Running a day care for Strays : Rimworld Anomaly Ep6

I want more recruits but I'm far to picky. It's tough to find Bloodlust and psychopaths who are hireable. So it looks like we will be raising some kids and hoping we can turn them into productive little monsters.
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[@thatotherdavidguy]

The Baby: Mom, why do I have no one my own age to play with? Dumbshit is nice and all, but the people I talk to on the radio say that I should be around people my own age. Pershet: Fine. I'll buy you a friend. Now, fetch mommy a bloodbag.

[@ansambel3170]

the slave ship capitan sent the kid to the planet thinking to himself "compassionate for the kids, are we?". Next day the kid called him over the comms, saying "I have a new name. I am WARMACHINE15555". He retired that quadrum.

[@andrepinto9225]

Careful building anomaly containments near the door, the researcher can stand in the door keeping it open and greatly damage the containment power of the room

[@wolfen210959]

I second this, once had an entity break free because of this exact mechanic, wasn't fatal, it was a weak entity, but imagine if that reaver breaks free (shudders).

[@ZerrorRx]

Shut up, revenant is so much fun chasing. I was looking forward to it...

[@cryochick9044]

​@@wolfen210959shhhh Spoilers please dont spoil it for him

[@naseweis6105]

i had the exact same problem with study and door 😂 and devourer 😢

[@cryochick9044]

@@naseweis6105 a vorerer

[@rogo7330]

"We turning into daycare: we have two kids, three full-time adult colonists, and a zoombie". Also one POW-bloodbag-pack-animal, and also toys for kids to play: one omnious rock that attracts dark stuff, three SCP monsters class euclid, and "future hats" in the fridge. You know, like any normal daycare.

[@vineheart01]

The whole "ate without a table" thing always makes me think of a Cyanide & Happiness comic for some reason. Its not one, but somehow i always envision one. One guy in prison, talks about "you wont make me talk do what you will you wont break me!" and other guy tosses in a meal. Guy in prison looks around and goes "wait, i have no table to eat this at. Guard? GUARD!? WAIT! COME BAAAAAAACK!!!"

[@allyourgardeningneeds]

Warmachine: "I like it here! They said they're gonna take care of me and turn me into a psychopath!"

[@Warmachine15550]

Wouldn’t want it any other way

[@chaosstripe9446]

A note on sightstealers: they work like manhunting animals. They won't break down closed doors unless they see someone go in them. Also like manhunters, max raid points for them is lik 50 sightstealers per scream. For containment, bioferrite flooring actually also gives a boost. Bioferrite isn't rare but it is very widely required. The Long Containment bonus actually makes the time between escapes longer.

[@chaosstripe9446]

Also, a note on creep joiners: most of their downsides show up pretty fast, even parasites give pretty obvious signs within a season. Halloway is either a no downside creep or a defector creep with a really long timer. The worst they'll do is decide to bugger off after a while, so don't give them anything rare. They won't shoot you in the back. Probably.

[@All_Night]

100,000 fans of whiskeys and potatoes. Congrats Francis. EDIT: I recommend moving the proximity sensor outside the open door. Having it in the middle of the barracks will give you a somewhat late warning.

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

I'd actually suggest keeping that Proximity Detector inside of the base, and instead, build additional ones in various locations that overlap, so that Francis would then have a network of them to better pinpoint where invisible enemies are located, so that he could better deal with them using area-of-effect weapons such as grenades or flamethrowers.

[@chaosstripe9446]

@@ShadowWolfTJC and flares

[@epsilon4444]

Congratulations on 100K Francis!

[@danm468]

Absolutely! It's a fantastic milestone and very well deserved. Congratulations!!

[@mikhailgusev2394]

If I was to choose the only content creator to watch on KZbin, it would not be a damn question =)

[@civiere]

67 likes, cmon guys!

[@BrendanWinterSC81]

The way Francis is x-ing out the doors in the ancient complexes is giving me Minesweeper vibes.

[@hiredgoon4269]

Patty walked out the South door and hopped into the shuttle, letting out a long-overdue sigh of relief. "What is up with those guys?", she said to herself under her breath. The forward chair swiveled around to face her, its occupant greeting her with a smug half-smile. The pilot; an imperial Lieutenant. Seeing the disheveled wreck in front of him as he slowly pulled his sunglasses up to his forehead, his smirk turned serious. He looked as if he wasn’t sure what it was his eyes were taking in. “Are you… ok?” he asked? “Don’t Trust You, go do this, Don’t Trust You, go do that, Don’t Trust You, Don’t Trust You, put that gun down, DoN’t TrUsT yOu!” A single tear filled with fear, rage, and frustration rolled down Patty’s cheek. “You are drawn to some place by the Archotechs themselves to help some people in need and all they do is berate you and treat you like you’re the bad guy. I may be a bit of a psychopath, but these people are paranoid! I’m surprised they haven’t arrested me yet and fed my neck to Preshet, or my body to that ghoul, HAHAHAHA!” Patty erupted into psychotic laughter, which seemed to pierce the pilot to his soul. “It’ll be a short flight back to base” he said with a faux smile, hand creeping toward his sidearm. “...and a long 15 days.”, pulling his sunglasses back over his eyes. He swiveled his seat back to forward, adjusting the camera to keep Patty on the view screen. “You just can’t trust anyone here on the rim.” he mumbled to himself as the engine roared to life.

[@Yunners]

16:10 "Our friend has just been killed in a fatal sunlight accident!" ~Vladislav The Poker, What We Do In The Shadows

[@DVIs101]

Me a first time viewer. "Oh boy! I wonder what wonderful and totally normal things Francis is going to do to his colonists today!"

[@vectorshingetsu5560]

He's taking great care of them! Isn't it wonderful? 😁 Surely nothing bad will happen, ever!

[@thr3308]

outside of an ideology that forbids cutting trees, the best use cases for the gauranlen tree are: a) you can have someone spend maybe three hours a day pruning it and get two free haulers that don't generate pollution, although they're not as hardworking as the lifter bot, or b) the moss that spawns around the tree has high beauty so you can plant it in an outdoor area where you need beauty and just not attune it to anyone.

[@civiere]

You can get more then just haulers. The tanks are pretty decent early game aswell.

[@Razulki]

Because you are in the desert with no good wood sources the dryands might be your solution. It's pawn labor for wood. Probably can't afford it yet labor wise but it can be very worth.

[@jmatya]

This is me after the split second I noticed the length of the video: 😁

[@tylergreen4977]

The image of a 3 year old child getting emancipated from slavery only to immediately be named WarMachine15500 or whatever is incredible. A total "you're giving this child sweets and telling them not to tell their parents" vibes, except their parents are probably dead or were the ones that sold them, so he's got some rage issues, and is probably kind of thrilled at the idea of being WAR MACHINE. The moment he can hold a gun, his dream (formed during his emancipation ritual) will have come true.

[@wolfen210959]

Gratz on 100k FJ. :) Taking legs off does not remove the ability to move now, things, and pawns, can crawl along the ground, which can be useful when it's one of your pawns, they can crawl to a medical bed.

[@redunicorngaming]

Peshet aimed carefully and shot the last standing sightstealer in the head. She grinned as it dropped. This fight had been fun. Affectionately, she patted Dumbshit on the head and said: "Good job." She didn't really know if he understood - maybe her research would find out one day - but he had been a good boy, so he deserved praise. Looking at the mess on the floor, she sighed. Somebody had a lot of cleaning to do. Good thing her kid liked helping with that. Come to think of it ... Peshet turned around and smiled. Then she walked over to the bed with the little lump in it. She sat down on the bed, careful not to jostle her baby girl. Then she pulled the blanked back up, which had been kicked half to the floor because her kid moved a lot in her sleep. Peshet smiled. Ah, kids ... they could sleep through anything.

[@LonarYolhala]

I still can't believe that, while knowing there are invisible enemies who hunger for your colonists' flesh, you 1) Keep the doors wide open all the time, and 2) Keep the invisible things detector barely in reach of your front door We at least can learn one additional valuable thing from this: Invisible Sightstealers do not appear to trigger floor traps. They may need a different type of defense line, though Dumbshit in a doorway is working fine for now. But who knows how many more of them come the next time? Because come they will.

[@DeepProbe]

AFAIK, these ghosts could open the doors. And better let them to walk easy path - right into detector's field of view, than sneak through backdoor and catch someone over potatoes plot...

[@chaosstripe9446]

@@DeepProbe they can't open doors. Only one entity can

[@deathofpasta2879]

I just realized. The bliss lobotomy will make it easier to manufacture meat beacons in a way, and if you get the right genes added, you can make a super meat beacon that just pumps out the mood and gets full off a handful of raw meat. (Robust digestion for the win.) Also, apparently bioferrite works similar to eltex gear for psy-sensitivity. This means you can more easily manufacture equipment to up your meat beacon even more!

[@Irokusion]

Ah can't wait when "Dumbshit" get his enchantments and maybe some power claws in future and become "Giga Dumbshit world destroyer machine"

[@shadowkhan422]

Or, you know . Dumber shit.

[@naseweis6105]

i just cant resist mods... my ghouls are welded into warcaskets and are unstoppable necronlike monsters now. i dont use plate and spikes because thats too much power

[@tagaclaudiu]

Congratulations on the 100k Francis! You truly deserve it!

[@Y.O.L.OS6XGod]

I don't know that as a child, you could recruit an unwaveringly loyal slave kid and then emancipated in order to join your colony

[@mikhailgusev2394]

I wonder if it possible to sell unwaveringly loyal prisoner to space trader, and then buy him again as a regular pawn

[@Y.O.L.OS6XGod]

I don't know, i never try to do that, but if it works could be a hell of an exploit, in any case now we have the brain wipe technology

[@bruhder5854]

Murder munchkins were so much fun alongside the minigun only run as my favorites. Making flooring and meals from your enemies was just 👌

[@morgangill3051]

Congratulations on 100K subs Francis John! 🎉

[@yellowcrescent]

Huh... the Waster Kid (WARMACHINE) was Unwaveringly Loyal, and when you bought him it seemed to disappear. Never knew that was a thing -- nice. Also, should try out some of the Psychic Rituals next as well-- gotta raise the kids to respect their fleshbeast-machine Void overlords!

[@bestofemse]

Congrats on reaching 100k well deserved. Also nothing to warcrimey in this one, guess we'll have to see what you will get up to with a Rim daycare

[@RFC3514]

The "betrayal" is going to be such an anticlimax.

[@tyraelpl]

Woooo! Big gz on 100k! Well earned man, well earned! Thank you for all those hours of entertainment. And thx for including me in the credits :D

[@RFC3514]

As you've probably figured out by now, unless you have a use for a lot of twisted meat, the harbinger trees are a trap. You're much better off leaving a lot of corpses around (roofed, so death palls can't rez them) and then using deadlife dust to instantly raise an army of zombies to defend you. If you carry the corpses to the trees they get destroyed, and your zombie army is no more.

[@tibicalistru8757]

Congratulations on 100.000 subscribers! Never stop doing such awesome videos! 🎉

[@102Chewy]

Really should move your detector. It's in the middle of a large room that's surrounded on 3 sides by other large rooms. It gives next to no warning at all to something getting near your open door.

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

I'd actually suggest keeping that Proximity Detector inside of the base, and instead, build additional ones in various locations that overlap, so that Francis would then have a network of them to better pinpoint where invisible enemies are located, so that he could better deal with them using area-of-effect weapons such as grenades or flamethrowers.

[@102Chewy]

@@ShadowWolfTJC Minor spoilers below. There's only 2 entities that go invisible. Sight Stealers and Revenant. The first are the same as any other melee raider and can only enter your base through an open door. Worthless to have detectors anywhere but around a main choke point to give you time to door camp them. Revs, well they have their own rules and having a detector inside your base isn't gonna do much against them either. The problem is having it inside your base. Gives no warning at all to outside threats and gives no clues to where a threat is till it's already inside your base looking to eat your face. Best off having a ring of them on the outside of your base. You can get away with having just 1 at your main door as that's the only way Sight Stealers can reach you. Having more can help against a Rev, but Revs are just massive pains in the ass to deal anyway.

[@tuukkapuranen9375]

Huge Gratz on the 100k!!!

[@justinsinke2088]

"It's not the religion that's the problem, it's the people that's the problem." True words indeed.

[@Davini994]

You can get plasteel if you smash up that centipede.

[@JacobSReeds]

"I need to cut up the rest of the human meat to feed it to the ghoul because I want to use it up." My wife walked in when you said this and gave me the craziest look. XD thank you so much for that!

[@sicariusdracus]

You bought his freedom! That's admirable. You walk a truly neutral line.

[@azrobbins01]

There are different types of unstable fuel nodes. You can see from the video that they are visually different. One type explodes immediately. The next is on a timer. You can deconstruct those when the enemies are all dead. The last type won't explode until you open the security crate that is connected to it. Deconstruct them before opening the red crates.

[@RFC3514]

Unless you get the corresponding ideology traits, Gauranlen trees are indeed weaksauce (maybe you should do a full treehugger+stoner run?), but they're still useful for one thing: if you plant them near your crops, the dryads will put out any fires, even without any of your colonists having to waste time pruning / linking with the tree.

[@antares8826]

Congrats on the 100k subscribers! You've come a long way from Oni tutorial nuggets up to turning each and every game into a warcrime simulator and it was, is and will be a pleasure to follow you through it. Cheers, have one on me!

[@Genesis8934]

16:14 Mild UV Sensitivity... and you live in a desert tile :P 55:07 Rescue might not be an option if you don't have a medical spot? But I don't remember really. 1:09:45 Francis buys a child... immediately names him WARMACHINE. Well, at least we're covering our basis on war crimes :D edit: I asked a Turkish friend about 'Burc' (I don't have the turkish keyboard so I used the English C :P). The "c" is a "ch" sound, so it's "Burch Erdil"

[@Lunamana]

I can help with the 'ç'! Happy to see another Turkish friend watching Francis! Was surprised to see a turkish character in one of the patron names

[@FuLou1988]

Speaking about Tips (pro or not). Neanderthals now have a great use as ghouls, just look for one that is tough-trait and has melee passion. Combined with the ghoul armour they are incredible melee blockers. Ofc you can make gene packs to do the same buts thats just much faster and cheaper. EDIT: Nvm just came to the point in the video where you say this yourself.

[@SovereignHumanBeingX]

Love that Rimworld added SCP

[@jm_mort]

Loving these hour long episodes - gratz on the 100k - well deserved and then some 👌

[@DarthVella]

"Everything's better with Luciferium (TM)." - Francis John, 2024

[@Trophyman]

Can’t believe you make such amazing entertainment and only have 100k subscribers! Will be a million before long!

[@alilhard]

38:30 I was so not ready for this lmao

[@DSlyde]

Honestly the tomes are typically worth it even with the mental breaks, but even if thats a deal breaker they still contribute to the research boost. Assign everyone to not read tomes and keep them in your bookcases in your research room.

[@FransHenskens]

The scyther was so irritated that the bug disturbed its slumber that it killed the bug before coming out to see what the fuss was all about.

[@jordanreed6817]

i liked the selected comments at the end, very clever.

[@Y.O.L.OS6XGod]

Hell yeah, an one hour episode❤

[@msidrusbA]

could do a 24hr special for all i care, i love the long episodes, more to watch lol.

[@dahn57]

Loving the vids Francis, and congratulations on 100k Subs! 🙂 A couple of thoughts occurred while watching this episode. Don't forget to research the Death Rest caskets for Pershet, she's going to need one soon. If you are still going to consider changing your religion to include raiding, remember how difficult that will be over the long winter months where your camp is situated... Won't your pawns get a bit annoyed about NOT raiding over those months?

[@dehb1ue]

That revenant is going to end the colony if it escapes. You need three more colonists to survive your first revenant encounter.

[@Silentwhisperx]

amazing video as always, something i noticed, the left over holding platform, those can be unstalled and reinstalled and also very tense moment there with the sightstealers with doors open and people running outside to do work hahaha, i would immediatelly made zone rules so people stay inside and locked the doors wait till the detectors tell me when the sightstealers are roaming by the walls (they always do) to fight them on a controlled manner, hopefully the new kid "Warmachine" turns out to be an absolute fighting pawn fitting the name haha! oh and the flares from the disruptor flare pack lasts about 2 minutes or so, they are incredibly strong even against non-entities, cause of the large aoe stun.

[@thesentientneuron6550]

God I just want to see this colony be a giant daycare and recruitment facility

[@Tamizushi]

Technically you can automate feeding animals nutrient paste if you put their pen marker into a prison cell. When the warden will bring the nutrient paste to your prisoner, the animal may eat it first. It works best with large animals like horses, bison and muffalos because they have a bigger food capacity. Don't expect to be able to feed a large herd this way. One added benefit is that if your prisoner goes berserk, they have a dedicated target with them.

[@RFC3514]

43:02 - That second light isn't doing anything (besides wasting power), the first light covers the whole room and the second doesn't actually raise the ambient light level at all.

[@RFC3514]

53:47 - Lost a good opportunity there, Earl was downed for a few seconds, could have "rescued" him for rep. Though he does get downed again later, and you do treat him that time. I wonder if you can get double bonus for treating the *same* pawn twice.

[@ajaygulia6300]

Francis good Video, a suggestion for containment cell ,containment is affected by the light level and wall lights provide dim containment while standing light or flood light provide full 5 containment .Also do tell what will/how many days it will take for 'dont trust me' to be trusted. :)

[@antares8826]

30:00 I love all these Helldivers anecdotes xD

[@LadyLucifer7]

Also gratz to 100k! (LadyLucifer former known as Spooky)

[@TheLoneChonk]

Congrats on 100k

[@BrendanWinterSC81]

I was wondering if those Imperium beds were better quality. I also recall you discovering uranium in some of those gibbet cages in prior runs - thought you might deconstruct.

[@pkassies]

Daycare colony. Epic!

[@Marco-qj2tx]

Hi Francis, I just started playing Rimworld again, after starting watching this series and Anomaly is absolutely amazing! I hope you really center your playthrough around it. The advanced enemies are interesting. Did you do some playtesting before this series or are you completly new to it.

[@Espersontheone]

congtaz on 100K!

[@notreal5135]

You can’t stop the betrayal but, the betrayal isn’t guaranteed. Ultimately you have to treat them as if they will not be with you forever.

[@r3dp9]

Good luck with a mostly blind 500% FJ, I barely made it on 100%... with a fixed wealth scaling... normal raids were still under 2k threat points, but that finale was still brutal. I'm looking forward to the shennanigans you come up with for your next playthrough. Right now you're focused on playing blind, getting into the swing of the story, and so forth, but once you know what to expect, there are going to be some fun challenges, exploits, and testing to do.

[@evereyn_md]

AZIZ LIGHT! Francis, get the lights. For the love of God. Get. The. Lights.

[@Moragnog]

I like to imagine that every time we make a story, or play a game, it creates that world. This is not one I would visit, but its funny to think about.

[@tetragonidzein]

Burç Erdil is a turkish name and can be pronounced as boo-rch (Or you can listen the google translate voice of the name). And it actually means 'horoscope'.

[@UrsusTheDruid]

Burç pronounced liked "Birch" but with a u. Erdil can be translated as Er= male/soldier, Dil=language/tongue. Have fun with these knowledge nuggets :D

[@Warmachine15550]

Can’t wait to see how I die in a horrible way in this playthrough, made my day seeing my name get pick, hopefully warmachine can atleast make it to adulthood lol

[@yaemz123]

100k subscribers! You deserve it.

[@r3dp9]

Mod suggestions: Compact Hediffs: Let's you see limb health as a health bar. Invaluable for knowing when your ghoul merely has a few dozen scratches, or when it's one lucky hit away from losing it's torso. Useful when tracking pawn health as well. Learning Threshhold for Learning Job Fix: Makes kids seek learning opportunities when learning drops to 99%, instead of only when it drops to 90%. Makes janky time manipulation unnecessary for raising kids. [777] Favourites: Let's you mark anything - be it a pawn, item, or building, as a 'junk' item or a 'favourite' item. Bills and storage zones can filter items based on their junk/favourite/unfavourite status. With my current setup, the smelter willy automaticall queue all smeltable junk items to be recycled, while all nonsmeltable junk items get hauled to an outdoor dumping zone. Favourited corpses are saved in the freezer, unmarked corpses get butchered if I'm low on meat, junk corpses get butchered immediately or dragged to a corpse trees. It is very handy for inventory management. [1.5][KV] Save Storage, Outfit, Crafting, Drug, & Operations Settings: If you get tired of setting up bills every time, this lets you save bills and load them to workbenches. Very handy on nomadic playthroughs. Save bills before departing, then load bills at your new home.

[@lotsofspoons]

"Where did it come from?" .. and I was already three lines into cotton eyed joe before Francis went up that path 😅❤. Is this channel some form of self help group? What are we? And importantly, "where did we go"?

[@pendantblade6361]

Flood lamps are 100%worth it!

[@azrobbins01]

If you have a Revenant escape, you can use a shock lance on it to kill it instantly. They have insane hitpoints, and can easily wipe out your colony if you don't know how to deal with it.

[@josefrees]

Really surprised they haven’t given us our own shuttle. It’s sad you have to destroy shuttle instead of hacking it and driving it home

[@MathewSan_]

Great video 👍

[@NONNAME152]

Congrats on 100K

[@xyvernthederg5760]

dread leather seems pretty good protection wise, became my subsitute for thrumbo leather

[@deredware9442]

You read the "long in captivity" math wrong. The longer something is in captivity the longer it will take between escape attempts. So its better to keep things contained for longer.

[@johnjohnsin3762]

Don't forget most of your pawns can wear tainted gear.

[@geekey265]

I mean, if "Don't trust me" hasn't done anything by now, he probably won't. The Creepy Joiners do have a chance to have no downside. I'm not 100% on the full mechanics or if it's weighted. I've only had 2 personally and one did nothing, the other.. well, had to remove him.

[@bobnewkirk7003]

I had one that was a super worker, but then developed "health problems" and didn't survive the next plague. I get the feeling its classed as a "too good to be true" mechanic and always ends up with some sort of backfire. May as well use them while you can though, getting them early is a pretty big boost to productivity. I have no idea what FJ rolled but everything in my gut is telling me that hes going to become a Revenant or equivalent critter somehow.

[@LadyLucifer7]

Small tip, if u atune the monolith to the next level it will change shape trapping your colonist with your current walls setup, u might should widen the area by 1x tile. Also when i saw you fighting the bugs near the end, why didnt u use the hellcat burner :D they were all cramped at one little spot, FIRE IS VERY EFFECTIVE vs most anomalys, dont sleep on that!

[@chrismaxwell3405]

Containment. +15 Containment strength if you floor it with Bio-ferrite Flooring! there is also a Negative for unroofed and a positive for Lighting.

[@thatotherdavidguy]

I feel like distrusting the random occultist that just wandered in is against the spirit of the blind anomaly playthrough - if we are taking psychopaths and bloodlusters, surely a bona fide occultist makes the shortlist? Also, it's a shame that as far as I can tell, writing occult tomes isn't possible, because that would be a fun export.

[@Davini994]

I invited Francis John round to my house. He came through the wall, said he didn't trust anyone, and ate all my pets.

[@gordonbrown77]

If he was eating your pets that's your fault for not having enough potatoes.

[@Davini994]

@@gordonbrown77 damn, you're right. No wonder he doesn't trust me.

[@ryszardlaskowski2688]

Regarding Ancient Dangers - You could use wallraise x2 to block the explosion. Also - wood :D

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

Unfortunately, Francis doesn't have Wallraise... yet.

[@matteocdt5214]

i suggest building bioferrite walls and floor for the entity cells. the flooring gives a bonus to containment strenght and walls are just stronger(i'm not sure about the last one tho you might have to do some testing)

[@knier]

It's funny watching francis treat don't trust you like 40k treats psykers

[@smoothkid765]

you should get your kids on a sleep accelerator asap

[@name32142000]

You can still deconstruct unstable fuel nodes but only after you cleared every treat on the map

[@WilliamsDanielJames]

Hey John, the math doesn't work out that way, you figure out what the percentage chance of it not happening (.985 or 98.5%) and then times it by itself 100 times or to the power of 100 (in this case because 100 hours). So 0.985^(100) is about 22% chance of having no mental breaks

[@qwertyram4598]

The best containment building is made from Bioferrite, which you can suck out of your specimen for free. Same with floors

[@Jfk2Mr]

26:00 Well, connecting them to your pawn is not great, but just having one of them planted for cheap beauty and (especially when using Cassandra) animal insanity magnet (as dryads are weaksauce) is decent.

[@brianarsuaga5008]

I hate to say it, but I really think The Baby should get renamed back. His old name had a sort of ominous shall-not-be-named vibe that fit well. "Oh, and who's this little one?" "That's The Baby. We don't speak his name."