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

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covering Dungeon Crawler caral Book seven This Inevitable ruin chapters twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

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and fifteen. In these chapters, we have got some hanky

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panky going on behind the scenes. We already knew, but

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somebody really straight up tries to suicide bomb caral Wild

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and also skunk attack the Worst. Welcome to spoil Me,

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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you

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very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael's here

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in the chat telling me that Dungeon Crawler Car got

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picked up by Peacock, So, uh, I guess that's gonna

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be a thing. I am really here's my I'm just

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going to address this like just for a brief moment,

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and then I'm just gonna get out of it and

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go straight into the book. But my main concern any

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time that you are dealing with a storyline that is

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so anti capitalist is that it is going to be

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totally diluted and the messaging is going to be changed

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in such a way because it is making people uncomfortable

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and we have to like not give the prolls any

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fucking ideas. It's just, you know what I mean, that's

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something that I would be the most worried about, no

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matter who picks it up. I feel like that's something

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that tends to happen, and I hope that they don't

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make that mistake because I genuinely that's the point, you know. So,

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but it's certainly what happened in my opinion with the

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Hunger Games. I felt like they just the whole point

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was not what they focused on, and it was very

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frustrating to me. It was they It's just sort of

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the thing, though, is what appeals to the executives who

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want content is the flashy, bombastic story, and that is

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what they focus on adapting, and the actual like bones

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of it are way way less important than the spectacle,

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and so they fall into the very trap of the

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people in power in the property. So we'll see. But

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let's get this bitch rolling here, shall we. So reminder

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that the last chapter ended with Carl, you know, being

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really emotional, finding out about everybody who had arrived to

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fight on his side, and the folks who were authors

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of the cookbook, and then we start chapter twelve with

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krawler Ikecha. If I could only see him again. It

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would change everything. I am jealous. Those of you with community,

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with friends, with family my kind are castrated and cast

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out as such. I think my perspective is unique, so

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much different than the one who came before me York,

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who appears to have come from a hive, yet says

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he always felt alone his entire life. We are so different,

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but upon reading his words, I felt such kinship. I

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wonder did he survive. Those of you reading this, If

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you're ever free of this place, I pray you seek

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out the others who came before. It is a dream.

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Can you imagine? Together? There would be nothing. We couldn't

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do nothing. And the community aspect is like literally what

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has been keeping Carl going, you know this, looking around

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at his friends and realizing that he that there are

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people that he has really grown to care about. It's

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h like this is what drives people who have something

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that they can look around and be like, this feeds me.

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Are very lucky and not I don't enough folks have it,

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and I am not one at all, of course, with

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my job to say, like, the internet isn't real, but

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the internet does feed you in the same way that

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an in person community can feed you. They're very different things.

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And the support that he is getting here in the dungeon,

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it's really kind of awful to know that when in

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the before times, as he puts it, he was like

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so much more alone than he is now that things

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are so dire, And it's really how shit off and

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will go is. It's not until things get extremely bad

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that folks feel the need to band together, and it

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has to be going extremely badly for everyone for that

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to happen. There be times where it's the opposite, where

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if it's you only going through something really tough, then

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suddenly everyone disappears on you. I personally haven't really had

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that as something that like, you know, but I know

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enough people who have so Anyway, they're entering Princess Posse

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base camp and it says there's a red alert incursion

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into your territory. Enter the flag room to see the

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details and later on the fact that the AI handled

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it this way, their adjutant takes some It takes exception two.

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We'll get to this in a moment. The skeleton of

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a new building was in the process of being erected

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around the shop up a small hill. A second larger

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building stood it was stone, but I couldn't see how

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big it was. It also was encased in metal girders.

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Multiple workers crawled over both structures. They were boxing the

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safe room, men protecting it. It appeared they were expanding

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the size of the other structure up the hill connecting

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the two. And I just want to mention once again

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in light of the airship that Louis got and then

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this with like metal girders, and he just scribes like

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the smell of welding and burnt tar. Everybody has access

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to tools, abilities, and materials beyond what I was ever expecting.

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I really thought we were going to be dealing with

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a medieval style of warfare with magic, so it would

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be upgraded. It would definitely be more dangerous than actual

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medieval warfare. But this is different. It's very much feeling

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like we're not too far outside of what it would

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be like if we were actually to have battles in

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our own streets, you know, where there's like, if anything,

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they're being given more resources than we would probably have

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a lot of us. And this is when everybody spots

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Karl and they begin to have very strong reactions to

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both him and to Donut of course they spot Carl first.

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He's just very large. But there's this guy Penn, who's

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in level sixty two fortification engineer, And Carl looks around

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and realizes that like a lot of people have that one,

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and they all are at like a higher level. Everyone

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who's another class is still at sixty, but the engineers

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are leveling up because they've been doing so much let's see.

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Oh yeah, so this guy hugs him and gives him

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a kiss on each cheek, and I love donnu, Carl.

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Why does everyone kissing you all of a sudden. That's

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like the third person in an hour. You're going to

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get mono. Oh that's funny. Everybody begins to do this

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like hup sort of chant, which very much reminded me

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of like the three strong men from I think Family

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guy that like right around on a unicycle, or maybe

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there's just two of them, you guys don't talking about anyway.

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That's why I pictured here for a second. But uh,

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it's just a moment of everybody like thanking him in

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this way, and it is at first kind of weird

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and awkward, and then it becomes very powerful and inspiring,

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which is how that shit works. It feels very goofy

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at first, before you've really got rolling, and then all

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of a sudden there's something in it, you know, so

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we need to see the stronghold that I have to

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go back and help Rose that I don't have. Finally said,

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Tippid is walking them through the camp. Everybody's waving at them.

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We're getting a lot of information in these chapters about things,

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and I'm going to be totally honest with you all.

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I am not keeping a lot of this straight. I

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am in a weird position here. Felt like whenever I

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cover books the way that I do, I know a

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lot of folks won't have followed either that. There are

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plenty of people out there who also didn't really process everything,

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but the difference is that they don't have to explain it.

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They don't have to be on camera talking about whether

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or not they understood, and so they can just let

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it wash over them and then move forward and read

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and things can just unfold, Whereas I either have to

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get it or I have to admit that I don't,

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and so I'm allowing it to mostly wash over me

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because I don't feel like the mechanics of everything are

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the most important or interesting part of the story. I

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do think they matter, especially in terms of the way

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that Karl manages to bend the rules. The whole point

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of the way Karl operates is he figures out the

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way that things are supposed to work and finds a

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way around it. So in that respect, the rules are

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important so that we can understand the cleverness in breaking them.

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But I can still appreciate it in retrospect. I don't

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need to be able to predict it. I don't have

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to do that level of you know what I'm saying.

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So anyway, we had a few thousand of us choose

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that fortification engineer race so they could build fast. It

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lets them level with construction. We have several alchemists who've

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been making the materials since we got here, and we

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have a solid staff who can enchant the walls. There's

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a Yank named Langrim who used to run the enchantment

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guild here, and they really know what they're doing. And

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I'll say that the audiobook narrator pronounces it yank, and

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I just kept thinking that it meant like Southerners calling

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me a yank, for example, And that's not it's ye NK.

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So Karl asks what are the safe room rules, and

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he says, lots of small changes in a couple big ones.

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bar system, which I kind of like. So I'm looking

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forward to that second rule, no mercenaries inside guildhalls during

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the last two phases except for a small staff of

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up to nine people at a time. It means we

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have to build sleeping quarters for all these folks, and

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we won't be able to keep a reserve. And the

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orc adjutant of yours can clarify, but most of us

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aren't getting into your guildhall once fighting starts. That was

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a big sticking point with some other teams, because the

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active crawlers can still use their regular safe rooms to

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a point. With the blood bar. As for achievements and

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all that weird stuff, no, thank the Gods, we don't

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get that, just level modifications and messages, And I do

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really like the no thank the Gods that like probably

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the AI was just as snarky and irritating and shitty

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that he doesn't want to have to hear it or

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deal with it, and so it just being the mechanics

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of things that makes a lot of sense. That he

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would just be like, yeah, I do not want to

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be thrust back into that kind of energy again, thank you.

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But no, all non NPC officers have safe rooms of

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their own, and they'll have built their strongholds around. One

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big exception is a Lemmig team, but we can talk

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about that later. This change will hurt the operatics and

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the Naga the most, both of whom are known for

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hiding rather than fighting. So yeah, if they do hide,

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it's not going to be in a safe room. They're

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going to have to find a way to hide outside

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of safe rooms, which isn't impossible, but it's certainly more

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difficult and it's not going to allow the same sort

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of like complacence. So we have the mention of like,

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we've got to hit the nagas first yet again, and

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then starts to act weird and this is very funny.

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is really odd looking and it's battered, oversized, cumbersome door

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apprentice quality, and they're pulling the door open and Tippet says,

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once we get it open, we have to close it

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right away because and then it flies all the way open.

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Somebody yells she's out again, and it's the dinosaur Tina

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who's calling Mongo papa again. Audiobook narrator very creepy. The

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way that he does her voice, it's very it's like

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very demonic. I hated it. And the two of them

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are like extremely happy to see each other, and then

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we go inside and see Kiwi, who is back in

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her form. I keep forgetting that Kiwi had been a

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bear and not a human. I don't know why. In

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my head it was that she had been a human.

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and they you know, her and Mango when she was

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a dinosaur fucked a lot many times, So the chances

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of her being pregnant by Mongo specifically seem to be

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pretty much one hundred percent unless she was out here

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fucking anyone else. I don't see how she could have been.

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bear after turning back, and I don't think there was

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enough time for her to get this pregnant, unless a

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bear's just station time is way shorter. So what the

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be dinosaur babies? Are they gonna be dinosaur bear babies

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like Barosaurus? What are we having? I I do not

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know what to expect, And I can't imagine if we

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have a bunch of fucking mangos and we have accelerated

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pet leveling, that is a very good slash dangerous slash

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potentially volatile fighting force. This like, I don't know how

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many you can have either, I don't do they have,

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to more than one at a time? Or is it

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just one? You know what I'm saying. I don't know

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how when it's when you're a dinosaur, you lay eggs.

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possible that she's pregnant with more than one fetus? Is

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that why she looks so hugely pregnant because she's carrying

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a Essentially, bears have litters, but it's not a large number,

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you know. I feel like the max is usually like three,

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maybe four, not like with kittens or puppies where you

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can have up to ten even sometimes more. But anyway,

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Kiwi gives Mango a big hug and then turns away,

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and Mango does not seem to know what to make

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of anything. He's just really confused. Of course, Donut is

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having uh. She says, if this turns into some weird

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furry porn thing, I'm going to lose my absolute shit.

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And oftentimes when Donut kind of throws a tantrum about things,

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it's like it's always a little funny, but the way

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she delivers the line will be sort of predictable in

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a way that makes it slightly less funny. To me,

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I'll be honest that I'm going to lose my app

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shit is just so completely exactly how I would have

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phrased it myself that when she says it almost verbatim

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how I would have said it, I cracked up a

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little bit. I was just like, look, me and donutsy

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eye to eye a lot. But then there are times

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where I'm just like, girl, we are just fucking the

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same person a little bit. So then we go to

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entering the Fortress of unyielding power and authority, which is

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called if you are going to turn it into an acronym,

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the FUPA, which I at first was told was short

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for fat upper pussy area. I have since been told

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it is fat upper pubic area and can also apply

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to men. I don't know if anybody is accurate on

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that front either way, because I don't think anyone's an

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arbiter of this sort of word, so I think it

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can mean whatever. But uh, I, this just very much

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is the exact type of joke that I would expect

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the AI to want to lean into. So, oh man,

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I'm sorry, I just saw. Miss T says it applies

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to men, and Michael says, I had no idea there

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was another term that pupa applied to. I thought the

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joke was that it sounded ridiculous. Oh, Michael, you precious angel.

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I'm so happy to be here to tell you what

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fupa means and that it wasn't a gossip girl reference.

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Miss T. I have intimate knowledge of a certain male fupa,

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which I love very much. And Michael says, I should

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have known Matt wouldn't have some puerile intention with his jokes, wouldn't. Yeah,

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so uh this, he says, well, were you going to

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change the name to because the AI got sick of

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them changing it back and forth and froze it on

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this one, and so Doughnut's annoyed about not being able

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to change it. And when he says, what would you

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have changed it to? And she says, I don't know, Carl.

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Now I'm angry and I can't properly create when I'm angry,

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which I really need to put that one in my pocket.

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I can't properly create when I'm blank, and it's going

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to be any emotion at all. Florian had already put

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it in the chat, and in seconds there were dozens

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of animated responses. At least said it was hilarious and

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MANI was with Donut campaigning against it. Tran suggested calling

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it the Foop instead. I could tell it was going

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to become a thing with half the people calling it

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one name and the other half calling it the other.

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I kind of like the foop, not because I really

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have an issue with fupa as a joke, but there's

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something about foop that it's so quick and so tidy.

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I just sort of like it as a as a sound.

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So I sort of want to just go with foop

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and may do. We'll see, So we step in. We

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stepped to the side as two NPCs rushed by Haullingwood

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looked like bags of mortar. They were in the body

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of bugbears. But I knew there were some of my changelings.

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There was another dot ahead. It was an elite. He

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had the pink glow around his name indicating him as

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a soldier Elite Herman the fleet Ogres Strongman level seventy Legionnaire,

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Princess Posse and he they go into the room and

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there's like this moment before stepping inside where he's on

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chat with Florin saying like, tell me about the scouting system,

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because they agreed to do all of this via message,

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and that way you know if there's anybody listening in.

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Because there's this asumptions that spies are already in our midst,

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which is really sad to think, but unavoidable. I believe

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I think they're likely correct. It just makes me really

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bummed out because it's been such a show of unity.

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To know that probably someone's faking that is a real

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sad thought. Let's see, Ellie is off toward the Naga side.

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The beaver guys casters or whatever are talking. They're with

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that talking turtle guy. Have you figured out how the

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peacetime incursions work? Yes, only those with the Scout endorsement

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can go over the borders without a pass. If they

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get discovered. They're immediately teleported back to base during the

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ceasefire and can't go stealth again until the fighting starts.

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If they hit a trap, it'll still go off and

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kill them. We only get eighteen scouts. That's what those

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towers are for. We need full coverage. Build a tower

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and man it with a group of four or five

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folks with proper observation and ping spells, and we can

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keep the enemy scouts away. Already teleported out a dream

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scout and one of those octopus face fucks from the prism.

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I'll bet my left sack we're already infested with enemy spies.

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We got to get them towers up and do a

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full sweep and do it fast. And Carl says spamming

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traps too, And he says, I'm on it. But there's

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an eagle guy who's gone subterranean. He wants access to

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your trap. Table says he can prevent tripper spells. So

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this is when they step into the room and there's

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a mention from Carl that there's a smell of rock

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and moss of like you know, the outside, but there's

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also a really strong scent of sweat, which he finds weird,

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and I think that it is a result of this

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ogre freaking the fuck out, actually, and he is in

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pain and like kind of writhing, and he says, been waiting,

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Brother says, you good, supposed to do it already, been

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fighting it tell Brother tells sorry. Dozens of little info

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boxes all popped up, popped up around the ogre, all

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at once, and that was when I realized he wasn't

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wearing magical gear at all. He was covered in explosive satchels,

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and he there's watch out, Carl, watch out in italics.

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And I'm not sure as I'm reading this, like what

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is that in italics? And it's the voice narrator is

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he says it in an odd voice. But I wasn't

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putting that voice together with she Maria. I was not

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clocking what was happening here at all. So I'm really

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curious if you guys picked up on the fact that

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that italicized bit was her talking to him, because I

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definitely didn't. And all of a sudden, here comes a

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fucking orc who just mashes her battle axe into his

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head and kills him and then says, I can only

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do so much for you, And this is Baroness Victory

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aka that bitch aka Minu Fave aka Goals. I am

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so sorry, but I really if anything happens to her,

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I am going to be very upset. I love her

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so much. And later on there's a point where Florin

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is like, I don't know if I should be terrified

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or in love, and I'm like, in love, Floren, you

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should be in love with her. You absolutely should. This

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bitch is absolutely clutch and is so fucking practical about everything.

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I live for this energy. You guys, you do not understand. Look,

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I am not trying to pretend that I can't be

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irrational about shit, Okay. I am not trying to pretend

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that I'm always measured and careful and reasoned in my

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response to things. Everybody knows that's not true about me.

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Anybody who's met me for two seconds knows if you

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ice a cake and a color I don't like, I

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am going to be fucking pissed about it. And there's

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no reason nobody cares. It's nothing. But I am aware

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that I'm being silly. Okay. There is a type of

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person that lets their own weird baggage get in the

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way of doing things that makes sense in a broader

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sense that makes me crazy, and it's part of why

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I am socialist. Is is it just actually the evidence

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all points to this is good for society and has

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been historically and is right now in other governments and

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other countries at all. You know, I am not letting

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the fact that socialism is a word that makes people

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curl up and die get in the way of seeing No.

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Evidentially this bears out, and I find it so annoying

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when people just get like triggered by these words that

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cause them to completely close off. And this is a

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woman who is coming in here with the energy of like,

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I'm here to uphold the rules, and I don't care

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if you break the rules. I'm upholding them. It doesn't matter.

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I'm not like on your side. It looks like I'm

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on your side, simply because the people who most often

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break the rules are the guys in power who fucking suck.

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And we can all agree that they fucking suck. But

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don't think that means I'm cool with stretching them for you,

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because obviously, if we're gonna do that, we're gonna have

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to hide it from her, which is interesting. I absolutely

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love this vibe, And I think upholding of the rules

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is not an inherently good thing, to be clear, because

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things being a law does not have anything to do

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with the morality of it. So I'll be very curious

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as it all progresses to see where she draws that line,

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because it seems like she's pretty interested in morality in

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a way, in the way that she determines it with

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like honor. So where does she fall How egregious does

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a rule have to be for her to finally go,

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I'm not doing that. No, I won't uphold that. I

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feel like it's probably gotta be pretty bad. I there

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has to be, like you know what I'm saying. I'm

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just this. I just am very here for it. I'm

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so into it. And here comes this moment she says

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that was an unlawful assassination attempt by Sensation Entertainment, and

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I will be calling foul. I will be filing a

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grievance against the Dream who now owned the entertainment company.

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They were exerting undue influence on one of their elites

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to affect faction Wars. Princess Doughnut. That was an admirable

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shot and it may have saved you all she uses

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her magic missile. I will file for you to get

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credit for the kill. The orc paused, looking up at

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the ceiling. No, she suddenly said out loud, angrily, pointing

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at the ceiling. Absolutely not. That was clearly a foul

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by the corporate interest to purchase sensation, and if you

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don't like it, you should reread your own rules. In addition,

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you are out of line by not warning me he

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was being influenced. She paused again. I accept your apology,

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she finally said. She's running the fucking AI. I love

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it so much. The AI is just like, mam, I'm

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very sorry, and she's like, yeah, the fuck you are sorry,

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Get out of my face with your sories and follow

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your fucking rules. I am just in heaven with this bit.

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I wish that she was in every scene from now on.

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So they go into private chambers with her, and here

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is when we get the notifications that are oh so distressing.

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So they step in and a bunch of fucking windows

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begin to pop up for them, tons and tons of notifications.

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There's no organization to any of it, and Carl and

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Donut both are like unable to see because they're floating

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in front of their vision, so they're having to like

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get things out of the way and figure out how

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to organize it all. And he is beginning to see

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a bunch of stuff from what's called the spam folder.

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And I saw three little dots indicating someone was in

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the middle of typing a message in the Prism chat

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and I realized it was coming from our side. Donut

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don't and Pristinadia needs to know how I feel about

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her portrayal, Karl. She knows, don't poke at anyone yet,

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do not her rumped. But she didn't send the message,

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so most of this stuff was useless, and everyone had

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started calling the list the spam folder. These were world

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chat messages not directed at us, hidden scale notifications, and

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dozens of other pointless game announcements. I blinked at the long,

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long line of strange notifications. I read the most recent

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ones from just a few moments earlier. A sense of

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horror overwhelmed me. And I really like how this is written,

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because it is a slow reveal of exactly what's happening.

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At first, I'm just sort of like, wait, what, And

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then as he goes on, I'm like, oh my God,

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Like I just got complete goosebumps all over me. I

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was like, this is such bad news. Gloom rayth phase

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failed to activate. Mind Balance prevented activation. You're attempted disabled.

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Mind balance was prevented by mind balance. Your mind balance

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has risen to level mind level nine. It had been

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level five just a few hours ago. I moved my

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eyes down the suppressed notifications page. My heart thrashed. There

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were hundreds of these entries, over and over again. There

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were pages of me attempting to cast something, and each

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time it got stopped. The Balance skill came from my

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new toe ring, though now it was trained up so much,

473
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,440
I'd still have the skill minus five levels even if

474
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:11,000
I took the ring off. I didn't dare she Maria

475
00:33:11,119 --> 00:33:15,039
was trying to cast spells and activate skills without my permission.

476
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,559
Oh my god, y'all. I like, you know, when he

477
00:33:21,759 --> 00:33:24,400
got that mind balance skill, I was like, that would

478
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,599
have been real nice a little while back, and I

479
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:34,119
didn't realize what a huge boon this is. Like, I mean,

480
00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:38,599
this is who is responsible for him getting that toe ring.

481
00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:41,519
That's the AI, right, this is like the AI is

482
00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:46,799
like that, That's what would it have been like for

483
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:53,640
Karl without that ah, that is so so scary, and

484
00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:56,720
Carl is remembering, now, watch out, Carl, watch out, and

485
00:33:56,759 --> 00:33:59,000
that she managed to break through for a second. So

486
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,240
even though his level is increasing really rapidly because she

487
00:34:02,319 --> 00:34:06,680
keeps trying, she's slowly gaining the upper hand. If she

488
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,639
broke through at all and spoke to him, you know,

489
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:19,079
like that is just really really worrying. And Mordecai he

490
00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:20,719
like contacts him and he's like, we need to talk.

491
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,039
And Mordecai says, if it's about that presence, Rosetta caught

492
00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:25,920
me up and we're working on a solution. We have

493
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,159
a few options, none of them pleasant. There's something that

494
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,599
Carl says a little bit later that makes me think

495
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,159
something about Katscha's rehab is like gonna have something to

496
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,280
do with the she Maria thing. When we get we'll

497
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,800
get there, I'll point it out. I don't know if

498
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,199
that's right. I might just be kind of misunderstanding it,

499
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,960
but uh sorry, Michael in the chat says, when I

500
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,039
was reading, I didn't clock it as she Maria, but

501
00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:55,519
the Jeff gives it away with his voice. But maybe

502
00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:57,400
if I hadn't read it first, I also wouldn't have

503
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,480
realized it immediately. She Maria's voice is distinctive once she's

504
00:35:01,559 --> 00:35:04,679
kind of gotten talking, but just that little bit wasn't

505
00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:07,000
distinctive enough for me to really realize who it was.

506
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,360
When it was revealed to be she Maria, my blood

507
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,599
went cold. And then she really is pretty awesome about victory.

508
00:35:13,639 --> 00:35:15,559
The female works of the Royal Family rock, the male

509
00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:19,880
one seemed to be pieces of shit. Agree, Ah, Henry

510
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,719
is here or Henri I'm not sure, says I'll have

511
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,320
to catch us on the replay. Just wanted to sail

512
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,000
of the coverage. Ion't be here on the next live.

513
00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:31,199
Thank you so much, thanks for coming. Michael says, we've

514
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,400
heard how hard skills can be to level so it's

515
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,000
going so it going to level nine within a day

516
00:35:36,079 --> 00:35:39,079
or two is pretty insane, exactly, And now we know

517
00:35:39,119 --> 00:35:41,079
why the AI said he needed the ring and didn't

518
00:35:41,079 --> 00:35:45,280
know how fucked he actually was. Jeff says, could She

519
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,079
Maria be intentionally training up his mind balance skill? It's

520
00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:52,079
funny you say that, Jeff, because there was a part

521
00:35:52,079 --> 00:35:57,480
of me that sort of wondered that also, And I

522
00:35:57,519 --> 00:36:01,400
can't decide like a part of me wants that so

523
00:36:01,679 --> 00:36:06,000
much to be true. Because I don't want Carl inhabited

524
00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:08,639
by a thing that's like just trying to completely take

525
00:36:08,679 --> 00:36:13,440
him over and run him. On the other hand, I

526
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,119
don't see how it benefits her for him to have

527
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:23,320
it higher. So that's the main thing is that I

528
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:29,840
don't think she Maria is is somebody who's thinking bigger picture.

529
00:36:30,159 --> 00:36:33,119
I think she is an NPC whose goal is exactly

530
00:36:33,119 --> 00:36:39,400
what it looks like. That said, the NPCs are behaving

531
00:36:39,519 --> 00:36:45,199
according to the AI, and so is the AI assisting

532
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,480
in some of this happening the way it is. Perhaps

533
00:36:49,599 --> 00:36:51,519
it all kind of comes down to, like who is

534
00:36:51,559 --> 00:36:58,000
in the end really in control, And I genuinely I

535
00:36:58,039 --> 00:37:03,519
don't know. I don't know there is. And there's a

536
00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:07,000
part of me of like, you know, we had that

537
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:11,360
moment of meeting those gods when they were their shrines

538
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,559
needed to be repaired and they were being given options

539
00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:18,679
of who's shrine to repair, and Carl is being talked

540
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:23,119
to by two different gods who basically can like see

541
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:29,119
Carl's mental illness and can see, oh, sweetie, you're not

542
00:37:29,159 --> 00:37:32,880
doing too well. Huh, you are in dire straits. Actually

543
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:39,639
I can help with that. And is it possible that

544
00:37:39,679 --> 00:37:44,159
she Maria knows Karl's going to be more susceptible to

545
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,440
another kind of attack, and I won't survive if he

546
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,079
doesn't survive, and so I have to level him up

547
00:37:51,119 --> 00:37:56,159
to get him there. It's possible. That's the thing is,

548
00:37:56,199 --> 00:38:03,639
like everything is sort of possible, but regardless, Carl's not

549
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,719
in control of any of this. And that's the part

550
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,920
that's so upsetting, is that you want to think the

551
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:15,599
best of it just for the fucking comfort. But if

552
00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:20,039
it's not, or if it is, it doesn't matter, because

553
00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:22,559
it's happening whether he likes it or not, and that

554
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:34,320
is so upsetting. Ugh. Anyway, donuts, first question to Victory

555
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:40,159
is your sister was she nice or was she a jerk?

556
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,679
If the oork Woman was surprised by the odd question,

557
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,000
she didn't show it, but she did appear to think

558
00:38:47,079 --> 00:38:50,679
about her answer. My sister Ugly and I once had

559
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,800
a very similar outlook on life. When she married into

560
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,440
the royal family, she lost a lot of who she was.

561
00:38:57,079 --> 00:38:59,440
I suppose she was quite unhappy with how things had

562
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,000
turned out for her. We had not spoken in a

563
00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:04,440
long while, but she did send me a message before

564
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,639
she died, asking if I was planning on being an

565
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:09,719
adjutant this season. She was going to the School of

566
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,039
Pendra Club to meet up with the King and wanted

567
00:39:12,039 --> 00:39:15,199
to have an outing before the fighting started. Why do

568
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,760
you wish to know, Princess? You can judge someone based

569
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,320
on how they talk about the dead And Carl messages

570
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,039
her and says, what TV show did you get that from?

571
00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:28,360
And she says, I didn't get it from a show.

572
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,960
I really want to know you picked her out and

573
00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:32,840
I need to know if we can trust her, and

574
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,400
he says, we don't trust anybody, but something tells me

575
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,960
she's okay, and she says, but you trusted sister, and

576
00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:41,679
is and look how that turned out, which a fair

577
00:39:44,039 --> 00:39:48,199
It's an interesting answer. She doesn't say yes or no,

578
00:39:48,519 --> 00:39:54,400
She just shares facts and sort of is like, you

579
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:59,119
can draw your own conclusions from the straight up information

580
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:04,119
that I'm telling you, which is a very interesting approach,

581
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,800
you know, and and the kind of thing that I

582
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,920
you know, I'm not able to resist fucking editorializing. I

583
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,760
would definitely be like, you know, I used to like

584
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,840
her and then lately not so much. And she doesn't

585
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,760
even go that far, although I do think that the

586
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:28,880
subtext is what you're saying that you know. So let's see.

587
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,679
The shanty town is usually small and unimportant and doesn't

588
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:37,800
usually form until after the fighting begins and the NPCs flee.

589
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,679
It is now quite large and completely circles Lrocos, giving

590
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:46,639
the NPCs extra layers of security. One you control. We

591
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,840
have three town upgrade coupons. Can we use them for this? Absolutely?

592
00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:53,559
And with the new city defense system the AI created,

593
00:40:53,559 --> 00:40:55,159
you may be able to get something similar to what

594
00:40:55,159 --> 00:40:58,079
they have in Loroccos. But you may also use the

595
00:40:58,079 --> 00:41:01,000
coupons for your base here, and that may be a

596
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:09,519
better choice. The ORCS territory had the most rivers and lakes,

597
00:41:09,519 --> 00:41:12,320
including the large, fast moving river that eventually drained into

598
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:16,840
Larrocos itself. The Rocky Peaks made their way into Rolling Hills,

599
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,599
which was the area of the operatics in Pine number two.

600
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,079
The body of the main body of the enemy is

601
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:30,559
massing on your border here, Victory said. Initial estimates appear

602
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:36,039
there about one hundred thousand strong. And I love Carl

603
00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:39,320
has a moment of just complete dissociation here and she

604
00:41:39,559 --> 00:41:43,599
just ignores it as he's like panicing, going, wait, how many?

605
00:41:43,639 --> 00:41:46,599
And she stays on task because she is not one

606
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:54,679
to be distracted by his panic. So, oh, sorry, Michael

607
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,239
is saying, I would think regarding s Maria, I would

608
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,199
think she wants more control because she would trust herself

609
00:41:59,199 --> 00:42:01,519
more than Carl to keep him alive. Her trying to

610
00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:04,239
activate gloom Wraith would have kept him alive but killed

611
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,559
everyone else in the room. Yeah, this is the thing.

612
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,159
Is like, what she wants to do, whether or not

613
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:16,320
it's to his benefit, is in his benefit in the

614
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:21,199
most purely keep him alive sense, and not in as

615
00:42:21,559 --> 00:42:27,199
I have any interest in his well being kind of sense. So,

616
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,599
whether or not she's doing this to try and level

617
00:42:30,679 --> 00:42:35,159
him up on purpose, the side effect is she doesn't

618
00:42:35,199 --> 00:42:40,679
care about anyone else around Carl, and thus he would

619
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,519
have another whole kind of baggage to carry along with

620
00:42:43,559 --> 00:42:51,719
having eaten Legion's eye, which is horrifying. Let's see, have

621
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,280
you familiarized yourself with the ramp up? Now? This is

622
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,760
the part that I found the most confusing. There are

623
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,719
four phases. We're in phase one right now, the ceasefire.

624
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,880
Then there's the ramp up, open hostilities and the peeling

625
00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:12,519
of loroccos. When the ceasefire ends, the ramp up begins.

626
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:17,599
It lasts one hundred and eighty hours, which is such

627
00:43:17,679 --> 00:43:22,760
a strange measurement of time, you know what I'm saying,

628
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,599
Like you could just say, however many days. We're all

629
00:43:26,639 --> 00:43:30,199
in the same time zone here, so just say so

630
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,440
many days. It's just a weird you know what I'm saying.

631
00:43:33,519 --> 00:43:40,599
I don't know anyway. There are no celestial summonings. Egress

632
00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:43,239
into enemy territory by non scouts is only allowed through

633
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,079
narrow kilometer wide gates. Each corridor is at the same

634
00:43:47,119 --> 00:43:50,840
spot and it's where the enemies are massing. And most importantly,

635
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,480
offensive magic and teleport magic or skills will not be

636
00:43:55,559 --> 00:44:00,719
allowed during this second phase, which is fucking ben nanas.

637
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,599
It's just offensive magic. Magic designed to cause direct harm.

638
00:44:06,039 --> 00:44:08,559
Magic are skills designed to transport you from one place

639
00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:12,599
to another. There'll be a suppression field. You can use

640
00:44:12,639 --> 00:44:15,000
such spells now, but the ability goes away the moment

641
00:44:15,039 --> 00:44:21,920
Phase two starts. The Wraith phase is an offensive skill,

642
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,119
not a spell, and it will work. It's a phase,

643
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,800
not a teleport. Puddle Jumper will not work. The Gate

644
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,000
of the Paraoh Gods will not activate. You both have

645
00:44:30,079 --> 00:44:32,320
multiple spells that will work, such as Torch and hole

646
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,360
and wisp Barmer, but unfortunately many more that will not

647
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,480
traps will work as long as they're not teleport or

648
00:44:39,559 --> 00:44:42,760
summon traps. They have to be static. You can't repurpose

649
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,079
them as weapons or artillery ammunition. And the rest is correct.

650
00:44:46,559 --> 00:44:49,880
It is designed to force bloody hand to hand combat

651
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,199
and non magical artillery. During this time. You will be

652
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,920
at a severe disadvantage. The other eight teams will have

653
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,679
the numbers, and they're v astley superior weapons that they

654
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,559
brought with them from outside. If you can survive this

655
00:45:04,679 --> 00:45:08,079
first week, then you might survive long enough to start

656
00:45:08,119 --> 00:45:13,199
moving offensively. This is such a bummer because like and

657
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:17,440
Karl has this exact same thought. Later, there had been

658
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:22,679
all of this reassurance from Tippis that like, yeah, sure

659
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:26,079
the mercenaries came in with their weapons, but they weren't

660
00:45:26,159 --> 00:45:29,480
able to choose races or spells or anything. And I'd

661
00:45:29,559 --> 00:45:33,320
rather take my thing over theirs any day. And I

662
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,800
don't know if he knew about the ramp up, if

663
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,800
the rules about it had changed, or if he knows,

664
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,920
and he just really believes that they will get past

665
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,960
the ramp up itself and it will be he will

666
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,280
have the opportunity to use those spells or what. But

667
00:45:48,599 --> 00:45:54,800
it does seem to me like there is they are

668
00:45:54,880 --> 00:46:00,639
really fighting an uphill battle here. What on your town?

669
00:46:00,679 --> 00:46:03,239
Can they attack that place during the ramp up? Yes,

670
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,840
but if they capture it, they still won't be able

671
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,400
to get into your territory or into Larroccos. They will

672
00:46:09,519 --> 00:46:12,519
attack if it's left undefended. I suggest treating with the

673
00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:15,280
NPCs to help defend the town. The bulk of the

674
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,199
enemy forces will be concentrated on you, and they won't

675
00:46:18,199 --> 00:46:21,159
want to commit a lot of resources to taking the ring,

676
00:46:21,679 --> 00:46:25,199
as they will automatically get it should you fall. It's

677
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:29,639
a tactically important prize, but not during ramp up. And

678
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:34,840
basically what she says is you're going to be facing

679
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,760
a lot of people who aren't going to want to

680
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,320
risk lives if they can help it. They are not

681
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:45,079
going to want to do lots of little maneuvers against you.

682
00:46:45,519 --> 00:46:49,760
They are going to want to have one big, decisive

683
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:55,159
punch that takes you all out, using their superior numbers

684
00:46:55,199 --> 00:46:59,400
and their weaponry in one shot. These are not folks

685
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:07,159
who have like military experience, and even the mercenaries are

686
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,920
going to be people who often went up against unarmed opponents.

687
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:18,400
So they're mostly security forces and they aren't really going

688
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,320
to be used to this kind of thing either, And

689
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:24,119
that is at least an advantage for our people is

690
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:28,559
they have been straight up in battle for fucking months now,

691
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:34,440
so in that respect, our people and former crawlers have

692
00:47:34,639 --> 00:47:42,360
way more experience. And he says one hundred thousand was

693
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,440
a lot of enemies. I'd once gone to a concert

694
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,039
with twenty thousand people and I couldn't get over how

695
00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:50,360
many people that was all at one place at one time.

696
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,800
This was five times that. It was an insane amount

697
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:58,519
of enemies. And I really appreciate that like mention of

698
00:47:58,559 --> 00:48:00,760
the concert, because this is something that got brought up

699
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,920
for me when I was covering something in one piece.

700
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,719
Marine Ford is this massive battle and there are so

701
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,400
many people that just get laid out right and left,

702
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:16,119
and yet they're keep being way more people to replace them.

703
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,400
And at one point I was just like, we're all

704
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,920
supposed to be on one island together, Like, how how

705
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,960
many people am I supposed to think are here? How

706
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:29,119
would this work? And Florian, who commissioned that, like he

707
00:48:29,679 --> 00:48:33,559
commented something like, have you ever been to a huge

708
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:39,719
stadium concert. Think about that number of people, and that

709
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,320
really did help put it in perspective. The biggest concert

710
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:46,320
I've ever been to was Renaissance Beyonce, and it was

711
00:48:46,519 --> 00:48:51,480
eighty five thousand people and it was stunning. I was

712
00:48:51,519 --> 00:48:54,239
in the nose. I was literally three seats down from

713
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,960
the furthest you could possibly get from the stage, and

714
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:05,199
it was it was so overwhelming looking down and seeing

715
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:09,719
how far away she was. You couldn't even tell that

716
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,199
she was a person from that far away, Like the

717
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,199
screens and everything were totally necessary to know what was

718
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:20,119
going on, and it was just really it put it

719
00:49:20,159 --> 00:49:23,280
in perspective for me and thinking about like that being

720
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,920
the number of enemies that you're facing down more than

721
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:35,000
that even who that's a lot. So Florian is talking

722
00:49:35,039 --> 00:49:38,519
about how they have built defenses and they're creating a

723
00:49:38,559 --> 00:49:40,760
no man's land, just like one of those areas that

724
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,840
crossing is like really hazardous tons of traps and also

725
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:50,960
people that can like snipe you, and if they break through,

726
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,559
we'll have multiple fallback positions. Then once they're through, they'll

727
00:49:53,559 --> 00:49:55,039
be able to flank us until we get to the

728
00:49:55,079 --> 00:49:58,559
FUPA one hundred thousand troops on one side, ready to

729
00:49:58,599 --> 00:50:01,239
pour over us like ants. Earlier, Tippet said had been

730
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,400
a mistake for them to arm themselves with existing gear

731
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,639
and not take classes and spells. I wasn't so sure

732
00:50:05,679 --> 00:50:12,519
about that anymore. This is when Louis katcha Batista, Samantha

733
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,239
and a few others as it's put come into the

734
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,599
room and Samantha is crying because Louis got married, and

735
00:50:20,639 --> 00:50:23,079
she tries to be like you, like, what did you

736
00:50:23,079 --> 00:50:25,519
think I was gonna do? You should have told me

737
00:50:25,559 --> 00:50:29,800
you were getting married, And Ruby is like you said

738
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,880
or not Ruby Bonnie Bonnie says, well, you said you

739
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,920
would like pull her out of the way and jump

740
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,559
into place at the last second. And Samantha's like, first

741
00:50:39,599 --> 00:50:40,800
of all, you're a little kid, so you don't know

742
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,400
what you're talking about. And second of all, even if

743
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,480
I did do that, that's no reason to not tell me.

744
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,840
And this is when Doughnut's like, oh, it's just the

745
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,519
first wedding. There's a real one, like a bigger one later,

746
00:50:50,119 --> 00:50:52,519
and everyone's like, oh my god, don't know. Why would

747
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:56,079
you tell her that? And I would love to give

748
00:50:56,119 --> 00:50:59,159
her some like really smart, clever ulterior motive for saying this,

749
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:00,960
but I don't think so. I think she just blurted

750
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:09,039
some shit out. So this chapter ends with like Bonnie

751
00:51:09,159 --> 00:51:15,079
talking about how Scarn and a few others are playing

752
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:18,400
with the airship and Louis hired gremlins. We bought an

753
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,360
upgrade for our door guns. I've patted the tiny gnome

754
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:22,920
on the head. You shouldn't have to think about that

755
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,119
sort of stuff, the little girl gave me a chilling smile.

756
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,199
I shouldn't have to think about killing out worlders. Why

757
00:51:29,199 --> 00:51:32,159
shouldn't I have they stopped thinking about trying to kill me?

758
00:51:33,599 --> 00:51:43,519
Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch. So final chapter is fifteen

759
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,920
time until the ceasefire ends thirty three hours, and I

760
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:52,519
really like there have been times where it has felt

761
00:51:52,559 --> 00:51:55,920
like we have all the time in the world, and

762
00:51:56,639 --> 00:52:00,599
this is definitely the timing of every thing is making

763
00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:04,400
me feel very anxious. I would be sitting down and

764
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,320
coming up with like a schedule for stuff because I

765
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,679
would be so worried about getting everything done. And I

766
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,239
have time blindness, so a schedule is sort of essential

767
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,719
for me when there's many things to be done within

768
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,679
a given period. We just have so many people that

769
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,280
we have to get onto our team. We have got

770
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:29,079
to level up our meatball guy. There's just a lot

771
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:40,159
and it's overwhelming, you know. So fifteen starts off with

772
00:52:40,199 --> 00:52:45,920
our friends watching it this weird rolling ball that is

773
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,559
a mob and they're all like remembering the weird swine ball.

774
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,519
But it's not that it's slower. It's not making the

775
00:52:54,559 --> 00:52:58,039
same kinds of sounds and it stinks in a different

776
00:52:58,079 --> 00:53:06,440
way this. There's a few new people in the mix

777
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:11,320
here with them as well. There's body, a level sixty

778
00:53:11,519 --> 00:53:17,480
big game spear hunter who's really kind of taciturn, And

779
00:53:19,559 --> 00:53:22,920
there's a couple of these dream elves who are not

780
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,960
dream elves, they're just regular elves, but they're like really

781
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:32,760
white skinned, and they are talking about getting a variety

782
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,800
of different tattoos depending on like what group they wind

783
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,679
up stationed with, and they've already gotten one that's like

784
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:44,920
a combo human cat tattoo. Donut is not impressed, and

785
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:46,639
when she's like, well, what if you want to wind

786
00:53:46,679 --> 00:53:48,400
up station with somebody else, they're like, well, we have

787
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,199
more skin. And she says something to Carl like is

788
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,280
this what it was like when you first enlisted? And

789
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,960
Carl is like, it kind of is which is weird

790
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,199
because these guys are like a thousand years and they

791
00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:08,880
are not behaving like that at all. Let's see, I

792
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:13,119
was starting to come to the uncomfortable realization that everyone

793
00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:15,760
acting fairly human like was normal for the people of

794
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,519
the syndicate, that the general citizenry of the galaxy as

795
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:21,679
a whole were all similar to us in so many ways,

796
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:25,679
despite their vastly different anatomies and cultures and environments. I

797
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,000
didn't know what that meant, but the knowledge made me

798
00:54:28,039 --> 00:54:31,320
feel strangely unsettled. It was the same feeling I had

799
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,800
during the Iron Tangle, when I just knew I was

800
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:38,960
missing something, something important, And I can't help but think

801
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,199
that this is like because y'all are coming from the

802
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:48,400
same seeds, like they're mining you for resources, and those

803
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:52,239
resources are all coming from the same place, the same

804
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:59,679
like little tiny AI computer chip basically. So it's that that, like,

805
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:05,039
there's a similarity in the structure of the programming in there,

806
00:55:05,079 --> 00:55:08,440
I think. But maybe maybe that's not it. That's just

807
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:15,679
what my assumption is. So let's see, we were at

808
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,239
the very edge of the map, humping down, humping down,

809
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,920
Oh my god, ah, sorry, guys, hunting down one of

810
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:27,079
the mob incursions into our territory Rolling Battle Formation Ball

811
00:55:27,199 --> 00:55:31,320
level seventy. Now it turns out that what we've got

812
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:42,920
here are skanky skinkers, skank skunk Warrior. These things, long

813
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:47,719
story short, are like what if skunk's stunk even worse

814
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:52,079
than they do? And it's funny. Last night I was

815
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,679
out with my husband. We were taking the dogs home

816
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:59,400
from the dog park, and we passed a skunk that

817
00:55:59,519 --> 00:56:02,239
was standing on the side of the road, and I

818
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,199
had a moment of just like, oh shit, because I

819
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:05,519
was really worried it was going to run out in

820
00:56:05,519 --> 00:56:07,960
front of the car. It didn't move, and my husband

821
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:11,280
didn't even see it our dogs how and just kind

822
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,079
of turned and watched it. But he didn't try to

823
00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:16,800
like jump out of the car or anything. But I do.

824
00:56:17,199 --> 00:56:20,239
There's a point here where the AI says, I hope

825
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,440
you have some hot hydrogen peroxide, soap and baking soda ready,

826
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,800
And I actually do have like a little tupperware bin

827
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,840
in my trunk that's got a huge bottle of hydrogen peroxide,

828
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,880
a huge box of baking soda, and a I think

829
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,440
it's just like a container of down dish soap and

830
00:56:37,519 --> 00:56:41,480
rubber gloves, because I have talked to so many dog

831
00:56:41,519 --> 00:56:45,079
owners that have their dogs have run into skunks, and

832
00:56:45,679 --> 00:56:49,280
you know, if you are out when this happens, the

833
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,239
last thing that you want is to get your dog

834
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,239
into the car with you to bring home to deal with,

835
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:59,480
like without having washed it down or anything. So it

836
00:56:59,519 --> 00:57:01,519
was just funny because this was all on my mind

837
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,360
last night after passing that skunk and being like, well,

838
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,679
at least I know I had stuff with me if

839
00:57:06,679 --> 00:57:13,039
something were to happen. But this is obviously way way

840
00:57:13,199 --> 00:57:22,760
more intense. First, before we get to we have Jamal.

841
00:57:24,239 --> 00:57:31,360
You guys. Jamal. Jamal is a one of those guys

842
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:36,880
that's made out of like a tattoo, and he is

843
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:42,760
a hammerhead shark who's apparently quite fat, and Carl has

844
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:46,719
made him these sort of crab leg like appendages with

845
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:51,639
which to walk around, but Jamal insists on jumping on hopping,

846
00:57:51,719 --> 00:57:56,639
which always breaks them, and apparently has done this. This

847
00:57:56,679 --> 00:57:59,440
is I think the third time that he has done this,

848
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:07,519
and he has a He talks in third person. The

849
00:58:07,679 --> 00:58:12,079
voice that he is given is almost a kind of

850
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:16,079
like Indian, a sort of sing song. I must give

851
00:58:16,079 --> 00:58:18,920
you an apology. I just did a little hop and

852
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,000
then the metal pieces did break again. Jamal has so

853
00:58:22,079 --> 00:58:24,440
many stories to give, and Jamal is giving you all

854
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:32,000
of them. And this dude is driving Donut really crazy

855
00:58:32,039 --> 00:58:34,960
because talking in third person, I love her saying I

856
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:39,599
have very few pet peeves, which is just patently false. Donut.

857
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,360
Let's be very very honest. First of all, you're a pet,

858
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,440
so all of your peeves are pet peeves. But also

859
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:50,239
setting that aside, you get irritated by many things, so

860
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:54,880
you know, stop it. Anyway, he talks about how he

861
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:56,800
used to be an apex predator and now he can't

862
00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:03,679
even hop and how unfair it is, and oh my god,

863
00:59:03,719 --> 00:59:06,039
I'm so sorry. Michael in the chat says, Jamal refuses

864
00:59:06,119 --> 00:59:09,039
to stop trying to jump the shark. I hate you

865
00:59:09,119 --> 00:59:12,119
so much right now, Michael, get out. I'm about to

866
00:59:12,159 --> 00:59:16,440
boot you. I'm one step from booting you. Oh my god.

867
00:59:17,599 --> 00:59:23,440
So we're leveling rend up here. So what Carl does

868
00:59:23,679 --> 00:59:27,920
is he almost kills a mob and then he just

869
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:31,760
holds rend out to bite down on it. And this

870
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:37,960
accelerated leveling up. When we say accelerated, I mean that shit.

871
00:59:38,119 --> 00:59:42,119
He is growing before our eyes. At first, he's so

872
00:59:42,159 --> 00:59:45,199
small that he literally fits in the palm of Carl's

873
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:49,280
hand and is like a meatball size. By the end

874
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,039
of all of this, he's like a bowling ball. I think,

875
00:59:52,079 --> 00:59:58,760
maybe even a little larger. But of course we have

876
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:05,760
the horrible effect of the stink attack, and we also

877
01:00:06,159 --> 01:00:13,440
meet He wore those little uh where is it? This

878
01:00:13,519 --> 01:00:15,440
mob looked like all the others, except he was maybe

879
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,480
a little smaller. He wore a blue conical wizard hat

880
01:00:18,519 --> 01:00:22,159
with glittering star and planet patterns and little sparkles tinkled

881
01:00:22,159 --> 01:00:25,599
off the top of the hat. Fancy boy level fifty

882
01:00:25,639 --> 01:00:30,719
five skank skunk battle wizard. And there's a part in

883
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:37,159
this description. He's actually a lot weaker, but he has

884
01:00:37,199 --> 01:00:39,239
a lot of spells designed to get the warriors to

885
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,039
do what he wants. Funny how that works, isn't it.

886
01:00:42,239 --> 01:00:45,119
In books and movies, the leader of a gang is

887
01:00:45,159 --> 01:00:50,199
almost always the physically strongest want but in reality, oftentimes

888
01:00:50,559 --> 01:00:53,639
it's the opposite. The leaders tend to be the richest,

889
01:00:54,159 --> 01:00:57,000
or they lead simply because of tradition. They tend to

890
01:00:57,079 --> 01:01:01,559
keep their power by engineering a situation where things would

891
01:01:01,599 --> 01:01:07,559
get temporarily worse if they were gone. It takes a

892
01:01:07,599 --> 01:01:13,000
certain amount of desperation before people finally stop caring about

893
01:01:13,079 --> 01:01:21,320
their immediate futures and start looking at the long term.

894
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:26,079
I just really there's a lot of sentences in the

895
01:01:26,159 --> 01:01:29,840
Kindle versions of these books that are highlighted, and mostly

896
01:01:30,679 --> 01:01:37,079
they're joke lines. They're funny lines, which I get. And

897
01:01:37,119 --> 01:01:41,599
then there's little gems like this that are not highlighted

898
01:01:41,639 --> 01:01:44,840
by anybody according to kindall, and I am just driven

899
01:01:45,039 --> 01:01:51,960
mad by that. This is where it all happens, guys,

900
01:01:52,159 --> 01:01:58,159
in these little moments, and you just don't it's just

901
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:04,320
the jokes that get you. Uh, this is bars right here.

902
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:21,639
Oh my god, fucking Christ. Anyway, the horrible attack. Carl

903
01:02:21,679 --> 01:02:24,639
also gets to utilize a gloom rath here, which is

904
01:02:24,679 --> 01:02:26,840
super gross, and he thinks about the fact that this

905
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:30,039
is what the rage elemental did to Yolanda and is

906
01:02:30,119 --> 01:02:37,760
just disgusted. But uh, Doughnut gets hit along with Mango

907
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:43,920
with this stink and it's so bad that everybody in

908
01:02:44,079 --> 01:02:46,840
it is vomiting and the people outside of it are

909
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:50,800
close to vomiting. Jamal doesn't have any sense of smell left,

910
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,320
and he's like saying, how grateful he is for that

911
01:02:53,639 --> 01:03:01,360
A little bit later on body. Meanwhile, I disabled the mobs.

912
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,559
There will be suffering from our allies, but they will survive.

913
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,440
We wait. That was by far the most words I'd

914
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:15,039
heard from him. So, yeah, the stench is going to

915
01:03:15,119 --> 01:03:19,519
last for three hours before it goes away. The only

916
01:03:19,599 --> 01:03:22,599
thing that they can think of to do is Mordecai

917
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,800
is going to make a potion for Donut that dampens

918
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:30,079
her sense of smell and taste. I'm worried about, like

919
01:03:30,199 --> 01:03:36,960
potentially this being something that disables them noticing that something's wrong.

920
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,599
You know, like if you're so overpowered by the scent

921
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:44,000
of this skunk thing, what if there's like a smell

922
01:03:44,039 --> 01:03:45,920
of smoke that would let you know something's on fire,

923
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:52,800
but you're not clocking it, you know what I'm saying. Anyway,

924
01:03:52,239 --> 01:03:57,039
I am running out of time, So we're almost at

925
01:03:57,039 --> 01:03:58,440
the end of this chapter, and I'm just going to

926
01:03:58,559 --> 01:04:03,280
really quickly hit the end of this. Uh. She's complaining

927
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:05,840
about the skunk thing. Carl is saying, three hours and

928
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:07,679
it's gone is way better than it would have been

929
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,039
had you got hit by a skunk in the before times,

930
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:12,800
to which She's like, I was an indoor cat that

931
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,639
was never going to happen stop it, which she does

932
01:04:15,719 --> 01:04:22,679
have a point. And let's see why isn't that thing

933
01:04:22,719 --> 01:04:25,239
affected when my poor mongo got sick. It's not fair.

934
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:28,159
He's pretty resilient. Well, we should have let him collect

935
01:04:28,199 --> 01:04:30,239
the sample of myss for Mordecai. What do you think

936
01:04:30,239 --> 01:04:36,119
he wants that stuff for? Anyway, body appears on the trail,

937
01:04:36,159 --> 01:04:38,480
indicating he'd found the found the path to the safe room.

938
01:04:38,519 --> 01:04:43,320
He disappeared again. I am like really hopeful that Bodie's

939
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,360
not somebody that we need to worry about. The fact

940
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:50,440
that he's just barely talking. Ah, I don't know, guys. Now,

941
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:57,000
I'm now I'm like suspicious of everybody. Ellie says, I'm

942
01:04:57,039 --> 01:04:59,639
pretty sure I found all the artillery batteries on both sides,

943
01:04:59,639 --> 01:05:01,239
but I can't be one hundred percent. But we got

944
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:04,960
a new problem. There's a nasty surprise. Ready. Remember when

945
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you said you wanted me to find out why the

946
01:05:06,599 --> 01:05:10,840
robot guys wanted pet leveling accelerated while I found out

947
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And uh yeah, So that's the end of chapter fifteen.

948
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:20,559
So we've got some bad news coming up. Oh my god.

949
01:05:20,639 --> 01:05:22,480
Michael says, there are people who say they don't get

950
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:25,280
why people say they're anti capitalists Vibes and Dungeon Crawler

951
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,639
Karl they must be joking. People who are not picking

952
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,880
up on the anti capitalism in Dungeon Crawler Kral are

953
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:34,880
the most media illiterate human beings I have ever heard

954
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:37,239
of in my life. If you are listening to this

955
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:40,599
and you don't get what I'm talking about, I don't

956
01:05:40,639 --> 01:05:43,239
know what could be clearer. And if you've been listening

957
01:05:43,239 --> 01:05:45,239
to the podcast this entire time and you haven't gotten

958
01:05:45,239 --> 01:05:47,920
it by now, you probably should stop listening to this

959
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,079
and just go do some basic research on the history

960
01:05:51,119 --> 01:05:55,239
of capitalism and socialism and it's effect on cultures and economies.

961
01:05:55,920 --> 01:06:01,159
I just don't really know how much clearer this man

962
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:05,679
could be. And it's wilful. It's just wilful. If you

963
01:06:05,679 --> 01:06:08,480
don't get it, you're trying not to get it. That's

964
01:06:08,519 --> 01:06:12,679
all I can assume. All Right, I've got a wrap.

965
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:16,880
Thank you guys again, until next time to the Loom motherfuckers.

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That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.