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and thanks for listening. Oh hello, Richard, thank you for joining me
today. Oh yeah, what's this about. As you know, my name
is human from Human Resources, and we just need to talk about an etsy
teensy little incident that popped up on my radar. I thought we already discussed
this during the performance reviews. No, no, no, no, this
is a little different. I am noticing a bit of a pattern. But
it looks like we had a potential workplace violence episode, and I'm a little
concerned, and I just, you know, I just wanted to get your
take on the events. So start from the top. What happened? Yeah,
so I wasn't paying super close attention, but I think Amy, Anne
and Bentley started to get, you know, familiar with each other. But
then when we were working to get the web developer, like, Bentley kind
of left the group and we didn't keep eyes on him, and then all
of a sudden, he's like dancing on the dance floor about to do a
backflip. And then so yeah, it was it was crazy. Oh lord,
this is like last year's staff party all over again. Okay, yeah,
So then Taylor Jacobs like grew three sizes and like Grabb Bentley, but
her hands were too big, and it was just it was a whole mess.
Like the tension in the group is so tense, like you could cut
that show. But life, Richard, when you say she grew three sizes,
is that like figuratively like she was she was asserting herself larger than life
or do you literally mean she grew three sizes? I have seen Taylor Jacobs
figuratively grow larger than life, and in this instance, I mean she literally
grew to the size of a giant. Oh. I don't know how she
fits in the dance floor. Okay, well we'll have to write that down.
Now, this incident between miss Taylor Jacobs and mister Bentley, was it
resolved or do you think that there's still some lingering tingleis going on there?
We are in the second Cold War. As far as i'm aware. I
don't know what that means, but I'm gonna write it down and I'll get
back with you. What else happened after that whole thing was wrapped up and
resolved. We did managed to accomplish getting our task of the web developer,
and then we were on our way to meet Matt Damon, who we met
up in Matt Damon's office, talked to uh dictate and then now we're are
supposed to meet up with a fizzle bang. Yeah, I do have on
here that mister Damon is working remote these days. Okay, well, you
know I've got everything written down here. I appreciate you sitting down with me
and discussing this and if I have any questions, I'll reach out and touch
base. All right, do you have a way to contact me? Apparently
so perfect. You have a wonderful day. Thank you. Greetings, my
paid and unpaid interns, and welcome to Overworked and Underplayed, a D and
D podcast. Four Young Professionals by young professionals. I am your DM or
District Manager Alex Capps and today's ice breaker. What is your favorite summertime activity?
Yeah, I'm Tyler. I play the IT Paladin known as Bentley and
Bentley's favorite summertime activity is the activity you can do all the time video games,
but a second favorite is probably I don't know, day drinking with the
boys, yeah Saturdays or for the boys. Hey, I'm Marjorie. I
play Amy and Amanda, a basic b rough and tumble human fighter with a
freshly minted dentistry degree. Her favorite summertime activity would definitely be going down to
the beach to the family beach house, uh and just hanging out with all
of the altn bring some friends, bring some family, just have a nice
little weekend at the beach. Hi, everyone, I'm Katie, and I
played Crystal, the drought druid and the owner of her very own MLM,
Crystal Clarity. And Crystal's favorite summertime activity is to go on the annual cruise
that she provides to her downloads who've reached a certain level in Crystal Clarity,
so they get to pay their way on the cruise that they won so that
the platinum plus that is so brilliant, so brilliant. So yeah, and
she they also secretly pay her ticket because you know, she basically books out
the cruise ship, you know, because that's how they do it, and
then there's all these cool speakers and ship and they get to but they're paying
for it, but she doesn't. Since she's the owner, she doesn't pay
for it. It's factored into the cross to their cruise. Hi, I'm
Aneline Hardy and I play Taylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a heart of
gold who's dealing with a lot of internal conflict and needs a day off.
Her favorite summertime activity is hang out by the pool, you know, like
getting some raise. That is her favorite method of working. So like,
if she gets a chance to work remotely for the day, it'll be by
the pool. Probably what up, it's your boy. Marcel Hardy playing Richard
Cox, a human consultant turned halfling bard who Holly believes it's better to be
lucky than good, but it's best to be both. Richard's favorite activity is
to go to Six Flags over Georgia. He likes to be first in line
so you can ride a couple of the rides before it gets too hot,
and then he spends most of the day at the water park and then back
to the riots when it's cooled off in the evening. As the DM My
favorite summertime activity is waiting around in the cool, chilled air of my living
room for fall to return. Damn, I wish I chose Hey listeners.
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When we last left off, you guys had made it back to Bluegle headquarters
and met Matt Damon by proxy. You'd hand it off your web developer,
and you were waiting for Fizzle Bang come to this room, even though he
was already set up in the other room, but that was just too inconvenient
for y'all to walk across the hallway. As the scene opens, you guys
hear loud crashing noises, and you see a cart full of stuff, and
you do not see who's pushing it, and you hear a familiar voice oh,
hello everyone. You just have to give me a few moments to get
my all of my accouchma set up. You see as he like starts hanging
up like pictures and he's got like a chalkboard and like all kinds of crazy
stuff written on it, and he says, I hope you've been will since
we last spoke. Some of us more than others. Yeah, yeah,
hey, Fizzling, you need a hand with any of this? Yes,
actually, if you could die, He starts handing you like glass bottles and
things. If you could just hold these for a moment, can do.
And he finishes putting everything up and he says, okay, you can just
set them back on the cart. I didn't really need those, oh back
on, he says. So I have some important news. I have been
studying these items very very closely. And you see as he pulls out the
astral projector, he says, I've been guarding this with my life, but
I'm afraid that agents of a particular Orchard Incorporated are trying to steal my research.
He said, So I am going to need to leave these items in
your hands, because well, you haven't died yet, so I feel like
you're the safest one to hold them here, this will help. And you
see as he hands Richard a fanny pack that says iglu across the front of
it. Oh, jess my style. You would recognize it as a fanny
pack you had for the Office nineties themed summer party last year. Yeah,
and you yourself, Richard had. Yeah. Yes, he said, I
found this item. It had your name on it. Oh wait a minute,
this must have been one of those things that I moved around on New
Year's So he rests to open it up and see if there's any money inside
of it. You find one hundred dollars. Oh hell yeah. I don't
know what I'm gonna do with that here, but definitely need to put that
in the pocket. But the he says, yes, So this peculiar looking
contraption is actually can hold a lot of stuff. Watch, and he takes
and he shoves the whole projector down into the opening and he watches it just
kind of disappears into the bag. Well, like Mary Poppins, I'm not
familiar. Is she an artifica? I don't know what that word means,
so I'm not sure. I think that's what they call Jimmy Jimmy, Yeah,
Mary Poppins, no artific Oh I'm Mary Poppins, y'all. I'm sure
someone has called him Mary Poppins. Away, Jimmy, that's why we can't
find him. We need to be looking up by Bentley got a balloon and
he's like, hey, Jimmy, hold this for me. He says,
this is what in our world we call a bag of holding. Interesting.
It has a lot of space. It will come in handy on your journey.
And he kind of like cinches it around your waist and he's like,
oh, I need to tighten it up a little bit. Now. He's
getting uncomfortably close to you, Richard, as he reaches into the fanny pack
and he pulls out a contraption, and he pulls out the small tablet looking
object, and he says, I have figured out that these items. I
believe they've come from another plane of existence, and given your familiarity with them,
I believe it's yours. Now. I have deduced that, if you
will let me finish speaking, I've deduced I've deduced that there's a certain signature
that comes off of them that you can do techt from a distance. It's
like a thurial radiation or something. And I have developed this device and he
says, that fits in the palm of your hand that will help guide you
to the items. I call it the palm pilot. So it's not a
dragon radar, A what nothing. Bentley just lays his head back down because
he's still suffering from two levels of exhaustion. Yeah. He clicks the button
on the top and you see it's almost like a grid. Yes, it
looks like it looks like the dragon radar from dragon Ball z okay, And
he says, he says, the problem is you have to get fairly close
before it will start picking up the items. Does it have to be on
before, like we have to just leave it on all the time, Like
what if we got close but it was off. So if you get within
its range, it will vibrate and then you turn it on and you should
be able to see some valuable information about its location. And you see as
he turns it on, and there's several from like all the stuff y'all are
wearing. So he says, hold on a second, I need to recalibrate
it. And you see he presses the center button and holds it for a
few seconds. And it basically zeros out all the items that it senses within
range right now, and he goes, Okay, now it won't detect your
items. You will need to get fairly close. But this should aid.
He says, I have deduced from my research one with the orchard being as
snooping as much as they have on me, that they may have one of
the items. In fact, I'm fairly certain they have the luxe Melee sola
that will allow us to power up the astral projector the lightbulbo. What's a
lightbulb? Don't worry about it, Okay, we don't have to have that
conversation against Sauce. Sauce, he says. Now, most likely this item
will be in the possession of the leader of the orchard, Mike Chef.
I suggest you depart immediately. It should be about a two days journey to
reach day are Brie, which is where they are. Their commune is located.
Oh, a commune that could be fun, I assure you it is
most certainly not fun. Is a place of intellectual buffoonery. How do you
think they stole the luxemile sola. It didn't seem like anyone had been in
the tomb that we were in before we got there. Some mysteries may never
be solved, but if we find them, we might find some clues as
to how they were able to do that, because I too think that is
very strange. Richard, Wow, Fizzle Bank, is this dangerous? Do
we need to have like a cover story or something? Actually? That probably
would be helpful. I wouldn't go in there and tell them that you are
agents of Blue Girl. Oh, okay, that as they are well as
close to warring factions as a bunch of hippies. Get Did they have the
cult there? Cult? You have to be more specif the Church of Clarity,
no, they they they're not really big on organized religion there. Okay,
even better for okay, we should go as as priests. Oh that's
an interesting idea. How we should go undercover as religious pilgrims for the Church
of Clarity. That's a good idea, Crystal, Yeah, we could totally
do it. You want to explain why Bentley you could be our bodyguard?
Okay, I don't have to be a clergyman of posing as therapists and providing
mental health services to their work forces. Maybe we can try and deprogram a
couple of people and get the insects. Maybe being religious kind of figures would
help. We could we could create therapy and further my mln's agenda is what
you're saying. Wow, that's a good saying. Not Taylor table sulk.
Okay. What was the name of the place that we're going to? They
are bree Wow? Okay, Well, what do you guys think do we
need to do? We need to recoup from our adventures in the spider Land?
I think so. I think Then you mentioned maybe, well I thought
about maybe we should do a team building exercise or something by going to a
tavern. I think one of the was it tour recommended that? I think?
But I don't know. Bentley, you had just a tough time in
a tavern. You look pretty down on the table. I highly recommend y'all
approaching this with a fresh set of eyes in the morning. Okay, is
there a fungeing we can go to for team building? A fungeon? Yeah?
What is like? What is that? I didn't know you'all like to
party like that? Wait? Fizzle Bangs slowly walks over to Bentley, taps
him on like, reaches up, taps him on the shoulder, my safe
word is Wyven Bentley's a therapist. He's like, that wasn't an introduction,
like an invitation? Yeah, that wasn't When I was getting at, I
was just getting at somewhere where can go and fight some things. He sees
under his breath, He's like prude. Yeah, okay, well, either
way, I highly recommend you get some rest and you tackle this now.
Looking at the map, it appears it is around two days if you travel
by land, but you might be able to find aquatic transportation. It would
cut that in half. Two by land, one by sea. Gotcha,
that's pretty sure coming. I don't think that was completely unintentional, but all
right, whatever leg anyway, is that why Heed Hinley in your like hungover
stupor your head begins to just cramp and you take two points of psychic damage?
Move considering all the puns you made through? Yeah, well it's called
being god. Uh fizzle bang? Was there a reason you needed to bring
out all of your stuff over here? Is there something you need to give
us? Or I already gave you the thing? And he was pointing to
his maps and stuff the whole time. He was sorry, I wasn't I
wasn't flowery enough with my language? Are you going to give us an app?
Sure? Why not? I have like seven and he hands you an
I mean, this is the map we need. That's just some random map.
It's just a random map, not even where you're going. Yeah,
it's it's roughly the area that you need to know about. Oh how did
that get it's a crossover? Any other questions before we depart? Can I
have a word with you? Go ahead? Oh? Sorry, I mean
I didn't say that. Actually yeah, really you're really bad. You're more
important, Taylor. You go ahead. Taylor like looked over. I was
like, okay, Like moving on. Could I have a word? Yes,
certainly, all right. She's gonna wait till everyone which world would you
like? Oh, we have to exit the room. This is where he's
like, minus conversation and like, everybody, would you please fellow me?
So Crystal for someone and clutch So walks out the door. She gets it.
She alright, everyone out except for obviously. So what troubles you,
my dear? So, I single handedly almost murdered a member of our party,
and I've really fucked up the whole vibe and created a lot of unnecessary
stress. And I'm done. I can't do this anymore. I need to
go to a rage room or something, but I can't. I'm not an
asset to the party in this state. Well he sees he starts looking a
little nervous. Perhaps I noticed that Bentley seemed a bit under the weather.
Perhaps if you took a day, maybe maybe like worked it out, maybe
that would help be helpful. I think it would definitely help to just unplug,
go to this rage room, see what's what it's all about, and
try and channel this newfound rage into something more productive. Okay, well,
if that is what it takes, that is what it takes, And I
will do my best to not be dead when you return. Well, I
should certainly hope that you would be alive. The agents of the Orchard have
already tried an attempt on my life once, so I will do my best
to stick it out. You should def definitely tell everybody about that, and
then maybe also we could help protect you or get some additional resources from Oh
no Bluegles blue Cools provided me security. Now, it should be fine,
Like I genuinely mean this sincerely from the bottom of my heart. It should
be fine. You do need to handle your shit first, So I understand,
and I just I will do my best to still be alive when you
guys return from day are Brie? Okay? Great? So she's gonna take
out the information about the rage room and ask how to get their things of
that nature? Does it have business hours or anything listed? Says uh,
Walkin's welcome is all that's listed. All right, So I'm going to head
that way first thing. Okay, she's not gonna say bye, she's just
gonna walk out the other door. I think that she's trying so hard to
keep her shit together that Yeah, I don't think she can do any human
fair in you know, you know when you're at the boiling point and you're
like, I just can't. I just can't. So I think that's where
she's at, all right, So you're gonna go do that the rest of
the party. What are you doing is the universal sop still with bizilbang No.
You you as you're like exploring the new contents of your your cooler yeah,
or you're cooler your your fanny peck. You find like two health potions.
Two health potions you find, uh keep find summertime. You find two
health potions and one of them's fruit punch flavored. You find a section of
rope, like fifty foot of rope and some climbing gear. Uh, yeah,
it probably was. Is that nice hemp rope? You know it doesn't
leave any burns? Nice when you slip while you're climbing. Asked you to
go there, I've some to do combat, you should have said. Some
people think it's combat. Falling in a fung because basically you find the contents
of an explorer's pack stuff down in there, and a note from Fizzle Bang
that says good luck, so oh and the sp sorry. Do we see
Richard kind of like both of his arms down in Yeah yeah. At first,
Yeah, he zips it up and keeps it on, flips it up
with one hand in there, and then he's like kind of twist his body
a little bit. Then too, both arms are in there, and he's
like almost bent in half. Yeah. I see him go all the way
up to his shoulders. Richard, be careful, I don't fall in there.
Like he's like his legs start freaking out, here's no air in there,
and be like grabs. You see his hands coming back out from inside
of the himself. Oh my god, I thought there was air in there,
but there's there's enough air for like ten minutes. Yeah, and he
was in there for like ten and a half minutes just figuring out what's in
there. It's while Taylor Jacobs and Fizzle Bang we're talking, while you're exploring
the contents of your new Fanny peck or you guys wanting to do anything other
than return back to the crow's nest. I think that Richard would notice that
Taylor Jacobs didn't come like join us. I can say, oh, she's
been gone for kind of a while, so I think he would go to
see if she was, so he'd like knock on the door and see if
she and Fizzlebang were still talking. Fizzlebang comes out and he says, you're
probably wondering where Taylor went. That is correct. He said, she took
the other door, and he points at the other door. She has some
things she's going to work on. She says, she'll catch up with you
guys. She said later. Okay, I don't like it, but I
guess we're all going to the same place. So I informed her due to
recent events. And he looks over at Bentley like all raggedy, and he
goes to take a day and just kind of, you know, relax before
this next adventure. That sounds healthy. She should probably do that. So
he does he need a doctor? Yes, okay, where are you staying.
We're at the Crow's nests. But if you have a better recommendation,
well it'll do. I will. I'll see if I can. I'll see
if I can get someone to come down there and help with him. After
what massage massuse, I'm gonna get massages. Happy ending. I'm going to
a punge in. We might just get one. He hears you say,
happy ending. He goes, He leans in, whispers, he goes,
My safe word is waved. Even know he's just he whisper that to Crystal.
No, he whispered that to uh Richard. He's the main character in
the video games, just hitting on everyone. Classic Bard. Yeah, hey,
you don't know, you don't know. Maybe he minored in barred in
college. Is the guy that plays the guitar and the like, I don't
know, college of mystery, Mare's in philosophy plays guitar, all right,
gang Well, Fizzle Bank says that Taylor will meet up back with us at
the Crow's Nest. So I think we're you know, give her some space.
We had a very long day. I think it's probably a good call.
Let's go to sleep. That's a good point, Richard. I hope,
I hope Taylor's okay. All right, So you guys head off to
the crow's nest on the way. On the way, can I stop buy
the bank? Okay? We are curious about the bank and how they want
money. I want to take some of my money out of the bank,
oh, from your payment. Yeah, I'm not gonna rob a bank.
That would be kind of fun. In fact, here, here's how we'll
do this. The Taylor says, Yeah, we're still waiting on your latest
check to clear, but you do have twenty two gold accessible. Now is
there interest on this count? What's interesting? Okay? Let me Can I
get ten gold out? Please? Certainly? Thank you. No need to
take this offline. Overworked and underplayed. We'll circle back after these messages,
back to where we were at. So Taylor Jacobs wonders off from Blue Goal
headquarters. Is there a blue goal like employee fitness center slash. That's a
good question, like, well, no, I'm looking for a massage so
specifically, No, we just all have really experiences. There is no therapy,
so I would like a massage. Okay, so we'll come back to
that, as I said Taylor Jacobs. It wanders off into the city and
follows the map to the this place called the Rage Room. She finds along
the wall of the city. This what looks to be this kind of sketchy
looking tower, like almost like a wizard would live in it. Right,
that's part of the wall. And there's a sign on the door that's like
faded and chipped, and it says Rage Room and has a arrow pointing at
the door. So what do you do? Go inside? Okay, So
as you open the creaky door and step inside, you hear Marcel does those
in post Katie. So as you enter the room, you get all the
stereotypes. You hear the some scurrying in the distance. You hear it's dark,
it's kind of musky smelling, and you hear a drip drip drip from
like a back corner, and you see an older man sitting in a chair
by a fireplace. Hi, excuse me, I need some help. You
see is he's one hand up and points for you to join him by the
fire. She's going to do her best with her horse body. So she
comes over and you just like kneel down right there, like like try your
best to sit. I mean, I guess, yeah, he says,
watch and is the fires burning and crackling and popping? He's do you see
how the flames release from the cracks in the wood. M hm, he
says, isn't it peaceful? Yes? But isn't it all so deadly?
Yes? Isn't it interesting how something can be so relaxing and peaceful but could
also in a yes, is what troubles you, my dear. I've got
the bad fire, the chilli fire, and so I like that. I
need the peaceful fire, peaceful fire. I'm a new visitor to this world,
and part of this transformation that I've gone to, a physical transformation,
is also a mental and emotional one. Interesting, a lot of termoil.
Yes, all right, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw with
disadvantage. Sorry, I'm meant to say that, and I have a negative
one, and oh perfect, then don't worry about it. Everything. As
you say this, you feel yourself getting tired, almost like you're mesmerized by
the flames, and slowly your eyes draw closed and everything fades to black.
Now cutting back to the rest of the party. Crystal, you go searching
for a fitness center and basically like a Blue Goal. I feel like we
go on missions and surely Blue Goal would have like an employee wellness center.
Yeah. So you find as you're leaving the Blue Goal campus while Amien is
going to withdraw funds from the bank you fought, you see something listed as
the bluegl Fitness Center. Okay, well the sign says for employees only.
I'm going to walk up to the fitness center and try and get in with
my bluegel id. They let you in, says uh. You see a
goblin sitting behind the counter, and he says, hey, what are you
looking for? What can we do for you today? Well, my job
is really stressful, aren't they all? Yes, they are, And I
am looking for a place to unwind, like I'm wining for a Massige sees
he's like looking It's almost like he's looking down the pages of a book and
you don't even know what it is he's looking at, but he's behind the
counter scanning down wind. Got it? Door three. She got to go
to a place or everybody knows her name. You enter the set of cheers.
He says, hall left hallway, door three. Am I going to
get a massage? What is massage? What is unwind? Unwine, unwind
release, stress, unwind bind balance. These sound like things I can go
for. So you said door three, door three, okay. So she
walks down there and she peeks in door three. Okay. So you peek
in and you see it almost looks like a like a gymnastics room, and
there's bloodstains on the floor, and there's weapon racks all around the room,
and you see us several people are in their sparring, and she just closes
the door. Smart. Smart. She goes back to the Goblin and she
says, Nope, that's not what I was looking for. But thank you.
You said unwind, I send you door three, unwind okay. I
would like to relax my muscles. Relax muscles. Oh splish blash, no
splish blash, okay, relaxed muscle, relaxed muscle, relaxed muscle. Looking
for a place a like calming muscle relax saying steam steam, I could do
a steam steam looks like nine. That's bad idea door nine right side,
okay, And she goes down to door nine, and she opens door ten.
You open door ten. Yeah, I don't even know what door ten
is. She miscounts. So you open door ten and you see what appears
to be a massage table in the middle of the room. I'm so nervous,
but Crystal feels pretty good about it. Oh no, what's your say?
Word? That's too long? It is too long. She's not good
at those things. She goes in there and she looks around. She's not
getting on the table. And so so you see a place where there's like
a closet where you can hang your clothes. You see towels, you see
massage table, you see like a curtain, and you hear someone in the
background he pick some of her see some and someone comes around. Corn goes
hello, this seems really relaxing. Hi, I am Clark, Hi Clark.
Did Merg send you here? Did mrk Merg front desk, front desk,
m front desk? Yes? Yes, yes, ah, okay,
you're here for uh mush mush. Is it calming? Yes? Okay,
yes, but she's not getting dressed okay on table? Okay, she does.
We will be right with you. Okay, So she's gonna go I
think maybe underwear and that's it fully naked. So as you're as you're getting
what languages do you speak? So common, Druidic and Elvish. Okay,
so make me a perception check with disadvantage. Well that's a two, and
then like, actually my perception is pretty high, so it's a two plus
eight. Yeah. As you're mostly disrobing and getting on the table, there's
a lot of things written in like different languages that you don't recognize, and
you can't really tell what any of them say. So as you lay down,
he comes back out and he's like you hear him speaking, oh good,
uh huh, and he says, okay, be calm, we'll get
started in just one minute. And you hear is he's like imber and you
hear someone picking things up. Do you look or not look? I look
okay. So as you turn and look, you see what appears to be
three goblins with step stools and hammers. Yeah, I'm bailing, he says,
they'll be alarmed. Mush mush, Right, that's what you you want,
mush mush, no mallet, No, I don't know even I don't
know. You see is they're like arguing amongst amongst each other, and they're
like, uh, no, mallet, mush mush, no mallet mush mush
okay. And one of them, you see, is they like all like
shuffle back into the back and you hear them like shuffling around with some things.
Oh my god. And they come back out and you see that one
of them is holding a frying pan, one of them is holding a chair,
and the other one is holding a knife. Very confused looks on their
faces, and he goes, no, no, no, mush mush no,
no, no hands. She like literally holds up her hands and like
squeezes them. He sees they hold their hands up like that, mush mush
okay. And they drop all their stuff and they slide their stools up.
Oh god, I thought they were just gonna start beating the ship up.
They still might, They still might. And so what's your ac Oh?
I know, we just wanted to just wanted to be relaxed. My ac
is so you see as they like you're just like lying there, oh my
god, waiting to see what happens. The way is gonna work is they
make unarmed strikes against you, all three land as they begin goosing you with
a ferocity that you've never felt before, because they they're doing what you did
there, you were like hands, so they're like okay, and so they're
like relentlessly goosing you and you apparently take seven damage from it. God for
people that at home, they can't see, it's essentially the chicken dance hands.
Yeah, she was so so what what Crystal did? But she held
up her hands with all of her fingers together and then was touching her thumbs
to her fingertips in like like an animal talking motion. And so these goblins
interpreted that to me, Okay, you that's going to pinch the s So
they pinched the ship out of her, probably bruise her. Well, if
it's that much damage, yeah, bruise. What what do you do bruise?
That's a that's a question that I do not feel like waiting into.
Okay, cool, well, I still need the massage. Are you going
to continue laying there? Is? Okay? I can't. I will be
communicating not that hard. Okay. She doesn't move from the first one like
she pretends like it didn't hurt as bad as it did, because she probably
has had some really crazy missus. Missus, you hears you make me another
perception check with disadvantage. Okay, fourteen, You hear something but you're not
sure one of them, and then all of a sudden you feel it as
one of them had gotten down and comes back and begins running a rolling pin
across your back, and it actually kind of feels okay, yeah, height
mad at that rolling pin check? Just soft hands, soft and like.
She also holds up her hands and she does an actual massaging motion, like
with the thumbs and stuff, and he says her, oh okay, and
they start doing that, but they're not doing a great job. But it's
probably the most relaxed you felt in a while. Okay, cool, It
only costs me seven mild boys. Yeah, and you'll have inspiration when like
you start your next day. Okay, yes, all right, So now
cutting back to Taylor Jacobs, who wakes up in a dark room except for
a single light above you, where you can see everything within about three feet
of you and nothing else, and you hear of voice come out in the
darkness. Why do you care? First of all, I feel like we
should just talk about how you essentially drugged me and put me in a darker
room. I don't feel like super safe in this moment to where I could
be even a little bit vulnerable. In fact, do I have my weapons?
You do not? All right, She's gonna flex a little war momp
just in cacheous use her guns, he says, Miss Taylor Jacobs of Marketing
Solutions Plus wherever that is? Why do you care? You can just call
me Taylor. I genuinely want to make the world a better place. I
care about the people around me. My co workers are the people I'm with
the most. So is that why you tried to murder one of them?
I just I can't explain it. I just flew into her rage. It
wasn't something that I felt lot of control over because that doesn't align with my
values. I'm not a murdery person, and I cared deeply about Bentley and
everyone else I work with. But yet when your psyche was boiled down to
its simplest form, none of those things seemed to matter to you. I
think losing control is not the same as being a personality trait like the rage
is not. I'm trying to get to the point where the rage doesn't define
me or how I relate to others. But it's part of you, I
know, and I don't like it, So is it possible we could just
have it? You just hide it, You just hide things that you don't
like about yourself. This is a real therapy session, doesn't everybody. I
try to embrace all the different parts of me. This feels kind of new,
though I haven't experienced this in a really long time, since I was
a kid. If a fire grows out of control, does one simply hide
it, bury it down? I can't, obviously, not here At least,
I thought I was pretty well regulated before, not with like criticism and
things like that, but in general I had control over myself for the most
part, with like anger and stuff like that. But coming here and suddenly
this new form, you no longer have that level of control, yes?
Or is it that you finally have the power to use that rage that's always
been within you? Maybe I would like to learn how to use it so
I'm not hurting people, because that's just horrible, and I don't want to
be a murderous person. I don't think of I am. You don't think
you are. I know in my bones that I'm not a murderous person.
She's starting to get a little know in your bones or that you knew in
your previous life that you could never do such a thing. No, I
know in my heart because the ability, like to the ability to control my
anger, like to the ability to follow through with your anger. No,
I think I'm just not murdering. This guy really wants her to be murdery.
She's not, he says, interesting, And you see out of the
darkness a figure is approaching you. She's going to get in her guns ready,
and you hear a familiar voice, Miss Taylor Jacobs, late as usual
as the face of mister Richardson appears, she visibly shrinks. He looks,
and he says, late as usual. You knew you needed to be here
a long time ago, but you let every little thing getting the way,
don't you. She's just gonna look at I'm trying not to cry. Also,
actually, how are you even here? That's what you're worried about.
That's what I asked, Taylor Jacobs. I was your first horrible boss.
I'm always here. That is so fucking real. They stay with you,
and he looks at you, and he gets right down in your faces.
So what are you gonna do about it? I'm sorry that I've disappointed you.
I'm really trying to be a better person and co worker and work friend
and work friend. Who needs friends at work? Where it work is work
friendships are for your free time. And maybe if you were a better employee,
you would know that we spend so much time at work, we have
to have some kind of relationships at work. You know, back in my
day, we kept work set from our home life. I'm I'm trying to
be better, trying, trying, always trying. I need help. That's
why I'm here. And I need to feel safe in order to make those
changes. And I don't feel safe right now. Safe. This is the
real world. The real world's not safe. It's not some cuddly environment where
everything's always going to go your way. I know that you just got to
deal with it, get over it. I can't. I almost murdered somebody.
Did they deserve it? No, sure, nobody deserves it, So
why did you almost do it? I couldn't control myself, couldn't control yourself.
That's why I'm here. It's like controlling your role. If you couldn't
control yourself, maybe whoever gave you all of that, and he points at
your muscles and the back half of you, maybe they made a mistake.
If you can't handle yourself, do you think they made a mistake. Do
you think it's a mistake you're here or do you think you're here for a
reason. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know why we're
here. I'm not even sure why I've even hired you. I don't know
what to say to that. You hear a voice in the back of your
head, says I think you know what to say to that, Miss Taylor
Jacobs without getting fired. Pudge pudge hip, he says. He says,
you hear the voice of the of the guy running the regiment. He says,
fuck getting fired. Sometimes you just gotta gotta let it all out.
I don't want to let it out on him, though. I don't feel
like it's productive to hurt people like I want to find a different way to
express me. I do, just want to find a different way to express
myself. Do you hear yourself, Taylor, do you hear yourself? Like,
my God, could you be any whinier? I'm not going to hurt
him. I don't think that it's accomplishing my goal of using my anger in
a productive way. Instead, did you teach me how to advocate for myself
in a way that keeps the peace as you came to the rage room to
let out whatever it is that's inside of you. That's what this is about,
mister Richardson. I get that you've had a life that's different from mine,
and that you feel like it's okay to talk to people this way for
whatever reason. I can't judge you on based on your life experiences. But
you can't talk to me like that. What did you just say to me?
You can't talk to me like that. I just serve better. Do
you know whose name is on the door? Not for long. I'm coming
for your job. I'm gonna do it better than you. You see,
is mister Richardson's persona slowly gets smaller and smaller. He says, the hell
you are? How do you know I'm not going to fire you right now?
How could you I do all of my work and your work too.
That's not true. It is true. You're the reason I have to work
so much. Well, maybe you should work harder. I work so hard.
That is not the issue here. The issue is that you're a poor
manager and you're incompetent. You see, is the boomer in him slow No,
I'm just kidding, he sees. He slowly shrinks back and it turns
into an almost black form of nothingness, and it's about that time he reforms
again. A 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 Caps
is our DM Analyn Hardy is Taylor Jacobs, Katie is Crystal two point zero,
Marjorie is Amy Ann, Marcel Hardy is Richard Cox, and Tyler as
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