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57. From the Underdark to the Surface (The Dark Elf Trilogy 3/3) · The Book-Watchers

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I'm currently reading right now, I'm gonna start reading it. Yeah, and
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I'm almost done. I'm almost done. I'm living have a head start what
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shit, less than halfway there. Cool, well guy, head start then
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great, okay, because now you read like a fucking I know you will.
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That's what I'm worried about, because I want to finish the book before
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you do. We'll see if I actually can. Anyway, So today we're
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talking about the third book and the Dread series ending it finally. Well,
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when you see this episode, I'll be back. So what's the third book
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called. It's called Soler s O j O y N. Of course,
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like all the Drits novels, is written by Ri Sutory or Soltor publisher is
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TSR was the original and then it switched to Wizards boot So the Wizards is
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kind of on my shit list for the moment. And it was released in
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nineteen ninety one with three hundred and twenty pages with paperback, and then it
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got released as a hardcover in two thousand and four. Take us on the
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journey what happened in this book? So in the third book it's Drits.
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It is about forty years old. At this point in his story, he
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has forsaken the ways of his people to live a better life on the surface
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of fey Run or fey Rune, and he greets the dawn each morning just
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to get him, like to get him used to the new home that he's
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in, even though you know, greeting the sun causes him great pain.
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In two Dritz the sun represents like his denial of the darker world of the
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underdark, especially the city of Menzo barons On, because of like how you
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not only was it, you know, in the under dark, but the
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way that his life was while he was in the underdark her last two books,
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it was a pretty dark life. So he's the sun, really,
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he does rep the light is shining on him and he's not going to live
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in the darkness anymore. In more than one sense of the term. While
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during one bad run in with a skunk, mysticized that he was going to
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leave his new home that was the little caves that he was staying in,
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Uh further down in the mountainside and he encounters a group of Knowles who kind
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of tried to invite him to be an ally excuse, He's sorry. He
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not really knowing the ways the creatures are on the surface, doesn't know how
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evil Knowles could really be. And they outline a plan to raid a local
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farm and to kill an instate and enslaved the humans. And he didn't really
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like that too much. He was like, uh no, it gave him
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flashbacks of the raid that happened whenever they raided the the elves and how like
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they killed like all these He was like, no, I'm not about that,
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And with the help of Guinebar, he slays the band of Knowles.
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He was like, no, I'm not going to be killing these innocent people
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and enslaving them. And like he even like there's a time where he kind
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of like feel there's like a small time where he feels bad, like remorse
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for killing them, but he decides, and that's whenever he decides that he
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needs to learn more about the races that are living amongst him, you know,
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like who are these people that he now shares land with. And he
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starts and he starts this by studying the family that lives on the farm and
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this, and he learns that this family is the family of the thistle Downs.
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They live right outside of this, of the village of Amaldebar, And
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like, after like what a week of watching these people live their lives,
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he takes it upon himself to become like a guardian for them. He sees
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them as just good people, good people who are just trying to live an
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honest life. And even with like the little arguments that the siblings have,
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like, He's like, no, these people are wholesome and they need protection,
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so he takes it upon himself to do that. There is a day
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where he is watching and the boy. There was a boy who, instead
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of doing his daily chores on the farm like he usually does, he sneaks
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off, and Dritz decides to follow him, and he does get caught like
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he pretends to get like the boy pretends to get caught to draw draw him
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out, and he tries to communicate with him, unsuccessfully because there's a big
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language barrier between undercommon and comment, very much so because draw speak in undercommon
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Oy. He tries to befriend him, doesn't work. The boy runs away
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to tell of his encounter to his family and he says, the drizz it,
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the drizzit, the drizzt attacked me, and the family doesn't really believe
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him, but he does convince his siblings to draw him out. The little
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boy's name is Lamb by the way, and then the oldest boy, the
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brother Connor, has like some knowledge and like recognizes that like after drawing him
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out, they make this huge old plan and are able to draw him out
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and the rest of the siblings see him, and Connor, with a little
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bit of knowledge, does identify Drits as a dark ep, as a drought
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and it's brought This knowledge is brought to the villagers and like the head of
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the village and everything like that, and they decide to start looking for Drits.
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They they start hunting him down and prompting prompting Macristle Roddy mcgristle was a
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bounty hunter and trapper to go looking for him. During this hunt, mcgristol
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does run into Drits. He has two dogs and these two dogs attack drifts.
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He sees that dRIT sees that mcgristole is a human, and he does
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not feel comfortable with hurting this human but it's basically forced to kill one of
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the dogs and and mames mcgristle in the process. And there was a little
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bit of interference with a quickling named Toughness that like it's quickling didn't interfere,
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he may have been able to not be detected by mcgristle. Now, this
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quickling is an lie of a bar guest named Ugulu, and after realizing that
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it was and his panther who killed his best soldiers, the Gnoles, Ogulu
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takes it upon himself to enact vengeance upon Drits and at the same time cover
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up his his evil nefarious activities within the region. So this our guest shape
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shifts into taking the form of a drought and he goes to the farm,
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that Thistledown farm and ocurs everybody, leaving behind the stolen scimitar that that they
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took from Dritz and placing it there to basically place blame Andrits himself and uh
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and too, I forgot where I was at. When Dritz learns of the
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tragedy, it was early morning. He looks, he watches the farm like
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he always does, and he sees that nobody's come out. There's no activity
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going on on this farm at all. So he takes it upon himself to
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go investigate, and he sees, he sees the family, he sees what
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happened to the family, and he has so much grief and he feels like
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it's his fault the reason why this family got killed. That he vows to
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enact his own vengeance upon the like whoever killed the thistle Downs. Meanwhile,
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while this is happening, the mayor sends a word to send a bar of
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a drow. Sunda bar is another is a bigger city, I believe,
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And and they're telling them like, hey, like, we have an issue
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with the draw and we need help. And so Dove falcon Hand, who
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is a ranger and chosen a mysteria at like, answers answers the plea the
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help, and so she leaves Sundabar with her companions, who is a human
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ranger named Gabriel elf Lindell and a human warrior named Darta, and she asked
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permission to Helm dar dwarf friend, ruler of the city, to bring with
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her uh like the dwarf stage rock crusher fred Gar rock Crusher, to add
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him to the party. And so they go they go to my out the
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bar, and she has been told by everybody about like what happened, how
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he killed the people that this, like he killed the thistle Downs. And
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they go and they they go and investigate what happened, and she studies all
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the evidence of stuff behind and she starts to doubt that Dritz is the one
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who does this, and like, I think another member of the party also
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voices this as well, like know the way that these doors are broken down,
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it's not something that a draw would do. Or no, this is
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too sloppy of a kill. Draw wouldn't kill like this. They they are
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more, for lack of a better term, graceful when it comes to how
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they kill people. But meanwhile, like Dritz is doing his own investigation.
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He is looking for these people, and he does find the layer of Ougulu
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and he kills Ugolu's brother, and with the help of Grianavar, he does
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lou himself, I believe. After like the confrontation of like, yeah,
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I'm the one who killed the thistle Downs and drid saw rand and killed them
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with the help of Granovar, he is pursued by some of Ugulu's allies,
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with which is Giant named Lagger Bottoms and is offered the same alliance as the
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Knowles offered, but kind of it ended in the same result because he found
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out that this hill Giant was allies with Ogulu and he's like, oh noh,
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fuck this, and he kills them, but that leaves him seriously injured.
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And as he's fleeing this area, the party that Lady Falconhan has been
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leading is kind of like hot on his tail, and like he confronts Killindro
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and and he convinced him of his good attentions. Killendro does try to attack
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him, but Dritz has is doing everything in his power not to injure this
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guy. He's just trying to disarm him, and eventually he you know,
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he leaves. But later Dritz actually helps this party because the Stone Giant and
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Bush happens and and Dove's party provides like healing aid for Dritz after like seeing
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like his severe wounds and like let him go. They they confirm that he's
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innocent. Like look, if this Stritz was gonna was going to kill anybody,
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that he would have tried to kill us, and he didn't. He
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helped us out. And this guy's a good you know, so we're just
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gonna leave him alone. But Roddy mcgrissol is not having it. He wants
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that two hundred two thousand gold bounty, and he wants to avenge his dead
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dog and his fucked up face basically and like, yeah, he's not fucking
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having it. He wants he wants Drid's head served on a fucking silver platter.
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Feel so Drid's, you know. He moves on and he settles in
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a place called dead Orch Pass, and he has been surviving on a diet
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of fish and taking shelter in one of the many caves that's in the area.
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Fortunately for him, Kalendrel, who is you know from a Dove's party,
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has been keeping an odd and on him and like provides kindling every once
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in a while white for whenever winter happens. Oh gosh, that on like
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and unknowingly too like like draw its just has no idea like who's giving him
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this kind of aid? And is that this is at this time where he
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learns like he has his first taste of snow, like he's and he needs
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to find a better, better alter and not handle this kind of cold,
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and he ends up staying in the din with a grumpy old brown bear named
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Bluster, and he he keeps him sedated basically by giving him, like he
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gives him some of the extra fish that he gets throughout the winter, and
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you know, keeps him warm, and you know, it's co habitable in
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a way. And whenever spring hits, Drits, you know, the bear
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starts waking up, starts moving a little bit more, and drits it's like,
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it's time for me to go over, like I've stayed when we welcome,
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it's sign for me to leave. And he explores the other side of
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the river and he runs a foul of the Orc king Growl with the aid
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of Montolio Debruci, I think that's how you pronounced it, or de Bruce,
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the blind ranger of uh Malichi. He defeats the Orcs, wargs and
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the stone giant that was sent to kill him, and he is taking under
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Mushie's wing. That's what he's called. He's called Mushi. During this time
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in Mushie's grove, he is taught more of the common common. Yeah,
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that's what it's called. The language that everybody understands up on the surface is
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just called common, and so he's he's not, but he's learning and the
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ways of the ranger and of Maliki, the goddess of the forest. It
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is also a time of healing for him. Mushy helps Dritz come to terms
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with his guilt over the depths of the end, like others that he's cared
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about, and and you know, they become really good companions. Uh.
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Roddy mcgristle is able to track Dritz to Mushi's grove and but Mushy and mcgristole
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kind of oh god, what's the word for it. He he goes up
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to Mushie and was like, hey, like, I'm tracking the drow here,
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Like, yeah, you've seen him. Uh, And Mushi, being
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the fucking bitch that this guy is, he's like, nah, nah,
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I saw him, Yeah, but he's not here. He went that way
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like he pulled him in and sent him on a red Harry. But uh,
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tefanis that little quickling wants drifts gone. So he goes and he informs
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Roddy of Mushi's deception on how Mushi lied and that Drix is being how and
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that he's being trained by Mushi, and Roddy, being very fucking upset,
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goes and he makes a deal with Grohl, who is the Orc king,
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and makes a battle plan to go and attack the growth. Mushi has this
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little owl called Hoodi, and Hoody tends to inform him of the happenings of
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what's going on within like the forests of the woods and everything. And so
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Mushi does get the like the warning like, hey, the Orcs are moving,
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and Mushi also hears all the chances and stuff, and he goes that
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happens once a month, you know, like it happens once a month.
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They do this, but it's a lot more crazier than usual. I think
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the day has come that he's bounce and attacked. Mind Joe, I don't
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think we mentioned this. This man is blind. He is a blind ranger.
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He cannot see, but he is insane. He's very accurate with a
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lot of like with all of his attacks with him shooting things. He's you
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know, he's a blind fighter. So Mushi and Dritz do prepare. Mushi's
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like eight, it's going to happen tonight, you know, So let's prepare.
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And so they do. They prepare, and they defeat the Orcs and
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Guinevar kills u Caroak, who is a winter wolf killin Dill and the group
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of his own cousins actually also give aid to this battle. They they caught
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wind of of the Orcs planning this attack, and they go and they help
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out and afterwards kill and Drew captures Roddy mcgrizzle and then begins the jer me
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to Sunderbar to have him try for his crimes, but they made the mistake
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of leaving him tied up alone, and the quickening Tiffanness goes and helps Macristol
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escape, but mcgristol goes and he kills the elf. He kills the elf
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that captured him and buries him, and fearing another or, the Drow deceives
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the new guy that he deceives Macgristol and says like no, no, no,
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Dritz is dead. You don't have to worry about Dritz because mcgristol is
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is still one hundred percent like down to fucking kill this guy, and like
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Tifness is like no, no, no, no, no no, no,
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Drifts No, the Drow is dead. You don't have to worry about
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him because he doesn't want to deal with Draw. He doesn't want to do
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with Drits anymore, so he lies and I mean, Crystal leaves alone and
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like leaves soon after Dritz finds Mushi. He starts living with Mushi for a
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while, to the point where Mushi grows old and they had a good heart
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to heart. He's like, well, what are you going to do?
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Like, I'm not going to be here forever, and you know, there's
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any desights you meet that you're going to outlive them, you know. And
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I don't think Dritz was ready for the loss of a close friend like that.
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But there was a day where he does come back to the grove after
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some time, like I guess he was out patrolling or whatever, or Heshi
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dead and like it. And during that earlier conversation, he did make Dritz
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promise that in Mushi died, that Dritz would leave the growth and never return.
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So Drid stays true to his promise and leaves, and he journeys through
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the land of the North, and he he's turned away and chased by the
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dwarfs of the Citadel, and he finds rejection in other talents that he tries
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to make his home in, but he takes it and tried like he he
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now has the Goddess of Milichi in his heart, so like, he's not
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it's he's not taking it too bad, you know. Fast forward to six
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years later during his they're saying this his seventh went on the surface, but
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I'm pretty sure it's been longer than that. Tanus is lie to uh what's
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his face to mcgristle has been revealed in Westbridge and the bounty Hunter heads to
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Mehrabar and in search of his like long lost bounty. Dritz By now has
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taken up with the Weeping Prayers, which is a group of beggars and belts
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who believe that the more they suffer, the less the world has to endure.
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Knowing their favorite route of traveling to Marabar via the tunnel, Tefaness traps
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the party within, leaving them like no choice but to face a vulnerable but
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kind of stupid red dragon nicknamed Hephaestus. I can love that, I don't
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love that his name is sphest Is. Thanks to the clever deception, yeah,
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thanks to the clever deception by Drits, they managed to escape and dritz
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takes on one of the Prayers advices and heads to tin towns in Iceland Dale.
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We're going to ice Windale, bitches, or going to one of the
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biggest known cities in the land, and the place is full of rogues,
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where like there's a bigger chance that he can find accepted this. Mcgristol eventually
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catches up with the monks after like drifts leaves like after he has parted with
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him and tiffanant's the quick the quick i'ms gonna call him the quickly because I
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think unlike. He reveals that he trapped the party in the tunnel going against
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mcgrists pants because that's not what he wanted to do, and in a fit
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of rage, kills the Quickling and tortures the monks for information before murdering them
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as well as a fork and Drit's journeys to tim towns in Icelandale, he's
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rejected by Cassius, the spokesman for a Brian schander. However, Cassius suggests
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that he makes a home instead on the northern slopes of Carn which is on
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the borders of like Clan Battlehammer. And if he does this he could there's
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a chance that he could win over the public eye by protecting the settlements that
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are there. And this is where he meets the of his lea. This
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is where he meets Caddybree, who I love this woman. I love Cadybree
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so much. Caddy Bris is the adopted daughter of Brunner Bryan or battle Hammer
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in the lower slopes of the Caring, and he makes acquaintances with her.
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Sees her, he's reminded strongly of the younger thistledown named Liam for it's really
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weird. I'm sorry, this is really weird. I love Caddybris and I
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love that, you know, they become a thing. But whenever he meets
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her, she's around the same age as Liam was and is captivated by her
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charm and zest. And after a fight with oh Docter a fight with a
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polar worm, Brunner comes into contact with Drids for the first time, mister
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Caddybree's adopted father, and he almost comes to blows, like they almost start
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fighting, but Dritz walks away he doesn't want anything to do with it,
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which like leaves Brenor to like hobble home, and he's pissed and he's so
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mad that like his daughter has been meeting with this drow and forces her to
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give her word that she will not meet with him ever again. Mcgrizzle turns
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up to the Dwarfs home not long after there the clans, but but not
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long they're not impressed with him. They think he's rude. They don't like
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him, and mcgristle tells him that Dritz murdered the thistle Downs, but Brenor
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is like not, I'm not having none of this shit, and the Doarmen
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King turns him down and warns his daughter to stay away from the draw a
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second time. Caddy Bree obviously disobeys her fall and runs to confront Dritz on
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the claims of like murdering the thistle Downs, and Dritz kind of calms her
37:10
fears and tells her that like their friendship remains unchanged. He sends her back
37:16
home and and like he sends you recall, and he's getting ready to leave,
37:22
he's getting ready to flee, but he has to turn back to aid
37:29
Caddybrey, who is being held hostage by Micristle, and Dritz confronts him and
37:37
he relates to how to how vengeance is all he seeks. He does not
37:44
care for the murdered family or the bounty whatsoever. And there's a fight that
37:50
happens between Drits and Gristle, and Dritz is relovedant. He doesn't want to
37:55
fight this human. He doesn't want to injure any humans ever, and he
38:00
gives Macgristol the chance to flee, but Mcgristol, no, he doesn't,
38:05
No, he wants to kill Dritz. Eventually, Dritz does win by knocking
38:15
Macgristol unconscious, like he doesn't hurt him that bad, And when he wakes
38:20
up, he's met by Brennar and Bernard banishes him from Icemandale like he is
38:28
not allowed in the lens of Icemandale anymore, and Dritz, starting to feel
38:35
like he's just damned to always be an outcast, states that he will lead
38:39
like he'll leave Icemandale as well, but Bernard begs him to stay and watches
38:49
and to watch over Caddy breathe, and at last he's heard the words that
38:57
he has been waiting to hear for years, and he's told welcome home,
39:05
as ice wind Dale becomes his home. It's the end of so sure,
39:14
that's the end of the day. Okay, yeah, so there's a lot
39:23
in order too. I'm not gonna lie, I haven't finished reading the book.
39:29
Wow, but like, I like, I'm already at the part where
39:37
mcgristle came looking for came looking for Trists at Moshi's Castle. Quote unquote,
39:45
will you see mccrittle growth, I say, I hear mcgriddle. Yeah,
39:54
h it's that's official. That's how I'm gonna be reading his name for the
39:59
rest of the book. Griddle mcgriddle. Yeah, his name is mcgriddle.
40:02
His name is mcgriddel now. But yeah, no, fuck that guy.
40:07
I hate. I hated him to the entire book. I hated that guy.
40:13
I was like, shut up, as we all should. Yeah,
40:22
yay. What are your thoughts so far on what you have read in this
40:29
book, Jacob? This book is by far my favorite out of the three,
40:36
just because I love that Drists is now finally out of the underdark,
40:39
because the underdark obviously, yes, yeah, it's a bad place. Oh
40:45
yeah. That he that he walked away from menzelbeas in uh in the first
40:51
book. But the second book for me was hard to read because like,
40:54
he was just so alone and he was becoming more and more of a savage
41:02
uh in the decade that he spent alone. And I was really happy when
41:07
he met bell Wir because I love Bell. I loved him too. He
41:15
was such a good friend. Address and you know, I'm hoping no,
41:21
like, okay, I'm sorry, like I was. I was paying attention,
41:23
I promise. But mm hmm, like he had. He hasn't met
41:34
that elf child he saved. Has he? No? Okay, No he
41:40
has not, okay, because I'm hoping he does meet her, like and
41:46
maybe in in my books. I'm hoping that two. I only know so
41:54
much about the companions that he has, just because like I've played Never Winter
42:00
the the MMO, you know, so like Dritz is someone that you run
42:04
into. God that that barred that bard dude. Uh it's his name.
42:13
We came out him not too long ago, Jesus Christ, Oh my god,
42:17
what the hell is his name? Draw Axel, like like you you
42:30
run into draw Axel, You run into Caddy Brey, you run into Warhammer
42:36
like you know, going through Icemandale like you do run into them, You
42:39
run into these people everywhere, so like like, but I really hope that
42:47
he does run like how he ran into a bell Wir later on in life,
42:53
you know, like after he basically basically gave him mercy, saved Belar's
42:59
life doing that. So I'm hoping that he is able to see the I'm
43:04
not too sure though I can't say for sure. I know that him and
43:07
Caddygrey become an item. I know him and Caddygreed become an item, but
43:12
that's as far as like spoilers that I have of his story. Yeah,
43:17
and the next physical copy that I have is the one that my boyfriend gave
43:22
me, which is like twenty six books in two twenty six books later,
43:28
So I have like twenty six books I gotta read before I even read this
43:30
one. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go so like I'm I might just
43:37
do it Tomorrow. I'm gonna go to Barnes and Noble and see if I
43:39
can pick up the next volume for the series. And after, once I'm
43:45
done with with h reading fairy Tale, I'm definitely gonna read, like start
43:52
reading the next set of Drifts books because I'm obsessed. I love I love
43:55
this book so far. I love Yeah, No, I it's such a
44:00
good read, and so I gotta I gotta give you, I gotta give
44:09
you the this link. But like the Legend of Dritz books in order,
44:15
So after the Dark Elf trilogy, the next one that they say to read
44:21
is actually the Cleric Quintet, which it's I don't think it like it doesn't
44:30
follow Drits. Sorry this the these next five books in general are very uh
44:38
like they're all connected, they're all part of the same world, and I
44:42
think like Drits does get mentioned in these in these five books. Let me
44:47
see, so hold on. So the Crystal Shard, book four in the
44:59
Legend of dri series was actually the first book written, and the subsequte subsequent
45:07
books in the series, Streams of Silver and The Half Wings Gems, were
45:09
all written before Homeland, which is book one of the Legend of you know,
45:15
of the Legend of book series. So these books that he comes out
45:19
with, they don't come they didn't come out in chronological order, but we
45:23
are reading them in chronological order. So if you prefer to read the books
45:29
in order instead of in publication, you oh my god, we did not
45:36
go in order. We have to start with the Crystal Straw of the instead
45:42
of the order publication, start with the Crystal Shard, read the whole trilogy,
45:46
and then go back to the Dark Elf trilogy before continuing with the rest
45:51
of the series. So I think the next ones that we need to read
45:54
are the Crystal No. So in the volume. So in the volume of
46:08
the Legend of Drifts that I have at the very beginning, it does have
46:12
like a list of books for the Legend of Drifts, and right after the
46:16
third book, the next book in the on the list is The Crystal Shard.
46:22
So I think this list is informable. Well, so the Crystal the
46:29
Card is the fourth book of Drift series of his story, yes, but
46:34
with the whole like world that Drifts is in, like the Cleric Quintet,
46:42
it would be the next in that whole series because what happens with the Crystal
46:49
what is it? The Crystal Shard, It's gonna hold on. So the
47:00
Cleric Quintet is not included in the Legend of dRIT series order when the Wizards
47:06
of the Coast recover books and relisted the series. Strictly speaking, the Cleric
47:13
Quintet aren't Dritz books, but Catterly makes a cameo in the dRIT series.
47:20
So this Cleric makes a cameo and the person who's they're saying like it's essential
47:25
for reading the books, you need to read these five books next, because
47:31
it's essential for like what takes place later in the dRIT series, like why
47:38
this person is so important? Unless you don't want to do that and you
47:44
just want to do the drid series, then the next one would be the
47:46
Crystal Shark. It's tough because I want to read them, Okay, so
47:58
it says I do. I do too, says publication Order dictates that you
48:04
read them immediately after finishing both the Dark Elf Trilogy and the Ice Wind Del
48:07
trilogy, but before you start the legacy. This will help you understand Dridz
48:14
and Catterally better when the characters cross over. So okay, So it's saying
48:20
we do the Ice wand Del trilogy next, and then we read the quintet.
48:24
Okay, so then Crystal Shards, Streams of Sober and the Halfling Stem
48:30
that's the Yeah, the Iceland trilogy Okay. Cool. Well hopefully Yeah has
48:37
that trilogy available so I can just pick up. How much I spend on
48:40
this one? I have? I have mony books on audio on like for
48:52
audio books, that's I've been listening to them. I want the physical copies
48:58
eventually, though. Yeah. If I can't find the physical copy, I'm
49:05
probably just gonna start buying them on Kindle. Is it probably gonna be a
49:07
lot cheaper. Yeah. Here, I'm just I'm just gonna copy this link
49:14
and I'm gonna send it to you, send it through Discord so that we
49:19
have it because on the on the bottom of this of like this article,
49:23
it does have the it does have the like what books to like, what
49:34
to read in order. H I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward
49:43
to the next three books and and going forward part of with with the with
49:51
the recordings of the reviews of this or just telling the story of it.
49:53
We're gonna be going like in sets of like either you know, the the
50:00
next three or the next four, the next five, like in the series,
50:05
we're gonna review the series because there's so many of them. There's over
50:07
forty books, y'all, there's over there's over forty books. I'm not doing
50:13
forty separate episodes. So yeah, and it gives us time to actually read
50:21
the books. So yeah, we're gonna we're gonna take a break. Yeah,
50:24
it's read it out. Yeah, we're gonna spread out. We're gonna
50:28
take a break from the just novels because there's a lot and also we haven't
50:34
read them all yet, so Uh. Yeah, So we're gonna going back
50:39
to some other books. We're gonna go back to reviewing other Stephen King novels.
50:45
Devin, do you want to go ahead and review The Shining next?
50:50
Yes? Can you wait? Can you wait? Wait? Yes? Okay,
51:00
we can review that. Okay. The reason why I'm asking no,
51:07
no, no, asking is because I'm going on a trip to Colorado and
51:12
I want to be staying at the Stanley Hotel. And it's not going to
51:15
be any time like this is going to be within the next few months.
51:17
I don't know exactly what the exact date is, but I know it's before
51:21
November. But we're going to Colorado and we're gonna be staying at the Salley
51:25
Hotel. Oh, so you want to record while you're at the hotel?
51:32
Oh, that would be cool. But no, Well, what I want
51:37
to do while I'm at the Salley Hotel is I want to record my my
51:40
experience there, like we can add it to Spook as well, because I
51:45
know that there's going to be a time we're between the movie The Shining.
51:51
I just feel like it fits. It just fits because like if you wrote
51:54
this, we can could join together. Yeah, one for one whole week.
52:00
It's the Shining the book the movie. Yeah, for a whole week
52:07
for book watchers and spook, it's just the Shining for one week. Now,
52:14
that'd be so cool because I was like, because I, like I
52:16
said, I want to record my experience while I'm there. You know,
52:21
like we're looking into getting one of the haunted rooms, and like they give
52:29
us, uh the electric, the ants, the the e I don't know,
52:34
the electric, the the ones it measures, the electric magnetic fields,
52:40
the EMF detectors. There we go. I had to. I had to
52:44
walk myself through that, like the EMF detectors, and I have like a
52:50
I have a spirit box as well and stuff like that, and so like
52:52
for me to like I can record what's happening while we're there, and then
52:58
like dude, he wrote the book in this hotel, like it's I can't
53:07
wait. I'm so excited for this, jerm y'all. But all right,
53:13
well we can go ahead and yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Then
53:15
we can go ahead and put off the Shining, but then next week we
53:21
can just go and slot. We haven't done that, yeah, especially like
53:28
especially since there's like a bunch of vampire movies coming out, like Renfield just
53:31
came out. That's on Max right now, isn't it? Yes? I
53:36
think so. All right, I'm gonna watch it today, get ready for
53:39
Manipulations, and then also next month on the eleventh, uh, the Last
53:51
Voyage of the Demeter, and I'm looking forward to that. I saw the
53:54
trailer for it, and I'm like, yes, since we're since we're doing
54:01
the last and yeah, I'm gonna cut this part out, we should go
54:06
ahead and do Dracula afterward while we have while we have time, while we
54:13
read the fairy tale to the original drac Hel story. If you want me
54:16
to front run that one. I have read the book for Dracula. Yeah,
54:20
you can do it. I've read it too, but you can do
54:22
it. Hey, let's dude, vampires, Like, let's just do a
54:28
bunch of Yeah, Like, let's just do a bunch of vampire theme books.
54:30
I can think of a few. I've read a few. I'm down.
54:37
We could do Camela, the first vampire story that are lesbians. Wait
54:43
wait, wait, wait, do you want to have that book? Because
54:45
I haven't read it yet. I need to get it. I want to
54:46
get at it's up. Barnes and I want to get it though, but
54:50
it's a hardback, it's a little Anybody book, it's a novella, it's
54:52
a little price seed. So I'm like, I haven't gotten yet. I
54:54
fucking want to so bad. All right, for the next For the next
55:00
month or so, until the next vampire movie comes out, we're gonna be
55:02
doing vampire theme books. Yes, let's do it. Oh that's gonna oh
55:10
hell yeah, so much fun. Yeah all right, Well anyway, let's
55:15
go ahead and end things here because we've been recorded for a while and my
55:20
stomach has been like getting mad at me because it's like feed me, feed
55:23
me. So thank you guys, listen today's episode and catches next time I
55:29
talk about Salem's a lot. Until then, Bye bye, bye bye