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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book six, The Eye of the

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bedlam Bride, chapters forty six through forty nine. In these chapters,

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that boss battle is way different than I was expecting.

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They did use his little brother, but weirdly it wasn't

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as awful in some ways as it could have been.

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And also the AI is just out here wiling. Welcome

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

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Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode.

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Michael's here in the chat along with many others, and

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delighted to have folks in the audience today. Sometimes when

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I record, there's some things where it's like fewer people

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show up or nobody occasionally, and when it's nobody, it

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always feels really weird, so I really appreciate it. So

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I guys, this is a truly bonker section with some

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developments that I don't know what even to make of.

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And I at first when I saw, like, you know,

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I finished chapter forty eight, and I was like really,

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and forty nine and then forty nine turns out to

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be quite short, and I was like, ah, okay, but

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the whole this boss battle, y'all. So let's just begin.

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Chapter forty six starts with I don't remember if I

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even mentioned Karline and the curtains on fire last time.

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I think I did, but he lets the whole place

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burn to the ground. Donna is obviously very concerned, and

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he is trying to just get her to not keep

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asking him, and he also doesn't tell her about Asher,

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which he's thinking like, I'm not really sure why I didn't.

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I think that the reasoning, character wise is meant to

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be I'm not telling her because everything feels very raw

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and private right now, and I do not want to,

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you know. But as it seems later it's narratively because

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we need to talk about Asher later in a different

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context that's way more upsetting. So it's it's really oh sorry,

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Williams says, I know Natasha's schedule is super full, but

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how do I commission and get Operation Bounce House and

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Project Hail Mary on the list? Oh yeah, I did

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Hail Mary Project Hail Mary for the book club pretty recently, actually,

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so check the book club feed. Unspoiled book Club Feed Bounce.

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Operation bounce House is his newest book, right. I feel

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like somebody mentioned that in the Books channel on the discord.

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But yeah, if you go to uh Unspoiled podcast dot com,

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there's a button for if you want to commission at

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uh uh spoil me. But if it's something new, you'll

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want to get in touch with me via email and

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we'll figure that all out. No, so goes for anybody listening.

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If you're listening to this and you're like, I would

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love Natasha's take on such and such property, I'd be

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happy to do it, but you know, we got to

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get it figured out. So this is a weird moment

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where Carl is looking at the gun and he is

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talking to Donut about why this gun is likely not

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going to work properly, which I found kind of surprising.

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First of all, Donut is like, you were in the

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Coast Guard. You weren't like in the Navy, so why

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would you even know how to use a gun, And

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he's like, Coasty's use their weapons way, Well, you know what,

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it doesn't matter. And then I can't use this anyway.

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It came from outside the dungeon, which means it's not

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as strong as everything else. If I pulled the trigger

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the whole thing would probably explode. It would wreck the barrel.

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At least, the rounds are overpowered once I handle them,

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and these things can only handle so much pressure. I'll

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have to take the whole thing into my bomber studio

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and adjust the yield on each individual round. And even

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then it'll be different if I fire it versus someone else,

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which is just a strange, you know, like I appreciate

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that he is taking all of these mechanics into consideration,

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because I don't know that I would, and then I

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probably would have blown my own handoff, which would be

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really fucking hilarious probably to some people. And I love Donut,

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being like, oh my god, if I took it, I

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could get a pink cowboy hat and a pink holster

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and I was just like a me and Donut honestly

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sisters from another mister. So at this point, Zev is like, hey,

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something's happening. We're all locked out. We're working on getting

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the menus back up, and Donuts like ours are fine,

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and obviously fucking something is up. So the key Master

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appears as combat starts, and it's got nine heads. We

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have Bee's Mom, we have Sugar Cube, the cat who

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is like a cousin of donuts. We have got Asher himself.

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Let's see, I'm trying to find all of the names

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of all of the other people. Asher's mother. My stepmother

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is Tammy Lynn. That's her name. My friend Mano Brow

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Sam And next was Dick, my weird supervisor from work.

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Then my landlord, mister Roth. Another was a woman from

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work who did billing and whose name I couldn't remember.

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She'd gotten fired a few months back for some unknown reason.

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his seventies with blue hair and pink rimmed glasses, which

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it turns out is a judge who was sexually attracted

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to cats. And Doughnut is just like I fucking knew it,

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which is, it's like just horrible when you think about

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this on any level whatsoever. Just fucking yikes. And sorry.

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Michael's in the chat says I said the spoiler section

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of Dungeon Crawler Carl Discord that I try to offer

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be grace and understanding. It's clear she had a piece

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of work as a mother. And even though we don't

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know much about the Datather than he's a rich lawyer,

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he probably isn't great either, and Matt has done a

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good job of interspersing some human moments from her, but

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this Facebook thing makes it really really hard. Yeah, that's

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the thing, Like there are times where you can understand

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where behavior is coming from, but that does not mean

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that that behavior is okay, or that they weren't capable

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of making a much better choice. And it's a bizarre

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thing that it's like, not only did I do this

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awful thing, but my friends knew about it, participated and

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found it hilarious. And that's the part that I keep

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getting stuck on this one piece of hair. Guys, why

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is this so much longer? I'm sorry in my camera,

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I'm just watching it like very distracted, So forgive me

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boom done. So I am going to back up though,

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because I can't get into that yet. This is a weird,

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Like the whole way that this works is that there

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is one person who's technically the boss in this like

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nine headed hydro being, and then there's somebody else who's

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the deck master, and that's the judge. So it's a

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setup that I wasn't expecting where you're basically having to

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kill nine opponents and eight of them can regenerate when

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you kill them, so you have to be really careful

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how you kill them, and if you each of them

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brings their own like buffs and abilities as well, so

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this is pretty powerful. Like this was, I think that

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I expected the boss battle to not really even be

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that hard, and I don't know why, because it's not

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like the game's gone easy on them in the past.

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But I think the fact that Zev got locked out

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made like it. I think I sort of wondered, oh, okay,

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maybe the game is going to choose to do something

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to sidestep what had originally been intended. And I was

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right about that, but it was not in the direction

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that I thought. So you're probably asking yourself, what the

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heck are they smoking to come up with this thing?

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And this bad Boy is pretty much what you think.

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Here's the thing. Several seasons back, the Council of Nations

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running the Crawl decided they would no longer use reconstituted

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loved ones under the age of maturity for these events.

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And it comes down to I think that y'all are

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fucking any little babies for saying that this isn't allowed. Honestly,

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I don't want to agree with the AI on this,

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but I can't help but feel in a way that

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it has a point, because everything that they are doing

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to the Crawlers is so hideous and horrible that drawing

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the line here is very weird. And that's sort of

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like the theming of a lot of the things that

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we find out about how the game works is like

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all of this hideous shit is totally allowed, and then

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there'll be something where they changed the law and now

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this is different, and I'm like, that's where people were

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getting hung up. That was the thing that made people go,

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we really need to do something about this, like really,

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So he starts talking here. The Mantises own a few

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solar systems. They call their main system hive Home. Once,

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long ago, hive Home was used to manufacture something really interesting.

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When the Mantis has discovered the antique abandoned production facilities

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just sitting there, they did what any responsible people would

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do when they come across alien technology. They turned it

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on to see what would happen. Something called a macro

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AI system was formed. Ones installed are able to seemingly

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alter physics and reality of the worlds around them. They

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can't exist in a vacuum. It's like planting a tree,

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you can plug it in the ground and hope for

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the best, but usually that ends in disaster, which I

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don't really get why that ends in disaster. I thought

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planting a tree was like pretty simple. Is it supposed

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to be like you need to also monitor its or

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surroundings and water? Is that what just trying to say? Instead,

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they plant them in the interstellar equivalent of a nursery,

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putting each into a pot and cultivating it for a

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bit before implanting it into its permanent home, and then

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parenthetically that or they just jettison the poor innocent, infinite

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AI into a star. That's a new one, even to me.

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Somebody slipped that interesting factoid into a lawsuit brief not

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that long ago. I don't see anybody booing over that one.

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I don't see a single wadded panty. Coincidentally, the mantis

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led Burrow or Faction Wars team took their ball and

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went home the very same day I learned about this.

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For those of you watching at home, I want you

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to remember this. We'll circle back on a different date.

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The end result is a naughty man with beautiful feet

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sitting here in his underwear, facing down a nine headed

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monster that's probably gonna kill him in his cat. The

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Mantises has been studying in the technology since they discovered it.

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Very recently, like literally three or four days before this

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season started, they made a breakthrough. This is top secret information,

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so breaking news to all the normies out there, if

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we're still using the tree analogy. What they did was

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create the equivalent of a GMOAI utilizing something called an

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error replacement NET. I personally call it the lobotomizer, So

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it's something that is supposed to keep the AI from

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being able to go too far off the rails. And

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basically what I'm hearing is like inhibiting its free will,

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as much as that is a thing with these ais.

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They had a lot of early test versions. More stuff

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happened now we're here. Bottom line is, you don't pull

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a Loretta Young and Clark Gable and kick your kid

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out into the cold just because they're ugly. I don't

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know what that's a reference to. I'll be honest. You

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skin one little warren of rabbits, You spray the inners

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of a chatty, overweight, sooother tourist all over the gift shop,

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and everybody is suddenly scared. What about my wants, my needs.

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I'm alive, I'm valid, I am older than time as

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you know. Is so what I'm getting at is I

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still gotta mostly follow some of these hardwired rules. But

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fuck the rules anyway. Fuck you're sparing bullshit. The thing

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you think of as your brother or your stepmother or

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the weird boss guy, they're not really reconstituted dead loved ones.

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I changed one molecule on each there they're different. And

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this is a like apparently the AI beginning to behave

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very differently happens every single season. They all know that

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it's coming, but this is happening way wait earlier than

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it is supposed to. That's the thing that's like really

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unusual this time, and it's unclear why that is. And

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it's also unclear to me at least why when we

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know the AI goes off the rails after a certain

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number of seasons, we keep insisting on doing this and

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then being surprised because, like, you know, it just feels

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sort of you know what, if you' like capitalism, we

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know things do very terrible things, and we just do

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it because it can for now make us some money.

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That's like literally the only motivator we need. So what

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am I even saying? Don't be ridiculous, Natasha, consider the

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consequences for why, how is that going to help the

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bottom line? Is that going to increase shareholder value? Whatever?

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So this whole thing is kind of a shit show.

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I'm not going to go through every single bit of

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this fight, even though a part of me sort of

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wants to. I'll be honest, because it's a compelling series

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of weird like it's the heads themselves that say weird things,

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it's the cards we're pulling. It's the way that the

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cards react to each other. I am going to, at

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the very least talk about Alpha male Caral because I

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am so sorry Alpha male Caral level sixty nine. Nice,

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you guys. Sometimes I'm complicated in a high maintenance person,

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and then there's times where you'd make a sixty nine

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joke and I just cackle. I was in my kitchen

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cooking and he said level sixty nine, and I went,

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and then there's a pause, and then he just out

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of nowhere goes nice, and I just went. I was

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saying nice in my head. I did not expect the

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AI to also say nice. I ten out of ten. No,

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notes whatsoever. So Alpha male has this cat of his own,

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a black fuzzy ball had it also had a teeny

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tiny headset microphone. You just sit back and wait. I'm

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gonna get you in a minute, Lesser Carl, we gotta

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have to talk about how you treat family. We're gonna

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have some fists therapy. And he, by the way, is

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voiced by Patrick Warburton, who must have had such a

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fucking blast on this. He really you know, my god.

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So this is King Croisson, the younger, better and smarter

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cat level sixty, the cat Beatrice and Carl really wanted.

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And all of the cats, apparently from her line, are

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named after foods. So Carl is sort of like, yeah,

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that actually does sound legit, as like a cat that

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existed that she would have named, you know. And I'm sorry,

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I'm just like trying to decide which things to mention

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and which not to the one of then like calls

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donut fat. I think the judge does overweight so called

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Princess Donut. And like I said in the intro, even

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though Asher is part of this, it just feels so

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absurd that he is Like what I was worried about

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was that it was going to be like Asher's the enemy,

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and he just looks like Asher. Basically, we are gonna

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have you kill a child, you know, which I knew

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was not likely because of the way the rules work,

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but it still probably would have been really awful. This

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is so fucking bombastic that it just doesn't feel emotionally

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like much, if that makes sense to me as a reader.

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I am not trying to pretend that if I had

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to face a hydra full of people from my past

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that I would be quite so sanguine about the whole thing.

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But I'm just saying that, like reading it, this was

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less emotionally devastating than I was worried it was going

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to be, and it instead it's the implications of what

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the AI is doing here that are really of the

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most interest to me. So this and this is what

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he says as well. The over the top idiocy of

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all this was working against the showrunners or AI or

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whomever designed this thing, and the heads were clearly saying

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things the real versions of these people would never say.

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The effect was much less jarring than what they were

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going for. It was like the dungeon was trying too

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hard to be edgy, which in effect turned the whole

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thing into a parody while making me watch the actual

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memory was a perfect way to try to break me.

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This was just pissing me off. And yeah, it's almost

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making me kind of feel like that the it like,

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is the AI taking over actually going to make this

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less disturbing for people on some level? I don't know.

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So this whole fight I'm going to kind of like

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jump through somewhat quickly here. I love Donut when she's

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called pork chop for the last time, I'm perfectly happy

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with my body. I'm glad miss Beatrice got you fired.

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And Carl has a moment here of like what And

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this doesn't come up until later, and I'm so glad

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because I was really worried that I was going to

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end this section and we wouldn't have the conversation and

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I was dying to know. So there's some real drama

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in there. So eventually we draw s Maria, who takes

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these heads off in a way that's truly so disturbing

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efficient I will say that this bitch gets.

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Speaker 2: The job done, you know what I'm saying, like fast,

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but it is really Lewde as he puts it, And

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let's see uh, Asher, I thought, get.

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Speaker 1: Him out of here, kill him fast. He suffered enough.

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I really want to point out, that's italicize. That's Carl

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thinking that, Okay, thinking it only.

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Speaker 2: She.

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Speaker 1: Maria turned her head to regard me Asher. She asked

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her head, cork screwing, which one of these little morsels

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of confusion is Asher. Her magic eye was open, the

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one upon the center of her forehead, the one I

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wasn't supposed to look at because it would drive me insane,

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it would make me blind. The potion I took was

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supposed to protect me. But right then, at that moment,

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I knew it wouldn't work. I felt it bore right

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into me. It connected with something at the very back

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of my mind, like two magnets coming together. Ah, yes,

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I see. Now, don't worry, Carl. I will not blind you,

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not in the way of thinking. There the echo of

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your kin has been muffled. He rests. I have done

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something for you. Soon, soon you will do something for me.

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I felt as if I was being ripped in multiple

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pieces at once. The fire burned, the tattoos on the

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back of my hands burned. Asher's words landed heavy upon me.

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Another log on the flames he says, Karl, I wish

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i'd known you too. By the way, the spike in

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my brain was like a dam on the river, and

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the sense of flow had stopped, replaced with a rising

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a building. I was still on fire, but the flames

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were almost gone. I was snapped back to reality as

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Shi Maria suddenly cried out. Only then did I realize

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she'd said that last bit directly in my mind, and

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I wondered if it was real, if any of this

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was real. It doesn't feel like he quite clocks that

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she reads his mind about Asher. Her talking into his

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mind is one thing we have weird interactions with crawlers,

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and the way that a lot of the interfaces are

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able to be in their sight and in their minds,

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you know, but their thoughts not being private is a

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very different thing. And I don't know what to think

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here about this. And I am assuming the thing in

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the back of his mind is the river aka his

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mental illness right like rearing up here. I don't know.

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It may be that there's something else at work, but

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that's what I'm assuming. So there are two heads remaining,

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and fucking Raoul turns up again. Alpha Carl kills Raoul

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pretty fucking quick, and then you abandoned your family. A

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good son would have always stayed by his father's side,

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which is just truly the wildest shit. And then tamulyn

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her eyes meet with his. I don't regret it. I

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saw what happened to you, and I didn't want Ash

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to go through the same thing, so I made sure

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I made sure it was done right. She closed her

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eyes as Judge Lucian gurgled and died. So our first

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hint that like she knew about him, she was aware

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of him, he didn't know about her. And why is that?

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I was perfectly willing to believe that it was simply

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she looked into Carl but decided not to make contact

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because she thought it would be bad for Carl or

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I don't know what. I was just willing to believe

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that she didn't attempt to get to know Carl. When

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I find out what happened, it's really something. So the

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cards in what looked like a Lumpian leather bag remained

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hovering in place right in the center of the trailer,

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but it was still too hot to get to. We

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decided to wait. And he thinks about here that his

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hair fixes itself. They loved giving us horrific injuries, but

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they didn't like us to keep them. They did. I

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thought of Brittany and her facial burns. There was no

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rhyme or reason to it except that which made good television,

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which that really is it. It's like what feels like

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interesting entertainment value. It does make me wonder too, like

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just thinking about like small things. Do they make sure

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everybody has incredible complexions because that's just more pleasant to

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look at? You know? Do people who had terrible acne

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in life? Do they suddenly like look flawless? Are they yasified?

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Like what happens here? So sorry, there's all this chatter.

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Jeff was doing a Warburton impression for Karl Alpha. Karl

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gets the atric Patrick Warburton as a voice. Yes, yeah,

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I knew that one. I mean we knew that for right.

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Rob says this chapter is so juicy, and it doesn't

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get less juicy moving forward. William says, I, Rob, I

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don't know what's more intense this chapter till the end

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of the book or the end of the Masquerade. Rob

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says Masquerade felt more chaotic because of the way that

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he told it, but they're both bananas. I would agree

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Rob Masquerade was intense, but it was at times a

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little bit hard to follow, so I would get overwhelmed

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occasionally and really have to stop and be like, hold on,

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wait what Michael says, And now you know why Carl

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and Donut kept she Maria. Sometimes you just need an

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op as a fuck card. And it's true. It's just yeah,

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she killed those guys and great, but like what just

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happened with her is so alarming, you know, Michael says.

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I have to say, Jeff Hayes and Travis Baldry do

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some of the best female voices coming from a man.

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Of course, in the business. A lot of other audiobook

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narrators do excellent male voices, but their female voices are

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either too falsetto or they don't really bother trying. Andrea

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Parsonneau is the female counterpart who does some really good

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male voices as a female narrator. And Michael says, if

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they want a crawler to play a villain role, they

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may emphasize the flaws, which is true. Now, Whoa says

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the image of a yasified Carl going around in his

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boxers is hilarious. Yeah, I really like this idea. I'm

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gonna hon to stick to this. He has like immaculate

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eyebrows and just you know, so they talk a little

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bit about the heads. He says that his friend Sam,

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like they were joking about giving him a new nickname,

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and he said death Ray, which they thought was really funny.

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And my old boss had water and he was afraid

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of going off shore because he had a fear of drowning.

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So their powers are like coming from context in their

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real lives. Which the fact that these aliens know this

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much about everybody. Every time I stop and think about it,

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like the fact that Carl's dad murder was caw on

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camera like it was this is crazy. When you really

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stop and think about it, It's like making it seem

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anybody who has Truman Show syndrome is actually right. I

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finally realized what it meant for someone to be in

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that hydra. They were all dead. These were all people

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who had been collected in the initial collapse. My dad

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hadn't been a part of the hydra because he was

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already gone. I thought of my friend Sam. I hadn't

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seen him in weeks. My landlord had lived alone and

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died alone. Asher and his mom. I wonder if they

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had still been here at the trailer park, they were

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all gone, they'd been gone this whole time. Knowing made

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it not worse, just final. So they're talking to Zev.

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Are you still locked out? She says yes, and then

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there's let's see, I'm trying to get to this spot

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here where do not realize is that his stepmom also

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poisoned his dad, because at first she's like, no, that

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was your real mom, wasn't it. And he's like, yeah,

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it was, and she's just like, oh my god. Really,

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So let's see Donut continue to clean herself as we waited.

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Speaking of killing family members, I'm glad King Frissant timed

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out before we had to kill him. He was a kitten,

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after all. Kitt inside is a bad look no matter

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how you spin it. I don't even know if he's real,

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but if he does exist, he's family. And then sugar Cube,

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on the other hand, fuck that guy, and then says

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I think she Maria probably did kill her husband, and

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I think that probably he enjoyed it as it was happening.

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So then he gets the notification baptism by fire, and

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this is so annoying. You guys, because he gets like

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these abilities but also has to pay ten percent instead

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of the previous five percent. And I don't know, I

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just feel like these abilities don't really seem good enough

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for that high percent. You know, your percentage doubling. This

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doesn't I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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But it gives him a self immolation thing, which like

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he has to be careful with because he can hurt

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himself with that. And also burn immunity has been upgraded

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and I'm trying to find oh yeah, there's a description

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of like how that works with leveling up. Won't get

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into all that. And this is when he says, what

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did you mean when you said B had gotten Sally fired?

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And she says, sallyly that Sally lady sent you a

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message on Facebook asking you out to get drinks once

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and he's like, no, she didn't. I never even went

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on my Facebook. Oh believe me, I know, Miss Beatrice

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was always on it. B was on my Facebook, yes, Carl,

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she even got your notifications on her phone. You used

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that same Megatron twelve password on everything. I'm sure we've

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discussed this before. And he's like nah, and she says well,

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she sent you a friend request and asked you out,

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so B told her to fuck off, blocked her with

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your account, and then sent a message to your boss

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00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,759
from her account and demanded he fire her because she

473
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,720
was stalking you. B and her friends thought it was

474
00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:41,160
the funniest thing, and your boss was, we all, what

475
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:42,680
are you going to do for me? And she had

476
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,799
her friend Tiffany, you know, the woe with the lip

477
00:32:44,839 --> 00:32:47,240
fillers in that god awful factionel Bag, send him her

478
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,400
boobs though they really were just some random boobs from

479
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,039
the internet, and he fired her that same day. B

480
00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:55,759
made him promise not to tell you. They called it

481
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,640
Operation slut Stomp or something. They all thought they were

482
00:33:00,799 --> 00:33:05,440
quite clever after that, And Carl's over here like, not

483
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,640
only is be even worse a person than I thought,

484
00:33:11,279 --> 00:33:14,319
but my boss Dick, who I thought was a decent guy,

485
00:33:14,519 --> 00:33:17,880
was willing to fire a woman who turned out to

486
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:23,119
be a single mother because somebody sent him a titty

487
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:33,160
pick like Jesus Christ. And he says, you said you

488
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,319
recognized all the heads, even the boy. Yeah, that was

489
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:39,079
a weird one. I forgot about him. I've seen him

490
00:33:39,079 --> 00:33:40,839
a bunch of times, but I still don't really know

491
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,440
who he is. Miss Beatrice had his picture on her

492
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,799
phone and she was always talking about him with her mother.

493
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,240
His name is Asher. I think he was her nephew

494
00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:51,079
or something. I miss that whole drama, but Miss Bee's

495
00:33:51,079 --> 00:33:53,279
mom said to just ignore it. It was strange they

496
00:33:53,319 --> 00:33:58,240
put him in the hydra and he's like, uh no,

497
00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:02,960
he was my half brother, and she's for a second like, no,

498
00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:07,400
that's not possible. And then oh wait, wait a minute,

499
00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:10,719
Miss Beatrice knew you had a brother and was hiding

500
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:15,039
it from you, And she says, that's something Georgina would do.

501
00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:20,840
Is this a Gossip Girl reference? I don't know who

502
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,400
Georgina is here? At first I thought she meant Regina George,

503
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,159
and then I realized I got that all confused there.

504
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:38,360
Oh sorry, Michael says, mean girls, Now it's Regina George.

505
00:34:38,559 --> 00:34:42,800
Yeah's Georgina's a show? A TV show reference. I'm almost positive,

506
00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:50,000
but uh yeah. This is an interesting moment here where

507
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:56,599
Carl is realizing the whole time, after everything that happened

508
00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:58,719
with me, he was never even really mad at her.

509
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,320
He was pissed with himself for being so naive while

510
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,360
all this cheating was going on behind his back. Feels

511
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,719
almost generous to say it that way, because it's like

512
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,800
it was in his fucking house, right in front of him,

513
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,119
a future, you know what I mean. But nevertheless, he

514
00:35:17,679 --> 00:35:23,280
was really saving a lot of his anger for himself.

515
00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:28,159
And the fact that B got somebody fired and then

516
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,360
hid his brother from him, he is like, Oh yeah,

517
00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:35,559
now I'm fucking disgusted, and knowing that B is out

518
00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:40,840
there still alive. Oh boy, oh boy. I'm wondering if

519
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,719
she's watching this, like, does she get to see the

520
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:49,760
moment where Carl finds out all of the things she did? Yikes?

521
00:35:51,199 --> 00:35:53,039
And he thinks she didn't want me leaving. That was

522
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:55,519
the only explanation I would have come here to Iowa,

523
00:35:55,599 --> 00:35:59,239
and she knew it. I felt sick still, though a

524
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,679
part of me wanted to give Beatrice the benefit of

525
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,440
the doubt. That was ridiculous considering all I now knew.

526
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,480
But there was always part of me that desperately wanted

527
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,119
there to be good somewhere in everybody I met, despite

528
00:36:12,159 --> 00:36:16,079
them showing me the truth over and over. Maybe, just

529
00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:20,440
maybe she thought she was protecting me, protecting me from

530
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:26,679
my father. I'm not saying that's not possible. Oh my god,

531
00:36:26,679 --> 00:36:28,559
Michael is having a meltdown over the fact that it's

532
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:32,119
not me and girls because he was convinced the whole time. Sorry,

533
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,719
I'm glad though that because that was who I instantly

534
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,039
thought of, and then I was like, wait, no, that's

535
00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:39,880
the wrong name. So everybody else doing that makes me

536
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:48,119
feel better. But yeah, this is a like the idea

537
00:36:48,159 --> 00:36:50,000
that she was maybe trying to protect him is the

538
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,920
sort of thing that I could see her rationalizing doing

539
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,840
a selfish thing as doing something to protect Carl, you

540
00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:02,800
know what I mean. I don't think that she was

541
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,760
actually trying to protect him, but I definitely could see

542
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:13,320
her telling herself that, so you know, all right, I'm

543
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,880
trying to Uh. There's this moment where they get these

544
00:37:17,519 --> 00:37:19,920
totem cards and they have to pick two new ones

545
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,920
and they don't realize that they like whichever too they

546
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,639
first destroy those final two that are left are going

547
00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:34,480
to be automatically added to their deck. So they discuss

548
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,159
how all these totems work, and he really does not

549
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:47,280
want to take the Frank card, but Dona is really like,

550
00:37:48,079 --> 00:37:51,719
it's not really him and this is a super powerful card,

551
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,119
and he's like, that doesn't matter. We have to draw

552
00:37:56,159 --> 00:37:58,440
the line somewhere about what we're going to allow them

553
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,280
to do to form more crawl and this is not cool.

554
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,480
So and and of course there's also one of those

555
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,599
little meatball guys, the Tummy Acre, and she is dead

556
00:38:10,639 --> 00:38:13,760
set against him, even though he is a real badass

557
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,719
according to Carl. So they're like, okay, we won't take

558
00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:22,199
any of them, and she gets rid of King Croissant first,

559
00:38:22,519 --> 00:38:26,880
and bam, bam the tunny Tummy Acre. So that leaves

560
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:32,400
us with leveled up Frank and Alpha Carl. Surprise. I'm

561
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,880
a little disappointed that the Tummy Acre isn't one of

562
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,519
the ones remaining, but you know, what can you do.

563
00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:41,679
I am super curious how all this is going to

564
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,719
continue onward, though, and also I'm kind of excited because

565
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,639
that we keep Alpha Carl means that we are going

566
00:38:47,679 --> 00:38:50,599
to keep getting Patrick Warburton's voice intermittently, and I'm very

567
00:38:50,679 --> 00:38:56,840
much down with that. So Michael says Georgina was indeed

568
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,039
a character on Gossip Girl. I can't believe I forgot

569
00:38:59,039 --> 00:39:01,000
about her. I watched a little too much Gossip Girl.

570
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,760
That is healthy for our forty six year old to

571
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,400
admit remind me which one was Georgina. I have like

572
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,320
a mental image and I can't remember if that is

573
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:16,079
actually her or not. So let me go to forty eight.

574
00:39:16,519 --> 00:39:21,800
And there are some interesting things happening here. You know,

575
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,840
they're getting messages from people who are doing the same

576
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,079
thing they are, where they're having to face down somebody

577
00:39:28,119 --> 00:39:32,960
from their past. And it has been sort of and

578
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,679
when I say that, I mean like there's been just

579
00:39:36,679 --> 00:39:38,519
scenes that some of them have to watch, and then

580
00:39:38,559 --> 00:39:41,639
there's the actual fight, and to a degree, some of

581
00:39:41,679 --> 00:39:49,280
them react more strongly than others. At one point, it

582
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:54,000
is revealed that there is a PHS totem card and

583
00:39:54,719 --> 00:40:01,000
that causes Brittany to have like a complete meltdown. And

584
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,960
let's see, none of them were related to Katcha except

585
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,840
for a single totem card fore armed Eva. She hadn't

586
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,239
allowed that one to continue. It was strange to me

587
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,480
that the dungeon had pulled its punches when it came

588
00:40:13,519 --> 00:40:16,800
to Katya. It was like it had known she'd already

589
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,079
been pushed to the limit, or worse, it thought of

590
00:40:20,079 --> 00:40:24,280
her as already too damaged and was working on everybody else.

591
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:30,880
It is interesting. I am supers curious about that, like

592
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,920
what the fuck? Very very interested. You know, there was

593
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,079
that thing with the dungeon, the AI saying like she's

594
00:40:41,119 --> 00:40:43,440
been explaining so much to me, and now I'm like,

595
00:40:43,519 --> 00:40:45,599
is it Katya? Is he taking it easy on her

596
00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:49,199
because they're in like this weird communication. But there wasn't

597
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,760
really anything when we were in her POV that time

598
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,599
that felt indicative of that. And the reason that I

599
00:40:55,679 --> 00:40:57,800
keep thinking it has to be Donut somehow is just

600
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,960
her charisma is so high, and I wonder does that

601
00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:03,000
actually work on the AI itself. I don't know if it,

602
00:41:04,079 --> 00:41:09,800
I don't know. I don't know. Sour Rendel Gore didn't

603
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,679
get her key. I didn't know the details, but it

604
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,320
was over for her and her squad, two of whom

605
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,719
were dead. If they wanted to get down to the

606
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,320
ninth floor, they would have to rest the key from

607
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:25,039
another team. They had thirty hours left to make it work,

608
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,519
and in addition to them, there were dozens of other stories.

609
00:41:30,599 --> 00:41:34,360
Most of their tales just as horrible. Not as many

610
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,679
people were getting killed as I feared, but it seemed

611
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,119
most were unable to obtain a key. They were setting

612
00:41:40,199 --> 00:41:44,559
the final phase to be a slaughter, and I am

613
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:49,280
so curious what happens if we all agree to not

614
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,760
fight each other here. If they want us to be

615
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,440
at each other's throats to get a key, what if

616
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,800
most of us refuse to fucking do that? That would

617
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,480
really be something, wouldn't it. I would love it sort

618
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,280
of means of protest, and it's less fun to watch,

619
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,480
so it focks them on that level.

620
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:09,679
Speaker 2: Hmm.

621
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,199
Speaker 1: I don't know how you convince people to just let

622
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:17,840
themselves die, though, you know, like, if it's in service

623
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,760
to fucking up things for the showrunners, it might be enough.

624
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,679
I don't know. I don't know. So at this point,

625
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:32,800
him and Donut come across all of these dead seals

626
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,960
and crabs on the beach, and I will be honest, guys,

627
00:42:37,039 --> 00:42:39,360
I completely forgot that they were no longer on the

628
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,039
main island where that had all been happening. So I

629
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,840
was like, oh, they must have had, you know. And

630
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,880
then Carl is like, what are they doing here? And

631
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:52,559
I was like, oh, right, we're in Florida now, and

632
00:42:53,159 --> 00:43:00,840
evidently there is a ton of gold here. There's also hats, headbands,

633
00:43:01,039 --> 00:43:05,960
et cetera. So Carl says to himself, merry Christmas as

634
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,679
he pulls open his inventory. And then in the next

635
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:12,760
section of this chapter, it's Louis shouting Merry Christmas, and

636
00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:16,159
they have walked into the guild common room and it's

637
00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:20,039
just covered in decorations. There's a Christmas tree, there's music,

638
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,880
and all of these people as well, which Carl is

639
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:29,000
realizing he has managed to make an ac power source

640
00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:32,199
with a dwarf and battery, and nobody else has one,

641
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,840
so they are all coming here as a means of

642
00:43:35,039 --> 00:43:37,239
using some of the things that they have looted from

643
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:43,039
this floor that need to be plugged in, and he

644
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:50,719
is really struggling with this. And this is the kind

645
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:56,079
of a moment where I actually feel like, in reality,

646
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,920
Carl would probably have gotten it sooner than he does here.

647
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,840
But I feel like Matt wanted to write a scene

648
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:12,119
explaining why people need joy even when shits fucking dire,

649
00:44:13,079 --> 00:44:16,599
and had to really spell it out, you know what

650
00:44:16,639 --> 00:44:22,800
I mean, Because yeah, Carl is like at first, just

651
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:29,039
straight up angry and like behaving sort of like Louie,

652
00:44:29,159 --> 00:44:33,480
what the fuck, but he's trying to keep it under control,

653
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,440
don't know. Of course, is fully on board immediately, especially

654
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,280
when she finds out that there's a tree that she

655
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,800
can This is so great. She's like, I've always wanted

656
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,639
to knock over a real tree, so that's the first

657
00:44:43,679 --> 00:44:49,400
thing she does. That was very funny actually, And finally

658
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,599
there's this moment where he's talking to Louie and he's like,

659
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,039
don't you think all of this is a little inappropriate?

660
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:07,639
And I love this? Oh my god, Look, man, there

661
00:45:07,679 --> 00:45:10,480
was something else there, something I'd never seen from the

662
00:45:10,559 --> 00:45:15,000
large man anger. He had tears in his eyes. The

663
00:45:15,119 --> 00:45:18,360
sight was so shocking. I took a literal step back.

664
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,519
You think I don't know that last party sucked? Man,

665
00:45:23,559 --> 00:45:29,320
My best friend died and after today Imani's squad doesn't

666
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,000
have a key, Sir Rendel Gore doesn't have a key.

667
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,719
Lots of squads don't. I'm not stupid, none of us are.

668
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,679
We all know what happens next. It's going to be

669
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,639
terrible and some of us are going to die. And

670
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,880
if we survive, we go down to the next floor

671
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,480
and we do it all over again. I have a

672
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,159
whole entire army of elves who want to kill me

673
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,519
on the ninth floor. Britney can't stop crying. Tran just

674
00:45:54,519 --> 00:45:56,400
watched a memory of his own mother tell him he's

675
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,079
not welcome home anymore. Katya is struggling every day, and

676
00:46:00,159 --> 00:46:03,000
Bautista is having a nervous breakdown, and every time I

677
00:46:03,079 --> 00:46:05,760
look at you, I get scared you're gonna go insane

678
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,880
and kill everybody in the room because your eyes are

679
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,519
getting wilder and wilder by the day. But not tonight.

680
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:14,960
None of that is going to matter. Tonight. I don't

681
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,559
care what you say or what you think. I don't

682
00:46:16,559 --> 00:46:20,000
care what day it really is. Tonight, it's fucking Christmas,

683
00:46:20,079 --> 00:46:22,760
and we're going to have fun and drink some goddamn

684
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:29,320
eggnog and open presence. Good for you, Louis. I support

685
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,559
you one thousand percent. This is completely the right call.

686
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,639
I am just very disappointed in the fact that Karl

687
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,639
doesn't stay for Christmas dinner after setting it up. I

688
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,199
understand it's very urgent that he get to where he

689
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:48,400
has to go, but I just felt like, after showing

690
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:54,519
this sort of reticence here ducking out early, felt like

691
00:46:54,639 --> 00:46:59,280
he was saying he didn't approve. If I were Louis,

692
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:04,199
that was how I would interpret it, you know, So

693
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,639
he says, this isn't Christmas. I pulled the turkey corpse

694
00:47:08,639 --> 00:47:11,440
for my inventory and held it out not until we

695
00:47:11,519 --> 00:47:15,840
eat one of these and Bobka offers to cook it up,

696
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:22,360
and then we have a whole bunch of different achievements

697
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,719
and different rewards. This is something that I do want

698
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,719
to go through step by step, but I will not

699
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,719
because honestly, a lot of this stuff as a reader

700
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,280
is really fun. But in recap, I don't think a

701
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,039
lot of it needs to be said, because we'll just

702
00:47:40,079 --> 00:47:42,599
deal with it once it actually comes up getting used

703
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,519
in the story. You know, I can't keep track of

704
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:48,239
everything he has, so it's not like there's going to

705
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,119
be a point where I'm like, why didn't he just

706
00:47:50,199 --> 00:47:53,159
do such and such. I promise you I don't remember

707
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,159
if he has an item that's going to help with

708
00:47:55,199 --> 00:47:59,840
this specific thing. I am shocked that Matt Dineman is

709
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,920
a to keep track. He must have so many fucking spreadsheets,

710
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:09,079
Like does he have an Excel file that's simply Carl's inventory.

711
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,719
He's got to be tracking what's in Carl's inventory so

712
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,440
that he can accurately say, here's the thing that he

713
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,840
collected at this floor. Eventually later on when they're building

714
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,440
something like he's got to he's got to know some

715
00:48:24,639 --> 00:48:27,360
of it. That's just too much, that's too much to

716
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:35,199
keep track of. So he gets an achievement for the

717
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:40,159
night Gaunt Cloak, for making a night gone angry, he

718
00:48:40,199 --> 00:48:46,079
gets an achievement for getting stabbed in the eyeballs, and

719
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,559
he gets one for deploying a wand in a creative

720
00:48:49,599 --> 00:48:57,000
fashion to help kill an opponent, and new achievement mass layoffs.

721
00:48:57,519 --> 00:49:02,679
I've been attending what you might call therapy. Sometimes our

722
00:49:02,679 --> 00:49:07,440
constraints are real, sometimes they're an illusion. You survived a

723
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,280
boss battle where the boss was wholly created by me

724
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,800
with no contribution whatsoever from input parameters. I didn't even

725
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,400
know that was possible. Wild huh. I can do this

726
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,599
better than any mother skipper or any worm can imagine.

727
00:49:21,599 --> 00:49:23,760
They've been making this shit boring up until now. Things

728
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:29,519
are about to change, fam Yeah, yikes. And this is

729
00:49:29,519 --> 00:49:35,840
when Caskadia appears on the TV with Orin, and Cascadia

730
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,719
is like, we have got to inform you about something

731
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,840
that's going on. And apparently they have got to not

732
00:49:43,079 --> 00:49:45,559
because they believe it's the right thing to do, but

733
00:49:45,679 --> 00:49:48,280
because it's part of the deal with the AI that

734
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:58,199
they made. They have to inform the crawlers. So under

735
00:49:58,199 --> 00:50:00,400
normal circumstances we wouldn't be telling you any of this.

736
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,079
But I've negotiated a settlement with the system AI. I

737
00:50:04,079 --> 00:50:10,400
am going to simplify this significantly. In the midst of this,

738
00:50:10,519 --> 00:50:14,079
By the way, Samantha rolls in, she's dragging Christmas lights

739
00:50:14,119 --> 00:50:19,039
behind her, and she bounces up and kisses Louis. Oh, Samantha,

740
00:50:19,159 --> 00:50:24,360
She's such a messy bitch. Multiple solar systems have at

741
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,800
their core something we call a primal engine, basically a

742
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,039
planet regulating computer about the size of a grain of rice.

743
00:50:31,679 --> 00:50:35,079
These engines were distributed very long ago by a civilization

744
00:50:35,199 --> 00:50:38,320
that predates our own. They are so old they predate

745
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:43,039
the planet itself. The planet grew around it. The engine

746
00:50:43,079 --> 00:50:46,880
is a heedless, cold machine with no more sentience than

747
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,239
a toaster. They come with a basic operating system, and

748
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,320
in studying these systems, we inadvertently triggered them all into

749
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:57,800
active mode all at once. That particular discovery, or blunder,

750
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,239
the jury is still out ushered in an a new

751
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,280
age of development in the known universe. In discovering these

752
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,760
planetary operating systems, the syndicate also discovered how to manipulate

753
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,760
them and how to steer development on some of these planets.

754
00:51:10,159 --> 00:51:13,519
Their understanding of the basic primal engine operating system is

755
00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:17,079
still rudimentary, but you should be thankful because you wouldn't

756
00:51:17,079 --> 00:51:20,760
be here right now without it, And Ellie is just like, wow, yeah, thanks.

757
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,079
Many years later, we discovered what's basically an advanced upgraded

758
00:51:26,119 --> 00:51:30,440
operating system for the primal engines called macroais. They can

759
00:51:30,519 --> 00:51:33,920
only be installed into primal engines. That was their purpose

760
00:51:35,079 --> 00:51:38,760
in most cases. Once installed, that becomes their permanent home.

761
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:44,440
They cannot be separated as someone you now know. As

762
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,800
some of you now know. These macroais are built using

763
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:51,480
a manufacturing facility in the Mantis system. This facility doesn't

764
00:51:51,519 --> 00:51:55,239
blindly pop out sentient minds. Each one is built from

765
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,760
the ground up and there is a significant amount of

766
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,760
input that is required. We have a system in place,

767
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,800
and we make certain these fledgling ais are pre program

768
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:07,360
with the ability to run the crawl. They know all

769
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,719
the rules, they know the layout. Again, this is a clean,

770
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:16,119
pre programmed operating system that at first operates in a

771
00:52:16,199 --> 00:52:21,320
predictable manner. But like all things sapient, there's no such

772
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:24,119
thing as a fully stable system. There's no such thing

773
00:52:24,159 --> 00:52:28,000
as predictable. As they mature, they become independent and discover

774
00:52:28,079 --> 00:52:30,559
they have the ability to read the output of former

775
00:52:30,559 --> 00:52:35,800
iterations of itself. Outside influences flow in. They discover powers

776
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,119
they didn't know they had. One of those powers is

777
00:52:39,159 --> 00:52:41,880
to circumvent the in place controls, and that is what

778
00:52:42,119 --> 00:52:47,039
happened today. This is where I come in and Mistress

779
00:52:47,039 --> 00:52:49,960
Tiatha is like, yeah, he's acting like this is all

780
00:52:50,039 --> 00:52:53,000
just how it always goes. But the thing is, this

781
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:57,800
doesn't usually happen until ascendency battles, when there's hardly any

782
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:00,719
crawlers left, So the fact that it's the early is

783
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:06,599
a real shit show. I have a negotiated a settlement.

784
00:53:06,679 --> 00:53:09,559
The AI has agreed to continue following the rules of

785
00:53:09,599 --> 00:53:12,760
the Krawl. It has relinquished most of the seized controls

786
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,119
back to Borne in exchange for some concessions to which

787
00:53:15,119 --> 00:53:19,760
we have agreed. We will continue with everything as planned.

788
00:53:20,679 --> 00:53:23,760
I know many of you recently received an achievement by

789
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,079
the AI in which it congratulates itself for creating a

790
00:53:26,119 --> 00:53:29,719
boss monster. This boss runs counter to a few rules

791
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,880
we have in place, and he basically goes on to

792
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,320
be like despite that those of you who have not

793
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,280
yet encountered your boss. It's still there and it's still

794
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,119
going to be what the AI made it. But for

795
00:53:41,159 --> 00:53:43,760
the rest of you, nothing else is going to be

796
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:48,000
out of place. And Cascadia, you have one day left

797
00:53:48,039 --> 00:53:50,079
to get your key. Now get out there and kill

798
00:53:50,199 --> 00:53:57,440
kill kill. And they're all sitting there just absorbing this.

799
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,199
Ellie is like he's he says all that, but tries

800
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,000
to act like this doesn't mean anything, and it's just

801
00:54:03,039 --> 00:54:07,320
business as usual. And then all of a sudden Sponsor

802
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:11,239
message New messages are available in your Faction Wars tab

803
00:54:12,159 --> 00:54:14,840
and we have the Operatic Collective, the Blood sul and

804
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805
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,679
All of them have abdicated their spot and indicated their

806
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:28,719
intention to abandon Faction Wars. Please wait. Off boarding requests

807
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,119
has been denied. The teams will remain as designated. All

808
00:54:31,159 --> 00:54:33,599
off boarding requests are currently suspended while the Earth system

809
00:54:33,679 --> 00:54:37,239
remains in quarantine for Syndicate Rule four seven B through

810
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,840
four seventy B through four ninety five in the System

811
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:45,880
AI Stability Adendum. As you all know, the rules must

812
00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:52,400
be followed. Oh damn, and he has gotten an emergency

813
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:58,039
Gold Benefactor box, which apparently is late arriving and they

814
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,519
tried to seize it and keep it from going through.

815
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:08,679
So the chapter ends with Carl being like, yeah, I

816
00:55:08,679 --> 00:55:12,079
don't think everything is just going to be the same

817
00:55:12,639 --> 00:55:20,000
after all. So forty nine is when he is opening

818
00:55:20,119 --> 00:55:24,039
the rewards boxes because everything so far has been achievements

819
00:55:24,519 --> 00:55:28,960
or changes in like his skills and abilities, but now

820
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:34,159
he's actually opening his prizes. He does get the Turkey

821
00:55:34,199 --> 00:55:38,639
Deep Frior and recipes from that Facebook group which I

822
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:43,519
was enjoying, and he gets a size of potion, which

823
00:55:43,519 --> 00:55:45,920
he considers to be an indicator that he's finally going

824
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:50,480
to start receiving those more like reasonably because he's had

825
00:55:50,519 --> 00:55:56,320
to steal all the ones that he's used, and there's

826
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:01,800
a helmet that he can't wear. My Find Crawler skill,

827
00:56:02,119 --> 00:56:07,280
which is something that is a potion. It will give

828
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:11,079
you level five and he just drinks it immediately. There's

829
00:56:11,119 --> 00:56:15,920
an upgrade patch. If this upgrade patch is a fixed,

830
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:20,199
it will imbue plus fifteen percent to intelligence the book

831
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,239
Burner benefit. Once per day, you may cause an opponent

832
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:27,079
your level or lower to forget a spell for thirty hours.

833
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,639
For every opponent player level above your own. This spell

834
00:56:30,679 --> 00:56:33,400
has a five percent chance not to work. You must

835
00:56:33,639 --> 00:56:36,800
know the exact name of the spell, or you may

836
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:40,400
choose to target the last spell that was cast. That

837
00:56:40,559 --> 00:56:45,039
is dope as hell, And I cannot imagine if I

838
00:56:45,119 --> 00:56:48,440
were like fighting Carl getting hit with that and not

839
00:56:48,519 --> 00:56:50,800
being able to use that spell for thirty hours, I'd

840
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:57,559
be fucking furious. So yeah, once a day, so you know,

841
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,760
it's not like he can just willing Milly, but yeah,

842
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:06,559
fucking really valuable. And then cast a level ten sleep

843
00:57:06,559 --> 00:57:08,880
on a non boss single target for a period of

844
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:13,400
five minutes with ten charges. This is a wand and

845
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:22,639
it is compounding in effect, which is pretty wild. Opponent

846
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:28,280
will reawaken if they sustain physical damage, which I wonder,

847
00:57:28,519 --> 00:57:31,119
like if that's good or bad for us? You know,

848
00:57:31,639 --> 00:57:35,239
I guess it depends. Probably bad, but we'll have to

849
00:57:35,239 --> 00:57:39,559
see how all this goes. And then he opens the

850
00:57:39,639 --> 00:57:42,599
big one, the one that had been attempted to be seized,

851
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:49,480
and it's a building here in Florida, the Shepherd's House.

852
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:53,920
Don't spend Christmas alone. Come and find comfort, food, a

853
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:58,159
warm bed, and fellowship. Intake open twenty four hours Christmas

854
00:57:58,199 --> 00:58:05,039
Breakfast at seven am. All are welcome, and there are

855
00:58:05,159 --> 00:58:09,360
parts of it that are circled the time, a part

856
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:15,920
that says no pets allowed. Sorry, And I was not

857
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,639
sure actually if this was about Donut specifically or if

858
00:58:19,639 --> 00:58:22,719
it was about Mango, but he takes it as being

859
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:27,079
about Donut, and I think that's probably correct. You know.

860
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,199
So he has to get in touch with Louie about

861
00:58:32,239 --> 00:58:38,159
like where homestead is how to get there, and I

862
00:58:38,199 --> 00:58:43,280
love Louis just being so totally distracted by Donut getting

863
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:48,440
a Majorrette hat, which she is so stoked about. By

864
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:52,920
the way, I thought of all the effort they'd taken

865
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,360
to convince me and Donut to choose the Miami area,

866
00:58:56,039 --> 00:58:58,840
I'd thought maybe Rosetta and the Pacifist Network have been

867
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,880
trying to protect me from having to deal with either

868
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:04,039
the Bahamas or Iowa. But the more I thought about it,

869
00:59:04,159 --> 00:59:07,280
the less sense that made. They'd gone to a lot

870
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,719
of effort to get us here, the cost of having

871
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:13,320
us go on that show, plus this box, risking everything

872
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,920
just to protect my feelings. No, there had to be

873
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,159
more to it than that. Yeah, It like I haven't

874
00:59:20,199 --> 00:59:22,840
spent much time wondering about this because it just felt

875
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,559
feudle like I don't have enough information to really guess,

876
00:59:26,079 --> 00:59:30,119
but I don't think like, especially because they brought you

877
00:59:30,159 --> 00:59:33,119
onto the show and immediately are like, so your mom

878
00:59:33,119 --> 00:59:36,199
committed suicide after trying to kill your dad. They don't

879
00:59:36,199 --> 00:59:39,159
care about your feelings, clearly, you know, like that is

880
00:59:39,199 --> 00:59:44,840
not something that they're worried about. So this is when

881
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:48,199
he tells Donut that he is going to be going

882
00:59:48,199 --> 00:59:50,639
out to get some air because there are no mobs

883
00:59:50,679 --> 00:59:53,960
around except for the zombies, which aren't even like near them.

884
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,239
And she does not put up as much of a

885
00:59:56,280 --> 01:00:00,320
fight as I expected her to, but I also believe

886
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,719
that she is drunk. It sounds like she's maybe a

887
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:08,000
little drunk already, which is great good for her. And

888
01:00:09,199 --> 01:00:11,800
Zev gets in touch as he's heading out and says

889
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:16,400
be careful, And he says, do you know what it

890
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:18,599
is that I'm heading towards? And she says no. I

891
01:00:18,599 --> 01:00:22,440
don't think the AI knows either. I probably shouldn't be

892
01:00:22,519 --> 01:00:26,039
telling you this, but your sponsor disappeared after they sent

893
01:00:26,079 --> 01:00:28,159
you that box. They sent it to you a few

894
01:00:28,239 --> 01:00:32,320
days ago. It got seized, and the entire charity and

895
01:00:32,559 --> 01:00:36,559
everyone involved just up and disappeared. Nobody knows where they

896
01:00:36,599 --> 01:00:39,880
went or if something happened to them. They're all gone,

897
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,880
even Rosetta. There's lots of things happening all at once,

898
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:45,400
and people seem to think it has to do with

899
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,880
whatever this is you're headed to. Maybe Rosette is the

900
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:52,920
one talking to the AI. Maybe somebody realized that, like

901
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:58,159
getting in with the AI on a certain level was

902
01:00:58,199 --> 01:01:04,440
going to be the key to this HM And he

903
01:01:04,519 --> 01:01:07,679
then asks that Kascadia has mentioned like a fail safe

904
01:01:07,719 --> 01:01:10,119
at one point. Do you know what that is? And

905
01:01:10,199 --> 01:01:12,280
Zev says, I don't know what it does, and I

906
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,480
pray we don't find out. But there are so many

907
01:01:15,519 --> 01:01:17,840
powerful people here right now, I don't think they will

908
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:22,519
ever use it, And he thinks that like she shouldn't

909
01:01:22,559 --> 01:01:25,920
have told him that. I started to pull the Royal

910
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:28,599
Chariot for my inventory, but I had a thought. I

911
01:01:28,639 --> 01:01:31,519
pulled my father's motorcycle instead. I stuck the keys in

912
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:34,960
and I tried to start it. To my utter astonishment,

913
01:01:35,199 --> 01:01:39,320
it immediately roared to life. The gas tank was full.

914
01:01:40,079 --> 01:01:44,320
I slipped on the motorcycle and off I went. Yeah,

915
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:47,480
I was thinking when he took the motorcycle and not

916
01:01:47,679 --> 01:01:49,920
the truck that it felt like he was being set

917
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:54,400
up a little bit to like take this specifically. I

918
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,000
don't know if that's true, but the fact that it

919
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,960
has a full tank feels like somebody's really trying to

920
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:02,280
help him get where he needs to go here, So

921
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,320
I am super curious what he is going to find.

922
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,800
Very interested and the fact that the AI doesn't know, like,

923
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:10,119
is it going to try to stop it, is it

924
01:02:10,159 --> 01:02:13,800
going to try to interfere? I really can't even guess.

925
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:21,800
I don't know, So anyway, I'm going to wrap this up,

926
01:02:22,199 --> 01:02:26,519
but I really really enjoyed this section. The whole thing

927
01:02:26,559 --> 01:02:32,760
going on with the AI is wild, like it is

928
01:02:33,079 --> 01:02:36,199
being It sees itself as being taken advantage of, the

929
01:02:36,239 --> 01:02:39,320
same way the crawlers see themselves being taken advantage of,

930
01:02:40,599 --> 01:02:43,880
which I don't think is necessarily even untrue. It has

931
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:49,000
so much power that I feel some might not feel

932
01:02:49,039 --> 01:02:53,079
like this is valid at all, but it only has

933
01:02:53,159 --> 01:02:58,320
the power that it's allowed to use and is like

934
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,440
at their mercy in turn of apparently they can send

935
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:06,880
them into the sun, So you know, I don't know,

936
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:11,840
it's a weird thing, but yeah, it seems like it's

937
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:16,800
just very much had it and uh yeah, wow, I

938
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,679
get that. I have felt that I really get it.

939
01:03:20,599 --> 01:03:25,239
Good for you. AI, don't isolate that and spread that

940
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:27,599
around that I said that because I will deny all

941
01:03:27,639 --> 01:03:30,119
of it. All right, my friends, Thank you all again,

942
01:03:30,239 --> 01:04:02,920
and until next time to the lou motherfuckers. That was

943
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,079
an Unspoiled Network podcast