WEBVTT - CZM Book Club: "Confession to a Dead Man" by Margaret Killjoy

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<v Speaker 1>Cool Zone Media.

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<v Speaker 2>Book Club book Club book.

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<v Speaker 1>I totally forgot. I totally forgot.

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<v Speaker 2>Club Club book Club.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been way too long.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah no, it's fine. Welcome to Cool Zone Media book Club,

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<v Speaker 2>the only book club where you don't get to read

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<v Speaker 2>the book ahead of time because of the way that

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<v Speaker 2>the podcast world works. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and

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<v Speaker 2>my guest today is gahar Hi Gary. Hello. Cool Zone

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<v Speaker 2>Media book Club is where every Sunday I read you

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<v Speaker 2>a story that's really kind of the whole of it.

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<v Speaker 2>But this week we have a story by perhaps the

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<v Speaker 2>best storyteller of our generation, a once in a millennia talent.

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<v Speaker 2>This woman is a humble woman. She has a podcaster

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<v Speaker 2>and an author by the name of Margaret Kiljoy.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right. I was really wondering who you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to pull out there and be like, oh, who does

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<v Speaker 1>Margaret thinks the best storyteller this g oh oh, okay, all.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, yeah No, I don't know who I would actually

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<v Speaker 2>say for this generation. It was last generation. I just

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<v Speaker 2>assume I would be talking about Butler or LeGuin. But sure, no,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to read you one of my stories because

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<v Speaker 2>I've got a new tabletop role playing game out called

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<v Speaker 2>Number City, and this story is called Confession to a

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<v Speaker 2>Dead Man, and I wrote it because I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>write in that world. The whole world actually of the

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<v Speaker 2>Number City started off me writing fiction before I later

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<v Speaker 2>turned it into RPG stuff. Nice, but I can't remember.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you play RPG as much? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I play an RPG now. And then were you

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<v Speaker 1>we played in South Island?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, that's what I think.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I played a really obnoxious wizard.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I don't even remember what podcast feed that's

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<v Speaker 2>on to send people too.

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<v Speaker 1>It was probably The Strangers Strangers Ones, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want to hear me and Gahre and Robert

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<v Speaker 2>and someone else to do a.

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<v Speaker 1>James baby Ooh, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to.

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<v Speaker 1>I totally forget. It's been way too long.

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<v Speaker 2>But it could be James. It might have been James. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>if you want to hear us play Escape from Insul Island,

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<v Speaker 2>you can somehow find that on the podcast feed. But

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<v Speaker 2>this game is a different game. It's called p Number City.

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<v Speaker 2>But this isn't the game. This is a story. And

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<v Speaker 2>if you don't like RPGs, dear listener, don't worry because

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<v Speaker 2>the Kickstarter did really well. So I'm on the I'm

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<v Speaker 2>on the hook to write a hole novella in this world,

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<v Speaker 2>but that doesn't come out yet. The story, however, has

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<v Speaker 2>What type.

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<v Speaker 1>Of world is this that we're going to be delevated to?

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<v Speaker 2>It is a roughly diesel punk with magic alternate world

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<v Speaker 2>where god kings rule over the world and use people

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<v Speaker 2>like ponds, and people are running around with swords and

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<v Speaker 2>armor as well as bolt action weapons, and there's occultists

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<v Speaker 2>and radio coexisting.

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<v Speaker 1>Occultists and radio. Yeah, isn't that just what we're doing

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<v Speaker 1>right now? Well, yeah, podcasting is not really radio.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, no, but this isn't the furthest thing from that. Yeah, okay, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>that's true. No, see, you've got it all wrong, Alecti said,

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<v Speaker 2>laughing a little, even though rain water dripped down on

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<v Speaker 2>her through the leaky carriage roof, even though she couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>reach the drops to wipe them off because of her handcuffs,

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<v Speaker 2>even though the cheap lawman's carriage hit yet another pothole

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<v Speaker 2>and her face cracked against the wood of the door.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't kill that guy. He was dead when I

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<v Speaker 2>got there. No, yeah, I mean I would have killed him.

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<v Speaker 2>It tried to even just missed my chance. The man

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<v Speaker 2>sitting on the bench opposite of her just stared, waiting

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<v Speaker 2>for her to say more. He was wiry, so was

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<v Speaker 2>his beard. He was nearly enveloped by thick wool overcoat,

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<v Speaker 2>but a hint of his pale gold uniform stuck out

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<v Speaker 2>near his collar. ELECTI could just make out. The insignion

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<v Speaker 2>is lapel, a sword crossed with a shepherd's crook. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a cute name, ALECTI said, I'll give you that what

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<v Speaker 2>the King's Boys and Girls Club. It's a cute name,

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<v Speaker 2>like you're just a bunch of bootlicking murderous cops. Was

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<v Speaker 2>the irony intentional when you came up with the name?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, the man said, it was before my time.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe that's not what matters. What matters, ELECTI asked. Blood

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<v Speaker 2>was starting to trickle down from her right nostril. It tickled.

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<v Speaker 2>What happened tonight is what matters, The man said, If

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<v Speaker 2>you didn't kill the reverend who did, tell us what

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we'll let you walk. Oh honey, ELECTI said,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't like when you lie to me. Who says

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<v Speaker 2>I'm lying. The man asked, if you didn't kill him,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll just hold you at Hazard long enough to get

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<v Speaker 2>everything sorted. Let you go. The only thing we agree on,

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<v Speaker 2>Electi said, licking the blood off of her upper lip,

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<v Speaker 2>is that you're going to let me go. The road

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<v Speaker 2>sounds changed from mud to gravel to cobble, and Electi

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<v Speaker 2>looked out the tiny window. She couldn't make anything out

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<v Speaker 2>through the rain and grime, but she knew they must

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<v Speaker 2>have made it to p Number North at this snail's pace.

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<v Speaker 2>It was another thirty or forty minutes before they reached

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<v Speaker 2>Hazard Penitentiary. Electi and her friends didn't spend much time

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<v Speaker 2>in Panumber North, where the streets are made out a

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<v Speaker 2>street and the people are made out a misplaced loyalty.

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<v Speaker 2>She said aloud, what nothing, Tell me what happened? The

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<v Speaker 2>cop said again, yeah, fine, She said, no reason not to. Besides,

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<v Speaker 2>she missed her therapy appointment that week because her therapist, Joan,

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<v Speaker 2>had been on a bender with the squad from the

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<v Speaker 2>South Docks. The dog girl what was his name? Dog

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<v Speaker 2>girls all had stupid names like wrench or carburetor or

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<v Speaker 2>Petunia or whatever Petunia that was. It had a nice

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<v Speaker 2>bike didn't even explode very often, so he claimed he

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<v Speaker 2>was cute. Couldn't blame Joan for missing the session. Yeah fine,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you what happened, but only because I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>kill you. So it started, like every good evening does,

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<v Speaker 2>at a party thrown by the anarchists. It's the fun anarchists,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, the Errenian, not the boring anarchists, the Corsaurians

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<v Speaker 2>of course. The don't call us anarchist anarchists from the

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<v Speaker 2>North Docks where are even more boring. The industrial workers

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<v Speaker 2>of Harrow, not them. It started at a party. It

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<v Speaker 2>was a good party, mostly on a rooftop one of

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<v Speaker 2>those weird theaters in the shadow of Triumph Tower. So

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<v Speaker 2>you've got the sunset coming pretty through the ash haze

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<v Speaker 2>over the factories, and you've got the stupid glow from

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<v Speaker 2>the stupid Silver Church, which I do not like admitting

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<v Speaker 2>is pretty. Some of the clackers were up for their warrens,

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<v Speaker 2>trying out those bulbs you run electric through and they

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<v Speaker 2>glow all handsome and light the evening up, and most

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<v Speaker 2>of them don't even explode. There was a troop over

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<v Speaker 2>from the Dead Quarter doing a pantomime plus half an

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<v Speaker 2>orchestra from the Alps with their heirloomcellos and shit. So

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<v Speaker 2>I'm having a good time because I love all that shit.

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<v Speaker 2>I love the shitty mushroom beer that's all we get

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<v Speaker 2>to drink because your God's dumble or as all the

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<v Speaker 2>farms blown up and a forbid he bother importing some barley.

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<v Speaker 2>I love the potluck snacks everyone brings. Who knew you

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<v Speaker 2>could fry a rat in so much oil that it

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<v Speaker 2>tasted good? Who knew you could grow hot peppers in

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<v Speaker 2>the top of Triumph Tower. We're a little bit more

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<v Speaker 2>sun peaks in. You know what I love the most

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<v Speaker 2>about all these parties, though, I love that we fucking

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<v Speaker 2>have fun despite how hard you and your immortal bag

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<v Speaker 2>of dicks of a boss God try to make us suffer.

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<v Speaker 2>I love that we still have music even if we

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<v Speaker 2>barely have food. I love when you fail to take

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<v Speaker 2>things like that away from us. I know what you're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna say to that. You're not trying to make us suffer.

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<v Speaker 2>You're trying to, like what, bring us back into his

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<v Speaker 2>grace so we can win the war, rebuild the farms,

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<v Speaker 2>and go back to living boring lives of quiet mediocrity

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<v Speaker 2>like we supposedly had seventy years ago, right, get people

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<v Speaker 2>trusting that money will feed us instead of us feeding

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<v Speaker 2>each other. However, we can return the flock to the fold. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>you got to get a new metaphor, because there's no

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<v Speaker 2>more flocks of sheep anywhere anymore because they all got

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<v Speaker 2>slaughtered for food ten years ago and all of their

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<v Speaker 2>fields have been bombed as shit for half my life.

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<v Speaker 2>But anyway, the party, party good, that's not the part

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<v Speaker 2>you want to hear about. I guess who am I

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<v Speaker 2>to deny you your last wishes? You want to hear

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<v Speaker 2>about the Reverend Lemon hened the fourteenth. You want to

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<v Speaker 2>hear about who it was who decided his ear would

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<v Speaker 2>look better with an eighty bity teeny tiny spike stuck

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<v Speaker 2>into it until it hit the brain. I mean, let's

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<v Speaker 2>be honest, lots of us would have decided that. But

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<v Speaker 2>you want to hear about the guy who actually pulled

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<v Speaker 2>it off. Who wasn't me? So I'm at the party.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm there with my friends. Malice, she was a marine

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<v Speaker 2>before she went a wall kept her armor and her

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<v Speaker 2>trauma pretty useful in a fight, which is good because

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<v Speaker 2>she gets us into a lot of them, Sannie the

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<v Speaker 2>rat king God. They're weird. Most people who use they

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<v Speaker 2>them pronounsi us them singularly. Right, Sanni uses them plural.

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<v Speaker 2>See a has the royal we se sees a god king.

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<v Speaker 2>He says, we do not approve of you a lot

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<v Speaker 2>having fun in the one and only life you have

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<v Speaker 2>on this planet. We are not amused by your mockery

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<v Speaker 2>and all of that. Right, Sanny uses the vermin. When

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<v Speaker 2>you talk about Sannie, you're talking about the human kid

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<v Speaker 2>buried under all those rats, But you're talking about the

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<v Speaker 2>rats too. Love Sannie and Losa was there, of course. Honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure about Losa. Are we even friends anymore?

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<v Speaker 2>We hang out together, sure, do crimes, but we haven't

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<v Speaker 2>talked in ages, not like really talked. God, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it really feels good to just get to open up

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<v Speaker 2>about all this stuff, say, all the stuff that usually

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<v Speaker 2>just lives inside my head. I really appreciate that. I

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate you. I just want you to know that you're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna be inside kind of a living nightmare soon enough,

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<v Speaker 2>which you deserve because you're trying to lock me into

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<v Speaker 2>a cage. But I just want you to know that

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<v Speaker 2>you're appreciated as a person, even if not as a cop.

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<v Speaker 2>Los is a patchworker. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, back,

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<v Speaker 2>alley surgeon who flays corpses and mixes up fungal paste

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<v Speaker 2>and sows the skin of dead people onto living people

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<v Speaker 2>in order to heal wounds. You're thinking, A scary bitch

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<v Speaker 2>with a scalpel who doesn't think a thing about ripping

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<v Speaker 2>the bones out of living people. You're thinking, right, Losa's

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<v Speaker 2>a scary bitch. He does all those things. Also a

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<v Speaker 2>hell of a dice player, a good cook, and would

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<v Speaker 2>you believe it, and honest to a the vegetarian. And

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<v Speaker 2>we really did used to be close. I was at

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<v Speaker 2>all three of her weddings and the four resultant funerals.

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<v Speaker 2>But after that time in the basement of the club

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<v Speaker 2>fighting all those giant centipedes, it just hasn't been the same. Plus,

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<v Speaker 2>I think she's jealous of how close I've gotten with Malice,

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<v Speaker 2>or maybe it's the other way around. Right, So the

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<v Speaker 2>four of us are at this party and I'm just

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<v Speaker 2>trying to have a good time, But malice is all

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<v Speaker 2>We need a mission. Let's do a mission, and Losa

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<v Speaker 2>is kissing up to her about it, so she's like, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>look at me, I'm Losa. I will temporarily pretend I

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<v Speaker 2>share your ethical framework in worldview in order to get

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<v Speaker 2>closer to you and drive a wedge between you and Electe.

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<v Speaker 2>Or at least that's what I assume she said, because

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<v Speaker 2>suddenly she wants a mission too. Guys, can't the mission

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes get drunk and maybe high, and maybe just ave forbid,

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<v Speaker 2>get late. No, no, no, it's time to do crimes

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<v Speaker 2>for the good of humanity or whatever. I look at Sanny,

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<v Speaker 2>but they're just feeding bits of mushroom to those rats,

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<v Speaker 2>and their eyes start spinning and they whispered. Whatever happens,

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<v Speaker 2>we're in, just like you can be in on these sweet,

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<v Speaker 2>sweet deals of capitalism that interrupts this podcast. Here we

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<v Speaker 2>go and we're back. So that's how I knew I

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't gonna get late at the party, because every single

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<v Speaker 2>one of those bitches would have died a thousand times

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<v Speaker 2>over if it weren't for my spookyes saving them with

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<v Speaker 2>a well timed curse or a jaunt into the ether.

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<v Speaker 2>We find a guy with the Ernni knows everyone. I

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<v Speaker 2>guess that's repetitive all the ERRENNI know everyone, we find

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<v Speaker 2>a guy. He's cute, but I'm not allowed to see

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<v Speaker 2>if he's down a fuck because we've got work to

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<v Speaker 2>do for some dumb reason. And he says, there's this

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<v Speaker 2>elbow guard. I know you know what I'm talking about.

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<v Speaker 2>I know you care more about that fucking thing than

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<v Speaker 2>you do about the life of the poor dear Reverend

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<v Speaker 2>Lambin Hend the nine hundred and fiftieth of his name

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever. I know that's why you followed us. Anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>The cute guy, he tells us and everyone else at

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<v Speaker 2>the party, besides about his elbow guard, holy to the outsiders,

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<v Speaker 2>ancient made out of granite and quarts in the ceremonial style.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's see if I get this chain of events right.

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<v Speaker 2>Lamban had this tenant, an old outsider lady who got

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<v Speaker 2>entired of sleeping in a crypt in the Dead Quarter.

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<v Speaker 2>And I tried to do things proper and get a

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<v Speaker 2>room in North Pannumber. Only now there's no money and

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<v Speaker 2>everything is favors and reputation and shit. Mister Hend doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>really like unprestigious guests, so he got into his head

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<v Speaker 2>that she owed him something, so he marches into her

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<v Speaker 2>house and picks up the most valuable thing he sees,

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<v Speaker 2>Like the prick that he is, the elbow guard, he

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<v Speaker 2>takes it to the esteem to see what it's worth.

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<v Speaker 2>Only I think a skip saw that go down. And

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<v Speaker 2>now the whole city knows. They especially know that there's

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<v Speaker 2>an inscription in the damn thing, and half of it

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<v Speaker 2>is written in the language outside, and half of it

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<v Speaker 2>is written in whatever fuck weird language related adult p number,

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<v Speaker 2>and that no one can read that scrawled across the

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<v Speaker 2>hole under city. So it's valuable to lots of people.

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<v Speaker 2>So first, yeah, the ideas that we're going to steal

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<v Speaker 2>the damn thing, get it back to the outsiders where

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<v Speaker 2>it belongs. It's just the right thing to do. And

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<v Speaker 2>sure none of us would mind that. They'd be grateful

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<v Speaker 2>and maybe let us use their gunsmithies sometimes. Then Losa, though,

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<v Speaker 2>see she grew up on the streets mostly because her

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<v Speaker 2>mom was from Panumber North Like she's fourth generation patchworker.

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<v Speaker 2>You see where I'm going with us. You remember when

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<v Speaker 2>your little King's Boys and Girls Club rounded up the patchworkers,

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<v Speaker 2>called them unholy, drove them out of your territory. What

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<v Speaker 2>was that? Ten years ago? When you know Loso was ten. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>guess who were mom's landlord had been? Guess who had

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<v Speaker 2>told you all Los's mom in the first place. Lemon

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<v Speaker 2>fucking henned the fourteenth. Sorry, Reverend Lemon hand the fucking fourteenth.

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<v Speaker 2>He ain't so revered as this title implies, not by

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<v Speaker 2>most of the city. Losa says her bit about what

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<v Speaker 2>happened to her, and what do you know, half the

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<v Speaker 2>party has stories about this guy hired some thugs, not you,

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<v Speaker 2>other thugs to blow up a pie shop run by

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<v Speaker 2>the lords of the New Order that was competing with

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<v Speaker 2>the one he had interest in. Ain't too good to

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<v Speaker 2>the people he hires either. He was one of those

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<v Speaker 2>thugs he'd hired who was at the party, turns out

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<v Speaker 2>Hand and tossed him to the lords as soon as

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<v Speaker 2>it was convenient. His friends rescued him. Funny thing about friends.

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<v Speaker 2>It's nice to have friends anyway. More and more people

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<v Speaker 2>saying this shit. He's a bad landlord, a shitty boss,

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<v Speaker 2>awful of the people he fucks. He's just this is

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<v Speaker 2>not a redeeming bone in that man's body. So pretty

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<v Speaker 2>quick we go from let's rob the guy, so let's

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<v Speaker 2>kill the guy you know how that goes. And a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of dog girls are around with their bikes, and

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<v Speaker 2>one of them even a a sidecar, and they figure,

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<v Speaker 2>what the hell, why not go for a joy ride

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<v Speaker 2>or I guess I'll kill Ride up to p number North,

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<v Speaker 2>find this guy's house, swap out his insides for his outsides,

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<v Speaker 2>grab the stolen elbow guard. Wham bam, thank you, ma'am.

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<v Speaker 2>All the good night's work. Nope, you fox her on

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<v Speaker 2>the prowl. Good thing. The dog girls are smarter than you.

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<v Speaker 1>Lot.

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<v Speaker 2>The voyager patrols like six times. We stop at an

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<v Speaker 2>alley by the canal, hop up onto the second floor balcony.

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<v Speaker 2>The door was wide open. How the hell malice climbs

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<v Speaker 2>up in all that powered armor dragging a goddamn boiler.

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<v Speaker 2>The world will never know, I swear to a I've

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<v Speaker 2>never seen her strength fail her. And here's where it

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<v Speaker 2>gets good, right, here's where you start to care. The

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<v Speaker 2>damn man is already dead, like he's sleeping, and except

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<v Speaker 2>there's blood on the pillow. I know a thing or

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<v Speaker 2>two about a thing or two, And while everyone else

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<v Speaker 2>is just like what the fuck happened here? I can

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<v Speaker 2>tell them that, like Okay, bear with me. You know

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<v Speaker 2>that the world is made up of three worlds, right.

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<v Speaker 2>I know A tries to keep you in the dark

0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.479
<v Speaker 2>on basic cosmology. But there's three worlds form a triangle.

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<v Speaker 2>We live on the material. Then there's the ether, which

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<v Speaker 2>is I guess where you could call the angels. That's

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<v Speaker 2>where they live. Then there's the rot with you know, demons. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>we touch both other planes, and each of those other

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<v Speaker 2>planes touches ours and the other one. It's a triangle,

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<v Speaker 2>not your dumb hell or of heaven linear hierarchy you've

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<v Speaker 2>been lied to. So as humans live on the material, right,

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<v Speaker 2>But we're made out of stuff that transfers from one

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<v Speaker 2>to the other. What you call your higher soul than

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<v Speaker 2>your lower soul, which are dumb words for it, by

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<v Speaker 2>the way, I say, it's a gape and thelema, and

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<v Speaker 2>maybe those are dumb words for it too, Who knows.

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<v Speaker 2>When you die, your stuff moves on. A gape goes

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<v Speaker 2>in the circle clockwise, heads over to the ether till

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<v Speaker 2>it heads over the rot, till it heads on back

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<v Speaker 2>to the material. Thelema goes caraclockwise over to the rot,

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<v Speaker 2>then the ether, then back to here. You get the idea,

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<v Speaker 2>what has this got to do with ear spikes? See,

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<v Speaker 2>back before your fucking god kings ascended, people here knew

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<v Speaker 2>a thing or two about the planes, and more people

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<v Speaker 2>than just us weirdos could communicate across those borders. And

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<v Speaker 2>those people whose name is lost to us, probably forever

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<v Speaker 2>in my society, the hermetic order of nothing, we call them

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<v Speaker 2>the forgotten people, which is not super original, but it

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<v Speaker 2>is descriptive. Those people, the forgotten people. They used to

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<v Speaker 2>kill people by jamming spikes into their ear. That's my point.

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<v Speaker 2>It's kind of classy and not much mess. Didn't even

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<v Speaker 2>wake the guy up. You should try it. No, actually,

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<v Speaker 2>well not you. You shouldn't try it. You're a cop.

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<v Speaker 2>You actually shouldn't kill people or exist. I'd say quit

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<v Speaker 2>your job and find new friends, but it's too late

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<v Speaker 2>for that. So there we are, and I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 2>explain a Gape and Thelma to everyone, and they're kind

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<v Speaker 2>of ignoring me, because everyone does when I talk about

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<v Speaker 2>that stuff. And Malice is looking through the guy's bedroom

0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.840
<v Speaker 2>and there's like it's like a dumb, goddamn museum and

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<v Speaker 2>they are complete with stolen artifacts, pine glass and plaques.

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<v Speaker 2>There's an old, rusty saber from Kirik and a rovy

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<v Speaker 2>and rare book. And wait, get this, there's a human

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<v Speaker 2>skull labeled as having belonged to a chieftain of Sore.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you believe it? You're just staring at me. You

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<v Speaker 2>don't get it. Soor doesn't have chieftains. It never did.

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<v Speaker 2>The whole country is built on a plateau no one

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<v Speaker 2>was able to reach until the god King Sore lifted

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<v Speaker 2>his people up with his mighty magic or whatever. Come on.

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<v Speaker 2>Their whole religion is based on that. How do you

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<v Speaker 2>not know that Sora is even friends with eighth right now?

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<v Speaker 2>You should know that. And there's a glass case where

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<v Speaker 2>the elbow guard should be, But of course it's empty

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<v Speaker 2>because someone stole it, probably whoever earspiked our good friend.

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<v Speaker 2>Because of course the plaque is just a handwritten piece

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<v Speaker 2>of paper because there hadn't been enough time to find

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<v Speaker 2>an engraver. It says elbow guard probably important. We're all

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<v Speaker 2>having to laugh about the chieftain's skull. Unto a rat

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<v Speaker 2>runs in, looks up at Sanny, and Sanny looks down

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<v Speaker 2>at the rat, and they turn to us and tell

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<v Speaker 2>us that people are on their way a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the good thing about having a swarm of rats

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<v Speaker 2>at your command. What kind of people, Losa asked, They

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<v Speaker 2>don't know their fucking rats, Sanny said, only Sanny probably

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't curse when they said it. We should get the

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<v Speaker 2>fuck out here again, probably without the fuck. It's hard

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<v Speaker 2>not to cuss when I'm in your shitty fucking carriage.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you people not know how to fix a roof?

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<v Speaker 2>You keep it shitty just so your guests have it worse.

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<v Speaker 2>But you have it worse too, you asshole. You're just

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<v Speaker 2>making the fucking world worse. God, I can't wait to

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<v Speaker 2>get out of here and kill you. My nose is

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<v Speaker 2>fucking bleeding and I can't see shit, and my hands

0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:32.520
<v Speaker 2>are cramping anyway, so we fuck off right back out

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<v Speaker 2>the window. The doggirls who drove us there, they're gone.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess they saw which way the wind was blowing.

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<v Speaker 2>And those bikers like some of us all right, but

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<v Speaker 2>not enough to fight off the cops and risks getting

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<v Speaker 2>killed or sent to hazard. That's how we figure whoever's coming,

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<v Speaker 2>it's probably you all. Malice wants to stay and shoot

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<v Speaker 2>you all with her bolt thrower, which sounds like a

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<v Speaker 2>reasonable plan to me, but Sanny and Losa don't like it,

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<v Speaker 2>so we break into the empty house next door and

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<v Speaker 2>lay low. Sure enough, it's you and your buds who

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<v Speaker 2>show up. Probably remember this part. You go in search

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<v Speaker 2>the house, find the body.

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<v Speaker 3>Me.

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<v Speaker 2>What I do is I make sure my friends are

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<v Speaker 2>keeping watch, and I pull out the candles and the

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<v Speaker 2>incense and the chalk and the charcoal, and I get

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<v Speaker 2>myself a circle drawn up on the wood floor in

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<v Speaker 2>the empty house, and I tie a silk rope around

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<v Speaker 2>my waist and I project myself into the ether, or

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<v Speaker 2>to be more accurate, some portion of my gape crosses

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<v Speaker 2>over while my body stays put, and I'm walking around

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<v Speaker 2>like a ghost through walls and shit, tethered to my

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<v Speaker 2>body by that rope. I pop over next door and

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<v Speaker 2>guess whose essence is still lingering, not dissolved yet into

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<v Speaker 2>the ether proper, Reverend Lemon Hen the fucking fourteenth, that's

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<v Speaker 2>Who's It's funny because that's how I know you were

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<v Speaker 2>one of the kingsmen who showed up, because I was

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<v Speaker 2>in the room with you while you were investigating good eye,

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<v Speaker 2>catching that feather.

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<v Speaker 1>On the ground.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, we'd missed that Lambon is standing there,

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<v Speaker 2>looking all angelic and blist out like every other dead prick,

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<v Speaker 2>And he seems surprised that I can see him, asks

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<v Speaker 2>if I'm an angel sent to help usher him into

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<v Speaker 2>heaven for his lifetime of good deeds. So I look

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<v Speaker 2>at him, and I never claimed to be an honest girl. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I've claimed it, but it's never been true.

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<v Speaker 2>I look at him and I say, yep, that's me,

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<v Speaker 2>sirraphic as hell. Just need to tie up some loose ends,

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<v Speaker 2>get everything sort of with your paperwork. Tell me in

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<v Speaker 2>your own words, how you died. He tells me his story,

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<v Speaker 2>which wasn't too long. He went to bed same as normal,

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<v Speaker 2>then woke up feeling something weird. Flicked his eyes open,

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<v Speaker 2>saw a man, gaunt and age leaning over him, pale

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<v Speaker 2>skin like the lampreman. Then he caught, just a moment's glance,

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<v Speaker 2>just like the saw some horror the likes of which

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<v Speaker 2>he'd never dreamed. Some kind of taxidermy bird gone wrong,

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<v Speaker 2>six feet tall, feathered, beaked eyes everywhere across his body.

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<v Speaker 2>What was it? He asked, like I had all the

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<v Speaker 2>answers I did this time, though, and I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>be addict to him and make something up. But I thought,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what, this guy's like, soular whatever. He is

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<v Speaker 2>about to disintegrate into the ether and he's never going

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<v Speaker 2>to experience anything ever again. And it looks like I've

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<v Speaker 2>got a soft spot for folks who are already dead

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<v Speaker 2>or like in your case, basically already dead. So I

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<v Speaker 2>tell him, and this is where I cut to ads.

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<v Speaker 2>But I think we're gonna run our don't talk to

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<v Speaker 2>cops ad because this is a whole story about someone

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<v Speaker 2>who talks to cops. You shouldn't do this. This is bad.

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<v Speaker 2>So here's an ad about not talking to cops. And

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<v Speaker 2>then if any other ads run it was a terrible mistake.

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<v Speaker 1>The Washington State Highway Patrol.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, totally, just the all sides of this picture. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>we believe in something over here.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's that we believe in something.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, not sure what these things we believe in, these

0:22:47.760 --> 0:23:06.280
<v Speaker 2>sponsors and we're back. And this is what you want

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<v Speaker 2>to know too. You and Lemon have got a lot

0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.679
<v Speaker 2>in common. Actually, I tell him that he's describing a

0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:16.040
<v Speaker 2>demon sort of. I'm telling him he saw a geddesist

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<v Speaker 2>above him. You think, as a cultists are rare and

0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:20.880
<v Speaker 2>scary those of us who fuck with the ether. Oh,

0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:23.359
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna love the geddesists, so they fuck with the rot.

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<v Speaker 2>I tell Lemonhon that this guy built a mannequin out

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<v Speaker 2>of dead animals and then ripped open a portal in

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<v Speaker 2>the rot and lit a little bit of that weird

0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:31.440
<v Speaker 2>shit that lives over there into the material to animate

0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.679
<v Speaker 2>his little death puppet, which means he likely made some

0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:36.840
<v Speaker 2>kind of deal, like you serve me for a week,

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<v Speaker 2>then you're free to go do whatever you want and

0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.879
<v Speaker 2>the material, which means the city is actually in for

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<v Speaker 2>some bad luck soon because that fucking thing is still

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<v Speaker 2>out there, and that's your fault. You know that people

0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:53.560
<v Speaker 2>you claim to protect are gonna die anyway. He tells

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<v Speaker 2>me about the Gaddesist, and I tell him, thanks, buddy,

0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:57.760
<v Speaker 2>you'll be whissed off soon enough. Don't worry about the

0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:00.200
<v Speaker 2>slow disintegration of what's left in your mind, all part

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<v Speaker 2>of the process. I don't tell them about the angels

0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:04.200
<v Speaker 2>that are going to be eating his soul, same as

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<v Speaker 2>Maggote to corpse. I just pop back over to my body.

0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:10.760
<v Speaker 2>Low Sun, Malice are playing dice. Sannie is talking to

0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:13.399
<v Speaker 2>their rats. I guess you could say, talking to themselves.

0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:17.040
<v Speaker 2>I tell them what's up, and Sannie's like, oh weird,

0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:20.280
<v Speaker 2>dead bird creature rats can track that. Off we go,

0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:23.520
<v Speaker 2>and you know where we went because you tracked us.

0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:26.600
<v Speaker 2>Ave only knows how you bastards are good at tracking people.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll give you that. All the way through p Number South,

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<v Speaker 2>around Triumph Plaza down to the South Docks, the rain

0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:35.240
<v Speaker 2>picked up and didn't help our mood, and it took

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<v Speaker 2>us half the night to get where we were going,

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<v Speaker 2>to a little run down shack up against a peer

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<v Speaker 2>with someone muttering insighed. So we're all set to kick

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<v Speaker 2>in the door. I've got a bomb out and everything,

0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:48.960
<v Speaker 2>cigarette lit and the holder in my mouth. When Malice says, you, guys,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think this is how we should approach this situation.

0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:55.080
<v Speaker 2>And if Malice doesn't think direct physical confrontation is the

0:24:55.080 --> 0:24:57.800
<v Speaker 2>best solution, then it means a really not the right solution,

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<v Speaker 2>because she solves almost everything with silence. Soon we scoot

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<v Speaker 2>on over in the dark under the pier and back

0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:06.440
<v Speaker 2>out comes the candles and the chalk and the rope,

0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:08.280
<v Speaker 2>and I'm off to the ether for a second time

0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:12.359
<v Speaker 2>that night. You know how tiring. That is whatever, hop

0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:15.159
<v Speaker 2>on into the shack. There's this guy, there's the demon.

0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:19.159
<v Speaker 2>They're talking. Demons talk weird. Imagine like eight people talking

0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:21.520
<v Speaker 2>at once, saying almost the same thing but not quite.

0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:24.240
<v Speaker 2>But the core of it is pretty banal. The getes

0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:26.760
<v Speaker 2>sist's a spy for her, is going to sell them

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<v Speaker 2>the elbow guard. That's it. Then the demon says there's

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<v Speaker 2>someone outside, and the two rush out the door, and

0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:34.800
<v Speaker 2>I turn around to rush back in my body, but

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even make it through the wall before I

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<v Speaker 2>black out. And guess where I wake up? Here with you?

0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.560
<v Speaker 2>Alecti was silent for a while after telling her story,

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<v Speaker 2>waiting for the lawman to say something or react in

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<v Speaker 2>any way. He didn't. A fear came over her for

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<v Speaker 2>the first time. She was certain that whatever else, her

0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:58.040
<v Speaker 2>friends were out there in the city looking for her,

0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:01.000
<v Speaker 2>tracking the carriage. They would call in some favors, and

0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:03.080
<v Speaker 2>any minute now a crew on dog's wheels were going

0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:05.240
<v Speaker 2>to roll up, engines roaring, and Malice was going to

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<v Speaker 2>use that big gun of hers to set her free.

0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:11.479
<v Speaker 2>She just thought it would have happened by now. She

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<v Speaker 2>hadn't figured she'd reach the end of this story. The

0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:18.240
<v Speaker 2>cop must have been able to see her confidence drain away,

0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:21.359
<v Speaker 2>because a smile slowly worked its way across his face.

0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:26.560
<v Speaker 2>She couldn't give up, not on her friends. Yeah, they'd

0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:28.919
<v Speaker 2>let her get captured in the first place, but they

0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:31.320
<v Speaker 2>must have been busy dealing with the spy and his demon.

0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:36.480
<v Speaker 2>Any minute now, she sighed, leaned her head against the

0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:39.760
<v Speaker 2>window as rain dropped down on her cheek. Next time,

0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:41.879
<v Speaker 2>she was going to go to the party alone, and

0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:43.960
<v Speaker 2>the only call to adventure she was going to answer

0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:47.879
<v Speaker 2>was the adventure of getting laid or maybe, And she

0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:49.919
<v Speaker 2>knew she was getting real desperate and sad when her

0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:53.920
<v Speaker 2>mind went into this the darkest of corners. Maybe she

0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:56.920
<v Speaker 2>should ask Losa back out. Yeah, they hadn't been good

0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:01.280
<v Speaker 2>for each other, but whoever was given up? Then the

0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:05.479
<v Speaker 2>lawman finally asked. She sat upright and glared. The carriage

0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:08.439
<v Speaker 2>slowed to a halt. Looks like we're here, he said.

0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:13.639
<v Speaker 2>Then blessedly, a foot long steel bolt shot through the

0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:16.240
<v Speaker 2>sidewall of the carriage and impaled the man through the chest,

0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:19.639
<v Speaker 2>pinning him to the firewall. Blood came to his mouth,

0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:22.280
<v Speaker 2>dripping into his gray beard, and he looked down with

0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:27.080
<v Speaker 2>surprise and horror. A scream broke through sudden and shocking silence.

0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:30.720
<v Speaker 2>ELECTI had heard that scream before. That was the scream

0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:34.080
<v Speaker 2>of a man covered in rats. Then the scream stopped,

0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:36.760
<v Speaker 2>replaced with a gurgling. That was the noise of a

0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:41.119
<v Speaker 2>throat cut with a scalpel. The driver, you do love me,

0:27:41.200 --> 0:27:43.679
<v Speaker 2>ELECTI said, as the door to the carriage was wrenched

0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:48.560
<v Speaker 2>off its hinges. What, Malice asked, tossing the steel door aside.

0:27:48.960 --> 0:27:52.440
<v Speaker 2>Los and Sanny peered in from behind her. I said,

0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:56.600
<v Speaker 2>what took you so long? ELECTI lied, Oh, Malice said,

0:27:56.600 --> 0:27:59.960
<v Speaker 2>looking genuinely Contrite. The demon and the spy slowed us down.

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<v Speaker 2>They got away too with the elbow guard. Losa stepped

0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:05.840
<v Speaker 2>into the carriage, pulled out a scalpel and picked the

0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:11.000
<v Speaker 2>handcuffs open. Thank you, ELECTI whispered into Losa's ear, where

0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:14.040
<v Speaker 2>the others couldn't hear it. Fuck I was so scared,

0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:18.320
<v Speaker 2>me too, Losa whispered. All I could think was that

0:28:18.359 --> 0:28:20.760
<v Speaker 2>what if I never saw you again? I'm sorry we

0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:23.919
<v Speaker 2>let them get you. They met eyes for half a moment,

0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:28.280
<v Speaker 2>then drifted away. All right, you dumb bitches, ELECTI said,

0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:31.160
<v Speaker 2>standing up glancing over quickly at the still dying cop

0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:33.840
<v Speaker 2>on the bench across from her. Let's go steal back

0:28:33.840 --> 0:28:38.200
<v Speaker 2>in artifact. That's the end of the story.

0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:39.720
<v Speaker 1>That was fun.

0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:43.000
<v Speaker 2>Thanks. I picked you because I think you're the only

0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:46.480
<v Speaker 2>person I know who will know if I pronounced a

0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:48.120
<v Speaker 2>gape orthelima right or wrong.

0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:51.600
<v Speaker 1>You did not pronounce thelima right, But that's okay.

0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:54.120
<v Speaker 2>Thelima is that the lima?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, sorry, okay, But all the characters do sound like

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<v Speaker 1>people I have noted my life. Yeah, ah, I see,

0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:07.720
<v Speaker 1>I see what Margaret's pulling from here.

0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:10.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:14.000
<v Speaker 1>No, even just the way they talk it like, oh yeah.

0:29:13.800 --> 0:29:24.240
<v Speaker 3>You're you're obviously cofeeing someone's very specific speech patterns. Yeah, totally, yeah, absolutely.

0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:29.200
<v Speaker 1>Oh that was fun. The wordflow was very nice to

0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:29.680
<v Speaker 1>listen to.

0:29:29.960 --> 0:29:33.520
<v Speaker 2>Thanks. Yeah, it was fun to do the like I

0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:37.720
<v Speaker 2>tried writing. It's actually very hard to write D and

0:29:37.800 --> 0:29:42.160
<v Speaker 2>D style campaign things like adventures, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,

0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:45.880
<v Speaker 2>and you know it'll never it's always sort of a compromises.

0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:48.280
<v Speaker 2>It's just a different way of storytelling, and so I

0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:50.000
<v Speaker 2>really like doing it at first person so that I

0:29:50.040 --> 0:29:53.520
<v Speaker 2>could be like a little bit more free form. Also,

0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:57.840
<v Speaker 2>Sophie has been asking me to do a love story

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<v Speaker 2>with this with this show for a while, and I've

0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:02.760
<v Speaker 2>been struggling to find a good love story, and so

0:30:02.880 --> 0:30:06.760
<v Speaker 2>that's part of why I chose this one. Okay, okay, Sophie,

0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:08.440
<v Speaker 2>this is the this is the love story that you

0:30:08.480 --> 0:30:08.960
<v Speaker 2>asked for.

0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:11.520
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, it was.

0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:11.840
<v Speaker 3>It was.

0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:18.200
<v Speaker 1>It was quite fun. I no it. It really did

0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:21.880
<v Speaker 1>sound like someone's like someone like a very specific person's

0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:24.800
<v Speaker 1>like a conversational flow. Yeah, either either with them just

0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:28.040
<v Speaker 1>like talking to themselves or just like going on like

0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:30.200
<v Speaker 1>a mini rant. They just like keep talking.

0:30:30.400 --> 0:30:31.080
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, totally.

0:30:31.960 --> 0:30:34.480
<v Speaker 1>It's like, yeah, that's that's kind of how someone sounds.

0:30:34.480 --> 0:30:36.440
<v Speaker 1>But they just like keep just like keep going.

0:30:36.800 --> 0:30:39.200
<v Speaker 2>Well, and in this case, it's like she thinks that

0:30:39.240 --> 0:30:42.880
<v Speaker 2>she's going to get interrupted any second, and then she's like, yeah, yeah, fuck,

0:30:42.920 --> 0:30:45.960
<v Speaker 2>why am I still going? Like yeah, and probably like

0:30:46.240 --> 0:30:48.920
<v Speaker 2>slowly becoming aware that talking to the cop might not

0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:49.800
<v Speaker 2>have been the right move.

0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:56.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, this was this was perhaps a mistake. Yeah, ah, yeah,

0:30:56.480 --> 0:31:01.840
<v Speaker 1>that was that was quite fun. The uh, the rat

0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:04.120
<v Speaker 1>person kind of terrifies me, but that's fine.

0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:10.360
<v Speaker 2>Well, if you want to hear Jamie Loftis play a

0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:14.880
<v Speaker 2>rat King character Jamie loftis is on If you search

0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:18.520
<v Speaker 2>for number City on YouTube, you'll find an example play

0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:22.280
<v Speaker 2>of an adventure where one of the other co writers

0:31:22.280 --> 0:31:25.160
<v Speaker 2>of the game inman runs a game for us. And

0:31:25.280 --> 0:31:27.360
<v Speaker 2>I actually don't even remember what my character is, but

0:31:27.400 --> 0:31:29.320
<v Speaker 2>I remember that Jamie's character is a rat king.

0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:33.840
<v Speaker 1>I do remember a while ago Jamie getting really into

0:31:33.880 --> 0:31:38.000
<v Speaker 1>the rat king. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a

0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:39.520
<v Speaker 1>that's a solid Jamie character.

0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:40.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:42.320
<v Speaker 1>Malice is interesting to me as well.

0:31:43.600 --> 0:31:49.120
<v Speaker 2>I malice is I've used that name for characters before.

0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:51.800
<v Speaker 2>I played an Orc labor thug and a Dungeons and

0:31:51.880 --> 0:31:54.840
<v Speaker 2>Dragons campaign where I like ran around with a mall

0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:59.080
<v Speaker 2>and tried to convince people to join industrial unionism, much

0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:01.360
<v Speaker 2>to the rest of no one else who was playing

0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:03.360
<v Speaker 2>that campaign with me was trying to make it about

0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:07.120
<v Speaker 2>a destroy union. What the fuck are you doing? We're

0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:09.760
<v Speaker 2>trying to play a game. Yeah, I'm like, why are

0:32:09.800 --> 0:32:16.560
<v Speaker 2>you like this? Yeah, it's more fun this way, but

0:32:16.800 --> 0:32:20.120
<v Speaker 2>uh yeah.

0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:21.680
<v Speaker 1>All of all of the dog girl names were way

0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:25.240
<v Speaker 1>way more pretty than most of the dog girls I

0:32:25.320 --> 0:32:28.520
<v Speaker 1>have met, And it's like, what was it was like

0:32:28.560 --> 0:32:32.680
<v Speaker 1>it was like like Petunia or something. What was carburetor

0:32:32.760 --> 0:32:38.760
<v Speaker 1>is the least carburetor makes sense? Yeah, tracks wrench is okay?

0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:39.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:32:40.240 --> 0:32:44.200
<v Speaker 1>The third one specifically was was much much Patunia, much

0:32:44.240 --> 0:32:48.240
<v Speaker 1>too pretty for yeah, for a dog girl. In my experience,

0:32:48.280 --> 0:32:53.720
<v Speaker 1>that's fine. As a dog girl appreciator, that is that,

0:32:53.800 --> 0:32:54.280
<v Speaker 1>it's fine.

0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:57.280
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So, so dog girls are different than you're probably

0:32:57.320 --> 0:32:59.160
<v Speaker 2>perceiving dog girls. It's not a fir.

0:32:59.520 --> 0:33:02.640
<v Speaker 1>No no no by your version of dog girls is

0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:07.200
<v Speaker 1>pretty spot on. Actually, okay, okay, in this case, they're

0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:10.840
<v Speaker 1>squad or bikers. Yeah yeah, no, yep, yeah yeah, all right,

0:33:10.880 --> 0:33:12.320
<v Speaker 1>you got it, you got it, all right, all right.

0:33:15.880 --> 0:33:19.280
<v Speaker 1>Most of the anarchist dog girls I have I have met.

0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:26.080
<v Speaker 2>Yes, fair enough. I don't even remember where that name

0:33:26.200 --> 0:33:29.760
<v Speaker 2>comes from, like, because there was some of these characters

0:33:29.800 --> 0:33:32.880
<v Speaker 2>have existed as concepts for like ten years before I

0:33:33.120 --> 0:33:35.959
<v Speaker 2>started writing it as a role playing game, you know,

0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:38.440
<v Speaker 2>and I was like writing these like different gangs in

0:33:38.480 --> 0:33:40.080
<v Speaker 2>this city, and it was just going to be this

0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:43.280
<v Speaker 2>novel I was like plotting out. And so it's funny

0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:45.800
<v Speaker 2>because some of the styles of characters I remember where

0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:47.760
<v Speaker 2>they came from. Not all of them were by me.

0:33:47.880 --> 0:33:50.120
<v Speaker 2>The world soon became a much more open thing with

0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:54.480
<v Speaker 2>other designers, but dog Girl was one of the original characters,

0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:57.240
<v Speaker 2>and I just like, don't I have no fucking clue

0:33:57.240 --> 0:33:58.360
<v Speaker 2>where I came up with that name.

0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:02.600
<v Speaker 1>I've never heard of Diesel Pug before, but I like

0:34:03.240 --> 0:34:03.760
<v Speaker 1>the idea.

0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:08.640
<v Speaker 2>Well, so I started writing this. My deepest, darkest secret

0:34:08.719 --> 0:34:11.200
<v Speaker 2>is that I used to run a magazine called Steampunk Magazine.

0:34:11.360 --> 0:34:14.360
<v Speaker 2>Oh oh, And when I first started writing this, it

0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:16.319
<v Speaker 2>was kind of my like fuck you to steampunk. It

0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:18.919
<v Speaker 2>was my like, this could have been a beautiful, weird

0:34:18.960 --> 0:34:22.360
<v Speaker 2>anti colonial thing, like with fiction set during a really

0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:25.920
<v Speaker 2>interesting time period where capitalism and the distrialization were really

0:34:26.400 --> 0:34:28.279
<v Speaker 2>doing their thing, you know, to.

0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:32.399
<v Speaker 1>The people with top hats and mice inside pulling gears levers.

0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:35.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly. It was like, instead, one of the most obnoxious.

0:34:36.200 --> 0:34:39.839
<v Speaker 2>There's many, many wonderful people that I met through that subculture,

0:34:40.120 --> 0:34:43.880
<v Speaker 2>but like it, it didn't go in ways that I

0:34:44.000 --> 0:34:47.319
<v Speaker 2>found interesting, and so I actually started writing it as

0:34:47.360 --> 0:34:51.719
<v Speaker 2>this kind of like steampunk world. And then this publisher

0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:53.800
<v Speaker 2>reached out to me and was like, hey, do you

0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:55.680
<v Speaker 2>want to write a role playing game world that I've

0:34:55.719 --> 0:34:57.800
<v Speaker 2>been writing the mechanics for, And I was like, yeah, totally.

0:34:57.840 --> 0:34:59.719
<v Speaker 2>And so he hired me to write this world. And

0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:01.320
<v Speaker 2>he was like, I want to write a steampunk world.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was like, can it be a fuck you

0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:04.279
<v Speaker 2>to steampunk world? Can it be a this is what

0:35:04.280 --> 0:35:07.960
<v Speaker 2>it should have been world? And he was like, yeah, okay, fine,

0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:10.520
<v Speaker 2>And so this was my like fuck you, I quit.

0:35:10.640 --> 0:35:12.360
<v Speaker 2>This is what it should have been that I started

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<v Speaker 2>in like twenty twelve or something like that. Okay, And

0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:23.719
<v Speaker 2>then and then that publisher just literally disappeared, just like

0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:26.239
<v Speaker 2>they had a successful kickstarter for some other game and

0:35:26.280 --> 0:35:27.959
<v Speaker 2>then never finished that game and then.

0:35:27.880 --> 0:35:29.880
<v Speaker 1>Disappeared many such cases.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and so then I was just left with this

0:35:31.640 --> 0:35:33.600
<v Speaker 2>orphan world without a role playing game system. And then

0:35:33.640 --> 0:35:37.279
<v Speaker 2>eventually I brought on some other people or some of

0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:40.640
<v Speaker 2>my friends offered to help me basically, and started making

0:35:40.640 --> 0:35:42.239
<v Speaker 2>it this new thing. And then I was like, I

0:35:42.239 --> 0:35:45.239
<v Speaker 2>have no allegiance to setting this in the equivalent of

0:35:45.239 --> 0:35:47.239
<v Speaker 2>the early nineteenth century, And so now it has more

0:35:47.280 --> 0:35:49.279
<v Speaker 2>of like the diesel punk vibe, is more of like

0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:51.680
<v Speaker 2>World War One vibe in a lot of ways.

0:35:51.760 --> 0:35:54.320
<v Speaker 1>I think some of it also feels like a world

0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:58.239
<v Speaker 1>that we could slide into. Yeah, Like it's not even

0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:01.200
<v Speaker 1>just a past thing. It's like, what if our world

0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:04.200
<v Speaker 1>goes through a sort of collapse, but people still use diesel,

0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:07.360
<v Speaker 1>but now diesel's like the OA, like most other technology

0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:11.680
<v Speaker 1>has now become not like functioning, Yeah, but the diesel

0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:14.280
<v Speaker 1>has remained like that is kind of also what it

0:36:14.320 --> 0:36:16.320
<v Speaker 1>reminded me as it's like it's like we're like sliding

0:36:16.360 --> 0:36:16.919
<v Speaker 1>back in time.

0:36:17.080 --> 0:36:21.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, although but in this particular world, they actually still

0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:24.200
<v Speaker 2>use steam boilers and not diesel engines, but the vibe

0:36:24.239 --> 0:36:28.200
<v Speaker 2>is more diesel punk. Okay, okay, there's like radio and electricity,

0:36:28.280 --> 0:36:32.279
<v Speaker 2>but they haven't figured out the diesel engine. Interesting because

0:36:32.320 --> 0:36:36.240
<v Speaker 2>most places actually use magic more than technology anyway, because

0:36:36.719 --> 0:36:39.239
<v Speaker 2>you can enslave angels in this world, you.

0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:40.960
<v Speaker 1>Know, many many such cases.

0:36:41.000 --> 0:36:41.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:36:42.040 --> 0:36:45.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they'll send you on a little treasure hunt. Yeah,

0:36:45.680 --> 0:36:48.680
<v Speaker 1>that's a that's a that's a little John d joke. Well,

0:36:49.000 --> 0:36:51.319
<v Speaker 1>I did like the ether. That was that was fun.

0:36:52.040 --> 0:36:56.760
<v Speaker 1>That was fun. The demon I felt was probably appropriately grotesque.

0:36:57.920 --> 0:37:01.239
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's some I can't remember the name of the

0:37:01.280 --> 0:37:04.040
<v Speaker 2>word for that particular demon, a stole us. I think

0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:08.320
<v Speaker 2>that the people who wrote up the demons had a

0:37:08.360 --> 0:37:12.840
<v Speaker 2>lot of fun with them. I bet, I bet well

0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:15.880
<v Speaker 2>that does it for book club this week. If you

0:37:16.280 --> 0:37:21.840
<v Speaker 2>liked the number City, you can get it. There's a

0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:25.080
<v Speaker 2>print book and an ebook, and we finally started mailing

0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:26.840
<v Speaker 2>it out to the backers. It's back from the printer

0:37:26.960 --> 0:37:29.520
<v Speaker 2>and it's off in the mail towards people. If you

0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:32.719
<v Speaker 2>backed it last summer, thank you very much, and your

0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:34.560
<v Speaker 2>book will be in the mail shortly if it is

0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:38.320
<v Speaker 2>not already, and you can order it through Tangled Wilderness.

0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:41.399
<v Speaker 2>Strangers in Entangled Wilderness is a publishing collective that I'm

0:37:41.400 --> 0:37:44.640
<v Speaker 2>part of, and eventually it'll be available through other distributors

0:37:44.680 --> 0:37:48.560
<v Speaker 2>and stuff. But we are We're used to printing and

0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:53.160
<v Speaker 2>distributing books. But every every creative feel has entirely different

0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:56.600
<v Speaker 2>distribution systems. And like, if you want to make a

0:37:56.600 --> 0:37:58.960
<v Speaker 2>board game, you're dealing with an entirely different world than

0:37:58.960 --> 0:38:00.759
<v Speaker 2>if you make a tabletop role playing game. Then if

0:38:00.760 --> 0:38:04.239
<v Speaker 2>you make a legally distinct from chooser and adventure book,

0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:06.840
<v Speaker 2>then if you, huh, it's very annoying.

0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:09.319
<v Speaker 1>Yeah that sounds that sounds complicated.

0:38:09.440 --> 0:38:13.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, But and if you but once.

0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:15.359
<v Speaker 1>There's a novella on the way, there is.

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<v Speaker 2>I have no idea what's going to be about you.

0:38:16.640 --> 0:38:17.920
<v Speaker 2>I have some idea of what it's going to be

0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:21.600
<v Speaker 2>about yet but not totally. Might might be these characters,

0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:24.239
<v Speaker 2>might be other ones. I might write something that's just

0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:29.680
<v Speaker 2>like weird, sad nineteenth century nihilist literature, but said in

0:38:29.719 --> 0:38:31.680
<v Speaker 2>this world without like much in the way.

0:38:31.560 --> 0:38:35.360
<v Speaker 1>Of an adventure at all. I mean, nineteenth century nihilist

0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:39.240
<v Speaker 1>literature is very different than modern nihlist literature. Yes, okay,

0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:42.879
<v Speaker 1>So like you mean actually nineteenth century nihlist literacy. Yeah yeah,

0:38:42.920 --> 0:38:45.360
<v Speaker 1>like like Russian, like like Russian nihlist literature.

0:38:45.400 --> 0:38:50.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, like basically social democrats, social democrats, yeah, yes,

0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:56.719
<v Speaker 2>a fascinating politics. Yeah. The eighteen sixties when people, when

0:38:56.760 --> 0:39:00.120
<v Speaker 2>boys with log hair, wanted to overthrow society much like

0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:01.160
<v Speaker 2>the nineteen sixties.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I certainly look forward to that.

0:39:06.800 --> 0:39:12.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Oh shit, now I might be stuck with that. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>if you want to hear more of Gear, you can

0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:16.840
<v Speaker 2>hear Gear on It could happen here, which might be

0:39:16.880 --> 0:39:19.560
<v Speaker 2>where you're listening to this anyway. And if you want

0:39:19.560 --> 0:39:22.200
<v Speaker 2>to hear more of me, you can hear me on whatever.

0:39:22.280 --> 0:39:25.080
<v Speaker 2>My cool Zone media show is called Cool People.

0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:26.840
<v Speaker 1>With People Stuff Who did Cool Stuff?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, in which I talk about the nihilist from

0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:33.400
<v Speaker 2>the eighteen sixties and one of the first episodes. You

0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:36.680
<v Speaker 2>can go back in this spice and we'll see you

0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:39.400
<v Speaker 2>all next week. And in the meantime, I don't have

0:39:39.440 --> 0:39:40.759
<v Speaker 2>a catchphrase to sign off with.

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<v Speaker 1>Bye, don't talk to cops, Watch out for the Ether.

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