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Speaker: So good.
Speaker: Oh, it's bananas.
Speaker: I love it.
Speaker: And you know what else is bananas?
Speaker: What's that?
Speaker: Hey there, everybody.
Speaker: Welcome back to Pixel It.
Speaker: My name is Kevin.
Speaker: With me, as always, is Phil.
Speaker: And today on the show, we are continuing down the path of... How could I put my book somewhere again?
Speaker: Anyway, we're talking about Floating Castle.
Speaker: I grabbed it this time to bring it in, to sit down.
Speaker: You so rarely have the physical copy.
Speaker: You've got a...
Speaker: I think I left it in the bathroom.
Speaker: Oh, well, yeah, I mean, that's a good place to read this book, honestly.
Speaker: It's relaxing.
Speaker: It's a good toilet read.
Speaker: Keeps you calm while you're pooping.
Speaker: Keeps you calm.
Speaker: Keeps you regular, you know?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: You're going to find excuses to go to the bathroom.
Speaker: Let me tell you.
Speaker: I don't know what I'm implying there.
Speaker: You know, for all the walking around that's in this book,
Speaker: Because we are like beat for beat.
Speaker: Just everything Alexander's doing is accounted for in the book.
Speaker: And yet he has not taken a shit.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: It's it's it's only because of a presumed PG rating, I think.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And the general decency of Craig Mills that kept that from happening because they cover everything else.
Speaker: They cover everything else.
Speaker: I just have to assume that he's pooping his pants.
Speaker: I mean, yeah, that's probably it.
Speaker: Alexander, he's used to having servants who will empty his pants for him.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And the wizard is just too polite to bring anything up.
Speaker: They just they just they just rip the the back out of his pants.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Scrape it out.
Speaker: Sew it back up.
Speaker: Sew it back up.
Speaker: Sew it back up.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then at the end of the week, they just, while he's asleep, they just replace the pants and act like nothing.
Speaker: Nothing happened.
Speaker: Same pair of pants.
Speaker: It's the same style, cut color.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: And Alexander never questions.
Speaker: He just thinks this is how it works.
Speaker: This is just how life is.
Speaker: This is life.
Speaker: When you are the heir to the throne of Daventry.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You don't, you don't have to wipe your butt.
Speaker: You don't.
Speaker: It's just, it's this, it's so typical, isn't it?
Speaker: That King Graham who chooses not to wear a crown when he's among the people, because he wants to blend in and be one of the people.
Speaker: It, it, it,
Speaker: really figures that he would end up raising a son who is like just the exact opposite.
Speaker: Just the exact opposite.
Speaker: Just so naive and spoiled and full of shit.
Speaker: Just absolutely.
Speaker: Full of shit.
Speaker: Literally.
Speaker: Just to the chin.
Speaker: Full of shit.
Speaker: To the chin.
Speaker: Anyway, all that happens in between.
Speaker: If you really read in between the sentences, in between the words, you're picking it up.
Speaker: I think we all picked it up.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I think we all saw that coming.
Speaker: So we left off at chapter eight.
Speaker: So we're picking it up with chapter nine now.
Speaker: And when we last left off, they had gotten to the castle.
Speaker: They were like, ah, how do we get in?
Speaker: I have a plan.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: You made a call.
Speaker: You, you, I made a call.
Speaker: I made a guess.
Speaker: They're going to, they're going to sneak into that cart that they passed by.
Speaker: Boy, howdy.
Speaker: They do exactly what I thought they were going to do.
Speaker: Classic.
Speaker: Except they give up their most valuable possession, which they've only had now.
Speaker: for like one chapter, which is, it's an infinite, it's a wallet of infinite bread.
Speaker: It just, it could solve world hunger, but instead, they give it to an ogre to sneak into the castle.
Speaker: Now you won't understand why I'm so annoyed at this now, until a bit later.
Speaker: But we're going to get there.
Speaker: It's going to be towards the end of the recap.
Speaker: Don't worry.
Speaker: We'll circle back around to this.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We'll come full circle here, people.
Speaker: We're going to come full circle.
Speaker: Don't you worry.
Speaker: They give the wallet to the ogre.
Speaker: The ogre's like, yeah, well, if I get infinite bread, what the fuck do I got to guard carts for?
Speaker: Bye.
Speaker: Which is a great point.
Speaker: That's a great point.
Speaker: Ogre's like, I got a bridge.
Speaker: I got a bridge I can go sit under and eat bread for the rest of my life.
Speaker: The dream.
Speaker: The dream.
Speaker: The dream.
Speaker: I would kill for a bridge to sit under and just eat bread for the rest of my life.
Speaker: That's actually not far from Phil's goal.
Speaker: That actually is not far.
Speaker: For being 100% honest, that's not too far from the truth.
Speaker: I mean, finding a cabin in the middle of the woods and raising a whole bunch of corn and chickens and that sort of thing is really just the Hobbit equivalent of a troll under a bridge with a wallet of infinite bread plus five.
Speaker: Plus five?
Speaker: Plus five.
Speaker: It's a great artifact.
Speaker: So they get into the cart and they wait.
Speaker: And then two black knights show up and they're like, oh, where'd the ogre go?
Speaker: The ogres, they're unreliable.
Speaker: Shrug.
Speaker: Racist.
Speaker: They take the cart into the castle and dun-da-da-da.
Speaker: Cyril and Alexander have now have successfully snuck into the castle.
Speaker: And then they get off the cart and they just wander around the courtyard.
Speaker: There's a lot of description of the different buildings.
Speaker: There's a lot of different buildings.
Speaker: And we talk about them at length.
Speaker: They just meander a lot.
Speaker: They meander for about 10 pages.
Speaker: And finally they get to a door.
Speaker: They're like, well, let's try to try this door.
Speaker: And there's like an engraving of a boar on it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And they try to open the door and the board head engraving comes to life and starts screaming.
Speaker: It's like a terrifying alarm system.
Speaker: That's the end of chapter nine.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Did that recap seem short?
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Like, as I said, there was a lot of meandering.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And the scripture of architecture.
Speaker: The moment in the last episode when they walked up to the castle and literally were like, well, we don't have a plan, but we'll figure it out.
Speaker: That's this whole book.
Speaker: There is no plan.
Speaker: There is, there's barely even like thought.
Speaker: moment to moment on what they're going to do.
Speaker: And it just continues in this way.
Speaker: It continues.
Speaker: So chapter 10, the knights show up as per an alarm going off and Cyril and Alexander run around
Speaker: The knights chase them.
Speaker: They get encircled.
Speaker: Alexander backhands the head off of one of them.
Speaker: Yeah, really smacks it.
Speaker: Yeah, smacks it hard.
Speaker: And under the helmet is just like a floating ghost flame face that looks really mad.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then it like evaporates into the air and the armor collapses.
Speaker: Yeah, it's very Ghost Rider.
Speaker: It's very Ghost Rider.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So they they end up getting captured and they're brought to Telegrin, who does not remember Alexander from the few days prior that he saw him and thinks that Alexander is there to steal away Princess Lydia.
Speaker: And then it takes a little bit back and forth between Telegrin realizes, oh, you're King Graham's son.
Speaker: And that's where he reveals that all the black knights are actually former kings that he stole the soul out of and put them in the suit of armor because he is, Telegrin likes to fashion himself the king of kings.
Speaker: He is Jesus Christ.
Speaker: Jesus Christ, exactly.
Speaker: Spooky wizard Jesus Christ.
Speaker: Oh,
Speaker: So that will be King Graham's fate if Alexander cannot get his soul back.
Speaker: I mean, I got to say out if you if you had no context for an American audience or even a Western audience, the idea of.
Speaker: a bad guy who enslaves dead kings to do his bidding to make him the king of kings.
Speaker: That's really interesting and actually very, very cool.
Speaker: And kind of fucking metal.
Speaker: And fucking metal is shit.
Speaker: But you are not, we can't, we do not live in a world where,
Speaker: the term king of kings is not severely loaded.
Speaker: Like, you know what you're doing here.
Speaker: Yeah, you can't you can't you can't reclaim that one.
Speaker: No, that one's gone.
Speaker: The the the Christians are keeping that one close to the chest.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Kiss that one.
Speaker: Goodbye.
Speaker: It's right next to their AR-15s.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Look at me.
Speaker: Whoa, hey, political.
Speaker: Hey, oh, hey, oh.
Speaker: They lost the rainbow.
Speaker: They are not going to lose King of Kings.
Speaker: They're just not.
Speaker: Oh, hey.
Speaker: Oh, hey.
Speaker: We're going Andrew Dice Clay.
Speaker: Topical podcast.
Speaker: Topical.
Speaker: What's okay.
Speaker: We are basically political philosopher kings.
Speaker: We are the king of the Chapo trap houses of the world.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Precisely.
Speaker: I couldn't have put it better.
Speaker: Precisely.
Speaker: I don't know why I default to Andrew Dice Clay voice.
Speaker: That was an interesting choice.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's an interesting choice.
Speaker: I should have gone Rodney Dangerfield, which is like...
Speaker: A few degrees like south of that.
Speaker: It's just a step or two.
Speaker: Yeah, it's just down the hill.
Speaker: No respect.
Speaker: No respect.
Speaker: No respect.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Yeah, see, it's all on the same continent.
Speaker: It's in the same, yeah, it's in the same strata.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So Telegrin's like, send them to the Rancor pit.
Speaker: I mean, the Barakar pit.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Chapter 11.
Speaker: Cyril and Alexander are led down to a dungeon where the Barakar is.
Speaker: Alexander's like, maybe this is a good time to attack the knights, but it doesn't work.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Again, this is all just... They are running in circles.
Speaker: Alexander is the worst hero in the world.
Speaker: He's awful.
Speaker: He's just the worst.
Speaker: There is nothing that... It's not like he has a goal and he's like... In storytelling, there's like... You have your goals and then you have your intermediate goals that the character's trying to take and then there's the failure.
Speaker: This is just like...
Speaker: Alexander saying, fuck it, I'll do it live.
Speaker: Every story beat.
Speaker: No, this is, you know, Alexander's stream of consciousness adventure.
Speaker: That's all this is.
Speaker: Maybe if I push one of the knights, that'll help.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Doesn't do anything.
Speaker: Well, no, you know, when you think about it, as an adventure gamer, that is how you play these games.
Speaker: Just click on everything, combine everything.
Speaker: But it probably shouldn't be in your novelization.
Speaker: You should probably skip that part.
Speaker: The problem is every action he takes is,
Speaker: doesn't have like, well, some actions do and some don't, but this action in particular, it has no effect on the plot.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: Like there's no adverse reaction.
Speaker: No, it's, he's just back to where he started before he took the action.
Speaker: So why even do it?
Speaker: So why have it exactly?
Speaker: Why have it?
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: So they get down to the dungeon and I don't know how to describe this entire sequence other than they Scooby Doo around the dungeon for a bit.
Speaker: That is exactly what it is.
Speaker: They just, they describe it as such.
Speaker: Like it's literally like they go through one door and then they run into another and then they run into, all we needed was like funny 60s, you know, style beach music playing in the background.
Speaker: And, and we're, it's, it's, it's, it's absolutely that we should have, we should have brought in Scott on this one.
Speaker: Like we should have brought in Scott for this.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: From it's probably not aliens for the noted Scooby-Doo lover.
Speaker: Scott.
Speaker: Nice wander.
Speaker: The, the, the, the, the leading Scooby-Doo scholar of our time.
Speaker: He is.
Speaker: He is the leading Scooby-Doo.
Speaker: He actually might be.
Speaker: I actually, yeah, I think he might be.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: I don't see a reason that he wouldn't be.
Speaker: Yeah, no.
Speaker: I mean, I don't see anybody else taking the mantle.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: They get deeper and deeper while the Barakar chases after them.
Speaker: And the Barakar is like a rat dog thing.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And eventually they come upon a door that they can't open.
Speaker: And everything seems hopeless and Cyril's like, okay, well this is an emergency, I'm gonna use magic.
Speaker: And he casts Fireball and rolls 46 and incinerates the Barakar.
Speaker: Just brutal.
Speaker: And I actually looked up that it's a D6 for Fireball.
Speaker: I just wanted to be accurate.
Speaker: Well, he rolled a D6 and it somehow exploded and turned into 50 D20s.
Speaker: Like, it just...
Speaker: There are a lot of things in this book that are actually, for all its faults, very accurate to the King's Quest brand.
Speaker: This is not one of those moments.
Speaker: Yeah, it just absolutely melts the barricade.
Speaker: There's only the skeletons left.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It shoots past it.
Speaker: It hits a wall, melts a hole in the wall, bounces back, and they have to dodge out of the way.
Speaker: And they're like, wow, that was a lot.
Speaker: So they sit down because Cyril's become a sleepy boy and they talk about where Graham's soul might be.
Speaker: And they're like, well, it's not in the same place as Princess Lydia because she's in that one house that we walked by.
Speaker: And then they take a nap.
Speaker: I have to feel, I feel like...
Speaker: using magic for Cyril, it's very cocaine-esque.
Speaker: He uses magic and he gets like really hyped and starts like babbling about like the power of it all.
Speaker: And like, he's doing everything, but telling you how he's going to write this awesome screenplay.
Speaker: And, and like, it just, and then suddenly the crash comes and he's just like, I think maybe they should lay down and like, Oh, I've known that guy knew that dude.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: He manages a Hardee's.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: He couldn't get another bump and he fell asleep.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: He didn't have time to call the guy.
Speaker: And that was that.
Speaker: He fell asleep.
Speaker: And you know what?
Speaker: He fell asleep in on in the on his like in the middle of his bedroom on the floor.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: He couldn't even get to the bed.
Speaker: He just like, I'm going to nap here.
Speaker: Fully clothed.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Fully clothed.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: So chapter 12, Alexander wakes up first and he sees the hole in the wall has cooled and he can get through it.
Speaker: And he goes through and he finds a headless man holding his own head.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: His name is Owen and he's the original owner of the castle.
Speaker: And he's the guy who taught Telegrin everything he knows until Telegrin backstabbed him by chopping off his head.
Speaker: Which.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You're you're you're asking for that when you take on an apprentice.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I think we all saw that coming.
Speaker: Because magic, Owen is like semi-immortal, you know.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: He knows enough to keep himself alive after his head has been chopped off.
Speaker: Owen tells Alexander about the three magic mirrors that would let him move around the castle.
Speaker: He also says Telegrin wants to marry Lydia.
Speaker: Gross.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Lydia is 14.
Speaker: By the way, how...
Speaker: What is the timeline of events here?
Speaker: Because he's like, I took on Telegram when he was just a wee lad.
Speaker: And then he, after six years, he backstabbed me.
Speaker: But isn't Telegrin like an old man?
Speaker: Yeah, I don't recall if they describe his age or not.
Speaker: But yeah, you've got an evil wizard.
Speaker: You're assuming he's in his 40s at least.
Speaker: Yeah, you don't get evil wizard status by like 2024.
Speaker: No, no, that seems like cheating.
Speaker: You really got to work for that shit.
Speaker: You can't just skip ahead.
Speaker: Fuck that.
Speaker: That's like, you know, trying to roll a lich like right away.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: We're going to go through a lot of, you know, character development and more than a few dungeons.
Speaker: And then maybe we'll get you there.
Speaker: Maybe when you find your phylactery.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We'll we'll we'll get you on that.
Speaker: That's a long term goal at best.
Speaker: Long term.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: No, I agree.
Speaker: I don't know if the timeline really fully makes any sense.
Speaker: Because Lydia is 14.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Whatever.
Speaker: And how many, how much, how much time does it take to kill all those Kings and conquer all those lands?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Like that's not, that's not a six month, uh, you know, that's not, that's not your summer, summer break, you know?
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: Um, so, um, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker: So Owen wants his staff back.
Speaker: Uh, Alexander's like, well, I don't know if I can do that.
Speaker: And Owen's like, well, if you promise, I'll teach you how to get out of the dungeon.
Speaker: And Alexander's like, deal.
Speaker: Alexander, annoyingly, every time there's somebody who wants to help him, Alexander's like, I'm not sure I should trust you.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And then, well, I guess I'll trust it.
Speaker: Like immediately.
Speaker: I guess it's fine.
Speaker: Immediately.
Speaker: Chapter 13.
Speaker: Alexander fills Cyril in and Cyril mentions that using the magic has drained him and that he probably shouldn't use the magic again unless it's a real super duper double emergency.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: I'm sure that that will be the last time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: They move through some magical puzzle rooms with monsters and obelisks, oh my.
Speaker: At this point, I'm getting really bored.
Speaker: They climb a set of stairs from the dungeon and enter the basement of the tower and, hold on, what's my note say?
Speaker: Oh, holy shit, this chapter goes on and on about stairs and rooms and vestibules.
Speaker: Yep, yep.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I was so angry.
Speaker: It's like, we went up to the room and there's a box and it's so pretty.
Speaker: I'm like, fucking, why?
Speaker: What are we doing?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's really funny.
Speaker: I mentioned this before, but it's just this thing where it is so on point with its, it's,
Speaker: loyalty to the franchise.
Speaker: Like it absolutely works in terms of like, this is King's quest.
Speaker: No question.
Speaker: With the, with that attention to like all the little details like that and everything, but it just isn't working in a book.
Speaker: It truly doesn't.
Speaker: It's, it's so dull.
Speaker: It's such a shame.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So I was, anyway, they find the fucking mirror.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: after like 14 different rooms and sets of stairs.
Speaker: Alexander casts a spell on it.
Speaker: He's like, I see my father and it's all wibbly wobbly.
Speaker: And then it's like, Cyril's like, we got to bail, it's the fuzz.
Speaker: Pretty much.
Speaker: The knights arrive.
Speaker: Chapter 14.
Speaker: Alexander shoves one of the knights and breaks his own arm?
Speaker: Question mark?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like, kind of forearms him.
Speaker: Forearms him.
Speaker: And then, like, he describes his arm as being, like, limp and hanging, like he dislocated his shoulder or something.
Speaker: Like, wow.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then they run up some stairs and they keep on running.
Speaker: And then they get off the stairs and whoops, they get caught by more knights.
Speaker: Real Hanna-Barbera stuff, guys.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It really is.
Speaker: It's just...
Speaker: Just back and forth and back.
Speaker: It's so weird.
Speaker: It's so weird.
Speaker: The sound effect of like people running in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
Speaker: Just like the, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker: Yeah, the... Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: That.
Speaker: It's...
Speaker: It's so weird.
Speaker: It's clearly, I refuse to believe that Yakety Sax was not playing in the author's head as he described this, because this is mental.
Speaker: This is just, there's no way anything but that was what was happening in his head.
Speaker: Anyway.
Speaker: Anyway.
Speaker: They get up.
Speaker: They get to the top floor.
Speaker: There's a door that won't open.
Speaker: Cyril blows it open with a wind spell and also happens to rip a hole in the wall in the next room.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then Cyril grabs Alexander and casts a flight spell and they fly away for a bit.
Speaker: And then they start falling out of the sky.
Speaker: Yeah, you're really starting to see why the older wizard was like, please don't let him.
Speaker: Please don't let him cast anything.
Speaker: Please don't let him do this because this isn't going to work out for anybody.
Speaker: This is not going to work out.
Speaker: This is, um, this is like shadow keep, but dumb.
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Pretty much.
Speaker: Pretty much.
Speaker: If all the characters in Shadowkeep were like level seven or something.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: In their class, these two are level one.
Speaker: Oh, big time.
Speaker: going into like a level 10 dungeon.
Speaker: It's so ridiculous.
Speaker: So chapter 15.
Speaker: So in over their head.
Speaker: Over their heads.
Speaker: Chapter 15, they land in a bog.
Speaker: Cyril's in bad shape.
Speaker: He can't, he's totally drained of his MP.
Speaker: They both nap again.
Speaker: There's been a lot of naps.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, plenty of naps.
Speaker: I'm glad saving the world is, there's time for naps when saving the world.
Speaker: There's just no, there's no rush.
Speaker: There really is no rush.
Speaker: No rush.
Speaker: Uh, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Alexander awakens, uh, later and he's sad cause he fucked up and then he falls asleep again.
Speaker: You know, nappy time.
Speaker: And another morning he meets, meets a woman, uh, a witch named Sinophas who asks if he's getting rid of Telegrin who she doesn't like.
Speaker: He says yes.
Speaker: So she turns him into a frog so he can sneak into the castle.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I love that he snuck into the castle and,
Speaker: literally flew out of the castle and needs another way of sneaking back into the castle.
Speaker: So he loses the infinite wallet of bread.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: He loses it.
Speaker: The thing that could feed his kingdom forever.
Speaker: Forever.
Speaker: He just gives it to an ogre.
Speaker: to sneak, he could have just snuck into the cart, like distracted the ogre.
Speaker: Instead he gives it up.
Speaker: He gives it up.
Speaker: Or like found this witch to get him, get him to be a frog.
Speaker: And like, the point is he wasted like one of the most valuable magical items I can imagine.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's just pointless.
Speaker: And it's like, okay, I get it.
Speaker: I mean, you put it in the book to be given up, fine.
Speaker: Still, it just makes you less like the character less because it's hard to have.
Speaker: Here's the thing.
Speaker: There's not much to Alexander other than the fact that he is fucking up everything constantly.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: There's nothing else there other than what he's doing.
Speaker: And what he's doing is making pretty much the wrong decision always.
Speaker: So you're saying Alexander is the George W. Bush to King Graham's George H. W. Bush.
Speaker: Hey there.
Speaker: Politics alarm.
Speaker: Woo.
Speaker: Oh, I know you guys are upset now.
Speaker: That's what we're here for.
Speaker: That's what we're here for.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: To upset you.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: George W. He certainly was a president.
Speaker: That's a person who exists.
Speaker: That's a person who farted in the Oval Office.
Speaker: So, yeah, it wouldn't be.
Speaker: Here's the thing.
Speaker: It sounds like nitpickery, and maybe it is in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker: It's just that.
Speaker: I can't get over how overpowered that wallet of infinite bread is.
Speaker: It's so overpowered.
Speaker: There's no trick to it.
Speaker: There was no monkey's paw twist where, you know, because they talk about they talk about that.
Speaker: They're like, well, the fair people, the fair folk, the fey, you know, they, you know, all their gifts have like something dark behind it.
Speaker: And I don't know.
Speaker: There's none of that.
Speaker: It's just another item to be used to solve a puzzle.
Speaker: And in this case, it's like, it's just too powerful.
Speaker: It could have been any number of other things.
Speaker: And you basically, it's like, this is a literal money tree and dollar bills grow from it.
Speaker: And it's like, well, I'll use that to get me this new pair of slacks that I need to trick the guards into letting me into the castle.
Speaker: Like...
Speaker: No, there had to have been a better way.
Speaker: It's just so distracting.
Speaker: It distracted the hell out of it.
Speaker: There's so many ways to use this thing.
Speaker: You could have written like a bit where like he fills the room with bread.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And like, Telegrin opens the door and he gets covered in an avalanche of bread.
Speaker: That's the way out.
Speaker: You know, it's like Chekhov's gun, but if Chekhov's gun was like, you give a wallet of bread in the first act, you need to fucking get rid of it in the first act.
Speaker: And everyone's confused and let's face it, frustrated.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's so weird.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So, you know, if you were like, come on, guys, get over the wallet of bread thing.
Speaker: I say to you, why?
Speaker: Why should we?
Speaker: Why?
Speaker: In this economy?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: I mean, that is a meme.
Speaker: But at this point, yes.
Speaker: In this economy, we are concerned about where infinite bread is coming from.
Speaker: It is a valid concern.
Speaker: Oh, gosh.
Speaker: So Cyril, chapter 16 now.
Speaker: By the way, the only way to reverse the spell is for him to be kissed by a princess.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Fine.
Speaker: Fine.
Speaker: Fine.
Speaker: Chapter 16.
Speaker: Cyril takes Frog Alexander up to the gate and puts him down.
Speaker: And they have a long discussion about how Cyril should go take another nap or fucking, I don't know.
Speaker: Alexander hops into the castle.
Speaker: He does some frog ninjutsu and he finds his way to Princess Lydia, who he convinces to kiss him.
Speaker: She does.
Speaker: And he turns back into a prince.
Speaker: And Lydia thinks that he's kind of hot.
Speaker: And then she says, but I actually haven't seen anyone else.
Speaker: So you might be average.
Speaker: Which, if that's true, fair enough.
Speaker: Fair enough.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And you've got a perfect out there.
Speaker: He's like, okay, well, you're 14.
Speaker: So yes, I'm actually very ugly compared to the rest of the world.
Speaker: How old is Alexander?
Speaker: It doesn't say.
Speaker: It doesn't say.
Speaker: But I mean, but I tell you, this does take place before King's Quest VI.
Speaker: We know that much.
Speaker: So he, and in King's Quest VI, I'm guessing he's like 18.
Speaker: So maybe it is fairly age appropriate if it's like a few years or something like that.
Speaker: But we have to be clear.
Speaker: If that's true, we have to be.
Speaker: We have to be very clear because the only person's age that we've we've really established is Lydia and she's 14.
Speaker: It's it needs to be needs to be crystal sparkling clear.
Speaker: So then Lydia is like, oh, your caretaker can't see you.
Speaker: Let's get back into the house.
Speaker: So chapter 17, they go into the house, they go up the stairs and into Lydia's room.
Speaker: And Lydia describes her caretaker, Laurel, who sounds like a nightmarish creature.
Speaker: She's seven feet tall, has two heads and no hair.
Speaker: And Alexander needs to use the mirror that's in the room that Laura often sits in.
Speaker: And because Laurel has two heads, one is always asleep and one is always awake.
Speaker: So she's always on guard.
Speaker: One of us tells the truth and one of us always lies.
Speaker: Always lies.
Speaker: And Lydia's like, I'm going to help.
Speaker: And she takes his cloak and a hat and she begins casting a spell to make what appears to be an invisible man gag or something like that.
Speaker: It's, you know, it's the Invisible Man starring Chevy Chase.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: John Carpenter's Invisible Man.
Speaker: John Carpenter's Invisible Man, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or was it Diary of the Invisible?
Speaker: I forget what that what John Carpenter's one was.
Speaker: Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker: I thought you were just making something up.
Speaker: I didn't know.
Speaker: No, it's a real thing.
Speaker: I didn't know that.
Speaker: It's a real thing.
Speaker: So so that's the that's that's the end of the section.
Speaker: Good Lord.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Nothing.
Speaker: It's like, it feels like a lot.
Speaker: Nothing happened.
Speaker: Well, like a lot happened, but nothing happened at the same.
Speaker: We are like a lot actually happened in a hundred.
Speaker: It's a hundred pages and a fair amount happened, but we are no closer.
Speaker: We got into the castle.
Speaker: We flew out of the castle and then we got back into the castle again.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We have not gotten far.
Speaker: And yeah, the story is kind of tread water for a little bit.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's, it's, and as I've said, uh, and I guess we'll probably continue to say when it comes to the tone, uh, this is actually kind of flawless, uh, for the King's quest tone.
Speaker: It's got that old fashioned fairy tale sort of innocent sweetness to it.
Speaker: Um, but yeah,
Speaker: The thing about the King's Quest games is it covered a wide variety of lands and places, and there was always something new, some new set piece to investigate and that sort of thing.
Speaker: We went through the woods and got kicked out of Castle, and we're two-thirds of the way done with this book.
Speaker: It's missing that...
Speaker: I hesitate to say epic because it's such an overused term.
Speaker: But yeah, that grandness, that is one of the many things that makes King's Quest so special.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I'm quite a bit... I'm bored.
Speaker: I'm bored.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Actually, you guys don't know this, but Kevin actually briefly said, do you think...
Speaker: We could get these 200 pages read and just make this a two-parter.
Speaker: And I went, yeah, sure.
Speaker: We can fucking try.
Speaker: He's like, yeah, I just, I'm done with this.
Speaker: I am done with this book.
Speaker: Can we just knock it out?
Speaker: And then we both realized, oh, wait, we're- We don't have enough time for 200 pages.
Speaker: We have lives and responsibilities and-
Speaker: But I, God damn, if I think if we had known, if I had known about it going into it and we were like, all right, well, we're going to cover it just to cover it.
Speaker: I would have been like, all right, we're just going to do, just read it, read the whole damn thing.
Speaker: And we're going to do a real cursory overview rather than a recap of it.
Speaker: It's just.
Speaker: Floating Castle is kind of an appropriate title because the plot really is.
Speaker: It's very.
Speaker: It's a floaty plot.
Speaker: It's floaty.
Speaker: It's kind of weightless.
Speaker: It doesn't have a lot of gravitas.
Speaker: It's yeah, it's it's sadly a pretty appropriate title.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't see how they're going to.
Speaker: I mean, this isn't the worst thing we've read, but it might be one of the more dull things we've read.
Speaker: No, it's not the worst thing we've read.
Speaker: And it's like, how do you define worst and all that stuff?
Speaker: And I think, okay, so worst is like, to me on the scale of worst to best, like the worst stuff is like,
Speaker: has like, is either nonsensical or like vaguely offensive in the way it describes things.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: This is just like, well, there it's, it's sentence are properly structured.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: There's, there are, there are ways to waste an audience's time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And they're like, and, and one way is being incompetent to the point where,
Speaker: that it feels personal.
Speaker: It feels like an insult.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Which Dead Space comes to mind.
Speaker: Dead Space, Dark Souls.
Speaker: Dark Souls, where it's actively wasting your time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: This is kind of almost like...
Speaker: a friend of yours who you really like wrote a book.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And you read it and went, oh, this just is going...
Speaker: Nowhere.
Speaker: And you feel, I feel bad about how boring this book is.
Speaker: It's not my fault.
Speaker: It's not your fault.
Speaker: It's not my fault.
Speaker: I didn't do that.
Speaker: And I don't know if this is similar to the way you felt when, when we read the dark souls book, because King's quest is such an important franchise to me.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Maybe that's why, like, I'm actually, I'm not taking it quite as personally, but I'm, I'm, I'm embarrassed almost.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's like you tell your friend that this movie is so good.
Speaker: You got to see this movie.
Speaker: I watched it in the theater and it blew my fucking mind.
Speaker: And 10 years has passed and you watch it with your friend and go, oh, this is actually not as good as I maybe remember.
Speaker: Oh, man, this is actually bad.
Speaker: This is science was not that good of a movie.
Speaker: Fuck.
Speaker: OK.
Speaker: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker: Oh, I talked that one up after I saw it in the theaters.
Speaker: Boy, howdy.
Speaker: Boy, howdy.
Speaker: Oh, man.
Speaker: Inception.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: Honestly, almost all of what's his name's movies for me, at least Nolan.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: They for me, they're they they wear off really fast.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: I don't think he has a whole lot of substance to hit the style of filmmaking.
Speaker: I feel like it.
Speaker: I feel like it's almost like you're watching an accelerated montage the entire time rather than really sitting in any any scene.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's like things are just going, going, going, going.
Speaker: The end.
Speaker: It's like very, very talented trailer editing movies.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: It's like a trailer.
Speaker: It's like a trailer for an entire fucking movie.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And it's a very good trailer.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: It's amazing.
Speaker: But it's a trailer.
Speaker: I also don't like it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'll be like, this was amazing.
Speaker: And then I'll be like, oh, it was all right.
Speaker: And then like a few years later, I'm like.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, I get it.
Speaker: I get it.
Speaker: I think, and really it's just from like inception on.
Speaker: I was like, I think inception was the beginning of it.
Speaker: Yeah, Inception was kind of the beginning of him finding this voice that maybe we would all be better off if he didn't find that voice.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I'd rather he didn't have that voice.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So this is Inception the book for me in that I don't like Inception that much.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: And I don't like this book either.
Speaker: Sure, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I respect that.
Speaker: That's what you guys tune in for is the stunning critique.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That really only makes sense to my personal taste.
Speaker: Beautiful similes.
Speaker: You know, beautiful, eloquent similes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's like Inception if you hated Inception.
Speaker: Kevin paints a picture with words.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That's what every time you get a chapter done, it goes blah.
Speaker: Every time they take a nap, it goes blah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That would actually work.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, boy.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Well, we've we've I think we've vamped enough extra time into it for how quickly it takes to to to recap.
Speaker: So I think fast.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We're I mean, short episodes.
Speaker: Who cares?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: They're they're they're fucking free people.
Speaker: What do you want from us?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: What do you want from us?
Speaker: What do you want from us?
Speaker: Sometimes money if you want more.
Speaker: Sometimes the books don't warrant long recaps because nothing happens in 100 pages.
Speaker: And we go 100 pages at a time.
Speaker: So I don't know.
Speaker: What do you want?
Speaker: Yeah, it's not our fault, man.
Speaker: It's not our fault, man.
Speaker: We're trying our best.
Speaker: Anyway, what are you playing?
Speaker: Ah, I have still been playing Tormented Souls.
Speaker: Unfortunately, I ran into one of the more...
Speaker: forgettable bugbears of old fashioned games, which is the, uh, non auto save, uh, factor, uh, of these retro games.
Speaker: And the fact that you have limited numbers of saves based on how many rolls of tape you find.
Speaker: And I got really far into it.
Speaker: Uh,
Speaker: for me and like an hour and a half into it and died in a way that was impossible to avoid because these fucking Zombo guys, you run past them like you should, you know, it's all about, it's like that Resident Evil thing.
Speaker: They got long reach though.
Speaker: You run past them and then they spit at you from a distance and you can't dodge it.
Speaker: There's no getting away from them.
Speaker: And it's like, I don't have a choice.
Speaker: And it takes 10 nails to bring one of these fuckers down.
Speaker: I'm damned if I do it.
Speaker: I'm damned if I don't.
Speaker: And I'm really frustrated.
Speaker: So I said, I'm going to give that a break.
Speaker: Maybe I'll come back to it.
Speaker: Maybe I won't.
Speaker: And out of a sense of a...
Speaker: research for our show.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: And B, a need to know if I was completely wrong and had misplaced my nostalgia and love of something.
Speaker: I played King's Quest VI from start to finish, which was Alexander's Adventure.
Speaker: It comes after my favorite King's Quest, which was King's Quest V. And...
Speaker: It was good.
Speaker: It's good.
Speaker: It's good.
Speaker: It's what I remember.
Speaker: It's heartwarming.
Speaker: It's charming.
Speaker: It's sweet.
Speaker: It's still, if it weren't for, you know, I won't lie.
Speaker: I just did walkthroughs of it.
Speaker: I just experienced it basically.
Speaker: Right, right.
Speaker: You know, and just, you know, walked through the whole thing to enjoy the story.
Speaker: And I loved it.
Speaker: I had a blast.
Speaker: But there were moments where I looked at it and went, oh, that's, there's one of those moments that we talked about where, oh, the dog's escaping.
Speaker: They're more of a LucasArts crowd over there.
Speaker: They didn't want to listen.
Speaker: Yeah, no, they don't care for Sierra online.
Speaker: No, but I saw a moment where I was like, oh, see, this is one of those nasty game-breaking moments where if I hadn't done something way down the line right now, I'd be screwed.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And I'd basically have to start all over unless I was save-scumming this entire way.
Speaker: And let's face facts, if you were a Sierra fan, you were save-scumming.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: But I've fallen out of practice.
Speaker: He's back.
Speaker: Oh, he came back.
Speaker: Oh, but I really enjoyed it.
Speaker: I don't like Alexander as much as I like Graham, but there's a puppy.
Speaker: Oh, he's cleaning.
Speaker: Oh, he's scratching out of here.
Speaker: It's a tiny dog.
Speaker: He's very little, you know, very small.
Speaker: Here we come.
Speaker: Oh, oh, yes.
Speaker: Look at my face.
Speaker: Say hi to everybody, Brighton.
Speaker: Hello, my name's Brighton.
Speaker: Brighton's voice is basically a toad.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Hello.
Speaker: Hello.
Speaker: Hi.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: This show is like 20% politics and like 15% showing off our pets from time to time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I think that's what people come here for.
Speaker: And Bella is back there somewhere and she doesn't like me.
Speaker: There she is.
Speaker: Yeah, so I went through that and it made me feel good because at least it helped me go, no, this is still a really cute, charming story.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: For...
Speaker: As inappropriate of a man as I grew into, I will never stop loving the wholesomeness of King's Quest, which is which has startlingly dark moments at it at times.
Speaker: For example, you visit death in King's Quest six and it's very H.R.
Speaker: Giger-esque and kind of crazy.
Speaker: But it's still very wholesome and sweet and there are no real inappropriate moments.
Speaker: There's barely even any innuendo.
Speaker: I guess they just they just kind of left that to lead your suit Larry.
Speaker: They figured.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: They're going for that.
Speaker: Put it all into one one one series.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: So, yeah.
Speaker: So that's that's what I did.
Speaker: So, Kevin, what are you playing?
Speaker: I am playing, what am I playing?
Speaker: I am playing the Dead Space remake.
Speaker: Which is good so far.
Speaker: It's it's it's dead space.
Speaker: It's dead space one.
Speaker: But I think they expanded a little bit.
Speaker: Also, it seems like it's a little bit more open.
Speaker: Like once you get the tram operating, you can you can go back and forth between the different areas.
Speaker: Oh, OK.
Speaker: So linear then.
Speaker: It's not as linear.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Interesting.
Speaker: As it was at one point.
Speaker: But yeah, it's good.
Speaker: It has some bugginess on the PC version that hopefully will be patched out soon because like sometimes it'll be running totally fine and then suddenly there'll be like a frame rate drop to Oblivion, you know?
Speaker: I have heard that it is a beast to run.
Speaker: Yeah, it's so weird.
Speaker: And what's funny is I have everything...
Speaker: It looks good and I have everything on relatively low and I still will get a random like spike and it'll frame rate drop by a lot.
Speaker: Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker: Am I playing anything?
Speaker: else no not really I've been focused on the Dead Space remake and listening to a book that you also read recently pixel it recommendation engine right here we're dropping it right here between two fires by Christopher is Christopher Buhlman Buhlman yeah
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So it's set in, I want to say the 1300s.
Speaker: It's like 1347 or something.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's during the bubonic plague.
Speaker: And, oh, shit's bad.
Speaker: It's basically post-apocalyptic, you know?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It really paints a picture as to how terrible things were and how on the precipice Europe was at the time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And it's terrifying.
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: Because not only is there plague going around, there are there are just straight up monsters from like fucking blasphemous.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Crawling out of the depths of hell.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So if you want to read a book that is like, oh, this feels like in the same vein as blasphemous or dark souls.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: In a book form.
Speaker: Go for it.
Speaker: Go for go.
Speaker: Go for between two fires.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's I finished it and it's easily one of the most satisfying adventures I've read in a long, long time.
Speaker: It's.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And the title is a reference to the Pope.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: The Pope would sit between two fires to burn off the plague from the air around him.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Because they thought that worked.
Speaker: Because they thought that worked.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's not how the bubonic plague worked.
Speaker: It's not how any of this works.
Speaker: It's not how any of this works.
Speaker: It's not how any of this works.
Speaker: But damn, it's a good book.
Speaker: It came out like 11 years ago and I cannot believe I only just found out about it.
Speaker: Yeah, it's 2012.
Speaker: It's a 2012 book.
Speaker: But the new run, the new printing of it that you have has a fucking badass cover.
Speaker: Oh, it's gorgeous.
Speaker: Absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker: The original cover, like if it has like basically it's just the text and it has like a fire at the top and a fire at the bottom.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's like, all right.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Yeah, fine.
Speaker: This has got like that old medieval style skelling man kind of thing.
Speaker: And it's just, oh, it's good.
Speaker: It's good.
Speaker: I love a good, I love a good medieval skellington.
Speaker: I, I love it.
Speaker: Uh, uh, I, one of my friends on Twitter pointed out recently that he's just like all of your, the books that you've been showing off that you're reading on Twitter lately have had the most amazing covers.
Speaker: And I'm like, they have, haven't they?
Speaker: Like, yeah.
Speaker: I hate to put it this way, guys, but get a good cover for your book.
Speaker: It's going to grab people and there's no getting around that.
Speaker: I do judge books by their cover.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You know, that's part of the package.
Speaker: It sells books.
Speaker: It just does.
Speaker: And I'm such a physical copy guy that I love just having certain editions of books in my possession just to be able to look at them.
Speaker: I haven't read this yet, but I love.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's I'm holding up Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantaro.
Speaker: And basically it's what Velma wishes it was.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Oh, it's it's more of like a adult oriented Scooby Doo horror type.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's not exactly Scooby Doo, but the title meddling kids is, you know, a reference to it's a it's a clear reference.
Speaker: Yeah, it's a clear reference.
Speaker: So, yeah, I saw that at the I saw that at the bookstore the other day.
Speaker: It looks fun.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I talked to Scott Niswander, right?
Speaker: And he liked it.
Speaker: So nice.
Speaker: I mean, if he liked it, then it gets the Scott stamp of approval.
Speaker: I tend to trust his opinion.
Speaker: I'd scoop things.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'd scoop things.
Speaker: That'll do it for tonight's episode.
Speaker: If you want to go ahead, do us a solid.
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Speaker: I mean, Twitter's breaking again as of this episode.
Speaker: It's just, it's, you know, the thing was, it's funny when...
Speaker: We should all feel a little silly when it all began.
Speaker: We're like, ah, it's breaking right now.
Speaker: Everyone was like signing everyone's yearbook at the end of the like, oh, fine.
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Speaker: I know Twitter, you know, we all love saying like Twitter's a hellscape of blah, blah.
Speaker: It's like, I've had some really good times on Twitter.
Speaker: I've met some really cool people on Twitter and it worked and I'm sad to see how shit the quality has become.
Speaker: It's a real shame.
Speaker: Yeah, there was the story as of today, as of this recording, there's that story that there's the engineer that was just fired by Elon Musk because Elon Musk's tweet impressions went down.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And the engineer said, well, maybe people are just less interested in looking at your tweets.
Speaker: And Elon's response was, you're fired.
Speaker: You're fired.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And the guy confirmed it.
Speaker: He's like, yep, today was my last day.
Speaker: Good luck to the two other people there that know what's going on.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: It truly has become some insane, demented Roman emperor shit.
Speaker: You know, it's just Caligula-esque.
Speaker: There's no clothes.
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Speaker: And when people tell him he's not wearing any clothes, they get fired.
Speaker: That's literally...
Speaker: The Emperor's New Clothes thing.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It is a shame.
Speaker: It's a real shame.
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