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Yeah, Morpico does not 3. Three, there's three dark
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electric types, Morpico, Marpico James from the anime and Morpico
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Marni from the game. Great.
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That's the hell yeah. God what a dog shit.
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Pokémon. I don't know why Clyde was
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touching me, but I made my displeasure knowing about it.
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Then we all sort of went our separate ways to explore the
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city, dine in, caught a little clay man and found some sort of
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tablet that gave us all bad vibes.
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Clyde met some sort of giant wolf and got a a magic carp that
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as far as I can tell is pretty useless.
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It just sort of flops around and bleeds everywhere kind of weird.
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And I found a small army and a little bird that sits on my
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shoulder. I I also squished a guy's head
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that came out of a portal, but we don't need to talk about
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that. OK, we pick up back in the
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ruins, question mark of Hanover. You guys have done your own
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thing and after a few hours of searching Bruce and Clyde, you
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guys, you guys come back to, I don't know if we ever designated
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a meeting point, but you guys get back to like the main city
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square kind of in on that main drag kind of in view of the
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cathedral. You guys don't see Gynan?
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Should we be worried? Why don't you roll 2D6 plus plus
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special? Plus special Jesus.
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I need to get my dice out too. Got an 11.
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I got A7. OK, between you're 7 and you're
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11, you guys just kind of get the feeling.
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And by feeling I mean like a feeling from God.
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Question mark that Guinan is probably fine.
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That that's still not very comforting.
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I I don't know if I fully trust this feeling I got in my gut.
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She. You know, she, she's got those,
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she's got Joshua. Joshua will keep her safe,
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right? Yeah, I.
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Believe. What was the other one called
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again? Kevin.
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Kevin. Yeah, Kevin.
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Kevin might do something. Yeah, I don't.
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Her names are so generic I can never.
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Remember what? It's all right.
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I feel like I'm having a stroke every time I read my my pokemons
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names so. You know what I'll also say with
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with that role, just because I'm realizing now that like, I
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didn't give you guys anything, you guys notice that there are a
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set of footprints that look vaguely guiding, like leading
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back the way you came out of Hanover.
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OK. My Ranger tracking instincts say
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we should follow these footsteps.
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I need to to go do something right quick, like a 10 minute
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walk through the forest that way.
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And it's hard to take a whiz. No, no, no, no, no, no, it's
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not. I don't.
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I don't need to take a whiz, so I need to just go and grab some
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stuff. OK, I suppose I'll sit here.
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I mean, you can come too to give you a good old house tour, but.
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What you mean it's not? It's not like you need to do
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your own thing. All right.
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Yeah, I'll come with. You, Yeah.
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And Clyde will leave, leave, lead Brutus out of Hanover back
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into the like the forests surrounding Stratusdan Camp, and
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then walk through the forest to the clearing where Clyde and
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Cliff's Hut is and the training ground.
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Yeah, yeah. After about 15 minutes, Brutus,
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you're following Clyde through the forest and as if out of
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nowhere, you step into a clearing and there's a there's a
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small, rather dilapidated looking Hut.
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There's a there's a decently sized area that's that's tamp
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down. You know, of course, it's been a
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few few years, I think, since it's been used, so nature's
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starting to reclaim it. But you can see that it was at
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one point kind of a makeshift battle arena.
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This is my home, MI Casa SU Casa, you know, Woo.
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This is this is where I got trained how to be a ruthless
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killer, to kill Wef. And then I'm going to walk into
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the front door of the cabin and be like, this is where my father
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told me that my mother was dead and Wef was the one who killed
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her. I I think since it's a little
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hovel, I think Brutus has to like Crouch down quite a bit to
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get through the door. Oh yeah.
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He's like a foot taller. Than the door.
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This place is small. And I think as you walk in
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Brutus I, I'm just doing this because it's funny.
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World 2D6 plus defense. Oh Lord, oh good, oh good 7.
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All right, there's a so again, it's been, it's been several
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years since this house was used or kept up at all.
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Brutus, as you go through the door, there's just like a beam
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that comes down and kind of hits you on top of the head.
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Yeah, meant to fix that before I left to go and find spam I
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suppose. Brutus, like, puts his arm on it
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and just like, shoves it. Back into the ceiling there.
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OK, now this part depends upon you, Matthew.
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I'm going to search around for any clues of Cliff.
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Like anything, this determines how the next however many months
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this campaign goes for Clyde. Lord OK, roll 2D6 plus special.
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I've got a six. So all I will say is that you
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you kind of scour the house and you see that it's been mostly
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cleaned, like cleaned out between you leaving, your dad
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leaving and the occasional just kind of like bandit or wild
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Pokémon that has has gone through.
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There's basically nothing in there.
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You know, you see some old, like some old rations that are at
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this point in various stage of decomposition, but you really
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can't find anything in the house.
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Going out of the house, the only like trace of your dad in the
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back, you see a again kind of beginning to be reclaimed by
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nature. There's a there's a stone and
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there's a small tree planted above the stone.
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Clyde, you would know this as where floatl is buried.
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Yeah, and on the grave, you see, you know the I mean, at this
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point the, you know, grass is growing over the dirt.
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So without looking at it, you wouldn't know what you're
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looking at it except on the stone you see black, like black
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dust. I it's, it's like brimstone
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basically. And it just looks to be in like
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no real particular pattern other than there, there is like
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brimstone on the rock. But other than that, after
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scouring the property for about, you know, 20-30 minutes, that's
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all you get. OK.
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I'm gonna scrape some of that brimstone off Floatzel's grave
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and then give it a clean to make sure the one person after my
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mother like it, you know, has a nice grave.
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And then I'm going to go back into the cabin and pull out
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where my bed was. And in the floor, you'll see
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like a cracked floorboard. And I'm going to, like, peel it
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up. And inside there's a box.
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I'm going to open the box. And inside is Floatzel's mask
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from when Clyde was your human Drax.
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And I'm going to be, I'm going to put it around the neck and
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just sort of say to myself, I didn't think I'd become this
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person again. But it's the, I suppose it's
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better than revenge. And I'm going to put the box
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back in, put the the floor ball back down, push the bed back
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into the wall, and then go and find Brutus, wherever Brutus has
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gone. Seeing you were cleaning that
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stone, he's Outback using brick like a water gun to clean it.
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I cleaned your stone. That was the grave of one of the
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best friends I ever had. This was floats all you know,
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the one my dad took to defeat the unspeakable one, blah blah
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blah. He helped me through a lot when
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I was a kid and I was the one who sort of got him this way.
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Yeah. How long has it been since you
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left this place? Well, I came, I came through
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here before we went for the selection ceremony, but before
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that I left when I was 14. So 6 years, seven years,
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something like that. It seems pretty overgrown.
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I was just curious. Yeah, the I didn't really want
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to stay somewhere where I wasn't wanted, you know?
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Did your dad leave before that? He clearly hasn't been back if
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it looks like this. Now he found out about floats
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all and then just walked off into the into the mall that way
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somewhere and I've I've not seen him since.
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What a good guy. Oh, he's great.
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We know this. That was sarcasm.
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I know I only have like 1 intonation but that was sarcasm.
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You may have heard about your human dress in the past.
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You. You especially heard it from
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those people I absolutely beat into a bully pulp.
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Before that, no. Yeah, if anybody asks, it's not
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me, but it is me, but it's not me.
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Got it. OK, cool.
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We should get back What if Guy is looking for us.
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Yeah, you know, can't, can't leave Squishy on her own.
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Yeah. And then I'll lead Bruce back to
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where the footprints start leading off.
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Yeah, and it takes you guys basically the rest of the day to
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get back. But since you know the way and
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since you're not like working on training as much, it goes a
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little bit quicker. So by the time you pull back
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into drags home, it's definitely night time.
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But as you walk up to the gate once again, you are, you know,
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you're, you're able to walk through this gate and from the,
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from the gate into the, the actual manner, you know, of
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course, you, you notice that there are many, many Pokémon
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still kind of roaming the ground.
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A couple of them come up to you, sniff you.
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They remember you from the other time.
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And Mistress Wef is, you know, has given you her blessing.
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So you guys kind of, you know, are able to walk relatively
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unimpeded. And as you get back in, you see
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Wef at the top of the, you know, it's like a grand stair entrance
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with like a foyer balcony on top.
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And you see Wef, she looks at you and she like looks for a
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second and she's just like, where's my fucking daughter?
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Her footprints LED back here. My fucking kid.
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Where is she? You have the exact same amount
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of idea as we do. We we follow her footprints to
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this house. She runs like basically slides
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down the banister and gets up Clyde right up in your face.
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She just stares you down for a second and starts laughing.
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OK, so she has been back. That's good.
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That's good. Yeah, I, you know, I'm just
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trying to fuck with you guys. She's been back for a couple
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hours now. She delivered that cool skeleton
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thing. I'll, I don't know, I'll fucking
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put it on my mantle or something.
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And she hands you each like a relatively large, like a velvet
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pouch. Oh, very nice.
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Is it full of coins? It is, and inside you each get
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$50,000 Jesus. Shit.
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Well what the fuck I now have 52,500 pokey dollars.
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She just kind of plots your expressions and she's just like,
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all right, oh shit, oh, the economy.
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Of the game. Oh yeah, yeah.
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Your deal was to be incredibly wealthy.
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Yeah, forget, forget about that. I have a question for you though
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with. What's up?
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What do you need? I went home today and I found
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this and I'm going to pull out like the brimstone dust.
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Do you know where brimstone dust in this sort of form?
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Like it's I've never seen it be this dark before in in nature
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here. She grabs your hand, she grabs
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her hand and she just kind of studies it.
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And she's just like, Nah, that's, that's, I mean,
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Brimstone fresh from the 9 Hells.
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Fuck. I feel like, I feel like I, you
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know, I look, I, I get it, daddy issues, I get, I'm not going to,
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I'm not going to get in the way there, but I feel like we've
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been over this. Well, you know, last time after
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you told me that my my father basically left my mother to die,
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I stopped listening to the rest of that conversation because
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there was so much going through my head at that one moment in
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time. You know, having your whole life
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crumble around you, it's sort of a very displeasing thing to go
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through. Seemed like.
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It No, no, no, no. You're you're right.
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I look, I don't do this often, but Gynan told me to do this,
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and you guys have been nice enough to her for this long, so
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she deserves it. But I'm, I'm sorry that I may
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come off as an asshole. I hope this money pays you off.
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I mean, you know what I mean. That's very.
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Forward, but OK, I mean. Wef, I'm sorry that we got off
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on the wrong foot, mostly on my part because you know, I was
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told to kill you, etcetera, etcetera.
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No, it's fair. It's sort of his whole thing.
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Yeah, it it was my whole life up until 2 days ago when I found
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out you weren't the one who killed my mother.
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Look, you would not be the first and you probably won't be the
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last. It's it's all right.
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I water on the bridge, right? Oh, you, you have a very vast
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expanse of knowledge for things and stuff, right?
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I mean, sure. I'm going to, I'm going to throw
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out Rayo, which is my satanic veggie carp.
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Oh no. Yeah, Buddhist, you have not
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seen this. I'm not gonna do the fucking
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laugh again. But but Clyde, in your head you
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just hear that same like laugh at Max volume and it's just like
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it's flopping around. It's Brutus.
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What you see is a magic carp, except it's slightly larger than
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normal. It is bright red.
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And when it like flops around on the ground, it leaves, it leaves
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what looks to be blood that just kind of like like appears and
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then disappears as it like flops around.
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Yeah. I'm not going to lie, that thing
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is really fucked up looking you. You can't hear it's laugh that
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is even worse. Yeah.
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Where? Where some some wolf came and
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looked at me through a portal and said it just gave me a gift
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and it gave me this fucking demented magic carp.
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Do you do you know anything about wolves through portals?
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Jesus Christ, what the All right, let me preface this with
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I don't know too much other than what I'm about to say, but what
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the fuck did you do in your life to get tangled up with the God
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damn God of Tartarus? I have been angry for a long
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time. All right, you know what that do
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it. I look, I don't know too much
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other than it's a fucking wolf God with a sword in its mouth
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and it causes chaos wherever it goes so I don't know I guess.
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Use it or don't, but please don't let it track blood in my
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house. Oh, no, it just disappears.
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Look, I'll return it and go. OK, Thank you.
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Yeah. Where's Squishy?
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Is she coming with us or? She, she came in a couple hours
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ago, said told me to tell you that she's sorry.
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She she'll be a minute. She's got some other shit to do.
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I don't know like. Girl problems.
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Yeah, something of that nature. But look, if you want, we can
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sit down for a meal. I I have some information for
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you 'cause Gaiman showed me the like.
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Actually which one of you has that like bonsai tree?
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Me, I have the tree of Arboria way.
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OK? It's the way stone, right?
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Yeah, yeah, it's me who has. That then she doesn't, then she
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doesn't know that. OK, sorry I was just checking.
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I completely forgot about that. I also completely forgot about
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that wet is just like, all right, come on, I'll I'll have
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somebody get dinner ready. And I, I, I found some more
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information about shadow Lugia. Was it that's what you're trying
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to do next? Some kind of, I don't know, like
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friendly, like avenging A avenging a fallen part in one of
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you guys was trying to avenge somebody.
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I don't know, I there's a lot of shit going on.
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We're both trying to avenge people.
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Technically, I'm just, I'm just out of that game now.
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The the. Shadowlukia thing was for me.
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All right, cool, then I have info for you.
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Let's come on dinner. And Weth walks over into one of
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the side wings of the Manor. Anything's better than gruel at
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this point. I I still can't believe every
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person we've been to eat food with has served us gruel.
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Honestly, every single person. Wev kind of looks back as you
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guys enter into this just absolutely massive banquet hall.
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And she's just like, yeah, no, we, we don't do gruel in this
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family. You guys will be able to eat
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like normal good food. Oh, cool, cool, cool.
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And as you guys sit down, you see there are, you know, it's
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this big beautiful, like these wooden tables and these like
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very comfortable chairs. You guys like, you sit down and
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immediately there's people pouring you like wine, you know,
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asking do you want wine? Do you want Mead?
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You know, they, I mean, they got everything.
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Oh. I'll I'll have yes, just give
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me. A.
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Yeah, Brutus is eating everything.
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Yeah. And, you know, as you guys sit,
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there's, I mean, there's just plate after plate of food.
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You guys see like slowpoke tails and there's like, you know,
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there's like a whole, there's a whole wink alone that was
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roasted with like an apple in its mouth.
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You guys have like, you know, like saws book filet medallions
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that have like the little you know, like little antlers as
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garnish like it's very lavish and the food is very good.
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Nice. So after after a while as you
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guys start eating, wef is just kind of like all right, OK, here
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we go. This is what I was able to get.
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Hopefully this helps. Look, when we last went into
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hell, we, I I got to give it to Clyde Cliff.
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You're Clyde Cliff, your dad. I got to give it to him.
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He did some. Yeah, he did some crazy shit
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with like arrows and almost killed the unspeakable one.
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Like when you have these major gods, they have avatars which
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are like smaller, less powerful versions.
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And so that's basically what what was killed.
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It's not an insignificant blow to a God.
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It takes a while to gain back that power.
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And I'm saying like, while on like a godly scale, not like a
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human scale. So, you know, it's been, I don't
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know, like 20 years and and the unspeakable 1 is still probably
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pretty hurt. So it's been just trying to like
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fuck with things and people and whatever it can using the, the
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energy that it can expend for long enough for it to basically,
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you know, come back to full strength and probably find, I
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don't know, find the next group of adventurers that are stupid
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enough to go back there. So what I found was this, this
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like corrupting energy, it's called shadow energy.
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And basically that's part of the unspeakable one's power.
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It can send through riffs, you know, interplanar and it'll
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infect whatever it touches. So what likely happened is that
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the Unspeakable one took a fair bit of its power and did that to
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corrupt Lugia and it kind of, you know, feedback loop, right?
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And so it corrupted Lugia, which means that Lugia has been able
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to corrupt, you know, an army of shadow corrupted Pokémon.
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But realistically, Unspeakable 1, she's likely holding up to
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recover. And it's, you know, this is just
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kind of a distraction. That being said, you're still
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going toe to toe with the avatar of a God, so it's not going to
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be easy. I don't know what quite you'll
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be able to do, but I don't fucking know.
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Good luck. I'm going to throw a turtle at
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it. Can we can we throw a boat at
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it? I heard, I heard y'all did that
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with a giant Gyarados once. Oh.
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Shit, yeah, we did do that. That was kind of fun.
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Yeah. No, I mean, you guys are going
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to have to basically use whatever, whatever you can.
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I I don't know how strong you guys are, but all I can say is
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good luck. It's not going to be easy, but I
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can at least get you there. So Guinan told me that you guys
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got like some looking thing. It's called a, it's called a
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weigh stone. And essentially it's a it's a
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thing. So I can I have enough kind of
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magical whatever the fuck that I can get you somewhere to
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Arboria. But if you have a waste stone,
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you'll be able to get exactly where you need to go, I would
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imagine. And again, I really don't know
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too much about Arboria. I haven't been there in a while,
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but the kind of central thing there is this giant tree.
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It's called the World Tree, the tree of life, something like
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that. In that in that general.
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Area as she's saying this I'm just gonna be like rooting
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through me bag and just pull out like the the little tree thing
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I've got like this is the only tree ish thing we got.
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Cool. That's yeah, that's exactly what
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I'm looking for actually. So that's sick.
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You can hang on to it. It's basically something that I
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just have to use like right as I'm keeping the portal.
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I like, I get it, but you know, whatever.
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So yeah, that's going to make things a lot easier actually.
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You guys are basically going to be put out somewhere in the
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general vicinity of the big tree.
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So the only thing that I'll say once you're there, I don't know
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where you guys are going to go. So you're going to need to find
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somebody to get you back. Do they speak the same language
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as us? Yeah, do we need an?
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Interpreter. No.
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No, no, you guys will figure it out.
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It's it's, you know, it's, it's anime rules.
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You guys know that, right? Oh, yeah.
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Cool. Yeah, yeah.
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Get it, Get it, get it. Yeah.
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Will Squishy be ready to come on this journey?
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I feel like Squishy is not going to want to miss going to our
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warrior. She will meet you there.
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OK, Can I ask you to do something while we're away?
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I mean, depends what? What's up?
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Can you? You don't have to like get a
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precise location, but can you find out whereabouts Cliff is?
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Yeah, I can. I can see what I can do.
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I think I stole some shit from him.
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I can, I don't know, triangulate a scent?
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If you're gonna smell him, shit would be the way to do it.
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It OK. He's got a point.
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It's it'll take me a bit, but I don't know how long you guys are
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going to be in Arboria. So you guys take care of that.
27:17
Hopefully you guys can get back to the material plane and then,
27:22
you know, I'll I'll find somebody all right, and I'll let
27:26
you know when when I can kind of pinpoint that again, I I'll do
27:33
it, you know, like I'm you guys are you guys are cool with my
27:39
kid, so I can't I can't complain.
27:42
Yeah, I have one more thing to say.
27:45
And you're going to be really interested in this because this
27:47
person tried to kill us. OK.
27:50
He, he shot us. He shot a hyper beam out of his
27:52
hand. Me and Brutus and your daughter,
27:56
someone called Cedric. He, he, he made.
28:00
Roll 2D6 plus special. I said special.
28:07
I meant charisma. I'm sorry.
28:08
Charisma. That's a nine.
28:09
Yeah, no, that's an 8. OK, with an 8 you can clock that
28:15
there was an emotion on her face for a split second but you
28:18
couldn't really tell what. And she's just like, I don't
28:21
know, never heard of him. I mean, he's, I'm pretty good at
28:25
picking up these things. I, I, I said why should we trust
28:28
him? The other two didn't listen and
28:30
we followed. Guy didn't seem to know him,
28:32
pretty much. Yeah, Guy didn't seem to know
28:34
him. Guy knew that he'd been in your
28:36
home before. He What was the name of that
28:39
church that he was with? Oh, is it that fucking stupid
28:44
axis thing? Yeah, because I.
28:49
Said you were a benefactor or something and.
28:52
Look, they, they, they come around asking for money.
28:55
And so I don't know, I guess maybe this Cedric guy like
29:00
showed up. I they're all really
29:03
forgettable. The only dude I remember there's
29:05
a, there was a guy with like a big, like he's like a big clock
29:08
or something. I don't, I don't know something.
29:11
No, he's not around anymore. Oh, you mean Flava Flav?
29:16
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's the guy.
29:18
I knew he had a weird fucking name like that.
29:21
Yeah, I. Used him as a human shield.
29:23
Oh, cool, nice. Yeah, yeah.
29:25
I mean, they're basically just like religious nuts.
29:28
They they come asking for money. I again, I just give out money
29:32
like it's really not an issue to me.
29:34
So they asked me for money. So I just threw him like a cool
29:36
500 foul. And now they're going around
29:39
saying that, you know, I'm their benefactor and oh, praise be,
29:42
you know, wef. But it's just pocket change,
29:46
man. OK I just, I just wanted to know
29:49
if you have any information because you had this really
29:51
weird stone that when you touch it, it made you feel amazing.
29:54
Oh, you mean the the fucking Alpha Stone?
29:57
Yeah, I know those. Yeah, you had one of them, me
29:59
and me and me and Guyan touched it and, you know, it just
30:04
fucking made us feel super cool. But then he picked it up and
30:08
then for some reason, like, all these tattoos appeared on his
30:11
arm and he could shoot hyper beams out of his hand.
30:15
He also had a very big purple flaming bird, which you know,
30:19
isn't something you see every day, but you know, just for, you
30:23
know, run it past you to see if you knew anything.
30:25
It feels weird. Talking to the person who who I
30:28
was trying to kill 2 days ago, I'm I don't know if I'm
30:30
oversharing Bruce, I'm am I oversharing or?
30:34
Yeah, brutal to reach into his bag and pull out the fragment.
30:37
Just be. I I have a piece of it, is it
30:40
useful in any way? Yeah.
30:43
I mean, you know that from from what I know about alpha stones,
30:47
when you kind of break them off of the main deposit it it's
30:51
slightly diluted, but there still should be an effect that
30:56
happens. I can't guarantee you how strong
30:58
that effect is going to be, but I mean, it looks to be a good
31:02
enough specimen that there it can be some beneficial effect if
31:06
you like let your Pokémon hang on to it.
31:09
Oh, OK. That's cool.
31:11
I have one last question before we go.
31:13
I don't know about you, Bruce. I I have one more as well.
31:17
You go ahead. Mine's nothing important.
31:19
Mine's just. He'll also reach into his bag
31:21
and pull out the book. Can you what is this?
31:25
Do you know anything about this? I mean, I don't I've never seen
31:29
the language, but then she kind of flips through it.
31:32
I mean, from the from the pictures, it looks like it's a
31:36
like a fairy tale or something. I don't know.
31:40
And she just like opens a page and Brutus, when she has it
31:43
open, you realize, I don't know if you ever looked at it before,
31:47
but you definitely looking at it now.
31:50
You realize you're able to read. Oh.
31:53
I haven't marked my inventories book Brutus can read.
31:55
Yeah, yeah, no, you realize you're able to to see what it's
31:59
about and just kind of judging you see that it, it does look to
32:03
be kind of your standard fairy tale.
32:05
No, no, no, I know it's called 2 quarreling siblings all.
32:10
Right. Well, that's, I mean, that's
32:11
more than I can get. Yeah, I was just curious.
32:16
All right, go ahead, Glenn. Oh I was wondering if you have
32:19
any pokey balls potions stuff we can grab?
32:24
I need healing. I've had I have been injured for
32:28
like 2 weeks at this point. Jesus, Yeah, there's a, there's
32:34
like a commissary there. There's a commissary there.
32:38
There are people that set up. I'm sure you'll find what you
32:41
need. And that is code for just.
32:44
I think you have a a. List of things we can buy.
32:48
Yeah, just use the Pokémon prices they basically have
32:50
anything. If you want anything special
32:52
like ATM or like a like a battle item let me know.
32:57
But like your your basic standard like pokeballs, potions
33:01
stuff like that. It just goes off of like the the
33:04
game prices 1 to 1 so you can just fill up your inventory.
33:08
How do I heal Matt? How do I heal my half half my
33:12
health back? Oh, I also have. 2 HP.
33:16
Go to sleep. Have we even slept this all the
33:19
time? I think we've slept once and
33:21
this whole company. Slept when I was knocked
33:23
unconscious. That is true.
33:26
Yeah, no, you guys, you guys haven't had a long rest, I don't
33:29
think since since after you woke up from being attacked by
33:34
Cedric. Would we be able to crash here
33:36
for the night? Yeah, I mean, I was going to
33:40
portal you from here, so there's plenty of rooms.
33:43
Like just go find one. I don't know.
33:45
Don't fuck in there. What do you think about this?
33:52
You'd be surprised, the kind of people that come into my home.
33:56
Brutus has war flashbacks of guidance stories.
34:02
I look at Brutus and see him going through it and then it
34:04
starts on me. So after dinner and you know,
34:17
you guys are able to go take a look around the Manor.
34:20
There's some, there's some shops.
34:23
Don't ask me why or how, but there are people that just kind
34:26
of hang out and shop. So you guys are able to take
34:29
care of what you're able to take care of.
34:31
And eventually you find a room or multiple rooms, one room per
34:36
person. And unless you want to sleep in
34:38
the same room, I don't know, I don't judge.
34:39
No, that's what I thought. Clyde snores.
34:44
And, you know, I mean, even though these rooms are like
34:46
guest quarters, they're, they're very nice.
34:48
They have, you know, like a big comfy bed.
34:51
They have like a nice wardrobe where you can put your stuff,
34:55
plenty of room for you to let most of your Pokémon out.
35:01
And they have an ensuite bathroom, which is cool.
35:08
Yeah, but unless there's anything else you guys can go
35:11
ahead and like mechanically, you guys can just heal yourselves
35:15
and your Pokémon all up to full. OK.
35:18
In question Mark. Yes.
35:21
Wait wait wait wait can I count? That's 10,000.
35:25
Can I buy a rare candy? 2 rare candies Because they said
35:28
it's 10,010 thousand pokey dollars per rare candy.
35:32
Yeah, I'll allow it. Hell yeah.
35:35
OK, before we go then, you said I have to be level 7 with Spen
35:40
right from to evolve? Oh, is this how you're going to
35:42
do? It I'm going to do it, all
35:46
right? We're going to a foreign land.
35:48
So he's now going to be a Lucario.
35:54
Yeah. So I just picture me being like
35:57
in the bedroom with Spencer on the end of the bed.
36:01
And I'm going to be like, OK, buddy, I need you to eat these
36:05
two candies. We're going to an unknown land
36:10
and it it might be a bit dangerous and I want you to have
36:16
a fighting chance here. Yeah.
36:18
And you see Sven not dutifully and bought these candies in his
36:23
mouth. And after a second, you see the
36:25
surge of energy kind of, you know, jolt Sven.
36:29
And you see Sven get encompassed by this white light.
36:33
You see the white light expands. And when it dissipates, you see
36:39
Lucario instead of where it, I believe we said it was pink.
36:44
Yeah. So instead of the blue coloring
36:46
it's it's like that pink and dark and tan.
36:50
Nice. And that that dark Gray is more
36:53
of like more of like a dark brown.
36:56
But yet you now have a Lugario. Hell's to the yet.
37:11
After a long day, you guys crash in your bed and very quickly
37:16
fall, fall off to sleep. And I guess the next thing you
37:20
realize you are once again in this very like peaceful, kind of
37:26
like Meadow area. And you guys recognize this.
37:29
You were here the last time that Archaeus the All Father came to
37:32
you in a dream. Oh good.
37:35
Not. This shit again?
37:37
Here we go again, Glyde. Come on, where?
37:42
Are my children. Fucking hell man, you've got to
37:47
do this in a less mysterious way.
37:50
The gods work in mysterious ways, but I promised that I
37:55
would explain further now I am able to do so.
38:00
OK, it's been like 2 days but shoot I guess.
38:03
The gods work in mysterious ways.
38:05
All right. Last we spoke I mentioned a
38:10
multiverse. Do you have any idea of what I'm
38:16
referring? No.
38:19
Does it have anything to do with that?
38:21
Weird. Portal Wolf.
38:23
Yeah, yeah. Oh wait, a guy came out of a
38:26
portal in front of me and I stepped on his head.
38:29
You. Bought.
38:30
You know what? I forgot about.
38:31
That was sort of a It was a forgettable moment.
38:34
Yeah, I, I, I seen a wolf through a pole and it gave me a,
38:38
a red magica that splashes blood.
38:42
Well the the wolf you're Speaking of is Zasian, the God
38:47
of Tartarus. Similar but not quite the same
38:51
Brutus. What I believe you encountered
38:55
is more on the idea of what I'm speaking about when I say
39:02
multiverse. You have our universe which is a
39:05
collection of all of the planes from Alicia all the way to the 9
39:10
Hells and everything in between. However, outside of this
39:15
collection of planes, there are many more an uncountably large
39:21
number of of worlds of universes.
39:24
Some of them have Pokémon, some do not.
39:27
Some have other similar beings that frankly I don't understand,
39:33
and some universes have humans with technology and relics far
39:38
superior to ours. Some humanity has only just
39:42
passed the the basics of society.
39:46
There are some universes where nearly everything is the same as
39:50
this current one. There are some where things are
39:55
completely and wildly different. This collection of worlds is
39:59
what is referred to as the multiverse.
40:03
I'm lost already man, I'm not going to lie to you.
40:05
I've triggered Brutus's blank space and he's staring into the
40:08
middle distance. Great, wonderful.
40:12
I'm going to keep talking hoping that some of this sticks across.
40:17
Now this is the this is the important part.
40:19
So I need you to, I need you guys to listen up across across
40:25
all of these multiverses. One thing is constant.
40:28
There is a force that is attempting to bring them closer
40:33
to one another and eventually destroy them all using similar
40:39
mechanics that bind me to my relatively deep powered state.
40:44
And Archaeus motions to the the large golden ring around its
40:49
torso. Oh.
40:50
That's that's AI thought that was just a part of you.
40:54
I I thought it was like a crown, like I am the king of kings sort
40:59
of thing. I wish it was a crown, and
41:03
unfortunately it is part of me, This golden chain that I wear,
41:08
it's not a boon, but a prison cast upon me by this force, what
41:14
I believe to be the Unspeakable one.
41:17
I wear it knowing that she has to expend her energy, but by
41:22
doing so is able to remove the majority of my powers.
41:25
This is why I can only talk to you via dreams because I do not
41:30
have the ability wearing this golden chain to come to you.
41:36
I must bring you to me. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
41:38
wait, wait. So So what you're saying WEF
41:41
basically said that? Just hear me out here.
41:44
Cliff weakened the Unspeakable 1 to a point where, you know,
41:49
damaged can't do anything like, yeah.
41:53
So she, she put this golden ring on you to siphon your energy to
41:58
boost her recovery. Am I?
42:00
Am I getting this right? Basically, this golden ring has
42:04
been put upon me. At the beginning of this
42:08
universe, there was a cataclysm between myself and her.
42:12
She was vying for ultimate power and I was the only one that was
42:18
strong enough to rise and stop her.
42:21
I was able to subdue her for the most part.
42:23
However, she created this golden chain that binds me to the plane
42:31
of Elysium, which is where technically you are now.
42:36
OK and and I can bet I can guess what your next lie your this
42:42
quest is going to be. I'll put 5 poker dollars on it,
42:46
Brewers. I'll take that bet.
42:48
You're going to ask us to go and defeat the Unspeakable 1?
42:54
The short answer is yes, but let me give you some more context.
43:01
Clyde, you feel your pocket get 5 polka dollars heavier.
43:05
Hell yeah. Normally I would not be able to
43:10
comprehend why the Unspeakable One would even consider
43:15
destroying the multiverse or converging them, whatever her
43:22
heinous plans are. But I do have a theory through
43:26
the multiverse. There are it.
43:28
It is it can also be called a timeline.
43:32
And there are two types. There are there are universes in
43:36
which the the worst has come to pass and the unspeakable one, in
43:41
whatever form she may take, has destroyed the forces of good and
43:46
turned the universe into a dead or dying husk.
43:50
Meanwhile, universes such as the one that we are in, where the
43:54
forces of good have either been able to triumph or are
43:57
potentially in the processes of triumphing, are called prime
44:02
timelines. And what I believe is that since
44:06
there are very few Prime timelines remaining the
44:09
Unspeakable One, she is going through each and everyone to
44:15
affect or alter just enough to knock it off course from the
44:20
Prime timeline. When when these multiverses
44:24
converge, when all Prime timelines are destroyed or in
44:28
the process of being destroyed, all good in the multiverse will
44:32
be snuffed out and all that will remain is the Unspeakable One
44:38
with an infinite amount of power.
44:41
Clyde, you hit it right on the nose.
44:44
We need, I need you to act and stop her as quickly as possible.
44:49
Of course, you still need time to grow before taking on this
44:53
final mission, and when I speak of Act Now again, it is on a
44:59
godly and universal time scale, so there is there is enough time
45:04
for you to become stronger. However, we don't have multiple
45:10
lifetimes to do this anymore, which is why I have been
45:15
reaching out to the three of you to make sure that we can end
45:20
this once and for all. I'm confident that you will be
45:24
able to to grow and to get stronger, to become the heroes
45:30
that will save the multiverse. OK, OK.
45:33
Well, last question and then you can tell me whatever else you
45:36
need to know. I don't know if Bruce was just
45:38
thinking this and Gynan's not here, so she, you know, she's
45:42
the smart one. She'd probably ask this
45:44
question. Why us?
45:45
Why are we the ones you have chosen?
45:48
Because each of you descend from one of the three legendary
45:53
heroes, the only three people that have come close enough to
45:59
defeating the Unspeakable 1. I didn't.
46:01
I didn't know. I didn't know Spen had a kid.
46:04
I. Couldn't keep on what?
46:08
I don't know my parents. No, no, no.
46:16
I'm so sorry, Brutus. I am so unforgivably sorry.
46:23
I don't understand. You're saying that you're
46:26
related to Cyrus in a direct lineage way.
46:31
Unfortunately, with that realization, I I must confess
46:37
that my powers keeping you here are getting weaker and I must
46:41
send you back to where you came from.
46:44
However, I believe in you, and you have most, if not all of the
46:50
Pantheon behind you in some way, shape or form.
46:54
Though we have petty squabbles, this is something that we are
46:59
all able to agree on. Good to know I guess.
47:03
OK. I wish, I wish the three of you
47:06
well and. Extreme speed.
47:11
Well, I was going to say that by breaking the chains of your
47:15
destiny, you are able to accomplish anything but extreme
47:19
speed, my children. And you wake up, it's the next
47:27
morning, you guys are feeling rested and nice just.
47:30
Look up above you will find God in the when the weight of the
47:41
world keeps you up at night when you're ready with nowhere inside
47:51
that you would never find the light you lost inside that you
48:01
could find with Christ. Been running in the dark just
48:12
trying to heal your scars. Tried everything but turn to God
48:20
because it all starts with you. If you want to breakthrough, you
48:26
got any? Got to find your truth when the
48:32
weight of the world keeps you up at night when you're running
48:38
with no end inside. Thought you would never find the
48:46
light you lost inside.