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Soul Farts (Elder Scrolls: Infernal City - Part 3)
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21 grams of pure unadulterated soul... gas. That's right, we finished Elder Scrolls Infernal City. There's a part 2 apparently. Kevin didn't know what but Phil did. Doesn't matter now we will read Part 2 later.
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Introduction and Elder Scrolls Book Discussion
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And you're like, well, not a lot of my questions are unanswered, but at least I figured out the fly thing that the fly thing makes sense.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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THC, not THC, whatever that L.C., whatever the company that made all those.
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Oh, yeah.
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I know what you're talking about.
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It's not THC, not THC.
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You know what else is THC?
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What's that?
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Hey there, everybody.
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Welcome back to Pixlet.
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My name is Kevin.
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With me as always is Phil.
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And on today's show, we are finishing up the infernal city of the place in Elder Scrolls.
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It's a floating city powered by ghost farts.
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I mean, yeah, actually.
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Actually, yeah.
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I mean, we more or less find that out.
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Oh, God.
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Soul flatulence is how it's... And, you know, this book, be forewarned, not going to have a satisfying ending.
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Clearly leads into a part two.
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Are we going to read that part two?
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I don't know.
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Part one wasn't very good, so we'll see.
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But...
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I actually own the paperback of part two just because I saw it at a used bookstore for like 50 cents.
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And I was like, so yeah, we'll probably read it, but we won't be happy about it.
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God damn it.
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We won't be happy about it.
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Books that are under a dollar are catnip to fill.
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I mean, it's hard to say no.
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You know, it's hard to say no.
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You're giving up.
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You're giving a home to a good boy.
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The good boys in my life are mostly books.
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Books.
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Yeah.
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So yeah.
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Yeah.
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They're there.
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We're actually going to be.
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I thought originally this area here was going to be for those of you just listening.
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I'm in my new house in the basement in the Hobbit hole we're making.
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And originally this was going to be the library.
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Emily wants to make this the entertainment room and that kind of thing and make the little living room upstairs into that so we're going to be building some shelves and shit.
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Yeah, it's going to be cool.
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Yeah, this is not a good book.
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It's hard to say.
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I hate to spoil the ending, but this is not a good book.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Every theory I've come up with, I'm now fully convinced I am correct on.
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Sure.
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And we'll get to it.
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But there's a way that you can have...
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a what do you call it a cliffhanger ending and it still be a satisfying story 100% this did not do this is not that this is not that before we dive too far into the book I just want to say there's a wonderful website
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It's called Patriot, patreon.com slash pixel at
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So, yeah.
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Let's just go ahead and put this body, this book, this body in the Black Marsh.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, God.
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I can't even...
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It was right there.
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Yeah.
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God damn it.
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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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Kevin, you, as always, it's your attention to detail.
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It's my attention to detail that really that really keeps the show top of the charts, as some might say, as some might say, they're all saying it charts.
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They're all out there saying they're all saying it.
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So many people.
Pixlet's Power and Personal Anecdotes
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Tremendous.
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The most powerful people in the world are most powerful people are saying.
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So it's hey, pixelate is so powerful that you shouldn't let pregnant women listen to it.
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That's true.
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It's pixelate and Tylenol.
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Yeah.
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Those two things cause autism.
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What's interesting though is when you, if you listen to, it's the sultry tones of our voices, you run the risk of becoming double pregnant.
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Double pregnant.
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Oh boy.
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That's no fun because if you're, let's say for example, you're six months pregnant and then you listen to me and Kevin's sultry voices.
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Sultry voices.
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Sultry.
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And then you get pregnant.
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That means-
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You have a six month fetus in there.
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You got three months to go and then another six months to go.
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And another six months after that.
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What?
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The stitches are barely healed.
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Like, how are you?
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That's not fun.
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Don't do it.
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The mucus plug is.
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Oh, Lord.
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It's a fresh one.
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It's brand new.
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It's brand new.
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Your bloody show is showing.
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And it's speaking as a husband who witnessed a C-section.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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I was front row center for the birth of my son, which we had discussed and had said, uh,
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my wife had said, I, you don't have to do that.
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And I had kind of sensed that maybe that was her saying, I'm not fully comfortable with it.
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And I was like, well, I can be in the room though.
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And she's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But you don't have to like,
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be in there and uh our midwife literally looked at me and went dad grab a leg and i was like okay so it was it was yeah there's kind of like a there's kind of like a flow of like it doesn't really matter what your your position is on the matter it's like you're just being dressed suddenly in scrubs yeah and like told to get ready to get in there um doesn't yeah
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It's your, and at that point it's, it's, it's the day of birth and you're like, okay, I'm here.
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You're, you're flabbergasted.
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I don't remember half of the shit.
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You know what I do remember?
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One thing I remember is she asked,
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She said out loud, when was the last time you ate?
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And I said, I don't know, five, six.
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And she's like, I'm talking to your wife.
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I'm like, of course you are.
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Why the fuck would you give a shit when the last time I ate was?
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Not talking to you.
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No one's talking to you, Dad.
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Yeah.
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And no one ever will at this point.
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It's okay.
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Just shut up.
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Shut up, grab a leg, and...
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Grab a leg and be encouraging.
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Be encouraging.
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That was a wild.
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This is a record.
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This is a record.
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We are off topic.
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Didn't even get to the book.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We put the body in the marsh.
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Didn't get.
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And then we just didn't do the book.
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What are you drinking there?
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Oh, we got.
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I got a little fall variety pack from Sam Adams.
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Oh.
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This is their October 5th, which is always good.
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It's always really, really good for just kind of your, you know, mainstream craft beer kind of shit.
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Sam Adams always does some good shit.
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Can you push your volume up a little?
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I think you just knocked it down somehow.
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Oh, hold on.
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Any better?
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Oh, that's better.
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Okay, good, good, good, good.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, the book.
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The book.
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Yeah, let's go ahead and get into the book.
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Let's do it.
Glimm's Adventures in the Elder Scrolls
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So we're at part three, chapter one.
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We open with Glimm, with our Argonian friend.
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He is working in the sump.
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If you remember, he basically is put in there because he's the only person they've ever met who doesn't have to breathe when he swims underwater.
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And he likes it.
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He actually likes this job because it's quiet and he's left alone for pretty much the whole time.
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And he's like going and gathering the right babies and stuff because that's where their babies come from.
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So we were on topic technically.
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Cause we were helping context on where babies context.
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Yeah.
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I, um, by the way, the thing that reminds me of, uh, why I keep thinking of the sump like in laughing is because, and this is, this is Josh, Josh, uh, uh, with parentheses, uh, mentioned something about, um, the, the, the Tim Heidecker, uh, pie video, uh,
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Where he goes pumpkin.
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You got to get that pumpkin.
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So every time I hear the word sump, I'm just going to get that.
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You got to get that fresh soap, not that canned soap.
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I thought of you the other day because me and my wife were talking and I pointed out that Graham, despite the fact that he was born in South Carolina, he has lived in Virginia a larger portion of his life than any of us.
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It's almost entirely.
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And Emily...
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Just said, that's right.
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He's a Virginian.
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And I was like, oh, Kevin would be pleased.
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Virginia.
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Virginia.
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So we got a little, we're raising a little Virginian.
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So yeah, he, he, he likes it's quiet and they leave him alone.
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And I feel that I wrote that down.
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I was like, I feel that that is the best kind of job.
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That's, that's the kind of job I have now.
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And I love it.
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Um, he finds an area with a bunch of trees and the trees have a similarity to the hist, which we haven't spoken of in about 200 pages.
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Um,
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Yeah, sure.
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But whatever, I guess that's relevant again.
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We haven't talked about that in a long time, but he kind of touches them.
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They're not exactly like the hiss, but he can hear like voices pulsing through them.
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It's like hissed cousin, you know?
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Yeah, yeah.
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There's something similar there.
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While he's there, he meets what appears to be a Dunmer, a dark elf.
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Yeah.
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They have a conversation and she basically says that she's never questioned about where she lives until she could see the black marsh below.
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And he tells her that, well, that's where I'm from.
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And it kind of blows her mind.
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She's having an existential meltdown because she can see down for once.
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Um, so he, uh, asks, she's, they talk about the kitchens for some reason.
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She brings up the kitchens and he, he says, you know, someone I know works out there.
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Can you pass, would you be able to pass a message, uh, to her?
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And she says, yeah, I can do that, but I want something in exchange and Jesus Christ, we don't have time for this.
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We don't, we don't have time for side quests.
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We are two-thirds of the way through this.
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We do not have time for it.
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Now, he will handle it okay, but it didn't need to be in there at all.
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But she says she wants some orchid shrimp from the sump because they never get them.
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So he heads back into the sump.
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He sees the- Gotta get that fresh sump shrimp.
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That fresh orchid shrimp.
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That does sound like a southern dish, doesn't it?
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Orchid shrimp.
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Orchid shrimp.
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Delicious orchid shrimp.
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Certainly doesn't sound like something that comes from the sump.
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Spice it up.
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I love it.
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Read it down.
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This is we're just going to turn it into Louisiana.
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Like that's just that's what the sump is.
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It's just the swaps.
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It's just just, you know, fucking around with Tim Heidecker's, you know, accent in that video.
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He's so good.
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Yeah.
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So in the sump, he sees a the corpse of an eggs old chef.
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The I think it was keen.
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And he finds an eggs locket.
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And and so he pockets that and he gets back and basically gets into an argument with management that he's taking too long.
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He's valuable, but there's also the impression you get that his boss kind of wants to put him in his place.
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That kind of thing.
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Yeah.
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So he gets an argument management, whatever.
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Chapter two, an egg and slim.
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They wake up in what appear to be steam vents.
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If you remember from last episode, they were their their chef and their whole team was murdered and they were kidnapped by a competing chef, which, as I said back then, is such a fun idea.
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I like that.
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Yeah, it was like they they were working.
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They were on the bear and then they got kidnapped by the crew from the menu.
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Right, right.
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It's a whole other thing.
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It's fantastic.
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What a fun idea.
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But don't worry.
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Not a lot comes in.
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So they wake up in these steam vents.
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They're getting steamed like crabs.
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And Selina's sure they're about to die.
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And an egg points out, well, actually, I think they're cleaning us.
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because it's not so hot that we're going to die.
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It's actually kind of pleasant if you think about it.
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And, and, and they discuss their new boss.
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A neg remembers that she's got this kind of blade bracelet, but she got off keen.
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And that's going to be a thing that comes up, I guess.
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She wonders how to use it.
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Cause it's, it's this bracelet.
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That's kind of a gummy sort of thing.
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And,
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Keen was able to make a blade shoot out of it.
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And there's no clear way of for an egg to be able to do that while they're discussing all this.
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Suddenly the vents go from like hot to like ice cold.
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They get blasted with cold air for a while and then back again.
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And so it's like going hot, cold, hot, cold.
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They try to leave and they're forced back into it by a little frog creature.
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I wanted
Glimm and Slim's Culinary Kidnapping
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a little frog.
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I want to learn more about the frog creature.
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He looked cool.
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Yeah, he sounded like a humanoid like poison dart frog.
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And I'm all about that.
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That sounds great.
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Um,
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They're forced back in.
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They're put up.
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They end up being put up in some sort of like it's kind of a luxury condo together that they're sharing.
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Right.
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Right off the bat, you realize the chef that picked them up is like high end shit.
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This is this is a way better quality.
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And it's being reflected in literally Ralph Fiennes in the menu.
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Yes.
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He, that's what I thought of too.
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I can watch that movie again.
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That movie is so fucking good.
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So, and, and that's when she realizes for the first time that her amulet is missing.
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And this is where I wrote in my notes.
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This feels like first act stuff.
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Yeah.
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This feels like stuff like that's going to get set up early on.
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And we're going to.
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Feels like we've just been in a long first act.
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Right, right.
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And that's how it's going to feel right up until the last 15% of this book, if I'm being generous, which I always am.
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So they're getting primped and preened.
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Very generous.
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Yes, that's me.
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He's a very generous reader and lover.
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And lover.
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Never forget it, ladies.
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Ladies.
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I just want you to know you'll never get to find out for yourself.
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Wouldn't you like to know?
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So they're getting primped in preens like they're getting they they were being steamed to clean them.
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They're they're convinced that they are like contaminated shit.
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And they were they're getting steamed and frozen for like 22 hours or something like that.
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And now they're getting their hair is getting done.
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They're getting oiled up like they're they're really getting.
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You know, put through the spa treatment.
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And that's where they start to see where they are.
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And and an egg is like shocked at how beautiful it is where they are, because all an egg has ever known is like the underbelly of this world.
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Right.
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Where they are is actually quite beautiful.
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So this is where they meet Toll again for the first for the second time.
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Is this where an egg
Toll's Philosophical Curiosity
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gets gets dressed in like a in like a dress?
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And there's like mention how the dress the dress is like clinging to her curves or something like that.
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She's uncomfortable with how it's clinging to her curves.
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And she breasts boobily.
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She breasts boobily for a second.
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Didn't think we'd get there, but we got there.
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We got I will say for the character that we have been presented with as an egg, I kind of I understand the idea that she might be uncomfortable with wearing a dress because she's been very tomboy.
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She's up.
00:17:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:11
Speaker
But and we'll get to it.
00:17:12
Speaker
But like it's the shit later on that I'm like, this doesn't make any sense.
00:17:18
Speaker
Right.
00:17:19
Speaker
So they're talking with toll who is the chef there who, who kidnapped them.
00:17:25
Speaker
And he is kind of a dandy, kind of a very foppy Marquis de Sade, almost kind of a character, very libertine.
00:17:34
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So they start to, they have a discussion of home and emotions and shit.
00:17:39
Speaker
Like they're having, he he's, he's very curious about an egg and, um,
00:17:45
Speaker
And he's fascinated at how gestation works because down in Umbriel, everyone is born of the sump.
00:17:55
Speaker
And the idea, like she says, like, well, you know, she's like, well, my father.
00:18:00
Speaker
And he goes, that's great.
00:18:02
Speaker
What is that?
00:18:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:03
Speaker
What's a father?
00:18:04
Speaker
What's a mother?
00:18:05
Speaker
Right.
00:18:06
Speaker
He doesn't know any of that.
00:18:06
Speaker
That's wild.
00:18:07
Speaker
He's like condescendingly charged.
00:18:09
Speaker
This book is one long treatise on would you love me if I was a worm?
00:18:12
Speaker
That's amazing.
00:18:14
Speaker
Everybody in this on the city is a worm.
00:18:17
Speaker
Everyone kind of in weird human shape.
00:18:22
Speaker
But yeah, an egg is like, it's, you know, you do the sex and then and he's like, oh, yes, the copulating.
00:18:31
Speaker
We do that for entertainment.
00:18:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:33
Speaker
That's all it means to them.
00:18:35
Speaker
They're like, oh, yeah, we do that for fun.
00:18:36
Speaker
We don't we don't have no idea.
00:18:38
Speaker
It had real demolition man vibes here.
00:18:40
Speaker
Yes, absolutely.
00:18:42
Speaker
It's like doesn't know what the what the seashells are for.
00:18:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's definitely it's it's very that.
00:18:49
Speaker
Um, my favorite thing that he says to her is she says, uh, you know, my, my mom, I was inside my mom and then I came out of my mom and he goes, wow, that's great.
00:18:59
Speaker
So how did you kill her when you came out?
00:19:01
Speaker
Like, how was that?
00:19:02
Speaker
How long did the, she's like, well, she didn't die.
00:19:05
Speaker
And he's like, that's fucking mental.
00:19:08
Speaker
Okay.
00:19:08
Speaker
I like, okay.
00:19:11
Speaker
You are you are my new pet.
00:19:13
Speaker
He's very charmed by her.
00:19:16
Speaker
He points out to her that if she claims that if she ever leaves Umbriel, that she's going to die.
00:19:22
Speaker
It's the same as the rest of them, that he'll die if he leaves Umbriel.
00:19:26
Speaker
Anybody who's from Umbriel will die.
00:19:30
Speaker
say die exactly but just like demolecularize you know right um and he says yeah that'll happen to you too and she said well i'm not from here and he goes eh not yet not yet not yet um so that pin is put in um chapter three uh we get uh etrobus and soul and
00:19:53
Speaker
They are being accosted by a bunch of cops, a bunch of cops, a bunch of caps.
Moon Sugar Incident and Royal Resolution
00:19:58
Speaker
Yeah, because they've got moon sugar and the cops say, you know, we got you dead to ride.
00:20:02
Speaker
You're about to give that moon.
00:20:03
Speaker
It's typical fucking cop shit.
00:20:06
Speaker
If they had waited five fucking minutes, they would actually have had a case.
00:20:12
Speaker
Right.
00:20:12
Speaker
But as as Etrobus points out, you have no case.
00:20:16
Speaker
We didn't do anything for all, you know, we're just hanging out with these Khajiit and, and, and then before the head guard can tell him to, to stop resisting, Etrobus uses his royal Dick swinging to get them out of this jam.
00:20:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:34
Speaker
He's like, look at my face.
00:20:36
Speaker
Who do you think I am?
00:20:37
Speaker
Who do you think?
00:20:38
Speaker
And the cop is finally like, fine.
00:20:40
Speaker
Oh, shit.
00:20:42
Speaker
Oh, shit.
00:20:42
Speaker
I recognize you.
00:20:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:45
Speaker
It dawns on him.
00:20:47
Speaker
And so the Khajiit are very grateful and they basically swear to
00:20:52
Speaker
you know, a life whatever Han Solo.
00:20:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:57
Speaker
They just did every fuzzy creature in.
00:21:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:00
Speaker
Every fuzzy creature in genre fiction swears life debts.
00:21:03
Speaker
That's what they do.
00:21:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:05
Speaker
So they're, they're part of his crew now.
00:21:07
Speaker
You have gained several hundred followers.
00:21:10
Speaker
So,
00:21:13
Speaker
Sewell admits that he's after somebody named Wuhan.
00:21:18
Speaker
He tells them that this basically tells them in Vivek City, there was a moon.
00:21:24
Speaker
The moon was going to crash into the city and they created an invention that would keep the moon in place.
00:21:32
Speaker
And that that device exploded.
00:21:36
Speaker
because of Wuhan and created a volcanic eruption that killed his family.
00:21:42
Speaker
So we get a little... He's told us about 50% of that.
00:21:48
Speaker
Now we get a little more of a story.
00:21:50
Speaker
He says that he is currently after a sword.
00:21:53
Speaker
This sword is going to be the thing that could bring this guy to his knees.
00:22:00
Speaker
We get a lot of Daedric lore here, which...
00:22:03
Speaker
might honestly on its own be really cool if I wasn't rapidly losing interest and just wanting to.
00:22:10
Speaker
It's I like this kind of lore, but at this point I'm like, just move it along.
00:22:17
Speaker
Yeah, move it along, move it along.
00:22:22
Speaker
There's some interesting stuff in there.
00:22:23
Speaker
I will admit it involves a lot of the, the Daedric princes that you may have encountered in any number of the elder Scrolls games.
00:22:30
Speaker
Uh, that's worth a look if you're interested in that kind of thing.
00:22:33
Speaker
Um, chapter four, we cut back to, uh, uh, a toll who is doting on an egg quite a bit.
00:22:41
Speaker
So basically, she doesn't have to do anything.
00:22:44
Speaker
She just hangs out with him while Slim and the others do the actual grunt work in the kitchens, which they don't love.
00:22:53
Speaker
So we find that they're making these.
00:22:57
Speaker
They do the same kind of thing.
00:22:58
Speaker
They're making recipes and stuff.
00:23:00
Speaker
But most of the kitchen is used to feed these trees that are used for tree wine and other.
00:23:09
Speaker
It's a huge ingredient in what they use.
00:23:12
Speaker
Awesome detail.
00:23:13
Speaker
Really liked that.
00:23:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:14
Speaker
Wish there was more of that.
00:23:16
Speaker
There is not.
00:23:18
Speaker
Now, while she's there, she's going through the ingredients and she finds a jar of a potion called Ikor of Winged Twilight.
00:23:25
Speaker
And she realizes this is what she needs.
00:23:27
Speaker
This is the potion that she needs to be able to get off this island.
00:23:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:33
Speaker
So she sneaks off with it.
00:23:34
Speaker
She steals it.
00:23:35
Speaker
Toll wants to make her into like this great chef.
00:23:38
Speaker
He wants to he wants to use.
00:23:40
Speaker
She's a project for him.
00:23:41
Speaker
He wants to turn her into this big goddamn deal.
00:23:45
Speaker
Right.
00:23:46
Speaker
And then he points out he's not sure he cares for Slim, though.
00:23:49
Speaker
He only kept Slim around because, you know, it's it's, you know.
00:23:53
Speaker
She came with you as a package deal, but I'm not really sure about it.
00:23:56
Speaker
It's a very I don't care for Job.
00:23:59
Speaker
I don't care for Job.
00:24:01
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's very much it.
00:24:04
Speaker
And we also find out that he very, very clearly wants to fuck an egg.
00:24:09
Speaker
He's very.
00:24:11
Speaker
direct uh let's say uh as someone who back in my single days was pretty direct game respect game and that man is direct very direct so yeah um and she's all kind of a flutter about it uh she doesn't quite know how to handle this uh chapter five
00:24:34
Speaker
Sewell and Etrobus are on the edge of a town.
Etrobus' Quest and Reunion
00:24:38
Speaker
Sewell has said, stay here.
00:24:40
Speaker
I've got to go in there and do something.
00:24:43
Speaker
Stay here.
00:24:44
Speaker
Yep.
00:24:45
Speaker
And Etrobus being the wise, seasoned warrior that he is, just lets himself in.
00:24:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:52
Speaker
He finds a representative, Florius, who no, no, sorry, this is jumping ahead.
00:24:57
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:58
Speaker
He finds a representative who knows who he is, Florius, and he's apparently thought to be dead.
00:25:06
Speaker
And he points out the floors.
00:25:07
Speaker
They're like childhood friends.
00:25:08
Speaker
And he says, you know, I know the truth about my life up until this point that it's been a big lie.
00:25:14
Speaker
And I'm not going to let you guys take me to the emperor, which I know you guys have been.
00:25:20
Speaker
uh, ordered to do.
00:25:22
Speaker
Uh, I have this quest I've got to do.
00:25:25
Speaker
Uh, I, I need your help.
00:25:26
Speaker
And so Flory is after a lot of convincing, uh, uh, it's too much.
00:25:31
Speaker
In fact, it's like, yeah, it's Flory.
00:25:34
Speaker
He's like, you gotta come with me.
00:25:35
Speaker
And he's like, no, man, I'll, the emperor will kill me.
00:25:37
Speaker
It goes, well, I'm the emperor's kid.
00:25:38
Speaker
I'll tell him.
00:25:39
Speaker
And he's like, yeah, but then my career's over.
00:25:41
Speaker
He goes, yeah, but I'll do it.
00:25:42
Speaker
It's that, uh, for a while.
00:25:44
Speaker
Uh,
00:25:45
Speaker
And so finally, Florius agrees to join him.
00:25:48
Speaker
Next comes a detail that might be my favorite thing in the entire book.
00:25:54
Speaker
He goes to a bar and he writes two letters to his biographers.
00:26:07
Speaker
It's like when you're looking to tell the story of my life.
00:26:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:11
Speaker
That's exactly what he does.
00:26:14
Speaker
This is never spoken of again.
00:26:16
Speaker
I love this detail.
00:26:18
Speaker
It's something you don't hear about a lot in, in, in fiction when, uh,
00:26:23
Speaker
Somebody is this piece of royalty or fame or something like that.
00:26:28
Speaker
And he's like, well, I like these two biographers.
00:26:32
Speaker
They do a good job.
00:26:33
Speaker
So I'm going to give them the skinny.
00:26:35
Speaker
And that's it.
00:26:36
Speaker
So he sends off a couple of letters.
00:26:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:40
Speaker
Um, while he's in the bar, uh, the place gets attacked by a bunch of masked men.
00:26:45
Speaker
Um, and, uh, they're clearly going for him and the Khajiit come in and save his ass.
00:26:51
Speaker
Um, uh, which he's surprised because he thought the Khajiit were going to leave.
00:26:54
Speaker
Cause he'd said, you guys do not need to do this.
00:26:56
Speaker
And they went, but they swore the blood oath.
00:26:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:59
Speaker
And they started like packing up.
00:27:01
Speaker
And so he assumed that meant, okay, good.
00:27:03
Speaker
They're, they're leaving.
00:27:04
Speaker
Um, but they, they stuck around.
00:27:06
Speaker
Um,
00:27:09
Speaker
Yeah, they he runs back to Flores's office 200 yards away, as they point out, and Flores is dead.
00:27:17
Speaker
He's been killed.
00:27:19
Speaker
So he and Sue take a minute to wonder what the hell is going on in terms of who's trying to kill him so bad and why.
00:27:28
Speaker
And then Sewell uses some sort of portal ritual magic thing to have them travel planeswalk basically right through oblivion to where they're going to go.
00:27:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:44
Speaker
So, OK, it's great.
00:27:45
Speaker
It's good stuff.
00:27:46
Speaker
It's great.
00:27:46
Speaker
It's good stuff.
00:27:48
Speaker
Chapter six, Glimm meets back up with the Dunmer girl and gives her the shrimp and a history lesson.
00:27:55
Speaker
Basically teaches her about scramps.
00:27:57
Speaker
Here's some scramps.
00:27:58
Speaker
And here's the story of my people.
00:28:01
Speaker
It's it's this is a way more entertaining book.
00:28:03
Speaker
If you imagine the Argonian specifically as Cajun.
00:28:10
Speaker
You just got these lizard men going, oh, let me tell you.
00:28:13
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:28:14
Speaker
I'll tell you.
00:28:15
Speaker
Let me tell you about that.
00:28:17
Speaker
Oh, down to have I that by you.
00:28:19
Speaker
It would be alligator people.
00:28:21
Speaker
That would be fun.
00:28:22
Speaker
I'd play a shit out of a Cajun alligator person in a D&D game.
00:28:26
Speaker
That would be fun.
00:28:29
Speaker
A cleric, would you say?
00:28:33
Speaker
Oh, that could be fun.
00:28:35
Speaker
I think barbarians too obvious, right?
00:28:37
Speaker
Too obvious.
00:28:38
Speaker
Too obvious.
00:28:39
Speaker
Druids too obvious.
00:28:40
Speaker
Yeah, I think cleric could be fun.
00:28:43
Speaker
I got that healing word.
00:28:46
Speaker
The Lord Jesus Christ.
00:28:48
Speaker
I got to touch you and I'm going to put my healing touch on you.
00:28:52
Speaker
My healing hands, lay some healing and speak the healing word.
00:28:56
Speaker
Lordy, lordy.
00:28:58
Speaker
Like also got that necrotic touch.
00:29:00
Speaker
I got that necrotic touch in the hippie and my claw.
00:29:03
Speaker
And I got that too, so don't piss me off.
00:29:07
Speaker
Dosa.
00:29:07
Speaker
No.
00:29:08
Speaker
So he gives her a history lesson of his people.
00:29:16
Speaker
And Eddie, she tells him about, oh, she's like, oh, by the way, your girlfriend and egg.
00:29:21
Speaker
I got to I got to talk to her and she knows she knows where she is.
00:29:26
Speaker
Your girlfriend.
00:29:27
Speaker
Your girlfriend.
00:29:28
Speaker
That's the thing.
00:29:29
Speaker
The whole thing.
00:29:29
Speaker
It's like, yes, they're childhood friends.
00:29:31
Speaker
Come on.
00:29:32
Speaker
They're totally... Come on.
00:29:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:36
Speaker
So Glim returns to work to find... Oh, by the way, he kisses her, the Dunmer girl, on the cheek.
00:29:45
Speaker
And she's like, why would you do that?
00:29:48
Speaker
Are we going to copulate now?
00:29:49
Speaker
And he's like, no.
00:29:51
Speaker
It was just to thank you.
00:29:52
Speaker
Just to thank you.
00:29:53
Speaker
Some people do.
00:29:54
Speaker
And he literally goes...
00:29:56
Speaker
She's like, would you want to?
00:29:58
Speaker
And he's like, I got to go.
00:29:59
Speaker
Yeah, that's literally it.
00:30:01
Speaker
He's like, actually, I should probably go.
00:30:03
Speaker
And she goes, well, she says, could we?
00:30:08
Speaker
Which is the question all the readers are asking, by the way.
00:30:10
Speaker
They're like, I don't know how the...
00:30:13
Speaker
The reproduction of Argonian goes, although I do, I guess they are eggs.
00:30:19
Speaker
So they could probably.
00:30:21
Speaker
I mean, there's an entire series of books called The Lusty Argonian Maid.
00:30:27
Speaker
That's true.
00:30:28
Speaker
That's true.
00:30:29
Speaker
A very popular series.
00:30:31
Speaker
A very popular series.
00:30:32
Speaker
That will have to be a stream or something.
00:30:34
Speaker
We'll find all the lusty Argonian maids and read through those or something.
00:30:38
Speaker
That could be fun as shit.
00:30:39
Speaker
I wish we had done that instead of this.
00:30:43
Speaker
So he comes back to work.
00:30:45
Speaker
He goes back to the other people who have been dealing with the vapors and stuff.
00:30:51
Speaker
And he finds that just by standing up to the boss that he's basically sowed the seeds of a union.
00:31:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:02
Speaker
The guy, they're like, he's like, you never thought that your life could be better.
00:31:06
Speaker
And they're like, nope, not until you mentioned it.
00:31:09
Speaker
Not once.
00:31:10
Speaker
Never occurred to us.
00:31:11
Speaker
It's like, so you got to lead us.
00:31:14
Speaker
He's I don't want to lead a revolution.
00:31:15
Speaker
They're like, but you gotta, but you gotta, um, it's a fun idea that we will never, uh, uh, revisit, uh, in this book anyway.
00:31:25
Speaker
I mean, yeah.
00:31:26
Speaker
And this book at least.
00:31:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:27
Speaker
And this book anyway.
00:31:29
Speaker
Chapter seven, Sewell and company.
Plane-Walking Disruption
00:31:34
Speaker
They have their little plane walk and it's interrupted by here scene, who is a Daedric Prince whose posse hunts them.
00:31:40
Speaker
And here scene is known as this hunter who will hunt people.
00:31:44
Speaker
And he's the, it's, it's, it's the most dangerous game all the time for him.
00:31:48
Speaker
He interrupts them.
00:31:50
Speaker
We have 50 pages left in this book.
00:31:52
Speaker
We do not have fucking time for this, but anyway, they avoid a stampede.
00:31:56
Speaker
And then there's Hirsene and oh, geez, they're running and the Khajiit sacrifice themselves to buy them some time.
00:32:04
Speaker
And then they run through the portal.
00:32:06
Speaker
It's just it's it's that scene.
00:32:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:10
Speaker
The Khajiit sacrifice themselves and.
00:32:14
Speaker
Boy, that's what they wanted to do.
00:32:15
Speaker
They really liked this guy.
00:32:17
Speaker
Yep.
00:32:18
Speaker
Khajiit are all dead.
00:32:20
Speaker
Khajiit are all dead.
00:32:21
Speaker
Great.
00:32:24
Speaker
Cool.
00:32:25
Speaker
Chapter eight.
00:32:27
Speaker
Aneg is basically a Michelin star chef now.
00:32:30
Speaker
She's like, she's not, she's like trying to, cause the, the, the person that they serve like really wants weird eclectic stuff.
00:32:38
Speaker
So she's like trying to come up with the weirdest shit possible, which seems, you know, redundant where they are.
00:32:48
Speaker
She gets a message from Glim and her locket.
00:32:50
Speaker
He has hidden it in like a bucket full of, you know,
00:32:55
Speaker
crabs and shit like that.
00:32:57
Speaker
And, uh, whatever seafood, I guess that they eat down there.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:02
Speaker
And so she's got her locket back and she knows that Glimm is okay.
00:33:07
Speaker
Uh, and that she can contact him.
00:33:09
Speaker
Uh, while she's thinking about all this, uh, slim, uh, uh, poisons her, uh, basically does the old taste this.
00:33:16
Speaker
How does this taste?
00:33:17
Speaker
Is this,
00:33:17
Speaker
this is good, right?
00:33:18
Speaker
And she goes, yeah, that's good.
00:33:19
Speaker
It'll go well on this.
00:33:20
Speaker
I thought so.
00:33:22
Speaker
And, uh, walks away and then she goes, Oh Jesus Christ.
00:33:25
Speaker
And, and she starts scrambling to try and find some sort of antidote that she can use.
00:33:30
Speaker
Um,
00:33:33
Speaker
She wakes up in Toll's bed.
00:33:34
Speaker
Naked.
00:33:37
Speaker
Unhappily.
00:33:38
Speaker
Naked.
00:33:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:39
Speaker
Unhappily realizing that she's nude for some reason.
00:33:43
Speaker
Yep.
00:33:44
Speaker
And he points out that she, in the last second, she succeeded at making a stabilizer that kept her alive for long enough for them to help get the poison pumped out of her system.
00:33:54
Speaker
And he asks her, well, you know, how should we kill Slim?
00:33:57
Speaker
You know, I'm not I was slurred, slur, slur.
00:34:01
Speaker
Sorry, slur.
00:34:04
Speaker
I really didn't care for slur and, and, uh, and now you certainly don't.
00:34:08
Speaker
So how are we going to execute her?
00:34:10
Speaker
And, and she's pissed, but she says, no, no, she's scared and freaked out.
00:34:15
Speaker
And yeah, we all are.
00:34:17
Speaker
And she's jealous and all that shit.
00:34:19
Speaker
And so let's leave her alone.
00:34:21
Speaker
And toll says, well, she's still going to be your assistant.
00:34:24
Speaker
So that might be awkward.
00:34:26
Speaker
And she goes, I know it's fine.
00:34:28
Speaker
And so they bring in slur and he says, look, uh,
00:34:32
Speaker
And he actually really respects her because he's like, you know, you're pretty ambitious.
00:34:36
Speaker
I was like, you took a shot.
00:34:38
Speaker
Didn't work, but you know, but, but I respect it.
00:34:41
Speaker
And, and he says, you know, so, but if, if anything happens to her, to an egg,
00:34:48
Speaker
You're dead.
00:34:49
Speaker
I don't care if you're responsible for it or not.
00:34:52
Speaker
If anything happens to her, I'm taking you out.
00:34:54
Speaker
It's basically the godfather, you know, scene where he's like, if anything should happen to my son, to my son, you know, if he's struck by a bolt of lightning.
00:35:04
Speaker
Right.
00:35:05
Speaker
It's exactly that.
00:35:06
Speaker
And and and then, you know, he points out how impressed he is by her moxie and fucks her.
00:35:15
Speaker
Yes.
00:35:15
Speaker
Takes her up to his bed and she's stoked because that's what she's wanted this entire time.
00:35:19
Speaker
That's all she wanted.
00:35:20
Speaker
That's all she wanted.
00:35:21
Speaker
It was a little little toll dick, little toll pole.
00:35:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:27
Speaker
You gotta pay the toll poll.
00:35:28
Speaker
You gotta pay the toll, the toll tax, the toll tax, the toll toll, the toll toll.
00:35:35
Speaker
If you want to get in that toll hole.
00:35:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:38
Speaker
So that's it's everything's very weird in this world.
00:35:44
Speaker
Chapter nine, a neg and Glim have been passing notes back and forth like middle school, and they plan to meet that night to leave.
00:35:53
Speaker
Finally, um,
00:35:55
Speaker
We cut to Etrobus and Seul there in Vivek City.
00:35:59
Speaker
Apparently the sword is supposed to be there and Seul is going to go get it.
00:36:05
Speaker
I keep forgetting about the sword, which we never really get a full full actual explanation of it.
00:36:11
Speaker
Like he threw a sword.
00:36:12
Speaker
Must be important.
00:36:14
Speaker
Must be important.
00:36:15
Speaker
A lot of that shit happens like that must be important.
00:36:17
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:36:18
Speaker
OK, fine.
00:36:19
Speaker
Fuck you, I guess.
00:36:22
Speaker
Excuse me.
00:36:23
Speaker
So it's there.
00:36:24
Speaker
Sewell's going to go get it.
00:36:27
Speaker
And he's like, Etrobus, he's like, you're going to stay here this time.
00:36:31
Speaker
Stay here.
00:36:34
Speaker
So Etrobus, he gets a coup alarm.
00:36:39
Speaker
And it's an egg.
00:36:40
Speaker
She has her locket again.
00:36:42
Speaker
And an egg basically gets him up to speed.
00:36:45
Speaker
on everything that's happening.
00:36:47
Speaker
And for some reason he's crushing.
00:36:50
Speaker
He's, he's like sweet on her by the end.
00:36:53
Speaker
He's like, Oh, I had no idea how much I missed her.
00:36:56
Speaker
My goodness gracious.
00:36:58
Speaker
My, I've grown accustomed to her face.
00:37:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:01
Speaker
She almost makes the day begin.
00:37:04
Speaker
It's, it's, this is where I start going.
00:37:07
Speaker
Why, why is everyone so,
00:37:12
Speaker
lusty for an egg like she's right interesting i heard it yeah yeah yeah i mean yes it's the natural progression of this because it starts out as a joke and then you start really going her because this is the second guy who's like crazy lusting after her yeah in the space of like 50 pages yep and it's like why like she's she's not
00:37:37
Speaker
She's an interesting character when you can hear her internal monologue, but I imagine meeting her in person, she doesn't sound like she'd be that interesting.
00:37:50
Speaker
In fact, one of the first things she does when she gets on the horn with Etrobus is just start sobbing.
00:37:58
Speaker
Because she's so happy they're about to get out of there.
00:38:00
Speaker
Right.
00:38:01
Speaker
Which that's not a judgment call, but still it's like, she's not, she's not cool or aloof or sexy or anything like that.
00:38:08
Speaker
She, from, and we're never, she's just a snag, just nag.
00:38:13
Speaker
So whatever.
00:38:15
Speaker
Um,
00:38:16
Speaker
Everyone wants a piece of an egg.
00:38:17
Speaker
Everyone wants a bite of that egg.
00:38:19
Speaker
Everybody wants that egg.
00:38:21
Speaker
Everyone wants that egg.
00:38:22
Speaker
Soft boiled, hard boiled.
00:38:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:25
Speaker
Soft in the middle, hard on the outside.
00:38:28
Speaker
Hard on the outside.
00:38:29
Speaker
Over easy.
00:38:32
Speaker
Is there any other over?
00:38:34
Speaker
Side up.
00:38:36
Speaker
You know what I mean.
00:38:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:37
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:38:38
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:38:40
Speaker
I'm right there with you.
00:38:42
Speaker
So Sewell finds an excavation place where the sword is supposed to be.
00:38:46
Speaker
It should be there.
00:38:47
Speaker
It is not there.
00:38:49
Speaker
He ghost talks with his wife, which is a Dunmer thing.
00:38:53
Speaker
I'd forgotten this.
00:38:55
Speaker
The Dunmer have this kind of
00:38:57
Speaker
ancestor worship kind of thing, which they can get in contact with people.
00:39:03
Speaker
Over the course of this conversation, she's telling him, like, yeah, somebody took it.
00:39:09
Speaker
And it's heavily suggested that the sword is either in, like, Skyrim or Solstheim or something like that.
00:39:15
Speaker
It's gone because the person who stole it had a Draugr on a ring, which... Draugr are excellent bad guys and everything like that.
00:39:23
Speaker
I like them.
00:39:24
Speaker
But...
00:39:26
Speaker
you suppose that that design is on a ring?
00:39:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:30
Speaker
You know, like the face of one or like, is it just a face of a, of a size?
00:39:35
Speaker
Is it the whole thing?
00:39:36
Speaker
It's a weird thing to say, but because they don't, I need more description.
00:39:42
Speaker
Right, right.
00:39:43
Speaker
I need more than that.
00:39:44
Speaker
I need more information.
00:39:45
Speaker
Uh, because it,
00:39:47
Speaker
If they said like it's in the shape of a drug or like wrapped around your finger.
00:39:51
Speaker
Okay, sure, fine.
00:39:52
Speaker
Sure.
00:39:53
Speaker
It has an image of a drug on it.
00:39:55
Speaker
And I've just I it was this little thing that really stopped me in my tracks, which is frustrating when you're trying to tear through a book.
00:40:04
Speaker
So anyway, it's suggested the sword is somewhere up north.
00:40:07
Speaker
Um, and while he's doing this, Etrobus finally sees there.
00:40:11
Speaker
They weren't expecting, uh, uh, Umbriel to show up at this point, but there it is.
00:40:15
Speaker
The island starts, uh, floating islands coming out of the, uh, clouds.
00:40:20
Speaker
Here it comes.
00:40:21
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:21
Speaker
Here it comes.
00:40:22
Speaker
And things start, uh, crawling out of the sea.
00:40:27
Speaker
And so he and Sue will have to rush back to where the portal that they came out of was.
00:40:34
Speaker
And they're going to have to rush through all these monsters to get to it.
00:40:36
Speaker
This is where I had forgotten why.
00:40:45
Speaker
except for Sewell's motivation, I'd forgotten why this floating island was such a bad thing.
00:40:51
Speaker
Right.
00:40:51
Speaker
Everyone hates it and wants it gone.
00:40:54
Speaker
And I had completely forgotten why, because we are not because it, and then I run, Oh, right.
00:41:00
Speaker
We're given that one moment where we're shown that the souls are stolen and it creates zombies and all that shit like that.
00:41:10
Speaker
And that's, that's a good reason.
00:41:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:14
Speaker
But it's like in the first 50 pages and we don't see it do anything of the sort.
00:41:18
Speaker
Right.
00:41:18
Speaker
Until now.
00:41:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:21
Speaker
It's it's it's not a constant looming threat so much.
00:41:25
Speaker
So even the emperor is like, we'll get to it.
00:41:28
Speaker
Right.
00:41:29
Speaker
Right.
00:41:30
Speaker
It's not exactly.
00:41:31
Speaker
It's the Death Star.
00:41:33
Speaker
It ain't.
00:41:34
Speaker
And they're trying to they're trying to tell you that it is, but they don't show you.
00:41:39
Speaker
Right.
00:41:40
Speaker
And this is because this is only the second time in the entire book that we're reminded of the awesome power of this battle station.
00:41:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:48
Speaker
It sucks the souls out of people.
00:41:50
Speaker
Right.
00:41:51
Speaker
I completely forgotten about that, which is not good.
00:41:56
Speaker
Chapter 10.
00:41:58
Speaker
Colin.
00:41:59
Speaker
You remember Colin, Kevin?
00:42:01
Speaker
Yeah, he's back.
Extroperate Case Pursuit
00:42:02
Speaker
I like Colin.
00:42:03
Speaker
He's back.
00:42:04
Speaker
He follows a woman.
00:42:07
Speaker
uh, who he thinks is going to be a lead, uh, for the extroperate case.
00:42:10
Speaker
And then, then he's done.
00:42:12
Speaker
That's, that's the end of his part.
00:42:14
Speaker
I, uh, he was my favorite character.
00:42:18
Speaker
Boy, howdy, have they given him a lot to do?
00:42:21
Speaker
Um, uh, so we cut to a, a, an egg and, and slur and they have a moment.
00:42:27
Speaker
Uh, uh, she, cause she's like, you're going to kill me.
00:42:30
Speaker
Right?
00:42:31
Speaker
Like,
00:42:32
Speaker
Because I thought because I thought maybe you spared me so you could do it yourself.
00:42:35
Speaker
And she goes, no, I don't want to fucking kill you.
00:42:37
Speaker
But then she starts to get really angry and she's like, maybe I do want to fucking kill her.
00:42:42
Speaker
And that's when the knife from the little knife bracelet, that's when it shoots out.
00:42:48
Speaker
And she realizes that you have to actually want to kill somebody.
00:42:51
Speaker
You have to have killing intent to draw it.
00:42:53
Speaker
Right.
00:42:54
Speaker
And that's, and that's what's happened.
00:42:55
Speaker
So he, he, she's like, Oh, I, Oh, I don't want to do this.
00:42:59
Speaker
I don't want to do this.
00:42:59
Speaker
So she's like literally trying to do like dragon breaths and like breathing in and out, like to in through the nose, out through the mouth to like calm herself down.
00:43:09
Speaker
So she doesn't kill this woman.
00:43:11
Speaker
And, and she said, you know, just leave me be, she goes, unless we have to work directly on something, just leave me alone.
00:43:17
Speaker
I don't want to, I don't want to talk to you.
00:43:18
Speaker
Cause otherwise I might kill you.
00:43:21
Speaker
A neg has in this moment, she and she's about to go find Glim and they're about to leave.
00:43:27
Speaker
And she has what I can only describe as her breaking bad season finale moment.
00:43:34
Speaker
She's like walking around the kitchen kind of and like tapping things.
00:43:39
Speaker
And God, I did good, didn't I?
00:43:41
Speaker
Yeah, I cooked that meth.
00:43:43
Speaker
Right.
00:43:44
Speaker
It's that moment.
00:43:44
Speaker
It's like she has, she's like, you know, a lot of memories made here.
00:43:48
Speaker
A lot of memories.
00:43:50
Speaker
It's weird.
00:43:52
Speaker
So she meets Glynn and they take their potions and they fly off the island.
00:43:58
Speaker
Hooray.
00:43:59
Speaker
Hooray.
00:44:00
Speaker
Hooray.
00:44:02
Speaker
We cut to Etrobus and Seul.
00:44:03
Speaker
They're being attacked.
00:44:05
Speaker
by this legion of walking dead.
00:44:07
Speaker
They're both taken down and as they're expecting to be, you know, eaten alive or something like that.
00:44:11
Speaker
Instead, they are lifted up and they're teleported somewhere.
00:44:17
Speaker
Colin.
00:44:17
Speaker
Oh, good.
00:44:18
Speaker
Colin's here.
00:44:19
Speaker
I'm sure they'll give him something fun to do.
00:44:20
Speaker
He's listening in on a couple of people who are working in the underground.
00:44:28
Speaker
He's got some hints that maybe they have something to do with, like, the people who want people to think that Atribus is dead and maybe still actually want him to be dead.
00:44:37
Speaker
The people who, like, kicked off the whole thing with getting, like, kidnapping Atribus...
00:44:44
Speaker
Right.
00:44:45
Speaker
That plot is still being kind of resolved, even though Etrobus himself is no longer within in that plot.
00:44:53
Speaker
Right.
00:44:54
Speaker
As like he left that plot.
00:44:56
Speaker
And now we have Colin investigating it.
00:45:00
Speaker
To what end?
00:45:01
Speaker
We'll find out, I guess, later in another book.
00:45:04
Speaker
Next year.
00:45:04
Speaker
Next year.
00:45:06
Speaker
Next year.
00:45:06
Speaker
And then there's something fucking weird, like this horrible screeching presence that's like filling his head and driving him mad exists.
00:45:17
Speaker
And he starts to realize that something crazy just showed up.
00:45:21
Speaker
Uh, uh, uh, there's something crazy in the house, some crazy in the house.
00:45:26
Speaker
And it's, it's never clear to me.
00:45:29
Speaker
Um, soul and atrocious find themselves back in Umbriel.
00:45:32
Speaker
They are now in Umbriel and they are with, uh, uh, uh, Wuhan or Bohan or whatever it is.
00:45:38
Speaker
We get so much explanation and exposition as to their, uh,
00:45:45
Speaker
Background and their beef.
00:45:47
Speaker
And I'm going to be honest, I really tuned out here.
00:45:50
Speaker
It's it's it's kind of like the Daedric Prince shit.
00:45:53
Speaker
Like it's like there's a lot of interesting stuff in here on its own.
00:45:57
Speaker
But at this point, I'm like, why are it's like the longest James Bond villain speech of all time?
00:46:04
Speaker
Just like you had you blew up the thing.
00:46:07
Speaker
You were sucking the soul out of my girlfriend.
00:46:10
Speaker
Like, well, it wouldn't have killed her right away.
00:46:13
Speaker
And be like, well, that's it doesn't matter.
00:46:17
Speaker
I was still trying to save her anyway.
00:46:19
Speaker
And Bohan's like, well, I guess you have a point there.
00:46:23
Speaker
Right.
00:46:23
Speaker
Yes.
00:46:24
Speaker
Several moments like that.
00:46:25
Speaker
It's.
00:46:27
Speaker
Long story short, Sewell's not as innocent as he claims in this whole thing.
00:46:31
Speaker
Sewell was the one who is like more or less responsible for blowing up the is it the Imaginarium or whatever the Imaginarium, whatever's keeping the moon at bay, whatever kept the moon at bay.
00:46:42
Speaker
He's responsible for that, but he only did it because he was trying to get his girlfriend's.
00:46:48
Speaker
away from Dr. Fred and the mind sucking machine and Maniac Mansion.
00:46:55
Speaker
Literally what it is.
00:46:56
Speaker
It's yeah, it's yeah.
00:46:58
Speaker
It's the same inciting incident as Maniac Mansion.
00:47:02
Speaker
It is.
00:47:02
Speaker
It is.
00:47:03
Speaker
And I feel like we need a tie in here.
00:47:08
Speaker
It's yeah.
00:47:09
Speaker
And Wuhan admits that he's been trying to kill Etrobus.
00:47:14
Speaker
He wants he basically wants Etrabus to convince his dad, the emperor, to let them enter the Imperial City.
00:47:20
Speaker
There's a magic tower there.
00:47:21
Speaker
He says, I want you guys to not resist me.
00:47:24
Speaker
I want you, in fact, to evacuate.
00:47:28
Speaker
And Etrabus is horrified because his dad has spent the entire time trying to bring the Imperial City back together.
00:47:35
Speaker
And now he's just going to try and collapse it again.
00:47:38
Speaker
So he's not too big on that.
00:47:40
Speaker
And the whole idea is that if I can do that, then Umbria will be self-sustaining or something and I can take the island somewhere and it'll be in its own place and we won't wander anymore and won't suck any more souls.
00:47:53
Speaker
Yep.
00:47:53
Speaker
Something like that.
00:47:55
Speaker
We cut to an egg and she and Glim are flying through space and she realizes that they are all, they are both going all Avengers end game.
Floating City Consequences
00:48:05
Speaker
They're, they're dissolving and she's not happy about it.
00:48:11
Speaker
A bunch of dramatic shit happens on the tower that Collins basically listening in on and by the, it like,
00:48:22
Speaker
collapses and by the end of it he still doesn't know more than he did before he just has questions right like it's very unclear it's this mystery is more mysterious now that's exactly what it is it's like well i think we've just scratched the surface no don't say that
00:48:44
Speaker
Don't say that at the end of this book.
00:48:45
Speaker
Don't say that.
00:48:48
Speaker
We got a final fight between Zul and Zohan and Etrobus, and Zul's brought some sort of demon into Umbriel.
00:49:01
Speaker
The island is falling, question mark.
00:49:04
Speaker
They blink out of existence, question mark.
00:49:08
Speaker
The fuck, question mark.
00:49:11
Speaker
Um...
00:49:12
Speaker
And then we got an epilogue epilogue.
00:49:15
Speaker
And it's just an egg and Glenn being like, we're sad that we can't go back home.
00:49:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:21
Speaker
They realize that they are now part of Umbriel and like they've been warned, like people who are from here dissolve when they leave.
00:49:27
Speaker
And so she's like, I'm going to find out how to fix it.
00:49:32
Speaker
And I'm like, okay.
00:49:34
Speaker
That's the end of the book.
00:49:37
Speaker
It's the end of the book.
00:49:38
Speaker
That's the end of the book.
00:49:40
Speaker
The pacing's all over this fucking book.
00:49:42
Speaker
My God.
00:49:44
Speaker
It's like we got... It's... Like how much we're dedicating to certain characters.
00:49:50
Speaker
And you had mentioned at some point in the second book, second part of this, and you're like, yeah, it's supposed to lead into another book.
00:49:57
Speaker
And I was like, all right, well, I'm expecting...
00:49:59
Speaker
this not to end satisfactorily based on where we are, because, you know, there will be another book to do all that.
00:50:07
Speaker
But the part of my issue is like, I just feel like there there's nothing.
00:50:11
Speaker
There's nothing really urging me to keep going.
00:50:15
Speaker
Like, I don't care anymore.
00:50:18
Speaker
You know, they don't give you anything at the end.
00:50:21
Speaker
And that's that's what I was saying at the beginning of the episode.
00:50:23
Speaker
There's no like, oh, my God moment at the end.
00:50:26
Speaker
Right.
00:50:27
Speaker
Right.
00:50:28
Speaker
I thought of the thing that.
00:50:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:30
Speaker
No, go ahead.
00:50:31
Speaker
Go on.
00:50:32
Speaker
The thing that they kept saying was going to happen to Glimm and an egg happens.
00:50:38
Speaker
Like, yeah, they're like, oh, yeah, if you're here too long, you're going to dissipate when you get down to the surface.
00:50:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:45
Speaker
And that's what happened.
00:50:48
Speaker
Yep.
00:50:48
Speaker
How anybody knew that, by the way.
00:50:52
Speaker
Yeah, because they spend so much time talking about how, oh, we don't know anything about where you're from.
00:51:00
Speaker
Yeah, we don't know anything about you.
00:51:01
Speaker
We don't know anything about where you're from, but we're certain...
00:51:05
Speaker
That you can't leave for some reason.
00:51:08
Speaker
Right.
00:51:08
Speaker
Everyone's so certain about it.
00:51:09
Speaker
And they're right.
00:51:11
Speaker
And how does that even fucking work, man?
00:51:14
Speaker
It's dumb.
00:51:15
Speaker
And it got me to thinking about Empire Strikes Back, which infamously ends with a lot of loose ends.
00:51:25
Speaker
Not infamously, famously ends with a lot of loose ends on a bummer note.
00:51:29
Speaker
Your heroes are at their lowest.
00:51:32
Speaker
And you are nothing but pumped at the end of Empire.
00:51:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:37
Speaker
A glorious film.
00:51:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:40
Speaker
And it's because you were also given a lot of shit.
00:51:46
Speaker
You were also given a lot of resolutions.
00:51:48
Speaker
That's where Luke, I am your father happens.
00:51:51
Speaker
That's where Han, in a roundabout way, finally tells Leia he loves her.
00:51:56
Speaker
You are given...
00:51:59
Speaker
A lot of stuff.
00:52:01
Speaker
So much is resolved.
00:52:04
Speaker
And the same is, honestly, the same as A New Hope.
00:52:07
Speaker
It's the same kind of thing.
00:52:09
Speaker
You've got questions, but you still got your medal ceremony at the end.
00:52:13
Speaker
You still got, you've got all kinds of stuff.
00:52:15
Speaker
There's still reason to celebrate.
00:52:17
Speaker
And there's nothing like that here.
00:52:20
Speaker
Nothing is resolved.
00:52:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:23
Speaker
Not even, there's got to be
00:52:28
Speaker
some carrot here, something to reward you by the end of it.
00:52:32
Speaker
But it's like, no, no one gets what they want.
00:52:35
Speaker
Nothing good is happening.
00:52:36
Speaker
Or if not, it's not even nothing good is happening.
00:52:39
Speaker
It's just nothing's happening.
00:52:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:41
Speaker
We don't know where,
00:52:44
Speaker
etrobus and zeul and all them are we don't know we just don't yeah they just kind of blink out of existence right you know and and an egg and glam we do get the epilogue yeah which is that kind of makes me nervous that it's an epilogue uh because it's kind of like a second that's like oh by the way we we will tell you a little bit about what's happening here
00:53:06
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It's just, it's just, and this is, this is where I, my, my theory on this whole thing being a very long novel.
00:53:17
Speaker
Now that I realized fully that this is a, you know, this, because if you read the back of the novel, it does say that this is part one of two.
00:53:25
Speaker
They, they, they go into it being honest with you that this is part one of two.
00:53:29
Speaker
So there are no surprises there theoretically.
00:53:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:34
Speaker
But the way, because you said, like you said, the pacing is so weird.
00:53:38
Speaker
The way this is set up, it feels like this was a much, much longer book.
00:53:45
Speaker
And it was just busted up in the least satisfactory way.
00:53:52
Speaker
Right.
00:53:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:57
Speaker
I think Greg Keyes is a very good writer.
00:53:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:00
Speaker
Um, sure.
00:54:01
Speaker
If anything, and that's the thing I say this, Mr. Keys, if you're listening, uh, uh, I, I say this in frustration for him because there's so much, there's, there's like all these little world building hints and all these little things that really, really ought to work or, or could be really interesting.
00:54:21
Speaker
There's something here.
00:54:22
Speaker
And I feel like someone cut them off at the knees.
00:54:26
Speaker
Uh, that's my optimistic viewpoint on it at least.
00:54:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:29
Speaker
What about you, Kevin?
00:54:30
Speaker
And what are your thoughts?
00:54:32
Speaker
I mean, I agree.
00:54:33
Speaker
I agree with a lot of it.
00:54:34
Speaker
I feel like there's a lot of like, there's, there's a lot of interesting moments in this that are also then undercut by the fact that the description of what exactly is happening can be, can sometimes random, be like muddled or incomplete.
00:54:56
Speaker
Like we said in the first episode, just stuff comes down, you know, it's, it,
00:55:03
Speaker
I don't get a complete sense of time and place in the book at really any point.
00:55:14
Speaker
Everything feels transient and we're just kind of flowing along a river of regret.
00:55:21
Speaker
No.
00:55:28
Speaker
A wonderful, wonderful poem.
00:55:31
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:55:32
Speaker
My life is a swirling river of regrets.
00:55:39
Speaker
What was his name?
00:55:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:42
Speaker
John Tottenham.
00:55:43
Speaker
John Tottenham.
00:55:44
Speaker
Great, great poet.
00:55:45
Speaker
If you ever get a chance, just funny fucking dude.
00:55:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:49
Speaker
I think that's calling this transient is a very good way of putting it.
00:55:54
Speaker
I think.
00:55:56
Speaker
It's yeah, it doesn't have much ground under it, does it?
00:56:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:02
Speaker
And maybe that's like maybe that's intentional because it's a floating city.
00:56:08
Speaker
But also it's like it just feels like it feels like we're trying to grab on to more meat.
00:56:15
Speaker
But every time we do, it's actually sand and it's slipping through our fingers.
00:56:19
Speaker
It's true.
00:56:20
Speaker
It's true.
00:56:21
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:22
Speaker
Um, it's very frustrating, uh, which is something we keep running into, uh, with a lot of these novels, which, um, honestly it's a, that's a good problem to have theoretically.
00:56:35
Speaker
Uh, you, cause you see that there's potential there.
00:56:40
Speaker
Uh, uh, so at least there's something it's, it's very rare that we actually run into something that's just dog shit.
00:56:46
Speaker
Right.
00:56:47
Speaker
So that's good.
00:56:49
Speaker
I guess.
00:56:50
Speaker
But yeah, I can't leave this unfinished.
00:56:52
Speaker
We'll be reading this next year.
00:56:54
Speaker
We'll finish it up.
00:56:56
Speaker
Hopefully, maybe part two will answer all of our questions.
00:56:59
Speaker
And that's the thing.
00:57:00
Speaker
I don't even have that.
00:57:01
Speaker
I don't have enough energy for questions.
00:57:03
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:57:05
Speaker
Why would you?
00:57:07
Speaker
But Five Nights at Freddy's really surprised us.
00:57:10
Speaker
Five Nights at Freddy's did surprise us.
00:57:11
Speaker
And that was a trilogy of Dead Space did not surprise us.
00:57:17
Speaker
No, they were both bad.
00:57:20
Speaker
No, it was so bad.
00:57:22
Speaker
The second one was so bad.
00:57:23
Speaker
It was out of print when we tried to read it.
00:57:26
Speaker
So, oh man.
00:57:30
Speaker
So, well, that's, that's, that's pretty much it.
00:57:32
Speaker
So we got a new book coming out next week.
00:57:36
Speaker
But in the meantime, in between time.
00:57:38
Speaker
Oh, and we, we also, it's, we might be, we're, we're actually going to be recording with a special guest.
00:57:45
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:57:45
Speaker
Yes.
00:57:46
Speaker
First before the new.
00:57:48
Speaker
So that guest will be it'll be a world's power book.
00:57:51
Speaker
So light, light listening.
00:57:55
Speaker
And then then we jump into Death Stranding.
00:58:03
Speaker
Volume one.
00:58:05
Speaker
I'm excited.
00:58:06
Speaker
That's what I wrote on the calendar, right?
00:58:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:08
Speaker
That's, that's what it is.
00:58:09
Speaker
I'm excited about this book.
00:58:11
Speaker
I'm excited about our special guests.
00:58:14
Speaker
It's, it's going to be a good month ahead.
00:58:17
Speaker
So with that level of positivity in mind, Kevin, what are you reading?
00:58:23
Speaker
Reading?
00:58:24
Speaker
Reading.
00:58:24
Speaker
No, I've been doing a bunch of what are you reading things, so I'm totally fucked now.
00:58:29
Speaker
What are you playing?
00:58:30
Speaker
What am I playing?
00:58:31
Speaker
I'm playing Hollow Knight Silksong.
00:58:35
Speaker
Oh, sure.
00:58:37
Speaker
God damn it.
00:58:37
Speaker
I put too many hours into this game.
00:58:41
Speaker
And it's not like it's weird.
00:58:44
Speaker
Like I've been taking my time with it.
00:58:47
Speaker
You can beat the game 100% at like, I want to say 35 hours, right?
00:58:54
Speaker
But I've just been slow playing it so much.
00:58:56
Speaker
And I think part of my problem is I play it a lot when I'm just sitting watching TV.
00:59:01
Speaker
So I'm not like totally locked in on the boss battles.
00:59:04
Speaker
So but I'm at like 60 hours and I still haven't finished the game.
00:59:09
Speaker
So and that's probably just me thing.
00:59:11
Speaker
That's probably just like I'm not taking your time.
00:59:14
Speaker
I'm taking my time.
00:59:15
Speaker
I'm not really rushing through it.
00:59:19
Speaker
So that's kind of it.
00:59:21
Speaker
But I do want to finish it up soon.
00:59:24
Speaker
Technically, I rolled credits already.
00:59:27
Speaker
There is a way you beat the game and then you can go back and pick it up.
00:59:34
Speaker
You open up the save file again and you have like an Act 3 that you can play through.
00:59:39
Speaker
which basically is a, you know, turns the game on its head where you have like a lot of rough, tougher enemies and all that stuff.
00:59:48
Speaker
But that's where I'm at right now.
00:59:52
Speaker
I would like to finish it soon only because the next thing up is Silent Hill F. Yes.
01:00:00
Speaker
I'm really excited for this.
01:00:04
Speaker
Sputnik just posted a meme.
01:00:06
Speaker
It's the Vince McMahon meme.
01:00:08
Speaker
The Vince McMahon one?
01:00:09
Speaker
Yeah.
01:00:11
Speaker
It says, New Silent Hill.
01:00:13
Speaker
And he's doing the...
01:00:15
Speaker
face and then it says legitimately scary is doing the face and then the combat sucks and he's doing the face and then ign gave it a seven out of ten his eyes are laser beams
01:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
01:00:35
Speaker
That looks like it'll be.
01:00:37
Speaker
I think that'll be it'll be interesting to say the very least.
01:00:40
Speaker
It'll be interesting.
01:00:41
Speaker
Yeah, I'm really excited about it.
01:00:43
Speaker
I have it like it's like pre-installed.
01:00:45
Speaker
I'm ready to go on it.
01:00:47
Speaker
So when does it release again?
01:00:51
Speaker
For everybody, it releases on the 25th for if you paid the extra ten dollars for digital deluxe, it releases tonight at midnight.
01:01:01
Speaker
Ah, gotcha, gotcha.
01:01:03
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:03
Speaker
Okay, cool.
01:01:04
Speaker
So I'm really excited to get into it.
01:01:07
Speaker
And I have like a game that I want to play that I still need to get back around to, and that's Hell Is Us.
01:01:14
Speaker
Yes, that looks pretty good.
01:01:16
Speaker
Yeah, it looks it looks interesting.
01:01:18
Speaker
So I got so that's like that.
01:01:20
Speaker
And, you know, there's just so much.
01:01:22
Speaker
There's too many games, Phil.
01:01:23
Speaker
There's too many games.
01:01:24
Speaker
They need to they need to slow down the games, but also pay the game devs more and give them health care and stop firing them so much.
01:01:36
Speaker
For God's sake.
01:01:37
Speaker
For God's sake.
01:01:38
Speaker
Being fired on a regular basis and then rehired
01:01:42
Speaker
should not be a regular part of your business strategy.
01:01:47
Speaker
It just shouldn't be part of it.
01:01:49
Speaker
It's fucked up and fucked up.
01:01:54
Speaker
And it's people who ironically people who bring us joy, people who who bring us something that we really, really love, that we really
01:02:03
Speaker
Just the absolute purest joy.
01:02:05
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:06
Speaker
And this is how they're treated.
01:02:09
Speaker
Anyway.
01:02:09
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:12
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:12
Speaker
And we got, you know, we got a there's a bunch of other games coming out.
01:02:16
Speaker
I mean, fuck.
01:02:18
Speaker
And in October, I got you got Dispatch.
01:02:21
Speaker
Did you play the demo for Dispatch?
01:02:23
Speaker
Loved it.
01:02:23
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:24
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:24
Speaker
Really liked that one.
01:02:25
Speaker
That was clever.
01:02:26
Speaker
Very, very clean animation style.
01:02:30
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:31
Speaker
And Alana Pierce is one of the voices in it.
01:02:35
Speaker
So that's awesome.
01:02:38
Speaker
You got Tormented Souls 2 coming out the day after Dispatch releases.
01:02:44
Speaker
A week later, you got Outer Worlds 2.
01:02:49
Speaker
And that's not... I forgot that the day before Dispatch, Bloodlines 2 comes out, which is...
01:02:58
Speaker
Solidly middling reviews for that.
01:03:01
Speaker
Sure.
01:03:02
Speaker
Sure.
01:03:03
Speaker
Which is better than I expected.
01:03:05
Speaker
Sure.
01:03:06
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If I'm being completely honest.
01:03:07
Speaker
So.
01:03:08
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:08
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:09
Speaker
So a lot of a lot of good stuff coming out.
01:03:12
Speaker
A lot of a lot of stuff I'm looking forward to.
01:03:15
Speaker
But right now it's all silk silk songing it.
01:03:20
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:21
Speaker
Phil.
01:03:23
Speaker
What are you playing?
01:03:24
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:25
Speaker
Oh, well, I, you know, in the moving process and that sort of thing, I have actually and this has been happening before the moving process, but I'm I'm slowly moving myself back into analog games, specifically, you know, Warhammer and shit like that.
01:03:44
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I've been doing a lot of painting.
01:03:46
Speaker
There is a game store.
01:03:49
Speaker
about like a 15 minute drive from here that will be my local game store.
01:03:55
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So I, me and Graham went there just to say hello and see what the, what the games are.
01:04:01
Speaker
What do people play and everything like that.
01:04:03
Speaker
And they were saying that they don't have much of that.
01:04:06
Speaker
They haven't in the past had a huge,
01:04:09
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game, but I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game.
01:04:14
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game.
01:04:16
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game.
01:04:18
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game.
01:04:19
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game.
01:04:22
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game.
01:04:24
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game.
01:04:26
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the game.
01:04:35
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the pre-order stuff and and cool may have put my name on a death core of krig control that's coming up around my birthday uh so yeah i'm i've been doing that a lot uh my desk is covered with minis that i i i need to paint what you got there are those is that an orc that you got there is that roll uh okay
01:04:58
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
01:04:59
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
01:04:59
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
01:05:01
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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I'm not sure if you're a good player.
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Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a good player.
01:05:21
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a good player.
01:05:24
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a good player.
01:05:24
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a good player.
01:05:26
Speaker
I'm not sure if you're a good player.
01:05:28
Speaker
And that's how you you can you can finish.
01:05:31
Speaker
And you can finish.
01:05:33
Speaker
And you can finish.
01:05:43
Speaker
with because you've got the four stacks you want to fill like it being a solitaire for each suit.
01:05:50
Speaker
And you can finish with none of them.
01:05:51
Speaker
You can still beat the level, but you just don't find the clue.
01:05:55
Speaker
I don't find the secret.
01:05:56
Speaker
You can do it from one to three in the middle, or you can get all of them right.
01:06:00
Speaker
And each one of them have a different ending because each puzzle has a tarot card and a corresponding like hinted at
01:06:08
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murder story or something horrifying underneath.
01:06:11
Speaker
Right.
01:06:11
Speaker
And you find out more about it by beating it.
01:06:15
Speaker
The atmosphere is really good.
01:06:17
Speaker
It's a very
01:06:20
Speaker
simple idea because sure, like solitaire and it's it's it's like it's like Bellatro and like a lot of other games like this where you take a real simple idea and it's executed really, really well.
01:06:34
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Nice.
01:06:35
Speaker
And I've never seen a game like this that had kind of a horror vibe to it.
01:06:40
Speaker
And right.
01:06:41
Speaker
It's impressive.
01:06:42
Speaker
It's pretty good.
01:06:43
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I put a few hours into it.
01:06:45
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I'm really enjoying it.
01:06:47
Speaker
Definitely, definitely worth a look.
01:06:51
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So, yeah, that's me.
01:06:52
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That's what I've been playing.
01:06:54
Speaker
Cool.
01:06:55
Speaker
All right.
01:06:57
Speaker
All right.
01:06:58
Speaker
Thank you so much, everyone, for listening to us get through the Elder Scrolls, Infernal City.
01:07:09
Speaker
This Infernal book, I'll tell you.
01:07:11
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:11
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:15
Speaker
Follow us on social media.
01:07:16
Speaker
Blue Sky, Instagram, Patreon.com slash Pixelipod, if you will.
01:07:25
Speaker
And Phil, I don't have a question for you tonight, but I was wondering, have you ever...
01:07:37
Speaker
Have you ever played solitaire so long that you went backwards in time?
01:07:46
Speaker
Like you're trying to play it to pass time, but then it reverses.
01:07:50
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:50
Speaker
And you end up adding more time.
01:07:53
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:54
Speaker
It's ironic, right?
01:07:55
Speaker
Like, that's some weird shit.
01:07:58
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If you're if you I have found something that helps, it doesn't like fully solve it, but it slows it down a little bit.
01:08:05
Speaker
So instead of going like two times fast into the past, you're only going like one and a half.
01:08:12
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uh it's not perfect but it helps um if you can you go to like find one of those old pharmacies not cvs not walgreens nothing like that finally you know the old-fashioned with the rx yeah yeah exactly exactly sometimes they still have like the soda pop stands and shit um you want to go to the proper apothecary kind of style pharmacy um
01:08:36
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The older the the person at the register, the better.
01:08:41
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It's real simple.
01:08:42
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You head into the back, past the contraceptives, past the hemorrhoid cream, past the Tums, and you and you go and at the very, very back.