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Let's Talk Sucker for Love: Prelude on Not now Mom, I'm Gaming
May 20, 2025
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hello everyone and welcome to another
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episode of Not Now Mom I'm
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Gaming my name is Kay and on this
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episode we'll be talking about Sucker
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for Love Prelude this will not be a very
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long episode because the prelude is very
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short also I'm not really sure what the
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full game is going to be like if this is
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even part of the full game or if it's
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just kind of a section that they created
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first and it's separate from Sucker for
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Love first
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date maybe this is a game where you want
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to smooge but the full game you wouldn't
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actual date them but people smooch on
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the first date don't they i actually
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don't know i never like smooching
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something about swapping saliva grosses
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me out but I'll read all about it and
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more in Smut books so there's
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that speaking of Smut this game is why
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you shouldn't always listen to what the
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tags on Steam games say because it says
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sexual content but this game doesn't
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have that kind of content unless people
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are mistaking wanting kisses for being
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insatiably
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horny like friends let's go by the fact
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that if it's on the hub it's probably
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sexual content
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i guess some people can watch two people
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kissing and hit the finish line but holy
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hell am I even talking about this point
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just don't always look too into steam
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tags they aren't always right the blurb
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for sucker for love prelude states this
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put the love and love craft in we all
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know what it's like to be lonely but
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what if you sent for the biggest egirl
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Eldrich girl in all the cosmos how would
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you even get her to notice you luckily
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with the power of a strange pink
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necronomicon we had the chance to make
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your restless dreams into a dark and
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terrifying
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reality as of this moment the reviews
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sit a very positive with an all-time
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peak of 25 players but I'm pretty sure
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this game was showcased mainly for Ichio
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and not Steam plus it's just the preload
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not the full Sucker for Love games also
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there are no achievements but just the
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smooch is enough
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now for the gameplay
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review the title screen has an Eldrich
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woman of her dreams coming in for what
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looks like a smooch though due to her
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tentacular lips it's hard to tell what
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she really looks like here as far as the
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settings you can turn the voice over on
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or off and have the game at full screen
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or windowed if the box has an X that
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means it's enabled just so you know a
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little thing with the full screen the
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game flickers i don't know if it was
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just me and my computer specs that
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caused it to have the problem but it's
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really bad the flickering is so bad it
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was messing with my eyes and I can
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handle such things to a certain extent
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in games but if you go window mode it's
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small and you can't increase the size of
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it by maximizing the
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screen so that all around kind of sucks
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but it's what I went through the title
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screen also sort of has the kind of
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effect that happens in VHS bits of the
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screen distort i'm not sure if this is
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supposed to represent a Sandy being
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challenged but I don't think it really
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comes across as that i mean it makes
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sense that's why it's used due to her
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being an Eldrich being but I wonder if
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there was a better way to interpret it
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or
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not i also can't forget to mention that
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our cursor is a pointed finger i assume
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because we'll be reading from a book and
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people sometimes follow words with their
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finger to keep track where they are
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when we start the game we find out we're
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trying to get in touch with an Eldrich
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being that had appeared in our dreams a
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year ago who called herself Lanetta and
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so for an entire year we've just been
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buying these fake books that were
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supposed to be a legit Necronomicon for
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contacting this being the book we get is
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pink which makes it questionable on
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authenticity but it's also very
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wellcrafted once we get to the objective
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of performing the calling ritual I sadly
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enough got a bit stumped on what to do i
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had no idea how to start the ritual and
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what I needed to click on to trigger it
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because there was nothing to tell me how
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to proceed most people will realize we
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just got a book and that you need to
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open the book to read the ritual but the
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thing with me not understanding this is
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because whenever I'm in a bit of a
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pointandclick style of game and there's
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a bar of some kind at the bottom of the
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screen I automatically go into hidden
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object game mode and if you've never
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played a hog before there's typically a
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bar at the bottom where items go that
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you pick up so because the quote unquote
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bar on the bottom is empty I thought I
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didn't have anything on my person when
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in reality it's not a bar it's a book
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not a lot of people are going to be
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stumped on this part but now maybe you
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understand why I did it if you ever
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watch my playthrough of the game when
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you open the book the ritual name is
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written on the opposite side of the
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instructions and in order to complete
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the ritual you must do everything within
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the instructions i don't think you can
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even speak the chant if you don't do the
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instructions
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correctly to speak the chant you must
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slowly direct your cursor over the text
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if you mess up by going too fast you'll
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have to chant it from the start again
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some of the instructions will require
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you to wear something or pick something
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up you can tell what you have on you by
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clicking on the items tab on the left
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and a silhouette of your character will
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appear with slots on it depending on
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what you have is where the item will be
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if you picked it up after performing the
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calling an Eldrich being will appear and
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if you're wondering what wish we want
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her to grant it's to have a smooch
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what her reaction is on point before I
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get too far ahead I really like how she
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came in initially portrayed as this dark
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scary being silhouetted in red and then
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turned into this cute adorable female
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squid-faced Eldrich i don't think I'd be
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as into her as our guy is but it's the
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face don't say it again creep and how
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are you looking directly at me without
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being driven mad
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send me back i love her voice it's so
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girly and perfect for sounding flirty
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and making you feel like you're a good
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boy for getting the rituals right it
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also contradicts her being a scary
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eldrich being that can destroy all
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humanity and shatter your
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mind eventually she sees the book you
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have and states that it's a survival
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guide for dating her perfect literally
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the thing we spent a year looking for
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now that we have the book she states
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that as long as we make it to the end of
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all the rituals she'll make it worth our
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while which means we'll get our smooch
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and the only reason we're reading
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through the rituals is because it's
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going to protect our sanity to start the
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date off we're performing invoke the
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depths it states at the end of the page
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that we're not to look out our window
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from now on after completing it if
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you're like me and curious what will
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happen if you do so you'll get a bad
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ending
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there's no manual saves but it shouldn't
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take too long to catch up to where you
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were no matter where you screw up in the
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game i think the longest it'll take you
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to get where you are is if you finish
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the game first then want to go back for
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another ending there's not much to show
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that you brought the outer depths closer
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aside from a more greenish blue light
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coming through the windows now we'll be
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performing
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metamorphosis this is the first ritual
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where it's going to be on two pages also
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I'm not sure why it states that you need
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to perform the two initial rituals first
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unless you can actually turn to this
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page and try completing it first i've
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not tried it but I figured that every
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other page is in gibberish until you get
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past the required
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ritual what's funny is on the second
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page of the ritual it states to remember
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the second step on the previous page
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which says "This is the point of no
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return." and uses your name i assume
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it's using the name you chose on your
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Steam profile not the
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username after you spoke in the ritual
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lines you'll notice some changes first
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the cursor is no longer a pointer finger
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but a
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tentacle second the mannequin in the
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background has tears of blood oozing out
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of its eye sockets instead of a mask
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meaning the mask is officially your new
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face i don't know if this means we're
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turning into an Eldrich bang ourselves
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or not because she still ends up saying
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we're going to die once all of humanity
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is gone the next page is labeled breakup
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i did not do this ritual until Adred
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already completed the game so I don't
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know exactly when is an appropriate time
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to do it and when it's a bad time if
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there is even a bad time to do it but
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you have to chant it three times in a
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row and when you linger too long on the
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page darling what are you looking
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at nothing huh you were looking at
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nothing is that the
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truth did I scare you
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darling good i know what page you were
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on
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and if I see you trying to cast that
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spell about
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nothing you won't get past the second
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word
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yeah she can be a little scary
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instead of risking my life right after
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she threatened it I moved on to
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performing prepare offering this is the
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first time you'll be changing the image
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on the chalkboard by the window don't
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accidentally click the window it will
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end
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well at this point she states that she's
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going to go out and take a walk which is
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kind of rubbing it in our face as she's
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able to leave the apartment while we're
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stuck here unable to even look outside
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without our brain fistling out it also
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might be a really good moment to try out
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the breakup ritual though I
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didn't performing Reach into Oblivion
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requires another life form in the form
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of a turtle ironically I don't think the
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turtle dies despite being a bloody mess
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afterwards unless you place the dead
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thing back into its cage just so you're
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not carrying the carcass around the room
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on the wall her name is written all down
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it i don't know why it says those two
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words not her actual name over and over
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another questionable visual is the fact
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that we don't have a tentacle hand
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anymore it's now a bloody pointer finger
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hand maybe signifying we're human again
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and slowly dying from being too close to
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an Eldrich god that happens to be
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somewhere close
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by maybe that's why Lanetta
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left when you next open the book it
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flips through several pages of a creepy
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face and hand coming out of the darkness
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towards you and during the page flips
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you can read the line "Nothing is just
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your
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imagination." Now our objective is
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shifted to survive and things become a
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little more tense mainly due to the fact
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that the page states "Once you start
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this ritual complete all three pages
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quickly you'll be vulnerable until you
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finish." Which sets up a time limit now
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I do believe there is something of a
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time limit going on here because when
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you finish this page you'll see
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tentacles coming in through the window
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and they stretch further into the room
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creating a sense of
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urgency especially when it comes to
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changing the images on the
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chalkboard eventually Lanetta comes back
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while you're rushing through your chance
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and comforts you with the choice of
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being destroyed first or last when she
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actually wakes up i've actually got a
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question on that if she's out there
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still asleep and not quite awake yet
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what part of her are we talking to is it
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a sliver of her consciousness made
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manifest or something else how is she
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both out there and in here all at
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once everything is seemingly back to
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normal as normal as tentacle hands get
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when we perform dark communion just know
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that the offering it once isn't the
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turtle it's the slice of cake that's in
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the fridge
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i honestly forgot all about the cake
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after being so frazzled about almost
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dying it wouldn't be so bad since we
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know we're going to die anyway but we
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need our smooch
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first finally we get to our final pledge
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which will apparently be the last words
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to be spoken by humanity though I'm not
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sure I believe that because there's a
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lot of people out in the world and we
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tend to never stop
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talking during the ritual we're stabbing
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ourselves in the heart several times
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with a ritual knife and obviously I was
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wrong about not having the last words of
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humanity because I'm no longer able to
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talk at this point lanetta is talking
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for us and she has a wonderfully logical
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reason as to why the world is going to
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end so why destroy me and all of reality
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why not just stay here with
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me that's what you're thinking
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right oh my sweet mortal
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darling i'm not doing this out of
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malice you've had good dreams before
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right well when you woke up you
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destroyed those dream worlds and
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everything in them did you wake up
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because you hated those
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dreams no it just couldn't be helped
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that you'd wake up eventually
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makes sense right and hey we got our
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guess
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just not really sure why her eyes are
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glowing red but also Lena looks like she
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has a tail even though it's a tentacle
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from her actual self outside the
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window all right we still have one more
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ending to get and when I loaded up the
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game again I decided to perform the
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breakup when she was laying on the bed
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before a nap maybe not the wisest point
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to try it considering she asked for all
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the lights to be out and we had to turn
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them on for the ritual but she didn't
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wake up
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i'm also not sure if I had to read the
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lines three times in a certain amount of
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time before she catches us i was pretty
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quick about it because I'm just that
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afraid of her plus her outside self was
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freaking me out by showing snippets of
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itself as if it knew what I was doing
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even if she was still laying on the
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bed after the ritual was completed
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Lenetta has become even more adorable if
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not a lot more sad she's now a baby
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squid that's not why she sat though we
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kind of severed our connection although
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she thinks she's still in control of the
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situation because at this point we
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haven't got her smooch as far as she's
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concerned here's our take on that
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wait
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what
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[Music]
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absolutely horrifying our lips look like
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we've got stung by a bee on them and
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we're having an allergic reaction that
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punch was absolutely deserved
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and I love how it says it's a good
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enough
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ending and that's the end of Sucker for
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Love Preload very short game but man
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does it deliver in more ways than one
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clearly I just wish I could have played
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it in full screen instead of window mode
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but didn't really matter too much in the
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end i managed to finish without having
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to deal with all the screen flickering
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like I said I don't know if the full
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game sets off from where this ends or if
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this is part of the full game or if it's
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just kind of a teaser at this point and
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the full game will pretend that this
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never happened in the first
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place either way we've got a taste of
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what it's like to smooch an Eldrich
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being and it's enough to want
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more until our next date if you found
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swiping right on an Eldrich being just
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say "Not now Mom." I'm gaming
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