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Norse Sinnoh E12: Why Are You Touching Me? · The Multiverse Collective

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  I'm just I'm just disassociating.
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  I have had zero caffeine today so I am really not super lucid
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  right now. I have 0.
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  Caffeine Riley with no caffeine. I know I spent my entire day
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  cleaning the house. I went grocery shopping twice to
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  get all the ingredients for this fucking soup because I am a
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  sucker. What?
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  Kind of spent. I saw lamb tripe.
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  Yeah, 4 hours making. Soup.
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  Yeah. So it's lamb tripe soup.
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  Is it lamb tripe? Pork, Colombian chorizo.
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  And then it's tomato, potato, Yucca, cilantro, onion, garlic,
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  achiote. Damn.
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  It's called Mandongo which is. A really funny name, Mandongo.
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  Mandongo. Yeah, it's incredibly good.
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  Yeah, it's incredibly good. So Brutus, Clyde and I found
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  ourselves in a little bit of trouble in the dig site.
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  Maybe we got into a fight with a weird, scary, technologically
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  advanced robot, and maybe we kicked its ass.
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  But now Brutus is unconscious, and I guess we have to deal with
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  that. Oh, and Joshua, he evolved.
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  Exciting news. OK, so as you stand in the
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  wreckage of this just decimated munitions factory, you see, well
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  Brutus, you're knocked the fuck out.
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  Yeah, I don't see shit. But Dinan and Clyde, you guys
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  see Brutus just like face up starfish on the ground covered
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  in like ash and like there's some embers like smoldering on
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  and around him. Your Pokémon are damaged but
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  there and this this massive robot that you guys saw is well,
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  it was headless and at this point really all that's left is
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  it's torso and it's head is just kind of like off to the side.
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  Guynan, first thing she's going to do recall Bradley, and then
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  she's going to turn to Clyde and be like, can you take care of
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  this? And she's like gesturing to
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  everything that's going on with Brutus, and at the same time
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  she's like furatively looking over her shoulder at the Astor
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  husk because she wants to go touch it.
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  Yeah, you, you go nerd out. Just go.
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  There's just like this manic energy.
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  Just just just go. She dead sprints from your side
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  to the the Astor husk. I'm going to recall Spen and
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  then I'm going to, I forgot. I'm going to just try and
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  stabilize Bruus. We have berries, we can put a
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  Berry in his mouth. That's not me.
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  As Guynan saying it. Oh shit, Guynan I think has a
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  Berry. One second.
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  Let me look at my inventory. I think I mean you have a
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  backpack. I.
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  Do I do have a backpack backpack?
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  Distracted, but I have a backpack and you're right, I
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  don't have any berries. I have a potion.
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  I have something called Mom's map and something that I just
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  labeled artifact and gave no. Other information about.
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  I was looking at that and like I do not remember what the fuck
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  that was. I think that's the box tube.
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  Yeah, I was going to say, is that not like the thing we put
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  the Pokeballs into? Yes, it is. 100% that yeah the
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  the box link. We just never renamed it after
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  you. I just never renamed it.
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  All right, I'm going to take care of that for you.
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  Why you don't take? The mysterious artifact.
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  No, because then I look at it and I'm like, what the fuck
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  artifact did I give you? There's you guys are going to
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  get like you guys are about to get a shit load of artifacts.
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  I don't know what the fuck was wrong.
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  With one artifact 2. Artifact 3.
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  Just no other identifying information, just artifacts.
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  Well, and like you guys, like you 3 as the players knew
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  exactly what I was giving you. I mean, sure, Gaiman was just
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  like, ah, this is a fucking weird artifact, but like, you
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  knew what that. Was see, I don't understand if
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  it was me, it was like. I was looking at that for like,
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  I was like, I don't take notes because I think that is a more
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  fun way to run games. I don't take notes of what you
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  guys do. I I was like going, I was like
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  looking for like probably 1/2 hour trying to figure out what
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  the fuck artifact I gave you. And it's the goddamn box link.
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  Jesus. Oh Jesus Christ, you could have
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  asked. You could have.
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  Just asked. Oh, fuck.
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  You know, if I had asked, hey Riley, what's that artifact,
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  would you have been able to tell me?
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  I would not have absolutely. What if it's the only artifact
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  we've? Got.
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  I know. Yeah, I'm going to say as I say,
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  if it was mine or Kyle's sheet, a fact would 100% be the perfect
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  name for it. But for the nerd that is guy
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  when I. Did that.
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  She she was on the on the Sino maps at that point, so you can't
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  really judge her. She was on Sino maps.
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  In Sino maps that was an. Impression for.
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  Comments. Speaking of Guynan, how are you
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  going to wake Brutus? Oh, I mean, she's not concerned
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  about that yet, actually. Oh shit, yeah, fuck, you're at
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  the all right, Clyde. How are you going to wake Brutus
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  up? Well, I've got nothing on me and
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  I think Sven needs to potion more than Brutus at this moment
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  in time, so I'm going to shout over to Gynan.
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  I'm just like, have you got anything in your bag?
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  Let me check one second and Gaiden will root into her bag to
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  see if there's anything useful in there.
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  All. Right, roll 2D6.
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  That's a nine baby. OK, Yeah, you are able to root
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  around in there and you feel the the thick rind of citrus Berry.
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  Sorry, that particular set of words caught me by surprise.
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  Dinan grabs the citrus Berry out of her bag and she Hawks it at
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  Clyde full strength. She does not want to leave the
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  side of the disaster, and she doesn't want to walk back over
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  there. She wants to investigate.
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  Great Clyde, you have a citrus Berry.
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  Sick. I'm going to, I don't know how.
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  How do you make a an unconscious person eat?
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  You just you stick it in his mouth and you make him chew.
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  Get that peristalsis going. Yeah, you rub his neck to get
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  him to swallow like you're making a dog take a pill.
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  I think that's a legitimate way to get an unconscious person
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  like medicine. I actually don't know.
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  This is not medical advice. This is not medical advice.
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  Look, I haven't renewed my CPR license in like 10 years, but I
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  think that that's actually like medically sound.
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  I did my CPR license like 2 weeks ago and I can tell you it
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  is not. It's not.
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  It's definitely not. And This is why I'm AGM and not
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  a doctor. In the UK, in schools we have a
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  thing. We have an assembly titled Do
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  not feed an unconscious person tea.
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  Basically. It's basically using tea as a
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  euphemism for sex. So it's like all these different
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  things. It was like do not get, do not
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  force an unconscious person to have tea.
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  Do not if someone says no to tea, do not force them to have
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  tea. And I'm like, I'm just thinking
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  about it then like when I was like, how do you make an
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  unconscious person eat food? It just brought back the whole
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  whole assembly. Amazing.
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  Folks meets UK euphemism only education.
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  Yeah. With our powers combined, Clyde
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  you are able to to get enough citrus Berry juice into Brutus's
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  mouth and simulate peristalsis to where Brutus is able to wake
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  up Brutus. You wake up to Clyde rubbing
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  your neck. I'd punch him.
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  Great Clyde, you take 3 points of emotional damage.
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  Well deserved. You fucking?
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  Dick. Why are you touching me?
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  You were unconscious. I was fine.
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  You were in an explosion and Gannon seems to be more
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  interested in the fucking metal thing.
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  I'm sorry it. Was the exchange of why are you
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  touching me? You were unconscious.
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  God, that might be that might be the episode name right there.
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  Why are you touching me? It should be.
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  They're just gonna fucking see that in like.
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  Yeah, in September. We're gonna see that in
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  September and we're gonna be like, what the fuck did we do?
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  Yeah, wow, sorry we cannot keep our shit together for this one,
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  folks. Golly, this is what happens when
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  Riley eats dinner before before the session.
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  Eat dinner more. This is fun.
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  All right, panning over to Gynan, furiously studying this
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  this aster. Yeah, she's rooting through two
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  hands all the way in full insertion.
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  Yeah. Even better, you are, you are
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  elbow deep in the chest cavity of this thing and you are just
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  like there's like, I mean there's like hot oil and like
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  fuel lines and like you pick up like one of these Pistons that
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  that came out of the engine in the explosion.
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  And as you're doing this, you see this engine, it is emanating
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  that same kind of light purple, almost like a mist now that you
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  see it. And as you as you put a hand on
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  this engine, you feel it not hum to life, but you feel it start
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  vibrating. And all three of you, as you, as
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  you kind of look over at Gynan, you see this cloud of purple
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  miasma come out of this engine. And in it, you guys just see a
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  little bit of like crackling energy.
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  Gynan, you're able to see like a dozen like smiling faces with
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  like blue, like blue cylindrical eyes.
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  Creepy. And you see these like these
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  when, when I say it's crackling with electricity, it's not the
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  same kind of electricity that you know, that Brutus has.
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  It's like these neon blue cartoony lightning bolts that
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  are just like floating around in this miasma.
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  Sick. Does it smell like anything?
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  I I know that's like a weird question, but like.
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  It smells like burnt rubber it. Smells like burnt rubber.
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  Like jet fuel? Oh, that's a sexy combo.
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  Yeah. I mean, I think Geinen will
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  probably try to remove herself from this cloud of burning
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  rubber, jet fuel scented purple miasma, as that is deeply
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  unpleasant. Yeah, she will though, take that
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  piston that she had in her hand, that loose piston and put it in
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  her bag because. God bless Or collected the add a
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  piston. Add a piston into your
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  inventory. I'll put it right underneath
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  artifact. You.
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  You what? Nerd Inventory.
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  Piston, this is going to be yet another thing that in like 6
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  months I'm going to be looking at your character sheet.
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  I'm going to be like why the fuck did I give guy in a piston?
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  No, I put pist. In we're talking about that just
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  in case, 4 weeks. Great.
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  Even better. It is so this this cloud of
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  miasma just kind of like dissipates and these like weird
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  smiling faces and like neon lightning bolts, they kind of
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  float over and back down into the ossuary.
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  Gynan follows like a dog chasing a butterfly has.
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  To go back down to the Los weary so that I can give you the loot
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  that you. Deserve.
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  Yeah, don't worry. Gynan follows like a dog chasing
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  a butterfly under the tires of a traitor.
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  That's how my grandfather's dog died, in case anyone was
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  wondering. Incredible.
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  Brutus Clyde, You see Gynan run, run out of this munitions fact.
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  That's so sad. It was pretty fucked.
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  Up Brutus. I don't think I've ever seen a
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  run. Yeah, she's.
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  I think scampering is probably the word.
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  Frolicking. We should probably follow her,
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  yeah. I'm worried if she's exercising.
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  This is the best day of her life on purpose.
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  Yeah, on purpose, which is scary.
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  Yeah, we should. We should probably follow her.
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  We don't know what kind of trouble she's going to get into.
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  No, I'm just going to quick walk behind her because I feel like
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  she's not very much faster than. Yeah, no, she's like flitting
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  from place to place 'cause she like stops every few seconds to
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  stare at something and like, attempt to put in her mental
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  catalog before she gets. Distracted by something else,
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  She's. Just like whipping from spot to
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  spot. It's horrible.
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  She's overstimulated. I love it.
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  Yeah. So as you guys clamber back down
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  into the hole that was made by this astir into this alsuary
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  with with this daylight poking into it, you're now able to see
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  that there are just walls of catacombs like in this Dome.
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  There are just these these like catacomb doors that look like
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  they were closed, sealed from the outside and never to be
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  opened again. You see a few of them that are
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  like in various states of open. Gynan begins to open them all
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  systematically. All right, so in this in this
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  area, you're able to find 4 for these small little like
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  catacombs that you're able to open and they have things in
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  them. Things.
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  So each of you get a small white piece piece piece piece of
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  quartzite crystal that you would now recognize as fragments of an
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  alpha stone. This is essentially a less
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  powerful version of the Rock that you guys saw in all
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  Farrinsbian and when given to a Pokémon it will increase their
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  level by 1 so. It's a rare candy base.
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  Yes, it is a rare candy. You get a a jewel encrusted
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  skull that seems to shine even in darkness.
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  We all do. Or just between the party?
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  Just between the party Dinan, this looks like exactly the
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  thing that your mother would like display somewhere in her
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  like. It's in her bedroom, it's
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  hanging over the bed. There are like 4 of them. 100%
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  what's it taste like? It tastes like dirt and like
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  jewels. What's What do jewels taste
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  like, Matt? I don't know, you know, when you
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  like lick, like when you lick a diamond and it's kind of like
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  metallic, but not like not the same way that if you like lick
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  the battery, you know what I'm talking about.
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  Is that just me? I think that danger.
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  Should be you, Yeah, but that's all right.
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  I appreciate you. I've never.
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  Licked a diamond? First of all, I've never liked a
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  diamond. Second of all, I've never licked
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  a diamond and thought it tastes like a battery.
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  Yeah, I've never looked. It seemed like I'm a fat boy.
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  I've looked back crew before. It tastes like it tastes like
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  rocks. Yeah.
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  OK, now I was just curious because gynan licks.
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  It Yep, yeah, Brutus implied. You guys are.
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  You guys are taking a look Brutus as you look to well as
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  you see Gynan lick this skull that has been in a catacomb for
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  God knows how long. Brutus, you whip around and you
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  find a book. Oh good, 'cause Brutus can read.
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  We established that. Actually, actually, Brutus can
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  read this book. Oh no.
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  This is terrible develops. Is it a picture book?
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  It it is a picture book. However, Guy and Clyde, do you
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  guys take a look at this? Yeah, Guy.
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  And after she. Yeah, prob.
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  Yeah, after she spits so. Yeah, this is there is like to
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  to the two of you. It's like looking at the Voynich
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  manuscript. You see that there is text and
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  there are characters that must go along with these pictures,
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  but you cannot make heads or tails of this.
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  However, Brutus you are able to see very clearly and you don't
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  know how because this is not a script that you're used to
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  seeing. However, you are able to very
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  clearly understand that the that the title of this book that is
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  plastered on the front of this cover is called The Two
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  Quarreling Siblings. Gannon spits again.
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  And then the last thing that you find in here is a small figurine
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  of a tree. It it's kind of like a bonsai
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  tree diorama. It's it's something that like
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  fits in the palm of your hand. But you see like the base of it
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  is like the the peak of a mountain.
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  And on top, you see this like you see this bonsai tree that
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  that just looks like a big kind of branching.
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  It does look like a bonsai tree. But the way that it's juxtaposed
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  on top of this, this mountain, it looks like the tree is the
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  same size as the mountain. And as you hold it, you feel.
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  You just feel this soft hum of like magical energy.
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  Lick. It, taste it, put it in your
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  mouth. I will give you information if
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  you do lick this. I've got to lick it now.
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  Yeah, don't be a fucking coward. I'm going to lick the tree.
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  All right, roll 2D6 plus special.
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  What am I putting this as in my actual fucking inventory, by the
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  way? Licked tree.
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  Well licked tree. Plus special, yeah, I don't
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  think I can get any better than a Nat 12 because I've got a 0 on
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  my special. All right, so with a, with a Nat
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  12, I will tell you exactly what you found.
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  When you lick it, you get a glimpse into what this is you in
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  your head, you see atop a giant mountain, an equally giant tree.
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  And you see, you see, it's a what?
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  Is it the herd tree if we're going off N?
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  That's the only tree that I think.
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  Kind of it's with a with a Nat 12.
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  When you see this, you know that you are looking at the World
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  Tree of Arboria and you would know that what you are holding
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  is a essentially A waystone. When somebody who is able to
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  create a portal, two different planes, the magic pretty often
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  gets fucked up. So you can't do like an exact,
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  you know you, you'll probably get to the plane, but there's
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  not 100% chance. If you were able to combine that
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  magic with a way stone that you have, you are 100% able to not
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  only get to the plane that you're going to, but in the
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  vicinity of the area of that plane with the most magical
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  energy. And for Arboria, that is going
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  to be the World Tree, like the base of the World Tree itself.
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  Sick. All right.
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  And with that, there's not really anything else in these
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  catacombs, you know, I mean, you find some regular bones, but
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  they're just regular bones. If you want them, I'll give them
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  to you. But like, yeah, I want them.
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  Nothing special. All right, Take as many bones as
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  you want. Cool, you're going to regret.
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  Saying that, you take a lot of bones, yeah.
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  I know I am, but how bad can it be?
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  Take some bones dining, defile some graves.
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  You said as many as I want, so feel free to look in my
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  inventory. Am I just going to see like an
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  infinite amount of bones? She's got a big backpack.
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  It'll be. Dining come, never walk again.
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  I'm wild dying picks up. That's like a it's like a
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  billion people's. Yeah, I'll tell you how many I
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  don't think they're. Hang on.
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  You can divide it by 256. Yeah, it's.
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  Two O 8. 2. O8 There were not that many
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  people in the city of Hanover at this time.
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  Well, that sounds like a problem that the GM should have solved
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  before giving me access to unlimited bones.
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  God damn it, you have, you now have in your in your infinite
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  backpack. Don't ask.
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  You now have the skeletons of 4.8 million people.
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  Nice, that's a surprise tool that will help us later.
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  You know what, fine, I I want to see how this plays out in my
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  fucking end game like a year from now.
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  It'll be final boss and you're. Just going to throw 4 million
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  skeletons at them. I cast.
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  Bone tsunami just. Emptying my.
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  Back onto. The floor.
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  It's OK, now every single time we need a useful item out of the
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  backpack, it can just. Be a.
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  Lot of skeleton. It's spooky.
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  What bone will it be? Roll on the wheel.
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  Roll it. Roll.
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  AD2O8 you have a femur. Congratulations.
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  Oh no, only a 162. Damn, I'm sorry.
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  You just got a fourth metatarsal.
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  God. OK, so after you watch, after
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  you watch Guinan stuff a frankly disrespectful amount of bones
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  into her backpack and clamber back out of the hole, you're
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  able to see that while you were fighting this aster, it was very
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  quiet. However, now that it's been, you
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  know, now that there's not a fucking giant robot like
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  plodding around, you're start to see you're, you're starting to
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  see some of the, some of the indigenous Pokémon kind of
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  fearfully return to their nests and habitats.
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  Who wants to go first? I'm thinking of a number between
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  1:00 and 6:00. 69. Four.
• 24:45
  Damn you. Wait, what?
• 24:50
  Brutus. All right, cool.
• 24:53
  All right, so first of all, you get so you guys are all going to
• 24:58
  do a little bit of Pokémon training, you know, however you
• 25:02
  want to flavor it. But Brutus starting with you you
• 25:05
  have or Pokémon Exp to split around between any of your party
• 25:11
  members I. Already gave it off the
• 25:12
  nightshade. All right, great.
• 25:15
  What does that look like as you are like either training with or
• 25:18
  hanging out with Nightshade, whatever that may be?
• 25:22
  Nightshade is just being a curious little cat all over the
• 25:24
  place is getting into shit or rooting around and stuff trying
• 25:30
  to catch things. As few as Rattata are scattering
• 25:33
  in front of this cat. All right, so as Nightshade is
• 25:37
  rooting around in a in one of these like dilapidated looking,
• 25:42
  you know, I mean, think of like a like a central town square in
• 25:46
  like a German city. So like you have these kind of
• 25:48
  like half timber buildings in various states of disrepair.
• 25:52
  You know, you have a couple of like more modern looking
• 25:54
  buildings, but they're all very close together.
• 25:57
  In between these blocks, buildings there are there are
• 25:59
  courtyards with overgrown grass and, you know, Pokémon nests.
• 26:04
  As Nightshade is looking around, you see his ears just kind of
• 26:08
  like focus and it runs into a building.
• 26:12
  OK, yeah, Brutus is going to follow it.
• 26:14
  He's just hanging out with his cat because he doesn't really
• 26:17
  get a chance to use very often, so.
• 26:19
  All right. So you see, you see Nightshade
• 26:22
  run in and it lets out a an inquisitive mew.
• 26:28
  As you notice on the floor of this house, there are these
• 26:32
  imagine like World War One German helmets.
• 26:35
  You know, like the the fucking buzzy Beetle.
• 26:38
  Yeah, with like the one spike and like the Iron Cross on the
• 26:40
  front, you see five of these in a strange line and as nightshade
• 26:45
  like bats, one of them, all five of them pop up.
• 26:49
  You are staring at a a phalanx that has adapted a.
• 26:53
  Nazi phalanx? Really.
• 26:55
  No, no, no, no. This is World War One.
• 26:56
  This is like a Kaiser Reich Phalanx.
• 26:58
  OK, OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:59
  World War One. OK, Yeah.
• 27:02
  Not that it's any better, just just.
• 27:06
  Maybe a little. I love phalanx.
• 27:09
  I mean, this is one of your rare encounters.
• 27:11
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, 286 + 2.
• 27:13
  That's 10. All right, great.
• 27:16
  Thank God, I really wanted you to have this.
• 27:18
  You are you. What does it look like?
• 27:22
  Do you, do you like try to fight this Pokémon?
• 27:25
  Do you try to befriend it? I, I think, I think he's, I, I
• 27:29
  think Nightshade is like kind of pseudo fighting it.
• 27:32
  So like, he's trying to like, nip at it and kind of growl it a
• 27:35
  little bit and, you know, there's five of them, so he's
• 27:37
  sort of outnumbered. Yeah, you see these, you see
• 27:40
  these phalanx, you hear them like chittering between them and
• 27:44
  as like Nightshade is fighting one, they're kind of backing up
• 27:49
  so that Nightshade like moves forward and they pincer maneuver
• 27:54
  Nightshade. Yeah, I, I think when they do
• 27:56
  that, he, you know what he does, He steps forward and he talks to
• 28:01
  the failings and he goes, it's good battle strategy.
• 28:05
  I feel like you guys would be a big help with what we have
• 28:09
  coming. You hear them look between the
• 28:12
  five of them, chattering some more, chattering some more.
• 28:16
  You hear a string of German? I don't know how, but what the
• 28:21
  the main one, The big one. It fucking speaks fluent German.
• 28:24
  You're welcome. Horrifying.
• 28:28
  And it just, it speaks at you in German and all five line up in a
• 28:34
  like a horizontal line ready for you to throw this poker ball.
• 28:37
  Yeah, he does. He throw.
• 28:39
  This is like listening to somebody train a Belgian Malin
• 28:42
  off. I was going to say, does does
• 28:45
  Clyde understand? Because it's still a Pokémon
• 28:47
  speaking. You understand if you were there
• 28:52
  you would understand the other 4, but you would not understand
• 28:55
  the German. OK, Congratulations Brutus, you
• 28:59
  are now the owner of a Level 3 stealing fighting Phalanx Red.
• 29:06
  OK. I really hope you name it like
• 29:09
  Bismarck or. Kaiser, we're gonna have to
• 29:11
  think of some good names for this.
• 29:13
  I'll, I'll, I'll get back to you on that.
• 29:14
  All right, great Gynan. Yes, Chef.
• 29:22
  So first of all you get 2 Exp to split between any of your
• 29:26
  Pokémon if you have not done that already.
• 29:28
  Oh yeah, Bradley got them all. God bless Bradley.
• 29:32
  All right, cool. Gynan, where are you?
• 29:35
  Where are you looking? I don't know, Guinan's mostly
• 29:38
  dragging her backpack full of bones behind her and is just
• 29:41
  kind of teetering around town, but she's like flitting between
• 29:45
  things because everything has caught her interest.
• 29:48
  Yeah, Guinan, roll me two D6 plus special.
• 29:53
  It's not very good math. It would be easy.
• 29:57
  Well, I have to do the math really fast.
• 29:59
  A4. All right, yeah.
• 30:02
  You don't notice shit as you're just moving from, like, building
• 30:05
  to building. I mean, like, a lot of the
• 30:07
  houses have been poured over by these scientists for the past
• 30:12
  however long they've been here, you know, fucking 30-40 years.
• 30:16
  So most of these houses don't have a ton other than like, you
• 30:21
  know, the the kind of basic furniture and like the shit that
• 30:24
  most of these people wouldn't care about most of these nerds.
• 30:28
  And like most of the cool stuff, has already been funnelled to
• 30:32
  your mother in some capacity. Yeah, of course.
• 30:36
  However, as you as you kind of move around and get back to
• 30:41
  this, this cathedral that you came in, moving around the
• 30:45
  sinkhole in the middle of the street that is from the from the
• 30:50
  ass here flying out of the ossuary, you go back in this
• 30:54
  cathedral and Guynan, you notice there's a presence.
• 31:01
  Like more than like the usual things that she hears in her
• 31:03
  head or like. Yeah, Guynan, you feel like
• 31:07
  outside of like the normal, like somebody's watching me.
• 31:11
  You feel like there is a. There is distinctly another
• 31:15
  entity in here with you, watching you.
• 31:18
  Hello, I come in peace. As you turn around and you see
• 31:25
  this, this like earthen construct that's just kind of
• 31:29
  like spinning around on a on a point.
• 31:34
  It has a point on the bottom, a point on the top.
• 31:36
  It has these two little like arms made out of earth.
• 31:40
  And it has what looks to be paint that looks like eyes and
• 31:45
  like a just a crudely drawn face.
• 31:48
  It's just kind of following you, spinning, getting closer to you.
• 31:51
  And it's just making like, it's just making these weird noises
• 31:56
  at you. Matt, is it a ball toy?
• 31:58
  It is a ball toy, yes. Oh my God, I think.
• 32:03
  Gaiden turns to it, open arms and like he's willing it to come
• 32:08
  closer to her. She's kneeling on the ground
• 32:10
  like you when you when you're greeting a strange dog and
• 32:12
  you're being way over familiar. It fully like it doesn't look
• 32:18
  like it registers you, but it fully like spins into you.
• 32:23
  Excellent. Dinan wraps her arms around it,
• 32:25
  and then she reaches into her backpack to grab one of her
• 32:28
  Ultra Balls to tap it against its head.
• 32:30
  Yeah, it fully does not fight. Congratulations you have a level
• 32:33
  2 ball toy. You notice two things.
• 32:37
  The ball toy was holding a what looks to be like AI don't know
• 32:42
  how to describe this in a way that would make sense for
• 32:46
  somebody who's never seen a fucking CD.
• 32:48
  It's holding ACD. It's like a like a like a grey
• 32:52
  CD it is holding ATM. Congratulations, this ball toy
• 32:58
  has gifted you not only itself, but TM720 shift gear.
• 33:05
  Sick. God holy shit.
• 33:08
  Talk about a setup move in a. Hat Oh my God, Matt, we're gonna
• 33:12
  go fucking crazy with this shit. Yeah, we are.
• 33:16
  So as this happens, Gynan, you are over the moon.
• 33:21
  You got like a large fucking metropolis is worth of bones in
• 33:26
  your bag. You got a new buddy and you got
• 33:29
  a fucking CD. And you got a fucking CD.
• 33:31
  This is the best day of guidance life and she got a piston.
• 33:34
  She got to touch the inside of that crazy thing.
• 33:38
  Oh, yeah, You still have like, like oil, like all up your arms
• 33:43
  and like all over your throat. She's never going to be clean.
• 33:45
  You are just having, you are having the best day ever.
• 33:48
  All of a sudden when you turn over to the altar, everything
• 33:52
  goes blank. And you hear this in your head.
• 33:56
  Oh God. Mommy.
• 34:13
  Is this the other half of that cipher?
• 34:15
  That's what I was going to do. This is not the other half of
• 34:18
  this cipher. This is something that I fully
• 34:20
  did today. As you hear this voice, you feel
• 34:26
  a another weight in your pocket just materialize.
• 34:31
  Gynan very tentatively reaches into her pocket.
• 34:35
  You so initially you feel a jolt of malicious energy that
• 34:40
  dissipates as you pick it up. It feels like this malicious
• 34:44
  energy is just kind of like there.
• 34:48
  But after that initial kind of jolt, your your body's used to
• 34:52
  it. You see the small stone?
• 34:55
  It has a crack in the middle and it has two small like pockmarked
• 35:01
  circles. Weird.
• 35:04
  Weird indeed. Lick it.
• 35:07
  Yeah, I lick it. I lick it.
• 35:09
  We can circle back to that. All right, we'll we'll get to
• 35:14
  that. Clyde, what are you up to?
• 35:24
  You. So you get 3 Exp and you can of
• 35:31
  course give that to whoever you want.
• 35:34
  Let. Me.
• 35:34
  Give that to Ellie. Perfect.
• 35:37
  What are you? What are you taking a look at?
• 35:40
  I think considering this is in Strand cut and camp, I think
• 35:45
  Clyde is just sort of mooching about.
• 35:48
  I feel like he's probably snuck in here at night time before and
• 35:51
  run around like a an absolute maniac to menace to society
• 35:55
  should say. Yep.
• 35:57
  And so I think he's just sort of walking around get just training
• 36:02
  LAA bit. All right.
• 36:04
  As you do that, is there any like landmarks or anything that
• 36:09
  that looks interesting to Clyde? I will say there is so that kind
• 36:13
  of smaller barracks behind the munitions factory, that is
• 36:18
  something that you feel that like in the past when you've
• 36:23
  been around here, you've never really understood what's going
• 36:26
  on. And I don't think you've ever
• 36:27
  gone into any of these like main buildings.
• 36:29
  But now there is this one building that is it feels like
• 36:34
  it's pulling you towards it. Yeah, I think it'd go to the to
• 36:39
  the workers barracks. All right.
• 36:41
  Just because he's a little nosy like that.
• 36:44
  Yeah. So in these barracks, you are
• 36:47
  able to see, you know, there, I mean, there are these like these
• 36:51
  wooden frames with straw mattresses.
• 36:54
  Looks to be very Spartan, very uncomfortable, but like, you
• 36:59
  know, trying to trying to get as many people as possible into a
• 37:02
  small space. And in the corner of this room
• 37:06
  you see a small puddle of what looks to be old blood.
• 37:12
  And you feel that that is that is the thing that is kind of
• 37:16
  drawing you towards towards this or towards this building.
• 37:21
  I'm going to go and investigate the old blood.
• 37:25
  All right, as you kneel down to take a look at this blood
• 37:29
  puddle, you see this blood start to bubble and boil and it shoots
• 37:35
  up, making a column of blood just this like this flowing
• 37:40
  blood column. And from it you see a a magic
• 37:47
  carp pop out. OK.
• 37:50
  And this magic carp is blood red with black eyes and looks more
• 37:59
  angry than you've ever seen anything in your life.
• 38:04
  OK, I'm going to speak to it. OK.
• 38:08
  But you're good, dude. You just, you just came out of a
• 38:12
  blood puddle. Clyde, you here?
• 38:22
  Somebody start the opening bars to crazy train.
• 38:27
  Oh my God I'm fucking light headed after that.
• 38:32
  You said that was the magic harp that did that.
• 38:34
  Yeah. That's.
• 38:35
  You. Can't catch that you.
• 38:36
  Should kill this thing. You kill.
• 38:40
  That oh Clyde 22-D6 plus speed. And that's coming from the woman
• 38:47
  with 4.8 million human skeletons in her backpack.
• 38:51
  That's cursed. It's a A10.
• 38:55
  A10 OK. Oh my God.
• 38:58
  The fucking dog ran in here to see if I was OK.
• 39:02
  God, I don't know where Jenny is, but she probably hurt my
• 39:06
  fucking neighbor. Probably heard that.
• 39:09
  God, I'm sorry. Yeah, this magic carp fully.
• 39:13
  Before you're able to act, it fully jumps.
• 39:16
  It hits a poker ball on your belt and catches itself.
• 39:20
  Congratulations, you have a Level 3 Tartarian Magic Carp.
• 39:25
  OK. And as.
• 39:27
  The worst thing, like please never let that out of its ball
• 39:30
  it. Has to say, So I'm guessing that
• 39:31
  was my rare encounter or is that my?
• 39:35
  That is your so as you as you are just like looking at this,
• 39:43
  like blood that is still going. You you see a I'm not gonna do
• 39:48
  any more sounds like that by the way you see the you see like the
• 39:53
  visage of a wolf in this like blood pool and you see it like
• 40:00
  walk up and get like close to it and it smiles and it's just like
• 40:05
  I know you. You're quiet of the material
• 40:11
  you're playing. I need to get more sleep.
• 40:16
  I sense that you need a lot of things.
• 40:20
  You, I mean, drawn to you. Someone who's understood the
• 40:27
  mission, handed in the head until the mission was flipped
• 40:32
  upside down. Someone from it.
• 40:36
  You don't. That is chaos energy.
• 40:41
  I have given you a gift. Use it.
• 40:44
  If you like the power it brings you home, we will be in contact.
• 40:51
  They shouldn't be talking to you like that, man.
• 40:53
  That's pretty. Soft shake yeah.
• 40:55
  Cool, What about a Clyde? Yeah, what about a Clyde?
• 41:12
  Yeah, ma'am, if I like the power that this crazy magic up give
• 41:16
  me, 100 percent, 100% behave hitting you up, I did.
• 41:22
  It nods, and this this column of blood returns to this pile of
• 41:27
  like coagulating blood that it was before.
• 41:31
  Love that. So after this Phalanx Brutus,
• 41:43
  where are you taking a look at this point, you know?
• 41:47
  I've named the phalanx Camphor. Beautiful.
• 41:49
  Just German for fighter. Amazing.
• 41:52
  Sorry, what was your question? Is there anywhere else in
• 41:55
  particular that you are checking out?
• 41:58
  I mean, I, I don't know, because I didn't ping any of those
• 42:01
  buildings. I feel like he's still just sort
• 42:05
  of letting Nightshade lead the way at this point.
• 42:08
  Yeah, I think nightshade is running along and in one of
• 42:11
  these kind of grassy areas, you know, around kind of like the
• 42:15
  center square of Hanover on the opposite side of the cathedral.
• 42:20
  You see, you see a bird, it would try to fly away, but it is
• 42:26
  like, it is a sphere, like straight up.
• 42:28
  It is a sphere with a beak and it is a, it's a black and white
• 42:33
  bird. It has the head of it is, it's
• 42:36
  literally a like I it's a sphere, like the head is part of
• 42:43
  the body. And on the top you see this like
• 42:46
  red tuft of hair with like a, a short yellow beak and it's just
• 42:51
  kind of like it would be flying away.
• 42:53
  You see it flap its wings, but it's not going fucking anywhere.
• 42:58
  I think I, I think Brutus will walk up to it and he'll just
• 43:01
  sort of look at it and he'll reach down and he'll pick it up
• 43:04
  and it fits like perfectly in his palm.
• 43:07
  Oh yeah, we just, I mean, this bird is dense.
• 43:10
  It is like fitting in your palm. But this bird is probably it's
• 43:13
  it's a good like 1520 lbs. Holy shit that's a heavy ass
• 43:16
  bird. He we we get this shot of like
• 43:20
  produces face is a neutral and then we see the birds face
• 43:24
  Brutus face, the birds face Brutus face, and then he has
• 43:28
  just like a little smile quirks and he just moves and puts the
• 43:31
  bird on his shoulder. Yep, that is your bird now
• 43:37
  enjoy. Enjoy your Level 3 fat picky
• 43:42
  Peck. It's irrelevant.
• 43:44
  It's it's irrelevant. He's not going to be a part of
• 43:46
  anything. He's just going to be a fat bird
• 43:48
  on my shoulder. This is a cosmetic decoration.
• 43:51
  It's literally the same reason. OK, as you're doing this,
• 44:02
  Brutus, you see this, Like this impossibly thin line just kind
• 44:08
  of cut through the sky and it rips itself open.
• 44:12
  Oh God, not a fan of that. And you see a, You see a man
• 44:17
  crawl out. He is, he is gaunt, he is thin.
• 44:22
  He like his eyes dart around first in fear and then lock eyes
• 44:28
  on picky Peck on your on your shoulder and you just see this
• 44:32
  look of hunger come across him. This this man that you're
• 44:37
  looking at. I don't even know if you could
• 44:39
  call him a man. It is.
• 44:40
  This thing is more animal than human, but it's certainly a
• 44:44
  human. Next to me?
• 44:45
  Or is it like far away it's about?
• 44:48
  15 feet in front of you and you you see it's wearing this
• 44:53
  tattered Navy suit. It has curly hair, but very
• 44:58
  unkempt, very dirty. You just see flecks of mud.
• 45:02
  Hopefully it's mud in its hair. It has the small pince nest
• 45:07
  spectacles. One of the one of the lenses is
• 45:10
  completely gone. The other has a crack through it
• 45:13
  and atop its head you see a 10 gallon hat.
• 45:19
  And this person crawls on all fours, slowly at first, but then
• 45:24
  picking up speed. And you hear it speak.
• 45:27
  And he says, well, look at what we have here.
• 45:39
  He's crawling. Above the table if this is.
• 45:43
  If this is Ezekiel. Brutus.
• 45:49
  Brutus is going to absolutely punt this thing right in the
• 45:53
  face as it's crawling. Yeah, I think as it's, it's
• 45:57
  crawling towards you, it just starts speaking and it's like
• 46:02
  everything, it was taken from me and she, she gave it all back
• 46:08
  and more. And all he has to do was follow
• 46:13
  the portals and kill whoever he says and you kick this thing
• 46:19
  square in the jaw. Oh, yeah, Brutus is.
• 46:23
  I mean, it's, you know, this thing is weak and thin.
• 46:26
  Brutus is built like a shit brick house.
• 46:28
  Oh yeah, there's a walking boot going in this thing's jaw.
• 46:33
  Yeah, and you see this, I mean this boot like fully breaks this
• 46:39
  person's jaw and you know, without getting too graphic, it
• 46:44
  is definitely like it's still kind of following you.
• 46:48
  I think you kick it a couple more times and after, after
• 46:52
  about 3 or 4 well placed kicks, you know, it's, it's trying to
• 46:57
  swipe at you. But after, after like the third
• 46:59
  or fourth kick to the, the head area, it stops moving and he
• 47:04
  just looks up at you. And Brutus, you've never seen
• 47:07
  this person before, but something about this person is
• 47:13
  unnervingly familiar. And it just, it laughs softly.
• 47:21
  It's it's just the beginning, Brutus.
• 47:23
  This is just the beginning. I kick it again.
• 47:28
  And it fades to dust as this portal closes behind it.
• 47:32
  What the fuck is wrong with you Matt?
• 47:35
  You need to get psyche after help.
• 47:37
  I'm. So confused and with that good
• 47:43
  session guys. Oh my God.
• 47:57
  I want to be enjoying It's over. You'll get lucky like a four
• 48:05
  week old baby. I'm a Hurley joker.
• 48:08
  I want to be enjoying It's over.
• 48:53
  The.