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Final Hope E16: Rage against the Mycelium · The Multiverse Collective

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It's fine, don't worry about it. I hate you.
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Why did we take? The mushroom planet.
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God damn it, we're so stupid I think.
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You did. Because you wanted.
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Mushroom. Oh, that's true.
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It is my. Fault and they're not hot,
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they're small, and they're wearing little mushroom
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sombreros. They're Rasta maconids.
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God damn it, I wanted sexy and you gave me a theropod with six
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breasts. Which is sexy and.
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Mushroom people but not hot ones, hey?
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I don't know, I. Beauty is another eye of the
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beholder. Thank you very much.
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We never rolled for hot. We didn't roll for hotness.
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Fuck. We are now the Power Rangers,
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and for some reason the one we call Spencer has been non-stop
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thinking about a giant VAT of chili and a ferropod with six
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tits. Maybe we don't.
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Keep all of these memories and. Why does Zordon have a company
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card? Curious.
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Where have we last left off? 3 really stupid heroes, let's be
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honest. All just fucking seized
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basically. And boy was it a weird, it's a
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weird situation. So all three of you, as you
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rise, roll back, you start having these visions and it
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doesn't feel like you're having a vision.
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It just feels like you're continuing walking up to this
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break my stallion. And you look around and you see
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your other team mates. So so Spencer, you see Max
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Murphy, etcetera, etcetera. All of you see each other.
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And when you look at them, they don't have faces.
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Don't like that. None of them, none.
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There's no facial features. Oh, I really don't like that.
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The the it's, it's just hollowed out fungal gropes all over the
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face. Everybody looks both of the So
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for each of you, it's the same experience.
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The other two team mates look at you and they go.
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Do you even know who you are anymore?
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I thought. You were going to send the
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muffin man. I was just.
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Like. Murphy, get out of my head.
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This is my flashback. And then as they say that the
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the world breathes and you breathe with it.
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Oh, that was weird. Can I attempt to morph?
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Does anything happen? You can you can try.
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I'm I'm going to try and activate my morpher roll close
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superior, my friend. Oh God, of all the stats, that's
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I'm you realize I'm just a gut. I'm just a little boy, right?
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You're a Demi. God only had weekends.
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Every other weekend. Did you get a snake house?
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Looks like it's not a weekend. Nothing happens.
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You you feel down for your necklace and it's not there, no.
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Fuck, in this in this vision do I have like control of myself?
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Very limited control. Am I able to like grab something
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and ingest it? No, fuck.
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All right. Green liquid.
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I was, I was going to take the the other half of the Dramamine
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and I was going to fight tripping with tripping.
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That's like the time when I took Benadryl before work and then I
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Irping on a day and I got called into work and I was like, you
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know what? I don't have anything to stay
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awake with so I'm going to take a micro dose of LSD and go to my
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job because I. Know I won't fall.
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Asleep if I'm dripping. That was an interesting day,
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anyway. That is one way to fight.
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I was young. I was young and stupid, and
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that's irrelevant. I think Spencer's just going to
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lean in. She's just going to keep
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following it. She knew something thought that
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was going to happen, but there's nothing else that she can do
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right now. I should have told you this
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before, but if you've got AD 4, all of you, you've got AD 4
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available. Yeah.
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No, I only have six. I've said this multiple times.
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What's up? Get a dice roller up then.
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OK, I always have to Google a dye roll.
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Hello. OK, I have it.
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I have it before. Now that's a four.
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That's a three. OK, three.
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OK. Right, This is how it's going to
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work as you're still in this vision, Spencer.
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You see Murphy's high school days, you see his memories
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flooding into yours. You see him getting bullied,
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pushed into lockers, people just treating him like the scum of
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the earth. And you feel all the emotions he
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was feeling from every time a person was looking down on him,
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being rude to him, being mean to him, the fucking, I can't
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remember what the guy was called from the first episode that
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threw him into her lockers. But every time that guy there,
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every time that guy treated him like shit.
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You've just had this sudden overwhelming emotional influx
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from this memory, Murphy. You see Spencer's hardships in
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the gym when she first started out, before she became this
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bioengineered, fucking superhuman woman that she is,
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you know? And this is the point where
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putting one plate on the fucking rack was like, how?
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Hence she was. And then one day you see the
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scientist who was like, I can make you into a better person,
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into a stronger person. Dad.
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Come up to it and yeah, hey, evil is evil, right?
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Experiment on your own children. We had.
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We had Full Metal Brother. Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
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told us why it was a. Bad.
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I'm not going to lie, that was fully my inspiration for Spencer
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anyway. Let's just go in and you see the
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memories of all these experiments being done, all you
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feel, every bit of pain that she felt in that moment, Every
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single bit, every single time A drill was put through a, through
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a flesh to insert like robotic components to amplify the muscle
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growth, everything. And when the memory's over, you
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just sort of like sweating and you've got tears coming down
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your eyes. You don't, you're just not
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feeling great. Max is going to see the history
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of the this planet. He's going to feel everything
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the planet feels. You see rot and decay coming
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towards you, you see all these Micawa being overwhelmed by this
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dying plague that has taken over the planet, and you feel what
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every single Micawa feels when one of them dies, which is the
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most unimaginable, unimaginable pain you've ever experienced in
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your life. And I feel this what, like
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billions of times over. Yes.
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So Max is just fully sobbing on the ground in the fetal
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position. I think, I think Max probably
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like I'd probably just pass out. Have you seen that episode of
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Naruto where it's actually puts Kakashi and, again, jutsu?
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And he's like, you're going to feel this death a million times
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over. And it happens in like a second.
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Yeah, it's like that. And you all hear the same voice.
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You are one of us now. Surrender your.
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Consciousness. Nope no no, I I would like to
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use one of my moves. I'd like to use straight up
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creepin. OK, because I have questions
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that could be very relevant. Oh thank God.
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Plus mundane. That's a 13.
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OK, I've not got any of your sheets up so I'm going to roll
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with it so I can ask 2 questions.
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First one, what is my best way out?
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From what you can tell is somehow mentally falsifying
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yourself to break this psychic link.
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OK and then before I ask this question I want to ask a
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question about the area and that'll determine which of these
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questions I ask. Am I aware of the fact that shit
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is weird? Like like do do Spencer and Max
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not having faces seem strange to me or do I feel like this is
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just normal? It it's strange but it's slowly
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becoming more normal. OK, in that case, I want to ask
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what here is not what they seem to answer that everything OK, I
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I want to try and focus on those realities that I know OK, to try
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and break out of this mind control.
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OK, roll unleash your powers for me.
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Oh, what is that? Plus that's plus superior I
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think, right? Your worst step.
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To be fair, it's not Freak is my worst stats.
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Superior is my, superior is just.
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We don't really roll anything with freak, I've realized.
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I. Sometimes freak is actually I.
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Do freak. Yeah, is it?
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Wait, is unleash your powers freak?
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Yeah. OK, so I am rolling plus freak
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right? Is it freak?
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Yeah, son of a bitch. That's a 5 God damn it.
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Roll and a potential my friend. Boy I'm really racking these up.
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But at this rate you can unlock another superpower.
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Could have fucking needed to get out of here, Max.
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Not that. Yeah.
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Max Spencer, What are you all doing?
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I'm going to try and use the take a powerful.
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Blow roll plus. Conditions, yeah.
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So it's just a straight roll. Go for it.
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What's what's the description of it?
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Need to get. When you take a powerful blow,
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roll plus conditions marked and then I'll tell you what I have
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to do when I roll it. I want to roll low on this one.
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OK, you go for it. Oh yeah, and I don't.
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I got a 10. So I get to choose.
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I get to choose one between. I must remove myself from the
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situation by either fleeing, passing out, etcetera.
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I lose control of myself. Oh, you can choose two options
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from the 7:00 to 9:00 list. Oh, I could.
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All right. No, I don't know.
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I I feel like it makes the most sense for Max to just straight
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up pass out. Yeah.
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Yeah, I definitely can do that if you want me.
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Given everything that just happened to you.
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In your notes for a moment that until we figure this shit out.
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Yeah. Part of the hive mind.
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Great. OK, Spencer, what are you doing,
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my friend? So.
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Would you call this perhaps an insurmountable barrier?
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Oh oh 100%. OK cool.
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So this is a little bit different from how Spencer
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normally approaches her problems, but she's normally
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punch first ask questions later. But she does have this
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incredible like resilience and strength of character and single
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minded focus that she's put her whole ass into.
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Like honing her body into being this perfect weapon.
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But now she's going to take that same dedication to herself and
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like that same self obsessive attitude and use it to try and
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break out of this. Because she doesn't identify
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with Murphy's experience. She was never this person and
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she knows that in her heart, this is not who she is.
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So I would like to use physics. What physics to unleash my
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powers and barrel through an insurmountable barrier, rolling
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plus danger instead of plus freak.
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OK, yeah, roll. Unleash your powers, my friend.
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Son of a bitch. OK, that's an 8.
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OK, Yeah, You are slowly becoming to realise that this is
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not real, that, you know, you're resisting against this.
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And you, your eyes roll forward and your body's still frozen in
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this, in this position. But you can see Max on his knees
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being enveloped by this mycelium.
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All the fungal roots start cover his body, and you can see Murphy
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in the distance. He's still, you can see, sort of
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rigidly fighting back what's overtaking him.
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Can I try to move towards? I mean Max is closer right?
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Can I try to move towards Max and just like put my whole whole
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ass into it? Put your whole pussy in.
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Perhaps using? No, I'm not going to shift my
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danger up, but what would you like me to roll for this to try
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and go save Max? Let's do another plus danger.
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Just roll plus danger, OK? OK, that is a dirty 12.
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Oh yeah, the the power of the behemoth wells inside of you and
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all this rage that you're feeling from being falsely shown
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other people's lives and being connected to this whole hive
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when you didn't explicitly consent to being part of this
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hive. Fill fills your muscles with
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this explosive power and you sort of RIP through this
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paralysis. All the mycelium roots that were
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around your leg just disintegrate with the heat of
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the Behemoth's rage, and every step you take towards Max you
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can just see like the fungal root system just burning where
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your footsteps have been. I think she's going to call out
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with them. Max Murph.
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OK, I, I, I like to say I feel like this is the perfect time to
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use a feature of this game that we have not touched this entire
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time. And that being team points that
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we've had access to the entire fucking time and just never paid
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attention to, which is ability to boost your scores by one with
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a team pool of points. Let's go.
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There's two ways you can spend them.
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Either you can give them to one of your teammates or you can use
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them selfishly. And there's different things
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that can happen with each way of doing it.
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But I feel like if you're trying to call out to us, that would be
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giving us a team point. 100 percent, 100% whatever we're
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rolling next. Can I give a + 1 to my to my
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friends? I hesitate to use the word
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friend for Max when it's more like a wet blanket older cousin
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situation, but. Thanks.
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Someone I care about, I want to help him.
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I don't want him to be absorbed by the mushroom collective.
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Hell yeah, I'm sick. So yeah, both of you take a
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point to whichever. Yeah, a temporary point for
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whichever 1 you want. All right.
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I think Max as he's like just floating in and out of
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consciousness. I think at the the very back of
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his mind he hears Spencer and I think that wakes him up just
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enough to to do an unleash your powers move.
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OK, yeah, go for it. I'm.
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Going to make you do so many fucking wall sits if you don't
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get up right now Max. All right.
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That's what I needed with the plus one.
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That's going to be an 11. The big mycelium that's
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constantly in your mind right now, it's just like.
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No, you cannot leave. You are one with the hive.
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And as this is happening, you, you build up this power, like
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the power you've had for a long time now, and you start glowing
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with this, like a feral light, which makes all the mycelium
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roots just cascade back down your body and come off.
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You going to keep part of the hive mind for this moment
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because it's embedded in you, but you are out of the trance.
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Great. Murph, what's happening dog?
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I kind of want to try and use my noble flyer.
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Oh, here's the issue I'm having with it right is that I need to
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roll plus conditions. I have marked.
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I don't have any marked, so it's just a flat.
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Well, it's a flat with a + 1. God, here's the danger of it,
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though, is that on a hit, I get 3 burn, On a miss, I get 2 burn
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and mark 3 conditions. On a 7 to 9, all I get is a
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condition. I don't even, I don't even get a
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burn to use. So God, it's such a fucking
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risk. Let's see.
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I don't know if there's another way.
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Yeah, I I think he's going to go for it.
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He's going to. He's just going to the his last
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ditch option. He's tried everything he can
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think of already. He knows there's an issue, but
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he can't get out of it and he's just going to try and RIP this
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power that he's got out of himself.
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Send it and see. So it's going to be plus one.
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Come on, come on. I need honestly, I'll be happy
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with a miss because I still get the burn.
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I'll take the conditions. I just don't want a 7 or not 7
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through 9. The seven with the plus one, it
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was a seven team point screwed me over.
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Do you have to use the? Yeah.
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You don't have to use it. You don't have to use.
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Your plus one, it's like an inspiration.
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Yeah, no, that's fair. All right, It's a four and a two
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on the dice, so I'll keep the six.
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I'm gonna, I'm gonna mark 3 conditions, which I think
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tracks. I'm definitely gonna get afraid,
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hopeless and insecure. Yeah, which gives me two burns,
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and I'm gonna try and trigger my reality storm.
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So I spend one one of my burdens to engage a threat using my
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powers rolling plus freak instead of plus danger, which
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actually sucks. Everything I use with this power
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is the worst way to do it, but that's kind of the point.
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So. All right, So either way, let's
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see what happens. What is that about the six?
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You can use your plus one. I can use a plus one there.
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OK, so yeah, that'll be the 70. Thank God.
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Oh my God. OK.
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You hear Spencer's voice in the background.
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I'm going to make you fucking spar me and I'm not going to
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hold back at all. Murphy, get up.
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So yeah, Murph, his eyes don't roll back, they just start to
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glow blue as this power just sort of starts to build around
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him, basically trying to burn off all of this mycelium that's
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grabbed on to him and basically the area clear the area around
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him. Ultimately, since I'm not going
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to use another burn to cause unwanted collateral damage, I
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want to burn just as much of this shit around me as possible.
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Like if I can get rid of the entire field I'm going for, but
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I don't think you'll be able to get rid of the entire field
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because it is. No, I, I didn't only give it a
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7A large area, but at least our immediate decision, you can
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clear quite a large area. Yeah.
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So, yeah, you, you burn, I'd say you burn about 200 feet.
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Look in a circle around beautiful.
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OK. Actually I think because Max is
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still connected to the hive mind, I think Max once again
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like he, I don't think he passes out, but I think he feels this
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as if he was affected. Oh yeah, you feel 100% feel the
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pain. Yeah, Spencer is still making
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her way to Max to try and pick him up and like Fireman's carry
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him. Yeah, 100%.
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So that at least he's not in physical contact with us
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anymore. Because Spencer, obviously she
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doesn't understand how this is working, but she does know that
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him touching it is certainly not helping.
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Yeah, definitely. It's it's really not helping.
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And as all this happen, you you look around both you, you mirth
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it and Spencer, you both look around and you see hundreds of
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these mycora just converging. I was.
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Literally about to say, I think the second we get free, we're
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morphing. Yeah.
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And can we can we trigger Max's morph?
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Because we know he touches. You'd have to touch his belt to
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do so. Spencer's holding him.
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Yeah, Spencer will hit him in the belt really hard.
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Max double s over. You're over my shoulder, baby.
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You can't double over any more than you already are.
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And you you have these macora and they go.
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What have you done? Why are you doing?
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This. Murphy I think we need to run.
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I think we need to get out of here.
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But but over the cons you can hear Max saying the exact same
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thing in the same monotone voice.
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Murphy, we need to go. We need to go right now.
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Yep, I'm with you. Yeah, he immediately forms his
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weapons and he's going to, if they're going to attack, he's
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going to cover Spencer if she carries Max.
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Yeah, yeah, Spencer is taking off dead Sprint as fast as she
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can while carrying Max, which is still pretty fast because, you
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know, super. Stressed.
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Yeah. No, for sure.
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Yeah, I think, I think as we're running, Murph's just going to
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like, jump and fire an oil slick arrow on the ground behind him
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to fuck up the area around. OK, yeah, I'm sick.
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Every time you hear the the mushroom speak, you hear Max
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speak and Max you, you are trying not to speak.
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You try and just to keep quiet and let what's happening happen,
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but every everything they say is being repeated through the comms
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by Max. Do I have any of my facilities
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about me or am I just like a red doll?
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You have basic movement. You can't really, you don't
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understand how to channel your power at this.
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It's like you basically just put them, put on some basic
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functions. You can move, you can breathe.
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That's about. OK, there's not really that much
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I can do then. Yeah, I think I'm just going to
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sit here. I think Max is going to try and
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attempt to like use his laser powers to light this oil slick a
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flame, but I think he's trying and it's just not happening.
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Yeah, there's nothing coming from you.
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Actually, wait, wait, wait, hang on, hang on, You said.
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I have basic movements. Yes.
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Can I ingest something? If you want to ingest something,
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you could ingest something. Can I take the alien Dramamine?
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You're taking the full tab of the alien Dramamine because
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you've got one full tablet. Yep, go for it.
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Go for it. Down the Hatch.
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What the fuck are you doing, Max?
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Don't worry, I have a plan. I'm so worried, and I think
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you're lying, Murph. He just put something in his
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mouth. I think Murph's too busy
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shooting behind him, trying to take these.
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Are they attacking? Are they hostile?
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Are they just, are they just just converging on you at the
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moment? I can't.
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I can't let them know that I'm lying because they they're, they
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are my mind. Yeah, Spencer is just running
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full tilt back the way we came back towards the ship.
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There's no thought of getting any of our objectives here.
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There's only saving Max and making sure that Murphy makes it
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out once she gets Max's safety. You can sort of feel Max moving
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on your shoulder and then it just goes limp, completely limp
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to know rigid into his form. He's just flopped over like like
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an unconscious person on your shoulder.
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Yeah, yeah, it's better this way.
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Does it work? That's the important thing is
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does does it help break him out in several minutes?
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I suppose. OK.
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Oh yeah, we got, we got a 15 minute ride on this, don't we?
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Yeah, yeah. You you keep running and when
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you get back to the purge you notice that the like landing
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feet have all been overrun by these routes.
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Fully unsurprised, I think Spencer brings him physically
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onto the ship and just like dumps him and then leaps back
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out after closing the gate. Behind her, Max limply flops in
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one of the captain's chairs. Yeah, she didn't bring you that
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far. You're like.
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In the in the brown area. Yes, I'm in.
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I'm in the Peter Griffin dead pose.
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The. Family Guy, Just yes.
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And you start to notice that the the sky above you that was once
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these vibrant hues of purple, red and pink has now just come
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become fully black. Spencer goes over the comps.
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Hey Murph, Yep, the package is secure.
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OK, the I, I, there's still like, no, outwardly hot.
26:55
Like they don't, they're not like fighting, right?
26:57
They're just walking at us. Yeah, they're still just walking
27:00
at you. Are they slow or are they
27:02
running like, 'cause we're running.
27:04
The are the walk. They're just walking regular
27:06
pace lot. So we're pretty, we got a pretty
27:08
good distance on them, right? Yeah, yeah.
27:11
OK, I have one more burn. Can I attempt to clear out this
27:14
mycelium with a reality storm to try and free the purred?
27:18
You can give it a go. OK, And that'll be my second
27:21
burn. I don't know what's going to
27:22
happen if there's unwanted collateral damage, but we'll
27:25
see. That's that's -1 right.
27:28
So that's, that's a 10. OK.
27:31
You can clear one or two feet like of this of the purred.
27:37
There's still a couple landing supports down that haven't been
27:41
cleared. And as you do this, you hear
27:43
like a, a sort of guttural scream.
27:45
You even hear it from Max, who's unconscious on the floor inside
27:48
the Purd. And as you do that, you, you
27:52
turn around and you just see this 15 foot tall grotesque
27:59
Mycora amalgam. It's part humanoid, part fungi.
28:03
And it just it, it seems like it has parts of all three of you.
28:11
That makes sense. Not a fan of that.
28:15
Nope, I hate that so much. Spencer Spencer knee jerk is
28:20
going to charge it and I would like to use my punch everyone
28:25
move to charge into a fight without hedging my bets and
28:29
shift my danger up by 1:00 so that I have a + 3 to my danger
28:33
again. And I'll shift my I'll shift my
28:37
freak down to a zero for now. And I would like to use I would
28:43
like to use bowl in a China shop to try and and directly engage a
28:48
threat using my dangerous skill and causing significant
28:52
collateral damage to my environment even on a miss.
28:57
So that even if I I don't cause significant damage to this guy,
29:01
I can still fuck up the surrounding area and make it
29:03
more difficult for him. To go for it to fuck with us,
29:07
let's send it. Fuck.
29:10
That is I rolled a natural 3 but that is a six with my plus
29:15
danger. Yeah, take take a point of
29:17
potential. Yeah, taking my potential for
29:20
sure, but I would just like to make the area a crater
29:26
essentially again to further slow this thing down so that it
29:30
can't pull up on the pert as fast.
29:32
You charge and like you, you got a pretty good like run at this
29:38
guy. You know your headlong straight
29:40
towards it and you hear all of these my kora speak to you and
29:47
it and it doesn't sound like they they normally sound and
29:51
it's and they go, Oh my God, that's there.
29:55
You look so cold today. Fuck.
29:58
And it froze you off and you like trip over one of these
30:04
roots and you hit the ground, making a crater.
30:08
Yeah. I OK, so here's here's my plan,
30:19
right? I I'm going to call or I'm going
30:22
to look around at the situation. And so I, I'm assuming that
30:25
there's like re landing struts on the perd, something like that
30:29
one in the front, two in the back.
30:31
I probably cleared out the two closest one and the furthest 1
30:33
is still tied up. I'm going to say over the comms
30:36
to Spencer, hold them off as best you can.
30:38
I'm going to get the ship out of here.
30:40
You got it, Murph. And I'm going to call over the
30:45
calm to the perv and give it the verbal command to start like the
30:49
the initiation sequence, like the take off sequence so that
30:52
it's pulling. And then I am going to summon my
30:55
zord. OK, I'm sick.
30:58
Sick Hell yeah. So I'm just going to like grab
31:02
my a little pendant and just a ball of liquid metal and a, the
31:09
my Strix giant Strix comes out of it and my I'm going to
31:13
basically like use my feet, grab the back of the purred and just
31:18
start trying to pull and get it out of there.
31:21
OK, Yeah, sick roll a directly engaged prep.
31:24
Oh, good. I get -2 for this, for being
31:26
afraid, which is what is it already?
31:29
It's a freak, right? That's danger, thank God.
31:33
All right -2 that's a six. OK, roll a potential, add a
31:39
potential. Should I say, hey, guess what?
31:41
That's my last potential. And you've got like five of
31:46
those in this one episode. I have gotten all of them in
31:49
this one episode. I started this episode with
31:51
none, and I have been rolling like shit, OK, I don't know what
31:56
I'm going to do with that yet. I'm just still going to be.
31:58
I don't know if it make any progress with the six.
32:02
It would it you could you start pulling, but it seems like the
32:06
the mycelium is strengthening itself to hold on to this this
32:09
foot. OK, I am going to figure out
32:13
what I want to do. So yeah, Max, you're still
32:16
unconscious. Yeah.
32:23
This amalgam my kora goes. You dare to try to leave without
32:31
becoming part of our family. Spell your hand.
32:35
Make sure you cannot be. How very Borg coded.
32:38
I'd like you both to roll plus mundane and then you get a + 3
32:47
Murphy because you've got three conditions.
32:49
Oh, OK, so it's plus by mundane plus three.
32:53
Yeah. Fucking hell, why even a roll?
32:57
OK, OK. I got a 10 -, 1, so I'm at a
33:01
nine. I got a. 14 OK Murphy you you
33:05
believe you are your mother for the next full scene.
33:09
What the fuck come? On Great.
33:14
What so for the next all round the combat wait, but I rolled
33:18
good on this. I never said good was a good
33:21
thing and Spencer you see Regina stood next to this giant my car
33:30
and it and it looks real doesn't look like a fake rap.
33:34
Regina psychic warfare, baby. How do I even?
33:39
What do I? OK, Spencer, inspired by
33:52
Murphy's use of his sword, is going to summon her sword as
33:56
well because she has to save Regina from this fucking thing,
34:00
OK? And the second that she's in her
34:04
sword, I mean this colossal mechanical bull, she's going to
34:09
charge it again. Once again, I don't she's not
34:13
going to use physics. What physics because she doesn't
34:15
want to hurt. She doesn't want to hurt Regina,
34:18
but or pull in a tennis shop. But she she is going to go
34:22
directly engage a thread and try and hook this thing with her
34:26
horns and throw it so that away from Regina as far as possible
34:30
using my danger that is still +3.
34:36
OK I rolled a 5 + 3 that is an 8 and I'm just I'm fully charging
34:41
it and trying to throw it in the opposite direction using the
34:45
horns on my sword. OK, Yeah.
34:47
So what was it again? You all directly engage.
34:51
Yeah, directly engage a threat. OK, on a 7:00 to 9:00 you can
34:58
resist your avoid their blows, take something from them, create
35:02
an opportunity for allies, or impress, surprise or frighten
35:05
enemies. Yeah, I mean, my goal is to
35:07
surprise my enemy. I want him to be thrown off.
35:11
I want him to be off kilter. OK?
35:14
I mean, obviously this is a collective, but this is what
35:17
Spencer sees as the biggest immediate threat.
35:20
Is this 15 foot tall mycelium? Yeah.
35:23
OK, so you brush. It's not like a full blow.
35:27
It's like a glancing blow and it sort of knocks the like the
35:32
giant Marquora off guard. Murphy, what are you doing as
35:36
your mother for this? I don't you believe you 100%
35:41
believe your you believe that your physical make up is that of
35:45
your mother and your mental make up.
35:47
You believe you are that person. Inside of the sword.
35:51
Inside of the sword, right? That's what's getting me is
35:52
that, like, I don't even fully know what he would be doing
35:58
other than just, like, being ridiculously confused.
36:03
Yeah. I I don't, I I think, I think
36:05
there would just be, it'd be just a round of him just being
36:08
well, Well, well. Right.
36:11
Exactly. Yeah.
36:11
I mean, you're suddenly find yourself in a fucking metal owl.
36:14
Like, what do you do? Yeah.
36:18
OK. So we'll just say you forfeited
36:21
to the round due to, I mean, mass confusion.
36:25
Pretty much. And then Spencer and Murphy, you
36:29
both hear Max say. We need to attack.
36:35
Both of you, please roll against mundane with mundane.
36:39
Again, please. Am I still +3 for conditions?
36:42
No, just oh. Snake eyes -1.
36:47
OK, guess what I got. Go on.
36:53
Well, let's see. You said it's plus mundane,
36:56
right? So my mundane's +2.
36:57
I got a four. Oh yeah.
37:00
You. OK, both of you now have to act
37:06
on that information. You both now will.
37:09
Your next move has to be to do something attacking the giant
37:11
mycelium in the middle of the planet.
37:13
Yeah. Wait in the middle, Giant
37:16
mycelium. Oh, OK, so not the one that's
37:20
attacking us. Nope.
37:20
Oh God. OK, Spencer.
37:25
Yes. Spencer turns that zord towards
37:28
the giant mycelium and she is going to, once again, I think,
37:34
use in a China shop. I mean, what else would she use
37:38
to cause Max damage to this thing?
37:40
I mean, she knows it's a collective Organism.
37:42
She knows that even if she doesn't land a direct hit on the
37:44
giant micellium that it makes the most sense to just cause as
37:49
much wreckage as possible. That's all she can do.
37:51
She can't do anything else ever except cause damage.
37:56
So we're going to directly engage a threat.
37:59
Our plus danger is still +3 right now and we roll the 9:00.
38:03
So that's. A filthy 12.
38:07
Yeah, you, you bust a hole straight through the middle of
38:11
this mycelium. Like straight through the centre
38:13
of it. And again, Murphy, I'm assuming
38:17
you're still a shipping. You've come out of you thinking
38:21
that you, your mother, oh, was it my name?
38:24
You hear Max scream like a very guttural, painful scream from
38:30
inside. Do you want me?
38:32
To go for it, Do you want to do a scream?
38:35
Actually, I don't want to. It's late and I have a neighbor.
38:43
Yeah, that's the one. That's staying in.
38:47
I want that that stay in. OK.
38:55
Hey, Niall. Fuck you.
38:57
You're welcome. I you.
38:59
I spent my potential. Guess what I just bought.
39:02
Go on, tell me what you bought. My moment of truth,
39:04
motherfucker. Oh shit, I can do whatever the
39:10
fuck I want this turn specifically.
39:14
I can do any one thing, take out anyone enemy, no matter how
39:18
insane, no matter how ridiculous, because that's you.
39:23
Guess what I'm taking out, bitch, this fucking mycelium.
39:28
I so Murphy, he he's fucking stressed.
39:32
He's got all of these. He's he's pissed off, like he
39:36
doesn't know how we're going to get out of here.
39:40
Max is down. He can't help in this fight.
39:42
It's Spencer's doing her best down there.
39:45
And he looks around and he sees Spencer fighting and he, he
39:50
realizes what he needs to do. And the Strix is going to take
39:55
off from the Perd, OK? It's going to land on the back
40:00
of the behemoth, OK. And I want to combine.
40:03
Aw shit, yes, I. So basically what I want to do
40:09
is I want to turn the liquid body of the Strix into a fucking
40:14
drill around the Boeing myth, and I'm just gonna drill Spencer
40:19
to the center of this planet so that she can destroy this thing.
40:23
Yeah, well, sick, sick. Well, we already know that it's
40:28
fucking destroyed. So yeah, he's just going to fly
40:34
up in the air. As they're coming down, a drill
40:36
forms and it's just boom. And it's I'm assuming this
40:40
planet is mostly squishy because it's mostly mostly mushrooms.
40:45
Obviously the the deeper you go, it's going to get thicker and
40:48
thicker. Yeah, but at that point, like,
40:51
fuck it. Gross.
40:58
OK, you destroy this mycelium and the the giant mycora outside
41:05
the purd disappears. A mass amount of spores come out
41:09
of the mycelium. Low hundreds of thousands of
41:13
spores come out and each one of you gets one that lands on you,
41:18
comes through the zords, comes through the Purd and lands on
41:22
each of you and all all of you wherever that land.
41:26
You can all decide where this might this spore lands, but it
41:30
it gouges a large scar in that area.
41:34
OK, so you know you all can decide where you fucking get
41:40
scarred up and as you it doesn't have to be a physical by the
41:43
way, you can have a mental scar if you want as well, like if Max
41:47
wants to go be mentally scarred. I.
41:49
Don't know Spencer wants a sick scar.
41:53
And as you, Max, you start to wake up a bit, you know you're
41:58
not, you're not feeling under this, underneath this like in
42:01
this hive mind anymore. And you come out and you see the
42:05
My Cora, they're not green and red anymore.
42:09
They're like a bluey yellow sort of more chilled out sort of
42:13
vibe. And they all thank you.
42:15
And they go thank you, thank you all very much for saving us.
42:19
And it's still all of them speaking except for Max Max
42:22
isn't speaking anymore. And you can tell that they seem
42:26
weak, like the network that has been holding them together for a
42:28
long time has been wounded. And then the next thing you
42:33
know, you, you all wake up in orbit on the Perd.
42:37
You're alone in your quarters. You remember what happened on
42:41
the planet. And you go to say your name.
42:45
But just for a second, you cannot remember your name.
42:50
What do you do in that moment? We'll pass it between each
42:52
person. I think Spencer, she's laying in
42:57
her bed and she can't remember her own name.
43:00
And she looks down at herself and she sees this new scar
43:04
that's like covering the right part of her abdomen up her rib
43:08
cage. And it's shaped like the network
43:11
of mycelium. So it's like all of these like
43:14
branching pathways. And she just traces it with her
43:19
fingers and all the the ridges and it's fresh scar and so it's
43:23
red and it's angry and she just tilts her head back and she just
43:29
fucking screams. Not like a scream of agony, just
43:34
of rage that once again her identity was stripped from her
43:38
and once again something happened to her without her
43:42
consent, and that she's been forced into this against her
43:46
will and here she is and she has to continue and there's no
43:51
choice but to move forward. Murph wakes up and he can't
44:03
think of who he is. And I, I think the first thing
44:06
he does is he's going to, after a moment of panic, he's going to
44:13
look around and see if like he can find something like tangible
44:18
that has his identity on it. And I think the first thing he
44:22
finds that it doesn't really have an identity, but it's his
44:24
morpher. And he, he grabs it and he just
44:27
holds on to it. And he's like, this is me.
44:30
This is who I am. This is what I need to do.
44:33
Max, he wakes up and I think he's just, his head is pounding
44:39
and there's no physical scar, but his head is just throbbing
44:45
and he's trying to put it together.
44:47
And I think before he can panic, he hears Spencer scream from the
44:54
other room and I think doesn't even give himself a chance to to
45:01
deal with the fact that he can't remember his own name.
45:04
The urge to protect his family, his quote UN quote.
45:10
His hive is so great that that any panic and any, I guess, like
45:19
urgency to figure out who the fuck he is is immediately
45:24
trumped. And as if on autopilot, he he
45:30
gets up out of his bed and he sprints over to Spencer's
45:34
quarters. And I think once you get to
45:36
Spencer's quarters, she just, she opens the door and she looks
45:40
just defeated. It's fine, Max, it's fine.
45:46
It's always fine. I think Max just stands there
45:49
and he's just like, he looks down at his hands and he looks
45:53
up at Spencer and he looks back down and he's just like, I don't
45:56
even know who I am. I don't think we get that
46:00
privilege anymore, Max. What we're doing is so much
46:05
bigger than who any of us are. It doesn't matter anymore, does
46:08
it? Guess not.
46:24
No, they don't sleep. They live their lives in the
46:30
shadows, walk in the street heading straight for the gut.
46:37
They're fading away so slowly. They're fading away.
46:47
You know they won't survive. And John's fire shut across the
46:55
sky. The sun was through the other
47:03
side. Could you strong into the light?
47:12
Wonder Ghost in the night. They're fading away so slowly.
48:03
They're fading away once a high the yawns flash across the sky.
48:16
It's supposed to the other side, creatures strong into the light.
48:25
Water that goes sunlight.