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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl book. What is this? Six The

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Eye of the bedlam Bride, chapters forty two through forty five.

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In these chapters, we have got a really intense fight

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with numerous enemies in a farm, and then we have

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a really intense scene with Carl seeing his father's murder.

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This is a very heavy section. Welcome to spoil Me,

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of Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank

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you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. And

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Michael is here in the chat with me today. Delighted

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to have you, sir. So this is a I'm trying

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to think exactly how to say this, because it's like

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I keep using the word intense for obvious and correct reasons.

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But it's an odd type of emotional rollercoaster because even

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though the first fight doesn't seem like it's emotional initially,

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it ends in a very emotional way on a number

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of levels. And I don't know what to make of

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some of this, Like there's I have suspicions, I don't know,

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I don't know. So okay, let's begin, let's start. Let's

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forty two. We open with and this is so compelling

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note added by a crawler Drachia. Ever since I hit

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the tenth floor, I've noticed a peculiarity in some of

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the mobs, like they're embracing death. There is a strange

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joy that only appears at the very end. There's frustration too.

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It will sound unhinged, and maybe I'm losing my mind,

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But the voice that runs this world has been getting

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stranger and stranger. I believe it's moving into the minds

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of these monsters, taking them over at the point of death,

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as if desperately attempting to know what it's like to

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lose it all. But it keeps failing, and its frustration grows.

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If only I could convince it to move into the

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minds of one of these nagas. So that is I'm

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I heavily edited as I read that, I was reading

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but cutting chunks out, So that's not verbatim what it says.

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It's much longer, but I think I got the gist

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of it there. First of all, the concept of moving

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the AI into somebody's mind and making them crave death

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or to lose it all terrifying, but also potentially very

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useful depending on if the AI is feeling friendly toward

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you or not. But I also like you know, it

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has clearly been the policy based on everything that we

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have heard over the last few books saying policy is wrong,

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it has been expected that the AI starts to get

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odd the longer the game goes on, not necessarily becoming

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like fully self aware, but close enough to it that

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it's quite dangerous and there has to be a specific

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set of rules on how to handle them because by

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the end they are considered basically sentient and so they

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can't simply be destroyed, so they're left in this retirement home.

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For lack of a better way of saying it, So

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there has been you know, talk of this already, but

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this specific type of attempt to connect with mortality and

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what it means to be alive and afraid or alive

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and about to and why the frustration because it doesn't

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feel anything as it dies. Is that why it doesn't

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get the the type of emotional rush it's expecting or

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is it trying to feel the emotional rush of the

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creature it's inhabiting, and it feels it, but it doesn't

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mean anything to it, Like there's a lot I have

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a lot of questions about this, and again something that

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could be potentially super useful or just terrifying, depending I

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there's so much in this world, y'all. I feel like

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dungeon crawler Carl is a ripe property for fanfic, Like,

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you know, not talking about like slash with characters hooking up,

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although I'm sure that's the thing, but it's just the

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type of crawls that we have heard little bits and

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pieces about having happened in the past, and people could

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expand on that or you know what I'm saying. So

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this then starts with the uh summary of what we

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have in our deck, which I won't go through. But

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we are still in this barn with all of these turkeys,

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and they are starting to peck at Dona and Carl,

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but not in like a the attack has been signaled

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sort of way, just if they're close enough, and they're

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sort of like, what's up with this guy? Peck? Can

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I eat him? Peck? I don't think I could eat

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him peck that kind of thing. So it's a real casual.

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There's there's a sense here of like almost this is

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worse because they're not as aggressive, and so this has

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to be leading up to something, which eventually it very

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much does, and in a terrible way. It turns out

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that Carl's attempt to sort of preempt whatever the trap

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is by killing as many turkeys as he can really

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backfires because, as we discover, one of the two deckmasters

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that we are dealing with here is a necromancer, and

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so we wind up having to deal with zombie turkeys

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who are not only higher level than the regular turkeys,

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but they also can zombify you if they bite you

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or peck you whatever. So this is all coming up,

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but for the moment we meet Tom Level seventy five

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Bereft Shaman of Meleagris Malay Chris Galipavo Wrecks. Did you

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know that turkeys naturally have brown feathers, but the ones

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you see in this farm are all white. It's because

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after turkeys are slaughtered, plucked, and put up for sale,

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they're pin feathers, like little baby hairs, are still visible

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sometimes on the carcass. When these little feathers are brown,

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it makes the turkeys look less appetizing, like massive, sweaty nutseacs.

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So the farmers eventually started breeding them to be white,

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making the feathers less visible to the eye. Funny, isn't

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it how things can be bred in a way that

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makes it so those holding the butcher knife are less

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likely to face their own revulsions. There's no point to this,

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just an observation. I've been doing that a lot lately,

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observing things, noticing them. It's all right there if you

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look long enough. Anyway, this is a magic using turkey.

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Oh my god, you guys. I listen to this section twice,

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as I try to do most of the time, and

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this moment, even though I knew where it was going,

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still made me laugh on the second listen laugh even

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though it's like not funny, but it was just so

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well delivered. You know, this is a fucking top tier narrator.

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And I really wonder I would love to talk to

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a voice actor who like gets projects like this and

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maybe I don't know what else he's done, but like

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in comparison to a property where you're doing ordinary voices

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a little bit more often, and when I say ordinary,

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am mean less like like exaggerated. You know, is it

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more fun to do the wild and out there voices

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or does it get to be sort of exhausting knowing

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I'm gonna go in there today and I'm gonna have

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to come up with fifteen different voices, and I'm gonna

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have to like bring the energy for all of them.

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I feel like it's gotta be like anything creative, where

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the more variety and the more demand on you, the

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more fun it is, but the more exhausting it is,

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and the more difficult it is to get it up

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on days that you are just tired, you know. But

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this is I mean combined with like the announcing voice

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of the AI versus the regular voice. And when I

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say announcing, I mean like you know it, it's that

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kind of thing. This is varied, it's all over the place,

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and uh yeah, it this long fucking description. Can we

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just go back to the normal descriptions? I muttered, Holy shit.

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And I when he says this, I thought to myself, Huh,

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is the AI going to be mad at him for this? Yes? Yes,

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it is in a far more personal way than I

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was even expecting, and I expected it to be pretty personal.

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We'll get there in a second. So Donut is, you know,

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trying to play her deck and is encountering some really

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frustrating gameplay from the other side, and there's like, at

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first it's looking pretty good. She summoned Skyler Spinach. She

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uses the thief. She is able to steal one of

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their cards. But there comes eventually a card that is

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called Idol Eyes, and that is the one that really

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begins to turn the tide. First, we have to meet

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Sharp Elbows, which is like a weird name. She is

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an ogre woman about seven feet tall, and she's got

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like a swamp which kind of energy, as Carl puts it.

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And this is when level eighty blah blah blah blah,

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basically a necromancer. This is deck Master number nine of ten.

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You want short descriptions, okay, you little bitch. It's not

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like you're at a disadvantage when the descriptions are long.

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You know, your perception of time slows during these moments.

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I could make one of these as long as the

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Zack Snyder film and it wouldn't matter. I did that

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for you because of our special connection, and you don't

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appreciate it. Fuck you, I just I you know, Like,

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this is the way I would talk to Marshal if

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he were being a particular dickhead after I put a

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bunch of work in. This is like married couple type shit.

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This is just a lot more specific than I was

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thinking it was gonna get. And also the mention of

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your perception of time slows, which this was like a

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question that I had a few sections ago. When he's

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reading the really long description of the what's the thing

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with the night Worm the Guild of Suffering, and at

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that point it did sort of seem like the NPC

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with him perceived the time passing, because he actually says

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to Carl, why are you just standing there? Are you

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going in? Or what are you doing? So the AI

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doesn't like, I don't know that it slows time as

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much as it says. It seems as if it was

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still really noticeable to somebody on the outside. But anyway,

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I just loosely and half assidly based on the rich

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and beautiful eye Away culture. This legendary creature has a

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really interesting backstory. But you don't want to hear it,

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do you suit yourself? I just hope you haven't killed

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too many of those turkeys. There's your description. You a

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grateful little prick. So Carl says, sorry, I pissed you off.

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I really want to point out, Carl, that's not exactly

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the kind of apology we're looking for. That's like, sorry

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you were offended kind of you know, say I'm sorry

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that I didn't appreciate your very detailed and helpful descriptions.

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This is probably a little bit more likely to get

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you favorable treatment, It's all I'm saying. Also, it's very

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interesting that the AI is saying because of our special

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connection specifically, I know that it's very likely simply about

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the feat what can you do? But it maybe that

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the AI sees it a little bit more than Carl

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sees it, you know. So Carl tries to use a

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bomb and it goes off too soon, and I had

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noticed earlier that he had mentioned that it was getting warm,

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and I was like thinking that had something to do

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with it. And eventually he figures it out that there

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are heat lamps in here and that's what's causing his

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bombs to go off early. But it takes him longer

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than I expected it too, for him to put two

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and two together there. So this is when we have

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the temple guards that get summoned, who it turns out don't.

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They're brothers, but they like never liked each other, so

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they're pretty stoked to get to fight one another, which

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is genuinely funny. And then there's also the tin man

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had it all wrong. Ain't nothing gentle about these lizards.

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I don't know what that is, Donnut, ask Carl. He

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doesn't excuse me, He doesn't know. Do you guys know?

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Is this like something? I don't know what it is

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here it is idolized. All the turkey dots blink red.

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They're gobbling resumed just as quickly as it had stopped,

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the sound, causing my heart to skip. I tossed a

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regular banger sphere at the ogre and it embedded itself

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into the witch's shoulder with a wet smack. She didn't

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even falter. This bitch is very tough, so he uses

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fear and the turkeys begin to run away. But then

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there is a counter spell that not only negates his spell,

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but makes it so that he won't be able to

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cast any more spells for the duration of this card

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being active, which is really fucking tough man. That sucks.

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Now they have possession of this card, so that's helpful.

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The idolized turkeys weren't totems, which meant they'd be able

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to attack Donut directly, and he can't cast protective shell.

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He can't do a lot of things, like later on

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when he is you know, there's a bunch of moments

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where it would have kept everything from going quite as

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left if he had been able to cast a spell,

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and this in particular makes things really bad for them.

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So at this point, Donut summons she Maria and he

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is so excited. I'm the excited is the wrong word. Relieved.

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Carla is just like, oh, finally we're going to be

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done with this fucking nightmare because she Maria just always

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has it on lock. But then there's another card cast

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by the enemy called get back in Line, and it

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sends she Maria back into the deck. Oh boy, that

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really fucking sucks. So he then gets the notification the

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Scavenger's daughter has been fed unleash her wrath, and he's like,

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I wonder if this would even work because it's like

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feels like a spell, but technically it's a skill. And

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eventually he is indeed able to do it, but it

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is so destructive that it almost results in their losing anyway,

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and by losing, I mean they're death. So this is

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when she summons her weird combo totem and Necro card

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the worm folkrum and this thing it's quite powerful. It's sentient.

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Necro Staff level fifty. The fact that it is sentient,

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I really wonder what the fuck like, I can't imagine

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what that means. How is how how much? In how

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does it communicate? I just lots of questions. This is

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when the zombie turkeys begin to rise, and this is

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when Carl attacks Tom and uses the power of the Daughter,

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and it says, I felt like I just kicked a

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hole in the world. I slammed into the ground, utterly

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obliterating the boss Turkey and everything around it of turkeys alive,

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dead and zombie flew off in all directions. In front

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of me, the north wall of the barn bowed out

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like it had just been hit with an invisible truck.

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Above us, the roof sagged further. The ground under us

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was suddenly slanted, facing toward the closest cliff edge. Everything

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started to slowly slide away, and I was just like,

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oh shit, and I can't. Like part of me wanted

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to be like Carl, you knew how precarious everything was,

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why did you do this? But there was literally no choice,

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Like they were seconds away from getting fucked, you know,

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so he had to do what he had to do.

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But this is when the cascade begins, of everything sliding

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off the side in a manner similar to a waterfall,

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as he describes it later, and he falls off the

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edge with poor Mongo, who is still unconscious. Eventually he's

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like holding Mongo by his tail to keep him from

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and eventually Mango wakes up and saves himself and rushes

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off because he has that jump that's like insane, so

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he manages to jump up into the rafters of the barn.

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But even so, like you know, it's not exactly stable

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there either, it's more stable than where he's standing, I suppose.

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And this is when the ogre comes smashing down on him,

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and it is horrific. Like we have had Carl get

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injured before, we have had him see Doughnut injured before.

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It's not like we haven't had our close calls already,

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but this feels really different. It's a combination of the

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extent of the damage and the fact that he gets

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nailed in the eyes with two of these spikes, which

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is its own specific hideous experience that is terrifying because

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if things go a little bit like wrong here. Even

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were he to heal, he might not get his eyes back,

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So it's really one of those like I am personally

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sure that he is likely to keep his eyes in

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this story. However, there is a sense in me of

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he's gonna have to lose something though, sooner or later,

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you know what I'm saying. Very I suddenly was faced

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with the reality that when you're writing a story like this,

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there is going to come a point where your main

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is gonna have to make some kind of sacrifice, and

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it's almost always bodily. I am assuming and I have

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been assuming it's related to that bone key, and probably

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that is what we're getting, is gonna be something like that.

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But there was a suspicion of, like, but this could

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be it. It seemed like it. The moment wasn't quite right

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for it, because usually this sort of thing happens as

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like a uh uh, maybe a wake up call or

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sacrifice on behalf of saving somebody else, and like he

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saved Mango here, but that's not really the same thing.

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It just didn't quite feel right. But I was still worried,

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you know, And to be honest, y'all, just any injury

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in the eyes is always going to give me major X.

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It's not I'm not unusual in this. I think a

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lot of people have it. So it was just the

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visceral quality of the injury as well as the fear.

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I was pretty confident he'd get his eyes back in

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the end. But even so, you are feeling yourself dying

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in a way that's got to have really intense trauma

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that isn't addressed too much within the story. But I'm

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wondering if because this experience was so much more extreme,

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perhaps it's going to begin to come up more. This

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is something that the other series that I'm covering, there's

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a new book out that I haven't gotten booked yet,

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but it's the Bastionian Immortal Great Souls series, and there

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is a exercise, so to speak, where people can basically

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be transported into a very hyper realistic battle in order

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to hone their skills and try and basically like level

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themselves up. But you can only enter it so often,

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and it's pretty regulated, and somebody finds a loophole where

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they can get in more often, and they think it's

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fine and that they're just like it's found a cheat

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code where they can keep leveling up faster than other people,

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until one of his friends points out the effect that

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it's clearly having on him, because you are killed in

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this simulation and you feel and remember your death. And

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his friend has to be like, Bro, you are not okay,

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and you're acting like dying repeatedly has no effect on you,

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and it does. And if you can't see it, I

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don't know what to tell you. And so that was

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sort of what occurred to me. Here is like, it's

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not even that it's quite the same thing, but it's

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the PTSD that you would have to be experiencing while

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playing this game. Is it even PTSD? Like, I'm sure

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it's just TSD because we're still in it. You know

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how many people are developing a really like difficulties in

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coping as things go on, And I wonder if this

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is going to have an effect on him like it

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has to. So this is the part that is so odd.

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I could smell her rotted yellow teeth against my own,

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clinking together, like we were forced in a locked kiss

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that tastes like that of rotted meat. There were things

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in her mouth. I felt them wriggling there, pressing against

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my teeth as I screamed, with my mouth clenched closed already.

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I do not like this at all. Okay, and then

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they starve us, you know, the ogre growled. She was

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whispering the words, and I felt them more than I

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heard them. She started to pull away, the spikes ripping

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out of me one by one. When we're not here,

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we are there, and when we're there, they make certain

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the hunger festers. You can stop it, you can satiate

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us all Karl her face fully pulled away, releasing my eyes.

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I felt twists of tingling, thick gore, linking us like

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our bodies didn't want to separate. And he drinks a potion.

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His sight comes back and he's just like, fucking thank god.

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And then Raoul, this insignificant incurase here to rescue you.

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I shall free you from this demon. The ogre face

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was right there, staring directly into my eyes and they

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were pleading, sad afraid. I've seen those eyes before. Where

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where where? When we're not here, we are there, and

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when we're there, they make certain the hunger festers. What

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the fuck is this? And I don't know if it's relevant,

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but Donnut, at one point later, says something about how

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they're reusing this plotline of like the Undead and people

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are getting bored with it, and a part of me

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is starting to be like, does these things have something

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to do with each other? I don't, you know, Ah,

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this is so. I mean the eyes could be any

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number of beings that he has encountered and had to

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put out of their misery. You know, I'm trying to

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remember what The person that I keep thinking about is

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the uh bitchy woman on the train line who insisted

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that she had an apartment and you know whatnot and

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then she gets there and there's nothing there, but it's

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not I don't think it's her. Then. I The other

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thought that I have is a the goblin woman that

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they connect with on the first floor that they have

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to like rob a trick. But it could be even

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somebody that he killed that was like a boss, that

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had been a regular person, like the Jim bro or

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that first woman who was you know, uh hoarder. I

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don't think so. I don't think it's that. I think

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it's an NPC thing. But when we're not here, we

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are there and the hunger festers, what the fuck does

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that mean? I just all of this is very upsetting.

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I also want to mention Raoul does save Carl here.

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Thank you, Raoul, appreciate you. My health stuttered. I had

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a gaggle of d buffs. Did you catch you, guys?

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That he's the word yeagle? Huh it's a little pun. Yeah. Anyway,

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At this point, Donah scoops him up and puddle jumps

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away and he finally wakes up like forty five minutes later,

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and she is very agitated. It's obvious something is wrong.

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And uh, we find out about this friggin' ring, the

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ring Peter Cole had secretly helped me buy at Club Vanquisher,

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the one disguised as my strength ring burned. Did we

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see this happen? I genuinely don't remember, guys. There's lots

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of you know, collecting of gear and stuff, so I

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just may have lost track of this. But uh, Donah

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is like noticing the ring, and I thought it was

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your strength ring? Like, what's going on with that? Where

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did you get it? And I found it sort of

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interesting that, like she like, why wouldn't he have told anybody?

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Is that part of getting the ring was that he

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wasn't allowed to say so? Then let's see oh. This

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is when she says, I don't have the tokens, and

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the bodies tumbled off the edge, which means you need

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to go diving into the ocean to find the corpses.

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They're probably buried too, so you need to get moving.

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But first we have to make sure that Woozy Deebuff

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goes away first. I'm afraid the bodies might be hopelessly buried.

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If so, that means will fail the quest to get

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the key. And he says that he has both bodies

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in his inventory. They they have the tokens on them,

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but not their cards. It turns out she got their cards.

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But then this moment, you have the tokens already. Oh,

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she sounded almost disappointed. And what it turns that is

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going on here is that she is really anxious about

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Carl having to go to the Boss battle where he

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is going to see his father. They both know it's coming.

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She in particular saw a motorcycle that had the dent

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that she recognized from when there was that weird like

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choice of prizes, and she perceived his very extreme reaction

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to the sight of it, and so she knows the

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significance of it and is just like yeah, it's definitely

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his dad, and if they weren't able to collect all

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of the tokens, he wouldn't be able to go into

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the boss battle. So a part of her is obviously

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a little bit hoping maybe we don't have to do

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this at all, maybe we can just find another key somehow,

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which later, when they they are faced more directly with

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the choice of simply choosing not to do this, he

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has to be like, don'na, do you really want to

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fight other crawlers for a key rather than get it ourselves,

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And once she's like asked directly, she's like, no, I

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guess not. But this is what's so interesting about like

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the way that our minds work is this whole time,

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she's kind of trying to make the choices that would

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lead to them doing just that, except it's clear when

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asked that she does not want to do that. So

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we can like, in reality, not want something, but still

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do all the things required to get us to that point,

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despite the fact that if we really stop and think

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about it, it's not what we want. It's just very stupid.

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We are not like the it's it's very annoying the

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way that we can ignore what we are really feeling

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about things and how much we are able to just

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set things aside. It just fucks us, man, it really does.

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So anyway, she talks about the totem, that's that like staff,

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I have to imbue it with one of my spells

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before we start the fight, and if I do, I

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can cast that spell, but I can only do it once.

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The staff itself works like a totem, and it looks

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different depending on what spell it's holding, and he mentions

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clockwork triple kit can make three she marias, and she's like, yeah,

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and I tried it and it works, which I was like,

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God damn. That is like simultaneously once again incredible, so advantageous,

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but potentially really really dangerous, these things being able to

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potentially overpower our people. This is not It is by

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no means out of the question. And there is something

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about not always knowing which is the real one as

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well that has me just deeply creeped out at the

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idea of more than one. She Maria. I don't like it.

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I think that this is like I wouldn't be able

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to resist using this the way they're talking about because

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of how close this last fight was. But it all

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I can think is how rife this situation is with

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the potential to get get all the tables turned on them.

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We got another combo card. It works the same way

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as last time, but it's not consumable, so we can

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do it over and over, which is pretty incredible. Anyway,

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she said, cutting me off. I was thinking, maybe I

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can do this last fight by myself with those new cards.

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I'm pretty much indestructible. And he's like what. And then

472
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,239
eventually they get to the point of what's going on

473
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,239
here and him being like, you remember when I wanted

474
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,480
to like skip the entire floor because of what was

475
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,800
going on with Ferdinand And she's like yeah, and Leader,

476
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,719
you said you wished you had just skipped the floor,

477
00:37:36,199 --> 00:37:38,880
and he's like, I wish we could have skipped the fight,

478
00:37:39,559 --> 00:37:42,880
but if we'd done that way, more people would have died.

479
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,360
And this is when he asked, how would you know

480
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,320
it's my dad anyway? And she explains and he ends

481
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,519
it with, you know what, it's okay. They're doing this

482
00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:55,360
to everybody. We have to get it over with and

483
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,800
don't try to be like me. Don't you need to

484
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,079
be like you? And I really loved it, but this

485
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:05,039
is like the kind of attitude that I would take

486
00:38:05,079 --> 00:38:09,239
with something like this. It's a really specific thing about me,

487
00:38:09,559 --> 00:38:15,199
is like the types of procrastination that I participate in.

488
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,519
And if it's like a routine thing that I need

489
00:38:18,559 --> 00:38:23,360
to get done that's boring and tedious, I can put

490
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:28,639
that off until the sun grows cold. You guys, I

491
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:34,599
will not fucking face it. But something like this, where

492
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:37,280
I know it's targeted at me, where I know it's

493
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,960
a one time deal. Hopefully it may not be, but

494
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,960
you know we're going to operate like it is, where

495
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,119
I know getting through it as fast as possible means

496
00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:51,079
it will be over sooner. I would definitely take the

497
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:53,480
approach Karli is of just like, let's fucking go do it.

498
00:38:53,559 --> 00:38:55,320
Let's just get it over with, let's just do it.

499
00:38:55,679 --> 00:38:59,760
That is one hundred percent. It's just most things that

500
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,800
we deal with in life are not like that. Most

501
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:07,280
things are routine, every day trying to be consistent. And

502
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,920
that's where I really fucking do not shine at all.

503
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:18,400
So they get to this like vending machine that has

504
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,599
his dad's silhouette on it and it says that you

505
00:39:22,639 --> 00:39:25,320
put nine tokens in for to like activate the fight.

506
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,239
You can leave, but then you need another nine tokens,

507
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,840
and by the way, there's no other nine tokens in

508
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:35,360
this entire area, so probably you don't want to do that.

509
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:43,239
And she says something about how he looks exactly like

510
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:50,239
his dad, and he says, never say that again. This

511
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:56,280
is also interesting that like everything that they are looking at,

512
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,400
let's see, you know what, my eyes f focused on

513
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,679
the green weeds growing up around the tires of the motorcycle,

514
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,119
at the flowers. You're right, this is wrong. All of

515
00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:10,000
this is wrong. Everything here was covered in snow just

516
00:40:10,039 --> 00:40:12,280
a few hours ago. It melted because it was transferred

517
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,960
here to Florida. The trailer and the entire yard is different.

518
00:40:16,159 --> 00:40:17,840
Look at the grass, look at all the dust on

519
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:22,639
the truck and the motorcycle, and they are able to

520
00:40:22,679 --> 00:40:26,159
see the exact spot where things were like cut in half.

521
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:33,119
So it's mentioned later as he enters that like the

522
00:40:33,159 --> 00:40:37,199
time here is different than where when they are in

523
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:43,000
the rest of the floor, that interactions with the memories

524
00:40:43,119 --> 00:40:49,159
are going to react differently. There's like a bunch of

525
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:54,599
just differences here that our result in later he can

526
00:40:54,639 --> 00:40:57,920
like take the motorcycle into his inventory, which he is

527
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,079
really surprised by he tries to take this truck that

528
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,199
does not work. He's not strong enough to pick the

529
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,960
whole thing up, even though he thinks like he should be.

530
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,920
And it seems to me he's been set up to

531
00:41:11,039 --> 00:41:20,599
take specifically the motorcycle only. So let's see, I'm trying

532
00:41:20,599 --> 00:41:23,639
to find Yeah, this is when he starts looking around

533
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:28,760
and he sees all of this evidence that his father

534
00:41:29,079 --> 00:41:32,599
has remarried or is at the very least just like

535
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,920
in a relationship with somebody, Because there are flower pots

536
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:41,760
that are tended and carefully labeled in like really feminine handwriting.

537
00:41:42,599 --> 00:41:47,639
And this is like the beginning of this feeling to him.

538
00:41:47,679 --> 00:41:50,639
And I had a suspicion that it was going to

539
00:41:50,679 --> 00:41:54,400
turn out he had a sibling that he wasn't aware of.

540
00:41:55,280 --> 00:42:00,840
I am very concerned at what they're going to do,

541
00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:08,760
because like kids aren't allowed as crawlers, but I have to, like,

542
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:13,559
we have heard people talk about how there were crawlers

543
00:42:13,599 --> 00:42:17,639
who committed suicide rather than fight their own children who

544
00:42:17,679 --> 00:42:22,679
had been turned into mobs, you know, So it's very

545
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,039
possible that this little brother is going to be used

546
00:42:26,039 --> 00:42:29,719
against him somehow, And I really don't want to see that,

547
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:38,880
but it might be we'll have to see. So I

548
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,440
cleaned out the yard, taking everything I could pick up,

549
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:45,400
including the old washing machine, several kids bikes of various sizes,

550
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,800
and all the pieces of rusty crab. I couldn't quite

551
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,199
lift the ford all the way, although I felt as

552
00:42:51,199 --> 00:42:56,519
if I should be able to. This one had Iowa

553
00:42:56,559 --> 00:43:00,239
plates and the registration was surprisingly up to date, despite

554
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,559
the missing tire. And I am assuming that anything that's

555
00:43:03,599 --> 00:43:06,519
like being taken care of at all is down to

556
00:43:06,599 --> 00:43:12,440
his wife. So also on the backside of the trailer

557
00:43:12,519 --> 00:43:15,840
was another surprise, half of an old mini van sitting

558
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,239
in a parking spot. It was cut down the middle

559
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,840
front to back, and it was leaned over. The winter

560
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,800
half wasn't there at all, The engine was cut right

561
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:29,800
in half. And there was other stuff here too, in

562
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,960
the far side of the yard. Stuff I didn't want

563
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,119
to think about it. The stuff I didn't want to

564
00:43:34,159 --> 00:43:36,679
think about. Doughnut saw it too and said nothing, and

565
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:41,000
that is the toys and whatnot, indicating that there's probably

566
00:43:41,039 --> 00:43:44,320
a kid here. And like, right up until the moment

567
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,239
that he sees this kid, he's hoping maybe the woman

568
00:43:48,519 --> 00:43:54,000
already had a child. When he met her, which isn't

569
00:43:54,039 --> 00:43:59,760
necessarily like better for that child, but I like, I

570
00:44:00,119 --> 00:44:07,559
understand where this is coming from. So he goes in.

571
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:13,800
He leaves doughnut outside, and his father is inside, and

572
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,360
I was expecting this to be something that he could

573
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,039
like interact more with than he is able to. As

574
00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:24,159
it turns out, he is really purely there to observe.

575
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,320
There's a forty five minute timer before the fight is

576
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,920
going to start, so he has to watch everything transpire

577
00:44:32,559 --> 00:44:37,320
in what seems like real time here. So he comes

578
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:42,320
in and his father is dying. Unclear exactly what's going on,

579
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,599
but I'm assuming that it's something to do with his

580
00:44:44,679 --> 00:44:46,719
lungs because he was a heavy smoker and there was

581
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:55,280
a mention of him coughing, and he is really diminished

582
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:01,000
from you know, the big man that Karl remembered. And

583
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:05,800
Carl has this moment as he sees him of just God,

584
00:45:06,119 --> 00:45:10,719
this is what I was afraid of. Really. I especially

585
00:45:11,199 --> 00:45:16,079
love the pointing out of the scent that parents have

586
00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:20,000
that you don't think about, but that is uniquely theirs,

587
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,199
and if you've been away for a long time, you

588
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,079
smell it again and you're just like, oh, oh, yeah,

589
00:45:26,119 --> 00:45:29,719
that's it. There it is, you know. And it's interesting that,

590
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,920
like he shares this home with two other people, but

591
00:45:34,119 --> 00:45:37,960
his scent dominates this place, which is just who he is,

592
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:45,920
you know. And Carl is just startled at how in

593
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,239
because he hasn't seen his father in twelve years, which

594
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:54,320
is a while, sure, but the changes that have happened

595
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:59,559
look like much more time than simply twelve years. This

596
00:45:59,679 --> 00:46:02,400
dude has gone down the bend. I don't know if

597
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,039
it's supposed to be. Maybe it's cancer, you know, lung stuff.

598
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:11,159
Can it can be that it's cancer and it's resultant

599
00:46:11,199 --> 00:46:13,559
from lung stuff, or maybe it's something else. I don't know,

600
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:19,039
it doesn't really matter. In the end, there's a moment

601
00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:22,639
where his dad starts talking out loud like are you

602
00:46:22,679 --> 00:46:24,599
gonna sit and stare at me? Or gonna or are

603
00:46:24,599 --> 00:46:27,360
you gonna ask what you want to ask? And Carl

604
00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:30,199
jumps because he's thinking, oh my god, he can see me.

605
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,519
But it turns out his dad's talking to this young

606
00:46:34,639 --> 00:46:41,400
kid who is about six years old, and Carl is

607
00:46:41,559 --> 00:46:46,519
just like, oh, I really hoped that this wasn't it,

608
00:46:47,159 --> 00:46:53,360
but there he is, and it really sucks ass. You guys,

609
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,480
This is something that you guys know. I am very

610
00:47:01,639 --> 00:47:09,119
pro choice, pro control of women over there, like women's

611
00:47:09,119 --> 00:47:14,320
control over their own healthcare, And this sort of situation

612
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:20,519
is exactly what I think about because I don't. It

613
00:47:20,639 --> 00:47:24,440
is not a coincidence and it is not a subconscious thing.

614
00:47:24,639 --> 00:47:29,039
This is a very specific thing that men do, is

615
00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:34,360
they decide to trap women by getting them pregnant. And

616
00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:36,840
I know that there is such a thing about like

617
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,920
women who meet rich men and get pregnant on purpose

618
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,679
to trap the men. But the truth of it is

619
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,880
that men are never really trapped. They can always leave.

620
00:47:51,119 --> 00:47:55,320
Women are in a very different situation. They might be

621
00:47:55,360 --> 00:48:00,360
able to leave after having given birth, but sometimes times

622
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:04,800
not then, And it really heavily depends on what kind

623
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,719
of support system do they have. Are they employed, can

624
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,519
they make their own money? And abusive men make sure

625
00:48:11,599 --> 00:48:17,639
to isolate women and also insist on them being at

626
00:48:17,679 --> 00:48:21,599
home all the time and giving up their jobs explicitly

627
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,880
so that they do not have anybody to rely on,

628
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:31,679
anywhere to go when things begin to inevitably get really awful.

629
00:48:32,679 --> 00:48:41,400
And getting a woman pregnant is like a very it's

630
00:48:41,679 --> 00:48:46,559
a very simple way to ensure she has something that

631
00:48:46,599 --> 00:48:51,599
you can use against her all the time, and that

632
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:57,280
she has something that she will feel. I am caring

633
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:01,480
for my child by staying because they need two parent household,

634
00:49:01,559 --> 00:49:04,719
and both our incomes are necessary for them to get

635
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:08,000
what they need and all kinds of things. And I

636
00:49:08,079 --> 00:49:13,000
have a friend who had a really hideously abusive ex husband,

637
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,039
and this guy has gone out and gotten four more

638
00:49:17,159 --> 00:49:22,639
women pregnant since then, And I cannot emphasize enough what

639
00:49:22,679 --> 00:49:24,760
a piece of shit this guy is. The fact that

640
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,519
he is still out here pro creating makes me sick.

641
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:32,199
And I have no idea whether these women were aware

642
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,480
of what was going on here, because definitely there are

643
00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:40,960
men who will mess with birth control or convince you

644
00:49:41,039 --> 00:49:44,400
to go off it. They will be very convincing. And

645
00:49:44,679 --> 00:49:49,239
this is why, after pregnancy is established that I think

646
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,159
it's so important that women be able to access a

647
00:49:52,199 --> 00:49:56,360
way to terminate the pregnancy, because they know better than

648
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,199
anybody whether or not they are in a position we're

649
00:49:59,199 --> 00:50:02,239
having a child is safe or healthy on a number

650
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:07,360
of different levels. And there's just this like the way

651
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,119
that this is set up in this he sees a

652
00:50:11,159 --> 00:50:14,719
wedding photo of the two of them and just looks

653
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:18,719
at this woman once she actually comes in, and how

654
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,920
she is a shell of who she had been, and

655
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:27,039
that there is something about her that is exactly like

656
00:50:27,119 --> 00:50:29,599
his mother, even though they do not look anything alike.

657
00:50:30,119 --> 00:50:38,400
There is that hunted clowd sort of energy, and it's

658
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:44,000
so it's so devastating, y'all, this like this type of

659
00:50:44,119 --> 00:50:48,880
man and how many lives he is able to ruin

660
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,960
the way that he is able to carry on through

661
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:59,800
the world and spread misery and heartbreak. And there you

662
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,480
know the fact that two different women tried to kill him,

663
00:51:03,679 --> 00:51:08,920
one succeeded. Thank god. All I can say is I'm

664
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,679
glad he got sick enough that there was a way

665
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,639
for her to do this that would like probably be undetected.

666
00:51:18,559 --> 00:51:22,119
But yeah, so this like interaction, this boy wants to

667
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,920
watch TV and his dad says, no, I need to rest,

668
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,440
but go get me my cigarettes, which he's not allowed

669
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:34,199
to have. So like, apparently this TV is the only

670
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:36,960
one they have, and it's in the room with him.

671
00:51:37,039 --> 00:51:41,960
It's been moved in here, so you can only watch

672
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:46,480
TV when he says it's okay because it's in his presence.

673
00:51:47,039 --> 00:51:50,039
And it just is another way of like him exerting

674
00:51:50,119 --> 00:51:53,239
control over every little thing you do, and denying this

675
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,760
kid to be able to just watch like cartoons or anything.

676
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,039
It's just you know. So anyway, this is when Donut

677
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:04,880
chimes in with a lady just appeared out of nowhere.

678
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,079
She's in the yard. She walked through me, and her

679
00:52:07,119 --> 00:52:09,760
clothes didn't come off. She went to the shed and

680
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,000
grabbed something, and now it looks like she's scooping something

681
00:52:12,079 --> 00:52:15,039
up that isn't there. There's a mention of a tattoo

682
00:52:15,159 --> 00:52:17,320
on her neck of a dog and how horrible it is.

683
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,400
And Donut says, she can't be your stepmom. She's like

684
00:52:20,519 --> 00:52:25,400
Cotcha's age. Which, yeah, that's another thing is men like

685
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:29,239
this often will go after quite young women, not just

686
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:33,960
because of like physicality, but because they know younger women

687
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:35,880
aren't going to be able to see the red flags.

688
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,920
They don't know enough yet, they don't have the experience

689
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:43,599
to like clock what certain things mean and see the danger.

690
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:52,599
So this is when he realizes that what this lady

691
00:52:52,679 --> 00:52:56,719
is holding and handling isn't there because he took it

692
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:04,280
and he knows what it is. It's evidently morphine. And

693
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:09,920
she comes in. Her husband rails at her for not

694
00:53:10,119 --> 00:53:13,679
being here to take care of him when he's her husband.

695
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:21,400
And this is when we hear Patrick Warburton's voice acting

696
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,280
so surreal y'all to have his voice show up, but

697
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:32,000
it's great, and she says I'll get your medicine and

698
00:53:32,039 --> 00:53:36,320
there's just this whole vibe and Carl is looking at

699
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,679
him like, yeah, you don't even know what's coming to you,

700
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:47,719
do you. So as she's prepping this all he leans

701
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:53,320
in on his dad and you're a bully, nobody likes you.

702
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,199
Mom tried to kill you, and in about twenty minutes,

703
00:53:56,199 --> 00:53:58,000
I'm pretty sure your new wife is going to finish

704
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,360
the job. You're so goddamn sufferable. She can't even wait

705
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,519
for whatever this is to kill you. Two different women

706
00:54:04,519 --> 00:54:06,800
and they both try to kill you. What does that say?

707
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,760
And you know what, your passage is so unimportant, so

708
00:54:11,039 --> 00:54:15,719
insignificant that nobody will care. The only reason I'm here

709
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,559
now to watch this is because he's idiots running this

710
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:20,639
shit show. Think I'm gonna buckle under the pressure of

711
00:54:20,679 --> 00:54:24,639
seeing you, of finally confronting this big, bad monster from

712
00:54:24,639 --> 00:54:28,039
my childhood, which I've got to be honest, I am

713
00:54:28,039 --> 00:54:30,639
not sure that is the purpose of showing him this like,

714
00:54:32,559 --> 00:54:35,079
I don't. The fact that he can't interact with him

715
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,679
is what makes it sort of odd. I don't know,

716
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:43,639
And he does like message Zev and ask is this real?

717
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,760
And she's like, yeah, all of this up to the

718
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:53,760
fight was actually captured and recorded. Yes. My only regret

719
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,039
is that you lived long enough to inflict yourself onto

720
00:54:56,079 --> 00:54:59,719
my poor brother. If I'm lucky, the assholes will resurrect

721
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,400
your and turn you into a boss so I can

722
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:07,320
kill you again. So he's acting like, if I do

723
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,840
have to face you as a boss, it'll be fine,

724
00:55:11,599 --> 00:55:14,079
which makes me feel like maybe the boss isn't going

725
00:55:14,119 --> 00:55:18,920
to be his dad after all, and I'm really concerned.

726
00:55:22,079 --> 00:55:26,320
So she gives him the injection, leaves the room, is

727
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:32,760
talking to her son about how he has you. Guys,

728
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,360
you say, just a few minutes, then you're gonna go

729
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,800
over to missus Tomlinson's house and tomorrow we're having your

730
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:44,079
birthday party. What is it with these women killing their

731
00:55:44,199 --> 00:55:49,800
husbands right on or before their son's birthdays? Guys, how

732
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,360
about we don't do it like that. At least this

733
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:58,599
kid isn't gonna know that it was a murder, So

734
00:55:59,039 --> 00:56:01,280
there's that, But it's it's still like a death that

735
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:06,199
happened right before his birthday, So that's going to really

736
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,079
like cast a pall over his birthday for the rest

737
00:56:09,079 --> 00:56:13,679
of his life. Like Carl, I'm sure doesn't celebrate his birthday.

738
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:17,199
You know, I wouldn't be able to after what happened

739
00:56:17,199 --> 00:56:25,039
to him. So his father he can hear him like

740
00:56:25,119 --> 00:56:28,000
calling out, but nobody goes to see him, and he

741
00:56:28,079 --> 00:56:35,360
dies alone, ignored, which is exactly what he deserves. And

742
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,119
this is when Carl begins to rifle through the place.

743
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:43,239
He takes cigarettes, He takes folders filled with court documents,

744
00:56:44,599 --> 00:56:47,920
a nine millimeter glock, three boxes, two boxes of Ammo,

745
00:56:48,159 --> 00:56:51,440
keys to the motorcycle and the Ford truck. After that,

746
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,280
I just picked up the whole dresser with mirror and

747
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,880
took it all into my inventory. I took the queen bed,

748
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,920
the cheek bedside tables, all the clothes. There were more

749
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,719
photos on the walls of asher and I left those,

750
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,920
but I took everything else. He'd only had the single gun.

751
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,599
There was also an arcade cabinet unplugged and had clothes

752
00:57:09,679 --> 00:57:15,039
draped over it. Centipede. With just a minute left, I

753
00:57:15,079 --> 00:57:17,800
took out a cigarette and lit it I returned to

754
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,840
the living room, moving past my motionless father. I took

755
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,480
my lighter and I lit the drapes with the purple

756
00:57:23,519 --> 00:57:28,559
flowers on fire. If your intention was to hurt me,

757
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:32,039
you fucked it all up. This is pretty much exactly

758
00:57:32,079 --> 00:57:36,280
what I needed to see. So he goes outside and

759
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,760
Donuts like, are you okay? And he's like yep, and

760
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,039
she says, okay, good, so I can tell you to

761
00:57:41,159 --> 00:57:46,760
fucking spit that cigarette out, and he says, just give

762
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:52,559
me a second. She looked suspiciously at the door. Do

763
00:57:52,599 --> 00:57:55,039
you know what we're going to face in there? No,

764
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,719
I said, but I do know what we're not going

765
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,360
to face, and we're not going to do it in there.

766
00:58:02,679 --> 00:58:06,079
It's way too cramped for our totems. So first we're

767
00:58:06,119 --> 00:58:11,480
going to watch this goddamn trailer burn to the ground. Interesting,

768
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,719
very curious about it. That's the end of this section.

769
00:58:16,719 --> 00:58:19,840
I am dying you, guys. I cannot wait to keep

770
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,559
reading and see what the hell is going to happen.

771
00:58:21,599 --> 00:58:23,880
Because the way he says I know what we're not

772
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,679
going to face, I think he also is singing that

773
00:58:26,719 --> 00:58:32,360
they probably won't be using his dad, But I don't know.

774
00:58:33,079 --> 00:58:40,079
Maybe he means symbolically, you know, my intimidating dad isn't

775
00:58:40,159 --> 00:58:44,079
so much anymore now. It's like he's changed in my mind.

776
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,199
I don't know, but yeah, this was a really it

777
00:58:49,239 --> 00:58:54,360
was an emotional section and it's a kind of Catharsis

778
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,800
that I really do feel was for the best in

779
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:02,360
a way. His father's pre presence in his mind has

780
00:59:02,519 --> 00:59:11,320
been so overwhelming, and having this as the period at

781
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,199
the end of that sentence has got to help a little.

782
00:59:14,559 --> 00:59:17,840
Not that it makes it so that stuff stops showing

783
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:21,280
up in his mind, but it would help a little.

784
00:59:21,679 --> 00:59:27,000
You know. I'm so sorry, guys. I just saw all

785
00:59:27,039 --> 00:59:28,800
of these people in the chat and I have been

786
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:32,079
ignoring it this whole time because I felt like I

787
00:59:32,119 --> 00:59:34,440
was really worried I'd fall behind. But I am going

788
00:59:34,519 --> 00:59:39,159
to go back and see Michael says. Jeff Hayes is

789
00:59:39,159 --> 00:59:43,360
a prolific audiobook narrator for lit RPGs, in particular. Interesting

790
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,440
does Robot have the same weird code dependent vibe with

791
00:59:48,519 --> 00:59:51,079
other crawlers because they don't seem to complain about it.

792
00:59:51,519 --> 00:59:55,239
That is my question too, Jeff, Like, how many special

793
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:58,960
connections does he have? Michael says, I think the AI

794
00:59:59,079 --> 01:00:02,480
can selectively time, so in situations where there's a battle occurring,

795
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,320
time is slowed. When the crawlers aren't in danger, it

796
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,880
might be more loose with time dilation. That makes sense.

797
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:14,639
And let's see Michael says lion, I'd be brave as

798
01:00:14,639 --> 01:00:20,199
a blizzard, tin man, I'd be gentle as a lizard. Oh, scarecrow,

799
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:24,920
I'd be clever as a gizzard. Wow. Those are really

800
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:30,320
fucking lame lyrics. Guys, I really like stopping and looking

801
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:37,199
at that. I'm like, what, None of that makes what anyway?

802
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:39,719
And Michael, due to the little blurb at the start

803
01:00:39,719 --> 01:00:41,599
of the chapter, I was actually wondering if it was

804
01:00:41,639 --> 01:00:46,039
the AI saying that to Carl. Uh. Matt spent too

805
01:00:46,079 --> 01:00:48,719
much time showing us Carl getting his feet massage. So no,

806
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,840
we didn't see the ring getting bought right, right, right.

807
01:00:52,559 --> 01:00:54,960
It's too bad that he was credited and you saw it.

808
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:56,840
I was looking forward to trying to convince you that

809
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:01,320
Jeff just got really good at doing Patrick's voice. Yeah,

810
01:01:01,719 --> 01:01:05,039
his voice comes up earlier as well. He does the

811
01:01:06,039 --> 01:01:09,559
earlier in this book. I mean, you don't have to

812
01:01:09,719 --> 01:01:12,239
like me, but you will respect me. And it's Patrick

813
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:16,360
Warburton doing that part, and he really it's distinct. You

814
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:19,519
can tell it's him immediately that it's not Jeff Hayes.

815
01:01:19,639 --> 01:01:26,960
You know, Jeff Hayes is quite good, but come on now. So, yeah,

816
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:32,000
this is this book so far I've really been into.

817
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:37,760
But it's also been like much more sad in a

818
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:41,559
lot of ways, and it's some inherent it's not a

819
01:01:41,559 --> 01:01:46,400
bad thing. It's just a different sort of energy than

820
01:01:48,559 --> 01:01:52,880
than the I would put like the third and fourth. Really,

821
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:57,480
I feel like things started to get quite sad in

822
01:01:57,559 --> 01:02:02,119
the last book on some of the details about learning

823
01:02:02,119 --> 01:02:05,679
more of what was going on with like Luciamar and

824
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:11,559
you know, the revelation of what's going on with a

825
01:02:11,559 --> 01:02:14,199
lot of the NPCs and stuff like that. But this

826
01:02:14,239 --> 01:02:17,920
book has started with a lot of sad things being

827
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:22,840
a focus from the beginning, especially knowing that other crawlers

828
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:27,079
are having to face somebody from their own past the

829
01:02:27,119 --> 01:02:29,760
way that Karl is right now, so knowing this is

830
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:35,280
happening to everyone, and that likely had something to do

831
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:39,159
with the weirdness of choosing the location you get to

832
01:02:39,199 --> 01:02:43,519
go to and being given only one choice sometimes or

833
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,440
you know, the way that they had to pick up

834
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:52,159
and move a chunk of Iowa over here. Yeah, it's

835
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:57,960
all manipulated very carefully. All right, I'm gonna wrap this up.

836
01:02:57,960 --> 01:02:59,920
Thank you all again so much for hanging out with me.

837
01:03:00,079 --> 01:03:03,639
Appreciate you a lot. Thank you Michael for commissioning this one.

838
01:03:04,119 --> 01:03:37,599
Until next time to gloo motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled

839
01:03:37,639 --> 01:03:38,760
network past