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Benders & Brews S2 - Episode 9 - The Power of the Clipboard · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  Um.
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  Jasmine, oolong, green
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  and white. Long ago, these four
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  teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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  Then everything changed when the shop's
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  popularity threatened its existence.
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  All Mr. Okuron, the shop's owner and tea
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  master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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  orphans to learn his trade and 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
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  time on Benders and Brews an Avatar
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  legends podcast.
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  Uh, you're currently on the pirate ship, and
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  suddenly you spot a massive
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  creature swimming towards the ship in the distance.
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  It is a massive gator shark. You
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  look around, all of you look around. You see a variety of different things
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  that you could possibly use as weapons nets,
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  harpoons. Do you have bows and arrows? The
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  grappling harpoon. There are cannons. Can I
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  load the harpoons into the cannon? And he runs. Uh,
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  wait a minute. Captain's Cord Grower
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  opens the wardrobe and picks out a funny hat. I
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  will fire the cannon, swimming
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  intensely towards the boat. And he
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  slams into the side of the ship, causing a massive
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  hole to open up inside the hole. So my
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  goal is to end up on top of
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  them, grab a couple more harpoons. So I
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  grab the harpoons and leave
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  off the boat as I will take the two
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  harpoons and just excalibur them
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  nice. Into his neck. It thrashes in the
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  water a couple of times. It finally just gives
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  up. Welcome back, everybody, to
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  another episode of, uh, Benders and Ruse. We're on
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  episode nine, coming towards the close of
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  season two. How exciting is that, guys? Uh, we're
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  sitting in the studio. What?
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  It's kind of disappointing.
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  Why do you why do you say it's disappointing?
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  Well, we're coming to the end.
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  Oh, yeah, great. Yeah, that's true. It's always kind of, like,
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  beautiful. That's true.
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  Uh, with me today is the full cast and
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  crew of the show that you all know and love, uh,
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  and we're all going to give some interesting character
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  facts, um, starting with Connor,
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  aka Brock Lee. Yeah. Well,
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  something we recently discovered this last week is that, uh,
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  Brock is extremely gullible. And,
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  uh, if he's told one thing, he
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  takes it at face value. He takes anything absolutely
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  literally. Um,
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  yeah. Uh, he missed a couple of shifts at
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  the Blissful Brew, uh, when Bill
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  had told him that, oh, you have today off.
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  And so Brock just took him at his word and did not show
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  up. And he just missed it. And Mr. O'Connor got
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  super upset. He's like, Where is
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  Brock? Why is he just abandoned his
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  yeah, yeah. I've got a feeling that's what Mr.
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  Okaron probably said. I couldn't, uh, he was
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  furious. Yeah. He was probably
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  not too pleased, uh, with the old Brockster, he was
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  on toilet duty for quite a while after that,
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  and Bill obviously saw how much he hated toilet duty
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  and now he's used his guyly ways
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  to find all sorts of methods to force
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  Brock into doing the toilet duty as much as
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  yep, yep. Dave, aka guo,
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  who doesn't ever get toilet duty because it somehow gets
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  passed between Bill and Brock so often. Yeah,
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  it's a real shame.
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  Guo's just like, oh man, like I've always
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  wanted to try cleaning, uh,
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  I don't know, didn't,
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  uh, I get stuck.
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  On bathroom duty for a month?
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  Well, come say come stop. If I remember correctly,
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  uh, you were always on bathroom duty because you were the
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  only female staff member at the shop and therefore had to
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  do this.
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  But I thought we made a bet.
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  There was a bet going on. That's true. Yeah, you and Bill did have
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  a bet going and it was for yelling. Yeah, bill had to wear
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  a wig to clean
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  the
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  ah. What's? What's? Bo's. Interesting fact for this
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  week, Guo. So he has that
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  system of food reviews he leaves. Yeah, uh,
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  the hieroglyphs or whatever you want to call
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  them for. Uh, he's got that food
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  journal that he writes his own reviews
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  in, but he writes other stuff in that journal.
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  Uh, like he'll try to draw the restaurant
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  sometimes, but he's not the best at that,
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  so sometimes he tries to paint word
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  pictures, maybe in the form of a
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  haiku. Oh, he's
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  very artistic, which makes a lot of sense
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  coming out of the circuit or carnival.
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  Right, yeah.
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  Awesome. Well, we'll keep that in mind in
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  case, uh, you had some limericks
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  or some haikus coming our way then.
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  Cameron, aka. Bill?
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  Uh, what's bill's? Interesting fact bill,
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  uh, since he is the waiter
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  of the Blissful Brew, he will get the
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  occasional talk it
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  to people who ask him questions about his personal life.
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  Mhm, which Bill doesn't really mind. Um,
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  so every single new
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  person, he just tells a brand new story to
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  real stories or fake, fake, total fake
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  stories.
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  He's a liar.
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  And it all actually didn't start
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  with them, it actually mostly started with
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  Brock, uh, because he found out through a
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  few trial and errors that Brock is very,
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  uh, literal, uh, and will take anything Bill says for
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  face value. So Bill has told him multiple different
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  stories and each time Brock just keeps falling for it.
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  And so he's like, wait, I wonder if I can do this to more people. So now he does it to
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  patrons. He finds out when people are, uh,
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  waiting for food and drink, they'll just listen to anything
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  and they'll believe anything you say.
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  It's true. I mean, if they don't know you. Exactly.
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  So he's from every
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  nation, he's all benders in
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  one he's the last Avatar, but also wasn't
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  an Avatar. He met the avatar. But
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  convincing people you're the last Avatar, or well,
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  the Avatar is dangerous game to play in the current
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  climate of things. True. I'm also the avatar of
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  Teas. One, uh, guy really believed me on
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  that one. Sure. I said I got a mean t. Four t
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  concoction. Which is ironic. You don't
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  even exactly. That's why bill really mr. Ogron is
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  100% the tea. I thought that one was funny. Yeah,
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  that's Bill's fun, uh, fact. Interesting. He's a liar.
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  He's a compulsive liar. He's a compulsive
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  liar. Some would say it's a fiber, but I don't think
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  it's that. Ah.
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  Uh, I met the avatar
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  Michaela AK. Mika. What's the interesting
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  fact this time around?
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  Mika is very blunt, but I feel like everybody already knows
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  that. Well, maybe not very blunt,
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  but she's not very nice.
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  How is she not nice?
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  Well, Mika
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  likes know when she's know
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  going on know meandering in the know with her
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  dad or whatever. Um, she likes
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  to have water in her
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  mouth and she'll just make fun shapes.
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  Oh, interesting. Okay, I was
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  going to say like bilbo smoke and dandelion smoking
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  pipes, but instead it's with like water.
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  Yeah, that works.
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  It comes out of your water skin and
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  you do some
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  drink, turn it into a big circle and then
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  jump through it. So when she spits
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  for fun, it's fine. Brock spits
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  for fun? Oh, no, call
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  the cops on this.
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  Know it's more cute when Mika does it. She does fun
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  shapes at least.
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  I mean, Brock can make a pretty
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  cool looking spit wad.
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  It's impressive in its
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  probably with mean.
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  He spits it into the dust to make like little
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  pellets. Little pellets? So he could take
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  potshots because he.
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  Sleeps on a rock bed. Does he eat rocks too?
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  Oh, he eats for intimidation cabbage
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  almost exclusively. That's fun fact. Yeah.
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  Awesome. Uh, my name is Skyler. I'm the dungeon master,
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  or game master rather. This isn't Dungeons and Dragons.
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  Uh, but you guys have gone, or at least some of you have gone in a
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  dungeon to whatever extent you want to define
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  that. So definitely, um, a possibility. My fun
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  fact is that I convinced a lady
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  in Minneapolis that I was a
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  professional photographer. Ironically, before
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  I was a professional photographer. So if she's
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  listening right now out there, uh, in
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  uh, the great city of Minneapolis, I made
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  it. There you go. Confidence right there.
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  All right, let's kick things off. Uh,
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  welcome back to another episode of of Vendors Brews. Uh, we're jumping into the
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  story. Last time you guys were on the
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  pirate ship, which was being attacked
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  by a great gator
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  shark creature and you guys
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  assisted and yes, that's
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  a fantastic drawing of gator shark. Um,
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  thank you, Michaela. And, uh, you guys are able
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  to fend it off, uh, narrowly. So it
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  rammed into the ship a couple of times, probably broke a couple
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  of things down there, but all things considered, you're still
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  afloat. Everybody seems happy you've had over the
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  last couple of hours, they've sort of processed
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  this gator shark while they continue
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  to sail for Udao, which is your current goal at
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  the moment. Uh, looking for somebody
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  named
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  Mayu Yinyu. Thank you.
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  Very, uh good. Very good. Yes. Mayu Yinyu,
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  who in your last sort of clue from Mr.
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  Okaran and your little search for his
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  will, he, uh, had mentioned having an old friend in the
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  city of Yudao named Mayu Yinyu, and
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  he would be able to get you to whatever the next
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  thing is that you're looking for. Um,
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  currently you guys are on this
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  pirate ship and in the distance.
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  I would assume that you guys probably rest for the rest of the night
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  if you guys have any conditions or any exhaustion. Wait, did
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  we just finish, uh, speeding this gator
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  shark? Yes. And that was just as you guys were kind
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  of getting dinner finished up, so it's kind of getting
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  late anyways. Um,
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  unless there's anything that you want to do, I would assume that you guys are
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  headed to sleep. How am I going to
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  sleep with no rocks
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  to be the Captain?
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  Is Brock going to bring us all rock beds?
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  Well, uh, how am I going to sleep if there's no rocks?
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  Well, there doesn't the captain have a stack of rocks?
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  Not anymore, there really
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  isn't, uh, any rocks because you're on a
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  boat in the middle of the ocean, and rocks and water
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  don't usually go together super well. Rocks not going to
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  be able to sleep. Rocket is a
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  strange sensation, having the ground beneath you
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  moving constantly as you attempt to
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  fall asleep. For sure.
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  It's difficult. Uh, Guo, what
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  were you saying about wanting to be the Captain, pretend
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  to be the captain? Uh, well,
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  Guo is just walking around the ship or clomping around the
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  ship because he took the
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  captain sack and bended the
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  bag of rocks yes. Into
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  two rock peg legs.
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  It's not even just one leg is gone. You have
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  both legs. I mean, they're there. They're
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  just covered in rocks. Uh, do me a push your
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  luck as you make your way around the
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  ship, trying to make what some might see as a joke
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  and others might be greatly offended. He
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  also has the bigger
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  fancier hat. Yeah, that's right. Uh,
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  that you took from the chest.
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  It's going to be
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  five. It is not taken well by
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  the crew. Maybe it's because of the fact that,
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  uh, the gator shark that had bit off
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  the captain's leg, uh,
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  it's been slaughtered. But everything's pretty fresh in
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  people's minds, and you are getting a lot of frowns right
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  now from people who are looking at you as
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  though, uh, this is not the time.
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  Tough crowd.
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  Um, you think they'd take it easy on a, uh,
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  disabled guy?
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  He's like, disabled.
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  Whatever the case. Uh, like
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  I said, you guys get some rest. Uh, is, uh,
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  there any other shenanigans that are going on?
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  No. No. Okay.
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  Hey, everyone. Skyler your friendly neighborhood game master
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  here. Unfortunately, due to some technical issues, a
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  chunk of the episode got lost somewhere out in
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  cyberspace. But thankfully, it was only a small chunk
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  that I'll just quickly summarize, uh, so that we can get back to the
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  show. So, after waking up the next morning, the ship
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  approaches the city of Yudao and begins pulling into the
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  docks, where they plan to leave the ship and our gang,
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  along with a group of pirates led by the captain, who will follow
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  them ashore and continue to seek out the alleged
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  treasure. Of course, our heroes don't want these tag
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  alongs, and so they decide to leap off the rear of the ship
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  into the waters below and swim themselves the short distance
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  to the wooden ship docks, awaiting for, um, him. And
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  that is where we're going to pick back up.
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  All right, so all of you manage to reach the
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  docks. You pull yourself up out of the water. Uh, there's an
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  old fisherman looking dude, but not so much old. I don't
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  know, maybe middle aged. Just, uh, kind of sitting there fishing.
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  He's looking at all of you as you pull yourself up from the dock, and he
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  just goes, oh, I ain't never seen fish
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  like you before. Oh, where did y'all
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  swim in from? And
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  Gohan quickly ducks down, pulling
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  Dilbert out of his satchel,
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  placing him on his head as
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  a turtle squid hat
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  man, like, throws his, uh, fishing
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  rod into the air. Terrified, um,
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  clutches his bucket of fish and jumps into the water.
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  Where are you going? He just
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  is aggressively one handed swimming away with his bucket
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  of fish.
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  Fish are swimming away because they're still.
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  Yeah, he probably lost a couple of them.
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  Just takes Dilbert off his head.
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  Good one, Dilbert.
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  All right, where are you guys headed now that, uh, you've managed to get
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  away from the pirates for now? Into town. Into
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  town?
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  Yeah, we're going to find, like, the square or
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  something where he can go. Can
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  stand in the mound with circus tricks,
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  remember? She's going to come find us, take
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  the work out of it.
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  She has no idea we're here.
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  I'm, um, sure she hears a story about a circus, man.
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  She'll be curious about it.
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  When to be festered to go to her.
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  We don't even know who she is or where she's at.
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  Know her name. Yeah, we can just ask around.
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  I feel like stay in one spot,
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  draw intention.
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  Like, if you get lost in the woods, you stay in one spot. But that
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  means someone's looking for you. She's not looking for
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  us. Well, actually, there are people looking for us.
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  Yeah, actually, yeah. We should not stay in one spot. Yeah,
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  that's even better idea. We got to move.
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  Yeah, let's just go into town, start
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  asking names as we go, and then when we find where
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  she is, we can hide there. Because they don't know who we're looking for. Right.
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  Uh, I think they just
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  know that our key treasure is
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  somewhere here. They think the treasure is here?
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  Yeah. Nobody had told them the name of My.
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  We never told them that we're going for another clue. Well,
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  Brock kind of alluded to the idea with
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  My best friend, um, that, uh, there was
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  a series of clues, but you never saw what the next one was.
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  Right. Exactly. Or what you guys were looking for for
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  this one. Which is why they wanted to keep you guys
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  because they wanted you to help them find it. So
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  let's just run in, start asking her. All right. So you
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  guys quickly find the square, per se. The big
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  bustling area. The, uh, docks themselves are pretty
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  bustling, but, um, you manage to sneak through.
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  The crowds are very useful in kind of sneaking past the
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  possibility of the pirates kind of watching you disappear into the
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  city. And, um, now that you've disappeared into the city, you find yourselves
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  in the squares bustling people going to and
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  from work, um, small
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  shops along the way. One thing that you start to
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  notice is that, uh, there's
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  definitely become a very heavy Fire Nation
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  population in the area. Uh, you see Fire Nation
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  guards, you see businessmen and business women
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  wearing Fire Nation, the red garb with
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  the little flame insignia on them. Um,
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  it seems like a normal city for the most part.
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  Everybody seems, for the most part, happy. They seem
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  like they're going about their normal business. Uh, but you just
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  notice that a lot of what's going on around
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  here has to do with the Fire Nation, which is a little OD, given
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  that you're in Earth Kingdom City. Just something to point
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  out. Um, is there anybody that you
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  would like to try to ask about? Mayuyendio
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  m maybe a shopkeeper? Maybe just a
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  random passerby? Uh, maybe somebody
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  like, uh, a, uh, know, putting
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  some, uh, wood board, nailing it to a house or
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  fixing up a window? Uh, anyone in
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  particular that you're looking to ask? One of the Fire Nation guard?
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  Older shopkeeper. An older shopkeeper? Yeah. Is there
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  any other tea shops or
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  herbal ingredient shops? Uh, yeah,
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  like an older person. You do see another tea, uh,
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  shop. Notice the decorations
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  on it look a little bit gaudy as you come at it from the side.
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  And then you kind of come around to the front of it and
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  the sign above the door
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  reads Hot Leaf Juice Company.
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  Later we'll get to that. All right? You approach it and
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  inside you see a fairly young
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  staff. They're, uh, all wearing I believe it was like pink
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  is their kind of primary color that they use.
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  They're all wearing pink aprons and they're
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  all very slick back. Uh, they all kind of look
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  odly the same. They
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  look like they're individual people. They're different and such. But
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  their hair is all kind of slicked back in the same
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  way. Um, they look very neutrally
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  gendered in a sense. So you'd
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  almost have to double take to tell if somebody was like, biologically
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  female or male, per se, um, that kind of thing. It
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  just kind of throws you off a little bit that they almost look like clones of each other
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  to some extent, um, with the
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  exception of some facial differences.
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  Or one of them has, like, freckles and
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  one of them has a big nose or something like that, stuff like
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  that. But whatever the case, you approach the front counter or
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  maybe one of the servers. Anyone in particular?
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  Or an older person that works there. Everyone here
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  seems fairly young. A little
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  bit older than you guys, but not much.
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  What about an old person who's drinking
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  tea? Sure, there's plenty of those there. Um,
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  you see a variety. Um,
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  a handful of Earth Nation, uh,
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  dressed individuals wearing the kind of traditional green or
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  maybe brown garb, depending on how wealthy
• 20:21
  they might be. Um, and then you definitely see some
• 20:24
  older Fire Nation individuals. You don't see a whole lot of
• 20:27
  guards in this place. But the people that you do see that are Fire Nation
• 20:30
  related, uh, they look to be like, maybe like nobles of
• 20:33
  some kind or whatever the case. Any of
• 20:36
  them playing, uh,
• 20:39
  Bill go go insert yourself into their
• 20:42
  pie show conversation. You do this all the time with old
• 20:45
  timers. You go in looking for
• 20:48
  a person. I don't need to play a full game. You don't got to play a
• 20:51
  game, but that's how you get in. That's how you get in
• 20:53
  the conversation. I'll go over to some
• 20:56
  Earthbenders wait, before I do, I'm going to go,
• 20:59
  hey, what was the lady's name again?
• 21:02
  Mayu Yinyu. Yeah, what he
• 21:04
  said. Mayu Yinyu. Yeah. Okay, so I'm going to
• 21:07
  walk over to some Earth bends or Earth,
• 21:11
  uh, older Earth people from the Earth
• 21:13
  Nation. And, uh, I'm going to examine
• 21:16
  the board as I walk up to it. Okay. He's on
• 21:19
  wikihow right now. I'm trying to find out
• 21:22
  the other names, like the names for other
• 21:24
  pieces. Okay. Because obviously there's more than just
• 21:27
  the white lotus tile. Oh, I
• 21:30
  was just going to walk up and be like, hey, just in case
• 21:33
  that came up. Hey, uh, they look really focused on their
• 21:36
  game, but you should make this move. Oh, okay.
• 21:39
  Actually, I don't think they would like that. But I don't know
• 21:42
  why I would do that, uh, knowing older people.
• 21:45
  Okay. But actually, I will go walk up instead of
• 21:48
  doing that because I wouldn't like that. I'm going to walk up and just be like, hey,
• 21:51
  close game you got there. I was going to say, do
• 21:54
  you want to assess, um, the situation? Sure, I'll assess to
• 21:57
  see who's winning. Yeah, I was going to say just to see how much you can gauge. No
• 22:00
  idea. Okay, you
• 22:02
  walk up and you say, close game. And both of them
• 22:05
  pause, holding the first piece that they have to put
• 22:08
  onto the table. And they look at you and they're
• 22:11
  like, um, I guess it
• 22:13
  could be m
• 22:18
  what you make it. I mean, since
• 22:20
  two seasoned Pie Show players like
• 22:23
  yourselves, it's going to be a close game.
• 22:26
  One of them kind of looks at the other one and says
• 22:29
  he's making predictions because he can see that we
• 22:32
  are seasoned players. And the other one says,
• 22:34
  oh, yes, that is very
• 22:37
  impressive. That's a whole other skill set
• 22:40
  than just playing the game and being good at it. It's knowing
• 22:43
  your opponent that's half the battle. I mean,
• 22:45
  back where I'm from, I play Pi Show with a bunch of, uh,
• 22:49
  people and uh, most of the
• 22:52
  ones I have trouble beating are
• 22:54
  players like yourselves. Uh,
• 22:57
  and uh, the one that didn't speak first last time, he
• 23:00
  leans forward, he says, I think he's calling us old.
• 23:03
  And he says, we are quite weathered,
• 23:06
  aren't uh,
• 23:09
  wise.
• 23:12
  My name's Gray and this is my
• 23:14
  associate, Foe.
• 23:17
  And both of them kind of motion for you to sit with them
• 23:20
  and they're like, so you're knowledgeable about the
• 23:23
  game? Would you like to sit and watch us play?
• 23:26
  Uh, first of all, my name is Bill. Oh, nice
• 23:29
  to meet you. But I can't stay long.
• 23:32
  We're here looking for someone and I
• 23:35
  was hoping that you two gentlemen could be able to point us in the
• 23:38
  right direction for this person. Okay. They're both still kind of
• 23:41
  holding their pieces over the board.
• 23:44
  They're really attentive to what you're saying. I'm just kind of painting the
• 23:47
  picture. They're just waiting. Um,
• 23:50
  who are you looking for?
• 23:53
  Me? Yin Yao. Was that it? Just
• 23:56
  from across the room? My Yu Yin.
• 23:59
  Yu
• 24:02
  Mink. Yeah. Just like my yu yin.
• 24:05
  Excuse me? My Yu Yin Yu. And as you
• 24:08
  say that name, they drop the
• 24:11
  piece. The pieces just kind of slide out of their
• 24:13
  hands and they both have kind of these gaping open
• 24:16
  mouths and they quickly look around.
• 24:19
  Um, it's a good thing that you didn't actually shout.
• 24:24
  They, uh, look around very frantically and they grab your arm and
• 24:27
  they pull you into the seat and they kind of lean in and
• 24:30
  they say, I don't know where you're
• 24:33
  from, but it is not wise
• 24:35
  to shout the name Mayu Yinyu
• 24:39
  when the Fire Nation is uh,
• 24:42
  okay, why
• 24:46
  you're asking about him? But you don't even know him.
• 24:49
  Well, I was sent to talk to him.
• 24:53
  His name was Okaron. And
• 24:56
  one of them is like Okaron.
• 24:59
  I think I remember Okaron. Uh,
• 25:02
  he was the traveling team merchant
• 25:04
  Grey. Oh, you're right. Foe he
• 25:07
  was oh, he was a very nice man. He played
• 25:10
  pie show with us. Yes, he was very good. He
• 25:13
  was very good indeed. Uh, I think he beat you,
• 25:16
  but, uh, I managed to beat him.
• 25:19
  Hold on, a second there. I'm pretty sure I managed to
• 25:22
  beat what I also beat me,
• 25:25
  but that's besides the point. What I need is, uh,
• 25:29
  of grave importance that we find
• 25:32
  this my
• 25:34
  you. I'm just shortening. So they Fire
• 25:37
  Nation and they start to kind of, like, whisper to you and they're
• 25:40
  like, look, uh, Bill, if you're
• 25:43
  an associate of Mr. Oberon, then there's
• 25:47
  no reason not to help you. Uh, he's a good man, and
• 25:50
  I believe he's close friends with Mayu. I
• 25:53
  believe he mentioned something about him performing at
• 25:56
  some event he was doing or something like that. But, uh,
• 25:59
  it's fairly important that you not speak that
• 26:01
  name loudly or much at all in
• 26:04
  public. He is an entertainer, uh,
• 26:07
  of sorts, uh, very well known in these parts.
• 26:10
  Musician, uh, actor, I think, a
• 26:13
  little bit. I don't know what these kids are up to these days, whatever
• 26:16
  the case. Uh, but he's also a
• 26:18
  leading member of the local
• 26:22
  rescue, uh, team squadron here
• 26:25
  in Udao.
• 26:28
  Uh, rescue from what? Look around
• 26:31
  you. Can't you tell? I see fire, Nation. What are they
• 26:34
  doing? Looks like they're just patrolling the area. Uh,
• 26:37
  they are integrating into our city,
• 26:40
  taking it over through sort of a
• 26:42
  cultural takeover.
• 26:46
  It's almost like a peaceful
• 26:49
  what would you say, foe.
• 26:55
  I'm not sure what it's called, but
• 26:57
  it's a strange new method of sort
• 27:00
  of integrating with the society
• 27:03
  that you're trying to push into
• 27:06
  submission. Gentrification.
• 27:08
  Yes. Gentrification Brock,
• 27:11
  of all.
• 27:19
  I ate a dictionary, and I came
• 27:21
  across
• 27:29
  boys. Correct. Just like waistbound over
• 27:31
  here. Gentrification. Yes.
• 27:34
  Uh, they've come in, uh, as
• 27:37
  ambassadors. They've started to integrate into the
• 27:40
  politics. They started enacting certain rules
• 27:43
  and laws that befit their
• 27:45
  purposes and their ideas. And, uh,
• 27:48
  they're starting to kind of push us
• 27:51
  Earth Nation citizens
• 27:53
  out. So what is the Rescue squad
• 27:56
  doing? They're trying to stop them and thwarting
• 27:59
  their plans, keeping them from bringing in some
• 28:02
  necessary supplies, giving the necessary
• 28:04
  supplies to those of us well, not
• 28:07
  us. And both gray and folk kind of chuckle a
• 28:09
  little bit. We're old men. There's not much we can do,
• 28:12
  per se, but, uh, stealing the
• 28:15
  supplies, giving it to their teams,
• 28:18
  distributing it to the other rescue team
• 28:21
  squadrons, uh, things along
• 28:24
  those lines, generally harassing the
• 28:27
  Fire Nation and keeping them from moving forward with
• 28:29
  a lot of their larger scale plans. Well, I'm all for
• 28:32
  stopping the Fire Nation, so could you
• 28:35
  give us any hints where we can find
• 28:39
  My You? If you are
• 28:41
  searching for my Yu Yinyu? My Yu
• 28:44
  Yinyu will find you.
• 28:49
  But we need to find him, like,
• 28:53
  sooner than later.
• 28:56
  Try the performance hall,
• 29:00
  the theater. The local theater. Yes. Is that near
• 29:03
  here? Yeah. Yes, absolutely. Uh, you won't
• 29:05
  miss it. It's quite unbeat. We put a lot
• 29:08
  of work into that theater.
• 29:11
  Okay, well, that's the place to start. We'll
• 29:14
  go there. Yes. Yes. Well,
• 29:17
  thank you, gentlemen and bill's going to stand up from
• 29:20
  his seat and, uh, reach to give them both a
• 29:22
  handshake. They shake your hand, and then,
• 29:25
  uh, just before you let go of Foe's hand,
• 29:28
  he pulls you close. He's like. Bill, be
• 29:31
  careful. Bill. Uh,
• 29:34
  fire Nation. And is always listening.
• 29:37
  They're always watching.
• 29:45
  Let me think. I'm trying to think where I would respond. Uh,
• 29:47
  Bill's just going to say, Lean in. And he's going to say, uh,
• 29:50
  don't worry, I've gotten used to that. And he
• 29:53
  gives him a wink and then walks away. Uh, as you
• 29:56
  walk away, Foe looks over at
• 29:59
  Gray and he says, uh, I think that boy was
• 30:02
  flirting with me.
• 30:07
  They chuckle, and they go back to their pie show
• 30:10
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• 30:13
  but you hear Grace say, oh, wait. Oh.
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  All right, so you guys have, uh, this new information. I assume
• 33:21
  they heard that conversation. Or you can kind of
• 33:24
  huddle up and relay it to them. I'm not going to make you do it. I'm just saying.
• 33:27
  Okay, uh, perfect. So you
• 33:30
  guys head out and you kind of just start making your way
• 33:33
  down the dirt pathway.
• 33:36
  Um, in the distance you can see a very
• 33:38
  ornate, beautiful building. Um, it's
• 33:41
  got sort of those curly I'm not an architect,
• 33:44
  ironically, I work at an architecture firm. But it's got kind of
• 33:47
  those cool, curly, very Asian style
• 33:50
  rooftop corners. Um,
• 33:52
  large, very tall, pointed, uh,
• 33:55
  tiled rooftop in kind of a bright red color.
• 33:58
  The building itself seems to be some sort of, like,
• 34:01
  green stone or some sort
• 34:04
  of, uh you're not entirely sure. Maybe it was painted.
• 34:07
  Uh, whatever the case, uh, there are large,
• 34:11
  uh, fabric outdoor curtains that kind of hang from the various
• 34:14
  windows and such. It's a very classy building. Um,
• 34:17
  there's a wall that kind of goes around it. It's not
• 34:20
  super high, maybe like 8ft or
• 34:22
  so. Um, inside you can see there's some
• 34:25
  greenery that's very well kept. Uh, definitely feels like
• 34:28
  a very classy place. Nobody's guarding it,
• 34:31
  per se. It's kind of an open location. Nobody's trying to
• 34:34
  stop you from getting in or out, but that's what you see. Is
• 34:37
  there, uh, like a back door, like employee
• 34:40
  entrance? Oh, absolutely. Um, yeah,
• 34:43
  you go around the building, there's kind of like a narrow path
• 34:46
  that goes around.
• 34:47
  We're sopping wet still, probably.
• 34:50
  Yeah.
• 34:51
  Fire Nation is going to find us.
• 34:53
  Way.
• 34:58
  Four sopping wet teenagers walking. More
• 35:01
  believable because it's like, man, nobody from the Fire
• 35:04
  Nation would come walking in here drenched in water.
• 35:08
  Guo runs, uh, up behind you
• 35:11
  guys, huffing and puffing. Sorry, guys. Had a catch
• 35:14
  up. I had to leave a pebble
• 35:17
  rating on hot leaf juice door.
• 35:20
  Was it a good one or a bad one? The lowest
• 35:23
  rate.
• 35:24
  He shouldn't have left one.
• 35:26
  No, that's how they know he was
• 35:29
  there.
• 35:31
  Should have burned it to the ground.
• 35:33
  Uh, we can't on our way back.
• 35:36
  I think that's the fire nation's job. I feel like Nika's just got
• 35:39
  a weird thing going on of wanting to burn. I'm
• 35:41
  rubbing off on her, I guess.
• 35:43
  So okay, but this was very
• 35:45
  warranted.
• 35:46
  Well, I just find it really funny. You're a waterbender, and you're like, I
• 35:49
  really want to burn things to the ground.
• 35:52
  I want to go outside my element right now.
• 35:57
  Feige leaves more of a mark
• 36:00
  than water.
• 36:02
  It can could still flood
• 36:04
  it. Flood it.
• 36:06
  Okay, let's go back. I'll pull all
• 36:09
  the water from all.
• 36:10
  Y'All from the TV
• 36:13
  story. You can't.
• 36:15
  Is Mr. Okuron we're talking about? What do you mean? There's
• 36:18
  bigger things?
• 36:19
  Yeah. The thing Mr. Okron sent us to.
• 36:21
  Do, we're avenging him. He would want us to do
• 36:24
  it.
• 36:25
  I don't think Mr. Okra would be, like, the last person to be,
• 36:28
  like, revenge me. I think if Mr. Ogron was
• 36:31
  here, he'd probably say, I want you guys to take him down
• 36:33
  by having a better T shot. Yeah, that's whatever the
• 36:36
  case, you, uh, guys approach. There's a back entrance, and it's sort
• 36:39
  of like a stage left exit, kind of
• 36:42
  a can. It's got sort of like some, uh, kind of
• 36:45
  a sign on it that says Actors Only.
• 36:48
  Well, we just got to walk through there, right?
• 36:50
  I mean, this is where I was told to go, so I
• 36:53
  feel like we have to if they try to
• 36:56
  stop us. Well, we'll just
• 36:59
  say the name. We claim sanctuary.
• 37:02
  Wait, no, we will not say the name. They told
• 37:04
  us not to say the.
• 37:05
  Name, uh, around Fire Nation. So if they're Fire Nation, we won't
• 37:08
  say the name. And if they are Earth Nation, we
• 37:11
  will. And if this person if this guy's, like, in
• 37:14
  the performance scene, it's like, they'll
• 37:17
  know where to find them. It's not really good cover. Like, the
• 37:20
  Fire Nation doesn't like them, but they're a public figure.
• 37:23
  It's like so you guys step through this side door
• 37:26
  that said Actors Only, and you guys find
• 37:29
  yourself on the sort of
• 37:30
  backstage. Uh, you can
• 37:33
  hear a woman is on stage at this very moment,
• 37:36
  and she seems to be singing in a very high, sort of opera
• 37:39
  esque voice. Um, it's not a
• 37:41
  performance. It's not like a big show at the moment.
• 37:44
  It's probably somebody rehearsing exactly.
• 37:47
  Rehearsal practice kind of thing. But, um, you definitely hear
• 37:50
  somebody on stage, uh, which kind of probably
• 37:53
  shies you away from, I would hope, maybe.
• 37:55
  I don't know. I guess I'm not making decisions here for you guys,
• 37:59
  uh, from just Walting out on a stage. But currently, you're behind the
• 38:01
  curtain. You're behind the curtain, safely away.
• 38:04
  The door blows directly, seems
• 38:07
  like, I.
• 38:08
  Think, calling right there, if it was.
• 38:11
  My thinking, uh, the door typically, is for
• 38:14
  people to exit the backstage area in
• 38:17
  case they need to go up to the front. As
• 38:20
  people are coming out the door, you shake hands with all the actors,
• 38:23
  tell them you did a good job, whatever the case. Uh,
• 38:26
  it's not usually used the opposite way, where you
• 38:29
  enter backstage. Okay. But here you are. Is
• 38:32
  there anybody else backstage or is she the only person here? Um,
• 38:35
  yes, actually, there is somebody else backstage. There's somebody,
• 38:38
  uh, holding a clipboard and right now they don't
• 38:41
  notice you because they are very intently going through the
• 38:44
  names. Um, and it's kind of dark back here, but
• 38:47
  you can see just past them. It seems like there's a line of other
• 38:49
  people, um, that has begun sort of
• 38:52
  behind them. Other women? Uh,
• 38:55
  some young, some old, all dressed in sort
• 38:58
  of, uh, dressy kimonos.
• 39:01
  So this is like an audition of sorts?
• 39:04
  It seems it might be. So, Mika,
• 39:06
  you can go in that line. Blend
• 39:09
  in.
• 39:10
  I'm literally soaking wet. These ladies
• 39:13
  are in beautiful kimonos.
• 39:16
  That's your stick. Yeah, that's your stick.
• 39:19
  You're the soaking wet singer.
• 39:21
  Singer. So before
• 39:24
  every act, you have someone dump a bucket of water on you
• 39:27
  and it's like performance art.
• 39:29
  I'll just use my water bending skills.
• 39:31
  And try to yeah, I'm m glad.
• 39:34
  Myself a little bit.
• 39:35
  Yeah, just pull the water off yourself and get in
• 39:38
  line. Let us stumble our way through this mess.
• 39:41
  Okay. Then, uh, the three of us will sit
• 39:43
  in the audience and we'll cheer for you. Shouldn't we be
• 39:46
  finding the verse we're looking for and just
• 39:49
  enjoying the show? Fine.
• 39:52
  Whatever.
• 39:53
  So, uh, I don't have to do
• 39:56
  yeah.
• 39:56
  You're still auditioning? Phrase echoes in your mind from, uh,
• 39:59
  the old men at the tea shop. If Mayu Yinyu
• 40:02
  knows you're looking for him, he will find
• 40:05
  you. See?
• 40:06
  Told you.
• 40:07
  Yeah. So you still have time to audition. Wait. Mayu
• 40:10
  Yinyu is a man. Oh, yeah.
• 40:12
  That's what they've been saying he this whole time.
• 40:14
  I wasn't sure how to insert that fact in
• 40:17
  until the moment the old.
• 40:19
  Dudes yeah, you guys always said she. And I
• 40:22
  was like, Wait, he's saying he.
• 40:24
  But anyways, we could just walk up to that person with a clipboard
• 40:27
  and be like, hey, we'll be for my
• 40:29
  that went super well last time. What about
• 40:32
  there's got to be some stage hands. There should be
• 40:35
  other people who aren't super intently. Oh, uh, yeah, there's
• 40:38
  stage hand. There has to be, right? Uh, yeah,
• 40:41
  probably further back into where the line is kind of going
• 40:44
  out. I mean, there's obviously the person with the clipboard.
• 40:47
  That is probably a stage hand to some extent. Where's the
• 40:50
  green room? Uh, the green room. That's the question.
• 40:53
  All right, guys, I know what we got to do. Got to
• 40:56
  find this green room, find these finger
• 40:58
  sandwiches, and see how many we can fit in our pockets.
• 41:05
  Where are you getting the idea that there's finger sandwiches? Uh,
• 41:07
  it's a green room. They got to have a
• 41:10
  rider. Come on.
• 41:13
  Airport. All right, maybe they only have
• 41:16
  he would know the thing or two about green rooms more than the rest of
• 41:19
  them. Okay, fair enough.
• 41:23
  Uh, they have some. Yeah.
• 41:25
  All right, sounds good. So what are you guys doing at the moment? Are you
• 41:28
  guys going towards this line to try to
• 41:31
  find your way back there? Walk behind the line. Okay.
• 41:34
  He's like a random
• 41:36
  backstage person. Are you sneaking past a person
• 41:39
  with a clipboard, or are you just kind of just going for it?
• 41:42
  Walk like you own the place. Yeah, we're walking like
• 41:45
  we're heading for the line. All right, so as you guys
• 41:48
  are walking towards it, uh, this man turns
• 41:50
  around. Uh, he's kind of an older guy. He's
• 41:53
  got kind of a long goatee that hasn't quite started to gray
• 41:56
  yet. But the wrinkles around his eyes and his
• 41:59
  cheekbones kind of protruding. Definitely
• 42:01
  suggests age and sort of frailty. Um,
• 42:04
  he's wearing a tall hat with a little string out of
• 42:07
  it. Kind of like a what do they call
• 42:10
  a fed? Yeah. Fez. Right. Fed. He's a
• 42:13
  fed. He's a fed. No, a fez.
• 42:16
  But it's like a little bit taller than a normal fez would be. It's kind of
• 42:19
  obscure. Whatever the case, he turns around and he sees you guys,
• 42:22
  and he lowers his clipboard, and he's like,
• 42:25
  what are you doing out of line? Just keep
• 42:28
  going. I'm going. Just keep walking. Who are
• 42:31
  you? Don't even give him the time of day.
• 42:34
  Just walk right walking right back
• 42:38
  that's right. Back to the back of the line. You guys
• 42:41
  can wait till last? Uh, good. Nice
• 42:44
  hat. Ah, you have there. Did you stop?
• 42:48
  Yeah, it is a nice hat. What about it? I
• 42:50
  had a nice hat once, but I lost
• 42:53
  it jumping into the water. Uh,
• 42:57
  what are you talking get to the back of the line.
• 43:00
  Okay.
• 43:04
  And as you guys walk to the back of the line, you
• 43:06
  get some looks of disdain from the various
• 43:09
  women that are lined up, um,
• 43:12
  looking at you as if you're less than per se
• 43:15
  or they're a better performer. Whatever the case, um, you
• 43:18
  see that as you go all the way to the back, you get
• 43:21
  these. Look. What?
• 43:22
  I'm a cream mom.
• 43:23
  So you are auditioning.
• 43:25
  You guys told me to.
• 43:26
  Do you actually get in line? Are you dry at this
• 43:29
  point?
• 43:30
  Yes.
• 43:30
  She dried herself and not us. Fair enough. The rest of you
• 43:33
  squatch.
• 43:37
  Um, Nika, you get into the back of this line. Uh, the rest
• 43:40
  of you start heading towards, uh, finding the green
• 43:42
  room at backstage. Boy
• 43:45
  or girl? While we're walking the
• 43:48
  rocks that Brock has, could I bend them, um,
• 43:51
  into the shape of a clipboard?
• 43:55
  Because you can get anywhere with a clipboard.
• 43:58
  So that'll, uh, give us some
• 44:01
  validity when we're walking around here. They're going to question
• 44:03
  us now. Sure. Okay.
• 44:05
  You all ditched me.
• 44:06
  Yes. Have fun
• 44:09
  auditioning. I'm going to take care of you guys first, and then we'll jump over to
• 44:12
  Mika real quick with the performance we don't have.
• 44:15
  Oh, it's going to be interesting. All right, so you guys find the
• 44:18
  green room and sure enough, there are a number of
• 44:21
  snacks and drinks in here. Although most of it
• 44:23
  seems to have been, ah, ever so delicately picked
• 44:26
  over for the most part. But there are definitely, ah, a
• 44:29
  little bit of this and that left. It wasn't massive,
• 44:32
  and you wonder if maybe it was there leading up
• 44:35
  to the start of the audition. So all the ladies that you
• 44:38
  passed by had probably already gone through a lot of these
• 44:40
  snacks, um, that were available.
• 44:44
  But, um, there's a little bit left. And there
• 44:47
  is one person sitting in there. Um,
• 44:50
  it's just a young woman. Uh, she's not dressed in a
• 44:53
  kimono. She's dressed in just kind of casual clothes. She has her hair
• 44:56
  up in a ponytail. Uh, she has big
• 44:59
  rimmed glasses on. And she also is
• 45:02
  holding a clipboard. And she kind of looks up as she sees the three of
• 45:05
  you walk in. And she goes, oh, are you
• 45:08
  here for the job?
• 45:11
  Are all three of you applying? We do have multiple positions
• 45:14
  open, yeah. Oh, fantastic.
• 45:17
  Good. I was starting to worry that nobody was going to show up
• 45:19
  today. It was just going to be people for the
• 45:22
  performance. Yeah. Okay. Um, I was going to run this as a
• 45:25
  group interview, if that works for you. Cool. All
• 45:28
  right, well, have a seat. Please. Have a seat. Since I have
• 45:31
  my official clipboard, I could just be like, oh, I was just escorting
• 45:34
  these guys here. And then can I keep looking around? Uh, you could
• 45:36
  do that, absolutely. Do you want to roll me a
• 45:39
  trick that she probably doesn't recognize you?
• 45:42
  Sure. What is that with? That is with
• 45:48
  1212. Holy cow.
• 45:51
  Uh, so you get to pick two on a trick. They stumble,
• 45:54
  you take plus one forward and acting against them. They, uh,
• 45:57
  act foolishly. And the GM tells you about an additional
• 45:59
  opportunity that you gain.
• 46:02
  Or they overcommit and they are deceived
• 46:06
  for some time. There we go. What was that second to last
• 46:08
  one? Uh, they act foolishly. The GM
• 46:11
  tells you what additional opportunity they give you. I
• 46:14
  think that one because that'd be the only way. They'd be like, oh,
• 46:17
  okay, cool. Guy with a clipboard. Rock shaped
• 46:20
  like a clipboard. Yeah. And then are you picking the last one too?
• 46:23
  Where they overcommit and they're deceived.
• 46:27
  So the one you're picking just means they do
• 46:30
  something silly because of your lie. Whereas the
• 46:33
  last one is they definitely are believing your lie. You get to
• 46:36
  pick two. Okay, so I'll do that. They definitely believe the last one
• 46:39
  then. Yes. So she believes that you are somebody
• 46:42
  important. In fact, are you telling her that you're somebody important? Or are
• 46:45
  you just saying, oh, I'm just here to drop them off. I'm just
• 46:48
  dropping these guys off. They were asking around earlier.
• 46:51
  Uh, she, uh, says, ah,
• 46:56
  have you always worked here? Um,
• 47:02
  I'm kind of new around here, but, uh,
• 47:05
  uh, they put me on here, and these
• 47:08
  guys came and found me and said they were looking around for you, so I
• 47:10
  just came and dropped them off. Oh, wow. Um,
• 47:14
  what department are you in?
• 47:17
  You look like you might be an actor or something.
• 47:21
  No, I just always loved the
• 47:24
  theater, so I wanted to be involved in any way I can. So,
• 47:27
  uh, I just started working,
• 47:30
  uh, in the acquisitions department, where we're looking
• 47:33
  for, uh, all those new actors and such. Well,
• 47:36
  then you and I will probably be working quite
• 47:39
  closely together. Yeah. Appears that way.
• 47:42
  Yeah. I'll see you around. I'll see you around too.
• 47:45
  And she just kind of blushes,
• 47:48
  and she just watches as you lead off, and then
• 47:51
  she just kind of looks at her clipboard. She goes
• 47:55
  and there's just kind of a very long, awkward
• 47:57
  silence. I'm so
• 48:00
  sorry. I forgot you guys were here. Oh, my gosh.
• 48:03
  Oh, my um how embarrassing.
• 48:05
  Um, all right, well, let's get this interview
• 48:08
  started. Uh, firstly, do you guys have
• 48:11
  any previous experience working within a
• 48:14
  performance facility of any kind? Any kind of
• 48:16
  events? Uh, anything like that?
• 48:19
  Of course I do. Oh, good.
• 48:22
  Oh, please do tell. I was with a
• 48:24
  traveling troop
• 48:27
  for my whole life. Oh,
• 48:29
  like a circus or carnival?
• 48:32
  Yes. Oh, very impressive. Uh, if I may
• 48:35
  ask, uh, was there anything in particular that you worked
• 48:38
  on during this time? I was involved in
• 48:41
  most of all, the performances. Oh, wow. So you
• 48:44
  definitely had a diverse set of skills that you've
• 48:47
  probably developed, I assume, of kind of all
• 48:49
  areas, production and
• 48:52
  performance even maybe. Yes. You could say I'm a
• 48:54
  well rounded individual.
• 48:58
  Uh, rubs his belly
• 49:01
  suddenly. Well,
• 49:04
  that is quite impressive. And she kind of scribbles onto the
• 49:07
  clipboard. There we go. Goodness. Said it, like, four times. She starts
• 49:09
  scribbling on the clipboard a little bit, noting, um,
• 49:12
  down your amount of experience. And you said that
• 49:15
  you had no experience, correct, sir. I have
• 49:17
  none. Okay. No, that's no problem.
• 49:20
  Are you somebody that you would say is eager to learn?
• 49:24
  Nah. Oh, okay. Um,
• 49:26
  she's a little thrown off by this it's very forward
• 49:29
  kind of answer to a very obviously, you say yes.
• 49:32
  Uh, question. Uh,
• 49:35
  may I ask, uh, what made you want to apply
• 49:38
  for this position? Him. And I look over at
• 49:40
  GuoHan.
• 49:45
  She looks at you for a moment, and then she looks over at Guo,
• 49:48
  and then she kind of
• 49:51
  squints her eyes a little bit, and she's like, um,
• 49:54
  sorry, I didn't catch your names, by the way. Bill.
• 49:57
  Okay. Names? Yu. Yin.
• 50:00
  Yuma.
• 50:03
  Yuyan. Yuma. Fantastic.
• 50:06
  Um, yuyan. Yuma. Are out of
• 50:08
  curiosity, is it a situation for both of you that,
• 50:11
  uh, you're going to work
• 50:14
  in the theater together, or not at all?
• 50:17
  Or would one of if we were only able to hire one of
• 50:20
  you based on limitation of positions?
• 50:23
  Well, I'll tell you uh, Bill here is great
• 50:26
  at following orders. I've worked with him a time or
• 50:28
  two. Okay, well, that's
• 50:31
  definitely a slightly redeeming quality.
• 50:34
  I'm a great worker. Oh, good. Okay.
• 50:37
  Could you list off any experience you have with working? Just
• 50:40
  in general? What experience have you had? I'm really good at
• 50:43
  picking things up and putting them down.
• 50:47
  Okay. So you could probably lift a reasonable amount.
• 50:50
  Can you lift around, uh,
• 50:53
  five pounds? Pounds? Oh.
• 50:56
  Any more than that? Don't like to overwork myself.
• 50:59
  Oh, okay. Uh, well, the job would entail
• 51:02
  I'm good at hitting stuff. Hitting
• 51:04
  stuff. Um, and I played it with
• 51:07
  both. We
• 51:10
  typically don't encourage any kind of weaponry on this
• 51:13
  stage during any part of the process. Not
• 51:16
  a weapon, a lifestyle.
• 51:19
  All right. Um, um, so
• 51:22
  I guess last question before you guys head out. Uh,
• 51:25
  do you have any questions, uh, for me,
• 51:28
  as far as the position goes or anything relating to the
• 51:30
  theater? No, I'm joking. Who's in
• 51:34
  charge? Well, it's a little bit up in the air right
• 51:37
  now. Uh, previously, it was, uh, an individual.
• 51:40
  You may have heard of him. His name was Mayu
• 51:42
  Yinyu. Uh, he was a big performer here. Kind of took
• 51:45
  on the responsibility of sort of managing the
• 51:48
  theater. Uh, but he has since
• 51:51
  how do I say this, uh, gone into
• 51:54
  some activities the theater doesn't necessarily
• 51:57
  want to directly support, um,
• 52:00
  other obligations, I guess you could say. But
• 52:03
  he's no longer involved. Uh, right now it's sort of a toss
• 52:06
  up between a couple of individuals who are sort of vying for the
• 52:09
  position of leader. Um, so, I mean, that's as
• 52:12
  much as I can really say. M. So
• 52:15
  no leaders as of right now? Well, like I
• 52:18
  said, the two that are vying for the official position are
• 52:21
  kind of doing the responsibilities of the leader of the
• 52:23
  theater, uh, between themselves. I tossed my
• 52:26
  hat, uh, into the ring. I will
• 52:29
  note that with a man with a
• 52:32
  similar name to your former leader, I would
• 52:35
  also like to toss my hat into the
• 52:38
  ring, but I lost it in the ocean.
• 52:42
  That's funny. Um, you guys realize this is
• 52:45
  just for backstage crew positions,
• 52:47
  right? I can, I guess, pass your names along.
• 52:50
  I did not. But only one of you
• 52:53
  has experience in anything
• 52:56
  even relating to theater work. And it's not even
• 52:59
  theater work explicitly. I know this guy.
• 53:01
  Right. Um,
• 53:04
  well, uh, whatever the case, thank, uh, you both
• 53:07
  for coming into the interviews today. Um,
• 53:11
  we will call back, um,
• 53:13
  potentially either of you, uh, send you a message,
• 53:16
  or we'll find a way to reach you.
• 53:22
  That's sure thing. All right, thank you
• 53:25
  both. Um, and as you guys are walking out,
• 53:28
  she grabs Guo's arm and she goes, and, uh,
• 53:31
  how could we get in contact with you specifically?
• 53:34
  Is there an address I can send maybe, uh,
• 53:37
  a letter to, uh, about the position? If you are
• 53:40
  accepted, and I think you will be.
• 53:43
  Yeah, you can send it to, uh,
• 53:45
  PO. Box number two
• 53:49
  uh huh. In the square. Okay.
• 53:52
  All right. Thank you. Have a nice day. That's
• 53:54
  not your
• 53:58
  box. Um, you two walk away as you guys are walking away.
• 54:01
  Brock, uh, are you just, like, waiting
• 54:03
  outside? I think I've just kind of been wandering around
• 54:06
  looking for Mayu Yinyu, looking for
• 54:09
  any administrative looking type buildings
• 54:12
  or doors, any portraits of
• 54:16
  him so we can see what this guy looks like. Uh,
• 54:18
  well, actually, interestingly enough, uh, rather than
• 54:21
  seeing portraits of him, you see a surprising lack
• 54:24
  of portraits in the theater, uh, as if
• 54:27
  someone has semi recently just taken
• 54:30
  some artwork or art pieces off the wall where they used to
• 54:32
  stand. You can see even, like, there's dust
• 54:35
  around what looks like a perfect shape of a picture frame in
• 54:38
  certain spots. Um, and then, of course, the wall behind
• 54:41
  where this picture frame would have sat is, like, completely clean. So
• 54:44
  yeah, just to imply that the
• 54:47
  artwork has since been removed, probably of
• 54:50
  Mayu Yinyu. Okay,
• 54:53
  and did, uh, the interview lady
• 54:56
  say how long ago it was? That Yu
• 54:58
  Yinyu was, uh, she was kind of vague about
• 55:01
  it, but based on some of the things that you've seen, you wonder if
• 55:04
  maybe it's been, like, a few weeks.
• 55:07
  Okay, can I go back into
• 55:10
  that interview room and try and talk to that
• 55:13
  lady? Okay, sure. You pass by. I
• 55:16
  mean, Brock and Guo have just come out of
• 55:18
  there, and you kind of run
• 55:21
  into, uh what's the what's the deal? We figure anything
• 55:24
  out about this Mayu guy? He don't work here
• 55:27
  no more. He don't work here no
• 55:31
  more. Any idea where he might be, or do I got to go
• 55:34
  in and ask some of the hard
• 55:37
  questions, uh, with this lady? She
• 55:40
  wasn't too specific, was she? Well,
• 55:43
  no, I guess the guy used to be the guy in
• 55:46
  charge here. Okay. Um, yeah, I'm going to
• 55:48
  go in and see if I can, uh, get any information out
• 55:51
  of her. Okay. You step inside, and,
• 55:54
  uh, actually, she's standing right there by the door. She was kind of, like,
• 55:57
  walking out just as you walked in, and you both bump into each
• 56:00
  other. Her glasses fall off onto the ground.
• 56:03
  Can I reach down and grab it with her, like the
• 56:05
  rom coms? Both your hands touch
• 56:08
  each other as you both reach for her
• 56:11
  glasses. Oh, uh, excuse me.
• 56:14
  I sincerely apologize. She picks up her glasses. She puts them
• 56:17
  on. She goes, oh, it's you.
• 56:20
  Yes, it's me, you
• 56:23
  say from around the corner. She's like, oh, you two are still
• 56:25
  here. Uh, you're free to go. Thank you.
• 56:31
  Okay. I forgot to tell you one of the
• 56:35
  reasons, uh, you might not have seen me is because I just got back
• 56:37
  from a vacation. So, uh, um,
• 56:40
  Mr. Yinyu, I was looking around for him,
• 56:43
  but there's, like, no sign of him anywhere. Where has he
• 56:46
  been? Oh, when did you start he's
• 56:49
  been gone for almost a
• 56:52
  month now. It was a long
• 56:55
  vacation. Uh, I stored up a lot
• 56:58
  of PTO. How have I not
• 57:01
  seen you around here before? I
• 57:03
  got
• 57:09
  promoted. I ran straight here.
• 57:12
  She does finally know. She's been so awestruck at
• 57:15
  your looks, apparently, that she's just now noticing that
• 57:18
  you're completely soaked. And she goes, oh,
• 57:21
  what happened? Do you need a towel? Or maybe
• 57:23
  a few? Yeah, that's no way related to the
• 57:26
  other two soaking wet dudes. You
• 57:33
  just this is Skyler. Completely forgetting, as the
• 57:36
  game master, that you guys are completely like, I'm
• 57:38
  just imagining you guys not soaked in water, because
• 57:41
  that's not normal. But yep, you guys are soaked in
• 57:44
  water. Three guys show, um, up soaked in
• 57:47
  water, but completely independent of each
• 57:50
  other. Boy, it must be real. Hey, you know
• 57:53
  what? She is obviously somebody that
• 57:56
  much like, velma or something desperately needs
• 57:59
  these glasses.
• 58:00
  Okay? But to be fair, she's been wearing
• 58:03
  them. Brock was there the first time. She's like, oh, wow. Uh,
• 58:06
  he's so cute. And then she was really thrown off
• 58:09
  by she turned his
• 58:11
  nah.
• 58:12
  No. Turned to interview the two
• 58:15
  other soaking wet
• 58:19
  guys. Okay. Yeah, so funny story
• 58:22
  about that. It actually wasn't a vacation. Uh, well, it
• 58:24
  was supposed to be a vacation, but, uh,
• 58:27
  got shipwrecked out on another island, and I had
• 58:30
  to find my way back. And then the ship went down on the way back
• 58:33
  in here. That's why I'm, uh she's leading you
• 58:36
  kind of to a back area where they've got, like,
• 58:39
  costumes and stuff like that, and she grabs a couple of towels and throws them at
• 58:42
  you. She's like, oh, my gosh. You
• 58:44
  were marooned on an island? Yeah, it
• 58:47
  was were you out, like, searching for talent
• 58:50
  in other yeah, they had me out in the
• 58:52
  talent scouts. Uh oh, my I've
• 58:55
  heard it's dangerous out there as a talent scout.
• 58:58
  Yeah, it wouldn't affect it, but sure
• 59:01
  enough it's a scary position. Yeah. Yep,
• 59:04
  it is. Um, so, yeah, it's been
• 59:07
  a while. So what happened to Mr. Yinyu? Last
• 59:09
  I checked, he was one who sent
• 59:14
  me.
• 59:18
  Um, he she seems, like, really flustered, just kind of unsure, um, what
• 59:21
  to say, and maybe partially it's because she's watching you
• 59:23
  dry yourself, and I don't know, maybe that's sparking
• 59:26
  something inside of her,
• 59:29
  um, as your wet hair, kind of like yeah, you
• 59:32
  pull back your wet hair. Uh, he
• 59:35
  announced that during a performance, he sang a
• 59:38
  piece that alluded to the idea that he was
• 59:41
  involved in a sort of rebel organization here in
• 59:43
  the city. And apparently there were some
• 59:46
  leading individuals from the fire nation here. Uh, and
• 59:49
  they kind of picked up on his subtle
• 59:52
  message, and they were not happy.
• 59:55
  He disappeared after that. He went into hiding,
• 59:58
  I guess or, uh, maybe they caught him. I'm not
• 1:00:01
  sure. It's one or the other. Well, I hope he's just
• 1:00:04
  in hiding. But where would they have taken him
• 1:00:06
  if they caught him? Oh,
• 1:00:09
  the Fire Nation has a very large
• 1:00:12
  prison structure that they've actually built kind of on the
• 1:00:15
  outskirts
• 1:00:17
  of, uh
• 1:00:20
  I guess well, thanks for the
• 1:00:23
  towel. Uh, I guess I'll see you around. I guess I'll see you
• 1:00:26
  tomorrow. Oh, that'd be great. What's your name?
• 1:00:29
  My name's Sonuma.
• 1:00:32
  Sonuma. Okay. I'm Brock. Nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you too.
• 1:00:35
  And she holds out her hand to shake
• 1:00:38
  yours. Uh, I'll shake her hand.
• 1:00:40
  Sure.
• 1:00:44
  Okay. Uh, and you shake her hand. You give her a
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  nod, and you head back out. Meanwhile, uh, all this
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  is happening. Uh, Mika, it's
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  finally your turn. As you come to
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  the end of the line, um, as you kind
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  of peek out, the two people outside
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  there, uh, are actually like they start to stand up as if
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  they're ready to leave. And then, uh, the
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  man with the tall fez, he steps out and he
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  says, we've got one
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  more. He.
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  Goes I kind of stumble out on the stage
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  and then
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  strut to the middle.
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  Sure. You see a very
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  rotund man, uh, and woman both sitting out there.
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  Of course, they have clipboards. They, uh, are
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  also wearing very tall fez hats. You, uh,
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  start to wonder if maybe this theater that's, like, part of the uniform
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  or something. You're not sure. Whatever the case, they, uh, both look at
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  you intently, and the woman says, well,
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  go on. What will you be performing for
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  us today?
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  I'm, um, going to do
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  an interpretive
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  dance.
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  Yes. The one thing podcast can't
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  hear just from the wings. You just hear us all
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  go
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  Boo. The lady says
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  copyright. There you go.
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  Um, did you want music attached to this? Yeah. You look over to
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  the right side of the stage, and there's, like, a couple of
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  individuals with instruments. Uh, just
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  something simple, like a strings and drums kind of stuff. Yeah.
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  And I just kind of look at them like, are you going to
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  play something? Do you have anything
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  specific? Literally anything.
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  Oh, okay. And they just kind of start playing like a
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  really simple, steady beat.
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  Uh, slow, fast. You said steady.
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  Kind of medium.
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  Yeah, sort of like slow to medium.
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  Okay. Um, I'm just going to move my
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  body like different watery
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  ways.
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  Okay. Very Water tribe.
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  Yeah. So I'm going to start out,
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  obviously, standing straight.
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  Right?
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  And then I'm just going to stick my arms up in there and just kind of
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  wave them back and forth, following the beat.
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  Okay.
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  And then, um, I'll swing to the
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  right, and I'll kind of bend that way
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  and flow some more and then go to the other
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  way. And then I'm going to go down to the
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  ground and kind of do a worm,
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  but more,
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  uh. What's the word?
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  Graceful. Okay. Um,
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  let's see. Ah, I want
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  to say probably rely on your skills
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  and training. Seems like the best thing to do
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  here. Nine. Nice. Okay, so with the seven to nine, you do
• 1:03:37
  it imperfectly, but you can mark a
• 1:03:40
  fatigue to ignore any
• 1:03:43
  consequences. I, uh, can tell you what those consequences could
• 1:03:46
  be first.
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  No, I'm going to mark it. I'm just going all in.
• 1:03:50
  Okay. All right. Because you want to make sure this performance works.
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  Okay. You're starting to get out of breath,
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  but you're committing to this dance and
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  it is interpretive.
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  Uh, they are absolutely flabbergasted as they
• 1:04:05
  watch as you do these wave motions to the
• 1:04:08
  point where you seem like you
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  are water. And they see these the clothing
• 1:04:13
  that you're wearing. It's not the fancy kimonos that the other
• 1:04:16
  girls were wearing. It's something,
• 1:04:19
  um, that really suggests water.
• 1:04:22
  Tribe and so they're seeing this pairing of
• 1:04:25
  the attire mixed with the
• 1:04:27
  cultural forms that waterbenders use
• 1:04:30
  and they're astonished. Honestly, they're really blown
• 1:04:33
  away that you would bring this performance here. Uh, they
• 1:04:36
  weren't expecting it and they're really
• 1:04:39
  impressed. Um, they both stand up, they give an applause. The
• 1:04:42
  guy in the back of the stage, he's watching with his tall
• 1:04:45
  fez, weeping. He is weeping. A
• 1:04:48
  tear is going down his eyes. He just takes his clipboard
• 1:04:51
  and uses the paper on the clipboard, like the bottom corner
• 1:04:54
  to just kind of dab at his, uh, under his eye.
• 1:04:56
  He goes, that was
• 1:05:00
  beautiful. It was
• 1:05:03
  beautiful. Um, they clap and they say, that
• 1:05:06
  was quite impressive. I've never seen
• 1:05:09
  anything like that. I've never seen
• 1:05:12
  anything like that before, but it was incredible. I
• 1:05:14
  could see this. This right here is a performance
• 1:05:17
  that'll bring in
• 1:05:20
  the yes. Uh, please, ma'am,
• 1:05:23
  your name? What is your name? We would love to sign you on
• 1:05:26
  to perform. Paid. We will pay
• 1:05:29
  you to perform.
• 1:05:33
  Even my, um, name is.
• 1:05:37
  Mika. They've come up on stage. By this point, they're shaking your hand. It's
• 1:05:40
  an absolute treat to meet you,
• 1:05:44
  Mika. Please. Where in the world did you come from? What did
• 1:05:47
  you learn to dance in such a
• 1:05:49
  way?
• 1:05:50
  I'm just very in tune with the
• 1:05:52
  water.
• 1:05:53
  You absolutely are. Please. Yes.
• 1:05:56
  Um, and all of a sudden, as they're
• 1:05:58
  getting excited and everything like that, of
• 1:06:01
  all things, an owlcat flies into
• 1:06:04
  the meter and swoops down low,
• 1:06:07
  just past the heads of this man
• 1:06:10
  and woman that are congratulating you. And they're very
• 1:06:13
  startled. They're throwing their hands up, swatting away at
• 1:06:16
  it. How did this creature get him
• 1:06:20
  to help? And the man kind of standing off to the side with
• 1:06:23
  the tall feathers. He goes, oh, I'm so sorry,
• 1:06:27
  ma'am. I'll find a broom. And he runs off into
• 1:06:30
  the backstage to go get a broom. And they're all swatting.
• 1:06:33
  And the creature, uh, sort of flies
• 1:06:36
  low and you notice a small piece of
• 1:06:39
  paper fall from one of its
• 1:06:41
  talons.
• 1:06:43
  Well, I'll grab that.
• 1:06:45
  Awesome. Okay. You catch this piece of
• 1:06:48
  paper and at the moment, with
• 1:06:50
  everybody swinging and the craziness going on, it doesn't
• 1:06:53
  quite feel like the time to read it. Um, but I
• 1:06:56
  mean, all things considered, it flies away now that it's
• 1:06:59
  dropped this note and disappears from the
• 1:07:02
  theater, leaving the three of you on
• 1:07:05
  stage. I've never seen such a thing. How did it even get
• 1:07:08
  in here? Ma'am, I sincerely
• 1:07:11
  apologize. MIGA we have never seen something like that in
• 1:07:14
  our theater before. We will assure it never
• 1:07:16
  happens again.
• 1:07:17
  No worries. No worries at all.
• 1:07:20
  So, uh, can we expect to see you again? We're
• 1:07:22
  holding a small gala tonight. We would love to have
• 1:07:25
  you there, meet, uh, some of the other
• 1:07:28
  performers, just a little soiree get together,
• 1:07:31
  uh, and hopefully maybe even be able to see
• 1:07:34
  an encore performance, sort, uh, of
• 1:07:37
  a thing.
• 1:07:38
  Yeah, I might be able to swing that.
• 1:07:40
  Oh, wonderful. Wonderful. It'll be at 08:00
• 1:07:43
  p.m.. Tonight. Do please be there. We'll
• 1:07:45
  have food, drinks, it'll be a
• 1:07:48
  very good time.
• 1:07:50
  You got it, dude.
• 1:07:51
  Oh, wonderful. And, uh, they thank you again. And,
• 1:07:54
  uh, they kind of, like, lead you to the back of the
• 1:07:57
  theater, kind of to the front doors or whatever the case, uh, where
• 1:08:00
  you see the rest of your colleagues is still
• 1:08:03
  quite a bit soaked, except for Brock. He looks quite dry,
• 1:08:06
  um, all kind of standing there waiting for
• 1:08:09
  you.
• 1:08:10
  Okay. I look pretty proud of myself and m more happier
• 1:08:13
  than I have in the last couple of days.
• 1:08:15
  Right on. Awesome. Did you get
• 1:08:17
  the job?
• 1:08:18
  Did I get the job? Is that even a
• 1:08:23
  question? I asked it as questions, obviously, Brock.
• 1:08:26
  I got the, uh,
• 1:08:28
  I mean, you can just chill here and earn some money
• 1:08:31
  and we'll go find what's his face,
• 1:08:34
  right?
• 1:08:35
  Oh, I don't have to be here till eight. Uh, they're having
• 1:08:37
  a parte. Well,
• 1:08:40
  uh oh, wait, guys, I also got a
• 1:08:43
  note. This weird, like, outcast thing just came swooping
• 1:08:46
  in and dropped something and
• 1:08:49
  I picked it up.
• 1:08:50
  What's it say?
• 1:08:52
  I, um, haven't read it yet. I'll read it now.
• 1:08:55
  Okay, so you open up the note and you're surprised at the amount
• 1:08:58
  of writing that's on it. It's in very fine print, but it's
• 1:09:01
  also very well written, very
• 1:09:03
  nice handwriting, and, um, it
• 1:09:06
  reads so you want to speak to
• 1:09:09
  Mayu? Unfortunately, we, the Udao faction
• 1:09:12
  of the Rescue Team Squadron, will need to see proof
• 1:09:15
  that you're not a Fire Nation spy by hitting them
• 1:09:18
  where it hurts in a way that no Fire
• 1:09:20
  Nation sympathizer would dare to do. Luckily
• 1:09:23
  for you, I'll give you a choice between the
• 1:09:26
  three. Pick one and attach it to the owl, and we'll send
• 1:09:29
  the details for the task. Do the
• 1:09:32
  task and we'll tell you where you can talk to Mayu.
• 1:09:35
  And you see three bold
• 1:09:38
  options below. One,
• 1:09:41
  sabotage. Two, steal
• 1:09:43
  three, break free. I think it'd be easy to
• 1:09:46
  sabotage something personally. We only have to
• 1:09:49
  do one
• 1:09:55
  overachiever. Sorry.
• 1:09:57
  Um, I guess yeah, that'll work.
• 1:10:00
  Sabotage. You already want to burn down half.
• 1:10:02
  The city only hot leaf juice.
• 1:10:05
  Well, we can do that on our way back. Maybe they want us to sabotage
• 1:10:07
  hot leaf juice.
• 1:10:09
  Yes, I'm Goldman.
• 1:10:10
  Let's go. Even if this owl is slap it
• 1:10:13
  back on. Yes, we just circle the one we want
• 1:10:16
  to do, and then they'll give us instructions. Where's the
• 1:10:19
  owl? I mean, do you circle sabotage?
• 1:10:22
  Sure, why not? That sounds easy. As you circle sabotage,
• 1:10:24
  you look up because you hear a noise, and it's
• 1:10:29
  a that was my best owl
• 1:10:31
  cat sound. As the owl cat swoops down
• 1:10:34
  and lands on sort of just like a pole, like
• 1:10:37
  a part of the wall that's outside the
• 1:10:40
  theater. Um, and it looks down at the note, and it
• 1:10:44
  says, throw it.
• 1:10:45
  You just have to tie it on his foot.
• 1:10:48
  You do notice there's a small string on its
• 1:10:51
  foot.
• 1:10:51
  I'll tie it since I have it.
• 1:10:53
  You have the note. Okay, fair enough. MIGA ties the note to the
• 1:10:56
  owl cat. It's hungry, and it flies off
• 1:10:59
  oh, never mind. So, uh, it turns
• 1:11:02
  out that, uh, Yinyu guy, he's
• 1:11:04
  not here. He's either he's an
• 1:11:07
  owl cat. No, he's either in hiding or
• 1:11:10
  he's in prison.
• 1:11:13
  Um, probably in prison.
• 1:11:14
  Probably in hiding.
• 1:11:17
  Break the tie.
• 1:11:20
  M Maybe he's in prison
• 1:11:24
  hiding. Yes. Last place David
• 1:11:27
  looked for him, he's the prison janitor.
• 1:11:30
  He's hiding in prison. Hiding in plain
• 1:11:33
  sight. Whatever the case with that, we're going to end episode.