Nat 20 and Unwind (Echoes of the Forgotten Self)

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Welcome to Nat 20 and unwind
here on Spotify, iTunes,

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Commendations are in order to

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use Nebulon, Savara, and Mimi
for completion of the mission on

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the prior episode of Crit
Happens, Echoes of the Forgotten

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Self.
So again, as always, we will go

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through a few reflection
questions, if you will, and

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these kind of carry just
storyline plots.

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So again, spoiler alert, if you
haven't listened to the prior

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episode, if crit happens, please
go watch that now and I'll cut.

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This out here all right see you
guys later then.

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Hi.
OK, bye.

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I was told I have to go listen
to.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the vault required offerings

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of memory, truth, and even lies.
Which of these choices do you

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think weighed heaviest on you?
And.

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And would you offer it again?
And we'll start with Mimi.

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Maybe it's always thought of
herself to be, dare I say,

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higher and like just an animal.
But.

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Sometimes it's OK to let it out.
OK.

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Like that she actually finally
came to the terms like, hey, I

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actually ate that guy and
several other people kind of

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crazy.
That's why blood and stuff has

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never really faced her.
Hints of that show up a lot.

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I was thinking not.
Very fazed by death or by the

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passing of people.
And she's like, you guys killed

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those guys.
She's like, but can the bodies

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be repurposed for, I don't know,
soup?

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Nobody bad and I but.
You are a cat like and a big one

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so.
Yeah, that is because she had

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to.
Survive off of.

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Flesh so.
Yeah, you know, it's it's clear

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that the the back story of Mimi
with the circus and effectively

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being mishandled is something
that'll drive characters moving

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forward, especially with memory.
Memory in the world of Aurelius

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is a very powerful tool and
something that can be wielded.

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You know, if if the right study
in the right memory are are are

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used.
Savara, what about you?

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Or the can you repeat the
original prompt please?

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Yeah, yeah.
So again, the vault required

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offerings of memory, truth, and
even lies.

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Which of these choices, which of
your choices, weighed heaviest

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on you?
And what would you and would you

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offer it again?
Well she didn't really offer

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memories and that was on purpose
because a lot of her memories

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are associated with her weapons
and like the one that came

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immediately to mind had to do
with her how her warhammer got

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named and she would not like
that.

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She just wasn't willing and her
name is equally as important to

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her, but honestly not as much.
But.

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Still unwilling to like, be lied
about what, or like forget or

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whatever.
So really, the thought of losing

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her memories associated with the
creation of her weapons was not

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something she was willing to
give up.

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And because they're so heavily
tied in her background, yeah.

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Right.
And I mean that even ties to the

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truth of who Savara is to be in
general anyway.

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So while you didn't speak a
memory, you know, to necessarily

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assist you, you internalized a
lot of the truth about

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yourselves and the naming of
your weapons and the the power

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that that holds in itself, the
power of a name effectively.

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So, yeah, I mean, internalizing
some of that stuff and holding

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that stuff dear as well, It's
just as powerful.

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And Invirelius Zebulon, the
newest member of the party.

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I mean, hell of a way to be feet
to the fire.

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Absolutely happy to get in the
thick of it and it went well.

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That was cool.
I happened to have recent, not

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super recently, but like a
little over a year ago, lost a

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cat that I had for like 20
years.

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So the cat thing.
Was somewhat meaningful.

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And then she gave me two crits
in a row.

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Yeah.
So that was beautiful.

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Yeah, that's that's and.
Yeah, I was trying to think of

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like, pretty much the whole
time.

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I was trying to think of like,
what is a meaningful memory I

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could give up for a guy who
doesn't have a lot yet.

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But I think people are what's
important to Zebulon, like the

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people around him.
And so.

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So yeah, childhood best friend
seemed like something meaningful

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that also wouldn't like,
completely ruin who I am as a

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person.
Yeah, it it's almost a a

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clarity, almost a clean edge
that a clean edge of loss that

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almost sharpens your will a
little bit when it comes to the,

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you know, that memory.
So, and Mimi for you, I mean,

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the, the vault showed you that
you're not just the rage, you're

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not just the fury.
You know, you still have a pulse

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in your axe.
You have a faint echo of

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approval from the vault itself
that even when you're stripped

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of rage, you still endure.
And you know, Savara, you know,

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even though you did not speak a
single memory, you know, you've,

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you made those memories as well,
especially with Mimi and Savara,

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the two of you, just the moment
you left together across the

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collapsing tiles, you know,
striding and sync almost made a

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bond of, of, of glass memory
itself.

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So a couple of things to hand
out here.

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Mimi once before your once
before your next long rest, You

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may add one D6 to a weapon
damage role after seeing the

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result as a form of you know
that you can endure without your

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rage and your fury.
You still hold those things to

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be valued, but you're not just
that, Zebulon.

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Once before your next long rest,
you may treat You may treat a

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failed saving throw as if you
rolled A10 on the die.

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Again.
That's just the lasting memory

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of the friend, that clarity that
brings.

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It allows you once before your
next long rest, to use that as a

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final whisper, a wisp of a
memory before it's gone

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completely.
OK, so once ever in the next

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day.
Once before your next long rest?

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Yes.
Yes.

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Is there a negative to losing
this memory?

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No, no, there there's the The
memory is effectively 99% gone,

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but that last 1% will give you
that a small boon to use before

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your next long rest.
And finally, all of you, the

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next time any of you roll and
attack and you are within 15

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feet of the other.
So for instance, Zebulon, if you

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stand before meeting your Savara
and or any of those

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combinations, you get to roll
that attack with advantage,

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sharing that that bond that was
etched with the hop behind the

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hippie ho and as we hop along
the way.

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You like that?
Just just just prancing and

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skipping along with a lollipop.
So is that a permanent?

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That is a one time.
Use OK one time use and then we

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have to be next to each other.
Correct.

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I should say one or the other.
It doesn't necessarily have to

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be all three of you together.
So if next time say me was not

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here, if if Zebulon and Savara
are here, you guys.

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Yeah, So.
OK, and then finally the debrief

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with the syndicate.
Just a mission summary.

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Agents entered the echo fields
under directive to locate and

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explore the Vault of Forgotten
Names.

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Despite hostile manifestations,
all operatives survived and

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successfully breached the vault.
The chamber was fed residents

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well beyond requirement and no
Paradox contamination was

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recorded.
Each agent suffered personal

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scars.
Nothing physical and returned

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intact to syndicate lines.
The mission is recorded as a

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high completion with additional
accommodations for bravery and

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ingenuity issued to each
operative. 250 gold Hey.

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Each agent also is granted 1
syndicate favor, which is

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redeemable for additional
supplies and the information

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from syndicate operatives or
specialized aid from the

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syndicate.
On SDM.

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Perfect.
I'm putting this in my journal.

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In the journal.
In the journal.

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I forget otherwise.
Cool.

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And that is the full completion
of tonight's session.

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Echoes of the Forgotten Self
again, congratulations to you 3.

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Goddamn, it was I we were
supposed to have five players

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tonight.
When it was, I heard it was

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going to go down to three, I was
like, because I'll tell you, I

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mean, I can tell you at this
point what the outright failure

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cost was now that you guys have
completed the mission.

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So on failure, after either
three fails on the checks that

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you completed or if time
expired, a fractured voice

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offers salvation.
Give us what you are.

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Trade memory for life.
One thing forever lost.

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And each of you would have had
to surrender a significant

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personal memory at the DM's
discretion.

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And I'm so glad Kenzie's no
longer on this call.

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Because Mimi, the cost of you
surviving that would have been

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your friendship with Castilla.
You would have permanently lost

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the memory.
You would have also permanently

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lost a proficiency spell or
feature until it was retrained

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or a defining narrative detail.
Also, the syndicate records of

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all of your characters would
blur and effectively nobody that

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you've come in contact with so
far, MPC wise, would have either

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remembered you or remembered you
in a wrong way.

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So I'm just saying, yeah, but it
was very, it was very harsh risk

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tonight because it does say if
all refuse permanent erasure.

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Yeah.
Yeah, you would have been

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erased.
So wow, Yeah.

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Dang Yikes.
What is?

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That.
Yeah, so did it, you guys.

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You did it.
You didn't get it right.

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You didn't die.
We weren't Thanos snapped or

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whatever happened with that.
Yeah, pretty much all right.

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So that's going to do it from
that 20 and unwind here on

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Spotify player dot FM Spotify
and I did.

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I'm so tired.
I'm not going to remember the

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list anymore.
Honestly, Spencer doing that

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would have been so evil.
I would have.

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I know this one, this one I was
because and actually that that

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last part didn't exist.
So like I told you guys before

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we started recording for the
happens for last week or last

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episode, the the the actual
failure option was just straight

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out erased.
There was no what I'll call a

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fail forward.
There was no fail forward there.

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There was you fail, you're dead,
you're erased.

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Worse.
Nobody remembers you.

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Yeah.
I I've had that happen before.

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It wasn't dead, but we were
forgotten by everybody.

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In the.
Normal realm, it's not easy.

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Yeah, so that'll do it for Nat
20 and unwind here tonight.

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Thank you all for listening so
much.

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We'll see you next episode for
another episode of Cred Happens.

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So for everybody here at the P3
Podcast Network, I am Spencer

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Hart.
We'll see you next time.