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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book four Gates of the Pharaoh Gods,

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chapters twelve through fourteen. In these chapters, so much happens,

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but Chris turns up and then he turns down, or

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rather gets thrown down. I try to do a little

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pun there. Didn't really work out, but you get what

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I'm saying. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone.

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I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for

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commissioning this episode. Michael is in the chats with me

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today along with Sarah, fam and Rob and mss T.

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Delighted to see you all. I am going to start

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from the beginning. I am going to start from the beginning.

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I'm really going to start from the beginning. I'm gonna

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do it. Do you hear me? It's very hard for me. Okay, okay.

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Chapter twelve, This is the message I had Henrich's show

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to Commandant Cain. When is incapacitated and we are returning

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him to you. He cast a resurrection spell on our

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behalf and became gravely ill. A traveling healer has offered

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to help him, but this healer now reports only a

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potion you might have will revive your uncle. In a

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show of good faith, this healer their party and I

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will travel outside of the city walls in one hour

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and will bring win to you there. This healer will

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tell you how to save your uncle's life. I will

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accompany them and offer myself as tribute. I hope and

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pray we can negotiate a piece that will save our

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town from your wrath. And of course it's not real, Henrich,

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like he is not with them, And also Katcha is

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she has to be simultaneously the body of wind and

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the seat of the chariot. I just she's also Henrick.

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Can we just talk about the hilarity of how Carl

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was just like, I just don't really see the use

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of her ability And this bitch is out here playing

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multiple characters at one time. That is insane. Like I

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thought Carl was Banana's already for not seeing it, and

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I didn't even come cool close to like understanding fully

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what her capacity was going to be. And now that

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I'm seeing her do it, I'm just blown away, Like

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that is fucking banana pants. I can't begin to express

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my admiration. I genuinely can't. That is so impressive. It

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must take such concentration and so much practice. And like you, guys, honestly,

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I she is so clutch in this, like none of

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this plan could have worked. Honestly. The fact that Carl

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came up with this plane at all indicates that he

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has an inkling that she can do this in the

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first place, which, like I, wouldn't have been ready to presume.

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So it is astonishing that she is between this and

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her like creating that immediate counterweight to keep the chariot

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from tipping. Last episode. She's just really being so helpful

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and critical and in so many different ways. It makes

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me feel really happy. It really look guys. Oh, Michael

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in the chat says, part of the reason why I

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appreciate the series is how Karl isn't the only competent person,

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like in a lot of lit RPG series, agree, Rob says,

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and doesn't immediately become the boyfriend of the other competent

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person who then gets nerved as a result, which true,

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and Michael says, in a lot of lit RPG, the

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main character is the only smart person walking through a

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world of dumbasses who only exists to try to have

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sex with him or make him look smart. One hundred percent.

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I will say that, and this is it's really this

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is going to be really depressing for a second, guys,

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and I apologize for that, but there's really no way

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around it. I have I've come to understand in myself

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one of the worst I'm getting emotional. I didn't expect

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to get emotional for this. One of the most upsetting

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things to me about learning more are the world we

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live in, how it functions, and the people in charge

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of the major factors in our lives. One of the

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worst parts is finding out how utterly incompetent most of

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them are. It's really hard. It's not just that they

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are unintelligent people, it is that they truly don't fucking care.

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That's the part that really hurts. And there was a

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whole thing today that I will not get too into,

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but suffice to say, a friend of mine's mom had

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the cops called on her because she was upset at

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a doctor's office that had lost her appointment recommended to

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her a doctor that she then called who wasn't taking

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new patients. And it was a whole thing where she

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was like, she's a senior and she got a special

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ride there through this program, so she was it was

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a whole production for her to even get there and

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for them to not have her appointment, but also they

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give her the run around about who to talk to,

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and when she calls them, they don't know why they

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told her to call them, because they can't do that.

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It was something that I think a lot of us

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have run into in terms of just everyday shit that

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shouldn't be this hard, especially with medical stuff, and every

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step along the way is a person who doesn't give

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a fuck. It's like your actual health, livelihood, life, life

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can be on the line and it's in the hands

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of people who can't fucking be bothered. And it makes

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me so deeply sad, and I think that's part of

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what I am really enjoying and like digging my teeth

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into is in this. In other books I'm covering Kosig

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and Sanga. I just finished the Hail Mary project for

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the book club this weekend. It's people who care and

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pay attention and know what they're doing. And I think

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that it's only now that I am at my big

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age seeing what I'm seeing that I really grasp that's

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the fantasy it's not monsters, it's not magic. It's that

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people know what they're doing and give a fuck. That's

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the fantasy, and I hate that. I hate that so

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fucking much. I really can't express how sad that makes

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me in my heart, And honestly, I don't even know

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what the solution is because like a lot of the

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people that don't give a fuck, they are burnt out

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and tired. Also, they live lives that are bouncing up

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against the exact same structures and agencies that don't care.

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They're victims too, you know. So it's so hard because

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like the people on top are the ones that could do,

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and they not only don't care, but are also usually

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really fucking dumb and got there for reasons not even

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remotely tied to merit or capability. So yeah, y'all, anyway,

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I'm sorry. This is so it makes me so sad,

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Michael and all caps. I can't wait for the Hail

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Mary coverage. You've ruined my week since that's all I'll

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be thinking about now. It was so great, guys, Michael,

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if you aren't in the discord, there's a books channel

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and I did a sub thread for Hail Mary and

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it's not like super deep or anything, because obviously I'm

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waiting for the podcast, but it's just my impressions of

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big moments as I was reading. I am really glad

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that I didn't see the trailer first for the movie

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that's coming up, because I everything came as a big surprise.

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I was. I was not ready for any of it.

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It's tough because those people a face some much shit

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that they're desensitized. Exactly, Michael, Exactly, Yeah. I mean it's

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sort of the same thing as like Madison, was that

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her name and on the last floor, you know where

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it's she is inflicting what she suffers onto the people

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around her, and it's like, I don't want to excuse

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that because part of this is just that you being

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a bad, selfish person, but also you're about to get

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smushed under the same boot as all of us, and

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it's just you're too dense to see it. So anyway,

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all that to say, reading about everybody being so good

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at what they're doing, so solid and focused, even the

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people who had been useless when things started pulling together,

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I mean, it just it's not fair because they're literally

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in life or death situations all the time. In this scenario.

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So the context of this demands more than our usual

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daily context does. But nevertheless, so they're they're going up

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into the air on this balloon, and Leon is saying

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it is good timing. We will have a spectacular view

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of the death of the final settlement of Answer, which

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I am assuming he's talking about the underground place that's

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being flooded with water? Is that right? And Carl asks

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the final settlement isn't that the guy buried in the tomb?

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And the sniper says, Bactrians and Dromedarians were the slaves

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who built the tomb. Answer came and subjugated them along

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with the Glabers and forced them to their knees. The camels,

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alleged great fighters were the first to fall. They were

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complicit in the horror Answer and his people brought to

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this world. They are filth and deserved to be destroyed.

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That is so grim. These were the first people to

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be enslaved. And he's like, so they're just as bad

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as him. I mean, what are you talking about? That

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will leave us with only one last task before we

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can leave these lands? Have peace? What's that? The mad Mage,

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he's the most dangerous of them all. He doesn't just

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wish to steal the gate, he wishes to understand it,

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to replicate it. He has grown mad in his pursuit

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and we fear the damage he might do if he

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has not stopped. And he's like, so does he have

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the artifact? And they say only a third of it,

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which later Carl has very intelligently come to the conclusion

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that it is related to these stop watches, which makes

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all the sense. But I don't think I would ever

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have put together. I don't know. Maybe I would, but like,

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I don't know. So this is when the sorry, I'm

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like looking at the chat here, Rob says, some of

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it feels like a societal reassignment. But it's also worth

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barring mentioned that COVID infections have a significant imp on

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brain function, including memory, and there's a lot of research

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on the relation between memory and empathy, and none of

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that helps. But it's just even more stupid complicated right

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now than it was before. And not all of it

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is just Gremlin's gonna gremlin fair rauh, But most of

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what I'm talking about is also before COVID. The gauntlets

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that I had to run through to get basic medical

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care from people who constantly fucked up because they were

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not paying attention or not believing me for some reason

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when I said a thing, it was like, this predates

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much of that. Sarahim says, I think they're talking about

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the town since since a remnant of that guy's empire. Okay,

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So then I'm confused because I thought the whole thing

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was like, we're going to send back the guy Win

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with you in promise, and we're sending Henrik with you

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so that so that you won't bomb us. So they're

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on the balloon and these guys are basically just straight

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up telling Carl and Dona and everybody that like, oh yeah,

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this is great. We're going to bomb them anyway for sure,

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So you guys are going to get to have a

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good view of it, and they just think that Carl

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and Donat are going to watch it happen and not

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do anything, even though the agreement that I thought was

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all of this is in exchange for not being bombed.

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Is that right? I think that I'm missing because like

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there was a comment earlier that Leon made as well

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in the previous chapters where I was like, it feels

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like he's just saying that he's still going to kill them,

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and that's like they're not They haven't even left yet,

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so it just seems like they're really open about that

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they're gonna double cross them and seem to not care

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at all. Seraphim says, Yeah, they figure Carl and co

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won't care because they're just travelers, okay, and just wanted

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to get the fuck out before they blew up the town.

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Oh okay, So that explains why he was saying it

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in front of them late earlier too, Okay, Okay, So anyway,

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long story Shore, I don't want to spend too much

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time on this. They poke a hole, so to speak,

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in the bottom of the basket, and it's a it's

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obviously the whole spell that Donut has and drops all

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of them through the bottom of the hole, saving our

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own people, and one of them grabs onto the edge

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and she uses her phantom paw to just shove him

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in the head and push him out, which is a

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wonderful moment. I'm so excited to see her use that

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spell because it's the first time I've belief that we've

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seen her use it ever. And there's a whole thing

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later we'll talk about it, but yeah, I'm excited and

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they are, you know, hitting back. Eventually, the other balloons

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are starting to realize this one has been hijacked, YadA YadA,

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and the balloon is still intact, but they're like traveling

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toward the ground. And he has this, uh, these few

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bottles of spells from Mordecai that are called Dolores doesn't splap.

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And hilariously, I had just said in the last episode,

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I wonder if it makes you bounce like a friggin'

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rubber ball, and it does, actually it makes you bounce.

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It seems to hurt, but it doesn't actually cause damage.

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And this woman who invented this actually did it while falling.

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It was like a fall that was you know, the

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kind of thing that doesn't actually exist in nature. How

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high up and how much time she had as she fell,

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And it says something about the event had become infamous

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and resulted in multiple rule changes regarding the creation and

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brewing of potions, which is always funny. The idea that like, oh,

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you survived the thing that we didn't want you to survive,

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so we're going to make sure next time nobody can

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do this, which is so mean spirited, honestly, so anyway,

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this whole thing is I mean, Carl has the nerve

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to complain about this potion later to Mordecai, and I

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was very glad that Mordechai kind of snapped at him

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because Carl, I don't know, I'm sure it sucks, but like,

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this is remarkable that you were able to be pretty

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much totally okay almost immediately, you know, and let's see. Uh,

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only then did I look to the smoke filled sky

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before I could see a notification appeared. The notification sounded

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oddly disappointed. I wasn't certain why quest complete squeeze out

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the juice box. So if we're being technical here, you

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won the quest. You saved Humptown from the bombardment. Congratulations.

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If I was allowed to upgrade your prize, I would maybe,

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I don't know. Actually, you know what, No, I wouldn't

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fuck you reward. You've received a Platinum Quest box. And

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we find out in a little bit the AI is

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petulant because Carl was supposed to have an encounter with

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these little gerbils in basically poke boals that get dropped,

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and he doesn't encounter them, so he never stomps on them,

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and so the AI doesn't get to whack off the

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way that it had been looking forward to doing. And

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this is really something and it's so funny. I mean,

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every time something just like comes out of my mouth,

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it's like in a lot of things that I cover,

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it's like I'm kind of tapped into where the author

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was when they were writing it a little bit, but

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I'm not quite seeing it. And just last episode I

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was like, maybe you should just lay back and run

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your feet up and down the wall and run your

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fingers through your hair, like maybe you should. Is it

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really that bad? And then this moment happens and it's

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asking is it really that bad? But it's like a

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very different context because it's one thing if you do nothing,

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bad happens, and if you do something you get a bonus,

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and it's quite another thing I am being blackmailed into

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doing it or else bad things happen to not only

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me but also my friends extremely different energy. So now

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we are in a very ugly place of Carl being

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manipulated by the AI in a much more overt way

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than before, and I hate this for him, I really do.

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Like it's it's just so unlimited the damage that the

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AI could do if it felt like it, you know,

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And I know technically it's not unlimited that they're probably

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like parameters, but you know what I'm saying, Like within

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those parameters, there's a lot that can fuck a guy over.

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So this whole thing just feels so it just feels

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so incredibly on a knife's edge in a way that

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has me kind of maybe you want to go even

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further than you do, Carl, to make up for it,

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because it almost feels like now you have to buy

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more goodwill, you know. Michael says Carl doesn't seem the type.

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But if he ever thought in his head a woman

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should just feel flattered by the attention of an unwanted man,

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he's learning why it's a fraught situation for the woman.

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Sarah from says in the AI seems very good at

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finding loopholes exactly, and Michael says, we've heard of the

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game runners threatening to accelerate Crawler's experiences if they don't comply.

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Now we know what that looks like. Look, we kind

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of already knew what that looked like because of the

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fucking rage elemental when they if they peed in the

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halls like that was it was I already like could

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see what that meant. But this is so much more personal.

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This isn't like a rule violation. This is you aren't

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giving the AI spank material, you know, and yeah, fraud situation.

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It's not like this is what we talk about when

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we say power imbalance in like a workplace or something.

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Anybody can try and claim that a woman is an

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adult capable of consent, But if she is in a

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position where she can lose her job and her livelihood

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and her health insurance that covers herself potentially, you know, family,

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and it's all like up in the air based on

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the whims of the man in charge, that consent isn't

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the same anymore, you know. It's part of what makes

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it look like looking back at the way reacted to

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things when we were a lot less educated as a

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society about all of this. Like when you think about

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the criticisms and mockery lobbed at Monica Lewinsky and he

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was the fucking president of the United States, you know

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what I'm saying, Like, I'm not trying to say I

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know the dynamic of what things were really like between them,

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and that she felt necessarily pressured, I don't know, but

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it certainly isn't her that we should be fucking mocking,

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And yet she was the butt of the joke every

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step of the way. And it wasn't just about the sex.

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It was also about the fact that she was fat.

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And I put that in quotes because she wasn't, but

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because the nineties were unhinged, we said she was. So. Anyway,

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it's this whole thing is uncomfortable, and I'm really curious

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where it's going to go. But once before we even

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get to that, I'm kind of mixing things up here. First,

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we've got to talk about the the chap between Carl

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and Katcha, about the what do you call it? Watches?

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Let's see, I want to get up there and take

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it the old fashioned way. Why I pulled the fake

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pocket watch from my inventory and tossed it to her.

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Henrik has one, Commandant Caine has one, and I'm pretty

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sure there's a third, and the mad Dune mage guy

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has it. If that's the case, I think all three

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of the watches come together somehow to make that artifact.

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You don't even know what it does. I know it's

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a celestial equivalent item and it shouldn't be available this early.

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They don't put this stuff in here to be ignored.

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I want it, and I like that it's just genuinely

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it's the principle of the thing. It's something with power.

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It's been mentioned enough like it just it's a foregone

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conclusion for him, whereas for her, she's like, can we

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just do our assignment though, and get that done and live?

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Which I understand her perspective very much, I really do,

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But I also can't help but sympathize with Carls like

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it's a combination of almost a it's part of his

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whole shtick about not following the rules. It's also just curiosity.

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And you know, there's been a sense for a lot

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of this that things aren't what they seem to be,

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that the game isn't functioning the way it normally does.

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And I think he's more preoccupied with that than other

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people seem to be, or maybe has more information about that. Anyway.

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This is when Zev chimes in. She calls donut Crawler donut,

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which I really enjoy these sorts of moments in writing

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where the thing that's changed isn't an overtly sinister thing,

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but it is different enough to signal to you, as

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the reader Oh no, something's changed, something's really different, and

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just the way a person addresses another person, and especially

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in a context like this where Zev is not consciously

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making a different choice, because we know that there's been

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some sort of altercation between her and Dona, and she's

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trying to make a point because she's pissed off, you know,

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like somebody going from calling you by your first name

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to calling you miss blank. You know, it's obviously been

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enforced upon her from the outside. It's just really sad

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because not only is Dona keenly aware of this change,

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but as Carl points out later, she isn't able to

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talk about it out loud because of the nature of

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what happened to Zev. And so you know, even their

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chat is visible to people who pay So I don't

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think it's actually safe there either. It's possible talking to

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Mordecai about it. That is, I think protected chat still,

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but I don't know anyway, Carl, the audience is noting

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you're being short with the other crawlers. By short, I

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mean extra angry. You might wish to tone that down

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a bit. Yeah, yeah, Look, I there is a reason

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why there are times when I look back at the

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way I handled things, and I'm just like, wow, I

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was a real bitch. But at the time I was

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just so fucking frustrated with people who didn't like they

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weren't on their shit, So I sympathize. Katcha. Your numbers

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are rising steadily. Good job, Donut. People want more mango action.

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You're keeping him cooped up too much. Plus you haven't

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used your new spells yet except once. When you get

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new loot, people expect you to use it. And yeah.

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The whole convo ends with her telling Dona it's not

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necessary to contact her and get out there and kill

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kill kill, which is really it's really, it's really sad. Anyway, Holly,

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new achievement, cannon Ball. You fell from a great height

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and survived. You know who else who fell from a

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you know what? Never mind, fuck you received a silver

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Skydiver's box. Not that you deserve it, you little punk.

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And then live ammal Ball, which is the thing that

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the Gerbil is in. Later on, and we begin to understand. Yeah,

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and I stepped down on the screw the squirming Gerbil.

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This is not so funny anymore, Katchia said, looking over

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the mass of Gerbil corpses. The bewildered camels moved back

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to the walls and the anti aircraft guns. Though it

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appeared all of the remaining airplanes had made emergency landings.

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All that was left was a handful of balloons, and

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most of those were making their way up and over

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the bowl, leaving the area. It was never funny, I replied.

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It was a little funny, she said, But the AI

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is not even trying to be fair anymore. That wasn't

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just a temper tantrum. That was the equivalent of a

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psycho ex boyfriend going nuts and trying to murder you

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and your entire family because of something you did. I

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didn't even know you did. And there was a moment

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earlier where he's just yelling up at the AI, Hey, sorry,

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I don't know what I did, but I didn't mean

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to and done. UT's like, oh my god, do you

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remember that time when Bee made you sleep on my

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couch and you didn't know why she was mad? And

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I love that he does recall this, And all he

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really remembers is that he finished fallout because he was

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on the couch all the time, which I thought was very,

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very on brand. And it turns out B wasn't actually

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mad at him. She just did this because apparently she

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read somewhere that this can make men feel so insecure

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that they propose, which I just really want to know

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why you would want a proposal when a guy only

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did it because he thinks you're mad at him. Like,

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it's just all of that is so toxic, everything everything

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surrounding it is so fucked up. B was a monster,

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so he gets a good boy a whole reward. Makeup

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sex is the best sex box. His achievement is you're

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the reason why daddy drinks and what he gets. I'm

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trying to find the spot where he opens it because

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it's a little bit later. Let's see. All three of

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us received the same Skydiver's box, and they received three

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potions of half splat and Mordecai is like, those really

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aren't that great. You'll be at five percent health when

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you hit the ground. And then makeup sex is the

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best sex and it's a sheet of paper and a

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quill pen. Odd Mordecai said. They aren't rare, but they're pricey.

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They're used by scholar and arcanist class who focus on

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scroll production. You'll never have the proper skills to use

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this beyond a rudimentary level. If you can figure out

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how to write some basic scrolls, maybe you can make

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some money. I can use it, but I'm much better

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at potions. Besides, I can buy a writing tablet and

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be much more efficient. Your best bet is to just

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sell the set. And then the last is the Platinum

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Quest Box. Five thousand gold coins, twenty healing scrolls, and

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a little black rock platinum sharpening stone. Warning. This item

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has a short shelf life. Apply this to any spiked

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offensive weapon to receive the following buffs plus two times

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current level percent damage attack to or damage to all attacks,

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plus one to all current stat buffs. Does not add

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new buffs if they do not exist. It also makes

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the weapon look extra oily and mean looking. In other words,

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the weapons appearance may change, but only a little. So

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he does this, and then lastly, the Platinum Box Kotcha

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Opens is a coffee shop author kit. Alcoholism and crippling

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self doubt not included. And I am assuming that everything

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written here is coming from Matt Denhaman's self doubt and

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like low key self loathing, it just feels very much

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like he is calling himself out and it's very funny

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to me. Let's see. Uh oh no, this is this

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is his I'm sorry I said that this was but

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he is looking at this wall. Kotcha opens her platinum box,

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so my bad, this is not hers. This is what

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he is looking at the paper in inkwell while she

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is opening her thing. This is a magical sheet of

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paper you'll find. Now you have a second tab on

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your scratch pad in your interface, you can write something

472
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,480
on this paper and it will appear in the scratch pad,

473
00:33:59,519 --> 00:34:02,079
and vice versa. If the proper spell and glyphs are

474
00:34:02,079 --> 00:34:04,359
accurately copied on to this paper, you can present the

475
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,000
sheet at a market kiosk and a scroll will appear

476
00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:09,400
for sale, or if you have a printing press, you

477
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,760
can make your own scrolls or even your own tone

478
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,480
if you think you have the chops. And Carl has

479
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,840
a moment of just like, wait, second tab, but I

480
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,039
already have a second is this replacing that? And then

481
00:34:21,079 --> 00:34:22,800
he goes and looks and he has three tabs and

482
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:29,039
he's like, oh thank god. So Mordecai like is just

483
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,400
essentially I mean, you can do this, but it's going

484
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,039
to take a lot of time. However, there was a

485
00:34:36,119 --> 00:34:39,880
dude who did this and when he wrote two hundred

486
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,079
scripts of the same spell, he actually learned the spell,

487
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,599
so it did wind up working out for him, and

488
00:34:48,519 --> 00:34:55,440
noted that could be real, real helpful. And Carl tests

489
00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:00,960
it out and draws a little cat drawing, and Doughnut

490
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,000
looked at the cat art with distaste. Am I a

491
00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:07,079
joke to you? Carl? I laughed as I deleted the

492
00:35:07,079 --> 00:35:09,239
image in the scratch pad and it faded away from

493
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:14,199
the paper. And it turns out the ink isn't bottomless,

494
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,159
and that bumps me out. It didn't even occur to

495
00:35:17,199 --> 00:35:19,920
me that was going to be an issue. So yeah,

496
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,039
maybe writing two hundred scrolls isn't going to be possible.

497
00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:24,599
It's just that amount of ink. But I don't know.

498
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,719
And I really like this moment because the wave that

499
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,840
Doughnut reacts to him drawing her portrait really makes you

500
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:38,079
think that she's having a certain reaction. With this next segment,

501
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,360
she opens her box with that like product in it

502
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:49,119
that she's supposed to interact with, and it's a donut

503
00:35:49,559 --> 00:35:55,159
animatronic doll that moves around and says catch phrases, and

504
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,320
you know, because she reacted how she did to Carl, Like,

505
00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:00,800
if it hadn't been for that moment with her and Carl,

506
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,920
I would have been like, oh my god, she's gonna

507
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:09,000
love this. But having him draw this silly drawing and

508
00:36:09,039 --> 00:36:12,920
it be very much, you know, a cartoon, and her

509
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,760
reacting this way had me thinking that because this doll

510
00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:19,800
is extremely shitty, which is the impression I get, that

511
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:25,239
she's going to be upset, but instead she says, this

512
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,159
is the greatest day of my life since I won

513
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:36,519
Grand Champion Best in Show, and it's very funny. Honestly,

514
00:36:36,599 --> 00:36:40,360
I really liked this bit. Her reaction was a surprise,

515
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,920
even though it kind of shouldn't have been a surprise

516
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,320
because of how the whole thing was set up And

517
00:36:48,679 --> 00:36:54,159
then Mango attacks the doll and when he breaks it,

518
00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:57,840
it literally catches on fire, which, considering that this is

519
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,760
being marketed as a toy for children, is awesome, and

520
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,880
the cleaner bot has to use some extinguisher foam to

521
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:10,239
put the fire out. So, considering that this was a

522
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:17,599
test to see about showcasing their product on Dungeon Crawler World,

523
00:37:18,119 --> 00:37:21,880
I feel like that went really, really poorly. Her reaction

524
00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:25,599
to it was good, but as soon as it gets destroyed.

525
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,480
She's later saying, I can't have somebody who makes such

526
00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:34,280
a shoddy product like wrapping my merch for me. I

527
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,559
feel that this is bad and I'm wondering if there

528
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:42,599
are going to be any problems because of it. So

529
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:50,480
let's see. This is when Chris comes upon Carl in

530
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:56,840
the street. This was so well done, you guys, because

531
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,760
the way that he just drips and drabs little hints,

532
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,800
it's obvious from the start something's wrong with Chris. We've

533
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:12,199
known from the bits of news and rumor we've been

534
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:17,280
getting something's wrong, but it's different to see him in person,

535
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:25,239
behaving how he is and as this is happening, well,

536
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:33,119
while he's talking to Carl, Juice Box is trying to

537
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:39,039
get Carl out of the street, away from Chris, and

538
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,079
she gets frustrated and is like, did I do I

539
00:38:42,079 --> 00:38:43,480
have to just blurt it out? But I was sort

540
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,280
of like, girl, I get that you were trying to help,

541
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,960
but Carl wanted to find out what was happening here,

542
00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:52,440
even if it was going to be dangerous for him.

543
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:58,320
Like I understood her frustration, but also it was inevitable

544
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:03,039
that he was going to ignore you. And also Katcha

545
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:11,199
receives a silver emergency Benefactor box which is from Princess Formidable,

546
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:17,400
and Mordecai says that probably cost her a sizeable chunk

547
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:23,320
of her net worth. So instantly I'm like, oh boy, okay,

548
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,920
something really big is happening. But I'm not understanding because

549
00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:31,280
as much as we know something's up with Chris, I

550
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,000
still wasn't feeling threatened by him. I was just like,

551
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:40,280
you know, the fact that he killed Frank for me

552
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,920
felt like it was out of loyalty to Carl or

553
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,960
something like. I was taking this all still as a

554
00:39:48,039 --> 00:39:53,559
sort of absolutist attitude that he hadn't had before about

555
00:39:53,639 --> 00:39:58,719
who deserved to live and die and why. And I

556
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,440
was not seeing Chris as a threat. So even as

557
00:40:03,519 --> 00:40:07,000
this is all happening, I'm having a hard time believing

558
00:40:07,599 --> 00:40:09,760
that it's Chris that's the problem. A part of me

559
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,880
really thought it's gonna be another enemy that's going to

560
00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:18,440
jump out from somewhere else, and like, technically that's kind

561
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,000
of exactly what it was, but not the way I

562
00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:25,159
was imagining, which was that Chris is the distraction to

563
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,360
get things set up so somebody can hit you from

564
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:34,119
the side. It's Chris is the is the disguise. So yeah,

565
00:40:34,159 --> 00:40:41,079
this is so awful. Why haven't you spoken to anybody?

566
00:40:41,079 --> 00:40:44,599
Imani is really worried about you and your brother. Surely

567
00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:48,800
you know what happened. Chris waved a big rocky hand.

568
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,920
I take damage if I use the chat features, so

569
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,360
I do not waste time or energy using it. What

570
00:40:56,199 --> 00:40:58,880
that doesn't make sense. It's part of the system interface

571
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,159
with being an igneous. I can't pull things in and

572
00:41:03,199 --> 00:41:05,880
out of inventory or go into my health pie chart

573
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,480
either without losing health. I got it in exchange for

574
00:41:09,559 --> 00:41:14,000
having a very high constitution. I've never heard of that.

575
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,239
That can't be normal. We'll talk to Mordecai, our manager.

576
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,119
We'll see if we can figure out what's going on,

577
00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:21,320
and if there's a way to fix it. I'll message

578
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,000
your money too. We'll all figure it out together. Your

579
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,000
friends and family are worried about you. My family is dead.

580
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:32,280
It doesn't matter. Family and friends make you weak. Having

581
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,280
someone to care over and protect makes you vulnerable. You

582
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:41,119
taught me that. I taught you how Jesus. If he

583
00:41:41,159 --> 00:41:43,920
didn't have the name floating over him, I'd never guess

584
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,480
this was the same guy, we are wasting time. You

585
00:41:48,519 --> 00:41:51,960
haven't taken the castle yet? Is it still aloft? Where

586
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,800
is the cat? We will go hunt it down together.

587
00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:00,360
This was the moment where I went, uh, oh, where

588
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:07,639
is the cat? That felt like even less like Chris

589
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,880
than a personality change. He's not referring to her by name,

590
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,400
He's calling her the cat, which feels much more like

591
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:23,480
he's seeing Carl and his cat as like a pair

592
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,679
that need to be dealt with, Like there was something

593
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,039
about just that wording. That was when I started to

594
00:42:29,039 --> 00:42:32,840
be like, oh shit, he's saying we'll go do this together.

595
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:39,639
I don't buy it. I don't buy it. Dona is

596
00:42:39,639 --> 00:42:41,440
in the safe room. Come on, we'll go in together

597
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:46,840
and talk. I don't like safe rooms. And this is

598
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,679
when he's like, I think he's about to attack me

599
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,920
to Amani and she says he can fire lava out

600
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,800
of his body, be careful, try not to hurt him.

601
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:01,280
And then he asks Carl asks about killing Frank, and

602
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,679
Chris just says you heard about that, huh. And this

603
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:09,239
is when Juice Box comes out and she says, well,

604
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,320
you said you'd save the town. I guess you did.

605
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,840
We lost some camels, but not nearly as many as

606
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:19,760
I feared. The spit and Swallow is still in one piece.

607
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,280
We can all go in there and talk about Kutzel Colotlas.

608
00:43:24,119 --> 00:43:27,840
You can bring these two guys. We can all party afterward.

609
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,159
Chris shook his large head. I really wish you hadn't

610
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:39,000
said that two, I asked, confused. It's funny, Chris said,

611
00:43:39,039 --> 00:43:42,280
after a moment. When I first got here to this floor,

612
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,239
I thought for sure I was dead. But it was easy,

613
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,039
you know, to take out the submarine. I don't think

614
00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:50,920
that flying castle will be so hard either. I see

615
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,639
all those airplanes parked over there. There are hot air

616
00:43:53,639 --> 00:43:56,599
balloons now sitting in the desert. I'm starting to think

617
00:43:56,679 --> 00:44:01,079
this whole floor is easier than it should be. And

618
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:06,039
he starts backing up. But the more hope Carl starts

619
00:44:06,039 --> 00:44:08,119
backing up, to be clear, But the more hope I have,

620
00:44:08,199 --> 00:44:11,760
the more conflicted I get. Seeing you, I think I

621
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,239
finally made up my mind. I keep going back and forth,

622
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,840
but all of a sudden, I'm resolved. I don't want

623
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,039
to get out of here anymore. Isn't that funny. It's

624
00:44:20,039 --> 00:44:22,760
like I have a choice now, I can choose to

625
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:30,880
not live like this, and let's see Brandon left a

626
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,840
message for you. Let's go sit down and talk about it.

627
00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:38,599
I actually have two daughters, Chris said. You only know

628
00:44:38,679 --> 00:44:41,679
about the one, but there's another. She's older from my

629
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,840
first marriage. She was home, so she died in the

630
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,960
collapse our game guide. When we first got in here,

631
00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:50,920
he told us all about it. He said she might

632
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,960
come back. People who die in the collapse aren't really dead,

633
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,920
but they're put in storage. Only you can't save them.

634
00:44:58,199 --> 00:45:01,679
I think about that a lot them out sometimes, but

635
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,320
it's never for good. They can be changed. They forced

636
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,840
you to kill them on the deeper floors. He told

637
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,800
me about a crawler that was forced to face his

638
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:15,599
own face down his whole family. He killed himself instead.

639
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,760
I wasn't aware you had any children, Chris, and your

640
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:24,599
game guid's a woman. Her name is Mistress Tiatha. I

641
00:45:24,599 --> 00:45:28,679
can't kill anybody else in my family, Carl, I can't.

642
00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:32,519
It hit me then, all at once I cursed myself

643
00:45:32,559 --> 00:45:37,360
for not seeing it. This wasn't Chris, this was Maggie.

644
00:45:37,559 --> 00:45:40,119
And I was glad that Carl was putting this together,

645
00:45:40,159 --> 00:45:42,079
because when he said I can't kill any more of

646
00:45:42,119 --> 00:45:46,679
my family, I thought he was confessing to having murdered Brandon,

647
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,880
that Brandon writes this note thinks he's going to die

648
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,119
because these things are beginning to you know, But that actually,

649
00:45:54,159 --> 00:45:57,599
in the end he was killed by Chris. So Carl's

650
00:45:57,599 --> 00:46:02,480
brain is working a lot more efficiently in this moment

651
00:46:02,519 --> 00:46:11,199
than mine. For sure. Uh, you're a changeling or a doppelganger, no,

652
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:16,079
Juice Box said, she ain't no changeling. She's worse. No, Maggie,

653
00:46:16,159 --> 00:46:19,280
Chris agreed. She suddenly had a round spiked ball in

654
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,960
her hand. I was waiting for the cat to come out,

655
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,639
but she's too much of a coward. I guess they

656
00:46:24,679 --> 00:46:27,039
promised me if I did it this way, they wouldn't.

657
00:46:28,159 --> 00:46:31,719
The crossbow bolt slammed into Maggie's head and she dropped,

658
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,119
crashing heavily to the street. The ball in her hand

659
00:46:35,199 --> 00:46:38,360
hit the ground and started to roll away. I dived

660
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,880
for it, dislodging myself from Juice Box's grip. It wasn't

661
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,800
a bomb. I didn't know what it was, but I

662
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,519
instinctively grabbed it and tossed it into my inventory before

663
00:46:46,559 --> 00:46:50,840
it could do anything. And it turns out that what

664
00:46:51,039 --> 00:46:55,559
Katcha got in her emergency box were ten bolts of

665
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:02,920
petrified rock class instead of kill rock class, which means,

666
00:47:03,199 --> 00:47:06,000
in my opinion, like, as soon as I hear this,

667
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,119
he can be saved. Chris can be saved somehow, and

668
00:47:10,159 --> 00:47:13,239
that is what they are being given the opportunity to do.

669
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,360
We don't actually have the means to do that now,

670
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:23,800
but it's possible. I just got a message from Chris.

671
00:47:24,639 --> 00:47:28,239
It's not him, no, it is He's petrified. He's going

672
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,559
to lose consciousness again when his body makes up. He's

673
00:47:30,599 --> 00:47:36,239
being controlled. I'm friends with a guy named Chris, I said,

674
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,400
is this really him? He's right, this is juice box.

675
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,159
He's right there. Don't kill him. There's also someone else

676
00:47:42,199 --> 00:47:44,480
in there, an infiltrator. That's who you need to kill.

677
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,440
What the hell is an infiltrator? Oh fuck, Mordecai said,

678
00:47:49,639 --> 00:47:54,280
shoot him again. Mordecai said, Katcha complied, we got a problem.

679
00:47:55,159 --> 00:47:57,440
I've told you about these guys before. There are multiple

680
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,599
types of brain worms. The intellect hunters on the most common,

681
00:48:00,639 --> 00:48:02,719
but they can only take over corpses and the bodies

682
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,000
start to rot. The valts a are similar, but they

683
00:48:05,039 --> 00:48:08,320
secrete a liquid that keeps the body alive. They're distant.

684
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,639
Cousins are a race called the scream but they're better

685
00:48:11,679 --> 00:48:15,760
known by a different name, the Infiltrators. They are parasites

686
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,000
and they take full control of bodies living bodies. A

687
00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:22,320
person is infected and it takes a few days for

688
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,199
the annexation to complete. They don't even know they have

689
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:29,440
the parasite. After a few days, the worm completely takes over.

690
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,679
Once the switch occurs, the parasite gains power and the

691
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:36,079
host is locked out of their own body. The worm

692
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,480
controls them. The host can do nothing but watch as

693
00:48:39,519 --> 00:48:43,239
they are moved like a puppet. So he's been awake

694
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,679
this whole time, watching all this happen, but he's completely powerless.

695
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,920
That's right, She's in his brain. His body is her armor.

696
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,719
This is a literal nightmare. Some of the worst parts

697
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:02,000
of nightmares is wanting to scream but you can't make

698
00:49:02,039 --> 00:49:05,599
any noise, or wanting to run and you can't. Not

699
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,320
having control over the way your body moves and works

700
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,199
is a literal nightmare that many of us have. And

701
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,960
imagine living with this and this person being specifically attuned

702
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:22,280
to killing somebody that is a friend of yours. And

703
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,679
again there is something that can be done, but it

704
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:30,239
is not possible at this present time because there's a

705
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,840
potion that can be made, but the ingredients are either

706
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,920
not something that Mordecai can access on this floor, or

707
00:49:36,039 --> 00:49:40,920
just stuff that he doesn't currently have, and these bolts

708
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,519
only keep him down for like one minute at a time,

709
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:47,960
I think ninety seconds or maybe so. Then he gets

710
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:52,159
a message from Ellie IMMANI is refusing to send you

711
00:49:52,199 --> 00:49:55,159
this message, so I will. It's from Chris. I'm copy

712
00:49:55,199 --> 00:50:00,760
and pasting his exact words. Karl, Donna please kill me.

713
00:50:01,079 --> 00:50:06,639
It's okay. I give you permission. You'll be helping me. Hey, Chris,

714
00:50:06,679 --> 00:50:10,599
go fuck yourself. I said, we're going to figure this out.

715
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,239
Then I told Ellie what I said. Ellie, I told

716
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,679
him the same thing. But if we can't figure out

717
00:50:16,679 --> 00:50:18,920
a solution, I don't think you have a choice. If

718
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:20,480
it was me stuck in there, i'd want you to

719
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,000
pull the plug too. And I really liked that. I

720
00:50:24,039 --> 00:50:26,519
don't know if this is necessarily on purpose, but her

721
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,679
phrasing it as pull the plug when she was somebody

722
00:50:29,679 --> 00:50:33,639
who was elderly and probably faced this exact thing, either

723
00:50:34,159 --> 00:50:38,000
personally having to make that choice about somebody else, or

724
00:50:38,119 --> 00:50:41,480
maybe having to like write up her own desires because

725
00:50:41,519 --> 00:50:45,679
she was aging. It just felt like that wording was

726
00:50:46,159 --> 00:50:52,519
particularly appropriate for somebody who was older, you know. And

727
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,599
Carl keeps suggesting things, and of course there's a million

728
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:04,360
reasons why what he suggested saying won't work. This was

729
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:08,039
so funny. I turned to Juice Box. You touched him?

730
00:51:08,079 --> 00:51:09,840
Can you turn into one of those worms? Go in

731
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,199
there and take out the one in his head? No,

732
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,519
they're too small, and I wouldn't do it even if

733
00:51:14,559 --> 00:51:18,000
I could. That's a pretty fucked up thing to ask. Look,

734
00:51:18,119 --> 00:51:21,519
juice Box, it is. But also get over it. This

735
00:51:21,599 --> 00:51:27,519
is a very terrible situation, you know, Ellie, He says,

736
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,039
This woman is overwhelmed with anger and despair, and every

737
00:51:31,079 --> 00:51:33,519
moment I share with her is worse than the last.

738
00:51:33,639 --> 00:51:36,000
You took the orb from her, but she can still

739
00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:39,039
hurt you. And this is when he looks at the

740
00:51:39,079 --> 00:51:46,360
properties celestial grenade. If the wielder of the grenade has

741
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:50,039
pledged themselves to a specific deity, this grenade will summon

742
00:51:50,079 --> 00:51:54,159
their god for sixty seconds. In addition, the wielder will

743
00:51:54,199 --> 00:51:58,719
receive a sixty second divine intervention aura. If the wielder

744
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,920
does not worship a deal. This grenade will summon a

745
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,840
random god. They will not receive the divine intervention. Buff

746
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:11,199
And it's pretty much a given for me that this

747
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,400
was going to be Growl that, you know, this whole

748
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,519
thing was being set up yet again by fucking what's

749
00:52:18,519 --> 00:52:24,920
his niece? What's his name? What's his niece? Let's see

750
00:52:25,079 --> 00:52:28,079
you humiliated Prince Maistra and his family over and over.

751
00:52:28,159 --> 00:52:29,880
They have to kill you to save face. If you

752
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:31,840
die before they get a chance to, it's probably just

753
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:37,880
as bad. Well, they're terrible at it, Doughnuts said, I mean, really,

754
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:39,760
if they can't even manage to kill one human who

755
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,760
doesn't wear pants, how can anyone expect them to control

756
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:47,840
an intergalactic empire? No offense, Carl And I feel like

757
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,440
that's going to be made into a sound bite. I

758
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:55,599
feel like that's really that sentence is really gonna that's

759
00:52:55,719 --> 00:53:00,800
going viral. Ellie, he started talking, but he got cut off.

760
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:04,519
It says his messaging privileges have been suspended for thirty minutes.

761
00:53:05,119 --> 00:53:10,239
He says it's not Grol. She worships another god called Algos.

762
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,239
That's who the grenade would have summoned. Maggie's first sponsor

763
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,159
is Prince Maestro and his second is Crown Prince Stalwart.

764
00:53:17,199 --> 00:53:20,559
His brother I have the same two sponsors. They gave

765
00:53:20,599 --> 00:53:22,960
her a scroll that let her choose a god to worship.

766
00:53:23,199 --> 00:53:25,840
I received a box with a picture on it of Algos,

767
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,159
and that's how she knew who to pick. She got

768
00:53:28,199 --> 00:53:31,000
the grenade when we hit this floor, we got approached

769
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,079
by this weird guy in a safe room and he

770
00:53:33,159 --> 00:53:38,719
told us that was the whole message. And Mordecai says

771
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,599
to Carl via chat, this sounds like somebody did a

772
00:53:42,639 --> 00:53:48,239
back door like a bribe somehow that was not actually

773
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,599
allowed by the game, which does happen, but we can't

774
00:53:52,599 --> 00:53:56,760
say it out loud. I'm thinking Maggie's race can't worship Groul,

775
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,360
so they had to find another god to do their

776
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,880
dirty work. Plus they didn't want to rely on Prince

777
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,880
Maestro again. He'd probably just screw it up and further

778
00:54:06,039 --> 00:54:10,719
embarrass the family. Can you imagine being like so bad

779
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,440
at this that they won't even let you be involved

780
00:54:13,559 --> 00:54:17,360
in it anymore. Algos is the god of pain. He

781
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,519
would kill everyone in town in seconds. He's a good

782
00:54:20,559 --> 00:54:23,199
god to choose if you want your target to suffer.

783
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,079
This maestro guy is letting you live rent free in

784
00:54:28,119 --> 00:54:31,679
his head. Donna said, it's quite pitiful. I'm starting to

785
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:36,320
think he really is in love with you again viral.

786
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:42,480
I mean these sound bites they don't I mean, you know,

787
00:54:42,679 --> 00:54:47,079
I know that that it's possible, because she's very aware

788
00:54:47,119 --> 00:54:50,079
of social media, that she's saying all of these things

789
00:54:50,119 --> 00:54:53,519
on purpose because they are perfect, you know. But I

790
00:54:53,639 --> 00:54:57,199
like to think that she just happens to be so

791
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:06,360
unconsciously good at this that it's by accident. And let's see,

792
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,360
I never liked my brother either. He always thought he

793
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:11,039
was better than the rest of us. Your brother sold

794
00:55:11,119 --> 00:55:14,880
for over ten thousand dollars, I said, Donut made a

795
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:19,000
spitting noise. I don't remember seeing him win any championships.

796
00:55:20,639 --> 00:55:23,679
I really enjoy the fact that there's like a friggin

797
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:28,679
rivalry going on. I'm going to flip him over, break

798
00:55:28,679 --> 00:55:30,679
open the back of his head, and dig Maggie out

799
00:55:30,679 --> 00:55:33,360
with my bare hand. Carl, that is not going to work.

800
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:37,119
You'll kill him. You're not getting in there anyway. Mordecai said,

801
00:55:37,159 --> 00:55:40,679
his head is solid rock. The parasite is in his brain,

802
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:48,000
not riding it like a backpack, and he messages Immani

803
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:53,400
that he is sorry, and she doesn't respond at all.

804
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,280
So finally he's like, all right, I guess I am

805
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,360
going to have to do this, and decides to first

806
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:04,079
deliver the message to Chris from his brother and does this.

807
00:56:05,079 --> 00:56:11,800
Everyone get back. Be careful, Mordecai said. Once he dies,

808
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,679
the infiltrator will still be alive. She'll burrow out of

809
00:56:14,679 --> 00:56:17,639
his head. She'll try to get into someone else. Not

810
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,920
the way I'm going to kill him, I said. The

811
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,000
small group all took several steps back. It was just

812
00:56:24,079 --> 00:56:26,800
me and Donut standing over the prone form of Chris.

813
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:32,000
Karl Dona asked from my shoulder, what don't be mad

814
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,960
at me? A large hole opened up in the street,

815
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,199
revealing a shimmering force field that separated this quadrant from

816
00:56:38,199 --> 00:56:41,519
the next. The form of Chris plummeted down through the

817
00:56:41,519 --> 00:56:45,079
hole and disappeared, landing loudly into the dark chamber below.

818
00:56:45,639 --> 00:56:48,480
There was a splash. I only fell about a foot

819
00:56:48,559 --> 00:56:51,239
landing on the shimmering air. I stood upon the force

820
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,320
field like it was glass, looking down upon it with surprise.

821
00:56:55,639 --> 00:56:57,000
You bes step out of the hole of your feet

822
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,679
will get chopped off. When I turned the spell off,

823
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:03,519
Donut said, Daddy wouldn't like that very much. And I

824
00:57:03,679 --> 00:57:07,679
just love that she took it upon herself to do this.

825
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:11,800
It's just buying them a little bit more time. And granted,

826
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,360
you know, Maggie still being out there is dangerous, but

827
00:57:16,239 --> 00:57:20,679
that like hand grenade thing has been taken away from her,

828
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:26,079
and now they know that she's in there, and so

829
00:57:26,599 --> 00:57:29,920
they are in less danger. I do feel really bad

830
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,519
for Chris because he thought that this was finally going

831
00:57:32,559 --> 00:57:37,199
to be over. So I really really hate that. But

832
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:43,280
also I am a big fan of just putting it

833
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:46,679
off for a little bit, you know. And the reason

834
00:57:46,679 --> 00:57:49,880
that she gives for doing this. You're not a killer, Karl,

835
00:57:50,039 --> 00:57:52,920
not a person killer. You get all weird about killing NPCs.

836
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:54,039
How do you think it's going to affect you to

837
00:57:54,079 --> 00:57:56,400
kill one of your friends. I'm not going to let

838
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:00,159
it happen. I can't have you being all MOPI. And

839
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,960
he says, you know, he was asking for our help.

840
00:58:04,039 --> 00:58:08,360
What you did was a mistake. And she says, look

841
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,480
at the map. He's not getting out of that room.

842
00:58:10,519 --> 00:58:12,519
And if they do get out, we'll be prepared. Katya

843
00:58:12,599 --> 00:58:15,039
has the fine crawler skill, she'll see them sneaking up

844
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:18,000
on us and then says maybe, And I was like,

845
00:58:18,079 --> 00:58:20,559
just don't have that, maybe just be confident about it.

846
00:58:20,559 --> 00:58:24,960
It's fine. I found it very convincing. I took a

847
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,000
deep angry breath. I was angry with Donut, but I

848
00:58:28,039 --> 00:58:32,880
was also angry with myself for being so desperately relieved, which, yeah,

849
00:58:33,039 --> 00:58:38,719
I really get that. And he's looking at the map

850
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:43,000
and asks Mordecai can he get out, like because of

851
00:58:43,039 --> 00:58:46,920
his race, and Mordecai is like maybe, but it does

852
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,960
seem like that's going to be pretty difficult for them.

853
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:56,920
Let's see. While we talked, Donut was giving a running

854
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,920
commentary IMMANI thank you, Donut. Once you defeat all four castles,

855
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,239
you can go back and capacitate them again, bring them

856
00:59:03,239 --> 00:59:05,400
through the portal, and then your game guide can make

857
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,679
a potion to save Chris. I took a deep breath.

858
00:59:09,119 --> 00:59:14,079
That was a very dangerous idea. It was a dumb idea.

859
00:59:14,239 --> 00:59:17,519
Katcha only had three of the paralyzed bolts left, which

860
00:59:17,559 --> 00:59:20,199
meant we'd have three minutes to get them to the stairwall.

861
00:59:20,239 --> 00:59:23,239
That simply wasn't going to happen. Maggie had just tried

862
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,679
to unleash the god of pain on me. She was

863
00:59:26,719 --> 00:59:30,000
too dangerous to let free. We were being used like

864
00:59:30,199 --> 00:59:33,079
pawns in a royal pissing match between a brother and sister,

865
00:59:33,119 --> 00:59:36,239
who in turn were being exploited by the whole system,

866
00:59:36,239 --> 00:59:42,119
while the entire universe laughed their asses off at us. All. Yes,

867
00:59:42,679 --> 00:59:45,559
being in the spotlight was good, but we needed to

868
00:59:45,599 --> 00:59:49,719
break ourselves free from this skull empire bullshit. It would

869
00:59:49,719 --> 00:59:54,480
catch up to us sooner rather than later. Mordecai I said,

870
00:59:54,639 --> 00:59:56,159
we have to find a way to separate him from

871
00:59:56,159 --> 00:59:58,079
the warm before the floor ends. Go to the market,

872
00:59:58,159 --> 01:00:00,320
see if you can find those potion supplies. Now, I'll

873
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,280
put the word out and see if anybody has what

874
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:08,639
we need. So he goes into his interface and he

875
01:00:09,079 --> 01:00:13,440
makes some changes. Here he finds the needle, and it

876
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,559
says I found the needle that indicated current stream watchers.

877
01:00:17,079 --> 01:00:19,679
I cycled through a few views and settled on one

878
01:00:19,719 --> 01:00:22,159
that didn't show actual numbers, but ticked the needle up

879
01:00:22,199 --> 01:00:24,920
when more than average were watching. I placed it in

880
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:29,360
the corner right above my air speed and elevation tickers. Also,

881
01:00:29,519 --> 01:00:32,159
Mordecai I was wrong before about something. I want you

882
01:00:32,199 --> 01:00:35,079
to take some money and buy Donut that environmental upgrade,

883
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,440
the one that shows a running commentary of our social

884
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:43,679
media comments. Donut yay, Mordecai. You know it'll be heavily

885
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:47,519
moderated by the AI, right, That's okay, The more information

886
01:00:47,639 --> 01:00:50,960
the better. I'm so glad because that was my immediate

887
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:55,760
thought was how potentially advantageous that could be. And I

888
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,440
was surprised Carl didn't seem to see the use of it.

889
01:00:59,159 --> 01:01:03,320
So sure the AI mods it, but if the AI

890
01:01:03,639 --> 01:01:07,159
is happy with you, then the AI might decide not

891
01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:14,320
to mod certain things, particularly you know. So personally, I

892
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,639
am a big, big fan of this idea, and I'm

893
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:22,599
very excited to see what happens here because like, look

894
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:27,480
it could I know that there are This is so funny.

895
01:01:27,519 --> 01:01:30,480
Michael in the chat says, no, never read the comments,

896
01:01:30,519 --> 01:01:34,679
don't and then says Carl probably read YouTube comments before,

897
01:01:35,079 --> 01:01:38,559
and like, yeah, comments can be. It's so funny, guys.

898
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:42,719
It's so different depending on what part of the Internet

899
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:45,599
you're on. I have gone into comments sections that are

900
01:01:45,679 --> 01:01:50,159
so sweet and supportive and kind and generous and just

901
01:01:51,039 --> 01:01:57,920
very compassionate and people sharing experiences and commiserating, and then

902
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:00,280
there are times where I go into comments and every

903
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:03,360
is like a soulless demon and You're going, where are

904
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:08,039
the people? So it really, you know, it does you

905
01:02:08,159 --> 01:02:12,119
never know there is a potential for, like, what if

906
01:02:12,159 --> 01:02:16,639
there are a bunch of people commenting on some idiosyncratic

907
01:02:16,679 --> 01:02:18,519
behavior of one of them that starts to make them

908
01:02:18,519 --> 01:02:22,760
so self conscious about it that they begin to get distracted.

909
01:02:23,199 --> 01:02:25,719
You know, that kind of thing can happen. It depends

910
01:02:25,719 --> 01:02:29,480
on how often you tune in, and it depends on

911
01:02:30,519 --> 01:02:34,480
what is moded out and what isn't. And it's just

912
01:02:34,559 --> 01:02:39,719
like there's also the potential to like watch it and

913
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:43,079
see that people are totally misinterpreting the reasons for something,

914
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:48,280
or in Carl's case, perhaps seeing that a lot of

915
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:51,639
folks have bought into the version of him that has

916
01:02:51,719 --> 01:02:54,800
been edited into the highlights, you know, and that would

917
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:59,280
be upsetting. But anyway, I just I think this is

918
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,039
a great idea, and I'm glad that he is finally

919
01:03:02,039 --> 01:03:04,559
seeing the use of it because I saw the use

920
01:03:04,639 --> 01:03:07,760
right away, but I just kind of figured if he

921
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,039
was deciding not to use it, it just wasn't happening.

922
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:13,079
I didn't even consider him eventually changing his mind, and

923
01:03:13,119 --> 01:03:20,480
I'm relieved. So we shall see how that goes. Let's

924
01:03:20,519 --> 01:03:23,920
sit down right now and talk. I pointed to Juice Box.

925
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,880
But we gotta make it quick. We're going out to

926
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,079
take that last castle once it gets dark. We still

927
01:03:29,119 --> 01:03:32,239
need to sleep, Carl Doughnuts said, we can sleep when

928
01:03:32,239 --> 01:03:36,880
we're dead, and that is the end of the chapter.

929
01:03:38,159 --> 01:03:41,840
So yeah, very busy section. But I really really enjoyed this.

930
01:03:43,119 --> 01:03:45,920
All right, guys, thank you all again so much for

931
01:03:46,039 --> 01:03:50,639
hanging out. Thank you Michael for commissioning this, and I

932
01:03:50,679 --> 01:03:53,360
will be seeing you guys Thursday with the next episode.

933
01:03:53,639 --> 01:03:55,840
Michael says, I'll be counting the hours until the Project

934
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,320
hail Mary coverage Dungeon Crawler. Carl too, but Project hail

935
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:03,559
Mary is my foot focus now. I uh yeah, I

936
01:04:03,599 --> 01:04:07,400
am really looking forward to talking about it. I really am.

937
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:11,000
All right, everybody till next time to the Loom motherfuckers.

938
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:43,559
That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.