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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 five, The Butcher's Masquerade, chapters one, two, three,

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and four. In these chapters, we're starting out on a

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new floor. We've got new specializations that we have to

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add to our classes. But mostly, of course, what I'm

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interested in is the lawyer. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome

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

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much to Jackie for commissioning this episode. I think this

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is the first of uh Dungeon Crawler Carl that wasn't

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commissioned by Michael, so appreciate it, Jackie. Uh and welcome.

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I don't feel like i've seen you in the chats

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before either, so delighted to have you. I don't know

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where to start, guys, And I know I have to

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start at the beginning link technically, but I kind of

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just don't want to. I kind of just want to

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start where I want to start. I'm going to restrain myself,

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all right, let's let's begin at the beginning. So well, no, well, okay,

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you know what I'm going to do a general sort

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of like overview of what's going going on. Before I

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go into this, because there's like a fair amount to

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cover in these first four chapters, because we go from

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some pretty like intricate stuff that's happening legally, and then

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we have to deal with the floor itself and what's

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going on there, and the adjustment of some of the

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new ways that playing is going to shake out, because

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there turns out to be a combination of some factors

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that will make things look pretty different. I think this

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floor as compared to previous So the way that I

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want to kind of divide this up is legal battle

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versus dungeon battle, and the legal battle thing. I should

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have seen it coming that the first thing we were

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going to have to deal with would be the repercussions

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to the flooding that Carl caused. I for some reason,

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I didn't expect him to have to deal with the

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same guy. I thought that this was going to turn

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out to be a big enough of a deal that

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it would have been escalated to somebody else. But it

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turns out he is still having to face off with

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the same dude. And it's such a weird scene because

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Carl consens there's something weird about the setup here. The

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gate itself is very close to the edge of the

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desk and is just apparently sitting there unguarded, very temptingly,

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to the point where he's like, Okay, obviously, you guys

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are tempting me with this, Like this is not you know.

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And what we find out late is that the item

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it is basically in this limbo at this point because

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they're still figuring out the the legal ramifications and outcome

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of this. So because it's in this limbo, if Carl

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were to touch it, the item would delete itself and

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simply not exist, and thus erase the problem entirely and

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deprive Carl of a very valuable weapon and resource. And

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I just keep thinking, you guys, about the fact that

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the Gate of the Faral Gods is already available this

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early in the game when it's not supposed to be.

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And I know that we are already aware the AI

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is accelerating things a lot. I know that it's like

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part of what we are already seeing going on, But

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I can't help but feel like there's something more happening

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beyond just it's the accelerated game. It feels like it's

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such a specific at advantage. It's not just something like

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has existed in the game that shouldn't yet, you know

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what I mean. It feels more like I am going

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to give you, in particular, something that will be super

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useful because of what you want to accomplish in the game.

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And that's just I think probably I'm reading into it

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more than I should. But it just seems so perfect

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for the way that Carl operates and would want to,

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like the way that he would want to rescue other people,

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that I just can't help but feel like there's something

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more here. And I don't know it's especially you know,

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the end of the last book, somebody said that the

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AI is going primal, and I don't know exactly what

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that means. I know that that's the race that Carl shows,

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and I know that, like historically speaking, they are significant,

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and I know that this will eventually result in his

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the type of power he has being really amplified, but

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that it's like gonna take some time for that to

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become a parent and in the meantime he's gonna have

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to grind and be patient. I get all of that,

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but I just don't really understand what that looks like

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when it comes to the AI, you know, So it

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just I don't. I'm not going so far as to

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say the AI is on Carl's side and is helping him,

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because I think it's pretty clear that's not fucking the case.

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But there is just something specific about the gate itself

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and the way that it can be useful to Carl

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with his desire to help everybody that it may just

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be it feels that way because it is specific to

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the way that Carl works, because the book is written

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so that Carl gets a really great thing to use

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to save people. It just maybe, you know, but there's

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a part of me that feels like, ah, there's I

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don't know, maybe there's a little bit more in there.

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So you know, he's in the office or in his

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sitting there and he is still able to communicate with

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Donut via chat and she is still left in that

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like sort of like arena. Everybody is waiting in line,

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but Katcha is in the room when he is drawn in,

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and uh, basically the reason she was here was because

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she actually was in possession of the gate. But now

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that she has said, it's really Carl's there, which I

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think they all already knew, but they had to like

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handle her because she was the one who had it.

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She's dismissed and obviously feels kind of guilty over the

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fact that she put Carl in their crosshairs. I like,

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this is one of those things where I have very

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mixed feelings because I understand why she has this sensation

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of like, I threw you under the bus, But they

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have watched the whole thing. They know good and goddamn

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well that this was like Carl's idea, and I can't

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blame her for just fucking telling the truth in this regard.

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You know, I don't think Lyne was would have fooled

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anybody or would have done any good frankly so, So, uh,

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this conversation, like I said, there's just a strange sensation

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here because the overall vibe is meant to be We're

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going to have this real convo, But what's also actually

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happening is this temptation right in front of you that

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I'm not going to acknowledge. And finally he says, Okay,

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you've got three choices. I could create an order that

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would encase the first floor in a protection spell, that

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would remove all crawler access to portals, that would remove

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all access to personal spaces and clubs, and break thousands

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of other little things. Teleport scrolls would cease to work,

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certain movements, spells wouldn't work, your pet's carrier would no

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longer function. It would be chaos, and it would kill thousands.

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And I'm real curious about that it would kill thousands,

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part because I am assuming it's just what he means

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is sort of like, as a result of doing this,

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it's going to cause people to not be able to

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go to safe spaces, and that will result in their deaths.

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But I wasn't sure if it was something more direct

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than that, where like it will remove personal spaces and

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if there are people in them when I do that,

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they will die or you know what I mean, I

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don't know. Two, we accelerate you, which will result in

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your death along with the death of anyone near you.

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Or three you turn the winding box in, I give

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you a receipt and you get it back the moment

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you reach the ninth floor. And Carl buys some time

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by first asking there was somebody helping Maggie cheat? What

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was that about? She was getting censored? I want to

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know what the fuck was happening there, and Orn just says, well,

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I mean, I know the answer, but I can't tell you.

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I'm glad you asked because it's an important lesson. Exploits

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can work both ways. The forces working against you have

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had a lot more time to learn how to manipulate

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the system, rest assured that particular issue has been dealt

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with in the same manner and swiftness as the one

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before us now And I love that of like, exploitations

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can work both ways because it just is a perfect

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opening for Carl to say, I want a lawyer. Guys,

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this is one of those things that is such a

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fundamental if you ever get arrested for any reason, honestly,

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even if you're just brought in for questioning on something,

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request a lawyer. There is a lot of propaganda out

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there that makes it seem like requesting a lawyer makes

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you look guilty. It doesn't. It makes you look smart.

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They make you want think that it's going to make

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you look guilty to scare you into not doing it.

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But the way that you can completely fuck yourself without

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having legal representation to tell you to shut the fuck

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up at certain points, I cannot overstate I mean, I

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am I have a very hard time keeping my mouth shut,

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and I know that I would have a really really

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difficult time keeping my mouth shut in front of a

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cop who is trying to like bait me with questions

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that are very like suggest are provocative about like oh

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so was so and so doing that, Like I would

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have to bite my tongue so hard because I fancy

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myself a smart person, and I would think, and I know,

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I know I would wind up saying some shit that

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would fuck me over. I just would because I don't

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understand the full implications of everything I'm saying in the moment.

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I just can't because I don't have all the information

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that they're working with. So this is something that's like

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apparently not usual for this early in the game, but

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because of the special circumstances of everything, this is exactly allowed.

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And this guy apparently predicted that this was how Karl

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was going to respond. He grunted with amusement. I could tell,

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despite his mostly serious demeanor, he was enjoying this exchange.

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He looked back over his own shoulder to peer at

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the blank wall. I told you, what did I say?

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He returned his fish bowl head, and mind direction, you

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just said the magic words crawler. And it is just

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so honestly, guys, especially in the year of our Beyonce

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twenty twenty five, where Ice is out here just pulling

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people out of their fucking homes in the middle of

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the night, in unmarked vehicles without license plates and masks on.

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We are not living in a world where justice prevails,

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and you cannot rely on the goodwill or common sense

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of anybody. Use the system as much as you can.

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It's your only protection. And it may feel slimy, probably

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at times, but like, oh, well, you know, it is slimy.

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All of it is slimy. That's kind of part of

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the nature of it. Is like the way the system

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is built is it's an a just two people who

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are willing to compromise ethically all the time, and you

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just have to be at a point where you're okay

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with doing that to protect yourself. And it sucks because like,

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that's not my instinct. I want to do things, like,

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you know, in a moral and upright way, and that's

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just a pipe dream at this point. So then he

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goes into the staging area, and he had expected that

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he was going to see Mordecai and be put in

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his personal space, but he gets sent to the spot

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where there's a line, and he says, from what I gathered,

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everyone had to go through the line, even those whose

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classes didn't have the option to specialize. I just it's

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a very small throwaway line, but I just wanted to

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mention what bullshit that is. How pissed I would be

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at having to just stand in a line for no

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fucking reason. If it turned out I couldn't specialize. I

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would be livid at just the waste of time and

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just standing around. I be so mad. I hate that

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so much. And he, while he's like waiting, chats with

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Katya and Donut a little bit, and we find out

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that Katya no sorry, that Donut has a new class

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and she is a bard. I. It's so perfect, it's

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so good, it's so great. I absolutely have no problem

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with this in light of the fact that she can't

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use half her spells because she is so out of tune.

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Even better, it's so funny. This is one of my

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favorite jokes of this series, is that she chooses this

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class and then she can't fucking sing. I mean, I

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love it. I cannot tell you, guys. This is and

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and and the way that it works as well, where

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it's like the you just have to put it to

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whatever melody you pick is weird, which I also like

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because now she can just pick some like she chooses

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the A team theme song at one point for a

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spell that I think she says like a standing ovation

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or encore something like that, I my god, you guys,

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that's so fucking great. There is this this I don't

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know if it's a filter. I guess you would call

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it a filter. There are various things on TikTok that

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are sensitive to sound that you can use as a

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like overlays on your videos. And one of the things

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is a ball that it's like an a A what's

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the word I want? It's an animation while you are

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taking video of yourself of a ball that is hovering

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and you have to sing in scale, you know, like oh,

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and the ball every time you change noe it lifts

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a little bit. And there are boards coming toward it

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that each have a hole in it, and if you

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are on key, the ball will be in the right

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place and it will pass through that board. And there

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are a lot of people who are like professional singers

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that posted their videos of being able to get the

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ball through every hole on every board. On the first try,

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I thought I was going to be able to do it,

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and I got every board except for the very last one,

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and no matter what I did, I couldn't get it.

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I couldn't get it. I don't know why. It was infuriating,

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but it was just one of those things that I

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couldn't even be like, well, then the game is wrong

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because a bunch of other people had done it. You know,

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it's obviously me. It's a me problem, but it made

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me really wonder, like, how effective would I be with

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this kind of ability if I think I'm on key.

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It appears Dona is aware that she's not on key.

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It doesn't feel like she's so much under the impression

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that she's a good singer so much as she just

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loves to do it and she doesn't care that she's

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not good at it, which I just cannot help but

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admire that attitude. That's just you know, I wish that

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I were more like that of just like it's just

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fun and yeah, maybe I suck, but oh well, I

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just like it. I'm kind of that way when it

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comes to dancing. But I can still get very much

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in my feelings about the fact that I'm not good

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at it. It's sort of you know what I mean,

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it's like dependent on moods and whatnot. But yeah, I

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just And also the way the audiobook narrator delivers the

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line and she tells him what class I'm aboard, there

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was just something about it that was so just ideal.

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I feel like the audiobook narrator is pulling out some

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stops already at the beginning of this book, and I'm

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going to be keeping my eye on him. So this

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is when he gets to the front of the line.

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He's the last crawler and he's about to go into

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one of these little cubicles, which he says is like

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one of those cubicles from porno theaters or whatever, not

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porn theaters, but like sex shops. And once he goes in,

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he's like, oh, yeah, that's exactly what it is. But

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before he goes in, he gets the announcement. And when

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I'm talking about the narrator like pulling out some stops,

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this voice, I mean, every time that he does the

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voice Hello Crawlers, like it's it's very much like I'm

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smiling too much the whole time, and I'm too excited.

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That's the energy that's always put into the voice no

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matter what right. But in this book there's also this

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like breathless quality added that is so over the top

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that it's almost uncomfortable to listen to. I'm just gonna

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I'm gonna do my best to imitate it, just in

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your if you're not listening to the audiobook, just to

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give you an example. Hello crawlers, welcome to the sixth floor.

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We are so happy to have you here. Like the

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third floor, this sixth floor is a dungeon crawler world tradition.

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It's the hunting grounds like that, it's so much it's

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a significant chunk of text also so keeping that kind

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of energy up for the whole thing. It's really something.

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It's really something. And there's a mention of like that.

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The hunters have been here for weeks and they have

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set traps up so and some of you have already

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found this out the hard way. Traditionally, all hunters start

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out at level thirty and are able to train themselves

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up as you make your way through the lower floors.

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It's no secret you're here sooner than usual. In the

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spirit of fairness and as an incentive to gain more

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last minute participants, we have given all hunters a bump

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of twenty levels. I am so sorry. That's insane. That's

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insane behavior, especially because in the very next paragraph she's like,

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there's less a few than we expected. We lost more

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of you on the previous floor than we really thought.

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I understand that all of the crawlers are higher in

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levels than they normally are at this point. I know

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that I don't think that they are like that far

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ahead twenty levels. That's not the impression I was getting.

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And maybe I'm wrong about that, but that's bananas. And

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let's see, there is at least one unguarded exit in

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the city of Zuccau, along with more in the valley beyond.

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In addition, some city boss and larger mobs will have

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an exit nearby. The rest are hidden but should be

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easy to find. And there's also the mention of, like,

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you know here it is, we did lose a few

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more crawlers than we anticipated. We will all have to

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work together to make sure your incompetence doesn't continue. Are incompetence?

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You guys are litigating NonStop this game. That's your incompetence,

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y'all are the fuck ups? Try to make it. It's

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the crawler's fault disgusting. I hate you so much. So

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this is when Carl runs into Ian a bush Elf

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NPC who we find out is actually a former crawler

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and normally he has a different job, but they're being

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pulled in to do this thing, and he even mentions

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when they're talking that this is like the smallest group

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he's ever seen come through at this point, and he

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knows Carl by name and is like, oh, they said

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that you were going to do such and such, and

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Carl's like, yeah, well they took the thing away and

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he's like, yeah, they really like to do that. And

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he says stay away from the city of Zacau even

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after the countdown is done. It's all the way to

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the north. That's where they aliens are. They don't fight fair,

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so be careful. Last Hunting season, one of them killed

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my brother for no reason, was working a food stand,

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ripped his head right off, and since the guards didn't

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see it, they did nothing. You remember the previous season,

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I asked, suddenly intrigued. I was a human like you.

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I was a crawler a very long time ago. I

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hate this every time we run into somebody, like when

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they always just say something about how like it was

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a while ago. Now we don't get like dates, and

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how long has this dude been forced to be an NPC.

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And he's not supposed to say this stuff. He's supposed

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to stay in character. So we have this awful moment

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at the end of the convo where he gets snapped.

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Obviously there's some kind of like mechanism by which they

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can punish him for speaking out of turn, and you know, ugh,

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and Carl asks like, do you know who killed your brother?

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And her name is Vrah and she's Mantis. There's a

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core group of about twenty regulars who are here every season.

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Rot takes the heads of those she kills and wears

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them upon her body. Her death count is in the thousands,

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wears them upon her body. She must be pretty big

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if she could just be wearing people's heads like their

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fucking pearls on a necklace, Like she must be big, yikes,

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or else she doesn't mind them being in the way,

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I suppose. So Karl has to choose a specialty. And

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I'm not going to go into all the options in detail.

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There are three revolutionary gorilla agent provocateur and Mordecai wanted

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him to choose something that was like had an advantage

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in melee. But as soon as Agent Provocateur says something

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about you like to blow things up, I was like, oh, well, obvious.

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If there's anything that Carl is like doing, it is

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provoking them. So yeah, that sounds right. And it also

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allows access to the advanced bomb maker's workshop, and that's

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really the thing that he wants, so he goes for

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that one. As he steps out of that room, he

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winds up in this jungle and he gets attacked almost immediately.

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It's like really really soon. And I don't know if

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this is a result of a trap going off or

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if somebody knew where he was going to come through.

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I genuinely don't know, but this is like the way

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that this goes down. There are guards here who are

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our little mushroom guys. I say little. They're pretty tall,

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I think, actually, but they are level ninety five and

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they get paralyzed really quickly, and Carl gets attacked and

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is like unable to see his adversary. So he has

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protective shell up for a minute. But he does something

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that I really liked, which is he uses gunpowder and

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he throws it out there to make this sort of

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like haze, so that it will get stuck on whoever

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and make their shape a little bit more distinctive. And

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they are all they are able to shake a lot

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of it off, but he's still seeing the outline of it.

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It doesn't help, though, because there's more than one of

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these things, and we wind up finding out that these

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are night weasels and they are the pets of a

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hunter who like the way that these things work is

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the pack hunting, and the paralyzing is there, you know,

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it says a typical gang consists of approximately twenty weasels,

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including two or three seeker scouts, a group of huntsmen,

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and a pack leader. The scouts can sniff out prey

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from hundreds of kilometers away. They track down and disable

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the target, rendering it immobile. Once the prey is down,

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the rest of the weasels move in their movements coordinated

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by the gang leader, and hundreds of kilometers away is

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genuinely really scary. That's terrifying. There's no hiding from that. Like,

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that's that's insane. So a part of me was like,

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don't kill these, wait until the rest show up, and

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then kill all of them. But I understand that they

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are probably that's not actually practical here. So he gets

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paralyzed and he has to wait to be rescued because

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he can't move, and the paralyzing timer is five minutes,

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which when the audiobook narrator says five minutes, I immediately

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my first thought was five minutes, and then Carl says

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five minutes, and I was like, yes, we are on

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the same page. That's so long. That is agony. Five minutes.

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Fuck yeah, So I'm sorry. I just saw it in

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the chat, Michael says worth, noting Carl is only level

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forty seven, and he's one of the highest level crawlers,

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so the level fifty that Boring gave all the Hunters

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is far stronger than the vast majority. Yeah, that's why.

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It's like what I was saying earlier is just like

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twenty levels is blonkers, and I just it's they're acting like, oh, yeah,

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this is to make things fair. You're complaining that you

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lost too many crawlers last level. Just making all of

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the hunter's waist stronger seemed like a way to combat

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that to you, Like, not me, but anyway, this, uh,

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let's see, I felt myself rise in the air, and

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I realized Chris had picked me up and he's burning

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Carl's skin. But I guess because of like you know,

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the potions and whatnot, he winds up being fine, and

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Mordecai is like leaning over Carl yelling at him. I

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looked up at the furry buck toothed, teddy bear like

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face glaring down at me, and as soon as it

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was described like this, the picture in my head was

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a cappy bara, which it turns out he is related

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to a pocket kuma. You take a small bear, cross

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breed it with a kappy bara spirit, pick out the runt,

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and then breed it further down with a sugar glider,

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which sugar gliders are also adorable. The resulting bug eye

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creature is what you see before you. Now. They can't

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fight for shit, they can barely walk, but holy shit,

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are they disgustingly cute. And then it ends with I

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bet they smush really well. And I was just like,

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oh Ai, every time I have a moment where I

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start to just lean too close into liking you, you

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have to say some shit like that. I suspected this

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was going to be the look that he had to him.

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As soon as we hear his voice when he chimes

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in on Carl's messenger before we actually see him. There's

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just a sound to the voice that I was like, Okay,

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this is gonna be a little rodenty thing, which I

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think is remarkable that the audiobook narrator can make a

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voice that instantly evokes an image in my head that

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turns out to be accurate later. Just another bit of

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like how good this narrator is. Just it's kind of crazy,

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you know what I'm saying. So sorry, guys, I'm just

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trying to find my spot in the book because I'm

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jumping around a little bit on what I'm talking about here.

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So Karl wins up like laughing way too hard for

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a bit, and he keeps losing it when he's around Mordecai,

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and I do find that fun. The thing that I

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really liked about this was when he starts laughing and

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he's like on the floor cracking up. There comes a

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point where Katya walks in and she's about to say

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something to him, and then she sees him laughing, and

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she stops what she's gonna say and just lets herself

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laugh for a second two And there was something about

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that moment like taking a breath and just enjoying the

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humor of this situation. It was just nice, you know,

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just having a bit of a break for just a moment,

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and I loved it. I don't know, it just felt

475
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,760
like we don't have to be all business all the time.

476
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:13,719
I'm not mad that we mostly are, but little moments

477
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,280
like this add the human element, you know what I'm saying.

478
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:25,679
So let's see. This is when he gets the knock

479
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,880
on the personal space and it is his attorney, Quasar

480
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:35,440
Advocate of Crawler four one hundred and twenty two. The

481
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,559
small creature glowered at Orin as I examined him. I

482
00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:41,880
was pretty certain the alien wasn't really in the room

483
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,599
with us. Later on, he notices the smoke from this

484
00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:48,159
guy's cigarette is pixelating, and he's like, okay, yeah, he's

485
00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:54,199
a excuse me, he's not. He's a gray alien. I

486
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:59,280
just again. The narrator for this and the voice he

487
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:05,280
gives to Quas are There is this escalation later on

488
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:13,480
as he's talking about things, where he keeps increasing the volume,

489
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,800
as well as the fierceness with which he says the

490
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:26,800
word fuck. That is so hilaireous. It's so good you

491
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,440
could just feel this like rage coming off him, and

492
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:36,079
I you, guys, it was just so well done. It

493
00:35:36,159 --> 00:35:39,559
was just so good. Now I want to say something

494
00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:48,239
about this. Overall, Carl is getting really concerned as he's

495
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,079
talking to this guy because he's like, I can't tell

496
00:35:52,440 --> 00:36:00,360
if he knows what he's doing. I am unsure why

497
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:05,679
Carl is feeling worried about that. I think it's really

498
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,239
clear this guy knows what he's doing. I think this

499
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,280
is exactly what you want in a lawyer. This whole

500
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,000
attitude that he has of everybody is gonna be constantly

501
00:36:17,039 --> 00:36:20,360
trying to fuck you over. That's what I want my

502
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,599
lawyer to be, like. I want him to be on

503
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,760
the alert at all times for the attempts to screw me.

504
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:34,880
That's the idea, that's their job. And the frankness with

505
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:39,199
which he talks about everything, and also his frustration at

506
00:36:39,199 --> 00:36:42,079
the basicness of Carl's questions, like Carl's like, well, how

507
00:36:42,079 --> 00:36:44,480
do you work as a lawyer like a human lawyer does?

508
00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:46,800
Or and he says at one point like this is

509
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,400
how you want to spend your time? And I was

510
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,079
in such complete agreement with Quasar through this whole scene

511
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,920
Carl keeps asking these fucking nothing questions, and I'm like,

512
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,599
we don't have time for this, Carl, will you fucking

513
00:36:59,639 --> 00:37:03,280
get on, like you know what I'm saying, And eventually

514
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,920
he does, but in my opinion, it takes him too long,

515
00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:09,119
and his like reticence about this lawyer doesn't make sense

516
00:37:09,159 --> 00:37:12,719
to me. This guy knows what he's about. He's been

517
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,639
through this a million times, he knows tricks, he knows

518
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:18,440
what it is they're aiming to do. He's even able

519
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:21,239
to see the way that Carl was being set up

520
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,639
and warns him about it. So now Carl is aware

521
00:37:23,679 --> 00:37:26,800
that sometimes there's like just straight up trickery happening, you know.

522
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,960
I just everything about this guy made me feel really confident.

523
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,840
Oh this is a great person to have on your

524
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,679
side one hundred percent. And so Carl constantly being like,

525
00:37:40,519 --> 00:37:42,719
I don't know about this guy. I really can't tell

526
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,719
if he knows what he's doing, and then at one

527
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,800
point being like, oh, this is the guy who negotiates

528
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,760
the deal for when I leave, and it says something

529
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,639
like I felt suddenly sick, which I think is supposed

530
00:37:52,639 --> 00:37:55,760
to be, like this idiot's going to be negotiating for me.

531
00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:59,440
I'm so sorry, bro, but this is a good advocate

532
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,320
for that too. I don't think you're gonna get a

533
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,320
good deal, because it doesn't seem like anybody gets a

534
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,760
good deal when they negotiate to stop the game. Setting

535
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:11,039
that aside, I think he's gonna do his best for you.

536
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,079
And when Carl is like, what's to stop somebody from

537
00:38:14,079 --> 00:38:17,559
bribing you to fuck me? I love that he's like nothing,

538
00:38:18,599 --> 00:38:22,280
I mean nothing. I definitely could just decide to fuck you,

539
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,159
and I might, but like, right now, I'm on your

540
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,800
side and I'm gonna do what I can, and I

541
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,639
respect the shit out of a person being like straight up,

542
00:38:33,679 --> 00:38:36,320
there is no reason for me to not screw you.

543
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,400
If the opportunity comes up, I will be honest about it,

544
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,559
you know, like I want that straightforwardness. This is not

545
00:38:43,679 --> 00:38:46,679
offensive to me or an indicator that somebody isn't competent

546
00:38:46,679 --> 00:38:52,639
at all. So, just for me, Quasar is a win,

547
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,039
and a part of me wonders who is responsible for

548
00:38:57,119 --> 00:38:59,400
him getting assigned to Carl because I feel like they

549
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,079
are really helped him out. There's possibly a bunch of

550
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:07,559
you know, like when you look at public defenders, who

551
00:39:07,599 --> 00:39:10,280
are the lawyers that get assigned to people who cannot

552
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,760
afford a lawyer, so one will be provided for you.

553
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,679
They are doing their best a lot of the time,

554
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,320
but they are so overworked and they are not able

555
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,800
to get into the details of every case the way

556
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,840
they would normally, because they don't have time, because there

557
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,440
are so many cases, and because they don't make any

558
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,800
fucking money doing a job like that a lot of

559
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:36,679
the time. So it's really unlikely when you get assigned

560
00:39:36,679 --> 00:39:39,400
a public defender that you're gonna get somebody who's on

561
00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:42,000
their shit in a real way. And I feel like

562
00:39:42,079 --> 00:39:47,679
Carl got fucking lucky, actually, so his constant complaining in doubt,

563
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,199
I was just like, I'm bored of this. Get on

564
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,960
the get on the train, Carl. I'm already on it,

565
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:59,400
and I'm waiting for your ass. Okay, sorry, Saraphim says, Yes,

566
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,800
someone that is either so bad at his job he'd

567
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,119
have starved to death already, or is really fucking good

568
00:40:04,119 --> 00:40:09,199
at his job. Agree. Agree. And he's just so insistent

569
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,119
as well, talking to Eryl about like, all right, not

570
00:40:13,159 --> 00:40:15,559
only do I want you to turn your sound receptors off,

571
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,519
I want you to turn the fuck around, so that

572
00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:20,239
you can't read our lips either. And I love this.

573
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,079
This is a bulldog, you know, like you need a

574
00:40:23,119 --> 00:40:25,559
person who's going to really be on top of shit

575
00:40:25,599 --> 00:40:32,760
and insistent and not cooperate with the enemy. So yeah,

576
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:39,000
and finally Carl says, I'm not selling the gate or

577
00:40:39,039 --> 00:40:40,880
and said I could have it back on the ninth floor.

578
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:42,760
I don't know how it works in the universe, but

579
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,000
in my world, if someone is borrowing something, they usually

580
00:40:46,039 --> 00:40:51,039
give collateral, something they won't want to lose. Quasar grinned.

581
00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:56,079
Now we're talking, and then we jump into the scene

582
00:40:56,079 --> 00:41:02,280
where he comes in and Sledgey, Bomo, Clayton, and very

583
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:06,400
Sullen all come in and they are like living in

584
00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:11,400
quarters that appear in the personal space mercenary quarters. And

585
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,360
Carl says they're part of the package deal we negotiated

586
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,960
in exchange for temporarily giving up the Gate of the

587
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,639
Faral Gods. This got me so excited, the idea that

588
00:41:22,679 --> 00:41:25,280
these guys are just gonna be like around all the time. Now,

589
00:41:27,199 --> 00:41:30,679
there is so much potential here. There's potential in the

590
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:34,000
way of like our friends proceeding in the game. There's

591
00:41:34,039 --> 00:41:37,840
potential in humor and the situations we could be in.

592
00:41:38,199 --> 00:41:41,960
There's potential for like upping certain stakes because now we've

593
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,199
got help. There's like limitations to how this works as well,

594
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,760
But overall, I just immediately sat up and was like

595
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:56,719
a word. So let's see, Bomo and Sledge stay with

596
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,480
us very Sullen goes with Katcha, and Clayton will stay

597
00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:03,840
with Chris. We have them on floors six, seven, and eight.

598
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,320
That's it. If they die, they will regenerate, but not

599
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,440
until the next floor. You guys should bring Clayton and

600
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,559
Sullen with you when you venture out, But Bomo and

601
00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:15,280
Sledge are too valuable to risk, so they're staying in here.

602
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,679
What Doughnut asked, Sledgi can't go on venturing with us?

603
00:42:19,679 --> 00:42:23,679
Why not? Sledgie made a disappointed noise. Did they give

604
00:42:23,679 --> 00:42:28,000
you the spells? I asked, Bomo. The rock Monster rumbled yes,

605
00:42:28,519 --> 00:42:34,079
the Sledge has the second. I nodded, excellent, Sorry, guys,

606
00:42:34,199 --> 00:42:36,239
we need to keep these two safe. Since we were

607
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,440
losing the Gate, I wanted to be able to replicate

608
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,199
two of the Gate's abilities. The first thing I asked

609
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,280
for was a teleport spell, but they wouldn't give it

610
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,239
to me. Not directly. They didn't want to give me

611
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,079
anything that I could just keep after we got the

612
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:52,679
artifact back. They really said you could have it back

613
00:42:52,679 --> 00:42:56,000
when you hit the ninth floor, Katya asked. Yeah. They

614
00:42:56,079 --> 00:42:58,719
seem to like the idea of me being able to

615
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:05,119
sow chaos during fact wars, so they can teleport now.

616
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,280
Not your guy, but yes, sort of. They agreed to

617
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,079
give me a mercenary upgrade and access to four bodyguards.

618
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:17,079
Then they gave two of them extra spells. Bomo now

619
00:43:17,079 --> 00:43:21,039
has a level fifteen spell called Teleport to Stairwell. We

620
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:23,840
can pick a stairwell from a list and teleport there.

621
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:29,440
It has a ridiculous cool down, like twenty five days. Still,

622
00:43:29,639 --> 00:43:31,880
it's a pretty powerful spell because it lists all the

623
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,639
exits on the entire floor. It's not something they want

624
00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:37,800
me to have access to later on, so it's in

625
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,280
their best interest to make sure we get the gate back.

626
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:45,280
The other spell is also teleportation, and it's even more impressive.

627
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:50,519
This one was my lawyer's idea, What does it do?

628
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:58,119
It's I trailed off, finally noticing Katcha's level, So we

629
00:43:58,159 --> 00:44:04,719
don't find this out. It turns out where is it she?

630
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:09,119
She is now level fifty two because of her participation

631
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,000
in the whole thing with the gate, which is amazing.

632
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,440
I love it so much. And she starts to tell

633
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:19,320
him about one of the things that she got and

634
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,679
she stops, and I'm really curious what she doesn't tell him.

635
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:29,559
If it's because she doesn't want other people in the

636
00:44:29,679 --> 00:44:32,239
room to note. Does she think if she tells Carl

637
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:37,159
he'll try to take advantage of it, Like why would

638
00:44:37,199 --> 00:44:40,000
she want to keep this from him? I don't know.

639
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:49,039
So when she when she trails off, she changes the

640
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,599
subject back and says, you didn't answer me. What a

641
00:44:51,639 --> 00:44:56,280
Sledge's new spell do? It was glorious, Quasar had said,

642
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,760
shame how it ended for Remis. They made us study

643
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,239
the exit deal he made in school. But the mud

644
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:05,079
Skippers cleaned up that season. It was a real windfall.

645
00:45:05,599 --> 00:45:08,880
You ask for this spell and they'll fall over themselves

646
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,440
to give it to you. And you want to know

647
00:45:10,519 --> 00:45:14,000
the beautiful part, All of those other pricks won't interfere.

648
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,480
Everyone will want you to pull it off. All the factions,

649
00:45:18,559 --> 00:45:22,920
all the fans, the showrunners, the ai, everybody. That spell

650
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:28,480
always leads to carnage. Everybody likes carnage. When it's not them,

651
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:36,599
and we still don't know what it is. So let's see,

652
00:45:36,599 --> 00:45:40,559
I'm trying to find the Uh oh yeah, that's right.

653
00:45:40,599 --> 00:45:43,519
I forgot about this like platinum venison box that Carl

654
00:45:43,639 --> 00:45:48,119
gets and it's got three hundred thousand gold in it,

655
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,320
and there he has to pay some of this gold

656
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,800
to the shrine, and he tries to do it without

657
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,679
Doughnut noticing, but she fucking does and she just complains

658
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:03,400
for a while about it. I suspect that's just going

659
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:09,760
to be an ongoing theme. Donut emerged from the space,

660
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,800
all poofed out and clean, and this is when she

661
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:17,920
says she's going to start using the eighteen melody. Uh,

662
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,480
we're taking the care of and we'll be okay, Katya said,

663
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,920
as she, Chris Clayton, and very Sullen exited the safe room.

664
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,159
We'll see you guys later, Bye Katya, Bye, Chris. Doughnut

665
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:32,119
said she was attempting to be enthusiastic, but I could

666
00:46:32,159 --> 00:46:35,039
hear the sadness in her voice. Katcha leaned over and

667
00:46:35,119 --> 00:46:40,800
kissed Doughnut on the head. Donut sniffed, Mongo squawked mournfully.

668
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,679
See you tonight, I said, Katya held my eyes. Don't

669
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:54,960
do anything stupid. I won't. I lied. So after purchasing

670
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,599
these new rooms that they do, they only have one

671
00:46:57,679 --> 00:47:01,800
hundred thousand gold left and they need to find a

672
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:07,239
spellbook for Donut Shield spellbook. Mordecai also wanted to find

673
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,920
an item with something called a Golden Throat enchantment, which

674
00:47:11,039 --> 00:47:17,159
was apparently the Dungeon's version of autotune. I can't tell

675
00:47:17,199 --> 00:47:21,119
you how delighted I am by this, the fact that

676
00:47:21,159 --> 00:47:27,000
there's an item that does magical autotune. I am really

677
00:47:27,079 --> 00:47:30,320
wondering how long it'll be for them to find something

678
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,559
like this, because if there are hunters who are getting

679
00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:39,880
outside information about the game from people watching, if they

680
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:45,239
are told that all of Donut spells are basically worthless,

681
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,679
not all of them, but all of the barred spells

682
00:47:48,519 --> 00:47:51,679
until she can sing on key, I would be out

683
00:47:51,679 --> 00:47:54,079
there looking for this item to take before they get

684
00:47:54,119 --> 00:47:56,159
to it. It would be a tactic for me to

685
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,920
like basically disable her in a lot of ways on

686
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,920
this floor. So I don't know how known it is

687
00:48:05,079 --> 00:48:08,760
by everybody that this is an issue for her, or

688
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:14,119
that this item exists, but uh, I just I'm a

689
00:48:14,119 --> 00:48:16,280
little concerned about it. That's all. That's all I'm saying.

690
00:48:19,599 --> 00:48:25,159
And she can cast spells in like a monotone, But

691
00:48:25,599 --> 00:48:29,440
it turns out that the power of the spell increases

692
00:48:30,079 --> 00:48:33,480
the better you sing it, So even though she can

693
00:48:33,599 --> 00:48:38,000
cast them, they're very, very weak and just don't really

694
00:48:38,039 --> 00:48:43,440
do what you need them to do. Donahead also received

695
00:48:43,559 --> 00:48:46,840
one additional regular spell thanks to her spell Book of

696
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,239
the Floor Club, a spell called Laundry Day, which removed

697
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,719
an item of armor from an opponent and caused it

698
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,400
to fall to the ground. The higher the level of

699
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,480
the spell, the more powerful it was. At level five,

700
00:48:58,559 --> 00:49:01,519
she'd be able to remove breast plates and other chest armor.

701
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:06,119
At level ten, she could strip an opponent bear. At fifteen,

702
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:13,000
she could cast on multiple opponents at once. I would

703
00:49:13,159 --> 00:49:16,079
be so very angry to be in the midst of

704
00:49:16,079 --> 00:49:18,599
a fight and have somebody just yank off some of

705
00:49:18,639 --> 00:49:22,880
my clothes. That would be so effective on me, not

706
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,800
just making me vulnerable because I don't have armor, but

707
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,840
also I would be so distracted and pissed that I

708
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,119
would just like completely lose my cool, you know what

709
00:49:31,199 --> 00:49:36,679
I mean. That's a really could spell. That's like obnoxious.

710
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:44,280
You know, I really really love it. And let's see,

711
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,840
I'd sent a message to Dona and told her to

712
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,639
work on laundry day instead of Magic Missile. She didn't

713
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:54,760
question it, and I thought this was a nice detail

714
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,800
that comes up here, And it comes up later when

715
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,800
he tells her to put Mango in the pet carrier.

716
00:50:01,599 --> 00:50:05,760
Is she trusts Carl so much that she doesn't ask

717
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,920
questions before she does a thing. She does it first

718
00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:12,199
and then like keeps chatting with him, and a few

719
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:13,920
minutes later is like, oh yeah, and why did I

720
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:17,199
put Mango away? And I just love the fact that

721
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,679
she has that level of trust in him, that she

722
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,519
just does what he asks. And it's not that's a

723
00:50:23,559 --> 00:50:27,760
big change, you know, like everybody remember the donut who

724
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,360
just did whatever the fuck she felt like and ignored everybody.

725
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:41,719
That's a big deal. So let's see, Sledgie has to

726
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:50,199
stay behind and they the whole thing. There's a scene

727
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:55,000
where not a lot really happens in it, but Carl

728
00:50:55,199 --> 00:51:00,360
goes into his new bomb room and he acts victually

729
00:51:00,679 --> 00:51:08,239
pulls out the doomsday scenario bomb and gives it a look. See.

730
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,480
I copied it using the Bomber Studio interface, so I'd

731
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,360
be able to play with it safely using the simulator.

732
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,800
I place the bomb back into my inventory, my hands

733
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:24,320
still trembling, and I am really interested in what he's

734
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,960
going to be able to do with that, especially in

735
00:51:27,039 --> 00:51:30,039
light of the fact that we find out the simulations

736
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:32,719
that this room can do of how an explosive is

737
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,840
going to go off are not necessarily accurate. They are

738
00:51:37,159 --> 00:51:40,400
accurate in the vacuum of this room, but when you

739
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,679
are actually out in the world, there's a billion different

740
00:51:43,679 --> 00:51:48,519
factors that affect the way in which something explodes, how

741
00:51:48,639 --> 00:51:52,239
fast the space it takes up, Like, all of that

742
00:51:52,639 --> 00:51:57,159
is going to be dependent on what's happening around you.

743
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,480
What kind of magic are other people emitting? There are

744
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,280
magical artifacts, Is there something happening with the building itself

745
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,960
that has a protection on it? What's the humidity like today?

746
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,440
You know, just basic shit like that. What is the

747
00:52:10,519 --> 00:52:16,480
wind like? So I am so curious because the doomstay

748
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,159
scenario is something that I am sort of assuming he's

749
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:23,599
going to wind up using to kill that god that

750
00:52:23,639 --> 00:52:28,239
he is assigned to kill. And I think it's point.

751
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:33,480
It was pointed out in the discord by Michael that

752
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:38,840
level twelve is the level at which gods are vulnerable

753
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,400
and can die. So the fact that Karl was told

754
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:45,440
to kill this god before level twelve is really particularly shitty,

755
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:52,920
which I didn't catch onto at all, And that's that sucks, sorry,

756
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,800
Michael says. When Mordecai mentioned that one crawler whose trap

757
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,440
went off unnaturally, it made me worry Borne would accidentally

758
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,880
adjust the inventory system and have the bomb go off.

759
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:05,599
When Carl mentioned it was a microsecond from blowing. I

760
00:53:05,639 --> 00:53:07,800
can understand this, Michael, And this is the thing, Like

761
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,119
Carl is number one on the thing now and I

762
00:53:11,119 --> 00:53:13,360
think that's the only thing saving his life is that

763
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,760
he is just making so much money for them, you know.

764
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:24,840
But anyway, So yeah, this is so like it's just compelling.

765
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,239
I just really want to know. Saraphim says. The doomsday

766
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,360
scenario is totally sticking around to the final book, and

767
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,559
like that's also something that I assumed initially, and now

768
00:53:35,599 --> 00:53:37,880
I'm not so sure. I feel like keeping it around

769
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:44,119
to the final book is almost too predictable. It feels

770
00:53:44,199 --> 00:53:51,199
so Chekhov's final like battle weapon that I would rather

771
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:55,800
at this point that weren't what happened, because it's just obvious,

772
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:59,000
you know, not that I would have like a problem

773
00:53:59,039 --> 00:54:01,719
with it. It wouldn't be like, you know, but it

774
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,039
would feel a little like, well, yeah, you know, we

775
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,079
all figured and I don't like that feeling. I want

776
00:54:08,119 --> 00:54:10,800
to be surprised. So I'm kind of hoping he doesn't

777
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:20,840
do that, but we'll see. So Carl and Donah head

778
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:26,559
out allegedly to grind in the jungle and look for

779
00:54:26,639 --> 00:54:30,119
herbs and mushrooms and stuff that Mordecai needs for making

780
00:54:30,119 --> 00:54:35,000
his spells. And as they head out, Donah is asking Carl, like,

781
00:54:35,039 --> 00:54:37,400
do you think that the hunters are getting info on

782
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,800
where we are at any given moment because of their friends?

783
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,760
And Carl's basically like, probably they're not supposed to be

784
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,360
able to do that, but we fucking know how all

785
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:51,480
that works. And she says, we'll need a plan before

786
00:54:51,519 --> 00:54:57,079
we can keep it a secret. And why didn't I

787
00:54:57,199 --> 00:55:01,400
just put Mongo away? I'd like to apologize for what's

788
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:05,400
about to happen. Apologize for what. Aren't we hunting for herbs?

789
00:55:06,159 --> 00:55:09,079
We're going hunting, all right? This is gonna go quick.

790
00:55:09,679 --> 00:55:14,440
Get ready, And then Carl in chat calls out to Bomo,

791
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:20,599
cast your spell, send us to the stairwell in zacaw,

792
00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:32,400
do it now? What are you doing? Carl? So my

793
00:55:32,679 --> 00:55:37,039
instinct when he says this was like, can you just

794
00:55:37,079 --> 00:55:40,039
go down the stairwell already? You can't do that yet, right?

795
00:55:43,199 --> 00:55:47,239
I don't know what he can do other than maybe

796
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:54,320
sabotage the stairwell for other people. But this is him

797
00:55:54,519 --> 00:55:57,440
using an ability that has a cool down of twenty

798
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:02,360
five days. He's got something specific in mind. He would

799
00:56:02,519 --> 00:56:05,599
never use a spell this valuable with that long the

800
00:56:05,679 --> 00:56:07,840
cool down if he didn't know exactly what the fuck

801
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:15,639
he was doing. And I am so baffled, like because

802
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:17,920
this is especially the city that he is told to

803
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:25,119
stay away from. Because the thing that keeps like bringing

804
00:56:25,119 --> 00:56:29,280
me up short is that he makes sure to do

805
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:33,800
this with Donut. And that's the part that I find huzzling,

806
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,480
because if he were going to do something that was

807
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,039
like a sabotage, I believe that he would be too

808
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,239
afraid to risk her and he would want to do

809
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:49,199
it alone. But also we're in a stage now where

810
00:56:49,679 --> 00:56:51,960
they are not going to be able to communicate with

811
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,760
each other as easily, and so he's going to have

812
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:58,000
to just spring things out of nowhere to keep it

813
00:56:58,079 --> 00:57:02,000
secret unless they're able to utilize that whiteboard on the

814
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,639
inside of the bathroom, which seems to have been pretty effective.

815
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,639
But like you know, we're pretty early on in things

816
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:09,639
right now, so I don't know if we've even used

817
00:57:09,639 --> 00:57:14,480
the bathroom yet. Like I guess they have because Donut

818
00:57:14,559 --> 00:57:18,800
takes a shower, but obviously from the way he's talking,

819
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:23,480
she doesn't know what he's about to do. And I

820
00:57:23,519 --> 00:57:25,320
feel a little bad about it in light of the

821
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,599
fact that earlier I was saying, I'm so glad that

822
00:57:27,599 --> 00:57:29,280
she has grown to trust him that she'll just do

823
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:33,519
things without questioning it first. Now I'm worried that he

824
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,800
has done something that's going to make her start to

825
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,000
question him after all, And I really hope not, because

826
00:57:41,079 --> 00:57:43,679
I love this innate trust. This is one of those

827
00:57:43,719 --> 00:57:47,199
things that I find really touching whenever it comes up

828
00:57:47,239 --> 00:57:50,559
in a story that there are two characters who are

829
00:57:50,599 --> 00:57:54,159
so close that they are willing to go along with

830
00:57:54,199 --> 00:57:58,320
something even when it seems like it's in direct contradiction

831
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,320
to their best interest, because they trust their friend or

832
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:05,960
their partner so completely that they know they're not an idiot.

833
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,000
They're up to something with this, and I just have

834
00:58:08,079 --> 00:58:10,719
to roll with it, you know, I think it's because

835
00:58:11,519 --> 00:58:15,760
I have rarely felt that kind of total trust anybody

836
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:20,519
in my life. I am always really aware of their

837
00:58:20,559 --> 00:58:25,400
being a sort of like they're being a worry about

838
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:30,519
somebody's competence or ability. So I just, I don't know,

839
00:58:30,559 --> 00:58:32,119
there was something about that that I really like. And

840
00:58:32,159 --> 00:58:34,880
I just hope that him springing this on Dona out

841
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,639
of nowhere without telling her ahead of time or anything,

842
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,800
that it's not going to like break that. I hope

843
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:42,920
that she is going to get it right away and

844
00:58:43,039 --> 00:58:45,119
understand why he handled it the way he handled it

845
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,000
and whatnot. We still don't know what that other fucking

846
00:58:48,039 --> 00:58:51,920
spell does, but he's not with them, so that has

847
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:53,880
nothing to do with whatever's going on now from what

848
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:55,639
I understand, or I may be wrong. I don't know.

849
00:58:55,639 --> 00:58:58,400
Maybe he can cast it from where he is, but

850
00:59:00,679 --> 00:59:03,000
so yeah, it was a pretty great ending to chapter four.

851
00:59:03,239 --> 00:59:04,880
Very much left me on the edge of my seat,

852
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:09,239
so I am looking forward to reading more. All right, everybody, Well,

853
00:59:09,239 --> 00:59:13,000
I'm gonna wrap this one up and thank you everyone

854
00:59:13,159 --> 00:59:15,960
for coming and hanging out. Thank you again to Jackie

855
00:59:16,039 --> 00:59:20,440
for commissioning this one, and until next time, to the

856
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:53,280
lou motherfuckers that was an unspoiled network podcast