Chaos Crew 2

Family Resemblances

Little Chomp Season 1 Episode 5

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Shelbie and Wispy head to her parents' house, so she can tell them about her near death experience, and the theft of all her money, and the issues with party-planning, and the new threats in her daily life... but things don't go quite the way she hoped they would...

In the digital world, Sangomon follows her new friends Ludomon and Subamon to meet their leader Spadamon in their super-secret, super-cool base.

The Digimon system we're using is being homebrewed by Lio as we play test it. Our theme song and graphics were made using AI, and the background music in most episodes comes from M4S on Spotify.

SPEAKER_03

Hi, it's Little Jump, and welcome back to the Chaos Crew 2. Last time on Digimon, Wispy got into his first real fight and defeated a champion-level Digimon named Ogremon, so that's great. Shelby managed to shove the in-training form Punamon into her briefcase and get to the board meeting on time to figure out if she still even has a job. Meanwhile, Songomon and Polio went to Elecmon's house and he tried to tell us some stuff about what was going on, and Polio asked about the Digidestin, but Songomon kind of wandered off because, you know, nobody was paying attention to her. Well, she's a baby. They uh left just in time for Polio to get shot by somebody, and Songomon ran away in panic because that's what Mr. Polio said to do. Back in the human world, Shelby told the board why she wanted to be a teacher and asked for the chance to serve the rest of her first year, the probationary one, just to see if she could balance being a teacher and a cleaner at the same time. Uh, Mrs. Umaga, the new head of the board, agreed to this. And Isobe, the teacher union representative, said that he's gonna get a teacher's aide to cover for her if she has to leave during the day. So they gave her the rest of the day off, and she took Punamon to the Ministry of Civil Protection to turn it in. Found out how bounties work, kind of, and that she had done it wrong, but hey, half price is half price. Meanwhile, back in the digital world, Sangomon ran all the way to Mount Miyarashi, where she met two other Digimon, Ludamon and Zubamon, who uh decided to be her best friends and offered to take her to their leader, but only if she renames herself Koromon, because their leader's name starts with an S and they don't need another S. So that's where Songamon is. Shelby's on her way to her parents' house to um, you know, tell them what happened yesterday, and you know, somehow or another, it'll work out.

SPEAKER_18

Uh, where do we wanna pick up today? We're gonna pick up with Shelby.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, I'm on my way to my parents' house.

SPEAKER_18

You're heading to your parents' house.

SPEAKER_03

Yep. Waiting for you to say I don't have a map for that.

SPEAKER_18

I have a map for that.

SPEAKER_03

And like, I don't think anything's gonna top the completely unrecorded loss to history session one where you were half asleep the whole time.

SPEAKER_18

And uh Hey, I still You did great! I still bald at that. But um fantastic session. I sat there and was like, yeah, shit's going down. Didjamen.

SPEAKER_26

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_18

Um cool.

SPEAKER_03

So And that's how I ruined my life by giving an old man twenty bucks. Holy cow! I knew my parents were rich, but look at this place!

SPEAKER_18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_25

Oh my gosh!

SPEAKER_18

It's time.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Uh well now that there's pressure on the scene. Uh I assume the entrance is up at the top.

SPEAKER_18

Yep. Uh so just up here is where you would enter in.

SPEAKER_03

Yep. Uh, is Wispy invisible right now? Yes. Okay, I'll put him down so we can both move him.

SPEAKER_18

But I'm fine! Knock as uh one of the cleaners open the door as Like a robot? Oh! Miss Miss Shelby, come in, come in. Your parents are out the back.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, like a servant.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. But A and not fucked.

SPEAKER_03

I just assumed that they had robots. They have actual people.

SPEAKER_18

Actually, no, you know what? Yeah, the door opens as you hear a ching. Hello, Miss Shelby. Welcome.

SPEAKER_02

It's like a roombo with thumbs.

SPEAKER_15

Welcome home.

SPEAKER_18

It's been a while. Shall I make you a drink?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, actually. Um What recipes do you have loaded right now?

SPEAKER_18

I have seven thousand and forty-two recipes loaded.

SPEAKER_24

Oh, right.

SPEAKER_03

Just take cold grapefruit juice with um like lemon lime soda in it.

SPEAKER_18

Of course. Shall I alert your father that you are here? He's currently in the study. Your mother is by the pool.

SPEAKER_22

Yo, where's the study?

SPEAKER_18

Down the bottom by the pool.

SPEAKER_03

Oh. Okay, okay. Um you know what I'll just I'll just go to the study myself and um you can bring the drink there.

SPEAKER_18

Understood. Um. Preparing drink. Crispy starts looking through doors and stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Is he invisible or visible?

SPEAKER_18

He comes visible now.

SPEAKER_03

Uh. Try not to break anything. Um. No, I can't tell you that because you won't be able to tell which room was mine. Uh. Yeah, I mean.

SPEAKER_18

You know that when you moved out, they uh your father straight up changed your room.

SPEAKER_24

Hmm. Hmm.

SPEAKER_18

He's not super sentimental.

SPEAKER_03

Mm-hmm. Okay. Cool. In my head, I thought there was gonna be like this one room that had all of her wardrobe still in it because she didn't want it, but I guess not. Um, I'll let him know.

SPEAKER_18

Your father threw that. He thought that that was the reasonable thing to do.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, great. I'll let Wispy know that I'm gonna be over there somewhere, and then just uh let him flow through walls, because this is a thing he does.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. So he heads out. You head down as uh you arrive further down. Uh yeah. You'd see your father's office, uh, the door is closed. Uh he seems uh as you get closer, it opens up. He seems engrossed in something on a computer, doesn't even notice that you're there.

SPEAKER_03

Alright. Um, I'm just gonna walk in quietly. So the door will also shut.

SPEAKER_18

Mm-hmm. Still doesn't seem to notice you.

SPEAKER_03

And gives me a minute to try to figure out where to even start. Um, I feel like for going to work today, Shelby probably actually uh you know, used makeup to try to hide all the cuts on her face and everything. But by now it's probably messed up. So like half obvious, I don't know.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Um. Can I see what he's engrossed in as I get a little bit closer?

SPEAKER_18

Roll me a brains check. Your dad's work has always been a bit of like something odd. Like, it's always a point of contention of like what the fuck does he really do? Cause it's just confusing somewhat.

SPEAKER_03

Uh ten. And I gotta think, did I have three adversity left over from last session? Probably. I'm gonna bump that to six and assume I did not remember to add my three full session, so. Um do I want a ladder brings to twelve? Something. Shh sure. Why not?

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_25

One.

SPEAKER_18

20. You look over. You'd see your father's working on uh certain things. Uh one second. So yeah, you would know that he is working on something to do with uh he's currently working on uh structural physics. Uh dis Disiate reality and quantized terrain hypothesis is what the project's called. Uh it's something to do with uh different rendered zones as well as essentially something to do with something being created sort of like a um Say pocket dimension a pocket dimension that is yeah, pocket dimension that is rendering in continuous time. So it's not actually there, but it renders as it comes up.

SPEAKER_03

I want that to be the mirror world, but I think that might just be me.

SPEAKER_18

You very much think that that sounds something like the mirror world.

SPEAKER_03

Doesn't it though?

SPEAKER_18

It does. Hands down. Uh you're very much like in that zone where you're like, I've experienced something similar.

SPEAKER_03

And I think that's the main thing that helps is like, oh, I was just there two hours ago.

SPEAKER_18

Which does mean your father probably has experience with fucking uh research uh with Digimon of some nature. Uh you know that he does he is contracted to public services. Uh but yeah, he's still engrossed in his work, just completely focused. Doesn't even see you at the moment.

SPEAKER_03

Um, there's two ways to play this. I can either say something.

SPEAKER_04

Or I can text him because I assume he won't hear that faster, but they both feel dysfunctional.

SPEAKER_18

They both definitely are dysfunctional.

SPEAKER_26

Um just because I think it's worse, I'm gonna get out my sapotama and I'm going to text him like we need to talk. At your earliest convenience.

SPEAKER_18

And sends a ding. He sits there, picks it up off the table, looks at it, reads it. Uh you see him sit there as he. Uh Antonio, send text to Shelby. Shelby, uh, this is your father. Oh. I I just received your message. I oh. I too am eager to talk. There is plenty to understand about your mother's uh upcoming birthday and the party in which you were planning. If you wish to make a reservation for my time, I have certain uh space to talk between 7 and uh 745 today. Uh otherwise, if you could email me uh possible times that would work for you, that would be fantastic.

SPEAKER_04

What time is it?

SPEAKER_18

My current email is uh Zebastian Voc 747 at yahoo.com.

SPEAKER_05

Why the heck is that his email? That's not his name.

SPEAKER_18

That's not his name.

SPEAKER_05

That's not his name at all.

SPEAKER_07

Um also what time is it?

SPEAKER_18

It is like midday.

SPEAKER_07

That's what I thought, okay. Uh oh wait for Antonio to send that.

SPEAKER_18

Uh if you need anything else, please, or any money injection or such, please feel free to let me know. Uh I hope you are doing well. Uh read that back to me, Antonio. Of course, reads it all back. Delete. Okay, when would you like to talk? Send.

SPEAKER_24

Ding!

SPEAKER_18

As ching He checks his phone and see That's weird. Puts it down and just color.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05

Why is this so bad? We never talk, we clearly never talk.

SPEAKER_18

I don't think this man talks to a lot of people.

SPEAKER_03

Now would be good.

SPEAKER_18

You send that back?

SPEAKER_03

No, I said that.

SPEAKER_18

Turns and looks and see Ah, Shelby.

SPEAKER_07

Hi!

SPEAKER_18

That seemed very aggressive that you would text me whilst in the room. Very uh very inconsiderate of the time. How can I help, Shelby, as he sits up?

SPEAKER_03

No, I just I know that you can get focused, and sometimes the alert on your Sapotama actually breaks you out of it, so I thought it would help.

SPEAKER_26

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

He's just staring. There's no further comment to that.

SPEAKER_03

Right after our call yesterday, I got attacked in an alley and I almost died, and then I got drugged by a stranger and taken to a veterinarian and healed as well as I could, and now I have a Digimon, and I almost got fired, but talked my way out of it today, and somebody robbed me, and I'm completely broke.

SPEAKER_17

Regarding this mugging?

SPEAKER_24

I mean it. It wasn't a mugging.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know how somebody accessed my account overnight. But no, I have not been to the police because apparently they had all of my login criteria, so the bank thinks it's fine.

SPEAKER_18

I see. Uh he picks up his phone as he, Antonio. Please put a reminder for me to call uh Hagadashi Bank so I can put in uh reports of fraud and uh fraudulent transactions as he puts it down as he Oh, that's unfortunate. Are you hurt? Did this vet help you in some manner? What drugs were used? I don't think the random guy on the street draw and pulls out a thing as he puts it on the table as he this is Narcan. Uh it might be necessary over the next few days for you to use it.

unknown

Cool.

SPEAKER_18

In regards to your drug use.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, um no, I was laying on the ground struggling to breathe and stuff, and then uh homeless guy and his I understand.

SPEAKER_18

You need to go no further as he gets up very awkwardly and hugs you as he it is okay. We'll go to the police, we will find this homeless man, he will not get away with this.

SPEAKER_03

Uh, he saved my life.

SPEAKER_18

Let's see. The end of that sentence. From another homeless man?

SPEAKER_03

From uh Digimon.

SPEAKER_17

Hmm. I see.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so when I called you and I said I didn't want to talk in an alley, and then I told you that meant I was on the train, it didn't, it meant I was in an alley, but I thought you'd be disappointed in me. So I told you.

SPEAKER_18

So this is my fault.

SPEAKER_03

I did not say it was your fault, I said I lied.

SPEAKER_18

I'm having trouble processing your emotion right now.

SPEAKER_03

Um I don't understand why you are thinking this would be your fault.

SPEAKER_18

It seems like you're yelling at me.

SPEAKER_03

I almost died, and so I've gotten a little yelly. But that's not because of anything you did. It's just very scary and overwhelming, and it's just been a lot.

SPEAKER_24

No.

SPEAKER_03

See. The Digimon wanted to eat my e-pulse or something.

SPEAKER_18

And I tried to fight it, and that did not go well, and then I almost died, and then the homeless man who had a Digimon came and fought it off, and then He opens the drawer again and pulls out uh tablets as he puts them a little pillbox in front as he uses diazepab. Uh this can help you relax. Uh, take it in short it is short-term management for anxiety. I wouldn't stay on it for long term. It may cause drowsiness, fatigue, and muscle weakness.

SPEAKER_24

Why do you just have the stuff?

SPEAKER_18

I have lots of things, darling. It's one of the few things that I'm always assured of. Um preparation is required in my line of work.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, if you could just like stop pulling out drugs every few sentences, this would be better.

SPEAKER_18

I understand. Would you uh Antonio, uh, can you please get me Dr. Richter's number? Uh he's a great therapist. He I'm sure he can assist you in some way. Uh send it straight to Shelby Sapotama. Meanwhile, in fucking Digimon Land goes off.

SPEAKER_04

In Digimon Land what?

SPEAKER_18

A ping go a little ping goes off on an egg.

SPEAKER_03

I thought we got my new egg set to my number and stuff.

SPEAKER_18

No, you because yours is still active.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I know that.

SPEAKER_18

So you can't share the same number, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so what do I have access to on mine?

SPEAKER_18

You have access to all your accounts and things like that, but it's just you would have had it's like getting a new phone. You would have had to have gotten a new SIM card. So you would have gotten a new number.

SPEAKER_03

But when he messaged me just now, it went to this one.

SPEAKER_23

So why did the message from Antonio go to the other one?

SPEAKER_18

You're right, it didn't go to this one.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. Oh that was a great point. My apology. Yeah, I definitely didn't ping you. Um you probably need to- Definitely nobody else has tried messaging you today.

SPEAKER_03

Probably need to update my number.

SPEAKER_18

Oh no, it would have gone to you. Sorry. Uh, he has your number. They had to call him to fix it.

SPEAKER_26

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_18

So never mind.

SPEAKER_26

Okay, so he's like the only one with this number. Good.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. Him and his sobe.

SPEAKER_03

Only people I need. Who else would I want to talk to? Meanwhile, my college friends are like, why are you ghosting me? Oh my gosh, I thought we were friends.

SPEAKER_18

Oh, oh my god, Shelby hates us guys.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Would you like a drink?

SPEAKER_03

There's already one coming.

SPEAKER_18

Uh, you do see at this point a little robot butler comes in with a tray.

SPEAKER_26

Just hold my hand out.

SPEAKER_18

Hands it up. Uh yeah. Keep getting your drink a seat. I see. Uh perhaps you should take a seat. There is no seats in here because I don't sit in this room.

SPEAKER_03

Where would you like to sit?

SPEAKER_18

Maybe you can sit on the floor. Would that help?

SPEAKER_03

Sure! I will sit on the floor. Drink my juice. My neon colored clothes! Actually, no, I'm not in my neon-colored clothes. I was at work today.

SPEAKER_17

We're at work today.

SPEAKER_03

That means I'm in my work outfit sitting on the wall.

SPEAKER_18

I think perhaps in situations like these, if you've been attacked, it would be best to go home and take some rest. You can always plan your mother's party tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03

I can't! I don't have money for that, and now I have to work two jobs. So I understand.

SPEAKER_18

You're gonna have to put it. Does something, and then you hear a ding on your thing as you just hear ching ching ching ching. I've transferred uh a thousand dollars. Would that be enough?

SPEAKER_03

I don't know. I didn't even get to look at the list of everything I was supposed to arrange before I got my ching ching.

SPEAKER_18

I sent another thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_03

Can you send another copy of the stuff? Because all I know is balloon arch.

SPEAKER_18

Of course. Uh it sends through the thing. Is there anything besides a balloon arch that we should get? It is a list with like balloon arch, drinks and food.

SPEAKER_03

I thought there were party favor gifts that she had mentioned or something.

SPEAKER_18

There is a link to an Amazon gift.

SPEAKER_05

I will open the wish list and just look and see roughly how expensive the stuff is.

SPEAKER_18

These are fairly uh most of this shit is like stuff that he has put there, like pencils calculator. Thinking that this is what she wants.

SPEAKER_20

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

You can actually write off the uh the third thing on that wish list, uh the just uh the garbage bag disposal uh the garbage disposal bags. Uh I bought them already. As he holds up a package that is very shin very like nicely wrapped. It is garbage bags. He's going to give your mother garbage bags for her birthday.

SPEAKER_24

How's your marriage going?

SPEAKER_18

I believe it. That's not really something we should talk about.

SPEAKER_03

Why? If you get a divorce, it affects me.

SPEAKER_18

I believe you're an adult. I don't think that's how that works.

SPEAKER_27

You will disone whichever one of us you like least after the divorce, Shelby. It's fine.

SPEAKER_26

I'm sorry, I've been through a lot. I'm just um I lost a little bit of decorum along the way. I'll get it back. It's fine.

SPEAKER_18

I understand. You've always been very irrational, much like your mother. Um you two are very emotionally high strung. Very intense people.

SPEAKER_23

Hmm. Alright, I'll stay in love. Well, I told one of you.

SPEAKER_18

This has been fun. Um also push yourself to two resources again.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, wow. I mean, I have to turn around and spend one of them on this party, but it's nice to have. Yes.

SPEAKER_18

For now. You could avoid spending the money, it's just a factor of like real dick move.

SPEAKER_03

Alright. I mean, just write down that I went up to two, and the one of them is for the party. Um, no, you can get back to your mirror world's research stuff, and I'll gesture at the screen and then just.

SPEAKER_18

How do you know that that is what I'm researching?

SPEAKER_03

Hmm?

SPEAKER_18

How do you know that is what I'm researching?

SPEAKER_03

I just assumed there was only one pocket dimension phenomena in existence, but like, uh it could be more, I suppose. I don't know. It could be something else.

SPEAKER_18

Um I'm not looking into the mirror world, as you call it. Regardless. Okay. Uh, this has been informative. Um thank you for visiting me.

SPEAKER_03

I can tell it made you real happy.

SPEAKER_18

Would you like some taffy? I keep some taffy in here. Opens the drawer again and pulls out taffy.

SPEAKER_03

You know what? Sure. And I'll take your drugs too, just in case I go into some sort of attack or have trouble sleeping or whatever.

SPEAKER_18

Very good. That sounds like a prominent idea. However, do note that these are not benzoad uh benzodines, they are not for sleeping. As he pulls out another thing, these are benzo benzodaz. That's fine.

SPEAKER_03

No, no, no. You just said it could cause fatigue, but also you shouldn't.

SPEAKER_18

If it calms down anxiety, then I shouldn't have diazepam.

SPEAKER_26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

In fact, you probably just keep those.

SPEAKER_26

Just keep those.

SPEAKER_18

You probably shouldn't uh take the diazepam whilst you're drinking as well. As he looks very judgingly at the drink in your hand.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god. I will shove it into his hand. Taste it!

SPEAKER_18

Not one to share drinks to Shelby, I think.

SPEAKER_03

If it's as alcoholic as you think it is, you should be safe.

SPEAKER_17

I'm not uh I am six years sober, Shelby.

SPEAKER_03

It's soda and juice, dad.

SPEAKER_17

I see.

SPEAKER_03

I have to drive home.

SPEAKER_17

Uh I understand. Of course. My apologies.

SPEAKER_03

I'll just leave it on his desk and leave.

SPEAKER_18

You leave. It's a very awkward interaction here.

SPEAKER_07

Well, yes, but I wasn't expecting him to be like, I see that you are experiencing stress from nearly dying. Here is a therapist.

SPEAKER_05

Well I mean I know you expect but like after that, where are you supposed to go? There's only so much bonding you can do if somebody's like, please don't speak with me about this topic. Please.

SPEAKER_03

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. As you leave there, where are you heading?

SPEAKER_03

I guess I will talk to mom as well.

SPEAKER_18

Cool.

SPEAKER_09

You head down into the wall instead of going over and through the hallway.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Like, I'm not gonna in universe jump over the wall. I'm just not moving my token at all for RP.

SPEAKER_03

Does she notice me coming? Or is she so engrossed in whatever this is?

SPEAKER_18

She is just relaxing by the pool. She has headphones on at the moment and seems to just be like sitting there. She doesn't notice you because she's not very, like switched on here. Also, that's not a wall, that's a door.

SPEAKER_03

Oh. Well, I just wasn't gonna move all the way, but sure. I come through the door like a sane person. Yeah. I will just I want to walk into peripheral vision and just see if she sees me, honestly, because like right now it's just rough.

SPEAKER_18

She looks as she Oh! Oh, and she quickly takes off her headphones. Uh sitting up is she. Hi! Uh Shelby, what are you doing here?

SPEAKER_15

Uh you look good. You look uh you're looking a little thin, but you're looking good.

SPEAKER_18

Have you been eating much?

SPEAKER_24

Not so much the last two days. No.

SPEAKER_15

Um Antonio Antonio, put uh can you please put a uh some of last night's casserole onto a sandwich for Shelby, please?

SPEAKER_03

Casserole sandwich? Can't I just eat the casserole? Or a sandwich mom!

SPEAKER_18

Uh bread uh the bread will give you carbohydrates and the uh casserole is full protein.

SPEAKER_15

You need both for a growing diet, honey.

SPEAKER_06

The texture.

SPEAKER_15

Uh trust me, it's fine. Put it on toast, uh please, Antonio. Now come sit. What uh what's going on? What's happening in your life? How's uh how's your uh your little hobby?

SPEAKER_07

Where should I sit on this thing? Because I cannot visually interpret what it is.

SPEAKER_18

It's confusing.

SPEAKER_27

It's sort of like a So just near her is fine.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, wherever. How's uh how's your how's your things going? How your um uh it's I wanna say psychology degree? I'm so sorry, I didn't really uh it it's hard to keep up with what you and your father are both doing. Uh yeah, how's it going?

SPEAKER_03

I almost died yesterday.

SPEAKER_15

Oh no! As like part of your work?

SPEAKER_24

Nope! Um That's the Fortunately the kids aren't that dangerous!

SPEAKER_18

You never know in that area. It's very it's very prominent. They're prime area.

SPEAKER_03

They talk a big a big game, but they have not attacked staff.

SPEAKER_18

It's honestly more often staff staff attacking the students.

SPEAKER_03

There's this one teacher who um kind of put the fear in most of them already this year.

SPEAKER_18

Would do you want me to call? I have some uh friends that No no no!

SPEAKER_24

She's doing a public service.

SPEAKER_18

Linda is uh wife of the superintendent of the school district. I can give her a call if you need me to.

SPEAKER_21

No, no, no, no, no, no. No.

SPEAKER_15

Well, what happened, honey? Why what how were you attacked?

SPEAKER_18

Come here. She turns you around and starts brighting your hair.

SPEAKER_02

Well, that's gonna look great with like chin-length hair, just a bunch of random little bright um You know Digimon are real, right?

SPEAKER_18

I'm not sure what a Digimon is, but I believe yeah, I'm okay. If is that like a thing you're into these days?

SPEAKER_26

I'm gonna explain this in a way you're gonna understand.

SPEAKER_18

You can tell me anything, honey. I'm always here for you.

SPEAKER_03

I guess for the sake of discussion, I got attacked by like the equivalent of a wild animal or a monster or something, and it was really bad, and like a really rapid dog.

SPEAKER_24

Not exactly that, but for the sake of discussion, sure.

SPEAKER_03

And I almost got fired this morning, and um now there's gonna be just stuff hunting me all the time, and I talked to dad first because I didn't want to bother you because your birthday is coming up, but you know dad's not really um.

SPEAKER_15

Oh, don't worry about my birthday. It's fine.

SPEAKER_03

Is there anything you would actually like?

SPEAKER_18

Know what I would love?

SPEAKER_03

What?

SPEAKER_18

I've been uh I've been thinking about getting some new garbage bags. No, I think it'd be really good just for the whole house.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, I was worried about you guys for a minute, but it's sure it's it's fine. It's actually fine.

SPEAKER_10

Sure.

SPEAKER_07

Never mind, so I that's very doable.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah. It's alright, I don't need a lot. I'm I'm happy with whatever I get. It's fine. Are you fine, hun? No. Because it sounds like since all this is happening, is this I don't I don't wanna accuse of anything, but you're not on the drugs, are you?

SPEAKER_26

I am not on the drugs.

SPEAKER_15

Because your dad, your dad has some narcan in his office.

SPEAKER_03

I pull it out of my bag.

SPEAKER_15

Oh, honey.

SPEAKER_03

No, he he gave it to me already. I don't think I need it, but he gave it to me already.

SPEAKER_18

As she puts her shoulders, brings you into a hug as she. I know you don't think that you need it.

SPEAKER_15

If you uh the fact you're willing to take it makes me so happy. And if you need any help, we can we can get you into a good rehab.

SPEAKER_18

There's one down the road, uh uh Melinda's boy across the street went there after his relapse, and apparently it is lovely. You know who went there?

SPEAKER_15

Apparently, uh the big actor guy.

SPEAKER_26

Big actor guy.

SPEAKER_15

What's his name? He's in the big uh show you watch the Yes, the show I watch.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, he's just the topless one all the time, isn't he? I don't know what his name is.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah! He went there.

SPEAKER_18

Went to that one. Oh apparently it was informative and relaxing, and he's uh and Melinda's boy came out of there, and he is so sweet. We have him uh weed the gardens from now uh now and then. Uh we don't we don't let him in the house because of the whole kleptomania situation, but he's being a wonder out in the yard.

SPEAKER_03

That's lovely, Mom. Um I'm still not on drugs, but that's lovely.

SPEAKER_21

Okay, well it was just important that I'm talking about something else.

SPEAKER_15

Is that are you seeing anybody anything new in your life?

SPEAKER_03

I thought I almost died yesterday was a good enough reason to visit, but apparently it's just not.

SPEAKER_18

So please don't be mad at me. I'm I don't mean to be uh I don't mean to downplay your experience. Have you been to the police?

SPEAKER_26

No, and Dad asked that to.

SPEAKER_15

Well, of course he did, honey, we're worried about you.

SPEAKER_03

When you mean you were worried about me. I was on a call with dad.

SPEAKER_15

You're you're currently living in a very rough neighborhood. You're going to a very harsh school. Hun, you can move back in here. I can get your thing, I can get you new things.

SPEAKER_18

We can set you up uh in the room C over uh the way.

SPEAKER_15

You can have uh we can get rid of the gym equipment, we don't even use it. It's fine. And then you can be back and we can bake some things together.

SPEAKER_18

We can I can send in uh some things, we can get you pulled out of your school, get them a substitute or whatever they get, and you can just come with us.

SPEAKER_15

We're almost we're your father's actually in talks about us getting into the uh Shangri Lag soon, so you can come with us into there.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, when is soon?

SPEAKER_18

Well the timeline's still open a little bit, but we're looking at by the end of this year.

SPEAKER_03

Um I still really want to actually finish out a school year in my job, Mom. I worked really hard.

SPEAKER_15

You can we can get you a job in the Shangri Lag as a team.

SPEAKER_03

That's next year. So as you can see.

SPEAKER_18

We don't need to wait the year we can transfer now.

SPEAKER_08

No.

SPEAKER_15

You're just learning bad habits at this place. What? Teachers that are threatening students. I can only imagine the staff that they have over there. It's probably subpar, uh underfunded, they're probably half-cocked. People, your school has less I've read some statistics on it. It has less people going into the Shangri Lag than any other uh school in the county. It's it's a very low-grade place. We should Yes, Mom. We can definitely move you up in this uh up, which will have a lot better effect on your future so that people can see that you are capable of working outside of the low lowest tier of things.

SPEAKER_10

Oh what are you laughing at?

SPEAKER_23

Everything there is so much going through my head where it's just like she can't say that, she can't say that, she can't say that.

SPEAKER_03

This has probably been a pattern. But I mean you are giving me so much.

SPEAKER_18

She has all the best intentions in the world. She's just problematic.

SPEAKER_03

No, they both are. Um, but you've given me so much to work with for why is my relationship with them tense?

SPEAKER_07

This is great.

SPEAKER_17

I'm glad.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, um Right, let's let's just uh not do that right now. I have other stuff that I need to do, including apparently going to the police station. So I am gonna head out. Um but I am coming to your birthday party next week, so we can catch up then. And um That'd be awesome.

SPEAKER_15

What do you mean? Birthday party? I'm not having a birthday party.

SPEAKER_03

Surprise! Please act surprise later. Okay, bye.

SPEAKER_20

What the heck was we just wrote fucking surprise birthday party?

SPEAKER_24

It's too late now! She didn't know!

SPEAKER_27

Grumbling on the way back through the house. Like, why would you not tell her you're gonna burn it for freaking birthday? Why does everything have to be so stupid? Like she is 57, it doesn't need to be a surprise dad! Stop, stop, stop!

SPEAKER_18

What is front door? Wispy is playing with something underneath its cloak.

SPEAKER_24

What do you have?

SPEAKER_03

What? Wispy. Wispy, I wanna see it.

SPEAKER_18

Wispy starts running.

SPEAKER_03

Wispy! You don't know how to drive cars!

SPEAKER_18

Wispy! Uh shit. Meanwhile.

SPEAKER_06

What the heck did you steal from the house?

SPEAKER_18

Back at Mount Miharashi. Uh Sangamon.

SPEAKER_03

Coralmon, you mean.

SPEAKER_18

Co sorry, Coralmon.

SPEAKER_03

Because I can't start with an S because they already have an S, apparently.

SPEAKER_18

That's right. Uh as Coralmon, you along with Zubomon and uh Ludomon enter into a very like densely packed cave inside Mount Miharashi. You'd see all these things as Ludomon sits there turning to you to see, well you gotta wipe your foot before you step on uh step into the carpet or something uh saying man, it's not cool.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

On this rug.

SPEAKER_18

Okay, that's good. As soon as you step off, you step into dirt.

SPEAKER_03

Uh does it seem like it bothers either of them?

SPEAKER_18

No, they do it as well.

SPEAKER_27

I am so tempted to be like step in dirt, wipe feet, step in dirt, wipe feet.

SPEAKER_05

Let me check and see what her brains are so I know because I'm not gonna be obnoxious on purpose, but you know.

SPEAKER_03

D12 brains, okay. Um, we're gonna make like a little a little jet of water to just kind of like mud. Regret! But it's okay.

SPEAKER_18

You walk in, you can see sitting behind this table, this person sitting there. Oh ho ho ho ho ho as little mon uh So the Sangman Wussels Carl this is our big Oh right, Carlman! This is our big boss brother, uh this is uh Spider-Man! Spider-Man, this is Carlman! As he looks, his fingers interlaced over the table as he stares you down as he welcome to firebold!

SPEAKER_08

Why are you having? I'm so happy. Can I sit on this chair or does it have a name and I'm not allowed to use it?

SPEAKER_20

Chairs don't have names there.

SPEAKER_08

I know somebody who named his like Steve or something and then yelled at that sounds like uh the makings of a madman.

SPEAKER_18

A madman that ZLS can take care of ZLS C now.

SPEAKER_19

Uh Sparomon! Coromon here wishes to become part of our little gang.

SPEAKER_18

As Spiderman sits there, it's not. Okay, so here's the here's the deal.

SPEAKER_08

What happened?

SPEAKER_18

Uh I cleared my problem.

SPEAKER_19

So you wish to be part of ZLS. Um, I'm trying to- What do you bring to the table?

SPEAKER_08

I'm still just trying to find Digitestin, but I don't know what they are.

SPEAKER_18

Didestin! He slams his knife into the table as Ludomon gets up and pushes his chair over. Zudomon sits there and say, Oh! And pulls out a tea set and starts pouring tea and then throws the tea onto the ground.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, sorry, can I have the cute little guy's name? The new one.

SPEAKER_18

So this one is Spartimon. Sparta, god. This one is Ludamon. And this one here is Zubamon.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, the names from the other two written down from last session, I just forgot what Spartimon was called because I didn't write it down since I animately.

SPEAKER_18

As Spartamon said Thursday, the Digidestin are not our friends.

SPEAKER_19

The Digidestin are mortal enemies of ZLC. Sorry, ZLS. I got ahead of myself. As you need to be careful, Coromon. Because we, as a collective group, decide what happens here.

SPEAKER_18

Somebody, can we like put the table back upright? As Ludamon and Lumamon sit there and just free realign it. Tell us your tale, Coromon.

SPEAKER_19

Tell us why you're here.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. So, um yesterday I had um an I uh I found my person and I love them very much. And then um, we're talking to this other person named Folio, who's really tasty actually, and pretty nice, I guess. And then decided I would travel with Polio and Shelby will travel with Rispy, and then um, we're gonna do something, but I wasn't listening because Elecmon was really mad at me, so I went.

SPEAKER_18

He runs around duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck. I need to roll a 1v3. These are children. Oh shit. One. Alright.

SPEAKER_14

Duck goosh! I'm gonna roll flight check first, flight check.

SPEAKER_18

Uh that's Ludamon. This is Spartomon. Oh, Spartamon runs so fast that uh Ludamon trying to like carry all his big ass uh armor seats. Let's not fail! No, I'm too slow! No, I suck at this game! He sits back down. So they'll come to me on this day. The day that is the same as other days. Please continue with your story.

SPEAKER_08

Wait, the side chair, the important one? Like if I end up over there in my charge.

SPEAKER_18

It means you're running the meeting, yes.

SPEAKER_08

Ooh. Okay. Um, right, so then, um, we were in Alecman's house, but he was being mean to me, and so I went upstairs and I didn't listen to why we needed to find the Dingestined, and then we left the house, and then Polier got attacked.

SPEAKER_18

Dingestined paused he and froze there.

SPEAKER_08

And then Polier got attacked by uh horseman and um something else that I didn't see really well, cause the horseman was the one that made the arrows, and and I break!

SPEAKER_18

Little mon's gonna run around and see Duck. Duck. Duck.

SPEAKER_04

Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck. I did it. Yes!

SPEAKER_21

Oh no!

SPEAKER_18

Ghost Ha ha! He hits Vodemon again as he foolish move!

SPEAKER_19

Absolutely foolish move, Ludemon!

SPEAKER_18

Ludeman. Roll the seven, Spotemon. Roll the five! As Ludeman gets right around as Spotemon Dang it!

SPEAKER_19

Alright. Please continue.

SPEAKER_08

And then I ran. And then I ran those guys. That's basically what happened.

SPEAKER_18

Seems like an intense problem for you. And you say that not oh you need to search out the digitestin.

SPEAKER_19

You have encountered a very harsh tag. Oh tag break! God damn it!

SPEAKER_03

Tag You wanna roll too, so mad, but it's just these two having a little battle oils.

SPEAKER_18

He does not like that uh Ludomong caught him. He did it again! Ludamong catches him and see No!

SPEAKER_19

NOT my pride!

SPEAKER_18

I see. Ludamon super fast. It was bad. They were both like falling over each other.

SPEAKER_19

Well, your ideas of finding the digitest seem dumb. You should just stop doing that. You should come join our gang. We need to get back to we can rule the digital world together.

SPEAKER_08

I'm supposed to go back to Shelby in two months.

SPEAKER_19

Shel I don't know what this Shelby is.

SPEAKER_18

Pete oh, as Zubermon sparks in. People will just let you down, Coromon.

SPEAKER_19

They come here and then they get girlfriends and then they give up caring.

SPEAKER_08

I don't think Shelby has a girlfriend.

SPEAKER_19

Yet you never know!

SPEAKER_08

I mean she Well, okay, I only knew her for five minutes, so I don't really know how many friends she actually has.

SPEAKER_18

She might she might have hundreds of friends. And she might consider you the lowest and the worst of her friends. After all, she gave you away.

SPEAKER_19

No. Does that not make you angry, Coralmon?

SPEAKER_08

No, because I was coming back.

SPEAKER_19

Were you? Or was that just an excuse? The excuse they give you, like I'm going to get some milk, uh, Zubamon.

SPEAKER_18

I'm just going to get milk. Just stay here and wait for me, Zubamon.

SPEAKER_19

I promise I'll come back. And then they never do.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Um, what's the closest thing to insight?

SPEAKER_18

Grit.

SPEAKER_03

This is D4. Don't hold your breath. Okay, wait. I have one. We're gonna ladder that.

SPEAKER_18

Cool. So a six, you sit there. Does he need a hug?

SPEAKER_27

That's the question.

SPEAKER_11

Possibly, yeah.

SPEAKER_27

Alright, I'm gonna I'm gonna hug him while he's in the hole.

SPEAKER_23

Like, you just stay here, Lunaman, I'll be back. He sounds sad enough, so I'ma hop off the chair and come over and hug him.

SPEAKER_19

There you go, Roman.

SPEAKER_08

It's gonna be okay.

SPEAKER_19

It's this is why you're a good friend and why we will look after you, unlike your terrible digidestined friend.

SPEAKER_08

No, I'm gonna be a good one. You can say you're forever with us. I don't even know what they are, except that you throw tea and they have girlfriends.

SPEAKER_18

That's right. They're just like your Shelby's gonna- But Shelby's not one. Shelby is one.

SPEAKER_08

Well.

SPEAKER_18

If you were her Digimon, she was a digidest.

SPEAKER_08

But she doesn't have a girlfriend, and people don't throw tea when she shows up.

SPEAKER_19

Not yet!

SPEAKER_08

I don't understand what those things are supposed to be.

SPEAKER_18

In time you'll understand. I'm a little bit older. You see, I was born maybe a couple of months ago.

SPEAKER_08

Ah! That's pretty old.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, Spider-Man is a year old. I'm pretty old.

SPEAKER_08

Wow.

SPEAKER_18

I'm only I'm only a couple months.

SPEAKER_10

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Yes, we have been around Coromon.

SPEAKER_19

You can consider us your older brothers.

SPEAKER_08

Wait, so you came from Shelby too?

SPEAKER_18

Maybe we all came from Shelby. What? Who truly knows where Digimon come from?

SPEAKER_08

You come from the egg, obviously, and then they take it back. And then they try to get it fixed because it doesn't work.

SPEAKER_19

No, eggs always work. Eggs just you just pop out of eggs.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, but it's supposed to do phone calls and stuff still.

SPEAKER_19

Eggs don't do phone calls. I think they I think they lied to you.

SPEAKER_15

I think eggs just pop open and we jump out of them.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_08

Because kind of like boom boom when it's feeling a lot of stuff, and then it's like in your head, and then poof, you're there. And then that egg hits the floor, and the person is all like, oh my god, Switchy's happy, and stuff. And then they pick up the egg.

SPEAKER_18

I think they're lying to you. And they told you that this is what's supposed to happen. When in truth, you came out of a digitama. Lunamon! As Lunamon, he walks over and opens a crate as he pulls out a broken digi egg.

SPEAKER_23

This is like a different size and everything than a sapotama first.

SPEAKER_18

It's a full fucking egg.

SPEAKER_23

I just want to make sure it's noticeably a different size because technically they'd hatch us like in training or something, right?

SPEAKER_18

So Yeah, it's still pretty big though. Uh see. It's uh you come out as your baby form, and then you eat enough, and then you digivolve.

SPEAKER_08

I showed up like this, and my sapotama is this big, and I'll show them how big my egg was.

SPEAKER_18

What is a sapotama?

SPEAKER_08

It's my egg. It's still speak.

SPEAKER_18

I've never heard of an egg called a sapotama.

SPEAKER_08

Well, it's still speak and it makes phone calls and has music and stuff. And it close pretty colors. That's not nice.

SPEAKER_18

Coromon is afflicted with I think Coromon has Digivirus.

SPEAKER_19

Oh no, digivirus is a bad time. It'll affect and corrupt your memory, making you aggressive and evil. Do you have Digivirus?

SPEAKER_18

That's all we have Digivirus, Coromon! You gotta tell us if you have Digivirus!

SPEAKER_19

Iris just hatched Esther to And it can carry through generations, my friends. Meaning the Coromon.

SPEAKER_08

What do you mean generations?

SPEAKER_19

Always Coromon!

SPEAKER_08

What?

SPEAKER_18

As He his claws come out as he like stares at you. Ludomon sits there as he pulls his pulls his thing up as a shield and as Father Mon pulls a sword as he Oh. You oh. I'm full! Starting something.

SPEAKER_05

You need to be put into quarantine for full like water jets from the feet trying to get out of here as quickly as possible because they just got scary.

SPEAKER_02

Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Spartamon.

SPEAKER_22

Okay, how far can I get if I'm running during the round where they're pulling out their weapons?

SPEAKER_18

Uh you can't get any further than you are.

SPEAKER_22

Okay, but I can stay here.

SPEAKER_18

Do note Do note that on your thing it says 30 feet. You probably could get here before it enters initiative.

SPEAKER_03

Um I think that's so the water jet for my feet is a use of my signature technique because it's if you shoot them at the hands at somebody, that's one, but I also put it in the feet so I could use it for movement.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. That's fine. Alright. Uh Spartimon is up first. We are in a combat. Spartamon is rushing you. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_07

This is the worst. Like Shelby had a bad day. But this is a really bad time for Songomon.

SPEAKER_18

He's actually gonna do a signature. He's gonna do Swift Slash. Uh, which is both a null and a steal time. Uh speaking of which.

SPEAKER_03

Oh!

SPEAKER_18

Uh what what is your attribute?

SPEAKER_03

I am water and data.

SPEAKER_18

Water and data. Alright. Let me check my attribute sheet.

SPEAKER_22

Yeah, let me pull that up as well.

SPEAKER_18

Okay, so water is affected by plant and nothing else.

SPEAKER_22

Well, it interacts with plant and fire.

SPEAKER_18

Interacts with plant and fire, yes.

SPEAKER_01

Uh you're a so uh weak to virus.

SPEAKER_18

This one is a data. So, Spardamon's gonna come in, he's gonna do his swift slash. This might actually be the first instance. So you're a water digmon, right?

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_18

He's gonna use an attachment skill.

SPEAKER_22

I don't have one of those, so I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_18

You're about to find out.

SPEAKER_03

I don't wanna.

SPEAKER_24

I don't wanna learn.

SPEAKER_18

He is going to use needle plant, which is a plant type, meaning he gains advantage on this attack. Uh he's gonna use brains check to attack with 13.

SPEAKER_03

I have unnatural reflexes, so I have to roll something to counter this, right?

SPEAKER_18

Yes. So you can roll something of your choice. You describe how you're using that stat.

SPEAKER_02

Um

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I haven't clicked mine either because technically it hasn't done anything.

SPEAKER_19

No.

SPEAKER_03

Um since Since I'm in the middle of shooting water from my feet, can I try putting out like a burst of speed to get out of the way of this?

SPEAKER_18

And then give it the splot check.

SPEAKER_03

And then take the strain and give it the signature bonus. Uh yeah, sure. Alright. And that's three, right?

SPEAKER_17

Yep, plus three. Alright.

SPEAKER_03

You said flight. I'm not good at flight, but this is how we gotta get better.

SPEAKER_18

It is. Uh so just checking my thing. So plant is better. So there's no disadvantage, which is good.

SPEAKER_02

But I just rolled a one. Ooh, there.

SPEAKER_18

You are taking a point of major injury. As he slams into you, coming through as he uh needle storm! Oh needle plant! As a storm of plant.

SPEAKER_04

I liked needle storm. That was a nice name.

SPEAKER_18

Needle storm was way better.

SPEAKER_04

Right?

SPEAKER_18

Uh as yeah, just needles pierce into you. Uh he is also gonna use his last five feet of movement to get there to block you from going forward.

SPEAKER_03

Is this only one person wide?

SPEAKER_18

Essentially, you'd have to be like brawling past him.

SPEAKER_03

So, like just slower movement, or what is the uh mechanical thing for trying to get past him anyway?

SPEAKER_18

I would say trying to get past him would be a pose check. So it'd be flight versus his flight or brawn to keep you out.

SPEAKER_22

Okay. Sure.

SPEAKER_18

Alright. Uh that's Spartamon's turn as he comes in and just hits you with this plant uh stuff just smashing into you.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, I do want to try the opposed check to get past him because there's three of them.

SPEAKER_17

Sure.

SPEAKER_03

Um I'm gonna go ahead and use the signature bonus again. You said flight, right?

SPEAKER_18

Nope, sorry, it's not an advantage. Let me roll that again again.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, we can ladder that. And then I rolled a one on the V6, so I can't see what he got.

SPEAKER_01

Uh spit up.

SPEAKER_18

Alright.

SPEAKER_03

I lost I just got two more.

SPEAKER_18

Sneak past, he is just so quick, just getting in the way. Your water pressuring out behind you, but he is just there.

SPEAKER_03

Um since I tried to use my signature for movement Can I do like a basic attack?

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. Uh yeah, that's fine. Okay. Um Do note that if you try and do signature things, it can't be. Um Which does Sangamon have more than two? More than two, what? Uh injury levels?

SPEAKER_22

Yes.

SPEAKER_18

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_22

Yeah, Sangamon got beaten up a lot.

SPEAKER_03

So we took a few feats after that fight.

SPEAKER_17

During good.

SPEAKER_03

Um. Okay, yeah, she just says combat response ones. I don't have any kind of like um special feet. How tall is the ceiling of this little tunnel or something? I want to see if I can find like I don't know, anything clever that I can do. Um, I don't know if I can pivot to shoot water against the wall and have it ricochet into him or something, or if I can like jet and jump. Well, trying to attack. I can't jet and jump over him, that's not a thing.

SPEAKER_18

Um if you want to use angles, that's a brain's check. If you want to use like pure brute force, it's brawn. If you want to like outspeed and just like quick hits, it's flight. Uh that's the way to think of this.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Um. I'm thinking with brains, either like trying to use angles to hit him from a direction he's not expecting, or like if there happened to be a stalagtide on the ceiling that I might be able to knock down or something.

SPEAKER_18

Umagite would be a grit check.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Well, let's let's do angles because he's looking at me, so then we'll try to let's try to get the ruler, and then it's like, let's go. Let's I'll try to bounce it off corner and hit him from the side while he's focused on me.

SPEAKER_16

Alright. Go for it.

SPEAKER_03

Um, we're not gonna do this as a signature, we're just gonna do a basic. Let me see how many tokens I have. I do have four. 21.

SPEAKER_18

Okay. I like it. Uh, this is his uh this is one of his better stats. He's pretty good at it. But 13's not enough. As you hit him, uh is that more than five? That is more than five. That deals a full damage. Spartamon doesn't have anything. There, Spartimon goes down. However, he did lock down your movement this turn, so you are still there. Um, that is your turn.

SPEAKER_03

Um okay, yeah. Third time is a minor injury. Okay, yes, it is. I don't even need to ask a question because I took notes.

SPEAKER_18

Cool. Zubamon is gonna rush. Uh as he's mad now, as he You betray her, Sangamon! Uh you evil Digimon! How dare you! Uh, cool, so he is a uh he's a vaccine type, so he does disadvantage against you.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_18

Uh he does have steel, uh which doesn't do anything to you. He's going in. Uh it won't affect anything here, but he is gonna go for a check. Plus three. This is gonna be a big boy hit. Oh, never mind.

SPEAKER_03

Um, I can roll against every attack on me, right? Yeah. Alright, we're gonna try to dodge this. We're not good at it, but we need to. I need to get better at flight eventually. And you just never know.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, we'll add the two adversity tokens.

SPEAKER_17

So we rolled a three plus. Okay, yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, so we did not dodge that. That's fine. We're gonna rolled their ability now.

SPEAKER_17

Yep.

SPEAKER_03

One of these times it's gonna explode, you know? It it Okay. I have two tokens now because of my other failure. So that's ladder that. I cannot ladder again because I am down to one token. So this is a minor entry. Versus 13. Alright, minor entry.

SPEAKER_18

This is a minor entry. Got it. Because it slams into you his front sword just coming in as he Zuba strike as he gathers momentum and thrusts forward like a lance, piercing armor, uh, and just stabbing through. Alright. Uh, he doesn't have much else that he's gonna do as he. Uh Ludemon! Take this uh problem out! We need to help Spiderman! Alright. Uh Ludemon says Cercle. Alright, I'm coming, I'm gonna do. You're not gonna stop us, we're gonna blitz you up.

SPEAKER_20

You hurt Spartomon! You're all starable!

SPEAKER_18

He is also a vaccine Digimon. Um man, he's good Brawn. These two are great Brawn. There's a nine. Oh wait, sorry. Ten let me just re-roll that. Uh because he's uh gonna use a signature.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

14.

SPEAKER_03

Wait, am I supposed to be no, I roll advantage against them if I'm attacking, right?

SPEAKER_14

Yes, if you're attacking. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Cool. Um he's just run up beside me. And is attacking. I I really cannot try to use brains to dodge. I need light to explode. Please flight. Why do you hate me? Okay, I only have one token, so there's nothing I can do for that. And durability. Roll A2. I only have three, so I can't ladder that either. So six is less than is eight less than fourteen.

SPEAKER_18

Is eight less than fourteen?

SPEAKER_03

Six is eight less than fourteen.

SPEAKER_20

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

I was sitting there for a second, I'm like, what? So I think that's what type of injury is that?

SPEAKER_18

That is uh so six is It's more than five, but it's not ten, so take a major injury.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Uh I have increased my bonus in flight to four because I cannot force it to do anything. And I took phase change. So if I do take another injury and drop to zero, then I transform into something.

SPEAKER_02

And get the injury back.

SPEAKER_03

So I went into adrenaline mode.

SPEAKER_18

And we are Is it actually my turn? Ready to roll. It is your turn.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

You are up. Alright. So uh that is Ludamon's turn. Uh Spartimon is currently down. Sangamon, you are. Oh wait!

SPEAKER_03

But he explodes one turn after he passes out, I understand.

SPEAKER_18

As he sits there rising back up behind you, as he you think you can just come in here and do what you like?

SPEAKER_19

As he let's t let's show him what's what, boys, as he puts his hands out. Uh as he Spardomon!

SPEAKER_06

Digivolve to Wait, is that what phase changes in the Digivolving? Did I just buy the Digivolve feet?

SPEAKER_18

Digivolve to kill Smartamon! As these two sit there jumping at him, they both become a shield and a sword.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, sorry, what is this guy's name now?

SPEAKER_19

Bodemon!

SPEAKER_03

No, something came before it and it's important, because it'll be like Metal Graymon, or like, huh?

SPEAKER_18

Dill's Vatamon.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, he just still.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

So this isn't actually It's not a digillosion.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_27

I was like, wow, if I picked that up and you were gonna make me get it before you'd let me dig evolve. Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Boom.

SPEAKER_18

Uh that one does let you dig evolve, but it's a whole different thing.

SPEAKER_03

Don't worry about it. Um Alright, so this is his turn.

SPEAKER_18

This is in a sense uh his dig evolution. Uh it is his turn. He is going to attack you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

You're facing a champion level now. Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. I really wish I could use brains for like anything.

SPEAKER_18

Wow, what a shit roll. He rolled an eight and a four. But he has a plus eight to the theme.

SPEAKER_21

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_18

As he goes ahead and swings.

SPEAKER_27

I'm like, we we roll charm! This is what we do when we get, but no, we don't. We're not we're not roll charm.

SPEAKER_05

Quick, don't go jutsu! Use water to make something that looks vaguely like them so they'll be attracted to you.

SPEAKER_03

It kinda worked. It didn't work last time. He hates us. Okay. Um, all right. I am gonna hope, against hope, that flight is gonna ladder.

SPEAKER_04

We're gonna try to dodge. Um feel the power of GLS.

SPEAKER_03

I can't use my signature anymore. I will kill myself. So we're gonna lovely. Standard dodge. Alright. So that's a one. I have three. We're gonna ladder it. We still have four. We're gonna ladder that again. We still have three. We're gonna ladder that again. Oh yeah, yeah, we're gonna ladder that again. Why not? I have two left. 43.

SPEAKER_18

That is enough to counterattack if you would like. Oh my gosh, guys! Um yeah, I think I would like to.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Um so uh I'm gonna say we did like water jet into the floor to get up into the air. And then whatever I roll is not gonna be good. My attacks are good.

SPEAKER_18

So what are you using to attack?

SPEAKER_03

It doesn't matter. Ranged attack is great, it's not good. Ron is not great. Brains are not I think, gut instinct, we're gonna use that flight check to get up in the air, and then we're going to try to like slam down into him because he's huh? Headbutt? Caralho headbutt? No, because we're in the sky. Yeah, you can turn it. This is more like seismic kick or something. Because he's going horizontally forward, and so if we shot water out of our feet and we're going up, then we're gonna like clench our fists together and try to bring them down on his head as we're fall. Or land on him, but I'm guessing braun.

SPEAKER_18

Braun, it is. Two.

SPEAKER_05

Holy shit, you did it! Oh my gosh. Okay, I'm I don't need to, but I'm going to ladder that because I can afford to.

SPEAKER_18

That's a good choice because then it does an actual injury rather than a minor.

SPEAKER_05

25! Oh my gosh, Saguma!

SPEAKER_18

It hits him as he takes the back step. You see, a bit of digitization as he looks up and see, we aren't gonna let you go, Coroman!

SPEAKER_19

You aren't allowed to take off and leave us here!

SPEAKER_18

I was doing a Lechmon's voice for a second.

unknown

Come on back!

SPEAKER_19

I will be your father! We'll be your friends, even if we have to beat you and do so!

SPEAKER_15

Um, that's their turn.

SPEAKER_12

That wasn't Oh yeah, that was their turn.

SPEAKER_03

Oh that wasn't even my turn. Okay.

SPEAKER_17

Um you're up.

SPEAKER_03

Trying to get past them as a contested flight check, right?

SPEAKER_17

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03

I'm still gonna try to get past them because they were nice before this.

SPEAKER_05

I'm playing the most like combat focused pacifist, apparently.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I don't like when you roll first.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, I have one. I rolled an 11, so we're gonna ladder that.

SPEAKER_18

23 is not enough, but it's not as pushed back as he doesn't get a surprise opportunity attack at least.

SPEAKER_03

Mm-hmm. Now, important question: does that do a minor injury?

SPEAKER_18

No.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_21

Okay, okay. Um.

SPEAKER_18

He just locks you down.

SPEAKER_21

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

If it was 10 over minor injury.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, if that was my action, can I sprint back into the room to get some distance for my movement?

SPEAKER_18

Or no. That was part of that was your movement.

SPEAKER_03

That was my movement.

SPEAKER_18

So you still have your action. Okay. You are just now locked down.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, got it.

SPEAKER_24

Um.

SPEAKER_19

We won't let you go. New friend Coroman.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. I trying to think. Trying to think. Trying to think. Um, I want to like bounce water off this and hit it into the back of the shield and try to like knock that out of his hand. Like, I'm gonna take him out of this form and also slam Ludemon into the wall if this works.

SPEAKER_17

Okay, roll the hit.

SPEAKER_24

Brains?

SPEAKER_17

Roll Brains. Versus durability.

SPEAKER_24

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. No, stop rolling first!

SPEAKER_18

It's a lot.

SPEAKER_00

It is a lot.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_18

Good thing he doesn't have tokens or else, damn. Uh so he returns fire.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

As you bounce things, he spins using the water to bring the sword back around to try and take you out.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Can I try to uh dodge that?

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, of course you can.

SPEAKER_03

I get lost a little on the action economy of everything.

SPEAKER_17

I'll tell you what you have to do.

SPEAKER_18

Okay, so the dodge. Did not go as uh you uh hit forth. Uh roll me a durability.

SPEAKER_03

Do I take tokens for failing the dodge? Yes.

SPEAKER_18

And failing your attack.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I took those already.

unknown

Oh.

SPEAKER_03

I just, since I'm gonna roll flight and then durability, I didn't know if I had the potential of getting tokens twice if I just suck. Okay, we're gonna ladder that. So I still have five. You know what? Do I want a D12 and durability? I think I do. We're gonna spend all of our tokens just making our dice bigger. Okay.

SPEAKER_18

So that's over 15. So uh you can make a counterattack yourself.

SPEAKER_03

All I do is build my dice. Okay. Um right, so he was trying to use momentum to Yeah, he used the order's momentum to swing.

SPEAKER_18

We didn't dodge.

SPEAKER_03

We just took it. So what we're gonna do, since we've made contact, is raise one of our uh arms to like his face and just go for like a point-blank fire hose.

SPEAKER_18

Sure, roll me a brawn check. Sure.

SPEAKER_04

Seven. Okay, song of mine, I still love you.

SPEAKER_18

As the water smashes forth, his head moves, taking just a cut like a minor thing across the way. Not really getting him because he just takes the water and pushes through. Uh that is your turn. It's back to him. He sits there and see, uh no more of this.

SPEAKER_19

I'm gonna take you down. You are you are not staying in our path. We can't let you leave. You're one of us, and we're gonna keep you and keep you safe.

SPEAKER_06

That's what I mean, right?

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna try to get past her. Well, I can't get past them.

SPEAKER_06

I'm gonna try to dodge the okay.

SPEAKER_07

Alright. I have enough to ladder that because I just no, don't take don't take that many there.

SPEAKER_03

Oh no, yeah, do take that many there, because I failed that. Alright, I have six. I'm spending one, I have five, thirty-four. Damn.

SPEAKER_18

Uh yeah, as you manage to just tank it again again, coming through as uh he sits there and see, why won't you go down?

SPEAKER_19

Just go down, Coroman! She doesn't want you, sh uh Coromon. We want you! You can be part of ZLS!

SPEAKER_20

I'm not going to be young!

SPEAKER_18

Uh, you are up.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. One of these times I will make it fast.

SPEAKER_03

Oh wait, I've not been rolling it. What what attribute is this guy in this form? I've not been rolling anything in advantage.

SPEAKER_18

He's a Donna.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, same as me. It was his weapons that were a different type. Okay, perfect. Good. Yes. Alright, we're gonna have five. Alright. We're gonna try to get past him and get outside again.

SPEAKER_16

Alright.

SPEAKER_04

18. Okay, that's finally enough. Can I just make it past him?

SPEAKER_18

You can make it past him. He's gonna chase you out onto Mount Miharashi, though.

SPEAKER_03

But I've made it past him, and that's my movement, so I will turn and shoot him with the water gun, but I don't really I'm sad about it. And that's me trying to give flavor text the fact that I have a D4 for grit, and that's what you make me use for range.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, use a grit check.

SPEAKER_03

But I really I don't want to have five-to fight them, but I have to. Okay, I have five. I have four left. I have two left, eleven.

SPEAKER_18

Okay, let's see. So you got four. Uh it went to a d6, you spent two.

unknown

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_18

Uh cool. And uh 11. Uh you roll the one on the d8, damn.

SPEAKER_03

Yep.

SPEAKER_18

Shame. Yeah, but it's so good that it's bigger now, and that's fun. As you pass by rushing forth, you try and spray him. As he's hit by water, but once again it just bounces off that shield. Uh, Spartimon in this moment is gonna try and rush you. And he's gonna try and finish this. Alright. He's gonna actually do a relic crossbreaker, which is his signature.

SPEAKER_12

Oh, good for him. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

We will try to speed out of the way of the it's just dodge.

SPEAKER_17

That's pretty miserable.

SPEAKER_03

We're gonna roll a two on the d20. Alright, we'll try to tank it as we're you know. Okay.

SPEAKER_18

That is less.

SPEAKER_03

It is.

SPEAKER_18

So? Uh is that your last one?

SPEAKER_03

What does it do? I mean, the answer is gonna be yes, but is it minor or major?

SPEAKER_18

It is major.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. So I immediately take one injury back, get five points, and change into something else. That would have dropped me, but I took the phase shift thing. I know. But yes, it helps.

SPEAKER_18

I didn't. You don't have to tell me you got phase shift. I know you got phase shift.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but if anyone's watching this. Do they know?

SPEAKER_18

Who knows?

SPEAKER_03

Well, they do now, because I don't.

SPEAKER_18

You're not wrong.

SPEAKER_03

Occasionally.

SPEAKER_18

Digitization starts to happen as rising up where Sangamon once was. You stand there changed.

SPEAKER_06

What am I called now?

SPEAKER_18

You're floating. This is Orcamon.

SPEAKER_23

Orcamon.

SPEAKER_18

Orcamon may instantly, as you change form, which you can press active form and change it to champion. One of your stats to push beyond what it is currently.

SPEAKER_03

Like only one of them is gonna be able to go past 20, or like I could be ladder one.

SPEAKER_18

Right now you can push one from what it is up. So you could choose the d8, you could choose the d6, you could choose the d20.

SPEAKER_03

I feel like so far we've just been running Sangamon like a tank because of how the fights have gone.

SPEAKER_22

So I think I'm gonna go durability. And you just want me to go to one d20 plus one d4?

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, so edit your things, push it to the next level. And you may also add one strength.

SPEAKER_03

Oh let's take a signature move, because that means like I would roll two d10s and add both of them. Right? Um, okay, let's take let's take that one. I'm sorry for completely killing the flaw.

SPEAKER_18

It's all good. Uh it's not, but it's fine. Uh alright, it is your turn as Orcamon. You are up.

unknown

Oh great.

SPEAKER_25

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Um you form, you change as you stand before Spartimon as he Ah, a fellow, a fellow champion level Digimon.

SPEAKER_03

I just wanna slap him with my flipper and see if I can knock him across the rim.

SPEAKER_05

The least exciting thing I could possibly do.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, I have nine. We're gonna ladder that. Which left me with three. I rolled nine on a 12, so we'll ladder that again and whatever there. Out of tokens again, 35. Okay. I just want the dice.

SPEAKER_18

Even with a 25, he is slapped, smashing into a wall. Uh, that is that is all his things, as he is downed. What happens there looking as he sits there knocked out against the thing as he my friend my Coromon No something different now, isn't it? You You would be Killer Wagom. You turn and leave. He sits there as Zubamon and that. They did digivolve as they fall into a pile. Yeah, they fall into a pile as he lies there, Zubamon with him, Ludamon as well, as Zubamon sits there as he remembers back as he I remember when I did evolved.

SPEAKER_12

Five minutes ago. I miss I miss my part.

SPEAKER_18

As we switch back to the human world.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Uh cool.

SPEAKER_04

Oh Songomon. Or come on.

SPEAKER_25

Alright, we're back home.

SPEAKER_18

You head back home as we arrive to your little apartment. Um whispy just comes in and sits on your bed.

SPEAKER_22

What do you have?

SPEAKER_18

Just ignores you. As it stares out into the distance.

SPEAKER_25

At this point, I'm I'm not gonna be mad about it.

SPEAKER_24

You already have it. Nothing.

SPEAKER_18

He doesn't s he doesn't seem to respond to that.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_24

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Um he goes and grabs his drawer full of uh silverware. Silverware and just starts playing with it.

SPEAKER_24

You're fine with joining.

SPEAKER_03

What does he do with them? The people spoons.

SPEAKER_18

Ghosts wrapped around them, and he just has them like moving along and like moving them as if they were like he was playing with but like Barbie dolls.

SPEAKER_03

I know, I'm asking, what is he doing with them? Are they walking together? Are they fighting? Is he making them kiss? Like, what is he doing with these people?

SPEAKER_18

He d he doesn't say anything, so it's very much just moving spoon.

SPEAKER_26

I know, but if you watch a child, you can kind of tell if they're like beep beep beep.

SPEAKER_18

He's not like hitting them together, he's just waving them around each other.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so they seem friendly-ish.

SPEAKER_18

The spoon people. Maybe.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, alright.

SPEAKER_05

They might be at war, you don't know. This is a dance battle.

SPEAKER_24

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um working as a cleaner, right? Because I have to do that. But I also can't do that without you? Okay, okay. Seemed particularly happy when we were actually at their office.

SPEAKER_18

He looks at that and gets a little like sad.

SPEAKER_03

I I just wanna know what you think, because you've saved my life a few times, and I can't even hear you.

SPEAKER_18

You can't turn and goes back to playing with the silverware.

SPEAKER_03

You can't type, right? Like if I gave you the Sapatama, you can't message shh.

SPEAKER_18

He walks over to your computer and starts just pressing buttons. Uh you realize quickly he does not know how to spell.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, okay. That's a good try. That's a that's a good try. Okay.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And I did actually think about this before this week. Hmm. If we meet these people and you um really hate them, you let me know, okay?

SPEAKER_18

You not.

SPEAKER_24

Alright.

SPEAKER_18

And I I wrote down have numbers on them.

SPEAKER_03

Like phone numbers?

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, phone numbers.

SPEAKER_03

Mm-hmm. I'm gonna call static broom.

SPEAKER_18

You call static broom.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

Uh Milo. Just bring up my things. I need yes. That d weirdly, despite the name and everything, doesn't help me for some reason.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, he has Betamon, and during one of their operations, they wiped out power to half a city block because they have a little electrotype now.

SPEAKER_18

That's right.

SPEAKER_05

That's them.

SPEAKER_18

Uh as uh you call as you hear I'll go for Milo. How uh who how can I help? What's uh this is static broom, right? I need to answer as the people.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, this is the number you put on the application, so that might be good.

SPEAKER_18

That's right. Are you trying to apply for a position in the group?

SPEAKER_03

Potentially. I'd like to do like a like a meet and greet and just see if we get along.

SPEAKER_18

What levels you digimon?

SPEAKER_22

Uh is there any way to like scan that with my sapotama or something, or do I know?

SPEAKER_18

Possibly. You've not really met anyone in the industry that knows how this shit works. Right.

SPEAKER_03

So just fumbling around on the Sapatama, do I run into any kind of scanning interface?

SPEAKER_17

Give me a brains check.

SPEAKER_03

Actually, hang on, hang on. I had a whole Digivice thing pinned. Let me look at it. Um, I can freely scan objects or creatures, translate digital or coded data, identify hazards or anomalies, receive navigation or threat alerts, does not require roles, does not provide combat bonuses, it's information and awareness only. Does he count as a creature I can scan?

SPEAKER_18

Yes. To access those parts of your sapatami, you do need to be shown. Cause that's not normal sapotama.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, so I'm like, if I fail this, just getting into like the camera app and like You try and QR code him.

SPEAKER_05

Right, basically. Alright, let's see if I do that or if I figure it out.

SPEAKER_16

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04

11. I have no tokens.

SPEAKER_18

You yeah, you get a pixel. Look amongst yourself someone. It's definitely nothing that you've seen before. You know that it would have to be on here. It's just one of those things of like, it's like getting a brand new phone and you'd have to go through like 17 applications to try and find which one has that little cog wheel that will do it.

SPEAKER_24

I don't know. I just got him yesterday.

SPEAKER_18

Um that's pretty fine. Why do you want to join uh static broom?

SPEAKER_03

Uh well.

SPEAKER_24

Guys didn't sound uptight, which was nice. Um it didn't sound like I had as high of a chance of dying with you guys.

SPEAKER_03

Um and since whatever you did originally um took out the power to half a city block, I figure you actually show up and try to fix things as opposed to just kind of observing later, and it would be really, really nice to have backup and or support to figure out this whole thing. So that's why I called you instead of anyone else in the pile.

SPEAKER_18

I see. That uh, that makes sense. We're pretty great.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Uh and you don't sound like my dad, which is huge bonus.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, that's that's fair. How old are you?

SPEAKER_03

Twenty-three.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

How old are you? Not geriatric. I'm four I'm sixteen.

SPEAKER_03

You're four sixteen.

SPEAKER_18

Sixteen.

SPEAKER_05

What high school do you go to?

SPEAKER_18

He hangs up the phone.

SPEAKER_27

Okay, but if I do I know any kids in my school and dang it, I'm I'm turning on the AI on my phone.

SPEAKER_19

The AI on your phone. What's up? What you need? What's going on?

SPEAKER_27

Hey, I've been doing shell I need you to search the student database of Ishido High and see if there's anybody named Milo.

SPEAKER_18

Anyone named Milo?

SPEAKER_27

Yes.

SPEAKER_18

I'm on it.

SPEAKER_24

Yeah! I knew you would be. Alright.

SPEAKER_18

Uh no results for a Milo at Ishido High.

unknown

Dang it.

SPEAKER_07

Alright. Thank you.

SPEAKER_24

Then that kid could have been in the class next door. He could have been in like third period.

SPEAKER_18

He could have been in your class.

SPEAKER_03

I know! That would have been really convenient because then I'm technically defending the student and I can write his excuse notes. You can't. Okay, if I ask you to do something that ends up being illegal, you'll tell me, right? Like.

SPEAKER_19

No.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. If I ask you to do something, can you tell me whether you think you can do it without leaving a trail or anything?

SPEAKER_19

Sure, man.

SPEAKER_24

Okay, well now let's let's just let's just start let's start with publicly available information.

SPEAKER_03

Um what can you find out about uh static broom? The cleaner team.

SPEAKER_18

Ranked 35 uh ranked 431st in cleaning rankings. They are uh they are not uh mostly consisting of children. Four members of their squad are all under the age of 16.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, alright. You know what?

SPEAKER_18

I'm gonna I'm parents often attend jobs with them.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, if they all went to my school, it could be a fail trip. Okay, forget that. Alright, um I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a list of uh other teams.

SPEAKER_05

I wanted I don't know if they're made of adults.

SPEAKER_18

Sure. Him in with another team.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Um, let's see who I didn't cross off.

SPEAKER_03

Um about sweep line. How many of them are adults?

SPEAKER_18

There are there is one adult in Sweep Line 7. Uh Sweep Line 7 uh is led by uh Mr. Eli Canning. Eli uh is uh Eli is seven uh is sorry.

SPEAKER_27

Seventeen.

SPEAKER_18

Oh good Eli is seven years old and currently attendsimoto uh priv public school.

SPEAKER_06

Um who's the adult?

SPEAKER_18

The adult is Mr. Yagama Nagori. Mr. Yagama is of the ripe old age of 94.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, okay. Um, alright. Tell me about uh Ghost Warranty.

unknown

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_18

Ghost Warranty is filled with uh people over the age of 20. However, Ghost Warranty has recently uh gone uh recently decre declared dissolvency and bankruptcy. Oh they are no longer classified under the cleaner position.

SPEAKER_26

Dang it. Okay. Well, they didn't have money, so that's not that surprising.

SPEAKER_18

Their equipment was second hand and thought it was cursed and shit.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have that written down. AI, we never named you, right?

SPEAKER_18

No, you did not.

SPEAKER_03

Alright. Um just I'm gonna just try to get you a name refest.

SPEAKER_23

I'm just gonna open a name generator on the Sapatama, so um you know what I'm thinking?

SPEAKER_03

Okay, I'm gonna call you Socket. I feel like that's an easy that's an easy word. Is that fine with you?

SPEAKER_18

Sure, man. Whatever you wanna call me, I'll take.

SPEAKER_03

Alright. That is a level of cooperation I am not getting from humans lately, so I appreciate that. Um, Socket, you know, I just realized if Eli is seven, and the whole thing about sweep light seven oh my gosh, there's a seven in the name. That child is just being chased by a ghost. Have you seen what Caravan looks like?

SPEAKER_14

Yeah!

SPEAKER_24

That is terrifying!

SPEAKER_14

That's correct.

SPEAKER_24

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um alright. Well, probably better off not doing that. Um has Patch Job had any improvement on their like survival versus near death rate?

SPEAKER_18

Uh, three members of Patch Job died last week.

SPEAKER_06

Why are they all so bad?

SPEAKER_18

They are ranked number four hundred and thirty-first in the cleaner rankings.

SPEAKER_03

I thought uh static broom was four hundred and thirty-first.

SPEAKER_18

Static broom is four hundred and thirtieth.

SPEAKER_03

Oh.

SPEAKER_24

Right.

SPEAKER_18

The the rankings changed in the last five seconds.

SPEAKER_24

Oh, okay, cool. Um great. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um we are scraping the bottom of a very bad barrel.

SPEAKER_18

Oh, contacting bottom of the barrel. What prank are they? What prank are they?

SPEAKER_24

What rank are they? Oh my gosh, what are you?

SPEAKER_18

Last.

SPEAKER_24

No, no, no, no, hang up!

SPEAKER_18

Hello, uh. As over the phone you just hear a oh. Yo, who's this?

SPEAKER_02

I said hang up, I'm gonna hang up.

SPEAKER_18

But as she said as he hold on, hold on a second. Who's who's there?

SPEAKER_25

I don't have to answer.

SPEAKER_18

Don't hang up. Don't hang up. Please don't hang up. Please do not hang up. Are you is this are you calling about the position? Please, please do not hang up.

SPEAKER_20

Simon! Simon, there might be gods! Simon, please! Can you like track the call? Do not hang up, please!

SPEAKER_06

I um uh I muted my my microphone. I'm typing like you should have listened.

SPEAKER_20

I think this might be someone who's dead! I'm not talking. I'm typing! Can we put a dead person on the roster? I'm typing. I got my computer to socket!

SPEAKER_05

Pull up these people's file right now.

SPEAKER_18

Uh as you get a file, uh one second.

SPEAKER_20

I'm gonna die.

SPEAKER_18

Okay. Uh so. So uh as he brings it up as he uh these are the lamp lighters. Uh they were formed when five individuals under under individually underperforming recruits were grouped together as a last chance placement. Uh instead of improving, they discovered they all preferred minimal effort and quietly agreed to only intervene when a situation became unavoidable. They have a baffling record of terrible response times, incomplete containments, yet very few actual disasters attached to their name. Uh other cleaners suspect they either fail upwards through luck, or something is doing their work for them and taking the credit. As you hear, please! Please, please answer your phone.

SPEAKER_20

I will pay you money to answer your phone. Simon, Simon, I don't want to hang up this call. Please don't make me hang up. Have you are you tracking them? What do you mean you can't track them? What do you mean that's not a thing? I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I've seen stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Now, can I send a text message at the same time that I'm on the phone?

SPEAKER_04

Sure.

SPEAKER_05

I am going to text this person, make like, make your pitch already.

SPEAKER_20

But I'm still not gonna talk. Oh my god, I gotta there's a they sent a message, Simon! They sent a message! Do you not have a voice? Are you mute? Are you deaf? That's okay! We do not mind!

SPEAKER_07

I was just thinking, would it be a problem if I was disabled? But that's fine, he's answered that.

SPEAKER_18

Dude, dude, like what what do you want for a pitch?

SPEAKER_20

Dude, um you'd I please be a part of that team! Please, please help us.

SPEAKER_04

Why should I help you specifically say I think this might be like a top-tier gamer?

SPEAKER_20

Apparently they have a bunch of options! I don't know what to do, Simon. What do I say?

SPEAKER_18

But I d um uh we've got money!

SPEAKER_20

You you don't even have to pretend we'll we'll deal with all the things. We just need we just need the numbers, man! Please, please do not hang up! Please!

SPEAKER_06

I'm begging. Okay, okay. I think I just heard him say I can be a part of this team and they will do work for me, and I don't have to show up.

SPEAKER_16

Pretty much.

SPEAKER_06

Which is kind of ideal for my job, even though this sucks.

SPEAKER_07

Alright, alright, their last rank. So, they're not likely to get sent on any big jobs. So that's fairly safe. They just said they would do everything. I don't even need to participate. So that's fine. The only thing that gets hurt I'm like talking to Wispy while in these dogs. The only thing that gets hurt is my reputation, which doesn't exist with these people. That's fine, right? Is that fine?

SPEAKER_16

Rug?

SPEAKER_21

I don't know, man. Okay, I'm gonna unmute.

SPEAKER_18

Hello? Hello, are you there?

SPEAKER_21

Yes.

SPEAKER_18

I think I've lost him, Simon. Holy shit! Holy shit! You there? Oh, awesome, awesome! Um oh my god. Uh Hi! Hi, how are you doing? Um What is your What do I say?

SPEAKER_07

There is a Simon over there.

SPEAKER_18

Uh yeah, there's Simon. Simon Do you wanna talk to Simon? Change your mind. Who are you?

SPEAKER_15

I'm I'm Tomanaga.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. How old are you? Are you a child?

SPEAKER_18

I'm I'm uh 20. What what do you consider a child?

SPEAKER_20

I'm whatever you think that a child. Do you want me to be a child? No, I was kind of hoping for someone who would graduate high school.

SPEAKER_18

I've I've definitely graduated high school. I've definitely Yes! Yes, 100%. I am I am currently in uh a well, I'm no longer in the class. I I dropped out I I was in college.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um So I heard you say you would do everything and I don't need to participate.

SPEAKER_18

That's the level to the to the effort that we can, of course. Like, there's there's certain levels that you have to do, like you can't just not ever show up, but yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_03

I have a day job. So That's fun. I can't leave in the middle of the day for stuff, but they probably don't call you with big jobs, right? Because you're the you're the bottom in the barrel, right?

SPEAKER_18

That's pretty hurtful, but sure.

SPEAKER_03

Well, what what jobs do they give you? I'm just assuming the office judges you guys based on your ranking.

SPEAKER_18

And your desperation. We're sometimes called We're sometimes called the work, but usually we have like a bunch of um It depends on what work we wanna do that we do.

SPEAKER_20

Hmm.

SPEAKER_18

Uh that's probably all the things there.

SPEAKER_05

Um And what does that look like?

SPEAKER_18

Well we like depends on the week. We like to take jobs to get money, but that's please don't hang up. It's okay.

SPEAKER_03

What kind of jobs do you like to take as a team?

SPEAKER_14

Cleaner jobs?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, fine. Like what do you do? Cause there's there's some teams that like just show up afterwards and collect data. There's some teams that do fighting. Like what what do you do?

SPEAKER_18

Well, we mainly do whatever we're told to do, but it's like we I um Simon, what do I say? I don't wanna tell her something wrong and her to run away. What do I tell her?

SPEAKER_03

Do you wanna put it on speakerphone so Simon can talk?

SPEAKER_18

I'm not entirely sure how to do that.

SPEAKER_07

Do you wanna hand the egg to Simon?

SPEAKER_18

Simon Simon uh jury-rigged this uh Isapatama to do different things, so I Simon, do you wanna talk to this person? As sh Simon's not really Simon's sort of doing something at the moment.

SPEAKER_06

How many of you are there?

SPEAKER_18

Three of us. Oh well, four of us, including me. Uh, we need five to sort of uh keep our stock standing where we're at at the current moment. We had we recently had a departure from our team. Uh they there was it was not dramatic. It was wasn't dramatic at all. It they got transferred to a more um they they stayed a motivated unit. Um good for them. Great for them. A little bad for us. But um we're yeah, we're not making the situation worse. Uh we're we're out here making things better.

unknown

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_09

Um Wow, you sound like I've felt for the last two days.

SPEAKER_07

I wish I knew the reference, but um Like just on edge, like everything is constantly falling apart, and everything you make just breaks in front of you, and there's nothing you can do except accept it. Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_27

What do you mean sure?

SPEAKER_18

Um Yeah, no a hundred percent. Uh that yep.

SPEAKER_10

Are you still there?

SPEAKER_09

It's really hard to believe you when you're like, I will tell you literally anything.

SPEAKER_18

I would you like me to tell you something different? Sure. Okay. We defin we don't need you.

SPEAKER_06

Oh god, so I can hang up this- No!

SPEAKER_07

No god, I I take it back the laughter's actually coming through the phone, by the way, it's not just me.

SPEAKER_24

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um How old are the other people? Are they also out of high school?

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, yeah, we don't have anyone uh in school right now. Uh okay. We're all at least over the age of 20.

SPEAKER_03

Alright. What do you hear do jobs besides cleaner stuff?

SPEAKER_18

Uh yeah, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02

Like what?

SPEAKER_18

Well, uh Simon's a computer coder, I think.

SPEAKER_10

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Is that is that right, Simon? Looks at him. I d he's just staring at me. I think maybe he might not have a job. Um I I worked sometimes as a part-time uh part-timer at uh uh Pizza Way.

SPEAKER_26

Um Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_18

If which everyone on the team gets the uh gets a cool a nice uh run-in, you can come in and get some uh discounts.

SPEAKER_21

Really?

SPEAKER_18

Well, to to reason.

SPEAKER_03

I didn't mean free or anything, I just assumed there was like uh, I don't know, five, ten percent friends and family something.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03

Um I'm not trying to get you fired, Tom and Agua.

SPEAKER_18

Chill. And Lena Lena definitely has a job. What is she?

SPEAKER_26

Question mark?

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, Lena. She's uh she's uh what what would you call it, Simon? Uh like a physical fitness trainer?

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah, and the last person?

SPEAKER_14

Uh we don't really ask what Tojuro does. Tojuro does what Tojiro does.

SPEAKER_25

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um shoot, it's still early, isn't it?

SPEAKER_07

Like afternoon.

SPEAKER_18

Coming into the afternoon, yeah.

SPEAKER_24

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna regret this, probably. But um Can I meet your team? In person, I guess.

SPEAKER_18

Yes, yes, for sure, for sure. Uh, do you do you know the dock district?

SPEAKER_03

Um if it's all the same to you, I would rather meet at the pizza place.

SPEAKER_14

I I probably wouldn't like to go there on my day off.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Different food place.

SPEAKER_18

Okay. Uh yeah, yeah, for sure. We can I can arrange that.

SPEAKER_04

Um What different food place would you like to go to?

SPEAKER_18

Um I j I don't mind.

SPEAKER_25

Okay, um.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. I know I'm describing a place in roughly the same district as my high school, like not close, but like the same economic level and stuff, okay. So I know a park where there's usually like food trucks. If you like like Okonomiaki or um the octopus balls on sticks, dongo.

SPEAKER_17

Do you like those?

SPEAKER_03

They're just they're they're cheap, they're easy, there's a lot of options. I don't know what five of you like.

SPEAKER_14

Love it. Absolutely love it.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, I'm gonna send you an address. Can you be there in like From the Doc? Like half an hour?

SPEAKER_15

We'll be there in twenty.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, I will be there in half an hour. Um, how will I recognize you?

SPEAKER_18

Um, great question.

SPEAKER_03

Uh send me a picture of yourself or something.

SPEAKER_20

Or uh yeah. Or are you breaking Digibod? Well, yeah, we're gonna have a Digibon with.

SPEAKER_03

That will help! That will help. Okay, great.

SPEAKER_18

Okay. Cool. Cool. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05

I haven't agreed to anything yet, but I'll see you in a half hour.

SPEAKER_18

I'll s I'll see you then. I love you, bye.

SPEAKER_05

What?

SPEAKER_20

I love you hard.

SPEAKER_00

I wasn't ready, but that was beautiful. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Alright, well, I'm gonna take Wispy, but I'm gonna ask him to go invisible. So that I look like a normal person.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

And I'm gonna go to the park and see what this clump of um very normal skilled people with their Digimon look like.

SPEAKER_03

This is a hor like objectively, this is a bad choice. But this is a hilarious thing that my phone just auto-dialed them, so I'm going with it, even though this is dumb.

SPEAKER_18

Right. It's hilarious. Okay. Are you going to park?

SPEAKER_03

Park can be loosely described because this is a post-apocalyptic urban setting, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Whatever you've got, I will take.

SPEAKER_18

As you're coming in, you'd come in over this way.

SPEAKER_09

Please don't be bagheads. Like we probably are.

SPEAKER_18

There is There is only one person here. Uh what is going on? There we go. As you see this man sitting against the thing. You walk in. He looks at you as he.

SPEAKER_00

I don't have a Digimon! I don't have a Digimon out! Mine is invisible. Does he have a Digimon?

SPEAKER_18

You do see sitting next to him. Sorry, that's not the right Digimon.

SPEAKER_09

No, that's on a different team. Vital of the barrel doesn't exist.

SPEAKER_18

That's the right Digimon.

SPEAKER_25

Oh, that's actually cool.

SPEAKER_09

Okay, I'm probably staring at that because that is legit one of the coolest things I've seen.

SPEAKER_18

Oh, why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, take a oh, why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer.

SPEAKER_18

There you go. See, we can do it. Calm down, Flame. Calm down, Flame. It's fine. Oh, you are you the weirdo on the phone?

SPEAKER_03

What a nice greeting. I don't think you're the person from the phone.

SPEAKER_18

No. I'm the guy that gets the yes as he wants to crack me's knuckles.

SPEAKER_06

What the heck is wrong with you?

SPEAKER_18

Uh he pulls down a piece of paper and says, uh, you're not leaving this uh this area till I get that uh till you sign this paper.

SPEAKER_27

You Simon or Tojiro?

SPEAKER_18

Oh, which do you fucking think?

SPEAKER_20

He stares you down ready to chase you if you run.

SPEAKER_03

Honestly, I don't know. If you've been sitting there listening to the conversation, you could be this annoyed.

SPEAKER_18

If I was Simon, I'd already be a wrinkled old fuck somewhere. I'd be dead. That old man needs to go uh fall into a coffin.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, that's that's a very good point. I didn't ask about uprageous old Simon.

SPEAKER_18

Uh I think I think that old fuck's like in his fifties.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Or 70s. Who knows with how it looks?

SPEAKER_05

He's teas old, I got it.

SPEAKER_24

Alright. Can you look hold on a minute.

SPEAKER_18

He looks at you. You shall be Koji.

SPEAKER_26

Benz.

SPEAKER_17

No fucking way.

SPEAKER_04

Do I recognize this person? Do I recognize this person? Roll a brain check.

SPEAKER_06

Who are you? And why do you know my name?

SPEAKER_05

Uh, I don't have any adversity tokens, so yeah, just ten.

SPEAKER_18

Ten is enough. Uh, it's not a hard check. As you remember back, you remember a kid named Tojiro. He was a scrawny little dude at your high school. This is definitely not Tojiro. But yeah, black-haired kid. He was small, he was like bullied every day by all the rich kids.

SPEAKER_03

You said I've only worked at this high school for like a week, and then I sublessed you.

SPEAKER_18

Your high school?

SPEAKER_03

Oh!

SPEAKER_18

Not the high school you're working at. The high school went to.

SPEAKER_03

That was the rich school.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

What was his last name?

SPEAKER_18

Uh, his last name? I've got it here. Uh uh, so it would be Tojuro uh Homura.

SPEAKER_10

Alright.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, Homura.

SPEAKER_03

What was the name of our school?

SPEAKER_24

You're like, jump, no, why?

SPEAKER_18

Bad Okay, it was me You are a professional. Tawada Minimi High School.

SPEAKER_03

Tawada Minami. Could we be an Academy? Sure. Academy.

SPEAKER_26

That sounds fancier. Did you go to Tawada Academy?

SPEAKER_18

Short, I know. No. What about it?

SPEAKER_03

Oh my gosh. Okay. Sorry. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_26

Yeah, it's Shelby.

SPEAKER_16

Wow.

SPEAKER_26

So weird.

SPEAKER_16

You're old.

SPEAKER_24

So are you?

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. Fuck fuck off. Um People get old. What's the problem?

SPEAKER_21

I didn't have the problem. Stop with this.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, that's right. People get old. You need to you need to get over it. At this point, Wispy appears and it stares him down and see. What?

SPEAKER_20

What motherfucker? What do you want? It's okay.

SPEAKER_18

That's your Digimon.

SPEAKER_24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

Oh. He pulls up his Sapatama as he uh places it over the top of his scans it as he rookie. I'm interested.

SPEAKER_09

Running over to see how that's done. Cause I went to high school with this guy. I'm not scared.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah. He looks at you as you get close and see the f f- How did you do that?

SPEAKER_03

I was trying to make mine do that earlier.

SPEAKER_18

Just have to use the Digitama app.

SPEAKER_03

Do I even have that doing it?

SPEAKER_18

I mean, he pulls it over as he Gimme you give me your Sapatama.

SPEAKER_03

I look at Wispy and hold my Sapatama out slowly, but if he starts growling, I'm gonna not do it.

SPEAKER_18

Uh he doesn't growl.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

So you pass what this guy goes through as he presses a bunch of things. It takes him a lot longer than it did for him to just bring this up.

SPEAKER_27

What are you doing?

SPEAKER_18

Eventually he sits there as he. Alright, there you go. You just press that circle there and that'll open it. We can go, Flame. So he starts walking.

SPEAKER_05

You just registered me, you bastard. Yep.

SPEAKER_20

Okay. You gave him it's a pajama! I know.

SPEAKER_21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Uh no, I walked into that, that's fair. Your parents disappointed in you for having Digimon.

SPEAKER_18

Hey, fuck you. You don't get to talk about my parents.

SPEAKER_03

Why?

SPEAKER_18

You don't get to talk shit about me. I'm not talking shit about you. Just cause you're ritzy and glamorous and think you're the greatest.

SPEAKER_03

Wait, you weren't?

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, I don't hit girls.

SPEAKER_25

How'd you get into the school?

SPEAKER_18

How'd I get into the school?

SPEAKER_25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

Because I'm oh I got in because I'm better than you.

SPEAKER_03

Seriously got an academic scholarship?

SPEAKER_15

F you.

SPEAKER_03

No, I do you know how hard those things are to get? Well, I guess you do.

SPEAKER_14

Do you want to roll another brains check?

SPEAKER_20

Yeah. It's not enough. It's not enough. You see his hands clench. He is seriously, like his teeth grinding and see.

SPEAKER_18

You fucking you trying to making fun of me?

SPEAKER_03

Have him roll something to try to find the answer to that question, please.

SPEAKER_18

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03

To see if he thinks I'm nine.

SPEAKER_18

She's not. She's just an idiot. Roll me a charm check.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

You have to be to nine. You wanna fucking die today? At this point you hear oh you hear someone I'll come your farm, Torgero.

SPEAKER_19

Come on.

SPEAKER_18

It's not a not the place all the time. You should see this man walking out. See what fucking Tomanaga sent you here?

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, he his expectation was that you would fuck this up. So he sent me to deal with it. Pride me away from my work and everything. So take a fucking walk. I'll deal with the initiation.

SPEAKER_05

See It was going okay.

SPEAKER_18

He looks back pissed off at you for saying that.

unknown

What?

SPEAKER_18

Simon walks up and see, don't worry about him. Lad's got some deep, deep uh anger issues.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I guess you weren't Lena. Where's your Digimon?

SPEAKER_19

Need to bring my Digimon everywhere I go.

SPEAKER_18

Not do I?

SPEAKER_25

So back at the base?

SPEAKER_18

He's got a life. I think he's uh he's probably going to get ice cream.

SPEAKER_03

Oh.

SPEAKER_19

You send him with money or no, I just tell him to go over and rob people.

SPEAKER_03

I'm really new at that?

SPEAKER_19

That's the joke.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Thanks.

SPEAKER_19

Let's take a walk. So you're you're a new cleaner.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, um that was that was last night, yes.

SPEAKER_19

Handsome fella. Sure he will be a great addition to the team.

SPEAKER_26

Thanks.

SPEAKER_18

Well, let's take a bit of a walk. We can talk, you can ask any questions that you want.

SPEAKER_03

Uh um, do you have social anxiety like Tomanaga does, or can you actually finish the sentence? You can finish the sentence. You did that earlier.

SPEAKER_18

No one has social anxiety like Tomanaga does.

SPEAKER_24

He seems really good at it. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_03

What uh what kind of expectations do you guys have for like um frequency or type of work? Like what do you guys do? Please don't just say cleaner stuff when they ask us. Like, number of times a month. How frequently are you exposed to near-death situations, that kind of actual thing.

SPEAKER_18

As much as you want to take on. You can go down, you can go get yourself a bounty, we'll back you up and follow you to do it.

SPEAKER_24

Oh.

SPEAKER_18

We our job here is to make sure everyone can pay their bills.

SPEAKER_24

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Beyond that, we're not really caring to go above and beyond.

SPEAKER_26

Yeah, just enough, I get it.

SPEAKER_03

I have no idea where where to get bounties.

SPEAKER_18

Um the show you there's sorry. Mainly uh there's a bounty office nearby. We go there, they give us the bounties, they give us anything's there, we get to use their technology to check things out. It's pretty easy.

SPEAKER_03

Um this is awkward. Uh I got attacked by an Ogremon this morning and defeated it and turned it in, and they said something about me possibly stealing a bounty. Any chance we can go check and see if that one's like not claimed yet, so that I could claim it since I did it.

SPEAKER_18

If you've already brought it in, they would have taken it down. Okay, okay. Unless cool cool.

SPEAKER_03

Alright. Well, can we can we go there anyway? I would like to know where it is.

SPEAKER_18

Sure. We can go for a walk. Come, come on, we'll uh take you take you down there. Let me first grab my partner and we can check it out. As you come along to uh small ice cream car, which I'll just say like down here somewhere.

SPEAKER_12

Sure.

SPEAKER_18

Sure. Uh as you come forth, you would see sitting outside, you would hear, Oh, I don't know what I really want, but oh my god. Two ice creams, please. Whatever ice cream you would like to give me, I will take.

SPEAKER_05

This is a toy version of 101s from the original show.

SPEAKER_18

It is. And it sort of is, but it isn't. Uh, this is a toy version of Psychemon, which is a variant of Gabumon.

SPEAKER_22

Okay, okay. Got you.

SPEAKER_18

But yes, very close.

SPEAKER_03

Um, as he does Wispy look like he's interested in ice cream. Wispy's never had ice cream. I'm gonna buy two kinds of ice cream as well.

SPEAKER_18

You buy two kinds of ice cream, uh Simon pays for it as he sees it.

SPEAKER_24

It doesn't you don't have to.

SPEAKER_18

Don't worry about it, it's fine. I'm happy to pay. Plushie here. Oh plushie here is very intrigued by the coldness of it.

SPEAKER_17

I love me some ice cream.

SPEAKER_24

Okay, wispy?

SPEAKER_17

A different type. I don't know if you I'm not a cold type, but I like cold type things.

SPEAKER_03

That's great. I'm not cold blooded, but I like cold things too. Okay, um. Wispy, I don't know if you eat, but uh, do you wanna try one of these? And I will let him pick.

SPEAKER_25

Which one?

SPEAKER_18

And points his head at chocolate.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, I'll hand him the chocolate one.

SPEAKER_18

It just goes into the darkness.

SPEAKER_03

Wait.

SPEAKER_18

There is no visible reaction.

SPEAKER_03

Wait a few seconds. Did you like that? Do you ever want to have that again if we see more ice cream?

SPEAKER_18

He's just staring at you. Okay. Not a talkative one, hey?

SPEAKER_03

No. But normally we could do some kind of charites. It seems like ice cream's not a big hit. That's that's fine. We'll find something you like.

SPEAKER_18

Let's well, most of our cleaner work happens. We like to spread ourselves along the weekends.

SPEAKER_24

That would be great.

SPEAKER_18

In between. Do uh if you're up for like stay count work or you have a day off, you can come down and do such uh check things out with us. Do some investigations.

SPEAKER_03

Have a day job Monday to Friday.

SPEAKER_18

Uh no, Tomanaga said so.

SPEAKER_21

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_18

So that's completely fine. You can take your time, do your job, and then meet up with us whenever you have time.

SPEAKER_24

Right. Okay, uh completely different question. Um so I haven't seen Tojira in a few years.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That didn't go great, but how's he doing? Like in general, is he okay?

SPEAKER_18

As I say, kid's got a lot of built-up rage in him.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but people aren't. I guess people wouldn't be picking on him if he's strong now.

SPEAKER_18

Nobody picks on Tojuro. Is there anything Him and not to mention he's the only one in our group that can keep his Digimon in its champion form? Which is impressive.

SPEAKER_25

That's why it's so cool looking.

SPEAKER_12

Sorry.

SPEAKER_25

Okay. Alright. Um.

SPEAKER_22

Can I see if I remember anything that he likes from when we knew each other in high school?

SPEAKER_18

He was a real sensitive kid. Um, he liked all the like you already rolled for most of the thing. You know who he is. He was like, Well, yeah, but I mean, like he was always happy doing art and things like that. He was he was top of the class. He was smart as shit.

SPEAKER_26

Oh. Hey. He really was top of the class. Clearly, I did not pay attention.

SPEAKER_18

He was a big nerd. A lot of people like Bolydion. Like lots.

SPEAKER_03

No, I get you. I feel like Shelby probably didn't, but she was just one of those people that was like there. So not helping, not hurting, but just fading into the background. And I don't think she was top of her class because her brains are not great. Nope. B's and C's, maybe, you know? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, well, I I think I have at least enough social knowledge to know that I should not just ask this older guy tons of questions about the guy I went to high school with because it's going to look a certain way. Um, do I have any Digimon questions?

SPEAKER_18

That is a great question. Do you have any Digimon questions?

SPEAKER_03

Um, I have the scanner app. Scanner app works. I could practice it on his Digimon, but it's obviously um it's obviously gonna be a rookie form based on what Simon just said. They told me about the hours, he's gonna show me where the bounty office is. I've already signed up, so I no longer have to make that choice. No. We have switched over to just vibing with the changes, so no, sounds great.

SPEAKER_18

Welcome. Welcome to the team.

SPEAKER_03

Thanks. Is the team name up for um The Lamplighters?

SPEAKER_24

Yeah, no. What's what's this what does the lamp lighters mean?

SPEAKER_18

Okay, uh, I have the meaning for this. Let me just get it.

SPEAKER_03

Seriously? Did they exist before the session or did you make them up in the last session?

SPEAKER_18

No, no, I've I've had them for ages.

SPEAKER_03

Uh and you definitely don't try to railroad me on to things.

SPEAKER_18

No.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

You could have gone anywhere. But I had these guys ready, and I was like, these guys are cool. Like, give you the option to see them if I get the opportunity, but that's about it.

SPEAKER_07

I it's just the realization that it's my sassy phone AI who's like, they're called bottom of the barrel, I'm calling them. Uh, instead of it actually being the team name. It's like, hmm.

SPEAKER_18

The lamplighters. So it's a historical reference. Lamplighters were the people who lit the street lamps at dusk in pre-electric cities. They worked in the shadows, they kept city safe from unseen dangers, and they walked alone at night. Uh, it was meant to be a metaphor for bounty hunters who cleaned digital corruption before it spreads.

SPEAKER_24

Who came up with the nymph?

SPEAKER_18

Uh he get kind of sad. Is he uh oh. That's uh collective sort of thing, I guess. In a way. But um sorry. An old old friend of ours. She um doesn't work with us anymore.

SPEAKER_21

She's the one who went to the motivated team.

SPEAKER_19

Um can I be real with you?

SPEAKER_12

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_18

Sure. She didn't just leave us. She sort of She started this, we were all very close. Oh. And she sort of when she left, kind of made a big deal of it. She was good at what she did, so most groups wanted her, but she um I'm old enough that I I don't really care, but the others were pretty rocked by it. They uh she did not hold back.

SPEAKER_25

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

But just her first name, so if someone mentions her in conversation, I know who it is and not to ask about it.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Uh her first name?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Or whatever you guys would refer to her as. So if somebody says her name just so I know this is serious. It's not just like, oh, who's that person? Do they work next door?

SPEAKER_18

Uh so sh her name was blah blah blah da da da. Kiho. Kiyomori.

SPEAKER_26

Okay. Thanks.

SPEAKER_18

Thank you. Honestly.

SPEAKER_26

What?

SPEAKER_18

Before you gave us the call.

SPEAKER_13

Uh it's easy to say that we were a bit um rattled.

SPEAKER_12

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_13

You see, when you Sorry. When you are a cleaner, you've sort of gotta have enough uh we're the we're the lowest in the cleaner rankings at the moment.

SPEAKER_25

You don't see.

SPEAKER_18

However, most of the cleaner rankings are taken by the amount of cleaners you have. So it's an individual basis as well as a group.

SPEAKER_26

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

She put us on a level where we were still not going to be uh how do you how would you put it?

SPEAKER_12

Like you weren't the top, but you were still respected or something?

SPEAKER_18

No, no, we were never respected, but it was more of uh when you're too low, the public uh service doesn't care for it. So if they can, they'll just simply dissolve you.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

Thankfully, if you have more than uh we learnt early on, even if you're the five lowest cleaners in the thing, your combined group rating is enough to tow over their current line.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_25

Okay. Oh! Um that means I have a ranking.

SPEAKER_24

Right, because I've turned something in already.

SPEAKER_18

You would then, yeah. Definitely.

SPEAKER_26

How do I see it?

SPEAKER_18

Should be on your digital map.

SPEAKER_26

We'll open the app!

SPEAKER_18

Open the app. You're pretty low amongst the things, but I'm not the five lowest? You're not you're not in the 400s at the moment.

SPEAKER_03

Um so give me some perspective. How many of us are there? Is it like 500 plus, 400 plus? What are what is not being 400?

SPEAKER_13

The top five.

SPEAKER_03

So I'm in between 400 and 500.

SPEAKER_02

No, I'm below 500.

SPEAKER_03

What where am I? Where am I?

SPEAKER_02

You're above 400. I'm above 400. Okay. Alright, I'm in the bottom 100, but I have a rank.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

That's right. So you'll you'll be Okay. Your status as a cleaner will be very well added to our books, essentially.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Cool. Alright, um. Alright, well, since there's not a decision anymore, since Kojuro decided for me, um. Let's just go to the bounty office. It it's okay. It's okay, man.

SPEAKER_18

The kid needs to learn not to push people.

SPEAKER_03

Don't worry about it. I understand why he does that.

SPEAKER_18

You understand?

SPEAKER_21

I watched some of the stuff that put him on the path that brought him here. And I didn't do anything about it.

SPEAKER_16

You were involved with uh the sh are you from Shangri-La?

SPEAKER_24

No!

SPEAKER_01

Why was our school inside the egg?

SPEAKER_18

No. No, it was not.

SPEAKER_25

We went to school together. Is he from inside the Shangri-Li egg, actually?

SPEAKER_13

Well, he um He ended up in the Shangri-Lai. He made it Yeah. Oh. But um It's He didn't come back out.

SPEAKER_10

But what does that mean?

SPEAKER_13

That's a rough, rough subject. We'll um maybe with time.

SPEAKER_25

We'll just roll it back to don't worry about him being rude, okay? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

Just ignore him being rude. He'll um No. He'll liven up to you. It'll take time, but he'll liven up.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, this is just going to the bounty office.

SPEAKER_18

Sure. As you start heading off, you get a message on yourself, Dummer. Uh it is from Slobay.

SPEAKER_14

Uh, with the tagline I may need some help.

SPEAKER_05

And that's where we're gonna end the session.

SPEAKER_18

And that's where we're gonna end the session.

SPEAKER_19

You knew it was coming.

SPEAKER_06

I can't finish anything.

SPEAKER_03

So this was kind of a mixed session. On one hand, my parents didn't really care that I almost died. But on the other hand, at least I have a cleaner team now. So that's resolved. We gotta we gotta really stretch for the silver linings. But they're there. Thanks for listening.

SPEAKER_12

I'll see you next week. Bye.

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