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Talk soon and thanks for listening. Agent Beage, can you bring me up
to speed on the situation? I see that you have one of the people
I've been following in interrogation. I'm sorry, ma'am. I'm actually Agent Tope.
Agent Beige is on vacation. They brought me in to fill in.
Oh sorry, you just look really similar. Well can you bring me up
to speed? Yes, so we brought in this guy for questioning and someone
said he might be related to a case of yours. Yes, we're actually
following them, but I can't actually tell you what it's about. Okay,
Sam, if you just want to stay here on this side of the glass
and he won't even know you're here, sounds good. Hello, thank you
for coming in for a simple questioning. I hope this won't take more than
a minute or two. So can you state your name? For the record,
please, Yes, it's Richard Cox. You know, we understand that
you recently placed a bet on a race at the City Track, and you
know, we like to follow up on some of these things when there's an
odd large sum of gold made off of one transaction for someone who's never participated
in one of these races before, and just wanted to give you a chance
to clear the air and tell us what happened that day. Yeah. So
I know that the competitors knew in town. I think they're just really trying
to establish themselves as a really strong competitor, and you know, I'd seen
them train, so I was like, oh, they're they're definitely going to
win this. So I just kind of went all in, okay, And
so we have on here it's recorded up to about halfway through the race.
So what did you witness after that that, you know, really let you
know you'd made a good To be honesty, I didn't actually see a lot.
I know, they kind of went over some weird like tarpit bridge and
then the whole arena this was a fog of smoke and then they won.
So I mean, I'm happy. I don't know what happened in that smoke
cloud. But you know, okay, anything strange or out of the ordinary
occur right after the race or yeah, well, now that you mention it,
there's this guy we ran into on our way into town who was kind
of a jerkface who was trying to send some secret messages. Interesting. What
was his name? I think something doctor Dorito esque like I don't quite remember.
I know it definitely started with a d thank you for your time.
I don't see anything out of the ordinary here. We're going to go ahead
and process through your payment and everything and make sure you get made whole.
Just out of curiosity. What would you say your betting strategy is? You
know, I've studied a lot of techniques and theories, but really it all
comes down to is it's better to be lucky than to be good, but
it's best to be both. Greetings, my paid and unpaid interns. I'm
Alex Capps. You're DM or District manager and this is Overworked and Underplayed A
D and D podcast for Young professionals, By young professionals. Today's ice Breaker,
What is your favorite kind of dog? What up? It's you boy?
Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox, a human consultant turned Hafling bart who holy
believes it's better to be lucky than good, but it's best to be both.
And Richard's favorite dog is a basset Hound. He just loves those droopy
years and the just smushable face. Hello, my name is Annelin Hardy and
I played Taylor Jacobs, a centaur Barbarian with the heart of gold and her
this is an unpopular opinion, dogs require so much focus away from work that
she doesn't even really think about pets. I don't like now she's the villain,
doesn't want to be friends because one day Bentley was talking about how he's
a dog person and she's like, yeah, I don't really do animals,
and he's like, you're dead to me. Goodness, Hi everyone, I'm
Katie and I play Crystal the Drowdruid with her very own MLM. And Crystal
does not have a favorite dog because she sponsors an animal shelter, super out
of character. But everybody's got a weakness, and y'all just found out crystalskness.
She doesn't promote it on our social media. She shes it as a
weakness and she hides it. Don't don't awe her. She did it to
avoid sanctions from the sect. There is a twist, there's a benefit that
is a tax shelter, but also she's still a good thing. It's still
a nice little animal rescue. So Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy
and Amanda, a basicly rough and tumble human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry
degree. Amy and comes from a big family. Her mom loves little dogs,
always has little dogs running around. We've kind of referred to her as
the Queen because she's got lots of little Corgi's running around after her and Amyen's
favorite is one of those dogs. She's like eighteen years old at this point,
but her name is Peaches and she's very sweet. Hi, I'm Tyler.
You just want to say Hi. Bentley? Yeah, I played Bentley,
the IT Paladin and Bentley's favorite dog is Breathe. I'm gonna go with
Doge. Does seems like it could be are awesome and Doze is the most
famous one. They are really awesome and it is much like you to like
a cat. Is that his new crypto that I was gonna into bitcoin and
I could I could do it again? He's like I like dogs. Hi,
I'm Alex Capps. You'r DM or district manager, and my favorite kind
of dog or my favorite dog is a rescue because they are the best dogs.
Right. Adopt don't shop. Yeah, adopt don't show. And that's
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us out at patreon dot com slash own up pod. When we last left
off, you guys had managed to not only survive the death race, but
you managed to win the death race and they are now flush with cash my
name and name money. Some of us are flush with cass. Although Richard
did run into a little trouble when he went to collect, but he's back.
I mean that kind of breaks scanning because Bentley went to collect because I'm
technically the one that places the bet. Oh, this is a different timeline
in the multiverse and no whatever. Uh, and then it's just that Richard
was easier to smaller Richard went back to get it in smaller bills. Yeah,
probably larger bills, so it's less to carry. Maybe I don't know.
That was a good joke, and I ruined it. Let's talk,
and Marjorie received a note from a secret admirer. Ew nice nice, all
right, and action. Okay, so this amulet is really cool. Does
Crystal get one? Oh? Yeah, see normally we uh, normally the
there's only one sentient being in the race, so there's one prize. I
take a fence to the idea that the animals being written are not sentient.
Well, they can't read and write, but they can feel, and they
were mostly food. Lots of things can feel also, though, like,
why would you give an animal an amulet when you could give Look, this
is a this is a rather unique situation. So I mean, I guess
we could give her the amulet and give you like a cart of apples or
something. I mean, I want she gets an amulant and I get something
else too, of equal value or higher value, equal or higher value.
Sorry, that's not really how this works well, okay, so yeah,
here you can have the prize money here. We also you get your six
hundred gold more than the Amult probably I guess that's fine. Before it's actually
a super expensive Amult surprise. We don't actually know what things cost in this
right exactly. And we're walking. Yeah, Thunderhoof is like, all right,
well, uh, thanks for participating in. We'll catch you next time.
Probably not, but thanks anyway, Yeah, and thank you for all
the information. Yeah, and for the cool stuff. You're ben a treat,
would you like one? No? Thanks, Thunderhoof out peace. So
who all is around? Now? Where are we? You're at the race
track still? Okay? So people are People are just kind of shuffling out,
Like you see people pointing at Taylor Jacobs and Crystal like, oh my
gosh, look there she is. Taylor's pointing at Crystal. Crystal is expecting
that. She's like, yeah, hey, Taylor, did you pick up
your sword? Oh shit? She runs over. I'm going to say that
there was like a grounds worker that was like he was like carrying the sword
back over. He goes, uh, ma'am, please try not to litter
on the race track next time. Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
Thank you. Okay, have a good day. Okay, guys, what
are we gonna do about that? First of all, congratulations, that's so
exciting. Yeah you guys didrect Yeah yeah, this like somehow makes it into
our performance review and yeah, now we're like award winning. Yeah, I
mean, why I just got decapitated, like you know, two lengths behind
you guys. So yeah, like he just like quick bloo, quick bloop.
That's crazy. Yeah, I don't think we saw that part so definitely.
As y'all are having your conversation, you see that, like someone approaches
Richard and it's like, hello, mister Cox, I'm a agent, Tope,
I'd like to have a word with you if possible. Sure, but
we gotta make this quick round schedule. We're just we're just gonna be over
in this room for just like five minutes or something. All right, guys,
surprise the rack has a dungeon right here, Richard, All right,
keep your bracelets on. Yeah, all right, continue, So I mean,
and I show him the note from d D so presumably d'artarrian. Yeah,
what time of day is it? So it's gonna be I'm gonna say
mid aftern and so there's like three four o'clock. You made me racing the
hottest part of the day. Yeah, extra points, extra listening. Yeah,
I hope we put sunscreen on. Oh we probably did it. Oh
yeah, I feel like I feel like how long we have been traveling together.
So Amyen is effectively ginger, So she has very strict about, you
know, sun protection, much like Marjorie is. And so I'm sure you're
very kind, but I'm sure throughout our travels we've talked about this and been
like, okay, use this one. Here we go. So I feel
like you guys would probably I definitely have new light sensitivity that I didn't have.
Yeah. Yeah. So so just to simplify this whole thing, I'm
going to say, sunscreen somehow is something that was invented in this universe.
They just did. It's just like it's just like coconut oil all over,
just sizzling. Oh my gosh, golden brown baby. And where did you
get this letter? I think daritarianitarian whatever Happenarian we look it's like a thunderclap.
Okay, So what do you guys think about this? Meet me at
twelve or what meet me at midnight? Midnight by yourself. Yes, that's
over. No, that's how you like get dead. Yeah, that's we
as women will not be living. Okay, so I don't care how that
works out, but someone's going we're all going with Okay, thank you,
guys, thank you. It's obviously first rule, stay sexy, don't get
murdered. Yes, yes, absolutely we might not getting er good god,
amazing. Okay, not sponsors okas in this world? Oh, they definitely
do. They just don't call them podcasts. Yeah, they're probably the nails.
Okay, we gotta think of the name casts. There's little tree pods
that you cast out and h one has this. Yeah, it's like a
tree that everybody picks from when it comes out. Just like we're moving,
we'ving on. Oh is Richard back yet? Yeah, I'm gonna say Richard's
back? Hey Richard, Okay, gets figured out what to do with the
well the letter you were gone. Yeah, incredible, incredible. I just
had to use the bathroom real quick. So I think we're good to go.
Now we should probably head back to the You shouldn't wonder off it's dangerous,
absolutely correct. Next time I want Bentley, what do you think we
should do? About this letter, and she and I and I hold it
up just like it's like Yucky with just two fingers is like something like looking
at this looking at his his winning note, it's like, what did you
say something? Oh? Oh, yeah, you should tell him about tell
us what I'll tell you when we get back to the crust. Oh that's
right. Okay, yeah, okay, I will be forgetting that. I
thought we decided to work a three way without us. Wow. I didn't
realize you guys were that wow leaving us out. We're not for twenty minutes.
Twenty hole, man, you guys left. Do you guys be supportive?
Okay? Well, anyways, like we were making up, how much
twenty did you guys get from that whole risk in your lifes thing? Not
enough? We got an amulet and make off to cover the rest. I
don't know, maybe it depends Amy looking at it. Let's let's start walking
back, yeah, and then on the way we can talk about how duitarians
an arch they Okay, yeah, definitely. Yeah. Do we trust banks
in this world? I have money, you do in the bank, But
if we ever get teleported out of here, it's going to be completely useless
to you. I mean that that you can take anything from this world back
to our world. Well, we did bring some of the things that we've
had. I wonder if the exchange changing all of a sudden, we're back
in the real world with like magical weapons whatever, and just gold. We
just like go to the bank and just hand them actual gold coins just crashed.
And definitely, you guys are really mad because all their gold and they're
safe, is suddenly worthless. There's some boomers that there's out there. This
is a safe ben real estate. Look at that way. We'll say,
you guys made it. It's easy enough to make it to the bank,
into the crow's nest. So okay, what happens at the bank? Do
they see, oh, I'm a deposit they have debit cards here they do
not have debit cards. They have check books them just like you can't just
you're carrying a giant bag of money. You think we won't notice that like
a cartoon. It's oh, but you have to deposit it. You have
to walk up to a tailler and deposit the money. I think you're a
little self subsorbed. So is really high. Okay, So here's here's we're
at the bank. We're at the bank, and Richard, you approach the
tailler. Okay, Bentley and Richard approach the tailor, but we get separate
bank accounts. Yes, you established from being a played by Blue goal.
Yeah, the tailor's good afternoon, sir. What can I do for you?
Well, my friend Hey would like to make a deposit. You're just
gonna keep carring yours around. Well, we got to spend it. We
got to give it to what's his name. I'll just deposit my half.
Yeah, Bentley goes does what can I do for you? My name is
Bentley. I think Blue will open an accounts up for me. I'd like
to make a deposit. Oh, yes, Master Bentley, and you are
figures. He has one of those kinks. Jesus Christ. My name is
Richard. But I'm not here to do anything. I just I'm holding the
money so we don't get robbed. I just kind of look, I can't
fight while holding the money. So okay, oh oh, I think I
understand this type of arrangement. Okay, So yes, master, I have
your account pulled up here, so wanting to make a withdrawal or deposit deposit
and what is the amount of the deposit. Uht me you have something?
Yes, excellent, here's a slip of paper. I feel out the paper.
I'm looking. I am looking so hard. Make me a perception,
So Crystal make a perception check. And then Bentley, I need you to
make a slide of hand check. I look around, dam I'd like to
also look around and see that we're in the bank. We're safe. Are
there a lot of people around us? So I'm gonna say, you don't
even need to roll for this, Okay. It seems pretty safe in there,
okay, And there's only like a handful of people in the entire building.
I see, I see, So I'll say, okay, wait,
I'll wait till okay, that's that's a fourteen okay, because I have a
minus two. Hold one second, let me make sure very well for bank
transactions. Did you roll for omens? I did so. There's two good
omens and three bad omens. This is worth it? Uh? What was
your number? Yeah? What was your number? I know what the number
is. So it's seven plus six? Yeah, I know. I will
so you look and like right as you think you're about to see the number,
like a piece of his armor, just obscure your line of sight.
But I will say, as close as those two numbers were, you do
see that there are more digits than you expected. You just don't know what
those digits are. Like, guys, make a bet. Oh my gosh,
they won four thousand gold. I hope you said that in a regular
voice. Yes, yes, yes, in a regular voice. Now around
whoa, whoa? You see as like the few people and they're kind of
like a loud I'm going to deposit everything. That's why I was like,
nobody's around. It's fine. It's not a secret to them, you know.
So it says Richard just starts hoisting bags of gold out everything. Whoa.
It just can't be subtle, Like that's the thing is like, guy,
yeah, doesn't put any money in. Yeah, we want, we
want. We put our bodies on the line. I don't know. If
you saw them and a lot of people died like we got apparently head chopped
off, you should be glad. I bet on you. Clearly my luck
assisted you in winning. We should be glad. Yeah, I could have
bet on someone else. Maybe he should be glad, would have been if
I had blessed so so the the thing that I forgot in the last episode
because we were trying to wrap up. As you see the person who got
their head lopped off, like getting carted off. You see a cleric approached
and he like healed him, like he put his head back on and healed
him and then handed him a bill, so like for healing him, he
has to pay to get his head medical bills that Paladin could be charging medical
expenses. Yeah, if you're a true capitalist, Yeah you got the idea,
and now you're like therapy and I'm going to I'm going to make start
making like release for him. Well, welcome to Bentley Cross Bentley Shield.
That's not wrong. The tailor looks that. She says, that is quite
the deposit. Yes we will. We will open the vault immediately and begin
placing your sacks of gold and secure location. It seems super trustworthy, he
says. I like gold. Anyway I can make notes to like, hey,
someone without having to come here directly. Yes, you need a check
book, that would be awesome, Yes, excellent. Here you are the
first Bank of Travaria. Thanks you for your patronage. A curiosity. Technically
we're not supposed to take tips, but oh no, I was asking,
like the DM. Sorry, I feel like he does give you a lollipop,
though what flavor? Yeah flavor, I don't even care what flavor.
I love. It's a root beard Brussels sprout flavored, candied maple Brussels sproud.
Yeah okay, yeah, but you realize it's actually just it looks like
it's just a Brussels sprout. It's like it's like coated and carmel and sugar.
It's literally a candied brussels. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like it's
good until suddenly it's absolutely just. It's like a cup of coffee. Us.
I'm depositing the my portion in the winning So I mean he's gonna he's
gonna mean shut up, just deposited and call it a day and start walking
off. Yeah. So you guys are on your way to the Crow's Nest.
Now, if you're done at the bank, should we put our money,
No, we're gonna pin the meal with it. You're immediately going to
get rid of it. So you guys easy enough to make it to the
Crow's Nest. And once you're there, you see Captain Montiac is over behind
the bar and he says, oh, my friends, welcome back. Can
I pour you a drink. I heard you had quite the afternoon. Hey
generational, well, I mean Captain Montyac. So good to see you.
It's wonderful to see you. We will one a race really yeah, yeah,
I re to hear all about it. Yeah, the dead one,
you know, the death race. Yeah, I heard you entered. So
so we weren't exactly expecting an actual death race where we're from. That's not
really a thing. But it went, you know what, we did it.
So we don't have any trauma left, none at all. None,
No, of course not. That's what Yeah, that's what essential oils are
for. Yeah, so we have stuff for nemeo. Yeah, actually you
know where he is, he says, he like kind of looks both ways.
He goes follow me, and he goes over to his little office and
like cracks the door and he says, all of you inside now, okay,
And you say his nemeos just kind of hanging out behind the desk.
Can we like see if he's being weirdly secretive when he doesn't need to be,
or if like I feel like he's he's just suddenly like a check okay,
definitely not what did you get on your inside check? Not enough okay,
yeah, he seems like he's completely normal, and once everybody gets in,
he kind of closes the door and he says nemeos. Sitting behind the
desk, he goes, excellent, friends, Uh, did you bring me
my money? Yep, we got your thousand dollars that we promised for the
first half, and then the other half will get you when the job is
accomplished. Excellent, excellent. Blincoln is putting together quite a crack team.
We already found a lock pick Finnian Imberforge, and right now we're working on
a specialist retrieval specialist if you know what I mean. I don't want to,
he says, I have a few feelers out, but I think tonight,
well we will. We will make the snatch and grab. Can we
watch about what time do you think that'll happen? Probably around midnight? Well,
we have a previous engagement speaking which never mind. I'm like, should
we ask him for information about that area or something? I don't know?
But I don't know either. I don't know. I think the less we
know, the better legal legal propability. I wholehearted we're paying them to do
something to fust anything. But if I have learned from my attorneys is the
less you know, the better. That's a good point. I thought you
were talking about like ingredients in my sule. That's what it says on the
on the label knowledge. They are all organic. That's what I know to
be true. Well, what should we do between now and midnight? No
need to take this offline. Overworked and underplayed, will circle back after these
messages. What else do you need from USO? That's it. We got
the money, We're gonna get the team together, and we're gonna try to
steal that thing. You're going to going just the thing we're gonna We're gonna
hopefully complete the mission. It's called the cell phone. We're paying you too
much for this, hopefully. I need some confidence coming out of you.
I'm confident. I wouldn't do it if I didn't think I could do it.
So you are confident, you think you can do this. We're gonna
give it our best try. I don't love the language, Richard Goblin.
Goblin culture dictates that we cannot promise something that we cannot guarantee. I cannot
promise you with one hundred percent certainty, did I will give hand you your
Thingam a jigger tomorrow, but I can tell you that we have a pretty
good chance that we're going to get it. Okay, what's your team?
How many people? So far? As three of us? Three? Yeah,
keep the team, slim, got to stay under the radar. This
is this is a covert operation, not a not a smash and grab.
Yeah, that seems totally reasonable, Crystal. Hu Amen, you're so.
I really appreciate all your valuable input, but you're not the best when it
comes to you people being suspicious. That's a good point, Crystal. Thank
you for reminding me. Okay, I don't want to say, how do
I say you're gullible without I guess? So if you get caught, are
you going to point the finger back at us? No? That would be
against our goblin Ways can we tell if he's lying? You can make another
insight check. I'm gonna try. That's eighteen. Yeah. You look at
him, he's dead in the eye looking at you. You genuinely believe that
he means that. Oh shit, really high wow. Wow. Maybe it's
just that he's not lying. No, obviously he's lying. She's also a
scam artist. She's son of con man. He says, this is one
of the reasons why I'm providing you a layer of separation. You don't know
the people, they don't know you. They only know nemeo. This is
what you're paying for. That feels a little better. I feel like we're
splitting the hairs here. Guys, we have the money of the group.
Doesn't want the phone anyway? I think we just got you don't want the
phone? No, No, I think we've established that our number one getting
home. This is an extra effort we're doing simultaneously so that way we can
get two things done at one time. Yes, we want to go home
exactly. That's why. That's why we're trusting these people with money that we
didn't even have to work hard to get. Sorry, you guys didn't have
to work hard. You guys worked hard for the six hundred No, what
you the money? You want? Your guys' grand prize was the hard work.
We literally was like two hundred dollars. Well, then are you cool
with being paying the rest? Yes, that's why we put that bet down.
Okay, because that doesn't sound like what Bentley is intended. Bentley's two
thousand dollars is unimportant in this story. I also have two thousand dollars,
which will cover the fifteen hundred that we see. Neo pops up. He
goes, look, I don't know what a dollar is, but I only
take Imperial credits. Yeah, don't worry about the exchange, right, don't
worry about the exchange. It's fine, we'll handle that. Okay, fine,
we'll go ahead with this. I definitely feel like I'm being scammed.
But Nemeo, thank you for coordinating this effort and for planning anything everything.
And we've never done this before, so you could understand why we're a little
hesitant. But you know, we're excited at the prospect of getting the phone
back. So thank you so much for doing all this. And I think,
guys, is there anything else we wanted to talk about with Nemeo?
You're great, Nemeo, thank you. We'd love to learn more about your
Goblin ways after this is all ordeal, geve that okay, that could be
arranged. Awesome, Thank you again, and we won't keep you any longer.
We know you have a very important job to do, all right,
Well, enjoy your evening. He sees he's like counting the gold out as
he's like walking out right, and we never see him again. All right,
we're out. Each of us are at two hundred gold that we just
got from half a day ago from Blue Goal. Yeah, okay, Tylers,
I'm over here. Like. The reason I'm not involved in the negotiations
is because one of my money is Yeah, thank you for not helping.
Next episode, you'll be asleep in bed. You guys are one critical detail.
Bentley works for the car company, not for Crystal. That means his
interests are not the same as yours. Yeah, heaven for bid he help
just just a little bit. I don't even work for the same company,
Bentley. I was just here for a meeting to get some free donuts,
like wave for work. Now now we're now we're learning that amy N was
never intending to be involved. No, I mean I was. We've been
having course, yes and stuff, but I mean I never meant to,
like, you know, get sucked into a different dimension and where the heck
this is? That seems fair. I don't think any of us thought if
I'd known that this would have ended me in a different dimension, I totally
wouldn't started working with first. This isn't reflection, you know, and the
really the first thing we should have been kind of worried because that meeting was
so early. That's like way earlier than Yeah, we'll have to Taylor.
We'll have to figure out who schedule that meeting. It was very interesting.
Yeah, honestly don't remember what time of the meeting was originally, Yeah,
but it was it was early enough that Taylor overslept and that's all the matters
because the nightmares. Yeah. Yeah, but anyway, So are we all
going to go see doctor da? I mean trusts him. I would never
It's like going on a date, you know, you always bring somebody.
Yeah, I'm not going to go by myself. Are we all going?
Yeah? Okay, I mean if he's there, I want to beat him
up for trying to steal. Okay, exactly do you have anything in your
book Richard about arch phase? It seems like it that might be important.
Last time I tried looking up about people didn't work. It really only works
on things as I say, like, I mean, I can try.
It does not work, okay, as I expected didn't. Wow, alright,
blue terminal it is. So I'm gonna say, just out of for
ease, you guys go to the bluegal terminal and you can find some basic
information and it seems like it speaks about a more like cryptid or like a
my mythological kind of creature where it's like some say that they are the lords
of Fay realms and they're not part of the world that we're in. Some
say they're just really strong versions of things like pixies and and sprites, and
then others will say that arch Fay turned them into animals with just a glance.
Oh so they're like fairies. Yeah, they're kind of probably what like
you would think of as fairies, and like how our folk lore depicts them.
Okay, okay, so sneaky trickery and like really pretty. Probably I
bet this isn't his natural form. Well we have he's got I was looking
mask on it still sweaty underneath. So I mean maybe I don't know,
you know, maybe he's got like really pretty wings. I bet we should
ask. Oh, he probably could. Maybe that's why he has the masks
because we wouldn't be able to talk to him with how pretty romance novels in
my time, you know, like Orlando bloom Is the Elf, you know,
just yeah, pretty, just really pretty. Is there anything in that
Bluegle tells us that we should like prepare for have like, uh, I
don't know, like we're a certain type of metal. Don't say your full
name to him like stuff like that. So no, no, just so
that to protect ourselves, shoot him with a silver bowl. Don't let him
cross the threshold into your house. Can't cross running waters, salt. But
anyway, so as they're doing those questioning and you know how the internet loves,
Oh, you're asking about this, Richard wants to stop asking about the
arch phase in general and just ask about the supposed government employee, doctor Tatarian
specifically. Okay, you're so smart. So as you as you you start
trying to search through the Bluegle archives, you keep hitting a page that reads
access denied. Who sets this permission thing up? Like who decides what is
denied and what's not denied? The Loegal terminal tells you that would be up
to the Office of Blugle Security and Clearances. So whoever they allow to view
certain data? Can we send like a quick text to Matt Damon about that
rule. It's like when you're denied access to a spreadsheet and you like request,
so you send a request in Yeah. That that's the real question is
does the access page have like a firewall exception request to you put in,
So you submit a rec west, it may be some time before you hear
anything back. That sounds appropriate. Well, how will we get notified every
single day? Like every five feet now a bird will come up and give
you a tweet. Oh that's a good one. Oh Lord, is there
any way I can contact the Ricks through this bluegle terminal? Is there?
Did we establish that there's like some type of messaging? So there's the blue
Book. The blue just like it's like a public posting board where people can
like post what they're doing and yeah, and uh yellow pages that even you
would find. You go looking through there and you find that the Ricks have
a joint blue Book account. Secret. They're very they're very is. Their
hobbies include Jim tanned laundry. One of them, the profile pick sure is
definitely all of them holding a fish. I'm really surprised that they didn't all
somehow go on the date with ew. That's gross, no sharing, Okay,
So I'd like to send I don't remember which one I went on a
date one date on with el Eric. I want to send him and be
like, hey, l Eric, sorry, it's been a long time since
I messaged you. I've been busy, but let's let's get together. I
want to get your ideas on some stuff. I'm going on a date,
a date so that you could tell him that you're going on a day to
make him jealous. I'm just saying, well, that's a good idea,
Crystal, but I don't really want to make him jealous. You get almost
an immediate reply back, Okay, oh wow, it's and it's like kind
of it's a little misspelled, but I mean you you're able to parse it
together and it's fountain Head in an hour. What time is it, Well,
say this is now. You're probably about four or five o'clock, so
it's a dinner day. I'm kind of loving this. What are you wearing?
Okay? I said, hey, hold on one second, Hey guys,
you want to go on a little side quest there? Yeah is going
to be there? Are all the Rick's going to be there? He's disappointed.
The soul is crush see you see it's it's it's like a little the
dots are going. It's like when you asked someone to go get someone out
and they're like, oh yeah, who else coming? Yeah? Yeah,
exactly yeah, Oh, I was right. It was Elric and it types
back and finally said they can be there if you want them to. I
said, okay, we'll see you soon. I'm bringing the crew. Smiley
face. He just touched back. Oh dot dot dot did see you there?
Starved for her spicy books? You need it? Oh my god.
Yeah. Sometimes sometimes what's the most relaxed? Those are the best payoffs.
Yes, absolutely they are. So you guys, you guys, make it
to the fountain Head. The fairies are still dancing in the little glass tubes.
And as you walk in, establish yes, still low key concern.
Just because you're getting paid to do something, doesn't you wanted to see?
It? Seems Atlas behind the bar waves did he didn't shrug? He didn't
this time. And uh. As you're walking in Taylor, you hear a
familiar voice. You hear his Randy appears. Oh, hello, I see
you returned. Hi, Randy. We had such a conversation last time.
Yeah, and you see. She takes a long drag of her obnoxiously long
cigarette and she says, it's so delightful to see you again, honey,
So seeing you too. How have you been? I have been as I
am Wow, how profound? How's business? Ben could be worse? All
right, well, do you mind if we grab a seat? No,
go ahead, you can take any seat you'd like. Dear, Oh,
I thank you, good to see you again. I was very nice to
see you. It Taylor and horse Form. Yeah she forgot she keeps ducking
well. Also, did we establish that you get pants when you turn back
into a person or is she naked on another's no, we just have we
have some pants for you. We went to the store pants. I'm just
a little worried. I was like, it makes sense if she would stay
in horse for me if she doesn't turn back with pants on. She found
some stretchy pants, so they're just always on her hind legs. Yeah,
I guess that's oh god, Oh yeah, it's fine. So you guys
all find you a seat. And it's about a few minutes later you see
Elric and Ulric walk in. Oh hey, guys, and you see you
see Elric normally has his mohawk. You see he's got his hair like all
slicked back, and he's like he's got his nice battle armor on. Oh
okay, So I get up to go and like say hi to him.
And to give him like a little fist bump. Okay, well this is
going to be awkward. Oh why he is dressed up? So as as
wait, wait, wait, I just to make sure it was the one
I already had a data Yeah okay. And so as you walk up,
like he sees, you put your hand out and you notice he had one
hand behind his back and he produces it for pay of flowers, press out
of it, and you just you just fis bump his hand with the flowers,
and he's just standing there, goes, thanks, are these for me?
If you want them? I love flowers. Thanks, take them up.
He's account of hot and cold. I'm glad you liked him. Everyone
else in the party is just like looking at each other. Oric is just
standing there with this plague. Wow. Man, that was a bad idea,
dude, this was a business call. Like this wasn't well, I
mean not really I wanted to It's kind of both, you know, Yeah,
she wanted to see you, Yes she did, Yes you did.
Yeah you know what. He's like, I'll take it, yeah, Crystal
like elbows amy and and she's like, yeah, you wanted to see him,
you wanted to see it, and you say, Ulric turns. He
goes, yo, rich, dude, my man, you're a party hell
yeah, but hey, we gotta do we have business first, party later.
Yeah, business in the front, party in the rear. Let's do
it. Please don't poison him again. Did you just say party in the
rear? Oh no, you said you like party in the rear, not
me. Oh I get it. Hey, listen, you gotta take what
you can get in this world. I mean, I'm just saying very interesting.
That cool. You see us, you see us, Elric said,
I just want to make it known I did not party in the rear.
No, okay, okay, shall we sit? Sure? Yes, thank
you? Okay, so you guys want some time alone? No. But
then he hears that and stands back from let's all go get some soup.
Yes, please please stay here, please please, pulls a chair out at
the table. I feel like everyone every please he dies a little bit,
we leave, I leave. I'm not I'm giving them privacy. Absolutely.
Taylor feels torn, so she'll stay at Crystal. Yes, it's true,
just character growth, just her protective notes over her friends. Go ahead,
I'll just say amen. So Leric pulls a chair out at the table.
M h, what time is it. I'm gonna say it's like between five
and six pm. Okay, yeah, that math checks out. Okay,
I couldn't remember what time that one was. Okay, okay, Hey,
thanks thanks, Rick. Can I like tap him on the back like friendly?
Oh? It was nothing? Hey? So she hits him just a
little bit too hard and he likes it. So have you been Hey,
Well, I haven't heard from you since our little rendezvous. I know you
don't have to call it that, but thanks for the information, you know.
I give him some expedition expedition exposition exposition generally on the details of what
we did and how I looked for the people at the orchard that he recommended
and all that, like that kind of stuff. Give him up to up
to speed one. I don't. I don't say that. I don't say
that because it was Yeah, well, it sounds like you've really been putting
them alms to work. So what my mom would want? Uh? So?
What? So? I really wanted to get you guys over here because
I feel like, I don't know, your mother sounds fascinating. She she
really is. I feel like we would get along. She's a hard woman,
but God, she's got a soft interior. Most sometimes I find most
people have a soft interior. I mean when you really get down to brass,
texts and testines are okay, So what do you know about okay?
So I wanted to get them here for a couple of reasons so we could
get their truth. Serum earlier said, and he liked it. We're still
she was like saying expedition like expeditions because I was laughing, and you see,
like like like, dude, you're you're you're doing great, Illric,
I'm very proud of you. Like, just just keep it up, man,
this is totally working out loud. I like have a very strong friends
support group. That's right. It's because they're brothers, Richard, So what's
going on? Man? Like what are we here for? Yeah, well
I don't know what they're here for, but now that we're here, definitely
want to hang out have some good times. You know, I haven't seen
you guys in a while, but you remember that thing you gave me and
it made me say a lot of stuff I didn't want to say. Oh
yeah, do you think we could get our hands on a couple of vials
of that? We got some shady characters are about to start dealing with I
think that'd be really handy. Oh man, that sounds like fun. Yeah,
here and he hands you sweet hands you viol It would also be really
nice to be like leveled up so I could have some truth. That would
also be nice. We're never we have to work so hard for that.
It's gonna be another one hundred episodes of levels. I have a feeling that
Marcel will be living in Annelin will be living in another state before you guys,
like, yeah, so who are you going to use that on?
Man? Like, you know, that's some pretty chrippy stuff, Like you
gotta be careful you can't use that on some nerd. That's a good question,
like, so, what's what's the dosage on this? Like a couple
drops? So do you or they need to drink the whole thing? It
depends on how big they are. I mean, we're talking like a normal
sized humanoid? Are we talking like a little dude like you? Like what
I mean? Last time I saw him, he's probably height of our friend
Bentley over here. Probably not his built, but I'd say about that size.
He sees he like, he like looks up Bentley and He's like,
hmm, here, actually take two for good measure, Like you don't care
if this dude, like, you know, maybe doesn't wake up, Like
that's not like a huge issue. I mean, serum does if it over
if you overdose, it's not like they can't ever tell a lie ever.
Again. Yeah, it's not a duration thing. It's more like a sedative.
So you know you gotta Yeah, you gotta be careful about your dosage.
But if you don't give a shit about this dude, like, yeah,
hit him with two and he'll tell you everything I was say, Depending
on how the situation goes, that might be preferable. We've really all some
shady stuff and it only takes one organized a slippery slope organized crime for thrift
roofies. We're just it all started when he's smashed that skull of that bear.
Hey, hey, Ricky, yes, do you know anyone by the
name of D'artynian dartarnians Tatarian? Thank you, Bentley, he says. He
kind of sits up. He goes, what delans do you have with doctor
d Is it well? Is okay? Are you for him or against him?
Okay, we've got he sent me a creepy, creepy note. And
I wanted to get you guys here because I feel like you guys might know
how to deal with this what cod of note? And I showed him and
he goes, oh, he's just kind of looking at it, and he's
just he's stolen something from us before, like I told you when we were
Oh so this wasn't like, this isn't like a date. No, oh
what if we tell him that it is and then he needs to defend his
Yeah, well, what how would you feel about adding security because we don't
super dress this guy. Yeah, and he's supposed to be an arch fae.
Yeah he is pre I don't know about no fairy nonsense, but yeah,
he is well connected in the city. You got to watch out.
Okay, he's creeping on her and it's like crossing a lot of boundaries.
He like had the note delivered by a child. Yeah, so what you
hell? He kind of sounds like a stalker to me. Well, since
you're asking, how can I say no? I punch him in the shoulder
like she's a method actor and as er, dude, you're so lame,
Like, well, not just you, but all you ricks. That's that
was why I was calling all you guys here. See if you and we
can pay you entered the chat guys, Eric, Eric, the rest of
them won't be necessary. I'll keep you safe. No, no, I
can have died. That's a death. I love her way. I don't
want you to like he was married this whole time, Like, no,
maybe he's maybe he's into polygamy. That's not cool. That's our Marjorie.
Yeah, as long as everyone is a marriage adults, it's one consising adult
and another cons adult. No more owership in the state of you Jah,
just plumb. We gotta get it back. I mean bad enough after my
jo Yeah, the soaking episode. God anyway, squirrel, big squirrel.
But no, I can pay you guys. Oh you guys, because I
don't want you to just be you know, on your want to get hurt
and all that. My brothers are all assignment. But it's like tonight,
right, So I'm here, okay, And he just turned to old Rick
about you you're gonna you're just gonna let me fly solo like that. I
mean, I guess I'm in, like you know, let's party. That's
right, Let's party. And then Richard goes up to the bar. Oh
oh, four hours absolutely situation. I have an idea. I suddenly feel
the urge to ask for something called sun drop. I think I think we
should just all get some good soup and then we'll go meet this sketchy motherfucker.
Okay, yeah, I do like a good soup. Yeah, I
think we all do. Here. It's kind of weird, and you know,
it'd be cool to see if you are Amy and could eat the most
soup, it would be don't let me win. Yeah. A gratitude today
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