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Welcome to the charming town of Tine, where friendship blooms in unexpected places and even broken things can find their purpose. When a disparate group of townspeople—a faceless collector, a malfunctioning robot, a roller-skating jellyfish mail carrier, and a reluctant giant rainbow squirrel café owner—cross paths through chance encounters, none expect how quickly their lives will intertwine.
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Hi Wanna. Punch anxiety in the face, kick depression to the curb, galavant through a magical, sparkle rainbow world where friendship saves the day. Quick, take my hand, swish, swish. Well, hello darlings, welcome to Squee Hi. Squee is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, about the emotional world of being in community and we are playtesting for you live. So grab a snack and maybe some tissues and come be our neighbor as we find joy in the journey and celebrate our authentic selves, because life is hard but we can have fun in the meantime. Jeez, all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So to set the scene, you have all somewhat recently arrived in the town of Tyne, some more recent than others. Tyne is a very small community. It's a bit of a way station at a crossroads. While they are very artistically inclined, especially in the area of music, there's not too many resources here. We're not in a big city. It's just a little small town of tightly knit community members that all depend on each other in order to get by.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So it has all of the standard things there's a town hall, there's a community center, we have a cafe and an inn, there's some farms and an amphitheater, as well as an art gallery, some playing fields, a pond and you are set aside, a small forest called the Whispering Woods. A small forest called the Whispering Woods, it is summertime, it is a gorgeous, warm day, maybe 75 degrees Fahrenheit, just a gorgeous, gorgeous day, the one that we all dream about and we never get. The humidity point is low, there is a faint breeze and the world is your oyster. Uh, so I am actually going to have you all roll a dice just to decide who we start with and tell me what those numbers are.
Doug (Trinket):Three, five.
Dan (Zipper):Three, Five oh boy.
Greg (Repot):Roll off.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, those two fives roll for me Five.
Ray (Dazzle):Three.
Greg (Repot):Are we sure these?
Ray (Dazzle):dice.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right.
Greg (Repot):Oh my god.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Wait, who had the two fives?
Dan (Zipper):It wasn't me, it was.
Doug (Trinket):Ray and I yeah.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And then, what was your second numbers?
Doug (Trinket):Mine was five, mine was three. All right, gorgeous, okay, doug. No wonder we're confused. And then, what was your?
Ray (Dazzle):second numbers mine was five, mine was three, all right, gorgeous, okay, doug um, you are going to start us off okay so trinket um.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What are you doing today in time?
Doug (Trinket):well, trinket's just doing what he normally does. He's kind of looking around for certain objects. He's just kind of meandering around town going towards the amphitheater. Usually after a show there's some things that have been left behind, so he'll usually go peruse the pews or the seats and make sure that he can collect anything possible just to keep things tidy. You know, see if there's anything else that he wants maybe to keep yeah, it's a relatively quiet day at the amphitheater.
Kitsch (Chronicler):usually activities are happening at night, um, and so you can hear some children playing in the distance. Um, it's a weekend, so they're out of school, um, and you can hear them out in the south towards the rhythmic fields. As you start to peek around and poke around the seating area, you do start to find a couple bits and bobs on the floor, some stale popcorn from the previous night's show, a paperclip that somebody's dropped and a ring, a golden ring, a simple band.
Doug (Trinket):Oh, this looks kind of important. Let me take a closer look. And Trinket adjusts his glasses that have no eyes behind them because he doesn't have a face, but he does it out of habit, Um, and he tries to like look for any sort of inscription on the band on the inside Um the inscription that you find is just the initials DG.
Doug (Trinket):Well, I guess I'll have to remember this for later. And he puts it into the front pocket of the overalls that he's wearing, um, and he buttons it so that it is a bit more secure, so that you can go back for it later. But, um, yeah, now he's probably gonna start making his way out of town and in search of dg all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, let's pivot over to Dazzle Brights.
Ray (Dazzle):Dazzle is just getting back from a break at Supernova only, the best cafe in town, and they were spritzing some of their plants in their small little apartment that sits above Supernova. That sits above a supernova, and they double-tap with their foot on one of the floorboards and a trapdoor opens up. It swings down, letting down a long vine which they rope down to the cafe floor on. They turn to some of their co-workers or hirelings henchmen maybe, if you will, and say Groke, keep up the good work, kaldril, you too, and Butteroy, don't keep up the bad work.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Both Groke and Kaldril just give you a nod and wave back, while butteroy kind of just like slumps a little bit um, and then immediately stiffens up and starts sweeping more profusely I give him a thumbs up and as you are looking out the window, you do notice a small amalgamation of metal in the amphitheater across the way from the front of your cafe. You've seen them around before. They always seem to be poking around, but you haven't quite made a connection yet.
Ray (Dazzle):God, what is that? Um, and I turn to Butteroy and say, hey, Ratboy, can you get that hunk of metal out of my sight?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, sure thing Dazzle, I'm right on it. Um, and they take off in a dust storm towards the amphitheater. Um, while that is happening, let's pivot over to uh zipper, hi, hi, zipper. What are you doing today?
Dan (Zipper):Um zipper will be doing her job. Um, which is the local uh like, delivery mail person. Mail delivery person. Um, so she is. She has roller skates on all the time, and so she's roller skating around the more residential areas looking for mailboxes that have the little flag up to grab the mail.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, there's quite a few. Today. It's a weekend, so people are in the mood to write some letters and send them out. So you are going around seeing each of these little flags up, pulling out these envelopes and clicking them down as you skate along the town. As you skate along the town, one of the letters that you pick up is from a Dahlia Geraldine written to a professor.
Dan (Zipper):Professor Harold, I don't think I know this.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Professor Harold, what's the address? The address is a location near Legato Lake.
Dan (Zipper):Look at my map.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Is that the lake in the corner? It's up north.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, Alright, that's not too far. I mean town's not too big. I do have a surcharge for going outside of town to neighboring towns.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, all right. So while you are doing that, let us pivot to Repot. What are you doing today?
Greg (Repot):Well, I think if anybody is watching the path from the farms, they'll see a very strange sight. They'll see what appears to be half of a robot dragging the other half. Specifically, there's four of these legs, two of which are sort of wrapped around this torso, sort of a cylinder of fold-out tools which are sort of A lot of the tools are sort of folded out and maybe getting in the way and getting stuck on stuff, and two of these legs are kind of grabbing onto the torso and the other two are sort of dragging this robot along the ground. So this robot is making its way, I would say, from the farm towards Serenade Square, so possibly to the dismay of anybody who doesn't like heaps of metal within view of their cafe. But it's on its way and I think its primary purpose is to try and attach itself together.
Greg (Repot):Now it is missing a particular piece to try and affix its legs back to its torso. You know, to try and affix its legs back to its torso. So it's kind of trying to get to maybe whatever the equivalent of a general sword would be or just find somebody who could help them reattach themselves to themselves. Right is the kind of main idea. So I think they're sort of, and it's like almost comical the way they move around. It's like it's almost like a zombie trying to drag itself along the ground and people pieces just kind of keep getting caught on stuff so it rotates in in weird ways. Um, it is.
Greg (Repot):It is like causing a little bit of a divot in in the path right like with all the scraping and stuff that's happening and and as it kind of tears itself around to some extent, it sometimes uses one of the legs to try and like sweep some dirt back into the rut that it just created, because it can't stand like being the cause of of destruction. Um so, it's it's making its way very slowly. Um, you know, trying to get to. You know, I think serenade square is where it's identified as maybe a higher concentration of people who might be able to help.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Gorgeous. All right, so we are going to return to the amphitheater where Trinket has just found that golden ring with the initials DG Shoo Shoo. You see a small skittish-looking rat folk holding a broom behind you, trinket, and he motions it towards you. Shoo Dazzle doesn't like you here.
Doug (Trinket):Oh, I'm sorry. I don't mean to be a nuisance. Did I do something wrong? I'm Trinket, by the way.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Shoo, shoo, get out of here.
Doug (Trinket):Your name is Shoo.
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, of course it's not.
Doug (Trinket):Well then, what should I call you? I don't think we've met yet.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's Butterboy.
Doug (Trinket):Well, it's nice to meet you. Why are you trying to push me with that broom?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, because's nice to meet you. Why are you trying to push me with that broom? Well, because Boss said so. Who's your boss? Dazzle, dazzle Bright. They own that cafe over there, supernova. Oh okay, don't you know anything?
Doug (Trinket):Well, I'm relatively new to town, so I'm sorry, I don't know what does the cafe do?
Kitsch (Chronicler):They sell coffee.
Doug (Trinket):Oh, I've never had coffee before. But anyway, why are you shooing me on a public street? Uh, just because Dazzle told me to, oh, okay well, I mean, I was making my way away anyway. Oh, sorry, um. Do you know anyone by the name of DJ or DG?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, DG.
Doug (Trinket):No, nobody named DG here, Okay well, I guess, if I can't stand here, where does your boss want me to stand?
Ray (Dazzle):It's okay, take your time.
Greg (Repot):Wait right here.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, I'll just wait here and they turn on point and they begin to run back towards the cafe until all of a sudden they notice repot dragging itself along and they become frozen in place. Repot. You see, this rat folk who we've established is named Butteroy, just completely grief-strucken, frozen in place, jaw slack to the ground.
Greg (Repot):Assistance Query. Assistance, they look quizzically at you. Assistance query assistance.
Kitsch (Chronicler):They look quizzically at you uh, the cogs visibly turning in their head as they try to figure out how to respond to this situation.
Ray (Dazzle):Battery low experiencing catastrophic failure query assistance. Uh uh situation Battery low Experiencing catastrophic failure Query Assistance.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, uh, uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you can't be here. Uh, please, please, remove yourselves from this area.
Greg (Repot):I, I think, I don't think, I don't think boss will like this Reapot continues dragging itself in the same direction, towards, like in the same direction it was going, which is towards the cafe, Basically trying to, and the entire time it's just saying assistance, assistance, Like just as it's trying to make its way. Basically, it sees a person, it's like oh so it's just going to keep asking and it's just going to kind of keep moving in that direction. I would say I don't think it's going to get stopped by someone telling it to not do that, it's just going to keep going.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So as you pass Butteroy by, you see them just break and they slump back into themselves. And they slump back into themselves and they start just dragging their feet back to Supernova, and you come across Trinket Assistance.
Doug (Trinket):Oh hi, you need help. Affirmative oh okay, let me see what I can do. And Trinket just kind of starts looking and is going to ask what happened? What's wrong?
Greg (Repot):Reapot just lets go with its arms and lets the torso just fall on the ground and then it drags the legs back over and tries to pick itself fall on the ground and then it like, tries to like it drags the legs back over, tries to pick itself back up, basically. But I think that's kind of how it demonstrates. It needs some kind of tool to affix these two things together.
Greg (Repot):In fact it says assistance affixing self.
Doug (Trinket):Oh, I get it. Okay, let me see what I have. And Trigget's going gonna just kind of pull his overalls away and look down at himself and see if there's any sort of like tool in his form that he could pull like a wrench, anything like that, just something that he may have collected over the time to see if he can like find something that fits the purpose essentially.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Cool. So I think I'm going to talk about rolling dice. So we're going to introduce the concept of rolling dice in this game. So this is a d6 system, as I mentioned before. So the standard roll is 2d6. We also have a set of abilities and attributes, and so those are going to be body, intellect and personality, and then we have heart, voice and mind. We'll get a little bit more into those later, but for now I'm going to establish that this is a body roll, as you are actually literally using your body to solve this challenge. So you will roll 2d6, and then you will add the body modifier. You also have the option to invoke an aspect, if there is an aspect on your sheet that you would like to claim will help you during this task.
Doug (Trinket):So I do have an aspect I think is going to potentially be able to help. It's what is junk.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What is junk? All right. Potentially be able to help. It's what is junk. What is junk? Alright. Based on my understanding of that aspect, I will say that does grant you advantage. So you will roll 3d6 and take the higher 2.
Doug (Trinket):Okay, Got it. So we got 11 plus 1 to 12.
Kitsch (Chronicler):11. Alright, so we will have to consult the table Dun dun dun.
Dan (Zipper):It was a 12, by the way. I said 12, didn't.
Doug (Trinket):I yeah, it was like 11.
Dan (Zipper):Oh 12. Am I making up numbers?
Doug (Trinket):Plus 1,. Thank you, plus 1. Am I making?
Kitsch (Chronicler):up numbers.
Doug (Trinket):Plus one.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Thank you, Plus one, All right so this is a system that has varying degrees of success, so we are going to consult the success table in order to determine whether or not you have succeeded on this role, and eventually I will commit these to memory. But for now, I will also look at said table. So a 12 is greater than 10, which is just a solid success. So you have what you need. Your body is able to accomplish this goal. Go, trinket Go trinket.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Go trinket, all right. So what do you pull out of yourself in order to repair Repot?
Doug (Trinket):I pull out a you know one of those like multi-tools, not like a Swiss Army knife, but like one of the multi-tools. I find one of those and I kind of of just yank it from my arm.
Kitsch (Chronicler):There's a magnetic pull as you pull it off of your body, exactly, and there's this sparkle, glittery residue that floats through the air.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, and Trinket noticeably kind of slumps a little bit because, like he just kind of pulled a piece of himself away, yeah, he's using it to give someone else a hand, basically well repot, uh, I think takes that tool out, um, and it's it says please stand by.
Greg (Repot):And it starts kind of it takes this tool and it uses you know, I think it withdraws, like you know, the hands that were kind of stuck in the way. It starts like using this tool to kind of bang them out of the way a little bit, to kind of clear the way to these two pieces, and it uses some of its hands to try and like stand itself up, and it slips a couple of times. But of its hands to try and like stand itself up, and it slips a couple of times. But it is able to try and get itself upright and it uses this tool.
Greg (Repot):And there's like a a little a nut, basically um, that it, it it withdraws from a sort of a pouch and it it's able to using this tool, it's able to get in a place it wasn't able to get to because the the kind of arms had been like folded in like a really weird way. So it's able to like get in there and like start tightening things and as it kind of tightens, it start, it like rotates its torso around a little bit as part of the kind of process. So there's a little bit of like the, the, the arm, like the. It has some stuff that's like from the torso, there's like tools that are kind of sticking out a little bit. So it's a little bit like you might want to back off a little bit as this process happens, because it is kind of spinning around with these somewhat sharp objects. But it kind of Process complete and then it says battery, 3% Battery with unexpected parameters, and then I think it, it, it has, I think it gives back the multi-tool, it's like give oh, I actually don't need.
Doug (Trinket):That was amazing, by the way. That was so cool to watch. Um, I don't actually need that anymore, but if you want to keep it in case something else happens, it's your more.
Greg (Repot):You're more than welcome to it uh repot, happily opens up a a uh a drawer that has like a whole bunch of other stuff in it and it puts the multi-tool in it. But it it definitely knows this is going to come in handy, because the the best part about this multi-tool specifically is that it allows it to reach places a little bit further than it was able to before. Right, it has its own arms that it uses to, like you know, drill stuff, but especially when it comes to its own body, it's usually better at interfacing with the outside world than it is with the inside world. Basically, something kept it up. So, yeah, so it's able to. Finally, using this multi-tool is like oh, I can reach bits of myself that I wasn't able to reach before with with a wrench and stuff. So it's definitely very happy about this and it basically just says acknowledge okay, well, glad I was able to help all right and, um, this would be a perfect time to uh talk again about rapport.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, would you like to reward a rapport? Would either of you like to reward a rapport for this situation?
Greg (Repot):I would say repot is definitely appreciative of the assistance that has been given because of basically being reassembled using a tool that it was given. So I would definitely say that Repot has a little bit of trust with Trinket now.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Beautiful. Alright, so, trinket, you can receive a rapport token. Thank you Acknowledged. Which are green little hexagons that I made. I will explain what to do with those later, but they can be used for all sorts of things and they will very much come into play during the expedition period. Alright, at this time that into play during the expedition period. All right, at this time that zipper is going to come across this pear.
Greg (Repot):Whee Was that the Doppler effect?
Greg (Repot):Yes, was that the Doppler effect?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, so the two of you see this creature just zip by.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, actually zipping around town Just zipping around In the distance.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You can see her stopping at various mailboxes, blipping through the town.
Greg (Repot):I think Repod is really interested because of the speed at which this happened. Repod is really interested. He starts poking at the ground that Zipper went over Because I don't know what the path is made. Is the path made of out of curiosity, like in this town that can?
Kitsch (Chronicler):be rollerbladed across at such speed. It's compact dirt, compact dirt. It's interesting.
Greg (Repot):I think that Reapot notices that there's, I mean, like a noticeable like line from the wheels well, from each of the wheels basically, and you can see that it's splitting the road apart a little bit.
Greg (Repot):This is analyzing, and basically what Reapod is thinking about is how can I make this?
Greg (Repot):You know, what would I do to make this road a little bit less impacted by something heavy and long kind of going across it?
Greg (Repot):I mean, it also looks back at the track that it left um dragging itself here and it's noticing that the perhaps the paths here are not really up to the kind of heavy wear and tear that it it.
Greg (Repot):It has expected from previous places that it wasn't the city which are like, more asphalt and kind of things, um, and so it's, I think, uh, as, as there was in the city which are more asphalt and kind of things. And so I think, as this kind of transpires, I think Repot starts genuinely thinking about what it would do to help with the pads a little bit, to make them maybe able to carry its own weight one, because it has legs that are sort of pretty heavy. It intends to carry heavy stuff around if it's going to stay around, which I think, because it's finally been able to repair, like its next job is finding a place to recharge its battery at least a little bit, so it's intending to stay here for at least a little bit longer, I think. As this happens, repot is like hmm, what would I do to fix the roads here?
Dan (Zipper):Zipper will maybe like 15 seconds after passing these two mounds of metal will click that. She just saw something that she doesn't normally see in town and she's gonna like grab a tree and just like full 360 and she's gonna break hard right in front of you two, probably creating a dust storm there's a shower of dirt on top Hold up.
Greg (Repot):Wait a minute, repun is so impressed by the maneuver of spinning around a tree, by the way.
Dan (Zipper):That is inspiring. Her arm also like stretches a little bit as she grabs on, because she's kind of a jellyfish girl for those at home who don't grabs on, because she's a jellyfish girl for those at home who don't know this yet, she is a jellyfish girl, so she's kind of got a give to her body. So as she grabs the tree, her arm lengthens a little bit as she whips around it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay. So in the spirit of learning the game and practicing dice rolling, I am going to have you roll a body.
Greg (Repot):Do you actually stop in time, or do you just collide with us?
Dan (Zipper):So I do think, I do think I'm going to say I'm going to use the aspect if I can. Can't catch me.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh absolutely.
Dan (Zipper):Which is like she just is always on the move, Very fast, very agile.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So if I could use that, yes, I will allow it Cool.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, that's another 11 plus 2, which is a 21.
Greg (Repot):Wait, that's not. No, no, no.
Greg (Repot):That's 13. That's what 10 plus 9 is. You said it so convincingly, you said that so confidently.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh my gosh, 13, 13. That will be a solid success.
Greg (Repot):So you accomplished that goal, cool hi, I don't know you two repot starts, uh, because of the extreme stop. There is like a noticeable kind of like track in the dirt where they're kind of, yeah, repot starts like taking one of its appendages and like sweeping the dirt back into the holes oh, oh, okay, hi, I'm trinket your feet.
Doug (Trinket):Wheels are really interesting uh, thank you they're.
Dan (Zipper):Uh, they're roller skates. I got them. Uh, well, I got them a while ago, but these are new ones. I well, I've been wearing roller skates. I got them a while ago, but these are new ones. Well, I've been wearing roller skates for a long time, but these are new roller skates.
Doug (Trinket):Well, at least the wheels are new. Do you have old roller skates?
Dan (Zipper):I have old wheels at home.
Doug (Trinket):I'm interested.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, what is that? Sorry, do you want them?
Doug (Trinket):Maybe if I could take a look at them.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, hold on, and she blips off as.
Greg (Repot):Zipper blips off like Repot has just started saying.
Doug (Trinket):Greeting.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I would say, probably within 30 seconds she's back with eight wheels All right Eight wheels and as you return you do notice a flashing light on Repot's back.
Dan (Zipper):Is that normal? Do you normally flash like that? Oh, here, by the way. Oh, thank you. Battery within expected parameters. Oh, I'll take that as a yes. Well, cool, what was your name? Repot, repot and Trinket. Great, we're going to be great, great friends, I just know it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You notice that the blinking light is in the shape of a battery and, uh, the level is very, very low and orange I don't know if zipper knows what a a battery is.
Dan (Zipper):Alright.
Greg (Repot):I think, perhaps to illustrate the point Repot says, battery critical failure powering down ding, ding, oh, oh, oh, what is?
Dan (Zipper):and?
Greg (Repot):Repot just starts. Well, I mean, it doesn't fall, because the power down function does reserve some amount, but it like folds what it can into itself. Of course there's pieces of it that like are broken and can't fold back in, so but whatever pieces are like actually functioning in their full range of motion at this current time, just kind of like, and they like fold up and so it becomes basically a cylinder. That's essentially like it's got a little sort of stand on the ground that it won't like fall over if, like, a stiff breeze hits it. But it kind of folds up and just kind of sits in the middle of the path and it just kind of sits. It just stands there and it plays a little power down sound.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, so we're going to pivot. So Dazzle Bright. What have you been since? Uh, you sent butteroy on his way, uh dazzle.
Ray (Dazzle):Has just finished refilling one of the espresso machines, like pouring in uh new beans for them to be ground, and uh takes a look at like their arm, which doesn't have a watch on it, but like turns to groke and says where is that rat? And then starts trudging towards the door which has like large glass wall that outlooks the main road, throws it open and sees the rat in very very distressed so so distressed.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Just standing in the door, like was just about to knock. And you're not like you've told him not to knock, like he works here, but you see his arms like raised and he's just like very distressed and sad-looking and he's like uh uh boss yeah. And then I like uh, uh, boss.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah. And then I look past him and I see now two hunks of metal Along with a massive dust cloud.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And I'm like Butteroy, yes, boss.
Ray (Dazzle):We've talked about multiplying the robots oh this has happened before, hasn't it? Yes, we have I sent you over to get rid of one and turn around. What do you see?
Kitsch (Chronicler):He slowly turns around and he goes.
Ray (Dazzle):I see two right, you see two. Now. This is a problem. Right, get inside, I'll handle this. Don't come to work tomorrow. Oh my gosh, you're not fired, but I am very mad and I don't want to see you.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right. He like really slumps in on himself now and he just starts to drag his feet over the threshold, just slowly pushing dirt into the cafe.
Ray (Dazzle):You're going to have to sweep that up and to bring me a tea while you're at it. I'm going to go talk to these nincompoops.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, and he goes off into the cafe.
Ray (Dazzle):And Dazzle, who is a multicolored giant Malabar squirrel you should look them up, they're beautiful. Uh, who is like rainbow colored? The sun always hits them the exact right spot. They have like bits of anime sparkles around them at all times. They are just extremely beautiful. Walks on over. They've got these nice big black boots and are trying very hard not to get any dirt on them and trying very hard to steer clear of the dust clouds so that nothing settles on their fur or on their boots. Standing at an odd distance away says Hello, you two.
Greg (Repot):Reapot's battery just keeps blinking, and that's the only response that Reapot's basically going to have for this whole process.
Ray (Dazzle):Hi Mr.
Dan (Zipper):Shiny Squirrel.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm actually a giant squirrel.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, hi, mr Giant Shiny Squirrel Zipper has started to moonwalk on her skates around the two robots trying to figure out what's going on, or the two constructs for creatures.
Ray (Dazzle):What are you doing over there?
Dan (Zipper):I'm not sure to be honest.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh right, Then why are you doing it in front of my cafe? Because, it's cool. It doesn't look very cool.
Dan (Zipper):I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you, but come over here and look, there's some new people. Who are you?
Ray (Dazzle):I don't know if I want to come over.
Doug (Trinket):What's your name?
Ray (Dazzle):I'm Trinket the name's Dazzle, dazzle, bright name. I'm trinket the name's dazzle dazzle bright. That's b-r-i-t e. Oh, okay, let me write that down. Yes, please do.
Doug (Trinket):You will remember this oh, I remember a lot of things I'm glad you do listen.
Ray (Dazzle):I have a business to run and I would appreciate if you would oh run.
Doug (Trinket):That might be the problem. Okay, Trinket puts his hands up to the robot and like feels it and he's Trinket can kind of like sense energies, yeah, and he's like, oh, the energy is really low from this cylinder now. It was something moving earlier. Maybe it's running low on energy. Anyone know where we could find something that can power?
Dan (Zipper):this. What kind of thing?
Doug (Trinket):Oh, I don't know. There's a battery symbol on its back.
Dan (Zipper):Well, I eat food to get energy.
Ray (Dazzle):Right, where is my tea?
Dan (Zipper):Let me tell you you're really pretty. Oh, thank you.
Ray (Dazzle):Yes, I know, Dazzling almost that's where I get the name.
Dan (Zipper):But can we feed it? Can we feed it something?
Doug (Trinket):I don't think it probably eats. It looks like it's kind well. It's not like me in the sense that I have living energy inside me. It looks like it's more electrical energy I can shock things whoa, that's kind of cool. How can you do?
Dan (Zipper):that. That's just part of the here, she, she. She reaches out her tentacles and she taps you with them and you get this jolt. It arcs off of me on tonic.
Doug (Trinket):I think if it arcs into Reefa.
Greg (Repot):I think Reefa actually noticeably one of the appendages, one of the parts of its torso kind of jerk out in the way that you would in involuntary response kind of thing. Or they tap your knee and go. So I think that that happens when that shock hits. I don't think that shock would magically give it charge, but it would cause a response and cause Reapop to move. In a certain way Seems like it's worth a shock.
Greg (Repot):Oh my god, You're welcome everyone about to like move in in
Kitsch (Chronicler):a certain way, it seems like it's worth a shock I know there's no inspiration in this game, at least not like what you're used to. There are similar things to inspiration, but they're not rewarded for making puns, unfortunately.
Doug (Trinket):I know.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Scrap it, scrap this game entirely.
Doug (Trinket):Get rid of it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Cannot have it Like no and Repot remembering that excellent pun gets advantage on its next roll. So yeah, you are back on. I don't know that.
Greg (Repot):Repot's on. I think it's more that little, because I think if you really wanted to charge Repot, it would have to be into like it would take a bit of time. It would have to be basically like a hug, essentially for a certain amount of time. Okay, right, like um.
Greg (Repot):It would have to be like basically like a hug essentially for a certain amount of time do it, and it would have to be like in the charging port, like like it would have to.
Greg (Repot):If you're just like shocking random pieces of of repot, it would be like you might actually end up accidentally like activating arms and stuff.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I feel like I'd worry about that um well yeah, so we can do a couple things.
Dan (Zipper):Zipper doesn't know that. Yeah, I don't think.
Greg (Repot):Yeah it's a repot, isn't around to explain this yeah, zipper's an aquatic creature.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You do a couple things um, we can do an intelligence roll in order to try to parse out what is going on here. Um, and then zipper. You can do a body roll in order to try to parse out what is going on here, and then Zipper. You can do a body roll in order to do a more substantial shock, having noticed the effect of your initial shock.
Dan (Zipper):I do have an aspect called Zip Zap, zip Zap, which is exactly what it sounds like.
Greg (Repot):I know that jellyfish. Okay, before the internet comes for me.
Dan (Zipper):I know that jellyfish technically have venom, but but you know, suspend your disbelief for a second your disbelief for so, yeah, I'll give it a try, just to like, but I'm not gonna go for the port because I don't know what that is so she, the way that she builds up electricity, is actually just like friction, which is like so as her tentacles.
Dan (Zipper):So her tentacles pour out of her helmet, because she's dressed like a roller derby girl, but she's got a helmet on and her tentacles pour out. And so she just does this thing where she skates in a circle and her tentacles whack against each other to build up static electricity, and then I will slap all of my tentacles onto Reapot and see what the fuck happens.
Greg (Repot):If this is a fail, it's going to be so funny.
Dan (Zipper):Nine plus two for body. You said right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Correct, so that is an 11.
Dan (Zipper):Or a 19 if you did my old math. We're not doing the old math, but good on you for trying so.
Kitsch (Chronicler):again, just a solid success. So a substantial amount of electricity courses through your body, repot for an extended period of time.
Greg (Repot):I think Repot does the. After this is done, it goes that's the boot up sound. It's a major third and it says status report battery 12%. And the way it says it, I feel like it's almost shock and surprise. It very rarely actually achieves the heights of 12% charge.
Greg (Repot):This is kind of a new thing for it, I think. Well, not new per se, I mean, it's obviously been in 100%, but that was years ago. Honestly, it's been a while and it has received this hug of life, basically. And it basically says well, it says acknowledge. I think that's going to be the way it says thank you for the rest of the season. It's just saying acknowledge and it kind of it does a kind of like weird little sensor scan.
Greg (Repot):So there's the legs, on the bottom there's a torso of tools and at the very top of the torso cylinder there's like an array of sensors, there's like a camera, there's some antenna, there's a little thing, that kind of spins in a circle that had been stopped but now kind of starts up again as it starts trying to take in its surroundings, um, and I mean well, one says listening, just because, as it's kind of going through the process of starting itself up, um and I think it doesn't really try and move anywhere as much as it begins this kind of process of unfolding its legs and getting them into place, and as it starts unfolding, you should find that there's a lot of stuttering and stopping and there's different pieces of it that don't open the way they really ought to.
Greg (Repot):So other legs come by and just kind of whack at them a little bit and, as it kind of starts this process will take a bit of time for it to actually be able to stand up and move again, but it is kind of going through this so, as whatever conversation happens after this, just repot is just slowly like assembling itself until it can finally stand up and start moving again um, zipper, uh, after doing the shock does look.
Dan (Zipper):Look a little bit dried up and deflated. As far as jellyfish, if you were to see a jellyfish that's been out in the sun for a little bit, she just kind of gets a little wrinkly around the joints and she gets a little smaller. Almost she's only five feet tall. She's not very large, she's not very tall, but then she gets a little bit shorter as she loses moisture in her body. That was tough. That was a lot of shocks. I don't think I got any more in me today. I hope what would you say? 12 per cent per person who said a word I didn't understand. Is that a good thing? 12 percent percent above expected parameters.
Greg (Repot):Oh, I think that is a good thing. 12% is above expected parameters.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, I think that is a good thing.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And do we want to award any rapport? Uh?
Greg (Repot):yes, everybody's helping Repot out today, let's take one yes.
Dan (Zipper):Until we get into the habit.
Kitsch (Chronicler):we're learning a new game We've got backup charges.
Greg (Repot):We've got tools to repair Our repot's feeling really welcome right now, I think Well let's see what Dazzle has to say about that.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah for now Can you get negative rapport.
Greg (Repot):I think, Dazzle might have.
Greg (Repot):Can you subtract harmony? I do have a quick question about rapport and probably what is h again?
Kitsch (Chronicler):harmony, which I misspoke earlier. You actually reward harmony to yourselves, um so I know there's a lot of power to give players, isn't it?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I kind of love it just because I've been put together so harmony is you can also gain up to three um during downtime scenes. So downtime scenes is just any time there's scenes that aren't a challenge, okay, which will be during the adventure. Um. So anything in the prelude, overture and then as we're at camp later on, and harmony is rewarded by yourself to yourself for working through and processing an emotion or thought that had been weighing on you, partaking in an emotional regulation technique in a mindful manner, self-advocating in a meaningful way, which can be done in a multi-character scene, and then finding internal affirmation of your identity or experience. So anytime you feel like you've accomplished those goals within a scene, y'all can just take a harmony and just tell me that you did so.
Greg (Repot):I feel like running into town screaming assistance should count as advocating for oneself Absolutely.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, yes, please take as advocating for oneself.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Absolutely yeah, yes, please take a harmony for that. Yay, because it did work, just to be clear, and it did work.
Greg (Repot):It did work.
Ray (Dazzle):Help me, please Help, help, help, it worked Please.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right. So what are we doing?
Greg (Repot):What's Dazzle's reaction to this?
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, we're all on the edge of our seats, dazzle reaches into their boot and pulls out a slip of paper that says To-do list meet five people and just crosses out five and writes in three and says this should suffice.
Greg (Repot):That's enough of that and puts it back into their boot and begrudgingly walks three and says this should suffice.
Ray (Dazzle):Then puts it back into their boot and begrudgingly walks over and says hello, the name's Dazzle. Dazzle Bright B-R-I-T-E. It's okay to meet you. Greeting Dazzle Bright B-R-I-T-E. How are you? You looked like you were in a little bit of a funk. Status report Battery Twelve percent. Okay, that means you're good to go right. Affirmative All right, this is what I'm talking about.
Doug (Trinket):Well, it was a pleasure meeting all of you. Nice, to meet you too. Hopefully we can cross paths again at some point.
Ray (Dazzle):Sure, I mean, you don't drink coffee. Likely, so it might not happen. It probably won't happen, but it's Well, you make trash at your cafe, right, yeah, but that's not for you.
Doug (Trinket):Well, I actually work for the town municipal.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay then I guess it is kind of for you.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, so I'll see you at some point, I'm sure.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, I'll try to keep my eyes closed, oh.
Doug (Trinket):Well, I don't have any eyes too closed, but Is that customary?
Dan (Zipper):Oh, Zipper is face down in the fountain. Oh my god.
Doug (Trinket):You turn and Z zipper is just gone. She is like.
Dan (Zipper):her face is just in the fountain and you slowly see her start to re-inflate.
Doug (Trinket):Oh well, okay. Well, it was again nice to meet you.
Ray (Dazzle):Of course, is there anywhere I can help you get faster.
Doug (Trinket):Uh-oh, yeah, again nice to meet you, of course is there anywhere I can help you get faster?
Greg (Repot):uh no, I well, actually I do have these wheels now, right, I'm gonna go try and figure out how to attach them to my feet. I think repot hears this, because repot, anytime someone is like I want to get someplace faster, repot's not ears per se, it doesn't really have ears, but it does begin paying attention at least a little bit and Repot says query assistance.
Doug (Trinket):Assistance accepted.
Greg (Repot):And I think Repot, basically wherever Trinket's going to go, like Repot holds out one of the appendages like towards, towards one of the wheels, basically to try and, and it says give, so it can try and inspect one of them at least, so it can kind of start analyzing it. Basically, I think wherever Trinket's about to go, I think the Repot is probably about to follow.
Doug (Trinket):I give you one of the wheels and then I say, come on, let's go to my home, which is basically just the junkyard, but I have a nice little hut.
Greg (Repot):And Reapot. Basically, I mean I don't think Reapot. Reapot says acknowledge and begins basically walking wherever you're going to go. Essentially, I think that's, I imagine that's away from the cafe, wherever it's going to be the two heaps of junk leaving Dazzlebrite's mansion At last, finally.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Which does just leave Dazzlebrite and face down zipper.
Greg (Repot):Alright.
Dan (Zipper):I gotta deliver mail. Bye, Mr Squirrel Yep, see you later. She bolts off.
Ray (Dazzle):Wait, do you have any for me? No, oh.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh my gosh, all right Gorgeous In this moment. Is there anything actively that people want to do in the directions that they've gone, so we can kind of go down the line Dazzle? Is there anything that you would like to take from this scene and carry it on forward? No, I'm not sure how to answer that. That's fine, is there?
Ray (Dazzle):anything that you would like to take from this scene and carry it on forward? No, I'm not sure how to answer that.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That's fine Zipper.
Dan (Zipper):I don't think, so I'm going to ask if I can give myself a harmony for ignoring the people and rehydrating.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, absolutely. That feels, like self-care. Yeah, it does feel like self-care.
Dan (Zipper):Especially given her compulsive nature to interact with people, to be in conversation. Good job.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, Repot and Trinket.
Greg (Repot):I definitely want to continue the scene where we end up at the junkyard. Repot's stated objective at the beginning of the episode was find materials. I think a junkyard is probably an excellent place to begin that search. So, yeah, I think a junkyard is probably an excellent place to begin that search. So, yeah, I think Repot's excited about this.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright.
Doug (Trinket):And Trinket is just going to kind of bring Repot along and maybe introduce Repot to the owner of the junkyard and be like do you know anything about this type of machinery and how to maintain it? Kind of have an that kind of conversation, yeah, yeah.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh. So we're just gonna say Charles works at the uh junkyard. He's the one who oversees and makes sure that uh nobody's uh getting into any trouble. Gotta make sure that kiddos stay safe. I don't want them cutting themselves on any of the sharp metal edges or getting an infection on any of the wires that are loose and prone to poke into fleshy skin.
Doug (Trinket):The sign does say it's not a playground. Yeah, not a playground.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Instead of the keep out sign, it just says not a playground. No, I don't think that I have. Uh, what are you?
Greg (Repot):Designation Repairbot 057. All right, I think Repot doesn't necessarily need someone to give him stuff. I think Repot just wants to take a look around stuff. I think Repot just wants to take a look around. I think if nobody stops Repot, I think Repot is just going to start making its way over to the piles of junk.
Greg (Repot):So it can start kind of and as it does, so it says analyzing and it just kind of starts going through whatever is there. I think, unless somebody says stop, I don't think Repot're probably gonna not do that well, he's your friend, so uh have at it, I guess.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, thanks, we'll swing by later if you need anything, or just come find us, I guess uh, and with that, he sits back down in his recliner chair, kicks his feet up on a barrel and tips his hat over his eyes, intending to take an afternoon snooze.
Greg (Repot):Nice, I think Repot finds like I mean, it's the trash, right.
Greg (Repot):But there's gotta be some kind of wood or some kind of structural stuff. Uh, I think whatever it finds, it starts holding basically above its head with with like one of one, one or two of the arms, essentially. Uh, I think it starts just kind of collecting things that it it thinks it might need later. I think it, if nobody stops it, it's gonna get like heavier and heavier and heavier. It's gonna start moving slower and slower and slower, but it's getting. It's going to get heavier and heavier and heavier. It's going to start moving slower and slower and slower, but it's starting to pick up a lot of stuff.
Doug (Trinket):Reapot if you want. We have some space over by my hut. You can keep all your things so you don't have to carry them all the time. Navigate Okay, just follow me, it's right over here. Then we just kind of toddle our way over towards Trinket's hut. It's very much a hut made of old scrap wood and some metal.
Greg (Repot):Scrap, wood and metal. You say I think Repot is very interested in this location just as a place to source material and stuff. I think that Repot is probably, I think Repot as it starts putting things down. One of the things it puts down is like it's like a stake, it's like a piece of wood. I think it's beginning to assemble essentially like a second hut. Basically it's like an extension, you know like you know, sweet there's oh, there's all, there's already
Greg (Repot):stuff that's standing here. I think repot at at some point bumps into it and it starts to like leaning over a little bit, but it catches it and it like straightens it out again and it uh manages to find something to like prop it up and temporarily as it as it begins to start doing its plans. I think the repot is is. I think repot is very happy with this location in terms of like and I don't know if it has like an emotion expression sort of thing, but it is definitely animated. It's got 12 percent battery.
Greg (Repot):It is feeling on top of the world um it is it's, this is it is.
Greg (Repot):It has never felt this good, um, and so I think it's beginning to to assemble sort of its own workshop, sort of adjacent to the structure that's already there. But I think it's not leaving the hut alone. I think, as it, you know, it finds it a little bit shaky. Um, I think it's going to start trying to make sure it's actually affixed to the ground. It takes out a hammer and gets some stakes into the ground. I think it starts leaving materials on the ground in the place where I think it's going to start assembling them. Maybe at some point it finds a piece of paper in the pencil or something, or or something, not a piece of paper in the trash, can. It was probably a newspaper or something, um, but it finds something. It starts like drawing, like plans and stuff, uh, and I think it shows it to uh, to trinket at one point, uh, being like confirmed and trinket.
Doug (Trinket):Looking at it, just realizes he's working on building like a place for him to live next to trinket. And trinket, looking at it, just realizes he's working on building like a place for him to live next to Trinket. And Trinket looks at Repot and says well, I guess this makes us neighbors.
Greg (Repot):And Trinket holds out his hand greeting neighbor and they shake it's a really interesting sort of shake, I think because of Repot, the way that it articulates yeah, so there's like a little kind of a one end where you would kind of expect it to go down. But it kind of just gets caught and it tips Repot forward a little bit and then you let go and it kind of snaps back to how it was before, Like magnets on the end of each hand.
Greg (Repot):Exactly, and then I think Repot, just I think, and then I think Repot, just I think that's this is Repotsicle, I think is to begin assembling an actual structure. I think, in particular, one thing that Repot is looking for is like an official charging station. I don't know if there's actual like electricity, I don't know, I don't think that time is electrified right. I think that that's gonna be one of the things that repos gonna really have to figure out because before there was like charging stations at the construction site.
Greg (Repot):There's just charging stations, you know. Yeah, they kick you off after 15 minutes, uh, for wasting company time. But there you have them, at least um and and here they don't.
Greg (Repot):So I think that that is probably going to be one of the things that repot really starts focusing on figuring out next. But I think in the meantime, the just being able to assemble, uh, just the covered area, um, I think is is is going to be the the priority. But I think repot is definitely just kind of like you can hear like a little whistle as he walks through uh, the different, uh you know, areas of the junk, heap or whatever Every time it finds something fun it says Take. You can just hear it off in the distance just saying Take Regularly and dumping stuff back at where the hut is.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Gorgeous. Do our neighbors want to reward each other? Rapport.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, here we go, thank you.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I think that establishes trust.
Greg (Repot):Living in close proximity to each other. I think so.
Doug (Trinket):You know you never figure out your wheels situation. We can work on that once you're finished with your house. Yeah, I think.
Greg (Repot):Repot did forget a little bit about the wheels when it saw the stuff. It was like oh, like, oh, my god, I think that we'll save that for another scene, though. Or wheels at some point you said you want to fix it. Are your bits connected in any way? They're just kind of held together by like magic pretty much so like do you?
Doug (Trinket):need to affix the wheels to yourself because, because the wheels don't have any sort of Well, they might have some sort of sentimental. I don't know. Have you tried looking at?
Dan (Zipper):them.
Doug (Trinket):I haven't, I haven't tried for that yet it was a whirlwind back there, literally.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, let us pivot back to Supernova. We're Dazzle. What are you up to back at Supernova?
Ray (Dazzle):Dazzle, steps back in and says All right, mission accomplished. Meet three people If you call them people kind of just like talking to themselves and turns to Groke who's this bubbly frog folk who often works the register and says Groke, if you see a jellyfish named Zipper, come in here, offer them a free drink. Say it's on the house, don't say it's on me.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, of course, Sure thing. Jellyfish, yes, yes, jellyfish roller derby gear, sure thing Um jellyfish, yes.
Ray (Dazzle):Yes, jellyfish roller derby gear the like.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Perfecto, Uh, anything else boss.
Ray (Dazzle):No, and you don't have to call me boss, only Butteroy and Cauldrel do Affirmative, affirmative and she goes back to just prestigitating various drinks.
Kitsch (Chronicler):there's a couple customers in the cafe at this time. It's kind of a peaceful, serene ambiance, not too much chatter going on just the way I like it.
Ray (Dazzle):Some might say it's sort of Not too much chatter going on, just the way I like it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Some might say it's sort of dead, but at the price your drinks are at, this is just fine. Yes, it is. And at this point you also see Butteroy sweeping the dirt back out of the door that had previously been swept in. Mediocre job, butteroy, and I give him a thumbs up. He kind of grins, a little bit suspicious of you, and continues on his way. The doorbell rings or the bell on the door rings, not a doorbell as it opens and an owling woman walks in. Good day, dazzle, good to see you. Have you seen a jellyfish girl? Uh, good day, dazzle, good to see you. Have you seen a jellyfish girl running around? Well, rolling around.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Zipper is her name.
Ray (Dazzle):Yes, actually I have.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh wonderful, when is she? At no clue. Oh less than wonderful, Right.
Ray (Dazzle):Do you? Well, she kind of just zipped off in one direction.
Kitsch (Chronicler):She does have a tendency to do that. Well, I might as well have a drink while I'm here. Um any specials today.
Ray (Dazzle):Um, let's see, Uh, and we walk over towards the counter to where Groke is and I point at the like billboard behind Groke and I say, um, the owl was asking for the specials.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, of course. So we have a lavender matcha latte, and that is with a specialty honey locally sourced. And then we also have a hot honey yes, I know it sounds funny latte, just trying it out Again. Locally sourced honey and chili peppers, just from the community garden.
Ray (Dazzle):Don't forget, right down there at the bottom, the Lilac Mana Potion.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Ah, yes, the Lilac Mana Potion, which is quite a refreshing topper of the day. I like it iced. Yes, it is recommended to be iced. And what will you have? Uh well, um, the, the, uh, the hot honey sounds intriguing. Um, I'll have one of those. And very quickly, groke turns around and starts prepping the drink it's okay, you can get back to the register.
Ray (Dazzle):I'll take care of this very well, if you haven't noticed already, dazzle much prefers not to interact with customers and does most of the non-speaking elements of being a barista. And so dazzle goes ahead and uh presses the button to grind the beans and then puts a couple of uh like coffee shot glasses underneath the machine, um waits for things to pour steams, some milk, mixes things together, um throws it on ice. I don't remember what you ordered. And then pours it in a cup and brings it on over to the owl.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, thank you, my dear. Um, any thought of when Zipper would show up? Does she come in?
Ray (Dazzle):here often. Well, she said she didn't have mail for me, but maybe she has mail for the cafe.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I could write a letter.
Ray (Dazzle):Ding the door chimes, chimes.
Dan (Zipper):This is me forcing you to enter. Oh, got it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh hi, mr mr squirrel man, just who I was looking for, okay, but I'm delivering.
Dan (Zipper):I'm delivering a letter, mr Squirrel, here you go.
Ray (Dazzle):She skates over Okay and passes you a letter. No skating in the cafe, please.
Dan (Zipper):It would take me so long to take this off.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh God, there's tile floors. It'll be fine. I take it, and it seems to be addressed to the cafe itself.
Dan (Zipper):I got it from down the street so I got picked it up when I came down.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, great. Yeah, I was just about to ask why you didn't have any for me earlier, but I suppose this is fine. Thank you, this lovely owl was just looking for you.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, hi have we met.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Hello, my name is Dahlia.
Dan (Zipper):Hello, Miss.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Dahlia no, we have not, but I've heard plenty about you and I have a favor to ask. Okay, I would like you to go out of town on a little bit of a trip, deliver something Well, actually retrieve something Do you do that sort?
Dan (Zipper):Oh well, is there someone postaging something to you? I normally only deliver from here to other places.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, what if I wrote a letter to this location and then had them return an object?
Dan (Zipper):Oh yeah, I can do that Perfect, as long as it's postaged to you when I get there, then I can bring it back. Yeah, I don't see why not Perfect. A little bit weird, but that's alright, as long as it's postage to you when I get there, when I can bring it back. Yeah, I don't see why not Perfect A little bit weird, but that's all right. But I do have a surcharge for leaving the city limits.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, that shouldn't be an issue. Anyways, we are supposed to be going out to Legato Lake. Do you go that far?
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, isn't that the one that's in the corner? Yes, yeah, I was just there.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh wonderful. So then you already know where it's at. Well, I have a friend, harold.
Dan (Zipper):Is that on the other side of the lake?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, that's outside the city limits, so yeah, that makes sense.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, so I have a friend, harold. He's an art officer. He's been working on something for me. I'd like that delivered, okay.
Greg (Repot):Here is the money.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And do you have a napkin dear, Turning to Dazzle?
Ray (Dazzle):Yes, I've got plenty.
Kitsch (Chronicler):She takes one of them and a pencil.
Ray (Dazzle):Um, I suppose has been in my boot though, but that's no problem, I've dealt with worse.
Greg (Repot):There you go.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And she snatches it from you, scribbles just very quickly on the napkin illegibly, folds it up, licks it, hands it to zipper licks the napkin.
Dan (Zipper):I guess that is a letter of sorts. Okay, got it. Miss Dahlia, when do you need a pie?
Kitsch (Chronicler):as soon as possible post haste.
Dan (Zipper):Please don't get pushy. Um, uh yeah, unless somebody else is gonna stop zipper, she's gonna dash off to the lake all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):so with zipper uh starting to dash off on the lake, we are actually going to go off into intermission. Um, so, um, like we are actually going to go off into intermission, so we're going to go off into an intermission with our hearts full and our friends by our side. As the scene drifts off into an afternoon of expedient work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, we too will drift off for a short intermission.
Greg (Repot):in our absence, of expedient work, work, work, work, work, work, work work.
Kitsch (Chronicler):we too will drift off for a short intermission. In our absence, please take care of yourselves. Grab a snack, drink some water and have a little stretch. We will be back in 15 minutes and a timer will count us down. All right, and we are back after a brief intermission. Brief intermission. I just have to keep saying things so that they're true. We're having fun, right yeah?
Greg (Repot):We're having so much fun this time I don't have to make it up, all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So right before we went on intermission, we had a run-in with Dolia, who sent Zipper on a two-day trek to Legato Lake.
Dan (Zipper):I didn't do the math.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, Zipper, as you start to zoom off on your way out of town, it hits you.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, I got my lakes mixed up. I consulted my map and this will take me about two days to get there, so I should probably prep a little bit more and I'll just zoom it off. So I'll go back into town and get some things together.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I definitely did not talk about this during the break to clarify what was going on.
Dan (Zipper):I'm gonna make my legs mixed up to clarify you probably weren't there this morning no, no, I next to the other cafe.
Greg (Repot):Maybe that's from the other letters from Cafe to Cafe.
Greg (Repot):I don't read people's mail. I hate mail.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You don't read people's mail. Yeah, it's very good, it's just an advertisement, a targeted ad but yeah, we haven't established exactly where either the this cafe is or the junkyard, um, so I'm just gonna say that you are passing the junkyard as you turn around, realizing that you got your legs mixed up and probably we'll have to get ready before you leave town.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, and I did just give away my all-terrain wheels so I might need them back.
Greg (Repot):I'm wearing my normal speedy wheels.
Dan (Zipper):I need the old terrain wheels to really get the roads. Yeah.
Greg (Repot):On the road between towns.
Dan (Zipper):They're not as well kept as the roads here.
Kitsch (Chronicler):But we are going to stay in the cafe because Dahlia is going to continue sipping her drink and chatting with Dazzle for just a bit. Ah well, thank you for this Dazzle. I do hope that they'll be all right.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, I'm sure everything will turn out fine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, I say that because, like you've heard about what's happening up on the road right, I don't think I have. Oh well, there's been an obstruction, there's been some reports coming into town, something with the miasma, but unsure the what? Asthma, the miasma.
Ray (Dazzle):Yes, that was my way of asking. What is that?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, you know the collective consciousness of all of our emotions for all of the people of Prismatachrome. Of course I forgot, that's on me, yes, yes the miasma. You know all about the miasma. We live in this world and we all deal with it on a daily basis.
Ray (Dazzle):Yep, except for me. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my. What is it? My asthma doesn't it doesn't come off of me, it's.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I'm different Interesting. You should have that looked out at.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, I don't think I will. All right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Anyways, there's something up on the road, so I hope they're gonna be okay.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, they'll be fine. They're a jellyfish, but it is an important task.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I did send them on this mission, rightfully, you think.
Ray (Dazzle):I didn't just send them into danger of willy nilly for no reason. I mean, they've got off-roading gear, they could just go around it. Is that true?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I suppose so, although the g-tails of the obstruction are quite hazy. Not much news has been traveling this way as of late is no one checking it out. Well, you could.
Ray (Dazzle):That's funny, is it? No, it isn't.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh Well, this is a lovely conversation. How was your day Dazzle.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, it's going great. I met three people Wow.
Greg (Repot):Two of them weren't people.
Ray (Dazzle):Two, wait, what Well, I met Zipper. I guess we both met Zipper and then I met Gosh, and then they pull out the note in their boots and it says Repot, and my handwriting is so bad. Hold on Tinker. Yes, tinker, tinker. Have you met them?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, trinket, yes, yes, yes, yes. Trinket has lent me a screwdriver multiple times. Now it's been very handy to have them in town. Wow, how many screwdrivers do you need? Well, well, well, well, one is off to misplace their tools, as somebody as brilliant as me, of course.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, I can see that.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Anyways, you should stop in the shop sometime. I'm sure I could spin up some sort of contraption to make your cafe better.
Ray (Dazzle):Sure, I mean, I'm free the rest of the day. We could. Is there anyone else there?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, Gris, but she's in the back of the workshop.
Greg (Repot):Okay, yeah, kind of secluding herself.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Not sure, she really hasn't been talking much lately.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, that's okay. I do well with people that don't talk much, but if you would like to head over like after you've finished up your cup, I'm down as well.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Sure, you should grab Trinket and Repot on your way. I think they would love to see the workshop. I've been meaning to invite them over.
Ray (Dazzle):Well, they said something about going to the junkyard. I'm sure they're busy.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Perfect, you can grab them on your way.
Ray (Dazzle):How about I head over to your workshop and you meet up with them?
Kitsch (Chronicler):And she's like out the door, okay.
Dan (Zipper):You're being railroaded.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That's completely fair it's like that scene in an anime where you're having a conversation, having a conversation, the camera's panning, panning, panning, and then all of a sudden it pans over to just like the empty seat, and then over to the door, and then the bell rings as it closes behind them.
Ray (Dazzle):It's like in Pokemon, where they ask you a question that's yes or no, and either one leads you to the same answer.
Greg (Repot):Yes.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, so Dahlia has left your cafe.
Ray (Dazzle):All right, I grabbed my gloves and my like feathered traveling hat and put them on and I say Groke, you're in charge, make sure the others don't get up to anything not nefarious. But you know things that aren't good for business and I'm off.
Kitsch (Chronicler):They give you an assertive nod and then a salute.
Ray (Dazzle):Amazing.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well.
Ray (Dazzle):I'll see you tomorrow, bright and early, as always.
Greg (Repot):Mm-hmm.
Ray (Dazzle):And then I head off, making my way towards the junkyard.
Greg (Repot):All right, I'm grudgingly towards the junkyard. I'm grudgingly towards the junkyard.
Ray (Dazzle):And so the first person you will run into is zipper. Uh, outside the junkyard, yes, good, okay, because I'm not stepping foot inside the junkyard. That is disgusting. Um, oh, hey, how's it going?
Dan (Zipper):oh, mr squirrel, I'm looking for. Remember that, those two little robots or those, like you know, metal people that we met. I can't seem to find them. This trunk is kind of.
Ray (Dazzle):Why are you looking for them? I'm looking for them too, because I gave them.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, so I gave them the wrong wheels. I have the old ones, but I accidentally Gave them my all terrain wheels. They've got little. They've got little. What the heck. They've got little.
Ray (Dazzle):What the heck are they called?
Dan (Zipper):They've got treads. They do have treads on them so that I can grip the less secure ground better.
Ray (Dazzle):Ooh Dahlia told me to tell you something. Yeah what's that she wants to send you on a quest? When you're heading towards the lake, you have to be wary that there's a big cloud of miasma there.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, okay, do you know where on the road did?
Ray (Dazzle):you say, okay, I'll check with you. Yeah, I don't have a map?
Greg (Repot):oh okay, yeah well are you going in?
Ray (Dazzle):oh no, I'll stand out here. Thank you, but if you can grab them, she wants us to meet at her workshop, all four of us?
Dan (Zipper):oh okay sure, okay, sure me. And one of them, alright Zipper's just gonna roll through the junkyard jumping like, hopping over anything that's on the ground that might be in her way, just yelling for them. Re-pot, thank God.
Greg (Repot):I think the antenna on Re-pot, like suddenly does little jerking motions and tries to triangulate the sound.
Ray (Dazzle):Like a satellite dish.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, exactly, a little satellite dish basically goes, you know, to face the direction where the sound is coming from and it kind of, I think, it stops what it's doing in order to, and it says, oh please, stand by it, it, it. It doesn't drop what it's doing, it just like puts it down, like onto the ground and I think it begins making its way in the direction of where the sound was coming from. Uh, although, admittedly, the sound might be moving its position very quickly, quickly uh, so as it starts, making its way to where it last heard.
Greg (Repot):the thing like from behind Zipper ends up coming up Just because of how fast they change position.
Ray (Dazzle):Dazzle's kind of like rubbing their sinuses from the yelling that's going on.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Dazzle. Would you like to give yourself harmony?
Ray (Dazzle):Sure for what? For going out and meeting people.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, and then begrudgingly meeting them again.
Ray (Dazzle):Ugh. Yes, I will gladly give myself harmony.
Dan (Zipper):Thank you, Uh um, do I eventually find either Repot or uh Drink it?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean, yeah, there's nothing, this is not a challenge. Oh, that's fair. Yeah, I'm looking. Oh hi.
Dan (Zipper):Hey I never knew there was a house back here. You've never had mail delivered.
Doug (Trinket):Oh, not many people know I live in the junk.
Dan (Zipper):I don't think many people know you live at all, but hi, no, that's fair.
Doug (Trinket):Hi, what's going on, are you okay?
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, so I accidentally gave you the wrong wheels and she'll take out the other set of wheels. See how those have the little treads in them. I need those because I'm going out of town. You can have these ones. They're like worn down.
Doug (Trinket):They're like little nubs of wheels. At this point I have seven, but I think Reefbot has the other one.
Dan (Zipper):Reef Pot has the other one, oh, okay.
Doug (Trinket):Well, I'm going to need that back these ones that you just gave me. They have a lot of energy attached to them.
Dan (Zipper):Oh yeah, I wore them for those like six years, I'm pretty sure. And then when I started sparking, whenever I would hit metal I was like this is enough. I need to stop Fire hazard. Yeah, it's true. Also, I was just grinding my you know skate.
Greg (Repot):It's fine.
Dan (Zipper):So she'll like quickly. She just like pops them off. They're like not screwed on in any way. She just like pops off the old wheels and puts the new ones on and then tosses the other one in like her little bag. Yeah, so you. And then I don't know where Repot went, where's Repot Navigate?
Greg (Repot):Oh there, hi uh, every pot kind of makes its way around the corner. It's not moving very fast and repot does not move very fast at all, um, but it does kind of like sort of jerk its way over towards, uh, where everybody is. Is is congregated at this time, um, and it says greeting hi.
Dan (Zipper):So um the mr squirrel said that that you two and myself should go to um dahlia's workshop because you're like the new worker people builder, trinket construction people and that workshop says she makes inventions and whatnot, so she thought it would be cool to see him. Oh, and Mr Squirrel will be there.
Greg (Repot):So that'll be fun. Uh-oh, yeah, yeah, no, that'll be fun, uh-oh, yeah, no.
Kitsch (Chronicler):She gets conflicted about how to kill that, mr Squirrel.
Greg (Repot):Understandably.
Greg (Repot):I think Well, you haven't finished putting the last wheel on right. I think Reapod says correction and holds out the last.
Dan (Zipper):Oh yes, thank you, I forgot. She pops off and puts it on.
Greg (Repot):There we go. Well, Reapod is ready to go anywhere, but just not very quickly.
Dan (Zipper):That's fine by me Well.
Greg (Repot):I mean, that's not fine by me.
Dan (Zipper):I'll just wait once I get there. Well, I guess we're off.
Doug (Trinket):Zipper's there to wait once I get there.
Ray (Dazzle):Well, I guess we're off zippers.
Greg (Repot):They're like a pimp it's early, just waiting you zip by me.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, the breeze blows all right, and so then the three of you are reunited, repot, drinka and Dazzlebrite as you make your way over to Dahlia's workshop. You know where it's at. Everyone knows where everything is in this small town. So her workshop is quite a humble structure. Nothing too exciting about it. It is made of corrugated tin. It is kind of like a warehouse type of shape, so just big rectangle with the large windows up on the second floor, and as you push open the double set of corrugated metal doors, you enter a echoey space where there are rows of shelves and worktables, lots of strange contraptions hanging from the ceiling, in particular quite a few variations of vehicles with wings and propellers.
Greg (Repot):Repot is very interesting.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, Walls are covered in all sorts of tools and half-finished projects. There are lots of tarps thrown over various piles of things, boxes full of random metal parts. It resembles a lot of the Junkyard, just slightly more organized her eyes and she has a blowtorch that she is currently pressing to a chunk of metal already at work zipper gets really close to what she's doing and like looks at it really intently, oh ah a story, oh boy is there an?
Greg (Repot):after image on your vision for like the next five minutes.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, so you're like blinded by the light of the blowtorch, and she is startled. She jumps up, she turns the torch off immediately, throws her hood up and she goes. Oh wonderful, my dear. So wow, you are so quickly. I honestly was expecting you to take longer. I thought I would get more time in. Anyways, welcome to my shop. I'm glad that you were able to see it.
Dan (Zipper):Thank you for having us. So I'm going to say that Zipper actually closed her eyes to look at the welding. Welding, and because her entire body is translucent, it was like a little shield from the light so she could see through the translucence of her eyelids.
Doug (Trinket):It's like a welding mask.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, Well, shall I give you a tour.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, that'd be great. These are the other people Report Report Trinket.
Greg (Repot):And nice to see you again.
Doug (Trinket):These are the other people by the way, report Trinker Stuzzle.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Nice to see you again. Well, over here is my workstation and over there is a second workstation. These are shelves of various projects that I'm currently working on, just in various stages of completion. This one I'm currently working on are just in various stages of completion. This one I'm very proud of and she pulls out just like honestly, no one has any idea what this is. There's a lot of appendages kind of flopping around off of a base of something and she just kind of shakes it and you see all the appendages kind of flop around a bit and she puts it back on the shelf.
Ray (Dazzle):Zipper that one kind of looks like you.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, I know, it gives me the ick, I think Reapod also looks at it.
Doug (Trinket):It's also close to.
Greg (Repot):Reapod a little bit. I feel like I don't know. I think Reapod is not less ick about it, more interested. I think repot is trying to understand.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I think repot might be being like uh, query plans, oh no nothing of the sort um, it's all in here and she points at her head, just in the noggin, anyways, and up there are all of the flying contraptions. She lets out a sigh and just kind of looks at them a little longingly, kind of pauses. Well, anyways, that's the tour, uh.
Greg (Repot):Repot says status report Flying.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, yes, repot says status report flying. Well, yes, I can fly myself, but it's been a long-term passion of mine to grant the uh magic of flight to others as well.
Greg (Repot):Um, I think repot is like repot says processing. I think repot is definitely thinking about, thinking about how it would be so much easier if Repot could just fly places For sure.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I can't quite seem to get them to work, though they move glide.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, well, I can too, so yes, Huh, you can fly I suppose so Glide, oh, ah, yes, but Dazzle your cafe.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Tell me, what can we work on?
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, I thought you said you had something for me.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I have ideas.
Ray (Dazzle):yes, Um well, I could use a new dehydrating machine for the tea leaves.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Wonderful, yes, yes, yes, anything else.
Ray (Dazzle):Um, ooh, uh, do you know? You know those things that roll across the floor and they kind of like clean things up on their own? That would be nice. Ooh, a cleaning boat. Yes, I wouldn't want to put Butteroy out of a job, though, but I suppose it would clean up a lot of his messes.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And she's like furiously just jotting down on a piece of random piece of paper that she's pulled off of a piece of like just a shelf.
Ray (Dazzle):Now, dahlia, I do have to say I did ask if there was anyone else here and I think I did explicitly state that I didn't want to have to interact with others this evening.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, who's here what?
Dan (Zipper):But you invited us.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, Well, because I had to.
Dan (Zipper):But then wait, you seem like you just wanted to invite us. I didn't want to invite you. Well, I mean, like it's great seeing you. You seem like you just wanted to invite us. I didn't want to invite you. Well, I mean, like it's great seeing you. You're like again, remember, you got really cool clothes you got shinies and then you're like, you're just kind of really like fufier about you.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, I think you're great too.
Dan (Zipper):Thanks, I'll take a seven out of ten. You hear a bunch of clattering of metal.
Kitsch (Chronicler):As you see, dahlia is on the other side of a shelf just pulling a bunch of things together and she whips together. She has a curtain and a bunch of rods that she straps together and it kind of looks like one of those portable dressing rooms and she puts it around you Dazzle. Does that suffice?
Ray (Dazzle):Wait, hold on no.
Dan (Zipper):I'm gonna.
Ray (Dazzle):They can't see my splendor now, so that's also a problem.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, and she flings the curtains open.
Greg (Repot):Well.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I don't see what the problem is then. Okay, let's get on with it.
Dan (Zipper):I'm gonna give D'm gonna give dazzle a rapport, because you complimented me, you complimented me back, which I, which I was not expecting.
Greg (Repot):Thank you, love it I think repot has a request which I think repot says query charging charging.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That is an interesting suggestion.
Greg (Repot):I think if if repot is trying to figure out what is a pretty regular source of energy like. One option is solar panels that's kind of a very common one. One option is wind power, and if we're thinking about any person here who tends to be going around from place to place super, super fast, perhaps there would be some mechanism by which we could harness that energy.
Greg (Repot):Perhaps by utilizing some of the flying contraptions, or perhaps using some of the propellers from the flying contraptions on the ceiling in order to sort of reverse engineer some of that kind of energy and power and instead use it to charge it. I don't know what the status is of how common batteries are. I mean, I know in the city there's going to be plenty of infrastructure for robots. I feel like in a small town like Tyne, unless there's other robots here, probably not. But I do like the idea of like well, hold on, there's a whole bunch of propellers. We've got a person who moves around super fast. Wouldn't it be cool if we could have some kind of system by which we harness the energy that you're already kind of naturally using?
Dan (Zipper):to get around, and Dahlia did mention that she was going to think about making a vacuum robot which would need some kind of charge.
Ray (Dazzle):I imagine.
Dan (Zipper):Or magic. But, hey, maybe magic.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So Dahlia zooms over to you, reapot and grabs your leg hands.
Ray (Dazzle):The appendages.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Grabs two of them, she goes. Thank you, thank you my you, my dear, finally a challenge. I will get to work right away. And she, like, runs off and starts again clanking of metal. She starts pulling things apart, you see. She whips the helmet back down, pulls out the blow torch and she starts working again.
Ray (Dazzle):Um Dahlia.
Kitsch (Chronicler):She seems a little distracted.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm sure she called us all here for something. Oh yeah, didn't you want to Wait, I need to. Oh yeah, you want to wait, I need to make this delivery soon.
Dan (Zipper):You send right away. Why did you call First of all? Why did you call me here If you needed me to go somewhere?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Hello, as you start waving she like whips the mask back up, the torch goes off, she goes. What was that, my dear?
Dan (Zipper):You needed me to go make that delivery, but then you also asked me to be here, so I'm confused.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, right right. Sorry, my mind is a bit frazzled lately. Yes, yes, yes, yes, please make the delivery. Oh, but Dazzle had reminded me in our conversation earlier there might be a little slight complication. There's been an obstruction on the road, oh right right when on the?
Dan (Zipper):Do you know where on the road so I can plan for it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Just outside of town, I think.
Dan (Zipper):Just outside of town. Yes, nobody's done anything about it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, what is there to do? Just avoid it.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, I can avoid it. Okay, just not somewhere in town, which means I'll probably want to go south and then cut back up through Chorus to get to it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, chorus Actually. Oh, my goodness, thank you for mentioning it. I have something else that I'd like you to get at, chorus.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, okay, yeah.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And Largo, while you're at it, gosh, where is my head, lee, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me take out my map first.
Dan (Zipper):So if I can find my chorus and then I can go, oh Largo, honestly, the three of you should go with her.
Kitsch (Chronicler):This might be a bit larger of a task than I originally sized it to be.
Ray (Dazzle):I don't know if we're fast enough for that.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, I can. Well, my all-terrains aren't as fast as my.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I can lend you a wagon.
Dan (Zipper):A wagon? I've never been on a wagon before.
Doug (Trinket):No, you would be pulling us in the wagon.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, I don't know if I can do that.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, do you get purchased in the rollerblades?
Dan (Zipper):Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no oh well the pulling is going to work.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, well, okay, so this, hmm, I have been working on a secret project for the missions and I wanted to. I didn't want to tell anybody yet because we weren't finalized with the details, but that's what all of this is for. I need you to pick up a couple things. You're going to have to go to Chorus to purchase some cord it's special cord, not anything that I have here in my shop Then in Largo for fuel which could help me with your battery situation report. And then at La Caterpter lake you're going to meet Harold. He's been working on a piece for me, the main body. He's an artificer, so he does a lot of metal working a little bit more advanced than what I can do here at my shop. Um, yes, I think that's all the cord like repot.
Greg (Repot):When, when repot hears cord it, it reaches into, like it opens up a panel and it takes out, because repot kind of carries rope, yeah, on it at all times, basically. Uh, in fact it's using several bit pieces of it right now to hold parts of itself together. So it takes out like a cord and like branches it or offers it and says like give.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh dear, no, that will not do. It has to be a special cord. It has to withstand a great amount of force.
Greg (Repot):And Reapot puts it back into the thing.
Greg (Repot):I do appreciate your enthusiasm though Reapot puts it back into the thing.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I do appreciate your enthusiasm, though, Reapot. I'm sure we can put that to you somewhere.
Greg (Repot):If we go, we'll be slow.
Dan (Zipper):Basically, oh yeah, Well, I can't carry all those things at once, so I'm going to need something to help me out Better. I do like one to one to one, and that's just going to take way too long.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, hence the wagon, my dear. You can carry it all in the wagon. A simple invention. Not my own, of course.
Dan (Zipper):I've never driven a wagon before. Has anybody here driven a wagon before?
Greg (Repot):Repot raises an appendage. Has anybody here driven a wagon before Repot raises an appendage? Because, especially on a construction site, I think that Repot is definitely used to heavy loads, stuff that it can't just carry itself. It definitely has experience moving a wagon. I think Repot raises its appendage, it puts it down slightly and then again and again Because it's thinking about Because pulling a wagon is hard and it is going to. This is going to take a while, but it totally because pulling a wagon is hard, right, and it is gonna. This is gonna take a while, but it totally can pull a wagon 100. It can pull a wagon, but it's uh, it's definitely considering some complications that might arise from just like the. The repot is not very fast.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Basically, we can get things there, it'll just take a bit of time well, I'm sure that the Mechums would be able to lend you a horse. This is a favor for them, of course.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, okay, yeah, they're willing to lend us a horse?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean I get two horses. They're honestly quite desperate.
Dan (Zipper):to be honest, I just want to make sure the pace is fast enough for me. Just I don't want to be. Well, I will be circling the wagon if it comes to that, but that's fine.
Greg (Repot):We'll probably have to ask them about it I don't know if they have two horses.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I would actually prefer unicorns, if you have any, you have to talk to the Meekums.
Greg (Repot):All right, where's this wagon? Or I guess Reapot says Navigate Wagon she looks at you quizzicallyod says, uh, navigate wagon.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, she looks at you quizzically at first and she goes oh, ah, yes, right this way. And she will trail to the back of the warehouse where you see a smaller person with multicolored hair hunched over a drawing desk, just very, very distracted, drawing lots of very tedious straight lines across the page. Shh Very quiet now, but it is this way. And she continues on further into the very, very, very back of the warehouse where she pulls a tarp off of a wagon. Wagon, it's all yours for as long as you need.
Greg (Repot):I think Repop figures it Well. It's like is it, how do you pull it? Is it just like there's two sticks basically?
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's a horse-drawn wagon we're going to have to either.
Greg (Repot):We might want to get the horses first before we try and move this wagon, right? So I think RuPaul says acknowledge and then I don't know. We should probably figure out a way to actually get the horses here, I suppose.
Ray (Dazzle):Is it one with two wheels or four wheels, and does it have a tarp?
Kitsch (Chronicler):It has four wheels.
Greg (Repot):Okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And yes, it has a tarp. The covering you're asking, yeah, it has a covering, it's like a covered wagon. Yes, we're going to Oregon Trail this month we're going to Oregon Trail. This, yes, I would, if it were me anybody.
Doug (Trinket):Finding transportation is not the challenge here, cool oh, but before we leave, dahlia Trinket is gonna take the ring out of his pocket and kind of hold it up in the air and go. Dahlia, I feel like this belongs to you. Is this yours?
Kitsch (Chronicler):oh my goodness. Yes, thank you. Where did you find?
Doug (Trinket):this. It was in the amphitheater I was cleaning up after the show last night.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, dear me, I really don't know where oh, anyways, thank you. You came off your finger while you were clapping, oh yeah.
Greg (Repot):Sorry, the memory from the ring.
Doug (Trinket):I can see it a little bit Nice, that's cool.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And she takes it from you and she puts it on and you see that she's rubbing it a little bit and she kind of like her face kind of goes a little somber for a moment and she goes well. Anything else, uh, just do let me know. Um, but yes, the meekums will be able to help you with a horse, um all right, what kind of?
Greg (Repot):fuel? Do we know I I?
Dan (Zipper):uh repot says query fuel fuel Uh hay Hi. No, um, uh uh. What do you? What would you call it if not hay Hay Hi?
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, Um, I know what you're saying. Come on, you got it. You got it Okay.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, food for horses.
Doug (Trinket):Oh, fuel, got it Like grains, yes, okay, oh, got it.
Ray (Dazzle):Like grains.
Dan (Zipper):Yes, also known as Is that the kind of fuel we're trying to pick up.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh no it's a specialty fuel that is made only in Largo. It's a major city so they have lots of these newfangled technologies. I don't quite know what it is, just that it's for the machines there in the city.
Dan (Zipper):Got it, got it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Machine fuels.
Dan (Zipper):But we also need horse fuel Probably.
Greg (Repot):Most likely.
Dan (Zipper):All right off to the meekums Dahlia. One question.
Ray (Dazzle):Why do I have to go? I mean, I understand these are robots. They'll take care of the tech stuff, and then there's the delivery person, who, of course, their job is to deliver things. I already have a job and I'm quite fine here in time.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, I suppose you don't have to.
Dan (Zipper):Although it'd be very sad, it would be fun Okay.
Doug (Trinket):You could meet those five total people.
Ray (Dazzle):How do you know about this?
Doug (Trinket):You talk wildly.
Greg (Repot):You literally said it out loud while you were writing it down.
Ray (Dazzle):Alright, I'll go.
Dan (Zipper):I think we need a business person anyways to haggle. Awesome, I can do that.
Ray (Dazzle):That's one thing I can do. Actually, it's one of the many things I can do. You got my sword.
Dan (Zipper):And my skin and my skin there you go.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, goodbye now.
Dan (Zipper):Bye darling. What was the name of the people we're trying to see, the Mechums?
Greg (Repot):Mechums.
Dan (Zipper):If I just zip over to the Mechums and tell them our story, can I come back with horses?
Greg (Repot):Let's get us on the road.
Dan (Zipper):Let's get us on the road.
Kitsch (Chronicler):In theory. However, intentionally, the Mechums are going to have some information that's going to be important for the story.
Dan (Zipper):Cool, cool, cool, there we go.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes.
Dan (Zipper):Repot stumbling up the stairs, zipper roller dancing on the sidewalk outside of the Mechums waiting for y'all.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, and it's mostly because I want to give you information about the state of the Mechums. Sure, so as you arrive at the orchard, which is the the Mechams live and work. They have tented the orchard for generations you first run into Cleffa Repot. You remember Cleffa, she did your interview. Oh, cleffa, she did your interview. But as you arrive at the orchard, you do notice that Cleffa seems a little down, not her normal exuberant self. She sees you, picks herself up and then waves and she goes report. It's good to see you again. As if she's putting on a face greeting uh, who are all of your friends?
Greg (Repot):not friends I think repot doesn't. I think Repot's gonna let them introduce themselves. Honestly, Repot will point at Trinket first, probably.
Doug (Trinket):Hi, I'm Trinket. It's nice to meet you.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Nice to meet you, Trinket Cleffa.
Dan (Zipper):Uh, Zipper, you've seen me a couple times delivering your mail.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Ah yes, Zipper, nice to finally officially meet you. It's nice to meet you too.
Ray (Dazzle):Greetings, clef Amicum. The name's Dazzle, dazzle, bright B-R-I-T-E, and I run Supernova in town.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Ah, I've never been in. I'll try to pay you a visit.
Ray (Dazzle):I would appreciate that.
Kitsch (Chronicler):But nice to meet you. A visit, I would appreciate that. But nice to meet you, Dajal. What can I? Oh, the pleasure of this visit everyone.
Doug (Trinket):We're going on a trip.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, we are going on a trip for Dahlia. She said that we are going to. Well, we have to pick stuff up from other places. She wrote me letters to deliver to those places, so it's official. I'm not normally a non-pick-up person.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We're going to deliver a letter so we can pick stuff up. Yes, thank goodness, we've been waiting on that. Has she made any progress On the machine?
Dan (Zipper):She didn't say On the machine. She didn't say anything about the machine. I think we're picking up parts for the machine, though, and fuel.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh well, good, that sounds like she at least has a plan. Thank you for doing this. And what do you need from me? Oh right, we're here for horses, Ideally two.
Dan (Zipper):Horses yes, we're here for horses, Ideally too.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Horses? Yes, of course I can get you some horses, ideally unicorns.
Dan (Zipper):Oh yeah, they have horns that are great.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Sorry to disappoint. I haven't seen a unicorn in over a decade. Over a decade, yeah.
Ray (Dazzle):Disappointing. Yeah, they're plentiful from where I'm from.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, and where are?
Ray (Dazzle):you from. That's for me to know and for you to find out.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Perhaps I'm asking pleasant, I see. Anyways, just over this way and she is going to take you over to the horse's shed and she's going to start gearing up two horses, putting the bit in their mouth and getting them all brushed out. This one is Cherry and that one is Veronica Ash.
Ray (Dazzle):Veronica Ash.
Dan (Zipper):Are they your fastest horses?
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, but they are the best at these types of things. Also, the only two.
Dan (Zipper):How are the fastest ones not your best?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Don't worry about it.
Ray (Dazzle):Are they your prettiest horses?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, of course.
Ray (Dazzle):That's all we need.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Such strange questions.
Ray (Dazzle):It's important to make good impressions.
Dan (Zipper):Fast is not the best, what the hell.
Ray (Dazzle):Whoa, some of the man.
Dan (Zipper):Speed is unequal to torque. Huh, what I'm just petting my horses.
Greg (Repot):Huh what? I'm just petting my horse.
Greg (Repot):Basically, the point Repaw's trying to make is that a really high top speed doesn't necessarily equate to a greater carrying capacity.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, dan understands that, zipper does not.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, please do go quickly. I was desperate for this machine that Dahlia has been promising us for weeks.
Greg (Repot):Query machine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, a machine. It's supposed to help out at the altar. She says I'm not quite sure what she intends it to do, but she says it makes it more efficient and that is what we need these days.
Greg (Repot):Is there anything wrong with the orchard? If we take a look around at it, is there like I'm kind? Of curious what problem this machine is intended to solve and if that's like immediately visible.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, it looks like a really regular orchard, like nothing. There's no diseased trees or anything like that. It looks like a healthy orchard, lots of apples that are still kind of green because it's early in the season, in the middle of summer, but yeah, nothing immediately wrong.
Greg (Repot):So she's really looking forward to this machine, but doesn't know what it's going to do.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah.
Ray (Dazzle):Query.
Greg (Repot):Machine objective.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, honestly, I've kind of just let Dahlia run with it. She promised that she would make it better. Honestly, anything will help at this point.
Greg (Repot):Query.
Ray (Dazzle):It.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It what.
Greg (Repot):Make what better?
Kitsch (Chronicler):basically, oh the orchard. We're very behind on our quota and I've asked Dahlia for some assistance in that department. It seems that no matter what we do, we just can't keep up with demand. It's left us in a bit of a pickle.
Greg (Repot):Why are they growing this orchard, just like apples?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Just apples.
Ray (Dazzle):Just apples, yeah, just apples, yeah, apple orchard.
Greg (Repot):So there's a huge amount of demand they can't keep up with but why maybe picking too, many trees, not enough ham and many a customer
Kitsch (Chronicler):well, my nephews, they help out and um, that's been nice, but they still can't seem to keep up. Besides, they seem a little distracted anyways.
Greg (Repot):Distraction.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Distraction. Yes, I'm not sure with what, but just forget I mentioned it. Forget I mentioned it. It's probably nothing, it's probably just boys being boys and navigate nephews.
Greg (Repot):Oh well, mishka's probably out in the field about right now.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Nephews- oh well, mishka's probably out in the field about right now. You can find him out there, niko. On the other hand, he has a habit of disappearing.
Greg (Repot):Interesting. Do we want to go talk to Niko?
Kitsch (Chronicler):What's the first?
Ray (Dazzle):one, yesico and mishka, cherry and veronica there we go, and they're the nephews.
Greg (Repot):There we go. Just had to write it down, I want to know a little more uh, which field? But the orchard isn't a field, right, right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean, it's just that, orchard, that she's calling it a field.
Greg (Repot):Okay, gotcha.
Ray (Dazzle):If you want to go speak with them, I can walk the horses back to the wagon.
Greg (Repot):Oh yeah, we do need to get that picked up yes affirmative, I think.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, so I'll go do that. Can I go with you with the horses?
Doug (Trinket):I'm going to go with the horses.
Ray (Dazzle):Wouldn't you enjoy a lovely conversation with your best pal Reapot? I just told you what I would enjoy, oh right.
Doug (Trinket):You're stuck with me, we will be friends.
Greg (Repot):With a threatening tone. We will be friends with a threatening tone we will be friends.
Ray (Dazzle):It would be a delight to have you along.
Greg (Repot):I think Repot goes to try and find Nico in the field, because I think Repot is very curious about this machine that's being built and has no idea what it does and nobody's like given it a straight answer yet yeah, about what the problem it's trying to solve even is, and we're about to go on like a three-day expedition someplace to pick up parts from machine and repot is a construction by like he wants to know what.
Greg (Repot):He wants to know what the machine is yeah and so it's trying to find out a little bit more about what problem is this machine supposed to solve? It kind of sounds like, is it like an apple picker? Like what does it actually do? But I think maybe it's just it wants to go and find out more, and it seems that there's not going to be a lot of answers from the meekum we're talking to. What's the person we're talking to's name? Cleffa? Cleffa, that's right.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, so this is Cleffa.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um. So as you leave Cleffa's presence, you see that she does go back to working. Um, she had been like, um, maybe mixing a fertilizer, um, so she goes back to mixing a fertilizer. She's like putting water into buckets, loading them up into a cart, just doing a lot of physical labor, and you just see that she's like struggling a little bit and she seems a little bit more sluggish than the last time you saw her right um, query assistance, I think before, before we go to to to to talk with nico.
Greg (Repot):Uh, I think repot maybe sticks, sticks around just a little bit as it notices this happening Like a lot of physical labor and stuff. I think to some extent it feels like what's missing is just labor, just people to do jobs. It's possible that they're just missing people. I don't know what that's about, but I think the repot is thinking you know?
Kitsch (Chronicler):query team oh no, my dear, I'll worry about this. Honestly, just the sooner you get back with those parts for Dahlia, the sooner everything will be right as rain.
Greg (Repot):Okay, I think, then repot just accepts other shooter, where everything will be righteous rain.
Greg (Repot):Okay, I think then Repot just accepts that and just goes to try and talk to Nico, I suppose in the field, if at all possible, just to see what's happening. What is the problem? Yes, it does look like manual labor is the problem, but I'm curious.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, and what is Zipper doing?
Dan (Zipper):zipper is jungle trying to juggle apples.
Kitsch (Chronicler):She got distracted all right, so just repot is going off into the apple orchard searching for hand responses um, all right. So, and because I forgot to establish this, is a family of orcs. So, Cleffa is a large orcish woman, very muscly, very tall, and her nephew is the same.
Kitsch (Chronicler):He is a very muscular man who wears a leather vest that is open chested. He has a necklace with an amulet that hangs down from it. He has a dangly earring and long black hair that is kind of like greased back with his sweat as the warm sun hits his green skin. You see that he is up on a ladder pruning one of the trees. He has clippers in hands and he's cutting things off of the tree.
Doug (Trinket):Daddy, daddy.
Greg (Repot):All right, nephew daddy, he is an adult, he is an adult.
Kitsch (Chronicler):He is an adult um. This is not a child, nephew. This is an adult that's what I assumed, okay, cleffa is, uh, probably in her um late 50s, so she is an older woman um, and these are her nephews, so they're're probably in their like late 20s, early 30s.
Greg (Repot):I think as Reapot kind of approaches, reapot says greeting um to try and get the attention of Mika.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh golly, uh, good to see you down there. Hi, nice you.
Greg (Repot):My name is mishka uh, and I think repot says query assistance oh, no, no, I'm fine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What can I help you with?
Greg (Repot):and I think repot is trying to figure out a way to ask like, why is it? Like, why is there less people to do labor? Um, I guess maybe I should just say calculating labor. Query deficient.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, yeah, I suppose more bodies in the field would be great, but uh, I mean, it's always just been a family business. Um, who are you?
Greg (Repot):Designation Repair Bot 057. Repot.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Nice to meet you. Repot Objective.
Greg (Repot):Retrieve parts for machine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Ah yes, udalia finally got somebody to go pick up those parts. That is great to hear. Query Machine objective oh, my understanding is something that picks the apples better and fertilizes better and does things just quick. It's just an automated system. I don't know. Adalia's been a little hazy on the details. Honestly, I think Grace is still working on some of the fine-tuning.
Greg (Repot):Acknowledge Um, and I think Repot like okay, I finally got it. It's like, this is what it does.
Greg (Repot):Yeah.
Greg (Repot):Um, and I think Repot, uh, I gotta have a better way to say thank you than acknowledge. I think I'm just gonna start saying thank you. No, I like acknowledge Okay, and I think that that if that's what it is, then I think Repots satisfied with understanding so it's just a way to reduce labor, I suppose, but doesn't feel like that's entirely what Cleffa's deal is. It feels like they lost someone recently. That's my intuition, but that's separate from Repot's thought process, I think. I guess. Query Mishka.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, mishka's my brother. You should be around here somewhere right? Although I haven't seen him in a while.
Greg (Repot):Huh.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah he's Query Mishka Status report huh, yeah, query Mishka. Status report honestly don't know where that accent came from honestly, honestly well. I hope he does show up. He has been. He's been supposed to be helping me this afternoon. Well, anyways, can I help you with anything else? Negative?
Greg (Repot):I think Repot understands from this that it probably would be a good idea to try and find Mishka. If their problem is lack of manpower or, I guess, person power, I suppose, cause it's an orc power, I should probably say um, but I get, and you know what. One last thing is like. Okay, so I think I get the understanding that nobody knows where Mishka is. Is there I want?
Kitsch (Chronicler):to.
Greg (Repot):I want to ask if there's a place he likes to go, and I think I'm going to say query Mishka favorite location. I think the repot's voice, whenever repot doesn't have the ability to say something with canned responses, it starts using its own voice box, which is a little bit glitchy and it stutters a little bit. Um, but whenever there's like when it fails to find words, basically it ends up does it does use the voice box, but because the voice box is glitching out, it prefers to just stick to canned responses. But I think in times where it's like really trying to figure out something that might be difficult to articulate using just construction terms, it will just kind of dip into the like.
Greg (Repot):Mishka.
Greg (Repot):Favorite, favorite location.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Don't you worry about it, I'll find him later.
Greg (Repot):Affirmative, and then I think Ripa just starts going back to see what. Just maybe keep looking at what cleffa is doing. It probably waiting for the horses to come back. Every pot probably wouldn't have been good to ride the horses, honestly. Anyways, it's just based on uh, it's, it's body shape and stuff so I think it's just gonna sit and wait. Maybe it'll watch cleffa, uh, as she works, just to see if it can analyze like any way that it can theoretically help, despite the fact that the help has been refused several times.
Greg (Repot):I think it's still it's analyzing is what it's doing.
Kitsch (Chronicler):As you were leaving, Nico, he just goes nice to meet you. Hurry back soon, why don't you? And as you make your way over to cleffa, you see that she's still doing work. She's filling buckets, she puts them in the cart. You see that she starts dragging the cart with a donkey alongside the rows of trees down the orchard and she starts taking like a cup and dumping the fertilizer at the base of each of the trees. And she starts taking a cup and dumping the fertilizer at the base of each of the trees. And she's just going about it. But horse makes it to wagon. So who was on the horse?
Doug (Trinket):It was me and Dazzle.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, so Dazzle and Trinket.
Greg (Repot):We had a conversation all the way, I'm sure, yeah, it was me and Dazzle yes, it's a Dazzle and Jinket. We had a riveting conversation all the way, I'm sure, yeah, it was so good.
Doug (Trinket):Well, I was playing my harmonica actually.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, okay, that's good. That means I don't have to talk.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, we're just hanging.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, we're just hanging, I will say I wasn't riding the horses.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Don't want to get any horse hairs on me, I'll walk alongside it. Yes, all right on their lead and yeah, cool, um, so you're able to go. Get the horses hooked up to the wagon, get everything situated um. After talking with dahlia a little bit, you can um get the wagon all outfitted for the trip. No problems there, besides just Dahlia being her normal, just frantic, distracted self. Nothing out of the ordinary there, and you're able to outfit the wagon and get it ready to go. Great.
Ray (Dazzle):Alright.
Doug (Trinket):I guess, is there anything you need to grab before we make our journey? I know that you probably have a bit more than I do.
Ray (Dazzle):Well, I still haven't gotten my tea, which is a bit disconcerting.
Greg (Repot):Oh my gosh the tea.
Doug (Trinket):That rat is going to be so fine.
Ray (Dazzle):But other than that, I guess I'm fine.
Doug (Trinket):Okay, just wanted to make sure that I was, you know, keeping your needs in mind, right.
Ray (Dazzle):All right, so are you going to sit up front on the horse? What does it look like? I don't think you're going to sit on the horse? Oh, probably just in the wagon All right, me too, I guess, do you know?
Dan (Zipper):how to drive a wagon.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, no Well.
Doug (Trinket):I guess I could give it a shot, oh boy.
Greg (Repot):Roll to not crash.
Dan (Zipper):Do I have?
Doug (Trinket):anything that can help with this.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Y'all are just gonna move a wagon.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm not gonna make this.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What a boring game this would be if I made you sit there trying to make the wagon move so that you could do the adventure that I set you on.
Doug (Trinket):Oh my gosh, no you fail, the wagon loses a wheel.
Ray (Dazzle):One of the horses runs away.
Kitsch (Chronicler):There are more interesting things that are about to happen. All right, let's go pick up Reapot and I guess Zipper, who's been what? This whole time Juggling, juggling apples, just fucking around.
Dan (Zipper):I feel, like by now Zipper is nailing it. Yeah, right, oh yeah.
Greg (Repot):I'm doing like, I'm doing like, I'm like skating in circles while juggling, you're constantly like adding apples, yeah, sometimes catching them with my tentacles as opposed to my arms oh fair nice it's a good hand-eye coordination training. Honestly probably I might come in handy later.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You never know yeah, yes so gosh, this is something that I forgot to mention, but we're currently in what's called the oh my gosh, what is the word? Oh, it doesn't matter, we're just getting prepared. That's the preparation we're doing. Preparation it's termed in this game, but I don't need to explain it right now. We know what preparation is. So if there's anything else that y'all would like to make sure we establish that you are preparing for this expedition that you are about to go on, which will be Act 3, expedition, now is the time to do it. So, if there's any tools, materials, things that you want to make sure that, uh, we establish are brought with you, or if there's any sort of additional conversations that you want to have, or, um, things that you want to make sure are put in order before you leave, I think repot would want to stop by the junkyard and grab what could be used as an extra spare tire, basically like a spare wheel, I think.
Greg (Repot):I think that that would be easier than having to fashion one on the road maybe, maybe two even if yeah if repot can find a second one. I think that would be something that repod would definitely want to make sure is is some. Stop by the junkyard and get some. Basically analyze the cart and be like, well, that's the most likely thing to break and see if it can find some suitable replacement just in case to bring with us on the landing.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Cool.
Ray (Dazzle):I hand off a little written note to Zipper and I ask them to pass it to Groke and on the note it just says you're in charge. Be back soon On it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Two minutes later zipper returns.
Dan (Zipper):I'll say I grabbed some food and water from the cafe.
Kitsch (Chronicler):With a cup of tea.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, with a cup of tea, there we go.
Ray (Dazzle):Groke was also told earlier today to give you a free drink when you walked in when she saw you.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, I didn't order anything, that's all right. Okay, thanks, though I get rapport for remembering the tea, the tea is cold.
Greg (Repot):Boo.
Ray (Dazzle):Butteroy, butteroy.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, cool. Anything else that you want to do before you set off on your expedition?
Dan (Zipper):Nah, let's do it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Cool, any last minute rapport or harmony that you forgot to reward each other.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I still feel like the tea should build rapport with Butter Roy well then, no, alright well, so I'm not actually going to get into the expedition today. This is a really great place for us to just put a pause on things before we move into the next phase, because the expedition is where the real gameplay begins. This is where all of the challenges are going to happen. You're going to have to solve puzzles and figure stuff out and fight things. Whoa, you have assembled the fellowship Somehow. We have a sword, tea, some skates some wheels and your music oh yeah, the harmonica yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, thank you.
Greg (Repot):There we go.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, yeah, so we basically just made it through the overture today Woo and yeah, that's the overture today. Woo and yeah, that's the game so far. So, that being said, we are going to be back next week to continue this adventure on Sunday, same time, same place, and I am going to definitely do my outro. Uh, I have a lot of paper, y'all Alright, as we are, uh, drifting off today. We will see you next week, Unless it's a holiday, which it's not so thank you for being our neighbor today. I also see you next week, unless it's a holiday, which it's not so. Thank you for being our neighbor today. I also want to thank our writers who have kept me going and have made this possible Jacqueline Lewis, writer and parent. You can follow them on Instagram at Wrangler of Chaos all one word. And they also are the writer of a book, a wonderful book called Rolling with the Youth, which you can buy on itchio. I highly recommend it.
Greg (Repot):Sounds like something Zipper would write.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We also have John, or Pax, crum, who is a writer, crisis intervention trained and medically retired, police veteran, game designer and historical fencer. Just to give him a quick little shout out, he'll be GMing Swords and Runes at Key City Steampunk in Gettysburg, pennsylvania, on August 8th through 10th. I would also like to thank our composers, who we will be presenting some really fun music next session, as well as the theme song you heard at the beginning. They are here to help me realize my vision and immerse us in this story. So Ray, who is also a player, is a pianist, composer and professional gm. You can find them on all streaming platforms at ray d, and that is spelled out, d, e, e, 99.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Also my brother steven, who is a musician, vocalist and sound. He is the producer of Lusk L-U-S-K-U, which is a chill electronic vapor, soul art. Uh. And then our Patreon subscribers who literally keep the lights on Um, y'all are helping me pay my bills. Uh, we have JCH, chris B, maggie Z, russell B, missy G and Dan S. And lastly, I want to thank our players, who get to have fun and invite us into their worlds. Ray, anything else you want to plug while we're at it? Nope.
Ray (Dazzle):Cool Doug Hi. Thank you guys for coming and we're at it, nope, cool.
Doug (Trinket):Doug Hi. Thank you guys for coming and hanging out with us.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Dan, hi, nothing to plug, and Greg.
Greg (Repot):Hello, if I had to plug anything, it would be the Dance Interactive VR album Rave Gazebo.
Greg (Repot):You flail your arms around and music is remixed in real time.
Greg (Repot):It's fun. Yay, yay, you flail your arms around and music is remixed in real time. It's fun.
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Dan (Zipper):Thank you.
