1 00:00:02,359 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09,519 --> 00:00:18,359 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book eight, a Parade of Horribles, 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:27,559 chapters forty nine through fifty four. In these chapters, we 4 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:32,000 are having to deal with what's going on with Lena. Finally, 5 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,600 I am really not sure what Carl's plan is. I 6 00:00:37,719 --> 00:00:41,840 know that I understand in theory, but I just don't 7 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,840 know how this works. Very interested to see how all 8 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:50,000 of this shakes out. As usual, Welcome to spoil Me. 9 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,079 Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you 10 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:15,480 very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael, if 11 00:01:15,519 --> 00:01:19,200 you're here, appreciate you. Bun Right now, it's actually looking 12 00:01:19,239 --> 00:01:21,599 like there's nobody here at all, which is pretty rare 13 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,879 for me, especially with Dungeon Crawler Carl. But uh, you know, 14 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:29,799 I'm gonna make the best of it despite being hideously abandoned, ignored, 15 00:01:29,879 --> 00:01:37,719 and unappreciated, so you know. Oh man, Okay, So this 16 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:44,760 section we start off with Carl's Book of Boom, which 17 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:52,359 is the volume of spells that people like donated as 18 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,760 they were leaving the dungeon. And this one is from 19 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:05,359 somebody named Mehmet Oh memit or uh. And he the 20 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,199 way that he says is he's like explaining. He says, 21 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,400 please forgive my cowardice in taking a deal. And I 22 00:02:12,479 --> 00:02:15,719 just really want this guy to know that Carl would 23 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:21,280 never say that was cowardly. I think Carl wanted as 24 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,639 many people to take deals as they could. I think 25 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,120 he appreciates everybody who wanted to stay and push on 26 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,960 and keep fighting. But I don't think there's a single 27 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,039 part of him that really judges anybody for wanting to 28 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:38,840 get the fuck out of this place, you know. And 29 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:42,280 to a degree, I think every person that wound up 30 00:02:42,319 --> 00:02:44,360 taking a deal is a relief because now he doesn't 31 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:49,560 feel responsible for their safety and their lives. So, mom, 32 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,319 just don't blame yourself for this. But and he owned 33 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:59,000 a bowling alley, and he had two children and a 34 00:02:59,039 --> 00:03:04,319 third on the way. My wife was alive and pregnant 35 00:03:04,319 --> 00:03:06,800 with our third child, who would have been my first son. 36 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,560 I killed her when she was in the hydra, which 37 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:16,719 is so gross. You guys, now, I don't think you know, 38 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:21,280 I don't think it's been. It may have been. I'm 39 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,439 trying to remember if we went over whether or not 40 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,879 a person could be put onto the hydra even if 41 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:34,000 they were still alive. So you know, pregnant women aren't 42 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,840 allowed in the dungeon. It could be that she is 43 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,199 still alive out there in the world, but it could 44 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,199 also be that she was indoors, which is pretty likely. Honestly, 45 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,159 when you're pregnant, you want to be comfy and you 46 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:52,280 don't always get a say in that, granted. But so 47 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,159 later on we have a whole thing with one of 48 00:03:55,199 --> 00:03:58,439 his children as well, which is just really interesting, but 49 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:05,159 we'll get there. And he says something about, I think 50 00:04:05,199 --> 00:04:07,479 that they that my daughters might still be alive in 51 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,360 the place where they're keeping the children. If by some 52 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,479 chance you can't save those of us who took the deals, 53 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,919 please find my Azarin yaz and tell them their father 54 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:17,720 so fought to save them. And he's sorry he's not there, 55 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:21,600 but he will love them until the very end of time. Ugh, 56 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:29,000 you guys. The spell is gutter bumper casts at level nine. 57 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,639 So we jump into the race and Carlos or Dona 58 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:41,319 is trying to use these clockwork triplicates and her like, 59 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:47,720 you know, raise the dead spell to make these minions 60 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:53,920 of hers drive the van, and you know it doesn't 61 00:04:53,959 --> 00:04:57,399 go well. Of course it's it's not just it's not 62 00:04:57,439 --> 00:05:01,240 gonna go super well. But I will say it's like 63 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,240 a lot more functional than I was sort of expecting 64 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:11,079 it to be. They are able to take specific instructions 65 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:16,319 much better than I would have thought based I would 66 00:05:16,319 --> 00:05:18,560 think that, you know, you'd only be able to give 67 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,920 the most basic of instructions. But she can tell them to, 68 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:25,720 you know, do things like press the brake and pull 69 00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:27,839 the right lever to the right, and they're able to 70 00:05:27,959 --> 00:05:32,480 like do these sort of detailed things. Now that said, 71 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,000 there does come a point where somebody had clearly been 72 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,360 told to wear their seatbelt and they did not do that. 73 00:05:39,319 --> 00:05:45,680 But I just really was pleased that it's probably, you know, 74 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,240 that she's so high level, I would guess as well, 75 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,800 is like if she weren't, that these instructions wouldn't be 76 00:05:52,879 --> 00:05:57,480 understood quite as well. I'm trying to decide as I 77 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,759 go through this exactly how much much I want to 78 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,000 spend on the race and how much I want to 79 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,199 spend on the conversations, because I feel like the race 80 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,199 has some really fun moments, but I also feel like 81 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:21,040 the conversations are more like interesting in an in depth way. 82 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:23,759 I'm also going to say this, so you guys, you 83 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:28,720 know I mentioned every single episode so far, which I 84 00:06:28,759 --> 00:06:34,199 do stand by. For the record, I've mentioned how anxious 85 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,720 this floor has made me in comparison to some of 86 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:43,639 the other floors, and I have to revise what I 87 00:06:43,639 --> 00:06:49,279 have said now. So today is Tuesday, July twenty first. 88 00:06:50,759 --> 00:06:56,720 Two days ago, I watched the film Obsession with my 89 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:02,160 husband and I I think that there is from here 90 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:08,040 to for going to be the pre obsession Natasha and 91 00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:15,759 the post obsession Natasha, and the pre obsession Natasha didn't 92 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:21,120 fully appreciate the kind of anxiety that media could inflict yet, 93 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:25,920 So after watching that movie and coming back to this, 94 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:31,839 it's child's play because the intensity of the anxiety of 95 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:36,399 that film is such that I'm on day three after 96 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:38,839 having seen it and I have still not fully shaken 97 00:07:38,879 --> 00:07:44,519 it yet. It got to me real bad. So in 98 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,199 some ways it's great. It's sort of like reset my 99 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:52,480 whole scale, you know. But on the other hand, I 100 00:07:52,519 --> 00:07:57,199 would like to be able to enjoy fictional media without 101 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,839 also suffering as if it were a real panic attack. 102 00:08:02,519 --> 00:08:09,240 That would be great anyway. Okay, so there's this whole 103 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:14,079 thing that with fucking Satan calling out to people at 104 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,959 various points. And of course, as soon as I see 105 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:19,240 that we're like kind of running ahead and we've already 106 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,680 got the finish line in view, I'm instantly going, oh, yeah, 107 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,079 this isn't going to end here. You're not done yet. 108 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,920 It's too easy, and that is indeed how it happens. 109 00:08:27,959 --> 00:08:34,120 But we'll get there in a moment. Despite our shields, 110 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:39,360 everyone in the cab was absolutely soaked, and we get 111 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,679 a message from florin we got a backtrap, gonna try 112 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,120 the loop, Unicorn doing it too. I have the denial 113 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,120 of service missiles, and I'll hit the Unicorn just as 114 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,519 they start the loop. If they're not going fast enough, 115 00:08:49,519 --> 00:08:52,600 they'll drop right out and we'll have to start again. 116 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,559 And he says that he can't see the Lady Dominators, 117 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,039 and later on because he is an estimate on where 118 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:03,440 he thinks they are because he has like an upgraded GPS, 119 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,759 But later on it turns out he was not correct 120 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:12,919 about that. Let's see, the only surviving team from our 121 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,080 own heat behind us was Team Free Love. We'd been 122 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,360 going down the steep road for some time, getting attacked 123 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:20,080 left and right, but I could see the slide and 124 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:23,159 it had a bunch of brambles. The clockworks were going 125 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:24,840 to time out in a minute, and I pulled the 126 00:09:24,919 --> 00:09:32,639 large camel corpse out and Dona assigns the camel to 127 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:38,840 watch until the current clockwork times out and then take over. 128 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,320 And it's such a weird thing because the camel is 129 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:49,799 like the spell she casts is second chance. And when 130 00:09:49,919 --> 00:09:54,440 Carl goes to grab it, he underestimates his own strength, 131 00:09:54,519 --> 00:09:57,559 overestimates how solid the body is going to be, and 132 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,440 he actually like digs his whole hand in to its 133 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,320 torso and it seems to like gasp in response as 134 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:09,080 if it can actually feel that, which I'll tell you what, 135 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,600 I don't care for one little bit. I just him 136 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,440 sticking his hand in it. I mean, gross, sure, but 137 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:20,159 it's just like the fact that it's still got as 138 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,200 much capacity as it does I find very disturbing somehow, 139 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:28,679 you know. The next part of the track was a trick, 140 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,480 but one that Prepotente had figured out, and we were 141 00:10:32,519 --> 00:10:36,799 going to skip this part completely. The trap was as 142 00:10:36,799 --> 00:10:38,879 soon as one passed through the central area where one 143 00:10:38,879 --> 00:10:41,639 had to choose a path, the ground would drop out, 144 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:44,600 dropping everyone into the waterworks and pipes, under the park 145 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,440 where all the racers had to make a long twisting 146 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,919 circuit in the dark, fighting off shield demons and baby 147 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,600 versions of the hedgehog culminating in a garden gnome sprinkler 148 00:10:55,759 --> 00:11:00,720 burrow boss. I'm not going to lie. I kind of 149 00:11:00,799 --> 00:11:06,080 want to see that, but what can you do? So 150 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,840 let's see. The driver's side door to the truck suddenly 151 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,200 opened and the clockwork olgo dropped away, leaving the driver's 152 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,519 seat empty. And this is when Donut is yelling, I 153 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,799 told you to put your seatbelt on, so because there's 154 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:25,480 no driver for a moment, we reached a turn in 155 00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:28,200 the wall and the truck ran off the edge. We dropped, 156 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,320 then hit the ground, crunched loudly and sliding before we 157 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,799 bobbed up and righted ourselves like a boat. We'd moved 158 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,159 past the hidden entrance, but we still weren't in the lead. 159 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:46,080 We had one trick left, and I'm trying to find 160 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:52,120 this bit here, praying this didn't count as driving. I 161 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,840 reached down and grabbed the slider control at the bottom 162 00:11:54,919 --> 00:11:58,120 of the camel's seat and pressed against his chest. And 163 00:11:58,159 --> 00:12:05,120 this is when, yeah, horrible, let's see, Florence says I 164 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,679 was wrong. The Lady Dominators are behind me and they're 165 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:13,679 trading blows with the Unicorn team, and then he starts swearing, 166 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,399 and we tune out for a minute because we have 167 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,360 to deal with our own ship. But when we come back, 168 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:21,279 he says, Lucia cast a spell that left a brick 169 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,679 wall on the track, which pretty much stopped the new 170 00:12:23,799 --> 00:12:27,279 and the Woman Tour team. The Unicorn went right over 171 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:33,759 it advantages of certain amounts. Apparently there were more messages, 172 00:12:33,799 --> 00:12:37,399 including one from Tran, but I waved them away and 173 00:12:37,519 --> 00:12:40,440 that I won't lie made me nervous, and we find 174 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,799 out later that, like, we find out what's going on there, 175 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,799 And I don't think that trans it was not like 176 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,840 a time of sensitive kind of notification. It doesn't seem like. 177 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:53,039 But I did have a moment of like worrying that 178 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,559 maybe Karl was choosing to ignore something that was like, hey, 179 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,559 just stefoy, I, but I think that maybe nota is 180 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:07,919 coming at you right now, you know. And MANI lets 181 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,320 them know that they killed their maurice on their heat 182 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,399 and that he was in Orangutan and their prize was 183 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,480 an engineer, which sounds great until a little bit later 184 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:27,320 when our team accidentally kills their prize. So that's great. Oh, 185 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,879 Michael in the chat says, if Peacock doesn't completely cock 186 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,240 up the live action series, you might get your chance 187 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,480 to see it in like five to ten years or so. 188 00:13:34,799 --> 00:13:37,440 I guess that's true. They might include some shit that's 189 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,799 not in the books, or you know. I don't know 190 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,480 how much involvement the author is going to have, but 191 00:13:43,519 --> 00:13:46,799 I do like the idea of the author being involved 192 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,279 in being like, look, I mentioned this thing, and I 193 00:13:49,279 --> 00:13:51,360 didn't actually do it in the book, but it would 194 00:13:51,399 --> 00:13:53,559 be kind of dope if you'll decided to explore this 195 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,720 on the screen since I didn't do it, you know. 196 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,360 So anyway, this is what when they arrive at this 197 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:07,480 like river and we get to see the islick spell 198 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:11,159 in use, and they don't cast it and they sail 199 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,159 right over it. The guart bumper spell wasn't quite what 200 00:14:15,279 --> 00:14:18,879 I was tirelessly seeking for explosions, but in this case 201 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,440 it was perfect. I'd never met mehmet the Turkish man 202 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,480 who'd given me the spell, but i'd heard of him. 203 00:14:24,919 --> 00:14:28,120 He'd focused on support spells and skills, always making sure 204 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:30,240 the other members of his party were as buffed up 205 00:14:30,279 --> 00:14:33,879 as they could be. He'd saved countless lives during the 206 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:37,320 pitched battle of Faction Wars. He reminded me of Imani 207 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,480 in that way. People like him were the true heroes 208 00:14:40,519 --> 00:14:44,000 of this dungeon. And I just really want to say that. 209 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,720 I know that sort of line can sound really corny 210 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:50,759 and like trite, but I believe that Karl fully believes that, 211 00:14:50,919 --> 00:14:56,240 and I agree with him. And the thing about you know, 212 00:14:56,279 --> 00:14:59,200 it's sort of funny because so often the kind of 213 00:14:59,279 --> 00:15:02,440 labor that is acting as support to other people tends 214 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,639 to fall to women, and therefore it is often not 215 00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:08,960 appreciated at all because it's simply just taken for granted 216 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:10,360 that we are going to be there and we are 217 00:15:10,399 --> 00:15:17,440 going to do that. But the kind of selflessness that 218 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,480 you need to have to have a class that is 219 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:25,440 all about helping the people around you rather than keeping 220 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:30,480 yourself alive. It's a very particular type of personality and 221 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:36,360 a type of long term thinking that most people don't 222 00:15:36,399 --> 00:15:41,679 have the capacity for. And I find it deeply impressive 223 00:15:41,919 --> 00:15:44,080 every time I come across somebody who has the kinds 224 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,360 of abilities that it's like much more about the team 225 00:15:47,519 --> 00:15:53,519 than about themselves. I take a moment to understand that 226 00:15:53,559 --> 00:15:57,159 this person is just fundamentally probably a better person than 227 00:15:57,159 --> 00:16:03,080 I am on a number of levels. So anyway, uh, 228 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,519 it was all the excess non magical weapons I had 229 00:16:06,519 --> 00:16:09,080 in my inventory, hurriedly fastened together in a line of 230 00:16:09,159 --> 00:16:13,000 change chains attached to the back of the truck. The 231 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,679 loose weapons dragged, bouncing and cutting and slicing and clobbering 232 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:20,679 everything behind the truck as we rushed over the ice. 233 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:24,679 As for the hundreds of ginger frozen and stuck in 234 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,480 the river, the dragging weapons cut through them like weeds, 235 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:34,440 which is honestly terrifying, and then donut cast some in 236 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,639 yee vermin. Most of the zipper shrews would have to 237 00:16:38,639 --> 00:16:43,320 traverse the frozen path, drilling through everything, including surviving gingers. 238 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:47,679 If the chains didn't get them, this definitely would and 239 00:16:48,559 --> 00:16:53,039 eventually we wind up getting part of that particular team 240 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,720 coming at us, which did not even occur to me. 241 00:16:55,759 --> 00:16:58,000 And I should have seen coming, and they should have 242 00:16:58,039 --> 00:17:02,600 seen coming, to be honest, but evidently you know, if 243 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,319 you see a being as like a person more than 244 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,200 as the species that they are, I guess it's easy 245 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:15,960 to forget that's like also still true of them. So yeah, 246 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,039 this dude gets taken out in like this huge and 247 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,759 the AI is like, well, you killed the guy who 248 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:25,599 was going to be your prize and help you out. 249 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,240 And I think that you guys need to learn that 250 00:17:27,279 --> 00:17:29,920 you don't need to go this hard every time, Like 251 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,960 you know, all you needed to do is kill the 252 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,039 boss and you've practically committed a genocide. What are you doing? 253 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,880 So this is like as they see the finish line in, 254 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,240 Carl is saying, maybe we did over prepare and then 255 00:17:45,319 --> 00:17:49,799 suddenly Satan says, this bores me. I turned just in 256 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,359 time to see the massive loop to loop tumbling in 257 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,599 our direction, having been headbutted over by Satan. Florence Tuck 258 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,400 Tuck and Team Sparkle's Vine had almost been done with 259 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,799 their loop when they'd been swatted, and they both tumbled 260 00:18:02,839 --> 00:18:06,319 through the air, spinning in our direction. The vine was 261 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,480 on fire and covered with goo, having been hit by 262 00:18:09,519 --> 00:18:13,119 a denial of service missile. It splotched onto the ground 263 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,440 just as the entire structure of the loop crashed around us. 264 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,599 Florin was hanging out the side of his Tuck Tuck 265 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,720 shotgun in hand, firing over and over in the direction 266 00:18:22,799 --> 00:18:25,279 of the unicorn as they tumbled and hit the ground 267 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,519 like they were performing a stunt. Lucia, in her beautiful 268 00:18:29,519 --> 00:18:33,359 woman form, appeared to be sobbing and crying and laughing 269 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,880 all at the same time as they spun out on 270 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:41,240 the ground. This chaos is difficult to picture. I'm going 271 00:18:41,279 --> 00:18:44,559 to be honest, It's just so much going on. It's 272 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:55,559 so many reactions. It's wild. The bush seemed to be floundering. 273 00:18:55,599 --> 00:18:58,319 It had the rocket accessory that gave them their incredible speed, 274 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:00,920 but it was still smoldering and just in circles with 275 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,559 Dwight screaming. I didn't see Lucienne, who I knew was 276 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:07,160 supposed to be the one driving, which we do get 277 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:12,079 to see Lucien shortly, and she is coming at them. 278 00:19:12,319 --> 00:19:15,000 Let me in, Let me in. I'm coming to use swine, 279 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,240 Let me in, Let me fucking in. And I was 280 00:19:18,279 --> 00:19:21,440 really wondering, like, if the spell is simply to summon them, 281 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:26,519 what would Lucien do once allowed in? Like does Lucien 282 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,960 have control over herself to the degree that she could 283 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,559 use this moment to try and harm Donut? Or is 284 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,599 the summoning also giving Donut control over her actions? Right 285 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,400 up until you know what I'm saying. I'm not positive 286 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:48,440 about how this all goes. And then we started to 287 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:52,559 pass under the checkered finish line. Arch get off, Donut 288 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:55,000 shouted at the weird rodent. You can't pass the finish 289 00:19:55,039 --> 00:19:59,759 line outside your Our windshield cratered as Lucien, the driver 290 00:19:59,839 --> 00:20:02,799 for Team Sparkles, was pushed through the glass by the 291 00:20:02,799 --> 00:20:07,799 invisible barrier of the finish line. The rodent exploded against 292 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,440 my face as she was pressed into my mouth, into 293 00:20:10,519 --> 00:20:13,720 my teeth, and ultimately through the back of our truck. 294 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:17,960 And understandably, Karl has a tough time shaking this and 295 00:20:18,079 --> 00:20:22,799 just feels like he can taste Lucienne's gore in his 296 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:27,240 mouth for a while, which I have to imagine would 297 00:20:27,279 --> 00:20:31,359 fucking haunt my dreams. There are some things that your 298 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,400 brain just doesn't get over, and I feel like that 299 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,960 would definitely be one of them. I think that's fair. 300 00:20:39,319 --> 00:20:46,880 Oh my god. I slid into the driver's seat and 301 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,319 moved the truck over so it wasn't blocking the entrance, 302 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,960 and just a minute later the Lady Dominator's passed through, 303 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,920 followed by Osvaldo's team, and he sends a note to 304 00:20:58,079 --> 00:21:04,799 the UH to a Valdo and Radoslav and Josha says, 305 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:07,960 you really think we should save him? He's the worst one. 306 00:21:08,759 --> 00:21:12,440 Doughnut was currently attempting to fish Lucianne's small, cracked racing 307 00:21:12,519 --> 00:21:15,599 helmet from the soupy gore on the floor of the truck, 308 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,960 and the fact that she still wants it. I mean, 309 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,759 can it be repaired? Maybe I don't even know, but 310 00:21:22,799 --> 00:21:26,079 I was sort of like, is it in pieces or 311 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,640 it because it's like it's cracked at the very least. 312 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,759 But and she says, if we let the unicorn live, 313 00:21:33,799 --> 00:21:36,039 we might regret it. He hates us, though maybe he'll 314 00:21:36,079 --> 00:21:38,359 be nice now that his girlfriend is dead, but probably not. 315 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,160 And then that helmet has a curse. It's worthless. What 316 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:49,160 is Michael Graves disease? Guys? I don't know this one. 317 00:21:49,799 --> 00:21:52,960 If y'all have some information, I meant to look this up, 318 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,519 but I was in the middle of washing dishes when 319 00:21:55,519 --> 00:21:57,720 I listened to the audiobook the first time, and in 320 00:21:57,759 --> 00:22:00,119 the middle of folding laundry when I was listening to 321 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,279 it the second time, so I did not ever look 322 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:15,279 this up at all. And then Lucia turned her attention 323 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,720 to us. I felt a chill. I was startled by 324 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:24,319 a sudden notification. The Scavenger's daughter blinks, for she does 325 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:30,039 not know what she sees, and suddenly Lucia is like 326 00:22:30,799 --> 00:22:36,079 right in front of him, and it is extremely unnerving. 327 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,880 I am not even gonna say. Chelche is what we 328 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,359 wind up calling her later, So I am going to 329 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,359 go with Chelche because this is a like six syllable 330 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,279 long name and I am not going to get it right, 331 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,279 nor will I remember it. So Chelchy it is h 332 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,720 She's here. She's new to this place, but she's here. 333 00:22:57,799 --> 00:23:00,200 She doesn't need Ceci or Gus like the residual well, 334 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,200 and the primal did. She keeps telling us that she's 335 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,400 kind and she will protect us, but she says the 336 00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:09,920 kindest thing, maybe letting us die. Now. I want to say, 337 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,359 she doesn't need Ceci or Guss like the residual and 338 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:18,839 the primal did. So were those both of her dogs 339 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,920 and the residual would be Agatha? So was Agatha controlling there? 340 00:23:25,519 --> 00:23:30,160 I had forgotten that there was a point where the 341 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:35,720 way that she was she being Lucia mar talked about 342 00:23:35,759 --> 00:23:39,440 one of the dogs was like I feel like she 343 00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:43,160 called the dog like she like she you know, you 344 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,720 don't know which one of us you should have killed. 345 00:23:46,799 --> 00:23:51,319 But she can now do whatever she wants. And it 346 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,119 hadn't occurred to me that Agatha would be somehow able 347 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:02,160 to influence the dog or get into the like. I 348 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,559 think that I didn't consider it because Lucia entered the 349 00:24:05,799 --> 00:24:09,359 dungeon with her pets, right. It's not that they like 350 00:24:09,519 --> 00:24:13,400 became pets after that. She had found in the dungeon somehow, 351 00:24:13,519 --> 00:24:19,960 So my assumption had been that, you know, they were 352 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,160 just pets that were leveling up due to her leveling 353 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,599 up initially, and then we begin to find out that 354 00:24:24,599 --> 00:24:28,759 there's something else that's bizarre going on here. I still 355 00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:31,799 don't really have a great idea. But she didn't need 356 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,519 Cci or Gust like the residual and the primal did, 357 00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:43,200 which I'm assuming is the AI itself. I don't know 358 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,440 how it needs to like, why it needs to influence 359 00:24:47,599 --> 00:24:55,160 her dogs at all. What does this even mean, she says, 360 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,680 the kindest thing, maybe letting us die. We're vessels in 361 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,559 the river, just as you. We are drowning together. But 362 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,759 more are coming. The veins are open, all the trapped 363 00:25:03,799 --> 00:25:07,079 are coming, all seek the prize. On the twelfth floor, 364 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,599 not just her kind, the real, the imagined, and the enslaved. 365 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,920 It's not a game like they told me, but it's 366 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,000 not a game like they told you either, not anymore. 367 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:22,400 And she says this and then steps back and suddenly 368 00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:25,079 is a little kid again, but a different little kid. 369 00:25:25,599 --> 00:25:28,920 And it is a really weird thing because later on 370 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:34,079 Samantha can smell Chelchy on him, So this kid was 371 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:39,240 so close to or sharing a space with Chelchy in 372 00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:45,119 a way that comes through onto Carl from Lucia, which 373 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,240 is pretty intense. And we find out that this goddess 374 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,240 is like allegedly a goddess that wants to defend children, 375 00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:56,119 but the way that she wants to do this is 376 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,079 by killing them, because everything is like terrible anyway, and 377 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:01,960 you're going to suffer, and the best way to protect 378 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,680 you is to ensure that you can't let you don't 379 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,759 go through this. And you know, also apparently saying we 380 00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:12,319 need to sacrifice children so that I make sure there's 381 00:26:12,319 --> 00:26:16,519 no cilantro on my next or d'uv. It's just interesting 382 00:26:16,559 --> 00:26:20,359 because she sounds a lot like the Agatha attitude, you know, 383 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,720 where it's just like everybody just needs to die because 384 00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:28,640 we are not to be trusted with any power or 385 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:34,960 existence period, because we are just guaranteed to fuck shit up, 386 00:26:35,279 --> 00:26:42,880 you know, So the presence is gone. The Scavenger's daughter 387 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,160 shudders in fear. I just really want to point out 388 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,160 that I don't think we've ever gotten that notification before, 389 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:56,440 and that makes me quite nervous. And then do you 390 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,160 know my dad? That lady, the shining lady, she said, 391 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,359 you know my father? She said, he gave you a spell. 392 00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:04,799 My name is Ozra Yazz is here too. She's crying. 393 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,680 That goddess. She's talking to her now, telling her that 394 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,839 you use to spell our father gave you to win 395 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:15,000 your races. And he realizes that it's Memet who owned 396 00:27:15,039 --> 00:27:18,279 the bowling Alley, and she instantly, of course, gets distracted, 397 00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:21,119 and Florin is trying to be like, hey, I'm trying 398 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,720 to collect names of everybody that is there with you, 399 00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:27,400 but she first wants to know if her father is there. 400 00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:30,240 Karl has to explain that he's safe, but he isn't there. 401 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,640 And then when this little girl sees Florin, who is 402 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,359 a crocodile man, which I do frequently fucking forget, he 403 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,200 is so terrifying that she just takes off and sprints away, 404 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,720 And when she does this, Floren is just like, I 405 00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:53,240 better chase her. Lucia comes back pretty quick after they 406 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,279 get spooked. Got to keep her from killing our grimlin, 407 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,920 which I'm assuming that Lucie would be the one that 408 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,039 would kill their gremlin, Which why would she do that? 409 00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:07,279 Is she that short sighted? Or does he think the 410 00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:10,680 little girl would kill the gremlin before Lucia comes back. 411 00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:15,119 It sounded like he was worried about Lucia. Does she 412 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,039 just want to fuck things up for everybody? Is that 413 00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:23,880 all it is? Or I don't even know? And Dona 414 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,920 asks what is happening with her? It says I was 415 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,079 starting to form a theory, but I didn't want to 416 00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:31,319 say it out loud. I was pretty sure Floren had 417 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,640 already figured this out, as had Orrin, which terrified me. 418 00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:41,880 I Like, the only thing that I understand about this 419 00:28:42,119 --> 00:28:44,920 is that somehow all of these children are being kept 420 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,440 in the same place that like NPCs are between when 421 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:54,920 they're put into the world to play. And I don't 422 00:28:55,039 --> 00:29:03,319 understand how we like why this is so scary to Carl. 423 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,519 I don't understand how this is allowed. The fact that 424 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,359 Lucia has been allowed to be in the game, Like 425 00:29:11,519 --> 00:29:14,079 it's been mentioned to us that this shouldn't be and 426 00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:17,119 that there was just so much money being made off 427 00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:22,440 her that she they wound up deciding to flout the 428 00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:28,680 rules because she had such a following. But I'm wondering. 429 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,680 Everything is so chaotic now, you know what I'm saying, 430 00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:35,880 And I can't help but feel like at this point, 431 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,880 what Carl keeps saying is like, we need to get 432 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:44,039 her to take a deal. Getting her out of here 433 00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:46,640 does seem like a better option. But I'm not sure that. 434 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,759 I'm not sure what happens to all these kids that 435 00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:54,319 are weirdly like trapped within her in this bizarre way, 436 00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:58,480 And why would this happen to Lucia. I feel like 437 00:29:58,519 --> 00:30:01,400 I remember it being mentioned she was like fourteen, and 438 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:06,920 you're supposed to be at least fifteen or sixteen, So 439 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:16,480 Lucia herself is like underage, and I don't know, I 440 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:20,480 don't know. I keep thinking about the whole thing with 441 00:30:20,559 --> 00:30:25,039 that orphanage in India and whether or not the kids 442 00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:29,279 there were involved. But the daughters that Carl just talked 443 00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:35,240 to were Turkish and had parents, so they wouldn't be 444 00:30:35,559 --> 00:30:41,519 at that facility, so it kind of throws that whole 445 00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:49,440 concept out the window. I don't know. I really don't know, Jeff, 446 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,319 says Karl. Not telling us stuff is so annoying. I 447 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,799 much prefer Stephen King telling us more than we should 448 00:30:54,839 --> 00:30:57,759 know to spook us. It's funny you bring that up, Jeff, 449 00:30:57,759 --> 00:30:59,720 because that is going to be something that's like a 450 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,119 specific thing I'm meant to talk about in a bit, 451 00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:09,079 so I will definitely be addressing that. So anyway, the 452 00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:13,720 limited details. The next race is twenty kilometers gas ork 453 00:31:13,759 --> 00:31:16,880 screw factory, steel mill, doll workshop that is totally not 454 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,839 a front for anything else, which my assumption is going 455 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,160 to be like something like cocaine, that the dolls are 456 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,480 made out of it or stuffed with it or something. 457 00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:29,839 All paths on this race are only wide enough for 458 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,559 two at a time, and you'll be sharing this track 459 00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:36,519 with eleven other heats. Containment theft is enabled. Don't bump 460 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,640 your fellow racers. And this is when we get the 461 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,279 message from Tran. If this is my last message, know 462 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,480 that I tried to stop them from fighting Lena. I tried. 463 00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:51,039 It is not his last message. He winds up still 464 00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:53,400 being alive later but I definitely had a moment of wondering. 465 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:59,000 You know, we won. Zang was leading their octopus and 466 00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:01,119 he let me pass. I tried to stop her, and 467 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,960 it's the same thing that happened in Beijing. She cast 468 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,200 a dread and they started killing each other. It was awful. 469 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,880 I think of all twenty four teams that started the 470 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,200 race with us, only five survived of our heat. It 471 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,640 was just my team and them. Zang needs help. He 472 00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:23,359 was sobbing. I don't know what to do. So we 473 00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:28,920 go into the interlude. Oh, Michael says, every kid who 474 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,240 stepped into the dungeon was transported to the kinder facility, 475 00:32:32,279 --> 00:32:36,039 if I recall correctly. Okay, I don't know how I 476 00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:38,799 forgot that detail, because, like often, when you guys remind 477 00:32:38,799 --> 00:32:40,400 me of stuff, I'll be like, oh right, but this 478 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,680 isn't even really quite ringing a bell for me. So 479 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,559 there's just a lot to keep track of. So we 480 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,359 go into the interlude with Minus, and this is where 481 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,640 I want to address what Jeff mentioned here. For those 482 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,000 who are not familiar with Stephen King's writing, he loves 483 00:32:57,039 --> 00:33:02,000 to do this thing where he lets you know something 484 00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:05,920 is coming by being like he felt great and it 485 00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:08,759 was the last time that he would feel great for 486 00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:15,039 the next three weeks. Or he got himself an ice cream. 487 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,440 Little did he know what that ice cream contained. You know, 488 00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:21,559 that kind of thing where it gives you a sense 489 00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:26,680 of dread and there you know, there are some authors 490 00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:29,799 who prefer that, and there are some that prefer to 491 00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:33,000 surprise you and keep everything very close to the vest 492 00:33:33,119 --> 00:33:37,000 and not tell you a thing. And I don't feel 493 00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:40,160 one is inherently better than the other. They're just really 494 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:45,920 different styles. And it's just funny Jeff mentioning that like 495 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,759 the Stephen King approach, because that is sort of what 496 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:56,200 happens with this interlude. Mett Denneman chooses to show us 497 00:33:56,279 --> 00:33:59,240 what's going on with Minus so that as readers, we 498 00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:02,880 are awake now that he is a threat in a 499 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,880 way that we were not aware before. And this could 500 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:11,119 have been played an entirely different way, where we are 501 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:15,000 caught by surprise by this sudden reveal of who Minus 502 00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:19,039 is and it's all a shock that like, oh, looking back, 503 00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:24,320 maybe you can piece together, but that is not how 504 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,960 he's interested in telling this story. And again, I don't 505 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:32,119 think the other way would have necessarily been more satisfying. 506 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:36,320 There are times where a surprise twist is super and 507 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:44,559 I love it. But the idea of like introducing Minus 508 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:49,119 in quotes first and making him seem like such a 509 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:52,800 total joke, somebody that we just do not need to 510 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,320 worry about, and then doubling back and being like, actually, 511 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,880 this is what's really going on, I think is great. 512 00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:03,639 I really really like this method For this particular beat 513 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:08,440 in the story, Michael says, did they really have to 514 00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:11,880 kill poor Linus? Couldn't they have just imprisoned him or something? 515 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:19,599 I like, look, I'm not Linus didn't seem like he 516 00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:25,880 was super well. And I am not trying to say that, oh, 517 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,800 somebody who is having a mental health crisis should be murdered, 518 00:35:29,599 --> 00:35:33,760 but I am saying that like the way that the 519 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,960 guy talks about him later and says, no offense. But 520 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,880 men like your brother are just as responsible for the 521 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,639 crawl because they're watching it and obsessed with it, and 522 00:35:44,679 --> 00:35:47,960 they're enabling this whole thing and complicit in the overall system. 523 00:35:49,599 --> 00:35:53,039 It makes some sense to me that he would have 524 00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:59,199 nothing but disdain for this guy. Now necessary, No, definitely 525 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:04,719 not necessary, But I can understand in a way why 526 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,119 they would be like just simpler to kill him. It's 527 00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:10,320 just a lot easier, you know. I'm not entirely sure either, 528 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,000 because like there's some information that they are able to 529 00:36:13,119 --> 00:36:16,360 give to Minus. That's like knowledge, And I'm wondering if 530 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,199 it was somehow like info that they were able to 531 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,400 remove from his brother because of his death and give 532 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:28,559 to Minus, But I don't know if that's anything. So 533 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,039 what it comes down to is that Minus is being 534 00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:37,880 sent in as an agent to take down a target 535 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,199 and potentially if he can make it look like an 536 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,280 accident and then he might survive it. It seems pretty 537 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,360 clear to me that the target is Karl. It could 538 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,760 be a complete fake out and like somebody else and 539 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:57,920 not Karl, but I have to imagine, Like, honestly, a 540 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,519 part of me feels like, maybe you want to kill 541 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,360 Donut before you kill Carl, because she is so terrifying 542 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,880 at this point. But I don't know how he could 543 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,079 manage to kill Carl, considering that he's just a dude, 544 00:37:11,559 --> 00:37:15,119 and how high level Carl is and he has like, 545 00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:19,440 you know, a way to like detect traps, and I'm 546 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,199 not trying to say you can't get the jump on him, 547 00:37:21,199 --> 00:37:24,280 because of course, you can, but it's like really hard. 548 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,559 And also, this dude isn't even fully corporeal, so I 549 00:37:28,599 --> 00:37:32,280 don't know how that would work either. It's not like 550 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,199 he can bring a weapon in with him. You know, 551 00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:46,079 it's an odd situation. And yeah, I don't know what 552 00:37:46,119 --> 00:37:47,639 I can do. Even if I get down there. The 553 00:37:47,639 --> 00:37:49,360 best I can do is maybe kill a crawler or 554 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,519 two before this system mai rips me apart. You have 555 00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:54,920 your primary target. As you will be attached to the 556 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,920 fairy Crawler, you will likely have multiple opportunities to strike. 557 00:37:58,360 --> 00:37:59,639 If you can find a way to make it look 558 00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:03,840 like an accident, perhaps you might survive. And then eventually 559 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,239 he's just like, I just don't understand how I'm supposed 560 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,039 to do this, and the captain is just like, look, dude, 561 00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:14,119 we both know this is a suicide mission. But what 562 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,159 is happening with this system is so fucking dangerous that 563 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,440 it has come to a point where we have to 564 00:38:20,519 --> 00:38:22,559 be willing to do whatever it takes to stop this. 565 00:38:23,119 --> 00:38:26,559 And he is like, all right, you got me. And 566 00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:30,400 we see him very briefly in the remaining chapters of 567 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,000 this section, but nothing has occurred. It has just been 568 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,000 you know, the groundwork has been laid for us to 569 00:38:37,039 --> 00:38:39,920 be nervous and paranoid about everything that he is doing 570 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,760 and or saying. And I enjoy that. I really, you know, 571 00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:49,119 having this bit of paranoia that I have as much 572 00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:54,119 as I resent it, in a way I am sure 573 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,639 is entertaining for you all to listen to. And so 574 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,159 you know that the sacrifice that I make for you, 575 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:08,880 I hope you will appreciate it. So let's see. Oh 576 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,800 there's this uh oh, you know what I think it 577 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,440 is because like sorry, when we jump into chapter fifty two, 578 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,760 he is about to suggest amount to them that's like 579 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,880 an animal and she says, old shuck something, and instantly 580 00:39:24,119 --> 00:39:28,199 Donut says no, but I couldn't tell why. And I 581 00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,599 think maybe that's like the dog mount and that's why 582 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,400 I don't remember having learned its name. But uh, anyway, 583 00:39:36,559 --> 00:39:42,039 so uh, they get a message from Imani that they're 584 00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:45,719 at the lollipop with Zang and tryan and to come 585 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,119 when you can. They've tried talking to Lena and she 586 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,039 is just basically fucking ignoring them. Her health is in 587 00:39:53,039 --> 00:39:54,920 the yellow. But remind her that her health is more 588 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,079 than everybody's put together. So even so, she's probably fine 589 00:39:58,079 --> 00:40:05,119 for a long time. And let's see, of the fifty 590 00:40:05,199 --> 00:40:07,559 five hundred people who'd made it to this floor, we 591 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:12,280 now had fewer than three thousand left. These last few 592 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:17,039 races were going to be brutal, and yet that's a 593 00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:27,360 grim number. We're down almost fifty percent. Like yikes. Carl 594 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,920 and Heaty decide on the upgrades and they get the 595 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,000 Bubble buddy, a heat sink in case we lost containment, 596 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,760 and the regular version of the same booster rockets that 597 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,039 spark Team Sparkles had, which when combined with the Bubble 598 00:40:39,039 --> 00:40:43,039 would allow us to cover large jumps. For our Golden upgrade, 599 00:40:43,079 --> 00:40:46,679 we went with Roller Limbo, a transdimensional upgrade that would 600 00:40:46,679 --> 00:40:50,639 allow us to race upside down. As long as there 601 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,760 was a gap of at least ten centimeters, we could 602 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:59,199 change shape and slip under any obstacle, including other vehicles, 603 00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,880 which is fucking bonkers. And I'm really curious, one if 604 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,480 there are any limitations on how often they can use that, 605 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:11,079 And two does it feel weird to them to use 606 00:41:11,119 --> 00:41:15,400 it or do they feel like nothing happened and suddenly 607 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,760 they're through and it's like the ay I just is 608 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,400 going to make them as uncomfortable as possible. I feel 609 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:23,880 like I just need to assume that it's going to 610 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:28,719 be really unpleasant. I don't know. Anyway, this is when 611 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:34,480 Samantha comes up and talks about Chachi and how Look. 612 00:41:34,639 --> 00:41:39,199 All I'm gonna say about this is if Samantha tells you, 613 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,840 why are you sticking your dicking crazy? This is a 614 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:48,559 big fucking pilot crazy. If Samantha's calling somebody unbalanced, and 615 00:41:50,559 --> 00:41:55,880 I mean, come on, you know, Oh my god. I 616 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,440 replayed my conversation with Lucy Amar and that girl Ozra, 617 00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:01,719 the goddess appeared to be one of the ones who'd 618 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,760 escaped the dungeon, and she was in there with the 619 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:08,559 kids stuck inside of Lucia Mar's head. I swear to God, 620 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:13,400 Lucia Mar, how did this happen to you? Gurley? I'm 621 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:18,519 so sorry. I can't imagine that you deserved any of this. 622 00:42:18,519 --> 00:42:25,840 This sucks. Ugh Alright, so fifty three the cul de 623 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,000 Sac used to have nine houses, but now it had 624 00:42:28,119 --> 00:42:31,119 ten thanks to us losing two teams during the third heat. 625 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,519 This made me wonder just how big the roundabouts were 626 00:42:34,599 --> 00:42:37,760 for teams. Likely Nah's the empty abandoned houses stood in 627 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,280 the order in which the teams had lost, meaning the 628 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,000 closest one was the now empty home of Team one. 629 00:42:43,159 --> 00:42:48,400 Fine Pig, and Carl eventually goes and gets Penelope the 630 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,000 Pig and tells her you can come live with us now, 631 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:56,719 and she seems delighted. And I'm just deeply uncomfortable. Even 632 00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,360 though I know Penelope is just a pig, and the 633 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,280 AI emphasized that she's just a regular, real pig with 634 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,800 pig intelligence, I just have a hard time with that 635 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,320 because we've just met nothing that is what it looks like, 636 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,559 you know what I mean. It's I'm just feeling a 637 00:43:10,559 --> 00:43:14,360 little bit like, not paranoid, that the AI is lying. 638 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,280 I don't think it is lying at all. I don't 639 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:20,639 really suspect anything of Penelope. It's more that I expect 640 00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,760 something and have to remind myself she's just a pig, Natasha. 641 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,639 It's not like a real suspicion. It's just that I 642 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:34,280 automatically assign something more to her and then keep having 643 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,960 to remind myself that she's just a regular farm animal. 644 00:43:38,519 --> 00:43:47,559 And it's odd. It's an odd sensation. So uh Chachi, 645 00:43:47,639 --> 00:43:50,800 as Samantha calls her, isn't a well known one. She's 646 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,880 not ever sponsored as far as I can remember. This 647 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,440 information is coming from Rosetta, not like Alithia, who is 648 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,400 a similar deity. They're both goddesses of childbirth and women, 649 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,199 but Chachi is also a water and fire goddess. She's 650 00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:07,480 associated with harvests, that sort of thing. They never do 651 00:44:07,559 --> 00:44:10,880 well in the ascendancy gain because their powers are comparatively weak. 652 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:16,239 And Carl's like, why would the scavenger's daughter patch activate 653 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:21,079 when she was nearby? If she can get from wherever 654 00:44:21,119 --> 00:44:23,920 those kids really are to here, do you think that 655 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:30,119 we could go the other way around? And Mordecai is like, bro, 656 00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,719 I literally have no idea what the fuck is going on. 657 00:44:34,199 --> 00:44:36,440 I was super helpful up to a point, but we 658 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,480 are in weird territory now. All of this is happening 659 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:49,119 for the first time, and Prepotente gives us some information 660 00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:55,159 about her, the analog of a goddess in Earth culture, 661 00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,000 she was considered benevolent, but the Aztecs also practiced human sacrifice. 662 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,400 She's the originator of an Aztec flood myth because she 663 00:45:03,519 --> 00:45:06,719 cried for many days. It's somewhat interesting how all these 664 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,480 gods and goddesses are quite similar to ones from various 665 00:45:09,519 --> 00:45:13,920 Earth pantheon. And then we have Donut asking if he's 666 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,079 coming to the concert. She mentions that Karl's going to 667 00:45:17,119 --> 00:45:18,559 sing with her, but he has to take a bunch 668 00:45:18,599 --> 00:45:21,960 of potions and stuff, which makes it sound like she 669 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,920 doesn't know that she's taking potions too, but you know. 670 00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:33,320 And then when we go into chapter fifty four, The Lollipop, 671 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,920 this is where we have first we meet the flesh 672 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:43,800 mancer that Ellie and Imani have hired. Louis had a 673 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,480 cookie from a street vendor and was devouring it, getting 674 00:45:46,519 --> 00:45:49,519 crumbs everywhere. The man looked down with disdain at his 675 00:45:49,599 --> 00:45:54,119 flowing robes now covered with crumbs. He was sitting ramrod straight, 676 00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:57,480 and he flicked the crumbs away as Louis, oblivious, continued 677 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,920 to happily munch, while Linus stared with puppy dog at Ellie. 678 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,519 The fact that he's keeping up the charade so well 679 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:08,800 like very unnerving, no now knowing he's doing an amazing job. 680 00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:16,159 This dude worships a god that we haven't heard of yet, 681 00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:23,000 named Goulah, and I'd asked Himani and Ellie to bring 682 00:46:23,039 --> 00:46:25,039 the flesh mancer because we wanted to get this guy 683 00:46:25,119 --> 00:46:27,920 to talk to both cor Kundas. Ellie said the guy 684 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,679 had a stick up his ass but knew what he 685 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,000 was doing, and he and Immani had been trading healing 686 00:46:32,039 --> 00:46:36,159 tips while they've been sequestered in their safe room. And 687 00:46:37,519 --> 00:46:40,880 Donut is like, we're supposed to get him into the guild. 688 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,800 He doesn't look like he can even sing, And Carl's like, well, 689 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,559 you just need to get in there and then charm 690 00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:53,000 his pants off so that Porky comes out. Do we 691 00:46:53,119 --> 00:46:57,039 know who Porky is? Have we heard it? Like? This 692 00:46:57,079 --> 00:47:05,079 isn't who's Porky? Don'nut? It turns out doesn't have a 693 00:47:05,119 --> 00:47:12,039 whole plan and doesn't doesn't have access like Carl has 694 00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:14,360 not told her his full plan. Is what I mean 695 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,960 by this? Oh right, Michael is saying, Porky is Corky's 696 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,400 other half, right, right right? I forgot about how this 697 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:27,360 all works. And Carl says, I don't want you to 698 00:47:27,519 --> 00:47:31,239 know the plan because I don't want them to take 699 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:36,000 the prize away or make or do something basically so 700 00:47:36,039 --> 00:47:39,239 that I can't get the full prize with all of 701 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,559 the loopholes that I want. So he just like doesn't 702 00:47:42,599 --> 00:47:44,599 even want to say it out loud or put it 703 00:47:44,599 --> 00:47:48,199 in writing or anything. And I kind of say, guys, 704 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:52,440 I really love this. We're supposed to be partners, and 705 00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,800 you're making me nervous. The prize is we can bring 706 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,800 two people we want to the eleventh floor. Ellie thinks 707 00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,760 you mean the Prime Minister lady and maybe Skatia or 708 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,599 some other showrunner. But she's afraid that killing them isn't 709 00:48:03,639 --> 00:48:05,519 going to do anything. And I don't think we should 710 00:48:05,559 --> 00:48:08,320 hurt Prime Minister Victory. I know she's a bad guy, 711 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,000 but she's also my friend, and I'm scared about what 712 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,599 you're going to do. And can I just say that 713 00:48:15,039 --> 00:48:17,960 I know she's a bad guy, but she's also my friend. 714 00:48:18,079 --> 00:48:21,800 It's just such a wild sentence. I'm not even mad, 715 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,000 even though I feel like I kind of should be mad, 716 00:48:24,039 --> 00:48:26,480 because this is low key what has gotten our country 717 00:48:26,519 --> 00:48:32,719 into the state that it is. But we are people 718 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,920 are people are complicated, They're just you know, And there 719 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,039 is something about do not just saying in those words 720 00:48:40,199 --> 00:48:45,360 and not shying away from either statement and letting them 721 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:50,760 both live in her head that I feel a surprisingly 722 00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:58,119 like mature somehow. Ah, I don't know, but I'm assuming 723 00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,360 that this prize is what Carl is going to be 724 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:05,480 trying to use if they win, doing whatever it is 725 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:10,440 that they're doing to get Lena out of here, and 726 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:20,519 we'll have to see. So the cruelty of this particular 727 00:49:20,559 --> 00:49:23,760 floor was getting to me. I sighed and turned to 728 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,079 the main part of the table, finally taking in the 729 00:49:26,119 --> 00:49:29,400 full scene. Before we dealt with this corcund dequest, we 730 00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,320 hadn't even more pressing matter. Tran and Zang sat at 731 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,000 the end of the table, flanked by Imani and Ellie. 732 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,159 Tran was in his spider wheelchair nursing a beer while 733 00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,760 Zang had his head down on the table. I knew 734 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,159 Ellie had been trying to talk to nob but clearly 735 00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:52,039 that hadn't worked. And this is when Tran says, hey, 736 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,360 we were just trying to explain to Zang that he's 737 00:49:54,400 --> 00:50:02,159 being an idiot. Now Tran is obvious frustrated. And this 738 00:50:02,199 --> 00:50:04,159 is the thing that's so tough with these sorts of 739 00:50:04,199 --> 00:50:08,360 situations is that like a person who's very involved in 740 00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:13,119 that situation is going to have less grace to give 741 00:50:13,199 --> 00:50:16,719 sometimes because they're sick of fucking hearing the same complaints 742 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,039 over and over again. So they can look heartless from 743 00:50:20,119 --> 00:50:24,280 the outside, when really it's just the exhaustion, you know. 744 00:50:25,599 --> 00:50:30,360 So my initial reaction to Tram was like, bro, you're 745 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,119 being kind of hard on this guy, right, But then 746 00:50:33,159 --> 00:50:36,280 I started to think about what it would be like 747 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,280 to hear this over and over and over, and that 748 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,480 of course you're just going to get impatient about it. 749 00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:52,639 What it comes down to is that Tran feels, yes, 750 00:50:53,119 --> 00:50:58,440 Lena is cruel in her way, I'm afraid to do 751 00:50:58,519 --> 00:51:03,960 some really brutal stuff, but it is not exactly that 752 00:51:04,079 --> 00:51:09,079 she enjoys doing it or that she is killing people 753 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,360 just for the sake of it. It's when she's pushed 754 00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,960 to a point where she hasn't got another option, she 755 00:51:16,119 --> 00:51:26,400 is still actually pretty restrained considering And you know, there's 756 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:30,280 this situation that gets mentioned here. While Tran is like, look, 757 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:34,199 it's not your fault or Nas. They attacked her. They 758 00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:39,199 attacked us because Nas gone completely psycho, which doesn't give 759 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,480 me a good idea what exactly Naw did that caused 760 00:51:42,519 --> 00:51:45,920 them to attack I am really curious what the like 761 00:51:46,199 --> 00:51:49,239 the way he says this sounds as if what he's 762 00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:54,400 saying is they attacked us because they've seen the way 763 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,119 that Lena has been behaving otherwise and decided that she 764 00:51:57,199 --> 00:52:03,960 really needs to go. I will say that for myself, 765 00:52:05,159 --> 00:52:09,000 anybody who has seemingly not as capable of and attempts 766 00:52:09,039 --> 00:52:14,159 to take her out is either the bravest person or 767 00:52:14,519 --> 00:52:22,360 extremely foolhardy, and I tend towards the latter. But yeah, 768 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,440 and tran or Zang says, you know, it was horrible. 769 00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,199 I can't do that again. I can't do another race 770 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,920 with her. And it turns out what he is considering 771 00:52:33,199 --> 00:52:37,840 is killing their mount when her back is turned, so 772 00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:42,599 that they are killed because they're removed from the race. 773 00:52:42,679 --> 00:52:45,559 He's essentially willing to do like a murder suicide here, 774 00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:51,159 and Carl points out that's not even gonna work. You 775 00:52:51,199 --> 00:52:54,079 just lose containment and she's probably strong enough to get 776 00:52:54,079 --> 00:52:57,400 to the finish line with no mount, So you're just 777 00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,360 gonna put yourself in the position where you die. And 778 00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,840 she's still alive, and he's like, what else can I do. 779 00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,800 He's in a place where it's almost like he values 780 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,559 the fact that he would have made it an effort 781 00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:15,000 over the efficacy of that effort, which brings you into 782 00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:17,880 territory that's very performative and I just need you to 783 00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,360 watch out for that, dude, because if you're not approaching 784 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,559 this from the place of like I need to do 785 00:53:23,639 --> 00:53:27,960 what I can do, that's going to succeed. You're just 786 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,760 trying to make yourself feel better about something, and that's 787 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:37,440 not helpful to anybody. And Zang says she's killing people. 788 00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,280 She stopped talking to me. She got poisoned, and it's 789 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,239 slowly draining her health but not going down fast enough. 790 00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,559 She's not what she used to be. I wish I 791 00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:55,039 had died before. I wasn't ashamed, and now I am. 792 00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,440 Zeg wiped his eyes. She ripped june zaie out out 793 00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,480 of his face after he died, and then she ripped 794 00:53:59,519 --> 00:54:02,119 her own eye out to install it. Who does that? 795 00:54:02,639 --> 00:54:04,719 It was then that I should have known she was gone. 796 00:54:05,159 --> 00:54:07,280 I used to think I could, you know, keep her 797 00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,760 from going too crazy. June didn't want us telling people 798 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,840 what had happened on the eighth floor in Beijing. She apologized. 799 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,119 She's always been so practical, so matter of fact. She 800 00:54:18,199 --> 00:54:20,519 wasn't like the others at the warehouse. She never joked, 801 00:54:20,639 --> 00:54:22,639 never laughed, but she would smile at a brother, and 802 00:54:22,679 --> 00:54:25,719 she would smile at me sometimes too. She used to 803 00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,159 be so pretty, and I don't mean pretty in the face, 804 00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,079 but she was that too. I mean I used to 805 00:54:31,079 --> 00:54:33,960 feel so safe and happy when I looked at her. 806 00:54:34,519 --> 00:54:36,519 She was my best friend's sister, and I thought maybe 807 00:54:36,519 --> 00:54:38,079 I could get her to like me and we could 808 00:54:38,119 --> 00:54:40,440 get married and I would have my best friend and her, 809 00:54:40,599 --> 00:54:43,800 And now I have nothing. We have to kill her. 810 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,280 What other choice do we haven't She's going to keep 811 00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:49,760 hurting everyone, which is when Tran is like, she's not 812 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,679 killing for fun. She's just kind of lost her humanity, 813 00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,079 but she's not going out of her way to hurt people. 814 00:54:58,639 --> 00:55:02,199 And this is when Carl says we need that, we 815 00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,960 need people like her. She's so strong, and Donut says 816 00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:12,719 she's not a weapon, Carl, She's a person. I mean, 817 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,159 it's not even that that her being a weapon. It's 818 00:55:19,199 --> 00:55:23,199 more like everybody has their role to play, and sometimes 819 00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:27,440 people who are able to set aside or don't have 820 00:55:27,559 --> 00:55:29,840 to begin with the emotions that get in the way 821 00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:36,039 of doing difficult and necessary shit are critical. So I 822 00:55:36,119 --> 00:55:40,840 understand Donuts taking issue with him phrasing this this way, 823 00:55:41,519 --> 00:55:47,000 but I also agree with Carl that, like, you know, 824 00:55:47,159 --> 00:55:53,360 somebody who is it can somebody like this could cut 825 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:57,719 both ways, is the problem. And I still am worried 826 00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,559 about the way that she blames Donut and Carl for 827 00:56:00,639 --> 00:56:04,039 her brother's death. I am beginning to think that she's 828 00:56:04,079 --> 00:56:06,199 not actually going to make a move on them, because 829 00:56:06,199 --> 00:56:08,119 she hasn't yet. But it could be that it just 830 00:56:08,159 --> 00:56:16,119 hasn't been she hasn't gotten an opportunity. And Ellie says, 831 00:56:16,199 --> 00:56:18,440 I was just in there with her, and I gotta say, 832 00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:22,880 she's gone completely wack adoodle. And by this point does 833 00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,079 it even matter? Every race from now on will have 834 00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:31,000 her but versus a bunch of others. We had three 835 00:56:31,039 --> 00:56:33,800 hours until the next heat. We had so much to do. 836 00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:35,960 We were going to sing in a few minutes in 837 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,920 the warm age thing and then there it was. Of 838 00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:44,679 course I had an idea, but we'd have to move fast. 839 00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:50,440 Lena didn't worship a deity. She couldn't with her changbe race. Lena, 840 00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:54,199 despite what Donut said, was a weapon that could be 841 00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,599 especially effective if she was pointed in the correct direction. 842 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:05,159 I sent momultiple messages, including one to body body, did 843 00:57:05,159 --> 00:57:07,360 you commit to a race yet? For this next heat? 844 00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:11,679 Zang's gonna need a jockey Lena is leaving the dungeon. 845 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:19,239 So yeah, like I said, I don't fully know how 846 00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:23,280 all this is going to work out. I know that 847 00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:29,519 she has this health thing because she targeted some people 848 00:57:29,559 --> 00:57:32,639 who she wasn't able to kill with the Ring of 849 00:57:32,639 --> 00:57:39,760 Divine Suffering. And I don't think that they're on the 850 00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:44,280 eleventh floor, are they? So that isn't like an that's 851 00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,360 not part of this. I don't think it's just about 852 00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,639 getting But the way Carlo is saying pointing her in 853 00:57:48,679 --> 00:57:50,800 the right direction, like would she go up against the 854 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,840 war mages? Are they the ones that she had targeted 855 00:57:54,840 --> 00:58:00,000 that it wound up escaping? They're not right, she target 856 00:58:00,199 --> 00:58:07,400 at actual like outworlders that were in the game. Michael says, 857 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:12,840 they're getting tortured on the eighteenth floor. Okay, yeah, I 858 00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,280 feel like I don't fully understand, and that's fine. I'm 859 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,000 just sort of letting it wash over me. I don't 860 00:58:18,039 --> 00:58:23,360 really the mo has tended to be the reader doesn't 861 00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:27,199 get the full story until it's happening, so I'm looking 862 00:58:27,199 --> 00:58:29,880 forward to it. But yeah, I don't know where we're 863 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,119 going yet. So all right, I have to wrap this up. 864 00:58:33,199 --> 00:58:35,039 But thank you guys again for hanging out with me 865 00:58:35,119 --> 00:58:38,679 appreciates you so much. Sorry about the difficulties with the recording. 866 00:58:39,239 --> 00:58:42,960 That was something, But if you're listening to this after 867 00:58:43,039 --> 00:58:45,480 the fact, you won't notice the thing because I'm that good. 868 00:58:46,880 --> 00:59:19,960 Until next time, to lue, motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled 869 00:59:20,039 --> 00:59:21,119 network podcast.