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“Kids on Bikes” One-Shot Chapter One
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It is time for the first proper episode of our Kids on Bikes One-Shot. Join us for the exciting start to a fun supernatural adventure!
This episode is brought to you by the generous donations of our amazing Show Sponsors: Laura Pickrahn, Darrin Katzska, Irene Viorritto, Ryan Royce, Darrell DeLaney, Charles Compton, Richard Cree, Nastasia Raulerson, The Kamm Family, David Scrams, Elizabeth Clark, Rebekah Miller, deviouspoptart, Eðvarð Arnór Sigurðsson, Michael Clark, and Dustin Troupe.
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Introduction and Patron Acknowledgments
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The following episode is brought to you by the generous donations of Elizabeth Clark, Darryl Delaney, Ryan Royce, Darren Katska, Irene Villarito, Laura Pickron, Devious Poptart, Natasha Rallerson, Richard Cree, The Cam Family, Charles Compton, Dustin Troop, Rebecca Miller, Edvard Arnoff, Michael Clark, and David Scrams, along with all of our generous patrons.
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D20 radio, your gamers roll.
Host Introductions and Session Recap
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Eberron renewed feed where we are playing the second game in our one shot kids on bikes. My name is Jeff. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Eric. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Here we go. It's just it's honestly just muscle memory. OK, so when we finished the last one,
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We had the, as the audience, had the ability to see something that almost seemed to be spontaneously created in the sky above the woods drop. And we know it's out there somewhere now in the woods. And eventually I'll figure out what it is and bring it back into the story. But the other part of that is that
00:01:46
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Rick with his special ability that I don't even know that he knows that he has. Rick is force sensitive. Can we not? Can we not on this one? Star Wars is out. Rick is totally a Star Wars nerd. How can Rick not be a Star Wars nerd?
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I mean, Rick can say whatever he wants. That should have been something you defined about this world. You could
Character Dynamics and Star Wars Banter
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have declared the Star Wars era came out. You had that opportunity. That'd go great with our audience. I mean, he can say whatever he wants. Just don't expect any of the NPCs to be able to jump in with you. That's fine. I would assume that if a 14 year old boy told anyone in the real world, yeah, I'm force sensitive, it would not cause most people to jump in with him. Oh, I just made any illusion. But yes. OK, anyway.
Morning Routine and School Setup
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Woke you up from a dead sleep, cold sweat, but it wasn't just like I woke up from a nightmare. There's just such a weird feeling and you don't know why, but you know you're unsettled. And you can decide, go and answer this for me. I won't make a roll for this one. Are you able to get back to sleep that night?
00:02:55
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No, probably not. OK, we don't need to necessarily go into what you stay up all night doing, even if it's just trying to fall back to sleep. So you are now tired because it's the next morning. Sure. And we're heading to school. Now, Alex. Here's how I envision it. This is it's all one campus. Yeah. Yeah. But it's definitely very much obviously different buildings.
00:03:23
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I think I want to make you three all have the same first period. What are we going? What class are we going to here? Just homeroom? No, I want it to be a class. It can be an elective. It can be history. History. All right. You guys have first period history. Okay. Microengineer.
00:03:46
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All right, you guys have first period history and. Where does Rick sit in the classroom? Uh. Rick sits midway back and. On a side where there is a he sits all the way to one side so that there's a wall adjacent to him. OK, wall not window.
00:04:15
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Either way, one edge of the room. There are not people on both sides of him.
History Class and Project Introduction
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OK, and you back row by the door. All right. And where Stephanie said right in the middle of everything. OK, smack in the middle of the classroom. Sounds good to me. Just wanted to kind of get an idea. OK, so we are in this class. The teacher has not shown up yet. You guys obviously don't have to interact with each other, but
00:04:44
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One thing that everybody notices is that Rick is not on his A game right now. He's clearly tired. He may even be sleeping at his desk. Would Rick do that if class hadn't started yet? Not unless he just literally just was so exhausted that he fell asleep. He would not. Yeah. I don't think any 14 year old is so exhausted after one all nighter where they still got some sleep. They would fall asleep, but clearly tired. Um,
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the bell rings and your teacher enters and she walks up to the front of the class and she has in her hands two large cases like just big plastic carrying cases and she puts one down and she pops it open and she says class
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I have the most amazing opportunity for us. She reaches down and she pulls out of one of the cases a huge late 80s video camera. And she pops it up on her shoulder and she looks through the viewfinder, you know, kind of really is hamming it up here. And she says, we have two of these.
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Over the next two months, I'm going to split you guys into four groups and you are going to get to take a camera and make a video history project. How often does that sound? Do any of you react at all? Rick doesn't and that's unusual.
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Yeah, I think I think she kind of looks at you. She's like, how awesome is that? And then turns and she's like, yeah, can I? She counts on you to have some enthusiasm for this sort of stuff. And like, you're the only person that was like diorama. Yeah. And Rick. So Rick is is. Wearing.
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one of his many pieces of unusual outerwear, which is a clearly old military surplus poncho that opens on the front. He wears it because it resembles a cloak.
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Um, and he just, he just kind of has it wrapped around himself because when I have not slept enough, I get cold. Like that is one of the things of when I'm exhausted, I get cold. Uh, and so I'm, uh, and he sort of, um, what?
00:07:31
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OK, well, Duncan laughs at that at that. OK, cool, cool. OK, settle down. What I said was you are going to have an opportunity to create a video history project. You can you can tackle it like a news report. You can do a reenactment. You can make a documentary.
00:07:52
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I really want for you guys to let your creative strengths shine while you're doing this. The only thing I ask is, we don't stray too far into historical fiction? Okay? And that it has something to do with, if not Pineville, Central Wisconsin. What's the teacher's name? Mrs. Delancey.
00:08:19
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I don't know why that was funny to me. I don't either. Mrs. Stellancy. And there is a deep sign. Yes, Stephanie. Do we get to choose our own groups or are you like going to assign them? I'm glad you asked.
00:08:41
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I recently found out about something that I've never heard of. Did you know that they make dice that aren't just six-sided? Yes. Well, it's new to me.
00:08:57
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Here's that, I'm brute forcing this. She gets out a D20 and a random table and lo and behold, guess who's in the same group? Of course. Yeah, I mean, obviously I have to get you guys in the same group. I needed to figure out some way and I didn't want to just place you guys there because there's no good reason to do that yet. But there are 12 students in your class, which I feel is probably appropriate. So she divides you into four groups of three. Three groups that don't matter.
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Let me tell you about it. Oh, man, I can't believe I'm in your group. And the guy's like, God, this is going to be so much fun. Um, this is still Nancy. Can we reroll? Yeah, that'd be great. I'm afraid I've lost the dice. So, um, I'm going to give you guys some time with your groups today for the for the rest of this class with your groups.
00:09:52
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You know, I take it back. Wait, how many people are in our group? I take it back. Three. Just us three. Three. Okay. I'm taking it back. Oh, try to decide if I want to put an NPC in your group. Is Mrs. Delancey taking it back? No, no, no, no, no. No one's taking anything back.
00:10:09
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I want to put an NPC in your group. I'm not going to put an NPC in your group. Go for it. You can do it. We don't care. No, because I don't want to have to... No. That's fine. Philip will play him. Yeah. Pretty good. No, so yeah, so it's you three are the group. And I think that everybody splits off into their groups. And Mrs. Delancey says,
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And now I've not yet decided, I don't want to force upon you when you're ready to make your video. So I'm, but we, you can see we only have two cameras. So two groups need to step up and go first, come up with their concept and get ready to shoot first. And then the other two groups can use them afterwards. And we only have these cameras for six weeks. Okay.
Project Group Dynamics and Planning
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So, um,
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So take some time, figure out what you want to cover and how you want to do it. And then we'll move forward from there. But your assignment by the end of the day is to give me a proposal on what you're going to do your lesson on.
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and how you're going to present it. Are you going to do a reenactment? Are you going to do a news program style or are you going to do something documentary style? So go ahead and get into your groups. And we have 20 minutes until the end of class. So let's see. That's a very short class, but that's how we roll now. So let's see what you come up with.
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And as everybody's getting into their groups, she goes over to your group and kind of looks at all three of you, lingering the longest on Rick and says, remember, this is history, not historical fiction. And kind of like pats you on the shoulder because what time of year she does like you, but she also knows your recent. I'm weird. What time of year is this again? Did we decide?
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We're going to have to say this is like towards the maybe it's the last six weeks of school. That's why you're doing this cool project because it definitely needs to be into the year project. Warm. So yeah, this is your final project for this class. Duncan, after Mrs. Delancey walks away, looks at Stephanie and Rick. And after a beat stands up and walks to Mrs. Delancey's desk. Mm hmm.
00:12:33
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Mrs. Lancy, listen, I've been working more hours at the mill and I just, I don't have the time. Like during school hours, I'll do whatever you need me to do, but I don't have time to run around with them after school filming projects. Like I have a job. Everyone in town knows what happened.
00:12:59
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Oh yeah. At the very least, they know your dad's gone. They may not know why or whatever. I think Mrs. Delancey is definitely sympathetic to that, but I want you to roll me... I think you're trying to play to her empathy. Yes? Yes. I mean, you're stating facts, but you're trying to play to her empathy, so I need you to roll charm for me, but it's gonna be pretty easy.
00:13:32
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Yeah, you get an adversity token, my man. I can't make it. It's not that easy. Okay. I think Mrs. Delincie looks at you and she says,
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Duncan, I know that you are working. She doesn't say have to work. She's not gonna be a jerk about it. I know you're working, and that that's very important, both you and your family, and I don't want to jeopardize that, but can you at least commit to maybe weekends when you're not working? Can you go out and maybe do some film? There's a thing, I don't know how much you know, but there's a thing called B-roll, and if you can convince your group to do a documentary style, you're gonna need a lot of,
00:14:11
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B-roll, which is, you know, just panning across. Let's say you want to talk about Founders Cabin, panning across Founders Cabin, panning across, you know, the current town square, maybe just some shots of the woods or something like that. Do you think you could commit to doing that much for us? Whatever. And he walks back to the group. OK, where's Duncan work? The mill, the lumber mill. He's working at the sawmill. OK.
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to go. I think that Mrs. Delancey has some pull with a manager out there. Maybe they all both grew up here and they've known each other for a long time. And she says, would you like for me to talk to Mr. Peters and maybe I can explain to him the situation and maybe we can modify your hours. You'll get the same. We'll make sure you don't lose any hours, but we can modify them so you might be free on a weeknight to work with people or something.
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And like Duncan, like I think even Miss Delancey seems like overwhelmed for a moment and then just says, no, it's it's fine. It's fine. OK, well.
00:15:27
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None of, this is not a directive. I'm willing to work with you on the amount and the level of involvement you have. But what I certainly want for you to have is input. So why don't you go back with your group and you and I can maybe do some work on figuring out ways that you can contribute down the road. But for now, let's make sure that your voice is heard in the planning stages. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Duncan. And as he goes back to the group, he overhears,
00:15:57
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Rich, I just don't think that a poncho is good for your body type. Granddad brought it back from Europe. And it's awesome. Vintage, OK. Yeah, he doesn't. He's stopped correcting her.
00:16:20
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I just wanted to make sure Rick has pulled up his big messenger bag, which has a which is sort of a big canvas messenger bag with a patch sewn onto the front of it from the US Forest Service. And he digs around in it and comes up with one of the many books that are in it. This is by Ralph Bloom, and it's called The Book of Runes. Um.
00:16:46
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through which he's been teaching himself to use the north runic alphabet. So obviously I think we should focus on the runestone. I mean it's the most interesting thing in town and we could talk about
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the archaeologists who have come and checked it out and the translations of the accounts that are on it about the settlers and the people who claim it's a hoax and all that stuff. I think we could could do an expose on whether it's for real and whether or not the Viking king on the runestone is actually buried underneath it.
00:17:28
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OK, but like whatever we do, can I be like the face of the video? I. I think we should work together to like create the.
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the script. Stephanie, if you want to like in post like during school hours read whatever we come up with, I think Rick and I should be the ones that like take the time to go out there and do the filming and stuff. And I think like after school and stuff, you can just keep doing what you're normally doing. I don't think you need to spend any extra time doing that stuff. Just as inviting as always. OK, I think that
00:18:11
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You know what we're gonna do with this, uh, contested, your charm. Uh, Hey, I, yeah, no, no, no. So it's, we're going to do, I don't know if this is the thing in kids on bikes, but I'm going to do strap roll off. It's going to be Duncan's charm versus Stephanie's grit to see if he can convince you to basically not be on camera a lot.
00:18:41
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four. Okay, I think the outcome of this is what you've done is you've definitely talked her into ADR. You've definitely talked her into doing all of the voiceover.
00:18:56
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I just can't imagine that you're going to totally give up being on camera though. But yeah, you've definitely you look at him and that sounds like a pretty good idea. Getting your voice all over this thing also sounds pretty good. So. OK, fine. I mean, I guess as long as we have like credits and my name's on it. Does he need to convince either of you to go with the the Runestone or are you guys both OK with that? That's fine. I mean, it's.
00:19:25
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From Duncan's standpoint, I think being in school together long enough, possibly even having done group projects together before, if we can land on a topic that Rick's passionate about, he's going to do most of the work and cool. OK. So. Yeah, and I think Stephanie kind of feels the same. Knows that she'll get a good grade. OK, that's fine.
00:19:57
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So, yeah, like I think it's a good idea, Rick. What do you want to do documentary style? I think that would be. Best suited to letting Stephanie put her stamp on it. Yeah, that's probably good. If you're cool with not being the face of it, I know you're super into this stuff, but. No, no, it's it's cool.
00:20:21
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Okay, interesting, interestingly enough, I don't think that Duncan has work today. Okay. So, I think it's a great opportunity for you to get some B-roll and just go ahead and start knocking down some of this stuff, right? Yeah. Okay, so. Yeah, I don't have a shift today at the mill. So, yeah, I...
00:20:52
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I can go ask for the camera and we can get started on filming if you want. Yeah, great. Sooner better. Don't don't can roll brains for me. Mm hmm. Five. Oh, you wish you could remember where that rune is, though. Hey, Rick, where where is the rune exactly? Oh, I can show you.
00:21:22
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Uh. OK, cool. And I mean, Stephanie should probably come. I mean, Stephanie can't neither of you drive. So I guess someone has to take you. Yeah, she should totally come. She's I mean, if she's going to talk about it, she needs to be able to appreciate how awesome it is. Like in Duncan feels incredibly uncomfortable in this moment, like. Bringing like.
00:21:51
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He looks at Rick like hoping that he would just, for some magical reason, get up and walk away in this moment. Steffi, what about Alex? I mean, you weren't planning on working, so he'd be with you anyway. Well, somebody needs to watch him. Well, lucky for us, both of his watchers are here. It's not like it's dangerous or anything. Charm?
00:22:21
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It's a five. OK, honestly, it was going to it was it was low because. What I was really rolling, what are you really rolling for? It's going to have to happen because, yeah, that's the facts are the facts. You were kind of rolling for how. OK, with it all the Alex coming along. Yeah, at all. Yeah, you were going to be so it's happening, it's happening. You're resigned to it. You can decide how excited about it you are, since it was such a low roll.
00:22:52
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Okay. Um, sure.
Bullying Confrontation and School Life
00:22:59
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So I'll, um, does one of us need to go up and like check the camera out? Like, yeah, I think, I think that would be, I think that would be a good way to close it out is the three of you go to see Ms. Delancey to let her know what your proposal is. Let's say we fast forward to the end of class where you've written the proposal to turn in and when you hand it to her,
00:23:21
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Rick has written the proposal. Sure, Rick has written the proposal. Here's a question. Rick, is this a history of the facts of the rune, or is this an investigation into the truth of the rumor? Oh, it's definitely investigation into the truth of the rune. Of the rune stone. Right, and the rumor that there's a dead king underneath and all that stuff? Yeah, yeah. Okay, great.
00:23:48
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Okay, so I think Ms. Delancey takes a look at the proposal and she says,
00:24:00
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Okay, you three, this is really interesting. I assumed somebody might do something about, you know, the, and she does big air quotes, the Viking history of our little town. I just, I just want to make sure that if I allow some speculation or maybe some acknowledging
00:24:33
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facts about the Runestone. We also get some real concrete corroborated history about maybe the time period that we did have Norse settlers or something like that. Like some real concrete stuff in addition to
00:24:55
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Rumors are an oral history. Oral histories and cultural histories are important. I want for you to talk about that, but let's make sure we get some real concrete stuff in there as well. Does that sound good? Yes, Mr. Lansing. I promise we will get the exact date that Rock showed up. You don't get a response. You get a... That's Rick's face. That's Phillip. Phillip is very quizzical right now. I think she looks at you for a while and she goes,
00:25:26
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Great. So, um, I think this is a great proposal since you guys turned yours in first. I don't have to tell you to change your angles on anything. I think it's going to be wonderful. When do you think you're going to be ready to start? Maybe obviously I know there's research that needs to be done, but we can start shooting today. Duncan has the day off. Well, but Duncan, what are you going to shoot if you don't have any history looked up yet?
00:25:56
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Well, we can go up there and get some B roll shots of the hell. She's just waiting.
00:26:08
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before he said it because he walked right into my trap you know what I think that's a great idea and she she assesses Stephanie and and Rick and then she hands the heavy box to Duncan now
00:26:33
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And I think this is true of her. I know that I can trust you guys to be careful. I'm not going to tell you to be careful because I trust that you, you know, this is expensive equipment. What I am going to say is this is borrowed equipment. So in addition to careful, try to be respectful of the fact that it's other people's property. Great bell rings. I think
00:27:02
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that even at the class change, Alex is either trying to impart some sort of important information, important information to Duncan, or just catch some time hanging out, being seen hanging out with his babysitter at school. Go ahead. As everybody's exiting the classroom, Duncan hangs back. It's like, Mr. Lancey, this is first period. Can I come pick this up at the end of the day?
00:27:31
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Did I hand you a camera, Duncan? You handed me a big box of heavy equipment. I put down whatever. Thank you. Oh, you'll carry that camera all day. And then as he walks out in the hall, he sees. Alex and Stephanie. OK, so did you find Stephanie? Yeah, I went and found Stephanie.
00:27:59
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And, um, Alex is like, you know what? Tonight is Stephanie. Right. On television. My favorite shows on, remember? Um, Oh my God. How can you forget Alf? Alf? Yeah. Alf is awesome. We're going to get to watch it, right? Um, what time does it start again? I think it's at seven o'clock. Okay. Well, we have some,
00:28:24
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They have like a movie to make or something. And so... We're gonna make a movie? Yeah, you're gonna come with us. But...
00:28:32
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Can we go home? Are we going to go home first? I can set the VCR. That is up to your brother. Here he is. Well, I mean, he's not working today. Hey, um, yeah, Alex, uh, Stefan are in the same group, so we have to go together to do this project thing. But, um, yeah, we can run by the house and set the VCR so you don't miss out. It'll be fine. Okay. Oh, I can take my comic books.
00:29:01
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Yeah. We'll also need to leave a note for mom so she knows that we're going to be home maybe late. I don't know. Uh, but just in case she gets off work early. Uh, so, okay. So we're going to make a movie. Yeah. We just got to go out there and shoot some landscape shots of a Hill. Like it's a weird room thing that our classmate Rick wants to do. That's not, that doesn't sound fun. Do I get to be in it?
00:29:31
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Um, so no one's like apparently actually in it, but we like talk over it. I don't know what's happening, but they're going to tell me. If I have to go, you can, um, how about for a couple of shots? Um, I'll let you like focus the camera and pick where we point the camera and stuff. How about that? Yeah, that'd be cool. You'd be like the director. Awesome. I like that. Great. I was gonna, I was gonna make him roll for a bit. Sure. Okay. Um,
00:30:01
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Unless there's anything any of you would like to do with the rest of your school day?
00:30:06
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I think we will jump to the last bell of the day. I assume that Alex has a standard meeting point with each of you and he's, you know, one thing that I know about kids on schedules is they know their schedules. So I think wherever he knows it's your day since you don't have work. So wherever you two are meeting up, you're both heading that direction. Yeah.
Home Life and Project Excitement
00:30:34
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Um, so we just walk home. Yeah. Don't think we don't get to ride our bikes. We probably can't afford bikes. Everybody gets a bike. Everybody gets a bike. You would have had bikes long before you're done. I'm a kid on the bike.
00:30:52
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One thing that I would just like to establish about Duncan's character, it's OK to inject a scene before we leave school. Totally. Absolutely. Like and I don't know exactly how this plays out, but like one of the older kids, maybe like a year younger than Duncan or Duncan's age while Alex is waiting on Duncan to like meet at our meeting spot by the bike racks or whatever. Maybe is like.
00:31:19
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Because like we said, everybody knows about dad leaving like picking on Alex about that fact. And that fits with Alex because Alex gets along in his mind better with older kids. Yeah. And not very well with his peers. But I just like I want to establish that scene so Duncan can react to it. It's kind of part of his. Absolutely. His deal. So if you want to role play the kid picking on Alex or what. But yeah, let's do that. Let's have
00:31:47
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I don't want to make it like a kid Duncan's age, right? Picking on Alex. That's just here's how we want. I mean, yeah, like that's what I would like for how Duncan is going to deal with this situation. OK, sure. Then we've got a kid. Let's put it somewhere in the middle. A year behind you, but still significantly ahead of Alex. I think.
00:32:12
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No, I'm not going to do that yet. OK, so yeah, I think I think that maybe. Maybe your last period of the day is an elective and in a school this small. If it's, you know, the electives are all kind of right there next to each other, so maybe you're coming out of art. And this kid's coming out of craft stuff. This kid's coming out of music. It's a culture. The gym would be a different building, but it's coming out of music and.
00:32:39
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I think it's just something simple. You're being absent minded, you're spinning, you hit him with your backpack. Is that fair? Sure. So this kid has a... I think you just, you hit him, he grabs your backpack as it's like, as it's hitting him, swings you around up against a locker. Hey, stop it. Oh, you're that Dozier kid, huh?
00:33:05
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So, yeah. So, yeah. Hey, leave me alone. Give me my backpack. I'm tired of people leaving you alone lately. Oh, OK, so. Look, you wanted you want to jerk. I mean, yeah, yeah, no, I'm with it. So Duncan was like speed walking because he saw the physicality. And here's the comment. And just from a full running sprint just goes to punch this kid in the side of the head. Roll fight.
00:33:34
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What? No. No. Roll to two. Oh, no. Three. This works better, like. OK, here's what I'm going to give you. Yeah. Here's what I'm going to give you. Because I can't let you hit him. Yeah, obviously not. But what I will do is. What's your grit? My grit, ten. Roll, roll grit as well.
00:34:06
Speaker
Okay, this is great then. I think what happens is you swing at this kid and they're against... So what it is is Alex is pushed against the locker. This kid is back to you pressing him against the locker. A fist grazes by him. He can feel the wind. He can hear it passing his... slamming into the locker.
00:34:30
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You didn't mean to miss, but you're scary enough that you know exactly how to turn a near miss into a threat. Yeah. So he obviously spins around. He probably already knows who threw it. What do you say? Keeping in mind, you have already passed this. You are going to scare him because I had your old grin already. Don't kill him, Duncan.
00:34:56
Speaker
Nice. Um, actually, you know what? What if I gave you something? What if, what if the fist comes, he spins around and he goes, Oh, honest man. I didn't mean, I didn't, I didn't mean nothing, but I'm just messing around. Leave. He kind of looks at you like.
00:35:17
Speaker
Genuinely confused that you haven't thrown another punch Based on the way you look and I don't think you necessarily have a reputation for this but just looking at you and he knows what he just said mm-hmm I Think that when you give him the opportunity to leave I mean gone like walks past his locker. He's like I can get it tomorrow. Yeah Out the nearest door to fresh air Okay, Alex
00:35:43
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Yeah, I was gonna hit him, but thanks though. Let's go home and set the VCR. Okay.
00:35:55
Speaker
Okay. All right. Cool. Great. Um, so I guess you guys made plans based on this, that you were going to each go home and take care of yourself and maybe meet up a little later after school. Um, I think for the sake of everything you picked up the camera since you could just carry it to your car and not like bungee cord it to your butt. Nothing could go wrong.
00:36:24
Speaker
OK, so we've said the true believer is Rick's grandpa. Give me a little insight into Rick's home. Does he live with grandpa and that could be his grandpa live with his family or is he raised by grandpa? What's up, Rick? I was thinking about this. Rick lives with his grandfather. I. I don't know exactly what has happened to Rick's parents. I'm open to input on that. I only know that one of them, because I was trying to think what
00:36:53
Speaker
That would be good for this. One of them was a one of them was a ranger for the forest service. But as I say, I don't know what became of. What became of them, but yes, Rick lives with his father, with his grandfather. Who's presumably at the shop. Actually, I think Rick and his grandfather might live in an apartment above the shop.
00:37:18
Speaker
That's exactly what I was gonna say. I think there's definitely an apartment above the shop. I think that back in... It's like on the old square. Yeah, back in whenever Rick's granddad bought this building and that's just the way things were back then. If you didn't live above your place of business, you've rented out the place above your place of business. I think you guys live above the shop.
00:37:41
Speaker
on days that you want to just get home, maybe you go in the back, fire escape entrance on the talk to granddad. So is that one of those days? You know, I was about to say no because he's really tired, but I think that it's more interesting for him to go through the front. So I think that's probably what he does. He probably goes in, goes in the front. OK. Yeah.
00:38:09
Speaker
So, yeah, Rick goes in, ties up his bike outside or blocks up his bike outside or just leaves his bike outside because it's a small town where there's no one, no bike thieves. I think granddad either calls you Richie or Ricky. Which one do you prefer?
00:38:30
Speaker
I know Philip hates shorting his name, but this is a great ad in the 80s. Oh, you're right. You're right. I think it's got it's got to be Richie for some reason. It seems like it's got to be Richie. That's my name for you. So. Yes. And Rick thinks of you like I think of those people who who without permission call me Phil.
00:38:58
Speaker
The second time. Yes. Honest mistake. First time. After that, we're mortal enemies. Okay. So I think, uh, I think you walk in, you hear the getting, getting, getting, yeah, there's nobody in there. Uh, your granddad is just reading another, I assume you got that book from your granddad. The, the blue. So I think he's just reading another one and he looks up and says, Oh, Oh, Hey Richie. Um, Hey granddad.
00:39:28
Speaker
How was your day? It was OK. I was up most of the night. I don't know what I just. I don't know. I woke up. I don't know if I had a dream or something, but I woke up with weirdest feeling. I just couldn't. I just couldn't get back to sleep, so I've just been I just went out of it. I was nodding off in class like it was. It wasn't great, but we have kind of a cool project and.
00:39:54
Speaker
they let me convince them to do it on the rune stone. So that'll be fun. Oh, I think as soon as you say project and rune stones, grandad job. Yeah. He's gathering more books and maybe some apps. Yes. That's definitely what we need. Definitely. Definitely maps of the lay lines. Yeah. And like he grabs them all as equally, um, equally, um,
00:40:28
Speaker
To him, they're all factual. But so there's some Ley Line maps, there's books on the actual history of the Scandinavian people in this part of the country. They're definitely books about magical histories. I think he's talking in his head, he's like, oh yeah, this is gonna happen. Oh, I mean, what's even the point of you talking about the Ley Lines? And he looks at his hands and he's got like six books and five maps and he goes, am I doing it again?
00:40:41
Speaker
Why can't I word tonight?
00:40:59
Speaker
No, I mean, this will be this will be great. I have to. I mean, it's a school project, so I got to. I got to filter it, right? You know, they're going to they're going to want me to stick with the more, the more mainstream stuff. But but no, I mean, having everything gives me all the resources and I pick what's going to work, right? Yeah. Yeah. Great. That's proud of hearing that. Now, two things, Richie, first off,
00:41:28
Speaker
Don't do all the work yourself, all right? I mean, it's gotta get done. I understand that, and I don't think you quite understand what I mean. I know that you would do great work, but you need to make sure that everybody else gets a chance to read some of these.
00:41:50
Speaker
We need to keep, make sure everybody knows we can't let this stuff be forgotten. And I sometimes feel like you and me, he totally thinks you're into it, whether you are or not. Sometimes I think you and me and these, you know, the kind of random strangers that make their way here are the only ones that still know the truth about it. And another thing you mentioned your, um,
00:42:15
Speaker
not being able to sleep last night. And I'll admit, you know, when I woke up, old people wake up early. When I woke up this morning, I don't think I've ever heard noise out of your room when I wake up. And I heard you shuffling around in there. Is everything okay? Yeah, I, like I said, I just, I just woke up in the middle of the night and I don't know. Sometimes it's like when I have dreams,
00:42:45
Speaker
that freaked me out. I can't get back to sleep. So I just, I just stay up and read or something like that. And it's just, you know, it was just one of those nights. I'm sure it's fine. It's not a problem. Okay. Well, promise me that after last night, even with this new project and all of this information I just handed you, maybe don't stay up reading all night tonight. I'll do my best. Okay. I'll see you for Alf.
00:43:16
Speaker
Wouldn't miss it. Anyway, what night came on, I assume Friday, but maybe I don't know. It's just charming. I don't know. I don't remember. All right. Yeah, he takes like the whole arm load of books up to his room and starts sort of as much time as he has sorting them.
00:43:38
Speaker
into books that my teacher will tolerate and books that my teacher will not tolerate. OK, yeah, I think that's smart. I think that's smart. However, I do want to know where the ley line map ends up. The ley line map is definitely going with us because it's awesome. And I mean, and I think that the you know, the person who drew it, who did the ley line map like did
00:44:07
Speaker
you know, a border of the the runic alphabet all the way around it and all sorts of cool things because, you know, people who are into ley lines are also in all sorts of cool, awesome things.
Project Filming and Character Interaction
00:44:19
Speaker
And so I think it's a cool map. And and so Rick Rick is definitely going to take that with him to to show the others. And because he's convinced it might still be useful.
00:44:33
Speaker
If it might still be useful, even if they even if they can't get away with using in the documentary, he thinks it will still be useful. OK, awesome. So let's. Cut to. Stephanie. Mm hmm. Going home.
00:44:53
Speaker
having to explain that, no, you're not babysitting tonight. Hey, you know what, answer me this, why is Stephanie babysitting if her family's wealthy and she kind of just gets to use her dad's credit card if she needs something or wants something? Is it that what you were talking about, just that she likes being idolized? I mean, she likes that and she just likes to get out of the house. Oh, sure, I just wanted to have some responsibility. And her parents make her. So she, perhaps, you know what, I got it.
00:45:23
Speaker
I think that maybe Rick's not the only one that's noticed this change in Stephanie. And her parents, while they are wealthy, they want you to get some, yeah, some responsibility. You need some sort of job. They make you get a job and you thought, well, babysitting, so I mean, what am I gonna do? Just sit there and watch TV while they also watch TV? Shoot, it does not work without a text on your friends. Anyway, so yeah, okay, I think so. Tell me a little bit about your family.
00:45:53
Speaker
Um, so the, they're wealthy because they own the, uh, I recall I got a mill. Uh, they can own the saw mill or they can be, if that's what you want them to do that, they can do that. Or if you really want like a level of wealth, they don't own the saw mill. The saw mill is contracted by them. They own the logging operation.
00:46:19
Speaker
OK, that's what that's more of what I was thinking, like they own like the basically they're the head of the business that happens. So it's sort of thing. Anybody who works the sawmill has any wealth because your family deigns to still use this sawmill as their operation. Yeah, they're a third party thing. I think that sounds great. I mean, this is putting you in like. Like a real wealth bracket like, yeah, yeah, OK, cool. I mean, probably definitely the most wealthy in town, I would say.
00:46:49
Speaker
I think that sounds great. You think your dad maybe probably did a stint as mayor or something because this is the kind of town where the guy who owns the business is probably the mayor for a while. And definitely did Duncan a solid in giving him a job. Listen. Know what? It might be true, but Duncan has that reaction. Listen. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
00:47:14
Speaker
I think you go home, I think dad's working. I think that he is genuinely, it's not a big enough company that he can, it's not public. He's not just living off stock options. He's there every day working. This sort of wealth allows mom to choose whether or not she does and maybe she has a shop or does something part time, but she's home when you get home from school, okay?
00:47:41
Speaker
Do you bring the camera inside or do you leave it in your car until it's time to go? I think leaving the car, it's too heavy.
00:47:49
Speaker
That makes sense. That was going to be a way to start a conversation, but we can just be like, hey, but we cannot. Well, I was going to say I just came home from cheer practice. Okay. So maybe that's why they went home is because you had to have cheer practice after school before you do anything else. I think that sounds great. Okay. So you're home from cheer practice and I think when you come in, I think maybe your mom doesn't even try to talk to you yet because
00:48:13
Speaker
Tell me if I'm wrong Stephanie Not a fan of being sweaty or potentially smelly or gross. Yeah, so it's like shower time as soon as she gets home Do you do that or do you want do you decide you need to tell mom what you're gonna be doing? I mean she I would have said I kind of pictured mamas like Amy Poehler's character for Mean Girls like daughter's best friend because she doesn't really have friends because she's just a stay-at-home mom like
00:48:41
Speaker
And she just wants to be cool and hip and. If that's what you if that's what you want, we can find a compromise. But I think I think so. I think Stephanie finds mom a little annoying, so she just kind of tries to make a beeline for her room to go and get ready and leave again. OK, in that case, I think that I'll change up what mom's reaction is going to be. I think that as you're walking by, she just kind of goes. How is practice?
00:49:07
Speaker
Mom, I really need to go take a shower. I have a school project to work on. Okay, bye. And that one's over. I'm just kidding. Oh, really? That's fun. What's the project? We're making a movie or something, but no one's in it. I don't know. You're making a movie? Yeah, I have a camera in my car. Honey, I think maybe you should bring that in.
00:49:36
Speaker
No, it's like really heavy and I'm already really gross and I need to clean up because I have to go meet... Duncan... Okay, we established Duncan broke up with you, right? Yes. Yeah. Okay, I think as soon as you say I need to go meet with Duncan, mom's in action mode. She's walking over. She's grabbing hands. Oh, honey. No, why did you just why did you put why did you say you would work with Duncan?
00:49:59
Speaker
Gross, mom, I was made to do it. It's me and Duncan and Rich. She thinks for a second. I don't think she's a bad person. I think she's, I bet, I think that she probably spent a lot of time as class mom. You know, when you guys were growing up, I think that she's that kind of, and I think so the person just says, honey, Rick. Who? Pick your battlesuit, nevermind.
00:50:30
Speaker
I wanna be clear, mom saying the stuff about Duncan is not to disparage Duncan, it's to protect daughter's heart. She says, well, I'm really sorry that you ended up, I hope it goes well. If you need to leave, you can leave. If you wanna talk to me, I'm always here for you. Okay, I'm gonna shower.
00:50:58
Speaker
And that's it, yeah. I mean, boy, you know, I'm not trying three times. Her mom's not trying three times. Okay, I think with that, you go up to shower. I think mom goes out to your car and brings the camera in because she, like most people, doesn't really know a ton about this stuff. The newer tech, like, you guys almost certainly have an old video camera. Because you have that sort of money that you would be an early adopter.
00:51:27
Speaker
But I also think it still works. Why would you buy a new one? They were not in that age yet. Yeah, functional obsolescence. So she, like, you know, for all anybody knows, on a hot day under the car windows, the camera will melt or the film and it's going to melt. Yeah, the film will melt. Yeah. So I think mom, because she cares, goes and gets the camera and brings it out.
00:51:52
Speaker
Don't expect her to take it back into the car. You should have been responsible and brought it up. So you can take it back. But, um, okay. So I think, I think, I think that's it. I think you get, you go, you take your shower, you get the camera, you roll your eyes, you take it back out to the car. Who are you going to pick up first? Um, let's timestamp this. It's four 15. I'm going to go pick up Duncan and Alex. Okay. Ed and Duncan and Alex's house. Do you get out? Do you honk? Do you have a special honk that Alex responds to and comes out? What's up?
00:52:22
Speaker
Um, I think I go to the door because I'm excited to see Alex. Okay, great. So, and I just, I like, I'm enough. I feel enough at home in there that I could just kind of not necessarily open the door, but be like, you know, Alex, I'm here. I'm kind of stabbing these here as he's wolfing down cookies. He's been in the cookie jar.
00:52:45
Speaker
Well, I want to ask you, I want to ask Stephanie a question. I'm going to ask the Trevor question about Stephanie. I'm not insane. I am. Obviously, their mom's not home because she's certainly working because she's a single parent now with two children. And part time is great. And in the 80s, you could you could at least kind of do this more easily. I'm not going to say it was easy. Yeah. But
00:53:14
Speaker
I am guessing here that you, if you don't have a good relationship with the mom, you've certainly made a good impression. Because I'm sure Alex only talks about the good things about you. Yeah? So I just wanted to get that out of the way just in case. So that's why you really do feel comfortable. Even though it's Duncan's house too, since he's normally not there because he's working, you actually really do enjoy being. Yeah, that's great. I think it's cool. Okay, so you go to pick them both up. Cameras in the trunk. What do you drive?
00:53:44
Speaker
Oh, I don't know anything about the 80s. A DeLorean. No, you absolutely don't. I'm kidding. Mustang. You drive something you can get on a lot in Eau Claire.
00:53:55
Speaker
That's a city in Wisconsin. It's a decently sized city in Wisconsin. It's like you said words I don't, I've never heard. I'll get Madison. So it's just a, let's do a Ford. Maybe something with four doors, but still a little sporty for the time. Yeah. Okay. Let's still make the Bronco then, which you have like a Ford Bronco. Sure. That sounds awesome. You got a sporty Bronco. And I don't think it's new. I don't think they would know his dad's old car. Perfect. Yeah.
00:54:25
Speaker
So it's probably really tricked out because dad bought it for himself, but it's not new, but it's nice. Okay, good, cool, cool, cool. Definitely four-wheel drive because Wisconsin. It snows there. I know. Okay. Because of the cheese. All right, so you go up to the door. You go up to the door, who answers?
00:54:47
Speaker
Um, I would think that, um, yeah, I like your Alex is eating like probably nothing good, but cookies. Alex is even cookies. Duncan would come to the door. Okay. Um, Duncan opens the door and sees. Hey, come on in. So Alex, I mean, is that what's your name again, Stephanie? Is that Stephanie? This is just finishing up after school snack and then we'll head out. Okay. Um, do you even know where Rich lives?
00:55:18
Speaker
Yeah, he lives in that weird shop with his grandpa. Ew. Okay. Alex comes bouncing in. You want some cookies? Oh my God, Alex. Yes. Thank you. You want the cookie, Duncan? Sure. Thanks. Um, and then I,
00:55:40
Speaker
Okay, no, fine. The only question I have for you is when you guys get in the car. This is the 80s. There are no rules. Who sits where? I imagine Alex just running for shotgun like you got it. I was, it was used as Alex is like, I got shotgun. Okay.
00:56:02
Speaker
and Duncan's just like, okay, whatever. And I drive. I was just wondering if you would try to get in the front seat or if you would try to get in the front seat. I don't think Alex affords me the opportunity to do so. Okay, cool. So we head to Rick's place. Rick, you have, I think, finished your separation. Do you come back downstairs and wait downstairs with grandpa? No, Rick.
00:56:29
Speaker
Rick goes, I imagine the apartment is pretty small above the shop because I just tend to assume that it it would be. I don't I don't think that there is any I don't think you guys are cramped, but they're certainly like like you don't have an extra bedroom or anything. Right. So Rick's personal space is on the roof of the building.
00:56:55
Speaker
Uh, he goes out and up the, uh, the fire escape stairs, uh, to the, to the roof of the building where he's got a whole bunch of scavenged old furniture and boxes and things like that. Um, and a, uh, uh, a flag he has made, uh, probably when he was younger, um, and this was at some point a fort and now it's more just his hangout space.
00:57:25
Speaker
And so he's up on the roof watching for them to come. OK, I want to know. What? Can you see? I obviously I know you can see the woods from your building because they're expansive, just looking direct. The horizon is woods. Can you see the forest line, though? Can you see the river that separates the town? Are you guys on that edge of town? Just one? Yes, they are.
00:57:55
Speaker
Okay. That's good to know. Not for right now, but that's good to know. All right. So the Bronco pulls up. You know what she drives. Everybody knows what she drives. You know, not a lot of kids, I think, have their own cars. Right.
00:58:11
Speaker
So Rick grabs his his bag, which he has changed out some of the books in for some of the useful, the ones he thought were going to be useful for from his grandfather. He throws on the poncho cloak, grabs a. A walking stick.
00:58:34
Speaker
Um, that, uh, belonged to one of his parents and goes out the door to the Bronco. Did we establish an exact year? No, we didn't. Okay. Um, would you like to six, I think. Um, yeah. Um, I think I'm a drive over. Um,
00:58:55
Speaker
Duncan part of his part-time job, like he's been saving up for a long time working. And so out of his like backpack that he would have brought with him, because I assumed Stephanie would turn the radio on to. Oh, it's Pat Benatar, just. Which, you know, Duncan wouldn't loathe as much as some other artists of the time. Yeah, I mean, she rocks. Yeah, yeah. But Duncan. But his love as a battlefield over and over.
00:59:28
Speaker
Her and Alex are jamming out, but Duncan has been saving up for a long time and pulls out a bright yellow Sony Walkman and puts the headphones on and hits play on a new cassette that he also saved up to pick up Metallica's injustice for all and is just sitting in the back seat kind of looking out the window bobbing on the drive over. So yes. Have we established
00:59:51
Speaker
OK, so since that album just came out, it is 1988 just for everybody to know. It's just it's just for me. I think literally, I don't think you'd possibly be anybody else that cares. Did you really just kind of get into the metal scene after dad left? It was a way of just filling your you feel your brain with the sound. You don't think about the other things. Yeah.
01:00:16
Speaker
Did you start growing your hair out then? And if so, how long has it gotten? Because you weren't into metal in the late 80s unless you were growing like your hair. Yeah. And does your hair grow long well or does it grow like mine and yours? That is that is exactly what I was getting. I am playing a game and I'm acting out fantasy, so it's not going to be terrible like my hair. So Richard Simmons from no.
01:00:45
Speaker
Um, so yeah, I mean, it was elementary school and now I'm what a sophomore like in high school. So it was that long ago now.
01:00:54
Speaker
Yeah, because we were establishing that like dad leaving is what kind of... Oh, right. I forgot that you pulled that back. This question is not as fun anymore because it wasn't just reached within the last couple of years. Yeah, you've been digging it. OK. My apologies. This is this was a dumb road to take. No, no, it wasn't. Leave it in for accountability. It was a wonderful road to take. Yeah. Tell me more about your hair, Eric. No, I think the character is significantly long because like he'd like
01:01:24
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I'm not saying we were from an affluent family or like button down, but like had a reasonable like a reasonably short haircut. Like obviously we can't afford to see the player yet.
01:01:40
Speaker
But his hair would be well past his shoulders at this point. I want to impose something. If either of you just messaged with something you already thought of, let me know. I think that when your dad left, the one good thing about being from a small town with steady jobs is that
01:02:02
Speaker
The upheaval of your dad leaving was the only upheaval you guys had to deal with. You didn't lose where you lived. You know, mom was able to keep that going. Maybe even it was already, you know, paid off. Who knows? Yeah. You know, but like, so I just want to put that in there that like. You don't hate dad because when he left, everything else fall apart. Yeah. You hate dad because he left and how dare he? Yeah. Is that fair? OK.
01:02:31
Speaker
Um, okay. So car pulls up. Do you just hop off the roof and through the, through the open side roof? No, I, I, I've rigged up a, a, a repel line and just slap.
Mysterious Encounter and Cliffhanger Ending
01:02:45
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No, no, he, uh, he, you've got a dumb waiter counter ballast. That is out in front of your granddad. He should take down. Uh, no, he, he, he comes down the stairs.
01:03:00
Speaker
That makes sense. And at the front door, I think just playing into our relationship a little bit, maybe when we pull up, you start like you might start to get out of the car and Duncan, like, like sitting behind you pulls up and reaches around you and honks the horn to get him out and says, no, his grandpa is like three times as annoying as him. You don't want to go in there and like say it's back into the backseat. You read.
01:03:27
Speaker
Now here's my question. This one is relevant. You know you're going to pick up Rick. You know what Rick only wants to talk with you about. Do you leave the headphones on as a way to avoid talking to him? Or do you immediately rip them off your head thinking, oh god he's going to have to be what I'm listening to?
01:03:44
Speaker
No, I don't like rip them off because, like I said, it's a mild annoyance of being caught in a situation where there's no escape. Like, like we're going to do something. We're working together. So like Duncan's not outright mean to Rick. Like he doesn't find Rick intolerable. It's just like. It's just like, you know what I'm saying? Like, so it's a car ride, like whatever. It's it's the situation that we're in. So. OK, I think you guys you get in the car. Does Stephanie know where the rune is?
01:04:14
Speaker
or does she have to rely? I mean, I think everyone knows she just doesn't really get it. Yeah. Like you know, there's a rock that people make up. Yeah. Sure. I think that's fair. Um, okay. So you guys drive to the room and the goal for the day really is just to catch some B roll, right? I think so. Yeah. Okay. Rick is going to try to convince everyone that it's awesome. Here's what I think happens. I think that
01:04:39
Speaker
And you tell me if this is not okay. Stephanie, you're there. You're looking around. You're not necessarily interested in helping compose a shot or anything. I think that maybe Rick, you've taken Alex up to the rune. And you're kind of...
01:05:03
Speaker
pointing out the, or the rune stone, pardon me. And you're kind of pointing out which runes you remember what they mean. You know, just cause somebody wants to hear it. Yeah. And that rules for you right now. Somebody that's not your grandpa wants to know what you know about runes. Yeah. No, I'm totally, I'm totally reading sections of the rune stone. Okay. All right.
01:05:32
Speaker
Duncan, you've got the camera out. You got it up on your shoulder. You're scanning, panning, doing, as far as you know, is getting B roll. No, you're smart enough. He just whipped it around. But I think what's happening is you're, you're, you're doing a pan. It's like the forest, the tree line, right? Cause this, this rune isn't in the forest. I think maybe it's just across the river on like, on like a, on like a hill.
01:06:00
Speaker
So you're panning the river and the tree line thinking, this is great. This is really good B-roll. I am so good at B-roll. And as you keep going, you get to the room and you stop for a second. You tell me what you feel
01:06:27
Speaker
when you see Rick, who at most is kind of annoying to you. And your little brother, and your little brother seems really into what Rick is showing him. Um. Ashamed. Okay, there's some shame. Yeah. Um, like,
01:06:54
Speaker
double whammy of like seeing Alex so engaged and excited about something. And all like any inverse of like. I don't like he also feels ashamed of like the way that he treats Rick from time to time and like clearly like Rick cares about this stuff, too. And like it's just it's a mixture of it's a cocktail of shame. And I think that shame.
01:07:23
Speaker
I think that shame does cause you to linger on the shot. Your panning has stopped. It's one of those things where you start to think the thought and the thought overtakes your actions, and since they're already in the viewfinder, you're just looking at them. It doesn't seem suspicious, because what are you there to film, right? It's not like anybody's like, why are you staring at those two? But while you're filming, you got one eye closed, one eye up to the viewfinder,
01:07:51
Speaker
from over the back of the hill, you see like, you know, a hairline and then a forehead. And then it's just clear somebody coming up from over, you know, just somebody walking. It's not huge. From over the cliff, 60-foot wide. I mean, pretty clear pretty quickly. It's just some, some young woman who's older than y'all, you know, maybe
01:08:18
Speaker
within five years of you older kids come over the horizon of the hill and stop while this is happening, this ruin is being read and seem really both interested but also angry. Philip, I need you to make a grit roll.
01:08:54
Speaker
Seven. Yeah, you vomit. Oh, I think you're in the middle of. So, yeah, Rick is Rick. He's got the cloak. He's got the hood brought up. He's got his his staff in his hand. He's sort of leaned down on Alex's level and he's reading through the three rooms and he said, and so this is where.
01:09:12
Speaker
Um, there's this sort of border area where you see these figures drawn. It's they're just added sort of stories into the margins and they're explaining about the dwarves making the the the silken cords to bind the wall. Oh, gosh. He's sick. Rich is sick. Oh, my God, rich.
01:09:38
Speaker
Okay. Are you establishing that Alex calls him rich too because Stephanie calls him that and that's your frame of reference? I think Alex may call him that. Okay. I think that all happens.
01:09:54
Speaker
You, who are filming it, you probably chuckle a little bit, right? Yeah, I mean, somebody just, yeah. And then what do you do? I mean, I think I stop recording and take the... You stop recording, you take the camera away from your face. Soon as that viewfinder is off your eye, guess who else is no longer in your field of vision? Oh, man. There's just two people up by that rune stone, and none of you saw anything that looked anything like a woman. Oh, jamming you, Chris. End of episode.
Conclusion and Social Media Plugs
01:10:23
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Thanks everybody for listening.
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I hope you like it. Find us on all the socials at Geek Pantheon. Check us out at Patreon.com forward slash The Geek Pantheon. Guys, again, let me say this. We are between campaigns. This is a great time to tell other people about the podcast. If you are going to encourage them to listen to this, definitely, definitely tell them it's not normally what the podcast is like, okay? Because it's normally helmed by someone competent.
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But thank you so much for listening. Check us out on social media. Get involved. Hope you're having fun. And we'll catch you next week. Oh, yes. Hit us up with a plug for another D20 show. Yes, we are probably part of the D20 radio podcasting network. If you head on over to d20radio.com, you will find under the podcast tab all of our shows and all the other wonderful shows we are a part of the network with, including the shared sagas podcast, which is an Australian actual play episode.
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actual play podcast. And right now they are doing the Waterdeep Dragon Heist module from D&D 5E and they just dropped episode 34. So definitely go give them a listen if you enjoy D&D actual plays. And yeah, anyway, back to Jeff. OK, yeah, that's it. I'm Jeff. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Eric. I'm Randy. Catch you next time.