Chaos Crew 2

Girlfriend Problems

Season 1 Episode 10

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After a break that felt like minutes, or maybe months, Orcamon and Kiho Mori are staring down Libramon in the bleak lands of the Gear Savanna. Without any intel about why this strange digimon has been chasing them, the only option left is to fight.

Meanwhile, in the cyberpunk city, Shelbie and Wispy finally get a break from the chaos, but then again, living with a feral baby digimon brings its own challenges their way.

The Digimon system we're using is being homebrewed by Lio as we play test it. Our theme song and graphics were made using AI, and the background music in most episodes comes from M4S on Spotify.

SPEAKER_13

Hi, it's Little Chomp, and welcome back to the Chaos Group. Last time is Sobe and Shelby decided to go to the lamplighter base to find out if his egg was gonna hatch. Shelby and Foxmond got to talk for the first time on the drive over, and it was uh a little complicated, but good it's a good start! Once we got to the base, Simon examined both of our Sapotamas and found out the name of the owner of Shelby's egg, but also told us that if Isso Bay Sapotama was going to make a Digimon, then it's already been deleted. He was devastated and went back to school early. Well, Shelby decided to stick around and wait for his new Sapotama to get finished. Tojiro showed up and yelled at Shelby for not being at work, and eventually the whole team was there. Shelby and Fox Bond got into an argument. And he de-digivolved back to Wispy, and she decided to keep wasting time instead of going back to school. But because she was still there, she got sucked into the group workout that Lena was running and had to run until she was very nearly sick. Eventually she went back to school and talked things out with Jin, her student teacher, and finally got a chance to rest. But none of that matters because this week we're coming back to Orcamon and Kyomori, who are in the digital world, face to face with Lee Ramon, who may or may not have caught up to them while they were um having a friendship is magic conversation about being pirates and doing digidestined things, whatever that means, and uh, you know, in general, just not running like they were supposed to. Kyo pulled out a Digivice and Songon Digivolve for just the second time, but this time with her own human partner.

SPEAKER_02

Uh we're starting this in initiative.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Um don't click on a token, just click the button, right?

SPEAKER_02

Just click the button, don't click a token. It's a real weird situation.

SPEAKER_08

Done. That's Yep.

SPEAKER_02

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_13

I expected the eight to be bad. The eight is fantastic, okay. This is an eight on a D20. Okay. Are you okay with the signature move, or did you want to change that or check the signature move?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, I did type hole on a skill. Reflect it back at the end. Yeah. That's fine.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I would avoid full damage to its opponent.

SPEAKER_00

What would you do instead?

SPEAKER_02

I would say half damage. Alright. So if it inflicts a major, it inflicts a minor. If it inflicts two majors, oh two minors. A mate sorry, a major and a minor, it inflicts a major. So So one step down.

SPEAKER_13

Since this. Okay. So this is.

SPEAKER_02

So this would be a defense signature now. Got it. So essentially.

SPEAKER_13

So I can.

SPEAKER_02

So when we roll for me going, alright, he's attacking you, and usually you go, okay, I'm gonna dodge. I'm gonna roll durability or I'm gonna dodge or whatever you have. Instead, you can go, I'm gonna do signature.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

If the signature fails, then you roll durability.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. Alright, so can I take off my life ring and like throw it at him and then I presumably pull it back to myself with the rope, or is that a part of my body?

SPEAKER_02

I presume it's a life ring. I think you can take it.

SPEAKER_13

Alright, what do I roll to throw this?

SPEAKER_06

And like hit him in the head or whatever.

SPEAKER_02

We're gonna roll uh to begin with. Let's roll with um just a brawn check.

SPEAKER_13

Sure. I'm gonna ladder that because I got a nine on a d10.

SPEAKER_00

Twenty-five.

SPEAKER_02

It's funny that you have a it's funny we actually brought up the signature techniques because he also has a defense.

SPEAKER_01

No way!

SPEAKER_02

And weighs the weighs the outcome of the thing.

SPEAKER_00

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_02

Uh he can with this roll a brains check against any incoming attack. Okay. If uh if he succeeds, uh the person loses uh the attack misses and the person loses their next turn.

SPEAKER_13

Wow, that's pretty intense.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Why didn't it do that? Start.

SPEAKER_02

Yep. Uh Wow, that was miserable. He rolls all in shit. Uh however, he does have calculated roll. Okay. So he's gonna retry. 28. As it comes at him, you watch the scale sit there and tip. Uh, and all of a sudden the ring that you were sending at him, it's like it didn't even go anywhere. It just circles around him and then back to you. Landing in your hands as you feel like you're stun there. Alright. Uh that's my turn. Good. Your turn. Uh he is going to come in. He has an attachment skill.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Uh I would also love what uh type of attribute.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh data and water.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, so he's a vaccine steal.

SPEAKER_13

Should I have rolled that first attack with any type of advantage, disadvantage?

SPEAKER_02

I think that's I think data overcomes vaccine.

SPEAKER_00

Does it?

SPEAKER_02

Yep.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. It's probably not gonna be better than a 25, but can I roll it again? Roll it again.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, just in case. Don't forget you'd have to roll it as a D9. But it doesn't matter, even as a D12.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um, alright. Okay. He is going to come in. Uh he's gonna hold me while I already spear beam scorches like in then sunlight. This is a brains one.

SPEAKER_16

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02

17 to hit.

SPEAKER_13

Once again, not great, but Okay, so since I've lost my turn, am I allowed to respond to this?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, you can still respond. You just cannot uh you can't make attack. Uh when it says you've lost uh your turn, let me just check my thing. I you lose the capability of uh counter-attacking and attacking until the end of your next turn.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

He essentially sends you into defense only mode.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Unfortunately, well, okay.

SPEAKER_02

You can still use your signature to attack.

SPEAKER_13

I know, but I'll take a major injury if I do.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_13

Um, I think I'm gonna go ahead and spend some of my points to pick up the extra miners on her. I'm trying not to build them identically, but she really.

SPEAKER_00

She really needs it. Because we're coming into this fight already pretty hurt. Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Um then yeah, I will go ahead and I will use my signature and try to stop that with some water pressure. So that would be three string. I'm gonna clear them off. I'm gonna put a minor injury. You just realized what?

SPEAKER_02

I just I keep forgetting vaccine and uh data. Um, but that's only advantage on attacks, it's not disadvantage.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, so what do I roll for reflection wave?

SPEAKER_02

Reflection wave? Uh uh, I would say that's probably I think it would either be a I'm can I do brains? I think it's probably dura it's either a brains flight or durability.

SPEAKER_13

If I can pick from those three, I can go durability, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02

I'm leaning towards it being brains more simply because it's pressuring back.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, it's an active response. I think it makes sense.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Alright, give me a brains check.

SPEAKER_13

18.

SPEAKER_02

18, that's enough. So you reflect it back, he takes a minor.

SPEAKER_21

Cool.

SPEAKER_02

Uh, cool. As it hits him, he sits there, the water just smashing this light back into him. As he looks up as he. Ha! How interesting. That is not what I expected of uh someone without the digidestined with them.

SPEAKER_05

As you hear Keyo just uh Ogamon has their digidestin! Keho Mori is here to save the day. Keho!

SPEAKER_13

Uh I mean that's what I was gonna say as well, but Keho is going to just I got my Digi dusted and he doesn't even have a girlfriend yet.

SPEAKER_02

He runs up and punches the Digimon.

SPEAKER_06

Bad idea kid, bad idea kid.

SPEAKER_02

Uh so he rolled a d4, then a d5. He has uh a special little thing here called reversal instinct, which means he explodes on one less than max, meaning that five explodes. Explodes on an 8. Woohoo! It's like 33 in the best Libramon sits there to see. Is this human trying to Holy shit! Uh he doesn't have the thing that lets him roll defense, so he's just gonna roll durability. Kyo kicks this dude in the face. He only inflicts a minor injury because that's all humans can do to Digimon. But evil flying leap kicks him in the face as sleeping on, oh god, oh, oh, what's Kio stands up and says, Yeah!

SPEAKER_20

Don't you mess with my Digimon?

SPEAKER_11

Uh he's so cute. I don't get a turn.

SPEAKER_02

Uh you do not. Right. So your turn dissipates uh as it goes straight back to Libramon this time. However, that effect is now null and boy.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Uh all right, Libramon is going to try and kill Kyo because he's pissed.

SPEAKER_13

So I do have a question. Do I just lose attacks and counterattacks or do I lose my whole turn?

SPEAKER_02

No, just attacks and counterattacks.

SPEAKER_13

So I can move. You can move. Okay. I will uh move forward.

SPEAKER_02

Like free little action.

SPEAKER_13

Can I push Kyo behind me?

SPEAKER_04

Sure.

SPEAKER_02

You push Kyo back. Okay. He is gonna go round on his turn. He doesn't like that kid.

SPEAKER_13

I mean, that's understandable, but I want to at least have like tried pushing him with my flipper.

SPEAKER_02

You push him behind you. Uh he is going to roll a drawn, I guess. When he won. Uh versus Keo, who, as a Digidestin, can always make a counterattack in uh can always make a counter. Uh he does not have good stats in anything. Um he only has brawn, so he's gonna try and headbutt the fist.

SPEAKER_11

Okay. Kid.

SPEAKER_02

Uh he headbutts the fist and blood just trickles. He takes a major wound.

unknown

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02

Is he?

SPEAKER_20

I don't think that worked very well, Ogamon. I mean my head hurts a little bit.

SPEAKER_07

Just let me fight.

SPEAKER_20

No, no, I got it.

SPEAKER_07

No!

SPEAKER_05

We gotta fight together.

SPEAKER_02

Alright. That is Libremon's turn. Uh it is Keos. Keyo is going to punch this man in the face. Okay.

SPEAKER_20

Uh which he might, who knows?

SPEAKER_02

Uh Libramon is going to. He's not gonna vertically scales him. He's gonna just try and uh tank it.

SPEAKER_14

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

He does, just as Keo hits him, uh, he brings his arms together as Keo punches him directly in the cross of his arms. Uh, alright. Sangamon, you are up.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Um. I would like you can you can tell me if I'm just doing water or what. But I would like to blast him with a jet of water and try to like knock him back some if that's possible.

SPEAKER_02

Sure. Sure. I will say give me a if you want to just push him with water, I'd say maybe brawn.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, so if I pick movement, then I don't get damage, right? Because you could get like one thing in this.

SPEAKER_02

I'll say we'll push it down a thing again. So if you get good enough to get a major, it'll only be a minor.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Man. Why's this kid got a punch?

SPEAKER_11

Because this is like protective instincts are overriding battle instincts, and I'm like, no, but no.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, I'm I'm happy. Smiling.

SPEAKER_13

You're smiling?

SPEAKER_02

He's smiling.

SPEAKER_13

He's smiling. Well, that's great. Alright. Um. What do we wanna do? What's your brain's? Your brains is D20. Okay, I think you know if you try to push him back, it's not gonna do anything but the lay, because they're both gonna move. So let's try grappling him. Can I take my life ring off and just like over his head to pin his arms down?

SPEAKER_11

You sure again. Try. What is this? Run?

SPEAKER_13

But yeah, Ron. Okay, is this with advantage because of our types? Or no. Yes. Discounts.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

I get no trainer bonus because I have no trainer. Um, let's see. Okay. Wow. But I guess 13's enough.

SPEAKER_02

He can re-roll, uh, as he does still have calculated roll. Uh he's gonna roll a brawn again. 20.

SPEAKER_00

Alright, take my tokens.

SPEAKER_02

As you try to grab him, he struggles alongside you before throwing you back. Uh any movement on that? Um hurt is Kyo look. Not that hurt, he's taking one damage.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, but I don't know how much damage humans can take.

SPEAKER_02

Same as you. Humans always start with four. Humans are hardy.

SPEAKER_16

Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_02

Heartier than Digimon, but they're very much weaker.

SPEAKER_13

So they have durability, just not attack. Okay, then I guess no movement. We'll just see how it goes.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Alright. Uh, Kyo's gonna sit there as he.

SPEAKER_20

Oh, come on, what are you doing? You just uh You're too focused on me! Focus on the enemy! We must We must take down this ho mehardy! We need to do this!

SPEAKER_02

We'll start it back in this single as uh He is going to try and punch Libremon again. There he goes.

SPEAKER_09

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Braun is his only good stuff.

SPEAKER_09

I know! I understand, okay? I don't have to like a child being in danger.

SPEAKER_02

He punches Libremon as he circles around as he Alright, we flagged him! Now get him! We flag Alright, Sangamon, you are up.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, um, alright. Um, can I still do like what are what are my options with attacking with water? Because I feel bad going to ice every time just because it's sharp. But I don't know that just pressure does stuff.

SPEAKER_02

It's a great question. Um Yeah, I'm It's hard to say.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Really?

SPEAKER_13

Like you'll just go along with anything I say as long as it's kind of reasonable-ish. Pretty much. Yeah. Okay. Um, will you uh let me like freeze an ice spear and stab him or no? Yeah. Okay. Then I spray water out of my blowhole and collect it in my flipper and make like a I guess sword. Cause Keo likes swords and stuff, and I'm gonna try to stab him with that, and it'll be Yeah. What would you like me to roll?

SPEAKER_02

I would like you to roll a I guess a brain check since it's changing the like from.

SPEAKER_00

I have to understand water to do that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13

Um I mean technically I could actually flatter that and get my little D4. So we'll go ahead and spend two to get that 18 up. Okay, 34. Wow.

SPEAKER_02

Um Roll real good for him now.

SPEAKER_13

Uh I'm like, I could do another thing, but I feel like that's unnecessary. Well, I mean, I also have signature move. So I could pull a flame whizmon and roll that again.

SPEAKER_21

You good?

SPEAKER_13

Would that be a d20 and a d4? And then we add it to the 34. Is that how that goes? Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02

So you got to d20. Shh even once a person and extra die at the same person. Alright. Yeah, yeah, it's the dice that you just use, even if it's laddered, you roll it at the new ladder stage. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Um with advantage or die? Like, can I just click it?

SPEAKER_02

Uh just click it.

SPEAKER_13

Alright. We'll do a flame wizmon. So that's a 21, so 55.

SPEAKER_21

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Uh yo's gonna think I'm amazing.

SPEAKER_02

Alright. So with that, you're gonna deal one major and one minor to him.

SPEAKER_10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Alright. Huh. How do you wanna do this?

SPEAKER_11

What is the end?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Kyo's been dealing minor wounds to him. He doesn't have four minor wounds, and he only has three uh three damages.

SPEAKER_13

So she kind of like roars a little bit, and that the sword thing that I described before happens. And Kyo would just see above his head because he's short. This ice blade come like through um the guy's back and like in probably his upper chest and stuff.

SPEAKER_00

And then I think she would just like pull it out and let him drop rather than like trying to cut him more as he falls or anything.

SPEAKER_13

Shower of shower of ice around him as the like digital sparkles and whatever start.

SPEAKER_22

Duh. What? Love it.

SPEAKER_13

You ask me how I want to kill someone with a sword. There's not that many ways.

SPEAKER_02

I never said you had to kill someone, but you went there. Okay, wait, wait, what are we supposed to do? Incapacitate, but that's cool. Well, isn't he just gonna be cool that you're a murder machine?

SPEAKER_13

Isn't he just gonna turn back to a little Digimon anyway?

SPEAKER_02

No. Oh this one. In this place, that's not exactly what happened.

SPEAKER_16

Oh no!

SPEAKER_02

As he's hit, he looks at you as he stands there just for a second, just looking out, shocked, a little horrified, as he I will return. I as he starts fading into blue sparks, as he looks at the sky as he The Zodiac 13 will find you. And judgment will come as he fades into nothingness. Uh he might he will be reborn as an egg later. But in theory, here they don't just become the little Digimon, they fucking die.

SPEAKER_22

I thought you would just be like, oh no, I'm now little.

SPEAKER_09

Right. And then we just take him back to Elec Mon. It's like I got you a child.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, no, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Just like I guess. Drop the sword.

SPEAKER_08

Man, that's please don't punch people. I mean, you were you were good at it.

SPEAKER_02

Gonna punch people, that's my best talent thing. Uh oh, come on?

SPEAKER_08

But what if you get hurt?

SPEAKER_02

If I get hurt, that's my choice. I'm uh I'm allowed to do what I wanna do, just like you're allowed to do what you want.

SPEAKER_08

Then I'll have to find a different digestin.

SPEAKER_02

That's not true, because I'm not gonna lose. You can't uh we're partners, uh, Orcman.

SPEAKER_22

You're not allowed to treat me like a baby. No one's allowed to do that whilst I'm here. That's not cool. I'm just Aye, who's your captain?

SPEAKER_02

As he stands up on a rock, staring off into the distance. Uh Who's the captain here?

SPEAKER_08

Did we talk about that? Is this a pirate thing?

SPEAKER_22

That's right, Orcomon. It's a pirate thing. I'm the captain, you're the quartermaster!

SPEAKER_20

The quartermaster has the captain's back, but he doesn't second guess the captain.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, should I not have killed that guy?

SPEAKER_16

No.

SPEAKER_08

I thought he was gonna turn into an egg and then Elecmon would come running out and grab him. Uh um. This is awkward. Oh, okay, fine. I if you get really hurt, I'm probably gonna do that again. But sure. You can you you can uh punch people if you need to, I guess.

SPEAKER_02

That's right. And you can punch people with me.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, I could. I don't punch people. What are you too cool for me now? No, no, it's not the with you part, it's the punching part. You sound like my big brother. No, no, no, no, no. It's just like I can shoot water, I can make ice, I can do all kinds of stuff, but like I could punch. If that's what you'd like. It was the attack thing, not the with you thing. I will 100% fight things with you. Just you know. Do I have to punch?

SPEAKER_07

No. Okay, then we're cool.

SPEAKER_22

You're interesting, Okamon.

SPEAKER_08

I was born yesterday. Or maybe two days ago.

SPEAKER_02

That seems rough.

SPEAKER_08

Eh, it's been great so far. Mostly. Except that like I lost Shelby immediately, and I think Mr. Polio is dead, and then the only friends. You know what actually hasn't been that great. But then I met you!

SPEAKER_22

Miss Sanglemon.

SPEAKER_08

And it got better.

SPEAKER_19

Oh. I like you, but you you're not very cheery, are you?

SPEAKER_08

I was happy until you said it was rough, and then I'd think about the stuff that happened.

SPEAKER_22

Well, let's never think about it again.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Sure you don't prefer saying a one.

SPEAKER_02

I don't I prefer my partner. That's what I prefer.

SPEAKER_00

She's just like walking away slowly because she's just not like sure.

SPEAKER_22

No, no, you're you're my partner.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Look, a lot happened in the last. Okay, fine. What do we do? We're playing pirates. How do we play pirates? What?

SPEAKER_02

He starts like kicking the ground a little as he.

SPEAKER_06

What?

SPEAKER_02

You don't sound like you want to play with me, you know. You sound busy or upset. You upset with me. I don't want you to be upset with me.

SPEAKER_12

As my friend is you don't want people to be mad at me.

SPEAKER_08

I'm not mad at you. I you just said you preferred the little me better, and I don't know how to switch back to little me so you like me again.

SPEAKER_12

And I like you. I like I like I like you too. Uh you're the same same little guy, but you're big now, and that's super cool.

SPEAKER_07

I know, but you said you liked little You don't like me because I punched people? No, I got scared.

SPEAKER_05

You got scared of me punching people?

SPEAKER_07

Everyone gets scared when I punch people. My skin is thicker than yours.

SPEAKER_20

That's not true! Humans notoriously are more terrible than Digibon.

SPEAKER_08

I don't know.

SPEAKER_11

We notoriously can take more hits. I have a 1d20 plus 1d4 plus 6.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you're stronger, but don't take more hits.

SPEAKER_11

That's durability. I also have four minors and four majors.

SPEAKER_14

She's pretty good.

SPEAKER_02

Just sounds like uh think you're better than me. So you don't hate me because I hitting s No.

SPEAKER_08

Why would I hate you for that?

SPEAKER_02

Lots of people don't want to be my friend because I hit things and I'm what they call violent.

SPEAKER_13

Kyo! I just stabbed a guy and he turned to sparkles.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, but that was a Digimon, that's different.

SPEAKER_08

How's that different?

SPEAKER_02

Because they're Digimon.

SPEAKER_08

Wait. We're not do you not think we're people?

SPEAKER_20

You like people, but you're not people. You you literally come back.

SPEAKER_22

That one's likely to come back.

SPEAKER_14

And look at the blue sparkle! Nothing.

SPEAKER_16

Like, what do you mean?

SPEAKER_20

She's not saying what do you mean, but she's just like trying to figure like the He'll probably come back before the day is over, right?

SPEAKER_00

I oh no.

SPEAKER_02

He'll disappear and then go join uh other people in another place and then be now a Digivolt or now a D Digival, but also not the same, and you've erased his personality and person, he's not the same person, but Yeah, but you don't think we're people anyway, so what does that matter?

SPEAKER_20

Are you mad at me?

SPEAKER_08

It's just you I don't know. If I disappear, are you gonna be this okay with it?

SPEAKER_02

Cause like he stops crying.

SPEAKER_08

That you don't think I'm a person.

SPEAKER_20

You're not a you're a Digimon!

SPEAKER_00

Okay, I need to know do we D-Digivolve because of angst?

SPEAKER_02

You can choose to D Digivolve. Whenever you're feeling it.

SPEAKER_00

Sangamon's gonna go ahead and shrink back down.

SPEAKER_02

I will say this by the way, just because you digivolve does never never make you a different digimon. Oh I know.

SPEAKER_13

It's just he said he said I preferred little you better and just like I don't know how to be little me again. Like, I can't make that happen.

SPEAKER_21

What a time.

SPEAKER_13

What? She's born yesterday, so no.

SPEAKER_02

What a what a sad time for Kyo.

SPEAKER_13

Uh sad time for everybody.

SPEAKER_02

He's not special.

SPEAKER_13

No, it's not special. Everyone gets hit with the eggs.

SPEAKER_02

He just didn't want him disappoint. Uh cool. So um in this moment, you have D-dit volved. As both of you seem a little down as he. I don't know what to do. What do we do?

SPEAKER_15

I don't know. I mean stop crying. I've only traveled with Mr. Polio and he basically just bossed me around and stuff.

SPEAKER_23

I'm not your boss, I'm your friend.

SPEAKER_15

What does that mean? Like, I haven't had a friend before. Maybe I'm just mad at it.

SPEAKER_20

It means we help each other and we look after each other and we support each other and we don't get mad at one another.

SPEAKER_15

So if I ever feel mad then we can't be friends.

SPEAKER_12

We can be friends.

SPEAKER_14

If you ever get mad at me, then we can't be friends.

SPEAKER_20

I won't get mad at you.

SPEAKER_15

I just I I don't understand what I I'm doing wrong.

SPEAKER_14

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. What have you had other friends?

SPEAKER_15

I don't I don't know how this gets fixed.

SPEAKER_02

I don't wanna be upset either, but like Can we just not be upset?

SPEAKER_15

Is that an option?

SPEAKER_20

I I think it's an option.

SPEAKER_15

So how do we know we're done being upset?

SPEAKER_19

Are you still mad?

SPEAKER_14

No.

SPEAKER_20

I'm not mad. Does that mean we're good?

SPEAKER_12

I don't know. Can we say yes? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Friendship is confusing, Claire.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_14

So what are we do now?

SPEAKER_20

I don't know. What do you want to do?

SPEAKER_14

You stop being mad at your friend and you get along again. Then what do you do?

SPEAKER_05

I don't know. What do you do?

unknown

I never had a friend before.

SPEAKER_05

Neither have I! What? I don't have friends, but you're so cool!

SPEAKER_22

I have what's called an antisocial personality disorder.

SPEAKER_14

I don't know what any of those words mean, but you're really cool. You're really cool. Yeah. You think? Did you see the Did you see the the cool sword? I hit him so hard it was like You went.

SPEAKER_19

Right?

SPEAKER_22

And you became and you like turned it into water into something else and it was super cool.

SPEAKER_15

And you hit way harder than somebody that's your size could, I think. Because look, I was worried the first time and it was gonna be like you don't and then you were like and it was really kinda cool, but then I don't know, I just I don't want you to get hurt.

SPEAKER_02

I'm pretty strong.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. My uh they said that I'm uh I have something called uh anger issues deep down. But I think it's just I hit really good, so people get uh upset that they're not as good at hitting things as me.

SPEAKER_14

But that's not right, hmm. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Do you think I'm wrong?

SPEAKER_14

I don't know!

SPEAKER_22

Oh no, am I wrong?

SPEAKER_15

I got mad at you for a different reason, not because the punching. The punching was pretty cool. You got mad at me? And I thought you'd be okay if I just disappeared, and that made me sad because I don't wanna disappear. I'm gonna stay here.

SPEAKER_02

Disappear? You're uh I like that you're not a person because people suck.

SPEAKER_19

They're mean and they they yell at you a bunch and are uh always want you to do something and they're butts.

SPEAKER_15

Um

SPEAKER_14

I don't know that many humans are level.

SPEAKER_02

They're all really they all really suck. Most of them, yeah. They're all very they all think that they're better than you, and they tell you that you need to grow up, and that pirates pirates aren't cool, and then your big brother decides to beat you up and laugh at you, and you can't do anything but go cry.

SPEAKER_14

Or a sister.

SPEAKER_02

Good. Good. This this works then.

SPEAKER_14

Okay. So we were gonna do your thing.

SPEAKER_02

What was mine too?

SPEAKER_14

I don't know, we were just gonna do the pirate thing or whatever for two months.

SPEAKER_02

And it hasn't been pirates.

SPEAKER_15

Been two months.

SPEAKER_14

So And you're a captain! So you gotta decide what we're doing and where we're going and stuff.

SPEAKER_02

He dries the tears out of his eyes as he.

SPEAKER_23

Yeah, you you okay with me deciding?

SPEAKER_15

I mean, I already told you that I don't really know what's going on, and I don't have anywhere to be for long time. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02

As at this point you hear uh okay, that's not what I expected to see here.

SPEAKER_17

As you hear, oh I don't know who they are, Matt, but I think they're other digidasted.

SPEAKER_02

As I'd say this one. People alongside this Digimon.

SPEAKER_11

I wish she had met plush psychimon so bad.

SPEAKER_20

Oh my god, it's plush Psychimon! Oh no. No, no, I'm not.

SPEAKER_09

You could be. Can I just draw stitches on your belly with the marker?

SPEAKER_02

Like and turn you purple.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

It's fine. We're gonna switch back to Shelby in a second, but we're gonna do this match at all.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_20

As you and Keo stand there as Kyo. Oh no! Another person! Quickly, Sangamon! Kill it!

SPEAKER_02

Do not suggest you do that.

SPEAKER_14

Are you a Digi Dustin?

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, who are you?

SPEAKER_14

Do you have a girlfriend?

SPEAKER_12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I do. She she lives in Canada at the moment.

SPEAKER_15

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

You wouldn't know her.

SPEAKER_15

Well no, I mean it's not I wouldn't know her. I'm just surprised you didn't get rid of your Digimon. All the other Digimonsters.

SPEAKER_22

You never get rid of Gobberman.

SPEAKER_14

All the other Digimonst that I know from your Digidastin said it's so good and a girlfriend. I don't want you anymore, Spider-Man.

SPEAKER_19

Matt, are you going to do that to me if you and Sora get together? Gobblemon, stop saying pain. Stop!

SPEAKER_20

Yes, Laura's the girl that he likes. Gobblemon! Stop it! He takes Gobblamon up.

SPEAKER_19

I'm sorry, Matt. God damn it.

SPEAKER_14

Sure, if you get a girlfriend, don't forget me, okay?

SPEAKER_02

I'll never have a girlfriend. Girls are Yucky and have cooties.

unknown

Okay!

SPEAKER_14

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

You've got uh just you wait a couple of years. Just you wait.

SPEAKER_15

Okay. Sir. Um you're not that hmm.

SPEAKER_14

Okay, okay, well, that's the only thing I care about.

SPEAKER_09

She just starts walking back to you.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, what why are you kids out here? How are you out here? Were you summoned by the big thing in the sky? I didn't even think that Digimon could be uh Digimon were still around. After me and Goblamon said goodbye to each other, I thought that it was over, but we reunited. And now I'm back here again. Have you guys seen anybody else around?

SPEAKER_15

Just a bunch of Digimon. Do you think Digimon aren't people?

SPEAKER_02

Digimon are Digimon are kind of people.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, I'll take kind of people.

SPEAKER_02

But Gobberman, you're you're personable. That's right. I'm very personable.

SPEAKER_15

You seem nice. Do you wanna be friends?

unknown

Do you wanna be friends with digimon?

SPEAKER_15

No, just Goberman. Because all the other Digimons that I met have been mean to me.

unknown

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_15

I just wanna Digimon friends.

SPEAKER_02

And not you! This match is okay. I don't super care. Gobberman.

SPEAKER_19

What what are you giv what are you doing here? Where did you come from?

SPEAKER_15

Summo.

SPEAKER_19

There is a from Tokyo.

SPEAKER_15

Mr. Polio, who took me to a room with a bunch of computers in it, and then it told me not to touch stuff because people would find out, and then we went through a big shiny, and um and then we ended up here, and then we were running, and then we met a left man, and then we were talking in a left man's house, and his counter's named like Steve and stuff, and then um we were leaving there and then he got shot by a horse guy, and I think he's probably well somebody said he was dead. But that's how I got here. Wait, are you the bad guy?

SPEAKER_14

I noticed I should have asked that earlier before talking about all that stuff.

SPEAKER_18

No no Sangamon, it's okay because bad guys won't tell you that they're bad guys. They'll say that they're good guys.

SPEAKER_02

It's not just I'm starting to get really confused about what your whole deal is. Are you from Tokyo where you dragged here? Kia said says, I'm from Nagasaki! You see, okay, so Japan, that's still something Gobam.

SPEAKER_15

I don't know where Shabi lives.

SPEAKER_02

Do you know where the others are? Have you seen any other Digidest?

SPEAKER_14

Nope! I haven't shown so far.

SPEAKER_02

As he holds up his phone and you can see on it uh a little like map with dots all over it. Can I sp I tracked you guys here, I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_13

Can I spit out my egg and see if it will make a map? Or do I not understand cell phones?

SPEAKER_02

You spit out your egg, it doesn't, so you can do work. Like you don't know how to get into it. Okay, I'll swallow it again. As Matt sits there, see, you are a digidest. Okay. Oh, good. That's all old school tech though. Where'd you where'd you even get that as Keo? Get back!

SPEAKER_20

I don't trust you! You're not I won't believe you're a good person.

SPEAKER_22

You probably suck.

SPEAKER_02

I bet you're an older brother as he I am an older brother. I knew it!

SPEAKER_15

I don't understand Kioratsa.

SPEAKER_02

If he's an older brother, it means he probably bullies his younger brother. I would never bully TK.

SPEAKER_13

What makes sense to me? No, just walk over to Steve.

SPEAKER_02

Whatever then. He starts walking away as come on, where are you going?

SPEAKER_14

I ran into Steve Abraman. I thought you guys were still talking.

SPEAKER_02

Where uh we're going. There's nothing here. Where are you guys going? We're probably gonna end up just tracked down by uh the Zodiac 13.

SPEAKER_15

Oh! I just killed one of them.

SPEAKER_02

He looks at you as he I was bigger at the time. Right. Well, regardless of that, if they come around here, we're in problematic times. So we probably need to get moving. Hopefully, if my calculations are right and this other dot is in here, I would presume one of these five is Ty. And if we can find Ty, we can work out what to do. It's never a good plan, but at least it's a plan. Don't be like that, Matt. Ty's your best friend. Calm down there, Gobblemon. I don't know about best friend.

SPEAKER_15

I thought Sora was his best friend.

SPEAKER_02

No, he wants Sora to be his girlfriend.

SPEAKER_15

What's Gobberman?

SPEAKER_02

Stop it!

SPEAKER_19

Hey, stop talking!

SPEAKER_14

Gobberman, can I talk to you for a second just over here?

SPEAKER_02

Okay. He looks off. Keo and Matt just stare at each other.

SPEAKER_15

What's a girlfriend? People keep talking about this, but I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_17

Well, when you're in love, you find a girl that is a friend, but then you become more like a romantic friend.

SPEAKER_15

How do you know if you have a romantic friend?

SPEAKER_22

Do you kiss other uh do you kiss anyone and feel warm bubbly uh butterflies in your tummy? Oh because that's what they say that it feels like.

SPEAKER_15

Okay. No, I don't.

SPEAKER_02

I just wondered Then you don't have a girlfriend.

SPEAKER_15

Okay Okay, cool. I just I just wondered because like there was a moment that when I did the fan it doesn't matter. I'm no nothing really like that happened. So I guess I'm never well, I don't know, maybe I could get one later. Is that a person thing? Did Digimon have those?

SPEAKER_22

I've never met a Digimon with a girlfriend, but maybe.

SPEAKER_14

Who knows? Maybe we should find out. Oh, is it okay? I don't know if Kio is gonna wanna go with you, but is it okay with you if we did?

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, the more the merrier.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, let's just be quiet.

SPEAKER_17

Shh, I'll I'll convince Matt.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, okay, good luck! I'll give him like a high five.

SPEAKER_02

They're just staring each other down, not a word said between the two.

SPEAKER_15

Hi Kyo.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, what's up?

SPEAKER_15

I think we should maybe play pirates in the same direction that they're going.

SPEAKER_18

That sounds like a terrible plan. But I think why?

SPEAKER_15

What makes it bad?

SPEAKER_22

Because they'll be in that direction. I know. And they'll make fun of me for being a pirate.

SPEAKER_15

They haven't yet.

SPEAKER_02

They're just they're secretly doing it under their breath. Look at them. They're currently talking about me, I can already tell.

SPEAKER_22

As you hear, what? Why would I do that, God?

SPEAKER_14

This is my first friend! My Digimon friend.

SPEAKER_15

I just wanna Well, he hasn't punched me yet. I I thought I had friends before. There were three of them, and they invited me to their club, and it was gonna be good. And then they were like, Singerman, you're sick. We gotta beat you up, and then they tried, and then I had to run away. But this Digimon's nice to me.

SPEAKER_18

We're gonna have to go with them, aren't we?

SPEAKER_15

I just I like Garbo High's friendly.

SPEAKER_02

But here's the rules. Here's the rules.

SPEAKER_22

They don't get to be on the ship.

SPEAKER_14

Okay!

SPEAKER_22

They don't get positions, they're not part of the crew.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Alright. Gobblemon tells me that you guys are gonna come with us. Yeah! As chaos is there as how did Gobbleman know? So three big rules. One oh you don't get to you don't get to ask me questions.

SPEAKER_19

Two You don't get to Ah, that's question two You do what I say when I tell you to do it. Understood.

SPEAKER_02

Good. Uh and finally, number three. If anything goes down, you get behind me and Gobumon and you let us deal with it.

SPEAKER_13

She looks at Gobumon to see if he looks like He gives a thumbs up.

SPEAKER_14

We gotta talk about the rules really fast, okay?

SPEAKER_02

No, no questions from everyone.

SPEAKER_14

No, no, no, not to you.

SPEAKER_20

Yeah, hurry up. Yeah, yeah, Ron's in. What do we think? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_15

Um so you don't wanna talk to him anyway, so the question thing is probably okay. He seems a little bit bossy, but it if they wanna um if they wanna get hurt while we're not getting hurt, maybe that's okay. And then if we like them, maybe you can help, but if we don't like them, then we can just let them get beat up while we run away. So I think it could work.

SPEAKER_18

Okay, I'm cool with this.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah? Okay, we get to come with you, Gabriel!

SPEAKER_20

She comes running back up. Oh yay.

SPEAKER_02

But we won't like it. As mad Yeah, make that. That makes two of us. Come on, hurry up. Keep up as he starts moving. Oh, if uh, it looks like there's another signal coming from Devi Mond's castle. We'll start there. And hopefully we'll find someone. If not, we'll camp before nightfall and give us time to rest. Keep up with your little legs.

SPEAKER_09

I'm gonna make a wave of water and just kind of surf. Because I can shoot it out of my feet.

SPEAKER_02

Head off further into the digital world. At this point, we'll switch digital worlds.

SPEAKER_13

Oh, okay. See, that was nice. Gotta talk about girlfriends. Someday she's gonna understand. Maybe.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe.

SPEAKER_13

Maybe.

SPEAKER_02

Probably not.

SPEAKER_13

Hey, you know, maybe the Sora person will show up. You don't know. We don't know.

SPEAKER_02

We don't know if Sora will be here.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. And once we find out if she's coming, then we can find out if uh like the warm fuzzy feelings thing is real. We'll just watch him and see if he looks like he's sick.

SPEAKER_02

What's a bit? He'll tell you everything you need to know with his terrible, terrible way of interacting with a girl. This is so weird.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, alright.

SPEAKER_02

Why is he so sweaty? What's wrong with him?

SPEAKER_13

I think Sanguman and Sora will get along great.

SPEAKER_02

I mean if you've watched the original series of Digimon, maybe.

SPEAKER_13

Well, she's she's a girl. Shelby is a girl. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02

Girl all girls are the same. Yeah!

SPEAKER_13

Yeah! I mean when you've only met one, your sample size is not the best.

SPEAKER_11

But I can't imagine Sora punching Songamon in the face or anything. I think it's gonna be okay.

SPEAKER_21

No, you should be fine.

SPEAKER_02

Delusionally tell myself.

SPEAKER_20

Anyway.

SPEAKER_02

Alright. So we switched back. Yeah. Uh it's been a bit of a week. Okay. Uh the over the course of this week during not a lot happens. Uh you go to work, you continued forth. It was Monday when we last checked in with you. No. Uh it's coming up on Friday. Oh, we'll see.

SPEAKER_13

Was Wednesday when we left?

SPEAKER_05

Was it Wednesday?

SPEAKER_13

We started on Sunday and she she had to go into school the next morning to see. Wait. Yeah, okay. Could have been Tuesday. Had to go into school the next morning to see if she was fired. And the board meeting was on Monday.

SPEAKER_02

And then Tuesday you got chin.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. So did Isobe get jumped on Monday night? Yeah. I don't know why I thought there was an extra sleep. Okay, then it was Tuesday.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, Tuesday. So.

SPEAKER_13

Sorry, podcast people, for me not getting that right.

SPEAKER_02

It's alright. I keep up. I know my timeline.

SPEAKER_13

I mean, one of us does for sure. We can't both be wrong.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we can't both have incorrect moments.

SPEAKER_13

No.

SPEAKER_02

Right?

SPEAKER_13

If we just if we just agree that we're right, then we're right.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Nobody can tell me I'm wrong.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

You can't prove me wrong.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, so anyways.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you uh have had a pretty like basic week after the events of the first two days in it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um everything sort of calmed down. Uh with the collection of the Sobes thing that was handed to uh Simon and that. They dealt with it apparently. You haven't really heard from them during the week. You haven't uh they haven't been in contact, nobody's really been there. You've probably um just had a chill week to yourself.

SPEAKER_16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Uh Asobe hasn't reached out since the Tuesday been talking to you. Giving you space.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

So giving you space, letting you come to him.

SPEAKER_13

I did tell you there was a thing I wanted to work on after work. Um so for the last several days, she's been making little clay figurines of all of the people that she and Wispy know. Um, and like she's she's giving Wispy some some space. I'm sure it's still a little awkward, like there. There's still an issue and they haven't talked about it, but they're also like he's stopped coming to work with you. Oh.

SPEAKER_02

He mainly stays at home now.

SPEAKER_06

Really?

SPEAKER_02

After the first two days, he stopped coming. Just sits at home all day, apparently.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Well, I guess I'm glad there's no Ogremonds or anything that have jumped through the window the last few days. Um, and then also I think the baby slime, whose name I can't remember right now, was still with us. We talked about that.

SPEAKER_02

He's essentially been watching over that. You would have gotten a message from Tojuro at some point, essentially being like, yo, do you have this Digimon? And when you were like, yes, he would have been like, Don't you fucking take it in, I will murder you.

SPEAKER_09

He was the one who said I can execute it or whatever.

SPEAKER_22

Yeah. He got told different.

SPEAKER_10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

He's currently not the leader of the lamp lighters. You've met the leader.

SPEAKER_13

Well, Tojiro was never gonna be the leader.

SPEAKER_02

But no. Currently, their leader is very strong-headed. One of the few people that Tojiro will do what they say.

SPEAKER_11

Alright.

SPEAKER_02

So yeah, you have had a very like basic week. We're probably coming in on the Friday, the end of the week here. Uh we're gonna pick up at the start of the day. It's been since Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Nothing happened, essentially. Uh the little Digimon here has been like a bit of a menace, but he mainly just hangs out with Wispy all day.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Um, can it be early enough that we actually have time to talk before I have to go to work? Yeah, of course I can. Okay. So I'm gonna like sit down on the floor and put my I've got like a little bag. I'm trying to remember which there we go. Little bag that's got the figurines in it, and um just a box full of random knick-knacks and things. It's a junk drawer, but it's like an art junk drawer. Umispy, can we can we talk? Do you have a second? Can you come over or do you want us stay all the way over there? Okay, alright, that's fine. Um, on the floor in between us, I'm gonna put out the little guys and stuff. Um So well first I've been making these for you so that you can still talk in in this form, kind of. Um So it's it's basically everybody that we know together. Or like most of them. I'm sure there's others I could that's not important. I got I got really hurt during the um meeting at the base, and I want to try to explain why. And these might help me too. And I um take like a piece of string out of the junk drawer and lay it on the floor in like a circle and put the little figurine of Shelby in there. So there's like a Shelby, there's a Wisp Mon, there's a Vox Mon, there's the members of the Lamplighters and their Digimon, there's Isobe, there's there's a Sangha Mon.

SPEAKER_06

We'll see how that one goes, but it's in there.

SPEAKER_13

So before you came, I would always come back here alone. Um and this was my family. Just me. And I'm like trace the circle of string. And it was really lonely, and so I felt like I should find somebody else to go in the family with me, and I'll just pick up a couple of the human figurines and like bounce them in the circle and set them down. Put somebody else in the circle and set them down, but not actually drop anyone in the circle, like I just tap them and move them out. And then and then you got here, and I'll put him in the circle and let go. And I wasn't alone anymore, and it was good. It can be overwhelming and scary sometimes, and I don't want to lie to you and and pretend like it's not a lot, but I've tried to do everything I can to keep you safe and let you be free and stuff. Um like I wouldn't let them take your sapatama because I needed you to be okay, and I couldn't turn you in because I didn't know what was gonna happen to you, and then I had to register as a cleaner to make sure that you would be free and there wouldn't be people hunting you down and everything, and I'm doing my best to adjust to everything because I just I want to protect you, and I tried to tell you that in the kitchen of that bar and you didn't listen. Um, or maybe it was after that. I tried to tell you that before. I do need you to protect me when there's fighting. But I'm also trying to protect you from people stuff. And maybe that doesn't matter to you, maybe it just matters to me, but I am trying. Um. So anyway, we were getting along and I was really happy. And then Voxwon, and I'm gonna pick up the figurine of Voxmon and just turn it in my hands. He asked who my if I knew who his favorite person in the world was or whatever, and he said it was me. And I was really happy because I thought that meant that you guys wanted to be in the circle with me. Cause like that morning when uh you said you wanted to go with Isobe, instead I was gonna let you because if that's what you really want and what would make you happy, then that's what you should get to do. And so then when he said I was his favorite, I thought maybe you also wanted to be family, and then he just said everyone's his favorite. And she picks up Shelby and moves her out of the circle, puts down Boxmon and just grabs a handful of figures and throws them into the ring. It just doesn't it doesn't matter who it is. Anyone is fine. And I just I don't want anyone to be fine. If not, even my own Digimon would pick me first. There must be something really wrong with me. And I think we need to figure this out before Saturday because we have to do cleaner stuff, and that means we have to be getting along, so yeah, that's how I feel. She'll just kind of like gesture at the figures. And then lean over and grab this little guy. Then I'm gonna scoot back and lean against the bed and just hug him if I can take the little baby one.

SPEAKER_02

You move it. Kinda get three in your hands.

SPEAKER_13

Can I like scratch it behind the earhorns or something?

SPEAKER_02

See if it has a spot that likes this one's a very defiant Digimon.

SPEAKER_13

I'm like, then I'll let it go.

SPEAKER_02

Uh yeah. At the same time though, um 100%. It uh Wispy does sit there as he looks a little upset as this one bounces away hiding behind a chair as it just stays.

SPEAKER_10

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_09

I'll pull a pillow down and hug the pillow instead.

SPEAKER_02

Wispy. Uh can you give me a grit roll to try and figure out what's going on in Wispy's head? Sure.

SPEAKER_13

Eighteen. That shouldn't be an advantage, but the higher roll did come first, so it would have been an 18 anyway.

SPEAKER_02

Cool. Um Yeah, you look at Wispy, and there is once again that signature key frustration in him. This thing that has been a mark of your relationship with Wispy for the most part. He honestly feels like he can't communicate sometimes. Um he sits there as how's he gonna what's he gonna do?

SPEAKER_13

He I made the figures so that you can try to talk with them and I can try to figure out what you mean.

SPEAKER_02

He looks at the figures, picks up Voxmon, picks up himself, and doesn't know what to do with them, honestly. He's trying to convey as he.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, I don't know what to do with them either, Whisper. Because he told me that you wanted to use fruity language about Sangamon, but he wouldn't use it. And I'm like, if you're that mad, he should just let you see that you're that mad.

SPEAKER_02

He's gonna roll a charm check. He can't contain himself. He throws the figures at each other. Uh, it seems he's gotten so frustrated he gets mad as he runs to the corner. I don't know goes into your closet.

SPEAKER_10

I don't know what else to do.

SPEAKER_02

Any of this either.

SPEAKER_13

Can you at least try showing me who you want to be in your family? If it's not me, that's okay.

SPEAKER_02

He walks back over and flicks your one towards you. Bats it with his head.

SPEAKER_13

So it's really not anybody's fine.

SPEAKER_02

He sits there. I'm gonna roll another charm check for him. He needs to get above a ten here. Um where's your thing? Actually, you can roll first.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, I a hundred percent can.

SPEAKER_02

I don't know why you're I'm not I'm not the one that controls your digimon. Um I just play him. Seven.

SPEAKER_13

I have points. Can I ladder?

SPEAKER_02

You definitely can. Alright. That's enough as he. You hear a he size, he walks over, sits up on your thing, and you watch him turn your computer on.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

And then you watch him go to the internet and go to the history. As he scrolls through, you see that there is a tab for YouTube. As he opens it to uh one second. I have this.

SPEAKER_09

Like how he went from he can't type or read to I've learned YouTube while you're at school, mom.

SPEAKER_22

He shh mash buttons.

SPEAKER_16

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02

As he sends you, this is a whole thing that I no point in sharing with the world, but I can send to you.

SPEAKER_06

Oh dear. Okay, I'm not gonna watch the entire thing.

SPEAKER_02

You shouldn't. But as it is just an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

SPEAKER_13

I know it is. Do I need to watch it at all, or is just reading the title enough? Okay. The episode is called Feeling Good About Who We Are.

SPEAKER_16

Yep.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, if she does watch it.

SPEAKER_02

As he walks over and picks up Wismon and Sangamon. Uh Wismon and uh Vox Voxmon, not Sangamon, and pushes them together.

SPEAKER_13

I know you both of them are you. Right?

SPEAKER_21

Nod.

SPEAKER_13

Does that mean there's a part of you that doesn't like some of the stuff you think?

SPEAKER_02

Like he shakes his head as he trying to figure it out how to put it. He sits there as he walks over and picks up one of your plants and has a ghost hold it like Sangamon. Oh, like Voxmon holds his puppet. Okay. And he points to the plant and then points to Wispmon statue.

SPEAKER_13

Wait. When you when you digivolve are you the puppet?

SPEAKER_21

He nods.

SPEAKER_02

Oh as he says a word, which is once again rare for Wispy, as he just What? He puts his head down a little bit and looks at the Sangamon statue. And looks at the Wispmon statue.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, okay. No, that's that's fair. That's fair. Because you guys said you don't want to be replaced, and I I told you what I had thought about at the time, but I've thought about it since then, okay? If if you're upset enough about her, then if she does come back and polio is gone, we'll find her a different person, okay? She's not in our family.

SPEAKER_02

He shakes his head.

SPEAKER_13

What?

SPEAKER_02

As he picks up with uh Voxmon and puts it next to the video that's playing. Uh as he scared like more. So change. As he scrolls down in the video and goes to the comments.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Which the comments are turned off at the video than you have, but in this world, there are comments. And they just constantly talk about how much Mr. Rogers impacted them, how they love Mr. Rogers, how he is their childhood. How no one could dislike Mr. Rogers.

SPEAKER_16

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Did you see this before you did you, Maud?

SPEAKER_23

He nods.

SPEAKER_13

You were You were scared I would Pixongamon, so you changed yourself? Nods. See, look, you can talk.

SPEAKER_21

Shake's head.

SPEAKER_13

No, if we both try it works. How is this any different? I'm gonna keep trying to understand, okay?

SPEAKER_21

Nods.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. So did you hurt yourself changing like that? Okay. Do you know? Is it permanent? Okay. Um so you can be who you're supposed to be anytime you want to, right?

SPEAKER_02

Paid points of the box month. And then points of wisdom.

unknown

I'm trying, I'm trying.

SPEAKER_02

Um you want to roll a grit?

SPEAKER_13

I would love to roll a grit. Okay. Come on, Shelby, it matters. Twelve. Well. Tell me if I need to take tokens, by the way.

SPEAKER_02

I will. Okay. Um. Okay. So with a twelve, you get the fact that he's saying that Voxmon is him. Like, he is Voxmon. He's not changed. There's nothing different about Voxmon and him. He that's who he's meant to be. It's just he acted different.

SPEAKER_01

I Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. So you you just changed your your personality, not your body? Okay. It was be my Oh No, that part doesn't matter. I want you to feel safe to show your feelings too. Okay. Like, you know when I'm scared or stressed or whatever. But I also need to know when you feel those things or when you feel mad or you know. Cause even if you're mad at me, it doesn't mean anything's broken. It just means that we care about each other. And something needs to change a little bit. It's okay with me if you hate Sangamon. It's okay with me if you're frustrated at me for not learning from example that my sapatama's dangerous. That's fine. Those are both fair, and I'm glad that I know them. So if that's the kind of stuff that you need to say with your voice, then you can say it. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Can you feel okay? Can I have a hug?

SPEAKER_02

He comes in and Yeah against you slightly. It's like hugging a shape.

SPEAKER_13

We've talked before about how it's hugging a curtain. I know, but he knows that she likes hugging the girls. Thanks for telling me this, okay? I know it was hard, but I'm really glad that you kept trying.

SPEAKER_02

He nods.

SPEAKER_13

Do you guys want to come to school today or do you want to stay here?

SPEAKER_21

JC's head.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, okay, that's fine. Um. Right, okay, so um, if we can keep the well, you can do whatever you want with the figurines, but the ones you don't want to see or aren't playing with, you can put in this bag, and then they're just yours. You can carry them with you. You can put them somewhere in the apartment, whatever you want. Um, and you're always allowed to pull out this drawer and play with any of the stuff in here, too.

SPEAKER_02

He pulls the drawer out and everything in there smashes to the ground.

SPEAKER_13

Well, the drawer's already on the floor.

SPEAKER_09

She pulled it out and set it down.

SPEAKER_13

So it's just like a box of like beads and ribbon scraps and like just basically whatever props either one of us needs to try to talk with the figurines are in there. But if it's plausible to be in an art teacher's drawer, go for it.

SPEAKER_02

Fair enough. Alright. Um, yeah, as he starts, he grabs out paint and then flips upside down and uses his head to push on it till it breaks and squeezes out all over your floor. Uh Nimon jumps in immediately and starts rolling all over.

SPEAKER_13

Hmm. Okay. Um I'll take the paint out of the drawer. We can't play with these ones anymore.

SPEAKER_02

Faces drop in sadness. No, you both of them.

SPEAKER_10

Oh guys, you're inside.

SPEAKER_21

Sad puppy dog eyes.

SPEAKER_13

I Okay, if we went somewhere outside where you could play with it.

SPEAKER_22

Okay, we opened the balcony.

SPEAKER_11

Okay, you know what?

SPEAKER_09

It's acrylic paint.

SPEAKER_11

It breaks down with water. Can you just just keep it on my balcony floor? And I like not keeping it. Okay, alright, cool.

SPEAKER_13

So this this floor is fine, but not the carpet one, okay? Or is this wood?

SPEAKER_04

It's wood.

SPEAKER_13

It's wood, okay. Great. Just just the outside one is is good. Okay.

SPEAKER_16

Alright.

SPEAKER_11

Alright, I'm gonna try to clean up the paint off the floor in my apartment, and then I'm gonna head to work.

SPEAKER_02

As yeah, you head out heading to work. Uh they seem distracted. They're very uncaring. Lost in their own thing.

SPEAKER_13

And I just say immediate regret. But I had to go with it, because I told you anything that's plausible to be in my drawer, you can put in there.

SPEAKER_09

But you immediately went to messy stuff.

SPEAKER_02

Have a five-year-old child. I know what happens when you sit there and go, I have paint. And I'm like, hmm, yep, cool. Whatever's plausible, I'm like, yeah, I know exactly what's in an art teacher's drawers. And I know exactly what two small children will do with it.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, I'm just happy they're okay with being outside. Because I can hose that down. Do I want to have to hose that down all the time? No, but I can. So I will.

SPEAKER_02

Cool. Uh, you head to school at this point. Alright. Um, pretty normal days. You arrive at the offices. Uh walking in to your good old teacher's lounge. You would see uh your usual subjects sitting around before class. Uh joining them as they are chatting to him, just learning everything about him. Uh, is Jin.

SPEAKER_11

Oh nice.

SPEAKER_02

Uh seemingly uh this woman here who you know is named Lei, but you've never really talked to her that much, seems very interested in Jin, as she seems to sit by him just chatting to him. Every time he says something, she'll laugh and touch him.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, that kind of interested.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

How's uh how's Jin reacting?

SPEAKER_02

He's fine. Who's like, oh yeah, it's all good.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, so he doesn't seem like strange or danger, please someone rescue me.

SPEAKER_02

Uh do you want to roll a grit? I do.

SPEAKER_13

I do.

unknown

Go.

SPEAKER_13

Because basically, if he needs an out, I will.

SPEAKER_02

So uh you need to take four tokens because Wismon failed. Oh no, two tokens because Wismon failed that charm check.

SPEAKER_13

I get two for every one that failures, so it's just what I said. Take a two. Alright, just making sure. Alright. But yeah, if he needs an out, I'll give him an out. If he seems okay with this, then yeah, so that's my question. That's a five.

SPEAKER_02

I rolled a one. Five? Uh take some tokens. Uh we're not sure what Jin's thinking here.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02

A little bit odd. Bit of an odd dude.

SPEAKER_13

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Alright, well, since I can't read that, I'm gonna just uh I'm gonna come over and get a coffee, and then I'm gonna not sit in the landmine here, and I'm just gonna come sit down.

SPEAKER_02

Oh wait, sorry, you didn't have Temon, you had Parbumon. Didn't you?

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, oh yeah, you showed me the the uh Digimon that first came out of my sapatama, but no, it's the little slime with the pacifier in its mouth.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Why I just remembered that now instead of during the scene, I don't know, but I just because yeah, I literally just looked it up and I'm like, oh wait, no, no, that's not.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, I couldn't remember its name, and then I will just generally roll with whatever you do unless I stop thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02

Literally named Bubbermon. Bubamon.

SPEAKER_13

Well, this Bubbermon is still sassy and doesn't want to be held and stuff because I refuse to go back and do the whole thing again.

SPEAKER_01

Ugh.

SPEAKER_02

But yeah, um Yeah, pop them on. But uh regardless, you sit there as um going through your normal day-to-day. You don't interact with this situation?

SPEAKER_13

I'm trying to collect more information.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you sit down as you here and you just uh Shelby, good. Child, you need to uh weigh in on this situation.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Jin here thinks that oh we all seem to baby these children a bit too much, as he I didn't say that, I said that essentially I think you yell at them too much.

SPEAKER_09

Okay, now that does sound like what Jin Okay.

SPEAKER_02

No, you said baby them, uh I'll if I didn't yell at these children, they would never listen to any words that we ever say. I know you're new to this whole situation here, but I can assure you this is how we teach. Isn't that right, Shelby?

SPEAKER_13

Uh it is how you teach, yes.

SPEAKER_02

Uh see? It's how we teach.

SPEAKER_13

Not we!

SPEAKER_02

As Lane jumps in as she. I think that Shelby and Anoyu are wrong. We don't have to yell at these kids. I think you're perfectly right, Jinnacy.

SPEAKER_22

See Lee agrees with me. Makes sense. What do you think, Esk?

SPEAKER_02

Esk is just staring at the end. Oh, sorry. What did I say his name was? Esk. That's the principal. Esk. Sorry, there's two. Yeah. They look the same. They're brothers. Oh. He looks at uh Haga as Haga looks at him as he just scolding face as he teacher aides aren't allowed in the teacher's lounge.

unknown

Oh no.

SPEAKER_19

Jin. Ah, but and the others said that it was okay. It's uh Miss Shelby is Miss Koji, is it not okay that I'm here?

SPEAKER_22

Oh it's not meant to be. Teacher aides are not teachers. Yeah, but they don't get to stay in our lounge.

SPEAKER_07

We don't normally have teachers aides.

SPEAKER_02

He gets up and walks out. Um that man is nothing but fire and brimstone, honestly. What a pain.

SPEAKER_13

Pain?

SPEAKER_02

What a pain.

SPEAKER_13

I heard you. I just thought you guys were We were what, honey?

SPEAKER_02

Complete that sentence, bro!

SPEAKER_22

She puts her phone and wallet on the table and starts unclipping her earrings.

SPEAKER_13

Into each other.

SPEAKER_22

Into each other.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_22

In what manner?

SPEAKER_13

Sexually.

SPEAKER_02

Honey.

SPEAKER_14

You told me this like two days ago! And now you've slept.

SPEAKER_22

I've slept with many people in my lifetime. Yeah? I don't think that's any of your business. What we were in this My love life is mine to deal with. And I will deal with it as I will, Miss Koji. She said. Don't worry. They had a fight. It was messy.

SPEAKER_16

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

But Jin, I have to run. I'm going to go uh set up my class for me. But maybe we can have lunch together if you're not gonna come back to the teacher's lounge. Mean you could go out for maybe some sushi? As Jin sits there and say, I don't like sushi. But you can go, that's all good.

SPEAKER_17

Alright, thank thank you, Jin.

SPEAKER_20

I'll I'll think about it.

SPEAKER_17

Alright.

SPEAKER_02

Goodbye, Miss Coach.

SPEAKER_13

Bye!

SPEAKER_02

Also kids out. So what's the plan for today?

SPEAKER_13

Okay, okay, she is out. You know that woman is totally into you, right?

SPEAKER_02

Annoyer?

SPEAKER_13

No. No.

SPEAKER_02

Aug is a man.

SPEAKER_13

There were three people?

SPEAKER_02

No, I asked his pronoun.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, okay. Yeah, there were three people, the one who was touching you all the time and just tried to ask you out on a date. That that one.

SPEAKER_02

Wasn't a date? She asked me out for lunch. That's Miss that's Miss Keen.

SPEAKER_13

Mmm.

SPEAKER_02

Miss Keane isn't into me.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Okay. Keep in mind, I started here last week. This is my second week. I have never seen her touch someone quite as much. She was just touching you.

SPEAKER_02

People just like to touch me. I'm very. My Okay. Uh my poly triad says that that's just a thing.

SPEAKER_13

Alright? I just wanted to make sure that you knew. If you're cool with it, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02

I'd have to talk to some people.

SPEAKER_13

Uh anyway.

SPEAKER_02

I'd have to talk to my partners and see if we're open to a to a fifth. Ah. Okay. Like a lot of work.

SPEAKER_13

You could also just say no if you're not interested in her specifically.

SPEAKER_22

But if she has if she has care for me, I'd I need to show love back. That's how love works.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Alright. Well, I will let you sort out that. I just wanted to be sure. Because with that last interaction, it didn't seem like the two of you were on the same page about what she was asking. So.

SPEAKER_02

Seems like you know lots more than me about these things, Miss Koji. It must just come with age. Um, I'll get it.

SPEAKER_09

That's right. You know, the next four years of your life are just gonna be a windstorm, and then you'll know everything.

SPEAKER_02

One day, when I'm as old as you, I hope I'm as wise.

SPEAKER_09

Like I said, the next four years of your life are gonna be a windstorm.

SPEAKER_02

I don't know about four years. I think I'd have to take a little more time than that. I'd after all, it took it must have taken you a couple of like what, seven, eight years? Did you start college early or something?

SPEAKER_19

Aren't you like 35?

SPEAKER_02

Doubles over a little in pain. Oh no. Oh I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_13

Alright. Let me let me roll this back. You know what? It's it's probably because the bag's under your eyes. Yeah, that's fine. Let me just roll this back. I thought you were 19. Are you 19-ish?

SPEAKER_22

I'm 16.

SPEAKER_13

Oh wow, you're really smart. Okay, well then I was wrong about four years. That's fair.

SPEAKER_02

No, sorry, he's 17.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Still.

SPEAKER_06

Six years older than you.

SPEAKER_11

But seriously, do I actually look that bad?

SPEAKER_02

I've gotta go do a session plan.

SPEAKER_13

Are you planning on staying the day? It's fine, it's fine. I am. It's a yes or no. You can say yes, I do, or you can say no. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02

I think all the women are very attractive.

SPEAKER_22

Uh evil.

SPEAKER_16

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm not interested, I'm not interested.

SPEAKER_22

Oh, uh, yeah, no, not not in that, not that.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, cool.

SPEAKER_22

Yeah. You do the first half of the class. It would be it'd be fantastic. What one of my partners is older. Oh, cool. Cool. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

She's in her late forties. Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_07

Cool. We should go. Yeah, we should.

SPEAKER_14

Most like awkward.

SPEAKER_02

Uh cool. Uh, during the day, are you doing anything? Or are you just gonna make it through the day?

SPEAKER_13

I have to decide whether I'm going to show my hand now or not. Because if I say the thing now, you have time to prepare to make it horrible. No, we're adults. I feel like I have to. I mean, I'll do my teaching role. I do intend to do classes, and if nothing's gonna like rip me out. Great. Alright. I will do my teaching role still with advantage because he and I are tag teaming.

SPEAKER_04

That's right.

SPEAKER_13

Alright. So brains. And plus three because these are my skill debt. And twenty nine. So let me just put that in the room.

SPEAKER_02

So you've got three rolls there now, I believe.

SPEAKER_13

Checking.

SPEAKER_10

Four.

SPEAKER_02

Four rolls. Four.

unknown

Four.

SPEAKER_02

Today is April 6th. So four. I would say take the top three and then give me the average.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_02

And that's your first week's problem. First week's uh set standard.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Top three you said.

SPEAKER_02

Yep, top three, and then average it out.

SPEAKER_13

Alright. The average of those is 31.33333333333.

SPEAKER_02

So just 31.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um, cool. That is a very high test score at the they check your gradings at the end of the week. Um they have no issue with you currently acting in the capacity of a cleaner and doing your job. Um they have no uh your class is doing exceptional.

SPEAKER_06

Good.

SPEAKER_02

Uh you are fucking making some real strongly like favored kids for college here. Oh nice. You're at an elementary school, but we're a high school.

SPEAKER_20

Oh no, you're in high school, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

So it is relevant. Yeah. Um which you would even get the teacher of the Teacher of the Week award, which means uh fun little thing for Teacher of the Week. That is I do have things for these that give you bonuses.

SPEAKER_09

Oh my gosh. Yeah. I'm so great. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

So let me just get it up. God, why is it always so hard to find? Um just little things, sorry. Um it won't matter too much now. I'll send you the thing when I get them.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Um it's basically a boost to stuff that lets you do certain things. Um gives you like, oh, you can do this, you can do that. It's sort of a mini strength.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Um we can totally get that before next session.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, 100%. Uh cool. Uh uh, on top of that, you've gotten two trips a week, you got that. Uh, good grades. However, there is a little caveat to this that I will put up for you. That is your standard. This is what they came in week one doing.

SPEAKER_11

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02

If you drop too far below that now, yeah, on the end on a weekly average, it's gonna end up in slowly getting you in some trouble. Okay. If you drop far too below, so 30 is likelihood is what's expected of me now.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. Okay. Got it.

SPEAKER_21

Alright. Perfect. So anything else from this? No, that's uh for that, that's good.

SPEAKER_13

Uh at the end of the day. But like the first time. Um I'm actually gonna go knock on the other door.

SPEAKER_02

You knock on the other door. You stand there. Uh the door opens.

SPEAKER_21

And you are greeted by a person.

SPEAKER_13

It's a different person than you thought.

SPEAKER_11

They've traded rooms. It's an OU, she's gonna kill you. What?

SPEAKER_02

You say that's men. You see, hi, how's it going?

SPEAKER_01

Uh can I help you?

SPEAKER_13

I'm I'm sorry, this was who are you?

SPEAKER_02

Uh Gallus. My friends call me Gallus. I'm Subbanine at the moment.

SPEAKER_13

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, um sorry across you my neighbor across the hall?

SPEAKER_13

I am.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, lovely. I'm sad that we haven't met each other. I've been here all week. Well, for the last two days.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, yeah. Uh I'm Shelby.

SPEAKER_02

Scheduled in till next Thursday.

SPEAKER_13

Next Thursday, okay. I'm sorry I didn't get to say hi either. I've been kind of busy.

SPEAKER_02

Oh. It's alright. We uh we'll find time, that's the theory.

SPEAKER_11

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02

Uh amongst all the all the work and things. How'd you Let me tell ya?

SPEAKER_16

Oh.

SPEAKER_02

Let me tell ya, it is uh time here. I did not expect to come in and be teaching math at the level that these kids were uh Too high, too low?

SPEAKER_13

How were they actually doing?

SPEAKER_02

Smart kids. Okay. Kinda overlooked though, from the looks of it.

SPEAKER_13

Alright.

SPEAKER_02

But you know. We get there. How can I help? What's happening? Uh came here to see my beautiful self.

SPEAKER_11

I'm amazed you got to wear that, but I guess they're not really enforcing um the uh.

SPEAKER_02

I have some friends up in the uh school district.

SPEAKER_13

Oh I mean you've got the colors right. Nobody can say you didn't.

SPEAKER_02

That's all they said. If I get the colors right. I asked uh Mr. Yamahara when I got here, asked if that's what I was wearing. I said it's red, and he said that's correct.

SPEAKER_09

It is red and black. Read the brief, totally followed it.

SPEAKER_02

I did exactly what they asked me to do. I don't think they were keen on letting me walk out, so.

SPEAKER_13

I suppose I suppose they probably were desperate for the coverage, and so man, I wish I could get away with something like that, but uh never gonna not everybody not everybody pulls it off, I think. No. No, I probably wouldn't. Okay. Um well sorry, I didn't didn't wanna I don't wanna keep you.

SPEAKER_02

Um no no, you're not keeping me, it's the end of the day.

SPEAKER_23

Anything I can help you with?

SPEAKER_13

No, I honestly hadn't heard that you were subbing. I'm apparently pretty out of it, so I was trying to talk to the teacher who's normally here, but this is a pleasant surprise, I guess.

SPEAKER_02

I like to think so.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I like to think my presence is always a pleasant surprise.

SPEAKER_13

No, the status quo here could use disrupted now and then, and I think your outfit is a delightful change of pace.

SPEAKER_02

I also think that. So? We're gonna get along like a house on fire.

SPEAKER_13

Hopefully.

SPEAKER_10

Alright, uh hopefully, definitely.

SPEAKER_22

Best friends for life.

SPEAKER_10

Oh.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, well I should go call him.

SPEAKER_02

You should. Give it a give it a shot.

SPEAKER_13

But I'll see you Monday.

SPEAKER_02

I will see you then. You have a lovely weekend. You too, Gallus. I'm gonna sit here and read some c read some curriculum. Okay. See if I can figure out what the hell this whole thing is. I honestly am not good at math.

SPEAKER_20

Oh! Well, best of luck then.

SPEAKER_02

It's alright. I spent half my sessions watching uh Toy Story. Oh. It was great.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

The choice of being a sub.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. Some days I miss it. Alright, see you Monday. Shut the door.

SPEAKER_22

See you then.

SPEAKER_11

And walk out to my car.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, you head out to your car.

SPEAKER_13

I'm gonna call Isobe.

SPEAKER_02

Uh you get his answering machine? Uh as it is. Hi, you've reached Isobe. Uh, if you're looking for uh money, I don't have any. So don't bother calling back. If this is uh Esk Yamahara, I will not be in today.

SPEAKER_22

That is the presumption of what this call would be. If I'm not there, Esk, I'm not there.

SPEAKER_02

Anyone else leave a message at the beep? Hangs up. Does the beep sound?

SPEAKER_13

Okay, I think the message probably starts with the tail end of the laughter. Um, so I'm guessing you probably won't actually get this or answer in a while. If you're gonna be gone through next Thursday, you're probably actually traveling or something. Uh oh, it's Shelby. In case you don't recognize by the god-there's caller IT. Obviously no. Okay, anyway, sorry. Um, I had this whole thing planned out and it's on fire. Like always. So that shouldn't be surprising. Um I was just gonna let you know that I will be busy with cleaner stuff all weekend, but I was gonna ask if like Monday after school you wanted to like go listen to live music and hang out. Uh, Whispy was interested in the stage at the bar that we got shut down because of a containment breach. I don't know if they're open again or not, but I told him I would take him to a concert, and I thought maybe we could talk while it was happening. Uh, but you're probably not gonna hear this. Yeah, and it won't be in time, and so like just forget about the whole beek cut off.

SPEAKER_02

There you go.

SPEAKER_09

Beautiful. That's the voicemail.

SPEAKER_02

What a voicemail it was.

SPEAKER_09

I know, but I feel like it's in character and perfect.

SPEAKER_02

It's perfect, it's solid.

SPEAKER_13

Um I'm driving home.

SPEAKER_02

You head on home.

SPEAKER_13

No, that's stalkersh. Okay, I'm just driving home. I'm not gonna look. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02

You're not gonna go to his house and see if he's alive.

SPEAKER_13

I was gonna check the location services on his phone since he has it turned on. But if it's a scheduled time, like he's subbing through next Thursday, then this at least seems like it was planned. And I'm not gonna like stalk him just because he wanted to go out of town. Like, I don't need to know where he is. You know, like, oh hey, you went to like this different part of the city or something. You were staying there for a week, and I know about it without you telling me because I check your location while you're gone. Like, no, I'm not gonna not gonna do that, and I'm not gonna drive to his house. It's fine.

SPEAKER_04

Bam. So you drive to his house.

SPEAKER_20

No! No! Bad car! Bad car, what are you doing? Don't do this to me.

SPEAKER_14

Stop it! We're trying to be mature.

SPEAKER_02

Cool.

SPEAKER_13

So you uh you head back home after this, uh, leave this message for well actually I yeah, I can go home and change, but then I if it's not late, I could go to the hangout and see if anybody's over there.

SPEAKER_02

You totally could, yeah.

SPEAKER_13

But I will change into normal clothes instead of like showing up in my workoutfit.

SPEAKER_02

No, fair enough. Um, cool. So you head over, um But hey!

SPEAKER_13

Going home makes sense because I can pick up Wispy and Bubmon as well. Yep.

SPEAKER_02

You head back over, you pick up Wispy and Bubmon. Nice and simple. Uh uh as you're driving home, you get a phone call from a soybee.

SPEAKER_13

Hey!

SPEAKER_02

You okay? Hey Yes, yeah, yeah, shelby. How how are you doing?

SPEAKER_13

Fine.

SPEAKER_02

I haven't heard from you in a while.

SPEAKER_13

I know. I was working on stuff at home with Wispy, and I didn't realize you weren't at school and now I feel like an awful friend, because you've been gone for two days.

SPEAKER_02

No, no, it's it's okay. I'm I was dealing with some stuff. But I'm uh I'm feeling honestly better. It's not that bad.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Uh I just had to take a couple of days. Family things, you know. How's this mon?

SPEAKER_13

Cause you haven't told me much besides you don't get along with your mom and you have a lot of brothers, and that's all I know.

SPEAKER_23

Well, you know. What's there to tell?

SPEAKER_13

I don't know. That's kind of why I thought we should hang out and talk and stuff.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I would love that. When do you have three? You didn't listen to the voicemail, did you?

SPEAKER_23

No, I just saw you call it.

SPEAKER_09

Never mind, just delete it, just delete it. It's fine.

SPEAKER_23

What? What what did you say? Was it something was it something stupid? Did you say something stupid?

SPEAKER_11

So you want to listen to it and then call me back?

SPEAKER_02

No. No, I like talking to you. I don't like listening.

SPEAKER_17

That sounds wrong.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Alright. Um. Do you know if they ever reopens the bar that we got shut down for the containment breach? Wait, you probably aren't allowed back in there even if they did.

SPEAKER_02

I got banned from there, yes.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Um, so I was trying to let you know that I will be busy with cleaner stuff all weekend. But I wondered if uh after school on Monday, but then you're not at school Monday, so this may not even work. Whatever. Um if we could find someplace that's having live music and if you wanted to like hang out and a date, Shelby. I that's Shame on you. I don't I don't know if that's something I'm interested in yet, but there's no way I'm gonna find out if we don't ever actually spend time together. So just it's as friends. But I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

You're making this a bit weird. Yes, I would love to go out with you. I would love to go listen to live music with you.

SPEAKER_13

Uh sorry, it's okay. Everything is fine. Um, what else did I say? Whispy had been interested in the stage, and I told him was trying to explain concerts and told him I would take him to C. So if he wants to go, he'll be coming as well.

SPEAKER_23

Oh, that's great.

SPEAKER_13

Why?

SPEAKER_23

I would love to see Whispy.

SPEAKER_13

Why did you have to say this sounds like a date?

SPEAKER_02

Well, because it sounded like a date.

SPEAKER_13

I asked you before if I should read into all the extra attention and everything, and you said no, and I was like, okay, well, cool.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_22

I'm confused. You're the one who asked me out.

SPEAKER_13

I just wanted to hang out as friends. I was kind of hoping to avoid the question of like, was this a date? And then immediately it's the first question, which I may or may not have freaked out about for a while yesterday while I was trying to decide if this was gonna go okay or not. But I was like, no, there's no way that he's gonna say that.

SPEAKER_10

I'm not ready to have this conversation I don't know what my answers are yet.

SPEAKER_22

You you called me.

SPEAKER_13

It's okay.

SPEAKER_22

I'm Should I hang up?

SPEAKER_13

No, I meant that you can stay.

SPEAKER_22

No, no, not like angrily, like I feel like you need to gather yourself. I'm good. This is great.

SPEAKER_13

Not interesting good at talking to people. I haven't really done it a lot. And so I was like, is he gonna think this is a date? Are things gonna escalate and get awkward immediately? No, they won't, Shelby. You're being paranoid. And then they immediately did. And now it's like Did I ruin everything already? I don't I don't know yet.

SPEAKER_23

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

That's really fine.

SPEAKER_23

That's okay. You're allowed to not know.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_23

You're allowed to do whatever you want. That's how it works.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Fine. Um, since you're off work.

SPEAKER_17

Fine. Did I do something wrong now? No. I just agreed.

SPEAKER_13

No, you didn't. That was like a stress relief transition. Fine.

SPEAKER_16

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Since you're not working on like fighting stuff this weekend, can you find a place?

SPEAKER_18

Sure.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

You think so. It's Monday, you said.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. But if that doesn't work and it needs to be after Thursday, because you're somewhere else or something, that that's fine.

SPEAKER_02

No, no, it's just during the week is always painful because we've just dealt with work, wouldn't you?

SPEAKER_23

But you won't have done Saturday or Sunday night?

SPEAKER_13

No, because I'm doing cleaner stuff. And I want to not be running late to hang out with somebody because it's gonna get really exhausting if I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry. There was a champion level Digimon and it shoo showed up and blasted me with fire, and oh, you should have seen it.

SPEAKER_21

I wouldn't get exhausted by that. Yes, that would be awesome. That'd be so cool. You could tell me all about it. And I could also Digimon it would be tell you.

SPEAKER_07

About it after the weekend ends.

SPEAKER_13

Like, my weeknights are actually more peaceful, but also you won't even be at work on Monday.

SPEAKER_10

Your son is there through Thursday, so you won't be tired, will you?

SPEAKER_21

Uh-huh. It's all good.

SPEAKER_03

I'll be there. I'll be illusion.

SPEAKER_11

What? Alright. No! What? What was that?

SPEAKER_03

Nothing. Nothing. It's all good. I I will I will arrange things for Monday, and I will see you then.

SPEAKER_13

It could be Thursday or Friday if Monday's bad.

SPEAKER_03

It's fine.

SPEAKER_13

Sure.

SPEAKER_03

I prefer earlier than later.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Alright. I will talk to you soon. Or later. Whatever. Alright.

SPEAKER_11

Monday, if not sooner, right?

SPEAKER_04

I will talk to you then.

SPEAKER_11

Okay. Bye.

SPEAKER_04

Goodbye. Hangs up.

SPEAKER_11

Wesby, how am I so bad at this?

SPEAKER_02

Uh, as you arrive back at your house, you hear crashes and bangs coming from in Digimon.

SPEAKER_16

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_11

Also, that's not the Digimon that's in here. Did you want to switch it to the other one or don't you care?

SPEAKER_02

I'll switch it when I'm what I want.

SPEAKER_09

I unlock the door, I unlock the door and come inside.

SPEAKER_02

Uh cool. One second. So. As you come through the door, you are greeted by crashing sounds.

SPEAKER_16

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02

Uh you're rushing in to see what the fuck's going on.

SPEAKER_13

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Uh you'd see Wispy standing there with a bunch of shit in his hand. As he looks over at you, the door flying open, as he's holding a bunch of paint things, paintbrushes and stuff, and there is just a mess all over your hall. As it seems like there's been a like the best concept would be a water balloon fight with stuff. And as you come through the thing, you hear.

SPEAKER_20

You'll never get me! Ha ha ha ha!

SPEAKER_02

As he crashes into your chest as he Oh no, she's home.

SPEAKER_05

You didn't move! She's home! Black Togemon X is not excited about this!

SPEAKER_11

Black Togemon X, huh?

SPEAKER_13

You know, I almost almost am not upset about the state my apartments in.

SPEAKER_09

But we are all gonna be cleaning it together very shortly.

SPEAKER_02

No no, Susan does it Whispy looks next away. Walks outside and closes the screen.

SPEAKER_11

No. I'm gonna open the screen, guys. Where does paint belong? We talked about this.

SPEAKER_02

There's no paint in here. It is just paint brushes and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_13

Oh, it's just objects on the floor, it's not stains this way. It's objects. Oh, okay. Yeah, no stains. Alright. How's the outdoors? Is this all painted?

SPEAKER_02

Paint everywhere.

SPEAKER_11

Is it only on my balcony?

SPEAKER_22

Yeah, but all over your glass door, all over your walls. Okay. On your plants.

SPEAKER_11

But it's outside and it's only on my balcony. Yeah. That's technically what I asked for.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, guys. I am gonna change clothes. And then we have to go somewhere. But I think we probably need to pick up some of this stuff before we leave. Nana! Okay, I said it like it's an option, but it's not an option. None of this is optional.

SPEAKER_02

I refuse.

SPEAKER_13

Are you hungry?

SPEAKER_02

I already ate all the things in the fridge.

SPEAKER_11

What? Okay.

SPEAKER_22

You have nothing to give, Black Dogemonics.

SPEAKER_13

Well played!

SPEAKER_15

But I'm bigger than you, I don't crap.

SPEAKER_02

Uh straight up as you're about to run into that wispy wig get in front of you. Digimon kill humans. They don't kill other humans. Digimon. This wild Digimon, whilst it's beautiful, it is a quick realization that yeah, that's not your Digimon, is this?

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Alright. Wispy. Um the team want to meet Black Togemon X. My apartment needs cleaned.

SPEAKER_02

Wispy will start cleaning your apartment.

SPEAKER_13

I was gonna ask, like, should do we need to take him to the team first? And then you and me clean later, or do you want him to come back tonight?

SPEAKER_16

He shrugs.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_02

Black Togemon X goes wherever Black Tokemon X wants to go. And right now Black Tokemon X wants to go where you're taking him.

SPEAKER_13

Oh good! Good, good, good! Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Um But only if Black Togemon X can be put in one of your carriages.

SPEAKER_07

Carriages?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, that they put the small people in.

SPEAKER_07

I don't own one of those.

SPEAKER_02

Well make it work! For Black Togemon X needs all the people and all the things.

SPEAKER_13

I have a large bag I could carry you in if you just want to ride.

SPEAKER_02

It will suffice.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_02

Also, I fixed up his thing.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. So how about this? I'll go and like get like a backpack or a large purse or something out of the closet. Black Togemon X, come here.

SPEAKER_02

He crawls inside it. Oh, it's mine and I own it now.

SPEAKER_13

Actually, that's a lot easier. Okay, if you're satisfied with it as it is, that's fine. And I will set the bag down on the bed for right now. Okay. And then I will help Wispy clean up the room.

SPEAKER_02

Clean up the room. As uh in this moment you get a message from Tojuro. As it literally just says uh meeting in uh we have a meeting tomorrow at 10 a.m. Bring the stupid Digimon. Don't be late. You suck.

SPEAKER_13

Text back, is anybody gonna be there tonight?

SPEAKER_22

He texts back no.

SPEAKER_13

Dot dot dot. Are you there now?

SPEAKER_02

Text back no.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Tomanaga sends you a message as he, hey, sorry, Tojo just told me you're thinking of coming in today.

SPEAKER_22

What sort of milk would you like me to have ready?

SPEAKER_10

Um What do you have already without leaving? Send a picture of the fridge!

SPEAKER_02

Then it stops, then dots, then stops, as he just continues typing and undoing, then typing. Uh as he finally sends, we've got all the milks, it's all good.

SPEAKER_13

Then you don't need to prepare anything. Happy face emoji.

SPEAKER_02

As he puts, that's right. Tomanaga. I do then receive a fucking message from Tojiro that just says, fuck you, man. Uh Tojiro, uh you're making Tomanaga work, I'll kill you.

SPEAKER_13

I'm gonna I'm gonna call Tomanaga.

SPEAKER_02

He answers, hello!

SPEAKER_13

Please stop! Please stop trying to get stuff from me. It's okay.

SPEAKER_02

No, no, I'm we we have everything. Are you here traffic in the background?

SPEAKER_13

Please. Can you just turn around? Go back to the hangout? Because it would be nicer with you there too, then then Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm headed there now for sure. Please don't. Hojiro is going to hate me forever if you keep doing this. This isn't your fault, never mind. It's okay. I don't need anything special, alright? I promise.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

But like when you say that.

SPEAKER_13

I don't even drink milk in my coffee. But you wanted to get me milk, and so I was going to let you to make you feel better.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. But Okay. So the milk doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_13

No. No. It's okay. Okay. It's all okay. Huh?

SPEAKER_22

Nothing. Nothing.

SPEAKER_11

Um Did you buy it all already? Plush Psychimon drinks it.

SPEAKER_22

Okay. Good. Yeah. This milk's all for plush psychemon. Yeah. It's all good.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, and if there's like a whole bunch and it's already there, maybe some of the humans could have some too. You know, it's fine.

SPEAKER_02

Alina's lactose intolerant.

SPEAKER_13

Oh, okay. Okay. Um, I'm not. But you had like oat milk and almond milk and stuff, too, right?

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, so that that's fine. She could she can have that. Look at you being prepared.

SPEAKER_18

Uh, but sure.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. Are people actually at the base right now or the hangout or whatever?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Oh uh. Tojuro and uh Simon and Lena are all there.

SPEAKER_13

He said nobody was there.

SPEAKER_02

Who said that?

SPEAKER_13

Tojiro. He really does hate me, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_02

I It's hard to tell. Tojiro's really. Tojiro's a really good guy when it comes down to it. We've been friends for ages, so it's like one of those situations where people say uh he's prickly, and I'm like, no, if you get to know him, he he's a lovely guy.

SPEAKER_13

I'm trying to, but he doesn't want to know me, and that's fine. He he does not owe me that.

SPEAKER_02

He has trouble making friends. I think I'm his only friend, really.

SPEAKER_13

I'm just glad he has you.

SPEAKER_02

Uh yeah. Honestly, I think most of it is just, you know, a bit of pity for or like uh I guess pity's not the word, more like regret and stuff.

SPEAKER_13

So How would it be what? Why would it be regret?

SPEAKER_02

Oh. I thought Simon might have told you. Um I I shouldn't talk about it. Uh sort of a maybe ask Tojiro about it.

SPEAKER_13

Oh yeah, that's gonna that's gonna work.

SPEAKER_02

Um I don't know, he constantly uh he's been talking about you a couple of times. He told me that even though you suck, you're still very uh you still were very nice in school and he liked your art.

SPEAKER_13

Uh did he hit his head right before that? No, no. Like badly, like with the concussion?

SPEAKER_02

No, Toad's always nice.

SPEAKER_13

He No, no, no, no, no! I'm sure he's nice. The part about me being nice.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, he said that you were uh really nice, and back in school you didn't really notice him, but you were always one of the people that he really admired, and uh he thought that you were really cool, but he could never say it. Maybe I shouldn't be telling you.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, no, I I think he probably does not want me to know that. Um. Okay. Tomanaga, how am I supposed to show up at the base, like, either today or tomorrow and just pretend like you did not say that? Because like that is um uh.

SPEAKER_02

I don't I don't understand what's happening here.

SPEAKER_13

Um please don't quit. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's it's fine. It's fine.

SPEAKER_22

It's just no no no, it he hates you. He he says, uh you she sucks and she I don't like her all the time.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_22

He never said those nice things about you at all.

SPEAKER_13

Oh, great! Yeah, that that postpones my crisis a little. He's never gonna say that to my face. Like ever.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe. I don't do you want him to? I can ask him to.

SPEAKER_13

Well, I mean, if you Okay, if you did ask him to, just just do not acknowledge this conversation, okay? And okay.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Okay. Sorry, I I don't understand what's happening here. Oh, either. I just I was not expecting that. I thought, you know, I should give him a few more weeks, maybe, and then if he still hates me, then I should probably tell you guys that I should like leave the team because he needs to have a place where we shouldn't do that. Just listen, just listen, just listen, okay. He needs to have a place where he belongs, and this was his place, and like I it's not right for me to like take it from him or anything.

SPEAKER_20

No, no, no. You're not taking it for anybody. You it's okay. You can defin we're definitely good. We it's fine. You you can stay here. You who cares?

SPEAKER_13

But just at the beginning of this conversation, that's what I was thinking, right?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yep.

SPEAKER_13

And then you said all that that stuff that he definitely did not say and you did not tell me.

SPEAKER_03

Yep.

SPEAKER_13

Which is kinda different.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. So you're gonna stay now?

SPEAKER_13

I I wasn't I mean, I I don't want to leave.

SPEAKER_22

Perfect! Awesome! I'm gonna hang up now before I say anything wrong.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Uh see you later.

SPEAKER_22

Okay, bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_18

Thanks.

SPEAKER_13

It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02

Black Turkemon just sits there, see. He's asleep. People are weird. People are weird.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes.

SPEAKER_02

Your your face is red.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, a little bit. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_13

Alright. Um cool. So uh we're gonna go to the hangout and you are gonna meet a bunch of other Digimon. And everyone will look at you and see how cool you are, except for probably Aureliomon, who will think he's better than you. But don't worry about that. He's like that with everyone.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. But if any of them says that I'm not the coolest Digimon, I will boom burst them to death.

SPEAKER_13

Oh. Is that what you almost did on the balcony?

SPEAKER_02

Yes. This is exactly what I normally.

SPEAKER_09

You can't do that to people.

SPEAKER_02

We're speaking sits there and not That's not good! No, no, it's perfectly fine because people are not important. Only Digimon are.

SPEAKER_13

But you wanna be carried around and admired, don't you?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, and I could easily replace you with a robot. Do you have a robot? Not yet.

SPEAKER_13

Then you can't do that yet. I would prefer you never. Boom. Blast me or whatever, or my friends. But you know. You don't scare me. I'm not trying to scare you.

SPEAKER_09

I I'm carry- I'm gonna carry you in my bag! I offered you food!

SPEAKER_02

He bunkers down in the bag. Okay. As at this point you head out to.

SPEAKER_13

I'm gonna like tuck a t-shirt over him, like a little blanket. Since he's since he's snuggled in there, and then I guess yeah, I'm going. Alright. You switch to the other clothes.

SPEAKER_02

We're we're going to Oh no. Leave it off.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. Hey, cool. We're not playing next week, and I think I'm sick the week after that, and every week until the end of time. Oh no. It's unrelated to everything. I just have a scheduled bout of pneumonia coming up.

SPEAKER_11

Uh this is fine.

SPEAKER_16

Uh man.

SPEAKER_02

What do you do? I guess.

SPEAKER_11

Cry.

SPEAKER_13

But this is this is exactly why I went ahead and asked so be to hang out first before the weekend.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_16

As I just died.

SPEAKER_02

We will end the session there. On that lovely note.

SPEAKER_13

Thanks for hanging it through another episode. Uh apparently the consequences of moving forward with multiple NPCs at once are about to hit me, which is fair. Also, I hope Sangamon's voice actually came through clearly this time. I know it's messed up in one of the earlier episodes. I'm trying to figure out if I even still have the recording to fix it or not. And if you're like, what are you talking about? Then I guess I found the recording and fixed it. But um I'm hoping it doesn't. Doesn't get destroyed in compression. So wish me luck. If you'd like to see us play live, you can catch us. It's Sunday night vaguely at 7.30 p.m. Eastern on Twitch. I say vaguely because it's often later than that. And it runs late. 50-50 chance of um hearing the sessions at 1.75 times speed Monday mornings. Also on Twitch in a co-working podcast editing type stream. But um other than that, happy to have you here. Hope you enjoy this and that you felt like I don't know, like you have company or a distraction, whatever it is that you need. So I will see you next week. But for me, it will be two weeks from now. So I've got a little bit of time to freak out about the totally normal, not at all awkward conversation that we're gonna start with next session. Thanks for listening.

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