Speaker 1: This is an unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book two, Carl's Doomsday Scenario chapters
Speaker 1: twenty through twenty two. In these chapters, Carl shares his
Speaker 1: seri with Doughnut that maybe they were set up. The
Speaker 1: person that we thought was the villain isn't the villain.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of twists happening, and there's only one
Speaker 1: episode left until we start the next book. There is
Speaker 1: so much left to wrap up. I guess we're not
Speaker 1: wrapping a lot of it up. Probably. Welcome to spoil Me.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. I asked
Speaker 1: Michael how he was doing, and he's replied in the chat,
Speaker 1: my favorite sports team got a player, so my life
Speaker 1: is immeasurably better, even though I know it doesn't actually matter. Ultimately, Michael,
Speaker 1: nothing actually matters, which means everything actually matters if you
Speaker 1: think about it. So whatever makes you happy, embrace it fully.
Speaker 1: I endorse it, whether or not it actually mtters. Who
Speaker 1: gets to decide that we do? We get to decide,
Speaker 1: That's what I say. So all right, you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: really really enjoying this book, in particular the first book.
Speaker 1: I really, you guys know, I enjoyed that book a lot,
Speaker 1: but he had to spend plenty of time. And this
Speaker 1: is no criticism. This is just what happens in first books,
Speaker 1: setting up the scenario, establishing the ground rules, getting it
Speaker 1: all in place so that he could begin his actual storytelling.
Speaker 1: And that's not to say there wasn't storytelling in there also,
Speaker 1: but you get what I'm saying. I am really enjoying
Speaker 1: now like the conventions have been accepted by the audience
Speaker 1: and we are moving into a stage where everything doesn't
Speaker 1: need an explanation anymore, and so he is freer to
Speaker 1: play with other aspects of the plot of the dialogue,
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm just really looking forward to the
Speaker 1: next book when I'm assuming this is going to be
Speaker 1: a continuing trend. Obviously, as we hit new floors, there
Speaker 1: will be explanations and stuff needed for each of those,
Speaker 1: but it's it feels different when we are already in
Speaker 1: the game. Ooh. Rob says, for what it's worth, this
Speaker 1: is my least favorite, which isn't to say it's a
Speaker 1: bad book, but it's uphill from here. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: that's rousing endorsement in my opinion, Like, if you if
Speaker 1: this is your least favorite, I'm so sorry, guys, I
Speaker 1: kicked my camera stand, but I really like this one.
Speaker 1: So if you feel that way, that's like very encouraging.
Speaker 1: So we pick up right after the announcement of Manassa
Speaker 1: being killed and Ripper Wanton played a video of Manassa
Speaker 1: singing and it's this like haunting sound and her voice
Speaker 1: is just like very memorable, obviously, and it gives him chills.
Speaker 1: Later on, Dona is very much like she had the
Speaker 1: voice of an angel. This is a huge tragedy. She's
Speaker 1: reacting to Manassa's death in much the same way everybody
Speaker 1: else aside from the other Crawlers, really seemed to be
Speaker 1: because she doesn't have a bigger picture frame of reference
Speaker 1: yet due to her still having kind of a childlike
Speaker 1: point of view on stuff. Oh my god, Michael says,
Speaker 1: just a nitpick. I always thought it should be all
Speaker 1: downhill from here. Going downhill is much easier and pleasurable
Speaker 1: than trudging uphill. Michael, do you know what I would
Speaker 1: have agreed with you, except I've been hiking a little lately,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's just getting older, but
Speaker 1: I'm fine. And going downhill a lot harder than going uphill.
Speaker 1: I it's a different set of muscles. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you that shit is very, very difficult and requires
Speaker 1: like a type of balance. And yeah, so I see
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I definitely do, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I entirely agree, donut She like. The two of them
Speaker 1: are talking about things as they are waiting for Zev
Speaker 1: and she asks Sinji, you really believe what you said
Speaker 1: about people rising up? And he says, it's a nice fantasy,
Speaker 1: but I know things don't really work that way. And
Speaker 1: he says, for all we know that King guys, people
Speaker 1: are really happy. Just because they complain doesn't mean they
Speaker 1: have it bad. And I'm a nobody. It's not like
Speaker 1: I have the power to change anything. I wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: that though. Jesus, it's so funny to me that he
Speaker 1: is saying, I'm just one person. I don't have the
Speaker 1: power to change anything. After this woman was killed. Like, granted,
Speaker 1: he does not believe what he said here actually made
Speaker 1: a difference. He believes that they were already going to
Speaker 1: be zapped and that it turns out his little speech
Speaker 1: fed into their narrative perfectly. So I understand why he
Speaker 1: really doesn't think that he can change anything. But I
Speaker 1: you've got some influence, my friend. You are an influencer,
Speaker 1: and I think you are so so wrong about that.
Speaker 1: I understand profoundly. Don't get me wrong, the feeling of
Speaker 1: I am just one tiny grain of sand in this massive,
Speaker 1: unending machine of relentless oppression. How the fuck? But how
Speaker 1: many grains of sand or sugar does it take to
Speaker 1: fuck up somebody's gas tank? Like? How much would it take?
Speaker 1: Just asking questions? So, yeah, he says, the Stalwart dude
Speaker 1: was too prepared. They had the camera all ready, with
Speaker 1: the army right outside the window. Stalwart was planning on
Speaker 1: killing us from the start. I don't think they were
Speaker 1: expecting my little speech, but it played right into their hands.
Speaker 1: He was being played too. We were just the pawns,
Speaker 1: the bait, and so was Manassa. Whoever is orchestrating this
Speaker 1: knew the Orcs planned on killing us. That switcheroob was
Speaker 1: either on purpose to get them to really kill their ally,
Speaker 1: or they quickly jumped on the opportunity. It humiliates them
Speaker 1: and damages their alliance with the Valta, and that Barrent
Speaker 1: benefits from this. If Valta loses a powerful ally, maybe
Speaker 1: even goes to war with the Skull Empire over this,
Speaker 1: then they won't have time to try to take over
Speaker 1: the Boring system. But I don't know for sure. We
Speaker 1: have so little information now. I'm going to be very
Speaker 1: very real with you guys, Borrent versus Valta. I have
Speaker 1: barely clocked any information about either of these groups at all.
Speaker 1: I know they've been talked about, and I know that
Speaker 1: this information has been given to us, but it is
Speaker 1: not what's stuck in my brain. And so him putting
Speaker 1: these pieces together, I am very happy for you, Carl
Speaker 1: that you are able to keep track of this and
Speaker 1: make some sense out of it. But I'm gonna be honest,
Speaker 1: this didn't register for me one tiny little bit, because
Speaker 1: none of this is what I'm ultimately the most concerned
Speaker 1: about in the immediate moment. As a reader, I recognize
Speaker 1: that this is all big picture shit, and I should
Speaker 1: be thinking this way if I want to try and
Speaker 1: figure anything out. But I just want you guys as
Speaker 1: listeners to understand where I'm coming from in my coverage
Speaker 1: because I don't have the memory to comment on his
Speaker 1: theory here. I don't have my own independent theory. I'm
Speaker 1: just fully accepting what Carl says because Carl is no dummy,
Speaker 1: and I am willing to take it on faith that
Speaker 1: what he is saying is likely correct. Michael says, I
Speaker 1: like that Karl is self aware enough to know that
Speaker 1: rousing speeches from a random crawler isn't going to enact
Speaker 1: societal change. He's just another tiny weight added to a
Speaker 1: much larger situation. He doesn't actually comprehend. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's really it. And that's the thing is like saying
Speaker 1: like I'm just one person, What difference can I make? Well,
Speaker 1: it's like anything one isn't what makes the difference. It's
Speaker 1: a bunch of people deciding that they're going to do
Speaker 1: a thing that makes a difference, and that can be
Speaker 1: very slow and over time. This is part of I'm
Speaker 1: covering the most recent Hunger Games book with Rashaan Sunrise
Speaker 1: on the Reaping and mild spoilers for this book, but
Speaker 1: it is a story about Hamage's games and how the
Speaker 1: way that his games were filmed and depicted that we
Speaker 1: saw in the original trilogy of books is not actually
Speaker 1: how the games really went, and that there are going
Speaker 1: to have to be multiple tries to topple certain systems
Speaker 1: and you're not always going to succeed on the first
Speaker 1: or the fiftieth try. That doesn't mean it's not worth
Speaker 1: pushing and continuing to fight, but it does mean that
Speaker 1: you have to accept that sometimes you are going to
Speaker 1: make sacrifices and then you will not get to live
Speaker 1: to see the actual change and the result the fruit
Speaker 1: of your sacrifice. And I have a very hard time
Speaker 1: with that personally, just like that concept sacrificing and then
Speaker 1: not actually getting to see. Like, guys, when I say
Speaker 1: that I have an issue with needing immediate gratification, you
Speaker 1: don't even understand how difficult it is for me to
Speaker 1: keep long term ideas and consequences in mind when something
Speaker 1: immediately in front of me seems like it would be
Speaker 1: fun or good. So the idea that I am ultimately
Speaker 1: sacrificing for something that I it's not just like, oh,
Speaker 1: way off in the future, potentially you will be dead
Speaker 1: and you will never see it. I really don't like
Speaker 1: that one at all, actually, But okay, so go back
Speaker 1: of this, zev is explaining that they are the scheduling
Speaker 1: for who is in which trailer is public, so this
Speaker 1: is not something that they would have needed, like an
Speaker 1: insider to get the information on. Mordecai, as it turns out,
Speaker 1: had said that he should raz the king's sum, but
Speaker 1: then it's like, you should be subtle, That's what I
Speaker 1: remember saying. The good news is nobody is saying anything
Speaker 1: negative about Carl and Donut on the net. Prince Stalwart
Speaker 1: is the villain. Rust is going to have to disown
Speaker 1: him too. I hadn't thought of that. That only leaves
Speaker 1: the sister as the heir, which I can't help but
Speaker 1: assume as soon as she mentions that that maybe it's
Speaker 1: the sister behind all of this, but I don't know. Also,
Speaker 1: I just really want to imagine that what's going on
Speaker 1: with the Skull Empire is like succession right now, and
Speaker 1: that she's the Shiv, which isn't a good thing for
Speaker 1: the record, because Shiv is also kind of monstrous, but
Speaker 1: in her own very special way. So Mordecai says new rule,
Speaker 1: we are not meddling with mentioning or talking about any
Speaker 1: other entities outside of the dungeon from now on, We're
Speaker 1: not going to mention King Rust or Prince Stalwart until
Speaker 1: after the sixth floor. If you two idiots make it
Speaker 1: that far. When Odette asks you about it, you are
Speaker 1: to say you have no opinion. You only talk about
Speaker 1: stuff happening in the dungeon. And Donut says talking smack
Speaker 1: is my special talent. Manassa and Princessdinadia both said so
Speaker 1: I love that. So Mordecai says, look, I know it's
Speaker 1: not your fault, but he is going to blame you.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to make sure the Skull Clan targeted
Speaker 1: the Blood Sultan it once you hit the ninth floor.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that's going to be an issue anymore.
Speaker 1: Let's just hope he's not too mad at you. So
Speaker 1: then we cut from there to Donut and Carl having
Speaker 1: to find the two hundred and first group, which is
Speaker 1: not It's like they're out on the street prosblytizing to people,
Speaker 1: so it is not difficult to find the whole way
Speaker 1: that this this is so weird. Oh I'm sorry, Michael
Speaker 1: is in the chat. Michael oh Rob says, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I do. Regarding immediate gratification adhd Crew. Michael says that's
Speaker 1: part of what made the sacrifice of a guy jumping
Speaker 1: on a grenade so touching to me. I think it
Speaker 1: would be a lot easier to sacrifice yourself if you
Speaker 1: know for a fact it would make a difference doing
Speaker 1: it when you will have no idea if it had
Speaker 1: any effect at all. That's tough. That's exactly it. Michael
Speaker 1: is like, you have to be somebody who is willing
Speaker 1: to do the right thing, the like the right thing.
Speaker 1: It can feel like, how do you is the right
Speaker 1: thing the thing to do when it doesn't have any
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, is the right thing
Speaker 1: always obvious? Because I think sometimes that it is, And
Speaker 1: then I'll step back and be like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that's the look. I don't want to get all
Speaker 1: caught up in this but doing it just because you
Speaker 1: don't want to be if you are, like I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about this like grenade issue, where I suppose if you
Speaker 1: don't throw yourself onto it, it explodes, It's possibly you're just
Speaker 1: going to die anyway, right because you're near enough to it,
Speaker 1: So you decide I'll take the hit and hope that
Speaker 1: everybody else doesn't take any hit because you're kind of
Speaker 1: discounting yourself being able to survive in the end anyway,
Speaker 1: which is a remarkable presence of mind. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know that it would even enter my head, you know,
Speaker 1: to be real, So okay. He When they head out
Speaker 1: from the safe room, they run into some more shambling
Speaker 1: berserkers and they get some more xp dealing with them,
Speaker 1: and this is when Karl starts to realize that the
Speaker 1: dynam light he's using is so powerful it's not really
Speaker 1: safe for him to use in close quarter combat or
Speaker 1: in regular fights. He's like two stories away and it
Speaker 1: knocks him off his feet. He calls them basically mini nukes,
Speaker 1: and Dona is like, you need to be more careful,
Speaker 1: and also mentions that when she looks at the dynamite,
Speaker 1: it tells her that there's a seventy five percent chance
Speaker 1: it'll explode if she touches it. So his skill level
Speaker 1: makes him uniquely qualified, and it's possible her talents make
Speaker 1: her uniquely vulnerable also, and I live when she says,
Speaker 1: maybe we should have tested them first, and he says,
Speaker 1: that's what they're going to put on my tombstone. Don't
Speaker 1: be silly, Karl. They don't give us tombstones here. I
Speaker 1: did really like that moment. So they talk about what
Speaker 1: potentially could be even higher on the list than Goblin dynamite.
Speaker 1: And let's see, he thinks about the Divine Guardian and
Speaker 1: that even though this shit is very, very powerful, even
Speaker 1: if he dropped a bunch of it directly down the
Speaker 1: thing's throat, he doesn't think it would make any difference whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So they go talk to the l's here and it's
Speaker 1: labeled corrupt temple. A quick note to Mordecai confirmed anything
Speaker 1: labeled corruptment mobs could be within, which I remember this
Speaker 1: from Skyrim as well. And there are three elves standing
Speaker 1: outside in robes that look like they've been gardening, and
Speaker 1: there is a residence right beside them, fifteen dwarven kids.
Speaker 1: One of the older kids held a stick with a
Speaker 1: small salamander tied to the end, and he was chasing
Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters about as they all howled. I
Speaker 1: think it was supposed to be a mockery of the elves.
Speaker 1: The stick wielding kid jabbed the poor, hissing salamander toward
Speaker 1: one of the robed figures the tiny lizard expelled a
Speaker 1: single spark of flames at the city elf, who cursed
Speaker 1: and kicked at the child. Another kid picked up a
Speaker 1: rock and chucked it at the elf, who in turn
Speaker 1: raised his hand and cast a spell that reflected the
Speaker 1: rock back at him. The rock bounced off the kid's head,
Speaker 1: who started wailing. His siblings surrounded him, and they all
Speaker 1: piled inside the house next to the temple. And this
Speaker 1: is so funny to me, the idea that like, later on,
Speaker 1: their mom comes out and she's yelling at him for
Speaker 1: throwing rocks at her kid, even though the kid threw
Speaker 1: the rock at him first, and he just literally deflected it.
Speaker 1: So not that I'm arguing, like complaining about her interrupting
Speaker 1: this fucking dude, not a bit, But it was just
Speaker 1: your kids were being little shits, actually, And you know
Speaker 1: that said, I'm not mad at the kid throwing a
Speaker 1: rock at these elves. It's very difficult for me to
Speaker 1: give a shit. So if they're gonna be little shits
Speaker 1: directing it towards these elves feels fine to me. Good
Speaker 1: unleash them. So the kids all take off, with the
Speaker 1: one that got hit with the rock and the stick
Speaker 1: with the salamander is just left on the street. The
Speaker 1: poor lizard was trying to drag himself away. I was
Speaker 1: going to untie the little guy, but Mango jumped forward
Speaker 1: and swallowed the salamander hole while taking half the stick
Speaker 1: with it. And this is the beginning of a terrible
Speaker 1: fiend ship where Mango yacks up this salamander and the
Speaker 1: stick later and then fucking eats it again. This salamander
Speaker 1: goes through it too much. I hated this. I hated
Speaker 1: it so much, And it was like, there's a weird
Speaker 1: sort of twist later where the dwarf kid tries to
Speaker 1: clean that actually the salamanders all get strapped to the
Speaker 1: helmets of the dwarfs that are in the mines, and
Speaker 1: so this salamander was in training and that he likes
Speaker 1: it actually, which I have no real idea on, like
Speaker 1: whether I should trust this kid's version of things or not.
Speaker 1: You know, I genuinely do not know whether or not
Speaker 1: this is a real thing that the salamander is, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love being put on a stick and waved other children.
Speaker 1: No idea. So here's when we have this odd confrontation
Speaker 1: between Dona and the city elves first one level sixteen
Speaker 1: root Druid Temple recruitment wand bearer, and they are particularly
Speaker 1: dangerous because they are such fanatics. The Master told us
Speaker 1: that oak Fell and the oak Fell and their rotting
Speaker 1: assistance would come to the city soon and the final
Speaker 1: battle for Heaven would commence. When you agreed to help
Speaker 1: that orc, we knew it was you. You even wear the
Speaker 1: filthy symbol of your blasphemy, which is it turns out
Speaker 1: later the anklet of the Fallen Oak. The oak Fell
Speaker 1: is a Pito's version of the anti Christ. That's not
Speaker 1: stuff one usually contends with until the twelfth floor. We
Speaker 1: need to get you to a dispel protection spell, which
Speaker 1: will handle the anti charm and other security protocols these
Speaker 1: quest locations usually have. They're annoyingly common in Skyfowel settlements.
Speaker 1: So neither and I don't know if it's just me
Speaker 1: here guys being frustrated. I'm interested to hear how you felt.
Speaker 1: Neither Doughnut nor Carl asks who the Master is. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I'm sure they're just assuming. These guys
Speaker 1: aren't gonna tell us, and they're probably right. They're probably right,
Speaker 1: but just ask, though I would just ask I would
Speaker 1: want to know, you know, like, and obviously the way
Speaker 1: that this is set up, where the oak Fell and
Speaker 1: their rotting assistants would come to the city soon, I
Speaker 1: can't help but wonder if the body with the anklet
Speaker 1: on it wasn't put in their way for them to
Speaker 1: take the anklet Like how far back does this whole
Speaker 1: plan go? Somebody is setting them up on purpose. I
Speaker 1: had thought that it was fucking what's his name, but
Speaker 1: him and his mom got killed. So either he's not
Speaker 1: really dead and it was him he is dead and
Speaker 1: he had nothing to do with any of this, or
Speaker 1: it was him. He's dead and now his brother's going
Speaker 1: to take over, Like those are the only options I
Speaker 1: can think of. But there being like this prophecy about
Speaker 1: the oak Fell and then finding these bodies and the
Speaker 1: anklet on one, I just it seems like convenient to me.
Speaker 1: And I don't really know who else I could possibly
Speaker 1: suspect that I've met, Like I am curious whether whoever
Speaker 1: is responsible for all of this is somebody that we
Speaker 1: haven't even actually encountered in the story yet. And if
Speaker 1: it is somebody we haven't encountered, I don't really know
Speaker 1: how I feel about that. A part of me feels
Speaker 1: like that would make sense because this is such a
Speaker 1: huge universe and they won't have met everybody, but they're
Speaker 1: so famous that sure, I don't doubt that there are
Speaker 1: people out here pulling strings. On the other hand, it
Speaker 1: makes me less invested in the baddie because I'm wanting
Speaker 1: to care about whoever our bad guy is, and if
Speaker 1: it's a stranger, it's just going to be less engaging
Speaker 1: in that way. And otherwise, I genuinely like only other
Speaker 1: enemies that they've made are Frank and Maggie. So could
Speaker 1: Frank and Maggie have set this up? I don't know
Speaker 1: that they could. Like the elves or not. The elves well, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: these are o Elves. The other guys were dwarves. The
Speaker 1: Elves are talking about the Master as somebody that feels
Speaker 1: very like established and in control, and I don't think
Speaker 1: Crawlers could accomplish that. So I don't know. It's definitely
Speaker 1: they're being set up, But I just don't know who
Speaker 1: else could be, because like the other thing is, if
Speaker 1: I'm blaming the what are they the Skull Empire? If
Speaker 1: I were trying to blame them, they literally just like
Speaker 1: shot at the true trailer the two of them were in.
Speaker 1: They don't really feel like subtle operators, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. They're not afraid to just outright take them
Speaker 1: out in a very public, borderline breaking the rules like
Speaker 1: kind of way. This elaborate story just doesn't vibe with
Speaker 1: that approach. And the only like, I don't know who
Speaker 1: all has influence on things? Who has that kind of power?
Speaker 1: I keep thinking about like Odette, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that she necessarily has any influence on the game. She
Speaker 1: has her she has her influence as a host of
Speaker 1: this show, but I don't think she has necessarily direct influence.
Speaker 1: And who else like gives a shit about these two
Speaker 1: at this point? I mean, I don't know. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to think this over a little bit further. So anyway,
Speaker 1: one of them says we had to torture her to
Speaker 1: tease your name from her lips, and Carl asks who.
Speaker 1: But I knew immediately, and he says she was serving
Speaker 1: an important purpose, removing the unworthy filth from the streets.
Speaker 1: But then she started asking questions, questions. It turns out
Speaker 1: that attracted the oak Fell, just as the Master predicted,
Speaker 1: and this again, they are very distracted by the fact
Speaker 1: that these guys are talking about torturing gum gum, so
Speaker 1: they don't ask who the master is, but I really
Speaker 1: want them to fucking ask. And there's a little preamble
Speaker 1: conversation here where eventually Doughnut turns to Carl and they
Speaker 1: start weirdly reacting. And this is when we find out
Speaker 1: about the anklet being what is causing them to They're
Speaker 1: flickering from white dots to red ones, so as soon
Speaker 1: as they catch a glimpse of it, their enemies. But
Speaker 1: then when her fur covers it again, they go back
Speaker 1: to just being neutral. And I kind of find that funny.
Speaker 1: Donut lifted her back leg, revealing the small magical anklet
Speaker 1: with the three little beads. She shook her foot and
Speaker 1: the beads made a rattling noise. The elves growled and
Speaker 1: hissed like a pack of wild animals. One of them,
Speaker 1: the female light Healers, started scratching at her own face,
Speaker 1: causing rivulets of blood to form. This is uh. It
Speaker 1: feels like this is an enchanted item that is affecting them.
Speaker 1: This is more to me than just simple fervor. I
Speaker 1: think that something on this is affecting the elves, and
Speaker 1: the elves only I don't know, but it just the
Speaker 1: reaction is so extreme, and like, look, they're literally extremists,
Speaker 1: so maybe it is just pure them, but I can't
Speaker 1: help but have my suspicions. I don't know. I love
Speaker 1: when he says you think there that she's the Antichrist
Speaker 1: because of the anklet, and Donuts says I told you would.
Speaker 1: Jewelry is uglean. H I found that so funny. Look,
Speaker 1: I think with jewelry can be lovely, but I do
Speaker 1: get where Donut's coming from. It's rare for me to
Speaker 1: really like it. There are times where I'm it's the
Speaker 1: sort of thing where I'm like, I understand the appeal.
Speaker 1: It's not for me, but I get it. So this
Speaker 1: is when Salvatore takes that like acorn off of his
Speaker 1: stick and begins to eat it, and it causes magical fervor,
Speaker 1: triples their amunt of points, increases their strength and makes
Speaker 1: them glow and talk really loud, and they'll be immune
Speaker 1: to your fear spell. So he is ranting, and this
Speaker 1: is when he gets interrupted by the dwarven woman who
Speaker 1: bashes him with a literal rolling pin. I imagine the
Speaker 1: dwarfn woman, who is also like hugely pregnant. I imagine
Speaker 1: her wearing a like a pink bonnet with white polka
Speaker 1: dots on it, and probably like maybe curlers in her hair,
Speaker 1: something like that. Wap thwap thwap down the street. The
Speaker 1: two swordsman guards turned toward the scuffle. I stared in
Speaker 1: surprised astonishment at the tableau the woman had come out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. The other elves looked at each other, none
Speaker 1: of them moving, equally frozen with surprise by the unexpected violence.
Speaker 1: The seminar elf continued to suck his thumb. The healer
Speaker 1: continued to scratch at her own face. The scene only
Speaker 1: held this way but for but a moment, though it
Speaker 1: seemed to go on forever. The stalemate ended when Mongo
Speaker 1: yacked the salamander back out onto the street and the dwarf,
Speaker 1: says Benjamin. Benjamin, and I was just like, oh no,
Speaker 1: so everything falls apart. At this point, the like dwarven
Speaker 1: woman gets frozen, and that takes her out for a
Speaker 1: full sixty seconds. I don't know how many of you
Speaker 1: have played games with that kind of like functionality and combat,
Speaker 1: But there is nothing more infuriating than being frozen in
Speaker 1: a game. I think it's the worst possible attack to
Speaker 1: use on somebody. Just you have to sit there and
Speaker 1: just take it as people go to town beating the
Speaker 1: shit out of you. The worst I hate it is
Speaker 1: young Ricky Joe knelt before Benjamin the dead salamander. His
Speaker 1: lower lip quivered as he picked up the gold. The
Speaker 1: broken stick line dripped off, and the guards come over.
Speaker 1: They moved towards the frozen, pregnant dwarf and they're coming
Speaker 1: at her because she's the one that started beating up
Speaker 1: this elf. So she's literally on the ground, utterly helpless,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna kill her. So her kids are trying
Speaker 1: to come to her rescue, and of course Karl is
Speaker 1: watching this. I was aware nobody left on the street
Speaker 1: at this moment was innocent. Nobody except maybe Benjamin who
Speaker 1: was already dead and the baby dwarf in Eunice's belly.
Speaker 1: The elves were assholes. The rock throwing dwarf kid was
Speaker 1: a prick who'd gotten what he deserved. Unice obviously had
Speaker 1: some anger and birth control issues she needed to work out.
Speaker 1: I was like, does she have birth control issues? Maybe
Speaker 1: she just likes to have lots of kids. Don't judge her.
Speaker 1: And Ricky Joe the Salamander Torturer was obviously well on
Speaker 1: the path toward the life of a series real killer,
Speaker 1: and normally some kid that's like tormenting an animal. I
Speaker 1: would agree, but there was something about this whole scenario
Speaker 1: that just felt like, I don't think that's what's going
Speaker 1: on here, which is why I'm sort of tempted to
Speaker 1: believe Ricky Joe and what he said later. But anyway,
Speaker 1: he goes on and punches the guards and it does
Speaker 1: fucking nothing except turn both guards red. Warning you have
Speaker 1: been branded as a troublemaker at this settlement. Guards will
Speaker 1: now attack you on site. I remember, guys, one particular
Speaker 1: playthrough of Skyrim where I attacked a guard in a town.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what happened, but I do recall that
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was a guard, and I attacked
Speaker 1: without knowing what it was I was doing. I got
Speaker 1: branded as a troublemaker, and there was like a quest
Speaker 1: that I had to be in this town and I
Speaker 1: couldn't get around them. I finally went back and loaded
Speaker 1: a save from before I killed that guard. Because being
Speaker 1: branded a troublemaker it throws such a wrench into gameplay.
Speaker 1: It makes things so fucking difficult. If you have very
Speaker 1: high stealth, it can be fine because you can sneak
Speaker 1: past them. But at the time I was not focused
Speaker 1: on stealth. I was like just pouring everything into combat only.
Speaker 1: So when like he gets this alert, I felt my
Speaker 1: heart stop a little bit because I was just like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a nightmare for you. I don't
Speaker 1: know how bad it's really gonna be. Meanwhile, Ricky Joe
Speaker 1: tries to punch Mongo and he loses his whole forearm
Speaker 1: and hand. Mongo swallows it later pukes it back up,
Speaker 1: but there is no way for them to reattach it,
Speaker 1: so Brah has got only one arm. Now doesn't even
Speaker 1: seem that upset as one would expect, but that's also
Speaker 1: because kids don't get what consequences are. So and Donut
Speaker 1: has to stop Mongo from continuing and beyond just taking
Speaker 1: his arm and actually killing him, because Mango is about that,
Speaker 1: and this dumbass kid is about to punch Mango again
Speaker 1: with his other hand and just lose both hands. Which
Speaker 1: I can't lie, would have been fucking hilarious. Like I
Speaker 1: don't wish for a child to lose both hands, but
Speaker 1: this is fiction and a weird game, and I do
Speaker 1: think that had he lost both arms, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been able to stop laughing. I think that would have
Speaker 1: been very, very flunny. The swordsman's wide blades smashed into
Speaker 1: the ground. The blade missed me, instead drilling into Salvatore,
Speaker 1: who'd just been healed back to consciousness by the face
Speaker 1: scratching light healer. He'd been sitting on the ground shaking
Speaker 1: his head. He was cleaved in half, cut right down
Speaker 1: the center, like a damn bagel. I the description of
Speaker 1: like a bagel killed me. There are so many ways
Speaker 1: that you could have described that, and a bagel evocative
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I pictured it. So they get out
Speaker 1: of there, and they take the kid with them, and
Speaker 1: he gives the kid a heel potion, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: grow his arm back. It just stops the bleeding and
Speaker 1: you know, sort of seals things up there. As they're leaving,
Speaker 1: he tosses a boom jug into the air and it
Speaker 1: falls after they're out of the way, and it lights
Speaker 1: the whole place on fire, which means that Ricky Joe's
Speaker 1: house burns down. The kids and his mom are far
Speaker 1: enough away that they're not caught up in it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: whole building gone. We waited until sunset before leaving our
Speaker 1: hiding spot atop the building, and Mordecai is very upset
Speaker 1: that they had been labeled as troublemakers. And this is
Speaker 1: when they have the conversation about the salamander, and he's
Speaker 1: just like they like it. He was in training. He
Speaker 1: carl asks Ricky Joe, did you notice anything weird going
Speaker 1: on in that building? And he says it was always weird.
Speaker 1: One of them would cry for his mama every morning.
Speaker 1: We could hear it through the walls. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of weird smells. My brother Bubba Lane said he
Speaker 1: saw something fly from the roof a couple nights ago.
Speaker 1: He said it was a cross suit, but it was
Speaker 1: probably just that skyfowl lady. I don't know her name.
Speaker 1: They all look the same to me, but she visits
Speaker 1: a lot. She usually just comes before dark and leaves
Speaker 1: right away, walking with a bunch of other ladies. She
Speaker 1: didn't come today, though, and this gets me thinking on
Speaker 1: the same track as Carl that maybe it's the assistant
Speaker 1: lady who is actually responsible for what's going on. It
Speaker 1: also occurred to me, and this, ultimately, I think, just
Speaker 1: turns out to be nothing. But I was like, do
Speaker 1: you hear beanie babies have some significance in this? Are
Speaker 1: they somehow like storing magic? Or is she turning people
Speaker 1: into beanie babies? Like that would be very funny, but uh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like a beanie baby's factor into anything.
Speaker 1: So I also like that he has a sibling who
Speaker 1: sometimes calls women stupid, and that his mother slaps the
Speaker 1: kid when he says that, pinches his ear till he apologizes,
Speaker 1: and then makes us all line up and call him stupid.
Speaker 1: I endorse this. I think that is fantastic and I
Speaker 1: wish that this was just the way that we operated
Speaker 1: in life. So Carl's looking around trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how they're going to get the fuck off the roof
Speaker 1: that they've been sitting in to stay out of the mess,
Speaker 1: and he has to come down on a rope. Donut
Speaker 1: is able to get down with like no issue whatsoever,
Speaker 1: and she says something like about how he needs to
Speaker 1: start working on his jump ability because he doesn't have
Speaker 1: any He's having to use ropes all the time. And
Speaker 1: it's interesting because like, there isn't a lot in which
Speaker 1: I feel like Karl is slowing them down, but this
Speaker 1: is a particular area where yeah, he is. I had
Speaker 1: to carry the protesting Ricky Joe under my arm. I
Speaker 1: ended up accidentally dropping him the last ten feet, but
Speaker 1: he was mostly fine. Belly flopped hard onto the ground,
Speaker 1: losing his weak grip on the severed arm and salamander corpse.
Speaker 1: He started wailing, Oh you're fine, I called, as I
Speaker 1: climbed the rest of the way down. Walk it off, kid.
Speaker 1: His health had barely blipped the idea that this his
Speaker 1: arm flopping around and the dead sound like this what
Speaker 1: a fucking picture. Oh my god. So there's a scream
Speaker 1: and Ricky Jo says, that's me Mom. She's in labor again.
Speaker 1: She's going to be really mad if I miss it.
Speaker 1: I'm in charge of holding her left leg. Bye, Princess
Speaker 1: Dona by Mango. I'd love that he doesn't say good
Speaker 1: by to Carl. This woman just being so constantly pregnant
Speaker 1: that they have like a setup for her going into labor.
Speaker 1: I do not like know what to even think of this.
Speaker 1: Rob says to me that totally made me think Carl
Speaker 1: might be a marginally unreliable narrator. Oh, Rob is saying, oops,
Speaker 1: he slipped, Like maybe Carl dropped him on purpose. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't really think so, but I could see maybe
Speaker 1: not being honest with himself about it. Perhaps. So this
Speaker 1: is when we go back to the one I'm Narwhal
Speaker 1: and we meet Katya, and Karl had forgotten all about Katya,
Speaker 1: not me. I have been eagerly awaiting meeting heckless friend.
Speaker 1: I had been so curious how this all was going
Speaker 1: to go. And it's fascinating because when he looks at her,
Speaker 1: the AI tells him her race is human and that
Speaker 1: her class is monster truck driver. As we find out
Speaker 1: later that's not really her race. And so the AI
Speaker 1: isn't always correct or honest depending on how you want
Speaker 1: to look at it, which is accurate to how actual
Speaker 1: AI functions everybody. I just want you all to know
Speaker 1: that this is an anti AI generative AI podcast. I
Speaker 1: hate generative AI. It is inaccurate. It is theft. It
Speaker 1: is theft of not only intellectual property and the work
Speaker 1: and vision of artists. It is also literally stealing the
Speaker 1: out of the pipes of the poor people that they
Speaker 1: inevitably build the server farms in their communities. There is
Speaker 1: a video that has been circulating of the families who
Speaker 1: are near this new server farm and they turn their
Speaker 1: taps on and this tiny trickle of water comes out
Speaker 1: and that's how it's been for months, and they like,
Speaker 1: it's just all of the water has been diverted to
Speaker 1: this fucking server farm. I cannot emphasize enough how little
Speaker 1: value AI brings as opposed to the damage that it does.
Speaker 1: The ratio is insane, and I just cannot believe that
Speaker 1: we are going along with it. And I can't believe
Speaker 1: how impossible to escape it is, because it's literally built
Speaker 1: into fucking every app now, and the fact that it
Speaker 1: uses so much power for everything, even when I am
Speaker 1: not trying to use it, because it's just an automatic feature.
Speaker 1: So whether I like it or not, I am sometimes
Speaker 1: using it. It makes me so fucking angry. I think,
Speaker 1: if you use AI to like write for you, you
Speaker 1: are so lazy. You are so lazy. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: If you're using AI to do research for you, it
Speaker 1: is not accurate. AI is much less reliable than something
Speaker 1: like Wikipedia, which we use to make fun of people
Speaker 1: who used Wikipedia for research. Now AI is the thing
Speaker 1: that everybody's usaying. We're just accepting that, and like there
Speaker 1: are actual legit jobs out there endorsing it. Are we
Speaker 1: fucking high? It's all around the worst idea we've ever had.
Speaker 1: I hate everything about it. There is not a redeeming quality.
Speaker 1: There's nothing about the way generative AI works that I
Speaker 1: think is worth the time, attention, and energy that we
Speaker 1: are pouring into it. So I just wanted to say that,
Speaker 1: and I stand by it, and I will always stand
Speaker 1: by it. It's like one of my top issues now
Speaker 1: that I'm fighting for is like abortion rights and kill
Speaker 1: generative AI. So Katya, we find out eventually that she's
Speaker 1: actually a shape shifter doppelganger sorry, and this means that
Speaker 1: she can change how she looks, but she has to
Speaker 1: emulate it by making herself look a certain way by concentrating,
Speaker 1: and it hurts to do it, which I kind of
Speaker 1: appreciate the addition of the pain, because otherwise being able
Speaker 1: to change around all the time is so easy that
Speaker 1: it can be kind of abused in terms of the plot.
Speaker 1: So adding a layer of difficulty there I think is
Speaker 1: really necessary to keep somebody from being kind of overpowered.
Speaker 1: And she's only level nine, which Karl is really hesitant
Speaker 1: to bring her into the fold because it feels like
Speaker 1: she's going to significantly hold them back, which I understand,
Speaker 1: but also they've been dealing with these shambling things and
Speaker 1: it seems like kind of an XP farm, and maybe
Speaker 1: just go there with her and you'll be able to
Speaker 1: deal with some you know, she doesn't gain the non
Speaker 1: physical abilities of the shape, she just looks like it.
Speaker 1: The problem for Maskatchia here is she can't just say,
Speaker 1: make me into a human. She has to shape it herself,
Speaker 1: and it hurts. She has to mentally chisel her appearance herself,
Speaker 1: and since she isn't yet a master sculptor. So this
Speaker 1: is something that I think is so fascinating because the
Speaker 1: ability to like completely control what I look like. I
Speaker 1: love this idea. It's something that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people deal with with just straight up to morphia.
Speaker 1: And you know, the way that plastic surgery has gotten
Speaker 1: to be like a little bit out of hand. A
Speaker 1: lot of us really wish that we had control over
Speaker 1: how we looked. And I think considering how plastic surgery works.
Speaker 1: People seem willing to deal with pain in order to
Speaker 1: get the look they want, so so let's see. He
Speaker 1: gives her a shard of mirror as well, because she
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to find one, and once she sees herself,
Speaker 1: she's able to adjust some things pretty quickly to make
Speaker 1: herself look a little bit more human. Mordecai says, the
Speaker 1: monster truck class. It's an Earth version of the staunch
Speaker 1: barrier class mixed with a jouster class. It's a relatively
Speaker 1: common combined class called a juggernaut. In other words, she's
Speaker 1: a straight up tank that gets an increasingly massive constitution
Speaker 1: bonus the faster she's moving, and based on her current
Speaker 1: constitution while she's standing still, she is quite the house.
Speaker 1: And he then in chat says, what's the catch, and
Speaker 1: Mordecai says, massive constitution and good dexterity. She sucks at
Speaker 1: everything else, especially strength, which seems counterintuitive. She's not a
Speaker 1: fighter and her level is low, so despite your ability
Speaker 1: to absorb a lot of physical and magical damage, she
Speaker 1: is far behind the curve. I once found an indestructible
Speaker 1: wombat thing on the eighth floor. The Monster could absorb
Speaker 1: a direct hit to the face with a celestial warhammer,
Speaker 1: but they were small and weak, so instead we just
Speaker 1: picked them up and dunked them headfirst into buckets of water.
Speaker 1: They quickly drowned. Jesus Mordecai, Yeah, it is kind of grim.
Speaker 1: My point is the strongest, most indestructible wall in the world.
Speaker 1: Isn't that tough if you can pick it up and
Speaker 1: toss it aside? It's just like with your shelf plan
Speaker 1: later tonight, which that's a little hint for us. So
Speaker 1: I am very interested in, you know, her being part
Speaker 1: of their party. I'm into this. I think we can
Speaker 1: level her up. I think we can figure it out.
Speaker 1: I'm just imagining, like, granted, if you can pick her
Speaker 1: up and toss her, but put her somewhere that they
Speaker 1: can't reach her, have her like stand in front of
Speaker 1: you to take damage while Carl chucks bombs out from
Speaker 1: behind her. I think that's a pretty winning combo. I
Speaker 1: don't know. And let's see. We spent the next few
Speaker 1: minutes getting her to join our party. And she has
Speaker 1: strength eleven, intelligence eight, constitution fifty one, dexterity thirty, charisma eight.
Speaker 1: And it turns out she's got all kinds of like
Speaker 1: items and buffs to her constitution, which Carl is particularly
Speaker 1: interested in because his is not high enough. And let's see,
Speaker 1: I also have something called pathfinder which helps me find
Speaker 1: stairwells really easily, which is something that Mordecai had said
Speaker 1: earlier that they should try and get if they can.
Speaker 1: And she mentions being good at fixing engines because of
Speaker 1: the earth hobby potion. So she's now a gearhead, very handy.
Speaker 1: Love this. And she was an art teacher, which Karl
Speaker 1: tries to be like an art teacher and you sculpt
Speaker 1: that shitty. All art is different, Carl. Maybe she was
Speaker 1: a great painter. Okay, maybe she made jewelry. You don't know,
Speaker 1: stop it, stop judging her. So Princess Donut versus CSI
Speaker 1: and Gustavo three, turns out somebody had zeroed in on
Speaker 1: Donut when she was talking shit about the Rottweilers, and
Speaker 1: now pople are trying to get them versus one another,
Speaker 1: which obviously later on Carl is like, well, we just
Speaker 1: have to avoid Lucy Amar and then it's quickly clear
Speaker 1: to him, Oh, this has gotten enough attention. They are
Speaker 1: going to make us face off. There is absolutely no
Speaker 1: way that we're going to avoid each other. They're going
Speaker 1: to make it happen. She says. Every moment spent not
Speaker 1: gaining experience is a waste of time. I will find
Speaker 1: this donut in the dungeon where her death will be forever.
Speaker 1: Ceci and Gus will tear this putta apart, and then
Speaker 1: I will rip Carl to pieces and take all of
Speaker 1: his shiny toys. This bitch is scary. I am very excited.
Speaker 1: I do. I don't want to face She's very scary,
Speaker 1: but also I kind of do. I just want to know,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I just so, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it won't happen. It won't be until after the third
Speaker 1: round of sponsorships so on, or after the sixth. Does
Speaker 1: that mean they'll go easy on us till then? Maybe,
Speaker 1: but probably not. Whatever happened to them trying to kill
Speaker 1: us off early, they're still trying to end as early
Speaker 1: as possible. But they need money, so you high performers
Speaker 1: are going to be treated differently. All of this ties
Speaker 1: in with what I need to talk to you about.
Speaker 1: Boring is warning shopkeepers and pub owners to be extra
Speaker 1: careful not to anger crawlers. It doesn't explicitly say this,
Speaker 1: but some of you guys are getting much stronger than
Speaker 1: you should. The Desperado Club is proof loop boxes are
Speaker 1: controlled by the AI, and it's attempting to compensate for
Speaker 1: the time limits. Is that why you didn't have a
Speaker 1: fit when we decided to take on this quest, you
Speaker 1: were already snagged in the net It happens. I could
Speaker 1: tell this was a good one from the get go.
Speaker 1: Usually you just have to bring something from point A
Speaker 1: to point B and it's done, or you have to
Speaker 1: kill someone. Now you should get a couple hours sleep.
Speaker 1: He mentions about what's her face? Try to keep her alive,
Speaker 1: but if she does die, make sure you get those
Speaker 1: rings off her finger. Damn. So they have to go
Speaker 1: break into the magistrate's place. The alley contained a group
Speaker 1: of a level fourteen monsters called shadow Leaks. They were
Speaker 1: smoke like ghost like smoke like ghost class mobs that
Speaker 1: swarmed us as we approached the side of the building,
Speaker 1: and they're able to deal with these fairly easily. Mongo
Speaker 1: gets bigger as he hits level thirteen. He'd gone from
Speaker 1: dog size to pony sized, just like that donut leaped
Speaker 1: from my shoulders to the back of Mango to see
Speaker 1: if she could ride him, but the dinosaur got so
Speaker 1: excited he started jumping up and down, tossing doughnut away.
Speaker 1: She poofed all her hair out in anger and return
Speaker 1: to my shoulder. We'll work on that, leader, she mumbled.
Speaker 1: I am deeply looking forward to this, I really really am.
Speaker 1: I kind of want Carl to be able to ride Mongo.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, but I'm okay with with just
Speaker 1: donut from now. So the what Carl had done with
Speaker 1: the shelves that I had noticed and was sort of like,
Speaker 1: is there a camera? It's explosives. I don't know how
Speaker 1: it didn't occur to me that's this whole fucking thing.
Speaker 1: If he's planting something, I should assume it's explosive, like
Speaker 1: every time, I really should. So what they're doing, it's
Speaker 1: like they there had been this moment earlier where him
Speaker 1: and Mordecai talk over the fact that, like when we
Speaker 1: were saying, we're going to make whoever's killing these women pay,
Speaker 1: they hurt us somehow, and what's that? Which I have
Speaker 1: just been taking it so for granted that everything they
Speaker 1: say and do is on camera that it didn't really
Speaker 1: bother me that whoever this was was able to see
Speaker 1: or like at least hear them. But it didn't occur
Speaker 1: to me that, like in game, that isn't how it works.
Speaker 1: So I didn't even ask this question. But as we
Speaker 1: find out later that mysterious letter, that's what it does.
Speaker 1: So they have to pull the letter out and like
Speaker 1: talk around it with their plan to set up whoever
Speaker 1: it is that they're trying to trick into this trap.
Speaker 1: So they, let's see, blow up the thing. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find the spot here where they donut quickly cast
Speaker 1: clockwork triplicate on the dinosaur and pulled the original mango
Speaker 1: back into his carrier. We need even get in a minute,
Speaker 1: but not right now. And I pulled the hobgoblin smoke
Speaker 1: curtain into my ystera she stera, I think is the
Speaker 1: way you pronounced this, if I remember, and tossed it
Speaker 1: onto the opposite roof. I then lit a second and
Speaker 1: wedged it into a roof tile at our feet. We're
Speaker 1: jumping on the roof now, I said. I crumpled up
Speaker 1: the letter and tossed it up in the air. One
Speaker 1: of the mangos grabbed it and swallowed it whole, which
Speaker 1: I really am curious what effect that has on anything,
Speaker 1: because the mongo is only that one isn't real, like
Speaker 1: what does it do? And they are able to jump
Speaker 1: all the way across the alley and up a whole story,
Speaker 1: which he had not anticipated being successful, but evidently donut
Speaker 1: have faith in them. So let's see, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find the spot. I pulled the Hobgoblin Puss and jammed
Speaker 1: on the detonator. A clockwork mongo how'l filled the air
Speaker 1: in the moment before night turned. Today they blow up
Speaker 1: the place, but their quest isn't complete, and this is
Speaker 1: giving him a very bad feeling. Understandably, we've all been
Speaker 1: here where we have a quest, we think we've done
Speaker 1: the thing, nothing happens and we're like, oh, it's not over, which,
Speaker 1: considering this is only going to get them a silver box,
Speaker 1: really does seem kind of unfair. Your title has changed.
Speaker 1: This change will revert upon collapse of the floor. I
Speaker 1: had jumped up two levels to twenty one. Doughnut had
Speaker 1: jumped two levels to nineteen. Let's see, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find the spot. New achievement assassin. You have killed a
Speaker 1: ranking NPC town official. You have received a Bronze Assassin's
Speaker 1: box and there's ultimate extreme power. You've received a Platinum
Speaker 1: Tyrants box. You have also gained control of the Medium
Speaker 1: Skyfall Settlement. Good life, Magistrate. I never saw that coming
Speaker 1: and this will be interesting. Cock Block. You have assassinated
Speaker 1: an NPC whose existence was required to complete another crawler's quest,
Speaker 1: which was Miss Quill, so we know for sure she
Speaker 1: is dead. I can you imagine you guys playing this
Speaker 1: game and somebody else fucking your quest up in this way?
Speaker 1: I would be nivid. I would be so mad. So yeah,
Speaker 1: his name change is Magistrate Carl of Medium Skyfall Settlement.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how this works out. I think we
Speaker 1: screwed up. Magistrate Featherfall is dead, but the quest is
Speaker 1: still there. That means he wasn't the head bad guy,
Speaker 1: and it looks like Miss Quill wasn't either, So now
Speaker 1: they have to go in there and figure out what
Speaker 1: the hell is going on. And they go into this
Speaker 1: building that is like starting to fall, and I love
Speaker 1: when he runs into a couple eagles and he says
Speaker 1: that he's the magistrate. I wasn't certain how this sort
Speaker 1: of thing worked. If they'd recognize my authority or not.
Speaker 1: If this were the real world, they'd say, fuck off,
Speaker 1: your crazy assholes. The skyfall called down to me, go
Speaker 1: back to the Desperado or wherever you came from. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't be up here. I really enjoyed that. I thought
Speaker 1: that was very well done, that little overlap there. So
Speaker 1: they get inside and I'm running out of time here,
Speaker 1: so I have to kind of speed up this part,
Speaker 1: but I promise I will be more than likely bringing
Speaker 1: it up next episode again because this is a big deal.
Speaker 1: They come into this room where there are tons of
Speaker 1: women's corpses hanging all over the place in different levels
Speaker 1: of dissemblement. So the word I want there are like
Speaker 1: they are cross us. So they're in pieces because of
Speaker 1: how that works. And then there's the magistrate who's in
Speaker 1: this weird sort of dream catcher hanging upside down, pinned
Speaker 1: into place. How did we get credit for killing that
Speaker 1: guy when he was like this? He looks like he's
Speaker 1: been dead a long time. I don't know. There was
Speaker 1: a nest of CROSSU the original descriptions had to truly
Speaker 1: kill them when had to find their bodies and destroy them.
Speaker 1: The ones without heads were I assumed out and about
Speaker 1: in the town. But if that was the case, why
Speaker 1: do they appear as corpses on the map? And this
Speaker 1: is when he's realizing that the AI isn't accurate. It's
Speaker 1: saying that they're corpses, but they might not actually be
Speaker 1: really dead corpses. So there is a point where one
Speaker 1: of them wakes up. I'm trying to find the exact
Speaker 1: spot where this whole he uh. He reaches out to
Speaker 1: Mordecai for some advice. Here, spells in your menu and
Speaker 1: scrolls won't cast if you're in a muted zone. Everything else,
Speaker 1: including magical items, potions, and spells you've already cast, will
Speaker 1: still work. So they sick Mongo on one of the elves.
Speaker 1: He chomped down on the dark ELF's head. The barely
Speaker 1: detached head caved in under Mongo's alarmingly powerful bite. The
Speaker 1: head slopped to the ground, followed by a rush of
Speaker 1: organs and blood, as if her neck was a drain
Speaker 1: that had just been unclogged. The purple swirls of magic
Speaker 1: blinked off, The purple aura around the others blinked out.
Speaker 1: The hair on the back of my neck stood on end.
Speaker 1: So all of these beings start to rise, and Mango,
Speaker 1: of course, because he do what he do, is trying
Speaker 1: to attack all of them, and as they begin waking up,
Speaker 1: he yells out, go along, and she takes a minute
Speaker 1: to get what he means. But this is one of
Speaker 1: their little plays. I'm not going to get into all
Speaker 1: of this again because of time. But they pushed through
Speaker 1: the corpses as I yanked the fireball or custard lotto
Speaker 1: ticket from my inventory, and he gets fireball. The eggs
Speaker 1: shaped ball of fire leaped out of my hand and
Speaker 1: rocketed toward the doorway to the bedroom. The flaming projectile
Speaker 1: was the size of an opened umbrella. It didn't move
Speaker 1: as quickly as one of Donut's magic missiles, but that
Speaker 1: didn't matter. The entire building rocked again, the floor buckled.
Speaker 1: Did we get them all? I think so, but we
Speaker 1: fried whatever loot Featherfall had. So they go back into
Speaker 1: the room and there is a woman who's flickering. Her
Speaker 1: dot is going from red to white, or from an
Speaker 1: ex to white to a red dot. It's like cycling through.
Speaker 1: And it's Burgundy, who they had run into when they
Speaker 1: were getting to when they were trying to see the magistrate.
Speaker 1: The first time she works at the mall, and first
Speaker 1: of all, she is like, I want to be clear.
Speaker 1: You guys need to kill me because this is a
Speaker 1: curse and I do not want to be like this,
Speaker 1: And she explains that she was brought here by the elves.
Speaker 1: I worked in another settlement, but they told me I
Speaker 1: could get a job at the Desperado Club, and they
Speaker 1: talked me into coming. Everyone knows if you work in
Speaker 1: the club, there's a chance you can descend. I could
Speaker 1: go to the hunting grounds and then maybe even deeper
Speaker 1: where it's safe. This is just the fucking chant, right.
Speaker 1: All anybody can talk about is trying to get deeper
Speaker 1: where it's safe. That's all anybody fucking wants is to
Speaker 1: just not be somewhere where they're under attack all the time.
Speaker 1: It's really not all that much to ask, one would think.
Speaker 1: So let's see, she says, Uh, Featherfall wasn't the one
Speaker 1: who did this. He's been here the whole time, hanging
Speaker 1: on that thing. His body was turned into a dark
Speaker 1: fetish to keep our bodies safe at night. Miss Quill's
Speaker 1: the one who's been running the city the whole time.
Speaker 1: She's the real magistrate, which Carl is sort of like, okay,
Speaker 1: good at least killing her did something because I thought
Speaker 1: she was maybe totally innocent. The quest didn't tell us
Speaker 1: to save the women or kill who was responsible. We
Speaker 1: just needed to find out what was going on. And
Speaker 1: we were almost there and Burgundy goes on. Miss Quill
Speaker 1: came and got us. She asked us so many questions.
Speaker 1: I didn't know why. At the time, I thought she
Speaker 1: was going to take me to the club and staid
Speaker 1: she brought me to him, to her husband. He's in
Speaker 1: another place across the street where the swordsman guards stay
Speaker 1: in the evening. The guards don't know he's there, or
Speaker 1: they don't care. They can't look up, which is wild.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but that detail got to me
Speaker 1: so bad. He's named Remix and he's casting a big spell.
Speaker 1: He's not alive or dead, he's something in between. What
Speaker 1: does that have to do with you, guys? And she's
Speaker 1: saying during the day we live and work in the building,
Speaker 1: and at night were his private army. Every time a
Speaker 1: new skyfowel or chickadee comes into one of the shops,
Speaker 1: where to pluck a feather. I don't know why we
Speaker 1: give them to miss Quill. As to the women, they
Speaker 1: are those whose sins aren't enough. They are women who
Speaker 1: have come to work at the Desperado. But when they
Speaker 1: are brought to Remis, when he twists them, when their
Speaker 1: heads sometimes fly from their bodies, they do not always
Speaker 1: turn into crossu. It's not a perfect thing. Sometimes they
Speaker 1: simply die. When this happens, us to feed upon them.
Speaker 1: Then one of his avatars picks them up and drops
Speaker 1: them in the alleys. Mss Quill says, they have to
Speaker 1: drop them within a few blocks of his lair. He
Speaker 1: controls the avatars as if they are his own limbs,
Speaker 1: but they can't go far. Are the other skyfall I
Speaker 1: don't understand. And the room starts to slip, and she
Speaker 1: yells for them to kill her, and Donut kills her
Speaker 1: with a magic missile and that's the end of the chapter.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Michael says, I hate how her story is
Speaker 1: pulled directly from real life people sex trafficking women by
Speaker 1: lying to them what they're traveling for the way that
Speaker 1: sex trafficking works. It's so funny, guys, because there are
Speaker 1: all these you know, weirdo Facebook posts and emails that
Speaker 1: old white ladies like to send to each other about
Speaker 1: like what to look out for that you might get snatched.
Speaker 1: That's not how they do things. They go after people
Speaker 1: that don't have family. They lie and make up stories
Speaker 1: about the great life you're about out to have. They
Speaker 1: pick up hit like hitchhikers or unhoused people. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna go after the thirty two year old mom of
Speaker 1: three getting into her suv at the fucking mini mall.
Speaker 1: Like that's not how that works. But anyway, yeah, this, Uh,
Speaker 1: I am out over time, so I really do have
Speaker 1: to wrap, but I'm excited to see what this book,
Speaker 1: how it wraps up, So we'll see, all right, everybody,
Speaker 1: until next time to thelue motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled
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