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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 seven, this Inevitable Ruin chapter

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sixty eight through Rosetta. In these chapters we lose me

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June and it's really a bummer. It bums me the

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fuck out. Y'all. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the

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show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to

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Michael for commissioning this episode. I almost said Jeff because

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Jeff just popped up in my like, but Michael isn't

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here yet, which is unusual. But thank you Michael for

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commissioning this one. Uh. I guess every time I hit

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a really sad moment, I'm like a sort of am

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I grateful? Am I glad that somebody commissioned this? Or

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am I asking why they feel the need to put

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me through this trauma? And I think it's both. You know,

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the whole point of Unspoiled really is to watch somebody

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else go through the trauma regarding a property that you've

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already gone through. Like that's the spirit of it, right.

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I just had this. I just had this yesterday live

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reading a certain chapter of the Dress and Files to

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Rashaan and knowing, oh, this is gonna be a moment.

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So anyway, let's begin with sixty eight because like the

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previous chapter ends with Carl realizing that like nobody in

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the room they're about to go into has in vulnerability

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while he and Dong do. And so when we start

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the next chapter, they have absolutely like fucking wrecked these people.

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And there's an interesting thing. So I had forgotten that

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when Dong kills people, they like turn into coins sometimes,

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and I don't, like, I don't remember if this happens anytime.

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I feel like I remember there being like a you

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have a ten percent chance of this happening or something.

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But the coins are being picked up sometimes by Dong,

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who then drops them into the sock, which is causing

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the sock to grow and grow. And I am really

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curious about exactly how all this works, because it should

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I be concerned about the sock growing. Is this simply

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like the weapon powering up? I know that there's like,

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essentially this sock is possessed by a spirit. Does this

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spirit gain strength by him adding coins into it? Is

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it possible that the spirit gets a little too powered up?

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Can that happen? I don't know what to be worried about.

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It feels though like it's significant. It feels like I

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don't know it just it keeps being mentioned in a

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way that seems like we are our attention is being

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drawn on purpose. So I don't know. I just wanted

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to say something about it, because, like I don't, I

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feel like there is so much going on that there

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are times where I hesitate to spend any of my

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precious hour talking about real side character stuff, and then

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later I'll really regret not having brought it up because

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It'll turn out to be something. So I have a

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difficult time, upon occasion deciding what's worth it and what isn't.

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But this feels like we got a enough references to

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it that it's something, you know. So we have these

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two crawlers who had been what's the word, They were

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under the conscription spell, so it marks them as enemies,

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which means the fucking the what do you call it?

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Biggs is seeing them as like, oh, I want to

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kill you just for the fun of it, and Carl

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keeps having to tell her no. I really hope that

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she actually listens to him, because at one point she

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says something like, well, when he leaves, I'm gonna chop

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one of you two. And I was just like, can

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you imagine this crawler is like on your side and

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yet one of his weird little NPC minions is still

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maybe going to kill you, and that's how you go out.

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I would be so pissed outside Little Red Corvette by

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Prince blasted now question because donnat ask everybody to send

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in their song requests, and we obviously had like a

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dick theme going on, and then when it's mentioned Little

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Red Corvette, I was like, oh my god, is that

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song about a dick? Is it just like a slightly

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classier metaphor than a lollipop? And I missed it this

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whole time? It very well, maybe guys, I've never read

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read the lyrics. I've heard the song a million times,

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but you know how that is. You can hear a

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song and not really hear it. So I just had

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to like mention that too, because it was one of

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those like galaxy brain moments of like, oh my god, yeah.

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And also the fact that like when Dong puts that

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money in, Carl says something like I thought they were

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all nickels in there. Dong was muttering to himself and

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didn't answer me. Like, there's something about that as well,

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the fact that like Dong is so obsessed here that

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he doesn't seem to even clock that Carl's talking to him.

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I feel like, I don't like that. It may just

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be that he's preoccupied right now, but it could also

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be something else. So let's see, I'm trying to find

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the bit here where we move on. Yeah, here it is.

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We turned and hurried down the hall in the opposite direction.

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The surgical theater and the throne rumor right next to

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each other, just around the corner. I could hear the

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screaming as I stepped into the hall, though as soon

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as I heard it, the sound cut off sharply. The

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hallways here were wide and unadorned. The floor is a

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white speckled tile. Everything was crisp, clean, well lit. I

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was reminded of a hospital. So as they're heading over there,

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eventually there's a moment of him being like that sounds

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like Houston screaming what is happening? And eventually we see

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that that is indeed what's going on, and that Houston

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is totally willing to undergo a horrific procedure himself. For

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the sake of finding out what he wants to find out,

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which I must admit, as much as I do not

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care for this at all, I can't help respect that

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a little bit. But here's somebody who's willing to put

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the money where their mouth is, you know what I'm saying.

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But anyway, we're not there yet. So Louis he says,

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I'm stuck level six Hallway C. I stepped on a

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snare trap and I can't move for a few minutes.

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I filled the area with a poison cloud, but it

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doesn't work on them. They have these little dog robot

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things that shoot darts. Guys, I'm in trouble. I have

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some no disassemble robot killers, but the explosions are too big.

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I can't do it where I'm stuck. I don't know

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what to do. And Samantha says, Okay, I have an

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idea to save you, but you've gotta trust me. Now,

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I am going I'm going to say something here. Samantha

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saying I've got an idea, but you gotta trust me

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is so much more worrying than anybody else saying that sentence,

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because Samantha does bonker shit a lot, and never says

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you gotta trust me, because that bonker shit doesn't seem

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bonkers to her. It's just it's just the you know,

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if she thinks it's bonkers enough that she knows you're

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gonna have a reaction, and so she has to just preload.

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You gotta trust me. I feel like it's gonna be insane,

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like to a level that we I look. It could

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go either way. It could be she is coming at

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this with a caution that she hasn't before because she

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is growing and evolving as a being and has better awareness,

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or even has had better awareness than she let on

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and has been so sort of playing dumb, you know.

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Or it could be that whatever it is she's about

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to suggest is truly unhinged in a way that we

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have not yet encountered. Either way, I don't love it.

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I'm worried about it. So then we go into the

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surgical theater. Now, guys, I am on the record throughout

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many different things that I have covered as hating medical horror.

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I have a real difficulty with it. It's partially just

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body horror stuff in general, where you know, like there's

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a movie that came out recently called Together and it's

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a horror movie that's a metaphor for like codependent relationships

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and just the preview like I couldn't I couldn't get through,

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you know what I'm saying. So I it's the actual

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like pain and blood and guts, but also it is

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the coldness as well. When it comes to medical stuff.

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We have got a history that is littered with sociopaths

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who are like the madness, willing to do whatever it

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takes to find out what they need, and they do

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not care who they're causing to suffer to find out

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what they need to find out. And I mean this

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is an issue, a huge issue with like obstetrics and gynecology.

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There was a statue up until recently of the quote

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father of obstetrics and gynecology who subjected slave women to

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some of the most hideous things you can imagine with

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no anesthetic and you know, just to see what was

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going on. And it's unsurprising that so much medical research

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has not even been done with women in mind, considering

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that it's all about like, oh, we need to know

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as much as we can, but not about women though, Okay,

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but anyway, I just I know that this is a

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real thing that there are people out there who are

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in medicine not because they want to heal or care

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about people, but because it's a great way for them

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to leverage the fact that they don't really care about

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the suffering somebody is going through, and they are able

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to set that aside and fully focus on doing a surgery,

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you know, which in a way I see that, but

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I don't. I just can't. I just can't. So this

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was difficult, and you know, when he goes in there,

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first of all, we find out that there are a

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lot of traps that have all kinds of special things

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going on where they can't be tripped by the tripp

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or spell, or they have a dead man's switch and

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if he dies they will go off, or if you

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hit this one, then the other ones will also go off,

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or or there's like it's really set up with like

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a very is somebody who is experienced and knows how

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to do this right. The fourth table was empty. It

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appeared as if twenty gallons of blood had been dumped

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on it. From above. The first occupied table contained the

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corpse of Crawler Zanep. They had done something to her,

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something unspeakable, something I won't describe I couldn't bear to

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look at her for more than a cursory moment, and

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that just like I'm not even gonna tell you consider

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wading that the next person he describes looks like they've

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been peeled open. Is how how bad is it? How

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bad is it? And I really, for some reason, was

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imagining something gynecological here. And I don't know if that's

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just because of my aforementioned baggage that I have mentioned,

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but I there's something about this that felt like we're

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on another level. The second table contained Burku, who was alive.

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She opened her mouth to say something, but no words

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came out. Dried blood ran down the front of her

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badger face and throat tears streamed. And this is so awful, guys, because,

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like burku It later on, it seems like if he

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had simply not tried to help, but also the fact

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that he tries to help is what we want. It's

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really tough. And there were two forms on the table.

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One was the blank dead corpse of the changeling whose

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name had been tomko It said. His cause of death

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was died on the surgical table, which was the same

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as Zanep. The changeling had suffered a similar but not

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as thorough fate as Zanep. It appeared as if he

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had been peeled open. He wasn't truly on the table,

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but upside down, hovering ten inches over the other form,

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clutched in the mechanical arms of the machine hanging from

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the ceiling. And we get a description eventually of the machine,

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and it's nicknamed grease Monkey, and we find out about

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the fact that these guys don't care about healing. They

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want to know how everything works, and that they don't

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do shit for free. So I'm trying to find the

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bit here. Yeah, here it is. What a lot of

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people don't know is the surgical repair is actually the

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secondary purpose of these machines. Vice Roys have no passion

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for healing. Their passion is science. They'll gladly operate on anybody,

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but it's still ain't free. The good news is if

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you can't pay right away, that's okay. The Viceroys have

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multiple payment options and opportunities available for you don't like that,

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And if you want to sign yourself over to their

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post biological form Studies CORP, all your bills will be

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wiped away. I really wonder about that because that's the

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sort of thing where I feel like you're going to

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be assuming you're dead when that happens, and then you

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find out there's some fine print and actually you don't

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have to be dead, and they still get to do whatever.

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Architect Houston is the prime not because he was elected,

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but because he's made the most scientific discoveries, most of

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which were made with the help of this very machine

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you see before you. And Houston is talking to Carl

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and telling him to stay back because he's almost done,

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almost completing his life's work. And this was sort of

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interesting to me because like, there are times where I'll

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be listening to something and just marveling at how incredible

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a audiobook narrator is, and then every now and then

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they'll deliver something in a way that I'm like, mm,

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I think you missed on this one a little bit.

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And for me, the way that the narrator did Architect

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less as the kind of screaming, desperate sounding voice and

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more a voice of like really carefully controlled pain somebody

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who is not letting that through willingly and can't help

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bit because to a degree that pain is not controllable,

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but this is just there's a sound to it in

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the audiobook narration where it's almost shrieking, you know. And

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this dude to me, he strikes me as like very

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in control in this scene. Still so oh sorry, there's

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a bunch of chat, Rob says Samantha's writer or Die.

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Saraphim says, this is Samantha. It could be all of

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the above true. Jeff says, it's really horrible how much

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awful shit men will do if the government lets them.

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I'm reading any robot right now, and it's way too real.

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I haven't heard of that one. Saraphim says, sun Be

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a dentist starts playing repo the genetic Opera vibes. I

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have never seen that because of the aforementioned hatred of

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medical horror. No thank you, thumbs down. So then we

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get Donut interrupting everything that's happening here. Her poprate's ripped

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the giant robot in half and through half of it

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at me. It didn't fly far enough to get to me,

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but he's coming in my direction. I turned the music off,

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but he's still coming. I'm thinking I shouldn't have said

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so many mean things to him. Guys sure are sensitive

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when you make fun of their wieners. He even marked

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me for death, and Carl starts yelling for her to

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get out or for somebody to go get her, and

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she's just like, I have time still. The ball is

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almost there, and I can't leave the tower until they

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get to the corpses. If I don't stay, everyone is

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in trouble and everyone on our team might die. And

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I'm thinking that this is going to turn into an

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argument between her and Carl, But then Lee June chimes in,

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He's going to get to you before the ball reaches

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the other field. I have an idea. Speaker number eleven

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is still on the back of a cart. Mute all

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the speakers except that one play the song I just

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sent you. And this is when Lena says June, no, no,

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and Lee June says, sorry, little sister, I'll jump before

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he catches me. He doesn't manage that. Now. The thing

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that gets me every single time during these moments is

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that Carl has his own shit He's in the middle

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of right now. You know, this is like, this is

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such a crisis and somebody is basically saying, I'm falling

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on my sword, and he can't even give it his

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full attention because he's got a whole other thing, which

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just I could never look. My Adhd would have me

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dead in this dungeon way way too soon. There's just

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no fucking way. And then he sends a message to

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Burku and he says, to my surprise, this time it

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was delivered. And I'm really curious about why that is.

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My assumption is now that he is in the room

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with her, that the AI is sort of going, well,

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if Burkh still had their tongue, you would be able

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to speak directly to each other. So I'm going to

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let you do the messaging thing simply because you like

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as a means of you too communicating because she can't speak.

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But that if it were messaging in the normal way

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where you are nowhere near one another, that's cheating. But

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this is this is purely headcanon on my part. It's

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just what makes sense. And honestly, even if it were

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what I said, that's the AI kind of being nice,

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Like the AI doesn't have to let them communicate at all.

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So that's interesting. So Burku says, he tortured my mother.

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He killed her right in front of me, free me

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so I can kill him. These bindings won't let me

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cast magic. You owe me, Carl, you killed my father.

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Free me now. And Carl doesn't know who she's talking about.

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I don't either. I'm not remembering this. I don't know

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if I'm supposed to remember. If i'm not, don't tell me.

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But this is Yeah, this was not ringing a bell

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for me. You know, Carl's killed on this point. So uh,

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he tells don keep an eye on Houston and kill

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him if he starts to cast anything else. And then

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Carl uses walk on air, and I just want to

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mention this is the skill that he got from Lee June.

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So in a way, Lee June is saving everybody's asses,

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you know, Like I don't know, there was just something

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about him using this right now while Lee June is

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preparing to sacrifice himself. That felt really like underscoring and circling.

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Lee June gave his all, you know. So he takes

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the cleaner bot that's cleaning up all the blood, which

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I'm super curious because I know that we can't pull

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liquids into our inventory that are not in a container,

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but I'm wondering if this cleaner bot is out here

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cleaning up these rooms. How much blood is in the

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cleaner bot? Now, I don't know what kind of like

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interdimensional storage it has, but I'm willing to bet there's

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a lot of blood in there if it's like a

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bag of holding. So so yeah, So anyway, and here it

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is across the way. Houston was crying in pain as

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the machine appeared to start removing some of his lower guts,

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letting them slop onto the floor. So now he starts

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crying for real. So the narrator maybe they had a

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point earlier. I feel like now's the time where it

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starts to get into that sort of voice. I also

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was like, why wouldn't you just like use drugs to

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numb yourself through this? But the point is that he

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has to be like fully conscious, I think, in order

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to see what he wants to see. The changeling starts

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to vibrate, and he realizes that they are actually physically

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being connected by the grease monkey, and he tells Berkele,

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I'm gonna remove the bindings, but don't leave the table.

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We'll get him, but let me get you out of

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the room. First. Uh let's see. Oh god, yeah, I'm

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landed on the second table, landing amongst the gore of Zanep.

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The body fell apart when I landed, much of it

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slothing to the floor. Guys, there's something about him like

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landing where the body is. That's so it's not just

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the grossness of it. It's the fact that like that

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he's willing to do that. That we've gotten to a

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point where it's not even really mentioned that he hesitates

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to do this. Do you know what I'm saying? I

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don't know. That just felt like, oh god. So this

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is when Houston is saying, Carl, you don't understand. I

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can stop it all. I can get there. The change

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things are the key. Why do you think we come

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here cycle after cycle? You've helped make the greatest discovery

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in history and you don't even realize it. It was

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here all along. And it's so woh curious to me

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why he thinks that this is like true? Look, I

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can think of no better way to trick the madness

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into going down a certain path then by showing the

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beautiful place weird, unknowable of crafting and creature and acting like,

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oh yeah, it exists and we know about it and everything.

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Because they're going to get completely caught up in that.

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So it's interesting to me that he really doesn't seem

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it doesn't seem to have occurred to him that he's

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being played or anything. It's just like all of this

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is like a created place, and yet he's taking what's

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in this created place seriously and I don't really understand

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it fully. The created place is run by an AI

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that apparently was like connected to the creation of the

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planet and is part of a greater scope than we

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even understand. Like part of the point of it is

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that they started using these supercomputer ais without fully understanding

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what they even are. So just because it's in this

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fantasy world thing doesn't mean that it's not real. But

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the reverse is also not necessarily true. There's just a

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I just have a lot of questions, that's all I'm saying.

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So m Dona is yelling at this point, go fasterly, June.

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He is catching up, and then we get Rosetta chiming in.

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Eris is awake, but she's still in the middle of

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the ball. She's trying to escape, but she can't move.

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She turned off her witness spell and just removed everyone's

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in vulnerability, but they're still invulnerable anyway. The rolling Battle

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Formation spell keeps them immobile and invulnerable, but they'll be

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exposed the moment the ball breaks. And when she said that,

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I was just like, oh shit, because Karl is here

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and he doesn't have his in vulnerabili anym or and

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he literally just looks down at himself and it's just

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like fuck. I heard Mordecai's voice at that moment. You

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can't save them all, kid. I didn't even know this

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Berku person, and by all accounts, she was kind of

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an ass. And now I was in serious trouble because

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I hadn't simply let her die. I could have ended

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this just by stepping into the room, and now it

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was too late. And then we get lee June sister.

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Tell Zang, I'm sorry I didn't get to say goodbye

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to his face. Tell him I won our bet, and

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you protect him. I want you to be kind to

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the others. This was my decision. I had to do it.

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I know you get angry. If you must be angry

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with me. I love you with all I have. I

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love you with the moon and the sun and all

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the stars in the sky. I will see you soon,

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and I will tell mama, you said hello, Oh my god,

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you guys, because like, literally, one of my first thoughts

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when he was about to sacrifice himself is like, oh no, me, No,

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might be a fucking nightmare after this. Like him saying

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don't be angry, I know you get angry does not help.

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I am hoping that she will hear and internalize this,

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But it may be that this simply washes over her

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and that it does not make any impression at all.

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I am going to be really interested to see how

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she reacts, because there's a part of me that believes

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that she has been sort of restraining some of the

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more upsetting parts of her nature because of him. Zang

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is still around, so that may not completely go away.

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But ugh it, I don't know. So the changeling started

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to change despite being dead. Tentacles or roots actually grew

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from its lower half. Yes, Houston called as he died.

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He was sobbing. I found you. I found you after

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all this time, you were right here all along. It's

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really you, isn't it Not just an avatar. It's you.

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It's you. I took a fine healing potion and I

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threw it at the Warlord. It crashed against the man's

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alien head. When Carl did that, I swear, guys, I

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gasped out loud because, like you know, admittedly, a part

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of me is also low key interested in what Houston's

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doing right now. So Carl was completely like going, Nope, no,

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you don't. I was just like, oh, but I sort

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of want to know. Above him, the creature that used

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to be the change started to scream. Vines appeared out

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of nowhere and wrapped their way up the machine. A

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high pitched, shrill, bone shaking scream came from the creature

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who remained in the clutches of the surgical apparatus. I

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ignored this as I jumped across the way. How how though,

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how did you ignore this? Things are becoming a little

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too normalized around here, kids. I reached down to pickbur

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Who up and pull her over my shoulder, and that's

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when the table tipped over. I met her eyes as

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she fell toward the white, clean floor, and like her

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dead mother, I saw accusation there. At the same moment,

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I sailed over her and hit the floor with my

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bare feet. You don't know what you've done, was all

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Houston said in the moments before the traps fired for

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my part. I activated gloom Wraith phase. The very moment

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my feet touched the ground, I shot forward, which was

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toward architect Houston, still under the creature surgically attached. I

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pushed through them as fire descended on the room from

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all directions at once. I passed through the naked Houston,

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unraveling him. My shoulder felt as if I hit a

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solid wall, and I was suddenly spinning. The creature looked

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into my eyes. It said nothing. It pulsated with black

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energy regarding me. It just looked at me, and then

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it leaned in as if to kiss me. And in

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that moment, we still spun, and it changed, turning momentarily

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into a face I recognized, Lee June. I couldn't understand

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what was happening, just that it was important. We were

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moving and frozen at the same time, spinning yet stopped.

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It was like that moment with Paulie, frozen in time,

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moving at incredible speed all at once. Thank you for

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giving me more time with my sister and my best friend,

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Lee June said, as roots wrapped around him and suddenly

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whisked him away. So the all tree thing seems to

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be part of this, like like almost a spiritual core

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of the dungeon, but also perhaps everything because again we

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don't know what we're playing with when we use the

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AI to create the dungeon, so the whole thing with

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the tree and the roots. And this is not the

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first time that that kind of imagery has been mentioned

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with Caral in his you know like it's something about

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this also comes up later with Katya. So then we

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the next like section is everybody like all of these

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different messages about who has been defeated, who's winning, who

473
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,400
has what, and the war lord message a full quorum

474
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,519
adjudication has determined no cheating has occurred. And then we

475
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:35,519
get some changes from a war lord Agatha of the

476
00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:43,119
war Made Rebellion, and this is wild shit because apparently

477
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:48,519
they are like an actual there are enough of a

478
00:34:48,559 --> 00:34:57,079
real group to be a warlord. Action Item one war

479
00:34:57,119 --> 00:35:00,199
Made Rebellion be given full resources and access, and the

480
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,360
AI is like, well, you already had that, so that

481
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,760
was a waste. War Mage be given full access to

482
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:11,280
conscription and that request is granted. And three, during the

483
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,000
pealing phase, revert to the rules of the original faction

484
00:35:15,159 --> 00:35:19,920
wars warlords and all soldiers of a defeated team should

485
00:35:20,079 --> 00:35:26,519
automatically die if they lose during the pealing phase, and

486
00:35:26,599 --> 00:35:35,440
the AI agrees. Now, I this is first, this is

487
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:42,519
bananas and Agatha, what are you doing? But also we

488
00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:46,079
are dealing with thousands and thousands of people on different teams,

489
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,360
and as an author, if you are going to pare

490
00:35:50,519 --> 00:35:53,199
things down, you gotta have a way that huge groups

491
00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:55,719
of people are dead. There's got to you have to

492
00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:00,239
do something, you know to make it manageable. And it's

493
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,880
a tried and true like kill the queen, kill the mother,

494
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,480
and the rest of the hive will die sort of thing.

495
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,519
I'm not mad at this for the record. I'm just

496
00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:14,400
saying like this trope makes sense to be brought in

497
00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:18,079
now at this point in the story. But also the

498
00:36:18,119 --> 00:36:20,360
fact that it works the way that it does keeps

499
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,760
it from being a trope that feels tired, because now

500
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,239
everybody is at risk in a way that they weren't before.

501
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:31,480
And it also means our people and team attribution aren't

502
00:36:32,039 --> 00:36:34,320
very much at odds in a way they hadn't been

503
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,960
before they were able to fully team up, and now

504
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:40,519
it's going to be a team up until we don't

505
00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:46,159
which could happen much sooner than we expected, and that

506
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:50,239
is such a fucking bummer. Finding a way to turn

507
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,320
everybody against each other just makes total sense and is

508
00:36:55,519 --> 00:37:00,280
low key like Agatha is an evil genius right now

509
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,599
for this or not evil, I don't know what she's

510
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,480
trying to do. Just from that like flashback that we

511
00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:10,920
had of her, it seems like she basically wants everybody dead.

512
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,800
So I'm putting it down to like I'm gonna say

513
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:18,199
evil as a shorthand for just like I think that's

514
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:25,719
a horrible idea. No. But so let me go into

515
00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:30,760
several days earlier, and we are in the memory that

516
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,679
Karl went into with Kacia when they had this treatment thing.

517
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:39,039
It's crazy when I realized as I was reading this

518
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,239
that that was only several days earlier, because it's just

519
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,400
like we've had chapters and chapters since then, and it

520
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,679
just feels like ages ago, and to be reminded, like, no,

521
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:55,960
that shit kind of just happened is very disorienting. So

522
00:37:56,679 --> 00:38:04,519
we get a more a closer look at the memory

523
00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:08,639
that she had, and like, before we fully go into it,

524
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:11,639
we have this moment where as Karl is going under

525
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,360
I'd connected with more than just Catia. I'd caught the

526
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,000
briefest glimpses of everyone nearby, of Mordecai and that deep,

527
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:27,639
bottomless well of sadness within, of Rosetta, and the tired rage.

528
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,920
I love that line of Mordecai or no sorry, of

529
00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:35,920
Edgar the Tortoise, and the strange sense of fear and

530
00:38:36,079 --> 00:38:38,920
wonder at all the things he was suddenly remembering from

531
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,679
his hundreds of past lives. Of Bucket Boy, the crocodilian

532
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,480
NPC who wondered why he didn't remember the things the

533
00:38:46,519 --> 00:38:49,320
other strippers said they did, and the shame he felt

534
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,480
because of it, because it like it meant he somehow

535
00:38:52,679 --> 00:38:57,079
wasn't worthy. I'm wondering if he's new, and that's why.

536
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,440
And Imani oh Godi. Most of what I saw with

537
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,559
the others was emotion and maybe an inkling at what

538
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,360
caused it. But with her and Katya, I saw more.

539
00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:13,960
I saw what Immani carried. It was just a glimpse,

540
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,880
but it was so so much. She'd fled her home

541
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,559
in Detroit, and her older brothers and sisters blamed her

542
00:39:21,599 --> 00:39:24,000
for leaving the family, but she had to. She had

543
00:39:24,039 --> 00:39:27,280
to get away. She'd earned her nursing certificate and found

544
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,679
a job in what she considered the middle of nowhere,

545
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,880
a relatively small, beautiful town where drugs and violence and despair,

546
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,840
which is something one saw on the news. She was

547
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:41,599
always chasing peace, despite the overwhelming guilt she carried like

548
00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:44,559
a heavy sack she couldn't put down. She was sick

549
00:39:44,599 --> 00:39:47,599
of being looked at as the one in charge, the

550
00:39:47,639 --> 00:39:50,920
one who had to make the tough decisions. She didn't

551
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,960
want that responsibility, yet it always fell to her, despite

552
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,519
her always being the youngest one in the room. She

553
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,119
was in love with Chris, and I had no idea.

554
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:08,800
She loved his simplicity, his quiet kindness. It felt so private,

555
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,960
so dirty for me to have learned about this in

556
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,800
such a way, like I had broken into her house

557
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:19,079
and spied her utterly naked, all without her knowing. Ugh, y'all,

558
00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:25,360
if EMMANI doesn't remind me of Rashan, it is crazy.

559
00:40:26,599 --> 00:40:32,079
It is crazy. Like you know, I'm not going to

560
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:33,960
get into it because I don't need to be telling

561
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,840
her business. But suffice to say, I think Rashaan would

562
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:45,679
get quite emotional reading this, because yeah, and he's actually

563
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:51,719
Carl is like, thankful that donut isn't in the room.

564
00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:55,000
Because the way he's able to see all of this

565
00:40:55,079 --> 00:40:58,599
in just an instant with Emani, he knows that he

566
00:40:58,639 --> 00:41:03,280
would see a lot with Donut, and he doesn't want

567
00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:11,519
her privacy violated in that kind of way. Now, guys,

568
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:18,000
I'm going to say something here that I don't I

569
00:41:18,039 --> 00:41:23,599
hesitate to do because I feel like I sound bananas,

570
00:41:24,199 --> 00:41:34,000
But I'm really like worried that Donut isn't Donut anymore fully.

571
00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:37,119
And I don't mean like, oh, she's changing because of trauma.

572
00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:41,639
I mean like something's happening that is an outside influence,

573
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,960
or did she get replaced with a changeling or what.

574
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,480
I don't know. I don't know how that works. I

575
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,480
don't know if they can imitate abilities, you know, I

576
00:41:51,519 --> 00:41:54,480
really don't know how that works. But the fact that

577
00:41:54,559 --> 00:42:00,719
Donut's not in here and there's clearly been something going

578
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:05,599
on with her, it could simply be that the author

579
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,079
doesn't want to delve into that yet because they want

580
00:42:09,079 --> 00:42:12,639
that to be a different thing, a conversation, rather than

581
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:21,239
simply an inspection and exposition. Or it could be there's

582
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,519
a twist going on with her and this would reveal

583
00:42:24,559 --> 00:42:29,360
it and we don't want that yet. I'm just worried

584
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:35,360
about it and the whole way that all this happens

585
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,400
as he's going under I'm thinking is related to this

586
00:42:39,159 --> 00:42:45,920
odd all tree situation, like he is somehow getting in

587
00:42:46,199 --> 00:42:51,679
touch with it and thus able because everything is connected

588
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:56,280
through it, able to sense more with the folks, especially

589
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:01,840
that he has gotten to know better assumption. But I

590
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,360
do not know if there's I don't know if that's it,

591
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:13,079
and that's true. Sarah him is saying, I doubt a

592
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:18,320
changeling could use her chat true. Jeff says, I thought

593
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,440
maybe him being a primal gives him this ability. It

594
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:29,559
would make sense that, like the the ability, because I

595
00:43:29,599 --> 00:43:32,719
still think like this weird tree imagery has something to

596
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,880
do with it, but that Carl can access it when

597
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,880
maybe others can't would make sense if they are kind

598
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:46,280
of the same level of being now because he's he's

599
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,119
primal and the AI is going primal and I don't

600
00:43:49,159 --> 00:43:51,320
know how long it takes before it really is that,

601
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:55,719
you know, is it by now? It may be, but

602
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,599
I'm wondering if that's part of life. I don't know.

603
00:44:02,159 --> 00:44:03,679
I don't know, guys, but I really got to get

604
00:44:03,679 --> 00:44:05,639
through this because your girl is getting in the weeds here,

605
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:13,239
so we get to see again the scene of like

606
00:44:14,159 --> 00:44:18,880
Kotcha facing off with her shitty ex who tells on

607
00:44:19,039 --> 00:44:23,199
her regarding this kid. And it's just so awful because

608
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:27,159
what she wanted was to adopt this baby who did

609
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:30,960
not have a good prognosis, and because Kotya herself is sick,

610
00:44:31,039 --> 00:44:33,360
they don't want her to get to adopt this kid.

611
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,599
So it's better for the kid to simply die in

612
00:44:36,639 --> 00:44:43,159
the hospital alone than for Ktya to take on the

613
00:44:43,199 --> 00:44:48,840
care of this child in the meantime. And like, you know,

614
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,760
a part of me understands the position of the hospital

615
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,079
being like she's unwell, she will not be able to

616
00:44:55,159 --> 00:44:58,400
care for this child. I really, like, you know, there's

617
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,440
the possibility if she going really wrong with Kotchya long

618
00:45:02,519 --> 00:45:05,920
before this little girl passes away, who knows what could

619
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,880
happen then, So in a sense, I get that, but

620
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,960
it also just feels so incredibly cruel for no reason

621
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,800
other than bureaucracy, you know, And we get the full

622
00:45:21,199 --> 00:45:29,639
story of the fact that like she when she didn't

623
00:45:29,639 --> 00:45:32,360
even like get notified that the little girl died, she

624
00:45:32,599 --> 00:45:36,119
just ran into one of the nurses who casually mentioned it,

625
00:45:36,199 --> 00:45:41,960
like it was nothing, and it's part of why this

626
00:45:42,199 --> 00:45:46,559
last moment of her holding the baby is her worst

627
00:45:46,599 --> 00:45:51,679
and best memory, because she knew it would be the

628
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:58,840
last time. And Kotchya says, at this moment, I was

629
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,039
so sure I was going to kill myself after this

630
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,239
that I actually felt this calming sense of peace. But

631
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,239
then I thought to myself, what if they changed their

632
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,119
mind then who would she have and the fear would

633
00:46:11,119 --> 00:46:14,559
come back. They never did change their minds. And then

634
00:46:14,559 --> 00:46:15,880
when I saw the nurse at the park and she

635
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,639
told me Annie was dead, as if it was nothing,

636
00:46:17,679 --> 00:46:20,000
I lost all the hope I had all over again.

637
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,440
And Carl says, I recognized that moment of finality for

638
00:46:25,519 --> 00:46:29,239
what it was, the last moment of the crash. Come

639
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:33,480
on now, the woman had said to me, come on now.

640
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:39,320
That I really like this part of the story, specifically

641
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,239
that a really awful period in your life, you would

642
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,599
think that there would be you would think you would

643
00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:51,079
be able to pinpoint what moment it really was at

644
00:46:51,119 --> 00:46:57,280
its nadier, and it isn't the moment you would normally choose.

645
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:05,039
And how difficult to explain it is if you're trying

646
00:47:05,079 --> 00:47:07,880
to talk to somebody about it. That it's like, no,

647
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,760
it's not even getting sent to like the boys home

648
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:18,480
finding out that my dad had disappeared. It wasn't even that.

649
00:47:18,519 --> 00:47:21,840
It was the woman saying come on now, and how

650
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:28,440
it just doesn't make sense to anybody but you. And

651
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,320
there's something that feels very real about this, even though

652
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,480
I can't really like compare it to anything in my

653
00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:38,519
life that I can think of specifically, but it feels real,

654
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:46,119
you know. And Carl says, she knows you couldn't be together,

655
00:47:46,199 --> 00:47:49,199
but right here, in this moment, she knows. I know,

656
00:47:49,639 --> 00:47:54,840
gotcha said, That's why it's my favorite memory. And then

657
00:47:55,159 --> 00:48:00,079
she says, I'm worried about Daniel. And you guys know,

658
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:02,480
I've been saying something's up with Batista and I'm kind

659
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,079
of starting to think that he's going to do something

660
00:48:04,119 --> 00:48:09,079
crazy and evidently, and she says, I love him, but

661
00:48:09,199 --> 00:48:16,599
I love you two more than him, and we touched

662
00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:19,440
heads again. I thought of Asher, of my father, my mother.

663
00:48:20,159 --> 00:48:24,480
I mourned what could have been if we stick around

664
00:48:24,559 --> 00:48:27,599
long enough, you can see me almost get arrested. Katcha

665
00:48:27,679 --> 00:48:31,000
finally added, and she says, you know what, I think

666
00:48:31,079 --> 00:48:34,719
Mordecai's stupid plan is actually, and then they get cut

667
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,119
off and I'm just like, God, damn it, what what plan?

668
00:48:39,119 --> 00:48:43,880
But this is when she Maria busts in and is

669
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:48,760
saying I didn't kill him, and a new voice says, bitch,

670
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:53,440
you swallowed me whole, which that is so funny, the

671
00:48:53,519 --> 00:49:01,280
starting off with just bitch, yeah m hm. So that's

672
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:05,760
so depressing. I didn't even really need to see the

673
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,400
whole memory because I kind of suspected that this was

674
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:14,840
how it was. But the conversations about what else was

675
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:20,880
going on were also very interesting and like a separate deal. Ah.

676
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:25,840
The fact that Batista suspected that Carl might try to

677
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,840
kill Katya and take that flower. The thing that gets

678
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:34,679
me about that is Carl's saying like that hadn't even

679
00:49:34,679 --> 00:49:41,760
occurred to him, but it did occur to Batista, and

680
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,719
that's to me a really dangerous thing that he thought

681
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,960
of it, because that indicates the kind of person he

682
00:49:48,119 --> 00:49:57,159
is actually. And I have run into this before of

683
00:49:57,599 --> 00:50:01,159
somebody just kind of leaping to a conclusion about something

684
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,320
that is so out of left field to me, and

685
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,960
I'm like, how the fuck did you even get there?

686
00:50:09,079 --> 00:50:12,039
And then I have to take a step back and

687
00:50:12,079 --> 00:50:17,760
be like, oh, because they're projecting, because they're kind of

688
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:22,159
a shitty person, and so they assume everybody thinks the

689
00:50:22,199 --> 00:50:28,280
way they do. And it just I have been very

690
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,719
willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because

691
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,519
Kostya likes him, and I want to be like, if

692
00:50:33,559 --> 00:50:37,559
she likes him, she has to really see something about

693
00:50:37,599 --> 00:50:43,840
his character. But the fact that he has this concern

694
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,199
that he thought of this at all, and that he

695
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:51,119
misjudges Carl so much that he actually believes Karl might

696
00:50:51,159 --> 00:50:55,360
do something like that, he's going to be a problem.

697
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,400
He's going to be a problem, and I'm not looking

698
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:02,199
forward to that. And when somebody thinks the way it

699
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:05,840
seems he thinks, trying to convince them that you don't

700
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:10,079
think that way is next to impossible. They genuinely don't

701
00:51:10,079 --> 00:51:13,239
believe you and think that you're trying to be like

702
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:19,159
holier than thou or like righteous in some way, when

703
00:51:19,159 --> 00:51:22,360
it's like, it's not even about that, it's simply that like, no,

704
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:26,519
I'm not doing that, you know. It makes me think

705
00:51:26,599 --> 00:51:30,039
of the way that people who are cheating will start

706
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:32,639
to get real weird and accuse their partner of cheating

707
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:39,119
about little stupid things. And it actually is kind of

708
00:51:39,119 --> 00:51:43,280
a tell that the fact that they're behaving weirdly about

709
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,639
stuff all of a sudden often will indicate that they

710
00:51:46,679 --> 00:51:51,000
have started cheating, and so it's on their mind in

711
00:51:51,039 --> 00:51:58,920
this weird way that begins to manifest and become accusation. So, okay, Rosetta,

712
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:04,559
we start with Baroness Victory. I was able to check

713
00:52:04,559 --> 00:52:07,480
the financial feed during the adjudication while we waited for

714
00:52:07,519 --> 00:52:10,840
that idiot Ferdinand to come down out of the rafters,

715
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,800
which I'm just lol. It appears the money has reached

716
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:19,320
the intended destination. Obviously, we can't see what's really happening

717
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,519
out there anymore, but we can still see transactions and

718
00:52:22,559 --> 00:52:25,639
their amounts. I can't decipher what the gods is happening

719
00:52:25,639 --> 00:52:28,400
in the Naga system, but there was a transaction more

720
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,480
than big enough to suggest your people were able to

721
00:52:30,519 --> 00:52:33,559
purchase two ships despite the apparent chaos in the system.

722
00:52:34,119 --> 00:52:38,159
Assuming your homecoming Queen Starship follows your orders and shoots

723
00:52:38,199 --> 00:52:47,199
down that yah, our transaction is done. Our transaction is done.

724
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:53,480
So did she explain to Rosetta how to get this

725
00:52:53,800 --> 00:53:05,480
money like I? And Rosetta says, okay, So what about

726
00:53:05,519 --> 00:53:08,559
the war mages and barreness. Victory says, just because we

727
00:53:08,599 --> 00:53:11,599
have dealings together outside the dungeon doesn't mean I am

728
00:53:11,599 --> 00:53:14,920
not taking my duties as adjutants. Seriously, I told you

729
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,880
before I will not cheat, nor will I help you cheat.

730
00:53:19,679 --> 00:53:24,679
Any information I give about indungeon rulings must go through

731
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:29,480
Warlord's carl or donut. That said, everything is fucked. That's

732
00:53:29,519 --> 00:53:31,400
what's going on. We're all going to die because the

733
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:36,559
AI is insane. Rosetta side with relief, no matter what

734
00:53:36,639 --> 00:53:40,559
happened next. Her primary mission was complete. If it all

735
00:53:40,599 --> 00:53:44,599
fell apart now, it wouldn't be her fault. And honestly,

736
00:53:44,639 --> 00:53:49,679
there's something about that that is very freeing. I understand this. Still,

737
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:53,480
despite her absolute hatred for the Orcs, she felt ill

738
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,599
about the transaction. The yacht they'd agreed to kill. Oh

739
00:53:57,599 --> 00:53:59,800
that's right, I forgot about this obviously. The yacht they

740
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:03,039
agreed to kill in exchange for the pin number contained

741
00:54:03,159 --> 00:54:09,400
several children or children, yes, but children nonetheless, and now

742
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,159
that Stalwart was dead, one of those children was the

743
00:54:12,199 --> 00:54:16,800
new king of the Skull Empire, assuming York actually did

744
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:20,320
his duty and didn't decide to write a poem or something. Instead,

745
00:54:20,599 --> 00:54:22,719
once he shot down the ork yacht, that would leave

746
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,000
Princess Formidable in charge of the Skull Empire, assuming she

747
00:54:26,119 --> 00:54:28,800
was still alive somewhere on Earth's surface, and if she

748
00:54:29,079 --> 00:54:32,400
was dead, then it would be the Maestro, despite him

749
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,920
being supposedly disowned by his father. I was just like,

750
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,000
what do you mean supposedly? I thought that that was

751
00:54:39,199 --> 00:54:42,039
like an official thing. I think that if you get

752
00:54:42,079 --> 00:54:46,239
disowned like that everybody and everybody knows about it, you

753
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,960
can't inherit after that, how's he going to rule? After

754
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:55,880
what happened. Nobody's taken this guy. Seriously, that's not great anyway.

755
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,440
There were no circumstances in which baron is Vic would

756
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,400
end up in charge of the Skull Empire unless she

757
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,960
first killed about a thousand other nobles spread across the galaxy,

758
00:55:06,639 --> 00:55:09,960
so her motivations in helping the Pacifist network were a

759
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,400
mystery to Rosetta. This deal had been broken between Porthos

760
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:18,079
and Victory long before Victory was even chosen as an adjutant.

761
00:55:18,679 --> 00:55:21,199
Once again, he seemed to be a few steps ahead

762
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:28,280
of everybody else. Ah, so interested, so very fucking curious

763
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:33,840
about this. If all was going to plan Porthos, along

764
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,360
with all the others, namely the families of those who'd

765
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,079
entered the dungeon, would be boarding the generation ship they

766
00:55:40,199 --> 00:55:43,719
just bought with their stolen funds and hauling tail to

767
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,440
the Plenty system, where they would give one of the

768
00:55:46,519 --> 00:55:49,199
expensive ships, along with the rest of their money to

769
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,599
the goats in exchange for passage to the forbidden gate

770
00:55:53,119 --> 00:55:56,519
of the Impetus Point, the tunnel node that reached the

771
00:55:56,559 --> 00:56:00,280
furthest point in the known galaxy, and from there they

772
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,159
would set out and get as far from the Center

773
00:56:02,199 --> 00:56:06,199
system as possible, only to return when and if the

774
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:14,079
inevitable wars and chaos settled. Huh. I mean, as far

775
00:56:14,159 --> 00:56:16,400
as plans go, I guess it makes the most sense.

776
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,599
It's not like you can hide out nearby. Shit does

777
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:25,880
not work. So it just is sort of funny though,

778
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:30,840
how much, even at this scale, it like a plan

779
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,880
just amounts pretty much to and get the hell out

780
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,280
of dodge, you know. But I mean that's what it's

781
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,599
gonna come down to mostly, So yeah, that makes sense.

782
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:47,159
So far, everything had occurred exactly as Porthos predicted. Everything

783
00:56:47,159 --> 00:56:52,000
Outside the dungeon, it was that woman Rosetta a knew

784
00:56:52,039 --> 00:56:57,320
the witch, the apothecary, and this is the being that

785
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:03,440
Krakaren represents in the Dungeon that we are told by

786
00:57:03,559 --> 00:57:09,440
Mordecai way back. This depiction of her is propaganda. Essentially.

787
00:57:10,159 --> 00:57:15,199
Porthos insists that she's on their side, and Rosetta is

788
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,199
just like, I do not know about this, and he's

789
00:57:18,239 --> 00:57:20,960
been right about everything, so I'm like letting it go,

790
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:29,840
but it does fucking bother me. And when she's like,

791
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,599
what is the reason behind her supporting us? And he

792
00:57:32,639 --> 00:57:35,679
won't tell her, but he has this like smug expression

793
00:57:35,719 --> 00:57:45,239
like he does know something. So yeah, uh. He killed

794
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,199
Brooks with that goddamned whip of his faction. Wars had

795
00:57:48,239 --> 00:57:50,239
been over and the Orcs had made the transfer to

796
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,280
the School of Pendra club and even then, standing on

797
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,760
the other side of the glass, they'd mocked them, the

798
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,159
crawlers who had given everything to survive those horrible days.

799
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:05,960
And he just lassoes him and pulls him through the

800
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:10,239
glass and cuts him in half. And it's this very

801
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,440
casual thing that he does while laughing, and it's a

802
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:18,519
friend of hers and she that's what she is using

803
00:58:18,599 --> 00:58:24,599
as her motivation. Doesn't even feel adequate, you know, it's

804
00:58:24,599 --> 00:58:29,960
like her engine when she has to go and kill him.

805
00:58:31,599 --> 00:58:35,400
So she gets a message here from Tippid should we

806
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,480
be doing something, and Rosetta saying, there's nothing we can do.

807
00:58:39,079 --> 00:58:42,239
I've ordered Lee not to assist the NPCs, but she

808
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,960
is currently in a fit of hysterics over the death

809
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:50,000
of her brother. And there is something about the fact

810
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,119
that she is in hysterics over his death that I

811
00:58:52,159 --> 00:58:57,400
appreciate because like it indicates something about emotion with her,

812
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,599
which I wasn't sure if she experienced emotion at all

813
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,519
or what, and it seems like it's just a very

814
00:59:02,679 --> 00:59:09,280
limited thing for her. Justice Light is continuing to talk

815
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:15,119
about the gate, and he says we need to move

816
00:59:15,119 --> 00:59:17,599
on the war made threat immediately they have the gate.

817
00:59:18,039 --> 00:59:19,960
I don't understand why they're not onlied with the other

818
00:59:20,079 --> 00:59:24,159
NPCs or why that residual is their war lord. And

819
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:29,679
Rosetta is like, yeah, bro, I know, but we knew

820
00:59:29,719 --> 00:59:32,039
when we came into this we were likely going to

821
00:59:32,119 --> 00:59:35,679
die here, so I understand your urgency. I want to

822
00:59:35,679 --> 00:59:39,119
figure this out too, but also please do keep in

823
00:59:39,159 --> 00:59:43,440
mind we are unlikely to get out of this, and

824
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,440
you have got to hold the big picture in your

825
00:59:48,519 --> 00:59:53,239
mind a little bit more, and Justice Light is like, yeah,

826
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:55,239
I am holding the big picture. That's what I have

827
00:59:56,039 --> 00:59:58,840
a thing I'm trying to do here, and we need

828
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:07,679
to fight. And then it's her thinking about Agatha and

829
01:00:07,719 --> 01:00:12,519
what the fuck her deal is? Why she's here? Is

830
01:00:12,599 --> 01:00:16,840
she connected with the apothecary somehow? Why is the AI

831
01:00:17,079 --> 01:00:20,119
allowing this? And she's thinking back to the fact that

832
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,199
there had been a point where maybe they could have

833
01:00:22,239 --> 01:00:26,920
taken Agatha out and should have, but that mostly residuals

834
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,840
are totally harmless, and they just didn't see it coming

835
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:35,280
that she was going to be doing anything, so Justice

836
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,719
late Finally, Rosetta, you are the most stubborn person I

837
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:41,719
have ever known, But I need you to trust me

838
01:00:42,159 --> 01:00:45,239
in this. We need to get that gate back. We

839
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:48,320
need to win this day. We need to move fast.

840
01:00:48,519 --> 01:00:51,519
Once those defensive towers spin up, we will be in

841
01:00:51,760 --> 01:01:00,760
dire trouble. And I'm trying to find this bit. She

842
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,960
thought again of that moment when she decapitated Rust. She'd

843
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:07,800
almost missed the opportunity because Tippet, unaware of the plan

844
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:10,199
with the bank, had tried to hide the orc's presence

845
01:01:10,199 --> 01:01:12,440
from her. Their original plan had been to get what

846
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,360
they needed from Stalwart, but Rust's presence had made everything

847
01:01:15,519 --> 01:01:19,320
so much easier. Yet no amount of revenge would ever

848
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:21,960
bring her mother back. It would never bring Brooks back.

849
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,800
No matter how many Orcs and Orc children she killed,

850
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:28,119
her people would still be dead. She hadn't even known Brooks.

851
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:33,840
She'd seven hundreds and hundreds die before that point, Yet

852
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:36,960
that single death had broken her in a way she

853
01:01:37,079 --> 01:01:42,800
just didn't understand. And yeah, it'd be like that. Sometimes.

854
01:01:46,679 --> 01:01:50,119
She'd watched Karl's speech to Dona about masks, and she'd wept.

855
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:54,440
She'd wept at how hopeful it was, how cynical she

856
01:01:54,519 --> 01:01:58,320
felt in that moment, at the pity, thinking how naive

857
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,199
it was that he thought he'd ever be able to

858
01:02:01,239 --> 01:02:06,960
remove that mask. Was she wrong? Maybe so, Rosetta's job

859
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,480
was done. No matter what happened here, it didn't matter anymore.

860
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:14,519
But Justice Light was her comrade, and so were Karl

861
01:02:14,559 --> 01:02:16,559
and Dona and all the other Crawlers. And in the end,

862
01:02:16,639 --> 01:02:20,480
she trusted Porthos. She more than trusted him. She loved him,

863
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:23,480
despite his unhealthy obsession with finding a missing crawler from

864
01:02:23,519 --> 01:02:28,440
his own Minerva. That name is hidden. I don't remember

865
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,360
if we've run into Minerva or not. But and if

866
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,159
Porth has trusted this apothecary, then maybe Rosetta should fight

867
01:02:34,199 --> 01:02:36,880
against whatever this creature's enemies were planning. Maybe it was

868
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:38,800
a mistake, but nobody could ever fault her for fighting

869
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:43,639
for her friends. There was poetry in that too, So

870
01:02:44,599 --> 01:02:49,079
she sends out an order. The fight has moved to

871
01:02:49,119 --> 01:02:51,480
the city. The enemy has changed and they have taken

872
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,159
the castle of Larrocos. We don't know how many there are,

873
01:02:54,199 --> 01:02:58,400
but we fight with all we have and we get

874
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:03,039
the summary of her Crest worked as a game guide

875
01:03:04,159 --> 01:03:07,280
upon Dungeon Exit, became a journalist and filmmaker of Some Renown.

876
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:11,719
Eventually became host of the documentary series Shadow Boxer. Eventually

877
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,159
returned to the Dungeon to fight for the Princess Posse,

878
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:19,800
author of the ninth edition of the Dungeon Anarchist Book.

879
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:29,920
And that is the end of Rosettes chapter. So there's

880
01:03:30,039 --> 01:03:33,679
just like it keeps feeling like somehow Matt Dinneman is

881
01:03:34,039 --> 01:03:40,360
managing to open the universe. He's built up more and

882
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:45,159
more with each passing section, and I'm starting to get

883
01:03:45,199 --> 01:03:46,880
to a point where I'm like, bro, i don't know

884
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:48,800
how much more of this I can keep track of.

885
01:03:49,519 --> 01:03:53,599
It's a lot now. I know that the Apothecary isn't

886
01:03:53,599 --> 01:03:56,639
exactly a new thing because we were told about, but

887
01:03:56,719 --> 01:03:59,960
like it didn't matter, it wasn't factoring in for us,

888
01:04:00,119 --> 01:04:06,239
us and ah. There's a part of me that's like,

889
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:10,480
is the Apothecary connected to this weird the beautiful place?

890
01:04:10,559 --> 01:04:14,320
Because it's like a kraken, you know, that thing had

891
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:16,679
all these tentacles. I'm just sort of like, is this something?

892
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,679
But it may be nothing. I don't know how literally

893
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:26,199
to take anything. A lot of questions. I have got

894
01:04:26,239 --> 01:04:28,760
to wrap them over time. But thank you guys again

895
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,079
for hanging out with me. I appreciate you all very

896
01:04:31,159 --> 01:04:33,599
very much. Thank you to Michael for commissioning this one,

897
01:04:34,079 --> 01:05:06,519
and until next time to the Loo motherfuckers. That was

898
01:05:06,559 --> 01:05:08,679
an Unspoiled Network podcast