WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.160 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:15.880 covering the Dungeon Anarchists cookbook Dungeon Crawler Carl Book three, 3 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:23.079 chapters three, four, and five. In these chapters, our friends 4 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:27.640 are trying to untangle the Iron Tangle with mixed results. 5 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:33.880 They do get an advantage, but that dude is dead 6 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:40.679 now probably I'm unclear on how this thing works. Welcome 7 00:00:41.520 --> 00:01:03.079 to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. 8 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:08.079 Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. 9 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:14.640 These this Okay, I'm gonna start something off or start 10 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:16.680 this off by saying something. 11 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:19.959 That I don't know if it's like. 12 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:24.680 A criticism exactly, because I feel like there is a 13 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.719 possibility that it will all make. 14 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:28.599 Sense in the end. 15 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:30.920 But I just have to start it off because I 16 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:34.799 feel like a bit of a way about it and 17 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:41.200 I will acknowledge you guys like warned me. And also 18 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:45.640 there's the uh the intro of this book where the 19 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:49.640 author lets me know, I don't need to figure out 20 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:54.799 exactly what's going on with this line and try and 21 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:00.400 like understand it because it's meant to be pretty much 22 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:05.519 impenetrable to the reader. It's them working with the actual information, 23 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.000 you know, because we don't get given every single little detail. 24 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.639 So I acknowledge that you know, you guys warned me 25 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.240 about this, and that he himself warned me about this, 26 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:21.400 But I have to say, I think if we're not 27 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.520 meant to figure it out, there is too much focus 28 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:29.960 on it. I think that there is. The focus would 29 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:33.319 have been fine if it were just like our people 30 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:37.800 sort of spitballing ideas and it were a. 31 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:43.000 Little bit less like literally info dumping. 32 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:49.800 But I feel that maybe, and this may be incorrect, 33 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:53.199 but maybe the author wound up having to put that 34 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.840 intro in because he found that people were focusing a 35 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.520 little bit too much on trying to like solve the 36 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:04.319 tangle itself and realized that it was like distracting from 37 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:11.199 the story itself. And I would argue, maybe then the 38 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.800 solution isn't to just put the intro and warn us, 39 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.080 but maybe. 40 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:21.800 You should edit some of it. I don't know what 41 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:23.879 the publishing situation is with this. 42 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.280 I think you guys have said that it's self published, 43 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:28.919 and I know that there's a lot of controversy about 44 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.080 publishing something that's already gone up and whether or you know, 45 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.280 so I get not really wanting to do that, but 46 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:41.639 it does just feel like the disclaimer is admitting kind 47 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.960 of a problem with the material actually to me, And 48 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:49.199 I'm glad to know that I don't need to puzzle 49 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:53.120 all of this out, because that would be very distracting 50 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:57.000 for all of us for this recording, for the whole series, 51 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:01.319 for the book. But at the moment, it just feels 52 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.560 like we're being given so much heavy detail on certain. 53 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:06.759 Things that. 54 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:10.919 I when I know that it's not something that I 55 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.319 can really do anything with, I sort of glaze until 56 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.240 we get to the end of that little section of info. 57 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.800 Does that make sense? So I don't, like I said, 58 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:24.399 may there may come a point with this story where 59 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:26.480 I change my mind and I'm like, Okay, now I 60 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:32.160 get why it was done this way. But at the moment, 61 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:36.480 it's just feeling a little bit tedious all of the 62 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.160 colors and numbers that are being thrown at us if 63 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.480 we don't actually need to do anything with them. And 64 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:47.040 maybe that's the point. Maybe it's supposed to be. Look 65 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.160 at all the information that is getting thrown at them 66 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:55.879 and how confusing it is, and that's you know, maybe 67 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:00.399 that's fair. I just am as I go along. That's 68 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.160 the point of this show, right is for me to 69 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.800 share how I'm feeling in the moments that I'm reading 70 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:08.959 the chapters that I'm reading. So that is how I'm 71 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.759 feeling right now. Arezu says, yeah, there are parts with 72 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:16.680 unnecessary details. Rob says, without spoiling it does become significantly 73 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:18.560 more clear, but I would encourage you to revisit how 74 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.319 you feel about it at the end of the book. Oh, unavoidable, 75 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:24.639 that's of course happening. Arazu says it came out chapter 76 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:29.360 by chapter originally. Rob says glazing is totally okay. Sarah 77 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.319 Fem says, I don't see it as a problem. This 78 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.519 is meant to be incredibly confusing in verse and something 79 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:38.079 the Crawlers have to figure out. Michael says worth, noting 80 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:40.439 that we are feeling the confusion of the characters too. 81 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:41.959 They need to figure it out. 82 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.439 Rob says this is a hard one not to talk 83 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.920 about more and miss t says that's how I took it. 84 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:52.959 It's confusing to the Crawlers. I agree, and I think that, 85 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:56.720 like I just think that there was a way to 86 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:01.600 get across how confusing it is without quite going into 87 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:05.600 the detail that he goes into, and maybe I'm wrong. 88 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:08.600 We'll get there and i'll read you the section that's 89 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:15.879 like stands out to me. So chapter thirteen opens with 90 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:20.720 them entering their private space and setting things up, and 91 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:25.759 I love that immediately donuts door is purple. The writing 92 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:33.680 that labels her door is purple. It's a real sorry, 93 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.920 I'm seeing the chat. Michael says, thirteen, question Mark, did 94 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:37.959 I say chapter thirteen? 95 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:40.040 I'm in chapter three. 96 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.720 I must have said chapter thirteen. Sorry, guys, yeah, if 97 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.199 that was that was my bad. My brain is all 98 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.439 confused by all the numbers that were being thrown at me. 99 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.439 Like I said, and I'll say this too, just a 100 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:54.000 real quick aside on that. I also just have an 101 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.000 issue with numbers, so it helps when it's. 102 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:59.560 In the audiobook. But I think that. 103 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:05.600 I have the dyscalculia I think is how or discalculia. 104 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:12.199 It's basically the numbers version of dyslexia, where I will 105 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.720 look at a page of numbers and it literally looks 106 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:20.759 for me like they are moving around. It is really 107 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.839 fucking frustrating and unnerving, and like if I have to 108 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.319 enter data that is very numbers heavy into anything, I 109 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:31.759 have to have somebody read the numbers to me as 110 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.319 I enter them into the database, because if I try 111 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.519 to look and then remember and go to the database, 112 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.160 I will invert the numbers. I will do crazy things. 113 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.120 And so that might also be part of it. Is 114 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.680 just personally, numbers blow balls. 115 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:50.480 I hate them. 116 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.560 I understand that for some people they provide a kind 117 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:58.240 of comfort in their solidity, consistency, and meaning, and that 118 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:03.040 is something I am that exists for people, but it. 119 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:03.519 Is not me. 120 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:07.680 My comfort is language, which is funny because it is 121 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:13.959 the least consistent bullshit ever, and yet something about that speaks. 122 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:14.199 To me, you know. 123 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:19.079 All right, So Doughnut, like I said, has the purple 124 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.720 label and the purple door because she's a girl after 125 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:25.720 my own heart who is almost immediately starting to customize 126 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.160 the whole space to just look a little bit nicer. 127 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:30.600 This reminded me a little bit of when I was 128 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.720 first married and I was traveling with my then husband, 129 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.519 and he traveled a lot for work, and one time 130 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:38.759 he asked me to come with him because he was 131 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:42.440 going somewhere we'd wanted to visit. And I came in 132 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:44.919 the door and we had our bags, and I immediately 133 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.000 like unpacked everything and. 134 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:48.279 Set up little areas. 135 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.600 That was his spot for getting ready, my spot for 136 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.759 getting ready, a place to put our shoes, where did 137 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:54.240 we hang up our robes on our you know, all 138 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:56.440 this stuff. And he was just standing by the door 139 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:59.159 watching me do it and just goes, wow, this is 140 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:03.840 way home than when I travel by myself. This is nice. 141 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:06.080 We just you know, there are some people that this 142 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.399 is our thing and it's me and Dona to the end. 143 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:14.519 As I have said before, Mordecai also is very excited 144 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.799 that there is a room for him because they have 145 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:21.200 upgraded to five and that means that he gets his 146 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.360 own little compartment. Otherwise he'd be sleeping on the floor, 147 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:31.480 which I'm very happy for him about. That's nice. And 148 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:36.360 the kitchen it says food upgrades not yet purchased, but 149 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.080 as we've heard, there are things that like once you 150 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.000 cook in there will give you some upgrades and stuff 151 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:47.039 which is nice. Crafting Studio has an upgrade possible. You 152 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.159 may apply this upgrade in the common area. If you 153 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.360 disengage your space, the upgrade will be returned. 154 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:54.159 To your library. 155 00:09:55.440 --> 00:10:00.360 And then there is the training room, which is really nice. 156 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:01.960 This is something that comes. 157 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:05.440 Into play a little bit later, but they can actually 158 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:06.720 practice inside. 159 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.080 They can't practice magical stuff. 160 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.559 But you know, it's something I just like there being 161 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:16.679 any increase in space where our friends are safe, you know, 162 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:21.200 any addition of new places that they can go where 163 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.519 they can do things for their own betterment out of 164 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:26.320 the fucking actual dungeon. 165 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:31.679 I'm into it. So let's see. 166 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:38.200 Mordecai explains about all of the things that they basically 167 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.519 skipped that they would have had to purchase one space 168 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:45.080 where you can, like you have to set it so 169 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.559 that you can share it. It's way smaller and it's 170 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:53.080 just one room other than the crafting studio. The fact 171 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:56.559 that this place is as big as it is. He's thinking, 172 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.919 there's even a possibility that we could like add a 173 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:04.399 second floor to this place, which is pretty interesting. I'm 174 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.279 curious about how all that works. 175 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:08.799 There are some. 176 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.600 Games where like you can have a second floor, but 177 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:16.759 you also need to build the staircase to get there, 178 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.120 so the floor will if you don't know that before 179 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:22.120 you do it, the floor will just be up there inaccessible. 180 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:27.720 It would just be kind of funny, but uh yeah, 181 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:30.200 And he says that there are other helpers that they 182 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:36.720 can employ which is really interesting. I'm curious, like who 183 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:40.279 they can get. I'm assuming somebody to cook maybe, but 184 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:42.600 I don't know, and would they live with them or 185 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.840 you know, I'm just I have a lot of questions 186 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:51.759 about all of this. ARESI says Sims Flashbacks. I have 187 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:55.120 never played the Sims you guys, and like everything I 188 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:58.159 see of it, it looks like it would be actual 189 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:02.559 crack cocaine to me. So I have avoided it because 190 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.840 I don't need another thing gluing me to a screen. 191 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:12.080 I already have the tendency to remain way to inert 192 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:15.159 a lot of the day. You know, I need to 193 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:19.559 do things that get me moving more. But everything I 194 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:21.000 see of it, I'm like, oh, that looks so fun. 195 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.159 I really want to do that, and I just can't. 196 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:25.200 I can't do it. I can't jump in, I can't 197 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:29.200 do it. Michael says roller Coaster Tycoon for me, I 198 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:33.879 would make rides that ended in enclosed areas guests could leave. 199 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.600 Rob says there's a subgenre of web novel progression slash 200 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.559 RPG fantasy that is base building stuff, and while it's 201 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.240 not super my jam when it's the primary focus, it's 202 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.200 totally fun. When it's a small little bit like this, 203 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.159 and I almost want more of it. Michael, free food 204 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:57.279 and drinks, but bathrooms cost fifty bucks, right, Yeah, all 205 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.440 of these things are just kind of fun in a 206 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:07.679 way that like, I understand Carl's lack of interest, Like 207 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.799 we don't even get him choosing his door or anything. 208 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:12.799 He just places a door right next. 209 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:18.000 To where Donuts is and it's not even mentioned what 210 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.480 his door looks like. That's how little he gives a shit. 211 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:22.639 But a part of me is like, can. 212 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:23.600 We please get donuts? 213 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.159 Povs that I can see the assortment of choices that 214 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:29.399 she gets and disagree or agree with whatever it is 215 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:32.279 that she selects from the space because I would like 216 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:37.919 to get I have a general understanding of her taste, 217 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.600 but I would like to get zeroed in a little 218 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:41.159 bit more. 219 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:45.360 So. Oh sorry, guys, I kicked a dog. 220 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:46.960 Toy that I didn't realize was under my desk and 221 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:55.679 that was very loud. So this is when Carl has 222 00:13:55.759 --> 00:14:00.240 the exact same question about sleep that I was saying 223 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:05.120 in the last episode about whether or not sleeping only 224 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:06.799 two hours is going. 225 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:07.440 To fuck him up. 226 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:13.919 And what we see at least here is that it 227 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:19.600 seems not. I am very relieved, and I hope that 228 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:24.519 this like is is true and is real. But yeah, 229 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.159 he falls asleep and is like he shares the room 230 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:30.600 with Donut, who is like, you are sleeping with me, 231 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:38.279 you idiot, and immediately passes out because the bed is 232 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:41.360 so comfortable, and even Mongo climbing onto him, he can't 233 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:46.399 feel the weight of Mongo, which I assume is just a. 234 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.000 Feature of the bed, you know. 235 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:52.480 And he wakes up feeling like he has slept a 236 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.039 full ten hours. Oh my god, can you imagine? And 237 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:02.919 he actually gets achievement and a reward for sleeping in 238 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:06.679 this bed consistently, a buff of ten percent to base 239 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:11.919 stats plus experience and skill training. I mean, that's a 240 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:18.320 huge buff. That's a lot. And I wouldn't have needed 241 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.440 any other motivation to climb into bed to begin with. 242 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:27.240 So yeah, that sounds pretty good. I as long as 243 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:30.240 it does seem to function the way it. 244 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.080 Seems to like, as long as it really does. 245 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:36.440 Because I've said before, and this is the thing, guys, 246 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.399 there are so many things in life that are simultaneously 247 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:47.360 the best and also a total drag. And one of 248 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:52.879 those things for me is showering I love being showered. 249 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:55.639 I love when I'm in the shower, the feeling of 250 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:59.120 being in the water, but the act of having to 251 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:04.000 put aside time to shower and then dealing with like 252 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.159 my hair and skin app. 253 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:08.840 It's all a fucking chore. 254 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.919 Ugh. And sleep falls squarely into this for me, where 255 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:16.360 sleep is amazing and I love sleeping, but also I 256 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:19.320 resent deeply that I have to that it is like 257 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:25.879 a non negotiable, and especially that sleep is like during 258 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:29.720 the time that a lot of us have to ourselves. 259 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:32.519 So it feels like when we're at home and we 260 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:34.360 have to get up to work in the morning, we 261 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.159 stay up later than we really should because we're trying 262 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.759 to get the most out of the little free time 263 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:43.759 that we have, and that inevitably winds up fucking us 264 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:47.200 the next day. But it's just this like desire to 265 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.639 squeeze out everything you can from the time you've got, 266 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:56.600 you know. So anyway, I just if this works as 267 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:58.360 well as it appears. 268 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:00.000 I am real, real jealous. 269 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:04.160 And yeah, he feels amazing and goes out there to 270 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:08.880 see that when Dita made them all food, poor Mordecai 271 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.319 has a big plate full of dead bugs, which is 272 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.519 he does not look happy about it. I'm you know, 273 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.680 she made this clearly because of the race that he is. 274 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:21.279 But I can't help but wonder if, like, if you 275 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:23.400 took a bite, would you suddenly be like, oh, this 276 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.200 is amazing because of the race. 277 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.799 That you are or are you not? 278 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:32.480 Does that you're what you eat not depend on your race? 279 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:33.599 Does that make sense? 280 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.960 Like if he tried to eat pizza, would it do 281 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:39.160 something bad because now he is this toad thing and 282 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:40.440 toads don't eat pizza. 283 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:41.759 Just curious. 284 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:47.720 I love this description too, of the way that they 285 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:51.480 are showing them. The Iron Tangle with like weird mixed 286 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:55.440 up footage of real life and also movies and video games. 287 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:00.400 It included stills from the animated movie The Polar Express 288 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.279 and a bizarrely long sequence of a beat up John 289 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.559 Travolta riding the subway from the movie Saturday Night Fever 290 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:10.720 while the Beg's played in the background, which just in aside, 291 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:15.240 if you've never seen Saturday Night Fever. I hate that 292 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:19.160 movie so much, and it's so frustrating because the way 293 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:21.680 that we talk about it makes it sound like it's 294 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:26.200 this riporin fun dance movie, and it's actually one of 295 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:32.880 the most depressing examinations of like poverty and the futility 296 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:37.359 of many people's lives and situations in their attempts to 297 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:42.559 like better themselves or advance in society. And it also 298 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.400 has this very unexpected and not at all dealt with 299 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:50.319 sexual assault that is terrible. So I would just say, 300 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.240 if you think that movie seems fun and you want 301 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:55.599 to throw it on for like a fun girls night 302 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:57.880 with her friends, rethink it. 303 00:18:57.880 --> 00:18:58.720 It's not fun. 304 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:03.480 It's a very The whole zeitgeist around that movie was 305 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:10.119 very misleading to me. So let's see, the show was 306 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:13.519 going on and on about trains. Mordecai started rambling about 307 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:18.759 maintaining a schedule, and he wants Carl to train his 308 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:23.039 smush skill. And there's also a big part of this 309 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:27.000 that is redacted because they don't want the crawlers to 310 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:32.359 actually see how the level works, which Mordecai says, that's 311 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.680 basically from here on out what it's going to be like, 312 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:42.160 because they will want to hide stuff about the levels. Sorry, 313 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:44.240 Michael says, h only thing I knew about the movie 314 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:45.960 was traveled to doing that hand in the air hip 315 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:50.400 thrust dance move, and that's kind of what I mean. Yeah, 316 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.400 that's what's circulated, and it makes it look like it's 317 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.440 a fun, glittery movie about. 318 00:19:56.240 --> 00:20:01.240 Dancing, and that is not the case. It is not. 319 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.920 So we have Katya. 320 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:10.839 This is I really like the way that Katya is 321 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:17.079 written because there is nothing about her that I dislike. 322 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:24.440 But you just every time she speaks, it's about the daughters, 323 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:28.720 and she's just really obviously like in constant contact in 324 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:33.599 a way that reminds us every single time that she 325 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.839 opens her mouth that she really isn't part of their 326 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:38.240 party really. 327 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:39.440 You know, And. 328 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.400 I don't begrudge her that, you know, I think that 329 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:50.680 she's being smart. Honestly, I feel she's an asset to 330 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:53.400 the team in terms of what she can do, but 331 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:57.599 she obviously doesn't really have the instinct to do what 332 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:02.880 she's built for, and that's a problem. So her skill 333 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.880 set is something that I'm like, yeah, we should hold 334 00:21:05.960 --> 00:21:13.640 onto that, But I can't fully endorse her because it's 335 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:17.359 not like she's she's doing her best. You know, she 336 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.839 does training on some of her things, and later on 337 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:23.880 she does this weird like popeye transformation to her body 338 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:27.680 that is very helpful, But there is something about her 339 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:33.759 hesitancy that it feels is never really going to go away. 340 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:36.200 And maybe that's not true. 341 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.119 Maybe it you know, if she got more practice and 342 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:42.799 now that she's leveled up so much, maybe it will 343 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:46.960 begin to be that she starts growing in her confidence 344 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:50.079 and she's able to like do more with the skills. 345 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:55.200 But I just don't feel. 346 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:59.119 Coming from her the kind of like hunger that I 347 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:02.440 feel from Carl and Dona, where it seems like they 348 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:05.119 are so focused on like getting ahead in a way 349 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:09.160 that's about their own. 350 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:10.279 Like pushing themselves. 351 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:15.079 And Katya it seems like she depended a lot on 352 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:19.440 the daughters and is in constant contact with them in 353 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:21.799 a way that feels to me like she wants to 354 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:24.119 go back to being in a group where she doesn't 355 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:27.279 have to pull her weight quite so much, you know, 356 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:31.079 which in a smaller group it is going to be 357 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:36.240 more pressure. But yeah, it's I'm in this weird place 358 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:40.839 where I like her fine, and I understand where she's 359 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:44.319 coming from, but I am also a little impatient with 360 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:48.759 her as a person, and I am waiting for this 361 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:52.480 shoe to drop because she will bounce as soon as 362 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:57.079 she can. And I worry about our friends being too 363 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:02.000 dependent on her skills and then her suddenly, like you know, 364 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:05.480 deciding to fuck off, and now they have to rework 365 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:08.519 some of the strategies that they've grown to depend on 366 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:17.880 because they don't have the tank anymore. So this is 367 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:22.519 when he starts collecting the information from Mordecai about what 368 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.119 he saw when he first got there and when he 369 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.559 was at a different train station. It was stationed number 370 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.440 three seventeen. The two smaller trains were the Yellow and 371 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:36.920 Emerald line, and the big one was called the Misery. 372 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:39.720 We should probably start charting this out. Do you have 373 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:42.400 another one of those dry erase boards. I have one 374 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.359 more in my room. I'll get it and start putting 375 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:47.119 it all down. So far we only have the Yellow 376 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:50.400 Line in common. Talk to your friend Brandon and figure 377 00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:53.119 out where he is. As soon as you come across 378 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:56.000 any other crawlers, get all the other info you can 379 00:23:56.119 --> 00:24:02.920 from them, and we find out quite shortly what's going 380 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:05.599 on with Brandon. We will get there in a moment. 381 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:09.519 First we have to go through the top ten list. 382 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:11.720 I'm not going to go through it's this, you know, 383 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:15.119 the usual suspects here. But there is just a really 384 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.519 important mention of how Missus mcgibbons is a frost maiden now, 385 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:20.960 so she is this blue skinned elf thing that he 386 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:25.160 saw that he didn't recognize with her, and that Lee 387 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:30.319 June is a street monk class, which is dope. 388 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.440 And let's see. 389 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:36.680 Then we saw buff heckliskewering a mass of four legged 390 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:39.839 rat things with her crossbow. Then Lucia Amar, who was 391 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:44.119 simultaneously terrifying and badass as ever, it showed the disgusting 392 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:49.000 witch form of Lucia or Lucilla Tip, literally ripping the 393 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:54.240 head off one of the Jinkininki Janitor ghouls. The girl 394 00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:58.440 laughed maniacally as blood showered the interior of the train car. 395 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:02.079 And then we get to see all of their bounties, 396 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:06.000 and we are told later that the people on the 397 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:10.359 leader board can also participate in the bounty hunting and 398 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:13.599 if they manage to survive to the next floor, they 399 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:16.599 get a portion of their bounty as like a bonus, 400 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:20.920 and they get a. 401 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:21.000