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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book four Gate of the Feral Gods,

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chapters nine through eleven. In these chapters, what I had

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mentioned about maybe we could use our shape shifter to

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be the Gnome to prove that he's still alive, and

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actually kind of is what happens, but like it's only

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a tiny fraction of the plan. Welcome to spoil Me,

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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you

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very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. What's up, Michael.

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Michael is here in the chat. Appreciates you. You guys.

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This whole plan has so many potential, Like I mean,

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I know this is the whole thing with Carl's plans,

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and that's the way life is, honestly, is that there's

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like so many places that it could go wrong. But uh,

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it genuinely is making me a little tiny bit twitchy.

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It's got me like a bit more on edge than usual,

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and I think it's just I'm not I'm not totally

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sure what it is that that's making me more nervous.

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And I think that maybe it just feels like you're

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fully going to be on the Gnomes turf shortly, and

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that's just got a real different energy in terms of

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like you just don't know what to expect at all,

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you know. So I think there's an unknown quantity there

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that's got me really paranoid in a way that's like,

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I don't everything has an unknown quantity, Like the whole

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way that this game works does that. I don't know. Man,

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there's just something about this, you know what. Also, and

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I've been trying to like not say this because I

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feel like I don't want to be discouraging, but our

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bros that are helping, it's very funny that like this

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section ends with them arguing about how well he's just

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trying to boost our self esteem, because like that is

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partly probably where it's coming from for me, is that

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we've got some people who are crucial to our plan

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that don't seem super competent or like at the very least,

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there's just a feeling of like, oh boy, I don't

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know if things do go wrong, if they are going

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to be able to think on their feet enough to

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manage to come up with something new on the fly,

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it seems like they kind of have to be handheld

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a lot and because nothing ever goes to plan, you know.

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So anyway, this starts with a distraction of this little

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kid to enable Doughnut to steal his telescope, and Carl

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told her to leave thirty gold pieces and she's just like, oh, I, oh,

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you know what, I left my wallet actually in the

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safe room. I'm so sorry. We'll get you back, and

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not even not even that much effort. I felt very

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annoyed about this. I was just like, Donnut, look, I

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get it. I get it so much. But also, bitch,

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come on now. The thing is, I think Donut has

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so much charisma that I feel like she doesn't fully

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appreciate what, what like being a little bit more generous

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could possibly sort of smooth over because she doesn't need

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to do that to grease the wheels. And many of

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us have to earn our good will and sometimes that's

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just through bribery, and there's not really anything wrong with

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that in and of itself, because sometimes that bribery is

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like just helping a person, you know. But anyway, yeah,

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Carl is talking to Scarn and says, I want you

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guys to promise that you're going to go to the

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toe because that's going to be the one safe place,

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and this kid is like, well, Flint says we should

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go to Spit and Swallow or the wiggle room, and

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he's like, no, don't go there, And also tell Flint

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to come to the toe as well. Make sure everybody does,

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and every single one of you will get a gold

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piece if you do that. So then we get some

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notification about doughnuts, eyeglasses sunglasses. Sorry I make it sound

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like their prescription sunglasses that have gotten an update, and

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that she is sort of cranky at the fact that

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she didn't get the extent of a gift as she

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was hoping for, which, honestly, after this, like we find big,

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you know, Mordecai explains that it's like exponential. I knew

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that sending stuff was going to be more expensive than

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sending an upgrade would be, but it sounds like the

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pricing proportions are just way more extreme than I realized,

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and I am sort of like wondering why. I feel

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like Mordechai probably should have warned them of this beforehand

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so that she wouldn't get her hopes up so much.

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I mean, even Carl he kind of got his hopes

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up when he realizes it's just an upgrade or like

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another ability, he's sort of like, oh, you know. And

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what's funny is that she's very snotty at first about

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this is not worth my time to learn. But then

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later she just can't stop talking about the temperatures of things.

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And that really struck me as a great detail in

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terms of like what I think of in the way

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that this author is handling writing donut is, how would

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a seven year old behave in this situation? And when

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you're a little kid and you get a toy that

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can really do something, that just becomes your complete hyper

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focus for at least a day at least if you're

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like me, probably more like a month, but you know,

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depending on how many other toys you've got to choose from.

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So the fact that this just is something that she

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brings up all the time, I think is really on point.

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Let's see, in addition to its intended purpose, I could

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see multiple useful applications of the upgrade, including the ability

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to find weaknesses on mobs. She could possibly use it

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to help me find traps and secret doors. She could

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set parameters and get a warning when things reached certain temperatures.

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There were dozens of options. Unfortunately, Donut had little patience

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for all of that. I couldn't wear them, so Katcha

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and I were babystepping her through custom the glasses. I

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think you know, Donut has had this reaction before. She

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felt this way about whole that spell and then like

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as soon as she figured out how to really use it,

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literally said, this is the best spell ever. So she'll

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get to it eventually, she'll get to a point where

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she's really appreciating this. But she likes things that are flashy.

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You know. The sunglasses were an accessory that is very exciting.

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She just her whole look, you know, I get it.

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I really chet it. So anyway, and he let's see.

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As always, there were layers of backstory. I couldn't help

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but wonder if we'd already burned out any benefit we

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could get from the storyline when the tomb raider dudes

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killed the collateral guy, I suspected that it didn't matter anymore.

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But if it didn't, why didn't Princess Donadia spend money

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to send Donut that upgrade? Or why did Princess Donatia Sorry,

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she possibly was as much in the dark as we were.

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In fact, considering the lack of people in this bubble,

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that was a very distinct possibility she sent the upgrade

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because she thought she was being helpful and not because

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she knew something we didn't, which I think is probably

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pretty true. It's possible, depending on like your status, that

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you could get inside info and you know, I'm sure

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she's got people, but it could also be that she's

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operating on the same sort of hearsay that oftentimes Carl

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is sort of having to operate on from his book,

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you know, where you have really to just hope that

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this information is accurate. It's maybe a little bit vague,

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not like quite specific enough to be super useful, but

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you're just gonna hope for the best. So we then

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get our description of an upgrade to the chariot, that

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it's a four chamber missile tube. My seat was raised

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and I could swivel three hundred and sixty degrees. This

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sounds but Nana's banana pants. Do you understand me? I

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am trying to picture it and it's difficult. Again, if

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you guys have any access to fan art of this,

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I would be very interested in seeing the interpretations for

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various artists out there. So They're going to go and

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see that weird bird thing. Can't remember her name, but

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what is it? He wanted to say Rascal, But it's

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like Ruckus Ruckus, right, I remember it being sort of

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like it cost A Ruckus, Like I thought in my head,

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that's kind of a fun name. I feel like that'd

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be a good name for dog. So they get to

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it and he's looking through the telescope and sees this

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bird and its description is a level fifty five borrow

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Boss spring operated chicken Hawk Sentinel. It is Ruckus, indeed,

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a bereft minion of Shamous chain Drive, the Great Bugbear

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treasure hunter Shamous chain Drive was known as both a

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paranoid and greedy bastard. He dedicated his life to hunting

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down treasures and artifacts. He set out to find the

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toomb Necropolis of Answer, went down in a sub said

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he would never come back up till he found it.

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Twenty years later, he docked it against an underwater entrance

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and learned he was not the first to arrive. And

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there are all these enemies, all sought the treasures, all

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had failed so far. Chain Drive unleashed his greatest weapon

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in an attempt to slow the efforts of his competitors,

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Rutgers had been stored in status or in stasis. Now

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that the Bugbear is long dead, the Sentinel Chicken Hawk

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is content to spend its day circling around the island

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and being an all around asshole. And then all of

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a sudden, system message, please wait, system message, thank you

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for your patience. You may not resume normal activities, and

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he's like, okay, what the fuck And he gets in

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touch with Mordecai, and Mordecai says, it's usually not a glitch,

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but a gameplay time out, so dueling routines can clarify

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or reconcile rule conflicts. And I'm wondering if this was

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like in reaction to the progress that another team was making,

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or if it's just like accounting for the power of

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the players being higher than was originally anticipated. And Carl

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says something about the artifact the Gate of the Pharaoh Gods,

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and Mordecai is like, huh, that sort of thing does

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start showing up until the sixth floor, or no, the

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eighth floor. Sorry, And Carl says, okay, then how does

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it work that it's in an acropolis under our feet

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and Mordecai is like, I don't know, but like the

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AI gets to pick the loose, so maybe it's just

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doing its own more intense thing this time. And then

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Doughnut goes Carl, she's moving because the whole point was

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to attack her in her sleep, and then all of

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a sudden, Ruckus level fifty five Borough Boss. It's a bird.

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It's a landscaping tool. It's a goddamn death robot, a

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leftover anti boat, anti everything else, security and scout automaton

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that has lost contact with the Akula, lost contact that

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is until now, having awakened and been given new orders,

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it is now seeking out enemies of the captain. So like,

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I don't know, it's there's nothing about as Doughnut points

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out the bereft minion aspect of it, it's operating on

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specific orders. So that's setting this up to be a

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much more like specific and personal attack than it should

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just be an obstacle we need to overcome just a

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really odd you know, uh seraphim oh sorry, Donut's type

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to skip through Taurus Michael says Seamus was ahead of

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the curve on drone combat. I don't remember what this

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is in reference to Zoo says, I always thought it

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was the progress of the other Quadrant that caused this message.

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That was sort of my impression as well. Our Zoo.

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I was like, I'm not sure, but that feels likely.

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Seraphim says, yeah, due to the Water Quadrant group. They

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seem to be fighting the Boss at the time, and

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the system glitched and considered the Boss both dead and alon. Yeah,

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that makes sense. It's sort of interesting how these storylines

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seem to be sort of dependent on each other but

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also so easy to ruin and fuck up that it's

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like everybody is. It feels like they're all being sabotaged

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or at least pointed in a certain direction. And I

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can't tell because the AI has been difficult for me

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to parse. You know, I don't want to act like, oh,

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the AI likes Carl, because I don't feel like anything

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is that simple. I don't think that it likes really,

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but it does seem to resent the people that control

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it from the outside, and so sometimes there are things

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that happen that I'm sort of like, is this the

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AI giving them the finger again? And so for a

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moment I was sort of like, is that what it is?

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But yeah, I think that's probably it. So Carl tries

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out one of his missiles. It's got a target lock

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on it, and it has two boosts that are supposed

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to happen one after the other to make it reach

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all the way to the bird. And at first it

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looks like it's going to work, and then it falls really,

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really short, and he is so annoyed. I felt bad

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because he got very excited at first when it seemed

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like it was working. And let's see, Rookus still climbing,

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flew over the explosion unharmed. The buzzsaw cleaved the newly

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formed cloud in two, and we used a tiny charge

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to drop the backfin of the rocket. It appeared that

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explosion was too powerful or something in the second stage

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propellant caused the warhead to blow prematurely. I don't know.

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I wouldn't know until we tested it. But that did

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us no good. Right now, I had three missiles left,

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all of a sudden, three missiles that had a much

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shorter range. New plan, turn around and drive straight for it,

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and kotcha, is this is so fun? You guys? A

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second pair of eyes and a mouth appeared in the

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back of Kotsia's head. The eyes protruded from her scalp

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on a pair of little stalks. Are you crazy, she demanded,

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you guys, this is reminding me of a moment in

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Roger Rabbit where the dude gets steamrolled, and I was

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so scared as a child watching that movie when he

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stands up and his eyes are popping out. I literally

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burst into tears. I could not handle it. I was

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very freaked out by it and never watched the movie again,

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which is a shame because I hear it holds up

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quite well. But for me this moment, I was just like,

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oh God, that sounds hideous because it's reminded me of

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Roger Rabbit. I quickly went through the three remaining rockets

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and locked all three onto the boss. The monster aimed

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right at us. It loomed like a tidal wave. The

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buzz saw was impossibly loud. It it'd be on us

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in seconds. When I fire bank left and floor it.

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Donut watch out, I'm firing now. I pulled all three

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pins at once. All three hit the boss at the

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same moment. As we turned away, the boss explode the

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bloss The boss exploded high over our heads. The chariot

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rocked as we turned too sharply, but Katsha held out

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her arm in the opposite direction, and a heavy weight

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appeared in her hand, causing the vehicle to right itself.

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Is that dope or what? Honestly? I love that so much,

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Just like her understanding that the mechanics of all of

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this in a different way, that's like, in the moment,

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immediately helpful. It's one thing to know mechanics when you're

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in your safe room constructing a thing, but this on

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the fly kind of thing, and it's not even really mechanics,

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it's just physics, you know. But I just thought this

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was so cool. I love the idea that the AI

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commenting on how easy it's going to be to flip

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or to roll or whatever, maybe isn't entirely true as

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long as Katya is on board and is able to

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do things that mitigate all of that, you know. So

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let's see, I'm trying to find the spot here ruckus

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broke apart in a shower of blood and mechanical parts.

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The winner notification appeared. I assumed the music stopped, but

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I couldn't hear it over the whine of the buzz saws.

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I feel as if I didn't do anything productive in

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that battle, Donna said. Mordeca says, I need to be

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doing more, not less. I'm already two spots behind you, Carl,

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And I actually was sort of noticing that she didn't

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really contribute here, which I thought was interesting, because you know,

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I don't know how she doesn't really have a lot

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of She's got the magic missile attack, which is arranged

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attack technically, but it does seem like they use it

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in close quarters quite a lot, so I can't remember

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exactly how far that goes. And I am assuming if

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they didn't decide to use that, there was a good

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reason that it would never be able to reach the

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thing this far away. But it might be that she

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needs more offensive powers, you know. I mean we've already

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kind of established that, and that she's like so much

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lower in what do you call it constitution that it's

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like genuinely worrisome for her. So I would like her

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to have a little bit more protection and involvement. And

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Patcha is like, I don't get why you wanted me

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to drive straight toward it, and he says, well, I

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wanted to make sure they hit accurately, and I didn't

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want to damage the prize. Get your backpack ready. We're

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gonna bulk you up so you can lift the chainsaw

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and stick it in your inventory. And she starts to say, Carl,

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you know how you're always complaining that they portray you.

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She didn't finish. A mighty rumble filled the world bubble notification.

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The bridge of the Akula has been successfully occupied. The

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water quadrant has been liberated. I'll give congratulations to the

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crawler who successfully took the throne. Room. All hail Crawler.

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Chris Andrew's two and it's Chris the rock Man. This

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moment where Katcha is about to say, you know how

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they always portray obviously, she's about to say, like, you

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feel a way about them making you look like a

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crazy person, But you are a fucking crazy person, you are, dude.

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And there's a point later where she is talking to

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some buddy and looks really unhappy, and I am starting

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to worry that Kotcha isn't feeling being in this party anymore.

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I don't know, man, I feel like they must have

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proven themselves enough by now that you know that they're

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trustworthy and that they have decent ideas, and you know

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their top of the leaderboard and yadayada, but it's I

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was worried overall, and I know it could be nothing

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like as Doughnut says later when she says this plan

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is janky at one point and he's like JANKI, where'd

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you get that? And she says, Lewis told me, and

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he's like what, And she says, I'm allowed to have friends, carl. I.

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It could simply be that Kotcha is talking to somebody

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because they're checking in on each other and they're just friends.

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But I don't know this comment. I know it could

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have just been a joke, but it's just in combination

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with her talking to somebody and not sharing with him

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later that got me worried about it. I don't know, man,

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I don't know. So okay, we go to chapter ten

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and this there's like a brief catch up with Katcha

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about who Chris is and the background with Team Metal

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Lark and everything. The fist sized monsters called night Frights

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were emerging from the sand dunes. They were everywhere. They

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were similar to the rot sticker mobs we faced on

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the first floor. They ran, attached themselves to you and exploded,

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and honestly, I don't remember the rat stickers, so I'm

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kind of lad. That's fine. I promised i'd give the

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message to Chris if I could, but there was obviously

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something going on with him. He'd also killed Frank Q

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soon after Frank had given me the Ring of Divine Suffering.

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That was not the crawler I remembered. I remembered him

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as a quiet man, dedicated to protecting his friends and brother.

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He'd sobbed after the boss battle with the Tuscling Knights.

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There was no way the old Chris would have done

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something like that. Immani said his personality had changed soon

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after he'd chosen his race, and he's still not answering

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her messages and stuff. Immani sort of is assuming that

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Chris wants to team up with Carl because of the

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way that he was talking to his brother, like the

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fight that they had before he left, and Carl is

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very much like, I don't know if I want any

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of that smoke, but you know, maybe I hear him

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out and Immani is like, look, just please don't kill him.

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Like I get it, he's changed, and there may be,

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but he's still my friend and he's still my friend's brother.

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I just ask that you approach it with some caution

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and try and save his life if you can, which

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I fully agree with her on because it's possible there

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is something that we can discuss and like understand about

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why he's behaving how he is. I would definitely want

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to hear him out and see what it is he

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has to say. So there's also this mention of let's see,

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we need a boat with armor. This is amani Ellie

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has figured out how to use an ice spell to

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protect us from the fireballs, but we still can't get

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close to the oil rig. And Carl just says, well,

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build a sub and she's like, bro, do you fucking

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hear yourself? You can't just do that, Like that's not easy.

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And then Carl says, speaking of Chris, he has a submarine.

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I can't imagine he'd be able to get it to you,

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but maybe he has some knowledge we don't, And I'm

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wondering if he stole it, or can he make one

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out of rock. I feel like that would just sink,

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but you know, magic, I don't know, So let's see.

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Oh I'm seeing all. I was not the only one

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who uh was freaked out by the Roger rabbit thing.

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I think the issue with this is, saraphim, the issue

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with magic missile is more of an issue of hitting

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a moving target at that range than the range itself. Okay,

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maybe Michael says it's safe to assume and Dona isn't

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actively speaking she's sexing behful. That's probably true, Saraf says.

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I think Carl's reaction was less you talk to someone

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other than me and Dona, and more you talk to

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Lewis willingly. Heck, I'd buy donut being able to multitask

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and chat while holding a conversation. Probably, Michael, the idea

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of choosing a new race and having that effect who

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I am as a person would be terrifying to me, honestly,

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would explain why most people choose to say this, stay

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the same race. Yeah, And like I don't know how

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many people knew that was a possibility before they chose

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their race. So that's another factor. It's just like how

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much information are you working with? Because if you don't

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know that's what's going to happen, you know, like some

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of us seem to be more informed about that than others.

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And I really wonder because the Carl has changed over

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to a primal, which is like very similar to a

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human in certain ways, but apparently not in all ways.

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And I'm wondering if that's going to manifest in any way,

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and is there a difference in Pascha's personality? Would she know?

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Could she tell? Even I'd like, you know. So this

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is when they go and talk to Henrik, who I

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keep wanting to call Heinrich and there's no I in

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that e area, so I need to stop it with that,

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And they basically are like, yo, hey, so about this

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whole collateral thing. We know that the Nome is dead,

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we know that you're a changeling. We don't care about that.

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We will not blow up your spot, but exactly how

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does this exchange thing happen to prove? And at first

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she's just like, I don't know what you're talking about,

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But as soon as Donut gets involved, he's just like,

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all right, fine, I'll tell you. And let's see. I'm

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trying to find the spot. Here. The alarm goes off

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on the watch and I open it up. There is

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a mirror. The nomish come in commandant is on the

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other side. He makes a symbol with his fingers. I

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show this to the collateral and he tells me a time.

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I then switch the hands on the clock to the

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correct time. Commandant Caine owns the watch's twin, and I

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believe the movement on the clock is mirrored, so when

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I change the time on Henrik's watch, the hands also

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move on the other clock. It is a code we

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do not understand. Only then do the gnomes No win

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is alive, and we have bought ourselves another day a

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code and he cooperated with it. He did for years.

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It was only when we moved him to the chamber

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below the town hall did he start to resist. Only

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when he understood the dynamic of the situation had changed,

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so he stopped cooperating. So I'm assuming that this is

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basically like when he was being handled by actual dramedarians.

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It was fine, but he found out like it was

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obvious he was being handled by shape shifters pretty quickly

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changelings sorry, and then all of a sudden he started

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really putting up a fight and we had to drug him.

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And the drug the efficacy wears off faster and faster

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the more you use it, and apparently just eating the

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raw helped with getting people to do what you wanted

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he'd already said a lot of mushrooms had that effect,

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but that was more of a secondary purpose, especially when

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the system labeled it as an alchemy item. He said

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the mind control effects weren't very reliable, but apparently they'd

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worked well enough in this case. And Carl says, where's

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the real Heinrich, I did it again, Henrik, and he's like,

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come on, do you really want me to answer you

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that question for real? And we also found find out

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that like the Bactrians wouldn't allow changelings to settle with them,

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they didn't take any change links in because they were

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very suspicious of them. And the Dromedarians were kind and

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decided that they would and sucks for them. And when

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Carl basically says sucks for them, though Henrik says, sometimes

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we do things that are not of our nature to

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protect our own, I felt a chill, but only for

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a moment. I remembered what Mordecai had said about these guys,

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that they were basically doing this so they could resurrect

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some ancient monster and touch it and add it to

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their libraries. That wasn't a very noble cause. Still, something

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about that story was nagging at me, I had the

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sense there was more to it than that, and yeah,

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there is definitely more to it than that. I think

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that this is a very surface level motivation that there's

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something else going on, especially the way Juice Box behaves

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later regarding the possibility that they can go to the

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hunting grounds. I'm wondering if they think there's a way

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to move down to the next level with this like disguise,

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like being this thing you know, I don't know. I

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don't know. So let's see. Can you talk to the

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common don guy using the watch no sound, but we

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can exchange written messages. We often speak that way. Have

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they ever sent a representative like an emissary? Yes, they do.

471
00:31:58,839 --> 00:32:03,000
Often there's an ambassa leon, the Kummasar. He comes to inspect.

472
00:32:03,519 --> 00:32:05,720
He has a spell he casts to make sure the

473
00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:09,359
collateral is not a changeling. I believe they fear we

474
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,279
will one day break the code between him and the commandant,

475
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,240
which does make sense. And also, like you can imagine,

476
00:32:17,759 --> 00:32:21,119
I was quite deflated when this is mentioned because I

477
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,920
was now after they like engage with this conversation with Henrik,

478
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,039
and it's kind of out in the open that they're

479
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,079
going to try and help and YadA YadA. I started

480
00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:32,640
to have more faith in my Katya idea. But then

481
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,720
as soon as he says this, I was just like, ah, shit,

482
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,519
But they find a way around that that is frankly

483
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:47,359
brilliant and I'm really excited about. So Carl then asks Mordecai, Uh,

484
00:32:47,839 --> 00:32:49,920
you know, what are my options if I want to

485
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:54,240
make a parachute? And Mordecai is like, well, if you're

486
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,240
a sewer, you could do that. If not, you need

487
00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:00,240
a bunch of shit that we do not have. And

488
00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:04,400
then I'm looking at the stock right now, I don't

489
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,480
have the featherfall materials. I do have enough to make

490
00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:13,599
one type, but you won't like it. I am extremely interested,

491
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,400
and only enough to make maybe two of them. So

492
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,880
whatever death defying stunt you're planning, take Katcha with you

493
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,440
and leave doughnut on the ground. I Oh, I really

494
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,440
want to know, like, is it that he sprouts wings

495
00:33:30,839 --> 00:33:38,720
which might hurt or is it because featherfall you would

496
00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:40,920
just weigh less, right, so you don't fall as fast

497
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,200
or as hard. Bubble boy, I'm assuming it's like a

498
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,640
protective shell kind of thing around you, but that moves

499
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,359
with you and cushions your fall. I wonder if you

500
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:55,920
bounce like a bouncy ball. So alternatively, what I'm thinking

501
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,799
is like either you get wings or you are made

502
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:04,920
into something that floats somehow. I don't know how that

503
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,880
would even work. I'm trying to think of I'm trying

504
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:16,320
to think. I don't know, man, So let's see. He goes,

505
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,400
this is what here it is? I said to Hendrick,

506
00:34:19,519 --> 00:34:21,039
I don't know if this will save the town, but

507
00:34:21,079 --> 00:34:23,760
we're going to give it a try. I turned to Katya,

508
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,119
who'd been strangely silent since we'd returned. Her eyes were flashing,

509
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:30,480
so I knew she was talking to somebody. She did

510
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:35,119
not look happy. I want to know what is happening here.

511
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,639
I'm wondering if maybe it's got nothing to do with

512
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,880
like loyalty stuff, and maybe it's maybe Eva got back

513
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,559
in touch with her and it's just an fun conversation,

514
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:52,199
you know. I don't know. So he tells the plan

515
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,400
to Donut. We don't get to hear what it is,

516
00:34:54,760 --> 00:35:00,159
but she isn't super thrilled with it. And and then

517
00:35:00,159 --> 00:35:04,599
they get a message from Morris. Package delivered. But we

518
00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:08,320
have a new problem. Right after the water quadrant was conquered.

519
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,360
Some of the walls changed inside. I think all the

520
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,480
exits are closed. We didn't think much of it at first,

521
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:19,320
but now something's happening. I think the Necropolis is filling

522
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,800
with water, so I don't know what we're gonna do.

523
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,599
We have a lot of those water breathing scrolls, but

524
00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:27,559
not nearly enough, and I don't think our torches work underwater.

525
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,800
If it fills up all the way, then we're hosed. Okay,

526
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,679
make sure everybody has the scrolls. If it fills all

527
00:35:34,679 --> 00:35:38,000
the way to where you are, go to a safe room. Actually,

528
00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:40,840
you and Bobby returned to the Desperado and plant yourselves there.

529
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,559
If I need to build you something or get more

530
00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:44,559
scrolls to you, we can get it to you more easily.

531
00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:49,800
And he's realizing like there was some sort of domino

532
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:55,679
effect that has caused a reaction in the other quests,

533
00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,639
and is like, I never even considered that the order

534
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,639
in which we did certain things might matter, which like,

535
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,800
of course you wouldn't. I really like, I wouldn't really

536
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,440
think that way either, because the literal walls of the

537
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,679
place are changing, so it sounds like anything you do

538
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:20,000
is changing the other thing so I'm not even positive

539
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,880
that knowing the order mattered would have helped really, because

540
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,719
it would be impossible to predict exactly what would change

541
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,960
based on how arbitrary it seems to be. I don't know.

542
00:36:33,039 --> 00:36:36,480
Maybe there is some like actual method to this and

543
00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:39,000
like a pattern, but right now I can't see it.

544
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:46,719
And let's see. He goes to the toe. There are

545
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,880
tons of people there waiting to be ushered into his

546
00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:55,920
safe safe area, and he says to Donut, let me

547
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,880
know if any of the other the kids other than

548
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,679
the humans are shape shifters. Donut says, I don't see

549
00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:04,239
any others, but it's hard with the kids. Juice Box's

550
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,320
head is very hot, just as hot as the Henrick guy,

551
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:13,719
and the bartender guy is one two. So they go

552
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,840
into this space. Carl promises even more money if the

553
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,519
kids just fucking get in there and make sure everybody

554
00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:26,679
else gets in there. And he's looking at the kids.

555
00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:30,480
I noticed three of the human slash changeling children weren't

556
00:37:30,519 --> 00:37:35,840
fully complete. One, a girl named Ruby, did not have

557
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,639
any arms at all, and her head was sunken in

558
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:41,000
at the top like a deflated soccer ball that had

559
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:45,480
been kicked. She walked slowly with a noticeable limp. She

560
00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:48,239
was hard to look at. When I examined her, I

561
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:52,800
saw she had an active dbuff. This NPC is suffering

562
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:58,840
from compression sickness. I was super surprised that Carl doesn't

563
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:03,400
know what this is. Isn't compression sickness when you surface

564
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:09,159
too quickly after being underwater? Basically? Is that? Am I

565
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,840
wrong about that? I thought that's what it was, and

566
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,519
being that he worked in the coast Guard, I really

567
00:38:15,559 --> 00:38:17,840
would have thought this would be something that would come

568
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,679
up for them, because I'm assuming that you would there

569
00:38:21,679 --> 00:38:24,159
would be people who are involved with like scuba diving

570
00:38:24,199 --> 00:38:26,440
and stuff like that. Unless I'm totally wrong about what

571
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:31,639
this is, it may be that it's like the reverse

572
00:38:33,119 --> 00:38:37,599
U oh sorry, there's a bunch of chat again. Surfim

573
00:38:37,679 --> 00:38:40,159
says making something go unto water is easy. The harper

574
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,480
is getting it back. And the only person we know

575
00:38:42,519 --> 00:38:44,719
that seems to have had some major personality changes was

576
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,000
Ellie and that could just be the age. That's kind

577
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,440
of how I interpreted it with Ellie, is like, that's

578
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,639
just her personality coming back to the surface now that

579
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:58,320
she is youthful again. But you know, maybe not. Michael

580
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,840
says the Bactriines were totally right to not let the changelings,

581
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,400
and given the changelings apparent they started just murdering and

582
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,000
replacing the town they did get let into. And agree,

583
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,639
I mean agree, but also it's the sort of thing

584
00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:11,960
where it's like, I don't know, man, even if you're

585
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,199
protecting yourself, if you turn your back on a whole

586
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:18,960
race of people, how do you live with yourself? You know,

587
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,679
like maybe I'd rather die knowing that I did my

588
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,039
best to be kind than live knowing that I was

589
00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:31,559
willing to just let somebody die. You know, I don't know.

590
00:39:31,639 --> 00:39:36,599
Ann Is Natasha implying the Borring Corporation wouldn't play fair,

591
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,599
Saraphim says, that's the Benz decompression sickness. Okay, I knew,

592
00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:44,199
I was like close with that. It doesn't cause the

593
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:48,480
symptoms he's seeing in the kids. Well, regardless of that,

594
00:39:48,559 --> 00:39:51,880
I mean, I would I know that when you get

595
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,599
the bends, your head doesn't give any Serafim. I'm not

596
00:39:54,599 --> 00:39:57,519
thinking that. I'm assuming that if you are a changeling

597
00:39:57,599 --> 00:40:00,519
in a magical world, that that's going to maybe look different.

598
00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:07,320
That's all, but compression sickness, like this has got to

599
00:40:07,519 --> 00:40:11,599
mean something. I'm really trying to figure this out and

600
00:40:11,639 --> 00:40:18,679
I can't. I don't know. Maybe it's compression sickness, like

601
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:24,119
the kid was fitted into a small area and now

602
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:29,440
is trying to because if they can shift their bodies,

603
00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:33,639
maybe they can shift down to a smaller or smaller,

604
00:40:33,679 --> 00:40:37,559
smaller mass. But they pay a price for that somehow,

605
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:42,079
which then begs the question where was this kid hiding

606
00:40:42,559 --> 00:40:46,960
or put I really don't have like a theory for

607
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:54,559
that at all. So I sent a message to Mordecai

608
00:40:54,559 --> 00:40:56,239
asking what that was, but he said he'd never heard

609
00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:00,800
of it. And Mordecai is very unhappy with them opening

610
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,199
up their safe room to all of these people. It's

611
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,639
pretty much like chaos immediately, the way that it is

612
00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:11,480
with little kids and juice boxes. Instantly, like you need

613
00:41:11,559 --> 00:41:15,719
games or something because they're calm, but they're gonna get antsy.

614
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,960
And I love Mordecai, this is calm, and I was like, honestly,

615
00:41:19,039 --> 00:41:22,039
based on the description that we were hearing, yeah, that

616
00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:29,039
sounds pretty calm to me. And Mordecai, it turns out,

617
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:34,480
has the ability to put movies on and he's got

618
00:41:34,519 --> 00:41:39,239
a significant library of movies from Earth that he stored

619
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:44,880
and didn't want, understandably, to tell Donut about this because

620
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,559
she would just be demanding certain movies talk about on demand,

621
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:55,079
like but very literally and unpleasantly. And I really enjoyed

622
00:41:55,079 --> 00:41:58,719
this as a little reveal. I'm also kind of cures like,

623
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,440
you know, as he says, you don't have time to

624
00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:04,400
watch movies, and he's not wrong, but it would be

625
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,360
cool if we could get an artifact or something that

626
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,599
could fuck with time a little and give us an

627
00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:12,440
extra hour and a half where we could just sit

628
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,880
down and watch something comforting. Does he have TV shows?

629
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,000
I could go for an episode of Frasier to like

630
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:20,960
cool down at the end of the day as I'm

631
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,119
eating my dinner, getting ready for bed, you know, something

632
00:42:24,199 --> 00:42:29,360
like that. So it's just that curiosity, That's what I'm saying. Also,

633
00:42:29,559 --> 00:42:33,000
if you do, like, let's say, if you decided to

634
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,639
watch Fury Road, you might get some really good ideas

635
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:43,800
out of that potentially, So let's see. Oh yeah, she

636
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,280
asked to see something about Mary because she never got

637
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,719
to see the end of it. And then oh my god,

638
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,199
do you have the Sex and the City movie? And

639
00:42:51,639 --> 00:42:57,679
it's just such an odd combo. So this is when

640
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:02,239
Juice Box kind of gets intense and she asks Carl

641
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,880
what is this place? Is it from the hunting grounds?

642
00:43:05,519 --> 00:43:09,280
And he's like, no, it's our base of operations. Can

643
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,159
we use it to get there? No, you can't use

644
00:43:13,199 --> 00:43:15,440
it to travel, but we'll be going there if we

645
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,400
can get out of here. Is that someplace you're trying

646
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,159
to go, which everybody is trying to go to the

647
00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:29,639
next round? Like that's the whole thing, dude, And he

648
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:35,639
does have a moment of remembering, I'm trying to find

649
00:43:35,639 --> 00:43:42,079
the spot because he mentioned here it is Rory and Loralai,

650
00:43:42,199 --> 00:43:45,480
the Goblin Shamankas from the first floor had been the opposite.

651
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:49,159
While they'd been invested in the Lama Goblin meth war story,

652
00:43:49,199 --> 00:43:51,239
they were also fully aware they were on the first

653
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:56,480
floor of a dungeon. Guys, I haven't even watched Gilmore Girls,

654
00:43:56,599 --> 00:44:01,079
and I know the names Rory and Laurala, And I

655
00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:03,719
don't know if I connected the dots way back when

656
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,360
I covered that book, and I have just forgotten that

657
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,840
I connected those dots, or if I fucking didn't connect

658
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,679
the dots at the time. But now I'm looking at them,

659
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:16,360
and I'm just like, oh my god, but I absolutely

660
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:21,719
was not getting it, and I just or at least

661
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,679
I don't remember getting it, so I wanted to address it.

662
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:31,480
The hunting grounds are our ancient home, the juice box said.

663
00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:34,280
We've been stuck here for a long time. There was

664
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,920
a way to go home, but it is lost to

665
00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:40,360
us now that the town hall is gone. Are you

666
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,119
seeking the gait of the Pharaoh? Gods do not ask,

667
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,559
she scoffed. She didn't seem surprised we'd mentioned the artifact.

668
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:52,000
No nomes seek that prize. The same with the mad

669
00:44:52,119 --> 00:44:54,639
mage and that bugbear. All of them came here trying

670
00:44:54,679 --> 00:44:57,320
to find it. One of our kind says, the gay

671
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,639
artifact is a myth. The camels have been here the

672
00:44:59,639 --> 00:45:01,840
longest and they know nothing of it. What we seek

673
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,440
is something else. So what is it you seek? Something

674
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:11,880
to do with the ghost? Queen quetzal kootless. That surprised her,

675
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,440
and not in a good way. She narrowed her eyes

676
00:45:15,519 --> 00:45:19,400
and backed off. I must tend to the children. I'm

677
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:23,079
beginning to suspect this is all you're doing. You speak

678
00:45:23,119 --> 00:45:25,760
of helping us, but where is the proof other than

679
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,400
taking the children? To this place. Prove to me you

680
00:45:28,519 --> 00:45:31,280
mean what you say. If you can stop the gnomes

681
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,880
from destroying the city and my people survive, I will

682
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:40,639
tell you. And I mean, she's not wrong. It's not

683
00:45:40,679 --> 00:45:42,119
that this is all they are doing, but it is

684
00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:47,239
all for them. You know, she's interesting. I'm curious about her.

685
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,039
I love the fact to you guys that she's handing

686
00:45:49,039 --> 00:45:52,039
out actual juice boxes to the kids. And I couldn't

687
00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:53,960
help it laugh because like as soon as he said,

688
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,199
it's like a strawberry key we caprice son. And when

689
00:45:59,199 --> 00:46:03,599
he said, I realized I could only remember like two flavors,

690
00:46:03,599 --> 00:46:09,559
and Strawberry Kiwi was one of them. I remember fucking

691
00:46:09,679 --> 00:46:11,880
up a capri son when I was little. My parents

692
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:13,719
didn't buy them because they had too much sugar in them,

693
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:19,440
but I really loved those things, and I should pick

694
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,920
them up. See if that still hits the way that

695
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:30,039
it used to, So new Quest squeeze out the juice box.

696
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,400
It appears she's rather fond of her brothers and sisters,

697
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,519
many of whom are currently outside mixed in with the poor,

698
00:46:36,639 --> 00:46:40,880
oblivious Dromedarians preparing to die in a desperate attempt to

699
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:44,119
destroy all the incoming bombs with flack. If this town

700
00:46:44,199 --> 00:46:47,199
is bombed, they will not succeed. To win this quest,

701
00:46:47,199 --> 00:46:51,199
you must save Humptown reward. You will receive a Platinum

702
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:56,800
quest box. In addition, all crawlers in this quadrant will

703
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:04,639
receive a permanent fifty percent charisma bonus during any future

704
00:47:04,639 --> 00:47:08,199
interaction with changelings, which is fun than us. And also

705
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,800
you'll also receive my undying respect because there is no

706
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,239
way in how you can pull this one off. Even

707
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,320
you can pull this one off, which I thought was

708
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,719
interesting that the AI was like even you, because it

709
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:27,840
implies a certain type of respect, you know. So let's see.

710
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,840
Michael says they could just use the Michael Scott theory

711
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,559
of using movies to increase productivity. No, they literally have

712
00:47:34,679 --> 00:47:36,719
to be more productive to make up for the half

713
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:41,199
hour they lost watching movies. I don't remember this plot point.

714
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,519
If I recall, Donut straight up said she was naming

715
00:47:44,519 --> 00:47:49,880
them after the Gilmore girls. Donut named them. I don't

716
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,880
remember that. That makes a lot more sense now, Okay.

717
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,079
I thought it was like the game making a little

718
00:47:55,119 --> 00:47:59,199
jokey joke, but Donut doing it. Okay, that makes sense.

719
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,039
Seraphim says, maybe Donut could get some sort of film

720
00:48:03,039 --> 00:48:05,360
critic class that requires her to watch movies to get

721
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:11,920
some kind of buff slash abilities. All right, So chapter eleven,

722
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,880
he opens his loop boxes. First was a case of

723
00:48:17,519 --> 00:48:22,039
twenty five more surefires, which was a relief. The second

724
00:48:22,119 --> 00:48:25,079
was a little worrying. It was similar to the boss

725
00:48:25,159 --> 00:48:28,519
damage enhancing Seize the day toothpaste I have, which was

726
00:48:28,639 --> 00:48:31,960
I was saving for later. It's a lotion bottle, just

727
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,400
like the one who used to keep hidden in your

728
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:38,119
drawer by the bed. Of course, So if you can't

729
00:48:38,199 --> 00:48:40,719
talk someone into peeing on you after you get stung

730
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,280
by a pain amplifier jelly, then this will do. The

731
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,199
trick effect removes the pain portion of the kill me

732
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,119
now it hurts deep buff warning. It does not remove

733
00:48:51,199 --> 00:48:55,400
the one minute healing block effect associated with the jelly sting.

734
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:01,320
And understandably, Carl is just like, uh, God, that all

735
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:06,639
sounds terrible, Like, yeah, I don't like previews like this.

736
00:49:06,639 --> 00:49:14,519
This is just toying with people. Uh. And then the

737
00:49:14,559 --> 00:49:20,079
best thing, the silver fanbox enchanted role of never ending

738
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:24,400
duct tape fifty meters. This is great. I had said

739
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,599
that like a never ending duct tape would be great,

740
00:49:26,639 --> 00:49:29,000
but I wasn't sure that would be too like too broken.

741
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,280
And it turns out it's never ending. But like you know,

742
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,039
it has a cool down and it has a certain

743
00:49:34,119 --> 00:49:38,079
number of meters per hour that it refills at. And

744
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,079
it says, odds are good. You know who Ted Bundy is.

745
00:49:41,119 --> 00:49:45,280
Odds are even better. You don't know who Vesta Stout is.

746
00:49:46,159 --> 00:49:51,239
And according to this, Vesta Oral Stout was a factory

747
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,519
worker during the Second World War, famous for her letter

748
00:49:54,559 --> 00:49:57,719
to President Franklin D. Rose about suggesting the use of

749
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:04,840
adhesive tape to improve of ammunition boxes. So, uh, there

750
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:09,199
you go. Will you use it to tie people up?

751
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,000
Will you use it to save the lives of those

752
00:50:11,039 --> 00:50:13,880
you love? Will you wrap your ankles together and sensuously

753
00:50:14,039 --> 00:50:16,760
rub your supple feet up and down a dungeon wall

754
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:22,039
while you run your hands through your hair. Guys, I'm

755
00:50:22,039 --> 00:50:25,599
not too proud to admit if the AI were asking

756
00:50:25,639 --> 00:50:29,320
these questions, I would fucking try it. I would just

757
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,880
want to know if I do this for you, AI,

758
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,599
what do you do for me? Just out of curiosity.

759
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,000
It's not like it's acting me to like give a

760
00:50:40,079 --> 00:50:43,320
lap dance, you know, it's not. I'm not asking like

761
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:47,719
cam girl shit, like to masturbate or anything. Literally just

762
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,440
rub your feet up and down the wall and run

763
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,360
your hands through your hair. I could do that. I

764
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,400
could just do that as a nice little break. It

765
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:59,920
doesn't even have to you know, like fuck, I want

766
00:51:00,119 --> 00:51:03,840
you to try it, Carl, Just come on, come on,

767
00:51:04,079 --> 00:51:05,639
just give it up a little bit, just give it up.

768
00:51:06,159 --> 00:51:13,280
Let's just see anyway. So then we have the plan,

769
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,159
and as it is getting set up, I'm starting to

770
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:22,559
understand what's happening, but not fully getting it. So I

771
00:51:22,599 --> 00:51:25,480
attached the back cart to the body of the chariot.

772
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,119
Fiaras sat sat in the back car along with Henrik

773
00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:31,719
Lewis sat in the driver's seat while I walked to

774
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,159
the left and Donuts sitting astride. Mango marched to our right.

775
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,159
And this was a complicated plan with a lot of

776
00:51:40,199 --> 00:51:42,280
moving parts, which meant there were a lot of ways

777
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,159
for it to go south. She was nervous. I was

778
00:51:45,199 --> 00:51:52,840
nervous too. So when the Gnome has been reanimated with

779
00:51:53,320 --> 00:52:00,199
Donuts spell and because she has increased in her overall

780
00:52:01,039 --> 00:52:05,400
like skills and abilities, that spell lasts for a half hour,

781
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:12,760
which is like pretty impressive, but unfortunately Carl mentions later, like,

782
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:17,480
I think we started it too soon. Probably true, Like

783
00:52:18,079 --> 00:52:21,920
maybe have him just be limp in the back and

784
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,400
cast the spell just as it's time to show him off,

785
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,559
you know. But I definitely get why they did it

786
00:52:29,599 --> 00:52:32,440
this way, because I probably would too. I wouldn't really

787
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:39,199
think about how long this would take. And let's see

788
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,800
the balloon comes down. We've gotten a level twenty five

789
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:47,079
aerostat pilot and level forty four negotiator and level fifty

790
00:52:47,119 --> 00:52:52,800
two sniper captain, which is a little intimidating. Of all

791
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,800
the vehicles left aboard the Dreadnought Waste Slam, the Vahana

792
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,400
is perhaps the oldest. Once long ago the Gnomes believed

793
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:04,800
they could have wore war. And we get a whole

794
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:09,960
story here that I won't get into. The Sylvan balloons

795
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,599
were mostly dismantled and recycled, some together to give extra

796
00:53:12,639 --> 00:53:16,840
security to Nomish settlements. The Peaceful Flying Community has changed

797
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:22,880
their name from sky Garden to Dreadnought and the Sniper

798
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:28,440
Gnome and everybody. We get a description of what they

799
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,840
all look like. And then there's one dude who is

800
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,920
wearing this one particular type of motorcycle helmet and we

801
00:53:35,039 --> 00:53:39,519
get another devastating fucking story. I swear to God, I

802
00:53:39,639 --> 00:53:43,880
want there to be a happy story like just like one.

803
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:50,280
Even the circus story is so sad because the moment

804
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:55,079
that it comes to him, he feels violated, and it's

805
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,079
laced with the sadness of his mother trying to get

806
00:53:59,079 --> 00:54:02,760
away from this man. Like it's not really happy. And

807
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,880
I had a sudden memory of my father angry. It

808
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,119
was soon after Mom had left us, a month before

809
00:54:10,119 --> 00:54:14,039
he in turn left me defend for myself. He'd ripped

810
00:54:14,039 --> 00:54:17,199
off the helmet and smashed my fish tank, spilling my

811
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:21,119
Molly's everywhere. I hadn't cried when my fish died, and

812
00:54:21,159 --> 00:54:24,840
I remembered it had bothered me for weeks after. Ever

813
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,480
since then, I'd think of my father and those fish.

814
00:54:27,519 --> 00:54:30,119
Whenever I saw one of those helmets, I'd think of

815
00:54:30,159 --> 00:54:32,960
those fish flopping on the ground as I desperately tried

816
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,239
to pick them up, cutting my fingers on the glass.

817
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,440
I'd think of the pain and blood, and of them

818
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,760
not surviving even after I put them in a cup.

819
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,559
Whenever I saw a helmet like that, I would think

820
00:54:43,599 --> 00:54:47,039
of that day and remember how easy it was to

821
00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:51,280
grow numb and not even realize it. I'd think I'm

822
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:55,159
never getting a pet again. All they'd do is die.

823
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:59,719
It felt like the wrong lesson, especially now. But that's

824
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,199
what happens, isn't it. The universe shows us how cruel

825
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:07,079
it can be, and we are worse for it. And

826
00:55:10,599 --> 00:55:12,920
you know, like this, this type of cruelty coming from

827
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,159
your parents, especially, I don't feel like there's a way

828
00:55:16,159 --> 00:55:19,360
to avoid making yourself numb, because how else do you

829
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,039
get through it. You have to. It's a fucking like,

830
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:28,360
you know, it's a self protection. It's just devastating. Though

831
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:34,599
this whole thing is so sad. I really just the

832
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,719
idea of like, I'm never getting a pet again. And

833
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,880
then he goes and looks at Donut. She's not a

834
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,679
pet anymore. Was she better off now? I didn't know.

835
00:55:47,639 --> 00:55:51,159
I mean, I would say probably not, just because everything

836
00:55:51,199 --> 00:55:56,599
is so fucked completely. But at the same time, you've

837
00:55:56,599 --> 00:56:00,960
got a cowl that has your back in such a

838
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,679
way that, like, I mean, I don't know if you

839
00:56:04,679 --> 00:56:11,760
would have found this otherwise, you know. Sorry, I get

840
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,760
the impression Carl plays hard to get as part of

841
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,800
the reason it likes him. Oh, saraph I'm about the AI.

842
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,800
I see, the question has always been why did Carl

843
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,599
stay with b Did he stay with her for donut?

844
00:56:23,559 --> 00:56:26,039
And Saraphim says, Carl is just so deeply loyal he

845
00:56:26,079 --> 00:56:28,199
would never leave her till he had concrete proof she

846
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,079
wasn't loyal to him. Well, I do think, guys, and

847
00:56:31,119 --> 00:56:32,920
I'm so sorry I don't remember who mentioned it, but

848
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,000
somebody in the chat and the discord said that he

849
00:56:35,159 --> 00:56:40,199
has got abandonment issues and probably stayed with somebody even

850
00:56:40,199 --> 00:56:42,199
when they were mistreating him because he's used to being

851
00:56:42,199 --> 00:56:45,159
mistreated and has that, And so I think that's definitely

852
00:56:45,199 --> 00:56:50,800
a part of that as well. You know, if you're

853
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:55,679
used to being kind of bullied, mild bullying doesn't feel

854
00:56:55,679 --> 00:56:58,760
like bullying anymore, and it feels just familiar enough that

855
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,960
it's almost comforting. And I could see it just getting normalized.

856
00:57:03,599 --> 00:57:06,800
Our a Zoo said it, Ah, our a Zoo, Yay,

857
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:10,360
thank you. Sorry that I didn't remember it was you,

858
00:57:10,639 --> 00:57:13,639
but I'm glad you're here to take credit for that. Yeah,

859
00:57:13,639 --> 00:57:15,440
it was a really good point that hadn't occurred to me,

860
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:19,039
But that makes a lot of sense. So yeah, this

861
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:22,760
I'm never getting a pet again. All they do is

862
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:27,760
die like that is true about pets. They die before

863
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,280
you almost every time because that's just the nature of

864
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,000
how short lived they are. But also you get to

865
00:57:34,079 --> 00:57:40,559
experience love when you have pets of a type that

866
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,960
is worth it in my opinion in the end. Usually

867
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,679
I'm not going to say that these fish being destroyed

868
00:57:46,679 --> 00:57:48,599
by his dad was necessarily worth it, because that's a

869
00:57:48,599 --> 00:57:57,079
whole different situation. But you know, so we have this

870
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:06,440
whole interaction that is first Henrik, who is actually Katcha

871
00:58:07,119 --> 00:58:13,920
doing Henrik and isn't Henrik himself. Well, Henrik's dead, but

872
00:58:14,079 --> 00:58:20,400
you know, and Dona is using her charisma here and

873
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:27,599
she explains that the Gnome did his spell to reanimate

874
00:58:27,719 --> 00:58:32,920
some creature and so there are lasting effects after he

875
00:58:33,079 --> 00:58:37,679
casts this spell that I can cure because I'm a

876
00:58:37,719 --> 00:58:43,239
healer and my manservant has the potion. And this is

877
00:58:43,239 --> 00:58:48,199
how she explains the state that this guy is in, which,

878
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,119
as we find out later, the spell that they were

879
00:58:51,119 --> 00:58:56,280
asking him to cast would have had pretty severe effects,

880
00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:02,320
not necessarily these effects. This dude can tell the difference.

881
00:59:03,119 --> 00:59:07,000
But also he has never seen the Nome cast that

882
00:59:07,079 --> 00:59:10,480
spell before, so you know, it's like very much on

883
00:59:10,599 --> 00:59:13,280
the edge where he almost doesn't believe it, but finally

884
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:22,000
kind of gives in. And this is when Leon says, uh,

885
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,840
we're going to check you all to see if you're

886
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:31,280
actually changelings. Let's see. I will remove his facial covering,

887
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:35,760
but I'm not removing his bindings. And at some point

888
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:37,480
she's like, you know, he tries to nip at you,

889
00:59:37,519 --> 00:59:43,960
so just be careful. Let's see, there are too many

890
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:46,280
of you. We can only take you and win anymore,

891
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:50,000
and it'll be too much weight. Donut scoffed, I will

892
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,760
take my man servant or there is no deal. Besides,

893
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:57,159
who's going to carry him me? Surely you jest very well,

894
00:59:57,239 --> 01:00:00,559
he said, After a moment he peered suspiciously at the archers.

895
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:04,760
But Donut added, once your favorite uncle is returned safe

896
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:09,760
and sound, you'll dispatch balloons to retrieve the others. Leon

897
01:00:10,159 --> 01:00:16,639
smiled wickedly, and he says this is acceptable, and I

898
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:20,000
was just like, is it? I don't know if I

899
01:00:20,039 --> 01:00:22,559
trusted to keep your word on this at all? But

900
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:30,000
this is when he decides to do the test and see,

901
01:00:30,079 --> 01:00:35,320
you know who's a changeling and whatnot? Uh sorry, sorry,

902
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,159
I'm trying to find the bit. Oh right. He almost

903
01:00:38,199 --> 01:00:41,880
baits her because he calls Dona a dog creature and

904
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:49,079
Carl has to talk her down. Let's see a blue

905
01:00:49,159 --> 01:00:51,239
light burst into the air. He repeated it with Dona.

906
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,960
He then insisted on doing the same to me. I

907
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,599
went to a knee, allowing the perfume smelling man to

908
01:00:56,599 --> 01:01:00,599
touch my head. The perfume was covering a deep, dirty stench,

909
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:04,119
I realized when he was up close. I knew that smell.

910
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,599
It was the stench of a man who'd been rationed

911
01:01:06,679 --> 01:01:10,360
to Gallon a week to shower with. They're in trouble.

912
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:17,599
Their ship is floundering. And he nodded and approached the

913
01:01:17,679 --> 01:01:23,239
bound hostage. So we get the timer difficulty described to

914
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:29,000
us here, and we all held our collective breaths. I

915
01:01:29,079 --> 01:01:32,079
had no idea if this would work. The spell supposedly

916
01:01:32,239 --> 01:01:36,239
only detected changelings. If it was anything else, we'd be screwed.

917
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,280
So this is when he's like, this is weird. He

918
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:42,079
almost looks like he's a ghoul. He's definitely not a changeling.

919
01:01:42,199 --> 01:01:46,760
But something is up and he holds up the potion,

920
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:53,360
which it turns out is mountain dew, and just as

921
01:01:53,400 --> 01:02:00,679
he turns around, this reanimated head just fucking dissolves and disappears,

922
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:05,679
disintegrates into a cloud of dust. And I didn't think

923
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,880
that that was what happened when the second Chance spelled.

924
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:13,360
I thought that it just your body went limp and

925
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:18,360
dead again, not that you like disappeared, but I don't

926
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:22,519
really remember. I just I thought that's how that worked.

927
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:28,519
And Pasha then takes his place, the head's place, which

928
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,519
is it's a really smart move because he already did

929
01:02:31,559 --> 01:02:34,199
the spell to make sure whether he's a changeling or not,

930
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:37,480
so we don't have to worry about that anymore. And uh,

931
01:02:39,559 --> 01:02:42,039
there is a moment where Carl has to pour them

932
01:02:42,039 --> 01:02:43,960
out and do down her throat and she like chokes

933
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:46,280
and is like, oh my god, who can fucking drink this?

934
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:51,519
Which I found this very funny because like, just recently,

935
01:02:52,039 --> 01:02:53,840
there was there's a podcast I listened to that does

936
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,039
a little bit of fast food news, and they mentioned

937
01:02:56,039 --> 01:03:00,400
that Taco Bell has some new permanent flavors of Baja

938
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:03,599
blasts on their menu, and I was like, I wonder

939
01:03:03,639 --> 01:03:05,679
if I'd like any of them, and my husband immediately

940
01:03:05,679 --> 01:03:08,840
went they're based on mountain dew, Babe, you won't like them.

941
01:03:09,199 --> 01:03:13,039
I promise I can barely drink one particular flavor, and

942
01:03:13,079 --> 01:03:15,880
other than that, I can't do it. And they're like

943
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:18,360
too much for me, and I love soda, you would

944
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:21,639
fucking hate it. So uh yeah, I have never tried

945
01:03:21,639 --> 01:03:29,039
mountain dew. So let's see. Uh, let's see. He doesn't

946
01:03:29,039 --> 01:03:31,719
have it on him. Leon shouted, that's going to be

947
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:34,559
a problem. The sniper said, what are we doing? Are

948
01:03:34,599 --> 01:03:37,239
you looking for this? I asked, holding up the watch.

949
01:03:37,719 --> 01:03:40,320
I'd meet the facsimile from memory at my bench, only

950
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,039
spending a quick thirty seconds to shape the thing. It

951
01:03:43,079 --> 01:03:46,039
had been a last minute hunch. I'd asked Enrick where

952
01:03:46,079 --> 01:03:47,960
the watch came from, and he claimed he hadn't known,

953
01:03:48,039 --> 01:03:51,320
though I sensed he was being sketchy about it, which

954
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:57,840
made me wonder how important it was. And he's like, oh, good,

955
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:01,920
at least you have it, to be really relieved, and

956
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,960
doesn't mind that it's in Carl's possession, which I thought

957
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:11,360
was interesting. And then Leon says, at least we don't

958
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,639
have to go searching through the town's remains for it,

959
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,840
which I felt like pretty much was saying, we're still

960
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:20,840
going to destroy the town. I don't know man. That

961
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:25,559
just felt to me. You know, I don't know. So

962
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,199
Leon says, we have a deal. Have your man take

963
01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:31,000
Win and bring into the basket. But I must insist

964
01:04:31,039 --> 01:04:33,639
you give Win the respite now before we go. I

965
01:04:33,679 --> 01:04:36,039
can't bring him in such a state onto the wasteland,

966
01:04:36,079 --> 01:04:41,599
which I think is fair considering. So this is when

967
01:04:41,639 --> 01:04:46,360
he gives it to Katcha. Uh Doughnut puts mango away,

968
01:04:46,639 --> 01:04:51,639
jumps onto his shoulder. Carl. Okay, guys, follow Langley's lead.

969
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:54,039
All of you be ready. Fears will puddle jump you

970
01:04:54,079 --> 01:04:56,440
out of there if necessary. Lewis, you're in charge of

971
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,119
the chariot. Those planes have missiles on them, so we

972
01:04:59,159 --> 01:05:03,400
will need your g own support. I have confidence in you, guys. Lewis.

973
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,280
You know a plan is really desperate when it requires

974
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:11,679
confidence in people like us. Fears, Shut the hell up, Lewis.

975
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:14,960
He's trying to build our self confidence. And that is

976
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:20,679
the end of chapter eleven. So all right, guys, I

977
01:05:20,719 --> 01:05:23,159
have to wrap this up, but very interested to see

978
01:05:23,159 --> 01:05:24,920
what the rest of this plan is, because I genuinely

979
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,079
beyond what I had thought about Kotshia taking the Nomes place.

980
01:05:28,199 --> 01:05:30,400
I had no idea that was all I could think

981
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:34,159
of and now from here getting onto the balloon. I'm

982
01:05:34,199 --> 01:05:36,559
assuming they're going to try and hijack the balloon, but

983
01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:42,280
I don't even know how that would work, like, because

984
01:05:42,639 --> 01:05:48,119
why do you need ground support? I don't know. Genuinely,

985
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,800
I feel like what I'm imagining about this setup doesn't

986
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:57,480
make sense for what possibilities I'm coming up with. So anyway, Yeah,

987
01:05:57,679 --> 01:05:59,519
I have got to wrap. Thank you guys again so

988
01:05:59,719 --> 01:06:02,039
much for listening and hanging out. Thank you Michael for

989
01:06:02,079 --> 01:06:06,159
commissioning this one, and until next time to the lou motherfuckers.

990
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:38,360
That was an Unspoiled Network podcast