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S1-Ep.4: Scratching the Surface Pt.1 · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily Pad production.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Team Up Play Show podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Previously in the City of Bones, You guys have powers?
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  Speaker 2: What should I call you guys again? I'm the paper.
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  Speaker 1: Phantom, I'm Quanta, and you Rigel.
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  Speaker 2: Is your friend? Okay? I gestured to the large day
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  Speaker 2: man I had laid down.
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  Speaker 4: They were using him as their own personal assassin. They
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  Speaker 4: had like a device that controlled him.
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  Speaker 2: Many chance we can wake him up. We're all in
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  Speaker 2: over our heads.
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  Speaker 5: And if we can put whatever puzzle pieces we have
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  Speaker 5: together and try to work together whatever is going on
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  Speaker 5: out there, I think we can do a lot more
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  Speaker 5: good with some help.
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  Speaker 2: Three young people have been stumbling over their own feet,
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  Speaker 2: made top heavy by dark revelations about the city in
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  Speaker 2: which they live. After a seemingly destined to meet up,
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  Speaker 2: they've found some stability in each other and have been
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  Speaker 2: able to stop falling. They have decided to learn about
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  Speaker 2: and try to heal the deep wounds of the city
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  Speaker 2: of New Babel. We're going to start back in time
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  Speaker 2: this episode with two profound discoveries that should not be
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  Speaker 2: missed nor forgotten. First, we go a few days back
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  Speaker 2: with Jamir in his grandmother's office. You're rooting around, kind
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  Speaker 2: of putting things together, finding notes, finding scribbles on scraps
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  Speaker 2: of paper, trying to organize some of your grandma's chaos.
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  Speaker 2: What is she thinking? Okay? This hold on. Then you
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  Speaker 2: find a note on a small box, a sticky note
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  Speaker 2: that says, I guess this will have to do.
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  Speaker 5: I take the note, I walk it over to the desk.
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  Speaker 5: I pull out one of the drawers where I've kept
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  Speaker 5: a reserve of all the things she wrote for me.
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  Speaker 5: I lay it gently in that drawer. Return. You said
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  Speaker 5: it was a box. Yeah, it's a little wooden box.
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  Speaker 5: I returned to this little wooden box. Now a little
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  Speaker 5: wary of the things I've found in this study. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 5: and I open it up. You see fold it up
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  Speaker 5: so neatly. It looks a little bit too small, folded up,
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  Speaker 5: too small for the mass of this object. You pull
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  Speaker 5: it out and it's a beautiful silk mark. A mark
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  Speaker 5: being a belt that has a banner that hangs down
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  Speaker 5: from the waist in beautiful African design and stitching. The
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  Speaker 5: banner cuts off to an end point and there there
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  Speaker 5: is a stitched representation of the constellation Orion. All the
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  Speaker 5: stars on Orion are small and look to be made
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  Speaker 5: as though they are to fade. But then one star
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  Speaker 5: on the left foot of Orion is stitched loudly in
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  Speaker 5: beautiful blue and white. My heart thumps in my chest. Wait, wait,
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  Speaker 5: I know this star. I put it on the desk.
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  Speaker 5: I shove some other stuff to the side, all to
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  Speaker 5: the ground. I don't even bother with it at this moment.
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  Speaker 2: I go over.
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  Speaker 5: I grab some old star charts that I found on
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  Speaker 5: a different shelf. I open up to a book, furiously
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  Speaker 5: finding where it was. Where it was, okay, okay, and
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  Speaker 5: I lay out a couple of different texts around it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I consulted, and.
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  Speaker 5: I take a breath before I say it out loud,
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  Speaker 5: a little cautious. For the first time, even just to
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  Speaker 5: speak a star's name feels very different. I trace the
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  Speaker 5: constellation from its head to his foot. A risul Al's
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  Speaker 5: your bar Ridel of Orion. That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: This moment of revelation pours over you. And then you
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  Speaker 2: take a step back and you look at the mark,
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  Speaker 2: the piece of clothing. There's something that's ringing bells in
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  Speaker 2: your head about that too, not just the star which
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  Speaker 2: you've seen in these star charts. But the piece of
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  Speaker 2: clothing you can't quite put a pin in it. But
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  Speaker 2: you know someone who has looked through every scrap of
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  Speaker 2: paper and picture and news article that this city has
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  Speaker 2: to offer. That's Jackie shit. I need help. We jump
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  Speaker 2: forward to very near in the past when Quanta Paper,
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  Speaker 2: Phantom and Rigel are walking into Rigel's manner and Quanta
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  Speaker 2: does a scan of the building. This is something I
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  Speaker 2: forgot that you would have sensed as you scan Jamir's
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  Speaker 2: Graystone manner and SaaS you've got a good success on that.
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  Speaker 2: You sense everything you sensed Dirk up. You sense all
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  Speaker 2: the rooms going up. You also sense down. In a
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  Speaker 2: big city like this, most of the electrical wiring from
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  Speaker 2: the city's grid comes in through the ground, so you
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  Speaker 2: sense that that's normal for you. There's the basement level
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  Speaker 2: where you sense Maria getting ready to leave, and then
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  Speaker 2: connections wires go further down. The electrical lines continue you
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  Speaker 2: below the basement. There is an elaborate system of electric
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  Speaker 2: electrical lines. They are all shut off, but there is
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  Speaker 2: an immense subterranean room that connects below the city's power grid.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just gonna play it as though you do
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  Speaker 2: not say this yet to anybody, but you have that information.
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  Speaker 2: There's some down there and here's what we're gonna do tonight, gamers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited. No strap on your gaming thumbs signed
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  Speaker 2: the game the gate I need.
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  Speaker 6: I'm I'm one of those like beer helmets. But it's
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  Speaker 6: just out shout out to the do heads out there
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  Speaker 6: I do to do on rare occasion. Dude, I wish
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  Speaker 6: it didn't make my tummy hard.
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  Speaker 2: You're a real gamer, Jennet. Here's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to use Team ups downtime system for
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  Speaker 2: the first time, which is super exciting to go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let me explain this as you guys think through how
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  Speaker 2: you want to do this. So there's five categories here
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to put a zero through four. Zero
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  Speaker 2: is one of the numbers you will use in each
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  Speaker 2: of these boxes. There's rest. For every number you put
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  Speaker 2: in rest, you get to roll your recovery dice that
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  Speaker 2: much to get back both energy points and hit points.
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  Speaker 2: There is training. Training allows two different things based on
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  Speaker 2: how you want to use it. If you give a
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  Speaker 2: big enough number to training, you can you can get
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  Speaker 2: a branched power that you've attempted, or you can get
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  Speaker 2: power just to add to attack and damage roles in
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  Speaker 2: future combat. And then it could have some narrative stuff too,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, leveling up or potentially depending on what happens.
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  Speaker 2: There is patrol, so patrol kind of there's things you
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  Speaker 2: could learn about the city through patrol. There's also things
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  Speaker 2: that might happen that are bad if you don't patrol,
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  Speaker 2: things might happen that are good if you do. There
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  Speaker 2: is unmasked life. This is keeping your your life as
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  Speaker 2: not a superhero in order you all have relationships outside
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  Speaker 2: of you being heroes. And then there's thread chasing, and
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  Speaker 2: the numbers you give to unmasked life and thread chasing
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  Speaker 2: are sort of the number of scenes you get in
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  Speaker 2: that category. And then we'll do it in a certain
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  Speaker 2: order so that there will be some things revealed to
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  Speaker 2: you early so that you can maybe move around your
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  Speaker 2: thread chasing or your unmasked life as you need two
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  Speaker 2: not numbers, but just things that you want to attempt.
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  Speaker 2: And then also a lot of times the thread chasing
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  Speaker 2: or the thread chasing mostly might happen together, so we'll
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  Speaker 2: save that one for last.
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  Speaker 5: And this is taking place after our night of meeting
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  Speaker 5: each other. This is kind of after all that earth
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  Speaker 5: this before.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is going to be after so this is
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  Speaker 2: kind of the next week of time is downtime. So
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  Speaker 2: the first one we're going to do is rest. That
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  Speaker 2: way you can get these hit points back, and the
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  Speaker 2: rest represents how much you gain and lose during the
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  Speaker 2: rest of this. So we're not going to take off
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  Speaker 2: hit points necessarily unless you get in some crazy fights.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess we could, but we'll do rest first. So, Quanta,
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  Speaker 2: what do you put to in rest?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, can can we start with because I know you
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  Speaker 4: were taking notes about how like what all the things,
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  Speaker 4: all of the threads that we were researching or talking about,
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  Speaker 4: how many of those do we have?
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  Speaker 2: All?
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  Speaker 3: Right, so we've got the evil mayor one of our threads.
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  Speaker 3: The church cabal, We've got oh looking up old heroes
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  Speaker 3: is the other one too. Most of my other notes
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  Speaker 3: are just about how we want to burn both the
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  Speaker 3: church and the government.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Derek is is part.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he's under churchal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the three three. So, yeah, you have
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  Speaker 2: this night together. Do you do you think the two
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  Speaker 2: of you sleep over? Jamiir, do you offer that or
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  Speaker 2: I offer that. I I say, like, do you guys
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  Speaker 2: have a place to stay? I don't want to assume anything.
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  Speaker 4: I think it depends on whether it's light or not outside.
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  Speaker 4: By the time we're done with our research party.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be late late at night. Am, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some other time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna I'll pull up a big pile of
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  Speaker 3: books and start reading and maybe crash on a couch
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  Speaker 3: somewhere if that's okay, just so I don't have to
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  Speaker 3: go home.
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  Speaker 5: But I mean there's tons of there's multiple multiple rooms.
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  Speaker 5: Crash on the couch, okay. So we kind of split
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  Speaker 5: our ways here. But then over the next week we
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  Speaker 5: are going to explore have this montage of figuring out
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  Speaker 5: what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Quanta. How much are you putting into rest?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'll do three three in rest so I can
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  Speaker 4: roll three D four.
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  Speaker 2: You got the most hurt? Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I really want to get back up to full keel up.
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  Speaker 2: Roll both your strength die and your resilience die strength
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  Speaker 2: for energy, resilience for HP I.
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  Speaker 1: Got for my resilience, I got six.
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  Speaker 4: Nice o, I'm back up to seven out of eight
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  Speaker 4: nice And I'll have to look.
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  Speaker 1: At my sheet to see where my EPs are at?
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  Speaker 2: Should I roll?
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  Speaker 4: I roll three for epso a separate one? Ooh to
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  Speaker 4: roll again? Don't take the six for both?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly? Okay, jimyr how much did you put in rest?
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  Speaker 2: I put two in rest? Jian, so I rolled two
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  Speaker 2: D six, which is my resilience. Die. You get back
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  Speaker 2: that amount of HP. So I get back seven HP.
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  Speaker 2: So I go from fifteen up to twenty two. Nice.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, my strength is only a D four, So I'll
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  Speaker 5: roll two of those who and I get five?
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  Speaker 2: Nice? So as many EPs as you've used, you get
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  Speaker 2: those back where you want them. Great. I'm back up
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  Speaker 2: to max eg paper phantom. Just one in rest.
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  Speaker 3: Quick, nap on the couch, baby, not sleeping too much.
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  Speaker 3: That's sleeping all right?
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  Speaker 2: Cool? Got two energy back and I was already at
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  Speaker 2: full health. Nice. Great, Quanta training.
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  Speaker 1: I gave two to training. I mean no, what just happened?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I gave two to two training. I gave two?
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  Speaker 2: Got it? And what's your hope?
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  Speaker 4: I think Quanta, after being in that fight and then
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  Speaker 4: running away from the situation she saw with Camp and
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  Speaker 4: the man in the alleyway, is like kind of had
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  Speaker 4: a rude awakening. After getting shot with a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: bullets and then not being able to feel strong enough
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  Speaker 4: emotionally or physically to help in that other situation, tries
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  Speaker 4: to get stronger, and I think she goes about it
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  Speaker 4: in like a very like halphazard way.
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  Speaker 2: Like.
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  Speaker 4: Running around on the rooftops and swinging around, striking around
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  Speaker 4: the city. I think playing around more with what she
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  Speaker 4: can do, having Jillian like throw ping pong balls at
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  Speaker 4: her so she can like zap them out of the air,
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  Speaker 4: dodge them, just like simulate some of the things that
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  Speaker 4: happened to her. And yeah, just tries to get a
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  Speaker 4: little stronger. I was about to say, like uses a
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  Speaker 4: hobby horse to be the rhino taur.
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  Speaker 2: But that's too far. So you can either get two
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  Speaker 2: power pips to use, or you can succeed on one
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  Speaker 2: check or excuse me, succeed on one branched power and
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  Speaker 2: get one pip or succeed on two branch powers.
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  Speaker 4: I think I've succeeded on the branch powers I've attempted.
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  Speaker 1: There might be one that I didn't get.
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  Speaker 2: You did this telekinetic thing that you fail.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, to like move appliances. Yeah, I'll take that
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  Speaker 4: one and then a power pip.
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  Speaker 2: Got it? So one power pip? Yes, from getting strong.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'll put it on my lightning whip.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Riisel, you uh training at all?
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  Speaker 5: I put a foreign training for in true yeah, because
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  Speaker 5: after that that was my first time flying and really
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  Speaker 5: using my strength. So I think Rider would want to
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  Speaker 5: get a lot more comfortable on the on the on
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  Speaker 5: the flight stars, as well as yet starting to test
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  Speaker 5: the limits of this newfound strength.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. I don't think you've tried any branching powers. So
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  Speaker 2: you get four power pips? Uh, well you can put
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  Speaker 2: onto attack or defense rolls. Wow, future combat paper, phantom training,
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  Speaker 2: big old goose egg for me arrogance. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're going to do patrol. Anybody would we give
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  Speaker 2: to patrol? Y'all one under patrol? Got two two to patrol?
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  Speaker 2: What do you give you to patrol? Jamir zero zero
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  Speaker 2: to patrol. Jamir is not out and about not No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not looking for trouble just yet. I'm trying it.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you think your patrol takes you? Quanta or
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  Speaker 2: what part of the city? What are you looking for?
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  Speaker 2: What are you looking to stop?
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  Speaker 4: I think I first go back to where I saw
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  Speaker 4: interaction with Camp and that business owner and try to
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  Speaker 4: ascertain what the business is. I know that's like a
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  Speaker 4: little bit like threadchasy, but like no patrol. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: like where she starts because she knows that she saw
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  Speaker 4: him there, saw Camp there, So wondering like what else
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  Speaker 4: is going on in that neighborhood? Is there anyone else
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  Speaker 4: who might need help? And then kind of like thinking subconsciously,
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  Speaker 4: like if she could stop something from happening in that
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  Speaker 4: area might assuage some of the guilt she feels overfleeing
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  Speaker 4: the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Great, first roll a vision check?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, vision one?
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  Speaker 2: A one? Oh, I need to roll. That's how this
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  Speaker 2: game works.
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  Speaker 1: In this game you made.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait, but you can't beat me? No, wait, are
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  Speaker 2: you gonna empower it at all?
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  Speaker 1: Well? What am I like? You just said vision check?
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  Speaker 1: So what's my context?
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  Speaker 2: So you're trying to figure out what the uh what
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  Speaker 2: that business might be. You're trying to track some ill repute,
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  Speaker 2: some some ne'er do wells in the area. So I
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  Speaker 2: mean I think you're serious.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think like she's just always yeah, taking in
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  Speaker 4: the electrical wiring of buildings and what people's feelings are
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  Speaker 4: and their hormones and absolutely just kind of letting it
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  Speaker 4: all Russian in this area for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, go ahead and roll your synaptic scan with that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh bo, it's gonna be so much a bet. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's a four total.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. Yeah, I'm rolling an average check. So I'm rolling
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  Speaker 2: a D eight. I rolled a one. A few things, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You spend some more time looking at this starewell heading
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  Speaker 2: down into a broad area. You get a peek in
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  Speaker 2: there every now and again. Every night it is a
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  Speaker 2: light with activity. You see drunken patrons coming out stumbling.
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  Speaker 2: So there's the alcohol, which is supposed to be illegal
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  Speaker 2: after seven, so you know that's going on. But also
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  Speaker 2: you start to hear some of their language grieving the
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  Speaker 2: loss of hard earned money. Seems to be a gambling ring,
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  Speaker 2: so you gain that information. You also gain the information
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  Speaker 2: that it is a yakuza operation. The Japanese mom. The
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  Speaker 2: other thing that you noticed. I think you start to
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  Speaker 2: track camps activity. You start to recognize his car, recognize
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  Speaker 2: his electrical signals signal, and he I think you gather
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  Speaker 2: he is the collector on this side of town. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: he is collecting money for whom you're not certain, but
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  Speaker 2: he just goes around, he collects. He doesn't do every collection,
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  Speaker 2: the smaller ones he just sends his cronies to. But
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  Speaker 2: the bigger collections, like this very nice gambling establishment, he
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  Speaker 2: goes in, he knocks heads if he needs to, and
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  Speaker 2: he collects the money.
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  Speaker 4: So then I'm starting to get the sense that there's
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  Speaker 4: somebody above him.
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  Speaker 2: Because that he collects four.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because for Quanta, like seeing all those guys in
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  Speaker 4: the council, the church council, I think the assumption was
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  Speaker 4: these guys are all at the top of whatever they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and I think you start to realize that's not
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  Speaker 2: the case. Okay, cool patrol on your end.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I want to do sent all of
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  Speaker 3: the people that were chained up at the desks in
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  Speaker 3: the warehouse to the shoot right. Yes, I think I
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  Speaker 3: want to check up on them, like not to make
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  Speaker 3: sure they're doing bad, but that like that they're adjusting
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  Speaker 3: well and making sure that nobody's saying advantage of them
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  Speaker 3: and trying to protect them.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, I'm gonna I think I'm gonna send Jamir on
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  Speaker 2: this with you, which I have the power to do
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  Speaker 2: because I'm the goddamn GD. Yes, sir, that's yeah, sense
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  Speaker 2: for goddamn, it's recursive. GD. Do you think you've ever
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  Speaker 2: been to the shoot? I don't think Jason would have necessarily. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I think and you have you revealed your shoot
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  Speaker 2: kid Jamir to them? No? No, okay, Well so maybe Jimir,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't a thing you do. But I think in
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  Speaker 2: your discussions in the manner, maybe you say at some
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  Speaker 2: point like you're going to check on these people Jamiir,
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  Speaker 2: do you feel like you need to go with him
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  Speaker 2: or that's not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of look Chason up and down, but maybe
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  Speaker 5: maybe I could go and scope it out and report
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  Speaker 5: back to you.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, have you been in the shoot much? First time?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I was just gonna throw some people against the wall
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: and glide around.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Oh, you're going as the phantom. I
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: guess I could just walk around.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Sure, I was gonna yeah, I mean, I could be
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: pretty sneaky, I can. I can you think it's better
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: to stick stick to the shadows.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Just don't I mean, don't hurt anybody. You're just you're
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: just trying to see if the people we freed are
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: all right. Yeah, yeah, as long as the Phantom's not
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: out for blood. Yeah, man, go at it. Thank you
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: for your blessing. I mean, yeah, I I think I
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: have a lot more experience in the shoot.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: You do.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: No disrespect based on the zero you just gave me.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: My number, I'll say is a lot higher than that.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: You gotta be careful how you move in the shoot.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: But no disrespect. I thought Jason was going in. If
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: the Phantom's going in, I have a little bit more
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: confidence in it going well, No disrespect.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: None, Taking paper phantom, roll a kox check to try
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: to get the information about these people or investigated to
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: guide the one, and.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Do you mind if I empower it with my I
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: would say paper sense would probably make the most sense
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: if I'm sort of investigating and trying to see what's
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: in people's pockets and their wallets and stuff.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you get maybe a moniker of information
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: from that. Okay, that's moniker the right word modicum, modicum.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: What's a moniker? That's like a name, nickname. You get
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a good monoicum monochrome.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't mind a moniker monochrome. We already got the paper
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: clad lad.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: What'd you roll?
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Four four? I rolled a six so this is a fail.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: You head to the shoot. It is a baffling experience
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: for Jason. The world outside of the shoot you're very
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: comfortable with, very familiar with. For the most part, the
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: shoot operates so differently. It is a den of protection,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: of mistrust of the outside. You start asking questions. People
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: start asking you things like are you a cop? Why
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: you hear this kind of thing? You do get the
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: information that there was a group, a large group of
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: people that came here, and from then on you're just
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: you're You're blocked as as in like people wonder, well,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: why do you want to know about them? Why would
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: you care? There's just this protective barrier against this, these
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: people that but you do your best. On the way
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: out of the shoot, you see a woman who stands
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: where the shoot curves into the ground. She has made
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: a little lean to a home here. She stands naked,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: all except for a triangle board, and the triangle board says,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: prepare the way for new gods. The old gods are dead.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: And as you're leaving, she smiles at you with a
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: few missing teeth, as Hey, the new gods are coming.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Get ready. I haven't seen you around here before.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: At this point too, I'm covered in what's like found
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: like newspapers and stuff my like newspapers on guns. I'm
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: kind of like a dirt, a dirty gray phantom new
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: new Gods.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're coming. They wanted me to tell you.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: And these new Gouds got a name. I haven't told
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: me yet. I'm Gabby. She puts her hand out to
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: shake your.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Hand, Jason, feeling the is the sign made of paper
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: that she's wearing. Yes, I can feel her naked body
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: against just that, But grudgingly, I'll just put extra paper
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: on my hand and get my handshake.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Thanks. Thanks, Gabby. Use and where else do you want
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: to patrol for your number two? I guess I kind
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: of want to go up.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Uh, Like I guess so the direction that rough and
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Tumble burst through the warehouse, I kind of want to
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: just track back like a giant rhino, Like I want
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: to look for signs of destruction or like maybe where
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: they came just that direction.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Of the city, wherever that at near the warehouse. Yeah,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: so they burst in through the south of this warehouse.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: You don't find much at all. Roll a vision check
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: for me. That's five. I rolled a seven. You do
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: see some tire tracks in the back alley. You can
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: only assume maybe they got driven up by a van,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: but you don't find much in that direction on a
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: two patrol. I'm gonna give you something else. You crouch
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: on the top of your library, your domain, looking over
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the ask part of the city. One evening during this week,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: you've claimed this city as your own. Streaking from the
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: west side of town, maybe twelve motorcycles ripping across the city,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: hooting and hollering as they ride. Small handheld machine guns
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: start going off up into the air, up against bricks.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: They zip past the library.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: I think the Phantom would just engage that, like he
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: would just try and chase them. But I'm gonna have Jason,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: like from the back seat put his hand on the
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: paper Phantom's shoulder and be like, that's like a whole
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: gang of gun guys, whole gang. Maybe we should, you know,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: play it cool? Yeah, And if I can, I'd like to,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: can I just like fold an intricate paper talisman and
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: try and like attach it to one of their motorcycles
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: just for later identification.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Sure you don't go after them, No, No, okay, here's
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: what you don't see happen. After this. Fuck, that's okay.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Impossibly silent steps lead
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: twelve leather clad yakuza members into the various homes of
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: the Irish Coppos. While they sleep, they all take out tontos,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: which is the short katana, and they systematically cut off
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: the heads of the Irish, the Irish Coppos and put
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: them in dripping bags of blood. And I sleep great,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: not knowing that exactly we all do.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys sleep good.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Last night, bundled up like a cinnamon.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was a nice night. Was it a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: new moon or something?
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Mercury is in retrograde?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Sure?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Is that good or bad?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: No idea? Okay, Jamiir? You know about space stuff?
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mercury depends. When were you born?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I imagine do you have a backyard, Jamiir?
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I like one night, I just imagine all
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: of us, like heads in a circle, just looking up
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: at the stars together.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And yeah, that one looks like a bunny.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Just like trauma bonding.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: So fast, let's do unmasked life, Quanta, or let's start
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: with Jamior because he did zero for patrol. What do
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: you do for unmasked life? Jamiir?
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: I only put in a one, so I'm just trying
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: to just do the bare minimum to just like be
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: seen at work, do a little bit of work, stop
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: by the house a couple times this week, way less
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: than I normally would, and then also check in once
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: on Taylor's mom and dad.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Got it. Taylor's parents live in Colorado South. As a group,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: we haven't been to Colorado South much. I know it's
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: where quantas from. Yeah, but you Jamir, you like Koso
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: more than anywhere else. It feels like the Shoot. Like
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: the Shoot, people here are mostly black and brown. Unlike
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the Shoot, however, their culture is based less on where
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: they live now and more on where they come from.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: All the beauty of Hispanic and black culture are celebrated
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: on this side of town, unlike the Shooters. They let
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: their grow long and jet black, braided, dreaded and voluminous afros.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: There are enormous block parties with dancing and live music.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Parks are makeshift stages for flamenco and then scratching in
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: empty spaces. Fathers and mothers run kitchens as strict as
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: the nicest restaurants in Kono to make food infinitely more
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: flavorful and tender. There are things that happen here that
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: white folk on the North Side and the East Side
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: could never imagine. There are certainly white folk that live here, though,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: and when they've been there long enough, the neighborhood takes
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: them in, protects, loves, and feeds them. Taylor's family is
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: one of these white families. Taylor's grandfather was a shoot
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: cleaner in the age of the space barge program. He
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: moved here for work and to settle down. Taylor's parents
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: live in the same affordable housing townhouse that Taylor's grandfather
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: bought with his wages. They love the South Side and
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't leave, but they wanted their children to have
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: opportunities that they didn't, so when they heard that Taylor
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: wanted to be a police officer, they saved up as
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: much money as they could to send him to the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: police academy in Kno. Predictably, Southsiders do not have much
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: trust for the police on the south Side. Taylor's mother
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: is Lenny and his father is Cameron. You always call
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: them mister and Missus Dennis, but they always correct you
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: with their first names. You knock on the door, Missus
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Dennis opens it and sees you. You can tell for
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: a moment that she fights off a well of tears
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: that is ever attempting to force its way out. She
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: fights it boldly for about three seconds, and then she rupts,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: covers her face, and runs off into the house. I'm sorry, Jamir,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry running off. It's okay, missus. Dennis, it's okay.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Mister Dennis comes up, shakes your hand, and then pulls
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: you in for just a big old hug. Oh oh, hey, oh, Jimyir.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: You know, you know, you were one of the first
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: people I thought about. I mean, sure, we're home, we're
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: our life. You know, we're devastated over here. But I thought,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: poor Jamir, poor Jacky. You don't deserve to lose such
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: a close friendship, you know, I mean, the friendship you
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: three had. It's hard to come by. Just sad to
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: know there's one fewer friendship like that out there. I'm sorry,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Bud, mister Dennis, I'm so sorry. It's not right.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: It's not right. Yeah, I ain't that the truth. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: when you're gonna start calling me Cameron, I don't know,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: not today, all right. Taylor's mom comes in, wiping her tears.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry about that, Jamiir. It's still hard, you know,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: it's still fresh.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, I can go if now it's not a
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: good time, or if another day would be better, just
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: I just don't want to be a stranger. No, please
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: stay as long as you want. We he's still He's
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: still with us, in in you. You know.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: That that means a lot. He loved you both so much.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: And since he can't, I just want to check on
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: you guys and help out if you guys need anything
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: done around the house or picked up.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: I brought some snacks.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: I pull out my bag and I brought them not much,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: but just the fanciest bag of chips I could get,
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: and a very nice dip, but that still is sour
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: cream based. They smile, shake their head, Jamir, we're all
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: hurting here. We can hurt together. We'll take care of you.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: You take care of us. We appreciate it.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Taylor had a little sister named Sarah. She comes home
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: from school this day, slams the door, sees you. She's
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: only a few years younger than you, but still she's
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: that seventeen eighteen kind of senior year. Yeah. Hey, Jamir,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Hey good to see you. Yeah, I guess, yeah, hard
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: to find good right now. I guess it's good. It's
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: good to see you. No, it's I'm so sorry. Thanks, mister.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Dennis pipes up, slams his hand into the couch next
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: to him where he's sitting. Just doesn't make sense, you know.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Down here, all they told us is he got you
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: got shot in Koso. Doesn't make any sense. He grew
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: up here at this missus Dennis kind of pats him.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: It's like, calm down, sweetye, it's okay, it's okay. As
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: he kind of gets fired up and she does her
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: best to calm him down. I say, it's hard to
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: know what to believe these days. You have this interaction
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: with Taylor's parents. One more thing for your unmasked life.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: You at that. Towards the end of this week, there
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: is a message on your on the home phone. You
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: say you went to your parents house once. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I'd probably once or twice. I'd get a dinner a
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: meal over there. There is a message on your on
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: your home phone, and it's Jackie or I guess I
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: should ask, is Jackie a part of your thread? Chasing
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: that Jesse's a big Jackie's a big part. Jackie is
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: a big part of my then never mind, because if
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: you hadn't checked in with her, she'd be be pissed. Yeah, yeah, okay, cool, great,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: well fuck, that's sad you unmasked life for.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Steph for yeah, Veronica has not much in her life left,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: but kwanta so zero Yeah makes sense.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Your moms do call your house at one point extremely
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: worried about you. They saw you on the news, and
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: you have a message from your mom Sandy left on
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: your telephone. I don't think you talked to them with
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: a zero, but she says, honey, just let me let
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: me know. I'll uh, I'll take this to court. You're
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: still you're still up and about uh. They pronounced you
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: did the church did and that's just not true. And
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: also the stuff you did in true. So let me
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: take this to court. Well, we'll run them over and
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: you can start living your life again. I love you, honey. Bye.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: You get that message from your mom for you paper phantom,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I put a three three. Yeah.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: I want to go back to the library. I wanna
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: do a bunch of stuff. Yeah, I want to do
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: just a bunch of work at the library. I feel
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: like since meeting other people that aren't books to talk
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: to and compartmentalizing all of the anger inside of Jason.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: He's feeling great. Yeah, it's excited to maybe hang out
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: with Arthur, say, I had a page and do all
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: of his duties using his paper.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Power as the library. Awesome. So you keep up with
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: your job. You do the normal paper stuff or the
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: book stuff with your paper powers. So keeping up with
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: your job is one. You hang out with Arthur one night,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Arthur and Page together and they want to rain check
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: on that parcheesy night that you skipped out on before. Nice.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll pick up like not a not fancy like
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: caso dip the sour cream based thinking that par cheesy
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: is a cheese based activity.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: It is tonight, tonight, the awesome Arthur. Oh, Jason, so
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: glad you're joining us tonight. You've been out and about.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen much of you.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah yeah, I've just been been busy and uh,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: I'm so glad that.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: You guys are doing okay. Everything's been good here right, Yeah, yes,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: everything's been good. As you know. He gives you a
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: not so subtle wink. We have the money, we need
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: to keep up and running for a while. You got
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: something in your eight. No, okay, what are you talking? Good?
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: What are you you just I'm fine having a struck.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I'm fine. I'm fucking fine, all right cool?
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: Oh oh oh, yes, that is good. Later Age looks
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: at the two of you. Page is so smart. You
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: gather in her mind in her eye here.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: That she she looks at the both of you and
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: it's like, you, guys, you gotta tell me what's going on?
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: What's going on with you too? Lately? Uh, we've it's
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: gotten into smoking. She looks at Arthur, so angry. Arthur smoking,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: You're eighty five? What are you doing? No, No, it's
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: so fine. I have like smoke for old people. Smoking
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: smoking for the elderly. It's good for me. Yeah, there's
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: new research. It's good for old people. Pages, I'm a biochemist.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: That is not real. You guys, play part cheesy and
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: have a wonderful night. Let's roll roll for winning part cheesy.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: What this is a I don't know? Ready checks street
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: smart check because isn't par cheesy on streets? I no, no,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: I just thought which do you want? You want? Ready?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Your street smarts? Street smarts is good? Six oh man.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: What about to get out of the friend.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: I'm about to about to get cheesey up in here,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: get cheese Arthur and Page, uh, Page rolls an eight
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: and Arthur rolls at three. So page beat Page wins.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: It's close game.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Page beats paper.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, you guys have a wonderful time. Arthur breaks
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: out that old new babble. Whiskey. Oh it's old people whiskey.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: It's good for old people, so nice. It's good for
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: my my age group. You guys enjoy this evening together.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Paige yawns, all right, I gotta go home. I love
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: you both. He stands up, patch you both on the shoulder. Arthur,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: as you watch Page leave, looks at you with a
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: mischievous smile. So what are you doing? What about the
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: what do you want to do? You actually want to smoke? Oh?
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Not smoking? Oh okay, I don't. I shouldn't smoke. I'm
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: so old, so old, and I've gotten beat up a
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: few times. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but that hasn't
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: happened recently, right right, yeah, wait, wait, we need to
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: talk about this. Jason and I have been beaten up recently.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: And hey, Page told me that the thing that saved
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: her that night killed a guy.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, a level with you. You know, we've
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: got we've got we're both in the magic club, right,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: we're not.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: What was that you? You? You're apparently in the magic club.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Magic happened to you?
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're both magicians.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: It's fine.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, So you know how when the book got bound
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: to me? Uh, and the guys who were here, they
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: you know, they got you killed them. I didn't mean
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: to do that.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: I let that one go because that was a whole
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: new world of fucked up shit. But this guy, this guy.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: You didn't have to kill this guy.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Maybe I didn't mean to, but I was so angry,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: hurt you and took page and I don't know, I
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: got a little out of hand. But hey, the the
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: mob won't bother us anymore.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: You have to find different ways, Jason. Don't let it
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: take over. Okay, I mean, all right, I'll.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: Try, but so far, I'll be honest, I've seen only
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: positive results.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: He rolls his eyes. Jason, you don't know what's in you? Oh?
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: And you do? He pauses, Yes, m all right, what's
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: in me? I'm sorry. We can't Hey, hey, now I
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: can't We can't talk about it now. When then, when
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know when you're ready. What's in you is
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: dangerous and you know that because uh, because of my family,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: because of our background, because of magic.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Do you want to be any more specific? Because if
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: you don't want to tell me anything else, then I
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: don't need to tell you anything else either.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: That's a good point. Damn you not tonight. I need
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: to think about it. I need to think about how
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: to do it right. Fine. These are strange powers, Jason.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: We can't deal with them flippantly or use their these
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: entities in vain.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, if you're ready to talk, I'll be ready to listen.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, but until then? Par cheesy?
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Which is I think you say that when you win,
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: right is that you say that when Yeah, okay, I
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: didn't win, But parchie, par cheesy to.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: You, par cheesy to you. On your three for Unmasked Life,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: your third page comes in and it just into the
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: library on a normal daytime hours while you're working, and
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: she has with her a companion.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: Oh no, oh yes, it's Quanta covered in lips.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: It's my wig all askew.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Quanta and Mr both kickies. You work. No, she comes
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: in with a young, beautiful Asian woman. She shakes your
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: hand firmly, and Paige says, hey, Jason, I wanted to
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: introduce you to my friend. This is Elaine.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Oh right, Elaine, I'm Jason. Welcome to the library. Hey,
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen here before. Yeah, oh this is well.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: I'm busy. I do live on the side of town,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: but I'm busy and I yeah, I just met Paige.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: We met over drinks and she wanted to show me
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: something important to her. Right pageays yes, yes, we kind
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: of grew up here, me and Jason. Oh, Jason. She's
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: such a badass. She's a detective specializes in seeking out
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: corruption in the city. Isn't that cool? Whoa cool? Yeah,
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: that's awesome. It's kind of like what we do here,
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: except with books and paper and stuff. Oh yeah, you
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: want to see my stamp? Sure, show me your stamp.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: I pull it out. It says overdue.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, no, I know, I look.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: People give me this a lot. I look young, but
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: I made detective real early. Oh congratulations, Yeah, I know.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna say how young you looked. Oh sorry,
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: it's just the first thing people say usually nope. I
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: wanted to show you my stamp right right, Well, it's
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: a very cool stamp. Jason, good to meet you. Page
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: kind of rushes her off into the building to look
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: at stuff, look at the places that were important to
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: her when she grew up, as she grew up. Awesome,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: We are too thread chasing, right, So as a group,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: what are our numbers for for Okay, lots of thread
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: chasing Number'd love to see it. We're doing it.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: And I'll say to you so as as part of this,
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: because we have time, if if you'll allow, yeah, I
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: would like to use swirling tides as we start thread chasing. Yes,
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to allocate most of my energy. I'm
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: going to take it away from having a cloak and
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: a little bit from manipulating paper and just pour it
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: into sense.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I just want to sense paper sense. Yeah, amplify my
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: paper sense. If something sounds good, have.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: A little teeny tiny cape just a CBS receipt.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: What are we working on separately and what are we
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: working on together? Team?
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: I wrote down a few more threads as we were
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: going about this, which is rough and Tumble's creation. Yes,
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: And then Quanta's dad would be like a personal one
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: to her because she doesn't know where he is. Yeah,
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: so my list says five.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: It stands to reason that we would all be interested,
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: certainly in the heroes of the past generation. We want
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: to learn more about them, and potentially between the library
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: and Jamir's grandmother's library, there might be some information to
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: do there.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Jamiir, maybe looks start with a discussion with
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Jackie that might kick us off that road.
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: I would try to keep the like star grandma's research
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: stuff kind of separate.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: And no, there's not enough nothing to do with the
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: city right now.
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: This is more family research ties. But I could be
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: convinced if otherwise. But yeah, but I would turn to
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: Jackie with this symbol, and my mind is racing as
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: I'm going to meet her, Like how much do I
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: have to say?
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, you meet Jackie at one of your normal spots,
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: let's be at the comic book shop, and are you
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: showing her this mark or what are you doing Jamie?
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Or she rushes up, gives you a big hug. You
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: probably aren't meeting every day like you used to, but
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: probably every every other or so, still pretty frequently. And
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: she really is needing these times as you guys grieve together.
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: Hey, hey Jackie, ah jam her so good to see you. Yeah,
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: let's let's grab a couple of books. Take a seat,
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: you guys do. So as as I'm reading my book,
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: I subtly take out and fold up this would you
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: would you call it a scar for a sash? More
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: sash than scar? Yeah, more more fancy built sash. The situation,
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: this long piece of cloth, and I would kind of
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: suddenly fold it, fold it so that this part of
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: it is showing this symbol. And I would uh say, hey,
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: check out this panel, and I would show it to Jackie,
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: showing it in my book, trying to be subtle.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: But you you're you're not trying to get her to
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: believe it is part of the book. No, no, no oh,
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: You're trying to hide it from the world, hide it
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: from people moving around us, and just kind of be like, hey,
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: she looks up at you, startled, and then the startle fades. Jami,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: this is that's funny. That's funny. I like, I like
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: the joke. We need to laugh right now, you.
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: Know, No, no, no, I was widening a little bit,
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: and I say, you know, my grandma I told you
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: about Yeah.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Jami, are you telling me that she left me? She
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: left me on my birthday. I got more stuff from her,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: including this. What the fuck is this is real? Yeah,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: it's real. Don't make a big deal about it. Well,
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: it's a big fucking deal, Jamir. I don't know what
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: you want me to say. Well, what is it? Well,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: we we have a trip, we need to go. Come
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: come with me. She grabs you. You guys head towards
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: the very pen Dragon Library. All right, she's mumbling in
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: her head. As you guys ride the train passing through
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: the city. You get to the pen Dragon Library. Jason
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: is at the at the desk up front with my
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: big old stamp with his stamp. Hey, Jason, Jackie says,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: she probably knows you. Oh, she comes here a lot.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Was Jackie's last name, Garcia? Name is Garcia? Jason, God,
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: damn it. You don't have to do that. I just
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: it's a he look so young. Yeah I am young,
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: So you don't have to. This is my friend Jimir.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: By the way, he doesn't come up here often. Oh,
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Jimmy or Hi, I don't make that kind of Hey,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: we're here looking for a book. Oh cool, We have those. Yeah,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: for sure, we're not looking for book. We're not looking
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: for a book. We're going to the newspaper section. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: we have that too. Yeah, of course I know you
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: want to ask you. Thank you. We're okay, thank you.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: All right, jimyr come on, she runs, good day to
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: the archive section, just dragging you along, Jamiir. She starts
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: pulling out very specific knowing exactly where they are, very
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: specific dates of newspaper clippings of pictures in the newspaper.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: She starts pointing to them. See right here. She points
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: to a picture of Spellbook, who has a sash. She
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: points to a picture of Everwing, who has a sash.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: She points to a picture of war hero of Inspector Claw,
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: of all of the heroes of the Founding Age, and
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: she pulls out different ones that she starts comparing. See,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: they didn't always have this, but there was an era
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: where they it seems like they took on some kind
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: of persona together. I call it their their Hunter era
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: because it's all Orian. But as you can see, there
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: are different stars that have different that are that are amplified,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: different stars that are bright in there on these sashes,
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: and you just have one. Your grandma had one. She
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: had one? Yeah, Well, what the fuck, jimyir this is
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know, this is crazy.
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, okay, I mean I showed you some of
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: her old stuff before.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: I mean it was interesting.
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: We thought it was something magic related, but apparently she
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: also had I mean, she was alive during this time,
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: so maybe I don't know, she was by a fight
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: and picked it up off the ground or something.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: I'm just guessing. I have no idea. She holds up
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: your specific sash and starts holding it up to the
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: different pictures as she brought out, and she says, here
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: and she points to Everwing, who has the Rigel Star sash.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: Do you think Everywing was flying through New Babble he
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: was wearing this?
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: A thing about Everwing. Everwing is fully suited. It's a
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: very intricate mech tech suit with wings that sprout out
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: the back, silver and gold. It seems like she or
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: he was seems like they had it.
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: Holy shit, Grandma is just full of surprises, Decky.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is yeah, it's the biggest break we have. Fuck.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: I wish I wish Taylor was here, I know, between
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: you and me. Okay, yeah, of course, okay, and that
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: guy at the desk, yeah, no, hang out with that guy.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: I'm like behind you guys in the shadows, just breathing.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I'm making out with Paige.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Kidding awesome. So was there any hope in your thread
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: chasing to power up? Dirk?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Do you want at least to yeah.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Do that with the with the boys.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, boys, let's power up.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: My friend. Okay, I think we like we all find ourselves.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: Just I feel like standing on each side of the bed,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: like one of these side. Maybe I'm at the foot
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: of the bed, just kind of looking at him.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: Jami pulls out of his satchel a pouch of blood.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: What what? How?
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: How I just swiped it from the blood bank in
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: this shoot?
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Oh oh, so I did this for no reason.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: I hold in my hand is all the cut. I
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: started with a regular paper cup and I made it
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: too wide. My god, Jason, Sorry, he needed blood?
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: You said, right, yeah, yes, yeah, but I think we
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: should start with just a little bit so that.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: Well, Now you say something, Can I do like a
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: check on Jason's day?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Jason?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: Do it?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: Just do a wellness.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: This is the same day that Jason that page walked
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: in with someone else and he's really irritated. One of
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: those days.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: Brother, Jason, are you no? I can I can tell
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: you're not good? What do you what do you mean?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: No, I'm fine.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: I'm fine, Guys, I'm compartmentalizing. It's healthy and normal. Put
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: the blood in the guy. Let's see what he says.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Do we need to?
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm one to talk. Okay?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Are you yeah? Are you good?
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: No? No?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: I'm not?
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: Oh? Sorry, thank you? Do you know? Okay? Nice?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Okay? Are you good?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: Jamir?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: Do we need We didn't check on you. What we
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: checked on each other. We didn't check on you. You
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: were acting weird at the library to a wellness?
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Do you guys saw each other at the library?
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: I miss being able to go out and around places.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Soon we'll figure something out.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're a small person. We got big clothes. We'll
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: figure out something.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: Nice to just you know, walk into the library. Maybe
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: meet a cute person who happens to you again.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: I get.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be nice to Yeah, it'd be nice. Yeah,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: but Dirk, maybe just I don't in the stuff I
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: read about him and learned about him, I don't. I
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: don't know how much he needs and like how long
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: the battery lasts, if you get my meaning? So maybe
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: just a little bit. Is it like we can just
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: drop it in, Johnny, or do we need like a canister.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: To like.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: So it looks like he's been kind of retrofitted for
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: the specific canister that they were using, likely by your dad. Yeah,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: but there's also the simple putting blood in. It would
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: sucked down to the I have the perfect thing. I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: still have that straw from before, amazing straw coming why,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know. This is one of those paper straws
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: on the red.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, I put the straw in, and I hope I
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: use paper Nancy to open one end up like a
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: funnel and you start, I mean, unless you want to
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: use your bla your bag blood.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're definitely using the bag blood went.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: He went through the trouble of stealing.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 5: This blood has been like they ask you questions, This
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 5: blu has been tested. This is clean ship, all right?
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Maybe you does your kitchen have like a dropper, a
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: little dropper anywhere?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: Probably hold on while while we're alone, I'll look at
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Quanta and be like, so is.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: This guy like.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: No, I know, no, don't have one of those.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Cool cool go go Google cool.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: Do you do you have like a do you have
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: like a girlfriend or boyfriend or Oh no, nope, I'm
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: looking in his brain.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Oh without a roll, just some intense confusion and desire,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: not towards you.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: I think you can also probably see that part of
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: Jason's brain is just paper, phantom ship, separate.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: Paper friend. Yeah, I do not read.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I'm just like seeing the hollow space in
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: your body.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh I can't.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: I just like shut you out, shut around the electricity,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: send signals from you for a little whit.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: Jason's whole deal is wild.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, you know, if you ever I guess, like
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: we're friends now, so if you ever want to talk.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: About stuff, Oh cool, Yeah, that'd be yeah.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm and I'm I know, I like cut
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: you off, but yeah, it'd be it'd be nice for
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: all of us to like talk about stuff.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we can. I can make you like a
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: mask or something.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, cool?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: Cool. You go down to the kitchen near to get
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: a to get a dropper, yep, Marie is down there
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: working on something. Do your friends need tea? Jay? Uh No, we.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: Need like do we have like a baster of some
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 5: kind or like a stay a mini baster if that exists.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, I have. We're like a dropper for like medicine
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: is really what I'm going for. But yes, there's certainly yes.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: She gives you. She goes and grabs a bottle of
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: like one of those little essential oil. It's not essential oil,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: what would it be eye droppers? Yeah, I dine drop great. Great.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: Let me just rinse this out real quick.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: And while this is happening, I think Jason is just
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: gonna put blood squeeze.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, just a couple of drops, Jimmy or
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: you make it back up to the room. As you
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: see Jason's hand over.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I tried to have him wait. Also, we
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: should all talk about stuff. We decided we should all
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: talk about stuff, and Jason.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: Went rogue, It's not me, it's the paper.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I can tell that it's you. I
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: can look at your brain and tell it's you.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: Let's just wake him up. Come on, what's the worst
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: that can happen?
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: He could kill all of us.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: No, he's not going to do that. Let's uh.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: I wish you had said that before and drops of
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: blood like falling into this draw from my head at
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: already everybody, uh yeah, pulls it out of his pocket,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: his due rag mask, puts.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: On my hands, crossed in front of my body, and
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: as they separate, the whip appears and stretches in my hands.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Cool, very nice.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: And Jason grabs a tissue from across the room and
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: holds its.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: Perfect blood drips down this straw funnel from the Grimace King.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: There's a moment, a beat of breath that feels too long,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: like nothing's gonna happen. We must have done something wrong.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Jason's blood must not be the right kind of blood.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: But then a wave, You feel the electricity, there's movement
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: in the body. Without moving his mouth, a voice somewhere
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: in Dirk says bomb factory reset Loss. Directive primus protect
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: and serve humanity, with no conditions or prejudice toward race, sex,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: or creed. Life has worth, save those that have it,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: and act justice on those that try to take it lost.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Directive secundo. To serve is to give of oneself in
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: every possible manner. All parts of oneself must be given
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: in sacrifice if necessary, and nothing w to be expected
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: in return. For one service lost directive tertius that humanity
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: may be protected, defended, and avenged. Justice may require acts
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: of sacrificial violence. Then there's a shift in the voice.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 8: M soul is directive actual, My children emulate humanity, live
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 8: among humanity, enjoy yourselves, Enjoy humanity.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: You have life, life has worth. Become human. Then there's
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: another switch to Dirk's voice, spellbuck everwing, she is coming
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: for them. Which side do we stand?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: On?
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: A pause? You're right, you're right, of course, of course,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: you're right. They deserve a chance to be here if
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: they want. Then Dirk's voice again, the great hiding is
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: upon us. How could they? My brother and sister will
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: not see light as I have. He sits up, Oh,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: looks at you, sees you, Ronnie, and says, oh, Ronnie,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: thank you. How long has it been?
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: How long has it been?
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Very few days? May a couple of weeks or week
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: and a half.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Best as I can tell.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: We brought you here a week and a half ago,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: and I don't know how long you've been out before.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Then we found you in Gabrielle's factory.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: Did you just speak the original directives of the day.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: The first thing I said was was you you, Ronnie?
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: No, no, you said the lost directives. I heard all
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: of them, we all did.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: He looks around, strange.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Have I heard those before?
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: I think? Well, let's roll a let's roll a knowledge check.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Two.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: I rolled an eight. You have not heard these before?
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: I think Ronnie's got tears in her eyes.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: What did I did I say something wrong?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: No?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, it was it was beautiful.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: It was like coming from inside your chest. I flowed
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: a tissue off.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: At a running.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 5: Well, the church is all bullshit, right, there's proof?
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: Oh? I mean yeah, Dirk is the proof.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Well, what's the last thing you remember? Dirk? He found
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: you at the warehouse. I was going to kill that fucker, Gabrielle.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: He got away. I'm sorry.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: That's all right. We'll find him. He's on my list.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: Dirk. Did you did you kill Jerry?
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: Yes? And I would do it again a hundred times.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Well, they're saying I did it.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Ah, I'm sorry. I should have seen that that might
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: happen to you. Ronnie. You must understand since the hiding,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: I've been used by these men just to run and kill.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what is that? You said that before the hiding?
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: He looks confused. Oh wait, why why do I know?
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: You don't know?
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: Shake my head.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't know. None of us were supposed to know
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: know what derk the day were meant to be a
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: race of peacekeepers, a sort of police force, un bound
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: and unbothered by stereotype and other bias. But our creator
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: didn't finish before he was forced off world. Everyone that
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: worked with him was forced to swear we wouldn't tell
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: the secrets of our people of the day.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: Are what are you saying? Are you saying you were
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: you were there?
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: Yes? And again, I shouldn't. I shouldn't remember. The plan
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: was to turn the humans into day nectar? What what
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: the humans that worked at our birthplace are the womb?
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: Turn them into day nectar, and then wipe all of
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: our memories. I'm not supposed to remember. I'm not supposed
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: to know.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, oh I think Ronnie like walks in
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 4: a little circle and is.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: Like, there's too much, There's too much.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: There's another thing.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: This is just like another thing, you guys.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: How long has it been since the Day of arrived?
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: Like sixty years?
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: He looks shocked, puts his hand on his head. I've
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: only lived to the moments. They've let me out to
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: kill sixty years. Wait, and you you're not an original day?
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: No? No, no, they can yeah, yeah we can.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: They can copulate.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: We can in our own way.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: That was not meant to happen. Well, hey, buddy, are
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: you still doing this whole nectar plan out of humans?
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: We can't let that happen. No, no, forgive me the
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: humans that not all humans, only the humans that knew
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: about the womb, only the humans that worked with Blamer.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: Are you Are you saying that what's in me is
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: was originally made out of murdered people?
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: No, not all of it, just oh damn, not all
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: of it? No, just for few. Yeah, y'all are definitely
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: not gods. That's very clear now, no disrespect, I say
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: looking at it. Ron, Hey, I have a question. Is
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: my blood okay? Out of my blood? Blood? Human blood?
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: Just like you know, score out of ten? I don't know?
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: Important question?
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Why why do I run off human bloody?
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: Do you know anymore? You're about to pass out at
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: any moment.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: I won't be awake much longer. Your blood is fine,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: fist bump. My brothers gives a brigrudging.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: Blood.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: My brother, my sister, and myself. We with the Venium Nights,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: and we weren't allowed to be used without the sacrifice
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: of a human. We were too dangerous. So there's more
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: of you, my brother and sister. And for the record,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: you're like on our side, right, he said, you have
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: a list of people you gotta kail. Yes, those false
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: men that called themselves a church council taking down churches
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: on our list. He wobbles, falls back down on the bed.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, I have so many more questions. But
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: just what he said, what just that's so much.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: To take in.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: Sounds like he knows some of the original heroes.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah that was that, like a he said, spellbook, like
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: a recording of his pa.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: Or Yeah, that last voice sounded like his.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I can I do that.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, maybe maybe that whatever made him, maybe a
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 5: piece of that trickle down.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know, Like, could I like record stuff in
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 4: my chest and play it back.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: I look at her chest.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: I looked down at my chest.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: It looks anywhere else. I don't think so.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so either. I don't see
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: any like wiring.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: Okay, he can stay here for now. I feel a
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 5: little weird. Yeah, turning them on here again.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what about your like the basement, like the deep basement?
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: You have?
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: What like the deep basement? Is that like a secure area? No? No,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: under under there, under there?
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 4: You have? What are you talking about? You don't there's
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: a there's a whole space. There's a whole space underneath
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: your house.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: Do you in addition to the basement, Yes, I do
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: not know this. How do you know this?
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: I can see it since it the wire, oh.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 5: The electricity. Yeah, I mean I only came by this
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 5: place pretty recently. We can ask Maria. I guess she's
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: in the kitchen, all right.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 4: I mean you know if I mean, you don't know
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 4: about it, so and I guess you wouldn't know if
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 4: it's secure, if you would feel better about keeping him there.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 4: But I understand if I need to take him home
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 4: or find somewhere else.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 5: What he said was, now, I just want to know
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 5: about what's going on in this house.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: Sure, Nancy Drew Monday.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: Shelf, all the walsconss, blueprints.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it all comes comes.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: Back head down to the kitchen area. Maria is there
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: making tea? Some tea.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: You like?
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: Over these days? Has like Maria been filled in about
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: who we are. Am I just wearing my ball of
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 4: clove all the time.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 5: I'm not flitting her in on more details about me directly,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 5: But I.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 4: Think I just got just like keep a hood up
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 4: all the time when I'm around her.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Not everybody watches the news hopefully. Hey, Maria, I
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: was talking to my colleague over here, she mentioned a basement.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: Beneath the basement do you know anything about? The teapot
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: drops from her hands? Oh, sh shatters on the ground.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: Can I see that that's about to happen and catch it?
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: Awesome.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 5: I was going to try to shoot a flying star.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: I catch just the tea bag part.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: My hand is resting on a flying star.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: Do you see? Do you already? Do I really? I
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: really try a flying star? You catch it with impossible reflexes,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: You hold the tea bag in mid air. She looks
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: at you all, who are wait? Oh ship, there's too
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: much jamiir Sorry, Jay, It's fine. I wasn't you weren't
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: supposed to How did you know about You weren't supposed
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: to find that until you were ready? What does that mean?
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: I was meant to be? I've I've fucked up. No, no,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: don't start that, don't You're not You're doing a great job.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: I am deeply intended to you. What's going on?
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: And her emotions honest that she's showing.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, she is upset, terrified, and then she lets herself
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: feel an immense amount of relief that washes over her
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: and she says, I guess just follow me, okay, all right.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: She goes up to the baby grand piano in the
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: front hall. She plays six notes in a specific rhythm.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: One of the mahogany pillars shifts.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, a stairwell down down past what you might know
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: is the basement, Jamir, you should go first. As you
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: walk by her, she grabs an enormous switch, flips it up.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: That's a toggle. You come around the ben, Jamir, as
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: concrete stair turns in to stone and brick and then
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: to earth. Lights come on six different pedestals holding different
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: iterations of the ever wing suit in this episode right there. Yes, ah, wow,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: we'll finish up others read chasing next time. Oh man,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: just chasing these threads.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: There's so many. It's a it's a tapestry. Wow, got
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: beautiful tapestry.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: Just need to talk about a lot of Grandma to uncover.
• 1:25:40
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