It. This is Bentley. Oh yeah, I'd be happy to help.
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All right, now, who can tell me what happened after the Battle
of the Orchard? Who I can? After defeat? Hold on? You
will speak when called upon? What is your name? Students? Uh?
Richard? Right, Dick? You may answer? Yeah. So, as
I was saying, after the defeat of the Great Spider Monster, the heroes
were approached by a mysterious mass man and whisked away to the safety from the
anger of the cult. And then two of the members valiantly went back to
get their wagon. They came back and there was like some story that only
part of the group got to hear. I don't know, that's not important,
I guess. And then once the group all was reunited. They started
making their way back to Levn. Very good, Very good. So what
was significant about the Battle of Salamis that's easy. That's when the pincer maneuver
was invented. Ha, we're wrong again, mister Cox. You see,
that was the Battle of Idaspi's or Marathon according to some historians. Also,
where are your clothes? What are you talking about? Oh my god,
little Richard. Greetings, my paid and unpaid interns. This is Overworked and
Underplayed, a D and D podcast for young professionals, by young professionals.
Today's icebreaker, what is your most awkward client experience? What up? It's
you boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox, a human consultant turned halfling bart
who holy believes it's better to be lucky than good, but it's best to
be both. And as we've previously established on this podcast, Richard used to
be about six' three, so you know, taller than average. And
he's only ever for the most part seeing his client through zoom calls. And
so the first time he met his client in person, it was like out
of function and he saw this like shorter person amongst a lot of tall people.
It's like, oh, I didn't realize this was like a bring your
family event, and then that's when he found out it was actually mister Richardson.
Oh yeah, talk talk about your boss. Let's go wow. Hi.
My name is Anneline Hardy, and I played Taylor Jacobs. Taylor still
kicks herself for this. Her awkward client experience is that she sent out like
a zoom meeting invite and she spelled Crystal's name with a c. Oh.
The good thing is Crystal doesn't read anything. She has it read to her,
so that her personal assistant covered for you. They had your back.
That's awesome. She's been on pins and needles this whole time, right,
Oh man, It's like it's like secretly Taylor Jacobs thinks she's like really good
friends with Crystal, but really it's her personal assistant. Oh my god,
movie, she's getting catfished by her personal assistant. Obligate. He's the one
that has access to her phone all the time, so I didn't have Yeah,
Hi everyone, I'm Katie and I played Crystal the drow Druid with her
fairy own MLM Crystal Clarity. And Crystal's most awkward client experience is much like
anybody that has lived through the pandemic. It is involving a zoom call.
So just like mister Cox over there, she was on a zoom call and
she had her camera on because she always requests all of her downlind beyond camera
with MIC's off as per usual, because the only voice in the room that
matters is hers cameras on mic'soft. Yeah, so toxic. It is so
toxic. And then she's like trull of power. Yeah, she actively calls
out people that are not on camera and she's like, you better be fucking
paying attention then. Anyway, her most awkward client experience is that one time
she was on camera and she forgot to close her bedroom door and her poor
little boyfriend slash contractually obligated personal assistant, was in a compromising position on camera
for her entire downline to see, Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy
and Amanda, a basic, b rough and tumble human fighter with a freshly
minted dentistry degree. So Amyann is a new professionally licensed and all that kind
of stuff dentist. So she doesn't have a ton of weird experiences yet.
But one instance in medical school, she was, you know, going down
the line, going into different rooms, and she she went into a room
where there were two people. The fella in this chair was quite elderly,
clearly needed some pretty extensive dental work done. And then his companion, who
amyan, said Hey, you know, it's nice of your daughter to bring
you in here today. Sir, it looks like we're going to have to
do quite a bit of work. We're going to be here a while.
And he says, oh, no, that's my wife nice. And then
sex thing, isn't it. Yeah, unfortunately he had to have all of
his teeth removed. Yeah, it works, and have dentures. Hi,
I'm Tyler to play Bentley. The I t Paladin and Bentley is most awkward
thing when you when you work in it, you have a lot of power.
You can see a lot of things inadvertently sometimes when you're working on things
Bentley is most awkward is being aware of just how obsessed Taylor Jacobs is with
Crystal by seeing that would be and that's what he calls you. He's like
a Gutta trawl line. See too many things. There's something serious like arms
length, arms length, that's incredible. Oh man, all right, and
I am Alex caps once again, you're DM or district manager, and uh,
let's see here my most awkward client experience. It's hard for dms to
have awkward experiences because normally it's the other people who have to deal with awkwardness.
But every now and then, somebody, somebody leans really hard into flirting
with an NPC, and sometimes you just got to make it as awkward as
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up pod. So when we last left off, Bentley watched as mister a
Moon disappeared with a few objects while everyone else was sleeping, specifically one object,
yes, specifically one object, and I don't know who awakens, but
y'all yes, somehow you all hear Bentley l you fuck mother. Yeah.
So actually, let's go ahead and have everyone roll perception with disadvantage except for
Bentley, because since y'all are asleep, you gotta love that disadvantage. I
rolled the one, so I got a total of three. I also rolled
a one, which is a total of seven. Jesus Christ eleven. Okay,
tailor, I got a seven. Okay, so Amy, you rolled
above a ten, so Amyen you wake up at out tearing Bentley just cussing
up a bastard ass motherfucker. Wow, we are whoa whoa? Okay,
I get up at media. I'll just jump up, take a take a
look around to see who's still sleeping, and I see Bentley awa awake.
So you see Bentley like you see Bentley yelling okay everyone else. You see
Bentley specifically on his hands and knees, punching the fucking ground. Everyone else
appears to be asleep. And it's not quite sun up, but you can
see as the atmosphere is starting to get a little illuminated. So it's that
period just before dawn, okay, And I don't see Dartarian around anywhere.
No, Okay, I go up to Bentley, put my hand on his
back, like, Bentley, are you okay? That motherfucker stole the thing?
The light bulb? Who did get up off of the ground? Please
just come on, come on, take some deep breaths full mom should have
let you have that horse. I guess all right, we need to get
Richard awake and find out what he took. The guy, the doctor dude
took it. The yoga guy he took he took what he took? The
light bulb, the light bulb. I can't remember that he took the project
he took the projector, Oh he took the projector? Oh my god?
Where did he go? Should? I don't know where he went? Oh?
No, okay, yeah, we need to immediately come on. I
heard some things we were going to try and like check the camp and then
he's like, deuces, wow, that's it doesn't sound like something you would
say, but I take your word for it. Literally. Oh okay,
all right, well let's go. Okay, so walk back to the to
the tent. I assume where arena tent? I know, I guess it
doesn't matter. Sure, got like bedrolls and tints. Okay, I wake
up. I look, Richard is tossing and turning. He's not having a
good night's leg I like try to shake his arm, like Richard, wake
up. Oh oh my god, well you said why you said that reminded
me of the movie Bedtime's Story with and he's like, I suffer from night
terrors, and it is like later on in the movie he's just like,
ah, like just imagining Richard having night terrors, right, Richard, Yeah,
wake up? Oh my god, calm down. I had a crazy
dream. You still have the light bulb? Sure? I mean why why
do you ask? Because the yoga dude stole the projector is like freaking out
because he just had a terrible dream, and he's like going over to his
dream specifically the situation. I mean it was, well, well let's find
out. And so he's gonna go over to his igloo fanny pack. Is
the fanny pack still there? Yes, okay, the fanny packs are there.
So he's gonna open it up and you know, rummage around what all?
So you would find as you're rummaging through it that the astral projector is
missing? Is anything else missing? That is all? Okay? Richard is
upset, but not as upset as he would be, what did you find
Richard? Why also are you sleeping across the room from the fanny pack with
their important item? Well, so that's the thing I want. Feels a
little bit less bad, like it was entirely is just saying completely quiet.
He's He's like, well I remember it. He's like, yeah, what
were you doing that? It's like, well, I thought I had it
next to me, but I had this crazy dream I must have thrown it
with my night chairs. God. But anyway, yeah, so so the
astral projectory go un across the room I have. I mean, if it
was that important, I probably would. Richard probably maybe had it as a
pillow or something, so he probably didn't have Yeah, yeah, anyway,
this, yes, it's actually like a cross body bag. I would be
asleep with that sucker, like sitting across my chest, like hugging it like
a freaking I don't know care well Richard, Okay, well I guess the
other two are still asleep. What do you think we like babies? Yeah,
this is not in character, but it's like, how do we make
it seem like it's there on the back? Rich is like, fuck,
it's gone, It's real Okay, we gotta wake them up, but we
okay, all right, Crystal, Hey, wake up, wake up.
We got we got robbed. No, I just went to sleep. Okay,
Taylor, wake up, wake up. We just got robbed. Where's
Crystal? She's right there. Okay, thank god? What were Oh my
god, get you bathes me quiet. I'm trying to sleep. Go back
to sleep, Crystal. Okay, so we were robbed, Taylor. Okay,
but it's pretty much morning. We can't wake up now. Crystal finally
sits up and it's just pits. You can't tell her anything before anyway.
Okay, Oh my god, we've been ropped. Yeah, the yoga doctor
he nicked the projector. Yeah, the projector. My bag was not next
to me when I woke up, and then I looked inside of it after
they told me something was wrong, and the actual projector's not in there anymore.
Crystals just shaking her head, like you had one job, dude,
one job. So there's a lot of emotions about who was who was on
watch with the doctor. I was, yeah, what's up? How could
you let this happen? Well, we heard goblins. We separated the try
and pincer maneuver them. Okay, a good idea. This is a Pencer
maneuver. It's like from Pokemon. There's this like bugs. No, it's
not important. Where where they're gone? I mean, what happened? Did
they help? I guess he was using magic or something to make it seem
like there was sounds. I don't, I don't know. You fell for
it, right, well, yeah, you fucking fell for it, hey,
in my defense, so this is your fault. I thought he had
record. We haven't really encountered a whole lot of illusion magic back home,
but we've encountered people being fucking psycho, you know. And last time we
were wrong. Very situation here. Who was the one that wanted to keep
traveling with the dude? It was interested in yoga. I think it's Crystal's
fault. Guys, we can argue with each other on the run. We
have to chase this guy, like he told us he was from. We're
all headed to the same place, right, he just has a headstop.
We have to get to Levron. We cannot let him get away with this
astral projector Okay, okay, I'll get sleep in the cart. You can
sleep in ther you can yell Bentley in the cart doesn't matter. We have
to go. Okay, we are lucky in that we still have the bulbs.
So did Taylor run ahead and warn the professor? Are you faster than
these horses? Like one horse is probably faster than horses with a cart?
Okay, sure, if you want to lead the way, run up to
meet up with professor fizzle bang, and then hopefully he can have a plan
for us when the rest of us catch up. She's gonna like gradually get
five feet. She goes, I have a minor question. Okay, I'm
all ears. So I have detect magic, and I know that this is
not the intention for detect magic, but you can sense like magic shockingly with
that spell. And I was wondering if I could cast it to see in
the direction of which the poor all sort of like what sent him general vibe
like a smoky trail, ooh high or low? Do your stuff are better?
Make it an arcana check? You got like better bonuses? Right if
you do like a skill check versus randomly guess I feel like my arcana's ship.
I mean, you at least have a slightly better chance in fifty to
fifty. Okay, hold on, not necessarily what is Arkana. Arkana is
intelligence magic. It happens to her idea, right right. But I'm saying,
if you could give her advantage, could you sing to me, use
that Bartic inspiration you like, sing to us and cheer us up. So
so it's not quite really my thing, but if you gave her a Bartic
inspiration, it would she could roll that in addition to her D twenty.
That is true. So how is we're still letting the rest of the group
know she's doing that. So she's like, guys, let me just see
if I can solve this. I'm gonna like, I have this thing.
I don't know if it'll work, but it's it's detect magic, and it
will allow us to I guess lace what the freaking instructions say, to see
sort of where this magic occurred and where it took him. Oh my god,
that's a brilliant idea. Like I've like, wait a thing. If
we are task focused right now, we have to get back to that city.
Please do whatever it is that you need to do, and in that
action, Richard will use one of his Bartic inspirations. Okay, so I
just rolled double right, you add a D six to your role. Okay,
all right, I'm sopp to see Richard Dancer seeing or something to inspire
the group. That's a seventeen plus six. Wow. All right, so
Crystal, that's nothing. So after your pet, Crystal wanders over and you
can see some disturbance in the ground where something happened. She reaches down,
grabs a little bit of the dirt, kind of sniffs it. Yeah.
Yeah, and you would you would be able to tell, like the scene
and gratitude where where he tastes the food and it like takes him back to
his childhood, like you have one of those brains and you just see you
just see the city of Levron. Okay, that's so cool. Wild I
didn't know I could do that. It wasn't particularly helpful, but it was
cool. We do need to head is there like maybe a specific part of
the city. This the best she could she could determine, fair enough,
such a high rule. Okay, yeah, So what's y'all's plane? Taylor's
charge? Get Taylor take off? Before Crystal did her cool thing, no,
I feel like she would have been like, oh, Crystals something,
let's wait. Okay, so you guys are about two days away from Len
that's what we'll say. Do we have the equivalent of a monster or red.
You've got let's get jazz? That's true. Oh god, we still
have like we took a bunch of it. I think them from the book.
Yeah, I will feel like at some point around the campfire, I
had doled out the Let's get jazz, So everybody's got like a couple of
them. Okay, So I do have animal messenger. Oh just do that,
Chrystal. Taylor's already like ten minutes down. But I don't think that
the distance works. Like That's why I was like waiting because I was reading
it and what I had. But it's fifty miles for flying every twenty four
hours, so I don't know that would be about right. Sounds good,
dude. You So the standard adventuring day in a cart with a horse is
like twenty miles, okay, so fifty miles you'd be you'd be right about
there. This whole time, Tailor was stretching. And then go ahead,
So guys, I may have something useful. I've not used it before,
and clearly the last time I tried using magic, although it was successful,
I feel like I'm just terrified and scarred from all of the shit that I've
accidentally turned myself into a caterpillar one time. So it a caterpillar. So
I'm a little afraid. What spell is this animal messenger? Yeah? And
it I have to So I need a bird? Can someone help me catch
a bird? As I said, the time it'll take us to catch a
bird, it's probably still less than whatever is it gonna hurt the bird?
So so so you don't have to have a bird. You just need to
be able to see a bird. So make me a perception check. Everybody
look for a bird. Everybody looks. Everybody look for a bird. Everybody
roll roll for bird? What happens to the bird? I don't really die
or I don't know. I've never done this before. I rolled a twenty
on the bird. Look. I rolled a dirty twenty on the bird look
birds, see you guys? Also twenty one? Okay, see you guys.
You guys, Like you say, everyone look for a bird, and
you guys all look at the same bird. You just see a little blue
jay. You just see a little blue jay like just sitting there, like
eating a worm, and like he see he looks and sees all of you
staring at him, and you see as he starts to like he slowly starts
moving his wings out like he's a little weirded out. What are you doing?
And crystals like, come here, you and she like points her finger
at it and she's like, I need your help. Bird has its wings
out and it like curls in one of its wings, pointing at its chest.
Yes, yes, you you you come here, shakes its head.
No, oh, it's a spicy spy. You want me to catch it
for you? Says One of your components is a tiny morsel of food.
Oh you need some bread or something. I need some bread. Here's a
protein bar. Oh yeah, okay, she grasbs. Yeah, the bird
will need it. Do The bird just kind of looks and it points at
the at the food and points its chest again. Yeah. And you see
as it hops down from the tree and lands on the ground. When does
that little bird hop thing? Where it hops like three times, like,
looks around. I can hurry up, come on, hops again, it's
looking around. What is this the fucking safari zone? Sometimes a Pokemon podcast,
and then the bird appears and we'll say that over a course of ten
minutes, Oh my god, yeah, over a course of ten minutes.
Since this is a ritual spell, oh is it it still saving us?
It's I feel like we're like packing the bed rolls and stuff during this time.
We're like everyone And then Crystal's just sitting there staring at this bird.
The bird finally gets close and it takes a small nibble of its food.
Hey, Crystal, have got everything packed up. We're ready to go.
You done yet? I hope to God that you're speaking. She just like
looks at Bentley and she shoots daggers out of her eyes. She's like,
if you bucking scare this bird off and you hear god? Can you believe
that? Guy? Huh? He says. The bird looks up at you
like, huh you you understood me? Oh my god, you can hear
me? I can hear me? What is this? What's going on?
What are we doing it? This is so good? This food tastes so
good, and he like nibbles some more. Well you're gonna need it,
but here you go eat up. He's like, oh my god, what
is this is this? Like? What is this? Is this? This
isn't bugs? What is this? This is nuts? Oh my god,
my heart. It feels like I feel like, oh my God, gone
so fast before swhere to God? This bird dies? Who are you?
What's your name? Where are you from? And you, guys, everyone
else at the camp just sees likes just staring at it. So, what's
your deal? Can you have? You always been able to talk to birds.
I've never talked to a person before. I've never talked what's going on?
I don't know, so I've never purpose. Oh no, you can't
go all philosothropical. I mean we don't have time for that. I need
you to send a message. Focus, focus, I need you to send
a message. I need you to find a man named professor what Bizzle Bank,
Bizzle Bank? Thank you? She like looks at Taylor. She said,
thanks, mam, that's that's a lot of words. And I said,
you wuzzy look like I kind of work off of vague shapes and faces.
And I mean, where is he? Where? Where do I need
to go? I don't know? She like turns her head. She's like,
Guys, he's asking me questions I can't answer. I don't remember what
this guy fucking looks like. I don't remember where he is. I know
his name's Fizzle Bang helped me out what. So we left him at the
crow's nest. You know the ships in the city of Verrons and stacked ships
on top of each other. Okay, boats, boats on top of each
other. Can I send a mental image to this bird? Sure? Okay,
And so you do this and he goes as I went blonde for a
second. Then I saw some I saw some boats stacked on top of each
other. Now I'm back here. What is going on? Calm down?
Okay, okay, okay, come down, Come down. So that's your
destination, right, So I'm gonna need you to go there. And there's
a guy there that's waiting for you, and he looks like yes, and
she just like concentrated. If she like sends in the equivalent of Google Maps,
it's like she doesn't know where she got it. That's not helpful,
Okay, Okay. So I go to the and it's in the city,
and I'm just like telepathically like trying to sort of retrace our steps, and
she's like using pictures to try and like because that's all she's got. She
doesn't really remember. So I go to the city. That's where the bread.
There is bread there, and he will probably feed you be super grateful.
So I'm going to need you to go there and tell him. I'm
gonna need you to go there and tell him that no need to take this
offline. Overworked and underplayed will circle back after these messages, Richard, help
me out what the projector's been stolen? The projector's been stolen. Okay,
you just tell him the projector. Wait, you probably can't talk to him,
can you. According to this spell, I can deliver the message of
up to twenty five words to the target. That's a lot of words,
okay, and not that many words. It's you're literally sending a tweet that
nice okay, okay. How long have you been sitting on that? I've
been like soon. When she said animal messenger, I was it's fucking great.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So she's gonna focus.
She's gonna be like twenty five words, twenty five words, okay,
okay. I'm picturing her pulling out that like rock that she's yeah, she's
like typing it out, so she like she does exactly that. She pulls
out her little square rectangular rock and she's like typing trying to figure out word
counts, and she's like, okay, tell him that the projector has been
stolen. What's this guy's name? No, doctor, doctor Tatarian. Doctor
Tatarian is a shit ass. He stole it is one word, by the
way, it is one word. We are on our way back. He's
like, he's like, projector stolen on. What's his name? Doctor d
stole it? He's a shit ass. Uh what was the last part,
We're on our way back. We're on our way back? Got it?
And he just immediately takes off, say where we are? He is gone.
That was really good. Yeah, that was excellent, as I feel
like this is happening. All of our stuff is now in the park,
all just like standing kind of like cross armed, like watching on the rock
again. You guys, I think she may have had a mental breakdown.
She thinks that rock is a cell phone. Well, she's not the only
one that's about to have a mental breakdown if we don't go, Richard.
Richard is transitioned to his dad face. Everyone in the car now we're not
stopping to go to the bathroom. Project Okay, Well let's go. Hey
Crystal, you want a hand up? Yeah, okay, and she grabs
her hand. All right, so you guys are in the cart and you
head on down the road. What I'm gonna say is, this is so
funny that this took this amount of time, because I was actually about to
tell y'all it's not gonna be any problem for you guys to make it back
to over On in two days. But this is fun though. Yes the
way, now, Fizzle Bank can give us some information. Yeah, so
I'm going to give you that. So after the first day you got to
stop. You like, set up your camp. Everything's fine. The next
morning you see a blue Jay approach. Is it our same guy? And
he lands and he looks up. He looks up at you, Crystal,
and he's like, hey, you got any more of that stuff? Oh
shit, now he's addicted. I need my stuff. Look, dude,
none of that till you tell me what you're going to say. Oh yeah,
I found the guy. He was at the bar. He was a
little drunk. Not helpful, move on, he said, no big deal.
I left Richard a note. What how Richard? Why didn't you say
he left you a note? I forgot about the note to me. I
read it real quick one time. Also, I would like it to be
known that everybody think Crystal believes that everybody can understand this Blue Jay. She
she's talking to you, like you can understand this guy. It's like,
oh yeah, well so, I mean all the notes said was don't connect
the two magic items together. And he like goes opens up the fanny pack
and he pulls out a little like Origoni crane and then he unfolds it and
it's the note and it's like, yeah, from a Fizzle Bang, don't
plug the lux into the projector hide it in the bag. I mean I
did that. I put the two items in the bag, so you know,
message mission accomplished, me accomplished, mess accomplished whatever. So I mean
we do still have the light bulbs. I guess without the two of them
together, we're fine. I mean we need to talk to Fizzle Bank what
that il needs to go into cavity because we're not doing And that's straight from
the horse's mouth. Jay Jay turns to you and he's like, he also
said don't meet here. He said, meet it the big tall building.
He said, you would know where. I don't know where that is,
big tall building. He says, you've met there before. We've met there
before. Yes, Crystal, what is the bird, saying we can't understand
it. We can't understand it. That rock is not a phone. Let's
not do this not okay, I'm sorry, just trying to break my delusion.
Thank you. We hear, we hear crystals half of the conversation.
Yes, okay, big tall building, the Bluegle tower, that's it.
He hear's the bird goes, that's it, Bluegle Tower, Bluegle Tower.
Understand the bird can understand them, but only Crystal can understand the bird.
And she's like, love that journey for us. Can you guys not understand
him? No, no, well that's awkward. Okay, Disney Princess and
so and so turns, Hey, so so I did this for you and
now I'm back Jay, Yeah and original, he says, Can I ask
you a question? Like, I mean, like go ahead, like what
what's the point? Like like we get up, we eat, we we
go to bed, like what else? The point is it take advantage of
every opportunity you are given in life. And if you do not do that,
you will be a disappointment to your family all of us. Look at
you, guys are just wow. You guys just see as this bird like
it lowers its head and says okay, well see you later and just takes
off. Oh you could say if you oh, never mind, you don't
get too familiars. Yeah, all right, So so another day, and
you guys see the familiar sights of the city of Lebron. I never thought
i'd be you know, I feel like we're coming home weird. Are you
guys wanting to go straight to Bluegle headquarters or do anything else first? I
think that's our one main objective? Okay, so we don't. All right,
so for this so I get Probably you make it to the corporate sector
and it is utter chaos. There are people fighting everywhere, but you guys
just kind of ignore them and just like like it's another day, you know,
because yeah, and you make it to Bluegle HQ. I feel like
we should probably pick up a little bit more XP, just to make sure.
Let's just start beating the people along the way and army. In one
of the windows in the lobby, you guys see a familiar face of doctor
Fizzle Bang Bang Hi Like he's just waving. He's like waving, come in,
hey man, your message was so unhelpful. Oh getting out of the
cart. He can't hear you. He's waving through the windows. But no,
we would have gone inside immediate. Okay, all right, so you
guys make it inside, and as you make it through the doors, you
see a bunch of fetti fly through the air, and you guys see Matt
Damon goes, my friends, my workers, you've made it back. We're
so happy to see you. We threw you a pizza party to celebrate.
That means we're not oh guy, guys have done such a good job,
like we could not do what we do without you. Guys. You have
provided us such good information and to show how much like we appreciate everything you've
done, we talked with some of your friends in town. We heard about
this whole sauce thing, and we have thrown together you a pizza party with
sauce. Yes, insis out. They had it all all all along over
by the beach shop. Yeah inside ins Oh my god, roll insight natural
twenty plus. Okay. He seems very excited that you guys are back.
Awesome. I imagine he's heard that we killed what's his name? Okay,
yeah, okay, I'm gonna need some monetary compensation, my guy, I
wear my ass off for this. I literally almost joined a cult and then
they stopped me, which was really frustrating. And then I talked to a
fucking bird and I need some fucking payoff. Oh okay, hey, hey
man, buddy, we can talk about we can talk about it right now.
Well, I mean when we get to our our normal review cycle,
I'm sure we'll be able to know. Now out of line promotion, Amien's
like, oh I wanted a pizza. Amien's like, I wasn't allowed to
have pizza growing Either to quit this job. I would like to quit this
job, or I would like a promotion one of the two, which is
like, I just want to talk to Fizzle Bang. Where is Fizzle Bang
is like over to this, like he's like waving it. Richard, Richard,
Richard, come here, come here, Richard quick steps. Yeah,
we'll come back to this, I promise. Fizzle Banksys So you have it.
You have the Luxe mile solely, Yeah, we have it in the
bag. Excellent, excellent. You seem very excited for someone who got the
news that we lost the projector except Fizzle Bank is always one step ahead,
my friend. I heard that doctor Detarian was tracing you, and so I
thought I would see what it is he was up to. Wait, when
did you hear that? And why didn't you tell us? Richard is like
freaking out. It's called an experiment. I wasn't sure, and I didn't
want to alarm you. If I wasn't sure there was something to be alarmed
of. I knew he wouldn't. Richard's like, you did not want us
to be alarmed? Do I not look alarmed to you right now? I
thought we were never going home. No, Richard, my friend, I
would never do this. I'm sorry. It was a mistake. I just
was worried. I was worried if you all knew too much that it would
make it harder to accomplish the mission at hand. I realized the error in
my in my mistake and misjudgment of you. But you did get my note
right? Yes? And he says, why are you worried? I thought
we needed both of those things to get home, and we only had one
of those things. Wait a second, Wait a second, Can I see
the note? Yeah? And Richard handsome the folded up paper that, oh,
I gave you the wrong note. Richard has liked like if this is
a cartoon, red is like going up his face, like starting to come
out of his ears. I understand now, I am so sorry. My
assistant must have put the wrong note in the wrong bag of holding. That
was a decoy, you see, as he pulls like a satchel bag to
the side, opens it up, and just pulls out the astral projectory.
He says, I was worried that doctor Detarian would be suspicious if you didn't
have what he thought was the real one, and I thought that was what
he was after, and I was right. I should have let you know
more about my plan. You should have and I am sorry. No,
did shit, ass he says, So we are still good though, Yes,
Richard says, like through his teeth, all right now. Coming back
over to the other side, Matt Damon says, okay, okay, you
know what, I thought that the pizza party would be great for you guys.
It would give you a taste of cuisine you're more accustomed to. We've
had a lot of time to talk with Fizzle Bang. How does he know,
sir put pizza down? No no, no, no, no no
no no. I would like to quit this job or you will pay me
better. Okay, okay, okay, Okay, tell you what I hear
you. I talked to a fucking bird, dude, he says, Oh,
you sent a tweet. That's cool. Your magic is so far,
so far? Yeah, going, Okay, how about a one step promotion?
How's everybody feel? Everybody? I think that is perfectly one step promotion,
more in line with the kind of I agree. We nearly lost again,
I almost I was prevented from joining. One step or nothing. One
step and more money and the ability to renegotiate my contract. Okay, will
increase your stipend? Uh, desert done though I'm in need done. I
would like to be on the contract that Richard and Amy Ann and Bentley you're
on. It's the same one. No, it's not. It's not as
predatory. We got a little bit more. Yeah, Taylor here with you
guys. Okay, you guys have proved your worth. You're valuable to the
team a few times over. Now we will we will put you all on
the same contract. Will increase your stipend. Just holds out her hand for
Amy and to like give her a I just think of funny if they were
making what we're making now we're making a How about this make it easy for
everybody will pay. Yeah, one hundred and fifty gold a week? How
much? I don't know what that means, Crystal, that's an incredible amount
of money. And then that sounds great. All right, fine, al
right, so everyone one hundred and fifty gold a week a week? Yes,
okay, I know I did on him more dangerous. This is very
suspicious. You just eliminated the main competition in this realm Okay, okay,
go he's like, he's like, you guys are fucking goons. Okay,
okay, okay. My questions will sins, Do you have a cool armory
and we can get like a weapon from You'll have to talk to our security
department, but that's approved. Then we can take a look. Potentially you
have to fill out a form, get it submitted, and then no,
that that's not how this works. I pick up my pizza again, starting
it. This is the pizza organic. No, there's no organs in the
pizza. Sausage and organ she's primarily organic. Yeah, sure, it's organic.
Okay, she like takes a piece. You might want to dab it
with a paper towel. Is it grease? She puts it back down,
Sausage still have technically, So you guys are enjoying your pizza party. How
many episodes? And you guys, as you're all enjoying your pizza, you
see like a small elven lady come in the lobby and you see someone at
the desk pointing out over at your group, and you see as this very
graceful elf with green eyes walks up and she's got this like she's got this
piece of paper and she said, excuse me, as one of you,
Crystal, that would be me, you are here. Oh my god,
I've been waiting. I've been waiting. I'm so excited. I was at
the Atheneum the day you had your You were like you were carrying on about
how the Church of Clarity or not real or like like you're the real Crystal
I am. And I knew something was up with these guys. And I'm
writing a story. I'm an investigative journalist. I'm writing a story and i'd
love can I get Can I interview you? Oh? Absolutely I can.
I'm always down to tell people about the opportunity. Oh my god. Okay,
so you are Crystal like like the original. According to documentation of I
Got from Bluegel, it says you're a Crystal two point zero. That is
a false narrative, but that the impressed upon me by the Bluegles system.
I arrived here and they immediately impressed upon me. But in the system,
that's technically your name, right. I just I have to make sure I
get all of my mind shit, I should have negotiated in our contract.
I just have to I have journalistic integrity and I just have to make sure
I have all of my citations right legally, I am the original Crystal.
Okay, And she says, okay, so can you just sign this,
and she hands you the paper and as she puts it in your hand,
she goes, you've been served, and Crystal actively says, nope, sorry,
you got the wrong Crystal. I did not confirm that I was Crystal
two point o. Honey, whatever, I just got to submit my stuff
to the court. And Cristal doesn't take it. You can submit it to
the court, go right ahead. Crystal does not take it. She did
not confirm that she was Crystal two point right. Hey, hey, no
skin off my back. Okay, look, yeah, says we all have
a job in yours. But hey, if you would ever like to talk
about the opportunity that I have for you guys, and the freedom I could
offer you with independent employment. You can always follow back up stuck. I
just recommend you show up for your court date on that document. A gratitude
today keeps the haters away, and that's why we want to thank you for
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worked. Oh my god,