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I'm really curious to know what you guys are going to do now.
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And like I said before, like I am at the end of what I have
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planned, but I have what I basically did was I went and I
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planned the general state of the world.
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So literally any once like however you guys want to handle
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this like I wherever you want to go, like I have plans for, but
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to be honest, I don't know in general what the state of the
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campaign is going to look like after this with.
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So that's that's what's going to be fun is that I we'll we'll see
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we'll see what happens. I was.
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Not expecting to get away. Honestly, I wasn't expecting you
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to get away either, but you rolled 2 really good roles so
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there's just no way to fudge out of that.
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But I also like where we're at because I think we can do fun
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things. I think this is going to be fun.
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I also think it makes kind of sense that you got away because
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you can go invisible and like, once you like, once you slip the
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tail, like, there's really no way to get eyes on you again.
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Yeah. I think we've kind of done it
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now, guys. Hooper is potentially lying to
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me. ACE has blatantly fucked up the
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US government's plans by speaking out against Japanese
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concentration camps. Declan can see invisible people,
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so I guess I'm not the only one in that predicament.
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I hope the next 24 hours go smoothly and I hope ACE isn't
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hidden as a red one. It's moments after the escape of
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Ace from presumably the entire Army presence in DC at this
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point. How?
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What? What is he doing?
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What? Where do we see Ace?
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So Ace is trying to fly like through cloud cover and just
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like as stealthily as possible because I feel like at this
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point even, you know, 5-10 minutes after this once once it
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was reported that Ace like lost, like lost the tail, I would
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imagine that he's going to try and keep the chameleon cloak on
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as long as possible and just book it to where he's going like
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all power to thrusters basically.
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And so I think, I don't even think Ace is thinking other than
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he just has this place in his mind and he's heading towards it
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all. Right.
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Yeah, I feel like just, I, I feel like you can probably get
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there between the flight and the chameleon cloak.
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I don't think there's really any major.
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There might be, it's World War Two there.
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I guess there might be some very old school fighter jets up
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trying to find you. But I mean, if you're invisible,
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there's really not much they can do to find you.
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But you might have to dodge a few of those here and there.
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Yeah, and I think once once Ace gets to where he's going.
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So it's literally, I just picked an area of the forest as far
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away from civilization as I can find.
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And so I think once Ace gets there, he's just gonna, he's
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gonna land, he's gonna drop the chameleon cloak and he is just
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going to have Hyperion like extend roots into the ground and
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basically just try and like become tree.
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Ah, yes. Become tree.
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Hyperion's greatest wish to become a tree.
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Hyperion very eagerly shifts into the form of this giant
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Redwood, which may or may not stand out in this forest, but
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that's a that's a tree problem you're doing now.
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Ace is moth man. And I think, I think ace just to
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Hyperion, he says, all right, we just need to lay low for a few
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days and then we'll contact the team.
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You feel this sense of just peace coming from Hyperion.
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Yeah, and I think Ace just uses that.
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He slows down his breathing as much as possible and he just
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tries to take what is going to be, you know, probably four or
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five days and just meditate and try and, you know, keep himself
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alive with the nutrients that Hyperion is pulling from the
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ground. Oh yeah, it's absolutely keeping
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you nourished through your link to it.
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I have one question, where do you piss?
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Inside Hyperion or. I think it just like gets
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filtered out. Yeah, you think Hyperion's?
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Really. Filtered out in a fed but.
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Hyperion is my kidney and I am, and I am the piss conduit.
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It's delightful. Thank you.
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I'm sorry that all of my questions are about piss.
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Usually we're used to it at this point.
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So yeah, we'll we'll go back to the team and it's it's it's
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shortly after this. And you guys, I feel like you're
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probably still at Declan's camp. You haven't reported back yet
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about anything, but I feel like you have this time to talk about
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things. Fuck.
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So are they going to come after you guys because of him now?
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No, because at this moment in time we haven't stood up to the
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Army. I'm assuming they won't come
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after us if they're smart. They won't come after us.
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I think somebody will probably be around to ask us questions,
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yeah. What?
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Are you going to do? The real.
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Question is, do we want to be here when they ask?
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The the real question is, is a smart enough to not be a
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Redwood? On the East Coast, I don't think
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so. I think he's sort of at the
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whims of Hyperion. I mean, my to be fair, my goal
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was to try and blend in and just be like whatever kind of like
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Maple or Birch or like whatever kind of tree is is in the area.
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If I have to be a Redwood, I'll be a Redwood, but.
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I think a redwood's funnier. And the problem is, Hyperion's a
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flashy bitch. Yeah, she is a.
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It's a big tree, an Hyperion. Like, if you're going to be a
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tree, why not be the tree? Yeah, that's fair.
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I think we're going to have to go bail him out.
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It was inevitable from the start, let's be honest.
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Yeah, oh, why do we have to be so fucking honourable about this
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shit, God damn it. When have I ever been
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honourable? Well, we're about to be
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honourable, Rex. Great.
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Changing my whole lifestyle for aces mistakes, great.
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They're going to come after her. They.
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Won't come after you. They won't come after you,
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Declan you, you are not part of any of our teams and.
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I'm still in an aster. I mean, that would only make her
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come after him harder, wouldn't it?
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Yeah. I don't know, maybe Hooper has
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found you a portal home by now. Hooper.
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Well, I'm not going to ditch you in the middle of this.
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You need every hand you can get. I, I don't want, I personally
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don't want you to drag, drag you into matters where you don't
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have to be here, because if we drag you into this, you might
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not get out of it. I would feel bad if you were
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rotting in Leavenworth with us. Hey, you realise I've been on
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borrowed time since my team died?
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Yes, well, you. Know we're all one borrowed
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time, technically. Don't be bleak, licks.
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I'm going with you all. Right.
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All right. If you go, I don't think we can
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tell them no. And I don't disagree that this
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is a more hands better situation.
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OK, right. This is this is the plan.
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Everybody have everything ready to go when shit hits the farm.
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Shit hit the fan when he gave that speech.
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I think we're. Not not not for Ace.
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I mean for us, shit will hit the fan.
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Yeah, we have, I would say a matter of hours if we're lucky
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for. Somebody I need.
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I need. You, Cordelia, to stay in the
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foxcatcher. So you.
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OK, so I'm going to get you don't have the Foxcatcher on
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you. It doesn't or I guess you do,
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but it's not assembled. It's not that thing's going to
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that thing's going to take. It's probably a day to assemble
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that thing, Cordelia. What you do know that you have
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in Storage Bay is what did what did you say you wanted?
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It was the. The Harley.
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It was a Harley WLA. Yes, the Harley of World War 2,
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so. Harkins back to Hale's TSL
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character. Yes it does.
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OK. It's all, it's almost like
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everything we do is all connected.
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It's. Almost.
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Like that's something that is like our whole bit.
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You need to stay with a vehicle, that's all I'm saying.
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Cordially, you need to stay. You need to make sure you have
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your ship packed and ready to go.
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Declan, I'm assuming all your shit's in your tent box on the
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side if you. Just want to stay up S the fire
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hits the side of the armour and it just folds it.
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OK, all right. I need to get my start and my
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beer. That's it.
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That's all I need, Yeah. Do you even have your?
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Isn't your beard just like in a central location somewhere?
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And you? Yeah, I'm assuming it is.
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It doesn't. You don't carry it with you, you
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just have access to it. I like.
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There's just like a fridge somewhere in.
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His rice. Screw a fridge.
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He could just have it in the Arctic.
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Yeah, and it's just got infinite bears in it for some reason.
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It's. Just somebody's like there's a
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private whose whole job is to restock this fridge.
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Hell yeah, it's a really shit. Not anymore.
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You're going to run out. We can buy more beer, probably.
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I don't know how much money any of us have, but we'll figure it
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out. I'm ready to go now with what's
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on my person. And I need to go.
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And get myself a vehicle. The dog tags, that's.
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All I need the vehicle going to be able to keep up with us.
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Don't worry about that. We'll see.
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Oh, right, you can, yeah. I can get a tow.
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Dec when you need to get a Ranger near the fallen, you just
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have it nearby just because making a portal for you and the
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portal for us at the same time is going to be a bit of a ball.
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Like easily. Done.
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They don't exactly question when I get in it.
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All right, let's rendezvous back in the Fallen's Bay in, let's
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say, 30. Yep, and I clipped my fingers
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and there's a portal into the barracks for me and Cordelia to
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to go. Let's go.
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Let's go. After they leave Declan just
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cracks his neck. It's morphin ton and full suit.
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Oh question, is this the first time you've done this since you
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came here? Yeah.
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Your suit is pristine. He's going to stop for a second,
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look around. Look.
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I'm assuming also the visor. Yeah.
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All in the. Side That's probably going to be
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the first tale. Yep, it is.
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It's like the like the day you got it.
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He's just going to like, do the like, all right, let's do this
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and then just jump up the outside and hop in from the top.
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Oh shit, we need to get Lizette as well.
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Shit, we need to get Lizette as well.
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And that's for one hour. Episode 10 minute episode.
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Good job gang. I'll, I'll grab my stuff and
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grab Lizette. OK.
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Yeah, Cordelia's just going to go and.
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Does Cordelia just have a go bag?
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Yeah, she 100% just has a go bag always ready.
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It's just all of her shit. She lives out of a duffel.
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She never unpacks. Yeah.
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So you you have that and you have access to your garage and a
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set of keys? Yep.
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For your bike. Cordelia goes and grabs the hog
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and meets at the rendezvous spot.
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Cordelian has never grabbed a hog, Let's be real.
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That's true, and she never will. I've.
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Just been sitting on that for a while.
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Yes, the standard issue Harley WLA.
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Right, so Rex runs in, runs into his room, grabs his bastard
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sword off the side, puts it on, throws it over his shoulder,
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grabs the dog tags of his old, old English team and puts him in
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like a pocket on his flight suit.
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Runs again, like sprinting down halls and doing portals instead
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of turning corners just because it's faster, and then gets to
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Luzette's room and be like, grab your shit, we're going.
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What? Grab your shit, we're going.
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OK. And she just sort of looks
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around and grabs like a purse, I guess.
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And she's just like I, I don't, I came with nothing.
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I I. Did your boyfriend's in?
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Trouble. All we've got to say and I'm
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going to grab her like by by her arm and then jump through a
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portal into the Fallen's Aster bed.
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OK. And because I'm assuming
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Cordelia's here with the Fallen with her Harley.
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Absolutely. She's been here since 25 minutes
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ago. Right, two options.
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We we do this peacefully and we just leave.
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Or I can make a distraction so they don't try to stop us.
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No, let's just go peacefully. OK, the.
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Fewer. The fewer head, the the fewer
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head count we have as we leave, the better.
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OK, have you got a side thing on this or can Lizette ride bitch?
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She could ride with me. Perfect.
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She's not the woman I wanted on the back of my Harley.
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Climb into Ranger this thing. 'S made for like 5 people, so
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we're good. I I climb into the fallen and
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say the activation phrase of May death bring you peace, and the
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coal engine in might just infuse red energy throughout.
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But all right guys, Are you ready after this?
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We're fugitives. Let's go now looking back.
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Not the first time. Let's do this.
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And I just opened like a portal as big as I can.
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Where are we going? I was about to ask where is your
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portal going to? West Virginia.
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Where else is he going to go home?
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He's going home. OK, West Virginia it is, then.
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Have I ever seen West Virginia? We'll find out.
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Let me pull up a map of West Virginia as you're going
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somewhere. We'll we'll figure out where.
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And I'm like, confident that Ace has, like, told us about his
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family hunting expeditions in excruciating detail at least 10
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times. OK.
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Where absolutely that. That's like Ace's favorite
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thing. So where?
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Where is Ace's family farm? So, OK, so I'm going to say the
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family farm is outside of maybe like are you, are you looking at
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a map of West Virginia? Yes, I don't, it's not as hell a
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detailed map but it's got like the major cities.
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So do you see, do you see Morgantown and do you see
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Clarksburg? Morgantown is like right at the
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Pennsylvania. Yes, yes I do.
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So then SE on 79, you'll hit like Bridgeport and Clarksburg.
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If you triangulate that, there's this small town called Grafton.
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Got it. Yeah, I think.
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That's about. I think we're looking at the
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same map. Are you just on?
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Google Maps. I'm on GSGIS geography map of
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West Virginia cities and roads, so OK.
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Let's let's call it Grafton WV. OK, let's, let's get a role here
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from Rex. Are you, we'll, we'll call it a
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channel, but it's going to be a disadvantage because you, you
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know of Grafton. You don't know where the fuck
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Grafton is. It can only get worse from here.
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Shit. Oh, I've got the exact same
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role, so that's 13. Jesus Christ, OK.
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You, you, I think with the help of a a little bit of a boost
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from Hoopa to just sort of nudge the portal a little bit, you get
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pretty close to Grafton. There's like a river.
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I feel like you're on like a riverbank somewhat.
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You assume somewhat close by. No.
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Am I in the right place? This doesn't look like a place
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where a house would be. No, but I think it's probably
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better if we didn't, you know, end up right at the family farm
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because I can't imagine. But they won't be checking there
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first. You know, I shit, I didn't plan
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for this. Didn't want to bring a map.
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No. Great.
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Not a craft in West Virginia. Does does Declan have a map?
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Declan does not have a map. No he doesn't.
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And all of his random survival shit.
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He doesn't have a map. I don't think of West Virginia,
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I think maybe California. Right, stay with me here.
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Can I make a portal? Like a big portal high enough up
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that I can see the general area if I look through the portal
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that I'm looking into. I guess I don't know if that's
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going to help you. I mean, you're just going to see
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land. I mean, can you tell exactly
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where you are when you're flying in a plane?
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I mean no, but. But if we can see a nearby city,
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we can go rob a gas station and steal a map from a gas station.
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Well, also just to like put in perspective, the point at which
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base is, is 73 miles from Grafton.
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OK, that doesn't help us in any regard ever.
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Well, no, I'm just saying I don't think Hyperion is a flashy
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enough tree to where you can see that from.
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Even if you're like like up there, I don't think you'd be
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able to see it. Yeah, you're you brain wave.
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OK, let's. Be honest, Let's be honest.
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Cordially, when's that guy ever taken his comms off?
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That's a good point. And we have his girlfriend
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literally like 2 seconds away in his Astor.
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So what if we give her a walkie-talkie?
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And then they're going to know if we're doing shit, if, if we,
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if they, if they do listen, if we talk, they're going to know.
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I can try to boost the signal on my aster's.
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Yeah, sick so. And I mean.
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We have the capability of of flying as well.
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So we can just, like, fly her over, yeah.
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Better. Land than anything I got.
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Speak to your boyfriend. Hey, Kyle.
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Yeah, I know they're still like 70 miles away.
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Would I be able to like feel any kind of a presence to like know
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that now I can start sending a signal?
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Roll me plus channel This is this is the magic of the earth
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coming up through you can you can you sense a familiar?
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Sexy. Present vibe.
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That is a dirty 10. 10. Yeah.
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I, I, I don't think you got like an exact coordinates right.
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I think you do get sort of just this vibration through the weave
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of like this seems like a familiar.
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I think you get a sense of familiarity and then you also
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get this weird sense of unfamiliarity from the exact
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same spot. As you said, it's Declan as
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well. And I've never met Declan.
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Correct. So I think Ace is going to so
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out of caution, instead of doing like the obvious thing, I think
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he's going to do the subtle thing.
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And so I'm going to try and combine the moves of Woodland
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Whispers and all things great and small.
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And essentially I want to try and use like a mixture of like
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basically send not a signal of coordinates, but a signal of
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like, you're on the right track. Something that like Cordelia and
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Rex would know like, Oh yeah, this is Ace.
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The way this looks is that Ace says the Hyperion and he's just
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like, all right, I think it's time.
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And so there's this, there's this like green energy that goes
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down from Hyperion's roots out to the roots of trees.
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And it just kind of like there's this pulse of like, like nature
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energy that follows like, follows the contours of this,
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this hill that he's on, this topography northwest.
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And I think as the tree cover gives way to farm fields,
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instead of it being passed through the trees, then it gets
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passed through like various small critters.
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So there's like, you know, it's, it's basically like an assembly
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line of, of flora and fauna just trying to like.
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It's a bucket brigade. Yeah, and you know, it like
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once, once it gets out of the mountains and into into more
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farmland instead of trees picking up the signal, then
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it's, you know, then it's like some, some crops.
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And then it goes past like a, a, you know, like a, a ranch.
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And a horse has the wherewithal to go run to the the northwest
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corner of its encampment who finds like a bird that flies
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that. And it just, it keeps going down
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until Rex and Cordelia, you guys, you guys see in front of
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you a small squirrel. Just not again runs up to you
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and just kind of like stand still and looks up at you.
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I feel like it jumps onto Cordelia's handlebars.
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I think we're supposed to follow it.
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Wait, you want us to follow a squirrel?
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It's a It's a long. Story it's a long story.
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I I hate to agree because I have given him so much shit both
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personally and professionally about following a squirrel into
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the woods, but I think the squirrel knows we're aces.
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And the the squirrel sort of like nods and shitters a little
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bit. Oh.
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Great. Let's go let all right.
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We need to find a covert way to do this though because me and
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Declan are in Rob a large upstairs so.
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I am driving a motorcycle in the woods.
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This is not going to go well. The squirrel looks over at the
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fallen, and he just sort of like jumps down, runs over to it and
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touches the side of the fallen. And Rex, you get this feeling
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that if you make a portal, it's going to go where you need to
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go. Oh.
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Shit. Hell yeah.
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It's being guided by nature. Trust me on this guys.
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And I click my click the fallen's fingers.
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So it's like a big and this portal opens and I'm assuming
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it's going to take us to this giant Redwood in the middle of a
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forest. Correct.
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You see on the other side of a portal a Redwood standing in the
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I had really a clearing, but like an open area.
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God damn it. I told you he wasn't smart
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enough to not be a Redwood. This is the least subtle thing
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I've ever fucking seen in my life.
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Ace Randolph, get out of that fucking tree right now.
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Can I hear them? Yeah, you're, you're, I assume
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they. Came through the portal, yeah.
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Yeah, they didn't say. I assume they came through the
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portal. Yeah, you can.
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You can hear them. I think you, you just see like a
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flash of green energy and I think you guys just hear on the
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comms. So what was that about following
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squirrels into into forests? I am so mad at you, I don't want
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to hear any of it. Actually, we didn't follow a
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squirrel. We're just to throw out that.
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And I think this this Redwood dematerializes and Ace appears
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out of the. Out of the tree, yeah.
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Ace. Declan Declan Ace.
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Declan's probably like coming out of the bottom of Ranger with
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Lizette. Ace, nice to meet you.
26:56
Dig in the green. Yeah, Ace, you see another green
26:59
dude with your girl? She's got a favorite color, man.
27:05
You know what, I have questions. I feel that.
27:10
I feel that I'm not going to get them answered for a while.
27:14
So I'm just going to go with this Declan.
27:18
Ace. Nice to meet you.
27:20
Nice to meet you. Captain.
27:23
Not anymore. Yep.
27:26
Are you a captain? Not.
27:28
After I became a deserter. Sorry.
27:31
Sorry. Yeah.
27:31
We're going to deal with Cordelia's emotional collapse
27:34
because of this choice at a later time.
27:36
Right now we're running on adrenaline.
27:41
I told you this was going to end badly.
27:43
Ace. I had to do what I had to do.
27:46
I, I can't sit here and we, we talked about this before I
27:50
agreed to it. I told you that I cannot allow
27:54
what is going on to continued to go on and I had to do what I had
27:59
to do. As he's like talking like this,
28:02
Rex has gotten out of the falling and he's like walking
28:05
over to Ace and as he gets like a good like foot away, he's just
28:09
going to fall on decking straight in the nose.
28:13
I think Ace falls over into the Peter Griffin dead pose.
28:18
Then he pushes himself up. He he wipes just like a small
28:23
trail of blood from his nose and says deserve, Yeah.
28:26
Apology accepted, Cordelia. Can I do it again?
28:31
Can I do it for you? No, that's OK.
28:34
You don't need to punch him. I'll make sure that he makes it
28:38
up to me. Rex, roll me roll ME22-D6 Rex
28:54
with Hoopa's dice. Hoopa's Dice.
28:56
That's a Nat. 12 baby. Oh, a Nat 12 That punch felt
29:00
good. That punch felt real good.
29:03
You sure? I can't do it again, Cordelia.
29:06
I feel like my frustrations haven't fully been conveyed.
29:11
We need him conscious for this next part I.
29:14
Can keep I can keep him conscious and just punch him
29:16
again. Well, we'll see later if we
29:19
still feel like this. I think for now we need to come
29:22
up with a plan first and foremost as to what the fuck we
29:26
are going to do now. Because currently we are all
29:29
fugitives. Well, my plan was to be a tree.
29:36
Didn't you can't just do it you. Can't just be a tree.
29:41
Ace And in this In this valley of blue spruce, you can't be a
29:45
Redwood. I period would say otherwise.
29:49
And to be fair, I asked and she said no.
29:54
She is a saucy lady. We we did.
29:56
We did talk about this. Pussy whipped until the day you
29:59
die, huh? Yeah, what else is new?
30:02
Yeah, fuck gentlemen, we are fucked.
30:07
Well and truly. So you guys are up against?
30:14
Everyone. Everyone.
30:16
Everyone now we have no allies that aren't currently sitting
30:19
here. All right.
30:21
So. What's your goal?
30:24
Because it's kind of been my life for nine years.
30:33
I pull out five beers. That's how we drink and think
30:37
about it. Great fucking question Declan.
30:42
My entire life has collapsed in about the last 2 1/2 hours so.
30:47
Yeah, it does that sometimes. It does that sometimes.
30:52
To be fair, this isn't my first time making enemies of an army
30:54
either. Yeah, so.
30:58
Well, Ace, this is the hill you wanted to die on.
31:00
So what's next? So I am trying to figure out how
31:07
to put it without. I mean, I I know I already sound
31:10
like the absolutely the most insane person.
31:17
Sure, I'll take it. You did the right thing, Ace.
31:20
Like they're giving you shit, but you did the right thing.
31:24
I am, I am hoping that me doing the right thing.
31:29
I'm hoping that we can that we can move past where we're at
31:35
right now. And if not, I will be the first
31:39
to I guess own up to my actions if they ever figure out where I
31:43
am. But that being said, even though
31:48
I'm not a fan of the United States Armed Forces and they are
31:53
not a fan of me, I still think that we have a common enemy.
31:58
And I think that me personally, I have, I still have a mission
32:04
that I set out to do. If it were up to me, I would
32:08
continue on that mission until best case scenario I'm killed
32:13
and worst case scenario, well, I don't want to think about that,
32:17
but. It's a weird way to talk in
32:19
front of your girlfriend, my friend.
32:21
I mean, I get it. I understand your sentiments
32:24
man, but the best case scenario is you survive this shit, not
32:27
die. I mean, sure, but that just
32:32
gives I don't know, I you know me, I not the best long term
32:39
planner in the world. Yep, we know that.
32:45
So I was kind of hoping that, you know, the four of us here we
32:50
could collaborate on something. I mean, I know that, I know that
32:56
the Pacific front is still going to an extent the European front
33:00
is not great as far as I as far as I know.
33:06
Rex, roll me. Dispel uncertainties.
33:10
Oh. Shit, what's that with again?
33:13
No. -1 I guess let's give it that is 7.
33:22
Seven OK, on a mixed success, you start to get a flashback of
33:28
your dream. Again, like, not like it's not
33:31
affecting anything, but you just sort of remember with the
33:33
setting that it was in. Great.
33:36
I don't know if you'd speak about it in this moment in time.
33:40
I think it'd be more of it. It just like mulls it over.
33:43
He he sort of has that face. I think he's having more of an
33:46
internal conflict because he knows that Hooper was lying to
33:50
him earlier and now doing shitty things to his friends, like
33:54
punching Ace felt really good, which really shouldn't feel
33:57
good. And I think he's sort of having
33:59
that sort of internal conflict with himself as to whether he's
34:02
just turning into a Dick or something's wrong with him.
34:06
So I think he's just sort of SAT back with a bear and you saw,
34:10
have you seen that meme where it's like the guy stood down?
34:13
He's like all the war flashbacks around him and he's just like,
34:15
Oh yeah, that's the face he's pulling.
34:18
The 1000 yard stare, Yeah. Well Ace, I have a lot of
34:38
questions as to what's happening in Germany after our encounter
34:41
with our friend who came out of that first portal.
34:45
I think you've been playing hero on the radio for quite some time
34:48
now. How about we try and figure out
34:50
how to make you into a real 1? That was along the lines of what
34:55
I was thinking. The real question is how do we
34:58
get out of the United States? I can go to angles.
35:02
Points. Do they work over that long of a
35:06
range? I mean, we've, we've done from
35:09
California to here, but we haven't portaled over an ocean.
35:11
There's no place to land. I'm I'm never going to forget
35:15
home. I I will literally take you to
35:18
my my house in the UK. Like I'm sure it's still there
35:23
unless the butts has like destroyed it but.
35:26
Do we think do we think that if we show up three Astros and a a
35:32
very smart. The sucking UPS not going to
35:36
help. OK, do you think if the four of
35:39
us idiots show up, good old Mr. Churchill will accept US1 with
35:46
open arms and two without notifying our ex command of our
35:53
location? We don't have to worry about
35:55
that's that's a worry for after we get to the UKI.
35:59
Think maybe we should worry about it before we get to the
36:01
UK, at least here. I mean, granted, I know we're
36:06
not, you know, completely out of the danger zone, but we're so
36:10
far away from civilization. Even if they knew where to go,
36:15
it would take them weeks to find us where we're.
36:17
At Right now and Ace, there are five of us.
36:20
Hi, Lizette. She waves.
36:26
Yeah, that's what I counted 1245.
36:32
Lizette puts. Out Oh my God, he's.
36:34
So stupid. No, OK.
36:37
You know, you remind me of someone, Ace.
36:43
I think we go and we figure it out after we get there because
36:47
truly, what are our other options?
36:51
You see, with that, we go back to Japan.
36:53
It's either that or we go back to.
36:55
Japan free. The people that are rounding up.
36:57
Yeah, Cordelia Eunice is in Japan.
36:59
I don't want to talk about that. That was, that was a weird look
37:03
you just gave nobody in particular, Cordelia.
37:06
I know what she's thinking. Cordelia flips the coin in her
37:08
pocket. Seeing as I was a tree for the
37:13
past several days. Or several.
37:16
Times. I don't know.
37:16
Four times. It's it's not been days, years
37:22
since reality. It's really warped when you're
37:24
in there. I say it probably does,
37:26
honestly. Like I, I feel like when you're
37:28
in that situation, like it does feel like you've been in there
37:30
for, I mean, trees live a long fucking time.
37:33
Will it be that or would it be like seconds?
37:36
Yeah, I think. I think it'd be stretched out.
37:39
I feel like for, like for. Everything so sealing that.
37:42
Time scale. I feel like it would feel like
37:44
days. All right, well, that's
37:46
something that I can unpack with a therapist once we win this
37:50
war. I mean, can, can somebody like
37:57
fill me in? Rex mentioned a dream we have.
38:02
We have a new member to our our ragtag group here.
38:05
What did I miss? When?
38:08
Oh, I'm from another world. Yeah, he he came.
38:10
Through a whole, there's been a lot going on, holes whole.
38:14
Problems we we had a fight. They're fine now.
38:19
But we're fine now. We actually were.
38:21
We, me and Cordelia, are actually planning to to swap you
38:25
and Declan out on the team when you were slating us on the
38:28
radio. Yeah, that was pretty rough.
38:31
They were. Very mad at you.
38:33
I'm surprised they only punched you once.
38:35
I I had to ask permission for the second one and she said no.
38:39
It's because I have a plan. I to.
38:41
Punch him again. No worse.
38:46
OK, that terrifies me, but for what it's worth, none of I mean,
38:52
I feel like I would hope that you know me well enough to know
38:56
that those wars weren't mine. Yes, and that's part of the
39:00
reason why I didn't let him punch you a second time.
39:03
But. And then she Pats her duffel
39:04
bag. Don't worry, I have something
39:06
special planned. OK.
39:13
We'll talk about it later, after we're not in imminent danger.
39:17
Fair enough. So what's your what's your
39:28
immediate plan now? Is it?
39:30
So we need to, to to decide if we go into the UK, if we go into
39:33
Japan or are we going to be freedom fighters of the US?
39:37
So Cordelia got a really weird look when we said Japan, and I
39:41
don't know what that means. We should go to Japan or we
39:44
should go as far away from Japan as is humanly possible.
39:48
I'm. Going to look at Cordelia and
39:50
go. We'll, we'll stay away from
39:52
Japan. I think for now, it's our best
39:55
bet to stay away from anywhere where we might be known.
39:59
And I think the one problem about freeing the people here, I
40:02
said they're just going to get rounded back up again and what
40:04
the fuck are we going to do once we help them?
40:08
That's unfortunately, I think I agree that's a, that's a losing
40:13
battle I think if we, if we go to the European front.
40:18
I think our best bet is just ending this conflict as fast as
40:21
we can. Let's take it right to him.
40:25
OK, to to the UK, to Britain it is.
40:27
Let's go. To Britain it is.
40:29
To Britain it is. Let's have some fun because home
40:35
definitely doesn't look like it used to since this war started.
40:39
You think you have it bad here in the US with not getting your
40:41
ice cream? It's it's awful over there.
40:47
Be prepared to see things that you're not ready to see.
40:50
Understood. Are you sure you're OK to go
40:53
back? You know me, I'm a wanderer.
40:56
I'm not asked where I am at. A.
40:58
Some like flexes and his veins glow green for a second and he
41:04
just looks at Rex and puts a hand on his shoulder and says,
41:07
look, if it's, if it's OK with you, if we're, if we're able to
41:11
find a safe spot, I'll, I'll do what I can.
41:15
I know it's not bringing any anything back, but at least
41:19
it'll make it feel a little better.
41:32
I've been meaning to ask this question since we started these
41:34
sessions. What is Hooper's feelings for
41:37
Ace right now? Oh, interesting.
41:40
So now you're now you're asking his opinion?
41:42
Yeah. Are you asking, asking him or
41:44
you're just? Trying to get hyped.
41:45
I'm I'm, I'm because I'm, I'm feeling like he felt good to, to
41:49
punch him and he's lying to me. So he's, he's changing his ways
41:53
and like I'm, I'm a bit suspicious of what's going on.
41:57
Are you still standing or are you in the Fallen?
42:00
I'm still standing. OK, let's see what would his.
42:03
Let's let's let's. Let me, let me.
42:06
I'm rolling these ones. I'm sick of you.
42:09
Sick of you. Too fair, I rolled pretty bad
42:12
with the Hoover dice today. Example that.
42:14
Well, also, to be fair, rolling good in this situation is bad
42:18
for you. Yeah, exactly.
42:20
All of these roles have been against you.
42:21
So you let's see, what would Hoover think?
42:27
I think you get, I think Hoopa, you hear just sort of this, his
42:31
voice in your head and he goes, he's weak.
42:34
I wish we didn't need to have him around.
42:37
See, something about the way you said that makes me feel like
42:39
you're going to make a find the reason to have him around.
42:42
You don't get a reply back. OK guys, this might get ugly so
42:48
I'm going to portal you away before you get hurt.
42:52
Oh God. And I'm going to try and make a
42:56
portal so they can leave. There is no portal run.
43:02
Just run any direction please. Cordelia will like grab Lizette
43:12
and gesture pretty frantically at both Ace and Declan to
43:16
hightail it with her. Yep, already going.
43:20
If you guys are sure and Declan's going to get back in
43:22
Ranger. OK, Hooper, we're doing this.
43:27
You're going to break the promise we made.
43:29
It's time to put you back in that fucking cage. 20 minutes
43:33
and we will be back. I can't promise it'll only last
43:36
20 minutes, but whatever happens might cause the American army to
43:40
come here so. 20 minutes and we will be back.
43:45
Yeah. So I'm going to raise the Dukes
43:47
up mentally against. I'm going to try and enter that
43:50
space, that space in between. Time all right and and you're
43:55
still and you're still on foot. I'll get into the Fallen so I
43:59
can take the Fallen with me. OK, roll plus, that'd be a plus,
44:05
no? I think would be a good one for
44:07
that actually. No plus clash.
44:11
That is A9. A9 Interesting.
44:17
You sit in the Fallen and you basically begin to think about
44:22
trying to get to this space to talk to Hoopa.
44:25
And as you're sitting there with your eyes closed, mentally
44:28
trying to do stuff, you you feel a little bit of movement and you
44:33
realize that the Fallen has drawn its sword.
44:36
No, no, stop, Hoopa. This is between me and you.
44:41
Hoopa, you hear hoop in your head.
44:45
It's been fun, Rex, but I'm sort of sick of being in the
44:48
passenger seats. PIPA, I swear to God I will kill
44:53
you. It'd.
44:54
Be nice to see you try and what direction did Hyperion run off
44:59
in? I think Hyperion.
45:03
Or did you? Or were you in Hyperion?
45:05
Were you just running? I think, I think Ace was just
45:08
running as himself. I don't even think he's had time
45:10
to transform. The the Fallen begins to move
45:15
towards the direction Ace ran off in.
45:18
No, no, stop Hooper. I swear to God.
45:23
Ace, ace, ace. Ron, you have no, you have no
45:26
comms. Oh, no, no, no.
45:28
And. That's where we're going to end
45:31
it. The.
46:37
None. Get, get get.
46:43
Get. Get.
46:46
Get. Get get.
46:52
Get. Get get.
47:01
Get get, get, get.