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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book five, The Butcher's Masquerade, chapters

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twenty five through twenty nine. In these chapters, Carl and

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Donut participate in a raid on Fort Freedom. I believe

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that's what it's called. I expected this to be more

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of an obstacle, and it's just not at all. That's

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there's a lot of ancillary stuff, but like that was

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the thing that I think stuck with me the most

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was I thought this would be harder. That's what she said.

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Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I

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am Natasha. Thank you very much to Jackie for commissioning

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this episode. So I'm just going to start at the

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beginning here because I need some direction there. This is

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like this section, it's a bit muddy in every sense

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of the word. So let's just start first of all

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with Samantha and her proposition for signet. You guys, my

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favorite thing about this is the fact that Carl doesn't

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even say anything. He just starts laughing because like it's

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so patently absurd, and Samantha just seems utterly confident that

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this is gonna go the way that she wants. The

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plan is I take your body over, which will of

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course kill you, but you'll have the satisfaction of knowing

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that I'm alive and doing my thing on your behalf

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in your body. Remarkable, Frankly, I mean when I was

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thinking about, like, oh, she can help me, I don't

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even know that I gave it enough thought what that meant.

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And I'm not sure if any of you out there

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listening had your own theories already or not, but I

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like it was. I think she had. Samantha had specifically

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said something about like she can help me get my

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body back, or she can help give me a body

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or something like that, but I honestly I don't remember.

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I just feel like I remember her saying she can

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help me, and uh, sorry about that. That's my that's

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my dog's caller being very loud. But I just fully

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expected it to be something where she can like put

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me in touch with a person who knows the kind

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of magic that can do a thing, or she can

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like grant me a favor with her magic that does

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you know the idea of it just being like I'm

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gonna fully take your body over and you'll be fine

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with that, right, of course, this is what it is.

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And of course Samantha just doesn't see what the big

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deal is or why. And it makes me so sad because, like,

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as Donut says later, Carl is sort of like, I

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wonder what she's even the goddess of, And Donuts says,

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she's the goddess of unrequited love? And Carl, how do

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you know that? And she says, because I asked Carl,

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Which it's just another great illustration of like, in a

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lot of ways, how self absorbed Carl is. It's he's

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just so constantly zeroed in on what matters to him

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and his own plan, and he has a real blind

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spot when it comes to seeing other people as like

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fully capable, trustworthy, or competent or able to come up

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with their own ideas. You know, Like he's just run

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into this with donat a number of times now where

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he hasn't included her in the plan and then is

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like genuinely surprised Pikachu face when she doesn't go well,

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and it's like you're not even treating her like she's

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part of this. So the fact that he hasn't even

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thought to ask Samantha, what she is goddess of or

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really anything about herself. It's sort of reminding me of

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the way things were initially with Katchya as well. Donut

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engages with other people, and it's part of what works

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for her charisma. It's the act of asking questions, being

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genuinely interested in the answers, and responding with more questions

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because you are indicating to a person that what they

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are saying matters to you, you know, And it's just

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a really like there is something about this that really

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rings true for me in terms of my evolution as

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a person, because I used to be very much like Carl,

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where I just didn't really engage with people and I

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found it difficult to give a shit sometimes, And you know,

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I mean, like, if I'm being real, it's like a

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weird thing. Especially as a person who has a lot

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of empathy, you wouldn't think that this would be such

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a stumbling block. But empathy and really caring about the

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details of other people's lives are not really the same thing.

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Like I can want you to not suffer, I can

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want you to get everything that you need as a person,

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but also not really want to hear about your vacation

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or go to your birthday party or whatever. And I

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really lived in this place where other people in large

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par often I just wasn't very interested. And I've kind

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of turned a corner at some point in my life

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where I've become much better at being interested in other

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people and engaging with them. And so my husband, who

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is still very much in a lot of ways in

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the headspace that I used to be in, and the

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way that he kind of just refuses to engage or

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is very difficult to engage, it stands out a lot

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more to me than it used to. And I start

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to realize just like I was like this, you know,

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And I don't really know when the change in me

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began to occur, But no amount of telling me that

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you should care about what's going on in their lives

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would have done anything. It was something that I had

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to eventually just begin to give a shit on my own.

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I just don't think that anyone pointing it out that

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it would have helped or made any difference whatsoever in

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my attitude. I think it's just something that happens, like

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as you get older, you just start to hopefully if

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you're like learning lessons. I think you begin to grow

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less self absorbed because you are simply experienced and seeing

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more of life and beginning to understand the variety of

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experiences that are out there. So anyway, it's you know,

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you see this all the time in different like scenes

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with Dona where she's just like, so, what's going on

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with your hair? You know, and like, yeah, it can

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be a joke, it can be treated as just a punchline,

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but she's actually like still talking with them and asking them,

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it is a joke, you're noticing someone and seeing them,

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and even if they can sense that you're doing it

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in a joky way, as long as you're not being

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like demeaning about it, I don't think a lot of

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folks are really going to react badly to that, you know.

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So anyway, I just think it's nice how well characterized

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they both are. That we can see very specific moments

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that I like that I feel are so in character

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in so many different instances and settings and moments in conversation,

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and it's just consistent every time. So anyway Holger is talking,

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they start talking about like this this guy who got

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zapped by a spell that he cast too close to

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the tree. He says, the fools used a lightning attack

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near the all tree, which I was glad that immediately

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ava targets brought up, because if I'm not mistaken, it's

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called the all tree in that too, right, they're not

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wrong about that, Feel free to correct me, guys. But

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I really could swear. And evidently, if you cast a

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spell against a person who has like the forest in

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their blood, and they are standing within like a few

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hundred yards, I think it's like fairly far out. I'm

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trying to let's see a few hundred meters, so like, yeah,

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pretty much, if you cast a spell against them, the

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trees will absorb the attack and then send it back

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out at you, and it evidently kills the outcropping of trees,

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but they come back. It takes a few months. So

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I appreciated that as like a sort of ceiling to

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how the because it would be one thing if it's

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like it affords unending protection and nobody can cast a

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spell near you at all if you're buy one of

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these trees, that would be a little bit too overpowered.

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But the fact that it can only they defend you

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the once and then it's got a very long kind

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of cool down period. I like a lot. And Carl

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notes that, like, this has to be a new addition,

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because the hunters wouldn't be so stupid as to do

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this right near this tree if they had run into

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these trees before. So this has got to just be

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something that they have come up with this season in particular.

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And I am like anytime that there is something that

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feels different than previous years, I am my antenna are

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starting to go up a little bit. And like, I

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recognize that every time this happens, it's not necessarily going

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to be significant at all. There are just we're going

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to change things up to keep it interesting. We're going

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to change things up because like you need to keep

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your viewers engaged and keep them guessing, you know. So

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I'm not trying to attribute too much meaning. I am

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just noting it and sort of filing it away mentally

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so that if something else turns up a little later

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that makes me go, hmm, I'll remember, yeah, and then

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there was this too, Because there is a part of

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me that is sort of suspecting is too strong a word,

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but is sort of wondering, is there anything about the

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changes that feel like they're leaning toward attempting to help

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crawlers in a specific way or fuck with them in

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a specific way. There's just a lot that I feel

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and be clues to things later, and I am trying

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to keep track of it all. So there's the mention

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also like donut asks if it also protects the high

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elbs even though they're the bad guys, and Clint is

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like bad or good doesn't matter. The trees aren't smart.

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and they respond the way they respond. So it has

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nothing to do with taking sides. It's just about you

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being kind of part of them, which makes total sense

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to me. So there were three of these guys that

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came in, and two of them got zapped by that

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repeat spell, and the other is still alive and being

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saved by Signet for the sacrifice for her own spell

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to work. So the first corpse they come across is

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Hunter the talent. I am asking a lot of questions

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as I'm reading this about how their names work, because

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there's a whole conversation later that Dona is having with

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Carl about the naming conventions for these people and the

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fact that like it. You know, if you're naming her

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future Hunter or future Huntress or whatever, that you know

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you're setting her up for a life that goes in

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a certain direction. And I really it wasn't until they

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started talking about it in this way that it even

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occurred to me that these were their real names. I

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was fully treating all of this like they were their

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user names and not their actual given names. I thought

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given names were for the crawlers, you know, like it.

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Just like I said, it just never entered my mind,

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not even for a moment. So I'm very curious about

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y'all and if you thought the same thing. And I

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don't know if it's just because of the fact that,

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like I'm so used to things being sort of video gamy,

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but the idea that this guy is actually named the

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Talent is wild to me. So Carl goes to loot

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the talent, and he's got seventy five thousand pieces of

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gold on him, which is way more than anybody else

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they have ever come across. And then when they love

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the next corpse, that person has no money. So I

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don't I feel like this has to mean something. Maybe

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this guy was supposed to be sort of in charge

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of their party and the leader, you know. He mentions

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later about how like these guys are the leaders, are

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given the best gear out of everything. But I kind

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of feel like there's got to be more to it

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than that. I just don't know what it is. I mean,

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the idea of like, oh, maybe they were specifically paid

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to come after these two, well, like, of course we

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already know that that people are being paid to come

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in and take on taking these two down. We've already

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run into that with that other hunter, So that's not

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even really a revelation of any kind. And I don't

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think that would be what's going on here because that's

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not like a surprise. So I don't know what this means,

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but I feel like it means something. Dona also says

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that this guy has some kind of credit shit and

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we need to go buy something with it before they

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cancel it. And I am very curious how much attention

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they're paying and whether or not they see when this

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thing goes into their possession, and or if this is

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some kind of trap, because like, the thing about the

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setup here, as we find out when we talk to Future,

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is that these guys were given first crack on purpose.

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Like Carl asserts, they knew you'd fail, that's why you

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were allowed to do this, And it's sort of like

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a pitiful moment because she just doesn't even argue and

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instantly begins to sort of deflate and knows that he

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is right. And there's a strong sense of I knew that,

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I just hoped you wouldn't figure it out. But I

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just like was wondering if these guys are being set

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up to go first because everybody knows that you'll fail.

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Is it possible that you're being loaded down with stuff

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to fuck our friends up on purpose? That doesn't look harmful.

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Carl is doing this very careful looting method in order

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to avoid booby traps and stuff like what he did

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to Maggie May. But if they know Carl did that himself,

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then they might be wise to the fact that he

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is going to be looking for that, and so they'll

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find a new and exciting way to booby trap him

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and something like this might work. I don't know, I genuinely,

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it's like because of the way that they are able

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to cheat, it's hard to know. We had that whole

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other like catapult thing in the last chapters that had

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bits of like, you know, they were clearly techn there

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was clearly technology attached to it that did more than

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anything this dungeon is supposed to have in it. And

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I don't ah the a card like this, it could

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very well be booby trapped in some way and technically

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be a cheat, and not even something that I would

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have been able to predict because of the fact that

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they are going outside of the parameters on purpose. So

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I guess what I'm saying is we'll just have to

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wait and see and let's see. Oh right, this has

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When Samantha I guys the way that she approaches her,

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I gotta say, I love the bear breasts. It's good

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a bold statement. There's something about the it's good. It

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was just such a funny way to say it. And

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this whole thing again, the narrator with this voice, he

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does such a great job, and she's like, you know,

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I experimented with women for a little bit, and I

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gotta saying you fine, And then of course has to

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like circle it back with the guy that I'm into

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really likespresss like yours. King Blaine loves some perky like

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that not too big, just perfect. He's sure to stop

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banging my mother once he sees my new body. Can

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you imagine? Can you imagine? There is a book that

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is often posted under There's a fantastic Facebook page, and

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I think she also does Instagram called Uppity Negress, and

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she is a black woman who does a lot of

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social commentary stuff and in her comments she will always

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post a link to a book she wrote. I think

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it's called Decentering Men, and it's just basically the assertion

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correct assertion, in my opinion, that women are social to

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center men in everything, and that learning to detect that

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in yourself is a major reprogramming of your brain and

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low key like a life skill that needs to be learned.

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This is a book that I think Samantha could really

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use because evidently pretty much everything she does is about

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trying to find her way back to King Blaine. And

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this man is not worth it, and no man is

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worth it, and if he's fucking your mother, you just

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better turn around and walk away or I just can

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never respect you again. And obviously like sing that, there's

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no question of course she's not doing this, and she

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tries to tell Samantha, I'll find a way to give

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you back your body once we're done with our thing,

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And as Carl puts it, it's painfully obvious that she

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has no intention whatsoever of helping Samantha. And Samantha's not

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a fucking idiot, and she knows this, But she doesn't

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really have other options, so she's going with it and

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agreeing to assist them on simply the off chance that

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maybe there is something that Signet can do. And that's

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just a very sad position to be in it. It's

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like the idea that I literally have no better options

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than even though I can see right through you and

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tell almost immediately that you are less than uninterested in

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helping me. What am I supposed to do? Like? Go where?

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Do what? Talk to who? Of course you're like the

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only option I have. What a shitty spot to be in.

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I really like, as absurd as Samantha is being here,

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there was a part of me that still felt like

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bad for her, you know what I'm saying. And but

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she's like participating in all of this with a good attitude,

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I will say later on, because as much as she's

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grumbling about it, for the most part, she's pretty like

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still fully going all in. And I sort of wondered

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if knowing that maybe Signet is like not being honest

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would cause her to get very half hearted about it all,

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and that's not really what happens. So I'm sorry. I

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just saw the chat. Eduardo and Sarah im are here.

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Hello to you both. Yay. So the trap skill that

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Carl has, he uses that to detect traps around them,

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and there's a moment where it loves up and the

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whole place lights up like crazy, and he sees that

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there are even more than he had realized, and let's see. Oh,

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there's a conversation between him and Signet where she says,

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if they just waited, they would have gained control anyway,

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and they wouldn't have had to kill my mother because

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I think actually she was considering stepping down based on

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some things that my mother said before she died. And

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the curse that she's got regarding whether like water can

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touch her at all or anything is getting Carl's attention

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in this scene because she's crying, but the tears aren't

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actually touching her skin, and then when she turns her

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head they fly off like there's like really strong centrifugal

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force or something. The Naiad Kingdom wasn't very big the

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Naiad people had fallen to anarchy. The Usurpers occupied the castle,

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no longer maintaining it or the kingdom. They were so

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obsessed with the idea of being free that they lost

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sight of what it meant to actually run a government.

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Like with most of these stories and quests, this is

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probably some bullshit political cartoon and they were making a

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statement about something I didn't care and yeah, definitely, definitely

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about something. So they make this plan and Signet is

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going to use Samantha as a distraction. Carl is going

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to be strapping one of those sound alarm thingies that

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plays a song to Samantha's head and chucking it to

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distract them. And once we get into this later, it

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becomes pretty clear they probably didn't even need to put

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as much thought into this as they did, because everything

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is so organized and in such poor repair that they

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were on the verge of just losing the castle by

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fucking default anyway. But first we have to deal with

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future huntress of the Skull Empire, who tries to say

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that they can't kill her because then the Skull Empire

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will hunt them down, and Donat is like, sweetie, do

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you think that if we don't kill you. They'll leave

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us alone. Is that what you're trying to say? And they,

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you know. She tries to then be like, but if

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you keep me alive, then the uh what do you

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call thems? The mantises they aren't going to have the

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right to come in here yet, so keeping me alive

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keeps you from being attacked by them. And then as

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Carl is like, all right, I want you to heal

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her so that I can do my thing, he says, please,

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you can't do this. I'm a real person, not a

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crawler or an NPC. I'm a real person. And it

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gets interrupted this moment with the announcement that one of

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the top ten crawlers has fallen. But if it hadn't,

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I wonder what Carl would have said in that moment,

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because the idea that you would try to appeal to

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a crawler by saying I'm not like you, I'm a

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real person is so fucking badshit. And the thing about

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it is that this is not un unbelievable, you know

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what I'm saying. There are plenty of people out there

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who would absolutely say some shit like this and be

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genuinely like, I don't understand why you're offended. They wouldn't

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see it, they wouldn't get it. It wouldn't like so

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I like, what I am thinking in this scene is

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my instinct is were I going to write the scene,

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I would write it as something like I'm a real person,

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I'm not a crawler. And then she catches herself and

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she stops and realizes what she said. But the thing is,

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I would write this as a person who assumes other

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people at least have some kind of basic self awareness

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that they just have to trigger somehow. And the way

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that Matt Dennman is writing this is people don't have that.

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Even like it's not even about like we need to

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access this awareness. There's no way to access it if

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they don't have it. And they don't And it really

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took me off guard for a moment. I was like,

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there was a split second of me going, this doesn't

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feel real, and then a second later I was like, no,

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this is. You see this every day? You see this

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every day? What do you mean? There are so many

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people out there who even are part of a particular group,

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but they choose to like hold themselves as outside of

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it for whatever reason and behave is if they're not

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part of that group, and you see the results of

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that all over the place, especially in the United States

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with this latest election and how there are folks who

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voted for Trump, but they were themselves on social services

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or they themselves were a federal worker and now they've

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been laid off and they're very surprised. Pikachu face about

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it this moment. It's just I think it's like it's

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really well written in that it feels absurd, but so

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do many actual real life people. They feel absurd. So anyway,

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they get distracted by the announcement that one of the

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top tens has been taken down. Future Hunter is like

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one hundred percent. That was raw, which I thought it

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was interesting that she assumes that with no real information.

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I would I kind of wanted them to press her

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on that, but they don't. And the group that Langley

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was in who had been like really helpful on the

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previous floor, it's Langley and his whole group who are

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like gone, and evidently they had been going after Bogged

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and Roe, who is another crawler on the top ten. Well,

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he was like, I don't remember if he was on

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the top ten last time, but he's been on and

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off and he has a bunch of crawler skulls by

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his name. So for a moment I was kind of like, Wow,

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they're going after another hunter or another crawler that's fucked up.

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But then hearing no, trust me. This guy had a

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bunch of skulls by his name, he was a crawler

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hunter himself, and they were just trying to get rid

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of him. I was like, Oh, okay, that tracks, and

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that's fair, but we don't know for sure that that's

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the guy that they got or that got them or whatever,

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so let's get into this battle. He uh, the attaches

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the trap to Samantha throws her, and I love that

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this trap is labeled annoying. And then once she's thrown,

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the song begins to play and Samantha says, what is

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this wonderful song? Carl? It's called Wonderwall. Donut, Carl, you

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threw the wrong trap. And there's just like this ongoing

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thing of Carl really not liking Wonderwall and being extremely

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irritated by it. The trap gets stuck in this particular

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place where it's inside event so it's one kind of

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unreachable to get it out, and two so much more

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loud than it would ordinarily be because it's being amplified

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by the echo of the events. So this song that

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he detests he has to listen to on repeat for

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like hours and hours after this. And let's see, Samantha

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is there was like a moment where they had tried

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to give her a script that she was gonna say

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to help with the distraction part of things, and she

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just like, there's a bet between Donah and Carl whether

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or not she's actually going to even remember her line.

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Donut correctly determines that she will not be able to

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remember it and bets a gold piece and wins. And

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I was sort of genuinely surprised that Carl even like

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it's I feel like this just ties in with Donah

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actually really understanding people and getting to know them, and

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so her understanding of Samantha's capabilities is more realistic than Carl's,

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you know. But anyway, like I said, it just feels

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on a lot of levels like they didn't need to

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plan for this as much as they did. Let's see,

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they had guards, but not enough to cover all the

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entrances and exits. Once the arm went off signifying an

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invasion at the front door, all the poorly trained guards

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would move in that direction, leaving the rear air area

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of the castle undefended while Signet's amphibious assault team moved in.

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Even if noticed, there wouldn't be enough time for the

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alarm to be reset to tell the defenders where the

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real threat was coming from. The whole defensive system was

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a joke. This was just an extra plot point in

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the Signet story and not meant to be a true obstacle.

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So as soon as he says this, I was just like, oh,

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because I really thought that this was going to be

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something I didn't I don't know if it was something

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that was sort of hinted at in previous chapters, that

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this was like a complete joke. I knew that it

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was designed to likely be something that they would be

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able to get through and not you know, a player

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killer level of difficulty, but I thought it would be

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a little bit more of a chat and like it

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winds up being, but in a way that was different

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than what I was expecting. The flying paper soldier circled

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above while the others floated atop the slow current of

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the river next to me, misnading. The giant caterpillar hissed

478
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:21,480
worriedly Arison. The Ogre patted the hairy thing. It'll be okay,

479
00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:29,639
he said. The caterpillar hissed again. And this is when

480
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,920
he's asking Arison, like, she can't even water can't touch her,

481
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,559
So how exactly is she going down? And the Ogre

482
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:42,639
is like, she will just watch and there is this

483
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:48,599
shark that wraps her up and drags her down. Once

484
00:35:48,599 --> 00:35:50,800
she deep enough, she doesn't pop up no more. She

485
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,239
needs air though has spell but if she go too

486
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,599
deep she get the squish h how did she get

487
00:35:57,599 --> 00:36:00,559
the curse? High Elf cast at the night Mom was

488
00:36:00,639 --> 00:36:04,280
deaded wait, I said, there was a high Elf working

489
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,519
with these Niad guys. Yeah, the dissenters killed the Tsar

490
00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:11,000
and his family. They only did it because they had

491
00:36:11,039 --> 00:36:14,920
help from the sneaky high Elves. It stopped fighting between

492
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,519
Elves and Naiad. But the Naiad are almost slaves now,

493
00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:22,440
especially after the nine tier attack. Most of the fishy

494
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,920
people died, but there's a good number left. They still

495
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,800
at the tee of twenty years. They got to ask

496
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,800
them for mission to do anything. Now, the n Iad

497
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,639
regular folks are going wild like old days because the

498
00:36:33,679 --> 00:36:39,239
Castle people don't do no ruling or nothing, and the

499
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:43,320
elves just really seemed to be like fucking up a

500
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,880
lot of stuff, got their fingers in a lot of

501
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:51,039
different pies, and they like almost to a degree that

502
00:36:51,159 --> 00:36:54,559
kind of makes me be like, are the elves actually

503
00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:57,000
the bad guys? Because it feels like we're pointing at

504
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,239
them so hard that maybe we're setting up a twist,

505
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,920
or like Carl has pointed out that there's like a

506
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,800
political cartoon that they're doing, and so it is quite

507
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,199
over the top because of the point that somebody was

508
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:16,599
trying to make when they wrote this whole plot. A

509
00:37:16,639 --> 00:37:18,920
few minutes passed with nothing happening, and then the castle

510
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,599
alarm abruptly stopped, and Samantha says, I'm trying to wiggle

511
00:37:24,639 --> 00:37:27,800
my way out. I can hear fighting. There's a lot

512
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:33,000
of blood in the water. The river surrounding the castle

513
00:37:33,079 --> 00:37:36,960
started to bubble. A lightning bolt shot upward, coming directly

514
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,880
out of the water. At that moment, I caught a

515
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,559
glimpse of the defense team on the south shore, multiple

516
00:37:43,599 --> 00:37:47,519
earth signs standing there looking back at us. The ground shook.

517
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:55,079
I exchange an uneasy glance with Arison. Look Donut said

518
00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:59,760
on Dongo don'nut said, pointing after Mongo calmed a body

519
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:05,079
loaded face down a naiad. Another appeared, then another missing ahead,

520
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,920
but then two more bodies appeared, both of them the

521
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:14,360
paper cutouts of Signet's battle squad. This is not good,

522
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:20,480
Arison said, as Miss Nadine started chittering worriedly, and Samantha says,

523
00:38:20,679 --> 00:38:25,519
I think it was a trap. So he puts on

524
00:38:25,599 --> 00:38:32,440
the ring that allows him to breathe underwater, and uh,

525
00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:36,440
let's see, oh, right here it is. There's tons of

526
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,360
bodies that suddenly explode up out of the water, and

527
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,280
Miss Nadine breaks away from Arison and just heads down

528
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,159
the hill into the water, even though she can't swim.

529
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,039
Arison is trying to stop her, and she winds up dying,

530
00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:53,519
which is like a bunch of people are super super

531
00:38:53,559 --> 00:38:56,639
sad about later. And I was sort of wondering what

532
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,880
the showwriters felt, because apparently the addition of this weird

533
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,719
caterpillar thing has like boosted ratings some and so I

534
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:10,519
wonder if, like losing Nadine is going to be a

535
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,559
specific type of issue, or was this all part of

536
00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:19,079
a plan that they already had in place, or you

537
00:39:19,079 --> 00:39:21,079
know what I'm saying like, I don't know if this

538
00:39:21,199 --> 00:39:25,840
is going to be any particular problem or if it's

539
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,199
just something that they have learned to roll with. In

540
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,800
the way these shows have to work, that there are

541
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:40,079
some like unexpected what's the word, There are some circumstances

542
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:46,679
that they just can't control. So at this point, Samantha

543
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,280
is yelling about like how she almost has him, and

544
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,960
Carl is telling her that he is going to teleport

545
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,280
her back, and as she is saying no, no, I

546
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,840
almost have him, the chapter ends and the next one

547
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,079
starts with I have never claimed to be a smart person.

548
00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:10,280
And this is very funny because you know, last section,

549
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,519
I was like figuring out exactly how it worked that

550
00:40:14,599 --> 00:40:18,159
she could bring things back with her, but it did

551
00:40:18,199 --> 00:40:21,119
not occur to me that what she brings back might

552
00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:24,840
still be alive. And evidently it didn't occur to Carl either.

553
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,639
When Samantha said I almost have him, I should have

554
00:40:28,639 --> 00:40:30,960
waited a moment and asked what she was talking about,

555
00:40:31,159 --> 00:40:34,079
and she would have answered with the lightning shooting river

556
00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:37,280
monster that has taken over the throne room of for Freedom,

557
00:40:37,639 --> 00:40:39,679
And then I would have followed up that question with

558
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:44,519
are you biting down on this creature right now, and

559
00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:50,920
so she pulls this fucking thing all the way to him.

560
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:58,440
And also Nadine the caterpillar is right there, and everybody

561
00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:01,199
goes flying when he does this, because it's just like

562
00:41:03,639 --> 00:41:10,280
he says that it feels like bouncing off a wet trampoline.

563
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,559
When it croaked, both Samantha and beaverform Holger vomited out

564
00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:18,559
of its mouth, both of them unceremoniously splatting onto the

565
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:23,760
dirt like a pair of quivering hairballs. The world did

566
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,320
not freeze, nor did new music start. But I knew

567
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,239
this creature was a boss even before I read the description.

568
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,719
I started to scramble back up the slope. I ducked

569
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,320
as a multi branch lightning bolt ripped through the night,

570
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,679
coming from the monster's eyes. The bolt sizzled above my

571
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,239
head and slammed into the castle walls far behind me.

572
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,719
And I'm going to be honest, my friends, this description

573
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,800
was too long. There are times where it feels like

574
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,840
the descriptions are very long, and that's part of the joke,

575
00:41:58,159 --> 00:42:01,039
is that they're really long. It goes on for you

576
00:42:01,039 --> 00:42:04,639
know what I'm saying. This was one that felt too

577
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,840
long by accident, or if not, by accident he misjudged

578
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:17,440
the joke. But anyway, evidently these things have a tendency

579
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,199
to show up somewhere and then just settle down and

580
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:27,599
live there forever. So let's see Claude Sledgington the Fourth

581
00:42:27,679 --> 00:42:30,559
decided to make an appearance. At the last possible minute.

582
00:42:30,679 --> 00:42:33,519
The guards allowed him into the castle despite his reputation.

583
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,920
Area aps received a ten x constitution bonus. If they

584
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,400
are rooted in place and they shoot lightning, they are

585
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:47,880
notoriously difficult to kill or even move. Quad is an amphibian.

586
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,840
This excuse me, Oh my god, this is a lizard

587
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,880
class mob. It will inflict twenty percent more damage against

588
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,920
you things to your extinction sigil. And yes, like with

589
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,679
the dinosaurs, I know amphibians aren't really lizards. You can

590
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:09,480
complain about it to management. So this he winds up

591
00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:15,440
like swallowing a couple of people whole whole like hole

592
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:20,679
and uh, Carl says he's gonna flip in your direction.

593
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,400
Be ready, don't attack yet. He's saying all this to Donut,

594
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,840
and Donut is like, what are you going to do?

595
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,119
And Carl yells get off of it. Claude let out

596
00:43:34,119 --> 00:43:37,320
a new and mighty noise, not quite a croak, more

597
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,360
like a reverse belch. He slurped up the unconscious form

598
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,519
of Hulger and Samantha. Once again, Miss Nadine launched herself

599
00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:49,159
at the side of the monster, her mandible things thrashing

600
00:43:49,679 --> 00:43:52,880
the necklace. Head of the creature struggled to turn toward

601
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,800
the giant caterpillar, still oblivious of the ogre on its head.

602
00:43:57,519 --> 00:43:59,599
And he is just trying to sort of like dig

603
00:43:59,639 --> 00:44:06,400
his hand into it. And let's see, we can only

604
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,519
attack its stomach, I yelled a second time, Samantha. It

605
00:44:10,599 --> 00:44:13,199
swallowed me again. Do not worry. I'll just kill him

606
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:18,440
from within. I really enjoy how Samantha remains constantly convinced

607
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,400
that she is going to kill whoever, when she has

608
00:44:20,599 --> 00:44:22,679
proven to never be able to do any damage of

609
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:30,599
any kind. So he casts protective shell. I was expecting

610
00:44:30,639 --> 00:44:33,000
the larger monster to bowl over to the side like

611
00:44:33,039 --> 00:44:37,199
a semi truck rolling over, which would hopefully expose his stomach.

612
00:44:38,119 --> 00:44:41,960
That's not what happened. I was too close. The diameter

613
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,079
grew with my intelligence, and I should have cast it

614
00:44:45,119 --> 00:44:47,199
while I was lower on the hill, so the angle

615
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,440
of the sphere would have pushed him and not launched

616
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:54,679
him straight into the air, so Arison is likely up

617
00:44:54,679 --> 00:44:57,559
there riding on its back, and he is like, I

618
00:44:57,679 --> 00:45:02,320
need to get out of the way as it's falling down,

619
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:08,599
and Doughnut sends up a fireball at it. The creature

620
00:45:08,639 --> 00:45:12,320
exploded in flames, his entire body catching a light as

621
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:17,360
he landed atop the barely visible shield with a vicious splat.

622
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,599
The line of trees stopped the monstrous descent. It roared

623
00:45:21,679 --> 00:45:24,519
indignantly as it came to a rest, face down like

624
00:45:24,599 --> 00:45:28,079
it was doing a handstand. Its legs scrambled against the

625
00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:33,719
sparking shield. It was stuck. Look at that. Carl Donut cried,

626
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:38,800
fireball is awesome. I did enjoy this on her behalf.

627
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,800
I just appreciated it. It's very fun whenever one of

628
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,639
them gets something new and it turns out to be

629
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,960
rat as hell, you know, because there are like a

630
00:45:49,039 --> 00:45:52,599
fair number of abilities that they don't use that often

631
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:58,480
that are very I'm sure, like cinematic. So it still

632
00:45:58,519 --> 00:46:01,920
hasn't fallen over, and so Carl is like, okay, magic

633
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:08,559
missiles time, and then Mango goes for the open wound

634
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,679
on it. Donut back flipped off the dinosaur, leaning perfectly

635
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,320
on my shoulder, shooting one last magic missile just before

636
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,760
the dinosaur dove headfirst into the open wound. The smell

637
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,880
the spell snapped off, and the trees acted like spring hinges,

638
00:46:24,039 --> 00:46:27,239
launching the amphibian directly at my position, like I was

639
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:31,119
standing in front of a massive mouse trap. Doughnut was

640
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,599
already gone. I watched in slow motion as the corpulent

641
00:46:34,679 --> 00:46:39,760
lizard fell toward me, Mongo's long tail sticking from the

642
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:45,519
hole in its stomach. I mean, this is this is

643
00:46:45,599 --> 00:46:49,639
theater here, you know, this is what we want. Uh.

644
00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:54,360
I fell directly into the wound. It was no longer

645
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,719
on fire, but I couldn't see or breathe. I felt

646
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,639
my neck getting rent open by a law as I

647
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:06,079
was compressed further. It was Mango's back claw pushing off

648
00:47:06,159 --> 00:47:09,960
me as the goddamn dinosaur gleefully ate his way up

649
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,519
and out the back of the monster. Now, I just

650
00:47:13,559 --> 00:47:19,000
want to say that this very much reminded me of

651
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:26,400
my dog Arwin. She just doesn't have any concept of

652
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:31,679
the space around her, and she will frequently shove outward

653
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:39,320
with her back or front legs and make very forceful

654
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:45,320
contact with various parts of your body and not notice,

655
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:50,559
care register it in any way nothing, And it is

656
00:47:51,639 --> 00:47:57,039
ceaselessly irritating and always painful. She has gotten me with

657
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,320
a back claw, going at life like forty miles an

658
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,440
hour right in the tit a couple times and I

659
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,400
thought I was gonna fucking keel over. My husband has

660
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:11,280
gotten it in the nads more than once. It sucks,

661
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,000
so I can only imagine when the creature is of

662
00:48:15,039 --> 00:48:18,280
Velossi raptor with that friggin like toe claw, how bad

663
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:26,159
that must be. So he pulls his way out and

664
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,639
let's see, I'm trying to find the spot. He comes

665
00:48:31,679 --> 00:48:35,639
out mango from the back of the monster, and Carl

666
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,760
has to drink health potions and his gills are filled

667
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:43,679
with like the guts of the thing, and it finally dies.

668
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,199
But it fucking They don't get any kind of reward

669
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,880
for this because they got to the boss before they

670
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,800
were given a mission to go to the boss. And

671
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:03,119
for once, with Donut yelling this is an outrage, I

672
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,840
fully agree. A lot of times I feel like she

673
00:49:06,039 --> 00:49:10,760
is being unreasonable or just you know, just doing her usual,

674
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,159
Like I want more than that kind of thing. But

675
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,480
This is one of those where I'm like, no, this

676
00:49:15,639 --> 00:49:18,840
is deeply fucked up, Like this thing was huge, you

677
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:23,840
managed to take care of it, come on something something,

678
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:30,760
So anyway, Clint got fucking torn apart. I was really

679
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:37,320
surprisingly sad to hear that Clint was dead. Nadine is dead,

680
00:49:38,119 --> 00:49:44,599
and let's see Karl is trying to take responsibility and

681
00:49:44,679 --> 00:49:47,039
talking about how it's my fault because I summoned to

682
00:49:47,119 --> 00:49:50,280
this thing up here, but Arison is like, it's not

683
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,639
your fault because she was going into the water and

684
00:49:52,679 --> 00:49:56,519
would have drowned anyway. And Holger said, it's the thing

685
00:49:56,519 --> 00:49:59,639
that killed HER's fault. Which they're all just being so

686
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,320
recent noble about this, which I appreciate because a lot

687
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,320
of times, you know, for the drama, we'll have people

688
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,599
kind of decide to lay blame in ways that don't

689
00:50:08,639 --> 00:50:11,880
really make sense, and it can be very tedious. So

690
00:50:12,039 --> 00:50:18,280
I appreciated this. I'd toss Samantha over there almost ten

691
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,679
minutes earlier, but I'd accidentally thrown her a little too

692
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,840
far in the dark. While we made it, I spent

693
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,039
time on the slope down to the water, searching for

694
00:50:26,159 --> 00:50:30,920
untriggered traps and disarming them I needed. And this is

695
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,960
when he does training his fine trap skill, which like

696
00:50:34,199 --> 00:50:38,920
levels up and he sees how many there actually are.

697
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:45,199
There's a summoning trap, once triggered, will summon two town

698
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,880
guards or minions to the location. Will summon two guards

699
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,320
or minions from this floor. Only if you do not

700
00:50:52,519 --> 00:50:55,519
have minions or do not control a town, this trap

701
00:50:55,519 --> 00:50:59,039
will misfire specific guards or minions. May be programmed at

702
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:02,960
a sapper's table delay two seconds, target programable duration one

703
00:51:03,039 --> 00:51:07,760
time use, which potentially, yeah, we could do something with that.

704
00:51:10,599 --> 00:51:12,800
So there had been a whole thing where he was

705
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,719
hearing the sounds of like other dinosaurs in the midst

706
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,519
of an attack. So that's what he has sent Samantha

707
00:51:19,559 --> 00:51:24,639
to investigate. And she says, it looks like they got

708
00:51:24,679 --> 00:51:27,280
caught in a wheat thresher. One of the bears is

709
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,199
just ahead. Another looks like a cookie that got a

710
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,599
bite taken out of it. There's just footprints, three toes,

711
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:40,119
and she says there's pink feathers everywhere, and Carl is like,

712
00:51:40,199 --> 00:51:45,199
then that means kiwi and Samantha's like, if so. The

713
00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:48,239
way they've been killed doesn't look like the way mongo

714
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:57,480
kills things. So Carl talks to Arison about this. I

715
00:51:57,559 --> 00:52:03,199
love Carl picks up a feather and the ai, this

716
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,960
is a feather, it's pink, it's garbage. Fuck off with

717
00:52:07,039 --> 00:52:08,639
making me describe this shit? Do you want me to

718
00:52:08,679 --> 00:52:13,000
describe the dirt below your feet too? And Arison says,

719
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:19,679
sounds like big Tina. She wears a pink boa. She

720
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,679
just a kid, Arison said, But she a big dinosaur,

721
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,039
carries a wand but it runs out of Zapp's a

722
00:52:25,079 --> 00:52:29,199
long time ago, got anger problem. Doesn't like Ursine eats

723
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,239
them all up, usually with the Mongolian says, but she

724
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,440
runs away a lot and then gets herself into trouble

725
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,840
before they find her. She usually the one that attacked

726
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,639
that town down river that you staying at the other

727
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,840
Dino's gotta go get her and bring her back out.

728
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:44,920
That's why I stay on this side of the river.

729
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:52,960
She dangerous, She good at killing quest updy. So they've

730
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,039
got to find out either why she is how she

731
00:52:56,199 --> 00:53:01,159
is and stop her or kill her way. They got

732
00:53:01,159 --> 00:53:04,079
to put an end to what Tina's doing, terrorizing all

733
00:53:04,119 --> 00:53:14,079
these towns all over the place. So Donut apparently was

734
00:53:14,159 --> 00:53:21,119
woken up by the Quest update and she was asleep

735
00:53:21,159 --> 00:53:24,599
outside a safe room, like I kind of thought the

736
00:53:24,639 --> 00:53:27,480
same thing, because Carl is asking her, like, what were

737
00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:31,559
you thinking doing that? And I had the same reaction

738
00:53:31,679 --> 00:53:34,280
when it was mentioned that she's like fall. I think

739
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,400
she's like on a tree branch or something, and she

740
00:53:37,559 --> 00:53:41,480
says something like because I was bored, And I really

741
00:53:41,559 --> 00:53:44,320
hope that it's like that's all it was, because I

742
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,519
don't want to find out that there's something going on

743
00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:49,599
with like the restfulness of their beds. You know that

744
00:53:49,639 --> 00:53:55,079
they got there's these new beds. I don't know. So

745
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:01,239
this is when Signett finally shows up and is like,

746
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,280
we didn't need to lose all these people in this attack.

747
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,280
It wasn't worth it. I could have taken it by

748
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:12,400
myself and not even involved you all, there's an algae infestation.

749
00:54:12,599 --> 00:54:15,719
The gods damn Confederates had stopped attempting to rule ages ago.

750
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:21,559
It was barely a fight, and they get quest complete

751
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,760
on part one. All surviving members of the assault like

752
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:31,920
you twenty percent more then part two, Sarena's Signet's taken

753
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:33,880
back her family's castle, only to find the place in

754
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:37,519
ruins and the Confederacy in tatters. Her people have regressed

755
00:54:37,599 --> 00:54:40,280
to a time before society taught the meeting everybody they meet,

756
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:44,280
it's just rude. That shit's boring. We ain't going to

757
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,559
make you have anything to do with reuniting or with

758
00:54:46,639 --> 00:54:49,519
our people. We're on the revenge track and we're going

759
00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:53,679
to fast forward. The true culprit are the High elves.

760
00:54:54,400 --> 00:55:00,039
Ear target is Serena, Signet's half sister, Queen Imogen, and

761
00:55:00,159 --> 00:55:05,239
she's gonna be at this butcher's masquerade party. Help Signet

762
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:11,400
kill Queen Imagen. Fair warning, this one won't be nearly

763
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,880
as easy as the last reward. The contents of the

764
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,599
Hialf Castle will become available to loot. There's a rumor

765
00:55:18,639 --> 00:55:22,039
they have something hidden that will protect one from Scolopendra's attacks.

766
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,199
That plus a metric fuck tone of other good shit.

767
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:32,480
And Carl has the same reaction that I do to

768
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,239
this quest where he is just like I don't really

769
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:44,599
understand how the whole like how I can take out Imagen,

770
00:55:44,599 --> 00:55:48,000
who seems to be like the boss of this floor,

771
00:55:51,159 --> 00:55:54,440
like for the sake of this show that like, the

772
00:55:54,559 --> 00:56:00,880
ratings aren't very good when Imagen is sort of instrumental

773
00:56:01,119 --> 00:56:05,039
to whatever the people who are doing the krawl seemed

774
00:56:05,119 --> 00:56:09,000
to be planning. It feels like he was explicitly given

775
00:56:09,119 --> 00:56:13,840
a quest that flies in the face of one or

776
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,280
the other parties that he has to be cooperative with

777
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:25,639
right now, and let's see, oh right, this is when

778
00:56:25,639 --> 00:56:30,840
we get We find out about the tattoos that Signet has,

779
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:35,320
like some of them. All of these tattoos are from

780
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:39,920
fallen companions, I asked, yes, Signet said, or fallen enemies

781
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,199
whom we deemed worthy. I received my first one the

782
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,920
night my mother was killed. That was the same night

783
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:51,880
that I met Edgar. And Donnut says, Wait, the tattoo

784
00:56:52,119 --> 00:56:57,719
there is clearly the same as mister Erison, and like

785
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,400
they must not all be dead Guysnet says Eerison, a

786
00:57:01,519 --> 00:57:04,360
pollen and herman are ogres, but they were born in

787
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:08,920
the day their progenitor fell, all three headed, a three

788
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:12,119
headed nodling who died protecting me from agents of my sister.

789
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:17,880
When a nodling dies, he splits into a new creature,

790
00:57:18,039 --> 00:57:21,719
depending on how many heads the original had. These new

791
00:57:21,719 --> 00:57:27,039
creatures emerge as toddlers, but quickly grow. The original body remains,

792
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:31,920
and we used that for the tattoo which is bonkers.

793
00:57:32,239 --> 00:57:34,480
I'm always a fan of like you kill them and

794
00:57:34,519 --> 00:57:37,320
they turn into something else as a story thing, and

795
00:57:37,599 --> 00:57:42,159
that's coming up in one piece recently with this slow eggman.

796
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:52,360
So Donna asks, are the Nodlings what the Popov brothers are?

797
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,239
And he says, yeah, they only have two heads, not three,

798
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,320
and Signet says they can have from two to six.

799
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,760
It took another hour for the tattoo to be finished.

800
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:06,599
By the time it was done, the sun was starting

801
00:58:06,599 --> 00:58:10,199
to peek over the distant horizon. The finished tattoo was small,

802
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:13,480
maybe four inches long. We watched as the likeness of

803
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:16,840
Miss Nadine took a tentative step on Signet's skin. The

804
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,639
three headed ogre went to a knee before the newcomer

805
00:58:19,679 --> 00:58:23,039
and put his hand on her. She curled up afraid.

806
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:27,599
Does she know who she is? I asked. She is

807
00:58:27,639 --> 00:58:30,639
not Miss Nadine. She is a blood and ink elemental,

808
00:58:30,679 --> 00:58:33,480
and she's a combination of the remains of who she

809
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:37,079
was and of my personal memories of her. She's like

810
00:58:37,119 --> 00:58:39,840
a living portrait painted with her blood. But she is

811
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,960
not real, not in the sense you're asking. She is

812
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:49,920
a facsimile, a loving memory. As I watched The caterpillar

813
00:58:50,119 --> 00:58:54,960
straightened and then formed into a young female chee wearing

814
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,320
a long flowing skirt. She looked up at the ogre

815
00:58:58,679 --> 00:59:03,599
wide eyed. A small child she appeared peeking out from

816
00:59:03,679 --> 00:59:09,760
behind her skirt. Next to me. Holger gasped, it's Clint.

817
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,760
She brought Clint with her. I but he's how he

818
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,039
was before he was changed. Look at all that hair.

819
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,519
It happens sometimes, Signett said, softly, watching the new tattoo.

820
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:27,199
The child Clint looked about wide eyed. She loved him

821
00:59:27,239 --> 00:59:29,840
so much that his memory lived within her. So when

822
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,599
we drew the tattoo, she brought his memory, his memory

823
00:59:32,639 --> 00:59:37,000
with her, even though we didn't have his body. You guys,

824
00:59:37,079 --> 00:59:41,440
this is so sweet. I loved this so much, just

825
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,639
seeing how much these people all like mean to each other,

826
00:59:44,719 --> 00:59:47,920
even though they have no free will. And you know,

827
00:59:48,199 --> 00:59:53,960
it's like, it's really it's bizarre how they have made

828
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:58,679
something that feels so genuinely touching for such horrible purpose,

829
00:59:59,039 --> 01:00:05,360
you know. And Holger says to Clint, I'll miss you,

830
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,800
but you've got Miss Nadine with you here and wherever

831
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:11,599
else you are, you're safer than we are, which is

832
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:18,079
just devastating, just As the sun fully rosed, the wear

833
01:00:18,199 --> 01:00:21,280
Casters returned to the water, set on building a wooden

834
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:26,119
dam around the entrance of the castle. We needed to

835
01:00:26,119 --> 01:00:28,400
get to a safe room. I had my first appointment

836
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:31,000
coming up. I couldn't remember exactly what I was supposed

837
01:00:31,039 --> 01:00:33,559
to do, but it was some bullshit and we didn't

838
01:00:33,559 --> 01:00:39,360
have time to get back to Point Mango. So saying

839
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,960
that tells Carl like, we'll be in touch. I'll find

840
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,360
a way to figure out where you are. And uh,

841
01:00:47,559 --> 01:00:52,559
he says, because she's saying like, we're gonna be hunting

842
01:00:52,599 --> 01:00:54,599
out worlders, and he says, to kill them as soon

843
01:00:54,639 --> 01:00:56,519
as you find them, don't try to capture them. They'll

844
01:00:56,559 --> 01:00:58,519
be getting stronger by the day and soon they may

845
01:00:58,559 --> 01:01:01,840
be too strong to easily kick. She kissed me on

846
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:05,639
the cheek before turning away, so they're very strong allies

847
01:01:05,679 --> 01:01:08,280
at this point. I feel like this is a real

848
01:01:09,159 --> 01:01:18,159
alliance that means something now. So as they're leaving, Donut says,

849
01:01:19,199 --> 01:01:21,880
you know that she wants to fuck you right, And

850
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:26,639
I honestly wasn't getting that energy at all, But I

851
01:01:26,719 --> 01:01:30,960
also can't help but understand what she's saying. He's like, well,

852
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,639
they're making her feel that way if that is true,

853
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:37,960
and she says, well, yeah, but like story arcs, you know,

854
01:01:38,199 --> 01:01:41,360
there's the night before the battle, and she's gonna be

855
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,440
all feminine and sweet and they'll be candles and shit,

856
01:01:45,079 --> 01:01:47,559
and you guys are gonna fuck and it'll be very

857
01:01:47,639 --> 01:01:51,800
like dramatic and sexy, and afterward they'll try to kill you,

858
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,000
because like that's always what happens, is if you have

859
01:01:55,119 --> 01:01:56,760
sex with a guest star, then the guest star has

860
01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:00,920
to die. And he says, well, I'm not gonna do it,

861
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:04,440
and she's like, no, you are not. It's too bad.

862
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,239
Both Arison and Holger are both so hideous. That's the

863
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:10,039
real problem. There's no other decent looking people in the

864
01:02:10,079 --> 01:02:14,599
party for the sex sacrifice other than myself of course.

865
01:02:17,719 --> 01:02:20,599
But yeah, I can't help but think that, like, probably

866
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,199
don't knows how this sort of thing goes. I think

867
01:02:23,199 --> 01:02:26,199
she's probably right, And I really wonder if, like the

868
01:02:26,239 --> 01:02:31,320
people who are actually writing this story are annoyed that

869
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,800
she points out things like this, because it's like one

870
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,880
if you're just saying, like, well, here's the trope, because

871
01:02:39,039 --> 01:02:42,360
tropes be troping, and you were absolutely going to just

872
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:44,480
follow the trope and now you kind of feel called

873
01:02:44,519 --> 01:02:48,360
out for like maybe lazy writing, or just the fact that,

874
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,000
like she's just said the whole thing, and now you

875
01:02:51,039 --> 01:02:53,960
feel like, well, if everybody knows that's what's coming, and

876
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:55,880
we just do the thing that they know is coming,

877
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,280
then our ratings are gonna plummet. So we've got to

878
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,199
change it up now, you know, Like I just am

879
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:06,039
really wondering how the writers feel. In response to her

880
01:03:06,079 --> 01:03:13,000
saying this sort of thing, let's see, Zeen checked in

881
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:15,320
and told me to hurry up. She warned I'd be

882
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,280
transferred whether I was in a safe room or not,

883
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,519
which meant abandoning Dona in the wild. She was being

884
01:03:20,599 --> 01:03:23,880
unusually insistent that we hurry I took the hint and

885
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:26,880
picked up the pace, which definitely to me is like

886
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:30,199
there are people around. She cannot be out here by herself.

887
01:03:32,079 --> 01:03:37,320
They collect them things from Mordecai and we managed a

888
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:39,800
good solid hour and a half of grinding. As we

889
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:46,920
moved quickly, Samantha woke up bitch loudly. Her shouts attracted

890
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:51,159
more mobs, all of which we easily killed. The town

891
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:53,960
finally came into focus. It reminded me of the very

892
01:03:54,039 --> 01:03:59,039
first town we'd found, but even smaller Carl donut get

893
01:03:59,079 --> 01:04:01,519
to the safe room be able to stop or delay

894
01:04:01,559 --> 01:04:05,719
the transfer. You have two minutes or maybe you never mind.

895
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:09,000
I can't say that, just get there. The view counter,

896
01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:11,840
which had been relatively middle of the road since before

897
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:16,440
the moment, the movement was sudden and jarring. Sorry, which

898
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:18,400
I've been middle of the road since before the whole

899
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:21,159
tattoo thing started. I skipped the line was suddenly spiked,

900
01:04:21,239 --> 01:04:24,679
buried all the way to the right. The movement was

901
01:04:24,679 --> 01:04:27,719
sudden and jarring, like the folks on the intergalactic Internet

902
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:31,679
were realizing something. Just after Zevi realized at whatever this

903
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:42,639
might be, I thought entering Alukarta, and he's like, something's

904
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,480
going on and is looking around, thinking there might be

905
01:04:45,559 --> 01:04:51,800
another crawler, And she says, I don't see any dots

906
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:54,320
on the map. It's broken, and he says there's a

907
01:04:54,360 --> 01:05:00,960
protection spell. Go. So they run into a pub that's

908
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:05,719
an actual, real safe room. It was a fast food

909
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:08,920
restaurant of some sort with nobody inside except a single bopka.

910
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:11,400
Do you know who the mayor of this town is?

911
01:05:12,159 --> 01:05:15,039
It was raw, the tree guy said, but he's returned

912
01:05:15,079 --> 01:05:18,000
to the Earth. An evil woman is taking control with

913
01:05:18,159 --> 01:05:24,639
two beasts that kill indiscriminately. Mayor Lucia Marr. Where is

914
01:05:24,679 --> 01:05:30,239
she now? I asked, Ooh, who's that? She looks like

915
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:34,239
my type of crazy, Samantha said, from my back, and

916
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:41,280
that's when I transferred away. Ah, so Dona is there,

917
01:05:42,039 --> 01:05:46,400
like she's in the safe room, so potentially they could actually, like,

918
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:51,599
you know, she could be okay, but like you know,

919
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:55,280
I mean, I just don't like. I just don't like

920
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:58,039
the fact that she's there without him, obviously for like

921
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:01,760
reasons I don't need to explain, and Carl is going

922
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:05,400
to be a wreck, and I don't know. I'm very

923
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:08,440
excited to actually meet her though, I really really am,

924
01:06:08,519 --> 01:06:12,880
because I feel like I just feel like there is

925
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:17,679
something going on with her that I don't necessarily think

926
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:20,000
whatever it is, that we'll learn it and suddenly she

927
01:06:20,079 --> 01:06:23,360
won't seem like a bad guy. But I do think

928
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:28,519
it will explain some stuff, you know. So I've got

929
01:06:28,519 --> 01:06:31,280
to wrap because I'm over time. But thank you guys

930
01:06:31,519 --> 01:06:34,800
very much for listening hanging out with me. Thank you

931
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,920
again to Jackie for commissioning this episode. I hope that

932
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:42,280
y'all are appreciate our appreciating, are enjoying the coverage, and

933
01:06:43,159 --> 01:06:46,039
I won't be recording Thursday. I took the day off,

934
01:06:46,119 --> 01:06:49,880
so I will be seeing you the following week. So

935
01:06:50,519 --> 01:06:53,119
I hope that y'all don't miss me too much, and

936
01:06:53,199 --> 01:07:26,360
until then, don't do motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network