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Benders & Brews - Prequel One-Shot - Bill & Brock’s Soulrest Day Adventure (Part 2) · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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Uh.
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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. Okeron, 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.
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Welcome back to another, uh, episode of Benders M and Brews.
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We are going to be continuing into our one shot for
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part two, uh, exciting as that
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is. So, yeah, stay
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tuned and hear that out. I'm not going to do as much of an intro as we
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did last time because you guys know what the concept is. So let's just jump right
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into it.
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All right, so as Brock limps
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through and, uh, you guys
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come to the end of this tunnel, it opens
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up into a massive
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chasm, the bottom of which is
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filled with lava. At the end of
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this chasm, one can see
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the entrance to what, uh, looks like some
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sort of, uh, makeshift
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facility of some kind. There's some torches in front of it.
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You can kind of see into it. And it looks like there's some
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shelving. And the floor
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itself has kind of been made of wood. Um,
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but that's about as much as you can see from where you're at.
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Um, but across this huge
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lava chasm, there's the rock side of the wall.
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You can see a very narrow ledge that leads a little
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ways. There are some flaming
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ropes or chains, rather, that hang down from the
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ceiling. Um, there's a couple of
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very rickety metal bridges, um,
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that kind of swing back and forth. So there's like,
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three different ones. They don't connect. They kind of
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swing a little bit opposite of each other, maybe not
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quite. So they intersect every once in a while, but
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only when they are swinging back
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and forth. You said there was, like,
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a ledge, though, on the side? Yeah, it only leads
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us part way. Partway and then it
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basically leads to the chain. I was going to say the
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ledge leads to the chain, and the chain leads
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to bridge, which then leads to
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we got American ninja warrior course.
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Or can I simply
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Earth bend a bridge
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across all the way across
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this, let's say, 100 foot
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chasm. Dude's going to raise magma
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into the air.
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Form of bending it is for
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firebenders. And you are not that, nor
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are you the literal avatar that could do
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that. It says pretty sure Roku was,
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like, the only one that has magma bend.
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Well, then, thanks, Shane. Poor guy.
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Yeah, that's a big burden to bear. Would I be able
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to say
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Earth bend, like, two
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platforms? Okay, put
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one out in front. We step on it, swing the other
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one around. Step on it, swing and just
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keep going. Here's what I'll say. You
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will make the two platforms. They will
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connect, and then the second you remove that first
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platform from the base, everything will fall.
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Okay. I'm not going out. Well,
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so we got American Ninja warrior. This I
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guess, uh, we're
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in this together. What's to the right of us? The
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right is where you have that ledge. I
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was wondering where the other paths went. The other caves
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openings for this area? No.
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So it's just like one big opening. On the right side, you have the
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actual wall, which is close to where you're standing, but on the left
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side, the chasm kind of opens
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up further back. And then there's the wall.
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But we don't see the other two openings. That
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would be from the other two.
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No. Sorry. Okay,
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so in the chamber
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before you guys came through the tunnel that led to this,
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uh, you saw the other two. Oh. So all
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three chamber. That said, if you follow
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this because Skyler is a little I don't know,
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uh, he's running out of time. So he kind of like just everything led to the
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same spot. That makes sense. It's just like, which
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path exactly? I was assuming. Yeah. Which fire
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preferred. They each made their own trial. Right. It's
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kind of what I was I'm going to try and assess
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the situation. Okay. Sounds good. I rolled
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a ten. Okay. Actually, it's actually an eleven.
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Wow. And that's not really
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a physical thing.
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You've gone from being the I'll punch it guy
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to, uh, let me look at pain will
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help you. I do find it funny how,
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uh, this whole case thing started with, uh,
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Brock basically dragging Bill through it, and it's
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become
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true. Well, it started like Brock's just going, like,
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full bore head on into things, and he just keeps getting
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hurt. And it's like, okay, maybe we slow down
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a bit. Maybe we use our
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noggin, no,
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I didn't say that. Slow
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down, not turn around. Quick side note for what did
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you roll previously when you were putting the dirt
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on the stuff? Nine. I rolled a six,
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but with the added things, I got a nine.
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Okay, so it doesn't change anything. But just to
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clarify on assess the situation, you only get the plus one
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ongoing if you get a ten plus.
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I just noticed that because you got a ten plus this time, so it would
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have been eight. Right. Which still would have fallen under the
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range, which is totally fine. Just wanted to clarify that for anybody that's
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listening. And they're like, wait a minute. But now he
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gets his plus one. Yes, now you get your plus one. And you get to ask me
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two questions. Okay, what
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here can we use to get across,
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and what is our best
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way
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to the other side? How uh,
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do us chickens cross this road? Okay. Yeah. Pretty
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much.
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Without injuring ourselves. This is
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the key. I was going to say I'm going to answer both
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questions because they're so similar. You, um, see
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some chalk that's kind of like a little bit hidden around the
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corner of something. Um, you peek and you
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see some kind of just rubble
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rock that's kind of sitting there against it. Looks loose.
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Um, it's not really attached to the rock wall.
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M. Let's dig at this rubble
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rock. All right. Yeah. You dig
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at the rubble rock and you find underneath there's a
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staff. A staff, you
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say, but it looks strange. It looks very
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well carved. Um, and it seems to have
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some little sort of slits on the
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sides of it, on the top and bottom, both
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sides. Um I don't
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know. How much do you guys know about
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the airbenders? How much would Bill and Brock
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know about the airbenders? Brock probably not. Bill would
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know some okay. But if you're talking like the
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airbenders air staff,
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like their air glider,
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bill knows from being educated. I was going to say Bill might
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know, especially with the stuff that your
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dad yeah, yeah. I feel like you might have
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seen maybe some drawings. It looks like one of those
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air gliders. How
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many? Uh, I'm going
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to say two. Oh, wow, isn't that
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convenient? You notice there it actually
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makes sense if you said three because there was three paths for the three
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guys. Yeah. So, uh, the
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marking that you saw of the chalk,
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um, once you've cleared the ruffle so it kind of like goes into the
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rubble. So you don't see the full of whatever it is, you just see
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like there's a couple of lines sticking out. When you cleared away the
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rubbles, you just see the word it
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becomes like the rest of the word. You just see the word
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backups. And then
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you turn and you look across the cavern. This time you're
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kind of squinting your eyes, you're looking a little closer and you notice there's
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a fully opened air glider on the other side of the
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tunnel where this, uh, opening is.
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Good thing we found that, otherwise we are certainly going to
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die. I would certainly
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you notice that there seems to
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be this is kind of
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stemming from zelda, an updraft, but there's an
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updraft stemming from the
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very like, hot air balloon. Okay. So Bill's going to
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grab both of them. He's going to hand one to you,
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Brock, and he's going to say, okay, so you know what these
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are? Yes.
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Enlighten me, but remind me for the people at
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home. Uh, I know what these are, but
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I need to make sure you know what they are.
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Sure. These are air gliders.
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Airbenders use them. Air gliders? Yeah. Uh,
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not only airbenders, but just people who
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create flying devices. But these are flying devices that
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anyone can use. Like me. Not anyone can use
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normally, but I think the updraft that in this case
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we can use it because of the, uh, updraft heat. Did you
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feel that? Yeah, sorry.
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Rises. Yeah, sorry. I had eggs for
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breakfast. What
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are you taking the blame for, Brimstone? I don't know what
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you're talking about. Anyway, updraft. Yeah.
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So if we just jump and hold onto these gliders,
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they will give us a updraft of air and
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we hopefully
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I hope this ends correctly, but we
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should be able to just glide to the other side.
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Okay, let's do it. It's
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a good thing. Brock has to just go for how
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big are these things? Um, so they usually
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I think they span outwards. Probably
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the other side. Like horizontal with us, or is it
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like a little down? Please be
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please be a little down.
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I'm just like these one. You're saying how far is
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the chasm to the
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other side? Is it level with each other? No, it's
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definitely okay. I was going to say this is weird. If
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it's uphill, we're like, sorry.
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No. Okay. Yeah, we just glide down to there
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and we'll have plenty of airtime because of the
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heat. All right, I'm with
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it. Let's go. Okay. How big are these
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mean? They're like, wide enough that it
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passes your outstretched arms, which I think is supposed to
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be like how do you equal to your height? Does, um, Bill
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know how to use one of these, though? Bill might
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have some theoretical idea of how to use them. Brock
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really does
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you know how to open it? Uh, up. You're looking at it. You
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get the premise here. No idea how to ride it,
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though? Technically. No. We could probably feel
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it, like wiggling. And then the further out we have our arms, the more
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stable it is. Right. We ride on top of it.
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No, technically, right underneath it. Underneath of it?
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Yeah, you're right underneath it. I just realized all the
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Avatar stuff we have on the wall, there's nothing depicting
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Ash or Ash aang. I'm thinking
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Pokemon. There's nothing depicting Aang riding on the
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air glider. But yeah, he rides under the air
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glider. Uh, kind of like imagine you're like
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a wombat or like one of those pictures
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holding it. Oh, this sounds
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terrifying. Well, see,
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on the other side
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just takes off.
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Just watching in disbelief. Hey, I tell you what,
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I tell you what. Oh, is that all you do?
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Well, I open it, I'm
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like, okay, so it's stable. If I'm like this, it's stupid
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to be on top, so I'll be on the bottom.
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No, that's fair. You jump
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off. I just wasn't sure if you were offering any kind
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of comfort or support to Bill. Does that sound like you
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are? That's not my clarify that's
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not my style. All right,
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um, I'm going to have you push your luck. What do I
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roll? That one's
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passion. I have to ask, and this might be off
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the record okay. If he
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fails, he dies. To be
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clear, what do I roll? Nine. Okay.
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No, it's failed. His role
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skyler. We die. I just want to
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emphasize but I can't die because it's a
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prequel. You got plot.
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Just keep this in because it's funny. Discussion.
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I rolled a nine, but with passion is ten.
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But since it's a physical thing, is
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it down to eight? Uh, speed
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aren't involved. It's all arms. Yeah, I
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would get a running start, but if they're close enough to where the
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glider, you could have just pushed off from the edge. Here's what I'll say.
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Here's what I'll say. Plot. Uh, we'll say that it was an
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eight. Okay? But you still succeed. It just
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says that, um, your boldness
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sorry, uh, it costs
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you to scrape by is what the description
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makes you fly down,
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and you're going and everything seems great.
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You're actually having a lot of fun. You're flying. You
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are flying right now, Brock. I'm flying. It's
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hot, but it's not, like, scalding hot. You're not
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that close to the lobby. You look down, you see the lobby, you're like, oh. You get a little bit
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of vertigo, but at the same time, you're like,
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all right, I got a feeling for how this thing works.
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I'm flying above it. I'm okay. And then
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in let's call it your hubris,
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you're, uh, pulling, like icarus. Icarus, exactly.
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You fly too close to one of the flaming
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chains, and it ever so slightly
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taps
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your staff. Specifically, uh, the paper
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that kind of, like, hangs outward the cloth that
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keeps you afloat, and it starts to burn. And in that moment,
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you start leaning towards one side, and
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you're doing everything you can to correct it. And you
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just barely skid onto the
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safe end of, uh, this
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chasm with one half of pretty much your
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entire, uh, flying stick just as
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scalded to ash. Well, so
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I get up, dust myself off, and I look at Bill, and I
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was like, See? Just like that. Just like
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that. You knew it.
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Bill's eyes are wide open,
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and his mouth is wide, and
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he can't say anything. And he's standing there
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anxiously, like, rubbing his
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yeah, on his scar. And,
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uh, he takes a deep
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breath. You
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could always try the
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ninja warrior route, too,
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but I asked for the best way across. But
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he saw that chain burn the
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thing immediately when they saw it hit it, and he is
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assuming if he has to grab those, they'd burn his hand. Oh, yeah,
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that's true. So he knows he can't do that. I kind of just
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threw it in there. I was like, I'll just let him figure it out. I don't know
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how,
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all things considered. So, as the DM, um,
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I know this is kind of, like, outside of the story.
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We're going a little bit outside of the game here. So this is a little
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meta as a DM. Um, I found that if
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you come up with a situation. And
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then you think to yourself, okay, here's the way to solve
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it. Like, maybe you make it a riddle and there's something in the room that someone has
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to do in order to solve it. The players are never going to do
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it. Like our interrogation scene. Exactly.
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They'll find a different way to do it. So sometimes I just come
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up with something and I'm like, I'll just throw it in. I don't know
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how they're going to do it. I don't know how he's going to get past. They don't
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have Mika with and you said that earlier. Like, if
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Mika was, uh
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but, uh, they don't have Mika with them, that's the best way to stop.
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I mean, it couldn't have gotten better than Brock getting hurt.
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I'm sitting down like, man, a lot of this stuff would be probably pretty easy to get
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past if you're an Earthbender. Yeah, you limited us
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hard by hurting Brock. Well, I
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limited us. I'm going to
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put my foot in the
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calloused foot, farm boy. I'm going to be
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so good. Well, Bill takes a deep
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breath, he closes his eyes and
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he runs forward and he just
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jumps.
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Uh,
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uh. Bill went
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too low.
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He saw the chains, like, over, adjusted
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his eyes and jumped. And, uh,
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that's all well and fine, but as Brock's watching yeah, he's
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making his way towards the opening, but he's at
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too sharp of an angle, and he's
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going to just be line it straight into the lava at the
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angle that he's at. All right, I'm going to have to
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Earth bend a platform out there to save him or
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something. Uh,
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I got to save you again, bud. Don't I
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roll? Uh, yeah, we'll do rely on your
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skills and training so that's with focus.
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Yes. Okay, so I roll a nine, but I get a ten with
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the plus one focus and then a minus minus two.
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So he barely scrapes by. Well, technically,
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that was imperfectly. Okay, what I'm
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imagining is he creates, like, uh, a thing
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underneath Bill, but it's like, at the bottom of this
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cliff. So Bill's safe, but
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now he's got to get up this cliff. Okay,
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so you're hanging off. Well, he's not really hanging. It's just
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like a little area. He can stand up, but he's still got to get
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up this cliff. You just barely pulled out, like, a shelf,
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basically. Uh, and he's still trapped
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below, but now this is where we are. So Bill sees
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this, like, he's flying. He opens his eyes and he sees
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nothing but lava below him. Ah. And it's coming
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in, and there's nothing but a wall. And all of a sudden,
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he just sees he hears Brockiel.
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What's? Brockiel cowabunga.
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Okay, he was cowboy
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sharp. Ow. And he
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sees, like, a shelf pull out, and he
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just aims for that.
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And he just, like, crash lands. He crash lands onto this
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little platform that Brock narrowly got
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out just in the nick of time. And now you're
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standing maybe five or 6ft
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below the actual platform where Brock is
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waiting cowabunga it is
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five or six below him about. Yeah. Brock,
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uh, SUP grab my
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mostap can you say thank you for saving me
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first? Thank you for saving me. Brock now mean
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it meant that Brock all right,
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fine. I mean, uh, it Brock. Thank you for saving me.
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Okay. All right, so I'll reach down, he'll probably
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hold up his stuff with both my
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hands so I'll be able to grab him, right? Yeah, I
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think at this point it's your arms. You're a
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strong guy. That's already been pre established.
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Honestly, Bill's like kind of scrawny, so he's not super
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heavy. You guys have gone through enough. Uh, you pull him
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up to the platform where you're at and now the both
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of you are standing there. Um, Bill,
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yours isn't scalded like Brock's, which is
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going to throw it into
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the lava. This is stupid. Never do another
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again. Well, don't close your eyes next
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time. Didn't close them. You know
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that. Don't worry about it.
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Let's just get this over with. All right?
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You ever think about how we're going to get back?
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No. Yes, this entire time, actually.
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Okay, well, glad that makes one of us. Uh,
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all right, so let's press on. I'm going to
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read out a little description here. So, um,
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there's like a little bit of wood floor and then there's the stone
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door. Uh, as you arrive at the heavy stone
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door, you push it open and you step into a hidden
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underground chamber that hums with an
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otherworldly energy. The room is dimly
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lit by flickering torches
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casting dancing shadows along the stone walls
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adorned with intricate fire nation engravings.
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A series of tall stone arches and pillars
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supporting the ceiling, revealing a network of ancient
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withered pipes and conduits that wind through the
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chamber like veins of an ancient
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machine. The air carries a faint scent
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of charred wood and smoldering embers,
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hinting at the firebased experiments conducted
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here. The center of this lab
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is dominated by a massive stone platform
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etched with symbols and glyphs associated with
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fire and sort of like clouds
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that look like they're exploding. Uh, above it,
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suspended by thick iron chains, hangs a metal
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framework adorned with gears levels and
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intricate firebending sigils. Small
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controlled flames dance within glass orbs, casting
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a warm and mesmerizing glow throughout the room.
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Along the walls, shelves hold a collection of
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weathered scrolls, ancient manuscripts, and, uh, alchemical
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vessels filled with rare minerals and elemental
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compounds. The flickering torch light reveals
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diagrams and sketches detailing firebending
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techniques, explosive mixtures, and the
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manipulation of heat and energy. On um, sturdy
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workbenches, you spot a collection of firebending
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tools such as specialized gloves, and
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staffs with intricate carvings. Beakers filled with
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colorful liquids bubbled gently over low
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flames, indicating ongoing
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experiments. Parchments covered in formulas,
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calculations and elemental symbols are scattered
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haphazardly, revealing the meticulous yet
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chaotic nature of Kuro's
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research. The laboratory
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exudes an ancient yet powerful energy,
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reminiscent of a forgotten era where firebending prowess
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and experimentation thrived. In this
22:47
region, that is. It feels like a place where the
22:50
boundaries of fire and combustion are pushed to their limits,
22:53
driven by relentless pursuit of knowledge and
22:56
mastery of firebending arts. Uh, as you step further
22:59
into the chamber, the warmth and cracks
23:02
it this looks like an area where the arts
23:04
of fire making has come to
23:07
fruition. This is
23:10
years of history and science all
23:12
formulated on these
23:14
very uh as you step further into the
23:17
chamber, the warmth and crackling of controlled flames
23:20
echo through the air, creating the atmosphere that balances
23:23
both danger and fascination. Uh, it is a place
23:26
where ancient secrets allegedly are
23:28
unlocked. I don't even know why I'm reading it at
23:31
this seems it's a
23:34
scientific
23:38
you do see Kuro, and he seems to
23:41
be, uh, rolling this giant
23:43
barrel. I say giant barrel, it's a regular sized barrel, but I
23:46
digress. He's rolling it over and he takes a
23:49
crowbar and he pushes open
23:51
the top of this barrel and he just sticks his head in there and he
23:54
goes
23:58
and then he takes a special spoon. He's got
24:01
gloves on. He takes a special spoon. He starts to put
24:04
a sort of ooey, gooey, viscous,
24:07
clear substance into a jar
24:10
and starts to set it on one of the shelves.
24:14
And you could kind of hear him from a distance, uh, amidst
24:17
the other noises of this room, in the room outside with the lava. And
24:20
he says, yes, this will be perfect. Perfect,
24:23
yes. For the experiment. Yes. I
24:26
will find it. I will find the
24:31
kind of I'll kind of lean over to Bill. All right,
24:34
genius, what's the plan?
24:37
You're the one without an injured foot here, so I
24:40
can't exactly go in full bore like I usually would.
24:43
Can we tell he's from the Fire Nation? Yes, he
24:46
is wearing some, actually. Um, he's
24:49
wearing Fire Nation military
24:51
outfit, but it looks very old
24:54
and very worn out. Can we tell if
24:57
he's old? Yeah. Oh, yeah, he's pretty
25:00
old and a bit worn out. M.
25:03
Okay. Um, Bill, given
25:06
that you have history with that and such,
25:09
um, it doesn't look like or
25:12
at least as far as you remember, it doesn't look like today's
25:15
fire Nation.
25:18
Yeah, got it.
25:21
Okay, well, uh, PILs is going to be like, I don't know, he
25:24
looks like some kind of crazy Fire Nation dude.
25:26
Probably should just knock him out. That's the
25:29
plan. I think that coming out of my
25:32
mouth, but it's kind of nice to know
25:35
that you're here with me. Uh, well, I'm not too
25:38
fond of the Fire nation. I might
25:41
be an outside party here, just asking a
25:44
question on my personal curiosity, but if I remember
25:46
correctly, I thought Brock wanted to come in here to make
25:49
friends.
25:52
Well, yeah, but I'm here to follow
25:55
bill's Lead, and he wants to knock people out. Bill's
25:58
Lead? You said to go knock him out. You're the one
26:01
who brought me all the way into this cave. Yeah, I came
26:03
in here to try and make friends. Yeah. Uh,
26:06
but now that you want to knock him out I want to knock him
26:09
out. I like knocking people out. Then
26:12
go knock him out. What am I, just Mr.
26:15
Muscle? You're not going to help me? Fine. I'll go knock him out with my
26:18
stick. No, we don't need to do
26:20
this individually. It's two on one, and he's an old
26:23
man. We can really put the
26:26
hurt on him, so let's just I
26:28
was going to knock him out. Not fully bodily
26:31
damaged. Well, potato,
26:34
potato. You might be hurting really
26:36
bad, Brock, but you shouldn't be inflicting that hurt onto other
26:39
people. I project my hurt onto others. My
26:42
therapist says it's an issue and I'm working on you have a
26:45
therapist? Don't worry about it. Is it a
26:47
rock? Is your therapist a rock, Brock? Yeah, I think,
26:50
answering me truthfully, your therapist recommends it.
26:54
So let's go see this old guy. Uh,
26:57
don't worry about it. So I'm going to
27:00
go over I won't even answer him. I'm not even
27:03
going to dignify that with a response. Okay. And I'm going to
27:05
go, and I'm going to limp.
27:08
I'm going to limp my way over. I'm not going
27:11
to knock him out. I'm not going to knock him out.
27:14
What are you going to do? Don't worry.
27:17
Uh, I'm going to go bill's going to walk to the
27:20
other side behind the old guy. So wherever Brock is heading
27:23
to, he's going to go the other way. So just going to kind of
27:26
wait? Yeah, kind of encircle him and wait in the
27:30
because there's a big machine or some kind of
27:32
machine or something in the middle of this room. You
27:35
would definitely be hidden leaning against it. Okay.
27:38
Just watch. But are you, like, within view?
27:41
No. Because assuming Brock's going to take all the attention
27:44
okay. He's just kind of leaning there. Cool. All right. Just
27:47
waiting to see what dumb stunt Brock does here. Fair enough.
27:50
Um, dumb stunt. You sit here and
27:52
watch like you did with the thing
27:55
that hasn't happened yet canonically with the
27:58
rock monster. What the heck is this guy going on about?
28:01
So, first off, I
28:04
will assess
28:07
the situation. Okay. As you're walking up
28:10
on this guy yeah. I don't tell you
28:13
how to do your job. Go for it. I'm going to also assess the
28:15
situation. I roll a seven plus
28:18
focus is eight. Eight. Awesome. You can
28:21
ask me a question. Uh, well, I
28:24
can ask, uh,
28:26
what is most vulnerable to
28:28
me. So what in this room
28:32
would be considered the most vulnerable?
28:35
Vulnerable. Um okay.
28:38
Is it the man?
28:41
Yes, he's an old man. Uh, his
28:44
research, I was going to say. But you look around the room,
28:47
and as somebody that's grown up in the Earth kingdom, I would say that you
28:50
recognize some of the materials that you
28:53
see on the shelves. Um, and you see a lot of
28:56
things that you recognize, including the barrel. Uh,
28:58
you kind of notice that first. And you have
29:01
seen blasting jelly before
29:04
and you know what blasting jelly is and what it
29:07
does and how it works. You also see other
29:09
things, like I said on the wall, some of which you recognize, some of
29:12
which you don't. But a lot of what's on the wall
29:15
is very explosive
29:18
materials. Mhm. Okay, so this
29:21
is a dangerous man. So
29:24
what I'm going to do, I'm going to mark two
29:26
fatigue and trap the old man
29:29
with earth sinking. Oh, okay. All right. I
29:32
don't think I need to roll for that. Do I need to roll? You
29:35
technically do, since it's an attack. And then you would
29:38
get to choose a technique based on
29:41
I rolled an eleven. Oh, wow.
29:43
Okay. Um, so I believe plus my passion
29:46
is actually a 13. You are taking I
29:49
take two fatigue. Uh, what is your
29:52
attack? I'm assuming it's probably advanced and
29:55
attack. It is advanced in attack. Okay. What is it called?
29:58
Earth sinking. Sink a foe into the earth itself. Mark
30:01
two fatigue to trap an enemy
30:03
standing on the ground in the Earth. They become
30:06
trapped. Okay, cool. So you're doing an advanced attack.
30:09
You rolled in eleven, you said. Yes, but the
30:12
passion made it 13. Oh, um, that's true, but then it'd be
30:15
minus two. So back to eleven.
30:17
Awesome. Perfect. So
30:20
you, um, choose one from this list. So you can mark
30:23
a fatigue to use a learn technique.
30:26
Uh, you can use a practice technique or you
30:29
can use two basic or master techniques. Um,
30:35
on top of the well, what
30:38
is it? Show it marked
30:41
curiosity. Show. It marked what? He was
30:44
on a tour for fatigue. I was at
30:46
one, so the Earth sinking will put me at three. Oh, okay.
30:49
So yeah, if you want to use the Earth sinking, you would take
30:52
a fatigue, um, since it's a learn technique.
30:55
Okay. So I will use my earth
30:58
sinking. All right. I will sink him into the ground, just
31:01
his head's peeking out. Okay. And I'm going to signal
31:04
to Bill like, hey, you're good, let's go over here. Okay. I'm going
31:07
to just go up and be like, hey, what's with all the
31:10
blasting jelly, man? All right, so you slam your foot,
31:13
the good foot, into the ground. It kind of still hurts because you had to
31:16
lean on the other foot. But nonetheless, you twist the
31:18
foot, uh, on the ground, causing the,
31:21
uh, earth to sort of soften
31:24
around where he's standing and kind of becomes like a
31:27
sand almost quicksand material. It pulls him under very
31:30
quickly, um, up to his neck, in which you
31:33
seal it. Um, he is now trapped,
31:36
which I have. A card for so that I can keep track of that
31:39
probably looks just like soccer. It does look like sokka
31:41
with the little moose, uh,
31:44
uh, whatever. Saber moose, I
31:47
think. So he is now trapped. Um, you
31:50
stand there over him. You call Bill over. It's
31:53
up to Bill whether he wants to follow through with that or not. But whatever the
31:56
case, uh, that's where you've got him. All right, so I'll
31:59
walk up to him and I'll just ask him,
32:01
sub with all this blasting jelly. Looks, ah, like a
32:04
bad time here. Are
32:07
you from the Fire Nation?
32:10
They sent you? They sent you to
32:12
assassinate me? I'm from Omashu,
32:15
bro. I don't know who's from the Fire Nation around
32:18
here. From Omashu. Are
32:21
you an Earth Kingdom soldier? How did you know about what I was
32:24
doing here? We just saw some dude
32:27
with a barrel wanted to try and make friends, but then saw you
32:29
were probably not looking to make too many friends.
32:32
Wait, hold on a second.
32:35
Who was the dude with the
32:37
barrel? I think it was you, because you
32:40
took a pretty good whiff of that barrel when you opened it, right?
32:43
That barrel over there. And he points with his nose
32:46
because that's what he's got to point with right now. Uh,
32:48
yeah, it looks like the barrel. Where did
32:51
you see this man with the barrel outside this
32:54
cave. When? I don't know. How
32:57
long does it take to get into the cave? Uh, for
33:00
me or for other people? Uh, let's just can
33:03
hypothetically, if someone were to go into all three
33:06
tunnels, char their foot, go into the second
33:08
tunnel, uh, give up immediately there, and then go to a
33:11
third tunnel, and then take a little while to get through.
33:14
Uh, run back to the exploding things where they may have
33:17
exploded twice, get some dirt, come back
33:20
into the third room, and then go back and dump more
33:23
dirt. Uh, about how long would that be?
33:29
Drag the two and divide that
33:32
by nine. Uh, add seven to
33:35
that. Uh, probably about
33:38
20 to 22 minutes
33:40
precisely. And, um, about 20 to
33:43
22 minutes ago precisely is when you saw him.
33:46
That's strange. I was outside the cave 20 to
33:49
22 minutes ago, and I did not see a man
33:52
with a barrel outside. Did you have a
33:55
barrel? Yes, I did. It was probably
33:58
you. It probably was.
34:01
Why is the bills kind of I just wanted to be
34:04
sure. Walk over. Why is the Fire
34:07
Nation after you? The Fire
34:09
nation. They did not like the
34:12
experiments I was doing. There is the
34:16
I can't do air quotes because my arms
34:19
raise your eyebrows. Oh, yeah, it's a good idea.
34:23
There is a certain limitation,
34:26
and you see eyebrows pretty good, actually,
34:31
of science and what is
34:34
or isn't allowed. And he does
34:36
the eyebrows again. What kind of experimentation are
34:39
we talking about? Are you testing stuff on people?
34:42
Are you making bombs? I'm making bombs, and
34:45
I'm learning the sciences of combustion
34:48
bending. Combustion bending? Is that
34:51
even are you a bender? Yes.
34:55
Oh, jeez. I think you trapped him. Well, if he's a
34:58
firebender, I mean, I kind of like I kneel down, cover
35:01
his ears. Well, if he's a firebender, he could technically still
35:03
bend out of his mouth. Watch.
35:07
And there's, like, a little spout of fire that starts to
35:10
disseminate. This is a tiny little like he's old. Well,
35:13
yeah, but I didn't think he could hear me. I didn't know his hearing was that
35:16
good. Yeah, that's the one thing I haven't really lost yet.
35:19
He's lost everything else, though. Well,
35:22
I've got crazy, shaky
35:25
hands, which is not
35:28
great when you're dealing with things like blasting I
35:31
bet. And other material. Why your hair
35:33
looks so uneven? You only have half
35:36
an eyebrow. It was really weird. Those air quotes.
35:39
Yeah, those air quotes.
35:44
The other eyebrow, I lost that because I flew too close
35:47
to the lava. Wanted to know what it smelled like.
35:52
The hair is uneven. That just comes with age.
35:55
What are you going to do with these explosives? Boom. Make things
35:57
boom. I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to figure out how. I'm going
36:00
to figure out combustion bending. I'm going to learn it. I'm going to
36:03
perfect it. What kind of things? I'll be the most
36:05
destructive firebender in the
36:08
world. And then I'll show everybody. I'll show everybody
36:11
what for. I
36:14
think we should keep him in this hole. I think so,
36:16
too. Um, I'll take a few of these bombs
36:19
to go, though. Uh, so I'll just is
36:22
there a back way out of this place? I paid for that
36:25
stuff, and I'm not I just take
36:28
a few I take a few of the completed
36:31
bomb or bombs that look like they're completed. I just kind of stuff
36:34
them in my little bag. I'll let you out if you're
36:37
an apprentice. That was just like you once. What's his
36:40
name? I'd love to meet him. He
36:43
didn't have a name. He was the, uh, orphan kid, and I took him
36:46
in. He had a weird tattoo on his forehead.
36:49
Oh, combustion man.
36:53
Is that a callback to combustion? Man?
36:55
Uh, talking about oh, yeah, you've only
36:58
seen the movie. Uh, so how
37:01
about this? I'll let you out of there
37:05
if, uh, we can take a few of these bombs to
37:07
go, and you show us how to
37:10
get out of here. Let me ask you a
37:13
question. What's up? Are, uh, you a
37:15
firebender? I sunk you into the earth. What do you
37:18
think? What about you? Are you a
37:21
firebender? What does it look like? And I hold up my bow
37:24
stab. Well, it's a stick. Are
37:27
you a stick bender? Yeah, that's the best way to describe
37:30
it. Strange. Well, then
37:32
I can't teach you the ways of combustion.
37:35
No, that's not what we ask. We asked how to get
37:38
out of. I was just looking for an opportunity
37:42
presented itself. We don't want to learn about this stupid
37:45
combustion. How dare you? Okay,
37:48
we'll leave you in here. Ah,
37:51
hold on. Reiterate what the deal was again?
37:55
You give us some bombs and all the money you have,
38:01
that's my thing to rob. You just spent
38:04
my money on the barrel of
38:07
blasting. I'll take the barrel blasting.
38:10
What the hell? That took me, like, two months
38:13
to get the money ever to slow you down,
38:15
because you're talking about blowing up the
38:18
countryside. I'm rubbing off on you. I love
38:20
it against the guy going around blowing
38:23
stuff up on this beautiful countryside. Now, give me just a
38:26
second. Uh, you want to take
38:29
the explosives with you? What do you want to
38:32
do with us? Uh, that's a good point. We should just chuck them
38:35
in the fire. That would make
38:38
this whole place go up. Yes. Diggy. See, now,
38:41
he's not a firebender, but he gets it. I
38:43
understand.
38:49
Oh, you know what? Okay, let's
38:52
go chuck him in the lake. I got an idea.
38:56
We'll take the barrel. We don't need to take the bombs. We'll
38:59
take the barrel. Okay, and can you tell us how to get
39:02
out of here, please? Uh, yes. Okay. Uh,
39:05
because I want you out,
39:08
I don't want you here, so I'll give you an honest answer.
39:11
Okay? There is a tunnel at
39:14
the back of this facility. There's another set of doors. You see
39:16
them? They're right over
39:19
I can't turn my neck that much, but they're right over
39:22
there. And you just cut over.
39:25
Yeah, you see a pair of doors. Uh,
39:29
and then there's, like, a steep tunnel.
39:32
It's going to go down, and it's got
39:35
slick uzi stuff on the sides.
39:38
It's a one way trip. Trust me, I have tried. How you get
39:41
out? Yes. Like a slide? Yes,
39:44
it's very much like a slide. Uh, you can't go, uh, up. You cannot
39:47
go up. It's too slippery.
39:49
I can't go up. Uh, I don't know. Maybe like,
39:52
uh, that's simple. I don't you know,
39:55
Bender could go up, but I don't know. How
39:58
about how long does it take to get out? Oh, it has a pretty
40:01
quick you slide right out of here. It
40:04
won't be a fast slide. They'll spit you right
40:07
out under the grass. Uh, I'll go over
40:10
to Bill real quick. Why do you have an evil look on your face? Don't
40:13
worry about it. So I kind of pull Bill off to the side
40:15
where the old man can't hear. Okay,
40:20
so we'll go outside the door.
40:24
Give us a second. Give us a second. Uh,
40:27
quick power. Old man's hair definitely blew
40:30
it up. And we wait to see if he
40:33
responds. Okay, so I think we nothing.
40:35
Okay, so I got 90.
40:40
So if you want to throw
40:43
that barrel in the lava yeah,
40:46
I kind of want to throw it in the lava. Too. Yeah. So I think what
40:48
we do here, I just want to blow up this
40:51
whole facility. So what we'll do,
40:54
we'll take the barrel. Um, we're going to
40:57
bring it out out here. I'm just going to walk in,
41:00
grab the barrel. Don't say a word to the man
41:03
because of the way he's facing. He can't see you. He
41:06
just hears you moving.
41:09
What are you doing back there? Hey, now, what are you
41:12
doing? I don't say a word to him. I just
41:15
saw don't you dare dump that thing jelly on me. It's
41:18
not as funny as you think. Oh, that's a great,
41:21
uh, sprinkle on him, then dump the rest.
41:25
I'll take a Glob out. I'll take a Glob out in my hand.
41:28
Your bare hand? Yeah. Don't worry about it. All
41:31
right. Don't worry about it.
41:34
I'm already 20% scored.
41:38
So I take, like, a Glob out of the barrel, and
41:40
I close it back up, and
41:44
I makeshift a little ramp,
41:47
and with a little tiny little block stopper
41:50
on the top, and I put the barrel so it's like
41:52
this. Like this. I'm drawing
41:55
it, drawing it. Everybody like, here's the
41:58
cliff. I make a little thing here, put the
42:01
barrel there, and I have a little stopper. Little stopper.
42:04
Right. Okay. So I earth bend a
42:07
ramp with a little stopper, and
42:09
then so as we am I good to do this
42:12
or do so then I'm just
42:15
like, okay, Bill, let's go. And so we just both
42:18
calmly walk back into the
42:21
room. I take the blasting jelly. I splap it
42:24
on the man's head, and then
42:27
I just okay. I earth bend the
42:30
stopper to go down. So the
42:33
barrel rolls off the ramp into
42:36
the lava as we hit
42:38
the slide. Are you okay with this plan?
42:41
That's where the barrel was.
42:46
Brock built it, but he has not set it off.
42:49
He built it. And he was explaining that to Bill.
42:52
Yeah, that is my plan.
42:55
He is not currently slapping onto
42:58
the jelly into the
43:00
hole as we leave through the exit. Yes.
43:03
It's going to look awesome. It's going to go into the lava. Into the
43:06
lava. So this whole place goes up,
43:09
and we get to walk away. We get to slide away
43:12
from an explosion. Even cooler. What happens to the
43:15
old guy? May he rest in
43:18
peace. Okay. I mean, I'm not a
43:21
fan of killing people. Well, you see,
43:23
there's probably more than just this one guy in this whole
43:26
cave here. No, he said he was
43:29
the only one. Did he? Yeah. Uh, I peeked
43:32
my head into the door. Hey, how many people are in here other than
43:35
us? It's just me. I don't trust anyone.
43:38
I mean, my ostrich horse is outside, but he I
43:41
slammed the door.
43:46
Okay, so if it's just him,
43:49
so what do you want to do then? I mean, I don't know,
43:51
because if we let him go, he'll just go and
43:54
ruin the countryside with his explosions,
43:57
and he could almost hurt people in the
44:00
future at the same time. I don't want to
44:03
kill a guy. Well, we're not. The explosion
44:06
is.
44:09
This is a weird take on Batman.
44:12
This is a very reverse on. People don't
44:15
kill people. Guns kill people. I just wanted
44:18
to go to my tree, have a relaxing
44:21
afternoon. Um, I didn't want
44:23
to drag both their bodies
44:27
limpidly through a cave to go meet
44:30
an old man to lead him to his death.
44:33
He has lived a long life. Sure looks like
44:36
it, yeah. Uh,
44:39
so what would you suggest here? What would you
44:41
suggest? This place is going up one
44:44
way or another. We've already established that.
44:47
You know what?
44:50
You're going to try and roll the persuade or something?
44:53
No. Bill's just thinking, uh, would
44:56
this be the first person he's ever killed?
44:59
Would I be here for your first
45:02
no. Is that what Brock
45:04
asks? No. Well, yeah, you ask. Bill, if this is the
45:07
first person you ever would this be the first person you've ever
45:10
killed? No.
45:13
Is this the first person you've ever killed?
45:17
No. So, uh,
45:20
what are we doing here? Man, what an angsty teen conversation.
45:23
This is weird. How many kids have killed in
45:26
person before now we're about to kill a second at huh?
45:29
Least two. This
45:32
is weird. It's only weird if you make
45:35
it weird. I'm chilling.
45:37
Well, I'm thinking of all the people he could
45:40
hurt in this countryside and the beautiful countryside.
45:47
Uh, we could have been back at the tree by now
45:50
if you weren't busy having this moral dilemma.
45:53
How are you so fine with this, brock,
45:56
people die. Stuff happens. It's life.
46:01
Uh, plus,
46:04
I'm kind of a sociopath, in case you haven't been
46:07
able to piece that together yet.
46:10
I'm sure more signs of this will come in the future,
46:13
make this even more clear. Yeah.
46:16
Bill's, uh, like rubbing his arm, his hand this whole time
46:18
as he's thinking, uh, and he's like, all
46:21
right, make it
46:24
quick. Yes.
46:31
Why are you so excited? I don't know. The old man can kind of,
46:34
like, hear from me.
46:39
Having a good time out there. That's nice.
46:43
My lab to be a fun place for teenagers,
46:46
but I suppose whatever floats their
46:49
boat, it is spirit rest
46:52
day.
46:57
I'm excitedly going in
47:02
there, about to put his spirit to rest on
47:06
over somebody's puppy on
47:09
Christmas. Now? Boxing Day?
47:11
Sure. Who cares? But spear rest day,
47:15
I don't feel like I'm putting his spirit to rest there.
47:18
My spirit's unrest.
47:20
Fine. What
47:23
if I just bring him out? I
47:25
slap some stone. What if we just
47:28
destroy all of his work, but he lives?
47:31
But then we don't get to make the place go
47:34
boom. You can do that. We just push him down the thing
47:37
first, and then we follow it. We cause the explosion, we
47:40
follow him. That way, we don't kill him, but we
47:43
destroy all of his research and everything he's created. That
47:45
way, by the time he can catch up to
47:48
where he was, he'll be dead.
47:51
Natural causes, not our causes. Right.
47:54
All right. So this would stop him from
47:57
terrorizing the countryside, but we have no blood on our
48:00
hands. I like this solution a lot
48:02
better. All right. Because it's Spear Arrest
48:05
Day. Because it's Spirit Rest Day. I'll do
48:07
it. Uh, just to
48:10
throw out to all the people listening right now, I'd love to hear
48:13
your thoughts on this entire inner
48:16
conflict that these two characters had about whether or
48:19
not they should kill a person in a massive fiery
48:21
explosion and just leave and then
48:24
now are finally coming to the conclusion of wait.
48:27
What if we just left with him and then
48:30
blew up the place? Not killing a person on soul
48:33
rest day. Just would love to hear your opinion.
48:36
I think I even agree with us that, uh, it was fine until we
48:39
remembered it was a holiday.
48:42
I bet. Ah, people are listening and going, no, not on a
48:44
holiday.
48:49
They remembered. Oh, few.
48:52
Okay, so
48:55
I'll go in, clarify. I'll go back in the laboratory.
48:59
I thought it was spirit. Spirit rest, soul rest. I've heard it
49:02
both ways. It's just with Avatar, you have the
49:05
spirits. So that kind of gives a little bit of a different
49:07
connotation.
49:10
It's like different words are used for different areas of
49:13
so. In the Earth Kingle, they use soul rest, spirit rest. Uh, the
49:16
only reason I clarify is just so that nobody on the thing goes like,
49:19
whoa, hold on. You said soul rest. Uh, now you say spirit rest.
49:22
To clarify, it is slang. This is the
49:25
kids slang. We're the young kids, all right?
49:28
They're like, yeah, spirit vibes. This
49:31
is vibes, bro. So I'm going to go
49:33
in. I'll grab the barrel, still not saying a
49:36
word to him. And I'll go back out, shut
49:39
the door. I make the ramp. I make the
49:42
little stopper so that don't put jelly
49:45
on his head. We don't put jelly on his head.
49:48
Me and Bill go in. I lift him out of the hole.
49:51
I Earth bend, uh, some restraints
49:54
on his hands and on his feet. And I
49:57
tell him this year. This is Bill. I don't know if we ever
49:59
introduced you. This is Bill. Okay.
50:02
You're going to go with him down the slide.
50:05
He's the stick bender, right? Yeah. Stick bender. Yeah.
50:09
Okay. Yeah. And if you, uh, cause any trouble,
50:11
you'll get stick bended on your ass.
50:14
Bam. No, spinky. Spink. Yeah,
50:17
exactly. I thought it was a different one.
50:20
I can knock him top the head, too. Knock you right
50:23
out. Still not what I was thinking, but okay.
50:26
Do you want to do an intimidate for that? Not really.
50:32
Yeah, it doesn't really do you much good. Really?
50:34
Yeah. Anyways, uh, I'm going to start leading him. I'm going
50:37
to put my arm on his back and just kind of lead him to
50:40
the exit. Uh, and he like, hops. I don't know if
50:43
you did you put stuff on his feet? Yeah, he did.
50:46
He just hopping. What are you guys going
50:49
to do once we get out? What's
50:52
the plan? I don't really know. He's a loser.
50:55
I don't even know why I'd be taken away by a couple of teenagers.
50:57
That's a stickbender and an Earthbender. Who are you
51:00
guys with? Um, we're with
51:03
the brew crew. What
51:06
is the brew? I've never heard of
51:10
who are they affiliated with? I'm here just to go sit
51:12
by my tree. I didn't get signed up for this.
51:15
Okay, so Bill and the old man go down to the slide.
51:18
I make sure they get down. Uh, yeah, I get to the okay.
51:21
Okay, so you push him in. Yeah, I just kind of kick his
51:24
feet, shove him straight down, and it's a very
51:27
smooth rock slide. And that aided
51:30
by the slippery nest. It's actually kind of a fun ride.
51:32
Yeah. And he goes
51:35
and as you guys are going, he's like, uh, as
51:38
we're going down, he's talking to me.
51:41
Yeah. And then he goes
51:44
back up there. You'll, uh see,
51:47
I like the sound of that.
51:50
So I'll Earth bend the stopper down,
51:53
and I'll follow him, like, a few seconds right behind him.
51:55
Okay. And as we're coming down,
51:59
barrel slide, you're going to get a huge speed boost. It goes
52:01
into the lava, and you just hear
52:07
and you're sliding next to the man. You're coming to the end. You can see the end
52:10
of the little, like, tunnel. You can see the light and stuff. That
52:14
the exit. And he goes, what is that sound?
52:17
Hold on a second here. Hold on. I don't like this. And you
52:20
can feel like the area or the slide
52:23
starts you guys are coming out. It's
52:26
like the mountain basically begins to, uh,
52:28
collapse on itself from the explosion. He goes
52:34
as you guys shoot out of the hole, kind of fly through
52:37
the air and land in a tuft of grass. Um,
52:40
Brock, you're coming down and you look behind you. You can
52:43
see the flames starting to shoot through
52:46
this tunnel, like, following after you. And you
52:49
can feel the little tiny flames licking at your
52:52
feet as you are suddenly shot out of
52:54
this tunnel, this slick tunnel
52:57
at, uh, a high speed flying through the air.
53:02
Now, wasn't that more fun than sitting in a tree?
53:05
And then you land. I didn't
53:07
land
53:11
a tree.
53:16
I thought the landing was what
53:19
not in that tree. I thought the landing was
53:22
implied. Oh, no, sorry. Um,
53:26
I just told you you went shooting out of there at, like, a high speed
53:29
because of the flame bus. Okay, I'll
53:32
make it cool. I'll do, like, a double front flip.
53:35
Land in a tree, push your luck
53:40
an eight. I won't take the minus since
53:43
you're, like, literally just free flying through the air. That's
53:46
not really a physical trade. It's just like a maneuverable
53:49
trade, all right? You push by, you do a
53:52
flip. I do a flip. You
53:54
do one flip, and you just narrowly manage to grab
53:57
onto a branch from the tree as you come
54:00
to an abrupt stop, uh, about a hundred
54:03
yards from the other.
54:06
Uh, fun than sitting in a tree.
54:09
You're sitting in a tree right now.
54:12
Brock ironic, isn't it?
54:15
The man is infuriated. He's freaking out. He
54:17
said no. He stands up, and then he
54:20
falls to his knees and he says, i, uh, will
54:23
never be able to build that much
54:26
of my lap back in my
54:28
lifetime. Oh, perfect. In what
54:31
remains of my life.
54:34
Sounds like a skill issue. Sounds like
54:38
I don't know, but maybe. Old
54:41
guy. What? I could learn to stick
54:43
bent like you. You could
54:46
just find a new meaning in life.
54:49
I know a bunch of old guys down,
54:51
uh, in the town of Gualing, and they
54:54
just play Pi Show tile all day long. You could become
54:57
a master Pi Show player. You
55:00
think so? I mean, you're smart. I mean,
55:03
I saw all the work you were doing up there, and a Pi Show
55:06
player needs to be smart. I sometimes play
55:09
with them. Um, I'd come in and play with you once in a while, play a
55:12
couple of games intelligent. It's true.
55:14
I appreciate you noticing
55:17
my high mental
55:20
fortitude. Plus some quality. You can read all the
55:22
books you want. They got a great library. Bit nerdy,
55:25
but okay. Well, you can read fictional
55:28
books. Stories about, like, dragons and stuff. They breathe
55:31
fire, maybe.
55:35
I'll, uh, pick up drinking, and
55:37
one day I'll conversing through the
55:40
doors of a tea shop and harass the
55:43
employees until they kick me
55:46
out. Oddly specific.
55:49
Very specific old man. But you know what? If
55:52
that's what you want to do, as long as you're not
55:55
destroying countrysides and cities with your
55:58
destructive powers and just the occasional
56:01
too many drinks, uh, I think that's
56:04
a better life.
56:06
Yeah, go with that.
56:10
Maybe revenge isn't all it's
56:13
chucked up to be.
56:15
Revenge. Right. That's what, uh, I was going
56:18
for. Revenge on who?
56:21
Mostly the Fire Nation, but
56:24
anyone that made fun of me, really. But you're nowhere near
56:27
the Fire Nation.
56:29
They kicked me out. This is where I was,
56:33
this is where I had to do my research. But I
56:36
digress. It's gone now, so I have
56:39
to change my life's purpose.
56:43
Okay. Tough break, kid.
56:45
Yeah, sucks to suck. Well, uh, we'll give
56:48
you a lift back to Gualang. I appreciate
56:51
that. We can take my ostrich horse.
56:54
You still have your ostrich horse? I do still have my ostrich
56:57
horse. That's Jordan descartes. What's his
57:00
name? Carlton.
57:02
Carlton. That's a good name for an ostrich
57:05
horse. He's pretty great.
57:08
Good thing nothing bad happened. Hauling
57:11
barrels of blasting jelly. But from now on, he
57:13
won't be hauling anymore. Barrels of blasting
57:16
jelly. Unless, of course, I get a
57:19
job doing so. Barrels of
57:22
alcohol, which I do have connections
57:25
in, because obviously, I bought quite a bit,
57:28
so I know a guy, and he might need it
57:31
hold from place to place. You're handling
57:34
this quite well. I'm doing my best.
57:38
When you don't have much left, much
57:41
time left, you kind of just got to roll with the
57:44
butt, man. I feel way
57:47
better we didn't leave you in there. Same
57:49
here, I suppose. Uh, I mean, if I'm being
57:52
completely honest with you guys,
57:56
if you guys had tried to challenge me, I
57:59
probably would have just blown it all up myself
58:02
with all of us in there, so probably.
58:05
You probably handled this the best way that you
58:07
possibly could have.
58:12
If what you described to me about how you came
58:15
through the tunnels was any reflection on how
58:18
poorly you handled those
58:21
puzzles, then at least you
58:24
finished things off with a pretty solid
58:26
strategy.
58:31
Good on you. I thought he was gonna
58:33
say, oh, uh, I wished I was
58:36
still
58:39
in my laboratory
58:42
among the
58:47
dying with my, uh, life's work. But,
58:50
hey, at least
58:53
at least I had the chance to smell
58:56
what love smelled like before it was all
58:59
blown to heck. Uh,
59:02
okay. Anyways,
59:04
let's go get
59:08
laughing.
59:11
Some pretty funny stuff. We should be taking
59:14
appreciation. It is Soul rest
59:17
day.
59:20
None of us have rested at
59:23
all. Earthbender guy? Yeah.
59:26
What's your name? Uh, I'm brock. Brock.
59:29
And Bill. Yeah, Bill. Happy
59:31
soul rest day. What's your name?
59:35
Oh, my name is Kuros. Uh,
59:40
I was kind of obsessed. I kind of assumed, but
59:43
you know what they say. Well, when you assume
59:45
that you make
59:50
a donkey fly out of you and me yeah.
59:53
You never want to assume. So nice to
59:56
meet you, Kuro, and happy soul rest to
59:59
you. Thank you. And how happy your soul is not
1:00:02
resting right now. That's true. None of ours
1:00:05
are. None of our souls are resting.
1:00:08
If I can come to accept it, then I suppose
1:00:10
my soul can be at peace. Then
1:00:13
that's if I can give up the
1:00:15
revenge and everything else,
1:00:19
then I can be at peace. Exactly.
1:00:23
All right. Hi ho,
1:00:26
Carlton. Let's get back to
1:00:28
Guaaling. Do we need to keep him tied up? Yeah,
1:00:31
probably. Uh, well,
1:00:34
you keep him yeah.
1:00:37
And just kick him off to a curb or something. Yeah, we'll
1:00:40
just like you're going to leave him
1:00:43
at right. Yeah, we'll leave him with Carlson. Carlson and the old
1:00:45
folks, um, home. Okay. We'll just
1:00:48
open the door, be like, hey, we found this guy
1:00:51
over in the mountains. I was told there'd
1:00:54
be pie show. Yeah,
1:00:57
his restraints are throw him in. I
1:01:00
think you've removed the restraint.
1:01:05
Well, better get ready
1:01:07
for a lot of jello in my future.
1:01:13
Okay, so what do we do?
1:01:15
Well, I'm kind of
1:01:18
tired, so you can go
1:01:22
do, uh, your tree thing. Unless no, I'm going back
1:01:25
to the tree. Unless walking away.
1:01:28
You want to show me those cool rocks?
1:01:33
I showed you them. You saw where they were. Yeah,
1:01:36
but we didn't get to check them out. You go check them out.
1:01:39
I'm going to my tree. Don't tell anyone about
1:01:42
the tree. You have to promise me.
1:01:46
Yeah, yeah, whatever. Okay.
1:01:49
See you, Brock. And with that, have, uh, a happy
1:01:52
soul rest day. Happy soul rest day to
1:01:55
you. And with that Bill and Brock's
1:01:57
Soul Rest day adventure. Hey, that's a great title.
1:02:00
I didn't even think about that. Bill and Brock's epic Adventure bill
1:02:03
and Brock's Soul Rest Day adventure
1:02:06
comes to an end. Thank you
1:02:09
all for listening to this fun little one shot.
1:02:12
We'll see you guys back onto the main
1:02:15
show next time. Well, hopefully next time,
1:02:17
unless I do the other one shot after this, we'll see what
1:02:20
happens. So glad I do have another one shot plan. Um,
1:02:23
so keep that in mind. All
1:02:26
right, m.
1:02:29
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