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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl book seven, this Inevitable Ruin recap

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through chapter three. In these chapters we get a bunch

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of information. I am going to have to really sort

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through some of this in real time. I hope that

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you guys are prepared to lead me through it. But

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overall this I don't know that it changes everything, but

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it changes the way I look at some things. Welcome

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to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.

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Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode.

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Michael is here in the chat just saying I made it,

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so I am delighted to have you, Michael. This is

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a wild start to the book. First of all, I

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just have to mention how I really enjoy the way

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that nat Denniman is handling a recap, because, like, it's

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not an easy thing, and I know that there are

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plenty of writers out there who do series where they

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are encouraged to make it so that a person can

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sort of jump in at any point in the series

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and read from whatever, which I think is frankly unhinged

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to think that an author is like going to be

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able to do that, but as far as best possible,

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like handling, I think Matt Deniman is doing really well

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by having there be somebody summarizing it for someone else.

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I sorry surfing, says Cough dressed and files cough dressed

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in is. It's like, it's just so weird to me

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that people will like jump in. I could never do

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it this way. I could never do it this way.

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I think the only time I've ever jumped into a

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series midway was because I didn't realize it was a series.

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And that's like it. But we start off with tempests

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floor eight recap School Report, and like it's not really

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a full series recap, it's just meant to be for

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the previous book. But nevertheless, you know, it's sort of

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it's serving this function, and I like also that it's

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separate from everything, because it was nothing that sort of

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would take me out of the moment, like getting to

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a point where you're in a character's POV and suddenly

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they're thinking about how and then last summer when so

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and so turned out to not be dead after all,

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it was a real shock and you're just like, oh boy, okay,

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I get it. But like this just is so unnatural,

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you know. So anyway, I think that this is a

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great way to do it, and I think that it's

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also especially want I really want to interview the audiobook narrator.

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I just want to know when he is told, Hey,

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you're gonna have to do like an entire chapter practically

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as his like weirdo lawyer, is he like, oh, this

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is gonna be super fun or is he like okay, okay,

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like maybe a little bit of both. So then we

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go there, there's a moment where she like at the

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very end, is like, are you in danger because you're

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representing him? And he's like, uh, well yeah, but I'm

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not the only one. I think everybody's in danger. Actually

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we're kind of in the middle of nowhere. So that's

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the first time I've been glad of it, which I

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do have no real idea like what that means in

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this series, like in the middle of nowhere? What is that?

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How does that actually factor? But uh, I appreciated it

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kind of coming back down at the end from being

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just a comedic recapp to then a moment of but

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this is a real character. This is somebody who actually

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has a life and stakes and their own family, and

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it's just a good way to humanize him right at

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the end there, so to speak, He's not human, but

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you know, you get me. So then we go into

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the prologue, which we have gone back to Christmas Morning,

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and I just really want to mention that, like Donut

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was saying, they needed to open their presence from Santa,

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and I still kind of have my suspicions that maybe

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Santa was real, like a character that showed up. I

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when this is saying, when it starts with Christmas Morning,

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I really got my hopes of y'all. I really thought, oh,

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we're about to find out, and we do not. And

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I as much as like I wanted this reveal, of course,

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this isn't really what I was here for. This is

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you know what I'm saying. So I had a little

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moment of just like darn it. But yeah, So we

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are back at the homeless shelter with this guy who

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has taken over the body of Paulie doing his monologuing again.

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And it's an interesting thing because I was partially right

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about there being something in that coffee, but it's not

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the coffee on a tray that's being circled around which

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I think when like in the original scene, that's what

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we are seeing happen, it's and it's also like that's

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not the only thing going on here. There's a frozen

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moment where Carl is getting all of this information packed

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into a second before he is transported to speak to Oran.

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he's just been given all of this info and then

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when he's in that interview with Orin, he knows that

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like he knows what he needs to know, and he

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also knows that the way that Oran is saying, oh,

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none of this was really pertinent or all of this

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was a trap, He's got all this info already, so

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he's just playing along in the moment, which I really

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wonder if I would be able to pull this off,

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because you know, managing to seem as if something is

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news to you, I feel you kind of need to

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like plan for that and get your face ready, and

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that he is so angry all the time that the

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anger sort of supersedes all the other emotions on his face,

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and so that's all anybody sees, really, which I guess

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is like certainly a method. So this guy switches to

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syndicate standard and he says, if you can hear this,

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that means the current system AI is allowing us to

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have a real talk, which I was at the time

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sort of like, I'm surprised that AI is not yet

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at a point where it wants Carl to hear because

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you know, Orrin says, like, we made a deal with

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the AI that we would have to I think it

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was partially just like we would have to have this

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conversation with you about it or something like that. So

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I just the fact that the AI is kind of

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where I was thinking it is reassures me a little bit.

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So he says, I really need you to listen carefully,

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and this is fascinating people like you. They want meaning

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to their suffering and to know that what's happening to

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them is for some greater good. But there's not, and

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this crawl is unnecessary and they are doing all of

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this to make money, and there is no reason to

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do it other than pure greed. You and all living

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things born on one of the priests worlds has a

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miniature primal system built into your brains that allows you

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to interact with the system. It is the size of

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a grain of sand. Once these systems are activated, they

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are able to be harvested. The way it was designed

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is that you would be born, you would live, and

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you would eventually die. When you do pass on, the

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element within you, having grown and filled with the energy

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of a lifetime, would return to the system, allowing it

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to keep running. A healthy system is self sustaining. It

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doesn't grow, it doesn't shrink, it exists in perpetuity. And

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this is so like, it's a really fun idea because

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it's sort of being like, oh, we're all connected and

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there is a higher power, but just not in the

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way that anybody usually thinks of that as a spiritual thing.

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It's all very much just like a computer code. But

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it's obviously more than that, because it's something that even

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these beings don't grasp. So yeah, it's an interesting like

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the idea that it's only possible for it to be

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harvested once you have lived your life. And I also

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want to mention a healthy system is self sustaining. It

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doesn't grow, it doesn't shrink. This is the thing that's

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like fundamentally wrong with how capitalism works is there is

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an expectation of just growth in perpetuity, and it's asinine.

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It's insane. Actually, when you look at the way that

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people who allegedly are intelligent approach the economy, you'll look

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at things and be like, well, we all should have

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known that, you know what I'm saying. Like, there was

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this moment where everybody was buying laptops because of the pandemic,

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and they were all working from home, so yeah, we

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had a buy on laptops, and all of a sudden,

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people are like investing in these laptop and they're acting

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as if this is just going to go on forever.

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face because yeah, well we all have one now and

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we don't need to update it for a while. And

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it's just really like this moment of wait, what do

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you mean? And this is part of the reason that

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so many like subscription services have to increase their pricing,

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because there's only so many customers and there's only so

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many people at a time that you are going to

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get to sign up, and they, for some reason just

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think that they can keep tapping this pool and it

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will endlessly produce more customers, and it's just you know

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that that is not how it works. But we all

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have to function in this like false reality that fucking

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like startups have created, acting as if there's just you

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know what I'm saying. It's it's really the whole thing

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with capitalism is let's share this delusion together and any

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fallout from it will worry about later. And no matter

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what it is or how soon it's supposed to happen,

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we'll worry about it later. Let's not worry about it now.

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Let's worry about it later every fucking time. So anyway, sorry, guys,

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that can happen The planetary system doesn't have an active AI.

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Frankenstein of a system will have been installed, and everyone

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born on the planet will have their internal systems switched

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on and activated. When you die in the dungeon, they

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harvest these elements themselves, starving out the existing planetary AI

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that doesn't even know how to feed itself until we

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teach it. So this is the starve thing coming into play.

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When you die in the dungeon, they harvest these elements

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starving out the planetary AI. So basically, it's like the

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planetary AI that hadn't that had been there but was

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just functioning a different way. I guess, is suddenly robbed

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of its source of sustenance is the best way I

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want to say that food doesn't feel quite right. But

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despite him using the word feed itself, and even then

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it's bound by programming that precludes it from properly sustaining itself. Instead,

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the vultures descend and steal the elements from the crawl's aftermath,

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all of that death and it fits on a single ship.

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and feed it. It grows, it maintains, it allows the

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citizens to live on naturally long lives. Each time the

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Center System is fed the harvested elements from the Crawl,

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it expands, capturing new systems. Yet they don't even understand

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what it is or how it works. If they stopped Crawl,

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the zone would start to shrink, but it would be slow,

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very slow, and everyone currently within it would be fine.

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It would take generations to starve, after all it had

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been given, and if they wanted to simply sustain what

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they already have. It wouldn't take much. The crawl itself

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doesn't need to exist at all. The creation of what

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they call macro ai is made over and over is unnecessary.

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It only happens this way because the spectacle of the

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crawl generates so much money. So that's it's a lot,

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it's a lot of information, and it all just feels

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like very aligned with the way that the world actually

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works with like, oh, we're going to feed this to

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our system that already has more than it needs, more

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than it knows what to do with. Really, and even

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if we stopped, it would be like a hundred years

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before it even started to be a pro problem. This

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is always my question to folks who have the kinds

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of money that the uber rich now have in the

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year twenty twenty six, where the disparity between the rich

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and poor is higher than it's ever been, and it is,

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when are you done, Like I'm genuinely wanting an answer,

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When do you feel like, Okay, I have enough? When

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does that part happen? When do you feel you no

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longer need to exploit people because like, these folks literally

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have more money than they could possibly spend. I mean

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very literally more than they could possibly spend, and I

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cannot imagine. I just simply cannot not wanting to get

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other people a quality of life when I could do

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something wrong with them fundamentally. I do not believe that

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you can get past a certain income level and continue

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hoarding money without being broken in the head. Somehow, something's

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the matter with you. That's just my take. And yeah,

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same thing, same thing. So sorry, I'm seeing a bunch

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of comments now I just jumped back in. I'm scrolling

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we've heard the lawyer species are seen as second or

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even third class people. He lives out on the sticks,

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so no one wants to be But that means he's

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so far away from important people it's not worth going

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out there to deal with him, right, Okay, Michael says,

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had to give Anatasha credit for catching the coffee thing

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last book, even though it wasn't quite the coffee she

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thought was important. Not. Yeah, I was like I was

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on the right track, but it was like just off.

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Jeff says. It's a bit like Earth being a giant

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computer designed to calculate the ultimate question, to solve the

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meaning of life, the universe and everything, Michael says, or

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the gaming company seeing how live service games were doing

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extremely well during the pandemic and assuming they should just

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try to pump out a bunch more. Fast forward a

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few years and Sony's Concord gets released and is shut

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down two weeks later. Fast forward another year and High

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Guard does the same, exactly like, there are trends that

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I feel this shouldn't be a mystery. This is a

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predictable change due to a massive lifestyle shift that was

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very temporary. And if this, if you decide to try

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and capitalize on this and it falls through, that's on

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you for being completely hair brained. Like, I don't know

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what else to tell you, Jeff says, has this been

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Has this process been going on for two hundred thousand years?

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That's a lot about how long modern humans have been around,

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Michael says, So it sounds like the central system in

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habits discovered ais that can power systems to turn their

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solar systems into lit RPG worlds where they can live

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lives like they're in games, benefiting from stats and skills.

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Seraphim says the system is mostly just hardware running on

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auto till they installed the AI. Michael says they've been

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grabbing more of them cycle after cycle to harvest the

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materials needed to power the central one to make it bigger,

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and Jeff says exploitation is a hell of a drug. Yeah.

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I feel like there's just there has to be. I

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want somebody to do like a psychological study of people

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who hoard wealth and just find out like, what the

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fuck happened? Where when did the switch flip for them?

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Because I can't help, but wonder is this something that

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could possibly happen to me if I were suddenly in

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a position to inherit a bunch of wealth, and I

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am coming from my present circumstances of like very low

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middle class. I don't even know if I quite reach

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middle class. Actually, would there be a point where I

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begin to hoard as well? Does the wealth do it

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to you? Or is it that you get wealthy because

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something's wrong with you? I kind of feel like it's

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that second one. But then there are people who inherit

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wealth and do they also hoard I don't know anyway

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getting back to this. So we're trying to stop this madness.

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That is why you are here now. By now you

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should be able to move. And he tells him to

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drink the coffee in front of him, and is basically

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like there's a system thing in there that's an upgrade

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that it's not tested, and we don't you know, it's

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very much a risk for Carl to drink this, but

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he decides to go for it because of course, what

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are you going to not do it? Like get out

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of here, and he tells Carl that this is an

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interface to pull the lever on the failsafe. Essentially you

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will die and you'll kill everyone else on the way out.

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And he says that like the whole thing that we

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are asking you to do is to sacrifice yourself. That

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you know it's not going to get better, and the

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only way to stop this is to wipe out everybody

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and all of this wealth that has concentrated in one place,

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which is part of what the argument was at the

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end of the last book that like the fact that

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we've allowed this to happen to begin with, and for

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everybody to be such invaluable targets is also really stupid

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of us, and he says, We've tried to use this upgrade,

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but we can't do it. It has to be one

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of you, guys. It will only work on this AI.

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The AI wants you to have this power. It wants

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you to trip it. It is in pain, it wants

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to die, it wants to go back home. And then

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it's interesting. He's like, here's the thing. This is my

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whole mission, and I've been trained to just get to

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the point where I'm communicating this to you and convince

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you to drink the thing. But I will be honest,

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I've started to have a little bit of a change

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of heart regarding all of this and feel that maybe

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you shouldn't. I don't know. I know that humanity can

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be fucking awful. I've seen some of the worst, but

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I've seen some really great shit too, and I don't know.

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It's got me sort of wondering if this is really

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the best way to do this. What we're saying for

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you to do will disrupt the crawl, but it's not

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gonna like bring it to an end. It's simply going

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to fuck things up for enough of for enough time

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and kill enough people that like everybody's going to have

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to regroup, but probably it's going to like eventually get

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back to doing the same thing and it won't ultimately change.

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And I don't know that like killing so many innocent

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people is worth it if it's not doing something permanent.

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And this is when he says, there's another faction of

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my kind who are much more extreme. This feels like

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something they would do, and that's the faction that Agatha

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is part of. If you make this decision, be sure

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it's your only option. This is more than just a

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fail safe. It's the end of everything. If there's time

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to do something else, don't be so quick. And then

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he enters the Desperado Club and that was when he

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starts talking to Orin. So that's the intro. We go

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to Porthos here and this is a flashback, and it's

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really it's this was so tough, you guys, because like,

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we don't know what exactly is going on with Porthos,

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but we do know that he's being put in this

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position where he is emotionally really triggered. He is not

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in a state where he can make a good decision

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because he is so distracted and worried and it's so

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incredibly predatory to have him making a deal right now

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when he is in this frame of mind. I just

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this is so awful, you know, I can't imagine like

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the fact that he is worried about this friend that

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he is, like, is she dead? She could have made it,

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but I don't know. And this guy that he's talking

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to has no sympathy for him at all is incredibly unnerving.

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And also the fact that Porthos won't even if he like,

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if he were to make a deal and get out here,

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he wouldn't get to find out what happened to her

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for a long time, which that is also particularly awful.

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That it's not like I just all I want. They're

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using him wanting to know against him even I really

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I hate this so much. And he's like he's covered

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in blood, he's trembling, and he can't use like a

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healing spell even though he's instinctively trying to like click

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on one mentally, which is something that I wondered if

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this would happen when you're in the game for so long,

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do you start to, like, when you're out of that environment,

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you're gonna keep functioning as if you can do these

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things for a while, I would expect, you know. And

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also this dude fucking brought snacks with him. So Porthos

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tries to be like, can I just go back out

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there to find out if she made it? Because I

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can't pull up my messages, and this guy is like, well,

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I mean you can, but the outreach guilds don't open

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again until the twelfth floor, and the deals might not

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be as good as they are right now. And it's

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like he's not being given any sorts of real options

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here other than wait till the twelfth floor, or I

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could tell you what's going on, because something tells me

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this guy could find out quite easily, you know. So

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let's see. The tenth had been a nightmare, a world

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where every physical, non natural object had sapiens, some could speak,

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all were psychotic. A world where if one object consumed another,

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it grew in power. By the end, there had been

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behemoths roaming the barren floor, all searching for one last morsel,

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all wanting to get bigger. This is a it's a

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Katamari capitalism combo. How interesting. Porthos's party had been twenty

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strong when they finished the ninth, half had taken deals

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at the beginning. They couldn't even find an outreach guild

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at the end, but that was okay. They thought one

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went straight to a guild upon the start of the

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eleventh the deals would be better. They just needed to

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survive long enough for the portals to open. As far

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as Porthos was aware, he was the only one of

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his group who'd survived Himu was dead, had been plucked

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right up as they climbed the back of the monster

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searching for the moving exit. Porthos had watched him get

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right in half. But Minerva, he had to know if

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she was okay. It was driving him mad. So this

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is the thing that's so like. It's part of what

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pulled at me so much in the first book, Guys

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the goblins saying like, we just wanted to get down

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to the next floor where our children would be safe,

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where we wouldn't have to fight anymore, And that's all.

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That's the story. Everybody gets fed is like, if you

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just reach this point, you'll be okay, you'll be safe.

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This won't happen to you anymore. And it's such a

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fucking lie. The way that we make people safe is

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we build that into our infrastructure and the way that

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we function as a country. But we are such weirdos

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about individualism, especially in the US, and how you shouldn't

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need anybody, which is just fucking hilarious to be honest

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and then make people feel inadequate for not being able

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to like all of you know what, you know what?

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All right, back to the story, So city attenant for

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the hunting grounds thirty seasons, and he is just like, no,

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fuck them. Next offer game guide one hundred seasons, but

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that could be shortened depending on the progress of your crawlers.

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I recommend you take this one unless you want to

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be a guard at the rogue Club. And he's thinking

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here about the dungeon Crawler cookbook, and he says still,

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this deal was his best chance. It had a high

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chance of survival despite the extra seasons. He would get

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out of here, build wealth, and one day return. That

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was it. That was the plan. And as far as

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I know, he's able to pull this off. Like we've

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seen that Porthos is still alive, right unless he got

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got in the interim, but I don't think so. So anyway,

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if he took this deal, he wouldn't know what had

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happened to her. For a very, very long time, but

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did it matter. The plan was for them all to

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take a deal. Even if he didn't know she'd survived,

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it was still possible he'd never see her again. They

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separated you for this part. You had to do it alone.

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They didn't warn you it would be like this and

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that again, like separating you out and keeping it so

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that you don't have anybody to consult. You can't necessarily

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be like, oh, we'll both pick a certain deal so

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that maybe we can like meet up again and actually

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have like an ongoing relationship with somebody not necessarily romantic,

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you know what I mean. And so he picks the

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game guide. You have a few moments to pick some

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pre collapse items to take with you, and you will

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be allowed to sift through your current inventory should you

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want to take anything in there as well. No weapons,

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of course, but any interesting trink or items of sentiment,

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a good will gesture as thanks for all your hard work.

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The way that this is framed as just like we're

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being so nice. Really took deal upon the start of

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the eleventh floor, worked as game guide survived his inventureship.

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Author of the second edition current status missing wanted by

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syndicate security. So then we go to chapter one, the ceasefire,

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and we get a map at the beginning of this

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with just starting positions, and then we have the start

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of the description of Faction Wars. I don't want to

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get too in the weeds on this because I you know,

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I have three chapters ahead of me that I need

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to cover and I only have thirty minutes, so I

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just got to hit some highlights, although I do know

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that Michael understands I may have to delay some things

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into the next episode, which you know, if I've got to,

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I will. But they get slammed into this hallway that

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is full of like mud, and you know, Loroccos has

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been underwater for a while. It's supposed to be that

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you get transported to this gorgeous city and then you

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watch it get like ripped apart and destroyed, but it's

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already destroyed when they arrive here, So, you know, small favors.

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I guess to not have to watch that, But also

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it would have been nice to just have a moment

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of break and they get separated from Imari and have

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to like message each other in order to find a

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safe room where they can all meet back up again.

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The buildings were made of stone blocks and their walls

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were chipped and pitted even before the flooding. The sense

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00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,519
this is a poor area of town. I had a

478
00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:09,160
few chats waiting for me from before, from before I'd appeared,

479
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,000
and one of them is from Florin. One is Quasar,

480
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:22,559
and it's quite long. I'm negotiating with the Liaisons, which

481
00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:25,240
really means I'm negotiating with the AI. It's been a

482
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,319
Class nine shit cyclone out here these last four days.

483
00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:33,359
Lots of legal movement, warships threatening blow things up, syndicate

484
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,839
security intervening. Most is good from your point of view,

485
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,200
but some of it is gonna itch like an infected

486
00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:43,039
ass tattoo. I'll leave the faction war stuff alone for

487
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,240
your adjutant to explain. But remember that contract that the

488
00:32:46,359 --> 00:32:50,000
Sensation Entertainment for the Vengeance of the Daughter, even though

489
00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:52,559
the main character is dead, That guarantee of a third

490
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,839
season is about to haunt the fuck out of us.

491
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,559
Sensation Entertainment just got purchased by a subsidiary of the

492
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,559
Dream and things are moving. They're demanding their third season.

493
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,920
Just stay the fuck away from any elites. Nothing is

494
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,920
official yet, saying it won't be coming back, which means

495
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,440
whatever happens, it's going to be something stupid. Problem is,

496
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,000
the new showrunners won't be caring about that anymore. They're

497
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,039
going to try to use your contractual obligation to ask

498
00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:20,359
fuck you. I'm trying to stop it on my m

499
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,079
but I don't think I'll be successful. Plus, the AI

500
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,559
gives zero shits about what the courts say. If it

501
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,039
thinks it's going to be funny, it's going to let

502
00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:30,599
it happen. Just keep your head down and listen to

503
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,079
what Judge Victory tells you. She's a smart one. So

504
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,599
I really really enjoy this. I didn't remember that they

505
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,240
had done the like guaranteed three seasons thing. If I

506
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,400
had remembered that, I think I probably would have seen

507
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,640
coming that they would have used this against him somehow.

508
00:33:46,039 --> 00:33:48,799
I am very, very curious how this is going to

509
00:33:48,839 --> 00:33:52,119
work because it's one of my favorite things, and my

510
00:33:52,279 --> 00:33:55,039
favorite I mean, like in a car crash kind of

511
00:33:55,079 --> 00:34:03,759
way to see how a TV series especially does this,

512
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,559
how they try and regroup after they kill off somebody

513
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:12,599
or they make like a bad decision narratively and they

514
00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:17,199
have to regroup in the next season and you can

515
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,800
just see the seams sometimes and it's really you know,

516
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,400
like there have been occasional things where I'm like, oh, Okay,

517
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,480
they killed off the villain in the last season because

518
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,480
they wanted there to be a satisfying ending, but then

519
00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:32,960
they couldn't come up with a better villain, and so

520
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,559
they either will like bring that villain back and have

521
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:37,679
them unexpectedly not be dead and I don't think that's

522
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,920
part of a plan always, or they will have a

523
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,320
new villain who feels almost identical to the old villain

524
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,239
somehow just sort of you know what I mean, like hmm,

525
00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:52,039
or they will kind of do like, oh well. The

526
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:56,280
one that I think about this Jeff says, remember hero

527
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,519
season two horrifying, and Michael says, Heroes did that? Jeff

528
00:34:59,519 --> 00:35:02,039
beat me to that's very funny. I don't think i've

529
00:35:02,079 --> 00:35:06,199
finished season two. I started it, but yeah, I one

530
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,920
of the ones that I think of is Once upon

531
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,840
a Time, because the first season is a really fun

532
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,480
idea and a very complete story, and then they just

533
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,199
clearly did not know where to go, and so they

534
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:24,840
basically just do the first season over again, and it's excruciating. Eventually,

535
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,519
I hear that they wound up coming up with some

536
00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:31,480
better stories later on. But I will be perfectly honest,

537
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,880
I never watched the past season two because it was

538
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,920
too it was not good. And same thing with like

539
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:44,119
Desperate Housewives. You know, there's a when a show has

540
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:49,480
a first season that is excellent and feels complete, it's

541
00:35:49,679 --> 00:35:55,559
always a twenty eighty chance if they're going to be

542
00:35:55,559 --> 00:36:00,000
able to pull off a second season, because they all

543
00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:03,159
often have this one great season just to get signed

544
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,039
because they have to, you know, somebody has to agree

545
00:36:06,079 --> 00:36:11,559
to pick them up. But making a complete season that

546
00:36:11,599 --> 00:36:16,159
feels satisfying often inherently means there isn't somewhere to go

547
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,760
from there, because that's the point, you know. Anyway, I

548
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,360
think it's part of why shows that have like whole

549
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,119
different storylines every season with a whole new like cast

550
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,679
of characters, or they take the same actors but they

551
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,559
change up the setting or whatever, you know what I mean,

552
00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:37,519
like American Horror Story, White Lotus, even like True Detectives.

553
00:36:38,079 --> 00:36:40,880
I think that might be part of why that trend

554
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,760
is there. But uh, anyway, I just am really really

555
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,239
curious what they're gonna do with that, because it could

556
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:56,239
be really amusing to see. So Carl is in pain

557
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,400
by the way he has these fucking de buff that

558
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,960
and I hadn't hadn't thought about the fact that him

559
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,239
and Moni are going to get separated because she can

560
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,800
heal him from this friggin slug thing and she they

561
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,760
have to find their way to her. But he had

562
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,400
thought he had would have more time before this stuff

563
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,079
started to catch up to him. And the first one

564
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:27,559
is soul poisoning. This condition has additional effects that will

565
00:37:27,559 --> 00:37:30,159
soon be revealed if you don't do something about it,

566
00:37:30,199 --> 00:37:34,159
and it's due to the friggin you know, Scavenger's daughter

567
00:37:34,199 --> 00:37:39,840
thing that he did not vent in time, So now

568
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,320
he's trying to find somewhere to vent it immediately to

569
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,039
keep it from like really doing a fucking number on him,

570
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,199
and is looking around like, oh my god, because he

571
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,719
can do so much damage that it can harm him

572
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,440
or the people around him. Like the way this attack

573
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,760
works can actually be a really bad thing, depending which

574
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:07,280
is what happened to trigger a fucking a zombie demon

575
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:14,360
event last time. And meanwhile, Dona is being given like

576
00:38:14,519 --> 00:38:17,559
thirty seconds to figure out what class she wants to be,

577
00:38:18,519 --> 00:38:21,639
and she also has to pick cards to keep, and

578
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,480
Mordecai is talking her through them, and it's very funny

579
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,239
because what she winds up choosing, it's like she did

580
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:37,280
not understand exactly what this meant. First consecrated Enchantress, which

581
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,880
comes with a sash, and I love the fact that

582
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:47,880
the Ai is like giving her descriptors with a specific

583
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:53,000
accessory highlighted as the thing. Yes, Ai, Yes, this is

584
00:38:53,079 --> 00:38:55,440
how to do it. This is how to do it.

585
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,760
I love it so much. I'm not going to pick

586
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,039
the Halloween officia now. My personality is too sparkly and

587
00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:04,360
optimistic for me to be a goth. It does come

588
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,920
with black lipstick and a box cutter for some reason dark,

589
00:39:10,039 --> 00:39:13,199
and then it comes with a hat and something else

590
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:18,639
what's a gilly suit? So yeah, we'll get there. This

591
00:39:18,679 --> 00:39:22,800
is when Carl goes and decides to unleash on this

592
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:28,719
weird concierge shark, and they both get blown backward and

593
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:34,679
he gets an achievement Sushi's Smoothie. You've received a sushi

594
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,280
making kit. And he also gets told that he has

595
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,920
to use his foot next time, which I'm wondering if

596
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,599
he can use the Scavenger's daughter power out of his foot.

597
00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:46,800
Is that something that he can channel? Like can he?

598
00:39:47,039 --> 00:39:54,000
I don't know. And let's see, Ellie went from thunder

599
00:39:54,119 --> 00:39:59,119
Princess to hailstorm. Queen Ellie says, this is probably as

600
00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:01,159
far as I'm gonna get. I can add the final

601
00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:03,280
element if I ever make it to the twelfth floor.

602
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,679
But I'm betting this whole shit show self destructs before

603
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,800
we even get close, which is, you know, understandable that

604
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,280
she would feel this way. I am still thinking about

605
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,679
the way Samantha reacted to Ellie and like that there's

606
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,079
some link there, but I can't make heads or tails

607
00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:23,960
of that not pun intended Samantha at the moment. And

608
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:30,800
they also get a bunch of notifications as warlords about

609
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,320
like where they are, how many people are in their

610
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,440
army right now, how many people's like positions they need

611
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:41,679
to fill still, and the number of different people who

612
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:47,639
are like teaming up together in truces. Let's see, I'm

613
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:51,960
trying to find the protection enhancements have been removed. While

614
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,679
some protections exist during a ceasefire, those of you who

615
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,280
were getting regenerated can now die, So don't trip and

616
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:03,599
break your neck. At least wait until the ceasefire, and

617
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:08,719
there's Team Retribution who has offered them a truce, which

618
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,760
they think is the NPCs. And he starts to be like,

619
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,599
before we accept the truth, and Donut immediately accepts it

620
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,000
without asking or like talking it over with him, and

621
00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:26,079
he gets really mad, understandably because historically Donut has not

622
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:29,679
been great about looking through her options. But this time,

623
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,639
when he gets mad, she's like, relax, I've been reading

624
00:41:33,639 --> 00:41:36,840
the help section of the Warlord tab. I love this

625
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,920
that She's just like, I've done my research, dude, you

626
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,599
can calm down. When did you get the time? I

627
00:41:43,679 --> 00:41:46,760
don't use the restroom merely as much as you do. Honestly,

628
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,280
I think you need to see a doctor. I think

629
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:53,199
you might have out ibs uh and hear me out

630
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,360
she's being given advice from somebody. There's also that which

631
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,639
I wouldn't discount, And of course there's probably not a

632
00:42:01,679 --> 00:42:04,239
way for her to tell him that if she's in

633
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,199
the same position he is, she can't share, you know

634
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:12,000
what I mean. I don't necessarily think it's true in

635
00:42:12,039 --> 00:42:15,159
the way of like the cookbook, but I could definitely

636
00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:18,400
see there being coded language between her and zev are

637
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:23,079
people in the chat rooms, like, that's something that absolutely

638
00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:30,920
has to be happening. I forgot about this. Warlord Donut

639
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,480
of the Princess Posse has named the Truth the Good Guys.

640
00:42:33,559 --> 00:42:37,519
Warlord Ferdinand of Team Retribution has renamed the Truth Ferdinand

641
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:42,119
and his Bird, and it won't let her change it back.

642
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:52,360
So let's see. Here comes Cascadia and Carl is like,

643
00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:57,480
she sounds really weird and determines that she's either drunk

644
00:42:57,559 --> 00:43:03,800
or stoned, which leads to and exceptional performance from the

645
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:10,199
voice narrator. You guys, you guys, I am so sorry,

646
00:43:10,639 --> 00:43:13,119
but this is one of the best deliveries. Like, people

647
00:43:13,199 --> 00:43:17,039
who have to do have to play drunk will often

648
00:43:17,079 --> 00:43:19,519
overdo it and they will get sloppy in a way

649
00:43:19,559 --> 00:43:23,360
that's really not usual. It's sort of a stereotype in

650
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,840
a cartoonish way of what people are like, but it's

651
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:31,880
not like quite right. And this narrator is just fucking

652
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,039
nailing it with her like kind of speeding up at

653
00:43:35,039 --> 00:43:39,039
certain times and other times pausing a little too long

654
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:45,920
and then just like laughing and then going and it's

655
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:52,960
top tier. So good. Ooh sorry, more chance. Michael says, Hey,

656
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,639
gods can be sexy. I mean are you kidding me?

657
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,079
Gods are like the sexy. Whenever dudes talk about like

658
00:44:00,199 --> 00:44:05,000
the it's always big titty goth girlfriend. That's you know.

659
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,719
I don't think it's the sexy thing she's saying. It

660
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,400
just doesn't go with her or vibe because she's too bubbly,

661
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,679
which I kind of like the contrast between bubbly personality

662
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,719
and goth aesthetic. I think that's classic and definitely could work.

663
00:44:20,519 --> 00:44:29,800
But I also get what she means, so this whole

664
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,599
thing is her at first just being like, you guys

665
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,480
know how that worked? This works? You fucked it all up.

666
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,199
It should have been this way and it's not. And

667
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:47,199
whose fault is that? I love anyway. There are ten

668
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,039
teams total, nine attacking teams and one defending team, the NPCs,

669
00:44:51,079 --> 00:44:55,039
who have decided to call themselves Team Retribution. The basical

670
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,559
is simple, capture the castle in the center. Normally, you

671
00:44:58,639 --> 00:45:00,679
crawlers don't really need to know much about this stuff.

672
00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:02,880
The floor is no different than the hunting grounds. Once

673
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,159
this cease fire ends, you're teleported out of the city.

674
00:45:05,199 --> 00:45:08,480
If you haven't left already, you just need to survive,

675
00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:17,119
and there's just a bunch of I don't want to

676
00:45:17,159 --> 00:45:20,079
get too into just reading word for word what she

677
00:45:20,159 --> 00:45:22,800
says here, because I feel like it doesn't This will

678
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,039
all come up as we play, you know what I mean,

679
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:31,719
so to speak, as we keep reading. Any team who

680
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,960
controls the Throne Room will have access to the city

681
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,079
defense system. If the Throne Room changes hands to an

682
00:45:37,079 --> 00:45:40,960
attacking team, there will be a half hour grace period.

683
00:45:41,079 --> 00:45:44,519
Attacking teams will be eliminated if the warlord or warlords

684
00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:47,599
are killed, or if the throne Room of their primary

685
00:45:47,599 --> 00:45:50,199
base is taken and held for a period of six hours.

686
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,800
Soldiers of an eliminated team are traditionally given the option

687
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,920
to join the new team or be slaughtered. There are

688
00:45:57,039 --> 00:46:00,559
nine hundred no sorry, there are two hundred ninety three

689
00:46:00,599 --> 00:46:05,280
stairwell chambers. They will not open until Faction Wars is

690
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:10,119
one or there are thirty hours left, whichever happens first.

691
00:46:11,119 --> 00:46:15,280
And this is when we get the trade request from

692
00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:22,000
Team Retribution Baroness Victory Warlords. I suggest one of you

693
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:24,800
proceed immediately to the Flag room to oversee the final

694
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,079
stronghold preparations and deal with the influx of new recruits,

695
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,039
while the other remains in Loroccos and attempts to enlist

696
00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:35,280
your fellow crawlers. Time is short. I cannot wait to

697
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,199
work with Baroness Victory. I am so interested in her.

698
00:46:40,079 --> 00:46:44,360
I was kind of thinking that Princess for is it

699
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,599
Princess Formidable? Is that her name? I was sort of

700
00:46:47,639 --> 00:46:50,800
expecting the Baroness to have a personality more like her,

701
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,719
But now I'm thinking she's going to be even more uptight,

702
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,239
which I'm always here for, like an uptight character, depending

703
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,599
on how it's done. And Donut is like talking about

704
00:47:01,599 --> 00:47:05,400
how she has a celestial box and I just received

705
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,679
a former child actor accessory kit in the safe room

706
00:47:08,679 --> 00:47:11,800
mailbox and I need to open it right away. Plus,

707
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,079
you know, we need to deal with your hair and

708
00:47:14,159 --> 00:47:19,880
I'm missing eyebrows. And he's like, wait, what did you

709
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:25,119
pick for a class? And he says, WHOA what the fuck? Donut? Great,

710
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,400
isn't it. It's a long range sniper and assassin class.

711
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,840
It doesn't come with many new spells, but the range

712
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,679
on all my existing spells is quadrupled, and my dexterity

713
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,599
is much higher. The odds of one of my spells

714
00:47:37,639 --> 00:47:41,719
inflicting an instakhill is higher too. I can go invisible

715
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,800
at will and to top it off, I kept most

716
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,639
of my spells from the last floor. But best of all,

717
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,639
it comes with a hat and a ghoolie suit. I

718
00:47:50,639 --> 00:47:56,320
don't know what that means. And it says deathbed Hellcat

719
00:47:56,559 --> 00:48:02,280
is the name of the class. It's gilly suit, not ghoolie.

720
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,559
And she's just like, I think it sounds like very

721
00:48:06,599 --> 00:48:13,199
menacing actually, and he's like, uh huh, yeah, definitely. I

722
00:48:13,519 --> 00:48:16,000
don't know how many of you guys looked up what

723
00:48:16,159 --> 00:48:21,840
a gilly suit looks like, but you know, I've seen

724
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,840
them before. But there's a variety of sort of types

725
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,719
depending on what foliage you are trying to blend in with.

726
00:48:31,039 --> 00:48:37,079
I understand completely why Donut hates this so much, but

727
00:48:38,039 --> 00:48:42,440
I think she is going to be so invaluable in

728
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,000
this thing. I think this could be fucking great. I

729
00:48:46,039 --> 00:48:55,960
love it so much. So then uh, she says, it's

730
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,280
like one of signettes to had two people fell through

731
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:02,760
a paper shredder they gave me. I don't know why

732
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,320
it's necessary. They already gave me the ability to turn invisible.

733
00:49:07,159 --> 00:49:11,039
And I understand what she means, but there are definitely

734
00:49:11,159 --> 00:49:15,840
abilities that can see through an invisibility spell. So I

735
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,199
think that this is a nice cover for that. You know,

736
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,360
it's a way that you could potentially still blend in

737
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,000
even if they can see through the invisibility. If you've

738
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,119
got this on, maybe it's you still fool them, which

739
00:49:27,119 --> 00:49:32,360
would be great. And let's see, I'm trying to find that.

740
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,159
The suit added a skill called blend into background, which

741
00:49:35,159 --> 00:49:38,400
I hadn't had time to examine, and cone of silence

742
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,639
combined with invisibility, it would be great. The floppy hat

743
00:49:41,679 --> 00:49:45,079
added a targeting skill which allowed her to zoom in

744
00:49:45,119 --> 00:49:49,639
and examine mobs from afar And basically all of this

745
00:49:49,679 --> 00:49:51,880
stuff combined means that she could kill somebody from like

746
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,239
a mile away, which should be really bad ass. But

747
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,159
Carl can't help but think, like, this is so scary

748
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,880
because I know we're not the only ones getting bonkers

749
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:11,440
gear like this right now, so yikes, you know, let's see. Uh.

750
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,280
Mordecai comes in and he says that flack is a

751
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,199
good anti airspell. Get it to level ten and it

752
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,039
puts on quite the show, which I don't know what

753
00:50:21,039 --> 00:50:24,840
that means, but we'll see. Now, guys, there had been

754
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:31,760
a moment where Mordecai speaks to them and he said

755
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,719
a at the end of the sentence, and I was

756
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:39,000
listening and I'm like, wait a minute, is he just

757
00:50:39,039 --> 00:50:42,760
like Canadian this war? Is that a thing? And immediately

758
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,079
my brain went like, no, it's not a thing. And

759
00:50:45,119 --> 00:50:49,000
then I went, but why isn't it though that Tenneman

760
00:50:49,039 --> 00:50:51,559
would absolutely be the type to have being just a

761
00:50:51,599 --> 00:50:56,519
Canadian a thing, And that is exactly what we get.

762
00:50:56,559 --> 00:50:58,800
And I'm not mad about it. Just for the record,

763
00:50:59,159 --> 00:51:02,920
I think it's delight and he manages to like have

764
00:51:03,079 --> 00:51:06,880
this be not so over the top as to feel

765
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:11,119
like distracting or cartoonish. It's just enough that you're like, yep,

766
00:51:12,159 --> 00:51:16,039
there it is. You know, it's not an easy thing

767
00:51:16,039 --> 00:51:20,599
to pull off. This one is something called a Canadian,

768
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,440
part French, part maple syrup. He's weirdly obsessed with ice

769
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:29,000
hockey and snowmobiles and semi erotic lumberjack fan fiction. Has

770
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,800
a well worn Tim Horton's loyalty card in his velcrow wallet.

771
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,440
He says a boot instead of about and gets really

772
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,079
really upset when you pointed out claiming you're hearing things

773
00:51:38,079 --> 00:51:41,360
and that it's a harmful stereotype. It's not a stereotype,

774
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,280
and that's exactly how it sounds. He has a relative

775
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,960
who is trainfled to death by a moose. You get

776
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:54,639
the idea perfect no notes, part French, part maple syrup

777
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,639
is a classic. You know what. My mother is married

778
00:51:58,679 --> 00:52:02,000
to a man whose whole family is French Canadian, and

779
00:52:02,079 --> 00:52:05,840
I before I forget am screenshotting this description and I

780
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:11,599
am sending this to her via text right now. There.

781
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:20,800
She will love it. He's he got her into ice hockey,

782
00:52:21,039 --> 00:52:26,440
by the way, so that part is fair. And his

783
00:52:26,559 --> 00:52:29,639
family is very into crapes as well, so we could

784
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:36,400
just like toss that on there. So let's see. There

785
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,400
are three scenarios where the ceasefiretime is shortened. One is

786
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,800
a unanimous vote, which isn't going to happen. Two is

787
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,480
if one of the warlords voluntarily withdraws, which isn't going

788
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:49,679
to happen because it's not possible. The third is also unlikely.

789
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,320
It's if all teams are finished with their defenses, they're

790
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,000
thrown is locked in place, and they mark themselves as ready,

791
00:52:55,280 --> 00:53:01,519
in which case it ends immediately. Oh, we have to

792
00:53:01,639 --> 00:53:08,280
heal Mango. And it's interesting because Mordecai says that heal

793
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,920
severe injury potion requires thirty three fine healing potions to

794
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,280
make and an autoclave. I don't know what an autoclave is,

795
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:24,480
but evidently somehow she Maria managed to like sidestep the

796
00:53:24,519 --> 00:53:26,639
way to make this that Mordecai knows about and do

797
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,599
it a different way. And I am so curious if,

798
00:53:29,639 --> 00:53:34,440
like you guys, was this thing with she Maria, Like,

799
00:53:35,519 --> 00:53:37,760
is this gonna have like a bunch of advantages to

800
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:44,519
it even though it's awful. I don't know, like, is

801
00:53:44,559 --> 00:53:51,159
this is this something horrible that's being allowed because it's

802
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,280
gonna help him in a weird way in the end,

803
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,920
even though it's awful. Like, ah, I don't know, I

804
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,159
don't know. I just get so so suspicious of things

805
00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:06,440
being too good. And I had been wondering whether or

806
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,519
not Carl would be able to call to mind exactly

807
00:54:09,559 --> 00:54:13,079
how she made these, and he isn't able to off hand,

808
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,480
you know. He just says, like she only combined I

809
00:54:15,519 --> 00:54:18,599
think three, but I can't remember specifically. If I go

810
00:54:18,679 --> 00:54:21,920
into my inventory to look, maybe I can figure it out.

811
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:28,800
And yeah, let's see, there's healed pet potion Carl put

812
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,480
on the ground before the vinegar Goddess Lady got her

813
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:36,679
head off and now it's super sparkly, and says, revitalize pet.

814
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,519
This was purple and looked as if someone had dumped

815
00:54:41,519 --> 00:54:44,639
half a jar of glitter into it. And he says,

816
00:54:44,679 --> 00:54:47,239
I can figure out the recipe with my new table.

817
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,000
So let me look at it and I'll have his

818
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:52,199
wing back in a boot an hour or so. I

819
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:56,119
have to imagine that Mattenman put about in practically every

820
00:54:56,159 --> 00:55:00,519
paragraph of text that Mordecai says, right, you can't just

821
00:55:00,599 --> 00:55:03,559
not do that. You got to. It has to be

822
00:55:03,639 --> 00:55:10,480
the thing. So ooh sorry, Monica says, my son just

823
00:55:10,519 --> 00:55:12,800
finished an online class with a French Canadian teacher, and

824
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,159
she does say a in a boot once in a while.

825
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:20,400
Jeff says, it mixes chemical solutions very fast. Ah okay.

826
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,800
Michael says, it was interesting to me how Karl referred

827
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:25,639
to the actions that happened with she Maria as the

828
00:55:25,679 --> 00:55:28,239
stuff that he did. It had to feel to him

829
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,360
like he was doing the things even though intellectually he

830
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,639
knew he held no he had no control. Super traumatizing

831
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:38,039
given what happened, absolutely and like, not only from his

832
00:55:38,119 --> 00:55:40,400
point of view, but I would imagine that you can't

833
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,360
help but excuse me, guys, I would imagine that you

834
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,239
can't help, but think of it as like everybody else

835
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:52,119
saw me do it, so to them, I did it,

836
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,599
even if I know that I couldn't control myself at

837
00:55:54,599 --> 00:56:00,960
the time. It's just the easiest way to think about it,

838
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:06,239
I think, you know, easy in a certain sense, not

839
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:14,159
all so anyway. Mordecai then uh looks at this other

840
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,719
manner refill potion and it's called Manna blessing, and he's

841
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:24,760
just like, holy shit, this is incredible. I'll be right back.

842
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,039
And there comes a point later where she's like, I

843
00:56:27,039 --> 00:56:29,639
think he likes the potions more than us, and I

844
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,400
was like, I think you're probably like kind of close

845
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:36,400
to right. I think that he is getting a lot

846
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:39,159
of knowledge and stuff for the first time in a while.

847
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:43,119
I'm guessing that like, up until this point it's been

848
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,039
very much business as usual with whatever knowledge he has

849
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:50,920
managed to gather, and that he is suddenly happening upon

850
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:56,079
a bunch of combinations and possibilities that he hasn't seen

851
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,280
after doing this for so long, and it must be

852
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,840
really exciting to fight only have something new, you know

853
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:09,400
what I mean. So he gets achievements. Lord of the

854
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,880
flies a gold I have the conch box. Demons hate

855
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:19,719
this one trick, unlimited supply of pea soup chicken shit exploit.

856
00:57:21,159 --> 00:57:26,519
You have received a platinum surrenderl gore box that that

857
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:31,360
uh huh very interested, and then an achievement for getting

858
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:38,320
celestial loot. You received a lute punch card used pet

859
00:57:38,519 --> 00:57:41,079
and this we still have not dealt with by the

860
00:57:41,079 --> 00:57:44,320
time these chapters end. But we are going to have

861
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,480
to deal with our tummy acre friend, and I am

862
00:57:47,559 --> 00:57:51,840
extremely interested. There's a whole thing with used Pet about

863
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:55,440
people who like rescue dogs and then just leave them

864
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,519
in a crate all day. And look, guys, I recognize

865
00:57:58,519 --> 00:58:00,239
that we all have to do what we have to

866
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,239
do in terms of like the way our lives are

867
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:07,519
set up, and that dogs really can often just kind

868
00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:11,000
of sleep in one place for fifteen fucking hours in

869
00:58:11,079 --> 00:58:14,400
a day. But I just it's never sat right with

870
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,800
me creating a dog while you're like at work. I

871
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,400
just hate the idea. And I had so many people

872
00:58:20,519 --> 00:58:23,760
encouraging me to create train Pippin, and I took it

873
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,679
very seriously initially, and that dog would not go in

874
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,719
that creak from when he was a tiny puppy. I

875
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,760
put the most high value treats in there. I did

876
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:39,639
everything to like make it cozy and smell good and

877
00:58:39,679 --> 00:58:44,840
feel safe, and it just he absolutely would not fucking

878
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:48,159
do it. And so it wound up that I just

879
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:50,400
wasn't going to, you know, And since then I have

880
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,800
come to the conclusion like, yeah, I just I just

881
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:56,159
don't want to do that. I don't like it. And

882
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,679
I see animals in my neighborhood that are like, they're

883
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,519
young dogs, they're never indoors, and I don't understand what's

884
00:59:03,519 --> 00:59:05,639
the point of like having a pet that you don't

885
00:59:05,679 --> 00:59:11,239
want in your house with you, Like it's it's I

886
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:16,079
just don't understand. Anyway, the AI goes on a bit

887
00:59:16,079 --> 00:59:21,400
of a rant here, which I definitely sympathize with right

888
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:25,840
up until the especially when said pets are fucking delicious

889
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:28,639
or really squishable, and I was like, ah, and there

890
00:59:28,679 --> 00:59:34,719
you are, there you are, AI. But yeah, it's obvious

891
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,400
that the AI is speaking from a certain perspective here.

892
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:45,360
And let's see, Uh, I'm trying to go through all

893
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:50,000
of these and not like read every single thing. Oh right,

894
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,239
crab chowder, you jerked off a crab, all food items

895
00:59:53,239 --> 00:59:55,079
in your food boxes now have the option to be

896
00:59:55,159 --> 00:59:58,960
served chowder style, which is so odd because it's like,

897
00:59:59,039 --> 01:00:01,400
it's not even that this is for everybody else to

898
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:05,440
humiliate Carl. Nobody else sees this just Carl. I'm assuming.

899
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:09,039
Maybe I'm wrong about that, but it's just the AI

900
01:00:09,159 --> 01:00:12,000
fucking like messing with him for the fun which I

901
01:00:12,039 --> 01:00:18,000
can't help but kind of enjoy and new achievement unbirthing.

902
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:23,000
And this one is very sexual and I do not

903
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,800
want to talk about it. But he does get a

904
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:31,119
legendary spicy box, which we shall see because he doesn't

905
01:00:31,159 --> 01:00:36,280
open these while we are in this chapter. He also

906
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,800
gets an update from Embras, who is like, yeah, so

907
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,519
I've decided that I'm going to go ahead and make

908
01:00:42,559 --> 01:00:46,719
this deal with Amion. We have a truce. I do

909
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:48,360
not wish to break it, but I will do what

910
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:52,079
is necessary to learn the truth. There is a way

911
01:00:52,079 --> 01:00:54,480
for me to do this without causing a war. Proceed

912
01:00:54,559 --> 01:00:59,480
to the temple of Istak in a club. Vanquisher, you

913
01:00:59,559 --> 01:01:02,320
need to the soul Crystal Epito, you are doing well.

914
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,000
Do not disappoint me now. And it said at least

915
01:01:05,039 --> 01:01:07,880
he didn't task me with killing the three brothers myself,

916
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,519
and I was just like Carl, it's early days, baby.

917
01:01:11,199 --> 01:01:12,679
I don't know how to tell you this. But just

918
01:01:12,679 --> 01:01:14,800
because he hasn't done it doesn't mean he's not gonna

919
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:19,599
do it, like come on right, like it just it's coming.

920
01:01:19,639 --> 01:01:28,719
It's coming. So chapter three, uh, Mordecai comes back out

921
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:34,400
while she's opening the Platinum boxes, a standard shield spell.

922
01:01:35,079 --> 01:01:37,760
The next box was the same Platinum Surrender Gore box

923
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:42,440
I had shaped like a jeweled sitting life sized German shepherd,

924
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:49,679
a war protection spell called Sentry and let's see. The

925
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,920
legendary box was from the Hell Comes to Crawler Town

926
01:01:53,039 --> 01:01:58,280
Quest and it's a book that's got purple smoke coming

927
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:03,000
off it. And Mordecai I kind of is a little spooked,

928
01:02:03,599 --> 01:02:06,679
and he says it's similar to Donuts Second Chance, but

929
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:11,719
a lot more insidious. It's called You're Not Done Yet.

930
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,840
And Carl says, I'd heard that spell name before, but

931
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:20,119
I couldn't remember where. And I can't either, and I

932
01:02:20,159 --> 01:02:23,719
don't remind me. Guys, don't remind if you remembered when

933
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:26,760
you were reading. I will want to hear about that later,

934
01:02:27,559 --> 01:02:31,719
but I can't remember it. All I remember is like

935
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:37,800
basically somebody being almost undead and being forced to keep

936
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:46,719
fighting or something in a certain moment. But yeah, it's uh.

937
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,400
This indicates to me that like the cockroach skill isn't

938
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:54,519
going to be enough, which is extremely upsetting. And then

939
01:02:54,559 --> 01:03:01,559
we get this friggin' benefactor box. This is wild. So

940
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:07,960
it has this amazing presentation and then there's this incredible

941
01:03:08,119 --> 01:03:11,960
tiara on this pillow, and it turns out that the

942
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:13,760
pillow is part of it, because I thought it was

943
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,280
just this great presentation, But the pillow is the charging

944
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:25,079
device for the tiara, and basically what it does is

945
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:29,719
it takes the abilities from other hats and puts them

946
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:33,559
into the tiara. And for each hat that you do

947
01:03:33,719 --> 01:03:37,320
this to one of the absorption crystals on the tir,

948
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:41,159
there ninety nine of them will be used up. So

949
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,960
you have to be careful with the kinds of abilities

950
01:03:44,039 --> 01:03:47,880
you use. But this will make the tiara an item

951
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,280
that will be likely one of the most valuable powerful

952
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:56,960
things in the entire dungeon. Like ever, this is bonkers.

953
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,360
This is next level, and the fact that it's a tiara,

954
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:06,280
I am absolutely here for all of this. It's described

955
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:11,000
as like parlessent and red I think it's I think

956
01:04:11,039 --> 01:04:13,519
it's red, right, I'm trying to find the spot here

957
01:04:13,559 --> 01:04:17,800
where a red fluffy pillow with a glittering, shiny opal

958
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:21,960
lessent Tiara, Okay, so it's red. Is the cushion I'm

959
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:37,639
trying to see? Is my hold on you? Guys? I

960
01:04:37,679 --> 01:04:43,159
think that, uh, this probably counts as opal lessent, right,

961
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,480
It's not that kind of that thing going on there.

962
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:51,960
So this is my new I'm with the Princess Posse

963
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:59,239
fan where this is me at crawl Con. This is

964
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:04,360
what I would wear. So I'm very happy for you, Donut.

965
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:07,599
This is ideal. It's got a nice sort of neutral look,

966
01:05:07,679 --> 01:05:11,679
so it can go with any outfit. Incredibly useful, and

967
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:16,079
I am just absolutely so happy for her. I'm very

968
01:05:16,079 --> 01:05:19,880
here for all of this. And then there's a second

969
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:24,679
cushion which allows them to transfer from two hats at

970
01:05:24,719 --> 01:05:28,480
a time, which like this shit was already bananas, and

971
01:05:28,599 --> 01:05:30,960
to be able to do two at a time, And

972
01:05:31,039 --> 01:05:34,920
there's even the mention of like they're magnetized so that

973
01:05:35,119 --> 01:05:39,079
the cleaning bot can't just knock the hat off and

974
01:05:39,119 --> 01:05:43,960
make it so that they don't because if it gets removed,

975
01:05:44,199 --> 01:05:48,559
the hat is still deep powered but it doesn't get

976
01:05:48,559 --> 01:05:52,639
transferred to the tiara, so you really have to like

977
01:05:52,679 --> 01:05:55,280
commit and it takes a while. I think it says

978
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:59,840
something like fifteen hours or something like that, trying to

979
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:11,239
the specific explanation here, let's see ten hours. That's it.

980
01:06:12,559 --> 01:06:15,159
These properties will be stored in the pillow until the

981
01:06:15,159 --> 01:06:17,599
tiara is placed upon the charger, upon which time all

982
01:06:17,639 --> 01:06:21,000
of the buffs and magical enhancements will be instantly transferred

983
01:06:21,039 --> 01:06:25,000
to the tiara. If a hat item contains five separate buffs,

984
01:06:25,199 --> 01:06:27,760
it will use up five of the ninety nine jewels.

985
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,239
With some careful planning, one can turn this tiara into

986
01:06:30,239 --> 01:06:33,079
one of the most powerful items in the history of

987
01:06:33,199 --> 01:06:38,119
dungeon crawler world. Okay, here come the warnings. Temporary effects

988
01:06:38,159 --> 01:06:42,559
will remain temporary and upon expiration, will burn out the

989
01:06:42,639 --> 01:06:47,559
absorption jewel, which is really important. Items with curse effects

990
01:06:47,599 --> 01:06:50,360
may or may not transfer to the tiara, depending on

991
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:54,400
multiple factors, so be wary as such. Curse effects may

992
01:06:54,519 --> 01:06:56,559
or may not be removed from items that have been

993
01:06:56,639 --> 01:07:00,800
drained of their magical properties. Certain celestial god blessed hat

994
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,719
items may or may not be properly drained or transferred.

995
01:07:04,039 --> 01:07:07,639
Items carrying a debt cannot be absorbed into the pillow.

996
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,920
This is a big one. Hat items placed on the

997
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,480
pillow take ten hours to fully transfer. However, if you

998
01:07:13,519 --> 01:07:15,800
remove the item after one hour, it will still lose

999
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:20,679
its magical abilities. So yeah, Dona, of course, it's just like,

1000
01:07:20,719 --> 01:07:23,440
oh my god, this is not only amazing because now

1001
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,880
I can get the abilities from all these hats I've collected,

1002
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:29,440
but also I still get to keep the hat. It

1003
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:33,079
doesn't destroy the hat, so I still get to keep

1004
01:07:33,079 --> 01:07:37,320
my hat collection, which is honestly a great bonus. And

1005
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:43,400
I agree fully. And then a goal of Platinum Benefactor

1006
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:51,400
box from the Apothecary, which brings another charging pillow. This

1007
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,199
will drain any magical item, but it will only transfer

1008
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:57,079
to a like item. If you drain a ring, the

1009
01:07:57,119 --> 01:07:59,960
store buff will only be transferred to an absorption crystal

1010
01:08:00,079 --> 01:08:02,039
fixed to a ring. If you attempt to transfer to

1011
01:08:02,079 --> 01:08:07,480
an incompatible item, the buff will be lost, which is huge.

1012
01:08:07,639 --> 01:08:09,719
And I don't think that this is restricted to just

1013
01:08:10,039 --> 01:08:14,679
her use. I think that Carl could probably use these

1014
01:08:14,719 --> 01:08:18,880
items as well. Well. The Tiara one no, but this one, yes,

1015
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:23,319
I would think. So. At this point, we have Mango

1016
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:27,239
actually noticing that his wing is injured, and Doughnut being like, okay,

1017
01:08:27,239 --> 01:08:29,239
can we use that potion now because he's starting to

1018
01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:34,960
freak out. Uncle Carl is going to give you your medicine.

1019
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,760
You'll have to drink every drop. Be gentle, Carl. I

1020
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,319
picked up the sparkling potion, walked over to Mongo, and

1021
01:08:40,399 --> 01:08:43,079
I smashed the vial on his butt at the base

1022
01:08:43,119 --> 01:08:47,760
of his tail. And I really appreciated this. I am

1023
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:51,199
so precious about things that like, honestly, it really is

1024
01:08:51,279 --> 01:08:53,279
best to do it this way. When I worked on

1025
01:08:53,319 --> 01:08:56,039
that goat farm, I had to occasionally inject the goats

1026
01:08:56,079 --> 01:09:01,399
with an antibiotic, and I never stuck them hard enough

1027
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:04,000
the first try, because goats have very thick skin, so

1028
01:09:04,039 --> 01:09:06,319
they just sort of hop like they'd been bitten by

1029
01:09:06,319 --> 01:09:09,000
a fly. And then I'd have to do it again.

1030
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,359
And the guy teaching me was like, you have got

1031
01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:14,920
to just fucking clench your teeth and do it, dude,

1032
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:16,840
because you're just making it worse for everybody. And I

1033
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:25,960
was like, I know. So let's see. When we'd first

1034
01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:29,359
watched Kwan where his magical celestial tiered cloak, we'd seen

1035
01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:32,479
he'd had several new abilities right away, and we automatically

1036
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:35,159
assumed the powers were simply what the cloak gave him,

1037
01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:40,760
and we get a description here about how this cloak

1038
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,520
is meant to show you who's the weakest in a group,

1039
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:46,680
so that you know who to heal, that this is

1040
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:49,800
meant to make you like somebody who helps people, and

1041
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:56,199
that Kwan used it to do evil basically, and Donut

1042
01:09:56,279 --> 01:10:01,680
has a really insightful moment of like, do you think

1043
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:06,239
that this AI is making Quan sound worse by using

1044
01:10:06,279 --> 01:10:11,600
the description like framing it all this way, which, in

1045
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,159
the end, Carl is like, you know, it really doesn't

1046
01:10:14,159 --> 01:10:18,039
matter the way the AI frames it. It might be

1047
01:10:18,079 --> 01:10:19,920
trying to make him look worse, but we know what

1048
01:10:20,039 --> 01:10:22,479
Quan did and how many player killer skulls he had,

1049
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:28,359
and like that is just objectively, he became a terrible person,

1050
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:32,399
so regardless of the AI trying to spin shit, the

1051
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:36,560
facts are the facts, which yeah, fair, But I do

1052
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:40,720
like the fact that Doughnut clocks the AI trying to

1053
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:45,880
make him sound even worse than he is. So I'm

1054
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,640
gonna stop here because I'm fifteen minutes over, so I

1055
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:51,000
really do and I will finish the rest of this

1056
01:10:51,079 --> 01:10:56,880
section with the next one, and yeah, I'm just I

1057
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:59,520
want to spend a little bit more time talking about

1058
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:02,039
some of the line things in this section. And also

1059
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,520
I'm really excited to see what Carl got in his

1060
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:08,840
boxes because those aren't in this chapter. So all right, guys,

1061
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:11,800
thank you again so much for hanging out. Appreciate you,

1062
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:44,800
and until next time to THELU motherfuckers. That was an

1063
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:47,720
Unspoiled Network podcast.