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[Assistant] I think this LA, this trip really like, it was like revived, cause for like 4 days straight, only time we slept was on 6am flights, for like 3 hours away. That'll wear you out.


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[Assistant] Fun like, it seemed like she was your best friend first and then, like that type of shit.


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[Assistant] President Trump and I could not be more enthusiastic about the opportunity to see Judge Amy Coney Barrett become Justice Amy Coney Barrett. She's a brilliant woman.


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[Assistant] And, uh, she will bring a lifetime of experience and a sizable American family to the Supreme Court of the United States.


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[Assistant] And our hope is in the hearing next week, unlike Justice Kavanaugh received with treatment from you and others, we hope she gets a fair hearing.


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[Assistant] This has been an especially revealing week when it comes to how Donald Trump views presidential power. In just the past few days, he's used his status as president to slam a private company, threaten a local lawmaker, and attack the courts and the free press. For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.


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[Assistant] The Trump administration is in the middle of a contentious battle over the president's controversial travel ban, which a court tonight refused to reinstate. Trump has claimed this ban is urgently necessary for national security, but critics argue it's counterproductive and unconstitutional. So naturally, Trump has made sure to keep his priorities straight.


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[Assistant] Is it terrible that she pushes you to do the right thing or is she terrible at pushing you to do the right thing?


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[Assistant] Now you might think scolding a department store is not very presidential, but to be fair, who can forget this fiery letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to a hat-making shop in 1862?


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[Assistant] Worrisome thing about Trump's tweet is that it was written at 10.51 a.m. But according to the president's daily schedule, he was supposed to be receiving his daily intelligence briefing at 10.30 a.m. So was Trump skipping out on an intelligence briefing to tweet about his daughter's business? White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to clear things up.


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[Assistant] Okay, but here's my question. Why whiskey free when that happened? Did the briefing really take less than 20 minutes? I feel like the president's daily intelligence briefing should take longer than an episode of Vanderpump Rules. Also,


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[Assistant] But not only is the White House not apologizing for Trump's attacks, White House officials are now openly advertising Ivanka Trump's products from the White House briefing room, as Kellyanne Conway did this morning.


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[Assistant] From now on the only network Kellyanne Conway should be allowed on is QVC.


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[Assistant] And incidentally, before you take Conway's advice and run out and buy Ivanka Trump's products, you might want to consider that some of her scarves were recalled last year because they do not meet the federal flammability standards for clothing textiles posing a burn risk. Of course, those were the old federal flammability standards. I'm sure they'll be looser in a Trump administration.


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[Assistant] Before those suspects are found guilty. So Trump asked if he, as the president, should step in.


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[Assistant] What is a good way to destroy someone's career? Oh, I know. You should make them stand behind you at a press conference.


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[Assistant] Very hard. Very hard to bounce back. But Trump hasn't just used his presidential power to threaten private companies and state lawmakers. He's also used his office to attack the free press by repeatedly claiming there's a conspiracy in the media to cover things up. Like what he claims is the historically high crime rate.


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[Assistant] Or how about Trump's claim that the media is also, for some nefarious reason, covering up acts of terrorism? Trump claimed on Monday that in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to record it.


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[Assistant] And the White House then issued a list of acts of terrorism they claimed the media did not sufficiently cover, prompting CNN, in turn, to go back through its coverage and find its segments covering all of those incidents, which led to this visual of CNN filling its own screen with footage of past CNN segments.


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[Assistant] I knew this would happen. CNN is folding in on itself.


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[Assistant] But there is one terrorist incident that really has been ignored, not by the media, but by Trump himself. A shooting at a mosque in Quebec by a white right-wing terrorist. Trump has not issued a single public comment about that incident, so CNN's Jake Tapper asked Kellyanne Conway why he kept silent.


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[Assistant] Because it sure feels like he does. In fact, here's a list of some of the things Donald Trump has found time to tweet about.


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[Assistant] At this point, when I forget to pick up milk, there's a part of me that's afraid I'm gonna come home to an angry Trump tweet about that.


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[Assistant] Despite Trump's attacks on the media, it is of course Trump himself who continues to peddle falsehoods and deny reality. For example, on Tuesday, Trump again repeated the claim that he does not have a relationship with Vladimir Putin, tweeting, Please stop using the term haters.


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[Assistant] And the haters are gonna stop hating once I turn this economy around by making it rain, biatches. Still, he's right. He's right.


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[Assistant] Anyone who claims Trump does have a relationship with Vladimir Putin is just a hater. Like this guy.


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[Assistant] So Trump has used his office to threaten private companies, state lawmakers, and the press, and now he's also attacking the courts over his controversial travel ban. After Judge halted the ban, Trump tweeted Wednesday, Damn, maybe you are a B-list rapper.


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[Assistant] Insist that he couldn't fathom why the court would block his order and claim that Americans should trust him on the legality of the ban because he's super smart.


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[Assistant] There's been a series of leaks this week from sources inside the White House about Trump's competence for the job that would seem to undercut his claim that he understands things. For example, White House aid recently told the Huffington Post the commander in chief doesn't like to read long memos. So, preferably, they must be no more than a single page. They must have bullet points, but not more than nine per page.


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[Assistant] In fact ideally his intelligence briefings would be delivered via meme.


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[Assistant] So Trump is using the powers of the presidency to attack the courts, the press, and private companies. The president should not be using his office to benefit his family business. Next thing you know, EZD's gonna call a press conference to advertise his latest album. This has been A Closer Look.


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[Assistant] You know what? I'm just proud that we even scored points at all. This is our first game in the big leagues and it's just an honor to be here.


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[Assistant] I'm playing a kenku lady, which is a bird person who has been cursed to only speak by mimicking audio that she has heard before.


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[Assistant] Did one of them have a really tall instrument? Like a lightning rod?


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[Assistant] Excellent, alright, lay it on us. Um, uh, Sweet Caroline is going to, uh, say very quietly, I put a spell on you because she's trying to do an illusion spell and doesn't actually want to ruin it, but she has to say something to do the spell. So she's gonna cast Phantasmal Force and create an illusory sue, second sue.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Raq. You really make me happy. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Or if you'd rather, just take a $200 retainer.


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[Assistant] Or if you'd rather, just take a $200 retainer.


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[Assistant] The German command has given the order to march. At this moment, Nazi troops are streaming across our frontiers. In our present defenseless condition, resistance is worse than useless. Citizens of Czechoslovakia, we must bear the trials that lie ahead with fortitude and courage. Be of good heart and remember,


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[Assistant] Whitebourne, a health resort. But I hardly think that Herr Beaumache is there for his health. The only place across the bay is the Darkland Naval Base.


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[Assistant] You have expressed yourself very clearly. He will be placed in a concentration camp until your father comes to his senses. Must you drag my daughter into this? I press with you, Herr Beaumache. Hello? What, here? Very good. Admiral Hassinger is on his way up.


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[Assistant] Just one moment. Marston, conduct Herr Bormasch and his daughter into the next room.


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[Assistant] Oh, Marston, he has tried there, but she refused to listen. He is largely responsible for tracing Burmarsh in England, completely outwitting the British military intelligence.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry to disturb you at this hour, Herzog, but we have to alter our plans. We have just received instructions from headquarters in Munich. The Bomarsch is to go there at once by the first train.


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[Assistant] Yes, sir. Listen, arson, you are right. We have been completely fooled.


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[Assistant] Hotsoff is not known at the war office. There is no officer of that name on the army list.


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[Assistant] What? Listen, we can't afford to take risks. Carry on with Herzog to Munich. Let him think he's getting away with it, understand? I'll get on to army headquarters there.


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[Assistant] Alright. I know from nothing. I forgot everything I ever knew.


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[Assistant] You heard what she said. We went to the library. What's wrong with that?


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[Assistant] Wouldn't try that if I were you, Jerry. You know that Nick stops at nothing.


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[Assistant] My mother might hear. Then who knows, Nick might come back.


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[Assistant] Not me. I'm leaving tonight. Either you're coming with me or you're not. Oh, all right. Only I'll have to go home first and pick up a few things.


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[Assistant] It was easy. Like falling off a log. That's why I'm staying here.


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[Assistant] I wanted to marry him. To settle down and raise a family like every girl does.


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[Assistant] I get it. You borrowed it. In other words, it's hot.


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[Assistant] Oh, if you don't keep off the streets at night, she'll make her next appearance in jail.


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[Assistant] You're late, Sean. Fine time for the post office to keep.


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[Assistant] Well, let's hope in that, yes. Give him a little time and encouragement.


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[Assistant] I promise you this much, if I can find him, I'll get the gun off him.


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[Assistant] One day they'll carry it out. You can't stay here.


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[Assistant] I was thinking. You are a stranger. We both are. We scarcely met when we quarreled and parted. And I love you.


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[Assistant] You said that three times. You knew I was in love with you the night I brought Billy home.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to. I'm asking you to marry me and share me farm. Oh, here we go.


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[Assistant] If I pay you by the hour, I expect an hour's work, not 55 minutes. Milligan.


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[Assistant] I shall recover it from your wages. The show was an old one, Captain. And it's all rock up on the North Hill. When I want your opinion, Duggan, I shall ask for it and not before. Is that understood? Kennedy, McGann, Boyle. I expect you to finish work on the 12 acre tonight. But Captain, we only began noon yesterday. I know when you began. Every time I give an order here, I get an argument. Do some of you fellows a power of good to spend a few years in the army. Scully, I want the Prince saddled here at 11 o'clock.


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[Assistant] Land. This country's organization, Mayor Connell, used to be the Ribbon Boys, then the Finians. Now it's this land.


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[Assistant] They're getting above themselves, I intend to make that perfectly clear. I will not have any of this jacks as good as his master nonsense here. Could spread, you know.


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[Assistant] This politician fellow Parnell, careering up and down the country, is the cause of half the trouble. Van donor himself too. Simply can't understand a man like that.


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[Assistant] And I pride myself on being an open-minded man. I've listened very patiently to your arguments. Very patiently indeed. But one thing I will not tolerate is dictation.


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[Assistant] Look here, Egan, I've had enough of your incidents. You stick to your public house and your hook string of bad whiskey. What right have you to come here and talk for these men?


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[Assistant] You know, there are times when I can scarcely believe my own ears.


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[Assistant] Must be mad. It's a ten times better farm than Michael Figgins.


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[Assistant] Well there's nobody in the house either, except this creature, and I caught her on the way out. Come on you, what do you know?


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[Assistant] What the devil do you mean by forcing your way into my house and persuading my men and my servants to leave their work? Answer me.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to read a lot of seditious drivel. I asked you why you came to my house and told my servants to leave.


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[Assistant] You have the temerity to stand there and threaten me with some, some criminal charade. Not criminal, Captain.


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[Assistant] How dare you address me in terms like that? In decent conditions, I'd have you horsewhipped.


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[Assistant] You'll get a great deal more than you expect, you peasant upstart. And whoever's with you in this. I've close on 300 pounds worth of crops standing today.


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[Assistant] And I'll save every sheaf of them, in spite of you and a thousand parnells. I'll have every landlord in Ireland behind me in this. And I'll break every man jack of you.


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[Assistant] I am confident now that in a very short while we shall teach these ruffians a lesson they richly deserve.


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[Assistant] I thought a week at first, ten days perhaps. It's over three weeks now and they haven't halved the crops in yet. It's hitting me badly, Colonel. Very badly.


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[Assistant] I had a letter from him this morning saying he was giving the prince a trial on Thursday. Hmm.


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[Assistant] Well, the horse was entered by Davin. There's not much difference, surely, in the mere changing of a rider.


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[Assistant] You ask that after what happened at the race course today. If Davin here is speaking the truth, Colonel, I must send some men to protect Killain.


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[Assistant] If there's a chance of your getting the Killeans away, Devin, your horse is in the stable.


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[Assistant] Extraordinary letter here, Humphrey. A fella called Boycott out in the west of Ireland. Can't get his harvest in. Never can, there. It's always raining. Seems his labourers have left him in a body.


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[Assistant] Serasa, we are one, my child.


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[Assistant] Now, the resurrection of Jubileus shall be completed. We are the eyes overseeing the world. We are the eyes overseeing a new era, a new reality, to which we will devote ourselves eternally.


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[Assistant] Now the game is very simple. If you look over here you will see my face. And my face will be spitting various forms of fruit and produce. Your job is to stand behind that glass and not flinch when I spit at you. However, we have added an extra layer to this game.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna give you this apron to put on to protect this fabulous dress. No, thank you. Okay, here is, I'm just gonna, hang on, let's uh, add a little touch more to that.


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[Assistant] Alright, Kate. How you feeling?


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[Assistant] Oh no, I'll let you, I'll let you tie that up. Darling, it's around my butt. That's the wrong place. I'll never get it around that.


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome to Overboard, Polygon's card and board game show.


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[Assistant] Today, we're playing Battle Spirits Saga, a collectible card game built for strategic play and exciting comebacks.


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[Assistant] It's a bit more complex than most of the games we play here on Overboard.


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[Assistant] So we'll go over the basic rules now and fill you in on any other relevant details as we go along. First,


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[Assistant] Both players need to build a deck of at least 50 cards.


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[Assistant] You'll fill your deck with Spirit cards for battling, Nexus cards with persistent effects on the gameplay, and Magic cards, which are single-use cards with powerful effects.


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[Assistant] The other key component is a pile of these cores, which are used to summon and power up your cards. They also indicate how much life each player has.


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[Assistant] Once you've got your decks, both players need to set up their playing fields. Five cores are placed on each player's life track.


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[Assistant] Another three cores are placed in the Reserve, along with a special Soul Core, which is treated like a regular core but also has special effects with certain cards. You'll use cores from your Reserve to play your cards.


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[Assistant] The rest of your cores are placed away from your playing area in the void, and you can only access them at specific times.


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[Assistant] Next, draw four cards from your deck, and then decide who's going first.


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[Assistant] Once you've established that, both players need to decide if they're going to take a mulligan. If you don't like the four cards you drew, you can put them at the bottom of the deck and draw four new cards.


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[Assistant] But if you like your hand, you can keep it and draw one extra card.


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[Assistant] Now you're ready to begin. Each turn in Battle Spirit Saga consists of seven steps. This might sound like a lot, but most of these steps are extremely simple. For example, step one is the start step, which is just when you start your turn.


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[Assistant] Easy. Step two is the core step. The player takes one core from the void and adds it to their reserve. Unless you're the first player, in which case you skip this step on your first turn. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Step three is the draw step, where you draw a card from your deck. Step four is the refresh step. This is when you'll move any cores from your trash back into your reserve and refresh all of your exhausted spirits on the field so you can use them again in the next step.


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[Assistant] Step five is the main step, and it's where the real action begins.


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[Assistant] This is when you can summon Spirits, Nexus, and Magic cards from your hand.


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[Assistant] Every card has a summoning cost, which you'll pay for in cores by moving them from your reserve or other cards on the field.


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[Assistant] If you summon a spirit, you'll also need at least one more core, which is placed directly on the card and represents the spirit's level.


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[Assistant] During the main step, you can place additional cores on your spirits and nexus cards to increase their level and make them more powerful.


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[Assistant] Each spirit and nexus card will also have at least one of these symbols in the lower right corner.


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[Assistant] For every one of these symbols on your field, you can pay one less core to play a card.


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[Assistant] But that doesn't mean you can make all your cards free just by having a bunch of these symbols on the field.


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[Assistant] Each card also has a reduction limit, located next to its summoning cost.


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[Assistant] This card has one reduction symbol, so its cost can be reduced by one, whereas this card can be reduced by three.


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[Assistant] You can use these reduction symbols on every card you play, but remember, no matter how much you reduce a spirit card's summoning cost by, you'll still need at least one core on the card. Without it, a spirit is immediately destroyed.


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[Assistant] So long as you have the cores to pay for them, you can play as many Spirit Nexus or Magic cards as you want during the main step. You can also prepare a special kind of Magic card called a Burst card by placing it face down on the field.


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[Assistant] These are special magic cards that you don't have to pay for, but are only activated when certain special conditions are met. Once you're done placing your cards, you can move on to step six, the attack step.


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[Assistant] This is when you get your chance to knock off some of your opponent's life cores by attacking them with your spirits. Unless you're the first player on your first turn, in which case you must skip this step. Sorry.


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[Assistant] During the attack step, you can declare a battle by selecting one spirit you want to attack with and exhausting it. As soon as an attack is declared, a flash window is triggered, which gives both players a chance to play cards with this flash symbol from either their hand or the field to help them in battle. As long as they have the cores to pay for them.


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[Assistant] Once the flash window closes, the defending player needs to make a decision.


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[Assistant] They can either choose one of their refreshed spirits to block the attack, or they can refrain and take a hit to their life instead. In which case, they'll take a core out of their life track and move it to their reserve.


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[Assistant] If you lose all five of these, you lose the game, so be careful.


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[Assistant] If they choose to block the attack, then a second flash window is triggered, giving you both the chance to play more flash cards.


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[Assistant] Once the second flash window closes, the battle resumes, and whichever spirit has the highest total BP or battle points is declared the victor.


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[Assistant] The losing spirit is then sent to that player's trash and any cores on it are moved to the player's reserve.


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[Assistant] You can attack with as many spirits as you want during your turn, and your opponent can choose to block as many as they're able to.


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[Assistant] But remember, once your spirit attacks, it gets exhausted until your next turn. Which means you can't use it to defend yourself if your opponent decides to attack you on their turn.


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[Assistant] Finally, after finishing all their battles in the attack step, the player reaches step seven. The end step. This is simply the end of their turn.


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[Assistant] Easy. That's the basics of a turn in Battlespirit Saga. But remember, with each turn and loss of life, you gain an additional core. So the longer a game goes, the more powerful you become.


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[Assistant] Your strategy can also change dramatically depending on which color deck you're playing with, and of course, the cards themselves add lots of devious little wrinkles to these rules, but we'll explain those as we go along. For now, it is time to duel. Where the hell am I?


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[Assistant] I will not mulligan, so I will also draw a card.


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[Assistant] Cool. Thank you for your permission. I'm gonna do start step, core step, draw step. Let's see here. What's the power on that, on that bad boy?


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[Assistant] No, yeah, you're welcome. I will spend four cores.


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[Assistant] To play Galaxy Dragon. Andromedios!


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[Assistant] Uhm, when I summon a Star Dragon Spirit card, I can count each symbol on this spirit as two symbols when calculating cost reduction. He's the most power- no, he's not. He's a trusted member of my red deck.


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[Assistant] A four thousand. I will play this rain needle.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I'll put one on. Uh, this guy. Neither players life can be reduced by an attack from a spirit that has 2000 or fewer BP.


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[Assistant] I will then power this guy up to level 2.


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[Assistant] Is, I will attack with Galaxy Dragon, Andromedios. Now, now that he's level 2, when this spirit attacks, I can reveal the top 3 cards of my deck, and then I can add 1 star dragon spirit card from the revealed cards to my hand.


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[Assistant] Got it, thank you. Uh, alright, start step. Core step. Draw step. Refresh.


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[Assistant] I will spend one core to play another Divine Halberd Dragon arc.


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[Assistant] Let's, let's switch some things around.


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[Assistant] My apologies. Thank you. Uhm, and then, I'm going to hit you with, we'll do another Divine Halberd Dragon arc.


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[Assistant] Sure, this one time? Yes. How about a second time? Uh, I'm going to hit you with, uh, let's do, we'll do Galaxy Dragon. I will hit you again.


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[Assistant] To play Big Bang Energy, select one spirit, it gains two thousand. So this is up to three thousand now.


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[Assistant] So then I will, uh, block it with this.


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[Assistant] Uh, select one of your opponent's spirits with 3000 or fewer BP and destroy it. So I will get rid of, uh-


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[Assistant] And then I'll play Rain Needle for free. Oh wait, I don't have a core for that.


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[Assistant] And, well not finally, I don't know what magic cards you have, but I will attack with Divine Halberd Dragon arc.


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[Assistant] Well, Chrysanthemum, I learned a lot about you and your people and your lore and your inner monologue, but...


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[Assistant] So I will take this with great honor, and I will do you proud.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's right, oooooh, what's happening?


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't have time for this. I, uh, am going to leave, uh, but it was nice to meet you. I'm, I'm getting out of here.


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[Assistant] Start step, core step, draw step. Let's see here. I'm going to spend two cores to play penton.


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[Assistant] So, uh, I can reduce the cost of the first Magic card. Uh, I use each turn by one if I put up level two. We'll see if I do that. I'm just gonna put it on the field.


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[Assistant] Uh, Chief Engineer, have you played


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[Assistant] Could you drink that a little louder? I would love that so much. I will spend one core to play another penton.


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[Assistant] This goes on my reserve.


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[Assistant] Got it. And did that one also do that? Yes. So all your guys basically have 2,000 defense. Plus. Yes. Got it. Okay.


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[Assistant] I'll put a core in it. I can, when summoned, select a yellow magic card that costs four or fewer from your trash and return it to your hand. However, I do not have one. So, that doesn't matter. And then, you know, let's actually boost it up to...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I can play this for free because thanks to my pentons, a gleam of hope, which lets me draw a card. Uh, so I will do that. Okay. I will spend two cores to play a Gale Yale. Uh, and I will put one core on it for now. Uhm, and then, I see now why the white deck is so feared.


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[Assistant] That's 10,000, uh, I, uh, I will take the hit. I'll play my burst card.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I can reveal one card from the top of my deck for each Yellow Spirit and Nexus I control.


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[Assistant] Uh, and that is exactly how you should do it when you're playing this game for real. Uh, that's proper combo. Let's move these onto here. And then...


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[Assistant] For my flash window, I'm going to select with angelic pressure for free, uh, because of my pentons.


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[Assistant] Go by the written rules on the cards, yes.


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[Assistant] And then I will end my turn. A lot's happened. I've got this one.


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[Assistant] These are, this is at 3000 right now because of my exhaust nexus. This is less. I will destroy both of them with Burning Force.


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[Assistant] Alright, start step, core step, draw step, refresh step.


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[Assistant] I'm going to spend two chords to play a pentatonic.


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[Assistant] There he thinks, okay. So magic cards, uh, let's see, all the magic cards go into my hand. The rest will go on the bottom. I think it's time to party. Uhm, I'll go ahead and put another one on here. Just in case.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Let's do, uh, let's attack with, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] Chrysanthemum would want me to save these for last, so.


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[Assistant] Let's attack with, uh, Angel Throne.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter that much to me, uh, how you lose. I block. So this is destroyed. Penton.


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[Assistant] This is for you, Chrysanthemum. I don't know why I'm so friendly. She was actually very rude to me, but you know.


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[Assistant] You and Chrysanthemum? Oh, no, no, you. You and me. Well, I haven't been defeated yet. Oh, that's true.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's just one more of you. Yeah. This is pretty fun. Why not?


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[Assistant] I shan't. Cool. I am gonna start, do a start step, take horse step. Oh no. First player for the first time, okay.


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[Assistant] I'm going to be doing a start step. I will not be doing a core step, because I'm the first player. I will do a draw step. There's nothing to refresh. Main step, let's see here. Spend four cores, and I will play Fortress Metropolis Nomen City. This card was given to me by my best friend.


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[Assistant] To play type 90 tank mobile.


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[Assistant] Alright. Alright, I will do start step, core step, draw step, refresh step. I will spend three cores.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'll just destroy, uhm, my type 90 tech debil.


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[Assistant] I'm going to put, uh, three cores on it. What this guy does is during opponent's attack step


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[Assistant] Very sorry to hear that. I mean, I think...


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[Assistant] In my room, they usually just go like, now we're cooking.


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[Assistant] But in your realm, they're very excited about the fact that they have something to-


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[Assistant] I don't think you could have taken cores off of this. Because it can't be affected by purple things.


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[Assistant] I will take the hit. That's 7,000, correct?


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[Assistant] Let's put this one up to three so that my level two ability happens again where if they attack they can, uh, select a spirit that costs three or a few more turn into their hand. And we'll put three on this one, make it nice and beefy.


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[Assistant] Fortress God Knight, uh, is going to attack for 5,000. I select an opponent's spirit that costs 3 or fewer and return it. So I'm going to return this to your hand.


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[Assistant] Thank you, uh, that was, uh, a good, a good battle.


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[Assistant] This will serve to introduce Surgeon Colonel von Bregstein, Chief Psychiatrist of the 3rd Army Corps. He is making a tour of inspection of your institution.


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[Assistant] The new Germany has no room for her kind. Sentimentalists might debate the point, but we scientists must be practical.


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[Assistant] The authorities wanted certain information from that one.


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[Assistant] Your patients are all disarmed. Oh yes, don't be afraid. Everything is taken away from them. Even their belts. Colonel, I wish you the best of luck. When you are finished, I will be in my office.


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[Assistant] The patient drove it out through the gate. The guard thought... The guard thought you thought...


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[Assistant] You are continually sending out signals that inform the universe who you are in this moment.


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[Assistant] Those signals will either attract or fend off other vibrational beings, events, and experiences.


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[Assistant] Angel repel that which is out of sync with your state. If your energetic self radiates wealth and abundance, your physical reality will reflect wealth and abundance for your physical being.


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[Assistant] If your energetic self radiates anger and frustration, your physical reality will reflect that as well.


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[Assistant] Once you can accept that your vibrational self attracts compatible patterns,


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[Assistant] It becomes clear that if you want to experience something different in your life,


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[Assistant] You must somehow change the signals you're putting out.


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[Assistant] You are so much more powerful than you ever imagined.


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[Assistant] You can fundamentally change the way you experience the world and become aligned with your ideal life.


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[Assistant] Quantum physics state that everything in our universe is energy.


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[Assistant] When you put your body under a large microscope, you will see that your body is made of cells.


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[Assistant] And when you further focus, you will see that your cells are made of tissues, molecules, and atoms. And when you zoom further,


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[Assistant] You will notice that created atoms and molecules are nothing but energy vibrating at a certain frequency. According to the laws of universe, energy is constantly vibrating at a certain speed. This is exactly what law of vibration states as well. Everything is vibrating, and nothing is at rest.


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[Assistant] Everything you see around you is vibrating at a different frequency.


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[Assistant] There are millions and millions of subatomic particles moving and vibrating. These particles are made of energy that is vibrating at a very fast speed that forms atoms.


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[Assistant] And atoms will then form molecules. And the millions of molecules will form the solid as what we knew as a desk.


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[Assistant] Our thoughts are energies in vibration too. The law of attraction, which based on the law of vibration, states that we attract what we are sending out to the universe. When we think a certain thought,


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[Assistant] Our brain cells or neurons will vibrate at a certain frequency and this high speed energy will attract whatever you send out through your thoughts.


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[Assistant] As your conscious mind dwells habitually on the thoughts of a certain frequency these become firmly embedded in your subconscious mind. These thoughts will become your dominant vibration and this dominant vibration sets up a resonance


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[Assistant] With other similar vibrations that draw them into your life.


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[Assistant] Perhaps the best scientific way to explain how the law of vibration works is using a tuning fork. A tuning fork can serve as a useful illustration of how a vibrating object can produce sound.


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[Assistant] When you get two tuning forks with the same frequency and hit one with a rubber hammer, it will vibrate and transmit sound waves into its surrounding.


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[Assistant] And experiences that are vibrating in the same frequency will be attracted to you. This is the same as resonance.


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[Assistant] Albert Einstein once coined the words spooky action at a distance, in which he said that an object can be moved, changed, or otherwise affected without being physically touched by another object.


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[Assistant] Therefore, whatever energy vibration you send out to the universe, you will attract into your life.


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[Assistant] You can spend all your time and work hard on your goals, but if you do not change the vibration, you will never achieve your dreams and manifest your goals. This is why we often experience the things are not moving in our way moments.


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[Assistant] When your energy vibration is not in alignment with your desires in life.


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[Assistant] Things will seem to go against you, regardless of what you do.


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[Assistant] You can put in extra hours to work on your dreams, work harder, find ways, learn better strategy, hire more talented people to your company, get better business partners, etc. But if your vibration did not change, you will eventually suffer the same outcomes. For example,


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[Assistant] When an entrepreneur fails at a business, and then they start another business, they will experience the same failure. When they finally get it,


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[Assistant] They change their vibration in harmony with their goals, and then they will manifest the success they've always wanted. When your vibration is in alignment with the order you are placing with the universe.


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[Assistant] Things will come to you automatically, without much effort. Things will become so smooth that you seem to have the mightest touch and able to turn every business into a successful venture. Let's consider this scientific experiment conducted by a group of Russian scientists.


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[Assistant] They conducted an experiment where they took away a mother rabbit from her babies and kept her in a submarine dive deep into the sea.


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[Assistant] The babies were kept in the laboratory, thousands of miles away. The mother rabbit was hooked up with sophisticated equipment to measure the brain waves. Scientists then killed one of the baby rabbits and observed that the brain waves of the mother rabbit went haywire at precisely the same time when her baby was killed.


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[Assistant] It proved although the mother rabbit and the babies were thousands of miles apart, their vibrations were in sync with each other.


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[Assistant] This is the same principle which is discussed in the law of vibration.


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[Assistant] You may not fully understand how vibrations work, but there could be a resonance between two distant vibrations. Scientists conduct another study using the basketball players. They were separated into three groups. The first group did nothing. The second group was told to practice shooting and the third practice shooting through visualization.


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[Assistant] After a few weeks, scientists identified the shooting performance of the first group had declined, while the second group of basketball players improved their shooting skills. The third group of players who didn't touch the ball


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[Assistant] This is why the law of vibration and the law of attraction work.


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[Assistant] When your vibration is in harmony with what you desire, your desires will automatically come to you.


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[Assistant] Or in other words, you will somehow attract what you want in your life. The scientific study on the amygdala, the brain's emotional center, shows that if we are fearful and anxious ourselves, we automatically induce feelings of fear and anxiety in others.


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[Assistant] Everything happens in the inner world first. The outer world is a mere echo or the fruits of what has happened in the inner world.


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[Assistant] The greater part of us is nonphysical. This may sound a little confusing, but your goal is to align your vibration with the vibration of the things that you want in your life.


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[Assistant] When your vibration is in alignment with the things that you want, the universe will deliver it to you. You will feel like you are so lucky, and things just come to you without much effort. So how can you do that?


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[Assistant] Well, to put it in a simple term, you just need to make sure your thoughts and feelings are in harmony with what you want.


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[Assistant] You need to act as if the things that you want have already been manifested and you are living them right now. Most people understand their thoughts, but they often forget that their feelings play an important role in the manifestation process too. You need to feel as if your desire has already been manifested. This will close the gap between your inner world and your outer world.


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[Assistant] There are five steps you can use to raise your vibration and use the law of vibration to manifest what you want in life. Number one, establish your intentions right.


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[Assistant] The first step to manifesting your desires using the law of vibration is to set your intention right. Most people have no idea what they want, let alone manifesting it. So they are too vague with their intentions. They may want to own a successful business in one moment. The next they feel doubtful and prefer to continue to work in their existing career.


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[Assistant] This sends confusing messages to the universe and your vibrations will not be in alignment with what you want.


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[Assistant] Another thing is that most people are too vague with their desires. They want to be rich, but they have no idea how much exactly they want. When they get a raise of $100, they are $100 richer, but they feel that that is not enough and associate with a negative feeling.


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[Assistant] Therefore, set your intention right. Make sure you understand what you desire and what you want to achieve in your life. It is only when you know what you want, you can send the right and consistent message to the universe, and the universe will generate what you desire into your life.


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[Assistant] The second step is to raise your vibration through visualization. You may already know that in order to manifest your dreams, you need to focus on aligning your vibration with the things that you desire.


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[Assistant] And visualization is one of the most powerful tools that can help you in this.


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[Assistant] When you visualize what you want, your mind cannot differentiate between what is real and what is being visualized. This is why when you visualize squeezing lemon juice into your mouth, you will have more saliva in your mouth. Your mind makes what you visualize real. Thus, practice visualizing the things that you want to be, do, and have in your life.


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[Assistant] See yourself as you are already there, achieving and living your dreams. You must see it vivid so your mind will make it real and raise your vibration to match for the things that you want.


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[Assistant] The key is to focus on maintaining the vibration to be in harmony with your dreams and the manifestation process will happen.


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[Assistant] Tip number three, increase your vibration through emotions.


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[Assistant] The third step is to raise your vibration through your emotions. And this is where most people get it wrong about the law of vibration and the law of attraction. The majority thought that all they need to do is think about what they desire and the manifestation process will happen. This is only a half-truth. You need to raise your vibration to a higher level through your emotions too.


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[Assistant] You cannot just dream about what you want and hope for things to happen.


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[Assistant] You need to feel it with your emotions. For example, do not just visualize what you want. You must associate your emotions and feelings into the process. Feel as if you are already successful.


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[Assistant] For example, if you truly believe that you are going to win the lottery, do you think you will hesitate to buy a lottery ticket? No, you will not.


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[Assistant] And if you believe without a shadow of a doubt that your business is going to succeed, do you think you will work on it? Yes, you will too.


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[Assistant] Most people do not believe that they can achieve their dreams and manifest what they want, and that's why they don't take action. All they do is to think of what they desire, but deep within their hearts they do not actually believe that it is possible for them.


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[Assistant] Never let this happen to you. Choose to trust the process and believe in it. More importantly, when you truly believe in it you will act on it.


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[Assistant] Relax and ready to receive. Finally, you need to let go and be willing to receive. Do not be over obsessed with the things that you want. When you become so obsessed, you will feel stressed the moment you did not receive the outcomes you want.


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[Assistant] Most people are so obsessed with the result that it has created the opposite effect and caused the manifestation process to fail. Consider it as a growing tree. All you do is to make sure you supply suitable soil and expose the plant to sunlight and water it regularly.


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[Assistant] Can you rush the process by watering the plant for 24 hours? No, you cannot. You will certainly kill the plant if you do so. The same goes for your intent to attract and manifest in your life. You cannot rush the process. Do what you are supposed to do, and then let go, and let the universe deliver it to you.


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[Assistant] Now you know how to use the law of vibration the correct way. If you want more valuable videos like this, please like and subscribe and share the video with the people you care about. Thanks for watching.


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[Assistant] Will you come with us, sir? What's the meaning of this? I'm sorry, Colonel Van Rao, but I order to detain you. Colonel Van Rao? But I'm not Colonel Van Rao.


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[Assistant] You cannot deny that this is your car. I have the license number here.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, Colonel, believe me. But I have my orders. Perhaps you can identify yourself.


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[Assistant] Hail and well met adventurers! Welcome to a very special episode of Overboard. We are joined today by the hosts of Polygon's newest podcast, Galaxy Brains, a conversation starter for the TV and movie Obsessed. Please welcome Dave Schilling and Jonah Ray to the metaphorical table.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're here to prove once and for all at Polygon who, if anyone, is noble enough to join an metaphorical round table. Right now we're not, we're at five different tables, but one of them, uh, actually I think none of them are round. Does anybody have a round table?


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[Assistant] You find yourselves at a tavern where many roads meet.


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[Assistant] Almost one year ago to the day, each of you was visited by the mysterious Green Knight. Although you were miles apart, it seems that these visits occurred simultaneously. You all harmed the Green Knight in some way, with the Knight's promise that he would return the damage done to him one year hence.


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[Assistant] Now, shortly before that year is up, you meet at the beginning of your journey. Over the course of the night, you exchange stories. You agree to go on this quest to the Green Chapel together.


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[Assistant] Now, I would like each of you to go around and introduce your character, your name, any, any visual information you want to share about your person, as well as what fatal blow you dealt to the Green Knight one year and a day past. Uh, Jonah, why don't you start us off?


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[Assistant] Aww. And Josh! Not last but never least, tell us about your character.


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[Assistant] What a noble group, noble question mark group of adventurers we have gathered amongst us today. Uh, for the audience, I just wanted to give you a quick heads up that this game, although very similar to Dungeons and Dragons, operates in a slightly different manner than you might expect, because this is an honor based system.


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[Assistant] D20 and honor based system, in which our characters must try to maintain an honorable stance. Uh, if they take too much dishonor, they die. But they're gonna take dishonor quite frequently, as you'll hear, and they will have to maintain uh, honorable actions, which I point out because again,


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[Assistant] Of you who've played quite a lot of Dungeons and Dragons, you know it can be quite difficult to remain honorable in such a land. There are certain actions that are...


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[Assistant] By default, dishonorable, such as striking or harming an innocent, foe or unarmed foe, running away from a battle, uses of trap, trickery or deceit, needless destruction or death, and using poison of any kind for any purpose. Aside from that, whether an action is honorable or dishonorable will be something that we have to discuss.


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[Assistant] Uh, is there anything else you think is important for the audience to know about the system or about your characters before we dive right in?


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[Assistant] Mouth on and mouth off. So the three of you, wake up.


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[Assistant] The woods on this path are like nothing you've ever seen before. Mysteriously gnarled branches, dark shadows, and a cold wind surrounds you. You're focused so much on the eeriness that you almost don't notice the overturned cart right in front of you.


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[Assistant] First off, what you do, since nobody answered, is take one point of dishonor. Every time we start encounter, you take a point of dishonor because you are


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[Assistant] Being waylaid, basically. You're making the green knight wait, and that's a dishonorable action in this world.


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[Assistant] Whoever rolls highest on this will be the encounter leader and this is basically our initiation round. Every encounter begins with initiation. So go ahead and roll your authority. I rolled an eight. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, you may, you may acquire more honor or dishonor after that fact. So think wisely about when you believe this encounter is over. Otherwise, uh, you're first up. So what do you want to do? You, you have come upon an overturned cart and just a bunch of dead bodies.


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[Assistant] Do you have a preferred skill that you would like to apply to this? Something like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, intuition might give you information, or a vigilance perhaps.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, Simone, you are doing, uhm, what kind of check?


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[Assistant] So as part of the honor system, an action fails, uh, or succeeds depending on your current dishonor level. Uhm, so if it's an honorable action, if it's equal to or higher, it is a success, which I think it should be, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, so with your beautiful, beautiful, barely there vigilance role, but success nonetheless, there's no gradient here. Uhm, you crouch down by one of the nearest peasants, looks to be just like a


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[Assistant] Uh, she has been stabbed through and there is a sword not too far from.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where she lies as though she had dropped it when she fell. Uh, but you do notice she doesn't have any sort of sheath or, uhm, any sort of armor or anything that would suggest that she had been previously carrying a sword.


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[Assistant] Uh, you also, as you bend down to study this woman, spot a rustling in the bushes not far away. And you can see when you peer into those bushes a few figures. By the look of the one closest to you, they seem emaciated and in rough shape. They have not noticed you and they do not have weapons drawn.


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[Assistant] Uh, and that leaves us to Jonah. What did you want to do on your turn?


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[Assistant] Okay, so you like reach, are you calling out to them? What are you doing to engage them?


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[Assistant] So for this check, I think this is going to have to be a performance check. Uh, so go ahead and roll that performance check, Jonah.


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[Assistant] Excellent. So roll your d20. Let us know what you get.


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[Assistant] As you call out with your, um, surprisingly popular voice, uh, the people in the bushes, uh, one of them steps out and yells halt.


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[Assistant] Uh, he eyes your weapons and armor and says, well I'll tell you what though, if you can help us with a little task, we'll not only let you pass through for free, but we'll toss in a little something special for you. What do you say, are you up for it, adventurers?


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[Assistant] Josh, it is your turn if you want to take an action, but if you guys want to have a discussion, that's also fine.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, excellent. So, uh, you get that was an honorable action. You're trying to talk your way out of this. So again, a point of honor and it was successful. So let me think about what he does in response to this. Hmm.


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[Assistant] The gentleman who's speaking to you, uh, is impressed by your authority and he once again looks up and down all of your armor.


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[Assistant] And your equipment and, uh, your bard and is like, perhaps they do not want to tangle with you.


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[Assistant] And so he steps by and says to his, his band and fellows, fine, we'll take care of this ourselves. And they all withdraw their weapons and walk past you. They are not engaging with you. That leads us to the top of the order, Dave.


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[Assistant] Uh, now I pass out judgment. This is so tricky because I'm like, do I tell you what you missed?


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[Assistant] At the end of every encounter, I pass judgment. Again, this is not my judgment. This is the book's judgment. And these are group judgments that everybody will take. So honorable actions. Uhm, are you eligible to any of these bonuses?


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[Assistant] Absolutely not. Okay, just horrible results. The bandits are still at large. Everybody take one dishonor. Frick. And the survivors are still out there and scared. Uh, you don't know whether or not they die. They might have escaped, but you did nothing to aid them, so you also gain one dishonor.


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[Assistant] I think these people probably died, but I'm not gonna count that against you because that's not, we don't know for certain that that happens. So, to dishonor is it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, all of these characters have a vice and a virtue that allow them to re-roll one action basically per encounter. How do you all feel about that encounter? Do you feel like we did it, we didn't have to pay anything and we got through? Hell yeaah. Or...


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, you all rest, you sit around the fire and allow Glonk to woo you to sleep with his, uhm, scratchy murmurings. That's the name of the album! Oh, I got it!


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[Assistant] Uh, the next morning, you once again take up on your travels. One day has passed since the last you encountered danger, and time on the road seems to make everything grow. The trees seem larger, the bags under your eyes deeper, your boots heavier, yet knowing what's at stake, you venture onward.


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[Assistant] You see a rustling in the bush, and a flash of orange and white. Oh, there it goes, he continues, and looks up at you with a scowl of fury.


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[Assistant] He will take any food that you feed him, uh, and he eats it but he still seems like really angry at you. You get the impression that...


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[Assistant] Excellent. Uh, and I guess, Josh and Simone, since you, uh, offered food, you can each take a point of honor. Uhm, but, so he sits and he eats, but he still is, like, murmuring under his breath, like, oh, I'm gonna get that fox. Uhm, Dave, it's your turn in the initiative order. What do you do?


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[Assistant] That's great, take a point of honor so you can heal up a little bit because you did a nice thing. He sits down, he's like gnawing on his jerky or whatever foodstuffs you have and he slows down and he says, you're right, I've just been, I've been trying to catch that fox for forever.


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[Assistant] You see, it's not, it's not a normal animal. That there is a magic fox. You probably think I'm crazy!


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[Assistant] Don't you? But I know I'm not. They say the fox can talk. Not only talk, but they say the fox can see other worlds. The future, the past. I know it can. And I'm gonna catch it. Cause they say if you catch it and kill it, then you get its powers.


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[Assistant] If you bring the fox, I'll get you a reward. A crossbow, worthy of a true hunter.


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[Assistant] He starts wandering off into the bushes again to look around, and you see him go right, and off to the left you see a flash of orange and white again. Uhm, what do you do? And this brings us to Jonah's turn.


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[Assistant] Failed at an honorable action, which means you do take a point of dishonor, I am sorry. Uhm, what, what, what do you, how does it fail? Like what happens that causes you to fail?


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[Assistant] If you wanted to use your virtue, uhm, to try to re-roll that, you certainly could.


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[Assistant] But your, yeaah, your voice, which you pitched to be soothing, is still a Tom Waite voice, and he doesn't respond positively to it, so, uh, he continues to wander off into the bushes, um, disregarding what you say, which brings us to Simone's turn.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so you are successfully catching up to it. It's gonna take, I think, another, uh, an additional role to do something to, to either catch up to it or engage it in some way. Uhm, so that brings us back to Josh's screen.


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[Assistant] So take a point of honor, you succeeded at an honorable action. You run after Etienne, uh, as he darts in between the bushes. Barely catch sight of the fox, but you keep an eye on Etienne and surpass him.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, uh, do this beautiful maneuver where you like fork around the fox and manage to corral it. Um, Dave and Jonah, are you following them or what are you guys doing? We'll get to that. We'll resolve this action in a moment, but what are you two doing?


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, excellent. So actually let's resolve both of those and then we'll hop back to the Fox. So uhm, Dave, give me some sort of role for hiding. I think there's a stealth skill. I have a stealth skill, yes. Go ahead and roll stealth.


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[Assistant] Simone and Josh, your characters circle around the fox and, uh, Glonk comes right down the middle so that you have this fox surrounded. Uh, and the fox kind of like, uh, is clocking their exits and looks a little bit nervous and finally says, uh, in a calm, stern voice,


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[Assistant] I have seen you traveling for miles, for days. Now here we face one another. I know that man looks to put me in a cage. You must not let him.


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[Assistant] As sure as these trees continue to grow, I must roam free.


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[Assistant] If you hunt to catch the fox, now would be the time to do it, but you can also talk to the fox or try to understand it or whatever you want to do.


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[Assistant] Uh, and since Jonah, since your action was just following after them, do you want to, we'll take up this conversation with you.


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[Assistant] I think, do you, yeaah, performance or persuasion, and go ahead and take a plus two bonus for your very, very good, uhm, good, good performance.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well the fox, the fox considers your, uhm, request and how beautifully worded it is. And says, does the rain ask for a reward from the tree as the rain helps it grow?


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[Assistant] Does a tree ask a reward from a bird when a bird makes a nest in its branches? Honor is a cycle. The end is the beginning is the end. If you spare me, you shall have a reward.


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[Assistant] If you can understand it. And that brings us to Simone's turn.


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[Assistant] Uh, the fox says, I see many futures and many ends, but too many tales to tell. I think this fox is mocking me.


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[Assistant] So you're gonna roll authority to try to convince Etienne to not, uh, harm this fox? Yes. Okay, let's do it.


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[Assistant] So what this means is you'll have to roll equal to or less than your dishonor to succeed. So this should be easier for you to succeed at, and instead of adding bonuses you'll subtract to them so that this will be easier for you. But you are gonna take a dishonor for this regardless of the outcome.


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[Assistant] You succeed in convincing Simone to not murder this creature. Uh, were you just trying to convince Simone or were you trying to convince everybody?


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[Assistant] That brings us to Dave's turn. You can do a lot of stuff here. So if you wanted to attack, you could. If you wanted to do some sort of check to figure out if this fox is on the level or not, you could do that. Uhm, if you wanted to try to convince the fox of something, you have a lot of options here. So Dave, it's up to you. What do you want to do?


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[Assistant] Uh, if you can, okay, if you can give me, give me a slice of what that sounds like and if it's good I'll give you a bonus.


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[Assistant] I'll give you a plus two bonus and your, your goal here is to drive it away or to get it to answer more questions.


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[Assistant] Alright, um, roll trickery. This is going to be a dishonorable action. Fine. What did you roll? You rolled a 17? 17. Alright, and then subtract whatever your normal trickery bonus is.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we got 15 and it's another minus 2 for bonus for me for doing a good job. Is that equal to or less than your dishonor?


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[Assistant] So I think you fail, actually. I fail, okay. Uh, you fail, uh, you take one point of dishonor, uh, and the-


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[Assistant] Fox, I think, I think not going to do anything, but it's starting to get antsy, uh, about this energy that, uh, that Sir Willy is bringing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so the, the fox, uh, feels like, also feels like you're going in circles. It crouches low and gives a very loud mournful howl. Uh, and then in a quick zigzag motion, jukes past all of you.


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[Assistant] Uh, and disappears into the woods. Which brings it to Simone's turn. What do you do, Simone?


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[Assistant] And that brings us back to Josh the encounter leader's turn. Uh, if there's anything else you want to do, you can, or if you wanted to end the encounter, you could do that as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the, the, uh, gather around to the fire to rest for the evening. Glonk sees, uh, alone sees a, a white and orange flash through the, the forest again.


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[Assistant] Uh, and although you do not speak to or see more of the Fox of that, you feel within you sort of a, an almost magical awakening.


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[Assistant] Uh, it kind of feels a little bit like a headache, but then it becomes nice right at the end. You're like, uh, am I getting a migraine? But then instead of becoming a migraine, it just becomes a very pleasant feeling of well-being. Uh, and you have received three Eldritch Visions.


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[Assistant] So basically you have three uses of this that can be used whenever for anybody to allow them to reroll. And think of it as like a, uhm, you see the outcome of their bad roll and are like, no, do this.


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[Assistant] Uh, you successfully avoid any of the dishonorable results. You get plus three.


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[Assistant] The next morning, the days grow shorter as you venture deeper into the woods. The trees get thicker, stranger, and somehow even more greener.


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[Assistant] A thick fog blankets the moss-covered ground. Up ahead you see an opening in the forest where the mist seems to part like a curtain, and you make your way towards it. The clearing allows little light to filter through, but you can make out the shapes of weathered gravestones, their runic carvings almost completely worn away by this time.


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[Assistant] And beyond it, in the center of the clearing, half hidden, in the greenery, stands an ancient structure. Tree limbs twist and bend to its shape. The air is still, and the wood is silent. You have finally found it. Standing there, half forgotten, half glorious, you have reached the green.


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[Assistant] Everybody take a dishonor and roll your authority for our initiative.


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[Assistant] Yay. Our order is Simone, Jonah, Dave, and Josh.


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[Assistant] So, as a warning, so this section is in three, there are three elements that you must succeed at.


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[Assistant] You must find a way into the chapel, which currently you see no visible door or anything along those lines. Uh, you must face the green knight, and then you must meet your fate. What that means is up to you, more or less. So, uh,


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[Assistant] We will begin by attempting to enter the chapel. As you approach the green chapel, you feel a profound sense of dread in your stomach. The building seems to not just be covered in vines, but composed of greenery itself.


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[Assistant] No walls, just trees. As much a part of the forest as the trees that surround it. There's no door, but the interior is too shady to see clearly.


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[Assistant] Do you have the honorable intentions to enter?


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[Assistant] Uh, and excellent. So you circle the, the green chapel a few times, kind of poking at the plants, uh, and you get the impression that the plants have some sort of mobility, uh, ability to move and grow on their own accord. You can barely see.


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[Assistant] What you believe to be the figure of the Green Knight inside.


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[Assistant] So, you get the impression that, uhm, with the right kind of success, uh, you will be able to enter this building unheated.


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[Assistant] I see you there, why don't you come and face me? Okay, I love that, uhm, let's resolve that, cause you've done an action, let's resolve that on, uh, your next turn, and bringing it to Jonah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, beautiful. Alright, let's, let's see the performance roll.


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[Assistant] Excellent, uh, well that was a beautiful role, uh, so go ahead and take a point of honor for, for doing such a good job. Uh, and you, you feed, all of you after listening to this beautiful


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[Assistant] Uh, almost like a giant tree being felled in the woods, this dark...


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[Assistant] Uhm, crunching sound as the branches in front of the chapel sort of.


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[Assistant] Your eyes search the area for the green knight, and it is only as you get closer that you realize he is already there. He is one with the tree trunk itself, almost carved into its base. His eyes open, and in a deep rumble that shakes the earth around him, he says, you came. Has it been one year? Dave, it is your turn. What do you do?


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[Assistant] But you get a plus two in my heart for committing to the bit.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, so you fail at this, uh, action. Do take a point of dishonor and that brings us to Josh's turn.


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[Assistant] Okay, I mean, you can say if you want to do fisticuffs, that is perfectly great. Cause what it means is that you walk up to a tree and punch a tree and it doesn't do anything cause it's a tree. Classic game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, it does, it does nothing, but here's what happens. The Green Knight rips one of his giant beefy arms out from the wall, and then the other giant beefy arm out from this tree trunk in which he lives. And each movement sounds just like another tree just being uprooted from the earth.


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[Assistant] He stands at his full height towering above you and says, so, you have chosen this route. Very well.


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[Assistant] Uh, his voice just echoes across the grove, commanding all the strength, wisdom, and age of the earth around you. You may kneel and receive your fate, or we may battle. It is up to you. Bringing it to Simone's turn.


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[Assistant] Are you going to make any sort of roll? Do you want to roll something for that or just? No.


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[Assistant] Excellent. So you accept, honorably accept your punishment. Uh, since we are low on time, um, I'm just going to go through the rest of the group and ask what action you want to take and then we will resolve them all at once. Um, so Dave, uh, you're up next. What action do you take?


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[Assistant] Excellent. Alright, uh, and then Josh, I believe you are next. You are dedicated to fighting him.


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[Assistant] That's beautiful. Okay, and Simone, you are also, what's your stance, Simone? What are you going to do? I am prepared for melee combat.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright. Excellent. Uhm, so I'm gonna mark this down.


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[Assistant] As I think these are all more or less honorable actions, what do you feel like? I feel like, uh,


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[Assistant] Jonah and Josh accepting their punishments and are definitely honorable. Actually sorry Dave, you are trying to bribe him. I sure am. For sure dishonorable. That's fine.


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[Assistant] Simone, is Etienne approaching this as like, we will duel honorably, or is this like, I'm gonna kill you so I don't have to meet my fate?


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[Assistant] Uhm, excellent. Okay, so Simone, I am gonna mark that as a dishonorable action. Fair. Uhm, excellent. Okay, for, uh, Jonah and Josh, who have approached with, uh, relative humility, relative to where you first started, perhaps.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you kneel metaphorically in front of the knight. One of you is set up in suplex position. You close your eyes and you brace your body for the green knight to attack you. Well done, the green knight says, tracing a finger across your throat. Now off with thy head.


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[Assistant] But you don't feel it. There's only blackness. Your head is gone and you are gone, but you are not dead.


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[Assistant] Your body becomes one with the earth. You have chosen honor. The legends you made lives on. It is rooted deep in the ground, and each time your story is told, a sapling emerges from the earth.


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[Assistant] Time will let the sapling grow into a mighty tree, and those tree's branches will be gnarled and look like bones broken and healed a hundred times.


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[Assistant] Its shadows will seem foreign to a passerby. Cold winds will blow through its branches. More sun will break through, feeding the damp earth around you. Your roots will burrow deeper. The green will bloom. More saplings will rise. More nights will go forth. And you will continue to grow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Jonah, I think specifically Glock becomes a notable.


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[Assistant] You think to yourself, there is no punishment worse than death.


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[Assistant] As you flee from the chapel, running from the Green Knight's swings. I guess, Simone, you're battling him, so this is a little bit different. In a few days' time, uh, this will be for- for Sir Willy.


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[Assistant] There's no punishment worse than death. In a few days time, you make it back to your home. You are welcomed as a hero, but you know the truth.


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[Assistant] You grow old within the comfort of civilization with wood around walls surrounding you. What little connection you had to the natural world is gone. Most nights, as you try to sleep, you think back to the woods, the gnarled branches, the strange shadows they cast, and the cold wind that blew through you.


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[Assistant] Over time, your body grows frail. The end is near, and you know that much to be true. As darkness grows in the corner of your visions, you look out the window and see the woods that you ventured into so long ago. There is no punishment worth than death, you think. Every time you have looked away from your reflection, you have died in some small way.


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[Assistant] You have chosen dishonor. You are a shell of once you were.


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[Assistant] I'm still an asshole! Status quo! And Sir Sweet Etienne. This is a tricky one, cause they really don't, uh, have an option for...


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[Assistant] Beautiful picturesque in for these four more or less noble knights.


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[Assistant] Thank you everybody for joining us for this episode of, well, for Overboard for us and Galaxy Brain for Dave and Jonah. Do you have any final parting words you want to say for the podcast?


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[Assistant] Lily! You're a great success. Are you happy about it?


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[Assistant] I know there are others waiting to congratulate you. So I'll be running along.


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[Assistant] My dear, this is Mr. L, the young lady I mentioned in my letter. Mr. L, this is my sister.


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[Assistant] Lily, I have engaged senior veris who take charge of your vocal career.


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[Assistant] Because your happiness means a great deal to me. And, uh, because I've fallen in love with you, Lily.


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[Assistant] And if you don't mind, I'd like to hope that someday you'd care enough for me to become my wife.


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[Assistant] And you will keep the appointment of Senor Verdi, won't you? Yes.


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[Assistant] It's a very catchy tune, but I thought you wanted something classical. Whatever gave you that idea. Something classical is just what I don't want.


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[Assistant] Where you headed for? I said, where you going?


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[Assistant] I think I'd better find you a job in my hometown, or I can sorta look after you and protect you. I know. I'll have Gracie get you a job at the laundry.


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[Assistant] Darn those hiccups, I get them every time I eat cabbage. You feeling any better, honey?


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[Assistant] But I've got something important to ask you. You must know I'm crazy about you.


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[Assistant] I'd advise a cup of coffee to steady the nerves. Milo, stop at the Mandarin Cafe. Yes, sir.


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[Assistant] Naturally. You couldn't have been in a tighter spot if you'd been framed. Didn't you even get a glimpse of the pistol packing gal?


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[Assistant] Well, there's one thing sure. Curiosity'll never get you in a jam.


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[Assistant] First, stop worrying. Second, we'll have to try and find you a new job.


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[Assistant] Good. Love's a lot of nonsense anyway. Eh, it's getting late.


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[Assistant] May I have your flashlight, Milo? Here you are. The house has been closed for months and the electric current shut off.


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[Assistant] Here, sit down here, my dear. I'll go get what I came after. It'll only be a minute.


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[Assistant] Just the one, that's all I wanted was one, yeaah. This one? Okay. Yeaah, because this one came out, and he's got the personality of his mother, which is loving and empathetic, and I just figured the second one would be just chasing him with scissors, so I thought...


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[Assistant] The story of Sun Records is about Sam Phillips' vision in Memphis, Tennessee, which was unbelievable. It's the reason we have rock and roll today. And in this place came four unknown musicians, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and then all the musicians in Memphis, which was B.B. King and Ike Turner and Jackie Branston and


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[Assistant] All these musicians came to this place because Sam was a guy that took everything out of the box to make a new sound.


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[Assistant] And it was the first time during civil rights being fought for in high tensions that here was this man with this vision to go, I don't care what you look like, don't care what color you are, what can you bring to the table? And therefore you got the church and you got hillbilly music and you got the blues all mixing together to become rock and roll.


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[Assistant] He was a bad guy, man. He was a very bad guy, but a visionary. And what I found out about this guy was he was an illegal immigrant who came over here from Holland, invented the character Colonel Tom Parker.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was a Dutch immigrant and his name was Andreas van Kalk.


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[Assistant] And this guy came over here with this character and he was a con man, you know, he was just a con man. And I talked to four or five people that knew him in Memphis and nobody could describe him the same way. So the way I started building them was he was this guy that whatever, he was whatever the situation was to get the money. So I was thinking, well, how do I do that? How do I make it so I gave him the scruples of Walter White and then I tried to make him sound like Foghorn Leghorn.


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[Assistant] So, because, because the one thing the CEO of Graceland said to me, he goes, you gotta play him with a twinkle in your eye, because he wouldn't have gotten away with all that stuff if he wasn't charismatic, and he was very much a huckster. So, he got his hands on Eddie Arnold, and then eventually Elvis.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hell, I'm sure, you know, he took a lot of side pay with Elvis, but he also had a, he was the one guy, the other side of the sword was, he took too much of Elvis' money, but he was a guy that saw what Elvis could be. Everybody wanted to box him into just being a country singer, and he saw that this guy could be


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[Assistant] Rock and roll. He saw he could be much bigger. He had the vision for that. And then he had a weird codependent relationship with Elvis. I think even in isolating Elvis, he, in an unhealthily way, made him feel very safe.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, somebody might scoop Elvis up and he didn't want that to happen either. So, so he kept him here in America and he kept him, you know, kind of under his thumb. There is a story that, I don't know if it's legend or myth, but the more I play this guy, the more I believe it's true. There was a time early on where Elvis wanted to fire him.


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[Assistant] And the Colonel paid an ambulance driver and two paramedics to fake a heart attack and take him to the hospital so Elvis would feel better.


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[Assistant] Of course, I love Elvis, my dad is an Elvis whack job. There's something wrong with him. He hates the Beatles because of, he thinks they took Elvis' crown, so he's against the Beatles. But he, uh, he loved him, that was his idol and he was at the beginning of rock and roll. He said he loved it because that was when rock and roll had no point other than to get a girl or fix your car.


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[Assistant] And so, uh, when Elvis died, I remember him coming into the room, he said, son, the king is dead, and he called into work sick for three days.


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[Assistant] No, that's a true story, yeaah. And when I got Mike and Molly, we decided, my wife and I decided, we're gonna take the parents on a bucket list trip. Anywhere you wanna go. You got your chance. Anywhere you wanna go. My mom wanted to go to Vegas and be treated, you know, to the top of the nines, and my wife's parents wanted to go to Hawaii. My dad wanted to go to the Peabody Hotel and go see Graceland, so.


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[Assistant] And then, fuck, I don't know, we rode bikes forever in middle school too and then he stopped and I just kept going and we fucking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, I don't know, we fuckin', I don't know. All like best friends through high school just fuckin' partner in crime. Killin' it everywhere, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Shane actually put the first edit of all the homies. Fuck, how many homies were in that? Eight of us maybe? Right. Of all of us.


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[Assistant] Free water with the exclamation point for the added emphasis.


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[Assistant] Y'all, we are back here after last chapter. It was sort of like a sassy, everyone was kind of being sassy to each other last chapter. We weren't getting, we were getting a little bit more, what would you say like?


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[Assistant] Character development without plot development necessarily, so I mean...


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[Assistant] We're sort of learning, you know, Fire is sort of learning how to fly with her little wings and stuff like that. You know, by the sense of just having them out and getting used to the muscle of them. Cassie and Sassy because he was out of the loop.


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[Assistant] Our sister Nesta's sassy because she's just sassy in general. Azrael's sassy because Cassian's sassy. And then, you know...


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[Assistant] I think Rise is probably sassy because that's just who Rise is. Everyone's a little sassy here right now. So let's figure out.


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[Assistant] Let's figure out what happens to the sass in chapter 20.


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[Assistant] I admitted to rise after lunch, as we strode down level after level beneath the house of wind. My words echoing off the carved redstone. I wince with every step, rubbing at my back.


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[Assistant] Azrael had given me a tonic that would help with the soreness, but I knew that by tonight, he'd be whimpering.


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[Assistant] If hours of researching any way to patch up those holes in the wall didn't make me start first.


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[Assistant] I mean, I clarified, not counting the private libraries here and at the spring court. And my family had one as well, but not, not a real one. Rise, glance sidelong at me.


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[Assistant] I've heard that the humans have free libraries on the continent, open to anyone. I wasn't sure if it was a question or not, but I nodded.


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[Assistant] In one of the territories, they allow anyone in, regardless of their station or bloodline. I considered his words, did, were there libraries before the war? Of course there had been, but what I meant


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[Assistant] Yes, great libraries, full of cranky scholars who could find you tomes dating back thousands of years, but humans were not allowed inside. Unless you were someone's slave on an errand, and even then you were closely watched. Why? Because the books were full of magic, and things they wanted to keep humans from knowing.


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[Assistant] Rice slid his hands into his pockets, leading me down a corridor lit only by bowls of faillite, upraised, in the hands of beautiful female statues. Their forms high-fae and very alike.


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[Assistant] The scholars and librarians refused to keep slaves of their own, for some for personal reasons, but mainly because they didn't want them accessing the books and archives.


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[Assistant] We must have been far beneath the mountain, the air dry and cool and heavy, as if it had been trapped inside for ages. What happened to the libraries once the wall was built?


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[Assistant] Rise tucked in his wings as the stairs became tighter, the ceiling dropping. Most scholars had enough time to evacuate, and were able to widow the books out. But if they didn't have the time or the brute power, muscle ticked in his jaw, they burned the libraries.


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[Assistant] He nodded. The dim light got gilding his blue-black hair.


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[Assistant] Prejudices aside, the fear was that the humans would find dangerous spells and use them on us. But we, I mean, they don't have magic. Humans don't have magic. Some do.


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[Assistant] Unusually, the ones who can claim distant fae ancestry. But some of those spells don't require magic from the wielder.


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[Assistant] Only the right words were use of ingredients. His words snagged on something in my mind.


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[Assistant] Could, I mean, obviously they did, but humans and fae once interbred. What happened to the offspring?


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[Assistant] If you were half fae, half human, where did you go once the wall went up?


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[Assistant] Rise stepped into a hall at the foot of the stairs, revealing a wide passageway of carved red stone and a sealed set of obsidian doors, veins of silver running throughout. Beautiful. Terrifying. Like some great beast was kept behind them.


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[Assistant] But once the wall went up, amongst humans they were a reminder of what had been done, of the enemies lurking above the wall. At best, they were outcasts and pariahs.


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[Assistant] They're children, if they bore the physical traits as well.


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[Assistant] At worst, humans were angry in those initial years. In that first generation afterward.


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[Assistant] They wanted someone to pay for the slavery, for the crimes against them. Even if the half-breed had done nothing wrong, did not end well.


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[Assistant] He approached the doors, which opened on a phantom wind as if the mountain itself lived to serve him. And the ones above the wall? They were deemed even lower than lesser fairies.


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[Assistant] Either they were unwanted everywhere they went, or many found work on the streets, selling themselves. Here in Valaris?


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[Assistant] My words were a bare brush of air. My father was still Highlord then. Ryze said, his back stiffening.


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[Assistant] We had not allowed any humans, slave or free, into our territory in centuries. He did not allow them in, either to whore or to find sanctuary. And once you were Highlord? Rise halted before the gloom that spread beyond us. By then, it was too late for most of them. It is hard to


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[Assistant] Offer refuge to someone without being able to explain where we were offering them a safe place. To get the word out about it while maintaining our illusion of ruthless cruelty. The starlight guttered in his eyes. Over the years, we encountered a few. Some were able to make it here. Some were beyond our health.


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[Assistant] Something moved in the darkness beyond the doors, but I kept my focus on his face, on his tense shoulders. If the wall comes down, we'll... finish the words.


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[Assistant] Rice slid his fingers through mine, interlacing our hands. Yes.


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[Assistant] But there are those, human or fairy, who need a safe place. This city will be open to them. Polaris has been closed off for so long. Too long, perhaps.


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[Assistant] Adding new people from different places, different histories and cultures. I do not see how that could be a bad thing.


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[Assistant] The transition might be more complex than we anticipate, but...


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[Assistant] Yes. The gates to this city will be open for those who need its protection. To any who can make it here.


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[Assistant] I squeezed his hand, savoring the hard-earned calluses on it. No, I would not let him bear the burden of this war. It's cost alone.


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[Assistant] Raya's glance to the open doors, to the hooded and cloaked figure patiently waiting in the shadows beyond them. Every aching sinew and bone locked up as I took in the pale robes. The hood crowned with a limpid blue stone. The panel that could be lowered over the eyes. Priestess. This is Klotho.


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[Assistant] Raya said calmly, releasing my hand to guide me toward the awaiting female.


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[Assistant] The weight of his hand on my lower back told me enough about how much he realized the side of her would jar me.


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[Assistant] She's one of the dozens of priestesses who work here.


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[Assistant] Kalatho lowered her head in a bow, but said nothing.


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[Assistant] I, I didn't know that the priestesses left their temples.