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Benders & Brews: S3: Episode 8 - Fleeing the Factory · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  >> Skylar: jasmine, oolong, green
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  and white. Long ago, these four
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  teas were skillfully brewed at the blissful brew.
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  Then everything changed when the shops
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  popularity threatened its existence.
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  All mister Okaron, the shops owner and tea
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  master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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  orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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  shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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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
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  on benders and brews, an avatar legends
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  podcast. You guys are on your way to
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  the town of
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  Zygon. You guys are all piled into the
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  cart, and the hot leaf juice employee who
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  told. I told you last time that his name is PI p a
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  I, is taking you to the outskirts of the
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  town of Zygon. At the top of this hill. You guys
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  look down, and you see that right there?
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  >> Dave: That's the hot leaf juice factory.
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  >> Skylar: You see there's a nice line of carts. What seems
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  to be, like, maybe farmers. They all have
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  goods of different kinds. Probably their
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  harvest that they're bringing to hot leaf juice to sell.
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  >> Mikayla: Where's Madame Ying's office?
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  >> Skylar: Right there. Any points you can actually see coming
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  out of sort of like, the center of the factory itself?
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  There's sort of, like, this glass office that kind of
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  sticks out from the top of it. It's almost completely made
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  of glass, because she wants to be able to see out across
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  the campus at what's going on and also see the
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  production floor in the factory below her.
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  >> Mikayla: We can't just, like, take Oakley's off of a tree,
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  fill up all of our carts, and be like, hey, this is really
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  fine. Hibiscus, tea leaves.
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  >> Cameron: Weirder things have worked.
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  >> Cameron: I've got ten you on with your name on it.
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  With one condition. Yeah, you go to the fire
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  nation. You never saw me.
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  >> Skylar: Okay, so you guys get in line behind the farmers.
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  Hey, who are you? You're not supposed to be up
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  here. You him on the head.
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  >> Cameron: I would put on his uniform. I'll start leading him
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  towards where Madame Ying's office overlooks
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  stuff.
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  >> Skylar: And you do not see Madam Yang ah, inside
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  of the glass office at the moment.
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  Inside, one of the envelopes, there is a water
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  nation whale bone comb. So obviously, there's
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  a piece of the map. Those of you that are actually cleaning or
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  guarding, look down through the glass.
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  You can see that the individual that had
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  got the kid that got dragged into the recertification
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  room is being brought out by two hot leaf juice
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  leaf guards, and trailing behind them is
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  Madam Yang yourself.
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  Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of Benders
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  and Brews. We are on episode eight of
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  this exciting adventure through the world of
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  the last airbender, and I am here
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  with my friends who will introduce themselves and their
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  characters.
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  >> Mikayla: Wait, we're friends?
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  >> Skylar: I assumed as much. I am,
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  wondering if I may have been mistaken,
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  and they will give an interesting fact about their character
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  from my, again, friends or
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  acquaintances. We'll see. whatever these.
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  >> Mikayla: Sometimes Minka just comes out at the worst possible moment.
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  >> Skylar: It's true. Is that your interesting character?
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  >> Mikayla: Yes.
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  >> Skylar: Wait your turn. I mean, unless you want to start. We can start
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  with Mika.
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  >> Mikayla: No, I don't want to.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, all right.
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  >> Cameron: She's never started.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, that's true. Let's start with Michael.
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  >> Mikayla: I have my fun facts ready.
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  >> Skylar: Do you have one ready?
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  I can start with Dave.
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  >> Mikayla: Thanks, Dave.
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  >> Dave: Hey, I'm playing Guohan
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  the earthbender, and Guo's fun fact is
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  that he's never
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  been a part of a wedding, but
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  he has been too many a wedding or party.
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  sometimes he'll just go out on the weekends and
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  wander around until he finds one.
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  You know, he sneaks in and eats the
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  cake. And his favorite part is when he gets to throw rice at
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  the couple when they leave.
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  >> Skylar: Does he get aggressive with it?
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  >> Dave: Maybe a little bit.
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  >> Skylar: You always have those kids that are, like, trying to make it a violent
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  thing, and you get to the hotel and you've got, like, rice
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  scars across your face.
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  >> Dave: He tries to, like. Sometimes I'll try to
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  underhand it into, like, the groom's mouth
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  or something.
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  >> Skylar: You know, Dave, ghost fun facts always
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  surprise me. I never expected.
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  >> Cameron: Did you just recently watch wedding crashers?
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  >> Skylar: No.
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  >> Cameron: Wonderful.
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  >> Skylar: wonderful. I love it. Mikayla.
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  >> Mikayla: Yes. I play Micah.
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  >> Skylar: That you do.
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  >> Mikayla: And Mika is a nail biter.
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  >> Skylar: A nasty habit.
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  >> Mikayla: It is, but, you know, she does it, so.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, well, it is what it is what it is.
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  That's a pretty straightforward fact, so, yeah, we'll roll with
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  it.
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  >> Cameron: I'm not gonna lie. My fun fact also regarded
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  nails. I think it's only because I'm playing with
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  nail clipper right now.
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  >> Skylar: It's a baby nail clipper. Nail.
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  >> Cameron: I was wondering why it wasn't really working.
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  >> Mikayla: It cuts less than what you actually expect it to.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, that's why I had to get my nail, like, three times.
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  >> Mikayla: Yeah, it's like, so you don't clip their skin on
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  accident.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, that's smart.
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  >> Mikayla: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: Anyways, yeah, I'm playing Brock Lee.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah. What's up with Brock Lee?
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  >> Cameron: Brock Lee here. Brock, as a kid,
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  Brock is a known enjoyer of a nice, just
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  cool, crisp glass of water that's. He's
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  a real big water guy.
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  >> Skylar: That has nothing to do with nails.
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  >> Cameron: I know.
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  >> Cameron: Cause I didn't want to piggyback about the plot twist.
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  >> Cameron: Cause I can't. I can't double up on nail fact.
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  >> Cameron: Cool.
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  >> Mikayla: Your nail fact is gonna come next episode.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah, I gotta keep that in the bank.
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  >> Skylar: A cool glass of water.
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  >> Cameron: He's a crisp water enjoyer.
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  >> Skylar: Interesting. You know, someone, that I work with actually was just telling
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  me the other day that apparently it's less healthy
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  to drink cold water because your body.
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  >> Cameron: Like, tells you you don't need as much of it or something.
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  >> Skylar: Interesting.
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  >> Cameron: you're satia.
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  >> Skylar: Don't take away a small pleasure that
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  I have when I'm not dehydrated. You know,
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  like, I'm drinking water. If it's cold,
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  I'm gonna still drink. Like, I don't, that's just me.
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  I don't know what it is. All right,
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  well, interesting. hopefully Brock can get ahold of
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  a nice, cool, crisp glass water.
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  >> Cameron: Some high quality h two o.
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  >> Skylar: That's right. You gotta get the h two o. All
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  right, fantastic. Last but not least, we've got
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  Cameron. Hello. I don't know why I
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  said it like that.
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  >> Cameron: I don't know either.
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  >> Skylar: That's okay. All right. What's, who, who are you?
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  >> Cameron: I'm Cameron. I play Bildor. Fun fact,
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  I feel like this will go great with the
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  fact I've minorly fighting a head cold right now.
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  >> Skylar: Oh, okay.
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  >> Cameron: But Bill, is notorious
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  for, getting sick.
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  >> Mikayla: Ah.
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  >> Skylar: he's got a bad, system.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah, you're raised.
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  >> Mikayla: Except all of three seasons, he's not been sick once, so maybe
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  he's on the mend.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, well, the thing is, our whole seasons have taken place within
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  like a two week time span.
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  >> Skylar: So, you know, it kind of feels.
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  Here's my question. Here's my question is, Bill
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  was, has he always, like all his life,
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  been prone to being more sick? Or has it been since
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  he moved to a whole different region?
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  >> Cameron: Oh, he, would get occasionally sick, but yeah, probably the
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  new region probably has played a major factor. All that
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  new pollen.
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  >> Skylar: I feel like that would make a lot of sense. It's like a whole.
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  >> Cameron: Maybe doesn't get sick, maybe just has really bad allergies.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: Earth nation that would be probably contracted.
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  >> Cameron: Scurvy on your one whole.
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  >> Skylar: No, don't you remember?
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  >> Cameron: Oranges are his favorite thing, and he helped
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  the pirates not get scurvy.
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  >> Skylar: He was aware he was the solicitor.
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  >> Cameron: Someone isn't an avid listener.
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  >> Skylar: Ah, shame on you, Connor.
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  Every road trip is supposed to be a, ah, benders and
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  brews road trip.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah. Ah, that's great, Connor.
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  >> Skylar: my name is Skylar. I'm the game master. And interesting
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  fact about me is that as much as I just complained
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  about the idea of not drinking cold water, I'm sitting
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  here with a bottle of dasani that is at
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  room temperature, and it is a bit
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  disappointing. It's not cold.
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  >> Cameron: I think it's just because it's Dasani.
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  >> Skylar: That's. I was just gonna say it's definitely not my
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  favorite bottled, water. For sure.
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  >> Cameron: It's Aquafina pepsi product.
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  >> Skylar: It must be.
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  >> Cameron: Dave is Aquafina Pepsi product. Yeah, there
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  it is.
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  >> Skylar: There it is. Awesome. And
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  with that fact out of the way, we will
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  move into the 8th episode of Bitters
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  of Brews, season three.
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  All right, last we left off, you guys, or
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  at least three of the four of you. One of you was
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  adamantly filling a cart with
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  Lee.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Skylar: Intimidating. Well, I'll
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  let you describe how adamantly or,
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  lackingly you have been filling a cart.
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  >> Cameron: He has never put more passion into anything else in
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  his environment.
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  >> Skylar: He's gone so far of putting. Oh, wait. You were moving
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  leaves from a car into boxes.
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  >> Cameron: Yes, but he is, like, laying them down so
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  meticulously, like, he's got to get the leaves
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  facing the right way. It's a whole process. He is going
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  to be there one at a time.
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  >> Skylar: Wow.
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  >> Cameron: Wow.
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  >> Skylar: Amazing. And equally amazing is the
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  fact that, the other three of you all disguised as
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  hot leaf juice employees, one of you, specifically,
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  Bill, disguised as a hot leaf juice
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  elite employee, are inside of Madam
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  Yang's glass office.
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  You've got the clue that Mister Okaron
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  left behind for you back at the air temple that Madam Yang had
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  stolen. And now
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  she has just appeared in the floor
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  below you on the factory floor out of the quote
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  unquote recertify employee
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  recertification room. And she seems like
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  she might be headed up to her
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  office. What are you guys doing?
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  >> Mikayla: I'm gonna punch her.
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  >> Cameron: Is there a back way?
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  >> Skylar: Nope. There's one stairway.
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  >> Mikayla: There's one staircase.
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  >> Cameron: I'm reiterating for the new episode.
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  >> Skylar: Geez, that's fair.
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  >> Dave: Are there windows in here?
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  >> Skylar: Well, the whole thing's a window.
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  >> Cameron: Hey, easy.
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  >> Mikayla: It's a glass office. Remember?
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  >> Cameron: Glass onion?
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  >> Mikayla: We could all sit on the rug, and she would never know
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  we were.
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  >> Cameron: There until she opens the door.
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  >> Skylar: I was gonna say, like, you guys.
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  >> Dave: Aren'T dressed, like, are
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  there osha approved
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  emergency escape windows?
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  >> Cameron: Yeah, it's true.
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  >> Skylar: okay.
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  >> Dave: Or just windows you can open in.
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  >> Skylar: General, I would say there are
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  windows on either side that look out across
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  the campus.
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  >> Mikayla: That look. Or that open?
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, they open.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, yeah. In case you.
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  >> Mikayla: Is there a closet?
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  >> Cameron: A light breeze?
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  >> Skylar: No, there's no closet.
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  >> Mikayla: Well, what is this lady? What if she spills on her shirt
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  or something?
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  >> Skylar: she's got a nearby
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  office. Restroom.
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  >> Cameron: This is a long.
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  >> Skylar: But it's not in the office itself. It's in, like,
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  outside. She have to go down the stairs. But there's a madden room I
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  really.
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  >> Mikayla: Want us to run into mad.
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  >> Cameron: And restroom is there.
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  >> Mikayla: I'm a walk down the stairs.
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  >> Cameron: I still have that rope. Yeah, I
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  do.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, you. Yeah, you said you got it.
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  You explicitly wanted.
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  >> Mikayla: No, but he said he tied up the guy.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah. did you? Yeah.
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  >> Mikayla: Oh, so he doesn't have it. Unless
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  he cut.
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  >> Skylar: I thought you just knocked him out or something.
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  >> Mikayla: But he did. But I'm pretty sure he tied him up and then stole
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  his clothes.
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  >> Skylar: Oh, well, then, yeah. You up at that point?
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  >> Mikayla: BDSM. anyway.
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  >> Skylar: Whoa.
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  >> Cameron: You said it. Okay.
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  >> Mikayla: No,
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  >> Cameron: I got it. What? We gotta
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  get out of here.
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  >> Mikayla: Oh, wait, I don't see her, though, do I? Can I see her?
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  I think my position on the rug.
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  >> Skylar: I think at the very least, Bill Dore sees and
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  notifies you guys.
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  >> Cameron: Hey, PI
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  yoon.
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  >> Dave: What? you're you not gonna.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah, sorry. she's coming.
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  >> Dave: Who's she?
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  >> Cameron: Madam Yang.
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  >> Mikayla: I look down.
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  >> Dave: Oh, boy.
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  >> Mikayla: I shoved the letters in my pocket. I saw it go
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  for the door, Kirk.
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  >> Cameron: Hey, can I get my pouch back?
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  >> Mikayla: What pouch?
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  >> Cameron: The one I gave you.
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  >> Mikayla: I'm literally walking away from you.
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  >> Cameron: Well, give my pouch. My pouch.
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  >> Mikayla: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  >> Cameron: Pouch I gave you. Okay, we can figure this
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  out later. I open the door, I'm gonna guide you guys down.
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  Just hide your faces.
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  >> Mikayla: Absolutely not. I'm going after this girl.
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  >> Skylar: What?
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  >> Dave: No, below us.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, so.
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  >> Cameron: No, not here.
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  >> Skylar: Directly below the office.
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  >> Cameron: I'm not saving you.
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  >> Skylar: Directly below the office is. I mean, it's just a glass
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  floor, with sort of, like, some wood, you
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  know, crisscross to make sure that everything doesn't just,
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  like, bottom out with the glass. but anyways,
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  so directly below you is just the
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  floor to the factory. So, like,
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  there's, like, a ten to 15 foot drop. Then
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  you'd be at the floor factory where everybody's got, like, the
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  machines and they're making t blocks and all this other
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  stuff. So she's coming out of a room that's kind of off to
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  the side, coming down the factory
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  floor. And she looks like she's headed back up to
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  her office, where there's, like, there's
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  obviously stairs that lead up to.
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  >> Cameron: From the factory.
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  >> Mikayla: I'm going towards her.
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  >> Skylar: Okay. You're going towards the door of the office
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  towards the stairs.
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  >> Dave: I'm going to pull out a rock and
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  throw it at one of the workers.
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  >> Cameron: Which worker?
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  >> Skylar: I don't know.
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  >> Dave: One close to Madame Yang.
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  >> Mikayla: she recertified.
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  >> Skylar: Obviously. Oh, yeah. Bring a
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  person. They're bringing a person out of the
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  recertification room. Yeah, yeah. That they. That they recertified.
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  Yeah. So, yeah, they're, like, sending him back, to.
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  Yeah, his position. So you're gonna throw.
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  Okay. Yeah, do that. I love it.
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  >> Mikayla: rely on your skills.
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  >> Skylar: Rely on your skills. Yeah. Thank you. Rely on your skills and
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  training.
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  >> Mikayla: Yeah, I'm trying my go at the GM here.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah. Thanks. We'll get you on
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  running a series.
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  >> Mikayla: Absolutely not.
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  >> Cameron: Aw.
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  >> Skylar: So it's with focus on, you know.
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  >> Mikayla: If the fans want it, maybe.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah.
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  >> Dave: focus on it.
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  >> Skylar: Ooh, ooh.
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  >> Dave: That's a three.
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  >> Cameron: All right.
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  >> Skylar: So with a reliance on your skills and training. If
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  you miss, you
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  hit Madame Yang instead.
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  >> Cameron: You act like that's a problem.
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  >> Mikayla: It would just be more funny.
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  >> Cameron: It would be funny.
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  >> Skylar: I mean, yeah, you just. It just says. I mean, it doesn't even have any.
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  It's not like you can save the situation or anything. It's just
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  bad. you toss this rock.
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  >> Mikayla: Wait, wait, wait. This pebble, he just tosses it, and it
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  just kind of does, like, a little, like, goes two inches.
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  >> Skylar: It just plops down.
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  >> Dave: I just ate popcorn.
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  >> Cameron: It's the longest yard record.
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  >> Dave: Yeah.
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  >> Skylar: All right. pebble didn't work. What are you doing?
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  >> Cameron: Let's, get out of here.
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  >> Skylar: All right.
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  >> Cameron: And I'm starting to walk them down the stairs.
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  >> Mikayla: I just think Artie was going a long
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  time ago. I wasn't waiting for.
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  >> Skylar: So you're just leading the path.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah. She's running down the stairs.
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  >> Mikayla: I'm, not necessarily running, but I'm not being slow about
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  it. Not dawadling.
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  >> Skylar: Okay, where do we go?
• 15:31
  >> Dave: Where do we go?
• 15:32
  >> Cameron: Yeah, let's go find Troy and the cart.
• 15:35
  >> Dave: Is there, like, a side passage we
• 15:38
  can go off into?
• 15:41
  >> Skylar: Or once you go down the stairs, the door that's
• 15:44
  at the back of the factory is dead ahead of you.
• 15:48
  >> Cameron: So we have to go. Walk past.
• 15:49
  >> Mikayla: I want to go.
• 15:50
  >> Skylar: And from what would be
• 15:52
  the east side of the building, I want to.
• 15:55
  >> Mikayla: Go in the direction of madam.
• 15:56
  >> Cameron: No, I I'm grabbing her and moving her
• 15:59
  the other way.
• 16:00
  >> Mikayla: I'm too quick and tiny.
• 16:02
  >> Skylar: You could call her
• 16:05
  out.
• 16:07
  >> Cameron: To do what?
• 16:08
  >> Skylar: To live up to their principles.
• 16:10
  >> Cameron: Which principle? I don't know her principles.
• 16:12
  >> Skylar: What are your principles? Friends
• 16:15
  and survival.
• 16:17
  >> Cameron: Oh, well, yeah. well, I feel like both
• 16:20
  principles apply here. Actually,
• 16:24
  neither of them are what you're doing currently.
• 16:27
  >> Mikayla: Just because I'm going the direction of Madame Yang isn't gonna be like, oh.
• 16:30
  >> Cameron: Hey, madame Yang, look at me.
• 16:32
  >> Mikayla: I'm Mika. you're. That's not what I'm gonna do.
• 16:35
  >> Skylar: Oh, this is interesting. Okay, so
• 16:38
  you are going to shift your
• 16:40
  balance away from. If you're gonna call him out. Are you calling her?
• 16:43
  >> Cameron: I'm shifting mine.
• 16:44
  >> Skylar: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can say more. It doesn't
• 16:46
  matter. It's away from center.
• 16:50
  And then you name and roll with their
• 16:53
  principal. So
• 16:55
  whatever her principal is currently, well, you're
• 16:58
  picking. And then you're gonna kind of try.
• 17:01
  >> Cameron: To figure out which one's closest. It feels
• 17:03
  like probably survive. Survival makes the most
• 17:06
  sense. Cause we're in a survive mode right now, and
• 17:09
  going towards her is the opposite of surviving.
• 17:12
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 17:12
  >> Mikayla: She hasn't tried to kill us. She's just trying to talk to us about her
• 17:15
  plan.
• 17:15
  >> Cameron: Yeah, no, that's not.
• 17:16
  >> Mikayla: So wouldn't it really be survival?
• 17:19
  I feel like you're thinking more.
• 17:21
  >> Cameron: Mine's definitely self reliance. I'm moving
• 17:24
  towards self reliance versus trust because I'm not.
• 17:26
  Clearly, I'm not trusting her.
• 17:28
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 17:30
  >> Cameron: So I'm doing self reliance.
• 17:32
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 17:32
  >> Cameron: And then I'm doing.
• 17:33
  >> Skylar: Because it's. It's your idea to not engage
• 17:36
  with.
• 17:36
  >> Cameron: Correct. And I'm not trusting whatever plan she's currently
• 17:39
  got. And I'm asking her to go to
• 17:42
  survival, which is get out of. Let's get out of here as fast as
• 17:45
  weekend.
• 17:45
  >> Mikayla: Okay, so m. I'm, already at the end of my survival.
• 17:48
  >> Skylar: So you're at what? Plus three?
• 17:50
  >> Mikayla: Yep.
• 17:50
  >> Cameron: So I'm rolling a plus three.
• 17:52
  >> Skylar: So you're rolling plus three.
• 17:54
  >> Cameron: Eight.
• 17:55
  >> Skylar: Okay. So on a seven and nine, they
• 17:57
  challenge your view of the world in turn.
• 18:01
  So, mark of fatigue. Or they shift your balance as
• 18:04
  they choose.
• 18:06
  >> Cameron: And then what happens?
• 18:07
  >> Skylar: But she is called to act as you say.
• 18:10
  They can either do it or mark a condition.
• 18:13
  >> Cameron: Oh, so do both happen?
• 18:15
  >> Skylar: Yes.
• 18:16
  >> Cameron: Okay. So she chooses for me first. So do you want me to take a
• 18:19
  fatigue or shift my balance more?
• 18:21
  And after you do that, then you have a choice.
• 18:24
  >> Skylar: And you also. I mean, we got to obviously play it out. So,
• 18:26
  like, you're saying something to get her
• 18:29
  to listen to you, that you guys obviously need to leave,
• 18:32
  and then you're challenging his and
• 18:35
  shifting his balance in one of two directions, which
• 18:38
  yours were self reliance. And what was the other one?
• 18:40
  >> Cameron: Trust.
• 18:40
  >> Skylar: Trust. So
• 18:43
  you're like, okay, fine, but. And then you're
• 18:46
  pitching kind of a concept to challenge his
• 18:49
  worldview.
• 18:50
  >> Mikayla: So, he told me to come back to him.
• 18:51
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 18:51
  >> Mikayla: And I agree because he rolled an.
• 18:54
  >> Skylar: You would, like, reluctantly agree, but you would say
• 18:57
  something in addition.
• 18:58
  >> Cameron: She said she doesn't have to agree.
• 19:00
  >> Skylar: Right. Well, it says she has to act as
• 19:03
  you say or. Or mark
• 19:06
  a condition. That's true. Yeah. You can mark a condition if you wanted
• 19:09
  to.
• 19:09
  >> Cameron: I get a negative effect first. So do you want me to gain a
• 19:12
  fatigue or. Sorry,
• 19:15
  which balance do you want me to show? Self reliance or
• 19:17
  trust or.
• 19:18
  >> Skylar: Or you mark the fatigue, right?
• 19:21
  >> Cameron: Yeah, sure.
• 19:23
  >> Skylar: Yeah. It's.
• 19:23
  >> Cameron: Or just choose one.
• 19:26
  >> Skylar: So you're gonna move fatigue or you're gonna move
• 19:29
  his balance?
• 19:31
  >> Mikayla: Well, I want him to trust. Move towards
• 19:34
  trust because I trust.
• 19:36
  >> Skylar: Right.
• 19:36
  >> Mikayla: Yeah. He has self reliance or trust. I have friendship or
• 19:39
  survival.
• 19:40
  >> Cameron: So you want me to trust you?
• 19:41
  >> Mikayla: I want you to trust me because I feel like we need to
• 19:44
  figure out Madame Yang's plan.
• 19:47
  >> Cameron: Okay. So I'm moving towards trust
• 19:50
  you. Now, mark a condition. If you want to follow through with
• 19:53
  your plan, or you can do
• 19:56
  it. You listen to me.
• 19:57
  >> Skylar: Wants you to do.
• 19:58
  >> Cameron: It's very interesting how that works.
• 20:00
  >> Skylar: It's kind of complicated, and it's something that we haven't done a lot
• 20:03
  of, which kind of makes it
• 20:05
  kind of tricky, because I feel like it's really interesting
• 20:08
  and it's really kind of cool and how you can kind of affect
• 20:11
  other characters, other player characters and how they're
• 20:14
  doing things. But obviously, there's a cost
• 20:17
  to it.
• 20:17
  >> Mikayla: I'm going to become English.
• 20:19
  >> Skylar: Oh, okay. So
• 20:21
  you call out
• 20:24
  Mika, huh? Like. Like, do it.
• 20:28
  >> Cameron: I wanted us to establish what's happening so I can play out
• 20:31
  this scene.
• 20:31
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 20:32
  >> Cameron: So I don't know what's exciting.
• 20:33
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 20:33
  >> Skylar: Okay. Okay.
• 20:34
  >> Cameron: Now.
• 20:34
  >> Skylar: So what's happening? Cause she just took a condition
• 20:37
  instead of listening to you.
• 20:38
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 20:39
  >> Skylar: So you're trying to get her to do what you
• 20:42
  want her to do.
• 20:43
  >> Mikayla: which is not. Go towards my eyes.
• 20:44
  >> Skylar: Which is not. Yeah, exactly. And she's
• 20:47
  ignoring you. She's angry. So you're gonna respond
• 20:49
  in that sense. And
• 20:52
  I'm not doing it.
• 20:53
  >> Cameron: I'm gonna trust her. Okay. Got it. Okay, so we're
• 20:56
  heading down the stairs.
• 20:57
  >> Skylar: Yes.
• 20:57
  >> Cameron: And we're getting near the bottom of the stairs. And Guo Han's right by my
• 21:00
  side. Right. And he's a little, like, a
• 21:03
  little upset because he's rock thing.
• 21:07
  I'm, like, kind of, like, patting him on the shoulder, like, you'll get him
• 21:09
  next time. Guo and I look over and I say, mikko,
• 21:12
  very quickly heading towards Madame Yang. And I
• 21:15
  imagine Bill, like, takes out his bo
• 21:18
  staff, and he sticks it in front of her to,
• 21:21
  like, slow her down, and he goes, whoa. Hey,
• 21:24
  we gotta get out of here now.
• 21:27
  >> Mikayla: I'm gonna shove it out of the way and say,
• 21:30
  you don't understand. Madame Yang has been here this whole
• 21:33
  time. She's constantly trying to attack us. We need
• 21:36
  to figure out what's going on in what her plan
• 21:39
  is.
• 21:41
  >> Cameron: Her plan is to take the
• 21:44
  blissful brew from us. And if
• 21:46
  we get captured by her, who's to say she doesn't toss us in
• 21:49
  that room?
• 21:52
  >> Mikayla: Who's to say we're gonna get caught by her?
• 21:55
  >> Cameron: All, Right. I'm gonna lower my.
• 21:57
  Both staff.
• 21:58
  >> Mikayla: I'm not saying we have to run in there blindly, but we can, you
• 22:01
  know, sneakily watch her for a little while before we
• 22:03
  leave.
• 22:04
  >> Cameron: Right here. Where are we watching
• 22:07
  from?
• 22:07
  >> Mikayla: Just, like, following her in a way, is you have your
• 22:10
  elite suit on. She's walking. She's not gonna recognize you.
• 22:13
  We'll just single file, watch.
• 22:15
  >> Cameron: Recognize you two.
• 22:18
  >> Mikayla: It'll be fine.
• 22:19
  >> Dave: Okay.
• 22:20
  >> Mikayla: There's walls and corners, and she's.
• 22:23
  She's not paying attention to us anyway.
• 22:26
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 22:28
  >> Skylar: All right. So I'm gonna say that she. I mean,
• 22:31
  she is moving in your direction. So
• 22:34
  for you and Guo, who are not. I almost
• 22:36
  mix Guo and Han at the same time. You and
• 22:39
  Guo, who are both not
• 22:42
  disguised. What are you guys doing to
• 22:45
  ensure that she doesn't just see you? And that would ruin everything,
• 22:47
  obviously.
• 22:48
  >> Mikayla: Cause she's coming to her office with this person
• 22:51
  or just with herself.
• 22:52
  >> Skylar: No, just herself. She has. I would say that the
• 22:55
  two elites are taking the person back over to
• 22:58
  their specific spot where they were working,
• 23:01
  and then she's headed towards the stairs back up to her office
• 23:03
  herself.
• 23:05
  >> Mikayla: Okay, so she's coming towards us.
• 23:07
  >> Skylar: Yep.
• 23:08
  >> Mikayla: Mister Elite man, can, I don't know, stand
• 23:11
  guard on the corner.
• 23:12
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 23:13
  >> Mikayla: Quote unquote.
• 23:14
  >> Skylar: Sure.
• 23:15
  >> Mikayla: Brock can face his way.
• 23:17
  >> Skylar: Well, Brock's side here. Yeah, Brock's side.
• 23:19
  >> Mikayla: I thought he was at the cart that bought.
• 23:20
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 23:20
  >> Skylar: Which is outside. I am outside the door.
• 23:22
  >> Cameron: I am so good at counting these leaves.
• 23:24
  >> Skylar: You guys are still inside the factory.
• 23:26
  >> Dave: Maybe we should just.
• 23:27
  >> Mikayla: Oh, he's not. I thought for some reason, I thought he
• 23:30
  was just there in the factory.
• 23:32
  >> Skylar: No, he's out back, kind of by the warehouse.
• 23:35
  >> Cameron: I'm counting so many leaves right now.
• 23:37
  >> Skylar: It's true.
• 23:38
  >> Cameron: They're gonna be so impressed.
• 23:40
  >> Mikayla: Right. Okay, so then it's just
• 23:43
  a hallway.
• 23:44
  >> Skylar: No, no, it's not even a hallway. It's a big, open factory.
• 23:47
  >> Mikayla: So we're in the big, open factory at the bottom of the
• 23:49
  staircase.
• 23:50
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 23:51
  >> Mikayla: So we can hide under the staircase, and he can just.
• 23:54
  Oh, essentially.
• 23:57
  Right.
• 23:57
  >> Skylar: In theory, you could, I'm gonna have you
• 24:00
  guys do push a lot, which is with passion.
• 24:03
  >> Dave: All right, Guo's gonna get down under the stairs, and he's
• 24:06
  also gonna pull out the cleaning
• 24:09
  rag. And just in case somebody does
• 24:12
  happen to look, he can pretend to be clean.
• 24:15
  >> Skylar: Okay. The bottom. Hey, you know, these stairs go,
• 24:18
  undusted for quite a long time.
• 24:20
  >> Mikayla: I got an eight.
• 24:22
  >> Dave: I got a seven.
• 24:24
  >> Skylar: Oh, wow.
• 24:25
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 24:25
  >> Skylar: Well, that's still a soft hit. All right, so the two of
• 24:28
  you basically dive underneath the stairs
• 24:31
  as you come. Like, down the stairs.
• 24:33
  >> Cameron: Man, you must m really saw a bad spot.
• 24:35
  >> Skylar: You hop the railing really quick, and then you kind of duck
• 24:38
  under these stairs just as Madame Yang starts
• 24:41
  walking past. No, you're good.
• 24:44
  >> Dave: Oh, my allergies. All this dust.
• 24:47
  >> Skylar: as you guys come around, you bump
• 24:49
  into somebody carrying a basket,
• 24:52
  and they spill their tea leaves all over the
• 24:55
  floor, and it starts to kind of draw some employee
• 24:58
  attention. And Madam Yang starts to kind of glance
• 25:01
  over, like she might check to see what's going on.
• 25:04
  >> Mikayla: I'll help him pick up his leaves.
• 25:05
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 25:07
  >> Mikayla: With my back. Turns towards her. I mean, I don't think I
• 25:10
  do anything, but.
• 25:11
  >> Skylar: Well, all right. Sounds good. What are you doing, Bill?
• 25:13
  >> Cameron: I'm gonna walk over and, like, kind of like walk
• 25:16
  between myself and madame Yang and, like, look at the
• 25:19
  group of them and go and be like, hey, pick
• 25:22
  those leaves up. We don't want no sloppy
• 25:25
  accidents here on duty.
• 25:27
  >> Skylar: All right? And then since you are, you are dressed
• 25:30
  like this, and then this is kind of like you trying to,
• 25:33
  trying to get her to not notice. I'm gonna have you do a
• 25:35
  trick so it's with
• 25:38
  creativity.
• 25:40
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 25:40
  >> Cameron: Six.
• 25:41
  >> Skylar: Six what?
• 25:42
  >> Cameron: I have a negative.
• 25:43
  >> Skylar: but you could take a fatigue to roll with your balance if
• 25:46
  you'd like.
• 25:47
  >> Cameron: Zero.
• 25:48
  >> Skylar: Didn't she? Oh, yeah.
• 25:49
  >> Mikayla: She didn't. She went towards self reliance. I
• 25:52
  push it back towards stress.
• 25:53
  >> Skylar: Gotcha. You're right, you're right. Okay, so a
• 25:56
  six. Well, I mean, basically, yeah. You
• 25:59
  fail to trick them.
• 26:01
  >> Skylar: So she starts to approach,
• 26:04
  and she says, you two
• 26:07
  pick up those.
• 26:10
  Wait a minute.
• 26:13
  >> Mikayla: Those aren't hot leaf juice
• 26:15
  uniforms.
• 26:17
  >> Skylar: Who are you? And you've got your
• 26:20
  back, like, turned to her.
• 26:21
  >> Mikayla: Is there water around?
• 26:23
  >> Skylar: Yes, there's boiling water.
• 26:25
  >> Cameron: They still open the room.
• 26:27
  >> Mikayla: I never had a buggy because I was reading letters.
• 26:29
  >> Cameron: You had a bucket. You just immediately.
• 26:31
  >> Mikayla: Okay.
• 26:33
  >> Skylar: Using it. Yeah.
• 26:34
  >> Dave: Why would have left it up in the room?
• 26:37
  >> Mikayla: So there is no water.
• 26:38
  >> Skylar: There's no water immediately around you. I'd say maybe like,
• 26:41
  10ft away. There's the boiling water from the vats where
• 26:44
  they're boiling the tea leaves.
• 26:46
  >> Cameron: 10Ft away.
• 26:47
  >> Skylar: Yeah, about 10ft away.
• 26:48
  >> Cameron: It's right next to it.
• 26:49
  >> Skylar: It's not far. So those are in the back of the
• 26:52
  facility.
• 26:52
  >> Mikayla: So I literally can,
• 26:56
  as I turn around, I can just
• 26:58
  water bend, motion it.
• 27:01
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 27:01
  >> Mikayla: Swing the water in front of her face and then run.
• 27:04
  >> Skylar: You could? Yeah, yeah, you could. Absolutely.
• 27:06
  >> Mikayla: I mean, it doesn't have to be in front of her.
• 27:07
  >> Skylar: Yeah. Do a rely on your skills and training on that one.
• 27:11
  >> Mikayla: Yeah, it's a six.
• 27:14
  >> Skylar: Unless you want to roll with balance.
• 27:16
  >> Mikayla: I can mark a fatigue and add plus three.
• 27:18
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 27:19
  >> Mikayla: For survival.
• 27:20
  >> Skylar: Yep.
• 27:21
  >> Mikayla: Okay, I'll do that. Okay, so that'd be
• 27:24
  nine.
• 27:24
  >> Skylar: Okay. So, you do it imperfectly.
• 27:28
  So, okay, so here's your situation. You
• 27:30
  look over, you see those vats of boiling
• 27:33
  water, and you're like, oh, I'm
• 27:36
  gonna fling it at Madame Yang. I feel
• 27:39
  confident enough in my ability that I can
• 27:42
  throw hot, steaming water into Madame Yang's
• 27:45
  face and we can get an escape. But then you
• 27:47
  remember that bill in his hot leaf
• 27:50
  juice elite costume is right next
• 27:53
  to her. Oh, shoot.
• 27:57
  >> Mikayla: What the heck?
• 27:59
  >> Skylar: You can accept those consequences, or you can take an
• 28:02
  additional fatigue in order to kind of
• 28:04
  dodge Bill. Taking
• 28:07
  water.
• 28:08
  >> Dave: What's another scar? Right, Bill?
• 28:10
  >> Cameron: Yeah, I know.
• 28:12
  >> Skylar: So you either can hurt Bill.
• 28:13
  >> Cameron: Let's just throw this hot water at the burn. Victor.
• 28:18
  >> Mikayla: I don't know anything about your story. I don't really want to hurt
• 28:21
  Bill, though.
• 28:22
  >> Skylar: You can take a fatigue to basically do it
• 28:25
  without those consequences happen.
• 28:28
  Okay. So if you take that last fatigue.
• 28:30
  >> Mikayla: And they did already take it.
• 28:32
  >> Cameron: Double fatigue.
• 28:33
  >> Skylar: What?
• 28:33
  >> Mikayla: She already took a fatigue to get to a nine.
• 28:36
  >> Skylar: Well, that was to roll with her balance. I think you can
• 28:39
  still do this. To,
• 28:41
  take taken. You can still do this and take an extra
• 28:44
  fatigue to get rid of the. The negative. Basically
• 28:48
  do it. I can take it back. A fatigue. But here's the thing. Here's the
• 28:51
  thing. From now on, if you were to take a fatigue
• 28:54
  for whatever, if you got attacked or anything, you have to
• 28:57
  start taking conditions, and then the second
• 29:00
  you run out of conditions, you're out.
• 29:02
  >> Mikayla: Well, I really don't want to hurt.
• 29:04
  >> Cameron: Do it.
• 29:04
  >> Skylar: That's.
• 29:05
  >> Cameron: I can take it.
• 29:07
  >> Mikayla: Bill hasn't done anything to me. For me to.
• 29:09
  >> Cameron: Well, it is an accident.
• 29:12
  >> Mikayla: Well, I understand.
• 29:13
  >> Skylar: but I guess the question in Micah's mind is I
• 29:16
  could use a little bit more oomph.
• 29:19
  in my abilities and my power, I can push myself a little bit
• 29:22
  harder. Which is why you're taking fatigue. That's why they call it fatigue.
• 29:25
  It's not damage. It's not health points. As far as
• 29:28
  yourself, I could do that and
• 29:31
  ensure that my friend doesn't get hurt.
• 29:34
  >> Mikayla: But I'm also. If we're
• 29:37
  playing with where my
• 29:40
  balance is, my balance is further away from
• 29:42
  friendship. I'm.
• 29:44
  >> Skylar: Oh, that's who you are.
• 29:45
  >> Mikayla: Mainly focus on survival. So I
• 29:48
  think going off of that, I probably
• 29:51
  would just talk it.
• 29:52
  >> Cameron: Yep.
• 29:53
  >> Mikayla: And just hope for the best. Like.
• 29:54
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 29:55
  >> Cameron: Makes sense.
• 29:55
  >> Skylar: All right. All right.
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• 30:50
  >> Cameron: No, because you're more prioritizing getting away than who
• 30:53
  you throw it at, basically.
• 30:54
  >> Skylar: And I think there's also that underlying desire
• 30:57
  to get Madam Yang that you've been
• 31:00
  showcasing for the last, like, four episodes.
• 31:03
  >> Cameron: You got tunnel vision. You just saw madam.
• 31:05
  >> Mikayla: She just makes me so mad.
• 31:06
  >> Skylar: Here's an opportunity to not only, like, distract her and get
• 31:09
  away. But I can even hurt Madam Yang. I'm gonna take it.
• 31:12
  Okay. I like that. I think that makes a lot of sense, narratively speaking.
• 31:15
  So you reach out with your waterbending power,
• 31:18
  and using one of your forms, you fling some
• 31:20
  hot boiling water in the direction of Madame Ying,
• 31:23
  accidentally, spraying Bill. Bill, I need
• 31:26
  you to take a condition.
• 31:28
  >> Cameron: Yeah, I'm sorry.
• 31:31
  Oh. Yep. I immediately know which one I'm taking.
• 31:33
  Afraid.
• 31:34
  >> Skylar: Afraid, yes. That's. Oh, that makes so
• 31:37
  much sense. The hot, scalding water
• 31:40
  splashes, droplets onto your skin,
• 31:43
  and you suddenly have sort of a,
• 31:46
  PTSD. You recall the kind of PTSD?
• 31:49
  Yeah. You recall a situation from your early childhood
• 31:51
  involving the. Involving heat.
• 31:53
  >> Cameron: My nightmare.
• 31:54
  >> Skylar: Exactly. And it brings that nightmare back to you
• 31:57
  as you kind of have a quick
• 32:00
  flash of being inside of a burning, like,
• 32:03
  shed or, barn. I guess it was
• 32:06
  a barn. and just feeling those flames licking
• 32:08
  at your skin and scalding you.
• 32:11
  >> Cameron: So as Bill gets hit by this,
• 32:14
  he's gonna yell out in pain.
• 32:16
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 32:17
  >> Cameron: And fall to his knees.
• 32:18
  >> Skylar: What? Okay.
• 32:20
  >> Cameron: you do that holding his shoulder.
• 32:23
  >> Skylar: And madame Yang also is kind of doing that.
• 32:26
  She got a big old spray straight to the face. She wears, like,
• 32:28
  fairly thick robes, but her face was not protected,
• 32:31
  nor was it expecting the situation. So she's clutching
• 32:34
  at her face, screaming.
• 32:37
  >> Mikayla: It, buzz it, but.
• 32:40
  >> Skylar: And, she also falls to the ground. I
• 32:43
  think at this point, you guys have caused enough of a stir to get a
• 32:46
  lot of people's attentions. a couple of hot leaf juice
• 32:49
  elites, the ones that were hauling the kid back to his
• 32:52
  spot to work. they probably are noticing, and
• 32:55
  they're probably gonna start moving in this direction. What are you guys
• 32:57
  doing? Bill is kind of freaking out. He's
• 33:00
  having a moment.
• 33:01
  >> Mikayla: So I saw this.
• 33:03
  >> Skylar: Correct?
• 33:03
  >> Mikayla: As I turned around and flinging the water.
• 33:06
  How far away is
• 33:09
  guo?
• 33:10
  >> Skylar: He's probably right. I think both of you are probably within
• 33:13
  about five ish feet.
• 33:17
  >> Mikayla: since I've already turned around, I'm gonna
• 33:20
  reach out for Bill.
• 33:21
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 33:22
  >> Mikayla: I mean, I don't know if he'll accept my help since I
• 33:25
  just burned him, but. And then I'm just gonna
• 33:28
  grab him and try to run towards
• 33:30
  where we were told the exit was okay.
• 33:33
  >> Skylar: Sounds good, I would say. I'm gonna have you roll
• 33:36
  comfort and support. So you're gonna roll with
• 33:38
  harmony.
• 33:39
  >> Mikayla: Comfort and support. You mean guiding
• 33:42
  comfort?
• 33:44
  >> Cameron: Yep.
• 33:45
  >> Mikayla: Okay, well, I have a negative to that since I'm angry,
• 33:48
  so,
• 33:50
  >> Skylar: Oh, yes. I didn't even think about that.
• 33:53
  But, hey, that's how this kind of works out sometimes. I mean, all
• 33:56
  things considered, first glow.
• 33:57
  >> Mikayla: When I did it, what did you say that was with. Sorry.
• 34:00
  >> Skylar: harmony.
• 34:00
  >> Mikayla: Harmony.
• 34:01
  >> Skylar: Yep.
• 34:01
  >> Mikayla: Okay. Okay.
• 34:04
  Well, I got a two.
• 34:06
  >> Skylar: A two. Okay. I think.
• 34:09
  >> Cameron: Yeah, you just failed.
• 34:11
  >> Skylar: Yeah. He, So you reach out to try to, like,
• 34:14
  get Bill up or whatever, and he does not seem like he's
• 34:17
  willing. He's freaking out. I mean, he's. He
• 34:19
  probably even pulls away from you, especially because you were kind of the person
• 34:22
  that did it. He kind of pulls away from you. And I know I'm
• 34:25
  kind of speaking for you, but I just assume that's kind of what that
• 34:28
  would look like.
• 34:32
  >> Cameron: Sure.
• 34:32
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 34:33
  >> Cameron: Kind of. Yeah. I flinch away from it because she kind of, like, reached
• 34:36
  out and touched the. Oh, the burn,
• 34:39
  the fresh wound. And
• 34:42
  Bill looks up at her, and he's got tears streaming down his
• 34:45
  eyes right now. And he kind of, like,
• 34:48
  smacks her hand out of the way.
• 34:50
  >> Mikayla: And I'm just gonna say, we have to go, and I'm just gonna run.
• 34:53
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 34:53
  >> Mikayla: I'm thinking survival. Okay. That's where I'm at.
• 34:56
  >> Skylar: All right. You start to bolt towards that back door. Guo, what are you doing?
• 34:59
  >> Dave: Guo rolls out from underneath the stairs,
• 35:03
  reaches into his pouch and says, eat dirt,
• 35:05
  blockheads. And he
• 35:07
  earthbends a scattershot of
• 35:10
  pebbles towards the guards.
• 35:11
  >> Skylar: Nice.
• 35:12
  >> Dave: Coming towards us.
• 35:13
  >> Skylar: All right, sounds good. I'm gonna do rely, on your skills in
• 35:16
  training, which is with
• 35:19
  focus.
• 35:23
  >> Dave: Seven.
• 35:24
  >> Skylar: Seven. Okay. So this is another one of those situations where you can do
• 35:27
  it and accept the consequences. Or,
• 35:30
  taking a fatigue to, focus a little bit more.
• 35:33
  So, basically, as you pull this dirt out from or
• 35:35
  maybe a handful of pebbles, whatever the case, you earth bend
• 35:38
  them out of your little pouch that you're so used to having. And you get
• 35:41
  ready to fling them. And you notice all the workers, these
• 35:44
  kids that are all standing around. I mean, it's a pretty full
• 35:47
  factory. And it's gonna be really tough to aim
• 35:50
  around these kids and hit just the elite.
• 35:52
  So you can choose to do so, you can
• 35:55
  choose to fire it as is, and you're probably gonna hit some
• 35:58
  kids, or you can choose to take
• 36:01
  the fatigue, and then you can
• 36:04
  focus your powers a little bit more specifically and manage
• 36:07
  to hit just the elite members.
• 36:09
  >> Dave: Grove's just gonna go for it,
• 36:13
  you know?
• 36:13
  >> Skylar: Okay, sounds good. So you just hurl this
• 36:16
  mess of.
• 36:17
  >> Dave: Stones like a bunch of grains of
• 36:20
  rice full
• 36:23
  circle.
• 36:23
  >> Skylar: And they go flying towards the, elite members.
• 36:27
  striking them, yes. But also striking some of the kids.
• 36:30
  Interesting, opportunity arises, because
• 36:33
  as these kids get hit with these rocks in
• 36:36
  pain, they start to reach down. And then all of a sudden, they start to
• 36:39
  kind of look wildly around them, and you hear people screaming out,
• 36:42
  where am I? Where am I?
• 36:44
  >> Dave: Who are all these people?
• 36:46
  >> Skylar: What is this place? And they start
• 36:48
  panicking, causing. Opening up a little.
• 36:51
  I know this is technically not what you're supposed to do when you technically don't
• 36:54
  roll the extra opportunity, but it is
• 36:56
  narratively part of the situation.
• 36:59
  So, these kids seem to have been awoken from
• 37:02
  whatever was kind of hypnotizing them and holding them here against
• 37:05
  their will. What are you doing? Now that you've kind
• 37:08
  of created this distraction,
• 37:11
  and a big distraction at that.
• 37:12
  >> Dave: just gonna follow Mika. She. Well,
• 37:15
  actually, no, she's. She's helping.
• 37:19
  >> Skylar: She's headed out this door.
• 37:21
  >> Mikayla: She pulled away from me, and I said, dude, we gotta
• 37:24
  go. And I start running, because I'm thinking
• 37:27
  in order to survive, we have to leave.
• 37:29
  >> Skylar: Right?
• 37:30
  >> Dave: I'll be like, Bill.
• 37:33
  Bill. Ash,
• 37:35
  we gotta go.
• 37:37
  >> Skylar: Oh, he's using the real name. Oh, my gosh.
• 37:41
  okay. I'm gonna have you also do a comforter
• 37:43
  support.
• 37:44
  >> Mikayla: Ash. Catch.
• 37:45
  >> Cameron: Does he get an advantage or anything for that?
• 37:48
  >> Skylar: Ah, sure. I'll give you a plus one. Oh, you don't need
• 37:50
  it.
• 37:52
  >> Dave: What is that? Comfort.
• 37:53
  >> Skylar: Harmony, you got a ridiculously high
• 37:56
  roll.
• 37:57
  >> Dave: Eleven.
• 37:57
  >> Skylar: An eleven. Goodness. Okay, so on
• 38:00
  a hit, they decide if they want to open up to you. If they don't, they
• 38:03
  can mark a condition and take plus one forward against
• 38:06
  them. or if they do. And this is kind of in
• 38:09
  situations where you might be in, like, an actual physical
• 38:12
  altercation with a friend.
• 38:13
  >> Cameron: Yeah, ten plus. You can actually. I will
• 38:16
  listen what you say. And you also can
• 38:19
  shift my balance one direction if you want.
• 38:21
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 38:23
  >> Cameron: Mine are self reliance and trust. So, it feels a little obvious which one
• 38:26
  I'm doing here.
• 38:28
  >> Dave: I'm gonna go actually shift you towards rely on your
• 38:30
  skills. I'm gonna be like,
• 38:33
  we gotta go. Come on.
• 38:36
  You're. You're the strongest guy I know.
• 38:40
  Good thing Brock's not.
• 38:42
  >> Cameron: Brock sheds single tear.
• 38:45
  >> Skylar: Yeah. From a distance, Brock as he's putting.
• 38:47
  >> Cameron: A leaf, as he's holding not one, but two
• 38:50
  leaves at once. Feeling, rather full of him.
• 38:52
  >> Mikayla: How about spit out my water?
• 38:55
  >> Skylar: So, just to clarify for anybody listening, I just wanted to say that
• 38:58
  my cheat sheet that I printed said comfort and
• 39:01
  support. But, yeah, I don't
• 39:04
  know if this is like, an early version or something,
• 39:06
  because guidance, comfort is very much. Yeah, the
• 39:09
  official one. So, okay, so, they embrace your guidance.
• 39:12
  You get to, Bill, you get to clear a condition
• 39:15
  or to fatigue. And then, because
• 39:18
  he got a ten plus, he also shifted your balance.
• 39:21
  >> Cameron: And I'm no longer afraid.
• 39:22
  >> Skylar: Awesome. Well, that. Hey, that makes so much sense.
• 39:25
  as for the part where it says that you, guo,
• 39:28
  get to ask him a question, I think maybe that'll come a little bit later.
• 39:31
  I don't think you would. As you're rushing out of the
• 39:34
  factory.
• 39:35
  >> Cameron: They must answer honestly.
• 39:38
  >> Skylar: Do, be thinking about that, because, he will, thanks to
• 39:41
  your help. and kind of this. This relationship
• 39:43
  that you're developing between each other, he's gonna.
• 39:46
  He's gonna offer up some information about himself later,
• 39:49
  so I'm gonna set that aside for now. As you guys are rushing out
• 39:52
  of the factory, right outside Brock, you see
• 39:55
  him, neatly.
• 39:56
  >> Cameron: Do I get to do something before I leave?
• 39:57
  >> Skylar: Oh, sure, yeah. If there's something you wanted to do.
• 40:00
  >> Cameron: Well, before I go is,
• 40:02
  do I know madam Yanks a firebender?
• 40:05
  >> Skylar: I think, you didn't
• 40:08
  see her do fire bender.
• 40:10
  >> Cameron: What's it Brock told us on our trip?
• 40:11
  >> Skylar: Brock, which. Yeah, you guys had a lot of time do.
• 40:14
  You would have mentioned to the group.
• 40:16
  >> Cameron: And we, like, flash back to the cart. Hey, by the way, guys, madam Yang's a
• 40:19
  firebender.
• 40:20
  >> Cameron: I mean, I feel like Brock would tell us that. Like, he'd be
• 40:22
  bragging, like, oh, yeah, I fought a fire better. Yeah, she
• 40:25
  definitely, firebender. go away from me. fire
• 40:28
  boosters.
• 40:28
  >> Dave: Did you not use any firebending in the tea
• 40:31
  party?
• 40:33
  >> Cameron: I don't think so.
• 40:33
  >> Skylar: I don't think so.
• 40:35
  >> Mikayla: I didn't.
• 40:35
  >> Skylar: She didn't really do any fighting.
• 40:37
  >> Cameron: Okay, Brock, just catch.
• 40:40
  >> Skylar: The first time we saw her, he's.
• 40:42
  >> Cameron: Firebending was with Brock's fight, right? yeah, that's when
• 40:45
  he revealed she was a firebender.
• 40:46
  >> Skylar: Yes, but I think that. Absolutely. I think
• 40:49
  Brock, like I said, you guys would have had a few hours at
• 40:52
  the. To get to the factory in the first place.
• 40:55
  I think it would have gotten mentioned either by Brock or maybe even
• 40:58
  by the hot leaf juice employee. Like, maybe that was.
• 41:01
  But whatever the case, I think. Sure, I think would have. Maybe not.
• 41:04
  >> Cameron: So, Bill, he hears his name,
• 41:06
  and he, like, wipes the. He wipes the tears
• 41:09
  off his face, and he, like, grabs his bo staff that he
• 41:12
  was holding, and he, like, uses it as a support
• 41:15
  to stand.
• 41:16
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 41:17
  >> Cameron: And then he turns, like, looks over his shoulder, looks at Madame
• 41:20
  Yang, and is she still, like, trying to get the water out of her face
• 41:23
  and stuff? Yeah, she's just, He just yells,
• 41:25
  screw you,
• 41:27
  firebender, and he's gonna just take a
• 41:30
  crack at the side of her head with a.
• 41:32
  >> Skylar: Little sad and run off.
• 41:34
  >> Cameron: You hear the crowds, behind you.
• 41:36
  >> Cameron: Do I get a bonus with her being blinded or whatever?
• 41:38
  >> Skylar: yeah, I would say that she's stunned or something.
• 41:41
  Yeah, but she kind of would have.
• 41:43
  >> Cameron: Been alerted by your voice as to where the blows coming from.
• 41:45
  >> Cameron: She doesn't know what I'm doing, though. That's fair. That's fair
• 41:49
  call.
• 41:49
  >> Skylar: yeah, I would say she's stunned. I don't know if you'd get a bonus, but she
• 41:52
  is basically disabled at the moment, and, I
• 41:55
  mean, you're addedly disabled.
• 41:57
  >> Cameron: Well, I've asked because I rolled.
• 41:59
  >> Skylar: You would get a plus one.
• 42:01
  yeah. For, like, what, empower? Well, no,
• 42:04
  not empowered.
• 42:05
  >> Mikayla: Or would she be impaired? Which one?
• 42:07
  >> Skylar: It's basically, it's just like, you're
• 42:09
  prepared is what you're. Okay.
• 42:12
  >> Cameron: It's. Or you could say Mika helped me out
• 42:14
  coincidentally.
• 42:15
  >> Skylar: Sure.
• 42:15
  >> Mikayla: Sure.
• 42:16
  >> Cameron: Which is a plus one. Anyways. I got a
• 42:19
  ten.
• 42:19
  >> Skylar: Nice. Okay, wait. I mean,
• 42:22
  straightforward. what were we doing? Rely on your skills and training, probably.
• 42:24
  Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
• 42:26
  >> Cameron: Wham.
• 42:26
  >> Skylar: You just come down and just. Absolutely
• 42:29
  just lay into it, right across the head
• 42:32
  crack. You hear, and she goes down.
• 42:35
  she kind of catches herself, but you can kind of see her head is just,
• 42:38
  like, wobbling. She's got one hand over her face,
• 42:41
  which is, you know, obviously got burns. she's wobbling
• 42:44
  from, like, just the dizziness of the impact. Probably
• 42:47
  has a concussion at this point. And then you
• 42:50
  go sprinting out the door.
• 42:51
  >> Cameron: Yep. Chasing after everyone.
• 42:52
  >> Skylar: Bam. And then you run out of there. She is has
• 42:55
  no ability right now to chase after you guys by any
• 42:58
  means. the elites were distracted thanks to
• 43:01
  Guo's, pebble attack. Even if they
• 43:03
  do, manage to kind of put
• 43:06
  themselves together, they're gonna have a heck of a thing trying
• 43:09
  to help Madam Yang or stopping the kids
• 43:12
  that are freaking out, running around, which is causing more kids to
• 43:15
  freak out and run around at this point. kind of
• 43:17
  spreading pneumonia. Exactly. Helter
• 43:20
  skelter. And you
• 43:23
  guys go running out the door, meeting up with Brock, who's
• 43:26
  outside. All right, Brock, you're finally in the scene, guys.
• 43:29
  >> Cameron: I've been counting these leaves.
• 43:31
  >> Cameron: He sees those deaths sprinting up.
• 43:33
  >> Skylar: 364.
• 43:35
  >> Cameron: Well, I see I got 364 dark green
• 43:38
  ones, and then, like, 116 light green.
• 43:41
  >> Mikayla: Dude, you can tell us all about it later, but we have
• 43:44
  to get out of here.
• 43:45
  >> Cameron: Why?
• 43:45
  >> Cameron: What's up? What happened?
• 43:48
  >> Mikayla: stuff hit the fan.
• 43:50
  >> Cameron: Okay. I mean, but what about
• 43:53
  the rest of the leaves?
• 43:55
  >> Mikayla: Somebody else will count them. Okay, we literally gotta get out of
• 43:58
  here.
• 43:58
  >> Cameron: Okay, cool, cool, cool.
• 44:00
  >> Skylar: All right, so you guys start rushing towards, I assume, the
• 44:02
  back entrance kind of exit.
• 44:04
  >> Cameron: Closest?
• 44:05
  >> Skylar: Oh, yeah, this is definitely the closest. So, here's my question to you
• 44:07
  guys.
• 44:08
  >> Cameron: Towards the exit where I took the guard out.
• 44:11
  >> Skylar: Well, that was the front.
• 44:14
  Yeah. There's gonna be one guard tower in the
• 44:17
  back, but, yeah, you guys. So I'm assuming you're sprinting towards the back. So
• 44:20
  there's two options. You can go around the warehouse, or you can go through the
• 44:23
  warehouse. But you can see through the doors of the warehouse. Both doors
• 44:26
  are open. The door at the front of the warehouse and the door at the end of the warehouse.
• 44:29
  Cause people are constantly, like, bringing stuff in. There's not a lot of
• 44:32
  employees in here. They're all just regular employees.
• 44:34
  They've got either a hand cart and they're bringing it in,
• 44:38
  or taking boxes off hand carts and putting them on, like, big
• 44:40
  shelves that come.
• 44:41
  >> Cameron: So that's the direct route.
• 44:42
  >> Skylar: Yeah. Or you can go around the
• 44:45
  warehouse if you want.
• 44:46
  >> Cameron: There's no, like, alarms going off right now, are there?
• 44:49
  >> Skylar: No.
• 44:49
  >> Cameron: So why didn't we just take the cart and then just nonchalantly
• 44:52
  leave and get paid on the way out?
• 44:54
  >> Skylar: Well, you haven't been fully unloaded. You're still counting.
• 44:56
  >> Cameron: Oh, yeah.
• 44:56
  >> Cameron: And you're right. So we gotta just all go back. We can
• 44:59
  all count the leaves.
• 45:01
  >> Mikayla: Absolutely not.
• 45:03
  >> Cameron: Or we just dump all the stuff from the cart and then
• 45:06
  just get back in line. Nonchalantly leave, take some money
• 45:09
  on the way out. Just saying.
• 45:11
  >> Cameron: Like I'm saying, let's just get out of here.
• 45:13
  >> Mikayla: Yeah, yeah.
• 45:13
  >> Cameron: But I mean, what a way to draw less attention, I would think.
• 45:16
  At least.
• 45:17
  >> Skylar: I mean, just cause the alarms haven't been proverbially set off
• 45:20
  yet doesn't mean it won't take long. Been
• 45:22
  made.
• 45:23
  >> Cameron: You've been made.
• 45:25
  >> Mikayla: I literally threw boiling hot water in Madame
• 45:28
  Yang's face. She's not gonna be super happy.
• 45:31
  We, need to get out.
• 45:32
  >> Cameron: But what better way. It's like a double screw
• 45:35
  you is to, like, take more of her money.
• 45:37
  >> Cameron: Oh, yeah. That'll really show her. Let's get out.
• 45:40
  >> Skylar: clarify, as you guys are having this discussion amongst yourselves, are
• 45:43
  you doing so good. Going through the warehouse or around the
• 45:45
  warehouse.
• 45:47
  >> Cameron: I mean, might as well just. Which would draw less
• 45:50
  attention.
• 45:50
  >> Skylar: Honestly. I mean, actually, is this a
• 45:53
  role? This would be an assess the situation kind of a situation.
• 45:59
  Brock is. Brock is honestly the most, like, calm.
• 46:01
  >> Cameron: Yeah. He's been out here a while.
• 46:03
  >> Cameron: I've been counting so many leaves.
• 46:04
  >> Skylar: Guys. He's been assistant. Assessing the situation.
• 46:08
  >> Cameron: He has. That's all he's been doing.
• 46:10
  >> Skylar: Creativity. Nine.
• 46:12
  >> Cameron: Okay, there you go.
• 46:13
  >> Skylar: You get to ask me one of the questions on the table.
• 46:15
  >> Cameron: What is going to,
• 46:16
  >> Skylar: On the table, probably what is the. Either the
• 46:19
  biggest threat, what should be on the lookout for?
• 46:22
  >> Cameron: What's the best way out of the factory?
• 46:25
  >> Skylar: out of the factory, the whole campus.
• 46:27
  >> Cameron: Out of the campus, yes.
• 46:28
  >> Skylar: So, I'm gonna say that you notice an aspect here. You're
• 46:31
  thinking through the situation. You saw from a distance,
• 46:34
  the factory setting, the kid. Give you a little bit of a
• 46:36
  rundown. You remember seeing the watchtower. You remember seeing
• 46:39
  the fact that there's the, back
• 46:42
  exit, and there were two hot leaf juice
• 46:44
  elites that were over there, and then, of course, one up in the watchtower.
• 46:47
  Now, you know that if you go around,
• 46:50
  and this isn't me pushing for anything particular,
• 46:53
  but I'm just saying that if you go around the warehouse, the warehouse is, like,
• 46:56
  literally covered. Like, it's like a roofed warehouse. So if
• 46:59
  you go through the warehouse, the guy in the watchtower is a lot less
• 47:02
  likely to see. See you. Until you're basically at the
• 47:05
  exit going around the warehouse, they'll be able to see
• 47:08
  you, running. That's probably going to catch their attention.
• 47:11
  On the other hand, there's the fact that you're going to have to try to get through
• 47:13
  this exit where there's two hot leaf juice employees
• 47:16
  standing there.
• 47:18
  >> Mikayla: So it sounds like you're saying the best way.
• 47:21
  >> Cameron: We're going to have to pass these two no matter what.
• 47:24
  >> Skylar: unless. Oh,
• 47:25
  >> Cameron: Man. Unless. If you. Stealth.
• 47:26
  >> Skylar: Unless you wanted to run all the way across the harvesting
• 47:30
  area, where that broken down chunk offenses. But there's also the.
• 47:32
  The watchtower there as well. Yeah, but it is quite a
• 47:35
  ways, so it would take more time.
• 47:37
  >> Mikayla: You said the best way is basically to go around.
• 47:40
  >> Skylar: Well, no, through the warehouse. You won't get noticed as
• 47:43
  soon by the Watchtower.
• 47:44
  >> Cameron: Oh, we could get noticed by, like, madame Yang yelling out, like,
• 47:47
  hey, those guys dead. Those people.
• 47:51
  But, I mean, she's probably got a concussion. So what are the odds that she actually is
• 47:54
  able to correctly identify us?
• 47:55
  >> Mikayla: Yeah, I probably reminded her that'd be, like, the
• 47:58
  best thing.
• 47:59
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 47:59
  >> Skylar: She has a concussion.
• 48:00
  >> Mikayla: No, if I blinded her with the.
• 48:01
  >> Cameron: Water in her face, and then these times, they don't know.
• 48:04
  You're not really supposed to sleep on a concussion.
• 48:06
  >> Mikayla: literally having a slave labor.
• 48:09
  Don't say wow. Like, that's.
• 48:14
  >> Skylar: Less of let's take out the villain in a semi
• 48:16
  horrible way and more of. Man, you guys are just like the
• 48:19
  innocence of, youth. Youth?
• 48:22
  Yeah. Really being lost here.
• 48:23
  >> Mikayla: I know.
• 48:24
  >> Cameron: You got to break a few eggs to make anomalies.
• 48:26
  >> Skylar: I guess so.
• 48:26
  >> Mikayla: You know she killed somebody. I'm assuming she's
• 48:29
  the one who killed somebody who took me in.
• 48:32
  >> Cameron: When you can just say Okaran, you can just say his
• 48:35
  name.
• 48:36
  >> Skylar: People have been listening.
• 48:37
  >> Cameron: He's still with us?
• 48:38
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 48:39
  >> Mikayla: Is he?
• 48:40
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 48:40
  >> Skylar: Okay, so you guys are going through the warehouse?
• 48:42
  >> Mikayla: I guess so.
• 48:43
  >> Dave: Why do you think I've been carrying around this urn?
• 48:48
  >> Mikayla: Wait, what?
• 48:50
  >> Cameron: We're going through the warehouse, full speed. Is that the plan?
• 48:53
  >> Cameron: Sure.
• 48:53
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 48:54
  >> Skylar: Go to the warehouse, dodging employees who are putting
• 48:56
  boxes up. They kind of look a little bit surprised, but these are
• 48:59
  not, like, the enforcer employees, right? These guys, they're
• 49:02
  like, whoa, you know, jumping out of the way, just trying not
• 49:05
  to have you guys run into them or knock stuff out of their
• 49:08
  hands or whatever the case. you guys get to the end of the
• 49:10
  warehouse, and you can see, just, like, straight ahead of you
• 49:13
  is the exit. You see some farmers that are going through,
• 49:16
  and you see, luckily enough for you, one of
• 49:19
  the farmers seems to be upset. as you guys are kind of
• 49:22
  approaching that area, you hear him say.
• 49:24
  >> Dave: Well, that ain't right. I got
• 49:27
  15 yuan for my shipment
• 49:30
  last week, and you're telling me I'm only getting
• 49:32
  ten yuan this week? It's the
• 49:35
  same amount. How does that make any sense? I
• 49:38
  want my appropriate amount.
• 49:40
  >> Skylar: And you hear, one of you hears a familiar voice
• 49:43
  inside. Guo hears
• 49:46
  the voice of Chang
• 49:48
  Sanani.
• 49:50
  >> Dave: Saying, well, the prices have
• 49:53
  gone down recently due to an
• 49:55
  overabundance in inventory,
• 49:58
  so your leaves simply
• 50:01
  arent as valuable as they were when you
• 50:03
  last brought them in. Its a simple concept of
• 50:06
  supply and demand. Theres no demand for your
• 50:09
  leaves, so we have far less need
• 50:12
  for them. What are you not enough need?
• 50:15
  You guys seem like you had plenty of need last time.
• 50:18
  Also, I've got a whole bunch of these
• 50:21
  trees making these leaves. Where else am I supposed
• 50:23
  to sell them? well, I suppose that's just too bad, isn't
• 50:26
  it? All I can offer is two
• 50:29
  options here. Either you sell
• 50:32
  me your tea leaves at the price I offered,
• 50:35
  or you can take them to another
• 50:38
  nearby tea factory. Except.
• 50:40
  Oh, that's right. There
• 50:43
  are no other nearby tea
• 50:46
  factories.
• 50:47
  >> Skylar: All this is going on as you guys are running up. So before
• 50:50
  I just, like, close out the situation, and he moves on, and you guys are
• 50:53
  like, wow. Thanks for the opportunity. What are you guys
• 50:55
  doing?
• 50:56
  >> Cameron: He's talking to one of the guards.
• 50:57
  >> Skylar: Yeah. he's talking to the guy that runs the finances, that
• 51:00
  works in the. In the back. So there's the two enforcer guards, and then there's the guy
• 51:03
  that actually, like, gives people the money and writes it into the books and all this other stuff.
• 51:06
  And that happens to be Chang Sanani, the guy
• 51:09
  that used to run the carnival. That
• 51:12
  bill was honestly.
• 51:14
  Sorry, what did I say?
• 51:16
  >> Mikayla: Oh, geez.
• 51:17
  >> Skylar: That guo was essentially enslaved
• 51:21
  at practically, the two. Obviously the two
• 51:23
  elite guards, they're kind of, like, over there, as
• 51:26
  well, kind of grouped in with this whole situation, trying to deal with
• 51:29
  this farmer because he's getting a little bit rowdy.
• 51:31
  >> Dave: What? What's he doing here?
• 51:35
  Guys, it's the jerk from the
• 51:38
  carnival. Oh, my ex boss.
• 51:48
  Sometimes you got a little creepy.
• 51:51
  >> Cameron: That mean that guy you told us about,
• 51:54
  that. What mean guy?
• 51:56
  >> Mikayla: Like, shouldn't we just keep going? Are we actively
• 51:59
  running?
• 51:59
  >> Cameron: Yes.
• 52:00
  >> Dave: Feel free to whack that guy with your stick.
• 52:02
  >> Cameron: A drive by. Got it. And I, just, like,
• 52:05
  brace myself to just get the whacking on the side of
• 52:08
  this cart.
• 52:08
  >> Skylar: Holy cow. Okay, so, like, there's a cart,
• 52:11
  like, right in the middle of this exit, and there's definitely enough space for,
• 52:14
  like, a single file line of people to
• 52:17
  run through either side of it. This, the left
• 52:20
  side being the side that's directly adjacent to. It's
• 52:23
  like a toll booth almost.
• 52:25
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 52:26
  >> Skylar: Or, like, if you go to, like. And people who are listening may not have any
• 52:29
  idea what I'm talking about because it's a Midwest based company, but there's
• 52:31
  been a company called menards that we
• 52:34
  know and maybe love here in Sioux City, where
• 52:37
  we are. And if you go to, like, the. The back
• 52:40
  section, where they have all.
• 52:41
  >> Cameron: The lumber stuff, there's a little contained box.
• 52:43
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 52:43
  >> Cameron: Yeah, I'm not gonna be able to. That's good.
• 52:46
  >> Skylar: Well, I could try poke
• 52:48
  attack. Yeah, yeah.
• 52:50
  >> Cameron: If I'm really skilled.
• 52:51
  >> Skylar: Yeah. All right, so you're. Are you going on the
• 52:54
  left side? There are a couple of guards. You're gonna run
• 52:57
  on the left side closest to the thing and try to donk him on
• 53:00
  the way.
• 53:00
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 53:00
  >> Skylar: And then you'll have to, like, maybe jump over the guards or something. I'm not
• 53:03
  sure. And then the rest of you guys are going on the right side. So that,
• 53:06
  I mean, you guys basically have just a free reign going through there.
• 53:09
  >> Cameron: Stay out of the bill whack a zone.
• 53:11
  >> Mikayla: Well, yeah, I'm just. I'm just getting out of there.
• 53:14
  >> Skylar: Okay. All right. so Mika's going right, like I said.
• 53:17
  So right is the easy path. Nothing standing
• 53:20
  in your way. Left is a path with the guard but also has the
• 53:23
  opportunity of donking ching on the
• 53:25
  way.
• 53:27
  >> Cameron: Can I grab Dilbert
• 53:29
  and throw Dilbert at the guard, effectively
• 53:32
  blinding him m for a brief moment, then
• 53:35
  proceed to hit said guard and take Dilbert
• 53:39
  back.
• 53:40
  >> Skylar: There's two. Just clarify.
• 53:41
  >> Cameron: Well, I thought there was one on each side.
• 53:43
  >> Skylar: Well, yeah, but they're kind of both grouped over here because this is where the
• 53:45
  situation is happening, right? This farmer's getting
• 53:48
  all cranky and then they heard this and they're coming
• 53:51
  over like, hey, man, you gotta settle down, okay?
• 53:54
  I don't know why. They sound like Kato from,
• 53:58
  chin village.
• 53:58
  >> Cameron: You're running out of voices.
• 54:00
  >> Skylar: I know. It's so fun, though.
• 54:03
  >> Cameron: Fine. I'll just go the other way.
• 54:04
  >> Skylar: Okay. I mean, I'm not trying to tell you not to do your
• 54:07
  plan.
• 54:07
  >> Cameron: I want to figure out a way to get Dilbert into combat.
• 54:10
  >> Skylar: Sure.
• 54:10
  >> Cameron: But, you know, I guess that'll be Chris Gilbert.
• 54:12
  >> Cameron: Gilbert.
• 54:13
  >> Cameron: We'll save him for the final boss.
• 54:15
  >> Skylar: And Guo, you're going to the right as well.
• 54:17
  >> Dave: Yeah.
• 54:18
  >> Skylar: All right. So we got Miguel, Guo and Brock taking the right
• 54:21
  path. Nothing's standing in your way. You're going to beeline it through. Bill
• 54:24
  is coming through. He hears. What do you mean you messing with this guy was
• 54:27
  messing with my buddy, decides to run through. We're going to do rely on your
• 54:30
  skills and training to donk him.
• 54:31
  >> Cameron: Nine.
• 54:31
  >> Mikayla: Don't.
• 54:32
  >> Skylar: Nine. Okay. Okay. That makes it easy for me.
• 54:35
  So. Sure. Yeah. Ah, absolutely. You could donk this
• 54:38
  dude, but you're gonna run smack dab into both the
• 54:40
  two guards and probably the farmer as well because
• 54:43
  your bo staff is gonna basically be horizontal
• 54:46
  sick.
• 54:47
  >> Cameron: And so, yeah, I gotta take them out as well.
• 54:49
  >> Skylar: It might become a big pile up. Yeah.
• 54:52
  >> Cameron: Well, how are you?
• 54:53
  >> Skylar: unless you wanna take an exhaustion.
• 54:55
  >> Cameron: How about I take a fatigue?
• 54:57
  >> Skylar: Or fatigue. Gosh.
• 54:58
  >> Cameron: To, do it the whack perfectly and then, like, I do a little
• 55:01
  spin, like, flourish and just spin around them and
• 55:04
  keep going.
• 55:05
  >> Skylar: Yeah, I'll tell you what?
• 55:06
  >> Cameron: I make it all one smooth m move.
• 55:08
  >> Skylar: You make it one big, smooth move as you come.
• 55:10
  >> Cameron: No, I'm a ninja.
• 55:11
  >> Skylar: And you sort of just whack. You just,
• 55:14
  like, stick out your staff and do a nice, like,
• 55:17
  jab straight into chinks. And on his, like,
• 55:20
  nose, you hear, ow. And
• 55:23
  then, the guards are kind of, like, surprised because I'd like to
• 55:26
  think the farmer was probably standing right now in between them. And the
• 55:28
  guards kind of couldn't see past him to see you, but now they see
• 55:31
  you as you get closer, right? And they're like, whoa. But before
• 55:34
  they can really do much, you leap onto the
• 55:37
  farmer's cart and then kind of jump and flip
• 55:40
  over the guards, landing on the other
• 55:43
  side and continuing into
• 55:45
  the, path ahead with your friends.
• 55:49
  They turn around surprised,
• 55:52
  and one of them, you swear that. He just says,
• 55:56
  hey, you guys forgot to get
• 55:58
  paid, you dummies.
• 56:01
  And then the other way, maybe, like, one of you probably, like,
• 56:04
  looks back and sees the other one kind of, like, swat him on the
• 56:07
  head. And he's like. He just starts shouting and kind of pointing in your direction,
• 56:10
  but you're not sure what he's saying. chang, you can just see. I
• 56:13
  mean, you donked his nose. He obviously broke his
• 56:16
  nose. He's got, like, just nosebleed
• 56:18
  everywhere. And you guys race off
• 56:21
  into glohan.
• 56:24
  >> Cameron: I flash him a thumbs up.
• 56:27
  >> Dave: I yell back, take that, you,
• 56:30
  claude.
• 56:31
  >> Skylar: Yeah, you
• 56:34
  just. He's, like, shaking his fist at you guys as
• 56:36
  you guys run away. He has no idea who you guys are. You need to look at
• 56:39
  anybody. And, as
• 56:42
  you guys get into sort of the forests
• 56:45
  in the distance, you've. You're not
• 56:48
  being pursued. You look back, you feel pretty comfortable that you're not
• 56:51
  being pursued. so did y'all
• 56:53
  get the.
• 56:55
  >> Cameron: What you needed from the office?
• 56:57
  >> Cameron: Yeah, I think. Mika.
• 56:59
  >> Mikayla: Hey. I got a letter here. I'm gonna read it to you.
• 57:02
  >> Cameron: Well, I've been practicing. I've been
• 57:05
  practicing.
• 57:06
  >> Cameron: Have we gone away? Are we still running while we're saying this? No, we're.
• 57:09
  >> Mikayla: No, no, no.
• 57:10
  >> Cameron: You guys are hiding in the forest. Now. Practice
• 57:13
  taking a breather.
• 57:14
  >> Dave: We're on the lamb.
• 57:16
  >> Mikayla: I'll finish it.
• 57:17
  >> Cameron: Okay. Yeah, that's fair.
• 57:18
  >> Cameron: That's fair.
• 57:20
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 57:22
  >> Cameron: rock.
• 57:26
  Rock. That's my name. That's my. Good job.
• 57:29
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 57:32
  >> Cameron: You know, I don't want to show off too much. Why don't you
• 57:35
  read it? You know, I, don't want to.
• 57:38
  It's been a long day. You know, I counted a lot of leaves. It's
• 57:41
  been a while, so.
• 57:41
  >> Mikayla: Yeah, you got it. I got you.
• 57:44
  >> Skylar: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 57:45
  >> Dave: Reading and counting. We wouldn't want you to
• 57:48
  exert your brain too much.
• 57:50
  >> Cameron: Right. My brain might explode if I do that.
• 57:52
  >> Cameron: All I did today was hit stuff with stick.
• 57:54
  >> Dave: It might.
• 57:55
  >> Cameron: Honestly, you've done way more smarter stuff than me.
• 57:57
  >> Cameron: Right, right.
• 57:58
  >> Mikayla: All right. So you got Brock. It actually says,
• 58:01
  dear Brock, but you got it good.
• 58:03
  >> Cameron: I got my name.
• 58:04
  >> Skylar: You missed the whole first word, but you did really good with the
• 58:07
  second one.
• 58:08
  >> Cameron: Straight to the word he recognized.
• 58:11
  >> Skylar: He just starts going through the whole letter, and he's like,
• 58:14
  brock, Brock,
• 58:18
  Brock, rock.
• 58:21
  >> Mikayla: I think it all hits this at once, but.
• 58:24
  >> Skylar: Oh, okra. Oh, yeah.
• 58:26
  >> Mikayla: Dear Brock, I want to begin by saying,
• 58:29
  you are enough. You strive so hard to be
• 58:32
  the strongest, the best, the first in everything, in
• 58:35
  anything you do. I want you to know that even
• 58:38
  though having such initiative and drive is so inspiring and
• 58:41
  that your dedication doesn't go unnoticed, know that you
• 58:44
  are so much more than anything you could ever achieve.
• 58:47
  You are not defined. This is so
• 58:49
  nice.
• 58:51
  >> Skylar: I try to do my best.
• 58:52
  >> Mikayla: You are not defined solely by what you do and what you
• 58:55
  accomplish. You are the best at being you, and it's
• 58:58
  okay to accept that. With that being said, I want to
• 59:01
  acknowledge your incredible accomplishments. You've been through so
• 59:04
  much, and you've punched through, just like you punch in
• 59:07
  the ring with power and accuracy. You
• 59:10
  support your family to the best of your ability, and you're always willing
• 59:13
  to put yourself in danger to ensure your friends are
• 59:15
  safe. You are a hero in my book, my boy.
• 59:19
  Keep being the strongest and the best. Keep protecting those
• 59:22
  weaker than you and those in need. Your friends aren't as strong
• 59:25
  as you, and they don't have that family closed or that
• 59:27
  you have. So be sure to be emotionally available to
• 59:30
  them. Don't leave them behind. They need and rely
• 59:33
  on you. And I know sometimes that can be a hard position
• 59:36
  to lead within. But don't forget that sometimes you have
• 59:39
  to follow. Bill. Guo and Micah.
• 59:42
  all have different strengths and weaknesses, that, when all of
• 59:45
  you work together, can be balanced and overcome. There's
• 59:48
  nothing the four of you can't do when you put your minds and muscles
• 59:50
  together. Ps. Thanks for reading this to
• 59:53
  Bill.
• 59:57
  >> Skylar: Which obviously, I mean, how would he know,
• 1:00:00
  you know?
• 1:00:02
  >> Mikayla: I have a little tear in my eye. Aw, that was
• 1:00:05
  so nice.
• 1:00:05
  >> Cameron: Well, we probably should have read that before I went off on my own
• 1:00:08
  to go and fight Madame Yang by myself, shouldn't I?
• 1:00:11
  >> Cameron: Well, now you know we were all caught up.
• 1:00:14
  Brock, it's fine.
• 1:00:15
  >> Cameron: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:17
  >> Cameron: Bill's, like, leaning against a tree, and he's,
• 1:00:20
  like, resting on his bo staff with, like, one arm. And he's
• 1:00:23
  just kind of, like, hunked over. I, my character, Bill
• 1:00:26
  has been fatigued almost this entire
• 1:00:29
  time, so full fatigue, mind you.
• 1:00:31
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 1:00:32
  >> Cameron: So he is exhausted.
• 1:00:33
  >> Skylar: He's exhaust. Absolutely.
• 1:00:35
  >> Mikayla: I mean, Mika's pretty close behind, right?
• 1:00:37
  >> Cameron: And Brock, he had, like two left.
• 1:00:41
  >> Cameron: and I mean, and that's not.
• 1:00:42
  >> Skylar: Even considering the conditions.
• 1:00:44
  >> Cameron: Guo's doing great.
• 1:00:47
  >> Mikayla: I think it would be wise if we all just found
• 1:00:50
  a safe place to rest for a couple hours.
• 1:00:53
  >> Cameron: That's what we're doing.
• 1:00:53
  >> Mikayla: Yeah.
• 1:00:54
  >> Cameron: Let's rest here for a little bit.
• 1:00:55
  >> Dave: Guo uses his foraging skills to
• 1:00:58
  find some suitable moss to, make kind
• 1:01:01
  of a cool poultice.
• 1:01:05
  And he brings it to Bill,
• 1:01:08
  say, hey. Hey, Bill. I got
• 1:01:11
  this for your arm.
• 1:01:14
  Do you got any bad burns?
• 1:01:17
  >> Cameron: Well, I'm guessing you mean
• 1:01:19
  recent.
• 1:01:20
  >> Dave: Yeah. From that water?
• 1:01:22
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 1:01:22
  >> Cameron: yeah. And I've never showed anyone this
• 1:01:25
  before, so. And
• 1:01:28
  Bill kind of grabs his shirt
• 1:01:31
  and he lifts off his shirt, showing you to
• 1:01:34
  show his shoulder, mind you, that's his whole upper
• 1:01:37
  body. Like the whole upper right part of his chest.
• 1:01:40
  This guy, boy got hit. And so he lifts up his
• 1:01:42
  shirt and he kind of, like, moves it to the
• 1:01:45
  side. And what you see is, yes,
• 1:01:48
  the right upper, like his upper
• 1:01:51
  pec, I guess. I don't really know the body, but it's like his
• 1:01:54
  right upper pec to his shoulder is like a bright
• 1:01:57
  red m. And that's where he got hit.
• 1:01:59
  But that's not what everyone, if they're all
• 1:02:02
  looking, sees. Instead, they see
• 1:02:05
  what they always knew was Bill had a burn
• 1:02:08
  scar on his hand, but then they see that his whole
• 1:02:11
  right arm up to his right shoulder and then
• 1:02:13
  going down his chest to his body, like, go towards his,
• 1:02:16
  like, abdomen, going to, towards his pants
• 1:02:20
  is a giant burnt scar that's just full on
• 1:02:22
  involved. Like, it, like, envelops,
• 1:02:25
  his whole right side of his body.
• 1:02:28
  And he kind of like, just motions to the shoulder
• 1:02:31
  and goes, yeah, that's, yeah, that's the
• 1:02:34
  wound right now.
• 1:02:35
  >> Skylar: Whoa.
• 1:02:37
  >> Dave: I might need some more moss.
• 1:02:40
  >> Cameron: Oh, no, don't, don't worry about that. Rest of
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  that stuff. That's been there for a good
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  while.
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  >> Dave: Wow, that's pretty gnarly, I
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  guess. What happened?
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  >> Cameron: I was caught in a house barn
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  fire.
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  >> Dave: You were?
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Dave: And did all that?
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  >> Cameron: Well, I would have gotten
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  out, but I went back from
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  my brother.
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  >> Dave: And.
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  >> Cameron: That'S when I caught on fire. So,
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  yeah, he, he didn't make
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  it.
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  I pulled out my brother on fire
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  and my arms and legs went with him.
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  So, yeah, anyways, my right shoulder hurts
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  kind of bad, so you could work on that.
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  >> Dave: Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
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  >> Skylar: And with that tough
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  backstory revelation, I
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  think that's where we'll close out episode eight.
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