Session Zero Heroes - A TTRPG Actual Play Podcast
Speaker B: Jasmine, oolong, green and white. Long ago, these four teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew. Then everything changed when the shop's popularity threatened its existence. All Mr. Okuron, the shop's owner and tea master, could do was to recruit four teenage orphans to learn his trade and staff his shop. A year has passed since the orphans were hired, and although their skills have progressed, they still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything. But I believe that they have the potential to make the Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the world. Last time on Benders and Brews an Avatar legends podcast.
Speaker C: So after waking up the next morning.
Speaker B: The ship approaches the city of Yudao and begins pulling into the docks where they plan to leave the ship and our gang, along with a group of pirates led by the captain, who will follow them ashore and continue to seek out the alleged treasure. Of course, our heroes don't want these tag alongs, and so they decide to leap off the rear of the ship into the waters below and swim themselves the short distance to the wooden ship docks awaiting for him.
Speaker C: and now that you've disappeared into the city, you find yourselves in the squares, bustling people going to and from work. One thing that you start to notice is that, there's definitely become a very heavy Fire Nation population in the area.
Speaker D: Bill, go insert yourself into their pie show conversation. You do this all the time with old timers.
Speaker C: We're here looking for someone.
Speaker A: Who are you looking for? Mayu Yinyu.
Speaker C: And as you say that name, the pieces just kind of slide out of their hands, and they both have kind of these gaping, open mouths. But it is not wise to shout the name Mayu Yinyu when the Fire Nation is around.
Speaker A: M. He is an entertainer, but he's also a leading member of the local Rescue Team squadron.
Speaker C: If you are searching for my union will find you. Try the performance hall, the local theater.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker E: Oh, wait, guys. I also got to know this weird, like, outcast thing just came swooping in and dropped something, and I picked it up.
Speaker C: So you want to speak to Mayu? Unfortunately, we, the u dao faction of the Rescue Team Squadron, will need to see proof that you're not a Fire Nation spy by hitting them where it hurts in a way that no Fire Nation sympathizer would dare to do. Luckily for you, I'll give you a choice between the three. Pick one and attach it to the owl, and we'll send the details for the task. Do the task, and we'll tell you where you can talk to Mayu. One, sabotage. Two, steal. Three, break free sabotage. You already want to burn down Half City?
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker C: Welcome back to another episode of Vendors and Brews. We're on episode ten. Two more episodes after this and it'll be the end of season two and we'll have all kinds of cool, fun announcements. I'm, going to keep this fast and quick so we can jump back into the episode here. Let's, kick things off with, Connor, aka Brock Lee. You got a fun fact over there for me? For Brock Lee?
Speaker D: I do. I got a fun fact for you. While working at the Blissful Brew, Brock is known to leave early just about every day that he can. It's just his routine. He's supposed to work until 04:00. 330 rolls around and he is just up chilling in his rock bed. Chilling, doing his thing. Mr. O'quen knew about know, it just became sort of his thing.
Speaker C: He's got flex scheduling. Flex scheduling?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: Right on. Awesome. Dave Akao, guo Boguao.
Speaker F: Brock never wondered why he had to start a half hour earlier than everyone.
Speaker C: That is how flex scheduling works. what's, what was interesting fact for this week?
Speaker F: so he writes haikus in his journal.
Speaker C: Yes, here is a haiku from his journal.
Speaker F: Enter an alley, behold a hole in the wall surprise. Noodle shop.
Speaker A: That's beautiful.
Speaker C: That's ah, amazing. Fantastic. Ten out of ten. I do have to ask yes. How many rocks you know on the rating skit the rating scale did he rate that noodle shop?
Speaker F: Oh, it's probably a solid boulder.
Speaker C: Solid boulder. All right, high praise. This is a great noodle shop. All, right, moving on. Cameron, aka Bill Dore. What is your interesting fact, Bill? door's favorite number is 35. All right, next. Okay, interesting were, you good your favorite number too?
Speaker E: I was thinking about.
Speaker A: Everyone needs a.
Speaker C: Fair number sometimes we don't really understand why rock's got a secret lover. That's true. Never tell us her name or the rock's name. Yes. Michaela, aka Mika. What interesting fact do you have for Mika?
Speaker E: Mika's fun fact is that she's also a mime.
Speaker A: Oh, that'd be bad.
Speaker C: We m did just learn that she's really good at interpretive dance.
Speaker E: That or she's very lucky.
Speaker C: Or very lucky. Has Mika ever interpretive dance before?
Speaker E: She's watched it.
Speaker C: She's never done it before. So that last episode was the first time she ever interpreted danced?
Speaker E: Probably.
Speaker A: I mean, she was your fun she.
Speaker E: Lived in the woods for a long time.
Speaker C: That she did. You were interpretive dancing in the oral?
Speaker A: The only shake were the trees.
Speaker E: I have music to interpretive dance, you know what I mean? Usually, interpretive dance to the music that is being played.
Speaker C: But she didn't really have music.
Speaker E: She didn't really have music.
Speaker C: Sounds of nature. And so then that's how she got the natural movements of water down because that's what she used as the rhythm.
Speaker E: I mean her other fun fact know that she watched fish and made up stories for them.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, that's true. Hey, that's it.
Speaker E: she's kind of a weird kid. Fair enough.
Speaker C: all right, we'll take it all right, sounds good. My name is Skylar. I'm the game master. my interesting fact is that I am currently working on a real life Clue game for my workplace, and I'm very excited to see how that turns out. I am involved in a lot more games other than Avatar Legends.
Speaker E: what is it called?
Speaker A: Murder Someone?
Speaker E: No, that's not what it we're actually.
Speaker A: Doing an office job shadow. Job shadow?
Speaker E: Where you crash the party or whatever.
Speaker C: you crash the party?
Speaker E: Yeah. I want to real life Clue game.
Speaker C: If it works out if it works out really well, maybe we can get, like, a big group of us together. That would fit actually really well.
Speaker A: Okay, fair point. Yes.
Speaker C: All right, cool. We just made plans. Sorry, you can't join us for audience unless you happen to be in our area.
Speaker A: Whatever. Halloween party.
Speaker C: That's true. That's how you get exclusive club.
Speaker C: Whatever the case, thanks for listening. Let's jump into the episode. The last time that you guys or last time in the last episode, you guys had infiltrated you got to Udao, you escaped the pirates, at least for now, and you sort of infiltrated the theater, the local theater, in search of Yudao, who had allegedly had some connections with the theater. Brock, had inspired a potential romantic path that he could go down. Guo might have a job soon. Brock, or sorry, bill definitely doesn't have a job coming soon. Not yet. And Mika most definitely does have a job coming soon. In fact, she was invited to a gala because of her exceptional performance skills.
Speaker D: Bill, get it together, man.
Speaker C: Seems like Bill really bill really got the short stick in that episode.
Speaker D: You kind of brought it upon yourself.
Speaker C: Bill sticks the longest stick you overcome. This is like talking about the captain sack all over again. whatever the case, you guys are outside the theater. as the hour of noon kind of starts to draw near, your, owlcat returns with a new note. It simply says, there is a factory in Udao that has been repurposed to make large scale weapons. We need you to break into the facility and hit them in several key points in order to severely disable it. And it has, like, a small sort of drawing of, like, the city of Udao. This one's a slightly larger note, by the way. and it kind of has, like, an X on where this factory is located. And sure enough, as you kind of turn your heads, it's not hard to find the large Billowing smokestack shooting, dark clouds into this sky, as you can smell, like sulfur and other factory materials, coming off of it.
Speaker D: Nothing a trusty Clipboard can't get us into.
Speaker C: You do still have your clipboard, clipboard. Hopefully we'll be dry by the time we get there.
Speaker D: Hey, Mika, want to help us out? Well, I'm dry more talking to Glow.
Speaker A: On.
Speaker C: The backside of the note, it lists the three areas of this factory they need you to disable, right? The furnace, the assembly line and the casters.
Speaker D: So we could probably split up and take all of, just take down one of them and call it a day.
Speaker A: But we get there first.
Speaker C: It's a short, like maybe ten minute jaunt over to this factory. And as I said before, it's not hard to find. As you see the smokes billowing out of the smokestacks above it. the facility itself has, it's large, it's massive. It does not have a huge amount of side doors or windows. Instead, it has two men guarding the large iron front gates, both dressed in Fire Nation garb.
Speaker D: Any ideas?
Speaker F: Or we can what's around on this street? Is this like? I'm guessing it's not a residential area.
Speaker C: no, but it's not far from the residential area, which might spark some sort of depressing thoughts of what this might be doing to the community. but I digress. it's sort of a cleared out area. Everything in this area is dirt. Even the grass itself just kind of doesn't really grow around this factory. you do see a small group of construction workers that seem to be adding on or maybe they're retiling the roof or something. They have a large ladder that kind of leads up to the rooftop of this factory over on one corner, to the sort of east rear corner. otherwise, like I said, there's the main doors that lead inside their large double doors. Currently they're open, but, there are two guards, fire Nation guards that stand in front of them at attention.
Speaker D: I think it's time we go to.
Speaker C: The construction workers with the clipboard.
Speaker D: I go up and say, I'm with OSHA, sir. I'm here to, do a little check of, your construction site. Make sure everything's up to code.
Speaker A: You see it from OSHA. What exactly is OSHA?
Speaker D: Office Safety and Health Administration.
Speaker A: okay, what is that?
Speaker D: I go onto these sites and I make sure that your workers are safe, not in a dangerous situation while, they're making what appears to be a roof here for, this building.
Speaker F: Tell them to bring out the whole OSHA.
Speaker D: Yeah, I'm going to have to bring out my whole OSHA here.
Speaker A: Hold on now. There's no need to bring out the whole OSHA. You see a pretty exclusive construction group. M. Okay, what do you need from me? You look around, we're all doing okay. What do you need from me?
Speaker D: I don't need nothing from you. I just need, probably about ten minutes. I'll be walking around the site, just making sure, there's no big dangers to yourself or your employees. I do have my constituents here with me. that's, ah, the rest of the ocean.
Speaker C: I didn't think you bring out the whole OSHA?
Speaker D: Yeah, unfortunately, we already brought out the whole OSHA.
Speaker A: Bad that we get some kind of reports or something.
Speaker D: I'd heard some rumblings from around this residential area around here, but, they're.
Speaker A: Just always complaining they don't like the factory. It's not our fault.
Speaker D: I know, sir. I'm just trying to do my job. So if you give me ten minutes, I'll be out of your hair. We'll all be out of your hair in about ten minutes here. All right, so we'll go up to the roof.
Speaker C: You go up the ladder.
Speaker D: Yeah, I got to go up to the ladder.
Speaker C: He holds it for you because he's kind of worried because the second you step on it, it felt a little rickety. That's not the and, yeah, you guys make it. All four of you just climb up there to the roof.
Speaker A: The whole OSHA.
Speaker D: The whole OSHA.
Speaker C: OSHA is now on the roof. I think the sad part is the.
Speaker A: Amount of times we said it in.
Speaker C: That little bit right there, I still think was less than the amount of.
Speaker A: Times we said it.
Speaker C: I think you're right.
Speaker D: Is that actually what OSHA stands for? I don't know.
Speaker C: I think you're pretty darn close.
Speaker D: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Speaker C: Well, office works too well. Not really like a department, but I digress anyway.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker D: But yeah, so he believed it.
Speaker A: Yeah. All right.
Speaker D: So, what's the deal going on on the roof?
Speaker C: Okay, so, yes, they are definitely patching up a they've removed a whole section a hole, like H-O-L-E section in the roof. it doesn't look unclean, like something smashed through or something. It's a hole that they personally put in there so they could patch up this roof. Just to clarify, they've, got that hole. You look inside, you can see all the way down to the production floor. There's people in there working. there's a large furnace. You, see metal going into this furnace, and then you see, sort of shovels that are pulling it out. There's some special metal, whatever you'd call them, like receptacles that pull out the molten metal, which gets moved over to one of the assembly lines. It gets dumped into the various casters. The casters are what form the metal into the pieces that are then transported over to the production crew, who put the pieces together into these large scale sort of machines. They seem to be, bibble. Actually, they would look fairly familiar to you.
Speaker A: Got it.
Speaker D: So, I walk up to the, workers who are other workers over.
Speaker A: There on the roof?
Speaker C: On the roof, yeah. The construction workers? Yeah, there's a couple of guys over there.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker D: So I'm going to walk up to them, and I'm just going to be like, hey, guys, I'm with OSHA here. what's OSHA? the Occupational Safety Health Administration. Don't worry about it. we are here just to make sure that you guys are up to code, making sure that there's a lot of all the safety regulations are being met. I got to come here and check, out the hole that you guys are working on. Just make sure everything's all right. And I just climb down the hole like, oh, yeah, there's tons of violations, potential violations in here. I'm going to have to go deeper in. And I just climb down.
Speaker C: This is just like an open hole to the Looney Tunes floating in midair. There is a rope hanging there, and it's, like, attached to a nearby chimney or something.
Speaker D: Yeah, I just get down the hole as I just start spouting random, like, OSHA type jargon. Oh, yeah, that's a violation. Oh, man, when was the last time you guys took a break? You guys even have dental?
Speaker A: Oh, dang it.
Speaker C: I was going to make that joke. I was going to have him be like, look, man, between you and me, we don't even have dental.
Speaker A: They don't even have dental. They don't even have dental.
Speaker F: Tell them about the whole OSHA.
Speaker A: These guys.
Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Unfortunately, this is such a large site, we had to bring out the whole OSHA. So they're going to be following me around on this, site here. And we're just going to this is.
Speaker C: The easiest, episode title that we've.
Speaker A: Had to deal with so far. This is almost as bad as the Gua Ling factory a couple weeks back.
Speaker F: Yeah, my lungs haven't recovered still.
Speaker A: Mind you, he's a 14 year old.
Speaker D: Am I the only one who's passable for you're? The only one with the normal.
Speaker C: That'S true.
Speaker D: Okay. We just have glow, like twelve.
Speaker F: I put Dilbert on a sort of hard hat. His tentacles are hanging down like a.
Speaker A: Beard.
Speaker F: Covered in ink so it looks like a beard.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker D: I'm m climbing down in the ocean, in through the roof, and I guess they're following behind me, and I'm just spouting the most random I mean, if you want to be in the factory, sure, you're already on the roof.
Speaker C: We could have walked to the front door, but I guess you took the most bro.
Speaker D: I flaunt the power of the clipboard wherever I go.
Speaker C: How, are you holding this clipboard.
Speaker D: As you, between his thigh? Because I have to still be talking.
Speaker A: He's an arm as well. It's true.
Speaker D: I'm either just holding it with my feet and I'm just slowly lowering myself down with my hands with my rippling musculatures.
Speaker C: I'm realizing that all this time I haven't made you guys do any kind of a trick roll or anything.
Speaker D: I was, just so convincing convinced.
Speaker A: You.
Speaker C: I can't argue with it.
Speaker D: It would have been a ten. It would have been an eleven. Sorry.
Speaker A: Oh, okay.
Speaker C: Well, yeah, we'll take that. Even though it's late, we'll take it. All right. Because at this point, it'd be weird to retcon.
Speaker A: awesome.
Speaker C: Okay, so explain to me, so you're just, like, hanging there, like, Mission Impossible style from this rope?
Speaker D: I'm not even acknowledging what the workers are saying. I'm just going down. Shimmying down, like, oh, yeah, this looks like a potential violation. Shimmying down a little more. Oh, yeah, you got to check out the there's no support beams on this part of the roof.
Speaker A: Don't tell me about it.
Speaker D: And then I get to the floor, and then I'm like, I got to take a look around, make sure there's no structural damage to the rest of the roof. And I just start walking into the factory.
Speaker A: Is that a missing rivet I see?
Speaker F: Let me take a closer look.
Speaker A: And I start climbing. Oh, don't worry. I'll hold the rope.
Speaker C: Charles, you hold the rope? Yep. Mika, what are you doing? These guys are all climbing their way down.
Speaker E: I'm m supervising.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah? Okay, good. You're making sure that they're following. Group needs a supervisor. You're the OSHA for the OSHA.
Speaker D: She's super OSHA.
Speaker C: The power of the OSHA.
Speaker A: OSHA.
Speaker C: Okay, so, Brock, you're already making your way through Guo. you finally get down to the ground, so you kind of join with Brock. Is there anything particular you guys are moving towards or looking for?
Speaker D: Who's, got the map?
Speaker A: What's that? A burst gasket?
Speaker C: I start climbing down the road myself.
Speaker D: Does Mika have the map?
Speaker F: Do we have a map?
Speaker A: She's got a map.
Speaker C: There, wasn't a map factory. It was just a map to get to stop yes.
Speaker D: The assembly line, the conveyor belt, and the caster.
Speaker C: Well, the assembly line is the furnace. The furnace and the caster. Okay.
Speaker F: All right, guys, maybe we can find, some uniforms. Maybe they got a spot. They put the dirty ones or something.
Speaker C: you notice sort of like a doorway. it's just one of those swinging doors, kind of like what you'd see at restaurants that lead into the kitchen, kind of that sort of set up. and you see a couple of people walk out of them, and they are actively retying their aprons on. And so that might suggest to you that maybe there's some sort of a back room back there or subcord some type.
Speaker F: That way. Looks promising.
Speaker C: All right, so you guys head back there. As you open the door. There's a room with a long table inside of there. there's a small water, like a fountain of some kind to use for cleaning your hands. Or, there's a little spigot that kind of comes out of it that shoots water through it, in case you get something in your eyes. It's like an eyewashing station. but you definitely see some people sitting around the table. They look like they have their little packaged lunch boxes or whatever the case. and they're eating away at some various foods. What are you doing? Are you still on the roof or did you climb down as well?
Speaker E: obviously I had to climb down.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker C: You're supervising your crew. So did you fall to the background?
Speaker E: Yes. Sorry.
Speaker A: Awesome.
Speaker C: All right. So yeah, the four of you are in this background. There's a couple of people eating. They kind of see you come in and they kind of look at you a little bit. Like, funny. Like, who are these people? They're not wearing the aprons and stuff, but they don't really question you. They just continue eating. you assume that they're probably like some pretty not to say low level workers. But they're employees here. They don't ask questions.
Speaker D: Is there any spot where there could be fresh uniforms?
Speaker C: you see another door. Just ah, another swinging door. You see two sets of them. one of them has a little like, plaque or each one has a plaque above the wall. One of them kind of shows the depiction of a man and one shows the depiction of a woman.
Speaker D: M. Obviously. I go into the woman's side.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker D: I'll go into the men's side and just grab a uniform.
Speaker A: Sure. Same. Okay.
Speaker C: All right. So the three of you guys, is Mika going into the men's or the women?
Speaker D: You got to supervise.
Speaker E: I have to supervise.
Speaker C: Supervise. Yeah. You go into this steamy what? Shower, room. No, I'm just kidding. It's a pretty standard locker room. There's two benches on the ground. two, lines to each other are parallel. Right?
Speaker D: Parallel, yeah.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: Two parallel, benches sitting there next to each other. otherwise the walls are all covered in these sort of, drawers. Wooden drawers. They wouldn't have metal lockers at this day and age, I don't think.
Speaker E: No.
Speaker C: They might. No. Michaela confirms they would not.
Speaker A: They might.
Speaker E: No.
Speaker A: Sorry. Nation's ahead of his time. Whatever.
Speaker C: the case. You, open up tanks. You open up one of these drawers and you find some common person's clothes that's, not what you're looking for. So you continue opening more some of the other drawers and sure enough, eventually you find some aprons that match the ones that everybody else out there are wearing. Additionally, you find some very heavy gloves able to sort of resist heat to some extent just because they're such a heavy material. And you also find some hats to protect your hair. You find some boots. It, takes a little while to find boots in your size though. That's kind of the main tricky aspect. But sure enough, you're able to eventually find boots that are in your size. every once in a while somebody walks in. they see you guys looking around. Brock, I assume, probably turns to them holding his clipboard and he's like, Can I help you?
Speaker A: And immediately they say, oh no. Sorry.
Speaker C: And then they leave. that happens maybe, like, twice. but like I said, they don't seem like people that would really ask questions. But whatever the case, you guys have a full factory worker costume that you've put together at this point, each one.
Speaker D: Of you onto the assembly floor.
Speaker A: We go, yes.
Speaker E: Hi ho.
Speaker C: Do you still have your clipboard with you or are you going to oh, you're keeping that? Okay, as you guys step out from what was basically the break room, you see another individual not wearing an apron, but rather wearing some finer clothes with, the same hat, but not the same rest of the clothing. And he is also wearing a clipboard.
Speaker A: And he says, you four.
Speaker C: And then he sees Brock's clipboard.
Speaker A: He goes, oh, sorry, you three, get back to work. What are you doing? Your break's been over for a good five minutes now.
Speaker D: Sorry, I was holding him up. He just needed some help with some, extra logistical stuff. Don't be too hard on him.
Speaker C: What do you want these people for? Logistical stuff.
Speaker A: They, don't know anything.
Speaker C: They're grease monkeys.
Speaker D: Yeah, but some of them are pretty smart.
Speaker C: Monkey hogs.
Speaker D: Some of them are pretty smart, and, sometimes with all the heat, you can't remember how to multiply and divide. And these guys are pretty sharp. So, they were helping me out with some quick maths.
Speaker C: He comes walking over and he says.
Speaker A: Let me see that.
Speaker C: I trust their math.
Speaker D: This is not for your eyes, sir. This is above you.
Speaker A: Excuse me?
Speaker D: My clipboard is heavier than yours.
Speaker A: It is above you.
Speaker D: My clipboard is larger than yours.
Speaker A: There we go.
Speaker D: I am more important, sir.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker C: Roland intimidate is that's with passion?
Speaker D: 1313.
Speaker C: Okay, so on a hit, they choose one on a ten plus, you pick one they cannot choose.
Speaker A: Okay?
Speaker C: So here's the options that they have to choose from, because you're intimidating him by telling him that you are more important than he is.
Speaker A: Okay?
Speaker C: first one is they run to escape to get back up. The second one is they back down but keep watch. The third one, they give in with a few stipulations. Or the lastly, they attack you.
Speaker D: But off balance, I wouldn't expect him to attack me.
Speaker C: that's the thing. I mean, at the end of the day, if you think that they wouldn't choose one of these options anyways, I'm not going to sit here and be like, oh, man, he didn't pick that one.
Speaker A: Perfect.
Speaker C: I'm going to screw him. I'm still going to play the logic.
Speaker D: Game here so he will not leave and get backup.
Speaker C: Okay, all right, sounds good. instead, he's going to back down, but he's going to keep watch. He, now dislikes you. You are that coworker that he couldn't necessarily deny that you might have more power than he does, but, man, he's going to find a way to shut you down because he's that kind of a guy.
Speaker D: I love it. I love sewing. Office discourse.
Speaker C: Yes, fantastic. That'll be the true, fall of this factory, for sure. So, yes, the man with the sabotaged them, but in a way that's not obvious at first, and six months later.
Speaker A: Toppled the social hierarchy.
Speaker F: Let's go back into the break room.
Speaker A: And eat some people's lunches.
Speaker C: That would really spark things, man. Next thing you know, you start walking around.
Speaker A: Yeah, cool. Great idea. That way we cause discourse.
Speaker C: He's like, oh, yeah, you start walking around to the employees and you're like, you guys ever heard of a thing called unionize managers?
Speaker A: Like, awesome.
Speaker C: All right. You've gotten this guy off your back. At least for the time being.
Speaker A: Sweet.
Speaker D: The power of a clipboard, man.
Speaker C: I am thoroughly impressed, honestly. I'm going to go buy myself one at my earliest convenience.
Speaker D: Clipboard or a ladder?
Speaker C: Nobody questions a guy just got his ladder. He's got work to do. You'll carry a ladder around for fun.
Speaker D: Yeah, you can get into you probably get anywhere you want. You can get into an airport with that thing.
Speaker C: And this has been another episode of how to Con People with Connor.
Speaker D: With Connor. Connor the coach.
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Speaker C: Let's get back to the show. All right, so, back to this show. like I said, you've got this guy off your back for the time being. You've got these three underling employees standing in front of you, waiting to be assigned some work.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker D: So I'll tell GuoHan, you, go over to the assembly line, and, for Bill, you head over to the other thing, to the furnace. What's a caster?
Speaker C: Casters are sort of like the molds that they put the melted metal into, and then that way it solidifies into the shape of the pieces, that then get built into the machine. No.
Speaker A: That was me answering.
Speaker E: I like this.
Speaker C: no, I'm not going to the furnace.
Speaker D: Mika, you go over to the captor. Mika, you go over to the furnace. Fine.
Speaker E: That, doesn't work well with water.
Speaker A: What are you talking ah.
Speaker C: All right, so we'll start with the furnace, just because that's kind of the first place that most of this process starts at.
Speaker A: Brock.
Speaker D: doing I'm just going to supervise with my clipboard.
Speaker A: I'm doing my job.
Speaker C: Mika. Yeah, I want the notebook. I took the supervising job from Mika. Mika, you make your way over to the furnace, and immediately, the closer you get to it, the more you're hit with the just emanating heat that comes off of it. It is a massively hot fire. there is a few people that are manning this furnace area. You see people that are kind of overseeing the metal that goes into it. they'll kind of make sure that it's in the bins. It's not sticking out in any way that would make it bump up against the furnaces. Like the edges of the opening that it just gets dumped into. and making sure all of it ends up inside. If any of it falls out of the little bins that dump it in, then they throw it into the furnace themselves, although it's really hot to get that close. So most of them, they'll just put it into the next little bin that comes by. These are like stone bins to make sure that they don't melt in the fire. of course, there's somebody keeping an eye on the other side of the furnace where, they have stone bins that are pulling the molten metal out of, and then there are people behind the furnace that are operating sort of a giant, what are those things called? It's like a bellow.
Speaker A: Got you. Okay.
Speaker C: Sorry. No, you're good. I don't know, it just came up with some dude, but I think I've heard that term. Okay, so it's bellows.
Speaker A: Sorry.
Speaker C: They're operating this massive bellows, that's pushing, air into the heat. And of course, every time that they press down on these bellows and the air goes shooting into this furnace, you can feel that heat emanate even more as kind of the air pushes the heat outwards and, helps to keep this fire going. Of course, there's a couple of people that are just shoveling this huge mound of what looks to be coal, shoveling that into the furnace to also help fuel it. do you have a particular spot that you go to, or where are you off to now that you're in this furnace area?
Speaker E: The bellows.
Speaker C: Okay, so you kind of come around to the back and you see these people on the bellows. They're sweating. Obviously, most people around the furnace area are very much sweating. these people definitely have the nice airy side of things. They're on the backside of the furnace, so it's not quite as hot as when you're kind of closer to the front. but they're sweating more from the activity of it because it's a big bellows. You got, two people on let's say there's two of them. You've got two people on each one. Both of them have to raise and lift this thing up and down and up and down constantly. obviously, you know that your goal is to sabotage this furnace.
Speaker E: So plug the air hole.
Speaker C: Plug the air holes, sure.
Speaker E: How do you want to do that with their sweat?
Speaker C: Do tell.
Speaker E: Don't be misty. Air.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker E: Put out the fire.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: So you're bending this sweat off of these people, and then you toss it into the, it evaporates very quickly wow.
Speaker E: In the little hole. Who to thunk it where the air comes out?
Speaker A: Sure.
Speaker C: I mean, it's hot. So hot.
Speaker E: Yeah, but it's great. Sweat droplets, they're sweating a lot.
Speaker C: There's a lot of fire. I mean, this is like, insanely hot. I mean, it's like trying to rain on a volcano.
Speaker E: What else? Around me.
Speaker C: Sure. so there's the other positions that I talked about. The furnace itself is just like this giant, massive, stone sort of orb almost, or like a half orb, I guess you could say, with the copy cement of fire in it.
Speaker A: Obviously.
Speaker C: Nearby you can see the assembly lines. there are the assembly lines where people are putting the pieces together. There are the assembly lines where people are putting this broken up pieces of metal onto or like the ore for the metal. and that's what's getting transported into the furnace itself. there's the molten metal that's coming out of the furnace and that's getting taken away. trying m to think of what else. Is there anything in particular you're hoping to find?
Speaker E: Something useful.
Speaker C: Something useful? That's a broad concept.
Speaker E: Well, you don't necessarily want to be obvious about blocking the bellows.
Speaker A: Sure.
Speaker C: the bellows themselves are made out of some sort of like almost, fabricy material, which is what allows them to open.
Speaker E: Potentially. Take one of those broken pieces of metal and try and tear the fabric.
Speaker C: You might be able to yeah, that could work.
Speaker E: Okay, we'll try that.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: So you go over to the conveyor belt where the metal is being brought in. and you kind of just join the line and they're, like I said, kind of processing the metal, deciding what pieces, if anything, needs to get pushed in or thrown in by hand, whatever the case. Right. sure enough, as you kind of just join into what they're doing, kind of follow their example. But secretly you're looking and you find a long piece of protruding metal. It looks like it could have been an old spear of some kind, possibly. but it's kind of bent and warped or whatever. So whoever previously owned it doesn't really want it anymore. And so they threw it out and this is where it ended up.
Speaker E: I am going to take it and hide it within my skirt dress thing.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker E: Actually, I'm in the uniform and I.
Speaker C: Yeah, you got like, the apron. I mean, it's more like over your clothes, I guess, technically.
Speaker E: Well, I'm going to try and hide it.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely. let's do a push your luck, which is with passion ten.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: your boldness pays off despite the cost. you gain an additional lucky opportunity. okay.
Speaker E: Tearing the fabric indiscreetly. Got it.
Speaker D: Possibly, yeah.
Speaker C: so you take the spear and you kind of put it into your clothing in some way, shape or form. but it definitely works. Nobody notices around you. You do this, as you are doing this, somebody over on the bellows collapses. Ah. They're just sprawled out on the floor. They are completely unconscious. one of the sort of manager people, in fact, it's the same one that was just giving Brock some crap, just moments ago, comes rushing over.
Speaker A: And says, get this guy off of the get him out of here. if he's not working, dock his pay. he's not working right now. So obviously these hours don't count. let's see. Somebody needs to run. Ben. Ah, you there.
Speaker C: And he points at you and he.
Speaker A: Says, I need you to run bellows. get him going. We got to keep this fire hot.
Speaker E: Yeah. And I walk over there.
Speaker C: All right, sounds good. he kind of follows off after the employee that passed out as he's being hauled away by, like, a guard who's just kind of pulling him by his arms. You, take hold of the bellows, kind of following in suit with the other person that's doing it. so now you're on bellows duty, and you have this spear in your possession.
Speaker E: I'm just here to reach around and.
Speaker C: Just poke a hole.
Speaker E: Yeah.
Speaker C: Do you do it discreetly in any way, to avoid this other employee that's also doing it, with you, or are you doing anything to keep them from noticing, or are you just kind of going for it?
Speaker E: I feel like I can do it pretty discreetly because I'm sure with the both of us, it's probably, like, putting more effort into sure.
Speaker C: Oh, you're going off the hope that they're kind of distracted.
Speaker E: tired and distracted. His partner just passed out or whatever.
Speaker A: Sure.
Speaker C: I'll have you do one more push. Your luck.
Speaker E: Ten again.
Speaker C: All right. Awesome. Sure enough, as you lift up, you stab very careful. I'm imagining you have the spear kind of hidden by your leg, and so you kick your leg out in such a way that it kind of shoots the spear out from underneath your skirt and pokes it into it so that definitely nobody would see that you do this. you kick so hard that the spear actually pokes all the way through this bellows and out the other side. And as you push down, the air just kind of comes out the side, and it deflates really quickly. So the other person on the other side just kind of, like, falls really quickly to the ground and then scrambles to get up, and they're like.
Speaker A: Oh, no, this is not good. Oh, dear.
Speaker C: and so it's just kind of looking around wildly, like, not sure what to do. They're, a bit distracted. they might think it might have been their fault, or they just have no idea what to do in this situation, and they're really worried about getting in trouble.
Speaker E: I'm going to panic with them.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: Just, like, play along. okay. What does that look like?
Speaker E: I'm just going to kind of, like, throw my hands up in the air.
Speaker C: Like you just don't care, or like you do care.
Speaker E: Like I do care.
Speaker F: Or like an interpretive dance.
Speaker C: The dance, interpretation is panic, and.
Speaker E: I'm going to say, oh, no. What are we going to do?
Speaker A: I don't know.
Speaker E: I'm going to kind of run to the side and see if I can pull out the spear.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
Speaker C: You're able to pull it out, but now it's got these gaping holes in it. Of course.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker E: And I'm just going to toss in the other one. Not discreetly.
Speaker C: Are you doing it like oh, no.
Speaker A: I did it by accident.
Speaker E: Yeah.
Speaker A: Okay. All right.
Speaker C: So, yeah, I'm going to just go with it. You toss the spear as if you were just getting it out of the way, but in truth, it goes shooting forward and into one of the other belt or the other bellows. Now, it has a bit of a protruding hole in it, and now they're freaking out.
Speaker A: You guys have a hole? Oh, no, we all have. What are we going to do? Oh, no, not my fellow.
Speaker C: everybody's panicking at this point. They're freaking out. They're shouting it back and forth at each other. What do you do?
Speaker E: Hey, guys, I'll go see if I can find some fabric or something to try and repair the bellows.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. Find us a patch.
Speaker E: Yeah, you got it. And I'm going to run towards one of those three who's that closest?
Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. Awesome.
Speaker C: All right, we'll jump over to let's see. The, furnace is definitely down right now. The furnace is starting to cool without the assistance of the air that keeps the heat really, like, pumping. that's not good for it. So that's definitely on the problematic side. let's jump to the casters. Bill, you're on the casters duty. you approach and you see these large metal or actually no stone. It's got to be stone. You see these large stone or various stone casters. They are just, inlaid with sort of a shape for a specific piece of whatever these things that they're building is. as they move on a conveyor belt, like much of the things in this, room, as they move by sort of the other end of the furnace, there's some containers that go into the furnace. They pull out the molten metal and then they dump it into these casters. the casters come around a long ways to get to your area, giving the metal some time to cool. Your job as you look around and see the other people working is to turn this caster upside down and make sure that the metal comes out of it so that it can move on to the people that put it all together. What parts is it making? it looks like a lot of gears. These aren't like the big ones. You can see the area where the big ones are being worked on. But it's kind of a special process that revolves a lot more like machinery in and of itself. But, these are sort of for the smaller pieces. So you've got your gears, your cogs, your various, pieces along those lines, your handles, your cup holders. M. Okay, but obviously these are key pieces. Big machine. I would even go as far as to argue that these are the very small but very important pieces. Like, if something came out and wasn't quite right, the whole machine wouldn't run. Kind of thing like the spark plugs and the engine components. and of course, because they're such specific and necessary pieces, anything that happens to the casters would cause a lot of problems with development of more of these, weapons or war machines or whatever it is that they're designing, because they would have to get brand new ones of these casters. You can't just fix it, per se. You would have to order a whole new caster in order to get the piece just right. How do you break a caster?
Speaker A: Hmm?
Speaker C: Easy brewing stone caster. Do you have your staff with you? Yeah.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: I have a staff on my back. you definitely notice a couple of strange looks from some of the other employees as they see it sticking out from death glare back.
Speaker E: Okay.
Speaker C: They don't look at you again after. just stand there.
Speaker A: Okay. Go ahead.
Speaker C: I have a metal plate.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: Right. Yeah, they're moving. Is there a hole on the top of the caster? What was the caster? It comes in on the conveyor belt. And then you would just take the caster, you'd flip it over, pop the piece out, and then put it back and let it go back?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: Okay, so casters are just a bunch of smaller parts? Yeah. So I had to destroy all these little parts. some of them come in. They're, like, medium size. I mean, they can get kind of large, a bit heavy. That's the situation.
Speaker A: Okay, go for it.
Speaker C: Me saying skyler, please. I have absolutely no idea what to do here. Eight. Okay, so on a seven to nine, you can ask one of the questions. they are, what here can I use to blame destroy the casters? What here can I use to destroy? Hey, you know, that's how it goes sometimes. You see that over on the side? there are some hammers that are used. you watch as one of the employees, they're shaking the caster. It's not coming out. So they go over, they get a hammer. And, it's a typical ball pen hammer kind of a thing, or not even a ball pin. I don't know whatever it is. But it's got the hook side and then the blunt side. And they'll usually use the hook side to try to work the piece out. Pop it out of the caster. It's good to go. but there's always the blunt side. These are not metal casters. Keep that in mind. These are stone.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Okay.
Speaker C: is there a sledgehammer? Yes. Okay, I'm going to grab it.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: You got a sledgehammer. It does not look like it's been used a long time. In fact, you can kind of well, you have gloves on, but you can see dust kind of come off of it. You, wonder why it's even here. Maybe in case of emergency or something. I'm going to walk over to my stand. I'm just going to kind of lean on my sledgehammer.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: And then do I hear the ruckus that has been caused over at the, sure. Yeah, it's not far.
Speaker A: Oh. I'm going to be like, hey, what's.
Speaker C: Going on over there? some of the people kind of, like, glance over at you, but they look a little like they don't want to glance at you because they're worried you might glare at them again. Do you guys hear, though, that commotion.
Speaker A: Over at the furnace?
Speaker C: a couple of them look up and they look over towards the furnace. They kind of peek a little bit, and then they kind of nod their heads. Wonder what that's all about. We should go check it out. They're looking around.
Speaker A: I'm not going to leave my station. That's how you get in trouble.
Speaker C: Oh, okay.
Speaker D: I know the clipboard guy.
Speaker C: I know the guy in charge. You won't mind.
Speaker A: Well, we all know who's in charge.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's that new guy. I'm going to point at Brock. The clipboard guy just standing there? Yeah, I was going to say you are supervising. You see Bill point at you over there as you supervise. He's a new supervisor. You look up from your blank rock clipboard and you see Bill pointing at you.
Speaker D: I just kind of nod back at, like, yep, give him a thumbs up.
Speaker A: Oh, that's perfect. See, you'll be fine. You gave me a thumbs.
Speaker C: m a let's do a plead. Okay.
Speaker A: u.
Speaker C: Seven and nine. They need something more evidence that this is the right course.
Speaker A: He's got a clipboard.
Speaker D: Have you ever seen someone in power.
Speaker A: Who does give me a thumbs up? What does that even mean? Means that, he has super hearing.
Speaker C: I work directly under him, so I know exactly what that thumbs up means. It means you're doing a great job. Everything's under control.
Speaker A: Well, how do we know that they even need our help over at the bellow?
Speaker D: Listen.
Speaker C: He's going to put his ear and just listen to the sounds of voices.
Speaker A: Of people going.
Speaker C: In the distance. They, all look over to the guy with the clipboard.
Speaker C: You absolutely cannot hear what they're saying. The whole department of casting department just staring at you.
Speaker D: I'm just going to look up for my clipboard, and I'm just going to look at I'm just going to point at Bill and I'm just going to point at Bill. That's, all I'm going to do. I can't say anything.
Speaker C: Describe how you're pointing. Is it an aggressive point?
Speaker D: No, it's like,
Speaker A: You loyal.
Speaker D: I'm like, yeah, this guy, he's got a good brain in his head, this dude. How many DJ Khaled quotes can we give into this?
Speaker C: Episode. at least another one.
Speaker A: Oh, good one. You ever play rugby? Bring up the whole lobster. Wait, tell him to bring out the lobster, then bring up the lobster.
Speaker C: Okay, I'm going to say that given the fact that you needed some more reason for them, I would say that's roughly enough reason. They all look at you and they.
Speaker A: Say, what do you want us to do?
Speaker C: just run over there, see what.
Speaker A: They need help with.
Speaker C: I'm sure it will be quick. They just probably need all hands on deck right now.
Speaker A: What about the casters?
Speaker C: I got it.
Speaker A: Are you sure?
Speaker C: He left me in charge. He pointed me and everything that he did.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker C: And sure enough, a fairly large migration of the caster department starts to head over to go see what's going on over at the bellows. All right. And then I'm going to put, the sledgehammer over my shoulder and start walking towards the caster, looking all like, Ben Stiller.
Speaker A: What was that movie?
Speaker C: Zoolander. Yeah, Zoolander.
Speaker A: Walking to the cast.
Speaker C: obviously, Mika, you left because you're off to, quote, unquote, find a patch, which is good because there's a lot of people over there right now and they're all just shouting at the bellows.
Speaker A: Like, what are we doing?
Speaker C: Sims characters and something.
Speaker A: They're not doing anything. Pointing at it.
Speaker C: That's right.
Speaker A: And they're all like, well, you need to go, dude. I don't know. Someone said they're getting the patch. They're like, don't worry. Someone's coming back with a patch. Well, where are they? We need it now. They're coming. Turns out no one's coming back with.
Speaker C: A patch, which gives you ample opportunity to smash a bunch of these casters in a frame.
Speaker F: You flash back to Bill, who looks like an 80s music video or something. Sweat rolling down. His sparks fly as he smashes these film casks.
Speaker C: That's right. Just particles flying up towards him as he's plowing through with a big old smile on his face. Whoa. You're over at the assembly line station. This is technically before all this craziness has gone on, but as you approach, you see people with a number of various tools. Wrenches. screwdrivers, sure. Mostly, wrenches. Let's go with wrenches. Screwdrivers seems a little too modern. they got wrenches. You take a piece, you put another piece in it. You take a bolt and you tighten that on it. And then you set it down. And each person looks like they have kind of more of a specific they grab very specific pieces that are on the assembly line. They put those together and then they set the completed piece down. And then that goes on and people pick that up and they put that onto some other pieces, so on and so forth. You, have absolutely no idea how this machine is put together. but there's plenty of wrenches, and your job is to screw up the assembly line. What are you doing? All right.
Speaker F: so I go over to the cart with the tools on it and grab some wrenches off of it.
Speaker C: use dual wielding wrenches.
Speaker F: Also grab, like, a hammer, one that has, like, the pointed side to it.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker F: Or maybe a crowbar or something.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, there's definitely one of those.
Speaker F: Let's grab a whole tool belt. Woe the toolman spin on the ground.
Speaker C: True cover.
Speaker F: Adjust my hard hat a bit to cover dilbert who is still on my head. all right, so this assembly line, is it made out of is it like a belt?
Speaker C: Yeah, it's kind of just like sort of a rotating belt. So, you actually see on either side of, these assembly lines, there's literally a dude that has to just crank the assembly line. That's just all he does all day is just cranks the assembly line so that it's constantly moving. There's somebody at each one of the different sort of assembly lines, but this one's the primary one. The other ones are just like, pick up the metal, dump it into the casings. Not a big deal. But this one's the one that makes sure that the pieces are getting put together, obviously. So it's pretty vital. Not that the others aren't, but I digress.
Speaker F: And so the pieces that are coming through. let's see. First off, I'm going to go up to the more beginning where there's fewer pieces that have been assembled yet.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker F: And I'm going to is there a person working on this section of.
Speaker C: It, like, where the initial pieces kind of pop out?
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker C: not so much here. the line starts a little bit further down, and that's where they start to collect them. So you have to kind of give them a second to cool down once they get popped out of the casters before you can start picking them up and putting them together and stuff like that.
Speaker F: So I'm going to take the crowbar.
Speaker A: And.
Speaker F: Try to pry off the side of the assembly line like the guard that's keeping all the stuff on the belt.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: you start doing this, and somebody approaches you. He's, holding a clipboard. It's not the same guy as before. Actually, you know, it is the same guys before. There's, like, one manager guy that's been working here in this area.
Speaker A: And he says, what exactly are you doing?
Speaker F: Oh, I just got to take this fender off here to lube the bearings.
Speaker C: That's pretty good. Do, you want to roll me a trick?
Speaker F: No, I got a seven.
Speaker C: A seven?
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker C: so you pick one. they stumble. You take plus one forward. When acting against them, they act foolishly. The GM me tells you an additional opportunity that you get. Or they overcommit, and they are deceived.
Speaker F: For sometimes they over commit deceived for some time.
Speaker A: I know what oh, yeah. Sorry about that. I didn't mean to confuse, or get, into your business. yeah, you do what you got to do.
Speaker F: I'd like for him to stop the assembly line while I do this, but time is money.
Speaker A: That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. sorry I can't help you with that. But, if you really need it, I don't know, i, can check with upper management and see if that's allowed. But in, the meantime yeah. do what you got to do. Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you.
Speaker F: Oh, no worries. It's a nice clipboard you got there.
Speaker A: Oh, thanks. Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker C: There you go. Get, your opinion on something.
Speaker A: you think my clipboard is nicer than that guy's over there?
Speaker C: He plants over at Brock? It is a bigger clipboard, though. I mean, look at this thing.
Speaker A: it's got nice features. This is a better clip.
Speaker C: I mean, this is specially made.
Speaker A: Look at it's.
Speaker C: Got my name it's got my name engraved on it.
Speaker F: Yeah, it looks like, an efficient product there.
Speaker A: Thank you.
Speaker C: Streamlined. Yeah, it's more efficient than that. Whatever.
Speaker A: That thing is made of rocks. Looks a little bulky. Yeah. All right. Anyway, you're all right? No. do what you got to do.
Speaker C: I appreciate it keeping the assembly.
Speaker A: Line, up to date where it's got to be.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker A: Get back to it. Carry on.
Speaker F: All right, so let's see, where are these parts coming out at?
Speaker C: Yeah, so they come from the assembly line kind of continues around. So it's like one big circle around the furnace. So they come from the caster section. Casters. Pop them out of casters. Then they come around to you. Give it some time to cool, and then you put it together. All right.
Speaker F: what was going to take the crowbar and stick it in, like, the other side. So he's cleared off the guard on the one side, so it's just, like, open.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
Speaker F: he's going to take going across.
Speaker C: The entire underside of the no, like the top side.
Speaker A: Oh, okay.
Speaker F: And so it's, like, diverting the parts.
Speaker C: just onto the,
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker F: What else can I do here? it goes to another section. He, goes up to the worker on that section. He says, oh, hey, Brock. Guy at the clipboard over there said it's time to take your mandatory break.
Speaker A: Oh, my break? Oh, fantastic. Yeah. You don't have to tell me twice.
Speaker C: And he just heads off to the break room.
Speaker F: Hopefully nobody ate his lunch.
Speaker A: Only.
Speaker F: So Guo's gonna use the hammer now to, like well, he's just gonna crawl underneath this part of the assembly line.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker F: And he's going to take the wrench and just start untightening bolts underneath there.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker F: So eventually it'll loosen itself and the crank will unscrew or whatever.
Speaker A: Absolutely.
Speaker F: He's going to take the bolt completely off. And then just, like, chuck it.
Speaker C: So, yeah, you unscrew the bolt. you pop it off and as you do, things start to buckle a little bit on the assembly line and you can hear it just to, like, a stop. This is happening just as the massive distraction over at the bellows is happening. And so, rather than hearing people.
Speaker A: Go, oh, what's happening to the conveyor belt?
Speaker C: You hear footsteps starting to walk away from the conveyor belt as they go to investigate what's going on over at the bellows, which is perfect because the assembly line is, like, at a full stop right now. whatever you pulled out of it has completely stopped it. And obviously it was a key piece that you've just tossed aside and has gone who knows where.
Speaker F: so I'm going to go to the next section and just be like, repeat the thing.
Speaker A: Sure, yeah.
Speaker F: Brock with the clipboard said it's time to go on your break.
Speaker C: Oh, there's not even anybody there. They've all gone to investigate the Bella.
Speaker F: Okay, so then I just take the hammer and I start whacking the crank.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: You bend it horribly into, like, a warped ah situation. and you do this from piece or section to section until all the sections have sort of a different problem that's wrong with them.
Speaker F: Like, one I take, like, a knife and just cut through the belt. The other one is like, all right, Dilbert, do your thing. It's like cover with.
Speaker A: Lube it up.
Speaker C: For there it is.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: You have sufficiently like I said, you've caused such a versatile amount of different damage to the entire conveyor belt, it would take somebody a massive amount of time to not only find and that's assuming they even have all the pieces, since you've kind of tossed some of them who knows where. so, yes, you have definitely destroyed the assembly line. right. Now, Mika, I assume you said you were coming over to meet with, ah, one of them.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker C: now the four of you have completed your tasks, or three of you have completed your tasks. I mean, I guess, Brock, you've completed the task of supervising.
Speaker D: I was a great supervisor.
Speaker C: You were a great supervisor. You nodded and pointed and thumbsed up. You brought out the whole as necessary.
Speaker D: I brought out the whole ocean, man. I got us in the building.
Speaker C: That's right. Okay, so now you've all completed your tasks. You've sabotaged your pieces. Yeah. How are you getting out of here?
Speaker D: I mean, I got the clipboard. I'm just going to walk out the front door. Walk out the front door.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker D: And I mean, if they're behind me, I'm just like, yeah, I got to take these guys on some extra training.
Speaker C: Let me act that out. sure enough, there's the two guards that are just outside the door and.
Speaker A: They say, hey, where are you guys? Going?
Speaker D: I just got some four new hires. We, got to take them on a full tour, and I got to take them on the outside. Just, show them around.
Speaker A: Oh, okay.
Speaker C: Take the old Circumference check.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker D: Sir.
Speaker A: Perimeter knowledge and such. Okay.
Speaker C: yeah, sure.
Speaker A: hey, what's going on in there? Oh, inside? Yeah. There's, like, shouting and stuff.
Speaker D: there's some of those company disputes. Some people wanted to ask for dental insurance. Could you imagine if we had dental? Yeah. It'd be anarchy.
Speaker A: I mean, I love my dental, but those guys, they're making minimum wage. Who cares? Exactly. Part of the job. Hey, real quick, it's not like, a union thing, right?
Speaker D: Someone brought up that word.
Speaker A: No, they brought it up.
Speaker D: They wanted to unionize.
Speaker A: Headache already.
Speaker D: That's why we got these new hires. They don't know about the union.
Speaker C: See?
Speaker F: They don't know.
Speaker D: This is why we got to bring in new guys every week.
Speaker C: He just glares at Bill, and he's like, don't even say that word.
Speaker A: I don't want to hear that word out of your mouth. If you hear anybody say that word, you tell me who it was. All right? He was inside. Yeah. All right, well, we're going to find out about that. Anyway, sorry. Don't mean to bother you. have a great, I don't.
Speaker C: Know, rest of orientation. let us know if you guys need anything.
Speaker D: Will do. You have a great day, sir.
Speaker A: All right. Wonderful.
Speaker C: as you guys walk out I mean, where are you guys headed now that you're out of the factory? Doesn't matter. Away.
Speaker D: Yeah. Oh, back to the theater for your party.
Speaker C: That's way.
Speaker D: Later. How long are we in there?
Speaker A: Were we only in there?
Speaker C: You guys walk out of the Factory, and then you kind of, like, go around the building a little bit, and then you just kind of stem off into the this is where we ditch the guys.
Speaker E: We forgot to clock out overtime.
Speaker C: And as you guys are making your way down the path, you can start hearing escalated shouts and such from the Factory as more and more things you start to see. actually, the Billowing smoke from above starts to dissipate ever so slightly, and you notice there's quite a significant less amount of that smoke. and as you walk away proudly, a, voice emanates from behind you, and he says, hey, that was pretty well done in there. And you turn around. Standing before you is a fansely dressed man in ridiculously colorful clothing, and he says the name's Mayu Yinyu. It's great to meet all of you.
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