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Wild Wild West E8: May the Power of Christ Compel These Hands · The Multiverse Collective

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  OK, I've got a question before we we start the next record.
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  Yeah. Yeah, of course.
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  OK, can I can I use whoring as a way of learning information?
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  You can, but you have to interact with that woman a a
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  woman, somebody that you're at least sexually interested in.
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  It's essentially like you're flirting for information.
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  Can I not just pay them? No.
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  Mighty Big Evil rolled in Holy Cedar this morning.
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  It's presence was so strong even I locked up for a spell.
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  Knowing there wasn't a whole lot we could do about that, we
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  decided to get out of Dodge and head for Itchy's homestead.
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  We hold up for a night in the rundown bar in Sweetwater.
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  I finally got a good look at one of these silver corns that
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  Arthur's been carrying around and I got a bad feeling about
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  this. The multiverse positive.
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  We we wake up, it's the next morning.
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  There's shockingly nothing happened overnight.
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  You know, you still hear the the white noise or feel the white
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  noise like that rumbling sort of background demonic presence that
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  you know, is here slick. And it's not ominous
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  necessarily. It doesn't feel like anything
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  terrible is going to happen, but it it's ominous in the way that
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  a demonic presence is always ominous.
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  It just feels unsettling. Yeah, I mean, if we're going to
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  do the watch things like would be the last one up.
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  Yeah. So he'll he'll rouse the other
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  guys, just knock on their doors a little bit.
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  Wake up, wake up, wake up. All right.
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  Yeah, Arthur will get up. As soon as Slick knocks on the
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  door, Arthur's up. Ready dressed, teeth brushed,
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  face washed, You know, ready to go.
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  I don't really know if there's much else we need to do in this
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  town or just head out, but weird vibes around here.
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  Yeah, I've been feeling something interested in since we
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  got in, so I don't know about y'all, but I'm ready to make a
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  quick exit. All right.
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  Yeah, yeah, Itchy, you would be able to feel the vibe is odd.
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  You wouldn't be able to put a finger on it And Arthur, any
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  time you think about the fact that the vibe is odd, you just
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  hear that crazy ringing in your ears.
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  It's almost like there's information that you should have
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  but. Yeah, it's almost like some God
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  somewhere rolled wrong. Yeah, yeah, it's almost like
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  fate is cruel, and it's funnier to me if you're ignorant.
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  Yeah, as we're going back to the horses, I'm assuming that's what
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  we're just. We're just going to go straight.
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  Yeah, it's an. Uneventful morning.
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  There's nothing going on in town, no weird screaming out in
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  front of the saloon. I'm going to check my saddlebags
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  because obviously I have this memory of digging a hole and if
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  it had important stuff in it, we'd probably have, you know, my
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  my English ID and any memorabilia that I had from
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  home. Yeah, I mean, these are things
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  that you haven't even thought about in months.
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  Yeah, a long time, yeah. Yeah.
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  So I want to check to see if if they are there.
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  Yeah, roll, roll two straight D sixes and let me know how many
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  successes you get. I got 2 sixes.
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  Two sixes. Yeah.
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  It's, it's weird how it comes back to you.
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  I how How do you think it comes back to Arthur as he's digging
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  through his saddlebag, realising that every piece of his old life
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  is gone and that you remember burying it?
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  I think it'd be like as he realises separate things are
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  missing, like his wedding band, his his ID, stuff like that.
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  Like as he's like rifling through his bag, I feel like
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  parts of it will be flashing up him putting, digging and putting
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  the stuff in, burying it all, and maybe even like the emotions
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  that he was going through in that moment.
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  Yeah. Like probably all just like came
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  come flooding back to him. Yeah, and Romy One More Day 6.
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  5. Five.
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  Yeah. You remember why you buried it.
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  You remember what you were trying to do.
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  Yeah, yeah. Arthur's not going to say
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  anything, but he's going to start thinking of the moments
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  that he remembers from that time that he's forgotten those, those
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  15 minutes. Sorry Doritos like really like
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  dry and it's made me mouth so dry.
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  Yeah, I think there's still some like spotty patches in the
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  memory. I think you don't remember what
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  happened between you digging the hole and burying the stuff and
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  the hug. You don't remember who you were
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  hugging. You don't remember really
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  anything about about the hug other than the fact that it was
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  wrong, but it felt like it closed a loop, if that makes
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  sense. Like your purpose had been, had
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  been completed. You don't remember what who, but
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  you sure as hell remember why now.
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  And you remember what you did. You remember what you did.
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  Yeah, Alf is going to remain stoic as always.
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  So you guys ready to ride out? Yeah, I I had to pop out for a
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  second. I heard a horse alarm going off
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  and I was worried that it was Evander but we all seem to be in
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  order here so I'm ready. No, that's good.
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  Those horse alarms? They're.
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  I'm really worried about the demons in your blood, son.
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  Yeah, you know, the more I think about it, the more I get
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  worried. But that's for future Richie to
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  mess with. All right then, let's hit the
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  road. Just going to jump back on
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  Bessie and Spur to start a cancer.
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  Yes, Slick, Roamy and Analyse check really fast.
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  Oh hey, I have a point in this now.
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  Yeah, let's play with your new point now that since you have
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  not returned this coin to Arthur yet and Arthur seemingly has too
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  much going on to remember that he loaned you this coin.
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  Rolling 4 dice I got 0 successes.
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  Oh, that's really unfortunate. Yeah, you.
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  Arthur's weird, but Arthur's always weird, so whatever.
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  Yeah. You're just right out of town
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  with your homies, gangs on the move.
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  Nothing to see here, nothing weird at all.
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  You're more than welcome to try and figure this out another way.
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  You can certainly talk to Arthur you, but again, if you don't
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  feel like Slick would do that, then don't worry about it.
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  No, I I don't know if he would try yet, because he if he
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  doesn't know, he doesn't know. Yeah, at A at a certain point
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  there will. There will come a time when
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  Slick sees something about Arthur has changed.
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  Yeah, but I think without you paying close attention to it
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  right now, you wouldn't notice yet.
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  How much can I think about it without taking mental health
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  damage? I You can think about everything
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  that you remember. You can think about everything
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  that you remember and you probably can't stop thinking
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  about everything that you remember because these things
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  were important to you and they're gone now and you buried
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  them because you were trying to make a deal.
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  And you remember the hug. But anytime you think about who
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  you were hugging, the blank spaces, any, anytime you try to
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  remember, you know, you get that ringing in your ears and this
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  just piercing headache. It feels like somebody's driving
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  a dagger through your temple and you know, you black out for a
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  second. It's just, it's not possible for
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  you to think about it and for you to remember.
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  It's almost like there's something there that you're just
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  not capable of even of even conceptualizing.
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  OK, I feel like if this happened to me personally, this is how
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  I'd react. So I feel like after a couple
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  hours I was riding and this, he'd constantly be going back
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  trying to remember the parts that he can't remember.
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  And after like, blacking out for maybe the 48th time on this ride
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  so far, it's just like. Fuck.
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  Y'all right there? The hell.
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  Did your horse step out of Burr or something?
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  No, it's nothing. You just fucking wouldn't
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  understand. I mean, you are clearly as as
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  the emotive man that you are. Clearly that is something I'm.
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  I forgot to do something back in fucking Sweetwater.
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  It doesn't matter. Mr. Steel Trap.
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  Hey. I am a steel trap.
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  We need to get to Amadeus Springs.
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  You know, fucking. Beat up.
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  It's his brother that takes precedence right now.
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  And also I'm really scared of the horse.
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  The. Horse and Evan, I've seen how
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  Evander looks at you. I can't not see it, my man.
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  Evander keeps one eye out for Selena and just one eye on
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  Arthur, one eye on Slick. Arthur's slick.
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  Have either of you tried to touch Evander at any point?
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  No, I don't think so. Yeah.
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  I gave him food in the first episode.
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  Yeah, yeah. But that was back then.
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  You didn't know anything then. I don't know anything now, yeah.
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  Now, now you would know something but.
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  Do I know what I know that I know?
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  No, you wouldn't know until you knew.
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  Welcome to Wild Wild West, where the players don't know what's
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  going on and neither do you. Yeah, and and then it'd be like
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  it continues blood. And also I feel like we've just
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  like skimmed over this but fucking Itchy can read people's
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  minds. Oh yeah, just completely.
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  Forget to talk about that. That's a that's a fun parlor
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  trick that I didn't realize I could do until I was doing it.
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  I mean. Bro you you you read?
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  My mind while we were riding. Look, I, I believe in
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  manifestation, but it was one of those things where I just kind
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  of said that I could and then I could.
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  So I, I really don't know too much about it.
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  And I look, I I need to apologize for that.
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  I It's almost like 1 poorly thought out decision has changed
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  the entire trajectory of yours life and the lives of everyone
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  around you. Yeah, where have I heard that
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  one before? If you just thought that you
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  could do it, doesn't that mean you could just think that you
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  know Ezekiel? Ezekiel is and know where he is
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  without us having to guess. All right, so First off, I, I
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  just want to say above, above board on the record, I will not
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  do that to either y'all anymore. That is something that I'm only
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  using for people that I don't trust.
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  And to answer your second question, and Ichi thinks really
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  hard to try and see if he could figure out where Ezekiel is.
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  He doesn't know what to do, but he's just like in his head,
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  like, all right, if I were that slippery bastard, where would I
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  be? Roll 1D6.
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  It's a one. You take one point of damage.
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  Oh, dumb. I think Ichi is just like
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  thinking and thinking and then he just like grabs his head,
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  almost falls off Evander and he just kind of looks over at the
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  gang. Like you can hear that he is
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  like his voice is physically less resonant than it usually
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  and he's just like. Hey, hey, gang.
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  I don't know if I should do that too many more times.
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  Yeah, take it easy, Itchy. There's a there's some mojo at
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  work there. It was a worth a try, but yeah
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  you might not want to give yourself a new nose bleed trying
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  to spin too hard. Probably not 30.
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  So fucking dry. Honestly it's like every time I
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  eat one of my mouth turns to like Gandhi's flip flop.
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  That's a very commonly said thing in the UK.
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  Dryer than Gandhi's flip flop is honestly said a lot more than
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  you would expect. Can't even comprehend what that
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  could possibly mean. That Gandhi walked in the
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  desert, oh, in a hot country in India and his flip flop was dry.
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  Yeah, I I guess. Yeah.
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  Wow. I've got plenty.
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  I've got plenty stored up. You you have gird your loins.
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  I never heard of that until the other day.
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  No, I'll bring some of them out when when we're playing and see
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  see if you can guess the meanings.
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  Yeah, excellent. All right.
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  So is there anything else happening as the the three of
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  you are riding? Anything else you guys are
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  talking about? I mean, I think privately you've
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  all had some interesting revelations over the last day.
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  I don't. I don't think so.
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  Slick wouldn't talk about the coins yet.
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  Clearly nobody else knows about those because Arthur didn't have
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  any surgery reaction. Yeah, I don't.
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  I don't think there's anything any new developments here that
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  Itchy would have would bring up. Yeah, that's very fair.
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  And I think Itchy, you're dealing with your massive
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  headache and Arthur, you're dealing with your massive
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  headache and it's like you're just feeling a little extra, a
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  little extra powerful. This this rush.
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  I think I I don't. Know that's.
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  Concerning, yeah. It's like had a a silver dollar
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  of this nature before. Yeah, he's, he's the, it's sort
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  of what he's dwelling on. He's not, he's not entirely sure
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  how he feels about that and how other people that know about
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  these things when they have pockets and pockets full of
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  these things. So that's sort of that's sort of
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  what's on his mind at the moment.
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  Well, you know, I'm going to roll one thing.
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  Oh boy. Lovely.
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  Oh, don't even worry about it. Nothing happens.
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  It's a quiet, quiet ride. You, you camp out under the
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  stars, the beautiful, Placid Texas night.
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  And you know, you hear the, the coyotes and there's not even a
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  cloud insight. It's beautiful.
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  And the next day you set out again.
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  I don't think you know your travel's interrupted by
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  anything. You don't even see any of the
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  the red wolves that you saw back on your way to Coolidge's place.
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  I mean, this was, I mean, scrubbier land than what you
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  were riding through there. But it grows increasingly lush
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  the closer you get to Itchy's ancestral home.
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  I think the only thing as we're getting closer, Itchy's just
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  going to be like, all right, look, when, when this is all
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  over, and I mean like all, all over.
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  All I'm saying is if I'm able to get this ranch back up and
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  running, you're welcome anytime. Thank you.
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  Thinking about it, I've just sort of been dwelling on it.
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  I think the next morning after, after we camp out, before we get
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  on our horses, this slick's going to take the silver coin
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  out of his pocket and hand it back to Arthur and go.
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  Arthur, I need you to do me a favor.
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  Never let me touch these things again.
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  All right. Arthur as he passes you the
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  coin. Rule and analyse.
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  Check. Oh.
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  Shit. Oh, here we go.
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  Double sixes baby. Oh shit.
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  Well that wait, I should have one more as well.
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  Double sixes and A5. Yeah, so with three successes,
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  Arthur, you hold this coin and the palm of your hand and slick,
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  you lose your temporary skill point.
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  Arthur, you hold this coin on the palm of your hand and it
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  feels warm to the touch, not in the way that a coin would.
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  It feels body temp, which is odd, but you know it's not that
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  odd because Slicks presumably had this on his person the whole
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  time. But you notice the face on the
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  coin, It turns. It was a side profile and it
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  turns and faces you dead on and it looks into your eyes and it
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  blinks. I blink back.
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  You don't get this temporary skill point like Slick did
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  because you don't have the site yet that Slick has.
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  But you can see that there is something at work here.
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  This is not a normal coin or any stretch of the imagination.
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  I'm going to take my shoe off, take the the bag of the 19 coins
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  out, but before I put this new silver coin in, I'm going to
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  look inside the bag to see if any of the other faces fucking
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  move. Yeah, every single face turns to
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  look at you. Every single face is different.
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  These are people. Every coin you touch in this bag
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  is warm to the touch. Every coin in this bag moves and
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  breathes, and every coin in this bag has the same sigil on the
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  tail side, and that is three sets of eyes stacked vertically
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  on top of one another. Hey, hey, Arthur, you've been
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  looking in that bag for a long time.
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  I I know you. I know you're like a bounty
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  hunter kind of coin guy, but I mean, what are they?
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  Are they all like double eagles or something?
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  Oh not, I'm just trying to think of what I can get for 20 silver
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  dollars. All right, fair enough.
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  I put the client back in the bag, but instead of putting it
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  in, Oh no, I'm going to put it back in my shoe for that.
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  I'm not having it anywhere. Like can you grab it easily?
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  You told me not to let him have it, so I'm just going to put it
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  in my shoe and put my shoe back on and then question things in
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  my head. I'm not going to question things
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  out loud. But the first question is, have
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  I been taking opium or is there demons in my blood?
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  Yeah, Slick sort of feels like a weight has been lifted off his
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  shoulders, handing it back to you.
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  It's like, all right, let's last day.
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  I guess we're getting to the ranch today, right?
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  We sure are close now. Well.
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  Lead the way, itchy. Itchy salutes and takes pole
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  position. No, I think it's probably only
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  an hour left until your ride is finished.
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  And I think as you Crest the Ridge, I'm going.
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  To roll something here. All right, Ichi's able to keep
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  it together for now. Good.
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  I think as you all Crest the Ridge, you know the final Ridge
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  that leads you to overlook the beautiful land that Amadeus
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  Spring sits on. You haven't been back here since
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  your brother burned it to the ground.
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  You haven't seen what it looks like.
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  You didn't even see it after it finished burning.
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  You left while it was still engulfed in flames.
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  And as you come over this hill and you look upon your home for,
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  I mean, all of your life, the place that your dreams had lived
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  at, the place where you spent with your family, with Evander,
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  with all of the other horses that you had trained and loved,
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  that you left there to die when you rode away like a coward,
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  that you didn't even try to save them, did you?
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  Or at least you gave up fast enough.
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  I mean, there are how many horses in that barn?
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  Itchy. Too many to think about, that's
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  for sure. Yeah, and your parents in that
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  house. And you come across the Ridge
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  and you see the cinders for the first time, the ashes of your
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  former life. There are a few pillars still
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  standing, but the buildings have all just collapsed in on
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  themselves and. I think Ichi and Evander stop at
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  the Crest of this Ridge, and I think it takes Ichi a full
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  probably 45 seconds to catch his breath before he's able to
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  continue. Yeah, there's no signs of life
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  here. You don't think your brother's
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  been here since It doesn't look like anybody's even made an
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  attempt to clean it up. It's just the burned out
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  wreckage of a palatial home and a barn.
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  I think for the first time since you all have met him, I think
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  Itchy is quiet and unmoving and I think he's just like shaking
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  his head, you know? He pulls his the brim of his hat
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  low over his face, and he's just shaking his head, kind of
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  muttering to himself. You all right there, Richie?
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  No, you're right. You're going to be all right.
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  I don't know. We'll see.
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  Be going in. One thing's for certain, I don't
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  know if we're going to find anybody here.
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  Probably not, but I might be able to, I don't know.
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  There might be some valuables like memoir, memorabilia, stuff
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  for you still in the in the in the ashes, you know, some stuff
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  doesn't burn. You know, there could be stuff
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  there that you know, might bring you some peace.
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  Yeah, I know. There's there's at least two
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  things I got to take care of on the property.
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  Come on, let's get. Let's get to it.
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  So before the three of you even leave the Ridge.
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  Interesting. It really makes me worried when
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  rye just like stops and then rolls.
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  And then she says. A bullet goes whizzing past you,
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  it doesn't even come close, but you hear the crack of a gun and
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  it is coming from the ashes of Ichi's home.
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  We are going to start combat for.
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  Oh. Fuck yeah.
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  Wow. How far from the ranch would you
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  say we are? You are 100 yards.
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  All right, OK. Do we see who shot at us?
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  You do not. He is.
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  Presumably he is in full cover. Do we know where the bullet came
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  from? Can can we sort of guesstimate
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  where the bullet came from? Yeah, You can tell that the
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  trajectory of the bullet was coming from the house.
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  So there's like a significant amount of debris, some pillars
• 25:36
  still standing. So there are several potential
• 25:38
  places where somebody could be shooting from.
• 25:41
  OK, I'm going to ride towards cover wherever the closest cover
• 25:46
  is, but while I am, I want to shoot, take a shot with Smith
• 25:51
  and Wesson in the general direction of where I assume the
• 25:55
  bullet came from. Suppressing fire.
• 25:58
  Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
• 26:01
  Do I need to roll for that? Since you're not trying to hit
• 26:05
  anything, I'm just firing in that general direction.
• 26:08
  I'll have you roll your pistols, check.
• 26:11
  But you know if your full success is still just going to
• 26:15
  be you ensuring that this person does not move if you get a shot
• 26:18
  off first. But everybody else is going to
• 26:21
  declare where they move and what their intention is before you
• 26:24
  roll. Yeah, Slick looks at itching
• 26:27
  goes. You go left, I'll go right.
• 26:29
  We'll circle around them. All right.
• 26:32
  I want to make sure I'm going to, I'm going to do this on
• 26:35
  foot. Oh, OK.
• 26:38
  Can't have, can't have Evander in the crossfire here.
• 26:42
  I feel like he'd be safer with you instead of just in the open.
• 26:48
  You're right. All right.
• 26:50
  Yeah, I ain't thinking. We can, we can, we can circle
• 26:53
  around and we're each going to try and get, you know, if
• 26:55
  there's two of us on either side, plus Arthur pinning them
• 26:58
  down, then hopefully we can get around.
• 27:01
  Wow. So yeah.
• 27:02
  And as soon as we see him, I assume we'll shoot at him.
• 27:05
  But. Yes.
• 27:06
  So for his movement and declaration of intent, he is
• 27:12
  staying put, He is staying completely behind full cover and
• 27:17
  he is planning on shooting again.
• 27:21
  He is going to take aim at you, Slick, so I will have everybody
• 27:28
  roll if they are firing and if you're not firing your gun, you
• 27:32
  don't need to roll. We'll just say that you make it
• 27:34
  to your cover. I got a six and A5.
• 27:39
  A6 and A5 and Slick. You make it to cover without
• 27:45
  being shot. The bullet hits the tree that
• 27:48
  you've ducked behind, but you are under full cover now.
• 27:52
  And he didn't even fire a shot until you were safely behind the
• 27:55
  tree. I've got 5 successes, 3 sixes
• 27:59
  and two fives. OK, with three sixes and two
• 28:03
  fives, Itchy, do you want to roll your dice first?
• 28:06
  I mean, you're just seeking cover, right?
• 28:07
  Yeah, I'm not. I'm not trying to shoot.
• 28:09
  Yeah. OK, great.
• 28:10
  Yeah, you get to cover incident free and evander's also fine.
• 28:14
  OK, cool. So Arthur, do you want?
• 28:18
  Are you aiming to kill? Oh yeah, oh oh, maim no, no,
• 28:22
  because we we need information so it's maim not kill.
• 28:25
  Make sure they can still. Speak, you get a shot off as he
• 28:31
  peeks around the corner of the house to fire his shot.
• 28:34
  It's like so he's behind like this pillar, burnt out wall
• 28:38
  probably of you know you move for you move for cover.
• 28:42
  You're a little bit closer to him.
• 28:43
  Now let's say you use your full movement speed to get there,
• 28:47
  which is. 12 1/2 yards. 12 1/2 yeah, so you're like 77 ish
• 28:56
  yards away from him, which is, you know, well within the range
• 28:58
  of your your gun and with five fucking successes you land a
• 29:07
  bullet dead between his eyes. It is an impressive feat and he
• 29:13
  is still standing and does not bleed.
• 29:17
  Oh fuck. Jesus Christ.
• 29:22
  Right. Oh fuck.
• 29:24
  What? Did you do?
• 29:25
  What? Did you?
• 29:26
  Fucking do. Why?
• 29:29
  What can take a bullet between the eyes?
• 29:31
  With with my successes, can I hit the gun?
• 29:36
  Yeah, yeah, you can. Totally.
• 29:37
  I got AI, got A5 and A6. I want to shoot the gun out of
• 29:39
  his hands. Yeah, with two successes.
• 29:41
  You hit the gun with a bullet and a normal gun.
• 29:45
  You would know that that gun would be damaged, if not totally
• 29:49
  unusable. What do you want to do next?
• 29:53
  We finished this particular round of combat.
• 29:59
  How close do I have to be to to read some minds?
• 30:05
  Let's see here, like 90 yards away, ish.
• 30:09
  Right now, 80 yards away right now, I think.
• 30:13
  I think you have to be within 20 yards of someone to read their
• 30:16
  mind. Do you want to write that down
• 30:18
  so that we remember? Yes.
• 30:21
  Yeah. I think you have to be able to
• 30:22
  make clear eye contact with a person.
• 30:25
  And right now this is just like some formless being.
• 30:28
  You haven't even seen his face yet.
• 30:31
  Not even you, Arthur, who shot him between the eyes.
• 30:35
  I'm, I'm just still in shock. We'll say that.
• 30:38
  Yeah. I think then what I'm gonna do
• 30:42
  is I'm gonna have Evander start to, you know, kind of do the
• 30:46
  that leftwards pincer maneuver and I'm gonna try and I'm gonna
• 30:51
  try and shoot, aim for like the feet or lower body with intent
• 30:56
  to kind of like smoke this guy out of his hiding spot to give
• 31:01
  Arthur and Slick a better shot. OK.
• 31:05
  And so you are on Evander. What is, what's your movement?
• 31:08
  How, how far can you go on Evander while you're doing this?
• 31:14
  21 meters, so probably about probably about 20 yards. 20
• 31:19
  yards. I forget how slow Evander is.
• 31:23
  That's really inconvenient, isn't it?
• 31:26
  0 successes out of three. 0 successes.
• 31:30
  OK, what are you 2 planning on doing?
• 31:33
  We'll resolve that at the end of.
• 31:35
  I'm going to try and get as close as I can.
• 31:38
  I'm going to have Beth as I'm like, I think I would have ran
• 31:43
  into cover so because it's easier to shoot on foot than it
• 31:45
  is on the back of the horse. Yeah, absolutely.
• 31:47
  I feel like I'm I'm going to have Bessie run past.
• 31:50
  I'm going to jump on the back so I can move further, so I can
• 31:54
  move 24 yards on the back of Bessie instead of my 12 yards on
• 31:58
  foot. Yeah, absolutely.
• 32:00
  Close and I want to get in. I want to get in at least
• 32:04
  throwing weapon range. Throwing weapon range, OK.
• 32:08
  I mean, moving 24 yards, you're now sitting a little under 50
• 32:15
  yards. Yep.
• 32:17
  Is it a? Is it an action like a
• 32:18
  declaration action to use analyze?
• 32:21
  I want to use the site on this guy to see what's going on.
• 32:24
  Oh, you could totally use your sight.
• 32:25
  I think we'll give you that as like a free action.
• 32:27
  Slick has eyeballs. He's allowed to just use them,
• 32:31
  OK? So that'll be 3 days, one
• 32:34
  success. One success, 1 success.
• 32:38
  Even with one success, you know that this is not a human being.
• 32:42
  You see that weird aura, You feel that that heavy wave is
• 32:48
  like gravity almost rolling off of him.
• 32:51
  But he's not powerful at least. OK.
• 32:56
  Ever been in a fight with a demon before?
• 32:59
  Slick. Don't think so.
• 33:01
  I I think he would have tried to avoid that.
• 33:04
  Yeah, Have you ever, I don't know, would Slick know how to
• 33:09
  actually hurt a demon? Has that?
• 33:11
  Is that something that he's ever even thought about?
• 33:14
  I don't think, I don't know. I he, I think the only way he
• 33:18
  thinks you can hurt demons is by beating them in a deal of some
• 33:24
  sort. Yeah.
• 33:25
  I don't know if he's ever thought about the actual like
• 33:27
  physical damage. Yeah, Yeah, that makes sense.
• 33:32
  I I don't think it would be something that Le Maine Noir
• 33:34
  would really talk about. I mean, right.
• 33:36
  They're demonically aligned. They're not trying to to harm
• 33:40
  Esmodius. He helps them.
• 33:42
  He's, you know, he's not the nicest guy in the world, but he
• 33:45
  is a neutral party more often than not.
• 33:49
  OK, OK, I have a stupid idea. Oh, I love your stupid ideas.
• 33:54
  Hit me. Slick is going to, from behind
• 33:58
  his tree, reach into his pocket and pull out his handkerchief,
• 34:04
  the black handkerchief with the symbol on it.
• 34:07
  And he's going to fold it and put it into his chest pocket.
• 34:11
  And he's going to step out and just sort of like hold his gun
• 34:14
  aside and be like, let's talk. OK, so itchy your shot.
• 34:22
  I mean, clearly it just it goes wide.
• 34:24
  You fire straight into the fucking ground.
• 34:26
  Arthur, what were you attempting to do?
• 34:30
  Were you trying to? Are you within range?
• 34:33
  Of your throne, I don't know what my range.
• 34:36
  My tomahawk has a mealy A mealy range of five yards, but I don't
• 34:39
  know what the throne range of my tomahawk is.
• 34:42
  OK, do you have any points in throw as that will be OK.
• 34:47
  But I have my specialty is finesse.
• 34:51
  Yes, I will let you attempt to throw it, but in order to
• 34:56
  succeed. I can only roll 3 dice.
• 35:01
  Yeah, in order to succeed, you need 3 full successes, 3 sixes.
• 35:05
  If you want to hit him from this, from this distance, it's
• 35:10
  it's an incredible throw and you are not a guy that uses throwing
• 35:13
  weapons an awful lot. Somebody kiss me, Dice.
• 35:19
  What would what was it 3 full successes?
• 35:22
  I need 3 sixes from you in order for this to any.
• 35:26
  Capacity 1-2. Sixes and A5.
• 35:29
  By the way, throne range is 5 yards. 5 yards, yeah yeah.
• 35:33
  So Arthur has Arthur has something a little bit special
• 35:38
  on his side, but it. That was with my little bit
• 35:40
  special. Yeah, even that doesn't allow
• 35:44
  him to make this impossible, impossible throw with any amount
• 35:48
  of accuracy. The tomahawk just buries itself
• 35:51
  in the ground. Probably.
• 35:52
  I mean, you got close, but it's still 15 yards away, throwing
• 35:56
  with all your might and slick. As you step out, even with your
• 36:00
  handkerchief in pocket, he pops from behind his cover and fires
• 36:06
  another shot at you. It goes wide.
• 36:08
  He's not doing a good job of aiming.
• 36:10
  He's, you know, he's under threat, but he's not stopping.
• 36:17
  All right. And he does not verbally
• 36:20
  acknowledge you either. He narrows his eyes at you a
• 36:24
  little bit. Does does he still have the hole
• 36:28
  in his head or did that like heal up?
• 36:30
  He still has the hole in his head all right.
• 36:33
  It just, it's not bleeding, it's just a hole.
• 36:36
  You can just see the bullet like buried.
• 36:38
  No, that's fine. So I'll say if you don't want to
• 36:43
  talk, all right, that's fine. Hey Arthur, you want to cut
• 36:45
  somebody's head off today? Always.
• 36:49
  Do it to it I. Assume I assume this ain't my
• 36:52
  brother. No, this is not Ezekiel.
• 36:56
  I'm going to try and get as close as I can again.
• 36:58
  Yeah, itchy. You would.
• 37:00
  Once again, if you're looking at his face, it's blank, you know,
• 37:05
  it's like a forgettable face. All right, that ain't him.
• 37:12
  Shoot Tequil. I already shot tequila.
• 37:15
  It didn't work. Yeah, Slick's gonna.
• 37:18
  Slick's gonna. You know what?
• 37:21
  I'm going to fan all. I fired once already.
• 37:25
  I'm going to fan the remaining eight shots in my revolver.
• 37:30
  Out of curiosity, I assume that the the cavalry Sabre is made
• 37:35
  out of steel, right? I would assume.
• 37:39
  Yeah, it is. All right, well above table
• 37:42
  there goes my idea. It's OK, I've got an idea.
• 37:48
  I have a good. I don't know much about demons.
• 37:53
  I don't I've not read. I've read the bare minimum bits
• 37:56
  of the law so I don't ruin anything for myself so I can
• 37:59
  remain in character. But Arthur knows one thing.
• 38:03
  It's got a hole in its in its head and it's still standing.
• 38:06
  It's got to be some type of devil.
• 38:08
  Yeah, yeah, you would know that to be true.
• 38:11
  I think Ichi is going to since since this demon is focused on
• 38:15
  firing at slick, I think Ichi is going to.
• 38:19
  Would I be able to like dash? Like forgo my action to to get
• 38:24
  closer. Yeah.
• 38:26
  I could I can roll something too.
• 38:28
  I can I can roll right in. No, I, I'm I'm fine with that.
• 38:31
  If you're foregoing you're, you're firing to do double your
• 38:36
  double your movement speed. I'm I'm cool.
• 38:37
  With that, yeah, I think I think at this point, like Evander, I
• 38:42
  mean, I he's he's been he's been dancing the whole time.
• 38:45
  I think Ichi just kind of like kicks, like kicks Evander into
• 38:49
  gear, like using his spurs. And for the first time ever
• 38:53
  y'all see Evander go from like a, I mean, he was doing like to
• 38:58
  get to where he is. He was doing a very frenzied
• 39:00
  like Swan Lake ballet. But I think as Ichi just kind of
• 39:05
  like like hits him on the haunch and is just like, all right,
• 39:09
  Evander, it's go time. Come on, no holds barred.
• 39:12
  You see Evander actually gallop like a normal horse.
• 39:16
  Yeah, yeah. Evander is moving with a
• 39:20
  quickness and you are 40 yards or yeah, 40 yards closer to your
• 39:26
  target. So I'm only I'm 10 yards away
• 39:29
  from being able to read this guys mind.
• 39:32
  Yes, yeah. And you were just charging
• 39:34
  forward. Arthur, what is your plan?
• 39:40
  Getting catch these hands distance so just kind of keep
• 39:44
  I'm going to do the same I'll I'll forgo an option to dash so
• 39:47
  I get 50 meters that means I'm like 6 meters out or something
• 39:51
  yeah I'm. Definitely going to be keeping
• 39:52
  attention with the fanning the gun. 100%.
• 39:55
  So fanning a gun, I don't make an attack roll.
• 39:58
  The target has to make a finesse test to dodge.
• 40:02
  Success is out of 4-5 or six. Yes, that is.
• 40:06
  If they fail, they get hit by all of my bullets.
• 40:11
  He rolled 1 success so I'll just have you roll AD 8 -, 1 to see
• 40:16
  what hits him. 4 bullets. 4 bullets.
• 40:21
  Tell me, where do you hit him with your 4 bullets?
• 40:25
  Both knees, Both elbows. Both knees, both elbows, nothing
• 40:30
  happens. Your bullets hit and that is it.
• 40:34
  He does not even flinch. Slick and he in turn is going to
• 40:40
  fire back at you. God damn.
• 40:44
  He once again fires wide. He cannot hit you to save his
• 40:49
  fucking life. It's crazy.
• 40:52
  Yeah, it's like is not concerned about this guy.
• 40:56
  Yeah, he's nervous. He's very nervous.
• 41:00
  There are three of you and there's only one of him.
• 41:02
  And even though you haven't done a lick of damage to him so far,
• 41:05
  he sees how fast Itchy and Arthur are approaching and he is
• 41:12
  going to try and turn tail and run.
• 41:15
  He is going to use his full movement speed this turn, which
• 41:18
  is only 12 meters since he is on foot, to try and escape the
• 41:24
  opposite direction of where the three of you are coming from.
• 41:27
  Oh, so he's running like back? He's running back back through
• 41:31
  the house, back out towards the marsh.
• 41:36
  And there's something else happening this turn.
• 41:39
  I'm going to roll one other thing.
• 41:42
  God damn. Jesus.
• 41:55
  All right, What's the plan here, fellers?
• 41:58
  I'm I was within 6 meters of this guy.
• 42:00
  So Yep, my movement speed on the back of Bessie is 24.
• 42:05
  You can, so I can. You've moved 12.5, did you say?
• 42:09
  12. 12, OK, right. So 100% I'm on the back of
• 42:12
  Bessie. I'm going to run with Bessie 18.
• 42:15
  So I catch up to him and I'm going to jump, jump as as we're
• 42:19
  still moving, I'm going to jump off Bessie and like sucker punch
• 42:23
  him in the back of the head and I'm going to say.
• 42:29
  May the power of Crass compel these hands?
• 42:40
  I hate you. So.
• 42:42
  Much. You know, I had an episode
• 42:45
  title. I think that.
• 42:47
  Has to. Be the episode title.
• 42:53
  I want to just leave it there because that's perfect, but
• 42:56
  something else has to happen and it says fuck you God damn it.
• 43:06
  I was, I was brainstorming that for so long.
• 43:09
  Yeah, right. It worked.
• 43:14
  Am I rolling? Are we waiting for everybody
• 43:16
  else's declarations? We're waiting for everyone
• 43:18
  else's declarations. Let's see.
• 43:20
  So he was all right, I think with the power of Pythagorean
• 43:24
  theorem. I think that if I use my normal
• 43:28
  movement, I will be close enough to to try and read the mind of
• 43:35
  this entity. I know it's not gonna work, but
• 43:38
  itchy doesn't so yeah God damn. It's a natural 12 on 2 dice a.
• 43:46
  Natural 12 on 2 dice. OK, cool.
• 43:50
  So slick. What were you?
• 43:52
  What were you doing? Slick is going to reach behind
• 43:55
  him and pull his second gun into his left hand and start walking
• 43:58
  towards the group that is, you know, taking care of them right
• 44:02
  now. Yeah, for sure.
• 44:03
  Obviously you can't take any shots with everybody piled on
• 44:05
  top of it, but. Yeah, OK, so itchy, you are
• 44:09
  going to go first with your natural 12 all?
• 44:12
  Right. What did we say?
• 44:15
  What was What was the rule for this?
• 44:17
  Was it 2 successes for you? You get how many?
• 44:21
  Seconds and a stream of conscience. 20 seconds stream of
• 44:26
  conscience. Cool.
• 44:28
  So I don't know if we've actually talked about Itchy's
• 44:31
  power and how it works. So Itchy has the ability due to
• 44:37
  his deal that he can briefly read minds, although he does not
• 44:41
  necessarily get context for this.
• 44:44
  Every time he wants to read someone's mind, he has to roll a
• 44:46
  smarts check. 1 success, he gets 10 seconds.
• 44:49
  Stream of conscience, 2 successes, 20 seconds stream of
• 44:51
  conscience, 3 successes, he gets 30 seconds.
• 44:54
  And 50% of it stream of conscience, 50% of it's
• 44:58
  relevant, 4 successes, 40 seconds it's all relevant.
• 45:01
  And five successes he gets a minute of relevant information
• 45:04
  and then with 0 successes he takes one D 6 + 2 of damage.
• 45:09
  Did we say smarts check or just a straight D?
• 45:13
  No smarts check. It's a smart check.
• 45:16
  Got it. So let me set a timer.
• 45:24
  Are you ready? Yep.
• 45:34
  I can't fucking do God. Turn it off.
• 45:36
  That's exactly it before it started.
• 45:40
  This is just going to be a loud fucking noise.
• 45:43
  I thought, I just thought she's just going to scream down this.
• 45:48
  Did you turn up gain for that? No, no, I just thought she was
• 45:52
  this. Close to the microphone.
• 45:55
  I think AG just like grabs his head and he's just like, he's
• 45:58
  just like screaming like, dear God, turn it off.
• 46:01
  Turn it off. So as Ichi is doing that,
• 46:10
  Arthur. Ready.
• 46:12
  Ready for me to roll. I am, but something happens
• 46:18
  before you leap off of Bessie like a fucking.
• 46:22
  Bow of Hell. Yeah, yeah, like a bat out of
• 46:25
  hell. Another shot is fired from a
• 46:27
  marsh from the direction that he was running towards that hits
• 46:30
  him square in the chest and he slumps to the ground.
• 46:36
  And as you come off of Bessie, you are grabbing Falling Man.
• 46:42
  I wasted my cool line on him. I'm going to grab his gun, Stick
• 46:49
  that in me. Stick that like take it out of
• 46:52
  his holster, whatever it is, and keep that on like on me so he
• 46:55
  doesn't shoot me while I'm holding him.
• 46:57
  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I'm going to get a good look
• 47:01
  at his face. I'm going to concentrate and
• 47:03
  look at his face. I'm not going to just passively
• 47:06
  stare. I'm going to full on like I want
• 47:10
  to know who you are. Look.
• 47:11
  Are you touching his skin? I am touching his skin.
• 47:15
  You feel, oh God, you feel his bones under his skin.
• 47:21
  It he looks like he would be normal, but you've where there
• 47:25
  should be fleshiness, there's only solid bone.
• 47:29
  He feels almost skeletal and you look into his eyes and you see
• 47:35
  this void. There is nothing there.
• 47:40
  His eyes are all pupil. It's not right, and his mouth is
• 47:47
  just a little too wide for his face.
• 47:52
  It goes almost all the way to to the edge, Arthur, and that's
• 47:59
  familiar in a very uncomfortable way.
• 48:04
  And that's where we'll leave it.