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Hi everybodyind

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welcome back to the film reroll where the podcast

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where we play through your favorite movies as role-playing

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games and completely wreck them. We

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are back with more fifth element

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as our not Corbin Dallas Scott is

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doing a complex mime imitating my really

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elaborate stuff going on already incredible physical

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play in this episode. Anyway, we're a,

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we're a show and we're going to

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tell a story in this case fifth

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element. And before we get into that,

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I'm going to introduce the players around

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the room with me today in the

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role of Dr. Nut,

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Dr. Priest. Get

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my class right. Vito Cornelius. It

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is Andy Hoover. That's right. I want to

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draw attention. I like that you're drawing attention

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to Scott's like furious mime bit because right

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now the way it goes, like all four

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of us just have a very different approach

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to like our camera game right now. It's

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like we're four playable characters in like a martial

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arts game because my camera doesn't work. So I'm

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just a black screen. You're the new side butt

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of this episode. I like the creepy, I like

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the stealth build and then Scott's doing this

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crazy mime stuff and like his like

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padded sound studio. Jaws is in like

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this forebodingly neutral apartment, like this real

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norm core stuff right now. Jaws is

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barely conscious and shoving food or food.

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Jaws has this red blue split fabric,

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like the duality of man, like he's

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the jester character. It's really trimming me

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out. It's great. Anyway, I'm Andy Hoover.

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I'm a performer and I'll be playing

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Vito Cornelius. The duality of man. It's

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terrific. I just really like everybody's distinct

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camera presence this episode. I'm really getting

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the kick out of it. But

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yeah. In the role of David

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who we've canonically decided his last name

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is Duchovny. It is Scott Iello

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Spelled futuristically. Yeah, David Duchovny lots of

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umlauts. There's a silent X in there

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someplace, but yes it is David WKOVX

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and KY

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that is correct. There's also a numeral in there, but

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we don't It's

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actually Duchovv 5. Yeah, it's meant to be a

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5 There's a big

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feud over that. Yeah, I'm playing

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David. I'm feeling real silly I'm

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tired some re-rollers came out and saw

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Richard and I met them afterwards I will

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where you guys were my wife said that

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you loved the show because I know you

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commented on her Instagram Thank you for coming

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out. The bar will be open as of

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the 9th of February So I was not

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able to make good on that beer afterwards,

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but I will certainly do it if anyone

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else wants to come That is

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when the bar in the place is gonna be

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open, but I am playing David

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I'm not happy about it, but we're gonna

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David slash Vern Chunk,

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you know, but skinny. So there we go

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Those Richard three film rear-roll fans But like it'd

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be funny if your wife just made them up

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because that's a very Richard the third thing to

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do Like a scheme of

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just like here's to like your podcast

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go see Completely You know, she's yelling

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him hard I sleep

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with one eye open And

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in the role of Lilloo it is Jaws vammer how

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you do Hello, I'm

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good in a slightly different location

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than I was intending to be but glad to

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be here I mean, it's never sunny

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in Cleveland and Yeah,

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we're just plugging through recording job job job. Got

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a job. Got a job Got a really intense

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job, which we'll talk about the end of the

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episode. Are you point guard for the Cavaliers? I

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Been to Cleveland pretty much everything's

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out. No window now. No, if

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anything they make just center forward

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that's a better actually that I did play

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that when I was in middle school I

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played the equivalent yeah she doesn't have the

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focus to be the guard there's no chance

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go everywhere but power forward very very good

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strategy in the

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80s works great that

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was a total shot in the dark I would love is that

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I thought being like a take I think that's probably non sequitur

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is my guess

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anyway welcome back to the

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basketball cast or we talked

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about professional basketball players through a

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Cavaliers game six man that's the

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episode we're doing right you shoot

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at the basket I do

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I do yeah that's my understanding

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of the game you got to do it

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got a shoe they have a

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timer that runs down you gotta take your shot

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at the time or those goals yeah score those

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goals anyway so last episode due to a bad

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mistranslation from David Leeloo

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commandeered their cab and took them to

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a river she spotted through the clouds

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which happened to be on the barely

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inhabitable surface of the planet where they

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were mugged by some local tufts who

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got the government officials they were with

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our heroes were able to survive by floating

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down the river where they encountered a village

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floating on the water and they were pulled

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up so when we cut

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the old woman had referred to the water

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and used the name of Montawa which was

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a word you know Leeloo but

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we didn't do veto and and David give me

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IQ rolls to have caught it veto you can

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have a plus two because your divine language is

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better than David's oh right yes and David sucks

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okay here we go oh wow

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I'm glad I had that plus two

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that is a success by two yeah

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David gets it by four oh so

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both of you recognize that the woman

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you're pretty sure pointed at the water

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and and and refer to the Montawa

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and that is a word in

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the divine language which means devourer.

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Devourer means eat David

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in our English

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language. I remember that one father. Let's

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see, I want to roll hidden lore

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to see if I can know

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anything more about this thing. Yeah. All right, that's a

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nine. I get hidden lore by

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three. No, Montal was just a word. It

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just means devourer and there's certainly

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nothing in the lore you've read about

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any fish monster. How about instead of

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like the secret lore we go to

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the publicly available like Department of Sanitation

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lore, like is there anything that

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we would be aware of in like general knowledge New York

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of like, oh, I bet they're talking about the X. You

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can give me a roll for that.

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Sure. What skill are you rolling on there? Is

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that current offense? I

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mean, I have intuition, but I don't want to, you know,

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as an advantage, but I don't want to sort of

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like pull it out for this. Like that seems like

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expensive. I quote character sheep

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that I'm going to save that for a bigger

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moment. For this, I kind of just want to

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go with who I have fishing. Can I

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roll against fishing as if it's like fishing lore, like

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local fishing skill? No, I'm afraid that

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fishing is the skill of fishing. It's not. Yeah, it's

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more like I guess, incredibly into like, several fair. Well,

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I like you, Andy. You would like you. I mean,

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a spoiler warning. You're going to have to roll really

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well to know anything about. Oh, so you know, it's

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a real. Okay. Let me let me roll against fishing.

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Why not? I may be off some ideas. We have

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some good ideas. Josh, you have a better idea. Go

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ahead. Just gonna say, can I just turn to her

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and say, Grandma, can you tell me more about the

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monster? Oh, yeah. I'm just going

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to rack my brain. She

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looks confused. She does not speak your language

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as far as you can tell, unless she's, you

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know, lying. But that was in the word was

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in the divine language, but they don't speak the

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divine language. No, she was speaking English. Now, her

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English is a little hard to understand. Clearly, their

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English is diverged a bit. They are, you know,

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not in a lot of contact with the upside

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world. Ancient Jersey, the upside world. I like that.

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I like that. That's the upside world. Sounds like

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a self help book in a dystopia. I don't

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know. I like a lot. I

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want to say it to her in my. language

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and then I realized she

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doesn't understand me. Yeah, you can tell

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her reaction seems to indicate that she

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does not understand you. She looks at

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you confused and then smiles and nods.

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Oh God, wait, do I understand what

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Leeloo just said? I do

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in fact understand what you just said.

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I say, Monster! What monster are you

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talking about? Leeloo! I'll

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say it in the divine language. I say,

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What monster? What monster? My mind's elsewhere, I'm

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just thinking. Yeah, I turned to David and

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I put a hand on his arm and

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say, We will find us out together and

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then I turned back to the grandmother. Yeah,

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Andy, how'd you do on your roll? I

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have succeeded my fishing roll by two and

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I want the old lady to know it.

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I'm back in the saddle. I'm like, yeah,

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I'm familiar with this fish. I mean, I,

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you know, like, do, am

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I familiar at all with this thing? So

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you, I mean, for successful fishing by two,

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you, for fun, I'm blustering as if I am,

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but yeah. Yeah, I mean, you're not gonna get

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any lore knowledge, but for a fishing by two,

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I mean, you guys saw a glimpse of the

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back of the thing cresting out of the water.

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So for a good fishing roll, I'll let you

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have a sense of how big this thing is

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and, you know, its general shape. I just let

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it like nudge like one of the spear guys

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next to me. Be like 40 footer, huh? You

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know? Yeah, how big is it?

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You guys saw just its back kind of curve

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up above the water a little bit and it

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looks big. And for your

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success, Andy, I'll say that you could

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kind of tell that it's like long

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eel like we're gonna need a bigger

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boat. I need your

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Mario 64 level. Yes, I think everyone just

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saw it a little bit, you know, I

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definitely have to take a freight check then.

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So okay. Yeah, give me a check. Yeah,

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I make it. That is a 10. Okay. You're

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keeping it together. Okay. With the Supreme being, we're

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fine with the spray. She could totally protect us from

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the monster father. It's gonna be fine. Why are you

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panicking? Why are you panicking? I did that at 45

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feet, maybe. The

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old woman now turns to you

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too, David. and Vito.

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She kind of sternly, as you two

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are chattering, says, We are

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a small river people, cannot afford to

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look after helpless wanderers with no gifts

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to trade for their stay. What

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is your worth, then? I'm a fish catcher,

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and she flops the fish she's holding at

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you. Old man, you boast of

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knowing fish, while the river's there, show us

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you provide. The girl has stay, singers we

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have need of, but the boy, what can

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he do? Can fish? Can fight? We have

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heard he cannot stay. What is this, the

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Discovery Channel auditions? What's going on here? It

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might be time to roll fishing, Andy, for

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you. You better nail this. Yeah, those who

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cannot are a skinny fish, we throw

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back. Well, I mean, a skinny fish

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over there, a lot go over to

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St. Gabriel's Mission, like I know the

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guy, you know? Like, what's the problem?

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I'm not really thinking back, I just

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don't want the Supreme being to stay

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here, you know? Singing, fishing, and what?

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Fighting. Fighting. She wants you to demonstrate that you

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can be of service to the village with one

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of those three things. I mean, fishing, yeah, I

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call fishing. I can do it. I succeeded. I

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can do it again. So, it's fishing minus two

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to use their rudimentary homemade fishing poles. You

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have fishing skill, but you're used to, like, nice

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sport fishing poles from going out with fancy church

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donors. Although, you just roll the success by two

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fishing for that knowledge check. So, I'll let you

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use that for, like, a very unimpressive success on

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the button. Like, you just grab a nearby net

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and throw it in the water. I kind of

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want to know, I'm feeling myself. I kind of

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want to do better. I'll do it again. Yeah,

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yeah. I mean, that role is only middling. This

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is where Andy goes to ride. Well, I'm just,

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I think it's a better character mode where it's

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like, they give me the rod and I want

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to show off, you know? And

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that's a bad idea. Oh, no.

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As the dice, as I could have forgiven,

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I failed by one, which other than a crit

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failure is the funniest thing to have happened.

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Yeah, I failed by one. Yeah, you see

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their simple wooden poles and you think back to

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the days of your youth on a lake

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with your father and you confidently grab the

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pole and give it a whirl. Winter days

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back in old New Quebec. And the hook goes

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about eight feet out and plunks into the

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water. And suddenly you remember that your father's

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pole had a sonic autocaster that you could flick

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and the lure would fly about Halfway

12:06

across the lake now. I'll let you take a

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repeated attempts at another minus one But they are

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looking at you impatiently you better get this one

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because it doesn't seem like they'll be a better

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I don't want it. I don't want to die all right Can

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I extra effort no okay? I don't think you can

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That's not like Quebec at all. That's not

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the way we used to do it. Okay.

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Let me having done musky fishing in Wisconsin

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You can extra fishing or the right I

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succeed okay That's on

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the button with the minus three so after

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a first embarrassing attempt You take a better

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look at the pole and it's got several

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hooks. It's not really meant for casting and

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luring It's meant for snagging and so you

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look in the water and you see a

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school of little sardines and pass the line

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through and you Hook a couple small ones

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which you proudly present to her and she

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nods sagely David what are

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you doing? I would like to write a role

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diplomacy, okay? I

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get diplomacy by three okay, and I

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would like to state I

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would like to say great mother I

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say I Do

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not have any of the skills that you

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have mentioned however I

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am the assistant to the

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divine The

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divine being here and she requires

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my help. I am hers. I

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am her slave I am her

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servant she will require my aid

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What a yeah, boy thinks veto

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what an interesting strategy the old

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woman turns Angrily towards Lelu and

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says a small girl is a slave

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taker More than let's sell it

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slave a slave of the heart About

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a devotee her heart

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Groupie if you will Do

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you do you remember that groupie? He is

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a groupie about to my wife that I

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refer myself as the slave to her soul.

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That's how much I love her oh God

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Disciple but more abject I roll into Intelligence

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I get it by it's six seven eight by

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three and I for it I say in the

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divine language to Leeloo I say I may have

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just told them that I'm your husband so that

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they don't throw me over the side of the

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boat because I Can't fish and I can't sing

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and I can't fight and that's those are the

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three things that they really want us to be

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able Do so keys play along with it. I

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promise I will keep my hands to myself the

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whole time. I Really

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do bad with women anyway, so I'm

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fine I put my head by my

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like the concept of marriage or that

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yeah I think you have a vague

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sense of common cultural concepts You know

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what he's talking about, but you definitely

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don't have the kind of specific associations

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of human marriage Family

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yes, yeah Family

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and I turned to her I said grandmother

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family She now is looking at you slightly

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suspiciously but I think they you all got

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across the concept that the slaving thing was

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a Metaphor because she clearly

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does not like the idea of there being

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a slaver on board But

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now we're gonna roll a very critical

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role to see if they're gonna accept

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this explanation that you have value because

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you're married to Someone who can say

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these people being kind of literalist though

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makes the devourer or translation even more

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upsetting You know like yeah, if

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they if they have trouble understanding

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metaphors That's we're in for trouble

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the woman looks at you up and

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down David. She clearly does not size

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you up as being particularly useful Brutal

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it's like a Dom situation

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I Pull out my ball gag

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I go yes, whatever the

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SDS man. She says cannot

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swim cannot fight cannot sing

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cannot fish No value is

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weak physically weak We've

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been confused It

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is cool to toss a man back

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when the Montawa abounds, but we

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are poor fishers. Our

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lives are in danger to him. I

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say, my wife, she can do anything you can

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put her to. You just test her and see.

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My wife can do the work of three people. We

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work hard here. It is not an

16:15

easy life. You'd make your woman do the

16:17

work of two to provide for you? I

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have a question here. How much of their

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conversation can I understand? Pretty much none. You

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have been here for less than a day.

16:26

You have not picked up English yet. Can

16:29

I just nod? Convincingly? Awesome. I

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say, Father, maybe you should let Lilo

16:34

know what they're going to expect of

16:36

her, because I don't always get it

16:38

right. Oh, well,

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I mean, look, just as a quick aside,

16:43

we're simply here just to, you

16:45

know, we're not going to stay here, the three of

16:47

us. You know, I don't say this out loud in

16:49

case people are listening, but that's, you know, this is

16:52

all just a game that we're playing. So I say,

16:54

yes, of course. In addition to

16:56

her beautiful singing voice, you'll find

16:58

that Lilo is very strong and

17:00

talented. Father, I meant tell Lilo

17:02

because she doesn't understand. Oh,

17:04

oh, yes. Well, they I don't know

17:06

how much they should know about that.

17:08

I'm trying to I'm sort of vamping

17:11

here because I'm not quite sure. The

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old woman is looking expectantly at Lilo

17:15

to demonstrate that she can actually maybe

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tell father what she needs

17:19

to roll fishing and get it really good. We

17:21

were fishing and fishing is the name of the

17:23

competition, not strength. I thought it was lifting. I

17:25

thought we were talking about either one. Oh, yes.

17:27

Yeah. Well, Lilo, you'll need to show them that

17:29

you're useful with feet of strength,

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I say to her in the supreme tongue.

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Yes. I grab onto the two of

17:36

them and I lift them up. See that carnival

17:39

barker. Oh, my

17:41

faith is so strange. The woman

17:43

is shocked at Lilo's strength and

17:45

says, a fighter she is.

17:47

We have need of those. But

17:50

if she is to bear your weight as

17:52

she is doing, if she is to drag

17:54

you along with pity in her eyes, as

17:57

she appears to wish to, she must be

17:59

able to sing. and fight at the same

18:01

time. Oh, easy, easy. And I just explained

18:03

that to Lulu. I'm like, yeah, do it,

18:05

do it while you sing something cool, sing

18:07

something funny, do sing it in the rain.

18:11

It's raining men, and then, you know,

18:13

that writes itself, you know? David is

18:15

very, very carefully trying to hide his

18:17

erection. Just really carefully, his

18:19

robes, he's folding them over with a certain

18:21

part of his body, because this is really

18:23

doing it for David. So

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I lift them both up, and then I'm going to

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roll singing to see how well I do on this

18:30

singing challenge. And that'll be a singing minus

18:32

three to do it while lifting the guy.

18:34

Yes, got it. Not a triple threat. Oh,

18:36

yes. Just a double threat. This

18:38

is my client. This is a singer, Fida Fisher. She's

18:40

a triple threat. Even with the minus,

18:43

yeah, the common Broadway trope of

18:45

the triple threat. That's a success.

18:47

Neatly. I pick the two of them up, and

18:50

I sing back to her the song that

18:52

they sang to me as we were approaching

18:54

the platform. Yeah, you rejoin

18:56

the chorus. To be clear, the singing

18:58

has never stopped. Individuals take

19:01

breaks, but there's always at least 10 or

19:03

15 singers going, singing in harmony.

19:05

And there are some common melodies that

19:07

come back, but the overall song seems

19:09

to be improvised. The old woman is

19:12

shocked and impressed at you joining the

19:14

harmony effortlessly while holding two men a

19:16

foot off the ground. David

19:18

and Father Vito just awkwardly hang at your

19:21

side. I love that you're calling him David

19:23

now. No, I'm not. Of course,

19:25

I'm one of the men. You know our ways as if

19:27

bored to them. Come let me

19:29

embrace you. And she goes to hug

19:31

you. The useless boy can stay. You

19:33

three are as family to us. Family.

19:36

And you find yourself accepted now and brought

19:38

in. Incidentally, we're on

19:40

Ellis Island. Yeah. I

19:42

look at the old woman. I said, if you

19:44

ever want to know anything about theology, I'm

19:46

your man. I can vouch

19:48

for it. He has quite a bit. I'm the head.

19:51

It says you useless, but you marry

19:53

well. Thank you very much. I think so, too.

19:57

I ask about is the monster. what

20:00

is the monster out there? Is the monster still

20:02

out there? You think you

20:04

have to translate that video? Yeah, somebody has

20:06

to translate for me. I mean, I'm very

20:08

single-minded. I want to just wait until we

20:11

have quiet moments so we can escape. And,

20:13

you know, that's the plan, right? So I'm

20:15

only barely entertaining the supreme being's curiosity about

20:17

this creature at all. So thank you for

20:19

letting me talk through my character, Jaws. I

20:21

appreciate that. And my actual response would then

20:23

be, yes, I would translate that. I would

20:26

be like, yes, Lilloo here

20:28

would like to know more about the, I

20:30

believe you were calling it

20:32

the Devourer? Muntawa. Muntawa, yes.

20:34

Tell me more about Muntawa.

20:37

Muntawa comes upon the turning of

20:39

the tide, when cool

20:41

waters give way to warm. We

20:44

sing to calm him, that he will

20:46

pass to the sea without harming our village.

20:49

But sometimes he will not go. Sometimes

20:52

he hungers too deeply and

20:54

is restless, thirsting for the

20:56

blood of our people. Oh, well. Three days

20:58

we have sung and he has not gone.

21:01

Our singers grow tired. Our

21:03

chief prepares our fighters and steals

21:06

his soul for sacrifice. Many

21:09

die when the Muntawa comes to

21:11

calm. This sounds like a local

21:13

matter. I don't really see. I

21:16

mean, is it okay for

21:18

us to even be here? Because we could just

21:20

go. We could just leave if we're distracting you,

21:22

get back to the city. We have things to

21:24

do. You are free and welcome to go. But

21:28

I would not cross that water if I were

21:30

you. Uh, I think we should all roll a

21:32

perception on this area we're in. I

21:34

roll perception and fail miserably. Okay. I

21:36

failed my board. I get a critical success

21:38

somehow on this road. Good idea, Scott. It

21:40

turns out, bonus. Good thing we

21:42

looked in that crate. Yes, perception.

21:45

Yeah, okay. Good success. Yeah,

21:47

paint the picture for me. Like, are we on

21:49

a boat? Is there shore nearby? What's going on?

21:51

Oh, and I translate all this back to Leeloo

21:53

and David can hear it. David understands it. You

21:57

guys are on a village made of floating rafts

21:59

tied to... together with rope. On

22:01

some of the rafts are small huts

22:04

raised with wood and covered in pelts

22:06

to give some shelter. You're in the

22:08

middle of a wide estuary with marshy

22:11

ground on either side. The river's about

22:13

80 yards wide at this

22:15

point and it's very slow moving. On

22:18

the right shore, there's flat land and

22:20

in the distance you see the buildings

22:22

of Manhattan very dimly through the fog.

22:24

The future shoreline has changed so this

22:26

river doesn't give out to the ocean

22:28

right by the city like it does in

22:30

our time. On the left

22:32

shore, there's more wooded area. Right by

22:34

the water, there's an enormous tree which

22:36

has branches so wide that they overhang

22:39

the village a bit, about 50 feet

22:41

above you. So it's kind of less

22:43

that we're actually like that. It's more

22:45

like we're far from the city than

22:47

we are surrounded by deep water. We

22:49

can get to shore pretty easily, it

22:51

sounds like a takeaway. You guys could

22:53

certainly swim to shore from here. Now,

22:55

you're not very good strong swimmers. The

22:57

reason that you guys ended up floating

23:00

down this way. Yes, and Motawa will eat us. Well,

23:02

yeah, there is a big fish. Well,

23:04

you practically weighed like for a lot of it,

23:06

potentially. I mean, you remember because you were just

23:08

in the water and you could not touch the

23:10

bottom of this here. Okay. Do

23:12

they have boats? Yes, they have several

23:14

tied up small boats. Got it. Okay.

23:16

So I turn to Thedo and

23:18

I say, when monster

23:21

leaves, they row us

23:23

ashore. Okay, great. I mean, yes, hopefully they

23:25

will do that. Yeah, as soon as they

23:27

call it safe. You ask, Thedo. You ask.

23:29

All right, but we'll see what they want

23:31

in return. If anything, I just feel ...

23:33

All right, yes. Excuse me, ma'am.

23:36

Old lady leader, nice

23:39

lady. Wonderful fisher lady.

23:41

Oh, great hostess. I

23:43

was wondering, or rather my friend here was wondering if

23:45

once it is safe, you would be able to row

23:47

us to shore. We hate to be any trouble. We

23:49

will, of course, arrange payment

23:51

of whatever you think is fair. The woman

23:54

nods and says, those of

23:56

us who live will bear those of

23:58

you who live across the water

24:00

with great mouth. All right, good.

24:02

Great. Okay. Well,

24:05

I would like to be one of those people.

24:07

They seem to only have spears. Spiers are there

24:09

like spears. That's the main weapon here. For

24:12

your crit success perception, I have not given you

24:15

that yet. As

24:17

you look around, something strikes you about

24:19

the way the rafts are tied together.

24:22

It bothers you for a minute and you think

24:24

on it, you ponder it and suddenly it comes to

24:26

you. You notice the paths

24:28

of how the rafts are tied together

24:30

and you picture what it would look

24:32

like from above. The shape they

24:35

all make is the shape

24:37

of a symbol you know well when you

24:39

keep with you on your belt. Ah, shit.

24:41

Ah, shit. Everything changes. That's

24:43

crazy. I look at my sick belt

24:45

buckle to confirm and yet that's the

24:47

same looking symbol as one of the

24:49

four elements. That's canon, by the way.

24:51

It has a cool belt buckle with

24:53

all four elements on it. This seems like

24:55

a calling. I'm going to roll against, so

24:57

we got to help them out is sort

24:59

of my first thought. It's like,

25:02

oh wait, this is really the call. This

25:04

is what we should be spending our time

25:06

on. So from a quasi-meta perspective, my

25:09

whole, but also a totally in-character notion

25:11

of oh, let's move on. I've

25:14

now done a 180 and been like, this is the plot

25:16

now, maybe. But I'm going to roll Hidden Lore to get

25:18

a sense of that. Can I do that? Yeah.

25:21

Okay, I got a middling success on Hidden Lore.

25:23

Well, not too bad. It succeeded by three on

25:25

Hidden Lore. Yeah, I mean, it's the symbol for

25:27

water. What are you trying to find out about

25:29

it? Like is this significant is sort of the

25:31

question I would ask the universe.

25:33

So the source of this symbol is the

25:35

Mundashiwans. They taught your order the ways of

25:37

the light and the dark, and they made

25:40

you keepers of this ancient knowledge. The

25:42

Mundashiwans also gave you the divine language

25:45

with which to understand the text they

25:47

handed down. Now, the shape of the

25:49

symbol itself is pretty simple. On

25:51

its own, it could be a coincidence, but

25:54

not with them having a word in

25:56

the divine language, Muntawa. They must have

25:58

learned these somewhere. but you have

26:00

no idea where. It's a mystery. Okay,

26:03

and an in-character thing though, what this

26:05

does is it reminds me of my

26:07

sense of duty to humanity, which is

26:09

very much linked with my vow, which

26:11

is a service to the Mandashiwins. And

26:14

I know from the prologue that a

26:16

big deal of service to the Mandashiwins

26:18

is passing on the knowledge, and these

26:21

seem like people who are receptacles and

26:23

therefore transferees of that knowledge, and therefore

26:25

protecting them is both in service to

26:27

both my vow and my sense of

26:29

duty to humanity. So I need to

26:31

make sure that they're okay with fending

26:34

off this threat. Do

26:37

you let your friends know any of this stuff? Well,

26:39

this is all going through my head. It just

26:41

takes... This all happens in an instant. It just

26:43

takes time to explain it. It's basically how I

26:45

would put it, which is such a fun little

26:47

line from a novel whose name I forget right

26:49

now. The idea of just like, you write like

26:51

a lengthy fight scene, but really it just takes

26:53

place like that, and that's how

26:55

this was. He just has that moment, took

26:57

a while to articulate it, and then says

26:59

immediately to David and Leeloo

27:01

in both languages, we must help

27:04

these people, and looks heroically

27:06

off towards this, with his

27:08

back towards the city. And that's all you're

27:10

at, you know. There's nothing in the city

27:12

that we need. Everything we need is right

27:15

here in order to take back the world

27:17

from great evil, because he who protects the

27:19

least of his brothers does so for the

27:21

world entire. We will save these people and

27:24

thereby discover the fifth element. Oh,

27:26

Father, I'm all about helping people when they're in

27:28

need, but there's a giant massive ball

27:30

of evil heading toward the earth, and we don't have

27:32

any of the weapons to fight it. We don't have

27:34

the stone. That's a great point. Wait,

27:36

you're right. We're on a timeline. How can we

27:38

do both? I'm fine with helping these people. Why

27:40

do you want to help these people, Father? Because

27:42

I had a... You know what? That was very

27:44

selfish of me. I had a religious epiphany, and

27:46

I made it all about me, and I shouldn't

27:48

have. No! You're right, David.

27:50

We helped! No, it's now. I take it

27:52

back. What element? All right, so there's four

27:54

of them, and probably a fifth. Look, there's

27:56

no time for this, Leeloo. I'll explain to

27:58

you later, you gorgeous... creature you. We will

28:01

figure it all out later. For now, we

28:03

need to find a way to get back to the

28:05

city. No, we have. Oh, I'm so confused. All right.

28:08

What do you, what does everybody want to do here?

28:10

Real quick. I want to know what the hell you

28:12

found out for God's sake. Oh, I'm sorry. You're right.

28:15

I should move you into decision making. Yes, they've

28:17

got the old water symbol, you know, like our

28:19

belt buckles, David. Remember when he got first on

28:22

our trip to Fort Worth? I say,

28:24

why say? Fort Worth. Does

28:26

he, does he point to his belt

28:28

buckle? Yes, of course I do. This one.

28:30

So I see the symbols. Yes, this one. Then they've

28:33

got this one and I don't care if the old

28:35

lady sees, we're all on the same page here. It's

28:37

like flashing gang signs or something. Yes. Yeah. You've got

28:39

them tattooed on your, on your arm. I show him

28:41

my arm and I say this one. Yeah, we're all

28:44

part of a team here. We're all like, yes, we

28:46

all know. What do the river people say when they

28:48

see our tattoo? Oh yeah. Maybe they hate the other

28:50

three more than they love the one. They don't seem

28:53

to have a

28:55

reaction to it. I'm going to, okay, David,

28:57

David's going to just focus. And

29:00

now that I know that this

29:02

entire boat, this floating flotilla is,

29:04

I guess a flotilla by definition is floating.

29:07

This flotilla is shaped like the water. I'm

29:09

going to roll hidden lore and see if

29:11

any epiphanies come to me as well. Okay.

29:13

Give me a hidden. Nine hidden lore. That

29:17

is a hidden lore by three. That's

29:19

the same role that Andy had earlier.

29:22

So you get nothing, nothing new from

29:24

that. But what did we get that

29:26

was old though? Like we don't, it's

29:29

all very. This is my history,

29:31

right? So what do I know about this?

29:33

I mean, to you, it's very normal. It's the

29:35

symbol for one of the five elements, a list,

29:37

which includes you by the way. Right. Yeah. It's

29:39

the symbol for water there in the water. Makes

29:41

sense to you. Right. You don't know enough about

29:44

earth to have context that this knowledge is out

29:46

of place down here. I mean, it feels like

29:48

we are maybe, okay, from

29:50

a meta sense, it feels like perhaps

29:52

there are like four or five encounters

29:54

that are like this and it's all

29:57

pretty, you know, incidental to our actual

29:59

schemes. really cool symbolic thing but

30:01

there's also the possibility this is a test like

30:03

that's what vetoes worry I don't know I say

30:05

I roll until I see I thought so much

30:07

easier to say father maybe you should tell the

30:09

divine the supreme being to sing maybe it'll help

30:12

I mean if these people know about what this

30:14

thing does I don't want to get eaten by

30:16

a giant monster I don't either yeah let's just

30:18

went in Rome this for a bit legal you

30:20

sing I guess so they're doing fishing well this

30:22

is happening too let's just sing until

30:24

they stop singing and then once we know it's okay

30:26

to stop singing maybe we'll know it's safe how does

30:28

that sound to people I mean I feel like I'm

30:30

in a Halloween situation right here I don't know what

30:33

the hell follows trying to get mad from a metapress

30:35

spectrum is going to flash forward the clock being

30:37

like alright we need to do in order to like

30:39

move time peacefully along until this worm is gone yeah

30:41

we can fast forward so you

30:43

three are welcomed into the village there's

30:45

people fishing at the edges and a

30:47

couple people gutting fish for eating you

30:50

notice that they're careful right now to

30:52

not drop any fish guts into the

30:54

water there's an area where

30:56

a man with a couple of helpers is

30:58

sharpening spears and one of them is beating

31:00

some strength into a toughened leather armor

31:03

the children have been gathered into the center

31:05

of the village around a woman who's doing

31:07

a storytelling circle with animated gestures

31:10

and characters and you see the chief

31:12

huddled at the other end with about

31:14

eight strapping lads in their teens or

31:16

20s presumably those are the

31:18

fighters the tallest one is being anointed

31:21

and painted with oils by the chief

31:23

and I'll illuminate the mechanic here of

31:25

which is that every hour of game

31:27

time I'm rolling for the villagers singing

31:30

plus any of you who want to help margin

31:32

of success or failure and on a success by

31:34

eight the mental will go away but on a

31:37

failure it will attack so we

31:39

can fast forward an hour and you guys can

31:41

do whatever you want with that hour but I'm

31:43

going to roll again for I'm going to use

31:45

this time to research are

31:47

there any texts around that I can read

31:50

I turn

31:52

to Davie and I say David you keep stories

31:54

go talk to storyteller I'm gonna go to the

31:56

storyteller and listen to what they say and you

31:58

know I don't know if you want Whatever you

32:01

want to look around you've helped feed go fish

32:03

No, I mean, I don't really care about these

32:05

people other than my general Concept

32:07

like I mean like honestly whether or not they have

32:09

one extra fish is in material to whether or not

32:11

they get attacked I think the VF I say father

32:14

So if you asked the divine the supreme mean to

32:16

look around because she's got she's got better eyes than

32:18

I do and see if there's Any texts that these

32:20

people have that I can read I'm gonna do both

32:23

I put Lila Lila at the disposal of both

32:25

David and the grandmother and I'm just gonna take

32:28

my shift as singing I just want to yeah,

32:30

are there any books around this is basically what

32:32

I'm gonna get in touch With

32:34

the good in the world and sing about

32:36

it and drive away anyone who's singing. Give

32:38

me a singing role. That's right I'm just

32:41

a thing for the village. Oh,

32:43

no, are you freaking kidding me? I

32:45

fail by two failure by two. I really wanted

32:47

that to be a good role Oh,

32:50

maybe he's lost touch with the part of

32:52

himself that even wanted to be a priest

32:54

I succeeded by two maybe this is why

32:56

he never went well Let's do this hour

32:58

before we play out the consequences of

33:00

that singing role David You wanted to go and talk

33:02

to the storyteller. I do want to go talk to

33:05

the storyteller I want to I want to go listen

33:07

to his stories. Yeah, so you go and sit with

33:09

the children. You're welcome to there I mean, that's how

33:11

the villagers see you anyway and You

33:14

come in part way through an

33:16

epic of a man's name Kyle and

33:18

his journey up the river to find

33:20

the source of water and the various

33:22

gods and demons and tricksters He meets

33:25

along the way at a surface level.

33:27

I mean it's engagingly told but a

33:29

little convoluted perhaps if you want to get

33:31

anything from it, maybe give me a Theology

33:33

role to interpret its criticism. Oh

33:35

my god. It's my time literacy

33:38

rolling theology. I'm very excited about

33:40

it This is about yeah, I

33:42

get theology by five by five.

33:45

Okay. Yes, indeed. I rolled a

33:47

eight I have high theology. Oh,

33:49

you got the little job reference in there sick,

33:51

man Yeah, you listen to a few stories and

33:54

using your background and training you start

33:56

to put together some some clear themes

33:58

of what these people believe about the

34:00

universe, what their values are. They

34:03

don't really have concepts of good and

34:05

evil. Their gods and demons are about

34:08

equally arbitrary and cruel. But

34:10

there is a strong place for

34:12

the hero. There's agency for humanity

34:14

in this mythology. And

34:16

the hero is a manifestation of

34:18

the village. If the village is

34:20

strong, they will produce strong heroes.

34:23

When they're weak or disunited, they

34:25

produce heroes at conflict with themselves.

34:28

And you see why she's telling these stories

34:30

in this fraught time with the

34:32

Montawa swimming around. The

34:34

lesson is that if they are strong,

34:36

then they will prosper. And

34:39

if they were weak, then it was meant

34:41

for the river to take them. This is

34:43

like an 80s Wall Street seminar. I

34:47

say to the storyseller, I say, you

34:50

speak of heroes and you speak of

34:52

bringing up great heroes. Who is

34:54

your greatest hero here? Who is the one that

34:56

is the greatest of the heroes? Joe

34:59

DiMaggio. Go the distance. She

35:01

says, the greatest

35:04

hero is the first of all our heroes.

35:06

Kyle. Not the boy

35:08

Kyle, but the old Kyle from time

35:11

before. And I say,

35:13

who is the greatest hero now that the

35:15

village has produced? New Kyle. It is our

35:17

chief. And if he is to fall

35:19

today, then it is Kyle the boy. He is

35:21

strong and brave and he throws a spear like

35:23

no other. Does that pass the smell test? Should

35:25

I roll perception? Oh, I'm not there. I

35:28

say, where is the chief? I would like

35:30

to meet him. Yeah, you see that she

35:32

points him out. He's a big sturdy man,

35:35

you know, in his late 40s probably. And

35:37

he's commanding presence for sure. And his

35:39

son around? His son? Didn't you

35:41

say his son is Kyle? No,

35:43

I think he's just named. His name

35:45

is Kyle. So what he was saying is that

35:48

there is a boy named Kyle who's

35:50

the best fighter and he's young. And

35:53

he is named after the hero Kyle from the

35:55

story you heard. I would like to meet Kyle.

35:57

Is he here? When she points him out and

35:59

you see a... handsome, strapping, maybe

36:01

18, 19 year old

36:04

boy, just absolute six pack abs.

36:06

Oh my. Yeah. This

36:08

island has everything. Like a Zack Snyder movie,

36:10

basically is what we're talking about here. This

36:12

is like... Where did they get

36:14

that oil? In this economy. I go, I go,

36:17

I go, thank you. I said, I say, and

36:19

I tell him a story. The

36:21

storyteller is a woman. I tell her. I apologize.

36:24

I tell her one of the stories. This is Terry Gross with Frick

36:26

Air. I actually tell her the story of the, I tell her the

36:28

story of the Supreme Being. I say, we also, from

36:30

where I come from and my beliefs, the

36:33

best of us is going to save the

36:35

entire universe from a great evil that is

36:37

coming. I say, and I talk about this.

36:39

I talk about the Supreme Being and then

36:41

I point. I said, hi, this is our

36:43

Supreme Being. I point over to, and also

36:45

my wife, and I point over to... Marathruple.

36:49

Very common here. And

36:52

she says to you, then if

36:54

she is the hero, the one who

36:56

is truly tested is not the hero, but

36:58

you, for you, if you love

37:01

the hero, must give her the strength

37:03

to triumph, must show her the

37:05

good of the world so that she will

37:07

wish to save it. Okay. All

37:10

right. Yep. Yep. Yep.

37:13

I'm going, I'm along with that. I say, okay. Andy's

37:17

in the David boat. I'm

37:19

not, like, I don't know, like I sort of, but I

37:22

think that I don't want to be like, are you thinking

37:24

what I'm thinking? I'm going to have a telling the brain

37:26

moment here. So I'd like it to be explosive. I'm happy

37:28

because Scott's kind of meta gaming right now. Yeah, give me

37:30

an IQ roll for sure. I know, I own meta games

37:32

and then I'm going to do... Oh, I got that.

37:34

Oh, that's a good roll. I just got,

37:36

I rolled a nine. My IQ is 12,

37:39

so that is by three. So what is

37:41

it, Scott, that you think the lesson is

37:43

here? That the Supreme Being,

37:46

one of the final things to make

37:49

this to let the Supreme Being conquer

37:51

evil of the Supreme Being must understand

37:53

love. I think that's almost

37:56

right. Yes. But you

37:58

actually feel that these... you

38:00

know, simple fisher folk, have a lot

38:03

of wisdom. And

38:06

it's not just that the Supreme

38:09

Being needs to understand

38:12

love in order to save the world, it's

38:15

that love is

38:17

one of the things that

38:21

the Supreme Being could learn, and

38:23

what things the

38:25

Supreme Being learns and what she values

38:27

is very much in your hands. Okay,

38:31

so David's brain explodes and I run

38:33

over to Father Cornelius and I say,

38:36

Oh, so lovely. Not that

38:38

you're singing. It's beautiful, Father.

38:40

It's gorgeous. I could listen

38:42

to you sing all day.

38:44

But I wanted to tell

38:46

you that I made a discovery, I talked

38:49

to the storyteller, and I think, Father, that

38:52

our influences and the people that we bring with us are

38:54

going to help Leeloo fight the great

38:56

evil. And I found a hero here

38:58

in the town, a young boy. His

39:00

name is Kyle. And man, not only

39:03

is his name kind of like

39:05

Superman, it gets me really excited and also

39:07

Kara Strait, but also, never mind, that's someone

39:09

that I know from great school. David, you're saying

39:11

nonsense again. I know, but what I am saying

39:13

is that I think that now does Kyle

39:15

have really ripped abs, but I think that

39:17

he could be useful. I think we should bring

39:20

Kyle with us on his journey. And at

39:22

the very least, introduce Kyle to our supreme

39:24

being, to Leeloo. And if you don't mind,

39:26

I'm going to go do that right now. David,

39:28

I want to flashback to shortly before this conversation

39:30

and before I started singing, when I was the

39:32

one who was all excited about staying here and

39:34

helping them with their problems, and you were like,

39:36

no, we need to hurry up and get the

39:38

government and get the stone. Yeah, no, you're

39:41

right, Father. I'm an asshole. I mean, it's

39:43

I'm fine either way. I just wish there

39:45

was look, certainly, I think that

39:47

we should still stick with the plan of wait

39:49

until the yield is gone. And then we'll figure

39:51

out the theological ramifications later. I'm going. I'm going.

39:55

David, the stones. Everybody

39:58

roll perception. I

40:01

failed. I don't get crit fail, but I failed

40:04

by a lot. I succeeded by one. I'm hyper

40:06

focused. And David, it says in my thing, David

40:08

says a single minded. So David is just on

40:10

this Kyle thing. And I do not notice anything

40:12

around me. I got it by 11. David,

40:15

you have no idea, but everyone

40:17

else pretty much notices that there is

40:20

a sudden bloom of

40:22

bioluminescence and the singing

40:24

slowly falters and you

40:27

are instead surrounded

40:29

by weeping and much rending of

40:31

clothing. Oh, God. All right. All right. All

40:33

right. I'm going to roll intelligence. I get,

40:35

oh my God, I get intelligence. I almost

40:37

crit succeed. I say to Leeloo in very,

40:39

very clear terms. I say, Leeloo, the monster

40:41

is coming. I point over at Kyle. I

40:43

say, that is the best warrior that they

40:45

have here. I think you and him need

40:47

to get a spear and get ready because

40:49

this big sea monster is about to jump

40:51

out of the water and I can't do

40:53

anything about it, Leeloo. I can't do anything

40:55

about it because I have no fighting skills.

40:57

I love you. I'm not

40:59

even noticing it on a failed reception

41:02

check to calling out exactly what it was

41:04

and taking action. Like, what is it

41:06

though? Like, is it the... All you

41:08

see is the bioluminescence, but you can tell

41:10

from the reaction of the villagers that

41:13

that is what happened is that they did

41:15

not hit their singing role in the very

41:17

first time around. I

41:19

think this is a fun thing that's actually

41:21

a good, like, you know, from a meta

41:23

perspective, makes for good PVP conflict. Scott, if

41:25

you were so interested, because my main thing

41:27

is get Leeloo away from that. And it

41:29

sounds like your character wants Leeloo to prove herself

41:31

by fighting it. So I think you and I

41:33

might be at odds. I think that Leeloo has

41:35

an autonomous being that's going to tell us what

41:37

the hell she wants to do. She's in charge

41:39

anyway. I think that's the best way for the

41:41

movie to go. So I think that, like, I'm

41:43

going to stop you from trying to get her

41:45

involved. And you all see... But she's the one

41:47

who makes the decision. You all see the chief,

41:50

the big burly man, the older gentleman, strip

41:52

off the...he had this leather vest

41:54

on and he strips it off.

41:57

Yeah. And he drops his... He

42:00

hands it to one of the

42:03

younger lads and he walks

42:05

solemnly to the edge of the village

42:09

that faces out and jumps in

42:11

the water. And you see him

42:14

swim out and out

42:17

and eventually stops

42:19

and wades in the water for a second

42:21

looking about and then is just

42:24

gone, is pulled under. Cool.

42:26

I say, Leeloo, what are we going

42:28

to do? And around you there is

42:30

singing and crying and the old woman,

42:32

the elder Mara, she says, the

42:35

sacrifice is done. May

42:37

he go, may he go, the sacrifice

42:39

is done. So selfishly, I think we

42:41

should leave now while the thing's busy.

42:43

Like, right? Like, is that crazy?

42:45

Like, get to dry land. And you see

42:47

the younger men now, the ones who'd been

42:49

attending the chief, the boy Kyle among them

42:52

have grabbed spears and are at the ready

42:54

facing out to sea. What do I get

42:56

for the 11 perception? Did

42:58

you roll that just now? Yeah, when you said when the

43:00

bioluminescence happened. Yeah, I got it by 11. You

43:03

got it by 11? Yeah. Okay. Crit

43:06

success perception. The headline news of me getting

43:08

it by two really crowded out the room. So

43:14

for your crit success perception, yeah,

43:16

you see the bioluminescence

43:19

and you, you know, you

43:21

feel the monster moving under the

43:24

village. And what it's

43:26

doing is it's just breathing out

43:28

hard and oxygenating the water, which

43:30

causes the bioluminescent bloom. So you

43:33

feel the swell of life around

43:35

you. And then you, you

43:37

feel the monster go out towards sea and

43:39

turn around. And you see as the chief

43:42

swims out and gives himself up

43:44

and the monster just nimbly grabs

43:46

him and pulls him under until

43:48

he's out of your view in

43:50

the murky blackness of the dark

43:52

water. And for your crit success,

43:54

I will say that you kind of have a sense

43:57

for where the monster is. You

43:59

just now kind of. feel him radiating

44:02

fiery energy under the water. Okay, can I

44:04

roll perception real quick? Again, like I got

44:06

success on that, but I want to roll

44:09

perception on and I get

44:11

it on the button on what Leeloo, on

44:13

Leeloo getting that and I just

44:15

want to be like, is it safe to leave? Like

44:17

it looks like Leeloo is really tapped

44:19

in on this creature, like maybe she

44:21

has super senses, like is it safe for us

44:23

to make a run for it based on the

44:25

current position? You ask me this? Yeah, in the

44:27

divine language. Yeah. Yeah, I say no, Father. It's

44:30

swimming. Well, then what should we do? So I have a question about

44:32

like just Leeloo's abilities.

44:34

She's super strong. Yeah. Is there any

44:36

way that I can make like a super

44:38

loud noise or am I reduced to just

44:40

like what human, like the loudest sound a

44:42

human could be capable of? I'm

44:45

wondering about my own biology. I will say that

44:47

I think you can make a louder sound than

44:49

a normal human. I'll let you roll on that.

44:51

Like the voice and dune kind of thing maybe.

44:53

Yeah, kind of. Yeah, I would, I would let

44:55

you, I would let you take a shouting

44:58

skill based on health and I'll make you roll

45:01

for it as one of your five skills

45:03

that you can gain for today. Because what I

45:05

was thinking is I can find like

45:08

a cone-shaped object to put into the

45:10

water and just scream through that. I'll let you

45:12

do that. I'll let you try, you know. Yeah,

45:14

okay. So first of all, do I need to

45:16

roll perception to see if there's a cone-shaped object

45:18

near me or? Just grab a hut, grab a

45:20

hut and roll it up different. I'm

45:24

only half joking. Give me a perception or

45:26

a scrounging roll. You don't have scrounging. I'll

45:28

let you take a perception. Your honor, your

45:30

honor, your honor, maybe, maybe, maybe for, I

45:32

would say, does Lulu have common sense? Do

45:35

you have common sense on your sheet, Lulu?

45:38

I don't suspect she does. I don't think so. Never

45:41

mind, I'll shut up. Can I roll IQ first

45:43

to see if this would even work? Knowing

45:45

what I know about the Earth's physics and stuff.

45:48

Yeah, roll IQ. Okay. Yes, I get that by

45:50

four. Then you hear a voice in

45:52

your head that goes, sound doesn't work

45:54

that way underwater. Don't worry about a

45:56

cone. Stick your head in the water.

45:58

It'll be fine. but

46:01

a cone won't make a difference. Yes,

46:04

a sound travels better underwater than

46:06

it does in air. To

46:09

what degree a cone will make a difference

46:11

as that unembodied voice said,

46:13

yeah, probably not really. Then

46:15

I'm not going to worry about the cone. I just stick my head

46:17

in the water and I want to try to like, what's your face,

46:20

black canary scream. I would like to stop

46:22

her if I noted it. I don't know

46:24

if I would, the supreme beings, big and

46:27

merry and underwater, near the moon tower, you

46:29

know? David's all in. David's into this.

46:31

David loves it. Ah, Vito

46:33

is conflicted. Can Vito like just like-

46:35

First of all, role IQ to have

46:37

noticed what she's doing and get there

46:39

fast enough to stop her. Success

46:42

by a bit. Yeah, if you want to try and grab her

46:44

and tell her that's a bad idea, you

46:46

are there. I think maybe

46:49

the supreme being knows better than I do, but I

46:51

want to be like ready to grab

46:53

her and holler out if the jaws of the

46:56

moon tower come swinging on up out of

46:58

the depths, you know? So like maybe

47:00

like, you know, just in grabbing, in

47:02

spotter position for this deadlift of the

47:04

deep, put it that way. Yeah, so

47:07

if what you're trying to do is

47:09

develop a black canary-like focus shout that

47:11

can do damage, I will

47:13

allow it. I didn't mean your wild

47:15

talent to be that flexible, but this

47:17

is an advanced and difficult skill. In

47:20

order to pick it up, I will take

47:22

a health minus five and your HD is

47:24

not extraordinary. So this is a really tough

47:26

role. And if you don't get it, that

47:28

still counts as one of your five for the

47:30

day. Great. Banshee.

47:32

Right. Great Banshee is what

47:34

this is. I can't believe the other skills are practical. Like first

47:36

aid, swimming. It's not a

47:38

great success, but it's pretty fucking close. Not quite

47:40

a crit, but that is a definite success. That

47:43

is a five. So you

47:45

get this skill and you have it

47:47

at a what? Hold

47:49

on, let me look at your screen. At 24. Yeah.

47:53

No, your health is actually fairly normal. So you have this at an

47:55

11. An 11. Great. And

47:57

I'm going to rule that it takes an FP to use

47:59

it every time. The great know are you going to use

48:01

it right now? Why I wanted to see it that I

48:03

can kind of feel. The. Creature now right? You can sense

48:05

it. I don't want him to be so close and

48:07

on a sense and so close that it's like dangerous for me

48:10

to put my faith in the water at that moment. but I

48:12

do want it to be near. Is some not having

48:14

to like? shout over several? My this shouting

48:16

skill has a lit a range of twenty

48:18

yards. Beyond that it's to dissipated to do

48:21

damn and race or so I should warn

48:23

you that. On. A success urban

48:25

to draw this things attention for someone choir

48:27

a success by three or more to actually

48:29

do damage to it three or ok er

48:32

det. but doing wouldn't like about that nutter

48:34

ruin the game here with a brunette the

48:36

time I was committed to now I'm good

48:39

to sound. Other night I feel more comfortable

48:41

asking about it. Which is what? What's the

48:43

aim here? Like what are we trying to

48:45

the on? Come on. his size what he

48:48

is that is yeah but I wouldn't say

48:50

program know you're not don't you have lied

48:52

about? I really hope. Smiles old. And I

48:54

have been. To

48:57

grab it's clear seven up with

48:59

as I'm honest, I

49:02

have all about. I'm trying the spare

49:05

at a rash of was another guy

49:07

has no I'm falling for him. See

49:09

him a football over again size. Zero

49:13

One are within spear aims. Would

49:15

go founder if you're not reburied

49:17

Lady Ten I extra effort this

49:19

short. I. Guess

49:21

I get that neatly with. I felt natural

49:23

and on. Ah, would you give it to

49:25

me at a lot of Eleven Eleven? Some

49:27

rod at a twelve year weekend would know.

49:30

The. Bell curve is very badly position based

49:32

on what I didn't. I

49:34

I need to get it by snowing on

49:36

I get by the three times by three

49:38

in order to do demos ever get his

49:40

for get it's attention and to said on

49:43

god I have to get a nine just

49:45

freshly get a nine or below. And.

49:47

that I get online on the my role

49:49

the Nine so you heard or com slightly

49:51

oh what everyone else sees his Louis Just

49:53

Tenor. Walk. Over Crouch

49:55

down. Wait, for a second you

49:58

and something out and then just stick her

50:00

head in the water and scream, but

50:02

like so loudly that like a bubble

50:04

forms under the village and the whole

50:07

village is rocked back. And

50:09

that's all you guys see. Cool shot. I moved

50:11

the village? Yeah. Oh shit.

50:14

That's percussion with this band. There is much confusion and promotion. Did

50:16

I hurt anybody when I did that? Not

50:18

yet. You don't know. Okay.

50:21

But you do know that you felt

50:24

the creature under you and as you

50:26

shouted, you feel it spin off and

50:28

swim away in a different direction. It

50:30

was clearly affected. Nice. You've

50:32

done it supreme being. Well, you know, no time

50:34

to thank us. It's back in New York. You

50:36

guys don't know that. Oh, all right. You didn't

50:38

sense that. And he's like,

50:40

we'll be leaving. Nevermind. That's what

50:42

I'm hoping for. I mean, that might be my plan

50:44

anyway. Um, yes, I got my perception. Did anybody

50:47

get hurt when I did that? A few people were

50:49

knocked off their feet and there were some scratches

50:51

and scrapes, but no one was seriously injured. Okay. Kyle,

50:54

the boy, the boy Kyle. No,

50:56

I go, I go over to Kyle and I introduce

50:58

myself while this is during the pause of this, while

51:00

this is happening, I say, say, Kyle, I say, my

51:02

name is David Duchovny. I say it is so very

51:04

nice to meet you. I've heard all about you and

51:06

all about your deeds. It's really nice to meet you.

51:08

I go over there. I shake his

51:10

hand. You are Upsider. Are you not? Yes.

51:13

Tell me tale of your magical realm,

51:15

Upside man. And I do. I

51:18

tell him, I say that like I talk about space.

51:20

I talk about what it's like to go into space.

51:22

I talk about all the things that I

51:24

know. I talk about Leeloo and I talk about how she's, you

51:26

know, I mean, like with a brief way, you know what I

51:29

mean? I give my say, I say, I mean, I can,

51:31

I can do it if you want. Do you want me to

51:33

role play Paulo? Because I can do that. Sure. We

51:35

can role play a little bit. Okay. I

51:38

say, well, the upside has got its problems

51:40

just like down here, but it's different. You

51:42

know, like there's technology. Everyone rides

51:44

on birds. Not birds. Well,

51:46

kind of. We have metal birds. They're

51:48

called ships. We ride in ships. Like

51:51

the tip of my spear, but it flies. They're

51:54

not thrown. It stays in the air. It stays

51:56

in the air and even beyond the air. I

51:58

point out by saying the stars. at night

52:00

were able to go to the stars. And

52:02

are all upside women as beautiful as your

52:04

wife? I say, no, she's pretty

52:07

much the most beautiful woman in the world. I

52:09

say, and maybe even in the universe, I would

52:11

say. And why you bring her here? We had

52:13

an accident. She has a great destiny. I say

52:15

that she must go and help

52:17

us so that we can stop the great evil

52:19

that is coming toward Earth. I say, and only

52:21

Leelu can stop it, and we are helping her

52:23

on her way. But we had an accident, and

52:26

that is why we crashed, but we must get

52:28

back up to the spears, to the sky spheres,

52:30

to go out to the stars. I

52:32

have destiny too. What's your destiny, Kyle? I

52:34

am to kill Montawa. I say, well, it

52:36

seems like this is the coolest time to

52:38

do it right now. I say,

52:40

Leelu can probably help you. And I say,

52:42

Leelu, I say, come over. I want you

52:45

to meet somebody. Has this happened after I've

52:47

screamed? Yeah, this was just after the scream.

52:49

Kyle was confused, but unperturbed by the scream.

52:51

They're being attacked by a giant fish. You know, some

52:54

screams are going to happen. Right. And

52:56

I'll leave the Supreme Being side to sort

52:59

of help out generally, helping people up after

53:01

the big bubble and reassure people and try

53:03

and get a sense of if they think

53:06

that the creature is gone for good. So

53:08

that's what I'm doing during this upcoming season.

53:10

Yeah. I roll intelligence.

53:12

Oh, I get it by a lot. Great. Oh, that

53:14

was very helpful. I mean, it's almost

53:16

a crit success. I went away from a crit

53:18

success. I say, Leelu, this is my new friend,

53:20

Kyle. He is the best warrior in the village.

53:23

It is his destiny to slay the monster that

53:25

you just the monster that's threatening

53:27

the village. Kyle, this is

53:29

Leelu. I say Leelu is the

53:31

Supreme Being and the

53:33

greatest warrior among my people. I say, discuss.

53:35

And I just kind of go in and

53:38

Kyle just blushes and won't look you in

53:40

the eye, Leelu. And

53:42

I think that that is how we are supposed to talk

53:44

to each other. So I don't look him in the

53:46

eye either. And I say, hello, Kyle, in

53:48

my language. And then I look

53:50

at David and I say, you talk. I say, the

53:53

Supreme Being would like to say hello to you, Kyle.

53:55

She greets you warmly. Okay. Kyle

53:58

says simply, no sorcerers. have

54:00

come to this village since before I was

54:02

born. It is a dark day

54:04

you come on, but much lighter

54:06

with your presence. Kyle would like you to

54:08

know that this is a horrible day that

54:10

we've arrived, but the day has become so

54:12

much better simply because you're here. I scare

54:14

him. I say, no, no, you don't scare

54:16

him. I say he feels like the world

54:18

is a better- No, no, daddy, I scare

54:20

monster. Oh, you scared the monster? Is that

54:22

what you did when you stuck your head

54:24

in the water? Yes. Oh, that's

54:27

awesome. To Kyle, I say, Kyle, you know,

54:29

the Supreme Being has scared the monster away

54:31

with her. What did you do with the

54:33

water? What did you do? I screamed. The

54:35

Supreme Being screamed at the monster

54:37

underwater and the monster was scared and ran

54:39

away. I was like, you might not have

54:41

to fight the monster. Kyle's eyes grow wide

54:43

and he turns to Lulu and says, forgetting

54:45

that she can't understand him, says, is Muntawa

54:47

dead? If Muntawa is dead, you are our

54:49

chief. Is Muntawa dead? I say, Lulu, do

54:51

you think it's, do you

54:53

know where the monster is? Is it dead or do you

54:56

think it's- No, not dead, just scared. Oh no, it's not

54:58

dead, Kyle. The monster's just scared. I don't know if it's

55:00

gonna come back or not. Muntawa does not know fear. He

55:03

only knows hunger and anger. Oh no.

55:06

Oh boy. I say, I say, I say, Kyle

55:09

just told me that the monster's probably coming back.

55:11

By the way, have you been rolling IQs for

55:14

all these translations? I thought I was good because

55:16

I rolled that guy's IQ. I mean, I'll roll

55:18

for the last one. Yeah, give us just for

55:20

the last one. I'll say that the previous good

55:22

IQ. His near-critic eye. Your liability shield is run

55:25

dry. The guy who spoke the

55:27

language could have come over and helped me,

55:29

but no, he's helping up villagers at this

55:31

moment. I am busy helping Robert. Because God

55:33

knows that's the important thing to do right

55:35

now with the fate of the universe on the

55:37

line. Go ahead, go ahead. Hey,

55:39

hey, hey, hey, Father, hold my fucking beer

55:41

is what he did. I'm sorry, but have you

55:44

seen a collection of reed dolls more discombobulated

55:46

than this? I'd like to hear about it later.

55:48

I get the, I get it by one. I

55:50

get my intelligence by one. So I do

55:52

translate it to her. Okay. So, Hulu,

55:54

do you want to roll perception to feel if you

55:56

can feel the monster? Yeah, yeah. I

55:59

get that by... I ate. It's

56:01

coming at speed. Right. Maybe it's going to

56:03

something behind us. As soon as David starts

56:05

talking back to Kyle, I

56:07

put my hand over his mouth and I say,

56:10

it's coming. You feel it dive

56:12

down below. It doesn't quite know

56:14

what hit it. It seems like it's revving up and

56:16

just aiming to hit the village as hard as it

56:19

can. It's aiming right for the

56:21

center. Come through center. Come through middle. Oh,

56:27

give me a leadership role to try and

56:29

get people to move quickly. That's where the

56:31

storyteller flies her trade. Oh, god, leadership. I

56:34

don't have stories. Do you get diplomacy? Do

56:36

something. I have public speaking. Everyone. I want

56:38

to take public speaking, yes. I succeed by

56:40

four. Everyone.

56:43

First of all, it's an honor to be here today. Oh,

56:45

my god. I'm killing you. Get out of the way. Get

56:48

out of the way of the center.

56:50

And I efficiently direct them to speaker.

56:52

You quickly clear the middle of the

56:54

village where the storyteller was with all

56:56

the children. They get out of the

56:58

way. And just as they clear, these

57:01

people the center of the village explodes

57:03

upwards and outwards as the

57:05

monster flies out from under the water through

57:07

the village and up. And you see it

57:09

long like a snake fly through the air

57:12

40 feet out from the village on

57:14

the other side. And what does it look like? It's

57:17

long. It's probably 40, 50 feet long.

57:20

It's got hard, almost metallic

57:22

looking gray scales running up

57:24

and down its body. Its

57:27

face is a twisted pugnosed

57:29

thing with wide fins

57:31

splayed out around its head. But

57:34

you can't make it out in much detail. There's

57:36

a massive splash of water and chunks of wood

57:38

flying out from where it bursts through the village

57:41

center. I want to grab a spear as I

57:43

yell clear the center. And then I want to

57:45

pick up my second wild talent as spear. Spear

57:48

or spear throwing? Those are different skills.

57:50

Let's do spear throwing to talk that

57:52

spear at the. OK. As

57:55

hard as I can. You gave

57:57

it a chance. You gave it fair warning. I did.

57:59

I did. Dex roll to get to

58:01

pick up your second wild talent for the

58:03

day. Okay great going. Oh, yes and

58:06

this collection of skills Yeah,

58:08

you're sitting you're becoming an increasingly bad

58:11

You are go scout camp. You're going to

58:13

have a spear throwing at a 13. Nice.

58:15

Nice Okay, so I

58:18

want to throw this as hard as I can Let

58:20

me let David's gonna roll perception on the beat.

58:22

Okay, also I mean, all right You have to

58:25

throw as accurate as you can right right? Oh,

58:27

I miss it by two if it gets into

58:29

like all I have determined My shoe is this

58:31

the point where Scott takes over Kyle? I was

58:33

about to say You seem

58:35

to have befriended the young boy Kyle Perhaps

58:38

you would like to play him. Yeah Yes,

58:41

I will gladly give up I mean I will

58:43

always love David but yes, I would love to

58:46

be Kyle I don't know. I feel like this

58:48

is a poisoned gift. Yeah, I went I went

58:50

David back I miss him fighter Vito already real

58:52

is what he took for granted and David Okay,

58:56

did anyone take a successful perception on the Montawa while

58:58

it was in the I did I Was

59:02

on the other I mean, I guess I can see it

59:04

from where I'm at a slightly different location, but I can

59:06

see it from Where I am. Yeah, I'm gonna roll And

59:09

I'm going to succeed but not by much succeed

59:11

by two. Yeah, that's not quite good enough But

59:14

Lulu did get it by four. So

59:16

Lulu where your banshee scream hit the

59:18

River Beast You appear to have

59:20

knocked off one of its scales. And so there

59:23

is a vulnerable spot I'll beat

59:25

a small one in its rough armor. So

59:27

I have to hit that. Okay Yeah So

59:29

trying to hit the small gap of

59:31

a single missing one and bigger is candy

59:33

and territory That's gonna be a minus seven

59:35

to hit it And

59:39

that's with no range penalties that's right above

59:41

you right now, so yeah, I have to

59:43

roll a six, okay, here we go I'm

59:47

taking no, I miss it You

59:49

you toss it and the spear just kind

59:52

of glances off one of the nearby scales

59:54

and you can see that these scales are

59:56

Like metal hard there. Yeah spears are not

59:58

gonna be able to damage those spots I

1:00:00

turned to everybody and I say, oh,

1:00:03

they're not gonna understand me. I turn to

1:00:05

Father Vito and I say, he has opening

1:00:08

in scales. Ah, yes, I see.

1:00:10

Hello speaking. Success by a

1:00:12

few. Its armor is weak in

1:00:14

the spot, it looks dumb. I

1:00:16

spread the word far and wide. And dumb.

1:00:18

And for the dumb spot. Hang on one

1:00:20

second, wait, wow, these are really awesome

1:00:22

skills. I mean, it looks like what, denuded or abrased

1:00:25

or, what does it look like? It's like a scale

1:00:27

popped off. Yeah, scale popped off and you see soft

1:00:29

pink skin underneath. I feel like I'm probably condescending to

1:00:31

them at this point. What they should know is that

1:00:33

they've lived here their whole life. I feel like I

1:00:35

know, I'm looking at this, I know enough to do

1:00:38

this. So I say, so, Kael says,

1:00:40

and Kael's voice is, no, no.

1:00:43

Kael says, he says, he says, my people,

1:00:45

he goes, he goes, the, our new friend

1:00:47

has damaged the creature. And I tell them

1:00:50

and I point and I show, ever all

1:00:52

spear throwers, I'm gonna roll leadership. I don't

1:00:54

know, man, I'm still pretty raw, but the

1:00:57

last guy's death, like that just

1:00:59

happened. Like you wanted to fight this guy right now?

1:01:01

I get my leadership role on the dot and I

1:01:03

say, there is the spot

1:01:05

we must aim for. Everyone, fire at

1:01:07

will. And well,

1:01:09

I guess we're in combat time, so. You are

1:01:11

in combat time. I don't think anyone got the spear

1:01:14

throw off while it was in the air that

1:01:16

time. So it is now back in the water and

1:01:18

out of view. Kael

1:01:20

comes to you and says, and

1:01:22

Kael's voice is definitely deeper, I've decided to send

1:01:24

one to Hollis to him and

1:01:27

he says, you are a great warrior.

1:01:29

He goes, that was an, they had

1:01:31

that amazing, amazing throw. The next time

1:01:33

the beast rises into the air, we

1:01:35

all must aim for the same spot

1:01:37

that the Supreme Being did. I said,

1:01:39

we must aim for where the scale

1:01:41

is weak. Yeah, and now we're

1:01:43

taking time to prep. By the way, I love

1:01:45

your amazing role to get the shouting skill. I

1:01:47

love the ingenuity of it, but my intention was

1:01:49

that you guys would swim underwater with it and

1:01:51

grab hold of it to pry off its scales.

1:01:53

Doesn't that sound exciting? You could do that if

1:01:55

you feel like it. We're good, we're

1:01:57

good, we're good. Thanks, Paula, we appreciate it. Actually,

1:01:59

so. So as soon as that thing goes underwater, I want to

1:02:02

put my head in the water and scream when it

1:02:04

comes near again. Sure. So

1:02:06

it's already swum out of range, but you can prepare

1:02:08

and be ready for it to come back into range.

1:02:11

Got it. Okay. Now

1:02:13

that it's in attack mode, it's swimming much faster.

1:02:15

So along with the minus three to do any

1:02:17

damage to it, we're going to add another minus

1:02:19

two because how fast this thing can swim. Minus

1:02:21

five total. Yeah, minus five. Great. So

1:02:23

Lelu again gets down and puts her

1:02:25

head in the water listening for the

1:02:27

monster. Meanwhile, the warriors who had

1:02:29

been scattered a bit by the monster's previous

1:02:32

attack form up facing the direction that

1:02:34

you last saw it go in. Spear's

1:02:36

prepared, ready to aim for the hole

1:02:38

in its armor if it jumps again.

1:02:41

Lelu, you can vaguely sense the

1:02:43

creature. It's circling the village, doing

1:02:45

a big lap, like 30 yards

1:02:48

out, swimming very fast. Got it.

1:02:51

Suddenly, you feel it lunge in, speeding at

1:02:53

the village again. Okay. You're ready

1:02:55

for it, so you can take your shot. I want to extra effort this.

1:02:58

I'll allow extra effort. That'll be

1:03:00

another FP though. How many FP are you at? How

1:03:02

dare you ask the Supreme being such a question. I'm

1:03:06

down to nine right now. Okay. You're

1:03:08

doing fine. Okay. I get that. Okay.

1:03:12

Extra effort is good. Give me a roll to

1:03:14

attack. And then I want to... Okay. So

1:03:16

12 minus five is seven, right? Mm-hmm. Okay.

1:03:19

Here we go. That is a six. Yeah. On

1:03:22

the table a six. Wow. Okay. I

1:03:26

only... This is my lowest skill.

1:03:29

So Lelu, as soon as it

1:03:31

starts charging and gets into range,

1:03:33

you let out another powerful scream.

1:03:36

The water bubbles under the village and

1:03:38

everyone on it is rocked. Several people

1:03:41

fall overboard. Lelu, you immediately know that

1:03:43

you connected and the base lets out

1:03:45

a screech and reels. But

1:03:47

this time it immediately writes itself and goes to

1:03:49

charge again. And it's not just charging at the

1:03:52

village now. It's charging straight for the source of

1:03:54

the shout that hit it. Lelu,

1:03:56

you can't scream again immediately. You have to

1:03:58

pull your head out of the water. and breathe

1:04:00

and collect yourself. Give me an

1:04:02

IQ minus two to collect yourself

1:04:04

after that powerful scream enough to

1:04:06

react immediately that it's coming towards

1:04:08

you. Got it. Uh,

1:04:10

with my IQ. Yeah. Maybe you

1:04:13

should try yelling nicer things. That's a joke. Keep doing

1:04:15

what you're doing. You're doing well. Thank you. I was

1:04:17

trying to laugh and sneeze at the same time. That

1:04:19

hurt. I get that. Yeah.

1:04:22

I get that by hang on, hang on, hang on. Uh, seven. Okay.

1:04:25

Yeah. That means you react in time to

1:04:27

even get a dodge as this thing barrels towards you. Can you do

1:04:29

an acrobatic dodge? Isn't that a better role? I mean,

1:04:32

I don't, I don't have to, but I can. I'm

1:04:34

just trying to see what the best number is. Oh,

1:04:36

well I got it. Oh great. Never mind. I

1:04:39

got your dodge already. Yeah, I got my dodge. Just dodging

1:04:41

like a regular lazy bone. Yeah. So

1:04:43

not athletic. Just flop, flop over to

1:04:45

the side. You groan while you do it. Yeah.

1:04:50

Lulu right at the edge of the village,

1:04:53

right after her scream attack, scrambling to get

1:04:55

up and throws herself desperately out of the

1:04:57

way as another hail of water and wood

1:04:59

spool splinters explode out where the Montawa bursts

1:05:02

out of the water and flies again through the

1:05:04

air. The warriors all immediately

1:05:06

let loose a barrage of spears. Scott

1:05:08

Kyle is the best spear thrower. Give me a roll

1:05:11

for Kyle. There we go. Father Vito,

1:05:13

you see a spear lodged into the side of one of

1:05:15

the huts if you want to join in with the spear

1:05:17

thrower. Well, you know, I'm a man

1:05:19

of peace and bad aim and a bad bat. Father

1:05:22

Vito, you made him run over somebody. You

1:05:24

hit that animal. You got a buzziest inner section.

1:05:26

Don't try to put it on your head. Try to

1:05:28

roll to get a quick success. Time for Kyle to

1:05:30

meet his destiny. So

1:05:33

spear throwing is 15. So

1:05:35

is it minus seven still? Minus seven still. Alright, so

1:05:37

it's an eight. If Vito fails, who are we going

1:05:39

to get? Here we go. Here we go. We're

1:05:42

ready. Here we go. That's not

1:05:44

good enough. Yeah, you throw a spear and

1:05:47

it again glances off. And I will now

1:05:49

point out that there are not infinite spears.

1:05:51

And if you guys are doing spear throws,

1:05:53

I am counting spears. Right. Oh,

1:05:56

how many spears are there? The twice

1:06:00

Kyle you would know that there are maybe

1:06:02

40 or 50 spears in the whole

1:06:04

town but about half of them

1:06:06

are built for fishing those are gonna be at

1:06:08

a minus 1 I think it's time to start

1:06:10

to flow you've got eight warriors so you just

1:06:12

burned eight that round one that the old man

1:06:14

tossed ineffectually into the river all right I say

1:06:16

I put my hands up I say I say

1:06:19

and I've also decided that they are a tribe

1:06:21

of New Jersey by the way people who are

1:06:23

listening I say I see I say

1:06:25

my people I say we must save

1:06:27

the spears for the best spear throwers

1:06:29

bring them to me and my new friend

1:06:31

Lelu! You mean you want Rick though?

1:06:33

Because Rick's like the next town over. You know like

1:06:35

he's on loan. Rick is terrible

1:06:38

at spear throwing. Alright it's fine. So

1:06:40

Kyle, killing the Montawa is a great

1:06:42

honor in your culture it's how the

1:06:44

next chief is chosen so

1:06:47

it would be pretty brazen of you

1:06:49

to suggest to your fellow warriors that

1:06:51

they give you their spears I definitely

1:06:53

need a big leadership role to get

1:06:55

them to do that and on a

1:06:57

failure you may alienate them. With that

1:06:59

knowledge with that knowledge I take it but

1:07:01

I do say to them remember the lives

1:07:03

of your fellow man in the village I

1:07:05

say only take the shot if you think

1:07:07

you can make it. Give me

1:07:09

a leadership role for that anyway. I mean

1:07:12

that's the spears 101 man you know we know that.

1:07:15

Oh I got it. Leadership by six. Great

1:07:18

so yeah they're still going for it but

1:07:21

they're only gonna take shots if they have

1:07:23

a range penalty of zero so only if

1:07:25

they're up close. Great yeah I guilted them.

1:07:27

Yeah well did anybody. Did

1:07:30

anybody hit Vito. Roll for the villagers.

1:07:33

No no no. Okay. I

1:07:35

mean you two are you like fear throwers by

1:07:37

a fair amount. Got it. Okay so we have

1:07:39

a little time again. So now the monster rushes

1:07:42

straight out to sea. You hope

1:07:44

for a second that it's fleeing but it's

1:07:46

probably building up speed. Yeah building up speed

1:07:48

and staying out of range of the ranged

1:07:50

attack that I was foolish enough to give

1:07:52

you. I want to roll. I want to

1:07:54

roll naturalist on local fauna. Yeah please. I

1:07:57

got it. That is a seven

1:07:59

and my look. Quelphana is 11 so I got it by

1:08:01

five. What are the other weaknesses of

1:08:03

Montawa? Sounds like you got it by four but

1:08:06

I do math only slightly better than

1:08:08

Jaws Bamer and that's like by this

1:08:10

much. So you actually don't have experience

1:08:12

with Montawa these things happen you know

1:08:14

roughly once in a generation and last

1:08:17

time it happened your you know late chief

1:08:19

was a young man your age. Big Tony.

1:08:21

Big Tony. He was from Chicago. You know

1:08:23

Big Tony? Yeah. What do you like to

1:08:25

say? He was like Santa Claus in that

1:08:27

one play. He was terrible. He was terrible.

1:08:30

Nobody liked him. He was terrible. Yeah certainly. I mean

1:08:32

you know he didn't. People could he throw spear? Vito

1:08:34

could he throw spear? Could he throw spear? Yeah you

1:08:36

know okay not great. Oh wow. Anyway sorry continue guys.

1:08:39

Good enough to kill the last Montawa. You know why

1:08:41

you got to be such a critic all the time?

1:08:43

My guy. I mean you know something dies slow and

1:08:45

thrashing you know that's not happening to my dad. It's

1:08:47

a long story. Go on. So the

1:08:50

story of how your previous chief killed

1:08:52

the Montawa has come down to you

1:08:54

because you weren't born yet as

1:08:57

that he lunged into his mouth

1:08:59

spear first but there are many

1:09:01

stories of previous chiefs which held on

1:09:03

to the Montawa pride off its scales

1:09:05

and stabbed through while holding on and

1:09:09

you know older stories of farther back chiefs

1:09:11

that get a little crazier than that. Such

1:09:13

as one that tricked it into flying and

1:09:15

caused it to fly into the fire god

1:09:17

but that doesn't seem as useful. The Gianelli

1:09:20

twins went through the eyes remember that? I

1:09:22

remember that that was beautiful. That was a

1:09:24

nice move by the Gia. The twins you

1:09:26

know and they were hot. That was the

1:09:28

other thing. When they were each eye.

1:09:30

It was crazy. It was nice. Frankie sued

1:09:32

it. So do we have I

1:09:35

want to know I want to know do we

1:09:37

have any way of slowing Mutawa down

1:09:39

like do we have nets? Are there a bunch

1:09:41

of nets that we can put together? You in

1:09:43

fact have a net in your inventory. Vito's

1:09:46

on board with this. Now

1:09:48

large fishing net large enough that like

1:09:50

will it behoove me to use my

1:09:53

night not tying skills on this small

1:09:55

pause to tie a bunch of nets

1:09:57

together to make it more possible to

1:10:00

to grapple Mutawa and get a good hit

1:10:02

on it. So Mutawa is pretty big. You

1:10:05

can certainly get it in the net, but

1:10:07

who is strong enough to hold it back

1:10:09

is the question. Ooh, well, you know who

1:10:11

might be stronger. That's exactly right. So I

1:10:14

say to, I go to Lulu, I say

1:10:16

my friend Lulu. David. David

1:10:18

is the answer. And I

1:10:21

say to Father

1:10:23

Vito and to David, I say, can you

1:10:25

please tell my new friend Lulu that we

1:10:27

need her great strength? I said, I

1:10:30

hold my net out for her. I say, Lulu,

1:10:32

if you can get hold of this creature the

1:10:34

next time it jumps and get it in my

1:10:37

net, we will then be able to spear it

1:10:39

easier. We have to try to grapple the Mutawa,

1:10:41

to grapple Mutawa. Please explain that to her. Yes,

1:10:43

yes, yes, Kai, I will translate. You get your

1:10:45

men focused on making that net as big as

1:10:48

possible. Lulu, you will need to grab that net

1:10:50

once the big Mutawa comes in. We will need

1:10:52

to catch it and you will need to hold

1:10:54

the net closed while the Mutawa is taken

1:10:57

care of. So that is what we will do. So

1:10:59

be ready, to grab onto the net. Not tying minus

1:11:01

three to do the solid speed and the other

1:11:04

villagers are going to help out. Yep, yep, yep.

1:11:06

Okay, so that is a nine, I'm gonna roll.

1:11:09

I gotta miss it, I don't get

1:11:11

it. Yeah, the other guys are working

1:11:13

on it, but in one attack you

1:11:15

do not get this big net tied

1:11:17

together. And so again, the Mutawa comes

1:11:19

through and it's just going at full

1:11:22

speed. Before the Mutawa comes back, I

1:11:24

want to turn to them to tell

1:11:27

them, tell everyone cover their ears. Oh,

1:11:29

okay, great. Can you tell us

1:11:32

that? Yeah, I tell Vito that. I don't

1:11:34

know. I convey that, I confirm that. I

1:11:36

tell the villagers everything, we all. I got

1:11:38

my own thoughts. We all put our hands over our

1:11:40

ears immediately. I go, as I feel the

1:11:43

creature coming back, I go as close as I

1:11:45

can without being in range of like getting completely

1:11:47

destroyed and I'm getting ready to shriek at it

1:11:49

as soon as it leaves the water. Okay, you're

1:11:51

gonna try and shout at it out in the

1:11:53

air. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Can I

1:11:55

get it damaged us? I know that's what I'm worried about. Well,

1:11:57

why don't we have our ears? Yeah, we'll cover it. You're right.

1:11:59

You're right. covering their ears, I will say

1:12:01

though that it's gonna do a little bit

1:12:03

less damage in the air because sound travels

1:12:06

a little better in water than in air.

1:12:08

Where's your cone, Vans? Now that you have

1:12:10

a cone. Yeah,

1:12:12

is there a cone? Will that help me at all? Dammit, you were supposed

1:12:15

to get a cone. What do you mean I

1:12:17

didn't tell you? I'm sorry, I'm all to find

1:12:19

something that you can make a cone out of.

1:12:21

Like amplifiers? Oh yeah, I get that. Oh, I

1:12:23

almost quit success in the search too. You find

1:12:25

some cut leather that was going to make, you

1:12:27

know, one of their little sarong things and you

1:12:29

can, you know, fold that into a cone shape

1:12:31

to help direct the blast. Oh wait, perception? Yes.

1:12:33

Hold on. That's a great success. Oh,

1:12:36

and one of the... Sorry. That's

1:12:39

all right. Okay. You hear that five, you

1:12:41

weren't good enough. You

1:12:44

find a subwoofer and a microphone. Yeah,

1:12:46

I'm here with something that used to

1:12:48

be a sarong, which you gotta do.

1:12:50

You find a bullhorn. That's the one

1:12:53

common together from seashell. It's a seashell

1:12:55

bullhorn. That's what your hostage negotiation kit

1:12:57

doing here. The

1:12:59

ant from Motley Crew 98. What?

1:13:02

A Mottawa killing kit? That's handy. I

1:13:05

can't believe this has been sitting here this whole

1:13:07

time. I can't hear crit success. I will just

1:13:09

say that I will give you for free the

1:13:12

timing of the attack this time, which I would

1:13:14

have made you roll on. But for a crit

1:13:16

success perception, you know exactly when it's coming out

1:13:18

of the water. Nice. You're going to time it.

1:13:20

So give me a shouting roll. And

1:13:23

if you're asking everyone else to cover their ears, no

1:13:25

one else is going to get a spear throw this

1:13:27

turn, though. Right. But yeah, go for it. Well, let

1:13:30

me give you guys a really quick question. What

1:13:32

does my bone flute do? And I don't mean that

1:13:35

sexually, even though it sounds... It's

1:13:37

a musical instrument. Never

1:13:39

mind. Keep going. I thought maybe if it made like a piercing...

1:13:41

You make beautiful music with it, what's to know? Great.

1:13:44

Never mind. Yep. I'm covering my ears. I'm going to

1:13:46

see what happens here. Give me a shouting roll move.

1:13:48

But... Kyle

1:13:51

does not cover his ears. He holds the spear

1:13:53

ready. Kyle! Oh, that's why they call you Kyle

1:13:55

the deaf. He's taking time while it's coming to

1:13:57

prep. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to... ahead

1:14:00

and roll for everyone else to see if they

1:14:02

listen to you because if Kyle's not listening to you

1:14:04

yeah you actually most people are not covering their ears

1:14:06

some people are great if they're not covering their ears

1:14:09

and I see that they're not then my head's

1:14:11

going in the water again okay no no no no

1:14:13

no you have such a good plan it's

1:14:15

coming your ears you idiots I know but it's

1:14:17

too late all right Vito question

1:14:20

yes like what I would like to do

1:14:22

instead of worrying about throwing a spear is

1:14:24

try and plan ahead a little bit and

1:14:26

like set up a couple spear stationary spear

1:14:29

traps here and there like wallets places

1:14:31

where it might be likely to land and

1:14:33

impale itself is that even a possibility can

1:14:35

I roll IQ to see if there's any

1:14:37

way to do that yeah it feels a

1:14:39

little it's landing spots feel pretty unpredictable I

1:14:41

mean you can certainly set up

1:14:43

it doesn't really trying to it doesn't seem

1:14:45

like it's trying to systematically destroy the entire

1:14:47

village where it's like we can booby trap

1:14:49

the last unbroken part well it's also it's

1:14:51

coming up from below and taking out pieces

1:14:53

of village it's not landing on the village

1:14:56

oh can we can we thrust spears through

1:14:58

the deck so that they're pointing out towards

1:15:00

the bottom and like do they have any

1:15:02

mechanism for that kind of you'll need to

1:15:05

secure them well and the you know it's

1:15:07

just floating so what is securing them to

1:15:09

actually I would like to prioritize the supreme

1:15:12

being and my own and David's personal safety

1:15:14

is there any way to help with that

1:15:17

can you think of any way are there

1:15:19

pillows that we can afford a

1:15:24

lot of bullshit and you are the way

1:15:26

home roll default tactics what the fuck if

1:15:28

you get it he'll give you something good

1:15:31

all right I didn't get it

1:15:33

that default I rolled a 12 I

1:15:36

like we should be somewhere else I don't

1:15:40

want to hold things

1:15:46

up but like basically I want to do everything I want

1:15:48

to be like sort of alert and ready to if I

1:15:51

need to assist Leeloo in a dodge I Want to

1:15:53

be in a position to do that if I need

1:15:55

to assist David from drowning for some reason because it

1:15:57

gets knocked on the water I Want to like keep

1:15:59

eyes. On both of them and be ready to

1:16:01

like job you notice like on a worth you

1:16:04

know head on a swivel. My back feels great.

1:16:06

I got the faith of all that's holy ran

1:16:08

through me and I'm ready to stop evil. Yeah

1:16:10

know and I mean that kind of thing Now

1:16:12

don't have any plans for say sorry Sam. You

1:16:16

get so everyone's ready for the next

1:16:18

attack. Spears or at the ready heads

1:16:21

are in the water gap. As you

1:16:23

wait a light rain starts to come

1:16:25

down and forming kind of a he's

1:16:27

of raindrops. it's surface of the water

1:16:29

so you'll. Now be an A minus

1:16:31

one to see the monster coming from outside

1:16:33

the water the still keeps get an exotic

1:16:36

or along tense moment the monster charges and

1:16:38

because of your critics as we don't have

1:16:40

the minus two this turn suggests that with

1:16:42

me as helping roll your just add a

1:16:45

minus three for it's armor. good luck yeah

1:16:47

for accounting and you I I get that

1:16:49

by for yeah you get it. That is

1:16:51

good enough you can south through the water

1:16:54

and hit the beast squarely on it's armored

1:16:56

hide. who are This one does max damage

1:16:58

and you see or another gut. Wrenching

1:17:00

screech from the beast and you see a

1:17:02

couple of scales shake loose. See you think

1:17:04

you might have created a slightly bigger hole

1:17:06

to toss spears that urge bigger as but

1:17:09

this time them and how it does not

1:17:11

swim away to charge back it is in

1:17:13

a frenzy and it goes straight up it's

1:17:15

it. swims under the village and comes out

1:17:17

on the other side and you will see

1:17:19

it's head crest at the west side of

1:17:21

town is big hideous mouth, tears out of

1:17:23

the water and it goes to snatch one

1:17:26

of the villagers to drag him away swiftly

1:17:28

into the water. Was it which is no

1:17:30

ano rigged Now you gotta We gotta learn

1:17:32

at a move left. Reggae is going for

1:17:34

rec. Were going to give record dodge Ah

1:17:36

man rec. Oh no way. I

1:17:38

haven't seen him since the barbecue awry. He

1:17:40

was fantastically so. Drinks: Mike's Hard Lemonade man,

1:17:43

lot that back and like what? Normally I

1:17:45

had two. Hunter x Mike's hard lemonade anymore.

1:17:47

Rictus Know what? For Christ sake, Why is

1:17:49

that? If spring I hate your spearheads? My

1:17:51

miss, Your. highness

1:17:53

it's coming up to recognize than others opening and

1:17:55

throw the sphere food sure but it popped up

1:17:58

on the west of the town and You're

1:18:00

over here, so you'd need to hustle

1:18:02

over. So first, give me an IQ

1:18:04

to react to its movement under the

1:18:06

water, minus one for the rain obscuring

1:18:08

the view. Yeah, I get my IQ.

1:18:10

Great, yeah. And give me a dex to

1:18:12

sprint over the chaos that is the village and not trip on

1:18:14

anything or anyone. That is good enough. You

1:18:17

get over there. I get this. And

1:18:19

you're just sprinting up as its big face

1:18:21

pops out of the water. Rick is next

1:18:23

to you, not yet aware that he might

1:18:25

be doomed. You see that big

1:18:27

mouth open, but if you

1:18:29

manage to sprint here in time, it's not

1:18:31

going to go for Rick, it's going to

1:18:33

go for you. So give me a spear

1:18:35

throwing minus five to get it in its

1:18:37

mouth before it chomps down on you and

1:18:39

drags you into the water. Am

1:18:42

I able to extra effort it? Yes. Oh,

1:18:45

you know what? I said

1:18:47

that as I clicked it. And I shouldn't have done

1:18:49

that because I saw what this roll is. It's a

1:18:51

critical. Let me roll. No, it's very

1:18:53

close. Let me roll it again because I rolled

1:18:55

it as I said that. So I

1:18:57

get my way to keep it honest. I

1:19:00

get my extra effort. Okay. I still

1:19:02

do it. So that's a 14. I

1:19:05

just got nine. I

1:19:07

get it by five. That's

1:19:10

exactly on the button. You get it. You

1:19:12

sprint over and put all your muscle

1:19:15

into a desperate spear throw with this

1:19:17

giant giara dose opening its bloody moth

1:19:19

to chomp you down in one bite.

1:19:21

And that spear goes straight down its

1:19:24

gullet and does, oh my

1:19:27

God, does nearly maximum damage and

1:19:29

the thing falls backwards into the

1:19:31

water, choking on the point of

1:19:33

the spear lodged in its esophagus. And

1:19:35

fist bumping all the other spear guys around.

1:19:38

Chest bumping, looking at the ruins of their

1:19:40

homes. We can rebuild. You

1:19:42

know, it's funny that spear throw she

1:19:45

just did, you know, it reminds me

1:19:47

of a textbook. It was textbook. I

1:19:49

mean, it was a beautiful thing. I

1:19:51

mean, like, they don't teach that. I

1:19:54

mean, I mean, Mike, Mikey Bianchi, Mikey Bianchi

1:19:56

through spear like that. You remember? him

1:20:00

over in the cinderlands there. I mean he was good in high school,

1:20:02

you know, I don't know why he didn't go pro. He was okay

1:20:04

in high school. Come on, he was

1:20:06

captain of the spear throwing team. Yeah, well what's that he

1:20:09

said? You know he fixed it. I think I used to

1:20:11

get, you're wrong. Oh boy, he's wrong. Look,

1:20:14

I saw him over at the corner the other day. I don't

1:20:16

want to say he's gotten fat, but he's not wearing it. Well,

1:20:18

it didn't go well for him. He never went pro. I told

1:20:20

you it was weird. Yeah, I had to take care of his

1:20:22

mother. God bless. God bless. God bless.

1:20:24

God bless. That's true.

1:20:28

I don't know if we killed him. I am

1:20:30

sad to say that anti-climactically you

1:20:33

have, that's it. That's the Montawa.

1:20:36

Are you serious? It loses consciousness and

1:20:38

sinks down into the deep dark. Circle

1:20:40

of life. Circle

1:20:42

of life. That's how we do

1:20:44

it out here on the water.

1:20:46

Kyle goes to his knees and

1:20:49

I would like to roll singing. Let's

1:20:52

see here. I'm going to roll singing. I

1:20:55

critically succeed my singing roll. I

1:20:58

would like to sing the most beautiful song

1:21:01

about our new chief. This is the song

1:21:03

that we sing when the Montawa is dead

1:21:05

and to celebrate the new chief. And

1:21:07

I would like to flawlessly work in Lelu's

1:21:10

name to this song and sing it to

1:21:12

her on my knees. Yeah. Lelu,

1:21:16

will you roll will to resist

1:21:18

falling in love with her? He's

1:21:21

checking his watch and looking for the horizon

1:21:23

for military helicopters. Surely someone's looking for it.

1:21:26

To resist? To resist falling in love with

1:21:28

Kyle. So what does that mean? That means

1:21:30

you resist falling in love with Kyle. Oh,

1:21:33

by a lot. You easily resist it. Got it. We

1:21:35

need you to fall in love with Kyle. We can't

1:21:37

win. David's right there.

1:21:40

Do you? I think if the dice went no.

1:21:44

No, no, no. I'm saying. Sorry

1:21:46

to make your life harder. He's alluding

1:21:48

to the fact that perhaps that is not necessary.

1:21:50

And I understand. You know, he's from a small

1:21:53

town. He's just a small town guy living

1:21:55

in a lonely world. He

1:21:57

took to midnight train going

1:21:59

anywhere. the night. It's all right. I think this has been

1:22:01

a very instructive bit of a, I would like

1:22:06

everyone, I would like to thank everyone for having a

1:22:08

wonderful time. We all must be going.

1:22:10

We're singing our song. Everyone is

1:22:12

now, everyone is now, I mean the

1:22:15

beautiful song from Kyle on his knees

1:22:17

and then everyone else is, is joins

1:22:19

in and they are, this is,

1:22:21

this is the song that makes

1:22:23

Lulu their chief. Lulu, you

1:22:26

are now the chief of this village. They are, do

1:22:28

you want to hear the song? Yeah, a point, a

1:22:30

delegates, like a point of, yeah,

1:22:32

let's hear the song. Just give

1:22:34

Kyle regional authority and let's go.

1:22:36

We've got bigger things. Hail to

1:22:38

the chief. She's the one we

1:22:40

all say hail to. We all

1:22:44

say hail cause she throws

1:22:46

a spear so clean. Hail

1:22:48

to the chief. She's the

1:22:51

alien we all love. That

1:22:54

was beautiful Kyle.

1:22:57

That brings us here to my eye every time

1:22:59

I hear it. Every, every time. No way around

1:23:01

it. No way around it. All

1:23:03

right. Vito is really interested in getting the

1:23:05

hell out of here. So that's what Vito

1:23:07

is. So, um, yeah. So now you have

1:23:09

a moment after, you know, injuries presumably first

1:23:11

aid is being done. Several people were hurt,

1:23:14

uh, but a surprisingly easy encounter

1:23:16

that, that beast was actually quite

1:23:18

difficult and, um, what happens when

1:23:20

you give Vams fucking stats like this? To be

1:23:22

honest, the idea of the shout made the, made

1:23:28

the battle a lot easier than it perhaps.

1:23:30

I was going to say, did that also

1:23:32

weaken it as I was screaming at it?

1:23:34

Yeah, it was taking damage every time you

1:23:36

hit it. Um, but then that spear, you

1:23:38

know, spear, spear in something's mouth tends to

1:23:40

do a lot of damage. So yeah, there

1:23:44

you have it. Thank you. Good medical report.

1:23:46

Um, the spear causes. Yeah. So

1:23:48

what are you guys doing now?

1:23:50

You immediately I grabbed a father

1:23:53

Vito and I say Vito, I

1:23:55

have to talk to a storyteller.

1:23:57

Um, yes. Um, uh, uh, sorry.

1:24:00

Of course, yes, excuse me, ma'am, ma'am, do you have

1:24:02

time for a quick interview here

1:24:04

with your chieftain? I assume you do. Yes,

1:24:06

I don't know your cousins, but you'll be

1:24:08

able to talk, yes? Yes, so you go

1:24:11

and speak to Elia, the

1:24:13

storyteller, and she, her,

1:24:16

the little opening in the center of the

1:24:18

village where the stories are told is destroyed,

1:24:20

and she is just sort of stick by

1:24:22

stick, slowly starting to put it together. And

1:24:24

as she sees you come by, she bows

1:24:26

to you as her king. And

1:24:28

I say, Vito, ask her

1:24:30

stories of great danger

1:24:33

from outside world. Sure,

1:24:37

and I do. I ask for, do you

1:24:40

know the stories? It's very curbundling. It's like,

1:24:42

I know a better story about danger from

1:24:44

the outside world. Well, I mean, I agree.

1:24:47

It frustrates me. It's like, look, we've done everything.

1:24:49

We've done everything here. We've given ourselves an A

1:24:51

plus, like we can hear more of the local

1:24:53

color and whatnot, but we need to get back

1:24:55

to the city. So if you have a really

1:24:57

good story you want to tell us about danger

1:25:00

from the outside world, please do

1:25:02

or point us in a future direction. I

1:25:04

say to the old lady, do you know

1:25:06

anything? How do you translate the concept of

1:25:10

outside world? She's confused

1:25:12

by. Oh, beyond

1:25:14

the upside, the

1:25:17

stars, realm of the stars. Do you

1:25:19

know anything about aliens, for example, space

1:25:22

aliens? I say fire god. Fire

1:25:24

god. Yes. Anything about fire gods. Fire god.

1:25:26

I have many stories. Anything

1:25:29

from like very beyond. Liliu,

1:25:31

are you, and I say in divine language, blah, blah, blah.

1:25:34

Liliu, are you asking about the

1:25:36

great evil? What are you asking about? Yes. The

1:25:39

great evil. All right. So then all

1:25:41

consuming evil. Basically, I'm just like treating her like

1:25:43

Ask Jeeves, like hitting a bunch of different like

1:25:46

keywords here, looking for anything. Yeah. Give me some

1:25:48

kind of research. Can you do research? To

1:25:51

try and I will. Yes,

1:25:53

I will allow research. You're treating her like

1:25:55

an interview. Well,

1:26:00

he's doing that. I pick up sticks and start

1:26:02

to help her rebuild, so it's not just demanding

1:26:04

answers. Good. Good cop bad cop, I love it.

1:26:07

Yeah, research, I roll very well.

1:26:10

Success by seven. Yes.

1:26:12

Success by seven. Okay, that is good enough.

1:26:14

You start to kind of treat this

1:26:17

as like an anthropological study, and

1:26:19

you're trying to just very systematically

1:26:21

get out the different stories and

1:26:23

how they connect to each other

1:26:25

and what the meanings of things

1:26:27

are. You're interested in the fire

1:26:29

god, but he just seems like,

1:26:31

can you imagine you're there working

1:26:33

as a storyteller in the middle

1:26:35

of town, and then there's a

1:26:37

huge terrorist attack. Your boss is

1:26:39

dead. Your workplace is destroyed, but

1:26:41

the villain of your entire life

1:26:43

has been destroyed too, and even

1:26:45

while you're trying to rebuild, some

1:26:47

asshole with PhD questions comes wandering

1:26:49

up and interrogating you. It's crazy.

1:26:51

I would also like to help rebuild,

1:26:54

I guess is my point. This feels rude to me. I

1:26:56

begin to help as I ask. Yeah, but

1:27:01

yeah, what you got. So you

1:27:04

start to kind of interrogate the

1:27:06

individual stories, and

1:27:08

for your big successful research role,

1:27:11

you start to put together that

1:27:14

some of these stories are passed

1:27:16

down from generation to generation, and

1:27:19

we're told to her

1:27:21

by her mother and her grandmother

1:27:24

and beyond. And some of them seem to

1:27:27

come from a hermit

1:27:29

that used to

1:27:32

live nearby, and that actually

1:27:34

the symbol of the

1:27:36

water and the word, the name

1:27:38

for the creature, Muntawa, comes from

1:27:40

this guy. Those parts of the

1:27:42

stories aren't passed down. They're in

1:27:44

recent editions, and they don't

1:27:47

involve the fire god because the fire god is from

1:27:49

all the old stories. These stories

1:27:51

are a little bit more grounded. And so, Vito,

1:27:54

do you tell me this? I mean, yeah,

1:27:56

I guess I feel like I would like to filter

1:27:58

this information a bit from. Again, my perspective

1:28:01

of like, who cares about the culture

1:28:03

of these people? Like right now, like

1:28:05

Scott's making a lot of a face,

1:28:08

but I don't quite know. Gold. Do

1:28:10

you understand that he's giving us gold?

1:28:13

I don't know. This is this is known

1:28:15

as a keros gift. But I

1:28:17

hear it for what reason? And what did you

1:28:19

do? I don't know. But do you understand how

1:28:21

badly we failed at Halloween? Take the fucking gift.

1:28:24

How do we square it with what Vito once?

1:28:26

He was like, oh, interesting. And irrelevant old man

1:28:28

who has nothing to do with anything. Do

1:28:30

you say that irrelevant old man? No, because I

1:28:32

don't know enough about the significance. There's just too

1:28:34

many layers of translation right now because this is.

1:28:36

What do you say? OK,

1:28:40

what I say, I mean, why do I find these stories

1:28:42

interesting? That's the question I'm asking. Paolo right now is why

1:28:44

do you do that? You

1:28:46

don't you may not find the stories interesting,

1:28:48

but I do think it's relevant to you

1:28:50

that a word in the divine language came

1:28:52

to them from a specific person who like.

1:28:55

Yeah, I don't think living memory.

1:28:57

I don't see that necessarily relevant

1:29:00

to what because Lili just wanted to

1:29:02

hear the story. So I'm giving the story. So I

1:29:04

don't think that she cares where they're from, you know.

1:29:07

So it's like it does not

1:29:09

perhaps come across you, Lulu.

1:29:11

I don't I think that it

1:29:13

seems like Vito does not

1:29:15

tell you. I mean, I'm just not sure what

1:29:17

we're looking for here. Like the only reason that

1:29:19

we would know that that is significant is if

1:29:22

like, I know it's significant from

1:29:24

a histographical, like anthropological sort of

1:29:27

perspective, but like, like

1:29:29

I could see it being something because I don't

1:29:31

want to like, I understand the frustration. I don't

1:29:33

want to like gatekeep this knowledge from people for

1:29:35

no reason other than like, I think it's uncomfortable.

1:29:37

But I don't see why Vito would find that

1:29:39

very interesting. And to the extent that

1:29:41

he doesn't mean maybe he lets it slip. But

1:29:43

like, there's like what's interesting about the stories

1:29:45

themselves? Is there a way in there

1:29:48

like, oh, that's like the closest because

1:29:50

I still don't even quite understand what

1:29:52

Lulu is looking for. You know, exactly.

1:29:54

Yeah, I mean, I think to you

1:29:56

the stories themselves are interesting in an

1:29:59

anthropological sense. But they're just, they're

1:30:01

local folklore like anything else and you

1:30:03

don't think that they're necessarily telling

1:30:06

of anything particularly interesting. The

1:30:11

notion that there is symbology relevant

1:30:13

to you and language relevant to

1:30:16

you and to the

1:30:18

divine speech that is

1:30:21

being passed around down here by someone that's

1:30:23

a lot more relevant to you than the

1:30:25

stories themselves. That's true and that actually in

1:30:27

some ways might be as relevant as my

1:30:29

mission itself. Like we need to get to

1:30:31

four. So maybe that's actually appealing to me.

1:30:33

Do you say hermit? I

1:30:35

don't think that I'm protecting this. I think that

1:30:37

I'm curious enough that you catch like you hear

1:30:39

me going back and forth and I'm like well

1:30:42

she says that some of these are actually

1:30:44

quite some interesting versions of this story

1:30:46

were told somewhat recently by

1:30:48

a man possibly connected with my order in

1:30:50

some way. Where did you say he lived?

1:30:53

You said he was a hermit of some kind? She

1:30:55

says yes. Solon is

1:30:58

his name. He was very old

1:31:00

when I was young. He lives

1:31:02

out in the marshes up past

1:31:05

the cliffs. So like

1:31:07

is that upstate like geographically for Pat?

1:31:12

Like you take a left at the 7-11 or? Can

1:31:14

we get there today because we have business

1:31:16

with the government. In the lost kingdom of

1:31:18

Albany. See that's far. My understanding is that's

1:31:20

far. We would need a very expensive cab

1:31:22

driver. You don't know how far it is.

1:31:25

She doesn't have any landmarks that you would

1:31:27

recommend. But like way

1:31:29

beyond the cliffs I feel like I might have a

1:31:31

sense that it's not in the city. It's beyond the

1:31:33

city. You get the sense that it's

1:31:35

far but you know they're traveling by rowboat

1:31:37

so what is far to you and what

1:31:39

is far to her are perhaps different. Sure

1:31:42

but it's not I get the sense pretty quickly

1:31:44

that it's not on the way back to the

1:31:46

government's place. It is well I mean it's

1:31:49

not towards the city. It's in the opposite direction. It's

1:31:51

out towards you know up the coast. Can

1:31:54

we have a so there

1:31:56

so Kyle has been looking

1:31:58

very pensive out at the water. He's

1:32:00

kind of sad, you know, he seems kind of

1:32:02

sad. And, you know, he

1:32:04

comes over to Lulu and

1:32:06

he says to her, he says,

1:32:08

he's like, I don't, I

1:32:11

don't understand. It was my

1:32:13

destiny, I thought, to kill the Mutawa. But

1:32:16

then you killed Mutawa. I

1:32:18

don't know what to do with my life now. I

1:32:20

don't understand. I was

1:32:22

destined to kill Mutawa and

1:32:24

now you've done it. And I'm grateful to you

1:32:27

for all you've done. But now I don't know

1:32:29

what my purpose is anymore. You're

1:32:32

the chief. I say, what is my

1:32:34

purpose, chief? And I lay

1:32:36

a hand on his arm and I

1:32:38

say, I understand one moment.

1:32:40

And then I turn back to the storyteller and

1:32:42

I ask her, are there ways to

1:32:45

the upworld from here? And

1:32:50

the storyteller says, can

1:32:52

you fly? And

1:32:55

as this is all happening, by the way, there

1:32:57

is a craftsman who is measuring

1:33:00

you for your leisure, for your leathers.

1:33:03

Bren, the craftsmaster, is fitting you for

1:33:06

the leathers of the chieftain. And

1:33:09

I turn to Bren and

1:33:11

I bow to him and I say, as

1:33:14

your storyteller knows, there are

1:33:16

other forces here. I save

1:33:19

the village, but I cannot stay.

1:33:21

I must find one whose heart

1:33:23

is kind, whose spirit is strong,

1:33:25

and whose mind is sharp. The

1:33:28

craftsmaster thinks for a second and says,

1:33:30

yes. There are many such. Kyle is good.

1:33:33

I think you choose well. And I turn to Kyle. That

1:33:35

boy David, not as good. And

1:33:39

I turn to Kyle and I say, things

1:33:42

not always go as planned. Confusing,

1:33:46

yes, the way is not always

1:33:48

clear. But you always have choice.

1:33:51

Do you want to stay with your people

1:33:53

and guide? Do you want to

1:33:55

come with us? This is your choice. Where

1:33:57

are you going? I have to go save

1:33:59

things. big things from big evil.

1:34:01

I point up. I say,

1:34:04

The sky spears into the stars?

1:34:06

Yes. Say, more than anything I

1:34:08

would love to see that. And

1:34:11

I take my spear and I lay it at

1:34:13

her feet. And I say, I swear by my

1:34:15

spear, I will serve you

1:34:17

and I will give my life for your cause.

1:34:20

I swing it back and I do a little cool flourish

1:34:22

and put it on my back. Then I

1:34:24

turn to the storyteller and I say, You know,

1:34:27

because you have been given gifts

1:34:29

of knowledge beyond the time you

1:34:31

are here. Who is the right person

1:34:33

to lead? Only you, for you are

1:34:35

our chief. You kill Muntawa in

1:34:37

ways that even the stories have not said. But

1:34:39

if I cannot be here, who can I trust?

1:34:42

She thinks and says, If you

1:34:44

are not here, it does not matter. You are still

1:34:46

chief. Even

1:34:48

upside, you are still chief. I

1:34:50

turn to Bren and I say, Bring

1:34:53

me strongest. Bring me

1:34:55

best fisher and best singer. And

1:34:57

I'll stand up. Bren laughs. The

1:35:02

yearbook is just all him and it's brilliant. Bren

1:35:05

laughs and he says, Strongest. And

1:35:07

he pats his own chest. I am

1:35:09

strongest. And I like the

1:35:11

storyteller. Does she agree? Storytellers

1:35:13

smiles enigmatically. Bren

1:35:17

says, Best fisher is

1:35:19

Mara. She is our eldest. And

1:35:22

best singer? It is

1:35:24

Elia, our storyteller. So I say, Elia,

1:35:29

Mara, Bren, you

1:35:32

guide together. All choices are

1:35:34

made together until I

1:35:36

return. You protect until I

1:35:38

return. And Elia simply nods and says, As

1:35:41

our chief says, it is done. And

1:35:44

then I look at Vito and I look at

1:35:46

Kyle and I look at David. And

1:35:49

I say, We continue on. I

1:35:52

serve with the pleasure of the Supreme Be. I

1:35:54

say, I go to, I

1:35:59

break down. David breaks down and he

1:36:01

goes I got really married to her. It was

1:36:03

a lie. It was a lie. You guys are

1:36:05

awesome I'm sorry. I lied but thanks

1:36:08

for the hospitality But

1:36:10

I'm not really married to her. She's too good for me.

1:36:12

She's too good for me As

1:36:17

Brett Brent says so chief

1:36:19

I hear you're single I'm

1:36:24

looking at Father Vito and I say what

1:36:26

is single? The chief has very important business

1:36:28

to attend to we will be seeing you

1:36:30

later. Keep watching the skies I will talk

1:36:33

about it later, ladies Keep

1:36:35

watching the skies Back to New

1:36:37

York we go but wait, we haven't figured

1:36:39

out transport yet We take boats back to

1:36:41

the mainland and then we find our way

1:36:43

back to the sky Agreed I'll

1:36:45

let the people know on word

1:36:48

ready and with that we will call it

1:36:50

for today as spears

1:36:52

were thrown a fish died and Now

1:36:57

Leeloo has a new official title and we

1:36:59

will be back in two more weeks with

1:37:01

more Madness and

1:37:03

nonsense whichever comes first. Well, thank

1:37:06

you guys. We have a hard

1:37:08

out. So I'm gonna say no mailbag for today

1:37:11

But let's do quick plugs around the room

1:37:15

Jaws will you give us your plu? Yes, so

1:37:18

I was headed to Virginia stage to

1:37:20

be part of three Musketeers However at

1:37:23

Cleveland Playhouse, they needed a last-minute replacement

1:37:25

So I am stepping in to play Annie

1:37:27

in the play that goes wrong at

1:37:29

the Cleveland Playhouse We opened

1:37:31

the 16th of February and we run through

1:37:34

March 3rd with the possible extension.

1:37:36

I'm not sure we'll find out as time goes on

1:37:38

That's a fun show. I love that show. It's a

1:37:40