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S2. E2: 'The Felix Wears Prada' | Triangle Agency Campaign
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Their first assignment was a great success, but how will our agents do returning to their every day lives? And how will they respond when adventure comes calling again? These are the 'Triangle Stories' This an improvised comedy roleplaying podcast using the 'Triangle Agency' system by Caleb Zane Huett & Sean Ireland. Music provided by 'Blood Boy', find them on Spotify.
- Nate Valentine as 'Felix Fuzzworth'
- Ivana Mendez as 'Barabelle'
- Tucker Dally Johnston as 'Stewbert Bertmire'
- Paul Emrich as 'The General Manager'
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Beat Our Quest'
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This is Beat Our Quest, an improvised comedy role-playing podcast using the Triangle Agency system.
Recap: New Recruits & Last Meeting
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And if you're late one more time, Dorbra from HR will literally swallow you. Okay, champ?
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Reading out our minutes from the last meeting, our old business is we had three new recruits for the Triangle Agency. A Stubert, a Barabel, and a Felix Fuzworth. I guess it's important we use his full name in this context.
Mission: Capturing the Aurora Bagros
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The three of them have the incredible opportunity to be recruited and join the Triangle Agency as agents hunting down anomalies, peculiar entities brought about by toxic thought.
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Those agents successfully went about and hunted down the Aurora Bagros. Good name. Nice. A rolls tremendous. Yeah, fucking nail that. a tremendous snake bag entity that was manifested by the desire to put bags inside of other bags. After successfully capturing it inside of their ordinary suitcase, the agents returned home to their regular lives.
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I keep wanting to call you Alfie, but I know it's not your name. ah Stubert. ah Stubert. ah Sorry, Paul. I'm going to pull out just in case you want to redo it that you totally switched voices halfway through that. I know, but I'll redub it anyways. I'll redub it and I'll do it character. don't think you should. It gives us a touch of human spirit. It's a human being in here, and I'm actually the secretary. This is the affectation right now.
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it
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Tucker Dally Johnston as Stuart Stuart Burt Meyer. Nate Valentine as Felix Fuzzworth. Ivana Maria Mendez-Babon as Barabel.
Barabel's Family Dynamics
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At the end of the last session, all of our players were given a mission rating and improved various qualities on their character sheet. Barabel was awarded the title of participant, which means she got to improve her connection with one relationship.
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Whenever a player improves their relationship with an NPC, you're supposed to have a scene to depict them improving their relationship. Barabel, who did you spend time with to improve your relationship? Her daughter. Her daughter.
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Can you tell us a little bit about Barabel's daughter? Out of character, 100%. child of character.
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child who was potentially born into a different family than the one she resides with. ah And that first family might be looking for her for the last 13 years.
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like Nate, you will be playing that role, the perfect middle child. yeah All you need to know is she's a 13-year-old girl. 16. 16-year-old girl. Which is my forte for role-playing now. 16-year-old girl.
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Put on my Janice shoes. You're ready. You've practiced. And she's a normal, normal kid with a very specific lineage behind her.
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i think that's the best way to describe her. Should I go into the lineage, into like what that is, or do you not think that's... Reveal too much or not? You can do whatever you want to tell about your character, love. Would you have told your daughter this?
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No, no, she doesn't know any of us. Oh, then you should keep it from us. Does she know that she's being searched for by her birth family? By what birth family? We-
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That's her. Understood. So you're taking your daughter out to ah a wonderful day. How does Barabel treat her daughter to a fantastic day out on the town? ah Oh, my goodness. Okay. So I have a really special day planned for you. i want to record all of it for our social media. So I want to...
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I have two index cards. You're going to choose one of them and it's going to dictate what we do for the day. Oh my God. That's so fun. Great. Okay. Which one are you picking left or right?
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Oh, left or right, left or right, left or right. Let's go with right. Favorite. Cause I want to make the right decision, you know, mom? You are so funny. my god. Like, I don't even know where you come up with that. Where did you even get your sense of humor? Because it was not me You were so good. Oh, I'm sure it was. You got me. You got me You got me so good. Okay, so the right card. Let's see what it says. Nailed it.
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We're going to go get a nail stone. Nailed it. Yes. Oh my God, yes. We can get matching again. Yes, these nails are so old. I haven't had a nail day in weeks. I know, it was needed.
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But before we get our nails, we need a little treat. which one are you choosing, right or left? Oh, yes, I was going to ask. Please let it be another index card. Well, right treated me really well last time. So let's do left. All right. Fake out. Do you think the camera got that? Did you catch that one on camera? Yeah. Okay, wait, let's do it one more time. One more time. was afraid the angle was off. Right left? Okay.
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Hmm, how about this one on the left? Sorry, one more time, more a little more natural. just like your choice, make it just like a little more like, yeah, because that one, it felt like it already happened. Okay, yeah.
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Okay, um I want to do the left, mom.
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That's crazy. I know. You thought I was going to say right. Oh, I did. I did think so. We're getting some smoothies. Smoothies and nails. This is the best day ever. you Just wait for what I have planned for after this. It's going to be such a fun day. lay that Can I drive since I just got my learner's permit? Can I drive the minivan? Um, duh.
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That would make it the best day ever. course you can. yeah Just take over the wheel. Take over it. don't even want it. It's disgusting. I don't even want a touch hat to it. Great. Well, while you're driving. Wait, no, we're not driving.
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Ignore that. That would be that would be so wild. no, no. Let me just park here in the middle of the highway so we can switch. So now we're to each of our players to denote leveling up in Triangle
Character Development & Rewards
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Agency.
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Players get to, quote unquote, spend time. ah This time denotes spending time on one of three things. They can either work in their reality, which is improving their relationship with friends and peers. They could work in their competency, which is working on their relationship with the triangle agency, working directly for their new company. Or they can work on their with their anomaly, which is an option that's really not available to all of our players yet.
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So, one at a time, I'm going to ask how they spent their their units of time, and then we're going to go through that process. Ivana, Barabel, how did you spend your units of time? i spent it on my only child, obviously.
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So in my reality. That actually unlocks a new trigger, which I want to let you know about. Whenever you're spending time on your reality, and you can instead add your connection to someone who isn't a relationship. You can basically make a new friend.
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Oh. So if any time you've made a relationship with an NPC or something like that, you can now make a friend out of it, make a whole connection tree, and improve your relationships with them. that's nice.
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I wish I had that in real life. and so I was going to say. As you're leveling up your relationships, once you hit level nine with one of those characters, it also lets you start leveling up your relationships with other characters faster. oh It basically says, hey, you're really popular. People like you, which means people are more inclined to like you more.
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And the other thing is once you hit level nine as a relationship with one of those characters, they have sort access ah they have access to powers and things like that. So for instance, your middle child, adopted one, does have a new power that she'll have access to. Beautiful.
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Thank you for letting me know. Stubert, how are you spending your units of time? Oh, you know, based on the the way that my day went at the end of the night last night, or the morning, it's hard to keep track of time. I'm going to spend it with Abby, my anomaly. Ooh, spooky.
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Felix Fuzworth. Felix Fuzworth? I just go by Felix. Felix. don't know why everyone's calling me Fuzworth. How are you spending your time? ah Well, feeling really good about getting the MVP of the first mission, feeling very welcomed and kind of riding that high Not only did i spend both my points on my competency at work, working hard, continuing to make good impression, but I actually spent three commendation points on 12-ounce agency mug that I am drinking a latte out of.
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So one of the additions I will provide with that is I will basically treat it like an any mug from D&D that you can basically at any point in time magically fill it with some kind of general fluid. If you wanted to try to fill it with something that was like super unusual, I probably wouldn't allow that. But if you like, I need milk, I need ketchup, you can fill your mug with that provided by the agency.
00:09:27
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Classic mug of ketchup. That's awesome. Great. That's even better than just being a suck up. Now it's useful. So that also means you got something that's very important.
00:09:37
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You received a promotion. Oh, shit. Already? What? Congratulations for your dedication to the agency. You are now. I think it should have showed up on your thing, whatever it is. um Your new title. You're an associate of R&D. Oh, I see. As opposed to a. Yeah, cool. And what is that? What does that give me?
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I'm trying to talk this go to my head. This is actually my first job. As an associate, ah you may be wondering what people do with those anomalies as part of the agency. If a mission concludes after successfully capturing an anomaly, you can contact the agency.
00:10:12
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As a requisition, you can use an anomaly as a tool to help capture another anomaly. So you now have access to the Aurora Bagros. Functionally, I'm going to make them ah like Pokeballs.
00:10:26
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yes So you can spend commendations and we'll discuss in the moment how you want to use it and how many commendations it would cost you. So ah let's cut to Felix. Felix, how does spending this time working at the agency look like for you? What are you doing? Are you hanging out at the agency? Are you learning about it? You're doing paperwork? What's it like? What are you doing?
00:10:48
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ah You know, well, I already mentioned I've got my new mug. I'm really happy. I'm really proud of it. um Proud of my promotion one day in, really. And um so mostly just chatting people up, kind of trying, you know, asking about anomalies and what we do here and you know a little bit of paperwork it's not really so much work so much as showing my face around like i'm feeling i'm feeling really welcomed here i'm feeling really good about the potential in me being uh rewarded so quickly like i think your phone on your desk is ringing oh i'll pick it up hello please set up your voicemail set up my voicemail
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Hey, John, do you know how to set up my voicemail on my phone? I'm getting this notification. It's a new phone. I don't, I'm not really great at it. Oh yeah. i think you just go into your settings and you click just who cares, man. No one answers phone calls anyway. No one even checks them. Just, just text them back.
00:11:48
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Just text them back. Okay, cool. Yeah, totally. Totally. Um, text them back. All right. Um, And just gonna fire off a text that says, hi, this is Felix Fusworth.
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But everybody calls me Felix. Who is it? Who is this? john So, John, what are you what are you getting up to this weekend? What? don't know. Are you working? um Listen, i I get it. You're a new here. you You're feeling real hot shit. you know I remember and i remember my first my first MVP. It was riding high.
00:12:22
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Here's the thing. I'm not going to be your friend. What? Why not? Because we got work work together and I don't know you and kind of freaked me out. Just. Oh, OK. All right. Great. um Hey, Felix, I'm going to spend some chaos. oh Fuck. Oh, no.
00:12:42
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What do you do deserve this? I'm going to spend. How much does it cost? Three chaos. I have so much chaos to spend. I'm going to activate a reality trigger for your character.
00:12:54
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Yes. Okay. And remind the audience what that is, because I totally remember. Your true self has needs that may other people just probably don't understand. Oh, shit. After activating the reality trigger, you have to embody one of these needs. If you ignore this urge, the willpower spent, it's going to cause problems, and it's going to mark off one of those marks.
00:13:14
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Okay. Okay. um I am going to ah set down my cup of coffee and um lean down to the desk and sniff it and then smack it off the desk.
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ah um So, yeah, does that count? Yeah, that's fine. Hey, Felix, are you okay? Is this because I said I didn't want to be your friend because you're weird? Because I feel like you're proving my point.
00:13:45
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and Well, was I just i just the dropped it. it's It's not that weird, man. I don't see why you're being such a jerk about being friends. Everyone else has been so nice to me. Listen, they can all pretend as much as they want, but we're just here to do a job, and it's an important job, and you can't let people get in the way of that job.
00:14:08
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Also... I'm gonna spend three more chaos and do another reality trigger to Nate. What? God. ah um I am going to I guess I'm gonna start licking the back of my hand and cleaning the back of my head and my ears and and just say John You know, it's fine. I don't see why you have to be so mean, but like we could just be polite and nice to each other while we work and get this stuff done. Sure.
00:14:43
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Sure. You want to put your tongue back in your mouth when you're talking to me? ah Princess the cleaning lady. Princess the cleaning lady is going to come by with her cart and say to John, we got we got another liquor, don't we?
00:14:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, there's another liquor. Hey, maybe you can start a club with the other liquors. Okie dokie. um We can keep moving forward. All right. Thank you.
00:15:11
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Save me from this. From being the liquor. Yeah. Barabel, how are you spending your unit of time? I'm planning a sleepover. Okay. Tell us about the sleepover. So this sleepover is actually going to be a couple members of the club that are going to be coming to sleepover to celebrate my daughter's birthday. Well, half birthday.
00:15:40
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Who are the members of this? is it the pe Is it all of your three relationships? No, it's not all three, actually. It is... but No, no, no. It's neither of of the relation of the other two relationships. It's only the daughter and everyone else who is a member of our club.
00:15:59
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So, like, the other 18 members that are local to this town who are members of our chapter. And you're throwing a a mandatory half-birthday party. That's right. Everyone is there. Everyone's milling about.
00:16:11
Speaker
And your daughter told you she was going to go out to go get something. You let her drive around a little bit. Go have her activities. She's missing. She didn't come back.
00:16:23
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What do you mean? She's not there. Feel free to take it out on Tucker. She's joyriding, let me tell you. Marisol. Marisol. Yes? Marisol! What? I need your phone right now. What? I mean, okay, leader.
00:16:37
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Grand Poobah. Mistress. I thought she wanted us to call her mistress. Mistress Poobah. Mistress Poobah. No. For you, Marisol, for you, it's leader. For you, Christine, it's mistress. The name changed is per person. That depends on how i feel about you. Yes, I'm so bad at this. Yeah, geez, read the pamphlets. Marisol, as our technology expert, i need your phone because I know you still have that tracker on our leader.
00:17:06
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I thought you were the leader. Our future leader. You know what i'm talking about, Marisol? Christine! Marisol, Christine, I need you to get it together. Christine, the snacks are looking empty, so please go refill that and do your one freaking job.
00:17:22
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Marisol. Yes, Poobot? I need you to please track down our future leader on your phone, because I know you put that tracker on her weeks ago like I asked you to, right?
00:17:36
Speaker
Oh. Here's the thing about um tracking and children and them being underaged and Me not being their legal guardian something something something federal prison time.
00:17:55
Speaker
so you're telling me i have to use my tracker?
00:18:01
Speaker
yeah yeah All right. All right. Um, Bear Bell is going to approach a large bookcase that is at the end of the hallway, uh, and pull a book and the bookcase is going to open and it's going to be a super high tech computer room. You know, the one that you see in all the TV shows that all you hear is beep, boop, boop, boop, boop.
00:18:24
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And the screens are like coding themselves naturally with no one typing in. Yeah, I've seen bones. She's going to go up to her computer and try to
Half-Birthday Party Mystery
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log in and then forget her password.
00:18:40
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Which one is it? Oh, my God. Marisol! Marisol! dear Marisol! I'm at your beck and call, Puma. Marisol, I need my password.
00:18:55
Speaker
Isn't it just, uh, toxic forever with a four? Marisol, the password changes every 30 days. It's a safety beach feature that you installed. ah That was my last password.
00:19:12
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oh as I should try adding an exclamation point at the end. Christine, this is not your time. It's Marisol's time, and that's me. Christine, that's a really good idea. Good job. Go treat yourself to it.
00:19:26
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Whistler. Damn you, Christine. Everything's coming up, Christine. said I try that password and it works and I'm able to track her location.
00:19:40
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Stubert. You've had a um a weird conversation with your new new pal, Abby. What have you been doing with the confidence and comfort ah that you can you experiment with your powers. What are you doing?
00:20:02
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Oh, well, I would say, and once I click back over to my sheet here, um that...
00:20:13
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I'm just really practicing getting through crowds of people. ah You know, a lot of the time you have to, it was like, excuse ask sorry there, what? We bumped elbows, Cass, we're married now, just kidding, joshing you.
00:20:31
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But now I can just sort of, you know, kind of glide on through people. Just been working on that, trying to of,
00:20:42
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get to the front of lines, not to do anything. But, you know, i was I was at the bank, and then I was in the back of the line, and then all of a sudden, boom, there's Stubert. Hi you there. I need to deposit this check from Incos.
00:20:55
Speaker
One of the things that comes with you using your power is you could do ask your coworkers a question about Stubert. Ability advancement questions? Yep.
00:21:06
Speaker
On my sheet, it says... in an argument I'll win by identifying gaps in logic or never backing down.
00:21:19
Speaker
oh weed we vote. I see, see. Oh, these are interesting because neither them really fit you. um Wait, repeat them one more time?
00:21:31
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In an argument, yeah I'll win by identifying gaps in logic or by never backing down. Oh, yeah. Neither one really, I agree.
00:21:47
Speaker
It's not, it can't be never backing down, right? So think process of elimination, it has to be poking holes in other people's arguments. Yeah. Hindley, but yeah. You know what? I hate to disagree with you there, but I, oh crap, I do.
00:22:04
Speaker
Tucker, functionally, check that box and you're going to spend another round of, you can unpractice the other one and you can then spend your other unit of time practicing another one of those powers.
00:22:15
Speaker
Oh, wow. I'm gonna do that. Yeah. Which one are you practicing? Unbound. Can you... Again, same thing. So you did this. You, you know, had this cool moment walking through, skipping at the front of the bank line.
00:22:27
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Can you tell us a little bit about what it was like when you were using your other power unbound? Yeah, so... Uh... been working on Unbound by, yeah you know, just really, it's all about relaxing your body. And the best way that I relax my body is I ask my friend Abby some, ah some life affirming questions. And they, you know, answer to me and then I feel this peace radiate over me. And then whoopsie doodle, I fell out of my bathtub and I'm now in the laundry room.
00:23:00
Speaker
Cool. So yeah, you've been practicing this ability that you will get stronger with. You will be more confident in your ability to phase through things. Presumably, see everyone has put their stat points in and their upgrades.
00:23:12
Speaker
Tucker, you are walking your way up to the bathroom after phasing through the bathtub. Yeah. And you see an index card sitting on top of your freshly folded a clean towel. Oh, jeep. And it has a little red triangle on it.
00:23:30
Speaker
And you you take a second, and you turn it over, and you see the following message. We're very disappointed in you, Agent. Our systems indicate that your anomalous power levels have been growing because you have been experimenting beyond what you are allowed.
00:23:50
Speaker
Before you venture down this path, we would like to you consider several truths. One... working with anomalies will not quote unquote help you win the game triangle agency.
00:24:03
Speaker
Literally what it says in the book. I that. It's really detailed little card here. They don't like emails. Further anomalous development won't lead to promotions, requisitions, or any value. un full Further anomalous development will not bring you joy to you or your loved ones.
00:24:25
Speaker
And in fact, we can guarantee it will bring them strife, difficulty, and temptation. We hope you won't participate any further in this, and you will return to your primary goal of capturing and stabilizing reality.
00:24:41
Speaker
If not, we will be forcing corrective measures on you. Please come to the agency now. Oh, yikers. I was just trying to take a bath. You got that alert, going to let you know one more thing, Tucker.
00:24:53
Speaker
Oh, no. If a mission concludes with an anomaly escaping, you're going to be able to keep in touch with it. oh Oh, no. oh so much better meeting friends. You're traveling. here so much food than mine I get to use them as a tool and you get to make friends. So when you're spending time with anomalies in your anomaly tracker, you can go visit escaped anomalies to try to fix your relationship with them.
00:25:22
Speaker
You can even add them to your relationship tracker. what Abby comes to your side as you're walking to the agency, to your car, and you feel that void of shadow.
00:25:33
Speaker
Okay, yeah, I get it. That was scary. We're going to need more of us. If you can get your team to help let some anomalies go, you know, maybe we can have a fighting chance.
00:25:45
Speaker
You got this, champ. oh I believe in you. Thanks. Hey, one more que- They're gone. ah Ah. Classic, Abby. You guys are- ah Tucker, you have been summoned to the Triangle Agency. You're on your way there.
00:26:02
Speaker
ah Felix, you have been working nonstop. So you probably spent the whole night maybe working at your desk or you slept there or something like that. And then Barabel, how did you know that you've been called to come to the agency? What sign did you get?
00:26:16
Speaker
One of the screens in my very high tech room just stopped doing the automatic coding um and said, please join us at the agency.
00:26:27
Speaker
And then a triangle formed around it. Ding, ding. You, you're all there. You say hi to the secretary. She waves you in. She's setting up paperwork for you guys She's kind of classifying it. You see this weird.
00:26:41
Speaker
What a cute outfit. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I, um, I've always wanted to wear suspenders in a professional environment. Yeah, you wore that last week, do you? I didn't think anyone noticed. This is so awkward. I'm going to. Okay, thank you. Hi. You all make your way right to the general manager's office. You see him.
00:27:03
Speaker
He's clearly sulking. He's in a bad mood. His cigar is out in his ashtray. And he looks at you guy goes and looks goes, I didn't get invited. I'm sorry, sir. You didn't get invited to what there?
00:27:14
Speaker
There's a big fancy summer block party at the Pennview Estates, and I was expecting an invitation. Do you want one Yes. Do you want us to make it happen? Yes. I need you guys to get there immediately. I need to make sure that I get an invitation, but I don't want to make it seem like I asked you to do it. I want to feel like a fancy boy. Oh. Sure, absolutely. We can... You know what? also Also, some weird things have been going on there. i you know, people freezing to death, unusual circumstances, machines shutting down, blah, blah, blah, blah. I want to get into that party. Yes, sir. Okay. Make that happen. Sorry, is this...
00:27:52
Speaker
Is this an anomaly thing? Or is this like, uh, we're gonna, we're gonna go pick up the basses dry clean? Because either way, you know, I'll do whatever you need. You know, I'm your man. You know, I'm so sorry for what happened. Last mission, I promised to eat every single meal. From now on, I've eaten three breakfasts already. and Just for you, bud. And, uh...
00:28:13
Speaker
So, you know. You know what? Come here. Come here for a second. I need you to check something. And he reaches into his ah desk and he pulls out a pennant flag that has a big L for loser on it. And he has it and he pins it to your back and he goes, I need you to wear this oh my during this assignment.
00:28:28
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ah Sure. Yeah. Point. yeah This is who Tucker does not like failure. Yeah. And he like slaps you on the cheek a little bit. Like, good boy, good boy.
00:28:41
Speaker
Now. Why do you need to get into this party? There are so many other really cool parties happening in town. want to get into the Ho-Ho Club? got a Ho-Ho Club invite? I know of all the Ho-Ho Club advice, if I say so myself. Look, we'll talk. The important thing is, yes, to answer your initial question, there are some unusual anomalous activities. But we think, you know, one hand could wash the other. And maybe if you guys can get...
Briefing on the Summer Block Party Task
00:29:07
Speaker
You know, a couple of invites for yourselves and me to get into Pennview Estates. Bada bing, bada boop. We can all say it was a business expense. How's that sound? We can reward you.
00:29:17
Speaker
I know you like commendation, so let me get you some information. And he reaches into his desk and he grabs some sunscreen and he blots it out and he shakes it too hard and it splats all over his desk. And you see the following written out in words.
00:29:30
Speaker
You're going to get one commendation for the first weather pun performed at Penwell Estates. You're going to get two commendations for the second weather pun that's done at Penwell Estates, but it can't be done by the person who did the first one. Oh, you sneaky bastard. You're going to get two demerits for every additional pun that happens during this mission.
00:29:51
Speaker
That happens? Or like if... After and retroactively from that point on. Okay? Okay. You can't curb my puns, Paul. I'll take the Damaris. What if a character played by who played by you tries to do a weather pun? um we are gonna You get one commendation.
00:30:18
Speaker
If you get an NPC to emotionally unburden themselves to you. Okay. And yeah there are five sweet commendations available. If anyone can get Donnie Indiana's secret milkshake recipe.
00:30:36
Speaker
Okay. Any questions? You also have... Weird, weird motivations. I love this game! um You also all have your normal demeritable offenses. Can I have you all read what your normal demeritable offenses are?
00:30:51
Speaker
To remind ourselves, your teammates. I can't say unfortunately. I can't repeat myself. Each time you deny a request. Okay, great. I don't think that's happened yet.
00:31:02
Speaker
Is my, sorry, I have a clarification question. Repeat myself. Let me just find this. I think the idea is if you try to do something. repeat if Each time I do, if I do the same thing twice. So I wrote repeat myself in shorthand, but it's actually if I repeat doing anything like a solution or whatever. my gosh. And we'll, we that doesn't mean you can't sit in a chair or open a door, but it might mean if you try something and I was like, nah, you can't do the same thing you've done before. There's probably some limits to that.
00:31:32
Speaker
And is this going to carry over from last session? Like if I steal someone's uniform again, yeah it will be demerited? That's so messy. puns, and now I have to be creative? This is brutal. Damn this game. Nay, you can do one pun. Yeah, if I do a second pun, I get a demerit. With that being said, he sends you off to go explore Penwell Estates.
00:31:56
Speaker
I refuse to take the bus there. I cannot. No, I mean, we'll all pile into the old gal. I know that sex is to still name your car that, but that's what, she's my old gal. Yeah.
00:32:09
Speaker
So, you know, hop on in there, gang. But someone's going to have to navigate me there because I have no idea where or what or who any of this is about. You know, I'm not in the no-ho for ho-ho. You know what i mean? You were talking about that. I don't know what that is either.
00:32:27
Speaker
Yeah, I don't either. But it sounds like, Barabel, you... My gosh. Oh, my gosh. Like, we have to go. have to. Sure, yeah. Well...
00:32:39
Speaker
Well, like, maybe after we go to this first club for the for the boss man, you know? Yeah. And we have to change what you guys are wearing. Like, you get it's just they wouldn't let you win if you if you wear that, especially that length of pants. um But it I don't like a jort. No. I don't have a problem with it, but the people at the Ho-Ho Club might. So we just want to make sure we have no issues going in and then going have a such a good time. So you're you're saying that we need to do a little stop and chop, get all glitzy glammed up for the big how-do-you-do's?
00:33:23
Speaker
I mean, if this new place is anything like the Ho-Ho Club, then definitely we need to change. All right. Well, we'll probably stop off along the way. um You guys go to Gop?
00:33:36
Speaker
Big fan of the Gop. The what? The Gop. Can you spell that? Yeah. G-R-P. I still don't know where we where we're going, but I've never been.
00:33:50
Speaker
Oh, you know, your classic G, ah you know, at the end there, you got your P's, you know, your plosives, and then just a good old fashioned up right in the middle. The up is this, ah the part that wasn't taught to me, but maybe we went to different regional schools.
00:34:06
Speaker
They've also got Bobby up. nothing That's fine. I trust that you know of places that have clothing. So, what to that to the gappos. Yeah.
00:34:18
Speaker
I mean, Gap's where I got my jorts. Oh. Oh. So maybe not. So, why don't we just go to my house? I have a really big closet. you have clothes for a news men?
00:34:34
Speaker
or For dudes? Yes. gas I buy everything. I don't know what my daughter's going to need. I don't know what time of her life she's going through. I don't know who she wants to be or who they want to be who they're going to grow into. So I want to be accommodating to every single face of their life. Yeah. ah You know what? I hear you. Children are the future. And if we need to go rifle through your clothes to steal your daughter's fancy suits that fit a 44 long. ah Yeah. Let's go do that. Such a progressive kidnapper.
00:35:13
Speaker
Yeah. Go. We'll have you guys have a dress montage and all of your like this thumbs up and thumbs down. i pump a bottle of champagne. Bring us different like numbering systems. you Sneaking shorts in there. Every third costume change.
00:35:31
Speaker
It's just it just different shorts. That's so fucked up. Felix, what is your idea of fancy clothing? No idea. i was completely caught off guard, but I think at the end of this montage, I've got to be full, like, stepbrothers talk too much over the top because I don't know how to do nuance with fashion.
00:35:53
Speaker
I only had a pair of blue jeans and a t-shirt from the, you know. My full tux monocle no shoes. I think I'm wearing my shoes. I was talked into wearing shoes during the montage, at least to start once I have shoes on.
00:36:09
Speaker
I want to do another scene where I take them off. So you guys pull up to this is the Plainwell Estates. Felix, you're in a tuxedo. You are perfectly well dressed for this occasion, I guess, to make your way in. That's right.
00:36:22
Speaker
Hello, sir. Good afternoon. Whoa! Look at you, all dressed fancy like Bruce Wayne or Sean William Scott. I think I'd recognize you. Do you live here are you a guest?
00:36:34
Speaker
Uh, I'm a guest. I do not live here. Do people live here? I don't actually know what this building is. Oh, yeah oh well, then, if that's the case, then you don't know you don't need to be here. It's a private estate. They're doing a very exclusive summer party here. Oh, well, I'm here for the summer party.
00:36:49
Speaker
So you should probably, both me and my friends, we're just going to come right in. Don't worry about Hey, how are you? Hey, whoa, there's three of you, and you definitely aren't dressed well enough to come in here. And he points, and it's actually a bear about it. Oh, twist.
00:37:06
Speaker
One second, please. And I take off my coat and I'm wearing a full diamond dress. Jesus. Oh, my mistake. um And you appear to have brought your...
00:37:22
Speaker
Denim butler? Is that what this gentleman is? Driver. Driver. Denim driver. Denim driver. He's our DD. Yeah, i'm the I'm the designated denim driver. I'm happy to call up to make sure ah we have space for you guys, but I wasn't aware that our guests would be coming in this way. um If you guys will wait here for a second, I'll call up to let them know. Excuse me, sir, before you even do have those hands touch a button. No.
00:37:51
Speaker
but yeah We were told that we just needed to show up and the person most in charge would bring us up. I think maybe that's just not you.
00:38:02
Speaker
oh i can I can go bother. What is her name? Jillian Pinks. She's the one who's running this whole garden party. and She's got a whole walkie-talkie set up. Oh, Jilly? oh my gosh. Jilly girl and I go back.
00:38:17
Speaker
Um, I don't think you need to bother her because if you know Jilly well, you know she is making her dip right now. And you do not want to bother Jilly when she's making her dip.
00:38:29
Speaker
Or Jilly Bean Dip. be di i You guys have put me in the middle of I'm going to let you guys know you can't talk your way out of this. You're going to have to either use the power or a or yeah something. then um Because he won't... he you There is no charm rolls.
00:38:46
Speaker
You could try something with the causality chain. You could do something that way if you want to try something different. But there is no... You got to use your stuff. i would like to I would like to do something with the Kazaar Ocean. I would like to have there be a, as he goes to call, a bachelorette party on one of those bike drinking trolleys, pull up and hit a red light.
00:39:14
Speaker
right outside of the building. And so they're like blasting pop music and they're all like drunk and slurring and singing along and he can't hear on the phone. So the idea is that he's going to like step around the corner and we can just sneak it.
00:39:29
Speaker
Okay. Ask what what they're blasting, please. Pitbull. Thank you for asking. Of course. So what what trait, what quality do you think you can justify triggers this? So going to read them really quickly. There's attentiveness, showing attention to detail, empathy, relating to somebody's concern or weaknesses, presence, standing out, commanding a group of organiz organized, duplicity is lying. Dynamism is fighting. Initiative is being quick.
00:39:54
Speaker
Persistence is being stubborn. Professionalism is showing confidence or poise. And subtlety is basically stealth. So I would personally say probably duplicity, like you lied about something that got this to happen. Or I would say you could say presence, like you convinced them to come over here.
00:40:12
Speaker
um But that would be the two chains that I would say would be most likely to make sense. Sure. What's a presence? Great. um Do you want to roll presence or is somebody else got that set? Does anybody have any presence at all? Oh, I do. All right. Ivana's up. All right.
00:40:31
Speaker
Make us proud. I rolled one three. That's enough. But I have, right? Like, okay. Do I i delete something from my sheet? Nope. No? no Great. No, he just gets to add five more chaos. Shit.
00:40:47
Speaker
Shit.
00:40:49
Speaker
ah
Investigating Anomalies at the Block Party
00:40:51
Speaker
You do that. So eventually these girls party in the They're like, we're going to get drunk at the nearest pool party and try to break in somewhere. We're not allowed. And they all are like getting out. The guys could like eventually get distracted. He can't hear it. He goes to stop this bachelorette chain. And you guys sneak into the estates.
00:41:08
Speaker
um I'll let you know. There's a. I'm going to take the guest list with me. Smart. smart There's a few things going on. There's obviously this huge pool that's been set up outside of Jillian Pink's home. um It's in the back.
00:41:21
Speaker
You've also got a few people mingling about. There's a house that some guy has just kind of moved into. There's new things hanging out outside of it. There's a ice cream truck that is there's a bunch of people standing outside trying to get in line, but there's nothing going on. And it's outside. It goes Donnie's drive-ins ice cream is what it says on the outside of it.
00:41:38
Speaker
Otherwise, it's just a normal. There's like a bouncy house where people are playing at. There's cotton candy being given away. What? The mood is okay here. It's good. Everyone is having a, everyone from the outside seems to be having a good time. As you're walking around, though, some people seem really distraught. um Like there's a lot of things that have just been unfortunately going wrong for a lot of the people who are there.
00:41:58
Speaker
my goodness, you in the green. you look so sad. mascara, it's all over your face. Oh, thanks. I'm sweating a lot.
00:42:09
Speaker
That's why it's running. it's kind i trying to to um I'm trying to make a new look. I'm sorry you called it out. It's kind of embarrassing, actually. What look is it that you're going for?
00:42:21
Speaker
I was kind of going for like ah an adult emo kind of thing. You know, grown man, wallet chain. listen to Not confident enough to really move to the ska punk scene yet. I love that for you. Is that something that you explored when you were younger? And like, did it work out? No, this is all new for me. I'm trying to rebrand.
00:42:42
Speaker
hour From what? was your old brand? Ew, I love a rebrand. uh, you're coming on little strong, lady, but it's nice it's nice to meet you. ah Hi,
00:42:55
Speaker
i'm have a name, a bunch of names on the list. I'm Tommy Totlens. Nice to meet you. And he reaches his hand out. It's real sweaty. And he like wipes it off on a sweatshirt and he reaches out to swipe shake your hand.
00:43:08
Speaker
I'm so sorry. i just imagine that I'm shaking your hand. It's just I am. i I'm hand phobic. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. i People are gross.
00:43:21
Speaker
I'm gross. I don't know why i said that. Hey, you know, man, to each their own. it's You know, I'll shake your hand there. Tommy, it's nice to meet you. I'm Stubert. I'm the DDD.
00:43:33
Speaker
Nice to meet you, Stubert. I just moved in. That's my house here. I'm a little nervous. I don't know anyone here, but they they wanted me to come out to this party to meet people. But it seems like a real bummer. I've trying to get ice cream. Why can't you just get some ice cream? Seems like there's a whole... Well, you're not giving it out. The guy's being real mean about it. think something's wrong with his machine.
00:43:53
Speaker
oh and You didn't fix that? I don't know anything about machines. When it snow cones, it pours. Clever. Is that the first pun?
00:44:03
Speaker
If you allow it. I will allow it. Also, I'm going to be an asshole right now. Barabel, did you refuse? ah Did you say I'm sorry?
00:44:17
Speaker
i did say I'm sorry. i did not use the word. Unfortunately. i see. Okay. Wanted to double check there.
00:44:29
Speaker
each to know it's Each time you deliver bad news. It says never say unfortunately. The rest of the sentence says every time you deliver bad news. I only read the things I want to remember.
00:44:43
Speaker
You're right. You're right. You're right. Unfortunately, I have a demerit. Felix, where are you exploring in the block party? Well, I did want to say, guys, if if the anomaly is freezing people to death, the ice cream machine is broken.
00:45:00
Speaker
I'm going to start there and I'm going to go up and I'm going to wait for my ice cream. You're standing there and people are just complaining. And eventually Donnie, who you assume is Donnie, comes away and says, all right, listen, everybody, I'm trying to get the motor running and it just keeps stalling out. I don't know what to do. go Go to the pool. If somebody knows how to fix a motor, please come in here. They're more than welcome to take a look at it.
00:45:23
Speaker
Oh, I can fix that motor for you. Yeah, stretch. Take a look at it. Stretch. No, I'm going to take a look at the motor. stretched this morning.
00:45:33
Speaker
All right. right. Come on in here, kid. I will take a little of the plain cream in this cup before I go look at the motor, though. I got a mug right here. you just top me off? Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course.
00:45:45
Speaker
fills your mug. Great. I'm going take a mug of heavy cream and take a sip and then look at the motor. And yeah. What do I got? Anything exciting? The thing you notice about the motor is there's a bunch of yarn that's been kind of tied into it.
00:46:01
Speaker
um And that seems to be what's gunking it up. Yarn, string, like it was pulled, like a scarf got pulled through it. Oh, sorry, man. I thought you meant a different kind of motor. ah Got to go by. and then What do you mean? What is it? I exclusively work in lawnmowers. Sorry. um um I'm going to walk over and tell give them the update. So, yeah, there's something weird going on with the machine. It's got um balls of... It's got, like, yarn and stuff in it, which...
00:46:33
Speaker
Normally it would be kind of cool, but it's broken the motor and I think it's probably got something to do with the anomaly. so I preferred gold thread, but I guess the yarn is fine. correct it is Sorry, Tommy Tallent said that it was really hot inside.
00:46:49
Speaker
I'm trying to remember. tommy it's I mean, it's a hot, it's a summer day. It's just a hot summer day. Okay, sorry. I thought something else was going on. Just an awkward sweaty dude. So, Felix, do you think that that's where the anomaly is? Or do you think that's just like a ah ah little sort of ah a causality of it?
00:47:11
Speaker
Probably a causality of it based on my minimal experience. But, you know, i did get promoted. I am starting to really gel here at the company. Hey, good for you, bud. Whack. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Anyways, so... con Congratulations. chs We should throw you, like, a party.
00:47:34
Speaker
Well, yeah, I was trying to convince my friend John at work to throw me a party the other day, but he... Oh, my gosh. You met John. He's so nice. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Anger of a guy invited me over to his house. Oh, me too. We're going to watch the game. Hey, you know, you coming over for Sunday brunch? Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:55
Speaker
yeah I don't know. I might have plans. But yeah, he seems super nice. I'm glad you guys met him too and like him. um But ah anyways anyways, all that is just to say we should keep looking around and maybe see if we can find anything else.
00:48:16
Speaker
out of the norm. Sure. Hey, the person who runs this whole play, what was her name? Jillian? Jillian? Jillian? Jillian Pink. That's a terrible name. we should go fine We should go find Jillian and one, see if she knows anything about what's up and two, see how we can get our GM here invite here since you know we're already in you know we we got some pull at this point in time probably you the most uh uh felix because you're looking so dapper um i've got a lot of compliments on this outfit
00:48:58
Speaker
ah You travel towards what you assume is the main house, the big mansion. And that's where you see a woman who is clearly Jillian Pink's because she is wearing all pink. She's got vibrant blonde hair and she has leaned into her aesthetic. She's got pink nails and a hot pink swimming suit and big pink ring glasses. And she is just yelling at people frantically.
00:49:22
Speaker
Jillian! Oh! ah It's a been forever. OMG, I don't remember you.
00:49:35
Speaker
Hi. I would be insulted, but I know your memory is always sucky.
00:49:44
Speaker
Not as sucky as the outfits you wear everywhere you go. I know that much. Oh my goodness, you're a savage beast. Yes, you are. Yeah. Crazy.
00:49:58
Speaker
ah Who are you? i don't, i I wasn't kidding. I don't remember who you are. Also, are you the the guy in the tuxedo? Are you the repair guy? the Canadian tuxedo or the tuxedo tuxedo? The tuxedo tuxedo. I know what denim is. i am. Yeah, I'm the the guy who repairs all types of machinery, not just lawnmower engines.
00:50:21
Speaker
Is there something I can help you with? okay Can i ah Nate, I'm going to do another reality trigger. Oh, my God. Yes. Oh, come on.
00:50:32
Speaker
Fuck I got to think of other things here um Okay, we're we're by a swimming pool yeah Yes ah It's empty. It is an empty swimming pool. is there Is there like a little beach sand pit in this bougie pit? Can I manifest that? There is now. Oh my god. Yeah, i'm just gonna I'm just gonna start to like kick the sand with my feet and dig a hole. Okay, fine. yeah I'm not gonna let you take a shit on our podcast. was...
00:51:04
Speaker
i was ah Thank you for keeping me in check, Paul. That was what I was going to finish that sentence with. Yeah, we'll see. I'm right out of chaos, so I can't. nice Yeah. yeah ah She stops. Oh, my God. What are you? Are you like looking for cables or something? What's your deal? Oh, hey, sorry about that. You know, he's just he's from a foreign country there. And that's that's part of their ritual. You know, get a sense for the earth. We all been training to do it. See, and I go and I start digging in there myself and I just dig in that sand pit with him, you know, and I'm just, you know, covered in sand now.
00:51:42
Speaker
And that's, you know, that's how you know we're professionals. Oh, I, um, you know, I kind of love the whole authentic earthy thing. So I get it. i'm I mean, I'm not, I mean, I'm not gritty enough to kind of go for that. I like my aesthetic, but hey, you. We know that. We know you're not gritty enough. Ha ha ha ha ha. Mm-hmm.
00:52:05
Speaker
Well, if you guys can get started on that, as you see, the pool totally evaporated last night. No idea why that happened. Everyone is waiting to get in their swimsuit. I'm wearing mine because I'm like super hot, but everyone else is like awkwardly standing around. And what kind of pool summer party am I throwing if there is no pool? So can you guys get that fixed? Yeah, it looks like you guys are are having a bit of a drought.
00:52:30
Speaker
Questionable weather. There it is. there it is But yeah, let mean let me take a look at the motor here. And I'm going to look at the pool motor, which is hopefully a real thing. We're going to go take a look at the whole pool motor. I didn't know pools had motors.
00:52:45
Speaker
Should I have been checking my pool's You know, that's a great question. And ah once ah Mr. Fuzzworth here is is done checking that, we'll give you all the details that you need to know. And, you know, we can bill you or, you know, we can we can work out some other kind of deal, you know, whatever you need for for the fixie-uppies.
00:53:08
Speaker
chilly Jilly, before I leave you and go supervise their work, um I just wanted to say the music here is kind of like not it. up What's wrong with my music? need more Pitbull.
00:53:23
Speaker
More Pitbull? Is that what your friend said? Well, that's a... He prefers that to Andrew Lloyd Webber? Oh, my God. What kind of party is this? I actually know a really good So I could have him just, like, show up at your next event. Because the decor, the food, it is top notch. But the music needs to match. sure Right. Well, I can let you go set up the stereo system if you think you can get somebody to come fix it today. But really, like, I need the pool working more than the music.
00:53:58
Speaker
can't. Fine, going to be like that. Let's go, boys. Oh, we're we're on the way. You got it, absolutely. You know, Mr. Fuzworth here fixes motors and ah sound motors, too.
00:54:11
Speaker
Can he Felix? What? One to marry for Paul. Can he fix it? Does that not read? I'm to take a look at this pool motor.
00:54:22
Speaker
for bob other yeah i don't know oh man I would like everyone to know that pools do have motors because they have pumps that suck the water oh and I'm going to take a look at the totally real pool motor right now and what do I see ah Quite similarly, ah you don't find yarn or string ah tied up in it, but when you're getting through there, you find a bunch of like jacket buttons and zippers and
Cliffhanger: Felix's Encounter
00:54:50
Speaker
things like that. So weird accoutrement of clothing ah seems to have affected the motor pump.
00:54:57
Speaker
You start leaning in to get a better view of what might be blocking the motor from spinning. And just when you get close enough, a glove reaches out from behind it and starts pulling you in towards the now spinning engine. Oh, oh no.
00:55:13
Speaker
This has been season two, episode two of Beater Quest, The Triangle Stories. This episode features Nate Valentine as Felix Fosworth, Ivana Maria Mendez-Pabon as Bear Bell, Talker Dally Johnston as Stuart Stubert Burtmeyer, Paul Emrich as our Game Master, Producer, and Editor. The game we are playing this season is Triangle Agency by Caleb Zane Hewitt and Sean Ireland. Music this season was provided by Blood Boy. You can find them on Spotify.
00:55:44
Speaker
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00:56:00
Speaker
Goodbye!