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

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

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chapters fifteen through seventeen. In these chapters, we have to

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fight one of the cruelest, meanest creatures created by Mother Nature,

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and that is a goose. We all know, we all

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been known. There are few animals out there that seem

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to uniformly inspire fear the way that a goose does.

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Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I

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am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning

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this episode. I've got a busy chat today, so welcome

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to everybody. We've got Rob Razoo, Sarah and Melanie, Miss Tea,

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John trying to see if Michael's even here. I don't

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even see his name, but he'll probably get here eventually.

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So yet, y'all, this section is really sad. It's real sad.

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I wasn't prepared for the emotionality of it. And it

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ends with Carl like making a decision to kick things

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up a notch and I don't know what that means.

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You know, it's Carl, so I'm assuming it has something

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to do with explosives. I feel once he says, okay,

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you know what I've decided to do it almost always

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that's going to involve some kind of incendiary device, whether

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that be a physically incendiary device or perhaps verbally incendiary

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who knows, who can tell? Risu says, making you stop

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right there was cruel. Look it it was a it's

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a rough cliffhanger, but also it felt like a good

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spot because I needed a break, because it is very sad.

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Like I appreciated ooh, my camera blinked out. My camera's

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been sorry guys, But I appreciate just knowing that Carl

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has some other means of handling things. Well, I say that,

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I don't even know if that's exactly it, but I

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like that it seems he is going to try and

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really like make a point, whatever it's going to be.

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What has happened here deserves an answer, And there was

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something satisfying for the moment about stopping there knowing that

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Seraphim says, they didn't even need to alter the goose,

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just turn it loose as is, and honestly, yeah, this

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is just like granted, they changed things up so that

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the people around the goose can't use their magic and

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YadA YadA. But like, for the most part, the goose

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is just a goose, and that's wild to me. And

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it's not just a goose, actually, it's a nineties middle

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class kitchen decoration goose. Now I say that without actually

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having been somebody whose mother had that sort of decor choice.

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My mother really never has leaned into any trendy kitchy

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like decor choices. Ever, she has her style and she's

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had it and it's what she does no matter what

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year it is. And I have to say that a

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part of me really admires that. But I would be

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lying if I tried to pretend that this like goose

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trend wasn't a thing, because I certainly saw it in

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other friends' kitchens, and I also still see the remnants

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of it in thrift shops and things. These geese wearing

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little bonnets and shawls were fucking everywhere, kids all over

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the place. I think it's very funny the way that

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trends like this happen, and I wonder what causes them,

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you know who, like who was so influential that they

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were able to just make this become a thing. But

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something that's so sort of peculiar. I remember, you know,

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there was a time in the two thousands where it

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was strawberries were decorating absolutely fucking all kitchen ware everywhere,

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and I was just sort of but why why is

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this happening? And my mother said that when she was

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a kid, it was mushrooms. Everything had, like, you know,

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like all of the little jars and things for storing

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flour and coffee in the kitchen all had mushrooms on them,

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and it would come painted on the sides of tea

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pots and whatnot. So, yeah, this is very much a thing.

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But these types of geese, it just feels really familiar

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to me. I didn't need much of a description. I

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pictured it pretty much immediately, as he won ends up

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describing it later. So we start with chapter fifteen with

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Carl talking to to Juice Box. I keep wanting to

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say Juicer and I'm like, no, that's that other guy,

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the Juicer. And you know, she tells him about how

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this whole thing with Quetzal whatever. She says, you know,

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that's that is what they're looking for. But it's being

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framed as if they just want to take on her

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appearance and abilities to fill in a slot in their

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inventory for like potential options for transformation. But the truth

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is that what's going on is she can cast a

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spell that alters plants. And this was an interesting to

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me because like what it means is they don't just

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take on the appearance of a certain type of creature.

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They can also take on the abilities of the creature

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that they transform into, which is a pretty big deal

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that I don't think we knew. Did we know that

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for sure? Guys. That's like it's one thing to just

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be able to mimic somebody's appearance, but it's another thing

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that when you turn into them, you can do the

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thing they do. But anyway, what he had seen with

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the compression sickness in that one kid, it turns out,

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is like a birth defect. This is not something that

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was a result of activity on the part of the child,

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and the birth defect is happening to like a quarter

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of their children now, and it is because they are

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living in a world that isn't like specifically, they weren't

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supposed to be here, and so the nutrition in this

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world isn't adequate to actually keep her race healthy. And

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they're hoping that if they are able to get her abilities.

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the gaps in their nutrition, not fill in the gaps

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on what they can transform into. So we are trying

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to fill in some gaps. It's just different. And then

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he brings up the Gate of the Feral Gods, and

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it turns out that what this is, it's an artifact

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that when you put together, the gate opens from one

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place to the next, but when it closes, an ancient

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feral god comes through into the world, and it comes

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into the side that you open it in, which means

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you can get where you're going, but you're condemning everybody

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in the world you left behind to probably a pretty

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awful death. And so it is something that it's like

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an option, but it sort of feels like a nuclear

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weapon where you just you have it, but you don't

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really seriously consider using it because the side effects are

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just too awful. And when he asks what a faral

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god is, she says they are the gods from before,

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the immortal beasts who roamed the heavens before the Pantheon

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banished them into the nothing and created the world. Their

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banishment has driven them mad. And then Carl feels this

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like free Sant and all of a sudden new quest,

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the Gate of the Faral Gods, Henrik the Changeling Commandant,

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Kane the Mad doom Mage. They all have pieces of

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the artifact. Take it from them, collect all three, put

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them together. What happens next is pretty damn neat reward.

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Oh boil boy, Oh boil boy. And honestly the fact

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that he's being encouraged to put it together when it does.

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What she says, doesn't feel like this should be a

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quest because it seems like it's going to ruin your

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ability to get to the next floor, or ruin your

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ability to solve whatever's going on here that is supposed

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to contribute to everything else. I don't know, but I

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feel like maybe here's a quest that we should just

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fail and have it and just put it in your inventory,

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but don't use it. I'm just you know what I'm saying.

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So then we go to the sandstorm that comes down,

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and you know, they have to hunker, as he puts it,

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and the repairs aren't totally complete, so things get pretty

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fucked up in town. The moment the shield failed, we

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all received a quest to save the town by procuring

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a bunch of deflated balloons that they could use as

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a shelter. It was a regular bronze quest that I

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shoved off onto Lewis and Fearis and Langley, who'd finished

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searching the ruins of the other town. They could use

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the experience, and it seems like they are beginning to

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do better. You know. I know that that one thing

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they participated them in had them go up two levels,

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they are, like, if there's anything new being added to

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their abilities that would be particularly helpful. And let's see,

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the tomb raiders were stuck in safe rooms. The entire

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catacomb was now filled with water. They had dozens of

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water scrolls, but that wasn't enough. They were paralyzed for now.

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Chrit A slash Maggie remained entombed. Donut could see their

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dot on the map as long as she stood nearby.

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The room was half filled with water and was pitch black,

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which had to be awful. Yeah, that sounds really terrible,

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and Carl thinks a bit about that, even though he

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had been relieved when Donut did what she did to

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Chris to get him out of the way that maybe

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it was a mistake to not put him out of

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his misery. And honestly, guys, a part of me really

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feels that way it sounded. You know, there are times

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where I feel like a person might say kill me,

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it's for the best, and they really they It's that

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they intellectually know it's for the best, but they really

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don't mean it, and they would love for you to

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find another option. But there was something about the messages

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from Chris that felt like he really meant it. He

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would really like to be dead versus what's happening right now.

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And I can't help but feel like, even if you

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are able to save him, is he going to be grateful?

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Is he gonna want to be alive in this world? Like?

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I don't know that I would want that. I don't know.

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So Anyway, after we'd crashed the Wasteland, all that remained

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was a single building, held aloft by an enormous magical balloon.

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The building was a house, nothing more. There were no

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obvious defenses. The entire Gnomish Air Force was now grounded.

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It appeared there were only two living creatures up there,

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Commandant Cain and his daughter. The kid was about ten

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years old. That was it. And he says something later

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about how it reminds him of up and I was like,

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oh good, we're all on the same page here. This

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house was an actual house that belonged to somebody in

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the world, so it's not a set piece. And when

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he actually gets to it, there's like Christmas lights still

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on it because it was winter and they'd apparently taken

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their Christmas tree down and stuff. But you know how

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that is, lights are always like the last thing to

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come down. And there are diplomas on the wall of

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the people who actually lived there and stuff like that,

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and it was just a I like these little haunting

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reminders that the world used to be there and isn't anymore,

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and here are the remnants of real people and their lives.

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So Carl and Katcha have a conversation about whether or

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not to bring down the house just by shooting the balloon,

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which is possible to do, but there is a child

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in there, and they are aware, fully aware that the

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kid is being used to tug at their heart strings

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and make them choose the more difficult option. But they're gonna,

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you know, they're capitulating, and they seem to be just

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sort of coping with that. And Katcha asks him at

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this point, did you ever want children? And it is

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sort of like it feels like an out of nowhere

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kind of question, and Carl says, no, I wouldn't be

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a good dad, which I think is bullshit, But I

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completely understand that feeling. He says, b told me she

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thought she was pregnant like ten times. She never was

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the first few times I thought she really was. I

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was goddamn terrified. I I have trouble seeing you with

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that woman. She shook her head. Yeah. Same, this idea

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of like a pregnancy thing, it's it very much ties

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in with the whole Pretend that you're in a fight

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and then maybe he'll propose, because a lot of women

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seem to think that if you have a kid, it'll

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force your partner to like shape up or commit to you,

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and it does the opposite ninety eight percent of the time.

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So b B, you are just that bitch was a disaster.

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She reminds me. The more I hear about her of

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like eleanor from the good Place, which is funny because

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we already have like a Jason Mendoza. So it's starting

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to feel like we're getting a little bit more casting

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out of that. And Kasia says that she got pre

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approval to adopt. Something happened and I got disqualified. It's

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not important. I'm sure it's not, but you can't say

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that and then not make me curious what happened, you

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know what I'm saying, like, now I really want to know, now, Katya,

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like really really, And the fact that Karl doesn't ask, like,

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I'm not really surprised because I see him as being

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somebody who wouldn't want to pry. And probably if I

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were actually in this conversation with Katya and she said

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it's not important, I would take that as her kind

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of signaling I don't want to talk about that part,

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so I probably wouldn't bring it up either. But you know,

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as a reader, I'm desperately curious. And there, you know,

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there was that whole thing about, uh, the way that

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Eva was making fun of her for, you know, like

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being sad that she couldn't get her adoption, and I

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just wonder, it just feels like the way that Eva

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was treating her, it was like something that was Kotscha's

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own fault somehow. And you know what, I mean because

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Eva is just it was a very much like part

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of what was behind even mocking her was you keep

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complaining about things, but you are the reason why, Like

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all of those things are true. And it may just

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be that Eva's very mean and that's not actually correct,

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but she wants to make Kotya feel bad, which I

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would be very willing to believe. But also I would

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be I can see that maybe she had reached a

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level of frustration with Katya because of this sort of thing,

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you know. So it's, uh, this is this is a

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difficult you know. And I said this when we had

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the whole like Eva yelling at her thing. When you

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have a friend or an acquaintance that keeps like making

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bad choices that everybody gives them, they ask for advice,

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everybody gives them advice, and then they proceed to ignore it,

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and then they cry about how stuff doesn't go their way.

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It can just be like you get to a point

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where you're just like, I'm starting to lose sympathy for you,

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you know, But again, even seems pretty terrible and mean,

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so I'm not willing to take that at face value.

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And she says in the end, like it's a good

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thing that I didn't have a kid when all this happened.

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I'm glad now that I don't. And he's like, ah, yeah,

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she's full of shit, and he says it wasn't something

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I would ever understand the need to have children. I

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said nothing, same, Carl, Like, I can understand certain little

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aspects of it as being appealing, but I have never

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felt that like drive. You know, It's never been something

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that's the sort of foregone conclusion for me. There have

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been periods in my life where I considered it and wondered,

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but it never felt like a good idea, And I

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never had like the confidence that I think is unwarranted

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by a lot of people to believe that I was

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going to be good at the job. And honestly, in

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the end, I think that the reason so many people

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have what I would consider unwanted or unwarranted confidence is

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because nature makes us this way. You know, if we

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all used our intellect to determine whether or not we

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should have children, probably our species would die out, because

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if we really stopped to think about it, we would

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realize but we can't have that, so Katcha tells him.

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I'm usually irritated when you want to leave me behind

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on your little schemes, but I'm pretty happy to sit

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this one out. And she winds up She had been

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helping him sow this like apparently huge parachute, I think,

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but they don't wind up using that, and she gets

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irritated about it. Later. This whole series of chapters, by

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the way, is punctuated by the bizarre versions of doughnut

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that are cropping up because this company keeps making new

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prototypes and sending them in, which we get this conversation.

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So one of them jumps up on Carl's shoulder and says,

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there's sure were a lot of babies in there, Carl,

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I wonder how long they will continue to cry in

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the dark, And he shoves it off him. It lands

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and breaks, and of course Mango jumps on it again

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and then it explodes, which, if you're trying to make

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a toy that's for children, isn't a great look. And

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all of a sudden, Louita jumps in and says, Carl,

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you know perfectly well that the real version of these

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toys can take much more stress. Your boosted strength is

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what's causing the problem. The toy is meant to be

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played with outside of an enhancement zone by children not

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survive within a dungeon environment. And honestly, she says, like,

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you know perfectly well, I don't know about you guys,

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but that hadn't entered my mind. So it's something that like,

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once you say it, okay, I understand now. But she's

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acting as if he's like being willfully obtuse about this,

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and I'm not sure that's true. And zeb the audience

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loves the strange vibe of the doll, but I tend

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to agree with the crawler. It does not sound like her.

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We put that in the notes, but vera Lux hasn't

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changed it, and says, after we realized you were going

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to fiddle with the toy, we started requiring the sponsor

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to make the doll self destruct if it is sufficiently broken.

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We don't want you unfairly getting your hands on the

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important interior parts. The real version won't have that feature.

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And Carl rightfully is like, so you're the ones making

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it explode and look very bad for them. I don't

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feel like that's gonna work so well marketing wise, and

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Zev says, you're not wrong, Crawler. There are memes later

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on Zev is no longer going to be working with them,

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And even though it is cited as, oh, you got

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the social media thing, you don't need me anymore, I

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kind of feel like she keeps sort of agreeing with

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them on things, and that is more of a problem

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than anything. Also, the fact that it's like we can

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can't let you have any of the little parts inside, well,

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then I guess this whole setup that you've got here

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isn't going to work, and maybe you should reconsider it.

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If it can't stand up to the stress of people

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who with enhance strength, like crawlers, and if you can't

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let the crawlers get their hands on the pieces, maybe

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this isn't something that you should be doing then, you know.

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And also like after we realized you were going to

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fiddle with the toy, the whole point of this is

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for them to interact with it, as you put it,

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which is fiddling with it. Like newsflash, you asked them

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to do this. It's so irritating. And then Donut says

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that she wants to name it. I haven't decided on

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Charlie or Ivy. What do you think, Zev? And at

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first Zev says it's inconsequential, but then later says I

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would go with Ivy, and you know, when she says

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in consequential, Donut gets very upset, but saying Ivy, Donut

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seem so relieved by that. Now, I don't these names

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Charlie and Ivy are ringing a faint bell for me?

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Are these also references to something on? I keep thinking

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about Gilmore Girls, But I only watched a very little

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bit of that, and I don't think these names would

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ring for me if it were that. But yeah, so

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it's like later on, when Zev is taken away from them,

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I felt like at least Donut got this little taste

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of Zev's personality coming back, just to reassure her a bit.

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You know. It's so, this is just so troubling, and

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we'll get there, okayet The plane's name was death Trap.

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It had four bombs painted after the tag, I took

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a can of spray paint and covered it up. I

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then wrote Nightmare two on the side. Dona objected, but

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only half heartedly. She'd been oddly distracted since our discussion

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with Lota, and that isn't improved later on, So they

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have to gain altitude using this balloon, and Doughnut gets

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very excited because there are bullets still left in the

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gun of this plane. I didn't see any enemies before

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the storm. They had been a handful of balloons up

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against the ceiling, but they'd all disappeared. I knew a

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few had simply fallen, crashing against the desert like meteors,

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some had plummeted onto the land quadrant, some in the ocean.

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All that was left was the target, And they wind

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up getting up there faster than I was expecting. I

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really did, Like I felt the same way as Karl

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of Oh, we're here already. And they hit the ceiling

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of the bubble, which I just keep forgetting that there's

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an actual physical ceiling. I keep thinking of the bubble

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as being like kind of the Hunger Games, like what's

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the word, like a force field or something, you know,

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a thing that isn't physical but is I guess, electronically triggered.

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So they get down to the house and he decides

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that he is just going to go to the front door,

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considers ringing the doorbell, decides against it, and as it

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like winds up shaking out, I think that maybe ringing

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the doorbell would have been fine, you know, and it's

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they step inside and I love that. There's a little

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bit here where Dona is talking about about how you're

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not afraid of heights, are you? And he says no,

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and she's like, well you should be. This is insane,

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and he is like, wait, you didn't have an issue

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with heights, like up until very recently. What's going on

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And she says, well, we fell, you know, and like

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now I just really don't want to go through that

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again because it was fucking terrifying. And that makes a

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lot of sense to me. To be honest, I am very,

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very bad with heights, but it really depends for me

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the situation. I can sometimes heights, like like, if I'm

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in a high building and you're looking out a window

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on the side of the building, that kind of heights

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doesn't bother me. But if it's the sort of thing

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where like you walk out onto a balcony that's got

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a glass floor that you can look down through, absolutely

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the fuck not no, thank you. So they go in

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through the door and this little girl comes out and says,

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have you come to kill my father? You're a little late.

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He's already dead. Do you want to come in I'm

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making lemonade, and this is the most unnerving thing. Pretty

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quickly Carl is able to see that her eyes are

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dilated and determine that she is under some sort of enchantment.

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But her behavior here is just I almost wondered if

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she were a shape shifter herself, you know, that somebody

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had replaced her. And then of course there's the question

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of whether she killed her own father, because she's covered

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in blood and all of like the details that we

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get later are that her father gave her a essentially

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a sedative. It was a potion because the collateral that

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the Bactrians had was her pig. Sausage was his name,

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and when Sausage was killed, she completely had a meltdown

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and she was just really emotional, and they were trying

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to like deal with that, and then there came a

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point where he realized, oh, I'm gonna die because he

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knew somehow that this goose was coming for him, so

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he decided to get out ahead of it and gave

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her the potion right before everything went down so that

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she wouldn't have like a complete mental break. Which all

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of this adds up to me to a dude who

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seems to be trying his best to be a good dad.

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He's really looking out for her, you know, like not

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saying he was a good guy or anything, but it's

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it's just later when it begins to wear off and

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she's starting to have to feel again that it almost

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I think it was the right call to delay it.

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So once she's coming out of it and she's feeling it,

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she's at least in a safe place, surrounded by people

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who are going to care for her, and that's ideal,

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but it's still going to be horribly traumatic. So let's see.

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Oh yeah, and I forgot Donah is able to like,

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I won't say she's able to tell if somebody is

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a changeling, because I feel like that's making it sound

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like she just has like a detector, but she can

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see if their head is really hot, and this little

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girl's head isn't. So they're pretty confident she is what

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she's claiming. And Donah is trying to ask Bonnie where,

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like what happened to her father because they can see

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this trial of blood and they don't know what the

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deal is at all, and Bonnie is like not even

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really able to answer them. It's like she's so disconnected

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from the present moment that the vibe that I got

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is that her father told her to make some lemonade

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right before he gave her the potion, and that like

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giving her that potion made her kind of fixate on

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that objective in a way that feels a little bit

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linked to me, and so she gets really preoccupied with

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that and keeps wanting to make lemonade, And of course

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we have this whole thing where Carl is tricked into

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believing that the lemonade actually is going to serve a

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major purpose in the fight itself. And guys, has anybody

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come across a plot point like this in like Skyrim

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or something where you think this particular item is really

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going to help and then it turns out that it

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was like a fake out. Because I'm trying to think

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and the old I can't recall anything that was specifically

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meant to trick you. I've come across things that I

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expected a result that I didn't wind up getting, But

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that's not really the same thing as them expressly trying

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to fuck with you. And I'm wondering if this is

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something that is in other games. I think I would

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be so annoyed by that, Like, really, I think that

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would piss me off so bad. So anyway, they see

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her father's body and it says ripped to shreds by Denise,

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and he looks like he's been partially eaten. But they

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aren't able to actually get a straight answer out of

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Bonnie regarding who Denise is. Um, he tried the Gerbils,

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but I didn't like any Plus they're all mean. Then

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we tried other stuff, including old Denise. She's okay, I guess,

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but she's no sausage. Don't tell her that, though she

473
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,639
gets jealous. Why did Denise kill her father? Donna asked,

474
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,199
he you know? She pointed to the kitchen sink. There

475
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,440
was nothing there. It was just a typical sink. He what,

476
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,239
Donnut asked Bonnie. We do not understand. She ignored the

477
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,760
question and pushed the glass closer to the edge of

478
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,760
the counter. My father gave me the recipe. It's good.

479
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:47,039
Try some and it just says unknown potion. This kid

480
00:34:47,079 --> 00:34:50,440
says it's lemonade, and Karl doesn't drink it until later,

481
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,639
when it turns out it is indeed just lemonade. All

482
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:59,760
of a sudden, the walls shake and a bunch of

483
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:07,639
things tip over, and Carl touches the body of Commandant Cain,

484
00:35:08,519 --> 00:35:10,920
and he is able to loot from it five thousand

485
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:17,960
gold pieces. Letter from the glass wizard mysterious Watch, and

486
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,360
he sees the letter, seze your hostilities immediately. Your bombs

487
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,719
do not harm me, but they are ruining the structure

488
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,079
of the temple, weakening its wall. Surely you do not

489
00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:32,480
want the whole thing to collapse, even in your floating city.

490
00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:35,199
You must know the danger we all face if such

491
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:38,800
a thing were to happen. I propose a truce. You

492
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,119
stop the bombing, and I won't end this world. I

493
00:35:43,199 --> 00:35:45,639
have the winding box. I know you have at least

494
00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:49,119
one of the watches, perhaps both. It doesn't matter anymore.

495
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,159
I have cracked the box's secret. I know how to

496
00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:54,239
open a portal, and I do not need the other

497
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,679
two pieces to throw this entire world into the void.

498
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,199
I will do that before I allow that ghost to

499
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,000
leave the temple. You do not need to answer. Just stop.

500
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,639
I know how much you love your people and your child,

501
00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:15,559
think of them, of her, Stop Gazi. This is very interesting,

502
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,320
the idea that somebody has figured out how to use

503
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,679
this thing without the rest of the pieces. I'm not sure.

504
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,119
I believe this person. I feel like this is maybe

505
00:36:25,199 --> 00:36:33,760
just a threat, an empty threat. So all of a sudden,

506
00:36:35,079 --> 00:36:41,039
the house begins to lower, and Bonnie says, oh yeah.

507
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:47,519
When Denise gets mad, magic stuff doesn't work. She's probably

508
00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:52,559
on the roof. And they get a notification that this

509
00:36:53,320 --> 00:37:00,000
monster blocks magic and it doesn't take any damage from

510
00:37:00,119 --> 00:37:05,719
physical attacks, which is just incredibly unfair. Once you decipher

511
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,679
what the hell it is that like it's an environmental

512
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,039
as it's described, and that it takes damage from things

513
00:37:12,039 --> 00:37:16,039
in the house, they're able to do something. But it's

514
00:37:16,119 --> 00:37:20,559
not like Carl even thought of asking Mordecai, hey, what's

515
00:37:20,599 --> 00:37:23,360
an environmental? And I'm not really mad at him for that.

516
00:37:23,519 --> 00:37:26,239
Perhaps somebody else might have considered doing that, but it

517
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:33,840
wasn't something that occurred to me. So let's see blah

518
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,440
boss battle. You have discovered the layer of a burrow boss.

519
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:40,280
The house is falling. It will shatter against the ground

520
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,559
in exactly three minutes after the end of this message.

521
00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:45,280
You must defeat the boss in order to escape. You

522
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,920
can't use offensive or defensive magic, and your own physical

523
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,840
attacks won't do shit either. This should be a hoot.

524
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:59,039
And then the description of Denise Denise shouldn't be here.

525
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,119
She was plucked directly from the seventh floor when her grandfather,

526
00:38:03,199 --> 00:38:06,039
Emperor Answer, decided to use a magical gait to bring

527
00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:08,760
his people to this world. But like many of those

528
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,760
who were unwilling in their journey to this place, she

529
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:15,360
lingered too long in the in between the nothing. She

530
00:38:15,519 --> 00:38:20,719
paid dearly for it. She has a few special abilities.

531
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,480
She can move up magic from harming her. She is

532
00:38:23,519 --> 00:38:27,280
an environmental she has an overwhelming need to protect children.

533
00:38:27,599 --> 00:38:31,199
But most of all, she wants to kill everybody, especially

534
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:37,440
bitches and guess what you are. And the fight really

535
00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:43,199
goes quite left for a minute. This it's all punctuated

536
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:48,360
with these moments of Bonnie really really underreacting to the

537
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,760
fight itself and just being like, oh, Denise, you're so silly.

538
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:59,920
And then eventually we have Mango getting really, really injured,

539
00:39:00,599 --> 00:39:05,079
and it is so awful. I understand later why Carl

540
00:39:05,199 --> 00:39:09,079
kind of yells at Dona about that even when Mongo

541
00:39:09,079 --> 00:39:11,719
gets injured, you're going to need to stay more focused.

542
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,840
But you guys, you know, I have this thing in

543
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,519
my head where sometimes I will imagine scenarios that are

544
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,000
truly awful, just to sort of question myself and like,

545
00:39:24,039 --> 00:39:29,039
what would you do in this scenario? And if there

546
00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:33,480
were something threatening Pippin's life, I think I might be

547
00:39:33,519 --> 00:39:36,400
willing to do a really stupid fucking thing to save him.

548
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,320
I think I might be willing to risk my own

549
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:44,159
life to rescue my dog. And you know, I don't

550
00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:47,960
know that for a fact if the situation ever were

551
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,679
to come up, we would we would see the truth,

552
00:39:51,079 --> 00:39:53,800
you know, And I'm sure it also depends on the circumstance.

553
00:39:54,519 --> 00:40:00,599
But I couldn't help but really feel for Donah. And

554
00:40:00,679 --> 00:40:02,840
even though a part of me felt frustrated the way

555
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,719
that Carl feels frustrated, it was just one of those

556
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,360
Like Carl, if Donut were really badly injured in the

557
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,519
midst of a fight, you would react the way she's reacting.

558
00:40:14,199 --> 00:40:18,559
And so I just don't think he fully understands the

559
00:40:18,639 --> 00:40:22,920
relationship that she has to Mango and how even though

560
00:40:23,079 --> 00:40:27,440
Mango can't talk and there's you know, there's definitely going

561
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:32,880
to be inherent differences. I like Carl would just never

562
00:40:33,679 --> 00:40:39,519
be able to his focus would falter. It just would

563
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:48,719
you know, let's see Dona continue to be to be

564
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,679
preoccupied with Mango and not the fight. The dinosaur was

565
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,920
bleeding and injured, but he no longer appeared to be

566
00:40:54,039 --> 00:40:57,960
in pain. Carl Mango won't stop bleeding. My pet carrier

567
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,559
doesn't worth his health is still going down, and he

568
00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:06,880
tosses her a bandage and it does begin to help him.

569
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,719
Go into that room there it's directly over the kitchen,

570
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,480
break through the floor, and make the whole big enough

571
00:41:11,519 --> 00:41:14,119
for all of us to drop through. The beat to

572
00:41:14,159 --> 00:41:16,440
the boss music was getting louder and faster as the

573
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:22,480
timer moved downward. That in particular, would make me so antsy,

574
00:41:22,559 --> 00:41:28,599
like there is something about increasing the tempo or having

575
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:33,239
a countdown that makes me very frantic, and in a

576
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,679
way that isn't helpful, and that would bug the shit

577
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:43,199
out of me. So let's see. She wasn't the most

578
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:45,559
powerful of the mob, we thought, but we fought, but

579
00:41:45,639 --> 00:41:49,159
that didn't matter. She was practically indestructible. It was only

580
00:41:49,199 --> 00:41:51,440
then that I noticed the Boss now had a health

581
00:41:51,519 --> 00:41:54,079
bar and he's trying to figure out, like what could

582
00:41:54,119 --> 00:42:00,239
have done this to her? And he finally gets his

583
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,719
hands on a lemonade and it doesn't do anything, and

584
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:08,800
he's so irritated and he chucks the picture at her

585
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,440
out of frustration, and that's when he sees her health

586
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,519
bar and all of a sudden he's just like, oh shit,

587
00:42:15,039 --> 00:42:18,119
and he jumps forward and grabs her by the neck

588
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,239
and she's able to fire darts out of her mouth.

589
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:26,719
By the way, let's see, what had the kids said

590
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,800
about her father? She'd pointed at the sink. What did

591
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:35,920
she meant? And he takes he takes this goose's head

592
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:43,440
and shoves it into the garbage disposal and it is

593
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,719
really really gross, guys, I mean, garbage disposes are just

594
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,760
terrifying anyway. You know, this is the reason that it

595
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:57,360
comes up a lot in horror movies. Or there's an

596
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,679
episode of Supernatural that I covered, I think in season

597
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:08,960
two where they keep like kind of teasing you that

598
00:43:09,039 --> 00:43:11,320
this plumber who's working on this thing is going to

599
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,400
wind up getting ground up in the disposal, and it

600
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,760
never happens, and it never happens until you get to

601
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,599
a point where you really do think it's not going

602
00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:19,280
to happen, and then of course, all of a sudden

603
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:26,639
they do it. It's just it's the worst blood showered

604
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,159
up through the whole geysering into the kitchen. The timer paused.

605
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,480
At one second, the whole house jerked to a stop

606
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,159
and we all flew off our feet. The boss, still

607
00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:40,679
head first in the disposal and no longer being held

608
00:43:40,679 --> 00:43:45,079
by me, started to rapidly spin, And that part got me,

609
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,159
the fact that she's still stuck in it and just

610
00:43:47,199 --> 00:43:52,840
like fucking going around and around and around. So once

611
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:57,440
they turn it off, she flops out. Bubble notification the

612
00:43:57,519 --> 00:44:00,840
common nouns. Quarters of the Wastline have been successful fully occupied.

613
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,480
The Air Quadrant has been liberated. I'll give congratulations to

614
00:44:04,519 --> 00:44:08,679
the crawlers who successfully took the Throne room. And it

615
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,960
was just that this was the throne room that I

616
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,559
was deeply disappointed by. I was just like, come on,

617
00:44:14,159 --> 00:44:18,639
this is so unimpressive. All crawlers who originated in the

618
00:44:18,679 --> 00:44:22,440
Air Quadrant may now freely travel to the other quadrants,

619
00:44:23,559 --> 00:44:28,320
and I'm I'm just trying to think exactly what they'll

620
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,079
be able to bring to You know, we've got Katcha

621
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,199
who has her mechanics abilities, Carl has all of these

622
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,760
things in his inventory that he has collected and also

623
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:46,280
his recipe book, and I'm just trying to think, let's see,

624
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,760
we had the thing that was was that the underwater

625
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,280
one that was the first one to get solved, and

626
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,159
then this one. So we've still got the underground one,

627
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,559
which is the you know, the one that got affected

628
00:44:59,559 --> 00:45:03,039
by the wa because now it's filling up. There's a

629
00:45:03,199 --> 00:45:06,440
fourth one, right or is there only the three? I'm

630
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:13,599
trying to remember there's not. Yeah, because like if we're

631
00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:18,760
doing elements, I'm thinking their air, the underground is earth,

632
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,679
the other is water, and the only other element I

633
00:45:20,679 --> 00:45:22,519
would think of is fire, And I don't know how

634
00:45:22,519 --> 00:45:29,599
that would manifest. Oh, Seraphim says land quadrant with that

635
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,519
mage guy, Okay, I thought that was the underground thing.

636
00:45:34,159 --> 00:45:40,039
But I must be misunderstand misremembering ores, He says, I

637
00:45:40,039 --> 00:45:43,280
don't understand why garbage disposals exist. I would never get one.

638
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,559
It's clutch as somebody who cooks a lot. Garbage disposals

639
00:45:48,039 --> 00:45:52,119
are a fucking godsend. I love them. They're just meant

640
00:45:52,159 --> 00:45:55,239
to make it easy to get rid of the type

641
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:59,920
of garbage that is so wet that putting it in

642
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:05,599
a garbage bag is kind of not the move. You know,

643
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,039
some certain types of things, it feels like pouring them

644
00:46:09,079 --> 00:46:14,639
into the trash is a bad idea. Underground is the

645
00:46:14,679 --> 00:46:20,000
ghost Queen thing. Okay ah, the camera died again. Sorry

646
00:46:20,039 --> 00:46:22,079
about this, guys. I really do not know what's going

647
00:46:22,119 --> 00:46:28,960
on with it. I can only do so much. So

648
00:46:29,679 --> 00:46:34,199
then we start chapter seventeen, Stage three of four the

649
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:38,199
Mad done Mage. The house had landed along the edge

650
00:46:38,199 --> 00:46:40,679
of the bowl about a half mile east of Humptown,

651
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,159
and he tries to tell the little kid like, we've

652
00:46:45,199 --> 00:46:47,440
got to go because your house is going to take off.

653
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,599
He's tried to cut the ropes that tie it to

654
00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:53,320
the balloon and everything, and she's like, oh well, we

655
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,079
can just make it stay here. And she hands over

656
00:46:57,639 --> 00:47:01,440
this soul gem or soul crystal and she says, my

657
00:47:01,559 --> 00:47:03,239
dad gave it to me. He said to give it

658
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,880
an adult, give it to an adult. I guess you'll do.

659
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,840
Which is the best most shading line. I loved that

660
00:47:12,039 --> 00:47:18,360
so much. I guess you'll do. Amen, Girly, it's F

661
00:47:18,559 --> 00:47:26,239
class or F quality and it's yeah, the house is

662
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:30,719
like settled now and not going to fly away. So

663
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:36,159
Carl holds onto that and then begins to go through

664
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:43,079
everything and loot basically any item he comes across. Meanwhile,

665
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,880
he hands over this kid to donut and Katcha to

666
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,400
try and figure out exactly what's going on with her

667
00:47:49,639 --> 00:47:55,760
regarding the spell that she's clearly under. The door to

668
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,559
the master bedroom opened without any effort. I stepped into

669
00:47:58,599 --> 00:48:02,079
an unremarkable room. A king's sized bed with crumpled blue

670
00:48:02,079 --> 00:48:04,519
sheets stood against one wall, and a tall dresser with

671
00:48:04,559 --> 00:48:08,000
all the drawers opened sat against the other, still miraculously standing.

672
00:48:08,599 --> 00:48:12,199
Spilled men's and women's clothing covered the floor. I eyed

673
00:48:12,199 --> 00:48:14,760
a uniform shirt for some plumbing company with the name

674
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,880
Dale sewn on the breast. A framed University of Arizona

675
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,119
master's degree in Library Sciences for the woman who used

676
00:48:22,119 --> 00:48:24,079
to live here had fallen off the wall, but the

677
00:48:24,119 --> 00:48:29,760
glass hadn't broken. Her name had been Jennifer, Jennifer and Dale.

678
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,599
They'd had three kids. They'd likely all been asleep when

679
00:48:33,639 --> 00:48:37,519
it happened. I couldn't stop thinking about what Maggie had said,

680
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,440
that they could bring people back. I didn't want to

681
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,280
think about it, about the potential horrors we could face

682
00:48:43,599 --> 00:48:47,400
if we lived past this day or the next. You're lucky.

683
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,639
I thought, there's only two people out there they could

684
00:48:50,679 --> 00:48:54,039
dredge up. For most that number had to be a

685
00:48:54,159 --> 00:48:57,480
lot higher, and I'm assuming those two people are b

686
00:48:58,159 --> 00:49:02,000
and his father. I may be wrong, but that's what

687
00:49:02,039 --> 00:49:05,159
I'm going with for right now. And either of those

688
00:49:05,199 --> 00:49:08,480
two sounds pretty awful. But I have to like, I

689
00:49:08,519 --> 00:49:12,800
have to admit, if Carl were given the chance to

690
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,079
beat the shit out of his father, I would feel

691
00:49:16,079 --> 00:49:22,559
that would be somewhat cathartic. Yeah, I don't know. He

692
00:49:22,679 --> 00:49:25,559
can see the stairwell on the map, and it's like

693
00:49:25,679 --> 00:49:28,719
inside the closet, it was only wide enough for two

694
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:33,360
people to walk down side by side. A blue force

695
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,440
field prevented me from entering. We still had two more

696
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:40,400
throne rooms to capture before it would open. After I

697
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,360
secured the windows the best I could, mostly by duct

698
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,679
taping sheets and tarp over them, I went to work

699
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:52,880
looting everything, books, toys, furniture. The man had been pretty short, unfortunately,

700
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,480
so there was nothing that had fit me. I was thinking, guys,

701
00:49:56,519 --> 00:50:00,920
I was genuinely like, can you get oh for your

702
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:05,840
desire to find like pants? Because everything about the way

703
00:50:06,039 --> 00:50:10,159
your attacks work and stuff, it just seems like being

704
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:15,679
pantsless is something that you need to accept. But also

705
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,079
I can understand just checking, just checking just to see,

706
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:25,639
you know, I finally hit pay dirt in the garage.

707
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:30,400
In addition to two mountain bicycles and a cheap plastic kayak,

708
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,119
they had a full work bench filled with tools that

709
00:50:33,159 --> 00:50:37,760
had been meticulously organized. There were boxes and boxes of crap.

710
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,039
A bunch of Christmas supplies, including a fake tree, had

711
00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:43,679
been recently put away. I took it along with a

712
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:50,920
box of Halloween and Fourth of July decorations, and I

713
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:55,480
am really curious when and if those decorations are going

714
00:50:55,519 --> 00:50:58,320
to come in handy, because I feel like it's got

715
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:03,920
to come up eventually, but I really can't imagine. And

716
00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:09,039
he realizes also that the power that's in the house

717
00:51:09,079 --> 00:51:13,440
that's electrifying things, they're not being sourced the way that

718
00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:16,199
normal electricity would be. So when he tries to flip

719
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,440
the braker and turn it off, it doesn't go off.

720
00:51:19,199 --> 00:51:22,079
I removed the outlet from the garage wall, and only

721
00:51:22,159 --> 00:51:25,440
then did it stop working. It didn't make sense. I

722
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,679
didn't want to flood the house, so I didn't try

723
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:31,039
it with the pipes. I did, however, completely disconnect the

724
00:51:31,079 --> 00:51:34,039
main house panel and I took it. I doubted I'd

725
00:51:34,079 --> 00:51:37,519
have use for it, but you never knew I did

726
00:51:37,599 --> 00:51:42,239
not locate what I was hoping to find, and what

727
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,519
it was is guns. He had hoped that there were

728
00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:48,280
guns in the house. I'm a little concerned that somebody

729
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,679
else might have them, because like the fact that a

730
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:52,960
bunch of drawers were open and stuff was spilled out

731
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,360
for me was kind of giving that somebody had already

732
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,000
ransacked the place. But you know, it's possible that the

733
00:51:59,039 --> 00:52:02,880
show just didn't want those weapons to be an option

734
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,079
for crawlers to use and they removed them. So I

735
00:52:06,079 --> 00:52:13,199
don't know, So let's see. Then we jumped to Carl

736
00:52:13,519 --> 00:52:17,159
or no, Dona, sorry, I turned to see the airplane

737
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:21,719
slowly descending from the sky Karl look. Dona exclaimed. It

738
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,440
was the Nightmare too. It had dislodged itself from the

739
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,719
main balloon and the emergency balloon had finally lost its juice,

740
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:32,679
sending the plane slowly back to the ground, and they

741
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,559
retrieved this. Obviously, there's no use letting something that might

742
00:52:36,679 --> 00:52:43,599
potentially be very helpful. Just sit and he When he

743
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,519
sends Lewis and Fearius out, we find out that they

744
00:52:46,559 --> 00:52:51,719
have both got Borough Boss Stars after their names. They,

745
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,320
along with the Archers, had gotten into a fight with

746
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:58,039
the Thorny Devil. Queen Langley said they'd held their own

747
00:52:58,119 --> 00:53:02,639
during the fight, which this is really nice, and apparently

748
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,119
caused all of the Thorny Devil mobs to disappear, which

749
00:53:06,159 --> 00:53:08,360
whenever that's a side effect of something, I can't help

750
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,440
but be grateful. There are times where that device irritates me,

751
00:53:12,599 --> 00:53:14,880
but like obviously right now, that is not one of

752
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:22,079
those times. And this is when Carl talks to Donna

753
00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:28,440
about her completely losing it about Mango, and he says,

754
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,840
I can't do it all on my own, and she says,

755
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,320
you didn't. Who flipped the switch? I mean, really, I

756
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,039
couldn't cast my magic and I'm a magic class on

757
00:53:37,079 --> 00:53:39,360
this floor. What else was I supposed to do? Vomit

758
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:43,599
on the goose? Besides, you'd clearly figured it out. I

759
00:53:43,679 --> 00:53:46,599
hadn't figured it out until the last minute. We got lucky.

760
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:52,199
That wasn't luck, Carl, that was you being you. I'm

761
00:53:52,199 --> 00:53:54,760
pretty sure we were supposed to drown the goose in

762
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,679
the sink or the lemonade pitcher, not rip her head

763
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,239
off in the garbage disposal. You're a good fighter, Carl,

764
00:54:01,639 --> 00:54:05,000
and you think fast. That's why we're still alive. You

765
00:54:05,159 --> 00:54:08,079
rarely think of the proper answer to a problem, but

766
00:54:08,119 --> 00:54:11,519
you usually come up with one that works anyway. And

767
00:54:11,639 --> 00:54:16,119
I appreciated this because when you keep escaping by the

768
00:54:16,159 --> 00:54:20,440
skin of your teeth, it is not that you are

769
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,480
fucking up all the time. It's that you're somehow getting

770
00:54:23,519 --> 00:54:27,119
it right all the time. You know, I understand why

771
00:54:27,159 --> 00:54:28,920
Carl feels the way that he does about it, but

772
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:30,960
this is a game that's actively trying to kill you.

773
00:54:31,639 --> 00:54:34,519
So even though it feels like we barely got out

774
00:54:34,559 --> 00:54:39,159
of that every time, it's still a win. It's still

775
00:54:39,199 --> 00:54:45,199
a win. It doesn't matter. So this is when we

776
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:51,760
get the second conversation with Loita and Zev. Donut, you

777
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,920
have a new box. They insist this version will not

778
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,480
explode as long as you don't deliberately go into the

779
00:54:56,519 --> 00:54:59,360
head cavity, spend some time with it. If it works

780
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,519
as intended, we are going to bring you to up

781
00:55:01,559 --> 00:55:08,679
to do the show a day early. And Donut, it's

782
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:12,639
like this is one of those things that it particularly

783
00:55:12,679 --> 00:55:16,320
like touches a nerve for me. She says over and

784
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:21,079
over to Donut, don't talk back to me, which, uh,

785
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,440
I remember as a kid, my parents never actually said

786
00:55:25,679 --> 00:55:31,760
those words, but I remember thinking how unjust it was

787
00:55:32,519 --> 00:55:35,480
that it was simply you don't get to say anything.

788
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,920
I get to say all the things, and you have

789
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,679
to be simply silent, and just I felt like that

790
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,920
was so fundamentally unfair, and I remember being very relieved

791
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:50,360
that my parents really never said that. And that's, you know,

792
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:54,679
like Lita is. She finally says, if you talk back again,

793
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:58,320
I will have Mango taken from you, will use him

794
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,840
to feed a mob on the next and will make

795
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:06,920
you watch I can do that. Don't test me. I

796
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:11,440
cannot you, guys, that is some evil shit. And just

797
00:56:11,639 --> 00:56:15,719
like Doughnut's not even refusing to do what they say.

798
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,960
She's just got an attitude that's literally it. But she's

799
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,960
still willing to work with them, and she's been more

800
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,320
willing to work with them than Carl the whole time.

801
00:56:25,639 --> 00:56:27,679
You know, she was the one who was delighted to

802
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:32,159
have merched. Like the way that they are coming at

803
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,920
Dona isn't doing them any favors either. But they really

804
00:56:36,639 --> 00:56:39,320
just feel like, I've got the power, so I can

805
00:56:40,159 --> 00:56:42,599
berate you and threaten you and get you to do

806
00:56:42,639 --> 00:56:45,519
what I want. And it's like, well, she probably would

807
00:56:45,519 --> 00:56:47,920
have done what you wanted anyway, but now you had

808
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,119
to make it like this, and so there's going to

809
00:56:50,199 --> 00:56:54,679
be a different energy going forward, and you've just shot

810
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:59,679
yourself in the foot anyway. This is when Zev says,

811
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,199
you won't You don't need a social media manager anymore.

812
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,800
And Carl says, can you at least send her down

813
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,920
here so Donut can say goodbye to her Loita? No,

814
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:16,559
of course, not Carl. What about that infomercial for a robot?

815
00:57:16,599 --> 00:57:19,880
Can she go to that? No, it's not her job anymore.

816
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,719
I will be there, of course. Now get back to work,

817
00:57:23,679 --> 00:57:27,800
and Donah is super sad about this, I really like.

818
00:57:29,039 --> 00:57:31,599
Carl promises her that she'll get to see Zev again,

819
00:57:31,639 --> 00:57:33,599
and she says you shouldn't make promises like that, but

820
00:57:33,639 --> 00:57:35,840
he's like, no, I fucking mean it, And I'm interested

821
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:42,639
to see how he tries to keep that promise. So

822
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,880
they watched the recap. Prepotenti and Miriam were just as

823
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:50,039
far along as we were. They'd managed to scale the

824
00:57:50,079 --> 00:57:52,519
interior wall of their bubble and kill all the spiders

825
00:57:52,519 --> 00:57:54,719
by applying some deep buff that made them all fall

826
00:57:54,719 --> 00:57:58,360
asleep and plummet to their deaths. That had somehow also

827
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,920
finished at the subterranean zone their bubble, and they were

828
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:04,559
now preparing to go underwater. The two headed creature that

829
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:08,199
represented the Popov brothers was on a pirate ship firing

830
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:11,440
cannons at other pirate ships. I don't know what was

831
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,960
going on there. The cimar fought some multi limbed mummy

832
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,519
ice thing and shattered him. She was actually working with

833
00:58:18,559 --> 00:58:20,920
a group of people, which surprised me, though the show

834
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:24,800
was low on details, and I am real curious about that.

835
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,559
And we have the top ten list. Lucius still first,

836
00:58:30,639 --> 00:58:34,320
Carl is still second, Prepatenteus third, Doughnut is fourth, Demitrian

837
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:39,119
Popov fifth, Miriam is sixth, Kwan Chit is seventh, Ellen

838
00:58:39,239 --> 00:58:44,159
mcgibb eight bogged in row nine, and shirag Al is ten.

839
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:51,639
And let's see, people got bored easily. Quantad dropped several spots,

840
00:58:51,679 --> 00:58:54,239
probably because he'd cleared his bubble early and he wasn't

841
00:58:54,239 --> 00:58:58,519
making any moves to leave the area. There was a

842
00:58:58,559 --> 00:59:00,280
new guy at the bottom of the list. I wasn't

843
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,800
sure if I'd seen him on the show, and I

844
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:06,199
am curious about that dude and what we might see

845
00:59:06,199 --> 00:59:13,679
from him. So we have a new robot doughnut walking around,

846
00:59:14,039 --> 00:59:18,079
and it seems to be the better version, certainly of

847
00:59:18,119 --> 00:59:24,480
the ones we have had so far. And Mordecai says

848
00:59:24,519 --> 00:59:27,480
something to Carl about how this is not an enhanced toy,

849
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,679
which basically means you don't have to have like a

850
00:59:30,719 --> 00:59:33,360
membership to a thing and Wi Fi in order for

851
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:39,159
it to work, which is interesting, he says. The logo

852
00:59:39,239 --> 00:59:43,280
on the benefactor box suggests they're associated with Verit and Linkage.

853
00:59:43,519 --> 00:59:47,239
That's a mostly soother lending fund that advocates for the

854
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:51,280
enslavement of those who can't afford their taxes. I've been

855
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,559
thinking about why a company would spend so much on

856
00:59:53,599 --> 00:59:56,000
such a stupid toy, and none of it makes sense.

857
00:59:56,559 --> 01:00:00,400
Only a megacorp could possibly afford such an expensive ca pain,

858
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:02,760
and they'd only do it if there was some sort

859
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,920
of payoff. I doubt just selling a cheap toy is

860
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:09,639
their intent. Odds are will never know. And the thing

861
01:00:09,679 --> 01:00:12,519
that I was thinking was that, you know, if it's robotic,

862
01:00:12,599 --> 01:00:16,400
perhaps it spies on people somehow, you know, like the

863
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:20,559
whole thing with how it seems that Alexas are listening

864
01:00:20,599 --> 01:00:25,320
into conversations, maybe marketing things to you based on what

865
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:33,480
it overhears type of thing. So he has the pocket

866
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:37,519
watch and he opens it and he sees Henrik. So

867
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,400
this is a way that they are able to communicate apparently,

868
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,920
but Henrick very quickly closes his because evidently he wants

869
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:50,320
nothing to do with Carl at this point. And let's see,

870
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,840
Bonnie is starting to wake up out of her stupor

871
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,039
she's over at Scarn's house. You should go see her

872
01:00:56,039 --> 01:00:59,039
before you and donut leave for your show. How she

873
01:00:59,199 --> 01:01:03,440
doing not so great? But she's a kid. Kids are resilient.

874
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:08,880
So they have this moment with Bonnie telling her like,

875
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:10,679
this is where you're going to stay, this is where

876
01:01:10,679 --> 01:01:14,519
you're going to sleep, and they're being really kind and

877
01:01:14,559 --> 01:01:17,320
she says something like this isn't my bed, and Carl

878
01:01:17,599 --> 01:01:20,719
just whips out her bed from his inventory and she

879
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,360
doesn't have any reaction, which I sort of like because

880
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:25,559
like she's coming out of her super but she's still

881
01:01:25,559 --> 01:01:27,280
in it. And also, as a kid, you just sort

882
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,599
of take for granted in a lot of ways that

883
01:01:29,639 --> 01:01:31,599
people are going to do what they can for you

884
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:35,639
and don't fully appreciate it because you are very self centered.

885
01:01:35,679 --> 01:01:41,480
In the world where Alves around you still, and she

886
01:01:41,679 --> 01:01:44,039
asks for another one of the potions, and I was

887
01:01:44,079 --> 01:01:45,800
just like, I really hope this kid doesn't wind up

888
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:49,400
addicted to some sort of drug or something, because being

889
01:01:49,519 --> 01:01:53,679
around the Dromedarians, they are very into drugs, obviously, and

890
01:01:54,239 --> 01:01:56,920
if she's trying to numb herself, that could turn into

891
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,960
a habit. So fingers crossed, that's not thing that happens

892
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:05,920
to her. Mongo slowly approached the girl and he dropped

893
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,679
the stuffed pink bunny in front of her. The girl

894
01:02:08,719 --> 01:02:11,639
picked it up and held it tight. She closed her eyes.

895
01:02:12,119 --> 01:02:14,360
I took the photo from my inventory, the one of

896
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:16,199
her and her mother and father, and I put it

897
01:02:16,239 --> 01:02:20,760
on the nightstand. Loita, oh, for the sake of the Gods.

898
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:25,880
Audiences like drama, but not melodrama. Stop concerning yourself so

899
01:02:26,079 --> 01:02:29,599
much with NPCs. We'll be transferring you to your program

900
01:02:29,639 --> 01:02:36,000
in twenty minutes. I really hate her a lot. I

901
01:02:36,079 --> 01:02:39,920
really hate her. It's not even real melodrama, you know,

902
01:02:40,239 --> 01:02:43,679
like it really isn't. It's just literally giving her her

903
01:02:43,719 --> 01:02:47,360
stuff and having her come to a point of being

904
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:52,119
able to actually grieve like a fuck all the way off, Louita,

905
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,400
the girl was sobbing, clutching onto the changeling woman while

906
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,000
she held the stuffed pink rabbit. And I love that

907
01:02:59,039 --> 01:03:01,280
the changelings have take in the form of gnomes, just

908
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:05,000
to like make her feel more comfortable. That was the

909
01:03:05,039 --> 01:03:08,800
moment right then. I'd been toying around with an idea,

910
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:13,159
but I dismissed it as too risky too soon. That

911
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:17,519
was the moment I changed my mind. So I am

912
01:03:18,239 --> 01:03:20,920
dying to know what that is, and I'm gonna get

913
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:26,119
to find out very very shortly. Yay, all right, everybody.

914
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,159
I'm very sorry that the camera did what it did,

915
01:03:29,239 --> 01:03:32,960
because it seems to have never come back, but I'm

916
01:03:33,039 --> 01:03:36,320
really really looking forward to reading more. I'll be doing

917
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:39,159
that tonight, and it's a shame that I can't record

918
01:03:39,159 --> 01:03:41,679
again until Tuesday. I'm gonna have to wait over the

919
01:03:41,679 --> 01:03:45,000
weekend and that's always hard, but I will be seeing

920
01:03:45,039 --> 01:04:17,800
you again, So until then, to the loom, motherfuckers. That

921
01:04:18,039 --> 01:04:20,199
was an unspoiled network past