Some of our landings were desperate adventures.

We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counter-attacks with power and with confidence. My name is Gary Butterfield.

My name is Colin Fireside chat.

It is a winding favorite.

Yeah.

And this week we are talking about the recluse's river and generally the path down to the

coolest area in the game.

Yeah.

We're getting to a fireworks factory.

One of the fireworks factories we've been looking forward to.

We had the Fingerworks factory last time, which was really exciting.

We're going down to the Madness Factory. We got the Dragon Factory, and then it's kind of more... Then we got the... We're out of factories. Yes. But we're looking forward to these factories. We are. Yeah. Yeah. And we did last time. Yeah. So last time we explored the northernmost reaches of the shadow realm.

We found Marica's birthplace. We ran some errands for an insipient finger mommy, hopeful, nascent.

And both of these represented the largest story bombs that we've gotten so far.

We got, you know, light on Marica's origin. So, you know, some rain, you know, the origin of a rain there, some information about the cosmological forces. It was, it was big stuff. It was also kind of our first step into firmly optional territory. There are probably people who never found a way to get to Gaiaus, who never found a way to that upper, you know, to the northeastern part of the map.

And we're heading further into optional territory because we could go finish the game.

Yeah. We defeat Mesmer. We can go and burn down, you know, burn down the way to get to the end.

But instead, we're going to go explore some stuff.

Yeah.

There's things we don't know the answer to, and also we're here to snuffle up content.

Yes.

And we are in one of my favorite tricks that FromSoft does, which is hiding a secret behind another secret

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