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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book four, The Gate of the

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Paral Gods, chapters one and two. In these chapters, I

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was dead on apparently r E the desert stucking balls.

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I am very saddened to know that I was right,

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though I didn't want this for anyone. Welcome to spoil Me.

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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you

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very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael is

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here in the chats as well as Rob and John,

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so welcome, and our Zoo is also here. So you guys,

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this is so odd. The start of this is feeling

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it's throwing me off and I like it. Just to

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be very clear, this is not a criticism, but everything

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just feels really different than it did. And I am

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realizing how used to certain things I've gotten, so when

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any of it gets switched up, when there is a

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when there's a way of playing a game like this

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that doesn't feel familiar to me personally, I knew that

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we would run into something like this sooner or later.

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A lot of even though not a huge gamer, a

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lot of what's been going on in the books, has

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felt like, Okay, this is sort of like and I

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can point to either a game I've played or a

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game that I've watched Marshall play, but this is just

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super unfamiliar territory to me, and because of that, I

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feel more afraid. It's just there's no there's nothing to

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cling to for comfort, you know what I'm saying. So anyway,

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I am backing up here. Let's talk about the opening

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time to level collapse. Fifteen days views, one point four

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to three quintillion followers, seven quadrillion favorites, two point four

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quadrillion leaderboard rank three, bounty eight hundred thousand gold, and

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we wind up finding out that his bounty is doubled. Actually,

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so this is a whole other issue that I, frankly,

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at this point I'm not worried about because everybody is

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spread out so far that I don't know. It's the

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sort of thing that would it presented much more concern

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to me when we were in the previous floor, But

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now everybody needs everyone that they are actually able to

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get in touch with to complete this one task so

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much that I'm feeling more at ease the thing that

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I would be worried about is once you've done your

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thing and you've decided that you're going to like pitch

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in and help somebody else, what if they just like

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use you to get through whatever it is their assignment is,

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then they decide to turn on you because now they

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don't need you anymore, which would be really brutal, but

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also would make sense. So for the time being, this

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doesn't bother me too much, but I just, you know,

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something in my the what's the word I want? I'm

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keeping in at the corner of my eye. It's also

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mentioned by Carl. It's not in his book, nor did

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Mordecai mention that this was going to happen. And he's

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sort of wondering whether this is something that's like new,

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if it's been introduced in this game for the first time,

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which it seems like they're doing a lot for the

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first time. It seems to me like this is just

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there is something about this game that, in comparison to

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what we have heard in previous about previous games, reeks

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of desperation to me. And this is something that feels

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like it's playing into that something is something more is

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going on, and I'm really wondering about this because you guys,

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you know, there's been mentioned about how they're basically hemorrhaging

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money and that they probably won't be able to stay.

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And I'm talking about boring here that things have been

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pretty bad for them and due to what happened with

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the third floor I think it is, and the legal

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troubles that they got tangled up in due to all

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of these like boxes that they were supposed to send.

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I am feeling like I'm just sort of wondering about

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the sort of things that's been happening with us with

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hedge funds and these like private investment firms that are

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purchasing the most recent being like Joanne Fabric. And then

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there was Red Lobster. Although it didn't happen. Red Lobster

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didn't completely go under, but it was done strategically to

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force a lot of them to close. What was the

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other one that had happened recently? And I'm just sort

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of wondering, like, are we gonna get mixed up in

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that where we're trying to force this to fail or

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something in order to scrape the very last of the

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money we can out of it. You know, I'm just

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I'm trying to think how that would really even work.

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a well thought out, fully formed thesis or anything. It's

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just sort of on my mind that it's like they

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seem to be gunning for everybody who on average, the

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crawlers are like more powerful than they're supposed to be.

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than there really should be. And I am wondering if

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they had wanted this whole thing to get done faster,

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because they keep putting pressure on in a way that

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feels like it's designed to fuck everybody. And then against

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all odds, people managed to make it out and they

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don't know what to do, so they have to pull

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some extra shit next time. Well Michael just says, say, oh,

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just open my candle copy. And I didn't realize I

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was a Mac at the start. I don't remember when

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I first read the book years ago. I've been listening

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to the audio books since, and I just noticed that

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when I opened it for this as well. Because I

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hadn't purchased it, I didn't take a good look at it.

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I just was worried that there might be spoils. Sometimes

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maps do spoil things and it's not like a big deal,

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but you know what I mean. So I didn't really

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look at it. I just saw something that was like

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an enormous volcano. It's not really I know what this is,

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but you know, that's the best I got. Michael says

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hedge fun guy bought Sears, gutted the company, so the

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assets to his other companies for pennies, and bankrupted it.

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That's right. This is like the way that we have

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got things structured. Is me maniacal, you guys, because it's

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not just that people can profit off destroying a company,

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but that also this is like a thing with hospitals,

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which it just frankly called me crazy. I don't think

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should be allowed. And I brought this up recently because

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there was an episode that h or a yeah, an

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episode of Supernatural that I was covering with Rashaan where

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it became very clear that, like she was trying to

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she was seeing the signs that her hospital was going

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to be closing and her husband had just had major surgery,

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and she got told by everybody, no, no, no, don't

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worry about it. We'll let you know, we'll keep you

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informed whatever changes, and then she showed up to an

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appointment and they were fucking closed down. Nobody let them know,

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nobody told them anything, and it was gone shut, doors shut.

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And then then the doctor that never even bothered to

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contact them had the fucking gall to leave a voicemail

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saying I've set up a new practice here if you'd

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like to come follow me there, which like, bitch, are

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you fucking serious? So anyway, I just hate this whole

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I I'm just suspicious of it. That's all I do

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want to mention y'all really really quickly. I'm sorry, I

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may need to duck away for like a minute, because

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it's looking like I am about to have a thunderstorm

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that happen, and my dog's are in the backyard, and

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as of right now, we don't really have a shelter

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back there because it blew down, and so I may

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have to run back there and just let them in

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from the storm. I'm keeping my eye out so far,

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it's just looking like it's going too but it's not.

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It has not started yet, so forgive me if I

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suddenly run away. All right, so they're able to chat

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with Mordecai before they see him, and it turns out

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that he has been made back into one of the

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creatures that he originally was, but like a completely different looking,

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different type of one. And also his wings are clipped,

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which means that he can flutter short distances, but he

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can't really fly. And considering this place is just all

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open sky, it's a real tease. Like that's a very

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cruel thing. I felt a bit of a way about that.

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So Mordecai is like, I have been wondering where y'all were,

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Like I'm here gathering intel and talking to a lot

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of people. It took you long enough come to the

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town that's hunched up against the northwest curve. And I

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just want to say that I think it's kind of

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fucked up that like being on one of these shows

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means that they wind up behind everybody else who has

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already entered the floor. I just, you know, the point

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of like being on these shows is supposed to be

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almost like a bit of a reward for being a

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particularly fun crawler to watch, but then you get penalized

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by not being able to you know what I'm saying.

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I didn't like it anyway. Mordecai says, the class choices

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keep getting better. We need to keep your constitution up.

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You just lost ten points from losing your football who Loogan,

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there's one that'll replace it and more glass Canon normally

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forbids you from adding to your constitution upon level up,

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but it comes with a plus fifteen constitution and it'll

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increase your training speed on all spells. It doesn't increase intelligence,

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but lowers the cost of all spells, which is almost

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the same thing. So let's see Doughnuts character actor benefit

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went up in power each time she descended, but it

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still came with a risk. She didn't always obtain all

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of the chosen classes benefits, and she picked it was

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set for the floor. I chose it. Well, what'd you get?

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I well, I got everything except the plus fifteen to constitution.

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God damn it, I muttered, and immediately regretted it. I

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had spit out more sand. So they're gonna have to

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be a lot more careful with her. And also, speaking

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on this, like in this area until they wind up

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getting to the little town isn't a good idea because

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there is just so much sand all over the place,

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is actually when it's supposed to be sort of the

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safest to be out there, which was not what I

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was expecting. But uh but yeah, so let's see, there

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are no tunnels at least, don't it said? I hate tunnels.

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I wasn't so sure about that. My chat was filled

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with people checking in with their surroundings. I minimized it

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until we were someplace safe, but I saw a few

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people mentioning tight claustrophobic tunnels. Batista was in one such

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passage way. Allen Amani said they were on a round

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floating island that was really a bunch of boats lashed together.

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They were being pelted with a hailstorm and had taken

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shelter in the hold of a cargo ship that was

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filled with level twenty nine fish monsters, which I think.

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I'm really torn, guys, A part of me, like, you know,

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I hate a desert immediately that was my reaction. But

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I think that I would choose the desert over that

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being on an island that's boats really the instability and

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the danger of like stuff being in the water as

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well as being in the boats. Ah, I don't know, man,

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that sounds pretty bad. And let's see. Oh this is

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when he says minefield, which is another like Queue Donna

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unleashed Mango who squawked with dismays at the driving sandstorm.

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She casts clockwork triplicate on the pet and ordered the

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two automatons to range ahead of us. With our limited vision,

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they'd provide an early warning for both mobs and sand dunes.

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So that's the minefield. Just have them walk out ahead

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and they blow up in case they wind up touching something. Which,

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by the way, if you guys are you know, have

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an extra ten bucks to spare per month. There is

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a foundation that I donate to monthly. It's only ten

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bucks a month named a Popo, and it is an

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organization that trains rats to find land mines that have

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been abandoned in fields. And the rats are too light

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to set them off, but they have incredible a sense

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of smell that finds them more reliably than like any

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other animal. And they have a zero percent casualty rate

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with these rats, and they need you know, funding, and

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I am just delighted because I get like the name

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of the little rat that I'm answering and updates about

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him and his picture, and it's just totally worth ten

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dollars a month. So if you're interested, so uh, I

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formed my gauntlet and hasn't hesitantly reached out to tap

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the physical wall, warning you may not enter this quadrant

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until your current quadrant's castle is liberated. And this is

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the subterranean zone. Kachia can't see in there with her likeability,

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but she says, I thought this was a mountain, but

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it looks carved. I think there's a building under our feet.

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And I took a bangersphere and rolled it down the slope.

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It bounced a few times down the uneven ramp entered

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the area as if the wall wasn't there, and just

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kept going. It disappeared into the darkness. A moment later,

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the ground rumbled with a distant explosion. I didn't hear it,

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but I felt it in my feet. You have set

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off a trap. Maybe next time you'll be more careful.

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Which I'm glad that nobody else found up getting hurt,

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or at least there wasn't somebody in his chat, you know,

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because I just the idea that he accidentally set off

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a trap, that maybe a bunch of people were very

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carefully inching their way through. I just I don't even

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want to think about it, and Katchi comes to the

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conclusion that this is like Indiana Jones style traps, which

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is interesting. So let's see. We abandoned the cave entrance

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and continued on toward the town. We did see one oddity,

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a twisted, burned out shell of metal on the ground,

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and he tries to pull it into his inventory, but

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he can't do it. We soon came to a tall,

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curved wall made of sheets of metal, riveted, riveted together

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that was so hard to say. The town is built

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against the wall. There's an entrance that way. The knocker

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was a mallet like for a giant drum. This time

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Humptown banged twice to enter, and I was like, bang twice, Yeah,

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all right, I get it. And it does indeed turn

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out to not be a joke about hey, we're all

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camels but hump because it's a brothel town. And it's

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sort of surprising because Mordecai had been saying to Carl

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about how like the viewers really judge crawlers who go

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to bitches and penis parade, but he also in this

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section says something like, if you really feel the need,

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I recommend not going to one of those guys. One

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of the changelings. So it was feeling very much like

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Mordecai was straight up anti any sort of engagement with

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the NPC's via sex in any way. But now he

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has either like relaxed his stance on that or perhaps

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is like feeling like they've been in the crawl so

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long that like it's inevitable eventually people have needs, and

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Carl is probably gonna, I want to do this, you know.

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So anyway, they bang the door and then this giant,

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this giant camel shows up that he expects to have

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like an offensive accent but actually talks more like a biker.

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And he realizes that it's giving Joe Cammel, which Joe

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Campbell is one of the wildest, like the fact that

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we allowed we'd just be crazy, y'all with the shit,

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Like as time passes and we look back and see that,

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like we thought that was a was a fine way

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to advertise cigarettes, and that now the like it hasn't

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even been that long, you know, Joe Campbell was still

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a thing when I was a kid, and I'm only forty,

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so yikes. And the description is that they are mighty warriors.

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But if they aren't able to like wander and are

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kind of stuck in place without a lot to do,

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they can become pretty sludgy. And let's see, these local

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drama dramedarians are locked in a three way stalemate with

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the Bactrians and the Dirigible Gnomes. Any day now, this

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smoldering conflict could boil over into an all out war,

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a war they probably would not survive. In the meantime,

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they're perfectly content to sit around, smoke weed and do

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their best to drink all their problems away. So this

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whole thing winds up obviously kind of being keen and

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some other ways later on, which we'll get into. So yeah,

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he tells them to come in, but then is like,

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you guys need to pay a gold, drugs or pleasure,

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and Carls says cash, grass or ass. Nobody rides for free.

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So he gives him a blitztick and this dude lights up,

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is like, yeah, that'll do. And then later as they're

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walking past, Carl sees him showing off the blitz stick

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to one of his friends and them snickering together, and

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he realizes that this guy just fucked them up. It

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was not real, this toll thing. It was just him

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shaking him down. And it's funny to me how often

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this happens, like them here and then the whole thing

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with like the security of the Desperado Club as well.

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And I can't help but wonder like he was filing

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away the information about the Desperado Club for later use

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that hasn't come up yet, So I'm wondering when that's

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going to be some like a card he plays, and

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is that something that he can use in this case?

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It doesn't seem like this is. It seems like it's

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well known that they do this shit amongst themselves, so

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probably there's nothing to be done about it. But at

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least it gives him a clue about what kind of

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guy this is. You know, New Quest, stay out of

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city Hall, find out what's in city Hall. It just

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might be important. Reward. You will receive a silver Quest box,

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and they decide that they are going to go and

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find Mordecai. The town streets were laid out like a

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set of nested semicircles like a rainbow. The residences dotted

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the outer ring just inside the wall, interspersed with barracks

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like buildings. The second consisted of shops and training guilds

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with a large city hall building in the center. It

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was the largest building in town, rising up to the

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top of the fabric awnings, which all ran from the

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top of the building to both the town wall and

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the tomb wall behind it like an umbrella. Each individual

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awning piece was triangular, like a jib on a sailboat,

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but much much bigger, which made me think of sun sails,

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which are a thing that you can, like, you can

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put up for awnings in your yard or over your pool,

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and they provide shade, but they're like a little bit permeable.

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Just sounded like a similar idea. As we made our way,

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the wind abruptly stopped, and just like that, dirty light

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streamed in from the spaces between the fabric awnings. Suddenly

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camels were everywhere. A group appeared, pulling ladders and climbing

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the walls, unhooking the fabric. We had to step out

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of the way as a group strode by on steampunk

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like metal and spring stilts. The massive sails were pulled

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up and placed a top city hall. The blue and

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white stripes formed a pattern, making something between a minaret,

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the onion towers atop Saint Basil's cathedral, and soft of

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ice cream, only it was made of fabric, and he's like, yeah,

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that's actually dope, which I also like this idea. It's

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very practical, it's decorative. I mean I both of those

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things are highly important to me, so I'm into it.

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So then he sees that they are basically under a dome,

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that the ceiling in this world is way higher than

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in the other floors that they have been on, and

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let's see, the city ended at a massive wall that

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had to be over one hundred feet tall. Before I

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had thought we were in a bowl. I realized now

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I was correct, a bowl that sat atop a tomb.

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What had the description called it? The Necropolis of answer, Carl,

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This doesn't feel very dungeon like to me, Doughnut said,

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looking up at the sky, and Carl's like, were you

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complaining because you said you didn't like the tunnels either?

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Something flew by high above. It was a giant bird

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of some sort. It dove out of you past the

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edge of the bowl. And I am going to assume

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that there's a more sky follow here, or perhaps it's

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like even an actual airplane. He mentions this later. I

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don't know, they've got steampunk stuff here, so perhaps that's

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not out of the question. So yeah, this is Mordecai

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shows up and talks about how he's been clipped and

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how this sucks. Let's see, Katya, you were close. We

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are in a dome. They're calling them bubbles. The Necropolis

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of Answer is a very high tower, and we are

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on top of it. That bubble is bigger than it

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looks from here. The ground and the sea are far

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below us. You came in a few minutes late, so

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you missed the first announcement. But there's going to be

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another announcement explaining the floor's rules in a couple of minutes.

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Let's get into a sea the safe room I almost

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said sea foam, and get some food and listen to

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what they got to say, which just I'm glad that

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they're repeating the announcement. It's just again annoying that like

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they're here and they don't get it. Should just be

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an automated thing that as soon as you join the

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floor you get your own personalized, triggered explanation of how

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the floor works when you join. It shouldn't be that

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you could even miss the announcement about the rules. That

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shouldn't be how this is built. Just some fundamental issues

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I have with this. So they go to a bar

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called the Tow. There's a one place that's got this

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telescope on top. There's another one that's got a like

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a weird little cart on a what do you call it,

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a tracked cart, like a mini tractor dragging a rickety wagon,

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stacked and possibly high with branches. They laughed as they

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bounced to the whole town smelled of smoke and oil

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and dirt. And this is when they get to Hump Street,

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where there are changelings, and he remembers that a bunch

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of people in the book, the cookbook had called them

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changelings thieving, backstabbing whorees. Which, yeah, if you can change

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your appearance like that, there is just basically unlimited opportunity

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for fucking people over. So sorry, Michael says, I was

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almost impressed with movie and video game traps and ancient tombs.

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Those ancient pastors knew how to build traps the last

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and hundreds of years later, and everything still works, even

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the vine ropes. And yes, I'm sure Born will take

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your complaints about fairness into account for their next dungeon.

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I hope. So borrant, please see me on your next

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uh whatever. I don't know enough about office speak, John

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says the camel tooe. I didn't even think of that.

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Oh my god, how did I not even think of that?

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I hate you all so much, so I know how

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the floor works, and we're already screwed. So with the

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extra three days, I suspect we might be in for

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a nasty surprise. You're stuck in a quadrant with maybe

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three dozen other crawlers. That's it. Everyone I've seen so far,

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other than you guys, is so underpowered. It's a miracle

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they made it this far. And what's worse, you've got

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to use them to help you storm the Nome Castle

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to get to the stairwell. And he says, well, we

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need to find the place, Carl, and Mordecai is like,

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it's up there, and he points it and it's like

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this speck in the sky and Carl, of course, it's

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just like, oh awesome, super best news. So then they

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get the announcement. We are so excited for you to

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enjoy this new and exciting level. We have just over

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one hundred and seventy eight thousand of you joining us,

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which is just you guys, that's like the population of

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the county that I'm in in Texas, Like that's nothing

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and that's everybody left. Yikes. The last floor was somewhat

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of a mystery, and finding out how it worked was

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part of the fun. This floor is a little different.

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The layout is not so much a secret, and the

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rules are pretty simple. There are over four thousand castles

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on this floor. Every single castle contains a single stairwell.

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No two castles are the same. There are a total

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of eleven hundred and seventy two bubbles. All of you

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are inside one. There is about one hundred and fifty

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callers per bubble. Every bubble is different. Every bubble is

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split into quadrants, land, sea, air, and subterranean. Each quadrant

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has a single castle. Your mission is to find the castle,

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raid it, and take the throne room. Once the throne

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room is occupied or the quadrant's boss is killed, the

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castle is considered conquered. The stairwell is also located in

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the throne room, so no need to be scrambling around

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worried about not being able to find it. Take the castle,

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take the stairwell, but there's a small hitch in order

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for your stairwell to actually open up and be passable,

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all four castles in your bubble must first be taken.

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The land, sea, air, and subterranean castles must all fall

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in order for you to proceed to the sixth floor.

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Once you've taken your own castle, you may traverse outside

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your quadrant to lend a hand to your fellow bubble buddies.

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Once all four castles are taken, the bubbles popped, and

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you may proceed outside of the bubble area if you wish.

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You may not enter other bubbles until they are also popped.

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Some of these castles aren't as easier to crack than others. Also,

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the second round of sponsorship bidding is underway, So this sucks.

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There's so much about this that sucks. First of all,

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the fact that you can't help anybody else or get

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help until you have done your thing or they have

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done theirs blows. Also, the fact that some of the

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castles are much trickier than others means that, like, if

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you are in a particularly bad spot, you just kind

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of have to sit and wait and hope that the

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other places are having an easier time of it. It's

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basically like the worst nightmare of being in a group project.

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If you are in a group project that works for everybody,

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and by works for everybody, I mean one person agrees

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they would like to do all the work and does it,

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then no problem sucks for that person. But also, if

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you're like me, you'd rather do the work yourself, then

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trust your bullshit classmates to do it properly, so you

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don't even really mind that much. And if you don't

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like doing the work, then you don't have to do it,

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and so it weirdly winds up A lot of the

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time if a group project is set up a certain way,

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not that bad. But what happens sometimes is you get

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a teacher that's wise to the fact. This is how

472
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:49,119
group projects mostly go, and rather than just let nature

473
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,960
take its course with everybody's personality doing what they do best,

474
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:59,119
they try and force the issue by establishing some kind

475
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,599
of method by which they are guaranteeing everybody in the

476
00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:06,839
group participates in the project equally, which is the kiss

477
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,559
of death and makes it suck. I get why the

478
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,599
teacher wants to do this this way, but I'm gonna

479
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,880
be honest. If you set things up that way, just

480
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,960
don't have there be a group project just to have

481
00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:25,720
everybody do their own assignment. Let's just you know, like

482
00:32:27,599 --> 00:32:33,960
so anyway, I hate this. I hate it and the

483
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,319
fact that like your bubble can pop and you can leave,

484
00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:40,440
but if they're not popped, then you can't go into theirs.

485
00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:44,640
But is it possible to like see into theirs? Can

486
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,039
you watch somebody who desperately needs help and you're not

487
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,759
able to get in there and help them, because that

488
00:32:48,799 --> 00:32:54,400
would fucking blow too Morob says man, I'm very glad

489
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,759
to be shot of group projects in school. Group group

490
00:32:56,799 --> 00:33:00,759
projects are enough fun. Yeah, it's like I'm not trying

491
00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:04,559
to say that group projects are always trash, but you've

492
00:33:04,559 --> 00:33:07,680
got to have a really special group of people and

493
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,920
you've got to have an idea for a group project

494
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:16,079
that is like truly lends itself to being collaborative in

495
00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:18,000
a way that a lot of them don't. And it's

496
00:33:18,119 --> 00:33:24,599
just it's just, look, I just I don't trust other

497
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,599
people to get their part done. I really don't. I

498
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,960
never have. I hope to someday be the kind of

499
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,559
person that does a little bit more, but I'm still not.

500
00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:39,640
And mostly my fears surrounding that have been born up

501
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,680
through my life so I don't even really apologize for

502
00:33:43,839 --> 00:33:47,039
my mistrust because the fact that I don't trust other

503
00:33:47,079 --> 00:33:52,519
people has saved my own ass. So anyway, Mordecai also

504
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,000
is like, by the way, everybody here is fucking incompetent. Again,

505
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:04,480
that could suck, or they could just take your instruction

506
00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:06,799
because they realize that you are so much higher power

507
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:08,280
than them that maybe you know what you're doing and

508
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,280
they won't fucking argue. The danger is when you've got

509
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,119
people who don't know what they're doing, but they don't

510
00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:16,599
know that they don't know. That's when you really it sucks.

511
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:22,000
And people think that they are like capable and you

512
00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:25,599
just have to like watch them with their ego run

513
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:36,400
off and try and accomplish something impossible, you know. So, Carl,

514
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,920
what's the back? Say? This is IMMANI. It's the rigging

515
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,000
that runs from the mass to the back of the boat.

516
00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:45,840
There are different kinds, Ellie, there are twenty of us,

517
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,559
and not a one of these old farts has ever

518
00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:52,320
sailed a boat. Can you believe that I told them

519
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,159
not to put me in meadow Lark? I would have

520
00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:56,000
been better off and one of the more expensive old

521
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,880
folks home surrounded by rich old codgers who grew up

522
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,119
on boats. No, the system is giving us a sailing tutorial,

523
00:35:03,159 --> 00:35:05,960
but it doesn't tell us where the things are. How

524
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,960
are we supposed to pull the boom bang when we

525
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,000
don't know what it is. This thing is more complicated

526
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:17,159
than those trains Inmani. We need to figure this out quickly.

527
00:35:17,199 --> 00:35:21,079
There are rocks everywhere. What spinnaker? Wait, we don't need

528
00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:24,840
that part yet, Carl Jesus, you guys need to be careful.

529
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,360
Sailing a boat isn't something you can figure out on

530
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,000
the fly. It takes months. Inmani, we would have had

531
00:35:32,039 --> 00:35:36,480
an MPC helping us if Ellie hadn't iced him. Ellie,

532
00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:39,679
he was being suspicious. We're on our way back to

533
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,480
the island. If we crash, we crash. There are boats everywhere.

534
00:35:42,519 --> 00:35:46,079
We have our pick I. The fact that she killed

535
00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:49,280
the NPC that was supposed to tell them. This is

536
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,000
such a real thing. Like that happens in games, and

537
00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:55,920
it's always if you save along the way, then you

538
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,039
can just go back to a previous save and it's

539
00:35:58,119 --> 00:36:02,440
not so bad. But if if you didn't save, then

540
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,119
you have to make that Like I had this happen

541
00:36:05,159 --> 00:36:07,320
once where I killed somebody. I didn't realize that they

542
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,440
were like a person, that it would be a problem,

543
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:16,280
and I hadn't saved within the last hour and a half.

544
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,920
I'd been playing like all afternoon. And then you have

545
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000
to make that choice of like do I want to

546
00:36:21,039 --> 00:36:24,119
try and figure this out without this person or do

547
00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:26,360
I want to lose an hour and a half of playtime?

548
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,199
And it fucking sucks. They can't even go back. That's

549
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:38,639
not fair. They should be able to undo. So astro

550
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,960
Paw not as good as astral hand because there's no

551
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,400
thumb to manipulate and hold things, but there's more force

552
00:36:44,519 --> 00:36:47,000
to it, especially at higher levels, and it can be

553
00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:49,519
used as a weapon. She can grow claws on it

554
00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:51,480
at level five, and at ten she can make the

555
00:36:51,519 --> 00:36:54,960
paw a lot bigger. At fifteen, her skills and abilities

556
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,800
will translate directly to the paw. That's a big deal

557
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,880
since her regular swipe is pretty strong. There's a similar

558
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,760
spell we might might want to get for you, astral fist. Anyway,

559
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,280
she can manipulate items at a distance as if she

560
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,519
were physically touching them. Distance grows with the level up.

561
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:16,920
At level one it's about ten meters and he says, Donut,

562
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,920
you'd finally be able to knock that vese off the

563
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,280
shelf at home, and she says that thing was a menace, Carl,

564
00:37:22,599 --> 00:37:27,199
it was haunted, And I really wanted him to ask

565
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:32,480
her more about that. I really really do. Haunted is

566
00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:35,880
a strong word. What does that mean? And you, guys,

567
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,079
this is reminding me of something that I had seen

568
00:37:39,119 --> 00:37:41,159
the other day. There's a cartoonist out there who had

569
00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:47,079
done like a little comic where there's a cat staring

570
00:37:47,079 --> 00:37:49,840
off into space and the owners are joking about, like,

571
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,119
oh my god, she just stares at nothing all the time.

572
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,599
And then the next panel, there's like a bunch of

573
00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:57,199
ghosts standing there that the owners just can't see, and

574
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,840
the cat is staring at them. And there's a movie

575
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:06,599
coming out, a horror movie called good Boy, and it's

576
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:13,079
a story from the dog's perspective about an owner haunted

577
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:20,760
by supernatural entities. And I do and do not want

578
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:26,119
to see it. I'm very curious. I'm like, my main

579
00:38:26,199 --> 00:38:30,400
concern is, hey, can we make sure that the dog

580
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,840
doesn't die before we watch it? Can we? Just like

581
00:38:33,639 --> 00:38:36,920
that's all? I just really because I've heard it described

582
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,000
as heartbreaking and Honestly, if that heartbreaking is because the

583
00:38:40,039 --> 00:38:42,159
dog dies, I'd rather not. I just don't want to

584
00:38:42,199 --> 00:38:45,800
do it. I can't, I couldn't take it. But if

585
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,079
the heartbreaking is like from something else, then you know,

586
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,760
potentially I could put up with it. It just all

587
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:57,800
really depends on the context. So I'm sorry, Michael says,

588
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,400
I hope the twist at the end is that the

589
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:03,679
dog was attacking the roomba the entire movie. Oh my god.

590
00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:08,559
So okay, okay, okay, I'm sorry, guys, I'm all over

591
00:39:08,559 --> 00:39:10,119
the place this episode. But there are so many like

592
00:39:10,159 --> 00:39:13,519
weird little things coming up. These chapters are odd. So

593
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,440
they go back into their personal space and the fucking

594
00:39:18,679 --> 00:39:21,000
bot is still working on cleaning all the blood up.

595
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:27,840
It's not done yet, which is insane. Frankly. Carl has

596
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:33,239
gotten all kinds of achievements due to his interaction with

597
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,639
the God, which it's I'm not going to go through

598
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,320
all of them. A lot of them don't really have

599
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,719
like great rewards. It's just like, oh, this should be funny,

600
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,440
or now you can worship Grol. But then there's one

601
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,480
that he gets a legendary deity box, which is awesome.

602
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:57,800
And then smushed for daddy. I wondered about this. I

603
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,960
almost said something last episode about it, and I just forgot.

604
00:40:02,199 --> 00:40:04,159
It wasn't even that I thought about it and was like, ah,

605
00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:07,239
that's probably nothing. I just actually forgot about it. But

606
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:12,280
when he got stepped on, I had a moment of like, oh,

607
00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:18,039
is this like great or terrible? I couldn't decide if

608
00:40:18,079 --> 00:40:20,519
it being a hoof would make it so that it

609
00:40:20,559 --> 00:40:23,159
wasn't as good, you know, and if the AI would

610
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:25,480
just sort of be like, never mind, it's not for me.

611
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,920
And ultimately that is mentioned. But I was thinking that

612
00:40:30,159 --> 00:40:32,079
if it didn't work for the AI, that it simply

613
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:34,800
wouldn't come up. And I was tooper wrong about that,

614
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,519
and he gets stepped on like a lot, you know.

615
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:45,639
So while this wasn't the pink, fleshed suppleness of a

616
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,920
human shaped foot that crushed your fragile, wet body, it's

617
00:40:50,039 --> 00:40:53,039
nice sometimes to switch things around, you know, just to

618
00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:57,679
test the boundaries of your own limits. When one experiments,

619
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:02,679
oftentimes one finds new and ways to get that rush.

620
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,480
While fun, it wasn't quite the same. You probably don't

621
00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:12,639
realize how lucky that is for you. Reward you've received

622
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:18,280
a platinum spicy box. I do believe I understand how

623
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:25,480
lucky that is for him. Actually, I think I fully understand.

624
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,559
And then hail Mary, you initiated an attack that caused

625
00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:32,239
more than one hundred casualties more than one hundred kilometers

626
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:36,239
from your current position, which gets him a gold sniper's box,

627
00:41:36,679 --> 00:41:40,400
and then extinction event. With a single attack, you killed

628
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,239
every last member of a non unique species on a

629
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:49,519
dungeon's floor wall monitors. You've received a platinum assholes box.

630
00:41:49,559 --> 00:41:51,960
And then he winds up getting a tattoo on his

631
00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:55,679
face and it's very small, but it's like a lizard's foot,

632
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:01,679
and it's meant to be an indicator he caused an

633
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:05,480
extinction event, so people who do not like lizards will

634
00:42:05,519 --> 00:42:10,119
be instantly like, yo, what's up? Nice appreciate it, and

635
00:42:10,159 --> 00:42:14,519
then lizards do. I think it says like twice as

636
00:42:14,639 --> 00:42:18,039
much damage, something bonkers like that, and I was like,

637
00:42:18,079 --> 00:42:21,079
that is wow. I hope we don't run into them,

638
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,400
but we're in a desert, so I kind of probably

639
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:30,239
we will. Lizards love deserts man like you know. Anyway,

640
00:42:33,559 --> 00:42:36,400
and he gets a silver fanbox for having the most

641
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,559
switchovers during a battle, which I'm kind of wondering if

642
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:47,800
that's like the camera going between other people and him,

643
00:42:48,119 --> 00:42:50,000
you know, if people were so interested in what was

644
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,519
happening with him that the camera kept having to move over.

645
00:42:53,079 --> 00:42:55,199
But it may have nothing to do with that. That's

646
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,000
just what came to mind because of it being a

647
00:42:57,039 --> 00:42:58,639
fan box. I was thinking that it had to be

648
00:42:58,679 --> 00:43:05,639
related to like the views somehow. So let's see, don't

649
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,079
have received the least box as though she did receive

650
00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:12,079
a platinum that wasn't too smart? Was it? Box? For

651
00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:19,280
attacking the province boss, which is amazing. And scrolls of

652
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,679
water breathing come up a lot, and it's very clear

653
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,599
like this is something that's probably going to be necessary.

654
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:32,360
They just keep showing up. Donut. I am a cat.

655
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:34,840
Cats do not swim, Cats do not go in water.

656
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,039
It is unnatural and it's not gonna happen. And Mordecai

657
00:43:38,159 --> 00:43:42,320
texts her, don't say that shit out loud, and she's like,

658
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,239
I can't say it in chat, and he says, your

659
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:51,280
chats are still protected if I'm in on it, I'm sorry, guys,

660
00:43:51,599 --> 00:43:53,920
it's not raining, which is what I was worried about.

661
00:43:54,079 --> 00:44:01,960
But apparently they're very they're playing very aggressively. So anyway,

662
00:44:02,199 --> 00:44:05,519
I didn't know that chats with Mordecai were still protected.

663
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:10,480
I think that's a very interesting like ripple ripple wrinkle.

664
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:17,440
Other people who don't have managers then aren't able to

665
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,159
protect their chat at all. Right, it's just him being

666
00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:30,239
a manager that allows that. I look, I'm not trying

667
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:40,079
to shade Carl Ordona at all, but Odette getting them

668
00:44:40,199 --> 00:44:45,079
to make Mordecai a manager is paying off so intensely

669
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,719
that probably somebody had to have figured out that she

670
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:55,480
recommended that they do this right, and that's why she's

671
00:44:55,519 --> 00:44:59,760
getting targeted with like censorship, and they're trying to take Mordecai.

672
00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:05,719
He just presents such an advantage. I really, I really

673
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:11,599
feel like the game shouldn't work this way. I'm not

674
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:18,840
mad at it that they are exploiting a huge I

675
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,880
don't even want to call it bug because it's meant

676
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,039
it's how it's meant to work, but like, it just

677
00:45:24,079 --> 00:45:28,960
seems to me if having a manager can make or

678
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,159
break you so completely, But most people don't even know

679
00:45:32,199 --> 00:45:35,800
what that is and wouldn't it wouldn't occur to them.

680
00:45:37,159 --> 00:45:41,679
I mean, how the fuck is anybody why why make

681
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:46,440
it function this way at all? So anyway, I'm just

682
00:45:49,599 --> 00:45:52,599
I think about this a lot whenever there is something

683
00:45:52,599 --> 00:45:57,000
that happens that puts a person in a hugely advantageous

684
00:45:57,039 --> 00:46:01,159
position that ultimately has nothing to do with them. You know,

685
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,880
it's not to do with their actual skill or with

686
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:10,599
their ability to negotiate with people, or talent being like

687
00:46:10,679 --> 00:46:14,320
greater than others. It's just something that's like you almost

688
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,039
want to call it dumb luck, or perhaps just advice

689
00:46:18,119 --> 00:46:20,800
from somebody experience that other people don't have access to,

690
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,639
but like it's making me think of something that I

691
00:46:25,679 --> 00:46:27,880
held a lot of resentment over for a long time,

692
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,119
and I won't lie. I still do, but it's like

693
00:46:30,519 --> 00:46:34,159
different now because I've taken Harry Potter down off the air.

694
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,920
It's up for patrons, but other than that, it's not

695
00:46:37,079 --> 00:46:41,280
up anywhere. When I started covering Harry Potter with Rashawan,

696
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,320
it became very quickly one of my most successful shows

697
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:48,599
of all time. And Rasham was totally unspoiled and didn't

698
00:46:48,599 --> 00:46:51,960
have she had no knowledge of any spoilers, which for

699
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:56,079
Harry Potter is just like practically impossible to find, and

700
00:46:56,599 --> 00:46:59,519
so she was just perfect for it, you know. And

701
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:05,719
then this guy started a show called Potterless, which was

702
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,000
basically the same idea. It was somebody who was completely unspoiled,

703
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,840
reading the books for the first time and going through

704
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:15,960
them a few chapters at a time. And he accidentally

705
00:47:17,039 --> 00:47:19,440
this was not him that did this. It was a

706
00:47:19,519 --> 00:47:25,559
mistake via Spotify. His show was going up just as

707
00:47:25,559 --> 00:47:30,360
Spotify began having podcasts on their platform at all. They

708
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,159
didn't used to do that when they first started, and

709
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:41,599
the Potterless wound up on Spotify's front page, four podcasts

710
00:47:42,079 --> 00:47:47,639
in like a predominant spot locked by accident on that

711
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:53,719
front page for over a month, and thus that show

712
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:59,880
fucking took off, and that guy wound up getting souper

713
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:05,400
like podcast famous. But his content, in my opinion, wasn't

714
00:48:05,599 --> 00:48:09,639
even that great, and he was very snide. Because the

715
00:48:09,679 --> 00:48:11,880
thing about me and Rashawn that worked so well is

716
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,159
that Rashwan was very snide, but it was balanced by me,

717
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,280
who at the time still was very in love with

718
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,000
Harry Potter. I have grown out of that with JK.

719
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:23,159
Rowling being a monster and had begun to see the truth,

720
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,960
but at the time it was just feeling like our

721
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,840
show is better, it's just straight up better. But that

722
00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:33,719
man is making more money per month now than I

723
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:37,840
make in half a year, and it's just purely a

724
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,480
fucking accident because Spotify didn't even intend for him to

725
00:48:41,519 --> 00:48:45,320
be there. And I think about that all the time

726
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,000
as just like when we try and act like everything

727
00:48:49,079 --> 00:48:51,639
is down to skill, that you get what you deserve

728
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:53,679
if you work hard enough. It is a lie. It

729
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:57,000
is just a lie. It's not like that factor has

730
00:48:57,199 --> 00:49:01,760
nothing to do with it, but it definitely isn't the thing.

731
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,840
Luck is more of a thing than hard work, and

732
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,320
I really do believe that. And it doesn't mean that

733
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,719
I don't want to work hard, because I still fucking

734
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,000
I put out more podcasts than anybody out there period.

735
00:49:14,599 --> 00:49:16,599
Like you could just come at me with anybody. I've

736
00:49:16,639 --> 00:49:21,079
done more. That's it. So I work very hard, but

737
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:26,360
I also make the equivalent of like fourteen dollars an hour,

738
00:49:27,199 --> 00:49:31,559
and that is before health insurance and you know, all

739
00:49:31,639 --> 00:49:34,960
of the things. And there are just times where I

740
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:40,119
get very, very salty at the fact that there are

741
00:49:40,159 --> 00:49:42,880
podcasts out there that had some stroke of luck like

742
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,840
that and then wound up making money that I just

743
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:51,360
can't imagine, and I know that that's just very unlikely

744
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:55,559
to ever happen. And you know, in some ways that's

745
00:49:55,599 --> 00:49:57,639
a blessing because I know that it can come with

746
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,679
weird fandoms and stuff and things get really big. But

747
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,920
of course I also would like to be able to, like,

748
00:50:03,639 --> 00:50:07,320
you know, not worry about paying for my neurologist every

749
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:16,239
three months because it's so expensive. So anyway, I couldn't

750
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,400
help thinking about that with Mordecai and just he poses

751
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,280
such an advantage on such a number of levels, and

752
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:26,679
something like keeping their chat private is huge. That's a

753
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:31,480
big deal. That's like that they could still do that.

754
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:37,280
I mean, this is a fucking game changer in my opinion,

755
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,039
that they're going to have the ability to keep their

756
00:50:39,119 --> 00:50:44,079
chat private using him. In what who else does Ellie

757
00:50:44,199 --> 00:50:47,559
and Niemani have theirs? I don't know how many other

758
00:50:47,639 --> 00:50:49,840
managers there are in the game, but I feel like

759
00:50:50,280 --> 00:51:00,840
that's just enormous. So anyway, let's see what about flying

760
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,559
spells and items? Yes, lots and lots, but potions. If

761
00:51:04,599 --> 00:51:07,440
you'd saved one of the bench upgrade coupons, then maybe

762
00:51:07,519 --> 00:51:10,280
I really need two upgrades. Otherwise we'll have to do

763
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:13,719
it another way. He said this loudly. He was really

764
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:19,119
talking to our sponsors, which I am not remembering how

765
00:51:19,199 --> 00:51:23,760
much the upgrades cost, but I was wondering if maybe,

766
00:51:24,079 --> 00:51:26,159
now that Kacya is a real part of the team,

767
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,599
she did make you know, five hundred thousand gold because

768
00:51:30,599 --> 00:51:34,000
of killing Hecla. She had to spend twenty five grand

769
00:51:34,039 --> 00:51:36,559
on that bot, But like, how much can this cost?

770
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:41,519
Maybe Katcha could spring for it. Perhaps I do agree

771
00:51:41,559 --> 00:51:43,320
that we should just wait and see if a sponsor

772
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,920
comes through, so definitely still do that, but failing that,

773
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:53,599
she might be able to manage it. So then Donuts'

774
00:51:53,599 --> 00:51:57,519
final Platinum box contained another magic book, a spell called

775
00:51:57,679 --> 00:52:03,840
wall on Wall of Fire an escape bell I can't

776
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,480
read the day, guys, an escape spell ten meters wide,

777
00:52:07,679 --> 00:52:11,760
two meters high wall of fire that lasts fifteen seconds

778
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:16,320
at level one. A common spell, powerful, but it's also fire,

779
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,199
and fire tends to spread when the magic goes away.

780
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:22,199
If it's cast on something flammable, it stays on fire.

781
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,280
I've seen it one hundred times. Fire gets out of

782
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:32,760
control very easily, and that's unfortunate. Yeah, that's rough. It

783
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:36,719
could potentially be super useful with the combo of explosions

784
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:43,360
with Carl's you know, explosives. If something could be done

785
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:48,159
with that, but yeah, Katchia opened her boxes next. She

786
00:52:48,199 --> 00:52:53,519
received several more of the water breathing scrolls, and in

787
00:52:53,559 --> 00:52:56,679
her survivor's box, she received a skill potion that she

788
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,400
was forced to drink right away. It raised her catcher skill,

789
00:53:00,639 --> 00:53:04,400
which she'd been training relentlessly up to level eleven, which

790
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:10,760
is nice. He gets healing scrolls, a useless magical shirt,

791
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,159
which I was wondering about why it was useless? Is

792
00:53:14,199 --> 00:53:17,000
it that he isn't able to wear it? I know

793
00:53:17,079 --> 00:53:19,679
that he can't wear pants, but he's he hadn't like

794
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,320
not allowed to wear a shirt, and a handful of

795
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:26,320
water breathing scrolls. But I also received one more invisibility potion.

796
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,559
Mordecai says, that's an easy but expensive potion to make.

797
00:53:31,639 --> 00:53:33,800
Some of the materials for it are rare. It's good

798
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,440
that you're getting them. It's like once you start getting something,

799
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,039
you're more likely to keep getting it. I said, that's

800
00:53:40,079 --> 00:53:43,559
absolutely right. He agreed, And sometimes things like those water

801
00:53:43,599 --> 00:53:45,679
breeding scrolls are not so subtle hints about what you

802
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,639
might find on a level. See how those antidote potions,

803
00:53:48,679 --> 00:53:51,559
KOCHI receives. That means we have lots of poisoned dealing

804
00:53:51,599 --> 00:53:54,440
monsters and traps on this floor as well. Good thing

805
00:53:54,519 --> 00:53:58,760
both you and Dona are immune to poison. How wonderful

806
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:04,079
for you, Katcha said dryly. I did like that line.

807
00:54:04,159 --> 00:54:09,800
Got she's really she's warming up. I like it. So

808
00:54:10,079 --> 00:54:12,119
let's see, at the moment, we had about six hundred

809
00:54:12,159 --> 00:54:13,760
and fifty thousand gold between the three of us, and

810
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:15,719
that was before I opened the rest of my boxes.

811
00:54:16,519 --> 00:54:21,480
So he gets a in his sniper's box, he's got

812
00:54:21,559 --> 00:54:27,199
twenty five Surefire crafting items. A Surefire adds the guided

813
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:30,519
status to any projectile, powered or not. It may be

814
00:54:30,639 --> 00:54:33,800
utilized on a vast array of crafting tables. If added

815
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,639
to an arrow or bolt, you must choose a target

816
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,480
prior to unleashing the weapon, and the projectile will seek

817
00:54:39,599 --> 00:54:44,119
that target. If added to a trap, additional options become available,

818
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:48,239
such as target any healers within range, or target anyone

819
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,199
who thinks it's okay to put mayonnaise on hot dogs.

820
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,920
If added to a powered weapon, such as an explosive

821
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,800
based rocket, targets may be assigned during the crafting process

822
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:05,519
or upon firing, but not both. Note this upgrade alone

823
00:55:05,559 --> 00:55:10,079
does not add range to the projectile, which is important

824
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,599
because for a minute I did think, oh, sweet, you'll

825
00:55:12,639 --> 00:55:14,599
be able to just get anybody, and they're like, no, no, no, no no.

826
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,039
I really like the idea of being able to just

827
00:55:19,079 --> 00:55:24,840
target people who just have different opinions than mine. So yeah,

828
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,960
anybody who just like stands on one side of the

829
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,239
aisle with their car over there but their hand on

830
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:32,360
the cart's handle while they fill up the other side

831
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,840
of the aisle looking at something on the target them,

832
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,800
I really hate that and I think they should all die.

833
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:46,519
So I'll do that. Then the platinum spicy box enchanted

834
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:54,920
toe ring of the leprous bandit. So, uh, there's a

835
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,800
whole story here. I'm not going to read this entire

836
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:01,880
thing because frankly, the ring and views the following the

837
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:06,559
sticky feet benefit the super Spreader benefit. Once every six

838
00:56:06,639 --> 00:56:09,960
hours for dexterity times two seconds. You may walk upon

839
00:56:10,039 --> 00:56:13,159
a non horizontal surface such as a wall or ceiling.

840
00:56:13,639 --> 00:56:16,599
Gravity will not change. So leave your beer on the

841
00:56:16,599 --> 00:56:20,480
ground and make sure you tuck in your shirt, and

842
00:56:20,559 --> 00:56:23,599
then super Spreader. You've been given the power of every

843
00:56:23,639 --> 00:56:27,480
plague rat. You may pass any active debuffs onto a

844
00:56:27,519 --> 00:56:30,400
target of your choice once per hour. This does not

845
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:35,559
remove the d buff from yourself, which is interesting and

846
00:56:36,159 --> 00:56:40,599
very curious about that once per hour is pretty frequent.

847
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:43,320
I would be using that a lot, I think. I

848
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,159
just like the idea of it. Misery Loves Company is

849
00:56:46,159 --> 00:56:52,239
what it should be called. So this is when he

850
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:56,920
gets the Platinum Assholes box and it's the tattoo on

851
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:02,119
his face. Cause lizard class enemy is to deal twenty

852
00:57:02,119 --> 00:57:04,920
percent more damage. Any wall monitors will deal one hundred

853
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:09,079
and fifty percent more damage. Right, okay. Wall monitors specifically

854
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,199
might not be as much of an issue in the

855
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,840
desert area, but might be in the tunnels. So you

856
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,400
may only hide this tattoo with a cover up sleeve,

857
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,360
which I'm assuming is something that he can pull over

858
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:29,599
his head. Probably So then Legendary Deities box and it's

859
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:34,000
a potion which winds up being like the most expensive

860
00:57:34,079 --> 00:57:39,440
thing in his inventory, and when Mordecai gets a look

861
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:46,719
at it, he's literally trembling. Don't take this now, save it.

862
00:57:48,199 --> 00:57:51,639
This potion adds plus five to any spell or skill

863
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,800
of your choosing, and Kytch is like we've seen things

864
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:59,920
that do like plus five before or even like three

865
00:58:00,119 --> 00:58:03,559
whole skill levels, and he's like, yeah, but this one

866
00:58:03,639 --> 00:58:07,960
lets you choose. You know, this is a whole different

867
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,920
ballgame when you can pick legendary skill Potions that max

868
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,400
out skills are also valuable, but they are only available

869
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:17,800
for a limited number of skills. The cheat code potion

870
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,320
is also precious. It is plus three to a random skill. However,

871
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,280
it has a short shelf life, meaning he has to

872
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,320
take it immediately. With this, he can save it. He

873
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,239
can now train one of his skills two fifteen, take

874
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:32,280
the potion and raise it to twenty. It is quite

875
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,000
simply the single best item of loot he has received

876
00:58:35,039 --> 00:58:38,679
since he entered the dungeon, not including the pet biscuit,

877
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:43,239
Donna said, not including the pet biscuit. Mordecai agreed. I

878
00:58:43,719 --> 00:58:52,199
fully agree Donna was right to mention this. So he mentions,

879
00:58:52,239 --> 00:58:55,800
how like my powerful strike is thirteen, and he's like, yeah,

880
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,360
but that's because you have equipment that buffs it up.

881
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:02,360
We need something that's actually without any of your stuff.

882
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,840
And you know, we're gonna have to sit down and

883
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,800
hammer out the math and figure out exactly what is

884
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:15,559
going to be to your greatest advantage here and they

885
00:59:15,599 --> 00:59:18,440
ask Ellie what she got in her deity box, but

886
00:59:18,559 --> 00:59:22,840
she says a spell book called Gropple Big Ice Storm.

887
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,159
Most powerful spell I have, but I'm kind of scared

888
00:59:25,199 --> 00:59:28,480
to try it. It costs fifty man a long cool down.

889
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:36,400
Talk soon because Imani crashed the boat. Mordecai says, that's

890
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,360
a war spell, so tell her to be careful because

891
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,920
we're stuck in a fucking snow globe. They are trying

892
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,880
to figure out if there's any other people that had

893
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:46,719
been on their group chat that are in this bubble,

894
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,039
and Katya had reached out to the daughters but nobody

895
00:59:50,079 --> 00:59:55,840
answered her, which, yeah, Eva is still alive, and in

896
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,960
her chat there are eight crawlers I can see nearby,

897
01:00:00,159 --> 01:00:01,639
but I don't know any of them, and they're all

898
01:00:01,639 --> 01:00:05,119
in the low twenties. We sent out a group message.

899
01:00:05,119 --> 01:00:08,760
I received only one reply, a human named Gwendolen Duet.

900
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:12,920
She was a level twenty seven, boring old fighter. I

901
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:17,239
love that. Oh hey, bomber guy, looks like we're neighbors.

902
01:00:18,159 --> 01:00:21,199
All these dumbasses I'm stuck with don't know what they're doing.

903
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:22,960
Me and the other two folks in my team are

904
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:25,920
the highest level here we rolled land and rolled something

905
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:29,039
called the Singing Castle of the Mad Dune Mage. There

906
01:00:29,039 --> 01:00:32,159
are giant snakes, giant spiders, and these half human half

907
01:00:32,159 --> 01:00:34,880
scorpion punk rock guys with no shirts and nipple rings

908
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:39,320
running around all over the place. Plus bird things carrying chainsaws,

909
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,679
though we haven't fought them yet. We haven't checked out

910
01:00:41,719 --> 01:00:44,320
the castle up close, but it's a big and there

911
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:48,320
are four levels of walls. Do you have a Desperado club?

912
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,840
There are three villages, not including the castle, and I

913
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,559
heard one of them does, but this one doesn't. I

914
01:00:54,599 --> 01:00:57,280
don't have access anyway. I'm a proper fucking lady. I

915
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:02,920
got a club Vanquisher Ring. There's a coral reef ringing

916
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,199
the island. You can see it from the shore. I've

917
01:01:05,199 --> 01:01:08,199
seen sharks and jellyfish. Don't know where the sea castle is.

918
01:01:08,519 --> 01:01:10,480
You see nothing on the water surface yet. Don't know

919
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,679
about the tomb, but there are lots of entrances we

920
01:01:12,719 --> 01:01:16,039
can't get into. It looks like it's amaze inside, and

921
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:21,519
I'm kind of thinking that maybe the castle is underwater.

922
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:26,320
I feel like that would make sense. It might be

923
01:01:26,679 --> 01:01:31,000
if anything in the coral reef. I'm just thinking about

924
01:01:31,119 --> 01:01:35,400
the Little Mermaide Disney version where you know, everything is underwater,

925
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,519
and coral does make up a great deal of the

926
01:01:38,559 --> 01:01:44,400
structure of their kind of buildings. So they have to

927
01:01:45,119 --> 01:01:48,559
take naps, get their buffs and whatnot, set up, do

928
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:57,079
foot care, YadA, YadA, and let's see he's I forgot

929
01:01:57,119 --> 01:02:00,639
about the I have the biggest library in town. I

930
01:02:00,679 --> 01:02:06,639
can be anything you want, honey. Oh my god. I

931
01:02:06,639 --> 01:02:08,679
found the house I was looking for and knocked on

932
01:02:08,719 --> 01:02:12,639
the tall door. The thing stood only about five feet tall.

933
01:02:13,039 --> 01:02:15,199
It was like a person wearing one of those body socks,

934
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:18,400
no nose, no eyes, just a blank mannequin. If it

935
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,440
didn't have the white dot of an NPC, I would

936
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:26,920
have clabbered it. Scarn level three changeling juvenile, and he

937
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,559
changes into like an eight year old boy wearing the

938
01:02:30,599 --> 01:02:33,920
same clothing as Carl, because apparently he's been instructed to

939
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,719
look as familiar to the person that he's speaking to

940
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,800
as possible to set them at ease, which is very interesting.

941
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,960
And the fact that he has like no features is

942
01:02:45,119 --> 01:02:48,000
it's a very fun idea. I really like this as

943
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:54,199
a concept. So Carl asks, do you mind if I

944
01:02:54,239 --> 01:02:59,400
look through that telescope, and immediately it's like, oh yeah, absolutely,

945
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,320
And he had been very monotone and weird. But once

946
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:06,480
Karl asks for this specifically, he gets extremely excited about it,

947
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,760
and he says Flint says, I'm supposed to ask for

948
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,920
a gold coin. He says. Orphans can only get by

949
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:14,920
if they use their towns to take money from people

950
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,159
dumber than them. We had a village, but the Gnomes

951
01:03:18,239 --> 01:03:21,159
bonded it. Most of us died, but the Drumedarians took

952
01:03:21,239 --> 01:03:24,840
us in. Not many kids lived. Ruby lived, but Flint

953
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,480
says she's destined to spend her life in weird shit alley,

954
01:03:27,519 --> 01:03:31,039
which is fucking grim. Why did the Nomes bomb you,

955
01:03:31,679 --> 01:03:34,280
Flint says it's because Gnomes are short, little assholes who

956
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:36,000
deserve nothing but to be trampled to death and be

957
01:03:36,119 --> 01:03:40,599
ripped apart by faral geese, ah, I said. Coming onto

958
01:03:40,639 --> 01:03:44,840
the roof, so he looks through the thing, is able

959
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:51,760
to see the the castle and actually see a lot

960
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:55,800
of information about it, even though he's far away, which

961
01:03:55,800 --> 01:04:01,360
he hadn't been expecting. Say, I'm trying to find the spot.

962
01:04:02,119 --> 01:04:04,960
It looks like a floating junkyard. It used to be

963
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,039
bigger but some of it broke off and fell into

964
01:04:07,079 --> 01:04:11,360
the water. The Wasteland Castle appeared to be a jagged edged,

965
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:15,480
almost rectangular island ripped straight from the ground. There was

966
01:04:15,519 --> 01:04:17,440
so much going on with the thing it was difficult

967
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:21,519
to focus on the whole. If the scale was correct

968
01:04:21,599 --> 01:04:24,079
in my head, the island was approximately the width of

969
01:04:24,159 --> 01:04:28,159
three football fields. Hundreds of ropes and chains and other

970
01:04:28,159 --> 01:04:30,760
strange items hung from the bottom of it, twinkling in

971
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,599
the light. Also attached to the side were dozens of

972
01:04:33,599 --> 01:04:37,920
different flying machines of various sizes, from single tiny person

973
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,599
from single from tiny single person hot air balloons to

974
01:04:41,679 --> 01:04:46,400
bus size floating boats. And that's pretty fun. I'm very

975
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:51,800
excited about this. And there are you know, some explosives

976
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:57,639
that he zooms in on that are very unstable. Did

977
01:04:57,639 --> 01:04:59,519
they drop one of those knock knock bombs on your

978
01:04:59,519 --> 01:05:02,119
old village? Which yep, it was a long time ago,

979
01:05:02,159 --> 01:05:04,239
though I don't remember. If Flint says the Nomes are

980
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,920
bomb dropping cowards, he says, anyone who uses a bomb

981
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:12,480
as a pussy I live Carls just like yeah. Well,

982
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,480
Flint says, they don't know what the Bactorians have. But

983
01:05:18,559 --> 01:05:20,280
here in hump, tell me have something that makes it

984
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:23,000
so the Nomes don't bomb us. The Gnomes have a leader,

985
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,400
guy who's really mean, but we have something he wants

986
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:27,719
to keep safe, so he doesn't bomb our town. They

987
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:30,559
still attack anything outside the walls. That's why Flint and

988
01:05:30,559 --> 01:05:33,719
the others only go go out right after the storm,

989
01:05:33,719 --> 01:05:36,920
when the wasteland is over the water. But do you

990
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,079
know what they have hidden in the town hall. I

991
01:05:39,079 --> 01:05:41,559
don't know. I'm not allowed to go over there. I

992
01:05:41,599 --> 01:05:45,199
know it eats mushrooms and that's the end of the chapter,

993
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:50,760
so I don't know what that means, but I am

994
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:57,719
very curious. Oh okay, Michael says, probably the shirt isn't

995
01:05:57,719 --> 01:06:01,199
as good as his shirt of troll healing he has on. Gotcha.

996
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,960
Rob says I'd never thought about Mayo and hot dogs

997
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:07,400
before that, and Michael says Japan probably does it. Japan

998
01:06:07,519 --> 01:06:10,840
loves Mayo target the essos who think it's okay to

999
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:15,079
bring their baby to a movie. Honestly, yeah, like, I'm

1000
01:06:15,119 --> 01:06:18,239
so sorry. I know it's tough with kids, but find

1001
01:06:18,239 --> 01:06:23,599
a sitter, dude, just go get somebody, jesus. Rob says

1002
01:06:23,679 --> 01:06:26,039
Japan also makes hot dogs covered in hash Browns, so

1003
01:06:26,039 --> 01:06:29,199
they're definitely known for wild and potentially delicious hot dog cuisine.

1004
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,519
I really hate you for telling me that, Rob, because

1005
01:06:32,559 --> 01:06:34,440
now it's like all I'm gonna be able to think about.

1006
01:06:34,519 --> 01:06:38,239
I love hash browns so much, you know what, I

1007
01:06:38,239 --> 01:06:40,840
don't think there's like a potato based food that I'm

1008
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:43,760
gonna have an issue with. I can't think of one.

1009
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:49,639
I just you just can't go wrong. Man. God really

1010
01:06:49,679 --> 01:06:53,079
loves us for giving us potatoes. Like people say this

1011
01:06:53,119 --> 01:06:59,320
with beer, but to me, it's potatoes. Yeah, there's there's

1012
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:02,639
no way of cooking potatoes that I'm gonna be like,

1013
01:07:03,119 --> 01:07:07,079
I'll pass. I can't think of a single one. So anyway,

1014
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:10,800
I've got a wrap. Thank you guys again, and until

1015
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:44,239
next time to the Loo motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled

1016
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:45,440
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