed that.
- 43:55Skylar: She insists that the two stay in touch. She offers to write
- 43:58letters to Brock, to which Brock replies, I mean, I.
- 44:01Cameron: Can'T really read, so.
- 44:07Skylar: She'S like, I mean, I can.
- 44:10Mikayla: Don't worry, Brock, we got you.
- 44:11Skylar: She stands a bit flabbergasted at this as she
- 44:14looks the muscle bound man in front of her before
- 44:17suggesting a new plan. She offers to stick around for
- 44:20a little while, take some PTO from the exhausting
- 44:23missions of the rescue team squadron to dedicate towards
- 44:26an equally exhausting task, helping Brock learn to
- 44:29read.
- 44:29Cameron: Yeah, we can use some extra hands around the blissful brew.
- 44:33Skylar: Although woefully frustrated with the constant hit and miss
- 44:36of romance with Brock, Sora still retains hope
- 44:39that maybe Brock might catch on. Who knows?
- 44:42Even share these feelings with her. She
- 44:44informs Mactuk of her plan, and he
- 44:47agrees to pass the news along before he turns to his
- 44:50daughter. Oh, Micah. I. I mean, I. I
- 44:53obviously, I'd like to come back here.
- 44:56I'm gonna go kind of finish things up with the rescue team
- 44:59squadron and, I mean, if you
- 45:02want me to, I can come back here and
- 45:04maybe we could set
- 45:07up a place and, I don't know, figure things
- 45:10out.
- 45:11Mikayla: Play catch.
- 45:12Dave: Sure.
- 45:12Skylar: We could do that.
- 45:13Mikayla: That sounds like a great plan, dad.
- 45:16Skylar: Sounds good. And with that, Mactuk
- 45:19steps through the portal to head back to the
- 45:22camp and settle his business with the rescue team
- 45:24squadron. Two portals remain.
- 45:27Mayu Yinyu holds out his hand for a shake towards
- 45:29Guohandhe, who takes it and pulls him in for a hug.
- 45:32Dave: Thanks for coming. To the continued dad
- 45:34tryouts. I
- 45:37mean, thanks for coming.
- 45:39Skylar: Yeah, sure thing. You kids are great. love hanging
- 45:42out with you guys. You do, good stuff. And,
- 45:45hey, if you ever want to go on stage sometime, maybe we could do
- 45:48a performance together. I've, heard you play. Maybe
- 45:51do some acting.
- 45:52Dave: That would be amazing.
- 45:54Skylar: All right, well, I'll definitely come swinging by in gowling
- 45:57here in the near future. Maybe we can put on a show
- 45:59or even do one of those open mic nights or
- 46:02something.
- 46:03Dave: I know a few good spots.
- 46:05Skylar: Oh, perfect.
- 46:05Cameron: Yeah.
- 46:06Skylar: Yeah, that's what I'm always looking for. You know, good places
- 46:09to eat, get good food. You know, I try to stick
- 46:12with only the best. I'll see you later. And, he
- 46:15jumps into a portal, and he heads off.
- 46:20Bill stands before his brother, Ember. It's been
- 46:23years since the two had seen each other, and so many emotions
- 46:25swirl around their hearts and minds like stormy seas.
- 46:29Ember teeters on two ends of an emotional
- 46:32seesaw. On one side, he's ecstatic to know
- 46:35his brother is alive and to be here with him. On the
- 46:38other, he's desperate to return home to tell the rest of his family,
- 46:41who have feared for the worst for years.
- 46:44So, where do we go from here?
- 46:48Cameron: I, was, thinking, we go home.
- 46:50Skylar: You're gonna. You want to come back home?
- 46:53Cameron: Yeah.
- 46:54Skylar: Well, will the portal let both of us go through?
- 46:58Cameron: I don't know. Some weird spirit animal
- 47:00opened it for us. I don't know if we can both go through the
- 47:03portal.
- 47:04Skylar: Well, I'd hate to have it not work for you
- 47:07when you go through. Yeah, or try to go through, and then
- 47:10you have to make the journey by yourself on. On
- 47:13foot and see.
- 47:14Cameron: I mean, if we want to play it safe, you could just come
- 47:17with me and just.
- 47:19Skylar: Just go with you physically non
- 47:22spirit? Yeah.
- 47:23Cameron: Just on a boat or something? Yeah.
- 47:25Cameron: Yeah.
- 47:26Skylar: I mean, yeah, that, that sounds great.
- 47:27Mikayla: Plus, I think those pirates might get you.
- 47:31Cameron: I've got connections with the pirates. Not good
- 47:34ones, but I've got connections.
- 47:36Skylar: That sounds like a story you're gonna have to tell me on, on the way
- 47:39home.
- 47:39Cameron: Yeah, but, I mean, I still gotta recover before
- 47:42we make a trip back home.
- 47:44Skylar: Sure. I mean, we can get a night's rest.
- 47:46Cameron: Yeah. I'm kind of beat up.
- 47:48Skylar: You look pretty beat up. I don't think I'd want mom and
- 47:51dad to see you.
- 47:53Cameron: look at both my black eyes.
- 47:54Skylar: Yeah, so even if we could get through the portal,
- 47:57I feel like that would be a bad look on me and.
- 48:00And so on.
- 48:02Cameron: Plus, I should help these guys get the shop
- 48:05all cleaned up so they can
- 48:08do their grand re reopening.
- 48:11Skylar: are you sure you. You want to
- 48:14leave them here, or. I mean, I don't know.
- 48:17Cameron: It.
- 48:18Skylar: It sounded like this tea shop really meant a
- 48:21lot to you.
- 48:22Cameron: It it does mean a lot to me,
- 48:24but
- 48:28I think the tea shop
- 48:33was. I was meant to be
- 48:35here, but I wasn't meant to stay here, if that
- 48:38makes sense. And I think I need to go back home
- 48:41and help dad fight the
- 48:43fight on the home front.
- 48:45Skylar: I know everybody would be happy to see you back home.
- 48:48are your friends okay with you heading
- 48:51out? They know.
- 48:53Cameron: No.
- 48:53Skylar: Oh. Do you need to talk to him?
- 48:55Cameron: M I probably should talk.
- 48:58Skylar: Okay.
- 48:59Cameron: Like, we're, like, right now. I should talk to them.
- 49:01Skylar: Oh, I don't know. I mean, if we have to leave in the morning.
- 49:05Cameron: Well, I could say goodbye to them
- 49:08then. Or I. We sneak
- 49:11out in the morning after, before it's too late.
- 49:13Skylar: It doesn't seem like the right thing.
- 49:15Cameron: That's not the right thing to do, but I know I need
- 49:18to go home. I'm done running.
- 49:22Skylar: Alright, well, I'll travel with you.
- 49:24Cameron: That'd be nice.
- 49:26Skylar: All right. As Ash and his brother make
- 49:29this final decision, the final portal closes.
- 49:32And with tired eyes and heavy heads, the teens
- 49:35and Bill's brother and Sora finally
- 49:38reach their home. The blissful brew tea shop.
- 49:41It looks just as they had left it when they began their treasure
- 49:44hunt a week ago. With scattered, broken furniture
- 49:47and teacups fragmented across the floor, a
- 49:50mess that could wait until tomorrow. For now, it was time
- 49:53to rest. Bill finds a spot for his brother and the
- 49:55group takes a long and much needed sleep,
- 49:58letting the night wash over them, relieving their pains and
- 50:01fatigue of their long adventure, calming their minds
- 50:04with pleasant dreams, and filling their hearts with the hopes of
- 50:07what is to come.
- 50:23Bill awakes the next morning with the
- 50:26hour nearly at noon. He felt a bit
- 50:28sore from all of yesterdays wounds, but with a good
- 50:31stretch and a bath, he already could feel his body
- 50:34rejuvenating. He comes down the stairs of the tea
- 50:36shop and finds a place tidied up, and the smell of hot
- 50:39cakes and citrus tea greets his nose. He
- 50:42was surprised to find the remaining members of the wild
- 50:45coyote boars were there, enjoying a hot breakfast that seemed
- 50:48to be made by Guo Han and ember, each
- 50:51with an adorable, blissful brew apron draped over
- 50:53themselves.
- 50:54Cameron: The time is.
- 50:55Skylar: Can't be that it's almost noon,
- 50:58bro.
- 50:59Cameron: I, guess I'll grab some food and sit down next to all
- 51:02of them. I'm guessing they're all just out here.
- 51:04Skylar: Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I think everybody's either out there eating.
- 51:07Cameron: Brock doesn't need to be in the kitchen cleaning up a thing or
- 51:09two.
- 51:10Cameron: Honestly, I feel like Brock is looking at that
- 51:13gemstone that he got, like,
- 51:16six episodes ago, and he's like, dude.
- 51:18Skylar: It was a season ago. It was a whole season
- 51:21two, like, episode.
- 51:23Cameron: I'm. He's just kind of, like, tossing it up in the air, like,
- 51:26in his hand. I really want to know
- 51:29what this thing does.
- 51:32Imagine we get one last sitting next.
- 51:35Skylar: To you as Sora, and she's got a piece of paper in front of you, and she's like,
- 51:38brock, Brock. Hey, you're not paying attention. It's an
- 51:40a. Say a. A says a.
- 51:43Or a. If it's next to, like, a
- 51:46y.
- 51:47Cameron: A.
- 51:49Skylar: Okay, good job. and then this is a b.
- 51:52It goes bdez.
- 51:54Cameron: B. B.
- 51:59Cameron: And a.
- 52:01Man, we're flying through this. How many more letters we gotta
- 52:04do?
- 52:04Skylar: There's 26 in total.
- 52:07Cameron: that's not that many.
- 52:08Skylar: No, that's.
- 52:09Cameron: I was lying. I wasn't doing it at all.
- 52:13Maybe I just.
- 52:15Skylar: B. B. Hey, b is the first letter of your
- 52:18name.
- 52:19Cameron: It is.
- 52:19Skylar: Brock. It is.
- 52:22Whoa.
- 52:23Cameron: Recognize.
- 52:24Skylar: That's, like, one word.
- 52:25Cameron: You knew how to read.
- 52:26Cameron: Well, okay, you're eating hotcakes right
- 52:29now.
- 52:31Cameron: I'm sitting right next to you, Brock.
- 52:33Cameron: Yeah, well, shut up.
- 52:37Skylar: Bill Ember comes over. I don't know if I should be
- 52:40calling you Bill or ash. I don't know. It just feels like the whole
- 52:43series has been Bill, but I'm the game master.
- 52:45So I'm outside of the world, per se.
- 52:49Cameron: It's whatever feels right. But if it was my. The only
- 52:52catch is if it's my brother talking to me. Ah.
- 52:55Skylar: well, yeah, if it's him talking to you, yeah.
- 52:57Cameron: If it's just you, I don't care.
- 52:58Skylar: Well, Bill Ember comes over and sits
- 53:01next to you, and he says, the, While you were.
- 53:04While you were sleeping, I snuck in, and I kind of got
- 53:07things packed for you to try to help kind of
- 53:09mitigate the whole process. Cause I figured you'd
- 53:12probably be pretty tired, so I got some. I got
- 53:15some luggage over there for you, ready to go.
- 53:18Cameron: Does everyone hear this?
- 53:19Skylar: Yeah, I think.
- 53:20Cameron: Yeah. Oh. Did you tell them?
- 53:22Skylar: No, I didn't tell him yet.
- 53:24Cameron: Oh.
- 53:25Skylar: I figured this was, like, the moment.
- 53:27Cameron: Well, yeah, sorry.
- 53:29Skylar: Maybe I overstepped my.
- 53:30Cameron: No, that's fine. I had this, luggage.
- 53:32Dave: What? We just got back. You going somewhere?
- 53:36Cameron: Yeah, I.
- 53:38Skylar: Can I come?
- 53:39Skylar: I'm going.
- 53:39Cameron: I'm going home.
- 53:42I mean, you want to come to the fire nation? Sure.
- 53:45Cameron: But I figured, who's gonna wash the dish?
- 53:48Cameron: Exactly. It's a fair play. So.
- 53:51Yeah, I. Yeah, I need to go
- 53:54home. I've grown a lot,
- 53:57but I've learned.
- 53:59Mikayla: That you could continue to keep growing before
- 54:02you go back.
- 54:03Skylar: I don't know.
- 54:04Cameron: You look about the same height as when I met you.
- 54:07Cameron: Actually, about two inches taller, but thank you.
- 54:11no, I. I was mostly running
- 54:13cause
- 54:16of fear and shame.
- 54:20But I feel like
- 54:25I redeemed
- 54:27myself and also
- 54:30forgiven myself.
- 54:33And now I don't feel scared to go home
- 54:35anymore. But this isn't against you
- 54:38guys. You guys are amazing. You're my new family,
- 54:41and I don't hate any of you guys. I love all of
- 54:44you, but
- 54:48I have a family back home
- 54:50with Ember and my mom and dad and
- 54:53my other friends. And to be honest, part of the
- 54:56reason I ran was because my dad
- 54:59was being forced to
- 55:02work for Wang Long and make weapons for
- 55:05him. And he was using my dad and my family
- 55:08as, like, blackmail. Like, he was
- 55:11threatening to kill us.
- 55:13And so I kind of ran because I didn't want one more thing to be on
- 55:16my dad's shoulders. That's. That's how I knew him, Brock.
- 55:19So,
- 55:20Cameron: Yeah, but, yeah, he just imprisoned me and my family.
- 55:23you know. Yeah.
- 55:27That's all he did to me.
- 55:29Cameron: I think we got back at him.
- 55:31Cameron: I'd say we did. You know, where is he, right? Where's
- 55:34Wang Long? Right.
- 55:35Cameron: He's running away with his tail between his feet.
- 55:37Skylar: Well, actually, it's really funny you mention that because
- 55:40he's been gone over the last couple of weeks from the Fire
- 55:43nation doing stuff over here, as we
- 55:46obviously saw. And dad's actually been trying to figure
- 55:49out a possible plan, so if we can get back before
- 55:52they do.
- 55:53Cameron: That's a great idea. We have a head start on it, too.
- 55:56Cameron: How about and, I hand
- 55:59bill the Gem?
- 56:02Cameron: What's, this?
- 56:02Cameron: I remember that rock monster.
- 56:05Remember that rock monster that I killed thanks to nobody
- 56:08else's help?
- 56:11Dave: Oh, wow.
- 56:11Cameron: All the way back on the trail.
- 56:13Cameron: Yeah. Remember that guy? Well, this gem came out of
- 56:15him. I have no idea what it does,
- 56:19but it might be his poop.
- 56:22we don't know.
- 56:22Cameron: Holds it tentatively, with, like, two
- 56:25fingers, grabs a napkin
- 56:28and stuffs it into his pouch. He goes, well, thanks, Brock.
- 56:31Cameron: Yeah, there's no use.
- 56:32Skylar: He's giving me worse things.
- 56:34Cameron: Hey, you know what? I don't know what to do with this,
- 56:36but my dad's a super smart
- 56:39guy, and he's an inventor, so I'm pretty
- 56:42sure if anyone knows anything to do with it, it'd be him.
- 56:45Cameron: Yeah, there's no sense in me keeping it. It's not gonna help
- 56:47dishwashing.
- 56:49Skylar: Imagine if it did, though.
- 56:51Cameron: Imagine mountain
- 56:54Golem, Washington.
- 56:55Mikayla: You own, the shop now.
- 56:57Cameron: Oh, you don't want me owning this shop.
- 56:59Skylar: I can't do literally on the deed.
- 57:02Technically, all four of our names are even.
- 57:05Bill technically has, like, part ownership.
- 57:07Cameron: Even though he'll be gone, he's not collecting royalty.
- 57:11Cameron: We're gonna waive ownership. I'm gonna wave
- 57:14mine to Guo.
- 57:16Cameron: so Guo gets 50% of stakes.
- 57:18Skylar: And leaving the two of you at 25% each,
- 57:21which doesn't give you room to.
- 57:24For any power. Yeah, you get paid
- 57:27out, but you don't have power.
- 57:29Cameron: Guo owns all, like,
- 57:31ownership.
- 57:32Skylar: But Guo says. All right, now I'm gonna start getting
- 57:35some, some, orphaned children from
- 57:38the earth nation and put him to work in a factory.
- 57:41Cameron: Or he's gonna need, like, he's gonna need a shop running
- 57:44hat.
- 57:45Dave: No, I think what we need to do with
- 57:47that 25% is
- 57:51reinvest it into the shop to help it
- 57:53grow and also
- 57:56fund a charity.
- 57:58Skylar: a nonprofit organization. Yeah, fun.
- 58:01Dave: Like a charity for
- 58:04mister okra.
- 58:05Cameron: oh, that's a good idea.
- 58:07Dave: To keep him, to keep him alive and part of
- 58:10this community, you know,
- 58:13since he's had such a big impact on it.
- 58:16Cameron: Yeah.
- 58:17Dave: Maybe we could set aside funds for
- 58:19annual block party.
- 58:22Cameron: He loved that.
- 58:25Okoran, block party.
- 58:27Skylar: Great throwback right there.
- 58:28Cameron: Imagine if we went with the block party idea.
- 58:31Cameron: This whole campaign would be so different.
- 58:33Cameron: We just be throwing parties.
- 58:35Skylar: Word of the block party is a snapping contest.
- 58:41Cameron: But I think
- 58:44it's time for me to go,
- 58:48and I'm gonna have to leave before
- 58:51I start crying a mess. So
- 58:54before I leave, though, I think
- 58:56I. I'll just go around the table. Brock.
- 59:00Yeah.
- 59:00Skylar: Yeah.
- 59:02Cameron: Don't stop being you.
- 59:06Nothing will stop you if you're being yourself.
- 59:09Cameron: I don't know how to be anybody else.
- 59:13Cameron: You're the strength that holds
- 59:15everyone here together
- 59:18and your ability to shake off
- 59:21anything what will keep
- 59:24them strong in any storm.
- 59:26Cameron: So be their rock.
- 59:29Cameron: Yeah. And I just. I go up to
- 59:32Bill, just give him a giant a hug that Sora
- 59:34wishes.
- 59:42Cameron: I was more imagining. You're squeezing the life out of me.
- 59:44Skylar: Yeah, like one of those, like, squeeze hugs.
- 59:47Cameron: Like, bruised, like, like
- 59:50from SpongeBob, where Patrick just, like, is
- 59:52crushing squidward.
- 59:55One of them hugs.
- 59:56Skylar: one of them good, good hugs, huh?
- 59:57Cameron: Oh, thanks, Brock.
- 59:59Skylar: Yeah, bring it in, brother.
- 1:00:01Dave: Yeah.
- 1:00:03Cameron: and then Bill falls and kind of, like, gets
- 1:00:06back up. He's like, okay,
- 1:00:09Amika, you're the sister
- 1:00:12I've never had.
- 1:00:13Mikayla: Oh, that's a lot nicer than I thought you were gonna
- 1:00:16say.
- 1:00:18Cameron: I know we had back and
- 1:00:21forths, and when anyone was fighting, it was
- 1:00:24usually us two, but, you know,
- 1:00:27I.
- 1:00:27Mikayla: Hear that's what siblings do. I never know. Cause I never had
- 1:00:30one.
- 1:00:30Cameron: Like I said, you guys are my family, and. And
- 1:00:33you're the sister I never had, and I'm gonna
- 1:00:36miss you and.
- 1:00:41Yeah, I mean, I probably will. I was gonna say keep being you, but I can't
- 1:00:44really say that to everyone.
- 1:00:46Skylar: I was waiting for you to say, mika,
- 1:00:49change. Literally.
- 1:00:51Mikayla: Don't be you.
- 1:00:53Cameron: Be anyone but yourself.
- 1:00:56Mikayla: Not you.
- 1:00:57Cameron: No, but I. In all seriousness,
- 1:01:00I hope that you and your dad
- 1:01:03can regrow your life here together
- 1:01:06when he comes back. I'm glad you were able
- 1:01:09to find him again.
- 1:01:10Mikayla: Me too. I mean, thanks.
- 1:01:13Cameron: You're welcome. And, I go in to give her a hug.
- 1:01:16Mikayla: I do not care. Let him give me a hug. That's fine.
- 1:01:19Skylar: It turns into one of those awkwardly, to be
- 1:01:22fair.
- 1:01:22Cameron: To be fair, Bill was expecting that.
- 1:01:25Mikayla: It was a half hearted, And Mika just weeps
- 1:01:28out.
- 1:01:29Skylar: This is the hug that Sora does get from
- 1:01:31this.
- 1:01:33Cameron: I hugged Bill enough for the both of us. Don't worry.
- 1:01:35Cameron: And then when Bill turns to look at
- 1:01:38guo han, a tear is
- 1:01:41in his eye and he's like,
- 1:01:44guo,
- 1:01:47you were my baby brother.
- 1:01:50I lost my brother in the
- 1:01:52fires three years ago and,
- 1:01:55well, in a way, you replaced him
- 1:01:58for me. You can never
- 1:02:00replace blaze.
- 1:02:03But I felt
- 1:02:06like I could be that protector of
- 1:02:08you. Like, I wish I could have been for him.
- 1:02:11And growing and learning
- 1:02:14and seeing you.
- 1:02:15Skylar: Grow.
- 1:02:18Cameron: It felt like that part of me that I thought I was gonna
- 1:02:20lose was still there.
- 1:02:24So you didn't know it, but you
- 1:02:27did way more for me than you would have ever known.
- 1:02:32So thank you.
- 1:02:33Dave: Hug me, brother.
- 1:02:37Skylar: And I. If anyone were to
- 1:02:40notice, I think Ember watches
- 1:02:43u two hug and he has tears running
- 1:02:46down his eyes as well. And a little bit of a
- 1:02:49smile, just kind of like
- 1:02:52somewhat fulfilling. as he, as he watches
- 1:02:54that.
- 1:02:55Cameron: bill releases from the hug and, goes. I know I probably
- 1:02:58just made it a lot harder for me to leave, guo, but I'm going to have to
- 1:03:01still leave.
- 1:03:04Dave: Just make sure you come visit
- 1:03:07and feel free to bring your dad.
- 1:03:09Cameron: Oh, yeah, no, I'd love to bring my family back
- 1:03:12here and show them the shop. I mean, I was here for so long, it's a part
- 1:03:15of me. And I think they'd be proud of what we did.
- 1:03:18Especially when I tell them and ember the story
- 1:03:20of how we got the shop back, I think they'll think that's pretty cool,
- 1:03:23so. But with
- 1:03:26that, Bill walks over and grabs his
- 1:03:29stuff and his bo staff, nice.
- 1:03:32And stands next to Ember and says, with that,
- 1:03:34I it's time for me to go.
- 1:03:37Skylar: The refreshing morning mood turns to a
- 1:03:40somber tone as Ember assists Bill in packing
- 1:03:43up the last of his things before the two of them start to
- 1:03:46make their way to the city's edge. With the gang following close
- 1:03:49behind, Micah, Guo and Brock each
- 1:03:52force a loving smile to mask the pain in their eyes
- 1:03:55as they maintain a final goodbye wave to ash
- 1:03:57as he and his brother eventually disappeared over a
- 1:04:00hill on their way to the oceanside.
- 1:04:14Another week goes by back at the city of
- 1:04:16Gaoling as the wild coyote boars helped the three
- 1:04:19of the four original teens put the shop back
- 1:04:22together using the money they still had the same funds
- 1:04:25that, ironically, were intended to pay off. The
- 1:04:27gang are instead used to purchase new furniture as
- 1:04:30well as refresh some of the aging aspects of the tea
- 1:04:33shop, bringing it to a new, fresh state.
- 1:04:36The remaining members of the once villainous gang now
- 1:04:39begin working at the very tea shop they had once bullied for
- 1:04:42money, now making it the honest way by
- 1:04:45bussing tables, cleaning floors, and serving
- 1:04:48refreshments. Theres a grand reopening ceremony
- 1:04:51that sees practically all of the city of Gaoling in
- 1:04:53attendance as Guo Han rushes around the
- 1:04:56kitchen shouting orders to his cooking team and
- 1:04:59pulling a variety of baked goods out of the
- 1:05:01oven while reaching over and pouring a glass of tea, just
- 1:05:04like Okaran used to do. Micah, feeling
- 1:05:07much more confident in her waterbending, keeps dishes
- 1:05:10clean, quickly moving from the kitchen to the guests and
- 1:05:13back again at record pace. Her new best friend Chikra,
- 1:05:16barely able to drive them as fast as Micah, can
- 1:05:19get them refreshed. While the other coyote board
- 1:05:22members bust dirty dishes from empty tables, allowing new
- 1:05:25guests to come in and sit down, brock lifts heavy
- 1:05:28serving trays filled with food and cups of tea
- 1:05:31and skillfully slides through the
- 1:05:34filled tables, dipping down to give each customer their
- 1:05:37orders while flexing his muscles, causing many of
- 1:05:40the patrons to swoon as he does while Sora glares
- 1:05:43jealously from her spot behind the register.
- 1:05:46A few days later, a small package arrives in the mail
- 1:05:49addressed from the Yotaku family, who is
- 1:05:51requesting their favorite tea shop to cater an upcoming
- 1:05:54party the head of the family is hosting. The
- 1:05:57gang begins the necessary preparations to prepare for
- 1:06:00this while still maintaining the day to day services of the tea
- 1:06:03shop. When the day arrives, the party and more
- 1:06:06importantly, the refreshments supplied by the blissful brew
- 1:06:08are a big hit, securing the tea shops
- 1:06:11popularity not only in gaoling but in the region.
- 1:06:14Many of the rich and wealthy partygoers who traveled from
- 1:06:17other earth kingdom towns and cities comment on how
- 1:06:20they wish they had a blissful brew shop instead of the
- 1:06:22dreadful hot leaf juice restaurants.
- 1:06:25Mikayla: Still a thing?
- 1:06:26Skylar: They still exist. Absolutely. On one
- 1:06:29particular night, as a handful of patrons
- 1:06:31finished the last few sips of tea, nothing but
- 1:06:34crumbs of scones and muffins left on the plates.
- 1:06:37As they sigh with contentment, the doors of the tea
- 1:06:40shop fly open as a disheveled looking man
- 1:06:43hobbles inside. Brock stops wiping down a
- 1:06:46table. Guo, mid count on todays profits,
- 1:06:48pauses and looks up from his stack of coins.
- 1:06:51Miek, in the back, has already finished cleaning the dishes and
- 1:06:54garnishes a quizzical look as she makes her way
- 1:06:57around the partition wall to glance at the scene
- 1:06:59unfolding. The man takes a step
- 1:07:02forward and stumbles, narrowly catching himself from
- 1:07:05ending up on the floor as he awkwardly straightens himself
- 1:07:08up and clutches at a nearby table to steady
- 1:07:11himself. He looks past messy hair and throws
- 1:07:14his hands into the air, bringing it down to point towards
- 1:07:17Guo at the register. I say,
- 1:07:20what does a guy have to do to get himself a
- 1:07:22drink around here?
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