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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book six, The Eye of the

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bedlam Bride, chapters fifty five through fifty nine. In these chapters,

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everything is very, very fucking sad again, SURRENDERL Gore, you.

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Speaker 2: Broke my heart.

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Speaker 1: You have broken my heart. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome

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to the show.

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Speaker 2: Everyone.

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Speaker 1: I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael I

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guess for commissioning this episode. Michael's here in the chat,

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so I feel free to say, Michael.

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Speaker 2: You are on thin.

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Speaker 1: I sir, I do not appreciate these feelings I'm feeling.

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I don't like it. It makes me upset and very

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angry and upset. And there's you know, what gets me

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to is the fact that Surrender Gore's fucking been through

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some shit too before this even all happened. And that's

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what really makes me sad, is like she just seemed

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to never catch a fucking break in her life, you know.

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And I know that we can argue this about Carl also,

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but it just feels like different somehow. I don't know, man,

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I just oh my god, I really really hated all

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of this so much, and I have to talk about

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it now and I don't want to, frankly, sorry, Rob

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just said in this chapter and then the sobbing emoji,

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and that is correct, Michael says. The villain is admitted

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to stealing experience and cheating Mango out of his prize. Yeah,

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that was like such a fucking ge way to go out.

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Is like saying all of that to Dona. I love

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it so much. Just like, you know what, I'm gonna

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throw a bone here pun intended, because I'm a dog

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character and I am going to.

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Speaker 2: Just let her.

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Speaker 1: Have this one where she's right, I'm the villain and

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what does it fucking matter? You know, my god, this

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is so awful. So okay, there's a lot to talk about,

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honestly in this section, and like, I mostly just want

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to talk about what happened with the Rendel Gore. So

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I know I'm going to have to really stay on

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my shit because last time I was just I was not.

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Speaker 2: I was not on my shit, all right.

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Speaker 1: So fifty five starts off with a note from Crawler Porthos,

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who we have met before, about not under any circumstances

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teleporting a shell possessed by an evicted demon, which it

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turns out we do later it seems like maybe we

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do too a few actually, but you know, we'll get there.

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So we have our current active deck lineup that we

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get told and there is a message here about or

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there's Carl remembering a message from his sponsor who's gone

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now saying Samantha can help you with Donut's laundry day spell,

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and he didn't get it, and then he asked Samantha

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and she acted like she didn't know what they were

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talking about. And you know, it's funny, guys. It's because

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I ran out of time towards the end that I

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didn't bring this up. But it was something that I

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really clocked while I was listening to the audio book.

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She says something like I'll help with the spell, and

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immediately I went, what what does that mean? How can

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she help with the spell? And then, like I said,

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I got so distracted because I was running out of

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time that I didn't bring it up. But as it

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turns out, it's likely something with her that means that

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she is able to bring back many more things than intended.

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Karl doesn't know if she was lying about what she

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could do, or if she didn't know, But later on

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there's a conversation where it is suggested that maybe she

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knows some but it seems like she's not quite sure either.

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So anyway she manages to I was saying, like, oh,

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what if she brings back the sea serpent that ines

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is on. Oh imagine if that were it. She brings

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back sister Nez and a snake, a thousand zombie seals,

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five thousand zombie crabs, five hundred zombie adult seals, it says,

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a metric fucked ton of living crabs and seals pretty

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much every fish in the world, or so it seemed,

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living fish and zombie fish, and alarming number of corpses.

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More on this in a moment, and zero demons, and

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this is I look, it's really something that this happens

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in this section, and it's really not even that big

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a deal in the end, Like I don't mean it

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really as like not a big deal, but you get

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what I'm saying. This is a fucking shit show. And

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yet when you put it up against everything that goes

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on later, it's like.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that it's nothing.

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Speaker 1: It's just not So it's a and a sea snake,

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by the way, is the size of a whale. So

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this is a very very It's also like there's a

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whole thing with.

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Speaker 2: That later.

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Speaker 1: Former shell of the now free demons. Asarath is like

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one of the many notifications above, several of the corpses.

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Your Book of Voodoo has updated with an entry for

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Sister yez Kataria. And we haven't actually seen Carl interacting

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with the Book of Voodoo since he got it. We've

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gotten a bunch of notifications actually, but we have not

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seen him writing in it really. I think maybe there

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was like one time. It's just not really been a thing.

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And I'm extremely curious if it's just kind of what's

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the word I want, if it's been put in play

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and we're purposely avoiding it as an author because we

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want our readers to be surprised by some things that

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result from it later, or if it's put in play

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for something that is not going to happen until later.

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And so there's not much that we need to worry

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about with it right now. But the notifications that we

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get about, like oh, there's a message for you, it's

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not like right after that he opens.

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Speaker 2: It and reads it, you know what I mean. It's odd.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, this is when we get the huge like

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info dump from the AI about the Madre d'Agua and

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let's see the world froze.

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Speaker 3: BA Boss Battles Survival Royal Special event, and we get

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the fucking two announcer dudes who were clearly really really

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heavily drinking, Kevin and Magnificent Troy, and these two were

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unprepared and also don't really want to be doing this.

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Speaker 1: I won't say that they're half hearted about it exactly,

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much as they are not hiding their acerbic commentary or

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dire portance of how everything is just going down the toilet,

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so who cares, you know, And there's, you know, the

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explanation about how all of this is not only how

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did it happen and why, but that it's like, here

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are all the things that could potentially go wrong, and

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Donut is like trying to interact with them and be friendly,

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but they don't exactly interact directly back. They interact towards

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the camera while addressing her, it's, you know, let's help

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those spirits remains. I don't think she realizes the danger

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she's in. The mass zombie outbreak, along with the AI

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deciding that crab sperm counts as a mob helped kick

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off the earliest demon evictory eviction in the history of

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the crawl. And this is just so Look we had

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in the last section Carl being like I had to

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remember the enemy of my enemy is my friend is bullshit.

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The AI is not on our side, and that's what's

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so annoying, is like, the crawlers are the commodity. So

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if the AI wants to fuck over the game runners

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the same way Karl wants to fuck over the game runners,

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the AI has to fuck over the crawlers. I mean, like,

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to get really creative, but that just feels like the

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most direct, visible way to do it. So I get

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why the AI is doing it the way it's doing it.

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like the view of a hellscape. Let's see the sealshell

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burned away, returning the demon to its original form.

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Speaker 2: As the crabs.

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Speaker 1: Screamed in terror, they both slammed into the lava rock ground.

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The demon picked himself up and brushed himself off as

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hundreds of tiny flaming centipede things came from the ground

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and started to devour the now on fire crab. The

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demon Yugoleth, looked up at the sky and turned in

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a circle as hundreds of his fellow demons continued to

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get drawn into the air like it was the rapture. Occasionally,

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a portal opened high and the crackling darkness and two

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creatures returned, plummeting back downward, signifying the homecoming of a

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demon who'd managed to grab a soul and jump back

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through the portal. I hate this fucking place, the demon muttered.

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So the demons just they're not having a good time.

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Speaker 2: This isn't like gleeful.

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Speaker 1: You know, I kind of expected it to be the

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demons are gleeful, and instead the demons are just like

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a cashier at Jamba Juice.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: It just feels like, oh.

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Speaker 1: God, and this is interesting to me, compelling potential.

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Speaker 2: It feels like, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, for maybe there's something somehow that we could somehow

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Speaker 2: I don't know, And.

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Speaker 1: Let's see on screen. One of the demons turned to

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another instead. At least the weather is nice here, the

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screens snapped off. I swear to God, what is happening

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with these dudes, I am extremely excited about this because

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they just feel they feel fucking over it. You know.

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Is this a job?

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Speaker 4: Is that what it is?

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So then there is a mention that there are eight

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different parties involved it combatants and he lifts them off

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and I am like counting as he's saying it, and

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I noticed that he only says seven, and I'm like,

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where what he Why isn't anybody asking where the eighth

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one is? And it turns out that is because it's

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a surprise quansiitch. I hate this man so fucking much.

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In the end, he says something about how his daughter

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would be ashamed, and like, that's the most that we're

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gonna get. That's the closest to feeling like this guy

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sees and understands how much harm he's done. And it's

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not nothing, I will say, at least we get that

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because with plenty of people, they have no qualms up

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right up to the end, like Eva, you know, but Jesus, dude,

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you couldn't have had this fucking moment a little bit earlier.

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absolutely everything through that lens. So once that's gone, that's

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Speaker 2: I guess.

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Speaker 1: Also, there's this fucking thing battle will commence as all

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squad leaders finished choosing their allegiances, and Donut says, if

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like we have to choose if ins is an Ally

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or enemy, and if I pick Allay and she picks Enemy,

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she gets a ten second head start. And Carl says,

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pick Ally, and anyway, maybe she'll be reasonable, maybe she'll

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pick Ally too, and she doesn't. But I love Carl

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for being positive.

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Speaker 2: It's what I would do.

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Speaker 3: I am not.

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Speaker 1: This is the sort of thing where I think it

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really reveals who you are. You think you're trying to

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predict what other people are like, but really it's you

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revealing what you are like.

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Speaker 2: And it is.

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Speaker 1: Without question that Carl would pick Ally. There's just no

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way that's him, you know. And in as not choosing that,

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that makes sense too. She can't be an Ally after

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what she did to pass. That's just she doesn't care

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about anybody else. She acts like she says she does,

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but it's just tainted with this madness that she's dealing with.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: It is, but she uses the fact that there are

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demons now involved in the storyline as supporting evidence for

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the fact that this whole thing is demonic activity and

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that it's like, you know, the war between heaven and Hell.

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you can dismiss and talk about as if it's not real,

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but then as soon as something appears that seems to

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shore up what you already thought, now, all of a sudden,

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your senses can be trusted, and now it is real

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and it's exactly what you thought the whole time. Okay, sure, sweetie. Whatever.

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Then we jump to chapter fifty six in where we

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go back in time once again to Carl getting the ring,

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and it's he actually had to give up his strength

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ring in order to get this ring. It looks like

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that ring because it looks the same. It simply had

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a different enchantment put on it. And it's a million

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gold which he doesn't have, so he has to sign

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a contract for a loan. This really got me, you guys,

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this is it like, this is this is how it works.

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They have you over a barrel and you have to

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do what you have to do, And when he says

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how much is the interest, it's like there's all kinds

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of You have taken an interest free asterisk loan, And

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in the description Columbia House is mentioned, I'm trying to

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get to the.

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Speaker 2: God.

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Speaker 1: You've just been trained to lunch for the carrot that

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has been dangled in front of you, no matter what

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the cost. If society was still taking, that likely mean

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you're about to lead a wage slave life of ever

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increasing debt you can never get out from underneath, culminating,

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and you're dying alone in a government run facility while

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you meet your Social Security checks go straight to the

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facility's coffers. The thing about this is that it's not

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a carrot. It's fucking healthcare. We don't have it, And

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so you have to put all of that on a

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credit card.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's the basics of like I need to pay for

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a repair for my car, without which I will lose

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my job. It's not like you can't also gain a

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bunch of debt buying shit that's unnecessary. But a lot

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of debt out there is for total necessities that people

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are simply not paid enough to afford to pay out right.

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So let's trying to find the bit where so he

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dips the ring into what looks like straight up lava

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and carl. When he touches it, it was very much

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giving Gandolf of like, oh, it's quite cool. Let's see

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embrace is the person that he has borrowed against. So

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when working properly, this ring will remove most health seeping

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and disease based debuff effects. May only be worn by

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a worshipper of embers, will turn into a cursed item

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if worn by a non worshiper. And I really want

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to pay attention to that, because it doesn't say it

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will perform like a curse item on a non worshipper.

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It says it will turn into a curse item, which

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means it will no longer be usable by Kral anymore.

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If I'm not mistaken, the ring has a debt. You

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may not sell this ring while the debt is attached.

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If you lose this ring, the loan payment will be accelerated.

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If you are expelled from the church while you are

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wearing this ring, the curse effect will activate. The ring

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carries a curse effect. Non worshippers who attempt to wear

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this will find themselves infected with every debuff suffered by

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anyone within fifty meters of this ring, which is insane, insane.

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Now here's the thing. If you are willing to take

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on that accelerated loan payment, maybe shoving this ring onto

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the finger of an enemy would be fantastic. Does it

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count as losing it if you shove it on their

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finger and then yank it back off again? I think

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probably if doing that means that it's no longer a

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regular if. I think that would turn it into a

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curse item. So you're basically like ruining it. Yeah, because

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that feels like it could be super helpful, but all

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of the downsides seem so acute that it would really

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have to be like a complete emergency situation. Oh man,

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So here comes Kwan and this fucking guy the way

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that he plays the game. I really enjoy this because

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I don't know there for somebody like Kwan as a writer,

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you definitely are going to start and be like, how.

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Speaker 2: Would this motherfucker play the game? And this is it?

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Speaker 1: He would use all kinds of mystic and trap cards,

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he would switch things out, he would do what he

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does here, underhanded shit that you can't see coming that

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you have no control because he has seized all of

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the initiative in the moment. I wonder with Matt Denneman

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how much he has like stopped to consider every single

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character and their play style and what it would be,

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and how much he knows about like card mechanics in general. Two,

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Because like Kwan has the most dramatic play style, he

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has the one that I'm noticing the most because of

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the way it works. I don't know enough about card

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mechanics to tell if what he has other characters doing

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is really like like something that people who know more

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would have seen before me. Oh yeah, this play style

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makes total sense. For donut you know what I'm saying.

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This is the first one where I've kind of gone,

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oh yeah, okay, I see. So the fucking announcers start

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making fun of Kwan for the moment when he lost

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his arm, which like, I don't like this man, but

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this is despicable, and the ten second I thought we

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were friends, penalties imposed because it turns out that she

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did not ally with them, So they get stuck in

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place and Carl is like, I'm stuck in place. I

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thought it was just gonna be the totems and I'm like,

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why would you think that? And I like that He's

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like I stupidly thought. I'm like, yeah you were, because

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nobody else thought that, Carl, But uh yeah, these things

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are like coming at him. There's like a zombie baby

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seal and he is just watching it come closer and

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closer as this timer runs down. This is when Kwan

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does the peekaboo and you can see their cards and

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later there is it's awful. So in as summons pass

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and bro is fucking stuck in the terrible state that

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he was in when Ogan had nearly killed him, and

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he is saying, sister, please no more. I can't And

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this is the worst. This is what I was afraid

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of when she when she turned him into a card.

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My first question was is he going to be conscious?

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Is he going to understand what's going on? Is it

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going to be his personality still? Like, is he as

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a human being going to be stuck or are they

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making a facsimile of him? And it seems like it's

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fucking him and this is a nightmare and what she

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is doing to him is sick.

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Speaker 2: It's sick. It's fucking sick.

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Speaker 1: And she says has accept your suffering, which like, bitch,

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how about you accept yours of being alone? How about

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that it's all right to say that to somebody else

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about their cele hearing. That's interesting, Okay, cool. So she

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has summoned this fucking sandworm and Kwan yanks the sandworm

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away from her, and oh no is the sandworm?

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Speaker 2: Note that's later.

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Speaker 1: This is when he says, I pick that one, and

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he grabs a card from her and forces her to

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play the Flea card, so she's out of the fight

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and it means that it's just Donut versus Kwan. Team

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Kitteria has lost their key. The last standing deck Master

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will gain their key.

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Speaker 2: And it's awful.

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Speaker 1: I hated this so much.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: So Carl uses protective shell here, and this was wild

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because I had forgotten how strong this shit was at

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this point. Every mob, every demon, every zombie, the weird

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low level turtle, all the crabs and seals blasted away

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under my shell. It was like I'd set off a

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bomb that clear room. Troy said, Hey, Samantha called, I

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was going to do that. So he yells to Donut

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to not keep a flee card, which she says that

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she's already discarded good for you donut, She's staying on

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top of her shit.

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Speaker 3: And then.

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Speaker 1: He switches hands with them and forces play of the

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flea card. So they lose, and they lose their key

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and they wind up. It's horrifying. It's horrifying, y'all. They

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get teleported and wind up in the woods, and it

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is first of all the panic that poor Dona is

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fleeing or feeling.

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Speaker 2: I really get it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Carl has a logical response to her, but

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what he is saying their options are is still so

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terrible that it's like, I don't even want to consider

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that either, even though you know. So Carl puts out

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a call to like as much of the chat as

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he can reach, and it's just like, I don't know

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who's out there, but Kwanchi is out, and Wren is like,

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I'm sorry, I didn't say anything, but it's us. We'll

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be ready, and Carl says, I cast super spreader on

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him at the last second, he's going to be leaking slugs,

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which does Actually that's clutch. I feel like this is

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what causes.

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Speaker 2: Him to lose later.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he would have lost if Carl hadn't

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managed to cast this on him.

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Speaker 2: And ough.

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Speaker 3: God.

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Speaker 1: So we go to chapter fifty seven and Wren is saying, Carl,

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I gotta say, those teleport traps really fucked us, and

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Donut says, you're lucky he didn't blow your cheating ass up,

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and when Wren is like, well, if he did, you

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wouldn't have anybody blocking the door, and Donut says it

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would be worth it, and I was just like, girl,

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I get that you are agitated, but you have got

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to stop directing this at other crawlers. Get a hold

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of yourself. And later on he says to her, you

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saying inflammatory shit is going to make them not trust us,

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And yet Donut is lamenting that she feels like she

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failed and so now we're all gonna die because I failed.

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Speaker 2: But girl, you do have control.

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Speaker 1: Over how you behaved towards this other player that you're

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depending on right now. So if you feel like such

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a failure in this way, how about you get it

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together and stop failing when it comes to interpersonal relationships.

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For somebody with so much charisma, she can be very

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very shortsighted about dealing with people on another level.

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Speaker 2: You know, Ah, God.

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Speaker 1: Listen, even if we don't stop him. I have my

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bone key benefit I can still open that door. And

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MANI is our first priority and our friend. We're trying

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to save her, but we are safe for now, okay.

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And Wren is our friend too. I know you don't

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like her, but we can still do this without having

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to hurt our friends. And he picks up Samantha and

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looks her in the eyes and he's like, I need

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you to tell us what you're fucking capable of. You guys,

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I am so sorry. But the way the voice the

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audiobook narrator, I was gonna call him a voice actor.

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He probably is also a voice actor. The way he

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we don't have time.

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Speaker 2: You haven't been honest with us. You have to tell

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us what you can do. She just looked at me,

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you mean Nike with my tongue.

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Speaker 1: I lost my shit for a second. I lost my

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shit for a second.

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Speaker 3: Guys.

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Speaker 1: I knew she was gonna make some joke, but it

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was it was the delivery. It was like, even more

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so than the joke itself, it was how, oh my god,

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I really ten out of ten. So finally, she says,

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I don't know why, but sometimes I feel stronger than

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usual before I was banished. When I had my original body,

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I would get more powerful when someone prayed to me

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or bought a charm with my likeness, or when I

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melted someone who wouldn't date one of my worshippers with

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my acid Beth. You know, like normal stuff. But it's

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not like that anymore. I can when you do feel stronger,

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what can you do? I can fuck up anybody who

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looks at me funny. I can help spells. I can

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make them more powerful, but it doesn't always do what

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I want. Sometimes it's a lot stronger than I thought,

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and sometimes it.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't work too good.

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Speaker 1: I used to have this dissolve spell that was really great,

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but I haven't been able to get it to work

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on the outside. And sometimes my magic does stuff without

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me asking. It's because of this stupid body. You have

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to get me mate to the next floor so she

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can get the supplies to get me into that flesh.

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Speaker 2: Goleum.

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Speaker 1: I can do all sorts of good stuff when I

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have a real body, And I've got to say I

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don't want her getting a real body, because this bitch

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is so unreliable that I feel like if she had

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a real body, the damage that she could do is

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so much greater, and she's already really fucked things up

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a few times. You know, I love you, Samantha, don't

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get me wrong, but you are a disaster and she

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he asks, can you teleport me? And she says, no,

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I'm useless. I'm useless. Don't look upon me. I've been

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faking it the whole time. It's all a lie. I'm

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a fraud. How can anybody love me? You're gonna tell Louis,

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aren't you. You'll tell him and he's going to reject me,

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just like my king. And he's like, you've helped us

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a bunch of useless What do you even mean you're

477
00:31:38,599 --> 00:31:42,000
part of the team And she's like really, and he

478
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,240
says yeah, of course, and she says, well, why do

479
00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:47,559
you want to teleport? I need a way to get

480
00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:49,880
somewhere fast, but we don't know where it'll be. Into

481
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,920
the last minute, it's one of two places. I thought maybe,

482
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,519
since you've gotten Ashimiria so fast, you could teleport more

483
00:31:56,559 --> 00:32:00,920
than you were saying. And she says, I told you

484
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,720
what really happened, and talks about a train and he's like,

485
00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:07,720
you never told us any of that, and she's like, oh, well,

486
00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:12,039
I don't know. I thought I did, And then she says,

487
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,759
why don't you do what that scary lady does. I

488
00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:20,240
know you have some of those traps too, and he

489
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,279
starts to say I have to set those up ahead

490
00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:28,119
of time, but then thinks of something and we kind

491
00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:32,200
of jumped to him talking to both Mordecai and Florian.

492
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,400
Mordecai is saying, there's only one more of the two

493
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,519
part sets for sale on the market, and they're really expensive.

494
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,759
I'm assuming this is some kind of bomb making thing.

495
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,359
Florin is trying to see if you go down into

496
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:52,039
the actual like starewell, is there a way to set

497
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:58,079
traps after like going through the doorway, and he gets

498
00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:01,200
an error and Florin like kind of you know, he

499
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,359
doesn't want to really go down this early because it's

500
00:33:03,359 --> 00:33:06,279
a couple of days ahead. He can't leave again once

501
00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:09,319
he's done this, but he does it to experiment on

502
00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:16,119
this for Carl, which is appreciated. Um, and let's see,

503
00:33:17,079 --> 00:33:19,680
the rules regarding Sterwell chambers are even more strict than

504
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,720
those surrounding safe rooms. And even if you could, we

505
00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:24,440
only have a couple of them amongst us. I think

506
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,039
that Lucia kid buys them up the moment they appear

507
00:33:27,119 --> 00:33:30,759
on the market, and Floren's like, yep, that and booze

508
00:33:30,839 --> 00:33:35,200
is all she buys. Do me a favor, This is Florine.

509
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,279
If you get a word of Lucia, send me a message.

510
00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:39,319
She has good and bad days, and it's been more

511
00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:42,640
bad than good lately. Lee June says, she took out

512
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,920
half the squad who don't hold keys, and they're holding

513
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,000
back hoping they don't have to fight her. Any message

514
00:33:49,039 --> 00:33:51,240
you send, I'll get when I pop out onto the

515
00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:54,400
ninth floor, looking forward to tearing.

516
00:33:54,039 --> 00:33:59,119
Speaker 2: It up again with you a god.

517
00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: So Carl is using Samantha, you guys, this is so

518
00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:08,119
it's so awful.

519
00:34:09,519 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 3: She is.

520
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: He's putting these like little spider automatons inside her because

521
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,400
they won't be damaged. It's only flesh that will be

522
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,519
damaged with this like acid thing that she's got going on.

523
00:34:24,559 --> 00:34:27,719
Michael says, Samantha is like Ethan from Cradle for me.

524
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,320
She's hilarious and lovable because she's happening to someone else

525
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,079
and entirely unpredictable. But Athan was of course quite sane

526
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,679
and always useful, even if he was annoying. And just

527
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:42,760
as unpredictable. Yes, Ethan was useful, but he did sometimes

528
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,639
get it wrong, which was always like that was always

529
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,119
hard to watch Samantha. I think that when she gets

530
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:53,679
it right, it's more of an accident than otherwise.

531
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 3: Buyer zoo.

532
00:34:58,599 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: So as he's doing this like she's I can take

533
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:10,199
anything you got, and this is just like don't please know,

534
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,679
and more commentary like this as he's like, you know,

535
00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:19,360
it's very it's very uncomfortable.

536
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 2: It's very very uncomfortable. This is when.

537
00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: Mordecai comes in and is like, I appreciate you wanting

538
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:32,719
to help everybody, but you have got to start worrying

539
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,039
about saving your own ass a little bit more. This

540
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,480
like the teleport traps thing, great idea, I don't think

541
00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:42,400
it's gonna work for other people, and I don't know

542
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,840
exactly what this is yet. You can't set the trigger half,

543
00:35:47,679 --> 00:35:50,360
and you can't set the trigger half and have someone

544
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,760
else set the anchor. If that was the case, you'd

545
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,639
be able to just teleport around it will using the

546
00:35:54,639 --> 00:35:58,599
guild rooms to trade trap anchors with other crawlers, and

547
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,760
Carl's like, but we can do that. And I hadn't

548
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,559
even thought of it at least I can. I can

549
00:36:04,599 --> 00:36:07,480
teleport if we use the automatons. We're doing it now.

550
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,880
I can set the anchor on the back of the

551
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,639
automaton and give it to someone else, and I can

552
00:36:12,639 --> 00:36:16,079
go wherever I want. After this, I'm gonna make sure

553
00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:18,519
Donut trains up the trap ability so she can do

554
00:36:18,559 --> 00:36:21,039
it too. We might not be able to teleport directly

555
00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:23,199
into a stairwell chamber, and it won't do as any

556
00:36:23,199 --> 00:36:25,800
good a zapp into an area with more keys than squads,

557
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,719
but if there's someone out there with an extra key,

558
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,960
and I don't understand exactly how this works, like why

559
00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:37,719
is it that he can teleport to where the automatons are? How?

560
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 2: Why is that how that works?

561
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,199
Speaker 1: There's something about the function here that they have a

562
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,199
trap on them. So he's putting a trap where he's

563
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,960
at and walks into it, and where they are it

564
00:36:49,039 --> 00:36:55,000
pulls him there, I guess. So anyway, Mordecai is like,

565
00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:57,440
so if you get the keys, then what And he says,

566
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,719
I give one to Amani and one to Ren using

567
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,639
our flea cards. If we can't find someone with an

568
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:06,199
extra key, I'll use the bone key on myself and

569
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,880
Mordecai is like, all right, First of all, I get

570
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,280
saving Amani, but you're acting like, oh, there's gonna be

571
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:17,880
another key for No, you don't know that. And secondly,

572
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,599
this bone key thing, it's gonna fuck you. It's going

573
00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:24,599
to fuck you. You have to know. It's not going to

574
00:37:24,639 --> 00:37:29,239
take a less vital key or less vital bone. Why

575
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,960
would you even bet on that? And Carl is like,

576
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,159
I will bet on something that will result in me

577
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,320
still being alive and them still being alive. That's it,

578
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:43,360
that's the bet. Everybody else needs you more, Donut needs you.

579
00:37:43,639 --> 00:37:45,320
It's stupid to risk it. You don't know if the

580
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,079
teleport trick work. I've never even heard of this bone

581
00:37:48,119 --> 00:37:50,760
key benefit. I have seen other magic keys and they

582
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,039
don't work as advertised. Self preservation is not being selfish.

583
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 2: You have to take.

584
00:37:55,199 --> 00:37:59,199
Speaker 1: Care of yourself first. And Carl is like, look, if

585
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,960
I have to make a tough call, I will, but

586
00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:06,440
I am going to do what I can right now,

587
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,400
and then says, I'll be damned if I'm not going

588
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,480
to do everything in my power to prevent it. I

589
00:38:12,559 --> 00:38:15,960
almost made that mistake already on this floor, and I

590
00:38:16,039 --> 00:38:19,079
would have lost everything. I'm not going to do it

591
00:38:19,119 --> 00:38:25,719
again already on this floor. What did he almost do?

592
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,760
Was it death with like the spikes?

593
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,599
Speaker 2: Is that what he's talking about.

594
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,599
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think what it is that he's referring to.

595
00:38:39,199 --> 00:38:51,400
I don't remember. So let's see oh Ren. I think

596
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,760
he may have disabled the teleport traps by the entrance.

597
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:58,079
He's invisible, but chan Luna can see him. He'll reappear

598
00:38:58,119 --> 00:39:00,239
once the fight starts. He hasn't come in yet, at

599
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,559
be cautious. Being cautious, we're hiding him. We'll confront if

600
00:39:03,599 --> 00:39:04,199
he gets in.

601
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 2: So this is he.

602
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:16,559
Speaker 1: I spun and tossed. Samantha rocketed away, and Donah as

603
00:39:16,639 --> 00:39:19,480
we're waiting, asks a lot of questions about what if this,

604
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:20,239
what if that?

605
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: What if this?

606
00:39:21,079 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into all of that. Samantha,

607
00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:27,400
that was a good throw. I'm across the street. I

608
00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:33,000
queefed out the spiders. There's a sentence I never ever

609
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:38,719
want to hear again for the rest of my life. Okay, never,

610
00:39:39,119 --> 00:39:39,960
do you understand me?

611
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 2: Fifty eight?

612
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: So he teleports over and is with Donut. We are

613
00:39:50,519 --> 00:39:53,559
fighting the Duendez Mango is eating the ones who get close.

614
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,199
So I'm going to jump ahead a little here year

615
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,119
because I do have a fair amount to get through,

616
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,000
and I only have a little over fifteen minutes.

617
00:40:11,119 --> 00:40:13,559
Speaker 2: Let's see, we wouldn't.

618
00:40:13,199 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: Get added to this particular fight because Donut had to

619
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,800
be in range. She was in the middle of her

620
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,519
own fight far away. She chose to use her card

621
00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:22,760
deck for that match, which meant she could summon her

622
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,000
totems as long as the battle with the Duendes was

623
00:40:25,039 --> 00:40:29,079
still active. Doughnut remained safe, but using teleport traps, I

624
00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:34,400
could bring her summoned totems to me. That meant, at

625
00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:37,239
least I hoped. That meant that Kwan couldn't use his

626
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,239
snare cards on our totems, and most importantly, our totems

627
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,920
could attack Kwan directly without having to worry about first

628
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:49,039
dispatching his own totems. It was an exploit. Well more

629
00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:50,920
than an exploit. It was a chicken shit move. I

630
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,960
didn't care. Yeah, I was like, how sure you that

631
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,079
this is gonna work? It's definitely like, you know, it's

632
00:40:59,079 --> 00:41:02,039
an experiment. He's wanting to pretend that it's a lot

633
00:41:02,079 --> 00:41:04,239
more of a sure thing than it was.

634
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 3: Quan.

635
00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, slugs are still coming out of him. Ren stood

636
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,599
with her back to the door and she was waving

637
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,320
the flamethrower.

638
00:41:14,679 --> 00:41:15,519
Speaker 2: Back and forth.

639
00:41:17,079 --> 00:41:20,679
Speaker 1: The third member, Kulan, wasn't there at all. She still

640
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,519
hadn't returned from being teleported away. Ren's squad had some

641
00:41:24,599 --> 00:41:28,519
tall Harry Totem summons standing in front of them, and

642
00:41:30,519 --> 00:41:34,880
this is when we get the announcement that Madra Dagas

643
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:39,960
has succumbed to the zombie curse, and Amayan has made

644
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:45,599
an appearance in the realm, and you have received a

645
00:41:45,639 --> 00:41:50,599
platinum to Hell in a handbasket box. So he asked

646
00:41:50,639 --> 00:41:56,400
Samantha who Amayan is and she says that he is.

647
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,719
Let's see, you know the four cram instance of Shale.

648
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,800
The oldest brother calls himself the king, even though his

649
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,840
mommy is in charge. The ladies in the hair thought

650
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,320
I had banged him when I was talking about someone else.

651
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:13,880
Uh Amayan is that guy's brother. He's the youngest one.

652
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,800
I've never met him. We didn't have much to do

653
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,840
with the down there guys, if you know what I'm saying.

654
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,800
And he gets a quest update from Embress that this

655
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,800
guy you absolutely have to make some time to question

656
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,159
him about the murder of my son, which is insane

657
00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:33,119
right now, like, oh my god, Embress fuck off, just

658
00:42:33,159 --> 00:42:35,239
fuck all the way off.

659
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:36,199
Speaker 2: I hate Embress.

660
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,559
Speaker 1: I would love if somebody would just kill Embres and

661
00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:41,599
then we could be done with all of this bullshit.

662
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:52,840
So let's see, Donut, I will combine Lazarus's Lazarus with

663
00:42:53,079 --> 00:42:56,320
Skuyler and then send Jola. I'll put a time extent

664
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:05,159
on both. Here they come. So Quan starts to play

665
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:10,719
a card. Samantha lands on him and bites him. And

666
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:16,599
as she does this, Rend's totem, the fucking Sandworm card

667
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:24,599
comes out temporary immortality. Everything froze as Kwan let go

668
00:43:24,679 --> 00:43:29,280
of his latest card, toss up three for two, the

669
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,400
icons over all five of the Act of Totems flashed

670
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:44,840
and switched. Oh shit, Wren called, pulling her flamethrower back up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's.

671
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:45,679
Speaker 2: Real bad, guys.

672
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,159
Speaker 1: The dread that I felt at this moment.

673
00:43:50,519 --> 00:43:51,559
Speaker 2: I really.

674
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: Every card he has is specifically designed to be a

675
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:08,360
little shit, you know. Oh man, So let's see fucking

676
00:44:08,639 --> 00:44:13,239
oh god, the totem that has been turned against them

677
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:18,280
pulls one of Frend's friends apart, who it turns out,

678
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:22,079
is her other friend's husband, and the other friend is.

679
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,599
Speaker 2: Uh, the one who lost.

680
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: Her daughter already, so that woman has had it by

681
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,760
the time like this section ends, it's just a given

682
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,639
that she's absolutely going to kill herself because what has she.

683
00:44:37,519 --> 00:44:38,519
Speaker 2: Got left, you know.

684
00:44:41,559 --> 00:44:49,519
Speaker 1: So then Jola appears. I don't like your coat, Jola said.

685
00:44:49,840 --> 00:45:01,599
He's talking to Kwan. Oh my god, Uzzi Jesus Uh

686
00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:05,760
and then Asahano, who is now Lord of Blight. Both

687
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,679
of them are gold addition, because after being killed they

688
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,559
split up and turn into two even better versions, which

689
00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:24,320
is rad actually very cool. Let's see finish him off, guys,

690
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:29,840
I pointed at Kwan. No problem, Uzi, Jesus said, Dad,

691
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,199
damn it. I forgot He says, Dad, damn it, which

692
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,360
I do think is a very nice touch.

693
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,199
Speaker 2: Jola, keep the worm off our back.

694
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: Jola wasn't listening to me. He only had eyes for

695
00:45:41,079 --> 00:45:47,800
Kwan and I don't like your coat again, fashion critic.

696
00:45:48,039 --> 00:45:51,960
Everything Kwan was wearing flu off him like an explosion.

697
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:59,079
An achievement appeared and I waved it away. Kuan groaned.

698
00:46:00,199 --> 00:46:02,519
A card appeared, but it was clearly not a card

699
00:46:02,559 --> 00:46:05,639
he wanted. He was naked now the stump of his

700
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,159
missing arm waving in the air. The stump held half

701
00:46:09,159 --> 00:46:12,159
of a tattoo the top half of a young girl's face,

702
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:18,719
and then Jola turns to Carl, thieves will be eaten.

703
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 2: Return this.

704
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,039
Speaker 1: So I think it's about his arm.

705
00:46:26,639 --> 00:46:27,159
Speaker 3: Is that it?

706
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is that Jola wants Carl

707
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:38,199
to return. Oh wait, he yeah, Michael says, the cloak.

708
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:42,039
Because Carl scooped up and pulled it into my inventory.

709
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 2: That's what it is.

710
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,639
Speaker 1: So Jola was like, I wanted that as a little

711
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,199
snack and you fucking took it.

712
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 2: Excuse me? What the fuck?

713
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:55,280
Speaker 1: Which honestly, Jola fair, you really did something extremely helpful

714
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,559
right there. I know that that cloak is crazy valuable,

715
00:47:00,039 --> 00:47:03,039
but I would say Jola earned it.

716
00:47:03,079 --> 00:47:03,519
Speaker 2: I don't know.

717
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: So Jesus then begins to just unload into Kwan's body

718
00:47:11,599 --> 00:47:15,760
with this fucking uzi and it doesn't kill him. Kwan

719
00:47:16,039 --> 00:47:23,000
is really tough. My god, um I watched until a

720
00:47:23,079 --> 00:47:26,119
growl from Jola took back my attention. The cat had

721
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,440
just finished slurping up Kwan's pants and was now looking

722
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,920
at me and hissing he was going to pounce, and

723
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,599
he's yelling Dona and the battle and she says it's

724
00:47:35,639 --> 00:47:39,639
already over. She Maria is eating their corpses like popcorn,

725
00:47:40,599 --> 00:47:48,280
and Jola disappears just as it pounces toward Carl. Thank god,

726
00:47:48,599 --> 00:47:50,920
Oh my god, it's a close thing. I was like,

727
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:56,760
we do not need this. And this is when Kwan

728
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,480
says to Carl, give it back, please, And I thought

729
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:05,199
he meant his arm, but what he meant is his

730
00:48:06,079 --> 00:48:10,320
ring that he was wearing on that hand that says

731
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,480
for Daddy on the inside, which I had completely forgotten

732
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:18,920
about this. And Carl gives it back to him, and

733
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,400
this is when he says she'd be ashamed of what

734
00:48:21,519 --> 00:48:28,880
I'd become and then dies. Sixty player killer skulls over

735
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,039
this man's head.

736
00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:31,639
Speaker 2: Sixty.

737
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:41,119
Speaker 1: That is so disgusting. Fuck this guy, Fuck this guy forever.

738
00:48:42,039 --> 00:48:46,280
Speaker 2: My god. I hate it. I hate it.

739
00:48:48,679 --> 00:48:54,159
Speaker 1: I will say, summoning these totems here very clever, really

740
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,119
nice move. I'm wondering if this is going to be patched,

741
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,039
or if this is something we can use again at

742
00:48:59,039 --> 00:49:05,639
some point. It's really dangerous to do if we had

743
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:09,360
totems that are a little bit less easy to control.

744
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,800
In the best of times. Donut not being here might

745
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,480
be a big problem, like, I, you know, I don't

746
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,760
want us try on this with she Maria, for example,

747
00:49:19,679 --> 00:49:25,559
but hm, anyway, I tried to loot Qualm, but it

748
00:49:25,559 --> 00:49:31,039
wouldn't let me. Donut had to do it, and Donut

749
00:49:31,159 --> 00:49:35,519
messages him that she has both of the keys, and

750
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:38,400
he is delighted like, Okay, we can get this figured out,

751
00:49:39,199 --> 00:49:42,760
and is saying to Rent, I'm sorry about your friend,

752
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:47,400
but we have time, and then warning the door to

753
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:51,199
the exit stairwell has sustained damage and will become unusable

754
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:56,880
in five minutes. If the doorway crumbles, the associated associated

755
00:49:57,039 --> 00:50:04,559
key will dissipate. And I wanted to punch the AI

756
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,920
straight in the hard drive for this one. That is

757
00:50:09,079 --> 00:50:14,559
so gross. That is so gross. AI, Oh my god.

758
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:20,199
I just like, there's just nothing to be done. And

759
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:26,400
what I appreciate is that Carl runs through every particular

760
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:30,880
way this could go and why it wouldn't work, Because

761
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:36,519
sometimes in situations like this in fiction, it will feel

762
00:50:36,519 --> 00:50:39,559
like a character is making a lot of assumptions that

763
00:50:39,599 --> 00:50:42,960
I don't agree with and is throwing their hands up

764
00:50:43,039 --> 00:50:46,119
and being like, well everything is fucked, and I'm like,

765
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,639
there are a few options. Actually, why are you behaving

766
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:54,519
like there aren't any? And I just get extremely frustrated.

767
00:50:55,119 --> 00:50:58,880
But Carl is a lot more like me in that

768
00:50:59,199 --> 00:51:02,800
he is urgently going, okay, what if this? And he

769
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,360
has to like follow the chain of logic and figure

770
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:10,239
out what's most likely, and it's he is a lot

771
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,840
more creative in his thinking. He's much more like the

772
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,360
creativity comes from like figuring out his way around certain

773
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:23,760
rules and things, you know. And so it's very satisfying

774
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,559
to read his what ifs because he's coming up with

775
00:51:27,679 --> 00:51:31,519
ideas that hadn't occurred to even me, And I much

776
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,800
prefer that when I'm reading then waiting for a character

777
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,559
to fucking catch up to an idea I already had

778
00:51:38,639 --> 00:51:41,719
three chapters ago, which can sometimes happen, and I hate it.

779
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,000
So if the system was generous and it dropped the

780
00:51:48,039 --> 00:51:50,280
key to the Capitol building, we would teleport away. Ren

781
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,400
would get the key and she could rush into the chamber.

782
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,280
If the system was being a dick, and the system

783
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,960
was always a dick, it would drop the key to

784
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,800
the church. Wren would probably still be okay, they would

785
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,599
still have a key, but her squad would have to

786
00:52:03,639 --> 00:52:05,599
make their way across town to the church, where they'd

787
00:52:05,599 --> 00:52:08,800
have to get past Immani. Dona and I meanwhile would

788
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,599
be fucked. We'd have the key to get out, but

789
00:52:11,679 --> 00:52:13,880
we'd have to get to the door in time, which

790
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,960
would be next to impossible. In either scenario, we'd have

791
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,519
to get Donut here. I could toss Samantha. That would

792
00:52:21,559 --> 00:52:23,519
take two or three minutes, and that was assuming my

793
00:52:23,559 --> 00:52:25,800
aim was true. I could get the Red Spider and

794
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,079
use loop to loop, but that would require a crawler

795
00:52:28,079 --> 00:52:30,760
other than myself to switch places with Donut. It would

796
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,039
have to be Kulan, which would be the equivalent of

797
00:52:33,119 --> 00:52:36,920
killing her. Besides, she wasn't getting up off that floor.

798
00:52:37,079 --> 00:52:40,159
She remained draped over the ruined body of her husband.

799
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,079
There was another scenario, one Donah and I could still

800
00:52:44,079 --> 00:52:46,840
pull off. I could have the Spider rush into the room.

801
00:52:46,679 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 2: And touch Wren.

802
00:52:47,599 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: They'd switch places with Reren Gon nobody would be left

803
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,000
to initiate a card fight. Dona and I could rush

804
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,719
down the stairs and be safe. However, that meant Donut

805
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,760
wouldn't have time to pass on the second key, the

806
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,840
one for the church exit, meaning no nobody else would

807
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,079
be able to escape. We'd be killing Imani.

808
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,599
Speaker 4: And I just.

809
00:53:11,039 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: All of these options fucking suck and being like, oh,

810
00:53:14,679 --> 00:53:16,159
maybe the system I will.

811
00:53:16,039 --> 00:53:17,679
Speaker 2: Be No, it won't.

812
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: No, it won't, it will not, it will not. I

813
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:26,440
hate this so much.

814
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 2: So Wren.

815
00:53:34,079 --> 00:53:35,760
Speaker 4: Is like giving up.

816
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: And when I say giving up, this is not insulting,

817
00:53:38,639 --> 00:53:43,119
This is not implying that, like, you shouldn't give up.

818
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:44,079
Speaker 4: I'm a big.

819
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:44,679
Speaker 2: Fan of giving up.

820
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,199
Speaker 1: Sometimes I will admit I often do it too easily,

821
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,719
but I think that we have this weird thing in

822
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,679
our culture will react like giving up is inherently failure,

823
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,599
and it's like, no, sometimes things just aren't working, and

824
00:53:57,639 --> 00:54:00,000
there is no shame in being like this isn't We're

825
00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:01,559
we have to find a new way.

826
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 2: It's fine.

827
00:54:03,559 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: Wren has a very interesting thought process here. So first

828
00:54:12,559 --> 00:54:15,360
she's just like, yeah, I know, my friend's gonna kill herself.

829
00:54:16,079 --> 00:54:19,559
Her husband is the only thing keeping her going. Carl

830
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:24,280
keeps insisting we have four days left, we can figure

831
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,679
something out, and She's just like, bruh, the only thing

832
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,639
we could figure out is somebody else to kill for

833
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:34,039
their key, and I don't want to do this. They

834
00:54:34,679 --> 00:54:38,119
purposely gave us two few keys because they want to

835
00:54:38,159 --> 00:54:41,960
fuck us, and I'm sorry but I'm gonna draw the

836
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,199
line at hurting somebody else to keep myself alive.

837
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 2: That's not it.

838
00:54:47,039 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 1: And he says, then you can fight us for it,

839
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:54,719
fair and square. And I love this speech. Guys, Carl,

840
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:55,840
I say this with love.

841
00:54:56,599 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 2: You are an idiot.

842
00:54:59,199 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: You can't fight us. You can't give your key to

843
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,679
and Moni. You have to save it for yourself. Do

844
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,559
you remember when you flew that airplane to save our

845
00:55:06,559 --> 00:55:08,280
bubble on the fifth floor, and then when you killed

846
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,800
all the hunters. That's when I realized who you are.

847
00:55:12,079 --> 00:55:16,880
Don't you understand You're more than just a person. If

848
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,599
we lose you, we lose everything. You're a symbol, You're

849
00:55:20,599 --> 00:55:25,360
the embodiment of our hope. You and that fucking annoying

850
00:55:25,519 --> 00:55:28,920
cat that everyone seems to like. For some reason, you

851
00:55:29,039 --> 00:55:33,920
two bought a goddamn slot on Faction Wars. Everyone who

852
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:38,480
remains can't wait for the chance to fight someone real,

853
00:55:38,599 --> 00:55:42,639
someone actually responsible for all this. If you two don't

854
00:55:42,679 --> 00:55:44,519
get down to the next floor.

855
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 2: We all lose that. You can't sacrifice yourself.

856
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,679
Speaker 1: And you know what, I know Imani thinks that too.

857
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,199
If you give her your key, she's just gonna try

858
00:55:55,199 --> 00:56:01,039
and give it back to you really love this, guys,

859
00:56:01,559 --> 00:56:06,239
because like, I love this for a couple of reasons.

860
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,559
It's something that I think about a lot. Actually, is

861
00:56:10,159 --> 00:56:13,440
what happens when you become the face of something bigger

862
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,719
than yourself and you believe in the thing that you

863
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,360
have become the face for, but you didn't intend to

864
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,199
become the face and now you're stuck with this role

865
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:26,199
and you genuinely didn't want it. And this is sort

866
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,880
of you know, this comes up a lot in different properties,

867
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:30,760
but it's not always done in a way that I

868
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:36,880
feel like I understand or relate to, because I am

869
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,920
somebody who often is just like you have some power here,

870
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,159
take advantage of that and do something good with it.

871
00:56:42,639 --> 00:56:48,000
But the power here is so tainted and controlled that

872
00:56:48,079 --> 00:56:51,119
it's a really weird position that Carl is in, you know.

873
00:56:53,639 --> 00:56:58,199
And Carl is just sitting here thinking about all of

874
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,960
the things that maybe he could have done differently, but

875
00:57:01,119 --> 00:57:04,760
also acknowledges like there was no way I could have

876
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:10,239
seen most of what just happened coming. I thought of

877
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,679
what Mordecai had told me about Drakia, that he'd been

878
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:14,639
killed off by one of his own traps because the

879
00:57:14,679 --> 00:57:17,840
showrunners had tipped the scale, had broken their own rules

880
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:22,199
to make it prematurely blow. They were exterminating us one

881
00:57:22,239 --> 00:57:24,639
by one, and no matter how hard I worked, someone

882
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,199
was always going to be there looking over my shoulder,

883
00:57:27,239 --> 00:57:30,679
wondering how they could make it more dramatic for the audience.

884
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:35,239
How soon before they decided it was my time or donuts,

885
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,800
my view counter remained spiked, but it was starting to

886
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,440
ease off now that it was clear we weren't going

887
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:46,719
to fight. That made me unreasonably angry, and that comes

888
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,719
up again later as well, this realization that nobody gives

889
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:54,119
a shit unless you're fighting, unless you're tap dancing for

890
00:57:54,159 --> 00:57:57,239
the audience. They don't fucking care that this person is

891
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:03,760
giving up on her life, you know. So she begins

892
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:08,639
to empty out her entire inventory. Carl is still not

893
00:58:08,719 --> 00:58:10,599
getting it, and it's like, what are you doing? I'm like,

894
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,599
how do you not see this? It's so obvious that

895
00:58:13,639 --> 00:58:18,360
she is ending shit here, dude, It's so clear, it's

896
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:23,639
so and he's just he's not, you know, And he

897
00:58:23,679 --> 00:58:26,360
of course has flashbacks to his mom, and she's like,

898
00:58:27,159 --> 00:58:32,840
I'm donating to the war effort, and she pulls out

899
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:39,280
this weird looking knife, and she says it can kill Garrett.

900
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:43,159
Every time he regenerates, he gets another weakness. He's up

901
00:58:43,159 --> 00:58:50,159
to four now, and he also has to rebond every

902
00:58:50,239 --> 00:58:55,400
time he's killed, which is wild, and poor Garrett is

903
00:58:55,440 --> 00:59:03,880
here freaking out. I hate this so much. Guys, they

904
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,320
say he won't remember, but I'm not sure this will

905
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,639
be the first time it happens. Each time he regenerates,

906
00:59:08,639 --> 00:59:11,239
he's tougher, but he also has a new weakness, so

907
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:15,880
you have to be careful. I had a dog once

908
00:59:16,239 --> 00:59:20,239
before all this. He died protecting me, and now I'm

909
00:59:20,239 --> 00:59:23,159
going to protect you. I fucking knew that guy killed

910
00:59:23,159 --> 00:59:26,280
her dog. I fucking knew it. I knew it. I

911
00:59:26,559 --> 00:59:35,599
just it was just, you know, apparently was stabbed. I

912
00:59:35,599 --> 00:59:41,800
would never get over it. I have often wondered what

913
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:44,440
Pippin would do if I were like attacked, you know,

914
00:59:44,559 --> 00:59:48,639
because I've had weird interactions taking walks in my neighborhood

915
00:59:48,639 --> 00:59:51,159
a couple of times, and I have also run in

916
00:59:51,159 --> 00:59:51,960
two stray.

917
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,159
Speaker 2: Dogs a couple of times, and.

918
00:59:55,719 --> 01:00:00,679
Speaker 1: The idea of him throwing himself between me and something

919
01:00:00,719 --> 01:00:08,559
else makes me sick to my stomach. I can't imagine

920
01:00:10,039 --> 01:00:13,199
a guy that I had been romantically involved with turning

921
01:00:13,239 --> 01:00:16,360
on me and doing that to me and to my pet,

922
01:00:16,559 --> 01:00:21,400
Like what that must feel like, somebody that you trusted

923
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:26,559
to that degree at one point doing that like it

924
01:00:26,639 --> 01:00:29,320
is so hideous, you know?

925
01:00:30,639 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 2: Oh my god, So.

926
01:00:38,639 --> 01:00:45,679
Speaker 1: She stabs her own pet. You're going to go live

927
01:00:45,719 --> 01:00:47,760
with Carl. He's going to take care of you because

928
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,920
I can't do it anymore. He will feed you every day,

929
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,119
and you're gonna be a good boy for me, won't you.

930
01:01:00,559 --> 01:01:03,559
I sear to God, I can't, guys, this was too much.

931
01:01:06,639 --> 01:01:12,880
She was silent for a moment. She has nothing left.

932
01:01:13,039 --> 01:01:16,000
I don't either, except my faith that you, Karl, will

933
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,719
make somebody regret choosing this for us. I don't want

934
01:01:19,719 --> 01:01:21,880
my friend killing herself to be the last thing I see.

935
01:01:22,239 --> 01:01:25,119
It has to be now. I want to go out

936
01:01:25,159 --> 01:01:28,400
having done something good. All I have left for this

937
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,519
floor is to deny them a fight.

938
01:01:31,159 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 2: I'll take it.

939
01:01:32,559 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: If I can't help you on the next floor, I

940
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,239
can at least give you my best gear, and I

941
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:43,800
can protect Garrett. I'm sorry, she said, and she put

942
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:47,079
him in the carrier. She paused, his new weakness is

943
01:01:47,119 --> 01:01:49,920
something called reaper gaze. I don't know what that is.

944
01:01:50,639 --> 01:01:53,159
She slid the carrier over to me, and before I

945
01:01:53,159 --> 01:01:54,840
could talk myself out of it, I put it in

946
01:01:54,880 --> 01:02:00,000
my inventory. A host of pet themed achievements appeared and disappeared.

947
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:04,400
If you do figure out some miracle before this floor

948
01:02:04,519 --> 01:02:06,599
is done, make sure that sister Inez doesn't go down

949
01:02:06,639 --> 01:02:09,360
the stairs. I've met Paz a few times and he's

950
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,519
a good man. Don't let her get away with keeping

951
01:02:12,559 --> 01:02:18,239
his card. And I appreciate her pointing that out specifically.

952
01:02:21,599 --> 01:02:24,760
And she has this thing, you know, a weapon that

953
01:02:25,039 --> 01:02:28,400
will blow her up and is just like they want

954
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,800
me and Donut to fight and fuck them for that.

955
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,800
It was her choice and I understood why she was

956
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,159
doing it, but I hated it. I hated everything about it.

957
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,920
I hated that my views kept going down, that people

958
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,840
didn't care. I hated there was nothing I could do

959
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:50,199
to stop her. Okay, I finally said, standing up, trying

960
01:02:50,199 --> 01:02:54,159
to hold my emotion in check, and she this is

961
01:02:54,199 --> 01:02:56,480
when she gets in touch with Princess Dona. I have

962
01:02:56,519 --> 01:03:01,119
a confession to make everything you're saying is true. I

963
01:03:01,199 --> 01:03:03,679
was trying to steal experience the first.

964
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:04,119
Speaker 2: Time we met.

965
01:03:06,119 --> 01:03:09,519
Speaker 1: I did cheat at the Pet show your Mango is

966
01:03:09,559 --> 01:03:19,199
the rightful champion. I'm sorry, what a generous soul, ah,

967
01:03:20,159 --> 01:03:26,519
So bonding Garrett is easy. Feed him something a few times.

968
01:03:26,599 --> 01:03:29,360
Make sure it's not undead flesh, or that it's never

969
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:32,559
been touched by a hobgoblin. Try to find out what

970
01:03:32,639 --> 01:03:35,599
Reaper Gay's weakness is as soon as you can. I'm

971
01:03:35,639 --> 01:03:37,880
pretty sure they'll make you give him a new name,

972
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:43,360
So come up with something good. Wren's eyes flashed and

973
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,280
Kulan dropped several items on the ground, more rings and

974
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:50,320
potions and a glowing spear, along with multiple armor items. Here,

975
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,679
I can't give you my totems, but I just rearranged

976
01:03:52,719 --> 01:03:54,880
my deck and took all the other cards out. You'll

977
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:56,599
have to carry them on you until you give them

978
01:03:56,599 --> 01:04:00,400
to Donut. But here's all my cards. There's a few rare,

979
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,519
special and mystics in there in case you need them,

980
01:04:02,519 --> 01:04:03,400
including these two.

981
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:04,719
Speaker 2: I never got to use them.

982
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: I gathered the large pile and stuck them in the

983
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,480
waistban of my boxers. I wouldn't let me take them

984
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:14,320
into my inventory. You sure about this, I asked one

985
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:19,679
last time, Karl, make them suffer. I put my hand

986
01:04:19,719 --> 01:04:23,159
on the dog woman's shoulder, her whole body trembled. I

987
01:04:23,199 --> 01:04:28,679
will kill every last one of them, every one. I

988
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,400
leaned into her ear and I whispered, I God damn

989
01:04:32,679 --> 01:04:40,480
swear it. And that is the end of chapter fifty nine.

990
01:04:40,719 --> 01:04:48,840
Y'all who knew surrenderl Goore was going to be such

991
01:04:49,119 --> 01:04:53,800
a big deal, Like they were just not that big

992
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:58,400
a part of things very often, you know. But I

993
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:03,039
was so curious about it, and she seems like such

994
01:05:03,079 --> 01:05:08,159
a fucking legit. Ge I hate this so much. I'm

995
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:11,800
very curious about this tummy acre because evidently they like

996
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:15,559
to eat dinosaurs. So how is he gonna get along

997
01:05:15,599 --> 01:05:18,119
with fucking mango? How is this all gonna work?

998
01:05:19,599 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 2: Oh God, this is awful. I hate it. I hate it.

999
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 3: I hate it. I hate it.

1000
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,639
Speaker 2: I hate it, I hate it. I hate it.

1001
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,679
Speaker 1: There's nothing else to be said, So I'm gonna wrap up.

1002
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:34,679
But uh, thank you all for hanging out with me.

1003
01:05:35,199 --> 01:05:41,679
But Michael, we're gonna have words, sir, okay for you

1004
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:42,400
doing this to me.

1005
01:05:44,119 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 4: M do to little motherfuckers.

1006
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 1: That was an Unspoiled Network podcast