Hey, everybody. It's me, your GM, Isaac Allen Burns. And right now, I am also your editor here to tell you that I have some exciting news for you today. You see, last week's episode was so good, and their session was just packed full of so much stuff that I had to make some hard decisions of what to keep in. But I thought that as a treat to you, there were still some things that I thought would be great for us to hear.
Isaac Allen Burns:And so I've decided to edit into the burning midnight oil or wait. Burn the midnight oil and edit just a little extra more just for all y'all to enjoy Pistachio's time and the festival so that you can enjoy Pistachio's day before the festival as well. Cue that music.
Rowan Collins:Featuring me, Pistachio. Squawk.
Isaac Allen Burns:Allow me to set the stage for you a little bit. There was a bit of time before Crank actually ran off on his own to go test out his brand new powers. And in that time, there were deliberations of what Pistachio and them could all be doing, how best to split their time. Let's clue in now to the rest of that conversation.
Joe Diametti:I say we get some of our vets involved. I'm talking hitchins. I'm talking the librarian. I'm talking not Cyrus. Never mind.
Rowan Collins:Why not Cyrus?
Joe Diametti:He's busy with the window change or something. Okay.
Rowan Collins:Well, my dad is a vet.
Joe Diametti:Yes. Your dad. We get everybody we know and post them up at strategic areas in the town.
Rowan Collins:Okay. Alright. What about finding Ash?
Joe Diametti:Well, that's why we're posting up in different areas, to keep an eye out for anybody that seems suspicious like Ash.
Rowan Collins:Okay.
Joe Diametti:He's definitely gonna show up.
Rowan Collins:Okay.
Joe Diametti:Other people I'm betting are gonna show up.
Rowan Collins:Okay.
Joe Diametti:Sebastian.
Isaac Allen Burns:Uh-huh.
Annie Hawthorne:Oh, yeah, Sebastian.
Joe Diametti:That squirrelly fuck.
Rowan Collins:Uh-huh.
Joe Diametti:So we need to keep an eye out and we need to make sure that we have coverage.
Rowan Collins:Okay. Alright. Well, if let's see. If you wouldn't handle the peacekeepers or I guess we could do them together, but we could also divide and conquer. I'll go talk to the vets.
Joe Diametti:Yeah. That's probably a good idea.
Annie Hawthorne:What should I do?
Joe Diametti:Well, you have the staff.
Annie Hawthorne:Should I just protect the staff?
Rowan Collins:Yeah. Well, if you want, I'm sure my sister could use help on the farm if you don't mind.
Annie Hawthorne:Okay.
Rowan Collins:That way you're here. The staff is with
Isaac Allen Burns:Why don't
Joe Diametti:crank. Why don't you, if it's okay, this is guys, we are a team. I'm the boss and the ultimate decision maker, but I'm taking suggestions.
Rowan Collins:Okay.
Joe Diametti:If you want, why don't you go to the bakery, get some pastries and start making your delivery rounds?
Rowan Collins:Uh-huh.
Joe Diametti:Make sure post doesn't get involved and start scoping out the areas that we can plant everybody. Start looking for pockets weakness. You were in the military. That's true.
Rowan Collins:That is a good thing. My only concern about that is that Craig has the staff on his back.
Joe Diametti:Craig's holding the staff.
Rowan Collins:Right. And Oh, it's wrapped up.
Annie Hawthorne:No one knows what it is.
Joe Diametti:They just think the robot is Weebly.
Rowan Collins:So what is the work I'll I'll I'll follow it to you here. Okay. I'll follow it. But what happens, right, if the mayor who a % knew that there was a dying invasion
Joe Diametti:didn't know that. There's no way.
Rowan Collins:There's no way
Joe Diametti:there I've talked to the mayor. Trust me. I've talked to him extensively. He told me, I think, every secret he's ever had.
Rowan Collins:Oh, wow.
Joe Diametti:Okay. Oh, okay. He was kept in the dark on us.
Rowan Collins:Oh, okay.
Joe Diametti:The mayor is not to blame here, and the mayor is going to give us our recommendations, Pistachio. So we need him.
Rowan Collins:I just bet what if somebody sees Crank who knows about the staff and figures out it was missing?
Joe Diametti:You can't hide Crank.
Rowan Collins:We could stay at the farm? Nobody coming to the paid up farm on the Apple Festival day.
Joe Diametti:I think Crank can handle. Crank has killed a lot more things than we have.
Rowan Collins:True. Crank also tried to punch Rich.
Annie Hawthorne:Oh, he deserved it.
Rowan Collins:It might be Yes.
Joe Diametti:Yeah. Don't just I know. But don't
Annie Hawthorne:If anybody knew about this, I bet it was him.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. My more concern is that more people will get punched and get exploded.
Joe Diametti:Well, let's go let Crank decide.
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. Well, why don't I come with one of you?
Joe Diametti:Perfect. I'll take Crank.
Rowan Collins:Uh-oh. Kapi, can I talk to you really quickly? One second. Okay. Pistachio pulls Kapi aside and goes, Kapi, I'm going to be really honest with you.
Rowan Collins:I don't think I could be alone today.
Joe Diametti:Okay. Alright, Crank. You're going with Pistachio.
Rowan Collins:Yay. Okay. Best friends. Best friends day. Okay.
Rowan Collins:Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns:You split up. We'll start with the people who are closest, which is Pistachio and Crank who take two steps to the left and you're on the farm. You see that you see that your sister, Hazel, is sort of up closer to the house. You see that your father is there. He's got a sling on his arm.
Isaac Allen Burns:And they're sort of talking, kind of pointing at the farm and, like, making hand gestures by talking.
Rowan Collins:We kind of approach, but, like, not intentionally stealthily, but not, like, making it the scene because I'm kinda wanna eavesdrop just a little bit.
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. You yeah. You sneak up. It's not hard to eavesdrop. They're kind of in an argument.
Rowan Collins:Oh. You
Isaac Allen Burns:hear as you approach, you kinda hear as you come into you hear, like, the yelling as you get closer. It's kinda unintelligible from the distance, but as you get closer, you hear Hazel basically yell. So we're just gonna give up then. You're we're just gonna give up all our hard works for nothing. Hazel is very frustrated and kind of, like, stomps her foot and starts walking towards the front door to leave.
Rowan Collins:Oh, sorry, Hazel. Hey, dad. Hey.
Isaac Allen Burns:Hey, Pistachio. Hey there. Hey, kid. What oh, where you been? Where you I don't remember you coming home.
Isaac Allen Burns:I was sleeping on the couch last night. I didn't see you come home.
Rowan Collins:Oh, sorry.
Isaac Allen Burns:With your friends early in the morning, and then you never came back.
Rowan Collins:Oh, yeah. Sorry. Official of the Trian guild business.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, I'm sure.
Rowan Collins:I'm sure. They kept me out late, but don't worry, dad. I didn't do anything too weird. Oh,
Isaac Allen Burns:I know. Anyway Well, Stavagio, that's the laugh you do whenever you're lying. Are you lying to me right now?
Rowan Collins:No. Nothing weird at all. Just the usual can turn into a no no. Anyway, hi, dad.
Isaac Allen Burns:What was that last part? You turn into
Rowan Collins:a what? So Hazel seems bad. What's going on with her?
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, yeah. Hazel's just a little upset because, you know, the Apple Festival's tomorrow, and we're supposed to have the field wrapped up, everything wrapped up in time for it, but we just you know, we're we don't have enough manpower to get all of it put together. You know, there's gonna probably be some leftovers. I don't you know, your brother is still recoup recuperating and my arm is still not good. So Hazel just can't do it on her own.
Isaac Allen Burns:But this is about as hard as she tries. We're not gonna be able to get the whole field in time for the festival, which sort of bums her out because, know
Rowan Collins:Should we not pull in any favors from anybody else?
Isaac Allen Burns:Well, yeah, most of the other farmers are sort of in the same boat we are. They're getting ready for the festival too. They're doing their last harvests because, you know, at the Apple Festival, we get a lot of business. It's sort of our it's the equivalent of our own, you know, big business day. But so we're gonna be sales will be a little depressed.
Isaac Allen Burns:We won't be able to, you know, sell as much, but, hey, it happens. You know? This ain't the first year that the family took some took some losses. It certainly won't be the listen. Put a hand on your shoulder, pistachio.
Isaac Allen Burns:A classic old person talking to a young person thing, I guess, and says, listen. You don't need to worry about it. It's okay. Let's you know, Hazel's just upset because she's been working real hard. You know, she's been dead in the farm probably harder than any of us after your brother got hit in the face and I shattered my arm in clearly five, fifteen different places.
Rowan Collins:Then It was only two, dad.
Isaac Allen Burns:You know, jury's still out, but, you know, it hurts bad enough. So, anyways, you know, it's just tough. She's taking it hard, but don't you but don't you worry about it. Okay? Don't you?
Isaac Allen Burns:You keep doing your adventure, good old stuff. You're not gonna have to worry about this farm soon. Soon you'll be a real good doctor.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. That's right. Hey. Hey, dad. Speaking of which, you're a vet.
Rowan Collins:Right? You used to you fought in the war way back when?
Isaac Allen Burns:I sure did. You know, the civil war was my last tour. I, you know, I didn't see fry I didn't see hard combat. I was sort of in the in the rearguard, but, you
Rowan Collins:know, you're not how to, like, scout out an area and stuff, right, for, like, I do for extra protection?
Isaac Allen Burns:You know, I was I was infantry, so I kinda I would do whatever the what the corporal said told me to do, and I'd do it well. And that was kinda my whole thing. But, you know, I I could I have some experience. Why are you asking this strange question for stat? This is oddly so.
Isaac Allen Burns:You know, I don't typically talk about
Rowan Collins:my I you don't really like to talk about it. But so oh, okay, dad. Don't tell Hazel because I know she's already in a mood, and she already is is very upset about it. But Kapi got us an exclusive thing with the with the mayor where we're supposed to be defense, extra extra security for the festival. And so Kapi thought it might be really cool if we got some people like some vets like yourself to take a look at some key points and the town just to make sure that everything is kind of running smoothly.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, why? Well, that's great. Oh, this is interesting. That's never been done before. Is okay.
Isaac Allen Burns:Okay.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. Like, you know,
Isaac Allen Burns:I thought Kathy was sort of a deadbeat who didn't really try hard. Oh, that's curious. He's doing security here.
Rowan Collins:Oh, he's not anything like that. Dad. What? He's my boss. You can't talk about that like that.
Rowan Collins:Kapi's really cool. Kapi's really cool, dad. You go dad, look at me. That's my boss. Don't don't talk like that about Kapi.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, alright. Hey. You know, you I guess you know him better than I do. Alright.
Rowan Collins:That's right. I know him way better, and he has a lot of good ideas, dad.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, goodness. Okay. Oh, gosh.
Rowan Collins:Is that right, Craig?
Annie Hawthorne:Yes. Yeah. He's very smart.
Rowan Collins:Yes. Anyway, so crank. Right?
Annie Hawthorne:Yes.
Isaac Allen Burns:Can I talk to you for a second? Hey, Pistachio. Just wait right here for a second. You see that their father pulls you aside and says, hey, crank. Hey.
Isaac Allen Burns:Can you be honest with me? Dad. Yeah. That's funny.
Annie Hawthorne:Yeah. I'm I'm a very honest individual.
Isaac Allen Burns:Has this has this Kapi made any moves on my child? Would you know? He hasn't done anything on tour towards my kid. Right?
Rowan Collins:No. Alright.
Annie Hawthorne:Are you sure? Not.
Isaac Allen Burns:I was just oddly defensive. I was just very smart.
Annie Hawthorne:Like Scarlet.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, that's oh, still? Yeah. And Oh, boy. Oh, okay. Well okay.
Isaac Allen Burns:I think that makes me feel better. Okay. No more. Okay. Well, Frank, you just listen.
Isaac Allen Burns:Do an old man a favor.
Annie Hawthorne:Of course.
Isaac Allen Burns:You ever see him do anything untowards towards my child? K? You know what I mean? Do you know what I'm talking about when I say that? Can you
Annie Hawthorne:can you be more specific?
Isaac Allen Burns:Like, if Kapi, you know, lingers a little too long or he's, you know, touching Pistachio on the sole shoulder or elsewhere.
Joe Diametti:Can we just change the word child to, like, full grown person? Like, if anyone touches, like or if he touches my full grown makes a move towards my full grown person. Alright.
Annie Hawthorne:Just to
Rowan Collins:be clear just to be clear, everybody. Alright. Everybody, pause for the for the listeners. Pistachio is a full grown fawn. They're like the equivalent of, like, low twenties as a human.
Isaac Allen Burns:So Pistachio's father looks at you and says, just make sure the Kapi doesn't mess with my baby. Okay? My baby child who to me is always gonna be a child baby, a baby child.
Annie Hawthorne:You know, I think that Pistachio is old enough to make their own decisions, but I also don't think that Kapi is their type or that Pistachio is Kapi's type, to be frank.
Isaac Allen Burns:Is Kapi your type?
Annie Hawthorne:Because I I don't I don't have a type. I don't experience romantic or sexual attraction.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh. Okay. Okay. I don't know if I feel better or worse about this, but I'm just gonna you know what? Thanks.
Isaac Allen Burns:Just, you know, you tell me if anything happened.
Annie Hawthorne:Right? Of course.
Isaac Allen Burns:K. It's just a power dynamic. Anyways okay. They turned back and he says, yeah. So we I've talked to somebodies of mine.
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. Because I know a couple of the vets in town who fought.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. I was about to go actually talk to a few of them too. I know of well, like, the the the other the turd of guy, he's one.
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. Hitchens. Hitchens.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. Hitchens is one.
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. You go do that. There's a problem. There's approximately actually, Joe, I want you right now to roll me a d 12.
Joe Diametti:Yep. Five.
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. It's well, okay. There's like five other people I know in town who are vets who haven't been named in the story yet. So I'll go talk to them. I think we can bolster up the town a little bit.
Isaac Allen Burns:What a good what a good plan. You know?
Rowan Collins:Yeah. Yeah. It is a good plan. We're gonna make sure that this Apple's Festival runs smoothly like peanut butter.
Isaac Allen Burns:Why? Yeah. I yeah. I get
Annie Hawthorne:You know, sometimes peanut butter is not smooth. Just saying.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. We, yeah, we we sell that kind too. But, like, mostly, it's smooth.
Joe Diametti:What kind?
Rowan Collins:Crunchy.
Isaac Allen Burns:Crunchy sells really good, actually. You'd be surprised. And people prefer it. Some people say it's the only way to have it. But, anyways yeah.
Isaac Allen Burns:You do that. I'll I'll make that happen. And, you know, we'll see.
Rowan Collins:Okay.
Isaac Allen Burns:You know, the Apple Festival, it really doesn't hasn't gone smooth in the last two hundred and thirty eight years it's happened. So
Rowan Collins:Well, I have a very strong bad feeling.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, alright. Well, I trust you, Pistachio, because you're my child. You're my still my baby, and I'll always love you.
Rowan Collins:Literally, like, 30 years old.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, I still remember when you were just a little child just rolling around. You know your first words were data? Yeah. That's right. Your first words were data.
Isaac Allen Burns:That was me. I so proud. Told everyone down.
Annie Hawthorne:Go to the library now.
Rowan Collins:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry, dad. Official adventurer's business. I gotta go.
Rowan Collins:Bye.
Isaac Allen Burns:Alright. Bye. They
Rowan Collins:will, like, kiss their dad out there. Little chick could go, bye, dad. Bye. Don't be so hard on his. Okay.
Rowan Collins:Bye.
Annie Hawthorne:What was that? Pistachios, dad.
Isaac Allen Burns:You two leave and head towards the library.
Annie Hawthorne:Your dad's got real weird energy.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. I mean, that's just kind of my family. I think they we attract each other. Like, you met my mom. She's also kind of a lot.
Annie Hawthorne:Yeah.
Rowan Collins:What did he say to you?
Annie Hawthorne:He just went on and on about Kapi making a move on you. And I was like, why would Kapi ever I don't I don't think that.
Rowan Collins:He is I I feel like my dad thinks that everybody is going to fall in love with me just because I'm my mother's child. And I it just it's not the way that life works, dad. Plus, I'm not into Kapi. Kapi is, like, very much not my type.
Annie Hawthorne:I shouldn't think so.
Rowan Collins:And also, I'm not Kapi's type.
Annie Hawthorne:That's what I said.
Isaac Allen Burns:You know?
Rowan Collins:Kapi is my dad's type and my mom's type. And probably Wally's type if Wally was a little drunk. Not Hazel's, though.
Annie Hawthorne:He does seem to be a lot of people's type. Maybe your dad is projecting.
Rowan Collins:I think so. I think my dad is projecting a little bit. Is he so let's see. I think what is happening is he thinks Kapi is really, really cute, And he's trying to beg him, you know. He's trying to be like, oh, this guy's not good.
Rowan Collins:Right? Like, oh, he's a scoundrel. Oh. But he's really into scoundrels.
Annie Hawthorne:Oh, I see.
Rowan Collins:I totally would % believe that.
Annie Hawthorne:I just found it odd that I don't even know your dad's name, and he cornered me.
Rowan Collins:Well, his name is Cashew.
Annie Hawthorne:Cashew. I've just been calling him Pistachio's dad.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. Papa Cashew. He trusts people a lot, Greg. He's also really dramatic. If you haven't noticed, his arm isn't that bad.
Rowan Collins:He could totally help Hazel if he tried.
Annie Hawthorne:Yeah. I feel so bad for her. Yeah. I feel bad for her too. She seems
Rowan Collins:upset. Maybe if
Isaac Allen Burns:You see a little voice comes out of the library, which you're now in front of, and she says, oh, do we feel really bad about? Oh, hi, mom. Hey. Hey, Priscilla.
Annie Hawthorne:About Hazel. Do you know Hazel Drew?
Isaac Allen Burns:Yes. Cashew's daughter. Yeah. I know Hazel.
Annie Hawthorne:Pistachio's mom's daughter. Pistachio's dad's daughter.
Isaac Allen Burns:Both of their daughters, in fact. Yes. Or at least that's what we're led to believe.
Rowan Collins:I mean, she doesn't look like anybody else in town. So
Isaac Allen Burns:That's very true. You troops have one specific physical thing that sets you apart from all the other fawns in town.
Rowan Collins:That's true. Our animal magnetism.
Isaac Allen Burns:That's right. All you troops, you just love animals. They are drawn to you.
Rowan Collins:That's true. That is not what I meant. But, yes,
Isaac Allen Burns:that probably why that Ashenboro came up and splooged all over your brother.
Rowan Collins:They they do what now?
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. He went up and just vomited on him. Rounds all over his face.
Rowan Collins:Right. Yeah. Vomited. Yeah.
Isaac Allen Burns:On him.
Rowan Collins:Yep. Yes.
Isaac Allen Burns:That's what Kashy told us at the, you know, poker night last night.
Annie Hawthorne:Oh, oh. Yeah. I think I think your dad might need a thesaurus. I can get him one.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. I think he needs a thesaurus, and Kapi needs dictionary. Hey. Good thing we're at the library. Oh, yeah.
Isaac Allen Burns:I got a thesaurus.
Rowan Collins:Oh, fantastic.
Isaac Allen Burns:We also have a dictionary, but it is quite old. You won't find some more modern words like novocite or Or
Rowan Collins:splooge in there?
Isaac Allen Burns:Splooge is unfortunately not in there.
Rowan Collins:Oh, okay. How about nuttin'?
Isaac Allen Burns:Well, you know, nuttin' is the verb that does describe farming for nuts.
Rowan Collins:It is true, but does it have the most recent one?
Joe Diametti:Craig ever read the book that he gave you?
Annie Hawthorne:I don't think I have. No.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, it's still in the chest.
Annie Hawthorne:About that.
Isaac Allen Burns:You're so enticed by the magic of the staff.
Rowan Collins:So, Craigsbob, were you That's me. What is
Isaac Allen Burns:here thinking about busting nuts. Speaking. Don't mind me.
Rowan Collins:Speaking of people who I don't know their name are, is there a better name to call you besides Craigsbob?
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. My name's Rosette.
Rowan Collins:Oh, okay. Alright.
Isaac Allen Burns:Nice to meet you.
Rowan Collins:Nice to meet you, Rosette. You are a vet. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns:No. I'm a librarian, actually. Well I don't I don't use No.
Rowan Collins:I meant like a veteran.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, yes. Yes. I was.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. You've fought in the war.
Isaac Allen Burns:I sure have. Not in the last civil war, but in the war before that one.
Rowan Collins:So cool. What did you do?
Isaac Allen Burns:Well, I did a lot of things in the war. Let me tell you, Pastel. How old are you again?
Rowan Collins:I'm, like, way I'm old. I'm an adult. I'm an adult. Just let's link what appointment would I have an adult?
Isaac Allen Burns:Out of the army. I tell you, the general, he was a looker.
Rowan Collins:Oh, what did the what did the general look like?
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, let me tell you. I had these broad shoulders. Oh, he had a good beard too.
Rowan Collins:Oh, wow.
Isaac Allen Burns:He kept it well groomed. That wasn't the only thing he kept well groomed. Let me tell you.
Rowan Collins:Okay. I think this is petering off to a different direction than I wanted. Petering. Petering.
Isaac Allen Burns:Why did he ask about my time at
Rowan Collins:the moment?
Isaac Allen Burns:What was artillery? I got to stay back there and kill people from afar. I didn't have to see their dead broken bodies. It was great.
Rowan Collins:Pistachio just, like, takes a second and looks off into the middle distance, shakes themselves, and goes, oh, but so so we're the Adventuring Guild.
Isaac Allen Burns:That's what a lot of my friends look like whenever they would talk about the war.
Rowan Collins:We we are with the Adventuring Guild, and we have been asked by the mayor to do a very special security detail. And our boss, Kapi, came up with this fantastic idea that we ask our vets to, like, kinda scout out, like, some places and kinda stand guard in certain areas that, you know, might be targeted. You know? Right? This is this is a big deal because, like, you know, people are coming to town, so we're just trying to make it as safe as possible.
Rowan Collins:So would you be interested in, like, helping us out?
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, I see sort of like sentries. You're putting down defensive positions. You know, as I was artillery, I'm not so good at, you know, I'm not so good at finding where they'll be, but I am good at cutting them off at the pass.
Rowan Collins:Oh, fantastic. So would you like to put a be a, like, a setup somewhere? Maybe, like, a way into town or something?
Isaac Allen Burns:Well, you know, you said your boss's name was Kapi. Right?
Rowan Collins:Yeah.
Isaac Allen Burns:Well, let me tell you something, Pistachio. A little word of elderly advice. You know, you probably wanna call a meeting of some kind. You know, it's kind of late notice. The festival is tomorrow.
Rowan Collins:Oh. Right.
Isaac Allen Burns:But still have you know, call everybody together, figure out a time, and come up with a game plan, of course, plan of action, plan a, plan b.
Rowan Collins:Okay. Well, is there a place that you guys typically meet?
Joe Diametti:Mom card. Call the mom card.
Rowan Collins:An internal voice speaks to girl. I can't
Isaac Allen Burns:say, pull the mom card.
Rowan Collins:You'd be like, mom, please. Mom?
Annie Hawthorne:Is it there a meeting room in the library?
Isaac Allen Burns:Well, it's so funny you mentioned that there is. I was just thinking I need to clear that out, actually. I got a couple of old books back there that I had to move out. I think it gives me a reason to finally do it. I can clear that out.
Isaac Allen Burns:We can have a meeting here.
Rowan Collins:Oh, cool. Would you be willing to help us spread the word to all the other vets?
Isaac Allen Burns:Sure. I mean, there's, you know, there's a couple of us still around town. There's about five others who I don't play poker with and thus aren't named, so I can talk to them a little bit.
Rowan Collins:I think
Isaac Allen Burns:Let them know.
Rowan Collins:My dad is also doing that. And I guess, could you call your poker group up?
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, yeah. You know, your father's in the poker group, also Farmer Hitchens.
Rowan Collins:Yes.
Isaac Allen Burns:He's a hoot and a half. I tell you. Yes. If you weren't so short, he'd be a looker.
Rowan Collins:Yeah. He I guess he does have a nice beard, so it's that seems to be what you're into.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, well, you know, not on a dwarf.
Rowan Collins:Oh. That's interesting. Okay.
Isaac Allen Burns:We can't trust dwarves, really.
Rowan Collins:I feel like this is Peter to get to a direction I am not comfortable with. Well, okay.
Isaac Allen Burns:Thank you. Peter got me thinking about the general again.
Rowan Collins:Oh, okay. Well, thank you, Rosette. We'll put it here. We'll do it around, I guess, right before sunset.
Isaac Allen Burns:Oh, sure. I'm sure Cyrus already knows too. So I don't know. I don't have to worry about telling him, I'm sure.
Annie Hawthorne:No. Not at No. Tell Cyrus. He'll he'll be fine.
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. Of course. I'll clear out the meeting room so that you can use it for later today or tonight or whenever. I'll be here.
Rowan Collins:Okay. Thanks, mom.
Isaac Allen Burns:If you find any
Annie Hawthorne:more magic books, let me know.
Isaac Allen Burns:Sure thing. Gotta clean off the old rifle while I wait.
Rowan Collins:Is that another euphemism?
Isaac Allen Burns:What? Mhmm. Oh. No. I have an old rifle.
Rowan Collins:Oh, okay.
Isaac Allen Burns:She reaches under the desk and pulls out like an old timey rifle, like like one of those, like, bolt action rifles. And she says, I haven't used this baby in years. I used to think people would try and rob my library, and now I let them. Because all they're doing is robbing knowledge.
Annie Hawthorne:Wow. Knowledge is for everybody. That's what you always
Isaac Allen Burns:what I always say. Knowledge for everybody no matter how you get your hands on it.
Rowan Collins:Thanks, Rosette. We'll see you later.
Isaac Allen Burns:Course. See you soon. Bye, dearie. Hope you have a good day.
Annie Hawthorne:Thank you.
Isaac Allen Burns:Stay safe out there.
Rowan Collins:We will. I look at Crank once we're, like, without outside of hearing distance and go, Crank. I feel like it do you think we should tell Cyrus? I know Kapi said not
Annie Hawthorne:to Specifically said not to tell Kapi.
Rowan Collins:All of the veterans are friends with with Cyrus.
Annie Hawthorne:Well, I feel like if they tell him, it's fine. But if we tell him, then we broke a promise to Kapi.
Rowan Collins:Did we break or did we promise Kapi, or did you promise Kapi?
Annie Hawthorne:I don't know if either one of us really explicitly promised Kapi, but I feel like I, in my soul, promised Kapi.
Rowan Collins:I feel like Cyrus is gonna find out if Cyrus is, like, Kapi's boss and then Batman
Annie Hawthorne:thinks that Cyrus would get mad at us.
Rowan Collins:I feel like he's two bosses up from us.
Annie Hawthorne:Does that make him our boss?
Rowan Collins:I think that makes him our boss, and we maybe should tell him about the beating. But we can do that after we get back from our hitches.
Isaac Allen Burns:You head off and tell the remaining people in town. And so I ask, is there any last things you wanna do before you all retire? We start the next day during the festival. So what kind of preparations are y'all gonna try and put together?
Rowan Collins:So I think Pistachio will because they have befriended the rats from that one time when they cleaned up the dumpsters Uh-huh. They're gonna go and talk to the rats again and ask them to be, like, a scout line of, like, keep an eye out for anything weird. And Pistachio will offer to give them some nuts in in as payment. I would also like to see just as Pistachio do does Pistachio think that they could convince the rats to help their sister garden? They feel such guilt of not being able like, their entire family is down and there's nothing else
Joe Diametti:Okay.
Rowan Collins:That they can help. I play devil's advocate. Yeah. Unless Kapi tells them otherwise.
Joe Diametti:No. No. No. I what I what if you went so I took the peacekeepers
Isaac Allen Burns:Mhmm.
Joe Diametti:And you took the vets. I feel like we're still missing a key group
Isaac Allen Burns:Mhmm.
Joe Diametti:Which is the young the all the other younger people, your your siblings.
Rowan Collins:Oh, yeah. I like this idea. Like, Pistachio, maybe we'll see if they can convince Hazel to take them to talk to the young people
Joe Diametti:Yeah.
Rowan Collins:And, like, get them on board. That's smart. K. I like that idea.
Isaac Allen Burns:So very good. So instead of talking to the rats at all or
Joe Diametti:Oh, I thought this is two things.
Isaac Allen Burns:Thought the
Joe Diametti:rats were I thought rats are acting as your eyes and ears.
Isaac Allen Burns:Rats are eyes and ears.
Rowan Collins:You can either Rats and eyes and ears.
Isaac Allen Burns:You can either
Rowan Collins:And then talk to Hazel about helping.
Isaac Allen Burns:Talk to the Hazel. Okay.
Rowan Collins:About, like, with the young people. Yes. Yeah.
Isaac Allen Burns:Yeah. Yeah. You can go talk to Hazel. She is very down in the dumps, so something that could distract her is really great.
Rowan Collins:Okay.
Isaac Allen Burns:So even though she's still kinda cold towards you and it's still a little awkward, she eventually relents and will go talk to some of the young people, some of the young workers around town, the young professionals, if you will, around town.
Rowan Collins:I like that idea.
Isaac Allen Burns:Collaborative storytelling. Collaborative storytelling. And next we meet will be the Apple Festival. Tune in for the final moments of the very first arc. What a wonderful little tale that was.
Isaac Allen Burns:Thank you for listening to this bonus mini episode of DodoBorne . When next we meet, it will be the Apple Festival, and who knows what will happen or who we'll see there. Tune in next week to find out. Hey. It's a podcast.