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[Assistant] A wise leader must listen to all the different points of view in order to make a right decision. However, Roland disagreed in his heart.


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[Assistant] He had to think twice and take all aspects into consideration because he could not bear any losses at present.


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[Assistant] His soldiers were not a rabble of mercenaries and serfs. Almost all of them were literate.


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[Assistant] Some officers even understood charts and were able to make reports. He would take any action to reduce casualties


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[Assistant] Just as Nightingale was about to say more, the sigil of listening hanging across her chest suddenly glowed. Roland's heart skipped a beat. He asked, is there some new movement from the demons? The communication was short.


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[Assistant] Almost right after Roland asked out loud, Nightingale gave her answer, her hands still pressed onto the sigil on her chest. No, it's good news.


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[Assistant] The third batch of the witches from Sleeping Island, led by Lady Camilla Derry, will arrive at Neverwinter tomorrow evening. It was Tilly who sent the news. Roland felt relieved.


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[Assistant] Go and tell Wendy to welcome them in the same way did the last two batches.


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[Assistant] These witches would be the last batch to move in, which accounted for almost half of the total witches of Sleeping Island.


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[Assistant] Now that Neverwinter had built the framework of Sleeping Spell, Roland could rest assured that Wendy would be able to take care of everything, including counting all the witch's abilities and recruiting them.


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[Assistant] As she was about to enter the misty world, Roland suddenly stopped her. Hang on. Did you say that it was Camilla Derry leading the witches? The one who was preparing to go to the sea line with Joan. Yes, what's wrong? Let me see. Roland pondered for a moment.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure, but I have to try, Roland said with great interest. I need to talk to Camilla personally when she arrives.


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[Assistant] As the boat sailed along the Redwater River into the western region, the fields on both sides of the river turned yellowish brown, a color of harvested straw mixed with soil.


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[Assistant] Judging from the high piles of straw, this year must have been another bumper year.


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[Assistant] Standing at the bow of the ship, Andrea gulped the refreshing air of autumn.


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[Assistant] It mingled with the unique smell of the sun-baked farmland, giving her an inexplicable feeling of relaxation and contentment.


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[Assistant] She did not know whether it was the lingering charm of the harvest or her anticipation of finally coming home. Maybe both. Don't they collect the straw? A curious voice suddenly came from behind. They make good kindling.


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[Assistant] Andrea turned around and saw that it was a God's punishment which who was speaking. Her name was Carol, if she remembered correctly. You know about it.


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[Assistant] Andrea had asked her father about the straw when she had been a little girl.


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[Assistant] She had wondered why the farmers collected, bailed and piled the straw up after cropping the wheat. Her father told her that they had done it for the sake of living.


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[Assistant] He had said they don't have enough money to buy firewood, so they have to collect anything that can make be burnt to keep them warm against the cold winter winds.


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[Assistant] The straw is a very good fuel, flammable and accessible, which is also preferred by many nobles who often use it to start a fire.


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[Assistant] When the people are short of clothes, they often use the straw as quilts.


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[Assistant] Although it produces thick smoke when it burns and pricks your skin when you sleep on it, it keeps the people from freezing to death.


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[Assistant] You may think the straw is useless, but for those who need it, it's as integral to their lives as the year of wheat.


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[Assistant] It was only after she was exiled from the city of Glow and experienced those days without shelter and food during the escape that she began to realize the heavy burden of life.


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[Assistant] Andrea was a bit embarrassed and answered, I thought you ancient witches never had to pay any attention to these matters. Because the common people took care of everything?


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[Assistant] Carol asked, leaning on the railing, in fact, I was never very different from those common people.


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[Assistant] Andrea was a little surprised and asked, how could that be true?


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[Assistant] Although there is a fundamental difference between a witch and a common person, how could the Union spare too much energy for a weak non-combat witch?


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[Assistant] Unlike Phyllis, my ability and magic power were of the lowest rank after Awakening, so I was almost forgotten by the Union during the latter part of the war.


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[Assistant] She looked at the waves as if she was recalling the past days.


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[Assistant] During the days when I lost the allowance, I lived with a group of common people.


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[Assistant] After the city was invaded, I also relied on them to persist right up till the very last moment.


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[Assistant] But in the battle in the Kingdom of Dawn, your abilities were completely unlike those of a non-combat witch.


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[Assistant] Even Ash's the Extraordinary would not have been able to defeat her.


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[Assistant] Training for hundreds of years is enough to change everything, said Carol, opening her hand and clenching it slowly.


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[Assistant] In fact, when compared to those previous companions, I even feel a little fortunate that I've become a God's punishment witch. At least I've become stronger now.


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[Assistant] I'm no longer ignored, and I'm able to do something for everyone.


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[Assistant] Since we met his majesty, it's also been a new kind of reward.


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[Assistant] Andrea suddenly realized that she might not have started talking to her for no reason. She asked, why, do you tell me these things? Carol looked up and answered, because I envy you. Andrea was stunned and stared blankly at her.


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[Assistant] With your ability, even in the days of the Union, you would have been an excellent combat witch.


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[Assistant] Since you were able to have a high awakening at such a young age, you could have become one of Tequila's superiors, the God's punishment which said lightly. Did you know?


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[Assistant] At that time, my greatest wish was to join the Blessed Army and get a blessing from Lady Natalia before a battle. You could achieve it easily. Now I've lost the possibility to become stronger. On the contrary, you're still far from your limits.


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[Assistant] Carol paused and said, the stronger you are, the more challenges you'll meet and the more setbacks you'll encounter.


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[Assistant] But don't forget, no matter how much hardship you experience, you're already enviable. Hearing that, Andrea suddenly understood. She was comforting her.


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[Assistant] After her father's belated apology and the farewell to her childhood playmates, she had been feeling down for quite some time.


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[Assistant] It was only as she was getting closer and closer to her royal highness that her mood gradually improved.


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[Assistant] Apparently, the God's punishment which had noticed this and chose to share her past experiences with her at this time. That was right.


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[Assistant] These kinds of twists and turns were nothing to a tequila survivor.


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[Assistant] As a witch, what she blessings she still had were far more than what she had lost.


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[Assistant] Thanks, whispered Andrea, after being silent for a moment.


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[Assistant] Carol shook her head and replied, I just told the truth. Then she stood up and walked back toward the cabin


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[Assistant] By the way, about what you just asked, Andrea said loudly towards her back, they bury the straw as fertilizer.


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[Assistant] After all, they don't need it for a fire in Neverwinter now.


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[Assistant] The God's punishment which did not look back, but made a gesture of I understand. Andrea also could not help raising her lips.


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[Assistant] She turned back to face the direction of Neverwinter, her heart full of expectation. I wonder what her highness is doing right now. Ashes must make sure she stays next to her. Needless to say, Shavvy must be missing me.


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[Assistant] When I go back, I'll absolutely play cards overnight with her.


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[Assistant] And when I traveled with Lorda last time, Maggie helped to inform us of our journey in advance.


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[Assistant] As soon as Andrea looked up, she saw a fat pigeon descend from the sky and head straight for her face. It's her indeed. She could not find another pigeon heavier than Maggie. Ahem, you've become heavier.


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[Assistant] Maggie argued, it was his majesty that told me to pick you up. Coo. But I'm coming soon.


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[Assistant] I don't know either, but I'm absolutely not in the middle of nowhere. Coo, said Maggie as she landed on the deck and turned into a devil beast. The ship immediately sank by a meter. Hurry up. They're waiting for you. Coo.


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[Assistant] Maggie spread her wings and carried her toward Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] They were not waiting for her in the witch building or Roland's castle.


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[Assistant] An hour later, Andrea was directly brought to the outside of the boundary wall by Maggie.


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[Assistant] Besides Spear Passy and Camilla Derry, Anna, Sylvie, Lightning, Summer, and some other witches were also waiting for her on the grassland. Roland was naturally there, as well. So you let her pick me up just to test a new weapon?


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[Assistant] Andrea could not help holding her forehead after listening to the explanation.


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[Assistant] Even if she hadn't come, I would have arrived at the inland river pier by tonight.


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[Assistant] But we can't afford to be delayed for a day, said Roland, simply telling her the news about the demon's strange move. The First Army will start off tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Before it arrives at the entrance to the tunnel, the weapon specially made for you must be adjusted to a usable state. Is that so? Andrea slightly frowned. The demon's actions always gave her a feeling of unease.


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[Assistant] There was still a while before the appearance of the Bloody Moon, so the demons seem to be far too active right now.


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[Assistant] Anyway, it would have to attach great importance to any movement of the demons.


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[Assistant] It was strange to describe it as a gun as it was far too large. The barrel was as long as an adult.


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[Assistant] No, you can call it an Anti-Devil Beast Sniper Rifle, Roland replied.


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[Assistant] According to Sylvie's observations, the reconnaissance team of the demons was usually made up of two mad demons and three devil beasts.


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[Assistant] They would patrol a set region back and forth at fixed intervals to cover a broad surveillance area with overlapping regions between the teams. It was like the Wall of Eagles in modern times.


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[Assistant] Going to the excellent field of vision of the flying demons, if the first army were to enter the detection area, they would instantly be discovered.


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[Assistant] Roland intended to create a no-fly zone in the air, a blind zone of vision for the demons.


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[Assistant] It was certain that there was neither any kind of radar system nor any instantaneous long distance communication technology for the mad demons.


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[Assistant] As long as they did not blow the horn, the disappearance of a patrol team would not draw any attention.


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[Assistant] The devil beasts that were responsible for delivering the red mist cans could enhance the patrol range of the team, but this increased range would also delay the feedback of information.


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[Assistant] It was possible that the enemies would not notice the death of the devil beasts until the time they were supposed to return to their nests in the evening.


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[Assistant] Even then, it would not be easy for the demons to locate the attacker immediately as the sniper team would attack from outside of their range of vision. Not to mention that the patrol teams could not act at night, while the first army could.


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[Assistant] As long as the blind zone and their surveillance network was reasonably arranged, it would gain time for the first army and weaken the opponent's mobility.


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[Assistant] Roland did not expect this strategy to completely block the opponents, but even a delay of two or three days would be a great help to the army.


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[Assistant] After all, the sooner they arrived at the shelling site, the greater the chance they would have.


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[Assistant] The Anti-Devil Beast sniper rifle was the product which would realize this hope. In fact, it could barely still be called a gun.


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[Assistant] To ensure the long-range lethality and ballistic stability, its caliber was set at 20 millimeters, which was the demarcation point between a gun and a cannon.


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[Assistant] As for why it was not designed to be larger, it was because Andrea's ability had a distinctive feature. It needed to be held and fired by hand. This point had been tested during the artillery training.


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[Assistant] Once she let go of the barrel, even if she gave oral instructions, the soldiers could still not adjust to operating the weapon.


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[Assistant] What about opening fire in spite of the recoil of the cannon? Tilly would be furious.


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[Assistant] It was too awkward to call it a sniper cannon, so Roland decided to keep calling it a gun.


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[Assistant] The new weapon itself did not employ much new technology.


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[Assistant] Its structure was much simpler than the Mark 1 Type HMG, with an air guide backseat, semi-automatic shooting, bullet clip.


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[Assistant] The only extra part was a muzzle brake that was used to reduce the recoil, which had already been applied in the main artillery of the shallow water gunboats. It only took two days to make it.


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[Assistant] One and a half days were spent just on selecting the materials and post-processing.


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[Assistant] Lucia created the alloy. Anna shaped it. Candle consolidated the shape and then Doris demonified it.


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[Assistant] This weapon was created together by several witches and could be regarded as a legendary product.


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[Assistant] In addition to its materials and processing technique, the gun barrel would not be deformed even under high temperature gas and enormous pressure, which was also a key factor to ensure continuous and accurate shooting. Is this a sniper rifle?


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[Assistant] Andrea looked at it for a moment and noticed something unusual. Where is its aiming scope? It doesn't have one, Roland shrubbed and said. Doesn't have one? She was stunned. I can't hit a target. I can't see.


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[Assistant] An ordinary scope wouldn't help with the range we want, so three more people are here to help you, said Roland, looking at Sylvie, Spear, and Camilla who were standing by his side.


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[Assistant] Do you mean, to let Miss Camilla connect me with Sylvie to aim, and have Countess Spear take charge of replenishing our magic power?


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[Assistant] Andrea finally understood what Maggie's words there waiting for you meant.


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[Assistant] Although I don't want to leave Fallen Dragon Ridge at all. Ah, eh-choo.


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[Assistant] Since her majesty was so kind to send an invitation to me, I can't say no.


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[Assistant] Countess Spear said with pretend reluctance, but next time I wish to be informed earlier rather than let Miss Maggie bring me here by flight. I'm old and not strong enough. I'm still sick because of the cold wind. Roland silently rolled his eyes.


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[Assistant] She had already drunk Lily's cleansing water and asked for the next batch of students trained by City Hall, but she behaved as if it was unpaid labor.


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[Assistant] After all, she had been an experienced politician for many years, and she was used to complaining about being hard up.


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[Assistant] Camilla's response was much simpler. Her highness hopes for me to do my best.


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[Assistant] Andrea had never considered a similar issue before because the range of stones and bows was much lower than the limit of her visual range. So it's necessary to test it said Roland. Then let's start.


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[Assistant] Carter Lannis nervously paced back and forth outside the bedroom. There were few days in his life where he had felt so disturbed.


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[Assistant] In retrospect, except for that moment when his majesty approached the witch Anna without any defenses, he had never been as nervous as he was now. May, his wife, was about to give birth.


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[Assistant] Ms. Nana and Lily are both here, and several nurses have also come from the hospital. Everything will be okay.


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[Assistant] Even if she has difficulty, they can cut her belly open to take the child out and keep both of their lives.


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[Assistant] But this idea had just come out for a moment when he began to doubt it.


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[Assistant] Can they really cut someone's belly to help her give birth to a child? No, no, no, that's too horrible. I hope it's the normal way.


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[Assistant] Bastard, how dare you doubt the knowledge of his majesty. But, I've never heard of anyone being born like that.


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[Assistant] These two voices were arguing in the Chief Knight's mind and made him feel like his head was splitting into two.


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[Assistant] Rest assured, sir, said Irene, Sister May will surely be okay, because she's the toughest person I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] The other members of Starflower Troupe who had come to visit also nodded.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Carter said, but his worries were not abetted at all. He felt sweat flow down his forehead.


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[Assistant] All of a sudden, he heard a storm of cheers outside the window.


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[Assistant] He went to the window and saw numerous people cheering for a troop who were dressed in a new style of military uniforms and were walking slowly over the street toward the frontier wall.


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[Assistant] The brown and green fabrics seemed disorganized but presented a sense of solidness, like a rock. The whole army was like a flowing chunk of land. Does the army start off today? Carter could not help asking.


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[Assistant] Yes, my husband is there, too, said Irene, smiling with some reluctance, but full of pride.


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[Assistant] The once famous knight was now fighting for those ordinary people. The ideal country that His Majesty mentioned in the past was now becoming reality bit by bit.


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[Assistant] He was supposed to be one of them and should have been the first one to fight for his majesty.


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[Assistant] Somehow, he was getting farther and farther away from them.


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[Assistant] For a moment, the annoyance replaced the dispute in his mind and his attention temporarily wandered until a tender cry came from the bedroom. Suddenly, all thoughts faded away. The body responded faster than the brain.


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[Assistant] Before he knew it, he had already pushed open the door and rushed to the bed.


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[Assistant] A baby with wrinkled skin was crying over the pillow next to me, while nurses were cleaning up in an orderly manner. Congratulations, my lord. It's a very healthy boy, someone laughed. Is. Is it?


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[Assistant] Carter moved to the bed step by step and kneeled on one knee, staring at May who had sweat all over her head in the candlelight. For a moment, he forgot what he wanted to say.


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[Assistant] The long-lasting cheers from outside mixed with the child's cries, like a chorus to celebrate the new life.


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[Assistant] May opened her mouth and tried to say something, but she was too weak to utter any words. But Carter still understood what she wanted to say. In that moment, tears poured out of his eyes. Now, you're a father, she had said.


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[Assistant] It was in the hinterland of the Misty Forest, northwest of Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] Snake Tooth felt that ever since he had joined the railway construction team one and a half months ago, these days had become the most incredible period of his life. No.


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[Assistant] He thought it's not appropriate to describe it as the most incredible.


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[Assistant] It seems that I have never really had a chance to know about the real Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] He finally understood why the workers had to sign a confidentiality agreement.


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[Assistant] The agreement required them not to share what they saw with anyone.


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[Assistant] Any kind of oral or written record would be regarded as a crime against the laws of the kingdom, and the punishment ranged from fines and confiscation of income to forced labor in the North Slope Mine.


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[Assistant] The agreement also stressed that they could quit from the construction team if they were unwilling to comply with the requirements.


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[Assistant] However, if they dared to violate it, the Security Bureau of the Kingdom was responsible for checking them, and no one could escape from the ubiquitous supervision.


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[Assistant] Snake Tooth had once thought with disapproval, it's possible to check all written records. But how could they police oral records as well?


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[Assistant] If they arrest anyone who is reported, then the project won't have enough people to be implemented anymore. However, he had a completely different view now.


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[Assistant] It was beyond his imagination how many secrets there were in Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] Maybe in some place which most people did not know about, there was a surging and amazing power. What he was most impressed by were the witches.


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[Assistant] Though Paper was also a witch, in his eyes she was just a little girl who needed his protection.


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[Assistant] The church claimed that the witches were evil as they inherited the power of the devil, but he did not care about that.


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[Assistant] If the witches were really so powerful, why would they be chased by the church and not dare to show up in public? But this idea was changed by a witch called Lady Leif.


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[Assistant] Snake Tooth never imagined that anyone could control the entire forest on her own.


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[Assistant] The misty forest which the construction team entered was like the belly of a huge beast. This was especially obvious when they were paving the railway.


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[Assistant] The vines formed an endless network at the top of the road bed.


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[Assistant] The iron tracks were wrapped and dragged forward to the appointed place by the vines, and then fell to the ground like grapes in a vineyard.


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[Assistant] Wherever the railway was being laid, the trees on both sides would separate themselves, which even saved them the effort of cutting down the trees.


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[Assistant] At the same time, the surrounding trees would grow especially densely, covering the entire sky so as not to attract the demon's attention.


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[Assistant] In addition, the forest could take the initiative to attack the beasts approaching the construction team.


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[Assistant] If they got a bowl of fresh meat soup someday, that meant an unfortunate beast ran into the domain of Lady Leaf.


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[Assistant] Snake Tooth had once seen her, but he could not be sure whether Lady Leaf was still human.


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[Assistant] Her body glowed with a strange green radiance which resembled a gem.


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[Assistant] When she moved, she could walk freely among the branches as if she had no real body.


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[Assistant] If it had been him from the past, he would surely have screamed loudly.


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[Assistant] With such ghostly deeds and an incredible appearance, it was not surprising that she would be regarded as one of the Devil's minions.


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[Assistant] His only thought was that paper was lucky to not look like that.


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[Assistant] However, Snake Tooth did not hate her, and instead even had sincere respect for her, as His Majesty had mentioned at the awards and honor ceremony that he was able to feed everyone in Neverwinter thanks to Leaf's help.


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[Assistant] Anyone freed from hunger and suffering was a beneficiary of her ability. By this merit alone, Leaf should forever be remembered. Snake Tooth was naturally one of the beneficiaries.


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[Assistant] Apart from the witch, another discovery probably was his own personal secret. It was after the First Army entered the Misty Forest.


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[Assistant] Ever since the demons had attacked Neverwinter, the voices demanding a counterattack had become more and more fierce.


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[Assistant] Even in the wild the workers were also discussing this issue. He was not surprised that this day had come.


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[Assistant] Apparently, His Majesty intended to wage a war against the demons.


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[Assistant] Unlike the knights he had seen before, the soldiers were mostly acquaintances and neighbors of the workers.


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[Assistant] Whenever the army passed by, the workers would always greet them with enthusiasm.


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[Assistant] He had thought paving the railway away from the border would be dangerous and lonely hard labor, but it turned out to be the opposite.


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[Assistant] Snake Tooth did not have too many acquaintances, so he preferred to go and observe the train alone, and he even climbed up and touched it when it stopped.


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[Assistant] However, what he had experienced two weeks ago was horrifying.


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[Assistant] It was a locomotive dragging six carriages, which stopped in the section where he was participating in the construction, the latest section of the railway.


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[Assistant] There were two gigantic objects piled on the topless flat car.


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[Assistant] Each of them was over 20 meters in length and covered with a layer of canvas. He had no idea what they were. This was originally normal.


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[Assistant] If the goods delivered had nothing to do with the construction team, it must have been military supplies, and he did not want to find out what it was.


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[Assistant] However, he had an upset stomach that night and had to run out of his tent at midnight.


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[Assistant] While he was looking for somewhere to empty the bowels, he was shocked to see the canvas creeping out by itself.


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[Assistant] After several warriors who dressed distinctively different from the first army soldiers untied the ropes fixing the canvas, a huge mollusk monster crept out of it.


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[Assistant] What was more horrifying, the monster could speak, and its voice was quite pretty. Its first words were, I'm hungry. Do you have any food?


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[Assistant] At that moment, Snake Tooth felt the hair stand up on the back of his neck.


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[Assistant] He could almost imagine the cold reply of the warriors. Ah, yes, all the workers in this camp are your food. Enjoy yourself. But this did not happen.


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[Assistant] The warriors embraced it affectionately and then moved ham, vegetables, and bread from the last carriage. They were all packed in barrels as tall as a man.


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[Assistant] The two worms gobbled up the food in a hurry and then disappeared into the depths of the forest with the warriors. Snake Tooth did not dare to breathe. He hid behind the trees until the footsteps faded away.


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[Assistant] Once he confirmed that they had left, he looked down to find that he had wet his pants.


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[Assistant] Within two days, a strange station was built next to the track.


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[Assistant] It was an arched building made of cement and bricks, and inside it was a deep and bottomless hole.


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[Assistant] Though the workers walked in and out of it, no one knew where it led to.


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[Assistant] There were several steam engines beside the hole, constantly blowing wind inside. It was really weird. He also firmly hid this secret in his heart.


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[Assistant] Snake Tooth had thought that he would be afraid and want to quit from the railway construction team.


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[Assistant] In reality though, he recovered faster than he had imagined. This is an exciting life. This is the real image of Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] When he had just left his friends and arrived in the forest, he always felt that he was like a rootless piece of duckweed not attached to anyone.


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[Assistant] Especially when the workers received letters from their families and happily shared them with him. Loneliness haunted him.


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[Assistant] But he was gradually attracted by various novel things, such as the perfectly connected tracks, the beautiful songs in the forest, the huge desert wolf which appeared and disappeared secretly but would not be attacked by Lady Leif, and the mysterious man who came here and whispered to himself on certain days.


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[Assistant] This made him feel that he was a little closer to the unknown side of Neverwinter, and also gradually integrating with the city.


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[Assistant] Snake Tooth wanted to keep all these things in mind and wait for the day that he could tell his friends.


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[Assistant] There was no better proof of being a citizen than knowing the depths of a city.


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[Assistant] Even if he did not have so many familiar neighbors, no one could deny this.


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[Assistant] The duration of the confidentiality agreement was five years. He was looking forward to that day.


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[Assistant] Two weeks after the Convertac plan, named Operation Summit, was launched, Roland received a report from Lightning, who was scouting on the front line.


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[Assistant] The battalions of the 1st Army had successfully completed the first step of the program and joined forces at Forest number 2 plus 1.76 of the Misty Forest.


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[Assistant] The first half was the planned sectional station and the second half was the revised distance.


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[Assistant] That was to say, the turning point was located 1.76 kilometers ahead of station number 2 of the forest railway.


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[Assistant] The advantage of this method was that Roland could accurately see the military's route on the big map. It was also the end of the current tracks.


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[Assistant] From here, the First Army would begin the second step of the plan to leave the misty forest and march toward the northeastern direction of the barbarian lands without cover from leaf.


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[Assistant] Whether they could destroy the demon's outpost depended on this step.


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[Assistant] As long as the Longsong cannons and machine guns were set up, they could return to their tried and tested battle tactics from their training and previous encounters. I got it, Roland said, making a mark on the map. How about the demons? Is there any sign of a response from them?


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[Assistant] Lightning's reply rustled through the sigil of listening. Sylvie said that they haven't made any kind of response.


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[Assistant] They're still concentrating on building their own outposts, and have set up several blackstone pillars.


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[Assistant] In addition, the red mist supply line has appeared behind the outposts.


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[Assistant] The advisor department's judgement is that the number of those long-legged monsters is limited.


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[Assistant] This was good news, as Agatha had once stated that the only thing that limited the demons from overthrowing the humans was the red mist.


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[Assistant] If they had found a way around this restriction by the third battle of divine will, it would spell bad news for everyone.


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[Assistant] For example, the mobility of the flying devil beasts and the horrifying fighting capacity of the senior demons would make the long border of the four kingdoms impossible to defend.


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[Assistant] Roland now knew that the stone pillars at the outpost were different from the legendary Blackstone pagoda, though they had much in common.


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[Assistant] The former could only store red mist and slowly release it to form a special mist environment for the demons to absorb.


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[Assistant] Within this environment, the demon's strength and self-healing abilities would be enhanced. In other words, it assisted the demons in battle.


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[Assistant] The stone pillar could double the effect of the red mist. However, it could only consume reserves of it.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, the original Blackstone Pagoda could generate the red mist and also had much broader coverage, so it basically formed the core of the Demon's main cities.


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[Assistant] In addition, the stone pillar could not begin working as soon as it was planted.


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[Assistant] It had to be cultivated for about a month after being planted before it could release red mist.


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[Assistant] Until then it could only be used as an enlarged red mist can.


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[Assistant] No one wanted to see their enemies come back again after being driven away for a few days.


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[Assistant] It would be worse if they could recover and bring a bunch of reinforcements.


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[Assistant] At the current rate of railway construction, the First Army should be able to launch an attack on any new outpost before the stone pillars begin functioning at full capacity.


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[Assistant] In that case, keep up the scouting and let me know if you find something new. Remember that safety should always be the first priority. Roger that. Lightning out. Then the light of the sigil of listening went out.


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[Assistant] Roland picked up a ruler and measured the distance on the map.


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[Assistant] The First Army was supposed to enter the Demon's Reconnaissance perimeter in six days, by the beginning of late autumn.


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[Assistant] Even for the army that was accustomed to fighting on the ground, this would be a tough challenge. Why are you worried?


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[Assistant] Nightingale put away the sigil and asked, weren't the results of the new weapons tests pretty good? In the end, that was just a test.


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[Assistant] No one can know what will happen in a war before it has even begun, Roland shrugged and said. Not to mention that Sylvie will be occupied with the fight in the air, so the First Army has to depend on themselves to set up and maintain the defensive line.


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[Assistant] It's already pretty incredible that Andrea could consistently hit a balloon five kilometers away.


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[Assistant] She won't let us down as long as she has that weapon. Nightingale smiled and said, though Sylvie won't be available to keep a lookout for the army, Lightning and Maggie are still there.


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[Assistant] Hasn't the First Army experienced a scenario like this before?


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[Assistant] Roland raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked, When did you learn to comfort others?


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[Assistant] I'm just being honest. Nightingale whistled and said, of course, I'm also good at persuading people.


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[Assistant] I remember that every single noble I ever visited agreed with what I had to say. Ah, that's just because of direct intimidation.


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[Assistant] Ahem, I guess you're right, Roland said, twitching his lips. I'm going to have a nap in my office. Don't wake me up unless there's some urgent news.


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[Assistant] Nightingale seemed to realize that something was unusual and asked, right here? Should I inform the tequila witches?


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[Assistant] No, said Roland, don't even allow them to be near the castle. I see, she understood and said, don't worry. I'll make sure no one walks into the range of the light beam.


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[Assistant] Roland rarely napped, unless he was particularly tired or for a special reason. For example, this time was a special reason.


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[Assistant] It had been a month since the last time he talked with Garcia in the dream world. Now she had returned from her headquarters.


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[Assistant] She had promised that she would bring back the book that was written half a century ago which first mentioned the battle of divine will.


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[Assistant] For some reason, Roland felt it better to not let the tequila survivors know about it for the moment. He had considered it for a long time.


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[Assistant] No matter what he found in the book, he would probably be able to remain calm, while those witches who regarded the divine will as their ultimate fate could not.


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[Assistant] There was a battle looming on the horizon, so it would be better to not bother them with this.


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[Assistant] Entering the dream world was more like flipping a switch in his mind now.


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[Assistant] As long as he concentrated on it, he could fall asleep within a few seconds which saved him the trouble of tossing and turning for hours.


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[Assistant] After Zero went to school, Roland could not wait to pick up the phone. Hey, did you get the book?


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[Assistant] If I say no, would you be so disappointed that you'd throw your cell phone?


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[Assistant] He soon heard Garcia's familiar sarcasm. Relax. You reminded me three days ago.


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[Assistant] I'm not so forgetful that I'd eat my words, unlike a certain someone. Roland was relieved and replied, I won't. I still need to feed my family. I can't afford to throw it. Feed your family? Isn't the salary of a martialist enough for you? Hey, have you gone down the wrong path somewhere? What are you imagining?


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[Assistant] He whispered in his heart, I'm trying to feed a group of people who haven't eaten for hundreds of years.


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[Assistant] People who are actually quite kind and, uh,


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[Assistant] Out of five years research by an architect, Mike Leonard.


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[Assistant] Providing the music, a group which features a range of unusual sound effects, the Pink Floyd.


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[Assistant] Because we were very dependent on him. By this time you see, he was undergoing all this sort of stress of coming to terms with fame. So there's an enormous pressure for like interviews and people recognizing him in the street. Sid, what's it all about? What does it mean? And I think he was just overwhelmed by it.


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[Assistant] ...were frankly not his equal in any way at all and did rather encourage him and provide him with lots of drugs. I mean...


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[Assistant] I don't think you think well about that when you're a kid in your twenties, you know.


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[Assistant] Longevity in pop music in, in terms of me as a twenty, whatever, I was twenty-seven year old when I went to the dark side of the moon, was measured in maybe five, possibly ten years.


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[Assistant] You know, I can't remember the exact point where things changed. I mean, as soon as Roger came in with the idea of its central themes of how the pressures of modern life can affect your sanity, uhm, it started taking a shape from then on.


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[Assistant] helped in quite a big way by money being the single and money was really the obvious choice.


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[Assistant] No, very much not like that. We were clueless for a long time. We were faffing about.


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[Assistant] Blindly wondering about not knowing what the fuck we were doing was what helped to create what came, you know, with Shyamalan, Crazy Diamond and the whole of that wish you were here.


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[Assistant] Roger, particularly when he got to the studio, wanted to drop the one that became Dogs, which is called You Gotta Be Crazy at the time. And the one that became Sheep. And I didn't want that to happen. We had some arguing about that for a while.


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[Assistant] He was right and I was wrong. Not the first time. And uhm, we went on with Shine On You Crazy Damn, split it in two, to open and close the album. Seemed to work.


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[Assistant] Well Storm came in as he would on every album and spent time with us while we were recording and would talk to us about what the album was about and what we were trying to get to.


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[Assistant] And as the sort of theme of the album,


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[Assistant] Was absence. Storm went away and thought about absence, and so you have, uhm, a person swimming with an absence of water, and a body in a suit with an absence of the body, and a person diving into water with an absence of splash.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think you'd, you know, you'd have to ask Roger already, but I would say yes. I mean, we're just the year before, you know, two years before the big time, if you like, with, uh,


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[Assistant] Uhm, with Dark Side of the Moon, that meant having a lot more contact with the machinery of, uhm, the rock and roll business, with meeting all the people involved with it, like your good self.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, then him coming into the control room and standing around and how remarkable how long it was before anyone actually woke up.


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[Assistant] And then we were all unbelievably shocked at uhm, his appearance.


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[Assistant] You know, this slim, elegant,


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[Assistant] If bedraggled and dazed person that I'd last seen had turned rather balloon shaped and had no eyebrows and not much hair.


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[Assistant] Imagining what he would have gone on to do is, speculating on that if you like, is, is, he could have become so great.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the WrestleTalk Podcast Review of Monday Night Raw. I am Luke Owen, D.A.D. and I'm joined by Professor Dan Layton. Please do press the subscribe button, give us a little thumbs up button, get in your thoughts on Raw and who the white rabbit is to WrestleTalk.com.


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[Assistant] Forward slash support. And also while you're in the mode for clicking links, why not go to beer52.com forward slash WrestleTalk where you'll get not one.


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[Assistant] Not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven, but eight! Eight! Eight free craft beers on us. All you gotta do is pay for that sweet postage and packaging. It's £5.95 and you will get eight delicious craft beers sent to your door along with a magazine, an award-winning magazine and a snack to go alongside your eight.


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[Assistant] Delicious craft beers. Thank you to Beer52 for sponsoring this podcast. You didn't breathe in once during that whole, I'm very impressed. Thank you very much. I have done a lot of sponsorships for Beer52 over the years because they've sponsored us a number of times over the years. Plus I've been a Beer52 subscriber for 10 plus years at this point and I love them as a brand and you should too. It is for UK viewers only though. We are better than you and we drink it.


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[Assistant] We'll take your money nonetheless. Thank you all so much for joining us on this show. A show which, uh, could be a contentious one, Dan.


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[Assistant] Well, I know, but at least this time, you and I are broadly on the same page. Yeah. Because we thought this episode was fine. Was good. Fine to good. It was fine to good. Yeah. I thought it was a good episode of Raw.


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[Assistant] And people have taken that to me thinking that I thought this episode was terrible, bad and awful. Yeah. Anything other than five stars is that though. I guess so, like someone in the, just before this video started was like, I don't know what Luke wants from Raw.


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[Assistant] We're also building to a B-level pay-per-view.


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[Assistant] However, this item that we have got to kick things off, I think is really incredibly exciting.


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[Assistant] I cannot say enough good things.


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[Assistant] I don't blame you for that either, because it's not a huge part of the show. This is this sort of like- Easter egg. It is an Easter egg, but it's to hype up either a debut or a return or a new character. An evolution. An evolution or something along these lines. And I love- it's all being done through social media.


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[Assistant] They dip the lights down and they play White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.


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[Assistant] And people just do it, and then what you get are people recording themselves doing this, and then sharing that online being like,


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[Assistant] Karrion Kross because his old character was the White Rabbit in- in Lucha Underground, was it this, was it that, the other, and it creates a huge amount of debate. And then on this episode of Roar,


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[Assistant] They had, during a backstage segment with Austin Theory looking at his briefcase and whatnot, I actually didn't catch this until sort of afterwards, a QR code appears on screen.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, maybe I am old man here. Oh, I do all the time. But I see a QR code, I'm just like, who scattered QR codes in 2022?


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[Assistant] No, I'm not. You're being genuinely serious. So, me and my wife were at a bar in, um, uh, I was at a market, we were in London recently, by Liverpool stairs. Spittlefields. Yes, we were in Spittlefields. Geography.


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[Assistant] And we went to a bar there, and it said like, order via the app. And the QR code was there. Me and my wife spent a good 20 minutes trying to download a QR code scanner, so that we could download it. Then all it took was to make an app, and I was like, I could have just got that from the app store.


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[Assistant] Oh okay, well the chat appears to all know this as well. This is basic stuff. I did not know this. I still thought you had to have a QR code scanner app in order to scan a QR code.


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[Assistant] And the hangman game is three letters and the clue is who killed the world.


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[Assistant] The little plays a video and it goes across some letters, some of them are right, some of them aren't.


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[Assistant] The answer is, you did. And the other letters that were selected spelled out, sorry from others, demon.


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[Assistant] It's like the first five letters that he picked were D, E and O.


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[Assistant] So it's demon. So there's something like, you know, there's another extra clue there. And then it ends with 9.23. And because Americans are backwards, you flip that round 29th of, 23rd of September.


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[Assistant] So, and apparently someone else said that they saw on reddit that at 9.23, on the west coast, there was someone in the crowd holding up a sign with that QR code on it.


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[Assistant] Previously, another great example of this is the Johnny Gargano return.


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[Assistant] And they don't do this very often. And this is like, and I think why they did this, it was like best Instagram posts of the week. And so I'm there being like, don't really care about this. Turn to my laptop, typing up some notes and stuff. Maybe I'll go check Twitter or whatnot. While I look at a picture of, I don't know, someone I don't care about an NXT or whatnot. And then all of a sudden Johnny Gargano is back.


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[Assistant] It's a way to make you as a viewer not take your eyes off the product. You constantly have to keep your eyes on things. Because I missed this Austin Theory thing. I missed this QR code. Because I just saw Austin Theory, and I went to my nose, Austin Theory backstage, da-da-da-da-da-da. Suddenly until later on I find out this QR code thing, and that's now on me for not paying attention. That's great.


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[Assistant] I'm into it. Yeah. And I thought this is, this is really, really great. Thought the video itself was really cool. Yeah. And I actually like, so Angela, hobby nights from hobby nights, she was at the show last night and she sent me a video. Like one of the first things I got this morning, she sent me a video of the crowds doing the white rabbit thing. And like, cause they're just playing the audio as well.


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[Assistant] It's just the music, it's just the lyric. Just going around like, feed your head, and all of that stuff. And it's such a wicked song anyway.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's actually a very interesting point. Apparently Karen Cross has said on Twitter, like, a lot of the clues are pointing to me, but it is not me. Better tune in to find out who it is.


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[Assistant] But I know a lot of people of like really diving into this, it's Carrion Cross because he had a similar thing, he had to use this name in a different thing, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I guess like a lot of people are really jumping onto it, Tim. If it's carrying cross, it doesn't make any sense to me. Why? Because we've already had him return.


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[Assistant] To what end, I suppose? Like, I feel like you're going to great lengths here.


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[Assistant] We're almost getting to the point now of hype where if it's not something like a Bray White or a WW, like your big return or anything, that it'd be like, ah, that's okay then.


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[Assistant] That's exactly it. Christian Cage is the greatest example of this because AEW overhyped themselves to be like, it's a Hall of Fame, you know, and I was like, oh my God, this is going to be some huge name coming in. And then it's Christian and it's like, well, this is great. I was like, well, this is great because it's Christian.


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[Assistant] But also, it's like, you presented it as something way bigger than Christian is. And that's nothing against Christian, Christian's amazing. But it was like a, oh my god, who's g-


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[Assistant] And I actually, they had the same thing at Forbidden Door, when Danielson couldn't wrestle and he was like, I've got a suitable replacement for it. Everyone assumed it was Claudio, but then there was people like, it could be Gresham.


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[Assistant] And you know, we had this conversation in the office and people were like, if it's Gresham, then that's cool.


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[Assistant] But it's not, but it's okay that it's Gresham. But if it's Claudio, then that's something that's amazing. And I think that's what we've got here. Like if it's Bray, oh man, that's so cool. It's amazing. But if it's Karen Gross, I saw someone theorizing it could be Mustafa Ali.


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[Assistant] And I think I give it to Ali. Yeah, that's really cool. What a cool new direction for Ali, but also like have we overhyped ourselves into thinking it's something else? I, I mean, when I got the, the video from Angela,


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[Assistant] Uh, I, the first thing I said back to him, I was like, this is 100% brainwashed.


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[Assistant] Right. This, everything about this, from the, the video itself, the, the light, the way it's being presented, the way it's doing, sorry, this organic social media thing, the red light, the red light at the end, the, the, kind of the video itself, the, who killed the world, you did, it feels like a very, the text and everything.


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[Assistant] Everything is just sort of pointing towards it being Bray, and Google reports apparently that Bray is on his way back.


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[Assistant] I, cause I'm so curious. I don't think he's debuting at Smackdown.


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[Assistant] I don't think he is like making his return, but I think we're gonna get the first real big.


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[Assistant] It's Bray. I know, you know, I know a few people as well pointing out it's Rambling Rabbit was part of this. This feels like a whole new character though, kind of in the same way that the Fiend was an evolution of the Bray Wyatt's character. I feel like this now, if it's Bray, it'll be an evolution of what the Fiend did. So I don't think it's just, it's Rambling Rabbit again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's the, that's the point I was sort of making earlier is like, if it's not Brain, it's a new character.


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[Assistant] Because, you know, if it is Mustafa Ali, my first will be like, well that's cool, that's a cool new direction for Ali, but there will be that. They have to back it up. They've got to back it up and they have got to, you know, follow up on the promise that they've kind of given to us, well you know, the excitement they've given to us here. Because I think this is genuinely exciting. And that's also why I don't think it's carrying cross, because this, the amount of effort you're going to do here doesn't feel like for someone who's already returned, has already had a matching ring. But I suppose he's not really returned with any


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[Assistant] He started a feud. He's got his whole thing. Like when he attacks people, the camera cuts to black and white. Like I feel he's already established who he is on the main roster that we don't need to introduce this another side to it, particularly in this way as well. Like I think they would have just done.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, I'll tell you what, should we have a poll?


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[Assistant] On the, I think, I believe Mod Mother is on stream today. So Mod Mother, can we have a poll please of who do you think the White Rabbit is? Can we have Carrion Cross, Bray Wise, Other?


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[Assistant] I'm also gonna do a quick test here. I googled the QR codes, Dan, so let me try this thing now. Please. Let me turn my, uh, my airplane mode off, my Jefferson airplane mode off.


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[Assistant] Consent. You successfully scanned QR code.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Trust. But you've seen it. I've seen it. It works. I believe you, Dan. I absolutely believe you. I am so young.


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[Assistant] I had a lot of people have a pop at me for saying that the crowd was dead on this show.


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[Assistant] Yeah, people said to me, I was like, I cannot believe you said that. They chatted, this is awesome on several occasions. They chatted, who's your daddy? The, apart from the, I said, apart from that heat for Dom, which was insane. Oh, tasty. Tasty.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I've got a, you know, people being like, I can't believe you said the crowd was dead. You're just looking for reasons to hate. I've just had a report again from Angela, who was their lie of saying the crowd was dead all night. You were right in your review. So vindication for daddy Luke.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway, should we get into what you guys think while the poll is currently live? Uhm, I'm gonna give a quick shout out as well to Moderator Rob. Moderator Rob. Robinator, maybe. Hello.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Robberator, who has put together today's doc, and he has done it, you won't be able to see this on camera, in spooky scary font.


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[Assistant] Uh, Hector Rodriguez has been a Memberg for nine months in a row, uh, he said I've been a Memberg for seven months, but if the white rabbit does signal braids return, does that mean that rambling rabbit was the one that possessed rain?


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[Assistant] Okay, but here's the thing, do you reckon, Bray Wyatt appears, like, feels to me like the sort of guy that in 2001 would have got a Donnie Darko tattoo.


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[Assistant] I actually went to school with a guy that, that did that. Had like the full Donnie Darko time thing tattooed on Dan's forearm. Oh dear. Hey, do you know what? It's still a good movie.


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[Assistant] Vala Mamadi Pundi has been a member for 17 months in a row, so I'm ready for Braze Malice in Wonderland Arc.


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[Assistant] Have uhm, have you ever heard the Alison Wonderland audiobook? No. Read by Scarlett Johansson? No. It's too sexy.


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[Assistant] I would highly recommend Scarlett Hansen reading Alice in Wonderland. Please, let's do it. It's a bit sexy, but you know. Hey. What isn't. What isn't these days.


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[Assistant] CarryMeOut42 said, do you remember that concept out of Bray doing a demonic pig mask representing Huskus the pig that was released a couple of years ago? I think the upcoming years will see incarnations of those puppets on TV. Maybe Bray having multiple personalities. I actually forgot about that.


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[Assistant] But I might be completely off base with that. I'd forgotten about that huskies thing. Was really cool as well.


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[Assistant] These things creep me out. As a big horror nerd that I am, like that is right up my alley. And there's a big wet blanket. These things really scare me. Did you listen to the Alice in Wonderland?


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[Assistant] Alls I'm saying is that if it is Bray Wyatt, have him be on Raw, because I review that show.


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[Assistant] I uh, do I like, try and soothe this croaky voice that I have?


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[Assistant] I had a bit of a cold over the weekend. I've now recovered from said cold.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, no longer be legit though. Eight. Eight. Craft. Beers. Yep. For free. For free. Alls I had to do was pay for the post and packaging. Hang on.


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[Assistant] bit.tv.com forward slash rest or get yourself eight free craft beers on us. Sweet ass post and packaging. All right, let's get into this episode of raw. Uh, it kicked off with the United States championship match between Seth Rollins and Bobby Lashley way to open this.


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[Assistant] You look at the reaction that Bobby was getting a few months back. Like I remember the match he had with Tommaso Ciampa for the title. And like me and Oli were just like, God, put the boat on Ciampa. Like really establish self trips as like this new creative direction you're going with.


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[Assistant] And then I heard the reaction the Champa didn't get, and I heard the reaction that Bobby got, and I was like, oh no, you better keep that belt on Bobby, that man's over like Rover.


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[Assistant] Not so much here now. And I feel that's because he hasn't done anything, babe. He's just defended his title in other people's views.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Rollins ran down at the end to cause the distraction riddle.


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry, yes, riddle can cause the distraction. Can mark that up. Distraction number one for the evening.


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[Assistant] Well, he used to be across both shows, but I suppose in the Trips era he's only on Smackdown and he's only really bothering with Ronda Rousey


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[Assistant] Fine, good match, um, and it was, it, you know, got, Champ got another one on TV, I'm just looking for Bobby to have a story. And it's the same problem I got with Wardlow on AEW. He's had that talk for fecking months and has done diddly-dick with it.


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[Assistant] But yea, it was fine. My favourite thing about this was commentary pretending like they didn't lose the finals of the tournament.


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[Assistant] Pretend that the loss never happened because they should have just won the tag tiles in the end of the tournament. So yea, fine. Uhm, I'm much happy to ignore that. Uh, some of your local sports team stuff.


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[Assistant] It's WWE, actually it's wrestling. Your local sports team is, you know, it's part of the course. Uh, and then, uh, Bianca Belair and friends came out and Bayley essentially buries this storyline by saying, why are you two here?


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[Assistant] Dude, I actually, I'm pretty sure the Trips is watching this because I had a real beef with the Fatal Four Way number one contention for the Tag titles being like three of the four teams in this and we had losing streaks.


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[Assistant] All three of those teams were taken out, and winning teams were put in instares.


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[Assistant] So, maybe we'll save all the Alexa chat for the main.


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[Assistant] But yea, and to set up a match between Bliss and Bayley later on tonight. We then got Austin Theory versus Kevin Owens. Uhm, but again, good match. It was alright. A bit like their match they had a couple weeks ago. Totally fine action. I think Theory is really good. Kevin Owens is great. It didn't quite live up to the hype that the promo from last week set up, however.


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[Assistant] It's almost like, uhm, actually an example of this, probably on a much larger scale, was the promo that...


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[Assistant] The pinnacle and inner circle did, the week before Blood and Guts, made me be like, oh dang, I've gotta see that Blood and Guts match. And the match didn't quite live up to that promo.


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[Assistant] And then I was like, eh, the promo was better than the match in the end. Kind of the same thing here. Like this promo, the promo that Kevin O said last week was so great and theory selling of it was so great. But I don't really feel like any of that really played into this match.


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[Assistant] Instead, what played into this match was Johnny Gargano interfering. Another run-in. Stealing away the briefcase which distracted theory.


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[Assistant] He's, he's my favorite thing on Raw. Yeah, big time. Far and away he's my favorite thing on Raw at the moment.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I need to get him back into some bloodline stuff, that's what I'd like. Uhm. Well, he's mentioned it. Maybe War Games.


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[Assistant] Uh, we got a recap of Riddle and Rollins boiling last week in Judgement Day, offering Riddle a spot, and then Riddle had a chat with Kevin about Judgement Day. And then we got a video for Roman Reigns and Logan Paul. So, Roman Reigns is on Smackdown this week, and Logan Paul, uh, the big heel that he is, came out and cut a heel promo.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's totally fine. It's a, it's a Saudi show.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. Maybe because it's just a heavy celebrity involvement. No one remembers anything from Summer Slam outside of the bulldozer at the end where we're with Brock Lesnar. And Damage Control.


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[Assistant] Again, it's a Saudi show, it's an absolutely fine thing to do with a Saudi show. The report is, and this totally makes sense, it's what the Crown Prince wants. And the Saudi shows are just what the Crown Prince wants. Because Saudi shows are my sweet 16, but for the Saudi Prince. And so he wants this match, that's the match he's gonna get.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then all of a sudden, Smackdown's brawling brutes came out. Don't mind it. Don't mind it, mate.


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[Assistant] But they're not tag champs. No, but they're gonna challenge for it. They cut the same promo that Drew basically did when Smackdown's Drew McIntyre appeared on Raw, which was like, hey, if I had the belts, I could just be on this show.


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[Assistant] I was like, I don't think you need the belt at this point. Brand split lol. Uh, they got a bit of a promo. Crowd weren't really into them. Feels like the crowd aren't really that warm to the brawling brutes, but they like Seamus. Street Profits came out and they had a match. And the match were, this was a match where, this was the one that really stuck out to me for this crowd. You could hear a pin drop.


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[Assistant] During a lot of this match. Honestly, like, if someone cocked, you could turn around and see who it is.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden, street profits did a top road blockbuster and they chanced on this is awesome for five seconds. I was like, where have you been?


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[Assistant] And then that five seconds ended deadly silence again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, do you know what I love about this? This is my biggest thumbs up I have for this episode because I thought this was a whole segment.


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[Assistant] Speaking of Wacka Wacka, Owens and Gargano got challenged by Alpha Academy for a match next week. And then, the match is all made, and then Owens makes the realization. Next week's show is in Canada.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because they just make it all look exactly the same. But like if you make the place, and I think that's why AW do do well, is they do a lot of their branded shows around like the location that they're at.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Quaker-like, Quaker-like and things like that. So they got, you know, they make it feel like someone, like even Chad Gable saying, I'm in two weeks within Minnesota. Like you're announcing where you are in two weeks. Yeah. Makes it just feel like it's more of a traveling circus. Yeah. As opposed to just being.


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[Assistant] Welcome to Monday Night Raw. It could be anywhere. It could be anywhere. So I thought that was great. We then got Judgement Day versus Matt Riddle and Ray Mysterio. However, the big talking point here is, Judgement Day cut the same promo that Judgement Day always cut.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he, I mean when I said Dumbledore was, you know, also, uh, you know, he'd have a pride flag, wouldn't he? Dumbledore? Yea, big old guy.


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[Assistant] This was, do you remember with Elias and Kevin Owens? Yeaah. When all of a sudden, like they just mentioned your local sports team and it created this massive boo. But because the boo was so much bigger than they thought it was going to be, the crowd then just made it louder. And then because they made it louder, they just made it even louder. This happened here. The crowd booed Dom.


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[Assistant] Red six and a half. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. So we had a bit more interference and distraction in this match because Rollins came down to attack Matt Riddle, which Ray then chased off.


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[Assistant] And Ray didn't do that, got in the ring, got hit with some moves and he got pinned.


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[Assistant] The end. Uh, and then they celebrated afterwards.


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[Assistant] So, this is a bit of a sidebar, which is unlike you and I.


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[Assistant] Uh, my wife and I were watching a TV show called, uh, The Wilds, I think, on Amazon Prime. It's that one that's basically like Lord of the Flies, but it's girls.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. It's great, great. The first series, very, very good. Second series, I've not been as much into, but the first series I thought was excellent.


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[Assistant] So my, my, my pink knowledge of the albums that I had were misunderstood and the try this, the second one, and then it ends there. So I don't know any sort of Monday stuff.


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[Assistant] Thank you very much. I'd be much appreciated. Lady Marmalade. Uhm, anyway Seth and then Rollins got into an argument backstage and set up a fight pit match. Fight pit. Fight pit. For, uh, Extreme Rules. Yeah. Now.


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[Assistant] It's not like it's your match. I know, but he's got a UFC record.


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[Assistant] Uh, MsTV with Dexter Loomis was announced. Uhm, Ms, uh, recapped how babyface Dexter Loomis has been stalking him.


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[Assistant] I, uh, I'm not having a Minions themed birthday party for my kid this weekend. That is a real shame. And it is a bit of a shame. If it was going to be anything themed, it would be Bluey, obviously. Or Hey Dougie, which I think is like just about equal to Bluey in terms of like what is the best kid show on TV.


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[Assistant] Anyway, like, here's the thing, I've reached the thing with Dex and Loomis.


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[Assistant] It's not for me. I think I made this abundantly clear last week. People let me know very much so that I'm wrong. And that's absolutely fine if people want to disagree with me. Uh, it's, it's just, it's not to my personal tastes. However, much like the comparison I will use.


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[Assistant] The Lana, Rusev, Bobby, Lashley love triangle storyline that they did a number of years ago. I was into that. I thought was dreadful television. And we all thought, everyone in the old chats, everyone in our live chats, me and Ollie all thought it was dreadful television.


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[Assistant] So, a phrase that I try to popularize on this channel is there is a difference between long-term storytelling and a story that takes a long time to tell.


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[Assistant] And, and that is, we're in that territory at the moment. This is not long-term storytelling. This is just, it's taken a while to get to a point. Feels like...


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[Assistant] We don't really know what our end game is and we're not at our end game yet, so we're just finding ways to just delay. It still works for me. Yeah. Just. But it is still week one. Yeah. Of this story. It is. And we've been doing it for like six weeks. I was gonna say.


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[Assistant] And this is kind of the segment I was talking about and actually, you know, with the Mysterions and things like that. Well, I said in the review that like nothing was really furthered on this episode. And I don't really think a lot was furthered than this. People were like, oh, they announced two matches for Extreme Rules. That's bare bones storytelling of like you've set up some matches.


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[Assistant] Uhm, afterwards, judgment dates were Dom, called Ria Mummy. He did do that. Idiot! Fool. She's got a gimmick, you knob! And...


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[Assistant] Then we got a very interesting moment afterwards where Balor approaches AJ Styles. Yes! Essentially offering AJ a spot in Judgement Day. And AJ, while he was like, I'll never side with you.


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[Assistant] No, well, I, well, I mean, look. I have said before on this show, AJ Styles is a flat earther and people have corrected me on that. He's not a flat earther, he just thinks there's an interesting conversation to be had.


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[Assistant] My AJ thing though, did you ever hear the, the TNA call in that he had where someone said, well you got a bit on the homophobic side. Well, he just said, yeah, you're a big icon in the gay community.


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[Assistant] Also, just to clarify on the segment we started last week, I had it confirmed by Sean Walsh out. Dexter is a babyface.


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[Assistant] We got a video promo for Alexa Bliss because she's done nothing since coming back in February or in April.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Also, I thought it was interesting, kind of every part of our themes run.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So they just, they just cut all of it out from her history and just said, this is, she's been this character this whole time and now she carries this dolly. And now we have the character, we have this match of Alexa Bliss versus Bailey. Uh, Bailey came out with Bianca Belair and friend and my wife said to me, what is Lily?


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[Assistant] Or what is the, what is the puppet? Is it a voodoo doll version of her?


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[Assistant] I believe the history of the character was that she, it was a doll that Alexa Bliss had, I said this when she was a spooky character.


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[Assistant] Which is great. I thought you were awesome in this match as well. I did too! The match itself was fine. Yea, but there were moments in there. It was a good match, but I thought Bliss' selling of the knee, which they were working over, were actually really good. I thought their facial reactions to that were really good. Uhm, and then we got some interference.


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[Assistant] Of course we did, from, from Damage Cuttral, and they, uh, Bayley won, and then they beat up Bliss after the match.


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[Assistant] My favourite moment of this entire show, however, was they beat down Bayley after this match. Asuka runs in to make the save.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. Asuka runs in to make the save. Still holding the Lily doll because Alexa gave her the Lily doll before the match started.


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[Assistant] The other thing that's, and I think this might be, well actually I love about this is the fan reaching side of things, is that Alexa was selling her leg.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I think that's actually a little bit of deliciousness. I don't know if that's just Alexa just like knowing that people will pick up on this sort of thing. But there is just like a bit of deliciousness to that. Lexa's got ties to Bray Wyatt. If this is Bray, I want him far away from Alexa Bliss because I think that Bray's character did so much damage to Alexa Bliss that she has struggled to recover from it.


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[Assistant] And I think that she needs a hard reset of her character that is not involving this.


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[Assistant] So maybe it'll be great this time around. I don't know if that is involved, but like I would rather keep them separate if it were me and I had the option. But I did think it was, you know, worth bringing it up.


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[Assistant] Who knows, but it was worth mentioning. Curious, love that leg touch, that's great.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's get into the rest of your, oh no, we've got some Patreon shoutouts to do first. We're going to shout out some Patreon Pledge Hammers over on Patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk.


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[Assistant] You've had the mailbag this week with me and Dan. You had the behind the scenes podcast last week. Tomorrow for, uh, $10 backers. After dark, which will be myself, yourself.


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[Assistant] Abbie, social media Abbie. Lovely. And Randy Andy Datson. Going through anything you want us to talk about on our Patreon page.


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[Assistant] So that's gonna be a wonderful time, and if you are, Hall of Fame Music, one of our $25 and above Patreon playchambers, you get your name shouted out on this show with a fun little nickname like these fine folks, the Superior Dinosaur, Tom Greater X.


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[Assistant] Tony Jabroni. Vincent Shaloki Garcia. Vito Ventura, Pet Detective. Willie Big E Singleton. Zoe Sung 101. The number one villain, Nikolai Martinson.


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[Assistant] Sean Michael's biggest fan, Brett Guy. Bishop Bada.


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[Assistant] That is your hall of fame class for the 20th of September, 2022. Thank you all so much for our Patreon play channels. We love each and every one of you. Reet, let's have some of your auto chats. Dan, would you like to start us off?


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[Assistant] So, we did the poll results. Who is the white rabbit? 72% of our audience think it is Bray.


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[Assistant] 10% think it's carrying cross and 17% think it is other.


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[Assistant] Interesting. So a lot of people leading towards Bray there. More than I thought in fact.


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[Assistant] Exactly yeaah, I agree with Hannah there actually, is that I don't think every wrestling match that they do has been like a man I can't take my eyes off of this product, but I do think that they have created a show that has made you


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[Assistant] Keep your eye on it. This was missable TV. This was not must see TV. Not every week of TV can be though, I do want to stress that.


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[Assistant] The wrestling feels like it means more, but I think the in-ring style is still just a, it is egg white. It is, uh, off white walls.


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[Assistant] Oh no, cause Mama Seed is someone he wants to bone.


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[Assistant] No, no, he wants to just suckle on her. I don't need to say that.


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[Assistant] You know, that was a good game, that. I mean, Majora's Mask is. It's no ocarina of time. Very few things are.


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[Assistant] I mean look, my big controversial take within the Zelda fandom, I think Link's Awakening is the best Zelda game.


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[Assistant] I'll take over. Stevie Howland says, given the reaction judgement they got in their pre-match promo, who'd have thought they'd have needed that to get over was to add Dom.


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[Assistant] Uh, and he continues, I fell in love with wrestling through the in-ring action, especially watching Breton Owen. The crowd being super quiet while the Pete Dunn version of Butcher Montez Ford were in the ring made me sad. In other news, you guys are fantastic.


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[Assistant] Hawke the Outcast 823, last one from me, Dominik had nuclear heat, and I love it, the only thing I got annoyed was the backup, he looked at Ria and said, I have a new mammy now, facepalm. She's your papi, you've got one life.


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[Assistant] Uh, Chris said, uh, I'm really into this white rabbit stuff. You see there was a red circle around the hourglass, which is very Bray. And as you know, I'm ready for Alexa to do something. Uhm, a dark reunion. Alexa reunion with Bray is anything. Corey is awful. Jam that jam.


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[Assistant] That's it. Very good. And it's dead on. You know what I'm talking about. TailsP, the weird thing is usually the invader is the face. Triple H throws Randy through the home. He did do that, yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, my vacations got even more excellent. Yesterday I went to a casino with 400 bucks, channeled the energy of Baron and all baby. It was Corbin time. Left the casino with $1500. Slot decided to give me 900 and I made the rest playing blackjack. A slot gave you 900? I'm not a gambling man. Fair play.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jacob Nelson said, popped onto the stream and literally said, oh nice, it's 10. Figured that was worth a fiver.


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[Assistant] Bishop Badass here said, uhm, oh, this is funny. I paid him to become a pledgehammer on the 9th. I was just curious when do I get my wrestling name? Haha, there you go. You are on this very show, my friend. Although it looks like you just got Bishop Badass. We should really give you an extra one on that. So should we come up with a, what should we do for Bishop Badass?


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[Assistant] Thank you all so much for listening. Uh, we will see you on Thursday for the AEW Dynamite Review. Myself and Oli Davis will be talking about a new AEW World Champion. Will it be Brian Danson? Will it be Jon Moxley? Will it be MJF?


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[Assistant] Who knows, we'll find out once we watch Dynamite tonight. Uhm, nope, tomorrow even. God, I'm not with it at the moment. It's the Queen. It's the Queen throwing me off. Queen. I just heard.


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[Assistant] 8 free craft beers on us. It's a fabulous service. They've sponsored us for many many years and we absolutely adore beerfixity.com. So please, please, please go and click the link. Get yourself a crate of craft beer. It supports us really massively if you do that. So we would really, really appreciate it if you do.


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[Assistant] Thank you all so much for watching. We will see you on Thursday for the AWS Anima review. Jam that jam. I've been Luke and that's Professor Dan Leighton.


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[Assistant] Are making those albums that you think, oh, this is everlasting stuff.


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[Assistant] Big political, philosophical, you know, what it, what it became.


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[Assistant] You make The Dark Side of the Moon, you realize all your wildest dreams, fame, fortune, one of the biggest selling records of all time, one of the greatest albums of all time. And then you go in to make Wish You Were Here.


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[Assistant] What was the, the mood of the band then? Were you all thinking, oh this is great, we've got it down, we know exactly what we're doing, all engines, full steam ahead.


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[Assistant] The famous cover of the two businessmen shaking hands and one of them's getting burned. Did the band give Storm any specific direction?


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[Assistant] We're also singing maybe a little bit for yourselves. Did you feel you were perhaps trapped in your own machine?


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[Assistant] But it, it sells loads. Does it? Yeah. Oh dude, at SummerSlam a couple of years ago, that was like the hottest selling item. A couple of years ago. As last year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, nice to meet you. My name is Selena. I actually know Stephen from Stanford GSB where we're classmates and just found a ton of value and exponent in preparing for getting a product offer from Facebook. So really excited to be here today.


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[Assistant] Uhm, from there I'll do a customer segmentation and prioritize one.


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[Assistant] So it totally makes sense to me as to why we would be interested in moving further into the movie space. I think movies and cinema and entertainment in general is something that people have used to connect together.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I know thinking about the platform, Instagram TV, also pursuing a similar approach, uhm, to really provide a hub for all of that types of content, so.


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[Assistant] I think there's the division also between there's creator content and then there's kind of more premium, uh, kind of produced content. So movies to me,


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[Assistant] Uhm, there are some competitors in the space. I think Netflix would be the first one that comes to mind and it's crowded. I mean, Amazon offers movies as well. Hulu.


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[Assistant] Okay, so now I'm going to do a quick customer segmentation.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the way that I see it, uhm, in terms of segmentation for a movie product, I feel like there's two big buckets. On the one hand, there are creators, and on the other hand, there's viewers. So, digging a little bit deeper on the creator side, I felt like there were three constituencies.


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[Assistant] There's a professional creative vertical, which includes kind of major professional, like Hollywood type, you know, major motion films.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then I would say there's kind of professional influencer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then on the viewer side, I thought I could bucket that maybe around usage like high usage and low usage. So, I think


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[Assistant] You know, what is our goal here? Uhm, you know, is creating a movie product for Facebook. Is there any more specific goal you want me to focus on when I prioritize here? Otherwise I would probably prioritize on, uh, scale or scope and impact. So basically how many potential users are in here and, uh, which segment do we think maybe might be most impacted?


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[Assistant] So I think the one that stands out to me, uhm, would maybe be on the creator's side.


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[Assistant] And I think I want to go in that direction, and here's why. It's specifically around that, uhm, kind of competitive advantage around the social graph.


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[Assistant] Right now when you create content, it's siloed. Either you're alone on your phone or you're like a fully professional person with a whole team. But is there some, is there some way that we can unlock that creative experience that's more social?


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[Assistant] I think if we look about the scope of this segmentation, if we consider


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[Assistant] Uhm, pretty much any user that has created some sort of video content in the past and maybe take a percentage of those that have not yet might be pulled into the market with this product. Uhm, I think that actually has a very large scope.


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[Assistant] But I think right now, uh, Facebook watch already has pretty good UI in terms of viewing, and I think we can leverage that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, around the whole creation process, uh, being not social. So what are some pain points that people experience by creating alone? Uhm, the first one is


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[Assistant] The next one is maybe that it's a lonely experience. I think this one especially came to mind given we are in socially distanced times right now, but that I see a ton of people on my feed, you know, recording themselves alone in their various places.


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[Assistant] So is there some way to make that recording process a little bit more communal?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I know a lot of movies are even trying to be recorded via zoom right now. This interview itself is being recorded via zoom right now. So is there some way we can make that a more and more communal experience?


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[Assistant] And then last one, this was around maybe like, can my audience be bigger? Like as one person, I only have a certain amount of


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[Assistant] So I think I really want to measure like impact to goal. So if our goal is, you know, to,


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[Assistant] Some immediacy around the loneliness of creating and I think this one's differentiated too because most of the ways that individual people create video


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[Assistant] I think it's interesting because it's in, it's almost inherent in the workflow today of how, how video exists. So that to me signals that there's maybe a new way to think about it that could be really additive.


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[Assistant] To mention one that I didn't pick, so lacking skills, I think that that's an interesting one that to me feels a little bit outside of Facebook's wheelhouse. Uhm, I would expect that that's more on the like Final Cut Pro.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I've thought of three potential solutions here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the first one is something we could probably MVP via groups, but this would be around creating creative groups for moral support kind of throughout the movie process. So uhm, you could join this particular subset.


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[Assistant] And I can see this being really beneficial to also have like networking between creatives. Uhm, so that if you're part of this group, then you can.


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[Assistant] The next idea I had was, uh, this new feature for Portal called Portal Audience.


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[Assistant] So this would be a way to really quickly get viewers earlier on in the creative process. So if you're recording via portal, uh, people could just join in and drop in and see what you're up to and you could talk to them. Uhm, but they would be kind of like a one to many.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think there's some privacy concerns there. We could talk about how we can set up those features, but uhm, that could be a fun way to kind of get, get more people in, in your creative room.


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[Assistant] And the last idea, so this one is a little bit out there, but I think there's an opportunity to maybe like create a movie together through Facebook. So.