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S1-Ep.3: A Tale of Three Hoodies · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily Pad production.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Team Up Play Show podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the City of Bones.
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  Speaker 2: The hidden powers of this world have been unleashed. Three
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  Speaker 2: avatars of the unknown Wonders stand on the rooftop of
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  Speaker 2: an abandoned warehouse in the station, trying to see each
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  Speaker 2: other through a misty, nagging rain. The fog that obscures
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  Speaker 2: the view of each other seeps also into your minds
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  Speaker 2: as you try to think through the unnatural that you've encountered.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have powers.
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  Speaker 1: Quanta like pulls her ball of clava down, making sure
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  Speaker 1: it's on her face.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't think there were any of us, and
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  Speaker 4: you're You're not Day No, not me?
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, of course no. I I just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I assumed it was like
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  Speaker 1: a weird day thing about me.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it might be. There's no telling if we
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  Speaker 4: all got these gifts from the same sources. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 4: says seems strange. A generation no powers and then you
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  Speaker 4: two and the others in the warehouse all in one night.
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  Speaker 3: Suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: Well you too, right here, including yourself, us three.
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  Speaker 3: Five altogether that we know of Yeah, how hard is
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  Speaker 3: it raining at this point?
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  Speaker 5: Not that hard.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little missed. Okay, n get my papers getting
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  Speaker 3: kind of soggy, just a little bit, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: With my knowledge of heroes and EVO stories, can I
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  Speaker 4: try to recall if these two people's power sets line
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  Speaker 4: up with anyone from history that I would know about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: make a knowledge check. This is going to be simple
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  Speaker 4: for you. Okay, I got a nine.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, I rolled a three. You think back going through
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  Speaker 2: your rolodex of heroes of the past, and there were
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  Speaker 2: heroes that controlled weather, certainly, and maybe not so much heroes,
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  Speaker 2: but people that helped the world heal from the Great
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  Speaker 2: Depression and the kind of using up all the resources.
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  Speaker 2: So that rings a familiar bell, maybe to Quanta. You
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  Speaker 2: never heard of anybody who controlled paper?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that would definitely stick out to me. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 4: should I call you guys again? I'm the paper Phantom
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  Speaker 4: and you.
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  Speaker 1: Rijels to meet you both, and I would like to
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  Speaker 1: do a scan to see their feelings.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, six, it's a very close fail. I rolled a
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  Speaker 2: six also through the mist. It's hard to tell how
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  Speaker 2: these two are feeling. Their powers shroud some of your ability, So.
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  Speaker 4: Is your friend. Okay, Oh yeah, I like a gesture
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  Speaker 4: to the large day man I had laid down.
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  Speaker 1: I go to like pat his head and then like
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  Speaker 1: realize that that is not something I would do if
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  Speaker 1: he was awake, and just kind of moved my handback.
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  Speaker 1: I think he'll be okay. Thank you for helping me.
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  Speaker 1: I actually might need your help to move him somewhere else.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean I can do that now.
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  Speaker 3: What's wrong with him? Is he sick?
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  Speaker 1: No, he's like hungry. Maybe I don't actually is he
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  Speaker 1: like you? Maybe I'm honestly still learning about him. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm usually really good at reading people and knowing if
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  Speaker 1: I can well, maybe I'm not so good at knowing
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  Speaker 1: who I can trust. But for some reason, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I can trust you too. I mean, we seem
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  Speaker 1: to be after the same people in there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we know. They mentioned something about a shelter up
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  Speaker 3: to the north.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds like they're catching people when they're desperate.
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  Speaker 4: And you're that woman from the news.
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, i'd pull my tuck at my ballaklava again,
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  Speaker 1: but you said that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it. I don't have to do this if
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  Speaker 4: you don't want to, But it's okay. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 4: tell anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Is he gonna tell anybody?
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  Speaker 2: But I think based on your check of trying to
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  Speaker 2: read him before, you don't get that sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was me, and those men in there
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  Speaker 1: think I'm dead and they still should actually after tonight,
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  Speaker 1: even though they saw me.
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  Speaker 3: Would Jason have seen this in the news? Does he
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  Speaker 3: know what they're talking about? Well? Rolla, rolla ready, check
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  Speaker 3: ready for reading the newspaper? Ready ready or knowledge? Take
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  Speaker 3: knowledge too? I got a seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you saw Ronnie in the news as well, murderer
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  Speaker 2: and heretic.
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  Speaker 1: I just give a little nod. That's what they're saying.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I suppose that means we're gonna be working outside
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  Speaker 3: of the confines.
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  Speaker 4: Of the law. Well, not all the laws, I mean, yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I don't think we're allowed to exactly do
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  Speaker 4: what we did back there. But also if what was
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  Speaker 4: going on down there was legal, then this city's more
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  Speaker 4: fucked up than I thought it.
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  Speaker 1: It really is, and I'm I mean, I've only scratched
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  Speaker 1: the surface, but I'm I'm trying to figure out just
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  Speaker 1: how fucked up it is and fix what I can.
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  Speaker 3: The blame may fall on us, think about it. The
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  Speaker 3: rhino only speaks in poems and riddles. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: all those people that were hurt, they might be killed.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of killed the one that could have talked,
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  Speaker 3: which maybe is good and bad. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I don't know either.
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  Speaker 3: Where do we think they came from?
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  Speaker 4: Who was that guy they were working with?
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  Speaker 1: That's that's Gabrielle. I don't know too much about him.
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  Speaker 1: That he was part of this council or the Church
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  Speaker 1: of the New Babbel day and along with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the other men in that room who were not
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  Speaker 1: you know, religious folks, well one of them seemed to be,
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  Speaker 1: but not not for the CNBD.
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  Speaker 3: I recognized a few of the people there from the
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  Speaker 3: Irish mob. Seems like they might be working together some
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  Speaker 3: sort of conspiracy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's okay, my friend here, my friend. They
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  Speaker 1: were using him as their own personal assassin. What yeah, Like,
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  Speaker 1: did they have dared on him or something? No, they
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  Speaker 1: had like a device that controlled him. And I still
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  Speaker 1: don't really understand it all, even though I could, you know,
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  Speaker 1: see the device and read it, and it all just
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  Speaker 1: happened so fast. I am I released him and destroyed
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  Speaker 1: the device. Good, But I think he might have. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm pretty sure he committed one of the
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  Speaker 1: murders that the CNBT says that I did.
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  Speaker 3: Many chances we can wake him up and I kick
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  Speaker 3: him a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're both humans, So if you wanted to put
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  Speaker 1: some of your blood right there, sorry, we can. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you, I like, point to the port on his back.
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  Speaker 1: As far as I know, human blood goes in there.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Now, Johnny, this isn't a normal day thing, right, correct?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: I looked to the paper, Fano, and I say, uh,
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  Speaker 4: do you want to.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be honest, I don't know if I trust you
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  Speaker 3: to give you my blood?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, Yeah, that's a weird thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's a weird request.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird night, and I I honestly, I honestly
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  Speaker 1: don't know if if we should wake him up here
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  Speaker 1: and now?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well, do you need somewhere where he can lay
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  Speaker 4: low for a little bit? I know a place?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, can I can I go? Can I see it too?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but maybe a little more quietly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you might have to carry me.
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  Speaker 3: How much rain is coming down now?
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  Speaker 2: Still just missing, but you are getting pretty pulpy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, you can see like pieces of a phantom's cloak,
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  Speaker 3: like starting to shred off and sluff as he's like
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  Speaker 3: trying to cover his head from the rain. Wherever we go?
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  Speaker 3: Could we go soon? That would be great?
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  Speaker 4: Well? How about how about this, Johnny? Could you remind me,
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  Speaker 4: like how geographically where is I don't know what to
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  Speaker 4: call it? Where's my new pad? In relation to the
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  Speaker 4: station you've been calling it the Manor?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I have the manor Is.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be southeast. The station is downtown and the Manor
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  Speaker 2: is in Sas. Okay, I got a place in Sas.
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  Speaker 4: We can meet. I look hard at these two, but
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  Speaker 4: I need to know I can trust you guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we just fought together, but I don't know. I also
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  Speaker 4: just met you. But I it would be really nice
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  Speaker 4: if you guys weren't bad people.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you already know who I am, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you I didn't do it. I mean, I can
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  Speaker 1: I can show you that I didn't do it if
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  Speaker 1: you'll let me.
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  Speaker 3: Bad is a relative term.
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  Speaker 4: Yais dude nice? If you punish the wicked, does that
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  Speaker 4: make you bad? Depends on the punishment. It depends on
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  Speaker 4: the degree of wickedness.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I'm still I don't really thought that
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  Speaker 1: went through it, to be honest.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Incess, there's a burger joint. I'm gonna give you
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  Speaker 4: the address to it. Meet me there, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: as soon as you can in one hour in plain clothes,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll take you to a place we.
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  Speaker 3: Can hang out.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, deal, Okay, meet me at the Grimace King on
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  Speaker 4: forty fifth in Southern I look at Quanta and I say,
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  Speaker 4: if you trust me, let me take your friend. I
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  Speaker 4: have a room with a bed. I'll let him rest
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  Speaker 4: there and I will meet you at that Grandma's King.
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  Speaker 1: I think Quanta is frustrated that she can't see if
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  Speaker 1: this is the truth or not. But he did stop
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  Speaker 1: the rhina tar from harming her, and she's gotta trust somebody. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, don't don't put your blood.
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  Speaker 4: In him, got it. I look at paper Fan I'm
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  Speaker 4: and say, you'll be there.
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  Speaker 3: I've got nothing else going on.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be honest, God, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I summon another flying star. I bend down and pick
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  Speaker 4: up this large day man and a fireman carry I
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  Speaker 4: kind of gingerly step on the star, trying to keep
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  Speaker 4: my balance and I'm saying I'll see.
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  Speaker 7: You soon, see you soon, and I fly away, so
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  Speaker 7: you can.
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  Speaker 3: Head right there.
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  Speaker 1: Probably to be honest.
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  Speaker 4: Cool cool, cool cool cool.
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  Speaker 3: How's my paper looking? It's slough enough? Yeah. Do you
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  Speaker 3: want me to make some kind of check to like
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  Speaker 3: try and hold it together?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's do a guts check balls plus your paper, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just standing so still just looking at the paper.
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  Speaker 1: Phantom an eighth.
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  Speaker 2: I rolled a seven close, So yeah, you're keeping it together.
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  Speaker 2: You you start to feel the pulp run down, and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, this is also just paper, really, so
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  Speaker 2: you can kind of make a mushy, gooey version of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Nice all right, Yeah, yeah, mache man, I just start
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  Speaker 2: looking kind of like swollen and lumpy noise.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna I guess I'll see there like pieces
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  Speaker 3: of paper flop off as I like gesture gotta go
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  Speaker 3: and do awkwardly walk to the edge of the roof
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  Speaker 3: and like drop off your a satisfying.
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  Speaker 1: PLoP contil it's out a sigh. Oh Gabe, did you
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  Speaker 1: hear all that?
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  Speaker 8: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: There's there's more like me out here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good, right.
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  Speaker 1: I think so it was. It was good tonight. I'm
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  Speaker 1: alive because of that, because of them.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, good.
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  Speaker 1: Till Can you can you contact Julian and tell her
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be home later than I thought?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, well, they said show up in normal clothes. Are
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  Speaker 2: you gonna come back here?
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  Speaker 1: I probably should, shouldn't I I mean I can just yeah, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I broke my sunglasses. Yeah, okay, I'm coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Cool. He's in you strike off the rooftop paper, phantom?
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  Speaker 3: Are you going home to get clothes? I've got clothes
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  Speaker 3: on underneath what's now just a big wet waw of
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  Speaker 3: paper that a'll as soon as I'm out of eyesight,
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  Speaker 3: just kind of like floop off. I guess yeah, if
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  Speaker 3: I have time to detour back to get paper, but
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  Speaker 3: otherwise I'll just start skateboarding over there.
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  Speaker 2: The three of you split off with plans to meet
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  Speaker 2: again at a Grimace King, the famous burger joint.
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  Speaker 1: It's so good, m Jillian and I's favorite way better.
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  Speaker 3: Than burger dukes.
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  Speaker 2: When we are thrust out of our comfort zone by
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  Speaker 2: the circumstance of life, we look for anything to cling
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  Speaker 2: on to, anything to trust in the three of you
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  Speaker 2: travel over the night sky or on the ground if
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  Speaker 2: you're grounded, and hope deeply that the two people you
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  Speaker 2: just met will be allies in this time of doubt.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Close to the Pendragon Library, four large boys of her
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  Speaker 2: over a young girl named Olivia. Olivia says, no, I
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  Speaker 2: promise that place is haunted. I saw a ghost. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta believe me. One of the boys says, you better
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  Speaker 2: not be lying, you little bitch.
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  Speaker 1: Rude, crude.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the would be bully says, bitch, like you heard
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  Speaker 2: it in a movie. If you're shitting us, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: beat the little girl snot out of you. Live, Olivia,
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  Speaker 2: trying desperately to gain the respect of this group of boys.
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  Speaker 1: You can do better live.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows why? A desire to belong Maybe for protection.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe her father and mother haven't given her the time
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  Speaker 2: of day. Maybe she has no brothers. Who knows, But
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  Speaker 2: whatever the reason, she says, no, I promise I know
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  Speaker 2: a secret way.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Injameer's manner, there is a secret phone in the pantry.
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  Speaker 2: A young, freckled, auburn hair girl named Maria is hanging
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  Speaker 2: it up and tears rain down on her spotted cheeks.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: She's gotten some bad news. She pours herself some nice
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  Speaker 2: whiskey that Jamir's grandma would keep on hand, and then
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  Speaker 2: goes to slump in the den, thinking that the house's
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  Speaker 2: master won't come home tonight. She says, that's not fair.
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  Speaker 2: What could I have done differently? And puts her head
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  Speaker 2: in her hand and cries. In a hidden laboratory on
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  Speaker 2: the northernmost point of town, where city abruptly becomes desert, Quanta,
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  Speaker 2: your father is tied to a chair and struck in
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  Speaker 2: the freshly bruised face. He spits blood, nearly passing out,
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  Speaker 2: and says, you know if you keep hitting me, I
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  Speaker 2: won't be able to see the work you're asking.
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  Speaker 3: Me to do.
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  Speaker 2: The bearer of the hand retorts, well, you weren't doing
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  Speaker 2: it anyway. I'll give you another chance to when you
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  Speaker 2: healed up. Next to your father's chair is a bucket
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  Speaker 2: for waist.
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  Speaker 3: Too.
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  Speaker 2: Close to that is a plate with an old sandwich
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  Speaker 2: on it. And in the lab there is a table
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  Speaker 2: with a day woman strapped on it. Her limbs are
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  Speaker 2: pulled off and strapped down. Her complex inner tubing is exposed,
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  Speaker 2: and a broken device that one might wear on their
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  Speaker 2: shoulders is sitting next to her on the table attacked
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  Speaker 2: to a day spine paper phantom. You glide towards the library,
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  Speaker 2: or squish towards the library, getting hoping to get some
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  Speaker 2: of your paper reserves, just in case you have to
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  Speaker 2: get in another fight tonight. And you hear voices on
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  Speaker 2: the rooftop.
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  Speaker 3: I'll uh, I'll try and ride the gutter of the
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  Speaker 3: library and see there's any paper in there, and see
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  Speaker 3: if I can schleff my way up. You get up.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: You hear one of the boys say, well, it looks
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  Speaker 2: like you've lied. We're going to have to beat this
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  Speaker 2: shit out of you now. Somebody's got to keep their promises.
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  Speaker 2: You see four boys surrounding a small girl and they
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  Speaker 2: start to raise their fists.
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  Speaker 3: I'll immediately I see and everything goes white. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: make myself as big as possible, a giant paper gollumn
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  Speaker 3: of wads and dripping gooey paper.
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  Speaker 2: This lump of moving paper sluglike slashes across the roof.
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  Speaker 3: What do you do? What do you say?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Spit like spit watts at them?
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's make a cox check to scare the
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  Speaker 2: shit out of them with your paper stuff paper Nancy eleven,
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  Speaker 2: Oh eleven, I wrote a four. So you beat me
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  Speaker 2: by six or something eight and seven? You beat me
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  Speaker 2: by seven and even seven. The boys panic, the paper
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  Speaker 2: wads hitting them in the face. They stand there as
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  Speaker 2: you scream, their hair being blown back, wads of paper
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  Speaker 2: and spit hit in rain, hitting them in the face.
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  Speaker 2: They just stand and look at you, scream, horrified, wide eyed,
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  Speaker 2: and then you stop your roar. There's a moment. What
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  Speaker 2: do you say, learn to be better? They all panic,
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  Speaker 2: turn around, run down the ladder, except for the little girl.
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  Speaker 3: She looks up at you. I knew you were real. Umm,
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  Speaker 3: I knew you were real too. Really mm hmmm, good
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  Speaker 3: gog like my arms are like all swollen, like big,
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  Speaker 3: like almost like a clay faced monstrosity. And just like
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  Speaker 3: pat her on the head to stay in school. Leave
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of wet paper in her hair.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, nice, nice paper ghost, thank you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, don't mention it.
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  Speaker 4: And she.
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  Speaker 2: Turns and heads down the ladder.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as she's gone, I'll unclench and all the
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  Speaker 3: paper will just like flop off of me. Moving it
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: with all the water is really hard. I think I
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: swallowed some.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: You get some paper in a duffel bag that would
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: stay dry from the rain, and you head out in
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: your cities. Jamiir, you get to your place in Sass
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: with a giant day Man on your shoulders.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I think my plan for that would be, first off,
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I want to just fly high. Yeah, I want to
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: just go up and if I can even go higher
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: than the then the rain clouds. Just to just to
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: do it. While I'm holding this big lug, I imagine
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I kind of pull up all my hunchdowns and pull
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: up on my star, maybe to point it upward and
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: kind of mentally urge it to go forward as I'm
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: pulling up on the front, just to just to see
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: how high I can take this bad bully.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You go higher and higher and higher, and then when
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: you crest and come over the highest skyscraper in the
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: city just probably the highest thing is maybe the space BArch.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's one or two buildings that are higher.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, your flights star disappears what you start to fall.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Jimmy here is just clinging to this day man as
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: we are picking speed, and I shut my eyes and
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: I just try to make another flight star death.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and make a guts check plus your
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: flight star.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: I'm bad at guts, but I do have a flight star.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: That's a total of a three.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Jamiir Is you're falling, you come past second highest rung
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: of buildings, falling, grabbing Dirk.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: You have one more check and then you're gonna hit
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the ground.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna send it to make the
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: flights maybe, okay, a little better. Six.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I rolled to that time. Your flight star comes into existence.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Just as you're gonna scrape the ground, Dirk's let feet
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: like scrape the sidewalk and like make sparks as you
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: guys just pull up.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, Oh my gosh. Yeah, I like fully
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: like land like get off the flight star for a beat.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: I'm just holding this day, man. I catch my breath, okay, okay,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: not not too high? What the I shake it out?
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Look around? Do I get a sense of where I
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: am in the city where I kind of.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're kind of halfway in between uh where you
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: mean to go and downtown. So you're you're in Sass,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: uh in the northern part of sass.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Okay, I keep I can always dirk over my right shoulder,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: and I kind of I kind of want to crouch
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: on my flight star so that my cape can kind
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: of obscure it as it as it dangles or as
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: it drapes around the flight star. And I wanna I
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: want to slightly at incognitoway fly and land maybe a
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: couple of blocks away from the man. Sure you're going
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: in the front door. No, no, I'll yeah, I'll land
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: a couple of blocks away. And then I imagine I'm
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: trying to like cut through alleys, maybe even cut through
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: a backyard and kind of try to approach the manner
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: from behind, like a sneak check. I will do my
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: my sleep. My sneak is a little better than my guts.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Seven.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: You're not sure if I notice you or not, but
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you sneak in back alleyways trying to get this large
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: man who is light for you into the manner without
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: being seen. You open your back door and surprisingly see
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Maria sitting in a chair. Hey, she looks up.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: At you, eyes go wide.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: No, No, I'm she looks a little whiskey. Her eyes are red.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, Maria, Maria.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I pull off the do rac cover my nose and eyes,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: and I pulled with I'm holding this giant day man
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: with my right arm. With my left, I pulled my
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: dog up and then I pull my bandana down to
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: reveal my face and say it's a Sjumiir, we got company.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Jay, I'm I'm so sorry. She points to the whiskey
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: she's drinking. I had, I had, I had a bad
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: You're off the clock. It's nice. I don't give him,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: but this belongs to your grandma. It's whiskey. We can
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: buy more. It's okay, Okay. She's incredibly apologetic as you
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: drag in this wet day man.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's do you know the room on the second
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: floor with the biggest bed. Yeah, of course. Uh yeah,
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: you guys head up there.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: She's trying to like help you kind of lift his
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: feet up the stairs.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know who this guy is, but you never
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: saw him. Okay, okay, okay, how much did I drink? No,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: this is not alcohol. This is this is what I've
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: been working on upstairs.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: The less you know right now, I assume the better.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: There's gonna be a couple of people coming over tonight.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: I don't think they're gonna be staying. I don't think
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be staying, but if you could put on
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: maybe some some coffee and maybe put out the guacan chips.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Okay, sure I'm gonna I'm gonna get
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: changed and this is this, this stays in house.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I don't know what I would say.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, don't. I don't know if you talk to any
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: many people about this job. But don't don't talk about today.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: You got it, seriously though, seriously? Yeah, no, I got you.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: I won't okay, I believe you, And I mean after
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: you put the coffee on, take the night off. Oh
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: I don't, right, Yeah, you can just chill out. You
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: don't need to meet these folks. I think I can
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: trust them, but you don't really know.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: You sometimes you meet someone new and they surprise you wildly.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't have to talk about this, okay, I
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: I yeah. I kind of quietly, even though I know
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: he's not sleeping, I kind of quietly closed the door
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: that the day man's in. I bound up the stairs
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: toward the study. There, I left the clothes that I
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: had come in on, and I see the open window
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: that I had climbed out of. Yeah, and I take
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: off my wet costume. In loose terms, I kind of
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: hang it over the chair at the desk, and I
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: put on my civilian clothes, my street clothes, and I
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: throw on a hoodie, pull the hood up. I see
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Maria in the kitchen. I assume as I'm headed out. Okay,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go pick up these people. I don't know
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: how long that guy is gonna be staying with us.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Could be a while, could be just a few hours.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: If if if you hear anything loud going on, run run, yeah,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: or high What kind of loud thing could happen if
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: you hear like banging or explosions or people screaming, Either
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: hide or run at your discretion, trust your instincts. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: don't think this is gonna go left, but I'm learning
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: stuff upstairs, and there's a lot of crazy shit going
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: on in this city.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Jay, I'll do what you need tonight, but I do
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: want to talk about tonight at some point, of course.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Okay, you no, no, no, you, Hey, I owe you
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: an explanation. Okay, good. I just want you to be safe,
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: is what I'm trying to do. You do you want
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: to stay with a friend. I can, I can go
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: stay with a friend. Yeah, yeah, I probably won't be
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: back for like forty five minutes, so take your time. Yeah,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: I'll see you tomorrow probably, Okay, okay.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: I'll see you then.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Maria. Of course. I grab a chip, scoop
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: it in the glock, throw it back, enjoy the crunch
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: in the creaminess in my mouth, as this is a
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: luxury that before Jamir had a little a spending budget
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: that we have at the manor, a delicacy like this
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: would be rarely enjoyed, and Jamir still can appreciate a
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: good guock. And then I try to slink in unnoticed
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: ways to the grimace King.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Quanta.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: As you start to head back to your place in Kno,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the falling rain and the buzz in the air that
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: it brings connect you to the world around you in
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: a deeper way. All the feeling gives you a pattern
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: of what's around you, and you lock onto a familiar
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: system of electrical signaling. The signaling looks up quickly, briefly
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: at the freak lightning that's so close to the ground,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: and then goes on with his business. It's camp the
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: man with money tattoos. He's speaking with a man in
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: a back alleyway.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I stop wherever I struck last and get as close
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: as I can without using my lightning whip. Am I
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: like on top of a building? Mm hmm? Okay, how
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: far did I make it from him?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: You can kind of crawl down the fire escapes here.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I want to get closer.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: You start to hear their conversation. Camp doesn't like that
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: you don't have money tonight. Camp says, tonight was the
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: night you're supposed to have it, and if Camp doesn't
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: show up with your money, then he's going to get
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: in trouble. Listen, I'll do you this solid because you're
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: usually on time. I have a stop far up north
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: before I'm done tonight. Then I'll come back here and
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: you better have it. It's gonna take me, I don't
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: know thirty minutes. He walks towards the street. He looks
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: to the five men on hover bikes waiting for him
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: on the street, and he says, Camp needs to go
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: up north to the hospital. Three of you stay here,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: make sure this one gets working on what he owes.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Two of you come with Camp. Camp gets in a
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: large hover van that has pad locked doors in the
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: back and starts driving north.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Can I see who he was speaking to.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, entering back into a doorway that light and the
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: sounds of merrymaking are pouring out of is a small
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Asian man.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: What's what's the building that he's in?
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: So it's a residence high rise okay, and it seems
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: like in a kind of a half basement level area.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: There's some sort of gathering going on.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: I want to read that man, sure, see what he's feeling.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Seven that's a success. As you read him as he
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: walks back in, there's a lot of fear and terror
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: as he ponders how he's going to get this money
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: in the next thirty minutes.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Quanta having stumbled upon this happening and
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: seeing one of the men she wants to know more
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: about in takedown shaking down some one for payment, and
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: knowing she has to meet these other two that she
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: just met soon is I think she's kind of like
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: shocked to like indecision for a moment and a little
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: bit like panicked feeling the where the bullets hit her
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: earlier in the night, and like quickly goes through like
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: scenario after scenario, Like I could try to go out
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: down there and like beat up the guards. But then
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Camp's coming back and he's gonna want money from this man,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: but I don't know what for, and I don't know
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: who this man is, and this man could end up
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: getting hurt, and just like because of like what she
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: did before with the church. She's just like all these
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: like dominoes fall because of actions that she takes. And
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: it's too scared to do anything, all right, And it moves
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: on you head, Yeah, get some clothes. Yeah, Gabe and
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Jillian are there. I hey, Jillian runs up to you,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: kind of grabs you, takes off your bottle clava.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: No, how are you okay?
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: No?
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: What what's wrong?
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: This is all it's all too big, It's all too big.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I just, oh my god, I just left somebody I
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: could have helped.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: What do you mean.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I just I saw I saw that, I saw Camp.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I saw Camp, and I I just I left. I left.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: He was threatening somebody. I don't know. I don't think
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I could do this. I don't I don't think I
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: could do it.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Jillian put a hand on your shoulder. Hey, Gabe was
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: telling me you saved so many people tonight. Yeah, you
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: did had help. Well good, I'm glad. But if you
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: weren't there. Who knows how many would have died.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe I was supposed to help that guy too, and
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: it just like happened. It was just like like I
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: just like I just was passing by and I and
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I noticed him. I noticed his his his his energy,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: and maybe I was supposed to notice and maybe I
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: was supposed to help him.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: You can only do as much as you can do, Ronnie, I.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Think that I don't know. I don't know. I have
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to I have to change. I have to go back.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Out and go back out tonight.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna supposed to meet those two that
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: helped me.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, we'll be safe.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Can I borrow your car?
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, thank you? And hey, turn off? Can
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: you have you worked on turning off your your power
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: at all? Maybe turn off your power on the way
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: there and back tonight. It's late already.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know, But what if what if somebody needs help?
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: What if I pass by and then somebody's like getting
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: mugged in an alleyway. I mean, that guy could be
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: getting killed right now and I just I just left.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: So if that happened tonight, it probably means it's happening
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: every night all over the place in this city, and
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: you can't take on all that.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Somebody has to where's my big hoodie.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Paper Phantom.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: You are at the Grimace king first. Eventually you wait
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: and anybody that comes in, You're like.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Is that them?
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Is that them? Because everyone was wearing masks. Eventually Jamier
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: shows up and who does who does the paper phantom
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: see walking in?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you see a young man. He's wearing a big hoodie. Yes,
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: he's wearing a zipper hoodie tonight, guys, he's he's wearing
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: a hood covered up mostly over his face, but you
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: can still see his chin. You see some scruff around
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: his lips, but you also see beneath the dark brown
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: eyes that connect with yours. I look you up and
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: down a little surprised. Jason is sitting in a in
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: a booth in the corner. He's he's ordered a smiley
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: meal and him playing with toys. Looks up, is wearing
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: a gray, weathered hoodie.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Uh. The words of page echo in his mind. You
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: should try and make friends, and I just awkwardly wave
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: a big, big dumb way.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Jamir for a second, like second guess is like, is
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: that good? I walk up to the counter I see.
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: I don't want to put you on this spot, Johnny.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm imagining Jamir would probably know someone working. Just
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: with the nature of my job, I imagine I know
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: a lot of restaurant employees, and so I'm trying to
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: find a familiar face.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah you see. Uh, your buddy who is a fry
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: cook here.
• 47:11
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: And when it's late like this, has to do both jobs.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Come out and run the cash register and also do
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: the cooking. He comes out, your friend, Scottie.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Scotty, Scotty, did you mean good to see good to
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: see you?
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: What are you doing here tonight?
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: It's so late, I know, I know, just need to
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: just need a bite. It's raining out there. You're gonna
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: get a cold.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's do a double chicken uh at cheese, extra mayo.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: And is it okay if I I'm eating with a
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: couple of people, do you mind if we cut out
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: through the back after we eat?
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, that's always how I go home. You
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: need any coffee? It's a chili out there with the rain.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm good. I'm good, all right, Jamia,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: good to see you. Yeah. Yeah, I just put down
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: the money and I say no, rushauran on that man.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: Take your time.
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, of course, you know me. I'm always taking my time.
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: He's nothing wrong with that, brother, She ain't none wrong
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: with that. Quanta comes in and who do the boys see?
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: As they sit awkwardly at the booths in the corner.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Quanta is wearing a hoodie that's so big it goes
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: like to her.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Knees, impress it.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: And the pouch is big enough though that she could
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: still put her hands in it. The hood is like
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: all the way up so that she can obscure her face.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: And if you can see her face, she was wearing
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: a new pair of sunglasses and then just like a
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: pair of jeans and yeah, just covering up like as
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: much of her like opole day body as she can
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: and kind of hunches in and then just like slides
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: into the table, just seeing two other people there.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Hey, I.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Is this guy?
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: Well, it's it's me from before.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: You're the paper guy.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Oh well, uh, that's you met my associate. Yes, wait
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: we invited him. Yeah, yes, yes we are. I am
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: his representation.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: If you're great, if if he was hearing, and I'm
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: like one of the paper bags on the table from
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: the smiley meal.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: Uh like wrinkles into a face. What, yeah, don't worry
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: about it. I'm sorry. He's kind of a dick though.
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: Pound my nugget.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: I hadn't two nuggets left in there. I'm sorry, that's okay,
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: It's just sorry, I'm being rude. I'm Jason High.
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: Hello, Hi Jason. Well he already heard my name. Shoot
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: a glance over it, Scottie. My name is Jimir.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I could feel it on the receipt from
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: your double chicken.
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, Scotti. Other're pretty loud too, scott he doesn't take
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: his time. You can feel the receipt. Huh oh yeah, yeah,
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: I just I'm just kind of crinkle little little. You're
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: a special care of a squirrel, ain't you.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm a big boy. Okay, you're awn make what? Yeah,
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: I'm a grown man. I think I'm older than you.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: How old are you? I tell you how old I am? Dude,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not four. Does he have a driver's license or
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: something in any paper on.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Jimier probably does not have any kind of identification.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: I do not carry ID.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: I know its size. Your pants are? Oh god, okay,
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: tag you sell stuff? What about you?
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: While this is happening quantas just like confirming that their
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: like energy is what she sensed before.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Is can she tell that Jason was in the paper
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: phantom like that he was physically there?
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: I think with your powers scanning over him, you can
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: just tell that this is the same body.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: I'll say too, I think just from from how the
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: book and and are one, you would see a bunch
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: of electrical activity everywhere except for a dead spot in
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: his chest.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: What I mean, both of you? What I mean what
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I was about to say? What are you?
• 52:12
  Speaker 10: But?
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: What are we?
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: I made a deal with a extra dimensional spirit of
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: some kind? Did you guys do that?
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Honestly? Maybe?
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Oh? What cool? Was yours in a book? Too?
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: No? No, but Jimi or you said that this wasn't
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: We're going to stay right.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: I'm just waiting for my food. Did you want something?
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: No? No, I'm good.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: They do eat.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: I eat.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: I know, I know, Okay, I know they.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, I've just you know, some some humans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: Scotty comes over with.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: High down so far in my booth seat.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Scotty comes over with your bag and throws it on
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: the table. Herego, Jimmy, anything for you kids, anything.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: You want something, I just shake my head. It's good. Hey,
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: it's the best when Scotti's here. You know, nice? Can
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: I have a straw straw?
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: You want to drink a milkshake? All right, Jimmy, your
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: friends are strange. Yeah, they're acquaintances.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: It's like my head is like level with the table
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: and my hoodie is just.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: Over my whole face.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: I take a big old bite, that first bite of
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: the crispy exterior of the double chicken with that American
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: cheese melted in between. I savor it, and I say,
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: all right, let's go. Follow me.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Got to give you a straw on the way out,
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: and you guys walk to Jamir's manor through the streets
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: of Sass.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll flip open the counter, we'll walk past, I'll
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: close it behind, Jason will duck through the back exit,
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: and then I'll try again to sneakily slink our way
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: back to the manor.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys get there, and you see the two
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: of you, this is your first time here. A big,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: beautiful house, gray stone, four story shotgun house off a
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: really nice neighborhood in Sass. And as you enter beautiful
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: mahogany wooden floors and old molding and partitioned rooms. On
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: this first level. There's the kitchen, the den, the entryway,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: a beautiful home.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Damn, Jamie, are you like a doctor? No?
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: Does anybody want coffee?
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Yes? Please?
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Sure, there's coffee and chips and guacamole left out for you,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: along with some small lemon cookies.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Is anyone else in the house? Can I see anybody?
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Go ahead and roll a roll a scan six? You succeed,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: You sense, Dirk? You since there's a basement level here
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: and there's someone down there?
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Who else is here?
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: What else?
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: There's someone in the basement? Who else is here?
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: She lives here? This is her home. How did you
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: do that?
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Electricity? It's in all of us and I can see it.
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: Oh cool. Well, you weren't supposed to know about her.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: Not that I don't trust you, guys, but I don't
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: know you guys, and I didn't want to bring her
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: into this, So we're cool, right.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, Arthur always says a stranger's just a friend
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: you haven't met yet. You say, Arthur is if we
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: would know who that is? He's also a stranger to you?
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Who is a friend that you have not met yet?
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: He's like my he's like my dad, grandpa dad, He's
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: he's cool. Are you four? What are you four years old? No,
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: I'm twenty two. I think i'm the oldest one. Well
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: you don't know that. Yeah, I don't know how you
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: got all this money. You're like you're my age. Yeah,
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: let's not worry about that right now. How the mortgage
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: gets paid. I look over and say, I'm gonna be real.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: I had no clue what was going on in that.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: I didn't know who these people were. What's going on?
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: You guys seem to be way more in tune with
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: the messed up shit that's going on. I know.
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, I saw you with the electricity, and I
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: saw the you know, specter behind you. I didn't know
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: if you were up to something you were breaking into
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: a place. And then I saw the phantom chasing after you.
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: I didn't know if he was going to attack you.
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: I just I knew something was up. Yeah, I'm glad
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: he didn't. He doesn't you the phantom?
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm you know, it's sort of a we both
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: have a hand on the wheel every once in a
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: while kind of a situation. Well, Jason, how do you
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: like your coffee, Oh, tons of cream, mostly cream. Just
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: a drop of coffee for me?
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: And out of curiosity does the phantom take his coffee?
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: Similarly, I can ask him, hang on, hey, how do
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: you like your coffee? Black as the night? As ink?
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Do we hear that? No?
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Just talking to m okay cool? He like I guess
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: we have different tastes.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: Okay, same body, different coffee tastes.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, your guys's powers aren't like a thing that you
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: can like talk to and stuff.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Only twice in my life, I think, God.
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: That would be so nice. I talked once to the
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: guy who gave me these powers, but there's no one.
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: How did you get me? That's private? Is there any
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: do I send any paper?
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: In the house? Oh, there's so much paper paper?
• 58:53
  Speaker 10: You know?
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: What kind of stuff? Do I feel on the writing?
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: And what are you doing? What are you doing? I
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: see both both of you, just like.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: We've just looking at all the electricity making a map.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: You notice Maria is leaving. The door closes, Maria heads out,
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Dirk is up one flight asleep or not sleep, I
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: mean he's he's out in a bed. And then paper man,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: this is a crazy roll roll roll an investigation check
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: with your paper.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: Nancy, it's only got two.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: I rolled a four on a difficult check. You sense
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: a ton of paper, both of you. There's a point
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: of interest here. There's a lot of energy flowing in
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: a room on the very top floor, and most of
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: the paper in this place is in that same room.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: But you there's too much of it dense compacted for
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: you to really pull anything from it.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: And you're you're far away, sure, but I know he's
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: got like a bunch of books. There's a much of
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: paper up there.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Did you.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: What was that?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: What was what?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: I saw his face? He did a thing. Oh, I
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: was just checking to see what paper was lining around.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys seem more.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know good at this than I do.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: I'm I don't know what you mean by this, but
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I'm not.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, me neither. I'm I'm just the I'm the assistant.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, you were you were kicking some serious ass
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: tonight brother. Oh thanks, Yeah, it looked like pretty cool.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: I liked when you electric you that rhightinow. That was cool.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was helpful to have the gold on there.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: That was awesome, both of you. That was I mean, again,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: I feel a little weird about it, but those guys
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: were clearly in the wrong, so I don't feel too
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: bad about it. And that was awesome.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can fly, that's crazy kind of yeah.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I was cool, and I really want
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: to know who you guys are and why you can
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: do what you do. But like all of that is
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: still happening. We're just like about to sit here and
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: drink coffee.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: My mouth is filled with guacamole.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: I sit down, take a chip, scoop up some guac,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: slather the guac on my next bite of my chicken sandwich,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: and I say, we're all in over our heads and
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: if we can put whatever puzzle pieces we have together
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: and try to work together whatever is going on out there,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: I think we can do a lot more good with
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: some help. And then I take another bite.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's what I'm learning tonight is that
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: this is way too big for me.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think if we share resources and work together,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: maybe we can do more good. We can. Oh, we
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: can make one of those things where you put the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: paper on the wall and put a bunch of string
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: with it. I started wine in my bedroom, but I
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: don't have a lot of stuff on it.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: What's on it?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: Just stuff about the mob right now? And I don't
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: know this book. It might be from Egypt, and I
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: just like tap my chest. I don't know.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: It's a book. Huh it's a book. That blank space
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: is a book.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, all right, I like pull down my
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: hoodie and show them my chest is just the front,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: open folded leaf of a book.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Oh what the fuck? Hey, Okay, I reach out to
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: touch it.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: It feels like paper. It's the book.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Do you feel that?
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah? But I can feel paper?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: So do I see like a signal running from like
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: like a like a nerve ending that I'm touching? Nothing?
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: I think it's so. Look, all I know is this
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: has something to do with magic. You guys aren't magic.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: I'm magic kind kind of.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: How Magic's real.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: Magic's definitely real.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: I'm studying it.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: Oh cool, I'm I was.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I just the book in your
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: fucking chest. I don't know what's real anymore.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, magic's real. So that's awesome. I am starting to
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: crack the code on some texts that I have upstairs,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: And look at Jason.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: I know about the texts that are upstairs but I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: would love to look at him, if that's okay.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: Maybe, So you're trying to fight the mob and you're
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: trying to fight the bad people at the Church of
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: the New Babble.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Day, Yeah, pretty much. They Yeah, there was like a council.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: There is a council.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: I'm loosely familiar with the church. I visited only once
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: with a friend. I went there was there was a
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: free meal after it was too weird.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Disrespect, No, no, I'm I'm so sorry. No, I never
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: really believed it anyways.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: But hey, didn't the paper say that you were like
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: the president of the church or something.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're like a big deal.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was the archday.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, did you get a cool hat?
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: No, but I got I had a cool clothes. Hell yeah, yeah,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: cool place to live anything I wanted.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: That was pretty quick, right, Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's it's fine. I mean, you know, you
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: get to keep your secrets, but mine are out there.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: So hey, but not not this, not this secret though.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: This this stays here, Okay, I promise, okay, And I
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: mean you guys have seen my face and you know
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: my first name. This is this is a leap of faith. Right,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: I've had enough about faith, But.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: Okay, this is an exercise and trust sure cards on
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: the table. I was in the Mayor's office. I don't
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: work there anything, but I happen to be in there
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: and I I swiped some paper. Do I still have they?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: Do I still have the actual paper?
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: Johnny? No? No, the.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: Oh I destroyed it.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: No, you didn't destroy it. The woman took it from Ah.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she took it from Taylor. I learned something that
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: I was definitely not supposed to know.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: You said a piece of paper. Was it important?
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: It was like a to do list that the city
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: council was working on with the mayor, basically trying to
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: destroy our city from my perspective. And I go down
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: the list, Johnny, detailing in specific their plans.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, the note that Jimmy Y're found in the mayor's office.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: The heading was shit we can do after winning the election,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: implying that the election for the mayor was already in
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: the bag. And then it was a list of things.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: Some of them were like tax the shit out of
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: small business, crack down on illegal in quotes, smuggling and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: production of goods, require all schools only to accept students
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: that live within their district, and require all banks and
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: lenders to receive proof of address before people seek loans
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: for housing. Those last two things are kind of redlining tactics.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, so I got roughed up and I tried
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: to tell an officer about what I had found, who
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: thought he could take it to someone that he trusted.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: But he got killed and they made up a whole story,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: and nobody but us now knows the truth.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I'm pretty much in a similar boat.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: So I, like I said, I learned about this assassin
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: my point upstairs.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: Yet Dirk Dirk.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: I learned about Dirk and the men that were using him,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: and they killed a friend of mine. Well, somebody I
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: knew and framed me for it.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, sorry, guys.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: I thought it was just a government we had.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: I thought it was just the church. The mob might
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: not be as big a concern at least right now.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: I did maybe do a murder. Oh technically it's okay,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: it's fine. I think, okay, look, I think we maybe
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: you said I that time, Well, yeah, I was there.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: I would be.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: A no, you're you're doing it? I saw you. It's you.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: You were the one flying around. You were the one
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: throwing swords made out of paper.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: Kind of yeah, it's complicated. I mean you you just
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: felt my paper like you have the powers too, right, Jason?
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: Sure, As far as I understand, the phantom and I
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: are bound together, he does some things and I do
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: some things. We're take We're trying to take turns and
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: sharing his caring. But I think in that moment maybe
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: it was me that done did the murder. But I'm
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: not sure. Look, I'm not admitting anything. Here's my point.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: We should try and get our priorities straight. I pull
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: out a notebook from my backpack of paper. Okay, evil Mayor?
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: Is that number one? Do we want to put that
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: as just a not not ranking, but just like Evil Mayor?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm like I put like ten spoonfuls of sugar
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: in my coffee church cabal?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay? Is it just now? This is where
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: I'm sloppy. So there's two day flavored churches? Right?
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: Is the other one?
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know. They might as well check it out
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: if we can get to it.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 11: Boys, Okay, earn both churches and apparently the Catholic churches
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  Speaker 11: where they were snatching people that ended up where we
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  Speaker 11: were tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The people that were stuck there, right.
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  Speaker 4: Church is involved, great multiple church. The ass goes okay,
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  Speaker 4: and then the Irish mob is part of this.
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  Speaker 3: Uh the leader is gone now, so I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: you murdered. Yeah his name was Seamus, and yeah, yeah
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  Speaker 3: he's I think that they're they're good, but I did
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  Speaker 3: see some people from the mob that they might be
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  Speaker 3: like lower priority. I would say, I feel like I've
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  Speaker 3: solved that problem for myself, at least with with with violence.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we could selectively, carefully, thoughtfully, I like these adverbs,
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  Speaker 3: use that same approach to solve these other problems.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like we might have to, or at least use
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  Speaker 1: what we can do to find out more and find
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  Speaker 1: out if there's anyone in these places that we can
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  Speaker 1: trust that we can help. Maybe there's somebody already out
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  Speaker 1: there working on some of these things. Maybe there's somebody
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  Speaker 1: already knows.
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  Speaker 3: I get a little bit of research trying to learn
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  Speaker 3: about old heroes before they disappeared, but I didn't turn
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  Speaker 3: up much. All I came across is the name Spellbook.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know I know a lot about Spoll book.
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  Speaker 3: What you do?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm a huge fan. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know where you're doing your research, but library, I
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  Speaker 4: work at the library. Nice. I mean I just talked
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  Speaker 4: to a bunch of old fans. You know a lot
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  Speaker 4: of guys, guys that were really into the old heroes
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  Speaker 4: to hang out at comic book shops and a few
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  Speaker 4: bars in town. And you know, there's still people who
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  Speaker 4: have stories from their their parents or grandparents, and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we don't know how much if it's true, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: well there's a group of us that are.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to piece things together. So wait, you think maybe
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  Speaker 3: that these heroes they might have been real? Most definitely,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we can. Do you think any of them are
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  Speaker 3: still alive?
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  Speaker 4: No, they're gone. That we're also sure. And none of
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  Speaker 4: them had powers like us that I've heard of. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there were people that could do things with the weather.
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  Speaker 1: But are you guys talking about the evos?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, they were a part of it, but there
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  Speaker 4: are also others that their powers came from sources less clear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know that. You know, my education was kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of I liked your idea. Squanta told us her real
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  Speaker 3: name yet. I mean, you know it from the news.
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  Speaker 3: Veronica Canter, Yeah, Veronica, you wanted to. I liked your
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  Speaker 3: approach of asking questions first and then hurt. Yeah, murder later.
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  Speaker 3: Can we not say murder? Can we just say fight
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  Speaker 3: or smack or blast?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's that's better. You're right, smack later.
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  Speaker 4: Smack later.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, we can smack people to death. That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know. I'm just saying like it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be really hard, guys. All I can do is cut people. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's not I don't have a good suffocated them.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's a much less violent avenue.
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  Speaker 4: Man. I thought suffocating to death is a pretty shitty
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  Speaker 4: way to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it worse anyway.
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  Speaker 10: Hold on, when you're suffocating a person with paper, are
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  Speaker 10: you feeling what the paper feels sugar?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I could feel what the people the paper was
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  Speaker 3: feeling like. I could feel his like weird bird face
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  Speaker 3: pressed up against it.
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  Speaker 4: And okay, just man, that's I don't know why I
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  Speaker 4: asked that. I don't think I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I thought feeling everybody's feelings was bad. That's terrible.
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  Speaker 3: People write down horrible ship have you ever felt somebody's
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  Speaker 3: diary anyway?
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  Speaker 1: I guess I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I want to start.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how you guys are feeling. This has
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  Speaker 4: been a lot. This is a good start. We can
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 4: stay up and try to get some work. We could
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: also crash. There's like, how many bedrooms are in this manner?
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  Speaker 3: Johnny?
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  Speaker 1: I say how many? Because I know.
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  Speaker 2: There's four on each floor, so there's eight bedrooms.
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  Speaker 4: I say, yeah, there's like eight What there's eight bedrooms? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there's eight bedrooms, so you know your your assassin acquaintance
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  Speaker 4: is in one of them up there. But I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this has been a big night. And if we're riding
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  Speaker 4: the high and want to try to piece things together,
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  Speaker 4: that's cool. But if we want to take a break either,
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  Speaker 4: we can also come at this with fresh eyes. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if you guys have work in the.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, no, but I don't. I don't want to leave
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  Speaker 1: here when it's daylight.
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  Speaker 3: What day of the week is it, Jenny, it's Friday night? Hey, okay,
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  Speaker 3: all right? Library opens late on Saturday. All right. I mean, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys are down, but I
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  Speaker 3: do love a research montage.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll end our episode right there, getting ready for research.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, high octane research.
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  Speaker 1: Brain blast, open throat coffee, open throat, burning hot coffee.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk all about this research brain Blast
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  Speaker 2: back next week with another one for you.
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  Speaker 5: Bye bye.
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  Speaker 4: It's said this week's episode it's over, but I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: Give it up.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out to Jen who prefers the Star Wars prequels
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  Speaker 4: seahorses all the way down. Shout out to Brian, the
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  Speaker 4: twenty in a clutch moment, you are our superheroes. We
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