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Richard catches some rays. Amy Anne and Bentley pump some iron. Krystal and Taylor mass produce essential oils.
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Excuse me, Agent Purple. Ma'am, your sister's here for you. Oh
hi, oh let her in.Yeah, that sounds amazing right this way,
ma'am. Thank you. Bean's Svetch. How are you? I'm Goldie,
what are you doing here? Ilike had to tell you. I
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ran into you know who outside Thorniron Quill's office and then I like introduced
myself and Snee gave all of themand it was like very exciting. You
you don't work for us, Goldie, that's so dangerous. Why would you
do that? Because it was likeso fun. I felt like I was,
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you know, Agent Goldie out thereand it was just really exciting.
Like they went to this bandoned warehouseand like that professor had us head down
in the red ink and they thoughthe was dead and I was like,
oh, honeys and it was reallyintense. And also they learned like about
something called the Seekers. And alsoCrystal thinks that they're like time looping.
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And I just had to come backand tell you because I felt like a
real sleuth. Just because our parentsnamed you Goldie does not mean that you
work for the agency. You don'twork here. You're right, thank you
for bringing me down to earth.I'll I'll not do that in the future.
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I'll just reserve that for Coult activities. Okay, I'm glad we had
this talk. Yeah, you're right, thanksus. Greetings listeners, and welcome
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to Overworked and Underplayed, a Dand D podcast for Young professionals, By
young professionals. I'm your DM orDistrict Manager Alex Capps and today's icebreaker,
what is your favorite quote or inspirationalmotto? What up? It's your boy?
Marsa hardy playing Richard Cox the HumanConsultants turned Halfling Bard who holy believes
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it's better to be lucky than good, but it's best to be both.
And Richard's favorite quote is with greatpower comes a heavy crown. Wait a
second, you had me in thefirst half. Why why did you do
that? Is it? Man?No, that's like a combination of two
different quotes. It is heavy isthe head that wears the crown? Right
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right? My brain's mad? Whydid you do that? Hello? My
name is Anelain Hardy and I playTaylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a
heart of gold, and her favoritequote and words that she lives by is
rising tide lifts all boats because shebelieves that her success is her families and
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her friends and that we're all inthis together and the client comes first obviously,
right. Hey, I'm Marjorie.I play Amy and Amanda, a
basic b ref and herible human fighterwith a freshly minted dentistry degree. Favorite
quote is whether you think you canor you think you cannot? You're right?
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Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. Hi everyone, I'm Katie and
I play Crystal the Dradru with hervery own MLM Crystal Clarity, and her
favorite motivational quote is if I wouldbe given a chance to start all over
again, I would choose Network Marketingby Bill Gates. I don't know if
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he did. I don't know ifhe said it or not, but Pincher
says he did. Am Tyler.I played the icy Paladin known as Bentley
and I couldn't choose. I'm gonnado too, and I want to see
if y'all can guess who they are. First one is if you don't take
risks, you can't create a future. That's from an anime. It is
for anime Monkey d Loofy. Thesecond one. The second one is a
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little bit did you just say Iwas gonna guess Eldor Roosevelt. The second
one is, uh, my failureshave been errors of judgment, not of
intent. Ulysses S. Grant,All right, and once again I am
Alex Capps, your DM or districtmanager. And my favorite quote. All
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y'all did these inspirational ones, Butmy favorite one that really sums up the
DM's experience comes from one of mycult classic favorite movies, which is the
quote is some motherfucker's always trying toice skate uphill. That's from the movie
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com slash own up Pod. Allright, so when we last left off,
you guys met up with Fizzle Bang. You discussed some potential good information
and you even we're able to deciphersome of his notes and come to some
revelations. So when we pick up, you guys are still like in his
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office. Well, Crystal, evenif we are like Loopers or something that
was a pretty pretty scary movie.When I watched I could I had to
close my eyes for most of it. But if it is like that,
then wouldn't we know about it?Or is this like the first loop that
we're on I have, I don'tknow how it works. I'm just saying
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that I feel like we're just stuckand we're not going forward, We're not
going backwards. We just keep repeatingthe same mistakes PBS. I mean,
like, I don't know, wecould be different versions of us, Like
I don't know the specific you know. That's something we haven't really considered before,
is whether or not we can seeinto the future magically. Oh oh,
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like like a tarot card reader.There's got to be some kind of
magical loophole where the answer is justright there. I can't immediately think,
so when did you think that automatically? No? Okay, so well maybe
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we you know, I think Richardwas right and saying that we just need
to kind of push on and keepgoing and try to make progress. But
what you're saying, Taylor, Ithink makes sense. Maybe there's a way.
I mean a few a few daysago, I think I mentioned we
should find a witch that is likewhat we really need is like a fortune
teller type person. I thought youa bit. Well we have you,
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Bentley. I was going to say, we have Crystal. But thanks for
turning that around on no reverse card. No, no, no, Amy,
I would never do that. Marjorie'sthe actual bitch. I'm just tired.
Yeah, I think so too.I think so too. Yeah,
Bentley, I'm sorry. I'm sorryI took that joke out on you.
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I'm pretty sure he was making ajoke about me. So it's fine if
you turn you around. Well,what do you guys think? I would
like to explore this, like whymy family's like crest effectively? Is here
have you guys seen anything else likerelating your yourselves or your families to this
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world, or I mean there's someonethat's pretending to be me so with my
whole history, Well she could beme at this point, she could be
me. Apparently we're looping, soshe might as well be we are the
same person. And I haven't beenlying this entire time, of course,
of course. And she just likeshe's like sitting down in a chair,
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like she's like loop, like she'sspirally really hard. Crystal is micro looping.
Yeah, pretty much heard someone requestthe DM. Yeah, did we
go over what Richard found in hisan investigation with a twenty three? So
yours was that you found mentions ofthe other items, but a lot of
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it wasn't hasn't been translated by physiclething yet, gotcha? Okay? Yeah,
Amy, And that's a good question. Like, so maybe we don't
know which of your family members itis, but like, is there ever
like some weird secret ceremony or somethingthat your family's part of that like you
haven't quite gotten to partake in yetsince you're new to this whole thing.
Yeah, I mean, I don'tknow if I would call it like weird
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at secret or anything. It's morejust like you know, a coming of
age once, once you get throughwith your schooling, you go through a
little little party and it's like byinvite only. But that's really the closest
thing I can think of that,you know, would even be close to
what you're describing. And surely thatcan't be. What's that? Bently?
That sounds pretty culty. I'm notgonna lie, is there a portal at
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it? I don't know. I'venever been to one. You've never been
to one? No? No,Because I just graduated with my I've just
finished my schooling. So my party, the I guess the initiation or whatever
you want to call it is.You know, I guess we would be
scheduling it for oh, I don'tknow, the next month or two.
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I haven't been to one yet.I've heard that they're really fun, though.
Taylor's gonna like lean over to Richardand be like, do you think
we're going to be invited? Imean, we've spent a lot of time
together. It'd be pretty like shittyfor not to at least like fake invite
us. I was on the prize. Okay, yeah, so maybe we
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can walk and talk on the wayback to the Crow's nest. Yeah,
after, we should probably actually checkFizzle Bank's vitals real quick before make sure
he's okay. I'm gonna take outone of the I think I have these,
and DM DM and Crystal correct meif I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure
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Amy and has several of those vialsfree sample from the bookstore because she got
like a plus five to any after. You know, So, I think
I have a few of them,and I'm gonna leave one with Fizzle Bang.
Okay, so I put into sleepso you wn't do drugs, So
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you're gonna leave more drugs for himto do. Wait a minute, Pally,
do you count coffee as drugs?It's not coffee? Are you mormony?
I didn't know that. What Imean that that would be kind of
funny. You're not, are yousure? Yeah? I'm pretty sure.
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I mean I've done alcohol, You'vedone al alcohol. That's what someone who
drake alcohol would say. That's themost Mormon thing. He's like the kid
in middle school who's talking about howmany girls he's made out with the Canada.
You wouldn't know them. I thinkBilly's Mormon. He just said,
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I wasn't a cult. Oh youmight be tracked honestly. Yeah. Yeah,
And there goes all of our listenersin Utah. Have you had any
left after the soaking joke? Ithink that they're gonna that is a good
point. I forgot about that.Be careful, Marjorie, you'll be wife
number one. Amen. Amen.So you leave some drugs for a fizzle
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bang, and you guys had y'allheading back to the crow's nest. Maybe
not actually like, maybe we shouldfind somewhere else to stay. Oh yeah,
yeah, well we were staying atthat fancy place. I thought were
just going to go back there,right. Oh yeah, forgot the billing,
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the entire bill for this again?All right? Did Bluegill front it?
I forget? Do we crash withfizzle Bang? That would be free
and terrifying. Are there cots herefor us to sleep on? No?
Just pages of pages and pages ofbooks. Like you see when he like
at some point when during y'all's conversationhe got up and actually went to what
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you thought was a bed. Butit's just like a stack of books that
he's made into like the shape ofa bed, and he he just curls
up with a newspaper on top ofhim. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah,
there's probably enough red string. Wecould probably crochet a blanket for him.
Will take down all his wreaths.Oh god, he wakes up and
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it's like all of it's gone,like every bit. We put everything in
piles for you. Yeah, weorganized. Aren't you grateful? Didn't we
do such a good job. I'msure you'd appreciate it, I'm sure.
Yeah. No, we're leaving Fizzlemanhere. Yeah. Well, I think
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that there was so much food leftover crystal from that that spread. I'm
hoping that I can just, youknow, we can go back and nibble
on the leftovers of that at thehotel. You think they would have cleaned
it up per probably. It's definitelynot breakfast anymore. Did we put the
sock all the day? You're definitelyat dinner time at this point. I
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think we put a sock on thedoor. I bet you. What does
that mean? A sock on thedoor. Shortly, it means not disturb
I didn't know that I have todo that. Yeah. Yeah, it's
just like how the upside down pineapplemeans you like to uh share with others?
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Oh I didn't know that. Idon't know who was talking. I
think that was Alan spoke to you. WHOA, I think I might be
a paladin. All right, soyou guys are heading back to the fancy
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hotel. Yeah, I guess allright? Is there anything you're going to
try to do between now and there? Hey, guys, you mind if
I stop by a bluegl terminal?I want to type I want to look
at the champion that uh, thegod that fizzle Ban was bringing up that
Crystal old bad Crystal might be achampion of is Yeah? English? Can
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I stop my Google Google terminal?Please? Yeah, of course? Okay,
all right guy, he said shewas the bad version. So I'm
down for whatever you want to do. Yeah. So you go, you
go up to that and you uh, you do some searching and basically what
you find out is that Sunam usedto be known as Somnous uh and she
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was known as the dream Weaver,but there was a schism between the gods
and she was corrupted by an evilspirit and became known as the Lady of
Lost Dreams. Sounds like an MLMpromoter to me. Oh hey, guys,
remember we had a bad dream beforewe came here. Oh that's right,
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we did. Wait, you guyshave bad dreams. What if we
didn't have a bad dream. Whatif we're still in that bad dream?
If we if we're just in thishall like we're time looping thing like,
maybe this is still the bad dream. That's such a good point, Richard,
that makes sense. Yeah, arethere any Can I find out any
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any other information that you have,like a temple some type of so there
there used to be a pretty wellknown temple of somness, but after the
schism the temple was destroyed. Okay, so it's not like a common thing
that you could find in town.No, let's see and trying to think
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if you would see make me ahistory checked. Okay, there's one more
piece of information here that I don'twant to just give to you. You
got to earn it. Okay.How many good omens do we have?
You have two remaining? Can Iuse one? Please? You may,
yes, you're it's your prerogative whetheryou use it. Holy crap, it's
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so bad because I rolled an eightand then a six and then minus one.
So oh yeah, that's that's allyou find out. Okay. I
wish there was there's something more here. I can feel it, I just
can't quite get my hands on onit. Maybe good to night rests.
What I've learned anything from college isif I just sleep on it, my
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brain just does, it's easier tofigure out the problem the next day.
That's good. He sees the bluegalterminal, looks at both of you,
and he looks at at Amyen says, please don't sleep on me. Don't
worry. Don't worry. Why wouldI do that? Don't please, that's
kind of weird. Goodbye, thankyou, bye hot All right, So
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you guys make it to the fancyhotel and you see a familiar face in
the lobby as you as you seeCaptain Montyat stand up and say, there
you are. There you are.And he runs up to you guys and
runs right past all of you andgoes right to Crystal and he says,
there's been some developments, and Ineed you to make some more of those
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things, the things, the thingsyou gave me when I had the headache.
Oh. And he hands you abag of a thousand gold and he
says, he says, I didlike you said, uh huh. And
now everyone's wanting product and I haven'tseen you in a while, and I
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need product because I have people givingme money every week because I told them
that's how the system works, andthen they would receive and I'm really behind.
Oh okay, first, yes Ican. I will totally help you
out there, my guy. ButI mean, I need you to sign
this non disclosure agreement. It's it'sjust basically that you're not gonna, you
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know, talk to anybody about ourproprietary information because there's another girl out there
that isn't very happy with our successand it seems like they've been using you
and your essentially success against me,and so we'll just you know, I'm
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asking is that you don't snitch.Sound good? All right, sounds like
a plan. And so she likepulls out of her bag, but she
keeps on hand closure. She havesome sign because of course Bristol would carry
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this around. Okay, and thenshe goes and she makes more of the
I guess, so the are theythe pepper up potions? Is that what
they're yeh is basically the uh,the the magical ibuprofen, the good berries.
Yeah yeah, yeah, So she'sgoing to make more of this,
Okay, he says, Oh,thank god, he says, I got
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to get these people off my back. They're already starting to recruit others.
They told your magical success. Awesome, that's exactly see you look and look
you're you're doing so well and you'reyou're being an entrepreneur. You're making money
for yourself. So that's amazing.He says, Now, no question how
much of this is mine? Ohdays works? Huh, Richard chimes,
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and he said all of it,like having just yeah, having just listened
in on Crystal, and the lawyersargue, whatever, there's no connection right
now between Crystal and this random person. Oh so she like turns to like
the side and she's like, hey, Richard, would it be chill if
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we like had him like put itin a savings account. That's like,
yes, his savings account, hisname, I think would be good.
Like I think, includiarly, he'sgot some skills, right Crystal, So
like I think this is his freeone, right, so he can keep
this money and then after this Wholerdeals over, then you guys can talk
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about how the structure works. Yeah. I like that idea. Yeah.
H So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to have maniac just like
set up his own savings account andbe like, you know, I really
respect your hard work, and asa reward for all of the networking that
you've been doing and the hustle you'vebeen putting in, I'm not going to
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take my cut this time. Youget to have it all. Oh well,
that's very generous of you. Yeah. Well, we'll hammer out the
specifics of it all in the future. And when you're ready to come pick
up your next delivery, just letme know. When is this delivery going
to be ready? I need sevenhundred and fifty units. Oh, all
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hands on deck, folks. Yeah, I guess we're making I guess we're
staying up all night. Is noteven around anymore? Went to the bar.
I will have nothing to do withthis, Alex. How long would
it take Crystal, who is goodat this thing, to do make essentially?
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I mean like she's just gonna makea bulk batch of it. So
I'm gonna say you probably were goingto spend the next day doing this.
Yeah, okay, well we'll sayyou guys took a rest day and uh
while Crystal was was busy working andI just hung out at the at the
fancy hotel she will say that asthank you that Captain Montiac buys you guys
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a few nights here, and yeah, I just need to be able to
pick up my product. They arehounding me day and night about this stuff.
Yeah, I'm not surprised, Taylor. It's like to be successful,
right to help too, like makeit faster, okay, and like Crystal
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like basically just pushes up for sleevesand gets to work. Okay, make
me a nature check, Crystal.Okay. When they're talking, Taylor is
going to be like, what doyou think of Amien's pickle juice suggestion?
I was thinking we could call ita pickle tickle that's right. Oh no,
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the Essential Orals Pickle Tickle Edition.Swear to god, Oh my gosh,
I love that idea, Taylor.Yes, Crystal, what do you
say? No, need to takethis offline. Overworked and underplayed, will
circle back after these messages. Howabout we make the same thing we're making
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and one of them is pickle flavoredand one of them is not pickle flavored,
and do some like a b testingkind of thing, see what youah?
Yeah, like the Pepsi challenge.Yeah, basically, well it's a
new flavor like it's a new animproved version, which it is improved according
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to Yeah, it's well, Imean like it's got a new flavor that
was a seventeen by the way.Okay, that's good enough. Yeah.
A day you two working together,everyone else kind of hanging out, chilling,
y'all are y'all are good to go? You fill your order. You
passed that challenge. Good job,and you didn't give the other side more
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ammunition to come after lawsuit. Richardwhile they were talking about the pickle stuff
and Bentley went to the bar,Richard wants to go over there and like,
hey, Bentley, did you godo something this morning before we went
to the lawyer's office. How didthat work out for you? Oh?
Yeah, I got these swords?Are these weapons? And to pull out
my cool new magical weapons the axeand the scimitar. Oh snap, that's
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it. Can I see it?Yeah? Sure, there you go,
buddy. It was like, ohshit, that's a heavy How do you
carry this thing around? Push up? Set up some plenty of juice.
Interesting, that's what that's a secretfor steroids? Yeah, dragon ball z
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a bridge reference. What are youtalking about? No? Yeah, because
the Scimitar glows. It's the moonglows Cemitar. And then I had the
oh yeah, the heavy Ass Acts. Yeah, I forgot that. That's
literally what it was named. Tyler. I think you also did something.
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You got something printed, did I? Yeah? I forgot to type those
up. Yeah, don't worry aboutthat or about that other thing. Is
that like your backstory that you sharedwith Amyen? Yeah, yeah, that's
exactly what that's like, and I'llnever get it. So during the day,
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while Crystal and Taylor are making theproduct, Richard, you are down
by the pool and you see someguards. You see some guards from the
city come in and ask the frontdesk and he holds up a artist's rendering
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of the five of you. Ohno, what can you do? What
do you do? Do I seethat or do I hear anything? So
the first thing you hear is we'relooking for some people and you. They
hold up the picture and you seewhat appears to be an artist sketch of
you guys. Okay, does itlook like a wanted kind of artist sketch
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or does it just look like athey don't have pictures, Yeah, like
a sketch, like the equivalent ofa picture. Yeah, okay, I'm
at the pool. Richard is goingto get out of their eyesight. Okay,
make me a stealth check. Okay, fourteen. Okay, So you
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duck behind like a potted plant,and you see as they're they're like glancing
around, and it looks like onelooks right at where you were, and
he looks around. It was prettyobvious that he's He just kind of shrugged
it off, like I don't knowwhat that was. So what's your what's
your move? So I'm in myswimmys, so I got to change into
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regular clothes, so I got tohead back up to the group. I
guess back to our room. SoI think we have a piece of jewelry.
That's That would make sense if Rigidwasn't freaking out. His head's not
on straight quiet yet. Maybe oncehe gets to the staircase breath. Make
me a wisdom save with disadvantage.That's a five. Okay, Yeah,
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you definitely don't remember that you havea magic walkie talkie on, all right.
So you're ducked behind the potted plant. So you see they're kind of
scanning the lobby and the front deskis giving them like a they're kind of
stone walling, like, oh,we can't really disclose about our guests without
a cord order, and you know, come back with a warrant, pig
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and uh. And so you're gonnatry to slip to the stairs and like
not be seen. So make anotherstealth check and I'm gonna use one of
the bad omens. Okay stealth,Yes, that's a ten. Okay with
a ten. You get to thestairs and you're like, like, you're
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pretty sneaky. You get you getto the stairs, you're like home free,
and you run into somebody carrying atray of drinks. You make a
huge amount of noise and you seeas both the guards turn and look,
go, hey you there, stop. What do you do? Richard calmly
apologizes to the person here ran intoand then at a not like I'm running
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away pace, but like pretending likehey you stop, isn't about him,
and like walks away. Okay,all right, So we'll come back to
that. So Bentley and Amyen,what are you guys doing with your day
of leisure? Well, I've triedto talk Bentley into going to the hotel
gym with me. So Bentley,did you agree to that are we at
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the gym? I don't know whendid you ask approximately? What time?
Uh? It's like while they wereworking on their supplies. I don't know.
That would have been first thing inthe morning, in the morning,
yeah, like during the day,like what time in the morning though,
that's important? Yeah, I knowI'm awakened. Yeah. All right,
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let's see how much you can reallybinge Bentley. Oh god, oh oh,
here we go here, I haveto split my stats. All right,
So you guys get down to thethe thing. Are you Bentley important?
Are you still wearing your armor ornot? H good question. Bentley
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does always tend to wear his armor. But are you going to wear it
to the gym? No? Probablynot? Okay, So Bentley's out of
his armor. And one thing younotice, Amyen, is he's he's he
looks a little bit smaller than youthought he would out of his armor.
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No, I'm saying he's still prettybig, but you're so used to seeing
him in his armor all the time. Trust me, no jugment, no
judgment. Man. Anyways, youguys make it down to the gym,
and you see a bunch of stuffthat looks like a medieval person saw like
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a hotel gym and tried to recreateit without electricity. So you know,
there's free weights, and there's whatlooks kind of like a treadmill and a
thing that looks kind of like abike. So what are you guys doing?
I mean, she said strength,So I assume, yeah, we're
we're lifting, we're listing. Allright, you got to start lifting heavy?
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Are you trying to have a liftoff? Sure? I know for
a fact I'll lose, But Idon't know. Man, We'll see how,
We'll see how how much my faithin the gods gives me. All
Right, all right, so youguys go up, you get your weights,
Go ahead and make me a headto head strength check or athletics check.
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Let's see. Ooh, I'm sosorry, Bentley, I got a
NAT twenty plus seven. Jesus Christ. Okay, so you are really important?
Rolls? I can't really. Yeah. So so amy An approaches like
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the Bentley Bentley? What did youget? Okay? So Bentley walks up
and he goes like like not thenot the middle, but towards the upper
end of the weights, and hepicks them up and he doesn't struggle with
him or anything, but he likebrings him up. He's he's working those
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arms well. He sets him downand then amy Ann comes up and she
just about chucks one through the roof. It's like, oh, these are
kind of light. Yeah, hey, Bailey, I think I can help
you maximize. Let me show youthis form changer here, and I try
to help them with this form alittle bit. Okay, let's see.
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So what I want you to dois, Marjorie, you make a persuasion
check and Bentley, I want youto make another athletics check three. Okay,
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so Bentley, So Marjorie already gotthis because she's working out the whole
time. Bentley got enough that hedidn't need the he didn't need the bonus.
You both have the condition pumped.You both have a pump for the
next until you until you basically goto sleep again. You're gonna get a
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plus one on all strength based checks. I love it because you're really in
the zone and you you look outthe window of the of the hotel and
of the hotel, but of thegym, and you see Richard in what
appears to be swim trunks, likekind of briskly walking and like goes up
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one flight of stairs and quickly turnsand goes up another and then right after
you see two city guards running thesame direction. Oh oh, do you
think heye, billy, you seethat? Yeah, it looks like the
guards are coming after us forgetting forsome reason? Are us, don't you
think? I mean, Richard's runningaway. Should we go like help them?
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I mean I kind of assume itwould be us. In general,
Richard was involved in the in thecrime last time, he's kind of safe
to assume he went what heck crimeare you talking about? At the beginning,
when wesk guy here, when theywhat was that little guy's name?
I forget it, my gosh.For years, work friends are different from
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my real friends. Yeah, yeah, I got you. Okay, okay,
well, what do you think weshould do? Was there is there
another way up other than the stairs? No, that's the stairs is the
only way. There's no elevator.No, no, well you know what,
yeah, sure, there's an elevator. All right, Yeah, let's
take the elevator and try and tryand get up there. All right.
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Sweet, So you guys make itup to the floor, and you basically
make it up to the room bythe time you wait for the elevator and
everything. You make it up toy'all's floor about the time Richard, out
of breath like pops out at thetop of the staircase and you hear more
steps behind him. Richard, whatwhat's you're running from? Oh? Guys,
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the city guard. They're looking forus. I don't know why have
but uh it's never good. SoI came to warn you guys. Well,
okay, let's get in the room. How slap up. We can
get there faster, thank God,thinks. All right, So as you
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guys make it to the room,I need one of you to make a
slide of hand check to see ifyou can get the key in the door
before the guards see you. Whoelse to do it? Richard can try
like from underneath Bentley's like arms.And so Richard's doing it, and I'm
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going to use another one of thebad omens tragic slide of hand. That's
a ten. Okay, so witha ten, so let me click my
little digital roller here. So Richard, you pull the key out and you
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go to put it in the lock, and you're kind of shaking a little
bit and you miss the lock anddrop the key, and it's about that
time behind you. You hear theguards say, stop, stop, stop,
You're not in trouble. We justneed to talk. Oh well then
if that's the key, hey,guys, it's like, oh, this
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isn't our door. So the guardand he says that you see that.
They're all like catching their breath andthey're like, they're like, the Lord
Protector of Levron is requesting your presenceimmediately for a grave concern to the city.
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You don't you just know that he'syou know that he is basically like
the administrator of the city. Yeah, other places, somebody like that might
be a king, all right,but actual power. Yes, he very
much has real power. Okay,he is the he is the authority.
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He has the authority that the thatthe Empire allows him to have. We'll
put it that way, Richard,Are you sure us like where this guy
sounds pretty important? Like what couldwe do to help with something grave matter?
He said he wanted to speak toyou about this in private at at
Adnes Hall where he resides. Okay, it sounds like something that I shouldn't
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go to in swim trunks. Youguys may mind waiting for his down on
the lobby. Oh yeah, Ikind of want to shower to you.
I mean we can wait here.It's fine, yeah, okay, shower
and change back into his armor andweapons and stuff. After getting totally emasculated
by Amy. It's a very longshower. He's like, I'm not cryings.
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So they're waiting outside. So youguys go in and uh, what
do you tell the others? Youcome in and it's like breaking bad.
Like they've got a math on makingtheir their stuff. Another fun another fun
development. There's another high important personthat wants to talk to us about something.
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He's got city guards. I don'tthink we get to say no this
time. Why is he high?I'll have to ask, he said the
lord protector. I think that's whatthey said. Maybe he can send us
home, I hope so. Orwe could just be like, hey man,
can you make that lawsuit go away? I feel like that's a fair
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trade, just saying that sounds legal. Let's do that totally okay, cute.
What's the vibe. I think it'slike meeting the mayor, so probably
like I'm changing out of my swimtrunks at least. Okay, I guess
can we finish up ours? Sowhat I'll say is this would be like
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a break in y'all making the proportions, but you would have time afterwards to
come back and get back on it. Okay, all right, go team,
and I like try and high fiveChrist. So just just so I
understand how's everybody dressing for this occasion, We'll go start off with Amy and
Amanda. All Right, So Annhas the clothes that she wore to the
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business meeting that started this whole thing, so they're nice and cleans, the
blazer very kind of formal, formalish. She's also has the like a
nice brown cloak that she's got earlyon and she's going to put on makeup
today. Okay, all right,what about I mean, Bentley's just gonna
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go with this normal normal armor that'spretty regal. I mean, you know
it's fancy wearing fancy armor weapons.You know, he's like, oh,
get to show off my magic swordstoday. All right, So Taylor Jacobs,
how are you going? She's wearingher older sister's blazer. Still,
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she'll probably be in person form,so where her like pants and the outfit
that she woreks at that meeting.And she will attempt to like style her
hair in long waves because I don'twuld they have tools with heat, Alex.
So what I'm going to say thenis give me a So so I
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don't mean this in the tent sensethat you're doing something wrong or you're trying
to steal something, but it ishand based dexterity. So I'm going to
say, make a sleight of handcheck to see how good you do fixing
your hair. This is funny.That's a six, okay, all right,
So you come out and you're like, we can make this work,
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we can work with this. That'swhen that every woman, every well not
even a woman, every person thatstyles their hair that rolls a six in
real life knows that that's at thepoint where you just put it up.
Yeah, so can Crystal. Crystal'sgoing to just be like, oh oh,
let me do it. Yeah,I'll say the two of you working
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together in tandem like that, yougot it, okay. And also like,
like Taylor, you just Crystal justhelped you fix your hair. That's
gotta be like, h that's gotto be like on your bucket list.
She doesn't stop smiling for a fulllike twenty four hours, all right,
And how's Crystal going. She's goinglike she did to the deposition, So
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like she bought a whole new suit, like boss babe outfit for it.
What about and what about Richard?So Richard's wearing his disguise that he got
before going to this rich part oftown. You know, he's got his
top hat, he's got his newphoenix monocle, his cane. He's on
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the fence about the bushy mustache.He's like, what do you guys think
mustache or no mustache? He putsit in his pocket. Dessert's the worst.
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What can we ask the concier beforewe actually leave the place, like
have him come up and be like, hey, is this acceptable to like
meet the mayor. He looks likehe goes, we wei, Yes,
yes, okay, okay, thanks. I don't know why I said we
wei, But all right, allthe way home he the bathroom, so
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for us to like lock up theyeah, oh no. The concierge assures
you that your room, that youwill not have any concerns about anyone bothering
your room, and so the guardslead you to the a section of the
city. You've not spent a lotof time in the government sector. Took
a lot longer to get in thanyou thought it would. Once you got
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to the gate, they had alot of gatekeepers keeping people out of the
government sector. Shocking. And anyways, you get in there and it's super
clean. It's really nice. Italmost has like the like compared to the
public sector. It almost feels likeyou're in a park. And you find
this very very finely built granite structurein the granite and marble structure in the
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center of the city of the sectorwith the sign out in front says Adnes
Hall. It looks like almost likea Scottish castle. And they lead you
in and they take you to thecentral chamber and they open the door and
they say, Lord long Shaft willsee you. Now that's right. I
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was like, I know, wedefinitely have heard his name before, Richard
I remember. So they open upthe doors and you see a man probably
about six foot tall, very verylarge, blonde beard, and he steps
forward and he says, so youare the ones who I have heard have
been causing quite a ruckus. Hello, sir, I'm not sure what rucas
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you're referred to, but thank youfor the infight or we're happy to meet
you. Yes, yes, noneed to call me sir. You can
call me. My name is HaroldLongshaft. You can call me Harry,
he says, and welcome to Adneshall. I have a great matter to
discuss with you. Please please havea seat. Also allow me to introduce
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my wife. I wanna do youneed Oh man, I wish you guys
could see Marjorie's face right now,just the pure Just come on, please
please have a seat. We havemuch to discuss about the troubles of the
city and this rather nasty cult we'redealing with. Well, certainly happy to
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help however we can. Yes,yes, he steps up and he says,
where are my manners? And hebegins, you know, he has
servants pull out some of the chairsand everything and seated at the table,
and he says, I hear youhave had some run ins with this Church
of Clarity. We sure have.Crystal's in a lawsuit with him right now.
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That can be troublesome. Yeah,just a little bit. They are
causing a real problem for this region. We've had people in droves quitting their
jobs, important jobs in the citylike candle makers and things, trying to
become something some kind of as theyreferred to it. Boss babe, are
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you familiar with this terminology. Youknow, I am, in fact,
I would be something of a subjectmatter expert on their recruiting tactics. Excellent,
and I was right to seek youout. You see, I have
concerns that if too many people inthe city quit their jobs, then the
businesses here are going to have tostart paying their people more money. Do
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you see where this becomes an issue? I do. Yes, It's very
bad, very very bad. Whydon't they just pay them enough in the
first place? Nope, Nope,nope, nope, nope. Amen,
I think that I think he's right, and I think that you should be
concerned. It's very concerning. Andshe's like elbowing Amy and probably hitting her
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elbow. Well, we have muchto discuss, but first we dine.
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Excuse me, Agent Purple. Ma'am, your sister's here for you. Oh
hi, oh let her in.Yeah, that sounds amazing right this way,
ma'am. Thank you. Bean's Svetch. How are you? I'm Goldie,
what are you doing here? Ilike had to tell you. I
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ran into you know who outside Thorniron Quill's office and then I like introduced
myself and Snee gave all of themand it was like very exciting. You
you don't work for us, Goldie, that's so dangerous. Why would you
do that? Because it was likeso fun. I felt like I was,
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you know, Agent Goldie out thereand it was just really exciting.
Like they went to this bandoned warehouseand like that professor had us head down
in the red ink and they thoughthe was dead and I was like,
oh, honeys and it was reallyintense. And also they learned like about
something called the Seekers. And alsoCrystal thinks that they're like time looping.
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And I just had to come backand tell you because I felt like a
real sleuth. Just because our parentsnamed you Goldie does not mean that you
work for the agency. You don'twork here. You're right, thank you
for bringing me down to earth.I'll I'll not do that in the future.
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I'll just reserve that for Coult activities. Okay, I'm glad we had
this talk. Yeah, you're right, thanksus. Greetings listeners, and welcome
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to Overworked and Underplayed, a Dand D podcast for Young professionals, By
young professionals. I'm your DM orDistrict Manager Alex Capps and today's icebreaker,
what is your favorite quote or inspirationalmotto? What up? It's your boy?
Marsa hardy playing Richard Cox the HumanConsultants turned Halfling Bard who holy believes
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it's better to be lucky than good, but it's best to be both.
And Richard's favorite quote is with greatpower comes a heavy crown. Wait a
second, you had me in thefirst half. Why why did you do
that? Is it? Man?No, that's like a combination of two
different quotes. It is heavy isthe head that wears the crown? Right
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right? My brain's mad? Whydid you do that? Hello? My
name is Anelain Hardy and I playTaylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a
heart of gold, and her favoritequote and words that she lives by is
rising tide lifts all boats because shebelieves that her success is her families and
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her friends and that we're all inthis together and the client comes first obviously,
right. Hey, I'm Marjorie.I play Amy and Amanda, a
basic b ref and herible human fighterwith a freshly minted dentistry degree. Favorite
quote is whether you think you canor you think you cannot? You're right?
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Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. Hi everyone, I'm Katie and
I play Crystal the Dradru with hervery own MLM Crystal Clarity, and her
favorite motivational quote is if I wouldbe given a chance to start all over
again, I would choose Network Marketingby Bill Gates. I don't know if
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he did. I don't know ifhe said it or not, but Pincher
says he did. Am Tyler.I played the icy Paladin known as Bentley
and I couldn't choose. I'm gonnado too, and I want to see
if y'all can guess who they are. First one is if you don't take
risks, you can't create a future. That's from an anime. It is
for anime Monkey d Loofy. Thesecond one. The second one is a
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little bit did you just say Iwas gonna guess Eldor Roosevelt. The second
one is, uh, my failureshave been errors of judgment, not of
intent. Ulysses S. Grant,All right, and once again I am
Alex Capps, your DM or districtmanager. And my favorite quote. All
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y'all did these inspirational ones, Butmy favorite one that really sums up the
DM's experience comes from one of mycult classic favorite movies, which is the
quote is some motherfucker's always trying toice skate uphill. That's from the movie
Blade. Hey, listeners, thisshow is made possible by the support of
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com slash own up Pod. Allright, so when we last left off,
you guys met up with Fizzle Bang. You discussed some potential good information
and you even we're able to deciphersome of his notes and come to some
revelations. So when we pick up, you guys are still like in his
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office. Well, Crystal, evenif we are like Loopers or something that
was a pretty pretty scary movie.When I watched I could I had to
close my eyes for most of it. But if it is like that,
then wouldn't we know about it?Or is this like the first loop that
we're on I have, I don'tknow how it works. I'm just saying
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that I feel like we're just stuckand we're not going forward, We're not
going backwards. We just keep repeatingthe same mistakes PBS. I mean,
like, I don't know, wecould be different versions of us, Like
I don't know the specific you know. That's something we haven't really considered before,
is whether or not we can seeinto the future magically. Oh oh,
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like like a tarot card reader.There's got to be some kind of
magical loophole where the answer is justright there. I can't immediately think,
so when did you think that automatically? No? Okay, so well maybe
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we you know, I think Richardwas right and saying that we just need
to kind of push on and keepgoing and try to make progress. But
what you're saying, Taylor, Ithink makes sense. Maybe there's a way.
I mean a few a few daysago, I think I mentioned we
should find a witch that is likewhat we really need is like a fortune
teller type person. I thought youa bit. Well we have you,
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Bentley. I was going to say, we have Crystal. But thanks for
turning that around on no reverse card. No, no, no, Amy,
I would never do that. Marjorie'sthe actual bitch. I'm just tired.
Yeah, I think so too.I think so too. Yeah,
Bentley, I'm sorry. I'm sorryI took that joke out on you.
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I'm pretty sure he was making ajoke about me. So it's fine if
you turn you around. Well,what do you guys think? I would
like to explore this, like whymy family's like crest effectively? Is here
have you guys seen anything else likerelating your yourselves or your families to this
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world, or I mean there's someonethat's pretending to be me so with my
whole history, Well she could beme at this point, she could be
me. Apparently we're looping, soshe might as well be we are the
same person. And I haven't beenlying this entire time, of course,
of course. And she just likeshe's like sitting down in a chair,
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like she's like loop, like she'sspirally really hard. Crystal is micro looping.
Yeah, pretty much heard someone requestthe DM. Yeah, did we
go over what Richard found in hisan investigation with a twenty three? So
yours was that you found mentions ofthe other items, but a lot of
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it wasn't hasn't been translated by physiclething yet, gotcha? Okay? Yeah,
Amy, And that's a good question. Like, so maybe we don't
know which of your family members itis, but like, is there ever
like some weird secret ceremony or somethingthat your family's part of that like you
haven't quite gotten to partake in yetsince you're new to this whole thing.
Yeah, I mean, I don'tknow if I would call it like weird
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at secret or anything. It's morejust like you know, a coming of
age once, once you get throughwith your schooling, you go through a
little little party and it's like byinvite only. But that's really the closest
thing I can think of that,you know, would even be close to
what you're describing. And surely thatcan't be. What's that? Bently?
That sounds pretty culty. I'm notgonna lie, is there a portal at
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it? I don't know. I'venever been to one. You've never been
to one? No? No,Because I just graduated with my I've just
finished my schooling. So my party, the I guess the initiation or whatever
you want to call it is.You know, I guess we would be
scheduling it for oh, I don'tknow, the next month or two.
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I haven't been to one yet.I've heard that they're really fun, though.
Taylor's gonna like lean over to Richardand be like, do you think
we're going to be invited? Imean, we've spent a lot of time
together. It'd be pretty like shittyfor not to at least like fake invite
us. I was on the prize. Okay, yeah, so maybe we
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can walk and talk on the wayback to the Crow's nest. Yeah,
after, we should probably actually checkFizzle Bank's vitals real quick before make sure
he's okay. I'm gonna take outone of the I think I have these,
and DM DM and Crystal correct meif I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure
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Amy and has several of those vialsfree sample from the bookstore because she got
like a plus five to any after. You know, So, I think
I have a few of them,and I'm gonna leave one with Fizzle Bang.
Okay, so I put into sleepso you wn't do drugs, So
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you're gonna leave more drugs for himto do. Wait a minute, Pally,
do you count coffee as drugs?It's not coffee? Are you mormony?
I didn't know that. What Imean that that would be kind of
funny. You're not, are yousure? Yeah? I'm pretty sure.
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I mean I've done alcohol, You'vedone al alcohol. That's what someone who
drake alcohol would say. That's themost Mormon thing. He's like the kid
in middle school who's talking about howmany girls he's made out with the Canada.
You wouldn't know them. I thinkBilly's Mormon. He just said,
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I wasn't a cult. Oh youmight be tracked honestly. Yeah. Yeah,
And there goes all of our listenersin Utah. Have you had any
left after the soaking joke? Ithink that they're gonna that is a good
point. I forgot about that.Be careful, Marjorie, you'll be wife
number one. Amen. Amen.So you leave some drugs for a fizzle
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bang, and you guys had y'allheading back to the crow's nest. Maybe
not actually like, maybe we shouldfind somewhere else to stay. Oh yeah,
yeah, well we were staying atthat fancy place. I thought were
just going to go back there,right. Oh yeah, forgot the billing,
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the entire bill for this again?All right? Did Bluegill front it?
I forget? Do we crash withfizzle Bang? That would be free
and terrifying. Are there cots herefor us to sleep on? No?
Just pages of pages and pages ofbooks. Like you see when he like
at some point when during y'all's conversationhe got up and actually went to what
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you thought was a bed. Butit's just like a stack of books that
he's made into like the shape ofa bed, and he he just curls
up with a newspaper on top ofhim. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah,
there's probably enough red string. Wecould probably crochet a blanket for him.
Will take down all his wreaths.Oh god, he wakes up and
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it's like all of it's gone,like every bit. We put everything in
piles for you. Yeah, weorganized. Aren't you grateful? Didn't we
do such a good job. I'msure you'd appreciate it, I'm sure.
Yeah. No, we're leaving Fizzlemanhere. Yeah. Well, I think
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that there was so much food leftover crystal from that that spread. I'm
hoping that I can just, youknow, we can go back and nibble
on the leftovers of that at thehotel. You think they would have cleaned
it up per probably. It's definitelynot breakfast anymore. Did we put the
sock all the day? You're definitelyat dinner time at this point. I
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think we put a sock on thedoor. I bet you. What does
that mean? A sock on thedoor. Shortly, it means not disturb
I didn't know that I have todo that. Yeah. Yeah, it's
just like how the upside down pineapplemeans you like to uh share with others?
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Oh I didn't know that. Idon't know who was talking. I
think that was Alan spoke to you. WHOA, I think I might be
a paladin. All right, soyou guys are heading back to the fancy
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hotel. Yeah, I guess allright? Is there anything you're going to
try to do between now and there? Hey, guys, you mind if
I stop by a bluegl terminal?I want to type I want to look
at the champion that uh, thegod that fizzle Ban was bringing up that
Crystal old bad Crystal might be achampion of is Yeah? English? Can
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I stop my Google Google terminal?Please? Yeah, of course? Okay,
all right guy, he said shewas the bad version. So I'm
down for whatever you want to do. Yeah. So you go, you
go up to that and you uh, you do some searching and basically what
you find out is that Sunam usedto be known as Somnous uh and she
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was known as the dream Weaver,but there was a schism between the gods
and she was corrupted by an evilspirit and became known as the Lady of
Lost Dreams. Sounds like an MLMpromoter to me. Oh hey, guys,
remember we had a bad dream beforewe came here. Oh that's right,
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we did. Wait, you guyshave bad dreams. What if we
didn't have a bad dream. Whatif we're still in that bad dream?
If we if we're just in thishall like we're time looping thing like,
maybe this is still the bad dream. That's such a good point, Richard,
that makes sense. Yeah, arethere any Can I find out any
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any other information that you have,like a temple some type of so there
there used to be a pretty wellknown temple of somness, but after the
schism the temple was destroyed. Okay, so it's not like a common thing
that you could find in town.No, let's see and trying to think
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if you would see make me ahistory checked. Okay, there's one more
piece of information here that I don'twant to just give to you. You
got to earn it. Okay.How many good omens do we have?
You have two remaining? Can Iuse one? Please? You may,
yes, you're it's your prerogative whetheryou use it. Holy crap, it's
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so bad because I rolled an eightand then a six and then minus one.
So oh yeah, that's that's allyou find out. Okay. I
wish there was there's something more here. I can feel it, I just
can't quite get my hands on onit. Maybe good to night rests.
What I've learned anything from college isif I just sleep on it, my
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brain just does, it's easier tofigure out the problem the next day.
That's good. He sees the bluegalterminal, looks at both of you,
and he looks at at Amyen says, please don't sleep on me. Don't
worry. Don't worry. Why wouldI do that? Don't please, that's
kind of weird. Goodbye, thankyou, bye hot All right, So
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you guys make it to the fancyhotel and you see a familiar face in
the lobby as you as you seeCaptain Montyat stand up and say, there
you are. There you are.And he runs up to you guys and
runs right past all of you andgoes right to Crystal and he says,
there's been some developments, and Ineed you to make some more of those
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things, the things, the thingsyou gave me when I had the headache.
Oh. And he hands you abag of a thousand gold and he
says, he says, I didlike you said, uh huh. And
now everyone's wanting product and I haven'tseen you in a while, and I
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need product because I have people givingme money every week because I told them
that's how the system works, andthen they would receive and I'm really behind.
Oh okay, first, yes Ican. I will totally help you
out there, my guy. ButI mean, I need you to sign
this non disclosure agreement. It's it'sjust basically that you're not gonna, you
(20:03):
know, talk to anybody about ourproprietary information because there's another girl out there
that isn't very happy with our successand it seems like they've been using you
and your essentially success against me,and so we'll just you know, I'm
(20:27):
asking is that you don't snitch.Sound good? All right, sounds like
a plan. And so she likepulls out of her bag, but she
keeps on hand closure. She havesome sign because of course Bristol would carry
(20:48):
this around. Okay, and thenshe goes and she makes more of the
I guess, so the are theythe pepper up potions? Is that what
they're yeh is basically the uh,the the magical ibuprofen, the good berries.
Yeah yeah, yeah, So she'sgoing to make more of this,
Okay, he says, Oh,thank god, he says, I got
(21:10):
to get these people off my back. They're already starting to recruit others.
They told your magical success. Awesome, that's exactly see you look and look
you're you're doing so well and you'reyou're being an entrepreneur. You're making money
for yourself. So that's amazing.He says, Now, no question how
much of this is mine? Ohdays works? Huh, Richard chimes,
(21:33):
and he said all of it,like having just yeah, having just listened
in on Crystal, and the lawyersargue, whatever, there's no connection right
now between Crystal and this random person. Oh so she like turns to like
the side and she's like, hey, Richard, would it be chill if
(21:57):
we like had him like put itin a savings account. That's like,
yes, his savings account, hisname, I think would be good.
Like I think, includiarly, he'sgot some skills, right Crystal, So
like I think this is his freeone, right, so he can keep
this money and then after this Wholerdeals over, then you guys can talk
(22:18):
about how the structure works. Yeah. I like that idea. Yeah.
H So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to have maniac just like
set up his own savings account andbe like, you know, I really
respect your hard work, and asa reward for all of the networking that
you've been doing and the hustle you'vebeen putting in, I'm not going to
(22:40):
take my cut this time. Youget to have it all. Oh well,
that's very generous of you. Yeah. Well, we'll hammer out the
specifics of it all in the future. And when you're ready to come pick
up your next delivery, just letme know. When is this delivery going
to be ready? I need sevenhundred and fifty units. Oh, all
(23:06):
hands on deck, folks. Yeah, I guess we're making I guess we're
staying up all night. Is noteven around anymore? Went to the bar.
I will have nothing to do withthis, Alex. How long would
it take Crystal, who is goodat this thing, to do make essentially?
(23:27):
I mean like she's just gonna makea bulk batch of it. So
I'm gonna say you probably were goingto spend the next day doing this.
Yeah, okay, well we'll sayyou guys took a rest day and uh
while Crystal was was busy working andI just hung out at the at the
fancy hotel she will say that asthank you that Captain Montiac buys you guys
(23:52):
a few nights here, and yeah, I just need to be able to
pick up my product. They arehounding me day and night about this stuff.
Yeah, I'm not surprised, Taylor. It's like to be successful,
right to help too, like makeit faster, okay, and like Crystal
(24:12):
like basically just pushes up for sleevesand gets to work. Okay, make
me a nature check, Crystal.Okay. When they're talking, Taylor is
going to be like, what doyou think of Amien's pickle juice suggestion?
I was thinking we could call ita pickle tickle that's right. Oh no,
(24:41):
the Essential Orals Pickle Tickle Edition.Swear to god, Oh my gosh,
I love that idea, Taylor.Yes, Crystal, what do you
say? No, need to takethis offline. Overworked and underplayed, will
circle back after these messages. Howabout we make the same thing we're making
(25:08):
and one of them is pickle flavoredand one of them is not pickle flavored,
and do some like a b testingkind of thing, see what youah?
Yeah, like the Pepsi challenge.Yeah, basically, well it's a
new flavor like it's a new animproved version, which it is improved according
(25:30):
to Yeah, it's well, Imean like it's got a new flavor that
was a seventeen by the way.Okay, that's good enough. Yeah.
A day you two working together,everyone else kind of hanging out, chilling,
y'all are y'all are good to go? You fill your order. You
passed that challenge. Good job,and you didn't give the other side more
(25:52):
ammunition to come after lawsuit. Richardwhile they were talking about the pickle stuff
and Bentley went to the bar,Richard wants to go over there and like,
hey, Bentley, did you godo something this morning before we went
to the lawyer's office. How didthat work out for you? Oh?
Yeah, I got these swords?Are these weapons? And to pull out
my cool new magical weapons the axeand the scimitar. Oh snap, that's
(26:18):
it. Can I see it?Yeah? Sure, there you go,
buddy. It was like, ohshit, that's a heavy How do you
carry this thing around? Push up? Set up some plenty of juice.
Interesting, that's what that's a secretfor steroids? Yeah, dragon ball z
(26:41):
a bridge reference. What are youtalking about? No? Yeah, because
the Scimitar glows. It's the moonglows Cemitar. And then I had the
oh yeah, the heavy Ass Acts. Yeah, I forgot that. That's
literally what it was named. Tyler. I think you also did something.
(27:03):
You got something printed, did I? Yeah? I forgot to type those
up. Yeah, don't worry aboutthat or about that other thing. Is
that like your backstory that you sharedwith Amyen? Yeah, yeah, that's
exactly what that's like, and I'llnever get it. So during the day,
(27:27):
while Crystal and Taylor are making theproduct, Richard, you are down
by the pool and you see someguards. You see some guards from the
city come in and ask the frontdesk and he holds up a artist's rendering
(27:48):
of the five of you. Ohno, what can you do? What
do you do? Do I seethat or do I hear anything? So
the first thing you hear is we'relooking for some people and you. They
hold up the picture and you seewhat appears to be an artist sketch of
you guys. Okay, does itlook like a wanted kind of artist sketch
(28:10):
or does it just look like athey don't have pictures, Yeah, like
a sketch, like the equivalent ofa picture. Yeah, okay, I'm
at the pool. Richard is goingto get out of their eyesight. Okay,
make me a stealth check. Okay, fourteen. Okay, So you
(28:32):
duck behind like a potted plant,and you see as they're they're like glancing
around, and it looks like onelooks right at where you were, and
he looks around. It was prettyobvious that he's He just kind of shrugged
it off, like I don't knowwhat that was. So what's your what's
your move? So I'm in myswimmys, so I got to change into
(28:55):
regular clothes, so I got tohead back up to the group. I
guess back to our room. SoI think we have a piece of jewelry.
That's That would make sense if Rigidwasn't freaking out. His head's not
on straight quiet yet. Maybe oncehe gets to the staircase breath. Make
me a wisdom save with disadvantage.That's a five. Okay, Yeah,
(29:23):
you definitely don't remember that you havea magic walkie talkie on, all right.
So you're ducked behind the potted plant. So you see they're kind of
scanning the lobby and the front deskis giving them like a they're kind of
stone walling, like, oh,we can't really disclose about our guests without
a cord order, and you know, come back with a warrant, pig
(29:45):
and uh. And so you're gonnatry to slip to the stairs and like
not be seen. So make anotherstealth check and I'm gonna use one of
the bad omens. Okay stealth,Yes, that's a ten. Okay with
a ten. You get to thestairs and you're like, like, you're
(30:11):
pretty sneaky. You get you getto the stairs, you're like home free,
and you run into somebody carrying atray of drinks. You make a
huge amount of noise and you seeas both the guards turn and look,
go, hey you there, stop. What do you do? Richard calmly
apologizes to the person here ran intoand then at a not like I'm running
(30:33):
away pace, but like pretending likehey you stop, isn't about him,
and like walks away. Okay,all right, So we'll come back to
that. So Bentley and Amyen,what are you guys doing with your day
of leisure? Well, I've triedto talk Bentley into going to the hotel
gym with me. So Bentley,did you agree to that are we at
(30:59):
the gym? I don't know whendid you ask approximately? What time?
Uh? It's like while they wereworking on their supplies. I don't know.
That would have been first thing inthe morning, in the morning,
yeah, like during the day,like what time in the morning though,
that's important? Yeah, I knowI'm awakened. Yeah. All right,
(31:19):
let's see how much you can reallybinge Bentley. Oh god, oh oh,
here we go here, I haveto split my stats. All right,
So you guys get down to thethe thing. Are you Bentley important?
Are you still wearing your armor ornot? H good question. Bentley
(31:40):
does always tend to wear his armor. But are you going to wear it
to the gym? No? Probablynot? Okay, So Bentley's out of
his armor. And one thing younotice, Amyen, is he's he's he
looks a little bit smaller than youthought he would out of his armor.
(32:00):
No, I'm saying he's still prettybig, but you're so used to seeing
him in his armor all the time. Trust me, no jugment, no
judgment. Man. Anyways, youguys make it down to the gym,
and you see a bunch of stuffthat looks like a medieval person saw like
(32:22):
a hotel gym and tried to recreateit without electricity. So you know,
there's free weights, and there's whatlooks kind of like a treadmill and a
thing that looks kind of like abike. So what are you guys doing?
I mean, she said strength,So I assume, yeah, we're
we're lifting, we're listing. Allright, you got to start lifting heavy?
(32:45):
Are you trying to have a liftoff? Sure? I know for
a fact I'll lose, But Idon't know. Man, We'll see how,
We'll see how how much my faithin the gods gives me. All
Right, all right, so youguys go up, you get your weights,
Go ahead and make me a headto head strength check or athletics check.
(33:08):
Let's see. Ooh, I'm sosorry, Bentley, I got a
NAT twenty plus seven. Jesus Christ. Okay, so you are really important?
Rolls? I can't really. Yeah. So so amy An approaches like
(33:31):
the Bentley Bentley? What did youget? Okay? So Bentley walks up
and he goes like like not thenot the middle, but towards the upper
end of the weights, and hepicks them up and he doesn't struggle with
him or anything, but he likebrings him up. He's he's working those
(33:51):
arms well. He sets him downand then amy Ann comes up and she
just about chucks one through the roof. It's like, oh, these are
kind of light. Yeah, hey, Bailey, I think I can help
you maximize. Let me show youthis form changer here, and I try
to help them with this form alittle bit. Okay, let's see.
(34:15):
So what I want you to dois, Marjorie, you make a persuasion
check and Bentley, I want youto make another athletics check three. Okay,
(34:37):
so Bentley, So Marjorie already gotthis because she's working out the whole
time. Bentley got enough that hedidn't need the he didn't need the bonus.
You both have the condition pumped.You both have a pump for the
next until you until you basically goto sleep again. You're gonna get a
(34:58):
plus one on all strength based checks. I love it because you're really in
the zone and you you look outthe window of the of the hotel and
of the hotel, but of thegym, and you see Richard in what
appears to be swim trunks, likekind of briskly walking and like goes up
(35:21):
one flight of stairs and quickly turnsand goes up another and then right after
you see two city guards running thesame direction. Oh oh, do you
think heye, billy, you seethat? Yeah, it looks like the
guards are coming after us forgetting forsome reason? Are us, don't you
think? I mean, Richard's runningaway. Should we go like help them?
(35:43):
I mean I kind of assume itwould be us. In general,
Richard was involved in the in thecrime last time, he's kind of safe
to assume he went what heck crimeare you talking about? At the beginning,
when wesk guy here, when theywhat was that little guy's name?
I forget it, my gosh.For years, work friends are different from
(36:09):
my real friends. Yeah, yeah, I got you. Okay, okay,
well, what do you think weshould do? Was there is there
another way up other than the stairs? No, that's the stairs is the
only way. There's no elevator.No, no, well you know what,
yeah, sure, there's an elevator. All right, Yeah, let's
take the elevator and try and tryand get up there. All right.
(36:30):
Sweet, So you guys make itup to the floor, and you basically
make it up to the room bythe time you wait for the elevator and
everything. You make it up toy'all's floor about the time Richard, out
of breath like pops out at thetop of the staircase and you hear more
steps behind him. Richard, whatwhat's you're running from? Oh? Guys,
(36:57):
the city guard. They're looking forus. I don't know why have
but uh it's never good. SoI came to warn you guys. Well,
okay, let's get in the room. How slap up. We can
get there faster, thank God,thinks. All right, So as you
(37:19):
guys make it to the room,I need one of you to make a
slide of hand check to see ifyou can get the key in the door
before the guards see you. Whoelse to do it? Richard can try
like from underneath Bentley's like arms.And so Richard's doing it, and I'm
(37:40):
going to use another one of thebad omens tragic slide of hand. That's
a ten. Okay, so witha ten, so let me click my
little digital roller here. So Richard, you pull the key out and you
(38:01):
go to put it in the lock, and you're kind of shaking a little
bit and you miss the lock anddrop the key, and it's about that
time behind you. You hear theguards say, stop, stop, stop,
You're not in trouble. We justneed to talk. Oh well then
if that's the key, hey,guys, it's like, oh, this
(38:29):
isn't our door. So the guardand he says that you see that.
They're all like catching their breath andthey're like, they're like, the Lord
Protector of Levron is requesting your presenceimmediately for a grave concern to the city.
(38:50):
You don't you just know that he'syou know that he is basically like
the administrator of the city. Yeah, other places, somebody like that might
be a king, all right,but actual power. Yes, he very
much has real power. Okay,he is the he is the authority.
(39:12):
He has the authority that the thatthe Empire allows him to have. We'll
put it that way, Richard,Are you sure us like where this guy
sounds pretty important? Like what couldwe do to help with something grave matter?
He said he wanted to speak toyou about this in private at at
Adnes Hall where he resides. Okay, it sounds like something that I shouldn't
(39:36):
go to in swim trunks. Youguys may mind waiting for his down on
the lobby. Oh yeah, Ikind of want to shower to you.
I mean we can wait here.It's fine, yeah, okay, shower
and change back into his armor andweapons and stuff. After getting totally emasculated
by Amy. It's a very longshower. He's like, I'm not cryings.
(40:05):
So they're waiting outside. So youguys go in and uh, what
do you tell the others? Youcome in and it's like breaking bad.
Like they've got a math on makingtheir their stuff. Another fun another fun
development. There's another high important personthat wants to talk to us about something.
(40:30):
He's got city guards. I don'tthink we get to say no this
time. Why is he high?I'll have to ask, he said the
lord protector. I think that's whatthey said. Maybe he can send us
home, I hope so. Orwe could just be like, hey man,
can you make that lawsuit go away? I feel like that's a fair
(40:51):
trade, just saying that sounds legal. Let's do that totally okay, cute.
What's the vibe. I think it'slike meeting the mayor, so probably
like I'm changing out of my swimtrunks at least. Okay, I guess
can we finish up ours? Sowhat I'll say is this would be like
(41:15):
a break in y'all making the proportions, but you would have time afterwards to
come back and get back on it. Okay, all right, go team,
and I like try and high fiveChrist. So just just so I
understand how's everybody dressing for this occasion, We'll go start off with Amy and
Amanda. All Right, So Annhas the clothes that she wore to the
(41:37):
business meeting that started this whole thing, so they're nice and cleans, the
blazer very kind of formal, formalish. She's also has the like a
nice brown cloak that she's got earlyon and she's going to put on makeup
today. Okay, all right,what about I mean, Bentley's just gonna
(42:00):
go with this normal normal armor that'spretty regal. I mean, you know
it's fancy wearing fancy armor weapons.You know, he's like, oh,
get to show off my magic swordstoday. All right, So Taylor Jacobs,
how are you going? She's wearingher older sister's blazer. Still,
(42:21):
she'll probably be in person form,so where her like pants and the outfit
that she woreks at that meeting.And she will attempt to like style her
hair in long waves because I don'twuld they have tools with heat, Alex.
So what I'm going to say thenis give me a So so I
(42:43):
don't mean this in the tent sensethat you're doing something wrong or you're trying
to steal something, but it ishand based dexterity. So I'm going to
say, make a sleight of handcheck to see how good you do fixing
your hair. This is funny.That's a six, okay, all right,
So you come out and you're like, we can make this work,
(43:06):
we can work with this. That'swhen that every woman, every well not
even a woman, every person thatstyles their hair that rolls a six in
real life knows that that's at thepoint where you just put it up.
Yeah, so can Crystal. Crystal'sgoing to just be like, oh oh,
let me do it. Yeah,I'll say the two of you working
(43:30):
together in tandem like that, yougot it, okay. And also like,
like Taylor, you just Crystal justhelped you fix your hair. That's
gotta be like, h that's gotto be like on your bucket list.
She doesn't stop smiling for a fulllike twenty four hours, all right,
And how's Crystal going. She's goinglike she did to the deposition, So
(43:53):
like she bought a whole new suit, like boss babe outfit for it.
What about and what about Richard?So Richard's wearing his disguise that he got
before going to this rich part oftown. You know, he's got his
top hat, he's got his newphoenix monocle, his cane. He's on
(44:14):
the fence about the bushy mustache.He's like, what do you guys think
mustache or no mustache? He putsit in his pocket. Dessert's the worst.
(44:37):
What can we ask the concier beforewe actually leave the place, like
have him come up and be like, hey, is this acceptable to like
meet the mayor. He looks likehe goes, we wei, Yes,
yes, okay, okay, thanks. I don't know why I said we
wei, But all right, allthe way home he the bathroom, so
(44:58):
for us to like lock up theyeah, oh no. The concierge assures
you that your room, that youwill not have any concerns about anyone bothering
your room, and so the guardslead you to the a section of the
city. You've not spent a lotof time in the government sector. Took
a lot longer to get in thanyou thought it would. Once you got
(45:21):
to the gate, they had alot of gatekeepers keeping people out of the
government sector. Shocking. And anyways, you get in there and it's super
clean. It's really nice. Italmost has like the like compared to the
public sector. It almost feels likeyou're in a park. And you find
this very very finely built granite structurein the granite and marble structure in the
(45:46):
center of the city of the sectorwith the sign out in front says Adnes
Hall. It looks like almost likea Scottish castle. And they lead you
in and they take you to thecentral chamber and they open the door and
they say, Lord long Shaft willsee you. Now that's right. I
(46:07):
was like, I know, wedefinitely have heard his name before, Richard
I remember. So they open upthe doors and you see a man probably
about six foot tall, very verylarge, blonde beard, and he steps
forward and he says, so youare the ones who I have heard have
been causing quite a ruckus. Hello, sir, I'm not sure what rucas
(46:31):
you're referred to, but thank youfor the infight or we're happy to meet
you. Yes, yes, noneed to call me sir. You can
call me. My name is HaroldLongshaft. You can call me Harry,
he says, and welcome to Adneshall. I have a great matter to
discuss with you. Please please havea seat. Also allow me to introduce
(46:51):
my wife. I wanna do youneed Oh man, I wish you guys
could see Marjorie's face right now,just the pure Just come on, please
please have a seat. We havemuch to discuss about the troubles of the
city and this rather nasty cult we'redealing with. Well, certainly happy to
(47:14):
help however we can. Yes,yes, he steps up and he says,
where are my manners? And hebegins, you know, he has
servants pull out some of the chairsand everything and seated at the table,
and he says, I hear youhave had some run ins with this Church
of Clarity. We sure have.Crystal's in a lawsuit with him right now.
(47:37):
That can be troublesome. Yeah,just a little bit. They are
causing a real problem for this region. We've had people in droves quitting their
jobs, important jobs in the citylike candle makers and things, trying to
become something some kind of as theyreferred to it. Boss babe, are
(48:05):
you familiar with this terminology. Youknow, I am, in fact,
I would be something of a subjectmatter expert on their recruiting tactics. Excellent,
and I was right to seek youout. You see, I have
concerns that if too many people inthe city quit their jobs, then the
businesses here are going to have tostart paying their people more money. Do
(48:30):
you see where this becomes an issue? I do. Yes, It's very
bad, very very bad. Whydon't they just pay them enough in the
first place? Nope, Nope,nope, nope, nope. Amen,
I think that I think he's right, and I think that you should be
concerned. It's very concerning. Andshe's like elbowing Amy and probably hitting her
(48:52):
elbow. Well, we have muchto discuss, but first we dine.
(49:21):
The gratitude today keeps the haters away, and that's why we want to thank
you for listening to Overworked and Underplayed. You just heard Alex Capps as our
DM. Anneline Hardy is Taylor Jacobs, Katie is Crystal two point zero,
Marjorie is Amy Anne, Marcel Hardyis Richard Cox, and Tyler is Bentman.
Episodes are edited by Marcel and CircleBack. Episodes are edited by Katie.
(49:43):
We hope you enjoyed it, andwe'll circle back in two weeks on
June thirteenth for the next episode.You can help us to get the word
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Reddit, R, slash own up. Yeah, okay, oh, that's
(50:19):
like all of long Shaft's little Petsy. He's like the Queen of England.
Yeah, he has a lot ofhe has a lot of wiener dogs.
Oh, perfect, perfect, andthey're really long.
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