"The work is good and it is never done." Stressful relationship conversations and auditions and ranting to yourself on your voice app, on your phone, all of those things aside, it is still the work day. And what that means exactly for our rebels here is community center activities and things that need to get done. Specifically today, we close in on the food bank day. And also when the Dandelion Kindergarten kids are able to come over and within the after school program that the community center provides as well, it is kind of like a home economics day for the kids. There is an urban gardening little area also within the community center where people are able to exercise their skills of not only landscaping, but also gardening, small construction jobs, and so much more. Lots of science projects are also happening here and there is a closed off little spot where there are some high schoolers that need to do a little agricultural job. So everyone in the community center make sure this is closed off for these specific high schoolers named Brandy and Thomas. Very adorable stuff. Baroon right now, your usual project is during the after school program that happens every weekday. The Kindergarteners get their stuff settled in little cubbies and you know that usually every day where there is an influx either provided from the community garden or just donated in whatever way. The pantry always has lentils, beans, all sorts of canned sort of things, canned meats. But specifically today, Eva, the board of directors for onsite operations at the Four Seasons has assigned that we really just got to use all of these particular items. So what is in front of you is not only everything like within the pantry and like usual things, but you have potatoes, collard grains, and lakes. So a lot of the time, truly most of the time, every time, you have to make recipes and just create kind of a recipe plan for the kids to learn on the day. As everyone kind of cycles in, you also have the rest of your rebels here that either they're there to eat or hang out or whatever. Baroon, how do you set up your battle station here as the kids are like settling in and also everyone like, how do you kind of help Varoon make this station or like help him just in general in this scene? - I can describe Varoon's battle station. It certainly looks like a battle station. It's an apt descriptor. All of the necessary tools, whether it's pots, pans, knives are all neatly laid out in organized form. You know, this already for like the potatoes, collard greens and the leaks like this already, especially the leaks, this already like a little bowl of like the leaks already been prepared. The potatoes have already been washed and things like that and they're all kind of separated and put into their very specific containers already. But at the corner of the battle station of this kind of like main desk area, Varoon has a stack of stickers. That he has designed and purchased for the kids, for the kids that complete this program get a cute little sticker that they have done. A one of these like fun recipe classes with him. So there's that feeling of like accomplishment for when they complete this task. And I think the rest of y'all see Varoon up with his hands gripping his tight curls on his head as he looks down at the ingredients and goes every week. Every week I feel like I'm on the episode of chopped and I've no idea what I'm supposed to be doing with any of these ingredients. As he stares at the potatoes, the collard greens and the leaks and you already see him kind of like furiously looking at all three of them and trying to come up with ideas. That's the seed you all like embark on as you see him. - Everyone has adorable, ill fitting aprons, by the way, the aprons are for children. - Yeah, he is wearing an ill fitted apron and he's like wearing these like very light blue shirt and like very plain trousers and this tiny apron that only covers like probably just his torso if that around him. - I think I interrupted you, Donna. I'm sorry, go for it. - No, you're totally fine. - No worries, I love the apron too, it's so cute. - Ren's apron is like too large and so she, her knees like really knock against it as she approaches Veron who is clutching his hair. - Hey Veron, like why are you clutching your hair like a chimpanzee whose habitat's getting destroyed? - Oh my gosh. (laughing) - Veron like just lets out this defeated side. I'm trying to find a way to make green sound appetizing and exciting for kids. Like look at this and he holds up the leak like it's a little sword, like look at this. How am I gonna make this interesting for kids? Kids see something green and they go ew, that's disgusting. What's that, a leak? Hate the name, not gonna eat that. And he like sets it back down to the chopping board. I might be a defeated man today. I need to come up with something quick. And you see him kind of like rushing towards like the pantry and picking up a couple of these canned products, the canned meats to try and he like steps forward again. It's like maybe if I make this with the potatoes and then saute these and the gestures to the vegetables, something can happen. - Our June and Chloe also. Chloe for you, I think just throughout just walking literally past the community center every day, every time is this thrum between you, the world and the void that reminds you that there is a great battle one in all technicality, but there is a draw for you to still be around the community center. So whether or not like a group chat proper necessarily has been made or whatever, all of you might even just be surprised to see Chloe as she approaches. - Yeah, I think Chloe certainly does not have an apron designated for this task because she has possibly never helped with this before, but she has borrowed one from someone that is also far too large and I think very personalized to them. So there's like a different name written on the little tie. - Richard. - Yeah, the little tie is just a Richard and she has had to fasten it like around her waist two or three times to get it to sort of stay. - I think, yeah. Varun sees Chloe like losing on over with an apron that clearly says Richard and tries to crack a joke. As he points finger guns at you and just says, ah, Richard, here to help us out. Help me put me out of my misery. - What exactly are you doing anyway? - Cooking class and he has his arms outstretched. As you see the potatoes, the leeks and the color greens or the chopping block. And also like a smattering miscellaneous collection of canned meats. - Oh, you're making coconut or? - I'm trying to find a way to make vegetables interesting. - For kids? - Yeah. I know how bad it sounds, okay? But this community center really needs these out and they don't keep very well anyway. So we should clear them out today if we can. - I mean, my mom used to just cut up the vegetables really small and hide them for me, but I think that probably doesn't work if you're the one showing them what you're doing. - Yeah, you see the problem, huh? Can't really hide them like I usually do if they're seeing what's happening right before their eyes. Unless I make it into some sort of magic act. But I'm going to need a volunteer to make it seem like it's magic. Like, ooh, look, the vegetables have disappeared. - I think that that is a, everyone looks at Arjun because if you need someone for showmanship. - Like, oh, an actor? - Okay, don't all speak up at once, I'll do it. Oh, my hero, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And he, like, rushes over to you, ill-fitting apron and all, and has already begun fasting an apron over your head and put it on you in the time that he took to shake your hands. - Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. He's like, bro, hey, stop, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. And all of you know, and kind of, like, as you're sort of be, like, processing and, like, lamenting, you all now realize in-game, you have about seven minutes to come up with a recipe. So, I wanna ask all of you, what is sort of the vibe, what is, what are you going to make and help make for these children? - You can do it. - We could do a frittata. (laughs) - A frittata. (laughs) A frittata. - Oh, lots of eggs. Totally lots of eggs. - Yeah. Yeah. - Kids love eggs, kids love frittatas. - Kids love, I love, I love it. - I love eggs and I love eggs when I was a kid. - And if you put the collard greens in there, then it's like green eggs and ham. The collard greens and the, like, cute meat. - Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do that, I can make them. - Oh, we can, yeah. - The green eggs and sp, we can also make it really. - Green eggs and sp, yeah. - Green eggs and sp, we can actually make it really fun. And this is where the super specific activity that, for that, Varun's gonna make our Jude do. - Oh no. - Where we can make, we can make it fun for the kids, 'cause they like to use their hands and make it fun, by, like, slicing the frittata in such a way that you can roll them around, like, the, like, flavour spam that we've got. And they can eat it in, like, one bite. So, like, Varun's gonna, like, have, have our Jude, like, help with the rolling up of all of these things. And, as he's demonstrating it, he's, like, he's demonstrating you, like, you're a mannequin, and he's like, all right, here's the food, as he, like, flies the little morsel of food into your mouth, and feeds you. (laughing) Look, it's delicious. Look at your big brother, Arjun. He loves it so much. Arjun, it's like a thumbs up. - Red has one. (laughing) - Red has one hand recording it, and then the other hand is covering her eyes. - She's so embarrassed. (laughing) - You know what, it'd be, like, red delete that immediately. (laughing) - It's going on the community center Instagram page, and I know what you're talking about. (laughing) - My friend. (laughing) - Red makes, like, a fan edit where it's, like, it just spins, like, zooms into, like, pop music. (laughing) (laughing) - Sorry about your audition. Hope they don't Google your name. (laughing) - It is, like, no. - What, no, this is great for image. - Oh. (laughing) - What, is my cooking that bad? - No, it... (laughing) (laughing) (laughing) - It's my, it's just, like, my name. (laughing) - This is not going to seem to my brain damage. (laughing) - The children all, like, clap and just sort of cheer. Who, like, would there be, like, repeating, children with a repeated attendance that, like, know and, like, recordize, like, who some of you are? - Well, yeah, I think so. - Yeah, not Richard. - Not Richard. - Not Richard. - That's confusing for some kids, and I'm sure some kids would make it very known to you about how confusing that is. (laughing) 'Cause I have kids, like, like, kids who are agarabia, they were like, "You have a beard now." Like, something as small as that. (laughing) And I'm like, "Congratulations, I do." - One of the kids who is covered in raw egg and, like, flour somehow has a smile. (laughing) I don't know. Goes over to Chloe, grabs your pant leg, not the apron. (laughing) And just sort of says, "Is your name really Richard?" (laughing) - I think that's what it says, doesn't it? - That's my dad's name. (laughing) - Red, Red's gonna go, "And she's just as old." (laughing) - In the distance, you hear clattering pants as far as drops something. (laughing) - The child says, "Are you my dad?" - Oh yeah, so you better respect me. - You're not my dad. - You're not my dad. (laughing) And now, how can you be sure? - The child walks away in an existential crisis. (laughing) - Look at what you've done. - Eats the frittata wanted, oh no. It is definitely a new energy and much appreciated. From the kids, once again, being able to eat after school, you're providing these children. At the very least, if they're not getting dinner at home, they're able to get this dinner or a much needed late lunch situation. An opportunity to eat. There is also plenty of, like not so much sugar, drinks for them to be able to also enjoy, and there is also a nap room that there is probably also other caretakers that are properly salaried or on some kind of wage situation that are able to take the kids off of your plate, baron, and you are thanked so much. All of you were thanked, again, for making this such a fun rowdy opportunity for the kids. As the children are able to settle into their nap times before they are properly able to get picked up by their guardians, there's something that catches the corner of your eye, specifically, or June. Everyone's either in the process of cleaning up or about to finish, but you're noticing someone has entered into your acting classroom that should be locked. - He's gonna look together and just kind of, at least look to Varun, like, hey, I'm gonna be right back. Take off his apron and kind of head over to check on the classroom. Oh, okay. And you will notice the door is left slightly ajar, but the room is left dark. This person, whoever it may be, has not specifically turned the lights on, but has their own phone flash on in the dark room. Unless you turn the lights on or find another sort of light source, I don't. They're farther into the room that you're unsure if you see the exact silhouette or identification of this person. See, I was gonna think about doing caution, but I mean, you know what? Nah, nah, nah, let's bring him into the light for a bit. So he's just gonna just straight up flip the light switch and just, can I help you? Turning around sort of fumbling, like a slight jump, is what seems to be this white woman. And sure enough, a white woman that is very familiar to you. Natasha Sheridan, a bleach blonde, a person attempting to wear avant-garde and esoteric, but does not necessarily have either the physical, bodily confidence to also pull off at the same time or certain makeup skill to really marry it all together, but is an annoyingly confident figure, regardless, with a blue, vibrant lipstick, goes from a state of slight surprise to a gasp of recognition, acknowledgement, and then something that you, a face that you have seen so shallowly on the faces of many of a reporter or paparazzi reporter that has stalked you before. Oh my God, I had no idea that you were in today. I asked you a question, can I, what are you doing here? Can I help you, why are you here? Just, nice. You can tell he's a little bit like just annoyed, essentially just like, oh God, not again. Well, so I know you had, I think one of your acting lessons before, so I have a client that apparently left some very important, I don't know what it was it again, like a portfolio behind or something along those lines. I didn't wanna bother anyone, so I just tried to see if I could make my way through and lo and behold, here I am. Doesn't really seem like there's anything, I'm not really sure what kind of goose chase my client is trying to put me through, but I am, I'll be totally out of your hair if there's nothing, I suppose there's nothing in here. How have you been doing? Or do you have any projects these days? No comment. Oh, come on, really nothing. He's just kind of just pinching his, like, he's pinching his nose, honestly, just like, this is all the things, it's just, like in his mind, he's mainly thinking of all the things that I wanted to have to deal with, this is, oh, why did it have to be this? How has specifically Natasha been a problem for you before? Natasha has been rather dogged, let's say, in her pursuit to get an interview from Arjun, even going so far as to follow him multiple times. So it very much a sore point of annoyance for him. Specifically, even Natasha has been so interested in your projects, like your indie projects, anything that you have done. It seems like Caldera just constantly needs some kind of thing that she needs to pin some success to. So you'll find in very weird, strange ways that some people, like, give you credit for certain local things that, like, definitely leave some sore, definitely leave some kind of sore spots between you and other, like, acting figures in the community, which is definitely not what anyone ever wants to think is the case, but she's the one that puts out local magazine things, and she is really able to just put out a bunch of garbage and make it sound decent or nice. Natasha puts on this air that, like, what many other reporter might, we're in the same community. You can speak casually to me or something along those lines, but you're putting up that very professional wall here, that barrier, that boundary. Do you respond to that energy that she, like, the last thing that she said being, "Oh, come on. There's really nothing that you're currently working on," just, like, between two people in between jobs and gigs. He's going to keep up that, I guess, professional demeanor, because he doesn't really, even if he did, have something that he was working on, whether it be, like, terms of projects or gigs that he's landed or even films that he would want to promote. He doesn't, he wouldn't feel comfortable telling it to her of all people. Maybe another reporter who had, I don't know, who wouldn't be causing all this tension or just even, I don't know, causing undue strife for his name on his name. He'd be comfortable telling it to another reporter, just not her. He'll just repeat what he said for, again, no comment. She kind of, like, shrugs, claps her hands together, kind of very subtly, like, pointing her phone screen inwards towards her chest in that motion. Well, extremely excited for the next thing that you are ever a part of. I was actually going to ask you, maybe I'll shoot you an email, because obviously she has her email, about what, like, the next, like, community theater play is going to be. I'm like, we really need, like, another, like, art piece, and we're just really interested in seeing what you have going on to develop here. Okay, bye. And then just kind of scuttles out. I guess a senior scuttle out, he's just going to let out of the large, large, just sides of it. Would you like to use rebel eyes here to see what exactly she could have been looking for? Yeah, actually I would, because that actually would kind of catch our attention as to why was she even in here? Because he definitely wouldn't believe the fact of her excuse of, oh, a client left a portfolio here. Like, he's not buying that for a second. Absolutely. So rebel eyes, when you spend time looking for information, say what you're trying to learn and check against heat. So heat, how aware hostile elements are of your interference in their activities. The more ticks, the closer the vassal and the rest of the castle's minions are to finding out your identity. So this next, you're in sort of this in-between stage here, where it was clear who that next, who that initial tier one vassal was, and that was Chloe. And Chloe's clock, how y'all went through that intensifying levels of awareness, is not quite bearing down on your backs quite yet. Okay, so roll two and let me- what were your hits? Two sixes. Against sixes, okay. Heck yeah. On a hit, you'll have a clear idea how to get the information, but the architect may give you one or two of these requirements. It'll take until later today slash tomorrow to get it. You'll have to put yourself in danger. You have to take a gauge to get it, or you'll need a blank to help you get it. Okay, so let me think. I'm only gonna give you- I might not even give you any requirement, because you got fucking 12 here. Or two sixes, rather. Honestly, let's just go ahead and say that. On that hit, you're gonna get clear- and a clear idea how to get the information, and there are no specific requirements. You're able to get it within basically the amount of time it takes for everyone to finish cleaning. You notice that in a kind of like storage cabinet, where a bunch of files are made and kept and organized of like previous people who have registered for the acting classes, or like new people for the acting classes, you've noticed that there are two new files that have been placed. Okay, and specifically let me pull up the names. The two names that seem to be placed are from two people, one named Kansil, and one named CC spelled S-I-S-I. So two new names seemingly on these files. And that could mean a number of things that there are just two new people that have registered. Or most likely because you are the one that goes through these files all the time, and you've been here even yesterday that have been placed. Yeah, he's definitely feeling a little uncomfortable. He definitely wants to take a look at the files, but he's not sure if... Why am I forgetting your name? He's not sure if Natasha, I don't know, maybe either watching from either somehow or just might just be waiting to ambush him again. So I think he's gonna probably take the files and take them home to check out later on. Are there any interactions just here in this moment between Chloe, Ren, and Varun? Could you imagine it's just really tense, like they're all looking at each other at Harvard silence? Yeah, just... I think Varun is because the kids are napping now, right? I think there might be like a stack of notebooks or like the little kids journals that are part of the community center, and he's got these angled tweezers, and he is setting stickers into each of these notebooks in their like designable square, trying to avert the silence by busy his hands with something. So, how's everyone feeling? Ren's gonna go, "I feel great. How do you feel, Chloe?" Ren, please! Oh my god, I'll just like gritting her teeth. So great. That'd be the most barbed of questions. Oh my god, so great? Why? Did something good happen to you recently? Ren, I mean, we don't have to get that into everything to me. No, no, no! I think we should learn more about Chloe's life, right? I mean, I just met my child, and she points down to her little like, Richard Strings. You see, Varun actually does chuckle. Ren is like, Ren is just like not, her face has not changed at all, and she's just kind of like big open eyes, like she's fanging ignorance, and she's just like, "Nothing else? I mean, I'd hate to monopolize the conversation. What's great that's happening with you? Why are you great?" I think you love monopolizing things, so I feel like we should just let you have the floor. Okay, um, and Varun of like, Pylee finishes putting the last sticker in the last notebook and closes its shut and slides the books over on end and turns around on this chair to like, face Chloe and Ren, and it's just like, we know what has happened, and we have, you know, the things happened, and we are just, uh, worried, Ren is just worried, Ren and I collectively, probably our truth as well, collectively. How are you feeling, really? We know the process is always difficult, and we are just checking in. I always thought what was happening here, Ren? Ren goes, "Yes, that's what's happening, right, Ren?" Ren goes, Ren goes, "Is we in the room with us right now?" Ren, please. You know what? You're right, you're right, no, yeah, we're just checking in. How are you in, um, Ms. Ren doing? A knock on the kitchen door, finally, kind of like, comes in to potentially like, "Oh God, thank God, Arjun. It is not Arjun, unfortunately. It is Natasha. Breaking through the considerable tension by adding her own, it seems, she looks over and only puts her focus onto Chloe, sort of says, "And you've met Natasha before as just someone who, um, has done, um, interview a plenty with you, certainly, but also is the name of the person that has written the magazine article about you." Knocks, kind of like, on the inside of the room, uh, addressing Chloe. Hi, so sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt anything that was happening. Could I speak to you super quick, actually, Chloe? Uh, I'm so sorry, we have to finish the dinner or the food cleanup, maybe some other time. You can make a call at my office and schedule an appointment. That's very interesting that you say your office, it's actually on behalf. On behalf of my office, because last time I checked, you're not a city employee, you're a journalist. In between all of this, Varun, you're getting a phone call at the moment, and it is from Mithron. You all, uh, Ren, you, Ren, you see, um, Varun pick up the phone, look at the name, cover it as if whoever saw the other light can hear him. And she's like, "A shit, a shit, a Ren's, a million ago." Who is it? That's my brother, uh, I... Oh my god, put him on speaker. I'm not going to do that, Ren. No, I feel like we were, you know, so curious about how Chloe's doing. Why not put Mithron on? I do not want to get shoot up on my brother, Ren, that's why. Oh, but he's so nice to you. He won't chew you out. And it's been so long since I've talked to him, put him on. Let me at least gauge what the conversation is. Maybe if I bring up that you're here, maybe he will... Actually, that might not be a bad idea if I bring up that you're here. Maybe he won't be as mad. So I think, um, Varun answers the call, and it's just like, "Hi, Bayah." In a very, like, cheerful voice, uh, to greet Mithron who's on the other end of the, of the line. Do you have a second to talk? You see Varun's... Like, I think he did click speaker so you hear Ren that Mithron says, "Do you have a sec to talk?" And you see Varun's faceful. Yeah, yeah, I do. And then switches off the speaker, puts his head against the phone, and starts scuttling towards, like, the edge of the kitchen where the fridge is, and just, like, hides in the shadow there. Yeah, I can talk. As that conversation is happening back to Natasha, who continues to press you, basically, um, Chloe. Is there anything, is there any move that you would like to do at this point? There's one that I could do, what is bad, um, and I think that I will use it. So instead of make a stand, which forces someone to pay attention to you, I have dominate, uh, which is, when you make someone feel small, Mark Stane, and the architect will describe how they back down retreat or give you what they think you want. They'll retaliate when they feel safe. Except this retaliation is a crisis, or Mark Stane again to have the crisis strike another rebel. So I think that Chloe is going to try and continue to talk down to Natasha, just in order to get her out of this room and out of contact. Like, if we have to talk and I have to deal with this, that will be fine as long as Ren is not also in the room. Mm-hmm, yeah. Um, how do you speak to her right now? Natasha, I really don't think that you're here on behalf of the city or my job. I mean, why would they hire some two-bit butt-breaker to do this? Surely you can go scouring long after our June or something? That seems more your speed. Natasha will deflate here. Um, I think there's, I think there does seemingly seem to be this, like, urgency that she has because what you also can put together is that our June is literally in the room, like, right next door. And Natasha just kind of goes, getting hit with those words in front of, like, other people as well, not expecting this necessarily to be as difficult of a, uh, interaction between the two of you. Just sort of goes, uh, okay, interesting. My apologies, counselor. This is where we're going to call in the other half of that shameless here, where one of your covenants are going to hear about the company you're keeping and that company being Ren. Natasha continues, "I just wanted to give my condolences for, you know, the rest of the deal, not solidifying. I know that you were working still so hard recently on trying to make something work still. So I wanted to just offer if there was anything else that I could do any connect that you could still make. Just let me know. You have my email. She looks over kind of eyeing Ren and then eyes Varun again. Have a good night. And then she finally gets out of your hair. Ren is going to turn to Chloe and go, "Oh a deal? What deal?" You're not going to listen to her, are you? I mean her job is to stir up drama. Yeah. And what deal? Her information must be out of date. The deal that you all helped me see was wrong. As this is happening, on the phone with Varun right now, you scuttled to the corner, Mithra and just asked you of a second to talk. You say yes. The two of you kind of like speak at the same time. Hey, I am worried about Chloe and I don't really know that the two of you have I mean, generally hang out or speak to each other. But can I ask you something? About Chloe? I mean, we hang out sometimes at the house and sometimes sometimes Chloe is over at the community center. He says communities that are very, very quietly. And you know, I'm not unaware that usually whenever she hangs out, it's usually initiated or predicated with my presence also being there. Of course. Yes. Just the three of us hanging out like pals, unless you two need to be alone, that I when Chloe tells me that apparently I have to worry about something that you said to her that made her change something happening at her job, which was supposed to be huge for everyone, huge for Caldera, huge for her. Do I have to be worried about something? Why would you need to be worried? What do you mean? I could be putting too much on you right now. And I'm sorry about that, but she's not usually so off of everything. It's not even something that I really knew the status of. So I just if there was apparently something that you knew over me in the situation, it's just odd. And we see Varun biting his lips. He's kind of doing the Asian squat right by the fridge of the community center kitchen. And it sees biting his lip trying to figure out how to get out of this mess that he's put himself in. He just says really softly and gently, well, whatever anyone could have said to Chloe, whatever Chloe had to do for whatever reason, that's supposedly good for Caldera, good for this place. Maybe she also has an opinion on that, and that maybe she too had a change of heart. No one can force someone to do what's right or wrong, right? Maybe she found a better way to make things better. I'm going to ask you to make a move here. Yeah, I had a feeling. Please roll to connect. Yep. I had the feeling. I'm just saying too. When you connect, when you try to connect with somebody by, there are three different ways that we can go about this, convincing them you're worth their time, check against infamy, making the vassals threat clear, check against heat, putting up a false front, check against luck. So is this coming from a place? Are you lying to your brother? Are you trying to convince him that your opinion is worth his time to listen to, or that there is a greater threat here that needs to be heard? It's either him trying to convince that his opinion matters or that that is a greater threat. I think in this moment, it's about, it's more about him, right? Because it is, amazing. Let's see. I have not much in there, so we'll see how this goes. Where's the move? This is, you're rolling against infamy? Yeah. Got it. So let's see. Okay. Okay. That's great. That's fine. What do you need to roll over? I believe, because I only have the one pip. It into me? Yeah. Okay. So what did you roll? I rolled two ones. You're kidding. I am not kidding. That's so wild. I am so wild. I am not kidding. That's so narratively delicious. So we are absolutely, as a reminder, the infamy stress gauge is, are you famed tolerated or reviled? The more ticks, the more you risk becoming shunned by society. And, you know, in general, thankfully, you only have one tick. But in this moment, it doesn't even matter. There is no hit, not even a strong hit, not even a weak hit, anything. Convincing that your opinion is worth his time, despite the fact that he even doubted himself that maybe this was an opinion that was just all in Mithran's head. As you say your opinion, as you say this thing about Mithran's girlfriend, despite all the years that you've potentially also known Chloe, his language is clear. Chloe is an extension of Mithran in his own mind. And Mithran just sort of says his breath picks up in kind of a way that he isn't sure if whether or not to land with a certain amount of intensity or not. The intensity lands, however. Are you trying to say something about Chloe? That she had a bad opinion that what she's doing is not important or something? No, no. That's not what I'm trying to say at all. I'm just saying maybe people change their minds and see things in a different light. Something had to have happened to Chloe. And for some reason, you are not saying something about whatever it is that happened. And we're going to find out. I'm not coming home for dinner, so just let everybody know. And then he hangs up. Mithran, I... And Varun sits there for a moment still in that spot staring at the wallpaper on his phone. That's a picture of himself and Arjun and dragging behind both of them. Mithran, who is cracking the tiniest corner smile, probably won the few photos that exist of that. Arjun, you come back into the room to Ren and Chloe yelling at each other. Not yelling, but essentially girl yelling to each other. And what seems to be Varun growing mushrooms in the corner? Clearly I missed everything. No, I don't think so. Um, Chloe was just going to tell us about her deal. Right, Chloe? That's what you're gonna do? Just now? Gonna share with the rest of us? I already told you that I'm trying to fix the deal that I had made that you stopped me for making. And if you hadn't done that, then things would be a lot easier and less tense right now. Oh, I'm fixing it. Really? You're fixing it? You? You're fixing it? That journalist wouldn't be scrunching around here if I wasn't fixing it. Arjun's gonna probably perk up at the mention of Natasha, like, I'm sorry, journalist. Josephine, its scary dog friend, plays the architect and edits the show. The biggest thanks to Minerva McJanda for creating our system, Void Hearts Symphony. You can find Josephine producing actual plays at Bad House RPG and Nameless Domain. Other podcasts you can find her include Someplace to Be, a system-hopping actual play with an indie focus, and Monster Fucker's Anonymous, rating and dating your favorite monsters everywhere you listen to your podcast. Thanks again to Gopits and Gays for hosting us, and all the music you hear today is from Epidemic Sound. Abhishek Matange, He-Him, plays Arjun Kumar. You can find him voice acting, as well as starring in other TTRBG APs, such as Zenith, Over at Sword and Key, premiering August 29th, as well as Iron Sworn the Valley Season 2, Over at Nerds with Dice, premiering September 5th. You can also find him being a huge Tokusatsu nerd over at neon_raden at twitter.com. Alyssa, at a disaster career, plays Chloe, Penitans. You can find them here on Goblets and Gays for our Pathfinder series Tyrone of the Dark Star, as well as on an unwavering force, a Star Wars actual play. Donna, she/her, plays Renkong. You can find her voice acting, playing other TTRPGs, and overall being a goofy gal at shabro on twitter.com. Leanna Albanese, any pronouns, plays Halcyon. You can find them acting, producing, and generally goofing around at Leanna Albanese on all platforms. Valiant Dorian, at Valiant Dorian, or at Oxus Spirit Bear, plays Valren Pillay. You can find him as a main cast member of Transpener RPGs, the Chaos Protocol, hosting his TTRPG talk show Dicy Banta, and designing wild-hearted monstrous games like his in-development TTRPG, The Beast Within, a grungy action RPG, with a rare beast twist. You're not my dad!
