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1:07

So the

1:18

way this game starts

1:20

is with opening credits. We

1:23

are going to describe the opening

1:26

credits of the anime that

1:28

is this game.

1:30

And the way all of them are starting,

1:32

I believe there is like the closest we can

1:35

get in the Skyjacks world to

1:37

an anime metal opening.

1:40

The screen is flashing. It's flashing

1:42

between shots of like people putting on gloves,

1:45

buckling up armor, putting

1:48

saddles on birds, and the word

1:50

Skyjoust like zooming at the screen. And

1:53

it hits like this massive fever pitch

1:56

as the

1:58

brought like, I think

1:59

I think your team, if I recall,

2:02

is called the Kings of Frogs, or

2:05

you are the junior team of the Kings

2:07

of Frogs, so people colloquially call

2:09

you the Frog Princes. So

2:11

that logo and your team logo

2:14

appear on the screen with this intense

2:16

guitar sting. And then

2:19

we go into the actual

2:22

singing of the

2:24

anime metal sequence. And I

2:27

would like everybody to describe anime

2:29

opening

2:29

style, what your character

2:32

looks like, and what they are doing to display

2:34

their personality in this opening

2:36

sequence. The previous

2:38

shot is obscured

2:41

by a extreme close-up

2:43

of a yo-yo covering the camera. And

2:46

then as the yo-yo then pulls

2:49

itself back down out of frame,

2:51

we see this 14-ish, 15-ish year old kid in

2:58

a flat cap, small Pintones

2:59

glasses and heavy

3:02

combat boots strapped with

3:05

almost like a bandolier of yo-yos

3:08

as he's now throwing them in multiple

3:11

directions like he's in the middle of doing

3:13

a martial arts routine. And

3:17

as he then catches one in one hand

3:19

and looks to the camera and the glasses

3:23

shine white for a moment, he knows what's

3:25

going on. Yes. I

3:28

picture this like you've got these yo-yo

3:29

tricks and whatnot. Like the yo-yos

3:32

are out there like spinning, sitting.

3:34

And as the light catches your glasses, lens

3:37

flares appear on the yo-yos too. And

3:39

that kind of like whites out the screen. Yeah,

3:41

nice. You see

3:43

a young girl, 17 years

3:46

old, dark skin, braids,

3:49

flouts, singing as she skips along. But

3:51

she's spinning this meteor hammer and

3:54

grabbing, flinging things and grabbing

3:56

like a pastry, grabbing like a

3:58

bubble tea or something like that.

3:59

So she's got all of these goodies all

4:02

gathered in her hands, and she's taking

4:04

sips, and it's so refreshing. And then

4:06

seeing the destruction around her, she skips

4:08

to join her friends and

4:11

kind of like sitting by a

4:13

fountain and is kind of sprayed with this beautiful water.

4:15

So we see those reflective, like, rainbow

4:19

spots in, like, flecks of water as

4:21

she enjoys the day. Yeah, I feel

4:23

like we, the camera moves

4:25

around her, and it is like this

4:28

glorious shot looking up at her, and there's

4:29

the spray of the fountain behind her, creating

4:32

a rainbow. And there are also, like,

4:34

these little shines and whatnot on the

4:36

camera lens as well. So

4:40

we see trance, a

4:42

short girl with about

4:45

the same skin tone as Serafina,

4:48

big, big floofy afro, and black

4:50

and gold banastic robes in

4:53

a rap battle with another

4:56

monk, who campaign

4:58

Skyjax listeners recognize as

5:00

Traveler Kwon. And Traveler

5:02

Kwon hits her with

5:06

some very effective rhyme. Trance

5:08

goes flying back into the air, and

5:10

Jan Jan, her pung bird,

5:13

catches her. And

5:15

since she lands in the saddle with

5:17

this serious look, and it zooms in on her eyes.

5:20

Oh, nice. And then, like,

5:24

we cut back to flashes of jousting. Like,

5:27

you know, there are two jousters swirling in towards

5:29

each other

5:29

for their lances to meet

5:32

each other. There are people leaping off

5:34

birds onto other saddles. There

5:37

are people, like, firing

5:39

bows as they are spinning

5:42

around each other. Then

5:44

I think when the song enters a bridge,

5:47

as we kind of see the glory

5:50

that is the Frog Princes and,

5:52

like, all of their gear,

5:54

how it looks, the shiniest, the

5:56

newest, the coolest. And

5:59

I think this is a good song.

5:59

point for us to like point

6:02

out a vision of like Serafina

6:04

on her special saddle. There

6:07

is Dimitri in the

6:10

library that he has

6:12

for the spells and of course

6:14

there is like a darker

6:17

like note that pops

6:19

up as the PR representative

6:21

that you have who I'm gonna say

6:23

has like the the anime demon eyeglasses

6:26

where they're completely white it out holding

6:28

like their clipboard and whatnot that

6:30

is looming over trance as

6:33

trance maybe even has like the

6:36

liquid swords like pressing

6:38

in on them at either side and

6:40

then we break into happier notes

6:43

as I just want to know what is the

6:45

shot of like all the team together

6:47

what what is the energy of the team together in

6:50

this tableau

6:51

I think we're a little we should look a little

6:53

like scared nervous on the back foot

6:56

right we

6:59

cut we've kind of been backed into a corner

7:01

somehow like in a

7:03

way of like then locking eyes

7:05

with each other like we know exactly what to do and then

7:07

we run up the wall yeah yeah

7:10

I think like like like you you lock

7:12

eyes together and on two of your shoulders

7:15

like hands appear and we can see I

7:17

guess not much taller than you might actually

7:19

be shorter than most of you we actually see

7:21

yeah her head

7:21

pokes out from around like the

7:23

taller of you and it's Hildred Gestar your

7:25

coach and like with that you have like

7:28

the the energy to like run forward

7:30

and we go back into Skyjoust

7:33

the frog princes okay

7:38

so now we are on to

7:40

daily life an event as a reminder you

7:43

have made the quarterfinals I

7:46

don't know how difficult

7:48

the match that you you just played

7:51

in order to get into the quarterfinals but

7:53

I think the sense is you're kind of

7:55

lucky to be here this year and you

7:58

are up against a team that

7:59

just thrashed you. You can either

8:02

play your event, which

8:04

can, needs to be a scene, I believe,

8:07

that involves your character but can involve any

8:10

other number of characters, and you can set

8:12

it up how you like. Or you can play

8:14

your tableau, which, you know,

8:17

that can also be any number of characters, but

8:19

the idea is there's no dialogue, it's just

8:21

describing something. I

8:24

like the idea, I would

8:26

like to do an event if that is okay.

8:29

We

8:29

are out and about, we are

8:32

in the field.

8:34

Even though this is, you know, in some

8:36

ways or in some technological levels of period

8:39

setting, there is a mall, and we

8:41

do go there to eat food and be

8:43

seen by other cool teens. Oh,

8:46

we hold court at the food court. Yeah,

8:49

Realm had malls and food courts,

8:51

so I feel like we can swing this. The

8:54

Baths of Karakala, basically a

8:56

mall. But it's kind of a, it's

8:59

a moment

8:59

of like, there is

9:02

a celebratory, like,

9:04

group meal, and

9:07

the kind of like, server has put this large

9:09

plate of a whole bunch of different types of food. I think

9:11

we're all pretty specific in what we like eating, and

9:15

we all look at it, and, you know, it's

9:17

delicious, we're hungry, and then we think

9:19

about the match that we just survived, and

9:21

then we are less hungry. Yeah. Tran's is

9:24

the first to start eating. She

9:26

looks very, very serious. I think that

9:29

we had the

9:29

discussion recently with the PR

9:32

representative, where they told

9:34

us that we needed to stop having fun, and

9:36

Tran seems to have taken that very seriously.

9:39

Mm-hmm.

9:41

Serafina is poking

9:44

at some broccoli with her fork, and

9:46

just gets to a point where she tosses it

9:48

down and says,

9:50

I don't know

9:52

what we were doing out there. Yes, we won, but

9:54

at what cause? We broke a sweat. That's

9:56

not normally what we do. I

9:59

mean, yes.

9:59

Sometimes it's easier than this, but

10:02

I mean, a win's a win. We

10:04

have to take those. Granted,

10:07

Reolow didn't rise as high as it

10:09

normally would in this kind of circumstance,

10:11

but I don't know. Maybe it's

10:13

an opportunity to... Oh

10:15

gosh.

10:17

Think about our weak

10:19

points and how we can cover them. Weak

10:22

points? You think there's more than one? Who

10:25

are you staring at when you say you

10:27

think there's more than one? Oh.

10:30

I think Sarafina

10:33

is really trying not to make eye contact

10:36

and kind of going kind of blank and

10:38

stoic in the

10:39

face, maybe looking between the two of you

10:41

to maybe set her gaze further

10:43

away and says, I have an appointment

10:46

and gets up with her tray. And

10:48

as you start to get up, a hand falls

10:50

on your shoulder. It is

10:52

Hildred, your coach. Kids,

10:55

kids. I stand up immediately.

10:59

Hildred will place a hand on your shoulder

11:01

too. Kids kind of sounds

11:03

like we are very dangerously close

11:06

to pointing fingers and also feeling

11:08

bad about having won the match.

11:10

So let's all sit down for

11:13

a second. Yeah. I

11:15

mean, you can't just, uh, hold

11:18

the speed and just leave. I

11:21

wouldn't be able to finish it all by myself anyway.

11:23

Are you, are you hungry, um, Mr. Gustard?

11:26

Ollie. First, I want

11:28

to ask everybody a question. Dimitri, are

11:30

you in the quarterfinals in three weeks? Yes.

11:33

And I feel. Sarafina, are

11:36

you in the quarterfinals in three weeks? Yes,

11:38

I am in the quarterfinals in three weeks. Trance,

11:41

you in the quarterfinals in three weeks.

11:43

Yes, coach. Then it seems like that's

11:45

good. Cause that means you're jousting in three

11:47

weeks. Yes.

11:50

Okay. Yes. You're very right. You're very

11:52

right. You, we good job, everyone.

11:55

I am proud of our efforts, but I just, I

11:57

just know that we can play harder.

11:59

I know that too. I know

12:01

that. I know that. This

12:04

team, yes, last year,

12:06

this team, everybody who

12:08

saw your flag on the lists

12:11

was terrified, shaking in their

12:13

boots.

12:14

You are literally the same

12:16

players, the same team

12:19

from last year. You've hit a rough match.

12:22

You've had some bad luck. Look,

12:25

I got the lists. While you were

12:27

up, the messages came in. You're

12:29

up against the decorated tusks. Oh

12:32

my. Oh, really?

12:35

The decorated tusks? The

12:37

decorated tusks. Like, Lieutenant

12:39

Jennifer Flintlocks decorated tusks? They

12:43

made the quarterfinals, and yes,

12:45

it is Flintlocks tusks. I

12:48

suppose they're using the same strategies that

12:51

they used to beat us before, but that's fine.

12:54

Well, I'll need to review the tape from the last game

12:56

because I won't be beaten again. Oh, I

12:58

fully insist that it

13:01

was entirely a knowledge check. That

13:03

was the reason why we lost last

13:05

time. We weren't respecting our turn.

13:08

They played a better FTSE

13:09

game than us, but we'll be better.

13:12

We have to be better. Folks, you have

13:14

beat the tusks before. In fact, usually,

13:18

if we look at the long history, you

13:20

beat them

13:21

almost all the time. Last time?

13:24

That was before Jennifer was captain, though. Sorry,

13:26

I spoke at a turn, but I think

13:29

she's something different. I think she's something special. She's

13:31

a unique gimmick. That's cool. That's cool. Trance,

13:34

that is good. It is good to be able to recognize

13:36

that. And I think being

13:39

able to analyze your opponent's strengths is

13:41

an important part of jousting. It's something that I've always

13:44

tried to drive home. And I honestly

13:46

think the reason this team is struggling now,

13:48

this

13:49

is the first time I have ever

13:51

seen any of you as this

13:53

team have to analyze their opponent's

13:56

strengths. You've kind of always

13:58

walked

13:59

all over. And now people

14:01

are finally rising to your level. And

14:04

that means you gotta exercise different

14:06

muscles.

14:07

And I mean, I'm happy about that. The

14:11

reason why I got into this was to keep,

14:13

I don't know, playing new people, going to new

14:15

places, learning new things about

14:18

why people love jousting as much as I

14:20

do. And I'm glad that they're starting to take

14:23

it as seriously as us, but

14:25

it's still scary. It does

14:27

make the game more interesting when everyone

14:29

has finally risen to our level. We

14:32

have some actual competitors this time,

14:34

but I think I want to get into a more

14:36

psychological warfare.

14:38

I

14:41

think Hildred laughs too, like

14:44

seeing the seriousness on Sarafina's

14:46

face. Yes, Sarafina,

14:49

yes. And this is something that you

14:51

always had going for you too. Remember,

14:54

everyone was scared of you. There's

14:58

like a glance down

15:01

at Dimitri's feet. I

15:04

don't really want people to be scared of me.

15:07

As a competitor, Dimitri, as

15:10

a competitor. Just shaking

15:12

in their saddles at the sight of us,

15:14

the thought of playing us,

15:16

tells them

15:18

that I've got to play the very best game

15:20

I've ever played in any misstep will

15:21

result in a loss. Mumbling onto his breath. I

15:25

thought they were shaking with excitement, but whatever. Did

15:31

you see there was some

15:34

fans in our section

15:36

of the stands wearing Jolly Ganders

15:38

colors? What? The

15:40

Jolly Ganders weren't even playing. How

15:43

did security not resolve this? That

15:47

psychological warfare. Sarafina, security

15:49

does not stop people from wearing

15:52

jousting paraphernalia in a jousting stadium. The

15:55

Ganders set up some, they were literally

15:57

giving away scarves at our

16:00

the stadium. They were just giving them

16:02

away. I've never seen anything like it. Well,

16:05

we have to talk to someone about that because that's

16:07

just disrespectful. That's salting

16:09

the wound and the game's not even over. Again,

16:12

they didn't even play the game. It's the most

16:15

bizarre thing that I've ever seen in my life. But

16:18

hey, they are in the quarterfinals too.

16:20

You will have a chance to take... if you want to get back

16:23

at them, get back up them in the sky

16:25

on a bird. Sure. I mean,

16:28

that's what we do best after all.

16:32

I haven't decided

16:35

what Dimitri ordered.

16:37

I genuinely want a proper

16:39

hamburger and fries situation. Both

16:41

of you are probably more health conscious than he

16:44

is. I'm just eating broccoli. Trans

16:49

stares longingly at all of the carbs on

16:52

the table. Yeah.

16:54

Like a French fry sticking

16:56

out of Dimitri's mouth, like a toothpick

17:00

or a cigarette. So like,

17:02

what's the training regimen

17:05

coming up? I mean, together

17:07

I hadn't the game, you know, you're always thinking of new ways

17:09

to stretch us, stretch

17:12

our minds and our bodies before matches, Hildred.

17:14

So what's the plan?

17:16

Yeah. Well, I had

17:18

some friends of mine volunteer

17:20

to do some practice

17:22

matches against you.

17:24

Okay. Oh, all right. We're

17:26

doing some scrimmage, a little jamboree,

17:28

a little, yes, a little friendly

17:32

match. I like it. I would even go three days. Yes, you

17:34

are going to be dusting against me and

17:36

the Black Dahlias for training. Dusting

17:39

against you? You. You. Coach,

17:47

I'm no disrespect, but would you mind

17:49

earmuffing for a second? Would you mind giving us

17:51

a second to speak, you know, teammate

17:53

to teammate? You have the floor, Sarafina.

17:57

Are we ready for that kind of intense training?

18:00

black dolly is. I mean, this is what

18:02

I've dreamed of. Of course not. Of course not.

18:05

But yeah, this... Okay,

18:07

we're probably gonna die, like literally

18:09

die, but this is dope. I

18:12

mean, okay, if we play like we're gonna die for three

18:14

weeks, then in three weeks,

18:17

we'll be amazing. But

18:20

this is such an honor. This

18:25

is the kind of thing I always dreamed of. I

18:28

never thought I was not gonna be here.

18:30

I mean,

18:33

yeah, we all know why I'm actually here,

18:35

but I don't know. I don't know if I deserve this. I

18:37

give Trans a french fry.

18:40

Just eat it. Hope

18:41

you earned it. Just Trans eats the french

18:43

fry with both hands. Like

18:45

corn on the cob. Trying

18:48

to make it last. I

18:51

think when Tron's mentioning

18:54

like, oh, this is a dream, and

18:58

Dimitris is like,

18:59

oh my gosh, you too? I

19:01

mean, I never really thought that you aspired

19:04

to be playing against people of that kind of level. That's

19:07

really great. I mean,

19:09

it was the kind of thing that I, you know, I'd

19:11

draw pictures of myself doing that when I was a kid, but

19:13

not... Well, that is so precious.

19:17

All right, we have to do this. Oh,

19:21

absolutely. I mean, there's been

19:23

stuff that I've had in the kind

19:25

of like playbook in my head that I was saving for

19:27

like big matches, right?

19:30

But I got to use it now.

19:33

Like I could use it to impress, realizing

19:37

that if he manically gestures

19:39

towards Hildred, then she's going

19:41

to notice that they're directly talking about her and

19:43

she'll make her way back in and he catches himself.

19:46

I could be playing with her and impressive

19:48

with some of the texts that I've been working on. I

19:51

mean, I'm sorry that...

19:53

And there's a sly smile.

19:56

I am going to be coming with the most heat in

19:59

this, but...

20:00

Oh, the most heat

20:02

you say. Well, Dimitri, I'm

20:05

ready for all the heat that you have. Trans,

20:08

are you ready for the heat? Oh,

20:11

I'm cool. Oh,

20:13

very cool. Trans freezes

20:16

a like a mask of ice over her face.

20:21

Oh, that's so cool. And then takes off from me and she's like, oh, that's really

20:23

uncomfortable. I guess

20:27

we wave the coach back over to join

20:29

us. Hildred, like at

20:31

this point, you can see her like across the

20:33

room talking to some people and I'm going to

20:36

introduce a trouble. And

20:40

I'm going to introduce a trouble to Sarafina.

20:43

Sarafina,

20:44

you see that Hildred

20:47

is talking to people that have this

20:49

patch on their jackets and like

20:51

something about like in conversations

20:53

that you've had with your mother, like she

20:55

has identified this

20:58

group as trouble to you. And

21:00

I've dropped this actually in our roll 20. This

21:03

is the logo for the Freelancers

21:05

Union. This is a union

21:08

of jousters who are not represented by jousting

21:10

clubs. And your mother has

21:13

been complaining about them, about how

21:15

like they are causing athletes

21:18

to lose their way and stop

21:20

listening to their betters and

21:22

how it's creating a lot of problems

21:25

for people across the sport. And the

21:27

trouble is Hildred has like

21:29

taken off her like coaching

21:31

uniform, like the jacket that she wears for her

21:33

coaching uniform. And underneath she

21:35

has like a shirt that she is wearing and there is a

21:38

Freelancers Union patch on that shirt.

21:41

But as she sees that like you have all

21:44

like turned back to her, Hildred waves

21:46

and says, hey, I'll see

21:48

all of you tomorrow in the bright. Remember,

21:50

it's going to be scrimmage, scrimmage

21:52

for three weeks. Get ready and get

21:55

rested. Aye aye,

21:57

Captain. I

22:00

would be the worst thing in the world if I went over there. So,

22:03

you know, do you know who that is? I

22:05

have an inkling of who it is. My mother has told

22:07

me a lot about these. They're

22:10

they feel our game

22:12

is being infiltrated and disrespected,

22:15

I disrespected in a way by their

22:17

existence.

22:18

How's that infiltration? They

22:20

are they are taking the glamour

22:23

and prestige away from our game. Right.

22:25

And what are they replacing it with? Vulgarity,

22:29

as my mother says, and I

22:31

think it's I think they are more passionate

22:33

than we are and that frightens her.

22:35

I mean, passion is important,

22:37

but if the way that they're playing

22:39

is making it look, I don't

22:41

know, dangerous, unfun,

22:43

scary, well,

22:46

that's unacceptable, honestly. I

22:49

mean, we may learn a bit of how they operate

22:51

working with coach since they

22:53

seem to be in a close

22:55

proximity to them.

22:57

I don't know. I trust coach.

23:00

She trusts them. I trust them, I think. Shouldn't

23:03

I? Right. Sure. Maybe

23:06

it's to, you know, like motivate

23:08

us all like, oh, these are

23:11

villains that we need to be

23:13

driven as a team to go and beat. Oh,

23:16

that's kind of cool. Yes. A common enemy will

23:19

make us play better together. Yeah.

23:21

Hmm. What do you say we

23:23

all get new socks for practice tomorrow?

23:27

I mean, there's

23:30

like an almost like faintly

23:32

hurt look in Dimitri's expression.

23:35

Is my current kit not good

23:37

enough? Oh, no.

23:40

Uh, maybe I was thinking maybe, uh,

23:42

these new socks are kind of

23:45

a, uh, a Blake slate for us

23:47

as we move on to this championship

23:49

round, you know?

23:52

The socks represent rebirth. Ah.

23:54

Yes.

23:57

My cousin, you are deep and

23:59

I always forget. at how insightful you are. You

24:01

can make any situation the right situation.

24:04

There is a slow nod. Ah, superstition.

24:07

I understand. Yes, I will

24:09

wear the new socks for

24:11

good fortune in our future.

24:15

I think we like see you

24:17

saying that as like the three of you like

24:19

walk down the mall towards like

24:21

an area where you can buy socks and the

24:24

scene fades out from there.

24:27

Perfect.

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29:49

Skyjest. So, who wants to

29:51

do an event or a vignette now? So

30:00

a vignette is a

30:03

non-narrated scene where we just see

30:06

the character doing something. Yeah, exactly.

30:09

No dialogue, but narrated. Yeah.

30:12

Okay. I got one. I think that's really

30:14

quick. And

30:20

it's trance in the area out front

30:23

of our stables. And

30:31

trance goes through a series

30:34

of training motions. You

30:37

see her practicing with her spear,

30:40

spinning it, changing

30:42

stances, going through forms, throwing

30:44

it. And

30:48

I think that then

30:51

she practices her poetry. And

30:55

as she's doing that, she's manipulating

30:59

water in the air and making

31:02

all these forms with it and moving

31:05

it around with hydrokinesis. And

31:07

I think that there's a moment

31:10

where she's a little too forceful and she throws

31:13

a... She

31:17

propels

31:17

an icicle into

31:20

the barn where all the birds are.

31:23

And it looks like it's flying

31:25

right towards Jen-Jen, her bird, who's this

31:27

pung, who's

31:28

a cormorant-like bird with scales.

31:31

It actually has teeth and this

31:34

fish-like appearance.

31:36

And it's flying right

31:38

towards Jen-Jen's

31:40

paddock thing.

31:44

And Jen-Jen actually raises a claw

31:48

and the icicle stops in

31:50

midair and then melts. And

31:53

then Jen-Jen just goes back to

31:55

eating whatever he was eating. And

31:57

trance is just wide-eyed.

31:59

and looks around like, was anyone else here?

32:02

Did anyone else see that?

32:04

I think you do

32:06

cast about to see if anybody else

32:08

saw that. And there are no other human beings

32:10

around, but one of the other birds

32:13

makes eye contact with you and is like, what the

32:15

hell was that? Yeah,

32:18

trans mouths, I know, right? Yeah,

32:23

that definitely counts as you learning something from

32:25

punk. Who's next?

32:28

I shall go and I guess in an

32:31

event, it'd be nice.

32:33

All right, what's the event? What

32:35

did you want? The event

32:39

follows, we're

32:40

at school and

32:43

it is a quiet

32:46

study period

32:47

and Serafina is passing notes

32:50

in class.

32:51

She is sitting at the back of the class

32:54

and she's trying to get, she's in the back

32:56

right of the room and she's trying to get a note to

32:58

the top front of the room. And

33:02

this note is folded in such

33:04

a way that it's

33:07

folded into like a beautiful flower. Like

33:09

it would take some intricate folds for

33:11

it to be like undone. But the person

33:14

who receives it is

33:17

wearing that same flower in their hair. So they know

33:19

it's for them. Gotcha. And that

33:22

person, I don't have a name for at this

33:24

point because I'm making it up. It's fine. Because

33:26

I think the flower is

33:28

intercepted as it is being

33:30

passed across the classroom.

33:34

Because there are many

33:35

reasons why we don't especially like the

33:38

decorated tusks. You

33:40

know, their kind of military background,

33:43

the fact that they beat us before and because

33:46

a number of them go to the same

33:48

school as our. Yes,

33:50

yes, yes. So as we see

33:53

in slow motion, this

33:55

paper rose kind of floats through

33:58

the air.

33:59

manicured hand rises up

34:02

out of the scene and just kind

34:04

of grabs it, crushing

34:06

this delicate work in

34:08

her hand and pulls it down. It

34:10

is the one and only

34:13

Jennifer Frintlock.

34:16

SCOTT

34:17

And you just, Sarafina, like, has

34:19

two pencils in her hands, and she just snaps

34:22

with her thumbs and has that whole lines

34:24

on the forehead, like, ah, I'll leave you! She

34:28

opens it and gives

34:31

it a scan.

34:32

Ugh, cringe. CUPPYCUP

34:37

They're cringing at a list

34:39

of all of the potential suitors

34:42

that I've had. Like, they've

34:45

been ranked 1 through 5 and there's

34:47

about 9 on the list. And

34:52

I thought it was a pretty good ranking, but apparently

34:54

to Jennifer it is not. SCOTT Oh my

34:57

God.

34:58

Bobby is ranked 4th. JONAH

35:01

Well, you dated him, Jennifer, so

35:03

he dropped in rank.

35:07

SCOTT I was actually going to say you

35:09

rated him too highly, maybe your

35:11

standards low. JONAH

35:15

Tyrifina raises her hand to get the teacher's

35:18

attention. JONAH Hey, I'm worth $9,000

35:20

a year. Bobby,

35:22

this is not about you. SCOTT The money's about the-

35:25

JONAH That's literally

35:25

about me! That's literally

35:27

about me! SCOTT You're out of the rankings,

35:30

okay? Would you rather move down the list or

35:32

not be mentioned at all?

35:34

JONAH No, I don't want either of those.

35:37

SCOTT What would you like, Bobby? JONAH

35:40

I don't know, I feel like I'm being bullied somehow.

35:43

SCOTT You are being bullied, Bobby. SCOTT

35:45

See what you did, Jennifer.

35:48

Jennifer, you are an evil cow.

35:52

JONAH

35:52

Moo. SCOTT The rest of the class goes

35:55

oooooo.

35:57

JONAH I'm

35:59

sorry, what did you say? Jennifer. I didn't quite

36:01

hear you. JANUS I think quite, or whatever. And she

36:03

like, um, dismisses

36:06

it. She like turns her hand dismissively

36:09

and you catch that it turns out

36:11

today she decided to do

36:13

a cow print nail polish. You

36:15

have complimented her looks. You

36:18

have acknowledged the details in her outfit.

36:21

You fool. JANUS Lieutenant

36:23

General, Jennifer Footlock, you

36:26

are ready for anything, but you

36:27

won't be ready for this match.

36:29

Not at all. Cause this cow is

36:32

out to pasture. JANUS The class again

36:34

goes, ooh.

36:35

JANUS

36:36

There's a Harried substitute teacher played

36:38

by, I'm just imagining Tyler James Williams.

36:41

Just like sort of sadly. JANUS Looking directly

36:44

into the camera. JANUS Looking directly

36:46

into the camera. And like sadly, he's like

36:48

been writing things about like history of Mariner

36:51

attacks on this region. And then like his,

36:53

his, his handwriting just kind of like trails off. JANUS

36:56

He's just like, I want to stop them, but this is

36:58

social jockeying for position class.

37:00

So this is technically within the

37:02

course. JANUS

37:05

Oh yeah. You're gonna win,

37:07

are you? Well, I,

37:10

lest I checked,

37:12

me entering in my new team

37:15

threw you for a loop.

37:17

You ain't the queen bee around here. JANUS It's

37:20

okay that I'm not the queen bee today,

37:22

but I'll be the queen bee tomorrow. And when

37:24

the history books write of my glory, you

37:27

will be a sub footnote.

37:29

ALICE

37:30

There's like a pause. She is

37:32

desperately trying to think of like a,

37:35

a bookmaking pun to try

37:38

and turn it back on you, and she's struggling.

37:40

JANUS

37:40

Oh, you don't have the spine? ALICE

37:43

Oh! JANUS

37:45

Well, you're a boring book

37:48

and no one would read you anyway. And may

37:50

I be excused? I feel sick.

37:59

You

38:03

can stay. I'm done. Throws

38:05

the chalk behind him.

38:08

It's OK, Jennifer. Take all the time

38:11

you need. You'll need all your rest for

38:13

Saturday. Whatever. Maybe

38:17

when we win, I'll consider recruiting

38:19

you. We could do with some boot polishers

38:22

and she just marches out

38:25

of there. I

38:29

love that she is this mean girl, but in

38:31

the ROTC. They

38:34

come in all shapes and sizes. There's a proper

38:36

left, left, right, left as she

38:38

like. Wow. Is

38:41

she doing corners? The

38:45

person that you were trying

38:46

to throw the flower to is sitting

38:48

closest to the door and can

38:50

kind of hear at the moment that she's kind of out of

38:53

line of sight. There's like her

38:55

pressed against the wall on the other side. She's

38:57

immediately hyperventilating. What

38:59

do we do? What do we do? Oh, shoot. Bobby,

39:03

go bring her a bag. She needs something

39:05

to breathe into. Right away. Right

39:07

away. And

39:09

that's why that feels like a number three move.

39:13

Waggling. You'll

39:15

be number three

39:16

today, darling. Yes.

39:22

Great.

39:23

I am going to cut to

39:26

a. God,

39:29

she's so good. She's so good. I'm

39:32

going to cut to a vignette of my own. And

39:35

this is one of your scrimmages

39:37

against the black dolliest. Everybody

39:40

is up in like various

39:42

different kinds of events. I have done

39:45

the pre spread of the events that

39:47

will be featured in the upcoming competition.

39:50

They are the long ranged

39:53

joust,

39:53

the short ranged

39:56

joust and the

39:58

mounted joust. So, like,

40:01

these are going to be a bunch of, like, long-range

40:04

matches and some short-range

40:06

matches and a traditional joust. The

40:08

traditional joust is, like, against

40:10

Hildred. And I'll ask right now, based

40:14

on that spread, who wants to

40:16

be training for which part of the competition? Who

40:19

wants long-range, who wants short-range, and

40:21

who wants mounted? Mounted,

40:23

again, is, like, this is where you're flying very fast

40:26

at each other and trying to hit each other very hard, like,

40:29

a normal

40:29

horse-based joust that we think of

40:32

in our world. Long-range

40:34

joust is about subtlety and

40:36

precision. You are kind of far away

40:38

from each other on birds, and you are trying

40:41

to, as, like,

40:44

subtly as possible, hit your

40:46

opponent very accurately while

40:48

dodging their attacks without moving very

40:51

much. Then the short-range joust

40:53

is the opposite of that. You are kind of, like, continually

40:56

swirling around each other trying to get position

40:59

in order to get off a shot and

41:01

land a hit.

41:02

So who wants which one? I

41:05

would like to take long-range, please.

41:09

Excellent. What do you feel, amandez?

41:11

I am cool with either short... So there's

41:14

long-range, short-range, and traditional, yeah? Yeah,

41:16

well, so now long-range is taken, so it's

41:18

either short-range or traditional. Right.

41:21

Mounted, I suppose, is what it's called. I'm cool with either...

41:23

I'm cool with either one.

41:25

Okay, I'll do short, then. So

41:28

you're on Zhen Zhen on a perch. Across

41:31

from you on the opposite perch is Hildred, who

41:34

is on Victory, which is a paragon falcon.

41:38

You're both kind of suited up. Hildred

41:41

has a spear, and

41:44

she's, like, got this western-style saddle.

41:46

She's holding on to the handle. There

41:50

are, like, flags on either side of you. The

41:52

flags wave, and both birds

41:55

take

41:55

to air. The way

41:57

this works is you first pass...

41:59

each other and then take a circle

42:02

and after you're done with the circle you come back together

42:05

and that's when you strike. So like

42:07

you do this pass and you're about to come back together

42:10

then we cut to against

42:12

another one of the Black Dahlias

42:15

we can see Dimitri is already

42:18

in the air and there is an archer

42:22

across from him I think this

42:25

is a this

42:27

is like who do I want

42:29

to

42:29

say that Hildred hangs around with I'm

42:33

gonna say this is a

42:35

black dude who's like 70 years old

42:38

he's got a gray beard he

42:40

is otherwise completely bald and

42:44

he looks like he's half asleep and has

42:46

looked like he's half asleep the whole

42:48

competition and then Dimitri

42:51

an arrow flies by your head like

42:54

basically nicking some of your head

42:58

like this is all of a sudden

43:00

like you basically didn't even

43:02

see when he raised the

43:04

bow to fire then we cut to the short-range

43:10

joust and I

43:13

think this we are actually

43:15

watching from the ground as everybody

43:17

else is looking up at

43:20

Serafina and this

43:23

other bird who I think this other bird is

43:25

going to be a common kite

43:29

and Serafina's peacock

43:32

and like is struggling

43:34

to keep up as this kite is like literally

43:37

flying circles around her there

43:40

haven't been any arrow shot because Serafina

43:42

I believe is doing a good enough job

43:44

that it's hard to hit her this

43:48

person probably would be able to hit Serafina's

43:51

bird Dia however like

43:54

that's not worth as much points as if you can actually

43:57

hit the rider themselves so

43:59

it's been this like and you can see these birds

44:02

moving around each other. And then we see just like

44:04

a complete rapid succession montage

44:09

of like trance getting

44:11

hit by a lance, Serafina

44:13

getting peppered with arrows, and

44:17

Dimitri like basically getting his hat

44:19

knocked off and his yo-yo

44:22

batted out of his hand by arrows. As

44:25

you are just soundly defeated

44:27

over and over and over

44:29

all day long.

44:33

Would it be possible to spend a

44:35

trouble token at this point? Absolutely.

44:38

So

44:40

I want to spend a trouble token. So

44:43

I spend trouble tokens from my store, my

44:47

set of tokens on somebody else.

44:49

Exactly. Like you technically have

44:52

two trouble tokens that you can

44:54

spend and you can spend them on somebody

44:56

else however you want to introduce whatever.

44:59

So I will spend one of mine

45:01

on Dimitri and

45:04

tell me whether you want to accept this, accept this

45:06

with conditions or pass on it. I

45:09

want big brother Javan to be there watching.

45:12

Sure.

45:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You

45:16

did not tell him before you were

45:18

practicing. You did not invite

45:21

him. He just figured

45:23

it out somehow. I think

45:25

this is an instance where standard,

45:28

our standard tactics aren't working. And

45:32

Dimitri is like, well, all right, if we

45:34

have to bust out the magic, we'll bust out the magic.

45:37

Dimitri's particular field of spell

45:39

casting is space

45:42

displacement, putting one thing

45:44

in one place and moving it to another. But it

45:46

can only work by moving something

45:48

through a hole or through a concave space.

45:52

So it's throwing it

45:53

through one, throw one hoop and out of

45:55

another, meaning that there's a lot of specifically

45:59

engineering.

45:59

or a portal can be made. He uses

46:03

yo-yos, so being able to do like

46:06

a cradle or something to be able

46:08

to make a portal on

46:10

his side, not so bad. Other

46:12

places require some engineering or teamwork.

46:17

And he tries... There's

46:19

something about this old

46:21

man's outfit that actually has

46:25

hoops or discs as a pattern in it.

46:27

Maybe he has a medallion with a big

46:29

earring or something

46:31

about his outfit that's... He's got gauges.

46:34

He's got big gauges.

46:37

Perfect.

46:40

And

46:43

the archer knocks an arrow,

46:45

and at this point we've been

46:47

fired at arrows all day, so Dimitris is like,

46:49

right, I've seen this one coming, I'm ready, and

46:52

doesn't try to dodge

46:54

it.

46:55

And instead, as the arrow is

46:57

fired, tries to do a kind

46:59

of like pendulum rock

47:04

with the yo-yo. And

47:07

it's penduluming! It's going to be pretty difficult

47:09

to hit the yo-yo itself and instead just

47:11

go through the hole, but

47:14

it just hits the yo-yo

47:16

perfectly, shattering it

47:18

to pieces. Gosh, gosh,

47:20

yeah, yeah. It's so

47:23

frustrating. You're

47:25

clearly being toyed with here, and yeah,

47:29

you can see on the ground, this

47:31

is all being seen, and

47:34

there are notes being taken. Yeah,

47:36

I think bits of shards of arrow

47:39

and shards of like

47:40

metal-plated yo-yo fall

47:44

downwards, and Dimitri looks

47:46

down and sees that there's somebody there, like

47:48

on the edge of the pitch, and he's like, oh my

47:50

gosh, and like dives

47:53

down and gets

47:55

to.

47:59

for what he just saw. Are

48:02

you okay? It's dangerous down here.

48:04

I'm fine, Demetri.

48:07

Are you okay? Cause I've

48:10

been watching for like 10

48:12

minutes and I

48:14

feel like I've been here for a year.

48:16

There's

48:20

a bit of a ragged breath. I

48:23

am fine. This is just

48:25

difficult. Yeah, it's painful.

48:29

And you just, did he break your yo-yo?

48:32

I have more, like, just

48:35

pulls another one off the bandolier.

48:39

He has

48:40

been, even before he started jousting, Demetri

48:45

was collecting yo-yos as like a hobby.

48:48

And, you know, kids will spend

48:50

their pocket money on silly things. And

48:54

it turned, and initially this was, hey, a silly

48:56

thing. And then it turned into an expensive

48:58

sub-career for this kid. I think

49:01

Jevon says exactly those words. He says,

49:03

look, I get it. Kids spend their money on

49:05

silly things.

49:08

It's important.

49:10

Nobody expects this.

49:13

I am the only person who can bring this kind

49:15

of energy to the space.

49:17

I think that's exciting.

49:21

Sister thinks it's exciting. Yeah,

49:24

and that's really sweet of her. And I really

49:26

appreciate that there's someone who's

49:28

supporting you in this, because I can't.

49:32

And at that, walking

49:35

up is Hildred Gostar. Hi,

49:38

hello. Excuse me, who are you?

49:40

Hi, I'm Jevon Hyaku. I'm a true soldier brother.

49:42

Oh, family, family. Yeah, family

49:45

has to wait inside. Did

49:47

they not tell you upfront? Yeah. Yeah,

49:50

excuse me, my mistake. I'll wait inside

49:53

and we'll talk after Demetri. Demetri

49:58

says against better night.

49:59

nature.

50:01

You sure were

50:03

supportive when my last paycheck was able

50:05

to pay for repairs? ALICE

50:08

Okay. Okay. Okay. So

50:10

family has to wait inside, thank you very much,

50:13

thank you very much, Jevon. And

50:15

I feel like the

50:17

practice gets cleared away

50:19

a little bit, and let's transition

50:22

to our next scene. Very

50:24

good. LIAM I'm a little drama

50:27

gremlin today, I'm sorry. ALICE Hey,

50:29

no, don't apart us! This is good for the team!

50:32

This is good for the team! LIAM So good. ALICE

50:36

Yeah. So when you accept a trouble token that

50:38

someone else spends on you, what

50:40

do you get?

50:42

LIAM So you get

50:44

a fight. So mark off a

50:46

fight. I've marked off Sarafina's

50:49

fights,

50:51

but yeah, mark off

50:53

a fight, you will be able to spend that later on to

50:55

change the value of a card. ALICE Gained.

50:58

Thank you very much. LIAM Do you think it was a

51:00

bit of troubles when I kind

51:02

of threatened Jennifer

51:05

in the classroom? ALICE I did

51:07

add that. Yeah, I gave you a trouble for the

51:10

introduction of the Freelancers Union and

51:12

for the classroom drama that we had.

51:14

Who is

51:16

next?

51:17

Scene or vignette?

51:20

JUSTIN I haven't done one

51:23

in a bit.

51:26

I think this

51:28

is post- a montage rather

51:31

than an event. And

51:34

we are back at our training facility,

51:36

and we,

51:39

no dialogue, but we kind of see that

51:41

there is a big blackboard that

51:44

Dimitri kind of uses, and

51:47

has got a whole bunch scrolled

51:50

out.

51:51

And we

51:53

see the kind

51:56

of scrolled big up top

51:58

is the name of this, like...

51:59

three-person play that has

52:02

been cooking in his brain for a while, which

52:06

we can workshop now. I like

52:09

the idea of calling it like the shooting star

52:11

or something.

52:13

JAYLEE

52:14

Okay, so yes, so

52:16

at three points we need to create a larger portal

52:19

for you. If you can make that kind of

52:21

cat's cradle with the yo-yo, but

52:23

also the three of us form

52:25

that kind of cat's cradle, either

52:28

the big one is the initial push-through

52:31

or where the big bed comes out of. ALICE

52:34

Yeah, I really like the idea that

52:36

the premise of this one is specifically

52:39

putting something through a small portal,

52:42

and it comes out of a large portal to

52:44

proportional scale. So throwing

52:47

a small rock into a small portal

52:49

and having it come out huge somewhere else.

52:51

JAYLEE

52:54

It's very Honey,

52:56

I Shrunk the Kids. And

52:59

so there's a kind of like... This

53:02

is just theory, and he's

53:05

been explaining it to you very

53:07

excitedly, whether you understand

53:09

this or not. And then he's all kind of dusting

53:11

his hands like, right, we're going to go outside and try it

53:14

right now. ALICE

53:15

Yeah, Serafina is

53:17

nodding and in agreement with you.

53:19

It doesn't understand the physics of what's happening,

53:21

but it's so engaged

53:24

because you are so emphatic,

53:26

and this is a study that she has

53:28

can't really grasp her mind around, like the

53:31

theoretical, but practically it'll

53:33

make sense in the body to her.

53:36

JAYLEE

53:37

Uh... like, Trants, you look

53:39

at Demetri, and

53:41

there's also almost like a manic level

53:43

of excitement in his face, like somebody

53:45

who just got the biggest, shiniest

53:48

toy on Christmas, and

53:50

his parents have said, go have fun kids,

53:52

we'll see you in three hours. JAYLEE

53:54

Trants is just trying to keep the stone

53:56

face, but a little of that infectious

53:58

joy.

53:59

creep into the corners of her mouth. I

54:02

think Serafina like tickles

54:05

Trans's chin like, come on, just a

54:07

little smile. Just

54:08

a little one, we're gonna have so much fun

54:11

being so destructive. Yes, let's go.

54:13

He gets extra super, super serious like

54:16

screwing her face up into like, obviously

54:18

this is working on her, but

54:20

damn, if she will show it. I like that being

54:23

like the Edgar Wright style match cut of all

54:25

three faces. Demetri

54:29

being like, yeah. And

54:33

Serafina being like, slide like, come

54:36

on and Trans be like, no, absolutely

54:38

not. It

54:41

is the middle of the

54:42

night outside because this feels like it's the same

54:44

day after we've already been practicing all day.

54:47

Same dirty clothes. I think it was like

54:49

we got defeated. You went straight

54:52

to the chalkboard and like, okay, Demetri,

54:54

tell us what we need. You've

54:57

taken the wheel. You're in the driver's

54:59

seat right now. I think it's

55:01

a matter of

55:03

throwing something up

55:05

in the air.

55:08

You two have two of like,

55:11

he gives you one of yo-yo each. He

55:13

has spares. It's fine. And the

55:15

idea is that throw something up in the air, goes

55:18

in through a small portal, will come out of you two

55:20

with a much bigger portal with the strings that you're

55:22

holding. Cool. And

55:25

I'm going to introduce a trouble so we

55:27

can have a go

55:29

at one of these. Ooh.

55:31

Spending one on... Hey,

55:34

Serafina. Yeah. You're tired.

55:38

This is too late to do this. Like

55:41

the energy was great when you went in. What? And

55:44

now you're actually doing this. You're like, why?

55:46

I should be sleeping.

55:48

No, I'm not tired, Demetri.

55:50

I could be up here. My eyes

55:52

being closed allows me to listen

55:54

intently with my other

55:55

senses. Okay?

56:01

And Serafina has locked

56:03

her ankles underneath her peacock

56:06

so that she can stay

56:08

up in the saddle, because she

56:10

will fall asleep and she's

56:12

teetering to the sides. She could slip in any moment,

56:14

but she's fighting the sleep as best

56:16

she can.

56:18

What's our cue, Tron, the piece that you and Serafina

56:20

need to do? Is

56:24

there a cue between you so you can sync up? We're

56:28

supposed to... We have to chant something

56:30

in unison.

56:31

Oh,

56:33

because then we get to call the name of the attack

56:36

like a real anime. Is that what

56:38

it is? You both

56:40

yell like Cheating Star. Yeah, go

56:43

and catch a falling star. Yes.

56:46

Are

56:49

we trying to create a circle,

56:52

a triangle,

56:54

or what shape can we two

56:56

create? Well, you have a meteor hammer, right?

56:59

Yes, I

57:00

do.

57:01

All right. So I think we have to...

57:04

It's a difficult move because you have to get the meteor hammer

57:06

to

57:07

arc it into like a half circle,

57:10

which is of course only possible in anime, but

57:13

fortunately this is anime. Curving bullets and

57:15

all that. It's fine, whatever. Yeah.

57:20

And then I have to make the other side with

57:22

ice or water. Ooh,

57:25

that's cool.

57:27

Yeah, and then we like clang in

57:29

the center, like when our points meet.

57:32

Have you seen those people who are at a chalkboard

57:34

and they're trying to make a perfect circle, so they have chalk

57:37

in their hand and they kind of like rotate the camera? Oh,

57:39

yeah, yeah. I had a teacher who did that. Very

57:41

cool. Yeah, I

57:44

like that formation. So we catch

57:47

a shooting star and

57:50

two conjoining circles meet. And

57:53

then what, I guess a piece of... Do you

57:55

have like a gummy bear or something? Like a

57:57

piece of candy that you shot through?

57:59

I guess, well, there's a handful

58:02

of different ways that this could go wrong. You might be

58:04

tired and that ruins the timing, or

58:06

the spell doesn't work correctly and we

58:08

make it the wrong size instead. Where

58:12

do you want it to go wrong?

58:14

You fall asleep and

58:16

you fall into the portal and it shrinks you.

58:18

Oh no! And he's

58:21

super tiny for the match! What

58:24

if the thing gets so big that it jets

58:27

off into the atmosphere and becomes a reverse meteor?

58:30

Oh, we just kind of send a large object

58:32

just off the horizon.

58:35

Flying towards a nearby star. Hopefully

58:40

it hits the ocean and everyone's fine. So

58:44

Dimitri throws a piece of candy

58:47

up in the air like a boiled, a bodsweed,

58:48

a jawbreaker or something, and

58:52

throws out yo-yos

58:55

on his end and the jawbreaker

58:58

disappears like a magic trick.

59:01

And there is a pause. Like

59:03

too long of a pause. Right.

59:06

You hear Tranis going like, too big, too big, too big!

59:09

And he turns around to see the two

59:11

of you. What's going on? Oh my goodness!

59:15

No!

59:15

It's too big! I like the idea of it's now

59:17

cannonball sized. Just

59:24

kind of shot puts out

59:27

over the training field.

59:30

The angle of that was all wrong. Kind

59:32

of frustratingly, kind of like

59:35

having a bit of a tantrum atop

59:38

a

59:38

pulsar actually. Dimitri,

59:41

but look! But look, the cannon

59:43

hit their poster and it's the

59:46

decorated tusks. Like their banner

59:48

is just totally nailed and

59:50

fraying. I think someone sees... ...catches

59:54

video? Oh! Hey you

59:57

kids aren't supposed to be launching meteors everywhere!

59:59

out of here. Get out of here, you kids!

1:00:03

Just scampering away like we've been caught

1:00:06

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1:00:08

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Scatter! That was

1:00:14

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1:00:18

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1:00:20

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1:00:23

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1:00:31

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1:00:34

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