WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.519 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:16.480 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven chapters twenty eight, twenty nine, 3 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:24.679 and thirty. In these chapters, everything starts to go to hell. 4 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:31.600 Oh you guys, this is hard to listen to. And 5 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.320 you know, I've been feeling anxious this whole time, but 6 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:37.240 this really made me go, yeah, you were right to 7 00:00:37.280 --> 00:01:01.240 be anxious. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. 8 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:04.760 I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for 9 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:11.359 commissioning this episode. Y'all. I really thought too, just to 10 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:14.959 like point this out, a lot of these books so 11 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:21.599 far have been around like a number of chapters, so 12 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:26.079 that I would be maybe about halfway through by now. 13 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.719 Not only am I not quite halfway, but because Michael 14 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.719 readed the breakdown and we are going to be going 15 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:40.239 a little bit more slowly with it all, there's a 16 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:43.359 lot more to go. I think it's something like another 17 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:48.319 like twelve episodes, and so I know that there is 18 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:51.239 so much more to happen, but we are in such 19 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.319 dire straits that I'm like, what more is there to 20 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:58.879 be done? Aren't isn't it? Aren't we in crisis? Mode. 21 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:04.879 Yet this isn't climax, you know what I mean. So 22 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:11.919 chapter twenty eight we start off with Donut griping about 23 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.759 the fact that now Carl is the party leader, and 24 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:19.240 she tries to say, like, I'll be able to tick 25 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.120 back up and take it back, and he's like, that's 26 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.520 not how that's gonna work. She tries to say, like 27 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.759 because of my cloak, and he's like, no, the cloak's 28 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:32.599 an enhancement. It's not going to stay. It's not the same. 29 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:37.719 We then have this bit with Wrend, who is trying 30 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.639 to I had forgotten to mention the like rhino mercenary 31 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.639 that Rend is set to guard. Rend is explicitly told 32 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:49.560 do not eat him, but once we rejoin him, he 33 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.159 is trying to eat him, and he does succeed in 34 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:58.520 eating this creature's boot, which Carl says something about like 35 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.639 we'll try and find a replace, and I was just like, 36 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:06.039 good luck, because this dude has very specific feet. Granted, 37 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:10.439 all the creatures around here are very specific, so you know, 38 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.599 and I'm sure there's probably somebody with a weird cobbler skill, 39 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.400 but yeah, so this guy, the way the AI describes 40 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.639 him is it's so sad because basically what he says 41 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:27.360 is like, this is a dude who was like, you know, 42 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:33.280 ashamed because he had fucked up a previous assignment and 43 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:40.520 is had been like making up for it by guarding 44 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:44.680 Princess Dnadia and was like getting some of his confidence back, 45 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:48.599 and then you came in and completely spanked him, and 46 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:53.439 now his confidence is in the toilet again, and I 47 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:59.639 was just like, Oh, that sucks. His entire squad was 48 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:03.199 killed during an unfortunate incident at the Desperado Club that 49 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.039 you may or may not have been partially responsible for. 50 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:13.159 I don't think he was at all responsible for it. 51 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:18.800 I don't you know, maybe don't have open holes into 52 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:25.360 the nothing in your casino? How about that? How about that? Anyway, 53 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:33.079 So his name is Toya Tolm Me and him and 54 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:37.199 Carl have a conversation about like where he can do 55 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:42.319 the most good, and Carl gives him the option of, 56 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.839 like you can guard this place, you can go back 57 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:49.319 to our other spot. And it's like, you know, I 58 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:54.120 see in your stats that you are able to protect buildings, 59 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.639 and he mentions something about the shield for this place, 60 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.480 and Carl's like, wait, what you had a shi up, 61 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:06.079 which it's understandable that he is confused by that. But honestly, 62 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:09.480 the thing that I was like thinking here was very 63 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.319 much that it almost sounds like he's trying to like 64 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.399 fuck with the guy. I know he's not. I understand 65 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:18.079 this is a real question, but if you're already sensitive 66 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.800 about the fact that you fucked up, this question could 67 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:26.279 be taken very much as a challenge, you know. And 68 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:32.240 when he's like, oh, all right, you know what? Because 69 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.439 he says the castle is too big for me, but 70 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:37.240 Warler Donadia insisted she had me keep a shield going, 71 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:39.680 and it tired me, so I could only do it 72 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:42.160 in spurts. I was resting when you arrived, which is 73 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.759 how you got the jump on me. I am shamed. Okay, 74 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.079 change of plans. I'm sending you to shantytown, he nodded solemnly. 75 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.839 I will accept my exile. It's not an exile. We 76 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.519 need your talents and we're stretched thin. Hang on, I 77 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.920 jumped to chat and he talks to Lee June, which 78 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:03.879 correct me if I'm wrong. But is this the first 79 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:06.079 time he's talked to Lee June since the eye incident? 80 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.079 I don't I feel like he must have talked to 81 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.240 him sooner, but it's not a moment that we get 82 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:20.560 to see, and that surprises me. I really thought it 83 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.240 was going to be like if this, if he finally 84 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.160 spoke to Carl, you know, we would be there for it, 85 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:34.439 and we're just all business. It's a weird moment that 86 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:36.879 I was sort of waiting for something to be awkward 87 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:44.959 or odd about it, and nothing is. So Lee June 88 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:52.079 is like, hey man, so we've got, you know, a 89 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:56.160 lot to do. We're going as fast as we can, 90 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.040 but we are definitely spread thin, and if you have 91 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.720 some people to send to us, that'd be great. And 92 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:03.759 Carl says he's gonna send a mercenary and he's like 93 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:07.160 just one and he's like, yeah, Floren's getting hammered. So 94 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:09.279 I'm sorry, but we might not be able to spare 95 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:13.600 anybody else. And then the Gin is like, okay, fair. Also, 96 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:19.519 somebody has been looking for you, real weirdo. And we 97 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:25.720 find out that this is Agatha and she is like 98 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:28.839 a danger now in a way that we hadn't been. 99 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:35.360 And Zev chimes in here, I've gotten a warning. This 100 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.439 is coming directly from the Syndicate Council Prime Minister Glory himself, 101 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:44.519 messaged me the Prime Minister, and Carl understandably to me, 102 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:49.800 is just like, oh another warning. Yeah, come on, guys, 103 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:54.279 what am I I'm meant to worry about this right now? 104 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:58.399 Do you see that? They're like there's a one hundred 105 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:03.199 thousand army coming at us. And as that was like, no, no, no, seriously, 106 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:05.759 I get that you usually do the I'll just do 107 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:08.360 what I want, but I need you to hear that 108 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:14.079 this is different. And he says, okay, but last time 109 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:19.360 we talked about her, you blithely assured me that she 110 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.920 was nothing to worry about. And now all of a sudden, 111 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.360 she's such a threat that I have to like outright 112 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.000 ignore her if she speaks to me, are you serious? 113 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:37.320 Like come on? And she says, look, I don't get 114 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.879 what's happening with this either, but I think enough has 115 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.639 been going on to threaten some of the higher ups. 116 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:50.639 Considering Stockade and now Donadia, everybody is growing a bit 117 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:55.840 more tense. And the Prime Minister was very urgent with 118 00:08:55.879 --> 00:09:01.799 this message, so and says, we'll try to intercede if 119 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.679 she approaches, but if we're not successful, you need to 120 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:11.240 just ignore her. The AI supposedly removed all its protections 121 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.720 of the residuals, and they're all pretty much dead except 122 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.399 this one. It seems to have a soft spot for her, 123 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:22.519 kind of like it has for you. And this was 124 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.759 interesting to me. The fact that the AI likes her 125 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.440 for some reason. I wonder why, you know, the AI 126 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.320 like the Aiking Carl is also interesting because I feel 127 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:34.960 like we all just sort of put it down to 128 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:39.120 the foot fetish thing, and I just that's not it. It 129 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:42.039 can't it just can't quite be it. I don't believe it, 130 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.320 and I do not believe that the AI is into 131 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:49.080 Agatha's feet. I would be willing to bet she has 132 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:52.960 neary shown her feet once in this dungeon, you know 133 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.919 what I mean. I'm just really interested in what all 134 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:00.159 causes the AI to be like, you know what, I'm 135 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:04.320 going to give this person, specifically a break, you know, 136 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:12.559 so sorry, Michael says it has the same soft spot 137 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:14.720 for her as it has for Carl. Her trip to 138 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:17.559 the floor could not have been easy. Yeah, when we 139 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:19.639 were in her POV, she says something about how like 140 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:24.080 usually residuals don't get past for four if it was 141 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:27.799 like a really early floor. Uh. Sarah Fis is pretty 142 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.240 sure Agatha has been her who's been talking to the 143 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:34.080 AI about what's really going on, and Tony's just trying 144 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:38.360 to and hire Tony. She's told me much. Perhaps, yeah, 145 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:43.039 maybe it is her, which would be It would be 146 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.120 so interesting because like when we're in Agatha's POV, her 147 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.799 goal is to end everything. I don't know if she 148 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.600 has any awareness of what Carl's button was that he 149 00:10:54.759 --> 00:11:00.879 was given by Paulie. I am certain that if he 150 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:03.679 told her that she had like disabled that and had 151 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.240 no access anymore, she would be pretty pissed. But I'm 152 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.440 not even sure if she's aware, because it seemed like 153 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.159 she was not from the same team as Polly, and 154 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.080 her assumption was that the opposing team doesn't have the 155 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.440 same objectives that her team has, and hers seems to 156 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:26.039 be basically like just complete annihilation of beings, you know. 157 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:33.840 So yeah, I don't know, I don't know. He also 158 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.840 asked about Luciamar, who evidently is simply not responding to 159 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.360 messages anymore, and then Zev says, do you know one 160 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.360 of her dogs ate Mukta back when she still had 161 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.639 two dogs. It was horrible. Mukta was an ass and 162 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:50.879 a party member, but nobody deserved that. I can still 163 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:56.200 hear the screaming. I laughed out loud. The fact that 164 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:00.639 zeb is relaying something that she finds traumatizing and Carl 165 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:05.519 literally laughs in her face is disturbing, genuinely, And I 166 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.879 understand his position here. I understand that, yes, we might 167 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:12.559 like Zev at this point, and we might see that 168 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.200 Zev is also a victim in her own way, but 169 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:19.639 she is still part of this system and so he 170 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.679 doesn't have the same sympathy, and that is completely fair. 171 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:26.279 But I still did get a bit of a chill 172 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:31.679 off of I laughed out loud, like I, you know, 173 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:37.360 especially considering that, like Zev has watched family members get 174 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.799 tortured to death as we have eluded, so she's got 175 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.639 some trauma anyway, and watching that happen had to have 176 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:50.679 been triggering as fuck. But uh, I'm sure Carl is 177 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:52.759 just like, I've seen a whole lot worse than that 178 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:57.320 every fucking day, So crime a river and that is 179 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:03.519 totally fair. I'm just I'm just saying. So he mentioned 180 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:05.919 something about like I don't have time for that roundtable, 181 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:07.759 by the way, and she's like, it's not optional. So 182 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:08.960 I don't know what to tell you, and he just 183 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:13.159 says whatever, so he lets it go, but you know 184 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:19.519 it's gonna happen. And he is thinking about Agatha for 185 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.480 a while, just like, what does it mean that she's 186 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.320 looking for him? What could it be that she? Like? 187 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.679 What kind of threat could she actually pose? That they're 188 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:36.120 so concerned about me contacting her at all? And let's 189 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:40.360 say I'm trying to find uh I didn't know what 190 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.919 their true goal was, the why of it all, and 191 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.519 why and how the two types of residuals were different. 192 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:50.039 Nobody seems to know the blind spot was so so dangerous. 193 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.200 The fact the leader of the entire syndicate was sticking 194 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.559 his nose into this was telling something had changed since 195 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.320 the end of the previous floor regarding their understanding of 196 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:06.759 the residuals of And he then starts naming the syndicates 197 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:10.519 two different residual types, the Apothecary, the go people from 198 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:15.000 the Plenty, the Open Intellect Pacifist Network, those crazy weirdo nebulaars. 199 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:18.399 How even Odette and those were just the parties I 200 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:21.600 knew about. They all wanted something different. It was like 201 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:25.279 trying to solve a blank puzzle while half the pieces 202 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:28.200 were missing. And some of the pieces that were there 203 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.159 were decoys, which is a very good metaphor that I 204 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:40.759 think is quite effective as a descriptor. And of course 205 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:44.519 he has to put this aside for a moment. Warning, 206 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.759 A throne room you own is currently occupied by Madness 207 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:50.240 enemy forces. If you don't return to claim this throne 208 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:53.960 in six hours, this castle and the associated land will 209 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:04.240 be ceded to the Madness. So let's see. I sent 210 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:06.840 the mercenary for the Dream out and told him to 211 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.440 start walking back to his territory. This wasn't some grand 212 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:12.480 Machiavellian plan. I didn't know what was going to happen 213 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:14.240 after we left. There was no way we could defend 214 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.960 land that wasn't attached to our main force, not yet. 215 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:19.639 If we let the viceroys take it, they'd own three 216 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.279 sections of land. I didn't carry either way, but I imagined 217 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.159 none of the other members of the block would be 218 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.919 huge fans of letting that happen, and by making the 219 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:30.720 Madness mercenary sit in there, it would at least force 220 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:35.200 the other leaders to make a decision. So yeah, cause 221 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:37.279 I was like surprised that he just didn't seem to 222 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:39.639 have very much urgency when he got this notification and 223 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:42.519 in this I was like, oh, okay, so he's having 224 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:48.840 them try and like stretch themselves a little bit. I 225 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:51.480 had the impression none of these leaders liked each other 226 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.519 very much, so hopefully this would sew a little discord. 227 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:59.240 I looked at Donut ready too down, who are we 228 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:04.000 getting next? And he says, it's a blob hunting season, 229 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:09.879 So we jumped to twenty nine. Toyotomi can't fit in 230 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.600 the party planner, so we had them grab their transport 231 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:16.279 and head straight to the border with Shantytown. There were 232 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.679 five similar vehicles minus the armour plating parked behind the castle, 233 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:22.120 and we had them take them all. We had the 234 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.039 mercenaries head northwest toward the border of Shantytown. There they 235 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:28.639 would enter the city and move into Posse territory by 236 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:33.080 bypassing the Naga territory altogether. There were a handful of 237 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:36.360 guard outposts between here and there, containing NPC guards and 238 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.080 mercenaries that were now on our team, and we'd had 239 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.600 the pick, we'd have them picked up along the way. 240 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:47.720 I worried about the integrity of Shantytown. We had a 241 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.519 full battalion parked, but the town was shaped like a 242 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.559 literal doughnut that could be attacked from just about any 243 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:57.039 angle if and when the attack came, it would likely 244 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:01.759 be from several places at once, which it never occurred 245 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.400 to me what a disadvantage the doughnut shape was in 246 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:08.920 that sense. But yeah, stopping and think about it, I'm like, ooh, 247 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:13.640 that is that is really tough. Like if it's round, 248 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.599 that's bad enough because you can just be surrounded. But 249 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:20.960 now you can be surrounded and they can come at 250 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.519 you from inside, which I don't know, man, maybe we 251 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:26.640 got to figure out a way for this whole thing 252 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.240 to be a different shape. Is there a way to 253 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:34.119 do that? Like, can we use Katcha's abilities to like 254 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:38.240 construct things to make some sort of barrier in the 255 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.640 middle that will be difficult to get through. I'm not 256 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.200 it might just not even be worth a trouble, you know. 257 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:50.440 I don't know, but you know, it's Uh. It was 258 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:52.960 just an interesting point that he made, and I was 259 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.240 just like, I've never even thought about it like that. 260 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.359 None of the enemy had bothered attacking the town just yet, 261 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.759 likely because they figured it wasn't necessary. Entering shantytown would 262 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.640 open themselves up to getting attacked by Lorocos defense system 263 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:08.440 without a way to fight back as long as we 264 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:12.160 were still in the game. Plus, the town's rules were different, 265 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:14.680 which this is interesting. There's no throne room. They could 266 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:18.319 only take it by killing me the moment we were defeated. 267 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.680 Lorocos would open up if the block truce remained in effect, 268 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.680 and they could just raise the entire town like they 269 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:29.640 usually did. Still, the town was a nice, juicy target 270 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:34.039 that bordered every slice of the pie. That was the 271 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:35.759 reason that I was sort of like, maybe we should 272 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:39.400 put the energy into like blocking out the middle somehow, 273 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:43.000 you know, But like, ah, it all depends, and there's 274 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.279 gonna be angles that I haven't thought of, of course. 275 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:53.759 So this is when they enter their personal space, and 276 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:56.480 Doughnut is like, should we use this entrance for a 277 00:18:56.519 --> 00:19:01.160 sneak attack? And I love that. She's like, we can 278 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.400 call it the bamboozle, which is such a good name, 279 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:07.960 and uh, He's like, the thing is that it's a 280 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:10.559 double edged sword if we do that. But they find 281 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:12.960 a way to block it, we have no way back in, 282 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:19.400 which really sucks for us. And we have a reminder 283 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:23.240 here about the blood bar because it surprised me again 284 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.759 that like Doughnut doesn't get any credit for that kill 285 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:29.599 because Mango's her pet, so I just thought there would 286 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:33.079 be some but evidently not. She's only allowed a half 287 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:37.440 hour in there, and Carl goes in. The first thing, 288 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:40.640 of course, that he wants to do is step across 289 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:48.359 his like resting matt thing and clean off the cleaner 290 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:51.519 Bot give an angry beep at all the mud and 291 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:54.839 blood we were trailing on the floor. Cleaner Bot. Look, 292 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:58.400 I had sympathy for you initially, but you literally have 293 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:01.480 one job. And normally I don't like that phrase because 294 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:04.480 people will say it when it's just not true. But 295 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:10.440 for you, it is true. You literally have one job. Now, 296 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.599 is there something cleaner Bot wants that we could give 297 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:17.039 it to sweeten the deal? I'd be willing to tip. 298 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:20.119 What is it you want, cleaner Bot? What? What is 299 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:24.359 a treat for a vacuum a little roomba? What is 300 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.880 what is something that he would like? I'll play the game, 301 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:31.480 you know, but I don't want to hear from you. 302 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.039 They just the fact that they are covered in blood 303 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:39.319 indicate something went very wrong for them or very right, 304 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:42.200 but either way, it was trauma. So just keep it 305 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:47.400 to yourself. There's also the mention when he picks up 306 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:50.680 Rent to put him in like the cleaning thing, that 307 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:55.279 he is super heavy and that he won't be able 308 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:59.480 to lift him soon, which considering how strong Carl is, like, 309 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:01.559 you know, he has all of these different things that 310 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:05.279 have caused him to have this unnatural strength. If he 311 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:09.920 can't lift Rend, who is only up to his knee, 312 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:13.720 bro is made of like cement or something, you know 313 00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:20.240 what I'm saying, Like damn, So I love the description 314 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:24.799 of him in the cleaning like booth looking at Carls 315 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:30.319 so mournfully out the glass. There are some dogs who 316 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:34.160 love to get baths, and I'm still trying to figure 317 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:36.680 out if there's a way to like trick my dogs 318 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.400 into liking it, but so far I haven't found the 319 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:43.480 trick of it. I think part of it is that 320 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.640 my one of my dogs, Pippin, he doesn't like like 321 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:49.319 machine sounds and noises, and so when we turn the 322 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:50.839 shower on, I think the noise of it just kind 323 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:53.920 of freezes him out. But it is weird because both 324 00:21:53.960 --> 00:22:02.440 he and Aarwin love water, so that's not the issue. Anyway, 325 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:06.599 He's going through a bunch of messages and is just 326 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:10.559 kind of overwhelmed at how many notifications he's getting. This 327 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:13.640 is something that also has me concerned. You know, it 328 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:17.559 would be really really easy to overlook something when there 329 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:22.160 are so many things to keep track of. And I 330 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:25.880 wish that there were some kind of enhancement that he 331 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:31.160 could get to his ability to multitask, like the focus 332 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:36.240 thing later but permanent, you know, because I could see 333 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:39.799 this being the weak spot. And there comes a point 334 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:44.079 later where he's talking to somebody and it's mentioned that 335 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:49.039 that person's eyes are blinking in such a way that 336 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:53.599 they are clearly like composing a message, but they're also 337 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:57.799 talking to Dona as they do that. I don't know 338 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:00.519 if any of y'all has ever tried to, like, say 339 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:05.799 one thing while typing another thing. It is not easy, 340 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:09.799 and the fact that this person is capable of that 341 00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:14.359 is kind of bonkers. And I definitely got preoccupied with 342 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:17.559 thinking about just like, how are they doing that? And 343 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:20.880 is this a function of just getting used to two 344 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:24.640 different communication methods and it just, you know, a thing 345 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:27.680 that seems super hard to me. You just learn to 346 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:30.960 adapt or you fucking die. And so they've adapted, or 347 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:35.359 is it because of the way that their bodies have 348 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:38.440 been changed being in the dungeon for the messaging system 349 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:40.720 to work. Can they split their attention like that? Like 350 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:49.960 really interested? So there's some mention here. Boomer was salty 351 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:52.400 about us not pushing to take the Naga castle, and 352 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:55.079 I didn't blame him. That would have been the safest 353 00:23:55.079 --> 00:24:00.359 and smartest play, especially considering the additional NPCs we'd potentially gain. 354 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:04.200 I didn't care for now. The retreating enemy forces were 355 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:07.200 scattered through Naga territory, and without a spy in their midst, 356 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:10.240 I wasn't sure how they were handling it. I could 357 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:12.279 see the positions of the new troops, and the system 358 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:15.039 allowed us to give them orders. Tran was handling that. 359 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:19.240 I don't want to read like because there's there's a 360 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.839 lot here about where everybody is positioned, et cetera, et cetera, 361 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:24.880 And as usual, there are times where I feel like 362 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:27.640 it's not interesting for me to recount that, so I'm 363 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:33.000 going to skip over some of this. I reveled in 364 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:35.839 the rare moment of silence. I thought about what happened 365 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:38.880 when we confronted Di Nadia. I'd seen my father and 366 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:42.839 myself at that moment. You're scaring me Doughnut had said, 367 00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:47.960 I still needed to process it. I never got the chance. Yeah, 368 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:54.000 this is this is the thing, you know, he's being 369 00:24:55.680 --> 00:25:00.359 he's being overwhelmed. I hate this for him, I really 370 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:04.920 really do. Donut. Did you open your nineteen fourteen box yet? 371 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:08.720 I got a spell book called war Crime. It's bleeding 372 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:12.599 and crying and it's disgusting. Can you imagine you guys? 373 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:20.160 Oh my god. I the fact that Carl doesn't even 374 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:24.160 like check for his again, what is it that you got? 375 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:26.920 It might be super useful. I would be opening my 376 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:31.599 shit like as soon as I could, you know. But uh, 377 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:34.319 he's just he's got a lot on his mind here. 378 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:38.000 So this is when Florin comes in and is like, 379 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.839 all right, they're really pulling out the big, big guns 380 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:46.119 at this point, very literally, this is them throwing everything 381 00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:50.240 they've got. Have Louis drop what he has to protect 382 00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:52.680 our retreat, but you should reroute the one zero sixths 383 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:58.240 to the castle. And this was followed by literally hundreds 384 00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:02.480 of trap notifications, meaning they were already rushing past our 385 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:07.839 first line of trenches and then home base anti air battery. 386 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:13.319 A silent alarm is triggered home Base Anti air Battery 387 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:18.839 has been destroyed, and then Tippett is saying enemy in 388 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:23.119 the base, enemy in the base, and Carl is just like, wait, 389 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:28.039 what the fuck is going on? And he's like, it's 390 00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:31.599 got to be sabotaged, right, Like how did they get 391 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:33.839 past the centuries? It had to be somebody that was 392 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:42.920 already on the inside. So Donut finds the door. It's 393 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:47.480 actually one of the rock guys. What is it, bomo 394 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:50.960 a door for the safe room from the Reaver team. 395 00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:53.480 They're doing what we were going to do. They're sneak 396 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:56.440 attacking us using the safe room door the bamboozle. They're 397 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:01.839 in the castle. So what car Garl realizes is that 398 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:07.200 they purchased a doggy door upgrade and if you have 399 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:09.799 one of those, you can go literally you can use 400 00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:13.200 it to connect to anywhere that you've already been. And 401 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:18.559