are you my friend? - taz ep 63 animatic

um you guys get each other in stalemate or no I just uh he puts he puts you in stalemate and says oh shoot I thought I had you that time all right I thought you had me - you rascal assist you mind if I go first no no no go ahead it takes a big drink of water either curiosity is killing me and I know this isn't gonna be very helpful and sort of my means but what do you call me Merle what do you all call me oh we call you a lot of things you probably don't want to be repeated taco says you're ghosts I don't even know what gauche means he says you're ghosts what are you huh and I called you something completely differently now than I did before he says well that's that's nice to hear but before like was there a name for what I am like it would be me before before I got to know yeah yeah it would be good just for I guess for me to know what I am what do you call how do you call me well he used to call you the hunger he kind of laughs the hunger yeah he says like yeah I kind of like that easy I thought you might maybe a little inaccurate what is there something you want to know Merle yeah there is something I'd like to know are you my friend hmm but very good give me a minute I'm reeling a little bit the smile drops from his face and he stands up and I think he reaches out his hand with the fire but he pulls it back down and he kind of shakes his head and he says what am i doing he looks out the window for like a minute without talking and he turns back to you and says to have friendship Merle it requires you to love someone and be invested in your shared happiness and these things moral friendship and love and happiness they're they're all so small in the grand scheme of things moral thing last a second and I just don't what brings you happiness Merle I know it the game is over but what what brings you joy Merle please I give me this freebie I'm just tell me what brings me joy is life I think you can find joy anywhere in life I think it's a conscious choice I think you you choose joy in life and no matter how bad things are no matter how crummy no matter how dark no matter how many times some guy named John kills your ass you chuckles you find joy I've found joy honest to god getting to know you I've found joy playing chess with you I have enjoyed I haven't enjoyed you know getting my my ass killed but I I find joy whatever I do I don't always do things right and I don't always do things smart and I don't always do a character voice well whatever I do I find joy in it because at the end of the day that's all you got it's looking back on the joy you had and the joy you found and the joy you gave other people um I think his back has turned to you for most of this is he just kind of looks out the window and he says I think there was probably a time where I had joy where I experienced fleeting happiness or anger or fear but god it's just been so long Merle I I used to spend my days considering the nature of time and existence maybe that brought me joy once but unlike everybody else who ever thought about those questions who ever pondered the meaning of it all I and you may find this hard to believe but I solved it Merrill I saw the fullness of time I pondered eternity and was the first person and only person to successfully visualize its treacherous arc he sits back down across the chessboard from you and he says you're a man of the cloth Merrill certainly you've wondered too about what what awaits our consciousness after death or any laugh ceases what am I saying I've given you a first-hand experience a few times in this very room he says perhaps for some people who think about it that there's nothing but infinite oblivion did the eternal erasure of your consciousness or for some it's eternal life in there God's glorious Kingdom or eternal cycling through all the inhabitants of their world any of these options Merl any of them are just erasure or contentment or revival any of them are fine as abstract concepts but eternally Murrell eternally you can't possibly conceive of the length of eternity moral I have it's maddening and hopeless but it's this burden we're all saddled with from the moment of our creation it's a finish line that by its definition will never arrive it stretches forever and ever it's - ambivalent - even taunt those trapped behind it it is the cruel price of existence moral and it is too horrible to bear once you've seen it existence moral life Merl is horrible to exist to live is horrible and he kind of chuckles and realizes he got a little carried away there I don't think I want to hang out with you anymore John I think I'm gonna take off and you can continue Walla rein in your sadness and your oblivion and seeing nothing but the negative and I'm gonna go on my way and I'll tell you what if we ever meet each other somewhere in infinity you can apologize to me and tell me you were wrong he chuckles a little bit and he turns towards you and he says I'm sorry you feel that way you're the first person who I've sort of talked about this - who hasn't listened there were everyone listen Merle I'm not being hyperbolic every person in the world was swayed I don't know why you're different but everyone else listen everything everyone across our whole plane of existence our shared vexation with life covered the world like a blanket and soon every bird in the sky and every tree in every forest and every blade of grass and grain of sand shared our fury and it wasn't long before it changed us and I think as he's talking well you see this scene outside this constant orange sunset start to turn inky and black with these colorful ribbons of light that you've seen inside the hunger so many times and he says we changed our entire plane into something new altogether a single being fueled by discontentment searching for something bigger than this existence regardless of the cost he turns towards you and he says you call us the hunger that's not entirely inaccurate because we are hungry but it would be more accurate to simply call us dissatisfaction but soon and he holds up his hand and says you will call us ascendant well we'll see John thanks for the chess game and kiss my ass you sanctimonious bastard he frowns and says huh I feel sad and he kills you

Channel: Jessica P

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Keywords: the adventure zone, taz, taz animatic, animatic, mcelroys, the adventure zone animatic, merle highchurch, john hunger, the stolen century, johnchurch

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Length: 9min 1sec (541 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 09 2018