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Wild Wild West E15: No-One's Home · The Multiverse Collective

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I have, I have my my notebook at work and it's just every break
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I'm just scribbling shit about deities.
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I'm not even having my notebook here to to show you.
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But I'm like, well, if she's got if she's got like fallen angels,
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then I mean, she's got to have like the Nephilim because they
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were part of the Bible as well. And I'm just going down this
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rabbit hole of. Stupid shit.
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So I'm. Going to fly any giants?
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That is my favorite part of the bibble.
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That's a good part of the bibble.
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I like the sex. I like the part where they
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question the words of the mighty Jimmy.
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So we were. Up and ready to vamoose out of
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Houston over to the Big Easy to meet some of Slick's high
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faluting friends and a man noir. Luckily, Slick reminded me to
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swing by the bank before we left.
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Ezekiel may take most of the money, but I got enough to get
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by for a while. Well, we hopped out on the train
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and got it going, but things seem different and now I'm a
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good way. Now.
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We had a lot of talking to do and that was real nice.
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Learned a lot about Arthur, learned a lot about Slick.
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But I just, I don't know. I've been around these parts
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before and they never look so bleak.
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I ain't got a good feeling about this one.
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OK, so I mean, where we last left off, we we were on the
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train. You are in route to New Orleans
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and you're having some pretty intense personal conversations
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in your private car as you pass through this vast wasteland.
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And you were informed, I believe, right before we ended,
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that this place is famine by the Porter here on the train.
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And I think we'll pick up right there, you all sitting in the
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bar car on your way to New Orleans, passing through Far
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East Texas. You really have to use that
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wording, huh? I don't remember his voice, but
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he doesn't say another word. He just shakes his head at you
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and hand holds his hand out for a tip.
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I got a tip for you. Don't don't ask money from three
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broke strangers. We wasted all our goddamn money
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on the the train tickets here. My apologies, Sir.
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I'll slip him a dollar. Yeah, I'll slip him a dollar as.
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Well, he nods appreciatively at both of you and gives Itchy A
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scornful look as he moves on. This definitely won't come back
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to buy me. No, certainly not.
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And as you sit here, you feel the train lurch a little bit.
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It stutters, doesn't quite come to a stop, and you feel this
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incredibly ominous, dark presence.
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And it's not quite what you felt itchy when you went all the way
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to hell, but there's something. Is the train decelerating like
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are we? Stopping.
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No, it's not. It's not decelerating, but it is
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OK. It shook right like it was
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rattled by some sort of force, but it is continuing on.
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It's not derailed at all. It's just.
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I think Ichi looks at the conductor and hastily hands him
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$5. By the conductor, you mean the
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border? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Ignore everything I said about money.
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You take this. He takes it and thank you
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kindly. There's not enough kindness left
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here. Say that again.
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What? What is it?
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Every single thing this Potter said is weirdly, weirdly
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ominous. And here I thought it was just
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that nice whiskey. I feel like we should just leave
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them be. I'm not going to.
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Get out of them. I'm not going to.
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Ask any more questions. But yeah, everything just has
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like a soul overtone of darkness and it.
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I've had a rough day. I've seen a lot of shit.
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Yeah, it's been. How do you live?
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Life like this, slick. Like not looking into anything.
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Well, until recently, it hasn't been too much out of the
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ordinary. Recent events have changed that
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a little bit, but before it was just sort of me doing my own
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thing. I did my best to not put my nose
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in anybody's business. And you feel the presence
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closer. The door to the bar car opens.
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We are in the bar car of the train.
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Train just shook like crazy. And this feeling is ominous in a
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way that you've never experienced, not even when you
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went to hell itchy and met the devil himself.
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Is it dudes it like knock us over?
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No. No, you're still standing.
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It's, it's like when you're on the subway and the subway just
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kind of shakes and people kind of lose their balance a little
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bit and you have to catch yourself with your other foot,
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you know? Is that a reference that tracks
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for you? Yeah, all right, folks.
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I don't know what showed up, but I got a bad feeling something's
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going to happen. So are we fatting or are we not
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fat? I mean, I wouldn't think of the
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word, sorry. Son, you, you need to slow down
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on those whiskeys. Yeah, maybe I ought to stop
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drinking. And the door to the bar car
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slides open. Hey there fellas, why the long
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faces? You look like you've seen a
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ghost to something an. Apple pulls out a cigarette.
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Tell us, what do they see? You see a vagrant, for lack of a
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better term, dressed in basically rags with sunglasses
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in the shape of flames. Very hot.
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Oh shit, it's Davidson. It is deathly pale, whoever or
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whatever this person is. I hate to do it.
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I'll I guess I'll flip on the site and see what I see.
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Yeah, my site has been on this whole time we've been in the
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backyard. You turned it off?
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No, you turned it. Off.
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You did turn it off because you didn't like looking outside.
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Yeah. For like the first time.
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You turned it off. Yeah, I'll, I'll flip it on.
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What? What fresh hell am I looking at?
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With the site you see, what is effectively what you and I would
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see as a black hole is this swirling vortex of nothing but
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pure gravity and power. Cool.
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I'm a flip that off. Let's let's keep it in this
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bee's eyes, why don't we? Yeah.
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Don't like what you see, James? Oh, I'm not a fan of that.
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Who the fuck is James? I'm immediately going to point
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point my gun at you and say what the fuck do you say?
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Oh no, my one true weakness. Little pieces of lead.
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Don't do it, James, please. And also you can drop.
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The voice. Wait, are there other people in
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this car still or is there? No, I'm.
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I'm very confused. I don't know a James.
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Zebby baby, come on, don't play games.
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All right. That I'm not surprised that we
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did. We, we know my name.
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I wasn't careful with that. I'm going to use Clarice's coin
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for the first time since I've realised they acquired it and
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put the one point I've got into analyse come from the OK from.
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The coin. OK, yeah, go ahead, roll me an
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analyse check with your. Plus one she's.
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Smart. That's right.
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When I actually have three dice now, I'm hoping that Latin Luke
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dice does me some good. That's two successes.
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Two successes. So with two successes, you know
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this is not a demon. You know this is not anything
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that you have ever seen before, and you know that this isn't
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what it seems. You know that this isn't of the
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earth. All right, so you know two of
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our. Names and are calling.
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Our friend Slick by a different name who are.
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You. Oh me.
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Oh, Oh, no one. I'm so unsettled right now.
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I see what you're doing, and my name's Euripides.
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Wait, no, no, the wrong. I don't want to know.
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Slickle, look at you. Just be like, why do I get the
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feeling we're travelling through your area?
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My area, my area, it's it's it's, it's all my area.
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Safe to assume your famine then? Famine.
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Famine. That low down hungry little shit
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I saw you put me in some bad company there, James.
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No, no, no, I'm. I'm not Famine now, you know,
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Before you were born, Before your grand pappy was born,
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before your little country here was born, before Adam and Eve.
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Good people. You know Adam, he's a quite the
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looker, Folds. Like.
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A House of Cards and he, well, a pretty lady and a bit of fruit.
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But let me tell you, Eve's face card does not decline.
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As you're saying this, Arthur's going to go to pour himself like
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another drink of whiskey and stop.
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And just. Chug from the ball.
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Hang on, hand me one of those I need.
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I need some more. Yeah, just finish the swigging.
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And most importantly, before that little say so you call Gab
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decided to come in where I was sleeping, where I was having a
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nice nap and give it the old the the the the let there be light.
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I mean, you know, I had to kill. Him about it.
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How would you like it if someone came in the old room and turned
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the light on before all of that? Well, there was no one.
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I'm so I'm not getting fucking terrified right now.
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Right, so we've come from having demons and gods to have been
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primordial forces of the universe.
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Oh no. What do you want with us?
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That that was going to be my question.
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Come on, I told you to drop the voice, Rex, you're not.
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Rex, you. You kind of remind me of it.
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You got a brother? Nope.
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Not as far as I'm aware. I know you got P/E AT Pete or
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had PDAT Pete, but and I know you got a brother Zeb sorta.
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As soon as he says Pete, I'm going to pull my gun out.
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No, not more little pieces of lead.
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Whatever will I do? Oh well.
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All right, I for for the record, I would like to know the answer
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to the question what what do you want with us?
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Say please. Please.
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I'm I'm happy to share nothing. And Arthur, with your two on
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your analyze check, you know that they're telling the truth.
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Monk, what's wrong? You know.
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I need to get a bit deeper. You know this this.
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Last week can we just erase it? Just can I go back to being
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ignorant of everything and this never would have happened.
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I would have still still being Holy.
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See the looking. Arthur, I'd be very careful
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making wishes like that around whatever the hell this thing is.
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Hey, man. There's a non zero chance that
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could happen. Now we're here.
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Yeah. How does that feel, by the way?
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You lose 20 horses in a fire, disown the brother, and then you
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put. The last one down.
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It's not great decision making. What led you there?
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Zebby baby? Huh.
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Well, desperation does crazy things to you.
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That's that's what I'm learning here.
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Yeah, it does, doesn't it? OK, so so this person's
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omnipresent. We know that.
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More omnipresent than the former God.
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Well, they killed God, so. Right.
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Allegedly. Allegedly, yeah.
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Allegedly. So if you don't want nothing,
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why are you here? Oh, you know, just passing the
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time. That's a funny coin you got
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there. Yeah, it it, it's just a coin,
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my friend. Yeah, yeah.
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OK. No, I came across one of those
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once. What's a lot like that?
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Maybe a little familiar to one of us?
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And it fishes around in one of its pockets and pulls out a coin
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with a a familiar face if you'd like to fill them in Rye.
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Absolutely. Six eyes on one side and when
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they flip it itchy. It's your face.
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OK. And the face mirrors your
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current expression. When your mouth moves, the mouth
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moves on the coin. When you blink, it blinks.
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I think. Ichi looks at this for a second
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and he he looks at the coin and he like looks down at his hands
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and he looks back up the coin and he looks down at his hands
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and I think he just pukes in a trash can.
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There's no trash can, it's just on the floor.
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He pukes on the floor. Hey Ichi, can I see that real
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quick? See what?
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That that coin. He's not got it.
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It's curious about it's. It's the entity.
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OK, OK, OK. Hey, physical manifestation of
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doom. I'm going to call you that.
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You can call me no one, Arthur. Oh, OK, OK, no one.
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Very Odyssean of you. How?
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How about we trade? I'll give you one of the coins
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out of my pouch. Tray this I'll.
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Give you 1 of I'll give you one of the coins out my pouch.
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If you give us that coin there that you're not losing a coin.
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I'm not losing a coin. It's just just a swap.
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It's like collecting playing cards.
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Yeah, it's a land like that, isn't it?
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So what's what did you say? I would like my face coin back
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of the coin face me it's. OK, I'll deal with it.
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How about, how about this? First things first, before we
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get down to business, how about you put the guns away, boys,
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We're all friends here. Take it easy.
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A whole host of the gun. Oh yeah, Slick's already put.
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Slick's already put his away. Pretty much as soon as he said
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that he was more powerful than God, He didn't figure that even
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his blessed guns would work. So.
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Itchy rolls down his sleeves. And I am going to use my Take it
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easy ability. Absolutely.
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I'm itchy and slick. Would you like to describe what
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your Take it Easy ability does? You know I.
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Would I? I would.
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So Take It Easy allows me to choose any number of living
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beings in the scene who are overwhelmed with the feeling
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that we are. Best friends.
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Until I leave or cause them physical harm.
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Do we get to roll against this at all or we just?
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How do you roll games to God? Let's be honest.
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That's what I'm saying like I'm sure it's not going to work I'm
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just curious if. There is a role.
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Every D6IN existence. No, I mean we roll.
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You could roll, but you don't have enough dice to succeed on
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the roll right now. Cool.
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Excellent itchy, rubs his eyes and like pulls off his glasses,
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cleans them and he's just like. That not one.
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Come on, You didn't tell me you were coming.
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Around. No, I wanted to surprise you.
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To me. Oh my God, look at this guy and.
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He just looks over to Slick and Arthur like.
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Look at this guy. What do?
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Jokester over here. Look at this guy.
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It pulls down its sunglasses. You see its eyes are empty.
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And I don't mean black, I mean. There's like no eyes.
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Soul sucking, infinite void. It blinks.
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And Arthur, you unmistakably without question see Clarice's
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eyes. It blinks, they're back, and it
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puts its sunglasses back on. Look at this guy.
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Hey, not my, not my favorite thing when you do that, but who
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am I? Who am I to say anything about
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anything right now? And it's not that you have
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memories with no one, because you couldn't quite put a finger,
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but you know, and that you know them.
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You know this has been present in your life since your infancy,
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since your earliest memories. This has been there, watching,
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knowing you. And it hasn't ever hurt you,
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itchy, and it hasn't ever hurt you, slick.
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It's just been there. It's familiar.
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It's not kind. It's just it.
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Oh boy. So are we.
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Going to get down to the brass tacks.
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No one. Yeah, yeah, Brass tack.
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Do do you drink? A drink.
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Yeah, I've got got this bottle of whiskey here.
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I would kill for a drink. And this bottle, despite all of
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you pouring drinks out of it, I twice now I believe has not
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drained a drop. Infinite booze sick.
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I feel like I'm going to need it for this.
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Have a seat at our lovely table here.
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No one. It's it's I look at Itchy and
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look and see they've calmed down dramatically in the last 30
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seconds. Yeah, things are copacetic.
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And so I see. See you're acquainted with my
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compatriots here. Oh, you go way back.
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So I pull out the bag out of my boot of 19 soul coins and placed
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it on the table. And when you do that, you hear a
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sound outside of the car, which is interesting because you
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haven't really heard anything outside of the car, which is a
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little odd because you know, this is a train.
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Trains make sound. Trains are loud.
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And this is the 1870s. There's like.
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I I 100% assumed this was a demon train anyway so.
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Constant rattling. Can I, can I, can I still
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operate? I'm just not like aggressive in
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any way. Is that the situation?
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Yeah, 100% Yeah, 100. Percent I want to make an can I
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just look out the wind? I want to see if like it's one
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of those situations where it's the same like 5 seconds of
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terrain on the outside on loop. Yeah, yeah, you can do that
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without rolling for it. You look outside and the train
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is still moving, but you do see three very mangy, bone thin
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coyotes outside and the sound that you hear is one of them.
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Just like in passing or are they keeping up with the train?
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They're keeping up. Oh, good, good.
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I'm glad that's the thing. Just the sound that you hear is
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them yipping and yapping and howling and it's not quite
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natural, but it's not quite not. There ain't nothing natural
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right now. No.
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I mean nothing unnatural about a good hip sesh.
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OK, so no one barring the noise coming from outside, I will
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trade you one of these coins in this bag.
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For that coin, you have 1/2 of our good friend Zebulon here.
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Yeah, yeah, You know, I, I was thinking about it.
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I was, I was rubbing those brain cells together and.
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You hear another noise, this time from inside the train car,
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and it's the. Thing.
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Of a flipped coin sailing out the window.
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Is it that is it Itchy's coin? It is.
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How fast do we move him right? You're moving pretty fucking
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fast. I actually.
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How fast do trains move in the 1870s?
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Maybe like 30-40 miles. Like 20-30 mile an hour I think.
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Get off the Hooters calendar. Let's figure it out, I think.
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Like that at least 50-60 miles an hour.
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Yeah, well, you are. I mean at best if you jump out
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of a like a moving train 25. Mile an hour easy.
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OK. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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So you flip this coin, right? I can still like basically
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operate? Yeah, oh, 100%.
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Before the coin leaves the window, I want to shoot it so it
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doesn't fly out the window because that's my whole thing is
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I can shoot coins out of the air.
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That is, we've established that Roll me a pistol check.
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Let's go. That's five dice.
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Beautiful. Two sixes.
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Two sixes, no other successes. Nope, I got A1A2 and A4
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otherwise. OK, two successes.
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My I was going to say 3 and you can keep it in the car but not
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controlled. 2 successes. Wait, I can push that?
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I have my ability that I've never used.
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I can lower my vigor by one point to roll one more die.
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Let's go. 5. 53 successes. TO53 successes.
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It pings off of the edge of the window with your shot, and it
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lands in the car, spinning on its side.
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It's far away, but it's there. It's still inside.
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You going to run for it? Nope.
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Are you going to go for it or are you just going to leave it
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on the grass? I'm.
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Going to put the 19 coins back in my in my boot.
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I'm going to stand up and walk over to it just casually.
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I'm not going to run. I'm not going to give him what
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he wants. I'm just going to walk casually
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over to the coin, go to pick it up because I have a feeling that
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no one has is going to be like no and pick up the coin.
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Yeah, and you'll notice that despite being shot, I clearly
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threw because there is a bullet embedded in the wall of the
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train. The coin is pristine.
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My, my, my hope was that you couldn't damage these.
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That was why I was like, OK, I'll be cool to shoot it because
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I don't think I can damage it. So that's why I was hoping.
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What skill plan do I get when I pick up Itchy's coin with my
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bare hand? That's why I asked if itchy if I
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could see it earlier. I was curious to know what skill
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point I came. It is, and let me make sure that
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I'm saying this correctly. I believe it's just animal
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handling. OK, I say.
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It's either that or Horan, one of the two.
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It would be a lot funnier if it was Horan, but it's.
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Yeah, it's seduced no one, Ark. It is.
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Sorry. It's Ryden, not animal Handling.
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It's and Ryden. Yep.
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Does anything happen to me when Arthur picks it up?
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That's an interesting question. Like do I feel like my horse
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riding skills diminish? No, no, you don't feel like
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you've lost anything, but you feel the warmth of his hand on
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the back of your neck. All right.
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Can you put me back in the bag that I don't like that.
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You I'm so conflicted of what to do here.
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I mean, don't throw me out the window please, but.
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I'm I'm not going to throw you out the window.
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I might throw you out the window.
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I'm, I'm going to, I'm, I'm going to put it in my, I'm not
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going to put it in the bag. I'm going to put it in the boot
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between the bag and the foot for now.
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OK, so it's still touching your flesh.
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Are you are you OK? I have.
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Socks on. I was about to ask if you're a
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raw dog in your shoes, but I'm glad that you're wearing socks.
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Those blisters from from cowboy boots are a bitch.
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Itchy. You just smell feet forever.
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I was. Thinking about it's.
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A grown 6 foot four man 4 muscles sweat.
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So let's run this back a minute, fellas.
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James, you've been keeping secrets.
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No one. I'm going to go ahead and ask
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you to not use that name. You should know better.
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That name, that man is dead. Fair enough, Fair enough, Slick.
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Thank you. Where you fellas headed?
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New Orleans. New Orleans.
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I love New Orleans. OK, by the way, Rye as as no
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one's preoccupied talking to Slick, I want to take the coin
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out of my boot and touch it to to Itchy's bare skin and see
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what happens. Ichi, you feel a sense.
28:29
Of. Completeness that you haven't
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felt in so long. That ache that just constantly
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lives in your heart. It's not an ache necessarily.
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It's, you know that feeling when you're somewhere that you love,
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surrounded by people that you care about?
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You know, like that feeling you get in your chest?
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Do you know the one? I know the one.
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You feel it. It's just, it's like coming
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home. Hey, Riley.
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Yes. What should I?
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Roll if I'm trying to resist something.
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Who? Will lose your sheep.
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If you're trying to resist something, I'm gonna say
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navigate. Navigate.
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Yeah, let's say navigate. You're trying, I mean, you're
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trying to navigate your own mind, aren't you?
29:17
All? Right.
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That is, that is 1 success out of two.
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What are you trying to resist? OK, so I think.
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With that, Ichi doesn't physically do anything.
29:32
But he whips over to Arthur and you just see his eyes are like,
29:38
his eyes are wide, people's dilated and Ichi's just like.
29:42
Arthur, give me the coin. Give it to me.
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Straight in the nose. It's my actual action.
29:55
I'm just going to punch him. Straight in.
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The. House, yeah, sure, yeah.
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And then as obviously one hand's touching the coin to Itchy's
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skin and the other and the other hand is.
30:08
Punching him in the mouth, yeah. Yeah.
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It it just reminded me of the the two people, one body
30:14
situation from yesterday. So.
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Yeah, I take my damage. This is it's just one.
30:22
Yeah, and I'm going to pull the the coin off his skin and put it
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back in my boot because it she cannot be trusted with this,
30:28
with this coin. We can't let meanwhile.
30:31
Be happy Jesus Christ. I won't do.
30:36
I won't do it all. Itchy will remember this.
30:40
Yeah. I love him hard enough.
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You will know though itchy, it didn't change your situation.
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The touch of it felt like coming home.
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That's all I. Wanted to see, I wanted to know
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if it would like, I wanted to know if it like, it would like
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sort of absorb into him so it'd be like he's got his soul back.
30:59
That's the whole only thing I was testing.
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Yeah, you, although you realise, Arthur, that there would be more
31:06
that you would have to do with this coin in order to give his
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life. Back to him.
31:21
So it's like a look at no one? What?
31:24
I'm not sure what you mean by I'm hiding something.
31:27
Oh, nothing, just a a dead man. You fellas got yourselves
31:32
tangled up, huh? All up the arms.
31:36
You've been naughty, you've been naughty.
31:43
I mean, to be fair, that happens to a lot of people.
31:46
Oh, I suppose so. Everyone reaches a point of
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desperation. So it seems.
31:54
So it's sea. What's in New Orleans?
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I'm going to go ahead and guess. You probably know what's in New
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Orleans. You seem to know everything
32:06
else, so why don't you tell me? Chucks, I can't make it that
32:11
easy. I'm just like Wiley, you little
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devil you. Oh sorry, I get confused with
32:20
you Le Mans Noir types. Yeah.
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No, that's fair. That's fair.
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I in my defense, I've tried to keep out of that as much as
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possible, but that's sort of where we're going is to see.
32:32
Yeah. See the gang, yeah, they
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hopefully they got some questions for us or hopefully
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they got some answers for our questions.
32:41
What are those questions you got?
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Well, one of the questions was how do we find the coins?
32:48
So, I mean, we aren't you did this the the service of bringing
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one of them to us, but we're still looking for Arthur's and
32:56
we got more questions about that.
32:58
You're welcome. You may be closer to a second
33:02
one than you think. You're on the right path, boy.
33:09
You're on the right path. I thought it was going to say
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track. I was.
33:15
I was back, but that's what I was about to say.
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I can't be making all the puns. I got to leave a little bit of
33:25
something for you. Now my question is, yeah, I'm
33:31
assuming that you're here because you have something more
33:34
than just this coin to offer us. And if you know everything that
33:38
we're doing already, you clearly know more than you're letting
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on. I know a lot of things.
33:46
Do you, are you going to make us an offer better than an offer we
33:50
would get from Asmodis that? Twerp.
33:54
Because obviously you already know that's who we're going to
33:56
see. Yeah, look at it this way.
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You're going to have to meet a lot of people to get the rest of
34:05
those coins. And all that's Modius.
34:12
He's just a a stepping stone, a small fry, I mean.
34:20
He's the big man for you. I'm not sure but.
34:26
There's a lot of fish in the seas.
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Like Wiley, there's a lot of fish in the sea.
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Back can I Can I jump in? I wouldn't be the lightens of
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the alive should they call you itchy.
34:45
I don't know cats out of the bag, whatever you prefer.
34:48
My kind man. OK, so I I don't know if you're.
34:56
You know if. If we're not even kind of
34:58
cosmically bound to to know this information, I don't know if
35:01
it's one of those kinds of things that we have to figure
35:03
out before we figure it out. But you say there's a lot of
35:08
fish in the sea. What kind of fish are we looking
35:11
for here? Hell if.
35:15
Well, that was quick and to the point.
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Arthur, you had a question. I don't.
35:20
I don't want to ask it. I'd rather not know.
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Yes, you do. Yes, you do, Arthur.
35:28
Don't leave me hanging. I'm in suspense.
35:31
I'm dying. An old man.
35:33
Just just fill me in here. Let me know.
35:36
What do you want to know? Is my wife alive?
35:41
Oh. It takes off the sunglasses
35:44
fully and puts them in a pocket and you are sitting next to
35:49
Clarice in this car in place of where no one used to be.
35:54
Itchy and slick, you see a beautiful woman.
35:58
She is lanky and blonde and her smile is ethereal.
36:05
Her eyes are light blue and not piercing like you would imagine
36:12
the eyes to be on a demon pretending to be a human.
36:16
They just are. I'm also going to drop take it
36:22
easy I'm the other two. Let them raw dog the experience.
36:27
Beautiful. OK, Arthur doesn't have this
36:31
experience with demons being able to change themselves, so
36:35
it's always going to like reach his hand out like shakily and
36:40
like touch like a shoulder, a hand or something like that.
36:45
Just to like, make sure he's not having like a hallucination or
36:49
something. It feels like her, Arthur.
36:52
This is Clarice. It smells like her Arthur.
36:58
Her soap, her perfume. The one that she only wore on
37:02
special occasions because she couldn't afford to buy more.
37:07
She's beautiful, Arthur. She's exactly how you remember
37:10
her. You see Arthur start like
37:13
welling up like this is like the most emotional, you'll see the
37:17
most unemotional man ever. Clarice Baby.
37:22
Is that is that you? It's like I'll reach over and
37:25
put his hand on your arm and go ahead.
37:27
That ain't her, Arthur. It's just an illusion.
37:29
I don't think he's paying attention.
37:31
This is like a tunnel vision sort of moment for for Arthur.
37:36
I missed you so much. I I.
37:39
I missed you too. You.
37:41
You. These last eight years, they've
37:43
been hell. For both of us.
37:46
And that's where we'll end the episode.
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38:07
the gang again. Always a pleasure to be a guest
38:11
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