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As if the Macrispy couldn't get any

0:02

better, bacon and ranch

0:05

just entered the chat, the

0:07

bacon ranch Macrispy. Available

0:09

at participating in the polls for a limited

0:11

time.

0:20

Nathan, are you a camper? Oh, gosh. I've

0:22

never been camping before. What do you want?

0:24

I need to go

0:26

across as they say.

0:29

I I gotta I'm just like, I just wanna get

0:31

out for a couple days --

0:32

Mhmm. -- and

0:32

I'm like, trying to figure out You

0:34

guys want a

0:34

cake? Oh, okay. Yeah. Absolutely.

0:36

I I've been I've been munching on macarons instead

0:39

of having macarons.

0:41

Oh, man.

0:41

Oh, no. You have cake. So my

0:43

y'all complain about this.

0:45

This is great this is great cake. Y'all are missing out.

0:47

I'm not I didn't I don't I didn't

0:49

elect to miss out. This was done

0:52

to me.

1:52

So daunting. Daunting is

1:54

four. Yeah. So there are there are two

1:56

yellows in the mix.

1:58

Yeah. So it's one green, two yellows right

2:01

now. Nodos did wake up.

2:03

You could commit nodos to this role that

2:05

does put nodos

2:07

at a

2:07

higher risk to being rolled than the death

2:09

church

2:10

if you fail. Got, like, three points. Right?

2:12

I will not reveal. I think that's one of the most

2:14

fun things. I think I revealed the death chart to you

2:16

178, and I know nobody remembers

2:18

anything except for specify

2:21

where

2:21

are your notes now, Nathan.

2:23

Mhmm. Would that be

2:25

another yellow? That's another yellow

2:27

and remove the green. Alright.

2:35

Oh, wow. What a roll. Why is

2:37

what a roll? This is a lot of threats.

2:39

This is a lot of threats. That

2:42

is

2:44

four successes and four threats. Holy

2:47

shit. Holy shit. This

2:50

rag tag crew, while

2:53

toku and jerk off Jerry's

2:55

struggle to get

2:57

people out of vines and wake

3:00

them up and then communicate to

3:02

their, like, rattled comrades, like, hey, we're

3:04

under attack. We've gotta move right now.

3:06

You gotta move. Season.

3:07

Mhmm. Mhmm. Like,

3:10

Jane is fighting animals

3:13

for her life. Like, there's fucking

3:15

Panthers. I'm trying to think of, like, other

3:17

forest creatures. There are obviously wolves.

3:19

There are, as we have established, very

3:22

big Anaconda style snakes.

3:26

I think Carlos, I

3:28

kind of picture you know,

3:30

I I love that sort of

3:32

stretch of the nineties where there were just

3:34

all of these movies about, like, different

3:37

killer animals. Mhmm. And I remember

3:39

one being about ants, like killer

3:41

ants. No. So I feel like Carlos

3:43

has to, like, use fire to protect

3:45

the ship from, like, oh, swarms

3:48

of ants that, like, could skeletonize anything

3:50

beneath them or whatever. Fine. Yeah.

3:54

So there is this tremendous battle

3:57

and despite it being very taxing

3:59

and difficult, you do

4:01

manage to wake up a portion

4:03

of the crew enough to like start batning

4:06

down hatches and and securing different

4:08

areas. I think also

4:11

very importantly, people

4:13

are able to scramble to

4:16

wake up the griffins and

4:18

get them in the air. So

4:21

you have Lucas a

4:24

blood crazed hungering monster

4:27

where a situation where he can kind of eat

4:29

everything within reach. Exactly

4:31

his speed. Mhmm. You've

4:34

got a flea who,

4:36

you know, is extremely loyal,

4:38

wonderful bird And also, like,

4:41

Albatron have, like, a little bit of skull in

4:43

them. So, like, eating trash, I feel like they're

4:45

gonna be pretty familiar. And you've got Meditron

4:47

who's a real fighter and a warbird. The

4:49

unfortunate thing we do know that when MediTron

4:51

wakes

4:52

up, MediTron kind of senses cable is in trouble

4:54

and I must go help cable. Mhmm. So

4:57

I love

4:57

the idea. Like, like, open the cages

4:59

and all of the -- Yeah. -- the tubers start fighting

5:01

in the metatrond. Yeah. Oh, metatrond. Wait.

5:03

Wait. No. No. Correct. Come back, Mediterranean.

5:06

Where you go? Yeah. Over

5:09

his car. Alright.

5:12

But yeah, the uhuru starts mounting the defense,

5:14

which think brings us to

5:17

Carlos. Carlos, you

5:20

are, you know, creating this defensive

5:22

perimeter around the uhuru. But

5:24

you also know this

5:26

ship needs to get in the air Mhmm. --

5:29

the longer you are on the forest

5:31

for the greater the number

5:33

of enemies that can, like, come

5:36

to mess with you. Mhmm. And the

5:38

issue that you have is

5:40

the ship is overgrown with the vines

5:42

right now. Mhmm. Like, vines

5:44

are gonna need to be hacked away, which is gonna

5:46

require more of the crew

5:48

or more of the crew who are able to

5:50

pay attention to a

5:53

difficult challenge like that. Or

5:56

you're going to need enough fuel in the

5:58

furnaces that the uhuru can pull

6:00

itself up and break free of the

6:02

overgrowth that's holding it down. So

6:05

Nathan, what's what's the plan that

6:07

you've got here? Okay.

6:09

I I think the the sensible plan

6:11

is for for callers to go to the furnace and

6:13

go and check that that's all operational 178 be

6:16

started

6:16

up. But I really like the idea

6:19

of them calling for

6:22

Somebody throw down my bottles.

6:26

And as people start throwing like Alchemical

6:29

like flasks down, which

6:31

they then catch, and just

6:33

in arcing sprays of noxious

6:36

color, spatter

6:39

overvines burning them through

6:41

to try and free free

6:43

the ship that way rather than using knives

6:46

or

6:46

blades. To just kind of

6:48

like, yeah. Okay. So it sounds

6:50

like we've we've elected to go

6:52

the route of cutting the ship free.

6:55

I'm gonna make this a hard roll. I am gonna

6:57

give you two blue dice. Mhmm. So you've

6:59

got two green, one yellow,

7:01

and two blue against three purple. Mhmm.

7:04

To try and cut the

7:06

ship free. Let's go. And

7:09

I think for all of this, we're gonna do this failing

7:11

forward scenario where you you

7:13

know, you might succeed or fail, but, like,

7:15

the consequences

7:16

are so slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow. Pretty sick.

7:19

We have just single success.

7:22

Okay.

7:23

Hey, you know, I will take

7:25

it. Mhmm. That that means

7:27

probably fewer complaints that get sent

7:29

in. As fewer people die.

7:32

Mhmm. So Very

7:34

good. Nathan, please describe to us like the

7:36

alchemical

7:37

assault, like what it looks like.

7:39

Yeah. I think it's like a

7:42

process of like a bottle of

7:44

unusual color flies

7:46

out from a port hole. Carlos

7:49

catches it and kind of

7:51

like how one would use

7:56

like, if you were throwing salt to

7:58

try and expel a demon kind

8:00

of, like, motion of the arm, just

8:03

this arc of, like, fluorescent orange

8:06

lands across the spatter of vines

8:09

and then accurate smoke immediately

8:11

rises from that area as the vines

8:13

probably make a

8:15

Kind of playing. Yeah. It

8:18

does that cartoon thing where like the smoke

8:20

rises up in skol shape. There's

8:24

another kind of bottle comes down.

8:27

Splashes

8:28

over a different part. This one like

8:30

crystallizes and then crumbles into

8:32

dust. It's just a

8:34

mess of various very dangerous

8:36

chemicals being flung around down there. I

8:39

definitely want the crew members to

8:41

be seeing this and start dipping their weapons

8:43

in this in these

8:45

solutions. Oh, shit.

8:48

Oh, I love that. I love that.

8:50

Yeah. Tyler, for that idea, we're

8:52

we're gonna get blue dice on all of our

8:54

planned. For stuff from the crew,

8:57

absolutely adore that. I need one

8:59

more role from this motley groove

9:01

people to actually rise the uhuru

9:04

into the air. I know that Carlos is

9:06

leading it Is anyone else

9:08

assisting Carlos in

9:09

this? I think when when I

9:12

because I I initially imagined that

9:14

for Tokyo of, like,

9:16

once Once the the game plan

9:18

starts to shift where it's like we need to get

9:20

in the air and we're cutting vines,

9:23

I feel like that's when like Tokoo

9:25

can be seeing, like,

9:27

the the the the chemicals

9:29

being thrown and, like, 178,

9:33

he goes to throw he goes

9:35

to throw a bottle and then just,

9:37

like, observes it for a second. And then the

9:39

next time that we see Tokyo is with, like,

9:41

some, like, his

9:44

his nose, but they're like like like

9:46

they're they're purple. They're coated in like

9:48

a purple. Like like thick,

9:51

viscous liquid, and

9:53

there's, like, small, like,

9:55

they're, like, like, there's some kind of,

9:57

like, error about them

9:59

that it's like they're smoking with this purple

10:01

liquid and every cut just like

10:03

truly just like rips through a

10:05

vine. Excellent. I think we've

10:07

got Carlos working

10:09

on the furnaces, toku protecting their

10:11

back with with these knives.

10:14

So that's gonna be two yellow, one

10:17

green,

10:18

to bring the hulu into

10:21

the air. To yellow and green most difficultly.

10:24

Difficulty? I'm gonna make it hard

10:26

one last time. Cool. If

10:27

you're okay with me drowning it, Tyler.

10:29

Do it. Cool. That

10:34

is Disadvantages.

10:39

Two disadvantages. Okay. I

10:41

think that's so that's not a

10:43

success or a failure What

10:45

I'm gonna do is say it will be

10:47

count I'll count it as a success with a

10:49

role on the death chart. Mhmm. Yeah.

10:53

So the hooroo will rise into the air

10:55

because that's the narrative requirement that we have of

10:57

this moment. However, I

11:00

roll a forty seven

11:04

Which is gonna be tofu.

11:07

Oh. Let's look

11:09

at how many hit points

11:10

tofu has. I'm gonna say want

11:13

to. wanna say what? What or two?

11:15

Tokyo's a Tokyo's little guy. Uh-huh.

11:18

Tokyo gets hit

11:20

but does not die today. Yeah. Okay.

11:22

There are still hit points left in the tank.

11:25

But Tyler, please describe for

11:26

me, toku, taking this

11:29

hit.

11:29

I think that Snake bites a

11:30

dick. And

11:34

it's solid

11:34

snake from the middle of your bites. That snake's

11:37

dick.

11:37

Alright? There we go.

11:39

Taking a bite. That's a little bit more of boros. Right.

11:42

Snake's fucking its own dick. Yes.

11:46

I think there's, like, a

11:49

it feels like a like a large

11:52

cat, like, bound in

11:54

and, like, like, pins toku.

11:57

And I think it's, like, a, like, a struggle,

11:59

struggle, struggle, and eventually, like, he

12:02

does manage to, like, take

12:04

the cat out and, like, stab it while it's, like,

12:06

on him, got him pinned. But

12:08

I think that he definitely has,

12:10

like, like, his left

12:13

arm is out of commission just

12:15

taking, like, a heavy, like,

12:18

scratch there. And

12:20

so he kind of rolls it off

12:23

and that's kind of like the he

12:25

wasn't able to to protect or

12:27

or get Carlos back in that moment. And

12:30

he's kind of like scarred up on his left

12:31

side. But that was all

12:34

the cover that Carlos needs. The

12:37

furnaces of the uhuru have been

12:39

cleared of debris have been

12:41

filled with fuel, and

12:44

Carlos has just enough of

12:46

their alchemical wondrous

12:49

like concoctions to

12:51

bring the furnaces of the Ahuru

12:54

to life. They take to

12:56

fly name and, you know,

12:58

heat and smoke rushes up

13:01

through the stacks, hits the canopy,

13:03

and the feather weave of the hulu

13:06

clothes to life with that

13:08

eerie blood red. And

13:11

the ship starts to rise

13:13

into the air. I

13:22

think we open on

13:24

the newly living body

13:26

of Orramar Bay running

13:30

through the as soon as Johnny

13:32

transformed in the previous recording,

13:35

Nathan, I was like, Oh god.

13:37

That's the only thing that this

13:39

can mean because he gets reborn every time

13:42

that he transforms the consequences. The

13:44

consequences. So, yeah,

13:47

you're huffing and puffing a

13:49

little bit. You know, there's something I

13:51

I think there's something about being able to push a

13:53

body like a thing that is not

13:56

alive -- Mhmm. -- that you

13:58

get used to a little bit -- Mhmm. -- and

14:00

now you are like this is a lot

14:02

ground to

14:03

cover. I

14:05

would like an athletics check

14:07

from you.

14:08

So is this the

14:09

captain's athletic? Yes. So

14:12

I believe

14:12

that is gonna be I can summon

14:14

that fee. Oh, awesome.

14:17

I I have Okay. Or Marvell

14:19

sucks. Here we go. Athletix

14:24

is oh, pretty good.

14:30

What's the difficulty doing? Difficulty

14:33

on this is gonna be yeah.

14:35

Let's call it

14:36

hard. And would

14:38

I get I I

14:40

think I should get either a blue or

14:42

a black for being alive now and the body

14:44

being different, but I don't know which one. I

14:48

feel like it would be a black dog.

14:55

Because as as we've revealed the shelf,

14:57

it's easier to beat that.

15:01

In many ways.

15:02

In a certain age,

15:03

real life too. Mhmm. You know? Mhmm. Okay.

15:07

That is one success and

15:09

three two advantages. Better

15:12

to be alive. No. Better to be alive,

15:14

easier to be done. Mhmm. You decide. So

15:19

I think with a success and three advantages,

15:22

two advantages. I mean,

15:24

this this approaches the point where, like,

15:26

in designing my own system, I'm, like,

15:28

one advantage, two advantages. What's

15:30

what's the difference? 178,

15:33

Which is barely anything at all. So

15:37

we see you

15:39

pushing through the wood.

15:41

And again, huffing and puffing

15:43

sweating as you are trying

15:45

to move as quickly as possible. But because

15:48

you know, that the queen

15:50

will know that the panacea fruit

15:53

is picked. We see

15:56

Ormar like like Ormer's body

15:58

moving. And the thing is,

16:00

it wants to give up,

16:02

it wants to stop and rest.

16:05

Anytime somebody is in the middle of physical

16:07

activity, there is part of the

16:09

body that screams for

16:12

it to stop. And the only

16:14

thing that keeps it going is

16:17

the will to move forward.

16:19

Travis, when he spoke to Dref

16:22

earlier, was challenged to

16:24

tell Dref what keeps

16:27

him alive, what makes

16:29

him want to cling to that will

16:31

to live, and that

16:33

thing can keep a ghost tied

16:35

to a body, but it

16:38

can also help someone who is inside

16:40

a living body achieve incredible

16:43

things. And that's exactly

16:45

what it's doing right now. Travis,

16:48

what are you thinking of as

16:50

you run? I think I'm thinking of two

16:52

things. Two to three

16:55

things. Mhmm. I'm thinking of

16:57

the last time I've

16:59

run away from the farce Queen's

17:02

sort of kingdom, whatever,

17:05

I'm thinking of saving gable and

17:09

you

17:09

know, I'm thinking maybe captain should

17:11

pick up some cardio.

17:16

Regardless, you

17:19

break through and they feel like there's this great

17:22

doubled images like we keep cutting between

17:24

the time Travis ran to escape the forest.

17:26

And as he has run now in Orimar's

17:29

body like flashing back and forth? Do

17:31

you break through a tree line, break through,

17:33

in fact, the very tree line of

17:35

the blade where you fought the morning

17:37

star side by side with gable and

17:40

swooping from the air to pick

17:42

you up is Meditron.

17:45

My man grabbing your coat

17:47

in its talons and

17:49

bringing you up into the sky Furtenand,

17:53

I believe, swoops beneath you,

17:55

allowing you to drop onto this bird's

17:57

back, and

18:00

you've got it. You've got the

18:02

fruit like clutched in your

18:04

arms as you are on your

18:06

bird moving as quickly as

18:08

possible towards the uhuru. And

18:12

I want to cut to

18:15

the captain and join

18:17

it and hit. Coming

18:22

to the ship. At this point, the

18:24

ship is in the air.

18:26

It hasn't quite broken free

18:28

of the canopy of the forest, and we can

18:30

see that is because the branches

18:33

above have started to grow

18:35

together, creating a lattice

18:37

work that is trying to trap

18:40

the ship. We can see it growing this

18:42

lattice growing across the top deck

18:44

of the ship, in fact. So the

18:46

balloon is above, breaking just above

18:49

the tree line, while the ship itself

18:51

is being weighed down by these

18:53

massive trees. More

18:55

and more of the Uhuru crew

18:57

is starting to wake up. And

19:00

like try and cut free of these branches

19:02

just in time for the

19:05

captain in Travis's body to

19:07

return to his ship.

19:09

So are we just seeing the

19:12

the top canopy of the of the ship?

19:14

Or

19:15

Yeah. You'd be seeing the bottom of the shipping because,

19:17

like, you run over to that area. So you can, like,

19:19

see the whole of the shipping. You can probably see the canopy

19:22

above. But, like, that canopy was what was

19:24

guiding you to this place. It's

19:26

me. It looks like the

19:29

crew has managed to round themselves. Thank goodness.

19:31

And that that's that a Hulu

19:34

crew, baby. And so, John, like

19:36

he's like tapping like punching the cap

19:38

that in the shoulder as he's like running

19:41

Oh, yeah. I think as we are as we are sprinting

19:43

towards we kind of, like, give

19:45

daps without actually looking at each

19:47

other as we run that thing. Yes.

19:50

Mhmm. Hey,

20:09

heroes. It's James, your game master,

20:11

and welcome to the mid roll. Heroes,

20:13

I hope you are enjoying this arc.

20:15

I know it's intense. We're

20:18

at the second to last episode of the arc now,

20:20

so I do hate to tell you it is

20:22

gonna stay intense, but

20:24

I promise it's gonna be intense.

20:26

But y'all have a lot to look forward to coming

20:28

up. Next week, we have our finale of this

20:31

arc. The following week, we will take a

20:33

week off, then we'll do our

20:35

usual post arc debrief. And

20:37

then should everything go according

20:39

to plan, we will be premiering a new

20:42

Skyjacks series on this

20:44

feed. That series will eventually have its

20:46

own feed, but we're starting it here to

20:48

give ourselves a break. That series is

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called It's a sports anime

20:52

inspired series about adolescent athletes

20:55

in the fledgling leagues of the jousting

20:57

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20:59

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21:01

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21:03

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21:05

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21:08

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21:10

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21:15

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And the mechanics of that system will determine

21:22

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21:24

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21:27

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21:29

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21:31

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21:34

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21:37

And of course, it does tie into the

21:39

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21:41

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21:45

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21:47

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21:50

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21:52

While we're talking about exciting news, I 178 to remind

21:54

everyone that myself along with Jeff and

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22:00

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23:16

we are as we are sprinting towards,

23:18

we kind of like give dips without

23:20

actually looking back each other as we

23:22

run

23:23

that thing. Yes. Mhmm.

23:25

And I think with that, Janet

23:27

is going to hang on. Let me pull this

23:29

up. John, I don't know if it's the

23:32

the hit rate on this thing is spotty

23:34

at best, but John's gonna do the thing where

23:36

the earth is going to launch him forward

23:39

and into the fray at the

23:41

I think, John, it wants to, like, try

23:43

to, like, get on

23:46

the canopy to, like,

23:49

try and, like, start cutting it free.

23:51

Mhmm. Yeah. This is gonna

23:53

be a hard roll but

23:55

I I kind of I I

23:58

feel like I understand what it

24:00

looks like. Okay.

24:03

I think this is an athletics check or

24:05

coordination check is what it feels

24:07

like. Mhmm. Boom. Sorry,

24:10

Nathan. I gotta turn it off of the

24:12

captain for a

24:13

second. We get good.

24:15

Great. I I have mine this PDF. So

24:17

Great. What are you what

24:20

am I rolling against?

24:22

Yeah. This is gonna be hard for sure. Okay.

24:24

Boom. Boom. And then a bam.

24:27

Bap. Okay. That is two

24:29

successes and one threat. Two

24:32

successes and one threat. Okay.

24:35

This is what happens. Mhmm. I

24:37

think Johnnett is

24:39

able to get the earth to, like,

24:41

rocket him up. But

24:45

it is not high enough

24:47

to just get put directly onto

24:50

the

24:50

ship. Yeah. I think you've got to take your Kussari

24:52

gama -- Mhmm. --

24:53

fling it and catch it so that

24:55

you can swing onto the ship.

24:58

Like

24:59

So so it's like a launch up,

25:01

Kasari Gama, like, I feel like if

25:03

there's vines on it, there are

25:05

probably, like, trees that the vines

25:07

are Yeah. And so he's just going to,

25:09

like, latch onto that and then

25:12

swing in that way.

25:14

Mhmm. And so he probably, like,

25:16

lands, you know, eighty percent

25:18

of the way up there and then

25:19

just, like, kind of, like, he gets up there. He's

25:21

climbing the way rest of the way. Yeah. Yeah. To

25:23

to to maybe help people envision

25:26

what's going on. You've got about

25:28

part of the hoover. Right? And there's

25:30

a balloon canopy above it.

25:32

Mhmm. And, like, it's held together with, like,

25:34

ropes -- Yeah. -- shames and whatnot.

25:36

But growing between those is this latins

25:39

trying to prevent the

25:41

ship from getting up and leaving. So

25:44

think as you land on the top

25:46

deck, First of all,

25:48

you see a lot of animals around.

25:51

We're talking, 178 bears,

25:53

Omaha. Mhmm. We're

25:55

we're talking snake of different

25:58

kinds. Aggressive birds.

26:00

Aggressive forest birds. There

26:03

are there's a veritable

26:05

zoo up here a fighting zoom,

26:08

if you will, that everybody is

26:10

battling against. At the same time,

26:12

you've got crew members that have axes and

26:14

saws and other implements that are

26:17

trying to hack up as many of these vines and and branches

26:19

as possible to free the ship. This

26:21

is a wild melee. I

26:24

think like you swing in land

26:26

on the deck. Nodos

26:29

is there to meet you. There's like a

26:31

moment like you you roll up and you're

26:33

standing back to back with

26:34

Nodos. Donna Kessler. No

26:37

dose what? What is your last

26:39

name? It's Amoninim. No

26:41

dose Amoninim. No. Right.

26:44

Well, Second,

26:52

Oh my god. And and

26:55

he does

26:55

the thing. I still

26:57

do it. Got it. Got

26:59

it.

27:01

I trust you were not alone. No.

27:04

I brought the biggest backup weekend

27:06

get and then he points back to

27:08

the captain and then and

27:11

also and and then he

27:13

does does a wider gesture around

27:16

where he's pointing for the captain for hip as well.

27:19

I see your friend, hippest there and

27:22

Oh, TravisMatagou, how wonderful.

27:25

Well, it's

27:26

it. Yeah.

27:27

Well, talk later. Maticoahoy. Mhmm.

27:30

And he he calls out there

27:32

is a callback from the crew

27:34

and there are people that throw lifelines

27:37

down to like roadbladders

27:39

and whatnot to allow people

27:42

to climb up. The problem is

27:44

some of these ropes are grabbed onto by

27:46

monkeys. Mhmm. So there are gonna be kind of

27:48

aggressive forest monkeys that are

27:50

climbing up the ship. Make the problem a little

27:53

bit

27:53

worse, but there is

27:55

a way for you to get onto the shift. Mhmm.

27:58

Yeah. I think Travis Matago,

28:01

oh, great, is standing

28:03

there and looks up with the

28:05

intent to, like,

28:07

put a ton of power in his legs

28:09

and launch up and then activate

28:12

the kind of like a feather

28:14

we've embroidered thread and then

28:16

remembers that that is not his body

28:19

right now and doesn't have access to either of

28:21

those things. There's

28:23

a moment of flailing and be like, oh god, what

28:25

do I do instead? And then the rope

28:28

start coming down, which

28:30

monkeys start climbing. And then

28:32

there's like a oh no you don't

28:34

or at the very

28:35

least. I'm sure I can climb faster than

28:37

you. Oh my god. My body sort as

28:42

he does his name -- Yes. -- make

28:44

an athletics role

28:47

Mhmm.

28:48

-- that this is sort of combined with

28:50

fighting monkeys. So you're

28:52

traveling in a galactic row. Yeah.

28:56

That sure is one green. Think

28:58

this Against

29:03

how much? I think this

29:05

is an average check,

29:07

so two black dies. But here's the thing.

29:10

There are two black dies as

29:12

well. Now, this could also

29:14

be occurs to me a coordination

29:16

role. I I feel like both athletics

29:18

and coordination are acceptable. So

29:21

if that's better, you My coordination

29:23

is sastoundingly best.

29:24

Okay. You can you can do

29:26

that. There are two black dice because

29:28

you are five sections of monkeys at the same time.

29:35

Uh-huh. Okay. We

29:37

have one advantage.

29:41

One failure and a triumph.

29:44

Okay. So meaning I

29:46

guess the failure and the triumph cancel

29:49

out in terms of successes. So

29:51

Oh, yeah. So that we're down to drawing luminary.

29:53

That's right. Okay. The river

29:59

Okay. Okay. So this is massive

30:02

risk, massive reward type

30:05

thing. You are

30:07

climbing

30:09

this rope and constantly like

30:11

because a bunch of different lifelines worth

30:13

thrown down. Mhmm.

30:15

There are monkeys climbing up all

30:18

over, and there are those that, like,

30:20

try to leap for you. And so every time

30:22

you clear the path ahead on

30:25

this rope ladder of a monkey, there

30:27

is another one that is, like, ready

30:29

to aggressively get you

30:31

I think you have the option

30:33

of either climbing up

30:35

towards the ship, more

30:39

doing something else that is riskier,

30:42

but would be a much larger

30:44

reward for the crew.

30:47

I think I claim

30:50

up the ship -- Mhmm. -- and monkey

30:52

after monkey starts kind

30:54

of grabbing onto me, weighing

30:57

me down and making the ascent slower.

31:00

And then when there's like four, monkeys

31:03

on TravisMathew goes back. Thank

31:05

you. He

31:11

cuts the rope that he's

31:13

holding and goes into

31:15

free fall grabbing then onto

31:17

one of the other ropes is the momentum kind

31:19

of yanks the rest of the things clinging

31:21

onto him off his

31:22

body. Yeah. Yeah. The and the hard

31:24

shake of, like, grabbing that rope,

31:27

like, shakes the monkeys off of your body.

31:30

Great. So then I think what

31:32

it the way I'm gonna rule this because it was neither

31:34

a success or failure, but definitely a

31:37

triumph. You have cleared all

31:39

of the monkeys off of your body. Mhmm. That's

31:41

what That's what that suggests to me,

31:43

but you still have not actually gotten

31:45

inside all the way to the top for sure.

31:47

Mhmm. I want

31:49

to cut to the air.

31:52

Now as Gable and Travis

31:54

are closing in on the

31:56

Uhuru, Travis,

32:03

at what point are you going to? Give

32:07

the fruit to

32:07

cable. I mean,

32:09

I think probably right away. Gotta be gotta be

32:11

in fight and shape.

32:12

Gotta get there. So, yeah,

32:15

I feel like there's

32:17

a sort of swirling pattern of

32:20

flight between Meditron

32:23

and Ferdinand as Travis,

32:25

like, immediately reentering

32:28

TravisMatagon mode kind of casualty

32:31

steps off of the back of his bird,

32:34

trusting that he'll be able to land

32:36

on the back of Meditron. Monstrous. And

32:39

there it is, like gable,

32:41

laid, splayed out across

32:43

the back of this red tailed

32:45

talk. Battered,

32:48

but also I believe if I remember

32:51

correctly the events of the last recording with

32:53

new feathers, like

32:56

on their body in person that were 178

32:58

from the forest

32:59

queen. Right?

33:01

If she's in

33:01

this That sounds familiar. Yeah.

33:05

Some I believe you Yes.

33:07

Yeah. So, like,

33:10

let's describe what Gable

33:12

looks like

33:13

juiced up on all these feathers, you

33:15

know? Oh,

33:17

an old juice up. I I think

33:19

it's just continuation of what

33:22

has already been

33:23

happening, like the hair their hair turning

33:25

more black and gold and

33:28

Like, more distinct from Travis's

33:30

More staying to

33:30

me. I was like, it's this bullshit

33:33

thing.

33:35

The tattoos, there were also sort of manifesting

33:37

black and gold tattoos become are more

33:39

defined and sort of running down

33:41

to their forearms as well. That's

33:44

sick. Gable is

33:47

laid there, splayed out like

33:51

beaten up and exhausted. Like,

33:53

this person was fried with

33:55

lightning. This person was hit

33:57

with a spear. This person

33:59

has been, you know, deep in combat

34:01

really from a couple

34:04

minutes after they woke up. Through

34:07

straight to now. have

34:10

sacrificed a lot for

34:12

you both to be here. And

34:15

you in turn risked a

34:17

lot to gather the fruit necessary

34:19

to bring them back

34:21

how do you give this

34:23

fruit to your friend? I

34:25

think Now, what

34:28

do we think is inside the fruit? In

34:30

my no. I haven't. In my head,

34:32

it kind of splits in half since

34:34

it's like, you know, it's like two halves.

34:37

Mhmm. That's what I I

34:39

guess, that'll be the what we

34:40

call, like, a half. Like, in audience,

34:42

you can picture a half. But,

34:45

like, it's it used to be one thing, and then you make

34:47

it two things that it's half. Yeah.

34:50

You've been doing bits the whole time. We get to do some

34:52

bits. I'd say, like, the one

34:55

one of the halves is about fifty percent of

34:57

the total

34:58

size. And then the other half is

35:00

probably also about fifty

35:01

percent of the total size.

35:02

Mhmm. Guys, wait, what?

35:04

That's what people come to Skyjacks big

35:06

178. And I think it's probably

35:09

like There's juice

35:10

in it. Juice is the easiest thing to

35:12

consume when you're not feeling good. So

35:14

this is like an orange style,

35:17

like, pulpy interior you

35:19

squeeze it juice comes

35:20

out. Oh. I in my head, it was maybe,

35:22

like, more like a coconut

35:25

almost, where it's, like, two halves

35:27

Oh. Two halves of the coconut.

35:29

And there's, like, milk inside.

35:31

Yeah. I don't know. I like, the

35:33

squeezing it is also kind of fun. There's

35:35

also pomegranate. Oh,

35:36

that has, like, oh,

35:38

I like that. Some

35:39

myriad seeds.

35:40

Yeah. I like the pomegranate. Yeah.

35:44

I I like the pomegranate too because I

35:46

like the idea of the seeds

35:48

being kind of very well defined

35:51

blood red seeds on the inside because

35:53

we described the exterior of this food

35:55

as black, so

35:57

that's fun. The black and red inside

35:59

is like spooky. Extremely spooky.

36:01

Yeah. Or is it better

36:04

for it to be yellow? Red

36:06

or

36:06

yellow. We've done a lot of blood red stuff recently.

36:08

Oh, yeah. Yellow's fun. Yeah. Yellow's fun. I think

36:10

it's it's like nice. One half is yellow.

36:13

One half is

36:13

shred. Mhmm. One makes you

36:15

one makes you bigger, one makes you smaller.

36:19

And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything

36:21

at all. Okay.

36:23

You've got this and are you just gonna

36:26

squeeze the juice into

36:27

I guess, yeah, into their mouth?

36:29

Yeah. So

36:32

there is like this kind

36:34

of tender scene of

36:36

Travis What do you say anything

36:39

to Gable as you wake them

36:40

up? Oh, you're

36:43

awake. Rise and shine?

36:47

Oh, this is poison. Gables

36:51

on a bird, so they just crash,

36:53

turn over, see the see

36:55

that the earth is laid out before them and

36:57

immediately start freaking the fuck

36:59

out. You've been on a bird like a million

37:01

times.

37:04

How does it taste?

37:05

I think really good. Really?

37:08

I was gonna say, like, shit. Yeah.

37:10

Okay. Okay. So this is the thing. Yeah.

37:13

I guess, Panacea is something that

37:15

cures, like, wounds and whatnot.

37:17

Like like, is supposed to be,

37:19

like, the idea of it is it can just

37:22

cure any illness or wound. Right?

37:24

So I guess it could taste like

37:26

medicine. This is a decision that I will

37:28

leave in your hands rather than

37:29

mine.

37:30

Yeah. I think gable just starts retching.

37:32

It's like the most medicinal. Okay.

37:34

Well, if you throw up, I don't know if it still

37:36

works.

37:43

So wait a minute. So fire

37:46

is a big dramatic a free

37:49

cable back into the fight is

37:51

cable has to, like, struggle

37:54

not to vomit. No. I

37:57

think it probably

37:58

does work if you do vomit, but

38:00

we don't we don't know that for shit.

38:02

Better say so sorry. Better say so sorry.

38:08

Okay. Okay. And I think the

38:10

first thing Gabel notices is, like,

38:12

they they grabbed at what is

38:14

Ormar's

38:15

shoulder and kind of feel like,

38:18

are you warm? Well,

38:22

you've been out for a while. But it

38:24

turns out that my power

38:26

sort of extend beyond my body. I

38:29

am, of course, a marvel

38:32

I've done what others couldn't. You're

38:34

welcome. And

38:36

now they're finally coming around to like, first

38:39

of all, they Scan Sky. Like, do we see anything

38:41

of the

38:42

Morningstar? Morningstar, you

38:44

can see as it is, like,

38:47

the sun is starting to

38:49

set. You can see, like,

38:51

the night sky rising up. The full

38:53

moon is already, like, sort of starting

38:56

to appear in the sky. And

38:58

the scant stars, like, Skytex

39:00

has, like, you know, around a dozen

39:02

stars, never committed to a specific number.

39:04

But you can see the Morning Star

39:07

kind of twinkling above. Mhmm.

39:10

But otherwise, like, You don't

39:12

see the being that is the Morningstar anywhere.

39:16

So Hell yeah. Now

39:18

that you're awake, Do you think the

39:20

captain's gonna be happy or

39:22

mad? I I about

39:25

what? don't know. Anything

39:27

about being alive catch up. Wait.

39:31

Where where'd Ferdinand come from?

39:33

Wait. Is that the Hulu? An egg? I don't

39:35

know. Oh

39:38

gosh.

39:39

Oh, gosh. Are

39:41

we fine?

39:42

Now, you're welcome.

39:44

Where'd you go? What'd you haven't? I had

39:46

to get a fruit. What? You

39:48

remember the gross thing that made you

39:50

throw up? Yes. Yeah. I got that and it saved you.

39:52

You're welcome. It wasn't poison. was lying. It

39:54

was the reverse poison. Good

39:57

poison? Yes. Okay.

39:59

Oh, alright. Let's

40:04

Do you think she's done with

40:06

us? No. No. Can

40:08

we go? We're we're in the

40:10

Skyjacks I think

40:12

the sky isn't the forest, so we're probably

40:14

okay. Probably. Yeah. Let's fucking

40:17

get out of dodge, man. Let's go.

40:19

Okay. So that's an interesting thing.

40:22

Are you leaving the

40:24

fight entirely?

40:26

Well,

40:27

do we we see the uhuru?

40:28

So, yes, the

40:29

uhuru. Yeah. They can't Yeah. They can't appeal. So

40:31

you do have a decision. Okay. So

40:33

the yeah. So the decision is Do you

40:35

leave and let the uhuru fight its own battle?

40:38

Or do you go

40:41

to rescue the huru with

40:43

the birds?

40:46

From what Gabel knows, I don't

40:49

I don't feel like there's any

40:51

way that the two of us get out without

40:53

the hulu. You're on the backs of

40:56

Ferdinand and Meditron conceivably,

40:58

you could just fucking bolt

41:01

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41:03

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41:05

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44:58

Listen. Oh, okay. Has

45:01

any Okay. Slama shut the fuck up. Slama shut

45:03

up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut

45:07

up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

45:11

I've

45:12

been noticing that you're being you're

45:14

looking a little blanky lately. So

45:17

I have But but blank

45:19

look. Yeah. I'd like a con.

45:22

Like oh, yeah.

45:24

You're you're up looking little thick. My arms

45:26

are jawed? Yeah. Yeah. They're a little

45:28

their little long, circuits are not as wrecked as

45:30

they normally

45:31

are. Are

45:31

you feeling Oh, wow. Are

45:33

you feeling yucky you haven't been getting the nutrients

45:36

that you need? And please remember

45:38

to shut the fuck

45:38

up. IIII

45:42

That sounds painful.

45:45

This boiler space for one volume. I

45:48

I could always use more nutrients.

45:50

Okay.

45:51

Alright. So Sounds like a mummy

45:54

speaking for the first thousand

45:56

years.

46:02

Gonna give you this this container for

46:04

some cut vitamin k twelve.

46:07

K

46:08

twelve. K

46:10

through twelve.

46:11

K through twelve. It's

46:14

it's all the vitamins that you need. All

46:16

the

46:16

precolleagues and vitamins blah. Hey,

46:19

slam. You need to shut the fuck up. Shut

46:21

the fuck

46:21

up. Alright. You know what? You told me to shut the

46:23

fuck up. I don't need you to move this product

46:26

to the fuck up next to you. And I

46:28

need you to bring home, like, six hundred

46:29

dollars. Okay. Six hundred bits.

46:32

Oh, god. You

46:33

should am I allowed to talk?

46:37

Wow. Goddamn. Shit

46:39

have a cup of head of these bed. Slam

46:43

rolls out of bed and stumbles

46:45

to the bunk next to him. Jurgof

46:47

Jerry. No. Jurgof Jerry Nothing. It

46:49

showed the fuck up. Go ahead.

46:52

Shut up. Was that doing it too loud? Shut

46:54

up. I mean, both,

46:56

but there's another

46:57

thing. You look like you don't have enough

47:00

nutrients. That ain't true. I

47:02

keep I got this whole

47:04

jar. I'm filling my whole nutrients.

47:07

Right. That there's implications about

47:09

that that I'm not What about

47:12

Yeah. Well, I'm not gonna get up every time,

47:14

you know. I

47:17

think referring never mind.

47:20

Never mind. You buy some supplements.

47:23

So what? For nutrients,

47:26

k through twelve. Oh,

47:28

slam. Oh, slam. It's a quick raising your voice.

47:30

Shut the fuck up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

47:32

Shut up. You know, I'll

47:35

I like to think that I put the nut and nutrients

47:38

And I think these could do

47:40

well for me. But

47:42

what's the

47:43

catch? What?

47:46

Coach? Yeah.

47:48

Like, I just buy the nutrients

47:50

and then What's

47:52

a coach?

47:55

We cut to gables talking to

47:57

Travis. Like, so we

48:00

at the end of the

48:00

day, people just can't just buy them.

48:03

Oh, yeah. But then they're not their own

48:05

boss. And that's the important part.

48:08

See, I think we hit the stop. Jerry

48:10

just bought them. And he was just in, and he didn't

48:12

wanna keep keep it going. Oh,

48:14

he bought all of them? He did. Oh.

48:17

Oh. So this kind of

48:19

the the pyramid is short. It's

48:22

what the person

48:22

is. It's

48:24

a little one. It's it's a full

48:26

pyramid on top balanced on top

48:28

of one.

48:31

So I don't know if that's your metric for

48:34

success. I mean, I guess as long as he keeps

48:36

buying them and you keep selling your

48:38

downstream, I guess,

48:43

kind of the ideal situation. Honestly,

48:45

yeah. And

48:47

I hold on there just a minute. Who

48:49

who? It's me. No

48:52

dose.

48:54

This is supposed to be a PSA against

48:57

him, Ellen.

48:58

Well, sometimes they work out. Maybe

49:01

it's a PSA to find your mark.

49:06

Can we work with that? Can we Look.

49:08

The existence of a jerk off Jerry

49:10

is extremely unlikely in

49:12

any

49:12

universe. They would have been sent

49:15

to jail or killed for their

49:17

ways and behaviors. Yes. You'll never

49:19

find someone to buy your entire downstream,

49:21

so don't get

49:22

involved. Okay.

49:25

Never let this happen again.

49:30

Mangrias that were noted. Yeah.

49:33

He does not like him, Alabama. He

49:36

just can't move his product.

49:43

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