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Benders & Brews S2 - Episode 6 - The Cave of Trauma Dumping · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  Uh.
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  Jasmine oolong, green
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  and white. Long ago, these four
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  teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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  Then everything changed when the shop's
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  popularity threatened its existence.
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  All Mr. Okeron, the shop's owner and tea
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  master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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  orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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  shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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  hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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  still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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  But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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  Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the
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  world. Last time on Benders
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  and Brews an Avatar legends podcast.
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  I'm trying to get through an island
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  as fast as I can.
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  Do, uh, you even remember why we.
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  Have to get to Whale? Yes, the treasure. Sure, it's treasure.
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  Come on, everyone. Whale Tail Island, here we
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  come.
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  And he throws the scale at the ground with
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  all the force he can muster. As
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  the scale hits the ground,
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  fragments start to break off and shatter
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  in every direction. And now we know
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  that both the scales were fake. And
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  these two points at both the mayors are the perpetrators
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  of the whole thing.
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  Lei, would you mind taking
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  these wonderful folks to Whaletail Island?
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  Oh, yes, of course.
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  Thank you very much.
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  Stop that letter that Mr. O'Brien gave you.
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  Yeah, I did. I might have cried a little when
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  I read it.
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  Can, uh, you read it again? I kind of forgot what it's like.
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  And welcome back to another episode of Benders and
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  Brews. We're back with episode five,
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  everybody. Uh, just finished, and you'll hear this in
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  the you heard this in the recap bit or whatever, but everybody
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  just helped chin village slash
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  Quinchao Village sort of helped them I don't
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  know what you would call that. Yeah, we'll say you helped them
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  solve the mystery of the missing scale.
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  Pulled the bandaid off. Yeah.
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  Oh, yes.
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  That's a good way to put it.
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  I like that.
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  Uh, whatever the case, welcome, uh, back for another
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  episode. Uh, let's do our little round of character
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  interesting facts. Who would like to start?
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  I guess me.
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  Oh, awesome.
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  All right, Michaela, who was here last time
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  to clarify, um, just
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  a little.
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  Bit on the quiet side as she.
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  Pieced together the puzzle in her head. What's the interesting
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  fact about Mika?
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  Um, she would watch
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  the fish in the river mhm,
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  and she would make up stories about them.
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  Okay.
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  That's her fact.
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  Okay, were there any interesting stories?
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  Oh, yeah, it's not a
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  story unless there's tales of death
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  and long lost love and all
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  that jazz.
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  Like this one's, the moon spirit. And this
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  one.
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  I think there were just two halves of the moon.
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  Right, all right. Very cool. Very cool.
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  Um, Cameron,
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  you got an interesting fact about Bill.
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  Yeah, I do, but I'm also debating because this
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  one fact I've actually been wanting to say for,
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  like, in character for a
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  while.
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  Do we all need to plug our ears?
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  No, it's about his painting.
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  It's, uh about his painting.
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  Paints.
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  Yeah. I think I revealed that way in the start of the he likes to.
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  Do, like, landscape m I do landscape.
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  Painting to relax me. Right. Yeah.
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  Ah, the paintings age and you don't.
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  I guess what I will say is, um, and I guess
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  this is
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  if it comes up in character, it comes
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  a particular I never said where Bill paints.
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  And that's important because he does not paint
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  at, uh, the shop or anywhere near that.
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  There is a spot, uh,
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  I want to say woods. It's more like along
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  the road. Uh, the same road that
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  we actually took to go to that other city.
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  Bill would go along that road and then there was an off
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  side road he found off of it that went along a
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  cliff edge. And along that cliff edge he found a
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  tree that was, like, growing out of the cliff.
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  And he would paint alongside that
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  tree. And, uh, sometimes he
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  would paint with the tree and the night painting. Sometimes he would
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  paint other stuff. But something
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  about that tree growing out of the side of the cliff
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  gave Bill comfort.
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  Okay. Very cool.
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  Yeah.
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  And it makes sense.
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  It fits. Yeah, absolutely. All
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  right.
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  Uh, Dave, you got an interesting fact about
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  Guo today.
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  I do. So Guo
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  has a tattoo of,
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  um what? Something whoa.
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  Somewhere on his body.
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  Awkward.
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  And it's for us to find out.
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  Well, he's twelve.
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  Yeah.
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  So don't PG. Yeah.
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  All right.
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  That's all I'm reviewing.
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  We'll see if that comes up at some
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  point. Um, all right. And then last but not
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  least, Connor.
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  Well, I could say that Brock also has a
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  tattoo because that was in his character design.
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  It is in his character design.
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  But, uh, I will say that Brock, uh, has
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  recently gotten into some, uh, expired.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Yeah.
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  So he had some expired tea before
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  this journey.
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  Uh, things are a brewing.
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  Things are a brewing. If this was a game
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  of Oregon Trail, uh, Brock has
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  Dysentery,
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  uh, speaking.
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  Give him a thunderbolt.
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  Speaking of Dysentery, I'm Skyler.
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  And what I'm about to say doesn't really have anything to do with
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  Dysentery. I, um, don't know.
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  Less of an interesting fact, more of a story.
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  I recently walked through a drive through
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  and that was interesting. I did still get service. So
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  anyone that tells you otherwise, i, uh, don't know,
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  I might be trying.
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  That was your fact in episode.
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  Was it really? Yeah. Oh, man, now I have to have another
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  one.
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  Now I feel like I do have to fall back on the
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  Dysentery bit.
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  Speaking of Dysentery, I
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  enjoyed Oregon Trail. I actually played
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  the fifth edition. I think it was, uh,
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  many times on my PC. It was great.
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  How many times did you die from Dysentery?
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  I don't feel like I did, uh, but they had like, cut
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  scenes and it was really weird because they had a whole
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  underlying story about this guy that was trying to get
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  these two kids, uh, through
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  the Oregon Trail or whatever. And
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  no, not just trying to get.
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  These
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  after trying to get these two.
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  Kids, it's like every
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  seventy s eighty s PG kids
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  movie. Some guys try to get those
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  kids uh, no, there's a good game,
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  but there's like the one part where the kid gets bit by
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  a snake, like a rattlesnake, and then the guy has to suck out the
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  poison. And so my whole life
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  I was like, oh, okay, that's easy enough.
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  Take that, snakes. You can't even do anything to us. And then
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  recently I found out that, uh, apparently it's almost
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  equally as dangerous to try to suck the poison out because
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  not only is it not super effective,
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  but also if you swallow the poison, then
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  you are now screwed.
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  Just don't swallow.
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  Well, you got to hope that you don't.
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  Uhoh.
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  All right, welcome back. Uh, you guys are sealing
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  down the waters towards White. Uh, or
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  sorry, Whaletail Island dialogue happens.
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  And then we come back to the part where Bill,
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  uh, is supposed to read the letter.
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  That's exactly where we stopped was right when I was, uh,
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  Brock was like, why don't you read the letter?
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  I challenge.
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  To a read off who.
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  Can'T read at this table.
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  I know you're used to me playing the dumb barbarian who
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  cannot read and that is typically my character. I'm
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  the dumb, impulsive barbarian in this case. He's the
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  barbarian. Zero
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  remorse and he's done great at it.
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  Readability as a person who plays
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  barbarians my whole d d life. You're doing it
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  phenomenal.
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  I'm doing role justice.
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  All right, bill, my boy, you're tired and
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  true. I know I now bestow a gift to you when
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  on the seas, a ship we met and pirate ship we were
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  beset. You and I were taken captive on an island where
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  we adapted. Although in danger, we resided and
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  quietly our time abided until the moment of
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  opportunity. You and I escaped in unity. Return
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  yourself to island shores and the next clue will soon be
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  yours. Return to the past. Look to the back. Use the
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  flame in your heart to reveal the map. And once
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  you arrive, don't forget about the
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  tea. Bill, you remember when you were on that boat with me?
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  You created a combo so strange in my mind it did
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  imprint. So look to your creation. A mix of
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  mango and mint. Mint. Yeah,
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  we already knew that already. It just goes dot, dot,
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  dot. Okay, anyways, that's what sets brock, are
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  you happy?
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  Yes.
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  Okay, you can have the letter.
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  I don't care if you can't read it.
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  That's right. Sorry, Brock, I did not
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  mean.
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  You can practice.
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  I just taught you what this is.
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  It's got every word on there but mint.
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  Uh, that's my name? Yes.
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  Good, my boy.
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  And then I uh, believe if I am
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  correct, you guys revealed the map that was on the
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  back of this letter.
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  Well, I think it was Guao that actually did it. You held it
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  close to the fire and you started to see there was like drawings and
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  stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  Caged it.
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  So it was Guaohan I gave the map to. Okay.
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  That was way back at the shop though.
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  We all knew that.
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  Yeah. Why didn't you say that then, Mika?
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  Because you don't like me. I was like that's why I was saying you didn't give
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  me the map.
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  Okay, well that
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  might be true. But
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  anyways, so that's what it
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  says. You guys can look at it. I guess
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  just for me, even though, um, I'm on the know, it
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  says.
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  Right there island shores where we met.
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  So is there any part of Whaletail Island
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  that is distinct enough to know
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  that's exactly where you met Mr. Okura?
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  Well, we met on a boat.
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  Um, as you look at the back of the letter, I mean
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  you do see a pretty, it's a pretty straightforward map
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  of Whaletail Island itself. Like in its
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  entirety showing kind of a line of where to
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  begin. Um, you wonder if maybe the
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  concept of where we first met kind of just
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  implies to the island itself.
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  Um, and then ah, the map kind of guides you once you reach
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  the island, where to start and then go from there.
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  As you guys are approaching, the waves kind of
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  hitting against your boat as you guys make your way towards
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  this island and it gets larger and larger as it comes closer and
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  closer to you, or rather you get closer and closer to
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  it. Uh, you can see in the distance kind
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  of off on the left coast of this
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  island, uh, there seems to be
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  a flagpole that outcrops
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  from a sailing vessel. Um, you guys are
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  not headed directly towards where this thing seems to have
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  ported. Uh, you're a little bit more towards
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  the uh, right section
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  of this island's coast.
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  Um, so you're not going to collide with this
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  pirate ship or land where the pirates
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  may be set up, but you do assume that there are pirates that
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  are actively on this island.
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  Sick.
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  We're approaching.
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  Uh, do you guys have a preference on
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  uh, where I leave you guys off?
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  Uh, lay asks leave
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  lay.
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  No. What? You said leave.
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  You said leave us off.
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  I can wait. Yeah, I just like
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  wherever you want me to leave you initially.
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  Okay.
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  I mean, unless the pirates come, then.
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  I got to go. Well, uh, hopefully you take us with you.
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  Mhm. Okay.
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  Hopefully
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  that's what they call you, right?
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  Yes, hopefully.
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  Uh, actually, it's lay. And they say, well hopefully
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  doesn't make any sense. That's what I
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  was then they say.
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  Yes, that's what I meant to say. I want to order a whole
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  fillet and then I say, oh, yeah,
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  no, I can help you with that because I'm a fisherman and
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  I have fillets of fish.
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  So yeah,
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  so when I eat a whole bunch of fish, they call me.
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  Fish Fill a or Fish Fill
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  lay.
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  Boo
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  lay's like, hey, it's not my choice.
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  I didn't come up with it.
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  It's what they tell me.
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  Uh, he's the real victim here.
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  After a few moments, you eventually do
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  near the sandy beaches of
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  Whaletail Island, or at least the sandy beaches where you're
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  landing. Uh, a lot of the island is made up of sort
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  of branchy fibrous, uh,
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  trees, various kind of palm
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  tree esque. It's got a very Piratey Cove kind of
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  a feel to it.
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  Right.
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  There's a section that seems to feature a number of kind
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  of outcropping rocks over, uh,
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  a little bit further to the right of the coast of the island. That where you're
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  landing. So, obviously, Lay, uh, being an
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  experienced sailor, dodged those
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  and ensured that those wouldn't be an issue for you guys. Uh,
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  but otherwise, you land on a sandy beach
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  section of, um, this
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  island. And looking at your map, you're able to see
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  where it is that you have landed on the map and
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  where you need to go next. I'll
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  just be here. I mean, if it gets really
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  dark, I might head home, and then I'll just come back in the
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  morning.
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  Uh uh, any collateral we
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  can take from you to make sure you come back?
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  Well, I got more scales.
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  Alas, I'm scaleless.
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  They've been destroyed. Your
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  reminder has put me back into emotional and
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  mental turmoil.
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  What about, uh, do you have, like, your fishing pot or
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  your fishing rod?
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  Hold on. I'm really not planning
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  on leaving. I just fish while
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  we
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  have the time. Yeah, let's get out of here,
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  guys. Kel just jumps off the side of the
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  boat.
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  All right, so where are we going? Where's the map say?
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  Um, are we supposed to follow the map, or, like, what
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  the will's clues say?
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  Well, isn't the map part of the will?
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  They're the same thing.
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  I flip over the map.
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  There's that wait, you flip over the map?
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  No, the will to the map. Oh, you flip over to the map
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  side? Yeah. Okay.
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  And then you see the map, and it's a very
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  like I said, you can kind of pick out where you've landed
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  on the island and then find.
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  How you would X on the map.
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  So Bill, I guess, starts leading the way.
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  Um stuff looks familiar.
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  Stuff looks familiar a little bit.
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  I mean, obviously, it's a bit more overgrown. You're in a bit of a
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  different area than where you remember. Um,
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  but you do notice that kind of where the pirate ship
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  was that you guys saw as you guys sailed in. And you
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  look at the map and some of the maybe rock formations or
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  some of the details on the map you're like, oh, I think that's where
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  we originally landed at.
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  Is there docks on the map?
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  Kind of. The pirates have sort of set up a makeshift
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  dock where you guys landed was just kind of a beach
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  section that Lay saw and said it's safe
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  enough for us to land there. Um, but the pirates
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  have definitely set up their own sort of dock because
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  um, and as you might know, they seem
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  to use this pretty frequently. It's kind of like a base or
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  something for them.
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  And there was buildings, right? Yes.
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  That they've kind of made their own little pirate village
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  almost.
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  Okay, so I'm going to explain that while I'm pointing at
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  this map and we're walking, the forest is ahead of us,
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  right? Mhm. So I stop and I
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  go, okay.
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  Is the X near like, the coast?
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  No, it's uh, actually kind of like
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  sort of north of the
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  middle of the island. The opposite of us
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  more, um, like if you went straight in from where you're at and then took
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  a sharp right and then not too far from that.
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  So could we just go around the outside
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  along the coast and just like turn in there? Yeah,
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  you could do that forest. Is that where the X is?
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  Yeah. Okay.
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  All right, so I'm going to explain that.
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  So, um, in the center of this island I'm going to show
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  them the map and I'm pointing in the center. That's where the
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  pirates stay. That's where the buildings
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  are. Um,
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  that's where they sleep. They hide out here, they store their
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  loot. Um, and there's this forest and I show them the whole
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  forest near the middle, but around it I go. This
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  is the forest where they hide stuff like
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  the more special stuff. But um, they don't usually
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  stay there. Um, and
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  from what it looks like, the X is
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  there in the forest. So what I'm suggesting we
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  do is just walk around the outside of the coast so we don't have to go through the
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  middle. Run into any pirates. Let's go along the coast.
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  Pirates are going to be the middle. Let's just go around. We don't need to mess with
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  pirates. Even though I was a great pirate,
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  they probably remember me for how great I was. But I did
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  also knock a guy out to escape them.
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  So let's avoid pirates.
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  Wait, you were a pirate?
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  Yeah, well, for
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  like a day or two, yeah.
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  Sweet.
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  Yeah, right? Yeah, I was a pirate. They taught me
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  pirate. The guy gave me a pirate
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  name. Um, I swabbed a
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  deck.
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  I've always wanted to do that.
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  Swab a deck.
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  Trust me, it was not fun.
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  So what made you into the boring person you are now?
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  What do you mean?
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  That's me, Mika.
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  You sleep with the Bow staff, man.
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  I mean, she's not
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  but you guys see what I do with that bow
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  staff? I hit people. I knocked out a pirate
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  with that bow staff.
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  Yeah, but you should just quiet and don't talk.
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  Now you're like, well, what do I.
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  Have to talk about?
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  I'm a pirate now.
• 19:23
  You have this interesting thing about you. I've always said
• 19:25
  that you guys just never ask questions.
• 19:28
  I have all your hands and your fingers.
• 19:33
  It was a day, okay? Like, it hadn't gotten to the level
• 19:36
  of actually the funny fact, most of the
• 19:39
  pirates had all their limbs. I was also questioning that
• 19:41
  when I first got on the crew.
• 19:43
  Is that like a religious thing with
• 19:46
  pirates?
• 19:47
  I wasn't long enough with them to know that answer
• 19:50
  either.
• 19:52
  You hear it's like, oh, you just assume it's like a shark.
• 19:55
  But what if it's something
• 19:58
  weird?
• 19:58
  I'm going to be honest with you. I'm going to be completely honest
• 20:01
  with you. I was actually
• 20:04
  totally interested in joining the pirate crew back then
• 20:07
  because I was young, I had nothing to do. Right. I was on
• 20:10
  the run, and I figured, no better place to
• 20:13
  find me.
• 20:14
  Than a pirate crew, right?
• 20:15
  Pirate and on the run.
• 20:17
  Yeah.
• 20:17
  Who are you? But is your name
• 20:20
  even.
• 20:22
  Yeah, yeah. Ah. My name is Door. But you
• 20:25
  hesitated.
• 20:27
  No, it's more convincing.
• 20:30
  It's bill dor. It's definitely Bill Dore. And it's not a
• 20:32
  name I definitely made up before I got put on a pirate crew.
• 20:35
  And the name that they gave me on a pirate crew.
• 20:39
  Why are you guys putting me on the spot all of a sudden?
• 20:42
  You're the pirate expert, the runaway.
• 20:44
  What kind of pirates are these? Are these like
• 20:47
  the juggling tell joke kind
• 20:50
  of pirates?
• 20:51
  There was a couple of those. There was all sorts on the ship. I
• 20:54
  do remember that. And they were really friendly, which is another reason
• 20:57
  why I wanted to join them. They were all friendly.
• 21:00
  You recall in your mind one very specific pirate
• 21:03
  that was incredibly well spoken?
• 21:04
  Yes, I remember, uh, one specifically. The
• 21:07
  one I knocked out. He was in charge of guarding the boat when I knocked him
• 21:10
  out. His name was Kalconi, and he
• 21:13
  was very smart for being
• 21:16
  a pirate. He spoke really well and
• 21:19
  elegant, and he sounded like he
• 21:21
  was rich from the background.
• 21:24
  So if the pirates are friendly and
• 21:27
  you were well respected among them, why do we need to avoid them
• 21:30
  again?
• 21:31
  I knocked them out and ran away. You knocked one of them
• 21:33
  out? Yeah, but Calconi was like, one of their
• 21:36
  leaders. But this might not be that crew. That's what I
• 21:38
  mean. Not all pirates are friendly. Just the crew I was with.
• 21:42
  And I wanted to join them, and I was going to get to that. And the reason I
• 21:44
  ran wasn't because of me, is because of Mr.
• 21:47
  Okero. He really wanted off that ship,
• 21:50
  and I knew they weren't just going to let him because they had some of his
• 21:53
  heat. They loved it. He'd even cured the captain of
• 21:56
  his, uh, nightmares he was having,
• 21:59
  but he wanted to leave and go start his shop,
• 22:01
  and I knew they wouldn't let him, so
• 22:04
  I helped him escape.
• 22:07
  Interesting.
• 22:08
  And yeah. And my name is definitely Bill Dor.
• 22:11
  So don't question that again.
• 22:14
  The more you say that, the less I believe you.
• 22:17
  What else would it be? It wouldn't be anything else.
• 22:19
  Like dil bohr.
• 22:23
  It's definitely not dil bohr.
• 22:26
  Does something like he just looked at something was like, eh,
• 22:29
  that's a good name.
• 22:31
  We should have listened to your pre.
• 22:32
  No, I definitely did
• 22:35
  not look at something and come up with the name Build
• 22:38
  Door. And Mr. Oakron definitely did not help me come up with the
• 22:41
  name as well. These are things that did not
• 22:43
  happen. We really should have
• 22:46
  listened.
• 22:46
  The more you talk, the less convincing you
• 22:49
  become.
• 22:50
  Maybe you should okay, fine. You want to know my real
• 22:52
  name?
• 22:53
  Yeah.
• 22:54
  Okay.
• 22:54
  It's Ash.
• 22:55
  Okay. My real name is Ash, but I don't want people
• 23:00
  who's ash catch them.
• 23:02
  Like, before your time.
• 23:04
  Yeah, okay. No. My name's Ash. Okay. But I'm not
• 23:07
  giving you my last name. Okay.
• 23:08
  Lee.
• 23:10
  Not Lee. I'm on the run, okay. And I don't
• 23:13
  want people to find me. Okay. It's important.
• 23:16
  Don't tell anyone you know my real. Okay.
• 23:19
  So, Ash lamb. Because you're on the
• 23:21
  lamb.
• 23:23
  Sure. You can call me that. Just call
• 23:26
  you Bill. Thank you. I prefer Bill. Please call me
• 23:29
  Bill.
• 23:29
  I mean, at this point, it'll just be a big
• 23:32
  mess.
• 23:33
  Yeah, okay. I would prefer Bill. Thank you. Uh,
• 23:36
  now follow me and Bill's just going to start walking
• 23:39
  down, uh, the side of the, uh, beach. Okay.
• 23:42
  They can still talk to you. I don't care very much. Just trying to
• 23:44
  walk away.
• 23:46
  I figured that this conversation was happening as you guys were we're
• 23:49
  walking along, following the map, and eventually okay.
• 23:51
  He speeds up his walk.
• 23:54
  Sure.
• 23:55
  Following the map, you eventually find yourself,
• 23:59
  uh, near a cave. And as you
• 24:01
  enter the cave, because this is where the map is kind of leading you,
• 24:04
  it has an X over the cave. You enter into the inside
• 24:07
  of the cave and discover a large chamber with a
• 24:10
  massive hole in the center of the ceiling
• 24:13
  where sunlight enters through at the top.
• 24:16
  Uh, the cave is large and has giant
• 24:20
  gem like stalagmites, which refract the light
• 24:23
  that comes in through the top of this cave,
• 24:26
  uh, across the entire cavern. Although
• 24:29
  it's incredibly beautiful, to add to this
• 24:31
  beauty, there are plants that have sprung up
• 24:34
  thanks to this light, this sunlight, that's able to get inside of
• 24:37
  this cave, all throughout the cave,
• 24:40
  crawling up the sides of the rocky
• 24:43
  walls, as well as filling the entire floor with various
• 24:46
  foliage. Um, that seems to almost be
• 24:48
  organized in a really interesting way.
• 24:51
  There's, um, a small stream of water
• 24:54
  that comes in through the back of the cave
• 24:57
  and sort of flows down through into the opening
• 25:00
  from where you kind of came in at. Uh, the water
• 25:03
  itself actually seems to have been, uh,
• 25:06
  sort of dug out into smaller
• 25:09
  streams that break out along the sides to ensure that
• 25:11
  all the foliage that makes up the bottom of this
• 25:14
  cavern, um, sort of receives a small
• 25:17
  amount of water before it drips all the way out.
• 25:20
  And again, as I mentioned before, the plants seem to be
• 25:22
  organized almost, uh, by type in these
• 25:25
  little sections where the water sort of flows through. Although it does
• 25:28
  look like some of them have grown a little bit
• 25:31
  messily, as if someone had been taking
• 25:34
  care of this and hasn't been taking care of it anytime
• 25:36
  recently. Um, at this point,
• 25:39
  you've reached where the X in the map has
• 25:41
  led you. Um, but
• 25:44
  now you've got this massive, uh,
• 25:47
  foliage covered cave,
• 25:50
  and you're not sure what to do next.
• 25:53
  You guys see an X anywhere?
• 25:57
  Is that how these things work?
• 26:00
  Find a mint.
• 26:03
  Is there any mint among this foliage?
• 26:05
  And what are all these bushes here? Um, let's take a
• 26:08
  closer look. Yeah.
• 26:09
  So as you kind of lean down towards it,
• 26:12
  um, glow, I feel like you definitely would
• 26:15
  probably recognize this as being somebody that probably
• 26:17
  helped Mr. Okaron a lot with the teas.
• 26:20
  Um, and kind of given your background a little bit, is that
• 26:23
  all of the plants that are in here all seem to be different
• 26:26
  kinds of herbs or plants that are
• 26:29
  often used in tea making in different
• 26:32
  flavorings or for their aromas,
• 26:35
  um, or whatever the case. So you recognize a lot of these plants
• 26:38
  that are in here, uh, as stuff that Mr.
• 26:40
  Okaran used in the Blissful Brew Tea
• 26:43
  Shop.
• 26:45
  Um, I think we just start sniffing.
• 26:47
  Till we find some mint. Oh, yeah,
• 26:49
  guys, just follow our
• 26:51
  nose.
• 26:52
  To the fruity taste that shows.
• 26:54
  So we're just going to crawl around on the ground just
• 26:57
  sniffing it away?
• 26:58
  You got a better idea?
• 27:00
  No. Okay.
• 27:02
  I'm pretty sure I remember what a mint leaf looks
• 27:05
  like now.
• 27:06
  I just feel silly down here.
• 27:08
  Well, I mean, I'll try to look.
• 27:10
  For that, but for fun, uh, let's have everybody roll.
• 27:12
  A rely on your skills and training.
• 27:14
  All of us?
• 27:15
  Yeah, why not? And we'll just see whoever we'll see.
• 27:17
  Who rolls the highest.
• 27:19
  It's, uh, going to be
• 27:21
  focus, apparently.
• 27:23
  Focus.
• 27:24
  Nine.
• 27:25
  Nice.
• 27:28
  Oh, my cow. You
• 27:31
  beat my ten.
• 27:32
  Sure enough.
• 27:33
  GuoHan.
• 27:33
  Uh, three.
• 27:37
  Mika. Just, like, dishes.
• 27:41
  You don't recognize any of it?
• 27:43
  I was going to say you're like me whenever I walk into, like, a bath and
• 27:45
  bodyworks where it's just like.
• 27:47
  There'S too much smells.
• 27:49
  Uh, but I like that better.
• 27:51
  Yeah, you just watched, like,
• 27:53
  dishwater. Yeah, you go straight over to
• 27:56
  the.
• 27:56
  Water and you're like, not the water I
• 27:59
  remember.
• 28:02
  How much dishwater did she drink?
• 28:07
  Just chugging in.
• 28:12
  Just the cotter.
• 28:17
  The special that made.
• 28:19
  For that drunk guy way back in the
• 28:22
  first episode.
• 28:22
  That's right. Whatever the case,
• 28:25
  uh, Guo, you and Bill
• 28:28
  both manage to sniff your way over to
• 28:31
  the mint. And sure enough, as you
• 28:34
  approach it, you can see a small
• 28:37
  corner of what looks like a wooden box. Seems
• 28:40
  to be peeking out from the
• 28:43
  mint leaves that give off a
• 28:46
  delightful fresh smell.
• 28:47
  Reach for it, and your hands touch.
• 28:50
  And you lock eyes and music.
• 28:55
  I think he gohan barely beats me. He beat my role.
• 28:58
  Yes, he did.
• 28:58
  Just barely beat you.
• 29:00
  Uh, he's, uh, digging it up as you approach,
• 29:03
  pulling it out of the dirt.
• 29:06
  Guys, I found something nice.
• 29:09
  And sure enough, some sort of box. It is it is
• 29:12
  a small wooden box.
• 29:14
  We'll open it up.
• 29:16
  Yeah.
• 29:17
  All right. Is it locked or? It is
• 29:20
  not locked. It has, like, a little latch
• 29:23
  on it, but you just kind of undo it.
• 29:28
  Uh, you open it up and inside you
• 29:31
  find a small stone tablet that
• 29:33
  seems to feature a
• 29:36
  map like, drawing on it. But when you
• 29:39
  look at the edges of this tablet, you feel
• 29:42
  as though maybe it's been broken and there
• 29:45
  might be more pieces to it.
• 29:47
  Additionally, you find a small letter,
• 29:50
  and on the envelope of this letter, or rather, the letter itself
• 29:53
  is folded. And then there's, like, a seal that keeps
• 29:56
  you from seeing what the letter says. On
• 29:58
  the back of this letter, it says,
• 30:01
  To Bill. And then there's
• 30:04
  another letter that's folded similarly
• 30:07
  with, uh, a
• 30:10
  stamp on it. Uh, and this one says to
• 30:12
  Guao And that's everything that's in the
• 30:15
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• 33:12
  His two favorite children.
• 33:13
  Apparently another
• 33:16
  one for me.
• 33:17
  To be fair, I couldn't read it anyways.
• 33:20
  He probably knew that.
• 33:23
  You guys, look at this. Look
• 33:26
  at this rock. Give that to Brock.
• 33:29
  Oh, wait, if that's for Brock, and that's
• 33:32
  for Guo, and this is for me. Oh, me.
• 33:35
  Uh, here is a.
• 33:43
  Sick. Honestly, if the stone was
• 33:46
  specifically for Brock, mr. O'cry,
• 33:49
  brock very well. He's a very wise
• 33:51
  man. Okay, I guess
• 33:54
  I'll open mine.
• 33:56
  All right. Uh, do you want me to just read what it
• 33:59
  says?
• 34:00
  Uh, Bill's going to read it privately again, like he did the
• 34:03
  first time.
• 34:03
  Okay.
• 34:04
  Go on.
• 34:04
  Could read.
• 34:05
  Yeah. You have it written down, I'm
• 34:08
  guessing. Yeah, I got to make it harder.
• 34:10
  For everyone because he's a secretive guy.
• 34:13
  He won't even tell us his real name.
• 34:16
  I just did.
• 34:18
  You didn't start out that way.
• 34:20
  You're like, oh, I'm totally Bill Dore. What are
• 34:23
  you talking about?
• 34:26
  I, uh, can tell you right now. It wouldn't give
• 34:29
  away any kind of secrets or anything. It's more just like a
• 34:31
  sentimental thing.
• 34:32
  Oh, no. Bill's reading it himself. Sentimentally
• 34:35
  first, and then he's going to read it to everyone.
• 34:38
  It's not like he wants to hide the letters. He just wants to, like if it's
• 34:41
  specifically for him. He wants to enjoy it to
• 34:44
  himself first, then read it to
• 34:47
  others. Okay, I will send it to you. Have that
• 34:50
  private moment first, because he's still
• 34:54
  grieving.
• 34:55
  Well, I'm salty. I only got a box for,
• 34:58
  apparently, my fox.
• 35:01
  Where's your fox dog?
• 35:02
  Business.
• 35:03
  There's something hidden following me around everywhere
• 35:06
  right now.
• 35:08
  It's a little quieter than Dilbert, man.
• 35:11
  Dilbert at least got a couple mentions.
• 35:13
  Non dirty, um, dishwater.
• 35:16
  You ever figure out his name?
• 35:18
  What's his name?
• 35:18
  Poe.
• 35:19
  PO. PO. See,
• 35:22
  that is I remember you saying that before.
• 35:25
  Mika okay, fox dog.
• 35:28
  Did a Kung Fu panda thing just come up on
• 35:31
  your feed?
• 35:32
  No, I just like the one
• 35:34
  syllable sound.
• 35:36
  It's a good name. It's a good name. I'm glad you revealed it
• 35:39
  now.
• 35:39
  All right, my dad always said you have to name a dog one
• 35:42
  syllable. My real dad, so you can yell
• 35:45
  it.
• 35:48
  Cameron and, um, I sent you the note
• 35:51
  so you can read through that beforehand. And
• 35:54
  then, uh, Dave Guao has
• 35:56
  his own letter.
• 35:59
  Did you, uh, want me to read it?
• 36:01
  Yeah.
• 36:01
  Okay. It says read it in Mr.
• 36:04
  Opelron's voice.
• 36:05
  I, um, was going to add some.
• 36:08
  Reverb so you can tell from beyond.
• 36:11
  Well, then everybody has to be quiet so that I can edit it just
• 36:14
  right.
• 36:15
  All right, it says you're
• 36:18
  up next, my friend. When we first met, you
• 36:21
  were still working for the carnival. I know that we
• 36:24
  all have things in life we look back on and
• 36:27
  despise or wish never happened to us. But
• 36:30
  always remember that those experiences are
• 36:32
  there to strengthen us. And the fact that we
• 36:35
  push on shows that we are stronger than the
• 36:38
  things that try to hold us back. Never let
• 36:41
  anyone or anything hold you back, Lo. The
• 36:44
  coming quest of this hunt will rely heavily on you,
• 36:47
  my boy. But don't think that doesn't
• 36:50
  mean you won't need your friends. I
• 36:52
  have three instructions for you. One,
• 36:55
  look down to the bottom for your next
• 36:58
  destination. Two,
• 37:00
  read between the lines and seek out an
• 37:03
  old friend of mine. And three,
• 37:06
  remember the tune you'll need it again
• 37:08
  soon. Pull some strings to hear the
• 37:11
  music ring.
• 37:13
  Everything has to be in a riddle.
• 37:15
  Yeah. Couldn't you have just said, hey, Guo.
• 37:19
  Go to this place?
• 37:22
  My old friend Bill.
• 37:29
  Hey, Ash, you want to read it?
• 37:32
  I told you guys, I don't want to be called Ash. I want to be
• 37:35
  called Bill, okay? I don't want to make this a
• 37:37
  thing, okay?
• 37:39
  You made it a thing by not.
• 37:41
  Making okay, if you guys want to.
• 37:42
  Call me Ash, you can
• 37:45
  because you guys are my friends, okay? But if we're
• 37:48
  around other people call me Bill, okay?
• 37:51
  Because I don't want to get caught. That's all I
• 37:54
  ask. What about, like, Billy eye?
• 37:57
  Ash.
• 37:58
  M-M-I tried to stretch it like Billy Eye
• 38:01
  ash. It's a stretch.
• 38:03
  Who's that?
• 38:06
  Who's that
• 38:09
  musician that we know
• 38:12
  back.
• 38:12
  In 6000 years from now?
• 38:14
  Oh, um, real quick,
• 38:17
  something that I'll point out to Dave.
• 38:19
  There are a series of
• 38:22
  letters kind of randomly throughout
• 38:24
  your letter that are written in a
• 38:27
  red ink. Okay, what letters
• 38:30
  are yes, I'll tell you. Them in order
• 38:33
  as reading? Well, I guess
• 38:36
  in Avatar, I guess technically they do kind
• 38:39
  of like the kind of Kanji almost
• 38:42
  or Chinese writing where it's read
• 38:45
  up and down as opposed to left or right. But in my
• 38:48
  writing, I'll tell you I'm in order based on left
• 38:51
  to right. Um, so mayuyiny
• 38:54
  and
• 38:57
  U,
• 39:06
  as you note these you look back
• 39:09
  to the second thing, uh,
• 39:12
  sort of instruction that Mr. Okaran had left you in that thing,
• 39:15
  which said, read between the lines to
• 39:18
  seek out an old friend of mine.
• 39:21
  Yeah, I thought that was weird.
• 39:23
  There you go.
• 39:24
  Thought you were reading your mistype.
• 39:25
  Uh, but I didn't.
• 39:28
  He's clever.
• 39:29
  I probably had to go in and change the autocorrect for that.
• 39:32
  Are you good for me
• 39:35
  to read my letter now?
• 39:37
  Yeah.
• 39:37
  Okay.
• 39:40
  Do you guys want me to read it, or do you want Skylar reading Mr.
• 39:43
  O'Connor's voice?
• 39:44
  I think we might as well get our money's worth out of the reverb.
• 39:47
  Okay, so Bill, um, clears his
• 39:50
  voice to read the letter and
• 39:53
  well done, Bill.
• 39:54
  I, uh, knew you remember our first encounter. I'm a man
• 39:57
  who never forgets his tease. In this box,
• 40:00
  you will find a piece of the map that, when uh, placed
• 40:03
  alongside the rest of the pieces, will allow you to
• 40:06
  find the will that I have left behind.
• 40:09
  Also, once you do find the will, and
• 40:12
  I know you will and take the tea shop
• 40:14
  for yourselves, remember this cave. After you
• 40:17
  and I's fateful capture that brought us to this island
• 40:20
  and we escaped our captors, I returned in hopes
• 40:23
  that I might be able to retrieve some of the rare ingredients I had left
• 40:26
  behind, or at least what was left of
• 40:29
  them. Sure enough, uh, the pirates were gone,
• 40:32
  but they left me little left of the rare plants
• 40:35
  I had collected. As I was gathering it all together and
• 40:38
  taking it to my boat, I came across this cave
• 40:41
  and realized what an opportunity it offered.
• 40:44
  I decided that instead of making single use of
• 40:47
  the materials I collected, I would instead make an investment.
• 40:50
  Uh, I planned the various seedlings
• 40:53
  for my materials and prepared this cave
• 40:55
  to help with cultivation and growth. I
• 40:58
  returned back here in a couple of months to find it
• 41:01
  flourishing. The spirits of nature must have
• 41:03
  smiled upon me. So now I make an
• 41:06
  occasional trip to Whaletail Island every month or so
• 41:09
  to harvest some ingredients and cultivate my
• 41:12
  secret cave. I encourage you to make good use of it
• 41:15
  and always remember two things treat nature
• 41:18
  with nurture and kindness, and it will show you thanks.
• 41:21
  And always make sure to invest in the long term
• 41:24
  rather than make single use of your efforts.
• 41:27
  Mika, you are holding the box that was given to
• 41:30
  you because people thought that was the only thing that was left
• 41:33
  from Mr. Okuron. Mhm um, as
• 41:36
  you I don't know what you're really doing with the
• 41:38
  box.
• 41:39
  My fox dog is sitting in it.
• 41:41
  Oh, okay. Um, as I don't know, you're helping it
• 41:44
  into the box, uh, breaks?
• 41:46
  No.
• 41:47
  Revealing a key.
• 41:49
  No. Uh, you notice two
• 41:52
  things. You notice a, uh, small sort
• 41:54
  of like, um,
• 41:57
  extrusion at the bottom of the box, uh,
• 42:00
  that causes your fox dog to get uncomfortable and
• 42:03
  unable to sit in the box because it's kind of poking it a
• 42:06
  little bit. So it climbs out, and you see that there's
• 42:09
  a small metal, um, sort of
• 42:12
  insignia at the bottom of it.
• 42:14
  Like, does it move in the box?
• 42:16
  It doesn't move, but it does seem to have something written on
• 42:19
  it.
• 42:19
  I'll try and grab it.
• 42:20
  I guess, uh, it's, like, attached to the box.
• 42:23
  I'll push it.
• 42:24
  It doesn't push, but it does have something written
• 42:27
  on it.
• 42:29
  Okay.
• 42:29
  You're going to look at it? Okay. You walk over to, like, one of the
• 42:32
  gemstones that kind of shines the sunlight or refracts
• 42:35
  the sunlight, and you're able to see inside the box really well.
• 42:37
  And, uh, the small metal thing
• 42:40
  in the box seems to be one of those, like,
• 42:43
  made in whatever. And it reads Made in
• 42:46
  Yudao, which is a small
• 42:49
  city that you know of, um,
• 42:51
  that's in the Earth Kingdom. Uh, the second thing that you
• 42:54
  notice as you're bringing it over here is you can
• 42:57
  feel something on the side of the
• 43:00
  box that seems to kind of protrude ever so
• 43:02
  slightly. Another protrusion. Uh, you push
• 43:05
  it, and it sort of pushes in, and then it
• 43:08
  returns back larger. And there's sort
• 43:11
  of, uh, like a pull string,
• 43:13
  almost obviously.
• 43:15
  Okay.
• 43:16
  You pull it and you hear a
• 43:19
  small melody.
• 43:52
  So we just hear we just see Mika wander off, and then we
• 43:55
  hear music, basically.
• 43:56
  Oh, yeah, that's true.
• 43:59
  It also said down to the bottom.
• 44:02
  Of the crate,
• 44:05
  what's that sound? I'm saying,
• 44:08
  what's that sound? Mika, what
• 44:11
  are you doing over there?
• 44:12
  Yeah, you do recognize the tune.
• 44:14
  I recognize that, uh, too, from yours.
• 44:18
  Why'd you whisper that?
• 44:19
  Because I'm not supposed to know that, am I?
• 44:21
  You read the letter.
• 44:26
  It does ring familiar to something you
• 44:29
  remember hearing back in the day and even playing
• 44:32
  on occasion back in the day when you were in the
• 44:34
  circus. Kind of a common circus
• 44:37
  tune.
• 44:38
  It's the ticket sales theme.
• 44:42
  Ticket sales?
• 44:47
  You suddenly feel the urge to buy.
• 44:49
  Something.
• 44:53
  With magical ability.
• 44:55
  All right, so you have a series of letters
• 44:57
  that were in red. You
• 45:00
  have a small
• 45:02
  insignia at the bottom of this box that says Made in
• 45:05
  Udao. And you have a
• 45:08
  tune that what do you mean?
• 45:11
  I didn't tell them about all that.
• 45:12
  Oh, sorry.
• 45:14
  What do you mean, ticket sales theme?
• 45:18
  Well.
• 45:20
  Get your tickets here. It's the
• 45:23
  carnival in town.
• 45:26
  Does that sound like it fits to the music?
• 45:30
  I hear it. I hear it. Okay. Yeah, that's not
• 45:32
  quite, um I hear it. Okay, I hear
• 45:35
  it. Did it work?
• 45:38
  Did the song work to get more ticket sales or something?
• 45:41
  Yeah. The carnival is here
• 45:44
  to stay. Come get your tickets, laugh and
• 45:46
  play?
• 45:50
  Uh, something like that, yeah. I mean, honestly, sometimes
• 45:53
  we just made up the words as we went.
• 45:57
  That sounds like a carnival thing to do.
• 46:00
  Yeah, we had different people doing it.
• 46:03
  They would just hand you, like, this
• 46:05
  music box and you just crank it
• 46:08
  and they'd be like, Go sell some tickets.
• 46:12
  How long were you in a carnival for?
• 46:14
  All my life.
• 46:16
  Your whole life?
• 46:18
  Insert anakin skywalker there.
• 46:22
  You were born into a carnival?
• 46:24
  No, but,
• 46:27
  uh, basically my
• 46:29
  parents sold me
• 46:32
  to this carnival, so I
• 46:35
  just had to do whatever they told
• 46:38
  me.
• 46:39
  They sold you because
• 46:42
  they saw his.
• 46:43
  Pure raw talent and they said, this
• 46:46
  kid deserves to be seen by people.
• 46:49
  But also we need some compensation for
• 46:52
  it.
• 46:53
  I'm trying to make him feel better.
• 46:54
  Sorry, I'm m the DM.
• 46:57
  It's like the trauma dumping episode.
• 47:00
  Yeah, it really is.
• 47:07
  If you didn't notice, Skylar was trying to do something with these
• 47:10
  letters that, uh, would get us to actually talk as
• 47:12
  characters for once.
• 47:14
  I guess we got to sit around a campfire whenever it gets dark
• 47:17
  and just reveal our secrets, I guess.
• 47:19
  Ah.
• 47:20
  Do you have secrets? What? Do
• 47:23
  you have secrets? I felt like you're a pretty open book. You fought in
• 47:25
  the Earth Rumble arena.
• 47:28
  Yeah, I don't but I mean, we haven't heard
• 47:30
  anything from Mika.
• 47:32
  There's nothing to hear about.
• 47:34
  Uh, well, you have.
• 47:35
  This fox dog that you've been hiding.
• 47:36
  From us barely just revealed its name
• 47:39
  out of nowhere.
• 47:40
  I literally found that in the maze with all of you guys.
• 47:43
  Wait a second. Mika, I have to ask. I have to ask because
• 47:46
  this is a very Mika thing to do.
• 47:48
  Yes, my name's?
• 47:49
  No, no. Uh, did you reveal your fox dog's name
• 47:52
  finally? Because I revealed that I had a
• 47:55
  different name and you wanted to one up me
• 47:58
  or knew
• 48:00
  it. That's a very meeka thing. I knew it.
• 48:03
  Okay. Anyways, let's go. So they sold
• 48:06
  you to a carnival
• 48:09
  and you were in it till you met Mr.
• 48:12
  Okaron?
• 48:13
  Yeah, pretty much. It was a whole thing. The
• 48:16
  guy, the owner of it, he went kind
• 48:19
  of he made this mad bid for
• 48:21
  power with the magic staff.
• 48:25
  Magic staff?
• 48:26
  Magic staff? Like what kind
• 48:29
  of magic?
• 48:31
  Um, the
• 48:34
  dangerous kind.
• 48:36
  It's very vague
• 48:39
  danger.
• 48:40
  The mass hypnosis kind.
• 48:43
  Oh.
• 48:45
  M, so were you
• 48:48
  hypnotized?
• 48:50
  No.
• 48:51
  Did you do the hypnotizing?
• 48:53
  I did not.
• 48:55
  Someone else did.
• 48:57
  You could have stole it.
• 48:58
  Everyone zombies or something.
• 49:01
  Yeah, it was like a spirit magic. Like
• 49:04
  there was a spirit?
• 49:05
  Literal.
• 49:06
  Uh, yeah, I'm saying is he actually
• 49:09
  saying this in real?
• 49:10
  No, I think that was Dave. Yeah.
• 49:13
  M, basically it was it sort of like trapped the
• 49:15
  souls of people that had
• 49:18
  died or rather, it didn't trap them. It
• 49:21
  itself was trapped and therefore could not vessel
• 49:24
  people to the other side. And
• 49:27
  so it was able to sort of control what
• 49:30
  was left behind in
• 49:33
  a strange zombie sense.
• 49:34
  Okay, curious
• 49:37
  and curious.
• 49:38
  Okay, now you can continue. So what kind of
• 49:41
  magic staff?
• 49:43
  Uh, spirit staff, to be
• 49:46
  precise. Spirit,
• 49:49
  but also vague.
• 49:50
  Wasn't that what you got, Brock? Like a
• 49:53
  spirit and that rock?
• 49:55
  No, this wasn't like, a band camp thing.
• 50:00
  He caught a spirit. Didn't you?
• 50:01
  Yeah, the gem from the mountain
• 50:04
  monster that you guys failed to help me
• 50:07
  with. Heart of the mountain.
• 50:10
  So, like, that kind of spirit?
• 50:12
  Kind of. But this one was, like, trapped
• 50:15
  against its will.
• 50:22
  Like, who was trapped?
• 50:25
  The spirit or people?
• 50:28
  Both. Uh,
• 50:32
  the spirit was trapped.
• 50:33
  This guy doesn't sound like a nice dude.
• 50:36
  Well, he bought the staff from somebody.
• 50:39
  Are you sure your parents exotic just.
• 50:41
  Steal your parents body and was like, oh, let's orphan this
• 50:44
  kid and make him the next bad guy?
• 50:48
  What?
• 50:49
  That's elaborate.
• 50:52
  That's very elaborate.
• 50:54
  No, I think it was more I don't
• 50:57
  know. I mean, I was a baby, so.
• 50:59
  I didn't know, but I need to break this up. We
• 51:02
  do only have, like, two days to get this whole
• 51:05
  well, you have.
• 51:05
  Longer than two days.
• 51:07
  I thought we had to meet the guys with the
• 51:10
  will in, like, three days.
• 51:11
  I think it was a week.
• 51:12
  It was a week, so never mind.
• 51:14
  Sorry. Continue.
• 51:17
  Not to say that urgency isn't a fair point.
• 51:19
  You have nightfall. But we've only spent one
• 51:22
  day.
• 51:22
  Yeah, that is true. Okay, sorry. Continue with your trauma
• 51:25
  dump.
• 51:25
  Well, now I don't really feel like sharing.
• 51:29
  Sorry to kill you can talk, and
• 51:32
  then Meek is next.
• 51:34
  I'm not next. I didn't get nothing.
• 51:36
  I told you what my real name was. We all have to give
• 51:39
  something.
• 51:40
  Wow.
• 51:41
  What? Uh,
• 51:44
  we all have to give something. Okay, I gave you guys my
• 51:46
  freaking real name. Okay, what'd you do?
• 51:49
  You gave us your first name.
• 51:51
  You didn't give us your whole apparently you guys are
• 51:54
  blabbermouth.
• 51:56
  Who else do we interact with? Really?
• 51:59
  Nika, what did you do with that box?
• 52:02
  How did you get it to play that music?
• 52:04
  I pulled a string.
• 52:08
  Just like my letter said.
• 52:10
  Do you want to look at it?
• 52:12
  Um, sure.
• 52:13
  It's made in Udao.
• 52:16
  Udao? Wait a minute.
• 52:19
  I lightly tossed it to him. Do you catch it?
• 52:22
  Are you.
• 52:26
  Quick?
• 52:29
  Just like Fatima? Uh.
• 52:33
  That one punch man.
• 52:35
  No, it's Guo's
• 52:37
  favorite, uh, actress.
• 52:41
  Um oh, yeah, I remember that.
• 52:43
  That was another fun fact.
• 52:47
  Um,
• 52:49
  the letter said something about down
• 52:52
  to the bottom.
• 52:55
  The, uh, letter said, look at the bottom of the box.
• 52:59
  We don't.
• 53:05
  Sorry.
• 53:05
  It says, look down to the bottom for your next
• 53:08
  destination.
• 53:10
  Well, now we know what that clue was.
• 53:18
  This blue paw print doing
• 53:23
  on this dress. I'm, uh,
• 53:26
  sorry.
• 53:28
  Look down to the bottom for your next
• 53:30
  destination.
• 53:33
  Guys, looks like we're going to Udao.
• 53:36
  Uh,
• 53:39
  where's that?
• 53:40
  We're on Whaletail Island. That's at the very bottom of the
• 53:42
  map. Udao is in the Earth Kingdom, you
• 53:45
  said?
• 53:46
  Yes.
• 53:47
  So we're going to have doesn't look like it.
• 53:51
  Hopefully it's not embasing say.
• 53:54
  But there's no war in bossing say, at least.
• 53:57
  Well, bossing say that's why
• 53:59
  bossing SEI is at the top right ish of that
• 54:02
  map, because you can see the walls of the city. So that's
• 54:05
  Earth Kingdom ish so that's a good ways
• 54:08
  away from Whaletail Island.
• 54:09
  I hope it's not there.
• 54:12
  Well, that's where the Earth Kingdom is, so it's going to be in that
• 54:15
  area.
• 54:15
  So we got to go to Udao.
• 54:18
  You said it sounded familiar. Glow.
• 54:21
  Uh.
• 54:23
  What'S your history with Udao?
• 54:25
  That's me.
• 54:31
  Maybe just heard of the town
• 54:34
  in the Earth Kingdom. You are from the Earth Kingdom? I would
• 54:37
  have thought that.
• 54:38
  Read between the lines.
• 54:41
  There's something in this letter. Think we're
• 54:44
  supposed to meet somebody there.
• 54:46
  Oh, red.
• 54:48
  Like a person.
• 54:48
  Like the red letters.
• 54:50
  Well, look at this letter.
• 54:54
  Oh, really?
• 54:56
  Yeah.
• 54:58
  And they spell something.
• 55:01
  Yeah, it says, my union.
• 55:04
  You.
• 55:08
  My, um union.
• 55:09
  You sound like Brock reading the
• 55:11
  letter.
• 55:13
  Okay, feelings.
• 55:16
  Let's not hurt feelings here.
• 55:18
  So we got to go to Udao to find Min yin yin.
• 55:20
  Yin.
• 55:21
  Or May.
• 55:25
  Oh, it might be a girl.
• 55:27
  Wait, did you actually write it down?
• 55:30
  No, like the poem.
• 55:32
  Oh, he didn't write the poem down. Like a
• 55:35
  paragraph.
• 55:35
  Yeah.
• 55:38
  He just wrote the three clues.
• 55:40
  And then that uh I know, but I want to see where they are in the
• 55:43
  letter.
• 55:44
  Read it out.
• 55:45
  Mayu Yinyu.
• 55:47
  Does it matter where they are in the letter?
• 55:50
  I gave them in order, but that.
• 55:53
  Doesn'T mean that it's in order.
• 55:55
  Do you want me to read this again?
• 55:57
  Yeah.
• 55:58
  Okay.
• 55:59
  Whoa.
• 55:59
  You're my friend. When we first met, you were
• 56:02
  still working for the carnival. I know that
• 56:05
  we all have things in life we look back on and
• 56:08
  despise or wish never happened to us. But
• 56:11
  always remember that those experiences are there to
• 56:14
  strengthen us. And the fact that we push on
• 56:17
  shows that we're stronger than the things that try to hold
• 56:20
  us back. Never let anyone or
• 56:23
  anything hold you back. Quo
• 56:25
  the coming quest of this hunt will rely
• 56:28
  heavily on you, my boy. But don't think that
• 56:31
  doesn't mean you won't need your friends.
• 56:34
  I have left you the following instructions.
• 56:37
  One, look down to the bottom for your next
• 56:40
  destination. Two, read
• 56:43
  between the lines to seek out an old friend
• 56:46
  of mine. Three, remember
• 56:48
  the tune. You'll need it again soon. Pull some
• 56:51
  strings to hear the music ring.
• 56:54
  If we go to Udao and ask around, maybe someone might just
• 56:57
  recognize that. Or if we just spell it
• 57:00
  to them.
• 57:00
  UU.
• 57:01
  And may maybe they
• 57:04
  might have a missing scale as well. And we have to help
• 57:07
  them in our fish
• 57:09
  adventure.
• 57:10
  If they do, we've got a foolproof way
• 57:13
  to, um, get them to
• 57:16
  yeah.
• 57:16
  What was that? Brock?
• 57:17
  Don't worry about it.
• 57:18
  Okay, you'll admit
• 57:21
  it. One day.
• 57:23
  One day.
• 57:24
  Wait. I told you my real
• 57:27
  name. What'd you do to those people?
• 57:30
  It.
• 57:33
  Was dragging on, so I
• 57:36
  decided to, against their will,
• 57:39
  kind of attach their feet to the
• 57:42
  floor and then lift the floor off
• 57:45
  the ground, flip them upside down and shake them until
• 57:48
  someone you know it worked.
• 57:52
  And we're here now, and that's all that
• 57:55
  matters. And we're better off for it.
• 57:57
  Only some mild trauma.
• 58:00
  Some guy to lee,
• 58:03
  actually.
• 58:04
  Oh, the guy in the boat? Yeah, the guy who's in charge of our
• 58:07
  lives and not getting caught by pirates.
• 58:09
  Yeah, that guy.
• 58:10
  Just as you say those words, you hear a
• 58:13
  voice from behind you at the entrance of the cave.
• 58:16
  Well.
• 58:19
  Uh, a bunch of kids just chilling
• 58:22
  in a cave on my island. And
• 58:25
  as you turn around, you see a large group of
• 58:28
  pirates all blocking the entrance to the cave,
• 58:31
  staring at you.
• 58:33
  Should have kept moving and not trauma. Dumped.
• 58:35
  This wouldn't have happened. And with that, we will
• 58:38
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• 58:41
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• 58:44
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  Papa. Draw background art by
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  Konichi. Music by Joe
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  Tims Two, one, five. Thanks again for
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  listening and we'll see you on the next episode.