Thank you so much to Gabriela for commissioning this episode, and my apologies for not being able to properly finish it. This was the last thing I recorded before my computer completely quit on me and had to be brought into Apple for some emergency care.
It's too bad that it happened now, because the games with the Foxy Pirates are super fun and I'm very excited to talk about them more, but it will have to wait!
Thank you again so much to you all for listening, and I will see you soon with a BETTER episode!

Thank you very much to George for commissioning this episode!
So these are the chapters where we get to see the moment in which a Great Elder summons Calder and all of his crew to his weird little headquarters and states some absolute facts to them, but Andel is quick to point out that facts are not necessarily the same as truth.
Thanks so much to you all for listening, I'm so excited to start the next book soon! See you then!

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!
So this is the episode where Envy is finally defeated, and there's a lot about this that I have a hard time with, but then some ideas that I like a lot. First of all, there's the concept that Roy is taking his anger to a level that makes him seem like a monster, which I'm not really in agreement on. But then, the idea that Envy's name comes from an envy of humanity and the ways they can forgive, continue to work together, and move on...I rather like that.
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Thank you to George for commissioning this episode!
In these chapters, we're getting Calder essentially telling Kellerac to fuck off and that he's not making any further deals with him. It's interesting to me that Kellerac seems to be a little bit more desperate to make things happen than he has in the past, which makes me super suspicious. What's going on, K? You slippin?
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Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode!
So we're doing the thing where we jump ahead a few years and we get to see the ways in which cultures clash against one another, and the variety of ways in which value systems that don't match can lead to deep misunderstandings and feelings of superiority that get in the way of effective communication.
Also, we go to the palace for the first time in a while and see what's going on with Fara, Phyro, and Jia. Seems like Fara is better at this than anyone is really giving her credit for, but her brother is not inclined to take advice from her.
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Thank you to George for commissioning this episode!
These are the chapters where we go back and see the way that Calder meets Urzaia, and it's under way way different circumstances than I had expected. I had assumed he met Urzaia at the fighting pits, but it turns out that Urzaia was arrested for rebelling against direct orders from the Emperor. Which suits Calder just fine.
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Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!
In this episode, Roy goes up against Envy and everyone seems to be really concerned with Roy's treatment of Envy but personally I was lowkey into it because Envy is kind of the meanest out of all homunculi. Also, there's a wonderful bit where Envy turns into Hughes and it goes SO MUCH BETTER than it has in other episodes.
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Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode!
In these chapters, a misunderstanding almost results in Thera marrying the head of the clan she's trying to ally with, which would have led to the exile of the man she actually has grown to really care about (and whose child she's carrying, as we find out later).
In the end, they manage to manipulate this guy into an allegiance, but WOOF that was close.
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Thank you to George for commissioning this episode!
So these are the chapters where Calder & Co. finally catch up to Lucan and they have a confrontation where Lucan shows off his incredible abilities, which makes his death seem even more of a waste.
Fucking Jyrene, tho. I'm really so frustrated with her, and I'm not sure how she sees this playing out but I don't think there's any possibility of a reconciliation with Calder after this.
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Thank you very much to Max for commissioning this episode!
In this installment, we get to see Al continue his fight with Pride, this time adding Kimblee to the mix. Turns out that Al has a Philosopher's Stone (saved by Heinkel) and he's holding his own once again. Meanwhile, the Armstrongs are engaged in a pitched battle against Sloth, and they get interrupted by the damn military who has not gotten the message about who the real enemy is.
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