Young Sentinels #4

Hello, and welcome to another episode of young sentinels. Did I say young sentinels last time or did I say something else? I don't remember today. We're doing kind of two little half recording So this will be a little bit different so on this half we have elomancer played by a man.

I told you this way should be back We have Hacks played by Bailey. Hi, my name is Greta Kelly Then we have little king Arthur played by Mark I'm eating cheese that so I can have some part little Okay, yeah It's actually a really good rap name. No, it's like it's like little TV. It was my big K a like how dark legs is the other one Kill assassin I was gonna say is like a edge is like an edge lord that thinks they're assassin king Man now how about somebody let us know what happened on the last episode of young sentinels.

I don't remember I have no Give us a give us a rundown. Hey, so is elomancer versus cobblestones at the research lab each other up pretty bad Avalon has Wi-Fi Hey, and Arthur, I'd wear putting a TV in there Everybody goes down after elomancer calls for help Hacks drops of all tof cocktail on a bad guy and does more damage to her team Everybody kind of does a ton of research trying to figure out why cobblestone is going after Elementor we find out that there isn't a villains Yelp called scream and somebody is putting hit out on British Superheroes and people in London and England Specifically it is snowing a lot even though it is out of season and everyone is trying to figure out why I wasted a plus eight To try to figure out why I'm mad about that somebody broke into Avalon The villain island. I have just written down here. That's where the hit came from and mark under the phrase Smithy the elf boy He didn't matter.

He said it with pride. I said under no And oh shit in his back Cades notice that he beheaded apparently that is not how you go in alien There's that and there's apparently a booming snow plow status Work you more things all my part my money got stolen and given to people in downtown And you're currently being hacked by someone who's hacking back at you. Oh, yeah Is attacking I'm not okay with that. Oh, yeah, that's right So we're going to open up on Elementor and Arthur who are in Camelot currently watching the news about how somebody has spread the monies downtown in the slums and the Projects the bad part of town well, but not the bad part of the more economically challenged part of town That part on the rich part.

Yeah, I agree. That's where the tree was I was it well We were planning to go downtown anyways to check out the hail We can always check on this to see maybe who the gentleman or madam was who stole from me We can do that as well. I suppose all right. Let's not ask Kate and Arthur party followers I agree I think you know they have their own thing to deal with and they have their own things to deal with and I think that will be much more level headed Because we don't have to be concerned with these credits.

They keep wanting exactly. I don't understand these credits It's a thing for higher education basically But I find it stupid that you have to attend to school and or do we know how to be a hero So why don't you if I could then get a ride from you flying? I would appreciate it and we could head down that way Are you all bonded up and ready? Yeah Alright, I'll put on my suit because I imagine it would keep me warmer Okay, and also my my showy skin suit that has magic and I'll fly him down.

Okay, well we're flying down to I'm going to notice the snowman Cades building like oh, it's beautiful I won't say anything all right you guys I know it looks like you fly past the shitty snowman Head towards the downtown. You're gonna go to hex hex. What's up? I'm currently still fighting scream to figure out who the hell is hacking my shit.

All right, roll me a hacking a boy glory All right, so it takes a while But you're like constantly fighting like a multiple attacks and then eventually like it seems like whoever's attacking your shit Like stops where they lock you out of scream and they say no narc's hero and they just need that message I like that Just the hero my stuff is all stable There's no like malware or anything in there anymore no they though you were able to fight it all off Like there's coming from multiple directions and stuff and then like when it seemed like you got the message They they they stopped and then sent you the one message that said no narc's and they locked you out of the scream Yeah, I don't like that at all. I can't message them back because they lock me out. I'm not okay. Um I'm going to like Make sure everything is like completely clean and once I'm sure of that I'm just angrily walking out of my house I've got my phone out and I'm texting everybody I was just cyber attacked by the Yelp people whoever is coming after Ronnie is good Elementor and Arthur you get that message on your Text I don't get it.

Okay. The butterflies man. I have a communicator. I kept that by the time I didn't get it.

Yeah, it's a jitter book. You're texting and I'm doing that over the communicator Uh after I text about that right. Yeah, I will say it over the communicator because I forgot that grandpa doesn't text Okay, so you get that over the communicator haza missus or lady Ronald. We must go and attack this cyber Well, Arthur Arthur.

No, that's not how it works actually no no, that's how it works What I can I can sometimes bring things out of the internet, but I can't bring things into the internet yet When you get me something I can attack let me know I will let you know. What are you guys doing? We're headed downtown. Hey should I meet you there?

Are you doing your patrols? Yeah, I'll continue a ton of a patrol. We had less nights. Yes, there was there's hail the more snow and hail here plus Some of my gold is filled in and given out here.

So we're kind of looking to both Huh weird. All right. I'll meet you over there in a minute and I'll get my room actually. I'm gonna take my van Okay, so you're meeting them downtown.

I'll drive down down I see be careful. I will. Thanks. Mom.

All right. The roads are actually the roads are actually really well maintained It's not too hard to drive around. It's well They're well plowed and well-iced and being well taken care of Even not please. Okay.

I see signs that like lead you to believe that it's the company that left the flyer that is doing this Oh, yeah, there's like there's some yard signs. Some people have some yard signs out I will once I am safely parked and not texting and driving I will leave a Yelp review for them They seem to be doing good work. All right, you hope cool. Everybody meets downtown y'all meet downtown Like burning the hail that's gonna hit me for hand I am bundled up to the point where I look like a very angry little baby crow Just all black but very puffy and I'm also you know very I like this image.

I work. I like this image We're about to portray there's arthur and furs There's granite and bundled up head to toe and then there's elements or just Inter-alpha. I also add that my furs the top hooded part of it is a wild boar that comes on top of my head I'm very good because I want to poke your piggy Yeah, that's what's funny. All right, so you guys all meet downtown.

Yep, you're all there Is it still hailing more? It's like icy rain and hail. Yeah, but how are the roads are really well maintained? Interesting not even though it's because I've lived in places where it's snowed the roads are never this nice They usually wait until it's a bit lighter to plow it.

Well, maybe this company is just trying to be preemptive I'm also gonna pull out the flyer and see you said the location is downtown We can always check it out if you guys are suspicious of a you know well maintained small business I will take the flyer from I I will agree with young ronald the fact that we we saw the snow randomly happened And according to your machine lady grudgeon The the weather person did not think that this was supposed to happen It seems kind of odd that they were able to get this cleared out so quickly I don't disagree that this smells of chicaneery So we headed to the snowplow pow Yeah, I suppose we could let's check it out and see what's going on there right so you're heading to the the offices of the snowplow area Yeah, what about is it when we get that not too bad they seem to be really busy There's a lot of people coming and going and yeah, they seem to be really busy I said these are all people I know though, right because it's a local business I mean, yeah, but it's a city so you don't know them all like personally by name, but they're all relatively local people Yeah, it's people like yeah, it's a lot of jobs like people like snowplow dudes and Ice-ers and people coming into like purchase services and whatnot like they have a big old huge stack of salt that they're selling and Like winterized windows and all this kind of stuff So there is kind of a storefront and also the hub for all of the plow trucks So you're saying business is good. Yeah, business is really good people are coming to go It's like it's a game of gold no well Some people the poor the poorer people are because apparently a bunch of gold was given to the downtown area So there are some people paying with gold finally able to afford some winterized services I'm gonna help as many of them as I can get their stuff out of their car if they look like they need help Okay, you're you start helping This does not seem very nefarious. Well, it's very suspicious especially since you know We started to enter more the spring season when crops are starting to get planted it's not good for the farm It was in everything like that I agree up at Camelot our crops are not doing well. It's only been a day or two and if this continues It's not gonna be good.

I mean if this was happening in let's just say December. I want to be as suspicious But it's February. It's February about to become March. We should be getting some Spring should be right around the corner right now.

I agree. It's very suspicious I just don't see anything here for this plow company off the top of my eyes And they're not in the epicenter like I thought they would be how is the hill here? It's kind of bad. It's pretty icy rain.

Is it any worse than it? Yeah, I was gonna say is it getting any worse? It's not getting worse, but it's just not getting better Is there any place in the city that seems to be like the either storm? Just kind of downtown area in general kind of where you are I mean, I have the storm means it's the clearest.

Oh, right? No, then no, there's no either start going by downtown with hail and stuff How big of a radius is this hail? It's not too big. It's not like fist size or anything.

It's more No, no, no, not the size of the hill the radius of how Okay, I see what you're saying. I'd say like a mile-ish. Okay, so it's not even that long right now. All right I say we can we can control up and down here or try to look for something suspicious in this area as the only idea I have Let's split into three sections basically We all go in a different direction and take it as a sector of this radius and we'll see if there's anything suspicious going on here I'm fine with that if the lady Gretchen is uh done helping out the downtrodden I was just twitching.

Um, yeah, but we can't talk as you someone will know You just see the slit between the scarves Can I talk to some of the people that are paying with gold sure? I just kind of want to get a feel for like how they found a bunch of gold coins Don't we give it to them. They just find them outside Is it you know, was it like a panic when everybody saw that? Roll me some social skill like a rapport.

No, if I do or not, you don't have an empathy I don't have either of those skills. That's my highest level skill plus three though. What? Yeah, so yeah, you talked to somebody and they're like, yeah somebody gave us uh gave us some a handful of gold coins to tell us to get what we needed That's like super sweet.

I love that. Yeah, they were not at all just some weird dude in the tunic Did it look like this and I like just I went on my phone and I showed him the picture I took up like Arthur and his tunic Uh, no more green more green. Okay. Okay.

They did take a fox. No, that's really cool. I love it Just you know if you need anything, let me know uh remember stones thrift on the corner We do a bunch of stuff like this too if you need help, uh, just let me know okay, okay, and then I'm gonna walk back in uh hey Moneybags. Do you know anybody that wears green in your group of mary and fiddies?

Yes There was Johnson Dude the bearded dwarf girl Uh, does she have a crunch against you? No, I got a long white wall there Besides my bitch of a sister and my son um you had a sign wait, I just saw it Well, I I don't because I only know about the round table I only pay attention to Australian history at some point when it's not hailing on us. I can regale you with tails But yes, I I have a sister and a son. Oh google such it later.

Yeah, did johnson like to do charity work? No, she drank mostly I think I know what's going on here. We have a robinhood situation on our hands Clearly because I pull out the arrow and I'm like oh, I forgot about this. I was a grappling hook nice Yeah, we found this as a grappling hook on camalot And you know some of his money was gone and he gave away so the poor part of the area so robinhood Yeah, that kind of yeah, that kind of goes with what I got um, I was you know green tunic nobody recognized him He looks like a fox told him by what you need.

I'm not gonna lie. I'm sorry you got rob arthur, but I don't feel bad about this Materials are materials the only things I care about if i'm rob if it has sentimental that I do None of my coins do or if it's a dangerous weapon You think that you could just put like a sign that's like in your vault It's like take what you need just don't touch, you know The sentimental stuff to tip to I well no because it doesn't put up a resistance to it the guy's not like technically stealing he's just You know helping And if you know you're not pressing charges is it really even One of these charges So that's when you go to the authorities and tell them I have been robbed and then the authorities have like track those dude down and like put him in jail No, I'm a king if I need to do something and I find him and something needs to be done I will tell you with myself there enough but at the moment I am fine with this a lot of people too travel out there snow Yeah, I'm not having an issue. I feel like I was just discussing with arthur because this is we've learned it's a mile radius Or a mile diameter or whatever a mile area We're gonna spin off in the three directions and see if we can find out where this snow is coming from Because I was discussing this is too uncommon for late February There do you think that it's a medic human or like Alien or where you magic because I can track certain things like it could be magic But I don't think it's medic human because I have it because it's going on for 24 hours No one can sustain that much power for 24 hours. I mean if they don't know they're doing it I was gonna say yes, it could be someone who was sickly or something that I would say if you could track Why not try to track as much as you could?

I mean, I can't I just see you can see you can know Because I can do meta and magic but I can't really do alien stuff So if it's one of those things we're kind of Well, if you want to throw we can if we throw up two needles they're by chance at least one of them might fall into our lap There. All right. Um, I got a set up in the van then It's kind of happening stationary. It's a ritual takes about 10 minutes and you also will win that points, but okay You know what?

Ronnie You want elements right now elements or do you want to use your vast magical abilities to track the potential risk to the city? I'm just gonna walk. That's what I thought. Yep I'm just gonna go to the van and start working on my ritual.

I'm gonna stand outside the van Arthur I guess if they're going to the van I will go to the van wait for this until we decide which area we're gonna swell up into okay So what what's the switch all you're doing? But basically it's like the equivalent of like locate magic I'm just reaching out to like see if I can find wherever this is coming from if it is indeed a magical or meta-human ability Okay, it's a person specifically I got it when it does have to be a person or could be like a penguin All right, so you detect a lot of metahuman people around so there are a number of metahumans in the area But I mean that's not a huge surprise. So yeah, you did you detect some metahumans in the area None of it feels like that's where it's radiating from. Uh, you're not 100% sure you only got it too There's a lot of men is in this area Pretty common unfortunately.

I can keep trying at this, but it's pretty much. It's like having radio interference I think elementors right we need to do some like work on this But you're not gonna get a lot of people you know opening their doors and being like yes my son has snow powers All right, everything says I'm gonna go up to a door and knock on it. Just a random door. Okay.

That's not what you open the door I'm like hello. Is it a man or woman? That's a man. Hello, gentleman.

Hi. My name is king author And uh, we are looking around because we think something is malicious about these uh, the snow that's happening I was wondering. Yeah, it's not a season in that. Yeah, I was wondering because you also have snow powers and I'm going to I'm going to roll Report, okay, and I'm going to use my skill uh golden tongue which is plus two to roll anything to try to get information or Something out of stone.

Okay Go for I got a plus seven. He fails completely. He's like no, I don't know anybody with snow powers I If I did I would have told somebody thank you you're welcome You're right. He doesn't have no powers on to the next stop I'm doing this whatever direction I'm going to keep doing that.

Okay, so you're doing that for a while I'm gonna begin my walk towards the other part of the area just looking around so you're like Anywhere is like a lot colder or something like that. So you're just trying to detect towards the coldest. Yeah, all right. We're rolling me some Investing notice Okay, I'll let you do a notice You just that's oh you guys a plus one.

I only have a plus one. I wash on my roll. Oh, okay. It's pretty cold everywhere Hacks, what are you doing?

Super school in this area like how we had no no no not this area. Oh there goes that idea um Yeah, I'm just doing a similar hot cold thing But like seeing if I can sense anything that is like a stronger force than like the background What do you mean? Like then something that's stronger than the normal normal meadows. Okay, I guess give me a roll for that Our team's the shittiest team I've ever seen before Yeah, four there is a cluster of meadows together They're not stronger or weaker than anything else, but they are together I'm gonna look around for that then and see what I can do with that.

Okay. It just leads you back to the plow place Okay Interesting. I'm going to communicate to the other two that um I got a really strong sense that there's a group of meadows in the plow place Investigate that real quick. All right.

I found a lizard girl, but no ice people I have found any difference in the temperature. So I'm gonna assume that a bus lead is a plow place again I'm gonna ask Arthur to talk to the meadows because apparently he does that well Yeah, I'm gonna stand back there to be like we have official business in the city Do you tell me to come back because you were just and you're gonna check it out. Yes I'm just asking you nicely like please come back. I know you're good at people like okay I'll turn it that way.

I'll say back to all right. So you're all back at the the headquarters of the plow place. They are very busy Someone gave me this thing called fruitcake. Oh, that's nice of them So kidding alcohol first.

Oh, so Oh, so I'm gonna need to do something called a care. What's the speak with that manager? Okay? I'll go in to the plow place is I'm how do I cut line up because that's mean to the people?

Okay, I know you can wait Well, we like I'm gonna wait line. I'm not gonna barge it But then you're not just in the manager They have any kind of computer system in the yeah, can I like magically hack into it and see if I can find employee records or anything Uh sure go for it. It's another four Uh, yeah, you hack in and there is like a time clock which is keeping track of employees hours and a spreadsheet That's keeping track of income and they're doing quite well. There's no list of like employee names I mean, yeah, there's a time card area, but just a bunch of names Can I run the names?

No, people wouldn't really work for that There's not like a registry Do any of them seem familiar to me? roll under lore Oh, I have a three for their score. I got a three. Apparently I hit my vein of zero There is one name that you recognize, but you're not sure where you heard it from.

Okay, what's the name? Jennifer chill God damn it. That has a vaguely snowy sounding name to it. Um, so I'm kind of kind of like because we're waiting in line I'm just gonna tap elmanston be like hey, um So they have somebody on payroll named jennifer chill And I'm you know, I like comics.

I enjoy them. You want to bet she's got snow powers I want to bet that she's probably is she a new hire? Yes I'm wanting to bet that she's the reason why that this is all happening I mean that would be a good way to make sure you're coming to the company you're working for Or perhaps from the memes that young cadence has shown me. She's just where sunglasses and smiles a lot Maybe that's always an option.

She could be chill in that sense I'm very proud of you and I'm gonna pat him on the head Does it does it say where she is at the moment? No, but she has clocked in I mean, she's here. She's on the clock That means she could be driving anywhere if she's a driver. Does it say if she's a driver or no?

Just as warehouse. I'm gonna look at Arthur and say when we get up to the front I have to see the employee Jennifer chill All right Are you just eating for no one? All right, so Arthur you get to the front of the line. Yes hello.

I would like to care in you and see your manager You would like to what? I have been told I should care in you We need to speak to jennifer, please Pretty sure she's busy I could go ask if she wants to talk to anybody. Please do it's kind of okay. I mean, but we're really busy So if you just wait, yeah, that's fine.

All right, they go in the back. I did exactly what you told me I know You were very proud of you. Good job. You did very good.

The employee comes back out and says, I'm sorry She's busy. She doesn't want to see anybody right now. Okay And I'm gonna give her one of my cards that up from the first door But can you ask her to just call? When she gets a second Sure sure We can always try to find windows or something or see what maybe she's doing back there if you don't trust this chill There's probably a back entrance we can break in.

Do you want to break in? That's the question I mean Again, yes, she's making it snow out of season and the kind of shitty But do we know this? I mean if it's her we don't but it's obviously I guess it is lead And I just want to talk well I couldn't find her if we enter smoothly. Will it truly be breaking there?

Yes It's will be so our options are we can creep on her We can break in and try to force her to talk to us or we can let it go for now And she can build an ice cuss that is really I I have another idea. Um elements. Uh you control fire and all that. What if you try to get a job saying how you could milk things for them?

Uh, I suppose I could try you don't need to go with elements or you could go as young ronald and you could dress up or do something put on a Massash I'll go outside and I'll detransform and I imagine I'm Way The appropriate with her tired. I'll wait in line of view I'll wait my turn and ask for a child application. All right. They give you a they give you an application form I'll fill it out and I'll say when can you hire me?

Well, we're going to uh, we'll look into it. We'll give you a call. Oh, thank you so much Bye All right, so you you fill out a job application to them they sell though. They'll call you when they can What time does she get off?

Uh, can I see like records of when she usually clocks out? Uh, no, it just says that she's there It doesn't really take the clock in or out I don't know sure she leaves. All right. We're gonna wait till night.

We could come back tonight and soak it out Or we start a fire and we sit here and camp and tell stories until night. We could just sit in the van and do that I have to prepare Some form of response attack to me getting attacked and called the h word. Okay, so we prepare and We come back and so you guys wait until night then. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. So you guys wait until night Uh a rooftop vent. Yes.

Yes, because I have like a warehouse in the back and I have a vent Perfect. This warehouse just happened to those big rolling garage doors in the back. Yeah, that's where I'm gonna You know the easier one I'm just gonna melt the top of the vent with my fire powers That's easy because I've hold up my hand and let's take a blowtorch Yeah, question youtube you wait till it close or just tonight Or does it close it does close the back area where all the trucks are coming in and out doesn't close because knowing so much So the the pods are basically running 24 seven. Okay, but I'll wait until I can find a spot sneaking then through that area Same I'll just bring the top of the van and secretly so the answer is burning for the top of the vent the other two are sneaking in through the garage area All right.

Everyone roll me a scale. I actually have self this I got a plus three Hell yeah plus three Okay. Oh, look at that. I got a field You know, I got a I got a make for on that call Whatever self-rofails to me.

That's a field. I just imagined the sound of a soft side being red than half I got a zero. You got a zero You mean I can reroll one way. Let's do it for fun.

You know, it's another favorite roll. Okay. Yeah, whatever you want to do I would say go Okay, okay. All right, so you're trying to go through the vents annoysily That'll be a circuit or something hex and arthur you sneak into the garage.

You're successfully sneak into the warehouse area It's a bunch of boxes full of salt and winterized gear Is the person who sells you the salt like I'm a commercial man, but it's assault no No, but you do hear voices listen if I can roll me a notice Sure No, not from where you are. I got a plus four now If they're are able to hear them it sounds like they are playing a game Well game does do I understand the game so it's like they're playing an old card game So yeah, there seems to be people playing a card game. Are they on a motorcycle through? Door through a vent mirror listening for the sorry.

No, you're just in the warehouse area You're just not to the where the card game is right now. You just hear the voices All right, so I'm gonna let her know that there's a car game or there We might want to be worried about that like not drawing attention and maybe they could be talking about something or maybe one of them is chill I don't know you have you seen a picture from your hacking? Yeah, I was gonna say can I while we were waiting Can I have like look her up on sure media sure? So I have a general feel for her.

Yeah, so I'm gonna show him kind of on the phone And then I'm going to as quietly as possible like tell Ronnie what's going on Okay, why are you cute out in glutes? Quiet cut elements are you are crawling in the vents you find yourself above an office? I stop him looking when I see you see a man there counting a large stack of money That's it. Oh, yeah, he looks up towards the vent because he heard something but He eventually passes he's a passenger six shoulder shoulders continues counting his money.

I'm gonna say Gonna quietly move on. Okay quietly roll quietly I should have said it. I should have said I slide on my hands and knees. Oh, you want to know?

I should have said I'm levitating myself with the air So it would be a wind sounds All right, so you're not sneaking very well So you move past the office back to arthur and hacks you are making your way through the area Are you heading towards the car game or not? We are before we head to the that way though when we're full of our way. I'm going to whisper to the hex and be like Why you go to one side? I'll go to another so that way we can look it because I'm assuming they're sitting around a table Yeah, that way we can both look and both sides if we see her okay.

Yeah, all right both roll me a snail Okay. Yeah, I got a one Two so I got two all right as you're sneaking closer. You notice the room is incredibly cold. It's dropping in temperature As you get closer.

It's even colder still like is it hard to breathe cold anything like that It's getting there. Yeah, but you guys sneak around the boxes and are come towards either side of this table So either both of you can see a different side of it And there are three people around the table playing cards There is a Jennifer show who you had looked up who is a young girl wearing kind of a blue and white dress There is another woman that looks to be made completely out of ice And then a man sitting there with them as well who's wearing kind of like a dark blue and gray outfit I really want my character to fall through the fence between all of them roll for it They're all sitting around the table playing cards together It looks like they're gonna look like they're being held against their will right? It looks like they're the reason why it's freezing here. No, they're having a good time.

They're playing cards Yeah I'm gonna assume someone show me I use communicator at least touch it or something like that I don't know if you're talking to it But I'm going to I'm gonna be like, um, maybe we should say here listen listen in on them and see what they uh If they say anything about what's going on if they do anything or do you just want to Talk to them or what? See, I don't think That they're being held so I don't think they're in trouble and I It's a shitty business practice, but I don't think what they're doing is illegal So I really don't want to bother them I have no idea the legality of being an iceberg Well, it's not being an ice person. It's using your powers to profit It's a shitty thing to do but But it's also if you're this is your city which you continuously tell me you want to protect Even though you're not a hero Are they not destroying things of your city and your economy by stealing the money of the people you are here for? And that's the thing that I'm inwardly debating and I apologize I have no problem debate all you will.

I'm gonna try to listen in while she's baiting Yeah, uh, roll me. You know, it's listening So I got it for all right You're listening in uh as they as they're playing the card game The the one made up ice is like yeah, this is the easiest job I've ever had I'd do is stay here. It's not a big deal at all ice, but it's like yeah, I finally found something I'm good at And they're just playing uh playing cards. You you do get their names from listening in It's Jennifer.

She was not going by ice princess There the the woman made come looks like she made out of ice completely is called chill factor and the man with the blue and gray outfit is called cold shoulder Nice Ice-cob is gonna be there No He's a guy who's counting all the money Oh my god, thank god. I should stop me on the force and All right, elements are you're crawling through the vent you find yourself above a hallway. What's in the hallway? Nothing.

It's just a hallway Uh How far down is it the drop? It's not that far down. It's about normal standard roof size There's like an upstairs to this warehouse. There's a warehouse in the upstairs area.

You're in the vent above the upstairs area Hmm. I think I'm gonna get out of the vent The vents are causing me to fail at all my self-hills. Uh, roll me an athletics to the top down Can I just look out with the towers? Sure.

All right. You float down with your powers. You're now in the hallway. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah Um, and then I'm going to communicate and say I'm in now guys. I'm gonna head downstairs. That sounds like where everyone is They're all out here on the warehouse. Yeah, they're in the warehouse playing cards They're literally getting paid to make this place cold.

Is there a catwalk where I can like look out and see? Uh, you'd have to go find it. Are you gonna go look for it? Yes All right, roll me a spot.

No, no, I'm walking quietly. You know, it's helping quiet. I'm doing light air steps So you're not being stealthy? Uh, I'm taking a delight gentle steps.

Are you being stealthy or not? Just You either get noticed all right away because everything's healthy or you get noticed because you fuck up still Fucking small cans you can get it right? Real-free still. I got this one.

Hey, that's not a negative. Hey, so yeah, you eventually find a staircase at least out of a catwalk Yes, and on the catwalk you can see you can look down and see these people playing cards I'll communicate that to everyone and be like I suggest we go in. This is not gonna be good And they're probably gonna continue with this well into the year I will I will say one problem. I'm already having a hard time breathing.

Yeah, I'm just a I'm just a human You're gonna need to hit him hard with some fire magic. I obviously I think the best solution is to try to melt them I'll take hold extremely is there okay. I think is there any way we can up your fire for you? Like any way to give you a I have nothing to do that.

I have nullifying worms. I can throw one in there Oh, you said they sounded like they're meta too. Yeah, so I can throw one in and try to nullify their powers It doesn't last very long though. I mean we could try Either we die tonight fighting.

I would die tonight being cowards. I would not like to die period Why is dying even on the table? I prefer not to meet death again. So are we doing this?

I guess I will concede my plus my turn to give it to her first or an aggression first, you know my Fighting yeah, yeah, I'm gonna concede that to go last because I as a person who can't do much I want to see what's going on first. Okay. I mean like not last but wherever the fuck I found the order right You want to just you want to go after hex after hex but the ice people go before me they can go before me Okay, you're taking up my surprise. You all get a turn before oh, yeah, so I'm gonna go after hex I just I don't want to be the first one like I normally can be okay.

I mean what's your shoot? I can just give you an orb. I don't have any shoot. Oh no, I I have a one never mind.

All right Well, I got it too. I have a plus four you have a plus four to shoot. Yeah, okay. I gave you some of those orbs drop one of the orbs down I'll toss one of the orbs down all right roll shoot.

All right. I got a plus five. Yeah All right, so you you throw your orb down into the middle of the the table It goes off and shuts off their powers cold shoulder and ice prints I don't seem to notice very much I mean they notice the orb hitting in the middle of the table show factor screams and pain as she falls apart and dies The other two stand up in horror and that is where we'll end this portion of You like I killed someone this portion of I kill myself. I don't like being a murderer I have been here gave us your happy puke and you can find me on Twitter at happy puke and guess what turning off people's Metapowers is an always a great idea.

I'm Mark and you can find me with at laugh with mark on the blinking north. I'm Maddie you go find me on Twitter at shadow it and Fuck you Bailey shut up. Maddie. I should just let you throw it.

You throw it. Hi. I'm daily You can find me on Twitter at ironic adventures I'm still gonna live with this guilt because it was my technology also no offense You're also playing was to melt no my plan was just to counter act them with fire Oh, that's why I'm just saying what you originally said they were like I can help I would be other ice person's name. Oh which one?

Cold soldier Jeff or chillin She'll also ice princess. Yeah. Yeah. I know Well, you don't have to know She's dead because you made it No, but it's I consider both I consider an accomplice and a murderer because you're the one who gave a weapon and told her to do it I'm totally no I 100% will have Greta dealing with this.

I'm also doing that some people's meta powers keep them alive Okay, I didn't want to play Fiona Fuck I'm an actual shock and I'm gonna wait months before people are really You're a murderer right now this character needs therapy too and as long as this one one first let's go over and see how arthropod And um mithro being killed by amr killing him. They also murdered someone. I'm so pissed No internet kisses this time guys because of how pissed I am All right, we'll do that there I guess I think I'm just gonna just do the intros of you guys because I think the other episode has like a beginning part So we'll just have you all edited in there and you can find me at Matthew So I'll just go something like and Matthew has arthropod. It's a me arthropod And that guy's me It's it's a me.

It's the other brother. It's a me. It's a me. It's a me.

It's a me. It's a me. The real Oh, it's a me. There is Benny we did a split recording.

So this is why like part two is just these two folks It's why our jokes don't match up at the beginning of the other groups Yeah, so since we're starting off this second half of this episode Could you let me know what a arthropod and mithro we're up to I believe I was I was building a snowman outside of the headquarters And I was shoveling the snow with my shovel hands And then somebody accosted a myth drill and if I'm not mistaken It was him who had come back and did a sick burn and said if you want to kill an alien don't chop its head off Yeah, that sounds better. And then after that some air horns went off and I and then he dabbed and I was dead And then we said that was a perfect opportunity for us to split the party for another party Yep So you two are in the art m is a shapeshifter and a power stealer So he doesn't look like he looked like when you fought him last time and uh chopped his head off way back of the day But he does sound the same. Oh good And he is there in front of y'all Uh real quick. I have a I've written in my notes that this episode is called my myth roll my enemy Good perfect Let me see he's just rooting the drama so that I can get my jokin Good job.

I like it. Thank you Mythril with snow shovel hands will throw snow at him All right, roll me a shoot for throws no just for that for the hell of snow blindness. That's right. Yeah.

Uh, he said roll shoot Uh do you want to have I do that's uh, that's a whole one. All right. You hit him with some snow has arthropod notice Yeah arthropod is close enough that he notices what's happening. Okay, cool.

And I I I turn to arthropod and say Bad guy and point with shovel hand. Hey, you need to chill out. What do you do arthropod? I think canonically we said I have some sort of ice bugs or something.

So I want to shoot bug at him and I want to try and create an advantage of Swarmed All right roll for shooting bugs to create a dangerous one right and we we said canonically I can use a fake pointer Yeah, all right. That sounds sounds like exactly what I needed to do there. All right. That's better, but not as good Oh, well, it's better, but not what I want.

Uh, that's uh, two A two a two. All right. He seems to fend off your your swarm of bugs as they're attacking him He shapeshifts into a humanoid figure with what looks like a superhero outfit on like multicolored superhero outfit and flaming head and And like kind of fire kind of circles in for a second kind of wards your bugs off cool But yeah, now he's got a weird mask and flaming head out of curiosity. Does it look like a hero we would recognize?

No, no, okay cool. No, he looks otherworldly and weird and not not like a good fashion sense Look, I didn't think we were gonna have to fight the personification of global warming today, but we are willing to do our part He's like I should be able to handle both of you myself and he breathes some fire at me throw and he got a four to breathe fire at you You can roll athletics to dodge all right. I do that and I got a holy shit plus six All right, you dodge out of the way of the fire. He breathes it ruins your snowman.

Oh Nobody nobody lays a finger on my snow buddy Is it my turn yes, it's mithril stern All right. I'm gonna morph my hands into giant hammers and I'm gonna beat him over the head roll a roll attack for that That's a plus seven to head damage good god. You got a lot of And I say does the carpet match the drapes when I beat him in the head Okay, you hit him hit him one good in the head arthropod is your turn I would like to try and flank him and I would like to try and grapple and sting him All right, go for it. I'm gonna roll this if I grapple him for it Would that be like is that like a fight to like grab him or athletics or physique or I'm saying roll a fight to grab So one to grab you actually do grab him though.

That's fantastic. I'm gonna try and now go about sting This is a this is one of my abilities. I assume that's also fight. Uh, yes, it's a plus three All right, you sting a bit cool He laughs and says but just in case I couldn't I did bring help Fuck and he like he bursts his body and like a fire kind of spits out in his both of you because you're both pretty close No, and he rolled a five for fire No, what do we roll for uh athletics to dodge if you'd like to dodge I got I got so here's the thing I got a six But if I am grappling him would that mean that I would have to let go of him to yeah I would probably do that because of big fire.

Yep. I got a six of my other. All right, so you got the fire I got a four And me throw you take one Actually both roll me a notice. Oh, that's an awesome roll of four Uh, I also can do that.

That's a whole two. All right, arthropod as you as you dodge out of the way of the fire You notice that on top of your apartment building. What do we say? What's it was like a townhouse?

It's like a loft over a garage, but it has access to ground floor Okay, with a fire pole. Yeah on the roof stands stands a man covered in kite and armor and a spear Fuck you recognize him as rudevide the assassin bug a man who you have fought many times well, not many times a couple of times I have an aspect for that. Yeah, do you what's your aspect for that? My aspect is I will maintain the balance Yeah, but you see him up on on the roof standing and looking down.

Um, he has arrived. I'm thrilled as your turn I will try to beat down the man again. All right since rudevide is on the roof and I'm close to him I'm gonna get a little hammer in again for a whole juicy three Wow really peaks and valleys there All right, you take a big swing he dodges just barely it is your turn mr. Arthur pod How did you find us he says I needed him to find you any points to m oh and that's pretty radio We don't really take too kindly to have it having us found out like this.

This is gonna create so much paperwork You have no idea a lot of extra credit But think of the extra credit I would like to burrow into the snow. Okay. Uh, can I really stealth? Yeah, you're trying to hide yourself to I'm gonna try and hide myself so I can try and take him from surprise later Arthur pro use dig.

Yes. It's super effective. Let's see That's a plus one. We got a plus one to hide I got plus one to be stealthy.

Okay, you burrow yourself into the snow It is em's turn he picks up two snowballs and turns them into gold and then checks them at me throw Really really having problems with inflation in the snap that we are You got a four to throw those at you That's uh five To defend all right you defend against the balls me to snow not a great power It's really not but root of you day standing on the roof says but now that I've found you I don't need him anymore And he throws his spear at em oh all right and it impales m to the ground I give him a thumbs up and say nice and em shouts out you traitor Uh, right so mithril is your turn. I want to like where is it like right in his middle that's impaled Yeah, like through his chest area. Okay. Can I like hammer it more into him with my hammer hands?

Sure go for it Cool. That's a five. All right. You you hammer it good into him.

All right. I say get nailed Other part of his your turn. All right. He sees on the roof root of you day.

Yes Hear me out. I want a bug But what I want my bugs to do is I want I want a bunch of carpenter ants to go and eat a hole in the roof below him So he falls into the roof. Okay roll for that. Yeah, I'm rolling on the road Yeah, I am not rolling on the dice.

All right, you do destroy the roof, but he he definitely moves out of the way It does not fall through the roof And now completely outnumbered And getting fucking hammered from every side he flies upward through the the spear So like it goes all the way through him and he flies into the sky. He's got a big gaping hole in him And he's like This time mithril, but i'll be back and he flies away Same next time calls so we know ahead of time and rutvide jumps to the ground after dodging the hole in the roof Yeah, he dodges up to the ground and he stops and he lays down his other spear and puts his hands up as to signify a truce mithril is your turn I Look into the whole arthropide hiding in and I say should we trust him? He's surrendering. I will emerge from the snow behind rutvide and I will stand over him from behind and What do you want from us?

I need your help. It seems like a real big change of pace from before. Well, our people are in danger. Oh, uh, well, I mean, uh, that sounds like What do you need us to do?

We need you to come back help us for our people. Okay, so Our understanding of this whole arrangement is that I'm here You are there and uh like if one of one of us dies then it's bad and the our the our bug people They invade the surface and it sounds like what you're telling us now is that you want us to help you let them up now No, not let them up. There's someone down there putting them in danger. Oh who could put such a powerful species in danger But who could it be one of our own his name is Oh, could you spell that?

No, okay, it's bug sounds. Oh fair. I mean fair enough. Yeah, he makes he makes bug sounds with his who is mouth Great.

Sounds like clicking and buzzing. I think Arthur. I would just assume that they knew what that meant. Yeah It's somewhere deep inside them.

They knew what that meant rutvide says he's a religious zealot He's trying to fulfill some prophecy, but he's a liar. He's a charlatan. He's leading our people astray to danger So look we're willing to help but we're kind of curious. Oh, we had a really good joke for this, but we forgot so we're Will help This time How will our good friend mith will be received down below?

How will we be received? We're cool now, right? You're half bug person. We have a cool voice.

We don't have that we don't have that accent anymore We talk to you longer throat hurts We don't have lips anymore We got this we got this cool compound now and look at our sick abs Sick bug abs Pagnus abs if you're concerned about how you will be received in the under you're not the warriors. I thought you were I just don't want to get sniped down there We don't have guns we're bug people. Oh, I mean fair enough. Yeah, yeah, they'll eat you You'll probably crisp crispy over and melt you with acid.

Oh, I don't know how I will fare with acid I haven't tested this metal with it and I'm not sure I want to but only only some from the surface can come down in hell Is the click click buzz is uh, he's in thralls everybody click buzz He's leading our people astray interesting, so I'm willing to call the truce here now if you're able to help Okay, we're gonna fix this roof real quick. We know a guy Well, we know a bunch of trap our spiders and they know how to fix this temporarily, but then we'll come help it'll be five minutes, okay All right, so you're getting trap our spiders to fix your house. Yeah, you want some some farm grown like lettuce or something Uh, sure, okay All right this way All right, Arthur poth will take up to our headquarters of bunk beds old technology filing cabinets a hot plate and a refrigerator full of fresh produce Is it a refrigerator or is it an ice box? It's it's a refrigerator where like the top third is a freezer and then the rest Okay, my favorite we do we have invested in a juicer since An engine juicer.

Yeah, sometimes you need to use with all the produce. We have of course nice. It's a shinobi juicer The spiders are fixing the roof You're doing juice and fixing the roof I'm I make rid of it a dope V8 Esque drink like this. These are not very good.

Yeah, it's really had the flavor you need all of the sodium Which isn't in the juice which you'd like some protein flan instead. We like to add peanut butter to it. Yes I have I have a soybean version. It's much better for you.

Don't put a lot of salt and things down under so I have a real sensitivity to it Not not real salty got it. That's that's fair. It's not super good for a lot of things Should we bring salt like as a defense thing other giant slug people There's not people there's giant slug pets. Okay.

Okay, so salt. Yes Arthur puddle grab like some individual packets of salt and put them in their many pack. That's right. You forgot they had a fanny pack You're far more ridiculous than I believed you were for college.

I didn't plan on being like this. It just sort of happened to work study We're living our best life. Okay. I thought you were warriors trained at the humans.

Well, there's only so many humans There seems to be like there's a lot of like weird stuff. There's like god kids and magic kids There's like a guy who's got like a comb for a hand. He's always like subtly like brushing his beard. Oh, yes old co-man's yes Cold co-man's cater Alright, so he hangs out with you guys for a little while.

Yeah, it was like five minutes. We're ready to go now You're all ready to go. Yeah. All right.

Do this. So he's he's just planning to walk back to one of the entrances to the underground world How far is it we get we can fly there? It's pretty far. Yeah, I've got a mobile mattress.

Yeah, he's got magic magic mattress And we fly that sounds good. I find a flying faster. Don't fly. So that'd be nice cool.

Probably one wear a windbreaker though Yeah, it's a little it's been snowing for some reason if you couldn't tell outside. Yes, it's unseasonable Yeah, we never really got to the bottom of that recently and forgot that it was unseasonable that it was happening I have a I have a sneaking suspicion someone else is trying to take care of it. Yeah, so do it. So do we yes For this very small area of garnet rapids that we think there's a lot of super things.

I North Dakota. Sorry. Garnet garnet rapids north Dakota. I whistle for mattress mattress comes flying in yay Like the magic carpet of this Magic mattress ride.

It's dirty and sane Because you fly it around everywhere mattress when we get back. I really need to shampoo you down. Do you fumigate you? Yeah, how do you laundry mattress?

You know usually you hide money under it. Oh, ha ha ha ha I was gonna say I feel like the same way you would uh When I cleaned the second hand couch I got in which I got 409 carpet cleaner and scrub the hell out of it Yeah, that works. Yeah All right, so you guys are flying up to the great white north onward To to Canada outside of new alabaster where the entrance to the underground is the underworld I could get a sin don't worry. You think uh, do you think have like a checkpoint underground that we have to go through?

Yes, do we need papers? We might have to sneak. No, I know I know a route, but we have to sneak Okay, like we didn't we didn't dig a hole if we need to I can punch people in the back of the head It's not enough to mount if need be or we can sneak you know, we do that too I mean, yeah, we have options. We have options.

I'd rather not attack people that are just trying to do their job good point They're just their hard work and bugs are trying to do their job. Look if they're cops, they're probably good people in this universe We don't we don't see why cops would be bad people in this universe. It may okay, so you guys You guys reach the entrance of the the underground inside of the large factory Rude V-Day opens it up and starts going down the stairs into the into the underground area. I follow you follow as well We will skitter along the walls in this weird way that bugs crawl on walls.

Are you taking mattress down with you or not? No, I will have mattress hide somewhere. Okay. All right Under some foliage.

I give him a hug and I say I'll be back. I promise. I love you Okay, okay All right, so you guys are going down into the under it's dark for a while and it seems like you're walking for a very long time and a very steep Incline downward until there's some bioluminescent plants that start to pop up and the the cave entrance gets wider and wider and wider until it's like It's basically like being outside but underground way underground Oh You're in a world beneath ours. Can I all right Alex?

Hear me out of this. Yeah, I would like to roll bug to see if I can sense bugs here Like like the underground bugs. Okay roll for it. I got a two.

Yeah, you can sense bugs around. I mean, that's part of your powers, right? You sense bugs? Yeah Yeah, yeah, I can I can I can summon and control them.

I feel like I could sense them their presence Yeah, but yeah, you can sense bugs Bugs down here same as bug up there in sec tar bug dart. But yeah bug dart There's different weird like center of the earth bugs that are bizarre different because you're so far deep down but um I guess that's what I'm trying to get is like I'm trying to get a feel for like different and new bug Oh, yeah, there's tons of different the new bugs weird alien bugs that only live this deep Yeah, this magically deep under the ground. I can't emphasize enough how incredibly deep under the ground you are I'll okay. Wait.

Let me write that down. SHU equals hollow earth. Yeah, basically how deep are we? You're so far down.

It's crazy. Whoa My mind is below it's it's nuts All right, so uh you're you're coming across an area that looks like like a built outpost kind of situation Looks like there's like a large howers and fences and whatnot. They look like structures giant bug people would build Is it like really cavernous where we are? Yeah, like it's like it's almost like being outside because the roof has opened up so wide So it's like you can't see the roof and there's like bilubinesse plants everywhere.

So it's it's almost bright. You know what I mean? Yeah, you can see pretty well. Cool.

I I'm taking pictures on my phone For for extra credit when we do our paperwork later. Okay All right, you get you get to a checkpoint where there's towers and some fences They're oddly built out of like stalactite carvings and mushroom bits From from the hands of large bug people chunky and gross. Got it. Yeah, it's chunky and gross and weird Nrudevity is like this is the checkpoint.

We have to go past cool What do you recommend? There's a way to sneak if you guys can sneak We can sneak can you can you sneak? Uh, of course I can sneak Okay, you don't sound confident. I'm not trained in sneak, but I will do my best.

Okay I don't have to find these people that just guards. Can I roll burglary instead? No We like pass for being locals. I mean, I don't think I don't think I could I'm the only human that live down here and you're half bug Half-person you're not full bug person.

We look like we look more bug than human at this boy. Trust me. We've trust us We've looked in a beer. We could We could do the thing where I put you both at handcuffs and bring you in Oh Do you have like enough handcuffs for us because we got like Four sets of arms.

Yeah, I can I've got handcuffs or we have three yes, we have three We would have to we'd have to be convincing enough to deceive them through May I make a suggestion and that I gag myself because I won't be good at that. Okay, okay Okay, here's a we climb like on the ceiling wherever that is And we can follow you you guys so that if something happens we can drop down and help out Otherwise, it's just easier for the two of you to get by while while we go sneaky around Okay, so our basically our options are go through my area to sneak or we can deceive our way through or we can try to climb the wall with athletics Which path would you like to take no they're saying that while you take me in as a prisoner They climb on the ceiling and follow us right yeah, yeah, what we're saying is we're really bad at the seat But we're really good at climbing on things And I'm really good at being quiet when I have a gag in my mouth and can't fuck it up There's still gonna be a role involved. I imagine but we can I assume that yes, we would have to roll for these things All right, if you allow him to a root of a wall handcuff you I allow him to handcuff me but not before I gag myself with a piece of cloth that I rip off my shirt Are you gonna range it so that like they're trick cuffs and you can like break out if you need to or you like straight up lock in I'm pretty sure if they're just average cuffs that I could bust out of them regardless. They're they're cutting his bug cuffs Oh buffs.

I could I could totes bust these if need be all right I let him do what he needs to do all right. You can also shape your arms out of them. Yeah, that's what I was thinking All right, so he he also shoved some shit in your mouth sample of dirt I had ripped a piece of my shirt off before he handcuffed me and gagged myself A waste of shirt. Okay, because I didn't want to get bug shit in my mouth Fair enough so you don't get bug shit in your mouth or in his case human feces I don't know this man.

It's probably like some weird sap or something. Yeah All right, so he's got you handcuffed and he's taking you towards the the border arthropod What are you doing? We're gonna climb up to the ceiling and kind of like follow them as they're going in It's you can't see the ceiling from the ground right is just because there's a lack of light up there Right. Yeah, and it's super super high.

It's like skyscraper high. Okay in that case The flight so that they can be close enough to still see what's going on but high like over the top Okay, are there weird like misty clouds at a certain level? Yeah purple and black clouds. Yeah, and the kind of the glow a little bit That's totally healthy.

They're not radio active purple green and black clouds and like it's like it's like a weird world under here I was thinking it's a lost world. Yeah Subs are strange planet. Yeah, I was thinking it was like the clouds from pokemon when you jagantamax something Yeah, the big the weird red poopy ones. Yeah, when you got when you got big thing sure that okay cool Are there there's a spore clouds and whatnot floating up you're flying over the the checkpoint needs rutavide Takes mithril through the checkpoint and he is stopped by two very large bug creatures They got big claws and stingers and they're very large and spooky Yeah, like big weird scorpions because that's what you were at first.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So they're big weird scorpions and rutavide Click some buzz at them a little bit. They click and buzz back and they kind of get in your face But they're like really looking you over I'm kind of used to the way arthropod used to look So I'm not as surprised but I will struggle or pretend to struggle like I'm scared Okay, and like back up a bit, but I assume he has a hold of my arm or something.

Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, so I don't get I don't get very far. They seem to be arguing a little bit. Okay I mumble within my gag because I can't do anything All right, one of them is observing you pretty pretty well. I'll try to try to roll me at the sea to be convincingly Oh great.

Oh, that's a one Okay You do one so they look you up and down and they point in a certain direction and rutavide seems relatively upset But he starts heading in that direction with you when we're a good distance away I kind of shrug at him like did he go well? He looks at you and then kind of looks away. Okay Can't talk and I guess so Yep, okay, you're just keep going with him arthropod you're up on the the ceiling I'm just I think I'm just flying overhead just so I can keep an eye on things Okay, because I feel like if I'm on the ceiling I wouldn't be able to see what was going on Right, right. So you're following them.

You see them headed towards a strange building Are there are there like more guards? Yeah, yeah, there's a bunch of guards There like at your height. You can see in the distance. It's like there's a huge city full of bug people Bug people right, but is uh, are they like drawing attention to themselves?

No, it doesn't look like there's a bunch of tension being drawn to them currently Okay, so they're pretty much like walking into the center of this cavern area the cavern area is like massive city size So it's not walking really towards the center. They're walking towards the building. Okay. Yeah, I was trying to see if they're going more Through like a tall tunnel or something if I could get like out of watch No, yeah, no, they're going towards kind of like the middle like a big hollowed out area So you have to keep flying if you go too high you'll lose track of them.

Okay, so what Arthur Pods gonna do is they'll uh, they'll keep following Flying okay for now. All right, it takes you into it looks like a prison area There's some other bug people some of them are kind of like missing limbs and some were like got scars on them They're all in really big weird cells that were designed for scorpion people and they open up one of the cells and he kind of He pushes you into one of the cells and they close up and rid of v-day says in English He's like don't worry. Just wait here for a little bit. I Not like I'll be back just wait.

Can I roll like a notice on that? Sure rolling a notice So I I think that what Arthur Pods sees that they look for like a spot nearby where they can land where they won't be seen because they'll assume that Either uh things didn't go well or it was double cross or something. Okay They do take the handcuffs and gag off of you in the cell Oh, thank god. Not that you're in the cell, but you are in the cell with a large beefy rough looking bug person big scorpion thing Yeah, he's got some sweet hats cool.

I wave and say what's up dude. What she in for he clicks and buzzes at you aggressively nice Got an eye patch over one of his eyes one of his Is there a bench I can sit on somewhere. Yeah, they're designed for scorpions So it's big weird bench, but you can kind of sit on it in a way. Is he sitting on it?

Yeah, okay I don't sit on it. I lean against the opposite wall and cross my arms. Okay, and try to look longingly They really have they have any furniture I imagine they would just like kind of like just sit in the dirt every time they ask a question I would say yes, but it was designed for scorpion. So it's weird.

Yeah, all right cool. They live they live in some sort of bug site So it's I hate to see the toilets. I'm not even gonna try it They just insect they just roll in the balls down a hill. Oh nice.

Oh, it's like a shoot in the floor Shit shoot All right, so arthropod you are outside of this jail. Oh, romey uh self this remain unseen because you are now in the bug city Oh, man, I got four. Oh, you remain unseen and you're down by the prison area Am I I would try to lay like on top of the cell maybe or like okay like close close up. I could like get his attention.

Okay. Yep, you're close enough Man, he said he was gonna come back for me, but I don't speak I'm a little under my breath. He said he'd be back, but I don't speak bug. So I don't know they seem pretty pissed about something Oh, it's like it's like other people here Like like other people people wait now.

Can you say they're like people? No, it's all bugs. Oh, except for Except for my bro. Okay.

Yeah, except for my bro. Who's the only person? All right. I'm gonna double it down Yeah, I mean the bugs are people too.

They're sentient bugs fair enough. I guess we wait I'm trying to to look menacing. So uh, the my salamate doesn't come at me All right. So what we've heard is that you look for the biggest toughest looking guy And like you like chat chat them up and like you ask if you'll be your friend and like Hang out and like be part of their posse and like that's kind of like what we think is supposed to happen My throat is getting really scratchy while you clear your throat.

I did attempt to chat my new friend up But again, they don't speak human I like coffin rub my nose and stuff. I mean this we miss mattress. I do this mattress. Okay, so what are you guys doing next?

Hey, Alex does the salamate look cool. Yeah, he looks like a hard tough prisoner type Yeah, but is he like is he like is he like is he cool? Like is he like is he chill dude like like is he on the dl Roll me an empathy or a rapport or something like that. Which one both of us?

No arthropod Okay, we're gonna give that solid if it's reports one do I have to talk to them? Oh, yeah, you know talk to him for a report. I got a zero then for empathy. Yeah.

I don't have empathy They seem they might be down down to clown So what are you doing? We will look around to see if we see you see rid of it. He's leaving the prison area like going further away Yeah, he's going further away. He's kind of he seems to be looking around into the sky a little bit But trying to be inconspicuous.

I will send a bug. Okay They'll take their hand out they'll like read out a single fly and like whisper to it and then the fly would go deliver their message to Rudy day. What's your message? Man?

We're back. We're back in the prison. We are we're good at the climbing and the sneak Okay, all right a little bit of time passes over to video kind of doubles back and meets you on top of the person stop turns Not a lot late Kind of just kind of Yeah, he does that inconspicuously he tries to sneak it but he does he meets you he meets you on top of the prison And he's like he just passed his pockets. He throws up his arms like he forgot something turns around He walks But he's like unforeseen Troubles I try to humans trespassing down here's a serious violation and I thought I could take him directly to counseling Get lost in the city, but they told me to go directly here He's supposed to be brought in front of the council tomorrow morning Do something like it seems catter intuitive to plan to get rid of some sort of religious elite right?

So what if what if you suggest a prison riot for a distraction? You want me to bust these hard criminals out of prison? Well, they don't know that we're here yet. So we can do it.

Okay, that way like you get up to me and we kind of like Which we need? Well In the center of the city is the where the council meets the council building and click click buzz has taken over the council Without any democratic process because of some sort of prophecy he stays there. So I don't know rush there kill him and leave Yeah, that's that's usually my plan We feel like a prison riot would be a really good way to like get there and maybe kind of like flooded with crowds So that sounds like actually that's only works. You want to start a prison riot?

Well, it seems like a I mean Do you have another suggestion? We're spitballing here My idea was when your friend is brought in front of the tribal council not the tribal council the council in general We could attack and murder the the head councilman Okay, we do that too Who was serving the democratic process that we've been so beholden to for the last how long been there? Yeah, just because of some super prophecy. I don't even believe in it.

You should ask him what the prophecy is Is it like is it safe for a role to be like in here? There's guards should be fine No, he even doesn't taste very good, but he's got like he's got like metal art, right? It's gonna like crack it open some bones Not that we've ever thought about it. It seems like you've thought about it.

We have very good imagination Okay, so we're gonna start a prison riot. No, I mean you're you're just good too. Uh, we do that we're cool Seems like more chill. All right, okay That's why we were asking if it was okay for him to stay here because like, you know, it's bugs and You see this little this little man here and they're all big bug and this guy's got an eye patch and some sweet prison ink should be fine He's very polite not paying attention to us.

You know, yeah, I'll be back tomorrow morning to escort me through to the council All right, is there be like the withdrawal or anything? He's probably gonna get gruel bug gruel. Oh, that's like a cultural experience. Yeah, I think we got a check in the box I've eaten in most of my life.

I'm big and strong. Don't worry. That's where you can eat it. We're we're bad Oh, are you guys like in your shot of me because Like whispering outside of the prison window.

Okay. I was kind of imagining that Ruby day is like at the door like looking at Just adding up Arthur pod and there's like somewhere in the back. There's like prison scorpion. That's like I don't know practice a hobby like chanking somebody or like knitting whittling.

Yeah whittling or both simultaneously carving Yes, we're like I guess I could be back tomorrow morning All right, can I have a bonding experience with myself? Maybe become good friends and have a chic or hand shake now roll rapport Shit. I didn't do too. Well, that's all that's a whole negative too No, he doesn't seem to like you very much shit.

I just stay in my corner then Okay, what he was whittling that looked like a grandma bugging out with a couple of grandkid bugs now looks like it's being carved into a shiv of some sort Oh great. Oh Alex for flavor sake Arthur pod will hold out his phone and recorded that Okay For credit or later. Um, all right. So do you just hang out there for the whole night?

Arthur pod? No, what do you do at night? So what I think Arthur pod would do is this is their opportunity to kind of like get a feel from what their life could have been So while mithril is really trying to make friends and not die Arthur pod's gonna get it like take into sites so they'll keep flying around and That's sweet of sound There's gonna fly around and see like what does it like to shop here? What are what are these bugs?

What are they getting to? All right, so you you taking some of the bug culture. Yeah. Yeah, it seems More like normal cold like the culture you used to then you would expect except everything's designed for scorpions.

Yeah, what what? I what Matthew imagines is like is it's very much analogous to what the surface world is like, but very just bug oriented. Yeah. Yeah Are there other bug cars?

No, they've they skid around places. They do have they do have they have weird slug dogs They leave trails of mucus. Oh my god. I love it.

I want to see yeah It is significantly grosser because there's a lot of mucus and the street cleaners are rolling balls of dung around but I mean Arthur pod might dumpster dive when no one's looking to see if you can find like snacks, okay, try it try bug snack Like a popcorn, but it's like a I don't know what they do like grubs or whatever. Yeah, so like it's like just crunch bugs Crunch bugs you find you find some good snacks. They taste good. Is it only scorpions or are there like other bugs too?

This the scorpions are like the scorpion people are the sentience the sentient dominant species The sentient dominant species they do have weird slug dogs and there are other ones that like you seem to be used as like beasts of burden whatnot And they seem to have control over the the flora as well But yeah, the sentient species is the the large scorpion people see I was picturing like bugs life where they have like many bugs only one or mostly the the scorpion people all right fair enough Mythril is like morphed his hand into like one of those tools that you clean out from underneath your fingernails with and it's just doing that Because that's what real life is that is doing right now All right Arguivatates life it does The next day comes and uh rudevi day comes to collect you there's a number of other scorpion guards that collect you as well All right, my nails are immaculate good. What? And they start marching you towards the inner part of town. It's kind of a long walk, but they're marching you that way Did they gag me this time?

No, but you are there's like there's a bunch of bug people. There's like six bug people around I go hey, uh, where we going guys? Let's go to the council. It says rudevi.

Oh, yeah, the other ones just click above at you aggressively Oh, I was trying to talk to them Mythril constantly forgets that they don't speak English. Yeah, he's like they don't understand You I would I would attempt to to click and buzz myself, but I don't want to say anything offensive Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, I'll I'll stick to Flap in my app. All right, and eventually you get to this very large building in the center of the city that you have to climb What's your stairs to get to the stairs are kind of weird because they're designed for scorpion So you have to climb them strangely Not no stairs.

Oh my god It's not like a ramp or something no it's there's but like they're they're far apart and they're really tall so you have to kind of climb And in the in the process, uh, I say uh, you should you guys should really install a ramp for a wheelchair access This is really uh, this is really sucks. Mm. Maybe are there any bug wheelchairs? They ride on like other bugs.

No Arthur. How are you following? I imagine that there's like in this tall building like yeah, it's designed for the big scorpion dudes But like there's probably windows or something for them to be able to look out and arthropod would climb into one of those Yeah, yeah, yeah, Romeo's stealth Uh, all right, you're able to sneak into the main chambers area There's a number of bugs like wearing kind of cloaks. They got big weird cloaks They would look at a cape on a scorpion They're wearing capes with hoods.

Sorry. Yeah, it's with big. They would just cover their eyes Yep, they don't have necks. There's a seven of them.

It's held up. It's held up by their tail so it looks menacing There's seven of them It's a cloak it just it would look like a cloak. It just is over. It's on their tail It ties around their tails and the hood would go over their secret there It's a look like a floating ghost when they look Absolutely in my head it works.

I'm trying We're trying they're wearing wearing capes or cloaks or whatever And they're seven of them one in the middle. It looks a little bit larger than the rest of them and it seems to be albino Wow And they they bring me throw in to the middle and all of the bugs start talking You understand them because you understand plug language they start like asking questions and at mithril That doesn't seem to speak english or sorry doesn't seem to speak bug or click like buzz or whatever Do I do I notice them talking to me? Yeah, Rudy vidades listening. He's going to translate for you Oh good.