Session Zero Heroes - A TTRPG Actual Play Podcast
Speaker A: 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 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.
Speaker B: Last time on Benders and brews, an Avatar Legends podcast. He finds very large, nice house, and on the decorative mailbox, it says, shifu family.
Speaker C: And I knock on a door, a.
Speaker B: Man dressed in a long robe says, welcome to the Shifu residence. My name is Sebastian. You mentioned something about some sort of tea deal that the master and the mistress have ordered for the party tonight.
Speaker C: Yeah, there's a miscommunication.
Speaker B: Maybe I could retrieve the order form and, uh, if you want to write notes on it, and I could have it sent off to the master, wherever he's at.
Speaker D: Lakoshadaka. Why?
Speaker C: He's out of the room. I'm pickpotticking their couch cushion.
Speaker B: He comes in, and he hands you a sheet of paper. It is a tea ordering form from some company called Hot Leaf Juice.
Speaker E: Oh, hey there, Mr. Got, uh, a squid delivery.
Speaker F: I walk around the house, try and find any sort of storm doors.
Speaker B: Yeah, you do find kind of a storm cellar.
Speaker F: I want to go in there. I try to just smash the lot, and I try to go in through and close the door behind me.
Speaker C: There was a problem with the hot leaf juice not having all the proper tea that they needed, so that they needed our help, the blissful brew, to kind of restock what they have. And you guys give us the rest of the payment.
Speaker B: So he writes that down, and, uh, he says, I will have this mailed off right away. Stuck in the basement. Who is hot leaf juice? How will the master and mistress use this squid? And then the real question, will Brock.
Speaker C: Lee ever get out of the basement? Or is he stuck there to enjoy his time with his new friend, the squid?
Speaker B: Hello, everyone, and welcome to Benders and Brews, an avatar. Well, I guess there's a little bit more to that. A non canonical avatar Legends real play podcast. It's important to say that because we come up with some pretty crazy stuff, and, uh, sometimes we get a little bit of inspiration from the show, and sometimes we, uh, very much mess with the inspiration we get from the show. And also, sometimes we just don't use certain things from the show. I digress. My name is Skyler Corsa, and I am the game master, creating this story alongside my co writer, Nick Van something, who's not here today. I'm not going to try it with his last name anymore. I think it's person. It's like person with an M-M-I don't know. He doesn't like it. Anyway, it's not that I'm still wrong. Are you kidding me?
Speaker C: No.
Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker D: Oh.
Speaker B: Maybe we should just call him Dr. Nick. I kind of like that. No, uh, he has his doctorates, doesn't he? He deals in medicine, doesn't he?
Speaker E: He's a quack.
Speaker B: Quack Nick. All right. Anyways, uh, and, uh, of course, I'm here with all of my players who are going to introduce themselves and their character, as we do every episode, to remind you who the heck we are. Michaela. Go.
Speaker C: I'm Mika.
Speaker B: And your character's name is Mika. Yes. So we have Mika playing Mika. Uh, Cameron.
Speaker G: Uh, yeah. Hi, I'm Cameron. I'm playing Bill door.
Speaker B: Bill door. Dave. I'm Dave.
Speaker E: Playing Guohan the Adamant.
Speaker B: Yes. Guohan. Okay. And Connor.
Speaker F: And I am Connor. I'm playing broccoli, the earthbending hammer.
Speaker B: Nice. So, kicking things off today with your character questions to get to know your characters just a little bit better. What is each of your characters favorite music, like, genre or favorite musical instrument? Since it kind of was like a. More like Eto period. Not everything is a like. Sometimes you're just like, man, I just enjoy the sound of the violin or something.
Speaker G: Mika's favorite instrument is the.
Speaker B: Say.
Speaker G: I was going to say the mouth harp.
Speaker B: A mouth harp.
Speaker G: I don't know Why. I just thought the mouth harp for.
Speaker B: Mika, like, just a harmonica.
Speaker G: No, it's the thing you stick.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
Speaker F: Crackheads.
Speaker B: Uses a lot.
Speaker D: She, uh.
Speaker B: Definitely. I was just going to say she must have spent some time in the foggy harmonica, so that.
Speaker C: Totally.
Speaker B: Actually, no, I like the twangy mouth harmonica. I think that fits.
Speaker G: I like it fit to me.
Speaker C: Sure.
Speaker B: All right. Bill door.
Speaker G: Uh, so the reason I was thinking about that is I'm the flip. Uh, Bill Door's favorite instrument is the harp.
Speaker B: Oh, the regular one.
Speaker D: Yes.
Speaker G: He does not know how to play it.
Speaker B: No, that's okay.
Speaker G: His mother used to play it.
Speaker D: Sure.
Speaker G: All the time when he grew up.
Speaker B: All right. Much more sentimental.
Speaker G: He does not know how to harp, those two.
Speaker B: Uh, I, uh, pay a very small amount to listen to it for a very short amount of time. Probably, but, I mean, I'll try anything that's legal.
Speaker C: Hey, we can really help out and safe shop with that band.
Speaker G: Again, Bill Doer does not know how to play.
Speaker B: I think what you guys are saying is that you're bringing back the block party idea. Hey, uh, Guohan, what do you listen to?
Speaker E: Guohan suggested the block party. He's a fan of the.
Speaker D: Very.
Speaker E: Kind of like a music box you can play.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've heard of those before. Very nice.
Speaker E: But, uh, back in the carnival, the fortune tellers booth, they had somebody would play that kind of behind the curtain out of you. Add it to that mystical atmosphere. Absolutely. Um, his other favorite instrument, unofficially, when he's in the back room of the tea shop, he likes a good old two spoon.
Speaker B: Two spoon. And he plays them himself while he's washing.
Speaker E: Yeah, if he likes to do a little.
Speaker G: See those pair? Well, with the mouth harp.
Speaker B: That's right.
Speaker C: I thought you were going to say that he likes to use the squid legs as strings and make his own kind of harp.
Speaker B: That's weird. Yikes.
Speaker G: You're able to come up with that, but you don't want to come up with your own instrument?
Speaker B: That's how PETA comes after you. Brock Lee, what is your favorite, either musical instrument or music to listen to?
Speaker F: I would say that Brock Lee's favorite music is, uh, he doesn't play much himself, but he will always stop to listen to the traveling nomad band whenever they come into town. Um, and if anything, he didn't, uh, have much growing up, but he always had a washboard handy. Okay, so he is a skilled washboard player.
Speaker B: Did he do a lot of, uh, wash a lot of clothing? And he just kind of was like, wait a minute, I hear something here.
Speaker F: Yeah, he's, uh, got a little bit of rhythm.
Speaker B: All right.
Speaker E: Sometimes when Glohan comes back from clearing off a table, he's tapping his spoons together. And then Brock Lee's washing those dishes. He starts getting into it.
Speaker B: It's just a hole. And then Lizzie busts out her mouth harmonica her mouth harp.
Speaker C: Ah, I don't know how to play that.
Speaker B: I think it's pretty easy.
Speaker G: If a washboarder, a professional washboarder, gave it up, they'd be a washed up washboarder, I should say.
Speaker E: That's what he's washing the towels that we clean the table.
Speaker B: All right, so last where we left off, Bill Dore, you came in while they were downstairs, right? And you were just kind of wandering about the house? More or less.
Speaker G: No, I m ran into Mika in the.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But I'm just saying, like, you kind of let yourself in.
Speaker G: Yeah, no, the door was wide open.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker B: So you let yourself in. Um, you had talked to Mika a little bit and then where are you now?
Speaker G: In the kitchen making a sandwich.
Speaker B: You're in the kitchen making a sandwich.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker B: So as you're in the kitchen making the sandwich, that's when you see, uh, the butler walk by with Guohan. The two of them are talking. So he's really focused on Guohan, um, about the squid and such like that. Guohan leaves, uh, you hear Mika leave, you're in the house. As far as you know, you're in the house on your own with the butler somewhere.
Speaker G: I know Mika left. I heard that she say bye and left.
Speaker B: Yes, correct. So what are you doing?
Speaker G: Is my sandwich done?
Speaker B: Tell me what you found that you've made this sandwich out of.
Speaker G: I would have went to. Are there fridges in this world? I went to an ice box.
Speaker B: Yes, an ice box.
Speaker G: I went to an ice box and I found some meat.
Speaker B: Okay, what kind of meat?
Speaker D: Squid.
Speaker G: Uh, it was not squid. They ordered it, they needed it so they were fresh out, clearly.
Speaker C: Um, but the squid was for their aquarium.
Speaker G: Oh, that's right. The basket you didn't go to the ice box.
Speaker B: You went to.
Speaker G: And I got a big thing of ham.
Speaker B: Ham.
Speaker G: I sliced, I got a knife and I sliced off some ham. And I got the cheese block, sliced off some cheese, found some bread, made myself a ham sandwich. I'm eating the ham sandwich in the kitchen.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker G: I imagine Bill door was leaning against like, uh, just, uh, leaning against a wall, just eating a ham sandwich. And then he heard Mika, uh, say bye. And he heard the door shut. And that's when he would then exit the kitchen.
Speaker B: Okay, where?
Speaker G: Uh, uh, walking towards the front door.
Speaker B: Okay, so you start walking towards the front door. You see the butler closing the door behind Mika as she's exiting.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker G: He's going to say, hey, can you, uh, get that for me?
Speaker B: What? Who are you?
Speaker G: Oh, I'm Mika's bodyguard.
Speaker B: What? Who's Mika?
Speaker D: What?
Speaker B: Wait, did you tell him your name? I'm trying to remember.
Speaker G: She said Nika.
Speaker C: I said Mika.
Speaker B: Oh, Nika. Did you say Nika?
Speaker G: I said Mika.
Speaker B: Ah, with an M. M?
Speaker G: Yeah.
Speaker B: Who is this Mika? I don't know. Amika. She's not here. You're not bodyguarding her very well. If you're here and she's not.
Speaker G: Um, no, she just left. That's why I'm leaving. You shouldn't know I was here. That's how good.
Speaker B: Mean, I suppose I didn't. But that wasn't Mika. That was a Nika.
Speaker G: Uh, that's what I said.
Speaker B: Oh.
Speaker G: Now, can you get the door for me? I can let myself.
Speaker B: No, no, I opened the door. I would rather have known. Why would a tea shop employee have a bodyguard?
Speaker G: Well, um, her family is kind of important. She just works on the tea shop on the side. Internship kind of thing.
Speaker C: Responsibilities?
Speaker G: Yeah, teaching responsibilities. I don't know where I heard that from, but I have the idea in my head that she's learning the ropes of being a tea shop.
Speaker B: Well, I just have to say I wish she would have told me that she had a bodyguard. I was coming in with her without my knowledge.
Speaker G: Oh, well, she doesn't really like me being around.
Speaker B: Well, now you just sound kind of like a stalker.
Speaker G: Well, no, because her dad hired m me and I m have to follow her.
Speaker B: Now you sound like a parental paid stalker.
Speaker G: Yeah, that's my job.
Speaker B: Fair enough.
Speaker G: And if you don't mind, I have to be going. She's clearly getting a head start on me.
Speaker E: Okay, please.
Speaker G: And Bill, uh, door grabs his bow staff he had just sitting by the front door. And then he just, I was wondering.
Speaker B: He just starts to walk, that one.
Speaker G: Starts walking away, turns around and nods his head at the butler and then keeps going.
Speaker B: The butler looks kind of confused still, but he just kind of gives you a quick nod back and shakes his head and then closes the door behind Bill. Door.
Speaker G: And then m build or runs to catch up to.
Speaker D: Right.
Speaker B: All right. Um, and I assume that Guohan, you meet up with Mika as she's making her way down the path, you buy.
Speaker E: A hurry to catch up to her down the block.
Speaker B: Okay, so Mika, um, Guohan runs up to you and catches up and then moments after, uh, Bildor, uh, rushes up and he's behind you guys now. So you guys are all in your little crew?
Speaker E: Mika, what'd you find out in there?
Speaker C: Oh, you know, a little of this and a little of that.
Speaker G: Odly specific.
Speaker E: So we're getting the money?
Speaker C: Yeah, we're getting some of the money.
Speaker E: Some of the money. How's that going to work?
Speaker C: Um, well, we're delivering half of our tea.
Speaker G: Oh, really?
Speaker E: That'll help things out, I think. To the people having that big party then.
Speaker G: Yeah, for them people?
Speaker C: Yeah, the people who are like, oh yeah, we'll take tea from you. Oh, just kidding. You're not good enough. We're delivering half of our cheetahs.
Speaker G: Yeah, the rich people. Rich jerks.
Speaker C: Um, that old man, he's a pretty good friend. I don't think he's a jerk. He's nice.
Speaker G: The butler?
Speaker E: Yeah, he's cool.
Speaker C: I made him cry.
Speaker E: He bought a squid from me.
Speaker C: I made him cry.
Speaker G: Um, I lied to him.
Speaker B: We've all had some interaction with the old guy, the old butler guy. He's been a part of all of our lives at this point.
Speaker G: Hey, where's, um, Brock?
Speaker B: And just as you say that, meanwhile, in the Shifu resident basement, Brock Lee looks around and finds that he is alone in the dark underbelly of the shifu pseudo, uh, mansion.
Speaker F: Brock Lee. I start to explore the downstairs basement and, uh, stumble upon the newly made squid aquarium.
Speaker D: Yes.
Speaker F: And I look at it, and I was like, hey, isn't that the squid that Guohan just bought? I wonder what it's doing down here. So I earth bends a little makeshift box, scooping up the squid. Okay, make a lid for it.
Speaker B: It's back to where it was, just different hands.
Speaker F: I now have the squid in my possession.
Speaker B: All right. Bet you do.
Speaker F: Um, I suppose I will just go back out the way I came, actually. Are there any other spots in the basement that haven't been explored yet? Or has it sort of been, uh.
Speaker B: Well, honestly, not really any of the basement has been explored yet. There are some rooms in there, um, that you notice, but, um, the only thing that you know is that obviously there wouldn't be any exit through any of these rooms. But there are some rooms down there. One of them especially has a door that's just. You can tell that it's open ever so slightly. So it's obviously not locked because there's a crack.
Speaker F: Can I go check out that one room with the cracked door?
Speaker B: Yeah. All right, so you step inside, and it's quite dark in here. Um, the sconces are mostly outside in the main area of the basement. Those are the ones that are lit up. So there is a sconce in here, but it's not currently lit.
Speaker F: I suppose I can't conjure up anything to make fire, can I?
Speaker B: Not necessarily.
Speaker F: Not a firebender.
Speaker B: Um, but as you kind of like the little bit that you can see, uh, there's some desks and some other things. You, uh, notice that, um, to your left, there's some bookshelves, and then to your right, this is just directly inside the room, like through the door, just a little bit of light. That does seek through. Um, there's the bookshelves on the left and then on the right side there seems to be just kind of a little, um, desk area. And you notice there's a stick of incense. It's not lit, obviously, but it's just kind of sticking out of like a little pot. How some people have some and then they'll light, um, them and then set them in the pot so that it can. So you do see that and you know that those can typically, uh, hold an ember to some extent.
Speaker F: Could I take one of those incense and strike it on the ground with that?
Speaker B: Uh, I don't think that would light it. Um, but like I mentioned before, there are some sconces in the main section of the basement.
Speaker F: Oh, yeah. Could I just grab one of those?
Speaker B: Uh, they don't come off the wall. They're like attached to the wall. But you can take the incense and then.
Speaker F: Yeah, so I'll take the incense sticks and just light a few of them and then from the sconces and I'll just walk back inside and explore there.
Speaker B: Okay, sounds good. So the incense is just an FYI, is a very cinnamon smell. So it's fairly strong. Not like off puttingly strong, but I'm just saying you catch it pretty quick, like, oh, it smells like cinnamon in here. And so you light them up and then you take them on over to the, uh, sconce inside the room and you light that up and it looks to be some sort of a study.
Speaker F: Um, can I check the desk to see if there's any more money or information about this tea shop?
Speaker B: Sure. Uh, you take a look over at the, uh, main desk and sure enough, there is a note sitting there and a small stack of. I guess that's right. We use coins. So there is a small stack or pouch, I suppose, of yuan sitting there.
Speaker D: Uh huh.
Speaker F: I want to just be in and out quick. So can I grab the note and the sack of you on and just cut my loss?
Speaker B: Uh, yeah, absolutely. Um, I'm going to have you roll a push your luck. Okay. Because as you are exploring inside of here, after having lit, uh, the incense, you start to hear, uh, the sound of footsteps as they're kind of coming towards you. And you hear, did I leave an incense burning?
Speaker F: Now push your luck. Does that fall under? What does that fall under?
Speaker B: Creativity.
Speaker D: Focus.
Speaker F: Passion falls under passion.
Speaker D: Yes. Okay.
Speaker F: So I have a plus one in passion.
Speaker B: Oh, okay, perfect.
Speaker F: So I need. Was it seven?
Speaker D: Yes. Okay.
Speaker B: Oh, twelve.
Speaker D: Nice.
Speaker B: That's like an ultra success.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker B: So you grab the paper, and you, uh, snuff out the incense. You snuff out the light. You run up to the door.
Speaker A: You open it.
Speaker B: You escape through. You've got the paper, the money pouch. You quietly close the doors. And just as you're doing so, you hear the butler from inside. Um, I must be having a stroke because I'm smelling things that I shouldn't. And then you hear him walking back upstairs.
Speaker D: Awesome.
Speaker B: So now you're outside.
Speaker F: All right. So I just go try and catch up with the group?
Speaker D: Sure.
Speaker F: And let them know what I found. And I still have the squid, and.
Speaker B: I want to return that. So you rush up to the group. You've got the squid, the note. Do you show them the money pouch. I'll hang on to the money pouch. Okay, so you keep the money pouch in your pocket, or what have you, and, uh, you rush up to him. So you see him in the. Not too far.
Speaker D: Away.
Speaker G: Hey, have you guys seen.
Speaker C: Brock? Yeah, he's over.
Speaker G: Um. There he is, running down the road.
Speaker D: Um.
Speaker G: What's that in his hand?
Speaker C: You have to pay up your end of the bargain.
Speaker G: It's that in his hand that's more important impressing than.
Speaker D: That.
Speaker E: Like a flyer.
Speaker G: It, uh, looks like a flyer. Is that his other hand?
Speaker E: Someone in his arm, too?
Speaker D: Uh.
Speaker B: Hey, guys, I got the squid back, and I.
Speaker G: Yes, you got squid back.
Speaker D: Look at.
Speaker B: Ah, that.
Speaker G: I feel like that's pretty cool.
Speaker F: Does the squid have a name? We got to give this little guy a name.
Speaker G: Yeah, this is a lot more important than whatever silly bet we made earlier. What bet are you talking about?
Speaker E: I'm just trying to name a squid.
Speaker G: Dilbert.
Speaker D: Dilbert.
Speaker G: I like that.
Speaker B: Dilbert the squid.
Speaker F: Dilbert the squid.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker G: All right, so go out.
Speaker B: That was the easiest, fastest, like, naming of anything in an RPG I've ever heard before.
Speaker F: Dilbert.
Speaker G: Dilbert the squid. Sometimes names fit, I guess so. That's true. And sometimes they're better than other plans.
Speaker E: I would have named him Gilbert, but as we know, squids breathe air we can't have.
Speaker G: Gil. We learned that last time.
Speaker F: That's amazing. But I also found this flyer. I haven't opened it yet, but I found this on a desk. I'm trying to find out what it is, though.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. So, yeah. Uh, do you read it, or do you hand it to somebody else to read?
Speaker F: I'm just curious.
Speaker B: Uh, I feel like this is an opportunity to learn a little bit about Brock.
Speaker F: I don't know.
Speaker B: I'll read was just. I don't know, I've played in RPGs or someone was very adamant about my.
Speaker G: Character doesn't know how to read.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker B: My character does not account.
Speaker G: I wonder which player always has characters.
Speaker F: That don't know how to read. I'll say that Brock is able to read, but he's the kind of guy that when he's reading to himself, his.
Speaker G: Ellipse will move with.
Speaker B: So he'll silently be reading it, but he'll be like, um, yeah, I got.
Speaker E: The sense when Brock entered the study that he didn't really have a lot of experience with.
Speaker F: Yeah, yeah. He's, uh, very turned off by books and all that sort of jargon, so.
Speaker D: Jargon.
Speaker F: I just grabbed the money and left.
Speaker B: Some might say jargon.
Speaker D: Jargon.
Speaker B: All right, awesome. So you start reading through the note, and basically you notice that it is also signed. And, uh, I don't know if you said you're reading this to yourself, but you're going to just give them the highlights.
Speaker F: I'll give them, like, a summary of.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker B: Okay, so you read through it. Um, Mika, you notice as he's reading through it that it's got the same stamp from the hot Leaf juice company, and the note outlines. Um, the basic gist of what it's saying is we appreciate your assistance in choosing the hot leaf juice for your party instead of the competition in your area. Um. Ah, here is the promised rebate from your order. The rest will follow after the proceedings of tonight's event.
Speaker C: Wait, timeout. So it's not the deal I struck with the butler.
Speaker B: This was something separate one.
Speaker C: I was really mad at Brock.
Speaker F: Is there a return address on this note?
Speaker B: Um, there is. It is in bossing se. It is like a section of the city in se. Okay.
Speaker F: But that is the hot leaf juice's return.
Speaker D: Yes.
Speaker F: Yeah.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker F: And is there a date on this that lets us know when this was.
Speaker B: When it was done? Um, yes, it was done about two weeks ago.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker F: And how long ago was our order canceleD?
Speaker B: About two weeks ago.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker F: All right. So do I need to repeat that to the party?
Speaker B: Yeah, you just tell. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, you give them a basic rundown.
Speaker F: So any thoughts on next, uh, steps.
Speaker C: There? Okay. Before we get too far into that deal, we have another out because Bill's ignoring me and it's a little frustrating.
Speaker G: So, Boston. I have no idea. We got to get going. We're going all the way to Boston. Dilbert hasn't grown his traveling legs yet, right?
Speaker E: Why do we have to go to Boston? Say when they're going to be in town for the party tonight.
Speaker C: But, guys, you guys are missing out on a big deal over here.
Speaker G: Yeah, we're going to lose Bokeh run's going to lose the shop. Yeah, it's a pretty big deal.
Speaker F: So this party, we got to figure out where this is.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker F: Uh, did you guys figure, uh, out anything while you were inside?
Speaker G: Yeah, Miga, you were getting fully friendly.
Speaker C: Half of the tea to the party tonight.
Speaker D: Oh.
Speaker F: So what's the address of the place? We can start heading out there.
Speaker B: Uh, the address of the place is, um. It is, uh, 45th 4th.
Speaker D: Street.
Speaker B: Five four five. Wait, I already said the number of the house.
Speaker G: Yeah, this is a weird zip.
Speaker B: Four five, 4540 5th.
Speaker D: Street.
Speaker B: Uh, what city in this.
Speaker F: City? Okay, we had to maybe start making our way over to 45th street and we can try to.
Speaker B: In those clothes.
Speaker G: What street are we on?
Speaker B: Uh, you guys are on Shifu Road.
Speaker G: That's not a numbers.
Speaker B: They're not all numbers.
Speaker C: Why would we be going to this address when we need to get the tea ready to be shipped? Because right now we have a deal and they're expecting half of the tea to come be delivered.
Speaker F: Well, they're not expecting it. The hot leaf juice is expecting to make the full order. We just lied to Sebastian.
Speaker C: But the, um, signed. Well, the butler said that. Yeah, go ahead, bring half the food. We got it. I'll give it to the Shifu family. So they're going to be expecting half of the tea to be delivered from us.
Speaker F: I don't think they'll get that note until they come back from the party.
Speaker G: What if we just went there and just claimed that we brought half of it when it's all just hot leaf juice stuff?
Speaker F: So we go in, steal half of hot leaf juices stuff and then bring it.
Speaker G: Or rather, we just slap some, uh, Mr. Okeron stickers on it and claim half as our own. That way we don't have to really do the transportation they're going to do that all for.
Speaker C: But we have all of the expensive tea. Thank you. Mr. Okaron said that we can't sell because it's for rich families and not everyone at our tea shop is going to buy them.
Speaker F: We could run a special.
Speaker C: So it's just going to go bad.
Speaker G: Yeah, but we're still going to make money.
Speaker F: Tea is just dried leaves. That doesn't go bad.
Speaker E: Yeah, that group of old guys that comes in like every week, they love specials.
Speaker F: Yeah, we give them a two for one special. Call it good.
Speaker E: Why, you want me to make a squid heart.
Speaker G: I got two for one special.
Speaker D: Thank you.
Speaker F: Ah, we did get quite a bit of money at this place. We could at least drop the money and Dilbert off at the tea shop while we figure out the next step.
Speaker B: Got to make sure Dilbert's all good.
Speaker C: We got to get our mascot. He's not going anywhere without us.
Speaker G: Our pride and joy.
Speaker B: You're going to take a box of water and squid allowing to you with, like, to a party or to wherever you got to go.
Speaker F: Boxes of squid can get you anywhere. It's like a clipboard of this world.
Speaker D: It's like a clip.
Speaker F: You can get anywhere in the world with a clipboard if you have enough confidence. And I feel that having a box with a squid and it's going to be the same.
Speaker B: Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, most places allow clipboards in them, so I suppose you could pretty much go anywhere with a clip.
Speaker G: I mean, why else would you show up to a place with a box with a squid in it? Unless, if you had a reason to be there, place the box with a squid in it.
Speaker B: That is a pretty, like, it's kind of one of those things. Like, that was too specific to deny kind of a thing.
Speaker D: Dilbert's alive.
Speaker B: I suppose that makes sense. That's a good character.
Speaker D: Anyway.
Speaker B: Okay, so you guys are walking down the path. Where are you guys headed to right now? 45th Street.
Speaker G: Or are we heading to Mr. Um, Okeron's?
Speaker F: Well, we can go to Okaron's. 45th Street. Or there's still the coyote boars.
Speaker G: Yeah, we can just go beat them up. I'm still down for that plan.
Speaker F: Beat them up with a box of Dilbert.
Speaker G: Yeah, I like that plan originally.
Speaker C: Can I slap beldor with some water?
Speaker B: Do you have water with you?
Speaker G: Don't take Dilbert. Yeah, Dilbert needs it.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker F: Kind of selfish life.
Speaker C: A couple drops and Dilbert's container probably is not.
Speaker D: Watertight.
Speaker B: Well, it must be watertight has got a lid.
Speaker C: Yes, but they made it and they put air holes in it.
Speaker G: Well, he doesn't need air holes.
Speaker B: We talked about that.
Speaker G: He doesn't know.
Speaker E: He does need air holes.
Speaker G: That's what Bill Dore said, like three.
Speaker F: Quarters of the way.
Speaker B: So he's got water and he's got a little.
Speaker D: Slash.
Speaker F: Uh, it's like in Demon Slayer. He's got a little backpack and.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
Speaker F: Pay no attention to what's ratling around in the back.
Speaker C: But I feel like it's still not watertight, so therefore there will be a couple of drops that would escape that.
Speaker G: Yeah, the air.
Speaker D: Holes.
Speaker B: But why?
Speaker C: Uh, because he won't listen to me.
Speaker B: You do it.
Speaker G: You do it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say, you bend some water out and you slap, build or with it, and then you put it back.
Speaker C: No, it just falls to the.
Speaker F: Ground.
Speaker D: Heartless.
Speaker G: Doesn't even care about Dilbert. That was Dilbert's water.
Speaker C: It was already dripping out.
Speaker G: I can't believe this. Why'd you even splash me with Dilbert's water? Listening to me about what? I think we're all decided we're going.
Speaker B: Back to Mr. Okron's.
Speaker C: What deal? About where you cleaned the bathrooms for a month.
Speaker G: Uh, I don't remember this deal at all.
Speaker C: You said you won't get anything done with the Shihon family. And I said, yeah, I will. Watch me and Shifu.
Speaker D: Family.
Speaker G: I don't remember this deal. Do you guys remember this deal?
Speaker B: I have no idea what you're talking about, Gohan.
Speaker C: You guys literally told Mr. Okuron about it before we left.
Speaker G: I don't think, uh, we've had a single conversation with.
Speaker C: Isn't there a document with all of this on it?
Speaker F: We just wanted to double check the bathroom schedule for the next month.
Speaker G: That was it. Yeah, I just have a bathroom schedule.
Speaker F: I got bathroom duty this next weekend, actually.
Speaker G: He gave you a lot of bathroom. He gave you the whole month.
Speaker D: Sorry.
Speaker G: I tried this. I tried. Know, I tried to barter. Give Mika a couple times of your month, but, you know.
Speaker F: Uh, yeah, I just gotta take one for the team.
Speaker G: I understand. Apparently you've been taking one for the team for the last three.
Speaker A: Months. Hey, everyone. I just wanted to take a quick break to share something really special with all of you. We recently got our first review on iTunes from Coriseri, and they said, I love listening to live play podcasts and I was interested in finding one for this game, so I was incredibly stoked to find this one. It's not too far into the show yet, but the players in DM, um, have a great chemistry and the characters they've created are interesting and dynamic. So far, it's a really fun listen, and I'm excited to continue following the story. Great job, bros. I just want to say on behalf of all of the cast and myself, a, uh, massive thank you to Corusari for taking the time to say these kind words. It really means a lot to all of us to see that our show and all our hard work is being enjoyed by all of you. So if you're also enjoying the show and you have the ability. It would be amazing if you could take a quick moment to leave us a review on iTunes. Any and all feedback is welcome and helps us to not only promote the show, but also helps us to make the show better and more enjoyable for all of you. So if you're able, we'd really appreciate it if you'd be willing to take the time to drop a review for us on iTunes or even share the podcast with your friends. Thanks again, and let's get back to the.
Speaker D: Show.
Speaker B: All right, so after a few minutes, you finally make it back to, uh, the blissful Brew. Mr. Okuron is inside, uh, catering, actually, where everyone's going. Yeah, that's what they.
Speaker G: Said.
Speaker B: You step inside. Yeah, I'm done.
Speaker F: We can at least drop off the.
Speaker G: Money that we got. And Dilbert, we don't want him in.
Speaker B: Yeah, uh, you step inside. And Mr. Okuron is, is catering to some of, uh, the customers, well, all the customers there. And he sees you guys and he sits down the teas and he thanks the customers that he's working with at the moment. And then he rushes over and he goes, oh, so how did it go with the Shifu family?
Speaker G: Do you have any stickers or stamps or something?
Speaker B: Uh, I might have some stamps, yeah.
Speaker G: Just so people know it's your product and not someone else's.
Speaker B: Oh, you mean like branding?
Speaker D: Yes.
Speaker B: Uh, yeah, I've got a number of different little pieces that I've got a thing I can burn stuff into or for pressing stuff the design into stamping, just like with ink.
Speaker G: Could I just borrow those?
Speaker B: Do, uh, you need all of them? Just the ink.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker G: The stamp one would work.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker G: You remember that they were going to dirt to the grindstone mass marketing idea you had?
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker G: Um, we're going to do that.
Speaker B: Oh, all right.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker G: And then you build our winks at the rest of the group. And then he's like, yeah.
Speaker B: And he rushes over, uh, he's got, like, just behind the counter where the money box is and stuff like that. And he comes back and he hands you this little pad with the ink, and then there's the stamp. So you can stamp it in the ink and then stamp it on something.
Speaker G: Does anyone in our group have, like a satchel or like a bag or something?
Speaker B: Yeah, Guohan does.
Speaker G: Okay, so he grabs it and hands it to.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker G: If he doesn't have it.
Speaker D: All right.
Speaker B: Uh, Guohan, you have this blissful brew stamps. Suddenly, you hear the sound of glass shattering from inside the blissful brew. What? Followed by uh, a bunch.
Speaker D: Of followed.
Speaker B: By a group of what you can only assume is the customers inside going.
Speaker E: Oh, rush, uh, inside to see what happens.
Speaker B: All right, you guys, rush inside. Mr. Okaron is standing there looking very surprised. There is a rock on the ground that seems to have been thrown in through one of the windows.
Speaker G: And there's a Pete, that's funny. It was very funny for this tragic situation we're in.
Speaker B: Uh, there seems to be a note attached to the rock.
Speaker G: This reminds me of a joke I wrote. We're going to flip it over, and the notE's going to say, fix your windows.
Speaker D: Stupid.
Speaker E: Uh, Gohan goes over, he grabs the note, says, it's about drive. It's about power.
Speaker B: Uh, he says that or the note says that.
Speaker G: Okay, two people have said what they think this note is going to say. Who's next?
Speaker B: You guys are just standing around, like, theorizing out loud what you think the note says. Go on's like, I think it's going to say it's about drive. And then Mr. Ogron's like, just open the.
Speaker G: Note. So Brock picks it up and goes, starts.
Speaker B: Going.
Speaker C: Everyone has their strings.
Speaker G: Reading, you figured, here's the note.
Speaker F: Fine, take the.
Speaker C: Stupid, because it's the lyrics to the right.
Speaker E: I go back in the back room to see if Dilbert's okay.
Speaker B: Uh, Dilbert looks completely, like, blissfully unaware of anything that's going on outside of his immediate little.
Speaker E: He's, like, lounging in the sink.
Speaker G: Yeah, nice.
Speaker F: Oh, to be a sink.
Speaker B: He's washing right next.
Speaker G: It's cold water right next to the alcoholic tea we've created. He's watching Brock created in the sink.
Speaker B: He's just lounging and washing dishes with, like, two of his tentacles. Uh, what?
Speaker F: Uh, honestly, I'm good with.
Speaker D: That.
Speaker F: He takes after his dad. Oh, you're not a dishwasher.
Speaker B: I'm a dishwasher.
Speaker E: I was going to say.
Speaker D: What? You're the dad.
Speaker G: What am I?
Speaker B: He takes after his dad's plural.
Speaker G: Okay, uh, stepdaddy.
Speaker D: Yes.
Speaker C: Uh, the note, it says you have to sing it.
Speaker G: Remember what you're singing.
Speaker C: I'm reading it.
Speaker B: You're the one reading it.
Speaker C: Oh, it's a lyrics to the rock music.
Speaker B: Okay, then you sing it here. Uh, I'll message it to you. And that new rock song is a.
Speaker D: Rock.
Speaker B: It's a doop.
Speaker C: Rock.
Speaker B: That's not a good rock song.
Speaker G: I'm inserting it for you.
Speaker B: Go sell us there.
Speaker C: It's right there. I know, but I can't do it with what you're.
Speaker D: With.
Speaker B: How about you just read it?
Speaker C: Sell us the shop orals by you know who.
Speaker B: That's the artist. Uh, the artist formerly known as you know who.
Speaker C: You know, they cannot be named.
Speaker G: It said what?
Speaker C: Sell us to shop, or else. It's a great M by Queen. No, it's by you know who. I look at Mr. Okuron and I say, well, who's you know who? Apparently, they're a great.
Speaker B: Hmm. I recently had somebody tried to offer to buy the shop from me. They were very adamant about it. Why do they want the shop?
Speaker G: So getting swallowed alive by loan sharks?
Speaker B: Maybe it was the Lone Sharks.
Speaker G: So is that who you know who was?
Speaker B: I fear it's somebody from my past. Can you give us the band? He was, like, looking off into the distance as he said, that. Somebody from my past.
Speaker F: We can't see your flashbacks.
Speaker B: The IRS? Yeah, he was having a whole flashback.
Speaker G: He's just staring off. They're back to get me quick High.
Speaker E: Dilbert hasn't paid.
Speaker B: Taxes all this time? No, he says it's my old employer, hot leaf juice. Bump bump bum. And we'll find out more about that next time, uh, on Benders and Broods and Avatar Legends.
Speaker D: Podcast.
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