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Benders & Brews S2 - Episode 7 - On the Hunt for Tea-Reasure! · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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Uh.
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Jasmine, oolong, green
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and white. Long ago, these four
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teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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Then everything changed when the shop's
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popularity threatened its existence.
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All Mr. Okeron, the shop's owner and tea
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master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the
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world. Last time on
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Benders and Brews an.
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Avatar Legends podcast island
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shores where we met. So is there any part of
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Whaletail Island that is distinct enough to,
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uh, know that's exactly where you met Mr. Okra?
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Uh, you can see in the distance, uh, there seems to
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be a flagpole that outcrops from
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a Sanderson bruise. Avatar Legends
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actively on this island. And looking at your map, you're able
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to see where it is, where you need to go next. I
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was actually totally interested in joining the pirate
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crew back then. Okay, fine. You want to know my real
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name? Okay. It's Ash. Okay. Following the map,
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you eventually find yourself, uh,
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near a cave. Discover a large chamber.
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There are plants that have sprung up thanks to this
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light, the sunlight that's able to get inside of this cave
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all throughout the cave, crawling up the
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sides of the rocky walls, as well as
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filling m the entire floor with various foliage.
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All of the plants that are in here all seem to be different
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kinds of herbs or plants that are
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often used in tea making in different
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flavorings or for their aromas.
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You manage to sniff your way over to
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the mint. Can see a small
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corner of what looks like a wooden box.
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Inside you find a small stone
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tablet that seems to feature a
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map like drawing on it. But when you look
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at the edges of this tablet, you feel
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as though maybe it's been broken and there
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might be more pieces to it. Additionally, you
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find a small letter to Bill, and then there is
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another letter to Guao to hear a voice
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from behind you at the entrance of the
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well.
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A, um, bunch of kids just chilling
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in a cave on my island. And
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as you turn around, you see a large group of
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pirates all blocking the entrance to the cave,
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staring at you.
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Hey, welcome back, everybody, to another episode, uh, of
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the, uh, Benders and Brews
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podcast. There we go. It has been a while since we
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have been in the studio together recording a new
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episode. So it might not seem long to you guys
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because an episode keeps coming out every week. Uh,
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so you guys get the good end of the
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stick. Uh, but here in the studio, sometimes
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it's an interesting, fun, uh, challenge to
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get things scheduled. But here we are, again. We're back. Uh,
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what year is it?
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I think it's
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2023,
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the year of our Lord. I feel like they
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just say that. You just say that, right? The year of
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our Lord. 2023. Yep. Yep.
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Explicitly. Um, awesome. Well,
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welcome back, all of you in the little room we
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call the studio. Uh, I hope you guys
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had a good time up until
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now.
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We were having fun until you called us back here.
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That's true. Yes. I've ruined our proverbial
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vacation. It is summer it is summer of
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2023. So yeah, we all kind of, like, had vacations
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or other stuff that came up. Connor, uh, did
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ragbry, if you know what that is.
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Cool. Uh, it was sick.
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It is a bike challenge.
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It's not really a race, right?
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No, it's not a race. It's more of, like a marathon
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of bikes.
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Can you go?
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Well, it goes from the left side of Iowa all the way to the
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other side, so I think it's 500 miles in total.
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That's right. We also have another individual
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in the studio with us that's not normally in the studio with
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us, in case you hear her in the background.
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Um, so that's exciting too. So big news all
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around. Except for Cameron. He didn't have any big
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news. Wow.
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Do you have big news? Uh, what's your
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biggest news? I pre ordered
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some new expansion for Arc
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Nova. Hey. All right, well, there you go.
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Fantastic. Awesome. I watched Terminator Two.
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Oh, okay. For the first time. It was pretty good.
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Yeah. We've been withholding spoilers from you for such a
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long time. I appreciate all of it. I'm pretty sure I
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fell asleep. I was not into any of the
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Terminator movies. That's just me. But
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anyways, let's jump into the fun facts, character facts. So,
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uh, Connor Connor, aka Brock. What do you
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got?
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Yeah, so Brock, uh, when,
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uh, he needs to get a workout in, he can just
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literally just grab the ground, and he knows
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exactly how much weight he wants to pull. So he'll pull exactly
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that much weight out of the ground with him out of stone.
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It's how he stays fit, how he stays
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chiseled, uh, on these adventures.
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Big and swole and muscular,
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as we all know him for.
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Mhm big, swole, muscular man.
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Some people have perfect pitch. Brock has, like
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what would you call it? Perfect pound.
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Perfect pound.
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Control over his ah. Yeah.
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Is it that he perfectly knows how much to grab, or
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is it just that he tries to pull as much as he can and only
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pulls his limit, but then he says
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it's because.
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He wanted if
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he's going for reps, you can't pull his one
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rep max there. It's like, okay, so I want to pull, like,
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100 pounds. And he just knows.
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He just sticks his hands in the ground. He just pulls
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up 100 pounds.
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That's a weird talent. That is a weird talent. It's like
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being able to put your finger into water and know exactly what temperature
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it is. It's like if you were to go to a gym and
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then I did a bench press and then they put on an
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unknown amount of weight and then he had to do one rep and then tell you exactly
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how much was on it. That's his talent.
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That's what he does.
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All Right. Dave playing
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Guao. Guo
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Guao. So, Guo Han,
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uh, going to get a little meta here, because
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I was trying to think of interesting facts about the
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character, and I'm like,
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have I done this fact before? I can't
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remember. Maybe we'll do it again.
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That's kind of how I am in real life. Sometimes
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given a certain set of
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inputs, I will come
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up with the same joke and then realize
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later that I've made that same joke
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previously. Okay. And it's not
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like I'm doing it on purpose. Like it's a bit. Because
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there's always the callback bit or
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whatever. Right. Sometimes I just
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forget and my brain
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just gives the same creative
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or non creative output. That's
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Fair. No, that's totally fair.
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Does that as well. He calls it the
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old reliable. The old reliable. That's
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Right. Guo is the old reliable callback
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bit. Perfect. Boy. Yes.
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Boy. Yes. Absolutely. Awesome.
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Fantastic. Expect to hear some classics
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from old Guo. Um cameron
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playing Bill Dor. What's Bill
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Dore doing these days? Or all his
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days. I said this beforehand, uh,
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and I think I'll go with it. Uh,
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Bill goes down to the old folks home and he plays
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pie show with the old folks. Okay. As well
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as the park. As well as the park. Well, yeah,
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that too. But there's reason he goes to the old folks home is because he
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visits the one old guy, uh, from the
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prequel. Oh, from the episode we recorded just
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recently.
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Mr. Kuro.
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It could be a long time ago. We don't know. Well, it'll be,
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what, two episodes ago, I Believe. The one shot
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when this aired? Yeah, the Bill and Brock one Shot, if you
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haven't listened to that, highly recommend It. It was very entertaining. But there's
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an old guy in it, and his name's Coro. And,
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uh, Bill goes and plays pie show
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with him. And just to keep up with him because, uh, he kind of
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takes a little blame for why he's in.
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Yeah, yeah. And he takes some blame.
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I Like To think that Kuro has know Where He's
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at, realized maybe Some Of The errors of his ways, maybe Let
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go of some things, which is really healthy.
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That's what Bill does. He Doesn't
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Go A lot, to be honest, but enough
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that's know a couple times A. Right.
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Right. Which is fair. Right on. Well, good for Bill. Good
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for Bill. Nice community service, hanging out With Old
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people. All Right. Michaela playing
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Mika. Do you got?
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Um um, yeah, I
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guess.
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Oh, she guesses.
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Well, me and the ghost writer were talking about
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my fun fact. And apparently
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Mika had an illegitimate
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child.
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What?
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Just recently.
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What this lore, what.
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17? Yeah. Is that kind of
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concerning?
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Is that why you didn't go with us to the
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pirate island?
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Okay, she's with you at the pirate okay, hold on. She was an
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NPC at one point, right? I'm
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confused.
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Okay. No, but for real.
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Um, me.
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Michaela had a baby.
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Yeah.
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If you hear little noises in the background, sorry, it's her.
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But, um, as for Mika, she actually
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does not want a family of her own someday. So
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there is no illegitimate child.
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Okay, I was going to say
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man, we're going to have wow.
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So to clarify, with all those listening out
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there, there is no illegitimate child. That was a
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joke. I just really
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want to emphasize that for everyone listening so
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that we don't get the right idea going forward.
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Um, it could just explain some of the background.
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Right, right. Going forward,
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Michaela, M. And Dave did have a
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legitimate child, and she
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is with us today in the studio. I was going to say this
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leaves the door open still for her having
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a legitimate child and a
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secret husband. Yes, it's
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the illegitimate husband, but a legitimate
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awesome. All right, well, let's jump into
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it.
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All right, so you all
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left off last time as you
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realized you were trapped inside the cave, uh, that you
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had found, uh, based on Mr. Okaron's
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map that he had given you and the riddle that was associated
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with it. You found some interesting hints and clues
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and a map piece that will help, uh, move you
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towards your end goal of finding the will. Uh,
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sort of the backup copy of the will, I suppose, that Mr.
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Okaron had left behind. Um oh, no,
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it's the official will. Um, I digress.
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Uh, you went into this cave that is on Whaletail Island
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and you found all this stuff, and then you turned around, only
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to find out that you were surrounded by
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pirates, and they have captured you,
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and they are taking you back to their ship. Now,
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two of you, two of the members of this group recognize
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the leader and maybe a couple of the pirates that are
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involved. Um, and that would be Bildor and
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GuoHan. Both of you have had a run in with, at
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the very least, the Pirate Captain.
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And you recognize him. He looks a little
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familiar. One thing that you do notice that's a little bit different since
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the last time that you saw him is one of his
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legs kind of like, um,
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from his knee down to his
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well, the rest of his leg is made of stone,
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so he kind of hobbles it. He obviously must
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be an Earthbender because
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he can move it to some extent. Uh, but it still looks a
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little bit awkward. So, um, it's not like a full limp. It
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almost can move normally like a normal leg
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would. Uh, but obviously, it's very obvious that it's made out
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of a stone material. Um, and it
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seems that the rest of his leg is gone.
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Needless, uh, to say, they are leading you back to their
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ship somewhat, um, roughly. But
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unless you guys are cooperating for the most part
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okay, sure. Yeah. Let's say okay. Does he recognize
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us? He does not recognize you. Uh, I think both
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of you have aged at least a little bit to a
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point where he might not necessarily catch on, or
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it might be a situation, uh, of, um,
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he's just been through a lot, and he's not really thinking
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back. I think, at the very least, um, given his
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interactions, he definitely wouldn't recognize Guo,
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because given Guo's backstory and
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the time that he met him, uh, he didn't really meet him at
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all. You kind of, like, saw him and overheard
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a conversation he was having doing some shady
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smuggling stuff. Exactly. Yeah. And
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so you didn't even talk to him. I don't know if he necessarily
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would have seen you or would have been really passing glance. Either
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way, this one chest hair really
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distinguishes Guo
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from all the chest hair.
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He said, I might not recognize you per
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se, but I sure do recognize that third
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chest hair. Um, Bill, on the other hand, you
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spent an actual amount of time with this
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individual, um, but I would say
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that of everybody in the group, you've probably
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had the most time to change a little
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bit, uh, in some way, shape or form,
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physically maturity, uh, wise, et
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cetera. Um, I do have a scar, though.
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You do have a scar. Oh, that's true. You do have a fairly memorable
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scar. Um, weren't
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you hiding that, though? I don't hide it well. I can't
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hide it really on my right. That's true. Yes, I have a
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scar. It's on my right hand. Right.
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He might not have noticed. Whatever the case, at the very least, he
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doesn't recognize you currently. I mean, I could
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be hiding it too. That's also true. You could be hiding it right
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now. Yeah, I guess that if he doesn't
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recognize me immediately, I would definitely hide it in
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my side of my pant pocket or whatever.
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Right. And that's fair, the
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possibility that he might recognize you later. Who knows? We'll
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see. Uh, whatever the case, you guys follow, uh,
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him back to his pirate ship. They take you aboard
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their ship, and they tie you
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up, um, just kind of binding your hands and
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your legs and then kind of letting you sit down on the
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ship. Uh, the Captain starts to pace back and forth in
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front of you, and he well,
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you kids, you thought you could hide
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your secret about the treasure from us, but
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what you didn't realize was that
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Calconi and he points at one of the crewmates. He's
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a very well dressed he is, like, frilly clothes
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on. Um, you almost could
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wonder out of game that he probably belonged
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to Prince's Band or group m
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um, or just his entourage based
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on the clothes that he wears. Yes. Calconi
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was in Chin Village, and he noticed
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your whole escapade and overheard some
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conversations about a, ah, secret hidden
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treasure you guys are headed towards.
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So we're going to be
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following or kind of leading you to where you're supposed
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to be headed. But we expect a piece of the
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treasure.
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Well, at least we don't have to solve the puzzle now. They're
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just going to take us right there. Well,
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actually, the next question I was going to have is, where are
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we edited? Uh,
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did we, uh, get that far, guys? I don't think
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so. Okay?
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We were still kind of deciphering it.
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Well, I tell you what, rudely interrupted us. We
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were in the middle of that.
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All right, well, I tell you what. And he's
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like, send me the note. Send me whatever you
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got. Um, you got a
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map. You got some kind of letter telling
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you where you're supposed to go.
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Uh, what have you?
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Memories.
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Okay, uh, I guess we're going to have to
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talk about the memories.
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It's your note.
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Looking at Guo.
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Well, it feels like we were in that
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cave for months.
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Okay,
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it was less than 30 minutes. Let me
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explore the carrots of my
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memory. Okay, so you think
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back. You lift up the note.
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Uh, do you just read it to him, or do you give it to him?
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I read it.
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Well, we're tied up.
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Can you read it to me? He, like, awkwardly
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reaches into
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I start pulling out Dilbert's
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tentacles hanging on to it.
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Tie that squid up, too.
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They put, like, a little piece of twine around all his
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tentacles, and Dilbert immediately
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moves one out. It's a squid.
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You're not going to be able to hold that thing.
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What about Mika's? Uh, non existent fox dog?
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She's hiding in the bushes, apparently.
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Hiding in the non existent bush. No, I'm just kidding. She's hiding in the bushes.
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She's hiding in one of the sea bushes.
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A patch of sea cucumber.
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Not a fan of people.
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You mhm aren't either. But you're still tied up.
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Yeah, but I stuck with you guys.
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Okay? Yes. Let
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me undraw
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this letter note and read
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it. All right, so you read through the note, which
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reads, whoa. You're next up, my
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friend. When we first met, you were still working for the
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carnival. I know that we all have things in life
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we look back on and despise or wish never happened
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to us. But always remember that those
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experiences are there to m strengthen
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us. And the fact that we push on shows that
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we're stronger than the things that try to hold us
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back. Never let anyone or anything hold
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you back, lo. The coming quest of this hunt will
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rely heavily on you, my boy. But don't think
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that that doesn't mean you won't need your
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friends. And then there are a series of,
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uh, sort of bullet points. The first one
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reading, look down to the bottom for your
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next destination. The second one
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says, read between the lines to
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seek out an old friend of mine. And the third
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bullet point says, remember the tune, you'll
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need it again soon. Pull some strings to hear
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the music sing. And the
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pirate kind of looks at you, and he says, look down to the
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bottom for your next destination. What exactly does
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that mean? And he goes, Wait a minute. And he grabs
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Guo, and he kind of, like, leans him up, and he looks at
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the seat of your pant, and he says,
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this doesn't tell me anything. And it feels a little weird. And
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he puts you back down, says, what does he mean by the
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bottom for your next destination? What am I supposed to
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look that
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cloak rubs his bottom.
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Uh, what
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is this note coming? A box. Yes.
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Like a tiny chest, just like the one out this
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part already? Yeah, we
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did you, um, remember, and I'm telling you what
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you remember rather than just, like, saying you tell anybody, but you
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remember that on the bottom of the box, there was a little
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insignia, and it said that the box was
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made in Udao. Is that where we need to
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go? Yes. Okay.
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They're interpreting the information. Well, we
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believe it's possible we're supposed to go
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to Udao. Udao?
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Oh, all right. Yeah, we could do that. That's
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not too long of a jaunt. All
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right, everyone, he shouts to his
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crew, load up. Get ready to
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sail. We are headed to you
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dow. And with that,
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the boat pulls anchor.
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Your imaginary fox dog
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jumps inside the bottom of the ship somewhere and hides
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amidst the goodies. And the
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ship is on the seas,
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making its way towards you dow. Once, uh, you guys are
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on the water, he looks around.
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Um, he says, all right,
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first of all, for the business of what kind of
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benders are you? We got to know that before we get
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any further.
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Why do you need to know?
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It's important. I'll tell you after you tell
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me, but if you give me an answer, I like I'll, uh,
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untie
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you're.
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Can we have, like, a little POW wow sesh to see?
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You want me to let you have an aside on my
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ship? Yes, please. Okay,
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everybody, let these four have their peace
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between each other. Generous.
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So kind of you. Thank you.
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That's right.
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So, do you all want to lie
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or you want to tell them the truth? Just so
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we're all on the same page, are we going to lie or tell them the
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truth?
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Lie.
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Um, okay, so what do we tell them?
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I was going to say water.
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Say you're a water bender, and then.
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I'm nothing.
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You're not a bender. No, you're a stick
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bender.
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Okay, that's silly. Who would ever say they're a stick
22:34
bender?
22:35
So should we stay away from saying firebenders? Because I don't
22:38
think they would want any of firebenders on a wooden ship.
22:41
Firebender on it anywhere. Actually,
22:43
probably not friends with the fire.
22:45
But we're in the middle of the ocean.
22:48
I don't know, maybe just not say fire.
22:53
So I'll say, like, water as
22:55
well. We're just all
22:58
waterbenders.
22:59
I think I'll just say
23:01
truth. Maybe
23:04
I'll lead with a joke, and then I'll just
23:08
okay, so you leave.
23:10
With a joke, follow with the truth, and then based on his response,
23:13
we'll see if we want to be truthful or lie
23:16
to him.
23:16
I will say what I feel
23:19
like in the moment.
23:20
Yeah, sounds good.
23:21
All right. Okay. Ready? Break. You say
23:24
all tied, uh, up. Break. You just all, like, nod your
23:27
heads, and you kind of, like, shuffle background.
23:30
Oh, am I allowed to come over and talk to
23:33
you now? No, I, uh, mean, I was
23:36
just standing away far enough. Are
23:39
there
23:41
unnoticed discussion, uh, between the
23:44
four of you? Then from
23:47
behind Bill, you hear, now
23:50
presenting the amazing
23:55
and then guillau tops out.
24:05
So you just kind of fall
24:08
over jazz hands a little
24:11
less impressive,
24:14
like, down by my hips or right next to my
24:17
face?
24:19
A little bit of both.
24:21
Uh, I am, uh, a
24:24
body bender, and
24:29
I take my finger and I bend it back
24:32
and touch my wrist.
24:38
You know, I won't lie, that is
24:41
quite impressive. I remember once I
24:44
did some dealings with a feller that was in
24:47
the circus, but I don't
24:49
remember seeing anyone that could do quite that, so well
24:52
done.
24:55
The other side.
24:59
Um, some of the pirate crew are, like, clapping.
25:03
I put them, like, both together and press them
25:06
so the fingers are pushing each other
25:09
back. You just look like you're doing, like, narito
25:11
thing. Nice. Yeah, smart. M. Be a lot easier
25:14
to do this if I wasn't all tied up. Oh,
25:17
yeah. The pirate captain starts to kind of, like, walk away from you
25:20
a little bit, and he's like, oh, yeah, that sure would be nice. And
25:23
he turns around really fast, and he's holding a bucket of mop
25:26
water, and he slings it towards you.
25:31
Wait,
25:36
okay, so you're all wet. Nothing happens. He goes, oh, okay.
25:39
All right. Good to know. Good to know. He's probably
25:42
not a waterbender,
25:45
but also, I'm an Earthbender. Uh,
25:48
we're not the best Earthbender, but I can move some
25:51
stuff. He walks up to you, and he puts his hand on your shoulder,
25:54
and he's like, it took you a little while, but I appreciate your
25:57
honesty. And then he turns to the rest of you, and he's like, all
26:00
right, what about the rest of you? Um, I'm a stick
26:03
bender with his
26:05
mouth fighting. Good.
26:11
He says, okay, m.
26:14
And he walks around for a little bit, and he's like,
26:17
Crap. That mop water thing was a
26:20
one tride deal. He's out of mop water.
26:24
Good thing there's no more water around this boat.
26:29
You see him lean over to one of the other pirates, and he whispers something
26:32
in their ear. And they run
26:34
downstairs into the
26:37
Millership. And then all of a sudden, this big
26:40
hefty, uh, pirate dude in like a
26:43
chef's hat comes walking up, and he's carrying a stick
26:45
with some hot burning end or
26:48
whatever, and he hands it to the Pirate Captain. He's
26:51
like. You wouldn't be lying to me,
26:54
would you? And he starts moving it towards you closer and closer
26:57
and closer to your face. Dude.
26:58
Dude, dude. He has a stick.
27:00
Uh, I've got a stick, too,
27:03
and it's pretty hot. I'm sure a
27:06
firebender would trying to motion
27:08
above my head to my bow staff that
27:11
is on my back. Oh, that's a nice staff you
27:14
got there. I hope you have the eyes to be
27:17
able to see where you're
27:20
I can't bend. I just use a stick. He puts it
27:22
like quarter of an inch from your face. You
27:25
can feel the heat starting to sting your cheek a little bit.
27:28
I'm definitely pushing away from that. Okay?
27:32
He sees you struggling and squirming. He goes. Okay.
27:34
All right. I suppose you're not
27:37
a firebender, and that's good.
27:41
All right. What about the other two of you?
27:44
I am also an earthbender, like
27:47
my friend Guo here.
27:49
Well, that was easy. All right.
27:52
Figured.
27:53
Just move it along.
27:55
I appreciate that. All right, little lady.
27:59
Uh, he's too m nice.
28:04
As he tests all of us.
28:06
Well, he didn't test me.
28:09
I don't know what you're talking about.
28:10
I'm having a great time the first time. And, well, he
28:13
still threatened to poke me with a stick, so I don't know.
28:17
I don't know. Test Me. I'm having a great
28:20
time. I'm Chilling.
28:21
He starts to come towards you with the burning stick, and he's
28:24
like, well, tell me what you are,
28:28
girl. Uh, okay. Give
28:31
me more details about your bending
28:33
abilities.
28:34
Oh, I don't have any of those.
28:37
And he gets really close with the.
28:39
Burn and I start crying
28:42
kind of bad.
28:43
All right, cookie, take this away. He hands
28:46
the fiery stick back to his chef, who takes it back.
28:49
He goes. All right, untie the lot. If they're just a bunch
28:52
of earthbenders and nonbenders, they're not going to cause us any trouble
28:55
out, uh, here on the sea. But
28:58
that does mean we can put them to work. And
29:01
everyone goes, Ha.
29:04
Uh, actually,
29:07
that, uh, is a good point. You will be mopping.
29:13
Good thing he grabbed it first. I need
29:16
some of it. Does anybody else like to mop as well?
29:21
I know my way around. Uh, some dirty
29:24
water.
29:25
All right, then you'll be mopping along with him there.
29:28
Bill loves to clean bathrooms. Wait,
29:31
no. All right, hold on. I only
29:34
need two moppers. So he hands both of you a
29:37
mop and a bucket. It really
29:40
Doesn't Matter Where You Start the whole thing needs to be Mop
29:43
seawater and whatnot, so just get to it
29:46
all? Uh, right. There are other two of you. I'm sending you down to
29:49
help Cookie in, uh, the
29:51
kitchen making food and
29:54
washing dishes.
29:55
No.
30:00
Why are you saying no? Mika, you did that all the time back
30:03
at our job.
30:05
Yeah, I don't want to do it.
30:06
You're basically like, man when
30:09
Mr. O'clock. You should have hopped on Mop.
30:12
Dude, I was off
30:14
permanently.
30:18
That sounds great. Well, good.
30:21
He's got a good attitude about this. All
30:24
right, break. Go. Get to work. Great.
30:27
What what's your name? My name
30:30
is Captain Rockfoot.
30:35
Did you have that name before you.
30:36
Got that foot and
30:39
calconi? Uh, the guy that he mentioned earlier is just
30:42
don't don't ask him about that.
30:45
Well, if you're going to name yourself Rockfoot, I
30:48
feel like if it's not.
30:51
You want to know the story? Yes.
30:54
Ah, anything to get me out of
30:57
mop duty for as long as I can.
30:59
I'll tell you the story.
31:02
Once, not too long ago,
31:05
I used to be known as Captain
31:07
Luckyfoot. But then
31:10
we were attacked by a
31:12
creature straight from the depths of, uh,
31:15
hell. We call it
31:18
Kuma. It's a great
31:20
sea serpent mixed with a sort
31:23
of gator creature. It's a gator shark.
31:26
I don't know why it said the rest of the description. It's a gator
31:28
shark. Leapt onto our boat,
31:31
bit off my leg, milucky leg, and
31:34
jumped right back into the waters to feast on it.
31:38
A gator shark. Whoa. Yes, quite a
31:40
creature. A dangerous creature, to be
31:43
exact. And it's somewhere
31:46
out there. I'll find it one of these days.
31:49
But for now, we're headed to Udal to get some treasure.
31:52
Eh, it wasn't really a question, but
31:57
there you go. Good. Pirates will be all right. Anyway,
32:00
that's the story. Get to work. And he sends you guys off to your
32:03
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32:06
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35:04
Uh, those who are mopping are placed
35:06
with the
35:09
sailing master, and
35:11
she watches over you guys just to make sure that you guys are doing your
35:14
work. Uh, she also directs other people on the ship as they are
35:17
doing their work. Um, yeah,
35:20
I'll leave it at that in case you guys want to talk to her and
35:23
find out more. For those that are downstairs inside
35:26
the ship, you are with the cook, who, as
35:29
previously mentioned's, name is Cookie. It is an
35:32
old monk with Airbending tattoos
35:35
all over his body. And as we've mentioned before,
35:38
uh, with the timeline, this is technically kind of in
35:41
the very early stages of the Fire Nation
35:44
starting kind of their World War
35:46
concept. So, um,
35:48
airbenders, although not often
35:51
seen, are not unseen.
35:54
Uh, you might come across them every once in a while. This would be
35:57
like as Aang is growing up,
36:00
um, way out there in the Air temple kind of
36:03
concept. So you guys don't see them very often, but you might have
36:06
run across them in your travels. Uh, this
36:08
man, yeah, he's very quiet. He's,
36:11
like I said, older, and he's stirring away at a big old
36:14
pot. So you guys come in, and he kind of directs you to
36:17
chopping up vegetables, chopping up some
36:20
meats, uh, a variety of other
36:23
kitchen tasks, cleaning the occasional dishes, make sure that
36:26
he can use them for the next part of whatever it is that he's making.
36:29
It looks like a big old pot of stew.
36:31
So anybody like to
36:34
interact in any way, shape, or form or do
36:37
anything specific? Find out more about
36:39
the crew?
36:40
Maybe I'll go over
36:43
and talk to that woman, sue.
36:45
Okay, so, yeah, you go up to talk to sue. Um,
36:48
she says, what are you doing, lad? Get back to
36:51
work.
36:52
I need to mop everywhere. I figure I could mop here,
36:55
and.
36:56
Standing there, mopping in front of her, talking
36:59
to her.
37:00
I'll just mop right here, right around here. Any, uh,
37:02
tips? You could tell me who you
37:05
guys are, what we're doing here?
37:08
Oh, you want to know about the pirates? Why are you interested in the
37:10
pirate life there, fella?
37:13
Well, uh, I mean, you're giving us a lift over to where we
37:16
need to go, so I'm interested in it, at least
37:19
right now.
37:20
Well, first things first. You need to look up there, and she points
37:23
up towards where the flag is kept at the very top of the crow's
37:26
nest, the mast. And, uh,
37:28
above there, you see a blood red
37:31
flag. And in sort of a white pattern, you
37:34
see the classic crossbones. But instead of a
37:37
skull, you see a boar's head. She
37:40
says, that's right. We're the bloody
37:42
Borcupines.
37:45
That's a cool name.
37:46
Pretty cool. Absolutely. We're a pretty famous
37:49
pirate crew for sure.
37:52
Sailing the seas and causing all sorts
37:55
of Aracus and troubles.
37:58
What else do you want to know?
38:00
Uh, why do you want to
38:03
just kidnap four kids
38:06
here? Why'd you guys want to kidnap us?
38:09
Well, we want your treasure, of course.
38:11
The treasure is like it's just a
38:14
slip of paper, man.
38:16
See, now the lies happen, so you should have said that kind of
38:19
thing before we pulled you off the shores.
38:21
Well,
38:25
hindsight is 2020, as they say. So who
38:28
are you?
38:29
My name is sue.
38:30
And, uh, what do you do on the ship here, sue?
38:33
Yes, I'm the sailing master. I do a lot of the
38:36
navigating, the planning
38:38
strategizing, so on and so
38:40
forth, when it comes to where we should go, when we should
38:43
go, and what we need to do while we're there.
38:46
Okay, well, uh, since we'll be
38:49
sort of roommates for the next few days, uh,
38:52
any particular people we should be looking out for on this ship?
38:55
Looking out for? What are you worried about?
38:57
Nothing. Just in case. Just don't want to
39:00
get on anybody's bad side. And if there's anyone with a particularly
39:03
short fuse or anything like that, we
39:06
just want to try and steer clear.
39:07
Short fuse? A. Well, we definitely have those. You see that man
39:10
over there? And she points, and then up at where standing
39:13
right next to the captain who's kind of steering the ship. Uh, you
39:16
see a sort of stern
39:20
man, uh, who stands with such a presence. That suggests that
39:23
maybe he was part of a military group of some kind.
39:26
Probably a high ranking, uh, military group,
39:29
whatever the case. Um, very chiseled
39:32
face, uh, fairly well built.
39:34
And, uh, she says, that right there, that's
39:37
Bango. He is the hothead of the
39:40
crew. He's the first mate to the captain. And,
39:43
uh, he used to be some sort of, uh,
39:45
earthbender general captain. I'm not
39:48
sure, but, uh, he's not somebody
39:51
that you want to mess with or get on the wrong side
39:53
of. Okay. All right.
39:56
Well, uh, what did this
39:59
sue lady look like? Oh, yeah, sue. So
40:02
she wears, um, waterbender garb,
40:04
actually. Um, she's got kind of like the
40:07
blue to kind of almost
40:10
grayish colored, uh, robes
40:13
that really suggest waterbender with the fur on
40:16
the boots with the fur. Uh,
40:18
other things with the fur. The fur, like, fringe things
40:21
along those lines. Um, she seems
40:25
maybe in her late 20s, early
40:28
30s. So she's, like, fairly young. But she
40:31
definitely looks like she's always kind of
40:33
keeping an eye about her, um, even when you're talking
40:36
to her. She kind of, like, glances around, glances
40:39
at the sea. Um, seems like easily distracted,
40:42
but you're not sure if she's easily distracted or she's just very
40:45
keen. Where
40:48
did Bill get drafted to? Where's Bill
40:51
at right now? He went down, uh, into the
40:54
ship where they have the kitchen at. Uh, and
40:57
I'm up on the deck with
40:59
right with Brock. I go
41:02
lean over to Brock. I'm like, Brock,
41:05
did I just hear you're rumin'with? That
41:07
lady nice.
41:10
I mean, like, not yet, but
41:13
she wants me.
41:14
You can tell.
41:16
I just kind of give a little fist bump, and then.
41:20
I want to.
41:21
Walk over to sue.
41:22
Just, like, goes and she rolls her
41:25
eyes, and she just walks away back
41:28
to mopping.
41:29
See, she avoided it.
41:31
She blocks me.
41:33
So I want to sort of stroll over
41:36
to Bango. But if you have more to say.
41:39
To, uh, Sue, I say, don't worry, sue.
41:42
I'm on it. And I start climbing up to the
41:44
crow's nest because I think she wanted me to mop up
41:47
there. What are you doing? I'm, uh,
41:50
mopping. She
41:53
pauses for a moment. She says, I guess nobody
41:55
ever does mop up there. I think about it. That place
41:58
probably reeks. Yeah. They told
42:01
me to clean this ship from top to bottom.
42:04
Well, uh, all right. I can't argue with that.
42:07
Fair enough. All right. And Guo climbs up there,
42:10
and is there anybody up there currently? Uh,
42:13
no. And he cleans it out cleans
42:16
out a little Guo sized area first,
42:19
suitable for napping.
42:23
You see, uh, Calconi is, like, walking by
42:25
underneath the crow's nest, and there's a water, like,
42:28
dripping down. And it gets onto his frilly shirt. And he
42:31
goes, oh,
42:36
keep it to yourself up there. I feel like this
42:38
wasn't exactly what he sounded like. But
42:41
also, there is one huge trait that you forgot about
42:44
cocoon. Oh. He speaks in very heat.
42:47
Eloquent. Eloquent. But you forgot
42:50
his legs are tiny, but his upper body
42:52
is absolutely jacked.
42:59
He had to turn sideways to walk through
43:01
doorways because that's how big his upper body
43:04
was. You're right. The factor
43:07
didn't say that kind of upset me. I'm
43:10
so sorry. Yes. No, you're 100% right. He's like
43:13
very Grony little man with this huge upper body.
43:16
He is the prime example of a dorito
43:19
bod. Yes.
43:22
But, uh, his voice is, like, super high.
43:26
But, uh, he continues walking. I say,
43:29
think fast, big mouth. And I
43:33
ring my mop out in his general
43:35
direction. I ring my
43:38
mop in your general direction.
43:43
Did you bring a bucket up there, too? Yeah.
43:46
So you brought a mop and a bucket and you're climbing up to
43:49
a crow's nest?
43:52
He was in the circus.
43:54
That's true. He shimmied up pretty easy.
43:57
I wasn't even going to make him roll for anything.
44:00
Although now, um, I kind of want to make him roll for something.
44:02
Well, now when he's trying to drop mop bucket
44:06
uh, this guy, huh?
44:10
Yeah, he kind of looks like that guy. Yeah. Ah. Do you want to do a push your
44:13
luck? Yeah, of course.
44:16
My first thought was, um, when Skyler first
44:19
described him to me, was Mugshot from the Sly Cooper
44:21
series who's so big and buff that he
44:24
walks on his hand to his legs because his legs are so
44:27
puny. Right. That was my
44:30
first thought. Uh, I was thinking kind of along the lines of, like,
44:33
Max from Cats Don't dance.
44:36
He was like the butler, and he was just that
44:38
massive dude. But he kind of had, like, pretty
44:41
normal tiny legs, so he walked really
44:44
weird.
44:47
I got an eleven. Nice. All right. Your
44:50
boldness pays off. Despite the cost, you gain an
44:53
additional lucky opportunity. Okay. Um,
44:55
no, I totally get that. So you ring this mop
44:58
out, and sure enough, this big splash of
45:01
dirty water splashes all over
45:04
Calconi. And he says,
45:08
I do say why, but as you do
45:11
this, you listen and you hear everyone
45:14
else that's on the top deck that just saw you do this
45:16
starts cracking up, laughing. Ah, they
45:19
all got a kick out of it. Um, and to top
45:22
that off, Calconi says, well, I do
45:25
say, I see how it is. I will
45:28
take my leave. And he storms
45:31
off and kind of disappears into the ship, probably to
45:34
his room. Or turning sideways. Yes, turning
45:36
sideways to go in through the doorway. He disappears inside the
45:39
ship. So just putting this out there, I don't know if
45:42
it's really an opportunity that you're looking to take advantage of,
45:45
but firstly, everybody seems to have
45:48
enjoyed your sense of humor. So that's points
45:51
for you as far as that goes. Um, and to top it
45:54
off, you have one less individual on the deck of the ship
45:57
in case you did want to cause any kind of questionable, um,
46:00
acts or trouble.
46:02
What's that?
46:03
And sue left.
46:04
Sue left. But she's still, like, on the deck. She's
46:07
just elsewhere doing what she
46:09
does. Um, all right, for the two that are
46:12
inside, uh, of the ship,
46:15
hanging out with Cookie, uh, Cookie
46:18
seems like a very chill individual. Like I said, he's
46:21
a bit older. Um, he's very peaceful
46:24
seeming. He stirs away at his pot. He
46:26
very nicely will point out where things are at.
46:29
He'll hand you whatever tools that you need to work on whatever
46:32
it is he assigned. Um, two. What are you
46:35
two up to? Or is there anything that you would like to ask or
46:38
find out about?
46:39
Um, I'm going to go sit amongst the
46:42
bags of vegetables and stuff
46:44
and just look at the people around me.
46:47
Okay. Is there people down here with us.
46:50
Or is it just there's at least one in the kitchen.
46:52
Just the three of you? Yeah. Wow. Spent a long
46:55
time looking around.
46:56
You got to figure him out.
46:58
Um, the Cookie does not make any kind of
47:01
attempt to try to force you to do anything or try to
47:04
give you work if you're not interested. Is there even a lot of
47:07
work? He says a crew of nine, I feel.
47:09
Yeah, I suppose not.
47:12
He appreciates the help. And obviously you
47:15
chopping up vegetables is one less thing that he has to focus on.
47:18
Um, he actually seems a little bit excited to have people
47:21
hanging out with him for the sole fact that you can talk to
47:23
someone kind of he
47:26
doesn't talk much. Uh, but maybe just having people
47:29
there and then also the fact that when you
47:32
have, like, a pot of something that you are making, usually you have
47:35
to keep stirring or it might burn or whatever
47:38
else stop stirring. Uh, right, exactly.
47:41
Which he's like, oh, boy, I can make something good, um,
47:45
chopping up the vegetables.
47:46
Mika's going to be munching on a carrot.
47:49
In my corner, contributing in the back.
47:51
Is my fox dog in this bundle.
47:54
Of supplies kind of hanging out in the food. He's also
47:57
eating a carrot and he seems pretty open or your fox
47:59
dog seems pretty open about it because Cookie has made
48:02
no attempt to shoom away or anything.
48:05
The fox dog? Oh, yeah. He looks
48:08
over. Yeah. He kind of gives him like a little
48:11
nod, like, oh, hello, little one. And then
48:14
goes back to what he's doing. He seems like a really peaceful
48:16
guy. So,
48:19
Cookie, how long you been on this
48:22
ship for? I have been on this ship
48:25
for
48:28
a couple of years. Okay.
48:31
Time is but, uh, a
48:34
breath of wind, um, it
48:37
goes and it continues on.
48:41
Where it leads, I follow like a leaf
48:44
floating amidst that wind. So, are you an, uh,
48:46
airbender? I am not an airbender,
48:49
although I used to live amongst one of the airbending
48:52
nations. Tribes, rather. Okay.
48:55
How'd you get the tattoos then?
48:58
Well, I was accepted amongst the tribe,
49:01
even though I was not an airbender. I was one of the
49:03
nomads, I was born to the tribe.
49:06
Unfortunately, my tribe is gone.
49:10
Have you, uh, ever flown, like an air
49:13
glider? I have watched
49:16
and I have been able
49:19
to experience it, uh, alongside
49:21
one of the more experienced
49:23
airbenders who is powerful enough
49:26
to allow me to passenger on his air
49:29
glider. Yes, but I was
49:31
not controlling it myself. Yeah, don't do
49:34
that. I don't recommend it.
49:37
Sure, but you probably would have known that.
49:40
Indeed. I wouldn't try to do it on my own,
49:44
Cookie. If you want me to call you
49:47
Cookie. Sure. Or Genji. What's
49:50
the genji. That, uh, was my original name.
49:53
They just called me Cookie here. Like a
49:55
nickname? Sure. What do you want me to call you?
49:58
Whatever you prefer. A name is
50:01
CG? Sure.
50:04
Nice. CG. Cookie. Genji.
50:07
Get it? Uh, clever like
50:10
that. Um, what's the coolest thing
50:13
about you? Like fun fact. Fun fact?
50:16
Yeah, fun fact. Like me, I'm really good with a
50:18
bow staff. That's my fun fact.
50:20
He can bend sticks.
50:21
I can bend sticks. And Mika over there, she is
50:24
moody. So what's your fun fact?
50:27
I would say that I
50:30
am quite enduring.
50:33
Enduring, indeed.
50:36
Oh.
50:36
I have endured many things in my life. How old are
50:39
you? I am 74. Uh,
50:42
yes, that would be enduring. Have you been the
50:45
oldest guy that worked this ship?
50:48
Um, as far as I have been
50:51
here, yes. Although I am unaware
50:54
of who had come before me. But maybe there
50:57
were older that had been on this ship before. I am
51:00
unsure.
51:04
What about you? What about where do you
51:07
come from? Uh, what's your name?
51:10
My name is Bill. Nice to meet you, Bill. I'm from
51:13
guelling. Oh, wonderful. Yes. Beautiful
51:16
area. Yeah. A lot of trees.
51:20
Uh,
51:25
that's all you asked me. I'd like
51:28
to use my
51:30
bow staff. That's my fun fact.
51:34
And like I said, that's Mika. Uh, nice to meet you,
51:36
Mika.
51:38
I just kind of wave at him.
51:40
Where are you from, Mika?
51:44
Um, not around here.
51:48
I've done a bit of traveling.
51:50
Oh, as have I. Very nice. Where have you
51:53
traveled in?
51:58
Um um, I recently just traveled from
52:00
a tea shop.
52:02
Oh, where was the tea shop? I do
52:05
love tea. Is it good as in Gua
52:07
ling? Oh, I've been to a wonderful
52:10
tea shop in Gua ling. What was it called? It
52:13
was called the Blissful Brew
52:15
Sick. It was a few years ago. I
52:18
have a good friend who worked there. Oh, do
52:21
you,
52:25
uh, know him? Yeah. Oh, wonderful.
52:28
How is he?
52:30
I kind of bury my face in the sacks
52:33
of carrots and stuff.
52:35
Yeah, I got some bad news.
52:39
Pretend I'm taking a nap so he doesn't know I'm
52:41
crying.
52:43
You're crying? Start tearing up
52:46
in the moment. I also stop,
52:50
uh.
52:53
Buried in the sack.
52:55
You start crying, and everybody looks over at Bill,
52:58
who's chopping up an onion.
53:05
Just keep coming to the
53:07
potatoes or something. Um,
53:10
yeah, about Mr. Okon, uh, he kind of
53:14
died, like, a, um, week
53:17
ago. Oh, so recently.
53:20
Yeah. That is grave news
53:22
indeed. Yeah. He was a good
53:25
man. Very charitable,
53:28
very good at making tea, and very
53:31
kind. How close were you to Mr. Oakroth? Uh,
53:34
oh, I wouldn't say I was that close.
53:37
I met him once in gaoling. We
53:40
had tea together. We talked, discussed
53:43
our lives, our experiences. He
53:46
asked me many questions about tea that comes from the
53:49
air temples. He was very interested in
53:52
that. Uh, that's cool.
53:54
Yes. And then I thanked
53:57
him for a wonderful chat and the
54:00
tea, and I headed on my way.
54:04
That was, like, years ago. Indeed,
54:07
it was. While I was finding
54:10
myself you have a good memory. Thank
54:13
you. So I've been through what I've been
54:15
through. It's important to remember all
54:18
things going forward, enduring. I
54:21
got that. Indeed. Yeah, but
54:25
you've been through a lot. Yes. And you were trying
54:28
to find yourself. I was.
54:31
But you have found yourself. I have
54:34
found, on a pirate ship, a self,
54:37
a place where a
54:40
part of me is happy and can
54:43
be fulfilled in what I do
54:46
in the future. Maybe I find
54:49
another part of myself that I want to
54:52
follow and learn more about.
54:55
Do you think that if you were like, I want
54:58
to move on to the next chapter of my life, the captain
55:01
would let you? Um,
55:05
I'm not sure if he would let me,
55:08
but I feel as though I
55:10
could if I wanted to move on.
55:14
Okay. This guy is very spiritual.
55:17
Okay. Now you
55:20
are sleeping. Uh, as a nomad,
55:23
it's what I do. I feel as though I've learned
55:26
much through my life to allow me to do it
55:29
well. Cool.
55:33
I, uh, really don't have really much else to add. Is
55:36
the captain still having nightmares?
55:39
Well, um, I think he
55:42
does on occasion, but,
55:44
uh, he says that he has some sort of
55:47
drink that he has that helps him sleep
55:50
through the night peacefully, and when he has
55:53
access to it, he's able to, uh,
55:56
do so. So he still has that
55:59
drink? Oh, sure. You sound like you know
56:02
of it. Well, yeah, Ogron invented it.
56:05
This must have been before I was on the ship.
56:10
Yeah, long ago. I remember captain
56:12
Rockfoot. Sure. Came into the shop,
56:15
wanted a cure,
56:18
got a cure. Well, it definitely
56:21
seems to work when he claims that he uses
56:24
it. Well, that's good. Indeed.
56:26
Indeed. Uh, you kind of remember a
56:29
pirate with a rock foot. Sure.
56:32
Now, to clarify, at the time, he did not have his rock foot
56:35
when you met. Okay. I know. Just want to make sure
56:39
he kind of leaves a mark both on
56:42
you and on the floor. It is
56:45
definitely something I have not seen elsewhere, and I
56:48
am quite well traveled. Is he a powerful bender?
56:51
I feel like you kind of have to be to always be
56:53
bending the Earth to move
56:56
with you. He's a fairly capable
56:58
Earthbender. I'm not sure if I would say he's a
57:01
master, as he spends a lot of time at sea where
57:04
Earth is not accessible. Yeah. Uh, that's true. Does he
57:07
have, like but does he.
57:08
Still have a rock foot?
57:09
He has a rock foot, yeah. Does he have, like, a
57:12
stockpile of extra rocks in case if he accidentally
57:15
falls in and loses?
57:17
I believe he does keep a small pouch
57:20
of, uh pouch? Yes, just a pouch.
57:23
No emergency. Like a spindles
57:26
bag sack? I'm not sure how
57:28
large his sack is,
57:31
but he keeps it in his quarters. His
57:34
quarters? Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. And that way, at the end
57:37
of the day, if he use his
57:40
sack to fix himself
57:42
up, it's available to
57:45
him. Okay. As I've
57:48
understood, I have never seen him
57:50
using his sack before.
57:54
Okay. In person,
57:57
you're a bowl of emotion.
58:05
Uh uh, obviously because she's crying
58:08
on my acting skills. You're saying that behind
58:10
me?
58:11
Yeah.
58:13
This is the first I've heard about you wanting to be an actor.
58:16
You know, life's changed a lot.
58:19
You feel like you should be talking to this?
58:21
I'm just trying to figure out ebbs.
58:23
And flows of life. We all have parts of
58:25
ourselves we try to explore.
58:29
M sugar?
58:34
Uh. Thanks, Ghost Rider. Thank you, Mr.
58:36
Ghost Rider. Ghost
58:39
Rider has spoken.
58:40
Kept it together.
58:43
The last innuendo he said
58:46
about it.
58:47
He almost held it together, that whole thing.
58:50
Well, I wasn't expecting the Ghostwriter to
58:52
chime in. So anyways, uh,
58:56
I think that's the most of what this conversation
58:58
would yeah. You learned a little bit about
59:01
Cookie. Um, I think he's
59:04
happy to basically just let you share whatever
59:07
you're willing to share. But like I said, he seems
59:10
happy to just have people around. He seems to enjoy that,
59:13
so people that aren't the rough and rowdy pirates,
59:16
necessarily. All right, so
59:19
with that, uh, you eventually finish your meal,
59:22
you bring it upstairs, and, uh, the entire crew kind
59:25
of collects around this big old
59:27
pot of food that you guys have prepared. Um, and
59:30
everybody kind of starts to spoon out bowls of
59:33
this delicious stew, and you
59:36
guys all are called over. The captain seems to allow you
59:39
guys to eat with the crew. Um, so you're all sitting
59:42
around on the various parts of the ship. Um, is
59:45
there anybody in particular that anybody wants to go and talk
59:48
to or, um, interact
59:51
with outside of the people that you already had access
59:53
to?
59:54
Can I sit next to Bango?
59:56
Sure. Honestly, it's far away from cal county.
59:59
Okay, that's fine. All right, so you do
1:00:02
that. Um, brock, you approach, um,
1:00:05
bango. Last I saw him, I want to approach him.
1:00:08
I want to try to approach him like we've been friends for
1:00:11
years. So I just go, like, hey, how you doing
1:00:14
there? I heard your name's, bango. My name is
1:00:17
brock, and, uh, I just wanted to sit here. Is it okay if I
1:00:20
sit next to you?
1:00:21
What do you want with me, cabin boy?
1:00:24
I want to be friends.
1:00:26
I'm not looking to make any new friends.
1:00:29
Well, then I can just sit here
1:00:32
and eat, and then I'll get up and leave.
1:00:35
But I'm chilling here. If you'd like to have
1:00:38
a little conversation, little POW wow, little one on one,
1:00:41
bro and bro, I won't stop.
1:00:43
You from sitting here, but if you get on my
1:00:46
nerves, I won't promise I won't
1:00:48
punch you.
1:00:50
I'm willing to take that risk.
1:00:52
All right. Have a
1:00:54
seat. He goes back to eating a
1:00:57
stew. He does like the ungabunga grip where he
1:01:00
holds the spoon. I don't even
1:01:03
know how to describe that. Uh, you make a fist, and the spoon is coming
1:01:06
out of, like, one side of the fist, and you just, like, jam it into
1:01:09
the stew. And it's I like how
1:01:12
you said that's all I know how it's called?
1:01:16
Like a caveman. Not just straight drinking it?
1:01:18
No, he's not straight drinking what is in the
1:01:21
stew? What is the stew? Because I might be like, hey, you know what's
1:01:24
good in there?
1:01:25
Some cabbage. I know a guy
1:01:30
do eat quite a bit of cabbage on this
1:01:32
ship.
1:01:33
I grew up on a cabbage farm not, uh, too far from here in the
1:01:36
earth kingdom, so it might be some of ours.
1:01:38
What kind of cost per crate can I expect
1:01:41
from your cabbage dealer?
1:01:43
I, uh, think we're like 20
1:01:46
silver for a crate of I think about 100.
1:01:50
That's not bad. Yeah. Where is this cabbage
1:01:53
dealer?
1:01:54
Uh, it was in Omashu. It's in the earth
1:01:56
kingdom. Uh, I've heard you're the first mate. You
1:01:59
might have, uh, some power to maybe veer the
1:02:02
ship over that way if you want to get a good deal on some cabbage.
1:02:05
We are not headed to Omashu currently.
1:02:08
We are headed to you, dow, and there's no
1:02:11
turning from that path. But
1:02:14
I will put your dealer down,
1:02:17
and I will talk to the quartermaster
1:02:20
who can possibly put it on the list of
1:02:22
possible connections that we could purchase from
1:02:25
later.
1:02:26
Uh, well, I'm the
1:02:28
dealer. Yeah, it's me and my family's
1:02:31
farm.
1:02:32
Family's farm?
1:02:33
Yeah, I grew up on the cabbage farm in Omashu. In
1:02:35
Omashu?
1:02:36
Yes, sir. What
1:02:39
are you asking for?
1:02:40
I'm not asking for anything. I can get you the
1:02:42
deals, uh, if you're looking for them.
1:02:45
Uh, but all I ask in return is your
1:02:48
friendship.
1:02:48
Are you planning on staying with the crew after
1:02:51
you dow?
1:02:52
If you guys want to give us a lift to the next place? Because we've got
1:02:55
kind of an inkling we're going to have to go to another place afterwards.
1:02:58
I think the plan is to take whatever treasure
1:03:01
you've been promised and leave.
1:03:03
Well, I'm pretty sure that
1:03:07
see, here's the thing. I'm pretty sure
1:03:10
because you saw what we had, right, with
1:03:13
just the note. So
1:03:16
we're guessing that the treasure we're going to
1:03:19
find in you dao is just going to be another note
1:03:21
that I don't think you guys are going to know how to
1:03:24
decipher without us.
1:03:26
If we get to you now and all
1:03:29
we find is another note, I
1:03:31
cannot promise you'll be
1:03:34
returning anywhere.
1:03:36
Now, why would you go and do that?
1:03:39
I feel like there's some underlying issues.
1:03:41
We need to address. I feel
1:03:44
rock if
1:03:55
ah,
1:04:00
um.
1:04:11
Me.
1:04:11
If I was greatly disappointed.
1:04:13
But you see, I would think that as a pirate, you would
1:04:16
yearn for adventure just as children yearn for the
1:04:19
mines. Because if we
1:04:22
get this treasure in you dow
1:04:25
and it's just another note, then we are just going on
1:04:28
an adventure together as a team.
1:04:31
So wouldn't you want an adventure to try
1:04:34
and find the end of, uh,
1:04:37
these sort of multiple clues, uh, that we're
1:04:40
being given?
1:04:41
You're saying that we get to you now
1:04:44
and there is a note to another note
1:04:47
to another note that allegedly eventually leads
1:04:50
to treasure. You would
1:04:52
expect for us to
1:04:55
cater you around until we get to that
1:04:58
eventual treasure?
1:04:59
If you want to actually find the treasure, then
1:05:02
yes, you're probably going to need us.
1:05:04
Let me ask you this. You talk about
1:05:07
expectations. Yes. What
1:05:09
expectation do you
1:05:12
have about what we're going to find at the
1:05:15
end of this long adventure?
1:05:17
Uh, if I remember right,
1:05:20
uh, Bill.
1:05:21
Is just shaking and nodding his head at you in
1:05:24
a kind of direction.
1:05:27
You see, we expect to
1:05:30
find probably just teeth broken.
1:05:32
Now, don't tell them that.
1:05:35
So we expect to find
1:05:38
dirty tea kitchen.
1:05:44
Bill of just be like he's budding into the
1:05:46
conversation.
1:05:47
We're supposed to find this tea.
1:05:53
Treasure.
1:05:58
Treasure.
1:06:00
The person we're finding it for is, uh, he has
1:06:03
a bit of an impediment, you see. He calls it t resur.
1:06:06
And we give a little hard time about it.
1:06:09
Yeah.
1:06:09
As I'm like, shoving my fist into
1:06:12
Bill's mouth.
1:06:19
But tell me, what kind of treasure
1:06:22
are you expecting to find here in.
1:06:24
Udao or at the end?
1:06:26
Apparently at the end of this jam?
1:06:29
Well, let's just say you're not going to want
1:06:32
to throw it into a harbor. You don't want to throw
1:06:35
it into a harbor because then it's going to sink.
1:06:37
Right. But see, the
1:06:40
treasure we'll find is rich beyond your
1:06:42
imagination.
1:06:44
Friends we make along the way. Shut up,
1:06:46
Bill. You know what?
1:06:49
Here's what I need to explain to you.
1:06:53
Every journey we make on
1:06:56
our boat costs us valuable
1:06:59
resources. Um, treasure ah, from the previous
1:07:02
thing that we spent in order to purchase
1:07:04
food, in order to purchase water
1:07:07
in order to keep the crew that's here
1:07:10
with their will. For their will. How
1:07:13
do you say that?
1:07:14
Not against their will.
1:07:15
Not against their will.
1:07:16
On their own volition on the ship.
1:07:20
The other ones we don't care about. They don't get paid.
1:07:23
But the ones that do stay are getting
1:07:25
paid. So that's a lot of resource
1:07:28
being spent to make an expedition. And you're telling me
1:07:31
we're going to make expedition after expedition after
1:07:34
expedition and you won't tell me what treasure
1:07:37
lies at the end of this multi
1:07:39
expedition trip?
1:07:42
Yes. He
1:07:44
takes a moment and he thinks to himself
1:07:48
what would they have to gain if
1:07:50
they wouldn't tell me what treasure lies at the end of
1:07:53
this? But they'll tell me there's treasure
1:07:56
there. It seems kind of questionable, a little
1:07:59
bit. Suss
1:08:04
stands up and he says captain
1:08:06
would like to have a word with you.
1:08:09
T
1:08:10
reserve
1:08:13
baseball. Something sound like someone
1:08:16
saying,
1:08:22
I'm expecting that fully be on, like, the fourth note
1:08:25
Mr. O'crown left is you're one step away from
1:08:28
finding my tea treasure.
1:08:31
Or it's like Tony the tiger.
1:08:34
They're great treasures. You, uh,
1:08:37
see him and the, uh, captain kind of move off to the side
1:08:40
and they start kind of talking and it starts to get a little bit heated.
1:08:43
They're kind of arguing with each other. The, uh, captain
1:08:46
occasionally will shout, like well, we're already on our way, so what's
1:08:49
the point in stopping now? And then he'll say, I don't
1:08:52
think that there is much of a treasure for us to hide at the
1:08:55
intervals. They seem pretty questionable. Plus,
1:08:58
they're a bunch of kids. And, uh, as they argue,
1:09:01
the rest of the crew, obviously, is kind of looking, uh, over
1:09:04
at it and kind of surprised. Um, all of a
1:09:06
sudden, uh, you
1:09:09
hear another character somebody that you haven't met
1:09:12
yet. He's a bit younger. Uh, you might have at least seen him,
1:09:15
but you haven't talked to him or whatever the case. Um, he shouts
1:09:18
out captain. Captain. I
1:09:21
see it. It's here. And the captain immediately just
1:09:24
freezes. And he turns his head and he says,
1:09:27
you see what zazu? And
1:09:30
he says, It's the
1:09:33
beast. And everybody rushes over to the
1:09:36
side of the ship, including yourselves, I assume, based off the
1:09:39
fact that everybody rushes over there to look at something in
1:09:41
the water. And sure enough, you rush over and you see
1:09:44
a large scaled fin
1:09:47
inside the water coming towards the boat in
1:09:50
sort of like a zigzaggy like a smooth
1:09:53
zigzaggy wiggly pattern. And, um,
1:09:56
all of a sudden, it leaps
1:09:59
from the waves and you see this massive,
1:10:02
hulking gator shark fly
1:10:05
through the air over the hole of the ship
1:10:07
and back into the water on the other side. And the
1:10:10
captain shouts out, it's, um, him. It's
1:10:13
Kuma. Everybody to
1:10:16
your stations. And with
1:10:19
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