39 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:35,440 Hello there, Ome. 40 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,440 Thank you for listening to the Hard Knocks sorority podcast. 41 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,440 In this episode, which is the first half of our eighth session in the campaign, 42 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:49,440 there is a good bit of planning both in the kitchen at Salmavar and at Olka's Tea House in Tacoma. 43 00:01:49,440 --> 00:02:00,440 One could almost say that it is all that the team does as they consider how to solve the problem of how to get paid for their first job with the creep while also capturing George Van Housen. 44 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:05,440 At first, the two seem incompatible with each other, and the team really wants to get paid. 45 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,440 Procop scrambles eggs. 46 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,440 Ollie drinks coffee plus. 47 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:11,440 Deander eats celery. 48 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,440 Grace munches on a bowl of cereal. 49 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,440 And Cecile is grumpy. 50 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:22,440 Listen, Chummers, we value your time and hope you are enjoying the experience. 51 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:29,440 If you are enjoying our podcast or want to tell us how badly we are butchering the rules, please let us know in our Discord. 52 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,440 If you are listening to us on a service that allows you to rate us, please do so. 53 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,440 Help us to hack that algorithm with a five-star review. 54 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,440 Most importantly, though, we thank you for listening and hope you will continue to do so. 55 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,440 And spread the word to your friends, please. 56 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:46,440 Stay safe. 57 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:47,440 Conserve your ammo. 58 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,440 Scrub that data trail. 59 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,440 And need I really say it? 60 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,440 Don't make deals with dragons. 61 00:02:53,440 --> 00:03:00,440 So we're trying to kidnap the funny police guy, right? 62 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:01,440 That's the summary. 63 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:02,440 Funny police guy. 64 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,440 We need to find a good place to do it. 65 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,440 Does he like dogs? 66 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,440 Well, I guess it depends on what you guys want to do, right? 67 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:18,440 So if you want to complete the job for the Mr. Johnson, you need to get the recording of Kimmy telling him to back off. 68 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,440 So you need to get that from George VanHousen. 69 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,440 Or you could say we're going to kidnap George VanHousen. 70 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,440 We're going to snatch George VanHousen off the streets and then find another way to complete the job for Mr. Johnson. 71 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,440 I say we let him do it. 72 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:33,440 Okay. 73 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,440 This isn't a character thing. 74 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:37,440 Are you guys ready? 75 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:38,440 I'm ready. 76 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:39,440 I'm ready. 77 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:40,440 I'm ready. 78 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:41,440 I've never been readier. 79 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,440 Oh my god. 80 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:44,440 More ready. 81 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:45,440 All right. 82 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,440 So it's the next morning at Samovar. 83 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,440 And you guys are all very early risers. 84 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,440 Apparently. 85 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:54,440 So. 86 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,440 Do they each have their own rooms? 87 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:03,440 I believe Grace and Boxter were rooming together. 88 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:04,440 Yeah, that figures. 89 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,440 Everybody else was individually. 90 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,440 Cal Fowls and roommates. 91 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,440 Yeah. 92 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:17,440 Cecile wakes up after a sort of a restless night filled with odd dreams that she can't quite remember. 93 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:26,440 And sort of remembering an odd conversation that she had with the woman, Talia, right before she went to sleep. 94 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:31,440 And the rest of you guys had your own thoughts about your situations. 95 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:35,440 But other than that, you wake up and Samovar is quiet all around you. 96 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,440 There's no movement, no sound of movement or hustle and bustling. 97 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:46,440 As you get up and go out and try to find, you know, a kitchen or a place to eat, you find you find ice is. 98 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:55,440 Sitting in the in the kitchen with with Procop and it seems like they might have worked out the differences. 99 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,440 Now, time, time, time. 100 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:04,440 Yeah, they greet you and Procop, you know, shows you the coffee maker and all that kind of good stuff. 101 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:05,440 Yeah. 102 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,440 Coffee maker of actual coffee. 103 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:08,440 Yes. 104 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,440 I shall consume the morning potion. 105 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,440 Is there anything to put in the coffee? 106 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:17,440 Any fun substances for Boxer's taste? 107 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,440 Like fish cakes? 108 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,440 No, definitely not. 109 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,440 Don't ever watch her fish. 110 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:28,440 Watches Boxer put stuff in her coffee and like slowly shakes her head. 111 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,440 If she finds alcohol, she's putting that in coffee. 112 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,440 That's all I was trying to be coy about it. 113 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,440 Oh, actual coffee. 114 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,440 Procop asks you if you would like the omelet and anybody who takes him up on it, 115 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,440 he scrambles up some eggs and throws a ton of black Russian caviar into it. 116 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:45,440 Oh my fucking God. 117 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,440 He's putting caviar in his eggs. 118 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,440 Yeah, eggs in his eggs. 119 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:50,440 Fish eggs in his. 120 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,440 That's horrifying. 121 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,440 The wings are fertilized, right? 122 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:55,440 Right? 123 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:56,440 Right? 124 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:57,440 Horrifying. 125 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:05,440 Deandre digs around in the in the refrigerator until she finds celery and then she's just like eating celery. 126 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:11,440 I imagine while he's mixing those eggs, my angel is asking like, yeah, no, no, those are fertilized, right? 127 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,440 And then she goes, right? 128 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:14,440 I don't care. 129 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:15,440 That's delicious. 130 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,440 Let me have my eggs. 131 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,440 Fish spawn differently. 132 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:20,440 So even better. 133 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,440 Get free food. 134 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,440 In character, he says, you know, fish spawn differently. 135 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:34,440 So the beluga will and he explains how the beluga will eject the eggs and the sperm into the water so that they can basically freely mix. 136 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,440 So the beluga caviar is harvested directly from the fish. 137 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:40,440 No, they're not fertilized. 138 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,440 Neither are the eggs. 139 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,440 OK, I can eat. 140 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,440 I want to eat pretty please. 141 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,440 OK, he looks like he might have looks like he might have thought you were vegetarian or something. 142 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,440 He just smiles. 143 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,440 She smiles so wide that you can see the gap in her teeth. 144 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,440 And she proceeds to squirrel off at that. 145 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,440 Seel has not left her room yet. 146 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,440 What's the seal doing? 147 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:05,440 Stressing. 148 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:11,440 She has not had the materials to do her morning routine in like a week. 149 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:12,440 She's very stressed. 150 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,440 She's very upset. 151 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,440 Oh yeah, no makeup. 152 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:25,440 She barges out like 30 minutes after she's up and just goes and gets some fancy tea and goes back to her room. 153 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:29,440 You can only assume she's furiously reading books. 154 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,440 That is most certainly sincere. 155 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,440 Is she always like this? 156 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:39,440 She has been an interesting guest in my safe house. 157 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:40,440 She shut herself in the bathroom. 158 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,440 Didn't you say that your safe house was destroyed? 159 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,440 It was. 160 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:45,440 Two different factions in fact. 161 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:46,440 Very interesting. 162 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,440 Not for now though. 163 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:49,440 That does sound very interesting. 164 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,440 Fill me in later. 165 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:57,440 And then she climbs up into a chair while they're talking and begins to like gently shift back and forth on the chair. 166 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,440 She's very almost impatient but just excited. 167 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:07,440 Yeah, Procop sort of toasts you guys with his coffee and then he says, 168 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:14,440 Well, I'm going to leave you to your planning and I will be steaming the cockatoo like I'm doing. 169 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:20,440 So just ice sitting there eating his scrambled eggs and his black coffee with you guys. 170 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:21,440 So it's really... 171 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:30,440 She accepted some of the eggs, the weird double eggs and she added any alcohol she could find, honestly, to her coffee. 172 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,440 She seems to be enjoying it quite a lot. 173 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:34,440 Ah, having an Irish. 174 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:39,440 You know, it occurs to me that the both of you drink copiously. 175 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,440 Does that ever affect you while you're on the job? 176 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,440 No. I'm a functioning alcoholic. Be thankful. 177 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,440 Who did you mean when you said both of you? 178 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,440 Nightingale was also adding alcohol to her double eggs, right? 179 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,440 No, she didn't do that. 180 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,440 He said something about morning potion. 181 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:00,440 Oh, that's coffee. 182 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:08,440 She's gone through maybe like two heads of celery at this point. 183 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:09,440 Oh, God. 184 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,440 No, I want celery. 185 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,440 Just like greens and all. It's just gone. 186 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,440 I want to fill a bowl of carrots and eat it. 187 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:25,440 Nightingale would have gotten coffee but mixed in a copious amount of creamer, like an unreasonable amount of creamer. 188 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,440 It looks white. Why did you mix that much creamer into it? 189 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:35,440 And she also gets a bowl for the eggs. 190 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:44,440 And without silverware, she feeds herself by grabbing clumps of anerycyclocinesis and very neatly popping into her mouth. 191 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:53,440 Can Cecile, before she leaves her room, could she just like a sense and see if she can find any astral signatures that aren't hers in her room? 192 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,440 Yeah. 193 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:00,440 Anything? Sensing test? I think so. 194 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,440 You didn't need one to see if anything existed. Just the nature of the thing. 195 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:09,440 That would be perception to notice. Sensing would be to understand it. 196 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,440 Astral perception. 197 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,440 Depending on how complex what you're noticing is, like if it's a pattern, it may be a sensing. 198 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,440 Yeah, and astral traces fade too. 199 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:27,440 The higher your roll would be, potentially the fainter the astral signature you would find. 200 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,440 I can't remember. Astral perception? 201 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,440 It's labeled as a sensing. 202 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,440 Oh, it's just a sensing? 203 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:40,440 Yeah, not astral perception. You can also use perception on the astral though, as in the skill. 204 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,440 Yeah. 205 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:48,440 Do you go into astral and take a quick look around the room, right? 206 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,440 She's just opening her third eye. 207 00:10:51,440 --> 00:11:01,440 Yep. Everything looks pretty mundane. You see the traces of the warding, the astral shielding that seems to encompass the entire building. 208 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:08,440 And it looks like there may have been a Watcher Spirit passing through here at some point in the night. 209 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:17,440 But otherwise, it doesn't look like anything's been in the room astrally specifically. 210 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:22,440 So no spells have gone off? Nothing? 211 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:33,440 What you get is mostly your own signature, which seems to have been fairly tumultuous during the night. 212 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:41,440 You know, a lot of variation in emotion, a lot of spiking emotions. 213 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:47,440 You basically see the signature of what you already know the night was like. 214 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:58,440 Unfortunately, you can't remember what you were dreaming about, but you just know that it was a very unrestful sleep because your dreams were very active and alive. 215 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:06,440 And you don't feel necessarily arrested. 216 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:13,440 So you'll leave and it doesn't say anything to any of you? It takes a cab somewhere else. 217 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,440 Would I see her going? No. 218 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:20,440 Egg? Nope. I imagine she leaves out through the front entrance. 219 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,440 Samovar is pretty much abandoned this time of day. 220 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:28,440 He's going to a cafe. 221 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:35,440 You know what's the oddest sensation I've ever felt? Some planets can feel pain right after they've been picked. 222 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:44,440 And if you live in one place for long enough, and at the end of my persuasion, you get the oddest sensations. 223 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:50,440 And a couple of times I've eaten fresh vegetables and I could feel it. 224 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,440 That sounds uncomfortable. 225 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,440 Yeah, I could feel myself eating the vegetables. 226 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,440 Vegetables feel pain? Yes, they do. 227 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,440 Aren't they meant to be eaten? 228 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,440 Evolution is a cruel mistress. 229 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,440 Indeed. It's even worse when you can feel it while you're still ego. 230 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:20,440 The pain is a little different than us, I suppose. Not like cognitive, just a signal that there is something damaging it, if you can understand that. 231 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,440 It's like a tickling on the sides of your ears. I think that's the best way to describe it. 232 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,440 My son's ears really plaster his ears twitch when she hears that. 233 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:33,440 No, like less tickling, more prickling. Yeah, that's the word. 234 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,440 Oh, that doesn't sound good. 235 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:42,440 Or like, you know when your limb falls asleep? It feels like that. 236 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,440 Do you ever get that whenever you eat animals? 237 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:46,440 No. 238 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:47,440 I can't believe what he's hearing. 239 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:54,440 Oh, well, I don't actually know. I haven't ever eaten a still alive animal, have I? 240 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,440 Have you? 241 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:58,440 Have you? 242 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,440 That seems like a memorable event. 243 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,440 Not in 55 years. 244 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:10,440 I do not like your past lurking there, menacingly. 245 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:16,440 Nightingale promptly licks the ball clean and floats it over to the sink and runs some water in it. 246 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:22,440 I do believe we have some actual work to be doing, after which I do have something we do have to do. 247 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,440 Where's the norm girl? 248 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:30,440 She's scared not to do whatever the hell she does. She doesn't matter. What's she going to do anyway? 249 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:36,440 Should we wait until she comes back to plan or should we plan our own and then inform her? 250 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:42,440 I thought we were going to need a college education to pull off this ice skipper. 251 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,440 So, teensy teensy little issue there. 252 00:14:46,440 --> 00:15:00,440 Whenever you're doing something dangerous, the more eyes and hands that you have on the matter, the better, like generally speaking, is a general rule. 253 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:05,440 There's three of us. The guy could be bringing... No, there's three of us here. 254 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,440 He's a very prepared, trained, college guy. 255 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:13,440 I mean, he's a bit of a go-go-go, so I don't know if he really matters, but... 256 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,440 Wait, what did D&R just say? 257 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,440 I just called Isaac go-go-go. 258 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,440 A go-go-go? 259 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:20,440 Yeah. 260 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:21,440 Biker-ganger. 261 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,440 A go-go-ganger. 262 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,440 Yes, this is definitely D&R slang. We've heard this one before. 263 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,440 We have, actually. We've seen this before. 264 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,440 I have said go-go-go many a time. 265 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,440 A go-go-go-gang. 266 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:40,440 I think I've said go-go-go literally every session. No. 267 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:45,440 All right, we're going to add that somewhere in our slang terminology for the game. 268 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,440 No, I swear that's from the book. 269 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,440 It's just dumb enough to be Shadarun. 270 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:51,440 I disagree. 271 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,440 A gang member. 272 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,440 I couldn't have just been two. It would have been better if it were just two. 273 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,440 And I say that as someone who thinks three is suspicious. 274 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:10,440 A go-gang is a motorized gang. So a go-go-go is a go-gang-ganger. 275 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,440 A go-go-go. 276 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:18,440 I mean, I feel like that's a little rude to ICE. ICE has muscles, says Nightingale. 277 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:24,440 I've been very rude to ICE. This is not the start of this. 278 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:31,440 Yes, but Nightingale is now protesting. She's defending the white nationalist FIFIs. 279 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:39,440 ICE is just sort of eating breakfast listening to you guys with a face that can only be described as tolerating. 280 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:46,440 I think Dandarid shoots boxers aside. Who was it that said that? 281 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:47,440 It was Nightingale. 282 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:54,440 Okay, it suits Nightingale like a side glance. And I don't take advice from a horse. A horse that eats with its mind. 283 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,440 Pardon me? 284 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,440 That horse is one of your teammates. 285 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:06,440 That horse is someone you will be relying on with your life. 286 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:07,440 Yes. 287 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,440 Yet you do not trust her to speak to you. 288 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:17,440 Not trust her to speak to me. It's not like something idiotic will come out of her mouth. 289 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,440 Then why are you opposing what she says if she is not saying anything idiotic? 290 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,440 Because I really don't care. 291 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:33,440 I appreciate the comment, but it doesn't matter. The elf woman can say whatever she feels like about me. I get it. 292 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,440 Oh, okay. 293 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:40,440 I think Dandarid just kind of raises a hand, like, point. That's my point. 294 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:49,440 I said, look, about last night, I was feeling a little bit off after meeting George Van Housen. 295 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:53,440 It brought up a lot of things that have been suppressed for the last 20 years. 296 00:17:53,440 --> 00:18:05,440 So if I was acting a little bit, no, let's rephrase that. Since I was acting a little bit churlish, I'll just tell you that I grew up in, I was born in Seattle. 297 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:14,440 And one of the problems that I had as a youth was the reaction to my parents being killed in the Night of Rage. 298 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:23,440 It's not something I've thought about for a long time, but when I was younger, it colored my worldview and my view, he looks directly at Dandar, especially of elves. 299 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:33,440 So sometimes that still comes out if I'm feeling if I'm feeling when the facades a little worn thin, if you understand what I mean. 300 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:40,440 Well, I if it makes you feel any better, I was in Sheershan Gire during the Night of Rage. 301 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,440 So you know that I had no hand in it. 302 00:18:44,440 --> 00:19:01,440 No, I never thought that is just as a youth, I blamed anybody who looked like you being back in Seattle after so many years and seeing Procop and sort of getting a lot of events that had gotten pushed out of my mind for a long time, 303 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:06,440 stirred back up and the prospect of seeing people that I thought were dead potentially. 304 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,440 It's got me in a little bit of a turmoil internally. 305 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:15,440 So, yeah, I can tell you that thing, unfortunately, I can tell that took a lot of idea. 306 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,440 Yeah, it was a long time ago, but it's still there. 307 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,440 You want a hug or a pat on the back? 308 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,440 No, I do not want a hug or a pat on the back. 309 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,440 How do you give hugs? 310 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:45,440 Well, back home, the closest thing that we had is that we wouldn't wrap our, I guess, arms, so to speak, and she raises a foreleg around one another, we would just lean in and crane our necks around one another. 311 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:52,440 But, I mean, I can rear up and wrap my legs around someone. 312 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:57,440 I'm just trying to imagine you wrapping your neck around mine. 313 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,440 That seems less comfortable than a normal hug. 314 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:08,440 It's not just your, it's leaning into the person and just kind of embracing them, but not with your arms, with like your body. 315 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:16,440 No, that part's fine, but the like rearing up forelimbs thing, that sounds less comfortable. 316 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:23,440 Well, yeah, but it's, I feel like people wouldn't get it if I did what I normally do. 317 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:31,440 I just looked at you guys and said, have you guys ever heard of an animal called a giraffe? I believe they've been extinct for about 40 years or so. 318 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:40,440 Everyone knows that giraffes aren't real. They are myths made up by movie companies so they can sell things about exotic creatures. Honestly, people these days. 319 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:50,440 When, when, when Boxer says that, Dindri starts giggling, which you have not heard Dindri do yet. 320 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:59,440 It sounds awful, like broken car almost. It does not sound like a normal giggle. 321 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,440 I'm sorry, I caused you pain? 322 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,440 I've seen a giraffe. Actually, I might have a picture of one. 323 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:19,440 It's a giraffe. It's a fantasy creature, and she pointedly looks at Dindri with an excessively long neck, the supposedly eight leaves from trees, but I'm pretty sure don't exist. 324 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:28,440 And it has existed by somehow being an aberration so terribly against nature in a time before magic that it just existed. 325 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:34,440 Dindri pulls up her comlink and starts digging through her phones, or her pictures. 326 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:47,440 Ice looks a little bit startled at Dindri's giggle and then Boxer responds. He looks at Boxer and he says, well, that's exactly the point you see. That's how giraffes used to hug each other too. 327 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,440 Fantasy creatures. 328 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,440 Wrap their necks around each other. That's also how they used to fight. 329 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:59,440 See, this is ridiculous. Those necks with snap in a second. They're too long. They are too long. 330 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:10,440 After a few minutes, Dindri turns around a picture of a very, very young girl standing in the middle of the road with a giraffe right behind her. 331 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,440 Is this got this from the internet? 332 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,440 No, this is a picture of me. 333 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,440 Right, sure. 334 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:22,440 And the girl's eyes go wide and she makes a very exasperated gasp. 335 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:35,440 In, I think it was 2018? I was six. I remember this picture being taken because we spent three hours running from this giraffe. 336 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,440 Running from it. What does it come to do? Wrap its neck around you and choke you? 337 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:45,440 No, but they can swing their necks at a frightening speed. 338 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,440 I've seen those before. 339 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,440 We have some of those in the frontier. They're really aggressive. 340 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,440 You're kidding me. 341 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:55,440 No, I'm not. 342 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,440 So they invaded from another plane? That I can believe. 343 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:04,440 I think this one escaped from a zoo. 344 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,440 A zoo. Right. They would be able to fit that in a zoo. 345 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:15,440 I mean, I believe it. I also believe that metahumans are crazy enough not to recognize that thing's extraplanar origins. 346 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:25,440 Yeah, that thing is absolutely not from our plan. Fine, I can see it exists, but it came from her weird realm of things. 347 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:33,440 I think that story album has some from before the awakening. 348 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:41,440 Oh, that's the thing. They were still awakened creatures. We know there were awakened things that came in, like the early emergence of elves, dwarves. 349 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:46,440 Or that. By one of those apparitions. It makes perfect sense. 350 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,440 Like Polaroids from the 90s. 351 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,440 Yeah. 352 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,440 But that's in direct with the awakening, does it? 353 00:23:53,440 --> 00:24:07,440 Actually, Boxer, a small correction. I'm pretty sure those things aren't native where I come from. When I say the frontier, I mean parts of Equestria that we took in from the Aether. 354 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,440 They probably came from the Aether. They're like the bugs. 355 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,440 They're dangerous. 356 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,440 Nightingale just smiles and nods. I guess. 357 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:23,440 So we know that Boxer doesn't believe giraffes exist now. 358 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:28,440 How long has it been? 359 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:43,440 Cecile, you are at the tea house that you were at last time here in Tacoma, enjoying a nice, very pleasant environment of a Russian tea house. 360 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,440 Has Cecile eaten? 361 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,440 Would she like to eat? 362 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:54,440 Yeah, she is having a small breakfast. 363 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,440 And then she will also, does she know where the meat is happening? 364 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:05,440 No, so far nobody's actually set up a meat or otherwise talked about having a meat. 365 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:06,440 Cool. 366 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:23,440 So you're at Volga's Tea Room, which is sort of a Russian tea room in a renovated townhouse that serves a variety of imported teas and coffees, especially from Russia and Eastern Europe. 367 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:30,440 They have, they're famous for their Turkish coffee and their various Russian tea blends. 368 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:37,440 And there's us, you know, there's always, at Volga's there's always a good opportunity for people watching. 369 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,440 Yeah, Cecile's just having breakfast. 370 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:48,440 But anyway, you know, Cecile's off doing her own thing right now. 371 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:58,440 At a certain point, Grace would probably say something about that. Like, by the way, I didn't bring it up sooner because I didn't know if it would be appropriate. 372 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:08,440 But whenever Cecile, you know, kind of ducked in and ducked out, she didn't look like she was feeling very well. 373 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:15,440 Of course not. She's a soft, courage girl. She has no idea what she's doing and I'm not surprised that she's freaked out by it. 374 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,440 She should be. She doesn't belong in this kind of life. 375 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,440 We can't have anyone going in tonight with spare mirrors. 376 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:30,440 I don't think she should go in at all. I think she has a liability. I don't care what magic she has. I don't care what other skills she has. 377 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:37,440 She is untrained, unprepared. She doesn't know the risks. She has no idea what she's getting into. 378 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:43,440 Shouldn't we like, check her? 379 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,440 Yeah, we should check on her. 380 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:54,440 In this situation, the safest place for her to be would be at the edge of the fight rather than out of our line of sight. 381 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,440 I can see it. 382 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,440 And she's... 383 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,440 Can the girl drive? says Ice. 384 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,440 I don't think so. 385 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,440 Cecile has driven you places. 386 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,440 Yes, she can. 387 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,440 In a grid guide. 388 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,440 Does she drive the grid guide? So that'd be kind of a departure from a grid guide. 389 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,440 It becomes... 390 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,440 Actually, Cecile has. 391 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,440 ...a guide. 392 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,440 She hasn't driven us anywhere. 393 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,440 No, she has. The van. 394 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,440 Yeah, Nightingale is going to be like... 395 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:30,440 Well, actually, she does. Don't you remember when she drove us in the van? 396 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,440 Don't you remember? 397 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,440 The question is, can she drive well? 398 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:36,440 Of course. 399 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:42,440 I don't want me to flatter myself, but I can drive pretty damn well. And unless I am. 400 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,440 That's a fair point. 401 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,440 I'm sorry, I'm talking to myself here. 402 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,440 I may not be disposed to driving. 403 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,440 Maybe you shouldn't drink the head spinny juice. 404 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,440 I'll be fine. 405 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:02,440 I can drive. I just don't like driving large vehicles on my bike. 406 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:08,440 Yeah, don't I feel that sometimes. But it's necessary, I suppose. 407 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,440 Unless she can drive properly. 408 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,440 You know what? Does anyone have a com? 409 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,440 I think I have. 410 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:16,440 Yes. 411 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:22,440 And she pulls out her com and quickly texts with her mind. Or her eyes, anyway. 412 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:27,440 Cecile, how good are you at driving? 413 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,440 Well enough? Question mark? 414 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:36,440 If Norm Girl was being shot at, do you think she'd still drive well? 415 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:43,440 She texts her again. How would you do if you were being shot at? Smile. No. 416 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,440 What the heck? 417 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,440 The main girl interjects while she's texting and says, 418 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:54,440 I really don't think you should drink the head spinny juice, by the way, Boxer. 419 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,440 Because your mind is like, visibly darkened. I don't think it's good for you. 420 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:04,440 Girl, you think this is dark? I haven't even drunk a full coffee yet. 421 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,440 You should see me get down a whole bottle. Then you'll see dark. 422 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,440 Nightingale just grimaces. 423 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,440 Cecile responds, not very. 424 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:18,440 There we go. There's her answer. She can't drive a shit when she's being shot at. 425 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,440 I couldn't either, to be fair. 426 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:25,440 Yeah, well, I've been shot at and I've driven, so I think I'd be fine. If I have to be. 427 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,440 The van has a dog brain, right? Yes. 428 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:35,440 Can we program the dog brain to stay right behind my bike? 429 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,440 Are you a programmer? No. I'm not. 430 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:43,440 Can we set it to do that? I mean, I don't know. Maybe. Yes. 431 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,440 The answer is yes. 432 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:53,440 So I park my bike in front of the dog brain and then if I get on my bike and drive off, the dog brain follows. 433 00:29:53,440 --> 00:30:01,440 We'll have to disconnect it from the grid in order for it not to adhere to silly little things like road safety laws. 434 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:06,440 For that, I expect we will need some programming expertise. 435 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,440 Like Cecile! 436 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,440 Like the dog girl. 437 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:17,440 Yes, like Cecile. This one won't get a shot if she fucks up. So yeah, let's do it. 438 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,440 She's useful. Yay. 439 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,440 Boxer does not like Cecile. 440 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,440 Visibly darkened. 441 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,440 Boxer is a little bit drunk and does not like Cecile. 442 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:35,440 If we can't, I think I could train Cecile to drive while she's being shot at. 443 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,440 Oh god, how are you going to do that? 444 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,440 I'm going to purchase some blanks and shoot her while she's driving. 445 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,440 That sounds like something she would hate very much. 446 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:50,440 She has magic, you know. Yes, I know. 447 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,440 Are you implying that she's going to like, suck magic at a... 448 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,440 Maybe. 449 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:07,440 So Ice says, you know, we could probably get this... we could probably get George without gunfire, right? If we do this right. 450 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:19,440 If it doesn't pay to hope to plan around the best both of us for course of events, we must prepare for the worst. And the worst has to work around her. 451 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:26,440 Give the girl a call and see if she can come in here so that we can meet somewhere so we can talk this through. 452 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,440 Oh, wait, hold on. I asked earlier, but no one told me. 453 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:39,440 The guy that we're going to snatch, does he like dogs? 454 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,440 Ice chuckles. 455 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:42,440 Oh. 456 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,440 Did he give us his online... 457 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,440 I believe he did so that we could tell him when... 458 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:59,440 He gave you a card, like an old physical card with his phone number or his com number on that Diendare picked up. 459 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:08,440 Diendare pulls out of her like trench coat, which she's still wearing even though she's inside the card. We could ask it. 460 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:20,440 Well, well. I think this is a bit suspicious. Besides, we have someone who should know something. Have you seen him with dogs? Has he done anything with dogs? Dog person? 461 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,440 This is to Ice. 462 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,440 I don't know. 463 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:33,440 Fair enough. He has to have social media of some kind. I can probably figure it out. 464 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:38,440 How many points in computers does the shooty cat have? 465 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,440 Enough to play video games? 466 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,440 Indeed. She has two. 467 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:50,440 So she's gonna look up the dude to see if he has any dog pictures on his social media. 468 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,440 Do I just roll computers for that? Computer? 469 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:55,440 Three. 470 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,440 What exactly are you looking for? 471 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:08,440 Him with dogs. She's gonna go by volume and by stated liking of the dog. But basically she's just looking for anything connecting him to dog. 472 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,440 Jim Ansell? 473 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,440 Mm-hmm. Our sergeant. 474 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:17,440 There is no social media presence for Sergeant Jim Ansell. 475 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:25,440 Well, she has pictures of him. She's going to do a search for pictures of him with dog. Reverse image search, I guess. Kind of. 476 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:33,440 This guy appears to have no internet presence that I can... no... what's it called? 477 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:34,440 Matrix. 478 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:41,440 This guy appears to have no magic presence that I can discern. And I have no info. 479 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:48,440 Oh well. Maybe he'll want to pet the doggy if it comes close. But what was your idea? 480 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:56,440 Uh... if we had to learn, I'm just thinking maybe doggy. But I realize we can do that already. 481 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:06,440 Bigger, bigger, bigger thing. I'm thinking... so, um... do you... how do I put this? 482 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:18,440 Um... I was rope. Does anyone have rope? Like a long rope? Something that could hang on, you know, something that would be over an alleyway. 483 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,440 Okay, time to look for rope. 484 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:25,440 I prefer really strong enough to hold up a grown metahuman. 485 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:35,440 Are you going to try to snare trap a chief or a... he's a sergeant of a police. 486 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,440 Are you going to try to rope trap him like a snare? 487 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,440 Yeah. 488 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,440 Don't you need, like, a flexible material for that? 489 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:52,440 I have a gun. I have shock rounds. Honestly. Also, I can probably beat the fuck out of him. Honestly. We don't need a fancy rope trap. 490 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,440 Wait... does the serge make you really strong? 491 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,440 No, I'm just that good. She like that. 492 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:05,440 Ice looks like he wants to say something and he thinks better of it. 493 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:14,440 Honestly though, we want to talk to him. We want to get lovely information out of his pretty little head. 494 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:21,440 So I'm thinking that maybe we shouldn't, you know, beat him senseless or render him unconscious. 495 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:30,440 We'll have a chance to talk to him first. And if that doesn't work, we can beat him senseless and drag him back to the salivary and interrogate him here. 496 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:39,440 Alright. I guess that means I should stay back for a life, huh? 497 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:45,440 Again, Ice sort of looks a little bit like he wants to say something and then sort of thinks better of it. 498 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:51,440 The Boxer knows this, but she too has seen some comment. Are you okay, Ice? 499 00:35:51,440 --> 00:36:00,440 I'm fine. I'm just listening to you guys. I do think we need to get Cecile involved in the discussion. 500 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:08,440 I also don't think we should underestimate George. He was... he is a formidable foe. 501 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:18,440 He was even in the 2050s as a police captain and head of a high threat response team for Lone Star. 502 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,440 There's no man above five sticking shock rounds. 503 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:27,440 So first we summon Cecile. Second, we talk about whatever we're planning to do. 504 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:41,440 So let's do number one first. And Deandre pulls out her fucking iPhone 6s com and calls Cecile like a cell phone call. 505 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,440 Anyway, Cecile picks up. 506 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:45,440 Cecile, where are you? 507 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:51,440 I am at a cafe eating breakfast because work day hasn't started. 508 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:52,440 Work day? 509 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,440 Deandre listens for a second. Olgas? 510 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:56,440 Yes. 511 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,440 We'll be there in 25 minutes. 512 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:00,440 Lovely. 513 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,440 God, that's some stupid posh... 514 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:04,440 Isn't it? 515 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,440 She hangs out. 516 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:11,440 Who's been to Olgas? Was it just Cecile and Ice? 517 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:17,440 Cecile, Ice, and Deandre's been there before probably on her own. 518 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:23,440 She's probably visited every coffee shop in the city. Every place that has soy calf or coffee in the city. 519 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,440 They have Turkish coffee. 520 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:26,440 Ooh, probably. 521 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,440 Right, Paul literally said that they did. 522 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,440 Yep, they're known for their Turkish coffee as a matter of fact. 523 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:37,440 Do they have a portly doosing in one of the chairs by the counter? 524 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:48,440 No, but they do have... it's a good place for people watching because... well, it's a good place for people watching. 525 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:55,440 So, the second Deandre is off the phone, she stands up and goes, let's go. 526 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:56,440 Huh? Why are we coming? 527 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,440 We're going to meet Cecile. 528 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:04,440 In some ridiculous, stupid posh tea bar? Who drinks tea? 529 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,440 Their coffee's pretty good there. It's Turkish. 530 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,440 I can accept this. 531 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,440 I actually kinda like tea. 532 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,440 It doesn't have any alcohol in it, it's just your thinking. 533 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:21,440 I like the equivalent of tea, and I like the better teas here, but a lot of the tea is just kinda underwhelming. 534 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:34,440 It just tastes like someone put flowers in water and let it sit there for a few hours and then told you to drink it. 535 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,440 Metaphorically, of course, I don't know what that would taste like here. 536 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,440 Anyway, yeah, let's go to Cecile. 537 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,440 Nightingale gets up, I'm gonna go get my stuff. 538 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:44,440 And squirrels off. 539 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,440 You guys just don't carry everything around in a big belt? 540 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,440 No. 541 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,440 You can fit all of your equipment on a big belt? You clearly aren't prepared enough. 542 00:38:52,440 --> 00:39:02,440 Not all of it. The three, like, sweeps her jacket to the side and some of the stuff is on the inside, and some of it is on the belt on several pouches. 543 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,440 A respectable method of carrying things around. 544 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:18,440 There's two swords on one side and a gun on the other side with, like, you can see all her, like, rounds put in separate, uh, what are they, uh, magazines. 545 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:27,440 I would love to carry everything I need, but I would end up carrying thousands of rounds of ammunition, which seems like a bad idea. 546 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:34,440 If you get in a fight and you use up more than 36 rounds of ammunition in a hand, you're... you've lost the fight. 547 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,440 Ice is just standing there waiting. 548 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:41,440 If I carried everything I had, I would end up carrying a lot, is my point. I would have made equipment. 549 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:50,440 Ice does not appear to be... he's still wearing his 2050s clothes that seem really tacky and out of date these days. 550 00:39:50,440 --> 00:40:08,440 Boxer is just, uh, relatively casually dressed. Leather jacket, uh, sidearm. She has her fancy... well, she has a weapon that farm enthusiasts would recognize as a rather remarkable piece, especially to be seen on the street. 551 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,440 And, uh, yeah, just clothes otherwise. No ballistic vest or anything. 552 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:23,440 Ice says, imagine if we, once we've got this planned, we've got a couple of hours. We can always come back here and get geared up. I don't feel like walking around the city with an arsenal on my back. 553 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:24,440 Sounds reasonable. 554 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:28,440 I'd leave my gun here, but it's, like, too much of a hassle to leave it somewhere. 555 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,440 I don't go anywhere without this thing if I can have it. 556 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:38,440 Anyway, in a fight I'd probably pull out my sword. Deandre would probably say the name of her sword, but I can't remember her name. 557 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,440 Deandre remembers that Ice picked up a sword at the armory last night, too. 558 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,440 Ice, how trained are you at a sword? 559 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:50,440 Well, it's been a while, but I'm probably still fairly decent with a sword. 560 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,440 If we have some time, would you like some de-rusting? 561 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,440 Ooh, I would like to watch this if it is all right. 562 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:02,440 Well, that'll probably end up after our planning, but you're on, go-go-go. 563 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:09,440 Indeed. It was back in the day when I thought, uh, well, when he sort of chuckles. 564 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:14,440 I'm trained in, uh, Western swordsmanship, so that might tell you something. 565 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,440 What, like, HEMA? 566 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,440 HEMA. I don't know what that is. 567 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,440 Historical European Martial Arts. 568 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,440 Oh! 569 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,440 Human European Martial Arts? 570 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,440 Historical European Martial Arts. 571 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:27,440 Oh. 572 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,440 In the original sense of the word, that being old military shit. 573 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:39,440 I think your human European martial arts would have probably been more applicable to my sense of, my frame of mind back then. 574 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:46,440 Well, uh, to be a member of the Peace Force in Terturongar, you have to be trained on a blade. 575 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,440 I picked up rapier because it seemed like the more elegant choice. 576 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:55,440 Elegant, man. I can appreciate that sometimes. 577 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,440 It's brutal, I'd say, but they're about the same, I think. 578 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,440 As long as it works, it works. 579 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:12,440 I mean, I personally think guns, uh, well, guns, they're nicer to the person on the receiving end, but meaner to the person doing the shooting, if that makes sense. 580 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:23,440 I would disagree. Getting into it with NG Pops her claws. These would be a bit, uh, unpleasant for me, as compared to pulling a trigger. 581 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,440 My second partner carried a Zwei handgun. 582 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,440 Oh my god. So unnecessary. 583 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,440 It was, it was something. He was a jackass. 584 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:38,440 What are they expecting? To go up against Amma? The tradition, in a sense. 585 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:46,440 No, the sword thing for Terturongar is a tradition. They made up, just like everything else. 586 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,440 Um, but... 587 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,440 Ice just chuckles and he looks at you and he says, elves, right? 588 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,440 I think El actually ducks out and goes to get all of her kit together. 589 00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:01,440 D'Andre is like silent on that for like a solid second and then just continues. 590 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:06,440 Yeah. You can tell Ice is sort of trying to get a rise out of you. 591 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:13,440 Alright, so, uh, Cecile, as you're sitting there, are you're probably on your second cup of tea or coffee at this point? 592 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:14,440 Correct. 593 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,440 And, uh, you see the gang rolling in. 594 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,440 She sighs and waves them forward. 595 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,440 And, uh, you, give me a perception test, please. 596 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,440 Perception? Okay. None. 597 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:39,440 Yeah. They, uh, come jandering in and you wave them over and they, uh, they walk up to your table and, uh, sit down and one of the waitstaff comes over and takes their order. 598 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:43,440 That's all you perceive. Any of the rest of you want to give us a perception test? 599 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:51,440 D'Andre is crazy enough that she'd be like, she'd stand around for a few minutes before she entered somewhere. 600 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:56,440 Boxer's not going to be standing around, but she is used to scanning her environment as though... 601 00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,440 D'Andre, if you have any kind of police procedural stuff, you could roll that too. 602 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,440 I do, actually. 603 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:08,440 Would you count security? Uh, let's see. Like, we're talking knowledge skills? 604 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:09,440 Yes. 605 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,440 How about security tactics or combat tactics? 606 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,440 No. Then I would just go with perception. 607 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:16,440 Three. 608 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,440 D'Andre is very perceptive, I've noticed. 609 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,440 I think that's kind of her thing at this point. 610 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:22,440 Nightingale... 611 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,440 Not beating things over the head with a sword. 612 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:31,440 Nightingale, you're just curious about this place. It seems, uh, it seems pretty. 613 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:38,440 The decor is interesting and it smells good and the people, uh, seems happy and satisfied here. 614 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,440 D'Andre, you, uh, you pick up on something as you walk in. 615 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:48,440 It takes you only a half a second. There's pro... it looks like there's a security person or... 616 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:56,440 They're, they're, they're dressed to blend in, but somebody in the... sitting in the back is, uh, obviously security to you now that you notice it. 617 00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:03,440 And, uh, you look around and you see how some of the people look at the group when they come in. 618 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:12,440 And you recognize this from your police days as this place is obviously a front for something. 619 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:21,440 Probably by the way certain people reacted to ice coming in, potentially a, uh... 620 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:27,440 Well, there's probably something upstairs that they're selling. 621 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,440 Well, I see you've been here before. 622 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,440 I think you and I have been here before. 623 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:39,440 Well, you came here with a seal, pretty sure. Well, I was running around doing stupid shit. 624 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,440 Ah, right. That was a seal. 625 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:46,440 Yeah. I thought you liked norms, Ice. 626 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,440 Uh, yeah. 627 00:45:50,440 --> 00:46:01,440 Fox, you sort of pick up on the same thing that D'Andeer picked up on is that there's a security... somebody sitting in the back acting as security and, you know, you've... 628 00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:09,440 There are definitely two tiers of clientele here. The clientele that's here for the tea and there's clientele that's here for something else. 629 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,440 Oh. She... 630 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:16,440 But nobody seems to be thinking of you guys in those terms. 631 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:22,440 She's a little more on guard now, but she's not gonna do anything. Not even twitch. 632 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:27,440 And he looks at D'Andeer and he says, well... 633 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,440 I do like the normies, you're correct. 634 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:44,440 Uh, which by the way, once they come in, Nightingale, uh, like, borks and she like breaks out from the group and goes and runs to get up underneath the table and sit near to, uh, Cecil. 635 00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:52,440 She actually climbs up into the seat beside her. She's... she's disguised as the witchy dog. 636 00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,440 The seal moves her tea away from the dog. 637 00:46:55,440 --> 00:47:02,440 Uh, I'm sorry, is anyone else imagining like a corgi as the dog instead of like a normal dog? 638 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,440 What does he even establish the dog as looking like? 639 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,440 German Shepherd. 640 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,440 I thought it was German Shepherd. 641 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:15,440 I think I knew that, but I don't know, my imagination just can't put the corgi down. 642 00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:25,440 So, are we discussing our work this early in the morning? 643 00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:33,440 Well, we need to... we need a location, we need to scout it, we need to... we have a large amount of things to do. We have to prepare everyone. 644 00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:36,440 Oh, Paul left. 645 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,440 Uh, they killed him right in front of us. 646 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,440 Hey, Scott, person from the dead. 647 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,440 So, first of all, we need a location. 648 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:54,440 I says, well, so, okay, so what are we doing? What's our plan here? Are we still going to complete the job for this streaky Mr. Johnson or...? 649 00:47:54,440 --> 00:48:00,440 I see no reason to renegade... to renege on our agreement with the Johnson. 650 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:06,440 We complete the job, we use the Mr. Johnson to lure in whatever his name is, the norm. 651 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:10,440 They're all norms. 652 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:22,440 Whatever location we choose, we need to make sure that they both agree to it first, which, considering we have to get two disagreeable people to do so, might take a little while. 653 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:38,440 Well, we know that the sergeant wants to take care of his people, especially since said person appears to be one of the people who are going on the up and up, whether by them being favored or them simply being that good. 654 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:50,440 Either way, they are valued, which is to say that he's willing to take action to protect her from this creep, and said creep seems to be pretty intent on creeping. 655 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:56,440 What I'm saying is they both have incentive to encounter each other. 656 00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:06,440 We tell our original Mr. Johnson that our sergeant would be conveying the information to him as we have arranged. 657 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,440 He pays us and we let them meet. 658 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:22,440 We interrupt their meeting once whatever they do has been done, or after our original Mr. Johnson leaves, and we can ambush the sergeant in whatever manner we find appropriate. 659 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:27,440 That being said, I do believe we should secure the area around it because if I were him, I would not come alone. 660 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:31,440 There's one problem. Prokof wants us to keep the Mr. Johnson alive. 661 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:32,440 Yeah. 662 00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:33,440 Will be a problem? 663 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:39,440 If we let him leave, he can go and the sergeant can be finished with him. 664 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,440 The Mr. Johnson is our bait. 665 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:47,440 So if we let the Mr. Johnson go, the cop will chase the Mr. Johnson and take us. 666 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,440 The Mr. Johnson doesn't have to be there when the cop comes. 667 00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:51,440 That's right. 668 00:49:51,440 --> 00:50:05,440 Or we can have him in a building or other secured place that we wanted to keep him there because he's too stupid to take care of himself in the open and he doesn't have to come out before we take out that Mr. Johnson. 669 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,440 So our target. 670 00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:12,440 And to complete the job for the Mr. Johnson, we need what George Van Housen has. 671 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:20,440 George is going to get us the recording of this Kimmy person, which is going to satisfy our job, our contract with Mr. Johnson. 672 00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,440 So we need to get that from George Van Housen. 673 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,440 Use that to get to the mission. 674 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,440 How do we know that he's going to do it at all? 675 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:28,440 Because he has. 676 00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:32,440 And not just bring his Scotties in and grab the person and leave. 677 00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:33,440 Please be. 678 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:34,440 Because he's not good to it. 679 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,440 There's no solution to this. 680 00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:45,440 We just ask Mr. Housen that he please not arrest our Mr. Johnson, who will be at the scene, until after we've been paid for our work. 681 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:49,440 Then we allow him to be arrested and then we attack. 682 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:53,440 George is not is not going to be there to arrest this guy. 683 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:54,440 Exactly. 684 00:50:54,440 --> 00:51:00,440 Also, we can't trust George because he's shadow racist. 685 00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:01,440 He doesn't like us. 686 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,440 He thinks we're a bunch of scumbags. 687 00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:13,440 Yes, George Van Housen in the twenty fifties led a group of vigilantes known as the Shadow Riders, whose old job was exterminating shadow runners. 688 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:19,440 And that is I want to a little area of operation to be secured. 689 00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,440 I'm willing to sweep this area. 690 00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:34,440 And in fact, I'm also willing to have this individual is within my parents, whom I know to ensure that any outgoing members are duly known of. 691 00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,440 It would be a favor, certainly. 692 00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,440 But well, we have two options. 693 00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:51,440 You can either sweep it manually and establish a sort of perimeter, the old fashioned way, or we can do this with a little more Kyle. 694 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:59,440 I do believe you are connected to lovely lawmaking corporations. 695 00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,440 I don't have any friends in that area. 696 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:16,440 I don't suppose you could get them to keep you in the loop as to any outgoing members, especially with an hour of operation, which is is it set? 697 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:24,440 If it's not set, I want to tell them to come to us in a position that is we're going to have to balance two things. 698 00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,440 We're going to have to meet in Auburn then. 699 00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:38,440 As long as it's not near my there's an area that's off limits because they all lives in Auburn and is because I'm being there. 700 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:43,440 That's because that's where Boxer's contact works, too. 701 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:48,440 Yes. So we asked our context to keep us in the loop on. 702 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,440 No, that was out of character. Sorry. 703 00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,440 Just not a box is going to keep that to her chest for now. 704 00:52:55,440 --> 00:53:01,440 So how's it isn't going to just show up if we tell them to show up right? 705 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,440 Like we need to give him a compelling reason. 706 00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:08,440 And our compelling reason is Mr. Johnson being a creep. 707 00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:13,440 Well, the first thing, the first reason he's going to show up is to give us the recording of this Kimmy person. 708 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,440 He doesn't have to. 709 00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:22,440 And the second reason is to get rid of Mr. J, which we are. 710 00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:26,440 Unfortunately, meet us in person to give us the recording. 711 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:31,440 You seem to be pretty intent on dealing with Mr. Johnson. 712 00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:38,440 He could now to give us the recording, you could just send it over them or he could drop it off somewhere and get up later. 713 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,440 Well, we have his number. 714 00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:44,440 He doesn't want to incriminate himself. 715 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,440 As much as we want to incriminate him. 716 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,440 So that's incrimination. 717 00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:50,440 We are getting him. 718 00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,440 That's correct. 719 00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:53,440 Sorry. 720 00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,440 Habit of my previous line of work. 721 00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:57,440 Indeed. 722 00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,440 And this is my caution. 723 00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,440 Well, so we get the recording from Mr. Johnson. 724 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,440 I think we should ask him for it. 725 00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,440 Ask him to send it to us over the major. 726 00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:16,440 We need to see Johnson somewhere and play him a record and play him the recording and send it to him via the major. 727 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:27,440 Then we will when we have previously notified the Van Housen of the meeting location, we he shows up. 728 00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:32,440 We kind of OK, OK, we need to protect those Mr. Van Housen. 729 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:37,440 Then what we should do is we should ask for an in-person exchange with Van Housen for the recording. 730 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,440 And we don't have our Johnson anywhere in the area. 731 00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:45,440 And then we say we're going to bring you in when we give this to the Johnson. 732 00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,440 That way he doesn't know where the Johnson is. 733 00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,440 And if he's going to kill us, he would kill us right there. 734 00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,440 Just go get the Johnson on his own. 735 00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:56,440 Take care of things one at a time. 736 00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:57,440 All right. 737 00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:06,440 And if he isn't just going to go spend his precious time looking for this Johnson, then we have incentive for him to not immediately shoot at us. 738 00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,440 Right. 739 00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,440 Aren't our plans the same? 740 00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,440 Just mine doesn't require us to meet twice in person. 741 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:23,440 Well, if we get the recording via the matrix, then obviously he's going to want us to point out where the Johnson is so he can shoot both of us at the same time. 742 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:34,440 Well, we just tell him where the meeting spot is and give him either a wrong time so he shows up after the Johnson left or tell him to show up after the Johnson left. 743 00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,440 If I were him, I would just. 744 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,440 He's so confident he's not going to check the meet before he shows up. 745 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:46,440 If I were him, I would have cameras on that before I got in and I would want to confirm that this person is here. 746 00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:47,440 Exactly. 747 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,440 And you think he won't? 748 00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,440 We could send him the meet time and place and time. 749 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:58,440 I think we have better idea to, what you call it. 750 00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:06,440 We should probably, well, the Johnson doesn't actually have to be there for the second meet. 751 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:10,440 We can meet with the Johnson somewhere else. 752 00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:26,440 And whenever we bring the quote unquote Johnson, it can be, as I had suggested, a reasonable looking decoy that they would be able to see something that looks like a man, perhaps sitting on something or sitting in a car. 753 00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,440 And if they have a mage with them to a sense it. 754 00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,440 They wouldn't be able to if it was in a car because of glass. 755 00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:38,440 That's I don't I don't see the need to invoke illusions. 756 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:45,440 We can just set up a circumstance where Mr. Hawson would not expect our Johnson to be there for our initial meet. 757 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:46,440 And we take care of that. 758 00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,440 And then we tell our Johnson, we took care of everything. 759 00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:50,440 Don't worry about it. 760 00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,440 Here's your recording. 761 00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,440 Here's your closing ice chimes. 762 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,440 And I think that's the plan. 763 00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,440 We meet with Van Housen to get the recording. 764 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,440 We get the recording. 765 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:04,440 We take Van Housen, and then we can meet with the Johnson at a later time. 766 00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,440 Give him the recording. 767 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:29,440 Finish out that deal. 768 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:42,440 The tops company Inc has sole ownership of the names logo artwork marks photographs sounds audio video and or any proprietary material used in connection with the game shadow run. 769 00:57:42,440 --> 00:58:01,440 The tops company Inc has granted permission to the hard knocks sorority podcast to use such names logos artwork marks and or any proprietary materials for promotional and informational purposes on its website, but does not endorse and is not affiliated with the hard knocks sorority podcast in any official capacity whatsoever. 770 00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:14,440 The music for the hard knocks sorority podcast was written and performed by trace mineral. 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