October 13, 2023 • 24 mins
It's voting day in Water's Edge, and the gang will make their voices heard whether the High Council likes it or not.
Created and Produced by Victoria Pereira
Featuring:
Victoria Pereira as Avra
Kai Morfin as Ben
Amanda Monheim as Roxy
Amy Acevedo as Juliet
McKenna Monheim as the High Council
Christina Hargis as Lizzie
Angelique Fustukjian as Shia
Aubrey King as Francy
Myani Watson as Kendi
Tony Pereira as the Mayor
Rebecca Reiter as Evie
Caroline Byrne as Sybil
Michael Manaloto as Officer Jenkins
Story Editor: Jennifer Wong
Cover Artist: Kit Duprey
Foley Artist: Isaac Rodriguez
Transcriptionist: Rebecca Reiter
Website Designer: Kyle Boyer
Theme Song: "Pink Night in Ohio" by Ryan Andersen
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Created and Produced by Victoria Pereira
Featuring:
Victoria Pereira as Avra
Kai Morfin as Ben
Amanda Monheim as Roxy
Amy Acevedo as Juliet
McKenna Monheim as the High Council
Christina Hargis as Lizzie
Angelique Fustukjian as Shia
Aubrey King as Francy
Myani Watson as Kendi
Tony Pereira as the Mayor
Rebecca Reiter as Evie
Caroline Byrne as Sybil
Michael Manaloto as Officer Jenkins
Story Editor: Jennifer Wong
Cover Artist: Kit Duprey
Foley Artist: Isaac Rodriguez
Transcriptionist: Rebecca Reiter
Website Designer: Kyle Boyer
Theme Song: "Pink Night in Ohio" by Ryan Andersen
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Welcome to town, Avra. I'mgoing to bother here for the greater good
of Crypti Kai, I guess youdidn't tell them everything. Then it's not
a bad idea. Okay. Ithink we're gonna need a change of plans.
Season five, episode six, PublicOpinion. Welcome, folixs. If
(00:45):
you are here for voting, pleasecheck in at one of the tables on
either side to receive your ballot andproceed to the ballot boxes. Hey,
Ben, working as the people wranglertoday, I see yep, and security
and the person who tells everyone wherethe bathroom is. You know, it's
an important job. If you sayso, here to vote, Yep,
Betty, to do my civic dutyand get this shroud out of here.
(01:07):
I'm still so impressed that you guyswere able to get this vote called so
fast. Well, Lizzie was organizingus, and you know her. If
she wants something done, it's gonnahappen. Very true. Well, I'll
leave you to your job, seeyou later. Sounds good. Hi,
folks. If you're here to vote, check in at the tables on either
side and here's your ballot. Justmake sure to fill in the bubble completely
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and sign it. Here before droppingit into the bin. Thank you,
and take a sticker on your wayout. Ovra. Hey, hey,
Juliette, Roxy, you're registered tovote? She better be. I'm pretty
sure I registered back when I firstmoved here. Yeah, what's your last
name? Nunyaz? All right,let me look so. Ha's the turnout
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been so far? Great? We'veonly been opened for a couple hours,
but people just keep coming in.I don't know how many you've gotten total,
but it's got to be over onehundred by now, and we still
have eight hours until polls close.And it seems like people are voting to
take the shroud away that we don'tknow. We can't look at ballots.
Well yeah, but you can't gaugethe room at all. Eh for some
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people, I feel like you can. Some business owners who know they're going
to suffer when we don't have aregular summer crowd, people with families that
live in the human world, stufflike that. Ah, nunyez right here
and here's your ballot represent us humans. I'll do my best. Actually,
Roxy, do you mind if Itext you about something later? Human kind
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of thing? For sure? Yeah? Wait a second, are you sh
did you really not notice, Roxy, but you figured me out instantly.
It's not my fault that you madeit obvious. Well, I will see
you guys later. Get luck withthe rest of polling. Thanks see yu.
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All right, let's see what wegot here. We've never seen a
ballot so short, although I guessI've never had to participate in an emergency
vote. All done? Oh sorry, I a council member. Allow vo
(03:28):
Hello, the human is allowed tovote in this election? How intriguing.
Well, I am a resident ofWater's Edge and I registered back in fall,
so I can Yes, I imagineyou did everything correctly according to the
laws of the United States. Isuppose for this vote. It is too
(03:49):
late to do anything about it,but I shall discuss with my fellow council
members about revoking these sort of privilegesin the future. But I'm a permanent
resident here. You've already trapped meforever. Why shouldn't I get a say
in what's going on in my owntown? Because it's not your town.
It is a cryptid town. Andno matter what you do, or how
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many rules you follow, or whoyou integrate yourself to here, you cannot
be a true member of this community. Hi, council member, Why are
you here, Ah Elizabeth, theorganizer of this whole democratic process? Correct?
Yes, and security for today.I don't believe there's any reason for
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you to be here, considering thisis a vote for Water's Edge citizens only,
of which you aren't. Last timeI checked my fellow council members and
I were simply curious about how allthis was going. You can let them
know it's going very well, andthat we will not tolerate harassment of voters,
so the rest of them don't needto come by. I see.
(04:57):
I will pass along the message.I don't know if it's friguer when they're
a hive mind or to see oneon their own. You okay, Yeah,
I'm good. How are you?Have you slept in the last couple
of days? H not much,honestly, always more flyers to print and
messages to send out. But Ithink it'll be worth it. Sounds like
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a lot of work for a singlequestion ballot, Oh it is, but
it also might be the most importantquestion this town has ever voted on.
Very true. Good training for thatcampaign manager job waiting for you on the
mainland too, I wish. I'msure they already hired someone else now that
they've forgotten I exist. But there'sa lot of people wanting to run for
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something. I'm sure one will snatchyou up once this shroud is gone.
What's up with you? Just aday ago you were sulking and making plans
as if you were going to bestuck here forever, and now you're talking
about when we can go to themainland again, as if it's already been
decided. Well, I saw whatyou've been doing. You could move a
mountain, Lizzie. I'm never gonnabet against you when it comes to something
you're passionate about. What can Isay? I'm stubborn in the best way,
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Roxie, he came, yeah,And now I'm kind of regretting that.
Are you planning on taking me toa secondary location because I already told
Lizzie where I was gonna be.I'm not gonna kidnap you. I need
your help and I need to keepthis quiet. Okay, huh. I
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never seen the shroud up close before. You haven't come out here, nah.
I figured it wouldn't be the bestidea when it comes to the whole
human flying under the radar thing.I'm sure you understand. Yeah, I
guess you're in the same position Iwas in when I first got here,
hiding the truth from everyone. Ofcourse I wasn't stuck here. Then why
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did you decide to stay? Imean, I've been coming here for ages,
and while they love their human touristmoney, they definitely aren't as big
as fans of the people actually handingover the bills. Not all of them
are like that. You don't haveto tell me. But you wouldn't have
known that at first, and youstill stayed. Yeah, maybe I'm just
crazy. I don't know. Maybea part of me knew that I was
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tied to this place somehow. Youbelieve in that kind of stuff, fet
and destiny and all that. I'mnot sure, but a year ago I
didn't believe in cryptids fair enough,all right? So what's going on with
the shroud? Something strange happened theother night, Chyenne. I came out
here. I was pissed off abouteverything and wanted to throw some rocks at
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it. But then I got curiousabout what happens if you touch it?
Don't you get burned? Yeah?What's under the bandage? Yikes? But
something else happened. You see,this spot here. Oh my god,
you put a hole in it?Yeah, no way. Has anyone else
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tried it? Shaia did? Itdidn't do anything, just burn them.
Theirs wasn't nearly as bad as mine, though. So you touch it and
punch a little hole through it andit bites you back. But for everyone
else, just a minor burn andit stays intact. That's what it seems
like. And the only real differencebetween me and Shia is you're human.
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Do you think I could get throughit too? That's what I was hoping
to find out. You're asking meto stick my hand in a flame for
science, pretty much. I haveShia's first aid kit with me so I
can dress the burn after all,right, But I'm not using my hands.
I need those. I promised Lizziei'd make dinner tonight. I'm like
(08:58):
got the restaurant. No I heard. I've been crashing on her couch for
the last few days. Not superinterested in tiptoeing around my brother at Dad's
house right now. Oh, Ididn't realize you guys were Oh no,
no, it's not like that.I mean, Lizzie's super cool, but
I'm not like into her or anything. I don't do this sex and romance
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thing. I was just gonna sayfriends. Oh well then yeah we're friends.
But the shroud, how about theelbow? Whatever works? All right?
Here goes nothing? How long doI That's enough? You are right?
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Yeah, didn't really hurt too bad? Actually, kind of like a
tattoo. Did it work? No? Not even a dent here? Let
me grab the first aid stuff.How do you know it wasn't just some
fluke thing, or maybe you founda hole that was already there. It
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would be one hell of a coincidence, considering the shroud is supposed to be
impenetrable. You never know, Soyou're saying I should try it again.
Maybe I don't understand this shit youthink I do. Look, the space
you made is big enough to fityour hand through. Why don't you just
try to test it out on yourarm, Just see if you can make
it a little wider and then youdon't have to fuck up your hand anymore.
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Well, I'm not a huge fanof pain, and I have tattoos.
The burn I'm getting is way worse. Hey, you've got plenty of
burn cream in here for science.Fine, see wider? Holy shit,
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you weren't kidding. That gives ahell of a burn. It's like,
I don't know, like you're absorbingthe energy and the magic or something.
Why is it just me? Thoughyou're asking me, doesn't yours do magic?
I thought Francie said that she does. Ah, I see a little
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hypocritical tolling me to make up withFrance when you and your sister are having
issues too. We're not having issues. It's just complicated. I get it,
trust me. But you're gonna haveto involve her if you want to
figure this thing out. I don'tknow what If her solution is to just
throw me through make a gap bigenough for everyone else to get out.
Do you think your sister's gonna sacrificeyou for the greater good? Well,
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she either loses me or loses Kennyat this point, and I'm not too
confident about my odds or the votethat your best friend and I have been
working our asses off for will passtonight and no one will have to be
sacrificed, and then we can dealwith our sibling shit on our own time,
fingers crossed and toes and arms andlegs and ice. Damn, half
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the town is here. They won'teven need to livestream the announcement. That's
a good sign. People clearly knowhow important this is. They better.
Oh god, I am nervous.What if people voted against taking it down?
They couldn't it's hurting everyone in someway, it would it makes sense
to keep it up unless we're reallyunderestimating how much everyone hates humans. There's
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nothing we can do about it now, so let's just wait and see.
Yeah, easy for you to say. All I've been able to think about
for the past week has been thisvote. I didn't think it had a
shot at first, but seeing howmany people actually voted, I am not
sure. Hey Avrah, Francy Shia, glad to see you here. Oh
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hey, Kenny, I didn't thinkyou were coming tonight. I didn't think
I was either, But Sybil seemsso nervous before she left to go ballot
count and I didn't wait. Sybil'scounting ballots. Yeah, they asked her
to be one of the out oftown people that they need. She didn't
tell you, no, Oh,it probably just slipped your mind. Yeah.
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Probably. Hello everyone, Thank youall for coming tonight and for participating
in this emergency vote. We greatlyappreciate the involvement of our community in such
an important decision. As per localvoting measure regulations, the ballots were hand
counted by the three pairs of citizensstanding behind me, including two from out
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of town. Each pair will nowreport their final ballot numbers as written on
the papers they hold. If allnumbers match on one side has a majority
of at least fifty one percent,the election will be called. We counted
three hundred and forty six to removethe shroud and fifty seven to keep it.
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That's one. We also counted threehundred and forty six to remove the
shroud and fifty seven to keep it. Oh my god, this might work.
Our count was three hundred and fortysix ballace to remove the shroud,
fifty seven to keep it in place. The removal of the shroud has it?
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Oh thank god they did it.I can't believe it. We want
we must speak, Please quiet.The High Council orders you to be silent.
The rest of the High Council couldnot make it, but I regret
to inform you that this decision willnot stand. The shroud will remain in
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place. While we find your effortscommendable, especially those of the Committee that
called for the whole vote. Itwas never authorized to occur in the first
place. I authorized it. Youdo not speak for us. What are
they doing if they don't honor thisdecision, any shred of democracy they might
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be clinging onto is gone. Maybethat's the point. No, that's not
how this works. We followed allthe steps. We did everything exactly by
the book. I have documentation righthere that shows everything from the original drafts
of the ballot question to the sheetsof signatures that we got so we could
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bring the question to the mayor,of which we got twenty signatures more than
we needed. By the way,you can look through it all. We
did everything above board and followed everysingle rule. I made sure of it.
This vote was ensured by the mayorand the entirety of our local government
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system, which, now that youcut us off from the world, is
the highest form of government we haveleft. This vote is legitimate and the
result will hold. High Council isthe highest form of government the crypto Cape
towns have left. Therefore, wehave all the power to decide what will
happen to the shrouds. We alreadydecided when we deployed it. That's not
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by the rules, though that's notfair. We are not here to do
what is fair. We are hereto do what is correct. We run
a democracy here in Water's Edge.I am our elected official, put in
office by a council of people whowere chosen by our citizens. That is
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how we determine what we do inthis town and what is correct, by
doing what our people want. Wewill not bend to your will simply because
you showed up here and told usto. We will use force if we
must to make sure this shroud isremoved and the people of Water's Edge.
We can't take down the shroud.The magic is too strong. We thought
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we might be able to, butwe had never tried at such a large
scale. And now that it's butit's up for good. That doesn't make
any sense, But that's not howmagic works. You put it up,
so you have to be able totake it down. I didn't put it
up. We use the essence ofthe witch who created ours. The remnants
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of her was what created this uglything. That's why it burns those who
try to pass through it. Wecorrupted it somehow, and it's angry.
We can't take it down. Wecan only add to it with the other
towns and the vessels used to passbetween them. I'm sorry, this is
not our intent. We never wantedto. Yes, go counsel. You
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have heard the truth. There isno way to remove the fraud. This
is on the beston cryst of allcryptis. I suppose we have our answer.
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We at city Hall will continue todo everything in our power to make
this on going transition as smooth aspossible. If you need any help personally,
please come by a city hole inthe mornings to talk to the Shroud
transition team. I'm I'm really sorry, folks, Candy, they're really not
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going to take it down. Iguess not. I've got to find my
job off. Okay, Oprah Shaya, Where did Kenny go? You're worried
about Kendy? What about you leftout front? Okay, we'll talk when
I get home. You could atleast let her go. Oh are you
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okay? I mean that was?Can I stay your place tonight? Yeah?
Of course. Let's get out ofhere, Kenny, Kenny, way
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up. I don't want to talkright now. Can you at least slow
down for a second. What doyou want? Well? I wanted to
know if you were Okay, butI think that question has been answered.
I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be? Maybe because the High Council just admitted
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to stealing the only thing that wasleft of Hannah and destroying it. Because
now the people she was so desperateto protect are trapped and scared and stuck
forever in a prison that she neverwanted to create. They took her life,
They sacrificed her once, but thatwasn't enough. They had to take
every last bit of her, probablydesecrated her grave to do it. And
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I'm powerless to stop them. Iknow it feels hopeless right now, but
there has to still be a wayto stop them. If we really can't
take the shroud down, then wecould at least stop them from putting them
up in other towns. But theneveryone will be trapped here we already are.
You wouldn't have access to other Cryptitowns, though you never get to
see your mother again. I knowif that's the sacrifice that we have to
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make to keep other Cryptid towns safe, no more sacrifices civil. I don't
want anyone else I love to haveto give up a part of themselves in
this awful game against the High Council. Did you say love I? I
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guess I. Did you love me? I do despite my best efforts.
Wow, that's so little. That'snot what I meant. Since losing Hannah,
I've made it a habit to keeppeople distant the loss of our It's
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been hundreds of years and it stillhaunts me. I think it always will.
And I didn't want to add tothat pain by losing someone else.
I know there's that colloquial saying ofit's better to have loved and lost than
to have never loved at all,but I never subscribed to it. The
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dull a like of avoiding attachments cannever measure up to my grief. Then
I met you, and I don'tknow when it happened, but I let
my guard down and your smile startedto charm me, and I started to
feel your laugh echo in that holein my heart. And well, I
don't think that space for Hanna isever possible to be filled, and I
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wouldn't ask you to do that.You've been able to patch over it make
me feel again. And that's alot of fluffy words to get to the
point of saying that I love you. Whoa you don't have to love me
back. Of course, I don'texpect you to have the same feelings,
and it's absolutely okay. I loveyou too. I don't think I can
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say something is pretty is what youjust said. But I do love you,
really, really, and I knowyou don't want me trying to barter
with the High Counsel anymore or messingwith the Shroud, but you can't expect
me to be able to just letyou go with them, not when you
know how I feel. I don'tknow if there's another option. There has
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to be. We'll dig through everybook, test every spell, try to
make our own if we need to. I refuse to believe that the universe
took this long to bring us togetheronly to rip us apart in a week.
You have a lot of faith inthe universe. I have a lot
of faith in us. Thanks forlistening to Season five of Cryptid Cape Public
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Opinion. The show is created andproduced by me Victoria Pereira. I also
voice Abera. The voice of Benis Kyle Morphine. The voice of Roxy
is Amanda Manheim. The voice ofJuliette is Amy Ossabato. The voice of
the High Council is McKenna Munna.The voice of Lizzie is Christina rose Hargas.
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The voice of Shia is Angelique theSpecchia. The voice of Francie is
Aubrey King. The voice of Kennyis Miannie Watson. The voice of the
Mayor is Tony Perella. The voiceof Evi is Rebecca Writer. The voice
of Sibyl is Caroline Byrne. Thevoice of Officer Jenkins is Michael Vonalado.
Our story editor is Jennifer Wong.Our cover artist is Kit Dupre. Our
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foy artist is Isaac Rodriguez. Ourtranscriptionist is Rebecca Writer. Our website designer
is Kyle Boyer. Our theme songis Pink Night in Ohio by Ryan Anderson.
The other songs featured in this episodewere Sunshine Rain by Brendan Mohler and
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It means the world See you nexttime.
Welcome to town, Avra. I'mgoing to bother here for the greater good
of Crypti Kai, I guess youdidn't tell them everything. Then it's not
a bad idea. Okay. Ithink we're gonna need a change of plans.
Season five, episode six, PublicOpinion. Welcome, folixs. If
(00:45):
you are here for voting, pleasecheck in at one of the tables on
either side to receive your ballot andproceed to the ballot boxes. Hey,
Ben, working as the people wranglertoday, I see yep, and security
and the person who tells everyone wherethe bathroom is. You know, it's
an important job. If you sayso, here to vote, Yep,
Betty, to do my civic dutyand get this shroud out of here.
(01:07):
I'm still so impressed that you guyswere able to get this vote called so
fast. Well, Lizzie was organizingus, and you know her. If
she wants something done, it's gonnahappen. Very true. Well, I'll
leave you to your job, seeyou later. Sounds good. Hi,
folks. If you're here to vote, check in at the tables on either
side and here's your ballot. Justmake sure to fill in the bubble completely
(01:32):
and sign it. Here before droppingit into the bin. Thank you,
and take a sticker on your wayout. Ovra. Hey, hey,
Juliette, Roxy, you're registered tovote? She better be. I'm pretty
sure I registered back when I firstmoved here. Yeah, what's your last
name? Nunyaz? All right,let me look so. Ha's the turnout
(01:53):
been so far? Great? We'veonly been opened for a couple hours,
but people just keep coming in.I don't know how many you've gotten total,
but it's got to be over onehundred by now, and we still
have eight hours until polls close.And it seems like people are voting to
take the shroud away that we don'tknow. We can't look at ballots.
Well yeah, but you can't gaugethe room at all. Eh for some
(02:15):
people, I feel like you can. Some business owners who know they're going
to suffer when we don't have aregular summer crowd, people with families that
live in the human world, stufflike that. Ah, nunyez right here
and here's your ballot represent us humans. I'll do my best. Actually,
Roxy, do you mind if Itext you about something later? Human kind
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of thing? For sure? Yeah? Wait a second, are you sh
did you really not notice, Roxy, but you figured me out instantly.
It's not my fault that you madeit obvious. Well, I will see
you guys later. Get luck withthe rest of polling. Thanks see yu.
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All right, let's see what wegot here. We've never seen a
ballot so short, although I guessI've never had to participate in an emergency
vote. All done? Oh sorry, I a council member. Allow vo
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Hello, the human is allowed tovote in this election? How intriguing.
Well, I am a resident ofWater's Edge and I registered back in fall,
so I can Yes, I imagineyou did everything correctly according to the
laws of the United States. Isuppose for this vote. It is too
(03:49):
late to do anything about it,but I shall discuss with my fellow council
members about revoking these sort of privilegesin the future. But I'm a permanent
resident here. You've already trapped meforever. Why shouldn't I get a say
in what's going on in my owntown? Because it's not your town.
It is a cryptid town. Andno matter what you do, or how
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many rules you follow, or whoyou integrate yourself to here, you cannot
be a true member of this community. Hi, council member, Why are
you here, Ah Elizabeth, theorganizer of this whole democratic process? Correct?
Yes, and security for today.I don't believe there's any reason for
(04:33):
you to be here, considering thisis a vote for Water's Edge citizens only,
of which you aren't. Last timeI checked my fellow council members and
I were simply curious about how allthis was going. You can let them
know it's going very well, andthat we will not tolerate harassment of voters,
so the rest of them don't needto come by. I see.
(04:57):
I will pass along the message.I don't know if it's friguer when they're
a hive mind or to see oneon their own. You okay, Yeah,
I'm good. How are you?Have you slept in the last couple
of days? H not much,honestly, always more flyers to print and
messages to send out. But Ithink it'll be worth it. Sounds like
(05:19):
a lot of work for a singlequestion ballot, Oh it is, but
it also might be the most importantquestion this town has ever voted on.
Very true. Good training for thatcampaign manager job waiting for you on the
mainland too, I wish. I'msure they already hired someone else now that
they've forgotten I exist. But there'sa lot of people wanting to run for
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something. I'm sure one will snatchyou up once this shroud is gone.
What's up with you? Just aday ago you were sulking and making plans
as if you were going to bestuck here forever, and now you're talking
about when we can go to themainland again, as if it's already been
decided. Well, I saw whatyou've been doing. You could move a
mountain, Lizzie. I'm never gonnabet against you when it comes to something
you're passionate about. What can Isay? I'm stubborn in the best way,
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Roxie, he came, yeah,And now I'm kind of regretting that.
Are you planning on taking me toa secondary location because I already told
Lizzie where I was gonna be.I'm not gonna kidnap you. I need
your help and I need to keepthis quiet. Okay, huh. I
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never seen the shroud up close before. You haven't come out here, nah.
I figured it wouldn't be the bestidea when it comes to the whole
human flying under the radar thing.I'm sure you understand. Yeah, I
guess you're in the same position Iwas in when I first got here,
hiding the truth from everyone. Ofcourse I wasn't stuck here. Then why
(07:08):
did you decide to stay? Imean, I've been coming here for ages,
and while they love their human touristmoney, they definitely aren't as big
as fans of the people actually handingover the bills. Not all of them
are like that. You don't haveto tell me. But you wouldn't have
known that at first, and youstill stayed. Yeah, maybe I'm just
crazy. I don't know. Maybea part of me knew that I was
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tied to this place somehow. Youbelieve in that kind of stuff, fet
and destiny and all that. I'mnot sure, but a year ago I
didn't believe in cryptids fair enough,all right? So what's going on with
the shroud? Something strange happened theother night, Chyenne. I came out
here. I was pissed off abouteverything and wanted to throw some rocks at
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it. But then I got curiousabout what happens if you touch it?
Don't you get burned? Yeah?What's under the bandage? Yikes? But
something else happened. You see,this spot here. Oh my god,
you put a hole in it?Yeah, no way. Has anyone else
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tried it? Shaia did? Itdidn't do anything, just burn them.
Theirs wasn't nearly as bad as mine, though. So you touch it and
punch a little hole through it andit bites you back. But for everyone
else, just a minor burn andit stays intact. That's what it seems
like. And the only real differencebetween me and Shia is you're human.
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Do you think I could get throughit too? That's what I was hoping
to find out. You're asking meto stick my hand in a flame for
science, pretty much. I haveShia's first aid kit with me so I
can dress the burn after all,right, But I'm not using my hands.
I need those. I promised Lizziei'd make dinner tonight. I'm like
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got the restaurant. No I heard. I've been crashing on her couch for
the last few days. Not superinterested in tiptoeing around my brother at Dad's
house right now. Oh, Ididn't realize you guys were Oh no,
no, it's not like that.I mean, Lizzie's super cool, but
I'm not like into her or anything. I don't do this sex and romance
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thing. I was just gonna sayfriends. Oh well then yeah we're friends.
But the shroud, how about theelbow? Whatever works? All right?
Here goes nothing? How long doI That's enough? You are right?
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Yeah, didn't really hurt too bad? Actually, kind of like a
tattoo. Did it work? No? Not even a dent here? Let
me grab the first aid stuff.How do you know it wasn't just some
fluke thing, or maybe you founda hole that was already there. It
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would be one hell of a coincidence, considering the shroud is supposed to be
impenetrable. You never know, Soyou're saying I should try it again.
Maybe I don't understand this shit youthink I do. Look, the space
you made is big enough to fityour hand through. Why don't you just
try to test it out on yourarm, Just see if you can make
it a little wider and then youdon't have to fuck up your hand anymore.
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Well, I'm not a huge fanof pain, and I have tattoos.
The burn I'm getting is way worse. Hey, you've got plenty of
burn cream in here for science.Fine, see wider? Holy shit,
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you weren't kidding. That gives ahell of a burn. It's like,
I don't know, like you're absorbingthe energy and the magic or something.
Why is it just me? Thoughyou're asking me, doesn't yours do magic?
I thought Francie said that she does. Ah, I see a little
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hypocritical tolling me to make up withFrance when you and your sister are having
issues too. We're not having issues. It's just complicated. I get it,
trust me. But you're gonna haveto involve her if you want to
figure this thing out. I don'tknow what If her solution is to just
throw me through make a gap bigenough for everyone else to get out.
Do you think your sister's gonna sacrificeyou for the greater good? Well,
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she either loses me or loses Kennyat this point, and I'm not too
confident about my odds or the votethat your best friend and I have been
working our asses off for will passtonight and no one will have to be
sacrificed, and then we can dealwith our sibling shit on our own time,
fingers crossed and toes and arms andlegs and ice. Damn, half
(12:00):
the town is here. They won'teven need to livestream the announcement. That's
a good sign. People clearly knowhow important this is. They better.
Oh god, I am nervous.What if people voted against taking it down?
They couldn't it's hurting everyone in someway, it would it makes sense
to keep it up unless we're reallyunderestimating how much everyone hates humans. There's
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nothing we can do about it now, so let's just wait and see.
Yeah, easy for you to say. All I've been able to think about
for the past week has been thisvote. I didn't think it had a
shot at first, but seeing howmany people actually voted, I am not
sure. Hey Avrah, Francy Shia, glad to see you here. Oh
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hey, Kenny, I didn't thinkyou were coming tonight. I didn't think
I was either, But Sybil seemsso nervous before she left to go ballot
count and I didn't wait. Sybil'scounting ballots. Yeah, they asked her
to be one of the out oftown people that they need. She didn't
tell you, no, Oh,it probably just slipped your mind. Yeah.
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Probably. Hello everyone, Thank youall for coming tonight and for participating
in this emergency vote. We greatlyappreciate the involvement of our community in such
an important decision. As per localvoting measure regulations, the ballots were hand
counted by the three pairs of citizensstanding behind me, including two from out
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of town. Each pair will nowreport their final ballot numbers as written on
the papers they hold. If allnumbers match on one side has a majority
of at least fifty one percent,the election will be called. We counted
three hundred and forty six to removethe shroud and fifty seven to keep it.
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That's one. We also counted threehundred and forty six to remove the
shroud and fifty seven to keep it. Oh my god, this might work.
Our count was three hundred and fortysix ballace to remove the shroud,
fifty seven to keep it in place. The removal of the shroud has it?
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Oh thank god they did it.I can't believe it. We want
we must speak, Please quiet.The High Council orders you to be silent.
The rest of the High Council couldnot make it, but I regret
to inform you that this decision willnot stand. The shroud will remain in
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place. While we find your effortscommendable, especially those of the Committee that
called for the whole vote. Itwas never authorized to occur in the first
place. I authorized it. Youdo not speak for us. What are
they doing if they don't honor thisdecision, any shred of democracy they might
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be clinging onto is gone. Maybethat's the point. No, that's not
how this works. We followed allthe steps. We did everything exactly by
the book. I have documentation righthere that shows everything from the original drafts
of the ballot question to the sheetsof signatures that we got so we could
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bring the question to the mayor,of which we got twenty signatures more than
we needed. By the way,you can look through it all. We
did everything above board and followed everysingle rule. I made sure of it.
This vote was ensured by the mayorand the entirety of our local government
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system, which, now that youcut us off from the world, is
the highest form of government we haveleft. This vote is legitimate and the
result will hold. High Council isthe highest form of government the crypto Cape
towns have left. Therefore, wehave all the power to decide what will
happen to the shrouds. We alreadydecided when we deployed it. That's not
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by the rules, though that's notfair. We are not here to do
what is fair. We are hereto do what is correct. We run
a democracy here in Water's Edge.I am our elected official, put in
office by a council of people whowere chosen by our citizens. That is
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how we determine what we do inthis town and what is correct, by
doing what our people want. Wewill not bend to your will simply because
you showed up here and told usto. We will use force if we
must to make sure this shroud isremoved and the people of Water's Edge.
We can't take down the shroud.The magic is too strong. We thought
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we might be able to, butwe had never tried at such a large
scale. And now that it's butit's up for good. That doesn't make
any sense, But that's not howmagic works. You put it up,
so you have to be able totake it down. I didn't put it
up. We use the essence ofthe witch who created ours. The remnants
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of her was what created this uglything. That's why it burns those who
try to pass through it. Wecorrupted it somehow, and it's angry.
We can't take it down. Wecan only add to it with the other
towns and the vessels used to passbetween them. I'm sorry, this is
not our intent. We never wantedto. Yes, go counsel. You
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have heard the truth. There isno way to remove the fraud. This
is on the beston cryst of allcryptis. I suppose we have our answer.
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We at city Hall will continue todo everything in our power to make
this on going transition as smooth aspossible. If you need any help personally,
please come by a city hole inthe mornings to talk to the Shroud
transition team. I'm I'm really sorry, folks, Candy, they're really not
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going to take it down. Iguess not. I've got to find my
job off. Okay, Oprah Shaya, Where did Kenny go? You're worried
about Kendy? What about you leftout front? Okay, we'll talk when
I get home. You could atleast let her go. Oh are you
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okay? I mean that was?Can I stay your place tonight? Yeah?
Of course. Let's get out ofhere, Kenny, Kenny, way
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up. I don't want to talkright now. Can you at least slow
down for a second. What doyou want? Well? I wanted to
know if you were Okay, butI think that question has been answered.
I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be? Maybe because the High Council just admitted
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to stealing the only thing that wasleft of Hannah and destroying it. Because
now the people she was so desperateto protect are trapped and scared and stuck
forever in a prison that she neverwanted to create. They took her life,
They sacrificed her once, but thatwasn't enough. They had to take
every last bit of her, probablydesecrated her grave to do it. And
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I'm powerless to stop them. Iknow it feels hopeless right now, but
there has to still be a wayto stop them. If we really can't
take the shroud down, then wecould at least stop them from putting them
up in other towns. But theneveryone will be trapped here we already are.
You wouldn't have access to other Cryptitowns, though you never get to
see your mother again. I knowif that's the sacrifice that we have to
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make to keep other Cryptid towns safe, no more sacrifices civil. I don't
want anyone else I love to haveto give up a part of themselves in
this awful game against the High Council. Did you say love I? I
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guess I. Did you love me? I do despite my best efforts.
Wow, that's so little. That'snot what I meant. Since losing Hannah,
I've made it a habit to keeppeople distant the loss of our It's
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been hundreds of years and it stillhaunts me. I think it always will.
And I didn't want to add tothat pain by losing someone else.
I know there's that colloquial saying ofit's better to have loved and lost than
to have never loved at all,but I never subscribed to it. The
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dull a like of avoiding attachments cannever measure up to my grief. Then
I met you, and I don'tknow when it happened, but I let
my guard down and your smile startedto charm me, and I started to
feel your laugh echo in that holein my heart. And well, I
don't think that space for Hanna isever possible to be filled, and I
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wouldn't ask you to do that.You've been able to patch over it make
me feel again. And that's alot of fluffy words to get to the
point of saying that I love you. Whoa you don't have to love me
back. Of course, I don'texpect you to have the same feelings,
and it's absolutely okay. I loveyou too. I don't think I can
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say something is pretty is what youjust said. But I do love you,
really, really, and I knowyou don't want me trying to barter
with the High Counsel anymore or messingwith the Shroud, but you can't expect
me to be able to just letyou go with them, not when you
know how I feel. I don'tknow if there's another option. There has
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to be. We'll dig through everybook, test every spell, try to
make our own if we need to. I refuse to believe that the universe
took this long to bring us togetheronly to rip us apart in a week.
You have a lot of faith inthe universe. I have a lot
of faith in us. Thanks forlistening to Season five of Cryptid Cape Public
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Opinion. The show is created andproduced by me Victoria Pereira. I also
voice Abera. The voice of Benis Kyle Morphine. The voice of Roxy
is Amanda Manheim. The voice ofJuliette is Amy Ossabato. The voice of
the High Council is McKenna Munna.The voice of Lizzie is Christina rose Hargas.
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The voice of Shia is Angelique theSpecchia. The voice of Francie is
Aubrey King. The voice of Kennyis Miannie Watson. The voice of the
Mayor is Tony Perella. The voiceof Evi is Rebecca Writer. The voice
of Sibyl is Caroline Byrne. Thevoice of Officer Jenkins is Michael Vonalado.
Our story editor is Jennifer Wong.Our cover artist is Kit Dupre. Our
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foy artist is Isaac Rodriguez. Ourtranscriptionist is Rebecca Writer. Our website designer
is Kyle Boyer. Our theme songis Pink Night in Ohio by Ryan Anderson.
The other songs featured in this episodewere Sunshine Rain by Brendan Mohler and
Eddie by Vish Grooves. Be sureto subscribe to Cryptidcape so you don't miss
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