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Benders & Brews S2 - Episode 12 - Unfriendly Faces · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  Welcome back, everybody. It's another episode of Benderson Bruise.
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  And not only is it another episode of Benders and Bruise, it's the
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  season two finale
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  that's gonna be fun to play with in editing. Uh, awesome.
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  We're so glad that you're here. We're so glad that you're listening to our season two
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  finale. Uh, if you're not caught up on things and you're listening to this episode
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  Too soon. Too soon. How do you decide when to start, though?
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  When we're, like, an ongoing podcast. You have to wait until we're, like,
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  done.
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  You wait till retirement? Yeah.
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  Goodness. That could be a while. We don't know.
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  Anyways, welcome, uh, back again, uh, season
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  finale. I've got a big announcement, sort of
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  mini episode. I'll be posting after this about kind of
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  things, some changes you'll see with our channel as
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  a whole, which is kind of a cool concept.
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  Don't worry, Benders and Bruises isn't going anywhere. We'll be back for
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  season three. It's all good, but, um, whatever the case,
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  uh, we're in the finale. We're in, uh, episode twelve.
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  We're going to go around and give our character facts for
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  this episode. Connor.
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  Yes.
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  Aka brock Lee. What do you got for me?
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  So, uh, while working at the old Blissful
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  Brew,
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  if there were ever any some unruly customers,
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  uh, that Bill would say, like, hey, this guy's being
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  a jerk. I would purposefully
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  Earth bend the ground so that their
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  chairs were always rickety. They would never
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  be so, like, uh.
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  These are like the people that give Bill when
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  he's serving the tea or whatever, and they're like, giving him crap, or
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  they're just kind of being rude, or they're like
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  spanking him as he walks by.
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  He was a dishwasher. What are you talking about?
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  But Bill would come to Brock
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  be like, hey, this customer is being a know, like, to
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  vent. Like they do. They go to the back to talk, man.
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  Uh, this guy doesn't seem like a good
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  tipper.
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  I strictly remember in the first episode when
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  Bill came to you and said, hey, there's a guy being unruly. You just
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  walked out front and just like, Earth bended punched
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  him.
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  And that's why I wanted to clarify what you meant because
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  that guy was being an active physical
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  menace to everybody.
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  In I'm pretty sure I started it.
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  Yeah, she for sure.
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  I didn't actually punch him. I, uh, don't think
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  I laid a.
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  Hand off I think you tripped him, but I think that was about it.
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  Yeah, I did not punch him.
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  He, uh, hadn't got the punching yet.
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  I don't think I interacted with that guy aside from saying, come
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  on, let's simmer down here.
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  That's right now, because he wasn't in his seat.
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  That's how I inflict psychological warfare on
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  these guys. Everyone else's chair is fine.
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  Is mine the only one that's.
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  Getting this?
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  That right there will inflict more psychological trauma than
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  any sort of beating could.
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  I think you're right. Now, the person that did do the most
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  damage to that individual during that whole interaction
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  was our good friend GuoHan, who spilled a bunch of
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  dirty, nasty tea all over him. Uh,
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  guo dave, aka guo. Uh, what's
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  guo's. Interesting fact.
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  So guo is an expert
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  napper.
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  He can not only fall asleep very
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  quickly, he can also
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  almost set an internal timer, if you
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  will wake uh up.
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  He's like, all right, I got 15 minutes.
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  Let's do this. And 50 minutes goes by,
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  and he'll come out of his slumber.
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  Damn. Pretty close to really
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  developed in the circus with all these chores and stuff.
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  Yeah, he'd have to catch sleep where he could, or
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  it's like, oh, I can catch a few winks
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  between this show and this show, or nice. I don't have to
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  clean up until that one. Until then, or sign
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  kind of thing.
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  Yeah. Awesome. Well done. Well
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  done. Another, um, individual that
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  was key to the initial tea
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  shop fighting in the assistance of tripping the man
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  and getting him out of the restaurant was our good friend
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  bill, uh, played by Cameron. Voiced by
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  Cameron. Both I mean, you're playing.
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  So I have a fact, but I'm not sure if I should
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  do this fact or if this fact should be
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  revealed slowly through the plot.
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  Always with the plot.
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  This guy I'm just going to give you some
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  hints.
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  No, you might have to edit.
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  This is what I'm saying.
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  Okay.
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  I bet this guy watches anime for the
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  plot.
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  Uh, this is not an edit.
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  Okay.
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  Should I say what his fear is?
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  Spiders. Yes, sure.
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  Spider too much of an issue, because.
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  I've been slowly hinting it throughout the first two
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  seasons.
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  But, um, I could see how that would be really interesting
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  to just happen.
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  Losing his bow, stat.
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  No, it's definitely spider monkeys. Um,
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  not like spider monkeys that we.
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  Know here and just be like, hey, I've been hinting it through two
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  seasons, but bill has this fear.
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  Or you know what? It honestly could come up in this
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  very episode.
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  Okay, so I should not say it then.
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  It'll be more interesting when it happens.
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  Okay.
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  Nonlinear plotlines. Is that your fear?
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  Okay, so let me think of a fact.
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  You'll just go back to me. Yeah, let me think of a
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  fact then, because that was what I was.
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  Going to no, that's fair. That's fair.
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  What would bill do if he ordered food
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  and got the wrong food?
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  That's a good question.
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  Pebble reviews.
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  Bill does know about the pebble reviews. Actually,
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  he hasn't told, uh, GuoHan
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  about them, though. He saw him do it.
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  Right.
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  Okay. What would bill do if he was given the wrong order at
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  a right.
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  Right.
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  And bill would how does bill handle.
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  That kind of disappointment.
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  Bill would actually, uh,
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  take it pretty. Like, he'd call the waiter
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  over and he'd be like, hey, this isn't what I
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  ordered. Uh, could you give me this instead?
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  Which is what I ordered. And then
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  afterwards would be like, hey, could you, uh, take a little off my
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  Bill because of the inconvenience?
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  But he'd be really nice about it the whole way through.
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  Yeah, this kind of plays into my fact from last week.
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  Which is?
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  Bill was raised in a rich family.
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  He doesn't stand for the idea that.
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  He wants not how rich people act.
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  Yeah, he's a more polite rich person. Yes. I guess
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  it depends on your raising.
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  Uh, yeah, he buy the whole restaurant and fire.
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  I'm going to just set fire to the building
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  for him.
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  It's not a very Bill thing to do.
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  Rich person with empathy. Get out of here, man.
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  Yeah. Who raised you?
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  Um, maybe there's reason for all this.
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  The nanny.
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  I didn't say that.
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  Your parents didn't raise to be a respectable young
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  man.
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  Or he was raised by the nanny.
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  His mom was posing as Mr. Ogron all
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  along. It's a reverse Mrs. Doubt.
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  His mom would be dead.
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  Being alive in backstory.
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  That's right. Yeah.
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  Good thing it's not a backstory anymore, right?
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  Mika, the person who
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  managed to trick the initial,
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  uh, annoyance to the tea shop in our very first
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  episode. Mika, uh, who got him
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  to go to another bar, maybe. Or at least
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  leave one way or another.
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  Made up a bar.
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  Yeah, you did.
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  You went down some back alleys somewhere, but
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  we never saw him.
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  Um, so, Mika what's? Michaela playing
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  Mika. What's your interesting fact?
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  My interesting fact is Mika's
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  perfect date whoa.
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  Would be april. Whatever.
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  On a Tuesday. Not so hot,
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  not so cold. Maybe somewhere in
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  the cold.
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  Every Tuesday comes in and it's a mellow temperature.
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  It doesn't matter where you are.
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  Tuesdays are the obstacle. Okay,
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  hold on. So you're saying on a Tuesday, on
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  a Tuesday that has kind of a medium
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  to slightly cooler weather.
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  Yeah, kind of like fall weather.
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  Yeah, I get that.
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  Um, something
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  outdoors. Use some
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  imagination.
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  Fair enough.
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  Uh, ending the night under the stars.
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  Oh, very nice. Very clever.
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  Reminds me of a song. Mika going
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  out on a Tuesday.
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  And that's as much as we can say without getting sued.
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  We're just quoting. It's true. Um, my name is
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  Skylar. I'm the game master. And my
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  idea of a date is going out to a
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  restaurant. Or the perfect date, I guess, is getting taken to a
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  nice restaurant where they give me the wrong food and I
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  eat it anyways because, I don't know, it's
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  free food. Well, maybe. And
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  also, I probably haven't tried it before, and that sounds
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  like fun.
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  Wait, can you tie in the other two stories?
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  Do you want wrong orders?
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  That's your perfect date?
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  I'm confused by this because it sounds like you prefer
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  getting the wrong order.
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  You know, sometimes you fall into a slump of like,
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  well, it's this restaurant I've been to 100 times, and I'll just keep
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  getting the same thing because I know I like it. And, uh, you, uh, need that outside
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  force to just force you into a situation where you're
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  too nice to ask, or you just feel awkward asking
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  for a redo in the correct order. And so you
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  just roll with it and it gets you something that maybe you
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  end up liking. And if you don't, then you learn something
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  about yourself.
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  I wish I had that luxury, but I have a food
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  allergy.
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  That's true. You play with fire with that.
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  Awesome. And in we go.
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  All right, welcome back, everybody, to the
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  big finale for season two, episode
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  twelve. Um,
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  we when last we left off, uh, you guys
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  followed Mayu Yinyu to the big massive
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  city like base that is
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  the current, uh, not only just
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  Udao's Rescue Team Squadron Base,
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  but also the headquarters for
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  Rescue Team Squadron in general, an
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  organization that helps
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  Earthbenders, waterbenders, et cetera.
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  Just the various nations in need as they fight
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  against the slowly
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  rising forces of the Fire Nation, as they start to
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  secretly sort of take over the
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  borderlands of the Earth Kingdom, and so on
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  and so forth. Um, while you guys were in
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  or when you first got to the city, brock, you ran into
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  an old friend, Sora, uh, who you remember from your
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  backstory episodes. This is again great time to
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  start promoting those and saying, if you haven't heard the backstories
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  for all the characters.
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  What are you doing?
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  What are you know, go check those out. Uh,
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  whatever the case, you saw sora an old friend of yours, she was there,
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  of course. She's now risen in the ranks of the Rescue Team
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  Squadron. She's a leading figure, which is pretty
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  cool. Um, they showed you
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  plans to break into their old
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  facility, which they recently had to abandon because
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  of, uh, Fire Nation discovery. Uh, now they're
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  residing here in this base, but they had left some important
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  plans back at the old base, and a
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  specialist was set to show
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  up at that old base and search for those plans here
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  soon. A specialist that some of you
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  recognize the name of wang long, the
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  commander in general, or one of those things, I don't
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  know military ranks very well, uh, of
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  a fire nation group that has kind of been, like the
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  leading cause of the attacks
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  on these borderland areas of the earth
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  kingdom and the water nation and et cetera.
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  Um, two of you knew of
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  Wang Long. Uh, Bill, you had
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  been experienced him, uh, while sailing with Mr.
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  Okaran when you first came to the Earth Nation.
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  Uh, Brock, he was the
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  Commander and General residing over the prison
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  camp where you and your family were held before Sora got
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  in and helped break you out with the help of other
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  members of the Rescue Team Squadron.
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  All of that happened and you guys agreed
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  to assist them in breaking back into their old facility where
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  you were going to get the Kalimba that Mr.
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  Okuron had sent Mayu Yinyu. That was said to be the
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  next clue.
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  Additionally, as you guys were finishing up.
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  With this meeting, where they kind of went over some of their initial plans
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  on how they were going to break back into this facility, mika,
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  you were reunited with your father, who felt
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  so good it felt so good to be reunited with your
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  father, uh, who turned out he tried looking for
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  you forever. Found his way to Udao, was enlisted
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  with the rescue team squadron in hopes that the
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  travels that he went on with his teams would help
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  you find or help him find you.
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  Uh, but alas, he didn't need to go anywhere
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  because you came to him and now he
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  is traveling with you guys into this mission.
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  He's, um, partially there as a Rescue Team
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  Squadron member, but you get kind of the sense that he's more
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  there because he wants to be with you and he wants to keep you
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  safe and make sure that whatever you're doing,
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  he's there with you and uh, he's
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  happy to be reunited with you. Um, as you guys
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  were approaching the old facility, as Mayu
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  Yinyu led you, um, you guys overheard some voices
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  coming near the front doors of the, uh,
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  old base. And Mika, your father went to
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  go investigate and came back and told you that the
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  specialist, Colonel General
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  Whatever Wang Long had already
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  arrived. Apparently, um, he has gotten there early
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  and he and his men have already kind of
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  started to overtake the encampment. But he
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  informed you that I guess this is kind of new,
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  but uh, it seems that they had just gotten there as
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  they're still pulling supplies from their,
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  um.
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  Ah, no, you tell me Wang Long
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  came early. Yes, it seems like
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  Wang has already arrived, but it
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  doesn't look like they fully unloaded their gear.
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  So there's still some time to sneak in and recover the plans if
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  we're quick about it. Um,
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  what can we see from here, guys?
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  Uh, so, yeah, as you guys look, you can see, um,
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  against the sort of darkening late, uh,
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  afternoon, early evening skies, you can
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  see some of the lanterns have been lit throughout the facility,
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  causing little areas to sort of pop against
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  the darkness behind it. Um,
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  there's 1234
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  lights that shine at the front of this facility where you
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  hide in the bushes maybe 100 yards or so away
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  from and you can kind of peek through and
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  see the various Fire Nation soldiers
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  bringing crates and some other things over to the
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  front. They seem to be kind of unpacking, uh,
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  just a variety of weapons and tools.
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  Um, nothing extravagant, but you notice that the tools are very
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  like uh, there's lanterns and things, things that are used to
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  kind of really do a deep search.
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  Um, and you get the feeling that Wang Long is planning on starting
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  this search for whatever the
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  Rebel squadron had left behind at this
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  base. Um, the base itself, again, fairly
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  large. Uh, there's sort of a
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  two half main building right at the front. Kind
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  of goes into a pillared section, uh,
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  building on the sort of, uh, what would
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  be the west side. Um, that's
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  where my Yu Yinyu kind of points these out, and he says
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  that was kind of where a lot of, um, the living
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  areas were. There's a large building in the center.
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  You can't really see too much of it, but he says that was the training area
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  where they used to do a lot of their weapon and bending
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  training. On the east far,
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  um, well, actually in the entire back
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  end is like, kind of the big main area.
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  Um, it's a courtyard surrounded by sort ah,
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  of a three story building. Um, in the
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  dead center of that building, you can see what is the
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  command center. And that's where you're trying to get to. Uh, that's
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  where the plans are being stored.
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  I would like to assess the
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  situation.
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  Absolutely, please do. Roll away.
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  Well, whatever your method is, it is a
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  seven. A seven? All right, so on a seven, you get to
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  ask me one of the following questions. Um, again,
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  you can kind of adjust these questions based on the current situation, but I think
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  in this situation, they're pretty much fit,
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  I think. Um, and then you'll get a
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  plus one ongoing when acting based on the answer
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  that I give you to this question. So there's what here can I use
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  to blank? Who or what is the biggest threat? What should
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  I be on the lookout for? What is my best way
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  out in or through, or who is in the
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  greatest danger?
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  Uh, the best way into the
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  command center, please.
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  Into the command center. All right, so you remember seeing the
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  diagram or sort of like the miniature setup that they had of
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  this base. Um, you kind of start to look over the base and
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  you kind of associate like, oh, yeah, okay, I see what they
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  had back at the rescue team
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  squadron, their big fancy table
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  where they were talking about the plan. You can see how the
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  building layout looks, um, based on
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  from memory. You remember that on the
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  east and west side, uh, all the way to the
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  back, close to where the command center is, but not quite there. You
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  remember there were sort of like living quarters or something along
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  those lines in that three story building that sort of
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  surrounded this courtyard. And they had
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  windows. Um, they mentioned that those windows were
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  sometimes boarded up, but at the end of
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  each building, on each floor, they
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  had sort of a transition spot where there was a
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  stairwell and the stairwell was an open concept.
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  So even though the windows themselves might be barred
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  up, although you might be able to find one that's not, or you might
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  be able to break through those bars because they were wooden.
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  Um, at the very least, you know that the stairwell is kind
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  of an open concept, and in theory, you could probably throw a
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  rope up there or make some kind of an earth
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  platform or something that raises you up there, and then you'd
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  be very close to the command center.
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  Otherwise, if you wanted to somehow
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  sneak in, get through the courtyard, and
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  then go up the stairs directly to the command center, that might be an option
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  too.
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  Well, I have a window I don't know about you
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  guys.
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  Um I'll follow your lead.
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  Yeah, sounds about right.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay. Yeah.
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  So the window we go, I suppose.
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  Mayu Yinyu turns to Mika's dad and he
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  says, well, uh, uh, Mactuck, that's his name. For
• 19:07
  those of you that didn't listen to Mika's prequel episode, that
• 19:10
  you should.
• 19:10
  Go back and listen, you absolutely should.
• 19:12
  It was phenomenal. Uh, Mactuck,
• 19:14
  do you and I maybe we could sneak around to the
• 19:17
  east side and the kids can sneak around
• 19:20
  to the west side, and that just increases the chances of, uh,
• 19:23
  success. And of course, for all of us, if, uh, you
• 19:26
  get noticed by the guards, try to make it out as some kind of
• 19:29
  distraction so that the rest of the group can still sneak
• 19:32
  inside. All right, if that works for everybody. And you see a little bit
• 19:35
  of hesitation from Mack Tuck as he kind of looks over at Mika like,
• 19:38
  oh, I don't really want to separate from everybody.
• 19:41
  Um, I grab his hand, kill
• 19:44
  squeeze before he leaves,
• 19:46
  separation, squeeze
• 19:49
  back, and.
• 19:50
  He gives you a nod and a smile. And he and
• 19:53
  Mayu Yinyu run off towards the eastern
• 19:56
  side of the building to try to get around and kind of take the same
• 19:59
  route that you guys are going to go through, but from that side
• 20:02
  while you guys do it from the west side.
• 20:05
  All right, Brock, you're kind
• 20:08
  of leading the charge as you guys race around to the
• 20:11
  side of the building, sneaking carefully to avoid
• 20:14
  the firebending soldiers that
• 20:16
  are sort of getting
• 20:18
  unpacked from the
• 20:21
  front.
• 20:21
  About, uh, how high up is this
• 20:24
  window?
• 20:25
  Yeah, well, uh, so the windows, uh, they kind of range.
• 20:28
  So there's the ones on the first floor, those are about 10ft
• 20:31
  up and then 20ft up and 30ft up, depending on
• 20:34
  how high up you want to get, um,
• 20:37
  as far as if you see any open
• 20:40
  ones. Uh, yeah, you do see one that's actually
• 20:43
  open. The bars have been
• 20:46
  removed. Uh, they look kind of broken, maybe
• 20:49
  just like, in disrepair.
• 20:52
  Which ones are those?
• 20:54
  That's a good question. It's on the third
• 20:56
  floor.
• 20:57
  Third floor. Is that like, where we need to be.
• 20:59
  That actually would put you a lot closer to
• 21:03
  the actual command center where the plans are being kept
• 21:06
  in this building. But it is a long ways up. Like I said, it's like
• 21:09
  30ft up.
• 21:10
  What's a building made of?
• 21:12
  Um, mostly wood.
• 21:13
  Um, well, I would say
• 21:16
  that the general exterior is
• 21:19
  stone, but
• 21:23
  there's sort of like a wood
• 21:26
  accent to it. And
• 21:29
  the actual rooftops are all sort of like a terracotta type
• 21:31
  material.
• 21:32
  Is there water around?
• 21:34
  Yes, there is.
• 21:36
  I'm going to use that for an elevator for us to get up
• 21:39
  there.
• 21:39
  Minecraft water elevator.
• 21:41
  Yeah.
• 21:43
  All right. Give me a rely on your
• 21:46
  skills and training.
• 21:47
  First rock elevator, now water
• 21:50
  elevator.
• 21:50
  Uh, which one will be more
• 21:53
  impressive? Fire elevator.
• 21:58
  In Dungeons and Dragons, they call that wall of flames.
• 22:00
  They call that a volcano.
• 22:02
  Are you sure there's not a rock slide anywhere
• 22:05
  around here?
• 22:06
  I got five. Didn't work out very
• 22:09
  well.
• 22:10
  You grab some water from the nearby pond and you kind of
• 22:14
  sort of like, slam it up against the wall in such a
• 22:16
  way. Um, but you can't really create, like, a current
• 22:19
  to pull somebody up.
• 22:22
  It sort of just splashes against the wall and then
• 22:25
  falls into the ground and sort of soaks into the
• 22:27
  dirt.
• 22:28
  Um, I will attempt to take the rocks in
• 22:31
  Brock's rock sack and bend
• 22:34
  them onto the walls. So
• 22:37
  it's like rock climbing walls.
• 22:39
  Okay.
• 22:39
  Brock loves his rock climb, so I have put them
• 22:42
  up, like, almost like a stone ladder.
• 22:45
  Yeah, absolutely. Uh, do the same. Do a rely on your
• 22:48
  skills and training.
• 22:48
  Let's see I get any boosts.
• 22:50
  Focus. I think it's focus. That's what
• 22:53
  I yeah.
• 22:55
  Nine.
• 22:56
  All right.
• 23:00
  Someone upset. Their minecraft elevator didn't
• 23:03
  work.
• 23:03
  So on a seven to nine, you do it
• 23:05
  imperfectly,
• 23:09
  I'm going to tell you.
• 23:10
  Welded enough for all four of us to get up.
• 23:13
  Yeah, six of us.
• 23:15
  There's four of you. The other two went around to the other side of the building
• 23:18
  to try to do the same thing you're doing, but on that side to try to
• 23:21
  help, like, in case things go wrong
• 23:24
  for one group, they can use it as a distraction and give you guys
• 23:27
  a bit more of an advantage. Um, okay, so,
• 23:30
  yes, you are able to make a sort
• 23:33
  of rock climbing wall, but in your
• 23:35
  personal use
• 23:38
  of rocks and experience with rocks,
• 23:41
  um, you have it set up in a way that it
• 23:44
  doesn't really seem like your fellow
• 23:47
  compatriots could climb this rock
• 23:50
  wall.
• 23:51
  So it's just rocking it up there.
• 23:53
  Yeah. You with your upper body strength that you've developed
• 23:56
  over years of training. Yeah, you could pull yourself up there, but this
• 23:59
  is 30ft of pretty free climb.
• 24:02
  Uh, but like I said, you
• 24:05
  can use mark of fatigue to
• 24:08
  not, uh, accept these.
• 24:10
  I can't even reach the first
• 24:12
  rock.
• 24:13
  Brock, I'll, um, boost you, or rather,
• 24:16
  I'll say this. You would take a fatigue to take
• 24:19
  a little bit more time to better
• 24:22
  set up this rock wall to allow other people to climb up
• 24:25
  it. Almost make it like a
• 24:27
  very rough rock
• 24:30
  staircase. But that's up to you.
• 24:32
  Do it. Don't
• 24:35
  be aloof.
• 24:36
  Or you can find another alternative. Like, even if you do want
• 24:39
  to climb up this, maybe there's another opportunity. How
• 24:42
  high is it? 30ft.
• 24:44
  Bill can make it up there. He climbs trees all the time.
• 24:47
  Yeah, sure. I'll climb it.
• 24:48
  He can make it.
• 24:49
  Right. Are you going to go
• 24:52
  up at Brock? Yeah. So you go, uh, up
• 24:57
  I'm more.
• 24:57
  Agile than you are.
• 24:59
  Apparently not, because you can't get it's.
• 25:01
  More of a strength.
• 25:02
  I could get up the rock wall.
• 25:03
  It's like the difference between in Dungeons and Dragons.
• 25:08
  Well, okay. I could get to that. So basically,
• 25:11
  you guys will have to roll in order to make it up rather
• 25:14
  than Brock just making it in such a way that you guys can just easily
• 25:17
  climb it.
• 25:17
  If they can't get there. Like, if they can't roll for it.
• 25:20
  Can I just mark fatigue and make.
• 25:24
  I think you need to do it now.
• 25:30
  Fine.
• 25:31
  I'll mark fatigue since your
• 25:34
  stupid muscle.
• 25:36
  Shut your mouth. I could have made it.
• 25:39
  Say that now.
• 25:40
  Great circle.
• 25:41
  Tell me what I would have made it a roll, and I'll tell you.
• 25:43
  Not my fault.
• 25:44
  Having it would have just been a roll.
• 25:47
  If you really want to it's better than
• 25:50
  I can do eight.
• 25:52
  That's pretty good. You would have done it imperfectly, but.
• 25:54
  I still would have done it in theory.
• 25:55
  Yeah.
• 25:56
  It's, uh, not a nine, though, is it?
• 25:58
  I would have done it. Why do I need to roll
• 26:01
  nine
• 26:06
  for, like, which skill you
• 26:08
  dingus?
• 26:10
  Whatever, uh, the case, you don't need to roll because Brock
• 26:12
  looks he starts going up it, and then he stops and he
• 26:15
  goes, oh, wait, you guys probably won't be able to get up
• 26:18
  there. So he comes back down and he, uh, sort of
• 26:21
  messes around with his earth bending a little bit more to make a
• 26:24
  more adequate staircase for all of you to climb. Or almost like a
• 26:27
  ladder, in a sense.
• 26:28
  What if it's like a staircase and we go up? Like those goats that go
• 26:31
  up, like, horizontal?
• 26:32
  Oh, yeah, just walk
• 26:34
  up. Yes, absolutely. Whatever the case,
• 26:37
  you guys manage, uh, to get to the top, hop in
• 26:40
  through this old, uh, window sill,
• 26:43
  and you enter into a very dark room. There's not a
• 26:46
  whole lot of light that comes through here. It sort of
• 26:49
  feels like an apartment room, in a sense. Just, uh, like an old
• 26:52
  rickety apartment room. There's a small bed in there, and there's a
• 26:55
  dresser, um, a couple other
• 26:58
  little things here and there. Um, and then, of course,
• 27:01
  there's the door at the end of the room that would lead out onto sort of
• 27:03
  this balcony area that goes around and eventually would lead to
• 27:06
  the command center.
• 27:08
  Oh, I, uh, forgot to say GLOW's fact at the
• 27:11
  beginning. Uh, glow has dark.
• 27:17
  Continue. Yeah. No.
• 27:19
  Convenient.
• 27:20
  All right, so what are you guys doing now that you're
• 27:24
  on the third floor?
• 27:27
  Nice. Did he
• 27:30
  tell us what we're looking for?
• 27:34
  Plans?
• 27:35
  Did he give us any specifics?
• 27:39
  Okay, then. Okay, let's
• 27:42
  just get they said they.
• 27:45
  Were all coded anyway, so we probably wouldn't know what
• 27:48
  we're looking for.
• 27:49
  So if we find something that we don't understand, that's probably
• 27:52
  it.
• 27:52
  Yeah.
• 27:53
  Okay.
• 27:53
  In hindsight, we probably should have ironed those details out
• 27:56
  before splitting up.
• 27:58
  Well, all right. We got to wait for our eyes to adjust here.
• 28:01
  Right. As you sit in this dark
• 28:04
  room, uh, a couple of moments m pass by, and you
• 28:07
  could kind of make out outlines amidst the darkness.
• 28:10
  There's just enough, like, moonlight that comes in through here to
• 28:13
  allow you to kind of see just barely that
• 28:16
  we.
• 28:16
  Could use as light.
• 28:17
  Oh, that's a good question.
• 28:19
  Good thing I didn't take another step. I trip over the
• 28:22
  stool.
• 28:25
  Good thing.
• 28:27
  Okay. Uh, can I go to the door and open
• 28:30
  it?
• 28:31
  Yes, absolutely, you can. Uh,
• 28:33
  it's locked, but obviously it's locked from the inside, and you
• 28:36
  are inside, so you're able to unlock it and then open
• 28:39
  it. Um, and as you do, light starts to come
• 28:42
  inside, and you realize that they have lit
• 28:45
  lanterns along this
• 28:47
  balcony area on each floor. Okay.
• 28:51
  So you peek out, and you can see the courtyard below you,
• 28:54
  and you can see that on the sort of ground level,
• 28:57
  there are a couple of guards that seem to be kind of patrolling along
• 29:00
  there.
• 29:00
  Uh, Guo has an idea
• 29:04
  for later. Perhaps he
• 29:06
  grabs the bedsheets okay.
• 29:09
  All right.
• 29:10
  And puts them in his bag.
• 29:11
  Toga. Toga.
• 29:14
  Guo has acquired bedsheets.
• 29:16
  Can I grab a lantern?
• 29:17
  Yeah, sure.
• 29:19
  Can I also grab a lantern?
• 29:22
  I mean, if you're both your hands can fit on it.
• 29:24
  Sure.
• 29:28
  Can I assess the situation again?
• 29:30
  You're saying we're both grabbing the same land?
• 29:33
  Actually, yeah. Go for it.
• 29:36
  So I rolled an eleven.
• 29:37
  An eleven. All right, so now you can ask
• 29:40
  two of those questions.
• 29:47
  What should we be on the lookout for when we go out of
• 29:49
  this door here?
• 29:51
  Yes. Uh, so you notice that there are a handful
• 29:54
  of guards that seem to have kind of spread out through this
• 29:56
  facility. They're already doing some preliminary searches, and, of
• 29:59
  course, they're the ones that probably lit these lanterns that
• 30:02
  are spread out. Um, as I mentioned before,
• 30:05
  there's, uh, what seems to be a guard on
• 30:08
  the ground level. There's another guard a little ways away from
• 30:11
  him, kind of in the opposite direction you're going. He's inside of
• 30:13
  the training area, which you can kind of see into
• 30:16
  because it's a big open area with there is a rooftop, but
• 30:19
  the area. Itself doesn't have, like, walls that cover it's just held
• 30:22
  up by some columns.
• 30:25
  Um, and then as you look across the
• 30:27
  way, uh, kind of on the back way, far
• 30:30
  corner of the third floor section, you see a
• 30:33
  guard over there. Um, he's looking in the opposite
• 30:36
  direction, kind of towards the training area. So you guys aren't
• 30:39
  super worried about him, but you know that he's there just in case.
• 30:42
  Um, and then you notice that on the second
• 30:44
  floor of this area,
• 30:47
  there's also somebody that seems to just kind of be making rounds.
• 30:50
  He's checking in all the little, uh, apartment rooms that
• 30:53
  are on that floor. You, um, wonder if maybe there's one
• 30:56
  on your floor that you just don't see at the moment, because, like I said, it's
• 30:59
  a big sort of, um,
• 31:01
  semicircle. Yeah, like a big hotel in a sense. So
• 31:03
  he could be anywhere around there, but you assume that
• 31:06
  maybe there's one on your floor, and
• 31:09
  then what's your next question?
• 31:11
  Is there anything in this room
• 31:14
  that will be useful later?
• 31:16
  M. That is a good question.
• 31:19
  Um, obviously Guo just grabbed
• 31:22
  some bedsheets. That could be interesting.
• 31:26
  Well, this is like an apartment. There could be, like, kitchen
• 31:28
  stuff, sure.
• 31:31
  But is there anything in the
• 31:34
  kitchen that might be
• 31:36
  useful?
• 31:37
  Okay.
• 31:39
  There's some pretty traditional stuff. Uh,
• 31:42
  some pans, some
• 31:44
  cooking utensils, which does include knives.
• 31:47
  If you're thinking about getting violent, I.
• 31:50
  Mean, if it's Wang Long here, I'm.
• 31:51
  Trying to,
• 31:54
  um, trying to think of what else might
• 31:57
  be of use.
• 31:58
  Um, for the most part, this apartment.
• 32:01
  Is still reasonably furnished.
• 32:03
  What about
• 32:06
  medical supplies, medicine?
• 32:09
  Um, yeah, you find in the
• 32:12
  sort of makeshift restroom or whatever you want to call
• 32:15
  it from ancient times, the
• 32:17
  proverbial hole in the floor that you do your
• 32:20
  business in, and it runs out to a place that
• 32:23
  disposes of it. Uh, and or
• 32:25
  bucket,
• 32:28
  whichever they kind of lean towards in this setting, uh,
• 32:31
  that they don't talk about because it was a kid show.
• 32:34
  I have to go to the bathroom, but I don't want to walk all the way to
• 32:37
  the hole in the floor. I'll just use this
• 32:40
  bucket.
• 32:40
  The bucket, and then I'll empty it in later. Um,
• 32:43
  but you do find a restroom, and there are what looked to be
• 32:46
  maybe some bandages or something being stored in there in sort
• 32:49
  of a little, uh,
• 32:51
  cabinet or something like that.
• 32:53
  Would those bandages
• 32:56
  help us to take a fatigue back?
• 32:59
  That's what you're looking for?
• 33:03
  Yeah, it's like a med
• 33:06
  kit in Fortnite. If you
• 33:08
  had fatigue that was due to
• 33:11
  injuries, I would be willing
• 33:13
  to do that.
• 33:15
  I take some bandages.
• 33:17
  All right, sounds good. I think for the most part, with
• 33:20
  all of you guys, since combat kind of is something that we do
• 33:23
  sparsely, uh, most of it's from just general.
• 33:26
  Exhaustion, I think, or because people
• 33:28
  can't.
• 33:29
  Climb up some rocks, which would be exhaustion.
• 33:32
  So there's no monster energy drinks in there?
• 33:34
  No. Unfortunately, no. There's no health
• 33:37
  ups? There's no healing potions?
• 33:39
  No green mushrooms?
• 33:40
  There's no green mushrooms. Or red mushrooms.
• 33:43
  Or magic mushrooms. Or magic mushrooms. All
• 33:46
  right.
• 33:47
  Can you find some weed?
• 33:50
  High as a kite.
• 33:52
  Let's get moving, guys.
• 33:56
  We're pressed for time.
• 33:58
  All right, let's, uh, go. But before
• 34:01
  we leave the room, guo leaves a
• 34:04
  rock from one of his pouches.
• 34:08
  Uh, not a special collectible rock, just from his
• 34:11
  other pouch, a plain rock, and leaves it by
• 34:13
  the door.
• 34:14
  Is this a pebble rating?
• 34:16
  What is this a ah.
• 34:19
  It's a marker.
• 34:19
  Okay, then we shut the door behind us
• 34:22
  and, uh, start scuttling down the hallway.
• 34:25
  Sure.
• 34:25
  Glow leaves the door open.
• 34:28
  Okay.
• 34:28
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• 36:23
  a crack.
• 36:23
  Open a crack.
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  Sure. All right. Sounds good. Um, as you guys are running down
• 36:27
  this third floor balcony, sure enough, you can see,
• 36:30
  uh, off in the distance, there is, in fact, a guard on
• 36:33
  your floor. And he stands, uh, right
• 36:36
  in front of the double doors that you can tell open into that
• 36:39
  big center room, which is the command center. Um, and he
• 36:41
  seems like he's just waiting for somebody,
• 36:44
  possibly.
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  Guys, look out. The Wang gang's in the building.
• 36:48
  Wang gang.
• 36:50
  Is there, like, side rooms?
• 36:53
  I mean, there's, like, a ton of apartments that you guys pass
• 36:55
  by as you guys go, if that's what you mean.
• 36:58
  As we go by. Guo is going to
• 37:01
  check and see if any of them are unlocked.
• 37:04
  And, like, the ones that are unlocked,
• 37:07
  he's going to set a rock in front
• 37:10
  of.
• 37:10
  Okay.
• 37:11
  Yeah.
• 37:11
  Um, you find open the door, crack a crack. All right,
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  sounds good. Yes. You find maybe three
• 37:17
  to four different rooms that all are
• 37:19
  unlocked and able to get into. And you
• 37:22
  open the door just a little crack, and then set, uh, a
• 37:25
  stone in front of.
• 37:27
  What exactly are you going to do with those?
• 37:31
  Maybe you'll find out later, and maybe it won't
• 37:34
  come up at all.
• 37:36
  And that's the kind of stuff that really bugs people because
• 37:39
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• 37:42
  What goes on in Quo's mind?
• 37:46
  Uh, how do you guys plan on going
• 37:48
  about getting into the command center with this
• 37:51
  guard there?
• 37:52
  Uh, you said
• 37:55
  he's, like, waiting for someone.
• 37:56
  Is there a bathroom nearby?
• 37:58
  Each of the apartments has either hole or
• 38:01
  bucket that represents the bathroom.
• 38:03
  There one unlocked close
• 38:06
  by.
• 38:07
  Sure.
• 38:07
  By the guard.
• 38:09
  Um, he'd be about 15 to
• 38:12
  20ft away from it.
• 38:14
  Okay.
• 38:15
  And you'd be putting yourself in a little bit of danger, if you would.
• 38:17
  But he's close enough to see where if I
• 38:20
  flooded the bathroom, he'd have to go
• 38:23
  investigate.
• 38:24
  Right. But he would be coming.
• 38:27
  Wait, these toilets have plumbing?
• 38:30
  No.
• 38:30
  Uh, yes. It's called
• 38:33
  number one.
• 38:36
  What?
• 38:39
  There's water in pee.
• 38:41
  Why not deny that? That's true.
• 38:43
  Okay, the bathroom flooding with
• 38:46
  pete.
• 38:49
  He might think that somebody just Pete
• 38:52
  themselves. He'll have to figure out what
• 38:55
  is doing.
• 38:56
  Fire nation.
• 39:00
  I can't stop.
• 39:02
  Well,
• 39:05
  you've definitely got me intrigued. What is your plan
• 39:08
  here?
• 39:09
  Well, I want to make the water or
• 39:12
  pee, whatever,
• 39:16
  um, to come out of the apartment
• 39:18
  door. So this guard feels like
• 39:21
  something is amiss. He has to go check it out.
• 39:24
  Okay.
• 39:25
  You could knock something over so
• 39:28
  I.
• 39:28
  Could sink him into the ground and we can walk
• 39:31
  over him.
• 39:32
  Well, you guys are on like a wood.
• 39:33
  Yeah, I was going to say I.
• 39:35
  Can knock him out.
• 39:36
  All things considered. Mika would probably have some water with her, or
• 39:39
  at the very least, she could run back to over where
• 39:42
  you guys climbed up and get some water from where I said there
• 39:45
  was water. Anyways, um, so you have access to
• 39:48
  water. I'm imagining you sort of
• 39:51
  use your water bending to sort of snake the water over towards the
• 39:54
  room and have it kind of leaking out and then kind
• 39:57
  of manipulate it so that it runs towards the
• 40:00
  guard so he can see where it's coming from coming from one of the
• 40:03
  rooms.
• 40:03
  Okay.
• 40:04
  Um, here's what I want you to do. I want you to roll a
• 40:06
  trick.
• 40:07
  Oh, I'm great at those.
• 40:09
  Awesome. So that's going to be with creativity.
• 40:15
  I see some pretty big numbers over there. Awesome. On a
• 40:18
  ten plus, you get to pick two options from the list.
• 40:21
  So, um, they stumble and you take plus one forward
• 40:24
  to acting against them. They act foolishly, and I tell
• 40:27
  you an additional opportunity they give you. Or
• 40:30
  they overcommit and they're deceived for some time.
• 40:32
  M, I'm going to have them do. They act
• 40:35
  foolishly and
• 40:37
  overcommit.
• 40:40
  Okay, perfect. All right, so as far as the overcommitting
• 40:42
  goes, he is standing there, he's waiting, and then
• 40:45
  all of a sudden, he feels something
• 40:48
  touch his foot. He looks down and he sees that
• 40:51
  there's water that seems to be running up, and it's on his
• 40:54
  foot. And he thinks this is
• 40:57
  strange. And he looks over and
• 41:00
  with his eyes, he's following where the water is coming from. And he sees
• 41:02
  it going into, or rather, it's coming out of one of
• 41:05
  the apartment rooms. Um, his
• 41:08
  immediate thought, uh, process probably
• 41:10
  isn't that there's a flooded pipe necessarily, but it
• 41:13
  is very odd that on the third floor
• 41:16
  of a wooden stone building, there's water
• 41:19
  coming out of one of the rooms. And being that
• 41:22
  he's there to try to find
• 41:25
  whatever about the shenanigans.
• 41:28
  Yeah, exactly. The shenanigans going on. He goes to investigate it.
• 41:31
  He approaches one of the rooms. You guys are all maybe crouched
• 41:34
  into one of the, uh, open apartment rooms that
• 41:36
  Guo had discovered were unlocked,
• 41:39
  uh, that are nearby. And you watch as he opens up the
• 41:42
  door to this room. Uh, he notices that it's locked.
• 41:45
  And so he shakes it a little bit and he goes, oh,
• 41:48
  and he's not giving up, so he decides to kick it in.
• 41:51
  So it makes a loud crash as he does,
• 41:54
  uh, a little bit of noise. But the door flings open. You
• 41:57
  hear another guard shout over, what's going on over
• 41:59
  there? And he looks out and he shouts back,
• 42:03
  no worries, I'm just investigating something. And the
• 42:05
  door was locked. And you hear the guards shout
• 42:08
  back, oh, okay, no worries. Um, so
• 42:11
  he's obviously put them off of
• 42:14
  maybe noticing some noise. They might think, oh, it's just that
• 42:17
  guy that's dealing with that room with the locked
• 42:20
  doors, kicking down doors over there.
• 42:22
  Um, so there is a potential opportunity that if you guys were to
• 42:25
  make some noise maybe at least once, um, you'd
• 42:28
  be able to get away with it. Thanks to that, um, he goes
• 42:31
  into this room and he kind of just disappears into the darkness as
• 42:34
  he's investigating this mysterious water
• 42:36
  bill's wanting to shoot whoa, what?
• 42:39
  No. With his rock gun.
• 42:42
  Yeah. Donk. Donk. The old
• 42:44
  donk. All right, so this
• 42:47
  guy is not guarding the main door anymore.
• 42:50
  You guys have an opportunity.
• 42:52
  Run.
• 42:52
  Run to the main door.
• 42:55
  Tiptoe.
• 42:56
  Oh, um, as you guys make your
• 42:59
  way over to the door, you look down over the balcony area
• 43:02
  and you can see, um, Mac took Mika's, M
• 43:06
  dad and, uh,
• 43:08
  Mayu Yinyu are on the second
• 43:11
  floor, and they peek out from
• 43:14
  opposite side from you guys, and they peek out
• 43:16
  from one of the apartment rooms. They see you guys, they give you guys kind of
• 43:19
  like a thumbs up. Um, and they start to sort of make their
• 43:22
  way from room to room, uh, kind of trying to make their way to
• 43:25
  the stairwell, which is at the end of the balcony area so
• 43:28
  that they can get onto the third floor and hopefully meet you where you're
• 43:31
  at. Um, so they're making their way across
• 43:34
  towards you. Uh, they're a little bit further behind than you guys
• 43:36
  are, but whatever the case, you guys reach the main doors
• 43:39
  of this command center and you push them
• 43:42
  open, and inside is very
• 43:45
  similar to what you saw back at the,
• 43:48
  um, Rescue Team
• 43:51
  Squadron Base that you were just at. Right? It's got a big table in
• 43:54
  the middle of the room. There's a variety of maps and
• 43:56
  plans that are sitting on top of this table. Uh,
• 43:59
  there's like, the little miniatures kind of like you saw before.
• 44:02
  But this time they're not placed out like
• 44:05
  this base. Instead, they're
• 44:08
  placed out, like, maybe some sort of a battle
• 44:10
  area or, um, a cityscape or
• 44:13
  something along those lines, whatever the case,
• 44:15
  um, there's like a large globe that
• 44:18
  depicts the different nations and where they sit on the
• 44:21
  world. There's, um, all sorts of scrolls and maps and all
• 44:24
  sorts of other things. Um, there's a big
• 44:29
  desk, um, like fancy desk with some drawers and
• 44:32
  such in it where you wonder if some commander figure, probably the
• 44:34
  general that you met back there might sit at, um, on the
• 44:37
  regular. That's what you see in this room.
• 44:40
  It's still fairly dark. Um,
• 44:43
  Bill, I think you said you grabbed one of those
• 44:46
  lanterns that were sitting up there. So you do have that with you?
• 44:49
  Mhm. And so no one's in here?
• 44:51
  No one's in here.
• 44:52
  There's just all those papers.
• 44:53
  Right.
• 44:54
  Take them and run.
• 44:56
  We got to find the Marimba.
• 44:59
  That's what I said.
• 45:02
  I got one marimba.
• 45:04
  Quo shoves the Marimba out of the way and looks
• 45:07
  for Colimba behind.
• 45:11
  All right.
• 45:11
  And we shut the door behind us. Yes.
• 45:13
  Okay, perfect. Oh, yeah.
• 45:16
  Go ahead.
• 45:16
  Can we jam the door so no one can walk in with
• 45:19
  what, like, a rock?
• 45:21
  Go for it.
• 45:24
  Uh, bills staff.
• 45:30
  Uh, there's definitely some furniture in here. Obviously, there's that
• 45:33
  large table that I just mentioned. If you wanted to try to
• 45:36
  maybe slide that. Okay.
• 45:37
  Uses big men muscles
• 45:40
  to push it in front of the door so they can't come
• 45:43
  in.
• 45:44
  Oh, wow.
• 45:44
  This is heavy. I think Air Nomads made this or
• 45:47
  something.
• 45:48
  It is fairly heavy table. Like I said, it's a large
• 45:50
  table. I would say that I'm going to have you guys, uh,
• 45:53
  whoever wants to be the person that does this, do a push
• 45:56
  your luck. But I'm going to give you the proverbial
• 45:58
  advantage, um, because of the situation that
• 46:01
  you've created, where that extra opportunity
• 46:04
  of you guys making a little bit of noise might not be noticed by the
• 46:07
  other guards because of the whole situation.
• 46:10
  What is push your luck rolled with creativity.
• 46:12
  Uh, it is with passion.
• 46:15
  I'll help him move it.
• 46:16
  Okay, I got an eleven.
• 46:18
  All right.
• 46:18
  We didn't need it.
• 46:19
  Well, I was going to say, um, all right, so with an
• 46:22
  eleven, you succeed. Um, bottom
• 46:24
  line, uh, all four of you get around this table. You
• 46:27
  each grab a section, lift up.
• 46:29
  Um, some of you may be lifting a little bit higher
• 46:32
  than others, but whatever the case, you make very little to
• 46:35
  no noise as you gently lift this
• 46:38
  table up. Set it in front of the double doors that lead
• 46:41
  into this room, and they are the only doors that lead into this room.
• 46:44
  And set this table down so that it blocks the doors from
• 46:47
  being opened.
• 46:50
  Guo's a little windy.
• 46:52
  I imagine Guo was like he was holding on
• 46:55
  to it, but, like, his legs were off the ground.
• 46:58
  He was being picked up with it. Um, so now you guys
• 47:01
  are at a little bit of a dilemma that you'd kind of mentioned and alluded to
• 47:03
  before. You have a whole room full of various
• 47:06
  papers and other things. Where is
• 47:09
  the Columbia and where are these alleged important plans
• 47:12
  that Mayuyinyu is trying
• 47:15
  to find?
• 47:18
  Uh, I do that too.
• 47:19
  Let's get through this mess. All right, I'll roll
• 47:22
  up thrice as well.
• 47:41
  What is your one question that you would like to
• 47:44
  ask?
• 47:45
  What your things to play columbia music.
• 47:53
  Theory? Is that
• 47:56
  your question?
• 47:57
  That's close question.
• 47:59
  What could I play columba music
• 48:02
  with? And you think to yourself, well, I
• 48:05
  bet I
• 48:12
  kind of are are. What I will say is, like,
• 48:15
  you're actively searching for the Columbus specifically. And
• 48:18
  as you're kind of rummaging through some of these
• 48:21
  desks and drawers and such like that, um, you
• 48:24
  actually see it just sitting there on a
• 48:26
  chair in a corner of the room.
• 48:29
  Is it with the papers?
• 48:31
  Uh, there's some papers underneath it, but it's just kind of
• 48:34
  sitting there by itself.
• 48:36
  Okay, I go over and grab it.
• 48:38
  Okay. And the papers underneath it and whatnot
• 48:41
  don't seem like they're from Mr. Okran. So you
• 48:43
  wonder probably the Columbia is just the only
• 48:46
  thing.
• 48:47
  All right, be careful not to drop the Columbia. Bring it
• 48:50
  over. I found it, guys.
• 48:52
  And it's a fairly large Columbia. It almost seems
• 48:55
  a little, like, strangely large. Like, it doesn't need to be this
• 48:58
  big. Um, the little section with I think they're the
• 49:01
  keys, I think is what they call them or whatever they call them.
• 49:04
  Um, it's normal sized, but, like,
• 49:07
  kind of the back section where you have the hole,
• 49:10
  and the sound sort of echoes through and makes the
• 49:12
  sound, um, seems abnormally or unnecessarily
• 49:15
  large. So just something that you take notice
• 49:18
  of.
• 49:19
  Break it open.
• 49:22
  Man.
• 49:23
  Not right now.
• 49:24
  Know what the acoustics are like on this bad
• 49:27
  boy.
• 49:28
  Play it.
• 49:30
  I can't right now. The wang
• 49:32
  gang's right outside.
• 49:34
  Stealth mission, man.
• 49:35
  Okay. Um, why are those
• 49:38
  papers?
• 49:39
  All right. Oh, yes, and then, Brock, you had two questions that
• 49:42
  you get to ask me. Thinks that you got a
• 49:45
  ten. Yeah. Do you need
• 49:48
  the question samples? Oh, you got them. Okay,
• 49:50
  perfect.
• 49:51
  These are the only questions I can ask.
• 49:53
  Uh, if there's something that you want to kind of, like, alter that's
• 49:56
  similar, but not quite one of these, uh.
• 49:58
  Feel free to ask, what here can I use to foil the
• 50:01
  fire nation?
• 50:05
  What here can we use to assure victory?
• 50:07
  Well, you see a big old super soaker in
• 50:10
  the corner.
• 50:13
  Yeah.
• 50:13
  Uh, excellent.
• 50:15
  Like I said, feel free to kind of manipulate the
• 50:18
  questions.
• 50:19
  How can we find
• 50:22
  the other instructions?
• 50:25
  The letter.
• 50:29
  I thought it came with a letter.
• 50:30
  Right. The Columbia, he, uh, said he had a
• 50:33
  letter that he got from Mr. Okeram.
• 50:35
  Right, so why didn't we read that
• 50:38
  before this whole
• 50:40
  mission?
• 50:41
  He might not have had it on him. I don't know.
• 50:44
  We were in the whole city.
• 50:45
  I'm sure the letter was probably in.
• 50:47
  This office, somewhere in here. Probably.
• 50:49
  Can I ask if the letter is in this office, or is it in my
• 50:52
  union used possession?
• 50:54
  Uh, I mean, it's not really a question that's
• 50:57
  relevant to the current plot, per se, or, like, the
• 51:00
  current situation, but.
• 51:04
  What here can we use to
• 51:08
  find the next clue
• 51:11
  for Mr. Ogron?
• 51:12
  Yes, um, as far as you
• 51:15
  know, the Kalimba is probably
• 51:19
  the only thing that you have, but there's
• 51:21
  looking at it and seeing kind of how it looks a little
• 51:24
  OD or a little off, you wonder if maybe there's a little bit more to
• 51:27
  it.
• 51:28
  What can I use to disassemble
• 51:31
  the Kalimba?
• 51:31
  I don't need to disassemble it. We just play
• 51:34
  the song. What song? The one from the music
• 51:37
  box. It's Gohan's old, uh, surface
• 51:40
  ticket sale.
• 51:42
  Ticket sale song. They got more people to buy more tickets.
• 51:44
  Yeah, that's what the music box played. If he plays, they'll probably open
• 51:47
  it.
• 51:48
  I'll hold on to my next question.
• 51:50
  We're not going to play it right now.
• 51:52
  There's people outside.
• 51:56
  Can't do this. You can't do that. Figure
• 51:59
  it out.
• 52:01
  Do you guys find those plans yet?
• 52:02
  We're supposed to have the plans, the codes.
• 52:05
  Where can we find what here can we use to
• 52:08
  get to the plans?
• 52:09
  Okay, is there, like, an astro? Mech? They might be
• 52:12
  inside.
• 52:13
  Oh, yeah, an astromech. Yeah, there's just, like, a
• 52:16
  robot in here.
• 52:18
  Well, you look around, and you see, like, a variety of
• 52:21
  various scrolls and other
• 52:24
  documents and so on and so forth. It's really
• 52:27
  hard to tell which ones are
• 52:29
  plans and which ones could just be
• 52:32
  who knows what right.
• 52:33
  The cafeteria schedule exactly.
• 52:36
  Or, like, take all of it. But you
• 52:39
  also wonder what else in here could be of use. There might
• 52:42
  be lists in here that talk about who was staying
• 52:45
  or living inside of the facility. And obviously, if they have
• 52:48
  those names, that could be a danger to some of the people that
• 52:51
  are involved with, uh, or secretly
• 52:54
  involved with the organization.
• 52:56
  And is there per chance in this
• 52:59
  room, like, one of those long tubes
• 53:02
  that you put, like, papers in? Just like, a
• 53:05
  really long tube? Sure.
• 53:06
  Yeah. There's probably a handful of those on.
• 53:08
  Okay. I'm going to grab a really long one, and
• 53:10
  I'm going to just, uh,
• 53:15
  start rolling up papers and just stuffing
• 53:18
  it, um, inside the tube. Okay.
• 53:20
  All right.
• 53:20
  Everything in this room,
• 53:23
  you start filling a tube. Yeah.
• 53:24
  All right. Sounds good.
• 53:26
  Do you think if we all were to fill up a tube, we
• 53:29
  could get all the papers in here?
• 53:31
  There are quite a few papers in here. I don't think it would
• 53:34
  be I'm.
• 53:34
  Taking all the plans on the table.
• 53:36
  Okay. There's no
• 53:39
  windows in this room. No. This was supposed to be, like, kind of the
• 53:41
  super secure command center. Um,
• 53:44
  Brock, real quick, just to kind of, like, sort of give
• 53:47
  you a little bit something to work on, um, as you look around
• 53:50
  and you're thinking about what it is that the group was talking about, the
• 53:53
  leaders were talking about, the key thing was keeping the
• 53:56
  plans out of the hands of the Fire Nation.
• 53:59
  Uh, however that goal
• 54:02
  might be achieved. Uh, if you were to try
• 54:05
  to look through all of these papers and plans and stuff, you
• 54:08
  would obviously need somebody with an eye for who knows what
• 54:11
  that is. And that would probably require either
• 54:14
  Mactuck, hopefully, or, um,
• 54:16
  definitely Mayu Yinyu would be able to tell these. But it's
• 54:19
  really a question of do you have the time to wait
• 54:23
  and hope that they are able to get there? Because if something were to
• 54:25
  happen, um, and they got found out
• 54:28
  and you had to make an expeditious retreat,
• 54:31
  uh, you might not have time. And so you wonder if maybe
• 54:34
  there's another option as far as keeping these plans
• 54:37
  out of the hands of the Fire Nation in
• 54:40
  theory.
• 54:41
  I saw my second question.
• 54:42
  Right. Uh, I think
• 54:45
  that was your kind of second question.
• 54:47
  Uh, could I use something here
• 54:50
  to.
• 54:51
  Sort of I guess there's a lot of
• 54:54
  paper.
• 54:54
  Are we sort of sure where the general area of the
• 54:57
  plans are, or.
• 54:57
  Is it just sort of paper scattered everywhere?
• 55:00
  Well, not so much scattered. It's just that
• 55:03
  there's some papers that look like they might be important that are on the
• 55:06
  table, but there's also all the scrolls and other stuff that are
• 55:09
  all kind of filed either in cabinets or
• 55:12
  kind um of like uh those little square
• 55:15
  shelves that they would have at like a
• 55:17
  mailbox kind of a thing. Like a community mailbox
• 55:20
  thing. There's a bunch of scrolls that are filed into those.
• 55:23
  Um, it's just a lot of possible information and you're not
• 55:26
  sure what's,
• 55:27
  what's.
• 55:30
  This room made out of.
• 55:31
  What's up with this? It's probably a wooden room for the most part
• 55:34
  or at least it has like wooden exterior.
• 55:37
  Is there stone like ceilings and floors and
• 55:40
  such?
• 55:40
  Yeah. So the basic skeleton
• 55:43
  of this building is mostly stone and then
• 55:46
  the wood is used as sort of an accent or
• 55:49
  things along those lines.
• 55:50
  I got an idea.
• 55:55
  I'm going to grab the ground okay.
• 55:58
  And just sort of fling it up. Kind of like
• 56:01
  a mall has those
• 56:04
  sliding garage door type gates.
• 56:07
  M like a cartoon. Just
• 56:09
  grab the floor and
• 56:12
  barricade all the papers
• 56:15
  behind said now constructed
• 56:18
  wall.
• 56:19
  Okay.
• 56:19
  If that makes any sense.
• 56:20
  So you're basically creating walls that would put
• 56:23
  a separator between you and the various
• 56:26
  papers and since you've moved the
• 56:28
  table over to the door I guess that would allow
• 56:31
  for a little bit more access to do this
• 56:35
  since it's not in the middle of the floor kind of blocking you
• 56:38
  putting this wall up.
• 56:40
  Your look of confusion is very
• 56:43
  brock.
• 56:44
  What are you doing?
• 56:44
  Yeah, we're watching as you're moving the floor
• 56:47
  up.
• 56:48
  Yeah, don't worry, I rolled twelve. Roll rolled.
• 56:51
  Yeah.
• 56:51
  No we're just brock, what are you doing?
• 56:53
  Don't worry.
• 56:54
  No we're going to make sure that.
• 56:56
  What are you doing?
• 56:57
  I'm making sure they can't get to these papers
• 57:00
  while we try and go get someone who can maybe tell us what
• 57:03
  we're looking for.
• 57:06
  I'm also very impulsive as you should know. So I don't
• 57:08
  really tell you all my plans.
• 57:10
  Well there's too many papers for us to take with.
• 57:13
  We don't want the Fire Nation to have them.
• 57:15
  Got to find.
• 57:17
  So we should burn them.
• 57:19
  But what if we burn the plans we need to find? We
• 57:22
  don't know if what Bill has is what we need.
• 57:27
  So I'm thinking we, I'm assuming the.
• 57:29
  People who made the plans are still alive but I
• 57:32
  guess that's an assumption.
• 57:34
  I'm thinking if we can find
• 57:36
  Mayu and
• 57:44
  MIGA's dad they might know. But for now
• 57:47
  at least the Fire Nation can't
• 57:50
  take down this mean they.
• 57:53
  Probably can take it down,
• 57:55
  not fire.
• 57:56
  Uh, Guillot wants to listen to
• 57:59
  see if well did that make any
• 58:01
  noise?
• 58:02
  Yeah, probably would have made
• 58:07
  ah, I was going to let you guys discuss before
• 58:10
  I drop it but yeah. So as you bring up these
• 58:12
  walls there's definitely a bit of a slamming noise that kind of
• 58:15
  emanates. Um and eventually
• 58:18
  you hear the double doors. Somebody outside the double doors
• 58:21
  tries to open them and he says you hear the voice
• 58:24
  say, what's going on in there?
• 58:27
  Commander, is that you?
• 58:33
  Yes.
• 58:36
  Do a trick.
• 58:37
  What did I roll?
• 58:38
  That one. That's creativity.
• 58:42
  Uh, I'm heading to the
• 58:44
  door nine.
• 58:46
  Okay.
• 58:46
  With my bow, stat.
• 58:47
  Nine. All right, so you get to pick one. Um,
• 58:51
  I'm guessing you're probably either going to take act
• 58:53
  foolishly and get an additional opportunity, or
• 58:56
  they overcommit and they're deceived for some time.
• 59:02
  Act foolishly.
• 59:04
  Okay.
• 59:05
  Does that mean, like, I can if he tries to
• 59:08
  ask a follow up question, does that mean I get another chance to
• 59:10
  roll?
• 59:11
  No, it would mean that he does
• 59:14
  something that he goofs up in some
• 59:17
  way, shape, or form and gives you some sort of opportunity
• 59:19
  to do something to take advantage
• 59:22
  of the situation. So
• 59:25
  do you want that one?
• 59:27
  Yeah, I think we could do that.
• 59:28
  Okay. So what happens is he says,
• 59:31
  who is that? Uh, I don't recognize your voice.
• 59:34
  And the slamming against the door gets more and
• 59:37
  more violent, and then eventually there's a crash
• 59:40
  as he sort of, like, punches through the
• 59:42
  door. And then all of a sudden, he goes,
• 59:45
  wait a minute. Oh, crap.
• 59:48
  And his door or his arm that he just
• 59:51
  punched through the wall or the doors with is now kind of
• 59:54
  stuck in the fragments of
• 59:57
  the hole.
• 1:00:00
  And he's kind of, like, just reaching around. He's trying to pull it out
• 1:00:03
  for a second, and then he thinks, like, oh, maybe I can reach for
• 1:00:06
  the door handle. But obviously he wasn't expecting this to happen to
• 1:00:09
  his arm. Uh, and so his arm is just a little too
• 1:00:12
  far away from the door handle to be able to unlock and
• 1:00:15
  open it. Um, so he just goes back to just
• 1:00:18
  struggling, trying to wiggle his way out or whatever the case.
• 1:00:23
  I'm going to look back at I'm going to go, should I deal with
• 1:00:25
  this?
• 1:00:26
  Bill just I don't want to say break
• 1:00:29
  his arm.
• 1:00:29
  Nah, I got this. And Bill's just going to walk up. So he punched
• 1:00:32
  through one of the double doors right. And stuck in it. So Bill's just going
• 1:00:35
  to open up the other one and just
• 1:00:38
  whack him in the back of his head.
• 1:00:40
  Okay.
• 1:00:40
  Because he's stuck. So he's just going to share
• 1:00:43
  avoid him. Yeah.
• 1:00:44
  No, that's fair. Um, I will have you
• 1:00:47
  do a
• 1:00:50
  probably a move the table.
• 1:00:52
  I'm just stepping on it and then
• 1:00:55
  stepping over it.
• 1:00:56
  Uh, he punched down the door?
• 1:00:58
  No, he just punched through one of them.
• 1:00:59
  But, uh, the table is right there. I just walked over it.
• 1:01:02
  How did we leave?
• 1:01:03
  I assumed well, because the door would.
• 1:01:04
  Have opened the door oh, they were open in.
• 1:01:07
  Right.
• 1:01:08
  Because otherwise, what would be the point.
• 1:01:09
  Of putting the that's fair. Well, in
• 1:01:12
  that case, yeah, sure. Could I just lean
• 1:01:15
  and stand right next to his hole and
• 1:01:18
  just.
• 1:01:20
  Press.
• 1:01:20
  The stick through where you
• 1:01:23
  his arm stuck. I can't do. That?
• 1:01:25
  I don't know.
• 1:01:26
  Um, no. I'm m going to have to grab one end of the
• 1:01:29
  table, and I'm just going to move it to the side and then open the
• 1:01:31
  door and do what I was planning.
• 1:01:33
  Okay. Yeah. Because he's stuck. Uh, I'll do the same
• 1:01:36
  advantage thing, which I forgot to mention this. So it's basically you
• 1:01:39
  can reroll your lowest dice kind of a homebrew
• 1:01:42
  mechanic that we've created, and we're doing a push your luck.
• 1:01:44
  So it's going to be passion pushing my luck.
• 1:01:47
  Okay.
• 1:01:51
  Or rely on your skills and training. Either one.
• 1:01:53
  Well, push your luck eleven.
• 1:01:56
  Okay.
• 1:01:57
  Skills and trainings more.
• 1:01:59
  Yeah. Either way, uh, that's a full success. So you
• 1:02:02
  quickly pop the door open. He looks at you very confused,
• 1:02:07
  and immediately he is knocked out.
• 1:02:09
  Uh, he kind of crumples a little bit to the floor,
• 1:02:12
  but only so much because his arm is still stuck in the
• 1:02:15
  door. Uh, so he's kind of unconscious, in a very
• 1:02:18
  uncomfortable looking position. Uh, it doesn't seem
• 1:02:21
  to have sparked too much notice again,
• 1:02:23
  uh, from anybody else. Since you guys didn't make any noise from the
• 1:02:26
  table, uh, or anything else up until this point,
• 1:02:29
  anybody in the surrounding area just assumes that he's
• 1:02:31
  still breaking down doors.
• 1:02:33
  Okay. After I do that, can I head down that
• 1:02:36
  hallway and turn the corner and see if I
• 1:02:39
  see, uh, Mayu and
• 1:02:41
  Mctuck?
• 1:02:42
  Uh, yeah, absolutely. In fact
• 1:02:45
  mactuck got it.
• 1:02:48
  Actually, as you start to kind of, like,
• 1:02:51
  turn to start going down the hallway, you can see them. They
• 1:02:53
  just came up the top of the stairs, and
• 1:02:56
  they seem to be running towards you.
• 1:02:58
  Okay. I'm going to wave them over.
• 1:02:59
  Okay.
• 1:03:00
  I guess we're going to run back into the room.
• 1:03:02
  All right.
• 1:03:02
  While he's doing that, can I pull the guard out of
• 1:03:05
  the door and steal his uniform?
• 1:03:08
  Sure. Absolutely.
• 1:03:09
  Push my luck.
• 1:03:10
  Uh, no, I mean, he's not doing anything to stop.
• 1:03:15
  I'll drag him off, like, to another one of those apartment.
• 1:03:19
  Okay.
• 1:03:19
  And I'll steal the clothes in there, and then I'll lock him in
• 1:03:22
  the room.
• 1:03:23
  Mactuck uh, and Mayu, they
• 1:03:26
  run by the corner, and they're about to get into that
• 1:03:29
  room, and they see you just dragging an unconscious
• 1:03:32
  Fire Nation soldier into one of the dark apartment rooms
• 1:03:35
  and just disappear for a little while. And they're about to, like
• 1:03:38
  they're not sure if they should go after you, but then they look into the command
• 1:03:41
  center, and they see the other two, uh, waiting for him in there.
• 1:03:44
  And they're like, uh, okay, he's got it covered.
• 1:03:49
  You shut the door, you lean out.
• 1:03:51
  And go, don't worry about it. That is
• 1:03:54
  so creepy. Awesome. So
• 1:03:57
  they step inside, they see you guys in there, they see this
• 1:04:00
  wall that wasn't there when they originally used
• 1:04:03
  the space. Uh, they look very confused, and Mayhew says,
• 1:04:06
  Whoa. Uh, what do you guys got going
• 1:04:09
  on in here. Did you guys find the plans
• 1:04:11
  and the Kalimba?
• 1:04:13
  Got the kalimba. We weren't sure where the plans
• 1:04:15
  were. We just started grabbing everything, but there was too
• 1:04:18
  much. So Brock built this wall
• 1:04:22
  to protect him until you got here.
• 1:04:24
  Oh, um, interesting strategy.
• 1:04:27
  But hey, you know what? Uh, that works. Um,
• 1:04:30
  so, uh, do we move the wall?
• 1:04:33
  Uh.
• 1:04:35
  Are the plans behind this wall?
• 1:04:37
  Oh, yeah. There's a handful of important documents I can grab
• 1:04:40
  real quick.
• 1:04:41
  Were they on the table?
• 1:04:42
  Oh, yeah, there's a couple on the table.
• 1:04:43
  Okay.
• 1:04:44
  And then there was a couple of lists that were kind of important
• 1:04:47
  of some important names of people that we work with. I was just going
• 1:04:50
  to grab those real quick.
• 1:04:51
  Okay.
• 1:04:52
  And they're behind the wall?
• 1:04:55
  Some of them are, yeah, I got some in this old tube.
• 1:04:58
  Oh, awesome. Okay, perfect.
• 1:04:59
  I can try to help and just
• 1:05:02
  point the general area, and I can take those
• 1:05:04
  blocks out.
• 1:05:06
  All right. Uh, this one and
• 1:05:09
  this one. And it's one
• 1:05:11
  of these ones right here. I don't know. Can you
• 1:05:14
  take out three maybe three blocks?
• 1:05:18
  Yeah. I'm not as good of a bender as
• 1:05:20
  Brock, but I can move these.
• 1:05:23
  Sure, yeah.
• 1:05:25
  Takes out the blocks.
• 1:05:26
  Sure.
• 1:05:26
  You pop out just some little holes in the rock so that
• 1:05:29
  he can reach in and grab them. Um, meager? Are you doing anything
• 1:05:32
  during no, no.
• 1:05:34
  Okay.
• 1:05:34
  Just quietly, like, helping in whatever way you
• 1:05:37
  no, just standing there. Yep. Sounds
• 1:05:40
  good. Awesome. So he pulls a
• 1:05:43
  couple of documents out. He also grabs one of those tubes like
• 1:05:46
  Bill has, and he just stuffs them inside. And he says, well, uh,
• 1:05:49
  all things considered, I think we got just about everything.
• 1:05:51
  Uh, man, almost be
• 1:05:54
  tempted to just burn the rest.
• 1:05:56
  That's what I said.
• 1:05:58
  Do you think that'd be too noticeable?
• 1:06:01
  It's a fire nation. They probably just sneezed.
• 1:06:04
  Yeah, right.
• 1:06:06
  They might just blame that guard that got knocked
• 1:06:09
  out, amped his pants.
• 1:06:12
  Yeah, there's a giant puddle in there.
• 1:06:14
  Yeah. Wow, that's embarrassing. You guys really
• 1:06:17
  put the scare in him. I'm glad you guys knocked him out without him making too much
• 1:06:19
  noise. Hopefully they didn't notice.
• 1:06:22
  Okay.
• 1:06:23
  I don't think so.
• 1:06:24
  Awesome. Anybody got any?
• 1:06:26
  I got this. It's my lantern.
• 1:06:29
  Yeah, I think that'll work. I mean, there's so much paper in here.
• 1:06:34
  Yeah. All right, so whatever the
• 1:06:37
  case, once we start this, we got to get going, because they're going to notice
• 1:06:40
  pretty fast when a, uh, whole bunch of fire starts kicking
• 1:06:42
  in.
• 1:06:43
  Okay, well, how about you start it and we'll make a break
• 1:06:46
  for it first?
• 1:06:47
  All right, that sounds reasonable.
• 1:06:49
  Okay. And with that, Bill just starts running away.
• 1:06:51
  All right.
• 1:06:52
  I'm stepping out of the apartment. Like, what's the
• 1:06:54
  plan? Uh, I'm wearing the arm,
• 1:06:57
  and I was like, what's the like, just streak
• 1:07:00
  across my face.
• 1:07:01
  I am running.
• 1:07:02
  All right. As you guys run out you hear a guard
• 1:07:05
  shout, hey, what's going on over there? And it's the
• 1:07:08
  guy from across the way. Um, and he's looking
• 1:07:10
  over at you and he's kind of pointing at you guys. He looks
• 1:07:13
  over at Brock and he says, who are they?
• 1:07:16
  Stop them. I got them. Don't worry about
• 1:07:19
  it. I got them myself.
• 1:07:24
  I'll take care of it.
• 1:07:27
  I got a handy dandy stone
• 1:07:29
  clipboard.
• 1:07:31
  I got this clipboard. You should not question
• 1:07:34
  me. So
• 1:07:36
  for like the twelveTH time, do another
• 1:07:39
  trick.
• 1:07:40
  Do another trick.
• 1:07:41
  Uh, as you emphasize, I'll get them myself. I
• 1:07:44
  think that's the key here.
• 1:07:45
  What do I roll this with?
• 1:07:46
  M that's creativity.
• 1:07:47
  Okay, seven.
• 1:07:50
  Okay, so you get to pick one. They stumble
• 1:07:53
  plus one four to acting against them. They act foolishly, you get an additional
• 1:07:55
  opportunity or they overcommit and they're deceived for some time.
• 1:07:58
  I think they're deceived for some time.
• 1:07:59
  Okay, sounds good. He says, yeah, you get them, you get
• 1:08:02
  them real good. Oh look, they're going that way, they're going that
• 1:08:05
  way. I got them and I just run. You run
• 1:08:08
  after awesome. So obviously this guy believes
• 1:08:11
  uh, that you can catch them and so on and so
• 1:08:14
  forth. But you wonder if maybe his shouting might have alerted
• 1:08:16
  some of the others around the area to the fact that something
• 1:08:19
  is going on. You're not sure, but whatever the case, you're focusing
• 1:08:22
  on chasing these rogue
• 1:08:25
  individuals that are running past you.
• 1:08:28
  Um, as you do that, uh, you
• 1:08:31
  start to see some bright light start to emanate from the
• 1:08:34
  command center as you know that your two
• 1:08:37
  adult coworkers in this mission
• 1:08:39
  have probably started the fire. And sure
• 1:08:42
  enough, just before you disappear into one of the
• 1:08:44
  apartment rooms that you guys came from, you look back and
• 1:08:47
  you see Maya Yinyu and, uh, Mactuck
• 1:08:51
  sneak out of the room and start heading back over to
• 1:08:53
  the east side of the building,
• 1:08:56
  where they kind of came from to kind of again split up
• 1:08:59
  the focus. Um,
• 1:09:02
  which is really great for them because obviously the focus is on you guys right
• 1:09:05
  now. As you chase the children
• 1:09:08
  into the apartment room, um, you guys are all inside the dark
• 1:09:11
  apartment room where you guys kind of started from. What are you doing?
• 1:09:14
  Going to the window and climbing down as fast as I can.
• 1:09:16
  Sounds good. One by one, each of you runs to the window and you start
• 1:09:19
  climbing down onto the ground floor. Um,
• 1:09:23
  Brock, just as you make it to the bottom wearing this
• 1:09:26
  armor and so on and so forth um, you guys have
• 1:09:29
  reached the bottom. You're about to decide where to go. And sure
• 1:09:32
  enough, coming from around the building you see
• 1:09:35
  Wang Long himself followed
• 1:09:38
  by a couple of soldiers. They're definitely a ways off from you
• 1:09:41
  but you all look and you see him. So just something,
• 1:09:44
  um, Wang Long looks over towards you. He squints
• 1:09:47
  his eyes and he sees you, Brock, and
• 1:09:50
  something in him, you can see something in his eyes. He
• 1:09:52
  recognizes you even though you're wearing the
• 1:09:55
  armor. He's seen that face before. And he squints
• 1:09:58
  in a glare of hatred and
• 1:10:01
  distaste. Remembering your previous
• 1:10:03
  encounter, Bill, you look back as
• 1:10:06
  well. Um, he doesn't notice you. He's already focused on
• 1:10:08
  Brock. But you remember and you have
• 1:10:11
  memories of this man and some of
• 1:10:14
  the experiences, both on the boat and
• 1:10:17
  even before the boat, that you remember him being involved
• 1:10:20
  with. Um, they all come flooding back into your
• 1:10:22
  mind as you start to race away around the corner
• 1:10:25
  of the building, uh, with your friends.
• 1:10:29
  And being that you guys
• 1:10:31
  are the kids that you are versus some armored
• 1:10:34
  adults that probably aren't quite fast enough by any means,
• 1:10:37
  you guys are able to escape into the darkness and eventually meet back
• 1:10:40
  up with Mayu, Yinyu, and Maktuk as you all, as a
• 1:10:43
  group, head back towards
• 1:10:46
  the slide that'll take you back to
• 1:10:49
  the rescue. Team squadron. But the
• 1:10:51
  remembrance of that man and his
• 1:10:54
  influence on your past know,
• 1:10:57
  resides within your heads.
• 1:10:58
  Nice and go.
• 1:11:01
  Beat him up, man.
• 1:11:03
  Wang sure brought plenty of protection.
• 1:11:07
  Glad we were able to get out of it.
• 1:11:10
  Glad we were able to pull out.
• 1:11:14
  How many is that? Is that five?
• 1:11:15
  I think that's three or four.
• 1:11:17
  So we got, like, six more to go.
• 1:11:19
  Oh, jeez.
• 1:11:19
  As we come to the end of the episode, um, you
• 1:11:22
  guys arrive back at the Rescue
• 1:11:25
  Team Squadron base. Short of
• 1:11:27
  breath, partially from running all this
• 1:11:30
  way and also from the big slide, exciting slide that you got to
• 1:11:33
  take for a second time. Uh, you arrive back,
• 1:11:36
  you're awarded with some medals of your
• 1:11:39
  bravery. You all become
• 1:11:41
  sort of, uh, honorary members of the Rescue Team
• 1:11:44
  Squadron, although you're not really assigned to any
• 1:11:47
  factions or anything like that, because, of course, you kind of have your
• 1:11:50
  own mission that's going on. And I'm sure you relay that
• 1:11:52
  to Mayu, Yinyu and probably anybody else that
• 1:11:55
  asks. Uh, that we're kind of trying to maintain the memory of
• 1:11:58
  our past friend and maintain the tea shop that he created.
• 1:12:01
  And they're very understanding about that. Obviously, what they're fighting for
• 1:12:04
  is to maintain the rights and the society that they've
• 1:12:07
  created here in the Earth Kingdom from the Fire Nation
• 1:12:09
  invaders. And obviously, maintaining
• 1:12:12
  Earth Kingdom businesses is a key part in all of
• 1:12:15
  that. Um, so they're very understanding. Um,
• 1:12:18
  but what you're left with before we end this
• 1:12:21
  season is you have the Kalimba,
• 1:12:24
  the next clue that's on your list that Mr. Okaran
• 1:12:27
  has left you, and you're not 100% sure, but you have a
• 1:12:30
  theory of what you're supposed to do with that Kalimba.
• 1:12:33
  Having remembered the music box that was part of your last gift and
• 1:12:36
  an instruction to GuoHan
• 1:12:39
  that there was a series of notes, sort of a little diddy
• 1:12:42
  a little song that he would need to play with this columba.
• 1:12:45
  Um, but what that will unlock or what the
• 1:12:47
  next hint will be that that will unlock will be
• 1:12:50
  something that we'll have to jump into in season
• 1:12:53
  three.
• 1:12:57
  So thank you all for listening. Thank, uh, you
• 1:13:00
  all so much for being a part of all of this that we
• 1:13:03
  create. Um, this is the end of season two and we will
• 1:13:06
  return again with that cliffhanger in season three
• 1:13:09
  as this group continues to follow these
• 1:13:12
  clues and hopefully save the tea shop
• 1:13:15
  that their friend left behind for them. Um, next
• 1:13:17
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• 1:13:22
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