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Excuse me, Agent Purple. Ma'am, your sister's here for you. Oh
hi, oh let her in. Yeah, that sounds amazing right this way,
ma'am. Thank you. Bean's Svetch. How are you? I'm Goldie,
what are you doing here? I like had to tell you. I
ran into you know who outside Thorn iron Quill's office and then I like introduced
myself and Snee gave all of them and it was like very exciting. You
you don't work for us, Goldie, that's so dangerous. Why would you
do that? Because it was like so fun. I felt like I was,
you know, Agent Goldie out there and it was just really exciting.
Like they went to this bandoned warehouse and like that professor had us head down
in the red ink and they thought he was dead and I was like,
oh, honeys and it was really intense. And also they learned like about
something called the Seekers. And also Crystal thinks that they're like time looping.
And I just had to come back and tell you because I felt like a
real sleuth. Just because our parents named you Goldie does not mean that you
work for the agency. You don't work here. You're right, thank you
for bringing me down to earth. I'll I'll not do that in the future.
I'll just reserve that for Coult activities. Okay, I'm glad we had
this talk. Yeah, you're right, thanksus. Greetings listeners, and welcome
to Overworked and Underplayed, a D and D podcast for Young professionals, By
young professionals. I'm your DM or District Manager Alex Capps and today's icebreaker,
what is your favorite quote or inspirational motto? What up? It's your boy?
Marsa hardy playing Richard Cox the Human Consultants turned Halfling Bard who holy believes
it's better to be lucky than good, but it's best to be both.
And Richard's favorite quote is with great power comes a heavy crown. Wait a
second, you had me in the first half. Why why did you do
that? Is it? Man? No, that's like a combination of two
different quotes. It is heavy is the head that wears the crown? Right
right? My brain's mad? Why did you do that? Hello? My
name is Anelain Hardy and I play Taylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a
heart of gold, and her favorite quote and words that she lives by is
rising tide lifts all boats because she believes that her success is her families and
her friends and that we're all in this together and the client comes first obviously,
right. Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy and Amanda, a
basic b ref and herible human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree. Favorite
quote is whether you think you can or you think you cannot? You're right?
Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. Hi everyone, I'm Katie and
I play Crystal the Dradru with her very own MLM Crystal Clarity, and her
favorite motivational quote is if I would be given a chance to start all over
again, I would choose Network Marketing by Bill Gates. I don't know if
he did. I don't know if he said it or not, but Pincher
says he did. Am Tyler. I played the icy Paladin known as Bentley
and I couldn't choose. I'm gonna do too, and I want to see
if y'all can guess who they are. First one is if you don't take
risks, you can't create a future. That's from an anime. It is
for anime Monkey d Loofy. The second one. The second one is a
little bit did you just say I was gonna guess Eldor Roosevelt. The second
one is, uh, my failures have been errors of judgment, not of
intent. Ulysses S. Grant, All right, and once again I am
Alex Capps, your DM or district manager. And my favorite quote. All
y'all did these inspirational ones, But my favorite one that really sums up the
DM's experience comes from one of my cult classic favorite movies, which is the
quote is some motherfucker's always trying to ice skate uphill. That's from the movie
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com slash own up Pod. All right, so when we last left off,
you guys met up with Fizzle Bang. You discussed some potential good information
and you even we're able to decipher some of his notes and come to some
revelations. So when we pick up, you guys are still like in his
office. Well, Crystal, even if we are like Loopers or something that
was a pretty pretty scary movie. When I watched I could I had to
close my eyes for most of it. But if it is like that,
then wouldn't we know about it? Or is this like the first loop that
we're on I have, I don't know how it works. I'm just saying
that I feel like we're just stuck and we're not going forward, We're not
going backwards. We just keep repeating the same mistakes PBS. I mean,
like, I don't know, we could be different versions of us, Like
I don't know the specific you know. That's something we haven't really considered before,
is whether or not we can see into the future magically. Oh oh,
like like a tarot card reader. There's got to be some kind of
magical loophole where the answer is just right there. I can't immediately think,
so when did you think that automatically? No? Okay, so well maybe
we you know, I think Richard was right and saying that we just need
to kind of push on and keep going and try to make progress. But
what you're saying, Taylor, I think makes sense. Maybe there's a way.
I mean a few a few days ago, I think I mentioned we
should find a witch that is like what we really need is like a fortune
teller type person. I thought you a bit. Well we have you,
Bentley. I was going to say, we have Crystal. But thanks for
turning that around on no reverse card. No, no, no, Amy,
I would never do that. Marjorie's the actual bitch. I'm just tired.
Yeah, I think so too. I think so too. Yeah,
Bentley, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I took that joke out on you.
I'm pretty sure he was making a joke about me. So it's fine if
you turn you around. Well, what do you guys think? I would
like to explore this, like why my family's like crest effectively? Is here
have you guys seen anything else like relating your yourselves or your families to this
world, or I mean there's someone that's pretending to be me so with my
whole history, Well she could be me at this point, she could be
me. Apparently we're looping, so she might as well be we are the
same person. And I haven't been lying this entire time, of course,
of course. And she just like she's like sitting down in a chair,
like she's like loop, like she's spirally really hard. Crystal is micro looping.
Yeah, pretty much heard someone request the DM. Yeah, did we
go over what Richard found in his an investigation with a twenty three? So
yours was that you found mentions of the other items, but a lot of
it wasn't hasn't been translated by physicle thing yet, gotcha? Okay? Yeah,
Amy, And that's a good question. Like, so maybe we don't
know which of your family members it is, but like, is there ever
like some weird secret ceremony or something that your family's part of that like you
haven't quite gotten to partake in yet since you're new to this whole thing.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I would call it like weird
at secret or anything. It's more just like you know, a coming of
age once, once you get through with your schooling, you go through a
little little party and it's like by invite only. But that's really the closest
thing I can think of that, you know, would even be close to
what you're describing. And surely that can't be. What's that? Bently?
That sounds pretty culty. I'm not gonna lie, is there a portal at
it? I don't know. I've never been to one. You've never been
to one? No? No, Because I just graduated with my I've just
finished my schooling. So my party, the I guess the initiation or whatever
you want to call it is. You know, I guess we would be
scheduling it for oh, I don't know, the next month or two.
I haven't been to one yet. I've heard that they're really fun, though.
Taylor's gonna like lean over to Richard and be like, do you think
we're going to be invited? I mean, we've spent a lot of time
together. It'd be pretty like shitty for not to at least like fake invite
us. I was on the prize. Okay, yeah, so maybe we
can walk and talk on the way back to the Crow's nest. Yeah,
after, we should probably actually check Fizzle Bank's vitals real quick before make sure
he's okay. I'm gonna take out one of the I think I have these,
and DM DM and Crystal correct me if I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure
Amy and has several of those vials free sample from the bookstore because she got
like a plus five to any after. You know, So, I think
I have a few of them, and I'm gonna leave one with Fizzle Bang.
Okay, so I put into sleep so you wn't do drugs, So
you're gonna leave more drugs for him to do. Wait a minute, Pally,
do you count coffee as drugs? It's not coffee? Are you mormony?
I didn't know that. What I mean that that would be kind of
funny. You're not, are you sure? Yeah? I'm pretty sure.
I mean I've done alcohol, You've done al alcohol. That's what someone who
drake alcohol would say. That's the most Mormon thing. He's like the kid
in middle school who's talking about how many girls he's made out with the Canada.
You wouldn't know them. I think Billy's Mormon. He just said,
I wasn't a cult. Oh you might be tracked honestly. Yeah. Yeah,
And there goes all of our listeners in Utah. Have you had any
left after the soaking joke? I think that they're gonna that is a good
point. I forgot about that. Be careful, Marjorie, you'll be wife
number one. Amen. Amen. So you leave some drugs for a fizzle
bang, and you guys had y'all heading back to the crow's nest. Maybe
not actually like, maybe we should find somewhere else to stay. Oh yeah,
yeah, well we were staying at that fancy place. I thought were
just going to go back there, right. Oh yeah, forgot the billing,
the entire bill for this again? All right? Did Bluegill front it?
I forget? Do we crash with fizzle Bang? That would be free
and terrifying. Are there cots here for us to sleep on? No?
Just pages of pages and pages of books. Like you see when he like
at some point when during y'all's conversation he got up and actually went to what
you thought was a bed. But it's just like a stack of books that
he's made into like the shape of a bed, and he he just curls
up with a newspaper on top of him. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah,
there's probably enough red string. We could probably crochet a blanket for him.
Will take down all his wreaths. Oh god, he wakes up and
it's like all of it's gone, like every bit. We put everything in
piles for you. Yeah, we organized. Aren't you grateful? Didn't we
do such a good job. I'm sure you'd appreciate it, I'm sure.
Yeah. No, we're leaving Fizzleman here. Yeah. Well, I think
that there was so much food left over crystal from that that spread. I'm
hoping that I can just, you know, we can go back and nibble
on the leftovers of that at the hotel. You think they would have cleaned
it up per probably. It's definitely not breakfast anymore. Did we put the
sock all the day? You're definitely at dinner time at this point. I
think we put a sock on the door. I bet you. What does
that mean? A sock on the door. Shortly, it means not disturb
I didn't know that I have to do that. Yeah. Yeah, it's
just like how the upside down pineapple means you like to uh share with others?
Oh I didn't know that. I don't know who was talking. I
think that was Alan spoke to you. WHOA, I think I might be
a paladin. All right, so you guys are heading back to the fancy
hotel. Yeah, I guess all right? Is there anything you're going to
try to do between now and there? Hey, guys, you mind if
I stop by a bluegl terminal? I want to type I want to look
at the champion that uh, the god that fizzle Ban was bringing up that
Crystal old bad Crystal might be a champion of is Yeah? English? Can
I stop my Google Google terminal? Please? Yeah, of course? Okay,
all right guy, he said she was the bad version. So I'm
down for whatever you want to do. Yeah. So you go, you
go up to that and you uh, you do some searching and basically what
you find out is that Sunam used to be known as Somnous uh and she
was known as the dream Weaver, but there was a schism between the gods
and she was corrupted by an evil spirit and became known as the Lady of
Lost Dreams. Sounds like an MLM promoter to me. Oh hey, guys,
remember we had a bad dream before we came here. Oh that's right,
we did. Wait, you guys have bad dreams. What if we
didn't have a bad dream. What if we're still in that bad dream?
If we if we're just in this hall like we're time looping thing like,
maybe this is still the bad dream. That's such a good point, Richard,
that makes sense. Yeah, are there any Can I find out any
any other information that you have, like a temple some type of so there
there used to be a pretty well known temple of somness, but after the
schism the temple was destroyed. Okay, so it's not like a common thing
that you could find in town. No, let's see and trying to think
if you would see make me a history checked. Okay, there's one more
piece of information here that I don't want to just give to you. You
got to earn it. Okay. How many good omens do we have?
You have two remaining? Can I use one? Please? You may,
yes, you're it's your prerogative whether you use it. Holy crap, it's
so bad because I rolled an eight and then a six and then minus one.
So oh yeah, that's that's all you find out. Okay. I
wish there was there's something more here. I can feel it, I just
can't quite get my hands on on it. Maybe good to night rests.
What I've learned anything from college is if I just sleep on it, my
brain just does, it's easier to figure out the problem the next day.
That's good. He sees the bluegal terminal, looks at both of you,
and he looks at at Amyen says, please don't sleep on me. Don't
worry. Don't worry. Why would I do that? Don't please, that's
kind of weird. Goodbye, thank you, bye hot All right, So
you guys make it to the fancy hotel and you see a familiar face in
the lobby as you as you see Captain Montyat stand up and say, there
you are. There you are. And he runs up to you guys and
runs right past all of you and goes right to Crystal and he says,
there's been some developments, and I need you to make some more of those
things, the things, the things you gave me when I had the headache.
Oh. And he hands you a bag of a thousand gold and he
says, he says, I did like you said, uh huh. And
now everyone's wanting product and I haven't seen you in a while, and I
need product because I have people giving me money every week because I told them
that's how the system works, and then they would receive and I'm really behind.
Oh okay, first, yes I can. I will totally help you
out there, my guy. But I mean, I need you to sign
this non disclosure agreement. It's it's just basically that you're not gonna, you
know, talk to anybody about our proprietary information because there's another girl out there
that isn't very happy with our success and it seems like they've been using you
and your essentially success against me, and so we'll just you know, I'm
asking is that you don't snitch. Sound good? All right, sounds like
a plan. And so she like pulls out of her bag, but she
keeps on hand closure. She have some sign because of course Bristol would carry
this around. Okay, and then she goes and she makes more of the
I guess, so the are they the pepper up potions? Is that what
they're yeh is basically the uh, the the magical ibuprofen, the good berries.
Yeah yeah, yeah, So she's going to make more of this,
Okay, he says, Oh, thank god, he says, I got
to get these people off my back. They're already starting to recruit others.
They told your magical success. Awesome, that's exactly see you look and look
you're you're doing so well and you're you're being an entrepreneur. You're making money
for yourself. So that's amazing. He says, Now, no question how
much of this is mine? Oh days works? Huh, Richard chimes,
and he said all of it, like having just yeah, having just listened
in on Crystal, and the lawyers argue, whatever, there's no connection right
now between Crystal and this random person. Oh so she like turns to like
the side and she's like, hey, Richard, would it be chill if
we like had him like put it in a savings account. That's like,
yes, his savings account, his name, I think would be good.
Like I think, includiarly, he's got some skills, right Crystal, So
like I think this is his free one, right, so he can keep
this money and then after this Wholer deals over, then you guys can talk
about how the structure works. Yeah. I like that idea. Yeah.
H So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to have maniac just like
set up his own savings account and be like, you know, I really
respect your hard work, and as a reward for all of the networking that
you've been doing and the hustle you've been putting in, I'm not going to
take my cut this time. You get to have it all. Oh well,
that's very generous of you. Yeah. Well, we'll hammer out the
specifics of it all in the future. And when you're ready to come pick
up your next delivery, just let me know. When is this delivery going
to be ready? I need seven hundred and fifty units. Oh, all
hands on deck, folks. Yeah, I guess we're making I guess we're
staying up all night. Is not even around anymore? Went to the bar.
I will have nothing to do with this, Alex. How long would
it take Crystal, who is good at this thing, to do make essentially?
I mean like she's just gonna make a bulk batch of it. So
I'm gonna say you probably were going to spend the next day doing this.
Yeah, okay, well we'll say you guys took a rest day and uh
while Crystal was was busy working and I just hung out at the at the
fancy hotel she will say that as thank you that Captain Montiac buys you guys
a few nights here, and yeah, I just need to be able to
pick up my product. They are hounding me day and night about this stuff.
Yeah, I'm not surprised, Taylor. It's like to be successful,
right to help too, like make it faster, okay, and like Crystal
like basically just pushes up for sleeves and gets to work. Okay, make
me a nature check, Crystal. Okay. When they're talking, Taylor is
going to be like, what do you think of Amien's pickle juice suggestion?
I was thinking we could call it a pickle tickle that's right. Oh no,
the Essential Orals Pickle Tickle Edition. Swear to god, Oh my gosh,
I love that idea, Taylor. Yes, Crystal, what do you
say? No, need to take this offline. Overworked and underplayed, will
circle back after these messages. How about we make the same thing we're making
and one of them is pickle flavored and one of them is not pickle flavored,
and do some like a b testing kind of thing, see what youah?
Yeah, like the Pepsi challenge. Yeah, basically, well it's a
new flavor like it's a new an improved version, which it is improved according
to Yeah, it's well, I mean like it's got a new flavor that
was a seventeen by the way. Okay, that's good enough. Yeah.
A day you two working together, everyone else kind of hanging out, chilling,
y'all are y'all are good to go? You fill your order. You
passed that challenge. Good job, and you didn't give the other side more
ammunition to come after lawsuit. Richard while they were talking about the pickle stuff
and Bentley went to the bar, Richard wants to go over there and like,
hey, Bentley, did you go do something this morning before we went
to the lawyer's office. How did that work out for you? Oh?
Yeah, I got these swords? Are these weapons? And to pull out
my cool new magical weapons the axe and the scimitar. Oh snap, that's
it. Can I see it? Yeah? Sure, there you go,
buddy. It was like, oh shit, that's a heavy How do you
carry this thing around? Push up? Set up some plenty of juice.
Interesting, that's what that's a secret for steroids? Yeah, dragon ball z
a bridge reference. What are you talking about? No? Yeah, because
the Scimitar glows. It's the moon glows Cemitar. And then I had the
oh yeah, the heavy Ass Acts. Yeah, I forgot that. That's
literally what it was named. Tyler. I think you also did something.
You got something printed, did I? Yeah? I forgot to type those
up. Yeah, don't worry about that or about that other thing. Is
that like your backstory that you shared with Amyen? Yeah, yeah, that's
exactly what that's like, and I'll never get it. So during the day,
while Crystal and Taylor are making the product, Richard, you are down
by the pool and you see some guards. You see some guards from the
city come in and ask the front desk and he holds up a artist's rendering
of the five of you. Oh no, what can you do? What
do you do? Do I see that or do I hear anything? So
the first thing you hear is we're looking for some people and you. They
hold up the picture and you see what appears to be an artist sketch of
you guys. Okay, does it look like a wanted kind of artist sketch
or does it just look like a they don't have pictures, Yeah, like
a sketch, like the equivalent of a picture. Yeah, okay, I'm
at the pool. Richard is going to get out of their eyesight. Okay,
make me a stealth check. Okay, fourteen. Okay, So you
duck behind like a potted plant, and you see as they're they're like glancing
around, and it looks like one looks right at where you were, and
he looks around. It was pretty obvious that he's He just kind of shrugged
it off, like I don't know what that was. So what's your what's
your move? So I'm in my swimmys, so I got to change into
regular clothes, so I got to head back up to the group. I
guess back to our room. So I think we have a piece of jewelry.
That's That would make sense if Rigid wasn't freaking out. His head's not
on straight quiet yet. Maybe once he gets to the staircase breath. Make
me a wisdom save with disadvantage. That's a five. Okay, Yeah,
you definitely don't remember that you have a magic walkie talkie on, all right.
So you're ducked behind the potted plant. So you see they're kind of
scanning the lobby and the front desk is giving them like a they're kind of
stone walling, like, oh, we can't really disclose about our guests without
a cord order, and you know, come back with a warrant, pig
and uh. And so you're gonna try to slip to the stairs and like
not be seen. So make another stealth check and I'm gonna use one of
the bad omens. Okay stealth, Yes, that's a ten. Okay with
a ten. You get to the stairs and you're like, like, you're
pretty sneaky. You get you get to the stairs, you're like home free,
and you run into somebody carrying a tray of drinks. You make a
huge amount of noise and you see as both the guards turn and look,
go, hey you there, stop. What do you do? Richard calmly
apologizes to the person here ran into and then at a not like I'm running
away pace, but like pretending like hey you stop, isn't about him,
and like walks away. Okay, all right, So we'll come back to
that. So Bentley and Amyen, what are you guys doing with your day
of leisure? Well, I've tried to talk Bentley into going to the hotel
gym with me. So Bentley, did you agree to that are we at
the gym? I don't know when did you ask approximately? What time?
Uh? It's like while they were working on their supplies. I don't know.
That would have been first thing in the morning, in the morning,
yeah, like during the day, like what time in the morning though,
that's important? Yeah, I know I'm awakened. Yeah. All right,
let's see how much you can really binge Bentley. Oh god, oh oh,
here we go here, I have to split my stats. All right,
So you guys get down to the the thing. Are you Bentley important?
Are you still wearing your armor or not? H good question. Bentley
does always tend to wear his armor. But are you going to wear it
to the gym? No? Probably not? Okay, So Bentley's out of
his armor. And one thing you notice, Amyen, is he's he's he
looks a little bit smaller than you thought he would out of his armor.
No, I'm saying he's still pretty big, but you're so used to seeing
him in his armor all the time. Trust me, no jugment, no
judgment. Man. Anyways, you guys make it down to the gym,
and you see a bunch of stuff that looks like a medieval person saw like
a hotel gym and tried to recreate it without electricity. So you know,
there's free weights, and there's what looks kind of like a treadmill and a
thing that looks kind of like a bike. So what are you guys doing?
I mean, she said strength, So I assume, yeah, we're
we're lifting, we're listing. All right, you got to start lifting heavy?
Are you trying to have a lift off? Sure? I know for
a fact I'll lose, But I don't know. Man, We'll see how,
We'll see how how much my faith in the gods gives me. All
Right, all right, so you guys go up, you get your weights,
Go ahead and make me a head to head strength check or athletics check.
Let's see. Ooh, I'm so sorry, Bentley, I got a
NAT twenty plus seven. Jesus Christ. Okay, so you are really important?
Rolls? I can't really. Yeah. So so amy An approaches like
the Bentley Bentley? What did you get? Okay? So Bentley walks up
and he goes like like not the not the middle, but towards the upper
end of the weights, and he picks them up and he doesn't struggle with
him or anything, but he like brings him up. He's he's working those
arms well. He sets him down and then amy Ann comes up and she
just about chucks one through the roof. It's like, oh, these are
kind of light. Yeah, hey, Bailey, I think I can help
you maximize. Let me show you this form changer here, and I try
to help them with this form a little bit. Okay, let's see.
So what I want you to do is, Marjorie, you make a persuasion
check and Bentley, I want you to make another athletics check three. Okay,
so Bentley, So Marjorie already got this because she's working out the whole
time. Bentley got enough that he didn't need the he didn't need the bonus.
You both have the condition pumped. You both have a pump for the
next until you until you basically go to sleep again. You're gonna get a
plus one on all strength based checks. I love it because you're really in
the zone and you you look out the window of the of the hotel and
of the hotel, but of the gym, and you see Richard in what
appears to be swim trunks, like kind of briskly walking and like goes up
one flight of stairs and quickly turns and goes up another and then right after
you see two city guards running the same direction. Oh oh, do you
think heye, billy, you see that? Yeah, it looks like the
guards are coming after us forgetting for some reason? Are us, don't you
think? I mean, Richard's running away. Should we go like help them?
I mean I kind of assume it would be us. In general,
Richard was involved in the in the crime last time, he's kind of safe
to assume he went what heck crime are you talking about? At the beginning,
when wesk guy here, when they what was that little guy's name?
I forget it, my gosh. For years, work friends are different from
my real friends. Yeah, yeah, I got you. Okay, okay,
well, what do you think we should do? Was there is there
another way up other than the stairs? No, that's the stairs is the
only way. There's no elevator. No, no, well you know what,
yeah, sure, there's an elevator. All right, Yeah, let's
take the elevator and try and try and get up there. All right.
Sweet, So you guys make it up to the floor, and you basically
make it up to the room by the time you wait for the elevator and
everything. You make it up to y'all's floor about the time Richard, out
of breath like pops out at the top of the staircase and you hear more
steps behind him. Richard, what what's you're running from? Oh? Guys,
the city guard. They're looking for us. I don't know why have
but uh it's never good. So I came to warn you guys. Well,
okay, let's get in the room. How slap up. We can
get there faster, thank God, thinks. All right, So as you
guys make it to the room, I need one of you to make a
slide of hand check to see if you can get the key in the door
before the guards see you. Who else to do it? Richard can try
like from underneath Bentley's like arms. And so Richard's doing it, and I'm
going to use another one of the bad omens tragic slide of hand. That's
a ten. Okay, so with a ten, so let me click my
little digital roller here. So Richard, you pull the key out and you
go to put it in the lock, and you're kind of shaking a little
bit and you miss the lock and drop the key, and it's about that
time behind you. You hear the guards say, stop, stop, stop,
You're not in trouble. We just need to talk. Oh well then
if that's the key, hey, guys, it's like, oh, this
isn't our door. So the guard and he says that you see that.
They're all like catching their breath and they're like, they're like, the Lord
Protector of Levron is requesting your presence immediately for a grave concern to the city.
You don't you just know that he's you know that he is basically like
the administrator of the city. Yeah, other places, somebody like that might
be a king, all right, but actual power. Yes, he very
much has real power. Okay, he is the he is the authority.
He has the authority that the that the Empire allows him to have. We'll
put it that way, Richard, Are you sure us like where this guy
sounds pretty important? Like what could we do to help with something grave matter?
He said he wanted to speak to you about this in private at at
Adnes Hall where he resides. Okay, it sounds like something that I shouldn't
go to in swim trunks. You guys may mind waiting for his down on
the lobby. Oh yeah, I kind of want to shower to you.
I mean we can wait here. It's fine, yeah, okay, shower
and change back into his armor and weapons and stuff. After getting totally emasculated
by Amy. It's a very long shower. He's like, I'm not cryings.
So they're waiting outside. So you guys go in and uh, what
do you tell the others? You come in and it's like breaking bad.
Like they've got a math on making their their stuff. Another fun another fun
development. There's another high important person that wants to talk to us about something.
He's got city guards. I don't think we get to say no this
time. Why is he high? I'll have to ask, he said the
lord protector. I think that's what they said. Maybe he can send us
home, I hope so. Or we could just be like, hey man,
can you make that lawsuit go away? I feel like that's a fair
trade, just saying that sounds legal. Let's do that totally okay, cute.
What's the vibe. I think it's like meeting the mayor, so probably
like I'm changing out of my swim trunks at least. Okay, I guess
can we finish up ours? So what I'll say is this would be like
a break in y'all making the proportions, but you would have time afterwards to
come back and get back on it. Okay, all right, go team,
and I like try and high five Christ. So just just so I
understand how's everybody dressing for this occasion, We'll go start off with Amy and
Amanda. All Right, So Ann has the clothes that she wore to the
business meeting that started this whole thing, so they're nice and cleans, the
blazer very kind of formal, formal ish. She's also has the like a
nice brown cloak that she's got early on and she's going to put on makeup
today. Okay, all right, what about I mean, Bentley's just gonna
go with this normal normal armor that's pretty regal. I mean, you know
it's fancy wearing fancy armor weapons. You know, he's like, oh,
get to show off my magic swords today. All right, So Taylor Jacobs,
how are you going? She's wearing her older sister's blazer. Still,
she'll probably be in person form, so where her like pants and the outfit
that she woreks at that meeting. And she will attempt to like style her
hair in long waves because I don't wuld they have tools with heat, Alex.
So what I'm going to say then is give me a So so I
don't mean this in the tent sense that you're doing something wrong or you're trying
to steal something, but it is hand based dexterity. So I'm going to
say, make a sleight of hand check to see how good you do fixing
your hair. This is funny. That's a six, okay, all right,
So you come out and you're like, we can make this work,
we can work with this. That's when that every woman, every well not
even a woman, every person that styles their hair that rolls a six in
real life knows that that's at the point where you just put it up.
Yeah, so can Crystal. Crystal's going to just be like, oh oh,
let me do it. Yeah, I'll say the two of you working
together in tandem like that, you got it, okay. And also like,
like Taylor, you just Crystal just helped you fix your hair. That's
gotta be like, h that's got to be like on your bucket list.
She doesn't stop smiling for a full like twenty four hours, all right,
And how's Crystal going. She's going like she did to the deposition, So
like she bought a whole new suit, like boss babe outfit for it.
What about and what about Richard? So Richard's wearing his disguise that he got
before going to this rich part of town. You know, he's got his
top hat, he's got his new phoenix monocle, his cane. He's on
the fence about the bushy mustache. He's like, what do you guys think
mustache or no mustache? He puts it in his pocket. Dessert's the worst.
What can we ask the concier before we actually leave the place, like
have him come up and be like, hey, is this acceptable to like
meet the mayor. He looks like he goes, we wei, Yes,
yes, okay, okay, thanks. I don't know why I said we
wei, But all right, all the way home he the bathroom, so
for us to like lock up the yeah, oh no. The concierge assures
you that your room, that you will not have any concerns about anyone bothering
your room, and so the guards lead you to the a section of the
city. You've not spent a lot of time in the government sector. Took
a lot longer to get in than you thought it would. Once you got
to the gate, they had a lot of gatekeepers keeping people out of the
government sector. Shocking. And anyways, you get in there and it's super
clean. It's really nice. It almost has like the like compared to the
public sector. It almost feels like you're in a park. And you find
this very very finely built granite structure in the granite and marble structure in the
center of the city of the sector with the sign out in front says Adnes
Hall. It looks like almost like a Scottish castle. And they lead you
in and they take you to the central chamber and they open the door and
they say, Lord long Shaft will see you. Now that's right. I
was like, I know, we definitely have heard his name before, Richard
I remember. So they open up the doors and you see a man probably
about six foot tall, very very large, blonde beard, and he steps
forward and he says, so you are the ones who I have heard have
been causing quite a ruckus. Hello, sir, I'm not sure what rucas
you're referred to, but thank you for the infight or we're happy to meet
you. Yes, yes, no need to call me sir. You can
call me. My name is Harold Longshaft. You can call me Harry,
he says, and welcome to Adnes hall. I have a great matter to
discuss with you. Please please have a seat. Also allow me to introduce
my wife. I wanna do you need Oh man, I wish you guys
could see Marjorie's face right now, just the pure Just come on, please
please have a seat. We have much to discuss about the troubles of the
city and this rather nasty cult we're dealing with. Well, certainly happy to
help however we can. Yes, yes, he steps up and he says,
where are my manners? And he begins, you know, he has
servants pull out some of the chairs and everything and seated at the table,
and he says, I hear you have had some run ins with this Church
of Clarity. We sure have. Crystal's in a lawsuit with him right now.
That can be troublesome. Yeah, just a little bit. They are
causing a real problem for this region. We've had people in droves quitting their
jobs, important jobs in the city like candle makers and things, trying to
become something some kind of as they referred to it. Boss babe, are
you familiar with this terminology. You know, I am, in fact,
I would be something of a subject matter expert on their recruiting tactics. Excellent,
and I was right to seek you out. You see, I have
concerns that if too many people in the city quit their jobs, then the
businesses here are going to have to start paying their people more money. Do
you see where this becomes an issue? I do. Yes, It's very
bad, very very bad. Why don't they just pay them enough in the
first place? Nope, Nope, nope, nope, nope. Amen,
I think that I think he's right, and I think that you should be
concerned. It's very concerning. And she's like elbowing Amy and probably hitting her
elbow. Well, we have much to discuss, but first we dine.
The gratitude today keeps the haters away, and that's why we want to thank
you for listening to Overworked and Underplayed. You just heard Alex Capps as our
DM. Anneline Hardy is Taylor Jacobs, Katie is Crystal two point zero,
Marjorie is Amy Anne, Marcel Hardy is Richard Cox, and Tyler is Bentman.
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like all of long Shaft's little Petsy. He's like the Queen of England.
Yeah, he has a lot of he has a lot of wiener dogs.
Oh, perfect, perfect, and they're really long.