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welcome to Mama Tilde's. How can I help you, Sonny? Yes,
I am looking for someone that I believe may have come through this area
recently. Okay, who you looking for? Lots of people come through.
I'm looking for this woman. Hmmm, red hair traveling with a centaur,
halfling, a drow perhaps a human of some kind, and some fancy armor.
Seeing anyone like that through these parts? Really? Why? Yes?
I sure? Have they just left? You know? They stayed here.
They're a fun little bunch they. I think they were going to meet the
orchard. Some of those young hippie folks came out and met them. I
believe they left with them. I know that there was a big hullabaloo last
night when they were drinking a bit and decided not to prank their friend.
Thank goodness. Interesting, so you're saying that they left with members of the
orchard in their direction. I appreciate your honesty and your help. Sure think
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Today's icebreaker, what is your character's stupidest purchase? What up? It's
you boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox, 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 stupidest purchase was right after graduating from college, he got
roped into a time share at this quaint little town you may have heard of
called Rome, but it's not the one you're thinking of, Rome, Georgia.
I knew there. It is. Hi. My name is Anelin Hardy,
and I played Taylor Jacobs, a cent our barbarian with a heart of
gold and her dumbest purchase was trying to find discontinued like nose candy, the
essential oil, like from the first line of Crystal Clarity. So she's been
on some shady websites trying to find some. So one time she was at
work and she wasn't paying attention and Richard looked over on her phone and saw
that she accidentally purchased cocaine. Didn't say a word thanks Richard was doing so
when white powder showed up at her door, should just throw it away?
She did it come in the may. It made it. Hi everyone,
I'm Katie, and I play Crystal the Drowdruid with her very own MLM Crystal
Clarity. And her stupidest purchase is trying to buy a personal chef. You
don't. You don't. Turns out you don't buy people. So that was
a rather awkward conversation. You think the riches. I think she thought it
was like a contract purchase, but still no, her approach was all wrong.
So hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy and Amanda, a basic,
b ref and tumble human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree. So
she is grown up being pretty careful with money, but the thing she spent
the most money on unreasonably so. But she has like an old like RAB
four that's like really really old, And when she had to go get her
tires replaced, she got like tires that were like a thousand dollars a piece
because they told them like, oh, it's really great for safety and you
know, for different kinds of blah blah blah blah, and so she thought
that was a great idea and bought them. Yeah, I am Tyler.
I play Bentley the it Peladin and Bentley's dumbest purchase. It's awesome, my
dumbest purchase. So in Warhammer forty of course we lost. The faction I
play is this robot faction called Necrons. But there's a specific unit that they
sell for fifty dollars or a pack of five models, and to have a
full unit of the you need ten hundred dollars for ten small plastic models.
Good god, Tyler. Tell the audience, how many games of Warhammer forty
K have you played? Zero? Well, like most Warhammer forty K players,
it's more about sitting around talking about playing than it is about actually playing.
I mean, basically, hi, I'm Alex capps your DM or district
manager. Like most dms, The stupidest purchase I've ever made was a web
hosting for an online repository where my players could find information for the campaign.
Because no one cares and no one's going to look at it, so anyways,
that's it's for us? Yeah, is there one for us? There
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at patreon dot com slash own up pod. All right, so when we
last left off, you guys, were I believe you were in your courts
and you were headed on to the orchard. Were you guys in the same
court or we all riding next to each other. We're riding next to each
other separate carts. Okay, you think we would rely on them? You
never get in the car with so, uh yeah, never go to the
second location. Yeah, I've learned that from true crime podcasts. So Indie
turns and he says, uh so, like, uh, where are you
guys from? Are you all from like around here or anything? We're from
from everywhere. Honestly, we're you know, we're transient souls. Digital nomads
is digital nomad from Atlanta? You guys? Atlanta? Yeah? What is
this Atlanta? It's from far away. I don't know. Everybody we've talked
to you about it says they've never heard of it. Far out? Yeah,
I guess it. It's literally far so wait wait, you said digital
nomad, Like I know what a nomad is, but what is What is
like? Digital? Is that like has fingers, like digits. It's like
being on the web, being on the web, oh, like the world
wide Were you guys? Are you guys are webs web surfers? Yeah?
You guys, you just you think the web's great? Just wait until you
get to the orchard and we can show you aspinet. Oh that sounds really
bougie. It is, and it's one organic. Where have you been this
entire time? Right here? This this whole journey has been so bad for
all of us, and I just needed to see my people, and you
guys seem to be my people. Every time Crystal tries to get something organic,
they're like, you want organs with hell? Yeah, no, here
here at the orchard. We believe in connecting with nature on a deep level,
if you know what I mean. No, can you explain that,
like we live with nature, in nature and around nature? Yeah? Don't
you guys get that? I can. I try to recall where exactly they
live to get an idea where we're going. Since I have a plus two
orchard checks, go ahead and roll make a history. History's fine because you've
read it in the book and you've slept since then. So that is a
eleven plus two is the thirteen. Okay, that's good enough. You know,
they have like some people live in like little cabins. Some people live
just in hammocks strung between trees. Some people live in treehouses. It's kind
of like being in like Washington or Oregon. You know, yeah, yea,
yeah, there are people that live in treehouses in Oregon. To the
look, I'm just imagining for us now, I'm just imagining. It's like,
what was it that old book? My side of the mountain where the
kid hauled out a tree. That's what they just live a giant trees that
they've haulowed out. So he's like, so, uh yeah, you know
we're we're just really really in key with like the world around us, you
know what I mean? Okay, Like so like we we can communicate with
the forest and wow, do you just like talk to them or how do
you do that? You gotta you gotta approach it the right way, and
you gotta, like, you know, you got to get to know each
other first. But with the tree or whatever it is you're trying to talk
to you, okay, And the trees they connect together in this vast network
roots and branches and we just I don't know, we just talk to each
other and we pass information. It's so groovy. The wood wide web.
That is such a good name. Oh, Mike is gonna love you guys.
If there are royalties to be Amian deserts, how does trademark that?
That's amazing. It's from a book. I didn't make it up. You
didn't have to say that. Okay, now we're going, Yeah, so
where do you guys live? Where you're from? Oh? Wait, who's
Mike Mike. Yeah, Mike Chef, our glorious leader, Mike Chef.
Yeah, I'm trying to make that makes sense. Does he cook up like
bright ideas? Oh man, he's gonna love you guys. You guys are
on it. Yeah. No, he's like our Sinsey or however you say
it, like our our guru. Like he's the one who leads us all
in this great, glorious path of enlightenment, you know, and like he's
the one who discovered that the trees could be used to transmit information and that
we could free the world from the greedy clutches of the corporate entities like bluegle
Do you uh? Do you pay Mike by chance? And maybe live on
a farm where you do a lot of labor? Uh? I mean,
like we all contribute in our own way, he didn't. He Hey,
guys, you want to do a real quick we have our bracelet. Yeah.
Yeah. Do you guys think that this is maybe a cult? I
do you think we're walking? Probably? It seems like they have lots of
cults around here. You know, I wouldn't classify this. Crystal Crystal wants
a business, sure, No, no, no, no, that's actually
how the crystal clarity products get made, she has different camps. Go ahead,
live and do labor. I'm just saying it sounds legit to me,
guys. So via the bracelest Yeah, via guys, So what are we
trying to remind me? What are we trying to do once we go over
to blue to the orchard. We're just trying to find the lux meaning sole
or something. The light bulb. I think they said Mike Chef might even
have it. Okay, okay, a thousand miles away. When you say
light bulb, you just hear fizzle, oh my brain. Okay, thanks
guys. All right, hey Crystal, Yeah, I know, like you
said, you were like all in on this whole thing, right totally.
I get some like positive energy from you that you might be into this new
thing that we just started working on called yoga. We got this studio where
we go and we do this thing called yoga. Actually I'm a certified yoga
instructor. Way yeah, yo, sure how horse yoga works, but I'll
work on it. Horse yoga downward facing dog. And she's just like she
leans her which limbs do I lean forward on my hands or she just does
a lot of looking at her body part. Figure out this doesn't I have
too too many? She just tucks the front horse legs up and it's like,
I'm just gonna use these four just falls on her face. He said,
how do you know what yoga is? We just like we just had
this guy come through, like just a couple of months ago, taught us
about it. Yeah. Well so it's pretty common where I'm from, and
I had a guru teach me. Oh, I don't know, I can't.
I'm trying to think of like a fun name, but I can't think
of one on the spot. So SCOOLO. I wanted to be like something
like super American though, like Todd, Yeah, Todd Baxter h great guru.
Interesting Yeah uh yeah, No, this guy came through. He's kind
of weird and like mysterious, but he taught us about yoga and stuff,
and he talked with Mike a lot. I don't know anyways, Yeah,
you should definitely stop by the studio. You definitely give me the vibes to
somebody who would be really good at yoga. Yeah, I am good at
you. I'm an instructor, I like really bendy. But yeah, if
you want me to teach a class, or run a class. I'm totally
totally down. Could you explain a little about what yoga is? Here?
Oh, massage thing? I should probably you go into this room. Yeah,
and uh, like we close the doors in the windows and they get
this like furnace thing running really really high, so hot yoga, and then
we start like bending our body into weird shapes. Okay, all right,
that's the same, same, same, and uh, it kind of hurts
it first, but then after a while you get to doing it. It
feels really good, but in like kind of still a painful way. It's
kind of weird, but like you feel really good about yourself afterwards. Yeah,
that's totally different. So at this time, Peace turns and she looks
at Richard and she's like, oh, hi, uh talked, She finally
talked family, don't be rude. So what's your deal, a little dude?
She's like, just what's your deal, little dude? Question? Are
they wearing broken stocks? Sure? Yes, No, they're wearing crocs.
They're wearing they're like but they're like wooden cross clock that makes way more sense.
Are they at least like water logged wood that way? They're like squishy?
I don't know. Don't know. There's cork. There's cork in them.
Okay, So like, what girls, what is your deal? A
little dude? You you haven't been halking very much like the rest of them.
Yeah, you know, I'm just absorbing information like a sponge. That's
what they call me, the sponge. The sponge you know, when we
when we join the orchard, we shed our like ocean names, and we
take on a new name that represents our like blossoming flower. And I feel
like secret garden. I'm gonna say, is that code for Yeah, I
feel like sponge. That's a good one. No one's got that name.
I'm like the fourth or fifth piece in the in the like organization. How
do you guys distinguish between you and peace? Like one and two? Oh
we use a number, uh huh? And so like I'm for piece,
Yes, I'm How did you know I was four piece as opposed to one
piece? Yeah, that one's kind of weird. She's been here a long
time. Ah, she's kind of old. She sounds awesome so many of
Yeah, she's been through a lot of character arts, you know what I
mean. Yeahs anyways, but for sure, you can just call me peace.
Let me call you for I mean, I guess technically I have no
authority to tell you what you can and can't call me, but I would
call you. I would prefer just peace because it's less pretentious, you know,
Like that's kind of my thing. Like I try not to be pretentious.
I just like things a certain way. M M. Crystal like turns
on her her little Bradson. She's like, yeah, totally. Taylor's like,
keep telling us you're not pretentious. If you say it more, it
means it's true, right, It's just like in your head. She's just
like, sure. So you haven't spuckn on a lot either in our time
together. What's going on with you? Oh? I just had a lot
going on in my head, you know, Like I I'm kind of new
here and so like you, like, I'm kind of just taking it all
in. But like Indie is really really good and it's taken me under his
wing and it's taught me so so much, and like I'm so grateful to
be part of such a big thing, you know what I mean, I
think I do what So you guys are just go out to the different villages
and bring fruits and vegetables back to the to the bigger, larger community.
Yeah. Yeah, so like we grow a lot of stuff there, but
we can't grow everything, you know what I mean, Like like we can
grow apples, but not pears. I don't know why we can't grow pears,
but this is something about like some people are just good at doing it
and we're not. Anyways, Yeah, there's things that we need that we
can't grow all of And also it gives us a chance to go out and
like meet new cool people like you guys, and like, like I was
traveling through when I met Phoenix and Sage and they were like, hey,
you should come hang out and I was like, okay, cool, I
could come chill, And then I did and now I'm here and it's wonderful.
Like I can't wait to bring you guys in. We're like one big,
happy family. Anddy, what did you used to do before this?
Oh? H yeah, I was a traveling salesman. Can you believe that?
Wow? What did you sell? Yeah? I used to sell like
axes and swords and stuff and like like I had to demonstrate them and stuff,
and you know, like we'd show their effectiveness and you know, we
go from town to town outfitting like different people. But then like Mike Chef
showed me the light. He showed me they didn't have to be violence and
ugliness in this world, that we could just all chill and be cool and
like eat avocados and do yoga. And I was like, soul, dude,
that's awesome, right, Yeah, do you all grow mushrooms? Yeah?
Two, we grow? Do we grow mushrooms? Just curious talking about
talking about nature's candy over there? You know what I mean? Oh,
dear, would you like to try one of my all natural essential oils?
Are they organic and gmo free? What else would they be? Yeah?
What do you got? So she hands over the Mental Clarity. He like
takes a sip and he goes, oh, oh he was supposed to smell
it. Oh, you need to tell people before you what to do with
them. But you could also drink deals Like I feel like I just duck
my brain into like a tundra and I'm frostbitten from the inside out. But
I like it. That must be the men though, Yeah, yeah,
I mean you could. And she like watches him drink it and she's like,
yeah, you could drink it. I mean the the point is for
aroma therapy. But totally fine that you drink it. I'm sure nothing bad
will happen to you. But why does everything suddenly taste like onions? I
don't know, man, is that supposed to happen? I mean, I
like onions. Yeah, it's supposed to happen. Okay, cool, So
this is like onion juice. Oh it's kind of groovy. I feel like
I can do math again again. Well, you know, you don't do
something for a while, you kind of forget some of the rules, Like,
come on, you've been there. Yeah, yeah, I have totally,
totally, totally totally I get it, I get it. But I'm
going to give you a and if you like it and you want your friends
to try it to, if you give them a file, if you bring
me two of your friends, you'll get another vial for completely free. Okay,
yeah, I mean I'll I'll talk with the guys like, yeah,
we we like free. Yeah. So then peace turns back and it's like,
you guys are really interesting, Like I can't wait, We're we're gonna,
We're gonna Mike is gonna be so happy with us, Indie, Like,
we found some really cool people this time. Plus check this girl out.
She's like a horse person. We've never had horse people before. This
is great. I'm sorry, Is that the wrong word to use? Likes
just where in this world? Yeah, they're pretty rare. I don't know.
Actually, I feel like you should use person first language, so she
would be a person horse person horse. She is a person, horse a
person, are a person tar a person talking about that, Yeah, she's
about fifty percent, but you are now okay, Yeah, no, we're
just like I don't know. I just feel like you bring so much to
the table, Like you're so pretty and you're like coat is so nice.
This is my sister's blazer that I borrowed. She goes, and that's nice
too, Like she said, what did you mean my horse? Yeah,
you're so pretty. You got you like little spots and stuff like it's it's
so adorable. Oh, thank you, that's so nice. You're also pretty.
It's the weirdest like social Oh it's okay, I know, but that's
that's thank you. When we meet Mike Chef, is there any topic that
we should avoid, like a hot button issue or anything like that? In
addition to that, should we bring a gift? I feel like every time
you meet a new person. No, so I'm gonna let Indy handle this
one. And Indie turns he goes, okay, look all right, man,
gifts like they're cool and all. But like, use people is gift
enough. Use use as people is gift enough. Like you know what I
mean, Oh God, using people is the best gift you can give.
That is exactly what's about to happen. As far as like things not to
talk to Mike about, like I mean, as long as you're abiding by
the community guidelines of the Orchard, like, everything's good, you know what
I mean? What are those? Can you in any guidelines? Of course,
every member of the Orchard has to abide by the guidelines, and they
are authenticity. The Orchard encourages all beings to be their authentic self, no
matter what. Security. To keep the community safe, we strive to remove
content or persons that could suggest or lead to physical harms of other members.
I really hope you're not reading directly from the Facebook. We believe in privacy.
You can share with whoever you want, whatever you want, as long
as you're okay with sharing it, and as long as it's okay for us
to share it as well. Dignity everyone deserves to be respected and should be
respectful of others. Duh, let's see here, and then intellectual property stealing
is the greatest crime one could commit, and the worst thing of all is
stealing from your community. So like, don't do that. It's not cool.
As long as you I mean, as long as you're like that,
that it's all good, you know what I mean? Like yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, that's perfect. That aligns with
art values as well. Ah. Perfect. I knew you guys were gonna
be great something. I wanted to make a check on it and think of
it till now. He was talking about he used to be a weapon salesman.
I know, does the Orchard sell weapons at all? Make a history
check? Does he look buff? That is a fourteen? He's like,
at the best way I can describe it, he's like surfer buff. Okay,
he's like a California, the southern So Cal surfer cardio. Yeah.
Yeah, would you get fourteen? They definitely sell weapons? Okay? Oh
dear. So now Bentley is thinking kind of he's he's gonna come onto the
our bracelets. He'd be like, ah, I just realized something. What's
that? So this dude, you to sell weapons. Yeah, Orchard definitely
sells weapons. I'm thinking they try and bring people in that are competition and
bring them under their umbrella. That might be what's going on here. So
is there anything else you guys want to learn from them? I'd like to
ask what peace? What did you do before you joined? I was kind
of like in between jobs, you know, Like I had been doing farming
for a little bit and I wasn't too good at it. And I learned
later from Mike just because I just didn't care enough and like I just needed
to care more, Okay, but when it's your fault, but when like
I was, I'd stopped doing that for a while. And then I started
working at this like this bead and thread shop and the guy was kind of
weird and like talked with his hands a lot, and it just was not
fun. So I quit that and I was just went on the road.
I was gonna go and see like I was gonna go backpacking and go and
see like the top of this mountain because I heard it would change my life.
And on the way there, I hitched a ride from Phoenix and Sage
and next thing I know, I'm part of this big, happy family.
Hey, can you tell me about it? Does anybody ever leave the orchard,
like if they decide they want to go back into like if you wanted
to go be a farmer again? I mean everyone, Yeah, everybody can
leave whenever they want personal he does. I don't know that anybody's ever left,
Okay, Yeah. What do they do to people that violate the community
guidelines? Well, it depends on what you did. But I mean,
we did have one guy who was trying to steal like how the how the
Aspen network worked, and they had to execute him. But oh that crime,
that punishment seems to fit the crime. Yeah, totally, yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah. And it's about that time you hear and you go,
all right, everyone, we're here. No need to take this offline.
Overworked and underplayed. We'll circle back after these messages. I was actually
gonna be We've been trousling for a while. And uh so, as you
guys roll in, you see this like idyllic wooded foothills, uh with mountains
in the background, and you see lots of little cabins and small little wooden
lodge houses and fire pits all over the place, and you see what appears
to be lots of drum circles, and yeah, sure there's people playing a
sack and hammocks spike ball. Spike ball. Oh god, no, they're
not playing spike ball even there above that. Uh so he says, uh,
welcome to me Casa and soon to be east sue Casa. Wow,
they have Spanish here, I mean they had Italian kind of makes sense.
Maybe we're really far future guys, I mean, or maybe maybe who knows.
Who wouldn't that be trippy? Wait? Why is there two moons?
Then broken hand? Classic fantasy trope, the moon is evil, that's haunted.
Well, we know it's hollow exactly. Richard does Richard does that?
And uh it's about that time you see some more people walking up and they're
like, hey, how uh, how goes it? Like who you guys?
And he's like, oh, it's cool. They're with us, you
know, this is these are my friends. And he like points to you,
guys, Hey, hey, where's the nearest bathroom. We've been on
the road for a long time and I got a tiny little bladder. You
see the one looks He goes, uh, bathroom is over that way and
he points at you see a collection of outhouses. Maybe I can hold it.
He says. Well, welcome to uh, welcome to the orchard.
My name is Arlow. I am I am one of the I guess we
don't really do ranks here, but if there were, I would be kind
of higher up. I kind of handle incoming people, okay, you know,
processing and all that kind of stuff. So who are you. Hi.
I'm Taylor Jacobs. Oh, nice to meet you, miss Jacobs.
I'm Crystal Crystal. Nice to meet you, Amyen, Nice to meet you.
Who's this strapping young lad? They call me the sponge he likes.
He like almost like breaks his neck turning the opposite direction and looks down.
He goes, oh, didn't even see you there, Hi, sponge.
He is nice to meet you. He is the Sponge, all right,
the Sponge. So what what's your story? Well? Who are you Bentley?
Nice to meet you Bentley. Well, so you guys, I hear
from Indy. You guys are interested in learning more about our little, our
little establishment here. We'll get you all settled in and actually you're lucky.
Tonight at the Grand Feasting Hall, our glorious leader Mike is actually going to
make an appearance and greet everyone. I'm sure he'll be interested to meet some,
you know, potential new members of the organization. So if you want
to, you can get all settled in over here by either the drum circle
or the fire pit, and we'll see if we can find y'all some bunks
or something. Bunks right or hammocks. What's y'all's preference? Hey, I
don't We don't get a lot of centaurs around this part, so I don't
know, like, what do you say as a personaur? I'm so sorry.
I did not mean to make like a microaggression like that. Yeah,
uh, we don't get a lot of personaurs around this the party. I
understand that. What kind of accommodations do you normally need for sleeping? I
spent four hours standing in four hours laying down, so yeah, hey,
it would be good, Okay, where I can sleep outside. I'll go
talk with Chickadee and see what we can come up with for you. So
before, maybe after we start moving away, I'd like to stay back with
Arlow okay and say, hey, Arlow. So my buddy, one of
the ricks, gave me your name to look look for you when we when
we came here. He says, hi, Oh is that bad? Is
that? Is that? What this is about? What is No? He
just mentioned that he's a friend of mine. Look, I told him that
I would get him his money. When I got him his money. Oh
okay, no, no, I'm not here for that. No, cool,
I mean I can give him a message if you need me. He
said, I had like till the end of the growing season to get him
what I owed him. Okay, and so that's my plan. Okay,
okay, yeah, I'm just you know, yeah, okay, okay.
Cool. She tries to look nice and friendly, but all she ends up
doing is looking tall. He turns, and that's kind of cool that uh
bracelet there as a guy had one of those not too long ago through here,
the one taught us yoga. Who's that? Uh? I don't remember
his name. Okay, let me go ask what do you mean which one?
Because we just made these kind so he points at the other one.
Okay, oh, yeah, I thought one of these a long time ago.
Yeah, he had one, looked kind of like it. That's interesting.
Yeah, it's really common kind of where where we're from. Maybe he's
from the same area. Let me go check with Sage and Rain and I'll
see if either one of them remembered his name. I can't believe. I
can't think of this on the tip of my tongue. I swear was the
last name Amanda. I don't think so. Okay, well, thanks Charlo.
Yeah, I didn't mean to didn't mean to scary and I slap him
on the back harder. Okay, yeah, and thanks for the hospitality.
Man. It's like falls forward. Yeah, he'd kind of like yeah.
He moves like three steps forward and he goes, yeah, I'll see you
around bye. So you guys, are you going over to the fire pit
or the drum circle? What time is it like evening time? Yeah,
it's gonna be like this is gonna be like early afternoon. How far are
they away from each other? Probably about fifty sixty feet. What if we
need to divide and conquer as long as we can see each other. Yeah,
okay, we really have to see each other. So who's going where?
And apparently Taylor's going drum circle, Richard's station. Where are you going?
Bentley? Oh? Probably did nap. Apparently I'm still exhausted. Bentley.
You definitely see a hammock strung up between some trees. And several people
napping, as well as a faint smoke dissipating from that area. I don't
know if I should go over there, Billy, are you tired? Maybe
maybe uh Kate Crystal has something for for you to perk up a little bit.
Oh yeah, I sure do. No, I think I'm fine.
Actually, I'm just gonna walk away. Start walking towards the hammers. All
go to the drum circle then just okay, So you guys approach the drum
circle and you see several uh you see humans, dwarves, gnomes, You
see a good mixture of all different persons sitting around. They're all drumming away,
and uh you see as a as a young Elvin woman approaches you,
she goes, oh, hi, welcome to the circle. Do you play
any musical instruments? You should have gone the bar circle, Dan, it
would have been for you. I don't know. Okay, so we'll find
out. We're going to the fire one though. You'll play. Okay,
that's fine here and she hands both of you as shakers. She goes,
just do what you feel like, just let it, just let it come
out, just like feel the beat. A sack. By the way,
my name is saffron. What are your names? Taylor Jacobs and Crystal?
Oh? I can't wait? Do you already have a name me? Yeah,
you've have. You already shed your ocean name and adopted a new identity.
No, this that's my name. Yeah, interesting, but it's not
ocean. So okay, Well, I can't wait to see what you guys
end up being reborn as. Like this is gonna be so great. So
you say reborn? Uh, there isn't like a kool aid situation, is
there? What's kool aid? You know where you all drink stuff and then
and then you like water like water from the toilet. You say reborn?
Could you just get like elaborate on that. Yeah, it's well, okay,
look that's maybe it's a bit dramatic. It's like a spiritual thing,
right, like your spirit is reborn like a phoenix rising from the flames.
Yeah, and like, how does that that's a way you died? Didn't
They had a cleric resurrection. You go into a trance and you see your
like your element or your animal or whatever it is that like, and you're
reborn as that name, So like ayahuasca? Are you? Who? Never
mind? I think I got it. I'm looking up with your Yeah,
yeah, this isn't a dying situation, all right. So we cut away
from the drum circle over to the fire pit, and you see just a
bunch of people silently sitting around, staring at the flames as they flicker.
You see as a guy approaches you, Gus, Hello, my name is
Rain. Hello, Rain, nice to meet you. It's purple Rain.
He's a draft draft he Welcome to the circle of fire. May I assist
you in casting your own log into the flame? So give us that we're
new here, Rained, Can you tell us a little little more, like,
give us some instructions? Oh yes, So fire is a big deal
here, okay, because it consumes the forest, which is nature, and
we love nature. But some things have to be consumed to be reborn.
And so symbolically, by placing your log in the fire, it's like your
ocean identity is being burned away so that a new thing can emerge. Oh
interesting, okay, you want to do it. It's like when you take
the marshmallow and you burn the stuff and you take off, and then you
still have the nice gooey inside. Rain looks so confused right now, is
very small motivation. Do you have smores who have more smores? No,
they're like a delicious little and going to explaining what a s'more is, I
mean, you don't want to explain For the podcasts. I would have to
check with Raven and Juniper, who like in our kitchen to see if we
have any such confections would be great. I am unaware of any. Okay,
but the log pile is right here, and do we just like write
something on it or it's more of like a you know, self reflection thing,
like you take your log and you think about it, you know you
you solemnly add it to the pile and then we all sit around and watch
the fire consume it all. Okay, so amen just immediately goes picks one
up and throws it in. No, yeah, make me a aletics.
Do you want a hand? Am? Make me an athletics check. Oh,
that's gonna be really good. That's the athletic. You're not talking to
the micro twenty seven. Okay, So you like, palm a log and
just chuck it into the fire and you see as Rain's eyes get like as
big as they can be, and as it hits the fire, a massive
amount of embers just launch into the air as like one of the one of
these like tpees of logs just topples over, and the fire kind of spills
out of the fire pit, and everyone around the fire grips their chair and
it's like, what do we do? Stop stopping? Stomp it out?
What's fire department? Some dirt on it? Kick some dirt on it?
Oh good, heavens. And you see as rain goes and he begins casting
some kind of druid spell that begins kind of containing the fire, and he
says, I don't feel any different. He's a true skeptic. They're new,
they're new, and he says, just don't worry about it. We'll
get the shuffles, okay. And it's about that time, you guys,
hear a ringing bell in the distance, almost like a dinner bell, like
one of the big triangles, and they're like ringing it around, and he
says, well, it appears that it is perfect time. It is time
for us all to go to the Great Banquet Hall. Join us please,
And they tell you the same over at the drum circle, and the people
in the hammocks began rolling out of their hammocks basically about the time Bentley got
into his hammock is when this bell started ringing damn, and they said,
uh, oh dude, I didn't see you there. It's time to go
get some like grub. Are you ready? Yeah? Man, always ready?
Hell yeah. As we're walking into the facing hall, can I ask
Rain, like, do you guys ever like have the drum circle around the
fire? Oh? Yes, now we do that every now and then.
It's like a symbolic joining of the two like things, but only on a
full moon. All right, do you guys have are you guys like wear
wolves, what like turn into animals? Yeah? Yeah, I feel like
definitely. He's like, yeah, I mean like several of us do that,
but not in like a weird way or anything. Why'd you say it
so judgmentally, Crystal, I've seen you do it. Are you aware?
Caterpillar? That's so adorable. She's now realized she's fucked up, and she's
like, oh about that, never mind gosh. But the only time Gristle
has spelled shame in her because she just looked down on some one like they
were a werewolf. And then she's like, at least they turned into something
cool. No, only because she turned into something weird now because they turned
into something cool. But he says, oh, so you've turned you've transformed
into a caterpillar before. Yeah, it didn't go well. Was it on
purpose or by accident? Well, I'm a little bit new to this species,
that's what I am. He as as you're talking, he kind of
just he just gently takes your hand. He goes, we can teach you.
I don't know it was really Yeah, Taylor's gonna be like, Oh,
she's fine, separate them a little bit. I mean, I'm not
She's not gonna say she doesn't want to say no because she really wants to
know. But she also is like, if it happens again and she turns
into a caterpillar, she'll never never walk away. Yeah, she'll never recover.
So so you see as you see as Indy comes up, Oh guys,
I see y'all found the drum circle in the fire pit. Now we're
going for some food. You guys ready for some dinner? Is it organic?
Oh? Is it organic? Is it magic? Ah? I don't
I don't know that. Okay, we won't like lose our souls or anything
like that if we eat it. What's a soul? I'm just kidding'd you
go, yeah, no, probably not, probably not. So you guys
get into the main banquet hall and it's this giant wooden lodge house with these
like it feels like these tables are half mile long and everyone's piling and he
goes, no, no, no, you are guests of honor. You
guys get to sit up at the front, and you're very like, this
is very exciting for you guys. We get to sit up there with you.
This is exciting for us too, as you see pieces with y'all as
well. And uh, and he says, Mike is actually going to be
here tonight and we may all get to actually like talk with him and stuff.
I think that'll be so cool. Crysil was already heading to the front
of the room what I said. And so as you guys all get your
seat, you see as this guy comes out, and uh, as you
guys all take your seat and everything you see this very tall, very slender
man appear out. He's not wearing like a suit, right, we can
he has facial features. Yeah, he has facial features. And he's he's
wearing like a big robe. Is black with a turtleneck, is not black
with a turtleneck. It is black, but it's not a turtleneck. It
needs to be a turtle you know, why does it need to be a
turtle neck? And he comes out and everyone begins cheering, and he's like
waving them down, like like not to cheer and everything. He says,
thank you all so much for being here tonight, because without all of you,
this whole thing wouldn't be possible. Now. I know we've had a
lot of exciting developments here lately, with all the work all of you have
been putting in every single day and every single night keeping this place running and
getting our Aspen network one step closer to dethroning those soulless capitalists over at blokel
But I hear that we have something to be even more excited about tonight.
And you see, as a spotlight comes from up in the corner and shines
right down onto you guys, Crystal immediately stands up. As he says,
as we have new gifts. She's like standing up and she's like waving and
like thinking, oh, there's definitely living for herself, and yeah, she's
loving this shit. As we have new guests who've decided to join us,
here at the orchard, So I would like to give a big round of
applause all for Richard, Taylor, Crystal Amy, and Amanda and even our
friend Bentley here. Can I can I use my divine sense? Sure you
definitely detect fiend directly in front of him, and he says, now,
will my special guests join me for at my personal table? Bentley is gonna
like bet his bracelet, like do we have to? Bentley touches his bracelet
and tries to transmit. Nothing comes through to any of you. A gratitude
today keeps the haters away, and that's why we want to thank you for
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