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I'm gonna take my clock from bigger gang

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army. And this is you like going

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to the study group and being like,

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we need your help. Yeah. We need one

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of the other groups. Good. We're in with these

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guys pretty good. Right?

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You're not I wouldn't

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say you're like super pals, but you're definitely

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not like hostile. We definitely think we're

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closer to them than we actually are. Yeah.

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Definitely. Is that Mustang groups? Is this,

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like, rolling guys? Like, oh, yeah. You go

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down. You lock the door. You go down

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to the Study hall, their

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library, and you're speaking

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to a fifteen year old named

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father Arthur because he dresses like a priest.

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and he has one of those wide black hats.

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Oh, nice. And he's sitting at table with like a burning

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Candelobra on it?

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So

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you come to me for what? Well,

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I want to know of the other

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People who live in the tunnels.

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What are the other tunnel teams?

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The the tunnel teams? these

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tunnels go far and wide around

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the mall. I'm

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trying to go deep, but it's not took

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it. You can just use your normal voice buddy.

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I'm

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intimidated while there's fire in that big hat,

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and you're dressed like a priest. Okay, fine.

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So If you are looking for the tunnel

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teams, the teams you shall find, what

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kind of what do you wanna know? Like, kinda

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who's around? Well, who has the most

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immediate access or who can walk amongst

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the adults the best

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or the most unseen

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or somebody who's associated with

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the vineyard Anybody who has any

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ties with no one in these tunnels is associated

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with with Vineyard. Those are the

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movers and shakers of them all. The tunnels

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are a world unto their own. But

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if you are looking for folks who

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might be able to move about

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unseen, the shadow cloaks

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are the ones that you seek, they move about

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the mall with utmost stealth

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and

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our friends of the study group.

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And then we hear a bunch of clanging in one

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of the vents and a

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kid falls out of a dude.

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Does he land like like a superhero

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with a sword? Yeah. He

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does have a sword. Yes. He lands

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he lands kind of in a pile, but his sword

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is sticking out to the side. There's like like

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dice go everywhere when he used to go

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outside. Oh, my my

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die. Did someone call

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for RASGAR the night blade?

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And he spends, like, thirty seconds trying

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to shield his sword in his side. Rathgar.

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Yes, it is Iathgar, leader of the

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night cloaks. Shadow what are we? Shadow cloaks?

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Are you new to the group? I am not

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new. I am it's I am its foremost

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warrior and bled. Cool.

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Cool. Cool. What

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so what what needs you from the shadow

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cloaks? We need your prowess,

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which is legendary among the tunnel

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teams. Shirley, you've heard

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of us. The

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cultured kids I I have.

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Have you heard of our plate shadow base?

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What what's her? What's the shadow? Rathgarth

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finished blade. Hey. had

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played of knights. Have you heard Arch?

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Sorry. What? What did I say before? You

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said pledge. Right? Say okay. That's

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good. That's good. Raffar, have you heard our

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plight? We need a a blade

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in the night, a night in the day.

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at a day to illuminate the night that

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is cast by the duplicity

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of Tina Berger in the wine months.

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Oh, yes. I know this threat well, and he sits

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in a chair and he is buy a table with

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a burning candle, and he kicks his boot

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up on one table and puts a long pipe

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in his mouth. So his face is hidden

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in the cloak. and bubbles

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start coming out of the end of the pipe. In fact, it

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is so stoked that he got that whole thing out in

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one shot, that he grabs a bottle

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after gravity smash. He's gonna get to the wall.

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It's just

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so cute. I did it. That

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was great, then too. Thank you. It was a very

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potent sense there at the at the end.

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Oh, I just realized what the Shadow

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Clokes are. Right. They're not all the same. They're

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a they're a fantasy adventuring

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party. yeah. So this is,

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like, the Ranger. This is, like, their ladder.

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Yeah. The air gourd of the groom's area gourd of the groom.

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like an orphan. They've got, like, you know, the quiet

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footsteps.

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Yes. There's a generic

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and the barbarian kid. Yeah. They're

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they're a larp group. They're like a d and d buddy.

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Yeah. There's like a council of Elro on to

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seeing that's coming up where they give

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us. And most of them are

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cardboard cut out. Okay.

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I love it. So what

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do you require from wrathgar the night blood

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of this plight of Tino Darger?

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I don't know. I guess we just need information. We

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need somebody to be able to move in the shadows

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without being see. Yeah.

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Doth, we need safe passage through

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the night and tunnels.

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I know the shadows well. They are my allies

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and my friends and also my

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steps siblings. And can

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give you safe passage. But

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what is in it for

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mind adventuring compatriots in the

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shadow cloaks? do not

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work for, say, five

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gold pieces a day purse,

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jingle. Oh, the coin purse that's

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stolen from We only have two coins yet.

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outging a lot. But if you're actually

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going to call it, like, a a big

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piece of money in the tip, you're hearing you throw it down

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really hard to make it sound like more.

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if that's what I'm doing. Do

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you

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think they're gonna beat us up if there's only

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two coins and not five? Look at these

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guys. These guys are blade of knight.

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He's a shadow close. He's playing.

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Look at his shoes. Bubble Bubble Bubble

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Bubbles would come out of his mind. Yeah.

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You're right. and

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he holds up his hand with the

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fingerless gloves to get you to

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throw the

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bag of coins. Fing

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fling pink. and

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he opens it up and he pours the two

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coins into his hand, but sees that they're

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actual gold coins from like the outside

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world. He thought there was five Starbucks in

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there. He was so sick, but

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now, Starbucks. What do we call

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them? Mall stars.

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Oh my god. What do your box? Your box. Your

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box. Thank you. Five five Starbucks

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gift cards. There's

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two bucks on either those each of those. I have Americano's

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in this bag. Get a frat on

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us boys.

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I see that your coins will spend well

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in the food court. I will eat

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many pizza pies with this

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fresh coinage and

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regret this. And he slips it into his

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pouch next to the the chain

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that connects his wallet to his jeans. This

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is while go because of the

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He's got a simple to poke.

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Yeah. Yeah. You

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can see it says it says rancid on outside

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of it. So okay.

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So you're gathering information. So what do you want

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from these guys? What do we want? What

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do we want to? I thought you were completing your project

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clock. Yeah. I feel right. This was, like, the

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the the shadow No. But, like,

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that's to toward, yeah, getting more

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and more people I also wanna

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impress them so that we don't have to keep paying them

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because I wanna build a prestige

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and build our gang so that we can just to

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have everybody be on our side. It

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did we could tell them, like, other gangs

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are uniting with us.

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Yeah. I like that a lot, which is true. And

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we are here to fight the great darkness

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that is adulthood. Yeah. These

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mature people think they can just step all

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over us because we're kids. We'll they'll see

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someday. We'll bang together. What we need to

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do is be able to stand up against them. he

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stands up very suddenly and he

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pulls his sword out and he

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puts the point on the ground and kneels

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down and dips his head and goes you have my

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blades sire and you have

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the blades of all shadow cloaks, we will come

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to your aid when required. Thank

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you so much. I give him

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some weapons, candy weapons.

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Oh. Whoa. You give him a weapon.

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So what what do you give him? I'm gonna give

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him Oh, some lights out licorice

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for the shadow. Oh, yeah.

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Hey, this show k. This will extend

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your shadows beyond your normal reach.

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Cast shadows and move within them.

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And it's sweet and delicious too.

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It is food. It it don't eat

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it. Okay. This is called lights

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out licorice. and anybody

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that comes in contact with their

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mouths will be lights out. Create

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a shadow in their mind. foul

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sorceries, but sorceries that I shall bend to my

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use and the use of my comrades.

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Mhmm. Very well. You

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kids. are

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are warriors, I can tell,

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of great caliber. I

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we are very strong and brave.

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For

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for Ruth, I also have

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a gift for you, my friend.

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Shout us now. What's his name?

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Shout of Raffar. Raffar.

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Raffar. I also have

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a gift for you, Rathgar. I,

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and then I give him a grappling hook.

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Whoa. Holy shit.

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Oh my god. Is this real? Yeah,

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man. I found it. It was

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so fucking sick. I found it and I

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tried to use it. and I

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fell two story. What?

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Oh, yo. I

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do not have the upper body strength to use

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this. noble night. But

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clearly, I can see from the progression of

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your teeny Stash that you

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do. Oh, yeah.

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He's got a ratty old teenage mustache. Yeah.

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Oh my god.

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Volundra Star Vail is gonna fucking

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flip out once she sees this. Yeah. That's

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great. I gotta write down

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these names so I'm gonna figure it all.

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So cool. Okay. I guess we're all

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giving gifts now.

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I think you said so.

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Yeah. He turns to Clover.

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Alright.

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I beseech you the nightblade

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Raskar

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to accept this

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gift. postered upon me

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or

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appostered from

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me. Please taketh

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this card, which

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will show thy future. I

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pushed

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towards him one of

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my

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what are they called? Tear

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cards, and it is the night. He

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picks it up and it blooms in his eyes. Let

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his sword guide you through

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the darkness. I

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thank you for this boone fair lady

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and he touches it to his forehead and he does

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that thing where he like

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puts a a fist on his chest in, like, an

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old Roman style suit. And he goes,

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and now I must away and he

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jumps up and grabs onto the tube.

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I think he goes, like, okay.

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Call out. It's fucking dope. Alright.

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That was an eight. Yeah.

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And he gets up into the pipe and his

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sword. He'll gets caught on the edge of the pipe, and

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he's trying to fall out a little bit.

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And then boom. Boom. Boom. Click. Click. And he's

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gone. Obviously, Asia

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guy forward, like, twenty years, he

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might be, like, one of the greatest warriors in

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my end. Yeah. He's starting early. If you take

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it this seriously now -- Yeah.

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So I'm also here still,

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father Arthur, cardinal

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of the study group. but

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I assume you don't need anything from me

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anymore.