Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler caral Book seven This Inevitable ruin chapters twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
Speaker 1: and fifteen. In these chapters, we have got some hanky
Speaker 1: panky going on behind the scenes. We already knew, but
Speaker 1: somebody really straight up tries to suicide bomb caral Wild
Speaker 1: and also skunk attack the Worst. Welcome to spoil Me,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael's here
Speaker 1: in the chat telling me that Dungeon Crawler Car got
Speaker 1: picked up by Peacock, So, uh, I guess that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a thing. I am really here's my I'm just
Speaker 1: going to address this like just for a brief moment,
Speaker 1: and then I'm just gonna get out of it and
Speaker 1: go straight into the book. But my main concern any
Speaker 1: time that you are dealing with a storyline that is
Speaker 1: so anti capitalist is that it is going to be
Speaker 1: totally diluted and the messaging is going to be changed
Speaker 1: in such a way because it is making people uncomfortable
Speaker 1: and we have to like not give the prolls any
Speaker 1: fucking ideas. It's just, you know what I mean, that's
Speaker 1: something that I would be the most worried about, no
Speaker 1: matter who picks it up. I feel like that's something
Speaker 1: that tends to happen, and I hope that they don't
Speaker 1: make that mistake because I genuinely that's the point, you know. So,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly what happened in my opinion with the
Speaker 1: Hunger Games. I felt like they just the whole point
Speaker 1: was not what they focused on, and it was very
Speaker 1: frustrating to me. It was they It's just sort of
Speaker 1: the thing, though, is what appeals to the executives who
Speaker 1: want content is the flashy, bombastic story, and that is
Speaker 1: what they focus on adapting, and the actual like bones
Speaker 1: of it are way way less important than the spectacle,
Speaker 1: and so they fall into the very trap of the
Speaker 1: people in power in the property. So we'll see. But
Speaker 1: let's get this bitch rolling here, shall we. So reminder
Speaker 1: that the last chapter ended with Carl, you know, being
Speaker 1: really emotional, finding out about everybody who had arrived to
Speaker 1: fight on his side, and the folks who were authors
Speaker 1: of the cookbook, and then we start chapter twelve with
Speaker 1: krawler Ikecha. If I could only see him again. It
Speaker 1: would change everything. I am jealous. Those of you with community,
Speaker 1: with friends, with family my kind are castrated and cast
Speaker 1: out as such. I think my perspective is unique, so
Speaker 1: much different than the one who came before me York,
Speaker 1: who appears to have come from a hive, yet says
Speaker 1: he always felt alone his entire life. We are so different,
Speaker 1: but upon reading his words, I felt such kinship. I
Speaker 1: wonder did he survive. Those of you reading this, If
Speaker 1: you're ever free of this place, I pray you seek
Speaker 1: out the others who came before. It is a dream.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Together? There would be nothing. We couldn't
Speaker 1: do nothing. And the community aspect is like literally what
Speaker 1: has been keeping Carl going, you know this, looking around
Speaker 1: at his friends and realizing that he that there are
Speaker 1: people that he has really grown to care about. It's
Speaker 1: h like this is what drives people who have something
Speaker 1: that they can look around and be like, this feeds me.
Speaker 1: Are very lucky and not I don't enough folks have it,
Speaker 1: and I am not one at all, of course, with
Speaker 1: my job to say, like, the internet isn't real, but
Speaker 1: the internet does feed you in the same way that
Speaker 1: an in person community can feed you. They're very different things.
Speaker 1: And the support that he is getting here in the dungeon,
Speaker 1: it's really kind of awful to know that when in
Speaker 1: the before times, as he puts it, he was like
Speaker 1: so much more alone than he is now that things
Speaker 1: are so dire, And it's really how shit off and
Speaker 1: will go is. It's not until things get extremely bad
Speaker 1: that folks feel the need to band together, and it
Speaker 1: has to be going extremely badly for everyone for that
Speaker 1: to happen. There be times where it's the opposite, where
Speaker 1: if it's you only going through something really tough, then
Speaker 1: suddenly everyone disappears on you. I personally haven't really had
Speaker 1: that as something that like, you know, but I know
Speaker 1: enough people who have so Anyway, they're entering Princess Posse
Speaker 1: base camp and it says there's a red alert incursion
Speaker 1: into your territory. Enter the flag room to see the
Speaker 1: details and later on the fact that the AI handled
Speaker 1: it this way, their adjutant takes some It takes exception two.
Speaker 1: We'll get to this in a moment. The skeleton of
Speaker 1: a new building was in the process of being erected
Speaker 1: around the shop up a small hill. A second larger
Speaker 1: building stood it was stone, but I couldn't see how
Speaker 1: big it was. It also was encased in metal girders.
Speaker 1: Multiple workers crawled over both structures. They were boxing the
Speaker 1: safe room, men protecting it. It appeared they were expanding
Speaker 1: the size of the other structure up the hill connecting
Speaker 1: the two. And I just want to mention once again
Speaker 1: in light of the airship that Louis got and then
Speaker 1: this with like metal girders, and he just scribes like
Speaker 1: the smell of welding and burnt tar. Everybody has access
Speaker 1: to tools, abilities, and materials beyond what I was ever expecting.
Speaker 1: I really thought we were going to be dealing with
Speaker 1: a medieval style of warfare with magic, so it would
Speaker 1: be upgraded. It would definitely be more dangerous than actual
Speaker 1: medieval warfare. But this is different. It's very much feeling
Speaker 1: like we're not too far outside of what it would
Speaker 1: be like if we were actually to have battles in
Speaker 1: our own streets, you know, where there's like, if anything,
Speaker 1: they're being given more resources than we would probably have
Speaker 1: a lot of us. And this is when everybody spots
Speaker 1: Karl and they begin to have very strong reactions to
Speaker 1: both him and to Donut of course they spot Carl first.
Speaker 1: He's just very large. But there's this guy Penn, who's
Speaker 1: in level sixty two fortification engineer, And Carl looks around
Speaker 1: and realizes that like a lot of people have that one,
Speaker 1: and they all are at like a higher level. Everyone
Speaker 1: who's another class is still at sixty, but the engineers
Speaker 1: are leveling up because they've been doing so much let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so this guy hugs him and gives him
Speaker 1: a kiss on each cheek, and I love donnu, Carl.
Speaker 1: Why does everyone kissing you all of a sudden. That's
Speaker 1: like the third person in an hour. You're going to
Speaker 1: get mono. Oh that's funny. Everybody begins to do this
Speaker 1: like hup sort of chant, which very much reminded me
Speaker 1: of like the three strong men from I think Family
Speaker 1: guy that like right around on a unicycle, or maybe
Speaker 1: there's just two of them, you guys don't talking about anyway.
Speaker 1: That's why I pictured here for a second. But uh,
Speaker 1: it's just a moment of everybody like thanking him in
Speaker 1: this way, and it is at first kind of weird
Speaker 1: and awkward, and then it becomes very powerful and inspiring,
Speaker 1: which is how that shit works. It feels very goofy
Speaker 1: at first, before you've really got rolling, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden there's something in it, you know, so
Speaker 1: we need to see the stronghold that I have to
Speaker 1: go back and help Rose that I don't have. Finally said,
Speaker 1: Tippid is walking them through the camp. Everybody's waving at them.
Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of information in these chapters about things,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be totally honest with you all.
Speaker 1: I am not keeping a lot of this straight. I
Speaker 1: am in a weird position here. Felt like whenever I
Speaker 1: cover books the way that I do, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of folks won't have followed either that. There are
Speaker 1: plenty of people out there who also didn't really process everything,
Speaker 1: but the difference is that they don't have to explain it.
Speaker 1: They don't have to be on camera talking about whether
Speaker 1: or not they understood, and so they can just let
Speaker 1: it wash over them and then move forward and read
Speaker 1: and things can just unfold, Whereas I either have to
Speaker 1: get it or I have to admit that I don't,
Speaker 1: and so I'm allowing it to mostly wash over me
Speaker 1: because I don't feel like the mechanics of everything are
Speaker 1: the most important or interesting part of the story. I
Speaker 1: do think they matter, especially in terms of the way
Speaker 1: that Karl manages to bend the rules. The whole point
Speaker 1: of the way Karl operates is he figures out the
Speaker 1: way that things are supposed to work and finds a
Speaker 1: way around it. So in that respect, the rules are
Speaker 1: important so that we can understand the cleverness in breaking them.
Speaker 1: But I can still appreciate it in retrospect. I don't
Speaker 1: need to be able to predict it. I don't have
Speaker 1: to do that level of you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we had a few thousand of us choose
Speaker 1: that fortification engineer race so they could build fast. It
Speaker 1: lets them level with construction. We have several alchemists who've
Speaker 1: been making the materials since we got here, and we
Speaker 1: have a solid staff who can enchant the walls. There's
Speaker 1: a Yank named Langrim who used to run the enchantment
Speaker 1: guild here, and they really know what they're doing. And
Speaker 1: I'll say that the audiobook narrator pronounces it yank, and
Speaker 1: I just kept thinking that it meant like Southerners calling
Speaker 1: me a yank, for example, And that's not it's ye NK.
Speaker 1: So Karl asks what are the safe room rules, and
Speaker 1: he says, lots of small changes in a couple big ones.
Speaker 1: Once the fighting starts, it's going back to the blood
Speaker 1: bar system, which I kind of like. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to that second rule, no mercenaries inside guildhalls during
Speaker 1: the last two phases except for a small staff of
Speaker 1: up to nine people at a time. It means we
Speaker 1: have to build sleeping quarters for all these folks, and
Speaker 1: we won't be able to keep a reserve. And the
Speaker 1: orc adjutant of yours can clarify, but most of us
Speaker 1: aren't getting into your guildhall once fighting starts. That was
Speaker 1: a big sticking point with some other teams, because the
Speaker 1: active crawlers can still use their regular safe rooms to
Speaker 1: a point. With the blood bar. As for achievements and
Speaker 1: all that weird stuff, no, thank the Gods, we don't
Speaker 1: get that, just level modifications and messages, And I do
Speaker 1: really like the no thank the Gods that like probably
Speaker 1: the AI was just as snarky and irritating and shitty
Speaker 1: that he doesn't want to have to hear it or
Speaker 1: deal with it, and so it just being the mechanics
Speaker 1: of things that makes a lot of sense. That he
Speaker 1: would just be like, yeah, I do not want to
Speaker 1: be thrust back into that kind of energy again, thank you.
Speaker 1: But no, all non NPC officers have safe rooms of
Speaker 1: their own, and they'll have built their strongholds around. One
Speaker 1: big exception is a Lemmig team, but we can talk
Speaker 1: about that later. This change will hurt the operatics and
Speaker 1: the Naga the most, both of whom are known for
Speaker 1: hiding rather than fighting. So yeah, if they do hide,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be in a safe room. They're
Speaker 1: going to have to find a way to hide outside
Speaker 1: of safe rooms, which isn't impossible, but it's certainly more
Speaker 1: difficult and it's not going to allow the same sort
Speaker 1: of like complacence. So we have the mention of like,
Speaker 1: we've got to hit the nagas first yet again, and
Speaker 1: then starts to act weird and this is very funny.
Speaker 1: So there is something that's like this big door that
Speaker 1: is really odd looking and it's battered, oversized, cumbersome door
Speaker 1: apprentice quality, and they're pulling the door open and Tippet says,
Speaker 1: once we get it open, we have to close it
Speaker 1: right away because and then it flies all the way open.
Speaker 1: Somebody yells she's out again, and it's the dinosaur Tina
Speaker 1: who's calling Mongo papa again. Audiobook narrator very creepy. The
Speaker 1: way that he does her voice, it's very it's like
Speaker 1: very demonic. I hated it. And the two of them
Speaker 1: are like extremely happy to see each other, and then
Speaker 1: we go inside and see Kiwi, who is back in
Speaker 1: her form. I keep forgetting that Kiwi had been a
Speaker 1: bear and not a human. I don't know why. In
Speaker 1: my head it was that she had been a human.
Speaker 1: But she is a bear, and she is really pregnant,
Speaker 1: and they you know, her and Mango when she was
Speaker 1: a dinosaur fucked a lot many times, So the chances
Speaker 1: of her being pregnant by Mongo specifically seem to be
Speaker 1: pretty much one hundred percent unless she was out here
Speaker 1: fucking anyone else. I don't see how she could have been.
Speaker 1: There weren't other male dinosaurs, so unless she fucked a
Speaker 1: bear after turning back, and I don't think there was
Speaker 1: enough time for her to get this pregnant, unless a
Speaker 1: bear's just station time is way shorter. So what the
Speaker 1: fuck are those babies gonna look like? Are they gonna
Speaker 1: be dinosaur babies? Are they gonna be dinosaur bear babies
Speaker 1: like Barosaurus? What are we having? I I do not
Speaker 1: know what to expect, And I can't imagine if we
Speaker 1: have a bunch of fucking mangos and we have accelerated
Speaker 1: pet leveling, that is a very good slash dangerous slash
Speaker 1: potentially volatile fighting force. This like, I don't know how
Speaker 1: many you can have either, I don't do they have,
Speaker 1: Like she's in bare form, So would she give birth
Speaker 1: to more than one at a time? Or is it
Speaker 1: just one? You know what I'm saying. I don't know
Speaker 1: how when it's when you're a dinosaur, you lay eggs.
Speaker 1: That's not how this is working here. But is it
Speaker 1: possible that she's pregnant with more than one fetus? Is
Speaker 1: that why she looks so hugely pregnant because she's carrying
Speaker 1: a Essentially, bears have litters, but it's not a large number,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like the max is usually like three,
Speaker 1: maybe four, not like with kittens or puppies where you
Speaker 1: can have up to ten even sometimes more. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Kiwi gives Mango a big hug and then turns away,
Speaker 1: and Mango does not seem to know what to make
Speaker 1: of anything. He's just really confused. Of course, Donut is
Speaker 1: having uh. She says, if this turns into some weird
Speaker 1: furry porn thing, I'm going to lose my absolute shit.
Speaker 1: And oftentimes when Donut kind of throws a tantrum about things,
Speaker 1: it's like it's always a little funny, but the way
Speaker 1: she delivers the line will be sort of predictable in
Speaker 1: a way that makes it slightly less funny. To me,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest that I'm going to lose my app
Speaker 1: shit is just so completely exactly how I would have
Speaker 1: phrased it myself that when she says it almost verbatim
Speaker 1: how I would have said it, I cracked up a
Speaker 1: little bit. I was just like, look, me and donutsy
Speaker 1: eye to eye a lot. But then there are times
Speaker 1: where I'm just like, girl, we are just fucking the
Speaker 1: same person a little bit. So then we go to
Speaker 1: entering the Fortress of unyielding power and authority, which is
Speaker 1: called if you are going to turn it into an acronym,
Speaker 1: the FUPA, which I at first was told was short
Speaker 1: for fat upper pussy area. I have since been told
Speaker 1: it is fat upper pubic area and can also apply
Speaker 1: to men. I don't know if anybody is accurate on
Speaker 1: that front either way, because I don't think anyone's an
Speaker 1: arbiter of this sort of word, so I think it
Speaker 1: can mean whatever. But uh, I, this just very much
Speaker 1: is the exact type of joke that I would expect
Speaker 1: the AI to want to lean into. So, oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just saw. Miss T says it applies
Speaker 1: to men, and Michael says, I had no idea there
Speaker 1: was another term that pupa applied to. I thought the
Speaker 1: joke was that it sounded ridiculous. Oh, Michael, you precious angel.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be here to tell you what
Speaker 1: fupa means and that it wasn't a gossip girl reference.
Speaker 1: Miss T. I have intimate knowledge of a certain male fupa,
Speaker 1: which I love very much. And Michael says, I should
Speaker 1: have known Matt wouldn't have some puerile intention with his jokes, wouldn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so uh this, he says, well, were you going to
Speaker 1: change the name to because the AI got sick of
Speaker 1: them changing it back and forth and froze it on
Speaker 1: this one, and so Doughnut's annoyed about not being able
Speaker 1: to change it. And when he says, what would you
Speaker 1: have changed it to? And she says, I don't know, Carl.
Speaker 1: Now I'm angry and I can't properly create when I'm angry,
Speaker 1: which I really need to put that one in my pocket.
Speaker 1: I can't properly create when I'm blank, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be any emotion at all. Florian had already put
Speaker 1: it in the chat, and in seconds there were dozens
Speaker 1: of animated responses. At least said it was hilarious and
Speaker 1: MANI was with Donut campaigning against it. Tran suggested calling
Speaker 1: it the Foop instead. I could tell it was going
Speaker 1: to become a thing with half the people calling it
Speaker 1: one name and the other half calling it the other.
Speaker 1: I kind of like the foop, not because I really
Speaker 1: have an issue with fupa as a joke, but there's
Speaker 1: something about foop that it's so quick and so tidy.
Speaker 1: I just sort of like it as a as a sound.
Speaker 1: So I sort of want to just go with foop
Speaker 1: and may do. We'll see, So we step in. We
Speaker 1: stepped to the side as two NPCs rushed by Haullingwood
Speaker 1: looked like bags of mortar. They were in the body
Speaker 1: of bugbears. But I knew there were some of my changelings.
Speaker 1: There was another dot ahead. It was an elite. He
Speaker 1: had the pink glow around his name indicating him as
Speaker 1: a soldier Elite Herman the fleet Ogres Strongman level seventy Legionnaire,
Speaker 1: Princess Posse and he they go into the room and
Speaker 1: there's like this moment before stepping inside where he's on
Speaker 1: chat with Florin saying like, tell me about the scouting system,
Speaker 1: because they agreed to do all of this via message,
Speaker 1: and that way you know if there's anybody listening in.
Speaker 1: Because there's this asumptions that spies are already in our midst,
Speaker 1: which is really sad to think, but unavoidable. I believe
Speaker 1: I think they're likely correct. It just makes me really
Speaker 1: bummed out because it's been such a show of unity.
Speaker 1: To know that probably someone's faking that is a real
Speaker 1: sad thought. Let's see, Ellie is off toward the Naga side.
Speaker 1: The beaver guys casters or whatever are talking. They're with
Speaker 1: that talking turtle guy. Have you figured out how the
Speaker 1: peacetime incursions work? Yes, only those with the Scout endorsement
Speaker 1: can go over the borders without a pass. If they
Speaker 1: get discovered. They're immediately teleported back to base during the
Speaker 1: ceasefire and can't go stealth again until the fighting starts.
Speaker 1: If they hit a trap, it'll still go off and
Speaker 1: kill them. We only get eighteen scouts. That's what those
Speaker 1: towers are for. We need full coverage. Build a tower
Speaker 1: and man it with a group of four or five
Speaker 1: folks with proper observation and ping spells, and we can
Speaker 1: keep the enemy scouts away. Already teleported out a dream
Speaker 1: scout and one of those octopus face fucks from the prism.
Speaker 1: I'll bet my left sack we're already infested with enemy spies.
Speaker 1: We got to get them towers up and do a
Speaker 1: full sweep and do it fast. And Carl says spamming
Speaker 1: traps too, And he says, I'm on it. But there's
Speaker 1: an eagle guy who's gone subterranean. He wants access to
Speaker 1: your trap. Table says he can prevent tripper spells. So
Speaker 1: this is when they step into the room and there's
Speaker 1: a mention from Carl that there's a smell of rock
Speaker 1: and moss of like you know, the outside, but there's
Speaker 1: also a really strong scent of sweat, which he finds weird,
Speaker 1: and I think that it is a result of this
Speaker 1: ogre freaking the fuck out, actually, and he is in
Speaker 1: pain and like kind of writhing, and he says, been waiting,
Speaker 1: Brother says, you good, supposed to do it already, been
Speaker 1: fighting it tell Brother tells sorry. Dozens of little info
Speaker 1: boxes all popped up, popped up around the ogre, all
Speaker 1: at once, and that was when I realized he wasn't
Speaker 1: wearing magical gear at all. He was covered in explosive satchels,
Speaker 1: and he there's watch out, Carl, watch out in italics.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure as I'm reading this, like what
Speaker 1: is that in italics? And it's the voice narrator is
Speaker 1: he says it in an odd voice. But I wasn't
Speaker 1: putting that voice together with she Maria. I was not
Speaker 1: clocking what was happening here at all. So I'm really
Speaker 1: curious if you guys picked up on the fact that
Speaker 1: that italicized bit was her talking to him, because I
Speaker 1: definitely didn't. And all of a sudden, here comes a
Speaker 1: fucking orc who just mashes her battle axe into his
Speaker 1: head and kills him and then says, I can only
Speaker 1: do so much for you, And this is Baroness Victory
Speaker 1: aka that bitch aka Minu Fave aka Goals. I am
Speaker 1: so sorry, but I really if anything happens to her,
Speaker 1: I am going to be very upset. I love her
Speaker 1: so much. And later on there's a point where Florin
Speaker 1: is like, I don't know if I should be terrified
Speaker 1: or in love, and I'm like, in love, Floren, you
Speaker 1: should be in love with her. You absolutely should. This
Speaker 1: bitch is absolutely clutch and is so fucking practical about everything.
Speaker 1: I live for this energy. You guys, you do not understand. Look,
Speaker 1: I am not trying to pretend that I can't be
Speaker 1: irrational about shit, Okay. I am not trying to pretend
Speaker 1: that I'm always measured and careful and reasoned in my
Speaker 1: response to things. Everybody knows that's not true about me.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's met me for two seconds knows if you
Speaker 1: ice a cake and a color I don't like, I
Speaker 1: am going to be fucking pissed about it. And there's
Speaker 1: no reason nobody cares. It's nothing. But I am aware
Speaker 1: that I'm being silly. Okay. There is a type of
Speaker 1: person that lets their own weird baggage get in the
Speaker 1: way of doing things that makes sense in a broader
Speaker 1: sense that makes me crazy, and it's part of why
Speaker 1: I am socialist. Is is it just actually the evidence
Speaker 1: all points to this is good for society and has
Speaker 1: been historically and is right now in other governments and
Speaker 1: other countries at all. You know, I am not letting
Speaker 1: the fact that socialism is a word that makes people
Speaker 1: curl up and die get in the way of seeing No.
Speaker 1: Evidentially this bears out, and I find it so annoying
Speaker 1: when people just get like triggered by these words that
Speaker 1: cause them to completely close off. And this is a
Speaker 1: woman who is coming in here with the energy of like,
Speaker 1: I'm here to uphold the rules, and I don't care
Speaker 1: if you break the rules. I'm upholding them. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm not like on your side. It looks like I'm
Speaker 1: on your side, simply because the people who most often
Speaker 1: break the rules are the guys in power who fucking suck.
Speaker 1: And we can all agree that they fucking suck. But
Speaker 1: don't think that means I'm cool with stretching them for you,
Speaker 1: because obviously, if we're gonna do that, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to hide it from her, which is interesting. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love this vibe, And I think upholding of the rules
Speaker 1: is not an inherently good thing, to be clear, because
Speaker 1: things being a law does not have anything to do
Speaker 1: with the morality of it. So I'll be very curious
Speaker 1: as it all progresses to see where she draws that line,
Speaker 1: because it seems like she's pretty interested in morality in
Speaker 1: a way, in the way that she determines it with
Speaker 1: like honor. So where does she fall How egregious does
Speaker 1: a rule have to be for her to finally go,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. No, I won't uphold that. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's probably gotta be pretty bad. I there
Speaker 1: has to be, like you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: just this. I just am very here for it. I'm
Speaker 1: so into it. And here comes this moment she says
Speaker 1: that was an unlawful assassination attempt by Sensation Entertainment, and
Speaker 1: I will be calling foul. I will be filing a
Speaker 1: grievance against the Dream who now owned the entertainment company.
Speaker 1: They were exerting undue influence on one of their elites
Speaker 1: to affect faction Wars. Princess Doughnut. That was an admirable
Speaker 1: shot and it may have saved you all she uses
Speaker 1: her magic missile. I will file for you to get
Speaker 1: credit for the kill. The orc paused, looking up at
Speaker 1: the ceiling. No, she suddenly said out loud, angrily, pointing
Speaker 1: at the ceiling. Absolutely not. That was clearly a foul
Speaker 1: by the corporate interest to purchase sensation, and if you
Speaker 1: don't like it, you should reread your own rules. In addition,
Speaker 1: you are out of line by not warning me he
Speaker 1: was being influenced. She paused again. I accept your apology,
Speaker 1: she finally said. She's running the fucking AI. I love
Speaker 1: it so much. The AI is just like, mam, I'm
Speaker 1: very sorry, and she's like, yeah, the fuck you are sorry,
Speaker 1: Get out of my face with your sories and follow
Speaker 1: your fucking rules. I am just in heaven with this bit.
Speaker 1: I wish that she was in every scene from now on.
Speaker 1: So they go into private chambers with her, and here
Speaker 1: is when we get the notifications that are oh so distressing.
Speaker 1: So they step in and a bunch of fucking windows
Speaker 1: begin to pop up for them, tons and tons of notifications.
Speaker 1: There's no organization to any of it, and Carl and
Speaker 1: Donut both are like unable to see because they're floating
Speaker 1: in front of their vision, so they're having to like
Speaker 1: get things out of the way and figure out how
Speaker 1: to organize it all. And he is beginning to see
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff from what's called the spam folder.
Speaker 1: And I saw three little dots indicating someone was in
Speaker 1: the middle of typing a message in the Prism chat
Speaker 1: and I realized it was coming from our side. Donut
Speaker 1: don't and Pristinadia needs to know how I feel about
Speaker 1: her portrayal, Karl. She knows, don't poke at anyone yet,
Speaker 1: do not her rumped. But she didn't send the message,
Speaker 1: so most of this stuff was useless, and everyone had
Speaker 1: started calling the list the spam folder. These were world
Speaker 1: chat messages not directed at us, hidden scale notifications, and
Speaker 1: dozens of other pointless game announcements. I blinked at the long,
Speaker 1: long line of strange notifications. I read the most recent
Speaker 1: ones from just a few moments earlier. A sense of
Speaker 1: horror overwhelmed me. And I really like how this is written,
Speaker 1: because it is a slow reveal of exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1: At first, I'm just sort of like, wait, what, And
Speaker 1: then as he goes on, I'm like, oh my God,
Speaker 1: Like I just got complete goosebumps all over me. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is such bad news. Gloom rayth phase
Speaker 1: failed to activate. Mind Balance prevented activation. You're attempted disabled.
Speaker 1: Mind balance was prevented by mind balance. Your mind balance
Speaker 1: has risen to level mind level nine. It had been
Speaker 1: level five just a few hours ago. I moved my
Speaker 1: eyes down the suppressed notifications page. My heart thrashed. There
Speaker 1: were hundreds of these entries, over and over again. There
Speaker 1: were pages of me attempting to cast something, and each
Speaker 1: time it got stopped. The Balance skill came from my
Speaker 1: new toe ring, though now it was trained up so much,
Speaker 1: I'd still have the skill minus five levels even if
Speaker 1: I took the ring off. I didn't dare she Maria
Speaker 1: was trying to cast spells and activate skills without my permission.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, y'all. I like, you know, when he
Speaker 1: got that mind balance skill, I was like, that would
Speaker 1: have been real nice a little while back, and I
Speaker 1: didn't realize what a huge boon this is. Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is who is responsible for him getting that toe ring.
Speaker 1: That's the AI, right, this is like the AI is
Speaker 1: like that, That's what would it have been like for
Speaker 1: Karl without that ah, that is so so scary, and
Speaker 1: Carl is remembering, now, watch out, Carl, watch out, and
Speaker 1: that she managed to break through for a second. So
Speaker 1: even though his level is increasing really rapidly because she
Speaker 1: keeps trying, she's slowly gaining the upper hand. If she
Speaker 1: broke through at all and spoke to him, you know,
Speaker 1: like that is just really really worrying. And Mordecai he
Speaker 1: like contacts him and he's like, we need to talk.
Speaker 1: And Mordecai says, if it's about that presence, Rosetta caught
Speaker 1: me up and we're working on a solution. We have
Speaker 1: a few options, none of them pleasant. There's something that
Speaker 1: Carl says a little bit later that makes me think
Speaker 1: something about Katscha's rehab is like gonna have something to
Speaker 1: do with the she Maria thing. When we get we'll
Speaker 1: get there, I'll point it out. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's right. I might just be kind of misunderstanding it,
Speaker 1: but uh sorry, Michael in the chat says, when I
Speaker 1: was reading, I didn't clock it as she Maria, but
Speaker 1: the Jeff gives it away with his voice. But maybe
Speaker 1: if I hadn't read it first, I also wouldn't have
Speaker 1: realized it immediately. She Maria's voice is distinctive once she's
Speaker 1: kind of gotten talking, but just that little bit wasn't
Speaker 1: distinctive enough for me to really realize who it was.
Speaker 1: When it was revealed to be she Maria, my blood
Speaker 1: went cold. And then she really is pretty awesome about victory.
Speaker 1: The female works of the Royal Family rock, the male
Speaker 1: one seemed to be pieces of shit. Agree, Ah, Henry
Speaker 1: is here or Henri I'm not sure, says I'll have
Speaker 1: to catch us on the replay. Just wanted to sail
Speaker 1: of the coverage. Ion't be here on the next live.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, thanks for coming. Michael says, we've
Speaker 1: heard how hard skills can be to level so it's
Speaker 1: going so it going to level nine within a day
Speaker 1: or two is pretty insane, exactly, And now we know
Speaker 1: why the AI said he needed the ring and didn't
Speaker 1: know how fucked he actually was. Jeff says, could She
Speaker 1: Maria be intentionally training up his mind balance skill? It's
Speaker 1: funny you say that, Jeff, because there was a part
Speaker 1: of me that sort of wondered that also, And I
Speaker 1: can't decide like a part of me wants that so
Speaker 1: much to be true. Because I don't want Carl inhabited
Speaker 1: by a thing that's like just trying to completely take
Speaker 1: him over and run him. On the other hand, I
Speaker 1: don't see how it benefits her for him to have
Speaker 1: it higher. So that's the main thing is that I
Speaker 1: don't think she Maria is is somebody who's thinking bigger picture.
Speaker 1: I think she is an NPC whose goal is exactly
Speaker 1: what it looks like. That said, the NPCs are behaving
Speaker 1: according to the AI, and so is the AI assisting
Speaker 1: in some of this happening the way it is. Perhaps
Speaker 1: it all kind of comes down to, like who is
Speaker 1: in the end really in control, And I genuinely I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know there is. And there's a
Speaker 1: part of me of like, you know, we had that
Speaker 1: moment of meeting those gods when they were their shrines
Speaker 1: needed to be repaired and they were being given options
Speaker 1: of who's shrine to repair, and Carl is being talked
Speaker 1: to by two different gods who basically can like see
Speaker 1: Carl's mental illness and can see, oh, sweetie, you're not
Speaker 1: doing too well. Huh, you are in dire straits. Actually
Speaker 1: I can help with that. And is it possible that
Speaker 1: she Maria knows Karl's going to be more susceptible to
Speaker 1: another kind of attack, and I won't survive if he
Speaker 1: doesn't survive, and so I have to level him up
Speaker 1: to get him there. It's possible. That's the thing is,
Speaker 1: like everything is sort of possible, but regardless, Carl's not
Speaker 1: in control of any of this. And that's the part
Speaker 1: that's so upsetting, is that you want to think the
Speaker 1: best of it just for the fucking comfort. But if
Speaker 1: it's not, or if it is, it doesn't matter, because
Speaker 1: it's happening whether he likes it or not, and that
Speaker 1: is so upsetting. Ugh. Anyway, donuts, first question to Victory
Speaker 1: is your sister was she nice or was she a jerk?
Speaker 1: If the oork Woman was surprised by the odd question,
Speaker 1: she didn't show it, but she did appear to think
Speaker 1: about her answer. My sister Ugly and I once had
Speaker 1: a very similar outlook on life. When she married into
Speaker 1: the royal family, she lost a lot of who she was.
Speaker 1: I suppose she was quite unhappy with how things had
Speaker 1: turned out for her. We had not spoken in a
Speaker 1: long while, but she did send me a message before
Speaker 1: she died, asking if I was planning on being an
Speaker 1: adjutant this season. She was going to the School of
Speaker 1: Pendra Club to meet up with the King and wanted
Speaker 1: to have an outing before the fighting started. Why do
Speaker 1: you wish to know, Princess? You can judge someone based
Speaker 1: on how they talk about the dead And Carl messages
Speaker 1: her and says, what TV show did you get that from?
Speaker 1: And she says, I didn't get it from a show.
Speaker 1: I really want to know you picked her out and
Speaker 1: I need to know if we can trust her, and
Speaker 1: he says, we don't trust anybody, but something tells me
Speaker 1: she's okay, and she says, but you trusted sister, and
Speaker 1: is and look how that turned out, which a fair
Speaker 1: It's an interesting answer. She doesn't say yes or no,
Speaker 1: She just shares facts and sort of is like, you
Speaker 1: can draw your own conclusions from the straight up information
Speaker 1: that I'm telling you, which is a very interesting approach,
Speaker 1: you know, and and the kind of thing that I
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not able to resist fucking editorializing. I
Speaker 1: would definitely be like, you know, I used to like
Speaker 1: her and then lately not so much. And she doesn't
Speaker 1: even go that far, although I do think that the
Speaker 1: subtext is what you're saying that you know. So let's see.
Speaker 1: The shanty town is usually small and unimportant and doesn't
Speaker 1: usually form until after the fighting begins and the NPCs flee.
Speaker 1: It is now quite large and completely circles Lrocos, giving
Speaker 1: the NPCs extra layers of security. One you control. We
Speaker 1: have three town upgrade coupons. Can we use them for this? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And with the new city defense system the AI created,
Speaker 1: you may be able to get something similar to what
Speaker 1: they have in Loroccos. But you may also use the
Speaker 1: coupons for your base here, and that may be a
Speaker 1: better choice. The ORCS territory had the most rivers and lakes,
Speaker 1: including the large, fast moving river that eventually drained into
Speaker 1: Larrocos itself. The Rocky Peaks made their way into Rolling Hills,
Speaker 1: which was the area of the operatics in Pine number two.
Speaker 1: The body of the main body of the enemy is
Speaker 1: massing on your border here, Victory said. Initial estimates appear
Speaker 1: there about one hundred thousand strong. And I love Carl
Speaker 1: has a moment of just complete dissociation here and she
Speaker 1: just ignores it as he's like panicing, going, wait, how many?
Speaker 1: And she stays on task because she is not one
Speaker 1: to be distracted by his panic. So, oh, sorry, Michael
Speaker 1: is saying, I would think regarding s Maria, I would
Speaker 1: think she wants more control because she would trust herself
Speaker 1: more than Carl to keep him alive. Her trying to
Speaker 1: activate gloom Wraith would have kept him alive but killed
Speaker 1: everyone else in the room. Yeah, this is the thing.
Speaker 1: Is like, what she wants to do, whether or not
Speaker 1: it's to his benefit, is in his benefit in the
Speaker 1: most purely keep him alive sense, and not in as
Speaker 1: I have any interest in his well being kind of sense. So,
Speaker 1: whether or not she's doing this to try and level
Speaker 1: him up on purpose, the side effect is she doesn't
Speaker 1: care about anyone else around Carl, and thus he would
Speaker 1: have another whole kind of baggage to carry along with
Speaker 1: having eaten Legion's eye, which is horrifying. Let's see, have
Speaker 1: you familiarized yourself with the ramp up? Now? This is
Speaker 1: the part that I found the most confusing. There are
Speaker 1: four phases. We're in phase one right now, the ceasefire.
Speaker 1: Then there's the ramp up, open hostilities and the peeling
Speaker 1: of loroccos. When the ceasefire ends, the ramp up begins.
Speaker 1: It lasts one hundred and eighty hours, which is such
Speaker 1: a strange measurement of time, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like you could just say, however many days. We're all
Speaker 1: in the same time zone here, so just say so
Speaker 1: many days. It's just a weird you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway. There are no celestial summonings. Egress
Speaker 1: into enemy territory by non scouts is only allowed through
Speaker 1: narrow kilometer wide gates. Each corridor is at the same
Speaker 1: spot and it's where the enemies are massing. And most importantly,
Speaker 1: offensive magic and teleport magic or skills will not be
Speaker 1: allowed during this second phase, which is fucking ben nanas.
Speaker 1: It's just offensive magic. Magic designed to cause direct harm.
Speaker 1: Magic are skills designed to transport you from one place
Speaker 1: to another. There'll be a suppression field. You can use
Speaker 1: such spells now, but the ability goes away the moment
Speaker 1: Phase two starts. The Wraith phase is an offensive skill,
Speaker 1: not a spell, and it will work. It's a phase,
Speaker 1: not a teleport. Puddle Jumper will not work. The Gate
Speaker 1: of the Paraoh Gods will not activate. You both have
Speaker 1: multiple spells that will work, such as Torch and hole
Speaker 1: and wisp Barmer, but unfortunately many more that will not
Speaker 1: traps will work as long as they're not teleport or
Speaker 1: summon traps. They have to be static. You can't repurpose
Speaker 1: them as weapons or artillery ammunition. And the rest is correct.
Speaker 1: It is designed to force bloody hand to hand combat
Speaker 1: and non magical artillery. During this time. You will be
Speaker 1: at a severe disadvantage. The other eight teams will have
Speaker 1: the numbers, and they're v astley superior weapons that they
Speaker 1: brought with them from outside. If you can survive this
Speaker 1: first week, then you might survive long enough to start
Speaker 1: moving offensively. This is such a bummer because like and
Speaker 1: Karl has this exact same thought. Later, there had been
Speaker 1: all of this reassurance from Tippis that like, yeah, sure
Speaker 1: the mercenaries came in with their weapons, but they weren't
Speaker 1: able to choose races or spells or anything. And I'd
Speaker 1: rather take my thing over theirs any day. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if he knew about the ramp up, if
Speaker 1: the rules about it had changed, or if he knows,
Speaker 1: and he just really believes that they will get past
Speaker 1: the ramp up itself and it will be he will
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to use those spells or what. But
Speaker 1: it does seem to me like there is they are
Speaker 1: really fighting an uphill battle here. What on your town?
Speaker 1: Can they attack that place during the ramp up? Yes,
Speaker 1: but if they capture it, they still won't be able
Speaker 1: to get into your territory or into Larroccos. They will
Speaker 1: attack if it's left undefended. I suggest treating with the
Speaker 1: NPCs to help defend the town. The bulk of the
Speaker 1: enemy forces will be concentrated on you, and they won't
Speaker 1: want to commit a lot of resources to taking the ring,
Speaker 1: as they will automatically get it should you fall. It's
Speaker 1: a tactically important prize, but not during ramp up. And
Speaker 1: basically what she says is you're going to be facing
Speaker 1: a lot of people who aren't going to want to
Speaker 1: risk lives if they can help it. They are not
Speaker 1: going to want to do lots of little maneuvers against you.
Speaker 1: They are going to want to have one big, decisive
Speaker 1: punch that takes you all out, using their superior numbers
Speaker 1: and their weaponry in one shot. These are not folks
Speaker 1: who have like military experience, and even the mercenaries are
Speaker 1: going to be people who often went up against unarmed opponents.
Speaker 1: So they're mostly security forces and they aren't really going
Speaker 1: to be used to this kind of thing either, And
Speaker 1: that is at least an advantage for our people is
Speaker 1: they have been straight up in battle for fucking months now,
Speaker 1: so in that respect, our people and former crawlers have
Speaker 1: way more experience. And he says one hundred thousand was
Speaker 1: a lot of enemies. I'd once gone to a concert
Speaker 1: with twenty thousand people and I couldn't get over how
Speaker 1: many people that was all at one place at one time.
Speaker 1: This was five times that. It was an insane amount
Speaker 1: of enemies. And I really appreciate that like mention of
Speaker 1: the concert, because this is something that got brought up
Speaker 1: for me when I was covering something in one piece.
Speaker 1: Marine Ford is this massive battle and there are so
Speaker 1: many people that just get laid out right and left,
Speaker 1: and yet they're keep being way more people to replace them.
Speaker 1: And at one point I was just like, we're all
Speaker 1: supposed to be on one island together, Like, how how
Speaker 1: many people am I supposed to think are here? How
Speaker 1: would this work? And Florian, who commissioned that, like he
Speaker 1: commented something like, have you ever been to a huge
Speaker 1: stadium concert. Think about that number of people, and that
Speaker 1: really did help put it in perspective. The biggest concert
Speaker 1: I've ever been to was Renaissance Beyonce, and it was
Speaker 1: eighty five thousand people and it was stunning. I was
Speaker 1: in the nose. I was literally three seats down from
Speaker 1: the furthest you could possibly get from the stage, and
Speaker 1: it was it was so overwhelming looking down and seeing
Speaker 1: how far away she was. You couldn't even tell that
Speaker 1: she was a person from that far away, Like the
Speaker 1: screens and everything were totally necessary to know what was
Speaker 1: going on, and it was just really it put it
Speaker 1: in perspective for me and thinking about like that being
Speaker 1: the number of enemies that you're facing down more than
Speaker 1: that even who that's a lot. So Florian is talking
Speaker 1: about how they have built defenses and they're creating a
Speaker 1: no man's land, just like one of those areas that
Speaker 1: crossing is like really hazardous tons of traps and also
Speaker 1: people that can like snipe you, and if they break through,
Speaker 1: we'll have multiple fallback positions. Then once they're through, they'll
Speaker 1: be able to flank us until we get to the
Speaker 1: FUPA one hundred thousand troops on one side, ready to
Speaker 1: pour over us like ants. Earlier, Tippet said had been
Speaker 1: a mistake for them to arm themselves with existing gear
Speaker 1: and not take classes and spells. I wasn't so sure
Speaker 1: about that anymore. This is when Louis katcha Batista, Samantha
Speaker 1: and a few others as it's put come into the
Speaker 1: room and Samantha is crying because Louis got married, and
Speaker 1: she tries to be like you, like, what did you
Speaker 1: think I was gonna do? You should have told me
Speaker 1: you were getting married, And Ruby is like you said
Speaker 1: or not Ruby Bonnie Bonnie says, well, you said you
Speaker 1: would like pull her out of the way and jump
Speaker 1: into place at the last second. And Samantha's like, first
Speaker 1: of all, you're a little kid, so you don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. And second of all, even if
Speaker 1: I did do that, that's no reason to not tell me.
Speaker 1: And this is when Doughnut's like, oh, it's just the
Speaker 1: first wedding. There's a real one, like a bigger one later,
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, oh my god, don't know. Why would
Speaker 1: you tell her that? And I would love to give
Speaker 1: her some like really smart, clever ulterior motive for saying this,
Speaker 1: but I don't think so. I think she just blurted
Speaker 1: some shit out. So this chapter ends with like Bonnie
Speaker 1: talking about how Scarn and a few others are playing
Speaker 1: with the airship and Louis hired gremlins. We bought an
Speaker 1: upgrade for our door guns. I've patted the tiny gnome
Speaker 1: on the head. You shouldn't have to think about that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, the little girl gave me a chilling smile.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to think about killing out worlders. Why
Speaker 1: shouldn't I have they stopped thinking about trying to kill me?
Speaker 1: Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch. So final chapter is fifteen
Speaker 1: time until the ceasefire ends thirty three hours, and I
Speaker 1: really like there have been times where it has felt
Speaker 1: like we have all the time in the world, and
Speaker 1: this is definitely the timing of every thing is making
Speaker 1: me feel very anxious. I would be sitting down and
Speaker 1: coming up with like a schedule for stuff because I
Speaker 1: would be so worried about getting everything done. And I
Speaker 1: have time blindness, so a schedule is sort of essential
Speaker 1: for me when there's many things to be done within
Speaker 1: a given period. We just have so many people that
Speaker 1: we have to get onto our team. We have got
Speaker 1: to level up our meatball guy. There's just a lot
Speaker 1: and it's overwhelming, you know. So fifteen starts off with
Speaker 1: our friends watching it this weird rolling ball that is
Speaker 1: a mob and they're all like remembering the weird swine ball.
Speaker 1: But it's not that it's slower. It's not making the
Speaker 1: same kinds of sounds and it stinks in a different
Speaker 1: way this. There's a few new people in the mix
Speaker 1: here with them as well. There's body, a level sixty
Speaker 1: big game spear hunter who's really kind of taciturn, And
Speaker 1: there's a couple of these dream elves who are not
Speaker 1: dream elves, they're just regular elves, but they're like really
Speaker 1: white skinned, and they are talking about getting a variety
Speaker 1: of different tattoos depending on like what group they wind
Speaker 1: up stationed with, and they've already gotten one that's like
Speaker 1: a combo human cat tattoo. Donut is not impressed, and
Speaker 1: when she's like, well, what if you want to wind
Speaker 1: up station with somebody else, they're like, well, we have
Speaker 1: more skin. And she says something to Carl like is
Speaker 1: this what it was like when you first enlisted? And
Speaker 1: Carl is like, it kind of is which is weird
Speaker 1: because these guys are like a thousand years and they
Speaker 1: are not behaving like that at all. Let's see, I
Speaker 1: was starting to come to the uncomfortable realization that everyone
Speaker 1: acting fairly human like was normal for the people of
Speaker 1: the syndicate, that the general citizenry of the galaxy as
Speaker 1: a whole were all similar to us in so many ways,
Speaker 1: despite their vastly different anatomies and cultures and environments. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what that meant, but the knowledge made me
Speaker 1: feel strangely unsettled. It was the same feeling I had
Speaker 1: during the Iron Tangle, when I just knew I was
Speaker 1: missing something, something important, And I can't help but think
Speaker 1: that this is like because y'all are coming from the
Speaker 1: same seeds, like they're mining you for resources, and those
Speaker 1: resources are all coming from the same place, the same
Speaker 1: like little tiny AI computer chip basically. So it's that that, like,
Speaker 1: there's a similarity in the structure of the programming in there,
Speaker 1: I think. But maybe maybe that's not it. That's just
Speaker 1: what my assumption is. So let's see, we were at
Speaker 1: the very edge of the map, humping down, humping down,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, ah, sorry, guys, hunting down one of
Speaker 1: the mob incursions into our territory Rolling Battle Formation Ball
Speaker 1: level seventy. Now it turns out that what we've got
Speaker 1: here are skanky skinkers, skank skunk Warrior. These things, long
Speaker 1: story short, are like what if skunk's stunk even worse
Speaker 1: than they do? And it's funny. Last night I was
Speaker 1: out with my husband. We were taking the dogs home
Speaker 1: from the dog park, and we passed a skunk that
Speaker 1: was standing on the side of the road, and I
Speaker 1: had a moment of just like, oh shit, because I
Speaker 1: was really worried it was going to run out in
Speaker 1: front of the car. It didn't move, and my husband
Speaker 1: didn't even see it our dogs how and just kind
Speaker 1: of turned and watched it. But he didn't try to
Speaker 1: like jump out of the car or anything. But I do.
Speaker 1: There's a point here where the AI says, I hope
Speaker 1: you have some hot hydrogen peroxide, soap and baking soda ready,
Speaker 1: And I actually do have like a little tupperware bin
Speaker 1: in my trunk that's got a huge bottle of hydrogen peroxide,
Speaker 1: a huge box of baking soda, and a I think
Speaker 1: it's just like a container of down dish soap and
Speaker 1: rubber gloves, because I have talked to so many dog
Speaker 1: owners that have their dogs have run into skunks, and
Speaker 1: you know, if you are out when this happens, the
Speaker 1: last thing that you want is to get your dog
Speaker 1: into the car with you to bring home to deal with,
Speaker 1: like without having washed it down or anything. So it
Speaker 1: was just funny because this was all on my mind
Speaker 1: last night after passing that skunk and being like, well,
Speaker 1: at least I know I had stuff with me if
Speaker 1: something were to happen. But this is obviously way way
Speaker 1: more intense. First, before we get to we have Jamal.
Speaker 1: You guys. Jamal. Jamal is a one of those guys
Speaker 1: that's made out of like a tattoo, and he is
Speaker 1: a hammerhead shark who's apparently quite fat, and Carl has
Speaker 1: made him these sort of crab leg like appendages with
Speaker 1: which to walk around, but Jamal insists on jumping on hopping,
Speaker 1: which always breaks them, and apparently has done this. This
Speaker 1: is I think the third time that he has done this,
Speaker 1: and he has a He talks in third person. The
Speaker 1: voice that he is given is almost a kind of
Speaker 1: like Indian, a sort of sing song. I must give
Speaker 1: you an apology. I just did a little hop and
Speaker 1: then the metal pieces did break again. Jamal has so
Speaker 1: many stories to give, and Jamal is giving you all
Speaker 1: of them. And this dude is driving Donut really crazy
Speaker 1: because talking in third person, I love her saying I
Speaker 1: have very few pet peeves, which is just patently false. Donut.
Speaker 1: Let's be very very honest. First of all, you're a pet,
Speaker 1: so all of your peeves are pet peeves. But also
Speaker 1: setting that aside, you get irritated by many things, so
Speaker 1: you know, stop it. Anyway, he talks about how he
Speaker 1: used to be an apex predator and now he can't
Speaker 1: even hop and how unfair it is, and oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Michael in the chat says, Jamal refuses
Speaker 1: to stop trying to jump the shark. I hate you
Speaker 1: so much right now, Michael, get out. I'm about to
Speaker 1: boot you. I'm one step from booting you. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So we're leveling rend up here. So what Carl does
Speaker 1: is he almost kills a mob and then he just
Speaker 1: holds rend out to bite down on it. And this
Speaker 1: accelerated leveling up. When we say accelerated, I mean that shit.
Speaker 1: He is growing before our eyes. At first, he's so
Speaker 1: small that he literally fits in the palm of Carl's
Speaker 1: hand and is like a meatball size. By the end
Speaker 1: of all of this, he's like a bowling ball. I think,
Speaker 1: maybe even a little larger. But of course we have
Speaker 1: the horrible effect of the stink attack, and we also
Speaker 1: meet He wore those little uh where is it? This
Speaker 1: mob looked like all the others, except he was maybe
Speaker 1: a little smaller. He wore a blue conical wizard hat
Speaker 1: with glittering star and planet patterns and little sparkles tinkled
Speaker 1: off the top of the hat. Fancy boy level fifty
Speaker 1: five skank skunk battle wizard. And there's a part in
Speaker 1: this description. He's actually a lot weaker, but he has
Speaker 1: a lot of spells designed to get the warriors to
Speaker 1: do what he wants. Funny how that works, isn't it.
Speaker 1: In books and movies, the leader of a gang is
Speaker 1: almost always the physically strongest want but in reality, oftentimes
Speaker 1: it's the opposite. The leaders tend to be the richest,
Speaker 1: or they lead simply because of tradition. They tend to
Speaker 1: keep their power by engineering a situation where things would
Speaker 1: get temporarily worse if they were gone. It takes a
Speaker 1: certain amount of desperation before people finally stop caring about
Speaker 1: their immediate futures and start looking at the long term.
Speaker 1: I just really there's a lot of sentences in the
Speaker 1: Kindle versions of these books that are highlighted, and mostly
Speaker 1: they're joke lines. They're funny lines, which I get. And
Speaker 1: then there's little gems like this that are not highlighted
Speaker 1: by anybody according to kindall, and I am just driven
Speaker 1: mad by that. This is where it all happens, guys,
Speaker 1: in these little moments, and you just don't it's just
Speaker 1: the jokes that get you. Uh, this is bars right here.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, fucking Christ. Anyway, the horrible attack. Carl
Speaker 1: also gets to utilize a gloom rath here, which is
Speaker 1: super gross, and he thinks about the fact that this
Speaker 1: is what the rage elemental did to Yolanda and is
Speaker 1: just disgusted. But uh, Doughnut gets hit along with Mango
Speaker 1: with this stink and it's so bad that everybody in
Speaker 1: it is vomiting and the people outside of it are
Speaker 1: close to vomiting. Jamal doesn't have any sense of smell left,
Speaker 1: and he's like saying, how grateful he is for that
Speaker 1: A little bit later on body. Meanwhile, I disabled the mobs.
Speaker 1: There will be suffering from our allies, but they will survive.
Speaker 1: We wait. That was by far the most words I'd
Speaker 1: heard from him. So, yeah, the stench is going to
Speaker 1: last for three hours before it goes away. The only
Speaker 1: thing that they can think of to do is Mordecai
Speaker 1: is going to make a potion for Donut that dampens
Speaker 1: her sense of smell and taste. I'm worried about, like
Speaker 1: potentially this being something that disables them noticing that something's wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, like if you're so overpowered by the scent
Speaker 1: of this skunk thing, what if there's like a smell
Speaker 1: of smoke that would let you know something's on fire,
Speaker 1: but you're not clocking it, you know what I'm saying. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I am running out of time, So we're almost at
Speaker 1: the end of this chapter, and I'm just going to
Speaker 1: really quickly hit the end of this. Uh. She's complaining
Speaker 1: about the skunk thing. Carl is saying, three hours and
Speaker 1: it's gone is way better than it would have been
Speaker 1: had you got hit by a skunk in the before times,
Speaker 1: to which She's like, I was an indoor cat that
Speaker 1: was never going to happen stop it, which she does
Speaker 1: have a point. And let's see why isn't that thing
Speaker 1: affected when my poor mongo got sick. It's not fair.
Speaker 1: He's pretty resilient. Well, we should have let him collect
Speaker 1: the sample of myss for Mordecai. What do you think
Speaker 1: he wants that stuff for? Anyway, body appears on the trail,
Speaker 1: indicating he'd found the found the path to the safe room.
Speaker 1: He disappeared again. I am like really hopeful that Bodie's
Speaker 1: not somebody that we need to worry about. The fact
Speaker 1: that he's just barely talking. Ah, I don't know, guys. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm now I'm like suspicious of everybody. Ellie says, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure I found all the artillery batteries on both sides,
Speaker 1: but I can't be one hundred percent. But we got
Speaker 1: a new problem. There's a nasty surprise. Ready. Remember when
Speaker 1: you said you wanted me to find out why the
Speaker 1: robot guys wanted pet leveling accelerated while I found out
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, So that's the end of chapter fifteen.
Speaker 1: So we've got some bad news coming up. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Michael says, there are people who say they don't get
Speaker 1: why people say they're anti capitalists Vibes and Dungeon Crawler
Speaker 1: Karl they must be joking. People who are not picking
Speaker 1: up on the anti capitalism in Dungeon Crawler Kral are
Speaker 1: the most media illiterate human beings I have ever heard
Speaker 1: of in my life. If you are listening to this
Speaker 1: and you don't get what I'm talking about, I don't
Speaker 1: know what could be clearer. And if you've been listening
Speaker 1: to the podcast this entire time and you haven't gotten
Speaker 1: it by now, you probably should stop listening to this
Speaker 1: and just go do some basic research on the history
Speaker 1: of capitalism and socialism and it's effect on cultures and economies.
Speaker 1: I just don't really know how much clearer this man
Speaker 1: could be. And it's wilful. It's just wilful. If you
Speaker 1: don't get it, you're trying not to get it. That's
Speaker 1: all I can assume. All Right, I've got a wrap.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys again, until next time to the Loom motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.