Legend of the Tea Master (Chapter 1 - The Festival)

Originally posted on MSPA by BestTeaMaker.

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> Stop flipping the fuck out.

> Drink some tea yourself. To calm down.

> Hide your face in shame.

Korin>Drink tea and calm down, for the Avatar's sake!

Guests > Introduce yourselves.

Guard
<div style="margin-left:40px">Umm, hey, you okay, boy?</div>

You give a muffled grunt.

Guard
<div style="margin-left:40px">It's alright, it's your first day right? Nerves get the best of us all. I'm Luo, by the way.

I've gotta say, this is a really tasty cup of tea. It's nice to see a tea house all the way out here near the Outer Wall. Makes me feel relaxed whenever I go on patrol. For instance, there was a really weird incident at the zoo.</div>

Luo
<div style="margin-left:40px">So I'm on patrol this morning, right? As I was passing the zoo, I saw this weird guy leaning over one of the exhibit walls. I could tell he was a foreigner, the way he seemed to awkwardly carry himself about. I approached him, and realized that he was trying to pet the rabaroos. However, that guy couldn't reach. So he went and picked up this large branch and started poking at the rabaroos.

Needless to say, the zookeeper, Kenji was not happy. He's a nice man, proud of his zoo that the Avatar helped to build, but he gets really touchy with his animals. I mean really touchy. Next thing I know, I'm standing in between them, preventing Kenji from trying to choke the hapless foreigner.</div>

Guest
<div style="margin-left:40px">Wow, who was the weirdo that did that?</div>

Luo
<div style="margin-left:40px">You idiot, I'm talking about you. What in the world were you thinking poking a rabaroo like that?</div>

Guest
<div style="margin-left:40px">I've never seen one before. I wanted to pet it, but I couldn't reach.</div>

Luo
<div style="margin-left:40px">Poking animals with a stick is not the appropriate solution. Anyways, when are you going to stop following me?</div>

Guest
<div style="margin-left:40px">But I must! For the sake of my research, I must learn as much as I can about the Earth Kingdom!</div>

Luo
<div style="margin-left:40px">That doesn't mean you can just foll--</div>

Guest
<div style="margin-left:40px">You see, I am Zha! Great apprentice to the legendary playwright Pu-On Tim!</div>

Luo
<div style="margin-left:40px">O geez. More tea please.</div>

Zha
<div style="margin-left:40px">I have come from the Ember Islands to travel the world to gain knowledge and experience for my plays! I have traveled across vast oceans, trudged through an endless desert, and crossed paths with a rather bitter ticketer at Half Moon Bay to come to the venerable city of Ba Sing Se, where I hope to enact my second play!</div>

Luo
<div style="margin-left:40px">...Second? What was your first?</div>

Zha
<div style="margin-left:40px">Oh, I'm so glad you asked!</div>

Zha
<div style="margin-left:40px">You see, my friends, I am working on a three-part epic, an expansion of my master's famed The Boy in the Iceberg (a masterpiece if I may say so myself). Using my master's play as a template, I created this script to create my own variation of the epic journey of the Avatar. After reading my first script, my master immediately liked it and told me to travel the world to get material for my second. I still take this script with me wherever I go to remind myself just how awesome I am!</div>

Luo
<div style="margin-left:40px">...I'm kind of regretting asking now.</div>

You become curious, never having seen a play yourself. Growing up in the Lower Ring, there wasn't really much free time to enjoy things like plays. You ask Zha if you could take a look at the script. He gladly hands it over, telling you to let every glorious word sink in.

....Who in the world is Ong?

Korin>_

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Bwah! Sorry for updating this late. I realized that I needed to get this story rolling, so putting a lot of the exposition here. Story and gameplay will fully continue next update. There might be another delay.

The art took longer than expected. Drawing everything with a mouse is extremely tedious, but I guess I did a nice job with it. Had fun animating these ones. Could've finished it earlier, but aside from taking a long time, I was introduced to Blacklight: Retribution, then there was America's Got Talent (Fekking love Dittelman and the Earth Harp guy).

Remember, if you guys like this, be sure to pass it along to your friends! I also made some banners in my sig that you can use to spread more awesome tea stuff!

/end rant