Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book two, Carl's Doomsday Scenario chapters
Speaker 1: twenty three through epilogue. In these chapters, the way that
Speaker 1: this wraps up raises more questions than it answers and
Speaker 1: is also appropriately infuriating. I think also, I, like so
Speaker 1: many of us, I'm just in a bad place, so
Speaker 1: I think I'm more angry than usual. Buckle up, Welcome
Speaker 1: to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode.
Speaker 1: Michael isn't in the chat yet, but hopefully he will
Speaker 1: be able to join us. And today there is Sarah,
Speaker 1: fem and Henry are in here with me. So lovely
Speaker 1: to see you all. I'm actually gonna turn this light
Speaker 1: off because i feel a little bit over over lit
Speaker 1: these chapters, so I'm gonna have to kind of go
Speaker 1: quicker than normal through some of this because this is
Speaker 1: actually a really long section. It's about an hour and
Speaker 1: a half of the audiobook, which is longer than usual.
Speaker 1: So then and there are it's there are a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I would like to stop and dig
Speaker 1: into a bit more. So it's possible that I may
Speaker 1: have to continue coverage of these chapters into the next section.
Speaker 1: We'll have to see. But there is a like when
Speaker 1: we start off and have picked up just where we
Speaker 1: left off with Dona killing Burgundy with the magic missile,
Speaker 1: Carl is first of all thinking about how he needs
Speaker 1: to improve his skill at getting up and down, jumping
Speaker 1: or flying needs to be added to the list. So
Speaker 1: whenever that sort of thing is purposely mentioned, sometimes it's
Speaker 1: not really a major plot point. It's just something that
Speaker 1: he's like tangentially focusing on as he levels up. But
Speaker 1: sometimes it becomes something, you know, So I've got my
Speaker 1: eye on that in terms of whether or not he
Speaker 1: is going to find an item, if the AI is
Speaker 1: going to explicitly help him, if there's going to be
Speaker 1: anything in particular that's like, you know, make this Achilles
Speaker 1: heel for him, I guess. And he sees that Quill's
Speaker 1: body is right underneath him and is wanting to loot her,
Speaker 1: of course, but there is just no time. And then
Speaker 1: he has this thing sparkling, and he finds a glass
Speaker 1: case like for glasses, No, no, a glass case that
Speaker 1: has I think a beanie baby's in it right. The
Speaker 1: plush creature within was an armored man atop a black horse.
Speaker 1: I ap peered at the tag which said Kimaris, I
Speaker 1: pulled it into my inventory, So, you guys, there is
Speaker 1: still a possibility that my thing that I was wondering,
Speaker 1: which is whether or not any of these beanie babies
Speaker 1: are actually beings that have been turned into beanie babies,
Speaker 1: might actually come true and be something. So I guess
Speaker 1: we'll see. I really was like, I was sort of
Speaker 1: thinking that if she, if it were missus Quill that
Speaker 1: did this or miss Quill apologies ma'am who did this,
Speaker 1: that if she does, the enchantment would relent. But if
Speaker 1: it hasn't relented, it's possible that's just not how the
Speaker 1: spell works, or it's possible that it's nothing. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: And Dona is sort of like, I feel like we
Speaker 1: pretty much finished the quest. Why isn't it marks finished?
Speaker 1: And Carl is like, we needed to find out why
Speaker 1: this is happening, and we actually don't have the whole story.
Speaker 1: So then they run into as they're making their way
Speaker 1: to the next location, the dude who is related to
Speaker 1: the woman they got the anklet that is the fallen
Speaker 1: oak inklet, the wooden jewelry that Doughnut hate so much.
Speaker 1: They run into a man related to her, and also
Speaker 1: the one who killed the divider, that huge thing that
Speaker 1: was in the swimming pool that Carl landed on at
Speaker 1: one point disgustingly. And this dude is in the shape
Speaker 1: of a tiger, and later on is sort of mentioning
Speaker 1: that he regrets taking this form. His name is Daniel
Speaker 1: Bautista II. His class is Swashbuckler, which is lovely, and
Speaker 1: he was furry and orange, very furry, very orange. He
Speaker 1: had the head of a human big cat hybrid with
Speaker 1: the orange, white and black markings of a Siberian tiger.
Speaker 1: It's very much giving the creatures from Skyrim whose names
Speaker 1: I forget. And it turns out that he is the
Speaker 1: one who had the quest that got fucked up by
Speaker 1: Miss Quill being killed early, and he's actually really not
Speaker 1: that upset about it. So that's good because I had
Speaker 1: said to you guys that I would be livid, and
Speaker 1: I really stand by it that I probably would. But
Speaker 1: like once we meet him, it becomes clear he has
Speaker 1: fucking bigger issues that he is distracted by and completing
Speaker 1: this quest is really like not super high on his
Speaker 1: list of concerns and things that are sort of consuming
Speaker 1: his spirit right now, which makes sense. He says that
Speaker 1: her apartment was filled with these beanie babies, over a
Speaker 1: thousand of them, and that he took them all. I
Speaker 1: don't know, guys, these beanie babies. They may be something.
Speaker 1: It would be so cool if we can create like
Speaker 1: a little tiny army. Obviously it's not Karl that has them,
Speaker 1: it's him, but potentially still potentially still, you know. And
Speaker 1: he's asking all these roundabout questions, clearly wanting to know
Speaker 1: whether his family is still alive. And Carl has to
Speaker 1: say that nobody is left. But they were able to
Speaker 1: kill the lemurs that were responsible, and he says, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was with them when this happened, and it was
Speaker 1: so fast, it was like seconds, and there were five
Speaker 1: of them. I was with my other cousin and we
Speaker 1: barely got away. There had only been three bodies, but
Speaker 1: I remembered thinking at the time there'd been enough blood
Speaker 1: for more. And he says my cousin died the next day.
Speaker 1: He'd given up. I had four brothers and sisters, fifteen cousins,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I go on. I wish I
Speaker 1: hadn't chosen this body. I should have remained true to myself.
Speaker 1: We all die anyway. How can we make it to
Speaker 1: heaven if God doesn't recognize us? Which is just so sad, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not somebody who really believes that that
Speaker 1: kind of thing matters, but what do I know? And
Speaker 1: it's devastating to think that maybe people who really do
Speaker 1: kind of feel that way or have that fear are
Speaker 1: walking around without even the comfort of like the afterlife
Speaker 1: being something that they can hold onto, or is potentially
Speaker 1: corrupted somehow. Also through all of this, and he says,
Speaker 1: I owe you a debt, call me if you need me,
Speaker 1: and I will come. And he does a fist bump
Speaker 1: with Carl so that they can have the chat between
Speaker 1: each other, because that, like physical contact is how you
Speaker 1: enable that to happen. And Carl hesitates on doing the
Speaker 1: fist bump, which like I get on one level, but
Speaker 1: on the other level, I was sort of like, Carl,
Speaker 1: I really don't think you need to worry about this guy,
Speaker 1: Like why would you hold back on this at all?
Speaker 1: And Donut is observing what you know? I have been
Speaker 1: kind of taking note of this whole time, which is
Speaker 1: the way that the game guides vary so much that
Speaker 1: it really has a massive influence over who winds up
Speaker 1: successful because of the advice that they are given. One
Speaker 1: of his sisters or cousins had that been that weird
Speaker 1: tree thing. It's like their God wanted them to look stupid,
Speaker 1: and Katchia's game guide won't help her. And remember that
Speaker 1: floating brain thing that talked them into murdering people. I
Speaker 1: think most of these guides don't like their jobs very much,
Speaker 1: and they take it out on the crawlers, which is
Speaker 1: what afore it's really I really need everybody to stop
Speaker 1: pretending that we all start off life from the same place,
Speaker 1: because the quality of support that you have is critical,
Speaker 1: and it is impossible for us all to have the
Speaker 1: same quality of support. It just doesn't happen. So then
Speaker 1: Carl starts talking about how nobody really has jobs that
Speaker 1: they like, and Donna asks him what it is that
Speaker 1: he would like to do, and he says that he
Speaker 1: would like to become a forest ranger and that he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, seen enough of the ocean, and that that
Speaker 1: sounds so peaceful and Donut says I'd write TV shows.
Speaker 1: Zev and I are going to start a television writing
Speaker 1: team and we're gonna make gossip Girl, but with an
Speaker 1: intergalactic slant. Zev says, the shows on Earth are better
Speaker 1: than anything she's ever seen. We can make new ones
Speaker 1: and bring them to the universe. Maybe if the television
Speaker 1: shows are good enough, people wouldn't be so interested in
Speaker 1: watching real life people kill each other. So just knowing,
Speaker 1: like what both of them would prefer to do is
Speaker 1: just lovely. I really liked this little moment. You know.
Speaker 1: It's the sort of thing that feels as impossible as
Speaker 1: it does in real life, where you know, whenever somebody
Speaker 1: asks you, like, what would you do if you could
Speaker 1: do anything, most of us it's just simply a pipe dream.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen, whether we like to admit
Speaker 1: it or not. We don't all have the opportunities to
Speaker 1: do certain things. But I like to think that perhaps
Speaker 1: saying this out loud might mean something relevant about it
Speaker 1: comes up in the crawl somewhere, you know, Oh my god, Kaji,
Speaker 1: thank you guys in the chair for reminding me that's
Speaker 1: the name of the cat creatures in Skyrim, so they
Speaker 1: go to the swordsman depot, and it says I was
Speaker 1: more worried about the suits of armor than the lich.
Speaker 1: If those guys ever woke up, we were fucked. Even
Speaker 1: though I was the town's magistrate, nobody seemed to acknowledge
Speaker 1: that fact, which I did think was kind of surprising that, like,
Speaker 1: even for official, like what's the word I want? For
Speaker 1: people who are like linked to the government, that it's
Speaker 1: not affecting them at least it would make sense to
Speaker 1: me if like the citizens didn't really recognize him, But
Speaker 1: I would expect for the accompanying. I can't think of
Speaker 1: the word. You guys, what would you call this? Like branches?
Speaker 1: That's not really it, but what I'm saying, like, I
Speaker 1: would think that it would apply to them, and apparently not.
Speaker 1: So there would be a let's see the metallic body
Speaker 1: swirled with a yellow aura, all of it leading to
Speaker 1: a point in the ceiling. There would be a soul
Speaker 1: crystal up there. Someday. Mordecai said at night the guards
Speaker 1: were in stasis mode and that they were invulnerable. I
Speaker 1: entertained the notion of locking them in their warehouse and
Speaker 1: just blowing them all to hell over and over till
Speaker 1: they died, which would result in an obscene amount of experience.
Speaker 1: But it looked as if that wasn't going to happen tonight,
Speaker 1: and I wish he hadn't even mentioned it, because I
Speaker 1: really love this idea. I would have loved to see
Speaker 1: that just a group that you can bet on for
Speaker 1: god knows how long and just rack up the points
Speaker 1: like that's incredible. So he is preparing to set off
Speaker 1: this massive bomb, and there are all these people starting
Speaker 1: to gather around and watch their progress. As they are
Speaker 1: setting this all up. Donut says that she doesn't like
Speaker 1: the plan, and we have a bit of a flashback
Speaker 1: sort of here where we have Mordecai explaining to them
Speaker 1: what lyches are and that the best way to handle
Speaker 1: them is use the fact that they are huge narcissists
Speaker 1: who want to share their plans against them somehow, and
Speaker 1: he does a come a conversation in chat where he says,
Speaker 1: since the earlier boss you met was a neighborhood boss,
Speaker 1: I think this is a borough boss, so even if
Speaker 1: he's been weakened, you need to come to the fight prepared.
Speaker 1: Which once we meet this guy, it's just you know
Speaker 1: they got themselves all hyped up and prepared for nothing.
Speaker 1: Carl winds up giving Kachia the detonator and she is
Speaker 1: really uncomfortable with it, and she says, here, Hecla warned
Speaker 1: me that you were crazy, which later on he is
Speaker 1: told by Odette Hecla thinks that you're unbalanced and is
Speaker 1: wanting to take Dona for herself and probably kill you
Speaker 1: in order to get her. And I know that a
Speaker 1: lot of you are going to be like Natasha. You
Speaker 1: thought she wanted to bang him. You were so wrong.
Speaker 1: She just was looking at him because he was crazy.
Speaker 1: And I stand by what I said, and I think
Speaker 1: she still wants to bang him. And I will not
Speaker 1: be taking questions at this time, so we'll get there eventually.
Speaker 1: So we find out that it is a character named Remix,
Speaker 1: a bereft minion of miss Quill who has been brought
Speaker 1: back to life and he has basically been turned into
Speaker 1: this weird like middleman between life and death where he
Speaker 1: holds a bunch of power and then it gets leached
Speaker 1: off of him by miss Quill. But because now she's dead,
Speaker 1: that's not going to happen. And I really I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's just that more power gets poured into
Speaker 1: him until he just like fractures or exactly what would
Speaker 1: happen to him and the whole Like I, So, let's see,
Speaker 1: there's a soul crystal here, which function very similar to
Speaker 1: soul gems in Skyrim. It's very funny, guys, because, like
Speaker 1: I've mentioned before, how little I have, how a little
Speaker 1: experience I have in gaming, and that the only games
Speaker 1: that I've really played a lot are like Skyrim, Breath
Speaker 1: of the Wild and Animal Crossing, And now I've gotten
Speaker 1: some hours under my belt playing Stardi Valley, and I
Speaker 1: really didn't think that was going to come in handy
Speaker 1: too much. But like, there is a lot of Skyrim
Speaker 1: references in this so far, and it may just be
Speaker 1: this particular level is like particularly Skyrim inspired, and so
Speaker 1: the next level it won't have as many references potentially,
Speaker 1: But it just did catch me off guard because I
Speaker 1: thought that there would be a lot of things that
Speaker 1: didn't feel familiar at all, and instead I keep going, oh,
Speaker 1: like Sky, Oh, like Skyrim. Oh, another thing like Skyrim.
Speaker 1: So and maybe it's just something that's very easy to
Speaker 1: reference because it is super popular and you know, people
Speaker 1: are gonna get it. And I'm certain too that there's
Speaker 1: lots and lots of references to things that are not
Speaker 1: anything I've played, and they simply just go over my
Speaker 1: head because I am not familiar with them, so I
Speaker 1: would think of them as original ideas when maybe they're not.
Speaker 1: But if you guys have anything like that, we run
Speaker 1: across while I'm covering stuff that you're like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is like such and such from you know, Soul Caliber
Speaker 1: or Final Fantasy or something I am interested to know,
Speaker 1: I would just want to, you know, just a little detail.
Speaker 1: I think that kind of adds a little flavor to things.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. In the chat, Saraham says I didn't have
Speaker 1: a single thought of Heckla wanting him at the time,
Speaker 1: but I totally see it. And Michael's here, Hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: our zoo says you can think someone's crazy while you
Speaker 1: also want to bang them. The two things are not
Speaker 1: mutually exclusive. A men are a zoo. Yes, indeedy that
Speaker 1: is fine, Michael says, God life would be my easier.
Speaker 1: I of knowing someone was potentially bad news removed all attraction.
Speaker 1: That's a word, Michael. Yeah, it's really annoying. I won't
Speaker 1: say that I'm potentially more attracted because somebody is bad
Speaker 1: news exactly. It's not that because they are bad news.
Speaker 1: It's often like the type of bad news they are.
Speaker 1: Like if they're a dude who tends to get a
Speaker 1: little too agro about defending other people, I know that's
Speaker 1: not a great thing, but I also can't help but
Speaker 1: be like, this man is very protective and that is
Speaker 1: extremely attractive, which oftentimes turns into them being real controlling
Speaker 1: and like. It's not a good thing ultimately, but it
Speaker 1: can be easily mistaken for something that seems appealing, you know,
Speaker 1: Seraphim says, I think it's more. Skyrim is such a
Speaker 1: major archetype of the genre that all sorts of things
Speaker 1: that are common to open world RPGs are easy to
Speaker 1: relate to it, which is fair, Rob sad. Skyrim is
Speaker 1: such a perfect milange of all its inspirations. It's one
Speaker 1: of the best games to give you a good example
Speaker 1: of modern gaming. Okay, okay, that makes sense. Actually, guys,
Speaker 1: are they doing a new Skyrim anytime soon? Because, like
Speaker 1: I going back, the story in Skyrim is not good.
Speaker 1: Just to be frank, guys, it's just not a compelling story,
Speaker 1: but the actual aesthetic of the game is so incredibly gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I am very very frequently playing Skyrim Ambiance YouTube videos
Speaker 1: where it's just like the music from the game paired
Speaker 1: with scenes of the fall foliage in deer Haven or
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck the towns are. Like, can somebody just
Speaker 1: like make that game look a little bit more modern
Speaker 1: and add a story that we care about. That'd be cool,
Speaker 1: because there's like Elden Ring, which is also gorgeous, but
Speaker 1: also littered with the most hideous creatures alive. Like they
Speaker 1: are so ugly. They've made the monsters so repellent that
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to call that game as beautiful
Speaker 1: as Skyrim, even though it is when you take just
Speaker 1: the like landscape or the different sets and you know,
Speaker 1: but then the monsters are just really hideous, So it's yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's also just like I will never play aled
Speaker 1: In Ring because you can't pause, So just that's absolutely
Speaker 1: not going to have it for me. Michael says Fallout
Speaker 1: New Vegas might be worth looking into. I have my
Speaker 1: husband is obsessed with Fallout, and it's not for me.
Speaker 1: There's too much rusting technology in it. I like that
Speaker 1: classic like ruins of Celtic, you know, or churches and
Speaker 1: whatnot in Skyrim. But and Rob says, I think reference
Speaker 1: why I was having an appreciation for dungeons and dragons
Speaker 1: is probably the other super helpful thing I have, like
Speaker 1: a general knowledge, not super deep. I've played it a
Speaker 1: few times. But okay, I gotta get back on track
Speaker 1: because I have so much to get through here. So guys,
Speaker 1: this creature, I feel so sorry for him. He says
Speaker 1: something at one point about the girls that are brought over,
Speaker 1: and he says, I could see it in their eyes.
Speaker 1: Some of them were tenors like me. Don't be undead.
Speaker 1: They say, don't be undead. So what we're hearing is
Speaker 1: that literally every single person who made a deal to
Speaker 1: get out of the game at a certain floor, all
Speaker 1: of them advise waiting until the next floor because getting
Speaker 1: out early isn't worth it. And I think that is
Speaker 1: also just a metaphor for how every time you think
Speaker 1: you're going to be somewhere safe and get a deal
Speaker 1: that works for you, it turns out not actually be true,
Speaker 1: and you were going to be sacrificing something of yourself
Speaker 1: in a way that you could never have predicted. I'm
Speaker 1: still very curious about Mordecai's whole situation, you know, and
Speaker 1: this dude, it turns out that he has to tell
Speaker 1: the story of what happened to get him here, and
Speaker 1: that nobody has like allowed him to tell it before,
Speaker 1: but if he gets somebody to let him say it,
Speaker 1: he will be done with this assignment, which is he
Speaker 1: doesn't explicitly say that. He just says, all I had
Speaker 1: to do is tell the story and I would be done.
Speaker 1: And that's how I'm taking it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's just like they know that everybody's going to kill
Speaker 1: this guy the moment that they meet him, and so
Speaker 1: they gave him an assignment that they knew was going
Speaker 1: to be particularly difficult for him to fulfill, and out
Speaker 1: of either spite or just because they want to hold
Speaker 1: on to him as long as they can, or if
Speaker 1: there was something personal going on here or what. So
Speaker 1: he starts he's like really focused on telling this story
Speaker 1: but needing to stick to a script, and he talks
Speaker 1: about Featherfall not liking the guards and how he wanted
Speaker 1: more control over them. He asked me what must be done,
Speaker 1: and I said that they must. One must know what
Speaker 1: they are, how they are animated, how they came to be.
Speaker 1: Don't ask about that. That's not important. It's a tangent.
Speaker 1: We have to avoid tangents. And I'm like dying because
Speaker 1: I believe you, like I do believe that he is
Speaker 1: trying really hard to stay on the thing. But also
Speaker 1: now I want to know Featherfall was short sighted. He
Speaker 1: had no ambition other than his power over this small town.
Speaker 1: Skyfowl ruled this world. Did you know that before that
Speaker 1: demon destroyed it all? I like to think of it
Speaker 1: as a metaphor. I'm say the primals. No, I can't.
Speaker 1: That's off script. Sorry, Sorry, this kind of storytelling continues.
Speaker 1: I think the audiobook narrator really does a good job
Speaker 1: of somebody who's trying to piece their thoughts together as
Speaker 1: he's telling the story. Donut tells Carl our views are skyrocketing.
Speaker 1: Something's going on, and eventually we find out that this
Speaker 1: guy is like an old player that was quite famous,
Speaker 1: and so people are tuning in because their story is
Speaker 1: overlapping with somebody who's already notorious. And let's see, after
Speaker 1: I passed, Featherfall approached my wife, miss Quill. But I
Speaker 1: don't know why they added the miss He asked her
Speaker 1: to help him cast the spell. Wait, so miss Quill
Speaker 1: knew you'd be ripped from death and turned into this
Speaker 1: And she was okay with that. Oh, yes, she's not really. No,
Speaker 1: I can't say that. I was assuming that this was
Speaker 1: going to be. She's not really my wife, Like we
Speaker 1: didn't actually like each other. We were made into a
Speaker 1: couple for the game, you know, like this is That's
Speaker 1: what I'm assuming. She also knew Featherfall was making a
Speaker 1: grave error by casting the spell too close to the amplifier.
Speaker 1: The roof is the antenna. The soul crystal store is
Speaker 1: the power. She'd been planning it all along. I was
Speaker 1: damned the moment I became her husband, I was now
Speaker 1: a capacitor. She pretended as if the magistrate was still
Speaker 1: alive and took up the duties of running the settlement,
Speaker 1: and Mordecay tunes in and is like, you guys got
Speaker 1: to wrap this up because time's starting to run out.
Speaker 1: And this is when he says about the women that
Speaker 1: she first he gets into. She tricked all of the
Speaker 1: elves by pretending to be an angel. She never liked
Speaker 1: getting her hands dirty, so she used avatars for intimidation
Speaker 1: corpse removal. My avatars one looked like my son, my
Speaker 1: boy lost in time, but they couldn't move from here,
Speaker 1: and I was wondering, here, is it his son really
Speaker 1: like his son before this game and that's what it
Speaker 1: looks like. Or is it his son in the story? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Here it is. They were like me a tenor don't
Speaker 1: get undead? They told us, don't get undead, it's not
Speaker 1: worth it. Wait ignore that, Yeah, don't ignore that. Why
Speaker 1: did she bring the women? For two reasons? My wife
Speaker 1: had grand plans, but she needed help that couldn't be
Speaker 1: accomplished by the city elves. The crafts, who are easy
Speaker 1: to control, easy to make the act of generating them
Speaker 1: creates a powerful spike of soul power, adding to my energy.
Speaker 1: And since the materials come from out of town, no
Speaker 1: one would notice she was collecting them. My position here
Speaker 1: allows me to leach off the souls flowing into the crystal.
Speaker 1: My wife knew this, but even she couldn't predict the
Speaker 1: sheer amount of energy. Your wife was building an army.
Speaker 1: She was granddaughter of the royal family, going to reclaim
Speaker 1: it all. And then what does that mean? She was
Speaker 1: preparing the final war. It's a three part spell, heirloom magic.
Speaker 1: She has prepared something that will reclaim the Overcity for
Speaker 1: the Skyfowl, and so she needed the army to protect
Speaker 1: her while she cast it. That is correct, before, during,
Speaker 1: and after, and La Crosseu would be her lieutenants. But
Speaker 1: she had enough power. She'd already started. What would have
Speaker 1: happened if she'd completed the casting. Oh, it's a glorious spell.
Speaker 1: She'd done the first, was going to do the second tonight,
Speaker 1: thousands of manipoints. Once completed, the beast she unleashed would
Speaker 1: sweep across the over City and slaughter all but those
Speaker 1: whose essence she had protected that she'd added to the spell,
Speaker 1: which is the Skyfowl and the chickadees and everyone else
Speaker 1: would perish. Which I just really want to remind you guys,
Speaker 1: this is a silver box level quest and this bitch
Speaker 1: was about to annihilate everybody on this floor. That's insanity.
Speaker 1: So this is marking them for completion with the quest.
Speaker 1: And at first they're like, hey, we did it, and
Speaker 1: Remis didn't even have to die. And then he starts
Speaker 1: being like, well, guys, no offense. But this isn't over
Speaker 1: and new quest the fools who broke the glass. This
Speaker 1: is a group quest. All crawlers currently within the forty
Speaker 1: five square kilometer blast radius will receive this quest. A
Speaker 1: while back, a certain NPC started casting a very powerful spell,
Speaker 1: and when they are planned, they grow like trees. Shit
Speaker 1: is about to go down. You may have noticed every
Speaker 1: sky foul and chickadae MPC has fallen. Ill. It's not
Speaker 1: your fault that you happen to be within the forty
Speaker 1: five kilometers. That's just the way it is. Sucks to
Speaker 1: be you. There's going to be an explosion. The epicenter
Speaker 1: is marked on your map. Every crowler within the designated
Speaker 1: blast area is fucked. This is an event quest. If
Speaker 1: you do not wish to participate in this quest, you
Speaker 1: will have sixty seconds from the end of this message
Speaker 1: to get yourselves into a safe room. After that, all
Speaker 1: access to safe rooms within the quest zone will be
Speaker 1: shut off until the event quest is concluded. All NPCs
Speaker 1: who remain indoors safe room or not will remain safe.
Speaker 1: All mobs and neighborhood level boss monsters within the blast
Speaker 1: radio subjects of both physical and magical explosions will be killed.
Speaker 1: All participants who survive will receive a platinum Quest box.
Speaker 1: The explosion is coming in seven minutes run. So this sucks,
Speaker 1: And of course what it eventually comes down to is
Speaker 1: Carl and Donut deciding we started this shit and we
Speaker 1: have a responsibility to find a way to undo it
Speaker 1: if we can, and Carl is realizing, like, either way
Speaker 1: this was going to happen, because they also had a
Speaker 1: quest for Bautista to kill miss Quill. So it's like,
Speaker 1: even though it's our fault, it's happening now this way,
Speaker 1: This event would have happened either way, and that I
Speaker 1: hadn't thought of, and it really made me so mad.
Speaker 1: It's it just makes me so mad. So they get
Speaker 1: added to a group quest chat which is like eighty
Speaker 1: people and immediately are called fucking assholes, and we find
Speaker 1: out later that Doughnut blocked that guy, which is extremely
Speaker 1: funny to me. Carl says, Mordecai, the sole gem is
Speaker 1: the epicenter, not remis if oh no, Mordecai is saying
Speaker 1: to Carl is saying to Mordecai, if I break the gem,
Speaker 1: will that canceled the explosion, And he's like, I don't
Speaker 1: think it might even cause it to trigger early. Let's see,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the spot. We should try to
Speaker 1: save the others. It's the right thing to do. This
Speaker 1: is Donut you returned. Welcome to the End of Days.
Speaker 1: I pulled miss Quill's Beanie Baby from my inventory. Kimaris
Speaker 1: the stuffed horse riding soldier was the very top item
Speaker 1: when I sorted my current inventory. Forged in the Fires
Speaker 1: of Shiel, this mysterious fifteenth level of the World Dungeon.
Speaker 1: These protective, expensive artifacts are built and sold by traveling
Speaker 1: spider reaper minions. When you absolutely positively want to keep
Speaker 1: something safe, put it in this box. It will protect
Speaker 1: against most, but not all, forms of abuse. Every time
Speaker 1: you open this case, there is a one point five
Speaker 1: percent chance you will be blasted with the shield fire spell.
Speaker 1: And he's thinking about how the system apparently got his
Speaker 1: attention on purpose on this case. It was not accidental
Speaker 1: that he found it. Everything is orchestrated, and that it
Speaker 1: is you know, able to draw his attention to things
Speaker 1: that are relevant, as playing any actual video game would do.
Speaker 1: I held the case in my hands, approached the pulsing gem,
Speaker 1: closed the case around the floating gem, and tried to
Speaker 1: pull it into my inventory and it just says, yeah,
Speaker 1: nice try, asshole, and he's like, yeah, he hadn't really
Speaker 1: expected it to work, but he was hoping. And let's see,
Speaker 1: you always pretend like I'm the stubborn one. But once
Speaker 1: your mind is made up, Carl, it's impossible to change it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to be sorry for. And Remix is saying,
Speaker 1: I'm coming son, any minute now, I'm coming. I missed
Speaker 1: you so much. I'm coming, And I think that is
Speaker 1: his real, actual son, And I'm assuming he's talking about afterlife,
Speaker 1: you know, but I don't know, maybe not. And he
Speaker 1: and Donna have this moment of real like heart to
Speaker 1: heart because they believe, I'm sorry if you can hear
Speaker 1: my dog that they are going to die, and she says, Carl,
Speaker 1: I'm not as dumb as I pretend to be. I
Speaker 1: know she's dead. I know I wrap myself around her.
Speaker 1: We've both closed our eyes and braced for the end.
Speaker 1: I was which just so like saddened by this, y'all.
Speaker 1: It was so sad, like I love getting to hear
Speaker 1: for sure that she does know, because it just didn't
Speaker 1: like I believed her being in denial and I believed
Speaker 1: her leaning into a certain character. I'm wondering if she
Speaker 1: started off thinking that Bee was still alive, and then
Speaker 1: gradually as she grew and became more aware, she realized
Speaker 1: that b was probably dead, or if it was something
Speaker 1: that she knew right away. I don't know. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you guys, I'm sorry. I don't know why he brought
Speaker 1: her inside right now. So the case, which has fallen
Speaker 1: to the ground, there is light streaming from it. The
Speaker 1: explosion had been completely silent. Lance like rays burst from
Speaker 1: the glass, one of them streaming directly into Remix's chest,
Speaker 1: who is now on the floor screaming and convulsing. The
Speaker 1: case itself glowed red hot. Uh, my eyes focused on
Speaker 1: the status explosion imminent in the two seconds before I
Speaker 1: grabbed it. My fingers burned as I pulled it into
Speaker 1: my inventory. And he is able to do so even
Speaker 1: though it burns his hands because the explosion has technically
Speaker 1: happened already. And here is where we get the title
Speaker 1: of the book. Newest item Carl's Doomsday scenario unstable custom,
Speaker 1: explosive effect and explosion large enough to rattle the teeth
Speaker 1: of a god. Yeah, that might be handy. What do
Speaker 1: you think, guys, what do you think? Created by a
Speaker 1: man who murders babies and steals rare collectibles from his elders,
Speaker 1: this device is powerful enough to level an entire city
Speaker 1: in all the suburbs around it. It is created by
Speaker 1: combining a mass of the overloaded soul crystal and a
Speaker 1: shield glass reaper case warning this item can no longer
Speaker 1: be stabilized, which very interesting to see how that gets used.
Speaker 1: I hope that it's not too soon, because I feel
Speaker 1: like it's handy for much later in the game. This
Speaker 1: is the thing, though, like if you play and you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, where you hold onto the
Speaker 1: really good stuff and then by the end of the
Speaker 1: game you realize that you never used it because you
Speaker 1: kept thinking there was probably a tougher boss that you
Speaker 1: would need it for, and so duh, don't fall into
Speaker 1: that trap either, Carl. That's what I'm so I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And poor Remix is still convulsing, and we get another
Speaker 1: update about how ay you're not dead. That's the good news.
Speaker 1: The bad news there's still an explosion coming, a bigger bang,
Speaker 1: but the area of effect will be similar what you
Speaker 1: just felt is called a precursor burst. The one you
Speaker 1: just felt temporarily removed the magical properties of all your
Speaker 1: equipped gear. This will culminate with a burst of pure
Speaker 1: wild magic, much more potent than the magically infused chemical
Speaker 1: explosion from which you guys were just spared. Less physical
Speaker 1: damage to the environment, more face melting. I prefer this
Speaker 1: if we're being honest. Have you ever put a marshmallow
Speaker 1: in a microwave? Imagine your head as a marshmallow. It'll
Speaker 1: be kind of like that. You now have twenty minutes
Speaker 1: to save yourselves, which sounds worse, but they have more time,
Speaker 1: so you know that's something. And the emp like burst
Speaker 1: for Remix had deactivated all of the swordsman guards, causing
Speaker 1: the armor to fall to the ground like junk, which
Speaker 1: is very handy. He pulls a bunch of stuff into
Speaker 1: his inventory. Of course, Remix is still on the second
Speaker 1: floor and starting to make this weird sound. Mordecai advises
Speaker 1: them to take off everything that they are wearing that
Speaker 1: is magical, and they have a back and forth argument
Speaker 1: over whether or not Donut should take off that crown,
Speaker 1: because if she does, it will be given to somebody else,
Speaker 1: which will make another person that she will potentially have
Speaker 1: to kill once they get to the tenth floor. Eventually
Speaker 1: it's taken away the option by being accidentally destroyed while
Speaker 1: they flee, and I wonder if it is really accidental.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Guys, There's just something about this that
Speaker 1: kind of makes me feel like maybe they got a
Speaker 1: little bit of a helping hand there. It just feels
Speaker 1: really really convenient, and not in a I think the
Speaker 1: storyteller is cheating kind of way. I think that maybe
Speaker 1: the AI is like attempting to give them a little
Speaker 1: bit of an assist And I don't know if that's anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So Carl, of course, because literally everything
Speaker 1: he's wearing is magical, has to strip totally naked, and
Speaker 1: once he starts like warning other people, they come across
Speaker 1: and they're just like, hey, why are you nude? And
Speaker 1: when he is in the interview later and they have
Speaker 1: to watch the footage of him running barrassed, he can't
Speaker 1: help but just be like, oh God, this is embarrassing, which, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't feel that way. Plus Odette has to say
Speaker 1: something about like, oh, well, I guess it really was
Speaker 1: a snick because your dick is not nearly as big
Speaker 1: as it was in that little video, and I was like, rude.
Speaker 1: So they're fleeing, and let's say, I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: the spot here. I'm not taking it off. That dude
Speaker 1: blew up Tonah. Are we sure it's there? One of them,
Speaker 1: a shark headed creature, called it's there. I can see
Speaker 1: it on my map already. They're looking for the entry
Speaker 1: to the next floor. Let's see. It disappeared before I
Speaker 1: could remove it. The second pulse had apparently activated all
Speaker 1: magical weapons. This third one had destroyed any still equipped armor.
Speaker 1: The fourth pulse ripped through the party just as we
Speaker 1: pulled up to the small, decrepit building. Chaos tore through
Speaker 1: the group. A lightning bolt ripped through the party, glancing
Speaker 1: off a human who tumbled and hit the ground, almost dead.
Speaker 1: Another person simply teleported away. Kachia's whole body glowed and
Speaker 1: she leaped forward, clipping me in the process and throwing
Speaker 1: me down. She ran directly into the wall and blasted
Speaker 1: through it like the Kool Aid man. I bounced off
Speaker 1: the floor, crying out, Donut hissed and leaped away. I
Speaker 1: felt my arm break in that moment. Kitchia slammed into me,
Speaker 1: but it was healed by the time I finished rolling,
Speaker 1: and he has been poisoned, but Donut has the immunity
Speaker 1: to that and he has his cloak. So for me
Speaker 1: and Dona, it was a healing potion and then a
Speaker 1: man of potion. We both ingested the second potion before
Speaker 1: the potion timer ended, inflicting us both with poison sickness.
Speaker 1: I knew Katya had an active spell called rush, something
Speaker 1: she could only do once a day, and that's what
Speaker 1: had happened to her. So it takes a little while.
Speaker 1: It eventually passes and nobody has killed been killed, but
Speaker 1: there is that guy who was teleported away and they
Speaker 1: don't know what has happened to him. I love the
Speaker 1: dude that he helps like bring back to consciousness, who's like, hey,
Speaker 1: get your dick out of my face. So they all
Speaker 1: start to go down the stairs and he checks on Mordecai,
Speaker 1: who is safe, and he says, I'm going to sit
Speaker 1: here and twittle my thumbs for three days and you
Speaker 1: guys won't notice a time difference. And he says all
Speaker 1: of the guards only have a single life point. It's
Speaker 1: too bad you're not here, because if you killed as
Speaker 1: many as you could get so much experience. Again, I
Speaker 1: wish you hadn't said it. It just makes me yearn
Speaker 1: not to worry, though, because they wind up getting a
Speaker 1: ton of experience. A little bit later, I thought of
Speaker 1: everyone we'd met on this floor. I thought of Signet,
Speaker 1: the half Naiad, the dwarf woman, quit, the possum face pharmacist,
Speaker 1: the three of us turned toward the stairwell. So he
Speaker 1: gets to let's see it, says mind the gap. We
Speaker 1: had one hundred seconds left. Gotcha pull out that detonator.
Speaker 1: It has a ten second delay. Wait until the timer's
Speaker 1: about fifteen seconds and push it. Then we'll go in
Speaker 1: before it goes off. Why won't that make the bomb
Speaker 1: go off faster? Yes, but only by a couple seconds.
Speaker 1: If people aren't safe by now, they're already dead. I
Speaker 1: doubt it's going to work, since the detonators are magical,
Speaker 1: they probably got ruined in that first burst. But if
Speaker 1: it I set the dynamite, I let Donuts smush a
Speaker 1: few of the detonator. If we get any experience for it,
Speaker 1: we share in the spoils. And I love Carl Donut
Speaker 1: saying to Carl, you probably should have put on your
Speaker 1: pants before we could go somewhere that you can't access
Speaker 1: your inventory, because we're going right onto Odette's show, aren't we.
Speaker 1: Then we start with the epilogue, and the epilogue, we
Speaker 1: are on Odett's show and all of this is done,
Speaker 1: but they, because they were in this weird stasis, don't
Speaker 1: know what happened while they were out of the picture
Speaker 1: for a bit. All four of us, Me, Donut, Mango,
Speaker 1: and Kacia had gone through the door and immediately appeared
Speaker 1: in the green room. There was a slight, odd pop
Speaker 1: in my brain, similar to the one I'd experienced the
Speaker 1: first time I entered the dungeon. But that was it.
Speaker 1: And Katya apparently has never been on one of these
Speaker 1: shows before, because she is taken aback by the fact
Speaker 1: that it's they are on a boat and is just
Speaker 1: sort of overwhelmed by the whole thing. She later on
Speaker 1: is not great with the interview part and just sort
Speaker 1: of does like single word answers and is clearly petrified.
Speaker 1: And also she has turned into a woman with black hair,
Speaker 1: mid thirties, pale with light, wide set eyes that sat
Speaker 1: at an odd angle in her face, and donuts like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, you look great. You're getting really good at
Speaker 1: the sculpting thing. And then when Katya checks, she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is actually what I look like, which it would
Speaker 1: be really awful if Katchya was like unattractive and Doughnut
Speaker 1: was like, oh, honey, you really need to change up
Speaker 1: your face. And that turned out how to be. Katya's
Speaker 1: already looked like, I'm glad that we don't have any
Speaker 1: moment like that. I already had enough with the fact
Speaker 1: that Doughnut kept calling that goblin woman ugly with in
Speaker 1: her hearing. So let's see, carl are you okay? I'll
Speaker 1: be fine, I said. I gave her head a quick pat.
Speaker 1: It was strange without her tiara, which, yeah, that's something
Speaker 1: that I wonder about because like in a game, when
Speaker 1: you put on all different types of armor and whatnot,
Speaker 1: depending on the viewpoint that you use, you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: like see yourself in the game. But I like to
Speaker 1: play from a third person perspective. If it's first person,
Speaker 1: I get real motion sick. So I do tend to
Speaker 1: have like that view where you can see yourself a
Speaker 1: little bit. And it is odd if you've been playing
Speaker 1: a long time with particular items, and then you finally
Speaker 1: get a really good upgrade and you change it out
Speaker 1: and you're just like, oh, who is that? What is
Speaker 1: that weird thing on my shoulders? Oh right, that's the
Speaker 1: like epaulets of my new armor. Soh stye, oh right.
Speaker 1: He has to make a loincloth for himself of toilet
Speaker 1: paper just to cover himself up because he's not being
Speaker 1: given anything to cover with, which is really I feel
Speaker 1: like we could have gotten a pair of shorts for
Speaker 1: God's sake, I mean, Lord of Mercy. So Odette is like,
Speaker 1: what do you think happened after the detonator and Carl says, well,
Speaker 1: I was hoping there'd be an explosion and we get
Speaker 1: a bunch of XP but probably nothing happened, and the
Speaker 1: audience is acting really weird, and he's sort of realizing
Speaker 1: there's a lot of tension here, like what's going on?
Speaker 1: Why is everybody behaving as if they're almost nervous? Something
Speaker 1: serious must have happened, And she says it should have
Speaker 1: been rendered inert, and if by chance it hadn't, that
Speaker 1: second burst should have set it off. But that didn't happen, No,
Speaker 1: it did not. The Burrent Corporation immediately filed an appeal
Speaker 1: against the AI's decision to rule the Detonator exempt from
Speaker 1: both of those blasts. Just before you came on today,
Speaker 1: Borrant was overruled by a syndicate court. In addition, and
Speaker 1: even more importantly, the court ruled the achievements you received
Speaker 1: as a result are also just, and the rewards must
Speaker 1: be paid. But person to get rules. The host has
Speaker 1: allowed a single veto each season, and she's like, normally
Speaker 1: they save this for later floors because those are the
Speaker 1: things that are way more valuable and will cost them
Speaker 1: more money. But it was quite serious this early in
Speaker 1: the game, and they've had to do it already, so
Speaker 1: you aren't going to get what you should have gotten,
Speaker 1: but everybody else got to see what you're rewards would
Speaker 1: have been. Donut is furious. Donut is like me, it's
Speaker 1: the presence. That's what we're here for, right We want
Speaker 1: our stuff. And so I am in full agreement with her.
Speaker 1: While the tragic controversial tale of Remix the Grand finally
Speaker 1: comes to an end, a new controversy has erupted in
Speaker 1: Boring's Dungeon Crawler world. A last minute decision by a
Speaker 1: trio of trapped Crawlers ended in an unexpected result, a
Speaker 1: result with potentially disastrous real life consequences for Borent, and
Speaker 1: we get to see the warehouse exploding. All the guards
Speaker 1: tumbled to the ground. The view switches to the second
Speaker 1: floor to remis in the two seconds before that final explosion.
Speaker 1: The light disappeared. He cried out in pained just as
Speaker 1: he was overwhelmed the blast from the dynamite. A controlled
Speaker 1: blast at the last second, which caused a mass soul
Speaker 1: crystal release from the fallen swordsman, greatly tempered the resulting
Speaker 1: wild magic explosion, causing it to be much less destructive
Speaker 1: than originally intended. In the end, thousands of NPCs and
Speaker 1: several dozen crawler lives were potentially saved by this action.
Speaker 1: And Adette is like, do you know how many celestial
Speaker 1: boxes have gone out over the history of the world
Speaker 1: two thousand, one hundred and forty five. The record for
Speaker 1: a single crawler is for I got three. The most
Speaker 1: per season is eighteen, which was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: And the host company has to pay tax on every
Speaker 1: non sponsored box that's given out. They're given a handful
Speaker 1: of free celestial boxes, but anything over that there's a
Speaker 1: big tax on and each is more expensive than the last.
Speaker 1: That's usually offset by a million other line items. But
Speaker 1: it has been two hundred and fifty cycles since the
Speaker 1: Blood Sultanate of the Naga ran the first crawl to
Speaker 1: actually lose money, and they are still recovering from it.
Speaker 1: They haven't run a season since then. They only have
Speaker 1: a place in Faction Wars because they purchased a permanent
Speaker 1: spot early on, So the game is supposed to be difficult.
Speaker 1: Legendary boxes are handed out like candy, but celestial ones
Speaker 1: are an order of magnitude better. The prize in a
Speaker 1: single box can render an underperforming crawler almost immortal, practically
Speaker 1: unbeatable until they reach the tenth floor. If they capriciously
Speaker 1: hand them out, more crawlers will make it to the
Speaker 1: deeper levels and the showrunners can drag the season out
Speaker 1: and earn much more money. So the syndicate place is
Speaker 1: a premium on them, and the AI normally chooses the prizes,
Speaker 1: but the writers who run the show are responsible for
Speaker 1: creating the circumstances, so we try to do that to
Speaker 1: keep it in balance. And Doughnuts like, it's just three boxes,
Speaker 1: why did they veto that? And Odet's like, let's go
Speaker 1: back to the news report, and we get to see
Speaker 1: one of these dudes, the one that was blocked from
Speaker 1: the chat, who has survived and getting a celestial box.
Speaker 1: He gets, let's see new achievement, Bandit. You've completed a quest,
Speaker 1: but it was completed in a way unusual enough to
Speaker 1: trigger the Bandit achievement, Unlike the real Bandit, who is
Speaker 1: usually instrumental in helping Johnny Quest complete his tasks. You
Speaker 1: didn't actually do anything to receive this prize, but that's
Speaker 1: okay because you're still getting it. This is one of
Speaker 1: the rare achievements that can be rewarded more than once.
Speaker 1: Nam quest box has been upgraded two times to a
Speaker 1: celestial box, and he gets this robe that makes him
Speaker 1: float and glow, and I'm like, I really hope that
Speaker 1: he feels that he owes Carl and Donut for this,
Speaker 1: because if he comes at them, I'm gonna feel a
Speaker 1: way about it. Then we get the rest of the newscast.
Speaker 1: An incredible total of eighty three celestial boxes were rewarded
Speaker 1: as a result of the Quest getting a rare double upgrade.
Speaker 1: Borrant immediately appealed, but not before that one box was opened,
Speaker 1: thus putting Borrant on the hook for that one. The
Speaker 1: Syndicate court has convened an emergency session to determine if
Speaker 1: the beleaguered company will have to pay for the remaining
Speaker 1: eighty two boxes. If so, it is certain there will
Speaker 1: be no financial recovery for the once mighty Borrent system.
Speaker 1: And Donut, of course, is mostly focused on the fact
Speaker 1: that this guy got a Platin Celestial box and they
Speaker 1: aren't getting one. They're veto negated all prizes. Nobody is
Speaker 1: receiving a loop box from that quest except that one crawler.
Speaker 1: And the same night they issued a patch that disabled
Speaker 1: both the Hodgie and Bandit upgrade achievements. And here Carl
Speaker 1: just starts laughing, and he says, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: we do, how hard we work, we keep getting screwed.
Speaker 1: Losing out sucks, but I've come to expect it. All
Speaker 1: that matters is getting stronger, getting more experienced. We mess
Speaker 1: that up getting involved in quests, and we should be grinding.
Speaker 1: We're not going to make that mistake again. And I'm
Speaker 1: just like Carl, I don't know that you get any
Speaker 1: control over that, really, sweetie. I have no doubt even
Speaker 1: saying out loud that you're not going to fuck around
Speaker 1: with quests anymore is probably inviting you being put into
Speaker 1: situations with more quests. I respect what he's saying and
Speaker 1: I understand, but I think that he is opening himself
Speaker 1: up here in a bad way. And Odette is like,
Speaker 1: you still actually got a bunch of XP. You didn't
Speaker 1: get the rewards, but you get credit and they get
Speaker 1: to see their stats. Donut's gone up seven levels, He's
Speaker 1: gone up six levels, and Kachya has leaped twelve levels
Speaker 1: from nine to twenty one, which I'm particularly pleased for
Speaker 1: Kacya and Odette says, I have exclusive news the fourth
Speaker 1: floor will be opening up in less than an hour.
Speaker 1: But I've received a tentative draft of the leaderboard, and
Speaker 1: Carl is number six on the leaderboard, and Donut is seven,
Speaker 1: Lucy Amar is one, and Hecla is two, and later
Speaker 1: on Odette is like, y'all should be much higher up
Speaker 1: on that list. If we're being real, they are definitely
Speaker 1: like cutting you off at the knees in order to
Speaker 1: keep you from getting some more support. I'm imagining like
Speaker 1: Born is going to be zeroed in on Carl at
Speaker 1: this time it's going to be a fight against the
Speaker 1: AI who the AI is programmed by somebody, so it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily that like, oh, he's tricked the AI into
Speaker 1: liking him. It feels like somebody is sabotaging the show
Speaker 1: and using the AI as a means to do it.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm really curious because like, even if
Speaker 1: that's true, we're not necessarily going to be rooting for
Speaker 1: whoever is sabotaging the show, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like the urge to side with whoever is trying to
Speaker 1: fuck things up for boring is very strong. But if
Speaker 1: it's anything like things are in the real world, every
Speaker 1: corporation is a monster and it doesn't matter which one's
Speaker 1: in charge, all are going to exploit you. And that's
Speaker 1: just it. So of course Donah is super excited about
Speaker 1: the fact that they are going that they're in the
Speaker 1: top ten. She doesn't miss a chance to also call
Speaker 1: Lucy Mr Awful, which I'm like, girl, you just really
Speaker 1: want this beef, don't you. I Mean, she acts like
Speaker 1: she doesn't, but clearly she kind of does. And he
Speaker 1: recognizes some of the names, which I appreciated being reminded
Speaker 1: because I didn't remember them. Florin is a crocodile headed dude.
Speaker 1: Miriam was the goat lady if ETCHI he doesn't know.
Speaker 1: Lee June is the Chinese guy from Maestro show that
Speaker 1: he'd helped saved, which was I'm very delighted to hear
Speaker 1: he's doing so well. And then Donah is like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Missus mcgibbons at Lark Adult Care Community is
Speaker 1: on the list. She was only level thirteen, having started
Speaker 1: as a love and the fact that she is on
Speaker 1: this she is l mcgibb Frost Maiden Blizzard Mancer at
Speaker 1: number ten. Very interested. Blizzard answer is just an awesome
Speaker 1: name too. So tomorrow we'll have an engineer from Boring
Speaker 1: on to discuss the ins and outs of this new
Speaker 1: exciting level. I don't know yet what it is, but
Speaker 1: rumor has it we'll see something that's never been attempted before,
Speaker 1: and we'll also have a pair of Crawler special guests.
Speaker 1: They're not on the top ten list, but these up
Speaker 1: and comers are quickly becoming new favorites. Here's a hint.
Speaker 1: They're twins. I don't know if we've been given a
Speaker 1: look at the twins before. It's ringing a very faint bell,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if that's imaginary. I feel like
Speaker 1: we did get a mention of twins at one point,
Speaker 1: but honestly don't recall really, So let me get the
Speaker 1: few minutes with Odette speaking to them after the show,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't take off her mask and stuff because
Speaker 1: she has another show she's going to be on in
Speaker 1: a few minutes. But uh, I love when Donut asks
Speaker 1: you just watch Mordecai all day, and she says, yes,
Speaker 1: I do as much as I can. Be careful with
Speaker 1: that gauntlet. It has the power to summon the war
Speaker 1: god Groll if you use it against any of his celebrants,
Speaker 1: and they'll start appearing on this floor. King Rust has
Speaker 1: spent a lot of money on a deity sponsorship. The
Speaker 1: Skull Empire doesn't usually purchase those, so it might be
Speaker 1: an attempt to get at you. And let's see, Katcha,
Speaker 1: can you follow me? I need to show you the
Speaker 1: return procedures. Donut, you can assist if you'd like. So
Speaker 1: they take off and it's just him left with Odette,
Speaker 1: and this is when she tells him about Hekla, and
Speaker 1: she is very practical as she puts it and cunning
Speaker 1: and doesn't have your sense of justice. She's become obsessed
Speaker 1: with the idea of getting Donut to join her gang,
Speaker 1: and he says, she seems great, but I don't think
Speaker 1: we'd work well together. And I was like, Carl, Hatch up, bro,
Speaker 1: she doesn't need you. It's about taking Donut from you
Speaker 1: and you having no choice in it. Like, it's just
Speaker 1: so almost frustrating how innocent he is about this when
Speaker 1: she proposes it, I immediately understood what she was saying
Speaker 1: is that Hekla is going to try to kill you,
Speaker 1: but it takes him so long for her to bring
Speaker 1: him around to seeing that's what she's saying. I don't
Speaker 1: believe Katch is in on it and she likes you,
Speaker 1: I can tell. And she explains, I bought your rights
Speaker 1: for interviews for the entire season super cheap, like for
Speaker 1: less than what it costs for one interview with you. Now,
Speaker 1: if you die and Doughnut joins Brunehild's daughters, my contract
Speaker 1: is avoided and you're like my highest rated guests, so
Speaker 1: I really want you to stay alive because I could
Speaker 1: get big money when you guys come onto my show
Speaker 1: and then He asks about the numbers on the leaderboard
Speaker 1: and how much like what they signify, and she says,
Speaker 1: that's just how much money the other crawlers get if
Speaker 1: they kill you, and she says it in this like,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it kind of way, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, how are you acting as if that's nothing?
Speaker 1: Like I didn't know that there was a bounty, that
Speaker 1: this was even a thing. Was anybody gonna tell them?
Speaker 1: Who knew about this? I don't like the fact that
Speaker 1: Mordecai ever mentions it either is sort of wild to me.
Speaker 1: I do not get why this has never come up.
Speaker 1: And you know, of course, it's going to depend on
Speaker 1: the crawler, whether or not they particularly are the type
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that sort of opportunity. I as
Speaker 1: a crawler would not be like, oh, here's that guy
Speaker 1: is bounty so much, I'm going to try and kill him.
Speaker 1: I would be like, one, I'm certain I can't take
Speaker 1: that person, but two, I don't want to kill another
Speaker 1: human being. That's not what I like how I want
Speaker 1: to live through this game. But then you've got people
Speaker 1: out there like Frank and Maggie, and if they are
Speaker 1: able to set something up to take somebody down, set
Speaker 1: a trap you know who knows, and I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: it would also result in the bounty being split amongst
Speaker 1: everybody who participated in the trap. So maybe it becomes
Speaker 1: you need enough people for somebody super powerful that the
Speaker 1: bounty doesn't wind up being really worth it. But I
Speaker 1: don't know that combined with XP might tempt some people.
Speaker 1: So oh, I'm sorry, I'm just seeing all the chat.
Speaker 1: Anything that's bound to be entertaining is bound to happen,
Speaker 1: and our zoos in the chat saying how is that
Speaker 1: an assist? It doesn't matter how she lost the crown.
Speaker 1: The effects for floor nine are permanent, but doesn't the
Speaker 1: crown dissolving not make another person who has the crown?
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that as the assist, where it's
Speaker 1: like not going to create another person that she winds
Speaker 1: up having to kill later because it hasn't been handed
Speaker 1: on to anybody else. Michael says, imagine if somebody who's
Speaker 1: going to have a Hollywood moment where they make it
Speaker 1: with a second left on the clock and Katya hit
Speaker 1: the button five seconds early and stunning. He also said
Speaker 1: she was stunning. Oh does he say that Katya is stunning.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember that. I'm sorry, guys, I thought that
Speaker 1: he just said that. She was like, I'm going back
Speaker 1: to that moment here to do. I didn't answer her.
Speaker 1: I only stared she had changed to a stunning, short
Speaker 1: haired woman. Yes, you're right, you're right, you're right. I
Speaker 1: totally miss that. Oh she's hot. I love this. Rob says,
Speaker 1: I was going to say, if you're listening to the
Speaker 1: audiobook only, there might not be the warning that's included
Speaker 1: in the book about how the next book is spatially confusing.
Speaker 1: That's purposeful, and don't try to figure it out if
Speaker 1: you want to enjoy things. Okay, noted, Thank you. Rob.
Speaker 1: Saraphim says, I don't think anyone is messing with the
Speaker 1: AI the way everyone's acting. I take it as the
Speaker 1: AI is its own entity and doing its own thing.
Speaker 1: Mordecai has a habit of not talking about things till
Speaker 1: they matter in the present, except for plants, although I
Speaker 1: guess that he did wait until it mattered in the present,
Speaker 1: but then once he got going, he really went off.
Speaker 1: Why overwhelm them with stuff that may not ever matter.
Speaker 1: The crown would always dissolve if she took it off it,
Speaker 1: only it just responds elsewhere randomly. Oh so it does. Well,
Speaker 1: it's still spawned somewhere despite it being I was thinking
Speaker 1: that like it was gone gone, but it didn't. Oh
Speaker 1: that's so annoying. All right, Well, Sarahim says, given the
Speaker 1: AI defaults to quote whatever is the most entertaining unquote,
Speaker 1: it is totally going to give it out again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's likely. I thought that that was something. I'm disappointed now.
Speaker 1: Oh well, the fact that they didn't get those platinum
Speaker 1: boxes I or not platinum, the celestial boxes, and they
Speaker 1: didn't even get the boxes that they would have earned
Speaker 1: any way, Like it's one thing to counter the celestial boxes,
Speaker 1: let them have the fucking platinum was at least, you know,
Speaker 1: like it just doesn't what this reminds me of, And
Speaker 1: this is sort of what I was talking about regarding
Speaker 1: wanting to get deeper into a bunch of things. But
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have time because this section was honestly
Speaker 1: a little bit too long for one episode. But it
Speaker 1: reminded me of do you guys remember a little while
Speaker 1: back when there were a bunch of guys on Reddit
Speaker 1: who figured out how to play the stock for I
Speaker 1: think it was game stop and they were doing I
Speaker 1: don't remember if it was a short sale or what,
Speaker 1: but they figured out something that was like a not
Speaker 1: technically illegal, but like border unethical way of jacking the
Speaker 1: stock up when a bunch of other people had been
Speaker 1: going to buy and then sell. So they were sort
Speaker 1: of screwing over a bunch of investment bros In doing this,
Speaker 1: and while earning themselves some money in the process. And
Speaker 1: it was one of the few times that we have
Speaker 1: gotten to see regular people utilizing the absolute scam that
Speaker 1: is the stock market to fuck over rich people and
Speaker 1: also get something themselves out of it. And I don't
Speaker 1: remember if their earnings were frozen, but I do remember
Speaker 1: at the very minimum what they were doing. There was
Speaker 1: a lock put on the website they were using, which
Speaker 1: I think was like robin Hood or some sort of
Speaker 1: online trading site, and a lot of the people who
Speaker 1: had been doing it their accounts were removed things like that,
Speaker 1: and it was just like one of those moments of like, oh,
Speaker 1: I get it. So everybody who has all of this
Speaker 1: power and money can basically do whatever the fuck, but
Speaker 1: if the little guys figure out how to game the system,
Speaker 1: that's been gaming them forever, God fucking forbid. And it
Speaker 1: was just such a perfect example of this kind of thing,
Speaker 1: where like we were managing to do something without technically
Speaker 1: breaking any rules and then you guys just decided to
Speaker 1: move the goal post some retcon that it really is
Speaker 1: against the rules actually, and like make it so that
Speaker 1: none of this is possible again. And it was infuriating.
Speaker 1: Like it was a couple of years ago now, but
Speaker 1: I remember following it with great excitement at the time.
Speaker 1: Michael says, they saw that the stock was shorted for
Speaker 1: more shares than were available, so they bought the hell
Speaker 1: out of it, and the short sellers couldn't buy stock
Speaker 1: to cancel out their short sales. That's it, thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just like the idea too that oh
Speaker 1: well they had to pay taxes on a thing, and
Speaker 1: they didn't foresee this, and that the AI for some
Speaker 1: reason didn't trigger what it should have for things to
Speaker 1: go off. It just I don't know if the AI
Speaker 1: is like because everybody is more overpowered at this point
Speaker 1: in the game than they really should be. Mordecai was
Speaker 1: talking about that, and I'm wondering if like finding a
Speaker 1: way to give everybody a celestial box is part of
Speaker 1: trying to give them as much power as they can
Speaker 1: can get. I'm very curious about all of this. I
Speaker 1: guess we'll see. But yeah, I'm gonna be starting the
Speaker 1: next book. Is it next episode? Guys? Let me look
Speaker 1: at this little schedule here. Yeah, Thursday, I'll be starting
Speaker 1: the Dungeon Anarchist Cookbook. So how many books are there guys?
Speaker 1: And is the series completed? I can't remember. I know
Speaker 1: I've asked this before. I really do have to wrap
Speaker 1: up because I am over time, but I'm proud of
Speaker 1: myself that I managed to cover everything in that hour.
Speaker 1: So thank you guys again for hanging out with me.
Speaker 1: Appreciate all of you very very much. Thank you Michael
Speaker 1: for commissioning this. And until next time to the Loom motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: That was an Unspoiled Network podcast