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S1-Ep.11: New Life and New Death · 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. And the first thing
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  Speaker 3: Jamie is.
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  Speaker 4: Going to think is.
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  Speaker 3: I need a better costume.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in looking for a table.
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  Speaker 1: No, we're looking not exactly someone a Taylor. I think Sasha.
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  Speaker 2: Martin uh Mar about to go on listen meet me
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  Speaker 2: at my flat in an hour. I have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work left to do. Quanta, as you are running away,
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  Speaker 2: do me one more scan?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Three?
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  Speaker 2: I rolled a one. You reach out again towards this building.
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  Speaker 2: Something inside you, almost involuntary response, reaches out to see
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  Speaker 2: this whole space. At the very north end of this building,
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  Speaker 2: there's an immense space underground. You'd maybe be the only
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  Speaker 2: person in the world who could find this place without
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  Speaker 2: some kind of ground penetrating radar. And there's a hidden
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  Speaker 2: elevator at the end of this lab.
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  Speaker 1: I just think the womb.
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  Speaker 2: It can't be another vision. Has this ever happened to
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  Speaker 2: any day before? You don't think so. You're too old.
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  Speaker 2: You already had yours. Your head crests the surf fish
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  Speaker 2: you see day countless day, drifting and hanging as though
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  Speaker 2: attached to invisible strings motionless.
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  Speaker 1: Many chance we can wake him up. I kick him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, you're both humans, So if you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to put some of your blood right there, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: we could, Yeah, if you I like point to the
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  Speaker 1: port on his back. As far as I know, human
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  Speaker 1: blood goes in there.
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  Speaker 2: The southeastern quadrant of New Babel, the Kansas part of
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  Speaker 2: the city called Sass, is known for its bohemian atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: It's known to be the best place in the whole
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  Speaker 2: city to find food, art, and sex. Jamir's house, the
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  Speaker 2: mysterious gift from his grandmother, is also in Sas. It's
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  Speaker 2: in one of the more southern neighborhoods called Lowtown. You
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  Speaker 2: find yourself a little bit north of there on the
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  Speaker 2: famed Crow Street. It is the Bourbon Street of New Babbel.
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  Speaker 2: The energy is infectious and the humanity is exposed. The
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  Speaker 2: three of you stand in the buzzing street outside the
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  Speaker 2: bar a glass of sass. After briefly meeting with Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: she told you to meet her at her flat in
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  Speaker 2: an hour. Is there anything you guys want to do
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  Speaker 2: on Crow Street in that time?
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  Speaker 3: Jimmie would probably say, look, I will Yeah, I look
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  Speaker 3: at you guys, and say, you guys wanna I mean,
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  Speaker 3: wear masked. You want to patrol bit, make sure everybody's safe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, might as well patrol for some music, art or
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  Speaker 1: sex or crime? Crime? Well crime, we're talking about crime.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was talking about crime. I'm looking for crime.
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  Speaker 3: What's the But we got an hour, So if you
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  Speaker 3: want to, you know, pop off, do what you gotta
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  Speaker 3: to get don geminator or that's how that's that's.
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  Speaker 1: How I do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, phantom please, Yeah, I'm blushing a three hole punch.
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  Speaker 3: I summon a flight to tart. I say, do you
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  Speaker 3: need a ride to quant.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'll go my own way and I cool meet you.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are now.
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  Speaker 5: Lightning, and I'll whoop up a kite and float up
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  Speaker 5: to the roofs.
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  Speaker 3: Jamr buzzes on.
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  Speaker 2: I'll launch into the city sky. Are we staying in
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  Speaker 2: this area kind of the row the crows hold neighborhood?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Go ahead and roll a sense check or an investigate.
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  Speaker 1: Check, of course, empowering with my scan, opening my senses
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  Speaker 1: to feel all the feelings around me. And I rolled
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  Speaker 1: two ones. That's a two.
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  Speaker 3: Can I empower with some paper? Since people's paper? Hell yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're IDs and yeah, documents.
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  Speaker 5: If they've got a piece of paper in their pocket,
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  Speaker 5: that says don't help the crime to crime.
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  Speaker 1: To my list of crimes. I'm trying to imagine. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know that New Bible is a very different world
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  Speaker 1: from ours, but like, how often do I just have
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  Speaker 1: paper on or near me? Usually it's a bud.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have a notes app. I bet I would
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  Speaker 3: have a Notepads are certainly people's little shadows. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 3: used to absolutely have one of those milk eggs.
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  Speaker 1: Crime, you know, steal stuff. I got a seven?
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  Speaker 2: Hurt people, Jimmy or what did you get?
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  Speaker 3: I got a three?
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  Speaker 2: You guys zip around this area for about an hour,
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  Speaker 2: Quanta and Rigel. You guys aren't really able to see anything.
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  Speaker 2: You interact with the people of Crow's Hold, who are
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely partying. It's like probably like a Wednesday night
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  Speaker 2: or something weird, like they're always going crazy. Alcohol is
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to be legal right now, but you get
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  Speaker 2: the vibe that in crows Hold that doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: Wait wait, alcohol is not legal after hours after seven people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like a prohibition curfew.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, set, I forgot about that. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: No, don't be sorry after seven and on the weekends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we came up with that altogether. Yeah, we did
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  Speaker 1: that to ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: The people in the shoot obviously don't care. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably not doing business as a bar if you're
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  Speaker 2: not serving alcohol past seven. But anyways, all the low
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  Speaker 2: So you all notice that kind of quote unquote criminal
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  Speaker 2: element happening, Jason, You fly over is a little bit
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  Speaker 2: removed from Crow's Street, maybe a couple blocks away, but
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  Speaker 2: it is a very elegant looking brothel. There are women
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  Speaker 2: on the porch of this house. It's like a kind
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  Speaker 2: of a big manor type house with a wrap around porch.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of weird, isolated in this part of the city,
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  Speaker 2: draping across the porch there on chairs and things. But
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  Speaker 2: they're not overly sensualized or sexualized. They're dressed beautifully, and
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  Speaker 2: you do notice a little bit of a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a ruckus coming from inside.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll glide over, maybe to the neighboring balcony shrouded
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  Speaker 1: in paper, and we'll see if I can, if I
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  Speaker 1: can hemps through a window, see if I catch what's
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  Speaker 1: going up.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what you see. I think, I think if you're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna like go in or bust in. This is
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  Speaker 2: what happens, is what you see on your seven.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not prepared to bust in to bust in
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  Speaker 5: over a ruckus.
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  Speaker 2: None of us are busting up over a ruckus. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: at least not. You know, it's it's a Wednesday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a Wednesday. There's a burly man who you see
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  Speaker 2: marching down some stairs inside past a window, holding another
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  Speaker 2: man behind. This is one of the women who is
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  Speaker 2: holding her face as those who's been struck. The front
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  Speaker 2: door opens up, the man is hurled out onto the street.
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  Speaker 2: The burly man comes out. He says, tell your friends,
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  Speaker 2: not in Sophia's house. He takes a gun and shoots
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  Speaker 2: this guy through the hand.
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  Speaker 5: Cool, I let all this fly. Sounds like this guy
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  Speaker 5: got what he deserved. I don't know, right through the hand.
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  Speaker 1: Ye.
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  Speaker 5: Well, justice is done, and I glide away.
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  Speaker 2: You all glide back to the apartment high rise where
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  Speaker 2: you have the address.
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  Speaker 1: I don't glide. I strike a few blocks away and
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  Speaker 1: then do my best to just like parkour across the
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  Speaker 1: roof so that I'm not drawing attention to their apartment.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't glide. I turned into a big
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  Speaker 5: paper tumbleweed and just roll unfurlsed by the door. I'm
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  Speaker 5: glide it.
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  Speaker 1: A rule follower, someone's got a glide.
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  Speaker 2: Someone's lying you all. Come just to the foyer of
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  Speaker 2: this building.
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  Speaker 1: No, I enter through the roof.
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  Speaker 3: Did they say? What? Did they say? Which unit they
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  Speaker 3: were in there on the very top?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I entered through the roof.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I would definitely land on the roof and
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  Speaker 3: try to knock on the roof access to her.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Rachel high?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, is Phantom behind?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's him down there down the street.
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  Speaker 3: I see the tumble boll. You guys up there wave
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  Speaker 3: I'll sit down a flight star? Can I control a
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  Speaker 3: flight star at that distance? You know, like sending it
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  Speaker 3: down to the bottom?
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  Speaker 2: Ben, I think, or sorry, Jimmy, or I think this
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  Speaker 2: is your first time trying to branch a power?
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  Speaker 3: Oh shit, let's go right, I think, yes, I have
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  Speaker 3: not tried to do that before. Yes, yeah, making like
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  Speaker 3: platforms for other people, Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: An elevator, an elevator trying.
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  Speaker 3: To send it that far away from me and then
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  Speaker 3: gently pull it back, I think, And I'll leave this
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  Speaker 3: up to you. So the idea behind branching power is
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  Speaker 3: that you try to do something with your powers that's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit outside of what you initially intended them for.
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  Speaker 3: Would you say this qualifies. It doesn't have to. If
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  Speaker 3: you imagined that this is something you could do, then
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  Speaker 3: I imagined I could do it because it's well, I
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  Speaker 3: guess I never imagine, like, what's the I have the
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  Speaker 3: range of, like how many els I can move on
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  Speaker 3: a flight star. I never thought about how far away
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  Speaker 3: I could be from a flight star, So I have
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  Speaker 3: not conceived of this in terms of like could I
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  Speaker 3: send this thing down however many flights this building is
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  Speaker 3: and then kind of bring it back up? Got it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, then yeah, let's let's do it. This is a
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  Speaker 2: branching power. So for a branching power to succeed, you
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  Speaker 2: have to succeed on a tight Tannic check, then a
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  Speaker 2: godly check, then an epic check. Once you've done all
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  Speaker 2: of those, you get to just kind of do this
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  Speaker 2: from here on out. Okay, So the first time you're
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  Speaker 2: ever trying it is a Titanic check, which means I'm
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  Speaker 2: rolling a D twenty and a D eight. You will
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  Speaker 2: be rolling your flight star die as well. As a
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  Speaker 2: skilled dye. I'm going to give you mite because you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to lift someone else with it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's my D twenty.
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  Speaker 2: What are you rolling D twenty? And what D twenty
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  Speaker 2: and a D four? Oh bye? Sixteen plus one is seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: I rolled a twelve plus a five, which is also
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  Speaker 2: seventeen in team up, that is a very near fail.
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  Speaker 3: You tie you cry, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: You tie you cry, tie you cry, And that's real good.
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  Speaker 2: That's our new thing. So you push a flight star
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  Speaker 2: down many men any flights. This is probably ten stories
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  Speaker 2: at least, probably more, and it's probably more than ten stories, well,
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  Speaker 2: probably more.
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  Speaker 1: In this world you built, it's probably yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have to be exact perfect about it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's some trees, there's some fucking stuff. There's building, there's
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  Speaker 2: buildings and trees. God damn it, there's parks and dirt
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  Speaker 2: probably probably god damn. You reach your hand, Jimmy, or
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  Speaker 2: how do you do this when you when you.
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  Speaker 3: Gesticulate my my hands down. As I bending over the edge,
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  Speaker 3: realizing like, oh this is kind of hard. As the
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  Speaker 3: flight star gets further and further away, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: keep it from fizzling. But I'm also trying to keep
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  Speaker 3: it level some kind of moving my hands as I
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's going a little bit far down on
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  Speaker 3: the left. I have a little bit too much up
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  Speaker 3: on the right of trying to keep it level and
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  Speaker 3: keep it summoned as I send it away from me,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll just step.
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  Speaker 1: Right on it casually. Oh sweet, flight Star.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, and you do start lifting Jason up and up and.
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  Speaker 3: Up, and I'm pulling back and pulling al training my hands,
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  Speaker 3: pulling them to it myself as I'm leaning over the
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  Speaker 3: side of this building.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little rickety, Jason, but you are moving up
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  Speaker 2: this building. As soon as he gets eye level with you,
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  Speaker 2: Jimir the flight Star goes.
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  Speaker 5: Out, I'll reach out and try and grab the ledge
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  Speaker 5: just to setaty myself at the edge of the building's roof.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, roll a ready check, and Jamiir you can roll
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  Speaker 2: a mite check too, to try to grab him. Oh, motherfucker,
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  Speaker 2: it's ten. I also got a ten now, So together,
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  Speaker 2: you guys beat my two. You grab Jason by the
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  Speaker 2: wrists and haul onto the roof.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, nice, flight Star. Yeah, try to kind of a
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  Speaker 3: new thing there. Hey, you'll get there, Okay, let's talk
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  Speaker 3: to this celebrity. I guess I feel a little on the.
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  Speaker 1: Other side of the roof with her headphones on, just
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  Speaker 1: like rocket, just quietly vibing out, facing away from any
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  Speaker 1: of Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As we come over, right, just kind of tab quad.
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  Speaker 3: You ready for the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm ready to take off my headphones.
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  Speaker 2: There is a beautiful ceiling window here, skylight.
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  Speaker 3: Peek in, rub.
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  Speaker 1: Rubbing the glass with my fists outside it was your eyeballs,
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  Speaker 1: you peaking. That is also how it sounds on day. Eyeballs.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sure, yeah, they're probably pretty dry. The Taylor's nectar nectar.
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  Speaker 2: The Taylor looks up from her kitchen and waves and
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  Speaker 2: then gestures to come on in.
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  Speaker 3: We find a ladch on the side of the skylight.
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  Speaker 3: I hold it open and I'll yeah, I'll if this
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  Speaker 3: is just like fifteen feet, so I'll just create a
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  Speaker 3: flight star for you, for all of us. It will
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  Speaker 3: just fly on down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. As you are hovering down, the Taylor starts to
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  Speaker 2: kind of small clap. Oh my gosh, this is just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you. Look at you guys. You're flying.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, have a seat. This is so exciting, so important, right, important, right, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: this actually is pretty important. You're right, Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited to be a part of this. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, thank you for letting me be a
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  Speaker 2: part of this. Here, sit down right here, Okay, this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of how I was dreaming about it. If
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  Speaker 2: the three of you would sit here my sofa and
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  Speaker 2: then mohitos for the.
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  Speaker 1: Night or just just water for me, I'll take one, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the very edge of the couch with my
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  Speaker 1: hands on my knees.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Really, the costumes are for them. I'll I'll mohito up.
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  Speaker 2: All right for you, and another for you, dear, like
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  Speaker 2: maybe I can do a hurricane.
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  Speaker 3: I think I have grenadine, just water.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay, very well. The tailor goes off to the
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  Speaker 2: kitchen and starts to it's a big, open floor flat.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful in here, gorgeous exposed brick and faux pillars
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  Speaker 2: on the walls, and she starts mixing drinks.
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  Speaker 1: For you, Rachel, do you think I shouldn't?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not drinking anything suspicious, so I'll make
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  Speaker 3: sure it's all. I don't doubt this person, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: just to be extra safe, right, not taking drinks from strangers,
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  Speaker 3: you know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I should know, but I didn't think of that.
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  Speaker 5: Jason's paper folds back. Hey, Jimmy, are you old enough
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  Speaker 5: to drink? My name is Rachel. Are you old enough
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  Speaker 5: to drink?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Reallyel Rachel just glares through his through his rag at
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  Speaker 4: Jason and just is like, you gotta stop.
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  Speaker 1: You got so she's not in between them anymore. You're
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: still mad? You're still mad that I borrowed the book?
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  Speaker 3: Yes I'm mad? No, well yes, also about that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: more mad about you using my real fucking name out
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  Speaker 3: and about man. Sure this is a secret idea. Do
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  Speaker 3: you see the mask? Do you know how many Jumiirs
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  Speaker 3: there are in the city? There's not a ton?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, well, oh yeah, yeah you should be sorry. You're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get me or someone I love fucking killed? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll kill whoever, I promise. No.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't help, That doesn't help, that doesn't bring them back,
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't make anything right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Sorry, geez apology?
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  Speaker 3: Uh thought about for now?
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  Speaker 2: So are we doing your story first of mine?
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  Speaker 3: Yours?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Wonderful? No, I can't wait, I'll tell you everything
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  Speaker 2: you want to know, because this is all so exciting
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  Speaker 2: and so new for me. My grandma you probably heard
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  Speaker 2: about her, was a beloved performer in crows Hold. She
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  Speaker 2: was like a part of this town, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: like the streets a part of the town, or that
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  Speaker 2: one brothel, Sophia's place is a part of the town.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, if you're gonna be in crows Hold, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to see the tailor, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And her name we all politely not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like what And her name was Sasha, And well
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  Speaker 2: before she got too old to do the job, she
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  Speaker 2: kind of all that. I had an interest in the
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  Speaker 2: whole show Girl Live, and so I became the tailor
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  Speaker 2: when she got two, weak and weary to do the work.
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  Speaker 2: The city needs me, you know, needs her, needs the
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  Speaker 2: mantle tailor mantle. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: So some people, the old drunkards, mostly think that the
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  Speaker 2: original tailor is still around, if you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But clearly I am. I'm a man, and I'm younger,
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  Speaker 2: a long, livid, preternaturally so good to know. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of magic about these days. You well, And that's
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  Speaker 2: the fun part about your story. I saw you in
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  Speaker 2: the papers, and I'd wondered, is that real or is
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: that just some crazy tabloid? But it was on the tower,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: so it seems like that's real.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, we're real.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Well, isn't that something? She keeps eyeing the paper phantom
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and has the little flower behind his ear.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: At this point that Jason has just a tiny hole
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: in his face mask for a straw, and it's like
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: chugging him a heido.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: And then the other thing that I inherited from my
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: lovely grandma was the relationship with the crime lord here
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: in Sas? What the crime lord here in Sas? You
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: guys don't know? Oh my, are you you're new? I'm sure,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: well you were just in the papers. You must be new.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're actually very new to this.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Please say war.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Well, there's Sophia el Dante, the Russian matriarch. I make
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: her dresses. I guess it's not my favorite part of
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the part of it all, but it pays well. And
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: it's like, if I don't make the dresses, she'll kill me.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: So and I do great work and she is fabulous.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And she refers to herself as the crime Lord of Seas.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Oh I don't know.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Perhaps, are there any like photos floating around this apartment,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: like any photos, frame photos at all?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you see some art on the walls.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: She is a design artist, so that I think that
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: there are images of beautiful design on the walls.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I guess specifically, what I'm wondering is, are there would
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I recognize anyone?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Is she like well connected? Does she know anyone else
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: in the city that we would maybe know?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, totally fair.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: But here's the craziest part is that you've found me
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: right now because not a month ago, my little lovelies,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I found a hidden room in my workshop. It was
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: my old grandma's workshop. I elbow, Jamir, I do not respond.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: It's full of old heroes stuff.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Elbow, elbow. Hey, you're elbowing on your way to him, like.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Old old hero stuff. And I don't know, it's like
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: a hundred years ago. I thought all that was a myth.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: But I found proto types and suit labels. I didn't
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: know the names at first, but I did a little
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: bit of research and there were things like bright Blade,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: the Range War Hero I don't know, and that most
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: of them were incomplete and there's some interesting materials in
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: there that Grandma must have been using for them. I've
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: never heard of it, but it's a fabric that it
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: was labeled venium laced. Does that mean anything to you?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Would I have heard that phrase in my Superhero You
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: know that.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: We know that Dirk and his siblings question Mark, they
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: were the Venom Knight.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: That would be the only place you've heard that before.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: We're a little familiar.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Well, anyway, that's my story. Now you go, And what
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: should we call me?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: You guys have hero names?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: What? Like? What am I? What should I be? You're
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the tailor?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so good because that's like who I really am,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: But it's also who who my fake self is. Oh,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I can't wait. If someone really wants to know your
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: identity and they come to me and put me in
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: a basement somewhere and you have to come and save me.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Would happen to you?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: You're Won't that be fun? Though?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: We'll definitely kill anyone who hurts you. Oh my, I
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: can't promise. Well, I know who my favorite is. She
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: winks at Jason.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Jason like moves newspaper print around to form like a
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: smile on the outside.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Of his mask.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I keep saying, she they use all pronouns. Well, how
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: they look right now is just in no hair and makeup,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and he is generally buzzed cut and he is in
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: a bright like bright magenta robe and slippers that match
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: amazing legs crossed sitting across from you. But now, yes,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: your stories or what you're willing to tell Maybe you
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: don't want to tell me, And that's fun too. I
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: could just have to guess.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Well, we at least myself and Rachel. Here A gestured
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to Rachel. We don't I mean you saw.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I notice, and that's okay. You can't be blamed.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Only some people have the gift. She looks over it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Jason again, I make a little paper fan to hide
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: my face.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've stumbled upon your grandmother's name. Now you
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: know your grandmother's name in some records from some old heroes. Yes,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and decided to come to see if someone here could
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: help us. Then seems like your game.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, I've been thinking about it for the last
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: hour since you came to find me, and I am
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: so excited. It is a new challenge for me.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, my power comes from the stars and my
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: name Rigel is named after the star.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Have you thought about like star Boy or star Man?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Not seriously?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: No, what about starry night? It's famous. I'm very connected
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to the name, the name. I've kind of locked in right, sure,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: but you could change the night to a k kind
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: of starry night.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: These are fine ideas.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: You could carry a sword. I could make you one.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Maybe I do not need a or though that does
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: sound fun when you say it, what I'm more in
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: need of and a gesture to my outfit. I need
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: help with this. This is not sustainable in terms of
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: fighting crime in this.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: So Ragel, do you want a big R on your chest?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Or you have this? No? No, no R? We have
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: a You have a little half cape here?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I like the I is the cape around I
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: kind of like like not a full cape. I was
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: thinking of maybe go three quarters nothing crazy, but I
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: do like this symbol. I know it's a little crudely drawn,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: and I gesture to the seven pointed star on my
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: right peck and on the back of my cape.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, do you wanted bigger on your chest? Store? Simply small?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: There as is.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I defer to you. I'm not very knowledgeable in terms
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: of design.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: And what about a dashing belt and maybe some big
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: old boots.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I like that. That sounds good. Okay, very well. And
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: do you, my dear, I have electricity powers? Oh yes, delicious.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can create lightning, and I can I would
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: like to do a scan of Taylor to see what
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: they're feeling.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like in this moment, Quanta is like wanting
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to show off a little bit and not thinking about
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the repercussions of like doing this to somebody who she's
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: trying to get to know. If that makes sense.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Now, this is an average check I wrote it. Two.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: You start scanning through her, and you, I think you
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: noticed a couple things. You notice the neurons for excitement
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: are going crazy. She's so excited and just can't like
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: stand it, but also trying to keep all that at bay. Also,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: the creative part of her brain is also going crazy,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: just so many ideas flowing through the creative part of
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: her brain.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: But I also can sense the electricity that runs through
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: all of us. So for example, if I was in
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: your position, I would be feeling very overwhelmed and intimidated,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: but you just seem excited.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: That is fascinating. Can you sense my feelings for this
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: paper mache man over here?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: My blushed look down?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: How about it, paper man?
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: What uh?
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I don't have sensing powers? I know, well, all of
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the stuff that's on the paper in your house. Oh
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: now I'm gonna blush. Is there any sensitive papers that
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: I should be sensing?
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Of course they're oh, all right, yeah, I'll do I'll
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: do a sense check for porn.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know what about do a sense roll for paper? Oh,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: twelve twelve I rolled it to again on an average check. Wow,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: there's all kinds of stuff. I mean, this is someone's house,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: so there's you know, deeds to anything that he owns,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: to the.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Washing machine, the deed to the blendor.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: You kept your washing machine warranty and you don't. You
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: gotta keep.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Those I like that in this world their deeds.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Ye, sorry, your washing machine, and you don't keep the
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: deed to your toaster.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I know there's still a tag on your mattress. Well
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? I know it says
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: it's illegal to rip it off, but we're not gonna enform.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Is that kind of crime? You do?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Sense? A contract between her and Sophia el Danta that
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: is binding for her work. That's like the most sensitive thing.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's all kinds of fun porn and stuff. Okay,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: sorry I got distracted by the paper mache.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: But you the paper claud Lad, the paper clad Lad, Phantom,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: paper clad Lad.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: And what are you dreaming of?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Dear? Well? I go by Quanta and when I when
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I am going about, everyone just kind of appears as
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: like like these like bright like like stars like auras halos.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: And then when I focus in, I can see the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: colors start to separate, like when you look at color
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: through a prism or something, or light through a prism,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and I can see it running through people's bodies. So
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I thought it might be kind of interesting. And Quanti
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: gets like really small and bashful trying to say a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: creative idea in front of this amazing creative person.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Kia notices this, leans forward really close to you, grabs
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: your hand and just says, it's okay, share your ideas.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I know you can sense my feelings, but I have
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: a gift of that as well. Tell me your dream
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: and I will make it real.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I thought, maybe like kind of like a map
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: on my suit of what I can see, and maybe
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: if it's if it's possible to have it be able
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to have lights that I can control.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, that your power interacts with it changes the colors. Yeah, fascinating.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: This will be a challenge. You'll have to leave me,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know, a finger or something so that I
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: can test it. I'm just kidding. Now, don't leave me
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: a finger. That'd be crazy. But I will need to
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: test some things with you, all right, Not now, I
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: need I need time to prepare my God.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: By the way, we don't have any money.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, we have a little money, but not we're not rich.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I I don't. I don't have any money.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Well, let's see. I just found a bunch of new
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: material in my grandma's secret office. So I don't need
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: money for materials. But your time, My time is worth
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: a lot, yes, But what you do for me for
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: this city, I believe, like my grandma, you'll take on
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: the mantles and the important pillars of this community.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: That's our hope.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: We want to make the city better. Oh, we can
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: beat someone up if you want.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I'll think about it, but for now, the first.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: One's on the house. Okay, perfect.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I know that my time is valuable, but I only
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: sing once a week. Value and scarcity, if you know
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: what I mean. Sure, yeah, economics. So I have thoughts.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I'm making sketches of you in my mind to dream
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: about tonight. It will take some time.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Of course, of course.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: And thank you for even considering doing this for us.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, I'm excited. I'm so excited. I'm excited to
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: see you again. I can't wait for you to me. Yeah,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: let me know when you want your own suit, I'll
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: make some paper stuff.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I think I'm good, all right.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I like fold up my cloak into like a suit
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: and tie. Okay, I wish I could do that. Well,
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: be gone, Dede. Is that much work to do? Sure, yeah,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: of course yes, I'll sell it a flight star and
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: hold out my arms for my compatriot Instagram.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the drink. I set it down very
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: carefully on a coaster.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Come back in a week, all right, thank you. As tonight.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: As you're flying up, she looks at you. Quanta moves
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: the drink off of the coaster onto the wood table
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: and then winks at you and knocks the glass off
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: the table and shatters on the floor. Have a little fun.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: Okay, oh my god, you guys, I think I'm in
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: love with them.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: We're on the job. As I fly up and we
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: opened this up.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Cluta is blushing furiously under her battle Clava.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: They seem nice, so nice. Wow, well what a what
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: a find? That went very well and no payment is awesome.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: But the connections with Russian mafia, that's alarming. Yes, I
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: flew by Sophia's place. Seemed legit. They shot a guy
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: right through the hand.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: It is a what wait, yeah, so legit? What I
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: think he was? I think he had done something that
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: deserved hand shooting throughs?
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Who this guy? I don't know who's the guy?
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I was just there.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: There was a kerfuffle. I don't know. Fine, did you involved?
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: I mean I said justice has served and flew away.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: I think, all right, I don't know. They's nicer than
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: the mob that I know. They could have just killed
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: that guy. Yes, okay, so.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: You saw a brothel shooting happened and just did it
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: intervene at all? I'm pretty sure the guy like hit
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: one of the people there, Okay, And now his hand
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: is all messed up, and that feels that feels right
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: You sound like Jason. I mean that sounds right to me.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Compartmentalization failing.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, we we know that we have slightly different
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: true nords on our moral compasses. But maybe next time
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: we can talk about shootings we see and discuss it
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: if we all should uh make a joint decision on
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: engauge it with gunshot wound victims in the middle of
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: the street. Hey, you guys would be so proud. I
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: used restraint when I didn't attack like a hundred mobsters
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: that were getting ready to go to war. Wait, what
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: what was this? Oh yeah, I don't know. We just
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: haven't had that. There's not enough time in the day, guys, there's.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Not there's nothing.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Let's catch up now and we are still in down.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: But before we catch up, which you guys should do,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: but Quanta still has a couple of points in thread chasing.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Jamiir put zero in and he got to come along
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: for this bonus because because Jason gave him one to
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: carry him along borrowed points, Jason's other one was coming along.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: So you still have two I think three, unless we've
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: used one. One would have been taken up in the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: masked life of going along and learning about magic.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Perfect. That's great because I had an empty slot because
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I had four total.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, so two left. Yes, what do you want to
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: do first, Quanta?
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I would love to follow up at Carrie's candles? Oh sure,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I think yeah? I zip strike, kaboom, what's the verb here?
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Strike is good?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Strike? I strike through the city, alighting atop a building
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: close to Carrie's candles and sense if I can, and
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: we'll focus in to see if I can sense Carrie herself.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: What time? Sorry did you say kind of win?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Did camp mention when he would be coming back?
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: He is a nighttime operator.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Then I'll go in the evening and stake out like
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: a building across the street and wait to see if
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: he returns.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you notice, well this is the same This would
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: technically be the same week, so you don't see him
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: come back this week?
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Okay. I wait until like closing time and like dance,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: flip down the fire escape to the street level and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: cross the street and just kind of like knock on
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the window and wave at Carrie.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Her eyes go wide. She starts to panic a little bit.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: No, no, I like wave, no, no, no, let me in.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: It's okay.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: It comes to the door and lets you in.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Hi, oh hey there, hey, it's me again.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well what do you want?
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Well, the ginger snap was fantastic. I'm like looking around
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: to see if anyone else is in here.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's closing eye.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I I just I wanted to give you this phone number,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and I give her the number that goes to the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: phone in the basement and the in the everwing nest.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: If Camp comes back, can you call this number? Okay,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and me and maybe a couple friends will come help you.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Okay. He hasn't been back yet. He's supposed to, you know,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Monday's is his Monday nights. But okay, I don't know
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: because you scared him off. I don't know if he'll
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: come back, but I'll call when he does. Okay, Okay,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: are you you're okay?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Otherwise?
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to scramble enough money to, you know,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: for next time he comes back.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Well, you just you just let me know and if
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: i'm if I'm not busy, I'll be here Monday night.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, got it?
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Can I take this pomegranate candle? Um?
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, I give her two pepple dollars. You head out
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: into the night with a pomegranate candle. What's the other
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: thread you're chasing.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: This is a big one. I would love to go
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: where I think I saw the womb in Galileo's grave.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: We're going to the womb, womb. We're going back in
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the womb.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I would let both the boys come along if you
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: want to on this one.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Boys, you want to go to the womb, the womb.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Oh the thing Derek mentioned, Yes, I think I think
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I saw it. I sensed it, saw it, sinced it.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That sounds when we were in Galileo's grave,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: when we were fleeing with my dad. Sounds nice. Let's go.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Let's you guys head up north the northernmost part of
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: the city. There's a neighborhood that used to be there,
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: used to be a campus, four blocks taken up with
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: amazing scientific laboratories and discovery small factories. That is all
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: now dilapidated and going old. You fought here before where
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: you found quantus, Dad. You go to that same building
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: that you've heard called Genesis before. It was the first
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: place where they found some day science that they built
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: off of to understand day physiology. When you were here
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: last time, you fought guards, You fought a man with
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: dragon tattoos. You fought a mysterious invisible day woman with
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: an electric bone, not electric but an energy bow and arrow.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: As you get their, Quanta, you sense that it's empty.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: No people, Okay, no one's here now, So should we
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: check out this building first, see what we can find quietly.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Last time we got kind of roughed up. No one's here,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I think just in case.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you head into this dilapidated lab and it has
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: been fully cleared out. It has been made to look
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: like nothing happened here. What figures, But Quanta, as you
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: are feeling sensing, seeing the electricity run, you sense again
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: the vast underground space.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: There's something below.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: And a hidden elevator in the back of warehouse wall.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Go to the wall and sense where the mechanism is
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and put my hand to the wall and just give
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: a little, little little zap, and then the doors slide
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: open to reveal that elevator going down.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: The elevator opens up, and Quanta, you turned the light
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: on in the elevator and you head down.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: There was no electricity running to this place.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Now paper folds away from Jason's face. Now, what do
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: we think is? What do we think the wombs? What
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: is this.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just not remembering what Dirk said about
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: them using people. Oh no, do you want do you
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: want me to go in first? And so you can
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: be warned if your kind is maybe there's like remains
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: there or something.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: No, we'll, we'll, we'll go it together. Yeah, I want
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: to look great, great, Jason. Okay, the elevator seems to
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: take longer than it should. You go down, down, down,
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Then the door opens the opposite way that you entered.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: So if you, hey, when elevators do that, we were
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: facing the wrong way.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Arthur's down there.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: It just dies.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Heart attack. Now it opens the other way. So if
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: you're thinking about the geography a little bit, this expanse
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: goes out under no man's land towards the wall, and
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: that's what it is, an expanse. The light that Quanta
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: has put on from the elevator feels like a drop
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: in the bucket of darkness. Infinite dark corners leer back
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: at you as you attempt to uncover a troubling past
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: you see just on the edge of your vision. In
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: the shadows, eyeless day skulls sit on conveyor belts, waiting
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: on mechanical arms that will never move to install their sight.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Wo headless day skeletons hang waiting for the breath of
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: life that will never be breathed into them. This is
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: the dead womb of the day, a factory of your people.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Holy shit? Is this what what my grandparents were? Holy shit? Oh?
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Quanta kind of stumbles forward a little bit like around
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the road.
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: Manifest a paper bag and handed to you thanks for
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: breathing or bukh.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: No, I want to face this. I think I've I
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: think I've been shown all of them before. I think
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: I've seen all of them before. What when I when
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I learned what I could do, I was like I
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: was in an ocean and there were all these day
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: people I didn't recognize, just kind of like these headless bodies,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: just like hovering above the sea. And then all of
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: a sudden they had life in them and they were
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: pulling me down and drowning them and I think this
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: is them. I think, I think this is what I saw,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: and yeah, it feels like drowning. So they started making
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: day and then just left all this is still here.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: And they didn't get to finish what happened here. Let's investigate.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: I'll make a couple of like paper lanterns if you
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: want to Quantu wants to light them up, or Ranchel
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: light a little piece on fire. Sure, yeah, I'll light
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: my fists with my magic blast energy just enough to
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: produce some light and hover on a flight star a
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: few itches off the ground.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: For extra light.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: You can let y'all light your lanterns on fire and
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: then just like barely have my whip out of my hand,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: so it's like a little baby flame.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: As you guys, spread some light into the shadow you
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: gather that you are in. You're on the factory floor,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: and this seems like a fully automated factory floor. It
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: looks like no hands were used to create the day bodies,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: but just these machines made them. And as you walk
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: and as you it's it's all the same. It's all
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: monotonous and and tedious and repetitive until you see what
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: might be like a command center for this place. There's
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: there are there are some kind of switch. There are
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: some switch backstairs, and the there's a a bunch of
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: panels of windows that are that are shoved into the earth.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: When you get to an earthen wall down here.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Shall we, Oh, yeah, after you. I walk up the staircase,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: are footsteps echoing through this vast space, and get to
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the door and open it, and it's like the loudest
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: sound we've heard since coming in here.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: As this sound starts you a little bit, you are
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: again surprised by the very first thing you see in here.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: It's obvious. It's against the back wall, a little concave
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: dent in the wall, displayed stiffly on a mannequin, is
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: a gray suit with intricate white accent lines. With the
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: exception of the forearms and the hands, the entire body
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: would be covered with a gray, flexible metal mesh. Two
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: white belts, tarnished and worn, cross over the chest and
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: connect at the waist and the two shoulder epaulets. These
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: hold a light yet immense, shimmering white cape. And then
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: there's the helm pointed cheeks that fall below the chin,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: connecting in a swoop under the mouth so that none
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: of the face would be revealed. The center dome displays
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: a mighty white fin that arcs from the forehead to
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the nape of the neck. It is sharp and dangerous, Demir,
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: you recognize this form immediately from your comic books. Standing
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: before you is bright Blade.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I was wearing that in the memory.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: This is bride Blade's costume. Yeah, like this is this
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: is the real bright Blade costume.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Cool?
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Why is it here?
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: He must have been he must have been involved in
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: this ship.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: We got to take this back to Dirk. I just
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: march over and start pulling it off of the mannequin,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: just unceremoniously, like shaking the mannequin out of it.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: This is the first thing you see, and it's surprising.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: You walk over and you start grabbing it off the
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: wall on the same wall. You notice as you're walking over,
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: or maybe the two of you notice, as Quanta is
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: kind of in the throes of things, there are more
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: indent what's the word I'm looking for? Indentations? Thank you?
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: There are more indentations in the wall. There are three.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Two of them are empty. They look to be the
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: shape of day bodies but large. The third one has
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: a day man in it.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's been on his mannequin too long. Help me out,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I helbro.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Hey, you guys, get the bright Blade suit and you
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: have it next to each of the indentations in the wall.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: There is a little slot where you see a cylindrical
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: tube with purple fluid in it that looks like it
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: would fit right in the place where you were told
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: to drop blood in Dirk's nape of his neck.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: Huhm oh.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Underneath it says permasel.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Oh ship, there's a whole day person in here.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: Hey, Jenny, Yeah, how much paper down here? Go ahead,
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: make a sense chick. It's gonna be four with oh,
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: I gotta roll. That's how this game works. This is
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: a is the game basic check ethan. I also rolled
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: a four very close fail.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Tie cry.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: If you tie your cry, cry whoa, that's the game talking.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: You don't sense much in here, and this is me.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: I know you you have a very very close fail,
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: but generally you don't sense it's on a paper in here. Okay,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: but there are some labels that stick out to you
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: that people have written on uh in not on the
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: back wall, but kind of on the sidewall the labels,
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: and when you sense those, you look over and you
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: see stacked up old VHS tapes. But the audio kind
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: in new babble in our world. By the way, I
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: don't know if we've ever stated this explicitly. Audio is
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: on big old VHS tapes.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Oh and I've got a player with me all the time.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: There's also a player in the wall.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Oh that might be better than we can all. Maybe
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: hear it.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: But they're a mess over there. They're they're disheveled and unkept.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: It seems as though a lot of them are missing
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: from different slots. But the labels. One of them says
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Venium and Project Today in the same label, and then
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: another label says Venim Night Project bright Blade. Another one
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: says and then there's a label that says The Great Hiding.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: But again, a lot of these tapes you're gone, but
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: there are some here.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going to fold up a nice meat paper box
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: and just start slooping them in there. Doop doop doop whatever.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: We got a movie night? Yeah, I just dump Dirk
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: suit on top of the pile in the box. I
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: reinforced I may more cardboard. I walk over to this
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: day person in one of the recesses. Yeah, and scan,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: see what I can sense?
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: You scan and sense immediately that there is no life
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: in this person. There is life in all three of
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: the perma cells, these glowing purple vials.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Permosel just a hunch, but you think this would power
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Dirk longer than blood. Maybe permanently. I mean, that's insane,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: but everything's insane. I'm always in favor of plugging things
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: into other things. Yeah, what we should plug that thing
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: into that thing. See, maybe we'll ask him. I'll take
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: all three and dump them on top of the suit
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: in the cardboard.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Box, and you look. I'll say one thing about the
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: appearance of this day man. He is tall like Dirk is,
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: but he is broader than Dirk. He is a big
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: old boy beefy.
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, Randel, do you know you don't recognize this?
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: This isn't like another one of those, like one of
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: Dirk's siblings, or like another's hero or something not that
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: I'm familiar with.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: No, I look and see if this corpse has a port.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: It does corpse port. Oh, it's got a hole like
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: Dirk's hole.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Blood or cell already cut my hand? Oh, Jason, it
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: was unrelated. It was just earlier.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: Do you want to give it a little See who
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: were waking up for a second.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: I rotate it in the recess so that we can
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: reach it.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: As the blood drips in demr and Jason, here's what
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: you see. The eyes of this man lurch open just
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: to get space from the crowding indentation he's in. He bursts.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Lightning whip, come out of my hand and stand right
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: in front of him with my other hand.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Out bursts out of his little concave port in the wall.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Quanta.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: Here's what you see as the blood drips in the
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: body wakes up, all the normal elect twal pathways that
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: day have that you're familiar with start to ignite. But
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: for a moment here you don't see person or soul,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: and then a soul floods in. You feel it. You
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: don't know how, you don't know why, you don't even
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: know what it does scientifically and like electrically in someone,
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: but you feel the person just rush into this body.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: And then Jason and jameyr what you see is as
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: this man is just bust out of the wall, he
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: starts yelling, his body is lifted up and starts glowing
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: okay big, and then he drops to the ground, leaving
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: a small crater in the earth, looks up at the
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: three of you and says ooh, and then passes out.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: And that's where we'll end this session.
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• 1:00:19
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