1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,560 The evenings on Saga, just outside Art'Koria, are full of chatter and games and relaxing 2 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:16,560 outdoors where the earthy smells of the afternoon breeze are replaced by the smells of warm 3 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:23,000 broth and broiled meats and fried dough. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:30,920 A drone bot descends upon the city streets, momentarily disrupting the city-wide decompression. 5 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:40,480 This tiny little honeybee-shaped drone whizzes by as the speakers disguised as its eyes play 6 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:45,480 the following messages to all who are outside. 7 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:55,560 Driftcore Travel has opened up the universe in ways we never thought possible. 8 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:02,000 Like the universe, Saga is expanding and we can't wait to reach new heights with your 9 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,000 help. 10 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,760 Support the expansion of our vertical real estate. 11 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:20,840 Vote for Mayor Ipskin to help Saga reach the stars. 12 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:28,520 The drone bot plays this message on repeat as it travels across the grassy knoll, up 13 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:35,720 and down the city streets, and then eventually flies up high into the sky and whirs away 14 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,880 back in towards the city proper. 15 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:44,320 Winston, you had a particular destination. 16 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:54,560 You were headed to the location of Sebastian, the timid filmmaker who is documenting the 17 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,200 wonderful, lovely, beautiful people of Saga. 18 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:06,440 Yes, I'm looking, first of all, what would Sebastian be referred to as on legal papers? 19 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:12,880 Mr. Sebastian Chek, but Chek is like C apostrophe KT. 20 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:21,080 Okay, so yeah, I am on my way to where I was told I could find Mr. Chek. 21 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,600 I need to check. 22 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:31,600 I need to meet with them promptly to make sure that our partnership is established for 23 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:40,200 this film before it even gets started because I am tasked with representing their benefactor. 24 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,240 And so you meet up in the town. 25 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:49,400 What would what would Sebastian be be up to in the early evening when Winston finds them? 26 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:59,480 Once they got all of the the funding for their like half documentary half fiction, fictionalized 27 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:09,040 telling of his family story in the morning, I think he might already be like almost guerrilla 28 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:14,800 shooting getting some people in to be like, tell me about Saga and tell me about the things 29 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,160 just like there's just like a couple who are just walking down his house. 30 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,760 So can I can I can I grab you for a for an interview real quick? 31 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:22,840 Is that OK? 32 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:29,080 And then has sets up their little camera and then it's just asking some general questions. 33 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:35,040 It's all in like he's shooting in black and white for the documentary style things with 34 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:40,120 like with like the city skyline in the background in this park. 35 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,600 As he's as he's asking, it's all very like it's just him. 36 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,000 He's shooting his own sound and stuff. 37 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:51,880 So it's just him alone on these on this with his like phone organizing the like big shoots. 38 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,360 But this is just he's just excited. 39 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,480 So it's like I just want to shoot something now. 40 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:07,620 You one of the people you grabbed off the street met is is her name a very, very short 41 00:04:07,620 --> 00:04:17,520 little Sharon, who just looks sort of like sort of like a little honeybee settles in 42 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:23,440 in front of the camera a little bit awkward, a little bit timid to be asked these questions. 43 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:30,000 So you don't have to like like if if every time I ask a question, if it's OK, if you 44 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,920 could repeat the question back to me. 45 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:38,680 So for example, if I ask like like why are you living on Saga rather than another planet? 46 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:43,520 You would say the reason why I'm living on Saga is and then answer the question. 47 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,080 You could take a few minutes to answer. 48 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,480 I literally won't take any time any any of your time at all. 49 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:56,200 I'm just I'm shooting for a for a pseudo documentary thing that I have at the works. 50 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,800 So you say your name if you'd like to say your name, please. 51 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:00,800 My name is Matt. 52 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:01,800 Hi, Matt. 53 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,760 It's a it's a it's an honor. 54 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,960 My name is Sebastian. 55 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:15,160 And so how long have you have you lived on Saga the planet? 56 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,920 Oh, I've lived here my whole life. 57 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,120 Have you did your were your parents from Saga as well? 58 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,080 Or did they move over? 59 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:26,960 I don't know. 60 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,960 We've been here for ages. 61 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,600 Actually, before credits, I think. 62 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,960 Wow, that's amazing. 63 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:46,040 So what is what is something about about Saga that like resonates with you? 64 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,480 Like why why why here and nowhere else? 65 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,240 Oh, what's Saga? 66 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,760 What's something about Saga that resonates with me? 67 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,840 It's very simple to live here. 68 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:11,840 I've I've visited some of I've visited some other places when when I was able to. 69 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:23,320 And well, there's not many people on a dune and I like people. 70 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:30,400 And well, there's good people here, so I stay. 71 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,680 Wonderful. 72 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:35,680 That's actually that's grand. 73 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:36,680 Actually, that's perfect. 74 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:37,680 You've been you've been wonderful. 75 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,680 Thank you so much. 76 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,280 It was only it was only there's only two questions I wanted to ask. 77 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:50,200 Would you mind signing this calls out like a hard light, like small contract thing that 78 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,240 just allows this just this just going to. 79 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:58,840 Let you allow us to like, you know, have you be in the film? 80 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:00,600 If you don't sign it, that's OK. 81 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,480 We'll just like we'll be able to blow your face and voice and stuff. 82 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,400 This just allows like whatever the film turns into, you know, you can we can use your image. 83 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:09,400 Oh, yeah. 84 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,760 No, I like my face. 85 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:12,760 That's OK. 86 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,040 And she'll sign. 87 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:26,360 And as she walks off, Winston, you had arrived in time to witness this whole particular filming 88 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:31,520 and she will leave Sebastian as you are starting to put away the document and like start like 89 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:37,360 maybe like about to review the footage, I will. 90 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,160 Pad on over. 91 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,440 Mr. Sebastian checked, I presume. 92 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,760 Oh, yeah. 93 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,720 You are the lawyer, right? 94 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,160 Esquire. 95 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,160 Good to meet you. 96 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,160 Finally. 97 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,960 Winston, it's it's it's it's an absolute honor. 98 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,000 Thank you so much. 99 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:06,680 Like offer a huge part to shake and the paw hasn't has an opposable thumb as bears in 100 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,480 this universe have opposable thumbs. 101 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:21,080 It takes the bear paw with their mothy with like both hands and shakes it excitedly. 102 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:28,000 That was quite heartwarming, if I do say so myself. 103 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,660 As this is our first meeting, I think it would be best for us to sit down and discuss the 104 00:08:33,660 --> 00:08:35,680 terms of our relationship. 105 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:36,680 Yeah. 106 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:37,680 OK, sure. 107 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:40,680 Now, that's that's absolutely fine. 108 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:46,040 Motion motion over to like a bench or something like or something that's nearby. 109 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:52,040 Yeah, we'll like we'll follow and not because it's still within eye shot. 110 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,680 Won't bother packing their stuff up. 111 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:58,920 Just like just leave it there and then walk over there. 112 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:10,240 As an associate of Loran, Loran and Associates Business, Business Law, we were hired by the 113 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:17,080 marketing company Millennium Multimedia and its holding company, said unmentioned. 114 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:23,520 I'm here to make sure that you are able to retain the funding that was granted to you 115 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,120 earlier today. 116 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:26,120 Perfect. 117 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,080 And my favorite guy to see. 118 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:30,080 Yeah, absolutely. 119 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,080 Sure. 120 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,600 How can we how can we how can I help? 121 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:34,600 How can I help you? 122 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:35,600 Like what can we do? 123 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,920 For the purposes of our business relationship, I will also want to let you know before I 124 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,880 go any further, I'm going to have to make sure we're recording every single conversation 125 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,320 as it pertains to your directorial business. 126 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,320 Perfect. 127 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:51,320 OK, sure. 128 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:52,320 Sure. 129 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:57,040 And I will from my pocket procure just a little it looks like a USB, but I press a button 130 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:02,000 and then it lights up just a soft blue and a little red dot in the middle turns on as 131 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 well. 132 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:13,040 OK, now we are recording just to make sure that everything is up to code tip top shape. 133 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:18,440 Just really quick, I want to know what your vision for this project is. 134 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:32,000 So this is a is a is a story that I've been like honing and wanting to make for four years 135 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 now. 136 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:40,880 It's the story of how my great grandfather came from Nuremberg and traveled, but without 137 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:49,280 the drift and and the struggles that he faced and traveling to Saga to settle here and then 138 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:58,760 a interspersed with with footage of him making his life here and and Saga welcoming him and 139 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:06,600 his family and and then the people on Saga and like and like why this planet means so 140 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:14,680 much to people and the fact that, you know, Sharon back on Nuremberg, we're all we all 141 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:19,320 share this like big hive mind, but but the people who left, they they broke away from 142 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:25,120 it and and it's just is kind of about that and the uniqueness that everyone shares. 143 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,820 And even though everyone is so different, that's what brings us together. 144 00:11:28,820 --> 00:11:35,340 And that's what makes us that's that's our shared commonality is is ourselves and how 145 00:11:35,340 --> 00:11:43,200 we are unique and it's going to be half documentary and it's going to be half a nonfiction retelling 146 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,240 of my story. 147 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:52,080 And yeah, that's that's our as you're as you're explaining this. 148 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,120 Winston's face just gets a little bit more like his brow gets a little bit more furrowed, 149 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:00,900 like trying to be polite and also smile like smile when when you are particularly emphatic. 150 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:06,560 But a more quizzical look starts to grow as you continue through. 151 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:16,880 And when you finish, I will I'm rubbing my my cheek and my chin and nodding along. 152 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:26,680 Sebastian, did Merrick go through the the contract with you line by line item by item? 153 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:34,600 No, we just you know, he gave me the funding and I think we talked about it briefly before. 154 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:43,160 But yeah, we like I've only I've kind of you know, I I didn't I didn't I read it a little 155 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:44,160 bit. 156 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:45,160 I skimmed it, you know. 157 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:49,080 OK, I open up my briefcase. 158 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:57,720 Let me go through this with you, because as your vision, what a modified vision it is, 159 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:08,600 I might stand in some conflict with what Millennium Multimedia and SETA Unmentioned might have 160 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,840 had in their vision. 161 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:15,920 They might be in some conflict and I will be here to guide you through it and navigate 162 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:16,920 all of that. 163 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:22,320 So I'll pull up my own data pad and go through line by line, like go to the parts that are 164 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,560 relevant and specifically point out. 165 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:26,560 All right. 166 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:35,960 So you say this is about your ancestor who came here came here via non drift travel. 167 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:36,960 Correct. 168 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:37,960 Yeah. 169 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:46,000 So here this this item over here, section forty two B. 170 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:55,240 It is the understanding that SETA Unmentioned wishes to highlight what the people of SAGA 171 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:04,440 in particular feel about the vertical real estate program hereby continuing as VREP in 172 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:05,440 the contract. 173 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:06,440 OK. 174 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:07,440 Yeah. 175 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:08,440 Yeah, no, they did. 176 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:15,640 They said they said something about me doing some work for that. 177 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:24,320 I believe Merrick told you that you are to include some of the more positive reactions 178 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,640 to the plate installation. 179 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,200 OK. 180 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,640 Yeah, we can. 181 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:32,640 We can work that in. 182 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:37,400 Oh, you know, it's it's not mention this. 183 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:42,960 Yeah, it's yeah, no, it's just it. 184 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:44,840 Yeah, no, we can we can make it work. 185 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:50,080 I mean, it's it's all about saga still and about, you know, people coming here because 186 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,080 of what what we are and what we're doing. 187 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:54,520 And yeah, absolutely. 188 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:59,400 No, we can we can we can fit that and scrolling through a little bit more. 189 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:09,120 And here it says no, you said nonfiction retelling, sort of more dramatized retelling of your 190 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:10,600 grandfather's story. 191 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:11,600 Yeah. 192 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:19,280 There are certain elements that set out on mention wishes to also include in this dramatization. 193 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:29,560 If you will carefully look at this, they want to avoid any mentions of other planets being 194 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,240 more hospitable than saga. 195 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,600 OK, yeah. 196 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:41,760 I actually I have, you know, we needed to do another another work around, you know, 197 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,080 like a shoot script anyway. 198 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:48,080 So that's the I can I that's something that we can we can do. 199 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,080 Yeah, sure. 200 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:55,320 But it's it's you know, it's I feel I feel to the film. 201 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:03,680 It's like important that, you know, in the messaging of like nerd noir is this beautiful, 202 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:13,000 like dual planets that work so well, like, you know, in like in harmony with each other. 203 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:18,080 But then, you know, the breaking from that is also a beautiful thing. 204 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,240 So it's like it's it's it's kind of like a neutral, you know, like it's not it's important 205 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,920 for the like my granddad story that that is. 206 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:33,480 I turn off the the data pad and put it back into my briefcase and close it slowly with 207 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:38,680 the soft but audible click. 208 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,600 Mr. Checked, I can see. 209 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:50,280 Pretty plainly that you are experiencing some discomfort with this revelation of. 210 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,000 What is included in the contract that you had signed for? 211 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,640 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, there's no no discomfort at all. 212 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:03,240 Like like, you know, I the the financials that we got. 213 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,240 That's so like that's incredible. 214 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:06,520 Like I appreciate it so much. 215 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,920 And like, I'm not I'm not uncomfortable with it at all. 216 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:09,920 That's fine. 217 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:10,920 Like I I. 218 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,000 Yeah, no, yeah, we can make we can we can do that. 219 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 We can make that change. 220 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 That's OK. 221 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Yeah, sure. 222 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,000 OK, understood. 223 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,040 And I will turn off the recording. 224 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:26,400 Mr. Checked, if I may speak frankly off the record here. 225 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:32,400 This is a very, very airtight contract on the side of Millennium Multimedia. 226 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,520 And it's holding company. 227 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:42,720 I can understand if this is against what your vision is for your very important project 228 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,720 and production. 229 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:51,160 I'm merely here to make sure that you are not sued. 230 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:56,920 If things if your vision does not match with the is in conflict with the vision of the 231 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:57,920 company. 232 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,360 No, no, no, no, no, it's it's fine. 233 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:02,360 It's OK. 234 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:03,360 There's no no discomfort here. 235 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:06,360 Like I totally I have your I have your back like 100 percent. 236 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:11,360 And I really I you know, I really do appreciate it. 237 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:15,360 And like, you know, hey, it's all just a trim in the fat, right? 238 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:18,360 It's like things that like weren't necessary for it. 239 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:23,360 And that's why I can I can I can I can I can I can make it work. 240 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:29,360 A bit of a pained expression just quickly flashes across my face. 241 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:39,360 And we'll go, OK, if that is your wish to continue forward, I will be here to make sure 242 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:48,360 that your artistic integrity is in line with the the the vision of Seda on Unmentioned. 243 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:57,360 But if you for any reason feel discomfort, feel the in conflict, you just let me know 244 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:03,360 and I'll make sure that you are taken care of. 245 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:10,360 That is a very personal promise of mine, not any any legal sense of the matter. 246 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:11,360 Yeah, sure. 247 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:12,360 No, thank you. 248 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:13,360 I do appreciate it. 249 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:14,360 I appreciate it. 250 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:15,360 I do. 251 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:16,360 I really do. 252 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:21,360 I will admit on first blush, I have no idea what goes into filmmaking. 253 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:23,360 I was just merely assigned this case. 254 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:29,360 But hearing your vision for this, I myself am a saga native and feel very closely to 255 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:37,360 this place and want so much for your product to represent who we are. 256 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:42,360 I actually I have all my stuff set up. 257 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:46,360 Do you want to do you mind just doing like a little just like a small interview for the 258 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:47,360 documentary part? 259 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:48,360 I'm so sorry. 260 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:51,360 Legally, that would be a good idea. 261 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:54,360 Legally, that would be a conflict of interest. 262 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,360 Yeah, of course. 263 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:57,360 Yeah, sure. 264 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:02,360 But I'm willing to swap some stories over a drink sometime. 265 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:08,360 Yeah, I mean, you know, there's a lot that happens on this planet. 266 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:09,360 Everyone has a story. 267 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:11,360 Of course, of course. 268 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:16,360 Well, OK, if it's OK with you, I'm going to turn the recording back on. 269 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:17,360 Yeah, sure. 270 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:18,360 Absolutely. 271 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:21,360 I will hit the stick again. 272 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:29,360 And so this is where Winston Comu Esquire and please state your name. 273 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:31,360 Sebastian Kajet. 274 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:37,360 Fully realize our working relationship for the record. 275 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,360 Yes, I do as well. 276 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:42,360 Now, let's go get that drink. 277 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:44,360 OK. 278 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:45,360 OK. 279 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:46,360 Right. Yeah. 280 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:47,360 Do you want to grab a drink? 281 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:48,360 Sure. 282 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:52,360 And at this point, you're most welcome to interview any person that you wish. 283 00:20:52,360 --> 00:21:00,360 There will be a specialist to review the interview just recorded. 284 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:01,360 This should be fine. 285 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:08,360 I didn't catch anything that might be untoward the vision of SETA Unmentioned. 286 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:09,360 Perfect. Yeah, sure. 287 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:10,360 Absolutely. 288 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:13,360 Just shoot me like their details and I can send them this. 289 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:18,360 Would you like would you like a little snack? 290 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,360 Yeah, I'm honestly I haven't eaten since today. 291 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:25,360 I heard I got the funding and I ran out and I've been talking to people and plan stuff. 292 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:27,360 Yeah, I actually haven't eaten today. 293 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:31,360 Do you eat synthetic meats? 294 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:32,360 Yeah, yeah. 295 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:40,360 OK, I will open up my briefcase, pull out one of the beef sticks and hand it over to you. 296 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:43,360 Thank you. Thank you so much. 297 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:50,360 It takes like a small like a sniff and then like a small like the smallest nibble. 298 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:53,360 It's like when people say they're trying something, but they really aren't. 299 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:55,360 And it's like a small bit like it's like a twig. 300 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:59,360 Like it's it's really hard. 301 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,360 Hmm. 302 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:03,360 OK, sure. No, great. 303 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:08,360 And then we'll like start sucking on like a lollipop almost. 304 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:12,360 Refusing to bite. 305 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,360 Now it's in the evening. 306 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:21,360 Storyteller, would Comfort Cups be open? 307 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,360 Comfort Cups is open. 308 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:34,360 Grist, you, as I described at the end of the last episode, the screen will not go up all of the way. 309 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:47,360 And so what you see is instead of inviting people in to to make their orders and gather their cups of soup, noodles and other warm comfort foods, 310 00:22:47,360 --> 00:23:01,360 you see that they are taking the orders outside and then passing them under this this sheet that comes down to the customers who are there and taking them away. 311 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:06,360 That is not not the usual practice here. 312 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:14,360 Normally people are coming in and out and and getting their noodles in comfort. 313 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:19,360 I do actually if you want more food, I was like an actual meal. 314 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:24,360 I know this like great noodle shop is not just a couple of blocks from here. 315 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,360 If you want to go, I do love me some noodles. 316 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:29,360 Right. Sure. I'll buy. 317 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:31,360 I have all the funds. 318 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:32,360 That's not like a serious thing. 319 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:34,360 Like if I'm not allowed to do that, that's fine. 320 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:38,360 You can tell me that I'm not allowed to like buy it off as a business expense. 321 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,360 Okay, cool. 322 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:46,360 When I when when we come come to this to Comfort Cups, 323 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:58,360 does it look like it's the the the doorway is just jammed because of something like blocking it or something? 324 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:04,360 Can I fix this by using by just being really, really strong? 325 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:08,360 No, this is a fragile piece of equipment. 326 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:12,360 If you were to use brute strength on it, it would probably break more. 327 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,360 Understood. 328 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:22,360 In fact, I think Grist had been been asked to go there because of this particular issue, 329 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:36,360 because this is one of the older businesses in town and one of the very few in which they are willing to both take and pay in old money, 330 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:40,360 physical money rather than digital credits. 331 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:49,360 One of the two chefs that run this noodle shop, Jimet is outside. 332 00:24:49,360 --> 00:25:02,360 Jimet being a younger isoki gentleman who's kind of tall and and very proper looking. 333 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:11,360 And he is doing like the the leaning down under and and handing out the bowls as you approach. 334 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:21,360 He's taken this up because you grist would know that the other chef kit, she's much older. 335 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:25,360 She can't be doing this type of of of leaning down. 336 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:32,360 So she's likely in the kitchen just ladling out the noodles and passing them underway. 337 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:41,360 But you can't see her at this time as she's behind the the screen that is halfway halfway open. 338 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:45,360 But Jimet is is out there. 339 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:53,360 Grist is still walking side by side next to him, standing rather protectively next to them as they approach comfort cups. 340 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:57,360 They turn to him and they say this probably won't take too long. 341 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:01,360 OK, take your time. 342 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:07,360 All right, of course. And they're probably going to try to offer me some food as well as payment. 343 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:11,360 Is there anything you would like? They have all kinds of incredible noodle ease. 344 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:15,360 No, I'm OK. I'm making my way through these grapes. 345 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:20,360 Are you sure? I know you haven't tried ramen before. 346 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:24,360 Ramen as in noodles. 347 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:27,360 Yes, new noodles. Yes, noodles. 348 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:33,360 I mean, it wouldn't hurt to try, maybe. 349 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:42,360 All right, then I will ask for a pork tonkatsu pork tonkatsu. 350 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:46,360 OK. It's very delicious. 351 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:52,360 I had it once. OK, I trust you. 352 00:26:52,360 --> 00:27:00,360 Grist nods at a flicker of a smile cuts across her tusks. She turns and approaches the half shuttered shop. 353 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:03,360 Jimet, good evening. 354 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:08,360 Oh, I'm so delighted to see you. 355 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:13,360 You got our message about the screen. It's broken again. 356 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:21,360 Yes. Well, nothing a little bit of mill grease can't fix. 357 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:29,360 Well, yes, I hate to keep bothering this you with this particular issue. 358 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:32,360 It seems to be happening more and more frequently. 359 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:43,360 And well, you're the most reliable in town for certain. 360 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:50,360 Yes. Well, the new new new dolls you make are delicious. I have to pay back the favor somehow. 361 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:57,360 Well, of course, we will pay you. But also, I assume you want some food as well. 362 00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:02,360 Honestly, just two bowls of your finest and that'll be all that's necessary. 363 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:06,360 I just got off from work and they paid me today. So. 364 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:10,360 Perfect. We will be paying you. 365 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:23,360 But yes, so I believe it's just there and he'll kind of point to one of two mechanisms on either side that is responsible for lowering and lifting. 366 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:32,360 And that one seems to be lit up and functioning. And the other has a sort of glitching light that is not fully functioning. 367 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:38,360 All right. And grist will approach the glitching dysfunctional one. 368 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:45,360 And I think she's like done similar odd jobs before in her past life, like the barn door might have glitched. 369 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:52,360 She had to just something a few times and like tighten a couple of screws and whatnot, put the washer back on, figure out what's wrong with it. 370 00:28:52,360 --> 00:29:06,360 So she approaches and reaches into her pouch again and starts pulling out some basic tools, just like regular lesbian handyman tools, you know, like attached to her hip with a carabiner, you know, carabiner. 371 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,360 And she starts going at it. You're able to do this without issue. 372 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:25,360 It takes you a little bit of time to get it right. As you are working, you are seeing the cups and bowls being passed underway to the passersby. 373 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:35,360 They are not the only food location in town, certainly, but they're the oldest and certainly maybe the most beloved. 374 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:40,360 So they are certainly passing out food to most people here. 375 00:29:40,360 --> 00:30:03,360 And after a while, you finally, you know, make that very last adjustment and the screen just inside the the other half of this establishment, who is mole looking like sort of closed eyes 376 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:20,360 with a little shawl wrapped around her head, who already has two cups ready packaged as to goes and ready to hand them to you as you come down from your ladder. 377 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:34,360 She approaches you and without opening those eyes, just kind of knows that you're there. And thank you so much. 378 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:42,360 Two soups. And if you if you just go to Jim it, I'll get you paid. 379 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,360 Oh, please don't worry about the payment. Just two two bowls is fine, kid. 380 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:55,360 I would push you on it. But truth be told, this has gotten stuck quite often recently. 381 00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:02,360 And I I do. I do have to accept that offer. 382 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:07,360 Of course, of course. Anything for anything for the shop. 383 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:33,360 And as grist interacts with Kit and Jim it she takes on a kind of like almost like shy or like almost like a like a schoolboy or like a like a big powerful like farmer right who's kind of like hunched their shoulders over and is like amicously talking to their parents kind of like position that she's got her like feet pointed inward her shoulders and sort of square and hunched in. 384 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:40,360 And she's like sort of touching the tip of one tusk fiddling with it and almost like a nervous tick. 385 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:47,360 Right. Yeah, no worry. Just as long as you feed us and be more than happy to unjam that door anytime. 386 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:55,360 You know that it's my pride and joy to feed the people of this town. 387 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:06,360 Yeah. And as you know, I've never had noodles before coming here and it's it's a joy and a beautiful experience every time all the flavors. 388 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,360 How do you even magic? 389 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:14,360 Oh, it's just good old fashioned cooking. 390 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,360 That's all. 391 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:27,360 I'm just so used to bread and corn sometimes and meat the occasional egg, but mostly bread. 392 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,360 Well, I don't hate bread. 393 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,360 It's good to dunk in the broth. 394 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,360 Yes, yes, it is. 395 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:42,360 When we were lucky, we'd have we have soup, we have broth, some stew from leftover bones and all that. 396 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,360 But I'm going on. 397 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,360 I forget myself. 398 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,360 Is there anything else you need? 399 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,360 Any other broken things while I'm here? 400 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,360 A clogged sink, that sort of thing? 401 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,360 It was just the gate for now. 402 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,360 And you do need to relax. 403 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:02,360 You deserve to have nice things. 404 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,360 Right. 405 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,360 Thank you. 406 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:18,360 Hope got a line and she'll go back in now that the store is open. 407 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,360 Apex walking through town. 408 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:29,360 There are plenty of places that could have been hit by this same mysterious contract. 409 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:44,360 Plenty of businesses that you notice are in need of repairs, upgrades, things that would give them the incentive to sign some sort of contract offering financial help. 410 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:59,360 Your eyes to one of them, as you see a gate that has been just recently repaired, like click back into place and nearby it. 411 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:27,360 You see a being that is not a kind of flesh and blood you recognize, Nim, who stands near this building, who seems ethereal and magic in a way that storybook characters are magic. 412 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:36,360 And of course, also, they happen to be standing next to a business that does not look like it is in its tip top shape. 413 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,360 Looks a little bit worse for wear. 414 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,360 This could be a target. 415 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,360 Yeah, OK, I'm going to investigate. 416 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:54,360 Walk up nonchalantly with a lack of fear that Apex has and Gabe doesn't share. 417 00:34:54,360 --> 00:35:04,360 And as it's like kind of like walking ahead and glancing around, he looks left, he looks right. 418 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:17,360 He's kind of trying to make a visual rendition of this place in his mind so that he has some conscious awareness of like his environment as he's moving ahead. 419 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,360 It's like there were people standing right there. 420 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:25,360 There was like that strange shaped rock that I don't want to trip on that's like three feet to my right. 421 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,360 There is that strange corner where I saw someone walk down like moments before. 422 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:35,360 So I know that there's two people down there and then heading towards this unfamiliar figure in front of him. 423 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:41,360 As you're approaching him, she is enraptured with these grapes. 424 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,360 They're definitely still trying to process what they are. 425 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:54,360 And unfortunately, she's kind of hit the end of the grapevine. 426 00:35:54,360 --> 00:36:00,360 And there's like this tiny little piece of like a stem and there's like one little grape left. 427 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,360 And she like plucks it off and she's like. 428 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:14,360 And then she puts it in her mouth and then just kind of flicks the stem away and just sort of looks off, starts observing everything around her. 429 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,360 What were you eating, if I may ask? 430 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,360 They're called grapes. 431 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,360 And how did it taste? 432 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,360 Sweet. 433 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,360 Uh, sweet. 434 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,360 There was a lot of liquid. 435 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:38,360 Like a rabbit? 436 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,360 I wouldn't know. 437 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,360 Was it living when you ate it? 438 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:49,360 No, it was just an object. 439 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,360 All food is objects. 440 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:52,360 Yes. 441 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,360 Think about it this way. 442 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:59,360 An apex like kneels down. 443 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:07,360 Almost like a frog with how he's squatting so deep. 444 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:15,360 Anything that you eat is an object that you ate, is an object, an object if it's not living. 445 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,360 I'm curious about grapes. 446 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:26,360 I mean, in my opinion, things can still be objects after they cease to exist. 447 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,360 I've seen them actually in other realms. 448 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,360 In what? 449 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,360 And he leans in like three more inches. 450 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,360 And she kind of just... 451 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:50,360 I don't know how to exactly explain this, but when I sleep I dream of other worlds. 452 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,360 And I see objects in them all the time. 453 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,360 I see people. 454 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,360 I see animals. 455 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,360 I see things. 456 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:04,360 It honestly depends on how I'm feeling that day. 457 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:11,360 There's steam coming out between the teeth on the mask. 458 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,360 The way your mind has evolved is interesting. 459 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,360 Is it real? 460 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:27,360 I think so. 461 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,360 Fun. 462 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,360 Why are you here? 463 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:36,360 I'm with my... 464 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,360 friend. 465 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:44,360 Do they also see different worlds? 466 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:50,360 Not that I know of. I don't think so. 467 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:55,360 So you're...unique? 468 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,360 I guess so. 469 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:03,360 Is your family like you? Are you the first? 470 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:08,360 And her face kind of drops. 471 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:16,360 I don't have...a family. 472 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:22,360 I just...I just was. 473 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:28,360 I just was. 474 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:34,360 Under his voice, he very softly mumbles... 475 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:40,360 A progenitor. Interesting. 476 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,360 And then he'll just stand up. 477 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:52,360 I think as you're turning, if I may, Grist is coming up with two big cups of pork tonkotsu ramen and is in the middle of saying, 478 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,360 Nim, I got us dinner. 479 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,360 Who's this? 480 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:04,360 I'm Nim. Nim the progenitor. Registered. 481 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,360 I'm sorry, who are you? 482 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,360 I didn't get my name. 483 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:16,360 I was speaking to Nim. You just did. You said who are you. I do not understand this. 484 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,360 I didn't ask for your name. I asked who you are. What do you want with Nim? 485 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,360 And Grist immediately moves between the two of you. 486 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:29,360 Like very protectively, flaring her shoulders out, regarding you immediately. 487 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:36,360 This is just on her face plainly. You don't even need to scan for it. She's looking at you like you're a threat. 488 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:41,360 A name is not who you are. 489 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:49,360 I am a thinker. 490 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:55,360 Her eyes flick to your huge sharp teeth and like the steam rolling off of them. 491 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,360 The mask. He's wearing a helmet. 492 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:09,360 But at like the painted fangs on the mask and the steam coming off. And she's like holding the ramen sort of back like they're like double shields. 493 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,360 And like flaring her arms out in front of him a little bit. 494 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:18,360 Are those your grapes? They come in different shapes. 495 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:29,360 Carious Nim the Progenitor. Oh, this is the other one. Hello, other one. 496 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:34,360 They're my friend. 497 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,360 Is that who they are or their name? 498 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:43,360 And Nim looks up to Grist. 499 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,360 Who are you? 500 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,360 I'm no one. 501 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,360 Just a lost ghost. 502 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,360 I can fix that for you. 503 00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:03,360 We are in Articoria City. 504 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:09,360 Now you are just a ghost. 505 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,360 Definitely one of the weirder people we've met here. 506 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:18,360 Is there anything we can help you with? Or were you just on your way? 507 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,360 We were talking about grapes. 508 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:29,360 We were grapes in different planes of existence and dreams and being- 509 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,360 Dreams? You told this person about your dreams? 510 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:41,360 Not in particular detail or anything. Just what I see sometimes. 511 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:46,360 Is that wrong? Ghost? 512 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:51,360 I don't control Nim or what they do or say. 513 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:59,360 But I do look out for them. So if you have any kind of nefarious intention, I've got my eye on you. 514 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:07,360 You are an assumptive ghost because you assume threat from a physical appearance and impression. 515 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:18,360 I have not shown you any hostility. You have simply shown potentially reasonable fear, which is a good evolutionary aspect of self-preservation. 516 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:23,360 And I take no offense to, but simply want you to be aware. 517 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:24,360 Ghost. 518 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:30,360 Grist's eyebrows nod and they blink at you. And it's very clear they understood like 50% of the words. 519 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:37,360 In what you just said, you even looking at her face, you get the sense of like, is she even literate? 520 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:47,360 She's just sort of like blinking at you like she didn't really understand any of the vocabulary and goes, yeah, up yours too. 521 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:52,360 Hmm. 522 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:59,360 I have no offices on my suit. 523 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:07,360 Everyone's got holes. 524 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:17,360 I think at this point, Sebastian and Winston, you walking over towards comfort cups. 525 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:33,360 You had reached this this area. The crowd that had formed as soon as the gate lifted up has finally started to to dwindle down. And now there's a more reasonable line outside. 526 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:45,360 The chefs are both working very, very well in tandem with each other. You can tell that the both of them have done this probably their entire adult lives. 527 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:59,360 This shop is like a breathing thing in the way that they are serving customers and cooking and just outside the shop. 528 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:10,360 A small cluster of individuals are are having a conversation that does not look hostile, but tense. 529 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:18,360 I think in mid middle of the conversation, it's just Winston talking to Sebastian. 530 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:29,360 At most, what you can do is have a depiction of an unsure opinion as long as it is sandwiched by a neutral or positive opinion of the V rep. 531 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:35,360 So that's how you would get. I recognize that fellow. 532 00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:43,360 Hello. Hi. And I'll motion over to to apex. I wink at you. 533 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:55,360 Hello. Sorry. I recognize you. I just want to check in and say, how did you like the hospitality over at the hide and seek lodge? 534 00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:06,360 Can I go back to that was propositioning marriage? That is very interesting. Well, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself on our first meeting. 535 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:17,360 My name is Winston Komu Esquire. That makes sense. And this is my business associate now, Sebastian Shack. 536 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:27,360 As you go to gesture to Sebastian, Sebastian is about 10 foot back, just like with a small camera filming the shop and the line and outside and like the energy of the shop. 537 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:33,360 And as you're like Sebastian, he's like, oh, it puts it away and I kind of hi, hi, hi. 538 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,360 How's it going? This is ghost and. 539 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:46,360 And he doesn't say names name and then looks at Chris. 540 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:51,360 Chris looks at him. We'll let him decide whether or not they want to introduce themselves. 541 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:57,360 My name is no. Well, it is good to meet you, little one. 542 00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:04,360 And big one as well. Good to meet you, Nim and ghost. And I'm sorry, your name, my friend. 543 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:11,360 My name is one that's easy. I am a tax. 544 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:18,360 Well, good to meet you, a tax. We're about to go get some new to have any recommendations. 545 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,360 I do not believe I've been to this establishment before. 546 00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,360 The group. 547 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:37,360 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 548 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,360 Saga is known for its McRibs, actually. Hey, you know what? 549 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:49,360 Maybe Winston heard whatever Winston needed to hear. 550 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:53,360 Well, that's how a McRib sounds quite delicious. 551 00:47:53,360 --> 00:48:01,360 I'll turn over to turn back over to Sebastian and just and just say, I'm going to fall into line. 552 00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:10,360 If you want to interview these wonderful people around, I believe that would be very wonderful as a representation of the saga peoples. 553 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:15,360 And I will go pad over to the line. 554 00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:27,360 Hey, gang, I'm making a documentary just like about saga and its people and the city, the planet, how everyone is connected. 555 00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:39,360 Do you mind doing like a short interview, asking some questions? If you do, I'll get you like I'll buy you dinner. 556 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:49,360 Gris, this entire time looks like a cornered animal. Like this is the most most amount of social interaction they've had in probably years. 557 00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,360 They like go out of their way to avoid people. 558 00:48:52,360 --> 00:49:03,360 So like this with NIM, Apex and these two brand new people, like she's kind of even though she's big, she's like kind of frozen there like a statue in her eyes are darting left to right, left to right, left to right. 559 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:10,360 And when Sebastian brings it up, she like opens her mouth to say something, the tusks gleaming and then just like snaps it shut. 560 00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:17,360 Like she she's like a fish out of water, has no idea how to respond. 561 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,360 Don't have to, obviously, no one has to do anything. 562 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,360 But if you want a free meal, I can get you that. 563 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:33,360 Perfect. Grat, yeah, just step out of line for a second. 564 00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,360 Kind of puts their camera in the middle of the air. 565 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:42,360 And then again, this hard light tripod just like shoots into the ground, holding it in place. 566 00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:48,360 They like figure out the shot for a second and then like holding their hand out and focus. 567 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:54,360 OK, so whenever I ask a question, you just need to like say the question back to me and then answer. 568 00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,360 It just makes it easier for like editing and stuff. 569 00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,360 So first of all, what's your name? 570 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:07,360 Apex Ezekiel Calculus 1394. 571 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:11,360 Perfect. Calculus is the specification of Nevermind, that's separate. 572 00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:18,360 My name is, I didn't say the question, my name is Apex Ezekiel Calculus 1934. 573 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,360 Perfect. Incredible. 574 00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,360 OK, what is. 575 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,360 How long have you been on Saga? 576 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,360 Can I ask a counter question? 577 00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,360 Yeah, absolutely. 578 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,360 How do you track time? 579 00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:39,360 I think most people would use like old and Earth time. 580 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,360 That's how I think the Galactic Council uses it. 581 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,360 So you can just do Earth time, that's fine. 582 00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:51,360 Hmm. 583 00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,360 Twelve years. 584 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:58,360 What's your favorite thing about this planet? 585 00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:08,360 What brings you here and what do you feel connects you to here? 586 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:15,360 My favorite thing about Saga is that the people here are evolutionary anomalies. 587 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:23,360 They seem to have grown less for self-preservation and more for happiness. 588 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,360 That entertains me. 589 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,360 And it makes me think. 590 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,360 I like to think. 591 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,360 I think. 592 00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:41,360 It's clearly happy with the answer, Sebastian Nodson goes to turn off the camera and then just they do. 593 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:51,360 They're like, oh, the vertical expansion, building homes so more people can experience the planet. 594 00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,360 How do you feel about that? 595 00:51:53,360 --> 00:52:11,360 I feel like building more homes for more people is foolish because they're building homes before they have acclimated to feeding and giving these people the safety they need. 596 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:22,360 If you give someone a home next to a reef of sharks, you know they're going to get eaten. 597 00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,360 Um. 598 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:28,360 Looks over toward the back of the line where Winston stands. 599 00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,360 Yeah. 600 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,360 Have you ever been eaten? 601 00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:36,360 Have I been eaten? No, no, no. 602 00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:37,360 Hmm. 603 00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:39,360 That's fair. 604 00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:44,360 It makes kind of like does that like like looking up and down thing a little bit. 605 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,360 Yeah. 606 00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:54,360 Boney, have you been afraid while being on Saga? 607 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,360 I mean, everyone's afraid sometimes. 608 00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,360 That's not true. 609 00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:07,360 Fear is a response that has been implanted in many, but fear is not innate. 610 00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,360 Fear is learned. 611 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,360 What was your name? 612 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,360 Sebastian. 613 00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:18,360 It's nice to meet you, Sebastian. 614 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:32,360 Uh, Grist, as soon as Apex had said the thing about the reef of sharks, had like sort of immediately jerked her head over to Apex and is looking at them in a completely different way from before, before she had been regarding them as a threat. 615 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:48,360 Now there's almost like a glimmer of respect in her eyes at what they said. Like she's, she's agreeing with what Apex is saying and kind of like cuts in crudely in the middle of social interaction with like no, has no idea about social cues or anything like that and just says, 616 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,360 I don't trust whatever rich people do. 617 00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:55,360 So if it's rich people building that thing, I don't trust it. 618 00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:58,360 Rich people taste bad. 619 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:05,360 Do you like, do you like Saga though? Do you think it's like, how long have you been here? 620 00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,360 Three years. 621 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:15,360 Do you like it? Have you, have you, what's like, what's the thing that really resonates with you about, about the planet? 622 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:21,360 Saga, Saga is, has a lot of things inside of it. 623 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:28,360 There are cities and there are people and animals and plants all on the same planet. 624 00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:34,360 And she's saying that like that's like a new and unique piece of information that she's sharing with everyone. 625 00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:38,360 There's water here and earth at the same time. 626 00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:44,360 I've never seen anything like that before. It's pretty. 627 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,360 I don't mind it here. 628 00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:52,360 There are also deep, anxious feelings here. 629 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:57,360 I don't know where they come from, but they're here. 630 00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,360 How long have you been here? 631 00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:04,360 The same time as my ghost friend. 632 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:08,360 Grist. My name is Grist. 633 00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,360 Did you, did you fly here together then? 634 00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:19,360 Grist kind of shrinks back at that, like you had said something deeply insulting, even though it was just a completely normal question. 635 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:24,360 And she like looks at you, kind of glaring at you with those dead hollow eyes. 636 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,360 No, we did not fly here. 637 00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:32,360 Have you, have you found home here? 638 00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,360 Huh. 639 00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:40,360 Saga's beautiful. It's special. 640 00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:45,360 Maybe one day it can be home. 641 00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:49,360 Your friend is taking a long time. 642 00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:57,360 Soup is, is it not just crushed grapes made from grape animals put in bowl? 643 00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:01,360 There is grape soup? 644 00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,360 I think I've misunderstood something. 645 00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:09,360 Oh. 646 00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:18,360 I think, I think it would be reasonable for Winston to have, have achieved soup and come over to this. 647 00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:23,360 Mind you, Winston, a disaster of an interview. 648 00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,360 I, I, I did not over here. 649 00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:38,360 I think it's, I've come with a tray of various sizes of soups and, and app, and like appies, like maybe gyoza and just, yeah. 650 00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,360 If it, I am back. 651 00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,360 They didn't have any McRibs. I guess they were out. 652 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:51,360 Here, I have taken it upon myself to get a little something, something for everyone here. 653 00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:55,360 Here's a little one. Here's a medium one. Here's a big one. 654 00:56:55,360 --> 00:57:02,360 And here's one for me and Sebastian to share with the whole like three bear situation in here. 655 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,360 How did the interviews go? 656 00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:08,360 Yeah, we got, we got some great, we got some great stuff. 657 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,360 Absolutely use, use a lot of it. 658 00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,360 So glad to hear. 659 00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:19,360 Do we want to, we want to grab a, are we sat or are we stood? 660 00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:29,360 So there are, there are benches and tables that are set out like outside on the grass out front of the shop. 661 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:36,360 There is also people who like make little like picnic areas out on the grass as well. 662 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:43,360 And, and there are standing tops. So there could be any number of places you could be nearby the shop. 663 00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:47,360 Yeah, let's go, let's go. Let's go have a seat. Let's, let's eat. 664 00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:52,360 I will look around to see if there's a chair that can suit my size. 665 00:57:52,360 --> 00:58:00,360 And if there's, if there is one, I will, I will sit, but I will not, I will, I will stand if there, if I have to be seated on the ground. 666 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:05,360 I do not want to mess up the suit that was paid for by the company. 667 00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:21,360 I, I want you to know that it would never occur that that comfort cups would allow for a portion of their clientele to not have seating options. 668 00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:34,360 They are, Kit in particular is extremely determined to have different seating sizes here so that everyone in the neighborhood can come and eat outside. 669 00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:42,360 In fact, you do notice that now that the rush has fully died down and there isn't the need for them to constantly be serving, 670 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:58,360 the two of them sit just outside the shop and sort of observe the town all eating their, the food that they've provided because that is really what they're doing this for. 671 00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:02,360 This is so good. 672 00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,360 What's the bowl made out of? 673 00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,360 What is the what made out of? 674 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,360 Bowl. 675 00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:12,360 Oh, it's, it's like a ceramic. 676 00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:15,360 Oh, okay. 677 00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:28,360 Using the evolutionist abilities, adaptive strike, I can switch parts of my body to align with certain elements, including acid. 678 00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:46,360 So Apex is going to like raise his head and the mask, like the teeth part like opens up like mechanically open up by like four inches wide, and then he just pours the soup in. 679 00:59:46,360 --> 01:00:03,360 And as steam comes out, you see probably what looks a bit like a green mist as he's generating acid in his mouth, and he puts the bowl in there too as 680 01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:06,360 Oh my hungry fellow. 681 01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:17,360 Grist immediately tries to bite her bowl like she thinks this is how you're supposed to eat it, like she like moves in and bites on the edge of the ceramic. 682 01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:27,360 It's exceptionally hard and would hurt a little to do that. 683 01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:31,360 Good effort. 684 01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:40,360 So, tell me about yourself. What is, you know, you said you'd share some stories and what's what's your whole deal? 685 01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:46,360 Like what's, how did you get into this? Have you lived here long? All that stuff. 686 01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:58,360 I've spent my whole life on Saga and come to the city, Artacoria, for professional, for professional reasons, business reasons. 687 01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:14,360 You see, as an uplifted bear, I am particularly skilled at processing information, and we found that it's very easy for myself to pass through legalese. 688 01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:23,360 And there was a firm here that was hiring, and I signed up and I've been with the with them for about 10 years since. 689 01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:28,360 Oh, is this a first like film thing? Do you do film stuff a lot? 690 01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:35,360 The most I do with films is watch them. 691 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:41,360 Grist looks sideways at Sebastian as she's slurping her soup normally now just sort of. 692 01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:47,360 Why are you making this film? 693 01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:57,360 It's so it's kind of like half documentary and like half nonfiction about my my great grandfather coming over from Nerd Noir into it. 694 01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:05,360 No, I mean, why? 695 01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:14,360 This place is my home. This is a beautiful city and everyone has lived so much and done so many things. 696 01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:21,360 The trip travel has just been made and we have to build a plate to house more people. 697 01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:32,360 This is. There is safety here, this home, that it's everyone you meet. 698 01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:37,360 Is an individual who's willing to give you the time of day and and help you out. 699 01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:45,360 Look at us. Look, I've never met anyone at this table before just now and we're willing to help each other and we're all here. 700 01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:51,360 That's what soccer is all about. It's about togetherness and helping and no one is better than anyone else. 701 01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:55,360 No matter what your background, you can make a home here. 702 01:02:55,360 --> 01:03:00,360 That's what my great granddad knew. And that's what my granddad knew. 703 01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,360 That's what my grandmother knew. That's what my parents knew. 704 01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:09,360 That's what my brothers and sisters know. That's what I know is. 705 01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:17,360 This place is the greatest place in all of Yggdrasil. 706 01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:23,360 It's it's home to everyone. I love it so, so much. 707 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:33,360 And I think I think it can be scary and I think that fear enraptures everyone. 708 01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:39,360 But I think that fear can burn away as soon as you speak to someone. 709 01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:44,360 You can go to any bar and make a new best friend. And it's it's it's the best. 710 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:47,360 I want to want to show people why it's the best. 711 01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:52,360 You're telling a saga of saga. Yeah, exactly. 712 01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:57,360 I want to show the saga of saga. I wipe away a tear. 713 01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:10,360 Sebastian, I don't mean this in a malicious way, but I believe that is a very ignorant view of things. 714 01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:14,360 How? Why? How so? 715 01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:26,360 The issues that don't affect you are ones that you don't see, but there is an entire other side of saga that people neglect 716 01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:34,360 because they have this view of the world that they refuse to let go of. 717 01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:44,360 And because of that, people suffer and people are forgotten. 718 01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:49,360 So saying all of these things about saga. 719 01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,360 Yes, there is beauty in this world. 720 01:04:51,360 --> 01:05:02,360 However, you must not neglect the bad and just how bad it is. 721 01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:06,360 Aren't you being naive and assuming that's what they're doing? 722 01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:14,360 If you have not seen the presentation and this is the first interaction, their joy does not belittle your grief. 723 01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,360 In some ways it does. 724 01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:22,360 That is you inflecting your desires on a stranger. 725 01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:25,360 It's easier to do that on a friend. 726 01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:29,360 Not necessarily. 727 01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:36,360 I've been in existence for eons. 728 01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:52,360 I've studied the ways of people, their interactions with each other, and specifically the empathy that comes with being people. 729 01:05:52,360 --> 01:06:00,360 It's something that I have been trying to understand for years. 730 01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:04,360 It's something that a lot of people lack. 731 01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:15,360 Even though they want to put on a presentation of being empathetic, they truly aren't. 732 01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:23,360 And I'm not saying that Sebastian, you're a bad person. 733 01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:30,360 However, I think you need to think about the direction of your... 734 01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:32,360 How is it called? 735 01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,360 Film. 736 01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:36,360 Your film. 737 01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:39,360 But you said it yourself. 738 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:46,360 You see empathy from people all the time, all over the place. 739 01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:54,360 I don't know the experience of eons, but is that not what we should focus on? 740 01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:56,360 That's what's connecting us. 741 01:06:56,360 --> 01:07:07,360 That is showing that people have this great empathy for each other. 742 01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:17,360 It doesn't matter how much one person is suffering, or how two different people are suffering, chances are they'll probably help each other. 743 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,360 And yeah, you know what, you're right. 744 01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,360 A lot of people are forgotten. 745 01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:33,360 That's why I want to make this about the people of Saga and the things they go through and show and allow their stories to be told so they're not forgotten. 746 01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:45,360 Their struggles still exist in the world, in the universe, but their story will be held and it will be theirs and true. 747 01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,360 And that empathy, that's what's real. 748 01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,360 That's what matters. 749 01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:56,360 Corporations will come and go, but the ripples of kindness we show each other, that is infinite. 750 01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,360 That lasts forever. 751 01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:10,360 Winston, you get a message from Marek that says, not loving this footage so far. 752 01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:15,360 We're going to need some explicitly positive statements. 753 01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:26,360 Kit approaches from behind having eavesdropped, not intentionally, she's just got great ears. 754 01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:42,360 And gives a little scramble to Sebastian's little furry moth tufts and is just like, I wouldn't mind talking in your documentary. 755 01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:46,360 Oh, Kit, yes, I would love, I would love, I would love to have that. 756 01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,360 So again, I'm just going to leave the table for one second. 757 01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:56,360 Make sure you remember to talk positively about the V-Rep. 758 01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:59,360 Well, it's whatever, you know, it's whatever view they have. 759 01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:01,360 Of course, of course, of course. 760 01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:05,360 Yes. Yep. Let's have an interview. Let's do it. 761 01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:20,360 Grist, you got caught up in the passion of this conversation that it takes a minute for you to recognize that there's just a small pit in the center of you. 762 01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:25,360 This feeling, a gut feeling. 763 01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:43,360 Nim, for you, that feeling that you felt as you were approaching the noise of the city, that impending feeling that something was coming, something familiar and dreadful and chaotic. 764 01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:47,360 Come back, but this time it doesn't feel so chaotic. 765 01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:52,360 It feels pinpointed. 766 01:09:52,360 --> 01:10:02,360 It is if you feel the next few minutes happen before they actually occur. 767 01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:11,360 Just then, after Nim, you feel this happen in your heart is when you watch it happen in real time. 768 01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:25,360 The drone bee from earlier in the evening comes back around and the entire town turns to pay attention to it, to watch. 769 01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:49,360 As this time, the bee does not play an advertisement or anything. It simply has a scrolling bit of text that appears in like an LED sort of display that trails behind it as it makes its way through the hushed quiet town. 770 01:10:49,360 --> 01:11:05,360 And what it says as it goes by on real, on watch, is that Mayor Ipsken, formerly CEO of SETA Unmentioned, re-elected. 771 01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:11,360 And it goes around and around and around. 772 01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:23,360 It's like it's going through the walls throughout town. The word former CEO Apex is what sticks in your craw. 773 01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:34,360 It is a formality. That person likely still has that kind of power. 774 01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,360 They're just no longer in the face. 775 01:11:36,360 --> 01:12:05,360 Nim, to you, the combination of politics and the one overarching financial conglomerate was and is a foreboding gong that resonates throughout all of the many voices that are within you. 776 01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:18,360 Grist, you didn't envision it before it happened, but after it does, that begins to sink in as well for you. 777 01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:21,360 And Winston, you know the bullshit. 778 01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:31,360 You know that the CEO, former CEO, still has power. 779 01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:48,360 And Sebastian, likely doesn't mean much to you on a personal level as you turn back to continue your interview with a sweet and worried shopkeep. 780 01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:51,360 Thank you for turning into this very special episode of the Atom List. 781 01:12:51,360 --> 01:13:01,360 This is part two in a four part series called Saga. It takes place in the past in our main campaign's canon universe. 782 01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:05,360 That campaign will be back in two more episodes with Matt back in the GM seat. 783 01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:08,360 Thank you again, Matt, for letting me steal your show. 784 01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:35,360 This episode of Saga featured Matthew Eckberg, aka Captain Krayle on socials playing Sebastian, Christian, aka Kappa Chris playing Winston Komu, Brie, aka Brie Doe on socials playing Nim, Gabe Hicks or Gabe James Games on socials playing Apex, and Connie Chung or Bye Connie Chung on socials playing Grist. 785 01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:45,360 We also had another special appearance by Momo O'Brien, aka Momo underscore O'Brien on socials doing our advertisement. 786 01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:57,360 Head to our socials if you want to see the artwork of these characters done by Andre Rivera Art, Andre Rivera dot art for their portfolio if you'd like to check it out. 787 01:13:57,360 --> 01:14:07,360 And you can see that and more on our Patreon at the Atom List where you can support us and get sneak peeks early content. 788 01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:20,360 Also, big supporters. Thank you so much to Daniel Neruda, Noah and Sonny420 for supporting us so much and keeping this show going. 789 01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:27,360 Really appreciate you and all of the other people who have supported us on Patreon so far.