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Benders & Brews S2 - Episode 1 - Picking Up the Tea Leaves · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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Uh.
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Jasmine, oolong, green
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and white. Long ago, these four
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teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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Then everything changed when the shop's
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popularity threatened its existence.
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All Mr. Okeron, the shop's owner and tea
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master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the
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world.
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And welcome back, everybody, to ah,
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season two, almost at episode two, season two of
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Benders and Brews. We did it. We,
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uh, I was going to say came back. We did
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it.
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We got it. Okay. Awesome.
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So glad that you can be here for season two. We're super excited
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about the show and, uh, where we're going to go with the
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second part of this story now that Mr.
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Ochron is dead.
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What?
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Oh, sorry. Michaela wasn't there for that. No, I'm just kidding. Everybody
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was there for that. We hope you were there for that also. Yeah, if you
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didn't listen to season one, that's a problem.
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You should jump back there and do that before you
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jump into if you listened to the
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season two, episode zero episode,
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you had a warning there, and now you're getting another
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warning. Yeah. And
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if you haven't listened to season one yet, then
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you're just ignoring everything that we're saying
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to warn you about spoilers.
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Anyways, all right, so let's get started into, uh, what
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we usually do, which is, uh, before we get the episode kicking
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off and start playing, we're going to go around and ask everybody
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a question. Kind of a fun little question. We're going to
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take a page out of one of my favorite tabletop, uh,
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role playing podcasts out there,
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which is Dungeons Daddies. Uh, so I'm going to go around the
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room. Rather than posing a specific question to each
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one of you, I want you to just tell me an interesting,
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fun fact about your character. Something that we
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didn't necessarily know or wouldn't have been
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able to gather necessarily from just listening to the
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show. I'm going to kick things off with Connor.
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All right. So, uh, for
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he's according to his character description,
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he's a pretty beefy boy. He's a big. Yeah.
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Yep. So how he does that, I mean, I'm sure everybody's
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wondering, how does he maintain that?
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Physique? So he is able to
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make his own workout equipment and
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gear just through rocks. Right
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on. And he doesn't even need to do any
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exercises because he can Earth bend the weights
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down to just add resistance. So he can just do it
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all. He could do it all with some pebbles if he wanted to. I've
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never even thought of it. Oh, he's like increasing the
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density, weight, science things.
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Increasing the resistance. For a guy that's real.
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Just brawn. He's also got some brain, apparently.
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Well, only when it comes to that. Working
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on. Right on. Okay. Okay. Uh, Dave.
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Dave, what do you got for GuoHan?
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So GuoHan really likes when it
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rains, but not for the reason you
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might think. Um, it's because it
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makes mud, which is really great for
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making fake footprints.
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Back at the carnival, there were rumors
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going around about this
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giant, absolutely huge
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penguin seal that
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would get into all sorts of trouble every time it
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rained, but really was just GuoHan
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walking around with some giant
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penguin feet he fashioned
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out of some stone or something. Yeah. Oh, that's
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amazing. Wonder who started the rumors.
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Uh, Cameron, tell me something interesting
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about
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does avatar have, like, normal weeks,
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like Monday through Sunday? I think so.
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I mean, I'm sure they'd have, like I don't think they mentioned it in the
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show at all. Yeah, you'd know, if you watch
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they didn't talk about this. I say as I'm sitting here having watched it, and
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I can't I'm not 100% I would assume so. Yeah. So we're just going to
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go for sake of argument? Yeah. Monday through
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Sunday. Okay, sure. Every Thursday night,
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bill sneaks away to
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meet, um, up with a group of, uh, elders.
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What? Uh, they have a local,
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um, uh, I think I'm
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going to quote this correct pi show
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gathering where they play pi show as a group.
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And Bill really enjoys the game, so he sneaks
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away to play with them, play, uh,
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the game against them and stuff. And he's gotten really good at the
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game, but he doesn't like to tell others that's what he's
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doing. So he just kind of sneaks off. If
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anyone asks, he just says, oh, I was off, like the library or
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something. Okay. But he's playing pie show.
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He's playing pie show with old people. And he's kind of embarrassed
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about yeah. Is
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it like in, uh, New York or like in the parks? Yeah,
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he's playing, like, basically those old guys who just play, like,
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chess. Hustlers. But he's playing, like, pie show hustlers. Pie show
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hustlers. 100% that exists. Oh,
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yeah, probably. Yeah. Pie show hustlers. I love it.
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I was really thinking that for a second there, you were going to say he
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sneaks out and he meets up with a group of people
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and plays dungeons and dragons. And I was going to
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be like, I see what you but no. Pi show makes the
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closest thing. Yeah,
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that's how Pi show works. I play the white
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lotus fighter rogue.
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All right. M Michaela, uh,
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what's going on with Mika? What's something interesting?
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Um, well, when she was very little,
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um, she used to carry around an
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egg.
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And then and then ah, yeah. Suspense
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is killing me. Egg girl. See, if she
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wouldn't break it well.
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She carried it around because she really wanted a pet,
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and she was told she needed to show some
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responsibility.
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Okay.
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So she carried that thing around forever.
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And one day, she
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was out flooding around with
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the penguin things,
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and her egg broke. But in her
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defense, the egg was rotten at that point,
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so she's had it for a pretty long time.
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Oh, gosh. So she's just, like, laying there in the
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snow with, like, rotten egg all.
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Over sometimes, you know, she
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can get a little bit emotional around broken eggs,
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but no big deal.
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She doesn't like she's like, tea shop. I could deal
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with anything to do with breakfast.
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Mr. Okeron's dead, but this
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eggshell
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brings back memories. Mr. Ogron's laying there with a knife
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in his back on the floor. And then she looks over and there's an
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egg that got flipped over on the table and shattered on the
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ground. And she just starts bawling. And everyone's like, it's okay,
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we're going to make it through this. And she's like the egg. And they're like,
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what are you talking about? The
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egg is broken? Wow,
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that's dark. Is it? It's an
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egg.
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It was her first pet.
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So it's like a pet rock.
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But it was it was her pet.
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She's giving her a pet rock. Mika's got a lot of
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intense feelings about this.
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Don't get me started on egg.
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All right. Uh, interesting fact about me.
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Uh, I'm Skyler. I'm the DM.
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And I don't know, I sliced my finger
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open while making fried rice this weekend. But it
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was good. It was worth it.
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And I didn't finger making rice.
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Uh, well, first of all, it was fried rice, and there were, like,
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vegetables involved. And I had one of those, like,
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you push the slice to slice things.
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Yeah, like a mandolin.
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And, uh, I don't use it very often.
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I'm pretty good when it comes to cooking with a knife. Like,
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chopping stuff up and not hurting myself. But
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I'm not used to the mandolin. And I thought, oh, this was, like, a much
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easier way to chop up these onions. And
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since I'm not used to it, I got my finger in there. And
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here we are. But it's all good. It's wrapped up.
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It looks funny. And yeah, no
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stitches. Well, that was by choice, but I
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digress. Did that Scotch tape around your finger? I put
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some on to hold the bandaid in place because it would, like, slide
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because it's on the tip of my finger. So it's, like, hard to keep it
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covered, but then the bandaid wants to slide off.
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I don't know.
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Sometimes your best just isn't good enough.
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Got me there. And with that, we're going to jump
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into season two, episode one.
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And ah, with that, we're back season.
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Why are we laughing? We're kicking things off in a yeah, this is a
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four time relax.
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To get through their grief.
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Okay, that's true. The scene opens
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on all of you standing inside of a large
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room. Various, uh, pews lining.
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I say pews benches, whatever you want to call them,
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lining the sides of this, uh, interior
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space. Uh, large windows
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have sunlight shooting in through it, but it's kind of
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a deep orange sunlight as it's kind of
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nearing towards the afternoon. The late afternoon.
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Yes. The golden hour. Exactly.
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Um, your now dead
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friend Mr. Okaron lays I don't
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know there wasn't a better way to put that
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lays motionless inside
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of a stone casket at
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the front of this
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indoor space. And, uh, the rest of
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you, as well as a number of community members, are all
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lining these benches that I previously mentioned. And
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a man at the front of the room is
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finishing up his long winded speech
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about Mr. Okaron and his service
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to the community and the amazing tea shop that he
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ran and just how generally nice of a guy
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that he was, how kind hearted he
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was, et cetera, et cetera. Um, I don't
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know if any of you might
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have gone up to say anything. You don't
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have to, like, on the show. You
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don't have to do that right now. But
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if anybody would have
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no, I'd say GuoHan would not
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have gone up in front of the crowd.
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Okay. I think Brock would have, but
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it would have been a very short winded
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speech. Right. What would the tone have been?
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Would it have been, like, angry, or would it have
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been sad or
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in form of sad? I think it would probably be a
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combination of sadness and anger. Okay.
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I would think so. Okay.
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Right on. Um, so as
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he finishes, this man that's up there finishes up his
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speech, uh, the doors of
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the area suddenly swing open, the
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big, heavy double doors or whatever, and
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you all turn because it's quite loud. And there's
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Madame Yang standing there
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in the doorway, and she says,
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Is the ceremony not over yet?
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And turns to let the door close behind
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her. And, uh, so the door
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closes behind her as she exits.
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Uh, you could see that as she was turning, she had kind of
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a smirk on her face almost. Um,
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it stings. It definitely stings inside. Just
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seeing her and maybe feeling some sort of
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resentment like this might be her fault in some way, shape or form, whether
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you have proof or not, there might be thoughts in the back of your head
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that might be thinking in that direction.
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But whatever the case, uh, the service comes to the
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end, and probably a number of people probably
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come and maybe shake your hands or if you let
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them give you a hug. Not
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Mika. Mika did not, um, whatever the
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case, um, just kind of going around
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kind of stemming off of what I asked how's how's
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each character really feeling emotionally
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in this situation. Connor, you said
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kind of a mix of anger and sadness.
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Mix of anger and sadness, um, because he
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died during the fight. And, uh, feel
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like Brock is feeling a bit remorseful in that
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he felt he could know helped Mr.
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Okeron as well, uh, during the fight, but he
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was just too tunnel visioned on
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the Coyote boars. Sure,
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sure. Maybe some of that anger
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is sort of internal. Kind of almost angry
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at himself a little bit. Yeah, it's mostly at himself.
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Gotcha. Gotcha. Uh, what about
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GuoHan? Uh, what's GuoHan feeling right
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now?
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Um, he's definitely feeling sort
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of almost regressed,
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I guess. He's feeling sort of regression, like
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he's closed off right now.
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Um, like
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feeling a bit lost. Okay. Um,
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because this was, like, father
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figure to him almost. And then
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now he's gone. Where's he going to go?
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He doesn't have somebody to kind of help lead him
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through life, but, uh,
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he's angry
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and more confused than angry. Like,
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just doesn't know what direction to go
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or where to direct
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his emotions, really. Sure. No, that makes
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sense. Uh, Bill
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Dore? What, uh, is Bill Dore feeling right
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now? Like he's a failure.
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Okay. That's probably the biggest
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emotion.
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Um, yeah. He swore to himself he wouldn't
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let something like this happen again, and
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now he's going very much on a slippery
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slope. Uh, but unlike last
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time, he actually has someone that
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he can lash out on other
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than himself. And so, in a
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very unhealthy way, he has
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very much been secretly plotting
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and making moves to try and get
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back at the Wild Coyote bars,
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uh, without the others knowing about it.
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Okay. But if they try to talk to him, he's
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very closed off, and he hasn't actually said a single
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word to any of the other three since it's happened.
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Okay. Um,
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I'd ask what those moves were, but I
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almost want to find out along the
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way. I think that might be a better way to kind of reveal those
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things as they happen. I'm kind of
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intrigued. So we'll leave that, uh, kind of a bit of a
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mystery to see later on. Um,
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what about Mika? I mean, Mika's kind of been a little
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bit offish, I guess you could say, between
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her and Mr. Okran. I know she's kind of had this
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hesitance to trust him and
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see him as much of a father figure as some of the others
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have, or even just a close friend. So what is her
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feelings right now that he has passed, uh,
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away?
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Um,
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I would say that she is definitely feeling
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different emotions on the inside than she does on the outside.
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Um, she's probably closer to Mr. Oprah
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than she let people believe.
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Sure.
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Um, but I would say
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on the outside, she's more stoic,
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kind of I don't know. And then on the
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inside, I would say she's pretty much just, like, in denial
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of the whole
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situation.
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Right. It just hasn't really set in
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so much, or she's not letting it
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set in, I guess.
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Right.
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Okay. All right, so there's definitely a lot of
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pain and a lot of anger going on between all of you.
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And, like, I said, as the people come around,
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um, kind of say their, um
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what's a word for that? People kind of at
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funerals. I know there's a word for that. They offer
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their condolences. Yeah, there we go.
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Okay. I think it's indulgences, their
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indulgences. They offer you indulgences, they hand you a piece of
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paper. Oh, thanks. You've been forgiven of
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yourself. No, they, um, offer you their condolences
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and such. And a lot of it just kind of
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in one ear, out the other. For a lot of you, it
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doesn't mean much. I mean, you see a lot of friendly faces. You see
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a lot of people that you recognize from the city
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of Gaoling, people that you remember
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Mr. Okaron helping or talking to or
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being friends with and stuff. So to some extent, there
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is a little bit of comfort in the fact that they're
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here, they're with you.
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You can see the pain in their eyes and kind of share
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with that a little bit. But of course, at the same
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time, you guys had a very different
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kind of connection with him, obviously.
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And as this is all finishing
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up, um, people are leaving, heading
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out, and so on and so forth. You guys all obviously kind of stayed behind
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because given your closeness to Mr. Okran, practically
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his children, there's a little bit of responsibility on
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each of you when it comes to this funeral.
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Um, a man approaches you
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and
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let's see,
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where is it at? There we go.
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A man approaches you. You see, Madame, uh, yang actually
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comes back into this funeral
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space. And a man approaches you, and he
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begins to tell you, uh, or talk to you all, and he says,
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uh, yes, hello. My name is Father
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Bart. Father, are you sure your friend
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has gone to heaven?
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Oh, my. Okay. Perhaps you could
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assure yourselves by buying these
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indulgent they're back.
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No. Get out of here. Beat
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it. My name is Mr. Wu,
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and, uh, I actually represent
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the shoot. I don't know if there's, like, an
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office for situations like this,
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but, uh, I represent a government office that's
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responsible for, uh,
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items to be it's sort of a law
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office, essentially, items to be passed on
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to others when someone passes
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away. And, uh, I just wanted to talk with all
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of you because it sounded like you four were the
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closest to Mr. Okaran. Uh, given that
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he owned a tea shop and had a number
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of tools and utensils and etc, as
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well as, of course, the building space itself,
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it, uh, seems that it's a little
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bit up in the air as far as, um,
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who it's supposed to go to. Uh,
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unfortunately, we couldn't find a will
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inside of the house when we checked
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things. Uh, did our investigation. I don't know if
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any of you know of this will that may have
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been written out
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existing. I feel terrible about this because,
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as I mentioned, you four were from what I was
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told. Practically his children, to some
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extent. Um, but legally, uh,
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speaking, I can't
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technically hand off anything to
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you that was
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his. Well, what's going to happen to the tea
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shop, then? Uh, well, the tea shop and all
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of the assets within it, uh, in a week's time, will
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have to be auctioned off
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unless document, uh, can be brought forth.
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That shows that Mr. Okaron wanted that ownership to
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be left to someone.
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Think I think he told us something, uh,
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about a will. Uh, it was in the shop,
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but the place got ransacked, as
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you can plainly see. So, uh, if
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you could just give us a couple of days to sort of sift
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through all the damage, and we can get it to
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you in a couple of days. Well, of course,
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since you all had lived there for quite some time,
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and obviously he had you all living there,
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you have again, until the end of the week
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if there might be some chance that there's a
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document that exists, as you said.
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Oh, absolutely there is.
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Okay, well, uh, we just got to
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get all of our are they just
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ducks in this universe? Are they like turtle
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ducks? I know there's turtle ducks, but I could have
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sworn that ducks might have been one of
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the animals. I don't know. There's definitely turtle ducks.
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We got to get all of our turtle ducks in a row
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before with this situation here,
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before we can go get that. Yes, of course.
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Again, I sincerely apologize. I don't mean
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to bring up such an ordeal, but I know it's obviously
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important for all of your well being, and I want to
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see that the right people
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have access to it. Uh, the lady over there, and
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he points over to Madame Yang, and he
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says, uh, she was inquiring about it as well. It
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seems that she has some interest in possibly
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purchasing, uh, the building
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itself, the tea shop, and the various resources
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within. So, again, I just wanted to let you all
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know if a document isn't presented by
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the end of the week, everything,
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well, uh, if you have
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and she's old,
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um, look at her hair. She's
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terrible.
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I try not to make judgments based on age
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or hairstyles, but again,
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if you do find anything, please do let me know,
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and, uh, we can get this all sorted out in
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the most official and appropriate way possible. Thank
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you. And he, uh, kind of gives you
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all a bow, and then he walks away and heads out the
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doors. Um,
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following, uh, this, madame
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Yang approaches,
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and she well,
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well, uh, one week's
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time, eh? I suppose I'll be seeing
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you all. Then
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she turns and starts to head towards the door as
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well. She's got pretty good hearing for
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an old person.
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And she turns ever so
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slightly. She just glares at you
23:11
with an icy, death glare and then
23:14
turns back and continues on her way.
23:17
That's right. Keep walking.
23:20
And she does, and she walks herself out the
23:23
door. Brock, what were you
23:26
saying about a will? Oh, I made that
23:29
up. I had never heard anything, but I
23:32
figured we could probably find something, though
23:35
he has to made something. I
23:38
was just trying to buy his time.
23:39
Yeah, we can't have Maddie Yang take over.
23:43
She was probably in on it.
23:45
Yeah, she was speaking very cryptically.
23:48
Bill, you doing okay?
23:52
Guess
23:56
suddenly you, uh, from one of the corners
23:59
of this I don't want to call it a church. It's not really a church. I guess
24:02
you could say temple, maybe. Um, you
24:04
hear a voice from the darkness,
24:07
the darkest corner of this small temple
24:10
area. Go
24:13
over here.
24:16
I'll go investigate. Sure. All right.
24:19
Um, you start to approach, and
24:22
sure enough, there's a man in a dark
24:24
cloak mysteriously sitting in this
24:27
dark corner, almost invisible. If you didn't
24:30
maybe see or hear him go to
24:33
investigate, get close enough, and then maybe see him wave a
24:36
little bit or something. Like you almost wouldn't have even known he was
24:38
there. Uh, can I help
24:41
you? Uh, he takes off his hood, and he kind of
24:44
leans forward so that a little bit of light kind of reaches him.
24:47
Uh, he's got long, dark brown
24:49
hair, uh, very masculine features,
24:52
nice, thick chin. And he's got a little
24:55
bit of kind of not like a heavy beard, by any means,
24:58
but like a solid what do you call
25:01
that, bristle? Stubble. Yeah,
25:04
stubble coming down. And,
25:06
uh, he says, my name's
25:09
Otra, but most people just call me
25:12
Strider.
25:18
Cool. Uh, Bro, why were you in the
25:21
shadow of Strider?
25:24
Just where I thrive.
25:28
Uh, are you okay? Do you need a
25:31
doctor or something, man? No, I'm fine. I,
25:34
uh, was actually a good friend of
25:36
Ugarons. Oh. Uh, yeah, he,
25:39
uh, wanted me to give you this,
25:42
and he hands you a piece of paper. Did you just
25:45
say who's? He said
25:47
ukara did he say oh, it's just my
25:50
accent. Okay.
25:53
What does he give me? He gives you a
25:55
letter. It's like a sealed envelope
25:58
with a wax
26:01
seal on the back.
26:06
Any idea what this is?
26:08
Might as well just open it.
26:09
He said to give it to the four
26:12
teens at his funeral if anything were to happen
26:15
to him, which he kind of implied in the letter that he sent
26:17
me. When did he send you this letter? Well, I
26:20
received it about three days ago.
26:24
Okay, I'm going to read the letter in front of him, um,
26:28
so I can still converse.
26:31
Can you? That's a question for Broccoli.
26:34
Can you? I think I can.
26:37
Worst case, if I can't read it, I'll just sound out the
26:40
words. Yeah,
26:45
then it'll just be strider will just become so frustrated,
26:48
he'll just take it out of me. Let me read it to you. Gosh.
26:51
No. Can I just do that
26:53
to all
26:56
who it can
26:59
read.
27:03
That's my name. Rock. Uh
27:07
uh
27:10
huh.
27:13
Uh um just give me the letter. I'll read
27:15
it myself. Except this one, I think.
27:18
Who's Bill? That's, uh, the guy over there. The very
27:21
stoic man with
27:24
this specific one is for
27:28
you, and he hands you a note.
27:31
Um, but the main one, it's just
27:33
a letter to all of you. Um, it basically
27:36
talks because I didn't write this out. I did write out the other one
27:39
for Bill. Uh, but it basically just talks about how much
27:42
he cared about all of you. He felt that
27:45
there was something that might happen that might
27:48
cause him harm
27:50
or possibly death. And he wanted to make sure
27:53
he was scared to keep the will in the house
27:56
or in the tea shop, and so he's
27:59
hidden it, and he wants you
28:02
all to find it in order to
28:04
make sure that you guys get
28:07
his stuff. Did the old man really give us.
28:09
A map, like a treasure hunt?
28:12
A treasure
28:16
hunt? Yeah. I mean, there's this, and then there's the paper
28:18
ah. That he gave
28:22
Bill. I'll read it for you.
28:25
Bill definitely would not want me to read
28:27
it. She's leaning over his shoulder. He would kind of pull it
28:30
away from her.
28:31
Okay, I'll just give you a nice hug.
28:32
I'll read it for you, Bill. I can
28:36
read. Does he read it out
28:39
loud? Does Bill read it out loud? Yeah,
28:42
um, I guess it's spoken to us. Why would he read it out loud? Not
28:45
at no, he reads
28:48
it quietly to himself. He doesn't read it out
28:50
loud.
28:51
Okay, I'm going to read it out for sure.
28:53
No. Yes. And there's a
28:57
map potentially not on.
28:59
Yours, on the main one. Yes, there's a map.
29:01
That's all you gave us.
29:02
Well, we don't know what's on yours.
29:03
I guess this is the wait,
29:05
the Wills hidden somewhere in the
29:12
house. The letter that you guys got that Strider reads to
29:14
you, explicitly says that it was in
29:17
the tea shop, but he has since
29:20
sent it somewhere or taken it somewhere
29:23
and hidden it because he was worried that
29:26
somebody would come after him for
29:29
it. And that kind of obviously sparks the
29:32
thoughts of how the tea shop looked pretty
29:35
ransacked. So you wonder if maybe somebody was, in fact looking
29:38
for it. Well, Bill,
29:40
uh, what's your letter
29:45
say? Some sort
29:47
of it's some sort
29:51
of
29:54
riddle. Do you want me to read it? No, I can read
29:57
uh, well, it's not that I thought you couldn't. I
29:59
just figured I offer. I mean, I can read it out loud.
30:02
Free service. I offer, I guess. I can
30:05
read it out loud. I can charge for it, I
30:08
guess. Yeah, go for
30:12
it. Are you going to stand here? Wait, I can leave.
30:15
This is all I had to do. Okay. Uh, all right.
30:18
Nice meeting you. And
30:20
Strider leaves. I got that
30:23
guy's deal all mysterious in
30:26
the shadows. I've
30:29
got some short benders to go. Right. I've
30:32
never thought I'd meet someone edgier than Mika. Take
30:35
to the fiery mountains of the
30:37
Fire Nation to drop a
30:39
necklace into. You're just
30:45
remaking. I'm glad this character is gone.
30:49
Now there's an earthbender that makes his own legs.
30:52
His name is Legless.
30:55
Really good with throwing
30:59
rocks. Okay. Anyways, go
31:02
ahead. This corner is pretty drafty. Can we go somewhere
31:05
with better lighting?
31:09
Sure. What's it say? I can read it while we walk,
31:12
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31:15
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Let's get back to the
34:10
show. Bill, my boy, you're tried and true.
34:13
I now bestow a gift to you when on
34:16
the seas, a ship we met, and a pirate ship we
34:18
were beset. You and I were taken captive
34:21
on an island where we adapted. Although in
34:24
danger, we resided and quietly. Our time
34:27
abided until the moment of opportunity. You and I
34:30
escaped in unity. Return yourself to island shores
34:33
and the next clue will soon be yours. Return
34:36
to the past. Look through the back. Use the flame in your
34:39
heart to reveal the map. And once you
34:42
arrive, don't forget about the tea. Bill, you remember where you
34:45
were on the boat with me. You created a combo so strange
34:48
in my mind it did in print. So look to your
34:51
creation of mango and
34:53
mango and that's where it
34:56
stops. Lime. No,
34:59
it's definitely mint. Uh,
35:01
you just didn't add it because it didn't rise. Well, no, it doesn't
35:04
say anything. Uh, it stopped with mango and but
35:07
I remember that day. And,
35:10
uh, I came up with the concoction of mango. Man you
35:13
guys saw it in the shop. Mr. Okaron named it special
35:16
number three. Oh, that's where that
35:19
came from. Yeah, it was definitely for me. It was two
35:22
down from that one tea. What did he call it?
35:24
Mambo
35:27
number three. But yeah, I
35:31
came well, I came up with this the first day I
35:34
met Mr. Okeron. He asked me to make
35:37
a tea combo, so I did, and that's what I came up
35:40
with. So if he wants you to return to an
35:44
island, do we need to look where?
35:47
Because he cuts off before mints. Is there a
35:49
mint container in the tea shop
35:52
that might be able to scrounge up, maybe hit something in there, maybe the
35:55
next clue somewhere? I guess we could look for the
35:58
mint box or something. I don't
36:01
know.
36:04
Yeah. All right, so you head back to the
36:07
tea shop and
36:09
things have been picked up a little bit since everything
36:12
happened. Obviously when you guys walked in and
36:16
found your friend on the floor, um, guards
36:19
were called, an investigation ensued. Not
36:21
much had come from it. You guys got
36:24
everything ready for the funeral? They had the funeral. And in
36:27
the meantime, during that time, you cleaned up, um,
36:30
in fact, community members, because know a lot of the
36:33
people in Gao Ling really supported and loved
36:35
Mr. Okran. So a lot of people would come by, they
36:38
would help clean up. They'd bring
36:41
you casseroles, as people
36:43
do in,
36:46
um, uh, uh, whatever the case. I mean, for the most
36:49
know, there was a really nice support from the
36:53
community. Um, so things are mostly back to normal. So
36:56
if you're looking for something or whatever, it's probably back in the place
36:59
that it normally was that you guys would know pretty well from working in the
37:01
tea shop.
37:04
Well, uh, Mika and
37:07
I aren't going to be too much help because we're just always washing
37:10
dishes. So where do you guys keep the
37:15
mint? Don't you guys help make
37:17
the dishes? I just do dishes.
37:20
Mr. Okran made all the tea. Well, he kept
37:23
all his no, I helped sometime. It's
37:26
right over. And you withdraw
37:29
a container of some dried
37:31
mint
37:34
leaves. I just
37:37
gotta pop this bad boy open.
37:39
Just dump it all over the counter. I, uh, popped, like,
37:42
the cork off the top of
37:46
it.
37:46
Guys, we should just drink the mix.
37:48
Of mango and
37:51
ah, good. It's a good combo. Mr. Okron
37:54
said so himself. He probably was lying, but, you
37:57
know are you going to try?
38:00
No.
38:01
Cheers to Mr. Okron.
38:02
Oh, no. He knew how much I hated tea. Pour it out
38:05
for him for the homies. Pour one
38:08
out for Okra, the legendary special
38:10
number three.
38:13
Uh, Guo is digging through the
38:15
mint container,
38:18
okay? Trying to check if anything
38:21
bless it. He grabs another an
38:24
empty container and empties it
38:27
into it. Okay,
38:29
uh, so he's taking the tea out of one container
38:32
into he wasn't finding anything right away, so he
38:35
just transferred the mint all into a different
38:38
container. Okay. He's looking inside the container to see if
38:41
there's anything in the bottom or anything.
38:44
Okay,
38:47
um, uh, as you do this, it's starting to get
38:49
dark outside. And obviously, given the
38:52
technological situation of the world of Avatar last airbender during
38:55
the 100 year War, somebody,
38:58
um, I would assume one of you probably goes around to
39:01
start lighting candles inside of the
39:05
space. Okay? All right, sounds good. So that way you guys can have
39:08
some light, uh, maybe some of the tables.
39:13
Um, nothing is inside of
39:16
the mint container,
39:20
unfortunately. I don't see anything in here, guys.
39:24
Um, Bill, what does your letter say?
39:27
Doesn't say we have to go to an island or something, like,
39:30
return to the shore where it all began or
39:32
something. So it's kind of
39:35
a long
39:38
story, but I guess you,
39:41
uh, guys should know the full story to be able to help me with
39:44
this, because I'm completely lost,
39:48
honestly.
39:48
Just look through Mr. O'brown's stuff. It talks about
39:51
a ship, an island. Look at his
39:54
personal belongings and see knickknacks,
39:56
you know, maps or
39:59
ships in a bottle
40:02
or something.
40:04
I guess you could do that.
40:07
You can say I'm right.
40:08
It's okay.
40:10
Okay, um, I don't think have you ever had
40:13
a ship? Well, we
40:16
were captured by
40:18
pirates. Um, Mr. Okeron and I were,
40:21
when we first met,
40:24
uh, actually captured the wrong word. We were more part of a
40:27
trade deal. Yeah, that's about the right word.
40:30
Yeah, that's true. It was a weird trade deal is what happened
40:33
to us. And we got
40:37
traded with pirates to let the rest of the
40:40
crew go, the rest of the passengers go.
40:43
Mhm. Uh, it was some fire nation
40:46
general that organized the whole trade deal
40:49
as well.
40:52
And it was weird. But
40:54
anyways, um, we got put on a pirate ship
40:57
and then we helped the pirate crew for a day. Mr.
41:00
Okra made them a bunch of tea and I swabbed the deck
41:03
and also knocked out a guy with bow staff,
41:06
so always been good at that, I guess. Uh, and then
41:08
we escaped on a dinghy with a bunch of
41:11
his tea and we
41:14
landed on the shores not too far from here in
41:17
that dinghy. Now I don't know what Mr. Okron did with
41:20
the dinghy itself. Maybe
41:23
he left it there all these years. I've never returned to
41:26
that spot. But
41:29
I don't know. Just reading this, it says, return yourself
41:32
to island shores. And the next clue is still
41:34
new. So part of me thinks that if we went back
41:37
to the exact same spot where
41:40
we washed up, that might
41:42
be where we go. But then talk to Matt
41:45
about a map and I think that might be where we
41:48
find a map. Oh,
41:51
maybe, uh, here. I'm going to assume that you guys
41:54
are all I'm going to hand it
41:57
to Han. Okay. The
42:00
riddle not Mika. I'm going to assume you guys are sitting around
42:03
one of the tables discussing this at the tea
42:06
shop. And as you go to
42:09
hand the piece of paper, you can kind of feel a little bit
42:12
of the heat from the candle in the middle of the table that's giving
42:15
you guys light. And as the
42:18
map passes by and that heat kind of emanates
42:21
towards it, um, you notice
42:24
some sort of scribbles on the back of the
42:27
paper of the letter. It's not actually
42:30
on there, Dave.
42:34
Sorry, those were my personal scribbles. But I'm just saying
42:37
in the game you notice some scribbles on the
42:40
back suddenly sort of appear. Guys, it smells
42:43
like lemons. Okay? Like
42:49
lemons.
42:51
Wait, there's something on the back of this. Or is this just
42:54
the trick of the
42:57
light? It is in fact not the trick of the
43:01
light. What does it say? Well, it's
43:04
only a fragment. It looks like just, uh, like I said, a
43:07
few scribbles of lines at the
43:13
moment. No, it does not say
43:23
that I had it upside
43:26
down. It's just a message from Mr. Ogron that
43:29
says whoa, you a
43:33
sussy got him. No, um, hold it
43:36
closer to the
43:39
flame. Catch it on fire. Catch it on
43:41
fire. Uh, you bring it a little bit closer to
43:44
the candlelight and more
43:47
of this
43:50
mysterious situation sort of starts, uh, to grow
43:53
across the page, almost like filling itself in. And
43:55
you realize that on the back of this page is
43:58
a map leading to an
44:01
island, um, shows where you guys are at from Gao
44:04
ling all the way over to, um,
44:07
an island that you guys maybe have heard of. I,
44:10
uh, feel like GuoHan probably definitely might have heard of because he's
44:13
traveled so much. But, um, it is an island known as
44:16
Whale Tail Island.
44:18
Whale Tail Island. Um, it's
44:21
right off of the shores of, uh, the
44:24
Earth Kingdom, kind of, uh,
44:27
I think it's at the bottom there. Sorry. We have
44:29
a map on the wall.
44:32
Yeah, that's where they sold Aang
44:35
they were bringing up. Yes,
44:38
but they,
44:41
um so that's where this map seems to
44:44
be leading you. Well, I, um, guess
44:47
we got to find a
44:51
boat. Should we head down to that shore, see if we can find anything?
44:53
Do we have enough.
44:58
Time? How long does it take to get to Whaletail
45:02
Island? Game Master do you have that? I could, but
45:05
I feel like it might be something you'll have to ask
45:07
a character. All
45:10
right, well, I figure we head down to the shores. There's probably
45:13
some sailors, fishermen we could talk to.
45:15
Maybe we can try and commandeer
45:18
a boat. How long
45:21
does it take to get there again?
45:25
Well, we got to ask one of them.
45:27
They'll probably know. Oh,
45:30
um man, looks like we're going on a trip,
45:33
guys. I got to go pack a bag for
45:37
Dilbert. I was going to say before we left, someone's got to feed him. I don't
45:40
think he's eaten this entire time. Oh, gosh, poor guy must be
45:43
hungry. That poor little cephalopod.
45:45
Uh, whatever the case, you guys spend the rest of
45:48
the night planning a little
45:51
bit prepping, packing, and obviously
45:54
feeding Dilbert. Uh, you wake up the
45:56
next morning feeling
45:59
rested and ready to go a little bit maybe
46:02
nervous, probably. And
46:05
hopefully, to some extent, this has
46:08
reignited some of the fire that might have been lost
46:11
by, uh, the depressing circumstances. But
46:14
whatever the case, uh, you head out and one place that you know
46:17
of in town that offers sort
46:20
of travel assistance,
46:24
um, it's located kind of on the edge
46:27
of Gaoling. I don't know. They have a couple
46:30
of, like it's basically like, what do you call them?
46:33
Travel agents. It's like a travel
46:35
agency. And you're like, okay, well, I'm
46:38
not necessarily going on a paid vacation, per se,
46:41
but I'll go check it out and see if they can give me information.
46:45
Maybe, um, you arrive and
46:48
there's ah, the lady at the
46:50
front desk,
46:53
but there's somebody talking to her. And rather
46:56
than her greeting you, this person just turns around. It's an
46:58
old man. He's crooked, almost at a
47:01
90 degree angle of his back. Turns, uh, around
47:04
and sees you all and he
47:07
says, where are you three go, four
47:10
going, where are you headed? Are you going on
47:14
vacation? We're going to the island of
47:17
Nunya. Nunya? I've been
47:19
to Nunya. I'm sure you
47:21
have. Uh, it's quite
47:24
a place?
47:27
Yeah, that's where we're going. So where are you
47:30
actually.
47:33
Going?
47:33
Whaletail island. Whale
47:36
Tail Island. We don't really
47:39
offer much of, uh, water
47:42
travel here at our agency, but, uh, we could get
47:45
you across the mountains to the shores. It's? Uh, right
47:48
over by Chin Village. That's where you want to go.
47:51
Oh, was he the travel agent? Yes. Oh, I
47:54
thought he was, like, an old man that he was helping. I like to
47:56
think I'm more of a guy. I thought
48:00
the person behind the desk was helping the old crooked
48:03
man, and then the customer asked, uh, that's why I
48:05
said,
48:08
nunya going to blow this random guy off. And then it
48:11
turns out it's like he's actually the
48:14
guy. I'm so
48:17
sorry. I thought oh, man.
48:20
So you're a guide? Yeah, I'm a guide. I can get
48:23
you across the mountain. There's mountains that you're
48:26
going to come with us? Not, uh, all the way
48:28
to Whaletail. Like I said, I don't offer, uh, uh,
48:31
water, uh, travel. But I can get you down across
48:34
the mountains. I know that area real
48:38
good. How long does a trip like that take us? Oh, if
48:41
you go my way, usually it only takes about a
48:44
day. I like that we only have
48:47
six, so we got to make it down and back in
48:50
that time. Wow. You guys only have six days to make
48:52
a whole big trip by the magic. What's going on? Is
48:55
someone dying?
48:56
Yeah, somebody died.
48:58
Not anymore. Bring that up.
49:01
I'm sorry to hear that. Do you offer,
49:04
uh, Bereavement discounts by chance? I do
49:06
not. Um, how much does it cost for
49:09
the shot? Do it for 100
49:12
yuan a day. What? Uh,
49:15
okay, man, uh, what about how.
49:17
About some nice mango mint
49:19
tea?
49:21
That what who came up with
49:24
that? Special number three. What
49:27
specials? One, two, cherry,
49:30
uh,
49:32
lime,
49:34
raspberry. Hibiscus, I will
49:37
take either of those over. Special
49:40
number three. Come on. Special number three is not
49:42
that bad. It sounds like it just doesn't
49:45
make sense.
49:46
So what you're saying is you'll take it instead of the
49:49
100?
49:49
You got it. Okay, I'll do a,
49:52
uh, bereavement discount. I'll do 50. You ought
49:55
a day. That's not
49:58
bad. He's got to make a living
50:02
somehow.
50:02
We're, uh, angsty.
50:09
Teens just died. How much living does he have
50:12
left to do?
50:15
I
50:18
hurt people. Their earring is supposed
50:21
to be lost, not enhanced. I
50:24
mean, we did kind of shake down the coyote board, so it's not like
50:27
we're strapped for cash. How much do you get
50:29
from them? We still have the thousand we were supposed
50:32
to give them. I mean, we
50:38
don't most of that's stuck in repairing the
50:41
shop. Yeah. So we had one, uh, thousand.
50:45
Yeah, the, uh, Blissful brew that
50:47
got ransacked a couple of days
50:50
back. Did you buy it? No, we
50:53
worked there. He, like, squints his eyes, and
50:56
he gets real close. He goes, oh, yes,
50:58
I remember you. Yes, I've seen all of you
51:01
going down. Wow. Okay, if you guys are involved with
51:04
Mr. Okaron, the late Mr.
51:07
Okra okay, well, then, yeah, I feel a lot better about
51:09
the Bereavement
51:12
discount. What a guy. You said you can
51:15
get us over the mountains in one
51:18
day? Yeah, by
51:20
foot. Yeah. Um, why? Do you not
51:23
like walking? Well, you see yeah. Uh, because me
51:26
and my friend here, we're both Earthbenders. Is there a quicker
51:29
way we can go through the mountain?
51:31
Not currently, but, uh, there's people working
51:34
on it. That really chaps
51:37
my
51:40
khakis. What are khakis? You're in ancient
51:43
times, sir. It's just a phrase. It's just a term.
51:46
Oh, you're starting something new. Yeah, I hope
51:48
it catches. Uh, I like to think I'm
51:51
streets ahead. You wouldn't want to
51:54
be caught streets behind that's
51:57
right. All right, guys, well, this is an emergency,
52:00
so let's just pay the man what he needs. Yeah, pay
52:03
the man what he needs. Yeah, Brock, pay the man what he needs. All
52:06
right, fine. Apparently
52:09
well, if anyone would protect the money the best, it'd
52:12
be you. Okay, that's fair. All
52:15
right. You would steal I have been whatever
52:20
extra you'd be slowly siphoning the
52:24
account. Which one of us ran the register? Uh
52:27
uh. Okay. Yeah, glo did. I've
52:30
been keeping track of our finances throughout
52:32
this adventure. So we
52:35
can
52:38
afford I have it all tallied down here. Does anybody else have
52:41
it? No. Okay. Yes, we
52:43
have enough. Gohan only works with the money when he's
52:46
on out, when he's on the
52:51
clock. Combined, we have more than enough
52:54
to cover. So we'll pay you
52:56
the 50 and can you start taking us
52:59
there now? Yeah, of course I can. I'm ready to go. And
53:02
since you paid my fee, that's what, uh
53:05
uh, hits me at the point where I will introduce myself to
53:08
you. And he holds out his hand to any of you, I
53:11
guess, and he says the name's
53:14
Rooney. I'll, uh, say, there we
53:16
go. A big strong man shaking
53:19
hands with little
53:23
old Rooney. Tall is this guy. Well,
53:26
that's the tricky. So, like, he looks like he could be
53:29
like maybe upper five foot, like
53:31
five foot 910. But
53:34
like I said, his back is so messed up. He's at like a
53:37
90 degree angle. He's like 3ft
53:40
tall. He got a cane. He's 3ft. Or is he just
53:43
like no, he's just still walking walking.
53:46
And he got it as an L. Yes, he's a
53:49
walking walking
53:53
seven. If he turns both of it. If he lays his hands out
53:56
flat and turns them in opposite directions while he walks,
53:59
he's like, mark their sevens with the
54:02
line in the middle. What he would look like when he wants to
54:05
get maximum speed. He puts his hands on the and
54:07
starts crawling. Oh, gosh, that would be
54:10
terrifying.
54:14
Yeah, he's just running in all if he starts running, he
54:17
puts his arms behind him. And he's always
54:20
naruto. Would that make him like a capital T?
54:28
Yes. What was this guy's name? Rooney.
54:31
Rooney. Uh, Rock. Doesn't know how to read, but sure knows his
54:37
letters. Yep. I can sound out letters
54:40
pretty well. There you go. Um, as you
54:43
guys are walking sorry. You guys start following him. He starts
54:46
leading you. He's like, all right, you guys are all packed?
54:49
Yes. Good. You're going to be glad
54:52
you did. All right. On our
54:55
way. And he starts to lead you guys through. And it's
54:58
a pretty straightforward shot to the mountains
55:01
themselves. Um, lots of hills, lots of
55:04
ravines. Um, it's pretty uneventful
55:07
until about like four
55:10
or 5 hours through, maybe six
55:13
maybe 6 hours in. And
55:16
you guys start, uh, to notice that there's like a
55:19
pathway that started to become carved out into
55:21
the mountains. It's, um, a pretty
55:23
wide pathway. And he's leading you
55:26
through an area that's like, alongside of it, but
55:29
not actually on the pathway itself. Do you
55:32
think is a little bit maybe
55:35
strange? Why, uh, aren't we walking on this
55:37
path? Why are you taking us over here? Oh,
55:41
yeah, it's under construction right now. See, just up
55:44
ahead and he points and you can see some dust
55:47
that seems to be rising like a dust cloud.
55:50
Um, uh, kind of further down you can't quite see because it's
55:53
over a mountain hill, but there's a dust cloud kind of starting to rise
55:56
up. And he's like, yeah, they've been working on this path. That's why I kind of
55:59
made that comment earlier about they're
56:02
working on a way through the
56:05
mountain, but it's not done yet. Can we go check it
56:08
out anyways? There's not much to see. It's just a bunch
56:10
of guys earth bending their
56:13
way through.
56:14
Sounds like a waste of time.
56:16
I agree. It's a big waste of time when you
56:19
got guys like me that can get people through the
56:22
mountains, easy peasy. But
56:24
could we, in theory, get through quicker if we talk to
56:27
those guys? Like I said, it's not done
56:30
yet. I mean, you'd get so far and then it would
56:33
just be back
56:36
to bear walking the
56:40
mountain. Well, I mean, why would it be brought
56:43
up if not some sort of
56:46
adventure? We're on a time French
56:49
frog adventure. Yeah, we're on an adventure. We're on
56:52
a freaking treasure hunt. All I will
56:54
say is, how much adventure do you
56:57
need? Sounds like a cool thing. You
57:00
do eventually come up to where the cloud
57:03
is kind of rising from. And sure enough, there's a bunch
57:05
of what look like Earthbenders that seem to be
57:08
like stomping the ground and moving rocks and stuff out
57:11
of the way as they're making this pathway
57:14
through. Um, there's a main guy
57:17
with like a fancy outfit on and
57:20
he seems to be kind of directing
57:23
people. And you guys are kind of coming up alongside of this whole
57:26
little construction
57:32
situation. Man, these guys always sing the catchiest
57:35
tune.
57:38
Yeah. Don't make me have to go find
57:42
music. It's very rhythmic
57:45
work. It is very rhythmic. There's seven
57:48
different octaves being sung at the same time.
57:50
It's fantastic. And they all somehow
57:53
sound like Skyler gorset. Oh, god.
57:56
Uh, sounds like the Dwarves from
57:59
yes, the Hobbit. That'd be
58:03
awesome. Um,
58:06
yeah, that's the scene that you see as you guys are walking
58:09
on by. Why would this be brought up if
58:12
not for interactions? That's all I'm
58:15
saying. Is this Connor talking? This
58:18
is breaking the fourth
58:22
wall. Why would this be happening?
58:25
That's so narcissistic. Sorry,
58:29
broccoli. Would this be happening if not for us to
58:32
check it
58:35
out? No, it's fine. If you guys want to keep going,
58:38
that's fine. Just keep going. I mean, if I'm getting outvoted
58:41
here, you're definitely getting outvoted
58:44
here. Um, I want to see a bunch of guys push
58:47
rocks. If we're, like, walking, kick right past
58:52
it. If we're walking, like, right past it. Can't
58:55
though. It's not my power. Yeah, you're pretty,
58:57
like, alongside. Like I said, you guys would be kind of like
59:00
up on a hill section overlooking
59:03
their progress that they're
59:07
making. It looks like they're doing good work,
59:10
but not complete. How long have they been working on
59:13
this for? Oh, man, it's been about maybe
59:16
two years I think now. Uh, yeah, they weren't going to
59:19
finish today. Brock they're about halfway done.
59:22
I think they've really plowed through the center of the
59:25
mountain, practically.
59:28
It's, uh, something about
59:31
trading with a fire nation and
59:33
something I don't know what they're trying to do, but make, uh,
59:36
it easier, I guess,
59:39
with
59:41
Galwing. Yeah. Try to get me out of a job,
59:44
that's for
59:47
sure. I guess we'll just keep
59:50
going. How long have you been doing this
59:53
route? Me? Oh, man. I found this route when
59:56
I was growing up in these mountains as a
59:59
boy. That was long before I was bent at a
1:00:02
90 degree angle.
1:00:05
Oh, so you weren't born that way? No. Did you think I
1:00:08
was born that way this whole
1:00:11
time? I don't know. What do you take me for?
1:00:14
An l name a seven.
1:00:16
A seven. That's better than an
1:00:18
ah, lucky number. Yeah, that's right.
1:00:21
I like to think I'm quite lucky. I've been
1:00:24
making my way through this mountain pass and surviving all
1:00:27
the dangers, minus the one that put
1:00:30
my back the way it is. Just,
1:00:32
uh, rock fell on me. Wait, something
1:00:36
happened? Oh, no. Just a rock. Really big
1:00:39
rock fell on me.
1:00:42
Uh, yes, my back stayed this shape, but
1:00:45
I can still walk around. What
1:00:48
happened to the rock?
1:00:50
Uh, it fell
1:00:52
off me and it
1:00:55
hurt. Well, not the rock I hurt. And then
1:00:58
I crawled back home. Crawled back.
1:01:01
Uh, and I don't know whatever happened to that rock.
1:01:04
I'm sure it's off happy with its rock.
1:01:06
Family go like a healer.
1:01:08
Went, uh, to a chiropractor it did not
1:01:11
work.
1:01:16
Yeah, we're walking and
1:01:21
talking. It's not like we idly stand there. We
1:01:24
wait for the dialogue box to
1:01:27
continue these
1:01:33
mountains. As um, you guys are
1:01:36
leaving the scene of the construction work
1:01:38
in your wake. You um,
1:01:41
suddenly hear a huge
1:01:44
explosive
1:01:47
sound. And you can feel the uh rocks and such
1:01:50
around you rumbling. And Rooney seems very surprised.
1:01:53
What is going on? And all uh, of a sudden you start
1:01:56
to hear shouts and screams coming from over in
1:01:58
the construction
1:02:02
area. We got to go see. Everyone's okay?
1:02:05
Right. I don't know. We maybe should just get out
1:02:08
of here. There could be an
1:02:11
avalanche. Wait, those aren't seem like an
1:02:14
avalanche.
1:02:15
Mudslide seven could just have more friends. Need start
1:02:18
a gang?
1:02:20
No, he has a job already. He doesn't need to start a
1:02:23
gang. Why are you talking about starting a gang? You ever heard
1:02:26
anything like this explosion? It
1:02:28
sounded like more look like it sounded
1:02:31
like something was crawling out of the
1:02:35
mountain. What crawling
1:02:37
out of the mountain? Is he hard of hearing?
1:02:40
Um, my fox dog starts running towards
1:02:43
it.
1:02:43
Okay. Oh, there goes the
1:02:46
dog. There he
1:02:50
goes. You're going to lose that fox
1:02:54
dog. Gilbert's riding
1:02:57
it out of his squid bottle and
1:03:01
just there goes the
1:03:05
squid. Why are you so familiar with all the
1:03:08
animals? Oh, there goes
1:03:12
that. I've seen an animal or two. We've been
1:03:15
with this man for 6 hours. Practically is
1:03:18
our uncle at this point. All right, I'll run after it. No one
1:03:21
else will. I'll save. There goes the
1:03:24
big guy. No, I'm running after. There
1:03:27
goes the little guy. You
1:03:29
guys saying no I'm already
1:03:32
uh, there goes the only
1:03:37
girl. Um, just you and
1:03:41
me. Let's go check it out, I guess.
1:03:44
And you head off. Yeah. Be mindful of your back.
1:03:47
Well, as you start walking he says and there
1:03:51
goes the guy. And here
1:03:54
goes me. And he
1:03:57
just starts heading forward very
1:04:00
much. Beelim. He's like a pointer
1:04:03
dog. There you go. He just moves in the direction that
1:04:06
his entire body is pointing pretty much. Um, as
1:04:08
you guys make your way up towards the
1:04:11
construction site, you see before to you
1:04:14
a giant collection
1:04:16
of rocks that seems to all be combined
1:04:19
to itself. As if a humanoid
1:04:22
shape with two arms and two legs. No
1:04:25
real head per se. Um, but on the top of
1:04:28
where the head would be is a small red gem that
1:04:31
glints inside the sunlight. And it seems
1:04:34
to be swinging and smashing
1:04:37
down towards this construction crew who is all
1:04:40
jumping and leaping out of the way. Some of them look injured. They look
1:04:42
like they've had rocks fall on them. Um, they're not in an
1:04:45
L shape but I digress. And uh, that's
1:04:48
the scene that you see before
1:04:51
you. And as Rooney approaches and you guys are
1:04:54
all seeing this happening below you in the ravine where
1:04:57
they were digging out, he says, oh my
1:05:00
gosh, it's a mountain spirit.
1:05:03
And with that, we'll come back to
1:05:06
the mountain spirit next
1:05:11
time.
1:05:11
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