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Dunstan Checks In (King's Quest: Kingdom of Sorrow Part 2)
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There's a GIANT and his name is Dunstan! So that means I gotta make the one reference that I know for the name Dunstan. This is what happens when you come up short in media exposure to a name.
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Introduction and Banter
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You just, you want to be around them.
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You enjoy their company.
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It's like, it's like, it's like you and your brother, like ribbing each other and fucking around.
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Like it's, it's a similar kind of vibe.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And you know what else is a similar kind of vibe?
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What's that?
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Hey there, everybody.
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Welcome back to Pixelit.
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My name is Kevin.
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With me as always is Phil on today's show.
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We are continuing on King's Quest.
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We're in the, we're real sorrowful now.
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We're super sorrowful.
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Oh, so sorrowful.
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So sorrowful.
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And you know what?
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You know what would be a great way to make us less sorrowful?
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And the bonus episode we're recording.
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We recorded a big bonus episode today.
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We got into the stand-up comedy, like the theories behind stand-up comedy.
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And I know you guys were waiting to hear that one.
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Waiting to hear that one.
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Go buy Phil's comedy album.
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It's still for sale.
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Don't buy Phil's comedy album.
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How dare you?
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Has it aged well?
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Has it aged well?
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Probably not.
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Probably not.
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All the more reason to buy it.
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Hold me accountable, people.
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Hold me accountable.
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It's not bad.
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There's some light, cheerful misogyny in it.
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Cheerful misogyny.
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Light, cheerful misogyny, which I thought I was one of those comedians who was charming enough to get away with it.
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And I think to some people I was and others.
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It really worked when you saw Phil in person and you could see him on stage.
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Yeah.
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With a cigarette between his fingers and he was like sweating the gin out.
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You could just see the gin pouring from Phil's.
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You could.
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You remember the Elvis movie, that terrible Elvis movie that came out?
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Peace what?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The end of it, they made the horrible mistake of showing actual clips of late era Elvis singing chainless melody, unchained melody, which was the biggest mistake ever, because that's what he's just leaned over.
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And you're still like, you can't he's electrifying.
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He's like just the most amazing entertainer.
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And.
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I'm not trying to compare myself to him in that sense, but I, I, I've seen videos of myself in my heyday as a comedian.
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And just like you said, I'm just smoking and sweating chemicals.
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And I'm just like, this is late era Elvis shit.
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Like I'm going to die.
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Like, Oh my God.
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God.
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Uh, $10 gets your name shouted out.
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in the episode.
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So to that end, I want to shout out Jesus loves you.
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Kyle Seaman, Ruthless Mudder, Middle of Things, Sigma Sal, Chet Peaks, Demet Thicke, and Friendly Friend, thank you for being a friend.
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Yeah, so... You know what?
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I'm glad we talked stand-up comedy.
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I am too.
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It's been a long time since I've done that.
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It's been a long time.
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So, you know
King's Quest Plot Discussion
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what?
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Why don't we go ahead and put...
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this body in the marsh and tell me about the adventures of King Graham as he continues on his merry way through some really rough, this dude is having some rough encounters.
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He's getting the shit kicked out of him.
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This is not, all right, yeah, so yeah, Graham is not having a good time.
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Not having a good day.
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At this point.
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When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump them in the marsh.
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We last left off where King Graham and his bard companion, Shallan, had to kind of negotiate their way around being eaten by spiders, these giant spiders.
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And basically it came down to the fact that A, Shallan sang them a lovely tune and they were like, oh, that's nice.
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But B, they were full from eating imps.
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So part of it was like...
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We're doing you a favor.
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The other part, though, was just something they couldn't have controlled if they tried.
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So they're right there.
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That's terrifying.
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And they go ahead and they go to sleep.
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And then we start on Chapter 11 where they've woken up.
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And at this point, you figure the spiders are gone.
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The spiders are not gone.
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The spiders.
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Spiders are never gone.
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No, no, they're not.
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I saw a tweet the other day that said the hardest part about insomnia is eating all those spiders on purpose.
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And it's a good joke.
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It's a good joke.
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It's a good joke.
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It's a good joke.
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And these, these, this is, this is a similar kind of vibe.
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They just, they're just there and they lovingly quote unquote offer them some grapes and
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They literally grapes.
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It's it's like just they just show up and they're like, hey, you want here's some grapes.
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And they're like, oh, that's thanks for the grapes.
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The spiders are like, we've seen you guys eat these things.
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We know you eat these.
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And he's oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, we do.
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It's it's it's actually really damn funny.
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And they and here's the thing.
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They eat the grapes and they're described as sweet with a certain bitterness to them, which I think sends up some red flags.
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I think that's a little obvious.
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However, I'm just going to go ahead and spoiler alert.
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By the time we get to two thirds of the way through this book,
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That has nothing.
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Nothing happens.
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Nothing happens with the bitterness from these grapes.
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So I'm like, OK, I don't know if they're like saving that or what were you thinking it was going to be?
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That there was like, that it was like one little trick for them to like some sort of like, um, uh, what do you call it?
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Sedative or something like that for them to try and eat.
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And they still, and they're, so they're, their troubles are not over.
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So, but then again, that's dumb because why would the spiders do that?
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They could just eat them in their sleep.
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As, as a, as someone who, uh, would like to be a vintner, uh, uh, someday perhaps, uh, what's the, what's the French word?
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Terroir, uh, yeah, yeah.
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Terroir, uh,
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What would, what, what, what kind of grapes are these?
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Oh, oh, um, I mean, there could be any number of grapes, but yeah, if you're talking about a little bitterness, I would, I'm not going to say maybe a Nebbiolo.
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Okay.
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Uh, uh, which, uh, make a wonderful Italian reds, which are big, bold, uh, uh, just huge reds, but are also really well known for their tannic bitterness.
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Uh, uh,
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Kind of like the table wine that you would get at an Italian restaurant or something like that.
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No, this is stuff that, well, I mean, it could be.
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It depends on the region.
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But these are the same grapes that are used in Barolo and Barbaresco, which fetch some of the highest prices of wines in the world.
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In fact, if you wanted to buy an acre of land in the Barolo region, it's like $2 to $3 million for a single acre.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Just to be able to-
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To just to grow some of those grapes and sell some of that wine.
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Because an acre, you're not making much.
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You're not making a ton of that.
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And so, yeah, it's wild.
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So, you know, that's where my brain went immediately.
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I'm going to stick with that.
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Nebbiolo.
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Nebbiolo grapes.
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Any of you fuckers come for me with this that come correct.
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I want to hear it.
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Come correct.
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There were Nebbiolo grapes offered by the spiders.
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Yes.
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Spider.
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That's I'm going to make, I'm going to make a Nebbiolo based wine called spider wine.
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Spider wine.
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Yes.
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Delicious.
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Truly delicious.
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Um, so we get, uh, the journey continues.
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Uh, uh, Graham points out that, uh, Shallan is barely wearing anything at all.
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He actually point it, it, it, we get a kind of a nothing at all moments.
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Um, because he's just, he, and he gets, he's complaining about the cold.
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And so Graham gives him his cloak, uh, to help him against.
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And as you might remember from the last episode, Graham has put on like 19 layers.
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Um, this will, uh,
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This will come into play, but for layers.
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Exactly.
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And this will come into play as the story goes along, which I find to be really, really funny, because one of the things that we're going to see that this particular King's Quest book does well, in my opinion, is actually recreating quests and goals and challenges in the
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King's Quest and frankly, most point and click games without it being too fetch questy.
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Right.
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And him having the layers of clothing.
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And I think that was the problem with the first book where it was like, I got this random item.
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Oh, this random item solved this puzzle.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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It doesn't.
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It's so this one, this book does a lot better with that.
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We come to a farmhouse.
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There's a woman there.
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They basically, you know, ask for food and shelter and Shalon basically offers to sing for their supper.
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It's pretty cool.
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Yeah.
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And it's an older woman, and they're listening to him sing and all that stuff.
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And these three brothers, I assumed, I don't remember, did they ever say that they're brothers or something like that?
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Or just...
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They're just pals.
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I think they're brother.
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Like the it's, it's real new heart show energies.
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Yes.
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I'm Larry.
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This is my color.
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Oh, Daryl, Daryl and Daryl.
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That's right.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's a similar vibe.
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It's a similar vibe.
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It's the, the gag is that they it's, what is it?
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Um,
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Oh, here we go.
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Here we go.
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Here's a quote for it.
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Graham is asking them if they've seen these imps.
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So the first one says, I don't think so.
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You see anything, Hogshead?
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Nope, said Hogshead.
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How about you, Ramsquarter?
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Nope, said Ramsquarter.
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How about you, Lambsfoot?
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Nope, said the fourth.
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Oh, it's four guys, not three.
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Fourth and last.
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And Graham...
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This happened several times.
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And this to me is very King's Quest because it's cute and it's just annoying enough that I, while reading, I was unconsciously clicking, trying to click through the dialogue.
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Right.
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I love King's Quest.
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I adore that franchise.
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But they would have these kind of long-winded jokes like this that you're like, Jesus Christ, guys.
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My name's Larry.
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This is my brother, Daryl.
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This is my other brother, Daryl.
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Right.
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Oh, God, we have to move on.
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It's so I I I liked this point because we once again, it's Kenyon really knows the source material here.
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And I got a kick out of that.
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So they get a space in the barn and and have some stew and everything seems good.
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Finally, thank God for everyone.
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And they fall asleep.
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Probably nothing comes of it.
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Right.
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Chapter 12.
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Graham wakes up to being kidnapped.
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That's basically he wakes up to these this this quartet and the woman tying them up and dragging them out.
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They're doing the same thing with with Shirelle.
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And they basically are.
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It's really weird.
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They're talking about feeding them to this thing called the laburnum.
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Yep.
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We do not know what they they don't seem to know where the laburnum is there, but they know that the laburnum causes things to happen.
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They need to last time.
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Yeah.
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They wreck their crop.
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They did all this other stuff.
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Yeah.
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If you had the last time they didn't feed it.
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Yeah, it did.
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It wrecked the crop, all that stuff.
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So they're taken to this well, basically, and drop down.
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They they're waiting.
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You're waiting for this dramatic entrance of whatever the laburnum is, and they don't show up.
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So they go, well, fuck it.
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We're fulfilling our part of the bargain.
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Throw them in there.
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They'll they'll get to them.
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So they are dropped down this well.
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We come to chapter 13.
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Graham and Shalon are basically in this kind of labyrinthine sewer system.
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Almost.
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It's like a cavern system.
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They can't see shit.
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Graham can't.
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He's behind Shalon.
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So he has he has to kind of like get from him the story of what the hell is going on.
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Finally, they they find what appear to be the laburnum.
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And they're these they look they're they're like they're like
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80s cereal mascots.
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Like they've got these long skinny legs.
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They say they don't have a head.
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It's just their head and their shoulders.
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They're all they're a big geometric block.
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I imagine them as like what are
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The Porgs from Star Wars.
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Sure, sure, yeah, yeah.
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I kind of picture them as like large versions of that.
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Oh, that's a good, okay, okay, yeah, I like that.
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I like that, that works.
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Yeah.
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So at first they're like, well, these guys are kind of cute.
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What's the big deal?
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And they're like, oh yeah, yeah.
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And they seem kind of friendly and they're like leading them along.
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And at one point- Yeah, the Laburnim are like, come with us.
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And they're like, okay.
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Okey doke.
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And they follow them.
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And it's in the twist of the century.
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They end up in this what can only be described as like an underground town of these little things.
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They're all different colors and shapes and sizes.
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And they're like, oh, well, that's charming.
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And then they notice that all the furniture they're sitting on, the cups they're drinking out of, the bowls, the plates are all made out of human bone.
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Bone.
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Bone.
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Bone.
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And they're like, oh, I see.
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And one of them had like padded Graham on the stomach, like approvingly.
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It was like, I'm thinking like Jawas.
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Like, you know, tap, tap, tap.
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It's just like, you know, and just really excited.
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And they go, oh, shit.
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And so they...
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Well, they run like just turn around the way they came and run like, oh, yeah, this is bad.
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This is not this is not good.
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We are going to be eaten.
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We are going to die.
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That is absolutely what's going to happen today unless we run.
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And so they run in a moment of stark heroism.
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Our bard.
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says that he's like, just go.
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I'll hold them off.
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I'll distract them for a little while.
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And they're little things.
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By the way, they're like two feet tall.
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So it's not like the most intimidating or scary thing, but a hundred venomous ducks will still get a bite in.
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And so the bard is like, I'll take care of it.
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You're going to run.
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So
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Graham runs.
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And as far as he knows, Shlom, he'll never see him again.
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And and finally, with the chapter ends with Graham making his way out of the cavern and out to the basically the foothills of the glass mountains.
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And that's that's the end of that chapter, which are.
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Yeah, which we'll find out are literally glass, literally glass.
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I really liked that touch.
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I think they did a really good job with that.
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We'll get there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So Graham starts up the glass mountains and he comes upon the MC sees them.
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So he tries the old Ben gun from Treasure Island move of shouting from the
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the sides where they can't see him and claiming I've got an army here and we'll fuck you up.
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Uh, if you, if you don't hand over, uh, the fairy dame, uh, just like in treasure Island.
00:16:29
Speaker
Right.
00:16:29
Speaker
And, uh, he tries that out and, and they're,
00:16:33
Speaker
They're really kind of unconvinced.
00:16:34
Speaker
And so he ends up.
00:16:37
Speaker
So the queen, the fairy queen hearing like maybe, oh, this is my chance to be saved, starts singing this song that is clearly putting them to sleep, knocking them out.
00:16:47
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She casts sleep and sleep.
00:16:50
Speaker
It's somewhat effective.
00:16:52
Speaker
Yes, exactly.
00:16:52
Speaker
It's somewhat effective.
00:16:54
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And Graham kind of starts tiptoeing his way down to rescue her.
00:16:58
Speaker
But as he gets there, excuse me, Kudzku, like the nasty, the one that kidnapped her in the first place.
00:17:07
Speaker
Yeah, the one from the very beginning.
00:17:08
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:17:10
Speaker
Is it Kudzu or Kudzku?
00:17:11
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Kuzgu.
00:17:12
Speaker
Kuzgu.
00:17:13
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Kuzgu, yeah.
00:17:14
Speaker
I want to make sure I get that right.
00:17:16
Speaker
Kuzgu.
00:17:18
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Kind of wallops him.
00:17:20
Speaker
It's kind of shocking.
00:17:21
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They get into this fight and Kuzco just like kind of beats his ass.
00:17:25
Speaker
And yeah, Graham is scared.
00:17:29
Speaker
It makes sense because sleep works on you roll for the amount of hit points that sleep works on.
00:17:35
Speaker
And all the other imps had a lower amount of hit points.
00:17:38
Speaker
And Kuzco, because he's a character, he's a he's a he's a level up or whatever from the other imps.
00:17:45
Speaker
Therefore, sleep was not as effective on him.
00:17:47
Speaker
Right.
00:17:47
Speaker
Exactly.
00:17:48
Speaker
So, yeah, he got the saving throw a lot easier than his.
00:17:51
Speaker
Yes, totally.
00:17:53
Speaker
So Graham is freaked out by how kind of handily he's being trounced by this little guy.
00:17:59
Speaker
There is some interesting stuff in there where he's like, oh, he's shorter than me, but he could still fuck me up, which I got a kick out.
00:18:05
Speaker
I was like, that's a good lesson to learn.
00:18:07
Speaker
Good lesson.
00:18:08
Speaker
Good lesson.
00:18:09
Speaker
So Graham does his best impression of brave, sir, Robin and runs away and just gets the fuck out of Dodge.
00:18:16
Speaker
And that's actually how our chapter ends.
00:18:19
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Brave, sir.
00:18:20
Speaker
Graham just ran away.
00:18:22
Speaker
He's like, I'm leaving away.
00:18:25
Speaker
Poor Graham.
00:18:28
Speaker
So we get to the next chapter, which is told from the point of view with the fairy queen.
00:18:33
Speaker
She is being carried through the mountains and we kind of deal with her level of despair because she really thought she was saved at that point.
00:18:41
Speaker
Graham let her down, breaks, breaks the heart.
00:18:44
Speaker
She's being carried through the mountain.
00:18:46
Speaker
Still, they go through this hidden passage in this black rock.
00:18:49
Speaker
It's a secret door, basically.
00:18:51
Speaker
Right.
00:18:51
Speaker
And
00:18:53
Speaker
They they're she realizes they're they're they're going to the sorrowful court and they mentioned that it's being run by something called Dunstan the giant.
00:19:03
Speaker
And so I guess something about that makes her go, oh, shit, I really need to make sure that we.
00:19:08
Speaker
I get covered here.
00:19:09
Speaker
And so she decides she's going to start leaving kind of breadcrumbs for Graham.
00:19:14
Speaker
She's like grabbing, grabbing like a bush and imparting some magic on it so that it's like, you know, it grows basically because everything is dead here.
00:19:25
Speaker
Exactly.
00:19:26
Speaker
Everything around there is dead and there's no, you know, everything, everything that's alive is, is like underneath, uh, uh, 14 feet of snow essentially.
00:19:35
Speaker
So it's, it's all, it's all hidden.
00:19:37
Speaker
Uh, so that's what she's going to do to, to help herself out.
00:19:41
Speaker
Uh, chapter 16.
00:19:44
Speaker
I see where those notes, there they are.
00:19:49
Speaker
Graham is trying to follow the imps and he can't
Graham's Adventures Continue
00:19:53
Speaker
because, as Kevin mentioned earlier, the landscape is covered in glass.
00:19:57
Speaker
It is literally broken glass everywhere.
00:20:00
Speaker
This naturally occurring glass.
00:20:02
Speaker
And it's like cutting at his feet and he just he cannot move.
00:20:06
Speaker
There's no way he can actually go forward.
00:20:08
Speaker
Classic King's Quest kind of a situation.
00:20:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:12
Speaker
Can't go any further.
00:20:13
Speaker
You can't go past this part of the level.
00:20:15
Speaker
And I was like, I was actually thinking about like, that actually, it's something that you could hypothetically have if you had a, like a,
00:20:28
Speaker
like the origins of it would be like, oh, there is these massive sand dunes.
00:20:33
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:20:33
Speaker
Desert kind of thing.
00:20:34
Speaker
Like a desert, massive sand dune.
00:20:36
Speaker
And then there's a volcanic eruption.
00:20:40
Speaker
Aren't there places in the desert that are glass because like lightning striking or something?
00:20:44
Speaker
Lightning striking.
00:20:45
Speaker
Actually, there's a lot of places.
00:20:47
Speaker
I want to say during the first Iraq war, Saddam set fire to the oil fields.
00:20:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:20:58
Speaker
So that they turn to glass.
00:21:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:00
Speaker
Oh, that's crazy.
00:21:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:02
Speaker
So that's what he's dealing with.
00:21:04
Speaker
It is very cool to think about the idea that that could happen.
00:21:08
Speaker
That could actually be a thing.
00:21:11
Speaker
But but for Graham, it's it's a it's a new puzzle to solve.
00:21:16
Speaker
So he is he goes back the way he came.
00:21:19
Speaker
He's trying to find food at this point.
00:21:21
Speaker
He's just because he's he's
00:21:23
Speaker
It just doesn't let up on Graham.
00:21:25
Speaker
He is starving to death at this point.
00:21:27
Speaker
He hasn't eaten in days and and he finds a stream he can drink from.
00:21:31
Speaker
So there's that.
00:21:32
Speaker
But he's having real trouble finding food.
00:21:34
Speaker
And he happens upon a gnome who who, you know, offers him like, come on, come on over to my place and we'll we'll eat.
00:21:41
Speaker
And, you know, my my my wife, you'll you'll meet her and everything like that.
00:21:46
Speaker
And the gnome is a cobbler and his wife is a seamstress.
00:21:52
Speaker
And so they have he gets into their little gnome hole.
00:21:56
Speaker
You know, basically, they talk a lot about how he's way too big for it.
00:21:59
Speaker
Gnome hole.
00:22:01
Speaker
Gnome hole doesn't have quite the gist that Hobbit hole has, does it?
00:22:08
Speaker
It's not quite as charming.
00:22:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:11
Speaker
Hobbit hole, you can be like, okay, but Gnome hole.
00:22:16
Speaker
Gnome hole.
00:22:17
Speaker
Yeah, there's something about that.
00:22:19
Speaker
Oh, that is a shame.
00:22:20
Speaker
It leaves its flavor in the mouth.
00:22:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:24
Speaker
That's why they have those pointy hats to, you know, it helps, helps ease into the normal.
00:22:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:30
Speaker
Jesus Christ.
00:22:31
Speaker
Dilates.
00:22:32
Speaker
Dilates.
00:22:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:33
Speaker
Just, just, it's slowly worrying it open a little by little relax.
00:22:38
Speaker
Talk to it when you want to come.
00:22:39
Speaker
So,
00:22:44
Speaker
Oh God.
00:22:45
Speaker
David, the gnome.
00:22:47
Speaker
Oh, what happened to you, David?
00:22:48
Speaker
Oh wait, I turned into a tree.
00:22:50
Speaker
You turned into a tree.
00:22:52
Speaker
Poor David, the gnome.
00:22:53
Speaker
I love that show.
00:22:56
Speaker
So they basically, we get a moment where,
00:22:59
Speaker
They're explaining like, yeah, you're not going to be able to go any further because of the glass.
00:23:02
Speaker
You'd need these special boots and gloves that will the way he describes it will make you stick to the ground like a fly sticks to the wall, which is an interesting way of putting it.
00:23:15
Speaker
Because at first you think he's going to be like Spider-Man, like climbing walls of shit.
00:23:18
Speaker
But no, it's it's they're just they're, you know, plus five against glass damage.
00:23:24
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:23:25
Speaker
He allows him to walk on the glass without getting cut.
00:23:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:29
Speaker
So he stays with them for like four days while and they ask, they're like, OK, if you give us like your clothes are really finely tailored, if you give us I think ends up trading them like two shirts and something like that for for for for.
00:23:47
Speaker
you know, these boots and gloves and they're like, it's going to take a few days.
00:23:50
Speaker
And on top of that, it's like crazy storming out there.
00:23:54
Speaker
And so it's just, he can't go anywhere for a little while.
00:23:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:57
Speaker
We come to the next chapter and that's where we're, that's where we're at in the next chapter.
00:24:02
Speaker
He stays with the gnomes for four days.
00:24:04
Speaker
He's constantly apologizing for, he's, he's just taking up so much room.
00:24:09
Speaker
So big.
00:24:09
Speaker
He's so big in the hole.
00:24:11
Speaker
So small.
00:24:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:15
Speaker
That's a problem.
00:24:16
Speaker
A lot of gnomes have.
00:24:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:18
Speaker
A lot of us.
00:24:20
Speaker
A lot of us have been there.
00:24:21
Speaker
And so eventually he leaves with a with a pair of boots and the gloves, which do, in fact, work.
00:24:32
Speaker
So now he's got access to this whole new level.
00:24:35
Speaker
He finds a pink flower that's kind of like, you know, it's that fucking heroic flower sticking its head between the sidewalk gravel, but it's a snow.
00:24:46
Speaker
And he realizes that the queen is leaving some clues for him.
00:24:51
Speaker
So he's...
00:24:54
Speaker
He's he knows he's on the right track.
00:24:56
Speaker
Right.
00:24:57
Speaker
He finds a valley and makes his way down.
00:25:01
Speaker
And then, of course, gets stuck in a snowstorm.
00:25:03
Speaker
And when the chapter ends, he has basically just sat his ass down because he's trying to find a place to set up camp and there's nothing.
00:25:12
Speaker
And so he basically just lays down in the snow and lets it kind of consume him.
00:25:18
Speaker
He does manage to build a fire.
00:25:20
Speaker
And as we start in Chapter 18, he wakes up.
00:25:24
Speaker
uh, from the sound of one of the logs kind of like popping.
00:25:28
Speaker
And he's like, Oh shit.
00:25:30
Speaker
If I had slept anymore, I probably would have frozen to death out here.
00:25:33
Speaker
Right.
00:25:34
Speaker
Uh, it would have been that.
00:25:35
Speaker
So that was a very real possibility at that point.
00:25:38
Speaker
Um,
00:25:40
Speaker
So he's trying to keep the fire going.
00:25:42
Speaker
There's hardly any wood or vegetation at all for him to use.
00:25:48
Speaker
He's got this he like literally describes him using a twig that's about as big around as his pinky.
00:25:54
Speaker
So he's got this green twig that's that's, you know, tiny little fire.
00:25:59
Speaker
And and when you know it, while he's out foraging for some food, he slips on some ice, cracks his skull.
00:26:09
Speaker
Now normally in the game, this is where you'd get the Graham, you're falling for us kind of like, you know, like ending moment, you know, right there and you have to start over.
00:26:19
Speaker
You have to like reload, you know,
00:26:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:22
Speaker
Hopefully you've been safe scumming.
00:26:24
Speaker
If you're not, what are you doing?
00:26:27
Speaker
So he's woken up a giant.
00:26:30
Speaker
He is being dragged by the leg by a giant.
00:26:34
Speaker
He's trying to talk to the giant.
00:26:36
Speaker
The giant kind of like will look over his shoulder at him like he's the dumbest human being alive and just keeps dragging.
00:26:42
Speaker
The way that the giant was described, though, in my head, the image was horrifying.
00:26:47
Speaker
Yes.
00:26:47
Speaker
Because he's got this big old head, but the face is it's like the face, the eyes and the nose are like really tiny.
00:26:58
Speaker
But the mouth is huge.
00:27:00
Speaker
Yeah, it says his eyes, his nose, his ears could all fit in a space the size of Graham's palm.
00:27:06
Speaker
Right.
00:27:06
Speaker
Which is insane.
00:27:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:09
Speaker
I loved that detail.
00:27:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:11
Speaker
It's like the guy from Dick Tracy.
00:27:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:17
Speaker
Like, was it flat top?
00:27:19
Speaker
No, little face.
00:27:20
Speaker
Oh, hold on.
00:27:21
Speaker
I'm going to look it up.
00:27:24
Speaker
Little face from...
00:27:28
Speaker
Little face.
00:27:28
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:27:28
Speaker
Little face.
00:27:29
Speaker
Jesus Christ.
00:27:30
Speaker
How did I forget about this thing?
00:27:31
Speaker
This is I think my brain tried to force me to forget this.
00:27:36
Speaker
The fucking, you know, that movie was not a good movie, but the makeup effects they did for these bad guys.
00:27:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:44
Speaker
I don't know why.
00:27:45
Speaker
I just love I love this movie so much just because of the.
00:27:51
Speaker
something about the way that the characters that they created based on the you know the comic strip it was really neat
00:28:03
Speaker
You know, and it's funny because they end up killing off a bunch of the guys right at the beginning.
00:28:11
Speaker
They're playing poker and they all get killed off.
00:28:13
Speaker
Get whacked.
00:28:14
Speaker
Get whacked, Littleface being one of them.
00:28:19
Speaker
But yeah, and the brow.
00:28:20
Speaker
The brow.
00:28:22
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:24
Speaker
It's just the choice because it's such an old comic and those villains –
00:28:29
Speaker
are so over the top in their art design that makes sense for a comic strip.
00:28:35
Speaker
But the fact that they chose to just
00:28:41
Speaker
Let's just keep going with that exact look.
00:28:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:45
Speaker
That's insanity to me.
00:28:47
Speaker
And it produced some serious nightmare fuel, but it's really impressive at the same time.
00:28:52
Speaker
It's amazing.
00:28:52
Speaker
And it goes, it's so cool.
00:28:55
Speaker
It's like something that you see happens a lot in anime with very distinctive looking characters.
00:29:04
Speaker
And the idea that they were like, yeah, we're not gonna fucking like...
00:29:11
Speaker
make it realistic we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna make these characters look exactly like they did in the comic um so yeah you know flat top and itchy uh i get a kick out of that now you know now now at the time it made me scream my head off yeah uh but uh yeah so damn i did not i did not have us talking about dick tracy on my bingo card today
00:29:35
Speaker
And I got to tell you, the final gunfight between the cops and the mobsters and Dick Tracy is actually an amazing sequence of as they're as basically the mobsters are trying to get out of a hideout and the cops are just unlucky.
00:29:54
Speaker
I might, you've, you've, you've, the last time I saw this was a very long time ago.
00:30:00
Speaker
So give it a watch.
00:30:02
Speaker
I might have to give it another watch.
00:30:04
Speaker
It's, it's, I think it gets, I mean, it's not particularly like the plot itself is not written well and Madonna is not a great actress.
00:30:14
Speaker
Well, no.
00:30:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:17
Speaker
No, it's it's got some interest in terms of visual.
00:30:22
Speaker
Like, right.
00:30:23
Speaker
It's it's it's pretty amazing.
00:30:25
Speaker
It's meant to look like a comic book.
00:30:28
Speaker
They were doing that before Sin City did that.
00:30:30
Speaker
Yeah, no, it's well before Sin City.
00:30:33
Speaker
And, you know, it's from the mind of Warren Beatty.
00:30:38
Speaker
I know that was like, yeah, that was his baby, right?
00:30:41
Speaker
Like he invested some cash in this thing.
00:30:44
Speaker
He sure did.
00:30:45
Speaker
And he still does a weird, like special thing.
00:30:48
Speaker
That's right.
00:30:49
Speaker
That's right.
00:30:50
Speaker
Oh, it's like Christmas time or something like that.
00:30:53
Speaker
Yeah, it's like late night.
00:30:54
Speaker
He just does it so that he can retain the rights to Dick Tracy.
00:30:58
Speaker
That's so funny.
00:31:00
Speaker
I love that.
00:31:01
Speaker
Man hasn't been in a movie in like 20 years, but.
00:31:05
Speaker
Never underestimate spite.
00:31:08
Speaker
Just never do it for anything, really.
00:31:11
Speaker
For anything at all.
00:31:12
Speaker
For anything.
00:31:14
Speaker
So, OK, so he's saying, yeah, it is a horrifying design that this thing, because, yeah, you're right.
00:31:20
Speaker
His mouth is enormous.
00:31:22
Speaker
Tiny, tiny eyes, nose and all that stuff in a great big head.
00:31:27
Speaker
So he finds out that he is being dragged to the sorrowful court.
00:31:33
Speaker
How lucky is that?
00:31:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:35
Speaker
Because he was seriously like on the verge of giving up.
00:31:37
Speaker
He was like, oh, my God, I need to go home.
00:31:40
Speaker
He did have a moment where he was like, I seriously need to go home.
00:31:44
Speaker
My family is fucked.
00:31:46
Speaker
And but if I don't, you know, if I but if I do go home, they might be really fucked.
00:31:52
Speaker
And it's it's a whole thing for him.
00:31:56
Speaker
So.
00:31:58
Speaker
So he's so this this worked out really well.
00:31:59
Speaker
It's Deus Ex.
00:32:01
Speaker
I don't know.
00:32:02
Speaker
Giant.
00:32:06
Speaker
The God giant.
00:32:08
Speaker
Giant Ex Machina, I guess, makes sense.
00:32:12
Speaker
So the giant drags him in there.
00:32:15
Speaker
He makes his way in and he's he's tied up by the ankles and he is hung on.
00:32:21
Speaker
upside down by the ankles in this giant pantry.
00:32:26
Speaker
And and the the the imp version of the of Louis, the chef from The Little Mermaid pops in sings, you know, Les Poisson, Les Poisson.
00:32:38
Speaker
And and by the way, your your dinner, you're going to be your your you.
00:32:45
Speaker
We are going to turn you into food.
00:32:47
Speaker
And that's this is a common theme.
00:32:50
Speaker
Graham's life has been threatened specifically by ingestion so many times.
00:32:59
Speaker
So often it's like, why would you ever leave Daventry?
00:33:02
Speaker
No, I think I understand why he gets so frustrated when he has to go on one of these quests.
00:33:07
Speaker
Yeah, it's it looks like it's really frustrating.
00:33:11
Speaker
Why?
00:33:11
Speaker
And why is it him on the quest?
00:33:13
Speaker
Why isn't there a dude that is like very suited?
00:33:16
Speaker
Right.
00:33:16
Speaker
You know, that's a king.
00:33:17
Speaker
You're going to, you're going to have like a night or something who goes out and does that shit for you.
00:33:21
Speaker
No.
00:33:22
Speaker
And the only thing he gets in response is get to, he gets to tell everyone that your wife is his girlfriend.
00:33:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:27
Speaker
And that's it.
00:33:28
Speaker
But that's, that's the extent of it.
00:33:30
Speaker
It was fucking, fucking chivalry.
00:33:33
Speaker
Shit was weird, man.
00:33:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:36
Speaker
Weird stuff.
00:33:38
Speaker
It was really weird.
00:33:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:40
Speaker
Um,
00:33:41
Speaker
So we cut to chapter 19.
00:33:45
Speaker
We get this is this is where the imp singing Les Poissons, Les Poissons.
00:33:49
Speaker
And Graham is like chatting with him, trying to like get him to like hold off as long as he possibly could.
00:33:58
Speaker
And and he says something like, would it help if I told you I was a king?
00:34:04
Speaker
And the imp gets super excited.
00:34:07
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:08
Speaker
And he's like, oh, this is perfect.
00:34:11
Speaker
That's how he sounds in my mind now.
00:34:12
Speaker
This is perfect because as a king, you will be very fat and delicious.
00:34:21
Speaker
Silver cram and honed cacks.
00:34:24
Speaker
Yes, it'll be delicious.
00:34:25
Speaker
That was cakes, not cocks.
00:34:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:28
Speaker
Thank you.
00:34:29
Speaker
That's that's important.
00:34:31
Speaker
But this is this is our what's this guy's name?
00:34:34
Speaker
This name?
00:34:37
Speaker
It's Zuzak.
00:34:38
Speaker
Zuzak.
00:34:40
Speaker
Zuzak.
00:34:40
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This is where this is where Zuzak quite literally says, eat the rich.
00:34:45
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It is a lovely moment.
00:34:46
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Good moment.
00:34:48
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It's a good power to Zuzak.
00:34:51
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You know, I think he's got something.
00:34:53
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I think, yeah, I think he's on to something.
00:34:55
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He a lot of people say the words.
00:34:58
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Very few are actually willing to push through with it on the level that this delightful imp is.
00:35:04
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Yeah.
00:35:04
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So we stand we stand an actual cannibalistic, murderous communist imp.
00:35:11
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Yep.
00:35:12
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Love it.
00:35:13
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So.
00:35:15
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So Graham escapes.
00:35:16
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He kind of rocks back and forth, grabs a cleaver, cuts his way through.
00:35:21
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And the Zuzek is describing to him, we eat humans raw.
00:35:27
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It's the sauce.
00:35:28
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The sauce makes the meal.
00:35:29
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He's like, we dip them raw into the sauce and the sauce is raw.
00:35:34
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He's working on the sauce.
00:35:36
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The sauce is the big deal here.
00:35:38
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And basically, and again, this is all very King's Quest-based.
00:35:44
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game, or this is exactly how this would go down.
00:35:48
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He, you know, he's not going to kill his tormentor.
00:35:51
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It's not that kind of a game.
00:35:52
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He's not that kind of a hero.
00:35:54
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So instead, he knocks over the cauldron that Zuzek has been making the sauce in, knocks it over, ruins all of his hard work, and Zuzek just collapses into a muttering, heartbroken pile, muttering about his sauce.
00:36:14
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That would be, you know, I get it.
00:36:16
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I get it.
00:36:17
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I have been actually making a lot of sauces lately.
00:36:22
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And there's a lot of work that goes into it, man.
00:36:25
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Have you ever made a gravy?
00:36:26
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Gravy?
00:36:27
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Gravy?
00:36:28
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It's not easy.
00:36:30
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It's not the easiest thing in the world, man.
00:36:31
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Make a bechamel.
00:36:33
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And it sounds like this guy is working extra hard on it.
00:36:36
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So I sympathize.
00:36:38
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I really do.
00:36:38
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Yeah.
00:36:40
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My heart goes out to him.
00:36:42
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Same.
00:36:43
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Same.
00:36:43
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Especially because all he wanted to do was eat the rich.
00:36:47
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Just eat the rich.
00:36:49
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I'm sorry.
00:36:50
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I'm not going to bust a man's chops for having his heart in the right place.
00:36:54
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I just will not.
00:36:56
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I will not.
00:36:57
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His methodology was questionable.
00:37:00
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But but heart was in the right place.
00:37:03
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Heart was in the right place.
00:37:04
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That's all that matters.
00:37:06
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But Graham gets away.
The Sorrowful Court
00:37:08
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So Graham escapes.
00:37:10
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He's wandering through the sorrowful court.
00:37:13
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Two things he – I don't know – first off, I don't know why I'm unable to say sorrowful court.
00:37:19
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Sorrowful.
00:37:21
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I slip into a speech impediment every time, but sorrowful court.
00:37:26
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It's so difficult.
00:37:28
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So he finds out two main important things about the sorrowful court.
00:37:34
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One, it's huge.
00:37:36
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It is not – this is not like –
00:37:38
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Yeah, it is enormous.
00:37:41
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And and two, it's basically abandoned.
00:37:44
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There's hardly anyone around.
00:37:46
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So he's got at least he doesn't have to sneak too deftly, you know, for what he's trying to do.
00:37:54
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He can he can just, you know, break his way around.
00:37:57
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It's not a big deal.
00:37:58
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Yeah.
00:37:59
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So he's he's doing that.
00:38:02
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And and eventually he finds a room.
00:38:05
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It's kind of like a plush courtroom kind of thing with all of these imps in it.
00:38:11
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And he recognizes them as the imps he's been following all this time.
00:38:15
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He sees where the fairy queen is and he kind of starts psyching himself up.
00:38:19
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I love this part.
00:38:20
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Yeah.
00:38:20
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He's like slapping himself in the head.
00:38:23
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Yeah.
00:38:23
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Yeah.
00:38:24
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He's like, I can do this.
00:38:25
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I can fucking because he, you know, he fucked up before and he doesn't want a replay of that.
00:38:30
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Uh, so he's like, I can fucking do this.
00:38:31
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I can, I can, I can beat this guy's ass.
00:38:33
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And so when he, by the time he finally psychs himself up enough, uh, he is grabbed from behind by a giant, uh, a different giant this time.
00:38:46
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And, uh, and that's where we end that chapter.
00:38:49
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Uh, chapter 20 opens with Graham meeting, uh, uh, Dunstan, uh, not the one who checks in.
00:38:58
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This is a giant.
00:38:59
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And he is the he is the old.
00:39:02
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He's like he's the king here.
00:39:04
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And it's very interesting the way they treat him because.
00:39:10
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I just I thought it was really funny because what you find out is that the imp Kudzu.
00:39:16
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What is it?
00:39:16
Speaker
Kudzu?
00:39:17
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Kuzku.
00:39:18
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Kuzku.
00:39:20
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Yeah.
00:39:21
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It's like he sees him as his best friend because he was the reason that he found this court.
00:39:29
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Right.
00:39:29
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He's the reason that he's where he is.
00:39:31
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And he sees him as his best friend.
00:39:33
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Graham is trying to explain to the king because the king seems kind of reasonable.
00:39:37
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He's trying to explain to him like people are dying out there.
00:39:39
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My family could die.
00:39:42
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The fairy court is dying.
00:39:44
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It ain't great.
00:39:45
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And Cusco is like not Cusco.
00:39:48
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Sorry.
00:39:48
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The Dunstan is like, oh, that's not good.
00:39:51
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And so he's immediately like, oh, shit.
00:39:53
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OK, like.
00:39:55
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We got something good here.
00:39:56
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Like I can actually I could do some diplomacy and make this happen.
00:40:00
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Unfortunately, Kuzuku is like just all over that.
00:40:04
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And he's just like, yeah, he knows the exact strings, like buttons to push strings to pull all that stuff.
00:40:12
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And he is just he's manipulating him.
00:40:13
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Tell him.
00:40:14
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And finally, he tells him, like, Graham's using magic.
00:40:17
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He's using magic against you.
00:40:19
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And magic, as they point out, is forbidden in the sorrowful court.
00:40:24
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So I keep doing that.
00:40:26
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Sorrowful.
00:40:27
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Sorrowful.
00:40:29
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Homestar.
00:40:30
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Homestar.
00:40:33
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Oh, man.
00:40:35
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Oh, man.
00:40:36
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Homestar.
00:40:37
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Oh, God.
00:40:38
Speaker
I love Homestar Runner so goddamn much.
00:40:39
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Yeah.
00:40:41
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Checking emails.
00:40:47
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So he is.
00:40:49
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Yeah, he tells him, you've got to leave.
00:40:51
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You can't stay here.
00:40:53
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And the the emp is like, but we got to we got to make sure, though, we got to make sure this is permanent.
00:40:59
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And so we're going to call on the slizzard.
00:41:03
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Get in the slizzard.
00:41:05
Speaker
The slizzard.
00:41:05
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Yeah.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:07
Speaker
And I was like, it's like the slizzard.
00:41:09
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Okay.
00:41:10
Speaker
All right.
00:41:12
Speaker
What's okay.
00:41:13
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Slizzard.
00:41:13
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Right.
00:41:14
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So he's, he, they come in and they've got this little box and it's, it's, it's actually a hilarious scene.
00:41:20
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They come in with this tiny little box and they open the box and jump back.
00:41:27
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And nothing happens.
00:41:29
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And Graham's like, what the fuck is going on?
00:41:31
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And this tiny little lizard crawls out and it's and he talking is actually kind of cute.
00:41:36
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It's it's that's adorable.
00:41:38
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Yeah.
00:41:39
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And and he's like, I don't see what you guys are.
00:41:41
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And at one point, this lizard seems to come towards the imps.
00:41:44
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And one of the imps freaks the fuck out and takes a chair and starts smashing it between him and the lizard.
00:41:50
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Yeah.
00:41:53
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It's like you're getting a lot of to bring up a Holy Grail again.
00:41:57
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You get a lot of like bunny rabbit.
00:42:00
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Yeah.
00:42:01
Speaker
Monster kind of vibe.
00:42:02
Speaker
Right.
00:42:03
Speaker
And it's great.
00:42:06
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So they start popping bottles on the ice like a blizzard.
00:42:10
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Like a like a slizzard.
00:42:12
Speaker
When we drink, we do it right.
00:42:15
Speaker
Getting slizzard.
00:42:16
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Continue like a G6.
00:42:17
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Now I'm feeling so fly.
00:42:20
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Yeah.
00:42:20
Speaker
Like a G6.
00:42:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:21
Speaker
Like a G6.
00:42:22
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I still don't know.
00:42:26
Speaker
It's a plane.
00:42:27
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You know, like a G6.
00:42:27
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It's a private jet.
00:42:29
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Oh, that makes sense.
00:42:32
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That holds up.
00:42:35
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Graham is actually going to find out the definition of getting slizzard, actually, because he just this is actually the exact not the exact same thing, but it's the same thing that happened with the last time that he dealt with with a group of monsters that they thought were like, oh, this is
00:42:52
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These are fine.
00:42:53
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They're kind of cute.
00:42:53
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And they ended up having bone furniture.
00:42:56
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He picks up the lizard.
00:42:57
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It's kind of like crawling around him.
00:42:59
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He goes, I don't see what this is.
00:43:00
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What's the big deal?
00:43:01
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And as he gets this, yeah, when he gets to deal, he kind of like passes out and ends up doing.
00:43:09
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Basically, long story short, he realizes that he has traded places with this lizard.
00:43:14
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He is now a tiny little lizard creature.
00:43:17
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And this lizard, I guess, is inside his body.
00:43:20
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So he's seeing this huge version of himself, which that's going to fuck up your self-esteem from.
00:43:25
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Yeah.
00:43:27
Speaker
Yeah, a nightmare.
00:43:28
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Absolutely not.
00:43:30
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So he we come to Chapter 21 and Chapter 21 is largely Graham like he's it's he's running.
00:43:38
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He's running his ass off trying to get away.
00:43:40
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He's got to get away.
00:43:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:42
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And so he's and then and then we get a lot of Graham like getting used to his lizard body.
00:43:49
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He's he's kind of like testing out things and he's like, OK, so if I walk this way, it does this.
00:43:54
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And like, it's actually really kind of cute and weird because it's because on one hand,
00:44:01
Speaker
It's absolutely what you would do in these circumstances.
00:44:05
Speaker
On the other hand, it's just such, it's so odd to see this written out in a piece of fiction.
00:44:10
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Right.
00:44:11
Speaker
But I got a real kick out of it.
00:44:12
Speaker
He's like trying to figure out if he, if he got any dumber.
00:44:15
Speaker
Right.
00:44:16
Speaker
And he's like, no, I seem to be okay.
00:44:19
Speaker
Like it's, it's, he's, yeah, he's just testing himself out.
00:44:23
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It's, it's very funny.
00:44:25
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And so.
00:44:28
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He ends up in a room.
00:44:30
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And this is interesting.
00:44:31
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He's in this room.
00:44:33
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big room where this light is like shining in from all these different angles, all on this figure that's in the center of the room.
00:44:40
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And he's in case, whoever this figure is, this figure is encased by light to the point where Graham can't quite make out who he is.
00:44:49
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But he gets that impression.
00:44:50
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Like, he's like, I got to save this guy.
00:44:51
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I got to free him.
00:44:52
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And he also gets the impression.
00:44:53
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He's like the imps and the giant don't have anything to do with this.
00:44:56
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They are not smart enough to be fucking with magic like this.
00:45:00
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This is not,
00:45:01
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This is way out of their league.
00:45:03
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But he's also kind of like, I don't know how I'm going to do this because he's still a tiny lizard.
00:45:09
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And as if to emphasize that point, he sees a moth, freaks out, gets to a certain angle and fires his tongue out to grab the moth and eat it.
00:45:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:21
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Very happily chows down on the moth because I'm still frigging hungry at this point.
00:45:25
Speaker
Right.
00:45:26
Speaker
And that's how we end this chapter.
00:45:27
Speaker
And that's how we're going to end this section of the book.
00:45:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:30
Speaker
Lizard Graham eating a moth.
00:45:33
Speaker
I love that.
00:45:34
Speaker
So, Kevin, what do you think so far?
00:45:37
Speaker
It's it's a lot of fun.
00:45:38
Speaker
I mean, there's a lot of fun little stuff happening in the in this book.
00:45:44
Speaker
I mean, the you know, the there's the the the whatever those bunny monsters, poor monsters,
Reflecting on King's Quest and Gaming Updates
00:45:53
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whatever they were.
00:45:53
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Yeah.
00:45:53
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Yeah.
00:45:55
Speaker
Or whatever.
00:45:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:56
Speaker
Laboonam Laban Laburnam.
00:45:58
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They're like, oh, what I'm going to go left right now.
00:46:02
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Yeah.
00:46:03
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So, yeah, I'm loving it so far.
00:46:05
Speaker
It's fun.
00:46:06
Speaker
It's, you know, lighthearted romps through the areas outside of Daventry.
00:46:11
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Yeah.
00:46:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:13
Speaker
It's fun.
00:46:14
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And honestly, I think I think I'm extra charmed by it so far, just in the sense that I think this is probably one of the best ones we've read.
00:46:23
Speaker
in terms of knowing the source material.
00:46:26
Speaker
Right.
00:46:27
Speaker
Like, this just feels like King's Quest, which was a problem with the last one.
00:46:32
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Right.
00:46:33
Speaker
So I'm still really impressed by it.
00:46:34
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I'm liking it.
00:46:36
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Yeah.
00:46:36
Speaker
Okay, great.
00:46:37
Speaker
Well, that brings us to the final and most important question.
00:46:40
Speaker
Kevin, what are you playing?
00:46:43
Speaker
Ooh, okay.
00:46:44
Speaker
So I noticed that the Castlevania, a few of the Castlevania collections were on sale for the... Oh my God, I bet they were so cheap.
00:46:54
Speaker
Yeah, I popped... It was the Anniversary, the Advance, and the Dominus collection.
00:47:00
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Got all those.
00:47:01
Speaker
So I've been playing one of the games in the Dominus collection.
00:47:06
Speaker
The one with... What's his face?
00:47:08
Speaker
The guy with the white hair.
00:47:10
Speaker
Alucard?
00:47:12
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:47:14
Speaker
It's like set in 2035.
00:47:15
Speaker
Oh, I have no idea.
00:47:18
Speaker
Yeah, it's set in the future.
00:47:21
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, that one's out of my league.
00:47:23
Speaker
They're fun.
00:47:24
Speaker
They're fun games.
00:47:26
Speaker
Really enjoying them.
00:47:28
Speaker
But the main thing I want to talk about was Rise of the Golden Idol.
00:47:32
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:47:33
Speaker
Yes, yes, yes.
00:47:34
Speaker
Which I picked up.
00:47:36
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It is.
00:47:37
Speaker
So I would say it's it's
00:47:40
Speaker
It's really good.
00:47:41
Speaker
And it's definite in terms of like the art style.
00:47:45
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It's the same art style, but in terms of like the way it's animated is better than the first one.
00:47:53
Speaker
There's like more depth and it's almost like
00:47:57
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there feels like almost 3D at times.
00:48:03
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It is hard.
00:48:06
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I was finishing a case before we got on the call today and I was just like, I was like 98% of the way and I just couldn't
00:48:15
Speaker
A lot of it, it's one of those games, I just need to break down and get a notebook because there's a lot of stuff that you're just holding so much information in your head otherwise in order to make the connections between, okay, now this person is this person and this person is...
00:48:31
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This person is actually this person, despite having a thing that comes from this person.
00:48:35
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:48:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:37
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In the first one, I was literally drawing pictures of their faces so I could help in my in my notebook to help me remember that shit.
00:48:44
Speaker
Yeah, it is.
00:48:45
Speaker
It's tricky stuff.
00:48:46
Speaker
So I beat the first.
00:48:49
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first three cases, like the prologue and the first three cases.
00:48:54
Speaker
And now I'm on for the first chapter.
00:48:56
Speaker
And now I'm on the second chapter, which is like really ramped up right away in the second chapter.
00:49:06
Speaker
So, yeah, if you haven't played Case of the Golden Idol,
00:49:12
Speaker
I would recommend going back and doing that before you play Rise of the Golden Idol.
00:49:17
Speaker
I think they're both great games.
00:49:19
Speaker
Case of the Golden Idol was, I think, one of my games of the year a couple of years ago.
00:49:25
Speaker
It's really damn good.
00:49:28
Speaker
It was really good.
00:49:30
Speaker
I feel like I have my 2020 list somewhere.
00:49:35
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now i don't have have it written out on i don't have it separated out on steam um but yeah no um case is really damn good rise uh so far is is just fantastic um
00:49:50
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Yeah.
00:49:51
Speaker
And other than that, I mean, UFO 50, a little bit of vampire survivors, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
00:50:02
Speaker
I started playing Neva and EVA, which is like a. Is that the Baba Yaga thing or am I thinking of something else?
00:50:09
Speaker
I think you're thinking of something else.
00:50:10
Speaker
This is your, you play basically like a, you're almost like a little rogue or knight type person who has a dog.
00:50:20
Speaker
And you're just kind of going through.
00:50:23
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It's sort of like a cinematic platformer, but with more action.
00:50:28
Speaker
Oh, this.
00:50:29
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Okay.
00:50:29
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:50:32
Speaker
Oh, this is gorgeous.
00:50:33
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Yeah.
00:50:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:37
Speaker
So it's, but yeah, that's what I've been playing.
00:50:41
Speaker
How about you?
00:50:42
Speaker
What have you been playing?
00:50:44
Speaker
Oh, I am currently just completely addicted to devolution in UFO 50.
00:50:50
Speaker
I'm so close to completing it, but I get so overwhelmed.
00:50:56
Speaker
I'm really not great at patterns, and this game is proving it.
00:51:02
Speaker
Right.
00:51:03
Speaker
But it's just quite enjoyable and really easy to just go,
00:51:07
Speaker
All right, just one more game of it.
00:51:08
Speaker
Just one more game of it over and over again.
00:51:10
Speaker
So I'm stuck on that one in the same way that I was stuck on Grimstone before, that I'm just going to be playing this one until I finish it.
00:51:20
Speaker
And now then we're going to go to another game.
00:51:22
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Game that will take over my life.
00:51:24
Speaker
Right.
00:51:25
Speaker
On Thanksgiving, I loaded up Blood Bowl three and played some Blood Bowl three to get into the spirit.
00:51:33
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Sure.
00:51:34
Speaker
Wasn't Blood Bowl three the one that got that was like didn't have great reviews when it first came out.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:40
Speaker
And it's slowly built up.
00:51:42
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It's still not, it's not as strong as the first two.
00:51:45
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I sure.
00:51:46
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And a lot of that is because it's still, it's still like trying to pull that premium shit.
00:51:51
Speaker
Uh, it's, it's, you know, it's got like,
00:51:55
Speaker
you know, the ladder you can climb and you have to pay, you know, for each season for sure.
00:52:01
Speaker
It's stupid.
00:52:03
Speaker
But it was it was quite enjoyable for a single game to get back into it just for the it was a beautiful full day.
00:52:10
Speaker
And I was like, I would like to play football and kill things.
00:52:14
Speaker
So that's that's that.
00:52:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:17
Speaker
I think the newest thing, though, I did play another demo, and this was recommended by a friend of the pod.
00:52:25
Speaker
It's called The Edge of Allegoria.
00:52:29
Speaker
Have you seen this, Kevin?
00:52:30
Speaker
No, I haven't.
00:52:31
Speaker
This is really you might you might.
00:52:34
Speaker
Get a kick out of this.
00:52:36
Speaker
It's really interesting.
00:52:38
Speaker
It's got a Game Boy feel.
00:52:40
Speaker
It's got the green color scheme and everything.
00:52:43
Speaker
Very old school turn based RPG.
00:52:47
Speaker
Sure.
00:52:47
Speaker
It's fight mechanics.
00:52:49
Speaker
It looks like Pokemon, but you never you never you.
00:52:56
Speaker
What do you call it?
00:52:56
Speaker
You never like capture slash enslave pets to do your bidding.
00:53:00
Speaker
You're doing all the fighting.
00:53:02
Speaker
I think one of the more interesting aspects of the game is that when you get a weapon or a piece of equipment like armor or something like that, you use it.
00:53:12
Speaker
And why, while you're being, while you're using it, uh,
00:53:17
Speaker
you're gaining mastery over it.
00:53:19
Speaker
And then when you master it, uh, you can just, it's, you've got, you've got everything you could get from it.
00:53:26
Speaker
So it like you absorb it into you.
00:53:28
Speaker
Uh, so you, so there's like, there's no disadvantage to just buying everything at the, at the shop.
00:53:34
Speaker
Right.
00:53:35
Speaker
Uh, every weapon you just, you know, and, and each, uh, weapon has a different kind of special attack.
00:53:42
Speaker
And by looking at the different special attacks, you can kind of string things together.
00:53:47
Speaker
It's fun.
00:53:48
Speaker
It has this kind of shitty attitude.
00:53:54
Speaker
One of the humor aspects of it is that it's just like, you know, it cusses a lot.
00:54:02
Speaker
Sure, yeah.
00:54:03
Speaker
And it's not... I'm not going to say it's not funny.
00:54:06
Speaker
It can be very funny.
00:54:07
Speaker
Right.
00:54:09
Speaker
But it kind of claps itself a little on the back too much.
00:54:12
Speaker
Sure, yeah.
00:54:13
Speaker
It's just...
00:54:17
Speaker
I don't, I'm not a prude.
00:54:18
Speaker
I don't mind cussing.
00:54:19
Speaker
Anyone's listened to the show knows that it's just, it doesn't equal a joke.
00:54:23
Speaker
And, um, and these guys seem to think it does.
00:54:26
Speaker
And then around the time I stopped playing the demo, you you're about to go into a village and you meet this guy outside.
00:54:33
Speaker
And he starts talking about how the people in this village are so rude and they're so, uh, they just cuss and they say things that are, that are, that hurt my feelings and dah, dah, dah.
00:54:44
Speaker
And it's very edgelord.
00:54:46
Speaker
uh, bullshit.
00:54:47
Speaker
And like, and then he has a, he has, he's run out.
00:54:50
Speaker
He, he's lost his stick.
00:54:51
Speaker
He finds another stick and shoves it up his ass.
00:54:54
Speaker
Uh, and it's, it's, it's very, it's stupid.
00:54:58
Speaker
Uh, uh, and it's, it's, it's the thing.
00:55:01
Speaker
I don't mind, uh, uh,
00:55:04
Speaker
you know, some rude humor that doesn't bother me.
00:55:06
Speaker
It's sometimes done well.
00:55:08
Speaker
Right.
00:55:09
Speaker
The game is fun enough.
00:55:11
Speaker
It's interesting.
00:55:12
Speaker
It's worth a look.
00:55:14
Speaker
I don't know how deep I would get into it, but I will say that I found myself falling into it very, very easily with a demo.
00:55:22
Speaker
So I think that's definitely worth taking a look at.
00:55:24
Speaker
Yeah, it comes out in a couple of days.
00:55:26
Speaker
Yeah, it's got it's got it's a little edge lordy, but but it's not
00:55:33
Speaker
so bad.
00:55:33
Speaker
It's not these aren't they're not talking about gamer gators or anything as far as I know anyway.
00:55:38
Speaker
Yeah, we're in games worth investigating.
00:55:43
Speaker
That is absolutely worth investigating.
00:55:45
Speaker
The I noticed that like on one of the screenshots, there's an attack that is just called Ezekiel 2517.
00:55:58
Speaker
Hold on.
00:55:59
Speaker
Yeah, that's they they they do a lot of that.
00:56:01
Speaker
Like in the fights, they'll just have random references.
00:56:07
Speaker
You know, it's like before a fight starts, you'll get a text box that just says, like, now time for the old ultraviolence and something.
00:56:17
Speaker
They just do a lot of references.
00:56:19
Speaker
It's a very family guy kind of humor, which I have some patience for.
00:56:25
Speaker
Not all the patience in the world.
00:56:27
Speaker
Sure.
00:56:28
Speaker
I don't know.
00:56:29
Speaker
I think it's interesting.
00:56:31
Speaker
It looks like it could be going somewhere with this because the first boss battle is with this goblin king and you find out it's very clear that
00:56:45
Speaker
the village you live in, uh, used to, the land used to belong to these goblins and the goblins have been kicked off their land.
00:56:52
Speaker
And that's why they raid and attack the village.
00:56:56
Speaker
Right.
00:56:57
Speaker
And, uh, and they're, you know, and, and so it's, it's interesting.
00:57:01
Speaker
There's some, there's something there, uh, if they keep going with it.
00:57:05
Speaker
Um,
00:57:06
Speaker
I think it's at very least worth an hour or two to play the demo.
00:57:10
Speaker
At least checking the demo out.
00:57:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:14
Speaker
It's one of the more entertaining demos I've played this year.
00:57:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:18
Speaker
Cool.
00:57:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:19
Speaker
But that's that's that's it.
00:57:22
Speaker
All right.
00:57:23
Speaker
Well, that'll do it for tonight's episode.
00:57:27
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00:57:28
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