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Axis & Allies E12: An Entropic Clash · The Multiverse Collective

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  Hey, it's me, Kyle. I didn't know at the beginning
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  of an episode. Wild, right?
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  It's been a while since we've had time to talk, and we've got
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  a few things to tell you guys about.
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  The first is that I will be attending the aptly named
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  Multiverse Con this year. Multiverse Con takes place in
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  October 17th through the 19th in Peachtree City, GA.
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  There's also going to be a lot of cool events like a mixology
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  course, artist alley, plenty of paddles, and Saturday night
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  there's an open bar. But the bad news and then the
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  good news, the bad news is because of the timing, this year
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  only, I'm going to be able to make it from the show.
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  But the good news, that doesn't mean I'm going to be there
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  alone. That's right, I'm going to be
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  bringing some friends. You already know Noodle has a
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  delightful chicken cash and Wild, Wild West.
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  Well, he and Andy will be there to represent our beloved friends
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  Check them out. Absolutely wonderful show,
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  wonderful friends, beautiful people.
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  But that's not all I'm bringing. I'm also going to be going with
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  Rift, which uses masks just like we do for Final Hope.
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  There may be some other friends coming along as well and if I
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  can get confirmation on that I'll I'll let you know.
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  But the other thing I got is we have some new Patreon content
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  coming soon, some regular weekly things.
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  We're still working on the final for that, and we need to kind of
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  get our schedules smoothed out a little bit.
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  So it won't be until like later next month probably if we start
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  that. But we'll give you more, more
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  juicy deets on that when we get everything sorted out.
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  Anyways, I've talked enough. So let's move on to Axis and
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  Allies 12 and a Tropic Clash. Enjoy.
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  I just squashed a man in 80s essence.
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  That is literally how we ended last.
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  You have to pronounce essence with a little bit more instead
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  of just never mind, it's fine, don't worry about it.
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  Oh, wow, I feel good. Oh, I've got Hooper in my head.
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  Oh, and you know, he's a big help.
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  We, I've been, I hate that shadow energy that that feels
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  like it's revitalized me. I feel like Ace and Cordelia are
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  a bit concerned, but you know, them two squares will never
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  understand what's at stake with this whole mission now.
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  OK, so we ended the last episode with a crack in reality,
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  basically opening up in the field you guys were near.
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  So it's basically like a jagged hole, just like glowing red,
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  sort of in the middle of the field.
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  It's not doing anything at the moment, but it's just sort of
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  sitting there. Cordelia points at it.
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  What the fuck is that? What the fuck is that?
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  Ace is going to pull out his force knife and just have it
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  ready to go. And he just looks over.
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  Oh yeah, Ace. I guess if I am not already in
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  Hyperion, I am going to be, I am going to materialize Hyperion
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  and I'm going to pull out my force knife and I'm going to
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  look over at Cordelia and I'm just going to be like, well,
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  your guess is as good as mine. Cordelia looks unimpressed.
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  Can I speak to my good old pal? Yeah.
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  I don't know. If Rex had noticed, it'd be like
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  a self monologue, so he's just going to say it out loud.
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  It's like, Yep. Yo Hooper, the fuck is that?
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  That's a whole. Clearly we.
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  Didn't open it. OK, it wasn't me.
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  I don't know if I believe you or not to be honest.
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  With friends, Cordelia, Friends don't lie.
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  Yeah, I know, and I'm not saying that you're lying.
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  I just don't think you know what your portals do yet.
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  Completely maybe. Can I don't?
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  Is this a dumb idea? Probably.
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  More than likely does this have the same purple essence coming
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  from it that. No, it's glowing more of a red
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  than purple. OK.
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  Can I pick up like a a rock, like a rock that would fit in
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  the hand of the fallen and just launch it straight into the
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  hole? Sure.
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  All right. That that that's what I want to
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  do. OK, so the the rock hits the
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  portal and it sort of begins to pulse a little bit.
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  The the light is pulsing a little bit brighter.
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  OK, whatever it is, I just knocked on its front door.
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  And I desperately wish that you hadn't done that.
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  Oh my God, Oh my God. Cordelia's head is in her hands.
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  She has no fucking clue what to do right now.
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  This is way beyond her fucking pay grade.
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  Cordelia, you had gone inside the factory, correct?
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  I believe you went in and looked around and you went in and
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  turned it off. Yeah, we were working to secure
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  the factory so that we could deliver it intact.
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  That is what my team was doing. Yeah.
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  And you came back out, did you did anybody stay in there or did
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  you just come out with your team?
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  I I probably left my team to just make sure that the factory
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  is secured along with whatever foot soldiers we had brought
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  with us that aren't otherwise occupied.
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  You, you have the freedom fighters as well that you can.
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  Yes. All right, so as as you're sort
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  of like looking at this portal pulsing, it sort of begins to
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  crackle with electricity and it's just sort of seems like
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  it's gaining more power. Rex, you hear Hoopa in your ear
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  go. It looks like they're coming to
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  say. Hello, we've got incoming.
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  Everybody prepare yourselves. What's the what does the terrain
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  look like? Are we, are we still at like the
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  forest's edge? Yes, it's the forest edge and
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  the big field that's just South of the factory.
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  You're still basically at the factory.
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  There's the big field to the north or to the South, and then
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  there's forest to the north and West.
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  So if I was to like position myself at the edge of the
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  forest, would I still be like in range of this portal?
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  Yeah, 'cause that's where you, that's where you're sniping from
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  last episode. So yeah, you can definitely get
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  there. Cool.
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  I think Ace is going to put away his force knife, pull out the
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  Titan bow, and he's going to look over at Cordelia and he's
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  going to be like, I don't like the looks of this thing.
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  Permission to go hide and do what I was meant to do.
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  Granted, please, dear God, and Cordelia is like scrambling to
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  get in the Fox box catcher. OK, I assume your main crew, you
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  left your. Main crew on the radio with her
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  team to get everybody where they need to be.
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  But she also definitely had a radio back to base to tell them
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  about this successful operation because she's such a fucking
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  kiss ass. She wanted everybody to know
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  first thing all right, cart fully ahead of horse.
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  Ace in the meantime, he's going to, he's not going to take his
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  eyes or aim off of the off of the portal.
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  He's going to to climb up a tree and activate the the chameleon
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  cloak and just get ready to to shoot whatever comes out.
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  OK, so you can. So you are camouflaged?
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  Yes. Is Rex just standing there?
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  Is he preparing? He's all right.
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  So drawn, that's all he needs. OK, so as you're standing there
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  watching this thing as it's gaining power, it a a bolt of
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  lightning comes down from the sky and strikes the portal.
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  And when it clears, in this place of the portal is basically
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  a a 20 foot diameter Dome of just darkness.
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  Nice. Like it?
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  It looks like a 3D shadow. OK.
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  Yeah, that's how I feel too. Ace, looking at this shadow, you
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  get this sort of underlying current from Hyperion of it does
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  not want to be here. It this, whatever this is, is
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  not right. I think I'm I'm going to relay
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  that on the comms and be like, Hyperion does not want to be
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  here. I will.
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  I'm not going to run off again, but my Asta is telling me in
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  Cherokee that it does not want to be here.
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  What's the Fallen saying to Rex? Oh it's fine.
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  It's chill of. Course it is.
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  Cordelia is over over the comms as soon as Ace says this.
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  If you run off so help me God. Nope.
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  Learn my lesson. I'm going to push.
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  I'm pushing through it. I'm just telling you, whatever
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  this thing is, it is not right. Yeah, so, so specifically more
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  what you're feeling is this thing is unnatural and it's it's
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  triggering your threatening nature from your Titanic.
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  So like it, it feels like death is what's is what that is.
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  And as you guys are just sort of talking about it, you hear a
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  couple cracking sounds and two, two like coal ember eyes appear
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  in the center of it. Hello.
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  Court Cordelia aims the Foxcatcher's biggest gun
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  directly at this. She doesn't like give orders to
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  fire or anything yet, but she is making sure that the team is
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  locked in. Yeah.
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  Yep, Aces ace is loaded and is like holding holding the bow.
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  All he needs to do is just let his hand go and that bolt will
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  fire. And to each of your
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  perspectives, it appears to be looking at you.
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  OK, like one of those bloody pain.
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  In this way you can move your head.
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  Yeah, which is just horrifying. Cornelia does not want to be
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  perceived to, let alone by, a creature from hell.
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  So as you're as it looks upon you guys, it begins to move and
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  it begins to stand up and as it moves it is crackling of bone.
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  Every joint, as it moves breaks and it stands up and it just
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  keeps getting taller and thinner and taller and thinner and
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  taller and thinner until this massive 50 foot shadow is just
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  standing in front. Of you all.
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  Awesome. Do you speak English?
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  Cordell, you want to fire? Yeah, I want to use my vein
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  reserves and I want to fire on it.
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  So my Bain reserves let me upgrade to Ruin.
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  That'll be AI believe just a basic exchange blows I.
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  Think yeah, I think so. 8 + 1 that is A9.
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  A9 So as you fire, your shell seems to pass through this
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  thing, creating a hole where the shell hits, which just sort of
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  whispers back shut. Great.
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  And it's I, I think you, as the Foxcatcher unit, get the
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  unnerved. Oh yeah, 100% that is.
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  So wildly unsettling that shall lift right through it.
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  As soon as soon as that happens Ace is gonna let his his knocked
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  arrow fly and I don't know if it matters but it it also has the
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  ruin property. So that'll be plus clash.
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  That's gonna be an 8. So yeah, your your shot.
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  Unlike the the physical shell, the energy arrow hits it and it
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  sort of it doesn't necessarily like go through it, but it seems
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  to absorb into it. And since you have to take a
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  risk, I think you have to take the reveal because he used the
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  feeling cloak. Yeah, I think ACE comes out of
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  hiding, I think almost prematurely expecting like
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  expecting this to work. I imagine the both of those
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  shots like went in almost like almost simultaneously.
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  And I think Ace is just looking around like why is it still
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  alive? Rex, Buddy.
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  OK, so Rex will. We're going to get fuck it.
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  We've got portals now and we've got Hooper portals.
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  So we're going to get fuck it. Rex is going to put a portal
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  under his feet so he drops from the sky, but like above this
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  thing's head. And I just want to like full on
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  like smite smash it like with the swords, just like straight
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  through the head. I think you could make that a
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  strike decisively, Honestly, that's that's, that's a pretty
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  solid hit. That's a 10 my friend.
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  Ten, yeah, All right. So as you as you drop through
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  this portal, your sword comes down.
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  I imagine that Hoopa sort of or the the fallen sword I think is
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  it like is that like wreathed in shadow power at this point or
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  no? It is a slight purple, like the
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  Fallen is more of a purple out there.
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  OK, so I think it's just like a slight purple tinge on on the
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  blade. Yeah.
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  So as you as you drop your sword, it cleaves through this
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  thing and you can feel it make contact because of the shadow
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  power that you have. And as you just sort of drop
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  through it, it falls in half by second.
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  Done. And it falls sideways onto the
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  ground. It just sort of lays there.
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  Did I do good? Great job I'm.
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  Concerned this is going to use this time to reload.
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  I'm going to start chopping it like into pieces so he can take
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  it. As as you sort of walk through
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  it, it, it begins to crack again and grow together and stand back
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  up for. God's sake.
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  And as as since you're close to it and it's pissed, it will take
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  a swipe at you as well. Oh, sick.
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  So. Weather the storm.
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  So you yes, you need to weather the storm.
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  That is A9. Nine, OK, you succeed what at
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  some cost? So either if you want to do it
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  successfully, you can burn a point of spotlight, or it's just
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  or you could take a risk. I'm going to take a risk.
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  I'm so close to like. Leveling up, advancing.
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  All right, OK, so take a risk. What do you think would be a
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  good risk for getting hit by this weird crackling hand?
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  We don't know. Any of the properties of this
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  shadow creature? Maybe unnerved would make sense
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  for you too. Yeah, I say.
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  Or. Yeah.
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  This is like the first time that you've, like, destroyed
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  something and it's still get getting back up, getting back
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  up, Yeah. As it's sort of growing back
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  recording, your radio begins to crackle a little bit with
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  incoming. Great.
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  Like an incoming communication. Yeah, your your radio tech Dave
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  Pipe something goose, Lieutenant, they're they're
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  they're sending back up. Our current orders are just to
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  keep it here until they get here.
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  Heard that? Great.
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  So great. And she's like muttering under
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  her breath and pacing back and forth in the cockpit and like
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  twiddling her hands because she's very nervous about this.
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  This is a situation she's not super in control of, especially
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  after perhaps over celebrating her recent success and maybe
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  being a little too confident in the fact that that nothing could
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  have possibly gone wrong after they secured the factory.
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  Florida State. I mean, wow, this is fucking
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  terrifying. What the fuck?
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  Yeah, I think Cordelia is going to give orders to fire again as
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  soon as we're we're reloaded specifically at the half that
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  that Rex is not currently butchering or at least trying to
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  butcher. I guess that would just be
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  another exchange blows. I think so, yeah.
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  Cordelia is not thinking in a way that would let her try and
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  figure out what the situation is right now.
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  I think she's in like full panic mode.
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  This is way above her pay grade and that is A7. 7 All right, you
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  take another risk. Take another risk.
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  I, I think I, I, I think the your shell like once again, just
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  sort of pierces it, but it's hard to tell if it's looking at
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  you or not because it seems to be looking at everybody at the
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  same time based on your perspective.
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  Lovely. Which is horrifying.
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  But it's, as far as you can tell it the the body that's standing
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  up is turning towards you. Great towards the fox.
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  I'm already unnerved. What's worse than that?
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  Shit pants. Yeah, I mean, like, she's like,
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  she's like, praying a little bit right now.
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  That's not something that she does.
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  She's like, she watched Rex, her biggest combat threat, take it
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  down seemingly with no problem. And then it just put itself back
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  together and it emerged from a glowing red hole just torn in
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  the fabric of the universe. Ha ha ha.
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  What? I don't know, Kyle.
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  What's worse than unnerved? Panicked.
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  Yeah. Honestly, Panicked is a good
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  one. Yeah, I mean, I would say that
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  she's starting to panic. I don't think she's like capable
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  of using her brain in this situation anymore.
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  I think she's mostly just going to keep firing and isn't.
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  I don't know, it would take something like serious to snap
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  her back into her ability to to be like grounded in reality and
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  not just like making impulse decisions.
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  Are you going to relay anything over the comms or are you just
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  leaving the pilots to fight? I think she will just respond to
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  the request or respond to the the call the backup is on its
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  way by asking them to make a double time and and she'll like
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  give a couple details about it reforming itself after being
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  sliced in half. Ace and Rex, how do you take
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  this information? I think Ace is hearing this on
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  the comms and I think Ace is going to take a second and he's
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  going to try and read the room. It's obvious that nothing the
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  three of us have have done has worked so far.
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  So I think Ace is going to take a second.
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  I think he's going to, he's going to pull his and let me
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  know if I can't do both of these things.
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  But my thought is I want to like just kind of shoot in the
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  direction of this thing to pull fire from the Foxcatcher because
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  Hyperion is much more mobile. So you're trying to do this in a
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  read the room to just sort of like get sort of figure out
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  what's going to work and what's not going to work.
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  Is that what you're trying to play for?
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  And then hopefully, hopefully at least distract this thing for
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  long enough so that it doesn't like take a bite out of the
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  foxcatcher or whatever. OK, yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll go
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  with that. Go ahead and roll me a read all.
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  Right. That is going to be plus sense.
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  Where is my sense? I have one sense that is going
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  to be a 10. 10 All right, you can.
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  You may ask any three of those questions on the list, or if you
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  have a more specific question, I'm cool to go outside the list
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  too. OK, question one.
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  What is being overlooked or obscured here?
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  I think as you do this, you realize that the portal has gone
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  it like it. It was inside the sort of shadow
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  Dome before it stood up, and whatever this thing is the the
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  IT took the portal with it. OK, question two.
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  Who has the upper hand here? It definitely does, whatever
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  this thing is definitely has the upper hand, but I would say if
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  you're asking more specifically for your team so far it would
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  seem that Rex has done the most. Even if it rebuilt itself, it
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  was still a distraction. Yeah.
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  And then question 3, this is gonna be a specific one.
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  What can I do to assist the team against this thing the best?
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  Good question so as as you're looking at this thing, you take
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  your shot at it and just sort of your your arrow pings against it
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  and just sort of absorbs against it as well.
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  You so Hyperion is it's giving you this overwhelming sense of
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  this thing is killing the land around it.
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  And you get the feeling that whatever this thing is is an
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  entity of entropy. And maybe using your powers to
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  use nature around you might assist.
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  All right, so then I think over the comms, Ace is just going to
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  be like, all right, Rex, I think you're going to be the best
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  thing to distract it. I don't know if you can, if
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  you're going to be able to kill it, but whatever you're doing,
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  keep doing it. Cordelia, I'm going to try
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  something. I think I think this might be
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  some kind of being of entropy, so I might see if I can if I can
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  use Hyperion to to help reverse that.
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  Sounds great. Just attack.
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  Got it. Well, OK, so after hearing that
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  I'm going to have another pow wow with my best bud Hooper
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  Hooper you you've, you told me in that like bullet time saving
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  my life moment we had like 5 minutes ago that you've seen
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  basically all facets of the universe.
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  Have you have you seen this of, of the multiverse?
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  Actually, have you seen this before?
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  I. Might have.
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  I'm going to need a little bit more from you buddy.
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  Let's see do do a roll for Hoopa for No.
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  Well we'll give Hoopa a + 2 on. No, this is fun because he
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  bought separate dice for Hoopa so they're not going to be his
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  busted as a metal dice. They're still busted as fuck.
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  That's at 12 all. Right.
• 24:18
  So Hoopa, he he thinks about it for a second.
• 24:21
  You know, I might know where all that this thing came from.
• 24:24
  Yeah, I think Ace is pretty on the money with it being a being
• 24:29
  of death. OK.
• 24:31
  I think the best thing to fight it might be with magic or pure
• 24:34
  life. Pure life.
• 24:36
  Pure life. I know exactly what Cornelia is
• 24:40
  going to do. What the fuck's the name of the
• 24:42
  bloody person with the the one who's tried to save him?
• 24:49
  Merlin, you know you know who I'm talking about, right?
• 24:52
  The. Radiant.
• 24:52
  Are you talking about radiant? Radiant, right?
• 24:56
  Can I use weave magic to make a portal to bring the radiant
• 25:00
  here? Oh.
• 25:01
  Shit, all right. Holy shit.
• 25:06
  This is off the books, I didn't think about this.
• 25:09
  Me. Good dice.
• 25:13
  That's a 15. I know it was.
• 25:14
  I knew you were going to fucking say 15.
• 25:16
  I knew it as soon as you rolled. I'm like, this motherfucker
• 25:19
  rolled A-15. All right?
• 25:20
  You needed to roll good too. Because I mean, honestly, I
• 25:23
  think the only reason you're actually able to do this
• 25:25
  properly is because you're getting an assist from Hoopa on,
• 25:28
  because otherwise you wouldn't know where to put the other end
• 25:30
  of the portal. Yeah, that, that.
• 25:32
  That's not my fault. Now I've got the guy who knows
• 25:34
  the portals, I might as well use them.
• 25:38
  So I, I think, I think you drop a portal in front of you and
• 25:41
  Hoopa will sort of throw out the other one.
• 25:44
  And the radiance is already like had a dead Sprint coming through
• 25:48
  this portal. And he, he, he sort of stops.
• 25:51
  And you look around. He looks around and goes what
• 25:53
  the hell? Radiant, radiant, right?
• 25:57
  This thing, we can kill it with pure life.
• 26:00
  You heal things, correct you like you do all the saving the
• 26:04
  lives of all the people on the ground.
• 26:07
  So naturally, other than Ace, you are the best weapon we have
• 26:13
  against this thing. Sorry for disorientating you by
• 26:16
  making you come through that, Paul.
• 26:18
  Well, to be honest, that was with everybody, everybody else
• 26:19
  already on the way here, so. But but we needed you now all.
• 26:31
  Right. I mean, I what in the fuck?
• 26:34
  All right, I'll see what I can do.
• 26:37
  He just sort of pulls out a knife.
• 26:38
  Use use your whatever you use to like power your ass to channel
• 26:44
  that energy into your attacks. All right, so I don't want to
• 26:49
  play this part. He's like the one character that
• 26:52
  I didn't like. Plan.
• 26:54
  I'm really happy as part of the battle because this isn't
• 26:57
  something I thought of. Everybody else I have plans for
• 27:00
  I. Expect the unexpected when it
• 27:01
  comes to my bullshitter it. Alright, I have something that
• 27:06
  Cordelia will do in the interim, if you want to think about it
• 27:09
  for a second. Go for you, go for it, go for
• 27:12
  it. That That'll be Rex's turn.
• 27:13
  We'll, we'll go to yours after giving after giving radiant like
• 27:18
  the rundown, I'm going to like switch back to the comms for Ace
• 27:21
  and cordial and try right guys listen, speaking to the best,
• 27:25
  but the God in the head, you know the one we're talking
• 27:28
  about. He said he's seen something like
• 27:32
  this before and life is the best thing to combat it.
• 27:36
  Unless like, Ace can make like a giant Redwood appear in the sky
• 27:41
  and crush this thing. I think the radiant is the best
• 27:44
  that we've got. So I think we should all just do
• 27:46
  our best to take the hits for the radiant.
• 27:50
  Absolutely. Hyperion told me something
• 27:53
  similar, so I I think I've got something too.
• 27:57
  And Cordelia is going to instruct her pilot to drive the
• 28:04
  Foxcatcher into slash onto the thing so that she can help pin
• 28:10
  it in place with the treads so that it can't maneuver anymore.
• 28:16
  Oh, all right. You have a move for this, don't
• 28:18
  you? Yeah, I think is that, is this a
• 28:20
  watch this or are you using? Yeah, let's call it a fucking
• 28:23
  watch this. Fuck it, I'll.
• 28:25
  Spend. You have to spend 3 spotlight.
• 28:26
  I'll blow three spotlight on this.
• 28:29
  I have or I was. About to shit in.
• 28:32
  Advancement considering you're. Spending spotlight.
• 28:37
  Yeah, What? How does it work?
• 28:38
  Like you, I'll say if you're using the ability that spends
• 28:41
  spotlight it, it fucking works. Yeah, we're, I mean, my goal is
• 28:46
  to run it over and trap it underneath the treads so that
• 28:50
  it's in one piece still, but so that it can't maneuver, so that
• 28:55
  radiant so that the fallen and so that Hyperion can all get
• 28:59
  attacks and without getting damaged.
• 29:02
  So essentially they can just like jump it while I hold it in
• 29:06
  place. I think after you, after you do
• 29:13
  this radiant, sort of, it's a very small mech.
• 29:16
  I think I described it as that before, like you guys are
• 29:18
  probably like, I think 20 feet tall.
• 29:20
  I think this thing's like 10. It's not very big.
• 29:22
  So he's sort of like climbs up the side of the Foxcatcher and
• 29:27
  he pulls out, he pulls out a cross, a mech sized cross and he
• 29:31
  sort of aims it down at this thing's head.
• 29:34
  And if Cross begins to glow and I, I think you just hear over
• 29:38
  the comms Radiant speaking Latin and he there's just like this
• 29:43
  fire enveloping everything. Like it's not.
• 29:47
  It definitely seems to be hurting it.
• 29:48
  Even if it's not outright killing it, it definitely seems
• 29:51
  to be doing things to it. Oh fun flames, the wrath of God.
• 29:59
  Yeah. Can I?
• 30:00
  Can I have another powwow? I've got another idea.
• 30:03
  And if they're just getting more and more stupid, but this, this
• 30:06
  one's not just thinking about me, this is thinking about
• 30:09
  Cordelia. Because what the fuck is she
• 30:10
  going to do in a non super powered machine against
• 30:15
  supposedly super powered creatures?
• 30:18
  So I'm going to turn to, I'm going to turn to Hooper again
• 30:24
  and be like, bro, I know you don't know her.
• 30:26
  She's chill. We had that whole conversation
• 30:30
  about how like, we're friends now and I want to protect my
• 30:34
  friends. And you agreed.
• 30:35
  Yeah, like 5 minutes ago. Is there any way you can like
• 30:41
  open a portal somewhere? Like just for me to see so I can
• 30:44
  grab a weapon, something for Cordelia to use just in the in?
• 30:49
  Like so we can like have her not die.
• 30:54
  OK, Hoopa thinks about it for a second.
• 30:56
  He goes and adjust the thing and a revolver drops into your lap.
• 31:04
  Let's go. I was thinking something mega
• 31:09
  tank size but I'm sure this will do and I'll like create a portal
• 31:13
  and drop it into Cordelia's lap like the God.
• 31:18
  The God of potholes says use this and you can fuck shit up.
• 31:24
  What the fuck Rex? She also jumps like 6 feet in
• 31:31
  the fucking air when this happens.
• 31:35
  Yeah, and I hope it just goes trust.
• 31:39
  Me, he says, to trust him. Yeah, sure, sure thing.
• 31:43
  Sure thing. But great.
• 31:46
  Let's let's kill it. Let's kill it, please.
• 31:51
  Yeah, that's the spirit. That calm down.
• 31:55
  We just need we need to do this strategically and come up with
• 31:58
  Cordelia. You're the rock in in this team.
• 32:01
  If you break the whole system, it breaks.
• 32:05
  I appreciate the pep talk Rex, but right now I need you to go
• 32:08
  back out there and do the thing that you are so good at, which
• 32:12
  is UN mitigated violence. Yes, exactly.
• 32:16
  Murders. All right, so I think what Ace
• 32:26
  wants to do is he is going to. So I'm going to try and fire the
• 32:34
  the Titan bow again. However, would I be able to use
• 32:40
  weave magic to to channel like life energy into the bolt that
• 32:44
  I'm trying to fire? Sure.
• 32:46
  All right. We'll we'll we'll call this an
• 32:48
  attack using plus channel. OK, I am glad I got the plus
• 32:52
  three because that was A7. So you got 10 total or 7 total?
• 32:58
  7 total. All right, so you, you fire this
• 33:03
  arrow after I, I think the arrow turns from like green to white
• 33:07
  as you channel your life energy into it and you you hit, but the
• 33:12
  way you hit sort of disrupts what radiant was doing.
• 33:18
  So where you hit it, it goes in and instead of it would normally
• 33:23
  just be absorbed. A big sort of cancerous ball
• 33:27
  starts to grow in that spot that you hit it on.
• 33:29
  But in doing so, you sort of dislodge, I'd say actually you
• 33:33
  probably dislodge maybe the Fox kid and he's he's, he moves to
• 33:37
  be able to get up a little bit. And you guys hear over the
• 33:40
  radio. Move aside kids, we'll handle
• 33:43
  it. And as as you look to the side,
• 33:46
  you see wreckage basically hauling ass through the trees.
• 33:50
  I'm going to look at wreckage and put my hand up, but you can
• 33:56
  do fuck all the games this monster baroque.
• 33:58
  You see he doesn't have his normal weapons on it.
• 34:00
  He has a big backpack and he also goes you think I came alone
• 34:05
  and you hear over the radio. Sup face, how you doing?
• 34:08
  It's been a while. Not this fucking.
• 34:13
  Hey, Gary, things are going great.
• 34:16
  What, What's the ice guy going to do it?
• 34:19
  It was fucking useless in the last battle and then he pussied
• 34:22
  out for the beachfront. Did you, did you come here to
• 34:27
  watch us kill this thing? More the merrier, right?
• 34:32
  And he, he, he fires his icicle SMGS as he's skating around this
• 34:38
  area. And they do seem to hit, and
• 34:40
  like it seems like doing damage with something of a magical
• 34:43
  nature does actually seem to hurt, so the icicles sort of
• 34:46
  stab into it before they melt. Cornelia is still just firmly
• 34:50
  parked on top of this. As long as it's not escaping,
• 34:56
  she's just gonna hold steady here and examine the gun that
• 35:01
  got dropped into her lap via Portal.
• 35:06
  OK, so you want to give me a let's let's let's do a fun
• 35:10
  little roll. Let's do a dispel insurgencies
• 35:12
  on this gun. So plus no.
• 35:14
  Oh. God, what is my plus?
• 35:15
  No, I think that's like a -1. Let me look at my sheet.
• 35:19
  It is minus. One.
• 35:20
  Yeah, Nice. All right, spelling
• 35:22
  uncertainties. Well, I rolled A4, so that's a
• 35:26
  three. I will be taking that spotlight
• 35:32
  back. Thank you, gentlemen.
• 35:36
  So I think the one thing you get from looking at this thing is
• 35:38
  you look at it, it seems like a regular revolver and I I think
• 35:44
  she knows guns enough to read the branding on the side, says
• 35:47
  Lamont. Sick, Sick.
• 35:52
  Nice. Interesting.
• 35:54
  But that's all you get out of it.
• 35:56
  Yeah, and it. Feels just like an ancient
• 35:59
  revolver. Yeah, I think she's just also
• 36:00
  kind of distracted by the fact that Gary showed up and now
• 36:03
  she's like looking around to see where Eunice is because she's
• 36:06
  fucking helpless. Yeah, that that was so you you
• 36:10
  do hear over the radio units chimes and goes because somebody
• 36:13
  get off him so I can get these fireballs in and she just goes
• 36:16
  flying over. The other one as well.
• 36:19
  Great whole party's here. Cordelia just turns beet red for
• 36:25
  no reason. The panic intensifies.
• 36:35
  I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna roll something here.
• 36:39
  Would it be me or would it be oh that's that was the first snake
• 36:43
  eyes I've ever rolled. Whatever it is, it didn't work.
• 36:48
  Oh no, it it was for me to not see red for people taking me
• 36:53
  kill. So now, Rex, you just sort of
• 36:56
  see the same sort of rage envelope Rex again as you did
• 37:00
  when we were attacking the factory with the samurais.
• 37:04
  And he just starts going to town.
• 37:06
  Any any time like Gary gets close, he like slashes the ice
• 37:11
  path that he's on. So he he has to bear off and
• 37:14
  like he just keeps throwing like like cleaving into this monster
• 37:19
  like a madman. All right, I as as you guys are
• 37:24
  sort of are fighting this thing. You see a reckon she's put down
• 37:27
  his giant backpack and the back of it has opened up and he's
• 37:31
  just sort of assembling a massive gun out of this
• 37:34
  backpack. It comes in several parts.
• 37:36
  Nice. He and he, he comes over to the
• 37:42
  radio. The credilian goes, oh, we're
• 37:44
  still not. We're we're just here to hold it
• 37:46
  here. The big guns are still on their
• 37:47
  way. Great.
• 37:49
  Well, I would say we're holding it so far.
• 37:53
  Let's just make sure it doesn't stand back up, huh boys?
• 37:56
  And Eunice. I, so I, I think, I think ace as
• 38:00
  a result of your shot just sort of going slightly errant, it's
• 38:04
  able to sit up a little bit and it does start pushing the box
• 38:07
  catcher off of its legs like it's sitting up and pushing it
• 38:10
  back. I think what Ace is going to do
• 38:15
  is attempt to basically take his arms and like shove them into
• 38:21
  the ground to cause like, you know, you know, like the the
• 38:25
  animation of like frenzy plant, how they're just like roots that
• 38:29
  like come out of the ground. I essentially want to like shove
• 38:32
  my arms in the ground. Send like send roots over to the
• 38:36
  fox catcher so that it's able to stay balanced.
• 38:38
  So essentially like help, like give there's a move for this
• 38:43
  help or hinder. I essentially want to give the
• 38:46
  help action to Cordelia. That is going to be a 10, right?
• 38:54
  Nines. So yeah, these roots, these
• 38:56
  roots bury through the ground sort of was snaking their way
• 38:59
  across and they burst up underneath it, grab it by the
• 39:02
  arms and just sort of start pulling it back down to the
• 39:04
  ground. Dave sort of looked at EU
• 39:13
  Cordelia and goes, ma'am, there's there's something big on
• 39:17
  the way. How big?
• 39:19
  What is it? It's just on the radar.
• 39:22
  I don't know, but it looks pretty damn big.
• 39:25
  Is it the backup or is it another hostel?
• 39:27
  Can we tell? Do we know it's?
• 39:31
  Pig and friendly. Big and friendly.
• 39:33
  That's great. Can we can we attempt to contact
• 39:37
  it to see what their ETA is? Perhaps what they've brought.
• 39:42
  He, he comes over the radio and he's, he's trying to hail it and
• 39:47
  goes, they're not, they're not responding right now, ma'am.
• 39:51
  Exquisite, exquisite. Great.
• 39:54
  Good, Good. Good.
• 39:55
  Good. Good.
• 39:56
  Good, good. Good.
• 39:57
  How are we? How?
• 39:58
  How are we holding? Gentlemen, Everything OK?
• 40:03
  Oh, I could do this all day. I'd rather not, but I could.
• 40:08
  Reassuring. You just hear rage full screams
• 40:12
  from Rex over the. Yeah, that tracks that, that
• 40:17
  tracks. Feel like let's rule, let's
• 40:21
  rule. I guess it'd just be a flat 2D6
• 40:23
  because your talk is 0. Let's let's see what happens
• 40:25
  with that if we can clear one of your dangers.
• 40:26
  Great, that is A7. 7 All right, I I think that's good enough to
• 40:31
  lose panic. Heard.
• 40:34
  Yeah, I mean. I most inspiring speech you've
• 40:36
  ever given but. I'm definitely I'm still
• 40:38
  unnerved. I'm not myself.
• 40:40
  This is very unsettling. Another like more things on the
• 40:44
  way that I don't know about, but it's at least reassuring that
• 40:47
  there's something else on the way and that I won't have to be
• 40:49
  in charge of all of this for much longer.
• 40:53
  Rex, what are you? What are you up to?
• 40:55
  I have. One more question for you.
• 40:58
  Do I see that lovely purple energy coming off this monster?
• 41:03
  You don't. Oh, this is just, it's, it looks
• 41:06
  like a living shadow. Like I know we're talking, we're
• 41:09
  talking a lot about shadow energy, but yeah, imagine
• 41:12
  there's just a shadow that stands up off the ground.
• 41:15
  OK, there's no defining features other than the 2 red eyes.
• 41:21
  So I'm assuming it's still attempting to push the.
• 41:26
  Yeah, it's sort of trying to struggle out of.
• 41:28
  I'm assuming it's doing something sort of like that.
• 41:30
  They're trying to push it off when it moves its arm back to
• 41:33
  like get it back. Can I open a portal and chop its
• 41:36
  arm off? Sure, roll a.
• 41:40
  Wave magic, I'm assuming? We'll make, we'll make this a
• 41:44
  clash because this is more, you're doing it more of an
• 41:47
  attack. We know you're pretty solid with
• 41:49
  portals at this point. That is A7. 7 All right, I feel
• 41:54
  like your portal it, it works, but it just sort of grows the
• 41:59
  arm back right away because it the the way you did it didn't
• 42:03
  really work out the way you wanted it to.
• 42:05
  It just sort of grew more shadow and the arm started to come back
• 42:09
  right away. Do I take a risk for that?
• 42:11
  Right. Yeah, I'm going to assume like
• 42:15
  I'm good. That sounds like a that makes
• 42:17
  sense. That tracks like Cordelia as
• 42:26
  you, as this is all going on, Dave points and goes, I think
• 42:31
  that's our backup up there. And as he points into the sky,
• 42:34
  you see just an absolutely immense airship.
• 42:39
  Like it's got like a it's like a 5 balloon airship going on.
• 42:42
  Like imagine 5 Zeppelin side by side.
• 42:44
  Yeah, yeah, 5 Hindenburgs maybe. Yeah, yeah.
• 42:49
  All right, I have been given no instructions as to what they
• 42:53
  want me to do. Can I contact them on the radio
• 42:55
  at all? Are they still?
• 42:58
  Sure, I think they're in range now, they were just really high
• 43:01
  before. This is the foxcatcher looking
• 43:06
  for direction. So you you hear Crackle and then
• 43:09
  back over the radio you hear, Lieutenant, this is Paul
• 43:12
  Tibbetts of the Enola Gay. Please clear the area.
• 43:15
  Absolutely, boys, let's get out of here.
• 43:18
  Don't have to ask me twice. And Cordelia is going to slowly
• 43:23
  back up like a woman who ran over a pedestrian and is trying
• 43:29
  to make a run for it. Rex is not listening.
• 43:33
  All right, I rolled my. Second set of snake eyes.
• 43:38
  Can I? Can I then see Rex not leaving?
• 43:42
  Can I attempt to like, pull him back?
• 43:46
  Do you want to do it magically or just you want to walk up and
• 43:48
  grab him? I just want to walk up and like
• 43:51
  pull some like change my arm into like basically like a horse
• 43:54
  collar and just like pull it back.
• 43:56
  All right, you know what, you guys let's let's roll a an ace.
• 44:00
  You roll a clash, Rex, you really defy to see if this
• 44:03
  works. It's just going to be a
• 44:04
  challenge of who wins. 11. Well if you put my 2 dice
• 44:09
  together and you read them left to right, it would be an 11.
• 44:16
  Yeah, Rex. Rex ain't moving.
• 44:19
  All right, I think Ace is going to try and he's just going to be
• 44:22
  like, I think he's just going to be like Rex, Rex, we can't stay
• 44:27
  here. I got to we, we got to go.
• 44:31
  And I think Ace, Ace is going to realize that he has done
• 44:35
  everything he could and he's just going to radio to Cordelia.
• 44:39
  Like I tried, you can see that I tried and then he's going to
• 44:44
  skid animal. Yes, Ace, I saw that you tried.
• 44:46
  Thank you. Now get everybody else out of
• 44:48
  here. I will deal with Rex.
• 44:51
  Yeah, I think Ace is going to like, I, I imagine as Ace is
• 44:54
  leading, he's going to like take his arms and essentially turn
• 44:59
  himself into like a bulldozer so that he can just kind of like
• 45:03
  scoop up like whatever ground forces there are and just like
• 45:07
  get them out of the way all. Right.
• 45:09
  I'm assuming Hooper can hear everything I'm hearing as we
• 45:12
  share the same body. What is Hooper like reacting to
• 45:17
  me being in a rage? Oh, he's laughing.
• 45:20
  Oh, he's so chill with me, killing me so.
• 45:24
  Rex Honey. God.
• 45:28
  Rex, you can kill stuff in a minute.
• 45:32
  We just the air strikes getting called in right now and I can't
• 45:36
  have you die. You can't kill anything else if
• 45:39
  you're dead. What do I do here?
• 45:44
  Is this gentle parenting? Yes.
• 45:48
  As this conversation is going on the the airship is moving over
• 45:51
  the area. Rex, come on, there's beer back
• 45:56
  at camp. See, that would break a normal
• 46:02
  British man out of any argument but.
• 46:05
  You can kill more stuff later. Rex think about all the shit we
• 46:10
  can talk about how how we were so effective and how we did
• 46:13
  everything and and and Gary came in and did nothing.
• 46:18
  I'll let you fill Doctor Schmidt strews with seawater again.
• 46:25
  Come on, buddy. Come on buddy.
• 46:27
  Doctor Schmidt's standing in for the mission.
• 46:29
  I would accept this. Thank you.
• 46:31
  Yeah, you didn't have a choice, but I appreciate you.
• 46:37
  Fuck, I don't know. What's a roll here?
• 46:38
  Roll plus. No.
• 46:40
  My plus no. Or Hooper's Plus no.
• 46:43
  Fuck it, let's do both. Oh shit.
• 46:45
  Four dice? Hell yeah.
• 46:48
  They'll say Hoopers plus no is a + 1.
• 46:50
  We need to make a stat block for him at some point.
• 46:53
  Hoop I got 11. Rex got a six.
• 46:58
  Rex, I think, is still just sort of enraged and as as he's
• 47:01
  standing there, a portal once again opens up under your foot
• 47:04
  and you are dropped outside the area as super goes.
• 47:07
  All right, let's get out. Of here I'm assuming that you
• 47:09
  just like SAW fall on me. Me ass.
• 47:12
  Yeah, you're, you're the one being displaced this time, Yeah,
• 47:15
  but. Is he like in?
• 47:17
  Is he in visual range of me? Yeah.
• 47:20
  He's just out of the area where everybody else is moving.
• 47:22
  To OK, so I think as soon as as soon as like Rex materializes,
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  Ace is gonna run over and essentially try and like root
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  him to the ground until the air strike is gone.
• 47:34
  As you guys are getting out of the way the the airship hovers
• 47:38
  over the area and a massive door opens up on the bottom of it and
• 47:43
  from the door begins to fall and after one that people would
• 47:48
  recognize from news reels. You guys have only seen this
• 47:51
  thing you've heard of it in legends.
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  And with a absolutely cataclysmic landing, Fat Man
• 47:59
  stands up 40 foot tall, nearly as tall as the Shadow Bee, the
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  original after the first hard drive, the first pilot.
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  Music. Please.