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Yeah, absolutely. I need a gay crisis breakfast
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burrito from Sonic. That's verbatim what is called
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on the menu it. Is it's because of the feeling
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you get when it's coming out of your body?
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You're like, if I can shit this out, I can take anything up
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there. OK, so today we stole an Astor
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from the Japanese after Ivan von Finkleheimer said he could
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figure out the weaknesses. I doubt he'll be able to do it.
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The guy can't even form a sentence without looking like an
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absolute kook. But we did get to see what was
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going on at the base. There's 8 Astor's there.
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Well, seven now, but yeah, the Intel Sakamoto and that go with
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the big boobs goes. It seems to be pretty
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invaluable. So we open on pre dawn hours of
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a cold Japanese morning. There's a light dusting of snow
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on the ground and we see a a field with the surrounded by
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trees. It's the sort of quiet that can
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only happen in the pre dawn morning.
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As we zoom in on the woods we see the faint outline of a
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camouflaged Hyperion. So as we zoom in to Hyperion
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waiting, we go inside of it and we see Ace.
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In the quiet. All we can hear is the slightly
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beating heart of Hyperion. How is Ace feeling right now?
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Ace is feeling pretty scared. I think he's just trying to
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catch his breathing. And in his head he's just like,
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all right, Buck, look, you seen him before.
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You know what they can do. Don't let him down.
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Not again. What what preparations has he
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made for this fight? Let's see, I will tell you so.
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Absolutely. The chameleon cloak is on.
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He's not sure. Well, did we decide, are we
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sending them one at a time and we're just gonna, like, radio in
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when, like, each one is dealt with?
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OK, So then in that case he is he is like in the cover of a
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couple of trees with the Titan bow, which for the listeners is
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just this big wooden Longbow probably 15 or 20 feet high with
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the like the arrow being like a energized mechanical bolt made
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out of weave magic. So that is just like poised and
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ready as trained on the place where Rex said he would send the
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samurai Astor. Speaking of Rex, we see Rex in
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the Divine walking through the woods, trying his best to
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quietly make his way towards this factory site.
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How is Rex feeling? I think Rex is pretty chill.
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I think there's some rendition of the oh.
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What's the name of the song of Hwy. to the Danger Zone Like
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going through his head? All right, so a song that came
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out in the mid 80s playing through his head.
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Got it. The laws of physics don't work
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here. I've read Lord of the Rings
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before Lord of the Rings came out so.
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You may not like this, but your children, they're going to love
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this. Does he have any doubts or is he
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scared or anything about what's to come?
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See, if he would have asked this three days ago, before he got
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his ass whooped by two Samurai Max, he probably would have said
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yeah, But since he found out that this unknown God speaks to
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him when he gets his ass kicked, he doesn't really care.
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That's fair, that's fair. We see Cordelia in the
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Foxcatcher. How confident is Cordelia in
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herself and her team at this point?
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Cornelia is fairly confident in her team.
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I think she's questioning her leadership capabilities a little
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bit just because of the last few things that she's LED have not
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necessarily gone great. You know, there was that whole
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death on the beach and her tacitly endorsing and maybe even
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encouraging the dumping of water in Doctor Schmidt's shoes
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repeatedly by Rex. I think she's just trying to
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button down. She's let herself let go a
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little bit too much and isn't isn't quite sure of herself.
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So what she does know is how to do things by the book, and she's
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going to revert. So we see the everybody's watch
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is ticking towards 6 O 2:00 AM when Cordelia knows that the
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convoy that they're going to intercept is going to roll past
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their position. Is she is she in the Foxcatcher
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at this point or is she away from it with a team?
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I think she's away from it with a team.
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Like what? What's your plan to stop this
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convoy? I think their plan is almost
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like a guerrilla worker style tactic.
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They're going to surprise the convoy.
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They've probably laid Not IE D's necessarily, but like tripwire
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explosives along this certain stretch of the path and they
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plan on stopping the first truck and swarming the rest of the
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convoy, just moving very, very quickly to take advantage of the
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element of surprise. They may have also put like land
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mines in the road itself, but I think it's it's mostly about
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destroying the fuck out of the first truck and the last truck
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in the line so that nobody can get away.
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As radon schedule because the the rebels have been pretty
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accurate on their information right on time the first truck
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rolls past your position. Let's see should it be a roll?
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No, I think I think everything goes to plan for this.
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So it rolls past your your particular position up a little
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bit to where you have the mine set and it triggers the first
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mine and and disables the vehicle.
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How do you take the rest of? Exquisite.
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I as that happens, I think Cordelius informed her entire
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group. How many guys do you think she
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has with her? It's it is you, your squad of
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Marines, and probably maybe a dozen rebels.
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Nice. OK, so it's so squad.
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Would you feel like 6-6 or seven Marines?
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Yeah. Would you feel like it's enough
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then to feasibly get two people at each truck in this convoy?
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Yeah, OK, great. I mean, that's the plan of
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action is to get two people, one on either side of the cab of
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each truck in the convoy to remove the drivers and remove
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any potential guards and identify threats and again, just
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working as quickly as possible. Before we what, what, what tags
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are you going to put in your support company?
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Oh, that is a great question that I should have.
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What load out are you? Going to consider.
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Oh God I didn't even think about this.
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I think blitz for sure. Blitz for sure.
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And then I get 3 tags right? Or is it 2?
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You get 2. OK, yeah, Blitz indecisive
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Cordelia knows that their best chance here is speed, and that
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that's the only way to make this work in a way that's not going
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to immediately tip off the warehouse personnel all.
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Right roll me two D 6 + 2. 2D6. +2 it'll be your your clash plus
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one for having. Oh oh boy, that is a 13.
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Yeah, all. Right.
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That's the first. Time I've Your plan executes
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beautifully. Everybody moves up and do you
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just are there orders to shoot the driver and.
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Yeah, we don't have rations for prisoners on the Fox catcher.
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I can't deal with this many people.
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Even if you didn't, I think the rebels would have anyways.
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Yeah, well. We've shot them just because.
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We've. Your goal is to take these
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trucks. We've been spending a lot of
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time with Rex. It's rubbing off on us.
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Yeah, you. You roll up, you couple quick
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shots in each cockpit, just each cab to take down the driver and
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passenger. And easier than you thought it
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would be. Which is horrifying.
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The Cordelia, like the fact that it's so easy has her overwhelmed
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with anxiety because she's like, what did I miss?
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Where's the challenge here? This cannot be that easy.
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What's the catch? What am I missing?
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How do you handle these trucks now?
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What's your goal now? Immediately it's going to begin
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like an inventory, like a very, very quick inventory to take
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stock of what the situation is so that she can report it to Ace
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and to Rex, the strike team at the factory, so that they know
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what they're walking into and like part of this is
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understanding what's going on inside.
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Right, so the first four trucks are pretty mundane.
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There's nothing but scrap steel and copper that are assumedly
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used to build the Zeros. Same with the next two trucks,
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or a couple crates of electronics.
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The last three trucks, one of which you've destroyed, you pull
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back the sheet covering it, and what you find are a whole bunch
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of small cages, each of which have what you would assume to be
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the intended pilots. Oh, of these Zeros.
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Good. As soon as you pull it back, you
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are immediately assaulted by these.
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They almost look feral, unfed, unclothed humanoids with glowing
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purple eyes better just trying to get at you through the cage.
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Cool, cool, cool. Jesus Christ.
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I think Cordelia is immediately on the radio with Ace and with
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Rex and I don't, I don't think she knows what she would say.
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Actually, I don't think she would be on the radio.
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I I think she is too stunned to. So your your goal is to destroy
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the last truck as well, correct? Yeah, at least like
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incapacitated past the point of being useful anymore.
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So with what I rolled, I think a couple of these humans get out
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and start like rushing the team. Yeah, I think Cordelia gives
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orders to to shoot to kill the escaped ones, especially if they
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seem like they're hostiles. As upsetting as this is for her,
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she's not going to lose a team member.
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After they're shot and they're taken down, you see out of the
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the the holes of the gunshots is a a black purple mist almost.
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Oh good, that's. Even into the ether.
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Yeah, I don't think Cordelia radios Ace and Rex.
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I think she radios back to Doctor Schmidt to try and to
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describe to him what is going on.
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And I think she starts coordinating her team to get
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these humans. Ish the these things back to
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base camp so that they can be studied and I.
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All right, Rex, you, you are. You approach the intended site
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of your ambush and when you get to the factory site, you realize
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that there is now on top of the samurais that there were
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yesterday, it is also swarmed with zeros.
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OK, around the place. OK.
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Because taking one of the guards out the day before put the
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factory at high alert. OK, OK, we can deal with that.
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It's fun. It's nothing.
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A radio through to Ace and Cordelia, which is like just
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just a heads up. Got more bogeys at the factory.
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How many zeros can I see from the vantage point I've got?
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Probably 2025. There's a 2025 extra zeros here
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than there was yesterday seems like.
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It seems like we left them on high alert after the little
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espionage trick yesterday. Shocker, Do you need backup?
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I'll do the best I can for now. If needs be, I'll just have to
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bring Ace here. I'll.
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Be on standby if you need to. We've encountered something
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indescribably bad, but it shouldn't affect your own
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mission. I'll update you after this.
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Fun. I think Ace this whole time he's
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just been completely silent. He hears this on the radio and I
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think you guys just hear like a like a bird called in response.
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He's he's locked the fuck in. Oh yeah.
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He's beyond the point of human speech.
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Good for him. Ace, as you're sitting there and
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you're, you're prepared, you feel this, this eagerness that's
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not doesn't seem to come from you.
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You get the sense that Hyperion wants this as well.
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Is this like, is this like a bloodlust or is this like a?
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No, this is it's pissed at what happened to it, and it wants to
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prove that it can handle itself. All right, so then I think Ace,
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I I assume there's some kind of like a neural connection in
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addition to the hard drive. Yeah.
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OK, so then I think Ace still doesn't speak.
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And in his head, he's just like, all right, here's the question,
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and anybody can answer this Hyperion boy or girl.
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That's up to you. I I imagined it as yeah, that
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too. I mean because it's a tree.
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Yeah. All right, it is a it is both.
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Hyperion has she her pronouns like is she?
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So I think Ace, in his head, he's just like, all right, girl,
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let you know what we got. Yeah, and, and Rex, as you sort
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of prepare for this fight, I feel like you were in like a
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squatted position, Rex, outside of your control, the divine has
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stood up and drawn its sword and shield.
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OK, sick. You do get the sense of
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bloodlust. OK question, does the because I
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am connected through the hard drive do I then get the blood
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bust as well? You get the sensation of it, but
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it's up to you whether you want to let it like.
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It's still like a separate entity.
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Oh oh. Is that like your first bad
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role? That was that was Snake Eyes.
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That's the first time I've got Snake Eyes this entire time.
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Yeah. Let's the blood loss take over
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him all. Right, go ahead and mark a
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spotlight for that too. Yeah, that will.
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Damn. Holy shit.
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So yeah. And since you're doing this, I
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want you to roll the swordy. That's a 12 day. 10 plus you
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make to the action unscathed. All right, all right, so with
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your 12 on Lita sortie, you'll let the bloodlust take over you
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and you rush down into this combat.
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As soon as you break the tree line, everything goes haywire
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basically. OK, I imagine over the comms
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Cordelia and Ace would hear. I don't know if any of you have
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watched Berserk or read Berserk. The scream that Guts does like
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when he's like angry and getting into a bloodlust.
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It's like the most blood blood curling angry man scream going
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and they'll hear that over the over the comms as the divine
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just fucking starts slashing away at these different asters
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and zeros. I think Cordelia, you hear
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Cordelia you hear on your radio, just a whisper from from Ace
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Lieutenant. I feel he's gone Super Saiyan.
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Cordelia begins to pace like a father in a waiting room.
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Rex, are you going to follow the plan at all?
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Are you going to drop any portals or anything?
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OK, so. Are you just going to leave
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everybody out with Ace? Ace and Cordelia both a couple
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miles out. I'm going to, I'm going to send
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portals, but they're not going to be.
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I've seen the inside of a cockpit of these Japanese
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samurai mechs, so this was going to be my backup plan, but I feel
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like all other plans are out of the window now as I'm fighting,
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I want to be making portals inside the cockpit of these
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samurai mechs to drop the men from space.
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And because I'd have more control in the Divine than I
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would outside, I feel like I could do it two or three at a
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time with this, because I'm fighting.
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I just want to be just dropping you.
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You just see the mechs dropping as the pilots are being shut
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out. Oh no.
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I would say roll a channel with disadvantage.
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That's a 10. 10 All right, So I, I think with A10, I was kind of
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thinking in order to fully do what you were going to do, you
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really needed to crit because you're trying to do very fine
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controls. Well, also in a in a bloodlust.
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So I, I, I think like you can drop some portals, but they're
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not going to be as accurate as you want them to be and they
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might just be like more inconvenient towards whatever
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you're trying to do. And I'm also going to say, since
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you're going for this on your own basically and not calling it
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any sort of help, I'm going to put your, I'm going to give you
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a danger swarmed. OK, Cordelia, what's your plan
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at this point? Oh, God, I think, I think
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obviously the homunculus situation is pretty pressing,
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but also she heard the, you know, the crazy bloodlust scream
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on the other end of calms. And I think she's a little bit
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concerned about what's going on with Rex.
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And she does know that despite them being friends now, which is
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weird, that he is 100% a loose cannon.
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And I think she's probably concerned that him screaming
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like that meant that something set him off and that he's
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probably not following through with the plan in the way that we
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had originally discussed. And she is, I think, gonna go
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try and micromanage and make her way that way, especially after
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what he said about the extra zeros.
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I think she wants to be closer in case something happens.
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And I think she sent the majority of her squad back with
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the homunculi. OK.
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Was the foxcatcher nearby? Did you leave it close?
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Yeah, the Foxcatcher is nearby. It was far enough away to like
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not be spotted from the road, but I think it's close enough
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that she and her core crew can get to it probably within like
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5-6. Miles away.
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They they covered it in debris, I say.
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I, I'm sure that the Foxcatcher has some sort of like like a
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cloak net or like a camo netting you can throw over it that sort
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of makes it surprisingly camouflaged for like air based
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stuff and just it, it makes it really hard to see.
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Just looks like a big rock. So basically it's going to be
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you and your crew and then you're going to leave all of
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your soldiers with the with the convoy at this point.
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Yeah, the soldiers have been given orders to return the
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convoy to base camp and she has radioed Dr. Schmidt to let him
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know that they are on their way to him.
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All right, so you, you rush over to the the Foxcatcher and
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basically you're going to attempt to make all speed
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towards the factory. Yeah, we're hauling fucking ass.
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All right, Ace, you heard the scream and nothing's happened so
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far as far as your end. I think Ace is going to go back
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to the comms. I imagine he tries to Rex, Rex,
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you there. Come on, follow a plan.
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But he just. You're screaming.
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Shit. All right, Radios Cordelia.
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Lieutenant, he's gone. What do you want me to do?
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I am on my way to his location now.
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I think we should rendezvous. All right, I'm on my way and I
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think Ace is going to just kind of shake his head and be like,
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this plane was so well laid out. All right, fine.
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He's going to sheath the Titan bow, He's going to grab his ray
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rifle and have that ready. And he's going to I think he's
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just going to start. He's just going to start running
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to the location. And all the while now I think
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he's speaking again and he's just like, all right, you and
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me, we're going to show him what what we're really made of out
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here. Yeah, I feel like because you're
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running through the woods, basically the Hyperion has
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special like movement capabilities because you're
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basically running through trees. And it being a tree, it can they
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can sort of shrink and grow to find the the spots and weave.
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And you're making very good time through these woods, but you're
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still several minutes out. Yeah.
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Rex. Hi.
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Roll me a clutch as you are fighting everything at the same
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time. 9. 9 All right, I feel like you take you you'd have to
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take another risk. I'll leave it to you probably
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I'd say something along the lines of like damaged.
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Cool, cool. You do have your resistance
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charm you can use if you want to, but.
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Not yet, not ready for it. How are you like organizing
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these fights? Like how are you trying to take
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down the little guys first? Are you trying to focus the
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samurais? What are you just waiting?
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Whatever gets close to you, basically.
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I'm I'm considering it's going to be like a war of attrition.
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It's whatever's in front of me gets attacked.
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OK. Which if there's a Zero there,
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it's getting punted. If it's a samurai, it's getting
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attacked. It doesn't matter what.
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Yeah, you know, it's dangerous no matter what, but I feel like
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Rex is probably smiling. If you're going into war craze
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blood lust. I feel like this is the kind of
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thing that would make you happy. You know, when I decided to make
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this decision of your pastors trying to influence you, I
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didn't expect this is how it would go, but I'm very happy
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that it did because I think it's going to play really well into
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what I have planned so. Frightening sentence.
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Frightening sentence. I don't.
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Know for a couple moves from now though.
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Yeah, this is great. Here's what I want you to roll.
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At this point. I want you to roll on your
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gravity clock for your God. Oh shit, what do you roll, +2?
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Right 11. 11 So as you're as you're fighting off these zeros,
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there's there's movements that the divine is making that are
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almost, they're preternaturally aware of what's about to happen.
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So as you're swinging at one thing on your right, your left
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arm is coming across the block, a zero that you didn't even know
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was there. OK, there's a there's a samurai
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guy that has a gun that you've blocked every shot for at this
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point and just not even thinking about it.
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And you, you hear this secondary laughing that's not yours.
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Also in your head. Oh, that would just drive the
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the madness even more. But it's you feel like that
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without whatever's going on, you might not be faring as well as
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far at this point. I'm cool.
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This is since he's got this hard drive and every time he's
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ignited it, he's gotten a bit crazy, you know, with a bit of a
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psychotic smile. And for him to be able to just
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sort of let go of his inhibitions, you can release his
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inhibitions and feel the rain on his skin.
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No one else can do it for you man.
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Yeah, exactly. You know, he's he's probably
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just letting it happen. You know, if this secondary
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laughing, which I'm assume, which he's assuming is this God
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is like, oh, I'll, I'll block this for you while you're taking
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on that. He's just going to let it happen
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because he doesn't have to fight using common sense and tactics.
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He can fight on reflex that way, which is more of his style of
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thing to do. Cordelia, you have at this
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point, you're in the foxcatcher and you are unlike Ace, who's
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sort of weaving between the trees.
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You're just acting like the trees don't exist at.
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This point and why would I need to?
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I have treads, I am a fucking war machine and I am fully
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confident. I'm assuming at this point I'm
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able to hear some of the conflict because there's no way
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this is quiet. Oh absolutely not.
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Actually, roll me plus sense. Plus sense.
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Oh what is my plus sense ever roll?
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This will be this will be a weather the storm roll.
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That is a nine and plus one on my sense.
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A9 All right. You make it to within what would
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be normally visual range if you weren't in the woods.
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And as you basically Crest this hill or breakthrough these woods
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and you see the factory, you see the front doors open and you see
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several dozen more zeros. Exquisite.
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Flooding out. Exquisite.
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Thankfully for for Rex, the Foxcatcher is colossal and loud
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and is that way very intentionally to draw fire.
27:47
So I think Cordelia's first mode of action once she's like within
27:52
visual range, is to get at least a good portion of these zeros,
27:58
if not a couple of the samurais focused on her instead of on a
28:04
Rex. That while she doesn't, I don't
28:06
think she has like a visual contact with Rex yet, does she?
28:09
Not, not quite, no. He's probably I think he's
28:12
fighting. Unfortunately I lost the map in
28:15
in the move, but there was the he's basically behind it sort of
28:19
that you remember. The the Yeah, I I remember.
28:22
The layout, yeah, I came in on the one side and then there's
28:24
Woods on the back. Yeah.
28:25
So you're coming in from the roadside and he's fighting on
28:27
the backside. So the zeros that were coming
28:30
out the front are would have to go around the building to get to
28:32
him. Great, so they see me before
28:34
they see him, even if they have orders to attack him.
28:38
Yeah, I think I would like to try to use my B plot to what's
28:43
the exact phrasing of this? Oh my God, this.
28:47
Deny an actor from appearing in the sortie?
28:49
They're busy, possibly with the same thing as you.
28:52
Cut away from the sortie. Give another player confidence
28:55
in our next move, but complicate things for yourself.
28:58
Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably the the closest is as
29:03
far as what's on the list. Yeah, the confidence and then
29:07
obviously complicating things for myself.
29:09
So at least Rex can be confident that they're obviously being
29:13
Yeah, for me, the complication is being under attack.
29:15
But for Rex, the confidence is coming from the fact that he's
29:18
not having to deal with reinforcements.
29:23
OK is treat ones the sixes? Cool.
29:27
OK, hell yeah. Not that you really need that
29:30
because you don't really roll a whole lot of watts, but I think
29:33
the fewer. Snake eyes earlier.
29:35
That's true. I.
29:35
Did roll snake. I did roll snake eyes.
29:38
Today, I think the fewer direct attacks that Rex is taking right
29:42
now while we wait for the big gun ace to get here and help
29:45
bail us out, the better. OK, you really think it'd be
29:50
like? That shut up the big gun.
29:51
You didn't hear that? Cornelius scribbles something
29:56
furiously on the clipboard that she's clutching, white knuckles
29:58
in her hands. If you look at it like the
30:03
camera just like pans over her shoulder, it says make sure to
30:06
demean Ace later. On the line 8 times, yeah.
30:19
Speaking of Ace, I think you're within range to maintain your
30:25
stealth at this point if you're not moving as fast.
30:29
So you're still you're still under cloak, but you're not
30:33
quite to the area yet. But you have an option of how to
30:36
approach at this point. OK, I think Ace's first thought
30:41
is the team needs me let me go busting in.
30:44
And then Ace stops. Like I think, I think Hyperion
30:49
almost stops Ace and in that split second of like, hey wait a
30:56
second, why? Why aren't we moving?
30:58
Ace remembers that he is not meant for front lines combat and
31:05
he's just like, all right. I got some.
31:08
So still in in viz. I don't think that goes away
31:13
unless I'm like hit. Nope, no, you're still good.
31:15
OK, cool. So Ace is going to once again
31:19
take a knee like probably right on the edge of the forest so
31:22
that he's able to see this like this combat and he's going to
31:28
try and go. So you said there are these like
31:31
swarms of zeros, right? OK would I be able to use weave
31:37
magic to essentially take this like Longbow shot and have it
31:42
like what? What's the weapon called?
31:45
The thing where it's like it's like 1 missile that splits into
31:48
a bunch of ladle. Baby missiles like a fleshet.
31:51
Yeah. Yeah, you could have paid me
31:53
£1,000,000 and never would have ever been able to tell that and
31:56
tell you it was that word. I I essentially want to like
32:01
from stealth take out like I don't know as many of these
32:06
zeros that I can in one hit and just be like just help out the
32:12
team. Yeah, we'll, we'll make it.
32:14
We'll we'll call it a, a clash or actually know what, we'll
32:18
call it a. It'll be strike decisively and
32:22
you'll roll it with your channel.
32:24
OK, cool. OK, here we go.
32:26
That's a good first roll. Oh, that's a good second roll.
32:32
That's gonna be a 14. Hot shit.
32:36
All right, on A10 plus, you strike true characters are
32:39
killed, forced to retreat, move. OK, so yeah, you get to the edge
32:42
of the woods and you Crouch down and the camera, all I can see is
32:46
just these two glowing green eyes by period as it takes aim.
32:50
And you draw your bow back, and you fire, and just before it
32:52
reaches this crowd, your arrow splits apart, and it takes out
32:56
an entire group of these zeros. And I think I think out loud
33:03
this time, you guys hear that same kind of like low whistle
33:06
that almost sounds like a bird call.
33:08
And since you rolled so well, you still maintain your stealth.
33:11
As well. Hell yeah.
33:19
Rex you you as you're fighting, you're about to fight the squad
33:25
and all of a sudden you see him just get obliterated by a bunch
33:27
of wooden arrows. I, I, I imagine it's like 1,
33:33
like a fluorescent green bolt, just like comes out from the
33:36
forest and splits into, I don't know, like 9 or 10 almost like
33:42
like whirling, you know, you know, like the fireworks that
33:45
just like spin. Spiral.
33:47
Yeah, it's like 9 or 10 of those that hone in on these zeros and
33:51
just. OK, well that's one less thing
33:57
for him to fight. So I think Rex isn't even going
33:59
to think about it. You know, blood Blast and all
34:03
he's going to said look for the next enemy.
34:05
How many samurais would you say is still?
34:08
I feel like you've probably taken down like one, maybe 2 at
34:11
this point, so there's still 3 up.
34:13
OK, sit sit proposal. If I am doing war God's smite
34:21
but with my God helping me, does that change anything?
34:25
Let's see, let's see what happens in your role.
34:31
It won't change your role because you I'm not going to
34:32
give you a buff on a + 3 already.
34:36
Screw you, it's cool. I don't need.
34:40
The buff because I got confidence as well so I don't
34:42
need. Do you say 2 sixes?
34:48
I got I got a six and a one, but oh, OK, perfect the confidence.
34:52
Works out exactly perfectly. Nice.
34:54
That is sweet. So that's a 15, Sir.
34:57
Oh. Yes, OK.
34:59
So yeah, with with the confidence of there being only
35:04
these guys left depression say only these guys left, but mostly
35:07
these guys left you, how do you, how do you deal?
35:15
I imagine this, I imagine this is different to how he normally
35:19
would have done it normally, you know, like he man swords it and
35:23
throws it in the air. But I think this time, just
35:26
because he could probably do more damage than just thrusting,
35:30
he's going to cleave through the air.
35:34
But there's just going to be a part all that's the length of
35:37
the swing that will just come and like cleave different areas
35:42
of these samurai mix. Nice.
35:44
Gouging parts out. All right, yeah, they're they're
35:48
still up because they have more than one risk, but you
35:52
definitely hit all of them with a solid a solid hit.
35:56
Oh yeah. Cordelia, you are you are about
36:01
to be swarmed by a couple dozen of these zeros. 100% I think
36:06
Cordelia's plan. I mean she's done this on
36:09
purpose but she hasn't thought very far ahead.
36:12
I think she wants to use her her watch this to get out of their
36:20
way but like pull them with her like a swarm of mosquitoes
36:24
following after someone effectively I now.
36:29
I, I, I will say I you can do that, but that does cost three
36:32
of your spotlight, but you're only one away from levelling up.
36:35
Oh. God, you're right.
36:37
Oh, that's annoying. You can do it.
36:40
Don't get me wrong, you're you're more than welcome to do
36:42
it. I just wanted to say you you
36:44
level up at 5 spotlight and you have 4 at the moment.
36:46
No, I know. I know.
36:49
Now you know what? OK, OK.
36:51
I still have more B plot I can use.
36:53
I I still have two held B plots. I'm gonna I'm gonna do that
36:56
before I go crazy, I think. Do we consider this particular
37:02
swarm of zeros as an actor or? So I sort of treat these taking
37:11
stuff from the from the Genesis system.
37:13
There's Minions, Rivals and Nemesis.
37:16
Minions are just sort of the generic grunts that do stuff.
37:20
The nemesis are what I'm calling the the samurais, so they
37:24
actually have health individually.
37:26
And then a nemesis. You haven't fallen yet, so
37:28
that's more like a boss. Creature.
37:31
So I, I, I'm calling like a squad of these one or two
37:34
actors. OK, solid.
37:36
'Cause they act in you isn't. Yeah, I am going to deny them
37:40
from appearing during the sorting.
37:41
For everybody else, I want them to be my problem.
37:46
And I think I'm going to pull them to a situation where I have
37:49
visuals on Rex at least. So like the side of the building
37:54
between the front and the back, obviously that's the side of the
37:57
building. Riley, you an idiot.
38:02
And so so that at least I have like a visual on what's going on
38:05
with Rex because I am micromanaging this to some
38:09
extent while I deal with this squad of Zeros myself.
38:15
So are you looking to actively fight them or are you just sort
38:19
of going to defend yourself against them?
38:21
Basically, would you rather roll an exchange clothes or weather
38:23
the storm? I would rather roll a weather
38:25
the storm. I think she wants them like on.
38:28
Let's call it plus define OK. Yeah, I think Cordelia wants
38:31
them like attached to the physical body of the Boxcatcher
38:33
itself. Without.
38:35
Yeah, you know, it's, it's incredibly well armored, so it's
38:39
not like. Yeah.
38:41
It's going to go down and I have a plus do it magnetized so that
38:44
oh baby, sorry, two sixes +2. I've never rolled so fucking
38:54
well in my life. Yeah, so with I, I'd say with
38:59
your weather, the storm, you, you managed to keep them
39:02
basically occupied around yourself and you're sort of
39:05
using 'cause you have point defense guns, right?
39:07
Yeah, basically like smaller guns and you're sort of using
39:10
those to take them out, just sort of picking them off as
39:13
they're they're around you. You're not bringing your big gun
39:16
to bear, but you're sort of using your your smaller weapons.
39:19
Yeah, it's meant to be. Occupy them, waste their time,
39:22
keep them away from the more deadly up close combat.
39:26
Oh, you also have armor plating. I have armor plating so you
39:30
could. You could ward one away if I'd
39:31
given you a danger, all right. Yes, I did put some amount of
39:36
thought into this. All right, so back-to-back to
39:47
Ace. So you saw Rex do this crazy.
39:50
I think because you're coming from the South, you sort of have
39:54
a good angle at this point to see both Rex on the east side
39:58
and Cordelia on the West side, and you can sort of do what you
40:02
want with that information. Well, Kyle?
40:07
Yes. What does Hyperion want to do?
40:11
Oh Hyperion. Hyperion I think sees the the
40:17
now somewhat wounded samurais and would really like to take
40:22
one of those out in revenge for itself.
40:26
Yeah, Ace cheeses Titan bow, grabs his force knife and he's
40:32
just he almost like sits back in the cockpit and he's just like,
40:36
this is all you. I'm here, but this is you.
40:41
Tell me what to roll. So would you drop your chameleon
40:45
cloak? Yeah, you know what I think,
40:47
Hyperion, this is personal. OK, so you're going to take
40:51
revealed? Yep, because you're dropping
40:55
your cloak. Roll.
40:57
Me roll me a a clash, just an exchange blows.
41:02
We'll see what happens. 6/7. Seven, both you and your target
41:08
are forced to take a risk. So I will say these things have
41:10
two risks. So you'll take one down, I
41:14
think. I think the risk you're forced
41:17
to take is is the revealed because I don't really want to
41:22
give you 2, two risks back-to-back, same turn.
41:25
But yeah, tell me what happens. Yeah.
41:28
So I think Hyperion, you know, acting on its own, essentially
41:34
it springs up as this like, so it it's almost like holding on
41:41
to this horse knife like at its hip.
41:45
It runs on to the battlefield, reveals itself in front of one
41:50
of these heavily damaged samurai asters and just grabs the knife
41:55
stabs into its head. Nice.
41:59
Yeah, it it sees you too late to do anything about it, and it it
42:02
takes the hit and goes down. Rex.
42:05
What? What how are you going to?
42:06
There's basically only a couple of these zeros left with
42:10
Cordelia taking care of them. And there's two of these
42:13
samurais left. I think one of them is on top of
42:16
the building with a gun and the other one's.
42:19
As you say, I'm I'm reflexively just flocking.
42:23
I'm going to aim for the one in front of me for now and I'm
42:28
going to fucking calima it fucking break.
42:33
Take the cockpit out. That's my goal anyway.
42:36
All right, we'll call that in exchange blows. 10. 10, you're
42:44
OK, yeah, you kill. So you reach in, you basically
42:47
RIP out this pilot and but you crush them in your hand
42:50
basically. Oh yeah. 100% just treat them
42:53
the same as that first Paul Samurai.
42:55
As to that, I did it too. All right with, with one samurai
43:01
left on top of the building there, you everybody sees him
43:06
sort of drop his weapon and he pulls out his sword and he
43:11
everybody hears over your radio. Oh, now it's time to get fun.
43:16
And a bunch of all of the Zeros that are still remaining,
43:20
including the ones swarming Cordelia, basically fly at this
43:24
guy. And he basically takes his
43:26
Cortana, does a big swipe, destroys all of them.
43:30
And all of this energy that Cordelia saw in these pilots
43:34
begins to flow out. And because all of this purple
43:38
black energy begins to flow into this last guy.
43:44
Does this This is only for flavor, but as Ace and Hyperion
43:48
are seeing this, does this trigger woodland whispers?
43:52
I don't know if this is like. Yes, I think it would.
43:56
The suffering being basically the beings within and not only
44:01
does it do you sense suffering, but you sense on their death,
44:04
peace, like they were living and like suffering and now it is
44:09
gone. Basically as this energy flows
44:11
out of them and all of that suffering that you feel begins
44:15
to flow into this samurai on top of the on top of the building.
44:22
Can I, can I share this with the group just on the comms?
44:25
Just be like, all right, So they found a way to use suffering as
44:30
a weapon, and that's what's happening right now.
44:33
Yeah, gross. We're going to talk about this
44:35
later. I found something that has a lot
44:37
to do with what's going on, but gross.
44:41
Great. I mean horrible, but great.
44:43
Yeah. Rex you see this thing look at
44:55
you as its eyes begin to glow purple and big black spikes
45:00
begin to grow out of its armor. And it sort of looks and it
45:03
points its sword at you and goes, I've had enough of your
45:06
shit and it jumps down and rushes at you and it's sword
45:11
glowing in this purple energy. I've got goosebumps and I'm not
45:15
even really there. OK, Rex will again throw his
45:21
shield up, grab the great start, and just fucking Sprint into
45:25
battle. OK, roll me, roll me a weather
45:30
the storm. And, and just so you know,
45:32
before you roll this, this is the roll.
45:35
Oh shit. Oh God, weather the storm.
45:42
What do I roll with that holy? Shit plus Defy.
45:53
Fuck. Oh shit, 14.
45:55
A14A14 all right. That was a dip 3040.
46:00
No, wait, wait, no, I read wrong.
46:03
I read wrong. Your brain turned off because I
46:05
got psyched out right by you. Tell me it was wrong.
46:08
It's an 1111. OK, that's fine.
46:11
It's still a pass. It's not a crit pass, but it's a
46:13
pass still. So Rex, they're not not Rex Ace.
46:17
And I feel like with everything moving around, Cordelia would be
46:20
able to get an angle on this as well.
46:22
You see Rex fighting like he's never fought before this.
46:29
This shadowed samurai thing begins to slash at him.
46:34
He's taking damage. He's dealing damage.
46:36
Neither of these two machines seems to be going down.
46:39
At one point, you see the samurai basically do this crazy
46:43
fast spin move around. The divine takes out the back of
46:49
one of its legs and it stabs its sword through Rex's cockpit.
46:53
And that's where we get this episode.
46:55
Oh shit.