February 10, 2023 • 43 mins
Aether, Sirius, and Logo, three adventurers on a mission to recover a satellite dish for The Agency, travel to the Rokh Bazaar in search of supplies and safe passage into the desert.
Intra Quest – Created by Michael Freiberg
A production of iHeartRadio and Astrum Media
Executive Produced by Michael Freiberg and iHeartRadio
Co-produced by Adam Raymonda and Chelsea English
Sound Design and Mix by Dennis Dembeck
Music by Trey Toy
Episode written by Michael Freiberg
Performances by:
Matthew Broussard | Aether
Mike Lebovitz | Sirius
Myq Kaplan | Logo
Lucie Pohl | Umbra
Featuring:
Usama Siddiquee | Jug Vendor
Irina Gorovaia | Lady Vuza
Casey James Salengo | Knife Thief
Emily Battles | Potion Worker
Nick Naney | Gateman
Additional Performances by:
Nick Naney, Masa Gibson, Pat Swearingen
Director and Head Writer: Michael Freiberg
Writers: Tom Delgado and Will Julian
Story Editor: Chelsea English
Dialogue Editor: Adam Raymonda
Additional Music: Matthew Blocha
Foley: Post Red
Key Art: Rich Davies
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
In Request created by Michael Freiberg, a production of I
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D audio. Oh, come on serious, Ether will be back soon.
We have to keep searching. We traveled all the way
to the rope Bazar because they need to find the
hidden entrance to the black market known as the Den
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of Thieves. That's the only way we can safely enter
the desert. Remember what Ether said, We need to go
through the den of thiefs black markets in order to
gain access to the Azrael Desert for safe travel because
they controlled the desert border. The success of our mission
depends on locating its entrance. Strong remarkable, isn't it serious?
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Think order drance gorge? What? No, it's not dancing. The
creatures swaying side to side. The performers hypnotize the gorgon's
with the sound of their hand drums. But I still
haven't deduced the finer points must be in the beat pattern. Well,
I don't suppose you have a better explanation. Friends, find
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only two hundred common opal for the jug deal another
street peddler. Let's just ignore until he goes away. Pretend
you don't speak English or better, yet talk normal. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
For you toothpick, I'll come down. You just call me
toothpick for this handmaid, expertly crafted jug one hundred and
fifty opals, my best price. Pardon me. I recognize you
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are ay of finely crafted goods, but I am not
in need of your services at this time. I must
request you moving. Okay, okay, okay, okay. How about you,
burly man, you look like the big COONa. For you
a special bargain, my friendly rate. One hundred and twenty opals,
cheapest in the market. Don't know, Okay, all right, just
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for today, one hundred opals price. Okay, friend, take me
all of earth. Nothing unbelievable, fine fifty olds. My kids
will go hungry. You insult my family. I'll even lose
money on this, but I'll sell it to you just
for a good karma. Happy now, he logo, We go. Now.
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You're bad man, very bad man. You waste my time.
We are only interested in the location of the den
of thieves so we can get to the Azrael desert.
Nothing else. Of course, you I wish you only misfortune. Huh.
Of course your chief vagrants hid me. What are you doing?
What are you doing? You do it? Down starts now
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you really did? Ah? Okay, either You've come to the
right tent in the Roque bazaar to see your future.
But I can't tell you the location of the den
of thieves. Only the Crystal Ball can show. If you'll
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find its entrance and have safe travels through the Azrael Desert,
prepare to peer into its depths and discover what lies
within its lens. Oh, crystal Ball, I turned to the
unraveled secrets I keep from me, reveal hidden truths urry
down below of things we wish to forget, but always no.
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Like veiled stars shining bright, made visible only at night,
we see exposed reality. The crystal leadons encroaching storm clouds
lurk on the horizon. I see fields that are barren,
trees that are hollow, rivers that run dry, a murky gray.
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I am beginning to make out the faint silhouette of
a figure shrouded in shadow. Why during a lost near
death in the desert, Who is this figure? I wonder? Ah,
I'm losing it. The image is fading, the crystal Ball
returning to slumber. Lady Foosia, No, but wait, it grows darker,
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shed black. What is happening? The crystal ball burnt my
fingers A flash of lightning. I glimpsed a village. Oh
no no, it's set flame to the land. Building is burning,
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people flailing, ablaze, Everything turned to ashes. A burth of water,
putting the fire to rest, cleansing the land. Rain drops
wash away tears. But but it is too much. Blood follows, bodies,
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floating people, drowning, babies swept away the village swallow rottle
either Soon everyone will know Umbra's true call. It all
will be erased. Look away. What you think you're seeing
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in the crystal ball isn't real, only subconscious manifestations from Umbra.
What do you know of Umbra? Give me the palm
of your hand. Why should I, Lady Vouza, I want
to help fine. Your palm is rough to the touch,
marred with deep grooves and wrinkles. Insult me tells me
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you've led a difficult life the years, turning you callous,
I suppose, But who in the rock Bazar isn't I'm
going to apply a slight pressure to the tips of
your finger. Mm hmm, very little resistance, ample flexibility, How interesting.
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What does it mean You're very adaptable to new situations.
Let me part your thumb. You didn't run away as
a child, did you? I did? How did you know
the edge of your thumb naturally bends backwards, pointing away
from the rest of your fingers. You're an independent person
who had to make your own way in life. When
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I was a child, the king of my land was corrupted.
The villagers say he fell victim to his own humors,
but I believe there was something more sinister at work.
My father was his trusted advisor, and the king ordered
my parents and siblings slaughter. He he massacreed his own people.
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I was chosen to be a servant, but two stars
blessed me with a path to escape. Your trouble past
reminds me of my own, and it's made you a
compassionate person Beneath your heart and facade. This is more
than my trade. People come to me in need, and
I help them as best as I can. How I
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would have wanted, yes, But even though it was long ago,
I since you're still scared, afraid you're succumbing to your
own delusions and losing grasp of reality, even beginning to
believe you really do possess the psychic powers you pretend
to have. It is true, it is true. I feel
myself slipping and losing control. And let me free you
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from these fears. In a moment, I'll ask you to
think of a tool in your possession, something like a
saw or a wrench. But think of your own. But
first turn your attention back to the crystal ball. I'll
repeat the question, I arrived with the entrance to the
den of thieves. Tell me where is it? I can't.
I'm sorry, I'm forbidden to tell an outside of the location.
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If you were found to help the killeth, both fixate
on the crystal see the answer within. You know that
it's safe to tell me. All right, Go to the
bazaar's end. There's a spy shop. Knock three times, ask
for Rosemary. Tell them I sent you that you that
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you see good fortune. Thank you, lady Vosa. Now you
know what you need to do. The mystic visions you
think you see in your crystal ball are just projections
from your own mind. Get a handle on this before
it chisels away at you and you lose yourself in
the intra. You need to break free now, picture the
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tool I asked you about vividly in your mind. Got
it a hammer? But how did you know bring it forth?
When you gaze into the crystal, the crystal gazes back
into you. You've been chained to this crystal ball for
far too long. Break free your mind, smash the ball.
Do it now, leave this place before umber takes what's
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left of you. You're stronger than you know and can
take back control, but you have to move on. Tell
me the amulet you were around your neck, the golden
sun was the all seeing eye in the center, the
eye imperiad. What does it mean that there's someone watching
over me? It protects me from umbra. It gives me
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strength to see clearly put me I'm sorry, Please mercy
put them down. Serious, Lucky, you're crazy. You're all crazy.
Of course I thought I told you to to keep
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a low profile. Song of the gorgon tamer music to
the ears. If you're a sap, it's widely mistaken. The
gorgons are hypnotized by the music, but Gorgon's can't hear
a thing on account they don't have ears. But what
about the dancing their motion? It's a warning stance because
they view the performance restless Hands as a threat catchy
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beat though either we failed you. It's true, we searched everywhere,
but we haven't been able to locate the entrance to
the Denna thieves black market. No one would divulge its coordinates.
How come you can't take off your amulet and find
the location. It doesn't work that way. It's not in
the intro. I don't know how we'll reach the molayer
to recover the satellite disian complete the agency's mission. If
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we can't even make it to the desert, it's all right.
Serious lead us to the bazaar's end to a spice shot. Ah,
you know its location courtesy of a like minded friend.
Let's go. There's an eternal card game of a reverent
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fun for me too, and for you one. This one's
your saint. These two the sinners. Avoid that fate. You'll
be a winner. Now watch closely as they mix him up,
and come on down to try your luck. I think
it might be the middle one, but I'm not certain.
I only have a thirty three point three percent chance
of winning. If I guess, five will get you ten. Ten,
we'll catch your twenty. I'll even flip a card over
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and let you switch your pick. Let's stay on track.
But the odds just increase the two thirds with a switch.
It's in my favor now, ah fools, game serious is right.
It's not gambling. It's slight of hand and unwinnable proposition.
Step right up and improve your might, strong enough to
take on the one armed sinew and an arm wrestle
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to the end. Wid afraid of yet beat the champ,
collect the purse. How about it, muscle man, are you
an alpha or are you just a win a want?
That himp champ, he looks sick, serious, crush like funk.
That whimp could snap your wrist and pull your arm
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out of its socket all in one swift motion. Logo
has a point. It's just not a fair fight. Arm
wrestling isn't simply a matter of brute force. The science
behind it relies heavily on technique. It'd be over before
you even have a chance to square off. Don't be
such willing tubes. These are all just scams, chief parlor
tricks designed to part of Mark from his coin pose
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brib enough to step into the chamber of the intra,
and here the cold of umbra sol no, in the
name of field research. Really lave your sanity at the
door as you descend into a world of madness. Last
a minute and you shall climb the reward. Alright, go ahead,
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see for yourselves. You advancing yourself? Bright do yeah? Alright
to common No bullech go a him, Come down, Come down.
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It's just nails on a ju for it. No peeping
behind the card and trade secret. Come on to the
spice shop. No more games. It should be just around
the bend. We've arrived. It doesn't appear open. We should
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probably go Ah serious break dwar patience. Hello, may we
come in? We're looking for Rosemary? Who sent you? Lady Wooza.
We seek good fortune. Follow me the back. See that's
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the thing about his passageway. They're always in the last
place you look. Hold on flax some us there. It's
an ancient game I like to play called five finger
play jabby not between my fingers, and I'm on the way.
The only thing that fear is fear itself, and I
got nither nerves of steel. I'm predicted to this state
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of mind. I'm starting for this meal with just one
taste of flesh, goes pale. I feel it in my bones.
Don't matter how he's slashing with this tissue. Are on
your own? Oh, with idle hands, I'm killing them new
numbers worried for free. But it's not a phase days.
My finger play no place I'd rather be. Excuse me,
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but we're heading through that door right behind you. Mind
if we squeeze by, only thieves can enter the dinner
thieves and y'all look like the eaves to me, yo,
look like suckers. Well not all thieves look like thieves.
That to make them prime suspects, wouldn't it. Huh? You know,
I would say to not think about that. It's a
pretty good point. But still, look, we provided your associate
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with the passwords, so you'll let us enter. Yeah, Well,
if I'll let you in and you ain't thieves, that's
my neck on the top and box and I said, yeah,
be my guest. Heck, you can stay all that because
you ain't getting through that door. Well, we seem to
be at a standstill that we are. Take note. Either
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is going to verbally disarm him, hand me the knife.
I have no idea what he's doing. Either. I'll beat
you at your own game. You you think you can
hack it. Did I misspeak? Now, don't make me waste
my breath. Give me the knife. Oh you got some
mouth on you. I'll tell you what you make it.
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Once around, I'll let your pazz and if I come
up short, you sit here playing into your hand is
a mangled stump, and I'll sever your tongue out so
I don't have to hear you scream. Okay, fair enough,
you're trying anything funny. I got my hand on my
spare day. I'll play by the rules. Serious, hold my amulance.
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It's okay. I need to go inside my mind here.
Nice seems rather dull. It's an ancient game I like
to play called five figure fill a. I chat my
knife between my fingers and underway. I made a friend
of horror long ago, and now I got brass knuckles.
I live in a state of feeding franzies, and the
chop play makes me chuckle ha ha. I'm speeding up lafts,
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heating up. I'm not going by the book of Chase
the rest of PC because I'm a master cook. Oh
with fattle hands. I'm killing time doing offers work for free.
But it's barely A gray scar suit and fate if
I figure fill a if you go for days will
never be game's over. Don't think about reaching for it?
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Serious my amulet, but what how call it blind luck?
Now let us in if you don't want trouble, okay,
of course, of course, apologies for down right this way.
Gad you shocking rock? Oh mama, eat her full now either,
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are you okay? Seconds to recover, forget about it. Finally
here will be in the astral desert. No time after
we arrange plants for trapping mess. She just back on track.
There's a common saying, if you've lost anything along the way,
there's no need to grieve. You can always buy it back.
In the dinner thieves, you're a stamn you're rubbist snamn
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you listen all he comes the doo boots he caught
bo crit he too? Is this not your morning? Get
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in your to rout the seaver and morphine deck a
cart's ripe in the trip of the Simony. Now the
vendor he has the cadence of a snake oil salesbody
can't make out what he's saying. The drawnecker guard even
it's not snake, oily headling, it's ah call her. I
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don't right, then, I have a feeling if we deal
with him, he might get burned. They should be speaking
of former thieves. Can't but this just sounds like complete gibberish.
How are we supposed to find out who's in charge
here so we can secure access into the desert if
we can't even speak the language logo? Can you make
any sense of it? Negative? This dialect isn't even registering
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as a code. It'll be impossible to decipher if I
can't make out a pattern. Why almost every faction of
the Thieves Guild insist on having its own dialect make
confuse exactly to keep scoundrels like us out. I know,
I know, but with a universal language, they could achieve
an optimally efficient unified front. True. Then we'd no longer
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have to waste our time cracking the code, because we'd
have no shot of setting foot here in the first place.
Problem solved. That was sarcasm. In case that didn't register either,
I got it. Well we'll just have to regroup. Okay,
come on, serious, come back here. You look like an
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amulet term marks. Excuse him, he was just browsing a one. Serious,
let's get out of here, no for either, give him strength.
We don't want any trouble, sir. We'll leave now. You
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carban you, yabbit. I don't lose trouble you let the
name tag. Come on. I think that was a threat. Oh,
don't mind them. These two are harmless, a bit of tools.
Sure wouldn't hurt a fly, though, Trust me, I'm their handling. Ta. Yeah,
it's it's uh, best of luck with your business. We'll
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be keeping out of your way. Let's go. Ah what
the merchant's tone? It almost seemed too warm when he
addressed me. Well, of course that's not too strange, rather
expected if you asked me why I missed it? What
wasn't those jars he was selling? Oh, you know, nothing
out of the ordinary, various knickknacks, novel peas and sundrys
of the biological persuasion logo organs if you must? And serious?
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What was he doing? Are going a jar of preserved eyeballs? Should?
I guess? I guess you noticed the resemblance to the
eye on your ambulant Yeah, well let him look next time. Serious,
you're a big guy. You can hold your own right,
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you dog eras and nuts mix? My god? Um, we're
in need of supplies to cross the dunes, guides, camels water.
Can you help us? God dog kill the nick? What
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just happened? I'm not entirely sure, but I'm beginning to
pick up fragments of sentences. I'm quite convinced we need
to each procure a name tag, name tag a tang
the merchants keep referring to them. Perhaps that word was
directly integrated into their lexicon. At any rate, it must
be their form of identification to verify we're card carrying
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guild members and establish us as a credible counterparty for transactions.
Sounds like we have to get our hands on some
name tags, just the thought. Might it be easier on
us if we actually just joined the thieves Guild? Serious,
give me a break, Come back, fine, go suit yourself
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either you expect me to dignify that with response? You
know we work alone. I know, I just it's that enough,
all right? Forgive me for bringing it up. Oh, over there,
there's a rare items dealer. Maybe he can help us
with some of the supplies. Be wrong, let us it's so.
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God evo a t A two can route phil a
late tap no payoff tweet cottage. Yo, it's a gut there.
It's a polyethylene a plastic bag. Serious would love this.
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We gotta get him one. Hey, get na good n
where'd you go? He just followed that woman inside a
storefront and disappeared. What relax? Let him go? You were right,
he can handle himself plus can't cause too much trouble.
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What does it look like? It's semi translucent, off light
in color with the words thank you, have a nice
day in solid black type face mid condition to not
the bag the building. Oh, green lanterns above the door,
possibly infused with borron or copper sulfate, and it's called
Madame Lulu. We have to go after him. Green lights
means poison. It's not safe. Wait. I can tell he's
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about to bring out the bubble rap now. You barely
said a word outside. Not much of a talker, are
you well? I, for one, can appreciate the strong, silent type.
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You look like you'd make good use of a potion
that could end a conversation and put someone try sleep permanently,
if you know what I mean. Let them drift away
to sleep and catch some z's sleep, Catch some zed zack. Yeah,
this potion house sells anything a thief could need, acids, poisons,
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even the deadliest of venoms. And now that we're alone,
we can speak freely. Tell me what can I get? You?
Pick your poison. Apologies for the disturbance. Hello, serious, sorry,
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fastened through, serious, come out, it's ether serious us. There's
no sign of them out here. Anyone look like they're
connected to name tags. Unclear the way some of them
are dressed. Even if they had one, it wud be
under layers of protective hazard gear. There's a hallway over here.
Maybe he's in one of these rooms. I can't help
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but feel this is an invasion of privacy. We'll knock.
All the doors are bead curtains. You should go first.
You're the brave one. Oh thank goodness, I recognize that snarl.
It's him. Serious, we're coming in. Are you hurt? Are
you okay? You really shouldn't have run off like that.
You've taken us off court. Serious, Lead search, find sleep
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potion to catch some set zh. Who's your lovely new
lady friend? What's this now? No way, this is not
how I do business. This was a private transaction. I'm
not selling to any of you. Now. I want information
I'm in search of the name tag. Where do I
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get it? Name tag? Why so everyone at the Potion
Health can tell you're a chump. I'm not dealing with this.
I'm finished. Don't walk away from us. We're not done here.
Halt Tell me where I can find the name tag.
I don't know what you're talking about. Came away from me. Please,
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This is a simple misunderstand. We don't mean to impose.
We're actually very reasonable people. We just want to go
about our business. You're a hard working person and wants
to go about her business to write duh, Well, at
least we're on the same page. It's just our business
lies beyond these city walls, and before we can get
out to the dunes, first we got to get the
name tag so we can get a meeting with the
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person in charge to make arrangements to enter the desert.
Not my problem. I'm leaving. I know you're about to go,
but I have to ask if you have any info
that might lead us in the right direction. I told you,
I don't know. Please any info at all. Your best
bet is probably at the club next door. Just don't
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tell anyone I told you, or I'll get in major trouble.
Thank you, thank you. We won't get in trouble with whom?
And why did that woman even talk to Serious without
speaking in code when he's a stranger, Because he wasn't
a stranger, who was a client client in a private room.
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That's a shame we spooked her. Could let us straight
to the name tag? Oh well, shall we head to
the club? This is it club demo? After you tube anything?
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Stand out? I agree? The band is loud. No any
leads on the name tag. Can't manage to tune out
the drivel? Dang the tentative airs. It'll be quieter by
the bar, might be easier to hear yourself, think serious,
stand guard weeks here, I'll say it to Elcolm's not
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our knock. We have rested a ragga talk of type work.
It's the law to evan naber knock you yap him
to eat a rippo rednew the radar radar, that's it
radar from the expression under the radar, Well yes, but
also from radar a system that transmits and receives signals
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similar to a satellite dish. Oh yeah, you said something
about what a satellite dish was back when we met.
Now what are you saying about a radar? Never mind,
Just know that radar is a palindrome, So radar recites
the same spelled backward or forward. That's our key come
on logo. Growing up on the streets of imperial words,
where all I had to survive, I am well versed
in rhetoric, even paladromes. But you're still gonna have to
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unlock this one for me. Reversals, it's how their code works.
You yap him to eat a repo rednew the radar,
You pay him to operate under the radar. Huh huh
h h. Now you're getting it. It's remarkably simple. It's
simply remarkable. For keywords, they reverse the spelling and then
recited backwards. And for filler words such as such the
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two key she and and they leave them as is.
To communicate, all we have to do is flip the
keyword around and then pronounce it as spelled. It's a
form of back slang. And how is this supposed to
help us find the name tag listen, he who slourt
knock the revel slourt knock the wolf of d art,
He who controls the lever, controls the flow of trade.
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The name tag. That's it. I'm going over there to
see if there's anything they'll tell us. Come on serious,
Ah no, wait, at least wait for me do deep
name tag. We're not looking for the name tag, We're
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looking for the gate man. Okay, then that's him. Whosy
with back table alone is puny thug? Leave now perfect?
Let me do the talking. Okay, but remember he won't
speak plain English or formalize a contract in a public
place where he can't tell who might be listening. You'll
have to convince him to go with you somewhere secure
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to close the deal. Get him behind closed doors. Got Also,
if you take too long to respond between the time
you decipher what he just said and translate your own reply,
you'll out yourself. So you'll have to be lightning quick
with your answers. I'll keep it brief and a last reminder.
All you have to do is flip the keywords around
and pronounce it normally. It's back slang or should I say,
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now's cab? Oh dear, this is going to be harder
than I thought. Name tag a coach a joke aloof
ergo zaps claw into a rap fool spouse walking into
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a baro, you have goodnet to most rough me rednots.
I hope you have something for me anger a deed
a deed a gig a gig a gig? What he
meant of you? At what time of day? Noon? What's
the annoyed tant said? What's the destination where things live? Evil? Stressed? Stressed?
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Your mood deserts deserts your doom? You stunned, stunned, you
nuts nuts, I'm mad, damn cook. We have drawer, you'll
get snap diaper. We have reward, we'll get tons repaid ah.
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I have your spam brag drowns for your reviled. I
have your maps, garb sword for your delivered. Layad deal,
layad lad. Now that we've settled this as summer private,
we can hash up details all off follow you'll slip up?
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Huh slip up? Oh no, backslige for pupils. Either thinks
he slipped up, when really it refers to the eye
on Ether's ambulet. My I sees the brats, My eye
sees the star. Wow what oh go go? Either talk
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like me? Didn't you hear Ether slip up? Stood up?
The gate man thinks Either wears his ambuletor chattel the stars.
Sometimes the stars do aligne me so happy we could kiss.
You're serious, SnO logo, Sure have away with words. You
can see the same for you. Give me a moment
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to seal the office, dool. Non sanctioned travel on the
dunes is forspid. Yes, I'm aware now for nothing. No
skill traveler can last more than three days out there.
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Civilians dead by nightfall, and we sure don't want whatever's
on that side making its way in. You may have
picked up some shoddy backslang, but you ain't from around
these parts. Tell me who are you? Bandits? Smugglers, scammers?
What kind of thieves am I dealing with? We don't
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conform to the narrow designations typical of the guild, No
you don't. Our diverse set of skills allows us to
engage in a broad spectrum of complex affairs, utilizing bespoke
tactics in a dynamic approach. What nonsense is? This is
your membership and good standing? Are you thieves the stars?
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Outlaws of the guilt? Dear are you? Dear you? We're
civilian mercenaries. When we take on a mission, we're loyal
to the end. Very well I suppose the less I
know the better, And if you try to steal from me,
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my gods will hunt you down. So all on other
guild's code. If it's lucrative enough, what do you need
the essentials? We have some basic supplies in our packs,
but we still need an armed caravan for transport jugs
of water. Your best guides must be after something with
a shiny opal if you're going all the way into
the desert to get it, I'm not at liberty to
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discuss such matters. You want my guides, my supplies, my blessing,
and you won't even tell me what it is. I'm
backing fair enough. It's oil. We're after oil, ha ha ha.
And where do you expect to find this? Boil? The
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mole layer? Those mutants, you're even crazier than I thought.
I already told you that. What else is there to say?
How do you plan on negotiating? Please? And thank you
a firm shake of their webbed paw agreed to carry
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their eggs inside you. I'm confident we'll get it done.
Confident good It doesn't ha h? I like that? Yes
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m hm, yes, yes, but that mean that m m
I'd like that all right, you'll have your chance. I'll
provide you three camels, this hair map on my desk,
a canteen, sword, and functional wear packed and ready to
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go noon tomorrow. Other than that, you're on your own.
But if you don't like, you're welcome to try your
hand scaling the mountains of North or wading through the top.
It's down the south, of course, if you want the
direct route east. I'm the only one who controls the gate,
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so I control what goes in and out of this wall,
your gates, the rather majestic wonder. Just a few steps
behind you lies the entrance, where within a narrowing chord
or a week three evenly space, sequentially descending heavy lattice
squilled overhead drop doors, each iron clad and brandished with
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steel spikes at their base. They funneled to a fifty
by a hundred foot impenetrable black stone swing gait, which
itself is fortified with archers, spearmen and outfit it with
brace wire topples. It defies your typical gait closer to
a gauntlet. Really, how long does the process take activated
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via level, It's a minute. A drop tours three for
the final gate that's to open the pathway to shut
have that figure, and to bear witness to its inner
workings in action, to bask in the music of its
restless metal, and really appreciate the craftsmanship of which you
are experiencing as you take it all in. It's truly
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a thing of beauty. Of course, once said into motion,
it can't be stopped until the mechanism of chain linked
rope and police has fully run its course. But who
would want to interrupt such a thing anyway? You've sold me?
Shall we discuss payment? Now you're talking my left the
guilt's usual ten percent tithe of the spoil us upon
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return if you return, And no, the risk is too high.
I need to ensure a handsome profit on my investment.
Something like this, I want half to take. Are you
out of your mind? Give me a moment to talk
this over with my associates. It might not be my
place to comment, but half seems absurdly high. Don't forget
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it's the agency's satellite dish. We're after only selling him
on the oil. But you said he knows the rules
as well as anyone. Buy or beware, and if all
goes as planned, we won't be coming back it's a deal,
or should I say a layad. I'm glad we could
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see I this is going to be a very successful
venture for both of us. I know it. I'll make
sure this operation runs smoothly. From A to Z. Oh no,
the thieves dialect either said Z when it's pronounced vent.
What faction of the guild did you say you belonged to?
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I didn't a raid rail leaf it in my tongue,
A dear liar feeling in my gut. I'm sorry, you retool,
there must be some kind of misunderstanding. Try to reflip
from me, Try to pilfer from me. You've lost me here.
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Reflip reflip? Is his up his back? Sling Um, you're
the y the day serious? Now a leash logo the lever.
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How long do we have? Let's see to open three
vertical doors at a minute of peace, plus an additional
three for the final game at six minutes, an additional
quarter of that time to close, taking into account of
one started. The procedure can't be interrupted. I thought he
could halt get quarter. If you want to come out
with your head until attach to your body. Spikes at
their face went on their way down the doors become
a guillotine if you don't clear now. Figuring the moderate
level of drust on the level as a proxy for
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the cognition of the rogue pulling system, I factor in
a short refractorate period before he's able to reverse the process.
So will pick up an extra thirty seconds in lag
time by my calculations, assuming diversity ecodistant segments takes I
don't know, say thirty seconds a piece. Can we make it?
That depends on a variety of complex factors assumption to variables.
I really can't estimate our chance of success beyond a
few standard deviation logo plain English before it become unhind
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If we leave right now, it's technically possible. Serious office
stores walk break it. The no one follows us in
prob the map looks ball. You don't stand a chance.
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The dunes will be the least of your worries. Even
if you somehow beat it through the drop doors, mine
their sky cards wouldn't quite welcome You're on. Expect to
arrival in the final swing game next time before you
tackle back to say, make sure you first mess in
your ABC. All the way through X Y and said
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We have to keep searching. We traveled all the way
to the rope Bazar because they need to find the
hidden entrance to the black market known as the Den
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of Thieves. That's the only way we can safely enter
the desert. Remember what Ether said, We need to go
through the den of thiefs black markets in order to
gain access to the Azrael Desert for safe travel because
they controlled the desert border. The success of our mission
depends on locating its entrance. Strong remarkable, isn't it serious?
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Think order drance gorge? What? No, it's not dancing. The
creatures swaying side to side. The performers hypnotize the gorgon's
with the sound of their hand drums. But I still
haven't deduced the finer points must be in the beat pattern. Well,
I don't suppose you have a better explanation. Friends, find
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only two hundred common opal for the jug deal another
street peddler. Let's just ignore until he goes away. Pretend
you don't speak English or better, yet talk normal. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
For you toothpick, I'll come down. You just call me
toothpick for this handmaid, expertly crafted jug one hundred and
fifty opals, my best price. Pardon me. I recognize you
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are ay of finely crafted goods, but I am not
in need of your services at this time. I must
request you moving. Okay, okay, okay, okay. How about you,
burly man, you look like the big COONa. For you
a special bargain, my friendly rate. One hundred and twenty opals,
cheapest in the market. Don't know, Okay, all right, just
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for today, one hundred opals price. Okay, friend, take me
all of earth. Nothing unbelievable, fine fifty olds. My kids
will go hungry. You insult my family. I'll even lose
money on this, but I'll sell it to you just
for a good karma. Happy now, he logo, We go. Now.
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You're bad man, very bad man. You waste my time.
We are only interested in the location of the den
of thieves so we can get to the Azrael desert.
Nothing else. Of course, you I wish you only misfortune. Huh.
Of course your chief vagrants hid me. What are you doing?
What are you doing? You do it? Down starts now
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you really did? Ah? Okay, either You've come to the
right tent in the Roque bazaar to see your future.
But I can't tell you the location of the den
of thieves. Only the Crystal Ball can show. If you'll
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find its entrance and have safe travels through the Azrael Desert,
prepare to peer into its depths and discover what lies
within its lens. Oh, crystal Ball, I turned to the
unraveled secrets I keep from me, reveal hidden truths urry
down below of things we wish to forget, but always no.
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Like veiled stars shining bright, made visible only at night,
we see exposed reality. The crystal leadons encroaching storm clouds
lurk on the horizon. I see fields that are barren,
trees that are hollow, rivers that run dry, a murky gray.
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I am beginning to make out the faint silhouette of
a figure shrouded in shadow. Why during a lost near
death in the desert, Who is this figure? I wonder? Ah,
I'm losing it. The image is fading, the crystal Ball
returning to slumber. Lady Foosia, No, but wait, it grows darker,
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shed black. What is happening? The crystal ball burnt my
fingers A flash of lightning. I glimpsed a village. Oh
no no, it's set flame to the land. Building is burning,
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people flailing, ablaze, Everything turned to ashes. A burth of water,
putting the fire to rest, cleansing the land. Rain drops
wash away tears. But but it is too much. Blood follows, bodies,
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floating people, drowning, babies swept away the village swallow rottle
either Soon everyone will know Umbra's true call. It all
will be erased. Look away. What you think you're seeing
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in the crystal ball isn't real, only subconscious manifestations from Umbra.
What do you know of Umbra? Give me the palm
of your hand. Why should I, Lady Vouza, I want
to help fine. Your palm is rough to the touch,
marred with deep grooves and wrinkles. Insult me tells me
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you've led a difficult life the years, turning you callous,
I suppose, But who in the rock Bazar isn't I'm
going to apply a slight pressure to the tips of
your finger. Mm hmm, very little resistance, ample flexibility, How interesting.
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What does it mean You're very adaptable to new situations.
Let me part your thumb. You didn't run away as
a child, did you? I did? How did you know
the edge of your thumb naturally bends backwards, pointing away
from the rest of your fingers. You're an independent person
who had to make your own way in life. When
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I was a child, the king of my land was corrupted.
The villagers say he fell victim to his own humors,
but I believe there was something more sinister at work.
My father was his trusted advisor, and the king ordered
my parents and siblings slaughter. He he massacreed his own people.
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I was chosen to be a servant, but two stars
blessed me with a path to escape. Your trouble past
reminds me of my own, and it's made you a
compassionate person Beneath your heart and facade. This is more
than my trade. People come to me in need, and
I help them as best as I can. How I
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would have wanted, yes, But even though it was long ago,
I since you're still scared, afraid you're succumbing to your
own delusions and losing grasp of reality, even beginning to
believe you really do possess the psychic powers you pretend
to have. It is true, it is true. I feel
myself slipping and losing control. And let me free you
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from these fears. In a moment, I'll ask you to
think of a tool in your possession, something like a
saw or a wrench. But think of your own. But
first turn your attention back to the crystal ball. I'll
repeat the question, I arrived with the entrance to the
den of thieves. Tell me where is it? I can't.
I'm sorry, I'm forbidden to tell an outside of the location.
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If you were found to help the killeth, both fixate
on the crystal see the answer within. You know that
it's safe to tell me. All right, Go to the
bazaar's end. There's a spy shop. Knock three times, ask
for Rosemary. Tell them I sent you that you that
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you see good fortune. Thank you, lady Vosa. Now you
know what you need to do. The mystic visions you
think you see in your crystal ball are just projections
from your own mind. Get a handle on this before
it chisels away at you and you lose yourself in
the intra. You need to break free now, picture the
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tool I asked you about vividly in your mind. Got
it a hammer? But how did you know bring it forth?
When you gaze into the crystal, the crystal gazes back
into you. You've been chained to this crystal ball for
far too long. Break free your mind, smash the ball.
Do it now, leave this place before umber takes what's
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left of you. You're stronger than you know and can
take back control, but you have to move on. Tell
me the amulet you were around your neck, the golden
sun was the all seeing eye in the center, the
eye imperiad. What does it mean that there's someone watching
over me? It protects me from umbra. It gives me
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strength to see clearly put me I'm sorry, Please mercy
put them down. Serious, Lucky, you're crazy. You're all crazy.
Of course I thought I told you to to keep
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a low profile. Song of the gorgon tamer music to
the ears. If you're a sap, it's widely mistaken. The
gorgons are hypnotized by the music, but Gorgon's can't hear
a thing on account they don't have ears. But what
about the dancing their motion? It's a warning stance because
they view the performance restless Hands as a threat catchy
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beat though either we failed you. It's true, we searched everywhere,
but we haven't been able to locate the entrance to
the Denna thieves black market. No one would divulge its coordinates.
How come you can't take off your amulet and find
the location. It doesn't work that way. It's not in
the intro. I don't know how we'll reach the molayer
to recover the satellite disian complete the agency's mission. If
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we can't even make it to the desert, it's all right.
Serious lead us to the bazaar's end to a spice shot. Ah,
you know its location courtesy of a like minded friend.
Let's go. There's an eternal card game of a reverent
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fun for me too, and for you one. This one's
your saint. These two the sinners. Avoid that fate. You'll
be a winner. Now watch closely as they mix him up,
and come on down to try your luck. I think
it might be the middle one, but I'm not certain.
I only have a thirty three point three percent chance
of winning. If I guess, five will get you ten. Ten,
we'll catch your twenty. I'll even flip a card over
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and let you switch your pick. Let's stay on track.
But the odds just increase the two thirds with a switch.
It's in my favor now, ah fools, game serious is right.
It's not gambling. It's slight of hand and unwinnable proposition.
Step right up and improve your might, strong enough to
take on the one armed sinew and an arm wrestle
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to the end. Wid afraid of yet beat the champ,
collect the purse. How about it, muscle man, are you
an alpha or are you just a win a want?
That himp champ, he looks sick, serious, crush like funk.
That whimp could snap your wrist and pull your arm
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out of its socket all in one swift motion. Logo
has a point. It's just not a fair fight. Arm
wrestling isn't simply a matter of brute force. The science
behind it relies heavily on technique. It'd be over before
you even have a chance to square off. Don't be
such willing tubes. These are all just scams, chief parlor
tricks designed to part of Mark from his coin pose
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brib enough to step into the chamber of the intra,
and here the cold of umbra sol no, in the
name of field research. Really lave your sanity at the
door as you descend into a world of madness. Last
a minute and you shall climb the reward. Alright, go ahead,
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see for yourselves. You advancing yourself? Bright do yeah? Alright
to common No bullech go a him, Come down, Come down.
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It's just nails on a ju for it. No peeping
behind the card and trade secret. Come on to the
spice shop. No more games. It should be just around
the bend. We've arrived. It doesn't appear open. We should
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probably go Ah serious break dwar patience. Hello, may we
come in? We're looking for Rosemary? Who sent you? Lady Wooza.
We seek good fortune. Follow me the back. See that's
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the thing about his passageway. They're always in the last
place you look. Hold on flax some us there. It's
an ancient game I like to play called five finger
play jabby not between my fingers, and I'm on the way.
The only thing that fear is fear itself, and I
got nither nerves of steel. I'm predicted to this state
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of mind. I'm starting for this meal with just one
taste of flesh, goes pale. I feel it in my bones.
Don't matter how he's slashing with this tissue. Are on
your own? Oh, with idle hands, I'm killing them new
numbers worried for free. But it's not a phase days.
My finger play no place I'd rather be. Excuse me,
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but we're heading through that door right behind you. Mind
if we squeeze by, only thieves can enter the dinner
thieves and y'all look like the eaves to me, yo,
look like suckers. Well not all thieves look like thieves.
That to make them prime suspects, wouldn't it. Huh? You know,
I would say to not think about that. It's a
pretty good point. But still, look, we provided your associate
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with the passwords, so you'll let us enter. Yeah, Well,
if I'll let you in and you ain't thieves, that's
my neck on the top and box and I said, yeah,
be my guest. Heck, you can stay all that because
you ain't getting through that door. Well, we seem to
be at a standstill that we are. Take note. Either
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is going to verbally disarm him, hand me the knife.
I have no idea what he's doing. Either. I'll beat
you at your own game. You you think you can
hack it. Did I misspeak? Now, don't make me waste
my breath. Give me the knife. Oh you got some
mouth on you. I'll tell you what you make it.
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Once around, I'll let your pazz and if I come
up short, you sit here playing into your hand is
a mangled stump, and I'll sever your tongue out so
I don't have to hear you scream. Okay, fair enough,
you're trying anything funny. I got my hand on my
spare day. I'll play by the rules. Serious, hold my amulance.
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It's okay. I need to go inside my mind here.
Nice seems rather dull. It's an ancient game I like
to play called five figure fill a. I chat my
knife between my fingers and underway. I made a friend
of horror long ago, and now I got brass knuckles.
I live in a state of feeding franzies, and the
chop play makes me chuckle ha ha. I'm speeding up lafts,
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heating up. I'm not going by the book of Chase
the rest of PC because I'm a master cook. Oh
with fattle hands. I'm killing time doing offers work for free.
But it's barely A gray scar suit and fate if
I figure fill a if you go for days will
never be game's over. Don't think about reaching for it?
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Serious my amulet, but what how call it blind luck?
Now let us in if you don't want trouble, okay,
of course, of course, apologies for down right this way.
Gad you shocking rock? Oh mama, eat her full now either,
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are you okay? Seconds to recover, forget about it. Finally
here will be in the astral desert. No time after
we arrange plants for trapping mess. She just back on track.
There's a common saying, if you've lost anything along the way,
there's no need to grieve. You can always buy it back.
In the dinner thieves, you're a stamn you're rubbist snamn
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you listen all he comes the doo boots he caught
bo crit he too? Is this not your morning? Get
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in your to rout the seaver and morphine deck a
cart's ripe in the trip of the Simony. Now the
vendor he has the cadence of a snake oil salesbody
can't make out what he's saying. The drawnecker guard even
it's not snake, oily headling, it's ah call her. I
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don't right, then, I have a feeling if we deal
with him, he might get burned. They should be speaking
of former thieves. Can't but this just sounds like complete gibberish.
How are we supposed to find out who's in charge
here so we can secure access into the desert if
we can't even speak the language logo? Can you make
any sense of it? Negative? This dialect isn't even registering
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as a code. It'll be impossible to decipher if I
can't make out a pattern. Why almost every faction of
the Thieves Guild insist on having its own dialect make
confuse exactly to keep scoundrels like us out. I know,
I know, but with a universal language, they could achieve
an optimally efficient unified front. True. Then we'd no longer
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have to waste our time cracking the code, because we'd
have no shot of setting foot here in the first place.
Problem solved. That was sarcasm. In case that didn't register either,
I got it. Well we'll just have to regroup. Okay,
come on, serious, come back here. You look like an
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amulet term marks. Excuse him, he was just browsing a one. Serious,
let's get out of here, no for either, give him strength.
We don't want any trouble, sir. We'll leave now. You
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carban you, yabbit. I don't lose trouble you let the
name tag. Come on. I think that was a threat. Oh,
don't mind them. These two are harmless, a bit of tools.
Sure wouldn't hurt a fly, though, Trust me, I'm their handling. Ta. Yeah,
it's it's uh, best of luck with your business. We'll
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be keeping out of your way. Let's go. Ah what
the merchant's tone? It almost seemed too warm when he
addressed me. Well, of course that's not too strange, rather
expected if you asked me why I missed it? What
wasn't those jars he was selling? Oh, you know, nothing
out of the ordinary, various knickknacks, novel peas and sundrys
of the biological persuasion logo organs if you must? And serious?
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What was he doing? Are going a jar of preserved eyeballs? Should?
I guess? I guess you noticed the resemblance to the
eye on your ambulant Yeah, well let him look next time. Serious,
you're a big guy. You can hold your own right,
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you dog eras and nuts mix? My god? Um, we're
in need of supplies to cross the dunes, guides, camels water.
Can you help us? God dog kill the nick? What
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just happened? I'm not entirely sure, but I'm beginning to
pick up fragments of sentences. I'm quite convinced we need
to each procure a name tag, name tag a tang
the merchants keep referring to them. Perhaps that word was
directly integrated into their lexicon. At any rate, it must
be their form of identification to verify we're card carrying
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guild members and establish us as a credible counterparty for transactions.
Sounds like we have to get our hands on some
name tags, just the thought. Might it be easier on
us if we actually just joined the thieves Guild? Serious,
give me a break, Come back, fine, go suit yourself
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either you expect me to dignify that with response? You
know we work alone. I know, I just it's that enough,
all right? Forgive me for bringing it up. Oh, over there,
there's a rare items dealer. Maybe he can help us
with some of the supplies. Be wrong, let us it's so.
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God evo a t A two can route phil a
late tap no payoff tweet cottage. Yo, it's a gut there.
It's a polyethylene a plastic bag. Serious would love this.
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We gotta get him one. Hey, get na good n
where'd you go? He just followed that woman inside a
storefront and disappeared. What relax? Let him go? You were right,
he can handle himself plus can't cause too much trouble.
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What does it look like? It's semi translucent, off light
in color with the words thank you, have a nice
day in solid black type face mid condition to not
the bag the building. Oh, green lanterns above the door,
possibly infused with borron or copper sulfate, and it's called
Madame Lulu. We have to go after him. Green lights
means poison. It's not safe. Wait. I can tell he's
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about to bring out the bubble rap now. You barely
said a word outside. Not much of a talker, are
you well? I, for one, can appreciate the strong, silent type.
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You look like you'd make good use of a potion
that could end a conversation and put someone try sleep permanently,
if you know what I mean. Let them drift away
to sleep and catch some z's sleep, Catch some zed zack. Yeah,
this potion house sells anything a thief could need, acids, poisons,
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even the deadliest of venoms. And now that we're alone,
we can speak freely. Tell me what can I get? You?
Pick your poison. Apologies for the disturbance. Hello, serious, sorry,
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fastened through, serious, come out, it's ether serious us. There's
no sign of them out here. Anyone look like they're
connected to name tags. Unclear the way some of them
are dressed. Even if they had one, it wud be
under layers of protective hazard gear. There's a hallway over here.
Maybe he's in one of these rooms. I can't help
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but feel this is an invasion of privacy. We'll knock.
All the doors are bead curtains. You should go first.
You're the brave one. Oh thank goodness, I recognize that snarl.
It's him. Serious, we're coming in. Are you hurt? Are
you okay? You really shouldn't have run off like that.
You've taken us off court. Serious, Lead search, find sleep
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potion to catch some set zh. Who's your lovely new
lady friend? What's this now? No way, this is not
how I do business. This was a private transaction. I'm
not selling to any of you. Now. I want information
I'm in search of the name tag. Where do I
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get it? Name tag? Why so everyone at the Potion
Health can tell you're a chump. I'm not dealing with this.
I'm finished. Don't walk away from us. We're not done here.
Halt Tell me where I can find the name tag.
I don't know what you're talking about. Came away from me. Please,
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This is a simple misunderstand. We don't mean to impose.
We're actually very reasonable people. We just want to go
about our business. You're a hard working person and wants
to go about her business to write duh, Well, at
least we're on the same page. It's just our business
lies beyond these city walls, and before we can get
out to the dunes, first we got to get the
name tag so we can get a meeting with the
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person in charge to make arrangements to enter the desert.
Not my problem. I'm leaving. I know you're about to go,
but I have to ask if you have any info
that might lead us in the right direction. I told you,
I don't know. Please any info at all. Your best
bet is probably at the club next door. Just don't
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tell anyone I told you, or I'll get in major trouble.
Thank you, thank you. We won't get in trouble with whom?
And why did that woman even talk to Serious without
speaking in code when he's a stranger, Because he wasn't
a stranger, who was a client client in a private room.
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That's a shame we spooked her. Could let us straight
to the name tag? Oh well, shall we head to
the club? This is it club demo? After you tube anything?
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Stand out? I agree? The band is loud. No any
leads on the name tag. Can't manage to tune out
the drivel? Dang the tentative airs. It'll be quieter by
the bar, might be easier to hear yourself, think serious,
stand guard weeks here, I'll say it to Elcolm's not
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our knock. We have rested a ragga talk of type work.
It's the law to evan naber knock you yap him
to eat a rippo rednew the radar radar, that's it
radar from the expression under the radar, Well yes, but
also from radar a system that transmits and receives signals
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similar to a satellite dish. Oh yeah, you said something
about what a satellite dish was back when we met.
Now what are you saying about a radar? Never mind,
Just know that radar is a palindrome, So radar recites
the same spelled backward or forward. That's our key come
on logo. Growing up on the streets of imperial words,
where all I had to survive, I am well versed
in rhetoric, even paladromes. But you're still gonna have to
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unlock this one for me. Reversals, it's how their code works.
You yap him to eat a repo rednew the radar,
You pay him to operate under the radar. Huh huh
h h. Now you're getting it. It's remarkably simple. It's
simply remarkable. For keywords, they reverse the spelling and then
recited backwards. And for filler words such as such the
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two key she and and they leave them as is.
To communicate, all we have to do is flip the
keyword around and then pronounce it as spelled. It's a
form of back slang. And how is this supposed to
help us find the name tag listen, he who slourt
knock the revel slourt knock the wolf of d art,
He who controls the lever, controls the flow of trade.
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The name tag. That's it. I'm going over there to
see if there's anything they'll tell us. Come on serious,
Ah no, wait, at least wait for me do deep
name tag. We're not looking for the name tag, We're
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looking for the gate man. Okay, then that's him. Whosy
with back table alone is puny thug? Leave now perfect?
Let me do the talking. Okay, but remember he won't
speak plain English or formalize a contract in a public
place where he can't tell who might be listening. You'll
have to convince him to go with you somewhere secure
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to close the deal. Get him behind closed doors. Got Also,
if you take too long to respond between the time
you decipher what he just said and translate your own reply,
you'll out yourself. So you'll have to be lightning quick
with your answers. I'll keep it brief and a last reminder.
All you have to do is flip the keywords around
and pronounce it normally. It's back slang or should I say,
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now's cab? Oh dear, this is going to be harder
than I thought. Name tag a coach a joke aloof
ergo zaps claw into a rap fool spouse walking into
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a baro, you have goodnet to most rough me rednots.
I hope you have something for me anger a deed
a deed a gig a gig a gig? What he
meant of you? At what time of day? Noon? What's
the annoyed tant said? What's the destination where things live? Evil? Stressed? Stressed?
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Your mood deserts deserts your doom? You stunned, stunned, you
nuts nuts, I'm mad, damn cook. We have drawer, you'll
get snap diaper. We have reward, we'll get tons repaid ah.
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I have your spam brag drowns for your reviled. I
have your maps, garb sword for your delivered. Layad deal,
layad lad. Now that we've settled this as summer private,
we can hash up details all off follow you'll slip up?
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Huh slip up? Oh no, backslige for pupils. Either thinks
he slipped up, when really it refers to the eye
on Ether's ambulet. My I sees the brats, My eye
sees the star. Wow what oh go go? Either talk
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like me? Didn't you hear Ether slip up? Stood up?
The gate man thinks Either wears his ambuletor chattel the stars.
Sometimes the stars do aligne me so happy we could kiss.
You're serious, SnO logo, Sure have away with words. You
can see the same for you. Give me a moment
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to seal the office, dool. Non sanctioned travel on the
dunes is forspid. Yes, I'm aware now for nothing. No
skill traveler can last more than three days out there.
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Civilians dead by nightfall, and we sure don't want whatever's
on that side making its way in. You may have
picked up some shoddy backslang, but you ain't from around
these parts. Tell me who are you? Bandits? Smugglers, scammers?
What kind of thieves am I dealing with? We don't
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conform to the narrow designations typical of the guild, No
you don't. Our diverse set of skills allows us to
engage in a broad spectrum of complex affairs, utilizing bespoke
tactics in a dynamic approach. What nonsense is? This is
your membership and good standing? Are you thieves the stars?
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Outlaws of the guilt? Dear are you? Dear you? We're
civilian mercenaries. When we take on a mission, we're loyal
to the end. Very well I suppose the less I
know the better, And if you try to steal from me,
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my gods will hunt you down. So all on other
guild's code. If it's lucrative enough, what do you need
the essentials? We have some basic supplies in our packs,
but we still need an armed caravan for transport jugs
of water. Your best guides must be after something with
a shiny opal if you're going all the way into
the desert to get it, I'm not at liberty to
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discuss such matters. You want my guides, my supplies, my blessing,
and you won't even tell me what it is. I'm
backing fair enough. It's oil. We're after oil, ha ha ha.
And where do you expect to find this? Boil? The
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mole layer? Those mutants, you're even crazier than I thought.
I already told you that. What else is there to say?
How do you plan on negotiating? Please? And thank you
a firm shake of their webbed paw agreed to carry
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their eggs inside you. I'm confident we'll get it done.
Confident good It doesn't ha h? I like that? Yes
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m hm, yes, yes, but that mean that m m
I'd like that all right, you'll have your chance. I'll
provide you three camels, this hair map on my desk,
a canteen, sword, and functional wear packed and ready to
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go noon tomorrow. Other than that, you're on your own.
But if you don't like, you're welcome to try your
hand scaling the mountains of North or wading through the top.
It's down the south, of course, if you want the
direct route east. I'm the only one who controls the gate,
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so I control what goes in and out of this wall,
your gates, the rather majestic wonder. Just a few steps
behind you lies the entrance, where within a narrowing chord
or a week three evenly space, sequentially descending heavy lattice
squilled overhead drop doors, each iron clad and brandished with
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steel spikes at their base. They funneled to a fifty
by a hundred foot impenetrable black stone swing gait, which
itself is fortified with archers, spearmen and outfit it with
brace wire topples. It defies your typical gait closer to
a gauntlet. Really, how long does the process take activated
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via level, It's a minute. A drop tours three for
the final gate that's to open the pathway to shut
have that figure, and to bear witness to its inner
workings in action, to bask in the music of its
restless metal, and really appreciate the craftsmanship of which you
are experiencing as you take it all in. It's truly
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a thing of beauty. Of course, once said into motion,
it can't be stopped until the mechanism of chain linked
rope and police has fully run its course. But who
would want to interrupt such a thing anyway? You've sold me?
Shall we discuss payment? Now you're talking my left the
guilt's usual ten percent tithe of the spoil us upon
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return if you return, And no, the risk is too high.
I need to ensure a handsome profit on my investment.
Something like this, I want half to take. Are you
out of your mind? Give me a moment to talk
this over with my associates. It might not be my
place to comment, but half seems absurdly high. Don't forget
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it's the agency's satellite dish. We're after only selling him
on the oil. But you said he knows the rules
as well as anyone. Buy or beware, and if all
goes as planned, we won't be coming back it's a deal,
or should I say a layad. I'm glad we could
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see I this is going to be a very successful
venture for both of us. I know it. I'll make
sure this operation runs smoothly. From A to Z. Oh no,
the thieves dialect either said Z when it's pronounced vent.
What faction of the guild did you say you belonged to?
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I didn't a raid rail leaf it in my tongue,
A dear liar feeling in my gut. I'm sorry, you retool,
there must be some kind of misunderstanding. Try to reflip
from me, Try to pilfer from me. You've lost me here.
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Reflip reflip? Is his up his back? Sling Um, you're
the y the day serious? Now a leash logo the lever.
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How long do we have? Let's see to open three
vertical doors at a minute of peace, plus an additional
three for the final game at six minutes, an additional
quarter of that time to close, taking into account of
one started. The procedure can't be interrupted. I thought he
could halt get quarter. If you want to come out
with your head until attach to your body. Spikes at
their face went on their way down the doors become
a guillotine if you don't clear now. Figuring the moderate
level of drust on the level as a proxy for
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the cognition of the rogue pulling system, I factor in
a short refractorate period before he's able to reverse the process.
So will pick up an extra thirty seconds in lag
time by my calculations, assuming diversity ecodistant segments takes I
don't know, say thirty seconds a piece. Can we make it?
That depends on a variety of complex factors assumption to variables.
I really can't estimate our chance of success beyond a
few standard deviation logo plain English before it become unhind
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If we leave right now, it's technically possible. Serious office
stores walk break it. The no one follows us in
prob the map looks ball. You don't stand a chance.
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The dunes will be the least of your worries. Even
if you somehow beat it through the drop doors, mine
their sky cards wouldn't quite welcome You're on. Expect to
arrival in the final swing game next time before you
tackle back to say, make sure you first mess in
your ABC. All the way through X Y and said
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