Yeah, Al has genuine musical chops. Always has! He'd never have been able to succeed on the scale he has with just his "Weird Al" shtick.

>> "Because if you kill me, you'll never know."
>
>He learned this one from Sherazade.

Always go with the classics.

>> No more humans. No more humans with their tiny attention spans and
>> their short little shooting-star lives. Either way they always leave
>> you.
>
>Gryph, you're going to have to tell her you're immortal at some
>point.

There just hasn't been a good time to mention it yet! He'll get there. Probably. Hopefully. He'd better. (It's certainly going to be on his mind now that he's heard her say that.)

It's really complicated where/when he is right now, because if he starts at the beginning it's "I was born in 1973" and there are already questions from the audience. :)

I think I know when and how it will finally come up, though, if the stars align when I get there.

>Honestly, it feels like the break before an all-out sprint to the
>finish line.

It does to me, too, which is why Act V will probably not be out tomorrow. I've had to kind of take today to regroup. Acts III and IV, especially, took it out of me. The grey-box section of III was very taxing (in a good way!) owing to its intensity, and I had to rewrite a whole swathe of Act IV twice because it kept going off the rails on me. Which, again, not the worst problem to have, but it meant a lot of duplicated effort.

>unless
>you do a giant retcon of everything from chapter 9 onward.

Spoilers: I'm not going to be doing a giant retcon of everything from chapter 9 onward. Beyond that I'm not gonna say. :)

As an aside, quite a lot of Act IV was brought to you by that Jonathan Scott playlist from private-mail, not just the Marriage of Figaro scene.

I almost went with the 1812 Overture there, but the buildup to the Really Loud Part is too long to fit Remilia's mood in that scene. She'd have skipped right to, like, here, and that wouldn't really do the piece justice. :)

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