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Benders & Brews - Episode 7 - Let’s Get this Party Started · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

• 0:03
  Jasmine oolong, green and white.
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  Long ago, these four tees were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
• 0:11
  Then, everything changed when the shop's popularity threatened its existence.
• 0:17
  All Mr.
• 0:17
  Okran, the shop's owner and teammaster, could do was to recruit four teenage orphans to learn his trade and staff his shop.
• 0:26
  A year has passed since the orphans were hired, and although their skills have progressed, they still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
• 0:34
  But I believe that they have the potential to make the Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the world.
• 0:41
  Last time on Benders and Brews an Avatar Legends Podcast mika, you've got a big old Voss of muddy duck and fish poop water.
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  I want to find a way to put my water into those pots.
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  I'll walk up to Hot Leaf Car, just act like I own it, walk up, grab a box.
• 0:59
  So, sure enough, nobody really questions anything that you're doing.
• 1:02
  You just grab a box.
• 1:03
  I want to take the two T boxes.
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  I'll earth bend a card for them.
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  I'm going to wheel it around the building and just catapult them over the hedge maze with my crates.
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  Now in the maze, I just nonchalantly walk inside, and I take a post up at the Hot Meat Juice.
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  You see this woman walking towards your friends who are setting up the booth for the Blissful Brew? Well, the Blissful Brew.
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  I wasn't expecting to see your company here.
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  My name is Madame Yang, owner and CEO of Hot Leaf Juice.
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  I'm sure your boss, Mr.
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  Ocaron, probably mentioned me.
• 1:50
  Can't two companies coexist at the same party? Well, I suppose we have no choice now, don't we? You suddenly see the familiar face of Mr.
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  Okra making his way down towards you with a small cart filled with various ingredients.
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  Well, I was told you would show up eventually, Madame Yang, sir.
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  Oh, you can say it, you old fool.
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  You're not happy to see me.
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  And believe me, the same can be said for you.
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  No, it's good to see you.
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  We used to study together under a tea master.
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  She was from a wealthy family.
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  I'm very passionate from a young age, even about tea.
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  Her parents were not happy with the fact that a tea master that they had tired to tutor her were allowing me to sit in on those lessons and also learn.
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  And so they did everything in their power to make sure that I was unable to do so.
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  She stabbed me in the back, fairly literally.
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  So I had to flee.
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  But thankfully, that's where I was able to travel around the world and learn the key skills and arts of so many different cultures and groups.
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  I think it's you who wouldn't understand, given that you're little more than an employee at a dying tea shop after all.
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  And welcome back, everybody, to Benders and Bruises, the Avatar Legends.
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  Real play or actual play? Podcast.
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  I've heard both ways.
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  I don't know what you guys think as far as that goes, but I hear actual play a lot more.
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  So now I'm feeling a little silly about it that I've spent real play this whole time.
• 3:28
  I don't know.
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  It works either way as far as I'm concerned.
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  Anyways, all that being said, just a quick little bit to our intro here.
• 3:37
  Connor, aka.
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  Broccoli, is out for the day, so he was unable to make it, which is okay, see him next time.
• 3:47
  But that's all right, because now that he's thrown the tea into the maze, as you might remember from last time, yeah, he's going to just be working away under cover for hot leaf juice for the time being.
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  So that's where we're going to have him at.
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  And by next episode, when he's back, we should see where that ends up taking us.
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  Other than that, let's kick things off with our intro.
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  We got a couple of announcements as well along the way, one of which is that we have a discord now, so if you pull us up on any social media or inside of our episode information and things like that, you should be able to find a link.
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  You can head on over and join our Discord Channel.
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  You can talk to some of the cast.
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  I know myself, and Cameron plays Bill Dor, we're both on there, so yeah, come on over.
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  We have our voice actress, who is voicing Madame Yang and doing a phenomenal job of it.
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  She's also over there, so definitely say hello to her because we're excited to have her as part of the cast.
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  Other than that yeah, let's jump into the intro.
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  So the question for today is and this one actually comes from our voice actress.
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  She goes by Eclectic Wendigo on the Discord Channel, and she asked, what animal do you feel each of you feel like represents your character? And we're going to go in the style of Avatar style animals.
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  So nothing is just itself except for a bear.
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  There is a bear, but other than that, everything is some sort of amalgamation of two animals or three animals or some other obscure take.
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  So, Guo, do you want to start us off for Dave? Sure thing.
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  This is Guelhan the Adamant playing an earth bender.
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  And I would say GuoHan is most like a top hat squiddle.
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  The top hat squiddle, just like a friend, as some of you who follow the Facebook group may know, is what dilbert.
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  That's right.
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  Who were you referred to as a squid is actually so top hat squiddle is like a turtle crossed with a squid, like Guilhon.
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  He's clever.
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  He can get into the chinks and the enemy's armor.
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  But also he's had a bit of a rough past, like I think many of our group had.
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  So he can take it, but he can also kind of dish it out.
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  Sure.
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  He's kind of a little bit protective, so he's got that shell that he might hide within.
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  Right.
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  All right.
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  I like it.
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  I like it.
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  Bringing it back to good old Dilbert, who we all know and love.
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  Bill, dorry you got one in the cannon, so to speak? What do you got? The rare and elusive tiger crane.
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  It is a crane, but its feathers are orange and black.
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  It's stripes of a tiger, and it has a long tail.
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  Okay.
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  And how do you feel like this kind of coincides with it's both elegant with fierce colors.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Because he's a dressy guy.
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  Yes.
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  Right.
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  So that's the elegant side.
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  And maybe Susan will get to see those fierce colors really come out.
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  Maybe, I don't know.
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  See those true colors.
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  That's right.
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  Shining through.
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  Yeah.
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  Maybe my true feelings for tea might shine through.
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  Maybe.
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  I know Mr.
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  Oakram would love that.
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  Mica, mikayla, what do you got? I would say Mika is more like a bear cat.
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  A bear cat? Yeah.
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  Tell me what it is about a bear cat that really says Mica.
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  Well, the bear part she's grizzly on the outside.
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  She has lost experience forgine kind of being a loner.
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  The cat part, she's actually I don't know if I can really say cats are sweet and cuddly, but they have a softer side to them.
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  A little bit of sass.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  So it's a bit of a Survivor fighter, but then also kind of a little bit like a softer but also kind of what would you say the word is? Like a crafty side? Problematic, probably.
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  Problematic.
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  Definitely a bit at least I describe cats.
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  Yeah, no, that's true.
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  They sometimes can be.
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  Every cat is different, as we know.
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  We've got two very opposite cats in this house, for sure.
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  Awesome.
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  All right, perfect.
• 8:47
  Well, I think it's time that we get started.
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  All right.
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  So as we left off last time, we've got two individuals, Bill and Guo, who are both helping Mr.
• 9:00
  O'quran set up, and soon, once the party begins, start serving their tea to the various partygoers the party, of course, is happening at.
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  And we hadn't talked about the name of the family that's hosting the party.
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  We talked about the Shifu family that helped set up all the preparation and stuff like that for vendors or not vendors, rather caterers and the house itself.
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  And you guys probably would have caught onto this either by talking to Mr.
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  O'Hara or either just seeing their name on things or something at the house.
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  But the family is the Utoko family that is actually hosting this.
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  Why are the parties happening? You're not 100% sure yet.
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  You could maybe ask Mr.
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  O'Hara about that.
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  Maybe he knows.
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  But whatever the case, they haven't revealed that yet.
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  On the other hand, we have Brock and Mika, who have disguised themselves and sort of made themselves seem like members of the hot leaf juice, which is their competition, which is who they are splitting the sort of catering needs for tea with during this event.
• 10:16
  Mika, you just headed back or well, you headed away from the booth.
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  The Blissful group.
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  You had been talking with, Mr.
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  Ocaron and the other two, they kind of made sure to say things to not pass off the idea that you necessarily work there.
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  Although Mr.
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  Ocara might have said a couple of things but nobody was around.
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  So I don't think your cover is broken by any means.
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  But you walked away to quote unquote, go change.
• 10:41
  So what is your plan? Where are you off to? I'm going to walk around.
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  Okay.
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  What were they doing inside again when I left them? You would try to sort of mess with the water supply that they had in there and in the process you had caused a bit of a leak and they were currently in the process of cleaning it up, trying to find where the water was coming from and things like that and fix whatever that problem was.
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  Otherwise there's a handful of other employees that are just kind of generally just setting up the cups and setting those out or if there's any, whatever, the ingredients haven't been thrown into the maze, never to be seen again allegedly by Brock earlier on today.
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  They're prepping those ingredients.
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  So just kind of finishing touches before the party begins and what do I see as I'm walking back inside? Because obviously that's where the bathroom would be.
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  Okay.
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  All right.
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  So you walk back inside.
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  Like I said, most people are just rushing around putting the finishing touches on anything.
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  You notice that there are a lot less staff members that are out and about because many of them have rushed off to the kitchen or kind of behind the scenes kind of areas to basically ready themselves for service during the party, whether that be running dishes out to the people out there or could be anything.
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  It could be grabbing towels for somebody or grabbing something for somebody's needs or whatever the case.
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  So it's pretty light.
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  As far as staff go, aside from obviously anybody that's there is a caterer, they are finishing any touches.
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  There's a few foods.
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  There are some people that are serving these like just several variations of meatballs.
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  There's somebody that's serving orders a lot of it's mostly like order of little things.
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  There's like stuffed mushrooms and I'm trying to think of more ancient style.
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  There's like lady finger cookies, some small cake, lots of dessert item kind of things like small desserts things along those lines.
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  Parfaits, they got fancy parfaits.
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  Are there any fruit? Just straight fruit? Yes.
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  So the staff like I mentioned that was kind of running back.
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  There are a handful of them that are doing things in the kitchen and you kind of get the vibe based on some of like you might even walk back there and they're not going to say anything about it.
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  And as you kind of walk through the kitchen, you notice some of the things that they're preparing.
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  And most of what they're preparing is very basic stuff.
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  So things like sliced fruit or whole fruit, if it's something like a strawberry or something like that, sort of small things that someone could just kind of pick off a plate, not so much anything that needs to be cooked or baked or leaving most of that kind of stuff to the banana.
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  Yeah, I'm going to take a banana.
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  Okay.
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  And I'm going to eat it while I'm walking back towards the hot leaf.
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  All right, perfect.
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  So, yeah, you're eating away at this banana.
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  As you make your way back to the hot leaf booth, one of the employees sees you, and they're like, what are you doing? You're supposed to be over here getting things ready, and you're just walking around eating a banana.
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  We are running behind over here.
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  I needed a little energy.
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  Oh, my gosh.
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  Well, hurry up and get started.
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  We need help with the cups.
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  We need help with the water is a whole mess of a situation.
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  We're trying to get that dealt with, but that just means that we've got other people that have runoff, and they're dealing with that.
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  And then all of a sudden, as he's kind of, like, berating you about things that need to be done, madame Yang and one of her employees come walking in very quickly.
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  They seem a bit anxious, and they come walking in, and Madame Yang looks around at everybody that's there, and she sees you standing there.
• 14:31
  She sees the person that's yelling, semi yelling at you standing there, and she looks over at the employee that's staying there with her, and she says, you.
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  And you, I need you to go with Covall into town and bring me back some very important tea ingredients immediately.
• 14:49
  Okay.
• 14:51
  She pointed at me.
• 14:52
  Yes.
• 14:53
  Oh, man.
• 14:55
  Okay, I'm going to look for a trash cannon to throw my banana palm.
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  And while I'm turning, I'm going to drop my banana peel.
• 15:07
  I'm going to accidentally step on it, and then I'm going to be very dramatic and falling in hopes that I knock some of their tea glasses over.
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  Okay.
• 15:20
  I'm going to call this a trick.
• 15:22
  So role for trick, which is creativity, always two nine.
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  Nine.
• 15:28
  Okay.
• 15:29
  So on a seven to nine, you pick one, and you can make this.
• 15:33
  Well, I guess it would still be there.
• 15:34
  So I'm going to assume that they overcommit and they are deceived.
• 15:40
  I would assume that's kind of what you're going for right out of the options that are here.
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  So they're deceived.
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  They believe that you legitimately slipped on a banana banana peel unintentionally, and you're able to pull it off.
• 15:52
  So you slip on this banana peel.
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  You widen your arms out plenty wide to make sure that you really knock down a handful of stuff.
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  And sure enough.
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  You come crashing down.
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  Knocking down a handful.
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  A pretty hefty handful of cups.
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  Small plates.
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  Those little.
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  Like.
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  Saucers and things along those lines.
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  Spilling a little bit of water as you do.
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  Which is ironic because you're really messing with their water supply this whole time.
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  And she's infuriated when she sees it.
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  She's like, what are you doing? Who left a banana peel laying around? We don't even serve banana peels.
• 16:29
  She starts yelling at one of the staff members that are, like, walking by.
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  She sees that they have, like, a platter of fruit.
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  You there with the fruit.
• 16:36
  How dare you leave one of your filthy banana peels lying around near my stall for my employee to slip on? Do you not see how much damage you've caused me and my business? I swear we weren't cutting any bananas out of here.
• 16:55
  I don't know where it could have come from.
• 16:57
  And she says, you, one more slip up like that, and you're fired.
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  Now get out there and get me those ingredients.
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  And she hands a piece of paper, it looks like a list of some kind to the employee that's kind of walking alongside her.
• 17:14
  And she's like, I'm putting Coval in charge.
• 17:19
  He has a list of ingredients.
• 17:22
  You follow him and do exactly what he says.
• 17:26
  If I hear from him that either of you were slacking or not taking this task with the utmost of urgency, you will not be riding back to your jobs in buzzing say, okay, I'll walk out.
• 17:40
  Walks in.
• 17:41
  All right, so the three of you head out.
• 17:44
  You start walking into town.
• 17:46
  As you're walking, the other two start it's pretty quiet, honestly.
• 17:51
  They don't seem like they want to talk.
• 17:53
  In fact, they even try to push for everybody to kind of jog a little bit to really move the situation along.
• 18:01
  And where's this list that he has? It's just in his hand.
• 18:04
  He's got it rolled up, and he's just kind of holding it in his fist.
• 18:08
  So no pockets? No.
• 18:11
  Well, I mean, he might have pockets.
• 18:12
  It's just he doesn't have it in his pocket.
• 18:15
  And what's around on the path? A few trees here and there.
• 18:19
  It's not, like, super heavily wooded, and then otherwise, it just kind of turns into a little bit of a field on either side.
• 18:26
  But it's pretty short lived because this house is not too far from town.
• 18:30
  It is like a big, ornate, fancy house.
• 18:32
  So it's a little bit on the outskirts just because there's so much to this, like, their yard and everything like that.
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  So they want to have enough space to kind of separate from the poor people.
• 18:45
  So it's not too long before you're in TownTown.
• 18:48
  And there's lots of people in town, I'm assuming.
• 18:50
  Kind of yeah, I would say it's probably getting towards kind of, like, dinner time, so probably around maybe five or 06:00 in the afternoon.
• 19:00
  And, yeah, there's a pretty decent movement of people either leaving work or maybe heading to go get something for dinner.
• 19:07
  They're with their families, so there's a pretty good amount of people that are running around or walking around.
• 19:11
  All right, I'm going to turn to the guy who has a list, and I'm going to say, why don't we divide up things on the list so we can get more work done faster? And he said, that's good thinking, I like that idea.
• 19:23
  And then the one that was kind of berating you earlier, he says, Well, I think myself and what's her name? Mika.
• 19:31
  Mika, yes.
• 19:33
  I think we should go together.
• 19:35
  And he kind of has a look in his eye that he doesn't exactly trust you, given that he saw you eating the banana.
• 19:42
  So he kind of knows the banana was on you, but he didn't say anything in the moment because it was really crazy.
• 19:47
  And the guy says, sure, that works for me.
• 19:50
  He kind of just tears the paper in half and then hands you guys one and then he takes the other one.
• 19:56
  Who has he handed you? I guess he just pulled it out.
• 19:59
  I take it.
• 20:00
  Roll someone give me a dice.
• 20:03
  We'll see who grabs it first.
• 20:05
  Just one? Yeah, we'll roll one.
• 20:07
  Okay.
• 20:10
  Six.
• 20:11
  Oh, okay.
• 20:12
  Yeah, you grab it before he does.
• 20:14
  Here you go.
• 20:15
  He kind of, like, glares at you ever so slightly, but otherwise you have the list.
• 20:21
  Okay.
• 20:22
  So as we're walking towards the shops, booths, wherever we need these ingredients from, I'm kind of going to walk fast and I'm going to kind of like interweave in between people to see if I can try and lose him.
• 20:34
  Okay, let's call that, but I don't want to make it obvious I'm trying to lose.
• 20:39
  Right.
• 20:40
  He was just trying to grab it faster than that because he's worried she's just going to buy a bunch of bananas.
• 20:46
  Let's call this a push your luck because again, he's already suspicious of you, so he might catch on to the fact that you might be trying to lose them.
• 20:57
  Unless, of course, you succeed.
• 21:00
  It is passion.
• 21:02
  I got a four.
• 21:03
  You're not able to lose them.
• 21:04
  Dang it.
• 21:05
  And he's kind of catching on to the fact that you seem to be up to something.
• 21:07
  And he says, hey, I think you should give me the list.
• 21:11
  There's really no need for that.
• 21:13
  And I put it in my dress.
• 21:16
  He kind of looks at you angry and he's like, by the way, where are you from anyways? I don't remember seeing you when we all got in the cart back in Boston.
• 21:25
  Say, where am I from? Yeah, from around here and there.
• 21:28
  I kind of travel a lot.
• 21:29
  Probably why you haven't seen me, because I kind of hop from place to place.
• 21:32
  So you're not even from our location? No, I am from your location.
• 21:36
  I'm just like a new guy.
• 21:37
  Girl, you have an ability that refers to lying, don't you? Would it be my Roguish charm? Yeah.
• 21:45
  Do you want to roll your roguish charm and see how well you're able to kind of convince him that no, I'm with you guys.
• 21:50
  I'm just new.
• 21:50
  I'm going to give myself a fatigue so that I can roll with creativity instead of harmony.
• 21:56
  I got a six.
• 21:57
  It says no.
• 21:59
  See, I remember everyone getting into the cart back in Bossing Say, and I don't remember seeing you.
• 22:06
  I came in my own cart.
• 22:08
  What? There were only two carts.
• 22:10
  Who are you really? Madame Yang doesn't like the new people.
• 22:14
  She doesn't really trust them.
• 22:15
  She's like, oh, find your own way.
• 22:16
  So I did.
• 22:17
  No, something's off about you.
• 22:19
  You're not with our company at all.
• 22:21
  You want the honest answer? I'll give it to you.
• 22:24
  Okay.
• 22:25
  I really was just looking for a job because I'm in need of money.
• 22:28
  Because, like I said, I travel from place to place, and I need a little extra cash to travel to the next place.
• 22:34
  So I decided to try and secretively employ myself with you guys so I could get a paycheck at the end of the night.
• 22:42
  That doesn't even make sense.
• 22:44
  If you're not signed onto a contract, then there's no obligation to pay you.
• 22:49
  Not to mention, you haven't gone through Madame Yang's special training, which is necessary for anyone who wants to work at Hot Leaf Juice, the finest tea establishment in all the world.
• 22:59
  I mean, she did send me to go get these items off her list, so I feel like she'll pay me.
• 23:05
  She has a lot on her plate at the moment with the party, but I think you need to give me that list right now.
• 23:13
  Like I said, I can't really do that.
• 23:15
  Give me the list.
• 23:19
  And then he takes up a fighting stance.
• 23:25
  Whoa.
• 23:25
  Combat in this game.
• 23:27
  Combat.
• 23:29
  So he is initiating an exchange because he doesn't trust you.
• 23:36
  So I need you to pick one of the three moves that you want to move forward on.
• 23:44
  Combat moves.
• 23:46
  I think I'm going to defend and maneuver.
• 23:50
  Okay, sounds good.
• 23:51
  And he is going to advance an attack, obviously.
• 23:55
  So for defending maneuver, you are going to roll your two dice.
• 24:05
  I got a three.
• 24:09
  I think that means that you do nothing on the middle stumble, but you can shift your balance away from center to use one basic technique.
• 24:18
  Okay.
• 24:19
  So you can shift your balance towards one of those two sides based on kind of the situation and what you feel like.
• 24:26
  You can relate to this.
• 24:27
  I shifted towards survival.
• 24:29
  So you can read, you can retaliate, or you can seize a position.
• 24:36
  I'm going to seize a position.
• 24:38
  Okay.
• 24:39
  So you move to a new location.
• 24:42
  You can engage or disengage with a foe, overcome a negative status or danger, or establish an advantageous position or escape the scene.
• 24:52
  Any foe engaged with you can mark one fatigue to block this technique.
• 24:56
  I want to escape the scene.
• 24:58
  Okay.
• 24:59
  He is definitely going to mark a fatigue in order to keep you.
• 25:02
  He blocked you up.
• 25:03
  So what happens is you turn to run, saying that he's about to take a fighting stance against you, and he rushes over and blocks you just as you're about to run.
• 25:13
  Then he is going to advance an attack, and he is going to use forceful blow.
• 25:20
  So he's going to swing in an enemy with all his might, sending them flying.
• 25:24
  He marks fatigue and inflicts to fatigue.
• 25:27
  Or one condition of his choice, he's going to hit you and do the fatigue.
• 25:33
  So you take two fatigue.
• 25:35
  He takes an additional fatigue.
• 25:36
  But after all the running and everything, he is looking kind of exhausted.
• 25:40
  I kind of am, too.
• 25:42
  When he does this, he gets to push you to a new position of his choice, unless you mark two fatigue.
• 25:49
  Well, then I'd be at zero fatigue.
• 25:51
  Okay, you're going to let him? Yeah.
• 25:53
  Okay.
• 25:54
  He just knocks you down.
• 25:55
  He just pushes you onto the ground, and he's like, give me the list.
• 26:01
  You're not very convincing.
• 26:04
  Maybe you would have said please or something, but you're just shoving me around.
• 26:09
  That's not very kind.
• 26:11
  All right, well, he looks at you, and he growls angrily, and he's going to continue this exchange.
• 26:18
  What would you like to do? So I choose one of those three again.
• 26:21
  Yeah, I'm going to evade and observe.
• 26:24
  Okay.
• 26:24
  Go ahead and roll for it.
• 26:26
  Well, evade or observe? It says I can clear a fatigue and roll with creativity.
• 26:31
  Okay, cool.
• 26:32
  So I'm going to roll with creativity, and that puts me at a nine nine.
• 26:37
  All right.
• 26:37
  Awesome.
• 26:38
  I guess you have one.
• 26:39
  Yes.
• 26:40
  I'm going to test balance.
• 26:43
  Okay.
• 26:44
  So mark one fatigue.
• 26:46
  The challenge and rage foe's balance.
• 26:48
  Asked what the principal is, they must answer honestly.
• 26:50
  If you already know the principal, instead of shift, instead shift their balance away from center by questioning or challenging their beliefs or perspective.
• 26:59
  Okay.
• 27:00
  All right.
• 27:00
  So once again, he is going to advance an attack, but this time he's going to pressure.
• 27:06
  He's going to intimidate his foe or actually tell me how it is that you test his balance.
• 27:12
  Like, what are you saying to him to try to figure out what it is that his balance is? Because, you'll know, it's loyalty.
• 27:18
  But what are you saying to him to kind of like, well, I didn't know it was loyalty.
• 27:21
  Right, right.
• 27:22
  So you were trying to test him and be like, what's your deal, man? Or something? Yeah.
• 27:28
  Why is it so important for you? It's just a list of ingredients.
• 27:35
  Because, unlike you, I actually work for Madame Yang.
• 27:41
  And what Madame Yang wants, Madame Yang gets.
• 27:46
  So give me that list so I can get her what she wants.
• 27:50
  Does she also beat you into submission because it doesn't really work that way.
• 27:55
  No.
• 27:56
  Madame Yang gives us the opportunity of a lifetime by allowing us to work in her fine establishment.
• 28:04
  She pays very well.
• 28:06
  There are benefit packages, combat and bending training.
• 28:10
  Which is why I know that I can take you out if you don't give me that list.
• 28:15
  Well, if you wanted to take me out, we can just go get the items on this list.
• 28:19
  What? No.
• 28:21
  Look, I don't trust you, so stop playing games.
• 28:25
  I know you're not with us.
• 28:26
  I literally said I wasn't.
• 28:27
  I was just trying to find a job.
• 28:29
  Yeah, hence why I don't trust you help a poor unfortunate soul.
• 28:33
  I don't owe you anything.
• 28:35
  I only owe Madame Yang something, and it's what's on that list.
• 28:56
  What are you talking about? I don't work for you.
• 29:04
  You were trying to take on a no pay mermaid, I think.
• 29:09
  Get you across the head, I guess.
• 29:11
  No, I'm oozy.
• 29:13
  I was trying to say madam Ying obviously showed him some sort of support when she hired him.
• 29:22
  He was down on his luck at some point, so I was hoping to relate with him on that level of like that's what I was trying to say, not what came out of my mouth.
• 29:35
  Here's what I would say.
• 29:36
  Okay, so you're trying to get at his, like, Madame Yang took you in, and she could take me in, so let's work together kind of a situation.
• 29:45
  Yeah.
• 29:45
  So you're kind of calling him out to live up to his principle of loyalty of you work with Madame Yang and I could work with Madame Yang, so I could follow you in your sort of principle of loyalty.
• 29:59
  Yeah.
• 30:00
  Okay, so you shift your balance away from center and then name and role with their principal, which in this case is loyalty.
• 30:09
  Okay, I got a six.
• 30:10
  A six, okay.
• 30:11
  So he calls her out for her survival, essentially.
• 30:15
  Principal.
• 30:17
  I see you want to survive.
• 30:18
  All right, so this is one that you would want to roll high on, year old low on.
• 30:23
  So he says to you, no, you're just some kind of scammer something.
• 30:30
  I don't know what you are, but you're not with us, so give me that list.
• 30:36
  Okay, since we're in combat, can I still use my water bending? Not on him.
• 30:47
  So, like, I can use my sweat and kind of muddle up the ink on the paper.
• 30:56
  Okay, all right, but you're going to get out to it? Yeah, I just want to make it less legible right now.
• 31:02
  Okay.
• 31:03
  Yeah.
• 31:04
  Okay.
• 31:04
  So he calls you out and he says, you better give me that paper, and then scram, and I better not see you back at the party either.
• 31:15
  And so you use your sweat and you subtly bend it underneath you to make a puddle of mud of some kind, and you slap that.
• 31:23
  Paper into the mud and then you hand it to him.
• 31:27
  How about I just slap into the mud and run away? Oh, okay, that works too.
• 31:30
  I mean, since he doesn't want me around anyway.
• 31:32
  No, that's fair.
• 31:34
  Yeah.
• 31:34
  Okay, so you slap it into the mud.
• 31:36
  Roll me a push your luck as you try to get out of there without him because he's already pretty upset, so if he sees you slapped that into the mud, he might try something.
• 31:47
  I got an eleven.
• 31:48
  Oh, wow.
• 31:49
  Okay, so, yeah, you very much just slap it in the mud and threw it on the ground.
• 31:55
  Can't buy me leaf juice, man.
• 32:00
  Okay.
• 32:00
  Yes.
• 32:00
  What other lucky opportunity falls into my lap? There's a small parade of people celebrating the art of pebble juggling that are walking by, juggling pebbles and small rocks in the air.
• 32:18
  Very excitedly.
• 32:19
  There's some music as they come through, and you run, like when you slap it in there, and then you jump out of the way just as they're walking through.
• 32:27
  And so they cut off the possibility of him being able to chase after you without going around the whole parade at this point.
• 32:35
  So he picks up the thing in the mud, he looks at it, and then here's kind of a bonus opportunity, too.
• 32:41
  It is a mess.
• 32:42
  There's no way you could read that.
• 32:44
  And it's already soaked into the paper.
• 32:48
  It's completely illegible at this point.
• 32:50
  All right, perfect.
• 32:52
  So I'm going to cut over to our two boys over at the Blissful Brew stand back at the party.
• 33:02
  All right, so you guys are setting up.
• 33:04
  You noticed that it's getting a little bit towards the time that the party is going to start.
• 33:09
  So you start noticing as guests are kind of filing in on carriages, maybe on foot.
• 33:16
  A couple of them, not too many.
• 33:17
  Some of them are on those rickshaw.
• 33:19
  Yeah, they got some rickshaws.
• 33:21
  There's some people coming in on rickshaws with those, like nice little they have roofed because obviously these are all pretty wealthy people for the most part.
• 33:30
  And so as everybody's filing in, you guys are finishing up, putting those finishing touches.
• 33:34
  Mr.
• 33:35
  Ocaron is nimbly and expertly going through the ingredients, chopping things up, putting them into like a mortar pestile situation and grinding things up, putting it all together inside of the big old barrel.
• 33:49
  I guess it'd be a metal pot more that he's got a little fire going.
• 33:53
  He's getting the tea starting to boil and stuff like that, and he's just really getting everything ready.
• 33:59
  You guys are getting everything ready.
• 34:00
  Everything's looking really good, honestly, for you guys.
• 34:02
  You guys are doing a great job.
• 34:03
  And then as everybody seems as the increase of guests is starting to kind of like weighing out the guy from earlier that you had talked to who told you where you guys could set up and everything, that kind of like manager of the servants if you will, comes approaching you.
• 34:21
  And he says, if you would, if you could come with me.
• 34:26
  We are having the opening ceremony, and the Utopo family requests that all individuals that are involved in any way be present during this opening ceremony.
• 34:37
  He has a few words he'd like to say, and thanks to everyone that has made this party possible.
• 34:43
  Before we kick things off, do we have to? Well, I know some vendors.
• 34:50
  If you want one person to stay behind, that's fine, at the very least, Mr.
• 34:54
  O'quran.
• 34:54
  But it would be nice to have an employee present or something.
• 34:58
  I look over to build.
• 35:01
  Am I thinking I don't want to get stuck with all the work here.
• 35:05
  Sure I'll go if I get it.
• 35:07
  Okay.
• 35:10
  I'm fine staying.
• 35:10
  Yes.
• 35:11
  Someone's got to watch this place.
• 35:12
  I'm sure Mr.
• 35:12
  Ocaron wants to go.
• 35:14
  Yeah, I'll stay and defend this thing.
• 35:16
  All right.
• 35:16
  Because he leans over to golan.
• 35:20
  He's like, I don't want them to do to this place what we're doing to them right now.
• 35:24
  Oh, good.
• 35:25
  Looking at.
• 35:27
  All right.
• 35:27
  And then as they walk away, as they get their stuff and walk away, bill door ready.
• 35:34
  He gets his Bow staff, and he kind of puts it at his feet under the table.
• 35:40
  Ready.
• 35:41
  Okay.
• 35:41
  If you want to grab it.
• 35:42
  Well, since you explicitly said that, I'm going to have you mark that you are ready, which is a condition.
• 35:50
  He's putting it on his foot so that if he needs he'll flick it up with his foot straight into his hand.
• 35:56
  So he's just ready automatically.
• 35:58
  Okay, perfect.
• 35:59
  So basically, I'm not going to make you mark a fatigue for it because you're not really doing anything.
• 36:06
  Yeah.
• 36:06
  It's outside of combat.
• 36:07
  But what I am going to say is that you will get a plus one at any point to assess a situation.
• 36:14
  Okay.
• 36:15
  Given the T area that you're just kind of the immediate area surrounding the Blissful booth, is there any difference what would be, like, the differences between our setup and, like, the hot leaf juice? Sure, I guess.
• 36:32
  I'm like Picturing.
• 36:34
  Theirs is more of like a Starbucks very professional, and ours is more of like a home feeling.
• 36:42
  Yes.
• 36:43
  No, you are 100% correct.
• 36:45
  So he brought everything in on a hand cart, which is kind of sitting behind you guys.
• 36:49
  It's just got a couple of barrels and crates inside of it, just with a couple of residual ingredients or something along those lines.
• 36:57
  And that's just kind of sitting maybe a few feet away from your little stand set up, which is sort of like just maybe three kind of tables with a cheap tablecloth kind of thrown over them.
• 37:08
  It's got cups that aren't necessarily marked with the versatile blue logo.
• 37:12
  They're just kind of generic plain cups.
• 37:14
  Like I said, there's the large.
• 37:17
  So he's boiling the water off onto the side on a little like Campfire almost, and he has a large barrel with a spigot in it, and that's what he's going to pour it into once it's steeped and everything like that, and it's ready to go.
• 37:31
  So then he puts it in that and then he drips it into it.
• 37:34
  He has chopped fruit that's kind of laid out really nicely because some of it goes into the tea directly, and then some of it actually just kind of decorates the cup.
• 37:44
  So they take a slice of this fancy looking it's called a cherry mango, and he kind of sets that on the cusp of the cup to kind of decorate it and things like that.
• 37:54
  So that'd be the major difference.
• 37:57
  But as you go inside, which is where they're leading you for the opening ceremony, you can kind of see.
• 38:03
  So you walk in and it's just the very ornate entry room with the two giant staircases kind of curving around, very like Cinderella esque, almost very just decorative.
• 38:18
  Obviously, everything is there that's themed for the party and everything like that.
• 38:21
  There are a lot of bright colors, very summer feel, and there's a reason for that, which I'll get to here in a moment, and you can kind of see off to the right, which is big.
• 38:30
  It's not like a doorway, it's just a big opening into the next room.
• 38:33
  That's where the ballroom is.
• 38:35
  And you can kind of see out of the corner of your eye the hot leaf juice set up, which, like you had said, it's a very much more fancy, ornate.
• 38:44
  These aren't just like card tables that are kind of like casually made.
• 38:49
  These are like fancy display booths.
• 38:52
  They have, like, roofing over the booth that kind of decorates it and things like that.
• 38:56
  It has like an awning.
• 38:58
  All their cups are all marked with the hot leaf juice logo, all this fancy stuff.
• 39:02
  They are very like ornate serving jugs.
• 39:04
  So they're not even serving it out of a barrel and a spigot.
• 39:07
  They'd like, fill the jugs themselves, and then from the jugs, they'd pour that into the cups.
• 39:11
  So, yeah, it's just a lot of, like you said, very decorative, comparatively.
• 39:16
  As you step inside with Mr.
• 39:18
  Okran, who seems very excited.
• 39:19
  Oh, don't worry.
• 39:20
  Well, this is very normal.
• 39:23
  Yotaku family definitely always likes to make a big thank you out of everything that they do for these parties and stuff like that.
• 39:32
  So they're very good people, minus, obviously, the strange contract incident.
• 39:41
  I guess that happened involving our original contract, but I think that was more of the Shifu family.
• 39:47
  I think it's less to do with the Yotaku yes, Yotaku family.
• 39:54
  And more to do with the Shifu family, I hope.
• 39:57
  But anyway, this is a very powerful and wealthy family, so it'll be very nice to be recognized.
• 40:05
  Yeah, for sure.
• 40:08
  Looks like they pay pretty good.
• 40:10
  Oh, absolutely.
• 40:11
  Yes.
• 40:12
  They have money to throw away.
• 40:15
  And so as you guys are gathering and all the guests have gathered and stuff like that.
• 40:19
  It seems like most of the staff is kind of pushing for the caterers to kind of stand on the sides of the room whereas the guests are all kind of in the center of the room.
• 40:28
  And very kind of hefty built kind of a chunky guy in a very nice robe.
• 40:36
  He comes stepping up.
• 40:37
  It's in again, a bright color, kind of a red, maybe towards purple.
• 40:41
  So kind of close to a magenta color.
• 40:43
  He comes stepping up onto the stage and he says welcome, one and all, to the annual summer bash where we take time to celebrate and welcome in the warmer season as it graces us with its natural beauty.
• 40:59
  To kick things off today, I want to take a moment to thank all of those who have made these festivities possible by calling onto the stage all of the vendors and caterers who have taken the time to come here and grace us with their time and talent.
• 41:16
  And so, sure enough, he has everybody, like, file up.
• 41:19
  It's mostly either just the owners or the chef or whatever from each caterer and then they might have an employee with them.
• 41:28
  So in your case, Mr.
• 41:30
  Okran, he looks over you.
• 41:31
  He's like, do you want to come up on stage with me? Yeah.
• 41:36
  Solid.
• 41:36
  Perfect.
• 41:37
  Wonderful.
• 41:38
  So, of course, you guys follow up.
• 41:42
  Mr.
• 41:42
  Yotaku kind of announces everybody as they go through the line.
• 41:46
  With us today we have Michaels Meatballs.
• 41:51
  Shake hands.
• 41:52
  Kind of that like classic where you shake hands and then Michael, like, sort of waves like he's shaking hands with the present.
• 41:57
  That kind of like overused picture kind of situation.
• 42:02
  Sally's soy snacks, Carlos cookies, so on and so forth, until finally he gets to the tea and he says and for our delightful summer themed beverages, we have all the way from Bar Sing say, madame Yang's Hot Leaf Juice Company.
• 42:22
  She, like, stands up.
• 42:24
  She has changed into something a bit more ornate.
• 42:27
  Again, more towards the color scheme.
• 42:29
  Before, she was wearing, I believe it's kind of more of a brown and green theme, sort of a traditional, like, earthbender color, having come just from Bossing SEI.
• 42:37
  And now she's changed into a very much more fitting to this party with the summer theme.
• 42:41
  So brighter colors, reds, maybe some greens, but more like lighter greens, things along those lines.
• 42:47
  Yellows for sure.
• 42:48
  And she shakes hands, she smiles.
• 42:50
  And then all of a sudden, next to him this whole time has been the head of the Shifu household and he's just standing there in his suit.
• 42:58
  And then he sort of leans forward to the Utaku family head and he starts whispering and you can kind of hear what? What do you mean? There's another one? Blissful blue.
• 43:14
  But they weren't supposed to be here.
• 43:17
  What was the meat, sir? I don't understand.
• 43:21
  But this party needs to keep going.
• 43:23
  So just keep this on the download.
• 43:25
  We'll play along.
• 43:27
  And I'm told that in addition to their wonderful tea, we have a local, much more quaint tea shop.
• 43:35
  Some of you may recognize Mr.
• 43:37
  Ocaron's blissful brutish.
• 43:42
  And he comes up, he's like you hear a little bit of cloud.
• 43:45
  Everybody's kind of just doing like a courtesy clap for each person that's gone through.
• 43:48
  I just really care that much, but it's the right thing to do.
• 43:52
  And so he steps up and he shakes hands with it, and he waves at everybody.
• 43:55
  And then he gestures to you.
• 43:57
  Feel free to come on over and shake hands with Yu Taku ahead of household.
• 44:02
  Yeah, I walk over and I shake his hand, and I kind of raise my fist in, like, a gesture.
• 44:13
  People kind of dig the energy.
• 44:15
  They're like, okay, the plot kind of grows just a little bit, a little bit louder.
• 44:19
  Awesome.
• 44:19
  And then you guys go back to and then he's like, once again, thank you to everyone that we were able to get on all roster to be here and to serve all of you fine guests.
• 44:33
  Now, onto the festivities.
• 44:37
  As many of you know, I am an avid mask collector.
• 44:41
  Spirit masks, first of all.
• 44:43
  Masks, masquerade masks, I'm truly smitten with the things.
• 44:50
  So as a special event tonight and as specified on your invitations, you've all brought a secondary outfit to this party.
• 45:01
  Those outfits have been taken to rooms throughout my mansion.
• 45:05
  Once again, as specified on your personalized invitations.
• 45:10
  Now, please head to the room where you will find your secondary outfit and change into it.
• 45:17
  You will also find in that room a variety of masks that you can choose from from my personal collection.
• 45:26
  Take yourself a mask and put it on.
• 45:29
  The game will play like this.
• 45:31
  Each person will now be disguised so that no one knows who they are, as they will have on a new outfit and a masked face.
• 45:42
  It is your duty, through clever clues, vocal recognition, and even the potential slip up from others to determine those behind their masks.
• 45:54
  If someone calls you out, you must remove your mask and you are out of the game.
• 46:00
  But not out of the party, of course.
• 46:02
  Feel free to enjoy yourself and socialize with those around you.
• 46:07
  For those still in the game, though, the participants will whittle down gradually throughout the night until only one masked member remains.
• 46:18
  That individual be pronounced the winner and take home a nice bag of 250 yuan.
• 46:25
  A small prize, I understand, but this is meant to be fun, and I didn't want to spoil that with actual riches.
• 46:34
  Now get up there and get to guessing.
• 46:37
  Man.
• 46:38
  The summer festival begins.
• 46:41
  The party starts to head out, and you and Mr.
• 46:43
  Ocaron rushed back over to the booth.
• 46:46
  In the meantime, while you guys were doing that, bill, I'm going to have you make that assess the situation.
• 46:52
  Role 1111 wow.
• 46:54
  Okay, awesome.
• 46:55
  So you can ask two questions and you also get a plus one.
• 47:00
  I have a minus one and I added one.
• 47:02
  So I'm worried that what we're currently doing, the hot leaf juice.
• 47:08
  Hotleaf juice may do to us.
• 47:10
  Right.
• 47:11
  So what's the biggest threat to RT? Sure.
• 47:15
  So, yeah, the ingredients that you guys have for backup.
• 47:18
  Obviously the extra ingredients because it's going to be a long night.
• 47:21
  There's a good chance that we're going to probably need those ingredients just because they're not in the tea right now.
• 47:26
  Plus, you know that knowing that Brock, or at least knowing Brock was attempting to sabotage their ingredients, if they run out, you guys are going to be the ones that will have to step up and supply the rest of the tea for the night.
• 47:37
  That was the idea.
• 47:38
  Exactly.
• 47:40
  Alternatively, I would say obviously your dishes.
• 47:43
  That's a big hazard.
• 47:44
  If anything happened to all your dishes and you weren't able to serve tea in something, that would be a problem.
• 47:49
  You would assume that hot leaf juice would be the greatest threat.
• 47:52
  For sure.
• 47:53
  Do I not see any hot leaf juice hanging around? Hanging around.
• 47:56
  Well, I wasn't sure what your second question was.
• 48:00
  The last one was, what year can I use to okay.
• 48:04
  That's what I wanted to fill in the blank.
• 48:05
  I wanted to what can I use to help protect the team okay.
• 48:11
  Or to ward off? Sure.
• 48:14
  You do have your bostaff, which is obviously that was good prep right there.
• 48:18
  Moving the hand cart in such a way that would allow you closer observation of it.
• 48:25
  Also not behind me.
• 48:27
  Just beside me.
• 48:28
  Either beside you or even closer behind because it's like I said, a couple of feet away or a few feet away.
• 48:33
  Am I near the edge or am I in a complete open? You are pretty open.
• 48:38
  You're not too far away from the gazebo that has the pond around it.
• 48:43
  Okay.
• 48:43
  There are some hedges around you that like alongside the path, there's like a section you're off the path because I'm imagine we're facing into the party.
• 48:53
  So I'm imagining to my right would be like the edge of the party, like the wall or the hedge maze or whatever.
• 48:58
  So I want to push the hand cart and I want to slide that.
• 49:00
  So it's between me so the order would go hedge maze, cart, me, table.
• 49:08
  Okay.
• 49:08
  So basically it's right beside me and the only thing that's closest is like between me and the hedge maze.
• 49:13
  Okay.
• 49:16
  The hedge maze in here, the bushes.
• 49:18
  Okay.
• 49:19
  So yeah, you do that.
• 49:21
  As you're moving this, you notice there's an individual, he's dressed in the hot leaf juice garb, which is like that bright pink with their logo on it, aprons.
• 49:31
  And there's like a light emanating from his hand and he was kind of walking semi nearby, kind of like between your booth and the gassebo and he was looking at you, and then you move stuff, and then he kind of looked away and kind of just was, like, casually walking away, and he just kind of, like, whistling a little bit as he goes.
• 49:53
  Does that light in his hand look familiar? Yeah.
• 49:56
  Okay.
• 49:57
  I mean, you kind of get a feel that he might you don't hold, like, a candle in your hand necessarily.
• 50:04
  You would have to hold it in Scottsd, but the way that he was holding like this, you wonder if maybe he might be a firebender.
• 50:09
  Yeah.
• 50:10
  Okay.
• 50:10
  Got it.
• 50:12
  Like I said, he doesn't look like he's necessarily making move, or rather, whatever you did kind of threw off what his plan was.
• 50:18
  And so now you know that he's there, but he seems to be distance enough that he's not doing anything at the moment.
• 50:24
  Obviously, Bill is just going to stand there.
• 50:27
  Okay.
• 50:27
  And he's just going to stare at that guy.
• 50:29
  Okay.
• 50:29
  All right.
• 50:30
  You stare at him.
• 50:31
  Is there something for, like I'm trying to think if there's something for intimidation.
• 50:34
  Oh, there is.
• 50:35
  There's an intimidate.
• 50:36
  Yeah, do an intimidation.
• 50:38
  That's a seven.
• 50:40
  Okay, so you made a hit.
• 50:41
  He chooses one.
• 50:42
  He chooses to back down, but keep watch.
• 50:46
  So what he does is he goes over to the gazebo.
• 50:49
  He goes into the gazebo, and he turns with his back towards you.
• 50:54
  So he's looking out into the further yard to be the east side of the mansion.
• 51:01
  He's just kind of looking out there.
• 51:02
  But you do notice that every once in a while, he kind of glances backwards.
• 51:07
  He glances forward again.
• 51:09
  He glances backwards every once in a while, but he's definitely pretty far distance from you.
• 51:14
  And by the time that all this has gone down, the whole opening ceremony has ended, and now Guo and Okra are headed back over to you.
• 51:21
  So you've definitely kept a threat away for the time being.
• 51:24
  Bill just gets back to he's just kind of finishing setting up stuff at the party.
• 51:29
  Well, he sees the guy back away, watching him while setting stuff up still.
• 51:34
  Okay, sounds good.
• 51:35
  The whole time keeping the bow stuff on his foot.
• 51:37
  Okay, perfect.
• 51:38
  All right, so Glow, you're back.
• 51:40
  You and Mr.
• 51:40
  Oakley managed to get back people from the party.
• 51:43
  There's some obviously staying inside, but there's a lot of them starting to flood outside, and pretty decent handful of them are heading over towards the Blissful brew booth.
• 51:51
  You guys are open for business.
• 51:54
  Business in the sense that you're not selling tea to people right now.
• 51:58
  You already got paid, and you'll get paid more.
• 52:01
  Nice.
• 52:01
  But anyway, I assume you guys are just going to start slinging cups of tea.
• 52:08
  Yes.
• 52:09
  I go over to Bill, and I'm like, you know, that was a lot actually more fun than I was expecting.
• 52:15
  Everybody was looking at us up there.
• 52:17
  It's kind of neat.
• 52:19
  It seemed to be excited for us to be around.
• 52:23
  Although it looked like the head of the whoever from the yotaco to Yotaku taco taco.
• 52:34
  The taco guy, he wasn't too happy that we were here, but they didn't kick us out, so I guess we're good to get going here.
• 52:43
  That's right.
• 52:46
  All right, now, where's the honey at? We got to make sure our tea is not too big.
• 52:53
  Some people got different tastes here at the party.
• 52:56
  And Mr.
• 52:57
  Ocron goes? Oh, yes, of course.
• 52:58
  And he rushes over to the hand cart, and he grabs out a big old jar of honey, and he runs it back over, and he's got, like, a little bowl.
• 53:06
  And so he starts kind of scooping it into the bowl, and he's got one of those I don't know what they're called, but you use them to get the honey, and then you drill through the lines.
• 53:16
  He's got one of those things.
• 53:17
  It's just inside, so somebody can just the Honey Nut Cheerio wand.
• 53:20
  Yes, the Honey Nut Cheerio wand.
• 53:23
  It's delicious.
• 53:25
  It's got one of those that he puts into the honey dish so that people can kind of self serve themselves some honey.
• 53:31
  Or he could do it, too.
• 53:32
  Whatever the case, whoever's kind of like handing the cup off to the customer, I guess.
• 53:39
  Some people start coming over and they're drinking your tea, and they're tasting it, and it's good.
• 53:43
  It's good.
• 53:44
  They seem to be very happy.
• 53:45
  They're very positive about it.
• 53:47
  They'll take their tea off in a different direction to go hang out by the gazebo or maybe take it around the house.
• 53:54
  They're chatting with each other, just having a good time.
• 53:57
  It's a very chill party.
• 53:58
  It's not a rave.
• 53:59
  It's not any kind of like a wild party of any kind.
• 54:04
  It's a very dainty just to imagine a rich garden party atmosphere.
• 54:12
  Exactly.
• 54:13
  What's, like, the weather? Like, yeah.
• 54:15
  So it's really mild.
• 54:17
  It's starting to cool down a bit, for sure.
• 54:19
  As it gets a little bit darker and the sun is starting to set.
• 54:22
  The temperature is definitely not extremely dropping by any means, but it's starting to get into maybe the 60s, maybe mid 60s.
• 54:31
  Okay.
• 54:32
  So it's getting nice and cool, which actually obviously starts bringing in more customers.
• 54:37
  They want warm tea.
• 54:39
  Mr.
• 54:39
  O'Rourke continues to stoke the fire so that his next batch of tea can really steep for a good amount of time before he pours it into the barrel, which he then serves from or you guys serve it, I guess.
• 54:53
  All right, we'll cut back over to Mika really quick.
• 55:01
  So now that you've escaped and you've kind of sabotaged half of their ingredients list, where were you planning on getting? Well, I would head back either to the party or back to Blissful Group.
• 55:16
  Okay.
• 55:17
  Because if I go back to the party, then I run the chance of meeting the guy again.
• 55:23
  Sure.
• 55:23
  So I feel like if I'm leaning more towards survival, then I probably would just hide out in the Blissful Brewing Towel, but then I also want to communicate to my teammates that I'm exposed.
• 55:35
  Okay, so I guess I'll hang on the outskirts of the party to see if I can try to talk to them without being seen.
• 55:43
  Sure, yeah, you can try to find your way through the edge.
• 55:49
  Maybe I'll find broccoli.
• 55:50
  There you go.
• 55:53
  Okay, so, yeah, you kind of take the long way around town and then make sure that he doesn't catch back up to you, the guy that you kind of had an exchange with earlier.
• 56:02
  And you finally make your way to the outskirts of the party, and you see the Blissful Brew crew, and yeah, you can head over to them.
• 56:11
  They do look like they're serving some customers.
• 56:13
  It's not, like, wildly busy.
• 56:14
  They're not, like, rushing to get everything done.
• 56:16
  But there's a handful of customers, and they're, like, happily pouring.
• 56:19
  And you can see smile on both the Bill and GLOW's face and Mr.
• 56:23
  Ocaron's faces.
• 56:24
  People seem to be chatting with them a little bit, like, oh, someone sips it and goes, oh.
• 56:28
  You see them, like, their face perks up, and they're like, oh, this is very good.
• 56:31
  And Mr.
• 56:32
  Brown is like, oh, you're so caught some of that kind of stuff.
• 56:34
  You can just see that in the faces.
• 56:38
  Okay, I guess I'm going to nonchalantly, whatever, walk over to who's Ever closer.
• 56:48
  Not preferably not Mr.
• 56:50
  Ocaran because he doesn't know our plan.
• 56:53
  Mr.
• 56:54
  Ocaron is pouring the tea, so one of you would need to keep making sure that the fire is being stoked, and then the other one is maybe asking customers what they want in there, like, if they want honey or something, and then handing it off to him.
• 57:10
  So he's pouring it, hands it to you, one of you guys.
• 57:12
  Which one? I'd be the one serving customers, because that's already what I do.
• 57:17
  Yeah, perfect.
• 57:17
  So, Global, you're over there kind of stoking the fire, making sure mixing the teas during that and everything like that.
• 57:23
  So I assume you might go over to him.
• 57:25
  Yeah.
• 57:25
  Okay, perfect.
• 57:26
  All right.
• 57:27
  Hey, Glow.
• 57:28
  Hey, bro.
• 57:30
  Hey, you're back.
• 57:33
  Yes.
• 57:33
  Mike covers will have been blown just a little bit, tiny bit.
• 57:38
  A lot of it like your apron ripped or something.
• 57:42
  I noticed you're not wearing it.
• 57:49
  No, I never put it back on.
• 57:52
  If she was wearing it, I think the guy who beat her up would definitely know that she was lying about who she was working with.
• 58:02
  Madame Yang would not have sent me to go get the ingredients.
• 58:07
  Just ignore my Blissful Brew apron.
• 58:09
  I just found this on the ground.
• 58:12
  No, but what happened? Well, I was posing as a hot Leaf Juice employee.
• 58:20
  Well, they know that I'm not, and they know that I'm trying to sabotage them.
• 58:25
  Oh, no.
• 58:26
  Yeah, that's what I meant by my covers.
• 58:29
  Been blown, not my apron is torn.
• 58:32
  I see.
• 58:33
  What were you guys able to do so far? I don't know.
• 58:38
  Broccoli went to go help unload their ingredients and not all of them came back inside, so I'm assuming he did something with that.
• 58:47
  I accidentally tripped on a banana peel and broke some of their cups.
• 58:58
  The old man appeals, so they had to deal with that and a water mishap that there's water all over the ground, so I had to go into town and get some more ingredients and that's when I was discovered.
• 59:12
  I ruined half of the list, though.
• 59:16
  Well, it sounds like you did cause some ruckus.
• 59:20
  Maybe they'll be behind on their orders or stuff since they're distracted with all that.
• 59:25
  Yeah, so I'm not going to really help with the tea.
• 59:32
  I don't want them to find me and then know that then have it come back on Mr.
• 59:37
  Ocaron.
• 59:39
  Got you.
• 59:40
  Sounds like you might have trouble getting close to them anymore.
• 59:44
  Maybe there's something you can do to mess with them from a distance.
• 59:48
  Like I don't know if there's any animals around here could trip their waiters or something.
• 1:00:00
  I'm sure you'll think of something.
• 1:00:02
  Okay.
• 1:00:04
  But don't get caught.
• 1:00:06
  Well, I feel like a lot of people are going to be looking for me, so I'll try not to be careful out there.
• 1:00:14
  Okay.
• 1:00:14
  I might go hide in the mace.
• 1:00:18
  Let us know if there's anything we can do to help.
• 1:00:21
  Okay.
• 1:00:22
  I'm going to go find Broccoli and maybe he can if you get into trouble, you can signal us somehow.
• 1:00:30
  Okay.
• 1:00:30
  I'll yelp for help.
• 1:00:32
  Yelp for help.
• 1:00:33
  The old yelp for help.
• 1:00:34
  As she turns around to leave, Bill door, turns around to go get more honey out of the cart.
• 1:00:40
  And he sees Mika goes, oh, Mika losing her apron.
• 1:00:43
  I see.
• 1:00:45
  Grabs his honey and he turns around and goes back to serving people.
• 1:00:49
  Mr.
• 1:00:49
  Ogre is pretty focused on the customer, so he doesn't notice anything necessarily.
• 1:00:55
  All right, sounds good.
• 1:00:57
  So are you heading inside then to go because you know that Broccoli is inside? I do know he's inside, yeah, because he's still helping with the set up.
• 1:01:06
  You saw him before you left.
• 1:01:07
  He hasn't blown the cover like someone else? I did.
• 1:01:13
  Okay, then.
• 1:01:14
  Yeah, I guess I'll go inside, but I'm going to kind of like hang out by the walls and corners and stuff.
• 1:01:19
  Okay.
• 1:01:20
  Actually I'm going to go to the bathroom because I'm sure I'm kind of covered in mud, so I'm just going to clean myself up.
• 1:01:27
  Okay, so you head into the bathroom oh, look, my apron.
• 1:01:33
  And you get cleaned up a bit and stuff like that.
• 1:01:36
  You managed to get most of the mud off for the most part, especially because you're a waterbender, so you're able to do some kind of interesting techniques where you put the water into the cloth and then you use it to like.
• 1:01:45
  You bend it in such a way that it kind of pulls the dirt out with it, and then it's also dry afterwards.
• 1:01:51
  Washing machine or dryer.
• 1:01:52
  Exactly.
• 1:01:53
  Not you.
• 1:01:55
  And so, yeah, sure, you're able to clean up really well, actually, to be honest with you.
• 1:01:59
  And as you step out and you kind of walk into the party, you can see from a distance the two individuals that you had gone to go get ingredients with seem to be talking to Madame Yang, who's over at the hot loop booth, and they're chatting and stuff, and she just looks like she's getting infuriated.
• 1:02:23
  As you're looking around, I mean, there's a lot of people in here.
• 1:02:27
  So you're not too worried about them spotting you, at least not at the moment.
• 1:02:31
  But you know that now that they've passed on the information and they know what you look like, they might be on the lookout for you.
• 1:02:38
  Okay, I'm going to go back outside then.
• 1:02:41
  I don't want to hang out inside enclosed quarters, per se.
• 1:02:46
  Okay.
• 1:02:47
  As you're walking outside, you overhear a conversation of a couple of the people.
• 1:02:51
  You don't know who it is that they are because you've been gone.
• 1:02:55
  Yeah.
• 1:02:55
  So you don't really know who is involved in this party, but one of them is saying he seems to be the owner of the house by based on what he's saying.
• 1:03:02
  I must say, Mr.
• 1:03:03
  Yotaku, this party you've thrown is quite lavish this year, and this mystery mass game seems to be quite the hit.
• 1:03:13
  Well, thank you, my friend.
• 1:03:15
  Yes, it was a clever notion I came up with all by myself.
• 1:03:19
  I figured it would be a good social deduction game to play, keep things lively in the party.
• 1:03:28
  I simply hope no one attempts to cheat at my game, though.
• 1:03:33
  Oh, well, how would you figure someone might do that? I don't rightfully know.
• 1:03:40
  I'm not a dishonest person myself, after all.
• 1:03:44
  You know, I wear my heart on my sleeve.
• 1:03:47
  I don't hide behind some mask outside of for this party.
• 1:03:56
  But I must show you my other mask collection, especially my finest mask, which features alleged spirit gems.
• 1:04:06
  Aligning it.
• 1:04:08
  Yes, you must show me.
• 1:04:11
  And with that, they head out, leaving you with a solution to help you lay low during this party.
• 1:04:17
  There's a table set up and a whole bunch of sort of spirit masks, all portraying kind of a different type of animals.
• 1:04:27
  There might be one that kind of, like, suggest, maybe kind of a panda esque creature or one of them that has, like, a very birdsque feel with some feathers coming out of it.
• 1:04:36
  They're pretty standard masks.
• 1:04:38
  They've all got, like, the little strings on the back so that you can attach them over your head.
• 1:04:43
  Well, obviously they steal one.
• 1:04:47
  Not really stealing if they're handing them out.
• 1:04:49
  Okay, so I'm going to do that.
• 1:04:50
  And then I also feel like since they know what I look like my mask isn't going to be enough to disguise because obviously my water bender outfit is going to be a gray water bender outfit.
• 1:05:03
  Yeah.
• 1:05:04
  Either way, I'm going to kind of stick out if you like.
• 1:05:07
  So I am going to go into some of the rooms of the house looking for a different piece of clothing.
• 1:05:15
  Okay.
• 1:05:16
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• 1:05:16
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