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a sacrifice, there must

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be something offered to the seat

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of sovereignty in turn, in

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which case there is more blessing

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that can be bestowed upon them.

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They must swear to be

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a Sereno and to live as

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a Sereno. They walk

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away from the sensations

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that would harm them, and

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find in its place the

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peace and serenity of the

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path of sovereignty. Is

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the sacrifice that of their non,

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their layman's life, or is

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there something additional? I

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would never dream of taking

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the life of some who came

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to me seeking peace. What

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peace could I offer that death

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could not? No, we

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do not take their lives. They

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offer up sensation. They

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offer up the

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normal comforts of

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community, and instead

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they are granted peace. Oh,

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so they abstain? Yes,

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in many ways. The skin is not removed

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in such a manner that they are unable

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to touch. Perhaps

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I have been misunderstood. Their skin

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is not removed. I'm

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so sorry. But they are unable

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to touch. That

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makes so much more sense. No,

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I truly believe you still do not

7:36

understand my meaning. Their skin

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has no feeling at the end of

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the process. They

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do voluntarily abstain from touch, but

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even if they were to indulge,

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it would offer them nothing. No

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pain, no pleasure, but life

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and peace. Gable pings the captain

7:59

to be like, You understood

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that, right? Mm-hmm. Okay, good.

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Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh,

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what a sacrifice. But if what

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must be done must be done, then if

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peace is all of our birthright is not.

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I believe it should be, indeed.

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Many changes would have to happen

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across the face of sphere for

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that to occur. But what

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are we but instruments for change? I

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have a query for you. I know

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this is a particular solution offered for

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a particular problem, such as the scarlet.

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But it seems that this level of

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devotion could be quite useful

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to other individuals such

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as yourself. The aestheticism

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of this lifestyle

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could be quite

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helpful for those

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with other maladies. Do

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you intend to expand beyond

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this particular ailment? I

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do indeed very much

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wish that the

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Voxes would hear my many

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pleas, that we must take

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the miracle that has occurred

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here and sew it

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across sphere as we have the word

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of the path. This,

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what has happened, is

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deeply unfortunate. None

9:17

should have to suffer the way

9:19

the people here do suffer. And

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I believe that that suffering

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can be erased across all

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of sphere. There are many

9:30

maladies that afflict people. Many

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people cry out to the

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empty throne for assistance that

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currently is not offered. I,

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unfortunately, for the time being,

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am a necessary instrument

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for ensuring that

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this process is able to continue

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as intended. But I

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do believe with more work

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and research, I will

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be able to remove my from the process,

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therefore enabling it to exist across

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the whole of the sphere. Okay.

10:08

Saying that he is an instrument and

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then saying he hopes to eventually remove

10:13

himself from the process, that

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gets my antenna up.

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I would love to finally try and

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take a look at where

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dude's magic is coming

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from and seeing if I can

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identify is this Morningstar,

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is this something else. So

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yeah, I would do a pretty intense

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magic role on that. Let's

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do it. Let's do it and let's keep, I

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think let's keep the relationship dive Oromar in the

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process because he's just in there. He's

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just there. So that'll be 48. Oh

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my. That's the only place I've put

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any. I mean,

10:56

I'm similar for intelligence.

10:58

So yeah. Okay.

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Let's throw three success,

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two opportunity, one

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entangle. Okay.

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So the successes

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and the opportunity, we will process

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those first. As

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I've said, in the

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past, when describing our very,

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the man has scars. The

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man has scars that are

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like kind of veiny and

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move up at least down an arm. There's

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some on his neck that appear,

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but you can immediately,

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as you reach out with magic, as

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you open some of the eyes on

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your wings, you can see divine

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power just flowing

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off of these scars.

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Something happened to this

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person that gave

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them a connection to the divine. It is

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not. like looking at John it where

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you can see the locus of

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John its power being in

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the familiar form of an angelic

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eye there there is no such

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artifact on this person it is

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as though he was

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struck through by the

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universe itself and therefore

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it is like enmeshed

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within his being

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the divine power that he speaks of

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that he refers to just

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looking him over you can see it is

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him it comes from him

12:39

when he says miracles are

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performed he is performing those

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miracles is

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he a fall you don't

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know I have

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three successes you

12:56

do have three successes so let's

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go so yeah you've identified that

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it comes from him you I

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think have identified further that

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it comes from

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his form okay

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certain way okay like you

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can see divinity it's divinity

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so it's definitely divine magic it's

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not like luminary magic no

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definitely not it is not luminary stuff

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it is it is not arcane magic

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it is it is nothing of that

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sort like this has the

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touch of kind

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of what angelic magic is of

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touching the forces of sphere

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touching firmament moving firmament being

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a part of the universe

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in the way that supports

13:43

the universe it like

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if there was an

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angel's eye on him if he was

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a seer it would

13:53

explain so much yet with three successes

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the one thing that you can definitely

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identify is that I

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want one to upgrade a die,

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so that would take me to 2d8. And

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then I'm going to use my

22:08

ability Soul Transfer, where I

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can spend Vitality to recover Magic and

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drain my Vitality by 2, and

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then spend that again. This is interesting, because

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you are not connected to your body right

22:21

now. Um, okay. If you want

22:23

me to rule to not do that, I don't

22:25

think I want to do that. If you were

22:27

to use that, it would be draining Gables by

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2. I'm not going to do that. Which is

22:31

possible, but... Not without permission, and that feels like

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a, you know, bodily agency is pretty big for

22:35

Oromar. No. In that case,

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we are just gonna... I'm gonna spend

22:39

both of my final pieces of Magic,

22:42

so I'm out of Magic, to upgrade

22:44

things twice, so I'm running a d12 and a d8.

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Sick. Uh, I do not have

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a special effect for being out

22:53

of Magic, unfortunately, but that's okay.

22:55

Uh, d12, d8, and

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a stable relationship guy.

23:02

Yes. All right. Uh, we

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have two successes and two opportunities. Okay,

23:07

good. You have, uh,

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overcome the failure and complication that

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I rolled. So one success,

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one opportunity. Um, specifically,

23:16

what information are you looking for? Yeah,

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we are checking for nearby killing intent,

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and who is it coming from? Okay.

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I think the

23:27

information that you receive is

23:30

kind of like being

23:32

in a... being in a diving

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bell. Uh, you

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are safe, you can breathe,

23:38

but all of the world that you

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look at around you is just

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an ocean of, like,

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crushing intent. The

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question was, like, kind

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of offered to you as

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a... almost like

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a curiosity or a questing confirmation.

23:58

It's basically... that

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I prioritize are my

28:02

own. So, if

28:04

you have come here out of

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curiosity to see what it

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is I do in this town,

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how it is I see to my

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fox, and how it might be that

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I would see to other fox if

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I were granted dominion over them, then

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I believe you have seen enough here

28:24

to understand what it

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is I am. But

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if there is a philosophical disagreement

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that sits between us that

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would allow, that would disallow

28:36

peace, then I would like

28:38

to know now so that I

28:40

do not waste my time offering

28:43

you courtesies. Okay,

28:46

okay, okay. I

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think this is

28:50

true when I say this

28:52

to him. I don't

28:55

think we have a philosophical

28:57

disagreement as far as I know.

29:00

I think you are

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probably correct in that. I

29:05

don't know that we've

29:07

borne this out in an open conversation,

29:09

but I think you are probably right

29:11

about that. Because I feel like

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I know that he's got other conflicts,

29:16

but like at his heart,

29:18

he is providing, I don't

29:23

think he believes in the slain God, and I think

29:25

we are the same on that. Yeah,

29:27

I think especially with all of the

29:29

advantage or all of the opportunities that

29:32

have been rolled, I think a thing

29:34

that you can definitely extract from the

29:36

conversation of what you've seen is this

29:39

is a dude who knows that the

29:41

slain God exists, knows that

29:43

the servants of the empty throne

29:45

are real forces that run around

29:47

in the world, but does not

29:49

necessarily believe in them. Yes, okay.

29:52

And I say that to him, I

29:54

truly believe this. We do

29:56

not have a philosophical disagreement.

29:58

And as far as I know, who

30:00

I serve, I serve

30:02

Julian Labolist. Very well.

30:05

Ben, I am so grateful for

30:07

the time that we have spent together here, and

30:10

I wish you safe travels out

30:13

of this town. Gable

30:16

does not say goodbye, just leaves. Great,

30:19

great. As

30:23

we're walking down the street, I assume we're gonna

30:25

go back to the ship real quick. I'm

30:28

like, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck,

30:30

what the fuck, where's your body? What is happening? What

30:34

happened to you? So I think our

30:38

RMR in the space turns to you and says, well,

30:42

and we kind of like cut

30:44

to a sequence that doesn't have

30:47

dialogue, where almost

30:49

in kind of like, it's slightly,

30:51

the animation style is different, slightly

30:53

sketchy of the

30:56

body of RMR veil, stalking

30:59

away, dragging the cleaver along

31:01

the floor, sparks going or

31:04

whatever, and the outline of

31:07

RMR Vel's soul looking around panicked.

31:10

And we were at the docks when

31:12

that exchange occurred, where the various

31:14

materials that were to be delivered

31:17

from either trust to our ship were

31:20

left, so we can pick them up

31:22

for later. And somebody

31:25

comes by from, you know,

31:27

probably cloaked or face obscured

31:29

from the Uhuru to collect

31:31

it, and RMR like

31:34

jumps into one of those objects

31:36

in like the big crates. And

31:38

we see this process almost tapestry

31:40

style as it's moving along the

31:43

screen of people moving

31:45

past this like

31:47

wagon being carried off stuff, and

31:50

RMR jumping to various bits and

31:52

pieces to kind of not

31:54

be exposed to just the open universe

31:56

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