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Hey guys, it's Steven. We're having a lot of

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fun making Fantasy Pants. If you're enjoying

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the show half as much as we are, I hope that

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fun doing what we're doing. We want to share

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it with you. We want to share it with your friends.

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We want to share it with whoever. So if you want

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to give us a hand, uh, share it, tell your friends

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so much and enjoy the episode. Storyteller Orin

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here, and I'm going to talk to you all about

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the Dinsing Market Games today. Because I say,

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of all the marvels to witness in all the world

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of Subsunko, well, these might just be the most

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exciting. Now, every month, the family businesses

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of the Dinsing Night Market choose three amongst

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their own to design and host three separate games.

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It's designed to test brave adventurers as well

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as delight the tourists. And the winners of these

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games are brought into the extended family of

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the market and given the title of rare, or coals

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of the same fire. Now, one business owner has

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chosen amongst them all to be the primary host

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of the games, in charge of choosing players and

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designing the third and most vital of the challenges.

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Four players can be signed on per team, They

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are divided as two mains and two seconds, and

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some games can only be played by two mains. In

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many cases, a single team is challenged by market

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locals or by past records for the challenges.

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But the best experience, in my opinion, is when

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two full teams are chosen to go head -to -head.

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This is when the market games truly shine and

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when many a luminary has been born into the lore

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of our worlds. Finger snap. I had to. It felt

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so good. It was a good one. It was a good one.

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So the third game is the most vital? It is for

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a certain reason. It very much is. Thank you,

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Storyteller Oren, for giving us the inside scoop.

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There's a little something going on with the

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third game that makes it a little extra exciting,

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a little extra spicy. Save all your buttons.

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Oh, wait. Hear that, listeners? That's the sound

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of me jangling my buttons in my jar. Oh, look,

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Stephen's got buttons. Stephen now has buttons.

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That's not how buttons work. That's exactly how

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buttons work. Nah, Stephen hasn't earned them.

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Not yet. Once they're ours, they're ours to do

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what we want with. Take my buttons, Stephen.

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I'll take all your buttons and maybe give one

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to Stephen if he earns it. There you go. I'll

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do my best. You earned those, Jeremy. Damn, did

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you earn those. Before we get started, because

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we've got a lot to get to, this is going to be

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wild. Before we get started, we need to talk

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about monkeys. It's the elephant in the room,

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and by that I mean the gorilla in the room. No,

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they're the monkeys in the room. I mean, yeah.

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You've got to get a monkey out the back. Yeah,

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no, let's... Damn it. God damn it, Steven. Get

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out. You've gone too far this time. You've got

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to get in the... button for that. There's a monkey

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right behind you. Now, I'm half serious. We're

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all over here having a nice, pleasant conversation

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about how fantastic monkeys are. Especially gorillas.

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Hats off to you, gorillas. I mean, gorillas scare

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the shit out of me, so I'm sticking with monkeys

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and maybe baboons. When Ebenezer fucking Steven

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over here revealed that he hates monkeys. Steven,

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explain yourself. They make me uncomfortable.

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I don't like how some of their butts hang out.

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I don't like. All right. That's a positive feature.

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That's that's it. No, no, no. That's the bulk

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of it. I think it's just because they're they're

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so human and it kind of freaks me out. It's it's

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unsettling. Like, I don't like when monkeys do

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human things. Yeah, I just I don't know. And

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they rip your face off. Yeah, it's awesome. Occasionally,

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they're just better humans. They're just bigger,

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stronger, furrier humans. Dumber. Now that's

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debatable. Is it? I think they're smarter. In

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what sense of the word? Than many humans. I will

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say that. I will say that. I mean, he's got a

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point. Thanks. Show me a single monkey with a

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Dungeons & Dragons podcast. I wish I could. But

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they're smart enough not to get into a field

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this oversaturated. We're the dumb ones. Thank

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you, listeners. We're having fun. Thank you,

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listeners. We're having fun while monkeys are

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throwing their shit at the glass wall of the

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zoo. You think that's not fun? I do not think

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that's fun. This sounds like a blast. It really

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does sound like a hell of a lot of fun. No way.

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It really does. All right. After we record, we're

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going outside. We're having a shit fight. No.

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That doesn't sound like fun to me. Yeah, I kind

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of draw the line there. Damn it. I'll go and

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fling shit with the monkeys. We're not that close

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yet. We'll get there. We'll get there, guys.

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Anyway. Let's put this discussion off to the

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side. We all know Steven's wrong, and that's

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that. Back to the Dinsing Market Games, which

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are just about to start. When we left off. Oh,

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yeah. Sirenscape. That's nice. That's real nice.

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Here we are. Sun has set over Sipsunko, over

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the Valley of Zantini. And all the market lights,

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I think, towards the edge of the market start

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to go out. Things get a little darker. Because

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the focus now... Yes. The focus now is in the

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center. On the sunken plaza in the middle of

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the market where these three great golden tents

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lit up to all hell stand. We have a massive crowd

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just building up all over. Everyone, every market

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owner. I mean, I think right now most of the

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stalls are just closed because, like, who the

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fuck is going to go around the market buying

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shit? The market games are happening, gentlemen.

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There is a buzz all over the place. You guys

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are in the middle of this, standing in the center

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of the plaza. You see, like, this big screen

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projector set up. Kind of like you've seen before

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on Tythos, like a big sort of canvas. There's

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a few of them, one in front of each tent. You

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actually see there's like a pretty interesting

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setup here. You might be aware of the fact that

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the recording diamonds in some cases, their primary

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use is to be blessed by the citadel, blessed

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by the auroral diamond to record, you know, scenes,

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record, record acts, and bring them back to the

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citadel to transmit to the worlds. But... you

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do know there is a feature that allows them to

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transmit information to each other as well. And

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some have actually been used for the purpose

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of purely just transmitting to one central diamond

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to project in a local environment. Essentially

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working as security cameras in some cases. Or

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in a case like this, as basically just like big

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projectors showing what's going on inside the

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tents to everyone around. It's here for the show.

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Yeah, this technology's gone a lot of places.

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All thanks to... the discovery that the auroral

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diamond could bless these other diamonds and

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could transmit signals, it's led to a lot of

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developments beyond just that initial one. So

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you're right here, you're seeing, like, I think

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you probably see projections of at least one

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tent inside already kind of ready and set up,

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and you're looking up and you see that there's,

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like... a big sort of open space there's bleachers

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around for a live audience and you see like all

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you see now on this on this projector for the

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first of the games you would imagine it's just

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this long table with a gigantic covered like

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like like sort of uh blanket covered basket just

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sitting in the middle it's all you see so um

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touch on before like you guys are standing there

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I was laughing at Siren Skate. This funny little

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laugh in the background and I couldn't hold it

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together. It was like half laugh, half ghost

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squeal. I don't know. Yeah, that happens sometimes.

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Ghost goats. Regional greeting, of course. Yes,

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that too. So, you are all just standing in the

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middle of all this. You're being kind of... gestured

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forward by Madame Culp, who's the overseer of

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the games this evening. I thought it was Silk.

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God damn it. Silk's calling us. It's time. It's

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Culp, you idiot! Jules, what do we got to do

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with this one? All right, I'm sorry for interrupting.

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Continue with the scene setup. As you guys move

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forward, as you're moving towards her, the crowd

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just erupts again into applause. You just kind

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of hear, like, These lights, these lights, these

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lights! Oh, yeah. As you move out, Jules. Really?

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Yeah. Oh, yeah. Another group over there looking

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at Zebulon just like, Herald of the Pangolins!

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Herald of the Pangolins! Herald of the Pangolins!

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And it's like, you have built a following here

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already. You have a legend. We are so badass.

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You're pretty badass. It's pretty cool. I think

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you're right, Zeb. This feels kind of cool. Yeah,

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Zebulon's kind of basking in it, kind of chest

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puffed out. Hell yeah. He's into it. And as you

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go to, like, move out, you see, we brought this

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up last time, on the other side of this plaza,

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the crowd parts. Another group steps out to another

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roar of applause. You haven't seen these folks

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before, at least not two of them. Now, you recognize

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the goblin. You now know the name of the goblin

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is Trace. You recognize the Haringan barbarian

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that attacked you at Rune's home. And you know

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this is Pepper. But now there's the other two

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that step out in front. You see, first of all,

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you see a slight young woman with a very athletic

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build. She's wearing a black folklorico dress.

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Do you know this kind of outfit? Nope, that is

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a very new word for me. Please explain. Like

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those Mexican sort of dance dresses. They're

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very, very flowing, very colorful, especially

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on the bottom trim. I think I get it. Yeah. She's

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wearing one of these with, again, very colorful

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trim, just full black, like a red and orange

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sort of trim on the bottom. When she sort of

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steps out with this grace, it sort of flows around

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her, and her bottom of her skirt just looks like

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a spinning fire. for a moment as she moves out.

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You see she has a skull mask, very much matching

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that of her brother, Demilich. Mateo Cortez,

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whom you met once before, Zebulon. You can see

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under her mask and under her arms, she has brown

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skin. You can see she has pursed lips, black

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eyes taking you in, almost unfeeling. Black hair

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is hanging in a tail from the back of her mask.

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And as she steps out, there's just a roar. Dance

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macabre! Dance macabre! Dance macabre! Dance

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macabre! You see the other figure steps out beside

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her. You see a young man with tan skin, this

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handsome boyish face with an easy smile. He has

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short, dark brown hair. He's wearing a red tunic

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covered in a flowery pattern of white and gold.

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And he steps out, smiling this charming smile

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towards everyone, waving easily in his hand,

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giving off this faint white glow as he does.

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And again, used here, everyone, Rasul! Rasul!

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Rasul! Rasul! Rasul. And you see, kind of interesting,

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you see one man sort of steps out from the crowd,

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an old man, a blind man. He's reaching his hands

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out, like, slowly and trembling, like a plant

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reaching out towards the light of the sun, towards

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this young man. And he just moans out a strange

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word he'd never heard before. He just says, Mazeer,

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Dracon! Mazeer! Mazeer! Did you hear that, Jules?

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Did he just say what I think he said? That sounded

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like what Ocean said. Oh, I don't think this

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is going to turn out good at all. Something ain't

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right. And so these four all move out and approach

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Madam Culp, and you join them? I mean, we're

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in it this far. We might as well just let's go.

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Keep an eye on that one. Got me a little frightened.

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All right, so you guys move out, stand up by

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Madam Culp as they, you guys basically reach

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them around the same time. I think Madam Culp

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opens her mouth to speak to you, and... As she

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does, the goblin sort of steps forward, sneering

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at you, interrupting her. And he says, well,

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well, well, look who's here. The fancy toy doll

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has joined up with the stinky little dragons

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and his stinky, slimy little friends. I don't

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know about me, but I can smell you from here.

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Well, I think the woman just puts a hand up and

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silences him. He just grumbles, moves off to

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the side. She's just staring coldly at you. Doesn't

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say a word. The boy steps forward. Ramin Rasool.

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And puts a hand out towards you, Jules. Hello.

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Well met, friend. Jules, pleased to meet you.

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I am Ramin Rasool. Do we know anything about

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Ramin? I don't think I've heard that name before.

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Jean -Francois mentioned it once. What he told

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you. was that this is a... As a boy, Ramin Rasool

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was saved from death, is what you know, by Atash

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himself. Resurrected. And upon coming back, he

00:15:10.740 --> 00:15:14.899
gained angelic powers. Many people believe he's

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some special being, some chosen one. Some people

00:15:18.299 --> 00:15:20.379
believe he is the one that's supposed to take

00:15:20.379 --> 00:15:24.250
Atash's place someday. There's a great destiny,

00:15:24.429 --> 00:15:27.509
they say, surrounding Ramin Massoul. And I think

00:15:27.509 --> 00:15:30.190
as his hand touches you, Jules, you can feel

00:15:30.190 --> 00:15:34.649
power and warmth and light flowing from it into

00:15:34.649 --> 00:15:36.889
you. It's almost like when it touches you, you

00:15:36.889 --> 00:15:40.610
feel this positive energy, like this spark of

00:15:40.610 --> 00:15:43.690
joy. And I don't know, you might hate it. It

00:15:43.690 --> 00:15:47.730
probably feels wrong, unexpected, but he just

00:15:47.730 --> 00:15:51.539
smiles at you with this pure white grin. That

00:15:51.539 --> 00:15:54.379
kind of really frightens me. It's a little unexpected,

00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.740
maybe a little unsettling. Yeah. There's something

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under it. I have heard many tales of your exploits

00:16:02.419 --> 00:16:05.700
tonight, my friends. I do hope the Sunweaver

00:16:05.700 --> 00:16:07.919
watches upon a glorious contest this evening.

00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.120
Yeah, we're, uh... I'm, you know, happy to see

00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:15.759
you guys, but, uh... We're here to win, so...

00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:21.250
I'm looking forward to it, but, uh... No hard

00:16:21.250 --> 00:16:24.769
feelings, right? I mean, do not waste your time

00:16:24.769 --> 00:16:28.769
with them. Step back. They are adversaries this

00:16:28.769 --> 00:16:32.730
evening. The woman, Dance Macabre, just shouts

00:16:32.730 --> 00:16:35.090
out, and he just kind of winces a little bit.

00:16:35.289 --> 00:16:37.830
That's not very friendly. I was hoping for a

00:16:37.830 --> 00:16:40.970
friendly competition. I think the Horngon steps

00:16:40.970 --> 00:16:44.929
out like, Oh, hi. You look familiar. Did we,

00:16:44.929 --> 00:16:49.950
uh, did we, like, do a fight yesterday? Um, yep.

00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:54.700
Oh, I thought so. Hi, I'm Pepper. We remember.

00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:56.940
I remember very clearly. I kicked your little

00:16:56.940 --> 00:16:59.000
goblin friend's ass there, and I'm about to do

00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:03.820
it again. Oh, wow. You guys are very nice. Let's

00:17:03.820 --> 00:17:08.000
keep it civil. Let's try to keep it civil. He

00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.799
looks a little like his ears deflate just a little

00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:12.799
bit, and he kind of steps back to the rest of

00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.680
the group. So I think at this point, Madam Colt

00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:20.549
finally just kind of watches us all. coughs,

00:17:20.549 --> 00:17:25.109
and then speaks up. Well, then, I believe it's

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time we introduced you all. If that's alright.

00:17:30.549 --> 00:17:34.849
I imagine you've chosen a name for your little

00:17:34.849 --> 00:17:41.190
team by now, yes? Oh my goodness. Seb, you got

00:17:41.190 --> 00:17:45.029
a name? Because I don't. What about you, Chester?

00:17:45.630 --> 00:17:50.779
Hi, hi. The Chesters? This first thing in my

00:17:50.779 --> 00:17:53.680
head, I'm sorry. He's looking around the night

00:17:53.680 --> 00:18:00.680
market. The tents? No, no. The kebabs? No. And

00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.720
then he looks up towards the mountains. What

00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:11.599
about the light? Ooh. The light. Well, on the

00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:14.619
simple, but unorthodox in its simplicity, I like

00:18:14.619 --> 00:18:17.660
it. I couldn't get on board with that one. Jules,

00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:21.789
do you want to be... The light? Yeah, let's do

00:18:21.789 --> 00:18:25.970
it. Let's do it. To the light. The light. And

00:18:25.970 --> 00:18:27.410
John Franklin actually kind of puts a hand on

00:18:27.410 --> 00:18:30.190
your shoulder and just, like, nods down. Yes.

00:18:30.809 --> 00:18:35.750
The light. I like that. Very good. Thanks for

00:18:35.750 --> 00:18:39.710
being a part of it. He actually smiles at you.

00:18:41.289 --> 00:18:43.009
You can see, actually, he's a little nervous.

00:18:43.049 --> 00:18:44.569
Like, he's sort of shaking and jittering a little

00:18:44.569 --> 00:18:47.390
bit, but he smiles at you. And the woman just

00:18:47.390 --> 00:18:53.289
kind of nods. Very well. And you? I think Dance

00:18:53.289 --> 00:18:56.869
Macabre speaks up and says, We will be justice

00:18:56.869 --> 00:19:03.450
undying. How dare you? That's in character now.

00:19:03.829 --> 00:19:06.950
That was meant to be in character. Her whole

00:19:06.950 --> 00:19:08.849
ponytail goes flying as she whips her head in

00:19:08.849 --> 00:19:12.109
your direction and fixes a glare at you. He fakes

00:19:12.109 --> 00:19:19.569
a cock. Sorry. I think it's you. Allergies? Yeah,

00:19:19.650 --> 00:19:23.089
he's allergic to bullshit. Oh, God. Oh, shit.

00:19:23.210 --> 00:19:27.950
Oh, man. Whoops, did I go too far? No, it's a

00:19:27.950 --> 00:19:33.190
little. I think it was the flowers. Really, that's

00:19:33.190 --> 00:19:36.950
a really cool, it's pretty, it's pretty badass.

00:19:38.190 --> 00:19:40.309
She, like, cracks her knuckles and almost, like,

00:19:40.349 --> 00:19:43.029
and then Rami puts his hand up. He's like, no,

00:19:43.130 --> 00:19:46.299
no, no, no, no, come on. We will defeat them

00:19:46.299 --> 00:19:48.359
in the games. I should be vengeance enough for

00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:52.259
you. I think it's a fine name, Gabriela. And

00:19:52.259 --> 00:19:54.519
she's just kind of muttering. They just start

00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:58.519
to move away. And I think that Nicole turns to

00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:01.640
you just... All right. In a moment here, we're

00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:04.980
going to start the first game. We will open up

00:20:04.980 --> 00:20:06.720
the first of these tents. You can see the projector

00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:10.539
above it, and you will enter before the audience

00:20:10.539 --> 00:20:13.799
gets to come in. And from there, the commentators

00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:16.099
will announce what you are to do, and you're

00:20:16.099 --> 00:20:18.700
to follow their instructions. And that is the

00:20:18.700 --> 00:20:22.039
game. You'll be fighting for points in these

00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:24.900
games. The first two are each going to be worth

00:20:24.900 --> 00:20:29.079
one point in my game. My game will be possibly

00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:35.039
worth two. Possibly? So? What does possibly mean?

00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:40.980
She smiles. Oh, you'll see. But I would suggest

00:20:40.980 --> 00:20:43.099
giving it your all in the first two games. You

00:20:43.099 --> 00:20:44.980
don't want to be in a situation where you're,

00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.859
well, down points. I don't think we're going

00:20:49.859 --> 00:20:53.940
to lose, huh, Jules? I'm ready. Zeb's, like,

00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:58.009
jumping around. He's getting hyped. Deb, you

00:20:58.009 --> 00:21:00.589
know, I think we got this. Yeah, let's do it.

00:21:00.589 --> 00:21:03.369
I think we got this. Okay. So you guys, I guess,

00:21:03.390 --> 00:21:05.369
start to move away. And she basically just says,

00:21:05.490 --> 00:21:07.589
she'll gesture to you when the time comes. You

00:21:07.589 --> 00:21:09.769
have about ten minutes now before the games officially

00:21:09.769 --> 00:21:12.250
start. So you're kind of just standing in the

00:21:12.250 --> 00:21:13.930
middle of the crowd for just a moment while they're

00:21:13.930 --> 00:21:17.549
finishing the last of the setup. Just kind of

00:21:17.549 --> 00:21:21.369
staying together, holding strong. So as you move

00:21:21.369 --> 00:21:24.599
away. You do actually catch a small disturbance

00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:28.759
from the crowd over to the left side of your

00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:32.160
group. You hear a small scuffle and some argument

00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:33.640
breaking out. And you turn, and you actually

00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:37.720
see it's the young kobold again. You hear his

00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:40.319
mother's still with him, and she's shouting,

00:21:40.380 --> 00:21:43.240
Come on! Come on! Leave her alone! It's not worth

00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:48.589
it! In the gnome, Lemai Tenmo. that owns the

00:21:48.589 --> 00:21:51.069
noodle shop you visited earlier is still just,

00:21:51.109 --> 00:21:54.650
like, arguing again with this child. Kobold as

00:21:54.650 --> 00:21:56.630
his mother's dragging away, shouting insults

00:21:56.630 --> 00:21:58.390
back at her. The crowd's partying around them.

00:21:58.569 --> 00:22:00.890
It's a brief scuffle. You know, nothing big.

00:22:01.130 --> 00:22:03.390
They just kind of, some words spoken, and they

00:22:03.390 --> 00:22:06.049
separate. But Chester kind of, like, looks over

00:22:06.049 --> 00:22:08.390
at that and shakes his head, and he's like, man,

00:22:08.430 --> 00:22:11.230
oh, man, Jules. That's getting wilder and wilder.

00:22:11.549 --> 00:22:13.869
Have you been listening to the rumors? What rumors?

00:22:14.430 --> 00:22:17.420
Oh, you hadn't heard? I'll tell you right now,

00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.099
Chester is sort of part of his urban explorer

00:22:20.099 --> 00:22:23.559
feat. He's very good at picking up rumors around

00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:26.740
whatever cityscape he's in. I don't count the

00:22:26.740 --> 00:22:29.019
market as having the same rhythm and feel of

00:22:29.019 --> 00:22:32.279
a city. It's only urban in nature. So Chester,

00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:35.359
wherever he goes, he can generally collect information

00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:38.579
passively. A little eavesdropper. Basically,

00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:41.440
yeah. That's useful. Absolutely. He gets you

00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:43.400
by on Typhos. He gets you by everywhere else,

00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:47.009
too. Okay. But he keeps going on. He's like,

00:22:47.190 --> 00:22:49.009
yeah, they've been all sorts of disturbances

00:22:49.009 --> 00:22:50.910
throughout the night, actually, at both the stalls

00:22:50.910 --> 00:22:53.930
and others, too. Small fires here and there.

00:22:54.109 --> 00:22:55.950
Like, I guess some stolen walks I've heard about.

00:22:56.710 --> 00:22:59.049
Is there a war going on here? I don't know. It's

00:22:59.049 --> 00:23:01.410
weird. Other places, too, though, like Vata's,

00:23:01.430 --> 00:23:03.089
other wealthy goods, they sell, like, sweets

00:23:03.089 --> 00:23:05.109
and stuff. Bunch of vanilla buns went missing.

00:23:05.769 --> 00:23:07.430
Powdered sugar trail leading right to the Tianmo

00:23:07.430 --> 00:23:13.529
tent. I'm telling you. Powdered sugar trail.

00:23:15.529 --> 00:23:22.269
I think it's funny, too. Think about real life

00:23:22.269 --> 00:23:26.869
picking up a tray of sweets that have powdered

00:23:26.869 --> 00:23:29.730
sugar on them. You'll get it all over yourself.

00:23:30.150 --> 00:23:34.829
Oh, no. It's so funny picturing a powdered sugar

00:23:34.829 --> 00:23:37.170
trail. Then you get it all the way to where you're

00:23:37.170 --> 00:23:39.650
taking it, set it down, get it nice and hidden,

00:23:39.690 --> 00:23:43.210
and come out and look and be like, shit. I left

00:23:43.210 --> 00:23:47.609
a powdered sugar trail the whole way. Oh my god.

00:23:49.910 --> 00:23:56.690
Too funny. Yeah, it's been weird. I mean, it's

00:23:56.690 --> 00:23:58.549
just a war, you know? Politics and all that.

00:23:58.789 --> 00:24:01.210
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if we really

00:24:01.210 --> 00:24:05.369
have time to stop the war. Oh, I ain't too interested

00:24:05.369 --> 00:24:07.849
in that. That was fun. Doesn't seem like an appropriate

00:24:07.849 --> 00:24:12.450
time for us to intervene. I'd just like to listen.

00:24:12.990 --> 00:24:16.910
Those two, too. He actually gestures to Casimiroon

00:24:16.910 --> 00:24:19.289
and his brother, who wears a similar outfit,

00:24:19.369 --> 00:24:22.190
but this is all full red with green hanging off

00:24:22.190 --> 00:24:26.130
of it. It's like, Casimiroon, they're the commentators

00:24:26.130 --> 00:24:28.930
tonight, and I guess they've been arguing a hell

00:24:28.930 --> 00:24:31.289
of a lot lately, too. I don't know. People talk.

00:24:31.789 --> 00:24:35.690
With each other? I guess. Sounds like everybody's

00:24:35.690 --> 00:24:39.049
going crazy. You guys get a full moon or something

00:24:39.049 --> 00:24:42.710
here? That's a thing. It's a thing. How many

00:24:42.710 --> 00:24:48.730
moons are there on Kipchenko? I count. Four little

00:24:48.730 --> 00:24:53.289
ones? It's a quadruple full moon. That's a pretty

00:24:53.289 --> 00:24:56.450
big deal. Must be. That explains it. Good job,

00:24:56.470 --> 00:25:01.829
Seb. Once every hundred years. Oh my gosh. Well,

00:25:01.829 --> 00:25:06.089
tonight's the anniversary. I think after that,

00:25:06.190 --> 00:25:08.710
as he's making these notes, you're hanging out.

00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:13.140
The tent opens and you see the two spicy brothers

00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:15.680
both walk over and each side of the tent open

00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:19.099
it up and gesture for you contestants to come

00:25:19.099 --> 00:25:22.759
on in. Oh, hell yeah. Spicy time, Jules. Let's

00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:26.559
do it. You like spicy food? I do. Chester? You

00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:31.119
know, I can eat. What do you think? What do you

00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:34.259
think, John Franklin? Like I said before, I could

00:25:34.259 --> 00:25:36.900
handle my spice quite well. If it's the kind

00:25:36.900 --> 00:25:39.220
of challenge we think it is, I think. I might

00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:42.720
do quite well in it. Hmm. Well, let's see. Let's

00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:47.119
go find out. So you guys start to move in. I

00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:50.539
think actually, as you do, a trembling hand kind

00:25:50.539 --> 00:25:52.259
of reaches down to you and stops you, Zebulon,

00:25:52.380 --> 00:25:54.660
as Jules and Chester kind of step just a moment,

00:25:54.740 --> 00:25:57.539
a little bit ahead. John Franklin kind of looks

00:25:57.539 --> 00:26:02.299
down at you. Before this starts, I want to make

00:26:02.299 --> 00:26:07.519
something clear. What's that, Shane? I... John

00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.210
Franklin. It's fine. What's that, John Franklin?

00:26:11.569 --> 00:26:15.170
Is it okay if I speak boldly? In fact, don't

00:26:15.170 --> 00:26:17.329
answer that. I'm going to anyway. I mean, you're

00:26:17.329 --> 00:26:21.950
welcome to. I saw potential in you back at Runes.

00:26:22.410 --> 00:26:24.910
You fought quite well, especially given your

00:26:24.910 --> 00:26:28.269
small stature and general... Everyone's been

00:26:28.269 --> 00:26:32.650
saying that today, but, I mean, thanks? It's

00:26:32.650 --> 00:26:35.410
a compliment. Take it. You fought very well,

00:26:35.430 --> 00:26:39.420
and, well, I'll say it, you impressed me. Now,

00:26:39.460 --> 00:26:41.819
I've been desperate. I told you before, I have

00:26:41.819 --> 00:26:45.579
a certain goal to accomplish, and I need help

00:26:45.579 --> 00:26:50.180
to see it done. And I'm going to support you.

00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:53.599
I've decided that. You have me at your back.

00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:57.299
I will work as your, well, your informant on

00:26:57.299 --> 00:27:00.279
everything luminary that you need to know. I'm

00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.559
well knowledgeable in the history of our worlds

00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:06.220
and their religions and such and such, so I should

00:27:06.220 --> 00:27:08.990
be able to help you to a degree there. Hmm. And

00:27:08.990 --> 00:27:11.210
in combat, I will protect you however I can.

00:27:11.829 --> 00:27:14.990
I want to see you succeed because if you succeed,

00:27:15.109 --> 00:27:18.849
I succeed. You understand? Yeah, that's really

00:27:18.849 --> 00:27:22.690
nice to hear, uh, Jean Franklin. But this, if

00:27:22.690 --> 00:27:26.089
we fail here, we're stopped immediately. We may

00:27:26.089 --> 00:27:29.250
not get another chance at this. Rune pulled strings

00:27:29.250 --> 00:27:32.009
to get us here tonight. Could be hard to come

00:27:32.009 --> 00:27:37.089
back again afterwards if we fail this. I am...

00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:41.859
wholly relying on you. Well, uh, John Franklin,

00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:46.980
I'm... I'm not here to lose, quite... quite John

00:27:46.980 --> 00:27:55.299
Franklin. Oh. Oh, dear. Oh, my. Oh, no. The only

00:27:55.299 --> 00:27:57.599
thing holding you back is I have no buttons,

00:27:57.700 --> 00:28:01.039
so we'll, uh... we'll see how that goes, but...

00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:05.380
Well, you may not have buttons, but you have

00:28:05.380 --> 00:28:09.500
me. Allow me to properly introduce myself to

00:28:09.500 --> 00:28:14.140
you. I am Jean Franklin Montelio, heir to House

00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:16.799
Montelio, future lord of the Nine Pools and carrier

00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:20.680
of the banner of the Golden Bay. And I am your

00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:25.900
sword and shield now, Zebulon. Black. Any winks?

00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:30.640
Um, that's, um... Wow, I guess I don't really

00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.700
know how to respond to that. It's really, really

00:28:33.700 --> 00:28:39.420
flowery. Um... I guess, thank you, and I'm going

00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:47.660
to do whatever I can to see all of us succeed.

00:28:48.380 --> 00:28:52.420
All right. And with that, he takes his hand off

00:28:52.420 --> 00:28:53.980
and sort of gestures towards the tent, and you

00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:57.920
guys both move inside. Let's go eat some spicy

00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:01.579
shit. Hell yeah. Do we even know that we're eating

00:29:01.579 --> 00:29:04.680
spicy shit? I mean, I'm just kind of like context

00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:07.430
clues, I guess. Yeah. You have to squeeze it

00:29:07.430 --> 00:29:10.589
in your eyes at the actual contest. Just the

00:29:10.589 --> 00:29:12.609
mention of spicy food implies that it will be

00:29:12.609 --> 00:29:16.630
ingested. You have to cut the peppers and then

00:29:16.630 --> 00:29:19.289
take a piss without washing your hands. That's

00:29:19.289 --> 00:29:24.210
fucked. Jules is out. Adventure's over. I'm going

00:29:24.210 --> 00:29:27.609
back home. It's the worst thing. I'm going to

00:29:27.609 --> 00:29:31.130
big brain this. I'm going to wear gloves. Oh,

00:29:31.130 --> 00:29:36.660
that's smart. Cheer. So you guys move in, you're

00:29:36.660 --> 00:29:40.000
gestured over to the tables, and I think just,

00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:42.740
like, you basically move over there, and you

00:29:42.740 --> 00:29:47.059
see already on one side, Dance Macabre, or Gabriela,

00:29:47.059 --> 00:29:49.200
as she was called before, and Ramin Masool have

00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:51.180
stepped up to the tables and basically are standing

00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:53.480
in two spots on, like, the right side of this

00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:58.500
grand table in the middle of this tent. And as

00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:00.259
the four of you step over to move to the other

00:30:00.259 --> 00:30:03.400
side, the brothers come to you and put their

00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:06.670
hands up. Not Kasim, but Vi, the other brother

00:30:06.670 --> 00:30:09.269
you haven't really met formally yet, steps forward

00:30:09.269 --> 00:30:12.390
and says, No, no, no, my friends. I'm sorry,

00:30:12.549 --> 00:30:16.490
but main's only in this one. It's a two -on -two

00:30:16.490 --> 00:30:19.589
challenge for us. So that's going to be, and

00:30:19.589 --> 00:30:23.789
he looks at a list, Zebulon and Jules. All right,

00:30:23.789 --> 00:30:29.009
guys. Jules, I think we got this. Guys. Sorry,

00:30:29.210 --> 00:30:33.769
Chester. Yeah. Don't sweat. Don't sweat it. No,

00:30:33.809 --> 00:30:36.829
we'll be the ones sweating. Yeah. I think we

00:30:36.829 --> 00:30:40.569
can pull this off. Oh, yeah. Hands down. We got

00:30:40.569 --> 00:30:43.390
this. Yeah. I think Chester just kind of gives

00:30:43.390 --> 00:30:44.910
you a thumbs up, looking pretty comfortable and

00:30:44.910 --> 00:30:47.009
confident in you, Jules. And Jean -Francois looks,

00:30:47.089 --> 00:30:50.829
frankly, terrified as everyone walks away. Kind

00:30:50.829 --> 00:30:52.869
of banking on him being able to handle this one.

00:30:54.490 --> 00:30:56.710
But, hey, it is what it is. So you guys move

00:30:56.710 --> 00:30:59.670
up to the table? Mm -hmm. I think so. All right,

00:30:59.670 --> 00:31:01.309
you guys go and you take your perspective spots.

00:31:01.690 --> 00:31:03.849
You're basically all just like you're on one

00:31:03.849 --> 00:31:05.829
side of this table, the two of you just standing

00:31:05.829 --> 00:31:08.069
next to this big basket, and on the other side

00:31:08.069 --> 00:31:11.650
you see Dance Macabre and Ramin Rasool. They're

00:31:11.650 --> 00:31:13.930
just kind of staring you down. Suddenly, the

00:31:13.930 --> 00:31:15.990
crowd just comes in, fills the bleachers, and

00:31:15.990 --> 00:31:18.089
there's just a torrent of movement and bodies.

00:31:19.109 --> 00:31:22.210
It's just excited air. People just pouring in.

00:31:22.289 --> 00:31:26.089
Music begins to start playing. It's a little

00:31:26.089 --> 00:31:29.390
upbeat, a little exciting. I don't know. It's

00:31:29.390 --> 00:31:31.150
a little terrifying to me. It's a little terrifying.

00:31:31.150 --> 00:31:32.470
I was going to say, this sounds like combat music.

00:31:32.849 --> 00:31:35.589
It almost sounds like haunted house music. I'm

00:31:35.589 --> 00:31:36.950
not going to tell you to change it. I'm not going

00:31:36.950 --> 00:31:39.390
to tell you to change it. You're into it? All

00:31:39.390 --> 00:31:41.450
right. We're doing combat music. It changed.

00:31:41.630 --> 00:31:46.240
I like this more. Yeah, this is... Holy shit.

00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:49.960
This is pretty fun. This is hot. Hey. Pepper

00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:54.259
challenge. Anyway. I'm sorry. We were jamming.

00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:58.200
I'm just absorbing this. What is it? A piccolo?

00:31:58.420 --> 00:32:01.400
Is this a piccolo? I don't know. Nobody knows.

00:32:01.420 --> 00:32:03.619
You might be right. No one in the world knows.

00:32:08.069 --> 00:32:10.589
Is that the sound of people getting punched?

00:32:10.890 --> 00:32:13.730
This is actually combat music. This is like Street

00:32:13.730 --> 00:32:20.450
Fighter music. Oh my god, okay. That is actually

00:32:20.450 --> 00:32:27.809
punching. Furnish him! Can I just take everything

00:32:27.809 --> 00:32:30.289
and just keep the music? Oh my god, let me just...

00:32:30.289 --> 00:32:35.250
That sounded like a gut punch. It's so good.

00:32:36.210 --> 00:32:39.990
The crowd starts getting crazy. There's a fucking,

00:32:40.130 --> 00:32:42.609
there's a riot. Oh my god. And we're just sitting

00:32:42.609 --> 00:32:44.690
there eating peppers at the table. It's happening

00:32:44.690 --> 00:32:48.910
around us. Whoa, that sounded like nunchucks.

00:32:49.930 --> 00:32:52.890
I need to get rid of all of these sounds. Give

00:32:52.890 --> 00:32:57.549
me just a second. I just want the music. Okay,

00:32:57.650 --> 00:32:59.529
everything should be good. I got rid of punches

00:32:59.529 --> 00:33:04.119
and kicks. And chickens. And chickens. Apparently

00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:05.400
there's chickens. We don't have them anymore.

00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:07.720
We're good. Boom. I couldn't tell the difference

00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.099
between the punches and the kicks. Are you guys

00:33:10.099 --> 00:33:13.500
ready? Ready. Let's go. The crowd lines up. I

00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:14.740
think, like, standing up at the table, you see

00:33:14.740 --> 00:33:16.920
the two Arun brothers step forward. Kasim Arun,

00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:19.119
your old buddy from before, turns around, gives

00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:21.940
you a wink, and looks back at the crowd. And

00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:24.880
Vi just, like, spotlight hits you guys, hits

00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:28.019
them in front of the table. And Vi Arun just,

00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:31.740
like, stands up real tall and just says, Folks

00:33:31.740 --> 00:33:34.240
of the Night Market! You could have been anywhere

00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.099
tonight on any of the 25 worlds, but you are

00:33:37.099 --> 00:33:38.980
here! And you guys are the crowd, by the way.

00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:40.279
You gotta crowd it up for me. I was gonna say,

00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:43.819
it was like Zebulon screaming. Yeah! Let's do

00:33:43.819 --> 00:33:49.059
this! Let's do this! Market Games! Alright! Well,

00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:51.099
tonight we've got some real exciting stuff for

00:33:51.099 --> 00:33:53.619
you folks. We're starting off with our very own

00:33:53.619 --> 00:33:58.579
challenge! Are you ready to greet the heat? Yeah!

00:33:59.660 --> 00:34:03.799
Let's go! Peppers, peppers, peppers. All right,

00:34:03.819 --> 00:34:05.259
hot crab tonight, pepper crab tonight. Good,

00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:10.719
good. Don't always get that. All right. Hey,

00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:16.880
the dragon over there is wicked cute. Look at

00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:25.739
the tail on that one. Oh, my God. Shit, you can't.

00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:28.980
I've got fans. I've got fans. Thank you. Thank

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:34.199
you. I'll be done here soon. Not if we win. All

00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:36.980
right. You probably know, but we're going to

00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:39.519
read off the rules for anyone who doesn't. No,

00:34:39.539 --> 00:34:41.480
I don't know. Please tell me. All right, then,

00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:46.659
you. Contestant. I'm telling you all. In this

00:34:46.659 --> 00:34:49.099
challenge, there is one point possible to the

00:34:49.099 --> 00:34:52.239
winner. The last man standing, or the team with

00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:54.780
the last man standing, I should say. Now, each

00:34:54.780 --> 00:34:56.900
of your teams are going to play with two main

00:34:56.900 --> 00:34:59.000
contestants. We're going to provide you each

00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.820
a pitcher of milk. And he gestures out and some

00:35:01.820 --> 00:35:04.239
people walk over and just drop like milk pitchers

00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.800
between each of you. Looks real cold, real refreshing.

00:35:08.019 --> 00:35:12.480
Looks real nice. Glass sweating. And you see

00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:15.559
in the center of the table is this cupboard basket

00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:18.599
filled with assortment of our very own Spicy

00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:23.679
Brother Peppers! It's a pepper crowd. I love

00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:28.099
this. I love it. All right. Now each round. Each

00:35:28.099 --> 00:35:30.179
of the players is going to pull a pepper from

00:35:30.179 --> 00:35:35.500
the basket at random and then eat it. The challenge

00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:37.840
continues until one team has been eliminated

00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:41.059
either by grabbing the milk or stepping away

00:35:41.059 --> 00:35:43.760
from the table. This is going to be a battle

00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:47.820
of constitution and of that all -important attribute

00:35:47.820 --> 00:35:52.179
that all heroes must have. A little bit of luck.

00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:58.090
All right! Now I will say right here and now

00:35:58.090 --> 00:36:01.050
the use of magic is banned in this event if it

00:36:01.050 --> 00:36:04.670
is seen that we will have to eliminate the contestant

00:36:04.670 --> 00:36:08.429
to use magic automatically. I don't have magic.

00:36:08.449 --> 00:36:10.829
All right. All right. He doesn't have magic.

00:36:10.949 --> 00:36:17.550
All right. What do you say folks? What if we

00:36:17.550 --> 00:36:28.010
begin right now? I'm going to take the pitcher

00:36:28.010 --> 00:36:31.809
of milk. Don't do it. And I toss it behind my

00:36:31.809 --> 00:36:34.530
shoulder. Oh, my gosh. I did it. Okay, all right.

00:36:34.550 --> 00:36:36.829
I did it. Dude, you got me hyped. I think this

00:36:36.829 --> 00:36:38.690
guy just looks over. He looks at you and just

00:36:38.690 --> 00:36:42.329
imitates the crowd like a sheer, like, oh, my

00:36:42.329 --> 00:36:44.230
gosh, expression, like so excited. He's like,

00:36:44.309 --> 00:36:46.769
look at this guy. Look at this guy. This guy

00:36:46.769 --> 00:36:49.210
doesn't care. This guy doesn't give a shit. He

00:36:49.210 --> 00:36:52.829
doesn't give a shit. Sorry, children. Sorry.

00:36:55.190 --> 00:36:59.269
I am so sorry that I just did that. So. I think

00:36:59.269 --> 00:37:00.969
you will be. He hyped it up pretty damn good,

00:37:01.030 --> 00:37:05.389
okay? We're in the moment. Yes. We are powerful

00:37:05.389 --> 00:37:08.369
right now. Contestants, hands toward the basket.

00:37:09.829 --> 00:37:12.909
All four hands reach out, just under the cloth,

00:37:12.989 --> 00:37:15.769
just like, when I say round one, you reach in,

00:37:15.829 --> 00:37:20.110
you grab, you pull out, and then we eat. Round

00:37:20.110 --> 00:37:23.449
one, go! And everyone reaches in. Roll a d10,

00:37:23.650 --> 00:37:27.380
both of you. And now I roll two. So now that

00:37:27.380 --> 00:37:32.320
I'm rolling, I have to plug my buddy Jason, who

00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:34.820
started listening to the show not super long

00:37:34.820 --> 00:37:39.440
ago. And he texted me one day, and he goes, hey,

00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:42.199
so I'm sick of your friends picking on you for

00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:44.980
your Fisher -Price dice. He said, watch the mail.

00:37:45.980 --> 00:37:51.239
So he sent me these awesome metal hollow dice

00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:55.239
that are... I guess I don't really know how to

00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.179
explain it. They're cut out into the shape of

00:37:59.179 --> 00:38:02.300
the numbers, and there's dragons on all the sides.

00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.840
They're wicked cool. I'll throw a pick up. But

00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:11.300
Jason and his wife, Andrea, just started doing

00:38:11.300 --> 00:38:15.619
a 3D printing business. Got themselves some 3D

00:38:15.619 --> 00:38:17.860
printers. Going to do some cool stuff. Hell yeah.

00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:22.139
Called MF Designs. We'll throw them up on social.

00:38:22.340 --> 00:38:24.920
Go ahead and find them. One of these days, I'm

00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:28.500
going to send him files for our Hero Forge minis,

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:31.800
get our minis printed up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So

00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.340
he's doing cool. They're doing cool stuff. Really,

00:38:35.460 --> 00:38:37.760
really appreciate the dice. I'm going to send

00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:40.800
him some beer. So thank you, Jason. And I'm going

00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:46.619
to roll your d10 here. Eight. Nice. That's an

00:38:46.619 --> 00:38:51.900
eight? That's a good number. Nine. But we still

00:38:51.900 --> 00:38:54.099
got both. We got both good numbers. But higher

00:38:54.099 --> 00:38:56.460
might be bad. It's actually hilarious. Higher

00:38:56.460 --> 00:39:00.099
is actually way worse. Higher is spicier. Higher

00:39:00.099 --> 00:39:02.159
is the worst. I will tell you right now, because

00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:04.239
while you were talking, I rolled for mine. You

00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:08.380
just see both the Ramin and Dance Macabre both

00:39:08.380 --> 00:39:10.159
reach in and grab theirs. Dance just looks you

00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:12.019
straight in the eye. Zebulon, as she pops it

00:39:12.019 --> 00:39:15.300
into the mouth, chews it, swallows it, doesn't

00:39:15.300 --> 00:39:20.760
break a sweat. That's 20. On a d10? No, I rolled

00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:23.099
for my concept. So yeah, you guys reach in, you

00:39:23.099 --> 00:39:24.519
grab your peppers. Let's start with you, Jules.

00:39:24.579 --> 00:39:29.239
You rolled a nine, you said? Yes. Oh boy. You

00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.219
reach in, you grab this pepper that's like, you

00:39:31.219 --> 00:39:34.019
look in your hand and it's just like this pattern

00:39:34.019 --> 00:39:36.500
of like red with yellow, almost like flames licking

00:39:36.500 --> 00:39:38.900
up the side of the pepper. Oh my God. Great.

00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:41.420
Looks pretty rough. Well, at least I start off

00:39:41.420 --> 00:39:43.340
with the worst first. You gonna take a bite?

00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:47.219
Yeah. You pop it in your mouth? I'm not gonna

00:39:47.219 --> 00:39:52.900
not. Roll me. A constitution saving throw. Oh,

00:39:52.940 --> 00:39:57.719
that's cracked. I know. I was trying to figure

00:39:57.719 --> 00:39:59.739
out whether it actually was just from my angle.

00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:02.059
I know. You have like a thousand buttons. I know

00:40:02.059 --> 00:40:05.900
I have buttons. I know. I'm not trying to pressure

00:40:05.900 --> 00:40:07.679
you into using a button, man. I'm going to use

00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:12.059
one button on this one. To be honest, I did forget

00:40:12.059 --> 00:40:14.119
about my buttons because now I'm going to actually

00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:16.760
use one after you mentioned it. I don't like

00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:18.760
the look on David's face. Yeah, that's kind of

00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:22.480
terrifying. He's just smiling silently, looking

00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:23.760
at his computer. I'm just going to go with this

00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:26.340
anyway because it's hilarious. Button. Okay.

00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:35.539
All right. All right. That's good. 17. 17. 17

00:40:35.539 --> 00:40:39.559
is a fail. This is one of the... Are you shitting

00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:42.909
me? barely a fail. You meet this thing, and you're

00:40:42.909 --> 00:40:45.090
feeling pretty good, and you turn to Zebulon,

00:40:45.090 --> 00:40:46.289
who's probably kind of like a smile, you turn

00:40:46.289 --> 00:40:48.309
to Chester, who's like, rooting you on, go Jules!

00:40:48.690 --> 00:40:50.949
And you kind of look confident, and then all

00:40:50.949 --> 00:40:52.329
of a sudden sweats are beating your forehead,

00:40:52.550 --> 00:40:55.349
and I'm going to read exactly what this says.

00:40:55.730 --> 00:41:00.829
You open your mouth, you cough, and you gasp

00:41:00.829 --> 00:41:04.469
spice into the air. And the next challenge participant,

00:41:04.750 --> 00:41:07.639
the other on your team, has disadvantage on their

00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:10.119
saving throw. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And you're

00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:12.920
Pepper. You gasp out right at Zebulon's face.

00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.179
You're about to eat yours, and you're already

00:41:16.179 --> 00:41:18.780
feeling the heat, Zebulon. You're already in

00:41:18.780 --> 00:41:21.500
trouble. Now, you're not out. What that means,

00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:24.900
you didn't fail by... If you fail by over 10,

00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:29.150
basically... Ten or more. Okay. You automatically

00:41:29.150 --> 00:41:30.949
walk with the table and reach for the milk. It's

00:41:30.949 --> 00:41:33.230
kind of like you just fail horribly. But because

00:41:33.230 --> 00:41:34.809
you failed this one. I'm rolling on an eight,

00:41:34.849 --> 00:41:37.750
on a D10, and I got disadvantage. Yeah, but you

00:41:37.750 --> 00:41:39.250
have disadvantage in the next round, Jules, because

00:41:39.250 --> 00:41:40.690
you failed that one. Oh, my God. I have disadvantage,

00:41:40.710 --> 00:41:42.969
and then he has disadvantage? On round two, he

00:41:42.969 --> 00:41:45.170
does, but you have on round one, because you

00:41:45.170 --> 00:41:46.309
go after him in this round. Oh, we're so going

00:41:46.309 --> 00:41:49.369
to lose. It's going to be long. All right. I'm

00:41:49.369 --> 00:41:51.730
going to roll two. All right. First roll's a

00:41:51.730 --> 00:41:56.329
15. Good roll. Good roll, Jason. Second roll's

00:41:56.329 --> 00:42:01.139
a 10. Plus zero constitution. You rolled a eight

00:42:01.139 --> 00:42:05.159
on your initial D10? My D10 was an eight. That's

00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:07.800
a fail. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of guessed. Okay.

00:42:08.539 --> 00:42:11.079
In fact, you have to make a second saving throw

00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:12.860
against this pepper as this one. You pull this

00:42:12.860 --> 00:42:15.280
one up and it's just got like, it's actually

00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:18.099
like this purple pepper, almost like a small

00:42:18.099 --> 00:42:20.199
like plum like shape to it. And as you eat it,

00:42:20.219 --> 00:42:22.239
like hits you with this first wave and you fail

00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.019
that. And you feel a second wave coming your

00:42:25.019 --> 00:42:27.559
way. Oh, no. All right. Can I hold it down? You

00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:29.059
have disadvantage on this one because you failed

00:42:29.059 --> 00:42:30.780
the first one. What? I have disadvantage again?

00:42:30.940 --> 00:42:32.639
Because you failed the first one. What is this?

00:42:32.699 --> 00:42:34.960
The disadvantage episode? It's rough. It's a

00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.460
bad time. Yours is horrible. Okay. First rolls

00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:41.380
a 16. Dude, Jason's doing great by me. Doing

00:42:41.380 --> 00:42:43.139
good. Doing good. Jason's doing great by me.

00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:46.340
But you, you son of a bitch. I'll fail by 10

00:42:46.340 --> 00:42:51.500
or more. 17. So 16 was my lowest. Come on. 16

00:42:51.500 --> 00:42:55.179
passes. Nice! You managed to hold your own against

00:42:55.179 --> 00:42:57.579
it, and in the next round, you will not have

00:42:57.579 --> 00:43:01.760
this advantage. MF Designs, what up? Okay, okay.

00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:04.960
Everyone's in! What do we got here, folks? He's

00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:06.659
looking around, he's like, oh, this is getting

00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:09.940
hot! It's about to get hotter in round two! Go!

00:43:10.260 --> 00:43:13.219
You guys reach in? Yep. Give me your D10s, and

00:43:13.219 --> 00:43:20.199
I'll do mine. Ah, fuck! No, no, no, no, no. I

00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:21.739
rolled a nine. You don't have disadvantage anymore,

00:43:21.820 --> 00:43:24.699
though. No, but still. Yeah, it's still rough.

00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:27.960
It's still rough. Rolled a nine. Rolled a nine

00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:30.860
on the pepper, okay. So I got to roll an 18 or

00:43:30.860 --> 00:43:32.559
above, because you rolled 17 and failed, right?

00:43:32.900 --> 00:43:36.500
Yep. Got it. All right. I'll do mine first. You

00:43:36.500 --> 00:43:40.579
see them go. You see. You see dance again, takes

00:43:40.579 --> 00:43:44.280
a challenge, pops one in your mouth, unaffected.

00:43:45.059 --> 00:43:48.179
Ramin, however, goes to take a bite, and he kind

00:43:48.179 --> 00:43:51.099
of like. It kind of starts almost like choking

00:43:51.099 --> 00:43:55.320
up for a second. He swallows it. Sweating, wiping

00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:57.440
his head. He's not looking good going into the

00:43:57.440 --> 00:43:59.699
next challenge, but he doesn't fall out yet.

00:44:00.500 --> 00:44:03.219
Jules, let's go with you first. All right, I

00:44:03.219 --> 00:44:07.639
got a five. Okay, got a five. All right, give

00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:10.480
me your save. Goddamn. All right, first roll.

00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:12.539
This is just a basic looking green peppers that

00:44:12.539 --> 00:44:14.500
you pull out. All right, you have disadvantage

00:44:14.500 --> 00:44:18.199
again. Perfect, yeah. Right, right, right. Okay.

00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:25.239
All right. 11. 11? You're good. Yeah, you hold

00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:29.619
out against it. You are good. All right. Oh,

00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:32.840
my God. Here we go. Okay, okay. Here we go. Give

00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:35.280
me that 18, baby. Give me that fucking 18, baby.

00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:41.559
Here we go. Seven. Seven. Yep. A seven total?

00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:46.260
Doesn't do it. A seven total. Oh, I failed by

00:44:46.260 --> 00:44:50.079
more than 10. No. You take a bite of that. What's

00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:54.139
it look like? You tell me. Oh, shit. He takes

00:44:54.139 --> 00:44:57.619
a bite of the pepper and just like immediately

00:44:57.619 --> 00:45:00.860
opens his mouth and fire shoots out from his

00:45:00.860 --> 00:45:04.719
mouth. And with both hands, he grabs the milk

00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:09.019
and fucking drinks it. Oh, God damn it. And Zebulon

00:45:09.019 --> 00:45:14.980
is out! You're one person that go, boo! I liked

00:45:14.980 --> 00:45:17.300
him. I'm sorry, George. It's all right. It's

00:45:17.300 --> 00:45:18.820
all right, bud. I'm sorry. That's all right.

00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:21.860
I think Zebulon gets up and walks away. You walk

00:45:21.860 --> 00:45:26.559
away. Yeah. Pouting. Sad. Crying. Kicking the

00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:29.440
ground. None of that. Okay. Walks away. Real

00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:31.800
cool. Walks away. Really, really cool. Yes, please.

00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:34.719
Jules. That's more like Zeb. You're on your own

00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:39.079
now. I think the moment that Zeb leaves, Jules

00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:42.780
gets very fucking serious. Oh, shit. Okay. And

00:45:42.780 --> 00:45:45.579
with that, we're going into round three, folks.

00:45:45.659 --> 00:45:52.010
Round three. Go. You got this, Josh! Ooh. Oh,

00:45:52.230 --> 00:45:56.469
no. I'll tell you, I rolled some very high ones.

00:45:56.829 --> 00:46:01.070
What did you roll? So, we both did. Interesting.

00:46:01.869 --> 00:46:04.690
This is going to be very interesting. Let me

00:46:04.690 --> 00:46:07.670
start with Dance. She rolled a pretty high one.

00:46:08.010 --> 00:46:10.030
She goes, take a bite of your pepper. A ten.

00:46:10.190 --> 00:46:13.730
What is that going to do? I don't know. I don't

00:46:13.730 --> 00:46:18.039
know. Okay, she... Fails the first save. Disadvantage

00:46:18.039 --> 00:46:23.480
against the second. Okay. So you see she takes

00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:26.559
a bite. And for the first time she's... Starting

00:46:26.559 --> 00:46:28.480
to sweat. Starting to show it. It's not good.

00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:30.659
But she doesn't go for the... I think she...

00:46:30.659 --> 00:46:34.179
She pulls her hand back and just glares over

00:46:34.179 --> 00:46:35.920
towards you. Her eyes flicker to the Zebulon

00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:38.699
walking away and smiles and looks back at you

00:46:38.699 --> 00:46:41.579
with these dark, dark eyes. Now Ramin's going

00:46:41.579 --> 00:46:45.809
to go. Oh no, he... That's the rule of disadvantage.

00:46:46.969 --> 00:46:48.989
Ramin takes a, he pulls out a pepper, and what

00:46:48.989 --> 00:46:50.789
you see actually, you see he has the same pepper

00:46:50.789 --> 00:46:54.949
as you, Jules. You see a black pepper with this

00:46:54.949 --> 00:46:59.750
natural skull -like design, almost like shape

00:46:59.750 --> 00:47:02.650
in it. Oh my god, that sounds awful. And he takes

00:47:02.650 --> 00:47:06.010
a bite of it, and you just see him just like,

00:47:06.050 --> 00:47:08.190
his eyes wide, and the second he touches his

00:47:08.190 --> 00:47:11.630
tongue, and he's looking around, and he just

00:47:11.630 --> 00:47:13.719
like, he just like, immediately just like, bolts

00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:15.699
from the table, drops down, rolls off of it,

00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:18.380
and begins to move away. Drumming fails. Take

00:47:18.380 --> 00:47:22.199
it. But dance passes. That's great. And now it's

00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:24.719
you and her and your turn to eat your pepper.

00:47:24.780 --> 00:47:26.760
And you saw what that did to him. What's it going

00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:28.539
to do to you, Jules? You just can't fail by 10.

00:47:28.900 --> 00:47:31.500
You ready to roll? I'm ready to roll. All right,

00:47:31.500 --> 00:47:33.780
then. And I don't know how this happens every

00:47:33.780 --> 00:47:35.420
fucking time, but every time we get buttons,

00:47:35.619 --> 00:47:38.699
they go right back to you, literally. In the

00:47:38.699 --> 00:47:40.219
next session. We've got to keep that economy

00:47:40.219 --> 00:47:42.559
rolling. This is the first of three games, guys.

00:47:42.579 --> 00:47:44.940
Luckily for me, you fucked up last time and gave

00:47:44.940 --> 00:47:46.719
me three buttons, which means I had four. So

00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:49.320
here's another one. Okay, okay. This one's good

00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.079
because... That's something we cannot retcon.

00:47:52.260 --> 00:47:54.500
That's a smart move. It happened. Because, I

00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:57.219
mean, odds of a nat 20, which I think is what

00:47:57.219 --> 00:47:59.219
you're going to need to pass this. But you just

00:47:59.219 --> 00:48:03.039
can't roll ten less. It's going to be rough.

00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:09.429
You can't roll ten less. All right. Okay. Nat

00:48:09.429 --> 00:48:13.550
20. Holy shit. Oh, my God. Dude, suck it. You

00:48:13.550 --> 00:48:15.309
tell me what it looks like when you take this

00:48:15.309 --> 00:48:18.730
pepper. I'll tell you this. You take this pepper,

00:48:18.829 --> 00:48:21.070
and the second it hits your tongue, a blazing

00:48:21.070 --> 00:48:22.869
heat like you've never felt before. And you see,

00:48:22.929 --> 00:48:24.949
all of a sudden, Dan Smetkov's skull -like face

00:48:24.949 --> 00:48:28.469
becomes an actual skull. You see around the face

00:48:28.469 --> 00:48:31.510
of the audience become these heat wave skull

00:48:31.510 --> 00:48:34.570
illusions, almost, as this heat touches you.

00:48:34.610 --> 00:48:37.090
How do you hold against this? Well, first off,

00:48:37.150 --> 00:48:40.730
before I even put it to my mouth, I look straight

00:48:40.730 --> 00:48:44.449
into Dan's eyes, and the nearest jug of milk

00:48:44.449 --> 00:48:48.070
that's by me, I fling it off the table. To knock

00:48:48.070 --> 00:48:51.690
the exebulants off, too? Yep. Then I grab the

00:48:51.690 --> 00:48:54.590
pepper, and I throw it up like popcorn in the

00:48:54.590 --> 00:48:58.349
air. Oh, my God. Throw it up, chomp down, and

00:48:58.349 --> 00:49:01.409
look straight at her, and my gaze does not flinch

00:49:01.409 --> 00:49:03.659
the entire time. I want you to do something for

00:49:03.659 --> 00:49:06.079
me. I want you to roll intimidation. Yes. Sweet.

00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:08.360
I want you to roll intimidation. This is a contest.

00:49:08.420 --> 00:49:10.599
And I think that kind of thing can actually be

00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:13.860
like, like she saw what they did to her partner

00:49:13.860 --> 00:49:19.260
and you just handled it like that. 14. 14. Okay.

00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.860
I'm going to actually roll something too. Oh,

00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:25.340
you see her. She, she looks at you and like,

00:49:25.340 --> 00:49:28.900
you see your eyes widen for a moment, but then

00:49:28.900 --> 00:49:30.739
she kind of like shakes her head, refocuses.

00:49:32.219 --> 00:49:34.260
I got in her head a bit. You got in her head

00:49:34.260 --> 00:49:36.360
a bit, for sure. I was going to give her disadvantage

00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.880
on this next roll if she failed that, but she

00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:43.699
held against it. So she's kind of like, I think

00:49:43.699 --> 00:49:45.960
she takes a deep breath, puts her hands out,

00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:47.800
and it's like, all right, folks, we're down to

00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:51.139
two! We're down to two! And we're rolling again.

00:49:51.219 --> 00:49:54.139
Ready, set, reach out to the basket! You got

00:49:54.139 --> 00:49:58.699
it, Jules! You got it! Jules, go! I love how

00:49:58.699 --> 00:50:01.989
the... The announcer for the game said we're

00:50:01.989 --> 00:50:04.469
going to roll for it. Roll pepper. You're going

00:50:04.469 --> 00:50:07.170
to roll a pepper into your mouth. Okay. That

00:50:07.170 --> 00:50:10.530
makes more sense. It's a Sasako thing. You wouldn't

00:50:10.530 --> 00:50:13.889
get it. It's right here in the book, page five.

00:50:14.269 --> 00:50:18.789
Don't look that up. Oh, my God. All right. What'd

00:50:18.789 --> 00:50:22.110
you roll? Fucking nine. It's not good. It's not

00:50:22.110 --> 00:50:23.670
good. Not good at all. I'll go first. I rolled

00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:25.909
high as well. It's funny. These are all been

00:50:25.909 --> 00:50:27.730
high rolls. I know, that's the thing. Any other

00:50:27.730 --> 00:50:30.190
time, we'd be thrilled with all these nines and

00:50:30.190 --> 00:50:35.610
tens and shit. Okay. She takes the pepper, and

00:50:35.610 --> 00:50:42.090
she fails. She just sweats, still kind of, like,

00:50:42.150 --> 00:50:43.989
shaken from you, and, like, she opens up spice,

00:50:44.090 --> 00:50:45.750
billows from her mouth. There's no partner on

00:50:45.750 --> 00:50:47.429
her side to, like, take disadvantage from it,

00:50:47.449 --> 00:50:49.800
though. Oh, God, do I use the third button? We

00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:52.099
still got two games. Yeah. We still got two games,

00:50:52.099 --> 00:50:55.760
and I can't. I gotta save those buttons. Right,

00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:58.920
really, you're just trying to not, you know,

00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:03.239
roll, what is it, eight or below? Probably. You

00:51:03.239 --> 00:51:04.639
can do it, Jules! Oh, that's right, I had a,

00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:07.219
yeah, I had nine on the first one, and I rolled

00:51:07.219 --> 00:51:09.639
a 17, and it just, yeah. Use all your buttons,

00:51:09.780 --> 00:51:13.360
Jules! Goddammit. Hey, Chess, the fuck off! Alright.

00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:17.440
No, no, no, no. Don't fuck off. I need your support

00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:21.920
right now. All right. Just not that kind of support.

00:51:22.739 --> 00:51:24.639
Oh, God damn it. I'm not using the button. Okay.

00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:27.219
I need to save this shit. Honestly, I wouldn't

00:51:27.219 --> 00:51:32.800
either. All right. Okay. It's not a total out

00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:35.980
failure, but it's a 16. 16? Still in the game.

00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:39.219
Yeah. Still in the game. Yep. Okay, yeah. Sort

00:51:39.219 --> 00:51:40.980
of like sudden death now. You're still in. You're

00:51:40.980 --> 00:51:42.780
both disadvantaged. You're just feeling the heat.

00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:43.980
She's feeling the heat. You're staring each other

00:51:43.980 --> 00:51:46.820
down. You're both sweating. We're going to the

00:51:46.820 --> 00:51:48.500
next round. It's all going to come down to this

00:51:48.500 --> 00:51:51.639
D10 roll. I'm changing my D10. Use one of these

00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:54.199
if you want. Here, use this one. Use this beautiful

00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:56.059
D10. No, get out of here. I'll roll it for you.

00:51:56.400 --> 00:52:01.699
Fuck your DM D10. Let me do mine, actually. She,

00:52:01.699 --> 00:52:05.650
uh... Get out of town. So she grabs a pepper

00:52:05.650 --> 00:52:08.150
that you see is like red with pink swirls all

00:52:08.150 --> 00:52:10.250
around it. And she looks at it. I think she actually

00:52:10.250 --> 00:52:13.309
kind of like smiles just a little bit. Pops it

00:52:13.309 --> 00:52:15.610
in. And you can see like she starts to sweat.

00:52:15.630 --> 00:52:17.170
Her eyes widen a little bit and just holds against

00:52:17.170 --> 00:52:20.030
it. And then she kind of like nods. She got it.

00:52:20.090 --> 00:52:24.030
And she eats it. And she seems like she's okay.

00:52:24.989 --> 00:52:28.920
Fuck. Would you roll? Take a wild guess. You

00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:30.960
know exactly what he wrote. Take a wild fucking

00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.179
guess. Another skull pepper? Another ten. Oh

00:52:34.179 --> 00:52:36.179
my gosh, and she looks at your pepper in your

00:52:36.179 --> 00:52:37.980
hand and she smiles. She actually has the first

00:52:37.980 --> 00:52:42.119
time to see her lips open up to see her gleaming

00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:45.619
white teeth as she just feels like she's won.

00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:48.420
I still can't use a button. No, because you've

00:52:48.420 --> 00:52:50.119
got disadvantage on this one. Oh shit, oh shit,

00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.480
oh shit. Oh, I do. That's right. God damn it.

00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:54.860
So you'd just be... You'd be going back to straight.

00:52:55.260 --> 00:52:58.739
Jules! Jules! Jules! Jules! As long as it's not

00:52:58.739 --> 00:53:01.360
lower than a 10. Right, exactly. Then you're

00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:03.440
at least still in it. The whole place goes silent.

00:53:03.579 --> 00:53:06.099
They all see what you pulled. Everyone's watching.

00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:11.519
I'm not even going to bother with this second

00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:16.059
goddamn roll. I'm out. Okay. Did you have a contingency

00:53:16.059 --> 00:53:18.559
plan for if we did not succeed in these games

00:53:18.559 --> 00:53:20.500
and move on to become luminaries and get sponsors

00:53:20.500 --> 00:53:22.590
and get lots and lots of money? Yeah, find new

00:53:22.590 --> 00:53:26.250
people, make a new podcast. Perfect. Let's go

00:53:26.250 --> 00:53:31.809
hike. Oh, not even new PCs, new players. I'll

00:53:31.809 --> 00:53:35.010
go make new friends. That's fine. We're taking

00:53:35.010 --> 00:53:37.050
fantasy fans with us then. That's cool. What's

00:53:37.050 --> 00:53:38.650
it look like now you have no milk around you?

00:53:38.670 --> 00:53:40.110
This is probably going to be pretty funny. Oh,

00:53:40.110 --> 00:53:43.550
my God. That's right. She's smiling and watching

00:53:43.550 --> 00:53:47.690
you. Oh, my gosh. You said I'm out. It doesn't

00:53:47.690 --> 00:53:49.769
mean it's so critical. You've got to leave the

00:53:49.769 --> 00:53:52.510
table. Yeah. Okay. I just stand up and walk away.

00:53:52.829 --> 00:53:55.710
Okay. I don't let her see that it's burning my

00:53:55.710 --> 00:53:58.849
fucking throat. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Okay. All

00:53:58.849 --> 00:54:01.690
right. But I'm still staring at her the whole

00:54:01.690 --> 00:54:03.150
time. I love it, too, because this pepper, like

00:54:03.150 --> 00:54:05.610
I said before, makes her look like a true skull.

00:54:05.690 --> 00:54:07.269
So as she's staring at her smiling, she becomes

00:54:07.269 --> 00:54:08.889
this grinning skull. All right. Well, how about

00:54:08.889 --> 00:54:12.030
this? As I get up and start to walk away, I don't

00:54:12.030 --> 00:54:15.809
show that it burns at all. I'll give her a little

00:54:15.809 --> 00:54:20.869
half bow, though. Okay. You win. And you step

00:54:20.869 --> 00:54:22.650
away from the table. She just kind of nods at

00:54:22.650 --> 00:54:27.030
you, puts her hand in the air, and Viarune just

00:54:27.030 --> 00:54:29.949
steps forward and just, Yeah! We have a winner!

00:54:30.949 --> 00:54:35.590
Shit. Justice! I'm dying! Danza Cobb just, like,

00:54:35.650 --> 00:54:37.369
is up there. She kind of, like, does a little,

00:54:37.409 --> 00:54:40.090
like, a quick twirl. They go about one place

00:54:40.090 --> 00:54:42.389
very gracefully, just, like, dances around the

00:54:42.389 --> 00:54:45.150
table. Just really just letting the crowd, like,

00:54:45.230 --> 00:54:48.289
I mean, she's been in the spectacle before. She's

00:54:48.289 --> 00:54:50.809
a luchador, an up -and -comer on her home world.

00:54:51.550 --> 00:54:54.269
She's eating the stage alive. People are just,

00:54:54.309 --> 00:54:58.250
yeah, dance, dance, dance, dance, dance. And

00:54:58.250 --> 00:55:01.860
that team gets a point. That you don't have going

00:55:01.860 --> 00:55:04.639
into the... Son of a bitch. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

00:55:04.820 --> 00:55:08.300
No, no, no. It was nobody's fault. We gave it

00:55:08.300 --> 00:55:10.760
our best. Actually, it was both of your faults,

00:55:10.860 --> 00:55:13.360
I would say, but sure. You want a foot up your

00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:15.460
ass? It wasn't my fault. That's all I'm saying.

00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:17.519
Or better yet, you want a fucking pepper up your

00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:22.360
ass? Let's see what the second game brings. I

00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:24.139
think Jester kind of opens his hand up and he's

00:55:24.139 --> 00:55:25.840
got a pepper. He's kind of like, I jump right

00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:30.030
in. I'm like, do I? You wait for my signal, Chester.

00:55:30.929 --> 00:55:33.650
All right. And with that, everyone begins to,

00:55:33.670 --> 00:55:36.650
like, move out of the tent. And there's, like,

00:55:36.670 --> 00:55:38.989
I think a brief respite before the second game

00:55:38.989 --> 00:55:41.190
begins. And I think maybe as everyone leaves,

00:55:41.230 --> 00:55:44.309
you're kind of held back. The other group, your

00:55:44.309 --> 00:55:46.170
rival group, steps away from you, and they're

00:55:46.170 --> 00:55:48.110
just kind of looking at you, snickering and smiling.

00:55:48.269 --> 00:55:50.789
Ramin looks like he's kind of apologizing and

00:55:50.789 --> 00:55:52.610
bowing. He looks at you guys and kind of gives

00:55:52.610 --> 00:55:55.650
you a sorry smile. He's not like... venomous

00:55:55.650 --> 00:55:57.750
towards you, like Dance is. But you can tell

00:55:57.750 --> 00:56:00.670
she's very much the leader of this group. And

00:56:00.670 --> 00:56:03.289
with that, we move away from this into the second

00:56:03.289 --> 00:56:08.469
challenge. So you step outside, and you notice

00:56:08.469 --> 00:56:10.869
that above you, the projector on your tent is

00:56:10.869 --> 00:56:15.230
now dead, just like dark. And now just across

00:56:15.230 --> 00:56:16.949
the way in the second of these golden tents,

00:56:17.030 --> 00:56:19.449
you can see lit up is the inside of the room.

00:56:19.469 --> 00:56:21.010
People who couldn't fit in the tent are outside

00:56:21.010 --> 00:56:25.659
cheering as you guys step out. You know, put

00:56:25.659 --> 00:56:27.719
up a good fight. They're excited. And you can

00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:30.079
look ahead to the projector and you see a very

00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:33.980
strange setup in the next room. You see what

00:56:33.980 --> 00:56:36.440
looked like a number of people in chef garb and

00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:38.219
chef hats are standing at these two gigantic

00:56:38.219 --> 00:56:41.500
woks. And you see there's already oil and fire

00:56:41.500 --> 00:56:43.579
and they're sizzling. Something's being cooked

00:56:43.579 --> 00:56:47.659
in them. You see just beyond that there are these

00:56:47.659 --> 00:56:50.420
big tables covered with knives and utensils and

00:56:50.420 --> 00:56:53.989
two giant baskets. There's, like, two tables,

00:56:54.030 --> 00:56:55.829
two walks, all kind of in a row. And just beyond

00:56:55.829 --> 00:56:59.409
them is this one gigantic tank with frosted glass.

00:57:00.250 --> 00:57:03.110
And you just barely make out some, like, shape

00:57:03.110 --> 00:57:06.230
swirling around inside. Maybe a few other large

00:57:06.230 --> 00:57:08.489
shapes in this tank. There's, like, staircase

00:57:08.489 --> 00:57:11.550
up each side of the tank, moving up towards the

00:57:11.550 --> 00:57:15.449
top. And that's what you see. People are already

00:57:15.449 --> 00:57:18.269
funneling in, filling the bleachers. And Viaroon

00:57:18.269 --> 00:57:19.670
looks at you guys again, and Vyan casts them.

00:57:19.710 --> 00:57:21.190
They kind of wave you on, like, come on, come

00:57:21.190 --> 00:57:24.519
on, let's get going. Okay, okay. All right. You

00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:26.780
ready? Show us where to go. Hey, good stuff in

00:57:26.780 --> 00:57:30.300
there. Points to you, Jules. Yeah, sure. See

00:57:30.300 --> 00:57:31.900
if you keep that showmanship up. Come on, this

00:57:31.900 --> 00:57:34.139
is an exciting one. You're gonna love it. All

00:57:34.139 --> 00:57:39.119
right, let's start over. This is, uh... We can

00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:41.980
do this. Hard reset. Hard reset. Yeah, good.

00:57:42.260 --> 00:57:48.300
Well said. All right. You move to this room.

00:57:48.909 --> 00:57:51.210
uh into this into large open space and they kind

00:57:51.210 --> 00:57:54.190
of gesture you over towards uh like just in front

00:57:54.190 --> 00:57:58.510
of the tank there's a man standing there um basically

00:57:58.510 --> 00:58:00.090
just kind of dressed in pretty pretty simple

00:58:00.090 --> 00:58:02.570
uh looks like a simple tunic uh kind of a rope

00:58:02.570 --> 00:58:05.190
belt on him very hardy looking man with a big

00:58:05.190 --> 00:58:08.989
black beard um kind of rough scarred face and

00:58:08.989 --> 00:58:11.969
like these big meaty hands and he's also wearing

00:58:11.969 --> 00:58:14.949
like a chef apron um over his tunic he kind of

00:58:14.949 --> 00:58:17.250
just like smiles over at you guys and kind of

00:58:17.250 --> 00:58:19.230
like just everyone in your rivals are already

00:58:19.230 --> 00:58:22.670
standing at his side and as you move up to stand

00:58:22.670 --> 00:58:25.570
by them by and cast them take the you know stand

00:58:25.570 --> 00:58:27.969
in front of you the spotlight hits down on them

00:58:27.969 --> 00:58:33.570
crowd goes quiet um so i think like uh vi just

00:58:33.570 --> 00:58:37.989
looks over the crowd kind of gauging them and

00:58:37.989 --> 00:58:40.349
after a moment everyone gets real quiet everyone's

00:58:40.349 --> 00:58:42.389
been waiting and long enough he nods and just

00:58:42.389 --> 00:58:47.690
says Everybody! Who's ready for the second game?

00:58:49.590 --> 00:58:59.130
I thought the monkey talk was done. That was

00:58:59.130 --> 00:59:04.449
a monkey. We've got Sid Squid here from Sid Squid's

00:59:04.449 --> 00:59:08.750
Trust and Leak to walk us through his game. Say

00:59:08.750 --> 00:59:13.530
that one more time. Slowly. Sid Squid's. Trusty

00:59:13.530 --> 00:59:17.429
Leak. Trusty Leak? Trusty Leak. We got Sid Squid

00:59:17.429 --> 00:59:20.730
here, family man, local merchant, from Sid Squid's

00:59:20.730 --> 00:59:22.610
Trusty Leak to walk us through the second game,

00:59:22.769 --> 00:59:26.449
his game. Yeah, plumber. Yeah. All right, so

00:59:26.449 --> 00:59:28.090
Sid's going to step forward and tell us about

00:59:28.090 --> 00:59:31.329
Battle Bronze, the Shrimpening, Bean, Shredding,

00:59:31.329 --> 00:59:37.809
Bonanza! Everyone's just, wah! He nods, steps

00:59:37.809 --> 00:59:40.989
away, and this man, Chef Aprons, kind of steps

00:59:40.989 --> 00:59:43.869
forward, big burly fellow, just rolls his shoulders

00:59:43.869 --> 00:59:45.789
a little bit. I'm a little cautious about the

00:59:45.789 --> 00:59:51.670
shrimp battling. He's kind of like, this big

00:59:51.670 --> 00:59:56.389
hearty laugh. All right. As you mostly know,

00:59:56.590 --> 00:59:59.269
anyone local here would know that I was formerly

00:59:59.269 --> 01:00:02.570
an adventurer in this area. I traveled the forest

01:00:02.570 --> 01:00:05.349
of Sunco finding the best and most dangerous

01:00:05.349 --> 01:00:08.750
ingredients. And I created the greatest giant

01:00:08.750 --> 01:00:11.469
shrimp cakes this world's ever seen. And if it's,

01:00:11.489 --> 01:00:14.989
yeah, it's like, ha, ha, yes, yes. And tonight,

01:00:15.210 --> 01:00:18.710
our contestants are going to help me make more

01:00:18.710 --> 01:00:24.260
shrimp cakes for you. I'm excited for giant shrimp

01:00:24.260 --> 01:00:27.699
cakes. So here's how this is going to go. I got

01:00:27.699 --> 01:00:30.300
my sous chefs at the walks. I got chefs ready

01:00:30.300 --> 01:00:33.039
to pull the ingredients to them when the time

01:00:33.039 --> 01:00:35.380
comes. But we need, we need those ingredients

01:00:35.380 --> 01:00:39.219
prepared. Am I right? Yeah, prepare the ingredients.

01:00:39.219 --> 01:00:41.219
I'm going to prepare the ingredients. Prepare

01:00:41.219 --> 01:00:44.860
the ingredients. Yeah. Prep, work, prep, work,

01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:48.119
prep, work, prep, work. What the hell kind of

01:00:48.119 --> 01:00:51.099
challenge is this? So let's talk about how this

01:00:51.099 --> 01:00:53.800
is going to go down. This is going to be a race

01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:56.239
between these two teams to see who can finish

01:00:56.239 --> 01:00:59.320
their prep first. In this game, we're going to

01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:02.300
require four contestants, all four stepping forward.

01:01:02.719 --> 01:01:04.800
Each man in their second is going to pick a station.

01:01:05.780 --> 01:01:09.280
So we're fucked because our DM is a prep cook.

01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:15.059
Oh, my God. Do I get advantage if I know what

01:01:15.059 --> 01:01:19.119
a Cambro is? No. You get disadvantage for asking

01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:22.840
that question. I know what a camera is. I steal

01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:26.300
them from David all the time. So here's how it's

01:01:26.300 --> 01:01:28.559
going to go. We have two stations to go to. We

01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:30.420
have the tank behind me. He knocks on it and

01:01:30.420 --> 01:01:33.360
this violent boom resounds as something bashes

01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:36.239
against the tank. He just laughs. We got the

01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:39.699
tank behind me. So in this tank, we have four

01:01:39.699 --> 01:01:43.820
giant Jack and Coy prawns. Now for these kinks,

01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:47.239
we're going to need two of them. We're going

01:01:47.239 --> 01:01:48.500
to need them taken out. We're going to need them

01:01:48.500 --> 01:01:53.199
killed. So one of these teams of two, from each

01:01:53.199 --> 01:01:55.780
of our teams, is going to come up here, going

01:01:55.780 --> 01:01:58.579
to kill two of these prawns, and then my sous

01:01:58.579 --> 01:02:01.079
chefs are going to fish them out. Meanwhile,

01:02:01.420 --> 01:02:03.699
the second team is going to the tables. And at

01:02:03.699 --> 01:02:07.320
the tables, we've got our local... Wait, did

01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:10.940
he say that we have to kill them and then the

01:02:10.940 --> 01:02:12.340
sous chefs are going to fish them out of the

01:02:12.340 --> 01:02:14.119
tank? Basically, if you kill them, that's kind

01:02:14.119 --> 01:02:17.900
of how you win. The challenge. Okay. Yeah, I

01:02:17.900 --> 01:02:19.920
killed two giants. We killed them in the tank.

01:02:20.380 --> 01:02:23.820
Yeah. Okay. Second of you is going to, the second

01:02:23.820 --> 01:02:27.019
team is going to step down to the table. We've

01:02:27.019 --> 01:02:29.500
got some of our, he kind of like smirks a little

01:02:29.500 --> 01:02:35.159
bit, local green tree beans. All coiled up in

01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:36.800
a basket, ready to be prepped. All you got to

01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:39.239
do is, he winks at the crowd, there's a little

01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:43.409
bit of laughter, chop them up. So. I don't really

01:02:43.409 --> 01:02:46.110
trust that. I think there's a secret. There was

01:02:46.110 --> 01:02:48.630
an odd hesitation there. Yeah. Did you see the

01:02:48.630 --> 01:02:52.329
wink? I'm going to ask you now, teams. You choose.

01:02:53.030 --> 01:02:54.989
Mains and seconds. We got, and he looks at his

01:02:54.989 --> 01:02:58.849
list, Zebulon and Jean Franklin. That's what

01:02:58.849 --> 01:03:02.150
we got written down here. You get to pick a spot.

01:03:02.750 --> 01:03:04.590
And Jules and Chester, you get to pick a spot.

01:03:05.829 --> 01:03:07.670
Do you want to go to the tank or do you want

01:03:07.670 --> 01:03:09.489
to go to the table? You guys choose between yourselves.

01:03:09.690 --> 01:03:12.820
Oh, I see. Who wants to go where? Okay, out of

01:03:12.820 --> 01:03:17.280
character. My first knee -jerk reaction is to

01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:19.860
send in John Franklin and Chester to do the killing.

01:03:20.900 --> 01:03:24.440
I really wanted that, though. I don't trust the

01:03:24.440 --> 01:03:27.059
green bean thing. I think it's a false flag.

01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:30.400
Yeah. He did say your main and your second to

01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:32.619
pick a spot, so he actually wants you to stick

01:03:32.619 --> 01:03:34.239
with the second you're signed up with, which

01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:38.639
in your case is Chester. Right. Oh, so it's...

01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:44.139
Like, it's Manchester. And Jean Franklin go to

01:03:44.139 --> 01:03:46.480
either the tank or the tank. Okay. Yes. Yeah.

01:03:47.539 --> 01:03:49.659
I will say, actually, he would add one more thing.

01:03:49.739 --> 01:03:52.280
Just like, and remember, when you're prepping

01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:55.820
those beans, cutting and smashing is fine. No

01:03:55.820 --> 01:03:58.420
burning, no poison, nothing funny. We got to

01:03:58.420 --> 01:04:01.179
eat this stuff, right? Well, no burning. I'm

01:04:01.179 --> 01:04:04.699
not sure about that one. You want to do rock,

01:04:04.739 --> 01:04:07.760
paper, scissors? Does it matter for us to do

01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:11.300
rock, paper, scissors? Because you and Chester

01:04:11.300 --> 01:04:14.179
are going either to the tank or to the table.

01:04:14.619 --> 01:04:18.000
Oh! Yes, yes. I thought, okay. No, the mains

01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.219
may have seconds. Each of you have a second assigned

01:04:20.219 --> 01:04:25.840
to you, basically. Right. It's the rock star

01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:31.360
speaking. Okay, I get it. Okay. Yeah, I was thinking

01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:34.329
that, you know. I would sit at the table, Chester

01:04:34.329 --> 01:04:35.710
would go to the tank, and then it would be the

01:04:35.710 --> 01:04:37.710
same thing for you guys. You guys decide who's

01:04:37.710 --> 01:04:39.869
doing what. Okay, that makes sense. So while

01:04:39.869 --> 01:04:40.949
you guys are discussing, he turns to the other

01:04:40.949 --> 01:04:42.690
team, he gives them the rundown, and you see

01:04:42.690 --> 01:04:46.170
they immediately break off with Ramin Rasool

01:04:46.170 --> 01:04:48.650
and Pepper the Horrigan. You now know whose sidekick

01:04:48.650 --> 01:04:52.780
is whose. They move up towards the tank. and

01:04:52.780 --> 01:04:55.139
then you see Dance Macabre and Trace the Goblin.

01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:57.440
Trace sneers at you. She kind of coldly flips

01:04:57.440 --> 01:05:01.260
her ponytail at you, and they move to the prep

01:05:01.260 --> 01:05:04.099
table. As they pass us and they're back to us,

01:05:04.119 --> 01:05:07.000
I'm going to flip them off. Justin does a double

01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:11.840
flip -off with you. Yeah, Jules! All right, Zeb.

01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:15.320
You make the choice. You did better at the last

01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:17.099
game. You make the choice. You did better at

01:05:17.099 --> 01:05:19.139
the last game. I think you should choose. What

01:05:19.139 --> 01:05:21.880
do you think you're going to be better at? Well,

01:05:21.980 --> 01:05:24.639
I mean... Okay, yeah, I know you're good at everything.

01:05:24.840 --> 01:05:28.400
Yes, I know. I'm pretty decent at, uh... Wow.

01:05:28.619 --> 01:05:31.219
I will remind you, you gotta cut. The beings,

01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:35.300
at least, you actually need to cut them. Zebulon's

01:05:35.300 --> 01:05:38.159
a better cutter. It's worth noting. But that's

01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:40.440
like, you know, if you're limited to just physical

01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:42.400
stuff, Jules, your magic wouldn't be much use

01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:44.739
there. But you have a rapier. You know how to

01:05:44.739 --> 01:05:47.480
use a knife and a weapon, so... Well, is it...

01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:51.340
Was it just no magic for that first one, or was

01:05:51.340 --> 01:05:53.119
it for all the games? Oh, just for the first

01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:56.159
one. Oh. I think we should roll for it. Let the

01:05:56.159 --> 01:05:58.880
dice decide. I think whoever rolls higher goes

01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:01.840
to the tank. Okay. Okay. We're doing just straight

01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:08.639
D20. Fucking roll off, baby. Twelve. Zeb's going

01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:11.440
to the tank. I got three. Zeb and Jean Franklin

01:06:11.440 --> 01:06:12.900
are going to the tank. Going to the tank, okay.

01:06:14.079 --> 01:06:18.960
And Crax's neck is like... Finally, a chance

01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:22.659
to shrew myself. And he kind of spins a spear.

01:06:23.199 --> 01:06:25.599
Can I talk a little funny under pressure? A chance

01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:31.519
to shrew yourself. Shrew my, that's it. All right,

01:06:31.579 --> 01:06:32.980
all right, John Franklin, I'm just busting your

01:06:32.980 --> 01:06:35.420
balls, okay? John Franklin, it's okay. Let's,

01:06:35.420 --> 01:06:39.780
um, let's go kill some, some giant prawns. I'll

01:06:39.780 --> 01:06:42.139
have you know I'm quite the fisherman in my home

01:06:42.139 --> 01:06:44.760
world. Do you know what the plural to prawns

01:06:44.760 --> 01:06:57.050
is, then? Prawn -eye. Let's go kill some Pranai.

01:06:57.090 --> 01:06:59.750
Let's go kill some Pranai. All right, guys, go

01:06:59.750 --> 01:07:03.969
kill some Pranai. And so you guys split off to

01:07:03.969 --> 01:07:06.769
your respective stations. You, the two of you,

01:07:06.789 --> 01:07:09.869
I guess, like Jean Franklin and Zebulon, you

01:07:09.869 --> 01:07:11.829
guys move up towards the tank. You walk up the

01:07:11.829 --> 01:07:13.730
stairs. And Zebulon, I think you probably get

01:07:13.730 --> 01:07:15.230
to the top of the stairs. You're smaller, so

01:07:15.230 --> 01:07:18.050
you might need to kind of be looking down. at

01:07:18.050 --> 01:07:19.630
these things, and you can, like, look down to

01:07:19.630 --> 01:07:21.849
this tank, and you see these large shapes. Each

01:07:21.849 --> 01:07:24.110
one's, like, a four or five feet. These large,

01:07:24.190 --> 01:07:29.510
like, shrimp. I held it for as long as I could.

01:07:32.110 --> 01:07:34.909
So you stand at the top of this thing, and you're

01:07:34.909 --> 01:07:37.090
looking down at these, like, swirling shapes.

01:07:37.230 --> 01:07:41.610
These purple and blue creatures. And Jules, you

01:07:41.610 --> 01:07:45.369
and Chesta, you move down to the tables. I can

01:07:45.369 --> 01:07:50.639
say Chesta. You move down. There's a little Chester

01:07:50.639 --> 01:07:52.800
creeping in there. There's large, like, you know,

01:07:52.820 --> 01:07:55.199
wooden cutting board prep tables. And you see

01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:57.519
this big, big basket, like, huge basket with

01:07:57.519 --> 01:08:00.639
these coiled up, like, long tree beans. Just,

01:08:00.679 --> 01:08:03.139
like, it's almost like there's a big bushel of

01:08:03.139 --> 01:08:05.280
them just in this really long coil, like, big

01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:07.380
snake. Are they snakes? They're snakes. I was

01:08:07.380 --> 01:08:08.860
going to say, that sounds kind of scary. It sounds

01:08:08.860 --> 01:08:10.300
kind of snake -like. It's very clearly not a

01:08:10.300 --> 01:08:12.199
snake. You can tell if it's a snake. I don't

01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:15.579
trust anything you say. It's true. Well, as soon

01:08:15.579 --> 01:08:18.300
as David was like, oh, well, don't forget that

01:08:18.300 --> 01:08:20.439
Zebulon's a better cutter, I'm like, eh, I'm

01:08:20.439 --> 01:08:22.079
calling bullshit on that, because you know something

01:08:22.079 --> 01:08:24.699
we don't. I mean, he knows everything we don't.

01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:28.119
So you guys step over, you look across to see

01:08:28.119 --> 01:08:31.560
your rivals. Zebulon, you're staring across at

01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:34.300
Romaine, Rasul, and Pepper. Jules, once again,

01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:36.859
you turn to face Dance Macabre at her table.

01:08:37.079 --> 01:08:40.859
He looks at you, smiles again. Trace flips you

01:08:40.859 --> 01:08:44.710
off. Calvin, chest to double, chest to him, and

01:08:44.710 --> 01:08:47.090
just flip each other off. It's like, guys, please,

01:08:47.210 --> 01:08:49.970
children. Shut the fuck up or I'll tie you up

01:08:49.970 --> 01:08:55.270
again. Oh, shit. He just scowls and went back

01:08:55.270 --> 01:08:58.189
down to his work. He picks up a knife. He goes

01:08:58.189 --> 01:09:00.010
to reach and sits with it and goes, whoa, whoa,

01:09:00.010 --> 01:09:02.270
whoa, whoa. Don't reach for the knives quite

01:09:02.270 --> 01:09:05.170
yet. On my mark. Pull your weapons out and get

01:09:05.170 --> 01:09:08.550
ready. He steps over to the tank. He's just standing

01:09:08.550 --> 01:09:09.930
inside of the tank. He's looking around you.

01:09:10.550 --> 01:09:12.829
Contestants, do you understand the rules? Be

01:09:12.829 --> 01:09:15.750
the first to finish your station's job, and you

01:09:15.750 --> 01:09:17.970
win. All right, John. That's simple. I guess

01:09:17.970 --> 01:09:20.409
we just got to kill a couple of these things.

01:09:20.609 --> 01:09:22.729
Let's kill two prawns. Yeah, easy enough. And

01:09:22.729 --> 01:09:24.710
then we enjoy shrimp cakes or something, I guess.

01:09:24.789 --> 01:09:26.869
I'm really looking forward to it. I mean, did

01:09:26.869 --> 01:09:28.350
they call them shrimp cakes, even though it's

01:09:28.350 --> 01:09:32.590
prawn? That's what he said. I assume it's the

01:09:32.590 --> 01:09:36.479
proper. It's seafood. In a nice little patty

01:09:36.479 --> 01:09:38.600
form. Is it prawn cake? It's going to be delicious.

01:09:38.819 --> 01:09:43.359
Prawn eye cake, actually. So you guys are ready?

01:09:43.460 --> 01:09:44.939
Stand at your tables. You ready to go? Ready

01:09:44.939 --> 01:09:49.399
to go. So he turns, Sid Squid turns to Vi and

01:09:49.399 --> 01:09:52.180
Kasim and nods. And Vi steps forward again. Looks

01:09:52.180 --> 01:09:54.000
at the crowd. Spolly hits him. He's just like,

01:09:55.000 --> 01:10:01.180
Are you ready, folks? Yeah! Prawn cakes! Or shrimp

01:10:01.180 --> 01:10:06.000
cakes. We haven't really decided. Food! The battle

01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:09.500
begins in three, two, one. Grab your weapons.

01:10:09.539 --> 01:10:12.260
And like Chester goes to grab his knife and pull

01:10:12.260 --> 01:10:13.899
it out. You see the same on the other side. They

01:10:13.899 --> 01:10:17.100
grab their knife. And at the tank, you just see.

01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:20.340
Sid Squid just smashes his fist in the tank as

01:10:20.340 --> 01:10:23.619
hard as he can. The water surges, and these prawns

01:10:23.619 --> 01:10:26.300
suddenly just turn up their eyes, their beady

01:10:26.300 --> 01:10:28.300
eyes fixed on the two of you staring down, and

01:10:28.300 --> 01:10:31.520
they lunge at you. Jules, as you grab the knife,

01:10:31.640 --> 01:10:34.819
the beans in the fucking basket suddenly animate

01:10:34.819 --> 01:10:37.739
and launch out. Of course. Yeah, of course they

01:10:37.739 --> 01:10:39.359
do. Trying to snatch those weapons, trying to

01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:41.399
wrap around you, and you're all going to roll

01:10:41.399 --> 01:10:44.380
for initiative, but not tonight, because we caught

01:10:44.380 --> 01:10:45.699
there. Oh, fuck. Oh!