WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.800 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:17.920 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book two, Carl's Doomsday's Scenario, chapters 3 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:26.920 eighteen and nineteen. In these chapters, Carl and Doughnut go 4 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:33.159 to find the magistrate who is not in, who only 5 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:37.560 comes out at night lately, who has a whole lot 6 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.240 of highly suss things surrounding him that either means he 7 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.960 is doing the thing, has been taken over by somebody 8 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:50.359 doing the thing, is compromised in some way, or maybe 9 00:00:50.600 --> 00:01:14.079 is dead. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. 10 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:17.400 I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for 11 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:21.519 commissioning this episode, and Michael is here in the chat 12 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:26.120 along with Rob. Appreciate you guys being here. So this 13 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:31.159 section was really, really fun. It's sort of like it's 14 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:38.640 one of those things where I don't, okay, I'm going 15 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:43.200 to get one thing out of the way, and I 16 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.480 really want you guys to bear with me here as 17 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:50.319 I say this, because I know that they are going 18 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.680 to be folks rolling their eyes and frankly too bad, 19 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.719 but I just want to get out of the way 20 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:05.000 that the dead Hooker joke calling them dead hookers, the 21 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:11.840 way that that line keeps being delivered. I understand the 22 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.919 kind of vulgar quality of the word combo is what's 23 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.879 sort of funny and meant to give the shock value 24 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:25.240 that makes it in the moment feel particularly jarring, and 25 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:29.159 that is part of what adds to the comedic aspect 26 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:34.120 of it. So I understand the goal in using those words, 27 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:41.080 and I understand that perhaps taking issue with those words 28 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:44.639 might frustrate some people because they're like, that's what's funny. 29 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:50.280 But I just have grown very sick of the way 30 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:54.759 that we tend to treat sex workers in general, and 31 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:04.039 using this sort of like hooker horror language. It just 32 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:11.919 has grown to bother me. Now again acknowledging that if 33 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:19.159 he were to say dead sex worker, that isn't as funny. 34 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:25.080 It isn't right. But sometimes I think we need to 35 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:29.319 acknowledge that part of the humor of something is that 36 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.280 we're like kind of dehumanizing a person, and maybe we 37 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.840 should examine the fact that the more we dehumanize them, 38 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:38.879 the funnier it is, and just take a moment and 39 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:41.560 really sit with that and what does that mean about 40 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.680 our brand of humor and what we find funny and 41 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:47.240 just stop and think about it. That's all I'm asking. 42 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:53.199 I am not trying to preach here because I acknowledge 43 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:57.800 that dead Hooker is funnier, and I tried not to 44 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:00.199 let it bother me because I understand the sphear in 45 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.199 which I think he's doing this, But I just have 46 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:09.280 to acknowledge that every time it is said, I WinCE 47 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.120 a little bit. It's just, you know what I'm saying it. 48 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:19.319 It is turning the woman into the punchline when she 49 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:22.720 is the victim, and I think that's what is so 50 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:29.360 upsetting in a way for me. And I have no 51 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:34.800 doubt that the direction the author is going here is worthwhile, 52 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.480 So I'm not trying to say that he has gained 53 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:45.839 my trust mostly over this past book, so I am 54 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.680 trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, and 55 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:53.720 I am trusting that the overall message that he is 56 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:58.160 heading for here is going to be something that is 57 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:03.639 very humanizing, and that he is actually, in the end 58 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.439 going to do the opposite of what it seems like 59 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:08.560 he's doing with this joke, which is part of why 60 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.199 I hesitate to even bring it up, but I just 61 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.399 want to. I was running into this in a previous 62 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:23.319 recording as well. It's sometimes necessary for me to share 63 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.360 with you guys on one hundred percent truth about what 64 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:29.199 I'm feeling as I'm reading, just so that you guys 65 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:33.519 can sort of understand the changes that can happen in 66 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:37.920 my attitude towards something as I continue along, because there 67 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:40.600 are going to be times where something bothers me that 68 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.800 another time it doesn't, or something bothers me and later 69 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.759 I'll see why or something doesn't bother me, And then 70 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.000 in retrospect after I read a different thing, I'm like, 71 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:51.399 that was fucked up and I didn't even realize, you know. 72 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.240 So I think it's important, even with all of my 73 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:59.680 many caveats, to just tell you how I'm feeling about this, 74 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:04.360 know what I'm saying. Rob says, I am with you 75 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:06.600 one hundred percent on that. Like, we could also have 76 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.000 a storyline that doesn't have to deal with the precarity 77 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.360 of sex work, and that's another thing. And again I'm 78 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.079 trying to withhold judgment on this in general because I 79 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.839 feel like I trust where we might ultimately be going 80 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:25.560 with this. But like dead sex workers is such a thing, 81 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:29.199 it's such a trope that when it pops up there 82 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:30.959 is a big part of me that just kind of 83 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:36.519 lets out a deep sigh of boredom and just frustration. 84 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:38.839 You know. It's the kind of thing that it's like, 85 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.439 again not saying that that's what's happening here, but it 86 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:47.120 can feel very much like we're going to pretend that 87 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.360 what we are doing is shining a light on how 88 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:54.879 like dangerous it is for women and that they are 89 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.199 constantly in danger, when really what it is is we're 90 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:05.000 being very judgy about sex workers, and it's concern trolling 91 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:07.480 for sex work. It's like people who try and pretend 92 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.720 I just care about your health, when really they're just 93 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.519 fat shaving you. You know what I'm saying, It's like that. 94 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.240 But again, I'm just trying to withhold judgment and share 95 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:24.240 how I'm feeling right now and acknowledge that I'm aware 96 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.759 there's a possibility that all of this will be worthwhile 97 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:34.319 or turn a corner or something at some point. Rob says, 98 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:36.680 And it really fucks with my immersion in any series 99 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.879 when this happens. Michael says, got to remember that the 100 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.279 tropes are kind of deliberate. This is all a game 101 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.720 with well worn tropes, and that's part of it, Michael. 102 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.720 It's also like, that's part of what I think about 103 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:53.639 the author eventually going to make this being worthwhile is 104 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:56.399 that I think he's doing this to make a point potentially, 105 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.680 but also again not saying that's that's what happened, that's 106 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:04.600 what's happening here, but there are times where it's like 107 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:10.040 the trope is the point, but also the trope existing 108 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:12.560 is something the author is sort of hiding behind because 109 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:15.480 they just wanted to do the thing, so got to 110 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.319 keep an eye out. Rob says, I won't say that 111 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.399 Dinniman is perfect. And there's definitely some very fat phobic 112 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:26.560 stuff in the future books so future books too, but 113 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.720 it's never be labored and the other politics in the 114 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:32.600 book are incredible too. Yeah, the fat phobia is definitely 115 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:36.080 it's something that it's it's a really it's a very 116 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:40.159 slippery slope. You know, there's another series I'm reading that 117 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:45.039 is so good, but they definitely have that flavor to them. Occasionally. 118 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:49.440 Fat phobia is one of those things that even in 119 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:55.480 work that is so future looking and so aware, it 120 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:59.480 still creeps in sometimes and it is incredible how great 121 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.120 a person can be on so many things and then 122 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:08.000 they still will just you know, So we go into 123 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:12.440 chapter eighteen. Getting to this office had been a chore. 124 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.279 The town's administrative buildings had no first or second floor, 125 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.440 and we'd had to utilize donuts puddle Jumper spell to 126 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:23.519 teleport from the rooftop of a knife shop to the 127 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:27.200 landing entrance of the town hall. She recently hit level 128 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.720 five with the spell, which had solved the line of 129 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.679 sight issue. It basically added support for jumping up to 130 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.200 a higher elevation when you couldn't see the ground above you. 131 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:37.279 It was a minor edition, but one that made it 132 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:42.039 much more useful. We zapped into the building's third floor 133 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:44.120 entrance only to come face to face with two of 134 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:51.000 the village swordsman guards. And they don't have wings, so 135 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.279 they're just like regular dudes, which they don't know how 136 00:09:54.320 --> 00:10:01.840 these guys even got up here, which is interesting. See 137 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:04.679 don'nut had protested, but I talked her into putting Mango 138 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.600 into his carrier for this excursion. We were headed into 139 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:10.000 the legislative chamber of this town and the last thing 140 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.360 we needed was the murder Chicken to go on to 141 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.720 go a murdering. I really did like that the murder 142 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:21.320 Chicken to go a murdering. I just want to point 143 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:32.759 out that, Okay, so maybe this is going to seem 144 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:35.240 like a reach to some of you, and those of 145 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.440 you who disagree on my issue with dead hookers might 146 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:39.840 be like, oh, this is the first reach. Shut up. 147 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:46.240 I cannot help but think about how they have organized 148 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.440 everything in this town so that only skyfowl can reach 149 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:53.399 certain areas unless you have a literal superpower to get 150 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:55.559 you to the spot where you can talk to people. 151 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:03.360 And this just reminded me so much of accessibility and 152 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.360 ableism in our world, and I just wanted to take 153 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:11.559 a little aside. I have grown a lot more sensitive 154 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:15.720 to accessibility over probably the past five years. I would 155 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.559 say part of it was being on a trip with 156 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:22.559 somebody in a wheelchair. Part of it has been having 157 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:27.240 more friends who have disabilities and mentioned things in statuses 158 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:32.919 or stories of theirs. You know. And there is a 159 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.240 woman that I met when I was on a little 160 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.320 trip recently to a cosplay event, and she is a 161 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:47.279 cosplayer who is wheelchair bound, and she is well known 162 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:53.120 enough in cosplay circles that she is brought on panels 163 00:11:54.159 --> 00:12:01.200 at different cons to talk about accessibility in the cosplay 164 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:09.799 what's the word I want circuit? I guess. This woman 165 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:13.879 has been on I think four panels so far this year. 166 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:20.240 One of them had no ramp at all. It's a 167 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:23.840 literal panel on accessibility, and they did not make it 168 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:29.039 accessible to get through the panel at all. And the 169 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:34.960 second one had a ramp that had been installed incorrectly 170 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.559 and so was unusable, and evidently there was nobody on 171 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:44.720 hand to correct it. Both times she had to sit 172 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:49.120 in her chair on the floor in front of the 173 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:56.200 platform and speak on accessibility from a place that she 174 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.799 could literally not be seen by a lot of the 175 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:05.240 audience because she was seated and she is shorter than average, 176 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:08.159 and nobody had made a way for her to get 177 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:14.080 up on the stage. And I just really, I mean, 178 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:19.159 how are you not embarrassed? And she shares these and 179 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:25.840 tags the convention so like these places know, and you 180 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:30.759 would really think that all of their energy would be 181 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.919 going toward making sure this looks like as good as 182 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:36.039 it can look for the subject matter, even if it 183 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:41.799 is purely for optics and nothing else, even if it 184 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:44.519 is just for the very superficial. And yet they don't 185 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:49.679 even do that, which is deeply incredible to me. So Anyway, 186 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:55.039 I just wanted to mention that, sorry, Michael is saying 187 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:58.039 there's a bunch of chat here, but uh, I'm gonna 188 00:13:58.039 --> 00:13:59.440 go up a little bit. Rob says, I won't even 189 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.360 say that Dinniman is perfect. And there's definitely some very 190 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.679 fat foot Oh I read that in the instances in 191 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:06.519 these books are right on the line. It feels like 192 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.600 it feels honestly edgy in the truest sense of that word. 193 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:12.279 Michael says, even The Good Place had some fat jokes, 194 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.639 even if they were framed at showcasing how bad a 195 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:17.159 person Eleanor was. And yeah, that's another thing, is like 196 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:20.840 having a character say certain things that otherwise is terrible, 197 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:25.120 and like it's supposed to be that they are, and 198 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:27.279 so they're doing the thing. But also sometimes it does 199 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.720 feel like we're kind of cloaking it just so that 200 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:34.200 because we want to make the joke. Sometimes I do 201 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:38.080 feel that way a little bit with like Pierce in community. 202 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.200 You don't even have to get that literal. Just restrictive 203 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.759 voter laws like requiring a photo ID is restricting access. 204 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:46.919 It seems innocuous and easy until you learn that not 205 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:48.720 everyone lives in areas where it's easy to take some 206 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:50.440 time out of your work data head to the local 207 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.360 DMV and Rob says, an editor would tell you the 208 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:56.759 symbolism was too heavy handed if you wrote that, yeah, 209 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.240 this is life. Life is heavy handed a f as 210 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:06.240 I have come to learn. So the cataclysm, like the 211 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:10.600 Skyfall had been in charge. After the cataclysm, there scattered around, 212 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:14.279 but the remaining Eagle controlled villages, such as this one 213 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.879 still maintained a similar structure as before. As a result, 214 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.159 Magistrate Featherfall was the big boss man of this village. 215 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:23.639 In the old days, there would have been a governor 216 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:26.679 that he answered to. The third floor was a high 217 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:33.720 end shopping mall catering only to skyfowl. The administrative building 218 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.000 and home to the magistrate was directly above this floor, 219 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.840 but anyone visiting had to first walk through this section. 220 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.360 The shops reminded me of this type of stores one 221 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.159 would find at the airport, filled with expensive crep like 222 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:48.159 silk robes and fancy hats and scrolls. Even though the 223 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:51.440 sparse customers were all eagle folk, the clerks and assistants 224 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:55.279 were all non eagles, most of them harried looking young women, 225 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:59.759 human and elves rushing about being snapped at and verbally 226 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:09.159 used by skyfowl shoppers. You, guys, I will never forget Philadelphia, 227 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.360 despite being a very racially diverse city, is a very 228 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:16.840 divided city. It's like really segregated still in a way 229 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:24.120 that is jarring to see sometimes because I was originally 230 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:27.639 from New Haven, Connecticut, and that is a very diverse 231 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:31.720 and mixed together city as long as you don't count 232 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:35.279 like Yale being dropped in the center of everything. But 233 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:39.480 setting that aside, and I remember coming to Philly. I 234 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:41.399 was looking to buy a house there with my husband 235 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.120 at the time. So we got out of the airport 236 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:49.080 and went straight to a hotel. And when we we 237 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.519 got picked up in a cab driven by a black man. 238 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.159 We pull up to the hotel and the bell hops 239 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.320 outside are black. We stepped through the doors, everybody behind 240 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.159 the counters is. There's a literal shoeshine booth with a 241 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.200 black man working at it. There's a concierge with a 242 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:11.839 black man, and every single solitary guest was white. And 243 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:13.720 it felt like I had stepped back in time. It 244 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.319 was the weirdest sensation. I had never been in a 245 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:21.599 place that there was such a clear, visible divide between 246 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:24.599 the guests and the help and the help all being 247 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.519 a different color. I had never seen it before anywhere, 248 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:32.000 and it was just startling, you know what I'm saying. 249 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.720 And this is something that always comes to mind when 250 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:41.960 a place is described like this. They have to have stairs, 251 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:44.240 the help can get up there. I said, That still 252 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:46.640 doesn't explain how they get here in the first place. 253 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:51.400 Donna says, paintings of eagles fighting elves and other oddities 254 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.880 adorned the walls. I just want to point out that 255 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.640 the elves are like serving them in the store, but 256 00:17:55.680 --> 00:18:00.400 there's paintings of them fighting them on the walls, which 257 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:06.599 what is that reminding us of? We passed multiple guards, 258 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:09.480 a couple eagle shoppers who startled at our appearance, and 259 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:12.519 a handful of other bird like creatures called chickadees whom 260 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:16.279 I'd originally mistaken for juvenile skyfowel. These guys only came 261 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:18.519 up to my waist and were like dwarven versions of 262 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:26.279 the larger birds. So they run into a woman named 263 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.200 Burgundy and she's like, are you sure you're meant to 264 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:32.880 be here? And they they say they want to see 265 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.200 the magistrate, and she just says good luck and leaves 266 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.440 them to it. Eventually they get up there and they 267 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.839 meet miss Quill and it is described by the AI 268 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.160 as like, good luck getting past her to see him, 269 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:46.960 because if she doesn't want you to see him, you're 270 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:51.720 not going to see him. So Dona tries to use 271 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.880 her charisma and it is not working. There is a 272 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:01.680 suspicion that there is an anti charm spell thinks. So 273 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:06.160 as soon as Carl like, she says something about like, 274 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:11.480 are the Skyfall being targeted by this murderer? And he's like, oh, 275 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:15.079 so as long as it's not Skyfall, the victims can 276 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.039 just go fuck off. And she's like, yeah, that's what 277 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.839 it was like when my husband was magistrate, my late husband, 278 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:25.000 and now that it's featherfault, still the same. But please 279 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:28.880 feel free to leave a note describing this situation, and 280 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:32.319 if it warrants further investigation, we'll get back to you. 281 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:36.359 What about the evidence we collected? Should we leave that 282 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.359 here too? I asked. As soon as he said this, 283 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:39.960 I was like, he's about to drop a body on 284 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:43.279 this bitch's desk. I knew it instantly, because of course, 285 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:45.359 why would you not do that? Look at this bitch like, 286 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:48.319 and so yeah, I pulled the dead hooker for my 287 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.880 inventory and splatted her on the eagle's desk. The corpse's 288 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.160 legs still stiff with rigor upset, the line of beanie 289 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.440 babies tumbling them off the edge of the desk one 290 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:02.319 by one like a line of synchronized swimmers diving into 291 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:05.519 the pool. I've been afraid the system wouldn't let me 292 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:08.240 pick up and store the corpse, as it wasn't something 293 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.960 we'd tried before. I'd been surprised to find it did 294 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:13.720 let us, and it even helpfully labeled the body as 295 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.799 quest clues in my inventory, which I do kind of love. 296 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.599 So the beanie babies that are all of creatures in 297 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:29.319 this universe are obviously important to her, and they keep 298 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:33.039 basically holding them hostage and getting using them to convince 299 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:41.279 her to help them, and she calls insecurity, but because 300 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.039 he has this gate pass which allows you to carry 301 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.799 a dead body, the security just looks at him and 302 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.400 then turns around and leaves. And she is so mad 303 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:51.799 about it, and that is so fucking funny to me. 304 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:55.240 He asks how they get up there, and she doesn't 305 00:20:55.279 --> 00:21:03.200 answer him. This one is getting really dirty. I think 306 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:06.720 that the label tore on this one, Carl, stop stepping 307 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:11.279 on them. Stop stomach right now. Please just take it away. 308 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:14.319 The elderly eagle appeared to be on the verge of tears. 309 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:20.920 Take her away, Doughnut corrected, I love you so much, Donut, 310 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:25.319 I love you so much. So yeah, she says, he 311 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:28.000 only comes out at night nowadays. Oh my god, what's 312 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:31.039 that liquid? I don't know, I said, it's not blood. 313 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:32.799 They've had all their blood sucked out of them, but 314 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:37.519 their bodies still leak and smell. It's really gross. Please 315 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:40.640 please just take it away, take her away. I'll tell 316 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.640 him we were here, I promise. A milky white stain 317 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:49.400 of fluid covered Miss Quill's desk. I'm kind of thinking 318 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:55.359 maybe embalming fluid. I always imagined inbalming fluid as being 319 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:59.079 clear or like milky, and I don't know where I 320 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.160 got that from. I feel like I must have been 321 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:04.119 in a TV show I saw or something, but that 322 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:11.559 was the only thing I could think. So she gets 323 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:15.279 up to go get some paper tunnels and they tried 324 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.839 to open his chamber door, and a magical lock is 325 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:23.880 on it. My eyes focused on the top undisturbed line 326 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:28.559 of beanies sitting above her desk. Just tell him we 327 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:30.720 came by, I said to miss quill as we went 328 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:33.240 back down the stairs, and you're welcome for fixing your shelf. 329 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:39.039 I am really curious what the deal is with the 330 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:45.079 uh undisturbed and fixing her shelf. What did he do? 331 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:49.440 Did they put a camera in there? Is that possible? 332 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:51.759 I don't even know how what kind of equipment they've got. 333 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:58.799 I'm just trying to think, you know, hmm. Anyway, so 334 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:04.559 they're talking about whether or not the magistrate is their man, 335 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:08.359 and Doughnut says, we don't even know for sure he 336 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:10.960 has anything to do with it. Nope, I said, That's 337 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:12.440 why I wanted to talk to him when he was 338 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:16.079 in his office. I figured if he's some evil, crazy boss, 339 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:18.279 he wouldn't call off Freddy Krueger on us in public. 340 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:20.759 And if he's not the bad guy, surely he'd be 341 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:23.400 able to point us in the correct direction. But I 342 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:25.519 don't think it's that complicated. This quest is only a 343 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.319 silver one. Plus look at the clues. He's a black cleric. 344 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.920 He only comes out at night. It has to be him. 345 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:35.440 And I really appreciated this discussion because I definitely immediately 346 00:23:35.480 --> 00:23:37.039 when she was like oh, he only comes out at night. 347 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:38.920 Of course, I went, oh, is he the guy? And 348 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.400 then I went, that's a little too easy. But when 349 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:43.400 he points out that it's only a silver level quest, 350 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:46.559 I was like, oh, it never occurred to me that 351 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.400 depending on the level of quest, it's either more or 352 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:56.200 less of a twist. Potentially, you know, I'm interested to see. 353 00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:02.839 Let's see. Uh, oh my god, this is There's a 354 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:05.240 point where they passed by a place selling these beautiful 355 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:08.279 skyfowl robes, and Donut says something about how she would 356 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:12.440 love to learn how to fly, and I would love 357 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:17.720 to see Donut flying, honestly, like that would be I 358 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:20.400 don't know why, just adding she's got this old ciara, 359 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:24.519 adding like wings, how adorable would she be? Oh my god, 360 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:30.039 it would be too much. Zev said, if we were 361 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:32.200 fighting or in the midst of something, they wouldn't allow 362 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:34.359 us to get transported, which was why she preferred us 363 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:36.799 to be in a safe room. When it was time. Still, 364 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:39.039 we had two hours, and I decided we should use 365 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:42.000 the time wisely, so we left the city and traveled west, 366 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:47.759 searching for mobs to kill. I had two dozen hoblobbers. 367 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.240 The fuses on the bombs were between six and seven seconds, 368 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:53.640 which was perfect when I was tossing them like they 369 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:56.160 were grenades, but when I was hurling them at two 370 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:58.839 hundred and fifty miles per hour at a mob six 371 00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:02.039 seconds was a little too more so instead, I pre 372 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:04.720 lit ten, which took two and a half seconds off 373 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:09.240 the fuse. Both Mordecai and Donut were mortified by the 374 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:12.000 idea of me walking around with lit bombs sitting in 375 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:14.400 my inventory, but it was pretty much the only way 376 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:16.720 I could properly do this with the equipment that I had. 377 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:21.079 I can't get enough of how fucking cavalier Carl has 378 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:24.240 gotten a bad explosives. I am waiting for him to 379 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:27.480 really fuck himself up, and like I'm not even blaming him, 380 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:29.359 but this is the nature of the beast. Anytime you 381 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:31.400 are doing something that's highly dangerous, but you do it 382 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:34.559 for a long time or repetitively, you start to get 383 00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:37.200 used to it and stop treating it like the danger 384 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:39.480 that it is. And I'm not saying that he's wrong 385 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:42.279 to even handle it this way, because I think that's genius, honestly, 386 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:46.079 but like that is what happens. Is the more you 387 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:50.240 the longer you go doing something very dangerous without getting injured. 388 00:25:50.759 --> 00:25:52.920 The more you begin to behave as if that injury 389 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.200 isn't a possibility at all. And so I'm just like, 390 00:25:56.279 --> 00:25:59.759 I got my eye out, man, Just start being a 391 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:08.079 way of this stuff, Carl, I'm just saying. So we 392 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:11.440 walked a row of especially decrepit buildings. Manga walked beside us, 393 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:14.759 randomly growling, I've been alarmed at first, but there didn't 394 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:16.920 seem to be anything out there. We hadn't seen anything 395 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:19.960 for fifteen minutes. Then I saw the X on the map, 396 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:22.480 and I realized it was the corpse of a neighborhood boss. 397 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:25.640 This area had already been cleared by somebody else, probably 398 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:29.480 a few days earlier. The attack came just as I 399 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:31.759 was about to descend into an abandoned used to be 400 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:37.759 indoor swimming pool. And what it is is that these 401 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:43.519