WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.759 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is Spoiled Me 2 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:16.920 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book two, Carl's Doomsday Scenario, chapters 3 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:31.239 eight through eleven. In these chapters, Carl eats worms. Other 4 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:35.200 things happen, but like, let's be real, we talk about 5 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:37.399 this book, we're gonna be like that time that Carl 6 00:00:37.520 --> 00:01:01.679 ate worms. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. 7 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.760 I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for 8 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:15.239 commissioning this episode. Yeah. Look, I think that in terms 9 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.120 of storytelling this is valid and works really well and 10 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:22.760 all of that. But I also would like it registered 11 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:29.000 with everybody that anytime characters are made to eat something 12 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.159 alive and wriggling, I won't be here for it, and 13 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.599 it will never change. I will never suddenly be like, 14 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.000 you know what, this time it was great. Nope. There 15 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:43.799 is a point in the Red Rising series where somebody 16 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:48.879 brings in a bucket full of cockroaches into snake and 17 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.000 it's a hazing ritual and they have to eat them. 18 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:58.280 And the woman grabs the snake right away and just 19 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.599 bites its head off, and as they are scooping up 20 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:05.959 handfuls of cockroaches, bros, Like she was smart to grab 21 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.759 that fucking snake. Immediately she knew what she was doing, 22 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.039 because these cockroaches are not it. And you know, when 23 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:22.080 you're jealous of the snake, that's pretty bad worms. And 24 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:25.439 then they take over his body and it's all so 25 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.919 horribly uncomfortable, and I really what I liked about this, 26 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:31.800 And I know I'm jumping ahead, but you know how 27 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:33.879 I do. I think that's why we're here at this point, 28 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:38.120 So I'm not apologizing anymore. But the way that it 29 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.520 is described how it feels when they make him talk 30 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:46.400 is really effective because I feel like so much of 31 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:52.319 the time, the physical feeling of it is overlooked and 32 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:57.199 it is just focused on the overall like violation of 33 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.120 a feeling, you know, of like they've taken over and 34 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.879 I can't believe I'm not in control, but it's very 35 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:06.120 much like they are wrapped around my vocal cords and 36 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.840 this hurts so bad, which I kind of appreciated. 37 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:10.039 You know. 38 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.280 Michael says, why do people feel like making hazing rituals 39 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.439 disgusting and dangerous and or sexual assault instead of fun? 40 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.439 Because the point is how bad do you want it? 41 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:23.479 It has to be something that isn't fun to do, 42 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:29.039 because you've got to prove this is how bad I 43 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:32.639 want to be here. They not only have to eat 44 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:36.479 those cockroaches, but they also have to each chug an 45 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:40.719 entire bottle of what amounts to moonshine at the same time. 46 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:47.159 So there's a lot of vomiting, as you can imagine. 47 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:51.120 But yeah, so I don't care for it at all. 48 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:57.000 I don't like it. Let's start with chapter eight, where 49 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:04.000 we get an update from Brandon, and this was so interesting. First, 50 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.000 just a touch base with the state of the cat tree. 51 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:11.960 It is assembled. So I thought that shit was going 52 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.719 to hang around her ages and that he wasn't going 53 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.959 to assemble it. But it's done, and I must say, 54 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.160 I'm a little impressed that you took care of that 55 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:21.839 so quick, buddy. I'm a little bit proud of you. Also, 56 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.720 I could see, after what he said about we don't 57 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:29.360 risk our lives for our pets, that perhaps he might 58 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.199 feel a bit guilty and be jumping on assembling that 59 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:34.319 cat tree a little sooner than usual, just because he 60 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:36.720 feels like he sort of bows or something. But I 61 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:42.040 don't know that that's true. It's not mentioned. I also 62 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.839 lit the cheap candle for her. It filled the small 63 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:50.079 rented room with the scent of home. I watched Donut 64 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.439 for a bit, and I could tell what she was doing. 65 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.800 She wasn't really asleep, she was just closing her eyes 66 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:59.000 and pretending that she was back home in her favorite spot. 67 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:06.920 This really got me, you guys, there was like just 68 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:12.199 that closing your eyes and pretending a thing. I think 69 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.360 all of us, at some point in our lives do 70 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:19.560 this because scent is such a particular you know, it's 71 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.279 so closely linked with memory more than any other sense. 72 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:29.079 And I know that for me, there are moments where, 73 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.759 like my mother used to burn this particular type of 74 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:39.480 balsam pine incense when I was a kid, and she 75 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:44.279 burned it in the winter in general, but on Christmas especially, 76 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.800 and also at Christmas every year she would make this 77 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:57.600 gorgeous walnut stuffed cinnamon braided bread that she would get 78 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.199 up and put in the oven before anybody else was awake, 79 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.759 so we'd wake up and it would smell like cinnamon 80 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.160 and that balsam incense, which has a very wood smoke 81 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:15.959 sort of smell, and the combination of those fragrances is 82 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.839 so embedded in my brain and the other. Like a 83 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:25.680 few Christmases ago, I baked cinnamon rolls and I had 84 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.800 lit the incense, and I just had a moment of like, 85 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:32.519 oh wow, you know, and if I hadn't already been 86 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:36.240 awake and busy, I could definitely see myself climbing back 87 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.600 into bed and closing my eyes and pretending that I'm 88 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.439 six years old and just for a second, somebody else 89 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:44.519 has taken care of all of the cooking and baking 90 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.399 for the holidays, and somebody else is out there getting 91 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.600 me oven started. You know, just let yourself be there 92 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:55.759 for a moment, and especially, you know, having that sort 93 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:59.399 of feeling of nostalgia just because you'll never be that 94 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.000 age again is hard enough. But having that sort of 95 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.240 nostalgia because that place is gone and you will never 96 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:11.279 see earth again in like the same way, that is 97 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.160 a kind of loss that it's impossible for me to 98 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.800 even really understand. So I feel like I'd be doing 99 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:23.240 this every night. I feel like I would be, you know, 100 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:32.920 going in very hard for the dissociation treatment myself. So 101 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:38.920 they go out and they meet Gordo, well they have 102 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.800 met him before, but like I'm saying, meat, because like 103 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:46.720 this is the real Gordo. Don'ut says, I need my 104 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:48.839 breakfast and you need to brush me, and he says, 105 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.959 hold your horses, you blow hard. I need to freshen 106 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.240 up a bit. I'll get you fed, don't worry, and 107 00:07:55.279 --> 00:08:03.720 you can brush yourself. Princess, Well, I never Carl do something. 108 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.600 Mordecai teach you the finger breaking trick. Finger breaking. No, 109 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:11.319 he made me a potion. I told him I didn't 110 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.160 quite feel myself since you two arrived, and he offered 111 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.199 to makes me a draft using a few things behind 112 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:19.560 my bar, something that allowed me to regain my dignity. 113 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.000 It's not right taking advantage of my kind nature like that. 114 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:33.399 And Mordecai, as they find out later, that potion apparently 115 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:36.440 like did kind of bring him back to himself. And 116 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:38.559 I don't know if he did that on purpose to 117 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:40.159 make it seem like, yeah, that's what it was for, 118 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.799 or if it accidentally worked or what. But the purpose 119 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:50.279 of it was actually to knock Gordo out so that 120 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:56.679 he could go and get the newsletter they get and 121 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.799 Bopka's and shopkeepers don't have access to the feed, so 122 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.639 they get a physical newsletter to each recapp Once he 123 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.200 passed out, I went into the back so I could 124 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.840 read the brief. I also stole a few items for potions. 125 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.120 I don't have an inventory like you do, so take 126 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:12.279 this and he hands them over a bunch of herbs 127 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:18.279 and stuff and he apparently this is not technically against 128 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.919 the rules. They can't engage in direct battle with mobs, 129 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.080 but everything else they want to do as a manager 130 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:29.759 is fine. The brief is regional and it warned of 131 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:33.320 a potential major battle event happening in this area today 132 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.879 or tonight. And he's like, it's probably an elite friend. 133 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:40.919 I need you guys to eat and get the fuck out, 134 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:45.320 and Carl says okay. And as soon as he says 135 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:49.120 just okay, I was like, Yeah, this isn't gonna happen. 136 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.559 I was just like, Carl is agreeing to do what 137 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:57.759 he has told. They are about to leave, and it's 138 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:00.440 too late already. I said it last episode, and I 139 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:02.639 I was like, you're in it. I don't know how, 140 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.759 I don't know what she's going to do, but you're 141 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:08.759 part of it, and there's no backing out. And I 142 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.840 know that we're just getting to see you agree without arguing, 143 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.960 so that we can see you caught up very shortly, 144 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:24.360 so the update from Brandon. None of the residents can 145 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.039 choose human lest they remain in their current condition, and 146 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:31.360 there is a lot of pushback. The ones with cognitive 147 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.039 issues have to pick some really weird races in order 148 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.879 to remain viable. I'll tell you all about it later. 149 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.919 I stayed human, Chris and Immani did not. Most of 150 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.399 the residents are still level one, but you would not 151 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.399 believe the loop boxes they got for hitting the third 152 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:49.440 floor without killing anything or dealing any damage. They are 153 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:53.240 all getting legendary pacifist boxes, along with a ton of 154 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.720 other ones. It's ridiculous how much magical gear we now have. 155 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.159 Some of these bastards are going to be more powerful 156 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:03.399 than Immani pretty soon. Anyway, Mistress Tiata says, we're likely 157 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.279 pretty far from you now. I just wanted to thank 158 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.919 you again for your help. I hope we see each 159 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:14.759 other again. And you, guys, this is so incredibly fascinating 160 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:17.480 to me. Do you understand how much I want to 161 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.200 see them choosing their races? 162 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:20.600 Like? 163 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:27.600 Do you understand how compelling the process of choosing based 164 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.399 on the cognitive abilities and what you're able to do 165 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:38.320 right now? Like I desperately want to know what their 166 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.799 options are, what effects those options might have if they 167 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.840 do this. In combination with that, I live for this 168 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.279 kind of shit. I I want to know all of 169 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:52.759 it really very much, really very very much. And I'm 170 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:56.799 disappointed that we're not going to be there. I am 171 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.519 hoping that we are going to see them again. I 172 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:02.559 don't feel like all of them would still be alive 173 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:05.080 and that we would be hearing from them if we 174 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:09.799 weren't going to be getting an update, and I mean 175 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:11.639 an in person this is an update, but like an 176 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:17.080 in person moment with them to I'm imagining this is 177 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:19.279 like sort of preparing us for when we meet them 178 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.519 and realizing like, maybe these aren't enemies, even though they 179 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.000 looked like a very weird motley crew of extremely powerful people. 180 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:34.840 But yeah, this is just really Can you imagine being 181 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:39.919 older and in an aging body to a point where 182 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.559 you're thinking you're like definitely gonna die because of the 183 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:45.840 situation that you're in, and then you are given the 184 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:50.600 opportunity to change race and jump into a brand new, 185 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:57.639 completely otherworldly body and drop all of the struggle that 186 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:04.399 you've been having with your regular human body, like the 187 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.080 drive to stay human, as we have heard, is pretty 188 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:11.440 strong in most people. So I get why there's pushback 189 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.720 on that. But I also you know, I was saying 190 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:18.720 how it would be difficult for me when I was 191 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.919 making the decision. I don't know what I would choose, 192 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:25.639 and like, it didn't occur to me that the body 193 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:32.879 you pick is going to be I'm assuming immaculate to 194 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.120 start with. You know, if you're ninety seven years old, 195 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:43.840 but you pick a dragon born creature, I'm assuming you 196 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.399 aren't in the shitty ninety seven year old equivalent of 197 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.120 a dragon born body. Now granted, I'm assuming a dragon 198 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.840 born body would be like still in prime shape at 199 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:56.600 ninety seven, but you get what I'm saying. It never 200 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:00.759 really entered my mind that if if you start, like, 201 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.799 if you choose to remain human, you're staying in the 202 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:09.120 human body you have. You're not getting upgraded to like 203 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:13.799 prime version of human. So if you pick another race, 204 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.000 are you getting the best option for that race, the 205 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:25.879 best possible model? I would assume, so, right, So you know, 206 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.320 like I said, I was really really struggling with what 207 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:34.519 would I pick. I now thinking through this aspect of it, 208 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:40.240 I would definitely not remain human. Like it would be 209 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:44.320 very hard to get to step away from the body 210 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:48.480 that I've been in. But I'm at an age at 211 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:51.519 forty where I'm just starting to really see the like 212 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:54.120 wear and tear and the effect that it has on 213 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:59.840 my overall performance anymore. And it's sobering. So to ACTU 214 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:03.519 be able to pick a different body and start from 215 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:10.600 like a really good solid state. I mean, I just 216 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:15.080 don't think that's something I could resist. And like, there 217 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:19.039 are plenty of races that are close enough to human 218 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:24.639 that I think I would still feel okay, and it 219 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.679 wouldn't you know, I don't have to do something as 220 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:33.279 incredibly bonkers as what's her name Lucita Lucia. I don't 221 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.080 need to do something that intense. Obviously, there are going 222 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:38.759 to be things that are a temptation to do for 223 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:42.279 the stats, but like, I don't know, this just didn't 224 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:49.120 enter my mind, and I really I'm just riveted. I 225 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:58.879 really am. So this is when he uh, and here's 226 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.600 here's my thought here. I think that maybe Carl has 227 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.200 made a little mistake. First, he says, I thought about 228 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:08.279 telling him about Agatha, but decided I didn't want to 229 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:12.679 do that. I didn't want to put anything in writing fair, 230 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:17.960 smart move agree. I also gave him a piece of advice, 231 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:20.639 the same advice Odette had given us. If they weren't 232 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.320 done yet and somebody had the manager ability, he needed 233 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:29.639 to talk them into choosing it. Now. I don't know 234 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:37.080 if he phrases it in the writing as Odette told 235 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.879 us that we should do such and such, or you 236 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.240 need to talk them into it or find a way, 237 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:48.399 you know. I don't know. It's not we aren't shown 238 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.320 the message from Carl verbatim. We are given the little 239 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.679 summary that he chooses to share with us. So when 240 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.000 I say that, I'm worried he might have made a mistake. 241 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:04.640 What concerns me is whether or not this message could 242 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:08.480 be seen by Mordecai, and if he will find out 243 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:14.000 that he was tricked into this. I genuinely do not 244 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:18.160 know if that's of concern, but it gave me pause. 245 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:27.720 I'll just say that. So this is when they take off. 246 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:33.960 They are heading out of the city. We need to 247 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.200 stay far away from those assholes. Is you have been stunned, 248 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:42.039 you have been paralyzed, you have been rendered unconscious. Why 249 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.480 do you gotta get killed? You ain't so little as 250 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:50.599 mice I didn't bounce you hard. And later on he 251 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:54.799 mentions that that was a quote from of Mice and Men. 252 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:04.400 I genuinely get my of Mice and Men and Grapes 253 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:10.039 of Wrath mixed up terribly. But Lenny, is this quote right? 254 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:16.480 When it was read in the audiobook? I thought that 255 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.200 it was the actual person who had stunned them saying that, 256 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.640 And I was sort of like, this sounds familiar, And 257 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:28.920 then I thought maybe because you know, the whole thing 258 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:33.000 is supposed to be basically that the human world Earth 259 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:37.359 got seeded by aliens with all of our like the 260 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:41.640 content that we now think of as ours wasn't really ours. 261 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:43.960 It was like put there, you know. So I was 262 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:45.839 sort of like, is this meant to be a reference 263 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:50.079 to the fact that that story isn't ours? You know 264 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:53.519 what I mean? Like that that dialogue got put in 265 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:57.039 the mouth of a character, and once I see it 266 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:01.160 written down here, it's clear that was the saying it 267 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:07.680 to him in his head. And he wakes up and 268 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:11.920 he calls out for donut and she is not responding, 269 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:16.839 and he is beginning to freak out. Immediately, No, I 270 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.359 don't want to be alone, And I just that was 271 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.680 like one of those that hits you really hard, because 272 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:30.480 as a reader, I am confident she's fine, you know, 273 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:35.319 like I'm coming at this from a she has got 274 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:39.799 lot armor and is probably not ever going to die 275 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:42.640 in this series. And I might be wrong about that, 276 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:48.160 but I feel confident enough that I'll just say it. 277 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:55.279 But putting myself in Carl's shoes, there is absolutely no 278 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:58.799 reason why you would assume that she's still alive, you know, 279 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:02.440 in this universe, Like, why would you think they'd keep 280 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:06.440 the cat around? I really understood that panic when I 281 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:12.960 thought about it. From that perspective, the AI seemed to 282 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:16.160 think I was about to die. It was kind of 283 00:20:16.200 --> 00:20:18.039 a fucked up seemed for the AI to quote, but 284 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:20.359 it almost felt like it was supposed to be soothing. 285 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:25.359 Carl Mordecai, I just woke up. I don't know what happened. 286 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:27.119 I don't know where Donut is. I don't know where 287 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:29.960 I am. Oh, thank the gods. You tied up in 288 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.680 a cage in a web. I'm on a couch. I'm 289 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:34.680 not tied up, and I still have all my stuff. 290 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.039 It's dark in here, though I can't see anything. Okay, 291 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:40.319 I can see Donut is alive. I can't see where 292 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:48.240 she is, and if she's let's see when I checked 293 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:51.880 the notifications, and I'd received three achievements, one forgetting stunned, 294 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:56.480 a second forgetting paralyzed, and a third new achievement. Lazarus, 295 00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:59.000 you have been hit with and survived an offensive spell 296 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:01.680 that was higher than level fifteen. The fact that you 297 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.200 are not a quivering stain of meat on the dungeon 298 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.279 floor right now is testament to your sheer luck. It's 299 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:11.799 either that or you're banging the producer reward. You've received 300 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:21.599 a platinum Lucky Bastard box. And here's signet and she's 301 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:25.960 got her hand on his thigh, which startles him quite 302 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:32.039 a bit. And she says, you were leaving, but you 303 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:34.279 told me that we were going to meet. You promised 304 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:35.920 that you were going to come back, and you were 305 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:42.039 running away. I've got donut. She's asleep, and I even 306 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:46.359 saved the dinosaur. I will let you see her on 307 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:49.799 the way out, but you are going to participate in 308 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.960 this the way that you promised. I was ready to 309 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:55.359 just kill you, but I'm gonna give you another chance. 310 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:04.160 I felt her palm rustle unnaturally as something moved by 311 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:09.640 just under her skin. You guys, that is the most 312 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:12.640 unnerving shit I ever heard of my life. It's like, 313 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:15.839 it's not just that something is under her skin moving around, 314 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:20.000 which I'm trusting is one of the tattoos, but it's 315 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:24.599 the fact that, like it's under her palm, which we 316 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:28.799 have all seen the special effect of something under somebody's skin, 317 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:35.039 but I feel like it's usually reserved for under the arm, 318 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:39.359 like the forearm, or maybe even under the face, you know, 319 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:43.240 someplace near the neck. There is something about it being 320 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:46.519 under her hand that took it to a different level 321 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:48.119 for me and made it just And then there's the 322 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:50.960 fact that it's dark, so he can feel it, but 323 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.000 he can't see it. And even if it weren't dark, 324 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.160 her hand is on him, so if it were on 325 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.839 her palm, he couldn't see it then either. And that 326 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:04.000 it reminded me of being like in murky water and 327 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:07.160 you feel something around your ankles, but there's no possible 328 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.440 way to tell what it is. You just are aware 329 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:13.160 I'm not alone in this water and have to fucking 330 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:17.440 trust that it's just a carp and not an alligator, 331 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:20.680 you know. Oh my god, I hate it. I hate 332 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:25.839 it so much. Oh, Michael says, I want to commission 333 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:28.440 The Wandering Inn, but I would be worried Natasha wouldn't 334 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:31.640 enjoy it. It takes like three thousand pages to really 335 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:36.200 get going. My god, Rob says, I think she'd have 336 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:37.839 to tough it out the first book, but by the 337 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:41.799 time you get to the Horns and Rioka, it's pretty engrossing. 338 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:44.279 My wife's just finished the last audiobook and she's dying 339 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:47.279 for more. Does feel like it would be of Natasha's Alley, 340 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:49.519 but it is so long and it'd be tough in 341 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:55.279 this format. Michael says. Andrea Parsnow is stepping away as 342 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.839 the narrator after books sixteen Jesus, which is devastating. Hope 343 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:02.720 her successor can step into those massive shoes. I hear 344 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:05.519 Andrea's voice even when I'm reading the future chapters on 345 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:09.640 the web. There are also a lot of chapters where 346 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:11.519 not a lot happens, so I'm not sure how Natasha 347 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:13.880 would handle that in the fifty pages per episode thing. 348 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:17.880 But inability to talk isn't really her issues, so I 349 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:26.400 might be worried about nothing. Thinks that's what I'm good at. Well, 350 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:29.440 you know, I'm game to try whatever you want to try. 351 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:32.240 But I also reserve the right to hate it and 352 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:40.880 sure money, so let me know. So she talks about 353 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:45.079 the spell that she cast on Donut, being called water lily. 354 00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:48.440 It puts you to sleep and you don't wake up 355 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.680 until I cancel the spell. If I die, she dies too, 356 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.200 which is extremely awful. When she said that, I was 357 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:04.400 just like, oh fuck. So he goes and sees Donut 358 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:09.200 and is struck while she is asleep here at how 359 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:13.920 completely helpless she looks. Mango is wide awake and jumping 360 00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:18.480 around in the cage and freaking out. And he goes 361 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:21.039 and like sniffs over her and tries to wake her up, 362 00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:27.039 and of course she doesn't move. We can't leave Donut here. 363 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:30.920 She will remain. No fuck you, I said, reaching to 364 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:33.640 pick her up. A health bar appeared. The moment I 365 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:39.200 lifted her, it started quickly falling. Karl, I would return 366 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:42.039 her immediately to her place. A water lily must not 367 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:46.559 be removed lest it die. And he puts her down 368 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:51.799 and it begins to go up again. This in particular, 369 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:54.480 You know, there are all sorts of properties I have 370 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:56.880 read or watched where there is a person who is 371 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.160 struck by a sleeping spell given a sleeping, draft, to 372 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:06.240 drink whatever, and almost always it's possible to move that person. 373 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:09.640 They get carried along and brought to somebody who can help, 374 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:13.519 or brought on whatever journey they're on until they can 375 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:17.519 find somebody who can help. It was there was just 376 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:21.240 something about the fact that not only is she asleep, 377 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:24.319 not only is she tethered in life to signet, but 378 00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:28.599 that she has to stay in this location particularly that 379 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:31.480 felt so limiting that I was just like, this really 380 00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:40.480 fucking blows. And he tells Mango, you have to stay 381 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.400 here and protect her. Do you understand me? And it 382 00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:50.440 seems like he does, I think. So he checks in 383 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:54.079 with zeb here and is like, I need you to help. 384 00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:57.039 I explained what I wanted her to do. She told 385 00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:59.400 me it was impossible. I told her to try anyway, 386 00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:04.599 And I had a suspicion that it was going to 387 00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:07.079 be something about talking to the producers and writers of 388 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:12.319 the show, which is what it ends up being. So 389 00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:16.799 let's see, why are we doing this? Why do you 390 00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:20.000 attack the circus every day? And she says, I'm the 391 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:23.640 only one that wasn't altered by that poisonous cloud. And 392 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.759 Grimaldi got the worst of it and he's like I thought, 393 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:29.200 you loved him, and she's like I do. And he 394 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:31.880 saved me when I was a child and raised me. 395 00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:34.240 And then eventually, as I got to be older, I 396 00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:36.079 started to see him as more than a father, and 397 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:40.400 I was like, ew, I hate it. You have to 398 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:45.400 understand how horrible it was. The cataclysm Scolependra's poison cloud 399 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:49.160 was a nine tier attack. It attacked you in nine 400 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:53.720 different ways. The lucky ones simply died, the others were transformed, 401 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:57.240