My body is changing.

A thousand altars swim through me, like a school of fish within the ocean.

Are we recording?

Yes.

Excellent.

I didn't ask if you and I were recording, Liz.

I asked if we were recording right now.

Yes.

Welcome.

My name is Brace, and I'm the host of the alienware system.

Now, that isn't a podcast, but in fact, my multiplicity of plural identities. See, I have self-diagnosed myself with D-I-D, disassociative identity disorder,

something I learned about on TikTok. And I am inside. In fact, they are inside, me, my altars.

The first who is actually fronting right now is Mortimer, a dwarf from the

minds of Moria, which is in the universe of The Hobbit, recently asked to leave the minds after

some unfounded accusations of untoward behavior. Well, they all, we're all dwarfs here.

Oh, my God.

He has come to inhabit me to take a little break.

Now we have...

Why do you have to make that noise?

The voodoo magician.

Oh, God.

Uh-huh.

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