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Norse Sinnoh E9: You Can't Go Home Again · The Multiverse Collective

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Good job Matt, I'm glad you correctly identified porn.
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I truly am a degenerate. Oh man, this is this is going to
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be a good one for for somebody to listen to in like 10 weeks.
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This turned out to be a day after escaping the shadow in The
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Cave. We made camp.
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Clyde told a story about his friend dying.
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I told a story about my friend dying.
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Dinan told a story about shitting her pants.
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And Speaking of pants, why is she stealing this gesture's
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pants? So where last we left our
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intrepid bunch of heroes they were following?
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I don't remember if I gave him a name other than like Buell.
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Bugle Man. I don't even think you called
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him Bugle man, you just described him as having really
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ostentatious pants that the Gynan stole.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did need those pants.
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I needed them pretty desperately.
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So you guys are walking, walking down the road following a a man
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wearing Oh no, it was heart boxers.
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That's what he was wearing. Yeah, he's wearing the heart
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boxers now because I swapped him for his pants because I didn't
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want to wear my dad's boxers in public anymore.
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I'm already stuck with an I'm with stupid shirt.
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Yeah. God, I forgot that you have
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that. Yeah, I didn't.
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Oh my God. So the the walk is pretty
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uneventful. And as you, you know, as you
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follow this this kind of main path, you branch off to a a
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smaller one. And after, after a little bit of
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walking, you see the forest open up into just a giant estate.
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As you walk towards this path, you see a large brick fence.
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The fence gates are made out of iron and they have it's, it's
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like there's a half circle thing on top.
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You know that like very gaudy rich people fence stuff.
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And at the top of that half circle you see the inlaid faces
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of the side profile of two Garchomps looking at each other.
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And your messenger just kind of opens the gate and says after
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you, the mistress is waiting. Great, great Guynan, I, I, I
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trust you. You know the way to the the main
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foyer. Yep Yep, haven't forgotten that
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I've only been gone for she like looks to check her watch and
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then realizes we're in the biking age and her watches
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haven't been invented yet. Not very long anyway, and then
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she'll just continue on the path and desperately trying to avoid
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eye contact with Clyde. Yes, if you need me I will be in
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my quarters finding a new pair of dungarees.
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And he quickly slinks off. I need everybody to roll 2D6.
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That's a three, my friend. I also got a three. 4.
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OK it takes you guys a while but Gynan you hear it first you hear
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the stomping of feet and a low growl.
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But the the growl turns turns into like a excited like a chirp
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almost as Gynan is just like spear tackled by a gigantic
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black figure. And as the dust settles, you see
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a massive garchomp that is just on top of Gynan licking her
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face. Yep, Gynan's giving him the
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customary head pads and like trying to like push him off
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because he does weigh like £450. Oh, at least Ragnar does not
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know his own strength. He's just happy to see his
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buddy. I think after a second he he
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gets up and he turns to look at Clyde and Brutus and just kind
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of like cocks his head to the side and looks at you gunning.
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These are my friends, Ragnar. They're great.
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They're they're good. You don't have to worry about
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them. Ragnar nods and slowly plods
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over to the two of you, gives you a nice big pit bowl.
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Sniff. Just a very nice.
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Brutus sniffs him back. That was a proper pug sniff.
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Yeah, Ragnar is impressed. He nods.
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He smells like he smells like cinnamon.
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Impressive. Yeah, I don't even know what he
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eats, but he does always smell like that.
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Quiet to give him a sniff. I'm OK, I'd rather not smell
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this Pokémon. He smells great Clyde.
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You're you're really missing out and kind of just like, you know,
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doing like the big dog side slaps he.
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Weirdly smells like cinnamon rolls.
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I'm just going to use my pokey speech and be like Sup.
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You just hear this like this. Deep, gravelly voice that's just
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like. Hey, brother.
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Fucking hell. That's what he sounds like.
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Oh my God, it's much of my Mandy Savage.
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I always forget that you can do this and I always have to have a
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voice prepared. I'm just going to be shocked
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that he's, he has a voice that makes me feel like I'm going to
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get put through a table and I'm just going to be like, right,
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let's, let's keep going. Yeah, so Ragnar is just kind of
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like following you around, you know, sticking pretty close to
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Ginen looking, kind of sniffing around Ginen's backpack looking
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for a a treat or something do. I have any treats that I can
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offer him. Let's see, I think I have
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berries. Yeah, I think you have some
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berries. I have some berries.
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I may, I may give him a Berry. Oh, actually, you know what?
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Yeah. I would love to just pull.
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I bet I have something in my backpack that is a is a treat.
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Oh yeah? Oh, give me a give me a 2D6
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roll. That is an 11.
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I'm going to waste all of my good rolls on that.
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All right, so you pull out a kind of a like a spiky looking
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Berry. It it looks like a it's a, it's
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a tomato Berry. So it looks like a tomato, but
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it has spikes on it. Yeah.
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Tomato. Tomato.
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You can. You can smell the spice, the
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natural like capsaicin on it, but you toss it over to Ragnar
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and he eats it and he is very happy.
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I always got to give treats to my best boy.
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And you, you know, as you're walking, it's like even once
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you're on the ground, it's probably another at least 3/4 of
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a mile to get to the actual estate.
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So as you're walking, you know, you see, some of you see some of
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Wet's other Pokémon. You see, like, hang on, I'll
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tell you exactly what you see because I've already forgotten
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this that. Shit, didn't you?
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I yes, that's the one that I remember.
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The one fucking gimmick I never got to use.
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I was so excited about that dumb little shithead.
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I thought. I love him as as you're walking,
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you see a you feel like wind over your head as you see like a
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glidescore fly above you. You see a pond where this dumb
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looking whisk ash is just kind of like half of its head is
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above the water. Just kind of looking at you over
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the you know, some foothills getting into some mountains in
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the background. And you can see out of one of
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these foothills, you just see this gigantic stelix like
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sandworm like Burrow out of a mountain.
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And then just like fall right into the into the dirt, into a
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new hole. And as you as you walk in
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Guynan, you basically walk into the front of this shedinja,
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which you know very well as compass, compass, compass.
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And it's favorite thing to do is to just have people walk into
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it's husk of a shell. It thinks it's funny.
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No, hi little buddy, you're not gross at all.
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It just stares unblinking at you and just kind of moves to the
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side. Yeah, I never, never got used to
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that. Guy and that thing is creepy.
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It is. Creepy.
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Very creepy. Clyde, you should try and talk
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to it. I'm I'm OK all the things that I
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want to do in my life. That's not one.
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As you pass, you hear this, this very unsettling noise.
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It's like between a a rattle and a buzz coming from the direction
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of this shinja. Those are the husk sounds.
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It's not. Husk sounds.
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Why'd you make that sound normal?
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I, I don't know, you spend, you spend your lifetime around that
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thing. You get used to the husk sounds,
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Clyde. The husk makes noises.
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I feel like that's the souls of many, many unfortunate
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creatures. I don't know, it's normally
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really close to my mom. She hates that fucking thing, so
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I'm shocked that it's here. Why does she keep it if she
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hates it? It's like this whole thing, I
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don't know something about the scythe that she has, you know,
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that dumb fucking weapon. I don't know why she decided to
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carry something so impractical around, but it's like attached
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to the to to compass. I don't really know how it
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works. I never really asked questions
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about it, just she always got kind of an upset if I talked
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about it. That doesn't seem worth it.
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Yeah, I don't know. I haven't seen her battle in in
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ever actually. So I don't really know what what
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any of it does. So Guinan from the from the
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front, the main entrance of the estate.
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How, how does one get to the kind of the main, you know, like
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foyer, like, I don't know, it's like.
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It's a grand entryway, right? You like, you walk in and there
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are double spiral staircases on either side leading up to like a
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colossal balcony. And underneath the staircases
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there's like huge set of double doors that lead into some sort
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of like receiving room or something.
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And I I assume that's where we would just go into.
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Yeah, Clyde, as you are walking through, you have a flashback.
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Oh yeah. So as you know, I, I guess
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Brutus, as you're as you walk into this, what, what are your
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thoughts on seeing this just grand display of extravagance?
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I mean, he's, he's worked for rich, wealthy people before as a
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bodyguard, so I don't really think it fazes him that much.
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I think he's more kind of on edge to see what Clyde is going
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to do, knowing that there's going to be some weird shit that
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goes down. He's just sort of preparing to
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jump in the way of something or whatever, depending on what.
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Gotcha. I ain't gotcha Clyde.
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As you look around this this grand entrance, we flashback to
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the same grand entrance. However instead of it being in
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the morning, it is in the dead of night.
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And Clyde you as ordered, ordered ordered.
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Humans drocks have snuck past the the guard Pokémon and are
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now in the compound. OK.
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Yeah. So this, as we established
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outside recording, this is after folks all perished at my hand.
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Yes, well, at my hand in quotation Marks and after Cliff
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disappeared, right. Yes, this is.
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Yes, this is about, I'd say a couple months afterwards.
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OK, yeah, so at this point, like Clyde is feral.
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Like you get in his way, he will fuck you up sort of feral.
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And he has used his detective skills and fucking did what his
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father could never do and found out where WEF lives.
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So he he has broken in to this fucking manner, you know, and he
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has no Pokémon on him. It's just him.
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He is like ready to fuck shit up, throw hands, whatever he has
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to do. And like, I, I imagine instead
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of going to feel at the front door, I'm, I'm imagining it's
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like a skylight with like, you know, when you see really posh
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houses and they've got like the balconies underneath the fucking
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windows that are fucking 60 feet up for some reason that nobody
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can ever use. Yeah, I'm, I'm imagining it's
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like perched on one of them waiting for waiting for some
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sort of idea of where WEF could be in this house.
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I think as you kind of get in and silently, you know, you're
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in this grand room, it's you know, it's the middle of the
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night. It's deathly quiet in here.
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And you hear from off to your left.
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You hear a couple of voices very softly, but you hear the voice
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of a, an older man and a younger child.
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And you know, you, you hear something to the effect of you
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know, it's this is how I like to drink water when it's night
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time. All right.
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It's it's unsettling. I'm telling you, it's
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unsettling. Use a cup.
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Use a cup. I don't want to use a cup
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because I don't want to have to deal with it.
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What do you mean deal with it? It's as a cup.
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We have help. I have to clean it.
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We have 100 servants to clean the fucking cup, Dad.
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I don't. Want to bother them, Guinan?
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They can clean it in the morning.
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It's a calm Oh my God, what's wrong with you?
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Clyde, what do you do with this information as you as you hear
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this from down the hall? OK.
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I didn't expect that to be the as dropped in.
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OK. Clyde would probably go in and
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investigate because, you know, he doesn't know if Wes figured
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him out and it's just sort of baiting him into coming out.
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So he's going to sneak around, try and get a look to see who is
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actually speaking. Yeah, I think you, you know, you
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take a few minutes to slowly go down this hall.
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And I think as you are, you know, in the shadow, as you get
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closer, you see this, you see some white kind of going out
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into the hallway. And as you hide in the shadows,
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you just hear these two voices. You say, you hear the the older
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man say, all right, Guymon, look, let's here's here's some
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candy. Don't, don't tell Mom.
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Where did you get that candy from?
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What the? From the market?
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What do you mean? Where did I get this candy?
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From I know exactly what you and mom have been doing.
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I it echoes OK, and you just like materialize this candy from
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your pocket. What am I supposed to think?
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It's weird? Dad, I don't want your weird
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candy. OK, look if you don't want it.
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This never happened. This never happened.
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Look. If you don't want it then just
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give it to Axel that. I don't know.
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I don't. Know what's on with candy?
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He doesn't need any more fucking candy.
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All right, well, just save it until you forget how you got it,
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and then you enjoy it. Yeah, thank you for all of this.
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This entire evening has been horrifying and I would like to
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forget it. Again, and Clyde at that, you
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see a you see a, a girl walk out of the walk out of this light
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and walk away from you down the other side of the hallway.
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Looks to be about your age, maybe maybe a little bit
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younger, but definitely around your age.
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Definitely like a teenager. Clyde is gonna.
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Clyde is going to do something. Clyde is going to.
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I'm assuming because Weth is rich as fuck.
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I'm assuming she's going to have a portrait of herself somewhere
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in this grand, grandiose hall. Why don't you roll me?
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2D6 10. OK, with A10 the light from the
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kitchen, you're able to see you, you kind of turn around and you
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see a large portrait. You see wef you see you see a
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man and you see two children. One of them looks to be looks to
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be a girl, maybe a little bit younger than the one that you
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saw, but you can probably assume that it's the same one.
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And then you see a a smaller boy.
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OK, I'm going to. I'm going to leave the man and
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the two children, but I'm going to cut Wef's face off the
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painting and stuff it in my pocket and then I'm going to
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leave. Yeah.
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And as we or as you kind of come back into the real world, I
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think Gannon and Brutus, you guys have already started to
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walk into the receiving room and Clyde is just kind of standing
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in the foyer. Clyde.
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Clyde. Sorry, yeah.
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Come along, Clyde. Sorry, I'm just, I was just
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thinking why Gannon's this fucking rich and we've walked
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everywhere. It's a good exercise.
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Yeah. But that that 8 hour walk to to
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the all fathers half could have been like an hour and a half if
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we've got like a horse and carriage.
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You know, not just just my beef, just my beef.
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I didn't see the idea coming from you.
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I I don't have money. I thought it was like good
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bonding time. No big, no big.
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OK, let's go. As you push open the door, you
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all walk into this grand. It's kind of a mix between like
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a it's it's a Great Hall slash throne room essentially.
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So you see this big, it almost looks like the I, I don't know,
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church terms, but like the big part of the church, like the
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long part with the vaulted grooves and where, you know,
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people sit. But instead of pews, there are
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these just gigantic wooden tables with chairs all across
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the sides. And there's this, there's this
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beautiful red carpet with gold accents that goes all the way
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up. You see like a raised, like a
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raised area. And atop that, you see this
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giant throne where you see, well, Brutus, you wouldn't know
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who this is, but everybody else would.
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You see, Wef just kind of sitting.
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Both legs are draped over one of the arms of this massive, gaudy,
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like golden throne. It has, you know, it looks very
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padded, very comfortable. And the woman sitting on the
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throne just kind of looks up and he's and she's just like, oh,
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all right, you made it. Mother.
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Daughter. Wef.
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You. Me.
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How do you know my name? Oh, you know you, you know,
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someone really dare to me. Did Cyrus have a fucking son?
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I am not the spawn. Of that trash.
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She kind of squints and she and she looks at you and she's just
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like, oh, you're oh, you got to be Cliff's kid, right?
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Yeah, yeah, now I can see it. Huh.
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I wonder what that old bastard's up to these days.
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At that, I think Clyde is like squeezing his fist like as hard
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as he can so he doesn't make a fool of himself.
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But if unlike closer inspection you can like see that he's like
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pierced his hand with his nails and they just blood like
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dripping off his hand. You see, you see, Wet very like
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sarcastically put her hands up and she's like, hey, hey, hey,
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hey, look, we can kill each other later.
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I, I brought, I brought you here for reason.
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There's there is a reason to this.
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I God, I hate having to do this. And she just like claps her
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hands and a just like a, a random servant comes out of like
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a door from somewhere and like runs over in front of wet and
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he's just like, yes, the the mistress requires assistance.
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And you see, WEF just kind of like put her arms behind her
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head and she's just like, well, at least I didn't have to say
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it. Diamond rolls her eyes so hard
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that it's audible. All right, look, this is this is
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a job that requires a nerd and none of the nerds instron cotton
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comp will fucking listen to me. I don't get it.
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What so I I can't trust because I'm paying them?
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OK, but they worshiped my Father.
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I'm paid, hero. Oh oh, your father, the hero.
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Your father, the hero who fucking left who who had his
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wife killed in the 9 Hells and when his last Pokémon died he
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left and turned to the unspeakable one, that hero.
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He's not even going to listen to anything after he let his his
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wife die. I'm going to throw out Riolu and
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I'm going to Sprint at where. I think, I think as soon as you
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grab your poker ball, Brutus is going to grab your arm.
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Kind of roll Rangers intuition so I can dodge out of it.
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Yeah, let's see. Remind me, Rangers intuition.
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I have the ability to automatically dodge one attack
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for combat. I will.
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I will allow this. If you roll 2D6 plus speed
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Brutus, you can roll 2D6 plus attack.
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I just want to contest this. Clyde.
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If you're using Ranger's Intuition, I will let you roll
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with advantage. I got a 10.
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I got an 11. Fuck.
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All right, Brutus, you you grab Clyde's arm, but he's able to
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slip out and I think WEF just kind of very gracefully does a
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like a backflip on top of the chair and she's just like, I was
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going to pay you guys like no, no need for this gun in call off
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your friend. Clyde.
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Relax for now. Yeah, I, I, I'm the Clyde is
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seeing red like he's not even paying attention.
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He is full I am going to murder your ass mode.
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I think as you and Sven kind of like get up there, I think wet
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is just very easily like you, you try to you try to punch her
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and she just moves and you try to you try to hit her again and
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she moves and like it is it is looking like she is not giving
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any effort, like she's really not trying here.
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You know, as this is going on, she's just like I look, I'll
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I'll wait until he tires himself out.
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I, I mean, I, I did not mean that.
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Well, OK, I meant that with a little bit of snark, but like,
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not a lot. Brutus looks like God and goes.
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I tried to help but I feel like the guy could use a little bit
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of humbling. Yeah, I don't know, maybe it's
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for the best. Clyde roll 2D6 plus defense.
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Roll it at disadvantage. OK, well if if she's attacking
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me, I'll I'll obviously I'll roll this first.
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I got a 10 both times plus defence.
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Did you say? Yeah, I got a nine.
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All right, so with a nine you don't take any damage, but wef
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just kind of like does this spit like spinning mid air kick hits
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you right in the ribs and you go down to a knee.
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What does? What does Sven do?
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Oh, I was going to ask if Sven could use counter on this
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attack. Well, I just mean how does Sven
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react, right? Oh yeah, Sven, Sven.
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He has the same kind of like fire in his eyes.
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And he's also like, I, I imagine Brutus as you tried to like grab
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Clyde, you almost tried to grab like grabs Sven.
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And he also just kind of like dodged your grapple.
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But I think Sven is a much smaller target.
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So when Weth is just kind of like dodging these, these
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attacks from both Clyde and Sven, she just kind of like
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knocks Sven over again. He's not trying to do damage,
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but Sven just kind of like flies back, doesn't necessarily hit a
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wall. He catches himself, but he's
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he's knocked back pretty far. And as like wet is just looking
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around. She's just like, look, I could
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do this all day, but I, I need, I need you guys to do something
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for me and I'll, I'll pay you a lot of money if you do it for
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me. Clyde, right now is neither the
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time nor the place for this. I know you want your revenge,
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but now is not the time. Look, Clyde, my friend and Weth
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just kind of like looks at you. And she's just like, I promise
28:03
you, I, you know what? Actually, actually, hang on,
28:08
hang on. I can show you.
28:10
I can show you that I'm not bullshitting you.
28:12
And Weth points over to one of the walls.
28:16
And you see on the wall there's like this big open area that
28:20
starts to shimmer. And you see this kind of like,
28:25
you see this like shimmery projection come into focus.
28:34
You see, Clyde, you're able to see from kind of like a not a
28:38
bird's eye view, but like from a top down view, like 45° angle.
28:43
The the interaction between you and your father when you broke
28:48
the news that Floatzel had perished.
28:51
Oh great. And so you see, you see the two
28:55
of you getting animated talking, and you see Cliff just turn
29:00
around and run away into the forest.
29:03
And this camera view follows Cliff through the forest across
29:08
many days and nights until you see the forest get less less
29:15
dense and more dead. And you see a giant hole in the
29:20
ground that you would know as send offspring.
29:25
And you see Cliff look around. He he looks up to the sky.
29:30
And you see a you see this like red and purple and blue hand
29:38
come out of the hole. It holds out its palm.
29:41
You see Cliff looks around, jumps on, and without resistance
29:47
the the hand and Cliff sink into the hole.
29:51
And then you look over at Wef, who's just kind of standing
29:55
there, and she's just like, sure, He didn't tell you that
29:57
one, did he? You think I care about what that
30:00
old fucking bastard did and didn't do?
30:03
He was the worst person I've ever met in my life.
30:05
You killed my mother so. You killed my.
30:08
Mother No. No.
30:11
You think you think I cared enough to kill your mom?
30:14
No. I've met her.
30:15
She's a nice lady. He killed her.
30:18
Do not. God, did he not tell you during
30:21
this dramatic reveal? I have.
30:26
I'm going to pull like bloody hand.
30:29
I'm going to pull out that like ripped poster, like a Tucker
30:33
Webb's face from the picture. Oh my God, you little bastard,
30:38
that was you. I've had it.
30:39
This whole. Time for the last.
30:42
Arceus, damn it, you said I was on lockdown for weeks.
30:48
I wasn't expecting the the sun. I wasn't.
30:52
I wasn't expecting this motherfucker to walk into the
30:55
house and steal my face from a portrait.
31:03
Look, right, right. I was here to kill you, but then
31:07
you had to go and fucking have a family.
31:09
Do you know how hard it is to lose a fucking parent like my
31:12
mother? You know how sweet that Lady
31:14
was? And you had to had the fucking
31:16
balls to kill, as far as I'm aware, kill my mother and
31:19
fucking sit here with a happy family.
31:21
So I came to kill you. But you know what?
31:23
What stopped me from doing that? And I'm going to look straight
31:26
at Guynan. She fucking did nothing else.
31:30
She stopped me from fucking attempting to kill you that
31:32
night. You know I will.
31:36
I'll let you think that I I never know what.
31:39
They succeeded. I never said that, but I was
31:42
gonna fucking try. I.
31:43
I appreciate. I appreciate that I hold enough
31:46
space in your heart that that you thought that much of me to
31:50
sneak past my dragon and my husk and my hippo and my iceberg and
31:56
my bat and my fucking snake. I appreciate that.
32:03
I really do. Now look, I will say, I will say
32:07
why ask yourself, ask yourself why I, I would kill your mom
32:15
just just like think about like ruminate on that for a SEC.
32:18
Well my father has been trying to kill you for the last 25
32:22
fucking years so. Well, yeah, of course.
32:25
But then he went off the fucking deep end.
32:27
He decided. He decided.
32:30
He decided after he realized that I, look, I didn't know what
32:36
was going through his head when I was working with him.
32:39
I, I can't predict him now, couldn't predict him 25 years
32:43
ago. But after he decided that I was
32:46
not his top target and that the Unspeakable 1 was his top
32:50
target, he just kept going on raid after raid.
32:52
Look, Sasha, she's a nice lady. She didn't deserve that.
32:57
Your your dad was like bringing her in.
33:00
Like she didn't want to be there.
33:01
She wanted to care for you. Why?
33:03
Like, why do you think? Why do you think that?
33:06
Why do you think that I would have anything to do with this?
33:13
Why wouldn't I think that you had anything to do with this
33:16
all? I picture this in in your in
33:20
your head, right? Imagine being 8 years old.
33:24
Yeah, sitting in bed when your father comes in beaten, bruised,
33:29
bloodied, on his own. No, mother insight.
33:34
And instead of giving in the fucking gentle way of going, I
33:37
need to talk to you. Your mother, she passed away.
33:39
No, he said. He said you have to kill Weth
33:44
because she took your mother from us.
33:46
Because he didn't want to go through the trouble of killing
33:50
me. He it's propaganda here.
33:53
I I can show you the events that led up to that.
33:56
Just take a look at the wall and you see this, this projection
34:00
shimmer once again. And you see Cliff and Sasha
34:05
fighting, fighting in the 9 Hells.
34:08
You see there's all manner of like demonic Pokémon and you
34:12
know, Cliff is like throwing, you know, throwing these Pokémon
34:17
off of them. And you see Sasha collapse, and
34:23
you see Cliff look at her, and he's just like, get up, I need
34:28
you to be up. And you see your mother on the
34:32
ground. She's breathing heavily, you
34:34
know, covered in cuts and bruises.
34:37
And she's just like, Cliff. I, I can't, I can't fight,
34:44
please. And you just see as these like
34:48
you just see these like these demons closing in.
34:51
You see as Cliff, he reaches out to try and grab Sasha, but one
34:57
of these one of these larger Pokémon, it's a it's a
35:00
conkelder. It grabs Cliff's other hand and
35:04
starts pulling him away. You see that you see that he has
35:07
to he has to make this choice and he drops his grip on Sasha
35:14
to to get out of this Conkelder's grip.
35:18
And he he sneaks around and he's able to get out of this grip and
35:24
is able to kind of make his way out of this, this circle of
35:27
demonic Pokémon that have been surrounding him.
35:30
But as he looks back, he just hears and you hear this too.
35:35
You hear Sasha scream and then it is silent as Cliff looks back
35:41
and runs off and Weff is like look I promise you this is not
35:49
what I was here to do today. I assumed that you already knew
35:53
all of this, but why would I be surprised that that he told you
35:58
that I killed your mother? At this, Clyde's going to stand
36:04
up, he's going to return Sven, he's just going to walk away and
36:09
he's going to walk past Gynan and Brutus and she's like, fill
36:13
me in when we leave. You're just going to keep
36:18
walking. Just like he's just, he's not
36:19
even stopping. He goes out the door.
36:21
He just keeps walking, just like straight.
36:25
I think wet just kind of like looks and is just like.
36:29
He had to show him his mom dying.
36:31
I need that. Father's tits.
36:33
I didn't know that. He didn't fucking know this guy,
36:37
Nin. Does your magic wall get Swablu
36:39
prime? Yeah.
36:48
What kind of a question is that? He like showing him his mom's
36:54
death may have been a little bit over the line maybe.
36:59
I don't know. All right, So I'll, I'll give
37:01
him an extra 30% on top. I don't think this is the kind
37:05
of thing that money can fix. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm
37:08
sure that will undo the trauma of him watching his mom die.
37:13
Oh, nonsense, nonsense. There is nothing that money
37:16
can't fix. If money can't fix it, I'll just
37:18
put more money. I'll just throw more money at
37:20
the problem. It'll work.
37:22
OK. Anyway, So what I need you What?
37:27
What I've called you here for today.
37:31
I need. So I am happy that you guys have
37:36
run into Gynan. I am happy that you guys have
37:39
not left her for dead and so. It's been tempting.
37:44
What is that supposed to mean? I am a perfectly capable
37:49
adventurer, thank you very much. So I was about to say that's
37:54
that's about as close to an alliance as I could think, But
37:58
hearing hearing this big dude, I, I don't know if I feel that
38:02
way, but I'm going to trust you guys anyway.
38:10
I look, there's a, there's a little thing in Strand Cotton
38:16
Comp. It's a, it's like this
38:18
archaeological site, you know, like there was this, there's
38:22
these city ruins that according to according to some of the, the
38:27
old heads that live around there, just kind of appeared
38:29
there one day. And, you know, people have been
38:34
like, people have been scouring it and taking a look.
38:38
Nobody's really gotten anything. The past couple years.
38:40
I've been funding some some nerds to go look out and figure
38:44
out, you know, what's there and if there's anything cool that
38:47
they can bring back. But whenever they do find
38:50
anything, they say, oh, well, it needs to be studied and it needs
38:54
to be put in a museum for science and for the general
38:57
public. And I think that's dumb.
38:59
And I want it in my house. So I would like you to go get
39:03
some of that stuff for me and I will pay you a lot of money to
39:09
do that. Diane has an artifact from there
39:12
in her back bag. Oh.
39:15
Now did not learn about that. I mean, no she doesn't.
39:22
Yeah, Mom, we could totally bring you back some old stuff
39:26
from the weird city for the house.
39:30
Where are you going to put it? I don't know, depends what you
39:34
bring back. I'll figure it out.
39:36
Is there like anything in particular that you you want?
39:40
Guy, man, please. You know what I want?
39:42
Something shiny, something cool. Something that I can show off to
39:46
my other rich, dumb friends when they come here for dinner so
39:50
that I can look better than them.
39:53
Yep, that tracks. OK, I I don't feel the need to
39:59
ask how much money you're paying because I'm sure whatever the
40:01
number is going to be is going to be absurd.
40:05
How much do you want 30,000? Brutus.
40:09
Is that a lot? That doesn't feel like a lot.
40:12
I. But I also I have a very little
40:16
money to my name at the moment. It's more than I have at the
40:20
moment. All right, how about this
40:22
$30,000? Thirty thousand poker dollars
40:25
each I'll add for emotional damages for for the other one,
40:30
I'll give him an extra 10. I don't know, he can go get some
40:33
therapy with it and I don't know, I mean come back to me,
40:39
give me some cool shit and I'll I don't know.
40:42
Do y'all like do you guys need anything?
40:44
Like do you need to go anywhere? Like I don't know or like what
40:48
what, what are you guys? What, what have you guys been up
40:50
to? What?
40:51
What are you working towards in this little in this little group
40:54
you have here? I want information.
40:57
Just adventuring and stuff. I just wanted to have some fun.
41:01
Information. OH, interesting.
41:04
And you see, WEF just kind of flopped back down on the chair.
41:07
Do tell. We get you some shiny artifacts
41:11
and I get the money and you tell me everything you know about the
41:15
shadow energy. Oh, the shadow.
41:17
Oh, easy. You mean shadow Loogie, right?
41:20
Yes, as well as the other things.
41:25
Yeah, no problem. Easy.
41:27
God, I thought you were going to ask for something hard.
41:28
I thought you were going to have to, I don't know, ask me to like
41:31
be a mother or something. I don't think that's worked out
41:34
so well. Well, I mean, she's turned out
41:39
well, She's turned out. Thank you.
41:42
So kind of you. Look, could be worse.
41:46
You could be Axel. You know what, that is such a
41:50
shitty thing to say. And after, might I add, you
41:54
found out I was not the one that slashed your face out of a
41:57
family portrait. Where is my apology?
42:00
You locked me in my room for three weeks.
42:03
I'm sorry that I will get my apology.
42:08
Will be we can, we can just throw it under the rug.
42:11
We can pretend that it never happened.
42:13
And if you want some extra money, I'll give you some
42:16
therapy money too. I was pooping in a bucket mother
42:20
for three weeks. You had an en suite bathroom?
42:28
You said I couldn't leave my room.
42:32
It Oh my God. Oh my God.
42:38
Oh my God, Guinan. All right, you know what?
42:47
You know what I. It's fine.
42:54
You know what? It's fine.
42:54
We're going to forget about it. I'm going to forget that it not
42:57
to bet it ever happened. All right, Because that's better
42:59
for me. All right, well, now I can't
43:01
forget about this. I'm going to need therapy.
43:04
So you guys, you guys go chop, chop, go go find some cool
43:07
stuff, bring it back, and then maybe, maybe I'll have mentally
43:11
healed from that. I don't think you're ever going
43:15
to mentally heal and even turns around and tries to leave on a
43:20
really snappy remark. Yeah, I think you guys just.
43:27
He looks, he looks longingly at the magical wall before he turns
43:31
and walks out. That went well.
43:42
I you could use a lot of words, describe how that went.
43:46
I That's not what I would have used, but at least there wasn't
43:49
bloodshed. That's about what I meant by
43:52
going well. Yeah, yeah, we should find
43:56
Clyde. As you guys, as you guys walk
44:02
out of the door back onto the estate, you hear somebody
44:05
running after you and it's yet another servant holding a piece
44:09
of paper. And he's just like, wait, wait.
44:12
I'm sorry. The The Mistress handed me a map
44:16
with some objectives and hands you a piece of parchment paper.
44:23
I swear to God, Matt, if you make us sing the map song from
44:25
Dora the Explorer to see this map.
44:30
Fucking lose it. I'm not going to do that, but
44:33
maybe I will now. I mean, we already have the
44:36
backpack. That's true.
44:38
We already have the backpack. No, you're able to open the map
44:41
and you see a like a rough map of this city and you see circled
44:47
in circled in red near the middle of the area is what looks
44:52
to be a cathedral. And there's a a red circle
44:56
there. And then there are a couple of
44:57
other smaller buildings right around it that have some smaller
45:00
red circles. There's some arrows just kind of
45:03
looks like a map to to Orient yourself towards where WEF would
45:07
want you to look. Hey Glyde, how's it going?
45:13
How you doing bud? Clyde's like in a state of
45:18
shock. Sounds good.
45:22
Gynan is going to pull out Joshua's pokey ball and let
45:26
Joshua out to try and have him help soothe Clyde because she
45:29
knows she's not a particularly soothing presence.
45:32
Clyde you feel a very rough nose just kind of rub up against your
45:35
ankle. I don't think he, I think how?
45:42
How does one not shell shock? How does one have the life
45:49
flipped Upset again? Yeah, I don't, I don't, I think
45:57
like, I don't know. I think, I think Clyde's
46:01
probably having like, he's like trying his best not to show it,
46:04
but I think he's having like a full on like panic attack.
46:08
I don't think he's ever experienced anything like it
46:09
before. But you know, he's doing his
46:11
best to, like, hide emotion, as he has been trained to do for
46:15
the last 14 years. Sorry about my mum applied, that
46:20
was a real Dick move of her. He's just going to nod.
46:26
Just. Yep, it's fine.
46:29
Brutus just sort of gently Pats your back and goes there.
46:33
There, buddy. He like you start, you see a
46:39
tear roll down his cheek and he's just like, how how could he
46:47
do this to me? How could he have lied and taken
46:53
the one person in this world who loved me more than anything and
46:57
fucking let her die? He, he, he chose to let her die.
47:04
He he could have saved her and you fucking lied about it.
47:09
He told me it was He told me it was WEF fucking I've spent 14
47:15
years being abused, fucking left to fucking fend for myself at
47:20
the age of fucking 16 because he wanted to go and fucking make a
47:26
deal with with the fucking one thing that he thought he killed.
47:31
Am I just fucking a scapegoat? My my whole life has has been a
47:36
fucking lie. Brutus just sort of stares he
47:41
has no idea how to handle. This diamond is like.
47:44
Making frantic eye contact with Brutus like what the fuck do we
47:48
do? This is just, it's so bad.
47:52
I mean the betrayal is so bad and, and clearly this is just
47:56
something that neither of them have any foundation.
47:58
This is how to address with this very vulnerable version of
48:05
Clyde. Clyde, you feel a you feel a
48:09
weight on your shoulder as Joshua tries to climb up your
48:14
back onto your shoulder to, to to comfort you.
48:17
Oh, sorry. One second good.
48:28
If it makes you feel any better, it seems we've all experienced a
48:32
loss of some sort, so I guess I sort of know what you're going
48:39
through. But it's things will get better
48:44
and we will figure it out in time.
48:46
We can always kill your dad instead.
48:49
This is true. We'd have to find him first.
49:01
We could always find until your dad.
49:05
Seems like the leading plan so far.
49:07
It sounds like he might just be in the same place we were going
49:10
to look for with, I mean. We're, we're going home, right?
49:16
So why not start there? Oh, I live in Strangkat and
49:21
camp. That's where my home is.
49:22
My my family home has always been.
49:24
Nice, nice. OK, yeah, that's where Mum wants
49:27
us to be with, wants us to go. You can, you can.
49:30
You can call a mum and I'm not. It's kind of, it's still kind of
49:35
weird even for me, it's kind. Of weird, Yeah, let's just
49:42
fucking. I don't know what what, what are
49:46
we doing in Strunk on camp? She wants us to go find her
49:52
shiny objects and Gaina's reading this off of her hand.
49:56
She wrote it. Or anything that will make her
50:02
friends jealous. So you know, artifacts that
50:08
belong in museums, General pilfering.
50:12
OK. She, she did say she'd give you
50:15
an extra 10,000 pokey dollars for for therapy, but I think
50:20
it's going to be kind of hard to find an on the road therapist.
50:23
Yeah, 100 percent, 100% is going to be hard.
50:26
Yeah, look, let's just fucking send it.
50:29
Let's go. Emotions for the week?
50:32
Emotions are for the week, Brutus, you ready?
50:36
I'm always ready. Onward.
50:41
And as the the three of you walk off, all three of you traumatize
50:47
to a degree, some more than others.
50:50
We see the backs of our three friends here in the in the
50:54
afternoon sun, walking S towards strong cotton comp to get shiny
50:59
objects for wet. And that's where we will leave
51:03
it for today.