Arc 1 - War is Disorganized Boar - Pt 1 - Unbalanced Encounters: Rally

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Hi everyone. Welcome to the first episode of Unbalanced encounters.
I'm your host, Patrick Perini and I wanted to start by saying, I funked up,
which is a great thing to sort of start a podcast with.
Um we are new to this,
we're still figuring out our audio and there was
an ish with my microphone sort of during recording.
So throughout this episode I might sound a little bit rough,

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but we are always improving, always working to make the show better.
Uh and we think that this was a fun, funny episode and absolutely worth the listen.
Anyway, so thank you very much for bearing with us and we hope you enjoy
the earliest beams of sunlight

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glints off of a creek that bubbles and winds its way
into a dense grove of brilliant green.
It is summer in the western wheels
and the longest day of the year is dawning.
The creatures of the forest know this and move to make the most of the morning sun.
Before the loggers arrive

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we see a get go skitter from the shade onto an outstretched branch, yawn
and vanish into the rugged bark,
A kingfisher
silhouetted against the golden water preens itself for its morning hunt.
This place is teeming with life,
-- but the town that lies just a few dozen yards upstream is not-- yet.

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It is a wood cutting concern,
rough and tumbled
and enclosed on all sides by two story timbers.
The creek runs beneath the gate and from up through the town tumbling over terraces
and through buildings,
one x 1 doors begin to unlatch

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the Spymaster throws open the pen gates and lets his drove
of yak sized boar rush to the creek for their morning drink
like all the denizens of this industrious little town,
they're bracing for the long work day ahead.
The quartermaster sips coffee and quietly begins her morning inventory.
-- The-- miller packs a pipe and moves to open up his mill

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in a kitchen garden on a high ledge.
A ceramic statue stands vigil over these earliest stirrings.
Soon he will open the gate
as he does every day without fail.
At the foot of the hill,
the gate stands as the town's sole entrance above it chopped into the wood.
By the hell of an ax are two words in old Imperial fortier,

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stronger rallied.

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Hello,
One and all and welcome to unbalanced encounters the show that dares to ask what if,
how Miyazaki was a theater kid.
I'm your host, Patrick Carini.
I would like to welcome you all to our first season, which we are calling rally.
And not only would I like to welcome you, I would like to welcome our players.

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I'm gonna go around the table.
We're gonna save characters for in the game,
but we're gonna go ahead and start off everybody say hi!
-- Starting from the top cinderblock sally, hello,-- Hello. Oh my goodness!
-- What an intro. That little that little-- thing you just did was
-- master.-- It's gonna be a fun time, my friends.

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-- Next up we got sam, Oliver Sam say hello,-- Oh, hello, thank you so much for having me
Sam.
-- All-- right, next up we have the chat is nerds, you know, craig pates.
Oh gosh. Oh okay.
All right.
All I know right now is I have written down, gecko is suspicious, but yes, thank you.

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-- It's-- going to be our note taker this season and I'm here for a bad
-- idea that I'm-- here.
I'm here for it.
You got the gecko in one, my friend,
uh and last but not least the illustrious Emily Graham or Emily.
-- Hello?-- Hi, pleasure to be here. I'm very, very excited.
-- We-- could not be more excited to be playing this game.

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Uh and what what is this game you might be asking because you don't know, you're,
you're just listening to a podcast for the first time, which by the way, thank you.
We know that there's like a billion of these and this is the best,
but you don't know that yet.
So we have to prove ourselves. Let's talk about setting for a minute.
Our game begins in the Western wields a massive forest and

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one of the last true wild places on an island nation costilla
isolated imperial and in the middle of a rebellion that threatens civil war.
Our story centers on rally a small logging
community whose sole export is elder wood.
Resin an ordinarily rare tree sap that well, not much use in its raw state

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is refined into a, shall we say supplement
that allows powerful sorcerers to perform acts of magic,
So that's where we're gonna be playing and I would like to
say I have had 10 hours of sleep in the last 48,
-- I have extremely jet-- lagged,
-- so-- with that if you are all ready to jump in we can jump straight in.

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Yes, yes, bravo, bravo, let's do this
uh Wonderful.
So uh it is against this backdrop of rally
in these early more in this early morning opening
kind of montage that takes place every day without
fail uh that we see a tall and extremely competent

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looking woman, she is uh making her way to the mess hall uh for the, you know,
kind of opening of her day, she's looking at,
looking to get a little breakfast Emily,
Would you please describe your character for us
goodness me. Um So my character is Safra Harissa, Harissa to most people.

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Um she is, I say tour, she's about 5, 10, so definitely taller than me um
and she is uh
basically
-- a a-- ranger um she likes days to be very, very calm,

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she doesn't like anything to happen,
she likes things to be as simple and easy as possible.
She moved around a lot as a youngster hasn't really
known any peace and would like some peace now,
thank you very much.
Um so yeah, good day today where nothing happens um physical I suppose just like
dark hair sort of like a bit scruffy braided in

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places um And just kind of very loose fitting,
sort of like wraps and close like that so yeah.
-- Yeah pretty-- fantastic. Uh Great. So as as as Harissa makes her way
to the mess hall. I am actually going to ask for the first roll of our game.

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It's gonna be a little bit unorthodox.
-- I'm going to ask you for a luck roll with disadvantage-- if
you please,
-- you're-- Gonna Roll two d.
20 and take the lower of the of the two roles as is
20

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-- 20. Take the lower of the-- two,
Okay I'm doing it doing it wonderful 14.
Alright on 14 uh we see this morning it's gone pretty well.
You woke up your you know sort of um

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the people that you interact with in the morning have kind of stayed out of your way.
It's been good so far your subordinates have been you know, kind of not underfoot.
Uh your you know your your your morning kind of rounds were easy, nothing was wrong.
Guard was where he was supposed to be june was nowhere to be seen.

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It was a good morning until you got to the mess hall
and nearly got shoved to the ground by one of the board.
-- Why is this bar out? You don't know but presumably it's someone else's-- problem.
-- How-- do you how do you react to nearly getting shoved to the ground actually.

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You know what, go ahead and roll a dexterity saving, throw
a massive boar right
there, yak size, so they're big, they're you know,
kind of like shoulder height at the head.
What was the result there?

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I mean five.
Alright, marissa, you are knocked to the ground for two damage.
Um And as you lay there um you know you see actually uh two more of the boar,
kind of round the

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hole behind it and scatter off into the rest of rally. Um
-- Not-- a good sign,
-- not a good-- sign.
Harissa, Harissa,
What do you do as you're sort of laying there and you
see these bore kind of peel off into the rest of rally.
Did they seem angry, agitated or just like excited?

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These boar are generally,
you know that these boar are actually generally pretty common demeanor.
They listen reasonably well. They're very well trained.
The boards specifically are kind of the beast of burden
of rally and sort of this part of the world.
They don't need a lot of grassland that kind of forage out in the in the wilderness.
They drink from the creek.

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They're very easy to sort of upkeep as opposed to, you know,
more pastoral kind of animals.
These board in particular have a very special skill.
Uh They have been trained to help sniff out elder wood groves uh
as you move through your rotations and so they're very mild mannered.
The stein master keeps them very happy.

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This level of agitation is abnormal, But it's also they didn't seem angry,
they weren't like trying to hurt you, they just seem excited.
I think it's the word you use and I think that's a good one.
Uh huh. Harissa will
get herself up, brush yourself off,
Can she see where the balls are headed if she kind of looks out towards them

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is not that big. And give me a perception check
okay, perception
A seven because I rolled it too and we're doing all the low rolls now
You track one back toward the sty uh and you lose track of the other two
-- breakfast,-- gonna

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walk into the into the bar missile.
-- So-- you go to the mess hall, you wrote a 14 on that. Luck check the mess hall is locked,
okay. Um
No breakfast for me today.
So she's going to sigh

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and just walk and sort of follow where the kind of pigs were headed just to make sure.
So as you're headed back toward the sty,
you consider um actually as you're as you're heading back towards the sky,
you passed the Spymasters cottage and the door is open and the
stove is lit and you would know that the Sky master runs a

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an unofficial tavern
in his spare time. Uh and he seems to be off and open for business.
I know his name, do I, what's his name?
-- Oh absolutely. You've known scrum P for probably about two years-- now,
I'm gonna kind of pop the door open then if it's already ajar heading

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scrubby
scrappy.
Yes.
You see a room that you know kind of like
all of the cottages and rally are relatively modest.
Uh This one has been like all the furniture has
been sort of shoved away to make room for like

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a couple of really shitty like it just like scrap
wood tables that he has kind of put together.
Uh And he's got like a bar that's like on
a shelf that's dangling from like some old suspenders.
It kind of looks like um
you know that they're covered with all manner
of not extraordinarily clean looking mugs and bottles.

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Um And uh you see that he is kind of in the at the back
wall at his little you know sort of cast iron stove uh making some eggs
scrum P. Uh you owe me a free breakfast.
I'll show you a free one out.
You heard you see

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the hoof prints on my blouse?
-- You owe me a free breakfast.-- Oh oy.
You know what uh And he sort of wings
around with these eggs that are like they're burnt on
the underside and like kind of that snotty white
consistency still on the top like not fully set.

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Uh And he placed them up for you. Um Just as is and uh it says uh
-- well-- I suppose that they didn't get out this morning and didn't
as as as tempting as that is grumpy.
Uh I think we should at least see if the rest of your pigs stay around.

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Oh, the rest of them, I got put back in the band. No problem.
Granted, that's only uh, that's only a few.
It's only uh, you know, the one, because we only have about a dozen or
so, only by the one and then we got,
and thomas out back and you see, you know, sort of from his back window.
Uh, there's a, there's one of the board that is just like

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fully legs up, like supine cat position, uh, that you would, you would know as,
as scrum p sort of, not his pet person, it's his pet,
it's his favorite is his favorite, What's his name? His favorite? The pet one.

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Yes.
This is also something that Harrison would know
that that board's name is Kaden thomas O'Rourke.
Kayden, I'm writing this down, Kayden thomas
-- scrubbing-- gets real upset if you do not,
if you do not refer to him as at least Kayden thomas, but preferably the whole thing.

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Okay.
-- Uh okay, well, I'm glad that the Kayden thomas is safe.-- Scrum.
P plugs this drink down on the bar in front of Harissa.
Has she ever seen anything like that before?
I'm assuming she just knows what that is.
Yeah, so this is the, this is the drink, uh, that, that's grumpy bruise.

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Uh this is uh, you know, kind of good alcohol is kind of tough to come by out here.
You get it from traders when you can.
Um It's uh it's it's worth it, you know sort of every time.
But when you don't have access to that scrum P.
Is is just he is the biggest advocate of something
that he calls scraps parrilla which is made from.

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Well
you guys make a lot of elder wood
sawdust.
Uh huh
lovely.
Um
I think normally normally Harissa would partake but it's a bit early in the morning.

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It is truly like
-- it's like 6:15 AM.-- It's the kind of thing she would take to forget the day, you know
safe.
Save this for me
plus another two
for the end of the day. Because I know I will need it
To, eggs. Are another two scraps parrilla.

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This scraps perilla. Yes thank you.
So you're just to be clear you're gonna you're gonna take care of the
problem, right? That's not something old.
-- Gotta worry about.-- Yes Crump. Yes. Yes
bless you.
You're a saint among men.
Women
-- whomever.-- She's closed the door. She's out already.

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-- Um-- Okay -- so how how do you want to go about doing this
because I I've got an idea of how I wanna handle it mechanically.
But how do you how do you want to handle pig wrangling as
-- being kind of the first thing you've got to do this-- morning.
I feel like firstly she probably listened for like

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the squeals and just ruckus coming from somewhere.
Um
and if she can't hear anything, probably just,
I'm sure there'll be footsteps in the mud somewhere that she could, she could.
Yeah, I think just across the board we can treat this as, I mean this is,
let's be honest, your, your ranger, this is not your first pig wrestle.

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Uh Go ahead and roll me a survival check and I
believe you have advantage on those with favorite favorite enemy beast.
So go ahead and roll me a survival check and we'll just go ahead and treat this as the,
as the outcome sort of of this of these three pigs.
21

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Alright on 21
-- on-- 21 you spend the next, you are now fully late for the rest of the day,
You spend the next hour wrangling these three yak sized boar that
have decided today's the day they're going to act the fool.
Uh And you, you catch them in 33 distinct places.

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The first one you see whipping around the mill uh and you managed to just like
get it and kind of get a get a rope around it, hear it back towards scrum,
p who's kind of waiting there by the pen, uh you know, ready to, ready to receive them.
Uh You travel a little further into town uh and you actually clock

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a little bit of ruckus from the sort of quartermasters general store,
but you do manage to um Again you see,
you know sort of one of those another boar kind of leap off of a little edge and
it tries to kind of get around you and you just sort of grab it by the tusks,
throw yourself onto it and kind of ride it toward the pen a little bit.

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Uh You get that,
you get that second one in and you do manage to get the third one as well.
Uh The third one is has managed to get up to the kitchen garden
uh where we saw a guard earlier uh and has uprooted several
vegetables and it's currently laying in the mud very content with itself.

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Um
And you managed to get ahold of this one as well and you know,
this one's a little calmer, you just kind of lead it back down into the pen.
But that is
-- that-- is your morning uh shot more or less shot to hell. Uh You are now officially about

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-- 45 minutes late for your morning meeting with Isaac. AH-- What
do you do?
Um She's just gonna she's gonna head up towards Isaac, she's not gonna rush,
she will just kind of like go at a normal pace, head to Isaac.

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Um
And when she kind of like sees him
she'll just kind of have that haggard look on
her face and just point to the like footprints on
that in a minute because we are
going to
cut away and actually we are going to jump to another person in this town,

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we are going to jump to the uh really the sort of de facto leader of this town.
Uh He is you know sort of again you know kind of tall,
fairly well built uh you know a man who's
been working these trees for for quite some time
uh you know maybe has a little bit of the you know kind of the

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weight of the world on his shoulders this morning as he you know kind of arouses
himself and uh you know gets himself to his his office for his you know kind
of morning check ins with everyone craig would
you please describe your character for us?
Ah Yes. Uh
Isaac ex drummer is a

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half work around his his mid fifties at this time.
Um He's as you said, well built,
very muscular from just chopping wood for these past two decades.
Uh He's got a few scars along his forearms and one across his jaw. Um

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And for the most part he's he's trimming his like beard is like
kinda he's keeps it trimming neat for the most
part but it's all white at this um and he's
he's rocking uh we're gonna say a red red flannel
oh

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and
just you know we have genes in this world, I want to
I want
-- they had jeans and we we we we we've got Isaac blue jeans, there we-- go
uh
-- uh I-- love this

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-- but he's just sitting in his office at his desk and-- before you
actually take that seat I'd like you to go ahead and roll me a flat luck check.
No disadvantage please.
-- Flat-- let's go
to my
-- it's-- my lucky day.
Some are more lucky than others it seems

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-- I-- will take all the advantage. I will flirt with you if I need to.
-- I-- didn't do it, I didn't do it. Oh no.
-- Oh-- my friend. Oh no.
-- Three-- oh boy okay. Oh no. Uh

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Isaac you go to you go you go to you know you've got
you are probably the only person in town with like an office right?
Like you have correspondence with the outside world.
You have a space where you can meet transients leaders
within the community uh you know take time to consider and
do accounts and you know all of the logistical things

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that you frankly never thought you'd have to fucking do.
Um And and you know sort of with that comes you know
kind of the aesthetic trappings and you've you've got a physical desk,
it's like a good oaken desk, it's got a decent chair.
Um
You know you you you don't kind of kind of lots of light, its good positive space.
You know you're ready for the morning, kind of taking those deep breaths, you get in,

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you sit down goes out from under the chair, head off of the desk laying on the grounds.
-- Uh you-- take two
points of damage as you bounce your head
off of the desk uh and send you know some papers,
get a ring across the ground.
Uh That is that is the first thing

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-- uh to-- happen this morning.
Damn it dale.
Alright, we got another day
and sit up.
Yeah you kind of start collecting your papers, get everything kind of together.
It's still a little early for you know, kind of your first,
your first meeting today is usually Harissa,
so you've still got a little bit of time um How are you spending that time?

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Are you just kind of sitting contemplating? Are you going through some of the in box?
Like what does that, what does that look like for you?
I mean Isaac unlike me has a list of things to do for the day and
funny enough,
yeah the first thing is to check on the guard
and to see how the rotations were and there was any

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-- issues in the morning, so-- fantastic.
Also, hello and welcome to another episode of Office Simulator.
-- You-- know,
-- craig-- was like what if I played the leader of this town and like
got really into the nitty gritty of running it and I was like,
that sounds like a really fun listening experience for our listeners at home,

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who have to listen to this with their human ears and then go to their fucking day jobs.
-- Listen, check this out, he was gonna do a morning jog, you-- know
-- like-- mixing the guard rotation with
-- that good-- can
-- have like a water cooler so we can have like a chat around it occasionally.-- Like

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me. That's funny. Okay
this is Canon,
like someone brings like a jug from the actually I think this
is like a quartermaster job where
like someone someone with the quartermasters office
like brings a fucking clay jug of water and like upturns it so
that you guys can like get water out of it every morning.
I think that's the thing, I think that's Canon.

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Hell yes Isaac as you you know you sort of get back up to your desk,
you you know you you grab the you know kind of list of notes, the manifest for this,
this upcoming guard uh you know kind of meeting what you need to talk about here.
Um And actually on that piece of paper is another piece of paper,
it's a big like uh scrap of paper that you hand sketched

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in a note for um which was uh do mess hall rotation
and it just got to the bottom of the pile and you
just fully forgot to assign a mess hall officer for this week.
Uh So that's probably something that someone's
gonna be unhappy about here momentarily.
Um

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uh And again you've got a little bit of
time before Harissa is supposed to get here but you
do find the you know kind of a list of of of of notes for the garden meeting.
It's a it's a short list actually you really it's this this ends up being kind of
Harris is very good at her job.
And so this these meetings often end up being kind of a an intake for you.

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Like what has gone wrong that you have to deal with rather than putting
things onto uh Harissa assuming that june hasn't gotten into any more shenanigans.
Um and it doesn't seem, you know, the touch the broken wood on the floor.
It doesn't seem like that's gonna happen yet today.
Uh So you, you know, you kind of hold there for a minute um

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uh And yeah, again,
I think you're just kind of collecting yourself and you
hear the door to your office just fully kick open.
Uh and you hear walking in
zack, where is that? No good, good for nothing, son of a something or other.

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Uh And your your miller uh Maurice, broad beam walks in. Maurice is a dwarf.
He is a he is the epitome of a crotchety old man.
Uh He is the quite frankly the best miller and as far as you can tell,

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the only elder wood refiner like north of the capital
-- of the silla uh and-- just the
fucking worst.
Just the like you you hate, he's so
he's such a pain in the as he's so good at his job.
So he runs the entire million refining operation.

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Like you see him once every three months and you would not want it any other one.
You are triggering me so bad right now.
We've all had Maurice
shout out to the Maurice out there. We hate all of you, we hate all of you.

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He's Maurice is walking in um and he's sort of waving his
pipe around and he says what do you do about it?
Uh Now Maurice we talked about this.
If you plan on telling me that you're upset about something, I need you to

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elaborate on said
apps settings.
Huh?
The male stone. The millstone. The millstone.
I've been in here three times about over the last year.
Finally done the teeth of God could put this close to cracking.
If it runs another 30 seconds gonna break in half. We don't have a millstone boy.

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You run a mill, we don't have a millstone.
Maurice, understand see I told you about that smoking.
-- Alright,-- You leave this to me, this is nature's good leaves, it's good stuff.
They're gonna end up putting you in nature's good ground you
-- keep smoking and I'm-- gonna put both of us in.

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Nature's good ground. They could put both of us.
You and I were gonna I you I bet you all the money in your pockets.
If you had any money in your pockets that you and
I would find the ground at the same damn time.
You leave my smoking out of it
only be so lucky to be in the ground before you.
-- But okay. A-- millstone. We need to figure out this millstone situation.

(31:09):
Alright alright. Um What what do we need to figure this out?
Come on, think think Maurice think
listen I milled the wood, I refined the wood, that's twice your job. You do yours.
-- I'll do mine.-- All right.
See I just established I'm trying to do my job but if
I don't know where this stone of Mylan is to be a quiet

(31:30):
then how can I help you with your job or you see it's
-- a given good thing that we're trying to trying to deal-- with.
You. Kind of you kind of see that he like
is very frustrated that you aren't going to just like figure this out
because he doesn't he doesn't know where to find a fucking millstone right?
-- Like-- there dale,
Your predecessor Sourced one from.

(31:52):
-- Actually-- go ahead and roll me history check with advantage if you don't mind.
Yeah.
History let's go
Isaac
-- history-- because you have that thought you have dale sourced
-- one from and then like that high pitched signal tone-- that
20.

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Oh you're not gonna like this, you're not gonna like this at all. Uh This is very good
-- on-- That 20.
You know exactly where dale got this, this millstone dale got this millstone from?
Mine head.

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Uh And mine head is a mining community several, probably
100 miles north of here.
All the way on the coast at the top of the western, the Western mountains. Um,
and again, these are people that you very, very infrequently interact with,

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but every damn time they try to muscle in on your territory somehow.
You have no idea what dale gave away to get this millstone.
That cost never came do for you.
It was either paid off or orchestrated long before your time in,
in sort of charge here.
Um,

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And on that 20,
you honestly think that Catherine might have been
involved in that negotiation somehow because a millstone,
I mean this thing is massive, right like millstones are, you know, this is,
this is probably about 10, maybe a dozen feet in diameter.
Um, big,
relatively intricately carved piece of stone that sits into another

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one and grinds the wood out into a pulp.
Like
It's the backbone of your organization.
It's a big piece of intricately mill, you know,
kind of intricately carved and quarried stone.
Uh, that mine head boys are gonna be the ones who know, uh, you know,
sort of what to do here and on an at 20, I'll give you this on the night.

(33:58):
20, I'll give you this,
you take a look down and see you spot your calendar, You spot that.
It is in fact the day of the summer solstice, which is always the,
the shipping kind of varies a little bit with, you know, kind of you and,
and the mind head boys and so forth.
and and you know,
kind of getting things out of this part of the
world is not the easiest thing in the world.

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They will always be moving product on the solstice
because it is the longest day of the year.
They get the most daylight that they can push through.
They're gonna be passing by your neck of the woods.
Give or take within a few miles probably around lunchtime.
All right.
Uh You know what Maurice, I figured it out.

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You know this big brain of mine,
-- you know our us teaming up and getting things done.-- I
can I can get a millstone.
It's gonna it's gonna take some
negotiations but we can I got this for you.
Go ahead and roll me the

(35:05):
this is gonna come down to what Isaac actually believes here. Romy.
Either persuasion or deception. Your uh
your call.
-- I mean he's not lying.-- Okay.
-- Oh that is a seven-- seven all in. Alright, so Maurice gets a plus two to this role.

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He's gonna roll we're gonna roll a little insight here.
Um He gets a plus two to this role.
If he rolls a five or higher he is going to call your bluff.
That's a 10.
So that's a that's a natural 12. He kind of eyes you over
and says,

(35:49):
-- you know how important this is-- right. Yeah.
And I know I know the millstones important of what we do know
extra MMA
I need you to look me in the damn eye right now.
You know how important this is. Right?
Do I understand that our entire community could

(36:09):
completely implode on itself without this millstone?
That makes a bit of sense. Absolutely.
Do I have time to just stress about that and that alone right now, Maurice, I love you,
I love you because you know how to do your job,
but at the same time
there's more on my plate than just figuring out this mill.

(36:31):
-- See now look at you, now look at you all the coughing and-- you leave me out of this.
You would go on with what happened to him.
I gotta worry about you dying. I gotta worry about the millstone.
See this just keeps piling on over and over and over again and I just
-- can't-- stress all the time.

(36:52):
I swear to the gods, if I hear one more, the burden of command speech out of you.
-- You listen to me-- boy.
If you don't make I know as well as you do today is the solstice mind.
Head of boys will be coming down the path.
You send somebody up to get them, they'll be here by lunchtime,
They'll do that for you.
Well, they'll do that. If you give them something.

(37:13):
If you don't make a deal with them. By the end of the day, me and mine are shipping out.
It's the way it's gotta be.
You're gonna ship out on me.
Maurice everything we've been all, all the times I let you smoke in the mess hall,
everybody wheezing and coughing from your nasty tobacco and you gonna leave me?

(37:34):
It is at that moment that Harissa enters the room.
Isaac
-- Harrison? Harrison.-- Oh
uh could you, could you wait a moment?
Dry yourself off over there in the, in the corner, don't don't touch anything,
dry myself off in the corner, give me a towel.
I just wrestled pigs for you all day and you dry myself off in the corner.

(37:59):
-- Isaac please boys.-- Did I order pigs to be wrestled?
Oh yeah the damn boards got out.
Oh and you got fired again.
Oh
just Isaac is like he went from trying to
-- be calm and collected with Maurice-- and

(38:20):
he just,
all of that that facade has disappeared at that dimension of
jennifer losing her job. What job she have this time?
She was with
her, she was with corner master
the general. So
yeah,
I'd get fired from the general store. Everybody needs to go there.

(38:43):
-- Do I look like her keeper?-- This Maurice, you know everything damn else Maurice.
-- I just assumed you knew that-- I don't know
about the pigs.
She was just that was just the stuff I passed on the way to this office,
you know what your problem is Maurice, You smoke too much and he is too big.
Get out of my office,
I figure out this millstone thing later and you get out of my office,
There's too much going on.

(39:05):
Uh He obliges.
Uh And leaves and Isaac is you turn around to you know kind of Harris
is still just like getting some of the mud off of off of her clothes.
Um I'm gonna say you swing past your desk.
-- I mean have you make me a perception check if you don't mind?-- Sure.
I would say that Isaac is looking for his list of jobs

(39:27):
-- for Juniper. We'll go with that. four. I just rolled-- great.
-- Uh-- Okay -- so you start rummaging through. You're looking for that list of jobs.
Goddamn widow!
You you started out with this list and you kind of tear like bits off of it.
And you've had to like like tape more on because you had to

(39:47):
rotate through and like cycle through with june and you know exactly what this
list looks like. But you can't find it.
You do you do at some point grab a piece of
paper uh that um it's still folded and wax sealed.
Uh And it is wax sealed with the seal of your imperial buyer.
You have no idea how long this has been sitting here

(40:09):
-- but it shouldn't have been as long as it has-- been.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh alright.
-- So so I don't find the list but I find this letter-- Not on a three. Look Check. No.
Who the hell gets fired from? The General Store three times. I don't understand it?
All right.
Oh

(40:30):
harry.
So what what what what what's going on right now
what's thank you for helping with the pigs and whatnot.
But um how's how's the God house? How
what's going on?
But pigs are wrangled. They are back where they should be scrum P.
Is as scrum P as ever. Um The guards are fine. Everything is fine. Um I go you're fine.

(40:59):
I go
-- I've had better days but you sure you don't need anything?-- I do not want to intrude.
-- Is the water cooler? Doing fine?-- It's fine. It's fine. I will go.
-- You-- don't want to you don't want to tag along.
No you don't want to enjoy this conversation I'm about to
have with juniper about getting fired from the general store.

(41:19):
Third time.
I mean I don't know why she was hired back twice but but that's not for me to talk about.
-- We-- don't have enough jobs here. Can she work for you?
I will go. I will see you soon.
I was like if there are problems I come back but trust me. No problems. All good.
I leave.
-- Goodbye. I go-- marisa marisa.

(41:41):
You're great at your job and he sits down in the chair that was broken
-- shit-- Isaac. You drop back down into that chair and we once again cut cut away
two
one of the little um cottages

(42:06):
sort of along one of the western bridges here in rally.
Uh And it's a small one.
and uh it's always, it's always a little uh fragrant this particular cottage,
there's always something going on in there that smells of castor oil and
menthols of various kinds and it's just got this very kind of earthy,

(42:28):
almost medicinal medicinal smell.
Uh And as we, as we enter uh we see a workshop
that is just
filled to the gunnels with steam and uh you know, kind of,
you know those shelves that they have in libraries,
Those drawers that like dewey decimal drawer system that they've got,

(42:50):
just like walls lined with those and a couple of cots laid out
in the middle of the room and there's steam kind of everywhere.
There's a little bit of uh it actually looks like
uh the owner of this cottage had kind of like
dug down into whatever water system runs underneath this this
hill uh and like pipe steam into this room.

(43:11):
It's,
it's it's this bizarre kind of combination of pipes and
mechanical wood and herbal kind of of a situation.
Uh and we see uh we see a young woman uh in repose upon one of the cots
uh sam if you would please

(43:32):
describe your character.
Sure.
Um so Juniper Snow Thorn, she's 20 years old.
Um she's about five ft 65 ft seven. She likes to pretend she's a lot taller.
Um she
walks around with her mother's staff attached to her back

(43:56):
um and out of a pit of rage. One day she decided to shave half of her head.
So the left side of her head is completely shaved down.
She's got this mop of chestnut brown hair falling over the other side.
Um She's a half elf. Um and

(44:16):
uh,
up above her ears and over her forehead is a
bandana type wrapping that she has around her head.
She's got a little sapphire uh earring that
she's attached to the top of that bandana.
Um
and
she
is,

(44:39):
she is hiding probably, and right now she's a little bit worried.
You are in fact hiding out. This is often where you come to hide out.
This is rallies infirmary.
Uh that is managed by uh, the eccentric Oz,

(45:01):
who is about three ft tall currently puttering about in the back of of the
room, I think. Um you tell me what this interaction looks like.
You've just been fired for the third time from the Quartermasters.
-- Gods-- know how many, how many times you've been fired from other unrelated things. Um

(45:26):
I'm gonna have you roll your luck check here in a minute, but I am curious like, what,
how are you, are you, are you talking with Oz?
Are you just taking space and enjoying the steam? Um Are you
uh Where, where, where, where you at? Right now,
june is
trying to meditate a little bit. Um

(45:51):
and
I think she's
finding some reprieve in
in Oz space and I think I think also coming to Oz to kind of
like vent a little bit because it wasn't her fault being fired at all.
So

(46:11):
she just wants to make that very clear uh to somebody that will listen to her.
Uh All right. Why don't you go ahead and roll me that luck check flat.
-- No-- disadvantage.

(46:32):
-- That's-- a low point. So far. Friends.
That's
-- okay.-- Uh june we're actually gonna do something little different here.
I want you to tell me 13 is not that unlucky, right?
I mean, it's it's definitely not the luckiest.
Uh you know, it's um maybe a little symbolic, but it's also above average.

(46:56):
So, you know, it's got some got some tug in both directions,
given that you given that you rolled a 13 on your luck check what was going on
that got ultimately got june fired.
-- What was the like straw that broke the-- back?

(47:17):
Okay. So
what happened was she was in the back um and she has
like her little sketchbook that she carries around with her and she was
she had just taken all of her art supplies to the back

(47:38):
because she's been told she can't work on them in the front.
Uh So she brought them to the back of the shop and she's
writing out her little signs and she was attaching string to the signs.
She was making the sign board boards for the board's
uh she was gonna drape them over the boards.

(47:59):
Um And so she put she was putting a lot of time and effort into it
and uh apparently she's not allowed to do that in the back of the shop either.
Uh
So I think that's june sort of interpretation of how things went down,
I think that the way that you know, kind of what you saw was exactly that, right?

(48:22):
And your most recent boss, uh the quartermaster, uh Benny,
Jazzier had had sort of come in and and she had um just flown off the handle at you
uh demanded that you get out not willing to hear your excuses or arguments.
Um And uh so you know, maybe after a fashion you had complied and you had sort of

(48:49):
meander your way over to uh to the infirmary. Um
And I think right away you would come in and uh and Oz, you know,
kinda from the back had been like
june
-- oh-- june oh goodness, did it happen again june,
-- I'm real sorry-- june,

(49:12):
sweetie. Oh goodness! Oh my
Benny said
I could do the signs,
not do the signs in the front of the store. So I took it to the back of the store,
I was just I was just following her rules, I was just,
-- I did everything, I was told, I-- just took it to the back
of the store

(49:33):
uh and you see that Oz starts skittering around pulling things from drawers and Oz,
Oz seems to be a bit of a tinkerer,
they actually have um uh these like really thick sort of low, like um
uh pince nez glasses that they wear.
Uh and they have uh from a backpack that they wear.

(49:56):
They've got like a little helping hand.
It's this like mechanical arm that they can like twist and turn and have hold things.
Uh And so you see that they, you know, kind of pull that out, put a bowl in it,
uh start plucking you some herbs and some things, some calming,
some lavenders and things to just sort of calm you down.

(50:17):
Uh and they rush that over to a little heat diffuser, uh you know,
kind of little stump, drop it on there and the, you know,
kind of the the room starts to, you know,
kind of perfume with these very calming sense.
Um And uh and Oz, you know,
kind of gestures to a cot and sits on one themselves and it says,

(50:39):
now june
june, sweetie,
you,
I mean, okay, I'll grant you. Benny is a hard ass, right? Like Betty's a hard ass.
I get that. You get that. I get that. We all get that,
but you gotta understand june,
it's not that she didn't want you to do it in the front of the shop.

(51:02):
It's that she was tasked with not letting you do it at all.
Well, she should have said that.
-- She should have said that. She should have been,-- there
were horses. We'd all have lots of horses, wouldn't we?
-- Well-- that's we don't have horses we have boars and
that's why I was making signs for the boars.

(51:22):
It's really important and I don't see how she didn't understand that,
that was important to me.
Those were my needs at the time.
Well, we all do have needs and those needs ought to be respected june.
I just can't, I just don't I just don't want Isaac to find out just yet.

(51:43):
Uh I want you to write me a perception check if you don't mind.
-- I-- just realized she was doing billboards, get it.
Hey, that's very good Emily, Emily, Emily,
Emily, Emily.

(52:05):
-- That's-- very good. I like that, that's a good
I now resign from unbalanced.
That's another 13.
Alright. On a 13 perception.
Yeah, you absolutely clock a man that you do not get along with on a good day,
Maurice broad beam huffing on his pipe and storming beyond

(52:29):
you up to Isaac's office and as you say,
I don't want Isaac like I think it's I think this is actually a reflexive role.
I don't think you really processed it,
You were to sort of distraught and just like be lining for Oz.
I think this is almost like you're going back
over what you had seen and it clicks like,

(52:50):
oh fuck, like
you maybe have the amount of time that it takes Isaac to stop like rage shakes
before. He's gonna find you and figure out what to do with you next.
And I think that as you're processing this um Yeah,
I think that Oz uh you know kind of looks looks at you and says

(53:14):
oh honey
oh no he already knows, doesn't he?
I mean as long as Harissa doesn't know to at the same time. I mean
I just wanna I just want
I want the right
I mean
I want the right time
to tell them separately
and

(53:35):
you know maybe maybe they'll finally see maybe I mean
I just I hope they'll under see and understand
that's not what I'm supposed to be doing.
I'm not supposed to be back there, I'm not supposed to be in the stores,
I got important work to do. Oz.
-- I know, I know you-- do. I know you do

(53:57):
listen,
juniper
I need to know it is one of my needs right now that I need to know.
Are you in a space where you could
receive some constructive criticism at the moment.
Of course, always from you as always.
-- Alright,-- alright,

(54:19):
-- okay,-- okay. And you see that they kind of wring their hands a little bit.
How many more of these do you think that
that you can go through, sweetie.
-- How-- many more times can Isaac put you in a new job before he just gets
it's plumb fed up.

(54:42):
Well
if he would just listen to me
then he would know
that I care
what he wants me to do in this town
is not
it's not what I meant to do.

(55:03):
I think when you, when you say that um
On a 13 luck check.
I think Oz
campers uh kind of back to their bookshelf and you know,
kind of some books on this and you know, kind of in this in this space as well.
I think they actually pull out one of the
like hard drawers that pulls out like four of them

(55:27):
at once and it's just filled with books uh and grabs one and hands it back over to you.
Um And you see that it is a
just a used old field guide to the plants of the northern deserts.
Um

(55:47):
And you see Oz says
it's a big world out there june.
It's a hard world out there. I've been through some of it.
-- I-- don't know if you're meant for bigger things than here or if
you're meant to figure out how to make this place your home.

(56:08):
But
-- just-- don't ever forget that there's
-- there's-- a lot out there.
I know
I just hope one day
I can make him and
well
maybe daddy and mama proud

(56:29):
someday
with what I want to do with what I believe.
So, I don't know, maybe it is, maybe it is here.
Maybe I can
someday someone will listen to me
and I'll be able to make something better of this place. But

(56:50):
thank you for this though.
-- This is exciting.-- You go on and you you keep that up. I got that
-- locked-- away locked away.
-- I know that book cover-- cover you,
you hold onto it and you you learn what you can and you just remember that you
you just keep learning what you can and and and and and if lessons were horses,

(57:13):
-- I used that one already.-- Hold
on, I'll work on that.
And they just like turn and descend into the infirmary,
like just muttering to themselves.
And I think with that we actually jump back in time a little bit.
Uh to the wee hours of the morning,

(57:35):
we see a ceramic statue in the kitchen garden on a high ledge just before dawn cinder.
Would you please describe your character for us?
Sure. Yeah, so Guard is a looming figure.
Um They have very long skinny arms,

(57:58):
giant shoulder pads that look like they're made out
of like bits of weird metals and stone.
Um Their whole the body looks like it's made of these strange metals and stone.
They have huge gauntlets,
um much smaller legs and they sort of stand as if they're like hunched over.

(58:18):
Their head is too small for their body,
but still pretty big compared to like a normal person's head.
And then and where their face should be is a porcelain sort
of Greco roman style mask just right in front of their face.
Um They are a golem.
Um And uh and yeah,

(58:40):
they hold all of their like their gauntlets and their shoulders have these uh,
patterns on them that almost looked like the patterns that you would see on, like,
like old vases.
Like these little intricate sort of shapes and woven bits and pieces.
Oh, and I've also, yeah,
and I have an ax that is like a little bit too big

(59:03):
for most people to use that has similar patterns on it as well.
Uh that is extremely good.
Uh, and we see, we see guards sort of in this kitchen garden.
Um, I'm gonna ask about that in a second, but before I do,
-- I would appreciate if you could roll me again, a flat luck-- check.
Yeah, sure.

(59:26):
-- Let's Go, Baby 14.-- Our best lock check of the session. Hell yes. Okay. I'm a lucky
guy.
Uh you, you you are a lucky guy. You just, you keep that positivity going.
Uh, we're all lucky, frankly.
Uh, you know, when you really think about it, I don't know, this bit's nothing.

(59:48):
-- Um,-- I got you, I got you. I got you. Lucky to have friends like us.
See this is what I mean.
But yeah, anyway,
because now we're making the audience feel bad that they're not friends with us,
which I mean, it isn't true.
You're definitely our friends
in paris in a non para social, totally normal, actually, human way.

(01:00:10):
-- You are all our best friends. Um, your-- friends,
every time you listen to
unbalanced encounters.
-- I'm not friends with-- any any, any of these people that are listening
-- friends. Best friends. Best-- friends with all of us except cinder.
-- Every time you listen to unbalanced encounters.-- Amazing.

(01:00:32):
Uh guard.
Why are you in this kitchen garden?
What what does your sort of late night, early,
-- earliest morning kind of look like-- most people need sleep.
I watch

(01:00:53):
-- when-- it is late.
-- There-- is not much to watch.
I enjoy the garden.
There is an older woman
who occasionally also does not sleep
and it is
pleasant

(01:01:15):
to sit and be in her garden
and her company.
I think that as you're sort of reflecting on that,
uh you see a little waft of steam kind of rise out
wavering in the moonlight from the window kind of over your shoulder and you hear

(01:01:36):
a kettle pick up a whistle and um very quickly move off boiling water.
Uh and you see this um
-- very old kind of hunched dwarf in woman, uh shaved head,-- fully,
fully bald,
massive glasses, big kind of dangly tin and brass earrings.

(01:02:04):
Uh and like a choker.
She didn't like a bathroom,
uh, shuffles out
and uh, you know, kind of full moon up in the sky,
sees you kind of watching over her her kitchen garden guard.
You would, you would know this as um, go to broad bean uh,

(01:02:26):
anti gerda to most people in town. She is Maurice Maurice's wife.
And this is their, this is the broad beam cottage. Uh and she takes a little sip of this
long that she's made.
Well, you know I'd uh
I'd always offer you a cup of tea guard.
But I I think two years in we can skip that formality.

(01:02:52):
That makes sense.
Everything right as rain out here sweetheart.
There were some unusual movements amongst the geckos but
I do not think it is an issue
geckos. Huh? Lord. I don't know.

(01:03:15):
They are interesting creatures.
I don't fool around nothing going down there into that woods
And she kind of drifts off for a second.
Uh You kind of get the sense that she might be thinking about, you know,
kind of you immediately clock like the dangers of the woods right?
Like it's a very wild place. Things happen, People get hurt.

(01:03:36):
It's a logging community. It's not uncommon.
You sort of dial in and and she starts to think about
the most recent incident.
Uh the disappearance that happened a few months back there was um
yet yet another member of the community that

(01:04:00):
straight a little too far away from the logging camp grove and
just never
never came back. Um
and she sort of snaps back in and says, well it just don't interest me none
so long as you stay within the parameters of the village.

(01:04:20):
I think the geckos won't do you any harm.
She gives a little chuckle. Uh And I think you know takes another sip of tea and kinda
-- rest your head on your very long arm gives a little yawn.-- I looked down awkwardly.

(01:04:44):
-- We're-- lucky to have you, you know, I know,
I know not everybody thinks that I know what they be saying about the imperials, but
I think we're lucky to have you,
what they say does not bother me
-- there. You-- have it.
Um Yeah, Guard is, if she's like leaning on him, guard is just gonna look down
and sort of in the same way that like, you know,

(01:05:07):
he was kind of watching the gecko's earlier.
He's kind of like, oh yeah, you know these these these guys gotta lean on stuff a lot.
That's weird but that's probably that's all that's going through
his head in that moment as she's leaning on him.
-- I-- think that's exactly right.
And I think that she kind of vibes that from you and that's that's that's right,

(01:05:28):
right.
Like that's you know, it's um
you you have made her feel safe in this moment.
Actually go ahead and take inspiration for me.
Um uh because you have made her feel safe in
this moment despite that not really meaning anything to you.
Um and I think that what we actually see now is a bit of a time lap

(01:05:49):
uh Asgard kind of exists in this constant state of awareness.
Um We see Gerda kind of finish her tea and
zip inside and finally find her way back to sleep.
We see some gecko's moving in the trees off in a very far distance,
we see the sun begin to crest over the eastern horizon.

(01:06:09):
We see uh scrum p letting the pigs out into the creek and several of them
getting their drinking their fill and looking at
each other with this moment of physicality.
Uh Guard. If you would please roll me a quick perception check.
Of course
18

(01:06:32):
I am guard.
Yeah, on an 18 you you specifically marked some negative space that they're not
in. These boards are willing to get kind of up close next to each other.
You notice some negative space, an empty space that they won't go into.
Uh and the ones that are closest to that space rush
out uh into the town as the sun fully rises.

(01:06:58):
And Benny Jr makes her way to the quartermasters uh to the general store
and um and Maurice makes his way to the mill.
Harissa makes her way out into into into town.
You see some Children uh kind of come up and
they you know sort of run through this vegetable garden.

(01:07:20):
Uh several of them kind of hang off of you and dangle and swing.
How does God react to that?
-- I try to shake them-- off.
I think that as you try to shake them off,
they like use that as a challenge and you actually
see one of these little kids like fully does a flip
and like lands and all of the kids freak out.

(01:07:43):
It's the coolest ship they've ever seen and
they're all back padding and rush off again.
We're seeing this in just like time lapse.
We see um uh the town kind of make its way into kind of public life
and get ready uh and um last but
certainly not particularly late somewhere around seven o'clock.
Uh We see

(01:08:05):
our last of the broad beam family.
Uh we see leah, broad beam uh daughter of Maurice and Gerda.
She is a young dwarf in lumberjack,
very long red hair kind of down uh you know kind of down to her waist,
braided in like this very thick kind of no nonsense platz um

(01:08:31):
And she she fully has like an ax up over her shoulder
and she walks out and says uh
morning good,
Everything looked right.
There is something strange that scared some boar that I would like to
speak to Harissa about but other than that the morning is fine.

(01:08:56):
That's good stuff.
All right, well good timing actually cause uh I was just going over to see Isaac,
we gotta get ready for our shift.
-- You wanna head over with me?-- I would
do you need assistance carrying any of your wares?
Uh She like just like casually hands you her
lunch that's like tied up in a handkerchief.

(01:09:18):
Uh It's just like if you're offering,
I hold it like a little purse in front of
-- me even though it's small-- sort
-- of waddling with-- it,
amazing. Um
you make your way to Isaac's office uh and

(01:09:38):
through the commotion inside leah says Isaac you old.
So and so you ready to go to work?
-- She-- walks in guard behind her
on the ground, still from the chair.
Your chair is broken.
Isaac Isaac What the hell are you doing on the floor?

(01:09:59):
And Isaac uh this is this is meaningful to you because you are just like prostrate.
It seems like on the floor just kind of a heap.
-- Yeah,-- it really just embracing everything about this wonderful day.
Um leah is your second in command.

(01:10:20):
She she is your lieutenant,
a position that you filled for dale snow thorne
for years before his his sort of untimely death.
Um leah was the first, the first person that was hired into rally.
She has been with you since the absolute beginning.
She's incredibly competent lumberjack. She takes after her father in that way.

(01:10:43):
Uh Her father and mother were brought on because that was the deal. Um
uh and uh so you are just splayed out in front of her. What do you do?
Let me just get up, hold on. And he just sits, he doesn't stand up.
He's just sitting on the ground

(01:11:05):
ship.
-- Leah, we we've known each other a long, long time. Right.-- Too long.
Friends with with buddies with piles.
Yeah, I mean I think everything's gonna run its course at some point,
-- right-- courses have been run.
Absolutely. But you know there's rocky moments and whatnot.

(01:11:25):
-- And you-- talk about the time you fell off the tree.
Listen that tree
had branches in which were very misleading and so I will continue to take pride in
the fact that I thought it was a stable branch in which I stepped on.
Listen, this is beyond the point.
The point is your daddy came in earlier talking about

(01:11:46):
a millstone and I got to figure that out.
-- So you know my hands are tied. I was wondering,-- you're kidding me.
-- The-- millstones gone,
gone is a strong word. I would say more of just you know,
a bit disabled possibly guard when you, when you need, I don't know oil, you know,

(01:12:09):
charge up.
-- Maybe-- I don't need anything but I do have information to share from my watch.
Outstanding.
So leah, you're gonna hire juniper and we're gonna listen to God's conversation.
-- God, go ahead and start talking-- juniper.
Guard. You had something to say.
-- Leah, it's very rude to we're-- going to talk about this. Yeah, we're gonna guard.

(01:12:30):
Go ahead, Go ahead. Guard, tell us what, you know,
early this morning.
I saw the boars by the river.
Something spooked. Some of them
I believe some of the boards maybe running amok throughout the village
beyond that.

(01:12:52):
The thing that spooked them was
confusing.
I am not sure how to describe it
and I think we should
see what it is.
Also
ex drummer,
your chair is broken

(01:13:14):
but beyond everything. That was wonderful information you have gathered for us.
God and I appreciate that.
You have multiple times. You've told me about said chair. That I already know.
I wasn't sure
-- you know what that is on me. I should have said-- something on the floor.

(01:13:34):
God, what did you say? Spooked the board. Was it a thing? Was it an animal?
It was not a thing that I could perceive, but it was
a thing that spooked the boars
is kate and thomas all right,
Kaitlin thomas is fine. He was rolling about in the mud but so it you couldn't see it.

(01:14:00):
But something they sensed maybe something invisible.
Perhaps.
I thought it best to come communicate to you first before I began experimenting.
I I think that is very wise, God, very wise.
We will go together and we will have a look at the at the river and see

(01:14:23):
if we can
see what happened.
Yes, leah leah, take notes, take notes. See di things are happening.
We have minus one millstone. The entire
city depends on it. Town depends on it.
And yet we're worried about why pigs are scared of their own sneezes,

(01:14:44):
its priorities. Its priorities later,
those are the things that we need to worry about.
No priority means I get breakfast.
I did not get breakfast because I was trampled by a boar.
So um I am this is my priority for today.
-- You you can deal with millstones. That's out of my how you say jurist-- clean.

(01:15:06):
You know what I would like to talk about the millstone for a minute.
Isaac please if I may talk about the single most
-- important thing that we could possibly be dealing with right-- now correction.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
-- What-- happened to the mess hall?
Should have got your breakfast, what's what's wrong? Or at least

(01:15:27):
I attempt I go to the door, I got trampled, I then go to the door again thinking on
the ball and then
-- the door is locked. I don't know what-- happened. The door was locked.
Did you did you push or did you pull
deception
here? I need you to

(01:15:49):
you get inside against this.
-- That was too-- good.
Too good.
-- What is with my role? It's a-- seven versus a 17.
-- As you see this glorious deflection, this master fencing-- maneuver

(01:16:09):
of.
Did you push or did you pull you immediately immediately clock?
Uh that Isaac just didn't
assign a mess officer.
-- There was nobody there this morning. Was-- there?
What? What?
You know I am now looking at my paperwork on my well

(01:16:31):
I can't see my desk right now because I'm sitting on the,
-- on the floor but-- no breakfast.
-- That is completely-- one thing I need is breakfast. Um
-- I would like some breakfast please. Um-- Leah Juniper's five. I found my mistake
individual.

(01:16:51):
So go ahead and fire her later on today after you hire.
-- And then she'll get the job at-- domestic problems
solved.
See, I don't know why everybody's worried about what's wrong
and what not. We got we got this in the bag.
-- So we're going for boars or-- why am I hiring june
-- to-- fire her later?

(01:17:12):
Knowing Damn well she's never gonna lift a finger to help the logging operation.
And why are we even talking about this if we ain't got no millstone,
what good is elder would if we can't millet?
Listen, listen,
it's an attitude like that and that's why you are second in command and I am first.

(01:17:35):
Just ride this out, relax. We're gonna do some breathing exercises.
I learned this from Oz. There was some fumes and whatnot. I got a little dizzy.
But if we do this breathing exercise, we tried this out.
Does
-- exercise with you.-- Just like yeah, don't get grumpy. Like your daddy.

(01:17:55):
You know nobody like him,
dungeon master. Are there any like
are there any like like crates or boxes or anything in the room,
-- tons.-- There will be tons because he has no clue what he's doing in this office space.

(01:18:15):
So while you guys are while you guys are having this conversation,
I'm going to just pick up one of the big to medium sized box is gonna put it,
push your chair aside.
-- I'm gonna put it down so you can sit on it.-- Oh
-- fake. Leah-- take

(01:18:36):
notes. Once again.
This is now the my favorite person in in valley right here. Thank you God. Uh
Okay, millstone, millstone, I'm sorry leo.
-- Yes let's talk about the millstone so important. What Isaac-- you know
that

(01:18:56):
-- I-- mean? Damn it man. I think you're doing the best you can
-- but-- we're out here holding on by a goddamn thread
and you're asking me to replace real Lumberjacks with tree
huggers fired from every goddamn job because they can't stop protesting
-- and-- you're asking me to go out and fetch more goddamn elder wood
to sit in a pile.

(01:19:18):
-- Well-- daddy dies of tobacco
-- because-- we don't have no millstone.
-- He's gotten the new but smoke all-- day
to be fair,
-- I've been talking to him about about and-- I
appreciate that we're all working on it with him,
he'll get there eventually.
My point is that we gotta work backwards here Isaac
we gotta work backwards right we gotta start with that millstone

(01:19:41):
and I I haven't got the slightest clue what we're gonna be
doing about that and that is why I'm second in command.
-- I'm-- waiting on you.
Alright.
Alright can can Isaac make some type of check to try and figure
out what would be valuable enough to get the mine heads like.

(01:20:01):
-- Yeah-- the process of trading for a millstone. Yeah
absolutely.
Go ahead and go ahead and roll me goodness. What are
-- great tonight?-- Yeah it's been it's been top tier. I think this is probably gonna be um
wisdom, wisdom is okay, probably insight
-- insight into what they want. So I think this is inside. Okay.-- Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

(01:20:25):
-- Okay. That's a 19. Hell-- Yeah. Um on a 19,
you know that their um that your Bellows
in the refinery is something that they have been
eyeing since dale's time because it is one of
the most well manufactured uh and powerful Bellows,

(01:20:47):
you're able to get some pretty high temperatures
that would be helpful for smelting uh some of
their softer metals uh and so that would
-- potentially be something that they'd be enthusiastic about-- uh
with the Bellows. Is that something that could be remade to the same ability?
I think on a 19 you could theoretically you could,

(01:21:09):
you could figure out how to horse trade, something worse, right?
Like something that's a little bit less effective and
it might slow down production a little bit,
but it's still, it still gets you there right?
Like you know that you don't know,
you need this crazy top to your bellow system that you have in order to function.
It helps, but you don't need it. Um you need a mill wheel in order to find

(01:21:30):
you
And so that's what you get on, that's what you get on a, on a 19.
Um and I will actually say that, you know, this is a wisdom-based check.
Um you just get a little ping in the back of your
head reminding you that you have that unopened letter from your buyer
which could be more money, right? It could be who knows what it is.

(01:21:51):
Sh it starts opening it because it's been in his hand the whole time
you pull it open. Uh and the first thing that you notice is the signature.
Uh and it is signed high sector in big telegraphic letters.
Uh and your stomach just sinks. Just this is not gonna be a good letter.

(01:22:17):
Uh You uh start reading. Uh And uh it says
I hope
that the guard contingent that we have sent continues to prove
satisfactory for the safety and well being of your camp.

(01:22:37):
We appreciate the work that you do
and expect that our generous contribution be put to good use.
I am delighted to inform you that their royal highness,
the emperor czar will be doubling
next month's order. We will intend to pay the same rate.

(01:22:58):
And while we understand that
the cops re growth has been slower than you had anticipated.
We trust
that you'll be able to deliver on time.

(01:23:20):
Mhm.
Alright. Sounds good, sounds good. Alright. You know what? I know we all need,
you know, everyone in this room needs,
we need a drink.
That's what we need.

(01:23:42):
Uh Full smash cut. We're now in scrum peas tavern.
-- I was gonna have either guard or harass a go snatch up juniper.-- Alright.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think you said the both of them is what you end up doing june,
you're sitting in your sitting in the infirmary.
Uh Harissa and and guard you approach

(01:24:03):
uh and june you bolt upright in
paris and garter here
june's eyes just like super big
and she kind of like stands at attention because she feels like that's
like one of the best ways to deal with Harissa is to like

(01:24:28):
to act like she's in line for the most part. But um.
Uh Oh ho marissa. Hey God. Oh my goodness.
Hi how's it going? Did you guys come to relax a little bit?
Um I was just actually I was just about to leave.
Um I've got some I've got some stuff to handle. Uh

(01:24:51):
um
-- by-- she's gonna try
to walk past them out the door.
-- The-- guard is just gonna put a hand.
We're gonna how are we gonna do this?
I think we're going to treat this as a grapple check guard and guard you.

(01:25:14):
I need you to roll me athletics and june I
need you to roll me the better of athletics or acrobatics
You have to be to 16.
So I think you're trying to roll pretty high.
-- That-- Is a nine guard
slams out of hand.

(01:25:34):
-- Isaac wants a word,-- she's just gonna very like gently put her hands on guards arm
and I'd love to see him. I don't it would be great to see him today.
I just you know I got some stuff I gotta do out in the woods.
-- I still got a little bit-- juniper.
Yeah,

(01:25:56):
come on. Yes.
Yeah,
you're gonna bring me there no matter what, aren't you?
Yes.
As we're walking back there, um Guard turns to Harissa.
The mill is important

(01:26:18):
and the millstone is important,
but these are not our job.
There is something
weird by the river.
I do not want that to go uninspected
noted. I agree with you.
I would like to go and see the river as soon as possible.

(01:26:39):
We will get
the lovely juniper to Isaac
might have a quick
sweating of the, of the whistle and we will go to, we'll go to the river very soon.
Okay,
cut over.

(01:27:00):
Just grumpy's
who was just delighted that everyone has decided that this
-- is gonna be a fun morning for fucking-- once.
Uh
I'm
a,
-- I'm a fun-- guy.
Has just has cups like rolling about like, you know,
every time there's like a one that's been used.

(01:27:20):
He like tries to pick it up and kind of like,
it'll fall on the floor and he's just kind of all over himself twisting
and turning and pouring this beverage that tastes a little bit like um well,
-- have you ever-- had?
Oh my God, please say
so.
Have you ever okay. I want you to imagine.
I want you to imagine because again, that licorice licorice is about right, right,

(01:27:42):
Like ouzo.
But if ouzo was specifically made by Jack Daniels.
-- Oh God-- for folks that are listening to this because it's an audio production.
-- Every person on the podcast just made the foulest face. Like they-- just
in setting up these shots and whatnot. Isaac always has to in front of him

(01:28:08):
one on drink.
Yeah. And that's one that's always one drink.
-- Have a seat, come-- on
-- right-- now
-- is so good. I just, I-- need to go
but go ahead and sit down. You gotta go here.
I told listen, I told

(01:28:28):
-- I-- told Katie a that I was gonna go and see him rub his belly a little bit.
-- So I'm gonna be I'm gonna be right-- here.
He's right here, he's right here, he's literally right here he's drinking with us.
You see, you see
rolls over like doesn't stand just like full seal, rolls over to your table.

(01:28:53):
Uh just
oh hi ki ta hello!
And she's just going to put a lot of her
focus on like rubbing up on this sweet sweet baby.
-- Kay. And thomas is just into it.-- I'll take one
of

(01:29:14):
-- uh her dad's shots and handed to-- her.
I would like Isaac as you do that. I would like you to um
uh roman constitution saving throw please. Sure.
Uh and june if you take the shot, I would like that same saving throw from you as well.

(01:29:34):
Okay. Yes, june is gonna
okay, thank you so much.
-- That's an eight,-- I think you're getting a little, you're getting,
you're getting like the amount of tipsy that you would expect.
-- Oh this-- stuff is pretty high. I
-- know-- that one
-- one,-- let's go
that one.

(01:29:56):
-- You-- know, you know me and your dad used to drink.
It's grumpy all the time and I think I can hold my liquor man.
I bet you could do the same thing. Go ahead
-- june.-- I need you to actually roll me AD..
-- What?-- That's always a good sign. Oh
-- no. Oh-- no.

(01:30:17):
-- Great.-- Alright, 98. I'll get back to you on that in about two seconds.
But in the meantime you are blasted.
I'm just listen,
did I tell you guys about, did I tell you
about the other day what I saw in the woods?
Did you know, did you know,

(01:30:37):
did you know that there's over 100 different moss types in
the forest and that and that how soft they are.
And it depends some of them grow on the trees and some of them grow on the rocks.
And did you did you know that there's an
ecosystem within that very mosque that helps the mosque live?
Do you know what happens when you have those wood choppers go out there,

(01:30:58):
Those murderers with those?
They are going and they are killing the mosque
that they are walking on and all the organisms.
-- I hand her another-- shot.
Thank you. Little birds drift into the window and lands
on a 98. They start whistling,

(01:31:22):
they start whistling this little jaunty tune that is
like this melodic under sweep to june's impassioned pleas for
justice for the US.
-- She's-- just,
you have to be considerate of all of the different kinds and every time

(01:31:45):
-- we go out there were causing damage and-- it's like a choreographed dance.
Been trying to tell you, I've been trying
tell all of you.
Did you step on the ground in the forest?
You kill a bunch of things.

(01:32:10):
I want to kind of take a step back here and
figure out kind of where everybody is spending their afternoons.
Um And uh it sounds like we're gonna get a little bit of um
sort of creek investigation from Harissa and and guard which I'm here for.
I was going to um

(01:32:34):
voluntary hell
juniper to assist me at noon to um go talk with the mind head boys.
-- Alright-- so I think the
uh you you know if you propose that leah kind of juts
in and she's like it'll take a little while to get there.
We should probably leave basically now and she's
-- kind of still freaking-- out about the birds.

(01:32:56):
-- Uh-- I think we're gonna go ahead,
we're gonna go ahead and do uh marissa and guard in 11 moment and then we'll jump back
over to Isaac june and leah as they make their way to out into the world actually,
-- hers, I need a constitution saving throw from-- you.

(01:33:16):
Oh yeah, I had a couple of shots, didn't I
exited?
Got a five.
Um
Yeah, you're not doing great.
Um You know what the way that I'm
actually gonna mechanically impose some stuff here.
Uh Is that both Harissa and june are going to take disadvantage on your next

(01:33:39):
-- check but no, no D one hundred's for you. Um-- drink.
Yes,
encounters encourage everyone to drink responsibly.
We do encourage everyone to drink but only responsibly
responsibly,
-- make sure you get that in there-- or
-- or-- or just drink chocolate milk

(01:34:04):
if you just drink chocolate milk, it doesn't matter what age you are.
-- Yeah drink chocolate milk. It's-- fine when
they say don't drink and drive.
It's anything,
they don't tell you that but it's you're
not allowed to literally consume liquids and drive.
It's it's very against the law.
No,
-- but real talk when I was like five and I heard that-- everyone believed the same thing.
-- Yes,-- water.

(01:34:24):
-- I can't drink water but I need what-- the fuck?
This is a 10 hour drive.
-- What am I-- supposed
I'm gonna
die,
-- I'm gonna die.-- I'm
sorry
just little five year old five year old craig. I'm gonna fucking die.
-- My-- lips are so chapped right now.

(01:34:45):
Alright. Alright. Fantasy hats back to rally
marissa and guard. You are kind of making your way along the creek.
Um Imagine you sort of started kind of at the pen? Near um scrumptious cottage.
Where, where are you headed from there? What does this look like?
Let's try to find that spot.

(01:35:08):
And I would like to spend some time trying to find where I saw the boars get spooked.
I think that's probably going to look like an investigate
-- check unless you have an argument for something-- else.
I don't, I will say that I am not opposed to waiting into the river,

(01:35:31):
sort of just you know, no, not looking with a fine comb.
-- We shall see-- That's a natural 20.
That's a natural 20-1 for 19. Wonderful.
Gotta respect the crit here. You find quite a bit.
The first thing you find is obviously you find the

(01:35:52):
trail of hoof prints leading from that one spot.
And you can see that there there there is an outline you know,
kind of in this this encircling this patch of ground.
Uh and the hoof prints lead off in the directions that you would expect.
Given that you would expect given kind of where the boars
ran

(01:36:14):
in the middle of that patch. You see a pair of
prince after a fashion. They I like that. This is you. This is very good.
-- Uh Roll me an insight check. This is this is how well does guard no human fashion-- not.
Well

(01:36:35):
as it turns out, there are a couple of like rectangular prints in this spot,
right like um uh you know kind of rectangular grooves in the ground.
Uh you know kind of two
uh you know sort of in line about a foot apart.
And then another set of two a couple inches apart,

(01:36:56):
a couple inches away from that again about a foot apart.
Um And so you know sort of four rectangles pressed into the ground.
Um In this clearing in this little circle here and then you see a set
of hoof prints lead off in the direction that you didn't see anything run.
Uh And that direction
kind of doubles over the creek a couple of times you wade into the water.

(01:37:20):
Uh And uh they did the prints disappear in the water.
Um
So that's what you get for Prince.
You also see as you get down the creek a little bit that there are
stones kind of lining the edges of the creek that all seem to be white.
For some reason they seem to have been painted white.

(01:37:42):
And uh after I after I show the prints and
strange little box imprints in the earth to Harissa.
I will approach the river and I will poke at one
of these painted rocks with the butt of my ax.
And if they do not do anything particularly nefarious upon my poking,

(01:38:05):
I shall pick one up.
Okay? Um You
poke it, nothing happens. You pick one up.
It's a rock that someone or something has painted with this,
you know kind of white chalky substance.
Um It's dry and almost powdery but it seems to have like dripped down

(01:38:27):
as if someone had applied it with like a brush or is it glaze
Harissa?
There are footprints that lead off in a direction that I did not see an animal going in
hoof prints.
And what do you make of this? And I hold up the painted rock.
There's many of these along the riverside.

(01:38:52):
Uh I'll have a look at the rock first as he's holding it up.
Um Can I do like an investigation or something on that?
Yeah, on the rock? Absolutely.
Yeah.
Real investigation.
I get disadvantaged
-- because I'm a little-- bit because you're
okay

(01:39:13):
Double not just get a double. Just roll double 19.
-- That-- is six plus 28.
-- What the fuck? Who pays rocks? That's fucking-- weird.
In that case I'll pay attention to the footprints. And do I recognize what I know.

(01:39:35):
Yeah, you do. You absolutely do. Their sandals.
-- Their-- their their their elevated sandals and you know kind of in
our world very much those japanese wooden sort of farmer sandals.
Do I know anyone who wears them
in the village.

(01:39:57):
I'll just tell you this one thing. If you just stop moving guard, I will tell you
it is hard to stop moving.
I will try.
Um You and your twin I think need to go
and um I think do we should do walks around the perimeter,

(01:40:21):
see if there are any more of these, If we see anything else similar.
I think we both do a walk
and then meet back up at the gate later.
Sounds good. I do have one question,
-- should-- we leave the painted rocks or should we

(01:40:42):
shove them aside,
push them into the river.
I like you are devious. I like you guard. I knew I kept you around for a reason. I think
we pushed them into the water, wash off the paint
and see if they get repainted. Huh? Sounds good.
Sounds good,

(01:41:03):
sounds good. I am a genius. I like this is good, This is good plan.
Harrison come up with a good plan, right,
let's wash these rocks, do a walk, come back, see what happens.
I think that you all, you really put your your sort of chest into this, right?
Like I think that there's uh you know like this is this is there's like a an element,
you know drunk as you are Teresa and you know,

(01:41:24):
I think you're starting to sober up a little bit.
Certainly guard, there's an element of like this is what the job is, right?
Like do the patrols, do the rounds, uh you know, b b you know,
kind of like be on top of the b on top of things.
No, the threats.
Um and you're doing this bigger perimeter,
you're like out in the woods a little bit like kind of wander
the tree line and ensuring that nobody is kind of making camp or anything.

(01:41:46):
Um and I can give you this for free.
No one is um and you make your way you make, you know,
you see you see Isaac and Isaac and leah and june as they leave,
you know kind of as you start your rounds and you do this whole big thing eventually
circle your way back in uh and make your way back to the creek to see a man

(01:42:12):
who is hunched over some rocks, painting them with a liquid chalk mixture.
Hristo you know,
immediately this to be your subordinate martin von winkle bury the third,
-- wow,-- that's a name,
-- That's-- a good name.
I'm getting all that martin.
-- Van winkle berry,-- art von winkle berry

(01:42:34):
berry,
-- that-- Means three times these dumbasses.
-- Why is he-- painting rocks?
That is a very good question. Let us ask him, shall we
got

(01:42:56):
martin
uh and he drops a rock into the water and it splashes and you know, kind of gets like,
he like gets like the water washes the chalk up kind of onto him.
And so he's like covered in like paint spray.
Uh and he sort of stands up and uh and turns around and this man is

(01:43:18):
actually older than you by by quite a bit uh he has a you know,
kind of a thick beard white, you know, kind of very meticulously, you know,
kind of trimmed, he's wearing like this ancient imperial.
Well uh you know sort of uh like field wear right,

(01:43:42):
like almost kind of like fatigues where he's you know,
he's just the ancient like was probably martin Van winkle, bury the seconds.
And uh and he stands up and he's got a paintbrush in one hand and he says, uh he says,
uh Sergeant Harris, I didn't, I didn't see you there.
Um apologies. I was in the middle of taking some initiative. Yes.

(01:44:05):
Initiative. That is what you call it. Um what what initiative are you taking?
What is this?
Well,
it's a security risk that this water simply
runs through this community or really need it.
And so I've taken it upon myself because frankly,
no one else seems to take any damned initiative around here to paint the rocks

(01:44:26):
And use them as a border, you see as a border along this creek.
So that one might see it in either day or moonlight
hours and be able to avoid falling into the creek,
drowning.
This creek is
at its deepest, maybe two ft
and he goes on and he says,

(01:44:47):
but the most interesting thing has happened is it frankly, it's galling.
Someone has taken the rocks while they were still curing,
put them back into the water.
So I have to start again.
And now this is going to be my entire day, unless you have other other orders for me,
of course, if you have more important things for me to be doing.

(01:45:08):
-- I felt like it takes initiative around-- here.
There are many, many things more important than painting rocks.
I appreciate your initiative martin.
I do not understand it, but it is.
No, it's not appreciated. No, this is so stop, stop painting rocks.
I will have to order you to stop painting rocks. Um

(01:45:32):
-- because we have in fact a potential intruder, what-- has gone wrong?
Someone, has someone been injured?
Has there been a fire? Is there a catastrophe present?
-- Have you have you seen any smoke?-- Well no, but I haven't seen anything go wrong.
Have you heard any screams?
-- Well no, that's why I decided to take the initiative to paint the-- rocks.

(01:45:53):
-- It's a-- preventative measure.
She just starts rubbing her temples.
Have you seen anybody wearing any sandals?
He physically like lifts up a foot to check himself
as if he could be wearing sandals and he's wearing,

(01:46:16):
he's wearing like like played in leather boots,
like clearly not sandals but he checks,
he puts his foot back down and he says,
I don't believe so our sandals now forbidden in this community,
you could just see like a vein like pulsing on Harris's forehead.
Like

(01:46:36):
-- in-- fact, yes, sandals are now forbidden. But that is another
um,
-- especially-- let this be the first rule of rally. No sandals in rally.
-- Oh no, that's all june where's I don't know how that's-- gonna go martin.

(01:47:02):
There has been some suspicious activity on the perimeter and we saw some footprints
that actually are sandaled foot prints and we need you to do double shift
around the perimeter
all through the night
just in case you see this sandaled

(01:47:22):
individual again
-- go ahead and give me a persuasion check if you'd be so-- kind
advantage because she's is
that's a good argument. That's a good argument. Go ahead and take advantage
Because I've got a -1 to
persuasion

(01:47:42):
-- I got double-- two.
My friend has a one in 400 chance of a double to
a double two minus one for a dirty build me one.
Uh And on that on that dirty one he gives you just the most inscrutable

(01:48:08):
oh you don't like this. Look at all.
-- This-- is a bad look.
-- Alright. And he hops to and begins his perimeter search. And with that-- we
cut
we cut into

(01:48:30):
the forest.
The western wields
as
Isaac and june and leah now beginning to sober are making their long trek
through the pass
-- of-- the western mountains
to the far side where you will most certainly meet up with the mind head point.

(01:48:54):
You are running a little bit behind it will probably take you until
the early afternoon but you suspect that
you'll be able to catch them within eyesight
fairly easily.
Um
What what are what are Isaac and june.
You guys haven't really had a chance to talk about you and getting fired.

(01:49:16):
-- So I imagine that probably comes-- up
uh
june is uh she pulled were those white rocks everywhere.
I picked up a couple and june has been scribbling um

(01:49:39):
uh don't murder trees and uh quit the cut on these white rocks
and like black paint while we've been walking and like dropping them behind her
like that
now june I understand that you have a mission

(01:50:02):
quest in which you must
stop the destruction of this. It's beautiful force.
I'm so glad that you agree its destruction.
I didn't say that. However,
absolutely
I said I respect your quest.

(01:50:24):
There's more to it than just stopping everything. We can't do that
because are you gonna find a way to be able to make sure
your friend Marissa has a job. God
you wouldn't let God down now would you?
Of course not.

(01:50:47):
No
I listen
Isaac I appreciate
everything that
you do here
minus the terrible destruction and demolishing of the precious ecosystem
that is around us and that keeps us alive.

(01:51:09):
Oh with the yeah and with that he turns around three times
three times
you have been fired
from that store.
You have literally been working at every employed space
in within rally that I can get you.
-- That was not my thing and-- now you are once again unemployed.

(01:51:31):
It was not my fault. Isaac
I did everything Benny asked me to
I did everything.
It was listen if she she asked me not to do my artwork in the
front of the source so I stopped and I moved it to the back and

(01:51:54):
she does not respect the kind of work that I'm doing and I just,
it was a miscommunication
and I just
june
june bless your heart sweetheart, you live
in the lumberyard,
we chop trees

(01:52:16):
-- unfortunately.-- Yeah,
damn it dale. What you what you get me into and he just walks off again.
You don't get
daddy didn't get it either.
As you continue trudging along.

(01:52:36):
I think there is this tension kind of hanging here right like
we've got Isaac trying to hold this together with his teeth leah,
not really knowing, you know, kind of how to to to to resolve this,
but seeing the writing on the wall for
certainly her family if not the entire community.
Um and ju
I think very very stuck in her morals about this being a

(01:52:58):
failed operation from the outset and you know as you grind on,
it's it's beginning to look a little bit more and more
like that might be the case until you see two men
engaged
in a wrestling match.
-- Oh hell-- yeah,

(01:53:19):
you see two miners are just flipping each each other
over into the dirt up in the middle distance.
You see that a little camp has been set out around
it and they seem to be enjoying uh you know,
kind of a little bit of lunchtime entertainment As the mine head boys wrestle each
other into the dirt uh and sitting at the head of this little encampment.

(01:53:44):
Uh there is a very familiar face, Isaac playing his massive 30 stringed lute.
It's Sherwood.
The man in charge of the mind head boys.
Sherwood's always been an interesting guy because as long as you've known him,
he's been 102

(01:54:06):
whole time. He's got mustaches for days. White.
Just down to his like almost to his nipples
really is kind of the situation with his mustaches.
Uh He's got a little jaunty hat like he always
does and he is just in control of the chaos.
That is this wrestling match. Uh This is for his entertainment.

(01:54:28):
Uh And things are going well for sure. Would you think
I'd like to put one gold on Sherwood?
Actually we're gonna rearrange this later year. You're in charge of this one.
Me?
-- Do you-- remember the last time you remember the last
time
-- that-- I was charged you the last time I was charged?

(01:54:50):
Listen, all I need is those two eyes of yours on her at all times.
I almost lost a finger.
She's already walking towards you
now. Pay attention. All right, this entire time as we're focusing on juniper.
That's why I need to do so. Those eyes need to be on june the entire time.
We can't we can't
we need

(01:55:12):
-- now-- how's your job going? Have you been paying attention? Where is she?
Shit
june? I'm Sherwood is not fighting.
-- Sherwood is playing music and watching-- I still
Got 10.
I still got one gold on Sherwood.

(01:55:34):
So you make your way to to to share what?
Ah
-- Isaac my friend. It is good to see you are you-- sure would. Sure would. You know?
-- We get another day every time we wake up we get one more-- another day.
It is true, it is true.
Listen my friend,
you always know what is the most important in this life and
you always know you always know how to have a good time.

(01:55:55):
See that's what I like about you that.
-- And those fellows you've got,-- Here we go, about the Bellows again.
Sure. What do you do you dream about those fellows? Do you dream about them?
I dream of many things. I dream of many things.
I dream of fine wine, I dream of succulent pigs.
I dream of large women and those bellows occasionally I will tell you that.

(01:56:17):
I intend I fully intend, I fully intend my friend to outlive you by
century and a half and in that time you know,
things go missing and you know when when when when people, you know, you know,
they don't necessarily have a family or
Children that can't give away their bellows.
So, you know,
other people might come in and and and find a

(01:56:39):
way to take them and more inscrutable people than me.
-- Certainly,-- Absolutely. This is all hypothetical and whatnot.
But I tell you, I tell you what I'll tell you if I do well when I die before you.
I need you to understand that lee is still gonna be here
and you're gonna hope that uh you try and steal
it when I'm here because if leah catches you there,

(01:57:00):
who knows?
-- I can't I can't save you. Then you know, you know what I-- mean?
When she hears Isaac say talk about when he dies,
she just like visually kind of sinks just a little bit
-- and-- kind of moves just a little bit closer to Isaac.
Why Isaac, my friend? Why you're not?

(01:57:20):
Yes, you're not here for your health but for the life of me,
I can't figure out why you would be here.
It's it's it's it's solstice, you should be here with your resin
Sherwood. I'm here because you are a fine loving
friend of mine.
And I would share this gorgeous,
beautiful day with you because it's such a wonderful day.

(01:57:42):
And I know you everyone here enjoys the summer solstice.
Don't get me wrong me myself, I like to do a little dance or not during the summer.
-- So, I-- think when you say every time you say the word solstice,
I think every one of the mind boys like freezes in place
-- and just go some justice and-- I'm right there with you all.
Yeah.

(01:58:02):
-- All right-- now
with that being said, you know us being such good friends,
such such companions.
Uh you you wouldn't mind, you know,
-- talking a little bit of-- business with
back in the day.
You and dale discussed some information on
-- a millstone-- back

(01:58:24):
back when u back when your beard was down,
you know at the upper chest, not at your nipples.
-- You know years-- back
going, yes, this is also how I measure time is.
-- The person I measured three years in beard grow-- back on back on track shirt.
Back back, back, back on track. All right,
-- millstone millstone.-- Uh
-- Do you have 1?-- I think he sort of looks at you and he says um

(01:58:48):
a millstone ah
you have problems you're having with with, with the one that we arranged for you.
Well for dale.
Ah And uh and his
very persuasive wife.
Listen, the
the empire

(01:59:08):
need just kick it up a notch and
interesting.
Do you suppose that this has something to do with the fighting.
I stay out of politics. For the most part, I'm just trying to get this job done.
Make sure my people have a place to live and work to do and

(01:59:29):
ship.
What about wrestling match?
There's an idea.
That's a good idea dude. That's a good idea.
-- Now-- there's an idea. How about this? I have taken an interest in a new hobby recently.

(01:59:50):
I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but I have been informed that it is called gambling
interesting. Do tell more about this. Uh You said you said gambling? Yes.
Well it usually
gambling, but gambling, I think you could probably pronounce it, gambling,
gambling something.
Yes.
-- So-- you have, you

(02:00:10):
have an event, you have a sport,
you have some kind of competition with the winner.
And what you do is each person involved,
uh and he kind of looks over at june who's like still trying to
place money on him to win a fight that he's not participant in.
Um

(02:00:31):
-- Each-- person picks a victory in that competition
and they wager something against that victory.
If they if they're if they're champion wins,
they receive uh they receive the entire they call it a put,
they received the entire put,
so whatever, whatever is gambled goes into the put and then the winner,

(02:00:52):
whoever champion is victorious they received.
Are you sneezing is that's what's happening,
-- wait-- a minute. Is he saying pot?
-- Yes,-- that
is exactly what he's saying, that's what I need you all to understand,
-- but-- you know, who doesn't understand

(02:01:15):
what, what do you want? Sherwood, what do you want?
I'm just pulling your bed and just,
you know very well what I want.
-- So what do I get-- your champion versus my champion?
I bet a new millstone best granted in the entire west of Australia.

(02:01:38):
You put up that glorious bellows of yours,
what do you say?
You know, I can't give up a deal like that Sherwood. So my champion versus yours,
this is the bed,
then you got a deal, we'll shake on it,
he slaps your hand and it gives you just like a super first

(02:02:03):
and then and then
from the tent
behind him,
pushes out,
Standing around 6-11,
several feet at the shoulders,

(02:02:25):
just casually carrying a log about the size of Isaac,
a Goliath band.
And Sherwood turns and looks up to him and says,
big paul,
it's good that you should be able to join us.

(02:03:07):
Oh, you thought it was over?
No, no no no no no,
see it's not over until I have had the chance to
thank you and all of the people who made this happen.
Obviously,
obviously a huge thanks to our players Sam Oliver
Craig paid cinderblock sally and Emily Gray more.
You can see what we're all up to over at unbalanced encounters dot com.
I also wanted to thank Sayer roberts who composed our brilliant theme song.

(02:03:32):
You can find links to his work over on balanced encounters dot com as well.
And lastly, I wanted to thank you.
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(02:04:16):
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