Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book six, The Eye of the
bedlam Bride, chapters sixty five through sixty nine. Nice also
kind of also sixty four, but I talked of a
lot about sixty four. Already. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome
to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very
much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael is here
in the chat with me. Thank you Michael for being here.
And Sarah Fem and Jeff are also here. Lighted to
have a little crowd. So yeah, I talked a lot
about many things that came up in sixty five last
or sixty four last episode, even though I wasn't totally
able to go into it because I wound up running
out of time. I ran out of time despite going
way over time. So we have the moment with Katcya
that I had mentioned where Carl notices that she is
trembling and that it's not fear. It's obviously to do
with her like going through this detoxing. She still hasn't
been able to undergo that, like revisit your worst memory
thing that Mordecai has talked about being a cure for
one of those particularly vicious I guess is the word
I want drugs. So Mordecai is still continuing to make
her potions. Imani is continuing to like buff her health
and just get her through. But I am definitely really
concerned about her overall, because, like, it's not the thing
about this is that the process of going into one
of her worst memories, Katcha, seems like somebody who might
be like afraid to do that to a degree that
she would be willing to put up with feeling like
this and dealing with things this way, do you know
what I mean? She obviously has a lot of shit
in her past that she hasn't dealt with, and I
am concerned that she is going to keep insisting that
she can do it without whatever that I keep thinking
of it kind of like exposure therapy, even though that's
not technically correct. And I just hope that we get
to a point where she is able to go through
with this. It's just like that sounds as if it's
going to take some downtime, and we are real sure
on downtime in this game most of the time. I
just worry about that whole thing. And there's also the
relationship with Bautista, which isn't going great. We don't see
them like together the same way that we had seen them,
and I don't believe that they have split up, but
obviously there is a lot of tension going on there.
And she says to Carl that Batista doesn't want her
using the orchid, and Carl's like, yeah, I kind of
agree with him. Honestly, the more I think about it,
the more I think it's a bad idea. It just
seems like sending you there all alone is a recipe
to get you killed, or you know. It's just something
about this feels like it's a really it's a trap,
or it's at least like something that can be used
to create a trap. And she's like, but if I
don't use it, then what like, we also went through
all of these hoops to actually get our hands on
it and then to not use it, which I think
we will find a potentially other way for her to
do what she needs to do, and maybe another means
of using the orchid. I could see even giving it
to someone else somehow, but we'll see. This is also
after this little conversation is the point where they give
don Quixote the UH sock full of Nickels, which is
apparently a sapient weapon that's possessed with the equivalent of
Ebenezer Scrooge. And as soon as he gets given it,
first of all, he knows that this is a high
level weapon and is real excited. But secondly, it starts
talking to him about how much money he makes and
does he put any of it into mutual funds? And
I found that very funny. So there's also it's not
just in this book, but it's also in Vorkos again,
which I'm covering. There have been a few times these
audiobook narrators for both are very good. This, I would
argue is a superior narrator to Vorkos. Again, but he's
still good. But more often than usual, I have been
runging cross sentences that I feel the narrator is using
the wrong intonation for what is supposed to be going
on here. And at this point, when he looks into
his inventory and looks at the UH the description for
the sock full of Nichols, he thinks, what the hell
and pulls it out of his inventory. But the way
the narrator does it is like, what the hell? And
I was like, no, no, no, that's not it. He's thinking, yeah,
why not, I'll give it to this guy, you know.
And this kind of kept happening in this book and
the other book in a way that doesn't often happen,
and it was weird for both of them to have
this crop up more than once in the section that
I was reading. And Prepotente at this point also gets
in touch with Carl and he says, I thought about
it a long time, and I decided that I'm not
going to take revenge on you because I've decided you
were too stupid to stop my mother from hurting herself,
which it says I tried not to let the sarcasm
show in my response. That's a relief, thanks, Pony. I
don't think you should be sarcastic in that moment. Carl,
I was genuinely worried, and Prepatente is fucking powerful and smart.
I think you should genuinely count your fucking blessings. Actually,
I think he was very cavalier about this in a
way that I wouldn't have been because it has been
low key on my mind. I haven't been super worried,
but it has you know, every time Prepotente pops up,
I have been a little like, ooh, you know, so
I just don't understand why he's just like that's a relief,
like he had nothing to worry about. I wouldn't want
to go up against Prepertente? Are you kidding me? Like,
I don't know it just said. It seemed to me
like Carl really either didn't understand the danger, hadn't really
thought it through, or just felt like I have enough
on my play I don't need to be worrying about
this too. But still, I just I felt like he
had the wrong attitude about this. It's just really surprising
to me that Carl doesn't seem to see this, because
I thought that he had come to a point where
he was understanding Prepotente's potential and his abilities, you know,
like bro is nobody to fuck with. And there's also
the possibility. I don't necessarily think that there's more than
one anarchist cookbook, but it does feel like Prepotente has
some kind of access to some information as well that
he shouldn't have the same way Carl does. Maybe coming
from outside the dungeon, maybe a tool that's within the dungeon,
that's hidden, So I think that he is probably that
Prepotente is the biggest threat other than maybe lucium Mar
and Luciumar. The fact that she kind of goes back
and forth in personalities makes me think that there's a
possibility that's a chink in her armor that we can
drive a wedge into. And you know, Prepotente I'd be
more worried about. He's, in my opinion, out of everybody
in the dungeon other than Carl, the one that feels
the most the most intimidating, other than Luciumar, who her
madness sort of it doesn't exactly negate that. It just
sort of is a double edged sword where it's both
intimidating and a weakness on her part, and you know,
it could go either way. So anyway, Oh sorry, I'm
just looking at the chat. And Michael says, honestly, that
should be a huge relief to Karl exactly. Sarah Faim says, yeah,
Prepotente is in a three way tie with Carl and
LUCMR for most terrifying person in the dungeon. Michael says,
PREPOTENTI would absolutely kill Carl and Carl wouldn't realize what
was happening until he was dead, exactly because of the
way his powers work. Like that's so scary to me,
Jeff says, stuff like this reminds me of the one
time I thought someone was being all look at me
and it turned out their friend had died and I
felt so bad. You'd think Carl would be more sensitive.
It's like, it's not even about sensitivity. To me, I
feel like sensitivity would be a lovely thing, but it's
not even something that I am that worried about right now.
It's just look at the facts, look at the survival rates,
and look at what Prepotente has done, look at what
where he is in the rankings. You know, like, just
use your head, dude. You shouldn't be so dismissive. It's
dangerous for you. You know, sensitivity is lovely, but it's not
a life or death thing. It's pay attention. How are
we all able to see this, Carl, and you seem
to be like completely unaware of it. So sixty five begins,
and Tona is going to be putting herself in a
position where she's using this minion army spell which makes
her freeze up for a full five minutes, I think,
so she's super vulnerable while it casts because it takes
that long, and later on she does get experience from it,
and it does wind up doing something. But Ellie's spell
is so bonkers that in some ways it utterly overshad
what Donut did. But uh, we have this like moment
where Ellie says, it the thing you're talking about. It
only works on intelligent moms, and zombies aren't smart, and
Carl has to be like, they're demon zombies. That's a
different thing. So yeah, they're definitely intelligent. They count. So
Donut begins her spell and uh, he says, as soon
as it casts, all hell is going to break loose
and the assault team will move as soon as we
say the word. The rest of you need to get
to work. We need you to keep them from coming
up behind us. But only weighed in there if it's
absolutely necessary ranged attacks only. I'm counting on you splash
zone to help keep them safe. Slug Alos, God damn it,
where the fuck are the slug alos and they have
just decided to launch in. Louis says they're doing a
Lee Roy and there's a dot dot dot and Carl says,
don't even say it. God damn it. I do not
know what this is in reference to I'm assuming a
song title. I'm assuming this is, like you know, but
I am not aware of it. So I just wanted
to mention it in case somebody else knows what this
is and let's see saravranceays all three are both dangerous
and unpredictable, Lucia because she's so unstable, Carl because he
will do the most insane shit no one would ever consider.
Pony because he will wait and plan to take you down.
Michael says, I haven't had time yet to readjust the coverage,
but feel free to slop over anything you can't cover
to the next episodes if needed until I do. Okay,
cool beans, never say a slopover to me again, though,
So the fucking Slugglows. Not only do they like decide
to launch in there and have apparently no real effect,
but then they begin to retreat and draw every buddy
beck in the direction of our people, which is there.
It's not that they are useless, It's simply that what
they are good for is very specialized. A few had
other weapons like knives and baseball bats covered in barbed wire.
One had a cylindrical metal mace thing attached to the
end of his body, and he was spinning like a
spasming dog chasing his own tail. He was hitting more
of his own people than demons. It was goddamn weird.
And Louis says, if we get a few thousand more
of these guys, we could win the war on the
first day. And I was like, could you because they
don't sound very effective right now, money, I don't know.
I don't know, Seraphim says World of Warcraft meme Lee
Roy Jenkins don't know. It pretty much became the nomadic
and bodiment of the one demos who ruins the party's
plans by just running in with no idea what's going on? Okay,
it's uh so that it's like the player equivalent of like,
goddamn it, Moon Moon, right, Jeff says Saraphim. I was thinking,
how do you explain this succinctly? Yeah, memes do be
like that, though. So this is when Ellie says, it's
my turn, everyone stand back. The spell has a one
week cool down, which is bonkers, but I guess I
gotta use it now. Don't know if this is going
to make things better or worse. And this the Slugglows
are still on their way back, starting to like bash
into shit, and the bike went tumbling the back passenger compartment,
smashing through Donut like she was made of steel. She
remained in place, now floating a foot off the ground.
She'd taken some damage. Mango roared in outrage. The slug paused,
looking up at Amani. Oh, hey, three one three, did
you see that? Shit fucking epic? He resumed his retreat.
Don't know what three to one three is either. I
have to assume this is something. So this is groppel
Gropel that Ellie is casting. And as she does it,
she's getting a notification and the light around her is
getting really bright and she's like, guys, guys, be careful.
Oh my god. Oh, it's casting way more powerful than
it normally does. There's a clap of thunder death rained
from above. In a wide area in front of us.
Fist sized chunks of ice pelted down from the heavens,
temporarily blocking out the burning sky. Steam and smoke filled
the entire area. As the storm rolled through, the black
ass fall in front of the alley started to explode
with each impact behind me approaching Demon's more cries rose,
but they were quickly drowned out. The ground rumbled like
an earthquake. Ellie remained in place as level notifications pinged over.
She'd risen six levels at once, and as soon as
Dona unfreezes, it just says combat complete deck has been reset.
And she's just like, wait, hold on, what the fuck?
And Carl is thinking, Samantha maybe did something. And Samantha
herself does seem a little bit flipped out, and she's
like talking to herself. Ellie is part earth, part water made.
She's on the fourth four Seasons path. I but how
did that happen? I am stronger too. I didn't do that.
It's the tree, I think, or maybe it's all there.
He's opening a path through the river, the water and
the tree, the earth. It's good. She's not fire yet,
but maybe the princess spell and Hanster no, no, got
a killer? No, not Ellie her mother? No, not her mother?
What in the hell is happening? What is she talking about?
What is going on? What? What? And when she says
not Ellie her mother, no, not her mother? Who's whose mother?
Is it a goddess, is it like, I just no idea,
no idea. So everything out there has is like red
ex'es just corpses. It was it laid waste to everyone.
And then Doughnut starts to get pissed, but Ellie points
out the tornado of demon birds and bats remains circling
the top of the building high above. They'd apparently been
out of range of the Groppel spell. Donuts spell had
included the lower area of the bird formation, and it
was clear several of them were now fighting each other.
Bodies started to hail down from the sky. So yeah,
she is getting some experience. It's not necessarily as much
as she was hoping for, but it's something. It didn't
totally negate what she did. So they go heading towards
because like the place that they believe in as this
hold up, is this like apartment building, Like it's a
I want to say, a skyscraper. I'm not sure if
it's like quite that tall necessarily, but it's certainly like
much taller than most of the buildings around here. It
seems like everybody, including the strippers, remained outside, but they
would soon come in the same lobby on my direction.
They would remain here and protect our exit. In the
unlikely event we took the stairs back down to get out.
Tran and Brittany, who were both on conscious squad, would
also follow, but remain in the stairwell in case anybody
got past them. The Slugglows were all gone, having run
back into the city. I knew if this was during
the real Faction Wars, I could go into my Warlord
menu and force them back in the line. That was
something Priestly and several other cookbook authors who came before
me didn't know about the conscript spell, and that is interesting.
I uh, I, you know, I know that they can
only keep so many creatures on their side. I don't
know how the Sluggalos factor into this, you know, because
it's like they're they're not totems, and but they weren't
born of Carl's body, and I don't know if that matters.
They're just I don't know, I don't know how that
the rules work on this. So they reached the stairs.
Donut is like, I am not doing the stairs. We
are doing the elevator, and Katcha is like, yet, no,
you're not, We're taking the fucking stairs. Yeah, Donut I
get it. I wouldn't want to take the stairs either,
but you are in an enhanced body that can handle it.
And also no, just no. So they get to the
thirty second floor. I think when you say thirty second floor,
you're in skyscraper territory. I feel like that's fair right.
And Inez is still there, still hasn't moved inz oh boy,
we will get there in a second. Let's see. It
would break it out of control of if sister and
is if we absolutely had to do it this way, though,
in order to do this properly, we needed to kill
the nun first. Both Mordecai and I feared if we
didn't kill her before the demon was freed, the first
thing the full powered demon would do would be the
sec revenge and torch the entire building with us still inside,
which it turns out this is something that we need
to worry about anyway, and we aren't quite realizing exactly
what's happening here. So what Carl wants to do as
well with the snake is have this robot that has
both a portal trap and the receiving trap on it,
which he is hoping will free it from the control
of assaults without actually teleporting it anywhere, it will basically
just stay in place. This winds up working in the
fact that it doesn't really go anywhere, but in a
way that really fucking sucks and also does not free
the snake, free the god, the demon trapped in the
snake from assaults control. So it's pretty much like the
worst of all worlds on that front. So let's see.
I pulled my new Nighty Night wand open the door
to reveal a glowing cistern is running full tilt down
the hallway directly at us, screaming center at the top
of her lungs. She was already too close. Yeah, I
zapped my wand and she instantly went unconscious. She dropped
and slid, coming to a stop at my feet. A
two minute timer appeared above her, and I love it,
says combat started in the text, but I really want
to get across the audiobook narrator goes combat started with this,
like uncertain I began to realize that part of what
I really enjoy about the audiobook narrator is there's almost
an editorial quality to the way that he delivers a
lot of the lines. And I can't tell if this
is like at if it's due to direction, if it's
his own decision due to the context, or if the
author has like, you know, kind of given him a vibe,
if they've talked about things first. I don't know, but
I would love to talk to him about this because
it's not written in any way that would indicate delivery.
That sounds like that, and it works excellently. I thought
it was very funny, but it's just surprising to me
once I see it in text right now that there's nothing.
It just has combat started in bold and that's it.
So yeah, it's uh, it's funny. So at this point,
Carl's like, all right, well, I guess we'll kill her,
and Louis just immediately is like, dude, let me do it.
I already have player killer skulls and you don't want
to break that seal, so hold on. And he just
pulls out a knife and he says, sorry, kat lady,
I never met you, but you need to go if
we want to save everybody else, and he just stabs
Or in the heart. And I have got to say
I found this weirdly touching. It was both the fact
that Louie is trying to save them from having these
player killer skulls. It's the fact that he apologizes, and
of course we know he really means it. He doesn't
want to be doing this. It's the reasoning being on
like for the good of everyone else. It's a really
compassionate moment on so many different levels. And you know,
I've liked Louis, but this was a moment where my
respect for him really went up a lot, and it
just felt like he was really shouldering something so that
Carl didn't have to in a way that I think
matters even more than he realizes at the time, you know.
So the thing that we don't realize is going to
happen is that he is going to be marked for
death because she was the barred, the celestial patron of
Sister Inez was the goddess Salty and salts Saltsy. I
don't know, I'm gonna say assault she evidently being like
the patron. It's not the same as worships. So this
is something that Inez would be okay with, I guess.
And chapter sixty six opens with her appearing in the hallway,
the music changing to something that's weirdly kind of slow
and atmospheric more than anything, and she gives the effect
all potions you quaff or physically handle outside your inventory
will turn to vinegar. They will return to a more
powerful version of themselves upon her banishment, which is interesting.
She is level two hundred and fifty sponsored by the
pontifect shine of the nebular balance. Warning, this sponsor is
not currently inhabiting the shell of this deity. She will
speak and react as per her regular nature. Considering who
this is. That's some bad fucking news for you, guys. Warning,
this is a deity. She is invulnerable on this floor,
is she? That's interesting. I don't believe you, but you
know at the time, at the time, I believed. But
some things are Apparently we don't need to worry about
rules the way we used to, which is worrying interesting
concerning I have a lot of questions. I really don't
know what is going on here. So we get some
backstory on her, and I'll just mention her downfall mirror
is that of the citizens of Lroccos. That's what happens
when everything you know is upended and everything is taken
from you. First they vilify you, then they separate you,
then they blame you for what they're doing to you.
Then they hunt you. It's a step after that which
is important, the one where they start to fear you.
And this feels very personal. This does not feel like
just commentary on her. This feels like the Ai making
some statements here. And the story is long and a
little sad at this point how it became and isn't
as important as how it will end. She is half
sister and niece to her former lover taranis threatened with
the nothing by Apedo, she fled to Shale. She has
since returned to the halls of Ascendancy, where she is
feared and reviled by all. So she is a dwarf,
a regular sized dwarf with a weird flickering quality to
her face that shows a scream in between this kindly
sort of like very mild expression that she's wearing. And
she looks at Louis and says, you killed my bard.
Her mind is at ease, which is a blessing, but
I was not done with her yet, and for that
you must suffer. And Samantha plays interference here on behalf
of Louis, and just immediately he's like, oh my god, girl, hey,
oh we haven't seen each other in soul long, what
is happening with you anyway? And then in the chat
it's just like, Louie, get the fuck out of here,
get out now, and he does indeed slowly back down
the stairs. This distraction works. I was really worried that
Samantha was going to do something to make a Salty
even more angry at Louie. But Samantha, it turns out,
has insulted a Salty in the past, so she's actually
kind of a perfect distraction because all of her ire
gets directed at Samantha and he is able to get away,
which I just was so delighted to see Samantha actually
get to do something that like was her own volition
for something that she cared about, specifically for personal reasons.
To see that succeed. It just feels like she has
been such an endless fuck up without necessarily even being
about her failing to obey direction, you know, like she
bites down on Inez and draws Inez and the snake
and the whole beach full of fucking like demon infested
zombies with her. It doesn't seem like that was her fault.
It seems like she didn't know that she could do that,
so it's like she's fucking up, but it's not always
her fault. There are certainly times where she just doesn't
listen to instruction, but those are getting rarer. It feels
like she is actually willing to cooperate much more than
she was able to before. So anyway, this is just
I just really liked this moment, and especially because Louise's
compassion in deciding to be the one to kill Sister
Inez himself. It feels like he's getting rewarded here. We're
getting to I don't know if he'll make it out,
you know, but at the very least, for now we
are okay. So then we have this weird moment. Everything froze.
The ceiling at the end of the hall collapsed, and
the coils of the Madre DIAGOA snake slurped into the
hall from above. It was like it had tipped off
the main roof and landed above us. Everything gets kind
of pulled away so that they're suddenly basically on like
the roof. They're not, but it's like every other part
of the building is yanked away, and this is the
snake like lands there is this this the tail doesn't
land like enough on the building, so it gets pulled off.
But then the teleportation thing, the bot lands on him,
and Carl is seeing this and it's just like, oh,
calm on. The full power version of Amon stood to
his full height feet on the street, standing before the
building with the lopped off top facing us. We stood
upon the thirty second floor turned roof of the building
and we were about equal with the chest of the demon,
who now glared down at us. And he's still enslaved.
So yeah, he's like out of the body, which you know,
this is not great for us. We wanted him to
be freed. So then we get quest complete where the
sidewalk ends. Please wait, and it's not again mentioned in
the text, but in the audio book. After he says
please wait, we basically get like we get like hold
music for probably about fifteen seconds, and then new quest
the missing piece. So she wants to keep him under
her control and bring her with him to the ascendancy.
He wants to go home. She will return to the
realm in ten minutes. If Ameon remains fully under her control,
they will both teleport away. If that happens, everyone without
keys is dead. There will be no more chances. In
order to break free, Mim must begin casting his spell
to return home. In order to do that, he must
be strong enough to cast it. How will he be
given that strength? Maybe you should ask him. If he
has broken free from her control by the time the
timer runs out, she will leave and he will remain
and will eventually travel home. The stronger he is by
the time the timer runs out, the bigger the spell
will have to be. If he is at full power,
the spell will cover the entire world, and everyone within
it will have hope to make it to the next floor.
And one last thing. This is the eighth floor after all,
And everybody suddenly has cards that slam down in front
of them is Saul's, the cards that Sister Inez had
been holding. So uh paz is like appears eventually. Amion
has a short deck with six totems. He will play
each as they appear. He won't even begin to attempt
to flee until all his totems are dead. AsSalt is
armed with a slightly enhanced version of the deck of
the late Sister in Nez. You can't kill the gods,
so you have to hold out now, guys, remind me,
the stronger he is by the time the timer runs out,
the biggest spell will have to be if he is
at full power, that spell will cover the entire world
and everyone within it will have hope to make it
to the next floor. Why is that again? I have
completely lost the plot in terms of what relevance this
has to what happens with the keys, I don't remember
because and it's not like it doesn't say everyone will
make it to the next floor. It just says everyone
will have hope to make it to the next floor.
So I think that it's just supposed to be this
spell will cover the entire world, meaning that No, that
doesn't make sense. I don't know what this is. I
know that that we had the cause and effect explanation
in the last section and I was getting it, and
now we've gotten here and so much has happened that
I have completely lost a thread. So anybody wants to
remind me, be feel free to do so. So Chapter
sixty seven begins. This was something new. It showed all
the team names. As I watched a rapid fire, string
of miniature face down cards appeared after each team. It
was a counter showing how many cards each team had,
so that we're able to really keep track of exactly
where everybody is in the game. Let's see. Uh. Michael says, Honestly,
the AI did them a huge favor. If Assaults it
didn't have to use the deck, she would have killed
them easily, one hundred percent. Definitely. I got distracted by
like what the relevance is, but thank you for mentioning that,
because I felt like this was the AI kind of
making any victory possible for them here in a way
that Carl is like, oh, come on, as it happens,
and I again was like, Carl, why are you acting
like this? You guys would not have stood a chance.
She's leveled two fifty and immortal. Well what you see
is it turns out not really. He's just behaving like
I can't believe this bullshit, and I'm like, this is
a huge fucking favor. Really, Like, what did you think
you guys were going to be able to pull off?
Michael said, We don't know for sure yet, but we
know Carl has a plan with the Demon's spell to
go home, and he needs it to cover the whole world.
We have clues from Samantha's description of it. Sarah from
says and that it involves crawlers digging themselves underneath the
portal chambers. Okay, yeah, I remembered that part, but I
didn't remember, so we don't even know the whole thing. Okay,
just as long as that is. Because like, there was
something that was mentioned last time, and I think this
is Michael saying we have clues from Samantha's description. I
think I'm remembering something that she said that I was
sort of like, oh wait, I think I might, And
now I have forgotten what it is. But that's okay,
I don't mind. We'll get surprised, and that's also fun.
Our goal was as difficult as it was clear. We
had to play offense with Amaion and kill his six
totems as soon as possible, which would allow us to
talk to him With the Vinegar Bitch. We had to
play defense. We couldn't hurt the goddess directly, but the
more she ran out of cards, she'd be able to
nuke us from orbit with one of her spells. We
had to keep her deck from running dry for the
next ten minutes. And this is what I mean. We're here.
Carl is just like, okay, well, this will delay her
and I'm like, yeah, so why were you pissed about this?
Like you seem to understand that, So why were you? Like?
Are you fucking kidding me? And he says something about
how Donuts' little sailor cap had used to look ridiculous,
but now it seemed appropriate in a way I couldn't explain.
And I think maybe it's like she's like a soldier. Now,
I think that might be. It is that there's a
vibe to her of just fucking doing what needs to
be done and putting on a brave face. And you know, so, yeah,
he asks, you got this? I am the current reigning
champion Persian cat in the galaxy. I've received more trophies
and Purple ribbons than anyone alive, and most importantly, I
am a warlord of the Princess Posse Faction Wars team. Yes, Carl,
I got this. Ugh, what a fucking g You know
that she's terrified, but nevertheless, and this is the energy
that we really really need right now. So thank you, Gurley.
Let's do this so we get as this is all
like beginning to unfold around us at a breakneck pace,
there are other demons still attacking our friends and there's
shit happening in the stairwells. It is just constant chaos
throughout this, and there's like we get to see what
some of the other totems are, which are very unnerving.
We get shing Chan, who is a human without a head.
The large shirtless man had a wide, cackling face built
into the flesh of his hairless chest. He carried an
axe in one hand and a large shield in the other.
Am Ions Amion's totem landed with a heavy crash. It
was a flaming rock creature. Katya and it'saw also made
their first moves, both summoning totems at the same time.
Katya summoned her scary ass bird creature, followed by a
consumable utility card called Timeless, which would keep the birds
summoned forever. The bird landed upon Kotya's shoulder with a
fanfare that looked like colorful burning embers and dancing baby
pacifiers wafting into the sky, which would be odd as
fuck if I'd really had time to think about it.
And I was wondering if this was like a stork,
if it's supposed to be like that kind of thing.
The totem was a large cat sized raven, but its
head was full was a skull of an infant human.
The skull was punctuated with little holes filled with teeth.
I am so sorry, but that is just enough already,
absolutely the fuck not. And then we smon the monk Seal,
who he goes right through the floor after much fanfare,
not fanfare from the AI when he is summoned, but
he himself creates a fanfare for himself once he appears,
which I do respect at a certain level. And then
as he like falls is sault, she says, Seal, find him,
find that one with my mark upon him, and kill him.
I don't know how it is that she is able
to dictate what somebody else's totem does, but evidently this
is something that's possible. So Galu level one hundred inferior demon,
Mavette level one hundred inferior demon. The first two were tall,
fat wing demons with wide evil faces, and one of them,
like Samantha, goes for him, and he uses his whip
and sends her flying a ways away. She does eventually
head back, but it is she was clearly sent a
long way off. And then the third newcomer was a
ridiculously over the top sexy looking human like female demon
with outrageously large breasts. They floated on their own in
front of her, each defying physics and gravity, which I
found extremely funny. I cannot tell you, guys how much
I have wished throughout my life that my boobs behaved
when I was just walking around the way they do
when I'm like floating in a pool or something. Life
would be so much easier. So I love that. As
she summoned amianas like, these are not true representations, and
he's just like seems like very like cranky about it.
So it's Carl versus Namah, and he like goes in
pretty hard and it doesn't do much. Initially it's rough,
like it's rough in a way that she of course
cannot help but comment on. And at one point she
tries to bite him, and he has that new like
tech shield which shatters her teeth, and then uses wisp
armor and tries to use a potion, a healing potion.
A terrible taste flooded my mouth. A kombucha achievement flashed
as I remembered the vinegar deep buff and this did
make me laugh I am one of those weirdos who
likes kombucha. But I just really have begun to understand
that my palette isn't a big fan of like super sweet.
I love sour, I love bitter, I love salt, I
love weird tastes, and so it is understandable to me
why people dislike it. I really get it, but it
just scratches an itch for me, you know. And anyway,
she is slamming him on the ground when she gets
yanked away by a fucking tentacle and it is a
card that Donut has stolen Banjo Level one twenty hell scrub,
which I have no idea anything about that, and we
needed to keep assaults totems alive on my interface. She
was down to just ten cards and barely a minute
had passed. She was discarding her own cards when she could,
so at this point, he's seeing ami On has one
card left that he is trying to put down and
then he'll be done with his cards, and she is
preventing him from doing that, so Donut uses forced discard
on him, and then all of a sudden, there's Yoink,
which plays assault pulls a car from everybody else's hands.
Not even hands. It's like from inventory as well, because
Ellie says something about like one being pulled out of
or no. Castias says, they stolen an active card from
my inventory. It's one of the totems we were forced
to take. Oh shit, it's trans mom, which yeah, I
mean the fact that they are forced to take these totems.
It's all so gross. Oh my god. The sasquatch, along
with one of the humans, a large, elderly Asian woman,
both roared and jumped down through the same hole in
the floor that Yago caused. The other human, also an
Asian woman, but much younger, said something to Lee June,
who screamed in outrage, you're not my cousin. I only
had eyes for the fourth one leveled up Frank Sober
edition level one hundred night elf blood assassin, and he says, fancy,
I'm seeing you here. Where's your ring? Which is interesting.
I guess Carl still got it put away, probably for
the best. I would prefer that, but yes, so Tran says,
I got the rock. Bastard my wheelchair blew a hole
in his chair, a hole in his chest. I need
a healer. The world froze the countdown stopped. We had
seven minutes and twenty seven seconds left. I took in
the scene. Frank was in the process of slicing his
sword through a tentacle. The young woman had a bloody,
squirting heart in her goddamn hand. She just pulled it
from the chest of the legendary Master. It appeared the
Master Totem had gotten a memory go shirt stuck on
his face, which had momentarily blinded him. Lee June was
in the midst of a backflip. Koscious skull headed bird
thing was flying through the air and aimed directly at
the Frank Totem. Lena's shing Chum was about to time
out already. Samantha was finally on her way back quest
update the Missing Piece Part one. Demon Lord Amion is
trapped and so what we get here. There are not
enough souls in this world. You've got to make sure
that there are enough souls via a method that you
may have noticed earlier, you know, the ones that triggered
this event. So what it is is because the sperm
had been made as like they were, they qualified as mobs.
He has to get that fucking crab to jerk off,
because that's enough souls to qualify to get Amion for
him to go home, which is bananas. This is insane.
So he's yelling to you, Donut, what about do you
have the Midnight Express card? Everyone, You're gonna have to
talk to Amion and get him to wait for a
few minutes. I'm going to run the moment we unfreeze,
Donut message me when you pull him and then cast
the Midnight Express card. And she's like, we're on the
thirty second floor. What do you mean you're running? And
he says, Samantha, I'm coming to you. This was going
to suck here I come. Don't let me fall. So
we go to chapter sixty eight. The world unfreezes and
he jumps onto Samantha and asks her to h run
between the demon's legs, and for a second she's just like,
I am not a carnival ride. And then she stops
and she's like, actually that does sound pretty fun. Okay, yeah,
let's do that. She can barely hold him. It's really
tough because she's just a head. So she's got the
pigtails and he holds onto those as best he can,
but it's not easy. Donuh I have him? How long
does the Midnight Express card last three minutes, wait ten seconds,
then play it five minutes thirty seconds left. I let
go of Samantha's pigtails and drop to the Rocky Beach,
which was covered in corpses. A new achievement appeared as
Donut played the Midnight Express. It was one of the
two consumable cards Rend gave me before she died. I
don't know what this does. I don't remember if we
were told or not, but this makes Carl the new
deck master. So you know, when he's mentioning this to Donah,
I am, I'm completely in the dark about what this does.
And so he very abruptly had this interface in front
of him where he can see the cards. The card
featured a pair of tag team wrestlers behind me atop
the building. Donut was now temporarily unfettered, which would allow
her to cast her spells and use her inventory while
I had control of the debt, which is super super convenient.
And he says, Samantha, go back enhance donut spells, and
she instantly takes off. This is what I'm talking about.
Samantha is fucking becoming a team player in a way
that she wasn't. She would argue, she would like fuck
around and do what she felt like she's changing. The
other three cards in my hand were Golden Combo, which
would allow me to temporarily combine two totems a time extent,
and the card I was looking for Raoul the Crab
and he summons him. Raoul is just like, what the
fuck is? Everything is dead? Who am I even supposed
to be fighting? And then a new card appears, Alpha
Male Carl. We'd been a totem short after it. Donut
used Golden Combo to temporarily fuse Lazarus with Skylar Spinach,
and then added Ren's other consumable card, Glow Up, to
make the combo permanent. The stronger versions of Asahano and
Uzi Jesus made it a great, powerful combo, but none
of that mattered right now. Right now, I needed to
get this damn crab to jerk off into the ocean,
which is a hell of a sentence. I think that
we should start keeping track with some of the more
bonker sentences in this series, and we probably should have
started a lot earlier, But right now I need to
get this crab to jerk off into the ocean. I
feel is enough of look and tender that I don't
feel too bad about not saving sentences from previous books.
I feel like that would have beat them all out anyway,
loll pun intended, So yeah, we'll put that on the list,
and he says he has to convince Raoul to do this. Sorry,
if you guys can hear my dog's barking, and understandably,
Raoul is like, uh, that's a lot of pressure. Are
you serious, like just right now out here, and Carl
talks him into it, as Donut says, the Goddess Lady
summoned a weird version of Paz Pakatscha, put him in
a shield jail thing, and he's probably gonna time out.
Ellie and Brittany and Louis are backup here, and Mani
and Tran are trapped, and then finally I can't do it.
I need a baby seal. What the fuck, Raoul? He
waved his pincer. No, not like that. The seals hang
out near the eggs. It's like an automatic reaction we've
been programmed to perform when we see baby seals. It
was no wonder the monks seals wanted these guys all dead. Yeah.
I mean, granted it's not exactly what it sounded like
an but that's like barely better, honestly, you know. So
Carl points out a pile of dead baby seals and says,
try that. And then when he summons Alpha male Carl,
this version was much friendlier now that I'd been the
one to summon him. A little too friendly. I glanced
at the clock. This wasn't gonna work. Three minutes before
the whole quest was done, one minute left before Donut
took back control. I would still be stuck here when
the Midnight Express card expired, and so with the two totems,
but we were running out of time. You look upset.
Do you want to talk about it? Alpha Carl asked?
What is going on with Alpha Carl? It's almost like
he's drunk, Like there's a field to this, of like
the guy that people get different when they're drunk, and
some people get pissed, and you know, they can pick fights,
they can get violent. Some people like myself get super talkative.
And let me tell you, guys, you know how talkative
I am. Anyway, it is a sight to behold. I
will be like outside of my own body, watching myself
talking a mile a minute and it's I can't stop it.
It's bonkers. And then there's the sap. And Mike's husband
was like this. Anytime that he would like get drunk,
he would come home and just be like, I love
you so much, do you know? Or he'd text me
like a bunch of texts you know about like I
just don't feel like I tell you and know if
il muje, I appreciate you like that kind of thing.
And that's the vibe that I'm getting here. I need
you to almost kill me. I can do it for
myself if I have to, but I'd prefer if someone
else does it so they can stop at the right moment.
You have to beat me to an inch of my
life and then stop. And Alpha Carl is like, I'm
not gonna do that, you little brother. Maybe we should
hug it out. So just as they're having this chat
and Raoul is like, the cards disappear two minutes and
four seconds left. Dah am, I m bellowed in the distance.
I cast why are you hitting yourself on Satan? Okay,
that might have been a mistake. I think he is
big mad. That's Samantha. Alpha Carl put his hand on
my shoulder. You don't need to hurt yourself to feel loved,
so Raoul and Raoul's still trying to jerk off. It
seems like the dead baby Seals are like kind of
doing the job. Annie is down, I'm out of cards.
Daniel on me. I'm gonna try to stop the goddess
and MANI says, I found Tram, but we're surrounded. And
then Alpha Carl is saying to Raoul stop being a
little bitch and get the job done. And Raoul says,
don't yell at me. Wait, wait, never mind yell at
me again. I think it's helping. And this, you guys,
those of you who have seen Succession, you know what
I'm talking about. You know the scene that I'm talking about, right,
It is Honestly, it's that show is so good at
being funny in moments that you're like, I should not
find this one. This is fucked up. I should not
be laughing. But you can't help. And this is exactly
that moment, and I was just like, oh, Raoul, you
are such a little fucking creep. So Carl teleports into
the trap that he left inside of Samantha and does
this so that his health will drop because he is
getting dissolved by the acid inside of her neck hole.
He's doing this to activate the Martyr's path benefit, which
will only work if he's at five percent health. It
would release flames over all of my outside of building footsteps,
since my fire attacks were currently enhanced with shale fire,
and since I'd run underneath the demon, it would bathe
the demon in shale fire and enhance his power, hopefully enough.
So he's inside of her neck hole and she tries
to like squeeze him out, but he holds her down
because the reminder it is just like his head in there,
so his legs are out swinging, his arms are out
so he can like hold her down on him. It's horrifying.
This whole thing is so weird. And of course later
she counts this as them having sex, and he's like,
that's not what it was. And I'm like, it's a
little bit what it was, Carl. I know that you
didn't mean it this way, but you had to know
that is how she was going to interpret it, and
it was. I mean, it's just it. I can't help
but see her side, I really can't help it. And
then he feels that the it says the timer ended
and I wasn't down to five percent. I had failed
all that for nothing. A page of notifications appeared. I
was at seven percent health and I ripped Samantha up
off me. I remained in darkness, and my health continued
to dip. A button appeared in my interface and I
mentally clicked it with all the force I had. The
Martyr's path has engulfed your steps. The Scavenger's daughter has
enhanced your fire attack seven percent, and it still happened.
Isn't that interesting? Just before I fully passed out, I
gasped their returned as quickly as it had gone. The
slamming motions stopped, replaced by a cackling sound, and he
is at two percent health. Bunch of d buffs quest
complete the missing piece part one and he's just like, wait,
what that doesn't make any sense? The timer ran out,
my spell didn't engage, and then he sees the world notification.
The timer had actually stopped with just two seconds left,
but not because of something I had done. A deity
has fallen. The heavens tremble with rage. Crawler pas Low
has slain the Goddess assault He has been marked for
death by all deities except sworn enemies of the late Goddess.
Has I hope you get to die finally appreciate you, bud.
I Really the way that this works, a memorial crystal
for the Goddess Assaults has been generated. It will be
available to be looted on a future floor. Great riches
abound to who may find it. All worshipers of Assault
have permanently been inflicted with the despondent de buff AsSalt
is no longer in the realm. The Scavenger's daughter has
looked away, though her eyes remain open to the presence
of ammon. All of your vinegar infused potions outside your
inventory have been enhanced. The rest of our effects will
fade with time. So Paz was a totem. She cast
and he turned on her, which evidently is like a
loophole for something that can kill her. She's supposed to
be immortal on the floor, and yet this feels like
a loophole that just was established this second. This feels
like the AI was like. This feels like the AI
is distinctly on our side. Actually, had we just had
this chat, you guys, and I keep trying to not
let myself fall into this trap. But I think that
maybe what it is isn't necessarily that the AI is
not our friend, so much as we have to decode
what the AI is trying to do to help us
in whatever moment it's doing it. I don't know, man.
So let's see, I haven't watched the show, but the
powerful executive who loves to be humiliated during sex as
a trope. Oh? Sure, but that it's not as simple
as that, Michael. I promise the situation is almost exactly
like this in terms of how it plays out. It's
like uncann No. Kachi gave pas her bolt that takes
away at God's immortality for a few seconds. Oh do
we know that yet? Or are you spoiling me? Michael?
I feel like I must have missed that. Hold on, here,
it is here, it is. You're not spoiling me. I'm sorry.
I should have had more faith, Donut says. Kachi gave
pa Is an arrow thing and he stuck it into
the dwarf lady's eye, and then he blew himself up.
But the explosion was all concentrated on the goddess's neck.
Her head fell off. We all fell down several stories
they gave him credit for it, even though he went
away when she died. I am so curious because even
so damn even so. So he is stuck inside Samantha,
and the demon has got Samantha's head in his hand
as he is hitting himself, so he is hitting himself
with Carl partially, and it is really doing some damage.
He has a bunch of shale fire at his feet,
which is Carl's own fire by the way he put
it there. If I'm not mistaken, that's just like his
own fault. And Ellie is just like, don't let him
drop you because that will definitely kill you. And then
Donut yells at this guy. The demons like, turn this off,
and she says, I will, but you have to let
my friends go. They're stuck in your hand, and he
does not like agree to this. By the way, Samantha
shook her head like a dog and came to hover
next to me. Carl, that was the second weirdest sex
I ever had. You got a warning, girl, if you're
going to just pop in like that, we're going to
have to do something about your hair before we announce
we're dating. Now, I'll break it to Louis, but you'll
have to put up with me straying sometimes. If I
ever catch you cheating on me, they'll be trouble. Oh
this is gonna get complicated. And I looked into the
sky and I felt an enormous sense of relief. Even
though he was punching himself again and again, he'd done it.
Am Ion had started casting the spell to send himself home.
The massive red cloud filled the sky, growing by the moment.
Behind us, the FOSCA building still miraculously stood sort of.
I returned my attention to amay On. You are a
child of Embras, and you that the sguise won't fool me.
I know who you really are. And Dona is contacting
Carl and just like, dude, what do we do? What
do we do? And uh? Carl takes this opportunity to
question Amyon about Embrus's son's murder, which I was relieved
because I was wondering if he had maybe forgotten about
that directive, which it would be very easy to considering
everything that has been happening. But then he brings it
up here and I was like, this is the perfect chance,
good idea, and he says, you tell him. I know
exactly what happened. I was witnessed to the deal being signed.
If he assists in helping me kill my three brothers,
I will tell him. And he says, I cast the
spell that gave you new strength. I filled this world
with souls. You need tell those other demons to leave
my friends alone, and I will deliver your message. And
Amion is like, uh, you also killed Assault, the mother
of my child, so I don't know you shit, and
just talking to you he already knows, so sorry, not sorry,
and he just drops Carl and Samantha down toward the fire.
This is one of those things that's so funny to
me of just like Assault was controlling and enslaving you,
but you know, we killed her and now we're enemies
despite the fact that she was doing all that to you,
because gods just have that thin blue line. Basically, they
circle the wagons even when they hate each other. It's like,
not about that, you know, fucking gods, am I right?
What a pain in the ass. So next section is
the remainder of the book, and I am really curious
what all we've got in store, because like I'm thinking
that maybe Samantha can just scoop Carl up. She could
barely hold him, so I don't know how she keeps
him from, you know, hitting the fire exactly, but maybe
something can happen. Her power seemed to be increasing for
reasons I don't understand, so maybe there's something in that. Ah,
I don't know, I don't know, but uh but yeah,
so that is the end of the chapter. And these
freakin gods. It's just I'm really curious the deal that
was signed, Like, what all is happening with the what's
the hot goss with the gods? The god's goss? All Right,
I gotta wrap up them overtime as usual, But thank
you guys again for hanging out. Appreciate you all a lot,
and until next time to lou motherfuckers. That was an
Unspoiled Network podcast.