Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book five, The Butcher's Masquerade, chapters
Speaker 1: twenty five through twenty nine. In these chapters, Carl and
Speaker 1: Donut participate in a raid on Fort Freedom. I believe
Speaker 1: that's what it's called. I expected this to be more
Speaker 1: of an obstacle, and it's just not at all. That's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of ancillary stuff, but like that was
Speaker 1: the thing that I think stuck with me the most
Speaker 1: was I thought this would be harder. That's what she said.
Speaker 1: Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I
Speaker 1: am Natasha. Thank you very much to Jackie for commissioning
Speaker 1: this episode. So I'm just going to start at the
Speaker 1: beginning here because I need some direction there. This is
Speaker 1: like this section, it's a bit muddy in every sense
Speaker 1: of the word. So let's just start first of all
Speaker 1: with Samantha and her proposition for signet. You guys, my
Speaker 1: favorite thing about this is the fact that Carl doesn't
Speaker 1: even say anything. He just starts laughing because like it's
Speaker 1: so patently absurd, and Samantha just seems utterly confident that
Speaker 1: this is gonna go the way that she wants. The
Speaker 1: plan is I take your body over, which will of
Speaker 1: course kill you, but you'll have the satisfaction of knowing
Speaker 1: that I'm alive and doing my thing on your behalf
Speaker 1: in your body. Remarkable, Frankly, I mean when I was
Speaker 1: thinking about, like, oh, she can help me, I don't
Speaker 1: even know that I gave it enough thought what that meant.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if any of you out there
Speaker 1: listening had your own theories already or not, but I
Speaker 1: like it was. I think she had. Samantha had specifically
Speaker 1: said something about like she can help me get my
Speaker 1: body back, or she can help give me a body
Speaker 1: or something like that, but I honestly I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I just feel like I remember her saying she can
Speaker 1: help me, and uh, sorry about that. That's my that's
Speaker 1: my dog's caller being very loud. But I just fully
Speaker 1: expected it to be something where she can like put
Speaker 1: me in touch with a person who knows the kind
Speaker 1: of magic that can do a thing, or she can
Speaker 1: like grant me a favor with her magic that does
Speaker 1: you know the idea of it just being like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fully take your body over and you'll be fine
Speaker 1: with that, right, of course, this is what it is.
Speaker 1: And of course Samantha just doesn't see what the big
Speaker 1: deal is or why. And it makes me so sad because, like,
Speaker 1: as Donut says later, Carl is sort of like, I
Speaker 1: wonder what she's even the goddess of, And Donuts says,
Speaker 1: she's the goddess of unrequited love? And Carl, how do
Speaker 1: you know that? And she says, because I asked Carl,
Speaker 1: Which it's just another great illustration of like, in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, how self absorbed Carl is. It's he's
Speaker 1: just so constantly zeroed in on what matters to him
Speaker 1: and his own plan, and he has a real blind
Speaker 1: spot when it comes to seeing other people as like
Speaker 1: fully capable, trustworthy, or competent or able to come up
Speaker 1: with their own ideas. You know, Like he's just run
Speaker 1: into this with donat a number of times now where
Speaker 1: he hasn't included her in the plan and then is
Speaker 1: like genuinely surprised Pikachu face when she doesn't go well,
Speaker 1: and it's like you're not even treating her like she's
Speaker 1: part of this. So the fact that he hasn't even
Speaker 1: thought to ask Samantha, what she is goddess of or
Speaker 1: really anything about herself. It's sort of reminding me of
Speaker 1: the way things were initially with Katchya as well. Donut
Speaker 1: engages with other people, and it's part of what works
Speaker 1: for her charisma. It's the act of asking questions, being
Speaker 1: genuinely interested in the answers, and responding with more questions
Speaker 1: because you are indicating to a person that what they
Speaker 1: are saying matters to you, you know, And it's just
Speaker 1: a really like there is something about this that really
Speaker 1: rings true for me in terms of my evolution as
Speaker 1: a person, because I used to be very much like Carl,
Speaker 1: where I just didn't really engage with people and I
Speaker 1: found it difficult to give a shit sometimes, And you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, like, if I'm being real, it's like a
Speaker 1: weird thing. Especially as a person who has a lot
Speaker 1: of empathy, you wouldn't think that this would be such
Speaker 1: a stumbling block. But empathy and really caring about the
Speaker 1: details of other people's lives are not really the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like I can want you to not suffer, I can
Speaker 1: want you to get everything that you need as a person,
Speaker 1: but also not really want to hear about your vacation
Speaker 1: or go to your birthday party or whatever. And I
Speaker 1: really lived in this place where other people in large
Speaker 1: par often I just wasn't very interested. And I've kind
Speaker 1: of turned a corner at some point in my life
Speaker 1: where I've become much better at being interested in other
Speaker 1: people and engaging with them. And so my husband, who
Speaker 1: is still very much in a lot of ways in
Speaker 1: the headspace that I used to be in, and the
Speaker 1: way that he kind of just refuses to engage or
Speaker 1: is very difficult to engage, it stands out a lot
Speaker 1: more to me than it used to. And I start
Speaker 1: to realize just like I was like this, you know,
Speaker 1: And I don't really know when the change in me
Speaker 1: began to occur, But no amount of telling me that
Speaker 1: you should care about what's going on in their lives
Speaker 1: would have done anything. It was something that I had
Speaker 1: to eventually just begin to give a shit on my own.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that anyone pointing it out that
Speaker 1: it would have helped or made any difference whatsoever in
Speaker 1: my attitude. I think it's just something that happens, like
Speaker 1: as you get older, you just start to hopefully if
Speaker 1: you're like learning lessons. I think you begin to grow
Speaker 1: less self absorbed because you are simply experienced and seeing
Speaker 1: more of life and beginning to understand the variety of
Speaker 1: experiences that are out there. So anyway, it's you know,
Speaker 1: you see this all the time in different like scenes
Speaker 1: with Dona where she's just like, so, what's going on
Speaker 1: with your hair? You know, and like, yeah, it can
Speaker 1: be a joke, it can be treated as just a punchline,
Speaker 1: but she's actually like still talking with them and asking them,
Speaker 1: And that's kind of part of what's like, even if
Speaker 1: it is a joke, you're noticing someone and seeing them,
Speaker 1: and even if they can sense that you're doing it
Speaker 1: in a joky way, as long as you're not being
Speaker 1: like demeaning about it, I don't think a lot of
Speaker 1: folks are really going to react badly to that, you know.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just think it's nice how well characterized
Speaker 1: they both are. That we can see very specific moments
Speaker 1: that I like that I feel are so in character
Speaker 1: in so many different instances and settings and moments in conversation,
Speaker 1: and it's just consistent every time. So anyway Holger is talking,
Speaker 1: they start talking about like this this guy who got
Speaker 1: zapped by a spell that he cast too close to
Speaker 1: the tree. He says, the fools used a lightning attack
Speaker 1: near the all tree, which I was glad that immediately
Speaker 1: ava targets brought up, because if I'm not mistaken, it's
Speaker 1: called the all tree in that too, right, they're not
Speaker 1: wrong about that, Feel free to correct me, guys. But
Speaker 1: I really could swear. And evidently, if you cast a
Speaker 1: spell against a person who has like the forest in
Speaker 1: their blood, and they are standing within like a few
Speaker 1: hundred yards, I think it's like fairly far out. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to let's see a few hundred meters, so like, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much, if you cast a spell against them, the
Speaker 1: trees will absorb the attack and then send it back
Speaker 1: out at you, and it evidently kills the outcropping of trees,
Speaker 1: but they come back. It takes a few months. So
Speaker 1: I appreciated that as like a sort of ceiling to
Speaker 1: how the because it would be one thing if it's
Speaker 1: like it affords unending protection and nobody can cast a
Speaker 1: spell near you at all if you're buy one of
Speaker 1: these trees, that would be a little bit too overpowered.
Speaker 1: But the fact that it can only they defend you
Speaker 1: the once and then it's got a very long kind
Speaker 1: of cool down period. I like a lot. And Carl
Speaker 1: notes that, like, this has to be a new addition,
Speaker 1: because the hunters wouldn't be so stupid as to do
Speaker 1: this right near this tree if they had run into
Speaker 1: these trees before. So this has got to just be
Speaker 1: something that they have come up with this season in particular.
Speaker 1: And I am like anytime that there is something that
Speaker 1: feels different than previous years, I am my antenna are
Speaker 1: starting to go up a little bit. And like, I
Speaker 1: recognize that every time this happens, it's not necessarily going
Speaker 1: to be significant at all. There are just we're going
Speaker 1: to change things up to keep it interesting. We're going
Speaker 1: to change things up because like you need to keep
Speaker 1: your viewers engaged and keep them guessing, you know. So
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to attribute too much meaning. I am
Speaker 1: just noting it and sort of filing it away mentally
Speaker 1: so that if something else turns up a little later
Speaker 1: that makes me go, hmm, I'll remember, yeah, and then
Speaker 1: there was this too, Because there is a part of
Speaker 1: me that is sort of suspecting is too strong a word,
Speaker 1: but is sort of wondering, is there anything about the
Speaker 1: changes that feel like they're leaning toward attempting to help
Speaker 1: crawlers in a specific way or fuck with them in
Speaker 1: a specific way. There's just a lot that I feel
Speaker 1: and be clues to things later, and I am trying
Speaker 1: to keep track of it all. So there's the mention
Speaker 1: also like donut asks if it also protects the high
Speaker 1: elbs even though they're the bad guys, and Clint is
Speaker 1: like bad or good doesn't matter. The trees aren't smart.
Speaker 1: They just sense that if you have forest blood or not,
Speaker 1: and they respond the way they respond. So it has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with taking sides. It's just about you
Speaker 1: being kind of part of them, which makes total sense
Speaker 1: to me. So there were three of these guys that
Speaker 1: came in, and two of them got zapped by that
Speaker 1: repeat spell, and the other is still alive and being
Speaker 1: saved by Signet for the sacrifice for her own spell
Speaker 1: to work. So the first corpse they come across is
Speaker 1: Hunter the talent. I am asking a lot of questions
Speaker 1: as I'm reading this about how their names work, because
Speaker 1: there's a whole conversation later that Dona is having with
Speaker 1: Carl about the naming conventions for these people and the
Speaker 1: fact that like it. You know, if you're naming her
Speaker 1: future Hunter or future Huntress or whatever, that you know
Speaker 1: you're setting her up for a life that goes in
Speaker 1: a certain direction. And I really it wasn't until they
Speaker 1: started talking about it in this way that it even
Speaker 1: occurred to me that these were their real names. I
Speaker 1: was fully treating all of this like they were their
Speaker 1: user names and not their actual given names. I thought
Speaker 1: given names were for the crawlers, you know, like it.
Speaker 1: Just like I said, it just never entered my mind,
Speaker 1: not even for a moment. So I'm very curious about
Speaker 1: y'all and if you thought the same thing. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just because of the fact that,
Speaker 1: like I'm so used to things being sort of video gamy,
Speaker 1: but the idea that this guy is actually named the
Speaker 1: Talent is wild to me. So Carl goes to loot
Speaker 1: the talent, and he's got seventy five thousand pieces of
Speaker 1: gold on him, which is way more than anybody else
Speaker 1: they have ever come across. And then when they love
Speaker 1: the next corpse, that person has no money. So I
Speaker 1: don't I feel like this has to mean something. Maybe
Speaker 1: this guy was supposed to be sort of in charge
Speaker 1: of their party and the leader, you know. He mentions
Speaker 1: later about how like these guys are the leaders, are
Speaker 1: given the best gear out of everything. But I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like there's got to be more to it
Speaker 1: than that. I just don't know what it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: the idea of like, oh, maybe they were specifically paid
Speaker 1: to come after these two, well, like, of course we
Speaker 1: already know that that people are being paid to come
Speaker 1: in and take on taking these two down. We've already
Speaker 1: run into that with that other hunter, So that's not
Speaker 1: even really a revelation of any kind. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that would be what's going on here because that's
Speaker 1: not like a surprise. So I don't know what this means,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it means something. Dona also says
Speaker 1: that this guy has some kind of credit shit and
Speaker 1: we need to go buy something with it before they
Speaker 1: cancel it. And I am very curious how much attention
Speaker 1: they're paying and whether or not they see when this
Speaker 1: thing goes into their possession, and or if this is
Speaker 1: some kind of trap, because like, the thing about the
Speaker 1: setup here, as we find out when we talk to Future,
Speaker 1: is that these guys were given first crack on purpose.
Speaker 1: Like Carl asserts, they knew you'd fail, that's why you
Speaker 1: were allowed to do this, And it's sort of like
Speaker 1: a pitiful moment because she just doesn't even argue and
Speaker 1: instantly begins to sort of deflate and knows that he
Speaker 1: is right. And there's a strong sense of I knew that,
Speaker 1: I just hoped you wouldn't figure it out. But I
Speaker 1: just like was wondering if these guys are being set
Speaker 1: up to go first because everybody knows that you'll fail.
Speaker 1: Is it possible that you're being loaded down with stuff
Speaker 1: to fuck our friends up on purpose? That doesn't look harmful.
Speaker 1: Carl is doing this very careful looting method in order
Speaker 1: to avoid booby traps and stuff like what he did
Speaker 1: to Maggie May. But if they know Carl did that himself,
Speaker 1: then they might be wise to the fact that he
Speaker 1: is going to be looking for that, and so they'll
Speaker 1: find a new and exciting way to booby trap him
Speaker 1: and something like this might work. I don't know, I genuinely,
Speaker 1: it's like because of the way that they are able
Speaker 1: to cheat, it's hard to know. We had that whole
Speaker 1: other like catapult thing in the last chapters that had
Speaker 1: bits of like, you know, they were clearly techn there
Speaker 1: was clearly technology attached to it that did more than
Speaker 1: anything this dungeon is supposed to have in it. And
Speaker 1: I don't ah the a card like this, it could
Speaker 1: very well be booby trapped in some way and technically
Speaker 1: be a cheat, and not even something that I would
Speaker 1: have been able to predict because of the fact that
Speaker 1: they are going outside of the parameters on purpose. So
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm saying is we'll just have to
Speaker 1: wait and see and let's see. Oh right, this has
Speaker 1: When Samantha I guys the way that she approaches her,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I love the bear breasts. It's good
Speaker 1: a bold statement. There's something about the it's good. It
Speaker 1: was just such a funny way to say it. And
Speaker 1: this whole thing again, the narrator with this voice, he
Speaker 1: does such a great job, and she's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I experimented with women for a little bit, and I
Speaker 1: gotta saying you fine, And then of course has to
Speaker 1: like circle it back with the guy that I'm into
Speaker 1: really likespresss like yours. King Blaine loves some perky like
Speaker 1: that not too big, just perfect. He's sure to stop
Speaker 1: banging my mother once he sees my new body. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine? Can you imagine? There is a book that
Speaker 1: is often posted under There's a fantastic Facebook page, and
Speaker 1: I think she also does Instagram called Uppity Negress, and
Speaker 1: she is a black woman who does a lot of
Speaker 1: social commentary stuff and in her comments she will always
Speaker 1: post a link to a book she wrote. I think
Speaker 1: it's called Decentering Men, and it's just basically the assertion
Speaker 1: correct assertion, in my opinion, that women are social to
Speaker 1: center men in everything, and that learning to detect that
Speaker 1: in yourself is a major reprogramming of your brain and
Speaker 1: low key like a life skill that needs to be learned.
Speaker 1: This is a book that I think Samantha could really
Speaker 1: use because evidently pretty much everything she does is about
Speaker 1: trying to find her way back to King Blaine. And
Speaker 1: this man is not worth it, and no man is
Speaker 1: worth it, and if he's fucking your mother, you just
Speaker 1: better turn around and walk away or I just can
Speaker 1: never respect you again. And obviously like sing that, there's
Speaker 1: no question of course she's not doing this, and she
Speaker 1: tries to tell Samantha, I'll find a way to give
Speaker 1: you back your body once we're done with our thing,
Speaker 1: And as Carl puts it, it's painfully obvious that she
Speaker 1: has no intention whatsoever of helping Samantha. And Samantha's not
Speaker 1: a fucking idiot, and she knows this, But she doesn't
Speaker 1: really have other options, so she's going with it and
Speaker 1: agreeing to assist them on simply the off chance that
Speaker 1: maybe there is something that Signet can do. And that's
Speaker 1: just a very sad position to be in it. It's
Speaker 1: like the idea that I literally have no better options
Speaker 1: than even though I can see right through you and
Speaker 1: tell almost immediately that you are less than uninterested in
Speaker 1: helping me. What am I supposed to do? Like? Go where?
Speaker 1: Do what? Talk to who? Of course you're like the
Speaker 1: only option I have. What a shitty spot to be in.
Speaker 1: I really like, as absurd as Samantha is being here,
Speaker 1: there was a part of me that still felt like
Speaker 1: bad for her, you know what I'm saying. And but
Speaker 1: she's like participating in all of this with a good attitude,
Speaker 1: I will say later on, because as much as she's
Speaker 1: grumbling about it, for the most part, she's pretty like
Speaker 1: still fully going all in. And I sort of wondered
Speaker 1: if knowing that maybe Signet is like not being honest
Speaker 1: would cause her to get very half hearted about it all,
Speaker 1: and that's not really what happens. So I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: just saw the chat. Eduardo and Sarah im are here.
Speaker 1: Hello to you both. Yay. So the trap skill that
Speaker 1: Carl has, he uses that to detect traps around them,
Speaker 1: and there's a moment where it loves up and the
Speaker 1: whole place lights up like crazy, and he sees that
Speaker 1: there are even more than he had realized, and let's see. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's a conversation between him and Signet where she says,
Speaker 1: if they just waited, they would have gained control anyway,
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't have had to kill my mother because
Speaker 1: I think actually she was considering stepping down based on
Speaker 1: some things that my mother said before she died. And
Speaker 1: the curse that she's got regarding whether like water can
Speaker 1: touch her at all or anything is getting Carl's attention
Speaker 1: in this scene because she's crying, but the tears aren't
Speaker 1: actually touching her skin, and then when she turns her
Speaker 1: head they fly off like there's like really strong centrifugal
Speaker 1: force or something. The Naiad Kingdom wasn't very big the
Speaker 1: Naiad people had fallen to anarchy. The Usurpers occupied the castle,
Speaker 1: no longer maintaining it or the kingdom. They were so
Speaker 1: obsessed with the idea of being free that they lost
Speaker 1: sight of what it meant to actually run a government.
Speaker 1: Like with most of these stories and quests, this is
Speaker 1: probably some bullshit political cartoon and they were making a
Speaker 1: statement about something I didn't care and yeah, definitely, definitely
Speaker 1: about something. So they make this plan and Signet is
Speaker 1: going to use Samantha as a distraction. Carl is going
Speaker 1: to be strapping one of those sound alarm thingies that
Speaker 1: plays a song to Samantha's head and chucking it to
Speaker 1: distract them. And once we get into this later, it
Speaker 1: becomes pretty clear they probably didn't even need to put
Speaker 1: as much thought into this as they did, because everything
Speaker 1: is so organized and in such poor repair that they
Speaker 1: were on the verge of just losing the castle by
Speaker 1: fucking default anyway. But first we have to deal with
Speaker 1: future huntress of the Skull Empire, who tries to say
Speaker 1: that they can't kill her because then the Skull Empire
Speaker 1: will hunt them down, and Donat is like, sweetie, do
Speaker 1: you think that if we don't kill you. They'll leave
Speaker 1: us alone. Is that what you're trying to say? And they,
Speaker 1: you know. She tries to then be like, but if
Speaker 1: you keep me alive, then the uh what do you
Speaker 1: call thems? The mantises they aren't going to have the
Speaker 1: right to come in here yet, so keeping me alive
Speaker 1: keeps you from being attacked by them. And then as
Speaker 1: Carl is like, all right, I want you to heal
Speaker 1: her so that I can do my thing, he says, please,
Speaker 1: you can't do this. I'm a real person, not a
Speaker 1: crawler or an NPC. I'm a real person. And it
Speaker 1: gets interrupted this moment with the announcement that one of
Speaker 1: the top ten crawlers has fallen. But if it hadn't,
Speaker 1: I wonder what Carl would have said in that moment,
Speaker 1: because the idea that you would try to appeal to
Speaker 1: a crawler by saying I'm not like you, I'm a
Speaker 1: real person is so fucking badshit. And the thing about
Speaker 1: it is that this is not un unbelievable, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. There are plenty of people out there
Speaker 1: who would absolutely say some shit like this and be
Speaker 1: genuinely like, I don't understand why you're offended. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: see it, they wouldn't get it. It wouldn't like so
Speaker 1: I like, what I am thinking in this scene is
Speaker 1: my instinct is were I going to write the scene,
Speaker 1: I would write it as something like I'm a real person,
Speaker 1: I'm not a crawler. And then she catches herself and
Speaker 1: she stops and realizes what she said. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: I would write this as a person who assumes other
Speaker 1: people at least have some kind of basic self awareness
Speaker 1: that they just have to trigger somehow. And the way
Speaker 1: that Matt Dennman is writing this is people don't have that.
Speaker 1: Even like it's not even about like we need to
Speaker 1: access this awareness. There's no way to access it if
Speaker 1: they don't have it. And they don't And it really
Speaker 1: took me off guard for a moment. I was like,
Speaker 1: there was a split second of me going, this doesn't
Speaker 1: feel real, and then a second later I was like, no,
Speaker 1: this is. You see this every day? You see this
Speaker 1: every day? What do you mean? There are so many
Speaker 1: people out there who even are part of a particular group,
Speaker 1: but they choose to like hold themselves as outside of
Speaker 1: it for whatever reason and behave is if they're not
Speaker 1: part of that group, and you see the results of
Speaker 1: that all over the place, especially in the United States
Speaker 1: with this latest election and how there are folks who
Speaker 1: voted for Trump, but they were themselves on social services
Speaker 1: or they themselves were a federal worker and now they've
Speaker 1: been laid off and they're very surprised. Pikachu face about
Speaker 1: it this moment. It's just I think it's like it's
Speaker 1: really well written in that it feels absurd, but so
Speaker 1: do many actual real life people. They feel absurd. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they get distracted by the announcement that one of the
Speaker 1: top tens has been taken down. Future Hunter is like
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. That was raw, which I thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting that she assumes that with no real information.
Speaker 1: I would I kind of wanted them to press her
Speaker 1: on that, but they don't. And the group that Langley
Speaker 1: was in who had been like really helpful on the
Speaker 1: previous floor, it's Langley and his whole group who are
Speaker 1: like gone, and evidently they had been going after Bogged
Speaker 1: and Roe, who is another crawler on the top ten. Well,
Speaker 1: he was like, I don't remember if he was on
Speaker 1: the top ten last time, but he's been on and
Speaker 1: off and he has a bunch of crawler skulls by
Speaker 1: his name. So for a moment I was kind of like, Wow,
Speaker 1: they're going after another hunter or another crawler that's fucked up.
Speaker 1: But then hearing no, trust me. This guy had a
Speaker 1: bunch of skulls by his name, he was a crawler
Speaker 1: hunter himself, and they were just trying to get rid
Speaker 1: of him. I was like, Oh, okay, that tracks, and
Speaker 1: that's fair, but we don't know for sure that that's
Speaker 1: the guy that they got or that got them or whatever,
Speaker 1: so let's get into this battle. He uh, the attaches
Speaker 1: the trap to Samantha throws her, and I love that
Speaker 1: this trap is labeled annoying. And then once she's thrown,
Speaker 1: the song begins to play and Samantha says, what is
Speaker 1: this wonderful song? Carl? It's called Wonderwall. Donut, Carl, you
Speaker 1: threw the wrong trap. And there's just like this ongoing
Speaker 1: thing of Carl really not liking Wonderwall and being extremely
Speaker 1: irritated by it. The trap gets stuck in this particular
Speaker 1: place where it's inside event so it's one kind of
Speaker 1: unreachable to get it out, and two so much more
Speaker 1: loud than it would ordinarily be because it's being amplified
Speaker 1: by the echo of the events. So this song that
Speaker 1: he detests he has to listen to on repeat for
Speaker 1: like hours and hours after this. And let's see, Samantha
Speaker 1: is there was like a moment where they had tried
Speaker 1: to give her a script that she was gonna say
Speaker 1: to help with the distraction part of things, and she
Speaker 1: just like, there's a bet between Donah and Carl whether
Speaker 1: or not she's actually going to even remember her line.
Speaker 1: Donut correctly determines that she will not be able to
Speaker 1: remember it and bets a gold piece and wins. And
Speaker 1: I was sort of genuinely surprised that Carl even like
Speaker 1: it's I feel like this just ties in with Donah
Speaker 1: actually really understanding people and getting to know them, and
Speaker 1: so her understanding of Samantha's capabilities is more realistic than Carl's,
Speaker 1: you know. But anyway, like I said, it just feels
Speaker 1: on a lot of levels like they didn't need to
Speaker 1: plan for this as much as they did. Let's see,
Speaker 1: they had guards, but not enough to cover all the
Speaker 1: entrances and exits. Once the arm went off signifying an
Speaker 1: invasion at the front door, all the poorly trained guards
Speaker 1: would move in that direction, leaving the rear air area
Speaker 1: of the castle undefended while Signet's amphibious assault team moved in.
Speaker 1: Even if noticed, there wouldn't be enough time for the
Speaker 1: alarm to be reset to tell the defenders where the
Speaker 1: real threat was coming from. The whole defensive system was
Speaker 1: a joke. This was just an extra plot point in
Speaker 1: the Signet story and not meant to be a true obstacle.
Speaker 1: So as soon as he says this, I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: because I really thought that this was going to be
Speaker 1: something I didn't I don't know if it was something
Speaker 1: that was sort of hinted at in previous chapters, that
Speaker 1: this was like a complete joke. I knew that it
Speaker 1: was designed to likely be something that they would be
Speaker 1: able to get through and not you know, a player
Speaker 1: killer level of difficulty, but I thought it would be
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a chat and like it
Speaker 1: winds up being, but in a way that was different
Speaker 1: than what I was expecting. The flying paper soldier circled
Speaker 1: above while the others floated atop the slow current of
Speaker 1: the river next to me, misnading. The giant caterpillar hissed
Speaker 1: worriedly Arison. The Ogre patted the hairy thing. It'll be okay,
Speaker 1: he said. The caterpillar hissed again. And this is when
Speaker 1: he's asking Arison, like, she can't even water can't touch her,
Speaker 1: So how exactly is she going down? And the Ogre
Speaker 1: is like, she will just watch and there is this
Speaker 1: shark that wraps her up and drags her down. Once
Speaker 1: she deep enough, she doesn't pop up no more. She
Speaker 1: needs air though has spell but if she go too
Speaker 1: deep she get the squish h how did she get
Speaker 1: the curse? High Elf cast at the night Mom was
Speaker 1: deaded wait, I said, there was a high Elf working
Speaker 1: with these Niad guys. Yeah, the dissenters killed the Tsar
Speaker 1: and his family. They only did it because they had
Speaker 1: help from the sneaky high Elves. It stopped fighting between
Speaker 1: Elves and Naiad. But the Naiad are almost slaves now,
Speaker 1: especially after the nine tier attack. Most of the fishy
Speaker 1: people died, but there's a good number left. They still
Speaker 1: at the tee of twenty years. They got to ask
Speaker 1: them for mission to do anything. Now, the n Iad
Speaker 1: regular folks are going wild like old days because the
Speaker 1: Castle people don't do no ruling or nothing, and the
Speaker 1: elves just really seemed to be like fucking up a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, got their fingers in a lot of
Speaker 1: different pies, and they like almost to a degree that
Speaker 1: kind of makes me be like, are the elves actually
Speaker 1: the bad guys? Because it feels like we're pointing at
Speaker 1: them so hard that maybe we're setting up a twist,
Speaker 1: or like Carl has pointed out that there's like a
Speaker 1: political cartoon that they're doing, and so it is quite
Speaker 1: over the top because of the point that somebody was
Speaker 1: trying to make when they wrote this whole plot. A
Speaker 1: few minutes passed with nothing happening, and then the castle
Speaker 1: alarm abruptly stopped, and Samantha says, I'm trying to wiggle
Speaker 1: my way out. I can hear fighting. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of blood in the water. The river surrounding the castle
Speaker 1: started to bubble. A lightning bolt shot upward, coming directly
Speaker 1: out of the water. At that moment, I caught a
Speaker 1: glimpse of the defense team on the south shore, multiple
Speaker 1: earth signs standing there looking back at us. The ground shook.
Speaker 1: I exchange an uneasy glance with Arison. Look Donut said
Speaker 1: on Dongo don'nut said, pointing after Mongo calmed a body
Speaker 1: loaded face down a naiad. Another appeared, then another missing ahead,
Speaker 1: but then two more bodies appeared, both of them the
Speaker 1: paper cutouts of Signet's battle squad. This is not good,
Speaker 1: Arison said, as Miss Nadine started chittering worriedly, and Samantha says,
Speaker 1: I think it was a trap. So he puts on
Speaker 1: the ring that allows him to breathe underwater, and uh,
Speaker 1: let's see, oh, right here it is. There's tons of
Speaker 1: bodies that suddenly explode up out of the water, and
Speaker 1: Miss Nadine breaks away from Arison and just heads down
Speaker 1: the hill into the water, even though she can't swim.
Speaker 1: Arison is trying to stop her, and she winds up dying,
Speaker 1: which is like a bunch of people are super super
Speaker 1: sad about later. And I was sort of wondering what
Speaker 1: the showwriters felt, because apparently the addition of this weird
Speaker 1: caterpillar thing has like boosted ratings some and so I
Speaker 1: wonder if, like losing Nadine is going to be a
Speaker 1: specific type of issue, or was this all part of
Speaker 1: a plan that they already had in place, or you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying like, I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is going to be any particular problem or if it's
Speaker 1: just something that they have learned to roll with. In
Speaker 1: the way these shows have to work, that there are
Speaker 1: some like unexpected what's the word, There are some circumstances
Speaker 1: that they just can't control. So at this point, Samantha
Speaker 1: is yelling about like how she almost has him, and
Speaker 1: Carl is telling her that he is going to teleport
Speaker 1: her back, and as she is saying no, no, I
Speaker 1: almost have him, the chapter ends and the next one
Speaker 1: starts with I have never claimed to be a smart person.
Speaker 1: And this is very funny because you know, last section,
Speaker 1: I was like figuring out exactly how it worked that
Speaker 1: she could bring things back with her, but it did
Speaker 1: not occur to me that what she brings back might
Speaker 1: still be alive. And evidently it didn't occur to Carl either.
Speaker 1: When Samantha said I almost have him, I should have
Speaker 1: waited a moment and asked what she was talking about,
Speaker 1: and she would have answered with the lightning shooting river
Speaker 1: monster that has taken over the throne room of for Freedom,
Speaker 1: And then I would have followed up that question with
Speaker 1: are you biting down on this creature right now, and
Speaker 1: so she pulls this fucking thing all the way to him.
Speaker 1: And also Nadine the caterpillar is right there, and everybody
Speaker 1: goes flying when he does this, because it's just like
Speaker 1: he says that it feels like bouncing off a wet trampoline.
Speaker 1: When it croaked, both Samantha and beaverform Holger vomited out
Speaker 1: of its mouth, both of them unceremoniously splatting onto the
Speaker 1: dirt like a pair of quivering hairballs. The world did
Speaker 1: not freeze, nor did new music start. But I knew
Speaker 1: this creature was a boss even before I read the description.
Speaker 1: I started to scramble back up the slope. I ducked
Speaker 1: as a multi branch lightning bolt ripped through the night,
Speaker 1: coming from the monster's eyes. The bolt sizzled above my
Speaker 1: head and slammed into the castle walls far behind me.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to be honest, my friends, this description
Speaker 1: was too long. There are times where it feels like
Speaker 1: the descriptions are very long, and that's part of the joke,
Speaker 1: is that they're really long. It goes on for you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. This was one that felt too
Speaker 1: long by accident, or if not, by accident he misjudged
Speaker 1: the joke. But anyway, evidently these things have a tendency
Speaker 1: to show up somewhere and then just settle down and
Speaker 1: live there forever. So let's see Claude Sledgington the Fourth
Speaker 1: decided to make an appearance. At the last possible minute.
Speaker 1: The guards allowed him into the castle despite his reputation.
Speaker 1: Area aps received a ten x constitution bonus. If they
Speaker 1: are rooted in place and they shoot lightning, they are
Speaker 1: notoriously difficult to kill or even move. Quad is an amphibian.
Speaker 1: This excuse me, Oh my god, this is a lizard
Speaker 1: class mob. It will inflict twenty percent more damage against
Speaker 1: you things to your extinction sigil. And yes, like with
Speaker 1: the dinosaurs, I know amphibians aren't really lizards. You can
Speaker 1: complain about it to management. So this he winds up
Speaker 1: like swallowing a couple of people whole whole like hole
Speaker 1: and uh, Carl says he's gonna flip in your direction.
Speaker 1: Be ready, don't attack yet. He's saying all this to Donut,
Speaker 1: and Donut is like, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1: And Carl yells get off of it. Claude let out
Speaker 1: a new and mighty noise, not quite a croak, more
Speaker 1: like a reverse belch. He slurped up the unconscious form
Speaker 1: of Hulger and Samantha. Once again, Miss Nadine launched herself
Speaker 1: at the side of the monster, her mandible things thrashing
Speaker 1: the necklace. Head of the creature struggled to turn toward
Speaker 1: the giant caterpillar, still oblivious of the ogre on its head.
Speaker 1: And he is just trying to sort of like dig
Speaker 1: his hand into it. And let's see, we can only
Speaker 1: attack its stomach, I yelled a second time, Samantha. It
Speaker 1: swallowed me again. Do not worry. I'll just kill him
Speaker 1: from within. I really enjoy how Samantha remains constantly convinced
Speaker 1: that she is going to kill whoever, when she has
Speaker 1: proven to never be able to do any damage of
Speaker 1: any kind. So he casts protective shell. I was expecting
Speaker 1: the larger monster to bowl over to the side like
Speaker 1: a semi truck rolling over, which would hopefully expose his stomach.
Speaker 1: That's not what happened. I was too close. The diameter
Speaker 1: grew with my intelligence, and I should have cast it
Speaker 1: while I was lower on the hill, so the angle
Speaker 1: of the sphere would have pushed him and not launched
Speaker 1: him straight into the air, so Arison is likely up
Speaker 1: there riding on its back, and he is like, I
Speaker 1: need to get out of the way as it's falling down,
Speaker 1: and Doughnut sends up a fireball at it. The creature
Speaker 1: exploded in flames, his entire body catching a light as
Speaker 1: he landed atop the barely visible shield with a vicious splat.
Speaker 1: The line of trees stopped the monstrous descent. It roared
Speaker 1: indignantly as it came to a rest, face down like
Speaker 1: it was doing a handstand. Its legs scrambled against the
Speaker 1: sparking shield. It was stuck. Look at that. Carl Donut cried,
Speaker 1: fireball is awesome. I did enjoy this on her behalf.
Speaker 1: I just appreciated it. It's very fun whenever one of
Speaker 1: them gets something new and it turns out to be
Speaker 1: rat as hell, you know, because there are like a
Speaker 1: fair number of abilities that they don't use that often
Speaker 1: that are very I'm sure, like cinematic. So it still
Speaker 1: hasn't fallen over, and so Carl is like, okay, magic
Speaker 1: missiles time, and then Mango goes for the open wound
Speaker 1: on it. Donut back flipped off the dinosaur, leaning perfectly
Speaker 1: on my shoulder, shooting one last magic missile just before
Speaker 1: the dinosaur dove headfirst into the open wound. The smell
Speaker 1: the spell snapped off, and the trees acted like spring hinges,
Speaker 1: launching the amphibian directly at my position, like I was
Speaker 1: standing in front of a massive mouse trap. Doughnut was
Speaker 1: already gone. I watched in slow motion as the corpulent
Speaker 1: lizard fell toward me, Mongo's long tail sticking from the
Speaker 1: hole in its stomach. I mean, this is this is
Speaker 1: theater here, you know, this is what we want. Uh.
Speaker 1: I fell directly into the wound. It was no longer
Speaker 1: on fire, but I couldn't see or breathe. I felt
Speaker 1: my neck getting rent open by a law as I
Speaker 1: was compressed further. It was Mango's back claw pushing off
Speaker 1: me as the goddamn dinosaur gleefully ate his way up
Speaker 1: and out the back of the monster. Now, I just
Speaker 1: want to say that this very much reminded me of
Speaker 1: my dog Arwin. She just doesn't have any concept of
Speaker 1: the space around her, and she will frequently shove outward
Speaker 1: with her back or front legs and make very forceful
Speaker 1: contact with various parts of your body and not notice,
Speaker 1: care register it in any way nothing, And it is
Speaker 1: ceaselessly irritating and always painful. She has gotten me with
Speaker 1: a back claw, going at life like forty miles an
Speaker 1: hour right in the tit a couple times and I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna fucking keel over. My husband has
Speaker 1: gotten it in the nads more than once. It sucks,
Speaker 1: so I can only imagine when the creature is of
Speaker 1: Velossi raptor with that friggin like toe claw, how bad
Speaker 1: that must be. So he pulls his way out and
Speaker 1: let's see, I'm trying to find the spot. He comes
Speaker 1: out mango from the back of the monster, and Carl
Speaker 1: has to drink health potions and his gills are filled
Speaker 1: with like the guts of the thing, and it finally dies.
Speaker 1: But it fucking They don't get any kind of reward
Speaker 1: for this because they got to the boss before they
Speaker 1: were given a mission to go to the boss. And
Speaker 1: for once, with Donut yelling this is an outrage, I
Speaker 1: fully agree. A lot of times I feel like she
Speaker 1: is being unreasonable or just you know, just doing her usual,
Speaker 1: Like I want more than that kind of thing. But
Speaker 1: This is one of those where I'm like, no, this
Speaker 1: is deeply fucked up, Like this thing was huge, you
Speaker 1: managed to take care of it, come on something something,
Speaker 1: So anyway, Clint got fucking torn apart. I was really
Speaker 1: surprisingly sad to hear that Clint was dead. Nadine is dead,
Speaker 1: and let's see Karl is trying to take responsibility and
Speaker 1: talking about how it's my fault because I summoned to
Speaker 1: this thing up here, but Arison is like, it's not
Speaker 1: your fault because she was going into the water and
Speaker 1: would have drowned anyway. And Holger said, it's the thing
Speaker 1: that killed HER's fault. Which they're all just being so
Speaker 1: recent noble about this, which I appreciate because a lot
Speaker 1: of times, you know, for the drama, we'll have people
Speaker 1: kind of decide to lay blame in ways that don't
Speaker 1: really make sense, and it can be very tedious. So
Speaker 1: I appreciated this. I'd toss Samantha over there almost ten
Speaker 1: minutes earlier, but I'd accidentally thrown her a little too
Speaker 1: far in the dark. While we made it, I spent
Speaker 1: time on the slope down to the water, searching for
Speaker 1: untriggered traps and disarming them I needed. And this is
Speaker 1: when he does training his fine trap skill, which like
Speaker 1: levels up and he sees how many there actually are.
Speaker 1: There's a summoning trap, once triggered, will summon two town
Speaker 1: guards or minions to the location. Will summon two guards
Speaker 1: or minions from this floor. Only if you do not
Speaker 1: have minions or do not control a town, this trap
Speaker 1: will misfire specific guards or minions. May be programmed at
Speaker 1: a sapper's table delay two seconds, target programable duration one
Speaker 1: time use, which potentially, yeah, we could do something with that.
Speaker 1: So there had been a whole thing where he was
Speaker 1: hearing the sounds of like other dinosaurs in the midst
Speaker 1: of an attack. So that's what he has sent Samantha
Speaker 1: to investigate. And she says, it looks like they got
Speaker 1: caught in a wheat thresher. One of the bears is
Speaker 1: just ahead. Another looks like a cookie that got a
Speaker 1: bite taken out of it. There's just footprints, three toes,
Speaker 1: and she says there's pink feathers everywhere, and Carl is like,
Speaker 1: then that means kiwi and Samantha's like, if so. The
Speaker 1: way they've been killed doesn't look like the way mongo
Speaker 1: kills things. So Carl talks to Arison about this. I
Speaker 1: love Carl picks up a feather and the ai, this
Speaker 1: is a feather, it's pink, it's garbage. Fuck off with
Speaker 1: making me describe this shit? Do you want me to
Speaker 1: describe the dirt below your feet too? And Arison says,
Speaker 1: sounds like big Tina. She wears a pink boa. She
Speaker 1: just a kid, Arison said, But she a big dinosaur,
Speaker 1: carries a wand but it runs out of Zapp's a
Speaker 1: long time ago, got anger problem. Doesn't like Ursine eats
Speaker 1: them all up, usually with the Mongolian says, but she
Speaker 1: runs away a lot and then gets herself into trouble
Speaker 1: before they find her. She usually the one that attacked
Speaker 1: that town down river that you staying at the other
Speaker 1: Dino's gotta go get her and bring her back out.
Speaker 1: That's why I stay on this side of the river.
Speaker 1: She dangerous, She good at killing quest updy. So they've
Speaker 1: got to find out either why she is how she
Speaker 1: is and stop her or kill her way. They got
Speaker 1: to put an end to what Tina's doing, terrorizing all
Speaker 1: these towns all over the place. So Donut apparently was
Speaker 1: woken up by the Quest update and she was asleep
Speaker 1: outside a safe room, like I kind of thought the
Speaker 1: same thing, because Carl is asking her, like, what were
Speaker 1: you thinking doing that? And I had the same reaction
Speaker 1: when it was mentioned that she's like fall. I think
Speaker 1: she's like on a tree branch or something, and she
Speaker 1: says something like because I was bored, And I really
Speaker 1: hope that it's like that's all it was, because I
Speaker 1: don't want to find out that there's something going on
Speaker 1: with like the restfulness of their beds. You know that
Speaker 1: they got there's these new beds. I don't know. So
Speaker 1: this is when Signett finally shows up and is like,
Speaker 1: we didn't need to lose all these people in this attack.
Speaker 1: It wasn't worth it. I could have taken it by
Speaker 1: myself and not even involved you all, there's an algae infestation.
Speaker 1: The gods damn Confederates had stopped attempting to rule ages ago.
Speaker 1: It was barely a fight, and they get quest complete
Speaker 1: on part one. All surviving members of the assault like
Speaker 1: you twenty percent more then part two, Sarena's Signet's taken
Speaker 1: back her family's castle, only to find the place in
Speaker 1: ruins and the Confederacy in tatters. Her people have regressed
Speaker 1: to a time before society taught the meeting everybody they meet,
Speaker 1: it's just rude. That shit's boring. We ain't going to
Speaker 1: make you have anything to do with reuniting or with
Speaker 1: our people. We're on the revenge track and we're going
Speaker 1: to fast forward. The true culprit are the High elves.
Speaker 1: Ear target is Serena, Signet's half sister, Queen Imogen, and
Speaker 1: she's gonna be at this butcher's masquerade party. Help Signet
Speaker 1: kill Queen Imagen. Fair warning, this one won't be nearly
Speaker 1: as easy as the last reward. The contents of the
Speaker 1: Hialf Castle will become available to loot. There's a rumor
Speaker 1: they have something hidden that will protect one from Scolopendra's attacks.
Speaker 1: That plus a metric fuck tone of other good shit.
Speaker 1: And Carl has the same reaction that I do to
Speaker 1: this quest where he is just like I don't really
Speaker 1: understand how the whole like how I can take out Imagen,
Speaker 1: who seems to be like the boss of this floor,
Speaker 1: like for the sake of this show that like, the
Speaker 1: ratings aren't very good when Imagen is sort of instrumental
Speaker 1: to whatever the people who are doing the krawl seemed
Speaker 1: to be planning. It feels like he was explicitly given
Speaker 1: a quest that flies in the face of one or
Speaker 1: the other parties that he has to be cooperative with
Speaker 1: right now, and let's see, oh right, this is when
Speaker 1: we get We find out about the tattoos that Signet has,
Speaker 1: like some of them. All of these tattoos are from
Speaker 1: fallen companions, I asked, yes, Signet said, or fallen enemies
Speaker 1: whom we deemed worthy. I received my first one the
Speaker 1: night my mother was killed. That was the same night
Speaker 1: that I met Edgar. And Donnut says, Wait, the tattoo
Speaker 1: there is clearly the same as mister Erison, and like
Speaker 1: they must not all be dead Guysnet says Eerison, a
Speaker 1: pollen and herman are ogres, but they were born in
Speaker 1: the day their progenitor fell, all three headed, a three
Speaker 1: headed nodling who died protecting me from agents of my sister.
Speaker 1: When a nodling dies, he splits into a new creature,
Speaker 1: depending on how many heads the original had. These new
Speaker 1: creatures emerge as toddlers, but quickly grow. The original body remains,
Speaker 1: and we used that for the tattoo which is bonkers.
Speaker 1: I'm always a fan of like you kill them and
Speaker 1: they turn into something else as a story thing, and
Speaker 1: that's coming up in one piece recently with this slow eggman.
Speaker 1: So Donna asks, are the Nodlings what the Popov brothers are?
Speaker 1: And he says, yeah, they only have two heads, not three,
Speaker 1: and Signet says they can have from two to six.
Speaker 1: It took another hour for the tattoo to be finished.
Speaker 1: By the time it was done, the sun was starting
Speaker 1: to peek over the distant horizon. The finished tattoo was small,
Speaker 1: maybe four inches long. We watched as the likeness of
Speaker 1: Miss Nadine took a tentative step on Signet's skin. The
Speaker 1: three headed ogre went to a knee before the newcomer
Speaker 1: and put his hand on her. She curled up afraid.
Speaker 1: Does she know who she is? I asked. She is
Speaker 1: not Miss Nadine. She is a blood and ink elemental,
Speaker 1: and she's a combination of the remains of who she
Speaker 1: was and of my personal memories of her. She's like
Speaker 1: a living portrait painted with her blood. But she is
Speaker 1: not real, not in the sense you're asking. She is
Speaker 1: a facsimile, a loving memory. As I watched The caterpillar
Speaker 1: straightened and then formed into a young female chee wearing
Speaker 1: a long flowing skirt. She looked up at the ogre
Speaker 1: wide eyed. A small child she appeared peeking out from
Speaker 1: behind her skirt. Next to me. Holger gasped, it's Clint.
Speaker 1: She brought Clint with her. I but he's how he
Speaker 1: was before he was changed. Look at all that hair.
Speaker 1: It happens sometimes, Signett said, softly, watching the new tattoo.
Speaker 1: The child Clint looked about wide eyed. She loved him
Speaker 1: so much that his memory lived within her. So when
Speaker 1: we drew the tattoo, she brought his memory, his memory
Speaker 1: with her, even though we didn't have his body. You guys,
Speaker 1: this is so sweet. I loved this so much, just
Speaker 1: seeing how much these people all like mean to each other,
Speaker 1: even though they have no free will. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, it's really it's bizarre how they have made
Speaker 1: something that feels so genuinely touching for such horrible purpose,
Speaker 1: you know. And Holger says to Clint, I'll miss you,
Speaker 1: but you've got Miss Nadine with you here and wherever
Speaker 1: else you are, you're safer than we are, which is
Speaker 1: just devastating, just As the sun fully rosed, the wear
Speaker 1: Casters returned to the water, set on building a wooden
Speaker 1: dam around the entrance of the castle. We needed to
Speaker 1: get to a safe room. I had my first appointment
Speaker 1: coming up. I couldn't remember exactly what I was supposed
Speaker 1: to do, but it was some bullshit and we didn't
Speaker 1: have time to get back to Point Mango. So saying
Speaker 1: that tells Carl like, we'll be in touch. I'll find
Speaker 1: a way to figure out where you are. And uh,
Speaker 1: he says, because she's saying like, we're gonna be hunting
Speaker 1: out worlders, and he says, to kill them as soon
Speaker 1: as you find them, don't try to capture them. They'll
Speaker 1: be getting stronger by the day and soon they may
Speaker 1: be too strong to easily kick. She kissed me on
Speaker 1: the cheek before turning away, so they're very strong allies
Speaker 1: at this point. I feel like this is a real
Speaker 1: alliance that means something now. So as they're leaving, Donut says,
Speaker 1: you know that she wants to fuck you right, And
Speaker 1: I honestly wasn't getting that energy at all, But I
Speaker 1: also can't help but understand what she's saying. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: they're making her feel that way if that is true,
Speaker 1: and she says, well, yeah, but like story arcs, you know,
Speaker 1: there's the night before the battle, and she's gonna be
Speaker 1: all feminine and sweet and they'll be candles and shit,
Speaker 1: and you guys are gonna fuck and it'll be very
Speaker 1: like dramatic and sexy, and afterward they'll try to kill you,
Speaker 1: because like that's always what happens, is if you have
Speaker 1: sex with a guest star, then the guest star has
Speaker 1: to die. And he says, well, I'm not gonna do it,
Speaker 1: and she's like, no, you are not. It's too bad.
Speaker 1: Both Arison and Holger are both so hideous. That's the
Speaker 1: real problem. There's no other decent looking people in the
Speaker 1: party for the sex sacrifice other than myself of course.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I can't help but think that, like, probably
Speaker 1: don't knows how this sort of thing goes. I think
Speaker 1: she's probably right, And I really wonder if, like the
Speaker 1: people who are actually writing this story are annoyed that
Speaker 1: she points out things like this, because it's like one
Speaker 1: if you're just saying, like, well, here's the trope, because
Speaker 1: tropes be troping, and you were absolutely going to just
Speaker 1: follow the trope and now you kind of feel called
Speaker 1: out for like maybe lazy writing, or just the fact that,
Speaker 1: like she's just said the whole thing, and now you
Speaker 1: feel like, well, if everybody knows that's what's coming, and
Speaker 1: we just do the thing that they know is coming,
Speaker 1: then our ratings are gonna plummet. So we've got to
Speaker 1: change it up now, you know, Like I just am
Speaker 1: really wondering how the writers feel. In response to her
Speaker 1: saying this sort of thing, let's see, Zeen checked in
Speaker 1: and told me to hurry up. She warned I'd be
Speaker 1: transferred whether I was in a safe room or not,
Speaker 1: which meant abandoning Dona in the wild. She was being
Speaker 1: unusually insistent that we hurry I took the hint and
Speaker 1: picked up the pace, which definitely to me is like
Speaker 1: there are people around. She cannot be out here by herself.
Speaker 1: They collect them things from Mordecai and we managed a
Speaker 1: good solid hour and a half of grinding. As we
Speaker 1: moved quickly, Samantha woke up bitch loudly. Her shouts attracted
Speaker 1: more mobs, all of which we easily killed. The town
Speaker 1: finally came into focus. It reminded me of the very
Speaker 1: first town we'd found, but even smaller Carl donut get
Speaker 1: to the safe room be able to stop or delay
Speaker 1: the transfer. You have two minutes or maybe you never mind.
Speaker 1: I can't say that, just get there. The view counter,
Speaker 1: which had been relatively middle of the road since before
Speaker 1: the moment, the movement was sudden and jarring. Sorry, which
Speaker 1: I've been middle of the road since before the whole
Speaker 1: tattoo thing started. I skipped the line was suddenly spiked,
Speaker 1: buried all the way to the right. The movement was
Speaker 1: sudden and jarring, like the folks on the intergalactic Internet
Speaker 1: were realizing something. Just after Zevi realized at whatever this
Speaker 1: might be, I thought entering Alukarta, and he's like, something's
Speaker 1: going on and is looking around, thinking there might be
Speaker 1: another crawler, And she says, I don't see any dots
Speaker 1: on the map. It's broken, and he says there's a
Speaker 1: protection spell. Go. So they run into a pub that's
Speaker 1: an actual, real safe room. It was a fast food
Speaker 1: restaurant of some sort with nobody inside except a single bopka.
Speaker 1: Do you know who the mayor of this town is?
Speaker 1: It was raw, the tree guy said, but he's returned
Speaker 1: to the Earth. An evil woman is taking control with
Speaker 1: two beasts that kill indiscriminately. Mayor Lucia Marr. Where is
Speaker 1: she now? I asked, Ooh, who's that? She looks like
Speaker 1: my type of crazy, Samantha said, from my back, and
Speaker 1: that's when I transferred away. Ah, so Dona is there,
Speaker 1: like she's in the safe room, so potentially they could actually, like,
Speaker 1: you know, she could be okay, but like you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't like. I just don't like
Speaker 1: the fact that she's there without him, obviously for like
Speaker 1: reasons I don't need to explain, and Carl is going
Speaker 1: to be a wreck, and I don't know. I'm very
Speaker 1: excited to actually meet her though, I really really am,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I just feel like there is
Speaker 1: something going on with her that I don't necessarily think
Speaker 1: whatever it is, that we'll learn it and suddenly she
Speaker 1: won't seem like a bad guy. But I do think
Speaker 1: it will explain some stuff, you know. So I've got
Speaker 1: to wrap because I'm over time. But thank you guys
Speaker 1: very much for listening hanging out with me. Thank you
Speaker 1: again to Jackie for commissioning this episode. I hope that
Speaker 1: y'all are appreciate our appreciating, are enjoying the coverage, and
Speaker 1: I won't be recording Thursday. I took the day off,
Speaker 1: so I will be seeing you the following week. So
Speaker 1: I hope that y'all don't miss me too much, and
Speaker 1: until then, don't do motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network