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Final Hope Interlude 3: Jekyll and Hyde · The Multiverse Collective

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  We we see Max being carried by Fireman, carried by Spencer as
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  she's running back towards the purred while Max is under the
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  control of this mycelium. And Max pops the alien Dramamine
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  that he got off tabs all those weeks ago and boom, lights out.
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  Max. You wake up in like a, you open
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  your eyes and you're not in a in a dark void.
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  There's nothing around you. It's just you.
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  And yet like it's like and you have this feeling of like
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  existential dread. Oh fuck.
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  Me is Max like laying like laying down or is it just?
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  Like you saw just it feels like you lay in a puddle.
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  All right, I think Max is going to try and like, see if he can
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  sit up. Yeah.
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  You, you set up perfectly fine and when you look around, it's
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  just darkness. But it's not darkness where your
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  eyes haven't adjusted. It's like darkness where you can
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  see everything and it's, and it's weird and you feel, as I
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  say, you feel existential dread within, within you.
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  You feel like there's two forces attacking you at the same time.
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  And it's just whichever way you want to lean.
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  Do you want to lean to the one that's trying to control you, or
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  the one that's trying to free you?
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  I mean, I think Max would try and lean into the one that's
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  trying to free him. OK, so Max stands up and starts
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  walking to this energy that seems like it's pulling away
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  from the grasp of something you can't see.
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  And as he as he starts walking towards this, this force, images
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  of Spencer, Murphy, Sarah, your little brother and sisters, your
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  parents, all start flashing on the screen.
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  Like it's like a massive cinema screen, like all around you and
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  all these different people are there.
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  And, you know, Spencer looks like she's in her 30s now and
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  she's fighting, but she's losing this battle against a horde of
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  enemies. You see Murphy, he looks to be
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  in the, in a vacuum space on his own.
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  His, his helmet's cracked and he's losing oxygen quickly.
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  Sarah is working at the homeless shelter when things go wrong and
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  some of the people start getting violent and start going to
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  attack her. The little brothers and sisters,
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  they've grown up now, but the part of a horrendous alien
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  invasion back on Earth and I'm not sure.
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  Are Max's parents still alive now?
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  I'm pretty sure we said. I don't know if we ever.
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  I know we. Talked about Max's parents.
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  I know that like Max's grandma. Basically I I think we
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  determined that Max's grandma basically raised him and his
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  siblings. Yeah.
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  So I think, I don't know, maybe I'll have to go back to the
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  books. Like if you're asking me right
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  now, I think at this point Max's parents are alive, but they've
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  been out of the picture since Max was a little kid.
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  OK. Like basically the only time
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  he's seen them since he was like 7 or 8 was when they came to
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  drop off his siblings at his grandma's house.
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  OK. Yeah, OK, maybe they're the ones
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  you don't care about in this whole situation, but you see
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  them and they're on the deathbed on their own, nobody around
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  them. And as you walk in and these
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  videos are playing you, you sort of feel like these chains sort
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  of holding you in place. So you can't and and you want to
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  go and help every single one of these situations.
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  And it's it's heavy. These chains, they feel like
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  they're made of lead and you're being pulled into the ground.
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  How How would Max feel watching all of these things happening at
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  the same time? I think immediate, like Max's
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  immediate reaction is he tries to go into problem solving mode
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  like how can I, how can I, how can I help everybody at the same
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  time? And I think as these chains just
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  kind of like weigh more and more upon him, I think he just comes
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  to the realization watching all of these occur at the same time.
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  He's just like, I'm not going to be able to help everybody at the
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  same time. And I think Max just
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  internalizes it as like this is his fault because obviously he's
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  not there in everybody's moment of need and he's here.
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  And I think he just, I almost think when he feels these chains
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  like weighing him down, I almost think he like he like goes with
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  it for a little bit just like, well, here I am not, you know,
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  not being able to help the people that I love the most in
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  their time of need. So like what?
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  Like what am I even doing? Yeah, I know, I know.
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  As as this is happening, you hear that?
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  That my Sillian voice again. Let's remember it.
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  But let's see if I can remember the my Sillian voice because
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  it's been a while. Yes, I'm pretty sure it was
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  something like. You see, Max, this is what
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  happens when you're not part of the hive giants.
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  Max, come to us. Fuck I'd like to do.
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  I feel like Max can can Max like look like behind him over his
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  shoulder towards that like initial force that was pulling
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  in towards. Yeah, and when you look over
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  everything, all the all the videos on that side is
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  everybody's happy living. And but everyone seems
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  different. Everyone seems to sort of be
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  sort of like robotically doing things instead of freely doing
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  them. It's like someone's telling them
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  how to live, not them living themselves.
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  How? How weird can I get here?
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  Get as weird as you want, you're on drugs man.
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  OK. So I think, I think this just
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  kind of like overloads Max's system and I think he splits
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  into two people. Oh shit, Superman moment.
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  Yeah. So one of them is the Max.
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  That's like it. Basically, it's like Jekyll and
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  Hyde, right? So like the, there's one side of
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  Max that's like on this basically like all of the, like
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  all of the positive qualities of Max are on this one side of like
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  free will. And this side of Max is able to
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  like stand freely and he's just kind of like standing there
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  confidently. Like here I am.
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  And then the other side is just all of these negative qualities
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  of Max that is just like on the ground looking very pitiful and
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  like woe is me. And I think he starts like, I
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  think that part of Max starts like almost crawling towards the
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  control side. Which force do you think would
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  have a better chance of winning here?
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  Because this now, as soon as the negative emotions start crawling
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  towards the control, a link forms between the positive and
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  the negative, where you can't have one without the other.
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  Yeah, both. Both sides of you have to choose
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  the same result. All right, I'm you call it, I'm
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  going to roll for it. This is like the biggest role in
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  Max's character. I think this will be plus.
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  Oh this is a good question. This would be for you.
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  It would be a plus mundane role. Mundane.
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  Because it's, it's the normal parts of you that are fighting.
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  It's not your superhero parts. It's, it's the things that makes
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  Max, Max. It's not the things that make
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  him the Indigo Stroke. Yeah, and you know what I think
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  I think to illustrate this point further, the the side that's on
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  like the free will that's able to stand that is like that is
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  Max in his in his Ranger armour like shining and unbroken.
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  And I think the the negative side that's crawling like
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  towards this control link is Max in his like he's wearing like a
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  suit and tie it. It's.
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  His formal work attire before he before he came a Ranger and
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  stuff, right? So I'm going to roll this, I'm
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  going to roll this one at a time, and it's -1.
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  Yeah. So here we go.
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  First ice. You got a six.
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  OK. OK, so I just I just can't roll
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  A1. Yeah, pretty much.
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  Come on. Holy shit, I got a 2 so that's
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  an 8 -. 1 is A7. OK, so it's a pretty even battle
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  between these two forces and you know, every, every step that the
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  positive side takes, the negative side take pulls it
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  back. It's like 2 steps forward, one
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  step back for each, each side of your emotional spectrum here.
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  And it's, it's the duality of man to, to, to freely do
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  anything and be the person you, you aspire to be.
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  But then the reality of, well, life breaks you down.
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  And both these sides are both enticing you completely.
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  And I think in the positive mindset of Max is like, well, if
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  everyone's free will, I could be there.
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  I could help all these people who need help, but the negative
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  side is Max is like, if I go this way, they're not going to
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  need my help. They're going to be happy.
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  And I think it's, it's a battle of attrition because like the
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  mycelium's talking to you and like, come on, be controlled by
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  us. Let us let us help you.
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  But then this other force is like you are already the person
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  who can protect these people. These, these images are just
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  what can happen if you're not there, you know, And, and it's a
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  very psychological battle between doing the right thing
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  and being 3 or doing the wrong thing and making sure
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  everybody's safe. I think this this goes on and it
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  feels like this is this tug of war is going on for days and
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  days and days. Yeah.
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  You sort of get to a point here where both these sides are sat
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  there staring at each other. They both know if they pull,
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  they're not going to get anywhere.
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  And I think what what would be the one force that would bring
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  both these sides back together to make to make you into one
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  coherent being again? I think it would be, honestly, I
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  think it would be. So I'm just imagining this in
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  like real life. I think at this point it's
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  probably been like 10 real life minutes.
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  Yeah. So I would imagine that at this
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  point the three of us are on the Perd and like the Perd is
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  leaving, you know, is attempting to leave the planet.
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  Yeah. And I think at this point, it's
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  like Murphy and Spencer are like trying to wake Max up.
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  Yeah, this is. I think this is just before they
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  destroy the mycelium because they can't get away.
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  Because if you remember the the do the merging of the zords into
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  the drill Rhino. And I think this is before the
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  big contact realisation. You're still not waking up and
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  you've already spoke to them in the voice of the Micellian while
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  you're unconscious telling them to go towards the Micellian.
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  Which I think shocked them because the last time they seen
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  you before they put you on the Purd and started fighting, was
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  you just unconscious due to these conflicting drugs.
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  And at this point it your body is sort of like your physical
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  body body in the in the real world is you know, you're
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  sweating profusely. This is like if if there was a
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  camera on you, you could tell this is a battle.
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  Like when when you see a bit like a movie and the heroes
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  fighting a poison like and the sweating completely.
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  This is that is the scene you're you're in right now.
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  I think what does it and I think what like brings him out is
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  having like the real life leak into this this just battle of
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  like the two sides of Max's self right.
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  And I think I think real life is starting to to leak into this as
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  this like, you know, this alien Dramamine DNT, whatever the fuck
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  tabs has as this is starting to like, you know, come down.
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  I think Max starts hearing Spencer and Murphy and I think
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  he hears like the worry in their voices.
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  I almost imagine so like, you know, there's this big void and
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  I think at the top, like, you know, above this like battle,
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  there's just like a projection of like what mass would be
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  seeing if he was conscious. And so I think he's seeing like,
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  but like both of these forces, the positive and negative, like
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  they, they almost stop to, to look up.
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  And then Max sees Murphy and Spencer over him.
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  And I think the like, you know, the kind of razzing of like, all
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  right, old man, like, you know, nap time's over, wake up.
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  I think that turns from like, from like frustration to like
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  worry. And so I think when like when he
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  sees Spencer and Max in Spencer and Murphy in real life being
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  like, oh shit, like what the fuck do we do?
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  I think that forces Max to act. And so I think I think both
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  sides instead of pushing further apart, I think they both, they
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  both come back together to make one Max.
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  And I think like, I think this comes at a compromise, but that
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  allows Max to essentially the compromise is, is twofold.
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  It's like we will pick this up later.
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  We like we are in trouble and like this is fine and good and
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  all, but this is hypothetical. And what's happening up there is
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  real life, like we need to be in real life and we will come
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  together. So I think there's, I think when
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  when Max turns back into himself, he starts flying up
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  towards where he sees like what's going on in real life,
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  but he still feels that heaviness that's weighing down
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  on him that's like, this isn't over.
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  Yeah. And I think as you are flying
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  upwards and you're getting closer and closer to reality,
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  you look back down and this and you can see sat there still,
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  there's still a piece of you. It's not, it's not the negative
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  and it's not the positive side. It's the it's the confidence of
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  you because because we we did say, you know, you're now
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  insecure until later points. I think the confidence that you
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  have is still sat there trying to decide between these two
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  paths. And you know, you Max, you tried
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  beckoning to it to come with you spirit to be part of you again.
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  And you know, you're getting closer and closer to this very
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  real situation that's going on outside and you keep flying
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  upwards and upwards and nothing, nothing you say into this, this
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  part of you is reacting. It's all just looking or
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  watching you fly away. And in your head, you sort of
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  feel like that that's got to stay there until I make a
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  decision of the person I want to be.
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  And when when you finally, you finally breakthrough the top of
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  this, you wake up just as the battles ending.
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  It's, it's been like 15 minutes, but for you inside this, inside
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  this realm, you feel like you've been there for weeks, maybe even
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  months. And you come out of this and you
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  sit up and you're in the PED and you're covered in sweat and you
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  don't feel whole anymore. You you feel like you are the
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  shell. A shell of the man you used to
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  be. And that's saying something.
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  Yeah, and you just just sit there and you hear the battle
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  end. Is mine a will you answer that?
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  Gone when all the Mama rays evade it?
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  Good, you still stand tall. I save it all in the river, I
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  keep saying. I feel the water, I feel the
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  rising around me.