Hey folks, quick pre-programming announcement. Thanks for listening into our setup episodes

for the ETH or C. We're playing the quiet year, a game by Avery Alder. That's all about

map making and making wild choices to help build a community. You can find a link to

where you can find and purchase and learn more about the game on the episode description.

And also, if you want to follow along visually, we are uploading all the maps at the end

of each of these sessions at bit.ly slash ETH or C maps. And I think you need to capitalize

ETH or C and maps in order for that link to work because that's how Bitly works. We heard

some folks say they were having some trouble following along visually. And if you need

a little help with that, go to that link. I also think that if you go to our Twitter

page, we will be uploading those maps alongside the episodes there as well. That's it. Here's

the episode.

Today's lesson, the intolerable cost of opportunity. The divine invitation that brought together our

Ragtag group from the four corners of the world, it provided comfort and hope. But regrettably,

it provided few specifics beyond its two simple couplets. Indeed, those early days of spring

gave rise to more questions than logistical solutions, more mysteries than actionable intelligence.

And yes, our frustration mounted with each unexplained anomaly, the treacherous cavern, the

staircase in the sea, the vanishing of the highlands above our heads and subsequent arrival

of the I-NAR spirits. The time we spent learning the truth behind these phenomena was time

we'd rather have spent developing the methods behind our prophesied Exodus. By summer, though,

we would mourn the loss of that innocence. As those truths were discovered, so too were

the opportunities they enabled. As spring drew to a close, the backbone of our modern society

began to coalesce around those opportunities and those bold enough to seize them. And so

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