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. Okeron, 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 you guys quickly.
Speaker A: Found yourselves in Chin Village and in Qin Village, you couldn't find anybody until eventually you followed some music and came across everybody all in one place in a town center. And it seemed like there was a big festival going on of some kind. And when they went to reveal said scale, they pulled back the covering and.
Speaker B: There was nothing there.
Speaker C: Bring them to me. I want to have a word with them about this dastardly crime.
Speaker D: You know as well as I that the red scale was given to Quin Chow Village.
Speaker C: You, as usual, are truly and completely mistaken, dear May. The important matter right now is to find the scale that has been stolen so the festival may go on. I feel as though I can trust you to help m us find it, if you would be so willing to help us.
Speaker A: I heard some weird, jingling sound of some kind. Somebody wearing black, it looked like. Or maybe it was an animal or something that just shot past. As you are checking the sort of the bottom of the pedestal where it touches the ground, do you notice a couple of footprints or rather boot prints? There is a cloth that seems to be smudged with some sort of black substance. Whoever stole the scale has black residue on their hands. I feel we need to see your office, Mr. Wu. We'll meet the suspect.
Speaker D: 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 A: And welcome back to another episode of Benders and Brews. We're back again to follow up things, and we do have Michaela back. Michaela, you're back. Thank goodness. You need to whip these guys. I don't know. Just whip them. One of them water whip them. See, I made it. Avatar. All right, welcome, back to episode let's see. This will be episode four of Benders and Brews, season two. Not season one anymore. We're not in that. we're m all here together, minus, our ghost writer, Nick Kolis von Porsom. M porsom. Porcelain. Porsom. We are unsure. Yeah, it's one of those, I'm sure. Possum. Yes. Nick Van Possum. Look him up on Facebook. Yes, I did. Evidence. We're going to kick things off once again with our, interesting character facts. Does anybody want to volunteer to start with their character? Karen nose goes, yeah, go for it. Okay. Oh, I definitely didn't want to go first, that's for sure. something on the go. Bill door likes to surf. Boom. Done. he likes to surf. Well, growing up on kind of where he grew up, I mean, I guess that kind of makes sense. By the ocean. All right, Bill Door likes to surf. Who's next? Who actually rose their hand? I touch my nose second. Okay, that works. Go for it. I thought that I'm pretty sure Nose nose. It's the opposite. The last person to touch their nose is usually the one to go. Well, I feel like April Fools is, like, a secondary to the concept of option day. and April Fools was, like, two days. I'm going to say this right now. We're recording. Not on April. Like, two days after it must because at this very moment when I'm on Facebook, I'm still seeing those stupid announcements from every studio about something that they're making that's not actually real. Delayed facebook notification. I guess they're all like, oh, yes, we are coming out with a serious movie starring Nicolas Cage. that is Skyler's fun fact about his delayed Facebook. No, you lost it, man. Nobody falls for those. All right, announce on April 2, or I don't believe you. sorry, what? Oh, you want to give Brock's interesting fact. So, Brock's, interesting fact. You may not have picked this up, because it's very subtle. throughout the entire first and second season, he has a bit of an issue controlling his impulses. he does. Before he thinks, in case you haven't picked up on that. It's very subtle, as you can tell. Sure. Throughout the season. That is fun. Right? It's always nice to have that wild card in the group. Just charged in against the rock monster by himself. he survived. He did. Sometimes it's necessary. Guo was right behind him. Yeah, just about to do that backflip. Well, that was the fact. Yeah, that's right. Speaking of which, Dave, what's Guo's fact for this week? Don't say that. He does front flips. He definitely could do a front flip. Wait till you see my gator.
Speaker D: Your what?
Speaker A: Gator. Okay, going back to, those peaceful times back at the tea shop when Mr. Okron was alive, the good old days. Guo had a favorite food, spot that was only a couple blocks away on the corner. It was one of those, I don't know exactly what to call what they served, but it was kind of like a bread cone. Like a flatbread cone? Yeah, like a mix between a Euro and schwarma? kind of. okay, so this bread cone also had, like, French fries in it? No. Yeah. Did they keep it cone shaped when they served it? Too. Was it, like, actually cone shaped? Yeah. Served in a cone with, like, a piece of paper to hold it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Guo had the menu from that place posted in the rafters above his hammock back at the tea shop. He would go to bed dreaming about it, usually. Okay. I like to think that, in the Avatar verse, during this 100 year war point, there was definitely some sort of, like, ancient, uber eats or some kind of form of that. We'll figure it out or somebody will start it if it doesn't exist already, and be like that cart system. Yes. Stone carts on a miniature scale. Yes. Going through the alleys, shooting down, delivering your food. Wonder how you pay, though, because you don't have an app. Just put your cart info in. You put the money in the thing and send it. flying lemur. That makes sense. They ride the cart down, get your money, and then fly back. Because you can't trust them to go with just the food. Right. You have to lock it in the cart. Otherwise they'll eat. Also, whose job is it to just bring all of those? Because it's like a one way shot. They have to go downhill for the whole system to work. So whose job is it to bring them all back up to the top or middle sections of the city for distributing more mail? That's my question. What if it's just, like, a dude with a rickshaw? Just one dude with a rickshaw. That's what he does all day. He's like, the guy that goes out and gets the carts at, like, Walmart and brings them back in. anyways all right, Michaela, what's Mika's interesting fact.
Speaker D: mika's interesting fact is one option.
Speaker A: For your interesting fact about Mika. where was she last what was she doing last episode? Yeah, where was her mind? Because she was there. She wasn't or, drank some cactus juice.
Speaker D: People process things in different ways. Something quite sad happened recently. That's where mine was.
Speaker A: What happened.
Speaker D: Mr. Oguron?
Speaker A: So she was just, like, dealing with some depression. She's past the denial. Yes. All right, fair enough. hi, everybody. I'm Skyler. hi, Skyler. I thought you already did. Okay, I'm doing an actual one. My interesting fact for the day is that 90, 9% of the time, my entire meal planning, for a week is based entirely on whatever foods I find, on clearance or in some sort of markdown state. And that's how I cook food. All right, and into the show we go. welcome back, everybody. we are all inside of Chin Village as this massive festival is kicking off. because, Michaela wasn't here last week. Kind of try to re explain things, and I think that'll actually be really helpful to the listeners as well. it's been, like, two weeks, obviously, since the last episode came out. So it's easy to forget some of the characters that you guys have come across so far. there's the recap at the beginning of the episode, but sometimes that doesn't have enough time to cover everything. So I'll go over thing every I'll go over everything, real quickly. you guys came to Chin village. there was a massive festival going on that had something to do with a strange serpent, scale. It kind of seemed like they to some extent worshipped some sort of spirit that seemed to be some sort of sea serpent spirit is what they kind of suggested. And they alleged that the scale that they had in their possession was in fact belonged at one point to this great sea serpent spirit which they referred to as Shueishuei. the key characters that you've met so far, you've met mayor, the mayor of this city. His name is Mayor Wu. he was in charge of revealing the scale which is kind of like a big ceremonial thing that they do during each one of these festivals. alongside his counterpart, Mayor Yu, who is from Quinchao village, mayor, Yu is woman, dressed all in black. which is kind of the primary color of all the individuals who traveled here from Quinchao village. She leads this procession whenever it is Qin village's turn to host this festival. So all the people from Quinchao come to this festival from there. and then each year they alternate. So this year Quinchao came to Chin village. Next year Qin village will go to Quinchao village. But alas that is in question because as you arrived they revealed the scale only to find that it had been stolen. The mayor picked your group out, searched you, found you didn't have the scale, and felt that you were probably the most trustworthy people to handle finding out who did steal the scale because of the fact that you are unbiased, you don't know any of the people here, and therefore, you wouldn't, lead the investigation in any kind of false direction. other people that you met along the way, there was cato was the patrolling officer that was guarding the facility where the scale had been stored prior to bringing it out to be revealed. so there's some question about the safety that scale had allegedly experienced because it obviously got stolen. he had mentioned that he had one moment where he heard some strange jingling sounds. He came around the because he circles the perimeter, he came back only to find that there was nobody there. And he did see somebody maybe running off into the bushes that was dressed all in black or at least wearing some amount of black. And they were jingling making some sort of jingling noise as they left. you guys, let's see, bill managed to find some footprints that led away from it into the bushes. but unfortunately, he accidentally stepped on them in the process. So it was kind of hard to identify exactly who those footprints might have belonged to. But they did seem like deep footprints. So heavier person, to some extent, as well as larger footprints. So somebody with large feet size. obviously you met Mayor Yu, who was also equally concerned because their scale was also being stored there. And as part of the kind of tradition was they would bring theirs along as well, store it alongside, because they believe that theirs is the real scale and the one that Chin Village has is a phony scale. And then, of course, Chin Village believes the reverse of that. Mayor, Yu, again, all dressed in black, which is a little bit questionable, obviously, given the clues that you've received from Cato, assuming you can trust him, of course. she also wears a number of pieces of jewelry, which also is a little bit questionable as well, because they jingle as she walks. other than that, you haven't met a huge amount of the people. But at this very moment, you are being led back by Mayor Wu to his office. And he has sent Councilwoman Lin to go out his kind of assistant, second in command, to go find the key suspects that he believes could be involved in this case and bring them to his office. So all of you shortly, are led to a fairly ornate kind of town center style building, that's a little bit taller than all the rest, a little bit more decorative than all the rest of the buildings around it, but also a little bit less thematic. This one doesn't have the popping advertisements or fancy flags and whatnot that might stick out at a retailer or a restaurant. This one's a fairly straightforward stone slab building. at most, it has some maybe statues around it of past leaders from Chin Village. You're led inside, and shortly after taking a couple of hallways, find yourselves in an open, ah, room with a number of seats, sort of set, ah, up in sort of a half circle seating, pattern. so the room is kind of like half circle, and then at the halfway point, it's more of, like a rectangular shape. So, there's a number of pieces of seating. Kind of looks like some sort of a courtroom.
Speaker C: And he says, well, this is my office, or rather, the council room, which my office is connected to. Feel free to have a seat. I'm sure Cato will be here shortly with all the suspects I had listed.
Speaker A: Bill, can you just at least promise us not to just blindly point at people until the guards to arrest them? no promises. That's fair. So recounting what we know from last time, didn't Mayor Wu also have the suspicious black ink on his hands? Correct. You did find a kind of sheet of cloth that was covering the glass, casing or what have you, or it was around I believe it was around, like, the blanket nearby or something, where the glass casing was being stored that held the scale inside of it. And it had some black kind of inky substance on it. And when you reached out to shake hands with the mayor mayor Wu, he had some black substance on his hand as, correct? Yes. And from what I remember, he claimed that it was from just ink spilled in his office, right? Correct. And we are in his office. Correct. Can I look around and see if there is, in fact, an ink spill? Yes. so you mentioned this to him. You mentioned that you'd like to see his explicit. So there are a couple of little offices that kind of break off in the back of the room, behind this sort of semicircle where the council people would sit. so basically, each of their offices is directly behind the sitting it's open door kind of a concept. And he shows you which one is his. And you go in there, and sure enough, there is a mess of ink, gooped all over his desk or at least one side of his desk. you see a couple of papers, that are kind of just completely soaked at this point. They've been dyed fully black at this point. From the ink that has sopped onto them, some of it looks like it's been kind of, like, pushed a little bit. Like he was attempting to clean it up in the moment. Or maybe there was a paper sitting there that soaked up some he pulled it off. And so there's sort of like a shape of the corner of a paper her. but otherwise, yes, there's some ink still sitting there.
Speaker C: And he immediately goes, how embarrassing. I completely forgot I needed to get this cleaned up. My sincerest apologies about the mess.
Speaker A: He's looking around for some sort of a rag or something. I, suppose you weren't lying about the ink dilbert. What have you done in here? Sorry. We have squid, sir.
Speaker C: You have a what?
Speaker A: He gets a little excited at times. A turtle squid, to be exact.
Speaker C: A squid?
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker C: Well, I can assure you that this little instant here was entirely my own fault.
Speaker A: He's still sleeping in my all right. Okay. as you guys, finish looking around his office and start to step outside, the door flies open of the main door to this area. And in walks Councilwoman Lynn. she's a tall woman. She's very, upright. She keeps her shoulders back. She's kind of very square. her hairstyle is also very square. And, she has a very square chin. She's very, square. she comes stepping in very officially. Her hands behind her back. She stops, and she turns almost military style, and then holds out her arm as the people kind of walk by. And you see a number of characters step inside. and then she sort of just stands at attention, facing Mayor Wu, and.
Speaker D: She says, kido and I have brought you everyone you requested, sir.
Speaker A: Before you stands a number of people. Mayor Yu also kind of rushes in as well. she had left the scale back at, the facility where the other one was being stored under the assurance that it was going to be locked. But she was also very hesitant at the idea of leaving it at this point because she was worried that their scale would also be stolen. But, whatever the case, a number of characters stand before you, and I can definitely go through them. Could you, please?
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker A: All right. So, of course, you have Councilwoman Lynn herself, as previously described. she stands at attention, waiting and kind of eyeing the various other people in the, of, on the mayor's request, she goes down the line and introduces each of these people to So.
Speaker D: She says this right here is Lay.
Speaker A: And you see before you a man. He's wearing very drab, kind of semi ruined clothing. If you were to approach him, he smells very much like seawater. he holds in his hand in one hand, he holds a fishing ah rod. And in his other hand, he has a small pouch that has, like, every time he moves it, there's like a black cloud that kind of off the bottom of the bag. Which makes sense, because the man himself seems to be completely covered in some sort of black powder all over his entire self, with, like, little patches of his actual skin showing, from below it. He falls to his knees and he.
Speaker E: Says, please, I beg of you, please return the Great Shui Shuei scale to us the horrors that might befall us. If the Great Serpent Scale is not returned to the village she calls home, waves will crash from the shores over us all, causing destruction in its wake. Our end in destruction will certainly fall upon us if it is not returned at the utmost haste.
Speaker A: And then he opens up his little sack and he starts dumping more of what you realize are some kind of ashes, and he just starts rubbing it all over himself.
Speaker E: We all must grovel before the great Sea Serpent Spirit, humble ourselves before her Great Scaly self in order to appease her anger so her righteous judgment can be appeased.
Speaker A: Okay, bro, let's dial it back a bit. Standing next to him, trying to almost back away at this point, is another very well dressed man. he also stands fairly upright, not quite as square shouldered and, official as Councilwoman Lynn, but he definitely stands fairly officially at attention. And whatnot he, is, like I said, avoiding the ash that is coming off of the person standing next to him.
Speaker E: And he says, excuse me, but could you keep your ashes to yourself, sir? Yes. Apologies. My name is Councilman Young. I'm a bit unsure as to why I've been brought here before you as a councilman. The act of theft is quite beneath me, so I can't imagine any reason for me to be here at this moment.
Speaker A: And the mayor, leans over to.
Speaker C: You and he says, to clarify a bit, I brought him here because it is well known that Councilman Young is vying for Councilwoman Lin's position as director of the festival. It seemed to me he might have been it seemed to me he might have the motive to steal the scale in some sort of attempt to possibly get Lyn in trouble and then steal her position after she is removed, or something to that effect.
Speaker A: He doesn't seem to hear any of this, although he does kind of like, lean in when he sees that. the mayor is whispering, to which the mayor kind of turns a little bit away and whispers even quieter. he stands at attention, just kind of waiting. He has ink looking substance on his hands and on his mouth. Filbert, you slimy. Still sleeping? Cato stands there in freddie. What? Jeez. Yeah, it's me. Cato. they had some guards from Quinchao village and they said they were going to handle my shift. And the mayor said I had to be here, so here I am. You guys know me pretty well. I don't even know if I really got introduced myself. Standing next to him is a very stocky man. He wears a sort of a long cloak and skirt. And he has kind of, a leather apron over top. And he wears large leather gloves. He has some black substance kind of on his face. Looks like some kind of ash as well. he's holding a large, hammer, but something that would be used more as a tool as opposed to a weapon. And, he has kind of an angry look on his face. And he says, Yup.
Speaker F: My name's Way. Not really sure why I've been called here to this lineup. I don't even like this old festival. This whole thing is a bunch of baloney, if you ask me. Nothing but a pile of hogwash.
Speaker A: And to that, the lay the man with the ash all over his face starts to freak out.
Speaker E: He goes, no, please, sir, you cannot mean that. You must not desecrate and disrespect the name of Shuei Shuei in such a way. She is only to be honored and praised.
Speaker F: I don't give a dang about this here Shue Shui. If she were real, she wouldn't have even let one of her scales fall off her body and we wouldn't be in any of this mess.
Speaker A: And as he speaks, he kind of motions with his hands and you can kind of hear a number of things jingle on his body. As you see, he's got a number of pieces of metal or keys or et cetera kind of just strapped to him in different places. also, you guys can feel free to ask these people any questions along the way, but I can just go through we were waiting oh, to get an idea of everybody. Yeah, the whole line up here. All right, perfect. So you see a very noticeable kind of split between the people that were just introduced and the people about to be introduced. And you kind of wonder based on their attire and the fact that this group over here is kind of wearing sort of similar clothing and this group over here is wearing similar clothing that oh, these are the people. The ones that were just introduced are the people from Qin Village. The ones on the other side that I'm about to introduce are all people from Quinxiao Village. So obviously, you have Mayor Yu. she actually stands next to Mayor Wu so she's know within this lineup. But she's there, not too far away from her, you see another very stiff looking man, standing very forthright. He has bright red hair and it's all very combed back. He has some slight freckling, but he also kind of has a very, not angry, but just stern face about him. And he says yes.
Speaker G: The name's Juan. Councilman Juan. That is, needless to say, I'm absolutely furious about the proceedings and handlings of today. And I feel as though we need to all be more concerned about the red scale as it is real. We're putting far too much stock in finding a false scale. And if I'm being completely honest, it all just feels some sort of way to set up the people of the Quinchao Village as thieves.
Speaker A: next to him, you see a small old crookedy man, who is shoving some pie into his face very rigorously. And when he notices that you look at him, he quickly hides the pie into his, cloak. And he pulls out a small bag of crackers and starts munching on those instead. Glo's got some questions for this.
Speaker G: And he says, what are you looking at? Where even am I what am I doing here?
Speaker A: I think this guy's clean. I don't know if we need to he doesn't seem suspicious at all. And then finally to his left, the final character in this lineup. I just realized this is like a police lineup where you've got all these people in a room in front of you and you're like, hey, could I hear you all cough? once, I don't know, the criminal coughed once.
Speaker D: Make him sing a song.
Speaker A: Yeah, they might make him sing a song, like 6000 years from now. The Backstreet Boys will make that's right. Yeah. Sing that song. Sing that song. Ah, finally, the last character in front of you. He is a very well dressed, kind of plump man. he's starting to get some balding on the middle kind of his head. he has kind of that haircut where it just kind of goes around the circumference of his head. It doesn't quite meet in the middle and then the top entire section is just bald. So he looks very like a monk, like a European monk. And, his clothes are very ornate, very colorful. And he bows to you as you look at him and he says, well.
Speaker C: Hello, my name is NIA. I am a traveling salesman from the village of Qin SHO. I would like to establish that I must be innocent as the scales which are represented by both villages are my primary source of income. That is to say that I travel between the two villages during festival time and actually sell replica scales both green and red. So to have the scale gone and the festival on hold is actually incredibly bad for my profit margins.
Speaker A: And with that, you have every character in front of you.
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Speaker A: You are free to ask any questions that you might, have or make any observations that I can maybe give some hints to. Don't worry, guys. I'll take the lead on this one. And Guo strolls up to the old man. Okay.
Speaker G: What do you want?
Speaker A: Hey, I'm asking the questions here. He just starts crunching on these. stop eating those, Chris. What's your name? OOH. My name is Gunja Goonja. All right, old man, I'm gonna need you to empty out of your pockets.
Speaker G: No, these are my pockets. This is my stuff.
Speaker A: And then two guards kind of approach him m and put their heavy hand on his shoulder.
Speaker G: No. My pockets. No.
Speaker A: And, they just pick him up because he's a very small man, and they just tip him over and hold him by the legs and just start shaking m stuff out of his pockets. the first thing to fall out is an entire pie, which splats onto the floor.
Speaker G: No.
Speaker A: Careful with that evidence.
Speaker G: My pie.
Speaker A: A number of just many odds and metallic ends just start kind of falling out of his pockets, a lot of which are silverware. there's a lot of spoons knives, not, like, fighting knives, like butter knives, and kind of what looks like forks that have just kind of had chunks of, them, like, bent to a point where it snapped off or something.
Speaker G: Those are my forks. They're perfect for playing and eating.
Speaker A: You play the spoons?
Speaker G: Yeah, I play the spoons, and I play the forks and knives as well.
Speaker A: You in a band? Nah.
Speaker G: I went solo.
Speaker A: Interesting.
Speaker G: I skipped over the band part and went straight to solo.
Speaker A: So a solo cutlery act? Very.
Speaker D: Let's hear.
Speaker A: I'm going to need a smell of your breath here.
Speaker G: Oh, okay.
Speaker A: It's thoroughly foul. You can kind of see his teeth, and you just see, like, half of them are just kind of blackened, like, with cavity and decay. E.
Speaker G: Yeah, you like that? Now give me my crackers back.
Speaker A: These crackers. And he's still upside down, and he starts trying to lunge towards you and he's sort of like, rocking back and forth to get a little bit closer. Sniff one of his crackers.
Speaker G: No, don't sniff my crackers. They've only got so many good sniffs in them.
Speaker A: I, eat one. No, he's just turning red, but at the same time, he's upside down. so you wonder if maybe it's just the blood flowing to his head. You're not sure?
Speaker G: I'll kill you. I'll kill you for my crackers.
Speaker A: Yeah. Ah. I need to take a closer look at this evidence over here. Goes over to the pie. Okay. You start digging around. You also find a number of various, coins, of differing values. Some of them are all the way from copper to gold pieces.
Speaker G: He says, oh, I, don't even know where those came from. I swear. I don't even use money. I just steal it.
Speaker A: What is that last part?
Speaker G: I said I just steal stuff. The pie I stole that. The crackers, I stole those too. Now give me back my crackers. I stole them fair and square.
Speaker A: mayor, calm down. I toss them like crackers.
Speaker G: Numb. Numb.
Speaker A: He's like Cookie Monster to a cookie. Just like his crackers are flying everywhere. they seem to be some kind of like a sesame seed cracker. And so there's also sesame seeds flying everywhere, which is totally normal. Anytime you eat anything with sesame seeds, there's sesame seeds everywhere. I digress. Mayor Yu from Quinchao Village, she comes up behind you and she says, yes.
Speaker D: Old Man Gunja is known as our, crazy man, I suppose. Is that a thing? Does every town have a crazy man? Because he for sure is, ours.
Speaker A: Yeah, that checks out. I think. most towns have the like, we even had one in our carnival.
Speaker D: Well, then you understand he's quite the troublemaker.
Speaker A: You know, I think I have a suspicion about this pie. Could be hiding a scale. Only one way to find out. I grab one of the forks and, like, wipe it off my shirt. Breath. Good God. Clean it off. Smell it. Make sure it doesn't smell like the guy's mouth. Maybe, a little bit. I rethink the book. I toss it away and just go hand. Yeah, there you go. There you go. That's probably the safer. Bet you don't know what kind of stuff he has. yeah, you start eating away at the pie. He, glares at you angrily from a corner, golem style. He's kind of crouched down on his hands and knees eating his crackers. But thankfully, it seems that he's satiated, enough by the crackers that he's not going to come at you for the pie. Rest assured. How good. Fill the bottom of this, as glow is chomping away at one of or at this pie. Would anybody else like to, do any kind of questioning? I got some questions for Mr. Wei?
Speaker F: Yeah.
Speaker A: I saunter up to the man. He looks up at you and he puffs out his chest.
Speaker F: He says, what do you want from me, big boy?
Speaker A: Oh, well, thank you.
Speaker F: Are you looking for a job?
Speaker A: not currently, no.
Speaker F: Because I'm a blacksmith and I could use a big ball like yourself in the shop.
Speaker A: I was about to ask, are you, ah, a blacksmith?
Speaker F: Yeah, I make all sorts of things. Weapons, tools, doors, door locks, parts for boats.
Speaker A: So, you don't seem too into, this whole festival here, sir.
Speaker F: No, but I don't like it. It's a bunch of ulibaloo. It's a bunch of lies to make money off of the people.
Speaker A: So, were you not involved in any of the festivities here today, sir?
Speaker F: Nope. I was in my blacksmithing shop smithing some stuff at my smithy.
Speaker A: I see. So, during all these festivities, was anybody coming into your shop, or is it just kind, of a slow day for you here today?
Speaker F: Well, I, typically use the festival day as a sort of catch up day where I can finish up a bunch of the orders I've got on my list without getting any new orders in throughout the day, especially my horseshoe orders. There's an awful lot of horse species out there, and they all need different kinds of shoes, ostrich, horses, rhino, horses, horse flies like those flying horses.
Speaker A: So, nobody really saw you until just now? Is that a fair assessment, sir?
Speaker F: I suppose that's a fair assessment. I was just working away when all of a sudden the guards walked up to me and grabbed me and said, you're coming with us. And, well, here I am.
Speaker A: You seem to have, some disdain towards the scale here, sir.
Speaker F: Oh, yeah. That scale is a big old phony, though.
Speaker A: Which one's the real one?
Speaker F: Neither of them is real. They're both fake.
Speaker A: And to this mayor, you and Wu both go the audacity.
Speaker F: Yeah, I said it.
Speaker A: You're calling them both fake. So you know if there's a real one, or do you not believe in the shue shui at all?
Speaker F: well, I can't say one way or another if shue shui is real or not. Call me a bit of an agnostic, I suppose, but I know neither of those scales is real. I've been working with metal and other materials all my life. I'd know if it was real. No doubt about it.
Speaker A: So, you could stand to gain some peace. Could it be said if the scale were to disappear?
Speaker F: Well, I don't know if I'd go quite that far.
Speaker A: Well, there's no scale, there's no festival. If there's no festival, your agnosticism doesn't need to.
Speaker F: Well, then I'll be quite justified in my beliefs, for sure.
Speaker A: And be justified. So you could stand to gain some stuff if the scale were to disappear?
Speaker F: Well, this a fine day, then. Why didn't you say that from the get go, this is indeed a wonderful day for Wei.
Speaker A: And again, Mayor M Wu and you both go the audacity. I might come back to you, but for now why?
Speaker F: Do you need some more shoes?
Speaker A: Not at the moment, but I might come to you later.
Speaker F: Well, I'm just going to sit down over here and appreciate the day.
Speaker A: Then kind of just wink at him and walk away. Yeah, I learned for a big boy. Yeah, big boy. So I learned nothing. And Guo, you have a pie less of a pie than before. Less of a pie than before.
Speaker B: And with that, we'll end today's episode, leaving the mystery of who stole the scale to be revealed next time, we want to take a moment before I do the outro to mention a couple of things. Firstly, we'll be posting a poll to our social media accounts to see who you think is the one who stole the scale out of all the characters we've interviewed in the show so far. So be sure to check that out and let us know who you think did it. Secondly, I wanted to say a special thank you to Chris Dines, who left a wonderful review on Apple podcasts. They said, awesome team storytelling. I am looking to run the game with a group, and I enjoy listening to your plays before running. It only five episodes in, but this is a great cast, all great storytellers on their own. But with this type of RPG, it leaves a lot of room for team storytelling. And this group does an amazing job of making sure everyone participates in the story. And overall, it's an awesome cast and very enjoyable. Thank you so much, Chris Dines, for these incredibly kind words. It's messages like this that really encourage myself and the rest of the cast and keep us going on the show. So I'm going to mention, it during the outro, but if you have the opportunity and the ability to drop us a review, it really does a lot to help out the show and encourages the cast as well. We would absolutely and truly appreciate it if you would take a quick moment or two to do so. Thank you so much for everyone that listened, reviewed, and participated in the show so far. And then lastly, I want to say a massive thank you to our amazing cast of vocal talent who have lent their time and incredible voices and skills to our show for episodes three, four, and the upcoming fifth episode, which will be coming out Thursday, June 22, I highly recommend everyone checking them out. I've credited them in the description of the episode so you can find them and see who it is that they played. And also it links back to their preferred profiles, wherever that might be. So thank you so much to each and every one of them. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much for listening to our show. Of course, don't forget to follow or subscribe to our podcast through whatever podcast site that you're using, such as itunes, Spotify, YouTube and others. Additionally, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Just look for the social media icons. Following us on social media gives you access to all news, announcements and of course, new episodes as they are released. You can check out our website, Bendersonbrews.com, which will feature all of our episodes as well as news announcements and even cool character and player profiles. It's a great hub of information for the Benders and Brews podcast. And finally, we would be truly humbled if you would be willing to take the time to leave us a review. If your podcast site allows you to do so, such as on itunes or in the case of YouTube, you can hit the like and subscribe button and drop us a comment. Tell us about what you thought about our podcast episodes. It sure would mean a lot to us. Avatar Legends is a tabletop role playing game created by Magpie Games, Nickelodeon, Avatar and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International, Inc. All rights reserved. I also want to thank the following artists who you can find on Fiver for their amazing creative work on this podcast character art was done by Alicio Papa Draw, background art by Konichi, music by Joe Tims. Two, one, five. Thanks again for listening and we'll see you on the next episode to.