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 M brews an Avatar Legends podcast.
Speaker C: You've pulled some people out of the way, gotten them kind of a safe distance away. There's still maybe, like, three workers that are, like, battling this thing actively. So he's just smashing the ground around him, trying to hit the people.
Speaker D: Are there any particular weak points that I am able to see?
Speaker C: Something about that gem that's sitting kind of almost on top of where its head would be seems significant to you?
Speaker D: So how big is this thing?
Speaker A: Oh, man. I mean, it's a good, like, 10ft tall.
Speaker D: I'm going to try and climb up some piles of rocks behind it. I'm going to try and jump on top of it. And, uh, I will try and strike the gem, and I will try and dislodge it. It's squirming around, trying to shake me off, has no idea what I am, where I am, what I'm trying to do right. And I'm just starting to wail away at the gem on top of its head.
Speaker C: As you're slowly pulling this gem out, you can see some of the chunks of rock actually falling from its body.
Speaker A: What here can I use to help rock? Look, uh, at those rock colonnades or whatever on the side of the hill. I'm going to attempt to take out the small piece of stone that's holding.
Speaker C: The pillar up, cause it to kind of collapse.
Speaker D: I will attempt to destroy this gem on top of the monster you use smash.
Speaker C: You raise your hand above your head. You come down hard. As your fist makes contact with it, the gem itself breaks free, uh, from the creature's head. It flies up. Uh, as it does, the creature starts to kind of, like, wobble and so on the rock to tumble forward and start rolling down the hill, as you mentioned, and comes down and sort of sweeps its legs out from under it. So the whole beast kind of just tumbles backwards and falls. You've got the giant gem in your hand.
Speaker A: This is just a theory, mind you.
Speaker C: But I think what you've got there.
Speaker A: Is known as the, uh, heart of the mountain.
Speaker C: All right, let's get over to Chin Villa. As you're walking towards the center of town, um, music and crowds, uh, speaking and talking and chatting and stuff starts to get louder. And eventually, you approach, uh, what seems to be a massive festival going on. There's, like, a big podium or whatever, and somebody walks out wearing some very nice, fancy clothes.
Speaker E: Attention. Attention, everyone. It is time for the festival's proudest tradition, the revealing of the scales.
Speaker C: And he pulls back the curtain, and everyone gasps. Where is it? Someone stolen it.
Speaker E: Please, everyone, remain calm. We are sure to find the green scale. I'm sure it was a simple misplacement. Never fear. We will find it, and the festival can continue as normal.
Speaker C: Welcome back, everybody, to another awesome and amazing episode of Benders and Brews. Today we're doing episode three and continuing off on the cliffhanger where we left things in Chin Village, where the Great Serpent, uh, Shui Shui's Scale had mysteriously been stolen. A scale that you guys had only just recently found about by attending this festival you didn't expect to attend. But before we get to all of that, we have a character question to get out of the way. And also, in addition, got, uh, to let everybody know that we do not have, um, Michaela, aka Mika, here tonight with us. Um, she had some stuff that she needed to do. So it's just another guys night with the bros. Bros night. Bros night.
Speaker A: Boys night. Boys night.
Speaker C: Classic. It's a throwback to season one's. Boys night. This is Boys Night Part Two, which.
Speaker A: We know is everyone's favorite episode.
Speaker C: Everybody loves a boys night.
Speaker A: Awesome.
Speaker C: So let's kick things off with Connor, aka Brock Lee over here. Give us an interesting fact about our boy broccoli.
Speaker D: So another interesting fact about, uh, our boy Brock Lee is we were talking about, uh, how his dad is the cabbage farmer that is in the show. And since this takes in place before the Hundred Year War, uh, I should mention our family discovered, um, the key to not eternal life, but to really dragging out the years. And it's pickled cabbage juice. So he soaks every night in just a barrel of pickled cabbage juice. That's how he looks like he's 50 in the show, and he's actually, like, 275 canonically. Um, so that's how he does it, right?
Speaker C: I mean, to be fair, this happened somewhere in the 100 Year War, just, like, early on. But, I mean, yeah, that would still be, like, somewhere around 100 years old, at least.
Speaker D: So he found that out when he was hiding from the Fire Nation. Actually, he hid in a pickled, like, a barrel of pickled cabbages. And he came out and he was like, you know what? I'm looking nice. I feel great. I should do this more often. And so, yeah, he does that. And that's how he survives an extra 100 years to meet up with the Ang Gang.
Speaker C: He's like Rage al Ghul from Batman with his pool of rejuvenating water. I get the Lazarus Pits, but it's.
Speaker A: Like a Patrick bateman, uh, from, um, psycho. He's got his pickle morning routine. He's like, I glaze myself in pickles every morning. Keeps me fresh, keeps me young.
Speaker D: Invigorated, um, that's him. He's basically American.
Speaker A: Wait, I have to ask. Does Broccoli know about this regiment?
Speaker C: How could you walk past him and not know about then the second question.
Speaker A: Is then since he knows, does he partake?
Speaker D: I think he's going to hold off on it because he wants to age a little bit so he looks more mature. So maybe when he's like in his 20s, he'll probably do that. So that way he'll look like he's 20 until he's like 300.
Speaker A: I thought you were going to say he's already doing it. That explains why he looks like a full grown man. But he's only like 17.
Speaker D: No, it stops the aging process. It doesn't accelerate it.
Speaker A: Oh, no, I was saying he's doing it.
Speaker C: He's like 40 years old. But he started at 17.
Speaker A: So he still looks 17. But he's like 40.
Speaker C: So basically what you're telling me is he bathes in kimchi.
Speaker D: Not Brock yet.
Speaker C: Well, no. His dad bathes in kimchi. Yeah, essentially.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker C: Interesting.
Speaker D: Whatever cabbages he doesn't sell, you've heard it here, folks.
Speaker C: Go home, buy yourself. Go to your local nearest Asian market and buy yourself a lot of kimchi. They will appreciate you for it. And once you bathe in it, you'll appreciate yourself for it. No one around you will appreciate you for it.
Speaker D: No, you'll love yourself 75 years down the line.
Speaker C: That's right. You will.
Speaker D: Like you're 50.
Speaker C: Yes. And you smell like you're dead. Exactly.
Speaker D: But you're not dead.
Speaker C: But you're not dead. All right, Dave. Aka. Guao Han, give us the interesting fact about our boy Guao.
Speaker A: So, um, Gulhan is the type of kid to tell you I can do a backflip. But if you ask him to do a backflip, there's always going to be some excuse like, um, I'm not wearing the right pants or just bought these shoes. I didn't stretch or stretch too much. I pulled something.
Speaker C: All right. He's not only the kid we all know that'll say that he could do a backflip. He's the kid. We all know that when you ask him, he won't. That's great. That's awesome. All right. Last and not least, we've got Cameron here, aka Bill Door. And Cameron is going to pull, uh, an interesting fact about Bill Dore out of somewhere. He's like magic.
Speaker A: That's how I come up with all my facts, is I come up with them on the spot. Sky always tells me, come up with them beforehand. And I show up without a single fact in doing my one on the spot.
Speaker C: Uh, it's a callback to my, uh, prequel episode.
Speaker A: So no one else here, really? The guys don't because we didn't listen to each other's prequels. Right? Hopefully. Uh uh. But in the episode, Abel talks about his, uh, family used to go boating. Right. But the thing was, in the episode, it wasn't clear if that was a lie to protect his cover, or if that was something he, uh, really did. And I'm here just to confirm that was a big thing his family did when he grew up. He lived, uh, near the docks, and his family had a boat. And they would go out every weekend and go fishing and stuff and go just boating and just enjoy the water and stuff along the ocean.
Speaker C: So he knows boats. So when so in the prequel episode.
Speaker A: When he was talking, uh, to the guy and he asked him if he knew boats well, and Bill said, yeah, I grew up on boats, basically, he was not lying about that. No, I'm just here confirming and also saying that's his fact is, like, he's big into boating. Right on. He loved boating, but he hasn't been able to do it because when you're trapped in the middle of an earth kingdom, hiding from just hiding from your reasons, yeah, there's no boats anyway. There's no boats.
Speaker C: No, not if you're on land. So the fact that we're now on.
Speaker A: Another dock shore, that's true. We have a boat related adventure. Bill's kind of excited.
Speaker C: That's right. Right on. Awesome.
Speaker A: Very cool.
Speaker C: Very cool. Uh, I'm Skyler. I'm the game master here. And interesting fact about me, let's see. This weekend, I walked through a drive through, um, and I got looked at really weird. But I did get food. So, uh, that's, I guess, a possibility. Anyways, all right, onward to the episode. All right. And we're back with Benders and Brews. Episode three. Last you guys, uh, were headed out, uh, you guys came across kind of a mountain pass where you guys fought against some sort of earth mountain spirit of some kind and successfully managed to take it down. Procuring what? Uh, the old man that was helping you guys out referred to as the Heart of the Mountain, which is a sort of gemstone that allegedly holds the spirit of some sort of earth spirit, like, within it or something to that effect. You're not 100% sure that was all he was able to kind of help you guys out with as far as giving you information. But whatever the case, um, you guys quickly found yourselves in Chin Village, which was kind of where you guys were headed before, uh, leaving it's kind of the port village that you'd stop at before you head over to Whaletail Island, which is your ultimate goal, uh, based on the hints that Master Okran had given you. And in Chin Village, you couldn't find anybody until eventually you followed some music and came across everybody all in one place in the town center. And it seemed like there was a big festival going on of some kind. And it turns out they were all there, uh, for something to do with a fancy scale. And when they went to reveal said scale that they claimed was from some sort of spirit lizard creature, something named Shue shui. Uh, they pulled back the covering of the display where the scale was and there was nothing there. And everybody seemed pretty distraught about that. Um, as you guys are standing there in the middle of this square, all around you, people are whispering, gasping. Some people are starting to panic a little bit. Uh, you see one guy in particular that's wearing very drab, dark clothes and he's got stuff all over his face. It looks like he's covered himself in, um, ashes or something. And he is absolutely panicking. He is freaking out. Um, there's the mayor from two different town. Well, a mayor from two different towns. There are two mayors, each from a different town. There we go. Standing up on the stage. They are panicking. Uh, the one mayor seems to be, like, trying to calm everybody. He's waving his hands around and he's.
Speaker E: Saying, now, everyone, please remain calm. I'm sure that everything is okay and we will find the scale shortly.
Speaker C: The other one is just like, standing there, like, wide eyed, just shaking. Just kind of like almost seizure as a classic.
Speaker A: Like, one saying, don't panic, don't panic. And the other one's going, now is the time to panic.
Speaker C: And, uh yeah, um, for the purposes of this episode, since Michaela's gone yes, she's going to be an NPC, following the group around, uh, quietly analyzing everything around her. She's quite susceptible.
Speaker A: What's new?
Speaker C: Uh, what are you guys doing? As everybody's kind of panicking and starting to freak out.
Speaker A: It wasn't me. Nothing in this pouch? Well, I mean, there is some stuff in this pouch, but not, uh, any scales.
Speaker D: Should we go up to the guy who's yelling to not panic and just is it really our business? I mean, we're on a bit of a time crunch.
Speaker A: What would you guys think?
Speaker D: Should we try and help these guys?
Speaker A: I forgot why we were here.
Speaker C: You guys made your way.
Speaker A: Yeah, but why are we in the town? Because we were trying to get a boat.
Speaker C: Yeah, well, so the town sits on the shore, and then you would take a boat from here over to Whaletail Island. But the problem is that nobody was here. Um, everybody was at the festival. So nobody was there to get you a boat or sail you over themselves or whatever the case.
Speaker D: Yeah, I think we were trying to find, uh, some friendly characters to help us get a boat over to Whaletail Island.
Speaker A: Guys, maybe we should get out of here before things get any crazier. Let's try to get a boat.
Speaker C: And just as you're saying that someone who's not panicking, all of a sudden the mayor looks over towards you and.
Speaker E: He says, them over there. Who are they?
Speaker C: And he looks over to the other mayor figure, and she stands there and just kind of puts her hands up like, I don't know them.
Speaker E: And he says, Quick, grab them, and.
Speaker C: A group of guards surrounds you. And, uh, he says, bring them to me.
Speaker E: I want to have a word with them about this dastardly crime.
Speaker C: And so, sure enough, I mean, assuming you guys aren't fighting against them, we.
Speaker A: Need to get a boat. Rock.
Speaker C: They lead you behind the stage.
Speaker A: Are they leading us to a boat?
Speaker C: To which the mayor kind, uh, of comes back behind.
Speaker E: He's like, don't worry. We're going to settle all of this.
Speaker C: Everybody's eyes are on you as they lead you guys back.
Speaker E: Perhaps they're the ones that took it. We can get it back, incarcerate them, and the festival can continue on as if none of this ever happened.
Speaker C: Uh, so as they lead you back behind the stage, uh, he insists that the guard search all of you.
Speaker E: Search them for the scale.
Speaker C: And they give you quick pat down. And he says, no scale. And they say, no scale, sir.
Speaker E: And he right. All right, I must ask, what, uh, are the four of you doing here?
Speaker D: Uh, we're looking for someone who can help us out with a boat.
Speaker E: A boat? To where? Wait, no. First, tell me where you are from.
Speaker D: We're from further into the Earth kingdom.
Speaker A: That way. Ah.
Speaker E: Uh, Zhao Ling. So you must have traveled through the mountain past, then?
Speaker A: Yeah, just last night. Yesterday.
Speaker D: Sure did.
Speaker A: And now we want a boat to whale Tongue Island.
Speaker D: Whale tail.
Speaker E: Well, you must admit, it seems awfully suspicious for a group of strangers to show up in my town during our festival, just as our prize scale has gone missing.
Speaker D: Why is this scale such a big deal?
Speaker E: Excuse me. You are not familiar with the great Shui Shui, the great serpent spirit who gave us her precious scales as a blessing and a sign of good luck, so long as we are in possession.
Speaker D: Of it in one ear, out the.
Speaker A: Other, bud nor care for its scale.
Speaker E: Uh, Shui Shui is the great serpent spirit that resides in the waters immediately surrounding Qin village and spanning all the way to Quinchao village. She is incredibly powerful and has chosen Qin village as her, um, home. And to prove this, she has left us with her beautiful green scale, which, as you can tell, has been stolen.
Speaker C: And then all of a sudden, the other mayor, the female mayor, comes bursting back. She wears all black clothing. She comes bursting back, and she says.
Speaker F: That right there is a bold faced lie. You know as well as I do that the red scale, which is the true scale, mind you, was given to Quin Chow village and has been deemed her home, not Chin village.
Speaker E: You, as usual, are, uh, truly and completely mistaken, dear mayor, you.
Speaker C: And they start to bicker back and.
Speaker A: Forth.
Speaker C: And then one, uh, of the guards just goes, sir.
Speaker E: And he goes, oh, yes, uh, my apologies. The important matter right now is to find the scale that has been stolen so the festival may go on. Now, knowing that you four don't have the precious scale, I feel as though I can trust you to help us find it. If you would be so willing to help us. If you do, I will ensure you have free travel to Whaletail Island.
Speaker A: Pop.
Speaker C: What do they say?
Speaker A: Post haste?
Speaker E: Post haste.
Speaker C: I feel like there's also like an old tiny promptly prompt m I like.
Speaker E: I'll ensure your travel to Whaletail Island pop goes the weasel. Ferret. Are you willing to help us find the scale and save this celebration?
Speaker D: Can we break off into a huddle real quick? Can we talk amongst ourselves and recess?
Speaker E: Yeah, sure.
Speaker D: Uh, I don't know.
Speaker C: What are you guys thinking? Nah.
Speaker D: What if we give him the we.
Speaker A: Have no idea what we're even looking for.
Speaker D: What if we give them like the heart of the mountain thing and just tell them it's the scale?
Speaker A: They would know what the scale is. Do they? Well, they seem to have a whole sort of celebration around the scale. I would think they know what it looks like.
Speaker D: I'm going to just break off and just yell hey, what color is the scale?
Speaker C: That's a great question you asked. Um at the exact same time, both mayors shout out red separately.
Speaker A: So one yells green, the other one is red.
Speaker C: Yes.
Speaker A: What color is the color of the mouth?
Speaker C: It's red.
Speaker D: So who yelled red?
Speaker C: The female mayor shouts out red. The male mayor shouts out green.
Speaker A: So what if we just give hold up though. Uh, question though. Wouldn't they have seen it when they searched us?
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, the shard. Yeah.
Speaker A: They would have seen the thing of the mountain if they searched us.
Speaker C: So they would know that's not it.
Speaker A: Or else they would have been like, what's this?
Speaker C: Uh, the guard probably looked at it and went, but then he put it back because that's not what they were looking for.
Speaker D: But the guard saw it, not the other guys. And if they can't even agree on what color it is, they see it every year apparently. So I mean, who's to say? What if he's one of the subjects of the males village and they're going.
Speaker A: To think you stole it?
Speaker D: What if I put it behind a boulder? I'm like, hey, what's this? And I mean, it's worth a shot, right?
Speaker A: We don't want to say that sounds good enough for me. Lean over to Bill. I'm like that should be fun to watch. Yeah, I think so. That sounds a great idea.
Speaker D: Yeah, it's a great idea. See, I have good ideas.
Speaker A: Yeah, great idea. Pat some on the back.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker D: We'Ll just kind of shuffle off to the side real quick.
Speaker A: Weeding.
Speaker C: Yeah. Uh, because we got to find you're all just like sideways smiling. It's very avatar the last airbender, to be honest with you.
Speaker D: Very discreetly.
Speaker C: There's probably like a sound that goes on.
Speaker D: I very discreetly pull the shard out and just chuck, um, it behind a bullet that's, like, 10ft away. I'm like, we'll try and find it over here. And so I go behind, and I'm like, hey, what is this thing that I have just now found that apparently matches your description? And I walk over, and I try and hand it to the lady.
Speaker C: Okay, I just want to clarify, as the game master, if this was Dungeons and Dragons and this was not sort of like as much, uh, story developing, as much as it's like anything can, uh, really happen 100%, I would have that, uh, gemstone shatter and bring the boulder to life, because obviously, that's kind of what it does. But that's not what it does in this instance, because that's not what we're playing here.
Speaker D: All right, so you want us to do something else?
Speaker C: No.
Speaker D: This whole interaction out.
Speaker C: No, I think this is you already.
Speaker A: Threw it what's down? You've tossed into the old saying, you.
Speaker C: Go, rock is a rock. You brought it over, saying, Whoa, what's this?
Speaker G: I think I found it.
Speaker D: What, uh, is this thing I have just now found? Just now?
Speaker F: The female mayor says, oh, what is that?
Speaker C: And the male mayor says, It seems.
Speaker E: To be a shard of some kind.
Speaker D: Is this not what you're looking for?
Speaker E: Oh, no. It looks more like this.
Speaker C: And he pulls out, like, a rolled up tapestry, and he rolls it out, and it shows this sparkling green gem on it. And, uh, the female mayor approaches, and.
Speaker F: She says, well, that's what the fake one looks like. Not quite how the real scale looks.
Speaker E: Excuse me. This is what the real scale looks like.
Speaker C: And they start bickering back and forth again.
Speaker D: There's two?
Speaker F: Well, there's only R1 scale, of course, and as I said, it's red.
Speaker E: No, the real scale is ours, and it's green.
Speaker A: Uh, do you guys share it, or.
Speaker E: You see, the festival we're holding takes place every year, but not always in the same place. See, when Shue Shui gifted Chin Village with her beautiful green scale apparently Quinchao Village just so, uh, happened to produce their phony red scale at the same time. Rather than start a war over which scale was the real one as Shui Shui scale was supposed to represent peace, we decided to simply alternate which village would hold the festival each year with the respective village presenting their scale at the reveal ceremony while the other village would have theirs on hand as well but stored away.
Speaker A: All right, so that didn't work. I feel like we could just sneak off and get a boat, and they probably still would be arguing and probably make no progress whatsoever.
Speaker D: Honestly. I mean, you went along with one of my dumb ideas, so I'm down to try that.
Speaker A: Except mine's not dumb.
Speaker D: Well, I had the humility to say mine's dumb. You were blinded by your own hubris, sir.
Speaker A: I'm not blind. I've got perfect vision. I kind of want to hear more about this scale. Um oh, my word.
Speaker C: There's two different stories. It's two different scales.
Speaker A: Clearly, it's two different scales. What if it's not a scale and it actually is a shiny rock like Brock said, that, like, changes colors. Maybe that'd be a pretty cool addition to my collection. Okay, well, I don't think they're going to let you add this rock to your collection. Maybe I could just accidentally drop it. That's, uh, a great idea. Let's damage this priceless rock.
Speaker D: How do you know it's priceless?
Speaker A: Well, clearly, look at the state of his town. And Bill ushers over points to the mass swarm of people screaming behind a curtain.
Speaker C: Yeah, they're, like, literally bawling their eyes out. They're like.
Speaker A: I think it's priceless in their eyes.
Speaker D: It's probably fine.
Speaker A: I mean, look at these people, though. They're emotionally devastated. I don't think they're in any condition to sail. Well, I mean, if you find your favorite rock, I think you'll be happy.
Speaker D: Enough to, like what if we give it, like, 3 hours and then if we can't find it, we'll just hop on a boat?
Speaker A: Sounds boring.
Speaker D: You're boring.
Speaker A: I want to go on the quest now. Brock's got a mean. Yeah, we could probably steal a smaller I mean, I don't know if that's what Mr. Uh, Ochron would want us to do, but if we get a bigger ship, it would go faster. One with bigger sails.
Speaker D: I mean, I was the one fighting the monster.
Speaker A: At least that's what I would think. I'm not much of a sailor.
Speaker D: You stood on the sidelines, and I'm the boring one.
Speaker A: I, uh, was still on the sidelines protecting the old guy. Make sure no falling rocks fall on him again. I mean, he already had one tragic event in his life. He didn't need two. I was right there, Brock. I was about to do Slide down the Mountain. I was going to do a backflip. Uh, I still waiting to see one of these fabled backflips glow. I can totally do backflips.
Speaker C: Uh, the mayor looks over and he.
Speaker E: Goes, wait, this kid can do a backflip? Oh, dang, I've got to see that.
Speaker A: No, he's got to stretch first. And Billy does the quotes with his.
Speaker D: Hands, but then he stretches too hard. All right.
Speaker A: It's kind of an art I expect you guys to understand. Of course. Uh, so you said there's a scale missing? Yeah. We can help with that. Right, guys?
Speaker E: You will? Oh, good.
Speaker C: And he quickly puts his arm around your shoulders and pushes you out towards the stage. And now, all of a sudden, you're in front of, like, uh, 400, 500 people, and he shouts out, good news, everyone.
Speaker E: These four strangers have agreed to help us find the scale. As soon as they do, the festival can return to normal.
Speaker C: And there's, like, a round of applause as everybody's like, oh, good. They'll find it. I know they'll find it.
Speaker E: With that being said, nobody gets to leave town because you are all suspects.
Speaker A: I think he did it. And I just point the one random guy in the crowd, he goes.
Speaker G: He'S.
Speaker A: Like he's, like, stubbing.
Speaker C: His face full of like he's got some kind of, like he's got, like, fireflakes or something.
Speaker A: Bill's trying to speed up this process.
Speaker C: Two guards, like, rush over, and they just start giving him the pat down. And they're like, no, he's clean, Dang.
Speaker A: I thought I had a hunch about that.
Speaker E: And the mayor shouts out, search his fireflakes.
Speaker C: Fireflakes.
Speaker G: And move them around.
Speaker C: And there's no that's clean, too. But my hands all dirty.
Speaker A: You have to eat some to make sure.
Speaker C: I really don't like fireflakes.
Speaker D: Do you want to find the scale?
Speaker G: Okay.
Speaker C: He just licks his hand because it's coated in fireflake powder. And he's like, uh.
Speaker D: I feel the quickest way to get this done is just to split up and do our own interrogations.
Speaker A: Wouldn't you say that sounds like it would sound like it would what? I have to talk to more people. I thought after the job was done.
Speaker E: If I may, it would make things easier on all of you. I can gather up the suspects that I have some suspicions about as far as having something to do with this case. I can gather them all up for you, and you can talk to them one by one in my office, perhaps.
Speaker A: Putting a lot of trust in four outsiders you've just met.
Speaker E: Well, I don't have much choice.
Speaker A: Okay, well, give us security.
Speaker C: He holds out his hand so are.
Speaker E: We all in agreement here?
Speaker C: And he holds out his hands to shake. And, uh, you notice that he has black gunk all over his hands. Maybe, like, ink or something. All over his hands.
Speaker D: What happened to Dilbert?
Speaker A: Craig, check your bag. I checked my bag for yep. I feel his hard shell. He's there.
Speaker C: Yep.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker C: You feel a very gentle caress from one of his many, um, no, just like a reassuring, like, hey, dad, or something.
Speaker A: Like build or is afraid of squids, and he's just been penting it all down deep, deep down.
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Speaker D: So, of the people on this list, how many people do you know have had access to this shard the scale.
Speaker C: In the last day?
Speaker A: Wait, didn't he put his hand out for a handshake? I'm not shaking. We all just stared at it, I guess.
Speaker C: He looks down at his hand, and he sees the ink, and he goes, Apologies.
Speaker E: That must have happened earlier.
Speaker C: And he puts his hand away.
Speaker E: All right, let me go through everyone I can think of. Let's see. There was me, of course, but, hey, uh, I obviously didn't do it. Then you have Councilwoman Lin. She's my right hand, my assistant, and the m one who does almost all of the planning for this festival. She has access to the scale. Let's see. Councilman Young has a key to the storage building where we keep the scales during the festival. So I suppose if he has his key with him today. He might be a prime suspect. Of course there's cato. He's the guard for the storage building. So of course he had access to the scale. There's also Mayor Yu. When she and her people of Quinchao village arrived, she and I visited the storage building to place their fake red scale in there. Plus, she has a ton of motive, which is pretty suspicious. She was accompanied by Councilman huh Huan, who is her right hand on the council.
Speaker C: And you look over, and there's a dude with kind of, like, spiky red hair standing right next to, uh, Mayor Yu.
Speaker D: So this morning, when you checked on it, can you recall, uh, exactly what happened?
Speaker E: Uh, yes, of course. So this morning, Councilwoman Lynn and I were running around, ensuring that everything for the festival was ready. When the people of Quinchao village arrived, I met with Mayor Yu and Councilman Huan, who joined myself and Lind to the storage facility. Keita was already there keeping guard. He used his key to let us in. Mayor Yu set her fake red scale down on the pedestal next to where we keep the true scale, which was, in its case, covered over with a thin cloth, which is part of the reveal. Then the four of us left, and Kato locked the door behind us, and that was that.
Speaker A: Bill, you got any more hunches?
Speaker D: Did you all leave?
Speaker A: Yeah, he did it. And then I just point at another, uh, random dude.
Speaker C: Uh, he's at a game, like he's throwing, like, a ball into a hoop or something like that. And so he's about to throw. He's like, right about to throw. And then all of a sudden, he's like and then all of a sudden, guards like they're like, frisking him and frisking him and checking him, and he's like, oh, no. And then they're like, what's this? And they pull out, uh, a fancy pocket watch.
Speaker G: And he's like, no, I swear, that's mine.
Speaker C: And they're like, I don't know. You look kind of sus.
Speaker A: He said, steal it. What?
Speaker C: The guard looks at him and he goes, what?
Speaker A: You heard him.
Speaker C: We're the detectives here. Michaela was right. This is not bill is 100% like.
Speaker A: He'S like, I don't know these people. And they gave me unlimited power. So I am trying to see where my extent of my power goes. Now. Apparently, it doesn't help that he's brock goading him on. He's like, you heard him.
Speaker D: You heard the man.
Speaker A: Bill's just buried up the guard.
Speaker G: What did he say?
Speaker A: You eat it.
Speaker C: The watch.
Speaker A: No more fireflakes.
Speaker C: What do you think about dang it? He gives the watch back, buys firefly from a vendor, and then just, like, walks back over and just starts munching.
Speaker A: On how guys, I don't wonder you crying.
Speaker C: He says, I prefer sea sesame crackers.
Speaker A: Guys, I think I figured something out. I'm almost 100% sure that guard didn't do it. Almost, though.
Speaker C: Almost mayor Wu, the male mayor doing everything we say.
Speaker A: I mean, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't take a shell. Or maybe he's covering up by being too agreeable.
Speaker C: It's a scale, sir.
Speaker A: Chim and I point to the guard.
Speaker C: Two other guys come running over and they start, like, uh, patting, uh, him down and stuff, and they take all his weapons off of him and such. And then one guy's like, oh, I know what I'm doing. And he reaches into the dude's fireflakes and then he just starts shoveling them into his mouth.
Speaker A: Great job.
Speaker C: I don't think it's them, but these are delicious.
Speaker A: At least someone likes the fireflakes. So, guys, here's my idea, okay? What if we just took everyone on this list and just made them all come up here and then we just searched them all at once?
Speaker D: But what if they don't have it on them and they just hit it somewhere else? That's ridiculous.
Speaker A: You think they're just going to toss it behind some rock like it's some normal rock? I mean, we found the jet behind the, uh why?
Speaker D: Who's to say that Mr. Squid Ink Hands over here. And I point at woo, very unapologetically. Mr. Squid Ink hands over here. Are you with an earshot? Is he with an earshot?
Speaker A: Yeah, he's standing right next to you. She wants him to hear.
Speaker D: Who's to say this guy didn't take it and put it in, like an ocean thing and that's why he had to run it with squid? That's why he's got black ink on his hands? Who's to say the scale is not in the ocean? Isn't an ocean or a pond or a lake? It's the ocean.
Speaker C: It's the ocean.
Speaker D: Who's to say he didn't put it in the ocean, had to run it with a squid? That's where the ink is on his hands from. Unless you can explain the ink.
Speaker E: Oh, yes, I can, um, absolutely explain that for you. See, earlier, after, ah, I met with Mayor Ewan, secured the scales at the storage facility, I realized I had forgotten my scroll with the speech I had prepared for the unveiling ceremony. So I rushed back to my office and in the process of grabbing it, I knocked over my ink well, um, and spilled ink everywhere. That's how it got all over my hands.
Speaker D: So you went and saw the shard, the scale, but then you frantically ran to your office during a huge event by yourself?
Speaker E: Well, as I said, I had forgotten my speech scroll. Would you like, uh, to go and see the facility where the scales are stored? Perhaps that would offer an opportunity to find some clues to this mystery.
Speaker A: Absolutely.
Speaker C: And he turns around, he goes, well, then, follow me.
Speaker E: Wait. May you is gone. Perhaps she has stolen it and is trying to hide it. Quick, guards, find Mayor Yu and bring her uh, to me promptly. I will be at the storage facility.
Speaker C: With the detectives, and they all start to fan out.
Speaker D: I think you took it.
Speaker A: That's what he just said.
Speaker D: Oh, that's a double meaning because I'm like, uh, yes.
Speaker A: Is this guy's name Mayor Me?
Speaker C: No. His is wu. He is Me, and I am oh, gosh, no.
Speaker A: You did it.
Speaker D: No, I didn't.
Speaker C: I say, not you.
Speaker A: You. What? We can do this bit all night. Yeah.
Speaker D: Mr. Let's get to a boat as quick as possible.
Speaker A: Great idea.
Speaker C: All right, so he takes you guys over to a facility. It's a very basic stone hut. Um, it's a one floor. It's not very big. It's basically just a small storage facility. It has no windows. It just has one door. And it is an iron door with a lock, like a space for a key. Uh, you arrive there and you see Mayor Yu is standing there arguing with the guard that is standing there, and you can hear from a distance.
Speaker F: She's saying you don't understand. I must get inside because I need to check on Quinchao Village's scale.
Speaker G: Well, ma'am, as I heard, I think the scale's been stolen.
Speaker F: Actually, no, the green scale has been stolen. I need to see inside and make sure that the red scale is still in there.
Speaker G: Well, I don't know anything about a red scale, ma'am, but, uh, I can't let you in there. I'm on strict orders from Mayor Wu that, uh, nobody's supposed to go in there.
Speaker C: And then at this point, this is when you guys arrive. And of course, Mayor Wu says, well.
Speaker E: The criminal does return to the scene of the crime.
Speaker F: If you must know, I came here to ensure the red scale is still safe, as your storage facility is obviously not as secure as you promised me.
Speaker C: Then, of course, they start bickering, I.
Speaker D: Guess, really get heated over the color of the scale. We got Mayor Wu here, and, uh, I'm sure he's allowed in his own office. So I think we're just going to go in and, uh, forgive me, I.
Speaker E: Must not have been clear. This is not my office. This is simply the storage facility that we use to store the scales prior to the unveiling ceremony.
Speaker A: Yeah, this has no windows. That'd be pretty sad if this was his office.
Speaker C: It would keto's like, whoa, this is.
Speaker G: Kind of like my office, almost, in a sense. I mean, I don't really go in there. I could I probably shouldn't say that I'm kind of incriminating myself.
Speaker D: So, uh, who is allowed in there?
Speaker G: Oh, who's allowed in? Uh, I mean, like, I mean, I'm allowed to go in there if I have a suspicion that maybe someone's inside. Uh, otherwise, Mayor Wu is allowed in there. Uh, Councilwoman Lynn is allowed in there. That's about it.
Speaker D: So could we go in there with Mayor Wu to investigate?
Speaker C: Mayor Wu's?
Speaker E: Like, yes, of course. Please. Uh, Mr. Cato, if you'd be so kind as to allow us entrance to the facility.
Speaker C: He opens the door, and you guys go inside. Uh, there's a number of just kind of boxes that are all nailed tight shut, uh, scattered across the room. Some of them have, like, big, heavy blankets over them. Some of them are just sitting there. Um, there's a couple of other just kind of random, obscure items sitting around that you might find in a storage facility. But then, right in the center of the entire room, there is a fancy stone pedestal. And on top of it, ah, there's nothing there. But you wonder if maybe there would be something there normally. Um, and Mayor Ah Wu walks over and he points at it and he says, yes.
Speaker E: So, as you can see, atop this pedestal here is where we keep the scale in a glass case. Now, the facility is really where the security measures are focused. The glass case does not feature a lock. It's more there to keep the scale from getting dirty and such. Anyways, a white cloth normally sits on top of the glass case, and it is removed during the ceremony. If I'm being completely honest, I did not look under the cloth when I came here to get the glass case that I had assumed the scale was inside of. Obviously, that means that anytime between this morning and when I came to get the scale, it could have been stolen.
Speaker G: Well, it's funny you should ask, Mr. Mayor, because I did actually kind of notice something at one point. Uh, I was making my rounds around the storage facility, as I do. I was on my, uh, 27th round, in fact. And, uh, all of a sudden, I heard some weird, jingling sound of some kind. Uh, but, uh, by the time I got over here, there was nothing there. But I did see something running over into the bushes just past right over there.
Speaker C: And he kind of points off to the distance, not too far off, maybe like, 2020, 30ft. Uh, away from the storage facility?
Speaker G: Yeah, right over there. And, uh, like I said, I don't know what it was, but he's just somebody wearing black, it looked like. Or maybe it was an animal or something that just shot, uh, past, like black fur or something. I don't know. But it didn't seem that big of a deal. I checked the door. Everything was still locked. No big deal.
Speaker A: Interesting.
Speaker E: That most definitely sounds like a clue.
Speaker A: Let's take a look at this stone pedestal here. All right. Glow and approach it and look for any hidden panels, compartments, some stone trickery of any kind.
Speaker C: Sure. Uh, I'm going to have you, uh, assess a situation.
Speaker D: So does Keto not like to eat bread?
Speaker A: Uh, it's actually keto.
Speaker C: Oh, did I say keto? Well, I guess we're going with Keto.
Speaker A: Said three times.
Speaker C: All right, we're going with Keto.
Speaker D: He's not a bread guy.
Speaker A: He's not a bread guy.
Speaker D: He's in ketosis.
Speaker A: Those are right.
Speaker C: That's a five. Those went right off the tip.
Speaker A: Eight.
Speaker C: An eight. All right, so with an eight, you're able to ask me one of those questions on the assess the situation, and you can kind of alter them as necessary to kind of fit what you're going for.
Speaker A: Yeah. What's my best way into this pedestal?
Speaker C: Okay, uh, you feel around the entire pedestal, you're looking for any obscure divots or anything, uh, sort of out of the ordinary. And you don't seem to find anything on the pedestal. But as you are checking sort of the bottom of the pedestal where it touches the ground, you do notice a couple of footprints, or rather boot prints seem to be both facing away and a set of the same boot prints that are facing towards let's say towards first, then away. I don't know, as far as you can tell.
Speaker A: I analyze these boot prints. I, uh, put my hand next to it to compare the okay.
Speaker C: Um, they seem to be fairly large boot prints. Probably, um, two of your hand worth. So fairly large feet.
Speaker D: Hey, Keto, what size shoe you wear? Big gang.
Speaker G: Oh, man, I just wear these.
Speaker C: And he holds them up, and they're.
Speaker A: Fairly large sized shoes.
Speaker D: Would you mind stepping in these boot prints real quick?
Speaker G: Sure.
Speaker C: Sets his foot down.
Speaker G: Oh, look at that. They're pretty darn close. Look at wow, that's cool. Who's are these?
Speaker D: This guy?
Speaker A: I don't know. He's great.
Speaker D: Ah, yeah, I love him. They're his now he's definitely well, just one. I mean, if there's a whole trail of them, we can, uh you look.
Speaker C: Down at Mayor Wu's feet, and you see that he's wearing some very light fabric shoes, which is a bit more common know, kind of higher society. Um, you can see footprints that match those, but these ones stand out as not his, so why would they be here?
Speaker A: Okay. Someone that wasn't him or tree van.
Speaker C: Correct.
Speaker A: Got it. So it's not him. Uh, we got that reveal.
Speaker C: Now you at least know that he wasn't the one wearing those shoes.
Speaker A: But can we get Mary you in here?
Speaker F: Yes. Hello. How can I help you?
Speaker C: She peeks through the doorway. She was just kind of standing outside. She kind of rushes in. She pushes past you, and she pulls back another, uh, blanket over what looked like just another one of the crates. And sure enough, inside is a brilliant red.
Speaker A: Here. Found it.
Speaker F: Well, this is our scale. The red scale from Quinchao village.
Speaker D: We were told to find a scale.
Speaker A: Done. Give us our boat ride, Mayor.
Speaker C: You m mayor Wu is like, wait.
Speaker E: No, I need you to find the green scale. I don't give a crap about that red piece of junk.
Speaker F: Excuse me?
Speaker C: And then, of course, they start Bickling.
Speaker D: You just met us today. You think we care?
Speaker A: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker E: You are here to find the green scale. That's the one that's missing.
Speaker D: You got a whole security team.
Speaker A: My guy.
Speaker E: Uh, as I said before, I can't trust anyone here in the village. They're all suspects, and any one of them could be guilty.
Speaker A: Uh, good boy. What's this?
Speaker C: Good point.
Speaker A: I said you should always follow his hunches. Shouldn't let it get him down that they didn't turn out out there. Uh, yeah. Very cryptic of you, guo. Uh, I think Bill's just kind of looking around the room. How many people are in here? Is it just you and it's wu?
Speaker C: You and I and you guys.
Speaker A: Wait. What kind of shoes does she wear?
Speaker C: Does, uh, wu wear sorry, you wear yes.
Speaker A: Why did I do this to myself?
Speaker C: You wears, uh, fabric shoes as well. Very similar to woo's.
Speaker A: Uh, do the shoe prints that were spotted, the heavyset ones, do they lead out the door?
Speaker C: Yes.
Speaker A: Do they lead towards that bush?
Speaker C: Uh, you could rely on your skills and training to see if you can follow them. All right, so that would be a soft hit. So you are following these footprints, and as you followed them, you realize, uh, they do lead out towards the bush.
Speaker A: Okay?
Speaker C: And then you turn around to let everybody know the exciting news that you followed the footprints to the bush. And they're all staring at you with a sense of sort of shock and, uh, the audacity kind of a look. And you look down, you realize that you walked on the footprints as you were following them, and now they've all been stepped on. Everyone's got that look. Yeah, well, I don't know.
Speaker A: I guess everyone's on the case. They've all cracked the case.
Speaker C: Okay, well, it leads to the bush. Cool.
Speaker A: I'm just going to go to the bush. I don't care. It's not like a crikey. Apparently, I control this town with this search case. I can just rest anyone, search anyone, do anything.
Speaker C: I mean, you could say that you did step on the footprints, but I.
Speaker A: Guess it costs you like I definitely did. Okay, I don't care.
Speaker D: We know that keto's boots a pretty close match.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's true.
Speaker A: Uh, wait a minute. What is mayor who wearing?
Speaker C: Mayor you?
Speaker A: No, mayor wu.
Speaker C: Wu. Oh, yes. Mayor Wu is wearing a set of ceremonial fabric shoes. Yeah, the shoes he's asking for, like, the other clothes.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker D: You said mayor yu was wearing all black earlier.
Speaker C: That's true. Mayor Wu is wearing green, matching the color that he believes the correct scale is supposed to be. Uh, mayor you.
Speaker D: What else?
Speaker A: I really wish it was a blue scale. The casino would be mare woo. Mare woo mare shoe. Mare.
Speaker C: Be doing some tongue twister.
Speaker A: Uh, an animal, possibly. It is entirely possible it was a bear, a local bear running around stealing the scale.
Speaker C: It could have been a coon cat bears. The other thing that you notice that mayor you, the female mayor, is wearing, is she has a number of pieces of jewelry. I mean, I guess I'm assuming you're looking around at everybody. Uh, she has a set of jewelry laden across herself.
Speaker A: Sounded weird.
Speaker C: Say it that way, but we're going to roll with it. Of, um, course. Wu has, uh, a set of many keys buckled to his belt that jingle as he walks.
Speaker A: Jingle, jangle.
Speaker C: Obviously the, uh, jewelry jingles as Mayor Yu walks.
Speaker A: Jingle, jangle.
Speaker D: The same jingle jangles that Keto heard.
Speaker A: Is there anything in the bush?
Speaker C: Uh, there is nothing that seems to be in the bush except the scale. The scale itself. There is a cloth inside that seems gosh, that seems to be smudged with some sort of black substance.
Speaker A: Guys. Hooray.
Speaker D: So, uh, just a cloth? It's not covering anything?
Speaker C: No, it's a fairly large cloth. It's like, kind of sticking out or kind of almost draped across the back of this bush.
Speaker D: Could I put my hands on the cloth to see if any black stuff residue leaves on my hands?
Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely. Um, it does it's a little bit. It's not much. Um, most of it is dried into this cloth, whatever it seems to be the substance. But, um, yeah, there's a little bit that sticks to your hand.
Speaker D: Could I compare that with Mayor Wu? Mr. Wu, if that is your real name.
Speaker E: It is my real name. What do you want?
Speaker D: Yeah, ah, I want to take you up on that handshake from a couple of hours ago.
Speaker E: That is a strange request indeed, but as a politician, I would never withhold from one of my constituents my hand.
Speaker C: For a shake, and he reaches out his hand.
Speaker D: So I reach out my mirroring hand. So if it's his right hand, I reach out my left.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker D: I grab his wrist, and then I hold his hand up, and I hold my hand up and compare. How do the hands compare?
Speaker C: Oh, it is a very similar, uh, uh, or visual or whatever you want.
Speaker A: To call, uh, that.
Speaker D: Mr. Mayor Wu. Martha May wu. Is that your wife's name?
Speaker E: No.
Speaker D: Live down in Wuville with all your other?
Speaker E: No, I live in Chin Village.
Speaker D: So, Mr. Wu, would you like to explain how the residue on my hand from this cloth matches your hands?
Speaker E: The cloth. Oh, my.
Speaker C: And he sees the cloth in your hand?
Speaker E: That's the cloth we use to cover the glass case that holds the scale.
Speaker D: What do we do with this information?
Speaker E: Where did you find this?
Speaker D: No, it was in this bush.
Speaker E: Perhaps whoever stole the scale has black.
Speaker D: Residue on their hands.
Speaker E: Mr, now I can see where your mind is going and the conclusions you are making, but again, I assure you I was not the one that stole the scale.
Speaker D: That's what they all say. I feel we need to see your office, mr. Wu.
Speaker A: We'll meet the suspects in your office. Yeah, call them all there right now.
Speaker C: That's an order.
Speaker E: Okay.
Speaker C: Uh, he turns to Cato and he.
Speaker E: Says, cato, since the green scale is no longer here, your duty guarding this area is over. Your new order is to go and find these people.
Speaker C: He just starts listing off a number of people.
Speaker A: There is a scale in there.
Speaker E: Well, I don't care about that phony piece of junk.
Speaker C: Mayor Yu is inside, and she says, no, wait.
Speaker F: You can't do this. You promised that my red scale would be safe. Who's going to protect it?
Speaker E: Nope. I don't trust you, so I'm not leaving you here.
Speaker F: Uh, but someone is going to steal my scale.
Speaker E: We'll lock the door.
Speaker D: Let's go to the, uh, office.
Speaker C: All right, you head to the office. Uh, uh. They force Mayor Yu out of the storage room. They lock it with the key behind her.
Speaker F: She's like, I swear, if the red scale is missing, when I come back, I will bring the full wrath of Quinchao Village down upon all of you.
Speaker D: We'll be on a boat by then. We don't care.
Speaker C: Then they lead everyone off towards, uh, the office, the Mayor Wu's office, where you will get to meet the rest of the suspects. Next time.
Speaker D: Next time.
Speaker A: Next time.
Speaker D: We got this whole interrogation next.
Speaker C: That's right, listening to the full interrogation search. Um, them.
Speaker A: Um, and it's going to be done in no time. Uh, uh. There you go.
Speaker C: All right, so be sure to come back next time for Benders and Brews, episode four, when we will hopefully reveal the results of this mystery.
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