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thanks for listening. Hey is this working? Oh? Hey there, Jimmy,
Hey, hey, I know Taylor normally does these messages to you,
but she can't come to the phone right now. She's dealing with some stuff.
Anyway, tour took us to the dark Web. We made it,
but we found our web developer, Bentley, was possessed by a demon somehow.
After a drink, Taylor and Bentley got into a tussle. She may
have thrown someone at him and then tried to strangle him, but he probably
deserved it. She was larger than life though, But anyway, breeding is
paid and unpaid in turns. I am your DM or District Manager, Alex
Capps and this is Overworked and Underplayed, a D and D podcast. Four
Young Professionals Buy Young Professionals Today's ice breaker. What is your character's toxic trait.
Hi, I'm Tyler. I play the it paladin known as Bentley,
and Bentley's toxic trait is one very close to me because it's also my toxic
trait where you have to overanalyze everything and if like something's gone wrong in a
conversation argument, you have to continue talking about it until you come to a
resolution. That's a good one. Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy
and Amanda, a basic, b rough and tumble human fighter with a freshly
minted dentistry degree. Okay, toxic traits, Well, there's a lot to
pick from it. So what's up, elect That's a medical that's a job
that needs to be done. No, I would say yes, laugh at
the end, I would saying that she is um. One of her toxic
traits that maybe you guys have not experienced very much is that she really loves
to inflict pain on other people. Okay, back to the teeth collecting,
She's like, oh, I must not have given you enough setative. So
she's you're a sadist. She's a statist. I mean, what labels?
I don't know what a labels. Okay, there's a word for that,
is what I just said. We're not gonna unpack that right now, so
many questions. We're gonna put that back in the box, and we're box
closed. Exploring the cavities of others make sense. Yeah, it does make
so much more sense. Nah, Hi everyone, I'm Katie and I played
Chris Still, the drought druid and the owner of her very own MLM crystal
clarity. And her toxic trait is that she possesses what's known as the it
can't be that hard gene, so she just tries. She just doesn't think
anything is very difficult, and things that probably took people decades to learn how
to do. She thinks that it can it's just not that hard. So
and even success not that hard, so she doesn't understand why people aren't successful
in a pyramid scheme. Hi, my name is Aneline Hardy, and I
play Taylor Jacobs as centaur barbarian with a heart of gold. And her toxic
trait is dysregulation. So she lets people get to her and then she spirals.
So what that looked like in the office was like one criticism from somebody
and that's all she can think about. She has to completely redo the thing,
which is Yeah, it's really hard to work with. What up?
It's your boy? Marcel Hardy and I play Richard talks the human consultant turned
halfling Bard who Holly believes it's better to be lucky than good, but it's
best to be both. And Richard's toxic trade as he doesn't think that he
has a toxic trait. Now I'm just kidding. Richard's actual toxic trade's petty.
That's seen by making comments like when should we tell her that it's espresso
not espresso? So you know it up opportunity times. I don't know,
I admitted in the In the circle back, Marcella is also petite. Toxic
trade of Marcella. It makes for a really interesting social engagement. Hi,
I'm Alex Capps, the DM or district manager, and my toxic trait is
thinking I actually know what a party can accomplish in one session. Toxic trade
is high expectations. I think he also has the can't be that hard?
Oh yeah, definitely, the it can't be it that's that's a little too
real though. Yeah, that makes sense, and we can tell you're disappointed
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patreon dot com slash own up pod. All right, so when we last
left off, you guys made it to the dark Web. You went to
Dmitri's bar, you found a web developer, and Taylor Jacobs tried to crush
Bentley's skull with her giant hands. She has entered her villain era for it.
Crystal loves it even I'm just imagining the whole time that she was doing
that, like anti hero was playing through her mind. Oh man, nothing
was playing through her mind. I was just red rage fuge. Okay.
So when we pick up um him, kill him, Taylor, all right,
she she's gonna try and choke him. Okay, So so yeah,
roll make an attack, roll to it. Well, it's a it's a
grapple with advantage, right, Yes, you definitely have advantage. Is it
athletics or decks for grappling, it's athletics for getting out of it, it's
athletics or or acrobatics. Okay, I'm definitely doing athletics. That's a nineteen
because I rolled a nap fu twenty. That's less. Okay, okay,
so what is your total score? Nineteen nineteen? You could choke him,
Yeah, I rold higher than that. So you go to choke him,
but you forgot how big you are, and like, so you go to
bring your hands together, and bringing your hands together is not small enough to
like it's he got his head, but it's like it's like seeing yeah,
and he's just then she's trying to kill us, is she? I don't
know. You need to make her go away. That seems a little excessive
there, buddy, Sundrop. She's trying to make us disappear. This is
about good time. It's not business. Well, we're trying to get back
to those good times. Sometimes you got to go through some bad times get
back to those good times. That's really that's really deep though, and like
focusing on the you have to go through bad times you get through good time.
He's like, man, this world needs therapy, and you see it's
like you got you know, I thought there would be a combat encounter.
This is totally not what I was expecting, but I'm good with it.
So we cut back upstairs. As you see, Leric is now approaching Dan
the web developer, and you see he's kind of holding the axe behind his
back and he's like, hey, Dan, can we have a chat?
Oh hey, l Eric, Yes, hey just a second. Can I
roll to see how attract if he is? Yeah? Sure? Check his
snack score? What's a snack score? Gonna be one of those like how
many chili peppers does he have? Like professor? Yeah, all right,
what what would that be? It's pretty good? I mean you rolled pretty
high. He could be right up your type. It could be. So
what would I add to that? Should I add it? There should be
a separate skill. I'm gonna say, no, here's what you do.
You roll a D twenty so half that and he's an eight out of ten?
Okay. I feel like Amien's like a four on a good day,
So whoa that way? I mean, I feel like she has such a
nice smile and like she's built. Oh you know, she's all overweight,
you know, are so, so as you're looking him up and down,
you're like like a seven and a half, like like like you could tell
he's he's been in a few fights, so he's got like some scars probably
if you're into scars, probably like a solid eight. Okay, hey,
Ulric, I mean I've been meaning to talk to you. You have Yeah,
I feel like we've got some pretty good chemistry and you're you're a decent
looking man. Oh really now yeah, would you be willing to do me
a favor? All that depends would you let us have this guy and then
we can go on a date or whatever. Why Why is all chance romance
dependent on some pre existing condition? That's just the way the world is,
is nice, Martin. I mean I feel like that would cheapen the whole
thing. It'd be, like you think, So, I think it's more
of like a sign of respects, like purchasing you like no, no,
no, no, That's why I said a favor. This sounds like one
of those uh quid pro quo things that they talked about it. No,
this is the dark web, man, anything, You're not there. So,
so Crystal is like she hears this exchange between Amy and and making persuasion
check by the way, as the dude got yet and I made sure he
was the one who got thrown a really complicated trink order. So he's trying
to figure out what I said. So I'm gonna be like, well,
you know, currently we are indebted to a company, and in order for
amy Ann to have the freedom to go on a date with you, we
have to be successful in this. So there isn't it's not a purchasing situation.
It's a freedom situation. And you would be doing her a really really
amazing favor and earn some brownie points with her if you let us have this
one. He thinks about it for a minute. You have advantage on this
time. I have advantage, Yeah, because she she gave you like like
that was her assisting it is a nine? Did you roll the event?
That is with the advantage? Oman? Can I use an omandise? You
want to spend one? Yes, give me it. It's gonna suck for
Bentley, all right, So that's going to be nineteen plus a zero.
Nineteen. He has a charisma of plus zero, so we're well matched,
and he rolled an eighteen, so I win. I mean, really,
if you think about it, I think I won, he says, so
it would be like, oh, there's a little not in Sean and normal.
Remember in the game of Romance, the one who falls in love first
loses. You're not there, He says, Okay, but we gotta make
it look like an accident. And he hands you his his act and he
says, I need you give me one good whack right here across the class.
Are you sure? Yeah, Oh, I'll walk it off. I
don't you don't mind. Yeah, it just has to look I mean,
it has to look real. You might have to take two or three whacks
at me. Oh can I just like punch you a knockie out or something.
It'd be kind of hard for you to do that. Okay, okay,
But if I give you one of my suitual out, do they do
that? Yeah? Is that what those crazy people are selling? Yes,
Richard says, yes, that is what those crazy people are selling. Good
Lord say she takes no ethics? Agreed, She takes his. As we'll
talk about that later, Richard. Are you ready? Yeah? I make
it look good though, Okay, Okay. She stands back, okay and
tries to like just hit it so like and like like so as you're coming
down. He's hold on, hold on, get the angle just right.
I don't want you to chop my head off. Well I didn't. I
don't want to chop your head off either, right right, So you gotta
get it just right. O. That's looking good. Okay, Okay,
bring it back and remember swing with the hips. Okay, no, no,
tis And you see he looks are you okay? And he's like,
yeah, yeah, I'll be all right. All right, one more good
one for the way. Yeah, I mean honestly, next thing, you
probably need to go for my knees. Next, like one good hit to
the knee. Then I can't chase you. And then I feel like and
so like immediately, did anyone have some bandages? I bleed a lot more
than I expected. Gusha wrap it up, takes her like essential oil.
She grabs a random one. I have no idea. She just like pours
it on the I'll see, I'll see. I'm like, I'm and Crystal
like gives him the thumbs up and I'm looking forward to Okay, Dan,
come on. Dan's just standing there, like, who the fuck are these
people? Why should I come with you? After witnessing this? You sew
you said, you wanted to figure out how strongest and we did it.
Yeah, we did it. We had brains and braun enough I pick him
upright. So now we cut back to the dance floor. Dmitri is still
up there, just eating popcorn like this is wonderful, this is why go
on, well, sort of a fight. Bitley doesn't even really realize that's
a fight. He's like, this is going to be so good for all
right. So you guys get the the Web Developer and you're scaddling and you
see Bentley being You see a tour holding his hand out grasping Bentley, and
you see as Taylor as massive and is fuming and looking at Bentley like holding
his head in her hands. Oh my god, Taylor, you're beautiful.
Amen, we're gonna talk. We're still in combat, can I try?
And yeah? Combat? And yes, oh my god, that's a one.
Don't break it, Okay, I used all my goods. Yeah.
So Crystal goes up to Taylor and she like puts her hand on her She's
I know, I'm trying to figure out where I would fit a leg or
something like, are you patting her on her tummy like a horse? Pretty
much? Um? Oh no, I'm not doing that. But I am
gonna go to her and I'm gonna be like I had a pony when I
was looking. No no, no, no no no no no no,
you're gonna get killed. Um no. And I'm like, I'm like padding
and like soothing, like soothing Pats, And I'm like Taylor, I can
tell there's been some shit going down, but it's time for us to go.
Um and we need to go now. Uh So I don't really care
if you carry Bentley out of here. We just need to leave. So
um, however you want to do that is fine. We just gotta go.
We gonna titanic. No. And it probably comes out muffled because I'm
like, I'm not trying to calm calm her down, and I'm not trying
to stop the rage. I'm saying, we gotta go. You can take
it with you, but we've got to go. I can't leave until he
dies. And you hear sun drop, sun drop whispers in your head and
you start now that you're close, you hear it, and you hear it,
you hear you hear that she wants to kill us. Oh my god,
there's a demon. There's a demon. In Bentley's head. Is I
hear it talking now that I'm closer to who is this bitch? H Richard?
Wait? How did you hear that with the bracelet I gave him?
Interesting? All right, make another attack role, Taylor. That is an
eight. Okay, so you you have him grasped, but you're like,
you're it's making you angry. You can't like crush his skull. Yeah,
and so Bentley, you feel like her hands pressing in like on the sides
of your head, but it's not getting any smaller. And you hear Sundrop
go, they're trying to get rid of us. Do you want the party
to end? We love? We love the party? Now stab her in
that hand? Turn yes, Ma, He's like whatever, and he's gonna
like reach in and try to grab his dagger and then like try and stab
her. And there all right, Bentley, I need you to make an
attack roll with disadvantage. Can he even do that with sense? Yeah?
So you need to make a wisdom saving throat to see if you can break
Oh my god, I'm using it different. This is perfect And he's like,
you will never escape from my grasp, uh, Taylor? Taylor,
I mean I have a, you can have my other bracelet. I just
found another one here. I don't want to do you want it. We're
not friends anymore, okay. Um. I understand that you want him dead,
and that's cool. I am okay with that, but I need we
need to go. You can carry him out and keep choking him. I
don't care. I just need us to leave. Okay, Taylor, Crystal's
words echo through your mind, and you remember, Crystal is your client.
I need you to make a wisdom saving throw with advantage. That's an eleven.
That is just enough with everything that's happened, your need to satisfy your
client is greater than your need to satisfy your own needs. That checks out,
and you you slowly loosen your grasp on Bentley, and you feel as
you slowly begin turning back into your old self, and Tour looks. He
goes, my lady, shall I release him? Yes? And he looks
and he goes, you got lucky this time, Bentley, and snaps his
fingers and releases you. All right, So the action that I had,
I'm still gonna instead of stabbing her, I'm gonna throw the knife at Tours.
So it goes right past his head and he's just like amateurs and walks
out of the out of the amateurs. He's got a massive bleeding wound.
And you hear a Sundrop, goes Bentley, what does stay with me?
Stay here, stay here. You can't leave Bentley. That is not a
real voice. I can hear heything. Oh no, I guess I can't.
Taylor hears Sundrop. Did you take the put it back on? Okay,
so you hear no, you can't leave here, Bentley. We were
going to be Bentley, did you take some drugs? I had a d
I didn't take drugs. Maybe they've got some weird drinks here then, because
it's a pretty cool guy, he's I don't think so he sounds like a
demon to me. I'm totally not a demon, a rational We trust him
as he's pointing to like either way, Bentley, let's let's get going.
We've got we got Dan. He's our web developer. He's going to take
our contract. Hi Dan, all right, we gotta go. Let's go.
No, Bentley, stay with me. Can we party along the way?
What do you think, Sundrop Bentley? Yeah, absolutely, Bentley,
we can party along the way. Oh, my friend here, says the
party along the way, Bentley, I don't want to do this. Oh
no, why do you not want to do sun Drop make an intelligence saving
throat? Oh no, that is a twenty. So do you feel like
a migraine set in as you see like sun Drop reaches out like with his
hand and then it just dissipates and he goes, fuck, what was that?
Nothing? They tried to do something to you. I don't know what
kind of feel like I stopped it. You tried to do the same thing
that neck beard dude did. I know he was trying to do it again,
but you were doing the hand thing. There's so much gaslight. Yeah,
yeah, fine, you know what, you know what? You know
what? Bentley? Fuck? You go ahead leave. I don't care.
We were best friend now obviously we're not. If you're just gonna leave me
like this and we're walking relationship, if you really were my friend, this
wouldn't even be a question. Bitley's just gonna be like guess who has two
fingers and doesn't give a fuck you hear like Sundrop fade from your mind.
The establishment. Richard is like talking to Dan and be like, this is
all just part of the act. You suffer. You suffer two levels of
exhaustion. Whoa baby just like passes out on the spot. You will not
recall anything that happened from the moment you took the drink to when you left
the bar, except that you are tired. I'm gonna say Bentley passed out
because he's pretty hard and two points of exhaustions. Someone have to carry.
It's gonna be it's not carrying him, okay, all right. She's just
like from here, right, yeah, Hey, Dan, is there like
a cart area we can purchase this guy something. He's like, no,
we got people for that, and he like snaps his fingers and like some
gnomes and dwarves come around. They're like, what do you need done?
We just need to carry this guy to the spider so we can get ten
silva easy, all right, And they carry him to the spider and just
eat him. I'm sure Bentley, we actually preferred this way. So what
we're gonna say, how we're gonna wrap up is you guys make it back
to net Taylor. As I said, a word. The whole trip back.
You get carried back and you meet up with a thunderweasel. No need
to take this soft line overworked and underplayed. We'll circle back. After these
messages, you guys had made it back to net and you were being ready
to head back out to the cafe where you first entered the World Wide Web.
Well, miladies, it appears this is where we bid adieu, for
I have not seen the sun in many many days. You haven't seen the
sun in many days. I live my life here in the shadows. Oh
well, maybe you should get a tan. Tour turns and he says,
should you ever need my assistance again, feel free to reach out. And
he hands each of you a business card with his bluegal address on it so
that you can reach him in the future if you need it. And as
he hands them out when he gets to Jago's business or pleasure, So Taylor's
gonna break her scowl for a second and just like do the one nod.
That's all you're getting. And you see as he jumps back on his spider
and heads off into the web, into the into the spider verse. So
so is Bentley just kind of laying on the ground. Yeah, Can I
ask the question just real quick? I don't remember the name of the web
developer Dan Dan his name is Dan had a long name, but he gave
us. He said, he just call me Dan. And he's just like
you guys, always this much fun. Yeah most of the time. Yeah,
he says, So, uh, where's this job? We staying here?
We go on top side? What are we doing? We're head on
top side? And you see his thunder Weasel is sitting over at the platform
and he waves at you guys. Hey, you guys made it. You're
still alive. Way to go, Yes, we did, we and we
are so ready to go home. You need a hand with that one absolutely
on the ground. I think I got him like Amy and would just be
like just like holding him by the wrist and walking. Okay, yeah,
that's Taylor's just gonna go get on the spider. So so he looks,
he goes, it's Amy, and you want me to take care of him?
Get him on. Here's saying this, this is Thunderweasel. Sure,
okay, you have a can you do it without hurting him? You see
as he whistles, and you see Safari jump off of the web and wander
over to Bentley's like unconscious corpse and begin like kind of rolling him up in
some web. I need you to roll a constitution saving girl awake, so
I instantly fail. No, I need you to roll. Oh my god,
I mean I could just I could just put him up there. You
don't know, we got that trouble. It's fine, CHRISTI wants to go
pet the spider. Yeah, thirteen is enough to wake up as you are
being wound up in web and passes back out. Bentley's afraid of spiders,
Yes, yes he is. I was trying to see if he had any
fire spell make a wisdom saving throw. Then twenty one. Okay, so
you don't twenty three, You don't immediately pass out in fear. No,
when you see his thunderweaves, go ah, hold on, buddy, we're
just putting you on the back of the spider. No no, no,
no no no no no no no no no no okay, and he sees
he whistles again, and Safari stops and just kind of drops you. Am
I still like cocoons. I mean it's loose, you can like out of
it, really start freaking out and trying to let rip it open, like
no, no, not okay, not okay. Thunderweezel comes over and like
helps cut you out. He goes we were just it was just gonna make
you easier to transport. He pulls out his blindfold and puts it on.
He's disassociating. All right, Well, everybody all aboard. Uh. By
the way, the little guy he found me he got yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's his name. He got your message. But he said he
had an like the some guy I think his name was Matt contacted him and
sent him on another task. He said he would catch up with you guys
later. Is Matt uh Damon, Matt Damon. Okay, that sounds right.
And uh he said for you guys too, if you were still alive
and you had the web developer to come to the tower immediately, he said,
you would know what he was talking about. Tower. Oh okay,
okay, I'm assuming. Yeah, we're gonna go with what Richard said.
Yeah, yeah, Richard knows, Yeah for sure. It's all on the
assana. Okay, all right, see you guys are good. Lord.
Are we climbing up into the spider? Yes? Now all right, who's
in the spider with this? That would be I mean, that's just you
guys. Yeah, okay, okay, Taylor, are you okay? I'm
fine? Things? Is there anything I can do you know I'd actually like
some space. Okay, absolutely, I'll move back and sit next to Richard.
That's it, just kind of sitting there quiet. It goes opera away.
I was gonna suggest it might be funny if because it was sundrop,
if Bitley's hair turned blonde. No, so cute. You definitely have tips
though, that's worse. I don't want that. That's too bad to put
the idea in my head. As you notice, like you see your reflection,
I'm wearing a blindfolds. Oh that's right, you wouldn't see. Oh
perfect, so everyone else sees Bitley's hair is kind of white on the ends.
Oh hey, Bentley, did you decide to go back to two thousand
and one? What all right? So you guys you make it doesn't react
to me asking if he said, what are you talking about? Well,
you have frosted tips. Le's nightmare. Hey, at it's gonna be fine.
Yeah, at least tours gone. Hey, I get it there.
Only two thousands is coming back in fashion like, it's gonna be awesome.
I love that you're being fashion forward Bentley. He's just accept the compliment.
He's just not even going to argue. Because he's way too nice and also
has a recollection of us getting back up here. Well, all right,
then, I guess, you know, try and get a guy a compliment.
It's fine than Thunderweasel leans back to Amy and he's like, man,
y'all, you almost have had a rough time down there. Yeah, yeah,
Thunderweasel is unexpectedly traumatic? Is this? You know? The the Worldwide
Web can be a strange place. A few people come back the same person
they were the first time they go on. Why did you tell us that
before I gave y'all warnings? I didn't see the warnings. I didn't see
any warnings. You look and like there's a pamphlet in the front of the
howdah, and it's like warnings about the world Wide Web. Yeah, but
it signed a release for him. Wait a minute, this wasn't here before
I was. That's been there the whole time, that there's warnings. He
didn't do it, Like look at this, Crystal. Yeah, I yeah,
I guess I'm the only one upset about this. I mean, I
just this was it. This is like quest style adventure, Like I don't
know what I love how Crystal is the fourth wall breaker. It's like,
but what about that purpose that was last episode? It was like three no,
we needed you three episodes A. Yeah, thunderweasels. Look look,
look it's fine. Y'all came back in one piece. And he looks and
he goes something different about that guy like, looks Bentley. Yes, he's
trying something new out. Oh cool. So do you have like some type
of out processing situation for people coming back that are really traumatized and of like
a break within their party that there's some kind of like you know, sit
around together and talk it out or oh yeah, you just go to the
bar. Okay, of course. But when you say bar, is that
some like weirdo? Does that mean something else where? You mean like a
bar like a tavern where you drink. Yeah, it's just anywhere with alcohol.
You just all sit around, you drink an alcohol, you you drink,
you talk about what happened, and then you just forget about it.
Okay, um surprise. A prerequisition for being a bartender in this universe is
that you have to have a degree in council. The therapists work in the
actually bartender But he says, oh, you guys would be fine. I've
seen far worse. He's like me, guess would you like? Uh?
He looks back and he sees Taylor Jacobs. Omega, whatd y'all try to
go after like the same guy or something? Um, he says, well,
I don't know. Y'all seem like a reasonable group of people. I
think y'all can figure it out. Oh all right, well thanks, you're
welcome. Richard. How are you doing? You know, I was really
excited about getting this, like Robot Spider, everything just went to ship after
the well, where do you have him? Oh? Yeah? Where them?
This is like Richard like, it's like, oh wait, where did
it go? And he's like turning around looking for it, and you see
he's like it's on his back, like a back back. Oh oh Richard,
it's on your back. Oh oh yeah, there we go. Thank
you. What was that? That's it? Just it like making noises?
Oh okay, okay, what are you gonna call it? Oh? Um,
I don't know. Maybe, oh way, I hadn't thought about that.
I mean to put you on the spot, Richard. I was just
you know, making come to same. I think I'm gonna do like my
family did with the dogs. We're just gonna try some names and see which
one it responds to, and then I don't let that one stick. Okay,
hey, that sounds like a good place. He sees it stares up
at you with like bright blue eyes that's from Garfield, turn red and it
goes so not that we're on it. I wonder what kind of things these
these little guys can do. That's so when you say that, his spider
starts dancing. Oh it's so cute. He can dance. Yeah, hopefully
he can do some methical stuff. Maybe we can. You see when you
say that, you see it jumps like it leaps over like right onto amiens
shoulders. Oh perfect. Maybe we can use these on some of our missions
that we hear. We can use them as walkie talkies, Like I take
mine off my shoulder and I just like whisper and I'm like, can you
tell them that this is like the weirdest place? Okay, it's eyes turn
red and it goes um. Anyways, He's like, yeah, yeah,
those things they're kind of a novelty. But I mean, I know wizards
use them for all kinds of stuff. I'm sure y'all can figure out something.
You guys seem pretty smart. Well, maybe when we find Jimmy.
He can just good at tinker and things. Maybe we can you know,
work something out with them. You come back out and there's just a dagger
like duct tapes. I did a thing. Yeah. Yeah, so this
is on the card that it was given, but it says, while in
contact with a web, the spider knows the exact location of any other creature
in contact with the same web. Do our robot spider shootout webs? You
see as your spider on Amiens shoulder turns around and it fires a little bit
of webbing and like hits you right in the forehead with it, and then
you is that webbing that it secured to her shoulder to climb over back over
to you, But now it's on top of your head kind of Oh does
it fit like a hat? Yeah? Sure, perfect, you say that,
and it folds up into like a little like it almost looks like a
yamilka at that point. Perfect. It just kind of and you feel it
like kind of grab a hold of your hair. Oh, this is like
a rat Tuee situation. I don't know. I would like take mine and
like try and like move its arms. It's just it's doing like it's full
on red eyes and like so it does not like being danced with. Okay,
And it's about that time Thunderweasel says, all right, guys, hold
on, we're coming into the station, all right, and he brings Safari
to a stop and he's like, well, you guys all made it,
and uh he said, you know, no, no, uh, you
know, we do have a tip jar, but it's not mandatory, but
you know, like we do appreciate it. It's like Starbucks. Aired I'm
looking at him and squinting my eyes if you had told us about the pamphlet,
happy to have given you a tip. But oh, have a nice
day, sir, So the rest of you. As she turns around and
lays the rest of you, see him write something down on a piece of
paper. Oh so Crystal silver in there. Yeah, Crystal also takes the
silver and drops it in in the little tip jar. Because Crystal, that's
one of her things. It's her non toxic trade, is that she always
tips. Well. I love that he says, much obliged, much obliged,
well or not, but there it is. Taylor wants to see if
she can see what he wrote, make a perception check with disadvantage. Can
I also try and see where it's fifteen plus numbers? Oh okay, you
see that that he has a list of Like it says non tippers and there's
there's like probably about twenty names, but Amien's definitely on there. Oh yeah,
said people to curse. Later I done something about it might be the
same thing. Well, but anyways, he says, well, you guys
have a great day, be careful wherever it is you're going. Thanks Thunderweezel,
We appreciate that. Nice to Mitya. Do you guys want to go
to the bar. How about we knock this out. We don't want to
have Dan listening to all of our stuff, so we can bring him to
Bluegull we can. Maybe Dan doesn't need to know our drama. Yeah,
we don't want to. We don't want to trauma dump on. Dan's like
Dan sitting there eating like a cup of noodles. Like he's like, no,
go ahead, man, he likes it's even more funny because you have
been eating noodles. Yeah, no, there's no cheese in the noodles.
They're dry noodles. No salt of course, of course. So you guys
heading directly to bluegull. Yeah, we want to level up. So you
guys get there to headquarters and they usher you. They're like, oh,
he's waiting for you upstairs. You know, they're a good job everybody.
And you get into the elevator and you make it up to the top and
you get out, and as you go into to the CEO's office, you
find it completely empty except for a tiny little desk I would say, so
no furniture or nothing. You find like one tiny little desk. It's like
a third the size of the one that was in there. Everything else is
gone. And you see somebody sitting at that desk, and you hear a
voice, Oh, it's about time you guys got here. Do we see
a person? You see a gnome. I'm sorry, do we know you?
He's like, you don't remember me, Richard? Oh sorry, walks
a little bit over so I can see. I can't see over the desk.
I have to walk around it. And it's it's Richard Tate. Oh,
oh Dictate, Yes, that's my name. Oh the boss. The
boss got tired of waiting, but he did leap this and you see sitting
behind the desk further back but like obscured by him was a Bluegal terminal,
and he said, he wants you to call as soon as you get here.
I'm just kind of holding the fort down in his absence. He says
he got tired of waiting, so he went ahead and went to the cloud.
And he says, is that the web developer? Yeah, this is
the guy so and he's like, Okay, I gotta get you out of
here immediately. We gotta get you on the next balloon over to the cloud.
We gotta get started. We're falling behind on our schedule. Call the
boss and you see as he the Bluegal terminals like on it and he does
the dial up tone voice and then you hear what took you guys so long?
I figured you guys would have been done with this like days ago,
like as fast as you handled the whole other thing. Like I don't know,
I guess I overestimated you guys. That's Matt Damon's toxic traite. Ye.
Look, look we are we have a serious problem. These Orchard guys
are up art well you know what, trying to beat us to market with
their new fangled thing whatever. I don't know even know what it is.
I just know it's bad. News for us. We got to get this
cloud up and running. Thank you for getting the web developer. And I
need you to go meet up with Fizzle Bang. He's right, I've got
him in an adjacent office to my CEO office. He said, I need
you to go talk with him immediately and get on. This sounds easy enough.
You know, last time we accomplished the task, you know, we
had a performance review, got a little performance incentive. Here's another accomplished task
in less time than the last one. It is it is, but you
know, time moves differently. He says, listen, you get this done.
You go handle this thing with Fizzle Bang, and I'm sure that we
can get your promotion worked out by this. I mean, we just gave
you guys some performance appraisal like what four episodes ago. That's my thing.
We can talk about this, he says. So, so I gotta go,
but Fizzle Bang seems very concerned, so I would go talk with him
immediately before you go. I'm gonna need to take some PTO. Oh wow,
what I need some time off. This last task almost did me in
and did us in as a group, and I'm going to need to take
some time like a mental health day. Probably. He just kind of looks
like he goes, what is was PTO paid time off? Crystal also does
not understand the concept like work, No, like I need to take time
off of work. Yeah, it's called off time. Okay, I need
to do that then, but you won't be paid that That makes sense to
me, given what we've encountered so far people for not working. What's next?
They're just gonna like let people go to the doctor for free, Like
come on, yeah, silly, that sounds I was just gonna keep on
staying. Not amused, he says, I guess I don't know, but
whatever you need what like you know, yell are technically contractors. I guess
I don't know exactly how HR has it set up, but as long as
the task gets done, I really don't care. But it is very time
sensitive. All right, good to know. Okay, bye, and hangs
up, and the Blugal terminal goes like, you get paid, but you're
like you're at work, but you're not at work. Yeah. They found
it helps with productivity and like people getting sick or quitting if they gave people
enough days off that were like paid for so that people felt like they could
take time off. Also, there were a lot of Supreme Court cases about
people like working. The looks very confused by most of these words. I
don't know, seems kind of silly, because I mean, if everybody has
days off, then like what happens if you want to go to like the
place like you like getting food from, but they're all off. It takes
a little bit of strategic thinking. People don't all take off at the same
time. We can, We can workshop this. We think that this would
be super beneficial for Blue Glow. This might get you a promotion if you
present this idea properly. All terminals don't get promoted. This is it for
us, This is it for you guys. Yeah, we have to get
out of here. It's a great gig though. So hey, dick,
um, I forgot if if we were supposed to meet Fizzle Bang and you
were here to wait for us, couldn't Fizzle Bank have just waited for us
in here? Yep? Then what would I've done? Usually exclusive you both
could have been in here keeping each other company. Dude, don't us up
a good thing. Okay, I sit in here like I was getting paid
to sit in here and wait on you guys, and like that was all
for show. I wish y'all had taken longer, Like this is a great
job. I've basically have gotten to do whatever I wanted as long as I
was in this room. You don't even have a cell phone. What are
you doing in here? You look, you look, and you see you
see like a trash can across the room, and like this giant mound of
paper balls next to it from where he's been just throwing them at the trash
can. Isn't paper really expensive? Yeah? This corporate papers. He's not
paying for it. Oh, are you writing down all your ideas? Yeah,
we'll go with that. Hey, I think fizzle Bang's waiting for y'all
next door. All right, what if we just collectively chose to take Can
we just knock on the wall? Fizzlebank come to us? Clicks the button,
He's like, fizzle Bang. There. They're being pains in the ass
again, go on, can you come over here? I realized that you
would have to move your projector and like all your stuff over But they're asking
for you to come here for some reason instead of you going like them going
to where you're at. Yes, I know you're one person with a whole
bunch of equipment and drawings and diagrams. Okay, okay, all right,
we'll see you in a second. They said it'll be a few minutes.
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