Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book five The Butcher's Masquerade Chapter
Speaker 1: thirty eight from last time. Since I didn't quite have
Speaker 1: time through forty five, got a lot of coverage to
Speaker 1: do today. In these chapters, we returned to the convention,
Speaker 1: which does not go as expected, and I'm kind of
Speaker 1: wondering if there's more of a problem with what Carl
Speaker 1: did than we even know, and just a lot of
Speaker 1: surprise dinosaur plot lines. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: to Jackie for commissioning this episode. I just really want
Speaker 1: to get through chapter thirty eight since I wasn't able
Speaker 1: to cover that last time. But like I said, this
Speaker 1: was already going to be a pretty packed section without
Speaker 1: me also having to talk about a previous sections chapter,
Speaker 1: So forgive me, everybody, I'm out here doing my best.
Speaker 1: So chapter thirty eight, we're dealing with this creature that
Speaker 1: Carl is like trying to take advantage of. And I
Speaker 1: say that not in the way that it's like this
Speaker 1: is unethical exactly, because I think this is fair enough.
Speaker 1: But I could see other people feeling this way, and
Speaker 1: it is. What he's trying to do is get as
Speaker 1: much of the gear from the hive as he can
Speaker 1: in exchange for rescuing Edict, who is one of the
Speaker 1: mantises and he's the only remaining male and therefore the
Speaker 1: only choice for Vra to mate with if she wants
Speaker 1: to get rid of this this venereal disease, so to speak,
Speaker 1: this enthusiastic double gone rhea. And what it comes down
Speaker 1: to here is that Carl suspects that there is some
Speaker 1: sort of trap, but he's not really suspecting in the
Speaker 1: right direction. Like I think that you know his instinct
Speaker 1: here and the way he's responding it makes total sense.
Speaker 1: But once you actually know what's going on, it's sort
Speaker 1: of there was a sort of trap in that there
Speaker 1: was a plan in place, but it was not at
Speaker 1: Carl's expense exactly. So what it turns out to be
Speaker 1: is that there are a bunch of weird reasons that one,
Speaker 1: this dude can't hand over his gear because there's like
Speaker 1: a party that is going to be there's already like
Speaker 1: a contract signed, and if he does give it to Carl,
Speaker 1: then he winds up his family is going to be
Speaker 1: responsible for it. There's also a reason why he can't
Speaker 1: meete with ra outside of just the fact that it
Speaker 1: would he would be killed because of being a mantis,
Speaker 1: never mind suffering this fucking gonna rhea thing. But he's
Speaker 1: like not allowed to without certain permissions, and so so
Speaker 1: that could potentially be something that winds up biting him
Speaker 1: in the ass later on as well. And so what
Speaker 1: he has come up with is because the only like
Speaker 1: suitable death for me is death in battle, I propose.
Speaker 1: And then he goes after Carl and gets transported somewhere
Speaker 1: else where it will be into the nest of a mob.
Speaker 1: And it's like a kind of I'm not sure, guys
Speaker 1: about this, and I'm really wondering how you feel about
Speaker 1: it what happens because he's teleported naked, right, which I
Speaker 1: guess just means like, not only are you stripped of
Speaker 1: everything that you're actively wearing, but your entire in is
Speaker 1: also stripped. So I don't know if this would like
Speaker 1: count against things. I'm not sure if this guy is
Speaker 1: aware that he'll be stripped naked if he is sent somewhere.
Speaker 1: I have to assume he knows, Like you know, he's
Speaker 1: part of a hive that professionally is fighting in this
Speaker 1: thing in the crawl all the time. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and assume that, like, yeah, he fully knows
Speaker 1: what's going to happen to him. And I don't know
Speaker 1: whether or not the stripping of the stuff that winds
Speaker 1: up in Carl's hands anyway is a violation of this
Speaker 1: like contract or I have to assume it isn't, and
Speaker 1: this is why it's like the only option, or maybe
Speaker 1: it's a loophole sort of, but anyway, So I I
Speaker 1: really like this as like the choice that he ends
Speaker 1: up making. The weirdness of the regulations surrounding who can
Speaker 1: mate with who is odd as well, because it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, as a male, he's going to get killed
Speaker 1: mating either way, and evidently there's a psychological counseling that
Speaker 1: happens if you are a male because of the fact
Speaker 1: that you will be aware your life is going to
Speaker 1: be gone shortly, you know. So I just thought this
Speaker 1: was a pretty solid plan here, and like they wind
Speaker 1: up with a ton as soon as he gets yanked away,
Speaker 1: there's all there's so much gold that pours out of
Speaker 1: him that he creates a sort of tidle wave that
Speaker 1: Dona and Carl have to close the door quickly enough
Speaker 1: that they aren't even able to grab it all, which
Speaker 1: Donah is deeply regretful of later on, and it's just like,
Speaker 1: come on, you could have gotten the rest of that.
Speaker 1: What the hell? And I can't help but agree, but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very donut codd, I guess one could
Speaker 1: say so. So, yeah, that's chapter thirty eight. And then
Speaker 1: when we're in chapter thirty nine, we've been avoiding the
Speaker 1: Dryad settlements because half the tree guys now attacked me
Speaker 1: on site, and I just learned the hard way that
Speaker 1: if the mayor happened to worship Duwata, he'd immediately task
Speaker 1: the funeral bellguards to attack me too. And there's also
Speaker 1: these monkeys, and you know the whole thing. Dona is
Speaker 1: saying that she feels a little bad for the guy,
Speaker 1: and Karl is unable to muster much sympathy. And I
Speaker 1: believed him when he said he didn't want to be
Speaker 1: there and that he hated the way the universe worked.
Speaker 1: Despite everything that was happening to me in our planet,
Speaker 1: I thought he was wrong. It was stupid to let
Speaker 1: it bother me. I heard my dad's voice scolding me.
Speaker 1: Why do you care, He'd said to me one day
Speaker 1: when he caught me watching the news. Knowing all that
Speaker 1: stuff wroughts you from the inside out, it doesn't affect
Speaker 1: people like us. And this is one of those things
Speaker 1: that it's such a it's so very touchy right now,
Speaker 1: and it should be. But you guys, like the thing
Speaker 1: that I have been having such a hard time with
Speaker 1: is managing my own desire to know what's going on
Speaker 1: with my mental health as so many of us are
Speaker 1: running into, you know, and his father's attitude here is
Speaker 1: very different. I want to emphasize from what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: which is simply that like, yes, I acknowledge that there
Speaker 1: is a toll on my mental health, but I also
Speaker 1: feel a certain responsibility. His father is much more like
Speaker 1: it it has nothing to do with you, because other
Speaker 1: people and what happens to them ultimately is only about
Speaker 1: them and never could like we are safe from it.
Speaker 1: And so there's not only a lack of empathy there,
Speaker 1: but a really intense individualism and like trying I would
Speaker 1: call this like kind of burying your head in the sand,
Speaker 1: pretending that you're totally safe from something. But the thing
Speaker 1: is burying your head in the sand. When I say that,
Speaker 1: it suggests that you're trying to hide from a fact
Speaker 1: that you kind of know is there. And I really
Speaker 1: don't know that his father knows it's there. I think
Speaker 1: his father's lack of empathy really does translate to him
Speaker 1: fundamentally not believing that things will affect them. I think
Speaker 1: that there's a certain, like genuine quality to what he
Speaker 1: is saying, because he is so sure it's not burying
Speaker 1: your head in the sand if you really believe it,
Speaker 1: and I think he really believes it, And it's infuriating
Speaker 1: because living during the time that we are currently living
Speaker 1: through the whole it could never happen to me. I'm
Speaker 1: safe from an attitude is what has gotten us into
Speaker 1: this whole mess to begin with. Like, make no mistake,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know it's you've got to like I
Speaker 1: think there is to a degree a point where you
Speaker 1: need to draw the line and be like, I don't
Speaker 1: need to know any more than I know now about
Speaker 1: some things that I genuinely can't change. And I do
Speaker 1: think that there are some things knowing and being unable
Speaker 1: to do anything about them I don't think it's helpful
Speaker 1: to you. I don't think that the people involved would
Speaker 1: feel better about somebody knowing about it who can't do anything,
Speaker 1: Like there's a certain urge to want to bear witness
Speaker 1: to things to simply you know, And I understand that.
Speaker 1: But we have so different a relationship with the news
Speaker 1: than we did before. When Carl was younger and watching
Speaker 1: the news, he wasn't scrolling his phone, he wasn't interacting
Speaker 1: with people in comments. He was looking at a television
Speaker 1: getting news from that. And only that It's a lot
Speaker 1: easier to dodge the news when it comes from like
Speaker 1: two places, the TV and newspapers, maybe the radio. But
Speaker 1: now it is part of the way that we entertain
Speaker 1: ourselves as well a lot of the time. So I
Speaker 1: feel like we've got to be even more vigilant now
Speaker 1: about even in our downtime we are going to be
Speaker 1: getting hints of this like seeping in or outright. We
Speaker 1: spend all our downtime actively engaging with it. And is
Speaker 1: that beneficial? Is it helping? You know? And when you
Speaker 1: ask helping, who good question? Who do you want to
Speaker 1: be helping? What do you feel you're accomplishing? And is
Speaker 1: it worth what it's costing you, like on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: and sometimes yes, it's worth it. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: suggest that the answer is always like, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: I am saying that you need to ask yourself that.
Speaker 1: And I have caught myself a few times about to
Speaker 1: engage in an argument with somebody that when I stop
Speaker 1: and think about it, I'm like, I don't even know
Speaker 1: that this is a real person, and they are operating
Speaker 1: here in such bad faith that even if they are
Speaker 1: a real person, my reply to them will not change
Speaker 1: anything about what they think. And even if it would,
Speaker 1: I would frustrate myself so deeply and become so angry.
Speaker 1: It's not worthwhile because I would half of my day
Speaker 1: would get sucked into this argument. And I've had to
Speaker 1: be so much more careful about it. But it's uh
Speaker 1: improved my life. I feel stopping and asking myself that question.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm sorry, I just saw Michael. What is
Speaker 1: fucked up is that people in charge have gotten really
Speaker 1: good at weaponizing the news, especially via entertainment news like Fox,
Speaker 1: and creating a constant bubbling fear that slowly radicalizes people. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's you know, the whole way that this that capitalism
Speaker 1: has changed in relationship to our interaction with social media,
Speaker 1: and with internet views and advertising being necessary for things
Speaker 1: to survive, it has created this weird bubble where the
Speaker 1: only way for places to employ people is to generate
Speaker 1: ad revenue, which means you have to go to their site,
Speaker 1: which means they have to write articles that draw you,
Speaker 1: which means that they have to be pretty shocking headlines,
Speaker 1: which means things are often taken out of context, which
Speaker 1: means that maybe if we're making money from the ads,
Speaker 1: maybe we don't need to employ people now, maybe we
Speaker 1: can just have AI do it. And then you're getting
Speaker 1: giving them money for viewing something that wasn't even written
Speaker 1: by a person or fact checked or anything. And then
Speaker 1: it becomes what if the person kind of clicking the
Speaker 1: thing and going isn't an actual person either, and you're
Speaker 1: getting paid from the ad revenue from AI viewing your
Speaker 1: AI written article. And this is the bubble that is
Speaker 1: happening that is going to pop sooner or later. I
Speaker 1: hope sooner, because it's so unsustainable and so bizarre when
Speaker 1: you stop and think about it anyway, we uh, they're
Speaker 1: taking over a bunch of different settlements. They have to
Speaker 1: kill two mayors. Carl's trying to get in touch with
Speaker 1: his attorney and it's not working out. Eventually, he asks
Speaker 1: Zeb to do this on his behalf, and he asks Mordecai,
Speaker 1: and he replies that he's starting to feel obsolete because
Speaker 1: Carl's encountering a bunch of stuff that's literally never happened before.
Speaker 1: So Mordecai is like, I am, like, it's not that
Speaker 1: I don't know shit. I've been super helpful at times,
Speaker 1: I acknowledge, but like, ah, bringing me a lot of puzzlers, man.
Speaker 1: So he's also Carl is thinking about this whole thing
Speaker 1: with Lucia, and he's going through a bunch of the
Speaker 1: same questions that I was going through last time. I
Speaker 1: won't go over them again. You know what they are,
Speaker 1: but you know, not that much time was spent on
Speaker 1: it after that scene ended with them talking about what
Speaker 1: she could have meant. And I'm glad that he is
Speaker 1: just chewing that over because I would I would have
Speaker 1: really been like, what do you think was going on there?
Speaker 1: And talking to Donut about it, and it just you know,
Speaker 1: we don't actually see them theorizing or discussing this and
Speaker 1: a part of me really wonders why not, because I
Speaker 1: feel like this would be a huge topic of conversation.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's because they feel like
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to say certain things, or that maybe
Speaker 1: they won't get featured if they're in the midst of
Speaker 1: like a discussion about something regarding her, because like there's
Speaker 1: obviously a person influencing her, or she's cheating or whatever.
Speaker 1: But it's something that I have noticed that happens repeatedly
Speaker 1: in these books, is that a bonker's thing will happen
Speaker 1: that they don't have all the information on, and we
Speaker 1: don't really get people theorizing out loud about it or
Speaker 1: asking each other what do you think. It's almost always
Speaker 1: that we're relying solely on Carl's internal monologue and his
Speaker 1: own puzzling it out with the information that he has
Speaker 1: from now he's got the cookbook, but you know previously
Speaker 1: he didn't even have that, And I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I would definitely be like throwing ideas out there. It
Speaker 1: doesn't in the end matter that much, as he points out,
Speaker 1: because like she's hurting people, and she's clearly during that
Speaker 1: last fight kind of turned a corner and has decided, Okay,
Speaker 1: I just need to kill everybody, So yeah, bitch needs
Speaker 1: to be taken out. I'm not arguing that, but I
Speaker 1: am super curious exactly what the fuck is going on here,
Speaker 1: and I would be bringing this up a lot. I
Speaker 1: would in like a lot of my downtime, I'd be
Speaker 1: questioning it. So he also has this thing where he's
Speaker 1: like knows that Donut got lucky in surviving, but he
Speaker 1: wants to like say that to her delicately enough that
Speaker 1: she doesn't get upset, And every time they sort of
Speaker 1: steer toward that subject, she changes the subject so well
Speaker 1: and so deftly that he doesn't notice initially that it's happened,
Speaker 1: and he keeps trying to bring it back up, and
Speaker 1: finally he realizes she's steering the conversation away on purpose
Speaker 1: because she's fucking aware that she's lucky to be alive.
Speaker 1: She knows and does not require his you know, insight
Speaker 1: on this, because she's not an idiot. And I just
Speaker 1: really liked this moment. Every time that he starts to
Speaker 1: like underestimate her and then realizes, you know what, I
Speaker 1: got her fucked up. She's on this. It's nice, I
Speaker 1: approve of it. So then donut like she notices that
Speaker 1: the mongo's growling in the way that he does when
Speaker 1: he has smelled other dinosaurs. And they come across this
Speaker 1: town that weirdly seems empty from far away, and they're
Speaker 1: sort of like, oh boy, what's this now? And they
Speaker 1: send Samantha in to investigate. And Samantha had been super
Speaker 1: mad at Dona previously, but at this point has seemed
Speaker 1: to get over that. There's a mention here that she's
Speaker 1: rolling a lot faster than she used to. And there's
Speaker 1: a point later when they're talking about their plan where
Speaker 1: she turns up on the counter in the midst of
Speaker 1: the conversation and Carl has to take a second and
Speaker 1: be like, was she on that counter before? Has she
Speaker 1: figured out how to get up there? And just all
Speaker 1: of these little hints that this weird doll head is
Speaker 1: beginning to advance somehow to being more and more capable
Speaker 1: in a way that should probably be of concern, But
Speaker 1: as long as she's on their side, is maybe fine,
Speaker 1: you know, like question mark, I know depends, but uh,
Speaker 1: I will just say that I love how Samantha keeps
Speaker 1: insisting that, you know, if I were there, I would
Speaker 1: have killed the guy or I'm going to kill the guy.
Speaker 1: And she has never done anybody any damage that I
Speaker 1: know of, and like, I don't think it's ever happened,
Speaker 1: because she's made of silicone and even her fangs are soft,
Speaker 1: and like at one point, she's assuring them that she
Speaker 1: would have been able to take care of edicts, and
Speaker 1: they had just found her lodged under like a dead
Speaker 1: log somewhere. You know, she's so lacking in ability that
Speaker 1: she can't even get out from under a dead tree.
Speaker 1: And yet she's like, no problem, I would have absolutely
Speaker 1: smoked that guy. And I'm like, oh, sweetie, sure you
Speaker 1: would have. Okay, sure, why not? We'll go with that.
Speaker 1: So oh, I'm sorry U. Michael says, how dare you?
Speaker 1: She ripped that giant toad up from the inside? I
Speaker 1: forgot about that. Wasn't that really? Mostly mango? Though? What
Speaker 1: am I thinking of? Was it the toad that was
Speaker 1: at the four? Where was the toad that she ripped up?
Speaker 1: I don't remember it? Does it was all mango? Says Michael. Okay, God,
Speaker 1: the way that mam would like, uh huh okay, Michael says,
Speaker 1: that took credit for it. Amazing. I forgot about that,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael. So she comes out of this town
Speaker 1: and she is just covered in muck, and she tells
Speaker 1: them this town is full of dead people. It's really
Speaker 1: really bad. And you know, I've seen that there is
Speaker 1: a bear at least still alive that seems to be
Speaker 1: like hiding in one of the pubs. But that's the
Speaker 1: only person that's alive that I have seen. So they
Speaker 1: make their way in very cautiously, and the stench is
Speaker 1: so bad. There are all of these body parts all
Speaker 1: over the place. And the pub that they go to,
Speaker 1: they find a bear like a woman who is the
Speaker 1: wife of the proprietor, I guess, and she's there with
Speaker 1: her two sons and she's still hiding. Eventually, Carl gives
Speaker 1: them access to their personal space that they can go
Speaker 1: in there to hide, but they are very traumatized. Her
Speaker 1: husband's claw is still locked on the doorframe that he
Speaker 1: was standing in when he tried to keep himself from
Speaker 1: being yanked away and was apparently either pulled so hard
Speaker 1: or his wrist was chopped so that his claw like
Speaker 1: remains wrapped around it, and later it drops to the
Speaker 1: ground and begins scuttling out the door, which is the
Speaker 1: indication that some shit is happening now because the sun
Speaker 1: is going down. We will get there shortly. First we
Speaker 1: have to go to the convention and Carl gets whisked
Speaker 1: to to the production facility, and the way that he
Speaker 1: is treated is very, very different than the last time.
Speaker 1: There's no camaraderie. There's a feeling almost of like maybe
Speaker 1: somebody got wind of the fact that he made a
Speaker 1: deal with the guy, and so now they're giving Carl
Speaker 1: even less personal attention because they're trying to maintain tighter
Speaker 1: security with him or something. I don't know, maybe a
Speaker 1: person like spotted the fact that he looted a bunch
Speaker 1: more stuff than he should have been allowed to that like,
Speaker 1: access to his personal space was turned on far enough
Speaker 1: ahead of him leaving the the production facility that it's suspicious,
Speaker 1: you know, or it may just be coincidental, who knows,
Speaker 1: But regardless, he gets transported to see the the pop
Speaker 1: Off brothers in such a manner that he lands really
Speaker 1: hard like on his side and it's so just a
Speaker 1: you know, very undignified first meeting. So these guys are
Speaker 1: called Maxim and what is the other guy's name. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm trying to find their names here. I
Speaker 1: remembered Maxim because that one, for some reason, was like particular. Dimitri,
Speaker 1: that's the other one. So we don't get like the
Speaker 1: details about the way that this accidentally happened are revealed
Speaker 1: a little bit further on, because there's a kid at
Speaker 1: the convention who's asking, like, was it really an accident?
Speaker 1: Because I saw some clips of you guys before this
Speaker 1: all went down, and the two of you were very
Speaker 1: obsessed with a TV show about conjoined twins something like that.
Speaker 1: So this kid is like trying to suggest that they're
Speaker 1: living out a weird fantasy that they had about being conjoined,
Speaker 1: and it's just a bizarre assertion to make, and you know, like,
Speaker 1: what are you hoping to accomplish, your kid? And when
Speaker 1: they are like, shut the fuck up, dude and go away,
Speaker 1: he's like, so you won't deny it that kind of shit.
Speaker 1: But what we find out is that the guide that
Speaker 1: they had did not adequately informed them of the result
Speaker 1: of the class that they were picking or the race.
Speaker 1: The race, so they were simply told, this choice will
Speaker 1: give you a second life. If not the video if
Speaker 1: you are killed you will be regenerated and you will
Speaker 1: get another shot at things. And I just can't imagine
Speaker 1: being so completely misinformed that you wind up conjoined with
Speaker 1: your brother, Like I if I were their guide, I'd
Speaker 1: go into hiding. Like It's just it's either malicious intent
Speaker 1: or the most profound negligence. It's like I can't imagine
Speaker 1: either way. It's got to be one of those two.
Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, I wonder about this just another example
Speaker 1: about how like the person who who teaches you how
Speaker 1: things work is so instrumental in the choices you make,
Speaker 1: and you only have the information that they give you. You know,
Speaker 1: when they start this crawl, they don't get access to
Speaker 1: a fucking wiki about it. It's they're just fully dependent
Speaker 1: on their game guide. And even if they do get
Speaker 1: a second chance that they're at a life, they actually
Speaker 1: are like reborn as these weird toddlers, and they grow
Speaker 1: quickly evidently, but like, it's not it makes it sound
Speaker 1: like a cockroach ability, like what Doughnut has, Like it
Speaker 1: was described to them that way. But then we find
Speaker 1: this out, So there's even a question regarding like, okay,
Speaker 1: is the second life worthwhile? Are you actually going to
Speaker 1: do anything with because if you are that vulnerable, then
Speaker 1: you might just die a few minutes later than you
Speaker 1: would have died. Anyway, how much of an advantage is
Speaker 1: it really, which there's you know, we don't know exactly
Speaker 1: how this ability works. So if it's like you're reborn immediately,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's not what you want, because you're
Speaker 1: reborn probably in the midst of a battle or something.
Speaker 1: But if you're reborn like a few minutes afterwards, perhaps
Speaker 1: the creature that killed you or whatever it will have
Speaker 1: moved on and you'll be born in a place that
Speaker 1: is no longer occupied. That is something that's possible. I
Speaker 1: guess there's just a lot of like variables in there
Speaker 1: that we don't know about that make me wonder, Okay,
Speaker 1: how how worth it would this even be? And I
Speaker 1: doubt they were given any of those details either. Anyway,
Speaker 1: these guys are delightful. One of them is like a
Speaker 1: melee fighter and the other one is a magic user.
Speaker 1: They have this meteor hammer a flaming ball at the
Speaker 1: end of a chain, and Carl thinks something like, I'm
Speaker 1: glad I don't have to face them down that they've
Speaker 1: been described as the nice guys to me because they
Speaker 1: seem pretty fucking badass, and I wouldn't like to be
Speaker 1: on the receiving end of any of this. And they
Speaker 1: have this conversation here Dmitri really wanted to meet the cat.
Speaker 1: He wanted to meet Donut so bad. It's super disappointed
Speaker 1: that she's not here. And then we find out that
Speaker 1: they weren't allowed to have a pet growing up, and
Speaker 1: Dmitri had just gotten a cat the day before the
Speaker 1: collapse and is super sad about it. His name was
Speaker 1: Captain Whiskers and he was orange, so you know, he
Speaker 1: was a real dummy, and I was sad on his
Speaker 1: behalf for this one. I really was like, that sucks.
Speaker 1: What a bummer? So sorry. His name was Kepitin Whiskers
Speaker 1: with ka Kepitin. So this is when Zev turns up
Speaker 1: with Skindle, who is their representative, and there's a moment here,
Speaker 1: like Zev had said before they are before Carl's transported,
Speaker 1: there's something I want to talk with you about in person,
Speaker 1: And when the two of them arrive, Carl's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you wanted to talk to me about something, and she
Speaker 1: sort of like looks over at Skindle and is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about your new sponsor,
Speaker 1: And I can't help but feel like that glance indicates
Speaker 1: that wasn't what she wanted to talk to him about
Speaker 1: it originally. Right. It's really feeling for me like she's signaling, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't actually talk to you about it after all,
Speaker 1: because she's here, so she has something else locked and
Speaker 1: loaded to talk with him about. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe not, or maybe there's something that she wanted to
Speaker 1: warn him about regarding this sponsor that she can't I
Speaker 1: don't know. Feels like something though. Why would she give
Speaker 1: like skindle a glance when this should be perfectly ordinary
Speaker 1: information to share? Ah? Feels like something. So anyway, she
Speaker 1: says there was a delay in the announcement because the
Speaker 1: first sponsor who won the bidding war ended up unable
Speaker 1: to pay. I am so curious who that is, you guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like Zev claims, she doesn't even know
Speaker 1: that it's basically above her pay grade, and I believe her.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to bet she doesn't know. But I don't
Speaker 1: know friends who out there would do this and not
Speaker 1: be able to pay. I am kind of feeling like
Speaker 1: it could be even somebody like be you know, like
Speaker 1: that she would be all cut up in guilt and
Speaker 1: would want to help Carl and then would try and
Speaker 1: be his sponsor, not understanding really like the extent of
Speaker 1: what it would take, and then they would find out
Speaker 1: that she like couldn't pull it off or something because otherwise,
Speaker 1: like how does you know I'm just being unable to pay?
Speaker 1: It just feels like this is somebody with no experience,
Speaker 1: and so who who does that leave? And it could
Speaker 1: certainly be somebody that we've never even met, but that
Speaker 1: was the person that occurred to me, is Okay, she's
Speaker 1: like outside of the crawl itself, but connected enough to
Speaker 1: Carl to want to do something, but also whacking in resource,
Speaker 1: you know. So anyway, it turns out that his sponsor
Speaker 1: is one of the Plenty, and I just the plenty
Speaker 1: are just so strange and the fact that they, like
Speaker 1: there was a caprit involved with whatever was going on
Speaker 1: with Maggie my and now he's got one as a sponsor.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is like an elaborate setup
Speaker 1: or if there are different factions of the Plenty that
Speaker 1: are in opposition to each other, you know, like I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it's a It was very surprising to me,
Speaker 1: and I was very glad that Carl brings up the
Speaker 1: whole thing with Maggie later. It's clearly on his mind
Speaker 1: as well that this seems weird.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: He they have to go and do this signing thing, uh,
Speaker 1: And there are photos to choose from. People can choose
Speaker 1: either the Pafa brothers, either Carl, or a photo of
Speaker 1: the two of them together. And there are a bunch
Speaker 1: of people like dressed like Carl here in you know,
Speaker 1: the weird like cape boxer combo. The whole thing is
Speaker 1: just very surreal for him. And if it were Donut
Speaker 1: here and people were causeplaying his Donut, she would just
Speaker 1: be delighted as long as they were paying her a
Speaker 1: compliment in the way they pulled it off. But Carl
Speaker 1: just sees this as profoundly fucked up, which it is,
Speaker 1: and probably Donut would also understand that it was fucked up.
Speaker 1: But I think that her, overall, her ego would win out,
Speaker 1: you know, and the whole the interview with Bee apparently
Speaker 1: aired the night before this event, so it's on everybody's mind,
Speaker 1: and Carl winds up having to field a bunch of
Speaker 1: questions about it and starts to get very very tired
Speaker 1: of it, understandably. And there's also talk about Vra and
Speaker 1: what she's going to do now that this last mantis
Speaker 1: is dead, and people are thinking like, is she going
Speaker 1: to cut the infection away? Because then she can't be
Speaker 1: hive queen like you know, and let's see, I simply replied,
Speaker 1: if it were a comment about be Dona was doing fine,
Speaker 1: everything that needed to be said was said during the interview.
Speaker 1: So there's also there were a pair of Cicccathians who
Speaker 1: hied themselves together and were pretending to be the pop offs.
Speaker 1: The two bickered so much they ended up dislodging from
Speaker 1: one another. I thought that was pretty funny. Dimitri and
Speaker 1: Maxim did not, which I'm sure they didn't find. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they fight so much that they wish they
Speaker 1: could get away from each other all the time, and
Speaker 1: here are these people who can actually do that, And
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's like, oh, t he's so funny, and
Speaker 1: they're like, do you know how much we would fucking
Speaker 1: give to be able to do that. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: they didn't find it funny. So then comes a creature
Speaker 1: named Jennifer. She walked carefully and slowly up the podium
Speaker 1: like she had an issue with one of her legs.
Speaker 1: Other than that, she looked like a regular brunette human woman,
Speaker 1: maybe in her forties. Her name was Jennifer. She had
Speaker 1: the word premium after her name, with little spinning star,
Speaker 1: which meant she'd paid for this spot. Effects slid a
Speaker 1: picture in front of me to sign her Premium pass
Speaker 1: came with two free pictures and a photo, but she
Speaker 1: had only wanted one. It depicted me and Dona in
Speaker 1: the drop Bear biplane as it was chased by Orthris
Speaker 1: the giant puppy. And apparently this name is super common everywhere, Jennifer,
Speaker 1: which I find. My mother's name is Jennifer. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's probably the most common women's name out there.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's I'm sure it's not the most, but
Speaker 1: it's got to be in the top five. Right versions
Speaker 1: of it as well, different spellings. And she's got this
Speaker 1: shirt on the Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels,
Speaker 1: but the word Cocker Spaniels has a line through it,
Speaker 1: and then above it there's a picture of a dog
Speaker 1: with an X flashing over it, and when Carl asks
Speaker 1: about it, outa says the word cocker spaniel. This tentacle
Speaker 1: thing comes out and begins to beat the shit out
Speaker 1: of her head. A little mouth opened up on the
Speaker 1: tentacle and started growling and salivating, oozing thick saliva over
Speaker 1: the woman's head. The tentacle had a spot of long
Speaker 1: blonde hair at the very tip, held together with a bow,
Speaker 1: making the thing look like a fucked up Yorkshire terrier.
Speaker 1: It quivered with anger. I have no idea what the
Speaker 1: fuck is going on here? And when he calls it
Speaker 1: a parasite, she gets really, really angry. She gets angry.
Speaker 1: When someone says the sea word, she gets so mad
Speaker 1: she runs away. I say, I'm not going to chase you,
Speaker 1: you little monster, but I do every time. And I've
Speaker 1: got to mention once again the delivery of this by
Speaker 1: the audiobook narrator, who makes this whole conversation feel very
Speaker 1: horrifying with the kind of breathlessness that he gives this character.
Speaker 1: It's really weird. The society is real. We used money
Speaker 1: from our fund to purchase a premium pass so I
Speaker 1: could come and give you a message. I am the
Speaker 1: president of the Princess Posse Inner System number forty three.
Speaker 1: The syndicate brings a select sampling of unique flora and
Speaker 1: fauna to a compatible biome in order to preserve a
Speaker 1: sampling of the lost biology. Multiple canine variations are on
Speaker 1: this list, including the C word. I would like for
Speaker 1: you to tell Princess Dona that, as she suggested, we
Speaker 1: have filed a lawsuit to pretend prevent this from happening.
Speaker 1: And he says, as she suggested, And as soon as
Speaker 1: he asks how many donations have you brought in? FX
Speaker 1: comes over and is like, I didn't see your CYNDI
Speaker 1: out your premium pass gets a photo, but not for
Speaker 1: two And I wondered if this was like a strategic
Speaker 1: cutting off of the converse or you know. And you
Speaker 1: guys know that I had been suspicious of the fact
Speaker 1: that it seemed Carl was meant to meet somebody here.
Speaker 1: It felt like that was what zeb was saying about
Speaker 1: staying behind a little bit later. And as things go,
Speaker 1: Carl gets transported out of there early, which makes me
Speaker 1: wonder if he fucked something up. Is this the person
Speaker 1: he was meant to meet? I am assuming that the
Speaker 1: money that Dona is saying they're raising for the eradication
Speaker 1: is actually going towards something very other. That's like, I
Speaker 1: think that she's putting this face on it because it's
Speaker 1: making it seem very petty and frivolous, and so nobody
Speaker 1: will pay much attention. But I think it's probably not
Speaker 1: for what it looks like, and it's just you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's for exactly what it looks like, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. Man just doesn't. So then here comes the
Speaker 1: Naga and he is standing in line and he is
Speaker 1: really obviously upset and wants to talk to Carl, but
Speaker 1: is being forced to wait while they announce his new
Speaker 1: uh what do you call it, his new sponsor. With
Speaker 1: the new sponsorship, he's been awarded a gold benefactor box
Speaker 1: which he will open upon the return to the dungeon,
Speaker 1: which eventually we get there, and it's a bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff for dealing with vampires. So this is when the
Speaker 1: Naga shoves through and Carl recognizes him and is like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're the one that Odette scooped, that's why you're so mad,
Speaker 1: And the Naga is insisting that Carl is cheating, which like,
Speaker 1: I don't really know if that's technically true. We know
Speaker 1: he's getting a bunch of information via the cookbook that
Speaker 1: many people would prefer he didn't have, But the cookbook
Speaker 1: is literally presented to him as part of the game.
Speaker 1: This is not something that is outside of the functionality
Speaker 1: of the game itself. So I think that's not cheating.
Speaker 1: I think he has access to a game approved resource
Speaker 1: that simply is invisible, and so it seems like he
Speaker 1: must be cheating. But I wouldn't consider that actually cheating.
Speaker 1: And the Naga just keeps insisting I know that you are.
Speaker 1: I'll find out a way to prove it to everybody.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 1: I will reveal it to the universe. And Carl's like, dude,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of people trying to kill me that
Speaker 1: you guys are like behind are you kinda in like
Speaker 1: in a position? Why do you have to come in
Speaker 1: here and like yell at me about this? And then
Speaker 1: you should be mad at Odette, not me. ODEBTT is complicit.
Speaker 1: I will find the truth. You and your partner are cheating.
Speaker 1: You're receiving illegal help. Now, donut receiving illegal help may
Speaker 1: be happening. That might be valid. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: And then the timing of that interview with Odette is
Speaker 1: pretty damn suspicious. Don't you think assisting in system sedition
Speaker 1: is a crime? I don't really get what it is
Speaker 1: he's suggesting here, and I don't get I get the
Speaker 1: impression Carl does, because he doesn't say, what the fuck
Speaker 1: are you talking about? He just just like, good luck? Now?
Speaker 1: Is it supposed to be the sedition of the Valte
Speaker 1: taking over the game and the timing of the interview
Speaker 1: being right before that happened? Is that what he's saying?
Speaker 1: I don't really understand, Like that doesn't seem like sedition
Speaker 1: to me, though. That seems like the Valte simply came
Speaker 1: out on top in a business transaction. I'm not getting
Speaker 1: the connection here, and I feel like I'm missing something.
Speaker 1: And finally, and there's this moment where uh, he like
Speaker 1: he flipped a long forked tongue and it pierced the
Speaker 1: illusion of my head and Carl says, you think you're safe?
Speaker 1: The Naga says, what do you think you can do?
Speaker 1: And like we just had it established that Carl is
Speaker 1: not actually there, but the magical Sharpie is somehow managing
Speaker 1: to reach wherever it is that these people are gathered
Speaker 1: for the convention. So he uses that and shoves it
Speaker 1: into this thing's neck and it breaks apart, but it
Speaker 1: does like part of it sticking out of its neck,
Speaker 1: and there's blood all over the place. And then suddenly
Speaker 1: the lights go up, and Maxim says, in Bulgaria, much
Speaker 1: of the media is not trusted, but at least they
Speaker 1: pretend to be impartial. I don't think this is the
Speaker 1: case with that guy. The United States doesn't pretend to
Speaker 1: be impartial, so we're like Bulgaria, I guess. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Carl just really decided to take this to eleven. And
Speaker 1: you know, most of the time I am delighted and
Speaker 1: surprised at the stuff that he decides to pull, but
Speaker 1: this is one of those moments where I was just like, Carl,
Speaker 1: what did you accomplish? Like, you know, it just felt
Speaker 1: so pointless to me. I don't know. So anyway, the
Speaker 1: pop off, others get let off, and he is left
Speaker 1: alone with the Nole guards and they're all very serious
Speaker 1: until Carl says something like, come on, you have to
Speaker 1: admit that was pretty awesome, and one of the guards
Speaker 1: just starts laughing and has to be yelled at. And
Speaker 1: this is when zeb turns up and is like, he
Speaker 1: is going to charge you with assault. He's gonna press charges,
Speaker 1: and we get a description of the way that being
Speaker 1: imprisoned works here in this universe, which I am not
Speaker 1: going to get into fully, but suffice to say it's
Speaker 1: really really similar to how prisons in the United States work,
Speaker 1: where you are used as free labor by corporations, businesses,
Speaker 1: whatever for the duration of your sentence, and then you
Speaker 1: are released and none of that often counts towards like
Speaker 1: job experience, or the same business that use your free
Speaker 1: labor won't hire you because you're a former convict. You know,
Speaker 1: there's like so much to that, and technically it's not
Speaker 1: considered slavery because the way that our laws are written,
Speaker 1: we make it so that slavery is legal actually if
Speaker 1: you are a prisoner. And the reaction that she has
Speaker 1: when Karla is like people are okay with that, she
Speaker 1: just says they're criminals, which is exactly what everybody says
Speaker 1: when you try to talk about like justice within the
Speaker 1: prison system. And you know, we have so many privatized
Speaker 1: prisons in the United States, but people just see if
Speaker 1: you are in jail that you must have done something
Speaker 1: to deserve to be there, and therefore you don't deserve
Speaker 1: any protections, any rights, any anything, and it is so frustrating.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he asks if he can buy out his
Speaker 1: own warrant, you know, all of this stuff. In the end, though,
Speaker 1: what it comes down to for him is just I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I'm gonna make it out of
Speaker 1: the dungeons, So I'm not even going to worry about
Speaker 1: this as something that's so unlikely to even happen. I
Speaker 1: just don't need to think about it, which I fully
Speaker 1: agree with. And she says it is a naga. His
Speaker 1: brother is married into the Blood Seltanate. He wants you
Speaker 1: in Donut out of the dungeon before you get down there.
Speaker 1: He seems to think you're some sort of Antichrist figure
Speaker 1: sent from the heavens to bring about the apocalypse. You
Speaker 1: and Donut. It's a small but growing conspiracy amongst some populations.
Speaker 1: Most everyone else loves you too, And uh yeah, so
Speaker 1: they're QAnon, I guess, is what I'm hearing. You know.
Speaker 1: At this point, Carl thinks about like the Blood Sultanate thing,
Speaker 1: we'd have to make sure all of the members were
Speaker 1: dead before she'd be allowed to leave the floor. And
Speaker 1: while the nagas usually had their asses handed to them
Speaker 1: during the fighting, I now knew the royals themselves always
Speaker 1: made it to the end. Always getting to them was
Speaker 1: going to be a difficult, if not impossible task. So
Speaker 1: this knee hit guy thinks there's a way to physically
Speaker 1: harm those guys on the ninth floor. Zev's side, you
Speaker 1: might want to start worrying about surviving the sixth floor first.
Speaker 1: Carl so forty three. Donnut delighted at the fact that
Speaker 1: Dimitri wanted to meet her, and she also when he
Speaker 1: brings up this thing with the cocker spaniels, She's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've made a shirt. I've approved the design. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: they'll send one into the dungeon for you to wear.
Speaker 1: And like, I personally would be delighted. He does not
Speaker 1: want to advocate for the genocide of dogs, which I understand.
Speaker 1: She's like, not all dogs, but you know whatever, And
Speaker 1: you know, Mordecai is like, if you went to trial,
Speaker 1: I would love to see it. A death's trial was
Speaker 1: a farce. It was this whole production, and she pleaded
Speaker 1: down to a lesser charge just before they reached a verdict. Wait,
Speaker 1: you saw Adet's trial. It was when she was my manager.
Speaker 1: I testified against her. I am so curious. You guys,
Speaker 1: they don't ask questions. I am just I need a
Speaker 1: little bit more curiosity, and I do I want them.
Speaker 1: You know, he's offering this up and then immediately follows
Speaker 1: it with now open your boxes and get back out there.
Speaker 1: You can't say that and then just not follow it
Speaker 1: up with any explanation. I really really want to know
Speaker 1: what is it? What did she do? Testified against her?
Speaker 1: Like damn? Anyway, Okay, so they have been trying to
Speaker 1: get in touch with Prepotente and he has not been replying,
Speaker 1: and so they're not really sure what to make of that.
Speaker 1: Let's see the plenty give him a the patch for
Speaker 1: his jacket, and then the silver benefactor box from the apothecary.
Speaker 1: Let's see. I'm sorry, I don't know about this description.
Speaker 1: It sounds like the Ai is having a stroke and
Speaker 1: she's got this bracelet with purple gems, and so the
Speaker 1: lion fell in love with the lamb and it's in
Speaker 1: those alternating like upper and lower case. I'm actually quite
Speaker 1: fond of the twilight numbers. Of Twilight numbers Twilight novels. Sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: And there's a long thing about just how like weird
Speaker 1: we are about really young protagonists in stuff, and that
Speaker 1: it's like a misguided trend, which I fully agree on.
Speaker 1: And this bracelet imbused the following effects protection against vamporism,
Speaker 1: protection against lecanthropy plus twenty five percent magical damage against
Speaker 1: all sapient un dead, and Donah says the description doesn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with the item and is very
Speaker 1: happy that it's purple. The description on his patch this
Speaker 1: the midnight Epicure, the catbird who devours the sky, This
Speaker 1: scary ass fable is used to terrify children across the universe.
Speaker 1: Protection against vamporism, protection against leacanthropy plus twenty five percent
Speaker 1: magical damage against all sapient undead. And they basically do
Speaker 1: the exact same thing as each other, except his as
Speaker 1: a fleeting item in hers is so understandably. Donah is like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we haven't been able to get a hold
Speaker 1: of them. Does this mean that we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: fight like Miriam and Prepotente. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: And I was in complete agreement with her. And then
Speaker 1: the silver benefactor box is a post recipe and a
Speaker 1: drawing of Mongo, and he hands these things over to Mordecai,
Speaker 1: who nearly has a fucking heart attack. And it's a
Speaker 1: recipe that he's been trying to figure out and hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to and once he's like reading it and
Speaker 1: sees the way that it works, he's like, oh, that
Speaker 1: makes so much sense. I was really close. And he's
Speaker 1: got all the ingredients except for one, and they can
Speaker 1: get that. And it turns out this is Mongo's blood
Speaker 1: and the potion is charm Animal, which I'm assuming they
Speaker 1: would like to use on Big Tina. Now, Donut puts
Speaker 1: up a big fight about getting his blood, but they're
Speaker 1: able to like concoct something that will put him to
Speaker 1: sleep and then they can give him a healing potion.
Speaker 1: It'll be fine. But she is very uncomfortable with the
Speaker 1: fact that he won't know what happened to him, but
Speaker 1: she will, and she feels like she's breaking his trust.
Speaker 1: And I actually really understand where she's coming from on this.
Speaker 1: I think that we're Mango sapient and were they able
Speaker 1: to have a conversation, Mango would volunteer his blood and
Speaker 1: be totally fine with it, but that's not the point,
Speaker 1: you know. And I get why she feels this way,
Speaker 1: and I have often felt this way with the dogs
Speaker 1: and stuff, where I have to kind of like trick
Speaker 1: them into doing a thing, and I feel like really shitty,
Speaker 1: but also, you know, you gotta do what you gotta do. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: This is when they get a message from Miriam and
Speaker 1: she explains that I've been asking for help. Nobody would
Speaker 1: get involved. I tried to message you and it wouldn't
Speaker 1: go through. And when Carl looks, he realizes, oh, I
Speaker 1: see the word elite is in the keywords, which means
Speaker 1: like a lot of people were understandably not wanting to
Speaker 1: get involved. And he can't get involved if an elite
Speaker 1: is in the mix either because of like the contract thing.
Speaker 1: But Miriam is like, no, no, no, the elite is dead.
Speaker 1: Pony managed to kill him, but he's paralyzed for fifteen hours,
Speaker 1: and I am stuck in place because if I move
Speaker 1: and shatter any part of him, that will make his
Speaker 1: entire body break apart and he'll die. And it has
Speaker 1: been two days and the dark is going is returning,
Speaker 1: and the dinosaurs are going to come out, and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be able to keep us safe. She
Speaker 1: manages to stay alive through the sunlight with revived spell
Speaker 1: and blood potions over and over, but she like one
Speaker 1: more day and I'm toast, like I won't be able
Speaker 1: to make it through another one. So, you know, I
Speaker 1: am in the same camp as Mordecai partially here where
Speaker 1: his instant response is like, okay, but she's a vampire
Speaker 1: and you just got a load of anti vampire gear.
Speaker 1: Do you think that maybe the fact that this is
Speaker 1: happening might be a trap or an indication that you
Speaker 1: shouldn't get involved? Actually, and like, you know, I appreciated
Speaker 1: that he said it, at least because Carl doesn't even
Speaker 1: say it. Nobody says out loud that connection. And I
Speaker 1: was sort of like, am I fucking am I crazy?
Speaker 1: Like why is nobody addressing this? And uh, what it
Speaker 1: comes down to is they're not addressing it because even
Speaker 1: if that's true, she saved their lives and they feel
Speaker 1: they owe her, and that's just all there fucking is
Speaker 1: to it. I'll be honest to a point, I respect
Speaker 1: the hell out of that. You know, I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at it, but I did want to at least acknowledge
Speaker 1: for God's sake. So anyway, they are going to head
Speaker 1: out and help her. They figure out, you know, a
Speaker 1: plan to get through, and they have to stop at
Speaker 1: a couple dryad settlements, which is bad for Carl and
Speaker 1: he's just like, Ah, this is gonna fucking suck. And
Speaker 1: Samantha wants to come with them, but he says, you're
Speaker 1: staying back this time. And I don't know why that is.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like why he doesn't want to bring her,
Speaker 1: but you know, she's been very useful before, and I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like maybe he should just let her come.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was curious about that. And this
Speaker 1: is when Mordecai is like, hold on a second, hold on,
Speaker 1: and he comes out with two potion balls that are
Speaker 1: holy water mixed with a healing potion and air activated coagulant.
Speaker 1: Embres is a light based god. The water from the
Speaker 1: shrine combined with a healing potion and the coagulant acts
Speaker 1: like napalm to vampires. Hit him with this and then
Speaker 1: have Donut Max out her torch spell. Any vampire will
Speaker 1: be turned to dryerland. So this is when they head
Speaker 1: out and encounter the U, the Bear, and her two children,
Speaker 1: and they talk through everything with her that's going on,
Speaker 1: and it's like the exact story of Footloose. And as
Speaker 1: she's like telling this story, her little kids are chiming
Speaker 1: in with like the fucking brainwashing sinners get what they deserve,
Speaker 1: the judgment of the gods, like it's it's very much giving,
Speaker 1: like Ned Flanders and his kids. And the little girl
Speaker 1: who was going to defy the anti dancing rules was Tina,
Speaker 1: and she's the only child who turned, and they believe
Speaker 1: that it's because she was flying in the face of
Speaker 1: the rules. Let's see, she has lost all of her faith.
Speaker 1: While she kills everyone she meets, she actually actively hunts Erstine.
Speaker 1: Her mother survives, along with several of the other mothers,
Speaker 1: but they are in the form of dinosaurs like your Companion.
Speaker 1: They are vicious and they also kill, but they're not
Speaker 1: as deranged. And Tina is stronger than ever and the
Speaker 1: others can't stop her. And Kiwi is her mom and
Speaker 1: that's the one that banged Mango, So now they have
Speaker 1: a mission to deal with Tina. And he's sort of like, well,
Speaker 1: we have to kill her, and Doughnuts like, no, we don't.
Speaker 1: We need to like give her what she wants. They
Speaker 1: are they're, you know, they're thinking maybe kill all the
Speaker 1: er sign is what Carl says, and he's She's like, no,
Speaker 1: she wants to dance. We have to finish the recital.
Speaker 1: And he instantly is like, that's it. She's right, I completely,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. And then there's a noise
Speaker 1: and this is when they see the bare claw wiggle
Speaker 1: in its way out the damn door. And I'm once
Speaker 1: again out of time with like a whole other chapter
Speaker 1: to talk about, but I am going to try to
Speaker 1: wrap this up fairly quickly. Miriam inflicted vamporism on the dinosaurs,
Speaker 1: and what is happening is that they tear apart all
Speaker 1: of their victims into lots of pieces, and then wait
Speaker 1: as they slowly pull themselves together. And let's say, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find the the oh, they're so high glamoured
Speaker 1: fragment all together level forty two, twenty one point eight
Speaker 1: percent of the whole. This is a minion of Big Tina.
Speaker 1: They slaughtered people, ripping them into as many pieces as possible,
Speaker 1: and then they came back two days later and waited
Speaker 1: for them to reform. Each individual piece had a level,
Speaker 1: and if they reformed with the original, the levels got added.
Speaker 1: The pieces added together were going to be ridiculously powerful,
Speaker 1: way stronger than they were originally, which is bananas. That's
Speaker 1: a crazy hack. Calling it a hack is actually really funny.
Speaker 1: And he's like, I really want to go back in
Speaker 1: seye and just fucking hied from this. But this is
Speaker 1: evidently spread quite easily, and so this could be a
Speaker 1: complete game changer to this entire floor if we don't
Speaker 1: get it under control. Basically, they started something like we
Speaker 1: did with unleashing that puppy, where it's a result of
Speaker 1: some other thing that is now going to affect everybody.
Speaker 1: And so they flee and they drop some bombs behind
Speaker 1: them to hopefully break a bunch of the pieces up
Speaker 1: maybe stop them, but he thinks, probably just slow them down.
Speaker 1: And as they're in this like chariot and heading out,
Speaker 1: they get some messages from Gideon and Surrendel Gore and
Speaker 1: he's asking them, are you seeing like vampire animals around?
Speaker 1: Have you encountered these? I found a half genie, half
Speaker 1: owl vampire thing and surrender Gore. I haven't seen any
Speaker 1: reanimated body parts, but the drill beaks all disappeared almost overnight,
Speaker 1: and now they're vampires. It makes them twice as strong
Speaker 1: and super fast. You don't automatically get infected if they
Speaker 1: touch you. I think only if they injure you severely.
Speaker 1: If I cast ultraviolet on my flamethrower, they die quick,
Speaker 1: which is you know, the light makes sense. They talk
Speaker 1: about whether or not they're going to be able to
Speaker 1: go to the Butcher's Masquerade surrender. Gore is like potentially,
Speaker 1: but the other guy is like nope, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to, and Carl's sort of like, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's a trap. Probably best if you don't actually come.
Speaker 1: And then they enter the small dry ad settlement and
Speaker 1: they have to like bust through a bunch of people
Speaker 1: who are yelling apostate and YadA YadA. But where they're
Speaker 1: heading is a safe room, which means that everybody who
Speaker 1: tries to attack them here gets transported away, which I
Speaker 1: thought only applied to crawlers. I never thought about this
Speaker 1: actually happening with like the NPCs in a safe room,
Speaker 1: because I thought that the safe room proper was only
Speaker 1: accessed by like you know what I'm saying. I don't
Speaker 1: think I realized that a real safe room, safe room
Speaker 1: where you would actually be explicitly protected, was somewhere that
Speaker 1: NPCs also just hang out. I don't think that I
Speaker 1: was putting that together. I think I assumed that it
Speaker 1: was like within your personal spaces. I was not understanding this,
Speaker 1: and like it's book five, I should have known this,
Speaker 1: but I was not getting it. So so anyway, that
Speaker 1: is the end of chapter five, and I am really
Speaker 1: really curious, like because the whole charm animal thing, it
Speaker 1: seems like they're thinking they may have to make more
Speaker 1: than one, which I understand if you're dealing with more
Speaker 1: dinosaurs than just Tina. I'm wondering how well it'll work
Speaker 1: and how long it lasted. All of that, I guess
Speaker 1: we'll see. All right, friends, I gotta wrap up, but
Speaker 1: thank you again so much for listening, and I will
Speaker 1: see you next week with a new episode. Or actually no,
Speaker 1: I won't. Next week is Thanksgiving week, so I have
Speaker 1: that week off, but i'll be back the week after.
Speaker 1: Don't miss me too much until then.
Speaker 2: To the Loom, motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.