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Benders & Brews - Episode 12 - Block Party · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  Jasmine, oolong, green
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  and white. Long ago, these four
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  teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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  Then, everything changed when the shop's
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  popularity threatened its existence.
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  All Mr. Okuron, the shop's owner and tea
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  master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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  orphans to learn his trade and and staff his
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  shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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  hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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  still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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  But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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  Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the
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  world. Last time on
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  Benders and Brews an Avatar Legends
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  Podcast this is not the.
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  Last you will hear of Madame Yang.
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  Mr. Oak.
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  Run.
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  How much did you owe them?
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  I think it was about a thousand yuan.
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  Okay, we're still short. We have a second option.
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  Uh, what's that?
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  We just beat them up
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  by tomorrow when a gang
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  shows, uh, up. Well, I'll beat them up too.
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  I have heard reports from other businesses in
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  the area saying that they, too, were harassed
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  by this gang.
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  We could go around to the other shops that have been
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  harassed and build a little army before tomorrow
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  and stand a better chance.
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  Hey, maybe if, uh, the whole town
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  is standing up against these bullies, maybe they'll, um, stop
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  without even having to initiate any violence. As
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  much as I regret not being able
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  to help Mr. Oak Ron after I kind of
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  betrayed him, I have to say
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  I feel bad about it, but there's nothing I could do.
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  But you do go out and you speak with some of the
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  business owners, and they are fed up
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  with the situation. They're sick of it.
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  And a pretty decent handful of them
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  agree that, hey, if we stand
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  up to these guys once and for all.
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  We can shut them down.
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  You were able to amass a pretty decent group. And sure
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  enough, noon comes around and a
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  group of four angry looking, rough
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  looking teenagers, and the four of them come up
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  and they see this entire group of people that are standing
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  in front of them. And the leader, the
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  rockabilly guy, he comes stepping forward and he goes,
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  what's all this about? We're here to pick
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  up our M money, old man.
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  Well, you could say you
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  brewed up something stronger than you
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  expected.
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  That's a good one.
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  That is a good one.
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  What's that supposed to mean?
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  Means we're not going to take
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  it anymore.
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  All the people in your group, they like, take a really
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  intimidating step forward, and they stomp their ground
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  hard.
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  Nah.
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  Welcome back to the big finale
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  episode of Benders and Brews.
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  Welcome back, everybody. It's our big finale.
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  Season one. Season One finale episode of
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  Benders and Brews episode Twelve uh,
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  crazy stuff is going to happen. Crazy stuff
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  has happened that's led up until this point, and we are super
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  excited to be back. Uh, sitting down for this big
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  finale. Uh, just a quick emphasis. Uh, the
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  next four episodes that will be coming out will all be prequel
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  episodes. I really want to, uh, rail that into
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  everybody's head because I don't want anybody
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  to listen and be like,
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  what's going on? I don't understand this. Doesn't follow the story at all.
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  No.
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  We're doing, like, throwbacks for each
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  character. So I'm going to be doing like a sit
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  down session with each one of the characters here, or players.
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  And they're going to do kind of a backstory
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  episode. It's a mix between a scripted and played
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  through episode of, uh, how their character got
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  to where they are, to the blissful brew, to meeting
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  Mr. Okaran where did they come from, things
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  along those lines. Okay, so it's going to be really fun. We got
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  voice actors, uh, independent voice actors
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  from, um, Casting Call Club
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  and some other sources as well, online. So it's just going
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  to be a lot of fun. It's going to be really exciting. It's going to be very
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  emotional, uh, from what I've
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  written and done so far. Uh, so
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  it's a lot something to look forward to. So
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  just again, it's prequel episodes.
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  And then we will jump back into the current story once all
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  of those are done. Uh, other than
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  that, let's jump right into our question. So the question for today, and we're
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  taking a book or a page from the Dungeons and Daddies, if
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  you've ever listened to their podcast, phenomenal
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  Dungeons and Dragons real Play podcast, I highly recommend
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  it. Uh, we're taking a page out of their book today, uh,
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  as recommended by one of our amazing community members
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  over on the Discord Channel, which you can totally join.
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  Uh, just tell me something
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  about your character that
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  you feel isn't something that necessarily would come up
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  in the story or the show
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  or whatever else, um, kind of
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  naturally. So just like something interesting about them
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  that we might not otherwise learn.
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  So who wants to start? Connor, do you feel confident?
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  You kind of look a little maybe not maybe not as
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  confident.
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  Hold on. I don't know.
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  I mean, I can certainly
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  try to set the tone with, I guess.
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  Okay, go for it.
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  All right.
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  Little known fact about Broccoli, he only showers
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  once a week.
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  Oh, we know.
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  That is something that definitely might come up.
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  But as of now, it's going to come up. Now that you've mentioned it,
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  that's for sure.
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  We all just thought it was the dishwater, right?
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  I mean, the dishwater washes him like,
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  90% of the way anyway.
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  He does one, uh, water based shower.
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  The rest is dirt baths. When Mika turns around while
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  he's washing, he'll get his pits. He'll go a little bit
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  lower on his body. And they're trying to get and then she's back.
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  So he's back to it. Now, out of curiosity,
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  would Mika notice that there's always one
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  day in the week that brock smells pretty
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  good today.
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  I don't know if she necessarily notices it's Brock, but the room
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  definitely smells.
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  Like something different today's. M a good day
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  once a week. Mika's having a really good day.
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  There's less flies in here today.
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  Yeah, exactly. Okay.
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  Uh, maybe he washes on Sundays or something.
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  By Saturday, it's like, oh, it's, uh, end of the week
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  really bad.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm just ready for the week to be over or whatever.
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  It'd be funny if you guys had, like, the weekends off. So you never
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  actually experienced Brock having a shower because you're out
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  doing your stuff. He's out doing his stuff. That's
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  funny. Or hold on. Is it a
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  technicality thing here? Because you said Brock showers once a week. Does
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  he bathe the other six days of the week?
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  No. Whatever dishwater gets on him, that's
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  just what he uses.
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  All right.
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  Throughout, uh, the week.
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  Like I said, this is the beauty of these, like, little facts,
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  is that, uh, now this will probably come up later. And I'm
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  excited for that.
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  I'm ready for that to come up.
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  Let's hope we never travel. Probably
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  be less than once a week.
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  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's true.
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  Then you'll just be like, oh, Brock just smells like Brock.
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  That, Brock.
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  Smell natural.
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  Must.
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  All right. Uh, Dave with GuoHan.
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  Tell us something interesting about GuoHan.
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  Um, GuoHan,
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  he'll be, uh, walking down the street, and he'll see
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  an interesting looking rock, and he'll
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  collect it. Has a little rock.
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  Right.
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  All right.
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  They're his friends.
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  Yeah. And he does talk to them sometimes.
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  All right.
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  Well, perfect. I feel like that's kind of been referenced,
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  too. Hasn't he pulled out, like, a little pouch at some
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  point or maybe that's in the prequel, actually.
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  Um, yeah, he's got
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  multiple pouches, though.
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  Okay.
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  With different things. Not just rocks and pellets.
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  Look at this stuff.
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  Okay, cool.
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  Oh, can't say that.
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  Yeah, that's just, you know,
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  just telling them to look at this.
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  I think she's allowed to go that.
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  Saying, look at this stuff. Look at this stuff.
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  Cameron with, uh, Bill. Dore tell me
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  something interesting about Bill door.
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  So I figured this probably would
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  never come up because, uh, I don't know why it would come up,
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  but in your questionnaire, when we were making our.
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  Characters and stuff, you gave us a bunch of questions.
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  And one question was, uh, was your character doing their
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  quiet time?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  And I, for some reason, wrote, like, a full page
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  on just that Bill really likes to
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  yeah, yeah. Loves painting and
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  is super into it. But he does not paint around other
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  people because he's super self conscious. So he sneaks
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  off into the woods, finds some water, finds some nice,
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  peaceful stuff, and just paints.
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  We did talk about what's their favorite pastime
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  and you did mention that they mentioned heart plane.
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  Okay.
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  Painting.
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  I don't know.
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  That's just but no, that's ever come up.
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  Plays a heart. And he paints.
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  Yeah, but he doesn't do it on anyone because he's
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  super self conscious about it.
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  Sure.
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  Where does he store his painting?
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  Probably at this secret spot he paints.
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  At, uh, tree trunk.
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  Wow.
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  He's just like somewhere out there in the woods. Someone's going to he's like
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  a Bob Ross. This collection
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  of paintings that Bill's been finding.
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  I'm going to live this life of I'm the painter.
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  Painting on the back of tree bark.
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  Bill's going to table.
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  Bill's taking a turn. He's actually just a wild animal
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  running around painting on walls and stuff.
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  Bill's going to be walking down, like, the market district, and he's going to
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  pass by this art stall and he's going to see
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  very familiar paintings. And he's going to say, wait
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  a minute.
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  To be fair, he doesn't landscape, too.
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  Yeah.
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  So like, if someone painted a landscape that he
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  also looked at, I mean, he could be like, oh, dang, they found
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  my.
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  Painting, but that's my spot. Fair
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  enough. All right. Finally, Michaela with
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  Mika. Tell us something, uh, interesting
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  about Mika.
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  Mika, um, likes to dabble in
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  embroidery.
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  Really?
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  Yeah.
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  Interesting.
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  You know, instead know, writing stars in the cuffs of her
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  jeans. She does that on the inside of
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  her skirt.
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  Okay.
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  So people can't be like, oh, look at her. She's doing a woman
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  thing.
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  Sure.
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  She doesn't like, she has to keep that hard exterior.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Uh, she says secret
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  embroiderer.
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  Yeah.
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  She bedazzle at all?
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  No, not yet.
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  No, it hasn't come out yet. Our technology hasn't hit that
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  point in
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  that 90s peak.
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  That'll be something.
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  Peak of fashion design is bedazzling.
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  We're going to do a, uh, Legend of Cora
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  timeline campaign. And that's going to be all. The rage is
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  bedazzled.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, that's everything for the guys. Everybody's
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  questions. So we are going to jump into our big
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  finale episode on Benders and
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  Brews.
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  It's just r1 big snap all at
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  once.
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  You could say we practiced.
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  I would say so.
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  I mean, sure.
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  Mr. Okeron out front.
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  You spent
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  I would say he's standing wherever Bill's standing.
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  I was going to say Bill's standing.
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  Right next to him.
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  And he's got a staff out.
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  So up front.
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  Yeah.
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  Uh, Mr. Okran leans over to
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  Bill and he says, uh, so did
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  we decide if we're going to pay them
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  and just tell them, this is your last
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  one, or are we just saying.
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  No, Mr. Okra, if we were going to pay them, we wouldn't have gotten this
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  small.
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  Well, no, I figured they were, like, into it. Like, hey, this is your last
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  payment. Get out of here.
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  No, they don't deserve payment. They're bullies.
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  Oh, right. Well, yeah, no, I mean, I agree.
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  But I just did you bring the money out here?
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  Um, yes. You
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  better go take that back inside.
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  We don't want to lose that in the battle.
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  Okay.
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  You might need that. No, if something gets
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  burned or something because we are going to fight here in the
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  street.
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  Oh, okay. I was up for damage
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  without violence.
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  Okay, well, I think they might back down. Look at
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  this. Do you see that snap? I
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  was intimidating.
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  That was a really intense snap.
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  Like, damn, look, we got and Mika,
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  like, tricking them.
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  Oh, yeah, we have the upper hand.
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  We're fine.
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  No?
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  Okay, I'll run this back inside.
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  Okay.
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  Then they see him running.
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  Hey, where do you think you're going, old man?
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  And then if he steps forward towards them,
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  bill's going to step between them.
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  Okay.
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  Put the money back.
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  This guy, this guy, he looks you in the eye and he's like, who
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  are you supposed to be, his
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  little bodyguard?
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  I'm, um, the door to the shop.
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  Bill door?
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I'll kick you in if I got to.
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  Uh, I want to see you try. And
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  Bill just takes a stance and points his staff
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  directly at okay.
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  Okay.
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  Are you going to initiate combat until he
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  does?
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  Okay. All right.
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  So Bill, dor you're about to engage
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  in combat with the leader,
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  guy of the Wild Coyote
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  boars, his rockabilly
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  haircut waving in the
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  wind or what have you, whatever you call it. Anyways, uh,
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  he's going to take a stance right off the bat. He
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  throws his foot back, uh, his right foot back
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  behind him, stomps it into the ground. And that's the moment when you
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  realize that he's obviously an earthbender, because as he does this,
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  a chunk of earth kind of comes out of the ground to sort of support his
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  foot. Um, so he's got kind of an angle and
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  he withdraws his wooden,
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  um, practice katana, whatever you want
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  to call it. Um, and he's got it out the ready. So
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  he looks like he is about to, like I said, engage in
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  combat with you. Um, and he is kind of
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  not waiting for your move, but with the way that the combat works in here, you're
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  both going to choose a move at the same time. Uh, so
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  you look through your moves and figure out what it is that you want to start
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  with. In the meantime, I just want to get a quick
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  check. What is everybody doing? Uh,
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  we'll start with Mika. Mika, you are
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  kind of like standing over with the Wild Coyote
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  Boars. Now, a bunch of the people in
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  the crowd of shop owners and such that have
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  joined you guys are looking a little bit confused. Like, this
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  person helped round us all up and then walk right over
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  and join the gang.
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  Mr. Okeron actually just went inside the
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  shop, so he doesn't even really have I think he saw
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  you guys walk over there. But given that you guys are basically
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  like his kids, he has full faith and trust
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  in you. And he also knows that you guys had discussed a lot of
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  the planning for all of this. Kind of without
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  him which is fine. That's kind of like what he had pitched. It's
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  like, you guys figure it out.
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  Exactly.
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  And that's probably what he assumes. He always assumes, like, the most positive
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  thing. So he's like, oh, well, she's going to go over there and talk them down so
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  that they don't do this. No violence necessary.
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  So he didn't really assume anything negative
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  or anything of you walking you and Brock walking over there.
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  But, um, the other shop owners and such
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  are definitely confused. Like, why is she standing with them?
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  Whatever. Uh, also, again, just to emphasize, mr.
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  O'gron is not in the crowd at the moment. He went back
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  inside because Bill told him to go put the money
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  away because you're not going to need it.
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  So, Brock and Mika, what are you guys
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  doing in the group of
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  this with technically three wild coyote boars that are
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  standing there kind of just off to the side while their
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  leader engages in combat with your friend.
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  I'm just here to take a laid back approach and
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  get him.
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  Okay. That's it. Okay. All right.
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  She's cheering.
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  I didn't say boo.
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  I was cheering. No, I know, I know.
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  That's why I stopped when I said cheering. I was like, well, she's
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  cheering.
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  M. So there's only three of right?
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  Right. So you would have the girl that you would talk to
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  yesterday, chicra Chicra. Yep, exactly.
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  Um, you have the big guy
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  who's even larger than you, but he's a little bit more
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  like burly, as opposed to just like, straight muscle.
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  And then you've got another guy that's got
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  he's kind of just a short, scrawny looking
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  dude. He's kind of hunched over in a weird way to
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  the point where you almost wonder if he's got some sort of a spinal
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  issue in some way, shape, or form.
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  Okay.
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  So I'll, um, just be
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  sort of standing off to the side with them and
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  watching Bill dore taking on this guy.
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  And I'll just be ready to intervene in case things get
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  hairy for.
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  Sounds good.
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  Yeah. Awesome.
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  Um, all right, perfect. So then we'll cut right over. Oh,
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  I mean, Guo, what are you up to with, uh, the group? You guys
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  just did this intimidating snap before Bill ended up kind
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  of taking the charge on fighting this
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  guy.
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  Um, well, Guo's just going to be like, hold on,
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  hold on. Like holding the villagers
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  back.
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  Sure.
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  Um,
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  Bill's doing his thing over here. He's not going
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  to get in his way.
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  Right.
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  Gohan's. The man of the show snapping
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  and stuff. This is Bill's Solo.
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  Sure. All right. Let him do his thing.
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  Got to sing this number quick, and then we all come in with the
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  ensemble right now.
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  All right, sounds good. He's the conductor.
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  Yeah.
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  Cool. All right. Very cool. All right, Bill,
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  you're up. What are you doing?
• 17:44
  I'm defending.
• 17:45
  Okay.
• 17:45
  You're going to do a defendant maneuver. All right.
• 17:47
  Yeah.
• 17:48
  Go ahead and roll those dice for that.
• 17:50
  Uh, Bill sees the guy's. Is he, like,
• 17:52
  charging?
• 17:53
  Bill?
• 17:53
  He's currently not. Oh, um, yeah,
• 17:56
  he's taking an intense stance, as
• 17:59
  if he's going to do something.
• 18:03
  Well. Okay.
• 18:04
  Bill's going to defend a maneuver, and he's just going to
• 18:07
  parry. Well, he's got to roll first, right?
• 18:10
  Yes.
• 18:11
  I'm going to try and parry. I'll see
• 18:15
  nine.
• 18:16
  Okay, so you are going to be able
• 18:19
  to use a master
• 18:22
  technique or a basic technique, and you're going
• 18:25
  to do Perry, right?
• 18:26
  That's not mastered.
• 18:27
  Oh, okay.
• 18:28
  Or basic.
• 18:29
  It's a learn technique.
• 18:30
  Okay.
• 18:31
  So I'm going to
• 18:33
  retaliate.
• 18:34
  Okay.
• 18:35
  Anything he does, I do equally back to him.
• 18:37
  Okay, sounds good. Um, so he is going to
• 18:40
  strike. So, uh, he's doing advanced attack. So you are
• 18:42
  retaliating. So you've readied yourself for whatever
• 18:45
  he's doing. You have your Bow staff out, I assume.
• 18:47
  Yes.
• 18:48
  Okay, sounds good. So you take a defensive stance. He, um,
• 18:51
  shoots forward. So what he does is he kind of, like,
• 18:54
  presses off with his back foot, um, off
• 18:57
  of that small, little chunk of rock that he's raised out. And as
• 19:00
  he does, it kind of follows with him to kind of, like, push him forward.
• 19:03
  So he kind of, like, bursts forward, swinging his
• 19:06
  practice katana. You have your staff at the ready
• 19:09
  kind of block it. So he is going to strike. It
• 19:11
  says strike a foe in reach, forcing them to mark two fatigue, mark
• 19:14
  a condition or shift their balance away from center. It's your
• 19:17
  choice. And then you're going to deal it back to
• 19:20
  him. He's not going to do the one fatigue
• 19:22
  in order to hammer you with his blows, because this is like a singular
• 19:25
  strike. Um, so you get to choose which of
• 19:28
  those options that, uh, you want to take.
• 19:31
  Basically, I get to choose?
• 19:32
  Yes. What are the three options?
• 19:33
  Uh, you can mark two fatigue, mark a condition, or shift your
• 19:36
  balance away from center.
• 19:39
  I'll move my balance.
• 19:41
  Okay.
• 19:41
  And then which way are you moving the balance?
• 19:43
  Self reliance.
• 19:44
  Okay, sounds good. So you've taken charge of this
• 19:47
  battle, and so you feel
• 19:50
  what's? Uh, the opposite end at a care trust. Okay,
• 19:53
  sounds good. So you're thinking less about
• 19:56
  I need this group behind me
• 19:59
  to help me with this confrontation with this group.
• 20:02
  I can handle this myself. I'm going to fight this guy, and
• 20:05
  I'm going to mess, uh, him up, I guess, or
• 20:08
  handle this situation myself. Uh, because of
• 20:10
  that. You said you did
• 20:13
  retaliate, right?
• 20:14
  Yeah.
• 20:14
  Okay, so you're going to deal one fatigue to him.
• 20:17
  Well, how much fatigue did he do to me?
• 20:19
  None. Because you chose to take condition. Oh,
• 20:22
  yeah.
• 20:23
  Uh, so he takes one fatigue.
• 20:25
  So you two are both now locked inside of kind of like
• 20:28
  a hold against each other. So you're blocking with your Bow staff.
• 20:31
  He's slamming down into the Bow staff with his
• 20:33
  katana. Uh, we'll move into the second round here
• 20:36
  of the combat. What would you like
• 20:39
  to do? And I'm going to quickly figure out what I'm
• 20:42
  going to do. If anybody, uh, in the other groups, while we're
• 20:45
  thinking has anything that they want to throw in, just let me
• 20:48
  know.
• 20:48
  Um, Glow wants to kind of
• 20:51
  analyze this guy's movement
• 20:54
  and see if there's any
• 20:57
  glowing red spots.
• 20:59
  Sure.
• 21:00
  Uh, do you want to assess
• 21:03
  situation? Yeah, I was just exactly.
• 21:06
  You can assess the situation. Um, you
• 21:09
  could ready if you want to
• 21:12
  do, like, a defendant maneuver.
• 21:13
  I want to assess the situation.
• 21:15
  Okay.
• 21:15
  Sounds good. So technically speaking, anyone can kind
• 21:18
  of jump in or out of combat, uh, during these
• 21:21
  exchanges. Obviously, if you do something really
• 21:24
  forward, like actually attack him or something along those
• 21:27
  lines, you're probably going to upset the rest of the Wild
• 21:29
  Coyote boars. So just kind of a forewarning there. Obviously,
• 21:32
  there's going to be repercussions depending on what you do. But
• 21:35
  if you're doing something subtle, like just assessing the situation,
• 21:38
  there shouldn't be an issue. So feel free to roll for that.
• 21:42
  What is assess the situation?
• 21:44
  That one is creativity.
• 21:45
  Yeah. It's a three.
• 21:46
  It's a three.
• 21:47
  Okay.
• 21:47
  So, uh, you are
• 21:50
  really distracted holding these people back. There's one
• 21:53
  shop owner in particular that's.
• 21:54
  Like, yeah, I want to smash his face.
• 21:58
  And you got to really hold this guy back.
• 22:00
  You're doing everything in your power.
• 22:02
  You might even be using a little bit of earth bending to kind of.
• 22:05
  Put a wall behind yourself to just like, you
• 22:07
  can't do that right now. You got to let him do his
• 22:10
  thing.
• 22:11
  Um, so you're just holding somebody back. So you're having a hard time being able
• 22:14
  to look behind you and kind of assess this guy
• 22:17
  that, uh, Bill is fighting
• 22:20
  for.
• 22:21
  An apple cart vendor or a candied apple
• 22:23
  cart vendor. You're pretty
• 22:26
  sour.
• 22:27
  I left bushels all day.
• 22:29
  And he takes an apple and he goes to
• 22:32
  throw it at, uh, this Wild
• 22:35
  Coyote boar member. I'll roll
• 22:38
  and see.
• 22:38
  I hear fucking apples.
• 22:40
  That's a seven. So technically, it would hit
• 22:43
  it, like, bounces off his arm.
• 22:46
  Okay.
• 22:46
  Um, so when this happens, one,
• 22:49
  uh, of the other Wild Coyote board members is like, let's,
• 22:52
  uh, say, uh, this scrawny little dude, right,
• 22:55
  with the weird spine.
• 22:56
  He's like, hey, I saw that.
• 22:58
  Hey, uh, what are the rules here? We're going to mess you up.
• 23:01
  Hey, that guy's cheating. That guy's cheating. He's throwing
• 23:03
  apples.
• 23:04
  And the big dude, he kind of, like, glances over
• 23:07
  at the caramel apple sale or
• 23:10
  candied apple, you said?
• 23:12
  Yeah, whatever.
• 23:13
  The candied apple guy. And he just goes
• 23:17
  and he just slams his fist
• 23:20
  into his palm to make, like, a really loud slap sound. And the
• 23:23
  guy just turns white. And
• 23:26
  you immediately feel him pull back or
• 23:29
  kind of stop pushing against you. Uh
• 23:33
  uh. Now you're fine. Now this
• 23:36
  guy's not going to cause any more trouble. He kind of, like,
• 23:38
  fades. Uh, like, uh, Homer Simpson when
• 23:41
  he goes into the bush in that
• 23:44
  GIF that everybody does. Uh, or that meme or whatever. Yeah,
• 23:47
  that's what this guy kind of does with the group. He just kind of, like, disappears
• 23:50
  back into the so. All right, so back
• 23:53
  over to Bill. Bill, what were you going to, uh, do in this
• 23:56
  combat situation?
• 23:57
  We're still just in monoimano.
• 23:59
  Yes.
• 24:00
  Uh, defend and maneuver again.
• 24:02
  Okay, go for it.
• 24:04
  Bill's got his bread and butter.
• 24:07
  Uh, nine again.
• 24:09
  Nine. Nice. Okay.
• 24:10
  Do you have something specific you want to do?
• 24:12
  No.
• 24:12
  Retaliate.
• 24:13
  Retaliate again.
• 24:14
  Okay.
• 24:15
  He's just going to slowly whittle this guy down while blocking
• 24:18
  his attack.
• 24:21
  Uh, this character that you're fighting right.
• 24:24
  Again, we don't know his name just yet, or I don't think it's been mentioned.
• 24:27
  He's going to pressure you. So, uh, it says impress or
• 24:30
  intimidate a foe, in this case, obviously intimidate. Choose
• 24:33
  an approach. Your foe cannot choose to use
• 24:36
  that approach. In the next exchange,
• 24:39
  uh, you guys are locked
• 24:42
  staff to wood to wood,
• 24:45
  for lack of better terms. And he glares
• 24:48
  at you deep into your eyes, and he says, what
• 24:51
  are you going to do? You're going to block me this
• 24:54
  whole time? You're not gonna try anything offensive? Because if that's the case,
• 24:57
  I'm gonna knock you down, walk over you, and go beat
• 25:00
  the crap out of that old man. And, uh,
• 25:03
  you feel the urge to not
• 25:06
  simply defend after this
• 25:09
  point?
• 25:09
  Well, Bill just grits his teeth, and he just stances
• 25:12
  ground, basically.
• 25:13
  Okay, sounds good. Um, all right, so we'll go
• 25:16
  into the next round. Uh, anybody doing anything else
• 25:19
  while bill and I decide?
• 25:24
  Yeah, go for it. I had a question.
• 25:25
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 25:26
  So I have an overwhelm technique
• 25:29
  that says it has to be on an engaged foe. So I
• 25:32
  can't just sucker punch a guy
• 25:35
  with my overwhelm, or can I? Because to
• 25:37
  be engaged, does that mean I have to be in combat with them or
• 25:40
  just, like, in their vicinity?
• 25:43
  I would say because of the way that combat works in this game,
• 25:46
  where you can kind of jump in and out of it pretty quickly,
• 25:49
  I would say you could probably pretty quickly engage
• 25:52
  with somebody as long as you're within reach,
• 25:55
  or if you do something
• 25:58
  that's able to reach them. So, yeah, I mean, if you want
• 26:01
  to sucker punch somebody you're standing next to, I don't
• 26:03
  think that would be an issue, in my opinion.
• 26:05
  Okay.
• 26:07
  Can I do that now?
• 26:09
  Sure. Yeah.
• 26:10
  All right.
• 26:11
  It's a combat move, right?
• 26:13
  Yeah. Okay.
• 26:14
  I'm about to blow at least my cover here.
• 26:17
  Oh, no. I'm best friends with this chick.
• 26:22
  Um, while the scuffle is going on, I'll be
• 26:25
  like I'll go up to the big guy and just say, like, hey,
• 26:28
  bro, uh, how many teeth you
• 26:31
  got?
• 26:36
  Normal amount.
• 26:38
  That is fantastic news. And
• 26:41
  so what I would like to try and do with you
• 26:44
  is, uh, I'd like to change that right now. And so
• 26:47
  I'm, um, going to use my overwhelm. Throw a punch with
• 26:50
  all your weight behind it. Mark three fatigue to
• 26:53
  inflict stunned on an engaged foe.
• 26:56
  Okay. Is, uh, that going to be an advanced an
• 26:58
  attack?
• 26:59
  An advanced an attack, yeah.
• 27:00
  Okay, sounds good.
• 27:01
  Uh, doesn't say I have to roll. Does it just
• 27:04
  happen?
• 27:04
  Yeah, well, you'll roll to determine if you successfully
• 27:07
  advance an attack, like, for the whole maneuver in
• 27:10
  general. Real quick. Real quick. Do you know what you're doing,
• 27:13
  Bill, for this? Okay, so all
• 27:15
  exchange or all combat kind of happens at the same time, kind
• 27:18
  of similar to, like, DND, even though you take turns. So,
• 27:21
  uh, what approach are you because you can't take defendant
• 27:24
  maneuver.
• 27:25
  I'm advancing that.
• 27:25
  You're going to advance an attack? You're going to advance an attack?
• 27:27
  I said you had oh, yes, yes.
• 27:29
  And then what is doing?
• 27:32
  So GuoHan, now that the
• 27:35
  Coyote board gang is being kind of riled up
• 27:38
  over there, he's like, I gotta keep
• 27:42
  this crowd on our side. Energized, uh,
• 27:45
  here. Yeah, I try to start,
• 27:47
  like exactly.
• 27:55
  Bill.
• 27:58
  Tor.
• 28:02
  Um, I'm going to say, uh, that.
• 28:05
  Could be a bolster.
• 28:06
  Yeah, you could jump in
• 28:09
  it. Also, uh, since it's invade and observe. And
• 28:12
  granted, Bill doesn't have any fatigue right now, but it
• 28:14
  would clear one fatigue,
• 28:18
  but otherwise it would give him favored
• 28:21
  or something to that effect. Uh,
• 28:24
  well, hold on, hold on. Since that's an invading, uh, so we do it in order.
• 28:27
  So advance an attack or sorry, uh, defend a maneuver,
• 28:30
  which nobody's taking would be the first thing,
• 28:33
  right? Uh, actually not true.
• 28:36
  After intimidating you into not
• 28:38
  defending, this, uh, guy is
• 28:41
  going to defend a maneuver. So he is going
• 28:44
  to take a page out of your book, which in and of
• 28:47
  itself is kind of ironic, and he's going to retaliate.
• 28:50
  So he feels the urge that you
• 28:53
  have in knowing that he kind of is like, um,
• 28:56
  taunting you, in a sense, to attack him.
• 28:59
  He's going to take sort of a defensive stance and prepare himself.
• 29:01
  So that's what he's doing. Um, and then we go to advance and
• 29:04
  attack. So you two, Brock and Bill are both taking
• 29:07
  an advance and attack. So you two can both roll
• 29:10
  and do yours. And then, Dave, uh, with
• 29:13
  Guo, you're going to be doing an evadium, uh,
• 29:16
  observe technique. So that'll come in.
• 29:18
  Yes.
• 29:19
  I'll, uh, roll with creativity.
• 29:20
  That's right.
• 29:22
  I got a six.
• 29:23
  Nice.
• 29:24
  I got a nine.
• 29:26
  We can go.
• 29:28
  Nice, Dave.
• 29:29
  I'm very excited.
• 29:30
  First of all, we'll start with Bill. Bill, what did you get?
• 29:33
  Uh, eight.
• 29:34
  Eight, okay.
• 29:35
  So, yep, you get to choose one of those, uh, the basic or master
• 29:38
  strike.
• 29:38
  Strike.
• 29:39
  Okay, sounds good. So you're going to force him to mark. He, uh,
• 29:42
  can either mark two. Fatigue condition or shift his balance
• 29:45
  away from center. So you mark a fatigue if you
• 29:48
  want to hammer him with blows, I.
• 29:50
  Want to mark a fatigue.
• 29:51
  So, uh, you would mark a fatigue to make sure that he takes the
• 29:54
  two fatigue.
• 29:55
  Yes. Okay. Got it.
• 29:58
  So, yep, that's what he's going to.
• 29:59
  Does another one to me.
• 30:00
  Yeah.
• 30:01
  So you take one phil basically just says,
• 30:04
  I'll donkey real folds a staff.
• 30:07
  Like, above his head, like a down position.
• 30:10
  Okay.
• 30:11
  And he just starts just, like
• 30:14
  just pulling it straight down overhead, just
• 30:17
  whacking as hard as he can.
• 30:21
  Hammer this guy straight into the ground. And
• 30:24
  he's just like I don't know, just grunting really loudly,
• 30:26
  like tennis. Uh,
• 30:30
  basically each strike right into this guy.
• 30:33
  Got you. And then, of course, while you're hitting him amidst
• 30:36
  your blows to his noggin, uh, he
• 30:38
  occasionally, when he's not blocking, will lash out
• 30:41
  with, um, his sword. And he hits you,
• 30:44
  obviously once to deal that one fatigue. But
• 30:46
  otherwise, awesome. You've just donked
• 30:49
  him real good. Uh, Guo.
• 30:51
  What's up?
• 30:52
  So, for this whole balance, have
• 30:55
  we ever explained really how that works?
• 31:00
  Dave is asking about how balance works in this
• 31:02
  game. Great question, Dave. This is something we
• 31:05
  haven't but admittedly, probably should have covered
• 31:08
  more leading up until this point. So here's a
• 31:11
  brief overview of how balance works.
• 31:13
  Yeah.
• 31:14
  So basically, um, as you're going
• 31:16
  along and your balance changes away from
• 31:19
  center, uh, usually in one direction or the other, based on things
• 31:22
  that you do, um, that kind of lean
• 31:24
  towards that side of your balance, right? So,
• 31:28
  for instance, uh, Bill, what was yours again? Yours was self
• 31:30
  reliance and trust.
• 31:33
  Okay.
• 31:33
  So as Bill does things that
• 31:36
  lean, um, towards him doing it himself and
• 31:39
  not needing you guys or not needing anybody's support, he might
• 31:42
  move towards that self reliance if he ever
• 31:45
  goes to the end and then does, like, one
• 31:48
  more thing that would put him over the edge. Uh, it's really
• 31:51
  bad. Bottom line, uh, basically, you lose
• 31:54
  control of yourself. You do something harmful to
• 31:57
  yourself or to those around you because,
• 32:00
  um, from a personality
• 32:03
  standpoint, you've pushed yourself too far,
• 32:06
  essentially, into a direction that's harmful to you.
• 32:09
  Once that happens, usually we'll, um,
• 32:11
  resolve it, obviously, um, there will be kind of a
• 32:14
  residual effect of some sort, and then we'll put you back in the
• 32:17
  center. Um, and that goes for both ways.
• 32:20
  Right.
• 32:20
  If he relies on you guys too often, then he's
• 32:23
  going to go over the edge on team or, uh,
• 32:27
  team. And that's going to lead to him not being able to
• 32:30
  handle things on his own. And that's going to have
• 32:32
  repercussions as well. So as you're going, that's going to change
• 32:35
  things. Um, and throughout the game,
• 32:38
  uh, as you're doing various tasks and stuff, I might
• 32:41
  ask you to make a balance role. And then you will get either
• 32:44
  a plus or minus based on where you're sitting at to that
• 32:47
  balance role, um, on your balance track. So
• 32:50
  if I make you do something for a role that's for
• 32:53
  self reliance, then if you've already moved
• 32:56
  a couple in self reliance, you might get a bonus to that role. But,
• 32:59
  um, it's probably going to keep pushing you more and more and more towards self
• 33:02
  reliance, which could lead to you going off the edge. So it's kind of this interesting,
• 33:05
  like, give and take, right? So that's how the balance
• 33:08
  works.
• 33:08
  And if I rolled for one of my
• 33:11
  traits, what
• 33:14
  determines which way I would move then? If you said
• 33:16
  make sure a self reliance check.
• 33:19
  Yeah.
• 33:21
  What are yours out of curiosity?
• 33:24
  Mine are results and restraint.
• 33:26
  Okay.
• 33:27
  So, um, Guo wants to see
• 33:29
  things either completed and will do whatever
• 33:32
  it takes to get them done, or he will show
• 33:35
  restraint and say, hey, we need to plan more. We
• 33:38
  need to, um, discuss what kind
• 33:41
  of place that we want to end up with this
• 33:44
  situation or whatever the case. So it'll be just a matter
• 33:47
  of me asking you to make a role based on decisions you make. And to be
• 33:50
  honest with you, I've probably been a bit lax on that leading up until now.
• 33:53
  Hopefully, once we go into season two, we'll have,
• 33:55
  um, certain rules that we'll have a little bit better grasp on and
• 33:58
  that's where we'll be at. But as of right now, it's not so much of an
• 34:01
  issue. But that's kind of a basic overview of how that
• 34:04
  all works. So that's a basic overview.
• 34:06
  On balance in the Avatar Legends game.
• 34:09
  I hope this helped clear some things up. And again, moving forward,
• 34:12
  we'll do a bit more to challenge each character's current
• 34:15
  balance, calling them out and seeing if anyone ends
• 34:18
  up tipping over the edge. That's all for this mini
• 34:20
  tutorial discussion. Now back to the episode.
• 34:25
  You were also doing an attack and
• 34:28
  advance an attack. Advance an attack.
• 34:30
  Right.
• 34:30
  Okay.
• 34:31
  So Brock, what did you get?
• 34:32
  I got a six.
• 34:33
  Six.
• 34:33
  There's no plus or anything to it.
• 34:35
  That's with the, uh, man.
• 34:37
  So that is one shy of succeeding.
• 34:40
  So you actually take a swing at this
• 34:43
  big guy and he
• 34:46
  normally doesn't look like a very smart guy, but apparently
• 34:49
  he caught on to what exactly you were referring
• 34:52
  to when you said, I'm going to change how many teeth you have.
• 34:55
  And he ever so slightly tilted his head, which
• 34:58
  resulted in you kind of nicking him right in the cheek. Uh,
• 35:01
  but it wasn't really enough to deal any damage.
• 35:04
  And now he knows that you're not his
• 35:06
  friend. Uh, and he's a little bit upset with
• 35:09
  that. Um, I'm going to leave that as, uh, he's not going to have
• 35:12
  any kind of retaliation or anything because I'm going to call that kind of a surprise
• 35:15
  attack. He didn't have time to choose something on the list
• 35:18
  to respond to it with. But moving
• 35:21
  forward now, you've basically entered into combat with
• 35:23
  him.
• 35:24
  Fantastic.
• 35:25
  Big guy versus big guy over in the back while
• 35:28
  Bill is handling the leader. Um, and then
• 35:31
  Guo, you are doing an evade and
• 35:34
  observe. And you rolled a you said a nine.
• 35:37
  Got a nine.
• 35:37
  Perfect. Awesome.
• 35:40
  So you're bolstering and you're saying Bill.
• 35:43
  Bill.
• 35:44
  And from that, you are going to
• 35:47
  give Bill an appropriate
• 35:50
  status. Um, yes. Would you like to give him it'd probably either
• 35:53
  be empowered, favored, or
• 35:55
  inspired. Either one of those three, I would say,
• 35:58
  are perfect. So empowered. M says your
• 36:01
  abilities are naturally stronger in this moment. Clear
• 36:03
  one fatigue at the end of each exchange. Uh,
• 36:06
  that's the rounds that we were talking about, uh,
• 36:09
  or favored, which is your
• 36:12
  boyed by circumstance. Choose
• 36:15
  an additional basic or master technique.
• 36:16
  On your next favored.
• 36:18
  Probably.
• 36:18
  Okay, so he's the crowd yeah, that's right.
• 36:21
  He's the crowd favorite. Awesome.
• 36:22
  So as everybody's cheering
• 36:26
  and then Bill, you're over there. You're donking this guy,
• 36:29
  like, up and down the face with your, uh, bow staff, and you're
• 36:32
  feeling kind of like, energized by these crowds,
• 36:34
  like, chanting for you. You've never felt like, quite this
• 36:37
  level of just kind of, I can't say inspiration
• 36:40
  because obviously that's a separate condition or a
• 36:43
  status in and of itself. But you just feel, um, like, hey,
• 36:46
  I've got people behind me, standing
• 36:49
  behind me, supporting me, whatever the case. So, um,
• 36:52
  you are going to be able to choose a
• 36:54
  second in the next exchange. You can
• 36:57
  choose an additional basic or master technique to
• 37:00
  use.
• 37:01
  Um, and then so on a roll of nine, seven to
• 37:04
  nine, I get to do two basic techniques.
• 37:07
  Then under that.
• 37:08
  Oh, okay.
• 37:09
  So I'm going to also test the balance
• 37:12
  of this gang leader. And I want
• 37:15
  to ask him what his principle is by
• 37:18
  saying, like, why are you even here?
• 37:20
  What do you believe in?
• 37:23
  Uh, okay, cool. So, yeah, you question him of
• 37:26
  his.
• 37:26
  Principle, and he pauses combat to give me a
• 37:29
  formal response.
• 37:31
  And as he's trying to block these
• 37:33
  he's gritting his teeth. He's trying to block these blows
• 37:36
  from Bill. He says, it's
• 37:39
  about drive.
• 37:40
  It's about power. I, uh,
• 37:43
  stay hungry and I devour.
• 37:46
  Uh, and in all honesty,
• 37:49
  I kid you not, his principle that I put down his
• 37:52
  drive. Uh, so
• 37:55
  based on that answer, you kind of gauge that
• 37:58
  he feels some need to prove
• 38:00
  himself and prove, uh, his
• 38:03
  strength. Uh, maybe he feels inadequate at
• 38:06
  home, or maybe he feels inadequate to his family or something
• 38:09
  along those lines. So he has this personal need
• 38:12
  to show that he's stronger than everybody else and better than everybody
• 38:15
  else to prove that he is worthy of some
• 38:18
  level of either, uh, attention
• 38:21
  or, uh, self importance of some sort.
• 38:24
  So anyway, so that's what you gauge from that.
• 38:26
  Okay, perfect.
• 38:28
  Awesome.
• 38:28
  Uh, uh, we're going to reset the round. Does Mika
• 38:31
  have anything that she's up to, or is she just kind of, like, trying to lay low still
• 38:34
  over there? Was she talking to Chicra?
• 38:37
  Yeah. I'm waiting for my.
• 38:43
  On the ground.
• 38:43
  Tying everyone's shoelaces together.
• 38:47
  Awesome.
• 38:48
  All right, so we're going into next exchange. I assume
• 38:51
  everybody's pretty much staying in their combat situations as
• 38:53
  they were before. Feel, uh, free
• 38:56
  for those that are engaging to pick,
• 38:59
  uh, a combat approach from the list.
• 39:02
  I don't suppose I could just tell the big guys, just a
• 39:05
  prank, bro, and back away.
• 39:08
  You could switch over. Like I said, at the end of the day, it's really
• 39:11
  about you can jump in and out of combat. So, I mean, if you want
• 39:14
  to switch over and take a trick and try to see if
• 39:17
  you can do that to convince him that, hey,
• 39:20
  no big deal.
• 39:21
  Uh, just getting him prepared for the
• 39:24
  battle ahead and making sure his reflexes are on point.
• 39:27
  Yeah. Can I use
• 39:30
  my Earth sinking on the guy?
• 39:32
  Good. What is that?
• 39:33
  Uh, that would be syncophoe into the Earth
• 39:37
  itself. Mark two fatigue to trap an enemy standing on the grunt.
• 39:39
  Wait, do I still have to mark the three fatigue even though it didn't
• 39:42
  hit for the
• 39:44
  overwhelm?
• 39:45
  No.
• 39:46
  Okay, so, yeah, I try to use earth sinking to
• 39:49
  just sink him into the ground.
• 39:50
  And then which approach does that fall under?
• 39:53
  That is advancing attack.
• 39:55
  Okay, because I have this favorite thing.
• 39:57
  Can I do it do I have.
• 39:59
  To do it within the same approach?
• 40:02
  I don't think so. I think you could take two separate.
• 40:04
  I wanted to fend a maneuver and then advance an attack.
• 40:06
  Okay, so it's just the order in.
• 40:08
  Which we will well, one's an auto success.
• 40:11
  Okay.
• 40:11
  So I'm going to roll for the defendant maneuver.
• 40:14
  Okay, sounds good. All right. And then, uh, Guo,
• 40:17
  what are you going to do?
• 40:18
  So I'm going to try to
• 40:21
  bully this guy.
• 40:22
  Okay.
• 40:23
  Get under his skin.
• 40:25
  So you're going to hinder?
• 40:27
  Uh, no, I'm going to try to evade and observe
• 40:30
  again in hopes of testing his
• 40:32
  balance.
• 40:33
  Okay.
• 40:34
  Driving him towards his drive.
• 40:36
  Okay.
• 40:37
  All right, sounds good.
• 40:38
  Sounds good.
• 40:39
  All right.
• 40:39
  Sweet.
• 40:40
  Okay, so, uh, we'll start off with Bill.
• 40:43
  Uh, you're going to defend a maneuver, which you will be rolling
• 40:46
  for, um, go for it.
• 40:47
  Nine.
• 40:48
  Nine.
• 40:48
  Okay, sweet.
• 40:49
  What did you retaliate? Okay, awesome. So
• 40:52
  you, uh, get your bow staff, right? Okay, so you just did a
• 40:55
  whole bunch of blows to him. You guys both kind of, like, take a step
• 40:57
  back, taking some
• 41:00
  breaths, catching.
• 41:01
  Your breath, spiel about driving power.
• 41:02
  That's right. And then you take your
• 41:05
  bow staff and you are readying yourself for whatever he's about,
• 41:08
  uh, to pull next.
• 41:09
  So he gives this speech about driving power. And then Bill,
• 41:12
  while holding his bow staff, holds it in one hand, and
• 41:15
  then gives the fighter taunt of like.
• 41:18
  Come and get me, come and get me.
• 41:19
  With bringing his fingers towards his palm. Come
• 41:22
  and get me. Puts his hands back on the bow
• 41:25
  staff, ready his stance.
• 41:27
  Okay, sounds good. Uh, I mean, just out of
• 41:29
  curiosity, normally players, uh, would go
• 41:32
  first, but do you want him to advance an attack first or do you want to
• 41:35
  do it?
• 41:36
  Well, retaliate is just a response.
• 41:38
  Yes.
• 41:39
  So I want him to attack first.
• 41:41
  Okay, sounds good.
• 41:42
  It's going to counter.
• 41:43
  Sounds good.
• 41:44
  Okay, so he's going to
• 41:47
  strike kind of per, the usual. So he's going
• 41:50
  to force you to either mark two fatigue a condition or shift your balance
• 41:52
  from center.
• 41:54
  Yeah.
• 41:54
  He's just going to let you choose.
• 41:56
  Um I'll mark your condition.
• 41:58
  Okay, sounds good.
• 41:59
  Which condition?
• 42:00
  Angry.
• 42:01
  Okay, sounds good.
• 42:02
  He's just pull on, uh, that would make sense.
• 42:05
  Bill, uh, so that
• 42:08
  remark about, uh, the old man
• 42:11
  oh, okay. Really got under Bill's skin and that's
• 42:14
  why he started attacking him and yeah.
• 42:16
  Bill's just like furious at this. What a piece of
• 42:18
  crap. This jerk is here to just beat up my
• 42:21
  beat up an old man proverbial dad almost.
• 42:24
  Yeah, awesome. Okay, sounds good.
• 42:27
  Uh, switching over.
• 42:29
  He takes a fatigue.
• 42:30
  Yes, he will take a fatigue in response. Um
• 42:32
  awesome. He is looking exhausted. This
• 42:35
  guy has been pounding away and taking blows. I mean, he's
• 42:38
  got bruising all over his face. Um,
• 42:41
  so he is not looking great. I'm just going to put that out
• 42:44
  there. Brock wanted to do,
• 42:46
  wanted to do.
• 42:47
  The earth sinking on the big guy.
• 42:49
  Okay. So yep.
• 42:49
  Then it would be your turn for actually yeah, we'll
• 42:52
  do that. Yeah, that's fine because also Bill has to attack
• 42:55
  as well. So what are you doing?
• 42:57
  Uh, I'm doing the earth sinking and I rolled a seven.
• 42:59
  Seven.
• 43:00
  So that's a success.
• 43:01
  Sick. Sick.
• 43:02
  All right, so he goes
• 43:06
  and he all of a sudden just drops
• 43:08
  like 3ft just straight
• 43:11
  into the ground a little bit. I mean, obviously he's a big guy. I mean, this guy's
• 43:14
  probably like somewhere around like seven foot or
• 43:17
  so. Uh, obviously this is going
• 43:20
  to either kind of like up
• 43:22
  his legs, maybe to his knees, maybe a little bit
• 43:25
  higher or so. Um, I don't know the
• 43:28
  average proportions of human beings, but
• 43:31
  I would say somewhere around there. Uh, so now he's trapped
• 43:34
  in the ground. Uh, ironically, he
• 43:37
  was going to take the smash action because he was
• 43:40
  furious. So he's going to use that to smash
• 43:43
  the ground below him. But he does take a fatigue in order to do
• 43:45
  that. Um, he smashes the ground
• 43:49
  to pull himself back out.
• 43:51
  Well, that's a shame.
• 43:53
  Well, you did like I said, you knocked him down a fatigue,
• 43:56
  which is always nice.
• 43:57
  I'll take the big guy with a ton less fatigue.
• 44:00
  I'm good with that.
• 44:01
  That's right. M. And then Bill, you are going
• 44:04
  to do an additional approach.
• 44:07
  Strike. Okay, so you're striking basically, he
• 44:10
  goaded.
• 44:10
  Him in, and now he's just going to strike him straight down now that.
• 44:13
  He'S got him, like, all right, sounds good. And then are you going to
• 44:16
  mark that fatigue to ensure that he takes oh, yeah,
• 44:18
  okay, sounds good. So with that, you,
• 44:21
  uh, dash forward. Like I said, this guy's looking like crap.
• 44:24
  He just attacked you.
• 44:26
  Uh, and then you retaliated. So he's a little
• 44:29
  off balance. You use this opportunity to lurch
• 44:32
  forward, strike out sort of like in a stabbing
• 44:35
  motion to really reach past his defenses of
• 44:38
  his, uh, wooden katana and slam
• 44:41
  him right in the chest with a nice just, uh, sort of
• 44:44
  jab attack. Uh, this knocks him backwards and
• 44:47
  he falls to the ground and lands on his back.
• 44:50
  Dust cloud kind of comes up from where he
• 44:52
  lands. And he lays there,
• 44:57
  he tries to pick himself up and
• 45:00
  he falls back down again and he lays there. He's not
• 45:03
  dead by any means, but he's out. He
• 45:06
  is, uh, not unconscious, but
• 45:09
  he's not getting back up. Uh, the rest of the Wild
• 45:12
  Coyote bores look a little bit confused. Uh, the
• 45:15
  big guy, he kind of turns around after just
• 45:18
  pulling himself out of the ground. And, uh, he
• 45:21
  looks sort of a mix of, like, concerned and
• 45:23
  angry. Uh, the three of them are standing there, not
• 45:26
  100% sure what to do. Uh,
• 45:29
  Guo, what were you planning on doing?
• 45:31
  Well, now plans have changed,
• 45:34
  I feel.
• 45:34
  Like, because you were going to call him out.
• 45:38
  Yeah. Uh, so I'm going to, I guess,
• 45:41
  try to get these guys to beat
• 45:43
  it. Grab one of those
• 45:46
  apples from the guy next to me, like, now
• 45:49
  get out of here.
• 45:51
  Everybody's just got apples. You've been handing out apples
• 45:54
  from behind the scenes this whole time while everybody was cheering, you're like, hey, take this
• 45:57
  apple. Trust me, we're going to need it. All right, so you guys
• 46:00
  are all.
• 46:00
  Going to start throwing.
• 46:02
  I like to imagine this image of
• 46:04
  Bill standing over this guy knocked down, and he's standing there with
• 46:07
  his bow staff. And then the rest of the Wild
• 46:10
  Cody boards look over at Bill as.
• 46:12
  He'S standing there, and then he points.
• 46:13
  His bow staff at them. And right when he points, like, all
• 46:16
  the apples over
• 46:19
  his head cabbages, and.
• 46:21
  You hear a loud, there's some on the road.
• 46:24
  All right.
• 46:24
  Yeah, I like that. Okay, so, yeah, you step up and
• 46:27
  you step walk up to, uh,
• 46:30
  this downed gang leader. You put your bow
• 46:33
  staff kind of on his chest to say, stay
• 46:36
  down or whatever. Not that he's getting up anyways. And then, yeah, you
• 46:39
  look over at the rest of the Wild coyote boars and you point your
• 46:42
  staff over at him. And as you do this, you hear Guo
• 46:44
  shout out, now. And all of a sudden yeah,
• 46:47
  this just stream of produce comes
• 46:50
  flying through the air towards the wild
• 46:53
  coyote boars. Now, the one down, I was going
• 46:56
  to say the one downside is Mika standing
• 46:59
  over there with this group. What are you doing, Mika?
• 47:01
  As this flurry of, uh, fruits
• 47:04
  and shampoo
• 47:07
  comes flying towards you, I'm going.
• 47:10
  To grab a fruit and try and have a snack.
• 47:12
  M, you're going to try to catch one out of the
• 47:14
  air.
• 47:15
  All right, let's see. This is friendly fruit.
• 47:17
  I'm going to call this to rely on your skills and training.
• 47:21
  So go ahead and roll for that.
• 47:23
  For her to catch some produce.
• 47:25
  Catch produce. Did you do a
• 47:28
  lot when Bill pointed at them? Um, he was not
• 47:30
  expecting a horde of, uh, fruit, so he kind of got a
• 47:33
  little surprised. But then he's trying to play it cool, like yeah, that
• 47:36
  was the plan.
• 47:37
  It's like when planes fly right over a dude.
• 47:41
  I got, uh, uh, eight.
• 47:43
  Yeah. Okay.
• 47:44
  So, uh, I would say that's good enough to do it. You don't do it
• 47:46
  very well. Uh, so as you catch one piece of fruit,
• 47:49
  you get hit by three other apples or
• 47:52
  something. Um, I'm going to say
• 47:55
  put her.
• 47:56
  Body on the line, Mark.
• 47:57
  One fatigue for that. Uh, but otherwise
• 48:00
  yeah. You're holding in your hand
• 48:03
  a banana. Uh, yeah, they probably have
• 48:05
  bananas. I wasn't sure we
• 48:08
  were going to nut.
• 48:09
  A banana nut.
• 48:10
  Uh, banana nut got like a hint.
• 48:12
  Of cashew to it, but anyways, okay, so
• 48:15
  yeah, you've got a piece of fruit, but you're standing there eating this as more fruit
• 48:18
  is getting thrown at you.
• 48:22
  That's fine. I guess it has to stop
• 48:25
  eventually.
• 48:27
  These guys grow produce.
• 48:31
  Wait, they think so.
• 48:34
  It's continuous. It's not like.
• 48:38
  I would say that they do one volley
• 48:41
  to throw these fruits and stuff at them and
• 48:44
  then obviously they're getting donked, donke, donk. They're getting hit with
• 48:46
  it. Uh, the little scrawny guy, he's really complaining.
• 48:49
  He kind of runs behind the big burly dude. The
• 48:52
  big burly dude, on the other hand, is just kind of taking it, it's just like
• 48:55
  bouncing off him, no big deal. Uh, chicra.
• 48:58
  She's not a huge fan of it. She's got her staff and she's trying to
• 49:01
  swing at it and knock it out of the air as it's coming at,
• 49:04
  um, you guys, what do you guys do at this
• 49:07
  point?
• 49:07
  As really don't like Mika, uh, because she's talking
• 49:10
  them, she's just eating their.
• 49:12
  Fruit, trying to make a statement and she's
• 49:15
  like, oh, I don't really like that one. They
• 49:18
  all start aiming explicitly for Mika.
• 49:23
  Bill, m, you were surprised at first and then as
• 49:26
  the volley kind of slows down. Are you doing
• 49:29
  anything or saying anything?
• 49:32
  No, he's letting the people have their moment.
• 49:35
  He doesn't want to charge in and get CULTED in the back.
• 49:39
  Okay, uh, they throw the one volley and then you hear a couple
• 49:42
  of the vendors that are part of the group. They're like, okay,
• 49:45
  stop.
• 49:45
  Okay.
• 49:46
  I only wanted, like, one you guys could throw one each. Okay,
• 49:49
  don't throw all my stuff. All right. So you don't think
• 49:51
  there's any more fruits and vegetables coming at this point, and
• 49:54
  everybody's kind of standing there awkward. Uh, the wild
• 49:57
  coyote, boars, definitely. Look, I mean, for the most part,
• 50:00
  fairly defeated across the board, all things
• 50:02
  considered. They're
• 50:05
  just standing there. Nobody knows what it is that they should
• 50:09
  do.
• 50:10
  They should get out of there.
• 50:12
  I was going to say for Mika's moment, could I start
• 50:15
  to disengage from the big guy and
• 50:18
  just go to Chicra and just be,
• 50:20
  like, try and take her down
• 50:23
  too? I need to stop
• 50:26
  engaging with people if I have these crappy roles.
• 50:28
  I mean, you are more than welcome, because he was kind of
• 50:31
  distracted by the fruits mean, all of them were kind of
• 50:33
  distracted by the fruits and vegetables. So if you want to disengage with
• 50:36
  him and then walk around to try to take on
• 50:39
  Chicra, which one's Chicra again? She is the
• 50:42
  chick that you guys.
• 50:43
  Had, you know, who's asked me about, oh, it must be great to
• 50:45
  not have a dad.
• 50:48
  Let's throw stuff at her because she.
• 50:49
  Doesn'T know how to oh,
• 50:52
  yeah, there you go.
• 50:53
  Well, she has a dad. Meek is the one that
• 50:56
  doesn't.
• 50:57
  Is that all you had to talk about?
• 50:59
  And I know how to catch. I just proved
• 51:02
  it.
• 51:04
  But how if you don't, she can
• 51:07
  catch one.
• 51:09
  So can I ask, like, if I.
• 51:12
  Were to try to engage with Chief.
• 51:14
  Would you join me?
• 51:16
  Okay.
• 51:18
  I need more than a you got to do it.
• 51:21
  I got, uh, to do it.
• 51:22
  You said you're waiting for your moment.
• 51:24
  Yeah.
• 51:24
  And you don't know when my moment.
• 51:26
  Is going to be.
• 51:27
  She's eating fruit.
• 51:28
  All right.
• 51:31
  He's not giving any of her signs right now.
• 51:33
  There's no tells. Yeah, I've got no luck with the
• 51:38
  can I just walk up behind Chikra during this whole
• 51:41
  thing and just try and do, like, a sweep the leg maneuver?
• 51:44
  Sure.
• 51:44
  Yeah.
• 51:45
  We'll call that a strike, obviously.
• 51:47
  Yeah.
• 51:47
  So go ahead and roll for that.
• 51:49
  Five, six, seven.
• 51:50
  Hey, that's just enough to do it. All right, sounds good. So you
• 51:53
  strike. Um, I'm going to say that because
• 51:56
  it's a sneak attack, I'll let you do the condition.
• 51:58
  So basically she is we'll call it
• 52:01
  stunned.
• 52:02
  If it's a sneak attack, would I say it's
• 52:05
  afraid? Because she wouldn't be insecure.
• 52:08
  Yeah, no, that makes sense.
• 52:09
  Okay.
• 52:10
  So she's going to mark afraid minus.
• 52:12
  Two to intimidate and call someone out.
• 52:14
  So you are knocking her asunder you're sweeping the
• 52:17
  leg. Um, engaging afraid because you snuck up
• 52:20
  behind her and kind of caught her really off guard. Not to mention
• 52:23
  the fact that she's kind of afraid from this group
• 52:26
  that suddenly turned against them and all that kind of stuff. So, uh,
• 52:29
  she falls to the ground. She hits the ground. Um,
• 52:32
  she looks up and sees that you were the one to do it. And she
• 52:35
  says, oh, my gosh, I thought you were on our
• 52:39
  I did.
• 52:39
  No.
• 52:41
  And she looks over to Mika, and she's like,
• 52:44
  Mika, help me.
• 52:47
  He's bullying me.
• 52:51
  Is she on the ground?
• 52:53
  Yeah.
• 52:54
  If you curb stomp her right. No going to be
• 52:57
  very concerned about I was going
• 52:59
  to say, I guess
• 53:03
  here's my moment.
• 53:05
  I was going to be like, well, maybe I'll sweep the leg and make
• 53:08
  sure she's down for the count.
• 53:09
  But you were too long.
• 53:12
  She's down.
• 53:13
  Double sweep the leg.
• 53:14
  You start kicking her leg.
• 53:18
  I want.
• 53:18
  You to just throw that apple as hard as you can.
• 53:20
  Right.
• 53:21
  I have a banana.
• 53:23
  You like ground ah.
• 53:28
  Hardness.
• 53:29
  Coconut sound.
• 53:30
  Right.
• 53:30
  Or else you just pull heel off of it. Now she's standing up,
• 53:33
  you throw it under her foot.
• 53:35
  Just like right in the solar plexus joke.
• 53:37
  Oh, gosh.
• 53:38
  The best running joke is there smashed
• 53:40
  fruit.
• 53:41
  Okay.
• 53:42
  Because we were yeah, you guys got bombarded.
• 53:44
  Is there potentially water would be considered
• 53:47
  juice? Could I water bend?
• 53:49
  You're saying you want to pull some juice out of the fruit that's around
• 53:52
  you?
• 53:52
  Yeah. That's pulling up on the ground. Because we just got
• 53:55
  annihilated.
• 53:56
  Sure.
• 53:57
  Are you going to do a, uh,
• 54:00
  combat technique with it, or are you just going to pull it
• 54:03
  out?
• 54:03
  For the moment, I'm just going to,
• 54:05
  um waterboard.
• 54:07
  Just kidding.
• 54:08
  Waterboard.
• 54:09
  I have some influence on these characters.
• 54:13
  Okay.
• 54:14
  Uh, I don't know what do
• 54:16
  that.
• 54:19
  No, but do you want to I mean, we can start with
• 54:22
  pulling the juice out of the fruit and see if that's successful. So do another
• 54:25
  rely on your skills and training.
• 54:27
  Then we got another eight.
• 54:28
  Nice. Okay.
• 54:29
  Uh, you do it imperfectly, so you only get, I would
• 54:32
  say, a certain amount, uh,
• 54:35
  let's say, like, a cupful of
• 54:37
  juice, uh, of varying
• 54:40
  fruit and vegetable juice. You've made a weird
• 54:43
  V eight smoothie in the air, and you're
• 54:46
  holding it there, so you've got it. What do you want to do with
• 54:49
  it? Chica is definitely kind of
• 54:51
  confused. She was like, Help me. And then
• 54:54
  you pulled juice out of fruits and stuff. She's a little
• 54:57
  confused on how that's helping her, but I guess she's
• 54:59
  not upset. She's open to the possibilities.
• 55:02
  Don't want you to cramp up now.
• 55:04
  Is anyone else doing anything while she's doing this? I
• 55:07
  mean, Brock, you're kind of standing over Chica at the moment.
• 55:10
  Yeah, Bill, you asked what I was doing.
• 55:11
  Yes.
• 55:12
  I am standing in the middle, and I'm going
• 55:15
  to point directly at the big guy.
• 55:17
  Okay. All right.
• 55:19
  Your turn now, big guy.
• 55:22
  Okay.
• 55:23
  You're going to call him out?
• 55:25
  I already got him one fatigue, so I warmed him
• 55:28
  up for you.
• 55:28
  Oh, nice. Good.
• 55:30
  Yeah. We'll just say that you're calling him out. Okay. I'm not
• 55:33
  call him over to combat and
• 55:35
  he seems like the type because he
• 55:38
  just instantly is like okay,
• 55:44
  stopping over towards you. Um,
• 55:46
  so you're ready to go as far as you're concerned
• 55:49
  with this guy? Did you have something you were ready to do, Mika?
• 55:52
  Um, with the juice, I'm thinking of,
• 55:54
  uh, throwing it at Brock.
• 55:57
  Bro, she really is taking us in.
• 56:00
  Order to trick, um,
• 56:03
  Chicra.
• 56:04
  Is this not your
• 56:07
  is she's literally.
• 56:08
  Laying on the ground?
• 56:11
  I don't know what you want me to do.
• 56:14
  You're basically choosing the other side.
• 56:17
  But if I trick her, then my hopes
• 56:20
  were if I roll, uh, but they overcommit
• 56:23
  and they are deceived for some time.
• 56:25
  Okay, well, uh, feel free to roll a trick then
• 56:28
  as you try to go to throw this.
• 56:30
  Well, I mean, it's just not enough water to really do any damage.
• 56:33
  M, it's not going to hurt and.
• 56:35
  It'S just like, it'd be like a water balloon. I'll aim for
• 56:38
  his shoulder or something like oh yeah, I mean it's not.
• 56:41
  Going to do damage to him by any means. Just get you a little sticky or something
• 56:44
  wet.
• 56:44
  I'll have to take two showers this week.
• 56:46
  Oh no you won't.
• 56:48
  He'll just washing dishes, they'll be fine.
• 56:50
  All right, so Cheekwood's on the ground. We got the big guy
• 56:53
  standing squaring up to Bill. Now with
• 56:56
  the smaller guy behind him.
• 56:58
  How far away is the big guy.
• 57:00
  Trouncing his way over?
• 57:01
  He'd be making his way over to Bill, but I mean, he's probably
• 57:04
  not more than like 10ft at this point from where you are
• 57:07
  because he just was walking away from you because, um, you guys were
• 57:10
  all kind of huddled together.
• 57:11
  Right? But where is he? In accordance to
• 57:14
  the three of us, if I were to throw this
• 57:17
  water balloon at Brock but I
• 57:20
  missed and I hit the doo buddy on the
• 57:23
  back of the head, would that be possible or not?
• 57:26
  Yeah, I wanted to, but this way Chicra thinks
• 57:29
  I'm still on her
• 57:31
  questioning. What?
• 57:33
  Yeah, right, okay.
• 57:34
  I'm just trying to dissuade the other guy's
• 57:37
  attention.
• 57:37
  You use your trick to pretend to throw the juice
• 57:40
  at Brock and miss
• 57:43
  intentionally. The juice goes flying and
• 57:45
  instead hits the big guy.
• 57:47
  Yeah.
• 57:50
  So in trick you get to pick one of the following options.
• 57:52
  They stumble, take plus one forward, acting against
• 57:55
  them. They, um, act foolishly. The GM
• 57:58
  tells you what additional opportunity and then you said you wanted to do. They overcommit
• 58:01
  their deceit for sometimes. So you're like,
• 58:04
  oh dang, I missed
• 58:06
  him with the juice
• 58:09
  and Chico's like, uh,
• 58:11
  dang, that was really close.
• 58:14
  It's okay, you get points for trying a for
• 58:17
  effort.
• 58:18
  Yay.
• 58:18
  As she's like picking herself up off the ground,
• 58:21
  kind of wary of Brock who's still standing
• 58:24
  there. Um, and then the big guy,
• 58:27
  I mean, it splashes onto the back of his head and he kind of
• 58:29
  like, turns around. He glares over. There, and then
• 58:32
  chica just said, yeah, you just shrug. Uh, and chica's like,
• 58:35
  sorry, berkeley, our bad.
• 58:38
  And he goes and he just turns around and keeps
• 58:41
  walking back over towards did
• 58:44
  guo have something that he was doing?
• 58:46
  Uh, so guo is he's assessing the
• 58:48
  situation?
• 58:49
  Right. Okay.
• 58:50
  Uh, so he's looking where everybody's at?
• 58:53
  Take advantage of the water.
• 58:54
  I'm going to roll and see if.
• 58:55
  I get asked a question.
• 58:57
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 58:59
  So I got an eight.
• 59:00
  Awesome.
• 59:01
  So you get one of those questions on the list.
• 59:03
  All right, so he's looking for stuff in the
• 59:05
  environment. What here can I use to
• 59:08
  hurt or impede? Like
• 59:12
  that smaller guy or the little guy?
• 59:16
  I don't want it to be too, um, on. Looks like they have
• 59:18
  Chiker kind of handled. I don't want it to be too, um on
• 59:21
  bill.
• 59:22
  Sure.
• 59:22
  Is there, like, I don't know, barrels or, like, a
• 59:25
  potted plant in a window sill?
• 59:28
  Like a cart of cabbages up the hill?
• 59:33
  All things considered, you're in, like, a
• 59:36
  town center, so I would say all of
• 59:39
  those things are available.
• 59:42
  Produce cart.
• 59:43
  If you suggest something to me, I'm probably not
• 59:46
  going to say no. That's how I'll answer that question. I
• 59:49
  noticed this cabbage cart no, wait,
• 59:52
  pumpkin cart. Because there was that pumpkin guy, wasn't there?
• 59:55
  Wasn't that the pumpkin salesman?
• 59:56
  Yeah.
• 59:57
  Earlier when you guys like the squid.
• 59:59
  We met a guy outside and trying to sell us. I thought it was
• 1:00:02
  pumpkin.
• 1:00:03
  I think it was pumpkin.
• 1:00:04
  There's a pumpkin salesman.
• 1:00:07
  He's a catchy pumpkin guy. I feel
• 1:00:10
  like he's got the no, I can talk to the pumpkin
• 1:00:13
  guy.
• 1:00:13
  Okay.
• 1:00:14
  So I go up, is he from the
• 1:00:17
  saw? Dude, you know where these, uh, wild coyote
• 1:00:20
  boys are, bro?
• 1:00:22
  The wild coyote boys,
• 1:00:27
  those bunch of.
• 1:00:28
  Mischievous.
• 1:00:30
  Kids always charge me money not
• 1:00:33
  to squish my pumpkins.
• 1:00:35
  Yeah, we're trying to find them, so maybe they don't have to
• 1:00:38
  charge anybody anymore. You know where they are?
• 1:00:41
  I always see him going. I always see him m
• 1:00:45
  going.
• 1:00:45
  Where is it?
• 1:00:46
  Which direction is it?
• 1:00:48
  Every time at the end of the.
• 1:00:50
  Night when I see him scamming up.
• 1:00:52
  A bunch of people, I always see him
• 1:00:54
  heading
• 1:00:56
  southeast.
• 1:00:58
  Southeast. That's the polar opposite direction from m.
• 1:01:01
  Where we are headed.
• 1:01:03
  Where are you headed?
• 1:01:05
  We are headed northwest for
• 1:01:07
  reasons that are not your business, mr. Pumpkin man.
• 1:01:10
  You seem kind of rude for a guy that just asked me
• 1:01:13
  some questions.
• 1:01:14
  I apologize that's talking to people, it's not my
• 1:01:17
  strong suit.
• 1:01:17
  Well, I tell you what. You asked me a question,
• 1:01:21
  and I.
• 1:01:21
  Gave you an answer.
• 1:01:26
  M, you're here.
• 1:01:29
  I don't even want to know.
• 1:01:31
  But if I answered your question, I
• 1:01:34
  feel it's only fair for me to ask you
• 1:01:37
  one, and you to give me a straight answer.
• 1:01:40
  That, uh, sounds fair.
• 1:01:42
  You want to buy some pumpkins?
• 1:01:46
  Sorry, we are not interested in buying.
• 1:01:48
  Some pumpkins right now, Derek Blambit.
• 1:01:50
  I knew you'd say that. Why does anyone want
• 1:01:53
  pumpkins?
• 1:01:54
  And he wheels his cart away. So there's
• 1:01:57
  a pumpkin cart.
• 1:01:58
  I noticed. Like, the wheels are like
• 1:02:00
  chalked.
• 1:02:04
  I could just undo those.
• 1:02:07
  Okay, then. Pumpkins are
• 1:02:09
  rolling. All right.
• 1:02:12
  Oh, yeah. I could just open the cart or.
• 1:02:14
  Yeah, whatever you want to do. Um, they're not
• 1:02:17
  necessarily on, like, a hill, though, so I don't know if they but, I mean,
• 1:02:20
  you could do something with the cart to make it.
• 1:02:22
  You could Earth bend a ram.
• 1:02:23
  Yeah, that's true. So there
• 1:02:26
  you go. There's your assessment. Uh, situation. All right, so we're going to
• 1:02:29
  jump into another, uh, exchange here.
• 1:02:32
  Currently on the board is Bill going
• 1:02:35
  up against the big guy, aka Berkeley, which is how I'll
• 1:02:38
  refer to him from this point forward, since his name was said. Um,
• 1:02:41
  Brock is engaged with Chicra,
• 1:02:43
  who's picking herself up off the ground.
• 1:02:46
  Um,
• 1:02:49
  Guo has something in mind that he's going
• 1:02:52
  to do with that pumpkin cart, probably. And then,
• 1:02:54
  Mika, you're engaged with
• 1:02:57
  Brock, I think. I don't know.
• 1:03:00
  We're not really sure where Mika is going with
• 1:03:03
  this. Um,
• 1:03:05
  we'll have to see. So everybody pick your
• 1:03:08
  combat approach. Uh, unless you're Guo, in
• 1:03:11
  which case you can kind of pick whatever. Um, since you're not
• 1:03:14
  engaged in combat, per se.
• 1:03:16
  Has,
• 1:03:18
  um, Chikra established if she's
• 1:03:21
  a bender or not?
• 1:03:24
  Uh, yes, she is the firebender. So when
• 1:03:27
  you guys were at the party, she, uh, had kind of, like, snapped her
• 1:03:30
  fingers and lit a little flame in her hand.
• 1:03:32
  Gotcha. I'll advance an
• 1:03:35
  attack.
• 1:03:36
  All right, sounds good.
• 1:03:37
  Has she fully gone up yet, or is he going to I think she's.
• 1:03:40
  Like, on all fours at this point. Somebody
• 1:03:43
  wouldn't curb stomp her.
• 1:03:45
  This is a family friendly podcast.
• 1:03:48
  When all right, sounds good. Is everybody
• 1:03:51
  good?
• 1:03:52
  What are you doing?
• 1:03:53
  I'm a tiny gal. Okay.
• 1:03:55
  What are you doing, Mika?
• 1:03:57
  I'm going to if that is your real
• 1:04:00
  name.
• 1:04:00
  That is your real name.
• 1:04:02
  I guess I'll avoid
• 1:04:05
  okay, sounds good.
• 1:04:06
  So, Bill, you're defending a maneuvering.
• 1:04:09
  Anyway, bill is going to
• 1:04:11
  Republicans.
• 1:04:13
  Bill is going to retaliate. So, uh, you
• 1:04:16
  prepare yourself for whatever comes from
• 1:04:18
  Berkeley. Additionally, um, Chicra
• 1:04:21
  is also going to be defending a maneuver. So since we got order,
• 1:04:24
  growth, advancing.
• 1:04:24
  An attack okay, good. Got it. Awesome.
• 1:04:27
  So she is going to seize a position. She's simply going
• 1:04:29
  to try to disengage with Brock. She knows when she's kind of outside
• 1:04:33
  of her league. Um, and she is going to
• 1:04:35
  overcome a negative status or danger,
• 1:04:39
  um, establish an
• 1:04:41
  advantageous gosh position, um,
• 1:04:44
  or escape a scene. Uh, you
• 1:04:47
  can take one fatigue to block
• 1:04:50
  her from doing this if you would.
• 1:04:52
  Like, if I don't? Does that
• 1:04:55
  mitigate the nine that I just rolled for my
• 1:04:58
  advancement? Would I still miss on my advancement
• 1:05:01
  attack?
• 1:05:02
  What do you mean?
• 1:05:03
  Like, since she's trying to disengage right. My advanced
• 1:05:06
  attack is just kind of a wash. Yeah.
• 1:05:09
  Because she would be pulling out of the combat situation, basically.
• 1:05:12
  Yeah.
• 1:05:12
  Mark 150.
• 1:05:13
  All right, sounds good. So she's, like, starting to get up, and she looks like
• 1:05:16
  she's going to just dash away, but instead
• 1:05:19
  you grab her or something, like, from the back of the collar or
• 1:05:22
  something. So it's like some scooby Doo looking trying to
• 1:05:25
  run away and just running in place instead of getting away.
• 1:05:27
  Um, as you gear up for your advance and attack. So,
• 1:05:30
  um, that's everything for defendant maneuver. Who's.
• 1:05:33
  Dave for Guo.
• 1:05:37
  Uh, Connor, uh, for Brock. And are you doing advance and attack as well,
• 1:05:40
  Mika?
• 1:05:40
  Okay, sounds good.
• 1:05:41
  So all three of the rest of you are all doing advance an attack,
• 1:05:44
  and Berkeley is also going to be doing advanced attack, but you guys go
• 1:05:47
  first.
• 1:05:47
  Okay, well, with mine, I have a question.
• 1:05:50
  Yes.
• 1:05:53
  I wanted to use pressure.
• 1:05:55
  Okay.
• 1:05:55
  Can I use it on chicra to
• 1:05:58
  impress okay. And so
• 1:06:01
  that she can't use one of the it says I can
• 1:06:04
  impress or intimidate a foe. Choose an approach. Your foe
• 1:06:06
  cannot choose, uh, to use that approach. In the
• 1:06:09
  next
• 1:06:13
  put myself since
• 1:06:16
  know has a hold of her, can I put my hand on Brock's
• 1:06:19
  arm so she can see my left, brock can see my
• 1:06:22
  right. I'm gonna wink at Brock, and I'm gonna say to Shikra,
• 1:06:25
  uh, don't worry, I got this.
• 1:06:27
  Okay, but if I can only see one half of your face
• 1:06:30
  yeah, I.
• 1:06:30
  Winked with the side that you can see, but she
• 1:06:33
  can't.
• 1:06:35
  Okay, well, Brock doesn't understand winking.
• 1:06:37
  I'm just hoping for the best of.
• 1:06:40
  Recently, he struggles with personal
• 1:06:42
  wink, but he's been practicing.
• 1:06:45
  It is on the top of his mind.
• 1:06:47
  Uh.
• 1:06:49
  He shudders because he felt like someone just winged.
• 1:06:53
  Did you roll, by the way?
• 1:06:54
  No.
• 1:06:55
  Okay.
• 1:06:55
  Roll for the advanced attack. So it would be passion
• 1:06:58
  eight.
• 1:06:59
  Eight. Okay. So that's a success. So yes. Okay.
• 1:07:01
  You impress her because, um,
• 1:07:04
  she's pretty intimidated by this big, burly gay.
• 1:07:07
  Well, she's over committed to me too.
• 1:07:08
  Sure, that's right.
• 1:07:11
  So she, um, is easily influenced
• 1:07:14
  by you. I guess at the current moment, you're this cool chick that
• 1:07:17
  doesn't have a dad.
• 1:07:19
  I'm everything she wants.
• 1:07:20
  Exactly.
• 1:07:21
  She's like, man, she does whatever she wants. She lives on the
• 1:07:24
  roof and sleeps there in a sleeping bag
• 1:07:27
  or something. And just all this other stuff, um, she gets
• 1:07:30
  rained on. That's pretty sick. So whatever the
• 1:07:33
  case. So, yeah, you're definitely able to impress
• 1:07:36
  her. Uh, what do you not want her to do?
• 1:07:38
  You can choose either defend a maneuver, advanced attack, or observe. What do
• 1:07:41
  you want to keep her from choosing next time?
• 1:07:43
  Evade and observe.
• 1:07:45
  Okay.
• 1:07:45
  You don't want her to evade and yeah, okay.
• 1:07:48
  Got it.
• 1:07:48
  So she cannot take that because she's so impressed by
• 1:07:51
  you. She's like, yeah, okay. If Mika's doing this,
• 1:07:54
  then I'll defend myself.
• 1:07:55
  I'll attack.
• 1:07:56
  I don't need to look around and figure things
• 1:07:59
  out.
• 1:08:00
  Okay. Got it. Awesome.
• 1:08:01
  Keep her distracted.
• 1:08:02
  Sure.
• 1:08:03
  Uh, Gua, do you want to yeah. You're
• 1:08:06
  going to advance an attack.
• 1:08:07
  Advance an attack.
• 1:08:08
  Okay. What are you doing?
• 1:08:10
  So he sees this pumpkin cart
• 1:08:12
  that's, like, right behind the
• 1:08:15
  other, uh, scrawny guy. It's like,
• 1:08:18
  man, this pumpkin cart is full, and it's got
• 1:08:20
  a latch on the front. I could just break that
• 1:08:23
  latch. It all comes spilling out.
• 1:08:27
  So Guo's gonna
• 1:08:31
  take one of the street cobbles, like,
• 1:08:34
  I don't know, about a foot around, and be like, all right, guo just like
• 1:08:36
  we practiced. And he's gonna try to
• 1:08:40
  because usually he's not the best Earthbender.
• 1:08:42
  Honestly, he's never been trained or whatever. You know,
• 1:08:45
  like, when they go in Avatar,
• 1:08:48
  they go to that one rock,
• 1:08:51
  uh, earth bending school.
• 1:08:53
  Everybody's, like, punching their jars of sand and stuff like
• 1:08:56
  that.
• 1:08:57
  Yeah.
• 1:08:58
  Or, like, struggling to lift rocks. That's basically cool.
• 1:09:01
  Sure.
• 1:09:03
  So he's going to psych himself up and then lift this
• 1:09:06
  stone. It's, like, kind of wobbling, not super
• 1:09:08
  steady. And then he's going to launch it.
• 1:09:11
  At the latch okay. Um, and
• 1:09:13
  hopefully break it.
• 1:09:14
  Awesome.
• 1:09:15
  Go for that.
• 1:09:17
  He's trying to do a smash. Advance an
• 1:09:19
  attack.
• 1:09:20
  Awesome.
• 1:09:21
  Five, six, seven
• 1:09:25
  I had a plus one from my acting on.
• 1:09:28
  Yes.
• 1:09:28
  Okay, sounds good. Um, I would say that in
• 1:09:31
  this specific instance, um,
• 1:09:34
  everybody kind of out. Well, I would say
• 1:09:37
  probably I want to say that it would probably affect
• 1:09:39
  both Bill and
• 1:09:42
  Berkeley there we go. Since they're spilling out
• 1:09:45
  onto this sort of open area, battlefield,
• 1:09:48
  whatever, right. And it makes sense to be
• 1:09:51
  impaired. So it says, uh, you're slowed or
• 1:09:54
  off balance. Mark one, fatigue. Or
• 1:09:57
  take a minus two to all physical actions.
• 1:10:00
  Uh, choose one fewer
• 1:10:02
  technique. And that's just for
• 1:10:05
  NPCs. Um,
• 1:10:08
  that's what's on the battlefield right now. Uh, as you
• 1:10:11
  do this, you hear, uh, the guy from amidst the crowd
• 1:10:14
  shout, my pumpkins.
• 1:10:18
  Did you do your thing yet?
• 1:10:19
  Not yet. Not yet. Okay.
• 1:10:20
  And then we have Bill.
• 1:10:21
  Of course.
• 1:10:21
  I already retaliated.
• 1:10:23
  Right?
• 1:10:23
  You already retaliated. So you're good to go. Um, so you're
• 1:10:26
  attacking, right?
• 1:10:27
  Yes.
• 1:10:27
  Okay, so, uh, you tell me what you're doing then.
• 1:10:30
  Uh, so I've got her
• 1:10:33
  by the back of the collar, right? And
• 1:10:36
  her legs are fully off the ground.
• 1:10:37
  Are you saying
• 1:10:41
  I think you're just holding her, not, like, picking her up off.
• 1:10:43
  Okay, I didn't pick her up. Yeah, I want to
• 1:10:46
  pick her up.
• 1:10:47
  Okay.
• 1:10:47
  And use my Earth Gauntlet.
• 1:10:50
  So I wrap my.
• 1:10:56
  Finishing move here.
• 1:10:59
  Oh, jeez.
• 1:11:02
  I feel like I can envision what this is going to turn into.
• 1:11:05
  I haven't seen it.
• 1:11:06
  I want to just wrap my fist around
• 1:11:09
  wrap earth around my fist.
• 1:11:15
  And.
• 1:11:15
  Just the mortal Kombat.
• 1:11:17
  This isn't like I'm going to marshal.
• 1:11:19
  And fatigue, but I'm going to punch her. I want to try and send her, like,
• 1:11:22
  flying through a wall or something.
• 1:11:24
  Oh, my.
• 1:11:28
  Which is a success.
• 1:11:31
  Okay, this is how I'm envisioning it.
• 1:11:34
  You are holding her by the collar. She stopped
• 1:11:37
  know, like I said, running in. Um, and
• 1:11:40
  because Mika reassured her, like, hey, no worries,
• 1:11:43
  everything's going to be I've got my
• 1:11:46
  hand on his arm. He's not going to do anything to her.
• 1:11:49
  And then you promptly pull Earth from the ground
• 1:11:52
  onto your arm. And just
• 1:11:55
  before I hit her wait.
• 1:11:57
  Where am I in the retaliation?
• 1:11:59
  You're standing right next to him, just lightly holding his
• 1:12:02
  arm.
• 1:12:03
  I know, but like, am I going to be.
• 1:12:07
  Really trying to hold him.
• 1:12:08
  Back.
• 1:12:12
  Before I hit her?
• 1:12:15
  Can I, like, pull her close and.
• 1:12:16
  Just whisper, my dad taught me this.
• 1:12:22
  And he just
• 1:12:26
  please?
• 1:12:26
  Yes, absolutely. You do that. I mean, she
• 1:12:29
  doesn't even have time to respond, obviously, as, uh, you punch
• 1:12:32
  her in the back, like, square in the center
• 1:12:35
  of her shoulder blades,
• 1:12:38
  sending her flying and smashing
• 1:12:41
  through. This is a strike. No, this
• 1:12:44
  is Earth Gauntlet.
• 1:12:45
  This is Earth Gauntlet.
• 1:12:46
  And then how much does that do?
• 1:12:47
  Like, uh.
• 1:12:50
  It says mark, uh, fatigue. I think that's for me.
• 1:12:53
  Inflict or for you?
• 1:12:54
  Is that for me?
• 1:12:55
  M or you?
• 1:12:55
  The target is dead. She might
• 1:12:58
  not you would mark a fatigue and then you would inflict
• 1:13:01
  one condition or two fatigue.
• 1:13:03
  Walls are softer than ever nowadays.
• 1:13:06
  Uh, and then you knock your foe out of reach, which you're
• 1:13:09
  doing.
• 1:13:10
  So I can inflict one condition or two fatigue.
• 1:13:12
  Correct.
• 1:13:13
  I'll inflict two fatigue.
• 1:13:15
  Okay, sounds good.
• 1:13:16
  And I guess she is yeah.
• 1:13:18
  Out of reach.
• 1:13:18
  She's out of reach at this point. You do get a fatigue doing I
• 1:13:21
  get a fatigue, yes. Right.
• 1:13:24
  Um, I'm going to yell her name. While she's
• 1:13:28
  depicts for me. No, while she's being she
• 1:13:31
  cried.
• 1:13:34
  I'm so sorry. I'll get it back for you.
• 1:13:37
  No, I'm just yelling her name so she knows I'm concerned.
• 1:13:40
  Okay, we're not getting too invested in this bit.
• 1:13:43
  All right, so one by one, you guys have basically
• 1:13:46
  exited people from the battlefields or
• 1:13:49
  from combat. So currently their leader
• 1:13:52
  is pretty much on the brink of
• 1:13:55
  unconscious on the ground. Uh, Chicra
• 1:13:58
  just got sent through a wall. Who knows where she's at at this
• 1:14:01
  point? She could have made her way halfway across the Earth kingdom with a
• 1:14:04
  punch like that. We'll have to find, um
• 1:14:07
  got. All right, so then you got Berkeley. He's stepping
• 1:14:10
  up towards Bill to throw a punch
• 1:14:13
  and all of a sudden these pumpkins come rolling out
• 1:14:16
  and, uh, really impede him. He is going to
• 1:14:19
  mark the fatigue in order to do what he wants to do, which of
• 1:14:22
  course is going to be so Berkeley is marking
• 1:14:25
  one in order to not be impaired
• 1:14:28
  by the pumpkins. And then he's marking an additional one for Earth
• 1:14:30
  Gauntlet. So he's wrapping his arm and fist in
• 1:14:33
  rock. So basically, as he's walking over, he kind of just leans
• 1:14:36
  down, touches his knuckles to the ground, and as he does, he
• 1:14:39
  like, scrapes up some earth, which then wraps around
• 1:14:42
  his hand. Kicks pumpkins out of the way as he
• 1:14:45
  goes, squishes them as well. Just kind of
• 1:14:47
  stomps on them. Again, the guy from the crowd screams.
• 1:14:50
  No, it's my pumpkins.
• 1:14:52
  And, uh, walks straight up to Bill and just,
• 1:14:56
  uh, slams his Earth fist
• 1:14:58
  down. Uh, so
• 1:15:01
  you're, uh, going to have to mark two fatigue.
• 1:15:04
  And he knocks you back into the
• 1:15:06
  crowd. And bowling style,
• 1:15:09
  it kind of knocks some people down.
• 1:15:12
  Do I still?
• 1:15:13
  You can mark yes.
• 1:15:16
  So when he punches me, I just.
• 1:15:18
  Do one final you sort of hit him as
• 1:15:21
  you're getting knocked backwards, like some martial
• 1:15:23
  arts movie you've ever seen.
• 1:15:25
  Where, um, things ah,
• 1:15:28
  I blocked him enough. That just my block. Dubbed
• 1:15:31
  damage back to him. So he took
• 1:15:34
  three fatigue there, all in one go.
• 1:15:36
  Uh, two. Well, one more from oh, yes, that's right. One more from
• 1:15:39
  you.
• 1:15:40
  Uh, Bill goes flying back into
• 1:15:43
  the crowd. Maybe they catch him. Maybe he lands
• 1:15:46
  straight into that apple. No, I was imagining the apple candy
• 1:15:48
  guy was like, kicking the leader on the ground.
• 1:15:53
  But he goes flying back into the
• 1:15:56
  crowd and he's kind of like, uh, spiderman. Spiderman
• 1:15:58
  two.
• 1:15:59
  Oh, everybody starts lifting you up.
• 1:16:02
  I'm out of fatigue.
• 1:16:03
  Oh, okay.
• 1:16:04
  So you are knocked near the battle.
• 1:16:07
  All right.
• 1:16:07
  Earth gauntlet.
• 1:16:12
  That's right. So Bill sits there
• 1:16:14
  amidst the crowd. Again, um, I would
• 1:16:17
  say with his retaliate and everything, he's not unconscious,
• 1:16:20
  but he's exhausted, he's bruised,
• 1:16:23
  he's beaten. Um, everybody around you puts
• 1:16:26
  their hands on you and they say, good job, Bill.
• 1:16:29
  You did good.
• 1:16:30
  You stood up for us. Uh, and then they all kind of look
• 1:16:33
  over at like, Brock because they're, you know, he
• 1:16:36
  seems like the last guy that could do something to this guy. I
• 1:16:39
  don't know. Um, so with that being said,
• 1:16:42
  we're going into another round of exchanges. Uh, the
• 1:16:44
  only thing left is Berkeley. Obviously standing there in
• 1:16:47
  the middle of a whole bunch of pumpkins all around him.
• 1:16:50
  Just
• 1:16:55
  are you not entertained?
• 1:16:58
  Um, he's pretty fatigued
• 1:17:01
  now.
• 1:17:01
  He is he definitely looks
• 1:17:04
  exhausted. Um, he's, uh, taken a lot.
• 1:17:06
  He's a little bit soaked and sticky, um,
• 1:17:09
  from the juice bomb. Juice bomb
• 1:17:12
  should make that into a technique. Juice
• 1:17:15
  bomb. Um, what would everybody like
• 1:17:18
  to do? Uh, obviously Bill is currently
• 1:17:21
  kind of outside of the ability for combat right
• 1:17:23
  now. Um whoa, you just knocked open that
• 1:17:26
  thing, so you obviously are available. Brock
• 1:17:29
  is available. Um, Mika is in an
• 1:17:32
  unsure state, as usual.
• 1:17:35
  Um, so we'll see where that goes. Chicra is in an
• 1:17:38
  unknown location and the final
• 1:17:41
  Wild Coyote board member is just kind of standing there. He looks
• 1:17:44
  terrified. Uh, it's very possible that he
• 1:17:46
  is wet himself. Can I
• 1:17:49
  just like the awkward, can
• 1:17:52
  you, strong guy. His knees are
• 1:17:55
  knocking against each other.
• 1:18:00
  I'm going to evade and observe.
• 1:18:03
  Okay.
• 1:18:03
  I will also evade and observe.
• 1:18:05
  Okay.
• 1:18:05
  Uh, glow.
• 1:18:07
  He's going to advance and attack
• 1:18:11
  everyone.
• 1:18:11
  Cowards closer.
• 1:18:14
  So we'll move into the next, uh, combat approach.
• 1:18:18
  Berkeley, uh, standing there in the middle, is
• 1:18:21
  simply going to he is going to evade and
• 1:18:23
  observe, and he is going
• 1:18:26
  to outside of combat.
• 1:18:32
  Berkeley turns around and sees that
• 1:18:34
  Chicra is no longer there.
• 1:18:37
  And he starts to get concerned. And he
• 1:18:40
  looks over at Brock and.
• 1:18:42
  He says, what have you done
• 1:18:45
  with Chikra? Where is she?
• 1:18:48
  You see that hole in the wall there, big guy?
• 1:18:51
  Uh, she went through there.
• 1:18:55
  And he starts to charge towards
• 1:18:58
  you. He can't full
• 1:19:00
  sprint towards you. Uh, but he looks
• 1:19:03
  furious. Uh, and he's trying to obviously
• 1:19:06
  dodge pumpkins along the way. It's not an attack at this point.
• 1:19:09
  Currently, he's just trying to kind of lumbers his way. I
• 1:19:12
  guess in a sense, it's technically, uh,
• 1:19:14
  Tasmanian devil. It'd be like a Caesar position.
• 1:19:18
  So we'll call it Caesar position. He's moving up towards
• 1:19:21
  you.
• 1:19:22
  He's trying to engage with it.
• 1:19:23
  Yes.
• 1:19:24
  And he's going to try to engage with you. Um,
• 1:19:27
  he's going to do it cautiously. So, I mean, he's not going to
• 1:19:30
  gain any kind of benefit by any means, uh, because of the
• 1:19:33
  fact that the pumpkins are there, is how I'm going to say that. I mean,
• 1:19:36
  I suppose you have the option to mark a fatigue to stop him
• 1:19:39
  from doing this, but
• 1:19:42
  okay.
• 1:19:42
  All right.
• 1:19:42
  Sounds good.
• 1:19:43
  All right.
• 1:19:43
  And then, uh, was anybody doing an advance? Guo
• 1:19:46
  was doing an advance in attack. So what are you up to? Since that would
• 1:19:49
  be next in line.
• 1:19:52
  We got our evade in the serves, right?
• 1:19:53
  Yep.
• 1:19:54
  And that'll be
• 1:19:57
  so at Berkeley's.
• 1:19:58
  Head towards Brock now.
• 1:19:59
  Yes.
• 1:20:00
  Uh, well, GWOs he's like
• 1:20:03
  Bill. No, uh,
• 1:20:07
  he's going to pull out his pouch of
• 1:20:09
  stones.
• 1:20:14
  The stone pouch.
• 1:20:15
  The stone pouch.
• 1:20:16
  There it is. Angry.
• 1:20:20
  He's, uh, going to
• 1:20:23
  throw the stones up in the air, like opening
• 1:20:25
  the pouch. And then he's like
• 1:20:29
  he's going to try to hit Berkeley with these stones.
• 1:20:32
  Okay.
• 1:20:32
  Stone ball. Like a strike.
• 1:20:33
  It's like a BB gun.
• 1:20:35
  Yeah, BB gun.
• 1:20:39
  So you pull stones out of there, you
• 1:20:42
  throw them into the air, and then you just
• 1:20:46
  kind of, like, strike them. And
• 1:20:50
  they kind of go flying past berkeley
• 1:20:53
  missing, except for one, which flies
• 1:20:55
  over and donks him right in the back of the
• 1:20:58
  head. He goes and
• 1:21:01
  just like in the story of David and Goliath, which is
• 1:21:04
  ironic because Dave
• 1:21:07
  and then this Goliath, uh, he goes
• 1:21:13
  and he just tips over forward, falls to his
• 1:21:15
  knees, and then falls to the ground. And with
• 1:21:18
  that, Berkeley is down. And
• 1:21:21
  to top it off, well, technically, he would mark a condition, but I'm
• 1:21:24
  going to say that yeah, it's the fatigue for those
• 1:21:27
  doing evade and observe. What would you like
• 1:21:30
  to do at this point?
• 1:21:31
  I know I've kind of I know exactly what I'm going to do.
• 1:21:33
  Okay, what are you going to do?
• 1:21:34
  So I'm observing situation. I see Bill's over
• 1:21:37
  there down for the count.
• 1:21:38
  Basically, yeah.
• 1:21:40
  I am going to use
• 1:21:43
  refresh.
• 1:21:44
  Oh, okay.
• 1:21:46
  Which, um, means I apply water to reinvigorate and
• 1:21:49
  close wounds on a willing target mark. Um,
• 1:21:52
  fatigue to heal an alley and reach who is evading and
• 1:21:54
  observing, clear an appropriate status from them, and
• 1:21:57
  clear three fatigue or two.
• 1:21:59
  Wow. Okay.
• 1:22:00
  So this is
• 1:22:03
  your moment, I guess. You rush back over to
• 1:22:06
  Bill's side, and at first, the people are really
• 1:22:09
  hesitant to let you in because they're.
• 1:22:11
  No, no, you stay away from him.
• 1:22:14
  He's a hero. And then you're like, no, I'm here to heal
• 1:22:17
  him. And so you pull out some water, some
• 1:22:19
  normal.
• 1:22:21
  Yes.
• 1:22:21
  Oh, that's true.
• 1:22:22
  That's true.
• 1:22:22
  To see if I can even do it.
• 1:22:24
  That is true.
• 1:22:25
  Nice. Okay.
• 1:22:26
  So, yeah, it's a success. So, um, Bill, I assume,
• 1:22:29
  is probably like, no, it's fine. She's my friend. Let her through.
• 1:22:32
  I currently am not.
• 1:22:39
  You rush over to your friend's side and you
• 1:22:42
  start applying the water to heal
• 1:22:45
  Bill. You start to come to, and
• 1:22:48
  you look up, and there's a whole bunch of people standing around
• 1:22:50
  you.
• 1:22:51
  Ah.
• 1:22:51
  And you look over and you see Mika is, uh,
• 1:22:54
  applying water to your wounds. And you start to feel they kind
• 1:22:57
  of heal and they feel refreshed. And it feels pretty good. It feels
• 1:23:00
  pretty good. And you start to feel like a lot more
• 1:23:03
  back up on your feet, almost. Um, with
• 1:23:06
  that, who else was doing Invade and Observe?
• 1:23:08
  I was.
• 1:23:09
  But if there's only the little guy can
• 1:23:12
  intimidate work and Invade and observe, or is that another
• 1:23:14
  action?
• 1:23:15
  Uh, we'll intimidate fallouts out of
• 1:23:18
  combat. So you can definitely do it. I mean,
• 1:23:20
  if you're not engaged with anybody right now yeah. You can just intimidate
• 1:23:23
  him.
• 1:23:24
  Yeah, why not?
• 1:23:25
  All right, sounds good. Um, so that will be a passion,
• 1:23:28
  so feel free to roll for it.
• 1:23:31
  Passion.
• 1:23:32
  Just passion.
• 1:23:33
  Yes.
• 1:23:36
  Uh, seven.
• 1:23:37
  Nice.
• 1:23:37
  All right, so, uh, on a
• 1:23:41
  hit, you get to choose one of those options.
• 1:23:44
  They run to escape or get back up. They back down. Pick
• 1:23:46
  one. Oh, that's right.
• 1:23:49
  Uh, they give in with a few stipulations or they attack you, but off
• 1:23:52
  balance.
• 1:23:53
  Um, wait, sorry, where was so you.
• 1:23:55
  Get to pick one.
• 1:23:56
  They don't pick one. They don't choose.
• 1:23:58
  Correct.
• 1:23:59
  I will say they can't run
• 1:24:02
  and get back up.
• 1:24:03
  Okay, sounds good.
• 1:24:06
  Um,
• 1:24:11
  without marking up a teeth, can.
• 1:24:12
  I just wrap another Earth gauntlet around my arm?
• 1:24:15
  You want next, bud?
• 1:24:20
  So he can't run and escape to get back.
• 1:24:22
  Hey, guess what?
• 1:24:23
  Mika's got a lot for water bending now with this guy
• 1:24:26
  just peeing all over himself.
• 1:24:30
  Water this is what he does. He
• 1:24:33
  decides to, uh, give in, but with a few
• 1:24:36
  stipulations, he says.
• 1:24:37
  Okay, all right, uh,
• 1:24:40
  look, we'll call off the money this time
• 1:24:43
  around, and, uh, for future payments,
• 1:24:46
  half, uh, price. How's that
• 1:24:49
  sound? Everybody?
• 1:24:50
  How about can you even make those demands?
• 1:24:53
  Yeah, you're not making demands here, but
• 1:24:56
  how about you return the
• 1:24:58
  money and you don't come back to this place
• 1:25:01
  again? How about that?
• 1:25:02
  Uh, um what if I don't have the
• 1:25:05
  money?
• 1:25:06
  Uh, can I wrap another earthcott, like, around my leg?
• 1:25:10
  Do you want to walk back to your hideout? Or you can fly.
• 1:25:13
  Please, please.
• 1:25:16
  I don't have the money now, but, uh, I'll find a way to get it.
• 1:25:19
  I'll return the money to everybody, I swear. Please don't hurt
• 1:25:22
  me.
• 1:25:23
  Kind of like turn around and ask
• 1:25:26
  if can we get anything else out of this guy?
• 1:25:30
  Everybody's?
• 1:25:30
  Like, maybe I don't know. I
• 1:25:33
  mean, I could deal with my money back. That'd be
• 1:25:36
  dope.
• 1:25:37
  Return everyone's money.
• 1:25:39
  Return everybody's money.
• 1:25:41
  That's so much money.
• 1:25:42
  Yes, it is.
• 1:25:43
  And buy all this guy's pumpkins, and.
• 1:25:46
  The guy's like, hell yeah. Does that mean
• 1:25:49
  the broken ones on the ground, too?
• 1:25:51
  Every pumpkin and every piece of
• 1:25:54
  produce that was thrown at you guys,
• 1:25:57
  you're paying for.
• 1:25:59
  Okay, all right, fine.
• 1:26:01
  Uh, you have 24 hours.
• 1:26:03
  24 hours?
• 1:26:07
  Look, please be merciful. I swear
• 1:26:09
  I'll get you your money. It might take more than 24 hours.
• 1:26:12
  So I've really got to steal from my parents?
• 1:26:16
  That ain't going to work if it's going to take more than 24
• 1:26:19
  hours.
• 1:26:20
  Steal from pensioning, mother.
• 1:26:22
  That's right. Oh, God. All right.
• 1:26:23
  Best we can do is two days to return
• 1:26:26
  all the money you took from us and to
• 1:26:29
  never come back. To never come back. And to pay for
• 1:26:32
  that guy's pumpkins.
• 1:26:34
  You can always try for hot leaf juice in Capital City.
• 1:26:37
  No, uh, as far as you guys know.
• 1:26:41
  Please, I'm just a kid. I live here in town with
• 1:26:44
  my family.
• 1:26:45
  We're all kids. This dude with the pumpkins is only
• 1:26:47
  14.
• 1:26:48
  Are you 14?
• 1:26:49
  Yes.
• 1:26:51
  You're talking to Glow.
• 1:26:52
  Yeah, this dude over here is only.
• 1:26:53
  14 because the guy with the pumpkin.
• 1:26:55
  Stall, he's like, I'm 38. What are you talking
• 1:26:58
  about?
• 1:27:00
  Yeah, we're only, like,
• 1:27:02
  1416 and 17,
• 1:27:04
  bro.
• 1:27:05
  Look, okay, I tell you what. I'll get everybody
• 1:27:08
  their money, and I'll pay everybody for the produce, and
• 1:27:11
  we'll disband. We'll disband. I can't promise I can leave
• 1:27:14
  town. Like I said, I live with my parents,
• 1:27:17
  but, uh, we'll drop the gang.
• 1:27:19
  Or at least I'll drop the gang. I can guarantee that
• 1:27:22
  much.
• 1:27:23
  Fair enough.
• 1:27:24
  Fair enough.
• 1:27:25
  Okay.
• 1:27:27
  And he just, like, runs off down the
• 1:27:29
  street somewhere. All right, you
• 1:27:32
  guys did it. You guys defeated the Wild Coyote
• 1:27:35
  Boars. As far as you know, they will be disbanded. And
• 1:27:38
  they are supposed to be getting you your money back,
• 1:27:41
  obviously. Uh, you see, um,
• 1:27:44
  uh, their leader is still kind of laying there unconscious. Berkeley
• 1:27:47
  is still laying there unconscious. Chica,
• 1:27:49
  somebody might go check the building and see if
• 1:27:52
  she's laying inside the building.
• 1:27:55
  So Bill rises up from the
• 1:27:57
  crowd and with his staff,
• 1:28:00
  he starts, like, walking, using it as a weight, and he just
• 1:28:03
  walks over to the leader, grabs him by the back
• 1:28:06
  of his collar, and then just starts dragging him
• 1:28:09
  down the road as he hobbles his way to the
• 1:28:12
  gathered all the way there.
• 1:28:14
  Okay, well, the guards actually, uh, they come out
• 1:28:17
  and they're on their way over there, so you don't have to go far. If you want to just,
• 1:28:20
  like, toss him in front of one of the.
• 1:28:21
  When the guards show up, he just takes it.
• 1:28:23
  He just, like, throws in, tosses right.
• 1:28:24
  In front of them.
• 1:28:25
  All right.
• 1:28:25
  Does he say anything?
• 1:28:27
  Uh, take this filth and
• 1:28:29
  put him in the dungeon or whatever you guys have.
• 1:28:32
  We've got some earth kingdom, uh, uh, uh,
• 1:28:35
  cages that we usually keep prisoners in. Great, uh,
• 1:28:38
  work from bringing down the wild cardi bores. Although
• 1:28:41
  public violence, uh, is usually not something that we
• 1:28:44
  support. But, I mean, it looks
• 1:28:47
  like okay.
• 1:28:49
  When he started talking about this democratically.
• 1:28:52
  It sure looks like the people of the city supported this, so who are
• 1:28:55
  we to stand in the way? Um,
• 1:28:57
  and so, uh, they start hauling, uh, the
• 1:29:00
  leader away. It takes, like, four or five guards and
• 1:29:03
  probably, like, a cart or something to haul Berkeley
• 1:29:05
  away. Um, one of them goes to mules.
• 1:29:08
  I could come after him, like, wait, he stole my
• 1:29:11
  wallet.
• 1:29:14
  Sorry, sir, what is this?
• 1:29:16
  He stole my wallet.
• 1:29:18
  Oh. He pats the guy down. He
• 1:29:21
  finds a wallet in there, and he's like is this your wallet?
• 1:29:23
  Yes, that's the one.
• 1:29:24
  All right, here you go.
• 1:29:25
  And he hands it to you. And
• 1:29:28
  you see, uh, a couple of guards, they go
• 1:29:31
  through the hole in the wall of that building, and
• 1:29:34
  they find Chica in there. She's not, like, unconscious.
• 1:29:38
  Oh, yeah. She's just gone. She's not even in there. They don't find
• 1:29:40
  anything.
• 1:29:41
  Disintegrated.
• 1:29:42
  Oh, gosh.
• 1:29:44
  Presumably, she escaped. Um, and
• 1:29:46
  then obviously, the guy that you guys
• 1:29:49
  wouldn't know, but his name is Squeegee, um, is
• 1:29:52
  gone, um, from
• 1:29:55
  the area I digress. Anyway, there you go.
• 1:29:58
  Uh, that's where things are at. What's your next
• 1:30:01
  move?
• 1:30:01
  Uh, Guo takes he checks and sees
• 1:30:04
  if there's any money in it.
• 1:30:05
  Oh, yeah. Uh, we'll say 50.
• 1:30:08
  You want, uh, he goes over to the
• 1:30:11
  pumpkin cart.
• 1:30:13
  Hey, sorry, uh, about your pumpkin.
• 1:30:16
  Hey, you got the job done, and they're going to
• 1:30:19
  pay me for the pumpkin. So I'll pick up the ones
• 1:30:22
  that.
• 1:30:22
  Were, uh, not broken, and, uh,
• 1:30:25
  I.
• 1:30:26
  Guess I'm a little unsure. Do I deliver them to the guy.
• 1:30:28
  Or I'll just wait for him to.
• 1:30:30
  Come pick him up?
• 1:30:30
  I guess he I'm not sure if.
• 1:30:32
  We'Re going to see. Those guys again. Uh,
• 1:30:35
  this is for the Smash Pumpkins.
• 1:30:37
  I give him whatever wood color his eyes
• 1:30:40
  bulge out of his head when he sees 50 yuan. He's like, oh, my
• 1:30:43
  gosh, this is.
• 1:30:44
  More than I usually see in a day. Unless it's Halloween season.
• 1:30:47
  Or wait, what would they have in, like, Avatar, like,
• 1:30:50
  the evil soul season or evil
• 1:30:53
  spirit? There we go. Evil spirit season.
• 1:30:56
  Ah, he seems pretty happy.
• 1:30:58
  Uh, you go over to the building
• 1:31:01
  that had a hole punched through it. It's, uh, the guy
• 1:31:04
  that sold you the squids place. And he's
• 1:31:07
  like, oh, man.
• 1:31:08
  Uh.
• 1:31:11
  Maybe I could do like an indoor outdoor kind of a
• 1:31:14
  feel, like, uh, you kind of sit inside.
• 1:31:17
  We get a nice cross breeze.
• 1:31:18
  Maybe I could do like that.
• 1:31:20
  Or, um, I'll figure this one
• 1:31:22
  out, I guess.
• 1:31:28
  Nice.
• 1:31:29
  Just sick, bro.
• 1:31:31
  Can I talk to the guys? Be like sick, bro. And then just
• 1:31:34
  because I have one fatigue left, just flump over and
• 1:31:37
  fall.
• 1:31:38
  Yeah. He's like, oh, bro,
• 1:31:42
  wake up, bro. This is going to look really bad on my end
• 1:31:45
  if you just pass out in front of my shop. Make it look like my sushi's not
• 1:31:48
  good.
• 1:31:50
  Brock's asleep. He's fast asleep.
• 1:31:52
  Chillin. Or I'll just sort of half asleep,
• 1:31:55
  sort of drag my body.
• 1:31:58
  Brock's sleeping on the road is no different than this rock
• 1:32:01
  bed he gets back.
• 1:32:02
  That's true. That is true.
• 1:32:03
  It's like the comfiest like an Egyptian king
• 1:32:05
  mattress to him.
• 1:32:07
  There you go.
• 1:32:08
  All right, glow, uh, skin and go over to
• 1:32:11
  Bill. He's going to go, that's some solid work, Bill.
• 1:32:14
  How are you feeling?
• 1:32:17
  Sore.
• 1:32:18
  Um, but I don't know. Mika put the weird water
• 1:32:21
  stuff on me and I kind of feel better now. I still.
• 1:32:27
  Mika'S got the sauce. That good
• 1:32:30
  sauce.
• 1:32:30
  Has anybody seen Mr. O?
• 1:32:32
  I was going to go check on him real quick.
• 1:32:35
  Uh, are you with them?
• 1:32:38
  To some extent, yeah.
• 1:32:39
  They'll just, like, kick me awake and.
• 1:32:41
  Just you think, okay. And I'm
• 1:32:44
  with them as yeah.
• 1:32:45
  Okay.
• 1:32:46
  Sounds good. All right. Okay, so, Bill, go ahead and
• 1:32:49
  lead us.
• 1:32:49
  I'll help pick up Rock and then lead him inside
• 1:32:52
  with over, like he's on my shoulder.
• 1:32:54
  Okay.
• 1:32:55
  And then I guess we all head inside.
• 1:32:57
  All right. As you guys, uh, step inside
• 1:33:00
  of the shop, you're, um, a bit surprised. So nobody else
• 1:33:03
  is in there at the moment. Um, but you notice
• 1:33:06
  that the inside of the shop is very
• 1:33:08
  disheveled. Um, there's tables,
• 1:33:11
  chairs scattered around the room.
• 1:33:14
  Broken, not broken. Um,
• 1:33:18
  the register that you guys normally would keep your money
• 1:33:21
  and such in is smashed, uh,
• 1:33:23
  up and there's
• 1:33:26
  cups on the floor that are shattered. It's just a mess
• 1:33:29
  in there.
• 1:33:30
  Hot leaf juice calling it.
• 1:33:34
  Bill is going to immediately m trot.
• 1:33:35
  Brock and go rush her into the.
• 1:33:37
  Back to look for Mr. O'grott.
• 1:33:39
  You don't get very far
• 1:33:41
  as, uh, you hear a moaning from behind a table
• 1:33:44
  that's been like slammed up against the wall kind of at
• 1:33:47
  an angle so that there's like a
• 1:33:50
  talk about.
• 1:33:51
  And I go behind and see.
• 1:33:52
  Okay, you pull the table out of the way and
• 1:33:55
  behind the table you see Mr.
• 1:33:58
  Okran lying on the ground
• 1:34:01
  and he has a dagger protruding
• 1:34:04
  from.
• 1:34:04
  His back who stabbed him in the VAT. A poor,
• 1:34:07
  defensive old man.
• 1:34:09
  And he looks up and he says,
• 1:34:12
  bill, take
• 1:34:14
  care of the shop.
• 1:34:17
  And lets out a last deep
• 1:34:20
  breath. Dies.
• 1:34:22
  What?
• 1:34:23
  No.
• 1:34:24
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• 1:34:27
  at a massive cliffhanger to lead us
• 1:34:30
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• 1:34:32
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