Arc 7 Ep. 2: When in Pompapumpa PART 1
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Rotatoes! It's Friday and we are back with episode 2 part 1 of arc 7. I hope that you are enjoying this arc and ready to get stuck in to it. I'm just here to say really quickly, just in case you missed it, that we are back!

with Arc 12 over on the Rotating Heroes Patreon featuring Lily Du, Ify Nwadiwe and Erin Keefe, one of the funniest crews that we've ever had. I'm so excited about all these people. They pulled off an amazing arc and I am so stoked for you to listen to it. We've got artwork on the Patreon which you can go and check out for free. All you have to do is sign up as a free member and you can see all the beautiful artwork that we just dropped and there is so many goodies to come.

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Thank you so much for being here, sweeties, and we will see you soon. Okay. Okay. Take it away, Pat Zach.

Welcome back to the Rotating Heroes podcast. I am joined, as always, so far for the second time by the rotators of the seventh arc. Oh gosh, going, you know, I like to point and do things that the audience can't understand in this part, so I'm going to point in this direction to this person. A little bit of surprise. You are who? Who?

Wow, what an intro. Everybody at home, imagine you are sitting to Zach's left and he has just pointed to you. If you're imagining that, then you are imagining what just happened to me. Zach was sitting to my right and he pointed to his left, and I'm Dan Lippert, playing Sago Gleg. As some people in this town might know him as... Greg Saggy? Is that what it was? I don't think Saggy was the last one.

Oh, really? It might have been. Saggy pumpkin butt. Well, Dan, I know that I don't even have to ask this question. Was that the best intro you've ever received? Oh, I actually didn't have a huge problem with that intro. It did just leave...

It was like almost a sensory deprivation tank where it's like, all right, you've been given nothing. Yeah. How are you going to handle it? Do you want to say something funny? Do you want to just introduce yourself normally? And so it just was a moment where I had to really process it all. Yeah. I tried to tee up a scenario where the intro was so bad that whatever you said would be good.

And again, I don't think it was a bad intro. I'm not trying to drag it. But you know, sometimes because I'm like so instinctually used to having to say something funny all the time. It was a lot worse when I was like 24 and a waiter and I was like...

sweating. Jabba Jabba Jojo. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's like hilarious stuff like that. So funny. Jabba Jabba Jojo. My boy is a Star Wars character. But sometimes there's just not something funny in that moment to be said. And so I'll get stuck

Trying to think of something funny and then I hit that moment. That makes sense. I think you nailed whatever, you know, the prompt was. I remember last arc, there was a lot about going from left to right, but, you know, audience doesn't necessarily see a podcast. Right. I wanted to reference that and to bring that back. I think what's interesting here, this has been happening a lot because I started playing Fortnite with a lot of people. Yeah.

over COVID and we've all kind of been able to see each other in person a little more and so everyone's seeing other people's Fortnite setups and it's interesting from what you imagine when you hear someone to actually being at your gaming setup here.

up here. Well, my desk has a, you know, like if you've seen me stream on Twitch, you're familiar with my setup. That's where I play games right next to my regular work computer, which means it goes to show you why I don't get much done. Yeah. Those shouldn't be the right. It's right. They shouldn't be right next to each other. So when I'm texting you Fortnite, you'll be like in the middle of a script and you'll see that pop on your computer. You'll be like, I'll just turn to my left a little. No, I'll be playing Fortnite already. I wasn't working on a script.

I have thought about opening a script. Well, continuing this train in the general direction it's going, I'm going to point in that direction at this person who I'm pointing at now. Who are you? Waza! I think you know who we are.

I'm Jacob Wysocki, aka Grib. Hello. Hi, how are you doing, Jacob? How's it going today? Things are sick as hell, per usual. Sick. Thanks for asking. How are you? I'm doing well. You know, I'm really deconstructing my opening in the slowest way possible, it seems like. But I'm having a blast with this group of people. Best one yet. Best one yet? Wow. And you mean it? Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I guess I should pick up the pace a little bit. We can do another 10-20. Happy to move on. Okay, great. We'll bip on over to the last person who I'm pointing at with

With both fingers. I only have two fingers, by the way. Oh, real quick, real quick. Can I just say that Zach is drinking boba with a regular-sized straw? Goodbye. I can't. Sorry, I had to still let him know. Yeah, and he's desperately trying to suck up the boba through the regular-sized straw, and it's not working. Sorry to interrupt him. Sorry to interrupt him. It's honestly like a Sisyphean task, it feels like. Yeah. Maybe that doesn't quite work, but it's close. Yeah, rolling the boba up.

I'm Rekha. Yeah. I'm Rekha Shekhar. And I'm playing Uh-Oh. Uh-oh. Last name Spaghetti-O. Okay, just improvise that. I love it. Uh-oh, Spaghetti-O. It's canon.

Oh my God. Adios. Wow. I mean, that's a great reveal of a last name. And we're hopefully going to get a different reveal later on in this app. We better. Or it was a huge tease. After that. Just a reminder, the reveal is just a little idea. Group's been kicking around. The big reveal is a little idea. I mean, let's hope we remember. Yeah.

Rekha, how are you? I'm so good. I just want to say my favorite thing about your sort of intro was, yeah, I loved you guys breaking down the play-by-play. Yeah. I thought that was really nice. We kind of get into the behind the scenes. I really like that. So you're play-by-playing the play-by-play. Yeah.

yeah breaking down can i say that what do we think about like a kanye style lyric like like kanye 15 years ago about someone giving heads like in a way the the metaphor is being able to suck boba through a thin straw is there something there

Yeah. I feel like... What is that sort of mean? How do we feel about it? What would that sort of mean? I think that you have the suction force. She's a Dyson. Yeah, like, I think it's trying to say, like, someone has the...

a powerful suction. But you're also accidentally saying you have a extremely... A clogged wiener. Which I kind of like about a clogged wiener. A clogged thin... Too much... Too much... I don't... Smegma? I don't know. You know? I mean, 15 years ago... You put yourself there. You put yourself in a place where you had to say smegma. I had to. I had to.

Here's my type five. 15 years ago, geez, what do we have? Plastic straws then? Oh, nice. That's been my time. No, you've still got four minutes and 50 seconds. Little straw weenie. What a quick panic. Well, speaking of Boba. No, there's no transition. Let's get into a little recap, shall we?

Last episode, we started in Solonport, where Sago Glag, having just defeated the Valks family with his friends Nance and John Daffodil, had taken up residence in the former Valks estate. Sago, in the middle of the night, heard sort of a weird beeping noise and went down to explore it in the basement of his house, where he found the frame...

that the Volks family had turned into this corrupted evil gateway, eventually cleaned by John Daffodil, just sitting dormant in the basement. Upon inspecting it, he discovered that there was a little light on the side, clicked it, and the whole thing came to life, filled with electric energy, and he was sucked through the portal. We then cut over to Grib, sad, alone, journeying on towards his homeland by himself, happening upon the very moment when Sago dies,

burst forth from this portal outside of an obelisk in the middle of the forest. Uh, Sago now deep in the forest, uh, found a new friend in Grib as they eventually realized that they're both, uh, familiar with Solon port and Grib was able to tell, uh, Sago about, uh, where he was at and journeying forth to find his Loxodon home. Eventually they found themselves at a trip's pumpkin patch, uh, where, uh, Grib for the first time in his life, really seeing Loxodons in person. Uh,

It wasn't exactly what he was expecting, I imagine, but eventually they ran into a tour group guided by Uh-Oh. Uh-Oh, of course, a tour guide slash champion fighter of the town. As they met and got to know each other, they looked on towards the town of Pompapompa, where Gribb was promised more loxodons and the answers to what he sought.

in terms of what his people were like. When the volcano in the distance, Mount Trunkus, began to erupt. It wasn't a full-scale eruption, but in the earthquake and plume of smoke that happened right afterwards, the animals around went nuts. And our new band of heroes had to help quell the panicked giant toad, giant sloth, and giant boar named Trunkus.

Ginger, Posh, and... Baby? And Cyrano. And Cyrano, yes. Baby is an undisclosed animal. We've never talked about what baby or scary or sporty is. I can't wait. We'll eventually find them. I hope to get with those friends. Yeah? Dad, you get it.

From there on, they started their journey off to Pampa Pampa, and that's where we are today. You all are on the path headed into town. You have your new tour guide, Uh-Oh, with you. This family that was writing the segues, they've decided to just go home on the segues. Yeah.

That's going to be another $2,000 out of my paycheck. Whoa, $2,000. Yeah. That's good pay. I mean, I guess I don't know inflation around here. Monthly.

$2,000 a month. Are you losing a whole month's pay because his family left? Yeah. People always steal the segues. They're so nice. Oh, they stole the segues. They stole the segues. Should we chase them down? Let's go. Let's get out of here. You see, just like further down the path. Wait, please come back. I want you to.

Do you want me to get the segues for you? I mean, is that too much trouble? Not at all. I can tell this guy is incredibly ineffectual. Let's go. I'm the man. And let me clarify. It's not because you guys are just big men entering my life. It's because it's actually not legal for me as a tour guide to chase down my tour group. They remain my tour group for life. It's sort of like a professor-student kind of relationship. It would be wrong for me to beat them up. You'll always be in that position for them. Yeah, I'll always be their tour guide.

It's always wrong for a professor to beat up a student. No, there are no circumstances. If it's their student, it's wrong. Yeah. Someone else's student, you jump kick them in the head. Yeah.

Yeah, you see this kind of dusty trail before you going. The continuation of these sort of redwood trees with these reddish pine needles from your kind of sense memory that you have of this place and the dream that you had. Yeah, the path lays open before you. I just quickly cast Mage Hand to my cantrip.

And I have the hand break off a few sticks from some of the branches. And like in Big Daddy, he throws the sticks as they're going downhill on the segways and tries to clog up. I'm going to say this guy has a plus zero to his dex. I'm going to say that this is going to be a dexterity, since it's a cantrip, a DC 10 dexterity saving throw.

in front of the board right now to see if this dad goes down.

You see this guy go, I'm the man and go, fuck. And as the stick hits the front of his wheel, it goes sideways. The Segway spins around a circle and knocks all the other Segways down. The whole family goes down like the Doyle family from Billy Madison. This shitty family has been defeated. Oh my God. Thank you so much. I mean, this Segway is. You're my tour guide. You're not allowed to do that. I didn't do it. He did it. He did it.

All right. I look the guy in the face and I kind of snarl at him. You're a Loxodon? No. Oh, oh, I knew that. Can only Loxodon snarl? No, I... No. You just... I hit my head pretty hard. Babe, so I'm...

I'm going to teach you guys a lesson about how to be a man. And it's actually walking away from scenarios like this. Hey, kids. Every lesson in your life should be the opposite of what your dad is. Just nods at you and gives you a thumbs up. I hope you enjoyed your tour. They just begin to walk. You guys are walking in the same direction. But we can take this that way, isn't it?

I mean, the segues are free now. You can leave them in the dust. Okay, yeah. Well, we got to take these. We'll eventually return them. Sure, yeah. No problem. Yeah, my pleasure. I'm happy to. I didn't say thank you. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Quite the magic man. Yes, I am a bit of a magic man. Amanda Magic.

Where? I don't know. Back into the tattoo. Back into the tattoo. You see this spore creature just turn to spores and get sucked back into Grimm's tattoo. We might need him if we're riding these because we need to ride four of them. Unless someone can carry a Segway behind them while we're riding. They were only, I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's just one. Can I go one leg on one, one leg on the other?

other yeah you can do double segue chariots yeah give me an acrobatics check that's a natural one okay yeah one of the segues careens off into the woods don't worry boys i got this i put my legs on it i hit on and

And then the second segue just peels off to the right. Like in that second Harry Potter movie with the living car, it just like goes into the brush and disappears. That's another $700. That's coming out of my paycheck. What a show. So early on.

I'll say you guys head into town. You leave, you just blow past this stupid family. Grib, you look up and you see yourself coming into the city proper of Pompa. Pompa Pompa. Pompa Pompa. Pompa Pompa. You notice that when you get in that it seems like as you get closer, the town is structured. It's like in this valley underneath this volcano, sort of three tiers of

The bulk of the town or the city is on this bottom tier. You look around, it's like, it definitely, like, this is where all these shops and, you know, restaurants and things like that. It's a lot of commerce happening in this area. And then higher up, you see like, sort of like these mausoleum looking structures on the second tier that you're maybe not sure of on first glance. And then the third tier, you see like a small crop of

these trees that we've seen around like but growing within the city it's sort of like this like glen within the city you do notice that everything has this sort of greco-roman looking architecture it's very uh very columns everywhere like white like that as well uh it's uh upon a closer inspection like there are some that are painted white but like you know that like maybe make a nature check i would say cool

Dirty 20. Looking at the buildings and stuff, you know, it's like this sort of like concrete-esque building material, if you don't know exactly how it's done, but like something about it, you're sniffing with your trunk. You're sniffing around with this sort of like independent, almost like it has its own personality. It's sniffing around.

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You notice that it's like, something about it feels like the volcano itself. And you realize that this is made of the volcanic ash. Like something about that ash is how they made these columns. Interesting. And made a lot of the structures here. This is magnificent to take in. This is unlike any town I've ever seen. It's overwhelming. It's...

- I agree. - It's a really, really relaxing place to be. I love it here. So calming, so soothing.

Pumpkin for days. You see people walking by. There's people selling pumpkins. There's almost always whole pumpkins, never just done in any... Never cooked. No puree, no pie. The only exception to this, you see people drinking pumpkin wine. It's almost like there is sort of a wine culture to this place. Cool. It's like vineyards of pumpkin. People smashing pumpkin with their fists.

Yeah, pumpkin stop. It hurts so much. Bellissimo.

Yeah, I mean, you're looking around. This is like it's like walking into, I don't know, like Disneyland almost. Yeah, it was like there's just so much civilization here, especially after being in the woods by yourself for over a week and having that before that, like traveling by, you know, with people, but through the woods as well.

This is almost overwhelming with the amount of civilization. I'm sure it's loud. There's a lot of hustle and bustle. People just selling togas. There's knife sharpening. It's just very lively in this space. Rib's trying to take it all in, and he indeed is overwhelmed. Where do you start? Where does one start? You finally made it to Disneyland. What's the first ride?

that you ride, you know, I would know this, but like, I'm first glance, like there's a lot of shops. It's like hard to, you know, tell what is what there, but like, I think the kind of shops that would stand out to you probably is like, there is like a tavern, like a wine kind of tavern. Uh, there's a, um,

a lot of spa signs. You see people carrying big buckets of mud around. Uh, and then there, you know, it's like kind of this like, Oh, hi Palm Springs kind of, uh, not maybe like not look in terms of the actual architecture, but like in terms of what people are trying to do. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, I look at these people like carrying the mud and I'm thinking about my long journey and it's probably been a long tense time since, uh,

Gribbs relax. There's so many things that I need to participate in and so much information that I want to Ghana, but I could see something kind of nice about having a spa day. Absolutely. Have a spa day. I know the 30 best spas in town. How many of them you want to go to?

Wow. To me, a spa day is like one nice walk. Yeah, if you do one, go to one location. Is that not how you do it here? What do you do? You can do it however way you want. I want to make this experience good for you guys. I am still your tour guide, okay? For life. For me, my understanding of our situation is we're kind of friends working together. I'm not going to pay you for anything. You'll pay me. I can tell. You'll pay me.

Yeah, again, this is sort of feeling was sort of thrust upon me as a pro bono. But yeah, sure, we can figure it out down the line. It definitely feels like you're in like

Europe for the first time and you're like, this is definitely the good restaurant. Classic Parisian food in here. I know the best spot. It has mud baths. It has dirt baths. It has pumpkin water as far as the eye can see. It's really, really incredible. Do you want to go there? Absolutely. I've always been drawn to a bit of a mud bath and it makes so much sense why I'm such a dirty boy. Yeah.

Do you also like mud? I love mud for a spa day. I wouldn't say I'm like a roll around in the mud kind of guy. But I'm known to eat toilet here and there. Excuse me? You're known to eat toilet? I eat toilet. So does that mean that you take a chomp out of the porthole? It's more like I'll eat whatever food it...

Never mind. I'm a graphic designer. You see that y'all are standing really close to outdoor seating, that kind of thing where it's like a walkway slash people. They're just like people just kind of looking up at you like. I was trying to cover because she doesn't want them to look too weird. He meant pumpkin. Oh, he eats pumpkin. He doesn't eat toilet. He eats pumpkin.

I could hit a spot, maybe one that serves some of this pumpkin wine, if that's possible, and do a little hair of the loxodon, if you will.

what hair you know hair the lock and then again he like has that feeling of like what the fuck and then he looks cool i'm so sorry about these these this couple sitting here at this table like i think he means like no dog pumpkin hair the pumpkin oh oh he means hair of the pumpkin i can't keep covering this up i can't keep

I figured it out. I just need to say pumpkin for everything. You see that this, uh, the state's actually going well now after, after giving them something to talk about. Yeah. Like 30 weeks. They're like engaged. Yeah. They just needed like a common enemy or whatever. Yeah. They were just like, they were struggling. And then you see like something happened here. Um, the guy winks at you and throws you one gold coin. Oh, thanks bro. Um,

He meant pumpkin. He meant, thanks, pumpkin. I can't think for you, Greg. Hey, just play it cool, man. Like, I'm assimilating pretty chill, you know? Well, everyone here looks like you. It's easier. I mean, not that you're ugly, though. Everyone here looks like pumpkin. I'm a different person. I'm a different person.

I think I'm just not going to talk. I'm just not going to pumpkin. There we go. You make sense.

make sense i will say you guys leave these people alone uh and yeah uh oh there's like a um there you know you know 30 or 40 spas in the area but there is one uh close by that's a little more of a casual vibe that's not like a detoxy one more of that like you know you could get some pumpkin wine and chill out at and it's called the tuscan tail um

It's just around the corner. You're going to want to go to the Tuscan Tale. Everyone there is so nice. All the amenities are pretty good. The food, okay. The wine, excellent. All right. Sounds like a party for me. I mean, hey, okay food is fine with me because I'm known to eat pumpkin.

You see these elephant ears like a hundred feet behind you kind of like twitch. Like they definitely hurt. I almost got pissed. I almost got pissed. It just feels like they're the ones being stereotypical. Your chair back up. He be bumpkin.

You guys run away. To the Tusk and Tail. What a great name. Yeah, it's like this kind of... You go in, the lighting is kind of this soft, you know, doesn't hurt your eyes after coming in in the hot sun. It's kind of like a cool interior of a stucco kind of building vibe. There's just ambient pulse-like music that's like...

Not real music, but has this sort of like... It's not silence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a little water feature. This recessed lighting was put in here 10 years ago by famed architect Elephant Tail. Elephant Tail. Did somebody say Elephant Tail? Yes.

You look up and you see me. Oh my god, everyone be cool. This is, I'm, I designed this place and I'm actually the owner and operator. Welcome to the Tuscan Tale. You're Elephant Tale. I am Elephant Tale, yes.

Cool. Can I ask questions like I'm learning, not like I'm judging anything? First time I've talked to you, I don't know why you're being like that. You're right, you're right. I'll save the questions. I'll save the questions. But yeah, if you want to ask a question, by all means. So is it common to just name your kids after what they are? If I had a kid, I wouldn't name him Maine Cat or anything like that. I don't... I mean...

Listen, I think we're trying to have a good time here. Yeah. We're trying to relax. Yes, absolutely. I mean, Mr. Tale. Yeah. Grib is so embarrassed. He's like, like almost beat red out of the cheek. It's great cheeks. Like I'll show you how it's spelled and he writes it on the wall and it makes sense.

And whatever it is, it'd be perfect. You see how it clears that up? You see how that clears it up? See? Yeah. See? I'm not going to ask any more questions. I should take my own advice. It's a pleasure to meet you. Yes. Well, welcome. Gosh, something about you is very familiar to me. He's one of my tour group guests.

I'm not sure that's right. I have to say, that's not my main characteristic. Gosh, your voice sounds so familiar. It doesn't really. Yes. This is actually my first time here. I've traveled quite far to find my people.

I'm Gribb and he puts his trunk out. Oh, gosh. I don't know if I remember. He takes your trunk. He daps you up with his trunk. It feels cool to dap. Gribb feels cool. You just kind of go with the flow of that. And it's like, great. He's like, I can't place it, but I know that I've

Met someone like you before, I think. Wow. I would love for you to rack your brain as we relax, because, you know, if I could... You know... You know, I'm not good with names. My name's Elephant. If you remember, please don't hesitate to ask. Okay. I'm trying to find, I don't know, my roots here. Your what? My roots.

R-U-T-Z. R-O-O-T-S. R-U-T-Z. Oh, okay, yeah. Let's not fret over it. I'll keep thinking about it, but you can do three for the mud baths? Is that... Ah, yes. I hate to say this, but I ended up here in a certain circumstance that made it so that I don't really have anything on me. I don't have money. I don't have...

I have this one gold coin I've come across. And he still owes me. Well, we'll talk about that. So I'd love to enjoy this pause on maybe an IOU situation or maybe... Are you asking me or one of your friends to cover you? Well, could I come in for free? I guess I'll ask you first. No. Okay, fair enough. What are you, a celebrity or something? He might be.

No, no, I'm just Greg. I'm, uh... Wait a second. He holds up a picture and looks at you and says, Are you the sort of silhouette of Amanda Magic? Who drew this picture? None of you have seen Amanda Magic, right? She's like... No, I haven't. But I've heard life is... So who drew that picture? I did when I thought, I tried to think of what Amanda Magic was like. Is it close? Oh my god. I think. I think. I think.

Looks at everyone with a question. It doesn't look like me. No, it doesn't. Someone else does. For another day, I guess. Listen, I don't know you and I'm not going to get out of here. Okay, Greg. I'll spot you. I wasn't going to go. I'm your tour guide. I can't spa with you. I'll spot you, but you have to promise to pay me back in addition to what you owe to me. That's very fair. I will do that. You can't spa with us? I'm your tour guide.

Well, what if we fired you as a tour guide and you showed us around as a potential new friend? It's not a bad inquiry. Uh-oh's brain almost explodes. She doesn't have a ton of friends. So the idea that someone would want her as a friend and not a tour guide is really insane to her. You want to... And also the idea that she'd be fired is also insane to her. You want to fire me?

Or just go our separate ways. Someone comes in with pumpkin waters. Thank you very much. Here you go. Grip starts to undress. This is the lobby? This is the lobby. I'm still in the lobby. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sorry, I'm a bit excited to get started.

I guess if you wanted to fire me... Uh-oh. You are simply the best tour guide that I've ever interacted. However, you're so good at your job, you've completed it entirely. You're fired. I've never been fired. I'm going to take a picture of this moment. It's the first moment I've ever been fired. This is your first time in a spa. Probably ever. I've never relaxed. No.

It takes a little selfie. She took one back with the other tour group. Now this is her second photo on her phone for today. And she puts down the money for three little mud baths. Incredible. Three little mud baths, please. No, it's nothing too big. We need a mud bath. He minks and then you see him put that Amanda Magic picture back in his pocket and shakes his head a little bit.

He hated that. You can tell by the way he put it in. That's like the forefront of his pocket. He has to get through that to get to his other things. His keys are like buried in there. It's super inconvenient.

You all head into this spa. It continues on with this sort of lower level of lighting. There are changing rooms back here. You're able to get into these sort of fluffy robes and go through this sort of changing area to these big mud baths where you see a lot of loxodons just lounging in this sort of hot room. It's very jacuzzi-esque.

The robe fits Grib? Yeah. This is a robe designed for your shape. It has a tail hole. It works. It's like...

You have never put clothes on that fit you this well. It's a robe, but... I think it has a little mini robe for the trunk, too. Yeah, you see these... A lot of people have these little, like, robe trunk warmers. Yeah. Yeah, I just get in the... I'm just gonna head straight for the mud. Grib, you feel the weeks of...

anxiety of being on the road, so to speak, melt away as you get into this luxurious bath. You know, like bubbles popping up in the hot mud around you. People are like smearing the mud all over their face and trunk. Yeah, I'm using my trunk to smear it on. Yeah, it's a lot of, you know, like a lot of trunk work happening. I think Grib really just takes a big, deep breath and...

is looking around. Has he been joined by his colleagues? Yeah, let me know what y'all end up doing. Uh-oh is so petrified to step in because she's only toured it. She's never actually experienced it. So she puts one toe in and screams briefly. Everyone looks.

I'm having fun for the first time. She's having pumpkin, I see. God, you're fucking me up now. I think it's an impossible way to talk.

She gently lowers herself in and feels all these, like all this tension leave her body. This like new sense of self care. Like, wow, I deserve this. She instinctively is also like the jets in this tub were put in in 1987. That's so funny. Um,

Sago, you're in this room. It's about truly 8 a.m. your time. You've had like kind of a full day already. And you're just like, you ever have that kind of day where like you're doing something, you look around like, God, how did I get here? Like, how is this my day? And you're experiencing that at, you know, like it's almost like a like airport travel day where you're like, suddenly I'm in a new city and it's the beginning of the day.

Yeah, I am like, I need either to go lay down until tomorrow morning or reinvigorate and check back in on the day. But what would be real nice is just a little pumpkin wine to ease the tension and then another dip right in with these two to let that all go away. You see Elephant Tail come back in with three glasses of wine. I can't.

detectives serving us. I just remembered-

I mean, I don't know why it wasn't obvious to me before. No, yeah, I'm just a graphic designer. Sorry? I'm just a graphic designer. I was talking to him. Oh, yeah. You're a graphic designer. Yeah, all right, go ahead. So, you know, I work in architecture. I do a lot of graphic design. Awesome. So, like, what's your favorite part about graphic design? Yeah, what is your favorite part about graphic design? I actually was sort of wondering that. I've always wondered that about graphic design. Everybody around? Listen up. Everyone's ears are burning. Oh.

Uh, the wings? Wingdings. Uh, the font wingdings, probably. The font wingdings is your favorite part of graphic design. Is that the one with the envelope letter? Yeah, yes. Very good. Very good. So another favorite here. But I don't love talking about my work at all. Oh, yes, you're trying to relax. I'm sorry. Yes, uh... I will let you... I'll let you go. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, awesome. Yeah, I've got... I'm just cooking up some ideas for the side. All right. I look down to see if I have an erection. I'll let you answer that. Yeah. Yeah, we're all...

Have you taken a sip of the wine yet? Not yet. Can I roll a perception check to see if he's shaking? Who? Dan's character. Yeah. Shaking. He's got the shakes. He's been like, if I could just get some wine. Oh. 18 plus 7. Yeah, plus 7. 25.

How's Sago doing? Yeah, he's not doing great. I mean, a mix of like, hasn't had his greasy breakfast for his hangover or a little something to take the edge off. The last we checked on Sago, he was hoping to get his life kind of turned around in a certain way. But other life stuff has come up and made that hard. Because it's only been a couple days, right? Yeah, it's only been a couple days, so you haven't quite gotten there. It was like, this happened on a Thursday, I think. So he was like, Monday...

You know, that's the flip around day. So, you know, he had Friday, Saturday, Sunday to kind of finish his past. And then suddenly you are in Pumper Pumper. Yeah. Yeah. You got a little wine. You may or may not be erect. I don't know. No. At ease. That's what I thought he was suggesting. Okay. Now I understand. Yeah.

You were saying you recognize somebody here. Sorry. No, sorry. Your name was Gribb. I saw from. Yes. I should have thought of this earlier. You sound so much like one of the 900. Excuse me, the what? You know, the sort of leaders of the town, the council. The not. Who? Which is one of those. Somebody just like, you know, they're sort of up on this upper tier that we don't necessarily engage with that often. And what are they called?

It's a really cool name. It's the Nine Umbert. The Nine Umbert.

You know, it sort of denotes how there are nine of them. And it's probably the best way to say it, the nine umber. Can I sound like one of them? Yeah, one of those guys sort of sounds like you, I believe. I'm not as, I'm not. Do you have his name or? I'm kind of apolitical. I don't like to get involved. Interesting. Never meet your heroes. And they live at the top tier. They're on the top tier, yes. They don't.

come down here that often, but they're the ones that sort of decide what goes on in the town and really kind of do all the infrastructure-y kind of things and big decisions that go on. Perhaps somebody that sounds like me might have more information about me. That makes sense to me. Before you go, since I've got everybody here, can I just spitball something with you guys? ...

Thank you, Past Zach. And thank you for listening to this Arc 7 of the Rotating Heroes podcast. And if you're ever curious as to why at the end of every episode, Zach says, we'll be back next week with the Arc Bark, and then there isn't an Arc Bark, it's just like the next episode, that's because these were previously recorded old episodes. And actually, these are episodes that we put out on the Patreon in their full and glorious form. And then the week after they come out, we release the Arc Bark. So if you want to hear those Arc Barks,

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