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Benders & Brews: S3: Episode 9 - Pre-Flight Checklist · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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>> Skylar: jasmine, oolong, green
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and white. Long ago, these four
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teas were skillfully brewed at the blissful brew.
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Then everything changed when the shops
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popularity threatened its existence.
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All Mister Okaron, the shops owner and tea
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master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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shop. A, year has passed since the orphans were hired,
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and although their skills have progressed, they still have a lot
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to learn before they can brew anything. But I
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believe that they have the potential to make the blissful brew
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the greatest tea shop in the world.
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Last time on benders and brews, an
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avatar Legends podcast. The other three of you
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all disguised as hot leaf juice employees,
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are inside of Madame Yangs glass
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office. You've got the clue that Mister
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Okaron left behind for you. Now she
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has just appeared, and she seems like she might be
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headed up to her office.
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>> Mikayla: You two, pick up those.
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Wait a minute.
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Those aren't hot leaf juice
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uniforms.
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>> Skylar: Who are you? You reach out with
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your water bending power. You fling some hot, not
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boiling water in the direction of Madame Ying,
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accidentally spraying Bill.
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>> Cameron: As Bill gets hit by this, he's going to
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yell out in pain, okay. And fall to
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his knees as you.
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>> Skylar: Have a quick flash of being inside of a
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burning barn. It was a bar.
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>> Cameron: It was a barn. My nightmare.
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>> Skylar: And you guys race off into the
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sunset.
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>> Dave: Do you got any bad burns?
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>> Cameron: I was caught in a Helen fire. I
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would have gotten out, but I
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went back for my brother. He, he didn't make it.
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I pulled out my brother on fire
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and my arms and legs went with him.
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>> Skylar: And welcome back, everybody, to another
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episode of Benders and Bruise. We are on
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episode nine of season three, if you haven't been keeping track.
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And we're gonna jump into some interesting
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character. well, the players
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introducing their characters, and then they're gonna tell an interesting
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fact about said character.
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Something maybe I didn't even know.
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Actually, most of the stuff, most
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everything you know.
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>> Cameron: That's true.
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>> Dave: GM approved.
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>> Cameron: It's true.
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>> Skylar: Guys are getting it raw. Straight
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from the players.
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>> Cameron: Currently has 5000 yuan in
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his back pocket. That's a.
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>> Skylar: Wait, you got the money? I got rock
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had the money.
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>> Cameron: Which is not really strange because
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I.
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>> Cameron: Meant 2200 thousand yuan.
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>> Skylar: Hey, you were efficiently counting leaves last.
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>> Cameron: I am so good at counting.
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>> Skylar: You're good at counting reading, but you don't need to
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read much when you're doing numbers.
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>> Cameron: No, like he said, he knows how to read. He just wants to see
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make a good.
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>> Cameron: You're right. Right?
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: I'm like Floyd Mayweather. I don't need to read when I know how to
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count, right? That was a literal Instagram post that he
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said while counting the money, like the
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winnings from his fight.
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>> Skylar: Hey, you know, the man cannot read.
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>> Cameron: 50 cent challenged him to read cat in the hat, and he did
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not. He did not comply.
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>> Skylar: Oh, he's missing out. I just read that the other day and,
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yeah, it was great. Yeah,
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awesome. Who would like to go first?
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>> Cameron: Well, I mean, Bill just said he has 200,000 yuan. That
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is now canon.
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>> Skylar: Hold on. Right now they might not all
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be.
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>> Dave: Good thing he took out those life insurance policies on
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his family when he.
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>> Skylar: Disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
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>> Cameron: Anyway, I can go
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first.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, go for it.
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>> Cameron: who are you? I'm Cameron
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Gildor. Or as we've been
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soon revealed, Ash Bertney.
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Bertney. and,
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Bill is a
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sucker for a
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smoothie.
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>> Skylar: He doesn't like tea, but he likes smoothies.
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>> Mikayla: Loves a good.
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>> Cameron: Smoothies are fantastic. And he.
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He will try so many flavors
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for smoothies. He. He is not gonna just
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get the same one every time. He's like, ooh, new smoothie flavor.
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Flavor of the month. Heck, yeah. I want it.
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>> Skylar: Right on.
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>> Cameron: And that's probably why most of the teas he was, like,
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randomly coming up with were, like, more like, soothing
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smoothie based teas, because he was like, yeah, I like smoothies.
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>> Skylar: He's like, let's make a tea. Let's just. Let's just make it
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cold and then blend it with some ice.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, a little bit.
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>> Skylar: Sure. That makes sense. I feel really bad.
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>> Cameron: There's this leaves out of here.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, exactly. Take those out. There's this
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amazing, bubble tea place over, not too
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far from where I live. It's called top t. I'm willing to shout it out because
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it's just that great. But I feel kind of bad because they just came out
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with smoothies and they do a pina colada smoothie, and it
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is very possibly one of the greatest things I've ever
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drank in my life. And then I feel bad because I'm like, but
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I'm here for. I'm here for tea, but
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I really want to get the smoothie because
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their tea is also fantastic. But you gotta get,
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this smoothie is so good. Oh, my gosh, the
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consistency, so creamy. Anyways,
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that's my interesting fact.
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>> Cameron: Ha.
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>> Cameron: Done.
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>> Skylar: Now back to the players.
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>> Cameron: Is it to me?
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>> Cameron: yeah.
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>> Skylar: Let's go for it. Go for it.
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>> Cameron: All right. I am Connor. I am playing broccoli. And as
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we saw, sort of in a previous episode, when he is
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stoned, he kind of unlocks an ability to break the
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fourth wall in the
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universe.
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>> Cameron: Becomes deadpool.
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>> Cameron: I become Deadpool.
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>> Skylar: Windstone so acquires some
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guru level.
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>> Cameron: Do you think that is a meta joke in itself,
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that when you become stoned, hence the rock,
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pawns.
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>> Skylar: He has such a connection with his earthbending
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bridges.
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>> Cameron: It bridges the universe.
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>> Skylar: Universe in reality itself. Interesting.
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: much like. So I just need to get some sick
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weed before the final fight, and I'll
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be able to tell just about
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everything.
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>> Skylar: Wow.
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>> Cameron: I'll be able to break the fourth wall.
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>> Skylar: Taking a very different direction than I
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thought we would as far as being less and
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less family friendly. no, I'm just kidding.
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No, I'm totally kidding. That's interesting. No, I
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mean, hey, that episode was thoroughly entertaining.
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Between your stonedness and Mika's
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attempts to, seduce the guards while
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I.
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>> Cameron: Was her brother wife.
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>> Skylar: Yes, her brother husband. You're her brother wife.
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>> Cameron: I'm currently.
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>> Mikayla: I'm a pathological liar.
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>> Skylar: So speaking, of pathological
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liars. Wait, no, hold on. That's a bad intro,
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Michaela.
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Very bad at lying.
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>> Cameron: So that in itself was a lie.
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>> Mikayla: Whatever.
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>> Skylar: No, I'm confused.
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>> Mikayla: I'm Kayla, and I play Mika.
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And Mika's fun fact, maybe
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it's not so fun is that, whenever
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it's a light snow, it just makes you really
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sad.
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>> Skylar: Interesting. Is there a reason for that?
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>> Mikayla: Yeah, there is reason for that.
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>> Skylar: There's a reason for it. This is something that could come up later.
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Or maybe it has come up.
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>> Mikayla: It probably has come up. You know,
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intro story, whatever.
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>> Skylar: Yeah. Background. All right. Prequel episode.
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>> Mikayla: So go check that out.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, go check that out. Way to work in a little promo
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there. Awesome.
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All right. And then jumping over to
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Guo or, well, Dave thing,
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I gave you the most information out of everybody.
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Yeah.
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>> Dave: So, yeah, Dave playing Guo here,
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the earthbender. And Guo, sometimes
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at the carnival, would offer kind
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of a tour
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slash fast pass experience
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that he would. He would skip out on his
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job duties when he could and get
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people to pay him for, you know, to show him around
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the carnival that. To help him cut in line and, you know,
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he'd split the money with the people to.
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To let him jump to the front of the line or whatever the
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other.
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>> Skylar: Employees pull in the fast pass at Disney
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World.
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>> Dave: Yeah.
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>> Skylar: Nice. Except as a scam. Well, it wasn't a scam because, I mean,
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I guess you were following through with it, but it
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wasn't technically part of the normal
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operations.
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>> Dave: It was a hustle.
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Dave: And, yeah, you would use this extra money to
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play other carnival games or, you know, enter pie
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contests.
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>> Skylar: Absolutely. No, that makes sense. So, when he was, like, getting people
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ahead in line, I mean, does he just, like, walk up and be like, I work
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here. These guys are
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priority or something.
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>> Dave: Yeah, he would make something up.
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>> Skylar: They've got the membership.
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>> Dave: It's okay. his son is very
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sick.
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>> Skylar: oh, no.
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>> Cameron: He's following the sick kid.
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>> Skylar: Oh, no.
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>> Dave: He's only got two weeks. No time to
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wait in line.
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>> Skylar: On the other hand, you could always do, like, yeah, these
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guys paid to have priority, and then that makes other people
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go, wait. We can pay for priority. Oh, yeah.
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>> Dave: That's genius.
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>> Skylar: So, I mean, I guess there's like, yeah, there's, like, two ways. But, I mean, I guess you'd have
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to read the crowd, which I feel like will probably got really good at.
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He's like, oh, these guys would never, they're not gonna go for
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that. But the sick kid thing will work for sure.
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Although if I'm the person that just, like, slipped you a couple you
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on to get me ahead in line, I'm gonna be like, kid's
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not. So, what's going on here?
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And I don't know. Maybe they just wouldn't ask questions. Or maybe, again,
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you read people, and you're like, yeah, this guy's cool. He would totally
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pay for this. He won't ask questions. He just wants to get
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in line. But awesome. Fantastic. I'm Skyler. I'm the game
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master. I already said my interesting fact in reference to somebody
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else's interesting fact, which is what I love to do, which is just
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to piggyback off someone else's fact and then turn it
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into something that I do in real life. Anyways, let's
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jump into episode nine of
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season three of benders and bruise
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all, ah, right. When you guys last left off, you guys had just
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narrowly managed to escape the hot leaf juice
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factory. Madam Yang was about to walk up
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and kind of basically catch you guys,
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trying to get away. Micah used her water
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bending to spray Madam Yang with hot
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boiling water. unfortunately, it also
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singed her companion bill,
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who had sort of a flashback to his past
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involving hot things,
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specifically fire. But in this case, boiling water
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kind of singed his skin in this in a similar
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way that caused him to sort of re remember some of that
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stuff that had happened long ago in his
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past. And as you guys were running
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out, Guo was able to kind of get him up, get
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him back to escaping.
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he donked Madame Yang real good, something that might come into
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play later on, possibly a maintained
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concussion, maybe a bit more severe.
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it was a pretty solid donk. So, as you guys were
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escaping, Guo saw, an individual from his past.
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It was Chang Sanani, the individual
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who used to run the carnival
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that sort of had Guo enslaved, for
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lack of better words. had literally purchased. Guo
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had contractual papers of ownership
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over Guo, until things happen. And if you want to
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learn more about that, obviously check out Guo's prequel episode. but
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whatever the case, you guys snuck past him or kind of just
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ran past him. Bill conked him on the
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face as well as he was leaving. And all of
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you made it safely into the treeline outside of the
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factory where you are now safely, sort of
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away, not, being pursued. And it's
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getting dark. You guys have kind of started setting up camp.
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Guo had started healing, putting some.
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Just some salve on Bill's burns. That's, kind
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of. Bill gave a little bit of a background into
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his past about his brother losing his brother in a barn
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fire, which is where Bill had received
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the scars in the first place, that kind of
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encompass a fairly wide half of his
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body.
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>> Dave: Regular old barn burner.
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>> Cameron: Guys, that's the second joke you've made at my
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brother's.
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>> Dave: No, that wasn't in character.
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>> Cameron: Okay. thanks. Whoa.
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That feels a little better now.
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>> Dave: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Anything I can do to help you?
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>> Cameron: Can I just have Brock stay with, like, a mouthful of food? Hey, what's
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that? And just pointing to
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Bill's.
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>> Skylar: Jeez.
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>> Cameron: I kind of just said rock, but.
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>> Cameron: Oh, yeah, I was. I was eating. Sorry.
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You can't really hear over the sound of chewing.
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>> Cameron: What are you eating?
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>> Cameron: Rocks.
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>> Cameron: Okay, well, this makes sense, actually.
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>> Mikayla: I can also do
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a little thing to heal them.
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>> Cameron: What?
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>> Dave: I think Mika's trying to say she's sorry for burning
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you, and she can help you, but you burned
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him,
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>> Cameron: Like, a cool roast, like. Oh, you saw.
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>> Mikayla: more serious than that.
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>> Cameron: I leaned towards Brock and
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go, she threw the hot water.
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>> Mikayla: No, I threw it. I threw it at Madam Yang. You
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just happened to be in the way.
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>> Dave: Oh, is that, ah, why, you don't like t bill?
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>> Cameron: No, actually, it's awful. It's terrible. Why do
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people put leaves in water? That doesn't make
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sense to me. It tastes raw awful.
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>> Cameron: No, I'm fine with hot things. I actually.
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Nah. Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Just.
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>> Cameron: I don't really have much feeling on this side
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of my body. So you happen to hit the one
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part that's still fresh. So
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it's whatever.
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>> Mikayla: Do you want me to, you know, work on
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it a little bit?
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>> Cameron: Keep saying that. I don't know what that means. Well, I,
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like, put, like, green moss on my, like,
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woad.
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>> Mikayla: I can't use my water to
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reinvigorate your wounds.
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>> Cameron: You can do that?
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>> Mikayla: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Cool. Show me.
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>> Mikayla: Okay.
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>> Cameron: Can you heal burn scars?
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>> Mikayla: I don't think it works quite that well.
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>> Cameron: Oh, dang. Well, you know, you can ask, can't you?
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>> Skylar: since you're not in combat, I'm not gonna make you, like,
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roll. I think that's kind of, like, the key thing with rolling
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is that you're kind of, like. You're doing it in an intense situation,
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and right now, you guys are kind of in a restful situation. There's no reason
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why you couldn't grab some water. and
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if you want to give me kind of a rundown on how this. Ah, this water
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bending healing works.
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>> Mikayla: Yeah. So I apply water to reinvigorate and close
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wounds on a willing target. I mark a
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fatigue to heal an alley and
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ally and reach who is evading him and
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observing. and then I clear an appropriate
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status from them. Clear three fatigue or two conditions.
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But for the sake of it not being in fight, we could
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just say, close the wounds.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I think that's kind of the key thing here.
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we're saying the move, just to kind of
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establish that micah has the ability. That's kind of
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something that you chose when you were making your character. Yeah.
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So she has the ability to do the water bending healing,
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which you do. You take some water, you're
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in a forest. I'm sure you could find, like, a little pond or something
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somewhere. In fact, you might even set up camp near one. but
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whatever, it's wherever they, like, floods. Like, they got a
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huge pipe that kind of comes out way down the line from
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the factory into the forest. It just dumps.
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>> Cameron: Don't tell me it's used tea.
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>> Skylar: Tea water? Yeah, I was gonna say,
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ironically, the same boiling water that they use
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to.
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>> Cameron: Get the flavors in the tea, it's just less boiling.
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>> Skylar: It's just not boiling anymore. Yeah. But, the
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positive side is that it actually, the pond gives off
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somewhat of a pleasant smell because it's just had tons of
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tea. Just kind of boiling.
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>> Cameron: Bill doesn't like the taste of tea, but he's fine with the smell.
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It does smell really nice. Yeah, probably not a lot of fat.
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>> Mikayla: Do I still mark fatigue for that.
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>> Skylar: You, do still mark fatigue for that because you're still kind of putting
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forth some difficulty and effort.
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>> Cameron: Do I remove fatigue, or is it more just closing
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whatever pain and wound I have?
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>> Skylar: What did it say on the ability, Mikaela?
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Didn't it say clear?
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>> Mikayla: it says clear and appropriate status from them. And three, fatigue in
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two conditions.
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>> Skylar: Whoa. That's a lot.
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>> Mikayla: However, I don't know if we want to.
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Do we want to actually do the whole thing or
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cause, like, initially it says
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reinvigorate and close wounds on a willing target, and
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then I would mark a fatigue to reach
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an alley. Who is evading and observing?
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>> Skylar: I mean, I don't see why not. I think it
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fits. Yeah.
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>> Cameron: You, basically take in, if it take to remove three of
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mine as those conditions.
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>> Skylar: Exactly. So, yeah, this,
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Bill, as she applies this
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water to your wound and starts to kind of use
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this water bending, this very special,
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specific water bending techniques to sort of get the
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water in and sort of, like, invigorate, as she
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said, the cells from a molecular
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level to kind of help the process of
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healing along. You feel nice. Cooling sensation
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over your burns.
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>> Cameron: Do you place your hand. Oh, my.
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>> Skylar: I think it would be like she places her hand over
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the water, which is.
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Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Feels weird.
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>> Skylar: Probably would a little bit. It doesn't, heal the
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scar. Scars, like, from scars guards,
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I figured.
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>> Cameron: Oh, yeah.
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>> Skylar: It doesn't heal the stars. The. The scar guards are the
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only people that are immune to waterbending healing
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abilities.
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>> Cameron: Oh.
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>> Skylar: but in this case, a gift is a gift.
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>> Cameron: It heals the fresh wound.
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>> Skylar: Yes.
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>> Cameron: Okay. Yes.
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>> Dave: Feel like this is the part where you play the icy hot
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commercial with Shaq.
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>> Skylar: I was just gonna say Shaq just pops in.
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>> Mikayla: after I'm done, I'm gonna go sit a little
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distance away from everybody.
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>> Cameron: Okay.
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>> Mikayla: Close enough in your shop. They need to talk to me,
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but I'm feeling a little sad.
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>> Cameron: so as you start walking away, I'm go, hey,
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Mika.
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>> Mikayla: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Thanks.
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>> Mikayla: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Also, don't feel
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bad. I, took out my
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anger on Madam Yang for
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you.
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>> Dave: Yeah, we all lose control of our powers a little
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bit. I mean, I'm pretty sure I hit, like, a dozen kids in
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there.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, you really did. You actually
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freed a bunch of them.
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>> Dave: yes. See, sometimes a bad thing
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turns into a good thing.
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>> Cameron: Yeah. Like you hitting me with the water also hit
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Madame Yang and opened her up to a blind spot. And
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I absolutely knocked her block off with my foe
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staff.
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>> Mikayla: Thanks for doing that.
19:07
>> Cameron: I think I saw blood?
19:08
>> Mikayla: Yes.
19:09
>> Cameron: So maybe that makes you feel a little better.
19:11
>> Mikayla: It is a little bit, actually.
19:13
>> Cameron: She's probably not gonna see straight for a little while.
19:16
>> Cameron: You hit her hard enough, she falls asleep, she may never see anything ever
19:19
again.
19:20
>> Cameron: she did get back. I wasn't trying to kill. I don't
19:23
want to kill anyone.
19:24
>> Cameron: I mean, you wouldn't kill her. The concussion would.
19:27
>> Skylar: That's a fair point.
19:29
>> Cameron: The Batman line.
19:30
>> Cameron: That's right. Well, well said, brock.
19:31
>> Skylar: Like always, I just made.
19:36
>> Cameron: And I expect after that, Micah kind of wanders off to
19:39
her side, and Bill's like, hey, guo.
19:42
So, who, is that guy you made me
19:45
hit with my bo staff?
19:46
>> Skylar: I normally like to know a man before I just slam.
19:49
>> Cameron: Typically, I only hit people, like, if they haven't come in. But you
19:52
just told me to hit him out of nowhere. And I'm like,
19:55
well, Guo's never steered me wrong before.
19:58
>> Dave: So, so
20:00
he's walking around the little area we're
20:03
at, picking up some firewood, little sticks and
20:06
whatnot.
20:06
>> Cameron: Yeah.
20:07
>> Dave: And he's like, he has one stick. He's like, yeah, you really
20:10
whacked him. And he swings the stick.
20:14
that was Chang Sanani.
20:17
He used to run the carnival that, well,
20:20
basically, I was enslaved at
20:23
or forced to work there.
20:27
you know, sometimes our past does
20:30
leave, leave a mark,
20:34
but, I roll up my sleeve and show you,
20:38
a tattoo on my forearm.
20:41
and it has a number on
20:44
it. He's like,
20:46
yeah, basic. Well, quite literally
20:49
owned me. He had papers and everything.
20:53
He marked me with. You know,
20:56
I was just a number to him as, like,
20:59
a number, slave number or whatever.
21:02
Asset number. What you call it
21:05
as, like, my blood type.
21:07
>> Cameron: Wow.
21:08
>> Dave: Isn't that, like, a big thing in.
21:10
>> Skylar: It makes sense because, I mean, if you're a slave, then
21:13
you're just. You're, like you said, an asset. Like, if I need a
21:16
blood or if someone I care about needs a blood blood.
21:19
>> Dave: I feel like that's a thing in animes, too, though. They're
21:22
like, they introduced characters
21:25
or in, like, the cutscenes when commercials come
21:28
back and it says, like, in their blood. Yeah.
21:31
I don't know. It's a thing.
21:32
>> Skylar: Positive or whatever.
21:33
>> Cameron: Sure.
21:33
>> Skylar: That's interesting.
21:34
>> Cameron: Eye color?
21:38
No.
21:38
>> Dave: but has, like. Is. Yes. Is a. Or
21:41
his date of birth or,
21:44
Yeah, it's blood type.
21:45
>> Cameron: So it's got a big number with blood type, date
21:48
of birth, and.
21:49
>> Skylar: Yeah, Social Security.
21:51
>> Cameron: Social Security number. Well, that is the number.
21:53
>> Skylar: Oh, you're right. You're right. Yep.
21:56
>> Dave: yeah, he didn't, he didn't treat us at best. But
21:59
there's good people in the carnival. I had friends
22:02
there, so it wasn't all bad.
22:05
>> Cameron: Well, that's good. And glad I could,
22:09
bop ah him on the head for you.
22:11
>> Dave: Yeah, I appreciate that. I mean, last
22:13
time I saw him,
22:18
he had a stick of his own, but it was more of
22:20
a magicy, zombie
22:23
death raising stick. I don't know, it
22:26
was some, some spirit stuff,
22:30
but we got that out away from him.
22:33
And then from what I heard, they kind of
22:36
ran him out of the carnival after that.
22:40
>> Cameron: Have you heard much about the carnival since then? Is it, like,
22:43
better if he's gone, or have you just
22:45
kind of, you.
22:47
>> Dave: Know, I've heard a few things, but
22:50
not really ready to go back there.
22:53
>> Cameron: That's part, I mean, that's part of the reason
22:56
I'm so far from my home.
22:59
>> Cameron: Kim bilge Brock, just kind of interject. That guy could
23:02
raise the dead. You just kind of
23:04
glossed over.
23:05
>> Cameron: That's pretty cool, actually. Not cool,
23:08
though.
23:08
>> Skylar: I mean, Brock.
23:10
>> Cameron: I mean, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool.
23:14
>> Dave: Yeah, it was some sort of magic staff stick
23:17
scepter. m what
23:20
basically took control of him, I think,
23:23
or influenced him. I mean, he had, he had
23:26
evil in his heart. Let's be. Let's be real.
23:28
>> Cameron: Yeah.
23:29
>> Dave: He was not a good guy, so maybe it more
23:32
amplified it, but.
23:33
>> Cameron: Oh,
23:33
>> Cameron: What happened to the scepter?
23:36
>> Dave: What did happen to that?
23:38
>> Mikayla: Why you want to know, Brock?
23:39
>> Cameron: I mean, like, if it's
23:42
still, didn't I destroy?
23:45
>> Skylar: Yep. You smashed it.
23:46
>> Dave: Oh, let me tell you, I had
23:50
the most perfect shot.
23:52
>> Cameron: Yeah? Yeah.
23:54
>> Dave: With one. It's like a
23:57
pretty good sized pebble, but I hit the staff
23:59
just right, and it
24:02
shattered.
24:02
>> Cameron: Oh, impressive.
24:05
And there was like, have you done that, Brock?
24:08
>> Dave: Could have sworn I saw, like, spirits coming
24:11
out of it, too.
24:12
>> Cameron: Whoa.
24:13
>> Mikayla: This is like,
24:17
anesthesia.
24:18
>> Skylar: Yeah, that's right.
24:21
>> Dave: It's phylactery.
24:23
>> Cameron: M. Oh, Brock.
24:26
Funny thing.
24:27
>> Cameron: Yeah, what's up?
24:27
>> Cameron: while we were getting away, Guohan
24:30
said I'm the strongest member of the party.
24:34
>> Cameron: Well, if you see, I
24:37
can't read Mister Okron's letter. But
24:40
I heard.
24:42
>> Cameron: Wait, I thought you could read it.
24:45
>> Cameron: Give me that.
24:47
>> Dave: I think there's some sticks over here. I'm gonna go
24:49
get.
24:52
>> Cameron: Strong. If you hear.
24:54
>> Cameron: If you heard, Mika, read what? Mister
24:57
Okoran said I was the
25:00
strongest. that. You know, now that you mention it, there was a time
25:03
when you guys were off. I just. Something felt
25:05
off. It could have been the fact that I was trying
25:08
to count all those leaves, but I just felt
25:11
a disturbance. I felt a disturbance, and I
25:14
could just tell something. A massive lie
25:17
was told.
25:20
>> Skylar: I sneezed because someone wasn't talking
25:23
about me.
25:24
>> Cameron: I am allergic to B's, and I had a
25:26
sneeze.
25:27
>> Dave: Brock, you heard the letter. Mister
25:30
Okaron said we all have our strengths and
25:33
weaknesses.
25:34
>> Cameron: Yeah, yeah.
25:35
>> Cameron: That's not how I heard it, but.
25:37
>> Cameron: I'm messing with you, Brock. If, it wasn't for
25:40
the fact that we had guards on our tail
25:43
and I was more worried about knocking out Madame Yang, I
25:46
would have stopped and been like, no, no. guo, it's,
25:48
definitely Brock. He's definitely the strongest. But, you know, in the
25:51
moment, we had to go. But you're definitely the
25:54
strongest. I mean, who else can
25:57
rock elevator up 100ft in a few
25:59
seconds? I can't do that. I can only get, like,
26:02
5ft in the air with my stick. So.
26:04
>> Cameron: Yeah, I know. It is pretty
26:07
great. I'm
26:10
so humble, too.
26:11
>> Cameron: I can tell. So, I'm sure that
26:14
humbleness came from your time in the, arena,
26:17
right?
26:18
>> Cameron: I mean, when you lose a lot,
26:21
you kind of get, you kind of got to be
26:24
humble. Ah, no one
26:27
really likes a braggadocious loser.
26:30
>> Dave: Oh, I'm just saying,
26:33
muscles don't necessarily make the man.
26:36
They may be defined. Well
26:39
defined.
26:39
>> Cameron: Thank you.
26:40
>> Dave: But it's, they don't have to define you.
26:43
>> Cameron: Oh, m. You've been eating a lot.
26:45
>> Cameron: At the fortune cookie store. A lot of.
26:49
>> Cameron: He did spend the most time with Okaron, so.
26:51
>> Cameron: Yeah. I thought you spent the most time with Okoran.
26:54
>> Cameron: Kind of.
26:56
>> Cameron: Kind of.
26:57
>> Cameron: Well, whoa. Would ask him. I would spend
27:00
a lot of time with Okaron, but Guo would listen to his
27:03
fortune cookie wisdom a lot more than me.
27:07
>> Dave: Well, sometimes I had to come up with the
27:10
fortunes that you get at the fortune telling.
27:13
The, magic, you know, you. You, Oh, put your
27:16
coins in, and it.
27:18
>> Cameron: Oh, the zanzibar.
27:22
>> Cameron: No, they didn't have the roof. No,
27:26
they dressed up. Guo,
27:31
he's holding a little magic
27:34
ball.
27:35
>> Skylar: Where was that? Where did that rank on, like, Guo's
27:38
scale of the jobs that he did or didn't like
27:41
working at the carnival?
27:43
>> Dave: he liked that one pretty well.
27:45
>> Skylar: That's fair.
27:46
>> Dave: He could sometimes rig it
27:49
to, you know, hit on a
27:52
cute girl.
27:55
>> Skylar: Like you, give her a particularly positive fortune.
27:58
>> Dave: Or be like, you will soon
28:01
bump into, I don't know,
28:03
romances waiting in the wings or something, and
28:06
then you'd accidentally bump into her
28:09
and just.
28:10
>> Cameron: Yeah. Oh, I have these wing. The prop wings,
28:13
these feathers. Oh, no.
28:14
>> Dave: You want chicken wing, turkey
28:17
legs, and.
28:18
>> Skylar: He'S got chicken wings. Oh, God.
28:20
>> Cameron: Oh, this is fake.
28:22
>> Skylar: Wait, so, Mika, what was that thing.
28:24
>> Cameron: You just did with Bill for
28:27
one and two? Why
28:30
have you not done that before or after any of
28:33
our other fights?
28:38
>> Skylar: It's kind of a fair question.
28:41
>> Cameron: Just saying, like, you could
28:44
have. You could have helped us
28:47
out.
28:48
>> Mikayla: None of you are dying. And
28:51
I physically wounded him. I kind
28:54
of felt a little bad.
28:56
>> Cameron: I mean, sure, but like, just what.
28:59
>> Mikayla: Wound did you have that you needed me to heal?
29:03
>> Cameron: I mean, like, none.
29:06
I mean, you just like splash hot water on
29:08
him and you put more water on him to fix it.
29:11
I'm just saying, like, you.
29:13
>> Mikayla: It was boiling water. You saw the burns on his
29:16
skin.
29:18
>> Cameron: Not gonna lie, there's burns all over his skin.
29:22
>> Cameron: I mean, he's not wrong.
29:24
>> Cameron: I mean, like, you gotta be able to talk about
29:27
it with elephant in the room at this point.
29:30
>> Mikayla: Is it an elephant? If we all know about it,
29:33
it's not anymore.
29:34
>> Cameron: I mean, yeah, I think that's like part of the saying.
29:37
>> Cameron: I'm sure you guys have wanted to ask. Yeah, for
29:40
the whole time we've known each other.
29:41
>> Mikayla: Actually, I didn't care.
29:43
>> Cameron: You never cared. I
29:46
appreciate that.
29:47
>> Dave: Actually. You said you feel
29:49
numb.
29:50
>> Cameron: Yeah.
29:52
>> Dave: How do you feel on the
29:55
inside?
29:57
>> Cameron: Is that from your fortune telling
30:00
Booth? You know what,
30:03
I feel a lot better. I've
30:06
never told that story to anyone
30:09
before, and it feels
30:12
good to finally say it.
30:15
Oh, his name was blaze.
30:20
>> Dave: That's a cool name.
30:21
>> Cameron: It is way cooler than Ash, that's for
30:23
sure. but yeah, no, yeah,
30:26
I.
30:26
>> Dave: See why you changed it to build. No, I'm just.
30:30
Just kidding.
30:31
>> Cameron: Every time I say ash friggin Brock has to mention
30:34
some other one of his old friends. Ash ketchum. I don't even know who this
30:37
dude is, but rock keeps referencing him.
30:39
>> Cameron: I mean, he's a cool guy.
30:41
>> Skylar: he's got a whole like zoo full of these animals he
30:43
catches.
30:44
>> Cameron: Yeah, I mean, he's got somewhere, he's got them all. I think
30:47
he's in some sort of illegal, like animal fighting ring. But
30:50
other than that, he's a cool guy.
30:53
somehow has never aged.
30:55
>> Skylar: Bought some of those animals in the fighting
30:58
ring.
30:59
>> Cameron: Honestly, I got the short end of the stick and cool family
31:02
names. Cuz my older brother was named Ember,
31:05
and my younger brother's name was Blaze. And I got Ash.
31:08
>> Skylar: So it would have been cool if you you
31:11
were younger, and
31:14
I was, like, the stages of first, and
31:17
then it became ash or something.
31:18
>> Cameron: Yeah, but my name's not Phoenix, Mika.
31:21
>> Cameron: It's.
31:22
>> Skylar: Wouldn't it be blaze?
31:25
>> Cameron: I guess I messed up. The rising process is, like,
31:28
I, like, show my. His name should have been my burned
31:31
arm. Yeah, that was just a joke. Anyways, I'm
31:34
gonna. Bill starts putting his shirt back
31:36
on.
31:39
>> Skylar: At this point. Yeah, the. The healing water has
31:42
dried from your shoulder area.
31:44
>> Mikayla: And also, like, to be
31:46
fair, Miko also doesn't care about his
31:49
guard hand because she also has a
31:52
birthmark on her hand. So it's like. Yeah, it
31:55
is what it is. Honestly, it's not that she's,
31:58
like, mean, right? She is, but.
32:00
>> Skylar: Well, sometimes just depends. Sometimes she can be nice, and
32:03
then she heals her friends and then Brock.
32:05
>> Cameron: I wouldn't be hard on Mika. I mean, she
32:08
probably just felt like she needed to pay me back
32:10
for throwing boiling hot water on
32:13
me.
32:15
>> Cameron: I mean, it's fair.
32:16
>> Cameron: I mean, she hasn't hurt us any other time, so.
32:19
>> Cameron: I mean. Yeah. Yet.
32:22
>> Cameron: Yeah.
32:22
>> Skylar: Physically. Emotionally.
32:24
>> Cameron: Yeah, emotionally, she.
32:31
>> Cameron: It's all. It's all in love. Right, Brock?
32:34
>> Cameron: Sure.
32:38
>> Cameron: Anyways, Brock just kind of, like, he, like, lays
32:41
down, just, like, falls back
32:44
like king. Boom. You know, falls back and just sinks into
32:47
the earth.
32:47
>> Skylar: Yep.
32:48
>> Cameron: He's just gonna just chill out, take a nap.
32:50
>> Skylar: Nice.
32:51
>> Cameron: I think Brock's going to bed. Yeah, I think
32:54
we all need to go to bed.
32:55
>> Dave: Yeah. It's been a day.
32:58
Guilt rolls into his hammock.
33:01
>> Cameron: His hammock.
33:02
>> Skylar: His hammock.
33:03
>> Cameron: You m carry that hammock with you?
33:04
>> Dave: Yeah. Folds right in the satchel, man.
33:06
>> Skylar: Heck, yeah. All right, Bill just kind of.
33:09
And Mika M. Goes in, ties herself up in
33:12
a particularly thick tree branch.
33:15
>> Mikayla: no. Oh, she's just gonna, you know,
33:17
often her little corner.
33:19
>> Skylar: Okay.
33:19
>> Mikayla: With her fox dog.
33:21
>> Skylar: Ah. yes, the classic fox dog po.
33:25
All right, sounds good. you guys all
33:27
get some rest this night as you guys are
33:30
quite weary from both the battle with hot leaf juice, as
33:33
well as. And Madame Yang, for that matter, as well
33:36
as the just various, like,
33:39
excursion that you guys have made up until this point.
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you guys wake up, and it is
34:38
when we rest. Yeah.
34:39
>> Cameron: Oh, do we? I know we're gonna remove three,
34:42
fatigue sleeping outside, but do we move our
34:45
balance at all?
34:46
>> Skylar: I, don't think so. I think that's more of
34:49
a. Ah, do something that you do
34:52
when things are happening, right? Things that are influencing the way that
34:55
you feel and view the world, per se.
34:58
>> Cameron: Okay.
34:58
>> Skylar: but yes. So, you guys all, sleeping it in the
35:01
night, kind of just in the rough, as they would say, you know, in
35:04
the middle of the woods or whatever the case. you clear three,
35:07
fatigue.
35:08
>> Cameron: Do we clear condition two? Like, I wouldn't
35:11
imagine we'd still be angry after a night's sleep that
35:14
might.
35:14
>> Skylar: Still exist until somebody kind of
35:17
shifts that from you.
35:19
>> Cameron: Well, isn't that how you lose those conditions, is
35:22
someone has to do something for you? See,
35:25
the.
35:25
>> Skylar: Yeah, there's, like, the clearing. You can either
35:28
comfort or support or you can,
35:31
>> Cameron: So if you're angry, you break something important or lash out
35:33
of.
35:34
>> Cameron: That's how I clear being angry.
35:36
>> Cameron: Yeah.
35:37
>> Cameron: break something.
35:38
>> Cameron: Oh, wow.
35:38
>> Cameron: That's right up his alley.
35:41
>> Cameron: Something important.
35:43
>> Cameron: I'm gonna have a punch of rocks.
35:45
>> Cameron: In my most valuable.
35:47
>> Skylar: But it does say something important. Yeah, I was gonna say it's something important
35:49
or lash out at a friend.
35:51
>> Cameron: That's how I clear kind of.
35:53
>> Cameron: We're doing the opposite lash now here, weren't we?
35:57
I'd say Mika lashed out.
36:00
>> Skylar: That's true, actually, if you're. If.
36:02
>> Cameron: Well, you lashed out at Madame Yang and didn't realize you were
36:05
hurting your friend in the process.
36:07
>> Skylar: Yeah, I would agree with that. or more importantly, you
36:10
chose the option to kind of hurt your friend in the
36:13
process. I would agree with that. Yeah. If you want to remove.
36:15
>> Cameron: And you have great condition prior to that.
36:17
>> Skylar: Does anybody else have a condition?
36:20
>> Cameron: No.
36:21
>> Skylar: That we could look into?
36:22
>> Cameron: I had one, but I got cleared with the heel.
36:24
>> Skylar: Okay.
36:25
>> Cameron: Brock's angry. He did not break anything.
36:27
>> Skylar: He didn't break anything or lash out at anybody.
36:29
>> Mikayla: He just sat there all day counting.
36:32
>> Skylar: There's a lot of leaves.
36:34
>> Cameron: I think he's got angry. I think Brock got
36:37
really angry, and it continued to get angry because the leaves
36:40
were the wind. There was some type of wind, it wouldn't move them.
36:42
>> Cameron: Like someone would open a door and a cross breeze would come
36:45
in. You just look at him and you're.
36:46
>> Skylar: Like, dude, dude, do you not see.
36:49
>> Cameron: Me counting these leaves?
36:50
>> Cameron: If we hear a big sigh and it would go one.
36:54
>> Skylar: Another key aspect to it as well is
36:57
the fact that he didn't get to go inside and
37:00
confront Madame Yang at all. Oh, yeah, I think that would kind of retain,
37:03
like, I haven't even gotten any semblance of
37:06
proverbial revenge necessarily.
37:08
>> Mikayla: I heard Mika through boys.
37:11
>> Cameron: I missed the whole party.
37:12
>> Skylar: I missed it. Yeah, exactly. So
37:15
I'm gonna say that that's kind of where that stands. But whatever the
37:18
case, make, sure you mark or unmark three
37:21
fatigue because, you guys have kind of had a lot of time to
37:24
rest, gain some energy back, whatnot. When you wake up the next
37:27
morning, the daylight, you know, the sun's starting to rise,
37:30
the birds chirping amidst the forest, maybe a couple of
37:32
little critters scuffling around. you feel a lot
37:35
better. you're still a little bit sore for sure, from the
37:38
travel, from the fighting. there's still some
37:41
residual bruises, but for the most part you
37:44
feel a lot better. you remember the letter that Mister
37:47
Okra had left for Mika, talking about the final clue that you
37:50
guys needed to get, which would give you the last piece of the map
37:53
that would take you to where.
37:56
>> Cameron: No, actually I was gonna ask her.
37:57
>> Mikayla: About it because I read Brad's leader letter.
37:59
>> Skylar: Honestly, perfect.
38:01
>> Mikayla: I didn't really have time to talk about.
38:02
>> Cameron: So we've all waking up and we're cleaning up our stuff.
38:05
>> Skylar: Yes. and honestly, all, ah, three
38:08
of you have no idea where you're going.
38:09
>> Cameron: I was gonna be like, hey, Mika.
38:12
>> Mikayla: What?
38:12
>> Cameron: I got my sat, my satchel back.
38:16
Oh, yes, you do. I gave it to you
38:19
yesterday. You filled it with all those papers.
38:22
>> Mikayla: I put those in my pocket.
38:25
Oh, the other papers.
38:26
>> Skylar: All the stuff. The letters and so. Yeah, the orphan, the
38:29
box, the orphanage letters.
38:32
>> Mikayla: Yeah, I'll give you that. Yeah, sure.
38:34
>> Cameron: I take the sasha back and I go, hey, Mika. Also,
38:37
don't you ever like our next clue? Where we're supposed
38:40
to go next?
38:42
>> Mikayla: Oh, yeah, I do have a letter from mister Ogron
38:44
from me that says something about a map.
38:49
>> Cameron: So where are we going, Mika?
38:53
>> Cameron: here, I'll read it, I grab
38:56
it out.
38:57
>> Mikayla: no, it's still in my pocket. I just.
38:58
>> Skylar: You don't see the word? Brock.
39:02
>> Cameron: What are these letters.
39:05
>> Skylar: You start looking, you're like, okay, okay.
39:07
>> Cameron: Maybe we'll, maybe somewhere, maybe I
39:10
could start there.
39:10
>> Cameron: Where's different language. It has to be.
39:12
>> Skylar: You also don't see the word rock.
39:15
>> Cameron: Oh, no, no.
39:19
>> Skylar: does it say bruh
39:23
to the southern water tribe? Br and
39:26
you're like, 0000, I know that one.
39:31
>> Cameron: Brain. Go burr.
39:34
>> Skylar: Do you?
39:34
>> Mikayla: You didn't give me a copy of the letter so I don't, oh, I
39:37
wasn't gonna.
39:38
>> Skylar: It's a long letter. Yours might be one of the longest.
39:40
>> Mikayla: Yeah, it's just a whole bunch of things about my dad.
39:42
>> Skylar: And so he talked about how
39:45
in, he went to that same place where you
39:48
were born and kind of raised in for a little bit before they
39:51
kicked you and your dad out. The small village in the southern water tribe.
39:54
>> Mikayla: We have to go there. Yeah, absolutely not.
39:57
>> Skylar: And he talked about meeting with the chief,
39:59
or at least he was the chief at the time,
40:02
Tatonka. And he
40:05
talks about how well, and,
40:08
well, I guess you wouldn't know anything past that, so. Yeah, but, yeah,
40:12
you know, if I.
40:13
>> Cameron: Were stoned right now, I
40:16
might be able to guess where the final clue is gonna lead us
40:19
to.
40:19
>> Cameron: But, you know, you and being stoned.
40:22
>> Mikayla: Brock white, we have to go to.
40:24
>> Cameron: My village because we got one more clue that
40:27
your what?
40:28
>> Mikayla: My village.
40:29
>> Cameron: Like your home.
40:31
>> Mikayla: I want to call it that.
40:33
>> Cameron: What does that mean?
40:36
What, how, where is
40:39
this?
40:39
>> Skylar: What?
40:40
>> Cameron: Yeah, where are we going?
40:41
>> Cameron: We're all the way in the earth nation.
40:43
>> Cameron: Aren't you from your waterbender?
40:46
>> Cameron: So the southern drive.
40:48
>> Cameron: Southern or northern drive?
40:49
>> Skylar: You guys, if I, if I would assume
40:52
your characters kind of have an idea of the map, the nations and
40:55
stuff. If you did, you'd be like,
40:58
please, I beg of you, say that you're from the
41:01
northern water tribe because we're not that
41:04
far from the northern water tribe.
41:06
>> Cameron: Which one are you from, northern or northern? I'm,
41:09
leaning northern. Yeah, it is
41:12
northern. Oh, that's not that far.
41:13
>> Skylar: What? No, it's a southern.
41:16
>> Dave: She crossed her fingers.
41:20
>> Cameron: Why are you gonna lie like that?
41:23
>> Mikayla: Say that so I said it.
41:25
>> Skylar: Well, I'm trying to be a people pleaser.
41:28
>> Mikayla: I'm trying to be friendly with you guys because I feel bad
41:31
because y'all hate me a little bit.
41:32
>> Cameron: We all hate you.
41:34
>> Cameron: Well, whoa,
41:36
rock. Yeah, what's up?
41:38
>> Cameron: You're fine.
41:39
>> Mikayla: You're probably the one that I like the most out of this group
41:41
right.
41:42
>> Cameron: Now because he's the chillest
41:45
and you're.
41:45
>> Skylar: You'Re supposed to be my fake husband.
41:48
>> Mikayla: Or my brother or brother.
41:51
>> Cameron: Or both, according to that one
41:53
guy.
41:54
>> Cameron: With his and or child. Oh, yeah.
41:59
>> Cameron: So, southern water tribe. How
42:02
do we get there? We're gonna need a boat or something.
42:05
>> Mikayla: A bison.
42:06
>> Cameron: Well, you can only use them once, though. How are we gonna get back
42:09
unless he, like, stays there?
42:11
>> Cameron: Maybe it's a one way trip. Like two way trip. Just
42:14
hear him back. I don't
42:17
know.
42:18
>> Cameron: If I were stars, I could ask the voice beyond.
42:21
>> Cameron: We could ask the bison. Do bison talk?
42:24
I've never met one.
42:25
>> Dave: See, the guru seemed
42:27
to make it sound like it was only gonna
42:30
be a one way trip.
42:34
>> Cameron: So which one would be smarter, flying to the
42:37
southern water tribe or walking there and then? Either way,
42:40
we're gonna be screwed for time.
42:42
>> Mikayla: Chances are that we can find something in the southern
42:45
water tribe that can bring it back.
42:47
>> Cameron: Like a boat?
42:48
>> Mikayla: Yeah.
42:49
>> Cameron: I mean, yeah.
42:52
>> Cameron: I guess. Is the southern water tribe close
42:55
to.
42:57
>> Cameron: It's not close to anything.
43:00
>> Cameron: Well, isn't wilding? Is that where
43:03
we're from?
43:03
>> Skylar: Yeah.
43:04
>> Cameron: Yeah.
43:04
>> Skylar: Ah, yeah. Yowling. Yes.
43:06
>> Cameron: Yelling. Isn't that, like, on the southern part of the earth
43:09
nation?
43:10
>> Skylar: Yeah. Like, definitely more south.
43:12
>> Cameron: So, yeah, sure. It'd be smarter to take the airbags in
43:15
now and then, just because,
43:18
>> Dave: What if we take the blue line and then
43:24
back to the red line?
43:26
>> Cameron: Yeah.
43:26
>> Dave: At Union Station?
43:28
>> Cameron: Oh, yeah, yeah. Makes sense.
43:31
>> Cameron: I think we're a few hundred years early for the train.
43:34
>> Cameron: Hey, lean over to Bragg. I think this is carnival
43:37
speech.
43:40
>> Skylar: That is definitely something they would have discussed.
43:43
>> Cameron: Has a train been invented? I'm kind of holding
43:46
everything. Is it me? Brock, just like
43:48
Brock.
43:51
>> Cameron: Well, the thing is, Brock holds all the. He's
43:54
our pac meal, but somehow guo always holds the
43:56
important stuff.
43:58
>> Cameron: I don't know. I get hold of money.
44:00
>> Cameron: Yeah, you've got the.
44:01
>> Skylar: Like, the squid.
44:02
>> Cameron: He's got.
44:03
>> Cameron: He's got Dilbert.
44:04
>> Cameron: Dilbert's actually holding the whistle.
44:06
>> Mikayla: Oh.
44:06
>> Skylar: Dilbert goes.
44:09
>> Cameron: He said, if we only get
44:13
well.
44:13
>> Skylar: Sure, I'm sure Dilbert can fly all around the world
44:16
on the back of.
44:17
>> Cameron: A flying bison, no problem.
44:19
>> Skylar: If that bison is alive, this. This squid
44:22
could fly on it. But that doesn't really help you guys.
44:25
>> Cameron: Oh, dang.
44:27
>> Cameron: So are we bisoning there and then
44:30
hoping we can find a boat back or.
44:32
>> Cameron: We don't really have a choice, do we?
44:34
>> Dave: I think that's the move.
44:36
>> Mikayla: I agree.
44:37
>> Cameron: Okay.
44:38
>> Skylar: All right.
44:38
>> Cameron: Who has the whistle?
44:40
>> Cameron: Whoa.
44:42
>> Dave: Oh, yeah, I got it. Right.
44:45
My pack next to the kalimba.
44:48
I pull out the whistle, give
44:51
it a toot.
44:53
>> Skylar: All right. You blow into it.
44:57
>> Dave: And you don't toot a whistle,
45:00
not really.
45:00
>> Cameron: Tootle whistle.
45:03
>> Skylar: you blow into the whistle and no sound comes out. And at
45:06
first you're a little confused, a little frustrated even,
45:08
maybe, why isn't this working? Why isn't there any sound
45:11
coming out? But as you sit there and ponder
45:14
this, all of a sudden in the sky,
45:17
you feel a sort of heavy
45:20
breeze of air kind of start to move towards you that starts to
45:23
grow and grow and grow until over the tree line, you
45:26
see this massive
45:28
flying bison and it
45:31
sort of lowers itself down to the ground.
45:35
It kind of just like looks at you guys, probably goes,
45:39
and it's got a big old kind, of a nice
45:42
airbender, style saddle.
45:45
But it's like a big saddle. Like it could transport multiple
45:47
people. And it's got a nice little like
45:50
sort of rope ladder. It kind of hangs down off of its side and
45:53
it kind of motions for you guys to climb aboard.
45:56
This is Mochi, and it is guru
45:59
Tapik's flying bison companion.
46:02
>> Dave: Wow, look at this old boy
46:05
go be, are you. Oh, you're so cute.
46:09
I start rubbing his, scratching his neck.
46:12
>> Skylar: Oh, he loves it. Well, all aboard.
46:14
>> Cameron: Let's hit it.
46:15
>> Cameron: He likes bro.
46:16
>> Cameron: I think so. Maybe he can, sweet talk the
46:19
bison to another ride.
46:21
>> Dave: Watch the tongue.
46:25
>> Cameron: Oh, his tongue's bigger than you.
46:27
>> Dave: Gotta clean my glasses off.
46:30
>> Skylar: But you can't find a dry spot on your clothes.
46:33
Cause you just got licked.
46:35
I know what that's like.
46:37
>> Dave: Nobody look, I gotta use my under robes.
46:41
>> Skylar: You all climb aboard the flying bison. You
46:44
give him the customary hip yip.
46:47
>> Cameron: We would know that.
46:48
>> Skylar: there's a little note, probably that's like stuck on
46:51
the little horn on the saddle and it
46:54
says, yeah,
46:57
it's just, it's a thing to do. You say yip, yip.
47:00
It's fun. and the bison starts to lift it.
47:02
I don't know if they maybe each had, I think like any airbender might
47:05
have had their own. Well, no, it probably was airbender
47:08
traditional thing. Yeah,
47:11
probably came from that.
47:12
>> Cameron: But anyways, it's not like we're airbenders.
47:14
>> Skylar: Yeah, exactly. So it would have been instructed. but whatever the
47:17
case, you can, I mean, he
47:18
understands human speech. He
47:21
is an intelligent creature. Mika, you
47:24
know, probably tells him I need to go to the southern
47:27
water tribe and he knows where to go.
47:29
>> Mikayla: I'll say please to him. I like.
47:31
>> Skylar: Okay, that's nice. Yeah, yeah, you got your fox dog and
47:34
everything. awesome. So he starts to
47:37
fly you guys in the direction, and it does take
47:40
quite, a few hours. I, would say that you guys
47:43
honestly can, you know, you kind of just hang out on the back
47:46
of this bison, kind of have a nice ride
47:48
for a while, maybe even take a little morning
47:51
nap along, the way. But whatever the case, eventually
47:54
the air around you starts to get cold, colder and
47:57
colder the further that you go south. You've, passed
48:00
the proverbial equator at this point, and
48:03
you guys start to look down, and you can see
48:05
that no longer are you crossing ocean. You're. You're over
48:09
land, and that land is kind of covered in a layer of
48:11
snow. And you realize that you are in the southern
48:14
water nation. And I would say that
48:17
Micah, having lived nearby
48:20
the village, you've guys were kind of kicked out of it, but you
48:23
weren't too far away. When, you and your father were
48:26
kind of growing up in the wilderness. you have a.
48:29
Kind of an idea of where this village is at.
48:32
and so you kind of steer mochi into
48:34
that direction until eventually,
48:37
you find the village
48:40
where you were born. And as you guys
48:43
kind of land on the outskirts of this village, you know, a
48:46
puff of snow kind of powdering around you
48:49
as you guys climb off of mochi, it
48:51
is horribly rundown. Nobody is
48:54
here. The village itself seems abandoned.
48:57
And on top of that, the buildings that make up this village
49:00
seem to be, broken down quite a
49:03
bit. And the more you kind of look at it,
49:06
the less it looks like it was broken down just
49:09
because of the test of time and more because
49:11
something might have destroyed it along the way.
49:14
>> Cameron: Oh, this where you live?
49:18
>> Mikayla: I haven't lived here for a very long time.
49:20
>> Cameron: When was the last time you were here?
49:22
>> Mikayla: When I was a child.
49:24
>> Cameron: So, like.
49:25
>> Mikayla: And I just keep walking.
49:29
>> Cameron: Five years ago.
49:30
>> Cameron: like, we're 15. What are you? We're
49:33
teenagers when you were a child, Rock.
49:35
>> Cameron: I thought you were 17.
49:36
>> Cameron: I am.
49:37
>> Cameron: I don't know why I lied.
49:40
>> Skylar: Why are you trying to make yourself seem younger than you are? And you're not even,
49:43
like, a full adult?
49:44
>> Cameron: I don't know.
49:45
>> Cameron: At least you have a full beard. That's gonna
49:47
environment. My chin's a bit. We bit
49:50
chilly.
49:50
>> Skylar: Yeah. And having grown up in the fire nation, who.
49:53
>> Cameron: Yeah, this place is freezing.
49:55
>> Cameron: We probably should have packed better clothes.
49:58
>> Cameron: Good thing the whole right side of my body's numb, right?
50:01
>> Skylar: Am I right? Yeah. Too bad, Mister ogre.
50:03
>> Cameron: Nice. I can make jokes now about my
50:06
condition.
50:08
>> Skylar: Too bad Mister ogron didn't stuff a bunch of nice wool
50:11
coats inside that teapot or the box or
50:13
whatever.
50:14
>> Cameron: Hey, look, Machi has wool coats on his. I'm
50:17
joking, guys. Let's
50:20
skin the.
50:20
>> Skylar: absolutely not.
50:21
>> Cameron: That was a joke. It was a joke.
50:23
>> Cameron: I mean.
50:26
>> Cameron: She'S not just ignoring us.
50:27
>> Skylar: I'm walking off.
50:30
>> Mikayla: But as I'm watching, do I find anything that
50:33
would help me with this clue?
50:35
>> Skylar: yeah. Roll, assessment assignment.
50:39
Assess a situation.
50:40
>> Mikayla: There we go.
50:41
>> Cameron: Did Mochi already leave, or is Mochi still
50:44
here?
50:45
>> Skylar: I'll get to that in a moment.
50:48
Oh, that's pretty good.
50:50
>> Mikayla: Eight.
50:50
>> Skylar: Eight. Awesome. Okay, so you get to ask me a question from
50:53
the list.
50:54
>> Mikayla: what should I be on the lookout for?
50:56
>> Skylar: What should you be on the lookout for? Okay, you,
50:59
know that in the letter, it mentioned the
51:02
chief. or at least the ex chief.
51:05
I just. I don't know if you would have known that
51:08
as a child, but whatever the case, the guy that was the
51:11
chief at the time. actually, I think it mentioned in
51:14
the letter that wasn't his name and all that.
51:17
Yeah. So, you maybe in your mind
51:19
vaguely remember what he
51:22
looked like.
51:24
>> Mikayla: but there's some familiar.
51:25
>> Skylar: Yeah, but what you definitely would remember
51:28
is the nice, big chiefs like
51:31
place of residence, which was right in the center of
51:34
the. Of the village, and it was a nice, big
51:37
building.
51:37
>> Mikayla: Well, I walked towards that.
51:39
>> Skylar: All right. And you can absolutely see it. as you are walking through,
51:42
obviously, again, you see various, like, homes and huts
51:45
that have all kind of just been, seemingly
51:47
destroyed, maybe even torn apart a little bit. Some less
51:50
than others, some very obviously so.
51:53
But, you make your way towards the chief's
51:55
hut. This is the largest of the resident huts,
51:58
and it obviously belonged to whoever was chief of
52:01
this village. You, walk
52:04
inside, and you see that the place
52:07
is kind of a bit of a mess. the outside of it seemed
52:10
pretty intact for the most part, especially compared to a lot of the other
52:13
buildings. but on the inside, the place seems like
52:16
someone came in here and just tore the place up, through
52:19
furniture around, slashed through some of
52:22
the fabric, or anything that was, like, filled with
52:24
hay, causing it to spill out. on the
52:27
walls, you do see a variety of different
52:30
potions, which seemingly. Potions,
52:33
concoctions, bottles of obscure who
52:36
knows what, but various liquids of different
52:39
colors. On the walls, you can see
52:42
some sort of, like, research
52:44
and, boards that have
52:47
depictions of
52:51
plants and various wild
52:54
animals, all of which seem to have, like, weird,
52:57
kind of glowing eyes, like, somebody took a red
52:59
marker or crayon or chalk or something and drew
53:02
in these. Actually, I think they were blue. Blue
53:05
eyes. Bright blue, glowing eyes.
53:08
And,
53:10
yeah, I mean, that's the basic gist of it. Is there anything
53:13
particular that you're poking around with or anything like that?
53:16
>> Mikayla: I look at the little animal eye
53:19
things, the drawings.
53:20
>> Skylar: Okay, so, yeah, you see a variety of drawings. pretty
53:23
much any of the types of animals that you would be
53:26
familiar with living in the southern water tribe, everything
53:29
from the otter penguins
53:31
to the. I mean, just straight up
53:34
wolves, which I did see were, like, one of the few
53:37
animals that are just as is in the avatar
53:40
universe. But, whatever the case, you see all of these depicted with
53:43
these glowing blue eyes. you see notes
53:46
underneath. It's kind of hard to make out. It just kind of
53:49
talks about, like, oh, we saw this creature. It was
53:51
possessed, or, like, one of the common word
53:54
that you see throughout a lot of this, and there
53:57
are definitely some research papers that seem to be
54:00
underneath, and they seem,
54:04
yeah, absolutely. You see, a lot of stuff. It seems to
54:07
be outlining a lot of the plants, and it seems like they were
54:09
after some sort of research or some sort
54:12
of, attempt to deal with the
54:15
possessed beast is kind of what it says. One,
54:18
specific note reads, I've done everything that
54:21
I can to try to stop the disease that seems to spread
54:23
from creature to creature, but nothing seems to escape stop
54:26
the beasts that we've managed to capture. The best I've been able
54:29
to do is ward them off with the smell of sword mint
54:32
leaves, which the beast seems to dislike, but it
54:35
only works for a short period before they become even more angered and
54:38
attack us. Anyway, I fear the only thing left is to
54:41
flee this village, maybe join up with another. I hate
54:44
to lose the power I've garnished here, but perhaps I may be
54:47
able to create a need for a new village
54:49
chief elsewhere.
54:53
And it signed chief and
54:55
shaman doesn't even have, like,
54:58
a name. It's just he went by titles, whoever it was.
55:01
>> Cameron: Geez. What happened here?
55:05
It says, as he walks through the door and
55:08
sees this full on mess of the room.
55:10
>> Skylar: What bit of a mess?
55:11
>> Cameron: What's this about a beast,
55:14
bro?
55:15
>> Cameron: What?
55:18
>> Skylar: He's just looking at the picture. What's all these beasts?
55:20
>> Cameron: He was stoned. He heard the
55:23
stone three restarted brock come
55:26
in again.
55:28
>> Mikayla: So Bill walks in and says, whoa, what
55:31
happened here? And I.
55:33
>> Cameron: What?
55:33
>> Cameron: So this brock walks in, and he.
55:35
>> Cameron: Says, what's up with this hideous beast?
55:40
>> Mikayla: apparently, this village was
55:43
being plagued by some kind of beast.
55:49
Are you here for all this possession? Absolutely not.
55:52
>> Cameron: Where were you living?
55:53
>> Mikayla: In the wilderness with my dad.
55:56
>> Skylar: With my.
55:57
>> Cameron: Oh, the guy we met?
55:58
>> Mikayla: Yeah.
55:59
>> Cameron: Why were you not. Why were you in the
56:01
wilderness?
56:03
>> Cameron: Was it because of the beast?
56:05
>> Mikayla: I don't know anything about the beast other than what's in these
56:08
pictures here. And apparently they some kind of
56:11
possession.
56:12
>> Cameron: Oh, okay.
56:14
>> Mikayla: Let's look further into that.
56:15
>> Cameron: Like the staff.
56:18
>> Dave: Oh, yeah, maybe. Oh, is this more
56:21
spirit stuff?
56:22
>> Dave: Oh.
56:24
>> Cameron: she said possessed.
56:25
>> Dave: At least we're out of the cold for now.
56:28
I wonder if there's any coats in here.
56:30
>> Cameron: Oh, yeah.
56:31
>> Dave: I'm freezing around for any blankets or
56:34
anything. Seal skin?
56:36
>> Skylar: Yeah, I would. I would definitely say that you guys
56:39
find some, what, look like maybe some reject,
56:41
cloaks. They might have, like, a couple of tears in them, or
56:44
maybe they're just, like, a little bit stinky. I think they'd all
56:47
be musty, to say the least. But they're
56:50
warm.
56:52
>> Cameron: Give them here.
56:53
>> Skylar: Guys, I'm.
56:54
>> Cameron: I'm already the palest person in our group. And
56:57
I'm ghost white right now. How cold?
57:00
>> Skylar: This place is starting to go from ghost white to
57:02
blue.
57:03
>> Cameron: I'm starting to look clear.
57:05
>> Skylar: Yeah. Oh, faith. Guys,
57:08
I'm, fading.
57:10
>> Mikayla: What? So what else was around here?
57:12
>> Skylar: so there's a whole bunch of, like I said, bottles. there might be
57:15
some, like, dried.
57:16
>> Mikayla: Plants hanging from
57:19
that sword mint.
57:20
>> Skylar: Sword mint? Sure.
57:22
>> Mikayla: Just in case.
57:23
>> Skylar: yeah, absolutely. I. Well, here's
57:26
what I'll say. I'll say that if you mentioned
57:29
it to Guo, I feel like Guo is pretty
57:32
familiar with the various plants, especially stuff that
57:35
okran, was using for teas and things along those lines, I think
57:38
between the two of you, you'd probably be able to
57:41
identify.
57:41
>> Mikayla: I guess I'll just say to the thing,
57:44
to the group,
57:46
that,
57:49
apparently, this beast is
57:52
not a huge fan assortment.
57:55
However, it's not a permanent
57:58
ailment to get him, to get rid of him, just in case you
58:01
were to come back to this village. I don't know anything
58:04
about him, but that would be something that we could be on the lookout
58:07
for to have as a backup.
58:10
>> Dave: Okay. I'll keep my eyes open for sure.
58:12
>> Skylar: Yeah. Amidst the dried plants, I'd say guo,
58:15
again, kind of being the expert on a lot of this kind of stuff,
58:18
having studied a lot of what Mister Okaran kind of
58:21
depicted being probably the most interested in studying what Mister
58:24
Oberon was sort of putting out there, is able
58:27
to find, kind of like a sprig
58:30
or not like a singular sprig, but like a little cluster
58:33
that they have hanging from the wall of just some dried,
58:36
sword mint. And the reason it's called sword mint is it kind of has, like, a
58:39
very nice curve to the leaf. Kind, of makes it
58:41
look like a scimitar, is what the leaves look like. So
58:44
that's why they call it sword mint. But it smells very minty. It's
58:47
like a really sharp kind, of like, experiment.
58:50
But I had to come up with something different.
58:54
whatever the case, at first, you don't really notice
58:57
much about it as far as the scent goes. But after it, since it's been
59:00
dried out, the second you start kind of shaking it
59:03
around, getting some friction going and things like that,
59:06
you can kind of start to smell that. And you know that if you were to burn
59:09
it for sure, it would just, like, whoosh. You would just smell mint,
59:12
like, everywhere, right? so you have,
59:15
ah, a nice little bundle of sword
59:18
mint available.
59:20
>> Cameron: Bill sees that, and you hear an audible sigh. He
59:22
goes, of course, it's t. It's
59:25
always tea. It's always tea with this guy every
59:28
time.
59:28
>> Dave: T t. All right, everyone, get your
59:31
complimentary sword meant. I'd rather not
59:34
break off the sprigs and hand
59:37
them out to you guys.
59:38
>> Skylar: Okay, so now you've all got a slightly smaller sword
59:40
sprig.
59:41
>> Cameron: At least it smells nice.
59:43
>> Cameron: Yeah.
59:44
>> Cameron: Not eating it.
59:45
>> Skylar: Oh, yeah, you don't have to ask any to drink it.
59:48
Okay, whatever the case, as you
59:50
guys, are passing this out, you start to hear
59:53
some noises from outside. Some
59:56
light, growls, some
59:58
foots pattering. This one's actually
1:00:01
pattering. moving around amidst the snow,
1:00:04
and you realize that some sort of
1:00:07
creature is right outside of
1:00:09
this chief's hut that you're in.
1:00:12
And with that, we're gonna close out episode
1:00:15
nine of benders and brews season three.
1:00:18
>> Dave: Mochi. You're too big to fit in the
1:00:20
tip.
1:00:21
>> Cameron: I first thought mochi too.
1:00:25
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