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Benders & Brews - Episode 2 - Plans & Preparations · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

• 0:03
  Jasmine oolong, green and white.
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  Long ago, these four tees were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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  Then, everything changed when the shop's popularity threatened its existence.
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  All Mr.
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  Okuran, the shop's owner and teammaster, could do was to recruit four teenage orphans to learn his trade and staff his shop.
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  A year has passed since the orphans were hired, and although their skills have progressed, they 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 Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the world.
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  Last time on Benders and Brews an Avatar Legends Podcast mr.
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  Okuran, who owns this tea shop, he calls out, I am running out to the back to check the inventory.
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  I will be right back if anything goes wrong.
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  I'm sure you guys can handle it.
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  Shortly after him the front door, a mid 40s man stumbles into the tea shop.
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  Where can I get the drink? What kind of booze you got? The obviously intoxicated man.
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  I know how to handle this.
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  So you want some alcohol, huh? I know the best place.
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  It's not here.
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  Go cross the street.
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  We're going to take a ride.
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  Go down some stairs.
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  I'll walk you to the door.
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  We can stand out town.
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  I've been doing a lot of bars in the day.
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  I don't remember that one.
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  And then he climbs up onto his table and he just starts shouting, this lady right here, she's like the table wobbles over it.
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  And he falls off the table and just crashes onto the ground.
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  And he looks at Bill and he takes a swing at you.
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  I grab a cup and I fill it with hot dirty dishwasher.
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  Hey, mister, your drinks ready.
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  And he picks up the cup and he downs it.
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  Oh, hey, Mr.
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  That was a dirty drink, but it was dirty dishwater.
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  This giant, muscular, double bearded 17 year old comes stepping out from the back.
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  Or do you really want to get into an altercation now? Look at all these nice people.
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  You're messing up their evenings.
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  Why don't you just head outside? So as he swings his fists, you expertly dodge out of the way and push him ever so slightly towards the door as he lands outside and kind of just rolls onto the ground.
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  And then all of a sudden, all the people in the restaurant start to cheer and clap.
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  Mr.
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  Okuran enters to the back of the shop.
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  What in the world is going on? Hello, everybody, and welcome to Benders and Brews.
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  Podcast.
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  A non canonical avatar.
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  Legends real play.
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  Podcast.
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  My name is Skyler Gorset, and I am the game master, creating the story alongside my co writer, Nick Van Puersem.
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  Not 100% sure how to say his last name.
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  Person.
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  Yeah, person.
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  All right.
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  He gave me the thumbs up and then bringing it to you and the players.
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  Speaking of those players, let's get some introductions on who they are, who they're playing, and they're going to answer today's question for their characters, which is what is a hobby or pastime that your character enjoys? Connor, kick us off.
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  My name is Connor and I am portraying the character of Brock Lee, the Earth Bender.
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  And I believe one of his favorite pastimes would probably be just taking potshots at some seagulls that are terrorizing his farm.
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  And with his earth bending, just hocking some stones and some pebbles at some annoying birds.
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  Hocking some rocks at some annoying birds.
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  I dig it.
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  Awesome.
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  Dave, what do you got for us? I'm playing Guo.
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  That's how we said it.
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  Even Dave can't get his character's name.
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  Well, you're all confused, and I'm playing the Adamant.
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  And what Guo Han likes to do is he likes to be a little trickster.
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  Kind of likes to play pranks on people to spice things up.
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  He's like his favorite tea.
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  That's right.
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  Did he get that from living with the circus and running with the circus for a long time? Yeah.
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  The carnival is all about tricking people.
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  That's right.
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  That's a good point.
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  That's a good point.
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  Cameron, what do you got for us? I'm Cameron.
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  I'm playing Bill Door.
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  The guardian.
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  And what Bill likes to do in his free time is paint.
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  Right on.
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  Landscape pieces, mostly.
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  Okay.
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  Landscape over portraits.
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  Yeah.
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  Awesome.
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  Relax.
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  Bob Ross.
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  Ross.
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  He's basically Bob Ross, except he doesn't really talk about happy little trees.
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  He more just like, paints quietly and grunts to himself.
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  Sure.
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  Makala.
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  My name is Meeka.
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  And Meeka likes to stare in the abyss.
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  What does she see in the abyss? For how long? It depends on the day.
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  That's a good yeah.
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  Sometimes it's hours.
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  She stares into the abyss.
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  Right.
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  Sometimes she sees free thing.
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  Sometimes she seems normal.
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  Brock Lee.
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  They're washing dishes and he looks over.
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  Meeka's got a dead face just staring straight ahead of her while cleaning dishes.
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  Not blinking.
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  Her eyes are glazed over.
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  At least she's getting things done.
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  She also likes to play games with the fish.
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  She has a water better than what games and what fish? The fish in, like, ponds and koi ponds.
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  I'm getting some games, but those fish are the moon.
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  We play One Fish, Two Fish like Fish Olympics sometimes.
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  Other times she'll try and play tricks on them.
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  See if she can get in the swim where she wants to with little bubbles and stuff.
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  Sometimes she swims down with the fish with sushi in her hand.
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  She's like, this is what you could be getting some less.
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  Why is that so important? He controls the weather.
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  Yeah.
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  I knew you're going to make the lemon.
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  I knew that was coming.
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  I had the Lilo reference.
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  I was not going to do it because Disney would sue us.
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  Just cut that part out.
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  We might have to if we get a cease into this wedding name.
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  Anyways.
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  Pouch Pooch.
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  podge.
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  She like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
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  A peanut butter and tuna.
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  She couldn't feed him.
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  That would be an abomination.
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  And then the guy goes, why is he so important? She controls the weather and then she beats up another child.
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  That's right, yes.
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  She heard a dark theory that her parents, like, died in a storm or something.
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  So that's why she's so concerned about she said the movie, like, how they died.
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  They drove in the storm, actually, and they died in a car crash.
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  Well, there you go.
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  It was raining and they went for a drive or something like that.
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  Don't say it.
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  Family never dies, okay? What? We dodged a lawsuit.
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  I think that's 100% in factual.
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  Especially if it's a Disney movie.
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  Yes.
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  Family back.
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  Godzillo.
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  All right, so we're jumping right back into things.
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  What in the world is going on? Well, no thanks to you, we kicked out a drunken drunk.
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  Oh, I'm sorry.
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  I wasn't here for that.
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  I was taking some scones out to some of the people out back.
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  Did you not hear what was going on? No, I was listening to one of the stories of the people I was serving out in the alleyway.
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  I think we all deserve a raise, at least a bonus.
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  You guys are getting paid.
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  I am truly sorry because I had to deal with such a thing without me here.
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  Everyone in the shop, please.
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  I will bring you all a nice calming jasmine tea.
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  Thank you all for putting up with such an undesirable customer.
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  I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.
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  And to the four of you, it looks like you have handled yourselves very well.
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  I'm very proud of all of you.
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  Thank you for keeping the shop and the customer safe.
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  Proud doesn't go very far.
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  How a about bonus? He hands each of you three coins out of his pocket.
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  Are they coppers? The gold reforms of the primary currencies.
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  Each nation has kind of a variation of what it looks like, but it all essentially works the same.
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  Well, minus the air nation, they don't really use money.
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  They don't really deal with that.
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  But whatever the case, the money that I have set up is referred to as yuan.
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  And so it's a pretty straightforward monetary system.
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  I can give you guys all around, none of that.
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  Can't believe that drunk made such a mess in here.
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  Guo Han, cleans up the space around where you knocked over the table and everything.
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  I feel like that's very fitting for Glohan and just have an accident.
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  Kind of got in a way.
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  He bumps a table with his belly.
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  So basically, with the monetary system, it will often be referred to in exchangeably between two different forms.
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  So they'll either call it yuan or they will call it copper, silver, gold, which are the three types of coinage of ace.
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  So best way to use it is one copper coin, aka one yuan.
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  Is basically the equivalent of one dollars in our money.
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  One silver or five yuan is equal to $5 in our currency, and one gold or ten yuan is worth $10 in our currency.
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  And these are the more rare forms, which are bars.
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  So you will occasionally, in situations where large purchases are made, you will sometimes see people pay with a copper bar, which is equal to 100 yuan or $100.
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  You will see a silver bar, which is 500 yuan, which is $500, or a gold bar, which is 1000 yuan or $1,000.
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  So it's kind of a 1 5 10 system.
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  So it's pretty simple.
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  I try to keep it as simple as I could.
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  Obviously, there's no exact exchange rate per se from the show because we don't see a whole lot as far as monetary exchange, but that's a basic rundown.
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  So he hands each of you three yuan, which is three copper pieces, which is pretty standard.
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  You usually get paid oh, you will all start with tenu on each, and you usually get paid ten a day.
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  This is the three that he hands each of you.
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  Is a bonus handling that situation, because Meeka was really squishy about it.
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  You got to make a living.
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  Yeah.
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  he says, I am sorry that I could not give more.
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  Pockets are a little tight this month, unfortunately, but hopefully we can find a solution for that.
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  He kind of walks away as he does, and he looks a little down, strangely enough, after mentioning that as the night goes on, things are pretty normal.
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  Mr.
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  Okuran kind of runs the back of the house, making the teas and things like that, but he does seem a little bit down after the conversation before, something just kind of seems a little bit off about him.
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  He seems a little bit distracted as he makes the teas and he makes the scones and other baked goods.
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  Occasionally, he'll get a tea wrong, like, he'll mix the two wrong t's together and oh, my bad, I'll go fix that.
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  Goes and makes another one.
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  Eventually, as the last of the customers leaves, a man steps into the tea shop.
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  So you guys are kind of cleaning up the tables and finishing up in the night.
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  A man steps into the tea shop.
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  He's a younger man, wearing a semi dressy outfit and with sort of one of those pompidor rockabilly style hairstyles where it's like really big right out in front.
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  You see it a lot like anime, where you'll have like those sort of I'm a gangster, want to be bad boy kind of a character.
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  Usually have this kind of a haircut.
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  So he steps into the shop when Mr.
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  Okuran sees him, his face really droops in a discouraged look, as the man says, I need to have a word with you outside, old man.
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  So, sure enough, Mr.
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  And Mr.
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  Okuran, he kind of packs up his things and starts to head out with this young man.
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  Do any of you do anything, or can I follow them? As you go to follow them, the young man turns around.
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  He says, I want to talk with him alone, and the two of them step outside.
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  But if you wanted to sort of like if you were thinking of listening or anything along those lines in any sort of way, let me know how you'd like to do that.
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  Is a tea shop, does it have one or two stories? It would have sort of like a balcony section.
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  So there's, like, the open ceiling up to the balcony, and a lot of customers will set up there's.
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  Just added seats and things like that.
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  I go out the back okay.
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  And around the side.
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  Okay.
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  And I'll stand at the wall so they can't see me, but I can still hear them.
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  Sure.
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  Are they talking at the front door? Yeah, right outside the front door.
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  I'm going to go underneath the window.
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  Okay.
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  All right.
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  I can try to catch some stuff.
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  Okay.
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  The Bill is going to crack the front door open and stand next to a listening audit.
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  Okay.
• 14:12
  Sounds good for the two of you that are sneaking.
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  So, Bill Door and Brock Lee, I'm going to have you guys roll.
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  Push your luck.
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  Six, seven.
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  Okay, Brock Lee, as you go around back, you see a couple of figures in the alleyway leading to kind of around to the front side of the building.
• 14:34
  One of them is kind of this little hunched over, he's extra scrawny guy.
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  His back, it looks like, kind of almost disturbingly crooked in a sense as he leans up against the wall, and he kind of looks over at you, and he's got a few rocks that he's just kind of floating around in his hand.
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  And then the other one is a female figure in, like, a hood and kind of an almost cape like cloak, and she's holding sort of like the scepter looking thing, and they both look at you.
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  And then the little guy, he says, the boss wants to speak to Mr.
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  Okuran alone.
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  I think you should come back later.
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  I don't know if I can attack them, can I? In theory, you could.
• 15:17
  It doesn't matter whether you want to or not.
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  Okay.
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  Because that could spell worst things for Mr.
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  Okuran.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
• 15:26
  I will just well, see, that doesn't spell correctness to my character hug.
• 15:32
  Yeah.
• 15:33
  I will just ashamedly accept the feet and walk back into the tea shop.
• 15:38
  Okay.
• 15:39
  All right.
• 15:40
  Bill Door, what were you doing again? Hiding by the door.
• 15:44
  Oh, yeah, you cracked the door.
• 15:45
  Okay, so you successfully cracked the door open, but it's because you said you rolled a seven.
• 15:50
  Yeah.
• 15:51
  Okay, so that's a soft hit.
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  So what it does is, it's going to cause you to scrape by, and it's going to cost you.
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  So as you crack open the door, there's a large figure that seems to be standing in front of the door.
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  He doesn't notice that you crack it so you can't see anything past him because he's this hulking figure.
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  But you can hear.
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  You are able to hear Meeka.
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  Shoot.
• 16:17
  I'm going to have you role rely on your skills and training.
• 16:20
  So that's going to be focus because as a road you've dealt with situations where you've tried to listen into conversations from a distance and you're a little far away, but it's not impossible.
• 16:32
  You said passion, focus.
• 16:34
  Oh, what's the five? Okay, you cannot quite hear what they're saying from outside the window.
• 16:42
  Guo is just going to go bust a table that's closest to wherever they are.
• 16:50
  Okay.
• 16:52
  It's not dirty, just washing a table.
• 16:56
  There's people at it.
• 16:57
  You could go to the opposite window maybe and you're sitting there and busting the table.
• 17:04
  I'm going to also say rely on your skills and training.
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  Go ahead and roll.
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  That what status.
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  Oh, that is focused.
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  Sorry.
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  Okay, so you are also able to just barely hear, but you're only able to make out a few words as they're talking because it's kind of muffled.
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  So it's like listening to an adult on Charlie Brown with just a few words kind of thrown in.
• 17:29
  Money tomorrow.
• 17:34
  Okay, fine.
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  This weekend, on the other hand, Bill Door.
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  You are able to hear the situation, but you cannot see the figures.
• 17:43
  But you definitely know the voice of the rockabilly looking dude and of course Mr.
• 17:48
  Okuran.
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  And you hear them talking and essentially what you hear is sorry.
• 17:54
  The guy says, you bought us the money for the whole month and you haven't paid up yet.
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  And Mr.
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  Okuran says I know.
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  I'm so sorry.
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  I had a big order come in for a customer who then ended up bailing on me.
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  And so all the money is kind of wrapped up in assets in the fancy teas and things for this customer.
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  And the guy says, well, that's not really my problem.
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  I don't take tea and ingredients as payment, so you're going to have to come up with something else in order to pay us.
• 18:21
  And he's like, please, I need some more time.
• 18:23
  And he's like, you have until tomorrow.
• 18:26
  Please.
• 18:26
  That's not going to be enough time to get the money together.
• 18:29
  Okay, fine.
• 18:30
  I'll give you to this weekend and only because I like you.
• 18:35
  But if you don't pay me by then, that's going to change and I can't offer you protection anymore.
• 18:41
  Thank you for your kindness and your patience.
• 18:44
  I assure you I will do my best to get you your money by the end of this weekend.
• 18:48
  Yeah, you better.
• 18:50
  Because if you don't, I'm trashing the tea shop and take it whatever I want.
• 18:55
  Oh, please.
• 18:57
  We will have it ready.
• 19:00
  All right, let's see it happen.
• 19:02
  And he's like, all right, wild coyote, boars, let's roll out.
• 19:06
  And they all kind of like take off and build or as he says this, the large Hulking figure steps away from the door to follow them, and it's this massive, muscular individual with the body shape of what's? That Spiderman villain? He was in the multiverse one.
• 19:24
  Not the new one, but the big guy.
• 19:28
  Yeah, he wears a suit.
• 19:30
  He's bold.
• 19:31
  He's got kind of like a kingpin shaped body where he's just got this really massive doritoshaped figure.
• 19:40
  Yeah, like I said, as they walk away, you see the cheese.
• 19:46
  You see the aforementioned characters.
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  Like I said, the big hulking dude.
• 19:50
  You see the Rockabilly guy who seems to be, like their leader.
• 19:54
  You see the scrawny guy with a weird arched back problem.
• 19:57
  And then you see the female with the hood and the scepter and stuff like that.
• 20:01
  And you see them all kind of walk away down the darkened streets of Gaoling.
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  And Mr.
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  Okuran makes his way back into the tea shop.
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  And you quickly kind of close the door and get out of the way so that you're not obviously listening in.
• 20:15
  And he comes stepping inside.
• 20:18
  He looks very downtrodden.
• 20:20
  Yeah, that's what was going on out there.
• 20:23
  It's fine.
• 20:24
  It's nothing for the four of you to trouble yourselves over.
• 20:30
  But if it affects us and it affects the shop, then it kind of does affect everybody, doesn't it? Roll with plead is a harmony to convince him to share.
• 20:46
  Okay.
• 20:46
  He says, I appreciate the concern, but I assure you this problem is entirely on me, not on you guys.
• 20:57
  So he just needs something more to push him to share.
• 21:03
  I don't need to roll for that.
• 21:04
  No, you just kind of but we can help you with this situation.
• 21:09
  We can help you take care of those guys.
• 21:14
  I do need all the help I can get.
• 21:17
  You see, earlier this month, I had a customer call in a large order.
• 21:23
  Oh, wait.
• 21:24
  Maybe I should start with them.
• 21:26
  They're a group that offers protection services to a lot of the small businesses in the area.
• 21:35
  They came to me and insisted that I use their service for protection over the tea shop.
• 21:44
  And I gave in eventually, mostly because they said I had to.
• 21:51
  But it hasn't been a problem so far.
• 21:54
  I've always been able to make the payments and keep the shop safe.
• 21:58
  But this month, a customer called in a fairly large and expensive order.
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  It was going to be a catering job for a very wealthy individual here in town and me loving tea as much as I do.
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  I was very excited to take the order.
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  But unfortunately, right after I purchased all the ingredients, which, again, were very expensive, they bailed on the order and canceled it.
• 22:23
  And now I'm stuck with all these incredibly expensive ingredients, no money, because I spent them on the ingredients and no order to fulfill them.
• 22:35
  And unfortunately, with these ingredients, there's no way that I could sell this tea to anybody.
• 22:40
  That's not in the upper ring, because, again, it's just incredibly expensive ingredients, and I would lose so much money on these, and I'm just really not sure what to do.
• 22:51
  And now the gang wants their money, and I don't have it.
• 22:55
  So if you don't pay, are they going to hurt you? I think they might.
• 23:00
  They said that they would trash the tea shop if I don't have it by the end of this weekend.
• 23:05
  How much money do they need? Well, they said that I had to pay them with interest.
• 23:13
  1,000 Yuan.
• 23:17
  That's ridiculous.
• 23:19
  They can't treat us like this.
• 23:23
  They weren't even any help when that drunk guy was in here.
• 23:26
  What kind of protection is that? I think it's possible.
• 23:29
  It's maybe kind of a scam.
• 23:33
  You think? I think I'm paying them to protect me from themselves, but yeah, you should have seen that one coming.
• 23:42
  Oh, I knew it.
• 23:43
  I've always known it.
• 23:44
  But I'm a frail old man.
• 23:47
  I don't really have much ability to defend myself in the shop.
• 23:50
  And the guards don't do anything for the small businesses in the area unless you pay them, so it's kind of either way.
• 24:01
  Their intimidating presence whenever they do stop by usually discourages any no good.
• 24:06
  I mean, we've never been robbed before, and maybe they're the reason for that.
• 24:13
  You said there were four of them, right? Yes, I believe there's four in their group, yes.
• 24:18
  Do you know where they're at? I'm not sure, but I'm sure somebody in town does.
• 24:24
  What are you thinking, broccoli? Well, there's four of us, and there's more of that.
• 24:29
  Please, no, don't make violence the answer.
• 24:32
  I don't want to see any of you get hurt.
• 24:34
  You don't have to come and see it.
• 24:36
  But you all mean so much to me, and you've always been such great employees at the shop, and some of you I consider close friends, and I wouldn't want to see any of you injured on behalf of my problems.
• 24:50
  Who else in town do you know has protection from these guys? Oh, there are many businesses in the area that basically, if you're not a franchise or a chain or a fairly large business, you probably pay the Wild Coyote Boars to protect your place of business.
• 25:09
  Can we go talk to somebody at the shop owners? You do whatever you feel is necessary.
• 25:16
  I appreciate the help from all of you.
• 25:19
  Like I said, I feel terrible burdening you with my own problems, but if you guys have ideas or can you think of any way that maybe we could raise the money that we need in the short time that we have? I mean, I would truly appreciate that.
• 25:35
  Now, I was wondering what all those crates were back in the shed.
• 25:42
  Who was this? Who bailed on this order? Yes.
• 25:47
  So the family which ordered this originally was Shifu family.
• 25:52
  They said they had some sort of large party or something that they needed catering for, and that's why I agreed to it.
• 26:01
  They are a very wealthy family in the area, and normally they keep to their word.
• 26:05
  So I, to this day, have not been able to understand why they canceled the order.
• 26:11
  I don't know if they canceled the party altogether.
• 26:14
  There's not really anyone else in the area that can offer the catering that I feel like we are able to offer.
• 26:20
  Have you tried talking to them? Yes, I've tried, but it's incredibly difficult right now to get an audience with them.
• 26:27
  And I've made a request several times, and I keep getting denied.
• 26:32
  Rich people.
• 26:33
  Am I right? At least give you some sort of deposit? Unfortunately, no.
• 26:38
  And I understand it was my fault that I didn't take that.
• 26:41
  As I said, this Shifu family is usually very trustworthy, and you can always trust their word.
• 26:48
  But this is very unexpected, and I just wasn't sure what else to do.
• 26:53
  And that's part of the reason why I tried to contact them to see if maybe they would be interested in purchasing some of the ingredients for a future event or something along those lines.
• 27:02
  But again, they've denied me counsel or any other communication.
• 27:08
  I want to see counsel with them.
• 27:10
  Oh, well, if you think that you can get in front of them and speak to them, I would be very impressed.
• 27:18
  Yeah, give me contact information.
• 27:20
  Okay.
• 27:21
  I'll see what I can do.
• 27:23
  He starts writing some information down on a piece of the paper that you guys usually would use to take orders of who you need to talk to.
• 27:32
  So obviously they're probably going to have, like, a front desk person, and you talk to them and then they get you in touch with the heads of the family and things like that.
• 27:40
  Looks like we need to talk to a Jasmine.
• 27:43
  Wait, no.
• 27:43
  That's the worst.
• 27:48
  Again, I'm at a loss at this point.
• 27:51
  I don't know what else to do, and only about two and a half ish days.
• 27:56
  I just really can't see how we could possibly get all this money together.
• 28:01
  I mean, the business, the tea shop alone only brings in about 150 yuan a day.
• 28:07
  So after today, there's not too much to work with.
• 28:11
  And then I pay each of you the ten yuan, so that's going to pull from the profits as well.
• 28:16
  And it's hard to say what it is that I can really do, but if any ideas that you guys have, I am happy to work with, because like I said, I am completely at a loss at this point.
• 28:26
  So are we talking to the rich people? Brock we could talk to the other shops, but I don't know if we'd be able to get them to do anything in two days.
• 28:37
  Yes, true.
• 28:41
  Any of you guys heard of these Wild Coyote Boys before? I don't know.
• 28:47
  They have a sick name.
• 28:49
  Wild Coyote Boys.
• 28:50
  It would be better if it was Wild Coyote Boys.
• 28:53
  That's a cool name.
• 28:54
  I know.
• 28:55
  I'm adding a lot of value to this team.
• 28:56
  Chat, rather.
• 28:59
  I know.
• 29:00
  I'm a little tired, a little sleepy.
• 29:02
  I didn't drink any tea.
• 29:04
  We usually don't.
• 29:06
  Yeah, I had water.
• 29:09
  Well, we have the rich people's contact information.
• 29:12
  We can go and try and talk to them.
• 29:14
  Steal from them.
• 29:15
  I didn't say that.
• 29:18
  Mr.
• 29:19
  Okuran pretends not to have heard that.
• 29:22
  What's the rich people's name again? Zhang Fu Family.
• 29:30
  Do they have a vault or treasury of any kind of well, they are a very wealthy family, so I'm sure they definitely have, if not multiple, at least one place where they keep a large sum of money.
• 29:45
  Why do you ask? Bra, don't worry about it.
• 29:49
  It's probably underground.
• 29:50
  I said that I'm happy to work with your ideas, but I'm getting a little bit concerned.
• 29:55
  Well, what do you recommend? Well, if we could find a way to bring in a large amount of customers in the next couple of days, maybe we could make a nice sum that could, if not get us all the way there, at least get us a lot closer.
• 30:09
  Maybe set up some kind of an event to do some advertising.
• 30:14
  What if we made our own gala? Or party, maybe? I think that's a great idea.
• 30:24
  We could bring in the whole block.
• 30:28
  Block party.
• 30:29
  Block party.
• 30:30
  I've never heard of the concept before, but I like it.
• 30:34
  Well, I tell you what.
• 30:36
  We all sleep tonight, and whatever ideas maybe come to us in a dream or just maybe we sleep on, and in the morning we can get together and discuss a plan.
• 30:49
  How does that sound with everyone? That sounds swell to me.
• 30:55
  I mean, it doesn't really sound like they have time to sleep, but you do.
• 30:58
  You see this so key.
• 31:01
  Yeah.
• 31:02
  We're on a time crunch.
• 31:03
  We are on a time crunch.
• 31:05
  You're right.
• 31:05
  So tomorrow we will wake up bright and early, and we will get a start on this project.
• 31:12
  I'm going to assume that you guys had taken a rest.
• 31:15
  Oh, we did.
• 31:15
  Yeah.
• 31:16
  I assume you guys are all set up in the restaurant itself, given that Mr.
• 31:22
  Okuran is kind of taking you all in.
• 31:24
  I mean, unless somebody would say otherwise.
• 31:28
  I'm on the roof.
• 31:29
  Okay, so the restaurant I just wanted to be clear that I'm not with.
• 31:35
  Oh, okay.
• 31:36
  Well, you probably have a separate room.
• 31:38
  No, it's on the roof.
• 31:47
  Although that probably wouldn't clear as much exhaustion, if that's where you're comfortable.
• 31:51
  I guess that's not an issue.
• 31:53
  I can pitch a tent.
• 31:54
  It's fine on the roof.
• 31:56
  I grew up in the outdoors.
• 31:58
  On the roof, it just looks like one of those giant windows.
• 32:04
  Better than that.
• 32:05
  She is flat.
• 32:06
  She just freezes like a tent like structure on top of the roof, and then as it's melting, it drips on her.
• 32:13
  And that's what.
• 32:14
  Wakes her up in the morning.
• 32:15
  Yeah.
• 32:15
  It's like an alarm.
• 32:16
  Yeah, or you drown.
• 32:19
  I feel like it would change if there's a water bender.
• 32:21
  I can't drown.
• 32:22
  I don't think that's actually, hang on.
• 32:25
  I've only seen the movie.
• 32:29
  You told everybody that last time.
• 32:31
  Right.
• 32:31
  Not the true statement.
• 32:32
  That's a sad thing.
• 32:33
  It is.
• 32:35
  No, he's seen some of the series.
• 32:38
  No, just a movie.
• 32:39
  Okay, I want to be hated by this.
• 32:44
  You only watch episodes with us, like, two weeks ago.
• 32:48
  Yes, and I was confused by and made us rewind.
• 32:50
  I liked your character until you told me that you only watched the movie and now I hate you.
• 32:56
  That's why I baited my character off of the film.
• 32:59
  I'm going to throw everyone in Bill Door.
• 33:02
  Yeah.
• 33:03
  Actually, the brilliant writing that movie helped me inspire this character's name.
• 33:07
  All right.
• 33:07
  Do you all wake up the next morning and you've all had a restful sleep and you have all been thinking in the night, maybe have slightly less restful sleep because you've been trying to figure out a solution for Mr.
• 33:22
  Okuran problems? His dilemma? I don't know.
• 33:27
  What are you all thinking as you wake up and rub the sleep from your eyes and maybe grab a coffee? I feel like they'd probably serve coffee here.
• 33:36
  Caffeinated tea or caffeinated drink coffee.
• 33:39
  You drink coffee but you don't drink tea.
• 33:42
  Correct? Yeah, that's fair.
• 33:43
  His favorite tea is coffee.
• 33:45
  Black.
• 33:46
  You like bean juice over leaf juice.
• 33:48
  Black beans.
• 33:51
  Can just chew up the beans.
• 33:56
  You don't want no kidney beans.
• 33:58
  Black beans in hot water.
• 34:00
  Yeah, you can eat it and you can drink.
• 34:04
  You crunch it.
• 34:05
  So how are you guys feeling about this situation? Do we wake up and have a little meeting in the morning? Yeah, absolutely.
• 34:14
  Separate direction.
• 34:15
  No, I think that you all meet up in the morning.
• 34:18
  You all sit around with Mr.
• 34:20
  Okuran.
• 34:22
  I'd rather not meet with him.
• 34:23
  He is preparing things in the back for the restaurant.
• 34:27
  He has decided that he is going to handle the restaurant for the day on his own, probably for the weekend, because he knows you guys are going to do something, hopefully to help his situation and bring in some extra income.
• 34:42
  And so he's willing to kind of run things while you guys are out doing that.
• 34:46
  But the question is then is what is it that you guys are thinking about doing? If Mr.
• 34:52
  Okuran won't tell us where these hooligans or hoodlums are, maybe some of the other people who are paying them protection could tell us so we could go talk to other shop owners.
• 35:04
  Fair point.
• 35:05
  I don't hear any objections.
• 35:07
  I see head shaking, but I don't see I don't hear objections.
• 35:11
  I like this idea.
• 35:13
  You can't hear my head rattling? No.
• 35:16
  Meeka, since you look a little bit hesitant on this idea, what are you kind of thinking? What's your preferred path here? Something other than confronting the gang.
• 35:29
  We weren't confronting the gang.
• 35:31
  We're talking to people and I don't like to do.
• 35:33
  Got you.
• 35:34
  Okay.
• 35:34
  Do you want to help confront the gang? Yeah, we could do that to the rich people.
• 35:39
  Well, we can't confront them if we don't know where they are.
• 35:42
  We can ask around.
• 35:45
  Probably in that bar that I sent that man to last year.
• 35:48
  There's not even a bar there.
• 35:49
  Bar that made that.
• 35:52
  I do know the area.
• 35:53
  Meeka makes another good point, though, when she mentions that the rich people that bailed out of this deal with Mr.
• 36:00
  Okuran yeah, we can just shake them.
• 36:03
  She doesn't want to talk to regular people.
• 36:05
  Why did she want to go talk to rich people? Because they backed out on the deal.
• 36:09
  What are you going to do to them? I'm sure they have a lot of loose changes.
• 36:16
  Check their couch cushions.
• 36:18
  You can probably find all the money we need.
• 36:19
  I don't think they're going to let us go through their couch cushions.
• 36:23
  We'll tie them up, they back out of a deal.
• 36:29
  We'll show them exactly who they're dealing with.
• 36:31
  Both sides.
• 36:32
  You don't want to mess with either side.
• 36:34
  I think they've got more money to hire people to take care of us after that.
• 36:39
  That's I think we'd make bigger enemies.
• 36:43
  Well, then we make bigger enemies, but then we'd give the protection service a real reason to protect us.
• 36:49
  Or protect them.
• 36:51
  What about Guo Han? What's Guo Han kind of leaning towards? Well, go on.
• 36:58
  Thought we could do a wicked block party thing.
• 37:04
  Dope.
• 37:06
  But I have a feeling that some of these guys don't like that idea and take the more direct approach long term.
• 37:15
  Well, here's my problem, okay? These guys are bullies, okay? And if we just pay them off, they'll just keep on bullying Mr.
• 37:25
  Okuran, and he'll always be owing them.
• 37:28
  Right? So even if we can get the money back now, we're just going to own them more down the road, right? Who's to say my store doesn't lose more money on a future shipment? Right? So if we just go to these bullies and just beat them up and teach them a lesson not to mess with Mr.
• 37:43
  Okuran, he won't owe them any more money.
• 37:46
  Maybe we even have to make them pay protection.
• 37:48
  That's on the horrible plan.
• 37:50
  I think it's a great idea.
• 37:51
  I got one vote.
• 37:53
  Why would you beat them up when we literally have nothing? We know nothing about them.
• 37:56
  We don't know how many numbers there are.
• 37:58
  We don't know where they are.
• 37:59
  We don't literally know anything.
• 38:00
  So why don't we talk? Why don't we just pay them off and then we have more time to deal with them to figure out a better plan.
• 38:11
  Exactly.
• 38:11
  From the rich people you don't want to go beat up.
• 38:15
  You want to beat up innocent rich people who just happened to back out of a tea shop deal they didn't just happen to back out of it.
• 38:22
  No, they did, but that's still the risk.
• 38:24
  I'm not saying you have to beat them up.
• 38:25
  I'm just saying you just said shake them down for all their work doesn't mean you beat them.
• 38:39
  Mr.
• 38:40
  Okuran stops by to fill up.
• 38:41
  Everybody's tea.
• 38:46
  Great idea.
• 38:47
  And then he walks away.
• 38:51
  Can Bill Door and I go on our own adventure.
• 38:54
  No, we're going to need more people.
• 38:57
  I'm sure Guo Han wants help.
• 38:58
  Yeah, the Rooster Cat's got to stick together.
• 39:03
  Is that what we are? We the Rooster Castle? Oh, no, that's not good.
• 39:12
  The best I can come up with.
• 39:14
  I can't come up with anything better.
• 39:15
  So we got three in Turkey monkeys.
• 39:20
  No, I think your plans crap.
• 39:23
  What are you going to do, go off by yourself? I'm going to go find the rich people.
• 39:27
  This is not a good idea.
• 39:28
  It's a great idea.
• 39:29
  I think, actually, out of the three plans we came up with my position they're going to love me.
• 39:38
  The normal thing.
• 39:39
  No, I'm not afraid.
• 39:41
  Why talk to everybody when I could just go straight to the source? Doesn't sound like you want to talk to them, though.
• 39:47
  We'll see what happens.
• 39:48
  Okay.
• 39:48
  Geez.
• 39:50
  No, Bill's got a point, though.
• 39:51
  If we just pay them off now, either way, if we make money from a block party, or we go shake down those Richie Rich people, either way, it's just a short term solution.
• 40:08
  Yeah, but the short term solution will help us to have a better long term solution.
• 40:14
  But your short term solution has a worst long term solution, where we make enemies with Richard.
• 40:19
  I'm not saying we have to immediately make enemies with them.
• 40:22
  I'm just saying we ask questions and get out of there.
• 40:25
  You would create enemies out of people you rob? You just go clean their house and check their cushions.
• 40:31
  They won't know.
• 40:33
  Oh, okay.
• 40:34
  Wouldn't they have security if they're super rich and they're going to be watching the maid new maids? Yeah.
• 40:43
  No, they would.
• 40:45
  No.
• 40:46
  How would you know? No.
• 40:48
  Okay.
• 40:51
  No, that's a bad idea again, I'm going to double dip down on that.
• 40:55
  Bad idea.
• 40:57
  What if we combined both ideas? Oh, no.
• 41:03
  We got the block party together.
• 41:08
  Everybody's paying protection to those guys, and we rile them all up and we turn it into a rock party.
• 41:17
  And everybody gets stones and we stone them.
• 41:22
  The gang.
• 41:23
  What are they called again? The Wild Coyote Boars.
• 41:27
  Wild Coyote Boars.
• 41:30
  We run them out of town.
• 41:32
  Oh, okay.
• 41:33
  You just left it at that moment.
• 41:35
  And I said that sounds the most logical.
• 41:38
  Because if it's just the four of us against them, then our odds are better.
• 41:43
  If there's a mob with us, I still say we confront them, but maybe with more people.
• 41:49
  But then, on the other hand, that is putting other people at risk.
• 41:54
  So if the three of us are four just going and confronting them.
• 42:00
  Can we just throw Meeka in a sack and carry her with us? You can try.
• 42:07
  Can I try? I suppose you can.
• 42:10
  Where are you going to? I'm prepared for either scenario.
• 42:14
  And honestly, if she wants to split up, I'm prepared for that as well.
• 42:19
  Can I try to just throw her in a stack? She's like literally half my character's size, but I'm fast.
• 42:31
  Call someone out.
• 42:32
  Basically says when you openly call on someone to live up to their principal, shift your balance away from center, then name and role with their principal.
• 42:42
  On a hit, they are called to act as you say.
• 42:45
  They must either do it or mark a condition.
• 42:47
  On a Sunday night, they challenge your view of the world.
• 42:50
  In turn, you mark one fatigue or they shift your balance as they choose.
• 42:55
  On a miss, they can demand you act in accordance to one of your principles instead.
• 43:00
  Mark a condition or act as they request.
• 43:04
  So you would be calling her out.
• 43:07
  Meeka, what are your principles again? As a rogue? They're the two sides of your balance, friendship and survival.
• 43:15
  Okay, so in this case yeah, you could use those to and probably friendship.
• 43:21
  You could call her out to live up to her friendship kind of direction.
• 43:29
  You're not being very friendship right now.
• 43:31
  You got to live up to that friendship and then you roll for it.
• 43:37
  Okay.
• 43:38
  Minus one.
• 43:39
  So I need to roll at least an eight.
• 43:41
  Yeah.
• 43:42
  All right.
• 43:43
  Power of friendship.
• 43:45
  Five a five.
• 43:47
  All right, so you missed.
• 43:48
  So on the miss, Meeka gets to demand that you act in accordance with one of your principles instead.
• 43:53
  So you either mark a condition or act as they request.
• 43:56
  My principles.
• 43:57
  That's the main two.
• 43:58
  It's force and care.
• 44:00
  Well, he basically said I needed to be a friend, right, and join them in what they were doing.
• 44:06
  A friend wouldn't force somebody into a paper bag so that they could it's going to be unwillingly.
• 44:13
  Go on the mission she did not want to go on.
• 44:16
  Maybe throwing you in a burlap sack was not the best idea.
• 44:22
  It was the first that came to mind.
• 44:25
  Hey, that's where most of the ideas first that came to mind was throwing your friend into a bag.
• 44:30
  Yes.
• 44:35
  Be a bro.
• 44:36
  Come with us.
• 44:37
  I'm not a bro.
• 44:39
  You are an honorary bro.
• 44:41
  In your kingdom, we just call everybody bro.
• 44:43
  You didn't know this? No.
• 44:50
  Neither am I.
• 44:51
  Exactly.
• 44:51
  I am.
• 44:52
  That's why you got offended at me calling you bro.
• 44:55
  Skyler says everyone that all.
• 44:58
  The NPCs are going to have to start calling them bro ville.
• 45:02
  I hope so.
• 45:03
  That would be an interesting campaign.
• 45:05
  All earth kingdom people are just chill bros.
• 45:08
  I would love to have to be like this super chill translator, like shottedness sabre.
• 45:14
  So anyone else got an idea how we can convince me? She's standing right here, bro.
• 45:20
  Yup.
• 45:21
  Bro.
• 45:23
  You can just do your thing and I'll do my thing.
• 45:25
  Your thing is going to get you in a lot of trouble.
• 45:27
  So I'm trying to avoid your thing.
• 45:30
  I've got into trouble for and I've gotten out of it.
• 45:32
  Look it, I'm working on this shop.
• 45:34
  Okay, how about this? We make a deal, okay? If you can go to the rich people house and you can successfully not get caught feeling money, I want to talk to them before I try to steal from you.
• 45:48
  Okay, whatever.
• 45:48
  If your plan goes well and you somehow successfully do whatever your plan is, which is awful, but if you somehow do it, I will owe you.
• 45:58
  I'll do your dishes for a week.
• 46:00
  But if you fail, how can I stare into the abyss if you do my dishes? Fine.
• 46:07
  Whatever deal you want.
• 46:08
  That's related to the strap.
• 46:10
  I can't really give you much else.
• 46:12
  We all have to clean the bathrooms on the I have to do I'll give you all my money, but I honestly could give you all my money right now.
• 46:19
  I don't care about money much.
• 46:21
  But she said all my money.
• 46:22
  No, she said you had to clean the bathrooms on the rare occasions that she gets assigned.
• 46:28
  Oh, and your bathroom okay for a month.
• 46:30
  I was like four times.
• 46:31
  I can do that.
• 46:32
  No, because I don't always get asked to clean the bathrooms, me being a woman at all.
• 46:36
  Okay, the first three times you have to clean the bathroom, you always buy.
• 46:41
  I'll do.
• 46:41
  Four women.
• 46:42
  But if it fails and we have to end up bailing you out because you're a dummy, you'll have to do the bathroom duty for me and the other two for a full month because she's going to mess it up.
• 47:01
  Clearly.
• 47:03
  How is that fair? I tried to do three of your jobs to know how it's fair, because if you succeed, well, nothing happens.
• 47:11
  But if you fail, the three of us are going to have to bail you out.
• 47:16
  I didn't ask for you to protect me.
• 47:19
  What are you going to do, just sit in jail? I literally get out of trouble.
• 47:24
  Yeah, how many Robert people you'll stay in jail for a while.
• 47:30
  I've got an excuse.
• 47:31
  Prepped and right, too.
• 47:32
  She's crazy, my sister.
• 47:36
  She sometimes forgets who she is.
• 47:37
  Oh, we got to take you back to the morgue tomorrow.
• 47:45
  She has a shift tomorrow.
• 47:46
  She sometimes wanders away back to the asylum.
• 47:50
  That job actually would be a great job.
• 47:51
  Exactly.
• 47:52
  And that is why I've got this.
• 47:54
  We are learning so much about Makala tonight.
• 47:57
  No, I was talking about Meeka, not about me.
• 47:59
  Is it a deal or you're just going to come with us? I'm not coming with you.
• 48:03
  Sounds like a deal.
• 48:04
  Then she's going to go and try to break into the house of the rich people.
• 48:08
  I want to talk to the rich people.
• 48:10
  None of you listen to me, talk to the rich people, and the rest of you are going to go find a gang.
• 48:17
  Now.
• 48:17
  I'm going to watch this, actually.
• 48:25
  before we go any further with that, what explicitly is the deal? The deal is if she somehow manages to trick and dupe these rich people and gets into the house and is able to steal money from the cushions this is part two.
• 48:39
  If she does all of this, I'll do her bathroom job.
• 48:43
  What if she were to manipulate the money, bro? If she somehow anyway, also, she gets them to agree to give back.
• 48:52
  She said she wants to talk to them.
• 48:55
  If she succeeds in getting Mr.
• 48:57
  Okuran back his money, well, then I'll do the first four bathrooms.
• 49:01
  But if she fails and if she does, she'll probably get arrested.
• 49:05
  Yeah, we got to bail her out.
• 49:07
  And after we do that, she has to do all of our bathroom shifts for a month.
• 49:11
  Okay.
• 49:12
  All of our bathrooms? All of our bathroom shifts.
• 49:15
  And yourself, you still stuck with yours, too, so you're just bathroom duty for a month.
• 49:21
  Deal.
• 49:22
  All right.
• 49:22
  Do we want to spit on it? Sure.
• 49:25
  It's not water bender.
• 49:34
  I already know that sounded real gross in your headphones.
• 49:49
  All right, sounds good.
• 49:50
  So, you guys, how are you going to find out who the family was? Yeah, we still have to find out where the family lives.
• 50:02
  At the top of the hill.
• 50:04
  That's what he said.
• 50:05
  He's cleaning off some of the tables nearby.
• 50:09
  Hey, Mr.
• 50:10
  Okuran? Yes? Could you by chance tell me where those fancy rich people is? Which rich people? The ones who made a deal with you, and they're like, oh, we don't want your tea.
• 50:27
  Oh, yes, the Shifu family.
• 50:30
  But they said they were representing another family, but they were the direct contact, so I think they're the people to talk to, I suppose.
• 50:37
  Yeah.
• 50:37
  So where are they? They're on the kind of northwestern side of the city.
• 50:44
  Very nice house, can't miss it.
• 50:46
  They have Shifu written on a very ornate mailbox.
• 50:54
  Okay, I'm just going to let you know, take a break and go visit them.
• 51:00
  Well, you guys have the data, whatever you got to do, so all right, that's fine with me.
• 51:06
  Thanks, man.
• 51:07
  I mean, bro, we are in the earth, kingdom.
• 51:12
  I'm going to hang back, and as I leave, I'm going to say, hey, Mr.
• 51:16
  Okuran, can I get next month's bathroom schedule, like, a copy of it? Oh, I hadn't even written it up yet, but give me just a moment.
• 51:26
  And he clicks square balls some things down, and he kind of looks back at you like, scribbles.
• 51:32
  Scribbles some things down.
• 51:34
  He draws some square balls and he erases them really quickly, and he gets back to actually drawing up the schedule.
• 51:43
  He makes, like, a graph, and it's just could you space out the Meeka once away from mine.
• 51:48
  So they're just evenly spaced out.
• 51:50
  So it's not like if I had to do hers, they weren't back to back.
• 51:55
  Oh, well, I was just going to make Brock do it all this month.
• 52:05
  I'll have to do it eventually.
• 52:07
  It's still in the shop.
• 52:08
  Mr.
• 52:09
  Okuran does use it the most.
• 52:12
  Oh, that's true.
• 52:16
  Here you go.
• 52:17
  Everybody's got an equal number of bathroom shit except for Meeka.
• 52:22
  She always does the women's roof.
• 52:31
  I don't know how this deal is going to work.
• 52:34
  Anyway, I'm leaving Shook.
• 52:39
  All right, I'm grabbing the copy he made and I am leaving.
• 52:42
  I'm putting in my pocket and I'm heading out.
• 52:44
  All right? I got to follow Meeka.
• 52:46
  You can add one bathroom schedule to your inventory.
• 52:52
  All right, sounds good.
• 52:53
  So you guys step out the door.
• 52:55
  I'm assuming you guys are just going to head straight over to this house then? Yeah.
• 53:00
  Okay, sounds good.
• 53:01
  So you guys head northwest kind of just in that general direction.
• 53:05
  And sure enough, the houses start to get more can I just say how nobody wanted to come and now literally everybody is going? Well, no, there's a huge difference here.
• 53:14
  We're not going to help.
• 53:15
  We're going to see you fail.
• 53:16
  Either way, it doesn't matter.
• 53:18
  I got you guys to do what I wanted to do and you guys are poking around your idea.
• 53:24
  How about bros? Sounds like ask around and see where these pig boys or whatever they're called.
• 53:32
  Coyote.
• 53:33
  Coyote.
• 53:34
  Boars.
• 53:34
  Yeah, pig boys.
• 53:35
  Ask about the pig boys, see where they are.
• 53:38
  Like as you go.
• 53:39
  You're going to yeah, vendors or stuff.
• 53:42
  Okay.
• 53:43
  You pass by.
• 53:45
  There's a lettuce salesman.
• 53:48
  There's a squash salesman.
• 53:51
  There's a pumpkin salesman.
• 53:57
  There's a small seafood restaurant.
• 54:02
  He's a pumpkin guy.
• 54:08
  I feel like he's got the know.
• 54:10
  I'm going to go talk to the seafood guys, actually, just one at a time.
• 54:14
  That way, finding it in the first one, we're not going to waste time.
• 54:17
  Sounds good.
• 54:18
  I can talk to the pumpkin guy.
• 54:20
  Okay.
• 54:21
  So I go up.
• 54:22
  Is he from? The Earth Kingdom? Yeah.
• 54:24
  Exotic.
• 54:25
  You know where these Wild Coyote boards are? The Wild Coyote boys, a bunch of mischievous kids, always charge me money not to squish my pumpkins.
• 54:42
  Yeah, we're trying to find them so maybe they don't have to charge anybody anymore.
• 54:46
  You know where they are? I always see him going, which direction is it? Every time at the end of the night when I see him scamming up a bunch of people, I always see him heading southeast.
• 55:05
  Southeast.
• 55:06
  That's the polar opposite direction from where we are headed.
• 55:10
  Where are you headed? We are headed northwest for reasons that are not your business, Mr.
• 55:16
  Pumpkin man.
• 55:17
  You seem kind of rude for a guy that just asked me some questions.
• 55:20
  I apologize that talking to people is not my strong suit.
• 55:24
  Well, I tell you what.
• 55:25
  You asked me a question, and I give you an answer.
• 55:32
  Shifu family.
• 55:34
  You're here.
• 55:36
  I don't even want to know.
• 55:38
  But if I answered your question, I feel it's only fair for me to ask you one and you to give me a straight answer.
• 55:46
  That sounds fair.
• 55:49
  You want to buy some pumpkins? Sorry, we are not interested in buying some pumpkins right now.
• 55:57
  I knew you'd say that.
• 55:59
  Why doesn't anyone want pumpkins? And he wheels his cart away.
• 56:03
  Nice guy.
• 56:04
  Yeah, cool dude.
• 56:06
  I'd have a brewski with him every now and then.
• 56:09
  Pumpkin? You know this guy? No, but I would.
• 56:12
  Okay.
• 56:12
  I thought you said that you normally have brewski with them also.
• 56:15
  Aren't you too young to drink? Who said that? Basically, I'm drinking that stuff.
• 56:22
  I have a full beard.
• 56:24
  No one cards me.
• 56:25
  No one ever cards me.
• 56:27
  What are you talking about? I would have some brewskis with that guy.
• 56:30
  He seemed very nice.
• 56:32
  Even if I couldn't talk to him like a normal, rational human being.
• 56:35
  I'm sure after hours, he's pretty chill.
• 56:37
  Yeah.
• 56:38
  All right, so are we heading southeast while she's going north? No, that's all in our soul.
• 56:43
  Yeah, at least we know where they are.
• 56:47
  A whole region of the city.
• 56:50
  The whole area.
• 56:52
  Are you guys going to talk to anybody else on the way? Yeah, there was the lettuce guy.
• 56:56
  I want to go talk to sushi guy, whatever.
• 56:58
  Sure that sushi.
• 57:01
  Sushi would fall under that sushi.
• 57:04
  It's the seafood guy.
• 57:05
  Seafood guy? Yeah.
• 57:07
  Oh, guy.
• 57:09
  Shifu found him some sushi up and then flips it all up into the air, and it lands all decoratively onto this plate.
• 57:20
  Bill Door walks up to him.
• 57:22
  He straightens his desk, strains his tie, and he goes, hello, bro.
• 57:29
  Hey, what's up, bro? And he's, like, talking to you, and he looks completely unengaged because he's working on the sushi, but at the same time, his tone says that he's engaged.
• 57:40
  What do you need, bro? You want to buy some sushi? I got all kinds.
• 57:44
  Coyote bros, coyotes.
• 57:47
  Oh, the coyote wild boys, coyote pig boys, ugly coyotes, wild coyote boars.
• 57:55
  Yeah, the wild coyote boars.
• 57:57
  Yeah, I know these guys.
• 58:04
  Southeast.
• 58:05
  I know that.
• 58:06
  Are they in the dock district or something? I don't know.
• 58:11
  I mean, he comes in, he's always got toothpicks.
• 58:15
  They don't look like they've been manufactured.
• 58:18
  They just look like little splinters of wood or something.
• 58:22
  I don't know.
• 58:22
  He's always chewing on them, and then he sticks them into my sushi rolls and takes them, and I'm like, man, that was supposed to be customers order.
• 58:28
  And he's like, well, I'm a customer now or something.
• 58:31
  I don't know.
• 58:32
  He always says something really intense, or at least, like intense in tone, but it just didn't like I don't know.
• 58:37
  He has homemade toothpicks.
• 58:39
  Yeah, that's your lead, is homemade toothpicks? That's all I know.
• 58:43
  Right.
• 58:43
  Is there a wooded area southeast of here? Well, I mean, you start going well, no, south doesn't really quite the foggy swamp doesn't reach south.
• 58:54
  More north, but oh, there's the old lumber mill that's down there.
• 59:00
  It's all closed up.
• 59:04
  Yeah.
• 59:05
  If I was a gang, I guess I'd hang out there.
• 59:07
  That's a pretty solid spot.
• 59:09
  Well, you have done us a great service today.
• 59:13
  Really? I haven't even made you any sushi, bro.
• 59:16
  No, you've gifted us with information.
• 59:20
  That's what matters.
• 59:21
  And some vibes.
• 59:23
  Does a person get a tip for info and vibes? I've got one copper for you.
• 59:28
  Really? I'm not going to say no.
• 59:32
  Thank you, vibes.
• 59:33
  Yoshi, man.
• 59:34
  Yeah? How did you know my name was Vibes? I just got that vibe from you.
• 59:38
  Bros.
• 59:43
  So I got to slide the copper on the counter and just, like, leave.
• 59:47
  While they're doing that, he slips one of his sushi chopping knives into the air, and he pockets the copper, and then he catches the knife.
• 59:55
  Right on bro.
• 59:56
  Well, let's get it.
• 59:59
  It's really great to meet all of you.
• 1:00:01
  I didn't stop to talk to him.
• 1:00:02
  I'm just keeping walking.
• 1:00:04
  Oh, well, he assumed that you were probably with them.
• 1:00:07
  He glanced out of the corner of his eyes as you guys were approaching and saw them talking to you.
• 1:00:13
  How much for squid? How do you want it, roasted or live? Man, I bought them for two copper.
• 1:00:26
  If you just want one, I can just sell it too.
• 1:00:30
  Okay, good deal.
• 1:00:32
  All right.
• 1:00:34
  Do you want it in something or yeah, it's got, like, a bag, a basket, I don't know.
• 1:00:42
  Keeping live squid.
• 1:00:45
  Well, he's got, like, this little aquarium looking you know, it's more of a stone, so you have to look down to see the fish and stuff that are inside.
• 1:00:56
  But there's some squids.
• 1:00:57
  He's got, like, multiple, because obviously he works with fish, so he's got different ones for different types of fish, so they don't attack each other, eat each other.
• 1:01:04
  You wouldn't put a bunch of beta fish together.
• 1:01:06
  So he's got one that's just got squids in it.
• 1:01:09
  So he flips the knife up in the air, but this time it sticks in the ceiling directly above him.
• 1:01:15
  And then he reaches over, and he grabs, like, a pair of tongs, and he scoops one out, and he kind of just, like, looks around, and then he stomps on the ground, and he makes, like, a pattern with his foot.
• 1:01:28
  And then he stomps again in a sort of box shaped chunk of stone comes out, and he, like, scoops up some water.
• 1:01:34
  He slaps the squid into it, and then he hands it to you, and he's like, you're an Earthbender, right? I mean, if you want to put a lid on this, go for it.
• 1:01:43
  I don't know if you wanted to open or close.
• 1:01:46
  I've never had someone ask for a live squid before.
• 1:01:49
  They can take care of it.
• 1:01:50
  Usually they go to the market.
• 1:01:52
  Well, we were in the neighborhood.
• 1:01:54
  No, I mean, that's totally fair.
• 1:01:55
  I doubt I'm going to sell all these today and sometimes they don't make it to the next day.
• 1:02:00
  So it seems like a good insurance to making a sale or making some of my money back.
• 1:02:06
  So then he tosses the tongs back down, he reaches up, he grabs his knife and goes back to chopping up some sushi.
• 1:02:16
  I'm going to do a little earth bending to close up that box.
• 1:02:22
  All right, so you have a cube of square.
• 1:02:29
  Awesome.
• 1:02:29
  I'm excited to see where that goes.
• 1:02:31
  Build or looks down.
• 1:02:32
  I think it was done.
• 1:02:33
  Don't you need to put like air holes in there or something? Then the water will leak out.
• 1:02:41
  Well, when they die, if you can't breathe air, purchase.
• 1:02:46
  Squid don't need air.
• 1:02:48
  They don't? No.
• 1:02:54
  I don't know what a squid is.
• 1:02:58
  squid bro.
• 1:03:00
  I don't even know, bro.
• 1:03:03
  I never thought about squids as being living things before until they're dead and I can't serve them in a squid roll.
• 1:03:16
  You serve live squid in a squid roll? Well, it's usually live when I kill it locks it raw and wriggling.
• 1:03:29
  Okay, well, thank you.
• 1:03:33
  I follow Bill Door out the door.
• 1:03:35
  There you go.
• 1:03:36
  Meeka is already like three blocks ahead of you guys.
• 1:03:40
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