1 00:00:02,359 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:17,920 covering Dungeon Crawler, Carl Book seven, This Inevitable Ruin Chapter 3 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:25,719 eighty six, and epilogue. In these chapters we get lots 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 of surprises. Kansia's getting to leave, which I just didn't 5 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:37,240 see coming. We're getting the gods released into the real world. 6 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:44,200 How does that work? Oh my god? And uh, you know, 7 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,759 also just the routine of moving to the next floor 8 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:55,439 until next time. I'm going to be bereft. Welcome to 9 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:22,319 spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. 10 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,400 Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. 11 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,120 Michael's here in the chat and says the Rist moment 12 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:33,560 was a what the fuck thing for me too. Yeah. 13 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,519 I obviously need to be careful about my pacing because there, 14 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,400 while this section isn't like necessarily overly long, it is 15 00:01:41,599 --> 00:01:45,239 packed and there's like implications that are outside of what 16 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,760 the text is that I think will probably take me 17 00:01:47,799 --> 00:01:51,799 a while to completely talk through. So I'm going to 18 00:01:51,799 --> 00:01:55,400 start at the beginning, but that definitely has my attention. 19 00:01:55,719 --> 00:02:02,480 So let's start off talking about caught. Because we were 20 00:02:02,599 --> 00:02:05,079 told that there was the option for Katia to choose 21 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,960 to be pregnant, and Carl pretty much hand waved that 22 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,159 she wasn't going to choose that, and uh, you guys, 23 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:19,240 this is not the first time. Okay, So, anybody who 24 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,960 has listened to my coverage of Cradle, do you all 25 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:30,879 remember how when we are in the pov of a 26 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:35,039 certain someone who I will not name, and they just 27 00:02:35,159 --> 00:02:38,080 offhandedly think that they're never going back to such a 28 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:45,280 place again. Do you all remember how I just believed them, 29 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:49,840 and so as the reveal happens of who they are, 30 00:02:51,159 --> 00:02:54,199 I was just not getting it because I so completely 31 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,960 took their word for it. Does anybody anybody o there 32 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 know what I'm talking about? If not, it's fine, you won't 33 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,240 find out what I'm talking about if you start the 34 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,039 Cradle series for like, you know, eight books, I think, 35 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,960 but once you get there, I think you'll know exactly 36 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:16,280 what I'm talking about. And I just felt like such 37 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:22,280 a stooge. And here it's like a similar thing where 38 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,560 Carl simply said, oh, she's not going to want to 39 00:03:25,599 --> 00:03:27,360 be pregnant, like meta, I think is what he said 40 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:33,120 something like that, and I just fucking took his word 41 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:37,879 for it, which why would I do that? Why should 42 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:41,680 I do that? Why did I think that? He like, 43 00:03:41,879 --> 00:03:47,560 I don't. Things change, that's all, you know? Things change? 44 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:54,319 And I really was just like a babe in the 45 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,919 woods with this reveal, because I truly did not think 46 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,039 this was at all going to be and I should 47 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,479 have realized that, like the way everybody was behaving. I 48 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,719 even said at one point, why is everyone so anxious 49 00:04:08,759 --> 00:04:11,759 about saying goodbye to her? I understand that you're like 50 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:15,159 not gonna see her for a while, but you will 51 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:17,240 see her again. And then I just pretty much put 52 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,360 it down to, like, all right, well, that's me like 53 00:04:19,879 --> 00:04:25,279 really hoping that's true. And maybe they aren't as sanguine 54 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:28,079 as I am about eventually getting to see her again, 55 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,720 and they don't want to take that for granted, and 56 00:04:29,759 --> 00:04:34,600 so for them, that's that's the issue, you know what 57 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:40,839 I'm saying. And I just should have seen it. I 58 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,360 really should have seen it. So what we do here, 59 00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:48,120 which I think is just like a really great idea. 60 00:04:49,399 --> 00:04:57,519 We get Samantha. She's like just distracting Embrace and allowing 61 00:04:57,639 --> 00:05:01,439 him to quote question her. And I was right about because, 62 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,839 like I had said something in the vein of maybe 63 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,959 they should just let him have her because I don't 64 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,759 think she would get hurt, and it turns out that's true. 65 00:05:13,959 --> 00:05:18,399 He like literally chucks her into a volcano, and I 66 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:21,360 don't know that she hit the actual lover or anything. 67 00:05:21,399 --> 00:05:24,079 Maybe that would be that would do it. But he's 68 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,680 able to put her through quite a lot and it 69 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:33,279 does not kill her, so she gets retrieved, and it's 70 00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:39,839 just a really it's a really great way of first 71 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:47,279 of all, dealing with the Embrass problem and maybe honestly, 72 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:48,759 even though I don't know that this is a thing 73 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,240 distracting Samantha because I feel like she could possibly have 74 00:05:53,319 --> 00:06:00,519 fucked things up a little bit. And also Embrace turns 75 00:06:00,519 --> 00:06:05,680 out is like very emotional, so this doesn't turn into 76 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,639 the kind of situation that I thought it might, because 77 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:13,399 he just winds up sort of breaking down and being 78 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,360 really sad about the death of his son. And it's all. 79 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:21,319 It's just a lot of surprises. But also kind of 80 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,319 made me like Embress more, even though I you know, 81 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,360 I don't like Embress, but was it just kind of 82 00:06:28,399 --> 00:06:32,680 made me warm toward him pun intended just a tad. 83 00:06:33,959 --> 00:06:36,439 Michael says, I think it was more that they weren't 84 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:39,560 thinking it was an actual, real possibility before the final 85 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,360 plan coalesced. Sarahim says, well, there was no point in 86 00:06:43,439 --> 00:06:46,600 taking that option while Jinx was in control, since she 87 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:52,000 had final say in what Kotsya got. Oh that's right, 88 00:06:54,480 --> 00:07:00,399 I forgot about that, Okay. I still feel like Carl 89 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:02,759 said something about how that's not what Katya would want, 90 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:13,000 but I personally like wouldn't have expected her to want 91 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,560 that because of the entire situation in general, Like, it's 92 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,160 the sort of thing where the fact that she does 93 00:07:22,199 --> 00:07:25,759 in the end makes sense and it's not like on 94 00:07:25,839 --> 00:07:30,600 this it's it is not surprising. I get it, But 95 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,959 I also kind of thought maybe there is too much 96 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,279 trauma surrounding having children for her to want to pick that. 97 00:07:37,399 --> 00:07:41,000 You know what I'm saying, Michael says, Natasha is going 98 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,079 to skip over development in our Favorite Enemies to Lover's moment. 99 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:50,360 Pony confesses, Michael, you're stepping on my shit. I'm sorry 100 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:52,839 that I phrased it that way, but I'm going to 101 00:07:52,879 --> 00:07:55,079 get to that. I don't know who you think I am, 102 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:01,439 but sorry, please, So yeah, yeah, this entire thing with 103 00:08:01,639 --> 00:08:06,399 uh with Samantha just in the background yelling to Carl 104 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,399 that his God is a little bitch and YadA, YadA, YadA. 105 00:08:10,639 --> 00:08:13,920 I just found really really funny. And eventually he is 106 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,040 able to call her back and it's no problem. Like 107 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,839 there's a point when he's trying to explain to her 108 00:08:20,079 --> 00:08:22,839 and initially like, you know, tell him the truth about 109 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,000 such and such, but and he like kind of the 110 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,600 way he phrases some things. She's like, but I thought 111 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,720 you said to lie. And he's like, not about that, 112 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:33,639 about the other thing, you know what I mean. And 113 00:08:34,759 --> 00:08:36,559 I did have a moment of like, does she know 114 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,000 what he means? But it turns out yes, it's just 115 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:44,320 she's being a little difficult here. Honestly, that's it. So 116 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,799 let's see. Uh, I will ask you if he's touching you, 117 00:08:49,799 --> 00:08:51,840 you will answer, and you will tell the truth. Got it? 118 00:08:51,879 --> 00:08:53,480 I thought you told me to lie. No, you know 119 00:08:53,519 --> 00:08:56,360 what I mean? Got it. She'd wrapped several of the 120 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,159 streamers around her head, and I really love and Prepotente 121 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,639 mentions that like the God is grabbing her. He's like 122 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,039 the streamers were a nice touch. I don't know that 123 00:09:06,039 --> 00:09:08,000 that was Carl's idea. I kind of feel Katcha took 124 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,759 it upon herself to do that. I think that's funnier. 125 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:19,240 And Prepotente is entering the stairwell ahead of them and 126 00:09:19,279 --> 00:09:21,120 he says good luck to you all, and Carl says 127 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,480 thank you, Prepotente. He does not call him pony, which 128 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,159 I think is like because we had Ellie call him 129 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,240 pony a few pages back, so there are still people 130 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:33,399 out there doing that. And he didn't yell at Ellie 131 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,759 about it from what I recall, So I'm not sure 132 00:09:36,799 --> 00:09:39,480 if it's like just Carl doing that he had an 133 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:41,960 issue with, or if he just doesn't feel like arguing 134 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,679 with absolutely everybody all of the time, or what. But 135 00:09:45,399 --> 00:09:49,080 I appreciated the fact that Carl called him what he 136 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,080 has been asked to be called. And he says, see 137 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,559 you on the next floor, and Prepotente says, I love you, 138 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,279 and there's a pause in the narrator. Again, it's not 139 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,799 in the text, but it's in the narration. I love 140 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:10,879 you too, buddy, and this is you, guys. I had 141 00:10:10,919 --> 00:10:14,720 really been mystified at the fact that Carl did not 142 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:19,120 seem to like Miriam dom and Prepotente, and I stand 143 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,320 by that so much, because like, look at this, look 144 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,039 at look at this weirdness. I love thish Miriam, you 145 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:34,519 are missed. So none of us believed that Lucy mr 146 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,519 was actually taking a deal, and as a result, Florine 147 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:40,960 would not take one either. That's the whole thing. Everybody 148 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:44,080 who is like, you know, leaving and taking deals and 149 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,240 what all they're going to do. I'm really interested if 150 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,519 we're going to find out about any of the particular 151 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:53,320 deals specifics, or if they're going to be people that 152 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:54,799 like said they were going to take a deal and 153 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:56,960 then the deals they were presented with were really bad 154 00:10:57,039 --> 00:10:59,960 and so they wound up not taking them and come 155 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:05,919 back into the dungeon. I don't know, Uh, you're gonna 156 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,440 stop buying? Gave me a kiss on both cheeks. Oswaldo 157 00:11:08,519 --> 00:11:10,879 and his team when in Brittany said she was contemplating 158 00:11:10,919 --> 00:11:13,840 a deal but was afraid and would probably be back. 159 00:11:15,519 --> 00:11:18,240 I stood on my eye on her r E the 160 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:25,240 possession thing. Don't know if that's anything, but I feel 161 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:31,120 like that goddess isn't lying, you know, so, but it's weird, like, 162 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,120 you know, her being like I think I'll take a deal, 163 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,879 but I might be too afraid and come back. Does 164 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:41,279 feel like Brittany has been kind of a wishy, washy person. 165 00:11:42,279 --> 00:11:46,480 So that feels in character to me. If she is 166 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,799 possessed and she takes a deal, now that things are 167 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,360 the way they are, where shit can happen outside the 168 00:11:53,399 --> 00:11:59,679 dungeon too, will her possession fuck that up and make 169 00:11:59,759 --> 00:12:02,559 it so that, like, even when she leaves, she's possessed 170 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,080 And this is something that affects everyone. And in the 171 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:10,240 same Vein Victory mentions that if Louis were to leave 172 00:12:10,279 --> 00:12:13,720 the dungeon, what's going on with his like body that 173 00:12:13,799 --> 00:12:18,279 he has taken won't work either, But it does seem 174 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,200 like the AI is allowing a lot of splash over 175 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:26,200 punintended in Louie's case, So I don't know if there's 176 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:30,679 like maybe potentially a possibility that body would still work 177 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:38,399 as well. I don't know. And let's see, Uh Tuba 178 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,799 and Selvie, the party members from of the Dead Borku left. 179 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,799 They both said they were taking a deal. Neither had 180 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,159 told me the why or how. Burke who considered me 181 00:12:49,279 --> 00:12:51,960 as the one who'd killed her father, and I feared 182 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,720 I'd never know. I am curious about that. You know, 183 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,039 there's uh, there's going to be things that are just 184 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,559 somebody being kind of irrational. There going to be things 185 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,120 where Karl had such a huge effect on a huge 186 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:10,440 area and a huge number of people, that consequences happened 187 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:15,320 that he literally never knew about. It could be one 188 00:13:15,399 --> 00:13:18,120 or the other, it could be both. And then as 189 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:21,080 he thinks, that's the problem with such chaos, you lose 190 00:13:21,159 --> 00:13:24,240 so much around the edges. The moment, I thought that 191 00:13:24,279 --> 00:13:27,440 I heard a distant laughing, deep deep in the back 192 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,679 of my mind, and it terrified me because it came 193 00:13:30,759 --> 00:13:34,000 from within the river, the river I had hoped would 194 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:38,120 leave with the destruction of the ring. The laughter sounded 195 00:13:38,159 --> 00:13:42,840 distinctly like that of Eiris, the goddess of chaos. Yeah, 196 00:13:42,879 --> 00:13:47,440 she's enjoying herself and uh probably knows what's coming and 197 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:51,519 is just extremely excited about this little jaunt into the 198 00:13:51,559 --> 00:14:00,679 regular world that she's about to get. So fucking jamal. 199 00:14:00,759 --> 00:14:03,120 By the way, guys, so he's been giving more legs. 200 00:14:04,039 --> 00:14:06,120 Carl suggests that he goes stay in the safe room, 201 00:14:06,399 --> 00:14:08,960 and he's like, yeah, and then if you or Donut dies, 202 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,480 I get smashed because I'm in there. No, I'm not 203 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:16,679 doing that. Louie comes over and says that Juice Box 204 00:14:16,759 --> 00:14:20,879 gave him divorce papers. I'm real curious how this is 205 00:14:20,879 --> 00:14:25,159 gonna go, because like, I can't help but feel as 206 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:32,679 if maybe Juice Box gave him the papers unsigned and 207 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,720 he has to like initiate things, and I'm wondering if 208 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:42,240 he will. There's something about the fact that Louis is 209 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:48,320 in this very different body that almost makes me wonder 210 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,480 if there's going to be some commiseration from like a 211 00:14:51,559 --> 00:14:55,600 shape shifter that might bring them together somehow. And I 212 00:14:55,639 --> 00:14:58,879 know that it's really not the same thing, but a 213 00:14:59,159 --> 00:15:02,720 you know, at this same time, even if something isn't 214 00:15:02,759 --> 00:15:05,360 exactly the same situation, it can sometimes give you a 215 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:10,440 lot more empathy for another person's, you know, issues they're 216 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,639 dealing with. So I don't know, it might be that 217 00:15:14,679 --> 00:15:18,720 this is like and I wonder too, because you know, 218 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:25,200 is the niad body that he's in a female body? 219 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,240 Is that correct? I feel like I remember that because 220 00:15:29,279 --> 00:15:34,679 that's why Samantha chose it. So he's in a female body, 221 00:15:34,759 --> 00:15:39,559 but he's still Louis, And it just makes me think of, 222 00:15:39,879 --> 00:15:44,840 you know the concept of like externally, the genitals you 223 00:15:44,879 --> 00:15:46,639 have have nothing to do with the gender you are, 224 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,720 and I wonder about that as an ongoing potential message 225 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:59,120 as well. I don't know. Sorry, Oh, that's right. He's 226 00:15:59,159 --> 00:16:01,000 not in the body. He just replaced his lungs and 227 00:16:01,039 --> 00:16:02,759 heart with the organs. That's right, that's right. I keep 228 00:16:02,759 --> 00:16:06,360 forgetting how that went because he keeps saying like they 229 00:16:06,519 --> 00:16:08,879 use the body and YadA YadA, and so it's making 230 00:16:08,919 --> 00:16:14,279 me conflate that. But yeah, so, I uh just really 231 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,200 I don't know. I wonder. I wonder if he's gonna 232 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:22,080 sign them, because like, I really weirdly want them to 233 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,240 work out. And I think a lot of that is 234 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:29,480 just about Juice Box and how knowing how she feels 235 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,120 so genuinely about him, which I had sort of suspected 236 00:16:32,159 --> 00:16:38,440 that she really cared. And also Louis just seems to 237 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,519 have this really profound sense of worthlessness, and maybe being 238 00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:47,960 told why she feels how she feels might help. I 239 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:57,960 don't know if she's ever told him. So, Okay, Batista, guys, 240 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,919 this whole thing, Oh my god. I loved it so 241 00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:06,920 much because what it turns out Batista is doing is 242 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:18,880 finishing up on the uh the like cyborg parts for Katya. 243 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,119 There's so much happening here. So this is what I 244 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,240 think Katya was yelling, like, I really need before I 245 00:17:24,279 --> 00:17:31,640 can leave, and uh, I understand that exactly, Like who 246 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,440 knows how much this shit would cost if she were 247 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,480 to leave the dungeon and then had to find somebody 248 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:43,240 to make this stuff for her. And I appreciate Bautista 249 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,480 taking these moments to ensure this gets done. I sure 250 00:17:47,559 --> 00:17:50,880 hope that he's competent enough at it that they work properly. 251 00:17:53,039 --> 00:17:57,759 And this is the thing that's like really rough, which 252 00:17:57,799 --> 00:18:01,880 is when Kotsha gets transformed back into a human right 253 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:08,359 before making her wish, they see that she's like a 254 00:18:08,519 --> 00:18:12,759 torso with like half an arm. It's bad. She's lost 255 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:20,799 so many limbs, it's crazy. And I had suspected there 256 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:24,240 have been a few different incidents where something happened and 257 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,759 it was clear she took serious damage and was really 258 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:34,680 quiet after certain combat, and I was like, that feels 259 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,160 like something's going on with her that she's not talking about. 260 00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:43,559 And yeah, she has been hiding. I mean, I had suspected, 261 00:18:43,599 --> 00:18:45,920 but I don't think even I would have guessed just 262 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:54,279 how bad it was. So I'm again jumping ahead here 263 00:18:54,279 --> 00:18:57,440 because we're not really there yet. But yeah, I just 264 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,359 wanted to address that because, like Bautista disappearing, you know, guys, 265 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,000 I've been worried about him. I really really have. And 266 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:05,720 there comes a point at the end of this where 267 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,200 I felt very reassured. I hope he's telling the truth. 268 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,640 I think so, but I really did have, like, uh 269 00:19:14,039 --> 00:19:17,279 my antenna up with him, still do with Lena that's 270 00:19:17,319 --> 00:19:19,960 not dealt with. Turns out she's not even talking to 271 00:19:20,039 --> 00:19:24,359 her teammate, so, uh, what's his name is? Schweg? He 272 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:29,400 goes down to the next floor without her and isn't 273 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,279 sure if he's gonna take a deal or not when 274 00:19:31,319 --> 00:19:35,160 Carl asks, she's the only teammate left and she doesn't 275 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,880 even want to talk to him, like, I wonder if 276 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,559 she blames him for her brother's death as well. It's possible, 277 00:19:43,599 --> 00:19:46,039 but I don't know. I mean, I might not want 278 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,839 to stay in the game when the only person that 279 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,319 I felt at all close to is clearly like a 280 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:56,720 little bit psychotic and determined to go do their own 281 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:08,279 fucking thing. So uh, let's see, Oh right, here comes 282 00:20:08,279 --> 00:20:12,039 the thing with victory. So Carl says, you're not going 283 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:14,480 to the eighteenth floor with the rest of the adjutants 284 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:19,039 after this, and she says no. With the unfortunate death 285 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,680 of my underage nieces and nephews up in orbit, I 286 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,359 once again became eligible for political office. Not allowed to 287 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,720 be in office if you have underage leaders in your family. 288 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,799 It's an old, stupid rule, but a rule nonetheless. Anyway, 289 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,920 as people weren't certain of former Prime Minister Fopsi's relationship 290 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,119 to the Dream, he was passed over for the newly 291 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:45,960 vacated position of syndicate Prime Minister. As a result, I 292 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,400 am now acting Prime Minister Victory. There will be a 293 00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:52,000 real vote in a few months, but in the meantime, 294 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:55,720 I'm it they wanted someone stuck here with the rest 295 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:58,240 of us so I could truly focus on the crisis. 296 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,559 And Carl says well, and Rosetta says, well, shit. And 297 00:21:03,559 --> 00:21:08,799 it's described as sounding strangely irritated at the news, which 298 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,720 I think is likely because she gave this assignment to 299 00:21:12,799 --> 00:21:16,519 someone and didn't realize this outcome was going to happen. 300 00:21:16,599 --> 00:21:21,880 So she's kind of put this into motion because she 301 00:21:22,039 --> 00:21:28,480 was didn't realize that. So that's funny. Honestly, if I'm 302 00:21:28,519 --> 00:21:31,519 going to have a prime minister, though, you could do 303 00:21:31,599 --> 00:21:35,079 a lat fucking worse than Victory. Somebody who is smart 304 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,559 somebody who actually gives a shit about law and the rules. 305 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:46,720 Somebody who is like Evidently, I don't want to say moral, 306 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:51,119 because I really don't know about that. Honestly, being lawful 307 00:21:51,319 --> 00:21:56,680 and being moral aren't at all the same. But I 308 00:21:56,759 --> 00:22:02,559 feel that you could reason with her. I don't know. 309 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,279 I just think that like, she potentially is someone that 310 00:22:07,319 --> 00:22:11,880 we could work with, and I am very interested. It's 311 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,160 very funny, though, because Carl steps forward and puts his 312 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,880 hand on her shoulder, she was still protected. If I 313 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,039 tried to punch her, my arm would go straight through. 314 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,880 I wish you good luck in your new job, Madam 315 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,319 Prime Minister. As much as I've loathed the idea of 316 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,240 killing another few thousand schmucks who'd gotten railroaded into coming 317 00:22:31,319 --> 00:22:34,519 down here for the krawl, as much as I actually 318 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,799 liked victory, I wouldn't hesitate, not even for a moment, 319 00:22:39,279 --> 00:22:44,119 to kill the goddamn Prime Minister of the syndicate. She snorted, 320 00:22:44,519 --> 00:22:48,920 She knew it too. This is one of those moments, 321 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,440 y'all where I appreciate the reality check from Carl, because 322 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,279 I will really get swayed by liking somebody personally, You 323 00:22:58,319 --> 00:23:02,720 know what, I'm saying I think he has the right idea. 324 00:23:04,079 --> 00:23:06,920 I think that this kind of being like focused on 325 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:14,440 the objective is necessary in some ways. But I also 326 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:18,599 do kind of think it's possible that she could be 327 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:22,640 somebody you could work with somehow. I'd rather her in 328 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,680 that position than someone else, you know. But I don't know. 329 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,799 I don't know. I was a little startled. I won't 330 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:33,960 lie at how like he says he wouldn't even hesitate, 331 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,359 because I kind of feel like he would. But if 332 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,240 he says he wouldn't, I tend to believe him. I 333 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,559 feel like Carl really, for the most part, has decent 334 00:23:45,599 --> 00:23:49,440 self awareness and knows himself, and even when he doesn't, 335 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,000 if somebody points the thing out, he tends to like 336 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,359 actually take in their criticism, you know, instead of just 337 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:08,920 discounting it out of hand. So yeah, anyway, sorry, system 338 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:14,720 message Alithia has entered the realm, and the temporary effect 339 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,440 is all damage you strike against female opponents is quartered 340 00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:22,519 all female members of your party strike with a melee 341 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:31,680 power of five hundred percent, which is unbalanced. Well, so 342 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:38,759 we get the goddess showing up looking beautiful and serene 343 00:24:39,039 --> 00:24:46,119 and kind, and YadA YadA, and it's swunshing jinx, and 344 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,200 she of course has to like completely ruin this by 345 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:58,480 first starting off by calling them idiotic pricks. And where's it? 346 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,680 She sees, Victor, how many cocks did you have to 347 00:25:01,759 --> 00:25:03,960 suck to get that job? I'm sure it's just an 348 00:25:04,039 --> 00:25:07,400 unfortunate coincidence. Your underage nephew was blown out of orbit. 349 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:11,119 Now that idiot the Maestro is king and your prime 350 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,559 Minister will don't get used to it. With all the 351 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,480 death and chaos your little team has caused, it's not 352 00:25:16,519 --> 00:25:18,319 gonna matter who's in charge. They'll have your head on 353 00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:24,599 a pike in no time. And it turns out like 354 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:31,839 the Sister Formidable is straight up miss missing, Like we 355 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,839 don't know what happened to her. We had heard that 356 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,000 she was swimming, and I think it seems that she 357 00:25:38,039 --> 00:25:42,039 has survived, but evidently is not up in the orbit 358 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,200 making trouble again. She hasn't hailed her people to come 359 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:50,920 pick her up. I think so. Yeah, this is when 360 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:56,319 Daniel comes in with the uh cybernetic stuff, and I 361 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:01,640 love the fact that he says to Katcya, I'm sorry 362 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,720 I made you doubt me. I really like that because 363 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,480 there's a lot of ways that you could phrase that, 364 00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:11,279 and there's a lot of things that you could you know, 365 00:26:11,599 --> 00:26:14,559 I I I just think that's a really nice, succinct 366 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,599 way of putting it. Is like, hey, I know I 367 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,519 was being an asshole and it made you think that, 368 00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:22,000 like I was low key not on your side, and 369 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,359 that fucking sucks that I ever made you feel that way, 370 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,200 And I really am sorry, and uh yeah, I just 371 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:37,279 appreciated this a lot. So this is how this is 372 00:26:37,319 --> 00:26:40,319 when we begin the thing with Dona and huan Shin. 373 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:49,640 She uses laundry day and pulls the uh or the 374 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:54,599 soul armor of the goddess right off her, and that 375 00:26:54,759 --> 00:26:57,319 causes the goddess to like still be in the room 376 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,839 but not moving, frozen and till Katya makes the choice 377 00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:06,119 that she makes. Meanwhile, while she and Jinks is in 378 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,039 a circle trapped where she can't use like her magical 379 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:18,240 artifacts or anything, and Donah is explaining to her, she 380 00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:22,319 got that she's the one who received the kneepads from Katchya, 381 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,400 which that's a surprise. I did not, you know, everybody 382 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,640 has been sort of assuming that Katya would give them 383 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,720 to Carl, but evidently not. I wonder if Donut will 384 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:37,319 save them and keep using them like forever, or if 385 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:42,680 it was really just for this one particular job. So 386 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,200 let's see the bricks is continue to shake with rage. 387 00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:50,400 Stay the hell away from me. I am a god. 388 00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:56,680 I will end you, and Donut just like comes right 389 00:27:56,759 --> 00:28:02,000 up against her. Kwan Shehin, who pulled herself to her feet, 390 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,519 was again on the ground. Sparks flew in the air. 391 00:28:07,079 --> 00:28:09,599 All cats have it, naturally, it's called claw. I was 392 00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:13,720 at level four before, but now I'm approaching fifteen. But 393 00:28:13,839 --> 00:28:17,000 again that wasn't necessary. I'm just showing off a little. 394 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:25,279 And she pulls out this mount for a weapon, and 395 00:28:25,559 --> 00:28:31,000 it's got a crossbow on it. And this is what 396 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,319 we call Mordecai out for because he can't actually inflict 397 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:41,799 the damage himself, but they can give him the opportunity 398 00:28:41,839 --> 00:28:45,000 to make the arrow they will use, and that won't 399 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:52,440 count against him. So she says, I have a mutual 400 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:56,319 friend waiting outside. He'd loved to come say hello real quick. 401 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,799 And he comes out and he says, my brother died 402 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,960 because of you, and because of Odette, and because of Choco, 403 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,720 but mostly because of you. Some of my mother's ashes 404 00:29:07,799 --> 00:29:10,160 are built into the tip of this bolt. It's a 405 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,519 funeral rite in my culture to make a weapon with 406 00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:15,599 the ashes of those you lost. My mother died before 407 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,279 the Crawl came to my world, and I'm grateful for 408 00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:22,880 the opportunity to allow her to avenge her son. And 409 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:28,279 I was so pleased that Doughnut actually mentions that she 410 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,160 shit in his mother's ashes, because when he mentioned her ashes, 411 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,759 I was like, oh God, I remembered that, you know, 412 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,119 and what she has the fucking nerve. I am here 413 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,839 to save you. This was a problem you created, and 414 00:29:44,039 --> 00:29:49,039 I gave you a solution. It's not just the audacity, 415 00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:52,440 it's the insult of her thinking that they are going 416 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:57,000 to like actually be stupid enough to see it that way, 417 00:29:57,079 --> 00:30:03,200 in this very misrepresented light. It's just come now, ma'am. 418 00:30:03,559 --> 00:30:12,799 You know. So let's see. She says, we don't need 419 00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:14,519 to go through this, but we want to. We want 420 00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:16,599 to show those of you on the twelfth floor what's coming. 421 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,880 You're strong, but we're getting stronger every day. And you 422 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,240 know what, we don't need to kill the gods and 423 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,400 goddesses to win, no, honey, we just need to kill 424 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:31,680 you and they do. Indeed, let's see, Donut gives him 425 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,279 permission to loop. He takes swanshing Jings's body, which what 426 00:30:36,319 --> 00:30:42,839 are we doing with that? And then we have the 427 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,079 message from Samantha that is just like he's starting to 428 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,400 really lose a shit, dude. So Carl recognizes that we 429 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,240 have really got to speed things along here, and Katya 430 00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:57,920 says goodbye to everybody. Still at this point, we don't 431 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,200 know what she's choosing, you know, so I'm still kind 432 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:10,160 of thinking like, it'll be fine, guys, relax, But yeah, 433 00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:14,039 she asks to be made pregnant, and the Goddess is like, 434 00:31:14,079 --> 00:31:16,640 are you sure. I like the fact too, that when 435 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,599 the Goddess awakes, she sees Katya and is like, oh, 436 00:31:20,359 --> 00:31:24,720 you're one of mine, Like the fact that what happened 437 00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:27,000 to Katcha was in the real world and outside of 438 00:31:27,039 --> 00:31:34,319 the dungeon. It doesn't matter. This goddess is like, still, 439 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,240 it's set up in a way that it is relevant anyway. 440 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,920 And there's something about that that you could see as 441 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:48,839 like weirdly invasive and not cool, but there's another part 442 00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:52,519 of me that kind of likes it, you know. And 443 00:31:52,799 --> 00:31:55,640 she also is able to see up to the surface 444 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,079 and says something like I can sense them. Why wasn't 445 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:05,680 I able to say before. But I can't get I 446 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:10,160 can't reach them, and I'm super curious because it will 447 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,799 be enabled shortly that she will be able to reach them. 448 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,480 I'm so interested in what she's actually going to do, 449 00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:20,759 Like Katchya, if she goes, if she leaves the dungeon 450 00:32:20,759 --> 00:32:24,519 and goes to the surface, will this goddess like be 451 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:31,799 around for her beyond this moment. I don't know anyway. Uh, 452 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,720 you can't get their donuts said, but Katcha can and 453 00:32:36,759 --> 00:32:40,240 she can protect them for you. And I love that 454 00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:46,319 is wisdom. Champion of necka bit harbinger of doom. H yeah, donuts, 455 00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:51,920 you will be made human once again, and you must 456 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,319 choose a father for the child. The father must be 457 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:00,480 human as well. The goddess looked at me, eyes lazing. 458 00:33:01,519 --> 00:33:04,440 I see who you wish for it to be, but 459 00:33:04,559 --> 00:33:08,759 it cannot be so standing next to me, Bautista stiffened. 460 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:19,039 So yeah, I am really really unsure here. It's like 461 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,680 the fact that Bautista's a tiger is the thing, right 462 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:32,440 like essensibly, but she would have probably picked Carl anyway. 463 00:33:33,519 --> 00:33:42,400 I think I think right like she would have tried 464 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:47,599 even if Bautista were human. I feel I feel a 465 00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:52,559 real like weirdness about the fact that the goddess says, 466 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:58,119 I sense who you wish it to be, Like she's 467 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,640 reading her mind and kind of putting her on front 468 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,519 street a little bit like maybe Katcha wasn't going to 469 00:34:03,599 --> 00:34:06,440 actually say Carl out loud, but that's what she feels, 470 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,639 and this Gooddess was just blowing up her whole spot. 471 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:16,719 But anyway, so yeah, and I was confused for a 472 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:21,000 minute about why it cannot be so, but yeah, Michael 473 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,800 is in the chat. Oh no, sorry, sarahm and saying 474 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,840 Carl is a primal, which must be the reason. But 475 00:34:29,079 --> 00:34:31,039 there was a moment for me of like, is it 476 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,440 because of like she and Maria being inside him or whatever, 477 00:34:34,519 --> 00:34:39,800 But like, technically he's not human either either. So she 478 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:46,639 goes for Louis and he says, yeah, all right, like 479 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:52,000 I suppose why not. So she becomes pregnant and it's 480 00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:55,760 a boy, we find out spoilers, but this is when 481 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,840 we see her entire right arm was gone all the 482 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,639 way wight to the shoulder, her left leg was gone, 483 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,199 her right leg was gone up to the knee. She 484 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:10,800 was missing an ear as well, Like Holy shit. So 485 00:35:11,079 --> 00:35:14,280 we are able to get all of these cybernetic parts 486 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,400 that are you know, grafted on to her, so to speak. 487 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:26,719 And Alithia impregnates her no problem, you know, with just 488 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,519 tapping three fingers on her stomach, and evidently she's gonna 489 00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:31,920 be able to save all this stuff when she goes 490 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,000 to surface. I sure hope that's true, that it works 491 00:35:34,039 --> 00:35:41,519 the way we expect. And she just vanishes, and I 492 00:35:41,679 --> 00:35:44,559 have no doubt that we'll like check in with her 493 00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:48,039 at some point. I'm really curious what it's all going 494 00:35:48,119 --> 00:35:53,679 to be like. So at this point, Samantha yells, he's 495 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:58,280 not touching me anymore, bring me back, and Carl does 496 00:35:58,599 --> 00:36:02,960 indeed pull her back. There's a thing on the table 497 00:36:03,039 --> 00:36:05,880 remained a pair of items. One was Catcha's card from 498 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,280 the previous floor, the one depicting Annie the skull headed 499 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,880 bird doughnut took it. The second was a bra with 500 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,480 my own face on one cup and the words time 501 00:36:16,639 --> 00:36:21,079 to pay the Daddy tax on the other. And Ellie says, 502 00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:23,440 what the fuck Carl, And I'm like, why are you 503 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,519 yelling at him? Ellie? He didn't fucking make that. You 504 00:36:26,599 --> 00:36:28,519 know how this works, Get the hell out of here, 505 00:36:29,599 --> 00:36:33,599 but I can't imagine. But he's to already being jealous, 506 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,320 Like if they fuck and he takes her top off 507 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:44,119 and she's got this bra on, I have to assume 508 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,840 that that is really gonna kind of fuck the vibe up, 509 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:58,039 you know anyway, so uh oh. This is the moment 510 00:36:58,079 --> 00:37:00,639 where Samantha finds out that Louis is getting and divorce 511 00:37:00,679 --> 00:37:03,400 and of course starts to get quite aggressive with him, 512 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,400 and then Batista comes up and says, I know you 513 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,280 think I was going to do something horrible or jealous. 514 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,119 I want you to know I almost did. I keep 515 00:37:16,159 --> 00:37:19,000 losing family, Carl. It makes me scared, and it makes 516 00:37:19,039 --> 00:37:22,760 me angry, and I know I am not considered human anymore, 517 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,360 and that is my great shame, especially today. But I 518 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,920 would never do anything to hurt a brother like you, 519 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:36,000 and that rang true to me. You know, I really 520 00:37:36,039 --> 00:37:40,400 believe him. I hope I'm right, and I love the 521 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,840 fact that he admits he almost did do those things. 522 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,440 It's not this is not a moment of him posturing 523 00:37:47,519 --> 00:37:51,199 and being like you thought the worst of me, and 524 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,159 I would never This is a very human, vulnerable moment 525 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,639 of like, yeah, I almost gave in because I am jealous, 526 00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:02,519 and I'll admit that and cop to it to the 527 00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:04,599 guy I'm jealous of, which is not an easy thing 528 00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:10,039 to do, you know. I just that earns a lot 529 00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:15,480 of respect from me. So he says, I looked at 530 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,960 the Kimars figure you have. He's one of the brothers 531 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,880 of Shale. He has a summoning time of the remainder 532 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:26,960 of the floor. Be careful with him. Is the summoning 533 00:38:27,039 --> 00:38:32,039 time the remainder of the floor. Is that how long 534 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,880 he is with you? Or is that how long it 535 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:45,719 takes for him to appear. Samantha recognizes his name and 536 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,800 she says, he uh, Kimars. He was one of my 537 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,519 best friends. I met him when and she says, huh, 538 00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:54,199 that's weird. Why couldn't I remember that he's the one 539 00:38:54,199 --> 00:38:56,039 who gave me the potion that would put my baby 540 00:38:56,039 --> 00:38:58,480 in me when I couldn't get pregnant. We were friends. 541 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,000 He'd give me advice on who to date, who to see, 542 00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:05,760 and who to She floated off, muttering his mother. I 543 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,280 will kill his mother. So I feel like when she 544 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,199 says who to date, who to see, and who to kill, 545 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:18,960 is more than likely that third one. But I am 546 00:39:19,079 --> 00:39:22,039 really curious again, about what's going on with Samantha. I 547 00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:24,719 love the fact that, like Carl is so committed to 548 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:30,360 keeping her with them, and the idea of like leaving 549 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:35,039 her with Embres and getting into the stairwell, leaving her behind, 550 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,480 it's just not even gonna happen, you know. He's just like, 551 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,840 we'd never see her again. I don't want to do that, 552 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,280 And I was just like, I appreciate you, sir. I 553 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,599 know what Ellie said about, like, are what's the upside 554 00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:50,360 of Samantha? But like, honestly, there are a fair amount 555 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:55,480 of upsides. She has been helpful in weird ways, and 556 00:39:55,079 --> 00:39:57,719 I just like her and I do feel for her. 557 00:39:58,039 --> 00:40:00,800 At the fact that she has been by so many 558 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,079 people that she ruins everything. I feel like the fact 559 00:40:04,119 --> 00:40:09,840 that they still want to be her friends might be 560 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:15,920 kind of a novel thing for her, you know. So 561 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:26,440 they head down into the next stairwell and Mordecai he's 562 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:31,320 like he's out there drinking and they have to tell 563 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,199 him to go back into the safe room and he says, 564 00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:38,880 thank you Donut for setting that up. Uh, And yeah, 565 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,960 I wonder if that helped it all, because sometimes it 566 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,880 can and sometimes it doesn't do much you know. So 567 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,239 there were only two people left on the floor. One 568 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,119 was Embras, who filled the world with fire. The second 569 00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:57,239 was Justice Light, who'd used a spell to hide his presence. 570 00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,760 When Juice Box jumped into the nothing, he had told 571 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,480 her he was going with her. He lied he needed 572 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,480 to be on this side of the veil to activate 573 00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:10,760 the trap. Juice Box would be fine if her short 574 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:17,480 time and then nothing didn't drive her mad. I'm sorry, 575 00:41:17,679 --> 00:41:19,760 but you can't just say those two things right next 576 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:26,000 to each other. Like this was a moment for me 577 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:32,559 of maybe juice Bux was right not to trust crawlers, 578 00:41:32,679 --> 00:41:35,519 you know. I don't know, man, that's just fucked up 579 00:41:35,519 --> 00:41:39,360 to me. He's doing what he's gotta do. I guess, 580 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,559 but like, yikes, like he told her, if she managed 581 00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:46,079 to survive this next part, she would be reborn as 582 00:41:46,119 --> 00:41:53,199 the ultimate weapon to end this madness. I just the 583 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,519 fact that he set her up and made her think 584 00:41:55,559 --> 00:42:00,599 he was going to and then he didn't. Ah, I 585 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,599 don't know, Justice, this is so fucked up. Part of 586 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:09,039 him felt that all his friends left in the dungeon 587 00:42:09,079 --> 00:42:11,639 could possibly suffer because of what he was about to do. 588 00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:16,400 Porthos knew the plan. The Apothecary knew the plan. He 589 00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:20,360 truly believed the survivors were up to the challenge, but 590 00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:25,400 everything was about to get much more complicated. Most people 591 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,440 were about to take deals. Most of the former Carlers 592 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,840 were now on their way back to orbit. He took 593 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,840 solace in that he took one last look around the 594 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:42,480 elaborate system of traps he'd never needed. And this reminds 595 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,920 me of the thing that Donut had said earlier about 596 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,039 how like you can't just tease people with something, and 597 00:42:47,119 --> 00:42:51,079 she mentions the Christmas gift and that it's just a 598 00:42:51,119 --> 00:42:54,599 couple of romance novels, Karl, and you're building it all 599 00:42:54,679 --> 00:42:56,800 up and people are just going to be disappointed. And 600 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:01,360 I just couldn't help but laugh because I think like, 601 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,199 at this point, it has been told to us what 602 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,440 the presents are, But what I am more interested in 603 00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:13,320 now is like what it is that Carl is waiting for? 604 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,199 And I almost feel like, is he waiting until he's 605 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,559 out of the dungeon, or is he waiting until he's 606 00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:22,320 like at rock bottom and he really needs a lift, 607 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:31,519 or what is going on there? You know? So the 608 00:43:31,559 --> 00:43:34,440 items that fell were a Bju ferry trap along with 609 00:43:34,519 --> 00:43:36,960 the thousands of threads that connected the fairies to the 610 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,159 twelfth floor, and a demon trap along with the thousands 611 00:43:40,199 --> 00:43:42,360 of evicted demons, with the power to open a portal 612 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,400 back to Shale, if only they could find something to 613 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,679 latch onto. What happened next was exactly what Justice Light 614 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,320 had intended. He never got to see the next messages. 615 00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:57,880 Four separate planes, all jumbled and confused, folded and moved 616 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:02,360 together together as the unbreakable lines of the Biju ferries tightened, 617 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,760 creating a flower pattern, before the darkness in the center 618 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,800 of it all broke apart as the fire engulfed him, 619 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,679 finally giving rest to a soul that had been so 620 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,800 tired for such a very long time, Justice Light cawed 621 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:23,880 into the air. The Beiju trap has been deactivated. All 622 00:44:24,039 --> 00:44:27,599 Biju have been freed. The demon trap has deactivated. All 623 00:44:27,679 --> 00:44:31,840 captured evictive demons had been freed. The Nothing has been broken. 624 00:44:32,119 --> 00:44:35,559 The Nothing is currently draining into the halls of the Ascendency. 625 00:44:36,039 --> 00:44:39,199 The Nothing is currently draining into Shiol. The Nothing is 626 00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:44,599 currently draining into Scolopendra's lair. Scolopendra stirs. It is advised 627 00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:49,639 all current guests at the Scolopendra Club. Evacuate immediately planet 628 00:44:49,679 --> 00:44:52,440 wide message Oh, I'm sorry, there's nowhere for you to go. 629 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,760 Be advised. The sixteenth floor, supposedly entitled Agony of Mirrors, 630 00:44:57,159 --> 00:45:00,000 is actually a giant empty room with a single miss 631 00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:02,639 rror in it, a non magical mirror plucked from an 632 00:45:02,679 --> 00:45:07,639 abandoned Motel sixth location in Boise, Idaho. As the sixteenth 633 00:45:07,679 --> 00:45:11,920 floor is currently outside the Scolopendra layers, any guest who 634 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,679 wished to evacuate the Scolopendra Club should immediately proceed to 635 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:21,320 this location, where you will be safe from any impending attacks. Unfortunately, 636 00:45:21,559 --> 00:45:24,880 the seventeenth floor, called the Backstage Death Maze, is currently 637 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,519 built and running. You will have to proceed through this 638 00:45:27,679 --> 00:45:31,159 level should you want to get to the sixteenth good 639 00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:40,079 luck system message Scolopendra has awakened. My my, my, I 640 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,440 can't say that I even understand a lot of the 641 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:49,559 implications of this. You know what I'm saying, Lake, Ah, 642 00:45:49,599 --> 00:45:55,360 my god. You will have to proceed the step through 643 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:59,159 the seventeenth floor should you want to get to the 644 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:05,280 sixteenth I don't understand how that works either. What does 645 00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,280 that mean? How come for what? Why? Why are we 646 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:14,559 going in that direction because they're on the eighteenth right, Okay, 647 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,840 I think that's right, guys, I get confused. It's a 648 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:26,960 lot to keep trying. There's a lot. So we're just 649 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,119 about to have a bunch of preachers from the Nothing, fairies, 650 00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:42,239 demons and potentially gods as well, just fucking around. What 651 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:51,480 how and why exactly? Why does Justice Light want to 652 00:46:51,519 --> 00:46:54,239 do this so bad? He just wants to say fuck 653 00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,880 you to everybody, Like, as he mentions, it's going to 654 00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:03,519 screw people in the the dungeon still quite a bit. 655 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,519 And he's like, I think they're up to it, and 656 00:47:05,559 --> 00:47:11,320 I'm like, I mean probably, but like why, what's why? 657 00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:15,719 And maybe as things go forward, I'll understand a little 658 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,639 bit better his thinking here and I'll see that it's like, 659 00:47:19,599 --> 00:47:23,000 you know, I'll understand why he felt it outweighed that 660 00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:33,800 effect perhaps. But yeah, So this is just so. The 661 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,880 permanent portal into the Nothing was made from the now broken, 662 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:40,280 blood soaked winding box from the Gate of the Feral Gods, 663 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,679 the same portal Juice Box had just used to flee 664 00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:48,719 the ninth floor, So that's what he had gotten hold 665 00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,519 of in order to make all of this happen. So 666 00:47:51,599 --> 00:48:01,280 then we go into the epilogue and it's York and 667 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,239 what's going on with him in orbit on the ship. 668 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:10,000 He's writing poetry, very dissatisfied with a lot of it, 669 00:48:10,639 --> 00:48:18,960 and he is experiencing a really profound depression that is 670 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,960 almost making it feel like why am I even alive? 671 00:48:25,599 --> 00:48:31,000 Like there's just a nothingness to him, and he keeps 672 00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:35,199 asking himself like why don't I feel more? And it's 673 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,920 him who killed all of those young orcs on that 674 00:48:40,039 --> 00:48:47,519 ship that enabled Victory to become prime minister. But he 675 00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,519 like the thing that he's judging himself about with that 676 00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,360 is that it really not only was it not difficult 677 00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:58,199 for him, but that he was actually looking forward to 678 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:04,920 doing it and understands that's fucked up, but he can't 679 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:09,920 get himself to really feel that it's fucked up, and 680 00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:14,280 it bothers him, which I don't know if y'all have 681 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,000 ever been in this position yourselves, where there's something that 682 00:49:17,039 --> 00:49:20,599 you're like, I can see the reaction I'm having to 683 00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:24,000 this isn't normal, you know, but it is a really 684 00:49:24,039 --> 00:49:28,360 strange feeling to be sort of outside yourself, going why 685 00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,280 am I being a real weirdo? Right now, and not 686 00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:37,360 responding the way I believe a rational or empathetic person 687 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:43,840 would respond. And it turns out that sometimes he'll like 688 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,559 read these aloud and just put it on the broadcast 689 00:49:46,639 --> 00:49:48,679 for everybody, and a lot of people have him blocked 690 00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:52,039 by now, which I do think is sort of hilarious. 691 00:49:55,119 --> 00:49:59,519 Let's see, the small yacht he destroyed had simply been vaporized. 692 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,960 He kept trying to rearrange it in his mind, desperately 693 00:50:05,039 --> 00:50:07,519 attempting to frame it in a way where he felt something. 694 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:13,360 He mourned his own lack of emotion, his own crawl 695 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,760 seemed like such a distant memory. His entire hive had 696 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,400 entered the dungeon, and he recalled the anger he'd felt 697 00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,239 at how they had been picked off one by one, 698 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,280 and not just at that, but the realization that he'd 699 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,679 never really fit in and because of his own individuality, 700 00:50:28,079 --> 00:50:30,400 he never was part of a team, despite being part 701 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,320 of a hive, and because he was all alone, his 702 00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:37,840 flailings against the bureaucratic alien machines that had subjugated him 703 00:50:38,119 --> 00:50:42,039 and his hive were impotent. The stronger he grew as 704 00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:47,039 a crawler, the weaker he felt, and the weaker he felt, 705 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:52,239 the angrier he became, and then somewhere around the ninth floor, 706 00:50:52,519 --> 00:50:56,360 a numbness spread. He knew this was something locked deep 707 00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:01,559 in his tenadera DNA. His warrior ants had been specifically 708 00:51:01,679 --> 00:51:06,320 bred to be without emotion. This was before they'd become civilized. 709 00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,440 This lack of emotion would be required of any soldier 710 00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,920 whose duty it was to crack into an enemy hive 711 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,119 and kill all the children within. And I thought that 712 00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,360 was really interesting, the fact that this is something that's 713 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:22,239 like not necessarily just a product of trauma, because that's 714 00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:26,079 definitely what I was assuming from the beginning of the 715 00:51:26,199 --> 00:51:30,239 chapter or epilogues, that he's just been through too much, 716 00:51:30,559 --> 00:51:40,400 you know. But evidently it's not that simple. Let's see, 717 00:51:40,639 --> 00:51:43,679 the newsfeeds had mentioned the fortunate death of the children 718 00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,639 caught in the crossfire, but there was so much more 719 00:51:45,639 --> 00:51:49,440 happening all at once that barely registered a blip. Was 720 00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,639 that it that this wasn't enough to break through the 721 00:51:51,679 --> 00:51:55,559 bindings that had grown around his heart like thorns. The 722 00:51:55,639 --> 00:51:59,159 news was focused on bigger stories, the new Prime Minister, 723 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,599 the crash of the Dream Cruiser into the surface of 724 00:52:01,679 --> 00:52:04,519 Earth over the continent of Australia, and I was like, 725 00:52:04,639 --> 00:52:11,559 a word, what what the mass suicide of one of 726 00:52:11,599 --> 00:52:15,519 the nebular colonies, which Victory did mention, I've forgotten to 727 00:52:15,559 --> 00:52:19,480 talk about that. Sorry, trying to stay I'm trying to 728 00:52:19,519 --> 00:52:23,000 stay focused, guys, but I am going to occasionally just 729 00:52:24,119 --> 00:52:28,199 slide right over things, especially when they're like political things. 730 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,599 But mostly at the moment, the talk was of the 731 00:52:32,639 --> 00:52:36,519 mantis system that had simply gone boom. This particular news 732 00:52:36,559 --> 00:52:39,960 actually filled York with a strange, empty sense of satisfaction. 733 00:52:41,159 --> 00:52:46,239 The larger mantids hated his race, the Tenadera, and not 734 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,800 nearly let's see, sorry, most mantids openly spoke of exterminating 735 00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,119 him in his kind as they could cross breed, and 736 00:52:53,159 --> 00:52:55,719 they feared what would happen should the tendonara mix en 737 00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,320 mass And he says they got what they deserve, but 738 00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,880 is just like, first of all, I don't really even 739 00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:06,400 think that's true. And he's also just like, how the 740 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,800 fuck did that happen? They're like, I probably should be 741 00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:14,559 worried about this. A message came across his screen. You 742 00:53:14,559 --> 00:53:17,440 have soldiers to load. They have arrived at the onboarding facility. 743 00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:24,800 Docking procedure incoming, and let's see. Oh right, this is 744 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:29,039 when Boomer calls him up and they go back and 745 00:53:29,079 --> 00:53:32,760 forth a little bit in an exchange that is sort 746 00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:40,719 of like a routine for them. By now, let's see 747 00:53:41,039 --> 00:53:44,079 on the news feed, a breaking news banner appeared, followed 748 00:53:44,079 --> 00:53:47,400 by the image of Porthos sitting behind a desk. York 749 00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,360 knew this video was actually shot a while ago because 750 00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,039 he'd been there when Rosetta directed it, but it was 751 00:53:53,119 --> 00:53:56,840 timed to be released just now. On the screen, Porthos 752 00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,400 was announcing the formation of a new militant group, warning 753 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,559 they would now be moving against all syndicate, governmental properties 754 00:54:03,559 --> 00:54:08,800 and systems across the known universe, and it ends with 755 00:54:09,039 --> 00:54:15,639 just basically like stop the crawler. Else a Boomer is saying, 756 00:54:15,679 --> 00:54:18,440 set aside four of the Kronos suits and a landing skiff, 757 00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,400 we have a pregnant veteran on the surface who needs 758 00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,440 back up, and for the rest of us, it's time 759 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,559 to bring the war out of the dungeon. Better warm 760 00:54:25,679 --> 00:54:29,639 up the lasers. At that moment, York did indeed feel 761 00:54:29,679 --> 00:54:37,559 something finally after all this time. And then we go 762 00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:44,360 to the Outreach Guild and it's we're back with Carl 763 00:54:45,039 --> 00:54:49,239 meeting with Quasar, who I've missed. I do really enjoy 764 00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:56,440 him and Quasar. Long story short says that there's a 765 00:54:56,519 --> 00:55:00,880 few offers for Carl for deals, but they're really really bad. 766 00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:04,239 There's only one that's even like worth considering, and he 767 00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:08,119 knows that Carl is not going to take it. And 768 00:55:09,599 --> 00:55:12,519 you guys, there comes this point here where he's talking 769 00:55:12,599 --> 00:55:19,039 about Donut, and you know, Quasar is not able to 770 00:55:19,119 --> 00:55:24,360 tell Carl what Donut did until Carl makes his own choice, which, 771 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,199 of course, there wasn't even a moment where I thought 772 00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:34,320 Donut would take a deal. Let's see, I'm trying to 773 00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,519 find this bit where he uh, there was an audible ping. 774 00:55:39,519 --> 00:55:42,159 I thought maybe you'd also rep Donut, I said, after 775 00:55:42,199 --> 00:55:44,679 a moment he represented her before for some of the 776 00:55:44,679 --> 00:55:48,440 contract stuff. He shrugged. I was hoping. So that's why 777 00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,159 I wore this tie. I argued it because he's got 778 00:55:51,159 --> 00:55:53,440 a Mango tide. By the way, but they assigned her 779 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:58,039 another lawyer. Her name is Princess Chandra Esquire. Apparently her 780 00:55:58,079 --> 00:56:00,519 and Donut already had their meeting, and now that officially 781 00:56:00,559 --> 00:56:02,920 declined her offers, I can tell you she declined as well. 782 00:56:03,199 --> 00:56:06,039 I'm hearing there were some serious fireworks during their meeting, 783 00:56:06,079 --> 00:56:08,000 and not the good kind. We need to have a 784 00:56:08,039 --> 00:56:12,079 serious talk about her Dona's lawyer. I mean, I grunted, 785 00:56:12,559 --> 00:56:17,360 why is she another cat girl? No worse, buddy, she's 786 00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,480 your new wife. And that's the end of that section. 787 00:56:20,639 --> 00:56:27,119 So no explanations, no ideas on my end. All I 788 00:56:27,159 --> 00:56:30,039 can think is that Karl made some deal and didn't 789 00:56:30,039 --> 00:56:33,440 read the fine print. And that's the best I can 790 00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,800 come up with. And I have no idea. I got nothing. 791 00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,679 And then the last thing we do is we go 792 00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:46,679 over to a character name is named Xander who runs 793 00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:50,800 the equivalent of like a gas station, and he is 794 00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:56,079 in a spot where a lot of the crawler merch 795 00:56:56,199 --> 00:56:59,880 does quite well, but now that everything has gone completely 796 00:57:00,039 --> 00:57:02,320 off the rails, he's got a bunch of stuff that 797 00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:07,320 he's going to need to unload somehow. And it's very 798 00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,440 funny because there's like an Uzi Jesus toy that can speak, 799 00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,639 and so he like confides in it as if he's 800 00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:20,960 praying almost uh, and he explains about the fact that, like, 801 00:57:21,119 --> 00:57:24,079 I have this huge rent that I have to pay 802 00:57:24,079 --> 00:57:25,639 that I'm not going to be able to make the payments, 803 00:57:25,719 --> 00:57:28,800 YadA YadA, And of course, like personally, I have very 804 00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:33,840 limited sympathy for somebody who is making money off of 805 00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:38,880 the merch from the crawl, but I can also recognize 806 00:57:39,159 --> 00:57:45,960 that's like, you know, yeah, like if you're not high 807 00:57:46,079 --> 00:57:50,000 up enough in the system to a point, you've got 808 00:57:50,119 --> 00:57:53,320 to fucking live. And so if this is something that's 809 00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,760 like a money make for him, it doesn't seem like 810 00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,719 he's out here living it up. It seems like he's 811 00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,519 just trying to get by. I also can sympathize there. 812 00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:06,199 So I'm kind of, uh, you know, what do you 813 00:58:06,239 --> 00:58:08,760 call it. I'm kind of back and forth on him. 814 00:58:10,719 --> 00:58:18,360 So he's UZI Jesus scratched himself in the head with 815 00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,639 his plastic gun. It went off of the pop and 816 00:58:20,679 --> 00:58:23,679 he put his hand to his temple. Dad, damn it. 817 00:58:24,639 --> 00:58:26,480 I'm so sorry, but the dad, damn it is such 818 00:58:26,519 --> 00:58:31,800 a bad joke, y'all. I'm gonna get indentured, Xander said, miserably. 819 00:58:32,119 --> 00:58:35,800 Do not kow tao, never kow tao. Raoul called, I 820 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,960 got it. You can start a church robot. UZI Jesus announced, 821 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:44,000 you'd be balling if you did it right. And this 822 00:58:44,039 --> 00:58:46,480 is when he gets interrupted by somebody being like, what 823 00:58:46,599 --> 00:58:50,840 is this? And he turns and there is a woman 824 00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,119 standing here that can which confuses him because usually somebody 825 00:58:54,119 --> 00:58:56,639 pulls in there's a little alarm and he knows they're there, 826 00:58:56,679 --> 00:59:00,760 but she just appears out of nowhere, and at first 827 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:04,559 is just like, that is an amazing costume. And then 828 00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:09,400 he's like, or wait, or is it? And she says, 829 00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:14,000 are you asking Heiress Goddess of Chaos if she's wearing 830 00:59:14,039 --> 00:59:20,440 a costume? And he just says yeah. She burst into laughter. 831 00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:25,000 I'll show you a costume. She snapped her fingers and 832 00:59:25,119 --> 00:59:29,239 all the tentacles on Xander's face turned rigid. Each one 833 00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:35,320 started spewing a different liquid. Some of that liquid burned. 834 00:59:36,719 --> 00:59:40,679 Holy Mary, Mother of Me, robot Uzzi, Jesus said again, 835 00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:44,199 a very terrible joke. And I just want to know 836 00:59:44,239 --> 00:59:47,800 why the gods have to be so like unfriendly. You know, 837 00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:55,239 you could have just made it spray chocolate, you know, 838 00:59:56,639 --> 01:00:04,039 or a lovely perfume or any just anything, but no, no, 839 01:00:04,159 --> 01:00:11,480 we gotta be like this really honestly. And I will say, like, 840 01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:13,639 I'm here at the kindle and I swiped to the 841 01:00:13,679 --> 01:00:20,119 next page and the logo for Squirtles Waystation is horrifying. 842 01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:25,679 I really hate it. I uh, whoever did this go 843 01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:32,760 to jail? And what's becoming a really sucky trend. This 844 01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,840 is part of the uh note at the end from 845 01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:40,440 Matt Denneman. My best friend, Freddy the Labrador died during 846 01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:46,239 the final days of writing this book, you guys, Freddy 847 01:00:46,559 --> 01:00:48,760 was there sitting by my feet while I wrote the 848 01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:52,079 vast majority of what you've read so far. Freddy began 849 01:00:52,199 --> 01:00:55,360 and ended each day with a furiously wagging tail, even 850 01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,119 when age made that difficult for him. He was my 851 01:00:58,239 --> 01:01:01,239 constant companion since he was a He was with me 852 01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:04,360 through some really dark times, lending his strength, and I 853 01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,159 am proud to have been there with him when he 854 01:01:06,199 --> 01:01:09,719 wagged his last wag. Even in his last moments, he 855 01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:12,079 was checking on me to make certain I was okay. 856 01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,639 We don't deserve dogs. The world is a little less 857 01:01:15,639 --> 01:01:19,199 dirty and a little less amazing with him gone. And 858 01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:22,920 there's a picture of him, and he is a precious angel. 859 01:01:23,719 --> 01:01:27,280 He looks a lot like pip You guys. It really 860 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:32,039 got me because like I know, Pippin's turning forward this year, 861 01:01:32,239 --> 01:01:35,840 you know, and they just it goes fast, and I 862 01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:39,079 am really really dreading, but I'm just trying to enjoy 863 01:01:39,119 --> 01:01:45,480 it while I got it. So yeah, this just I 864 01:01:45,519 --> 01:01:48,119 wanted to mention it because it's just I found it very, 865 01:01:48,199 --> 01:01:53,800 very touching, and I hope Matt gets himself a what 866 01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:55,559 do they call it, a bridge dog. I think doesn't 867 01:01:55,559 --> 01:01:57,559 work because you're supposed to get a bridge dog before 868 01:01:57,559 --> 01:02:00,719 the first dog dies. But I know a lot of 869 01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,599 people can be very touchy about adopting again right after 870 01:02:03,639 --> 01:02:05,119 the death of a pet. But I really do think 871 01:02:05,159 --> 01:02:07,920 for the most like for the majority of people I've 872 01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,679 heard from, even though they didn't want to do it, 873 01:02:10,719 --> 01:02:14,400 when they did it, it helped a lot. Usually it 874 01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,119 was like their partner went and did it despite them 875 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:21,199 insisting like no, I'm not ready, and they realized like, 876 01:02:21,239 --> 01:02:24,320 oh I actually was and needed this, and I'm glad 877 01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:28,400 that my partner did not listen to me. So anyway, 878 01:02:28,599 --> 01:02:30,400 just something I think about as well. You know, now 879 01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:35,840 I've got two dogs, and it's just it's double the 880 01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,760 joy but also potentially double the pain at some point. 881 01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,039 So anyway, guys, I got to wrap up. Thank you 882 01:02:44,119 --> 01:02:46,119 guys again so much for hanging out with me. I 883 01:02:46,159 --> 01:02:49,840 am super excited to start parade of horribles. Very excited 884 01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,519 and thank you Michael for commissioning this one. Until next 885 01:02:53,559 --> 01:03:26,559 time did a loom motherfuckers that was an unspoiled network 886 01:03:26,719 --> 01:03:27,280 pat