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Norse Sinnoh Interlude 1: Echoes of the Multiverse · The Multiverse Collective

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  So after Archaeus lets you go back to dreaming you you all
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  have a a nice little sleep for a while until suddenly you feel
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  golden chains come up and wrap around you, you feel them pull
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  you down through the ground, and you just see black as you are
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  pulled into the ground. Who wants to go first?
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  Is it is it just US 2 or is Gaiden experiencing this as
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  well? Gaiden is experiencing this as
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  well. Is it all separate or are we all
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  together or? You guys are all separate,
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  experiencing this at the same time.
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  Oh. OK, OK, OK, gotcha, gotcha,
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  gotcha, gotcha. All right.
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  All right, Brutus, as you are pulled by
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  these chains down what feels like into the earth, into
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  blackness, you are once again put in the scenario that you
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  remember, unfortunately very well.
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  You you see yourself at the edge of a clearing with your partner
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  mix standing off against the shadow Lugia, you are in your
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  body. Everything hurts.
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  You see that Mix is, you know, gesturing for you to go, giving
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  you the gesture of I got this. Don't worry.
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  You noticed that you yourself are clad in just wrapped up in
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  these golden chains that look very similar to the the ring
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  around Archaeus's torso that he had mentioned was a prison from
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  the Unspeakable 1. Can I move or am I stuck here?
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  Roll me two D6 plus special. 7. OK, even with the seven, you
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  feel that you are not able to move.
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  However, the words that Archaea spoke in the previous dream ring
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  true, specifically the ones about when you break the chains
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  of destiny, anything is possible.
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  Can I flex and break these cuffs?
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  Yes. I can break these cuffs.
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  As you flex out of these cuffs in the moment where you where in
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  a previous iteration of this you ran away for not necessarily out
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  of cowardice but for self preservation.
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  You break these chains around you and you you walk next to mix
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  to face the shadow Lugia together.
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  And from the trees you hear a you hear a screech and you see a
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  flash of light as the shadow Lugia rears back and prepares to
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  fire fire another arrow blast point blank.
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  Now with the two of you, you see this flash of light from behind
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  you which causes shadow. Lugia pause, look up confused,
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  and you see a what looks to be a giant silver phoenix flying
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  through the sky. From what looks to be the
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  phoenix's head, you see something open, something jump
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  out. This big phoenix flies away and
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  you see a man, one that you don't recognize, fly down and
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  meet you. He is a he's a large man, bald,
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  dark skin. He is not wearing a shirt.
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  And he's wearing these like blue pants with a bunch of weird
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  words on them that you can't recognize.
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  And he looks over at you and he says, hey, looks like you could
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  use some help, huh? Hello, why?
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  Why are you in my? Dream I was called to assist.
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  I'm not quite sure what's going on, not quite sure what I'm
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  looking at here, but I was called to assist somebody in
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  trouble I hope. Are the chains still like on the
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  ground or do they like disintegrate?
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  Yeah, they're kind of on the ground.
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  I'm going to pick up like the remaining parts of the chain and
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  I'm going to look at the guy and be like, I need to lasso that
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  thing in the sky with this. All right.
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  I think I can help with that. Let me see if you can.
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  If you can get the lasso, I can. I think I can distract it.
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  Yeah, he he's gonna basically hand work, work with mix to
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  quickly braid this chain into a lasso to to wrangle this Lugia
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  with. Yeah, and as you and mix are
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  braiding the chain back together, you're able to see the
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  shadow Lugia takes his eyes off of you and and mix for long
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  enough to where you're able to get this into a into a lasso
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  form. You see you see this this man
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  who came to help you kicks off the ground and is just looks to
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  be distracting the shadow Lugia firing the silver these like
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  purple silver beams from his eyes and you know meeting the
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  psychic blasts head on for long enough for you and mix to to get
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  into position. All right.
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  I mean, once we got it made, I'll just end the mix and be
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  like, it's your turn to win this fight.
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  Mix nods and with, you know, with three of its arms grabs
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  onto the chain with the 4th one has a lasso and throws it.
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  You see this man is able to kind of get the Shadow Lugia in a
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  moment of anger to follow it as this chain goes around this
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  Lugia's neck and Mix grabs the chain.
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  You and Mix both Pull with all of your might, and you pull the
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  Shadow Lugia down into the Canyon where you know again in a
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  previous iteration duration, Mix made his last stand.
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  But you and Mix stand triumphantly atop the Canyon,
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  and you see this man just kind of hovering above the Canyon,
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  who gives you a nod and says, well, unfortunately I don't
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  think this changes the the way this went.
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  But when you break the chains of destiny, anything is possible.
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  Thank you, shirtless man. He nods and he flies away into
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  the sky, and at this you wake up in your bed the next morning.
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  Interesting. All right, all right, so Clyde,
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  you same idea. You feel these chains wrap
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  around you in your bed and pull you down underground, and your
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  vision goes black. The next thing you're able to
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  see, you notice that you are once again on the edge of a
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  forest clearing. You see a sight that makes you
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  recoil in horror. You see your father's floats,
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  all captured in a net. You see these four ride on
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  standing above them and you see these bandits just kind of
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  laughing and goading that they've captured the second-half
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  of Order, Heman's Drops and Clyde.
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  You look down as you instinctively move to try and
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  help your partner. You look down and you also see
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  that you are bound in these golden chains.
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  OK, great. Clyde is going to just try and
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  wiggle his wave worm his way out.
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  Maybe come. Yeah, and as the the words of
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  Archie is the all father echo in your head, you are able to get
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  out of these chains. And as you do, you see once
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  again the site that you know to be true.
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  You see one of these bandits say ride on, use horn drill.
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  However, before the ride on is able to make contact, you hear a
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  a strange booming noise from the opposite side of the forest.
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  You see, emerging from the brush is a a small, rather portly man
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  wearing strange garb. And he kind of takes a look at
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  the situation and he says, well, this ain't what I expected, but
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  somebody told me to help, so here I am.
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  OK dude, see, see, see the floats all over there, the the
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  the one in the net. Yeah, I see something in it.
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  Yeah, well be we have to save that at all costs.
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  All right, no problem. Are you trying to go slow and
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  stealthy, Lacquer? Do you just want to run in and
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  go guns blazing? Let's fuck him up, dude.
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  All right, I like the spirit. And you see this man, you see
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  this man whistle and he says, Evander, we got to go save.
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  We got to go save that environment in the net and you
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  see these bandits are now looking around.
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  They hear a voice. They're not sure where it's
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  coming from. They're confused.
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  They didn't think that there was going to be another voice around
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  there. And you see you see this horse
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  burst from the other side of the brush and full on body check
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  this one ride on that was that was going to attack Floatl.
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  And you see Floatl look up also kind of confused.
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  But I at at this point it goes into chaos.
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  You see the small man kind of scamper halfway up a tree, jump
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  onto the back of his horse, and he's just taking these these
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  strange weapons that you've never seen and just firing them
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  in the air, making these loud booms.
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  Everybody is very confused. OK, I'm going to look at I'm
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  assuming the chains, the gold chains are on the the floor.
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  Yeah, you were able to wiggle your way out of those gold
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  chains, and they're just on the ground.
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  I'm going to fashion these chains into a sort of spare of
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  sorts, and in true Clyde fashion, I'm going to spare the
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  ride on that kills floats all in the past through the chest with
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  this spare. Yeah.
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  And actually, as you pick up these chains and start to kind
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  of manifest what you're trying to do, you feel these chains
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  morph into exactly what you're looking at.
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  Just this big, like this big golden, like a Pike or like a
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  Lance. And you throw it at this ride
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  on, it connects again. It is just utter chaos.
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  And you see Flotol has been able to essentially aquajet itself
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  out from under the net and is able to return with you.
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  You see this man on the horse, He's wearing a large hat.
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  He he tips it at you and he says, all right, I think.
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  I think at this point I can hold it off.
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  You'll get to where you're getting now.
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  All right. Yeah, Clive's not even going to
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  listen. He's just going to hug floats
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  all like, like an embrace for someone you've not seen in a
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  long time. And then he's just going to like
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  look at the man and go, thank you so much.
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  Anytime. Anything to to keep I hate the
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  multiverse safe? That's the second time I've
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  heard about this multiverse today.
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  OK dude, I'm going to go. My best friend should have.
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  Traumatic events, so you know. Yeah, Floatl's able to to shake
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  off to to shake itself off. And you guys once again run
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  through the forest back-to-back to Strand content comp.
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  And as you get away from this chaos, Clyde, you wake up in
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  your bed the next morning. Dinan.
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  What's Poppin? So you've had a very long day
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  today and you are you are asleep.
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  You have just had a weird dream from Archaeus the All Father.
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  Is it? Does it feel different to me
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  from my normal weird dreams? Yeah, this one feels much more
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  purposeful as opposed to just kind of like.
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  Vaguely ominous and threatening. Yeah, Understood.
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  Yeah, this one, This one felt purposeful.
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  It was kind of like the last one when you saw Archaeus, except
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  you got a lot more information which I will key you in on at a
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  later date. Delightful.
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  But after this dream you you once again same as the others.
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  You feel these golden chains wrap you up and pull you down,
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  and you were unable to see for an indeterminate amount of time.
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  But when your vision returns to you, you see an interesting
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  scene. You are in a just a gigantic
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  cavern. On the ground is a layer of ice
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  and ahead of you, maybe by about 40 or 50 feet, you see the signs
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  of a battle. You see that there is a a group
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  of adventurers that are in various states of fucked up or
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  knocked out doing battle with something that you've never seen
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  before, but it feels ominous. Oh, and holy shit, that's your
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  mom. Yeah, what My mom have described
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  this creature to me. I I mean, we're not close.
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  It's not. It's not a surprise if Weth
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  hasn't talked about this. I would say I, you probably
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  heard it at like dinner parties, but you never really got an idea
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  of what what this thing looked like from her descriptions
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  alone. But as you're seeing it, you're
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  just like, oh, that makes sense. I know exactly what I'm looking
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  at. Yeah, 100%.
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  Guyana knows what's happening. The moment that she she gets
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  here, weird shit has happened to her for her entire life.
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  And I think automatically, I mean, the gut reaction that she
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  has is to go see what's going on with her mother because that's
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  the only person that she knows here and that's her mom, even if
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  they have a very contentious relationship.
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  So you are able to see there is So your mom is the only one who
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  is standing. You see you see two large men.
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  One of them is on the ground bleeding out next to a what
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  looks to be a haunch crow. One of them is just there is a
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  there is a shadow of where another man looks like it used
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  to be next to an egg. You see.
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  You see a man that looks like he is on his last legs holding a
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  bow next to an egg, looking like he's getting ready for
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  something. And you see your mom communing
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  with what you know to be what you assume to be the Unspeakable
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  1. You are able to walk about.
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  Unlike unlike the others, you're not completely wrapped in golden
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  chain. However, you can't get right up
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  to the scene as you feel a tug on your ankle.
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  You look down and there is a there's a golden chain around
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  your ankle that is connected to this this icy wall.
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  Am I like holding anything or do I have access to to touch
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  anything? What are you trying to do?
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  I think, I mean, Guynan would try to break the chain.
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  Guynan would try and like pick up a rock and start just trying
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  to smash. Gold is a very malleable
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  material, and Guynan's logic is that she can get through this
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  and get to her mom. Yeah, you pick up, you pick up
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  what looks to be a pretty, pretty decently stable chunk of
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  ice. And as you start hitting this
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  chain, you are able to break it. And you, you hear the words
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  echoing in your head, head When you break the chains of destiny,
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  anything is possible. And you see, you hear, you're
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  able to hear a conversation between your mom and the
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  Unspeakable 1. After Gynan hears When you break
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  the chains of destiny, anything is possible.
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  Gynan whispers under her breath. Gay.
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  Thank you. Happy Pride month, everyone.
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  Yeah. What what does Gannon hear from
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  the conversation? Because she's like, I think
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  she's not like running towards her mom, but I, I think she's
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  walking that, that direction. Yeah, you can kind of hear the
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  gist of the conversation that's going on.
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  You're hearing the gist of the unspeakable one talking to your
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  mom about, you know, riches beyond belief.
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  You know, like the the entire world supply of gold is a drop
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  in the bucket for me and so all I need you to do is just a
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  couple of things for me. But for the most part, you are
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  going to live a life full of leisure and no like even fewer
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  worries than you had before. Do I hear what the stipulations
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  are? What my mother has to provide.
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  All you hear is that the stipulations will be provided
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  later. Great.
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  So good. So good.
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  So good. That's cool.
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  Mom. Mom.
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  Wet Turns Round is completely broken by whatever kind of
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  spell. Actually, the Unspeakable One
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  also moves what looks like its head towards you and you see
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  your mother, 20 years younger, probably not too much older than
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  you are at this point, looks at you and is like, hello, what?
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  Who are you? Fuck, I didn't think this
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  through. I.
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  What the fuck? Don't.
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  Don't do it. Please, please I please don't do
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  it. You see, WEF looks over at who
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  you can assume to be as Cliff, looks back up at the Unspeakable
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  1, looks over at Cliff. The Unspeakable 1 is still just
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  kind of staring right at you like what the fuck is going on?
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  And in this moment of hesitation, out of the
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  peripheral vision, you, Guinan, you see Cliff finally get
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  together the combination of all of the potions that he had left,
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  tie them up in a singular arrow weekly, hold up his bow, pull it
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  back and let it go. And in this explosion of color
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  from the the potions, you know, exploding basically point blank
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  in both of your faces. You wake up the next morning in
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  bed. Great.
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  Good. That felt really good in my bed.
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  Am I back in like my bed at the mansion?
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  Cool, you're you're back. Where you went to sleep is the
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  next morning. Fuck, I think guidance just
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  starts crying. Damn well you thought that was
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  it. No, there's one more person
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  sleeping in the in drags home this evening.
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  It is the the Courier, the Herald who who is last we saw
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  him was wearing Gynan's boxers and I'm with stupid outfit.
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  You see he is sleeping. He did not have the first dream,
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  but he you see him in his dreamscape.
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  He's sleeping and then golden chains pull him underground.
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  When he is when his vision returns to him, you see a much
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  younger version of the himself and wef maybe about 10 or 15
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  years before. And you see, you see them
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  sitting at a table in the banquet hall amongst a myriad of
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  people, and it looks like there's just a bunch of
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  contracts being signed. You see, you know this, this
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  Herald, younger and much more fresh faced, not with bags under
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  his eyes. You see him looking around,
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  talking to somebody next to him. And he's just like, you know,
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  well, I was, I was, you know, I was thinking about just being a
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  continuing to be a salesman, I guess.
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  But I mean, this job pays well. How bad can it really be, right?
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  You see the Heralds like, yeah, you know what, this is going to
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  be great. I'm going to be able to.
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  I'm going to be able to make a bunch of money.
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  I'm going to be able to, I'm going to be able to give money
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  back to my wife and kids. They'll be able to, you know,
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  we'll be able to, we'll be able to afford the, the good sawsbuck
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  venison at market and not gruel 3 times a day.
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  And as you know, there's a, there's like a quill ink pen on
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  the sheet of parchment as he is going to to sign his name.
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  You see through the Manor, there is this just gigantic hole that
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  bust through the, the dining room.
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  You see this, this mechanized construct that looks like it's
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  made out of wood and metal, that looks, that looks to be, you
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  know, humanoid, yet also Animalian, yet also like
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  biological crashes through the door.
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  Everybody looks up and you hear, you hear.
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  All right, Gaiman, Ace is here to make sure that this this deal
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  never goes wrong. You see this, this mechanized
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  thing, look down at, you know, probably the three or four dozen
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  people that are in this room just staring wordlessly up at it
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  in abject horror. And he's just like, all right,
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  which one of you is Guinan? And I think that's, I think
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  that's all we need. Stunning.