WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.560 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:17.000 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven, This Inevitable Ruin chapters 3 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:22.280 twenty seven, wop sorry thirty one through thirty four. Your 4 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:30.199 girl don't mind her in this section. You know, these 5 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:35.960 orcs just are out here continually fucking throwing a wrench 6 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.320 into things and getting in their own way. And it's 7 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:45.719 remarkable what meeting the patriarch is like, because it's like 8 00:00:46.719 --> 00:01:12.079 what if succession. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the 9 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.519 show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to 10 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:21.560 Michael for commissioning this episode. William is in the chat 11 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:24.120 and is asking miss the lie, but loved your thoughts 12 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:26.239 on Carl, the ring and the Empress. How many times 13 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.079 this donut had to save Carl from himself? Now, yeah, 14 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:32.239 good question. And there's a little moment in this too 15 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:38.400 that I thought was funny. We have William, Nehua and 16 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:41.200 Michael and Saraphim in the chat. Delighted to see you all. 17 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:47.560 So this is an interesting section because we've got now 18 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:52.680 this major threat looming that isn't but only Carl knows 19 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:58.760 that it isn't. And I've been looking for some way 20 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.840 that Carl could have an advantage over all of the 21 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.400 other players, you know, and not the other players, but 22 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:11.960 his enemies specifically. And I was really just uncertain where 23 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.599 it could come from and feel believable. And I'm not 24 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:18.759 sure how much of an advantage this is because like 25 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.039 what I would depend on if I were in his 26 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:27.639 shoes would be Okay, So everybody is about to just 27 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:31.120 like give up on fighting because it's going to be 28 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:37.599 their last moments alive, and so they're going to spend 29 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:41.039 their time fucking getting drunk, you know what I mean? Like, 30 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:47.080 are people going to pull back from the battle itself 31 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:51.120 because it's all about to be over and they have 32 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.639 better shit to do? Alternatively, it could be like I'm 33 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:00.840 going to go even harder because now there's nothing remaining, 34 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.520 so fuck it if I'm gonna die anyway. I don't know, 35 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.840 and I don't know if like Carl knowing that this 36 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.080 is not going to happen, is this something that could 37 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.400 be detected by somebody that, like he doesn't seem as 38 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:19.840 worried as everybody else is what does he know that 39 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:24.960 we don't know? Would that even be that big a problem? Like, 40 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:30.919 you know, I'm genuinely asking, because I keep coming up 41 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:36.039 against this, like folks can be very unpredictable in their 42 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.960 reaction to stuff. I'll think that, you know, there's only 43 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.639 one logical way to respond, and then somebody you'll do 44 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:44.960 some shit and I have to be like, oh right, 45 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:49.400 everybody's not me, first of all, and isn't drawing from 46 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:52.680 the same experience I am. And second of all, everybody 47 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:56.800 isn't logical either, not pretending that I always behave logically 48 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:02.560 by the way, but just saying. And then of course 49 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.879 we have the fact that like Bro winds up getting 50 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:12.560 killed despite things, it's who. There's a lot of implications here, 51 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:17.480 So let's start. Let's begin with chapter thirty one. And 52 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:25.240 it's like, the thing about this section of the book 53 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:27.839 I think that's just a little bit overwhelming to me 54 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:34.000 is the fact that I thrive on the dialogue, and 55 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:39.560 because it's so much battling, it's tons of descriptions, it's 56 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:43.959 tons of explaining the positioning, what kinds of weapons somebody 57 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:47.319 is using versus others. We're also introducing a lot of 58 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:49.800 new characters this book, because it's people that we haven't 59 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:54.199 actually met in person, and a lot of like Red 60 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.439 shirts for lack of a better way of saying it. 61 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.639 And so I think that this is beginning to sort 62 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:07.759 of wash over me at this point, and I'm trying 63 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:11.160 to remember. I feel like, Michael, was it you or 64 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:15.279 somebody in the discord maybe that was asking like, how 65 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:20.600 did you feel about this book in comparison to Battleground, 66 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.439 which is the up till recently, like the most recent 67 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:30.079 dressden Files book, we just had twelve months come out, 68 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:34.759 and twelve months, in my opinion, is way better than 69 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:43.399 Battleground was. Michael says, I think that was rob okay, 70 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.959 and sorry Michael. He also says I'd be trying to 71 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.560 hit the Desperado Club or Club Banquisher to grab some beers, 72 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:55.199 eat carbyist sugariest crap they have, and maybe swing by 73 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:57.399 the Bitch's room to try to check out Snail Trail 74 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.000 in her Mom's act. Snail Trail is just so awful. 75 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:04.399 I hate it so much. And I haven't read the 76 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:07.720 new Butcher File, the new Dress and Files books yet. 77 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.959 I lo Butcher Files. Loo. Yeah. So I will try 78 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.519 not to give spoilers for Battleground, but I will say 79 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:22.360 both Peace Talks and Battleground I found really lacking, and 80 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:26.759 it definitely feels going back and reading them over again 81 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.639 in the context of the greater series, like Butcher was 82 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:34.920 off his game when he wrote them. Setting that aside, 83 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:39.600 there's a lot of inconsistencies to me in character behavior, 84 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.079 things that it seems like he just forgot about, you know. 85 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:49.680 But setting all of those issues aside, the biggest difficulty 86 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.839 for me and the block to getting into the book 87 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:59.439 or remembering the book in much detail. For Battleground, Peace Talks, 88 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.120 there's a lot more dialogue, and that's part of why 89 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:06.040 it's more memorable to me in certain ways. Battleground is 90 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:12.959 this like balls out fight from almost start to finish 91 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:16.560 in a way that began to bleed together for me, 92 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:22.160 pun intended, and it was very difficult to sustain. The 93 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:27.040 kind of relentless is the word that I use a 94 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:31.680 lot when I talk about that book. That relentless onslaught 95 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:37.680 of enemies and death and near misses and descriptions of 96 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:41.120 buildings falling and descriptions of people dying, and descriptions of 97 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.800 you know, baby carriages turned over in the street with 98 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:48.199 a bloodstain inside, and just like it's a lot of 99 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:52.519 awful things packed together thrown at you in a way 100 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:58.199 that feels like there are times where that kind of 101 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:02.800 thing really can work, where, for example, Fury Road is 102 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:05.480 a movie that as soon as you sit down, it 103 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.720 feels like you have already hit forty miles an hour, 104 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:12.839 and then you get to like one twenty within ten minutes, 105 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:17.439 and the movie never drops below one twenty again, and 106 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.360 then it's over and you're just exhausted at the end, 107 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:23.319 but you're also like, that was incredible, what a ride. 108 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:27.199 Oh my god, let's go again. You know. One of 109 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:32.559 the best movies I've ever seen, period and an example 110 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:36.320 of when relentlessness works, but you gotta be really careful 111 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:39.720 with it. And I feel like I'm reaching a point 112 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.399 in this book where the relentlessness is starting to overpower me, 113 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.039 and I am finding myself having to rewind a lot. 114 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:50.759 I am just completely glazing over missing sections and having 115 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.639 to go back descriptions of things that I'm like, wait, 116 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:56.519 why is that happening? I must have missed something even 117 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.679 though I was listening. But there is so much being 118 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:03.440 told to me that it can't track it all, and 119 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:08.120 I'm really struggling with like whether or not this is 120 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:12.559 something that's like truly a narrative problem, or if it's 121 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:16.200 just a me problem, it's certainly possible it's just a 122 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.279 me problem. And for other people this works really well, 123 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.519 and I think it's just a matter of like what 124 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.080 you prioritize when you're reading and what you like, you know. 125 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.600 For me, my favorite Dress and Files books are like 126 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.639 twelve Months in Ghost Story, which are two of the 127 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.960 ones that most people seem to not like because they 128 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.120 have the least of Harry broiding out and beating the 129 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.159 shit out of people, and the most of him being 130 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:47.080 really introspective and not being able to use his magic 131 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:50.440 the way he used to. And I am all about 132 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.399 the introspection and the long overdue conversations between characters and 133 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.519 the getting to see something that you wouldn't otherwise have 134 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:00.320 seen because these circumstances are so specific and minded to 135 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:05.399 make you be here now, you know. And so I 136 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.080 am very much I really love the Dress and Files books, 137 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.200 But I am very much in the minority in terms 138 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:15.360 of overall audience regarding what I like about the series. 139 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:19.600 You know, it's really not about Harry being a badass. 140 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:24.399 That's not what I'm there for, and that I know 141 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:30.840 is like a minority opinion. So I think Dungeon Crawler Carl. 142 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:35.440 I won't say it has the same demographic because like 143 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.399 the Dress and Files fandom has been very male dominated 144 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:42.360 from the spaces that I've seen, and Dungeon Crawler Carl 145 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.279 has felt like, I have seen just as many women 146 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.720 fangirling out as men in online spaces. Granted I haven't 147 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:55.559 been in as many because I'm unspoiled, but I feel 148 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:00.279 like maybe the appeal is the fighting for a lot 149 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:04.240 of people, and so perhaps me being like this is 150 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:08.600 just too much of this is not an opinion that 151 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.399 is going to be shared by many other people, and 152 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.360 so I just want to like put that out there 153 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.039 at the top that like the way that I feel 154 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:19.440 about this so far, I understand I might this might 155 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.960 not be a very popular opinion. It is an opinion. 156 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:27.080 It's just preference. You know. This is not me saying 157 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:31.600 that this book is less good, because this book is 158 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:36.919 clearly very carefully thought out. It's not like it doesn't 159 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:41.720 feel sloppy. There's nothing about this that is seeming like 160 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.840 the authors sleep walking through it in some of the 161 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:47.679 ways that some books that I just mentioned might feel. 162 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:52.879 But it's just not really appealing to what I care 163 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:58.200 about as much. So, William Jones says, there certainly is 164 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:00.159 a ton going on. It works for me because as 165 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:04.080 I reread these books almost religiously, I also wonder about 166 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:08.360 that aspect is the way that I'm covering the books. 167 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:14.320 Sometimes it can do a property big favors. Sometimes it 168 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:18.519 just makes it more difficult for me to absorb everything, 169 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.799 And it really can depend. There are times where a 170 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.279 lot of action and me stopping to talk about it 171 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:29.559 works though, where it's almost like I would have missed 172 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:33.559 XYZ in the action if there hadn't been this moment 173 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:36.080 where we actually like stopped and talked about it chapter 174 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:39.480 by chapter. So you know, I don't want to say 175 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.039 that tons of action doesn't work for coverage, because that's 176 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:46.200 not necessarily true. It's totally dependent on circumstance and the 177 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.840 story itself. But I can't help but wonder with this book, 178 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.919 if maybe, like plowing through the front end of it 179 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:57.600 in a way that I might while I was reading 180 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:01.080 it for fun and by myself versus reading it for coverage, 181 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.080 might it might hit different for me doing it that way, 182 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.720 you know. And it's just like breaking it into these 183 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:10.960 sections that makes it feel like it's all kind of 184 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:15.200 slowed down some and a little bit of a slog. 185 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.840 I'm gonna say it, just like there. It's weird because 186 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:26.080 I don't really feel like it is entirety, but because 187 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:29.519 there are these moments that there are wonderful things happening 188 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:33.200 that are so exciting and new and people showing up 189 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:36.679 that we are finally getting to meet, and insights and things, 190 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.360 and you know, but it feels like those moments are 191 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:47.200 peppered in amongst the rest being really really heavy. So 192 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:51.519 it's like a fruitcake where you've got the real, real, 193 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:55.120 like dense cake and every now and then you hit 194 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:58.879 a bright piece of lovely fruit or nut, but you've 195 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:02.759 got this really intense cake surrounding it and you get 196 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:08.120 full quick. Jeff says in the chat, Hi, Jeff, I 197 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:09.879 like it better than the last moment, mostly because I 198 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:14.159 hate the card mechanics. That is fair, battles like this 199 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.720 get overwhelming, but that's kind of how battles are in reality, 200 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.000 so I understand why it's happening. That said, I would 201 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:21.840 love more flashbacks or gentle meditations to break up the 202 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:26.360 horror the card mechanics. I completely get why you feel 203 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.639 that way, Jeff. And honestly, like I kind of thought 204 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:31.480 I was gonna feel that way in the last book, 205 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:35.600 but because the AI wound up like sidestepping so much 206 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:39.200 of the card mechanics, I actually I felt like we 207 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:42.000 escaped what I thought it was going to be, Like 208 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.720 I thought it would be way worse. But uh, and yeah, 209 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.960 this being how battles are in reality, Like, I won't 210 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.200 argue with that. I just don't necessarily want to read 211 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.120 about that. But it, you know, it's the sort of 212 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.720 thing where it's like, definitely not arguing that it's not realistic. 213 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:02.120 It's just more like I don't like it that's just 214 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:09.759 gonna happen. So saying all this, I am not going 215 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:14.080 to get into detail, as I have said many times 216 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:17.120 already this book, about each of the moves that are 217 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:21.679 being made, because I just don't think it's necessary or important. 218 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:26.039 If it turns out part of it was necessary slash important, 219 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.360 I'm certain that will be brought to my attention later 220 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:31.720 and I can reference it when I have to if 221 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:38.200 I have to. But at this part we get a 222 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:43.080 little bit of information about the Reavers, which is the 223 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:48.320 name of these dudes in uh, oh my god, you guys. 224 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.519 You know, the one that everybody's so excited about is 225 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:56.480 getting redone that I think is like overrated. And these guys. 226 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:01.679 It's sort of interesting because, like in this, the reavers 227 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:09.080 are like barely human beings anymore. I knew the reavers 228 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.559 were all robot with just a little bit of biological 229 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.360 brain left over hidden somewhere inside their robot shells, and 230 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:20.360 they could shapeshift, sort of something about nanobot sized individual 231 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:24.440 machines all coming together to make one. These mercenaries were 232 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:28.559 somewhere between more robotic than those weird nebulars and certainly 233 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:35.039 a lot scarier. And this is when we get the descriptor, 234 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:41.039 which starts with the AI being like, Okay, look, these 235 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.039 guys really shouldn't be here. They don't fit the aesthetic. 236 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.879 I've already told them that we're not doing this next floor. 237 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.320 They've proposed some updates that I've rejected. They already know 238 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:56.360 about it. I also made sure they were only allowed 239 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.480 to come in their light armor, because if they came 240 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:02.120 here with everything, that would be y'all'll be fucking toast 241 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.759 to understand why a perfectly normal person this cracked me up. Guys, 242 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.279 I'm not gonna lie. Why a perfectly normal person would 243 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.519 want to slowly turn himself into a robot whose sole 244 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:17.039 purpose is to invade planetary colonies, shoot innocent civilians, and 245 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.680 spend all day believing he's a fascist, fighting patriot of 246 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:23.480 industrial capitalism. You have to first understand where these guys 247 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.759 come from. Blah blah blah, tough childhood and the pollution show, 248 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:29.279 shadow of the behemoth reaver moons, where most of the 249 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:32.200 physical goods in the galaxy or manufactured blah blah, drug 250 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.200 street gangs, eighty percent taxes, boohoom my mommy is a hooker, 251 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:41.400 no way out, et cetera. You know the story, I 252 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:49.799 am so sorry. But if that isn't just like absolutely 253 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:55.240 it's it's so it's such an unkind way of saying everything, 254 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.680 but it isn't even really leaving anything out. It just 255 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:02.519 feels like, no, that's actual, pretty fucking good summation. But 256 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:07.640 also the AI goes on to really be like these 257 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:11.200 dudes specifically that are here, though I don't want you 258 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.559 feeling like these guys are like the product of circumstance 259 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:19.240 that you should, you know, be sorry for them, because 260 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:23.799 these are dudes who have opted in repeatedly, and so 261 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:27.200 if they're here, they've really decided to do this thing, 262 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:37.279 and they are different. And let's see. Gunny here was 263 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:42.039 once known as mister Jake Tordokai. His designation changes each 264 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.799 time he's deployed. At this moment, seconds before his four 265 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:48.759 hundred cycle journey to gain Reaver citizenship comes to a 266 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:51.079 permanent and abrupt end at the draws of a pist off, 267 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:56.759 confused child soldier, he is known as X two. He 268 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:01.480 has twenty three enhancements to his body. We might as 269 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:07.440 well add a bit of context. Gaining citizenship comes with 270 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:11.240 profit sharing and additional financial benefit, but is a pain 271 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:14.559 in the ass. You lose your biological form to get 272 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:16.839 your foot in the door. The first upgrade is free. 273 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:19.440 Anything else, There's only two ways to do it. You 274 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:22.000 can pay for all of it yourself, which is pretty 275 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:25.079 much a non starter. Or you can work for the 276 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.880 reavers for free. They'll feed you, house you, and you 277 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:31.079 get all the healthcare you want. That plus one more 278 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:34.920 upgrade in exchange for a three cycle deployments worth of work. 279 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:40.559 And the work ain't easy. All that to say, these 280 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:42.759 guys have been fighting a lot longer than you have. 281 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:45.480 This isn't their home turf, and they're not used to 282 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:49.400 Option three enhancement zone fighting techniques, but they should not 283 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:56.720 be underestimated. So yeah, what an odd thing to drop 284 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:02.640 in here. I am really curious about exactly what the 285 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:07.839 like process is front Denneman deciding what types of creatures 286 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:13.000 he's going to include in the dungeon, because I could 287 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:15.799 very much see it being sort of like whatever catches 288 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:18.200 my fancy, I'm just throwing it in. I really like 289 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:20.440 this thing that I just found out about going in, 290 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:23.720 you know, And I don't know if there's more of 291 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:26.559 a process to that, more of a method I would 292 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:28.680 I'm not mad if there isn't. To be clear, if 293 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:31.599 he's just throwing shitting because he thinks it's fun, completely 294 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:35.839 valid and I'm enjoying the ride, so go ahead, But uh, 295 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:45.240 I'm just curious about it. And let's see. At this point, 296 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:48.039 more of the fan shaped shield started popping up in 297 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:49.480 front of me. As I tried to see what the 298 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:51.599 hell was going on. From the corner of my eye, 299 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:54.319 I noticed Victory had appeared standing on the far corner 300 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:57.559 of the building, quietly observing. A moment later, and she 301 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:00.400 was joined by a second adjutant. I didn't RECOGNI eyes. 302 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:04.680 This was a strange, antlered alien type I'd never seen before. 303 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:10.480 All I could see was Tina's head popping up from 304 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.680 the smoke and her shield going up and down, just 305 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:15.559 like the wall protections of the castle behind us. For 306 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:19.079 a moment three Tina's appeared someone having cast an illusion, 307 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.519 but it was immediately dispelled. And the idea of like 308 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:24.799 it going up and down and just being all over 309 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.200 the place because people are just fighting at the base 310 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:31.319 of the issue, you know what I'm saying, is very 311 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:36.400 anxiety inducing to me. I was pleasantly surprised that by 312 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:39.759 the end of this section Tina does not die, because 313 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:42.960 I was sort of wondering, I'm still not certain she's 314 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:45.519 making it to the end of this book, even but 315 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:50.680 I was actually worried about her in a way that 316 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:57.119 surprised me. So a bunch of people pull their cards 317 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:01.640 and start summoning these creatures and what not, and then 318 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:05.240 Donut yells that there's somebody behind Carl, and he turns 319 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:11.279 around and beats the shit out of this guy to 320 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:15.400 a degree that has one of the death Cult leader 321 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:22.839 guy saying, holy gods, that's really nasty and I just, uh, 322 00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:27.079 you know what, We're gonna put a pin in that 323 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:31.079 and come back to it, or just remember this moment. Also, 324 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:35.079 I do want to mention the death cult leader guy 325 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:40.599 Carl thinks is another iteration of Jesus. And as soon 326 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:41.880 as he was like, oh it was a death cult 327 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:46.480 leader guy, I just immediately pictured Jared Leto Jared Letto. Look, guys, 328 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:50.519 you know I have mentioned many a time how being 329 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:54.079 canceled that's not real. There are so many people out 330 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:56.680 there accused of such horrible things and they are still 331 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.599 getting work. And Jared Letto is a perfect example of 332 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.640 one of these people that I don't understand how he 333 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:06.599 is still being cast. He's not a great actor. He's fine, 334 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:11.000 but he's not great. He hasn't been in a lot 335 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:15.400 of hits recently, Like look at his filmography over the 336 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:18.599 past few years, and it's been a lot of fucking stinkers, 337 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.200 and he has been accused of a lot of really 338 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.720 really gross behavior, including having like kind of a cults 339 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.799 of his own. I firmly believe that Jared Leto is 340 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.240 being cast in things because he's got dirt on somebody. 341 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.480 I really believe that I'm not being cute. I think 342 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.640 there has to be something like that going on, because 343 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:42.599 otherwise I do not get it. And every time he 344 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:44.920 turns up in something, it'll be something that I was 345 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:48.000 otherwise interested in at the start of the trailer, and 346 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:50.400 then his face appears and I immediately I am just like, oh, 347 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.200 never mind, and I just completely clock out. I don't 348 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:56.559 have any interest anymore so, and I know I'm not 349 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:59.319 the only one with that response, So that's part of 350 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:01.839 why I'm just like, how are they not seeing the 351 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:04.400 results at the box office that people don't want to, like, 352 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:07.880 you know, watch things he's in, and they're still putting 353 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:10.079 him in stuff you can't talk about how it's about 354 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:13.240 the bottom line because it doesn't work with him. I 355 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:18.559 don't get it. NEA's got a bunch of laugh Ebojis 356 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:21.480 Jeff says worst part of Blade Runner twenty forty nine 357 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:23.279 A son that's seen it. It makes me wonder if former 358 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.519 female colleagues like Claire Danes will work with him. I 359 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:29.920 don't like, no idea what's going on there, man, but 360 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.319 it's weird, and every now and then there'll be somebody 361 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:35.319 like this who you just seem to not be able 362 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:37.720 to get away from. And you're like, they have a 363 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.119 really good agent or something because they are not talented enough. 364 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:43.920 This is how I felt about Shilah Boof also, and 365 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:48.200 he actually wound up sort of disappearing, but for a 366 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:50.440 minute he was in everything, and I was like, why 367 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:55.000 he's not a great actor. He's not particularly attractive, he's 368 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:57.559 really ordinary looking. He doesn't really have a lot of 369 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:00.160 screen presence. I was just sort of like, what that's 370 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:04.119 the appeal? And eventually he just sort of, you know, 371 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.319 dwindled and died. And I keep wanting that to happen 372 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:10.519 to Jared Leto, and he's old enough now that I'm 373 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:12.960 just like, if it hasn't happened yet, he's just gonna 374 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:14.880 wind up getting too oled to cast for certain things 375 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:16.720 and I just have to wait for the natural process 376 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:19.839 of Hollywood. But I had hoped it would happen before 377 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:25.519 that because of who he is as a person. So anyway, 378 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.640 this is just a this is immediately who I pictured 379 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:37.720 here in this moment, and this is when Jamal appears. 380 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:43.319 This fucking dude. He disappeared into the chaos, only to 381 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:45.599 appear a moment later, rising out of the smoke like 382 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:49.640 he'd somehow managed to jump without legs, a squirming mercenary 383 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:53.720 in his mouth before disappearing again. Get it, Jamal, good 384 00:25:53.759 --> 00:26:00.400 for you. And this is when he gets the hingle 385 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:04.640 about some trap beginning to activate. Somebody was arming a 386 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:10.119 ton of automatons, all with equipped satchel explosives explosives. I 387 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:12.960 checked my map, making sure this wasn't one of our guys. 388 00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:16.519 It wasn't. That half of the battlefield was all purple dots, 389 00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:20.480 along with a few of the reanimated mages. I scoffed, 390 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:24.559 you motherfuckers. Might be experienced, you might be battle hardened, 391 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:30.000 but you're in my playground now. So Carl warns everybody 392 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:35.240 to brace and he casts Tripper, which very much delighted 393 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:38.160 me because this was an ability that when it appeared, 394 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:40.480 I was sort of like, that is that could be 395 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:43.000 really helpful, but it could also bite you in the 396 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:45.319 ass so bad, and like, I just want to see 397 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.839 it be used in a really exciting way, and this 398 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:55.359 really fit the bill. The explosion when it came was 399 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:58.400 bigger than I was expecting. One moment my map was 400 00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:01.799 a convoluted mess, and then we were all knocked off 401 00:27:01.799 --> 00:27:04.720