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 and staff his shop. A year has passed since the orphans were hired, and although their skills have progressed, they still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything. But I believe that they have the potential to make the blissful brew the greatest tea shop in the world. Last time on Benders and Brews, an Avatar Legends podcast.
Speaker C: So we're getting the money?
Speaker D: Yeah, we're getting some money. We're delivering half of our tea to.
Speaker C: The people having that big party, then.
Speaker E: Yeah, it's like, hey, isn't that the.
Speaker F: Squid that Guajan just bought? So I Earth bends a little makeshift box, scooping up the squid, make a lid for it. I now have the squid in my possession. Are there any other spots in the basement that haven't been explored yet?
Speaker G: One room. It looks to be some sort of a study.
Speaker F: Can I go check out that one room?
Speaker G: You take a look over at the, uh, main desk, and sure enough, there is a note sitting there. This also signed, the Hot Leaf juice company. 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. Here is the promised rebate from your order. The rest will follow after the proceedings of tonight's event. Hey, guys, I got the squid back, and I found.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker F: Got to give this little guy a name.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker G: And this is Dilbert.
Speaker E: I like that.
Speaker G: Dilbert the Squid.
Speaker F: Dilbert the Squid.
Speaker G: Okay, you, ah, finally make it back to the, uh, blissful Brew. Suddenly, you hear the sound of glass shattering from inside the blissful brew. There's a rock on the ground that seems to have been thrown in through.
Speaker H: One of the windows.
Speaker G: There seems to be a note attached to the rock. Uh, the note, it says.
Speaker H: Somebody tried to offer to buy the shop from me. They were very adamant, ah, about it. It's my old employer, hot leaf juice. Bump, bump.
Speaker G: Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Benders. And I pulled the rug out from.
Speaker E: Underground and just not do it.
Speaker G: Ooh, that would have hurt even more. That would have hurt so much. Uh, a non canonical avatar Legends realplay podcast. My name is Skylar Gorset, and I am the game master, creating the story alongside my co writer, Dr. Nick. Yeah, that's what we're gonna go with from now on. And if he hates it, well, he's not here to stop me at this moment. Uh, and also bringing it to you with my amazing players, cast members. Sure.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker G: There you go. All right, so I'm going to start to my right, and everybody can introduce themselves today, and then we'll jump into the question momentarily. Connor. Who are you?
Speaker F: Hi. I'm Connor, and I am the hammer, uh, Earthbender known as Brock Lee.
Speaker H: Brock Lee.
Speaker G: Dave.
Speaker C: I'm playing Guohan the Adamant, also known as the Harry Potter of Avatar.
Speaker G: You know, I could kind of see it. He's like a Chunky Harry Potter.
Speaker C: It's like Ron and Harry mixed together.
Speaker D: Ron's not Chunky.
Speaker G: He's got, like.
Speaker E: Neither is Harry.
Speaker G: Yeah, he's a Neville. Ooh, that's a good one.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker G: Neville and Harry mixed together. That kind of fits really well. That's a good one. They're both a couple dweebs.
Speaker H: But they.
Speaker G: Both grow really nicely into their bodies.
Speaker D: I'm sorry. Will you forget?
Speaker G: I don't know. I think Danny Radcliffe is pretty cool. Anyways, Cameron.
Speaker E: My, uh, name is Cameron. I, uh, am playing the Guardian non bender named Bill Dore.
Speaker H: Bill door. And Michaela.
Speaker D: I play Miga.
Speaker G: You're just really Adamant about not saying your own name.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker G: Okay, cool. All right, and today's question for you guys. Um, I was thinking about this one. I don't know even how I came up with it, but it just kind of made me chuckle when it came up, so I thought it'd be funny. What is your character's go to pickup line when they're talking to somebody they might be interested in? What's their subtle proposal to the idea of dating?
Speaker H: I guess.
Speaker F: Are we starting with me?
Speaker G: Yeah, we can start with you. All right.
Speaker F: Have you ever been to Omashu? Because I'd like to explore your secret tunnel.
Speaker G: It fits so well with your answer last episode about the traveling band. It just all makes sense.
Speaker D: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker C: This guy seems like a real lover.
Speaker F: I got to stay on.
Speaker C: Take it easy, brother.
Speaker H: Oh, yeah, I know that guy. He always has the craziest comebacks.
Speaker G: What's Guohan's actually, hold on. Broccoli. How do most people respond to that one?
Speaker F: You know, surprisingly well. Only been slapped a few times.
Speaker G: A few times, huh?
Speaker F: It works more often than not.
Speaker G: Really? Okay. All right, Gohan, what's your go to when you're not using, uh, Brock's secret tunnel?
Speaker C: Um, so, guo on, he'd be making his rounds at the carnival, cleaning stuff up, and he'd see a cute girl trying to win a prize or whatever, and he'd be like, you know there's a trick to that, right? And then he'd just wait for them to ask head from there.
Speaker H: Oh, what's the trick?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: And, ah, then just naturally, he'd show him that usually he knew the trick. He would show him how to win a prize. And then he finds that when girls, uh, have giant, uh, stuffed flying Bison, they're more receptive to, uh.
Speaker G: Okay, so it's a whole, I don't want to say game, but ironically, there is a game involved.
Speaker E: Uh, the Guohan system.
Speaker G: Yeah, the Guohan system. Oh, no. Now we're starting to sound like a bunch of douchebags. All right, quick, we need to get Tamika so he can get the other side of the coin.
Speaker C: Alpha male.
Speaker G: Oh, goodness. Once we throw this baseball and knock those milk cups down.
Speaker H: Jeez.
Speaker C: He is not.
Speaker D: They're probably, like, the absolute. Look at him. He's trying to pick up a lady, and they, like, secretively, nonchalantly knock over the bottles by tapping, right?
Speaker G: And, I mean, he's got an in with the rest of the carnival staff.
Speaker E: He gives them a wink right before.
Speaker G: He throws in there, like, then they.
Speaker E: Hit the secret compartment underneath.
Speaker D: Give the girls a wink.
Speaker H: He's got this.
Speaker G: I've seen this guy before. He's a real pro. Uh, that's why he cleans around my booth waiting for a cute girl to walk by.
Speaker E: I've been sweeping here for hours.
Speaker H: Fine cotton candy.
Speaker C: And he pulls it out of the.
Speaker G: Trash, and that's when he loses them. Uh, I like to think that, uh, it's funny because you did mention that in your character bio that you're like, yeah, he worked for a carnival. There was some sketchy stuff going on. It was all Guohan. He was cheating at the games and such.
Speaker D: But he didn't know he was cheating at the mean.
Speaker G: He would know how to take advantage of the game. Well, I mean, granted, the games are meant to take advantage of you, so.
Speaker E: I guess if you don't know the tricks, then. But if you do know the tricks, then you game the system.
Speaker G: It's some real Robin Hood stuff. Bill, uh, Dor, how did, how do.
Speaker E: You go about, um. So Bill Dor has never been interested in pursuing any relationship.
Speaker G: Asexual?
Speaker E: I wouldn't say that he's not asexual. It's just he's never, to his point in his. Really? That's never been a thing.
Speaker G: He's been, uh. He's one of those that thinks girls have cooties. Sure, we can go with that. No, I understand what you're saying. He's never hit that point where something was sparked inside of him yet.
Speaker E: Yeah, he's never been interested. He's had other passions, I guess would be a better way to put it. Plus, he's 17, so he thinks he still has the rest of his life.
Speaker A: Still.
Speaker G: Sure.
Speaker E: Um, but if you were to pressure him to come up with a pickup, uh, line on the spot, which I am, which he would, and he would probably respond with like, uh, did you get attacked by a firebender because you're smoking?
Speaker G: Because you're smoking hot?
Speaker E: Except he wouldn't say hot because he.
Speaker G: Just said you're smoking because you're smoking. And then they'd look at you and you'd look back at them and they'd be like, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, am I on fire? Yeah, that's a weird way to tell somebody they're on fire. You could be more direct.
Speaker E: Uh, uh.
Speaker G: I don't know why we're role playing. This is why.
Speaker E: Build or avoids talking to people, especially women.
Speaker G: Fair enough.
Speaker H: Fair enough.
Speaker G: Smoking. Did you start forest fire? Because I wish you wouldn't.
Speaker H: Okay.
Speaker G: And finally, Mika. Uh, Mika. Okay, so we talked about this before the episode because I like to give these guys some time to think about it. Did you want. Okay, so I had an alternate option specifically for Mika because she was having a hard time coming up with one of, um. If you don't want to come up with a, uh, pickup line, sorry. You could come up with a rejection. So, like, how would you respond if some guy used any of the lines previously given or bits? I guess in the case of Gohan, if they came up to you and said, you must have been. That one's a touchy subject, especially now, uh, you could probably get away with that quite a bit before, but now that the firebenders are becoming like a whole thing of attacking people, if you went up there and said, have you been attacked by Firebender? And they'd be like, no, but my.
Speaker H: Father was and he's dead.
Speaker G: But anyways, anyways, aside from that, let's say some guy came m up and started hitting on you. If you wanted to, it's up to you. Which direction did you want to go? Do you want the pickup line or the rejection line?
Speaker D: I guess the, uh, rejection.
Speaker G: Okay. Okay. So some guy comes up to Mika and says some two bit line. And then what would Mika say?
Speaker D: Um, she would know. She was just like, oh, yeah, uh, let's meet up. If you know, three doors down and to the left there's a really good bar.
Speaker G: I'll see you there.
Speaker D: I'll see you there.
Speaker G: And then she just never shows up.
Speaker C: Yeah, on a blind date with, uh, a lost, drunken man.
Speaker H: There she is.
Speaker G: There was a bar here.
Speaker E: That means Miko is getting hit on by a girl.
Speaker G: Oh, there you.
Speaker A: Um. Um.
Speaker D: I. Yeah, I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. Naked everywhere. Not like here. Here it's soft and smooth.
Speaker G: Is that your pickup line?
Speaker E: It's pretty good.
Speaker G: I like the idea that the drunk guy actually did follow your directions and sure enough did find a bar there that he hadn't known about before. I don't know, just like that would be really funny.
Speaker E: It's the good ending.
Speaker G: Yeah, it's the positive ending.
Speaker E: The bad ending.
Speaker G: He's laying in the streets.
Speaker F: The guards drag him m aWay.
Speaker G: Oh, gosh. It's all a hallucination.
Speaker D: He's in his jail cell, um, now. Yeah, he might be dreaming about all that.
Speaker A: Someday.
Speaker G: You guys are going to have to visit the prison for some reason or another. And I'm going to throw him in there, and you guys are going to walk past the cell and I'll say, and you've heard it first here, but I'll say, you see a familiar face and he calls out to you and.
Speaker H: He says, you sons of.
Speaker G: And we're back. Mr. Okuron just screamed. Hold on. Mr. OK. Mr. Okuron says, yes, it.
Speaker H: Was probably my old employer, uh, hot beef juice.
Speaker G: Hot beef, uh, juice. Hot juice.
Speaker A: Hot juice.
Speaker G: That's a familiar soup company in the area that only sells broth soup, hot beef juice. And they also do, uh, uh, those beef sandwiches that you dip in awe juice.
Speaker F: That's French dips.
Speaker G: Yes, French dips. Those are good. Uh, okay. Uh, so you guys are standing around, uh, the customers are kind of in a weird spot where they're still a little bit startled by the rock getting thrown in through the window. But also you guys are all kind of having your own conversation with Mr. Ogron. So they're like, I guess we just keep drinking our tea. So I guess that's where they're at at this point. But anyway, yeah, Mr. Okaron just, just revealed that apparently hot leaf juice, whereas his old employer.
Speaker F: What happened with hot leaf juice in your past? You had a whole flashback. We couldn't see the.
Speaker H: Sorry, I just, I've seen so many.
Speaker G: Plays where they just reenact the flashback.
Speaker H: In the moment, and I think, oh, that's just how we see it. I didn't even think about.
Speaker G: That's not how that works.
Speaker H: Uh, well, uh, yes, I'll take you back 30 years ago.
Speaker C: Cue the Kalimba music.
Speaker H: Oh, sorry.
Speaker G: Yeah, I forgot that's, uh, not how it works.
Speaker H: Anyways, 30 years ago. Yes. Uh, I had been studying. I won't get into too many of the details, but essentially I, uh, co owned, uh, hot leaf juice when it first started, the restaurant.
Speaker D: Did you come up with the name?
Speaker A: No.
Speaker G: Uh, oh, good.
Speaker H: I originally wanted to call it the blissful Brew, but, uh, obviously that didn't happen.
Speaker G: But thankfully, I was able to start this one.
Speaker H: But anyways, yes, I, uh, started hot leaf juice with, at the time, my business partner, Madame Yang. Although back then, I just called her.
Speaker A: Uh.
Speaker H: Well, I, uh, think she might have had feelings for me at one point, but I, uh, was so focused.
Speaker E: On tea and just her trying to buy your shop, her trying to get back connected with you again.
Speaker D: Stabbed her heart, and you stabbed her in the back, and you opened your own tea shop.
Speaker E: Wow.
Speaker F: You were focused on the t. She was focused on the D.
Speaker G: I'm sorry. That's fine.
Speaker H: Uh, well, she stabbed me in the back. Uh, literally, uh, literally.
Speaker F: Wants to buy your shop.
Speaker G: Uh, he starts going to lift up his shirt. He starts going to lift up his shirt, and then he was like, oh, wait, I'm in my restaurant. I'm not.
Speaker H: Never mind.
Speaker D: That's a little bit of illegal.
Speaker E: We're all binders.
Speaker G: One person, like, one customer is like.
Speaker H: Oh, here we go. Finally. No, Thursday.
Speaker G: That's where we have the belly button tea shots. What?
Speaker E: I don't want to work here.
Speaker G: No, no, it's cold tea.
Speaker H: Cold tea.
Speaker G: Yeah. Hot tea shots right out of the belly.
Speaker D: We're all children.
Speaker G: No, it's just Mr. Ogron. You guys aren't even allowed to work.
Speaker E: We have Thursdays off.
Speaker G: Yeah, you guys all have Thursdays. You guys have to work the weekend. But he works Thursday in the bathroom after that day. Sorry, Connor. He's 17.
Speaker D: We're both 17.
Speaker G: I don't know.
Speaker A: Maybe.
Speaker H: I don't know.
Speaker G: Anyway, so, uh, he says, yeah, um, it's a really long story.
Speaker H: I won't get into all the details of it, but essentially, yes, we opened up the first hot leaf juice a long time ago. And then since then, I've exited the.
Speaker G: Company because I didn't agree with a lot of their policies.
Speaker H: And sort of the direction things were going and decided to go off and start my own tea shop. But, uh, she was not happy about that and she's always been after me for it.
Speaker F: So why does she want to buy your tea shop from you?
Speaker D: Uh, so he can't make any money.
Speaker F: He could always open another one with the money that she gives him for purchasing his tea shop.
Speaker H: Well, admittedly, Gaoling is one of the few larger cities in the entire Earth kingdom. And honestly, most of the kingdoms, um, that doesn't currently have a hot leaf juice chain, uh, or location. I'm not trying to brag when I say this, but, uh, I guess I'm the one thing standing in our way from really taking over the entire land. I guess with.
Speaker D: That's a monopoly.
Speaker H: Yeah, it would be, essentially. Yeah. I mean, there might be some small tea shops, but, I mean, it's kind of hard to compete with the big chain.
Speaker D: Well, Mr. Okuron, I have some great news for you.
Speaker H: Okay.
Speaker D: You're going in half seas for the party.
Speaker H: The Shifu party?
Speaker D: Yeah, man.
Speaker H: You were able to get at least half the contract reinstated.
Speaker D: You betcha.
Speaker H: Color me impressed. I don't know what color that would be, but put it on me because I'm impressed.
Speaker D: Bonus for Mika.
Speaker H: Fair enough. I mean. Yeah.
Speaker C: Is that the color?
Speaker H: Black. All right, sounds good.
Speaker G: I imagine the color of ink.
Speaker F: I got a squid.
Speaker G: He puts his hand on your shoulder.
Speaker H: And he says, good for you, bro.
Speaker C: I'm glad he's found.
Speaker H: I'm glad you've got somebody.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker G: Uh, uh. He looks genuinely happy.
Speaker H: He's like, so, uh, it's half. How does that work? What do I need to do? It's tonight. I mean, I need to prepare.
Speaker G: What do I need?
Speaker D: Hot leaf juice doesn't know we're going in half.
Speaker H: Wait, the hot leaf juice is the other half?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
Speaker E: Should we show they stole your business from you? Your big.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker D: Show them the flyer.
Speaker F: I found this note in their study while doing nothing illegal of the sort, as of, uh, course. And it, uh, says here that hot leaf juice was in with the Shifu family. And they paid the Shifu family to not use our business and to switch over to using hot leaf juice to cater.
Speaker H: What?
Speaker G: And he looks over the note and.
Speaker H: He'S like, this is terrible news.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker F: It's even worse that the Shifu family doesn't even have the money they gave him, because that somehow ended up in my pockets. I have no idea how that ended up happening.
Speaker H: Brock, uh, we started this endeavor. I specifically asked that we not do anything illegal?
Speaker F: Well, uh, stuff happens.
Speaker H: Well, we'll deal with that later.
Speaker D: We were welcomed into the house by Sebastian, the butler of the Shifu family.
Speaker H: Sebastian? Yes, he's a wonderful man.
Speaker D: Yeah, we're BFF now.
Speaker H: I mean, I haven't met bet him, but he seemed like a really nice.
Speaker D: Guy when I stopped by, I made him cry.
Speaker H: Why would you do that?
Speaker D: He was touched that we became best friends.
Speaker H: Oh, it was like happy tears.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker H: Oh, well, geez, Mika, you have just really had a lot of character development today.
Speaker D: Thanks, Mr. Okra.
Speaker H: That's fine. Uh, well, yes, this is definitely trifling news. So we have the hot leaf juice is going to be here in town. They're catering to this party, but Mika's convinced them to split at, you know, pride aside, I think the right thing to do would definitely be to cater to this. Um, I definitely feel like it's going to be a bit awkward, but it's the right thing to do to follow through with this deal. So I'm going to get the ingredients prepped and ready and uh, do you guys want to assist me at the party then?
Speaker E: Yeah, we can go ahead and set up early.
Speaker H: Oh, okay. Yeah, that would be wonderful. Thank you.
Speaker F: If we beat hot leaf juice there, then they'll be the awkward ones.
Speaker H: Yeah, that's true. We will show our professional capabilities and our tea quality will be superior. And we will show everyone that hot leaf juice is, well, a hack.
Speaker D: They won't know what hit them.
Speaker H: Um, right, well, I mean, maybe this rock.
Speaker G: What?
Speaker H: Uh, again, ideally nothing illegal, especially at the party. If possible, I would appreciate.
Speaker D: Yeah, of course.
Speaker F: Unless it calls for violence.
Speaker E: Mika, you need a chill, Mika, you need a chill because you're giving Brock some bad ideas.
Speaker G: You're a bad influencer, Mika.
Speaker H: All the character advancement that you've done and you're really ruining Brock Lee's character.
Speaker F: What do you mean ruining my character?
Speaker G: His morality. His balance is going to shift.
Speaker F: He's so morally gray as it is.
Speaker G: He should really be calling out. No, it's fine. Um, okay, sounds good. Okay, so you guys, um, what do you do in order to prep? I mean, he's going to get the ingredients ready. There's definitely probably some setups. He's got like kind of a shed in the back where he was storing a lot of the ingredients. Horses in the back, the inventory shed and such.
Speaker E: Horses.
Speaker D: I got my tulu.
Speaker G: In the back. Um, and he's got some other materials that he uses for if you ever do like a catering order or what have you. So, um, you guys can start getting that ready. There's tables and some other tools, some sort of, like, portable heating, uh, little like, fire things for taking with. There's some special pitchers that he uses and some teapots, um, that he has set aside for this kind of stuff and things like that. So you guys are able to collect all that. Um, are you guys doing anything else to prep? Um, any sort of attire that you kind of are going for, or do you need to go get attire for this special event?
Speaker F: If we've catered before, I would assume we would have some kind of uniforms if we need.
Speaker G: Yes, yes, that's totally fair. All right, sounds good. So you guys all get your uniforms, your blissful brew uniforms. They're all have, like, a dress fancy. Well, like Brock was saying, you have, like, mean.
Speaker D: Yeah, well, I'm a female.
Speaker C: Brock cleaned these himself just the other.
Speaker H: Day on the washboard.
Speaker G: Nice. All right, sounds good. So you guys get all dressed up, you're ready to go. Um, and then you guys head out towards the address, which was, I believe, uh, it's like four, five. 4540 5th Street. All right, sounds good. So you guys head there. Um, is the squid going or is it staying?
Speaker F: We never really introduced Mr. Oakron to Dilbert, did we?
Speaker G: Well, wait, you did say that you had a squid, so, I mean, at least he knows there's a squid involved.
Speaker F: Yeah, I don't know. Do we take Dilbert? He is technically your squid.
Speaker D: He's our mascot. He has to come with.
Speaker C: Okay, but we need a, um, bag or something.
Speaker F: I can just carry him in a backpack. We just need a strap. Do we have straps laying around the tea shop?
Speaker C: Yeah, you probably just have that in your room.
Speaker D: Let's put them in one of our tea carriers that we use to cater.
Speaker H: Oh, uh, yes.
Speaker G: Brilliant.
Speaker F: An extra teapot with a cephalopod.
Speaker G: What flavor is this?
Speaker H: Oh, it's squid. Right.
Speaker G: Sounds good. All right, so you put him in one of the pictures and he's coming with. All right, sounds good. Um, obviously, like I said, Mr. Okaron is going to be getting the ingredients ready. He's, um, let all the customers that are currently there know, like, hey, we're gonna be closing early tonight because I have a party to cater. And so he's getting all the ingredients and things ready, and he's gonna meet you guys there. You guys head there. Uh, so this building, this one is a mansion. I mean, this thing is massive.
Speaker H: It's ornate.
Speaker G: It's got pillars, but, like, fancy pillars, like, with uh, grooves and all that kind of stuff. Like the Roman looking pillars, very lavish. And uh, there's already obviously, um, not so much guests showing up but they're still getting things set up because you guys are early. Um, so there are other staff members there. Um, they're obviously the staff of the house. All their servants and things like that. Family is there, but you don't really see too much of them. Every once in a while you'll see somebody that really kind of stands out as far as the way they're dressed. They look more like party dressed as opposed to staff fancy dressed. Um, and they're like pointing things out like, oh, we got to make sure that this sign is straight or oh, we got to go make sure there's like a little patio pagoda looking set up and he's like, we got to get that just right. Make, um, sure you set up those paper lanterns. We got to get paper lanterns set up. We got to get the other like the sconces all lit up and things like that. Um, so they're working hard getting all that stuff set up. Um, there's somebody over by the door that seems to be kind of like directing staff members. He looks like he's kind of like the head of the servants, I guess. And so you guys see him and like I said, he looks like he's kind of telling everybody where they should go or where they can set up and things like that.
Speaker E: Um, what's our plan?
Speaker D: We have to start setting up all the tea that we brought.
Speaker E: We have tea?
Speaker F: Yeah, we have the stuff that we were going to originally bring.
Speaker G: You guys have like the materials for the catering. Like Mr. Okeron's getting all the tea and stuff. Oh, I mean, he gave you guys the base.
Speaker E: So our plan was to relabel have their tea to be Mr. Okeron's tea for the blissful brew. But now that Mr. Okeron knows and he's bringing his own, there's going to be their full supply and then his half supply, meaning that there's going to be half too much, meaning we need to ditch half their supply. Uh, there you go.
Speaker G: Uh, we're back to the British Tea party situation.
Speaker E: Exactly. We're going to go just dump this into a local river or we can.
Speaker D: Dump the river onto the tea.
Speaker G: I'm a waterbender. I can do that. So Hercules style.
Speaker A: Uh.
Speaker E: Down with the ship.
Speaker F: Does that mean that we're going to need to have people like waiting? Are we going to have someone waiting on the hot leaf juice people to show up and then we confront them. Or are we going over there?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: Who's. I'm sorry, I missed.
Speaker G: No, M. You're okay.
Speaker C: The hot leaf juice, are they here yet?
Speaker G: You don't see anything that has any of their logo? Because, I mean, you've all seen their logo by this point. You don't see anything with their logo or anything on it? You don't see anybody setting up similar supplies and stuff for tea. So you assume they're not here yet?
Speaker F: Mr. Okran is with us.
Speaker G: No, he's prepping all the ingredients because there's, like, fruits and stuff involved. So he's got to get those, like, chopped, and some of them he might emulsify, um, or whatever the case for the tea.
Speaker E: Simple solution. Hot leave juice. Doesn't know what we look like. They don't even know we work for the blissful brew.
Speaker G: We are wearing uniforms.
Speaker F: We are?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: I'm going to take it off.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker E: Anyways, I'm going to take it off. Just wear my.
Speaker A: Nice.
Speaker G: So Bill door approaches the master of the house nude. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Speaker E: Okay, so I'm now plan. The idea is they don't know who we are, right? So a couple of us could just act like we're working for the Shifu family, And we're going to help them unload their stuff for them. And by unload, I mean we take it the wrong way and then just ditch it somewhere.
Speaker F: So we would need to meet them at one of the.
Speaker G: Well, we just have to wait here.
Speaker E: And then when they show up, then two of us just. That's when we come out. So we don't want to show our faces until they show up, because we don't want anyone else here to know that we work for the Blissful Brew either. Because they don't know we work for the Blissful Brew.
Speaker D: But we know we work for the Blissful Brew.
Speaker E: Yes, but we're not going to tell everyone that.
Speaker A: Uh.
Speaker C: Do you have the contract? A contract?
Speaker F: The contract that you and Sebastian worked at.
Speaker D: No, Sebastian was bringing that to the Shifu family, but he was going to.
Speaker G: Have a messenger take it to him, like, ASAP.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: Oh, perfect.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: So I think that some of us need to introduce ourselves as the blissful brew, remain in uniform, M and start setting up. And then once the other company gets here, we'll act like it's a complicated William. We'll grab the other half of our team, uh, and have them pose as Shifu members. Uh, we'll just tell the real Shifu family, our servants that we'll go take care of it so they don't send out somebody to meet them.
Speaker E: Yeah, we'll just to help them.
Speaker C: I think that's going to work. Or got any improvements on the plan?
Speaker F: I just want to be the one to dump their tea.
Speaker E: Yeah, no, I'm the same way, actually. I want to dump tea, too.
Speaker D: I thought that would be fun.
Speaker G: I feel like everybody wants to be involved in that. We'll just do like. It'll, uh, be like an awesome.
Speaker E: Ah, yeah, but you're really good at talking to rich people, apparently. That's what you told me multiple times.
Speaker C: Do we not want to reveal our blissful brew presence until Mr. Okaron shows up?
Speaker F: We could just be not in our uniforms, tell them that we're there catering the tea because they don't know Blissful Brew is coming.
Speaker D: But why don't they bring their own caterers?
Speaker E: Well, we tell them, uh, they just hire people. They don't know which people they hire.
Speaker F: We can tell the logo on that.
Speaker C: Hot leaf juice note, is it?
Speaker D: Yeah, he said, we all know what the logo looks because we've all seen.
Speaker E: The flyer logo on. Right there on the chest.
Speaker D: I'm a great artist.
Speaker F: If we introduce ourselves as just the caterers, they would assume we're with hot leaf juice. We don't need to say we're with blissful brew. We could set up our tea and then go out to the blissful Brew people, meet them before they come in, and then we dump their tea.
Speaker D: Yeah, we dump, um, our.
Speaker E: No hot leaf. So what he's saying is we just pose as hot leaf juice the entire time. M. And then once the party starts, then we can just.
Speaker D: Well, once Mr. Ogron gets.
Speaker E: Honestly, once Mr. Ogron gets here, we don't need to be here anymore.
Speaker F: Or we could just say we're hot leaf juice the whole time. You didn't say it's a chain. We could say we're coming from another location.
Speaker E: Yeah, if we don't help them and it doesn't help their business. Actually, we're bad workers. We only make them look.
Speaker D: So everyone's going to know we're in the Mr. Okaron because he's going to be like, oh, hey, guys, come help me make some tea.
Speaker E: Okay, then maybe one of you should stay as, ah, the blissful brew member, and you just go back and help Mr. Okeron.
Speaker F: Or we can make sure Mr. Okeron doesn't show up and we just pose as hot leaf juice and sabotage the whole thing.
Speaker E: But then Miss Blissful Brew won't have anyone to be for them.
Speaker G: And don't forget that you guys have a bunch of stuff with you right now to set up.
Speaker C: Well, we only have to set up half the stuff. It shouldn't take too long. So we set up on this half. We leave that half of the party on that side, and then once the actual party starts, also, we could sabotage, ah, their team during the party.
Speaker A: Right?
Speaker E: Make their business look worse.
Speaker C: We could run them out of town before they even get a foothold.
Speaker F: We could have Dilbert ink in their teapots.
Speaker D: Tea would taste awful.
Speaker G: Oh, it probably would. Ink tea. We were just talking about that. We said Squid flavored tea, but we.
Speaker E: Have to be careful not to work Dilbert too hard. He's a new employee.
Speaker D: Did anybody bring broccoli's, um, fermentated, uh.
Speaker E: Tea that's next to Dilberted? I got to hope that Dilbert's not sipping some of that while he's working.
Speaker D: We didn't bring Dilbert then.
Speaker H: No.
Speaker F: Are we at the party right now?
Speaker G: Yeah, you guys are, like, on the outskirts of the party, all kind of awkwardly standing on the edge of the path leading up to the house. Um, I'm sure we're checking our supplies.
Speaker E: If anyone, as you guys have just.
Speaker G: Been talking, there's a couple of servants that have walked by just kind of staring at you guys, but also, they're not paid enough to care, not paid enough to care. So they just kind of walk on. But they're like, why are there, like, a whole bunch of people that are vendors that are just standing?
Speaker D: Is there any kind of type of water around us?
Speaker G: Um, yeah, there's, like, a fancy pond, and in the middle of it, there's a, ah, little, like a gazebo. And then there's, like, a little bridge on either side that lead to the gazebo. So, yeah, there's that little pond. Uh, so that's on the right side of the mansion's front Yard. And then on the left Side, they have a Very ornate fountain. Those are the two main ones in the front. You maybe assume that maybe they might have some, a water feature in the back? I don't know. You don't know?
Speaker D: I'm looking for a mop bucket.
Speaker H: Yeah.
Speaker G: One of the servants walks by and has a bucket in their hAnd, and then there's maybe one that's over by the fountain, and he looks like. He's, like, making sure all the water is cleaned out. Uh, he's standing there and he's scooping things out with a small bucket and then all of a sudden you see a leaf fall into the water.
Speaker H: And he goes and he rushes over.
Speaker G: And he scoops it out.
Speaker D: Okay, guys, we need Those Buckets. What are you planning when hot leaf juice comes?
Speaker G: Grab a Bucket in a moP.
Speaker D: Um, we'll change their water with the pond water. They have pond flavored teeth. Disgusting.
Speaker F: Well, they probably would have brought their own water.
Speaker D: I know. We're replacing it.
Speaker F: How are we going to get them away from their. I'm assuming it's a cart. Do they have a cart or is they just walking with boxes?
Speaker H: Why, guys, why are we focused?
Speaker G: You would assume they probably.
Speaker E: Why are we focused on sabotaging? We haven't even done step one yet. Why are we focused? Yeah, that's the fun part.
Speaker A: I know.
Speaker E: We can't jump the gun, though.
Speaker D: Fine, we'll set up.
Speaker E: Let's set up and pose as hot leaf juice people.
Speaker F: Fine, we'll go inside and set up.
Speaker E: But what do we.
Speaker A: What?
Speaker G: Wait, what'd you say?
Speaker D: You were supposed to be stupid.
Speaker F: No, my guy's stupid.
Speaker E: No, uh, I'm not stupid. Mean.
Speaker G: That's rude.
Speaker A: Jeez.
Speaker E: I'm the one who came up with this plan.
Speaker A: Jeez.
Speaker E: Have some respect. Anyways, we have one. We're not here.
Speaker A: Deal.
Speaker E: Schmeal. Anyways, uh, this is the problem. If we come in posing as hot leave juice people and we have a bunch of boxes and supplies that say blissful brew, won't people be like, why are you carrying the wrong boxes?
Speaker D: The Shifu family knows we're doing it.
Speaker F: But if we're posing. But we're posing hot leaf juice, then they would have assumed that that's not.
Speaker E: Why would you bring in a different company's boxes?
Speaker F: So are we going in as blissful?
Speaker D: Bend the mud.
Speaker A: What?
Speaker F: It's ink. Can you bend ink?
Speaker E: The mud?
Speaker D: Yeah, I could just cover the boxes with mud.
Speaker E: That's not going to look good for the company. Just boxes covered in mud.
Speaker D: The logos. The boxes aren't going to be covered in mud.
Speaker E: I think the plan of having half the people, half the people here, you.
Speaker D: Still have all your branding tools. You can easily cover up the marks.
Speaker E: Half the people here poses blissful brew. So you're not really posing and the other half poses hot leaf juice. I think that's the simplest plan.
Speaker F: But then who does what when the party starts?
Speaker E: Well, the hot leaf juice people, they continue posing as hot leaf juice people and they sabotage all the while. And the blissful brew people just work as blissful Brew members the entire time.
Speaker F: So if our plan is sabotage one.
Speaker C: Thing, like recognize we're not their coworkers, though.
Speaker F: But if it's a chain, we could say they asked, uh, to come from another location to help out the big party.
Speaker E: Yeah, there's a chain.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker G: Okay, we can just say we're part.
Speaker E: Of the delivery crew that came down to travel.
Speaker D: Me and Brock probably took off for.
Speaker E: The night, probably out drinking somewhere crew.
Speaker D: And you guys can be the hot. You and Guaohan can be the hot leaf juice people.
Speaker F: But if I'm the one carrying Dilbert, should I then do is if me and Guaohan's squid. Well, so me and Gua Han have the closest bond with Dilbert.
Speaker H: Obviously, it's joint custody.
Speaker F: Uh, we have joint custody over the squid. So I would suggest that Han and I are the hot leaf juice, and then Bill and Mika would be.
Speaker E: As much as it pains me.
Speaker A: As.
Speaker E: Much as it pains me, I want to be part of the crew, sabotaging, imposing. But as much as it pains me, I'm going to have to be the blissful brew because I'm the main face to the blissful brew, so they'll probably recognize me the most.
Speaker F: Oh, yeah, because you're like a server.
Speaker G: I'm the waiter.
Speaker E: I'm the waiter besides Mr. Okeron. So, yeah, I have to be the blissful brew, which sucks because I really.
Speaker D: Want the person from hot leaf juice with Sebastian.
Speaker F: But Sebastian's not going to be there.
Speaker C: Well, if anything, you two are practice Nika. And also, we need you to water bend that pond water.
Speaker E: Yeah, no. Plus she works in the back rock. And Mika, they know me and. Yeah, that's why I said they know me and Guohan. Um, they know me and Guan more than you two because we're up front.
Speaker A: That's fair.
Speaker E: Out back, you're less likely to be recognized.
Speaker F: So Mika and I will be hot leaf juice.
Speaker E: All right, so now just take off your lustful brew. We'll just stash them in a box here.
Speaker D: Turn around.
Speaker E: What do you mean, turn around?
Speaker G: It's just an apron.
Speaker E: Like, just steal one of if. Why do you mean turn around? Where's it tied to?
Speaker H: Turn the apron.
Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, do.
Speaker F: All right, so.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker G: Sounds good. Okay, so you guys, two of you, Mika and Brock, uh, are going to be posing as hot leaf juice. The, uh, other two are going to be posing, um, as well, we're not posing. Blissful brew members.
Speaker A: Yep.
Speaker E: So she's doing our job.
Speaker A: Uh.
Speaker G: I assume blissful Brew probably wants to show that they got there first. So you guys approach the head servant guy who's kind of, like I said, organizing everything, and we can go ahead and play that scenario.
Speaker E: Do you want to go talk to him while I set up or you want to set up and I go talk to him?
Speaker C: I'll start setting up.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker G: I'll go talk to him.
Speaker E: So I'm going to help him wheel. I'm going to help.
Speaker G: Well, he calls you all, he calls you both over. If he sees you with like, yeah, we're setting up.
Speaker H: Uh, get over here. Uh, what are you doing?
Speaker E: Okay, we're setting up.
Speaker H: Yeah, but, uh, who are you? Who are you?
Speaker E: We're from the blissful Brew.
Speaker G: Oh, okay. Yeah, we got the, uh, notification.
Speaker E: Yeah, it was really recent change.
Speaker G: Yeah, it was just like this morning practice. Uh, you guys are going to be doing the outdoor tea catering. And then your counterpart, what is hot leaf juice? Yes, hot leaf juice. He's got a clipboard in front of him and he's got a bunch of parchment on it with stuff written on it says, yeah, they're going to be.
Speaker H: The, uh, indoor caterers.
Speaker E: So we're out there and they're indoor.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker E: Oh, nice.
Speaker A: Cool.
Speaker G: So, uh, you guys are actually going to be stationed right over there? Kind, uh, of not too far, maybe like 20ft from the gazebo over there. Uh, that way people can kind of take their tea and go up on the nice gazebo with the lights and everything.
Speaker E: It's the whole thing between you and me. Which station do you think will get more customers? The outdoor one or the indoor one?
Speaker G: Uh, it really depends on the weather.
Speaker H: If things stay nice like they are right now, I'm sure a lot of people want to get out, but there's also going to be dancing. So obviously there's going to be a fair crowd inside and they're going to be dancing away and whatever.
Speaker G: Anyway, I got other things to do, so it doesn't really matter that much, right?
Speaker H: I mean, you've been paid.
Speaker E: Well, it just mattered because I just wanted our company to be whichever one would get more business.
Speaker H: Well, we got here first. Well, good on you.
Speaker G: I'll mark that down.
Speaker E: Oh, thanks. Uh, yeah. Did we get paid up front?
Speaker H: Uh, let me check here.
Speaker E: I think I remember in the contract.
Speaker H: Yeah, it was like half up front.
Speaker G: And half, uh, after services.
Speaker H: Yeah.
Speaker E: And then we're getting half of the pay.
Speaker H: Yeah.
Speaker E: Well, because we're split companies, right?
Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker E: It's all in the contract.
Speaker H: Yeah.
Speaker G: So do you have that now, um, uh, Steven.
Speaker H: Steven.
Speaker G: And this guy comes over and he's like, yes, sir.
Speaker I: Is there more for me to, uh, pay for and put into the accounting books?
Speaker H: And he says, yes, Steven. Ah, these guys.
Speaker I: You wanted me, right, sir?
Speaker H: Yeah, I said Stephen, didn't I?
Speaker I: Well, I just wanted to make sure that you wanted Steven with a ph and not Stephen with a v. And he's like, yes.
Speaker H: You. Steven with a ph.
Speaker I: Yes. This me?
Speaker H: Yes. Okay, well, you need to pay these people. They are from, uh, hot leaf juice. No, sorry.
Speaker A: Sorry.
Speaker H: You guys are from Bluesville Brew? We, uh, got that notification that they were doing half this, uh, morning, and yet.
Speaker I: Yes, sir. I have them in the notes, sir.
Speaker H: Yes. Well, pay them their half up front and then set, um, uh, aside the money for later or whatever. You're the accountant.
Speaker I: Yes, of course, sir. Here's your payment up front.
Speaker G: And he hands you a big hefty bag of you on.
Speaker I: He's like, did you want that just now, I'm assuming. Or do you want me to hold onto it for you until after? I can work either way.
Speaker E: We'll take it now.
Speaker I: Okay, that's fine. It'll be your responsibility. I need you to sign off that you've received the upfront payment.
Speaker E: Of course, of course.
Speaker I: All right. Here you go. Please sign here.
Speaker G: He points at a little spot.
Speaker C: I sign broccoli.
Speaker I: And then initials here and initials here.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker I: And a date.
Speaker H: All right. The date again.
Speaker I: Um, it's, uh, 715.
Speaker G: Four years.
Speaker E: Four.
Speaker G: No, uh, it's probably like, you know how, like, in other countries, they flip it around, apparently. Sure.
Speaker C: Lunar month.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker E: Okay.
Speaker I: Thank you. All right. And you guys have a wonderful day. I think someone else is calling for me. Steven with a ph rushes, uh, off.
Speaker G: And you hear him shouting, did you want me or Steven with a v? And the way he said it so smoothly and almost rhythmically, you wonder if he's been shouting that all day and loving the fact that he shouts it all day.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker G: All right.
Speaker A: And then.
Speaker G: So, uh, you guys head over to that little section where you pointed it out, start setting up all the time.
Speaker E: While we're walking back to our table to start signing up, and we're starting to set things up. Put on the table. Bill's, um, like, hey, um, I just thought of something. If they pay us up front and the other two are posing as hot leaf juice members, what if, right when hot leaf juice shows up, they go over and they take their money up front? Think about it. It's a good idea, right?
Speaker C: Yeah, it could work.
Speaker E: Why are they hiding that anyway?
Speaker G: Well, no, as you guys go over and start setting up, then all of a sudden, these two come up behind, and then they start talking to the head of house.
Speaker H: All right, who are you to, uh.
Speaker F: We'Re with hot leaf juice.
Speaker H: Uh, oh, wow. You guys just right behind the other tea company?
Speaker F: Yeah, uh, they sent us from a chain, so, uh, we actually beat our own people here. We just wanted to get the logistics stuff taken care of.
Speaker H: Oh, okay. Uh, all right, that's an interesting way to do it, but I don't know how you guys work. It's your business. Whatever. Uh, you guys could have wear this during the party. The other group came in here, they had, like, uniforms and stuff. You guys are just standing here like a couple of bozos. I would hope you guys are a little bit more professional than this. Of course.
Speaker F: They're bringing us some extra aprons. Uh, we have to travel light.
Speaker H: All right, fair enough. I mean, they're coming from bossing Sable. Um, all right. Uh, you, uh, guys are going to be set up inside in, uh, the dancing room.
Speaker G: Just like, kind of.
Speaker H: There's a little section we've set aside for those that get thirsty after dancing.
Speaker G: And then.
Speaker H: It's a ballroom. It's a ballroom.
Speaker D: Is there another place we can set up?
Speaker H: Pardon me?
Speaker D: Another place we can set up another place.
Speaker H: No, that's why we have set aside the space for the party.
Speaker D: It kind of gets hot when you're making tea, so. Rather not.
Speaker H: Is this the level of professionality I can expect from the hot leaf jUice? Because this is very disappointing. You will set up where we have set you up. That is part of the contract.
Speaker E: Of course.
Speaker D: I don't need to be yelled at like that.
Speaker H: Well, I'm not here to dillydally. I have a whole party to organize. Make sure that everything is set up perfectly. So you will go where you are toked.
Speaker D: Uh, um. Or not.
Speaker E: Then you won't be paid.
Speaker D: Work with someone as rude as you.
Speaker H: Well, I don't need to work with someone as disrespectful as you. Where are your superiors?
Speaker G: You guys can wait here.
Speaker H: You don't have tea? I don't see anything in your hand.
Speaker F: We're sorry. Uh, she's just a little worn out from the trip, I promise.
Speaker D: Not worn out.
Speaker E: Uh, she's a little insane.
Speaker A: Don't worry.
Speaker H: She's just back.
Speaker F: She's back of house. Uh, we don't let her interact with dishwasher.
Speaker H: Understand why.
Speaker F: We saw the other caterers come in and they were talking with a man, Stephen, uh, with Ph. Uh, are we able to speak with him, or is that something that we have to wait to talk to him about?
Speaker D: We will not wait.
Speaker H: What do you need Steven with the ph for?
Speaker F: Well, uh, we were told to collect the money, and then we would just distribute it.
Speaker H: Oh, the half. Yeah, the front half. Well, I'm going to be honest. Uh, her imperfectionality, uh, really leaves something to be desired. I would like to see that you guys have your tea with you and such first. Uh, wherever the rest of your crew is that I can get you the.
Speaker G: Other half up front.
Speaker H: Uh, absolutely.
Speaker F: We will return with our tea cart and possibly some tape over her mouth.
Speaker G: That's a wonderful idea.
Speaker D: I will not put tape on my mouth.
Speaker F: She might not come back.
Speaker A: Don't worry.
Speaker G: All right, sounds good. Uh, and like I said, he points.
Speaker H: He's like, well, I don't know what you're going to set up in the time being, because I, again, don't really see anything on your person about it, but, uh, you can take a look around your area and prep it as necessary until the rest of your group gets here.
Speaker D: I'm ruining the.
Speaker F: We have to get the money first.
Speaker E: All you did was ruin your own reputation.
Speaker F: Get the money first, and then ruin.
Speaker E: I thought that was the plan. You legit spit in his face and then give me money now.
Speaker F: We got 500 from Sebastian. They got 250 if we get the 250 that hot leaf juice was supposed to get. That's the thousand that Mr. Okaron needs.
Speaker E: Uh, yeah, well, you legit are set.
Speaker F: We just need to get the money that leaf juice needs.
Speaker E: Soiled it.
Speaker F: We are on some thin ice with. What's the guy's name? That's not Steven with a ph.
Speaker D: You don't know world for persuasion.
Speaker E: Persuade the what?
Speaker H: Being rude?
Speaker G: First of all, that's DNd.
Speaker F: I guess.
Speaker G: Other options. I don't know what you were.
Speaker D: Charm.
Speaker G: What is it that you wanted to do it for?
Speaker D: Just give me the money.
Speaker G: Uh, yeah, I guess you could try.
Speaker F: And then what happens if you don't get.
Speaker G: But you have to actually say something. I mean, at this point, you've kind of, like. Really? Yeah, like Cameron said, kind of dirtied your own reputation.
Speaker F: Can I try? Because I seem to be the reasonable one.
Speaker G: Yeah, I suppose you could try, but.
Speaker A: You got to get.
Speaker G: Like I said. What are you going to say to him to really push the idea that you should have the money now before the rest of the group. Why do you need it now? To make sure that things get kicked off smoothly.
Speaker F: Yeah, maybe we just wait for the other people.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker G: All right. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right, so you guys head inside. You kind of looking through the mansion. You go through, uh, the entry hall. They've got big stairs that lead up to the upper areas. Um, and then directly straight ahead, there's these big double doors that you can are open, and they lead into, like, a big ballroom area. It's a big room. It's massive. They've got decorations that are all set up in there. There's obviously other servants in there that are still setting up a bunch more decorations. Um, the main middle area of the entire room is set up for dancing and stuff. Uh, but there's sort of, like, an outlying border of other things being set up. You can see someone setting up refreshments, probably another vendor, caterer, or whatever the case for, like, food items and things, like, know or D'oeuvres and things. And then you see a corner that nobody's currently at that you assume that is probably for hot leaf juices space.
Speaker F: So I guess we just walk over to the hot leaf juice space. We don't have anything to really set up, so we would just sort of be standing around. Can I look?
Speaker G: You have the squid, don't you?
Speaker F: I have the backpack.
Speaker G: Okay.
Speaker F: But, uh, could I just walk around and try and find Steven with a Ph on my, um.
Speaker G: Yeah, sure. Yeah, you can look around, do a cesspool situation to see if you can find Steven with a ph. Where is that?
Speaker C: Basic moves.
Speaker G: Top left. Okay.
Speaker A: Roll.
Speaker F: Creativity. I have a plus one. Creativity. So, um, assess the situation. I get a five.
Speaker H: A five? So that's a fail.
Speaker F: Okay, well.
Speaker G: You do not see Stephen.
Speaker F: We do not see Steven. Okay, so I guess since we don't have anything to set up, we just go. Is there only one road that leads to this house?
Speaker D: Uh, but if we have anything to set up, we can still find something to put in the station, so it's easier to destroy the tea once they do set up at least half of the tea.
Speaker F: What kind of stuff are you suggesting we try and find?
Speaker D: Yeah, or, like, barrels or something.
Speaker F: Okay, so you can go try and find the barrels. I was going to try and go down the road and meet the hot leaf juice people before they got. Team.
Speaker A: Ready.
Speaker F: Break.
Speaker G: All right.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker G: So, Mika, you go off into the mansion to go search for things that could store water. Uh, Brock, you start heading outside. Meanwhile, you have. Bill and Guo are outside. They're setting up, and as you guys are just getting started setting up. You see the carriage with a big old hot leaf juice logo on it? Start pulling in.
Speaker C: I think that's grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble. No, it doesn't look like Mika and Brock got the other half m of the money.
Speaker E: No, it looked like he was really upset, actually.
Speaker C: Yeah, looked like Mika was running her mouth. So, uh, we got to make sure this party goes well.
Speaker E: I mean, we're going to do great. I mean, we serve the best tea in all of so.
Speaker C: Right. We just got to make sure that the other half of that tea disappeArs. What are we going to do?
Speaker E: Well, here's the sad part, Guani. Um, there's not much we can do. We're kind of stuck here. Best we can do is just do better, I guess. Right. Because we can't really go over to the competitions and just do anything to their product, right. Because they're already going to be kind of like on edge about us, right. Because we're their competition. Right. The best we could do is go over there and get some samples of their stuff, but that's it, really. So at the end of the day, we have to just hope, uh, know Brock and Mika are going to do their job. And if they don't, and if they don't, well, we can do is if they fail, best we can do is do our best. And if we can just do better than hot leaf juice, then at least we did our best. Right. But you know what? I have confidence in them because they've got Dilbert.
Speaker C: They do have Dilbert.
Speaker E: That's their ace up their sleeve.
Speaker G: And as you guys are having this conversation, um, you look over and you guys are kind of like watching as they're pulling in and you're talking amongst yourselves while this is going on and you watch them pull in in their cart. They got, like I said, this big fancy logo on the side of their cart of the hot leaf juice logo, which is sort of like a pink, almost rose like flower with two leafs coming out. And then, um, there's a tea kettle and it's like pouring hot water onto it and that's just their logo. And then underneath it, just in fancy letters, hot leaf juice with like two lines. So they pull in and like I said, you guys are having this little conversation between the two of you about how you're just going to be better. Like the blissful brew will just shine through the competition and things like that. And you watch. As soon as it pulls over, you see a few people get out, they're all wearing um, these pink, almost bright pink outfits, these, uh, aprons, right? You can see they kind of have a logo on them and stuff like that. And then this woman steps out, this older woman, very tall. And then it adds to the fact that she's tall, is that her hair is, like, in this very high, um.
Speaker H: I don't know.
Speaker G: I don't, um, mean, it's not like, poofy and Curly like Marge Simpson's is. It's very straight, but it's up very high. So it just makes her look even taller. So she's very intimidating, even though she's know, like I said, she's a little bit older, um, because she'd be about Mr. Okaron's age, but she's very intimidating because she's very tall. And she, um, has those big sleeves. She's got one of those rows of the big sleeves that come way down, and she has her hands kind of hidden underneath them. She doesn't notice you guys, uh, but she walks up to that, um, head of the servants, and she starts talking with him. And then all of a sudden, she looks like she gets really upset. For just like, half a second. Her face just gets really sour. Then she goes back to smiling.
Speaker A: And then.
Speaker G: I kid you not, I say, I, uh, kid you not, we're making up a fictional situation. I kid you not. She does this almost horror movie style, like, slow head turn as she looks over at you guys in your booth, and she just gets this little curl of a smile on the corner of her lips. And then she turns back to the headservant guy, and she nods. And then, um, you see him call over Steven with a ph again, who talks to her, hands her a bag of money, has her sign the clipboard and things like that, and then runs back off. And then she turns and she starts walking towards you.
Speaker H: And with that, we'll call it an.
Speaker G: End to this episode.
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Speaker A: Bye.