1 00:00:02,359 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09,519 --> 00:00:16,879 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book four Gate of the Feral Gods, 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:26,719 chapters twenty one through twenty three. In these chapters, this 4 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,519 is a really weird quest. We wind up in a 5 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:37,560 glass castle, then we're underwater. There's a guy who wants 6 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,920 to bring his fictional girlfriend to life, and there's a 7 00:00:41,039 --> 00:00:44,399 dog in the living room barking even though she knows 8 00:00:44,399 --> 00:01:09,480 I'm recording. It's chaos. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to 9 00:01:09,519 --> 00:01:12,599 the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much 10 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:18,519 to Michael for commissioning this episode. Rob says Dungeon Crawler 11 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:24,879 Carl at its best. Yeah, this was this was This 12 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:31,599 was weird. I cannot decide what happened to this guy. 13 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,200 At the end, I just think he can't be dead. 14 00:01:35,799 --> 00:01:40,359 He turns into sand, and it seems as if sand 15 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,359 is just like a default medium that then things can 16 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:50,079 rebuild themselves from around here. So I don't know about y'all, 17 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:55,120 but I expect to see him again. There's something weird happening. 18 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,200 I do not know. I don't like it though, I 19 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:04,840 don't like it, so let's uh, let's start with chapter 20 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,840 twenty one, where we're just entering the sand Castle, and 21 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,840 you know, it's called the sand castle, but it is 22 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,240 glassy and there is sand all over the place, which 23 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:23,080 we eventually find out is an ooze. It is like 24 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:29,759 a sentient creature that can basically never be killed completely 25 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:35,120 because if you leave any single bit of it alive, 26 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:38,960 it can regenerate from that eventually, which reminds me of 27 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,680 like the spore monsters with the circus. You know that 28 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:50,759 it's just basically they're unkillable somehow. So they're looking through 29 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:55,039 the map as they're going, and at one point, Doughnut 30 00:02:55,159 --> 00:02:59,719 see a mouse on the ground made of glass, and 31 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,120 when when she touches it, it just breaks away into dust. 32 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,560 And Carl is theorizing, like, I think that all the 33 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:12,039 stuff in here used to actually be like real regular things, 34 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,039 and some kind of spell made them like this, which 35 00:03:16,599 --> 00:03:20,719 makes sense to me. Everything in the room is made 36 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:24,400 of glass, frozen in time, including the fountain. I stepped 37 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:27,719 forward to examine it, wary for monsters or traps. There 38 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,360 was no movement. The statue was human size, And eventually 39 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:38,560 he realizes that this is a Niad, a half Naiad, 40 00:03:38,599 --> 00:03:42,479 I think, and The reason that it's sort of ringing 41 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,840 a bell for him is that she looks like Serena Signette. 42 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:51,199 This robed creature depicted before me was also half Naiad, 43 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:54,439 a water nymph, a fairy type creature that lived in 44 00:03:54,479 --> 00:03:56,599 the water. But instead of being half elf, it appeared 45 00:03:56,639 --> 00:03:59,520 this one was half human. This one didn't have the 46 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,360 same horns on her head as Sarena, but even in 47 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:06,479 glass form, I could see she was very similar. And 48 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:12,199 we find out that she is this like fictional character 49 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,959 that is very popular for half Naiad actresses to play. 50 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,759 And there's a plaque underneath that says, Leka, my love, 51 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:31,480 my son and stars my wife Milady. He couldn't help himself. 52 00:04:32,199 --> 00:04:34,319 I will move the heavens so we can be together. 53 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:38,720 I will burn and bury and destroy any who try 54 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,120 to stop our love. And later on they're all like 55 00:04:43,399 --> 00:04:48,360 making fun of this guy for believing that this sex 56 00:04:48,439 --> 00:04:52,160 doll was a real thing that was trapped. But I 57 00:04:52,399 --> 00:04:57,120 maintain that something more than what it sounds like is 58 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:02,079 definitely going on here. I I know that like it breaks, 59 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:05,759 well not the whole thing. Carl takes her head, which 60 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,759 is lucky because I feel like you're gonna need to 61 00:05:07,759 --> 00:05:12,800 talk to her. At some point, the whole thing wobbled 62 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,079 when he sniffed, surprising him. The dinosaur screeched at the statue, 63 00:05:16,399 --> 00:05:19,600 scrambling back. We all hopped back as it toppled over 64 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:24,800 and shattered. The shattered glass mostly turned to dust. The 65 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,920 glass head remained mostly intact, though part of her chin 66 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,639 was now chipped. I took the head into my inventory, 67 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,399 along with a few of the larger intact pieces of glass, 68 00:05:33,639 --> 00:05:37,839 which the inventory called fulgar. Right for the head, the 69 00:05:37,879 --> 00:05:44,279 description read decapitated glass head depicting Laika from Troubadour's Bounty. 70 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:51,480 It's sticky, and I don't I think I might know 71 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,800 what that might mean. I hope I'm wrong. I hope 72 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,959 it's something else, but I think I might know. So 73 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,639 this is is when Gwen comes through on the line 74 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:09,240 and Carl gives Gwen some further instructions and is like, 75 00:06:09,319 --> 00:06:12,759 you know, if we fuck this up, it might open 76 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,439 the release valve and you guys are probably gonna get flooded. 77 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,759 And Carl says, yeah, I get that, so don't do 78 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,199 it unless I ask, And later on he does ask, 79 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,879 but he doesn't tell Kotya that he is asking because 80 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,759 I'm assuming Katya he's like thinking that she would try 81 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:34,199 to save him, assuming that what he's asking for is 82 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,240 like suicide probably, But as we see, he gets out 83 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:45,240 of it okay, as he often does. So they go 84 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:50,079 through several rooms, lots and lots of glass stuff and 85 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:52,199 a lot of it like when they touch it, it 86 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,279 winds up crumbling away. And finally Carl is like, you 87 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,639 know what, we got to stop touching things, Like there's 88 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,839 a possibility, if we fit whatever's going on, all of 89 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:05,519 these things could return to usable items that we could loot. 90 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,439 So we're going to be potentially fucking ourselves here, and 91 00:07:09,519 --> 00:07:12,680 also it's just slowing us down. I really like this 92 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:17,120 as a frame of mind, you know. I am somebody who, 93 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:20,120 as we all know, wants to make the most of 94 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:24,360 all items, and wasting it when it's potentially maybe you like, 95 00:07:24,519 --> 00:07:28,360 really really useful and unique would be a bummer. So 96 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,560 eventually we get to this door and it's just like 97 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,079 a regular door. There's flashing light coming out from underneath 98 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:39,000 the door, and at first I was thinking like this 99 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,279 was going to be some sort of distraction, you know, 100 00:07:43,639 --> 00:07:45,560 and it kind of winds up being but not the 101 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,600 way I was thinking. Eventually we find out that it's 102 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,560 just a TV that's got some sort of anime playing 103 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:58,439 on it, and they use a tactic called peeping Mango. 104 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:04,240 Carl calls it peeping Tom but that's incorrect. Just so 105 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,199 that we are all on the same page, it's peeping Mango, 106 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:15,040 and the point is to have her make a hole. 107 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:18,720 I waited a moment and then peered inside. I couldn't 108 00:08:18,759 --> 00:08:22,240 see much, and he's looking around and he sees that 109 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,279 there are piles of clutter around the room, and most 110 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:29,120 of it was clothes. I don't know if I was 111 00:08:29,199 --> 00:08:32,879 the only one, but y'all, I was fully prepared for 112 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,279 those piles of clothes to turn out to be creatures 113 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,600 that stand up and were just like limp and lifeless 114 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:45,039 on the floor until somehow triggered and activated. I was 115 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,639 genuinely startled when that wasn't the case. I thought they 116 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,519 were for sure something, and they're not. They're absolutely not. 117 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,799 So I don't know if that was a purposeful red 118 00:08:55,799 --> 00:08:58,120 herring that I was supposed to be suspicious of, or 119 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,039 if that's just my stupid brain, but there it is. 120 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,600 So they had planned that they were going to send 121 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,639 Clockwork Mango into the room. But Carl is getting a 122 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:16,840 really strong vibe here that there is something that's going 123 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:19,759 to react to them coming in, and if they are 124 00:09:19,879 --> 00:09:22,279 able to trigger that before they go in, maybe they 125 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,000 will have some kind of advantage. So she uses her 126 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:30,679 astral plot to knock some magazines over, and there is 127 00:09:30,799 --> 00:09:34,480 somebody in there who notices and is just like, hey, 128 00:09:34,519 --> 00:09:37,720 is somebody there. And when he appears, he's a white dot, 129 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:41,519 So he's not like an enemy, at least not right away. 130 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,320 And I don't think his dot ever changes even after 131 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,919 everything that happens. Perhaps it changed when he started fighting 132 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:53,960 with Cottia later, but uh, this was an unkempt, overweight, 133 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,600 twenty somethingter guy with long, stringy hair. He moved to 134 00:09:57,639 --> 00:09:59,679 the middle of the room and looked down at the sand. 135 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,600 He grumbled something I couldn't hear, and turned back toward 136 00:10:02,639 --> 00:10:05,600 the television. Before he could leave my field of view, 137 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:11,679 I examined him. GHATSI Human level forty three. Glass mage 138 00:10:12,279 --> 00:10:14,440 Gatzi came to the area for the same reason as 139 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,240 the Bugbear submarine captain to seek out the hidden treasure. 140 00:10:17,799 --> 00:10:21,639 As a glass mage. Ghazi told his colleagues at the 141 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,840 Loroccos College he was seeking the Gate of the farh 142 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:28,519 Gods to study its potential use in long distance teleportation. 143 00:10:29,399 --> 00:10:33,639 That was a lie. He wanted to in fact, converse 144 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:35,919 with a god that lives in the Nothing named Arrillo 145 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,240 to find a way to bring a fictional character named 146 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:46,879 Lika to life to be his girlfriend. And apparently there 147 00:10:46,919 --> 00:10:48,559 are a lot of things that live in the nothing 148 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,519 that can pretend to be all sorts of other shit. 149 00:10:53,799 --> 00:10:58,240 So when he summons something that he thinks is the 150 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,320 god that he wants, he gets tricked into a whole 151 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:07,919 other situation that honestly still is kind of confusing, and 152 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:14,440 we will get there eventually. So long story short, they 153 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,799 managed to sort of like sidestep the way the Boss 154 00:11:17,919 --> 00:11:21,480 is supposed to be triggered, but they do end up 155 00:11:21,519 --> 00:11:28,480 triggering it eventually. And it's the whole sand ooze which 156 00:11:28,799 --> 00:11:33,080 acts as quicksand and basically if you touch it, it will 157 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,080 flood into your body through every orifice and explode you. 158 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,639 So the first thing, of course Karl wants is the 159 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:43,519 winding box, and as soon as he finds out that 160 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,679 Gatsi has it, he punches him in the face and 161 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:48,960 knocks him out and just drags him with them and 162 00:11:50,759 --> 00:11:54,639 let's see donut. Can you imagine you're a famous, beautiful 163 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,679 adventurer and suddenly you're in some smelly scientist guy's basement. 164 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,399 Just bringing them to life isn't enough. You have to 165 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:04,720 make them like you. And let me tell you, if 166 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,279 you're the type of guy who's living in a putrid 167 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,519 seller trying to bring fictional people to life, making them 168 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,519 like you is a tall order. It's weird and it's creepy, 169 00:12:14,279 --> 00:12:19,120 and she is dead on. This is the sort of 170 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:27,120 thing that's like one of those really it's a recurring storyline. 171 00:12:27,159 --> 00:12:30,600 And I'm not talking about like Frankenstein, because that was 172 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:36,879 done purely as science, like a scientific exploration in a 173 00:12:36,919 --> 00:12:42,200 way that was separate from weird sexual gratification and hang 174 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,399 ups like that. But there is, like, you know, the 175 00:12:44,759 --> 00:12:50,399 let's assemble the perfect girlfriend from different parts, whether or 176 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,559 not it's like we're doing it with actual pieces of 177 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,320 real girls like in a certain Buffy the Vampire episode, 178 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,559 or whether we're making like a program on a computer 179 00:13:02,279 --> 00:13:06,840 using like photos like in uh whatever that eighties movie 180 00:13:06,879 --> 00:13:08,960 is that the name I can't remember. This is a 181 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,240 This is very much a thing, you know, and it's 182 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:18,600 the kind of trope. That is a really good illustration, 183 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:20,519 even though a lot of people think that it's like 184 00:13:21,279 --> 00:13:25,919 exaggerating to say this, but it's a really good indicator 185 00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:32,879 of the way that girls are objectified, where it's very 186 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:38,720 much not about us as people. It's we want all 187 00:13:38,759 --> 00:13:41,679 of these different parts because we don't care about who 188 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,159 you are as a person. We just want the individual 189 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:48,120 aspects of you to be exactly what we like. You 190 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:53,159 just don't see this kind of thing as often with 191 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:58,960 women creating a man, and there's a really good reason 192 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:07,759 for that. So anyway, he gets this winding box and 193 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:13,399 later on he's concerned about keeping Ghatsi alive. But it 194 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,600 turns out he's got like a letter with instructions on 195 00:14:16,639 --> 00:14:20,559 how to use the winding box on his person, which 196 00:14:21,039 --> 00:14:23,559 Katscha is able to get from him. And the thing 197 00:14:23,639 --> 00:14:27,320 is it is incomplete. So it seems like we've got 198 00:14:27,799 --> 00:14:31,279 pretty good instructions, but you know, I can't fully trust them, 199 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:33,639 so we'll have to wait and see what happens here. 200 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:36,799 And I've got to be honest, I don't even really 201 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:43,360 I don't get why you would want to even open 202 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,000 this thing. It's so odd because the AI is like 203 00:14:47,279 --> 00:14:50,600 egging him on, and Carl seems to be very much 204 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:53,879 approaching this place of like, all right, well, I'm gonna 205 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,320 use it. I just have to figure out the best way. 206 00:14:56,799 --> 00:14:59,320 And I have to admit, guys, my anxiety is putting 207 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:04,159 me firmly onise side here of just just don't just 208 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,559 don't do it, as he says, put it in your 209 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:12,360 inventory and fucking don't use it. But nobody asked me. 210 00:15:14,879 --> 00:15:18,720 So he uh reads this letter that is from the college, 211 00:15:19,399 --> 00:15:23,799 and this is honestly really funny because the college is 212 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:30,120 low key, like, uh okay, so you sent us this letter. 213 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,799 You really thought you did something, and we're pretty concerned 214 00:15:35,919 --> 00:15:38,039 because it looks like you fucked up roe real bed 215 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:40,399 and now everybody's gonna have to pay for it unless 216 00:15:40,399 --> 00:15:43,799 you decide that you are going to handle your shit. 217 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:50,120 So either you fuck all of us or you take 218 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,960 the l You must use the winding box to banish 219 00:15:54,039 --> 00:15:57,000 yourself and the entirety of the Necropolis into the nothing. 220 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:02,080 You must not let keutsel Coi Less gain corporeal form. 221 00:16:02,759 --> 00:16:06,639 If it were to happen, Samith will be fully resurrected. 222 00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:11,279 Samith is the actual deity that he summoned without intending to, 223 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:16,159 and the true gods would be forced to react. That 224 00:16:16,159 --> 00:16:19,080 would bring a level of chaos and death not seen 225 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:23,320 for an age. Your failure has caused your name to 226 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:27,519 be removed from the Tome of Scholars. May the gods 227 00:16:27,559 --> 00:16:32,120 have mercy on your soul. And it's signed by twelve 228 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:38,600 different people. And then there's this sort of PostScript. GOATSI 229 00:16:38,679 --> 00:16:43,039 you fucking idiot. I told you this was going to happen. 230 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,679 The second I found you with that thing, I knew 231 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:51,000 you were beyond saving. You have ruined everything. I hope 232 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,240 it was worth it. Scolopendra will never be defeated. Now. 233 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,080 We needed that artifact, and all you could think about 234 00:16:57,159 --> 00:17:00,879 was your cock. I will never forgive you. I was 235 00:17:00,879 --> 00:17:04,039 here the whole time, but I guess I wasn't enough. 236 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,480 Fuck you. I hope you die in pain. Do the 237 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:13,720 right thing, Tish. Spoiler, he doesn't do the right thing again. 238 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:16,559 Maybe it's not the right thing. Maybe they just think 239 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:22,000 it's the right thing. I don't know, but suffice to say, 240 00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:24,960 whatever they thought, he didn't do it. And I love 241 00:17:25,039 --> 00:17:29,920 that donut. The first thing that she latches onto is 242 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,880 the way he disrespected Tish. She can't get off this. 243 00:17:34,599 --> 00:17:37,759 It's very good. It's so interesting to me, and I'm 244 00:17:37,839 --> 00:17:39,839 kind of wondering if we're ever really gonna reckon with 245 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:46,000 this Donuts thing. Is really turning out to be very 246 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:53,839 much loyalty above all, right, and yet she always just 247 00:17:54,039 --> 00:18:02,039 very offhandedly makes comments about the variety of people Bee 248 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:06,319 was cheating on Carl with, And I kind of want 249 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,519 to reach a point where Carl's like, hey, why did 250 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:13,880 you like miss Beatrice so much when she was like 251 00:18:14,079 --> 00:18:18,519 completely betraying me all the time? Or at least Carl 252 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:21,960 points out, Hey, when you bring that stuff up, it's 253 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,720 a real bummer to me, you know, like because it 254 00:18:26,319 --> 00:18:28,519 just points out what an idiot I was for so 255 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:34,799 long not noticing, or just anything to link back the 256 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:41,200 way she clearly feels about being betrayed and replaced to 257 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:46,000 Bee's behavior with everybody in her life apparently, and by 258 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,200 everybody in her life, I mean, Carlin Donut. So I 259 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:57,480 just feel like I want there to be a conversation 260 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:04,119 about those things and the way that Don't usually reacts 261 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,480 versus the way that she talks about it so casually, 262 00:19:09,319 --> 00:19:12,680 you know, And I know that like it's likely this 263 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,960 won't happen because the point of her offhanded remarks is 264 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,160 always supposed to be a joke. It's always supposed to 265 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,400 be like, Haha, isn't it funny about how she's confusing 266 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,200 Karl with the litany of other men going in and 267 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:31,000 out of his apartment. But it's the kind of joke 268 00:19:31,079 --> 00:19:34,640 that I think it would make it funnier if we 269 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,200 dealt with it and then did a different thing. I 270 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:42,519 feel like it's getting old, and if we don't start 271 00:19:42,559 --> 00:19:45,720 to like actually address it, it's gonna stop being funny, 272 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:47,960 you know. I feel like we're really on the edge 273 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:58,079 with it here. So anyway, let's see Donat immediately jumps 274 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,839 on him and starts hissing at him about and like 275 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,119 you left her for Lika and she's not even real 276 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,480 And eventually like this guy brings up that Leka is 277 00:20:08,599 --> 00:20:12,359 trapped inside this like glass thing and they realize that 278 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,839 that's the thing that they broke, and so they really 279 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,039 have to make sure that he doesn't see it because 280 00:20:17,039 --> 00:20:22,839 he's going to lose his shit. Which correct, And the 281 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,160 sand that is in there is the slime that is 282 00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:30,759 it's an ooze not a slime. There's a difference. And yes, 283 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:38,160 the ooze is my wife, and uh, they are like, 284 00:20:38,279 --> 00:20:40,880 I'm sorry, You're really going to have to elaborate on that. 285 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,559 So carl, let me see this up. You came here 286 00:20:44,599 --> 00:20:46,440 to summon the lust god and have him turned some 287 00:20:46,759 --> 00:20:50,559 lady into from a play into your sex slave, and 288 00:20:50,599 --> 00:20:54,240 you got tricked into summoning Samaith. And now Samith is 289 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,920 inside the necropolis hitching a ride within the body of 290 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,319 that pterodactyl ghost. If she gets out, the guys who 291 00:21:00,319 --> 00:21:02,400 are now in charge might take issue. We also know 292 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,799 the winding box I stole can be used to suck 293 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:06,720 all this away, but you haven't done it, and now 294 00:21:06,759 --> 00:21:08,559 you're never gonna get the chance because I have it, 295 00:21:09,279 --> 00:21:11,200 and I want to know everything I can about that. 296 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:16,960 Ooz Leka isn't just some lady from a play. She's real. 297 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,359 I wasn't turning her into a sex slave. I brought 298 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,079 her with me. It's not like the others say. She's 299 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,160 trapped frozen in her body. She speaks to me, She's 300 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,799 the one who told me to come here and do this. 301 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:35,680 I'm trying to save her. Tish didn't understand. Nobody understands. 302 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,240 I'm so curious because I believe that he thinks this 303 00:21:40,279 --> 00:21:42,599 is happening. I don't think he's crazy. I don't think 304 00:21:42,599 --> 00:21:46,400 that this is some delusion. I think something is tricking him. 305 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,000 And I don't know if it's just like the AI 306 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,839 doing this for the sake of the storyline, because it 307 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,319 has to make certain things happen. I don't know if 308 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,079 there's a larger deception at play here that he's being 309 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,519 that he's a pawn in I don't know. When I 310 00:22:02,559 --> 00:22:04,960 thought i'd summoned Urillo, he made Lika reel. He told 311 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,440 me I had to marry her for the magic to 312 00:22:06,519 --> 00:22:09,240 keep her alive, so I did right away. It was 313 00:22:09,279 --> 00:22:11,839 only after the consummation did I leave the chamber and 314 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,799 find that Leka was still in her cleaning pod. The 315 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,519 entire castle had been crystallized when I used the spell 316 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:20,519 to summon Urillo, but it hadn't been enough power. I 317 00:22:20,559 --> 00:22:23,200 screwed it up, like I screw everything up. But that's 318 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,480 how I knew I'd been tricked. Leka hadn't been saved 319 00:22:25,519 --> 00:22:28,680 at all. She was still there, crystallized like everything else, 320 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,799 and everything outside my protection spell was turned to sand. 321 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,960 The deity I'd summoned made me a wife, but it 322 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,200 was a wife of sand. That's why the Ooze remains nearby. 323 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:45,160 After consummation. It fell in love with me, and apparently 324 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,960 this ooze doesn't even talk, so it didn't strike him 325 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,200 as odd at all when Lika said nothing and just 326 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,920 wanted to fuck him, because why would he care. He 327 00:22:54,079 --> 00:22:56,920 just wanted to fuck Lika. And so there it is. 328 00:22:58,839 --> 00:23:03,160 And I returned to my human form only during the sandstorm, 329 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,960 but she is in her leaka form the rest of 330 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,519 the time, so the only real quality time you spent 331 00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:10,960 together was right after the wedding. She remains buried in 332 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,440 the castle and consumes me every day. She eats me 333 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:17,880 while I am made of sand. That's how UZ tells 334 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,559 you they love you. I don't even know when she's 335 00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:28,119 in the Leka form. She literally eats sand. That is 336 00:23:28,559 --> 00:23:31,960 just so odd. And he's tried to kill her a 337 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:37,240 few times. Never works. He mentions in Uyasha, which I 338 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:39,440 know is an anime, but I feel like it's a 339 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,480 specific type of joke we're telling with that, and I 340 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,240 don't know anything about it. So if anybody is insight 341 00:23:44,319 --> 00:23:48,640 into that, i'd be interested. And then the Ooze doesn't 342 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,880 let me leave the room very often. It's jealous of 343 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,839 the real Lika, and Katcha's like, when you say you 344 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,480 found her in her cleaning pod, what do you mean? 345 00:23:58,599 --> 00:24:02,039 And he's like, oh, yeah, well that you know she's 346 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,039 kept in that room. How are you gonna undo the 347 00:24:06,039 --> 00:24:10,079 spell if you spend all your free time watching nerd cartoons? Wait, 348 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,000 so she's in the fountain. We saw her before. We 349 00:24:14,039 --> 00:24:18,400 thought she was a statue. She's a personal companion device 350 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,000 made in the likeness of Lika, but she is real. 351 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:25,079 There's a soul trapped within her. And that's how I 352 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,920 came to be here. And this is when Dona is like, 353 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,200 oh my god, she was a fucking sex doll, and 354 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,480 that's exactly it. But again, I believe that something in 355 00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:41,880 there is talking to him, so I think that he's 356 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,000 like he's being duped somehow. I just don't know how 357 00:24:46,039 --> 00:24:50,119 this works. And that is why when Carl picked up 358 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,079 picked up her head, it said, it's sticky, and I 359 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,359 hate it, and I hate it and hate it. So 360 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:06,480 then we have to deal with this ooze and every like, 361 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,680 the whole thing with this ooze is that it has 362 00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:13,759 feelings for somebody that doesn't have feelings for it back, 363 00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:15,920 and it doesn't really know how to cope with these 364 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,279 emotions because it's not even designed to have emotions, and 365 00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:22,559 it's happening happening anyway, and it's just like kind of 366 00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:28,519 a sad story. And then we find out that that 367 00:25:28,559 --> 00:25:32,279 there's like a central Carl calls it like a yoke, 368 00:25:33,039 --> 00:25:36,799 like the ooze is an egg, and the yoke is 369 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,839 its actual central part of its like brain and body 370 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,839 that you have to aim for to kill it, which 371 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,559 is underneath the recliner in front of the TV. And 372 00:25:47,759 --> 00:25:51,079 so the only way to get to it is for 373 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:56,920 Carl to use his sticky feet power to climb into 374 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:01,400 that room off the floor because the floor is and 375 00:26:02,279 --> 00:26:06,839 drop fire onto it from above, which eventually he does 376 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:12,559 onto the recliner itself, and it's using a gel that 377 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:18,799 is reminiscent of napalm, really really hard to put out 378 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,640 and burns super hot. So later on, when the ouze 379 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,160 tries to defend itself and break up the chair and 380 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,359 put the fire out, it simply spreads it. And it's 381 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,759 almost distressing, like I want this thing to be taken 382 00:26:32,799 --> 00:26:35,240 out because I want our friends to be okay. But 383 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,319 I find napalm to be one of the most like 384 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:44,160 evil inventions ever, and anytime that I see something dealing 385 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:50,240 with that, it's just so horrifying, you know, anything that's 386 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,000 like we have to set this thing on fire. It's 387 00:26:54,039 --> 00:26:58,920 always difficult. I just you, guys. I don't know how 388 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:04,119 many of you even heard of the movie Novacane, but 389 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,720 it was on Prime and my husband and I watched 390 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:10,400 it last night, and it's about a guy who has 391 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,920 this disorder that causes him to his like pain receptors 392 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:20,799 don't work, so there it leads to a lot of 393 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,440 like problems in his life because pain receptors are important. 394 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,920 They tell you when something is wrong, and they tell 395 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,160 you even simple things like when you need to get 396 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,359 up and go pee, and he doesn't have it, so 397 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,160 he has had to learn to adapt in a lot 398 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,240 of areas of his life and be kind of reclusive 399 00:27:39,799 --> 00:27:42,759 due to the myriad of dangers out in the world 400 00:27:43,279 --> 00:27:46,359 that he isn't really equipped to fully handle because he 401 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:53,119 can't feel. And there is a fair amount in the 402 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,119 movie of this guy getting horrible burns and he doesn't 403 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,759 feel them, so it's not like he's screaming when it happens, 404 00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:02,880 but it's just even watching it, and whoever did the 405 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,720 folly work on this movie. It's visceral. It's really hard 406 00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:10,079 to watch some of it, but I will say that 407 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,160 him and the girl that is his like main love 408 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:19,079 interest have excellent chemistry. The stunts are on point, and 409 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,200 the whole movie is really creative and has a plot 410 00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:26,599 that actually had a twist that caught me totally off guard, 411 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,680 so I recommend it. It's fun and silly and really 412 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:37,319 really gory, So if you aren't into that before, warned, 413 00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:40,519 I had to look away a lot, a lot a 414 00:28:40,519 --> 00:28:44,599 lot it was. It was tough sometimes, but it's all 415 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:49,359 done in a very almost funny way most of the time. 416 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,880 So anyway, this is what Carl has to do, and 417 00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:59,160 like the sticky feet thing, he can't have both feet 418 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,240 off the ceiling at the same time or he'll just fall, 419 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:07,160 so he has to like shuffle really weirdly, and Donut 420 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,400 has to use her whole spell to like get him 421 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,480 into the room from up above, and he lowers himself 422 00:29:13,519 --> 00:29:16,319 in using a rope that's tied to this huge chunk 423 00:29:16,519 --> 00:29:21,440 of dwarven metal, which later on, thank god he put 424 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,000 that there, because it holds the space up enough just 425 00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:28,599 so that they don't get instantly crushed by the sand. 426 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,319 They run out of air pretty quickly, but it saves 427 00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:36,039 their lives, I think, and it was just a shame 428 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:38,359 that now we have to lose that Dwarven metal, which 429 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:44,759 probably would have been handy for other things eventually as well. Ooh, sorry, 430 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,880 I just saw that there's a bunch of chat that 431 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,319 I missed. Seraphim says, I also think Donut doesn't realize 432 00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:55,279 how cheating can be seen this betrayal. Her issue with 433 00:29:55,359 --> 00:29:59,200 loyalty is leaving Slash getting rid of someone else. Rob says, 434 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:00,960 I feel like Donut knows, but I think it's part 435 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,240 of her Dungeon persona to banter with Karl and have 436 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:07,440 Carl play the straight man. Okay, Michael says, Inuyash's about 437 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,119 a girl who falls into a well that transports her 438 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,680 a few hundred years into the past, where she meets 439 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,720 a half demon named Inuyasha who was trapped by her 440 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:23,680 ancestor in a battle for a crystallized soul of power. Well, 441 00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:30,640 all right, I see, Michael. None of what happens in 442 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,759 Inuyasha has much to do with what's happening here, so 443 00:30:32,839 --> 00:30:34,240 I think it was just a pop culture reference and 444 00:30:34,319 --> 00:30:39,359 not an in joke that feels like it's pretty like no. 445 00:30:39,519 --> 00:30:42,920 But I think though, Michael, the description of the ooze 446 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,920 made me feel so sorry for it or is it 447 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:50,039 a her unclear, but agreed, it seems really sad, like 448 00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:53,400 this ooz didn't really want to be here. It was 449 00:30:53,440 --> 00:31:01,400 just being used by some unhinged god somehow. And Michael 450 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,200 says that the dude in Novacane is Meg Ryan's son, 451 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,960 which I didn't realize. Rob says, the idea of the 452 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,519 demon stuck in the crystal seems very relevant and if 453 00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:11,200 this guy is a bit of an anime fan slash 454 00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:13,440 not very discerning, that seems like it might play into 455 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:24,799 his actions. Yeah, agreed, Rob. So the plan actually works 456 00:31:24,839 --> 00:31:29,599 somewhat well. But here's the problem. The way that oozes 457 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:40,240 function is that they are very sensitive to vibration. Thus, 458 00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:44,000 if Karl is going in there, he needs to find 459 00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:47,839 a way to distract this ooze or it is absolutely 460 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,000 and one going to know that he's there. So he 461 00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:56,160 creates one of those balls with the like really loud 462 00:31:56,359 --> 00:32:01,720 music in it, and he wants something with heavy bass 463 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:07,880 and winds up, jump around, And I really liked the 464 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,240 fact that Doughnut points out that that's not even that 465 00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:15,680 heavy of a base. It's actually more bouncy. This was 466 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,559 actually low key inspiring for me, and I'll tell you why. 467 00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:24,440 A lot of times, as a writer working on her 468 00:32:24,599 --> 00:32:27,599 stuff for the first time, I will get very hung 469 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,559 up on like whether a thing that I'm going to 470 00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:35,039 be addressing in the text as of a certain category 471 00:32:35,759 --> 00:32:39,319 really quite qualifies for that category or really works as 472 00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:43,079 whatever I'm saying in the scene, and I will obsess 473 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,799 over picking the exact right thing, because I feel like, 474 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,599 if I am specifically naming that it does X y Z, 475 00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:59,039 I have to be right about that. However, this is 476 00:32:59,279 --> 00:33:03,279 like act usually just don'ta addressing it in the text, 477 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:10,880 and thus it just cuts out the opportunity to criticize 478 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,599 in the same way and be like, what is this 479 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,519 author an idiot? You know? Instead it turns into like, oh, okay, 480 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,160 that's the joke is potentially that people aren't going to 481 00:33:21,279 --> 00:33:25,880 agree with this choice necessarily, And this just gave me 482 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,559 a real like it gave me the sense of like 483 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,640 a nice get out of jail free card of if 484 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,680 there comes a point where I'm obsessing over like which 485 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,240 of the things to say or whatever, I can just 486 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:47,480 lampshade it with a character specifically mentioning it, and then boom, 487 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,519 we're done and it's fine, you know, like we addressed it. 488 00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:55,599 I'm not claiming it was a perfect choice because I 489 00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,400 actually had another character say it and we're good. So 490 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,759 I just wanted to mention that as something that I 491 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,799 genuinely found kind of like, oh, that's a really good 492 00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:10,519 way to handle that, because I just, you know, there's something. 493 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,280 I don't know how many of you guys experience this, 494 00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:17,519 or if it's something that I particularly am sensitive to, 495 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:23,119 just because I do what I do, and so what 496 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,639 I say is simply out there for people to have 497 00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:31,639 an opinion on and respond to. But it's odd because 498 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:34,639 it's not necessary. It's not in real time. So I'm 499 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:38,079 recording in a sort of vacuum, and then somebody listens 500 00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:41,559 to it way later and they respond to me in 501 00:34:41,599 --> 00:34:45,079 a kind of vacuum, and oftentimes it will be like 502 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:51,639 ages after I've recorded it, sometimes years later, and there's 503 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:56,559 a lot of opportunity in there for words to get misconstrued, 504 00:34:56,639 --> 00:35:01,480 for intent to be misunderstood, for a particular aspect of 505 00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:05,000 an issue that I didn't know about, to like become 506 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,840 more understood, and thus I wouldn't have said the same 507 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,559 thing now, but at the time I didn't get x 508 00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:16,960 y Z. And so what this results in a lot, 509 00:35:17,559 --> 00:35:25,280 at least for me, is trying to preemptively address the 510 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:31,280 issue someone might take with whatever I'm saying. And due 511 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,400 to that, because it's a function of both desperately wanting 512 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:43,760 to be understood and also having anxiety, it can result 513 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:50,639 in being absolutely stymied into complete inaction because you're so 514 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,679 concerned that people are going to misunderstand you that you 515 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000 just freeze up and so you don't do anything at all. 516 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,960 And it's it's not a great way to function, but 517 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:09,960 it's definitely like I see it in myself sometimes and 518 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,280 I'm trying to like cope with it. And there are 519 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,440 a few other podcasters that I like. They will start 520 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,320 to say something and it's like they read my mind. 521 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,239 Where as soon as they start to say a thing, 522 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,599 I'm thinking, yeah, but somebody's gonna say x y Z 523 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,440 about that, dude, And then immediately the dude will be like, 524 00:36:29,519 --> 00:36:32,119 and I know that some folks are gonna feel x 525 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,440 y Z about this that I'm about to say, And 526 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,880 it's sort of reassuring to know that I'm not the 527 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:43,159 only one that's like attempting to argue with. One could 528 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,840 say straw Men, but it's like these people are really 529 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,440 out there and they will really say something. I feel 530 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,480 like straw Men is like nope, but nobody's saying that, dude. 531 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:52,880 But the thing is, when you have done this sort 532 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,519 of thing long enough, yeah, somebody is saying that though 533 00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:00,719 you know like they absolutely are. So anyway, I I 534 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,599 just sometimes this will happen with my writing as well, 535 00:37:04,159 --> 00:37:08,119 and it's much harder to cope with in writing because 536 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,519 if I'm on a podcast, I can say, look, I 537 00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:12,559 get what you think, but that's not what I meant. 538 00:37:12,559 --> 00:37:15,400 But when you're doing writing fiction, you can't handle it 539 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,840 that way. It doesn't work. So anyway, I just appreciate 540 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,320 any little moments like this where it's sort of giving 541 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,679 me like a tip on how to get past a 542 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,679 kind of like mental creative block that happens, you know. 543 00:37:32,119 --> 00:37:39,360 So anyway, it's just something that I I know that 544 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,920 you'll never anticipate everybody's argument, everybody's point of view, but 545 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,239 there are times guys where I thought I was really 546 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,360 clear about how I felt about something, and then a 547 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,280 person will come at me with this energy where they 548 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,119 took what I said in the opposite way, and I 549 00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:03,400 am baffled because I am like, how could I have 550 00:38:03,679 --> 00:38:07,000 said any more clearly, that is not what I meant like, 551 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,480 So it just can feel sometimes like there's no winning 552 00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:14,920 because no matter how I say it, somebody is going 553 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,480 to feel a way about it. And to a degree, 554 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,159 you just have to accept that. That's like the reality 555 00:38:21,159 --> 00:38:24,039 of creating for the Internet. You know, that's just how 556 00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:27,880 it's going to be. But it's difficult to let go 557 00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:31,119 while you're in the moment of potentially being able to 558 00:38:31,159 --> 00:38:34,760 control that and keep it from happening. It's an illusion 559 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,639 that you can control it at all, but you can 560 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,480 very easily get tripped up into believing that you are 561 00:38:42,519 --> 00:38:47,840 able to manage it all all the time. So anyway, 562 00:38:49,599 --> 00:38:53,519 Carl goes in there, like I said, he drops the 563 00:38:54,079 --> 00:38:57,320 napalm on the thing. It really begins to take off, 564 00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,519 and we also find out that this is like a 565 00:38:59,679 --> 00:39:03,000 gel recipe that he had to kind of lead the 566 00:39:03,039 --> 00:39:07,679 conversation with Mordecai. Again, this is something that's continuously happening 567 00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:12,039 with Carl where he has to behave as if I 568 00:39:12,199 --> 00:39:16,480 just stumbled across this recipe but actually it's something that's 569 00:39:16,519 --> 00:39:19,800 already in his cookbook, and he just has to like 570 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,719 handle the chat with Mordecai to make it seem like 571 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,719 everybody saw the moment where he was struck with inspiration. 572 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,559 Now I'm gonna tell you guys something, and don't yell 573 00:39:31,559 --> 00:39:36,519 at me, because I didn't go any further. But while 574 00:39:36,519 --> 00:39:42,199 I was listening to this, I was making meatballs, and 575 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:47,039 so my hands were covered in raw ground turkey. I 576 00:39:47,079 --> 00:39:51,679 was making turkey meatballs. And so the next chapter at 577 00:39:51,679 --> 00:39:54,679 the end of this section begins, and I didn't have 578 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,440 a way to stop the audio book. It took me 579 00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,679 a second to realize I could just say out loud, hey, Siri, 580 00:40:00,039 --> 00:40:05,079 and then, you know, do the whole thing. But it 581 00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:10,920 starts the very beginning of the next chapter, and I 582 00:40:11,159 --> 00:40:13,880 just got to the part where Carl gets a notification 583 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,760 that there's something in his inventory that he's not going 584 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,000 to be allowed to keep, and I didn't get any further. 585 00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:21,440 That's exactly where I managed to get it. To stop. 586 00:40:22,559 --> 00:40:25,559 The paranoia I am feeling that they found out about 587 00:40:25,559 --> 00:40:28,920 his recipe book is killing me. If that's what it is, 588 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,920 I am going to be so upset. I am going 589 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:37,480 to be so upset, So I just might if I 590 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:38,760 get to the end of this and still have some 591 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,719 time left, read just like a little further live on 592 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,840 the air, just to see, just for myself, just as 593 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,480 a little treat. But yeah, tip to all of you. 594 00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:52,320 If you're using audiobooks and you have the Hayes Siri 595 00:40:52,639 --> 00:40:57,119 option enabled, you can use that to pause, fast forward, 596 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:02,880 rewind or uh yeah, rewind whatever without touching anything. And 597 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,519 it's very helpful if you're frequently doing stuff where your 598 00:41:06,559 --> 00:41:10,320 hands are full, or you're super gross because you're cooking, 599 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,719 or you're like out gardening and you have gardening gloves 600 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:17,519 on which I've also run into. It's really saved my 601 00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:20,119 butt a few times, and I was very grateful for 602 00:41:20,199 --> 00:41:23,639 it in this moment. So everybody's saying, yes, you should 603 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:28,119 do that in the chat, okay, noted. So this is 604 00:41:28,159 --> 00:41:31,039 when the metal that he is using to hold up 605 00:41:31,039 --> 00:41:34,800 his rope begins to slide and move because the ooze 606 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,079 has figured out that's what he's using to get in 607 00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:40,880 and is going after the rope. So he's like, okay, fine, 608 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,719 just close the hole and open one somewhere else, Like 609 00:41:44,599 --> 00:41:46,480 you know, it's not going to know where to go 610 00:41:46,599 --> 00:41:48,519 right away, and I will get out that way, which 611 00:41:48,559 --> 00:41:55,719 is fair. And then it begins to collapse. Things begin 612 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:00,639 to really all the sand is pouring down, Kotcha' is 613 00:42:00,679 --> 00:42:04,320 freaking out, Donut is freaking out. Donut manages to pull 614 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,960 Carl out of the depths of it in that room, 615 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,840 back up to the spot where the metal is holding 616 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:17,800 the roof in place, and Koya wants to come back 617 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,119 and help them, and Carl has to be like, girl, 618 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,840 don't you fucking dare get this guy out of here. 619 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,239 You need to handle this shit, and then is privately 620 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,199 messaging Gwen and is telling her like, I'm gonna need 621 00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:33,960 you to open the spigot, basically let that water out, 622 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,320 And at first she's like, I don't think that's what 623 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,960 you mean, and he's like, yes, it is. Do it. 624 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,519 So they wind up getting kind of washed away, and 625 00:42:44,599 --> 00:42:48,440 at one point Gwen is saying to him, you know 626 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,199 it didn't have to be like this. If you just 627 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,159 let me do this from the start, you wouldn't be 628 00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,719 trapped in there. But you probably also wouldn't have wound 629 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,920 up with a winding box, which is the whole thing 630 00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:03,639 problem is it's unclear why the winding Bux matters because 631 00:43:03,639 --> 00:43:05,719 we just still don't really know what the fuck the 632 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:10,119 point is of it. So I appreciate Carl being obsessed 633 00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:11,800 with getting it, and I think I would also be 634 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,360 that way, but I want to acknowledge it's sort of 635 00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:20,639 potentially just the same as the fucking Lemonade, where it 636 00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,599 does nothing, or it's just you're being tricked into thinking 637 00:43:24,599 --> 00:43:26,960 it's going to help and it's going to do the opposite. 638 00:43:27,119 --> 00:43:29,079 I don't know. I just think that we should look 639 00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:36,800 at that Lemonade as a cautionary tale, that's all. So Dona, 640 00:43:37,039 --> 00:43:39,639 he told her to like take Mordecai's special brew, and 641 00:43:39,679 --> 00:43:46,400 she fucking doesn't, soa her health keeps bottoming out and 642 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,360 he has to keep healing her, and he gets messaged 643 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,320 by Mordecai, who's like, what the fuck is going on 644 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,920 out there? She keeps bottoming and Carl's like, shut up, 645 00:43:54,199 --> 00:44:01,840 leave me alone, and he takes some uh underwater breathing potions. 646 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:06,599 They both have eight of them, and it's so interesting 647 00:44:06,639 --> 00:44:09,519 because like it just works like magic at the time, 648 00:44:09,559 --> 00:44:12,039 but then later when he actually gets out of the water, 649 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:18,840 he vomits so much water up that I'm really wondering 650 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:23,800 exactly how this worked, because it didn't keep it from 651 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,360 it would keep his body from flooding it physically, the 652 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,360 water got in, but it just made it so that 653 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:35,000 it didn't matter at the moment, you know. And while 654 00:44:35,079 --> 00:44:40,000 they are underwater, there's this fucking huge shark that's eating 655 00:44:40,039 --> 00:44:43,519 the dead bodies that are around him, and that really 656 00:44:43,559 --> 00:44:47,039 gets his ass moving. That's when he starts to be like, okay, 657 00:44:47,199 --> 00:44:52,039 here we go. Unfortunately, as he is holding donut, she 658 00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:57,239 freaks out and we get a pretty fun flashback of 659 00:44:57,559 --> 00:45:01,079 him when he was first moved in with b and 660 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:05,360 he was trying to get used to being with like 661 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,519 a woman in the house and doing something nice, and 662 00:45:10,599 --> 00:45:19,440 so he gets up early to make pancakes and I'm sorry, guys, 663 00:45:19,519 --> 00:45:22,480 it's funny. So he decides that he's going to make 664 00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:26,679 these and isn't used to there being a cat around, 665 00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:31,760 so he doesn't understand the dangers of leaving things out 666 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,760 on the counter. Now, I will say that, like you, 667 00:45:35,039 --> 00:45:37,519 I have two cats, but they aren't really the type 668 00:45:37,519 --> 00:45:40,920 to get into stuff while I'm in the midst of cooking. 669 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,360 They will fuck my entire kitchen up when I'm not 670 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,159 in it. But if I am like at the moment 671 00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:53,280 doing something, they tend to stay out. And he leaves 672 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,239 the flour and the eggs and milk out, and she 673 00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,440 comes and knocks them over and basically looks like she's 674 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,639 about to be battered and deep fried by the end 675 00:46:02,679 --> 00:46:06,400 of it. And since she's a show cat, he's like, 676 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:11,880 b is going to flip out. So he decides I 677 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:17,039 had better give her a bath. And anybody out there 678 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:22,239 who has dealt with cats and heard that phrase being 679 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:28,840 uttered probably knew exactly where this was headed. Some cats 680 00:46:29,039 --> 00:46:32,440 are fine with water. I've seen it myself. They just 681 00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,000 they don't necessarily really like it, but they deal with it. 682 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,599 And then there are cats that do like it, that 683 00:46:39,679 --> 00:46:43,519 fucking like climb into bathtubs and shit. You know, there 684 00:46:43,559 --> 00:46:49,599 are freaks in every breed, but as far as most cats, 685 00:46:50,639 --> 00:46:55,679 water is genuinely like danger zone for them. They do 686 00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:01,119 not cope well. And I have never personally had a 687 00:47:01,159 --> 00:47:04,639 pet cat that was okay with water at all, not 688 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,440 one time. And I've had a few cats in my day, 689 00:47:09,039 --> 00:47:12,480 So I'm sorry if you get My dogs are outside now, 690 00:47:12,519 --> 00:47:19,800 but they're still quite audible. It's great. So he wound 691 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,800 up having to go to the emergency room and get 692 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,000 stitches in his arms and his hands and his ear, 693 00:47:27,079 --> 00:47:30,800 and was telling the lady, the nurse who was like 694 00:47:31,119 --> 00:47:34,119 sewing him up, about the sound that Doughnut had made. 695 00:47:35,079 --> 00:47:39,679 And he describes that as being what happens here when 696 00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,599 she kind of comes to and she's underwater, and she 697 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,599 is losing her shit, not just at being underwater, but 698 00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:53,400 at the consideration that Mango might be scared, might like 699 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,760 if she dies not ever come out of his little carrier, 700 00:47:57,639 --> 00:48:02,400 which honestly, that is genuinely so sad, like just the 701 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,599 idea of that got me like a little for clemped. 702 00:48:05,679 --> 00:48:08,400 I'm not even gonna lie. I was like, I wish 703 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,519 you hadn't even put that in my head, Dona. I 704 00:48:10,639 --> 00:48:15,320 never considered and if that happened, I would be so bombed. 705 00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:19,880 I would be so bombed. We would never know, you know, 706 00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:25,440 like so but yeah this, uh, I just don't want 707 00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:31,000 that idea even anywhere in my head. And Carl the 708 00:48:31,079 --> 00:48:34,880 only way to like get her to stop flipping out 709 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,480 and focus on the task at hand. The only way 710 00:48:38,519 --> 00:48:41,800 that he manages to do this is by saying, Mango 711 00:48:42,039 --> 00:48:46,360 needs you. You have got to focus, and so she 712 00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:53,920 finally does, but you know, it's it's focused technically, but 713 00:48:54,119 --> 00:48:59,320 it's very much like I, I'm just barely keeping my 714 00:49:00,159 --> 00:49:05,000 your terror at bay. And it's not like she's really 715 00:49:05,039 --> 00:49:09,159 actively very helpful. It's just that she's not holding them 716 00:49:09,199 --> 00:49:16,519 back necessarily. So he is having to swim as fast 717 00:49:16,599 --> 00:49:19,880 away as he can from this thing that definitely is 718 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,000 like beginning to vector towards them, as he puts it. 719 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,360 And I love that this shark has swallowed the thing 720 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,239 that was playing jump around, and so it's like very 721 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,719 vaguely sort of playing down in the water, giving them 722 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,159 a sense of it. It's like the alligator in peter 723 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:40,079 Pan that swallowed the clock I'm wondering if this is 724 00:49:40,119 --> 00:49:43,000 going to come in handy later at some point that 725 00:49:43,039 --> 00:49:47,239 we can hear this thing. And they use the clockwork 726 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:52,960 triplicate on a Beluga second chance on the Bluga corpse, 727 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,760 and then clockwork triplicate, which is what she had done 728 00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,800 to Hecla. So they call this Hecla now, which is 729 00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,320 fucked up, but also like of course you would, I mean, 730 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:05,599 I do get that it's fucked up, and I get 731 00:50:05,639 --> 00:50:08,599 way Katcha wouldn't like it, but come on, I mean, 732 00:50:09,039 --> 00:50:18,159 come on, you know. So eventually he had gotten a 733 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,679 kayak at that house that he looted when he fought 734 00:50:21,679 --> 00:50:26,079 the goose, and he uses that and manages to climb 735 00:50:26,159 --> 00:50:29,239 into it. I will say this author very much hand 736 00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:33,199 waves him climbing into a kayak from like basically underneath it, 737 00:50:34,079 --> 00:50:36,679 and I am going to just assume that because he 738 00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,599 has this bonker's strength ability at this point, it means 739 00:50:40,639 --> 00:50:42,880 that he can move in ways that maybe a lot 740 00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,480 of people wouldn't ordinarily be able to do or that 741 00:50:45,519 --> 00:50:49,039 would be really difficult. But also, like he does have 742 00:50:50,039 --> 00:50:54,639 national what is it National Guard training, So perhaps there's 743 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:59,880 like training that about getting into lifeboats from the war 744 00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,119 that he has. I don't know, I don't know, but 745 00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,480 it like I expected the whole sequence of him trying 746 00:51:06,519 --> 00:51:08,199 to get into the kayak to be a bit of 747 00:51:08,199 --> 00:51:11,159 a thing, and it wasn't at all, which was fine. 748 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,119 It's fine, but I just did want to acknowledge it. 749 00:51:15,639 --> 00:51:18,719 And I love when he says that was pretty awesome, 750 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,320 and don' it just says, go fuck yourself, Carl and 751 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,159 coast Guard, thank you guys. I almost said ghost guard, 752 00:51:25,199 --> 00:51:27,159 which there has to be something out there that's got 753 00:51:27,159 --> 00:51:32,159 a ghost guard. Right. Oh, I hate coming up with 754 00:51:32,199 --> 00:51:35,119 something that feels really clever, and then a second later 755 00:51:35,199 --> 00:51:37,840 I realize it's so obvious that it's got to be 756 00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:45,039 in like multiple things actually, So later on, she is very, 757 00:51:45,159 --> 00:51:49,320 very indignant to find out she didn't get a boss box. 758 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:53,400 She's super pissed, and it's because they didn't technically kill 759 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,400 the boss. It's still alive out there, and I get it, 760 00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,559 but also that does seem really unfair. I side with 761 00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:06,159 her on this. He has gotten some achievements, one about like, 762 00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,960 you beat the boss without killing it, and he gets 763 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,159 a Pacifist box, and the other is you were I 764 00:52:12,199 --> 00:52:16,639 was in the pool, You've received a bronze ey'm wet box. 765 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:22,400 She got a buoyancy belt. The silver Pacifist box contained 766 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,760 a skilled potion for Doughnut that raised her dodge skill 767 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,199 by one, taking it to ten. That was a big 768 00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,199 deal because she'd been training it for a while and 769 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,039 so the skill had been stuck on nine. Now that 770 00:52:33,079 --> 00:52:36,360 she'd hit ten, she had a permanent deflection buff and 771 00:52:36,519 --> 00:52:40,360 it means that it's going to make shooting arrows at 772 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,719 her and stuff half as accurate, which is a huge deal. 773 00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:48,880 Carl gets some potions that Mordecai instantly says not to use. 774 00:52:49,559 --> 00:52:52,480 And it's a potion of bloodlust that causes you to 775 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:57,119 get faster and stronger, but also you forget where you 776 00:52:57,159 --> 00:52:59,840 are or who anybody is and why you're here. And 777 00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:05,000 like he says, last time I saw someone drink that potion, 778 00:53:05,079 --> 00:53:10,039 they accidentally killed half of their party. And honestly, this 779 00:53:10,159 --> 00:53:14,199 is obviously something that Mordecai has firsthand experience with, like 780 00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,400 he's dealt with this. I don't know if he's the 781 00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,519 one who drank it, or if he made a potion 782 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,199 incorrectly and thought it was going to be helpful and 783 00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:27,440 it wasn't in the way he thought, or but there's 784 00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:29,880 just something about the reaction he has to it that 785 00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:34,199 I was like, Okay, this is hitting a nerve, same 786 00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,480 way that like earlier on in maybe the first book, 787 00:53:37,519 --> 00:53:40,920 when he says something about there are no real gods 788 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,519 in the Dungeon, everything is like made. He says it 789 00:53:44,519 --> 00:53:47,920 with this intensity, like I have run into a problem 790 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:52,440 before with people believing in the gods. You need to know, 791 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,920 you know, in a very personal way. But we still 792 00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,880 haven't gotten the backstory on him yet, so who knows, 793 00:54:03,039 --> 00:54:09,320 And let's see oh yeah. He looks at the note 794 00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:17,320 about the winding box and the clock, and basically this 795 00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,400 dude is saying, like what they told me to do 796 00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,199 about sucking the island into the nothing is a mistake, 797 00:54:25,519 --> 00:54:28,199 because then all of the items would wind up in 798 00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,480 the nothing near where the feral gods are, And even 799 00:54:31,519 --> 00:54:34,960 though they're split into pieces, I still think that's too dangerous. 800 00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:40,559 So if samth Samaith ever leaves before I can implement 801 00:54:40,559 --> 00:54:42,360 my fix, I will be forced to destroy myself. But 802 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,679 I hope it will never come to pass. And he's 803 00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:48,280 like talking about the ooze loving him and how he 804 00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,760 can use that, but he doesn't really know how the 805 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,840 gate is complicated and simple, and he describes the way 806 00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:57,960 it works. I'm not going to get into this because 807 00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:02,880 I really just don't have time, but suffice to say, 808 00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,199 the way that you use the timing to like set 809 00:55:06,199 --> 00:55:08,719 it up, he doesn't fully understand. So this isn't a 810 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,960 how to manual that's super detailed that they can use 811 00:55:12,039 --> 00:55:19,400 to operate it. It's like close but not quite and 812 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:24,320 emphasize is about like the dangers of opening it and 813 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,360 what will happen on the side where it's opened, and 814 00:55:28,599 --> 00:55:31,639 even people who are near the portal, are going to 815 00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:35,880 go crazy if they are, if they don't have high constitutions, 816 00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:41,719 which that's really scary. I have also discovered the winding 817 00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:45,239 box itself as a conduit to the nothing. All one 818 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,639 must do to open a passage is open the lid, 819 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,360 wind the box, and send a stream of charged energy 820 00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,840 into the device, and a portal will open directly into 821 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:57,719 the nothing, and explains like, this is how I did 822 00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:01,800 the thing that I have done. Here's what I'm going 823 00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,119 to do to defeat her. If I'm successful, I will die, 824 00:56:04,119 --> 00:56:06,440 but you will receive this letter along with a winding box. 825 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,760 Then you can send another expedition to seek the remaining 826 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,199 two artifacts I believe they are. And then it ends 827 00:56:15,599 --> 00:56:21,280 and they talk about the possibility of opening a gate 828 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:25,440 directly to the ninth floor, But Mordecai is very much 829 00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,840 of the opinion you can make a gate all you want, 830 00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,199 but you're not going to be able to fucking go 831 00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,239 through it. They will not let you. It will physically 832 00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:35,760 not let you. Katchya isn't really like taking his word 833 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:41,760 for it. She says maybe also in response to like 834 00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,159 whatever comes through the other way will kill everything in 835 00:56:45,199 --> 00:56:49,159 the entire bubble. I think it's interesting that she's not convinced, 836 00:56:49,199 --> 00:56:56,159 and I'm wondering why. And she's got some different illustrations, 837 00:56:56,159 --> 00:56:57,679 and she says, if it looks like if we do 838 00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,519 it this last way, we'll lose the box, but no 839 00:57:00,679 --> 00:57:04,760 monsters will get out, it'd be a waste. You ain't 840 00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:08,119 using this thing to hop floors no matter what. I 841 00:57:08,159 --> 00:57:11,239 barely heard him. I was focused on the second to 842 00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:18,679 last scenario. Holy shit, Holy fucking shit. The first depicted 843 00:57:18,719 --> 00:57:20,360 three items on one side of the gate, and the 844 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,519 second depicted just the winding box on the far side. 845 00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:30,320 It went on from there with each possible combination. I am, 846 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,719 let's see all but one of the scenarios ended with 847 00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,480 a monster emerging emerging, so we don't get to know 848 00:57:38,119 --> 00:57:40,440 what the second to last scenario is. And I am 849 00:57:40,519 --> 00:57:44,039 so curious why Karl is freaking out. I'm wondering if 850 00:57:44,079 --> 00:57:47,159 there's like a way out of the dungeon itself. But 851 00:57:47,199 --> 00:57:52,840 I feel like there's no way they'd make that, you know, Yeah, 852 00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:57,079 I don't know, Michael says, I'm not even sure how 853 00:57:57,159 --> 00:57:58,960 useful it would be to hop floors. Even if they could, 854 00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,320 that would be a lot of leveling and that's exactly 855 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,400 what I was thinking. Michael was just like, you're gonna 856 00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:08,000 wind up with you know, mobs that are higher level 857 00:58:08,039 --> 00:58:10,519 than you, and they're gonna be higher level, and there's 858 00:58:10,559 --> 00:58:12,760 gonna be you know, twenty of them. Right now. The 859 00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,800 mobs are like fifteen levels lower, but you can it's 860 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:19,440 still a challenge because there's fifteen of them. What happens 861 00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,400 when they're you know, like, I agree that. It seemed 862 00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:26,119 like why would we even want to do that? But whatever, 863 00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:33,199 let's see. And then it ends with Mordecai saying, if 864 00:58:33,199 --> 00:58:34,760 you need me, I'll be in the crafting room. I 865 00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,320 think I'm onto something with that yam you received earlier, 866 00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:42,119 which I'm real curious about that. And then Carl says, 867 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:46,159 is there a Desperado club in this town? So I'm 868 00:58:46,159 --> 00:58:49,960 gonna do real quick live read twenty four. Before Kotch 869 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,400 you could answer me, I was interrupted by a message. 870 00:58:53,519 --> 00:58:57,679 When we've done at the stairwell, something odd happened when 871 00:58:57,719 --> 00:59:00,599 we entered. The whole room was made of black, but 872 00:59:00,639 --> 00:59:03,079 the moment I sent tran in, it all flashed and 873 00:59:03,159 --> 00:59:06,679 everything turned to a loud error message blocked out the 874 00:59:06,719 --> 00:59:10,559 rest of her note, warning an item in your catalog 875 00:59:10,719 --> 00:59:13,800 is no longer eligible to be held in inventory. It 876 00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,360 will be forcibly removed in five seconds. And this is 877 00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:22,360 where I managed to stop. So Carl, what the hell 878 00:59:22,599 --> 00:59:26,039 I said? I immediately thought of the last two times 879 00:59:26,039 --> 00:59:28,960 that had happened, both times to Katya. The first was 880 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,559 when all the blood in her inventory had exploded out 881 00:59:31,559 --> 00:59:34,199 of her because of the container patch. The second time 882 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,280 I hadn't seen it was when she'd placed the whole 883 00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,239 house in her inventory and Born had changed the rules. 884 00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,960 It had destroyed a tavern when the house appeared, and 885 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,079 effectively got her band from the town, which was why 886 00:59:46,119 --> 00:59:48,119 we'd had to trek an extra mile to get to 887 00:59:48,119 --> 00:59:52,159 this settlement. Both of those had happened immediately after the recap, 888 00:59:53,199 --> 00:59:56,599 which was when Borne applied their updates and patches. We 889 00:59:56,719 --> 00:59:58,920 still had a few hours until the episode, so I 890 00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:01,840 had no idea what was going on. I gritted my 891 01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:07,280 teeth and waited for it to happen. The crystallized head 892 01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:11,679 of Gazi's sex doll popped out of my inventory and 893 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:18,159 splatted on the floor. Only it wasn't crystallized anymore. It 894 01:00:18,199 --> 01:00:21,119 was still the decapitated sex doll head of a half 895 01:00:21,199 --> 01:00:24,760 Naiad named Lika. The chin had chipped badly when Mongo 896 01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,400 had knocked over the statue, and the frozen, lifelike head 897 01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,119 of the doll had a big chunk taken out of 898 01:00:29,119 --> 01:00:35,159 its latex chin. Uh Karl Katcha said, you dropped a 899 01:00:35,199 --> 01:00:38,079 head on the floor. I have seen a few sex 900 01:00:38,159 --> 01:00:41,159 dolls in my time, Though I wouldn't consider myself an expert, 901 01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:45,079 I knew, at least on Earth, they ranged in quality 902 01:00:45,119 --> 01:00:47,159 from the cheap inflatable kind all the way to the 903 01:00:47,199 --> 01:00:50,440 AI controlled real dolls who could talk and move and 904 01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:55,639 looked at least moderately realistic. This was about halfway between 905 01:00:55,679 --> 01:00:59,719 those two extremes. It was a latex like dummy head 906 01:01:00,159 --> 01:01:02,639 that was clearly once attached to a sex doll, and 907 01:01:02,679 --> 01:01:05,559 not just a run of the mill mannequin. The head 908 01:01:05,639 --> 01:01:08,719 was stuck with an open mouth and wide eyes. It 909 01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:13,679 was slathered with hooker tear makeup. Two sharp looking fangs 910 01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:18,800 hung down from its mouth, vampire like. The head had 911 01:01:18,239 --> 01:01:23,239 a full head of bone white, silky looking hair. Its 912 01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,360 full lips were painted bright red. A half set of 913 01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,000 gills cleaved either side of its neck, cut short right 914 01:01:30,039 --> 01:01:32,760 at the point of decapitation. Giving the cut an extra 915 01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:36,639 jagged appearance. The bottom of the neck hole was just 916 01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:41,960 solid latex. It had a sparkly barret in its hair 917 01:01:42,639 --> 01:01:56,679 that red wet for you. I'm filled with regret. This 918 01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:05,280 was a terrible mistake. Oh god. You guys though the relief. 919 01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:11,320 I thought it was gonna be his cookbook, thank god, 920 01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:18,440 Oh my god. But why wasn't he allowed to hold it? 921 01:02:18,679 --> 01:02:23,719 I really want to know what was the problem. I 922 01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:27,440 guess we'll find out, all right, guys, appreciate you all 923 01:02:27,519 --> 01:02:30,000 so much. Thank you for joining me, Thank you Michael 924 01:02:30,039 --> 01:03:02,480 for commissioning this. And until next time to the loom. Motherfuckers. 925 01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,079 That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.