Naruto D&D The Silent Tides #18: Night's Watch

Camped out in the Forest of Fire, Team 18 rotate night shifts taking watch over the caravan. Something stirs in the woods...

Transcript

SPEAKER_14 0:15

Welcome to session 18 of the Silent Tide Shinobi D. Ooh! And the DM, as always, Cody, joined by Team 18 on our session 18. Our gifted guinea.

SPEAKER_03 0:28

Oh, we went back. Angel playing harai, he guessed.

SPEAKER_15 0:31

Greg playing Kai-Sei Kaigliari.

SPEAKER_07 0:34

And Jess playing Percy Hoshigaki. Alright, it sounded like you stumbled over your name there for a second.

SPEAKER_15 0:40

Just a little bit. And you, one of the albums. It's because I I slightly had to cough, but then I was like, oh, not in the middle. Oh, talking.

SPEAKER_14 0:53

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 0:56

Yes, and the recap is. Last episode, session 17, we were walking along the road with the caravan through the land of fire.

SPEAKER_12 1:10

Correct.

SPEAKER_03 1:12

Um pretty ominous name for a forest. Right.

unknown 1:16

Right.

SPEAKER_14 1:17

The forest of fire. Yeah, for the fire.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

Yeah, that is not good. We created a fire fire. We were attacked by the something of the sea. Hands of the sea. We were attacked by a Bert or Expert Note taker. By the hands of the Sea. Um and a bunch of stuff had happened. And we left off where you were the recap today.

SPEAKER_05 1:43

A bunch of stuff happened. Now we're weird.

SPEAKER_03 1:48

The episode started. Segma and Korokite had chased Pojimara off. So we were stuck there with his crocodile summoning two hit. The hands of the sea were attacking the caravan. And we had Team Four trying to fight them while we were trying to decide uh do we, you know.

SPEAKER_14 2:13

Trying to remain anonymous for your mission.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Exactly. So it was a bit of a conundrum. Did any of us break? I don't remember if we did.

SPEAKER_14 2:21

No, y'all did very well. The only ones who did jutsu was Kai. But he did ocular with his eyes and he was facing away from the caravan. Right. So another important detail the entire caravan swashed down the trail from like a giant mud river Dutu. Yes. From the car.

SPEAKER_03 2:35

So the caravan that gave us kind of the cover that we for yeah for Kaisei to be able to use. I think he did an in plot for one of the heads of the crocs.

SPEAKER_07 2:45

Yes. He was not a happy camper.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

Yeah. Team Four plus Team Camps.

SPEAKER_07 2:51

I mean, he wasn't to begin with.

SPEAKER_03 2:52

Yeah. Team Four plus the Shinobi Cats took care of all the hands of the sea members. And Harai got a croc summoning contract. Yeah. Also, uh Kojimara came back disguised as Sekuma. But Kaisei saw right through it. Excellent perception. Yeah. Right. Saw right through it. Um, unfortunately, Kojimara did get away with the kid Dobu-to.

SPEAKER_13 3:25

Correct.

SPEAKER_03 3:25

With the kid Dobu-to. Um, and we were unable to catch up to them. Thankfully, Sekima and Korokite were okay and they came out of the woods shortly after that. Did we end there?

SPEAKER_14 3:37

That is exactly where we ended.

SPEAKER_03 3:38

Perfect. You did so great.

SPEAKER_14 3:40

Sekuma and Korokite, or well, mostly Sekuma relayed that. As per the mission, they need to like continue with caravan. They can't really waste resources chasing right now. Right. And they also don't necessarily have the manpower. And Kojimara would take a lot of things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 3:56

I gotta say, wasn't he already like 150 meters away by the time they got back to us? Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 4:03

It was like 500 feet. Oh, sorry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 4:06

Didn't mean to downplay it, sorry.

SPEAKER_14 4:08

In kilometers, it was actually. So yeah, Sakimon Korokite just returned to the caravan. Caravan is in shambles. Right, right. And pretty much the they both regroup with you guys. Maybe there's a little bit of a pow wow. All the Shinobi and three concerned citizens.

SPEAKER_07 4:32

Um three concerned citizens.

SPEAKER_14 4:35

Because all are undercover. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 4:38

I was like, who's the concerned citizen?

SPEAKER_18 4:41

Yeah. I already was like kind of going to go. Oh gosh. Forgetting your cover, huh? Yes. Already.

SPEAKER_14 4:48

Korokite is kind of looking around noticing the damage done of the caravan. And he will call out kind of to everyone downstream. We're calling a halt to the caravan. We need to break here to make repairs. Try to get things up and running.

SPEAKER_03 5:05

Question real quick. Sorry. Is Sekima undercover with us and Korokite is not?

SPEAKER_14 5:10

Uh Sekima was supposed to be undercover with you guys.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

I'm actually going to make it roll to see how anyone broke undercover. That is, it was her. I mean That is true.

SPEAKER_14 5:24

I'm noticing this is for perception.

SPEAKER_07 5:28

Hi Viper.

SPEAKER_14 5:30

I'm going to say no.

SPEAKER_07 5:32

No one notices?

SPEAKER_14 5:33

No, because the fireworks were the firework cart was kind of in the screen. If anything, she ran off.

SPEAKER_07 5:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 5:40

She was so terrified.

SPEAKER_07 5:41

All she did was one. Two. Like that's what she did. She's just an angry mother.

SPEAKER_06 5:46

Like, you know.

SPEAKER_14 5:48

Yeah, so all of your um shinobi identities are intact.

SPEAKER_08 5:53

Got it, got it.

SPEAKER_14 5:55

Sekima will look to the three of you and go, team, I think we should gather some wood, gather some lumber to try to help the repair efforts.

SPEAKER_07 6:06

Okay. So, like, is the plan right now to just kind of make camp where we are, essentially?

SPEAKER_14 6:13

Not necessarily camp because it's it's like mid to late day. Okay. But yeah, you kind of have to stop in place to make repairs. Okay. Yeah. Um, after this, you are seeing the more handy people come out and they're starting to try to ramshackle back together the caravan.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

Okay. I'm just a 13-year-old girl, you know? What do I know about woodworking?

SPEAKER_18 6:39

Really followed on that other thing. I don't want to seem too good now.

SPEAKER_13 6:44

No.

SPEAKER_18 6:46

It's like, wow, she's really cool under pressure. Might need to ask a civilian for help. I need emotional support right now.

SPEAKER_14 6:55

Very scary. The team four, they do like start setting out to gather some wood nearby. You're seeing um Maki's just, you know, one slash from the katana, clearing down trees.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

Right. See, that would be suspicious if it were us. If we were trying to be undercover.

SPEAKER_14 7:16

But Sekima's like walking over, she's like trying to get some procurement some like axes or handy tools that you know a wooden caravan would have in case of disaster like this.

SPEAKER_07 7:27

So do any of the civilians look injured or need a metaphor? I'll go and assist that way.

SPEAKER_14 7:35

Okay, I'm gonna see how many people were injured. Only six people were injured. Okay. Out of that. Six out of six people were injured. There is a casualty. From the flowing and stuff, the the splintering of wood of the carts, there was grandma. Someone who was crying. Yeah, there was one casualty. Not Mirin.

SPEAKER_07 7:59

Do we get a story of who it was?

SPEAKER_14 8:02

Or you guys are kind of clearing through the wreckage, and you do see an elderly man who was part of the fireworks party. Before unfortunately being crushed. And Korokite, upon noticing the casualty, will kind of head out into a deeper spot in the forest and start digging a grave.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

Alright.

SPEAKER_14 8:43

Is anyone helping with the repair efforts? I can probably easily acquire some hand axes. Uh-huh. That was a nasty phrase.

SPEAKER_18 8:55

No, I just feel like you were quieter than Viper.

SPEAKER_11 8:58

Okay, yeah, true.

SPEAKER_07 8:59

So Kaise is helping for King. Uh I'll help the other uh injured people who are alive still.

SPEAKER_14 9:06

Okay, I want some roles. Kaise, give me a strength check. See how well you're clearing these trees down.

SPEAKER_13 9:13

Twelve plus four.

SPEAKER_14 9:16

Oh yeah. Yeah, you can't clear my trees. Not as effortlessly as Locky. It's a very easier. It's a common. It's not, you know, a finely tuned weapon of destruction.

SPEAKER_13 9:30

I can't look at it.

SPEAKER_14 9:31

Give me um who would assisting be? Intelligence? Well, how are you helping? You're just trying to like do medicine with people and stuff like that?

SPEAKER_07 9:42

No, no, no. Like what I would assume like scrapes, like those types of wrappings. Yeah, because I I can't. Oh yes, I am I know medical jutsu kind of.

SPEAKER_15 9:53

I mean you do have medicine.

SPEAKER_14 9:54

Yeah, roll a medicine check.

unknown 9:56

Weird.

SPEAKER_07 9:57

I think that's wisdom.

SPEAKER_15 9:58

Wisdom. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 9:59

You had to say the one that I'm negative in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 10:02

Yes, you shouldn't be helping.

SPEAKER_03 10:05

Minus one.

SPEAKER_13 10:06

Oh man, those poor people.

SPEAKER_05 10:07

She is minus one. So it's a dirty one. It's a dirty one. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so sorry. I tried it off. You're like just poking at it, L.

SPEAKER_14 10:18

You go over and you like bang to wrap someone and you're like cutting off circulation. And then they like, you know, they're like, oh thanks. And they're like cutting it off.

SPEAKER_16 10:34

You're doing great. You're doing great.

SPEAKER_06 10:37

I would like to imagine that it's like I start doing it, and I'm like, oh wait, and then I just, oh yes!

SPEAKER_14 10:44

Uh is Hariah up to do anything? Can I go and you are so lousy here?

SPEAKER_05 10:50

Haraya's taking a nap.

SPEAKER_14 10:51

She's really enjoying the undercover mission.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

I was gonna say, can I go hide behind a tree and read my scroll?

SPEAKER_14 11:02

Stealth check from Sakima. Oh she's not actively looking for you. Well, see how long this lasts. It should be dexterity.

SPEAKER_11 11:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 11:17

First roll of her new diamonds from Christmas. Three. Plus one. Oh, wait, plus two? Yeah, five. Yeah, so you begin hiding.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

Hey, it's not hiding.

SPEAKER_14 11:31

You just said hide behind a bush and read my scrolls.

SPEAKER_03 11:34

No, I said tree. Can I go hide behind a tree and read my scrolls? I said tree, which we're supposed to be, we're supposed to be, you know. But not hiding behind me.

SPEAKER_14 12:00

Like the skinniest tree ever, and you're like, you men notices the way when she hands you the axe. That you just kind of like lazy arm drop in, start walking very slowly into the forest. And she notices within five minutes. And she comes over to you.

SPEAKER_11 12:18

Oh.

SPEAKER_14 12:21

You don't need to make it seem like you're abnormally strong, but you can help out. Any civilian can chop a tree down.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

She starts counting again.

SPEAKER_14 12:40

Is that what you say to Sakama?

SPEAKER_03 12:42

No.

SPEAKER_05 12:44

That was a chal.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

A chaw moment. Uh herai is just gonna say, yes, ma'am. And I'm just gonna I'll get up and I'll take the axe and I'll just kind of give me a disadvantage strength check. I'm not I'm not giving it my all. That's why it's disadvantaged.

SPEAKER_14 13:06

You're not, it's you can this is like a check you can choose to fail. Like you're just 19.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

I could have used that before. You really could have used that before. 14. What is it? Wait, what is it? Strength?

SPEAKER_14 13:19

Yeah, but you're you're still okay. So you can still like choose to fail if you wish, if you're trying to make a point.

SPEAKER_03 13:26

Oh, I see.

SPEAKER_13 13:30

I just yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:33

I'll just give it average.

SPEAKER_13 13:35

Average?

SPEAKER_03 13:36

I mean, how much would they really expect out of an average 13-year-old card?

SPEAKER_07 13:41

I mean, in this universe, the 13-year-olds are kind of crazy. The shinobis, but yeah.

SPEAKER_14 13:46

I mean, even the regular children are still kind of Yeah, you you take your time to cut down one tree, making it look, you know.

SPEAKER_07 13:54

I like to imagine. I like to imagine that you and Loki like get eye contact and you're just like Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

I do a little fake forehead swipe.

SPEAKER_14 14:05

Yeah. Well maybe it is a real forehead swipe because you don't have your headband on with this sweat. Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 14:11

Stop collecting the sweat. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

No, I meant actually swipe it.

SPEAKER_14 14:15

Yeah. You're not, yeah. Harias, you're not breaking the sweat. Yeah. So a few hours pass as the caravan is getting repaired and back on track. And you guys begin to head out. But the sun is starting to set. Okay, the caravan does move along for a few more hours before the darkness overtakes the day in the night time. And Korokite calls out again. Alright, stop! We're camping here for the night. We should reach the leaf in the early hours of tomorrow. So find a spot somewhere off the road. We'll start pitching tennis. And that's actually nice to meet. Um, yeah, so you guys will have time here whether you guys are gonna use anything with it or just rest. But the caravan is starting to set up like, you know, 20 feet off the road just to clear the path and um sleep for the night.

SPEAKER_15 15:14

Is this a long rest or a short rest?

SPEAKER_14 15:15

This is going to be for a long rest. And team four starts talking about like taking shifts and stuff, and Sekuma will come over to team 18 and be like, look, I I know we're not shinobis on this mission, but it might be advised that we also take a watch. Just one of us at a time. I'll do it.

SPEAKER_08 15:43

Teachers.

SPEAKER_14 15:46

You'll have the first two hours.

SPEAKER_13 15:48

There's a reason I'm rich.

SPEAKER_14 15:51

Hold on, let me do the math. You'll have the first two hours from 10 to 12. The rest of us will get some sleep. Try to blend in. Should be at the leaf tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_17 16:02

So it's 10 already?

SPEAKER_14 16:03

10 p.m. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_17 16:04

Oh you said we had some van time.

SPEAKER_14 16:06

Well yeah, yeah, but no, you have time at night. Okay, but they're maybe starting to set up around 9, so you maybe have like an hour.

SPEAKER_07 16:13

Ooh. Okay. Uh, can I look for ingredients?

SPEAKER_14 16:18

You can, and I just finished them in the car. These are a different list because you're in a different place. Um, yeah, so the caravans are starting to set up their tents and stuff, and Percy goes out to look for ingredients. Give me a nature check.

SPEAKER_10 16:35

15 plus you.

SPEAKER_14 16:37

Easily. Alright, roll me a D10. See what ingredient you get.

SPEAKER_18 16:41

That's a double triangle? This one, right?

SPEAKER_14 16:44

Yeah, double triangle.

SPEAKER_18 16:45

That's a double triangle. That's not a double triangle. Five.

unknown 16:48

A five.

SPEAKER_14 16:50

So as Percy is going out and looking into the forest of fire, you see a nice oak tree with like oozing out the side of it like a very easy tap of natural tree syrup.

SPEAKER_06 17:04

Coming out.

SPEAKER_14 17:05

And you can easily collect a two-star ingredient of natural organic tree syrup.

SPEAKER_05 17:12

Are you making us pancakes in the morning? Tree syrup.

SPEAKER_14 17:17

Syrup. It's a psyop, actually. It's poisonous.

SPEAKER_07 17:21

It's poisonous. You're like, hey guys, look. They're just like, it's in my hands. Like I didn't grab a vial or anything.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

Go to the I would just like to study my Hugo scrolls.

SPEAKER_14 17:35

Um, is there anything in particular you're looking for?

SPEAKER_03 17:38

Yes, I want to study um history.

SPEAKER_14 17:43

Okay. Hugo history?

SPEAKER_03 17:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 17:45

Um, yeah. How much has I looked into this? Like, is are you gonna get some basic stuff or are you trying to look like deeper?

SPEAKER_03 17:53

No, I think I know the basic stuff. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 17:56

Give me an intelligence check.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

I'm waiting for intelligence checks. It's like my highest thing, and I never get to roll one.

SPEAKER_05 18:07

Today's day.

SPEAKER_14 18:10

A four.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

Plus five.

SPEAKER_14 18:13

Yeah, the imagine if I had gotten like a 13 Hugo. Um doesn't have much history on there. It's a lot of more advanced techniques um into the Hugo. But um, some of the some of the techniques and forms they're using just remind you of the overall themes of you know, the main branch and like kind of how it flows like a tree. The main branch, side branch. You get in vibes with that. What is Kaise up to?

SPEAKER_16 18:43

I want to look into my book.

SPEAKER_13 18:46

I'm so surprised you didn't say fishing. Well, I didn't I didn't think there was a forest, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

He's on first.

SPEAKER_13 18:55

You know, we'll we'll take a second. We'll read the book. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Oh, responsible.

SPEAKER_14 18:59

And tell us. And also, what are you what are you looking for? Is there anything in particular you're looking for? Uh more about my eyes.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Oh.

SPEAKER_15 19:14

Plus nothing.

SPEAKER_14 19:19

Okay. You uh begin to look, and you're seeing a lot of the history section of it talks about how the Kagliari clan seems to be somewhat closely related to the Uchiha clan. And with a 17? That's not good. Um how much details are going to end for this? You see, yeah, there is some sort of sect of Uchiha that branched off long before the gathering of the villages. It doesn't really give much detail why they branched off, but they moved to, you know, the coastal regions, the islands, and they begin they began to adapt. And it also seems like they grew their connection with the cuttlefish summoning, and that may have advanced even further the changes to the eye.

SPEAKER_15 20:08

Alright, guys, who's dying first?

SPEAKER_07 20:10

Stop it.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

This is not good. Not good at all. Let me tell you, I would not want to be Kaise's best friend.

SPEAKER_14 20:19

Well, you don't know if that's the way it works. There's been a lot of changes.

SPEAKER_03 20:24

The Eigigan is not the Sharing Gun. I am not taking the chance.

SPEAKER_14 20:28

Okay. Also with a 17. Because I will say, let me not steer you on the path of murdering your best friend. Who would be your best friend? You also remember you, I think I also tweeted this earlier, but the Kagliari clan trials are about awakening deeper Ikagon powers through the trials.

unknown 20:50

Trials?

SPEAKER_14 20:51

What are you writing down?

SPEAKER_03 20:52

No, don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_07 20:56

Just a little post-it note that you have. Nothing, but let me tell you.

SPEAKER_13 21:02

Can we just ask to do the trial?

SPEAKER_14 21:06

Yeah. But I mean, your uncle's not doing that, so. Well, no, he said he would support you.

SPEAKER_07 21:19

But you have to do it yourself.

SPEAKER_14 21:21

Yeah, I don't think he would. He said that's the one and only time he'll put back in there.

SPEAKER_07 21:25

That's very sweet. Uh after searching for ingredients, I would like to go help Mirin uh with she's probably cooking for the caravan, right?

SPEAKER_14 21:35

I mean, not the whole caravan, but yeah.

SPEAKER_07 21:36

Uh well, I thought you said she was one of the cooks for the not not like an official caravan cook.

SPEAKER_14 21:42

She's a traveling chef. Uh but she's not like in charge of supplying everyone ingredients per se.

SPEAKER_07 21:48

Oh, well then the whoever's doing that I'll go go help out.

SPEAKER_14 21:53

So, yeah, the caravan is gathered into like a little long strip on the side of the Trail the road. It is a full moon. There is a nice breeze through the oak trees. You hear the leaves churn, rumbling of that summer night air. It's the full moon. You're hearing fowls start to whoo and haw. The cicadas. Yeah, some cicadas.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

And I know you're gonna put sound effects here. I know you can hear them.

SPEAKER_14 22:26

And kind of in the central area of where the caravan is camped out, there is a large campfire. New tech, everyone, new tech. I've just played on the table and LED flame token.

SPEAKER_07 22:39

I get also I just want to point out that if this was relative to our size, that is a terrified campfire. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 22:47

I think this is meant for like a fire attack.

SPEAKER_07 22:49

Yes, but yeah. That's still so cool. And the lighting on the page. I know. Speaking of the case.

SPEAKER_14 22:55

Okay, we made a giant fire. Okay. Yeah. There is a crackling fire. It actually probably is a little bit big because a lot of people are cooking food and stuff like that. Um, but yeah, you come over. Maren is preparing some food as well. You know, Korokite is kind of standing up front at the trail. Heterayuki is kind of standing up to like the southern end of the trail. Not that this isn't necessarily north and south, but you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_11 23:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 23:19

There's two people on watch, forward and backward. And you guys don't see Makikono and Kisari. You can presume that they are resting. The little cats around the fire. Sprout is um belly up absorbing the warmth of the fire. Of course she is. Frenchie does look a little bit more serious. But teammate teen is there, Segma's there, Marin is there. Like 9:30, 945. Um, you're helping out? Yeah, you see Marin. She probably found some ingredients of her own. Let's see, I need a D2. We found the same sap.

SPEAKER_12 23:55

You touched my sap.

SPEAKER_14 23:57

I thought you got that. Oh my gosh. She just rolled for the best thing on the list. Okay, so.

SPEAKER_07 24:05

She's very talented.

SPEAKER_14 24:06

You come over, and Maren is preparing a very large dish of pasta. Okay. And it's looking good, it's looking creamy, it's looking delightful. And on top, she begins to shred this large grand truffle. Oh my god. That is number 10 on the list. That's the land of fire ingredients.

SPEAKER_18 24:28

We knew we'd be having a Michelin dinner out here in the middle of the house.

SPEAKER_14 24:33

And what's funny is I literally just rolled that now, but you've only seen her prepare like the top tier ingredients.

SPEAKER_07 24:40

She's very talented. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 24:41

Yeah. Okay. Um, give me like how good is your dexterity?

SPEAKER_07 24:46

Uh plus two. 14 plus two.

SPEAKER_14 24:49

I will say in cooking-related scenarios, you have it's your dexterity, like your sleight of hand, but you have your proficiency bonus. So that's what, plus three? So you have plus five for like a cooking check.

SPEAKER_10 25:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 25:02

Roll it.

SPEAKER_10 25:05

I it's seven plus five.

SPEAKER_07 25:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 25:08

Okay, twelve. You and you average.

SPEAKER_11 25:10

I know.

SPEAKER_14 25:11

Average. Yeah, you're not usually used to cooking out in the middle of nowhere. And you out of all of Team 18 are the one who lives in the most big city. Yeah. So this is even more strange environment to you.

SPEAKER_05 25:23

Um all this nature.

SPEAKER_14 25:25

You're used to cooking over like very nice, well, not very nice, but stovetop equipment and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05 25:31

A literal restaurant.

SPEAKER_14 25:32

Yeah. Not blazing, you know, eight foot tall fire. So it's uh you're you're struggling a little bit. Oh, is it to help? Um, and Maren is, you know, maybe having a little conversation on the side, talking about the uh the recipe she's using. It is, yeah, just like a grand truffle pasta. She's showing you the ways.

SPEAKER_07 25:52

Showing the ways.

SPEAKER_14 25:54

Mm-hmm. Is anyone else doing anything before nap time?

SPEAKER_07 25:58

Can I bring a portion of the coral kita?

SPEAKER_14 26:01

Oh, that is so nice.

SPEAKER_18 26:03

That is really nice. That's tetara.

SPEAKER_07 26:07

So You're not taking one of tetara? Oh, I mean, I'll do both, but I start with Korokite. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 26:12

Yeah, you walk over. Um He did save the brush.

SPEAKER_07 26:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 26:16

Korokite does turn queue.

SPEAKER_07 26:18

I hope so.

SPEAKER_14 26:20

But he's not like sound or anything. He kind of senses you. And he would just say, Oh, Percy, thank you. I I'm starving.

SPEAKER_07 26:28

Oh.

SPEAKER_18 26:30

Yeah, you you you and Sakima kind of just remember he lost his thing me. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. So now he's like on a mission with us. He should be at home with his wife.

SPEAKER_14 26:43

That was like a month ago, I think. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 26:48

That is terrible. Why did you do that?

unknown 26:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 26:52

There has to be Consequences.

SPEAKER_14 26:54

Yeah, consequences to things.

SPEAKER_13 26:57

Your consequence.

SPEAKER_14 26:59

And single-handedly like sealing a tail beast is a very impressive feat.

SPEAKER_18 27:05

I know, he just like carries on though and just it makes me sad.

SPEAKER_15 27:11

Yeah. Yeah, it is. It is sad. Um that is true. The fact that only two people did that, because I know the the leap did the people involved died. Yeah. All the other ones were like really large groups that that sealed them away. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 27:30

Yeah. Yeah. Um, is Percy saying anything, Quirky Tick?

SPEAKER_18 27:33

Uh, what is what does he say again?

SPEAKER_14 27:35

He goes, Thank you so much. I I'm starving. And he just begins to start digging in the pasta, uh, begins staining his red mustache.

SPEAKER_07 27:42

Oh. Uh yeah, I just I figured you and Sakima didn't really get a chance to really eat or recover from the fight.

SPEAKER_16 27:53

Well, whatever happened that way.

SPEAKER_14 27:54

Thank you. I I really appreciate it. This did you make this? I mean, this pasta is.

SPEAKER_07 27:58

I wish I did, but no, it was actually from one of the other caravan members, uh, Miren.

SPEAKER_14 28:03

Is this is this wild truffle? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 28:06

She was able to find some.

SPEAKER_14 28:08

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_07 28:09

She said it was called S tier. I don't know.

SPEAKER_14 28:15

Um, well, anyways, have you had any more contact with the three tails?

SPEAKER_07 28:20

Uh no. It usually happens whenever I'm sleeping, so I'm kind of nervous for tonight.

SPEAKER_14 28:25

Okay, well, if something happens, I'm here. I'll put a stop to it.

SPEAKER_07 28:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 28:34

Thank you for the food, of course.

SPEAKER_07 28:36

And I'll go to Tetra. This is also going to be my first interaction with Tetada.

unknown 28:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 28:41

Good luck.

SPEAKER_14 28:43

First on in the podcast, but you went to school together.

SPEAKER_07 28:46

Yes, yes. Is Tetara doing anything?

SPEAKER_14 28:50

Um, he's there. You see, he is making little Olafs. Oh my god. I will say, yeah. I will say He's having fun. Um he's making like these little like snow like figures. And when you come in, he like swipes it aside.

SPEAKER_07 29:07

Oh, that's so cute. Uh here, I brought you this. I know you're on watch, but I figured you hadn't eaten yet. So oh.

SPEAKER_14 29:15

Thank you, Percy. Um and he kind of looks at it uh in like the bowl of steaming and stuff like that, and he like blows on it and he goes and he starts cooling it down like very rapidly.

SPEAKER_18 29:28

He's kind of washed and just like a little flurry.

SPEAKER_14 29:31

I just made you a hot meal, bro. Yeah, you want it cold.

SPEAKER_03 29:35

He's like, ah, I like everything luke cold.

SPEAKER_14 29:39

Luke cold, look cold. That's more disturbing than like easy cold.

SPEAKER_07 29:43

I guess does it taste different now? And then he froze it.

SPEAKER_13 29:51

He didn't freeze it, but he made it look cold. He likes a whole clam chowder. Yeah, clam chowder.

SPEAKER_07 29:58

But you know if that's how he likes it.

SPEAKER_15 30:00

And then just be like a big old clump of clam chowder.

SPEAKER_07 30:03

He like goes to put his fork in and he takes up the entire like bowl of noodles.

SPEAKER_14 30:07

He's like, ah, clam chowder ice cream. Yeah, so you just given him the bowl. He had frozen it. Or not frozen it, but he chilled it. He takes a big bite, and his eyes go like really wide after taking the first bite. And he kind of looks to you and he's like, Did you make this?

SPEAKER_07 30:32

Uh no, I wish I did, but it's actually from one of the caravan members.

SPEAKER_14 30:37

Your food's always been good, but you wow. This is this is great stuff.

SPEAKER_07 30:43

I'll let them know. I'm glad you like it.

SPEAKER_14 30:46

Yeah, he he's very clearly enjoying the bowl, um, but he does look frustrated.

SPEAKER_07 30:52

Oh. How do you enjoy something but you're frustrated?

SPEAKER_14 30:56

Well, he was more frustrated like when you came up to him, he seemed to look frustrated.

SPEAKER_07 31:00

Oh, because I interrupted his his playtime with this road.

SPEAKER_14 31:05

He was frustrated before you got to me.

SPEAKER_07 31:07

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_14 31:08

I think it's just his constant. Do you want to no no boys? Give me a perception check. I mean, you already said he looked frustrated. Yeah, but you let's see if you can put together why. God, that is a three, ladies and gentlemen. Um yeah, his his mood seems to be brightening now. He seems to be wait, say it again. His mood seems to be brightening.

SPEAKER_07 31:29

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_14 31:30

Yeah, as he's scarfing.

SPEAKER_07 31:31

So am I allowed to ask? Like, you okay? Like, am I allowed to ask that then? With the three?

SPEAKER_14 31:37

Yeah, um, yeah, you can you can always ask. But he stops mid-scarfing of the pasta. And looks down and goes, they wasn't my best. I thought I had the jump on those people with the ice mirrors.

SPEAKER_05 31:57

Oh, that was you? That was really cool looking. The ice. Who else would it be? Well, I've never seen ice mirrors just randomly appear. It's kind of overwhelming with the situation.

SPEAKER_14 32:11

He does a few hand signs as you're like, oh, that was you? And in front of the two of you, a large ice mirror appears before he just destroys it back. That is so sick.

SPEAKER_18 32:23

That is very sick. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_14 32:25

Where did you get these? For Christmas. It's not on Amazon, it's like this special website.

SPEAKER_13 32:31

Nice.

SPEAKER_14 32:32

But yeah. Um, he's like, yeah, I he kind of looks at you like, yes, I do the ice.

SPEAKER_07 32:40

Yes. Uh sorry, sorry, I just, you know, don't really have much time to talk to you anymore since we're not in class. So kind of slipped my mind. But but I mean, they're cool. Like, is this the first time that you've used it, like in real combat?

SPEAKER_14 32:56

No. Um team four, we've made a lot of strategies and the ice mirrors come in handy. Helps me get around fast. And there's lots of team strategies I can do, but I'm sure you and Team 18 have all kinds of strategies of your own, right?

SPEAKER_07 33:11

Uh-huh. No. Strata team strategy. I had tried telling you guys that we should come up with formations. Uh I think we all kind of are still figuring out our strengths and weaknesses of each other.

SPEAKER_14 33:25

Really? And it's a month in this don't work together well.

SPEAKER_15 33:34

Well, I mean, we've completed every single mission we've gotten, so we're not there.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_07 33:46

I just I think with uh what happened with the village, I think we all kind of got very easily sidetracked.

SPEAKER_12 33:56

Make sense?

SPEAKER_15 33:57

Silent judgment.

SPEAKER_07 34:00

But seeing uh your team's formation, I think it's encouraged us our potential of what we could do.

SPEAKER_14 34:07

I see. Yeah, it seems like there's a rivalry between Harai and Maki. Yeah. She was actually asking me recently about what her weaknesses are.

SPEAKER_18 34:17

Yeah, it sounds about right.

SPEAKER_03 34:20

Dang, I didn't notice that I was a sniff.

SPEAKER_18 34:24

Would uh Percy know that you're doing your swordsman training?

SPEAKER_07 34:27

Yeah, I assume so.

SPEAKER_14 34:28

I think I kind of knew that.

SPEAKER_07 34:31

Uh well, you know, they're both training to be swordsmen, so I guess that rivalry was just destined to happen no matter what.

SPEAKER_14 34:39

Yeah, it's seems like their whole livelihoods.

SPEAKER_07 34:43

I mean, what the rivalry, you know, it's motivation, right?

SPEAKER_14 34:48

Yeah. How are things at Takawata Ramen, right?

SPEAKER_03 34:53

I just remember cause real quick. When I tried talking to Defa, like he was like an ice mirror. Okay? Like a stone wall. He's on duty right now.

SPEAKER_13 35:03

Maybe the way to his heart is food.

SPEAKER_03 35:06

Chill.

SPEAKER_13 35:06

You were the one who was like, I feel like all of my characters are like stone cold, non-talkative.

SPEAKER_14 35:12

So I'm trying. You know, he's maybe he's in the sense of his partner.

SPEAKER_03 35:16

You're right.

SPEAKER_14 35:17

He's alone in the woods here with some bar. Percy is the easy to talk about the entire graduating class.

SPEAKER_07 35:25

That's Hariah's like backhanding a child. Because I feel like I feel like I should have been sorry.

SPEAKER_14 35:32

I feel like Hariah and Tepeda probably haven't had any interactions, but Tepeda's probably had some of the food that Percy's made before, so you know.

SPEAKER_05 35:44

We gotta talk to him more. I don't like his team, honestly. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_14 35:48

Maybe the few times he's come to talk wada, he does this kind of weird thing of like, yeah, he takes the fork up to the noodles and like blows it, and then it like is frozen and air.

SPEAKER_07 35:55

We're like, oh yeah, he's blowing his food, it's it's hot. Why is it frozen now? Yeah. Uh yeah, the the ramen shop is doing great. Um, I mean, I think we're still repairing it, right? Uh we're still, you know, working on the repairs and actually getting it back to Taca Water ramen, but I mean, we we have support, which is surprising, but and a cart.

unknown 36:23

And a cart.

SPEAKER_07 36:24

Uh we have support from people I didn't think we'd actually get support from, but yeah.

SPEAKER_14 36:31

Oh well. Hopefully we get fixed up soon. And he just kind of looks back out to the trail.

SPEAKER_06 36:40

As you were.

SPEAKER_14 36:47

Absolutely. Gotta get one. He's usually more reserved. Yeah. Okay. 10 o'clock will roll around. I'm assuming the rest of Team 18 is going to sleep. I say it's our first watch.

SPEAKER_03 37:01

I'm sorry, can I speak to Sekima? Real quick. Okay. Yeah. I'll try to make it short.

SPEAKER_14 37:07

Yeah. She's like getting ready. She's, you know, getting out her sleeping bag, getting ready for bed.

SPEAKER_03 37:12

Right. So I'm going to come up to her. It's just her. There's no one like within earshot, right? Sure. That can happen.

SPEAKER_14 37:19

Okay. You've specified now, so I will allow that to happen.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

So I'm going to try to be quick, so this is gonna be a little direct. Um, I have a few questions about Zotaru Limochi. Your former teammate.

SPEAKER_14 37:33

She looks very thrown off at this. How do you know that name?

SPEAKER_03 37:40

I tell the truth. If I don't tell the truth, you're gonna make me both deception. And then I have a chip failing it and making her mad.

SPEAKER_14 37:47

Welcome to Dungeons and Dragons. Yeah. What will you do?

SPEAKER_03 37:53

Right. When I said that, I totally forgot that I found that out without her knowing.

SPEAKER_14 37:58

Yeah. Yeah. But you've already said that now.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

I'm just gonna tell her the truth, and we'll say, well, you know, when you took us to the monument and you gave us your whole will of miss speech. Um I think you might have missed that I had my Biakagon on. So when you looked longingly at the name Zataro Murichi, I kind of zeroed in on it, and you know, it was kind of obvious.

SPEAKER_14 38:26

Yeah, again.

SPEAKER_06 38:26

It's kind of obvious that you were born and your teammate gone.

SPEAKER_14 38:30

Sekram looks at you and he's like those freaking eyes. Well, Zataro was my former teammate who was killed in action. What else do you want to know?

SPEAKER_03 38:53

Maybe a little more than what I already said. Do you know about what his standing was in the clan?

SPEAKER_14 39:05

From the talks we had, I knew he was not a part of the main family. He his family wasn't anywhere near leading the clan. But he was close to, you know, moving up. He became tuning before he died.

unknown 39:32

How old is he talking about?

SPEAKER_03 39:35

Yeah, when when did he did he die in battle?

SPEAKER_14 39:38

Percy from behind the bushes.

SPEAKER_07 39:42

Anytime we're like having one-on-one conversations and we added just a binocular. Yeah, I'm wearing a fake mustache.

SPEAKER_14 39:52

Like, don't forget to ask her. We were around 15 at the time.

SPEAKER_10 40:00

Wow.

SPEAKER_14 40:02

It was during the fourth grade Shinobi War. Which I'm sure you learned about at the academy.

SPEAKER_03 40:10

He wasn't a part of the Blood Mist era, was he?

SPEAKER_14 40:15

I was the last of the Blood Mist. My two teammates, Korokite and Zataro, were a part of the year after me. So no, he was not. And begrudgingly, he kind of looks to the side and goes. Maybe that's why he didn't make it.

SPEAKER_12 40:37

Wow.

SPEAKER_18 40:40

Sekima is so hardcore. Like I was freaking.

SPEAKER_03 40:45

I'm gonna tell her. Just because he didn't have to murder all of his classmates doesn't mean that he had any less resolve. I mean, look at Korokite. Kiki's up a deal.

SPEAKER_14 40:57

Sometimes. We're tied on arm wrestles right now, but I may change that before the end of the mission. Oh my god. She glances off in the direction of Korokite.

SPEAKER_03 41:09

Are his parents still alive in the village?

SPEAKER_14 41:12

The taros?

SPEAKER_03 41:13

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_14 41:14

Yes. His mother and father actually run a small shop in the market. It's called the Momochi Mochi Shop.

SPEAKER_11 41:25

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_14 41:27

That's really good. That's really good. But I have not swung by since his death.

SPEAKER_07 41:35

Thanks for probably another 15 years. So she you said she's like in her 30s, right?

SPEAKER_14 41:40

Early 30s, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

She looks sad now, so I'm gonna change the topic.

SPEAKER_14 41:45

Sad and a little angry. I mean She sounds angry? Well, no, but like sad, but a little this is kind of an uncomfortable situation to be in.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

Right, so I'm gonna change the topic now. Okay, I got my information.

SPEAKER_14 41:57

Sometimes you second mode is more likely to result to anger than sadness.

SPEAKER_03 42:00

Right, right. I'm gonna change the topic and say, um, I got to do some training with your father Rico recently. I don't need your advice, but I figure since you grew up training with him, you would know a few things about his training methods and how to excel at them.

SPEAKER_14 42:31

My father's an intense man, even for my standards.

SPEAKER_05 42:35

No.

SPEAKER_14 42:36

His training methods reverberation. Yeah, you see she's having flashbacks. Well, honestly, you just have to throw yourself at the training.

SPEAKER_07 42:51

And she means literally. Get in a catapult and go.

SPEAKER_14 42:58

I don't know if this is the best way to put it, but yeah. Throw yourself out into the deep end and survive. He will Do you have any advice?

SPEAKER_09 43:10

Survive.

SPEAKER_14 43:13

He is a man of intense quantity.

SPEAKER_18 43:17

The more ECs that you can handle, the more he'll give you the whole take that was what you were all thinking.

SPEAKER_14 43:27

He requires a lot from the people he trains. Strength, perception, everything. But if you want a light version of his training, I can try to help you ease into it. Be sure you have time for this, you already have a lot on your plate.

SPEAKER_02 43:51

No, I'm not sure, but you just told me to throw myself into it. So I guess I'll find time.

SPEAKER_14 44:01

Probably have more time if you spent less time cutting down trees. How long it takes for one.

SPEAKER_03 44:10

Trust me, I couldn't cut it down in half the time before.

SPEAKER_02 44:16

Alright, then I'm just gonna walk away.

unknown 44:18

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_14 44:21

Ten o'clock. We'll roll around. Team 18 is going to sleep. Around this time, um, there's some shift change. Maki takes over for Korokite. Isari takes over for Tetra. The Shinobi cats are starting to go through the forest and take up, you know, advantage points looking out of the forest. Um, it is Kaise at first. Um, around this time, like 10 p.m., everyone is starting to um go to sleep. There's a few last stragglers around the campfire. What is Kaisei up to?

SPEAKER_13 44:58

You know, let's uh let's read some more. Let's read some more. Okay. One more check. This will be your last check for the book tonight.

SPEAKER_14 45:07

Oh, and that one.

SPEAKER_06 45:09

It's too dark, you felt you dropped it into the fire.

SPEAKER_14 45:12

No, I thought about that, but I'm not gonna do that. Um god. No, uh you, interestingly enough, you open the book and you're you're trying to read, and it's almost as like the strain you put on your eye from the ink plot earlier is almost like blotting out your own eye, and it's like just like very faint haze. Like, you can't really concentrate.

SPEAKER_04 45:33

Oh, come on. We can't get a stronger gnat one than that.

SPEAKER_14 45:37

I'm not gonna burn his book. Okay, no.

SPEAKER_11 45:40

A page or two.

SPEAKER_14 45:42

But yours made sense. It was an open binder that has pages flying. He can't just trip and rip out and burn one page. Like, that doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_04 45:50

That just seemed like a normal fail, not a gnat one.

SPEAKER_16 45:54

I I tripped and hit my head on my book and you wake up the whole caramel.

SPEAKER_13 46:04

Go to it.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

I just imagine a scene of like tripped on the rock. Oh, bump, oh. Like knocking.

SPEAKER_14 46:11

No, I don't think that's an intense. Right as you open it, just a bird. Literally. You open your book, and an owl owl is resting above you. You know, there's the cracking fire, you're trying to read by the firelight, and an owl just droplets right on one of the pages. You're like Thank you. Yes, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 46:34

Do you wipe it off? Do you just close it and burn it? Well, I'm asking.

SPEAKER_18 46:41

Uh guys, that's enough reading for today.

SPEAKER_15 46:48

I'm gonna take my book and just wipe it on. Wipe it off and open page and just okay.

SPEAKER_14 46:55

Um give me a perception check during your watch. Regular perception.

SPEAKER_15 47:00

Fifteen plus five. Six. Wow. Yeah, twenty-one.

SPEAKER_14 47:07

Um, yeah, you take your watch over the next two hours. There's not too much going around. You feel very perceptive in everything that's going around. Like you you're noticing every little like twig snap and owl fluttering. But there are no enemies, and you're very confident of that. Is there anything else you want to do during your two-hour span? That's not your book.

SPEAKER_15 47:30

I'd like to go fishing, but um I don't think I should be doing that on watch.

SPEAKER_13 47:35

There's already four people on watch.

SPEAKER_03 47:39

Don't I mean if he's trying to let's go fishing?

SPEAKER_14 47:43

With your incredible perception, you saw there's a little lake. Little pot of water somewhere around here.

SPEAKER_13 47:50

Not too far away. Okay, okay. That's the current spot. Then we're going fishing.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

Would this be new fish?

SPEAKER_16 47:57

It would be.

SPEAKER_03 48:00

It sounds like you're carving out the perfect opportunity for him to allow someone to sneak past you.

SPEAKER_16 48:05

No, no, if anything, look, we got all our all our people watching right here, but we don't got nobody over here. So I'm gonna be like, we got a gap. We got a gap in here. Let me let me go be an unsuspecting fisherman.

SPEAKER_14 48:20

Team 4 and the Chernobyl cat are not really expecting you to be on watch anyway. They maybe just think you're up reading by the fire. Nine. Nine? You're fishing? No bites. Yeah, you cast in the uh Well no, wait, nine plus uh dexterity, plus one.

SPEAKER_07 48:39

Uh three, plus three.

SPEAKER_14 48:41

Plus one. Right? Plus three and plus one, so plus four.

SPEAKER_07 48:44

Well no, it's because it's plus two, plus four, so three.

SPEAKER_14 48:47

That's twelve? Yes. That's exactly what you need. You cast in the line into this moonlit body of water. Roll me another d20 for your fish. Which gonna catch? Fifteen.

SPEAKER_07 49:02

I thought you got another 20. I was like, no.

SPEAKER_14 49:07

Okay. You cast in your line. There's a bit of a fight. Another few-sized fish. And you pull it out, and it's kind of like proboscis at first. It is a long nose gar. It's like this weird, like skinny mouth thing that you just pull up, and it's like, ooh, it's increasing size.

SPEAKER_02 49:28

How long were we thinking?

SPEAKER_14 49:30

I'm thinking at least like three and a half, four feet. Oh.

SPEAKER_16 49:38

I'm gonna cook it up. Okay. Right back in the fire. You're gonna do the cooking. Oh god.

SPEAKER_13 49:43

Perseus! Perse.

SPEAKER_03 49:47

It's midnight and he's cooking up fish.

SPEAKER_13 49:49

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_14 49:52

Four plus five.

SPEAKER_07 49:53

For your slide of hand?

SPEAKER_14 49:54

Yep. Um, yeah, it's it's a little bit overdone. It's a little chewy. Yeah, it's a little chewy, but it's um there's enough meat on there that some of it's good.

SPEAKER_12 50:07

Um, cut away like 60% of the wake up in the morning like, what the heck is all of this?

SPEAKER_16 50:19

There's scraps everywhere.

SPEAKER_14 50:21

It's gonna attract predators. Um Kaise's watch will come to a close. Who are you waking up to take on the midnight to noon? Well, okay, we can decide right now. Midnight to noon? No, midnight to 2 a.m.

SPEAKER_18 50:35

I don't want this on.

SPEAKER_14 50:36

I think I'll probably decide this before going to sleep.

SPEAKER_03 50:39

Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_14 50:40

So what are the what's the order of the watch?

SPEAKER_03 50:42

I'll do it next.

SPEAKER_14 50:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 50:44

And then I was going top for it, so you know.

SPEAKER_16 50:48

Now that I know Percy was waking up next, I would have been like, Percy, what's this?

SPEAKER_07 50:54

As I'm still sleeping?

SPEAKER_13 50:56

No, but like ad shift change? Bad shift change. And you're just gonna stay up another 20 minutes? Here, yeah. Okay, that's fine.

SPEAKER_14 51:03

Give me your cooking check.

SPEAKER_07 51:04

Which what is that again?

SPEAKER_14 51:06

Uh it'll be your slide of hand plus additional three. So it's gonna be, I think, plus five for you.

SPEAKER_05 51:12

Plus five total?

SPEAKER_14 51:13

Yeah. Oh my god! Wow! Even worse. Burnt the whole thing up. Percy is already trying to learn how to cook over campfire. Oh but the zone! And now it's groggy from only getting like two hours, a two-hour nap, and it's dark out and I don't know where I am. I'm gonna say, Kai say you did do your cooking earlier, and you kind of overdid it already, and you I don't know what you're expecting Percy to do to it, but you're thinking he it's a fresh fish to cook and it's groggy. Oh my god, this thing just catches fire.

SPEAKER_11 51:51

None of it.

SPEAKER_13 52:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 52:03

Um I'm wide awake now.

SPEAKER_13 52:06

One of the things.

SPEAKER_06 52:07

Yeah, because everything smells burnt.

SPEAKER_13 52:09

Yeah, there's a burning smell, burnt fish smell going.

SPEAKER_14 52:13

There's a few more head peaks to make sure nothing falls.

SPEAKER_09 52:16

What's going on?

SPEAKER_14 52:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 52:17

Sorry.

SPEAKER_14 52:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 52:19

Midnight snack.

SPEAKER_14 52:22

I say I'm guessing you will go to sleep. It is Percy's watch. You're anything Percy's up to? Other than that, you're gonna roll a straight perception check during your watch.

SPEAKER_07 52:37

So you said Kesari, Maki, and then the two uh Shinobi cats, right? Or would they have been switched out too?

SPEAKER_14 52:45

No, they're gonna stay, they're gonna do like a four-hour shift, I think.

SPEAKER_07 52:48

Okay. Uh I'll just do a regular perception. Fourteen. Jeez! Uh minus one.

SPEAKER_14 52:57

13? Okay, hold on.

SPEAKER_07 52:59

Just finally getting double digits. I'm like, yes.

SPEAKER_14 53:04

Percy, you are there. Are you set where are you at? Are you sat by the campfire? Are you walking around?

SPEAKER_05 53:08

Uh I'll walk around.

SPEAKER_14 53:10

Okay. You are walking around. And around 1 a.m. You hear some twig snap. Something off in the distance. You're kind of at a distant spot where you're not really being overseen by either the cats or uh like I'm kind of like over here. Yeah, you're kind of more in this by the body of water that Kaisei was fishing at.

SPEAKER_10 53:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 53:32

And you hear some twig snap.

SPEAKER_10 53:34

Okay. I'm terrified.

SPEAKER_14 53:36

You almost see. You almost saw like a little glint of flame, like candlelight, and then snuffed out.

SPEAKER_07 53:44

Like where?

SPEAKER_14 53:47

Further this way.

SPEAKER_07 53:50

I'm so scared.

SPEAKER_15 53:54

I get one of them shinobi cats to be like, y'all.

SPEAKER_07 53:57

Oh yes, let me just yell to them. Hey, I saw something over there. Y'all go take it out. I'm just a civilian.

SPEAKER_16 54:08

I can't do nothing.

SPEAKER_07 54:11

Can I enter into stealth?

SPEAKER_14 54:14

Yeah. You're give me a stealth check.

SPEAKER_07 54:17

Ten plus two.

SPEAKER_14 54:19

It's alright. You're still, you know, set about the cooking. You're doing like the skin. You got a million things on your mind. Um you think about how great that grand truffle pasta was. You're also not too sure on what you saw. Because it was a very small, you don't know if it was candlelight or like a glow bug or something. Um 12 is like the average roll. Okay. So Percy is somewhat stealth. Okay. Savage lead for average shinobi, but average gaining shinobi. Um, but you don't. It's impossible for you to know if someone has seen or not. I will make that roll.

SPEAKER_07 54:56

Can I get a rough distance on those lights?

SPEAKER_14 55:00

It's probably yeah, 30 to 40 feet out.

unknown 55:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 55:05

Then uh I'm gonna kind of like hunker down to try and blend in with the bushes with my average stealth that I roll out. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 55:13

So are you staying put or are you going to go?

SPEAKER_07 55:15

I'm gonna try an inch closer.

unknown 55:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 55:18

You begin to inch closer, and there is briefly, after 30 to 40 seconds, another light. This time you're sure it is some kind of candlelight.

SPEAKER_07 55:33

In the same area?

SPEAKER_14 55:34

Same area.

SPEAKER_07 55:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 55:36

It is centered right on a tree.

SPEAKER_07 55:40

And you see like in a tree or like at the trunk?

SPEAKER_14 55:44

Like ground level.

SPEAKER_07 55:44

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_14 55:46

Like five foot up, and you see there's some movement. You can't really see what it is from here, but there's something on a tree. Probably around under 30 feet away now.

SPEAKER_09 55:59

Okay. I'm so scared. Uh I'll keep inching closer.

SPEAKER_14 56:06

Okay. You inch closer. And the flame extinguishes immediately, and there is a darting through the woods, away from you.

SPEAKER_07 56:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 56:22

And I can't see like if it was a person or like any as they as there's movement through the breaks of the tree, the food full moonlight comes through. And you do see. Give me another perception check.

SPEAKER_09 56:37

Stop making me roll!

SPEAKER_01 56:39

That's what the game is.

SPEAKER_09 56:42

Here.

SPEAKER_01 56:42

Here.

SPEAKER_09 56:44

Oh yes! Oh yes! Illuminate!

SPEAKER_05 56:47

A 16! 16!

SPEAKER_14 56:51

God, that one is so cool. I know, right? It's gonna be a pain to charge every time that it's just yeah, with a 15, you see an individual wearing the red camo apron from earlier. Of the hands of the sea members.

unknown 57:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 57:11

Starting very fast away.

SPEAKER_07 57:13

Okay. Then with that, I want to return to. And you said it's either Kasari or Maki?

SPEAKER_14 57:22

Yeah, those are the two up right now. I'm not going to Lockie. I go to Kasari.

SPEAKER_07 57:26

And I'm like, hey, uh. Kind of on patrol.

SPEAKER_09 57:34

I'm nervous.

SPEAKER_14 57:36

I actually want to see some screens.

SPEAKER_09 57:37

Just doing jazz scans out.

SPEAKER_14 57:38

How do you approach him?

SPEAKER_07 57:44

But the jazz scans, like I said. No, um, just not like rushing at him, but definitely kind of like hurriedly kind of trying to get to him.

SPEAKER_14 57:54

Yeah. Luckily he does notice you. I was I was gonna roll and see if like if you rolled a really bad perception, he was gonna like freak out and go after you or something. I said sitting there like this. Yeah. But yeah, he he spins around to you. Um what do you say? Okay.

SPEAKER_07 58:07

Uh hey, uh, I'm kinda on patrol, not patrol with you guys. Uh I saw a flickering light in the woods over there. Uh, and I think it was one of the hands of the sea members.

SPEAKER_14 58:19

Oh, alright, alright, all right. Are you serious? They're they're back?

SPEAKER_07 58:22

Uh I I don't know. It looked like they were just trying to make a fire or camp or something, but he ran off, he, she, they ran off in that direction.

SPEAKER_14 58:32

Okay, um, yeah, uh, yeah, let's let's go investigate. And then um he looks up to Frenchie in the tree and he's like, Frenchie!

SPEAKER_06 58:42

Frenchie, take my spot! We're gonna go there's something over there. She just like rolls her eyes.

SPEAKER_14 58:48

Yeah, exactly. Frenchie just looks on the tree looking down at you and goes and just darts down the tree and takes watch over the trail.

SPEAKER_04 59:00

Just the cat sitting in there, like perched, yeah.

SPEAKER_14 59:03

Probably maybe pawing at a dead owl, potentially.

SPEAKER_07 59:10

Is it the one that pooped in Kaise's book?

SPEAKER_14 59:13

No, I think Sprouts watching that one. Just too lazy to get the job done though. Um, yeah, so Kisari uh was gonna kind of follow your lead because you're the one who noticed it. But are you all heading back to the area? Uh sure. Okay. Go ahead. Um he's following your lead, so are you stealthing again? Are you just running straight?

SPEAKER_07 59:36

What's uh not running, but uh walking, just regular walking back to the where I saw the light flickering.

SPEAKER_14 59:43

Yeah, you guys head that way. There's no more sign of movement, no more sign of light. Um but what in particular are I just doing like a fan out? Are you yeah, you started like, oh, what's where was it? I mean, should we fan out? Should we spread out? Should we what are we looking for?

SPEAKER_07 1:00:02

Uh I just gesture again. I'm like, he went, they went that way.

unknown 1:00:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:08

And they were very quick about it.

SPEAKER_14 1:00:11

You guys um are walking direction, and you stumble upon the tree that the person was at.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:00:21

And you notice carved into the tree, it says the hands are owed.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:28

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:32

You know, it better not be that one dude who ran off all scared. Remember him?

SPEAKER_14 1:00:38

Was he scared or did they get the job done?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

You said he looked scared.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:44

Would Percy know about the hands of the sea?

SPEAKER_14 1:00:47

Uh, well, yeah, you I mean, in a sense that you just saw the group, you all teammates.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:53

But do I know the history is what I'm asking?

SPEAKER_14 1:00:55

Give me a history check, I guess. I don't, I think the last one to do it was Harah, and she like got a 19 and learned all about it.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:04

14 plus two.

SPEAKER_14 1:01:05

Yeah, history. I know. I've been listening back and every time.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:10

I know.

SPEAKER_14 1:01:12

You know about them. Um, you probably know even more about them in regards to like you live more on the market side of things. Do you remember what I said last time with everything?

SPEAKER_07 1:01:22

Uh, vaguely, but j just tell me again.

SPEAKER_14 1:01:26

Yeah, it's this group of people that kind of long for the blood miss era because there was more work and money promised, but there's big debate whether or not that was real error. Yeah, yeah, whether they were gypped or whether it was all a lie. And um you probably got even more experience of like, you know, your father looking for people to repair the shop, and they're you know, they're getting people in, and yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:49

So yeah, so were they like like mercenaries pretty much?

SPEAKER_14 1:01:54

No, they're just trade people. But they're um they've becoming they have been becoming more violent.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:00

Well, um I'm asking, like, what was because it was the the third shinobi, right? That or the uh the Mizukage, the blood mist uh Mizukage. Uh he would hire them like for himself, right? And he would make them go do his bidding.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:18

Wasn't wasn't that the thing that Yeah, well he hired them for construction projects.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:22

Oh, that's right, that's right. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:23

So there was um Mizukage like moved, he was the one who moved um Yes from Old Town from Old Town down to a lot of people I remember that now.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:34

Okay. And then the the conversation current with this generation is if they we should actually pay them off or it was all a lie just to kind of like push them. Okay. I don't know what to say. Just looking at the tree, just I kinda look at Kasari and gauge his reaction.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:56

Um yeah, he's looking at the tree. I'm gonna see if he can put this together. He's so smart. Please. Okay, decent roll.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:06

There we go, finally.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:08

Um, yeah, he looks at the tree and he goes, When you you had also said a hands of the sea member, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:03:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:15

When you told him? Mm-hmm. Yeah. He looks at the tree, the carvings, and he's like, Yeah, I this is I mean, this is clearly got gotta be their work, right? I mean, this is in regards to the hands of the sea.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:30

Yeah, this is this is troublesome. I I I better let Korokita know. I mean, we gotta be on the lookout. Okay. Percy and Sari make it back to the camp, and he leads directly to the sleeping spot where Koroku's at and just kind of gently nudges him, and he just like he's a he seems like a very light sleeper. It seems like as soon as like slightly gently touched, he's like I'm awake awake. He doesn't he's it's not even like a surprise awake, it's just like immediately awake.

SPEAKER_18 1:04:00

Immediately coherent. That's maybe it's like, you know, he knows his guard duty.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:04

He's gonna make his friend at 15, or you know, losing his child, being away from his grieving wife.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:13

Funny enough, I think he sleeps with his goggles. I don't know if I feel like I have I not been describing this. Uh Korokite has like these brass goggles with like the little mist symbol etched into them. He's always had. I didn't make his new design with his gray hair.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:28

Oh, I thought they were just glasses. I thought they were just the circle glasses.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:34

Almost steampunk-esque goggles.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:38

You know what? I feel like there's few people who can pull off a goatee. And he's one of them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:45

It fits his character, you know.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:47

He um is awake and Kisara's like, um, Korokite Sensei, um Percy and I uh well Percy saw some things in the forest. We went to go investigate, and it it seems like there could be hands of the sea here. And uh Kurokite is like, oh, is this is this true? Okay, alright. Well, I guess all the team four is gonna have to be up in the circling. Thank you for being so alert. So yeah, Kurokite will get up, and he goes to get up tetada and Makashi, don't worry, it's no Makish. Yeah, I was like, I was thinking there was four students. I was like, who's the four students? They've always been here. Um yeah, so they they get up. Korokite thanks you for being so alert, even when it's not necessarily a task.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:40

Serious server.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:42

And he looks at you and goes, I mean, thank you. If you'd like to keep watching, you can, but I'd advise you guys to get some sleep. It looks like team four is gonna have a long night.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:53

I'll keep watching.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:55

Um, yeah, you can keep watch until around two. 2 a.m. comes. Are you waking Ariah for the next shift or are you staying up?

SPEAKER_07 1:06:07

So you said our shifts are two hours?

SPEAKER_14 1:06:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:09

Uh I'll try, I I'll do one extra hour. And then I'm like.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:13

3 a.m.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:14

Oh. I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:19

3 a.m. comes and passes. Um perception check.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:26

Two, like this one.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:27

Two. Yeah, you're getting a little drowsy.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:30

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:32

You're nodding off a little bit. Oh. You don't quite see anything. Um. And I feel like you're seven to see. Are you posted up or are you walking around or what?

SPEAKER_07 1:06:42

I'm still trying to walk around because I didn't want to be falling asleep.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:45

Yeah. You you're walking around, and then um the next thing you know, sorry, is like nudging you on the shoulder and you're like leaned up against a tree. Oh my goodness. Like, what time is it? Um, why don't you go switch out with someone?

SPEAKER_10 1:07:00

Okay. I'll gotta do that.

unknown 1:07:07

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:10

I'm feeling refreshed, honestly. That was five hours for me of consecutive sleep. Um, is five hours enough to be considered my long rest?

SPEAKER_14 1:07:22

Um, so I'm kind of ruling it like that as long as y'all get within six to eight within this time frame of like non-combat, where you're either short or long resting, it's gonna consider it as a long rest back.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:34

So not yet. I would need a long hour.

SPEAKER_14 1:07:36

Yeah, in like another hour.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:39

I'm watching. Not up, I'm watching.

SPEAKER_14 1:07:42

Do you does Percy explain the situation to Hariah? Am I am I able to? Yeah, you can, but how sleepy are you? It's up to your flavor.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:52

I would like to imagine, like, we're all staying in the same tent, right? Like, is what I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_14 1:07:58

Yeah, more or less. The like mock-up, like, oh, we're the catering crew. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:05

I like to imagine that I'm like stumbling in and crawling on all fours in a way. I like tap your phone away.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:12

Yeah. It's your turn. It's your turn to watch. It's your watch. I tried, I try to do more. I can't. I I'm tired.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:20

Um, just you say that while you're saying this, and you know, Percy, you're talking to my foot.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:28

Oh sorry. Like, get up and like I'm now sitting like on my uh like on my knees, kind of now, trying to talk to you instead of your foot.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:38

And I'm like, sorry. Uh team four, they're they're all watching because we saw something on a tree. I don't remember what I said. Something about hands. Um, I'm gonna go to sleep now. Your turn.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:52

And I'm like, still on my knees, just like leaned over, just asleep.

SPEAKER_13 1:08:59

You want to do some kind of intelligence to put it together?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:02

Something about hands. And I think on my way out, I'll just swing by Court QK.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:09

And uh Percy was talking some nonsense about hands.

SPEAKER_14 1:09:13

So, you're up? Oh, okay. Um, yeah, the situation is Percy and Kisari seem to have seen some hands of the seam members doing something out in the forest. So we're we're all on guard. But nothing of yet. Perhaps they scared him off.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:35

Oh, same post, thank you.

SPEAKER_14 1:09:38

Um, perception check to see what Harai is seeing. Are you doing Byakugan right now?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:45

Since you said that, yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:09:49

Is this gonna cancel your long rest? Bakugan.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:53

It's gonna cancel it out? Never mind then. No Byakon. Do you even really need a long rest right now?

SPEAKER_14 1:09:59

I'll say it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:03

I got five hours. I would need one more hour.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:06

But I'm saying, do you need a long rest for your stats?

SPEAKER_14 1:10:10

No, but if I do the Biafagon, then I don't get I'll say it's fine because you're within our it's the only thing you're gonna be using. Uh I'll in this case I'll allow it.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:22

Thank you. Favoritism, favoritism.

SPEAKER_14 1:10:30

I'm not beating the allegations.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:33

What allegations are there to beat?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:35

Which mine is yours, and which yours is mine.

SPEAKER_18 1:10:40

Um slur from your time. Alright, Yakugan.

SPEAKER_14 1:10:47

Okay, advantage perception check.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:52

Thirteen or five.

SPEAKER_14 1:10:53

So thirteen. Thirteen uh total?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:10:57

Yeah, you have the Biakugan open. You see all kinds of critters, you know, throughout the forest, the birds, the owls, the you know, little fox and mice, stuff like that.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:08

Right.

SPEAKER_14 1:11:09

Um, but you don't see any traces of anyone untending uh the caravan.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:15

Hold up, with my Biakugan, does that mean I can see like bugs and animals underground? Like in their dens.

SPEAKER_14 1:11:21

Up to 10 feet underground, correct.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:24

That's right.

SPEAKER_14 1:11:25

Yeah, indeed.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:26

You know, like you can see little cicadas and I imagine like Haraya's just like staring at the dirt. And we're just like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:33

It's gonna be so overstimulating actually to have it on for a full hour. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:11:39

Well, and just see so many things.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:41

Like the right day, I saw you five two minutes ago.

SPEAKER_14 1:11:45

Yeah. Yeah, you um 13's decent enough, but you're you're not you don't see any traces of humans nearby that aren't in the caravan. Um, you do see like a centipede crawling on the tent of Team 18, though.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:59

Centipedes are cool. Uh team eight.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:02

Y'all, yeah, your tent, you see a centipede crawling along the outside.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:07

Is that supposed to be concerning?

SPEAKER_14 1:12:10

That's what you see.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:12

The centipede does hand size now.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:17

That's why I asked.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:18

We learned that Sekuma is deathly allergic to centipedes. She's now being rushed to the hospital.

SPEAKER_18 1:12:25

Can you imagine how funny that would be? She's like deathly afraid of spiders or something. Yeah, something very harmless where it's like, really?

SPEAKER_14 1:12:34

Uh is there anything else to rise up to besides watch?

SPEAKER_18 1:12:37

Um reading my Hugo Scrolls.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:41

Okay, are you trying for more history?

SPEAKER_10 1:12:43

No. Yes. Science. What do you know?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:47

This is what I'm looking for.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:50

I'm um no, I'm you know what? No, I'm not gonna be doing that. I want to practice my no, I'm not. Okay. Uh very cool. Yes, I'm reading the Hugo Scrolls.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:03

I feel like we're there in her mind with her.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:07

She really knows how to paint a picture, you know? I'm sorry. I am reading the Hugo Scrolls, and you said there's not a lot about history in there, so I'm guessing I'm gonna read about like are you practicing the moves kind of thing? Yeah, I'm gonna do that. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:22

Nice. Yeah, give me. Are you practicing, yeah, like the Taijutsu or Biyaku-gan? Like, what are you looking for? Are you practicing your gentle fists?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:32

Yeah, I wouldn't practice more um controlling my chakra when doing gentle fists.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:39

Yeah, give me a strength check.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:41

Strength.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:45

Is that an at one?

SPEAKER_07 1:13:47

The ones the size.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:48

Are you serious? Okay.

unknown 1:13:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:52

Hurry, you're kind of having this flashback to earlier. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:57

I know. I know it doesn't.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:00

We can only have I can handle it. You're having flashbacks to earlier in the day.

SPEAKER_11 1:14:04

Right.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:05

And Dobuto fired that vacuum palm off. And he did it in the way of like it seemed like he's you know, obviously you know he's not a Hugo. But it seemed like the technique he used to do it, like, like he'd been training for years. And it almost kind of kind of inspires you of like, huh, you've you haven't really seen someone else use a gentle fist in six years. So you go to imitate that, and you like just knock down this tree, not thinking about how everyone is sleeping in the caravan.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:37

Whoa.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:38

Yeah, so you you're out here kind of in between watching stuff. You knock down this tree and like that's gonna be loud. Yeah, it's very loud. Like um, in an instant, Korokite is like right on top of you with the blade. Like ready to go, and he's goes, it's everything what's going on, hurry.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:58

There's a bug! The centipede!

SPEAKER_03 1:15:03

You know, I've I'm really interested in um National Geographic, and I noticed there was a very deadly, very deadly centipede on that tree. I'm sorry, it was just instinct to take it out and protect everyone.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:23

He's still handling the sword as he like slowly re- re-assumes like just regular standing positions.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:29

It won't happen again.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:31

Because thank you, Ariya.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:35

For your contribution.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:36

It's a little bit of a delicate situation to be making that much noise right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:42

Right, right. Sorry.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:46

But thank you for killing a deadly insect. Killing a deadly insect.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:51

Yes, of course. Sir duty in that.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:54

Yeah, at this point, all the others were kind of getting to the area and cleaning the cast.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:59

Would it wake up Sekimo?

SPEAKER_14 1:16:01

Uh yeah, psychimo.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:04

Don't worry, guys. I took care of it.

SPEAKER_14 1:16:07

Everyone is up. Give me a perception check to see if this would wake you up. Alright, I'm switching up my DC. I say, give me a perception check.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:16

Uh that is uh six.

SPEAKER_14 1:16:18

Oh yeah, you're sound asleep. Minus one. Oh, Nat 1. I didn't make OMA.

SPEAKER_13 1:16:24

Nat 1's obsession, it's crazy. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_15 1:16:27

Like everyone's dead, the entire forest has been like destroyed. No.

SPEAKER_13 1:16:34

What happened?

SPEAKER_14 1:16:35

We all all of a sudden we kind of gather around, but they as soon as they see Hariah and Corphy to their, you know, on less guard that y'all don't have your weapons drawn. Yeah. Or anything. Um, but Sekima looks over to you. Is that you? What was that noise?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:48

Got it handled. Don't worry. And with a thumbs up to her.

SPEAKER_14 1:16:53

Sekima kind of looks back at the tent, noticing her two other shinobi are sound asleep during the midst of this loud noise.

SPEAKER_18 1:17:02

For this listening coding and quotation mark. And shinobi, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:07

I just I love the fact that this is our like first real big mission. And it's like, hey, y'all have to not be shinobi. We're like, got it.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:16

Got it. Oh, easy.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:17

Easy money.

SPEAKER_18 1:17:21

You're reading your scrolls actually heading there and then looking back.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:25

Because she was laying in the tent with you guys. Yeah, gotta go. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:17:29

Look back. She knew she was gonna be first to the scene. Yeah. But she didn't know that he's gonna be like, okay. So there was this massive disturbance. But things settle down again. And huraih, your watch comes to a close. Not uneventful. There was an event. You were the event. You know that Sekima was gonna take over the 4 a.m. to 6 a.m. like sunrise last shift before y'all head out. Sekima just stays up. Like after this event, like three in the morning.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:03

Really?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:03

She doesn't trust me anymore. So can I go back to bed then?

SPEAKER_14 1:18:09

You do get to go back to bed.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:12

And what time is this?

SPEAKER_14 1:18:13

You'd be going to bed around 4 a.m.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:16

Four. Okay. Nice. I'm getting a total of seven hours. Ooh, ooh. I get up the next morning, like careful.

SPEAKER_14 1:18:28

Okay. But can we all yeah, everyone can go back to full everything except for you? Just minus the aftergon. But the next day comes, sunrise hits, um, you know, people make some breakfast or whatever early, but everyone gets back on the road. The caravan gets going. You guys head deeper and deeper into the forest of fire. And after, you know, another good four to five hours of walking with the caravan, you guys see the gates of the Leaf Village.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:06

Why am I expecting a bunker?

SPEAKER_14 1:19:12

The gates are already open. And there's um there's a bunch of different paths that as you got closer to Leaf, people were starting to join in, like other traders, other uh people doing stuff like that. And then we come in and there's just this kind of you know, big thoroughfare going through the gates, and at gates, you see looks to be a guard with this brown hair with like red patches. He's got a little bit of fur on his leaf village um jacket. Yeah, he is next to this large, like huge like bulldog that's mostly gray with like black window stripes. For Naruto fans, this appears to be an Inozuka clan member on guard. As well, standing at the gates, there's another woman with the chunion jacket. She's got this like green bandana coming down with this very um nice black symbol. Um, it is the symbol of the Nara clan, which no one here would know.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:20

But what do you mean no one here would know?

SPEAKER_14 1:20:23

No none of the people would know. Maybe, well, no, maybe Haraya does. With this long black ponytail that almost looks like shadows.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:32

Almost looks like shadows, huh? Almost looks like shadows.

SPEAKER_15 1:20:37

Shadows.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:39

Shadows. No. Oh, Dinara clan.

SPEAKER_15 1:20:43

Shadows.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:43

Shadows.

SPEAKER_13 1:20:46

You should know this. Yeah, yeah. Think of clan names. Oh, what a drag. Shadows.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:57

What?

SPEAKER_13 1:20:58

Shadows.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:59

What a drag? Yeah, I know I know what you are, but I don't know. He's worth it.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:07

Sorry. It's been a minute, I'm sorry. Okay, he's an alright.

SPEAKER_15 1:21:12

Actually, that is true. It's been like six episodes since we've seen anyone else.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:17

Yeah, it's all five episodes.

SPEAKER_15 1:21:20

We're still on the fight. Are you sure we're not?

SPEAKER_07 1:21:24

I mean we have to be. We haven't been able to watch that many episodes in 66, but look. They're just really passionate about this fight.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:33

When we get to a certain part of the campaign, I can't promise the spoilers aren't gonna come out.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:39

Yeah, yeah, you gotta start getting like Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:43

You're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:45

Stay up all night before work and just binge. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:49

Sounds good to me.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:50

Behind the woman is three.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:55

Thank you for giving her a better hairline than Jordan.

SPEAKER_14 1:22:00

It's it's what the clan needed.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:01

It is what the clan needed.

SPEAKER_14 1:22:04

Behind the woman is three children who look of similar age to the three of you. They're kind of at the gate. Korokita is the first to approach to the gate. And give papers to the Inazuka guard. The three supposed Genin that you would assume. There is one who has brown hair, this like kind of yellowish tan outfit underneath, and then like this kind of black little robe overcoat with this large like staff stick on the back that's black and gold. They all have weak village headbands. Another one of these, Genin, has very dark brown hair. This like dark it's like a dark navy undersuit with this like lavender top vest piece and this huge lavender and white squirrel in his back. The eyes appear to be that of the Hugo clan. And he last member of the- Do you know him? The last member of this team is the special guys. It looks a little bit older than you guys. Does have a little bit of a darker skin tone, okay? There's some representation. Chat GPT will allow it. I don't know. Looks lighter than me. Looks sense. Uh has these like brownish-red dreadlocks. You got this like white tank top with this little necklace that has like a little bear paw on it. He's got these long neon gloves that go all the way down to the fingertips to like mid to high, almost shoulder. And these like chains that are wrapped around the um the gloves, and then this very long like how would you describe it's like the sasuke um skirt.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:48

Yeah.

unknown 1:23:49

What?

SPEAKER_07 1:23:49

Also, when you said bear paw, I thought you said airpods.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:53

Yeah, he's got air pods.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:54

I was like, He's chilling. Yo, we listening to it.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:00

He can't hear us, he's wearing air pods. He's got this long, like black over, it's not really a skirt. It's very um Broly from Dragon Ball Z, you know, but in black instead of red. Um, kind of bottom, bottoms on. And yeah, you guys come up to this at the Leaf Village. Is there any initial reactions as Korukita is handing the paperwork to the guards?

SPEAKER_03 1:24:26

Yeah. Is this formation over here? Or is we're no eyes, yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:31

This is not the formation.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:33

Okay, her is gonna lock eyes with this girl, and then lock eyes with this guy. Sorry, not let me not see. Um the girl get lock eyes with the Hugo Genning, and then she's just gonna kind of move for the back.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:50

Really? Yeah, I like your dog. What are you yelling at? I like your dog.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:58

I'll probably like you know how when you're like in public and you see people with their their pets, you're like, oh like you know, like that. I kind of do that. Okay. You like puff out your chest.

SPEAKER_15 1:25:13

We're going to fish. Okay. My fish got burnt by somebody last night. Whatever! Mailing by you.

SPEAKER_14 1:25:22

Well. You burned the first and then she incinerated it. But as you guys are walking up to the gate. I think that is where we're going to end for today. You guys have reached the gates.

SPEAKER_18 1:25:41

I want a name all.

SPEAKER_14 1:26:16

The five Kaga and their most trusted advisors agreed to meet in secret. This is due to the tail beast attacks on the mist and the cloud occurring suspiciously close after the last scheduled five Kage summit. Thank you all for coming. I'm glad to see everyone made it safely. As you all know, I originally scheduled a summit in order to discuss the village of the hidden flames and their claim to being the sixth grade nation, along with the newly appointed Gilgage. However, the recent events of the Tailbeast attacks are a more pressing matter. Does anyone have any opening thoughts? Yeah, I do actually. Anyone else find it strange that the two villages with the longest standing alliance of Justin unfortunately happened to be attacked on the same day? And coincidentally, both candidates in charity something considered to be a valuable military asset. Meanwhile, the other of other villagers just felt so bad about it. We forked over countless supplies and resources. Lady Tjikage, do you understand what you're implying? Do you think I would do that to my own people? Or mine? I'm unsure. However, for someone so concerned, you sure were the last to arrive here. The order of our arrival is irrelevant for a long time. Don't be called Tiju Kage. You know I have the furthest to travel. Enough in order to deliver the flames. Have we learned nothing of the Kage that come before us? We are the next generation that was supposed to end this biggery. All of you have been informed that a mysterious group of people were involved in the attack on the Mist. It is also speculated that they were acting in the cloud as well. The investigation will proceed, for now we will continue the flow of supplies. I second that, adds Gara. Korotsuchi again then speaks. Alright, then what's this news of the village hidden in the flames? Gara repeats himself. Again, they are going by the village of the hidden flames. It doesn't follow the same naming convention as other villages. From our intel, the village sprouted up where the divine tree grew. They made most of their finances selling wood from the tree. They appeared to be a collection of loose clans and branches. The Kalkage is a man named Nakarobi Namikaze. Naruto, checking genealogy records that were hard to track down. He appears to be your second cousin. A look of surprise and shock washes over the Hokage's face. Daroi then says, Yes, the hidden flame village. The cloud has made quite the pretty penny from trade deals with them. Gara says, I believe all of the great nations have. However, they seem frustrated with their low negotiating power. I believe this claim to be a great nation is an effort to gain more authority over the region and in trade deals. For now, I say we keep a close eye on them. They haven't taken any hostile actions as of yet. The official coronation for the Kokage is coming soon. Does anyone plan to be in attendance? Doing so would validate their claim. Naruto pauses, heavily considering it. Chojura then chimes in. I do not think that wise. If the five great nations approved of this, then every small nation afterwards would be vying for the same treatment. This could cause massive stability issues across the land, and even a potential fifth great Shinobi war. The other Kage besides Naruto nod in approval. Gara finishes out. Then it is agreed none of us are to attend the Kilkage's coronation. That just about covers everything on the docket. I apologize for such a brief meeting, however, it is for the best we all return to our villages before it is noticed that we are missing. In a flash, the Kage and their advisors are gone. The spot in which the summit was just had returns to the gentle sounds of nature and quiet.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:12

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