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more. I've got so much more. Oh my god. I had the
worst massage of my Actually, you know what. At the beginning it was
really really bad, But at the end I feel like I had to teach
them how to do their job, which was extremely annoying. And in fact,
these people should be professionals, not those that I have to instru on
how to give a simple massage. It's just the most upsetting thing. And
Taylor wasn't there to help me out because she went to some sort of rage
room and I don't even understand what that is in this universe because I'm sure
it's not what we're thinking, because obviously nothing ever is. And also like,
I don't know what we're supposed to be doing, but there's like an
orchard we're supposed to be visiting. I don't know. No one's being very
clear, and I went to this massage place to clear my head and it
did not help at all. Thank you for your review. Oh I understood.
Greetings, my paid and unpaid interns. I'm Alex Kapps, your DM
or district manager, and this is overworked and Underplayed a DND podcast, four
young professionals by mostly young professionals. Our ice breaker for today is what is
your character's biggest fear? Hi? I'm Tyler. I play the ice Hea
paladin known as Bentley, and Bentley's biggest fear is the heat death of it
now on Spiders Well Play, Hey, I'm Margie. I play Amy and
Amanda, a basic, b rough and tumble human fighter with a freshly minted
dentistry degree. The biggest fear I'm going to tell the DM is a staff
infections. Staff infections. Yes, okay, why so he doesn't know my
real wife? When your office manager gets sick? Right? That was why?
Oh? My gosh, yes, I'll leave that up to interpretation.
That's amazing. Hi everyone, I'm Katie and I played Crystal, the drought
druid and the owner of her very own MLM. And Crystal's biggest fear is
that her entire empire will be stolen right from under her feet. Oh,
at least you never have to worry about that happening, all of her hard
work, her entire downline, just since it's not your empire, right,
not anymore? Hello, I'm Anelin Hardy and I play Taylor Jacobs, a
centaur barbarian with a heart of gold that is going through her crisis. Her
fear was like getting fired, bad performance reviews, disappointing her parents, that
kind of thing. Everyone's like deepest fear it and now it's that she's a
danger to the people she loves. I'm just so d Can you really fear
the truth? I know is external? One is internal? Exactly? What
up? It's you? Boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox, the Human
Consultants turned halfling barred who Holly believes it's better to be lucky than good,
but it's best to be both. Richard's greatest fear was being a disappointment,
but now he's struggling with the fear of never going home. Well, alrighty
hi, I'm Colin. I play Jimmy Stick. I play a gnome artificer,
and Jimmy's biggest fear is that he is an NPC in someone's life.
And this is the Truman Show and I just don't know it yet. Wow,
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us out at patreon dot com slash own up pod. So where we left
off, Crystal had just gotten her massage, Amien visited the bank. Oh
we didn't mention that in the recap, but I think it'll be okay,
yeah, no offense. No, it was very dumb. It's time better
a real adult, very responsible. We were all fucking off for being like
a reasonable person in this ship show of the world. My money's going Okay,
So we picked back up in the rage room. I see the image
of your boss did not evoke what I was hoping for. We are going
to have to try something a little more drastic if we are to have a
breakthrough. Okay, are you sure you can handle this? This is normally
something I don't perform until a third or fourth session. Yeah, we need
to do something so coalescing out of the darkness where there was the image of
your boss, you now see Taylor Jacobs walk out of the darkness in her
human self. She says, so, uh, we need to talk.
Oh my god, how are you here? Uh that's not important. We
need to talk about what just happened. Okay, what were you thinking?
I wasn't It was just fury, fury, and that was all fury that
was bent least fault. No, of course, not who gave you that
fury? Who who made you so mad that you were going to take it
out on someone that you want to be your friend? Don't you want Bentley
to be your friend? Yes, of course, because friends don't crush each
other's skulls. Exactly, Taylor. I know I'm saying this kind of to
myself. This whole thing's kind of weird. But I'm disappointed in you.
Yeah, I'm disappointed at me too. So what are you going to do
about it? I'm trying to problem solve. I'm here. I'm hopeful that
she looks you over. She goes, look at you. You're a mess?
I know, Like, is this how? This is how we present
ourselves? Now? I, honest to god, feel like a monster.
Well you sure as hell acted like one back there, I know, And
we'll come back to that in a second. So, Amien, you come
out of the bank. Oh yeah, you come out of the bank and
you see Crystal over at a Bluegal terminal just reading it the riot act like
she is going ham on that Blue Goal terminal and you can tell the Bluegal
terminal has stopped recording. Hey, Crystal Wave, come over to you,
Crystal. What'd you doing? Oh? I'm just I'm just leaving this review.
I had the worst possible experience. You get a massage, like she's
limping you look she she is. She's like a half polift. She's like,
that was the worst. I don't understand. Why can't people just give
like normal massages. I've been explaining this to this this terminal here, and
I think they stopped listening, and she like pokes the terminal. Oh well,
Crystal, I mean, do you do you want to go back to
the hotel. I can whip you up some medical stuff, give you some
heels, you know what. I don't trust pharmaceuticals, but maybe we'll be
able to gather some essential oils to treat my absolutely sure, like limping.
You know what, what are you doing right now? Do you want to
take a little pit stop with me? I know it's late. We need
to get back. Yeah, maybe we should, Like I don't know,
I just need to get away from this situation because, like again, that
was terrible customer service and I'm so frustrated, and Taylor is no to be
found and she's usually a person that like levels me out and I cannot find
her. So I don't know we should. I got to get out of
this situation though it's very frustrating. Come with me, Crystal, because I
have an idea. You know, she seemed really upset when she learned that
I gave my other friendship bracelet to Bentley. Yeah, so here's my idea.
Okay, I want to make some friendship bracelets. Okay, will you
help me? Yeah, okay, I like to go to a store to
get the supplies to do such a thing. So I would say that is
is fairly easy to find, Okay, like a weaver's shop. Huh yeah.
And so you come in and you know, the little doorbell rings as
you come in, and you see an elderly man behind the counter with big
thick glasses and he turns around his eyes fill the glasses. Hello, oh,
hey, oh you gome to my shop? Yes? Can do you
have some string and some beads? He looks around, he goes strings and
beads. Do you come to the right place? I have strings? This
side beats this side. What kind do you need? Okay, Crystal?
What color should we get? So? I think we should do white for
Taylor because she's a white pony. Okay now, and purple for me.
Okay, you know, yeah, this is a situation I'm in. And
then maybe red. You have your red hair, so we could do three
color. We could do the whole party if you want. Yeah, let's
do that's just what do you think any bently? What do you think?
What color? Blue? Blue? Yeah? Okay, so I imagine we
kind of go and he's over here. He's just like weaving up a storm.
Like he's like, oh I can I can twist the stress together,
you know, make the spiral? What is this? No? Is it?
I love? You're making the bracet Where should we make them? I
don't care. I'm totally down for buying. I don't have to source,
so you could use my equipment. Okay, let's do that. Yeah,
magnifico because barely. Okay, okay, how much should I? How much
gold should I mark? No sauce, but we got Italian, so I
would say, with the beads and the string and everything, two and a
half gold. Oh that's so expensive, he says. These are very good
beats, are really pretty. Here you go to gold. Oh you drive
a hard bargain. I just handed him there he's holding the money and he's
like slowly moved it to his pocket. Sorry, Crystal, I should listen
to you. I never I'm not good at bartering and things. He says,
if you haven't need anything else, come back visit Strings and Beads.
Okay, what's your name? Here's such a character. My name is Arlo
Arlow Strings and Beads. Arlow's nice to meet you. I'm sure we'll be
back. Thanks. We will reap a dirty we got, we got we
got okay, so I got a bracelet and then we got bracest for everybody.
Yes, cool? Okay, Christa, all right, you want to
go back and hit the hay Yeah? Maybe, and maybe we'll just okay,
so you leave Arlow's shop, yes, and you guys head back for
the Crow's Nest. Yes, okay. So, and I'm pretty sure that
Richard, you and Bentley just went straight there for drinks, didn't you know.
That's right, that's right. But Richard did go with him to the
crows. Okay, so you're already there. Yeah. So Richard will have
been just kind of flipping through that universal sp trying to figure out how it
works, kind of like thinking about things and words. He's like, I
think I think he mentioned bag of holding, and he's like thinking really hard
and seeing that pop in the book, and you keep flipping through and you
don't see anything, so you close it and you go get you something to
eat, and when you come back, you open it back up because you're
like, maybe I didn't look in this section, and there it is.
It's right there. Perfect. That's the trick of it is you got to
close the book, think about it, then open it perfect. And then
so after he figures that out, he's just gonna like, Okay, what
was that thing that guy called me? Uh? Does it work this way?
And he's like Bard, and he's like, you know, closes it,
it opens it back. I'm just imagining one of those things that you
make when you're a kid, and it's like the So it doesn't pull up
anything for barred okay, And he's just he's just trying to figure a few
And I imagine that at some point you would probably think about the universal sp
itself and it has like a whole redoubt on how it works, and it
has to do with items and like objects, so it's not going to tell
you anything about like you, but if you had like a weird sword,
it might tell you something about it. It's kind of like identify, but
a little a little more broken. So as you're doing that in through the
door, you see a very familiar face you have not seen in some time.
As you see your little gnome friend Jimmy walk in and like the music
from Cheers. So everyone's like, hey, yeah, you're on this Italian
thing. Did you watch the Mario movie recently? No? I have not,
Jimmy, you send a bitch get over here. I was just lost
in the sauce there for a second. He found the sauce. Well that
that is part of what I was doing, was trying to invent sauce for
this world. Gang. How you been when you're gone? Shit falls apart?
My guy, please elaborate. So you know, we were supposed to
go down to the Dark Web. We realized like thirty seconds after it was
too late that you weren't there, and the guy's like, sorry, can't
turn around. So then we just kind of went on with the adventure.
We did leave some notes for you. Did you get those notes? I
did? Okay? Good, okay good. I didn't want to feel like
an asshole or anything. No, but yeah, so we found the web
developer and I'm actually not sure what happened, but when Amy and and Kristin
and I were like trying to negotiate like Bentley, they must have done something
really bad, because like Taylor Jacobs literally turned into a giant and tried to
crush his head. Yeah. Not not not what I was expecting. But
I have news for y'all. Okay, what yeah, what what happened on
your side of the journey? Yeah, so I had to pee and then
I come back and the cart's gone, and I'm like, well shit,
I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know where to go,
so I just went back to where everyone was getting coffee and pretending like the
new occals worked. And I'm just sitting there waiting because I'm assuming only one
in and one out hole on this situation, right, So it was waiting
and I kept overhearing all the guests that were coming in, but I was
just mind my own business, and all of a sudden, this dude came
in looked super badass, I mean honestly, and I was like, oh,
this is gonna be a problem because everyone else hears beige and dirty and
this guy is where and clean clothes. Well rough, he got ship on
him. That man doesn't smell like shit. He must bathe once maybe twice
a week. Oh okay. Yeah, So I was just sitting there trying
to blend into the background there, and he kept asking questions about our group
specifically, which is weird because like, we don't know what our group is,
so why are people around town asking about it? Did he look like
he worked for Bluegirl or something? No, more of a contract or for
higher situation? Okay, you know, not necessarily a full time employee.
More just a guy who does what's the word I'm looking for, like a
bounty hunter or something, or like a private investigator. Yeah, he was
a SMME in bounty hunting. Okay, so you know he only comes in
for those special projects. And he had a bracelet on and I think I've
seen him before and I can't remember who I saw it on. Anyways,
maybe that'd be important later, But point is, I just sat there and
tried not to get his attention because I'm very small and I was I was
nervous. So it's about this time, you guys would hear some familiar voices
from outside as you hear Amy Anne and Crystal approaching. Okay, so you
have to tell me what kind of shampoo you use, because I keep thinking
about it. So it's not shampoo, Oh my Carol oil. Oh that
makes so much sense. Okay, I mix in my essential oils with it
and it helps it grow faster. Oh wow, all right, you have
to show me how to do that. I will. I will actually make
some up for you later. You're so nice, Crystal. Thank you.
Oh hey, no, it's Jimmy and Richard. Hey Jimmy. Yeah,
look who I found? Wow? No, long time no. See,
I thought you guys had left me for dead. We didn't leave you.
You did leave me. I had to go pee and you didn't stop that
man, and then I had to sit down. I honestly had no idea
you were with us. Old time one loan to hear comes out. She
actually tried to place you the first random gnome she came across. She's like,
oh, I Jimmy, and it's like that guy's just like, my
name is David. He ran away? Think he did run away? Well,
glad you're back. Yeah, glad you guys are all back. Safe
and sounds because what's this. It's a friendship bracelet. Here's one for you
too. So as she extends her arm and hands you a friendship bracelet,
you see the friendship bracelet on her wrist. Holy shit, Well it's not
that big of a deal. No, you did. Oh my god,
we put it on. We made these, we did. We We are
the ones that well, we made we made them this Italian leather. You
bring that up, because I'm pretty sure that guy was Italian. I think
so too. Do they have Italians in this world? Like, you know,
I don't. I guess they do. I mean maybe the accident,
I don't know. Yeah, the Roman Empire expanded very far from That's where
it went when it fell Atlantis. Yeah, it fell off the side of
the flat earth, and everybody knows that cracks. Now hold hold your arm
out again. Okay, holy shit, where'd you get that bracelet? Oh?
I got this from one of my one of my sisters made it for
me. Why Okay. So while y'all were doing fun stuff, I was
cowering in fear, you know, at the at the coffee shop as you
do, trying to mind my own business. And a man came in and
he was asking about us, okay, and he had that bracelettle my bracelet,
yeah, and I could not place where I saw it at first.
I was like, why does that look familiar? And it's just like yours?
Okay, So do you have a brother, I do, did you
do? Yeah? Oh yeah, I've got brothers and sisters. So so,
Jimmy, what's telling me? Before you guys got here that this like
scary looking guy, like not like they didn't look like he belonged, like
you know, we don't fit in, and everyone else kind of looks the
same. And then like this guy didn't fit in, but like different than
that don't fit. What did he look like? Uh? You can kind
of picture him is like Boba Fett, but with leather instead. Okay,
that's definitely not my brother then, right, I don't really know what he
was doing. He was just asking really aggressive questions about us. He had
a mustache, which was weird too. Yeah, everyone else here has unkin
facial hair or no hair at all. So he smell He didn't smell bad
either. Would you ride him next to him? That's kind of weird?
Did he like under him? I mean I was kind of yeah, I
was beneath his line of sight. Okay, you know, kind of my
stack. And doesn't it aren't you like, isn't it how you've been flirting
with Bentley? Like oh, whoa, whoa not flirting? No way,
no, no, okay, isn't it the kind that you hear people's sloughs.
Yeah? Yeah, so you guys, I found another one, just
like the bracelet I'm wearing in that cavern we got. We went with Fizzle
Bang, and I brought it up to Fizzle. He said, well,
that's cool, and when the other person wears it, we can kind of
like telepathically communicate. Watch this, I sake Billy. We cut to Bentley,
who passed out in his room. Didn't even take his armor off.
Bentley, you hear Amy and Amanda's voice just shout through your mind like a
flash of lightning would be a crack of thunder. Let's see if I wake
up, would you roll rolled like that? Because I disadvantage and everything.
I roll like two ones. Yeah, so you definitely wake up. Then
you can startle awake in bed like someone just yelled your name right next to
you. Do they follow bed and we hear the thump? No, that
would be a little bit weird considering it's a big, big hotel thing floor.
Yeah, you're on the second floor. What is the statistical probability that
you're standing directly under where I'm at. I'm just saying this place is pretty
regular both. Actually the odds are better than you would think. Yeah,
make me a deck saving throw. How about that mystery disadvantage? Literally,
no one falls out of bed. I beg if you fall out of bed,
there's something wrong with you. I on days I fall out of bed,
it's I have a rule, and it's I don't go to work that
day. I want to be clear. Four. Yeah, you definitely fall
out of bed. All right, that's cool. Guys are a loud crash
upstairs? Whoa see it works by gets back in the bed, it goes
to sleep. He didn't reply, But do you put it on silent?
I didn't realize that an option. I didn't realize if you take it off,
can I thought it was like a cursed object. That was no friendship
thinks it's a cursed I think that's even funnier. You think it's a cursed
object, so you don't even try to take it off, so you try
to go back to bed. All right, So while y'all are reminiscing,
well, hold on, yeah, you're saying that bracelet aside from the fact
that somehow, somewhere in you know, outside of this world, your sister
happened to make you one. Yeah, that means that that person probably was
communicating telepath that there was someone else. Oh maybe that's a good idea,
Jimmy, what good idea is? What's the idea? So the guy.
Are you saying that the evil guy that you saw he was looking for the
other bracelet because whoever he was working with also had that bracelet and lost it.
No, oh, no, not at all that. I feel like
I've had my own adventure over here. Well you guys are, you know,
browsing the web and doing cool shit. I just had to sit here
and watch this very handsome man with the mustache and mask that because we should
talk about that somewhere. He came in and he was, you know,
trying to He was asking questions about us, and I obviously it was not
making myself notice. So I'm just doing my best to be small and you're
good at that though. Yeah, I know it's built in. I'm saying
that that bracelet means he maybe it's from his employer, maybe it was,
you know, from his partner. I don't know. I don't know if
it's connected to your bracelet or if it's like everyone has a pair of bracelets
and it's you know, like walkie talkies. I don't know how does it
like I would be a little worried that they're listening to you, Like is
it or is it like you have to talk on purpose? Do the bracelet
tip channels? Hey, that's as anything in the I was sitting there,
like they have literally heavily answer that would answer this question. So Richard,
Well, they're bickering back and forth wondering how the thing works. Richard just
closes the book and goes whatever that thing is on and opens it up,
and you find an excerpt about the Friendship bracelet, and you find it is
a two way communication system, and that likely when Amien picked it up,
it detected hers and it paired with hers. Oh, it's kind of like
Bluetooth, guys. You got to pair of the devices together. Okay,
only when time. It doesn't say how many, and it doesn't say if
they disconnect after so many. Somebody listening to Avia talked about movies. It's
like those memes about my my was it my NSSA guy getting tired of looking
through my search history how to make fonts smaller on phone? He's like,
not a threat. And you do find that they generally only work about a
mile away from each other, so there is a distance on these things.
Guys. Well that's good because we were probably pretty far. If he was
in the coffee shop and we were in wherever we were, we would probably
be too far away from him. Hey, does it say anything there about
making more of those because we have, you know, these new ones we
just made for you, guys. I don't know, let me see.
And so while Richard reads, we cut back to the rage room. No
need to take this offline, overworked and underplayed. We'll circle back after these
messages. Taylor Jacob's looks into Taylor Jacob's eyes. You know, I feel
like we can be honest with each other. And I think this whole thing
started when you got here. Yeah, and I think until you accept who
you are now, you won't be able to fix this. Okay, what
does that look like? I'm just a figment of your imagination. You're going
to have to figure that out yourself. But I have faith in you.
Remember your affirmations. What is meant for me will find me. That's right,
and don't let what others think about you pull you down. But you
need to add one more to that list. You need to stand up for
yourself. But every time that happens, it feels like someone gets hurt.
It's okay to hurt those who are trying to hurt those you care about to
protect them. What's not okay, though, is not standing up for yourself
and letting all of that negativity build up inside of you until it becomes a
monster you can't control. That's what it feels like, out of control.
And you know, since this is your subconscience speaking, first thing you need
to do is you need to go up to Crystal. You need to tell
her you came up with let's get jazzed, it would work well with her
target demographic, and that if she doesn't think that's good, then she can
come up with the tagline because she hasn't come up with anything in years.
I agree that I need to stand up for myself, and I think that
she and I should probably have a conversation about it since it hurt my feelings
that in the way that she talked about it. I agree, but I
don't feel like I need to be make it her fault or blame her in
anyway. That's just she just is like that, and I can I can
push back and be like, this is how I prefer to be treated.
And you see as the image of Taylor Jacob smiles and says, look,
you're already sticking up for yourself for once, and I go out there and
do that, and she looks a little proud. You see as the darkness
fades from around you, and you like snap out of a trance you've been.
You haven't moved an inch from where you were seated next to the fire.
And the guy looks at you and he says, if ever you need
the services again, you know where to find me. Okay, thank you,
I have a great day. She gets up like a little dazed and
tries to find her a way back to the Crow's Nest. Yeah, it'd
be easy enough. So you make your way back to the Crow's Nest pretty
easily, and as you open the door, you see everybody, including well
everybody but Bentley, including Jimmy, all sitting around the table looking at a
book and holding friendship bracelets. Jimmy, Oh my god, him, I
was so worried about you. I'm so glad that you're here now. Well
at least someone thought about me. I did, I did. Are you
Okay? We made something for you can see a white Would you handle four
of them or one of them? One of them for your hands? Actually,
I mean if you're going to do for all of them, maybe six
of them? Yeah, but no on her front. Who's where do you
put a friendship bracelet on your ankle? No? You could potentially to your
ankle. Oh my god, I get your boy. But Chris, he
goes for anklets and then two for ours. That's destings for the wrist.
So Taylor takes it, both hands clasped around you and it's like, I'm
so sorry. Can we talk later? Absolutely? Are you feeling better after
going to that? I do? Weirdly, it was awful but also good.
Well, I'm glad. I'm glad you're back to Taylor. Did you
smash any like objects or did you like have a baseball bat? Or like?
How was it? So? It was almost like a prison of the
mind. Whoa what it wasn't actual? Should have got I should have gone
to where you went, and you should have gone to where where did you
go? I went to get a massage. But it wasn't the worst thing
ever. I will a bitch about it to you later, I promise,
Okay, now you can just read her yelp review. It's still being written
right now. Oh god, you can leave yelp. Yeah. I went
to the Bluegal terminal and they yelped it for me. So so you'd hear.
Somebody in the background is like, is that why that stupid terminal was
screaming in the town square. Oh, that's not how I imagine that working.
Yeah, there's just been some wizard out there in the town square screaming
about something called a massage. It's the yell part of yell pie. Well
I'll take it, honestly. Can you get him to shut up? No?
That's the points of the review, is that people read it and hear
it and thenternalizing. Well, anyways, anyways, I'm glad to see you.
It's been a while. I know, I'm glad to see you.
That's what I get for being having a tiny bladder as well. I got
left behind. O were you in the bathroom? Oh? Man? But
not like cool like oh home alone style where I had a party by myself.
It was just me being scared for a while and then I came here
and it's okay, okay, good. Yeah. We looked in the cafe
as we were leaving and didn't like, I don't know, you say you
overlooked me. Oh, Jimmy, how does that work? Like a kid?
Like? She lifts up her front hoof and just kind of pats him
on the back. Let her describe it. You describe it? Yeah,
So do you want to hold like her legs or would you want to be
picked up? I don't consider it demeaning for you to try to pick me
up. Okay, Yeah, So with her bulging biceps that you can see
clearly through your jacket a blazer, she picks up Jimmy and kind of,
Jimmy, he feels very warm. It's yeah, he feels very warm.
As you give it's a good feeling. Good. So would you find in
that book, Richard, So Richard reading about the friendship bracelets, you would
find that there are certain alchemical ingredients that would have to go into a bracelet
to turn it into one of these that you don't really You're looking at it
and it's like you can read the words, but you're like, I don't
know what this is. There's like a recipe here, but it looks like
it's like written in Latin or something. Oh, but I guess technically,
Yeah, we could make something if someone could interpret these ingredients and follow this
recipe. Well, ingredients, Crystal, can you take a look? Yeah,
what languages? So so you recognize several of the chemicals. Oh,
and you're like, holy shit, that's stuff that's in my essential oils.
Oh, but not any of them that are on you. Well, I
think I could maybe try and wip something up. It looks like it looks
like I recognize these ingredients. You guys learned she's basically an amateur chemist,
a meth dealer. I am the danger. Well with my new demographic of
sailors and ruffians essential oils, Broman, you may as well just start making
explosives. Jimmy's has a thought. One thought, two thought, red thought,
blue thought. I have the doctors in I have a skill that I
would like to deploy. Okay, replicate magical item? What Okay, it's
written down on the sheet, and this is a chance D D well,
Okay, I guess I won't be able to showcase my intelligence Jimmy to do
the easy things. Jimmy's like, fuck your intelligence. I've got magic bullshit
that is D and D the entire concept. No need for logic. Here
I can just say magic words and something will happen neat okay, okay.
So one of the items a second level artificer can replicate is a sending stone,
and given how these work, I'm gonna say that's similar enough to ascending
stone. Now we can have comms like in a spy movie, you like
raise the bracelet, but it's all based off thoughts. You're just looking at
your yeah, everything these weirdest. Yeah, it's like in the movies where
the actors are like talking on screen and there's very clearly not any like they're
talking to each other. There's nothing in their ears. There's no reason why
they should be able to communicate. That's my favorite. That's my favorite spy
movie trope. So the way this works, I'm gonna say, like in
the time you've had where you've just been kind of wondering around and like picking
up random shit, you have everything you need to turn all of their bracelets
practically into scending stones that are linked to one to one another. So cool,
So can we all hear each other out yet? So basically you guys
see like like Jimmy, clear the table of everything and pull out like a
whole bag of tools and he just goes to town like making these things work.
And as he hands you back out, you notice that there's now like
a little ruby or like another gemstone in it. And when you touch the
gymstone, you can you can mentally pick who you're communicating with. So they're
supposed to have like different colors with different stones. Could it just be the
colors stand for fun? Okay? Oh my gosh, this reminds me of
Power Rangers. It does. This is the more advanced version of a mood
ring. They had to make it bigger for mood bracelet. Yeah, okay,
I'm gonna test it all right. I'm touching it and I'm thinking of
Richard and I said, who, I don't get that joke. But it
works. I can hear you sick. It worked. So it's about this
time as you're as you're furiously working, the door swings open again and you
go see another familiar face as Saul good Ealth walks into the bar and makes
a bee line right for your table. Hey, Saul, this is gonna
be fun as always. Trust me, it's purely business, not pleasure.
Jimmy, we need to talk. I got your assignment. Here is your
envelope with the gold as we discussed, and then here's your map, Here
are your travel papers, here are the known associates, and here are your
contacts once you arrive on location. I was like, Oh, I'm a
room in the backpack. He has a napkin that he's treating as the materials
and eating him back and forth. This stuff in him look like it is
past but I guess it's back fanny pack. No, you're fanny pack.
It would it would be counterproductive for him to shove them into Richard's fanny pack.
Are also hilarious, like, wow, what's this all about? Jimmy,
Well, I guess there's no gentle way to say this. While y'all
were, you know, having fun on the internet. I have been recruited
as part of a special Task Force of Trevaria, the STT t DS.
Wow that's so exciting, Jimmy, O. God, we for sure we
call it it was going to be a special Trevaria Investigator. But that was
too that was already taken. So I had to throw in a bunch of
extra letters. Wow, what does that mean? Are you are? Do
you have to leave somewhere getting promoted. I don't know if you can get
promoted in this world. He explained it to me, because we didn't realize
you guys would be back in time to see him. But he said he
was going t d Y whatever that means M. Yeah, another acronym,
So you know, good luck with that. Well, but we're trying to
get home. Is this going to help without are you going to get it?
Might? Okay? You know, well, it's a good thing we
have these things. So as long as we're within a mile of Yeah,
I didn't know you'd come back with bracelets. That was really convenient. It
was, wasn't it. Wait is this for real? Yeah? But you
just got here or we just got here? Yeah, we just got here.
We can saw calls. So if we hadn't come back, how would
like you just wouldn't have been here. That's that's why I was supposed to
let you guys know, because we weren't sure you guys would even come back.
To be honest in the confidence guys, after the first couple of days,
I just kind of wed for like three hour I think, I mean
that was not many moons have passed. I can help there, so time
passes differently. When you're on the World Wide Web, Ain't that the truth?
Jimmy's got like a long beard, and he's what seems like an hour
can be a day. The closer you are to the center of ocea time
passes quicker. So really, y'all were gone for about two weeks. I
feel like we're not freaking out about this enough, Like, well, yeah,
all y'all were gone after like I said, after you know, a
few days, I didn't know what to do. So I had to figure
out what I was gonna do. So the only person I really knew was
Sault. Well you met you know, Fizzle Bang. He's weird. You're
not wrong, my son. Yeah, I did say some weird stuff to
be It wasn't just me, it was also Richard. Richard you asked him
about if there were any fungetions in the area. He gave you his safe
word. Yeah, so that's probably a good car, Jimmy. So part
of that was he said, Okay, well, I don't know where your
friends are when they're coming back, you know, but in the meantime,
you can do this and maybe that'll have the answers you need. Okay.
So I agreed to it, and he said, all right, I'll get
with you in a few days, which I guess is now, how long
are you going to be gone? I don't know how long does it take
to get the answers you need an entire life? I was gonna say,
but if you really need me, just think really hard and maybe my bracelet
will light up. O. Well, shoot, we had a whole bunch
of to do is for you, since you're like the tinkerer of the group,
So I guess I'll take that out and crumple it up. Did you
crash your robot head? No? I still got the robot hands in my
back. No, do you have it? We have that was supposed to
tinker mechanicals like this, We got these mechanical spiders. They put out the
mechanical spiders on the table and they start doing the little spider dance. I'll
always think of y'all, and I just like scraped the spiders into my bag.
Richard lets him take the spider at least the spiders, like, yeah,
buddy, there's a gift for you. Still like Crystal like quietly snags
it back. I wasn't supposed to take these and tinker with them. I
get the I dumped the bag out of shit, and I'm like, all
right, these are my papers. Hold on you. Tailor rummages through her
a saddle bag and pulls out the Kate Spade and offers it to Hopefully this
will help keep you. It's like a full size shove up. It's like
my dagger is like a full sized sword. It's like, oh, perfect,
just my size. Thanks Crystal hands my vial of essential oils. You
can't have the spider, but you can have the oils. It's one of
the pepper up ones though, so it's health. Thank you. Guys are
doing this all wrong. You're supposed to take all the magical items from the
person. No, but he's going off on his own. He needs Yeah,
yeah, it's dangerous. And she hands you the Kate Spade and you
touch it. You feel like a buzz on your on your waist, and
you hear Gary pupping you want You're sneaking out on me? What are you?
What's going on here? Man? Are you replacing me? Am?
I not good enough for you anymore? I forgot that Gary could talk.
I put it on the other hip. It's my side. P don't worry.
You know the thing that Crystal hands. Jimmy is a pepper. It's
like it'll give you like basically cocaine. Yeah, like it actually is useful,
So it's just actually a cocaine before you go. Bentley is upstairs,
but I think he might be asleep. Do you want to write him a
note or anything? I just think really hard at Bentley, hoping that his
wrist will light up. Bentley, just as you're just as you're like drifting
back off to sleep, You're you're Jimmy in your head. You've got another
ticket. I'm just gonna put this in your queue when you get back from
It's a long partner. I hope you trip and break your leg. Yeah
me took God. This is man. Bentley doesn't even know if he's dreaming
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own up. You're saying thoughts, but I'm hearing thoughts. Isn't that what
he was saying? Oh, I thought he was saying thoughts th h o
U g h T. It's I don't know if that's how I spelled,
like thinking thoughts. Yeah, we were saying yeah, but I was hearing
thoughts like th h O T. I was also saying that, yeah,
thoughts. Wow, what a gift.