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The Bedrock Golem - Wizard Craft 3.0 - Chapter 18 - A Bedtime Adventure · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you, well, you are listening to Dad's
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  Speaker 1: Bedtime Stories. Uh, and if you're looking for bedtime stories
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  Speaker 1: that aren't, uh, you know, about two carrots learning to
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  Speaker 1: share or something like that, you've come to the right place.
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  Speaker 1: You've come to the right place, and today... We're jumping
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  Speaker 1: back into the Wizardcraft series, a world where you have
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  Speaker 1: been sucked into a video game that has been inspired
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  Speaker 1: by many video games I've played and played with my kids.
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  Speaker 1: And you kind of have to survive. Let's see if
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  Speaker 1: we have a suggestion for today. Hi, my name is Christian.
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  Speaker 2: I want a Wizardcraft 3.0 game. And it's about you
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  Speaker 2: going into the mines as deep as you can, and
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  Speaker 2: you find a golem that's like 30 feet times bigger
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  Speaker 2: than a Nazarite golem. And it's called a bedrock golem,
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  Speaker 2: and it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Grayson, that's a fantastic idea. And one of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a fantastic idea is because... I've had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in the Spotify comments also asking
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  Speaker 1: for a bedrock golem. So I thought it would be
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  Speaker 1: a great idea to do. And also I heard it's
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  Speaker 1: your birthday very soon. I want to say on like Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Did I get that right? Well, either way, I decided
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  Speaker 1: to go ahead and do the episode because I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was a good idea. And it was a good suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: So happy birthday. I hope you like it. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure I could make the golem 30 times bigger than
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  Speaker 1: a netherite golem. Because that would be maybe too big.
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  Speaker 1: But they'll be a lot bigger than a netherite golem.
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  Speaker 1: I can promise you that. And before we get started,
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  Speaker 1: I do want to give a couple special shoutouts to
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  Speaker 1: some of my newest Patreon sponsors. Thank you to Zeke.
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  Speaker 1: who is 8 years old, about to turn 9 in December,
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  Speaker 1: and who I also hear is going out for Halloween
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  Speaker 1: as Venom. I hope I didn't give away your costume
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  Speaker 1: to anybody, though. I really appreciate you joining us on
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  Speaker 1: Patreon and supporting the podcast. And if anyone else wants
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  Speaker 1: to do that, there should be a link in the
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  Speaker 1: show notes. You get to add free episodes... any other
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  Speaker 1: random things I release, like the graphic novels I'm working
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  Speaker 1: on right now, or, probably more importantly, the Wizardcraft game.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, I've created, or directed the creation of, a
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  Speaker 1: Wizardcraft game. It's kind of an old-school setup with new
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  Speaker 1: school building and crafting sort of menus. And it has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things inspired by the series, including JD.
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  Speaker 1: He's in it. We've got Grayson. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: different Grayson than this Grayson who left the message, but Grayson,
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  Speaker 1: the inventor guy, is in it. And there's even a
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  Speaker 1: diamond mech suit, which I haven't even unlocked yet because
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  Speaker 1: I haven't gotten that far in my own game. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to check that out, the link to it
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  Speaker 1: is on Patreon right now, and I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: updating it as I get new ideas and that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing. And if you want links to anything else
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  Speaker 1: I have, I have recently been working on my DadsBedtimeStories.com website.
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  Speaker 1: So from there, you can get to the books, you
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  Speaker 1: can get to the new game, the Cards of Power game. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you can get links to submitting story ideas
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  Speaker 1: to Patreon, kind of everything. And if there's anything missing
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  Speaker 1: on it, just let me know, and I will have
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  Speaker 1: it added. But now, it's that time again. Time to
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  Speaker 1: get as comfy as you can in that bed, to
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  Speaker 1: close your eyes, and imagine yourself doing what the kid
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  Speaker 1: in the story does. You wake up to the familiar
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  Speaker 1: set of words floating in front of your eyes. Wake up?
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  Speaker 1: You mentally select yes, and the world slowly forms around you.
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  Speaker 1: You're lying in your bed inside Royal Hill Village. Almost immediately,
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  Speaker 1: the all-knowing voice begins to speak. Congratulations! Character progress summary
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  Speaker 1: available today. Current Player Level Level 12 Unused Skill Points
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  Speaker 1: 0 Current Skills Unlocked Lockpicking Level 3 Ninjutsu Combat Level
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  Speaker 1: 2 Arcane Engineer Level 3 Cyborg Animal Control Skill Level
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  Speaker 1: 3 Dominance Breaker Novice Dragon Rider Adept Dragon Rider. Current
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  Speaker 1: Wizard Abilities. Advanced Wizard. Fire Master. Current Spells Unlocked. Stone Golem.
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  Speaker 1: Copper Golem. Iron Golem. Golden Golem. Diamond Golem. Laser Golem.
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  Speaker 1: Emerald Cat Golem. Netherite Golem. Cloud Golem. Fire Magic Level 4. Telekinesis.
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  Speaker 1: Level 3 Earth Magic Level 2 Lightning Magic Level 2
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  Speaker 1: Animal Control Level 2 Current Equipment Iron Sword Sword of
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  Speaker 1: Stolen Skills Flying Diamond Golem Mech Suit Upgraded Armored Car
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  Speaker 1: Current Mounts Giant Hawk Void Dragon Flying Nimbus Current active settlement,
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  Speaker 1: Royal Hill Village. The screen flickers and the voice reappears. Congratulations!
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  Speaker 1: Your continued magical development, exploration, and the growth of Royal
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  Speaker 1: Hill Village have increased your level. You have reached level 13.
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  Speaker 1: New skill point awarded. You have one unused skill point. Perfect,
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  Speaker 1: you say. You think about opening the skill menu, but
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  Speaker 1: before you get a chance, somebody starts hammering on the
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  Speaker 1: front door. You jump out of bed, pull the door open,
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  Speaker 1: and find Brielle standing outside. You need to come to
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  Speaker 1: the dragon roost.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: What happened? You ask. Brielle smiles. An egg is Hatching?
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: You immediately rush outside. Brielle leads you up the pathway
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  Speaker 1: toward the top of Royal Hill Mountain. By the time
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  Speaker 1: you reach the Dragon Roost, JD, Grayson, Gus, and several
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  Speaker 1: members of Brielle's dragon-taming family are already gathered around the Everflame.
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  Speaker 1: The Magical fire you created yesterday is still burning brightly
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the roost, and sitting beside it
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  Speaker 1: is one large green egg. A crack appears across the shell,
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  Speaker 1: then another. JD crouches closer. Green light begins shining through
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  Speaker 1: the cracks. The egg wiggles, and with a crack... A
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  Speaker 1: tiny green snout pushes through the shell. A moment later,
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  Speaker 1: the egg breaks apart and a little green dragon crawls out.
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  Speaker 1: Its scales are bright green. Small leaf-like fins grow along
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  Speaker 1: the back of its neck and two tiny branch-shaped horns
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  Speaker 1: curl out above its eyes. The baby dragon looks around.
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  Speaker 1: First at Brielle, then at you, then at Grayson, and
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  Speaker 1: then at Gus, and finally, it looks at JD. The
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  Speaker 1: dragon slowly waddles toward him. JD smiles. Hey, little guy.
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  Speaker 1: The dragon climbs onto his boot, then up his leg,
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  Speaker 1: then all the way onto his shoulder. JD freezes. Brielle laughs. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we know who it chooses. JD turns to water. Wait, seriously?
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  Speaker 1: Brielle nods. Dragons choose their riders, at least when they can.
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  Speaker 1: The nature dragon rubs its head against JD's cheek. A
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  Speaker 1: tiny flower suddenly sprouts from the ground beside his foot.
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  Speaker 1: JD looks down. Did he do that? Brielle smiles. Looks
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  Speaker 1: like it. JD sits down beside the ever flame with
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  Speaker 1: the little dragon curled in his lap. You look over
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  Speaker 1: at Grayson. Well, I think we lost JD for the day. Probably,
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  Speaker 1: Grayson answers, which is actually fine because there's something I've
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  Speaker 1: been thinking about.
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: The crystal level. You immediately know what he means. You
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  Speaker 1: want more crystals. I want to know what they can do.
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  Speaker 1: Grayson corrects. Those things are basically magical machine parts waiting
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  Speaker 1: to happen. We barely explored the place. You look back
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  Speaker 1: at JD. The nature dragon is now trying to chew
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  Speaker 1: on the end of his sleeve. Sounds like a two-person trip.
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  Speaker 1: Not long afterwards, you and Grayson are standing in the
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  Speaker 1: entrance to the Royal Hill Mine. You summon your diamond
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  Speaker 1: golem mech suit. Grayson does the same. The backs open,
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  Speaker 1: and the two of you climb inside. Your neural connector
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  Speaker 1: presses against the back of your head. That familiar tingling
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  Speaker 1: sensation passes through you, and instantly, you stop feeling as
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  Speaker 1: though you're sitting inside a machine. Instead, you become the machine.
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  Speaker 1: You flex your enormous diamond fingers, the shoulder lasers move
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  Speaker 1: with your eyes, and you can feel your mana pumping
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  Speaker 1: through the machine itself, ready to cast any spell you
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  Speaker 1: can cast, with a bit of a boost to it. Ready?
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  Speaker 1: Grayson asks. Ready, you respond. The two of you squeeze
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  Speaker 1: into the elevator and descend. Copper floor, iron floors, gold floors,
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  Speaker 1: diamond floors. And finally, the elevator opens onto the crystal level.
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  Speaker 1: You step out. Even after seeing it before, the place
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  Speaker 1: is incredible. Huge crystals grow from the floor and ceiling. Red, blue, green, white, purple...
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  Speaker 1: Some glow with heat, others drip water. Some pulse with
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  Speaker 1: stored magical energy. Grayson immediately starts gathering samples. You carefully
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  Speaker 1: break crystals away from the wall using the mech's hands.
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  Speaker 1: You collect blue water crystals, pale blue ice crystals. Clear
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  Speaker 1: crystals that seem capable of storing mana or something. At
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  Speaker 1: least that's what your skills seem to tell you. Purple
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  Speaker 1: crystals that remind you of portal magic. Maybe portal crystals.
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  Speaker 1: Then you notice something different. A dark red gemstone buried
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  Speaker 1: deep inside the rock. You aim one shoulder laser... And
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  Speaker 1: carefully blast away the stone surrounding it. The ruby-like gem
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  Speaker 1: drops into your giant hand. It feels strangely warm. Powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Grayson walks closer.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And then... Your arcane engineer skill activates. You look at
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  Speaker 1: the ruby. Then... at your shoulder, laser. Then, well, back
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  Speaker 1: at the ruby, something clicks inside your head. Grayson? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think I have an idea. Alright, he nods. The
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  Speaker 1: gemstone isn't simply holding magical energy. It seems like it
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  Speaker 1: has the capability to focus or enhance magical energy. You
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  Speaker 1: suddenly understand how the power from your mech's magical cells
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  Speaker 1: could be forced through the ruby before leaving the cannon,
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  Speaker 1: concentrating a wide beam into something much tighter and, well,
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  Speaker 1: far more powerful. You both climb out of your mech
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  Speaker 1: suits immediately. Right there on the cavern floor, You begin
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  Speaker 1: pulling apart the laser housings. Grayson reroutes copper wires. You
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  Speaker 1: create new focusing chambers. Then, you carefully mount pieces of
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  Speaker 1: ruby crystals inside each cannon. The final pieces click into place. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: the all-knowing voice announces. New invention created. focused ruby laser.
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  Speaker 1: Magical energy output and beam concentration significantly increased. Warning! Increased
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  Speaker 1: energy concentration may result in rapid overheating. You look at Grayson.
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  Speaker 1: Worth it? You ask. Definitely worth it, he replies. You
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  Speaker 1: climb back into the mech suit's The neural systems reconnect.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Grayson says. Test target time. You look toward
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  Speaker 1: a huge crystal-covered boulder, and you fire. A brilliant red
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  Speaker 1: beam explodes from your shoulder. With a boom, the entire
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  Speaker 1: boulder shatters. You just, well, stare. Grayson fires his own.
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  Speaker 1: Another section of wall erupts into pieces. Oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: going to make mining a lot easier, you announce. And
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  Speaker 1: the two of you begin blasting through the cavern. Ruby
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  Speaker 1: laser after ruby laser. Though, well, the voice wasn't wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The lasers do seem to be getting hot quickly. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: huge sections of rock break apart. Crystals and gemstones rain
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  Speaker 1: onto the floor. You collect rubies, emeralds, monocrystals, ice crystals,
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  Speaker 1: water crystals, and all sorts of gems you haven't even identified.
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  Speaker 1: This is super easy, you say. Grayson laughs. You fire
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  Speaker 1: another blast, and then, Your shoulder cannon makes a strange
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  Speaker 1: whining noise. The laser shuts down. Warning! Focused ruby laser overheated.
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  Speaker 1: Cooling required. A second later, Grayson's does the same thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's the problem. You wait for the cannons to cool
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  Speaker 1: and then you continue. blasting and blasting and blasting, until
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  Speaker 1: eventually you aim at one particularly dense section of stone.
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  Speaker 1: The ruby laser tears straight through it. The wall collapses,
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  Speaker 1: and behind it is darkness. You walk closer and see
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  Speaker 1: a staircase, a huge staircase leading downward, Grayson looks at you. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that looks promising. Maybe there's something under the crystal level. So,
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  Speaker 1: without really questioning it, the two of you begin descending.
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  Speaker 1: The staircase winds downward far longer than any other staircase
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  Speaker 1: you've ever found in the mines. Down and down and
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  Speaker 1: down and down. until eventually an orange glow appears. You
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  Speaker 1: take the final few steps and emerge in an enormous cavern.
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  Speaker 1: You stop. Everything around you is dark, other than the, well,
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  Speaker 1: soft glow from lava, which somehow is producing light. The walls,
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  Speaker 1: the floor, even parts of the ceiling are made out
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  Speaker 1: of a rock you can't identify. Bedrock, Grayson says. It's
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  Speaker 1: known for being almost indestructible. Logs. flows through huge cracks
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  Speaker 1: in the floor, and it seems to be flowing from
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  Speaker 1: little lava waterfalls that are spread all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not the most incredible part. Embedded Almost everywhere
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  Speaker 1: around you are resources. Gold, diamond, emeralds, crystals, rubies, and
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  Speaker 1: even tiny dark deposits that look suspiciously like netherite. Grayson
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  Speaker 1: slowly turns around. This might be the richest place we've
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  Speaker 1: ever found that anyone's ever found. You move toward a
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  Speaker 1: ruby deposit embedded in the wall. Well, we have super
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  Speaker 1: laser mining now. You aim and fire. The ruby beam
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  Speaker 1: slams into the rock. Cracks spread outward. Then, the entire
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  Speaker 1: cavern rumbles. What was that, you ask? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The ground shakes again. A huge section of bedrock rises upward.
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  Speaker 1: Then another. Something is pulling itself free from the cavern floor.
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  Speaker 1: Two enormous arms emerge. Then a head. Then a body.
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  Speaker 1: A golem. A golem. A golem way bigger than even
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  Speaker 1: your netherite golems. And it looks like it's made almost
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  Speaker 1: entirely out of bedrock. The creature looks down at you.
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  Speaker 1: Its eyes glow deep orange. Grayson slowly backs away. The
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  Speaker 1: bedrock golem swings. His fist slams into your mech suit.
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  Speaker 1: You go flying across the cavern and smash into the
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  Speaker 1: wall hard enough to crack part of your diamond armor.
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  Speaker 1: Grayson immediately fires both ruby lasers. The concentrated beam strikes
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  Speaker 1: the bedrock golem directly in the chest and, well, it
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  Speaker 1: seems to actually react. It steps backwards. Then Grayson's lasers
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  Speaker 1: overheat and shut down. BEFORE DOING ENOUGH DAMAGE. WARNING! LASERS OVERHEATED!
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  Speaker 1: THE ALL-KNOWING VOICE SAYS. OH NO. YOU STAND UP. YOUR
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  Speaker 1: OWN CANONS GLOW. AND YOU UNLEASH BOTH BEAMS DIRECTLY AT
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  Speaker 1: THE SAME PLACE GRACEN HIT. THE LASERS BURN AGAINST THE
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  Speaker 1: BEDROG GOLEM'S CHEST. FOR JUST A MOMENT. The dark stone
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  Speaker 1: begins glowing faintly red, and then, well, your cannons overheat
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  Speaker 1: as well. The bedrock golem looks down at you. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: Then it charges. You fire lightning. Electricity dances across its
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  Speaker 1: body and nothing. You attempt to unleash fire, the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful fire you can muster. Still nothing. You reach into
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  Speaker 1: the ground using earth magic and attempt to control the
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  Speaker 1: bedrock itself. You can feel it, but it barely moves.
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  Speaker 1: The bedrock golem grabs you. It lifts your entire mech
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  Speaker 1: suit over its head, then throws you across the cavern.
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  Speaker 1: You slam into Grayson. Both of you crash into the ground. WARNING!
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  Speaker 1: Mechanical damage detected. Right shoulder laser damaged. Chest armor compromised.
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  Speaker 1: Grayson slowly gets back to his feet. I think we
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  Speaker 1: might want to consider running away. Yep, you agree. The
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  Speaker 1: bedrock golem roars and charges again. You and Grayson turn
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  Speaker 1: towards the staircase. and run as fast as you can.
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  Speaker 1: Huge footsteps shake the cavern behind you. Your laser is
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  Speaker 1: recovered just enough for one more shot. You turn and
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  Speaker 1: fire it into the ceiling. Stone explodes downward between you
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  Speaker 1: and the bedrock golem. It obviously won't stop him, but
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it'll slow him down. You and Grayson reach the staircase.
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  Speaker 1: and race upward, because now you know two very important things.
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  Speaker 1: The bedrock golem can actually be hurt, and next time
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  Speaker 1: you visit him, you're bringing everyone you can possibly find.
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  Speaker 1: You eventually make it back to the elevator, and, well,
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  Speaker 1: both mech suits look terrible. Neither of you says much
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  Speaker 1: on the ride up, When the elevator finally reaches the top,
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  Speaker 1: Grayson steps out. Well, the good news is that the
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  Speaker 1: ruby focusing system definitely works. But the bad news is
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  Speaker 1: we both almost got flattened by an indestructible rock monster. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that part was not ideal, you respond. Grayson climbs out
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  Speaker 1: of his mech suit and starts inspecting the shoulder cannons.
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  Speaker 1: He pulls off one of the damaged panels. It isn't
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  Speaker 1: the ruby that's the problem. What is? The heat. He
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  Speaker 1: points toward the cannon housing. We're concentrating way more magical
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  Speaker 1: energy through the laser than the original system was ever
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  Speaker 1: designed to handle. It gets too hot and the safety
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  Speaker 1: system shut everything down. You think about the crystals sitting
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  Speaker 1: inside your inventory. Wait, what about the water crystals or
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  Speaker 1: the ice crystals? Maybe we could use them to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: cool things down. Grayson pauses and then slowly looks up
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  Speaker 1: at you. Water crystals and ice crystals? His eyes widen.
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  Speaker 1: He starts smiling.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I have an idea. He grabs both mech suits. I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking these to the workshop. Can you fix them? Fix them?
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make them better than ever. He immediately absorbs
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  Speaker 1: them both into his inventory. Ah, that's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: too much, he says as he starts to waddle down
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  Speaker 1: the staircase. As if his belly were too full or
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  Speaker 1: Something like that. You decide to find more help in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime. That was the plan, after all. You head
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  Speaker 1: towards the dragon roost first. When you get there, you
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  Speaker 1: immediately hear JD laughing. You climb the last section of
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  Speaker 1: the mountain and find him laying on the grass beside
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  Speaker 1: the everflame. The tiny nature dragon is jumping around him.
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  Speaker 1: Every time one of its little feet touches the ground,
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  Speaker 1: something grows. A flower, a patch of grass, a tiny vine. J.D.
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  Speaker 1: puts his hand down beside it. This guy is awesome, J.D. says.
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  Speaker 1: He does look pretty awesome, you agree? J.D. looks up
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  Speaker 1: and notices your condition. Ripped clothes, little burn patches on
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  Speaker 1: your shoulders. What happened to you? Well, I think we
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  Speaker 1: found the bottom of the mines. JD sits up. You did? Maybe, anyways.
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  Speaker 1: You think about it. At least we found bedrock. And?
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  Speaker 1: And the bedrock stood up and tried to destroy us.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bedrock golem. bigger than the netherite golem and
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  Speaker 1: almost nothing hurts it jd stands up so obviously you
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  Speaker 1: need me obviously he looks toward the little nature dragon
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  Speaker 1: and the creature looks back at him you're staying here
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  Speaker 1: little buddy the dragon makes a tiny disappointed noise No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you just hatched today. I'm not bringing you down to
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  Speaker 1: fight an enormous bedrock golem. That would be crazy. Brielle
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  Speaker 1: approaches from one of the nesting caves. Fight a... a what?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: You explain. Her expression changes from concern to interest surprisingly quickly.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna need dragons. I'm gonna need everything, you say,
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  Speaker 1: and Brielle smiles. Then you came to the right place.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Within the next hour, Royal Hill Village starts preparing for
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: what looks less like a and more like an invasion.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: You mentally call your void dragon, who emerges from one
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  Speaker 1: of the healing caves. He looks better than ever. Brielle's
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  Speaker 1: family has apparently done an incredible job. He stretches out
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  Speaker 1: and flaps his wings. He shouldn't really be flying for
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: long yet, Brielle said, but he can probably go into caves.
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  Speaker 1: Can he fight, you ask? And in response, the dragon growls. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: he thinks he can. All right, buddy, just take it easy.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: You gather the three netherite golems. You gather all of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the diamond golems, including the laser diamond golem, of course.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Brielle and a small group of dragon riders prepare their
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: strongest dragons. JD brings his mech suit over to Grayson,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: who works on it with the two of yours. Before long,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Grayson eventually wraps up his work at the workshop. You
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: find your mech suit looking almost new. Actually, better than new.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Thin blue crystal tubing runs around the shoulder cannons. and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: pale ice crystals glow behind each laser housing. Grayson taps
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  Speaker 1: the side. Magical closed-loop cooling. You stare at it. Does
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it work? Probably.
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  Speaker 3: Probably?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have a bedrock golem to test it on,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: but I know where one is. Fair enough, you say.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: You climb inside the mech suit and your neural connection activates. Warning!
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  Speaker 1: Focused ruby laser cooling system detected. Maximum sustained firing duration
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: significantly increased. You grin. Alright. The elevator trip down takes
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: forever because there are simply too many of you. You
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: have to go in several groups, especially considering the netherite
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: golems take up pretty much the whole thing on their own.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: So do most of the dragons, but eventually everyone gathers
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: in the crystal level. Then you lead them toward the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: hidden staircase and head down, down, and further down until
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: you finally reach the bedrock lair. For a second, nothing happens,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and then the floor shakes. Here we go, Grayson says.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: The bedrock golem rises from the cavern floor again, its
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: orange eyes light up. You point towards it and yell, Attack!
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: The entire cavern explodes into chaos. The netherite golems charge first,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: tackling the thing's legs. All three slam into them at once,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: which significantly affects the creature's stability. Diamond golems pile in
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: behind them, and the laser diamond golem continues to blast
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the thing with his laser, again, again, and again. They
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: climb up the bedrock golem, and he begins pulling them
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: off and throwing them around the cave. Brielle's wind dragon
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: flies up into the air, and a hurricane-like blast smashes
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: into the golem. It slides several feet across the cavern.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Another dragon breathes fire. Another releases a sort of freezing mist.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: JD raises both mech arms. and fires his lightning. Then, you, JD,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and Grayson all activate your new ruby lasers. Six brilliant
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: beams of laser hit the bedrock golem directly in the chest.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: The water crystals inside your cannons begin glowing. The ice
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: crystals flash, and the weapons keep firing and firing and firing. Yes,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Grayson yells, as the golem's chest begins turning red. The
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: creature tries to keep moving, which makes it hard to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: keep the laser concentrated. Hold it down, you yell, and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the netherite golems do their best. But it's really your
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: void dragon that saves the day. He opens his mouth,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and fires a black sphere to the, well, back of
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the bedrock golem. Suddenly, the golem gets sucked into the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: little sphere. It doesn't get absorbed entirely, but it does
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: get stuck, which allows the three of you to concentrate
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: your laser on a single area inside the creature's chest.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: It gets redder, and redder, the cracks grow larger and larger.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Hit it with everything you've got, everyone in the same spot,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you command. Lasers, fire, some sort of weird freeze power,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and bolts of lightning all connect with the direct center
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: of the bedrock golem. The cracks spread further, and eventually...
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the golem explodes. A shower of bedrock, dust, and, well,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of different sorts of gems follows. It
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: takes a while before you can actually see anything, but
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: as the dust settles, you find a golden chest sitting
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: on the ground.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Wow. Cool.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Cool.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: You walk toward it and the chest unlocks itself. Inside
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: are a whole bunch of jewels with two books sitting
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: on top. You grab the first one. Bedrock Golem Spell.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: You pick up the second. The cover shows a person
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: surrounded by faded images of themselves as though they're moving
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: too fast to see properly. Your eyes widen. No way.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: And the all-knowing voice speaks. Congratulations, you have discovered the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Time Magic Spellbook and the Bedrock Golem Spellbook. Time magic
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: allows you to manipulate your personal temporal flow, changing the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: speed at which you exist and making you seem far faster,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: or far slower if you choose, to everyone around you.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: The golem spell allows you to summon one bedrock golem
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: every decade. Every decade? Every decade? Ten years? That's crazy,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: you say. Though, it does seem like a wildly powerful creature.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't really be great if there were a lot of
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: them running around the world. You spend the next little
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: while collecting gems, cleaning up the lower level, but eventually
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: you start to feel rather tired. You wave goodbye to
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: your friends, I think I better go to bed, you say?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: All these battles have me a little bit sleepy. I'm
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: going with you. I need to go check on my dragon,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: JD says. Don't leave me behind. I think we've cleared
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: up as much of this place as we possibly can.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: And so, you and your entire crew heads back up
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the long staircase, and takes turns heading up the elevator
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: as soon as you get to the top you deactivate
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: your mech suit climb out of the back absorb it
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: into your inventory and head straight to your house you
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: climb into the bed pull the covers up to your
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: chin and a prompt appears sleep now? it asks you
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: agree and a wave of fatigue passes through your entire
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: body Almost immediately, the tension leaves your arms and legs,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: your neck, your face, your chest, and with every breath,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: you sink down deeper and deeper into the mattress, and
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: your mind wanders off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and new spells to come. Good night, everyone. Good night.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: You Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. you