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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 seven This Inevitable ruin chapters

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twenty three through twenty seven. In these chapters, there is

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a major death here that I really thought it would

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take us longer to get to, and then once it happens,

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I'm like, it wasn't even the death. It was Caral

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during the death. That was the climax here. Yikes. Welcome

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to spoil Me, Welcome to the I'm so sorry, guys,

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I just got so distracted by Michael's comments that it

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totally threw me off my intro. Welcome to the show everyone.

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I am Natasha. Thank you Michael for commissioning this episode.

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But no, thank you Michael to all these comments. Never

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say this in front of me again. And that's that.

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On that. Yeah, this section, guys, was like a really

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surprising section because I thought it was going to take

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a bit longer for us to get a major death.

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Not a major like ally death, to be clear, but

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I just really never expected this to happen so quickly,

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and it being in Pristinadia, She's like such a figure

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in my mind of representation of everything, that Carl in

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particular hates that I thought we'd be saving her for

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like later in the book, and I have no problem

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for the record killing her now, but it was just

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not what I was thinking the order of things was

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going to be. So let us begin. Chapter twenty three

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starts with like the note from Crawler Ossi about creating

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confusion to make an enemy frightened, and the way that

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this whole thing kind of like it ramps up and

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we know that they're working on something, but we don't

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really get any details at this point. It's not until

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later when we get Victory talking to him that we

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find out exactly what it was that Carl had set

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up and on She seems kind of flicked out, Like

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I was startled by how much it's it's I was

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thinking any type of victory for her team, she would

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be very much on board for you know that it

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was just going to be like, yeah, way to play

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the system, that's my jam, I'm proud of you kind

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of energy, and instead it's more like, you guys came

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up with something I hadn't even thought of, and I

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spend a lot of time thinking about this, So now

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I kind of feel uncertain and unsettled because I'm realizing

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I thought I knew the ground that we stood on,

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and I don't not the way that I thought. And

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I really like you guys know how much I love

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her as a character already, Like immediately out of the

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get I was just sort of like, yeah, uh huh,

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this bitch is it for her to be like shook?

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Has me shook? I part of me wants to say

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I don't like it. Another part of me is like, no,

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I definitely like it. I'm very torn here where I'm

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just sort of it's making me like a little anxious.

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But I also if even she can be surprised, then

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we're really in for a ride, you know what I'm saying,

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Michael says. Brent said in the spoiler discord throw that

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he found it tough to read about her death. I

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have to say that I agree. Each time I reread

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and re listen to these sections, I find myself not

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sympathizing more, but empathizing more. And it is tough. Yes,

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this is such It's such an interesting thing. I don't

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know how much of this is on purpose, how much

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of this is accidental because of who we are as people.

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I don't know, I don't know, but I am going

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to say the audiobook narrator especially gives Empersinnadia a sort

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of tremulousness to her voice that I feel like it

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would have been very easy to play her death scene

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as her being sort of nasal and irritating in her upset,

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and instead he makes her feel really genuinely afraid and

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genuinely sad. And it's there's something also, like I understand

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the necessity. There's so many things, and I know I'm

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jumping ahead, guys, but Karl is worried about there being

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further traps in her dress, so he has the clockwork

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manga rip her dress up to make sure that there's

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not another shield. And I get why, but it just

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this is the sort of thing that an enemy might

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do simply to humiliate somebody before killing them. That is

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not what is happening here. Explicitly, it is not what

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has happened. There is a reason, but there is something

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about that detail, as well as her voice, as well

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as the rage of Carl, that the whole scene, instead

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of it being this satisfying fist pump, Yeah, we got

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our sort of victory, for me, it was like sickening

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which I think is a fucking triumph as an author,

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because I don't think Matt Denneman wants us to be

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fist pumping. I think part of what he's trying to

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do with this whole series is emphasize everybody is a person,

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even when they're garbage, even when they are making evil

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choices and doing cruel shit, there's still a person that

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doesn't change that they are not suddenly this unknowable monster.

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And in the moments before death, you get to really

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see this in such a naked and raw way that

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it can be very tempting to almost be like, maybe

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we shouldn't kill her. Look at how fucking broken she is,

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you know. And I feel like that serves both to

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make Karl's rage in the moment and his desire to

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be the one to kill her. It makes it feel

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more grotesque in the moment, and it also helps me

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to imagine what Dona is feeling when she sees what's

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going on with him. And I just think it's really

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important if we're going to be talking about like revolution,

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building community to overthrow people who are doing harm and

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making all kinds of excuses for why this doing harm

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isn't really that bad. We can feel a sort of

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grim sense of accomplishment when somebody is taken out, but

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that is a very different thing than glorying in their death,

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feeling gleefulness about it, or otherwise like almost romanticizing the

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moment to make it something that's like really cinematic and

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distanced from reality in a storybook kind of way. I

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feel like he is going out of his way to

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ensure that when we face down with some of these people,

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we keep being brought down to earth for a second,

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U punintended and reminded. This is just a person. They

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aren't the system. They are a participant in a system,

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and that doesn't excuse any of their actions, but just

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a reminder they're just a person. They're just one person.

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And I think that's so important. And I just don't

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know were I writing this, if I would be able

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to keep that in mind myself as an author, you know,

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if I would be able to make this scene as

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effective as it is, because like, it doesn't feel like

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a victory. It doesn't feel like a great and triumphant

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moment for us. It feels like we just missed something

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really bad happening to our guy. It was a close

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call for it. They're in like full control of the scene.

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There's no moment where I'm actually worried for Carl and

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Donut safety. In regard to UH and Personadia, it's the

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two of them on top with no question. And yet

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I am worried about Carl in the scene, not because

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of her, but because of him and his choices and

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what he is doing to himself. Which this is a

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brilliant move storytelling wise, this ring. It's like what Karl

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is motivated by is what he gets out of the

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ring in terms of stat points and whatnot, which all

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of that valid, huge advantage, right, But what are you

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letting it do to you? He says later to Donut

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that he isn't going to give it up yet because

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he needs it. He needs to be stronger. And I

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would argue it's making you weaker. It's stronger in a way,

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but if you are barely in control of yourself in

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a moment like this where so much matters, that's weakening

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you in a way that's really significant, not only to

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yourself and your integrity as a person within yourself, but

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also as a figurehead for this entire movement, because like Carl,

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is the de facto face of this rebellion, and if

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he does something that's really unhinged, that could very easily

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begin to just discredit the motivations that he has and

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cause a lot of people who have been up to

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this point kind of following him willingly to sort of wonder,

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are we being run by a madman? It can really

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have an effect on the morale of everybody if you're

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on video like torturing somebody to death and enjoying it,

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you know what I mean? I just I understand why

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this ring is so difficult to give up. I really

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really really get it. But I think he is having

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a lot of very short term thinking right now, and

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I am not sure. Even though he claims to see

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the moment where he's up on the edge, it still

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doesn't really feel like he fully comprehends how close he

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came to just completely losing it. And I don't know

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how many more near misses he's gonna be allowed to get. Like,

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what is going to have to happen for you to

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be willing to give the ring up? Dude? How bad

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do you have to hurt? Donut? Because like, all I

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can think about is she Maria and she took his

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body over and made him do these horrible things that

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hurt people. He was fully not in control, and yet

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he still feels this guilt about what happened. What happens

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when it is you, when it is like you are

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still not in control of yourself, but not because an

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entity is taking you over, but because you have let

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your rage control you. What happens? Then how do you

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come back? I don't know, you know, like setting aside

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the movement itself, the rebellion? What just about your relationship

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with Donut after she told you that you're scaring her

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and you refuse to get rid of the ring? What

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do you do to repair it? If you hurt her,

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or you hurt Mongo or any one of your other allies,

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or even if you hurt an enemy, but you do

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it in such a way that it's obvious you're enjoying yourself.

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How do you fix that? It's a lot harder to

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fix that than it is to adjust to not using

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this ring. Ah. Anyway, I just saw a bunch of

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comments and I'm having to like scroll backward a little

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bit here. Jeff says it's as if he wrote it

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at Hollywood, saying don't make this movie. Saraph him says,

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she always came off not so much as an asshole,

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like say the Skull Empire, just as a person who's

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been so privileged and sheltered her whole life. She simply

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doesn't get how horrific all this truly is. Henry says,

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war ruins people, and Michael says, yeah, pretty sure it

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was deliberate. I think you can see it in Carl's

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reaction to her death. Afterward, his rage is gone and

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he just feels empty and mournful. Jeff says that glee

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is why I've always hated murder quips in movies. Fair

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The unhinged exultation of violence from reminds me of the

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Red Court King in Dresden. That's an interesting one. There

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are other characters that I think of, but not that guy.

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Michael says, no spoilers. I'm trying to motivate myself to

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read the new books he put out. It's this isn't

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a reference to a new book. It's a reference to

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proven guilty. But there are some beings in that who

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have a real gleefulness in the violence and the oh no, sorry,

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Jeff is saying, changes, the red court changes. Yeah, I'm

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talking about the one that I'm thinking of, which is

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in proven guilty, and it's uh, there's an attack in

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a bathroom and Dresden goes back to the scene and

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feels this like happiness that something is feeling as it

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beats the shit out of somebody, and it's like that,

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that's the thing that I'm worried about, you know, Seraphim says.

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The thing is, I never saw the ring as being

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the issue or causing any of this, and it's more

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just a symptom of the larger issue of what being

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in this crawl is doing to him. Michael says, I

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definitely think the ring is affecting him, though his hands

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shaking as he was taking it off really implies it is.

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I think both are true. I think it's definitely meant

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to be a metaphor the ring, but also I think

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the ring is actually physically creating a feedback loop in

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him that is amplifying what he feels when it's anger

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and hatred and rage. And I think that's what the

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name of it implies. Even though the ring of divine suffering,

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who's suffering because Karl suffers. And it's very easy to

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be like you're profiting off the suffering of others because

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you put the ring on and you get a boost

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when you kill someone. But killing people eats at you,

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and whether or not you think it does, unless you

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really have no conscience whatsoever, I believe that the suffering

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is inflicted on the wearer, and that it being like

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a divine suffering is like the hatred and anger that

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you feel will be amplified so that you can like

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kill more easily in the moment you can get the

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job done. But those are not pleasant emotions. It may

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not it may seem odd to say that when you

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hate someone you are suffering, but I think that's correct.

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I think that's just sort of the way that works,

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even if we can't feel it in the moment, you know.

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how much giving it away would affect Karl, Like what

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kind of loss would he suffer to his various stats

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if he got rid of it. I really don't know.

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I just feel like I don't think whatever that loss is,

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that it would be worth what he's what he's cultivating

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in himself, right now. And that's really the only way

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that I can put it, because at this point this

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is a choice. He is aware what it's doing to him,

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and he is still choosing and tries to say, I

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don't know what came over me, And I was so

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glad that Donna is like, the fuck you don't you

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know exactly what came over you? And I was so

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plea is that she just doesn't let him get away

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with that. Oh, I have no idea. What shut the

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fuck up. Don't insult me by playing in my face

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about this. It's not a mystery, dude, you know, Michael says.

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We've also heard Mordecai I say the Ring is really

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popular for the warlords for its power boost. How much

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has the Ring affected them? Have stuff in the game

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amplify their blood thirstiness or their callous disregard for crawlers

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and NPCs, something to maybe think about, possible. Jeff says

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earlier about the King that he is addicted to her. Oh,

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in changes, I thought that it was much more. The

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King is just addicted to He's a blood addict. It's

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not the hurting. The hurting is incidental, but it does

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not matter. This is not a Dreasden podcast, Jeff says,

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making it so you have to heal them before making

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them before marking them is super insidious. It turns them

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into a hardcore murderer instead of someone taking advantage of

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an opportunity. Agreed, Agreed. It's just it's a really there's

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there's a certain sequence here, and I feel like the

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moment I remember approving of him using the ring on

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Prepotente's mom Miriam dom and I still like, in terms

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of the actual practicality of that moment, I do stand

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by it, but I just really it's the sort of

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thing where I'm like, I didn't want him using the

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ring at all to begin with. If he's gonna use it,

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then yeah, that was the right call in that moment,

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but like, just don't use it. Though everybody was right

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regarding what danger this poses. Mordecai's been around enough. If

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he's that flipped out the you have this ring, I

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think you need to take that a lot more seriously.

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And he just really isn't hearing it. I just look,

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a lot of the theming behind this book has been

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Carl feeling really alone and really angry and occasionally being

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reminded I'm not alone. There are other people in this

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with me. There are other people who believe in this

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cause that are willing to sacrifice and organize, you know,

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And this ring is something that serves to further isolate him.

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And the fact that we had that moment of Louis

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being like, you come in here with your crazy eyes

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and I'm just waiting for you to suddenly lose your

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shit and kill everybody. I don't feel like that had

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enough of an impact on Carl to hear you know

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what I'm saying, Like, do not telling him you're scaring me?

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And Louie having told him that earlier, I need you

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to hear, very bluntly, what is happening, Carl. You are

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turning into the kind of man your father was that

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people were afraid of and tiptoed around because he became

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so prone to violence and so unpredictable and in a

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way predictable actually, but like what you are trying to

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fight against, you can become quite easily. That is how

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it works. That's the trap, and you better fucking watch it.

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And I do not feel he is watching it adequately.

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I do not feel that he takes these moments seriously

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enough because they are scary. I'm comfortable, deeply inconvenient, by

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the way, and he doesn't want to face up to

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what it means. And I really really understand that. I'm

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profoundly I understand. But the stakes at this point are

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so high it's funny. He's interpreting it as differently as

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possible from me where I'm going. The stakes are way

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too high for you to keep ignoring this, and he

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is going the stakes are way too high for me

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to bother with this right now. I'm sorry, Carl, but

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this is literally what it's all about. And if you

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let this start to slide, that's it. What have you got?

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What are you fighting for? Then? What is it? You know?

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Like So anyway, Seraphim says, I still don't see it

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as some one ring type thing as much as it

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just a tool designed to encourage people to give into

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their darker aspects to make them better crawlers disagree. I

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think it's a tool. I don't. I'm not saying it

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is a one ring type thing, but I definitely think

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that it has an inf I mean, the AI basically

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said so. In its description. It said something like, I

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sure hope there's not some weird side effects from using

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this ring that would be really bad. Like, it's definitely,

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to me, without question, affecting him in some other way

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I don't like. To me, that's not even a question.

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It's simply how is that happening? How much of that is?

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How much does the ring need to influence him before

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it no longer even needs to keep pushing and it

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sort of begins to snowball on its own. You can

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just give somebody a couple of pushes and then it

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takes off in a certain direction and you can just

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step back and put your hands behind your back and

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whistle and neck like you didn't do anything. So oh yeah,

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Michael says. The AI had the ominous description, and it

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mentions it a couple of times. It had another line

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about the ring doing something far worse to him when

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it was talking about something else affecting him, if I recall.

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And that's also the thing with like the Daughter's Kiss,

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is that the way the name of it, But that one,

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it's a much more obvious thing because it's actual literal

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soul poisoning that he'll get like a notification for, and

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it will warn him AT's happening, and there will be

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a specific d buff to go along with it. That

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is something that is quantifiable, and therefore, as much as

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it's terrifying, because he knocks himself out later, it doesn't

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scare me as much as the ring does, because this

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is something that is so much more insidious, so much

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more difficult to put your finger on. It is something

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from the outside that it seems you can see happening

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to him, but there's not an easy way to like

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verbalize what it is. And because it is so vague,

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he can deny it or pretend it's not as big

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a deal. I don't know, like donuts, the person who

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knows him best, and the fact that she is afraid,

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I think she'd be the last straw for him. And

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it makes me really sad how quick he is to

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just be like, not yet. There is not going to

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be a point going forward, Carl, where it will be

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better and easier to get rid of the ring. He's

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acting like there's going to be some point where it

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will like will have reached peak and I won't need

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it anymore. When when would that be? When do you think,

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after you win, how long will that take? How much

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damage will have been done by then? If you had

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been here alone, or if Donut hadn't talked you out

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of it, what would you have done to Impersonnadia, what

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would you have done? How? Like, It's just it is

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such a close call to me, and he just isn't

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treating it like that. He's really behaving like this is

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a one off moment rather than a symptom of a

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larger problem that is only going to continue to grow.

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It's just, guys, it's really upsetting man. So I'm going

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to back up here, but I don't regret starting with

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that scene. We'll get there too, because I want to

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talk about some specific lines. But Immani shows up as

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they're in the trenches and she is buffing everybody to

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calm them down and like, you know, relieve their anxiety,

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which people are actually physically sighing in relief when she

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does this. So let's see. The original plan was to

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have more tribuchetes, but the confusion about whether we'd be

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allowed to build these, mixed with the early end to

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the ceasefire, had led to us only having one. It

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was loaded with about fifty contraptions called dazzlers, and they

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had a pile of almost two hundreds sitting nearby. They

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were basically a combination of an alarm and spotlight trap.

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They would only shine toward the eyes of the closest

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enemy soldier, strobing powerful beams of multicolored light right into

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their faces, and they'd all play the same song at

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the same time. It was one of the few types

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of trap modules. Victory would allow us to load into

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the tribu Chaise. She crept into existence just behind us,

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like I'd summoned her with my thoughts, and she has

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Drick with her. Victory had told me adjutants could go

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invisible if they needed to observe something where their presence

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would give away that their team was up to something.

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I was going to say something sarcastic, but I dropped it.

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We see the target. This is Louis lowering for the bombing. Run.

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Now get into the fog as soon as you drop,

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and Ellie says, I have the first air gun targeted.

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A bubble appeared around Doughnut's head and Moni had it

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as a spell, but Mordecai had also mass made a

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potion that did the same thing. This thing he works

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slightly better than it's supposed to. Is this particular buff

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and their ear plugs so that everybody's hearing will be

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protected when these fucking traps go off, which eventually he

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gets deshrouded. Everybody gets destrouded and all of their own

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protections come off, which sucks. That got me really fuked

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out for a second. Y'all, and they're all drinking invisibility potions.

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The mages will cast obfuscation and will go up and over.

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Don't stop running until you're in their trenches. The soldier

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who brings me the most dead cheese sticks gets surprised.

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This is Doughnut steering them all with positive reinforcement the

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assault of the The alt part of this plan had

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not come from me, but was one of many contingencies

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that Tippett and Rosetta had brought with them from the outside,

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which was part of the reason why we'd been able

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to put this together so smoothly. It's only a second

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part that I'd planned out. We'd put it together with

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some input from Baroness Victory. Katya wouldn't be actively participating

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since she was needed on the other front, and I

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found myself missing her dearly. I still hadn't had a

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chance to talk to her since we'd separated from the

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dream World. I'm kind of wondering if Carl hasn't developed

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feelings for Katya that he's simply not acknowledging right now

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because it's extremely inconvenient. I don't it's not really like

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that much of a thing, you know, It's just a

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little bit of a suspicion. I didn't feel it from

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him earlier, and it may just be that it's like

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he's so clamped down on it. But it just never

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really felt to me like it was more than I

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care about you as a person. You're part of my team.

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I've grown to like you, you know, like, and I

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really just didn't see him as a threat or feel

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like Bautista had anything to really worry about. And now

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I'm starting to be like, maybe, but Tison knew better

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than me. I just assumed it was the optics of

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both of them being like around the same age, attractive people,

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you know, like that you would see Carl as a threat.

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I just thought it was like the circumstantial thing. And

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I don't know, maybe it's more than that, and I

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was just being payheaded about it. So let's see. The

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bombs were strong, but their main purpose wasn't simply to

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blow stuff up. The enemy trenches were covered with layers

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of anti explosive fortifications. Louis was aiming the party planner

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in front of their position. The bombs would leave a

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deep crater in front of their trenches, showered dirt over

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the defenders, which their mages would have to clear off

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and would clear any traps and protective enchantments set up

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right there in front of the enemy line. So then

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we have the signal to go, and a bunch of

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people began just begin just like lunging forward. A second,

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then a third, then a fourth explosion walked its way

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across the enemy lines. Ellie reported she'd hit the first

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anti air battery with a missile, but there was a

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protection spell around it. Still the device had fallen over

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and hopefully would be unable to fire for some time.

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And this is when the Dazzlers come out, peaking at

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number three on June twentieth, twenty twenty. Wait, really, huh anyway,

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peaking at number three on June twentieth, twenty twenty, despite

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first coming out nineteen ninety two. It's killing in the name,

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which is very very on the nose. This is no accident.

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It is very appropriate that it peaked in twenty twenty.

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Twenty twenty was a fucking hell of a time man,

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and he and Donut drink invisibility potions. He puts one

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on Mango and let's see. He asks Donut if she's scared,

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and she's like, of course, but actually lately it's been

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more that I'm numb and I don't get scared until

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after everything is over. And he just feels like real

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sadness at that. This has been something for me for

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a long time. And I, you know, when I performed

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on stage and stuff, I often had this where I

474
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:50,320
would be completely in the zone before and after and during,

475
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,039
but after I would start to shake and just like

476
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,639
lose it. It wasn't until it was over, you know.

477
00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:04,199
So as they begin to push forward, he's getting all

478
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,880
these notifications about troop deaths, to the point where he

479
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,840
finally turns the notifications off because it's so constant that

480
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:16,880
it becomes like a solid sound. And Imani is out

481
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,960
here just like healing people and handling, and it's just

482
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,719
I just really want to stress how much of a

483
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:32,199
fucking g Imani is. I just finished. I can't even

484
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,880
remember what number book it is of the wandering in

485
00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:40,320
the Last Light, and there's a character in that named

486
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:46,519
Geneva who is she is a surgeon from our world,

487
00:36:46,599 --> 00:36:50,280
or was going to be, And she winds up in

488
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,800
the middle of a battlefield and begins to administer aid

489
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,719
to people on both sides, regardless she doesn't have any

490
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,719
stake in either, but she leaves that it is her

491
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:05,199
duty to help whoever she can help. And there are

492
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,360
some really harrowing chapters in those books, because there's lots

493
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,920
of violence, there's lots of battles, But to me, Geneva's

494
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:21,840
chapters are the most like the most deeply harrowing, grim

495
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:28,559
exhausting chapters. They're really compelling, but there is a sense

496
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,760
of like the only thing that can keep you going

497
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,400
in that sense, in that frame of work is like

498
00:37:36,559 --> 00:37:41,760
I believe that I must. All of it is being

499
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:47,079
motivated from your ethics and your personal integrity and what

500
00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:50,480
you believe is the right thing to do, because logic

501
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:56,639
doesn't make sense in this, like staying and helping everybody

502
00:37:56,679 --> 00:38:00,239
when you're in them, It doesn't Logic doesn't support doing

503
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:06,440
any of this. It is about having a very firm

504
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:11,840
belief on what your duty to humanity is and I

505
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:17,519
don't have that in that way, and reading about somebody

506
00:38:17,519 --> 00:38:21,599
who does, and how just unwavering it has to be

507
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:25,480
to keep doing that kind of work and to withstand

508
00:38:25,599 --> 00:38:29,800
the kind of abuse that you take, The threats, the

509
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:38,599
constant danger to your life is overwhelming. And Imani is

510
00:38:38,639 --> 00:38:41,599
in a different situation where she's the healer for one side,

511
00:38:41,679 --> 00:38:48,000
so it's not exactly the same, but still a healer

512
00:38:48,119 --> 00:38:50,880
is putting themselves in danger for the sake of other

513
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:57,119
people and not simply going out there and fighting to

514
00:38:57,199 --> 00:39:04,599
keep themselves alive. They are always looking around for who

515
00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:10,519
needs help, and it is such a selfless impulse to have.

516
00:39:12,159 --> 00:39:16,960
It's just a little humbling, you know. And Imani, I

517
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,039
really hope nothing happens to you because we need you

518
00:39:19,079 --> 00:39:28,920
so bad. I swear to God. Sorry. Jeff says, often

519
00:39:29,079 --> 00:39:31,440
I'd have to go to the bathroom to avoid talking

520
00:39:31,519 --> 00:39:37,760
to audience members. Oh about I was like, what Seraphim says,

521
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,320
Geneva is awesome. Michael says, boss bitch Geneva. If you

522
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,280
please only use her full unofficial title when referring to her,

523
00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:47,760
that Seraphim says, hey, now that is doctor, boss bitch Geneva.

524
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:50,400
Henry says, I just started the Wandering In and I

525
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,360
found it not that compelling, but it seems I should

526
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:57,639
continue and finish the first book. I'll tell you what, Henry,

527
00:39:57,679 --> 00:40:01,280
the first book is the weakest by if only because

528
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,800
I don't like Erin very much. It's a she's a

529
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:09,960
weird character where I like parts of her, but I

530
00:40:10,079 --> 00:40:15,199
find her really difficult in a way that's like very specific,

531
00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:19,119
and so I found myself starting to get very impatient

532
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:25,239
with her. And eventually something's happened that not only kind

533
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,920
of make it like we're gonna actually cope with those

534
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,519
flaws in her, but we also get other povs and

535
00:40:31,559 --> 00:40:38,559
that helps a lot. So just you know it's it's

536
00:40:40,199 --> 00:40:42,000
not you don't have to keep pushing through it. I

537
00:40:42,079 --> 00:40:44,400
always say, like, if you're not enjoying something, feel free

538
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,719
to drop it. But there are times where I'm like, no,

539
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:52,519
something pays off in my opinion, you know, Michael says,

540
00:40:52,519 --> 00:40:54,719
Aaron and Riyoka were both meant to be difficult. In

541
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,280
my opinion, Riyoka is difficult, but she's difficult in a

542
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:03,159
way I find so relatable that I just find her

543
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:08,519
very fascinating. Aaron is difficult in a way that I

544
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:12,840
don't get. I just don't get like her thought process

545
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:18,280
a lot of the time, and so she infuriates me. So, uh, yeah,

546
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:22,920
that's the thing. It's it's just it's the kind of

547
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,800
thing that I run into with like I don't I

548
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:31,199
don't like when characters seem to have no fucking common

549
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:35,920
sense about shit. It's very tough, and Aarin is the

550
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:41,199
biggest airhead bitch. Sometimes it's crazy to me, like how

551
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:48,239
she's still alive after everything. She's made some bad calls anyway,

552
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,920
So Michael says, I also listen at one point five speed,

553
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:59,199
which helps I could see that. Yeah, so all right, uh,

554
00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:03,840
and missile streaked in our direction. I pulled a full

555
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,440
strength hoblobber and tossed it in the direction of the

556
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,239
heavy gun. I saw a flash but received no experienced notification.

557
00:42:11,639 --> 00:42:14,599
This is when he says, go forward, and he intended

558
00:42:14,639 --> 00:42:17,360
to send that just to Donut, but it goes to

559
00:42:17,679 --> 00:42:22,239
everybody's screens and they all comply. Which is one of

560
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,960
those moments that I think is like way more significant

561
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,920
than Carl realized as it is in the moment, I

562
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,599
feel like this is going to be like I think,

563
00:42:32,679 --> 00:42:37,840
I just I think he was unintentionally inspiring in that

564
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:47,400
one moment, you know what I mean. Anyway, So the

565
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,000
moment after I sent the command, the ground and under

566
00:42:50,079 --> 00:42:52,199
me gave way and we fell into the wide crater,

567
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,679
I clicked from full assault band to near proximity band.

568
00:42:56,119 --> 00:42:59,960
Keep back reading the scroll. So he does a build

569
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:04,840
the trench creates a channel in front of him, and

570
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,559
there are a bunch of soldiers of the enemy side

571
00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:11,320
that just like fall because he's at a different level

572
00:43:11,679 --> 00:43:16,639
than they are at. There was a long existing exploit.

573
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,880
The scrolls were craft magic, so it pretty much ignored

574
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,760
most protections as they weren't meant to be used offensively.

575
00:43:23,199 --> 00:43:26,159
The scroll didn't care who was casting it. And this

576
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,800
is something that they've known about but never fixed for

577
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:33,599
like literally years and years and years. I activated the

578
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,960
Daughter's Kiss. I jumped into the air and landed hard

579
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,039
onto the enemy's chest. And the next chapter starts with

580
00:43:40,079 --> 00:43:42,840
Donut being like, Carl, get up, Get up. They're running

581
00:43:43,599 --> 00:43:46,039
and he's like, what the fuck happened? And I'm like, bro,

582
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:50,760
you got warned. It told you that it was gonna

583
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,840
be like a post coital thing. I was surprised that

584
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,880
he was surprised. I am just grateful it was only

585
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:03,159
thirty seconds because I really like it just he look.

586
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,920
One thing about Carl is he isn't going to take

587
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,239
warnings seriously enough. That is just something that I have

588
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,679
learned about him, and probably to a point that's a

589
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:17,400
good thing, because I have anxiety I'm gonna take warnings

590
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,480
too seriously. You know, there's a balance that I think

591
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:26,480
that we could find Carl, but if he were more balanced,

592
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,559
he probably wouldn't be here. And I mean that on

593
00:44:29,599 --> 00:44:33,679
every level. I feel like that sentence works on a

594
00:44:33,679 --> 00:44:41,280
lot of ways. But there's times where I'm just like, dude,

595
00:44:41,519 --> 00:44:44,880
that shit's been hanging over you, like you're lucky. It

596
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:48,679
was only thirty seconds, and I guess you know, there's

597
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,719
a lot going on right now. There is a lot happening.

598
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:58,840
I shouldn't be surprised that he had forgotten Mongo stood

599
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,559
next to me, completely covered in dirt. He'd gone, oh,

600
00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:05,400
and don Quixote has gone from forty five to fifty one,

601
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,800
and it goes up to forty two as he's watching,

602
00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:12,880
or fifty two and the middle trench is filled and

603
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:18,599
the illusion is holding. Let's see the second anti air

604
00:45:18,639 --> 00:45:20,920
battery is down, Louis, hurry your ass up. The first

605
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,000
one's almost back up. I'm running. They have a pair

606
00:45:23,039 --> 00:45:25,599
of mages on my scent and Imani says, get the

607
00:45:25,639 --> 00:45:29,400
hell out of there. So everybody is cheering because of

608
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,400
this like tactic working, which we shall get to in

609
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,320
a moment. But Colonel Boomer chimes in here and it

610
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,840
is just like, hey, everybody, you're really counting your chickens

611
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:44,199
before they've fucking hatched. So just chill out because we

612
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,559
have these guys up against a wall, and when people

613
00:45:46,599 --> 00:45:50,360
are trapped, they will pull all all the stops. So

614
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:59,519
be ready because this is not over. And he jumps.

615
00:45:59,639 --> 00:46:02,039
Carl jumps onto the party planner as it comes down

616
00:46:02,079 --> 00:46:07,079
to pick them up, and he sees, uh, Ruby is

617
00:46:07,079 --> 00:46:10,280
it Ruby? No, Bonnie, I keep getting them mixed up.

618
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:15,840
And later he spots like another kid and is going,

619
00:46:16,079 --> 00:46:19,960
what the fuck? Why are they letting kids participate? And

620
00:46:21,559 --> 00:46:25,519
Donut actually says to him that she's older than I am, Carl,

621
00:46:26,199 --> 00:46:29,079
which I was like, oh, damn, that's true. I don't

622
00:46:29,119 --> 00:46:32,239
know how much she feels that age. She could physically

623
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,199
be older, but does she have the kind of compounded

624
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,639
experience of age that happens when you actually retain all

625
00:46:39,679 --> 00:46:43,599
your memories. I don't know exactly how this works, because

626
00:46:43,639 --> 00:46:45,920
I know that some of them seem to unlock memories

627
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,679
when they learn their MPCs, and they can access the

628
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,559
memory of previous seasons and whatnot. I don't know if

629
00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:58,280
that's what's going on here. I totally understand Carl being like,

630
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,119
we can't let kids into this, but Carl, I also

631
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:07,760
urge you to consider that otherwise the kids are literal

632
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:16,000
sitting ducks. And is that preferable. I don't know. I don't.

633
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,199
It's a really hard call because these aren't normal kids.

634
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:27,360
So I just don't. Really, I don't know. Let's see,

635
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,719
I'm trying to find this bit don't And I sneaked

636
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,679
up on the three guards and killed them before they

637
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,199
even knew we were here. I can't believe there's so

638
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,679
few soldiers, there's no protections, nothing. She's very trusting for

639
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:44,280
such a backstabbing bitch. They made her commit all her

640
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,039
troops to the front line. Rosetta said she spent every

641
00:47:47,119 --> 00:47:49,800
penny getting here, and once the quarantine went into effect,

642
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:53,239
the officer she was expecting refused to come, so she

643
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,599
only has a few friends, which is h life comes

644
00:47:57,599 --> 00:48:04,639
autch you fast, doesn't it interesting? And I really kept

645
00:48:04,679 --> 00:48:07,559
expecting there to be more of a trap, and there

646
00:48:07,679 --> 00:48:10,639
just isn't. It's pretty much what it looks like. Not

647
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,960
that she's unarmed or anything, but you know what I'm saying.

648
00:48:14,039 --> 00:48:21,280
It just so. This is when as they're going into

649
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:26,119
the throne room, there are a couple people who appear here,

650
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,119
an adjutant and another appearing right next to me. This

651
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,440
was Baroness Victory. She had a somber look upon her face.

652
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,360
She shook her head sadly. You're too smart for your

653
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,719
own good, Carl, she said, you guys slaughtered them back there.

654
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,239
Do you know how many blindly jumped into that middle trench?

655
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,840
The scout for team rechribution went up almost twenty levels.

656
00:48:54,639 --> 00:48:59,000
The normally stoic orc looked shaken. I think we need

657
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,679
to revisit what's considered offensive magic. That chemical alteration spell

658
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:08,519
is a little too powerful. I don't feel like you

659
00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:15,000
should revisit anything in the midst of it all. If

660
00:49:15,039 --> 00:49:19,960
we're not gonna have prepared exploits beforehand, that's a done deal.

661
00:49:21,159 --> 00:49:24,320
That's the rules, and that's what they are. I don't

662
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:32,840
like this baroness pipe down. That's all I'm saying. Excuse me,

663
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,800
the scout in question was an NPC bartender. Instead of

664
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,599
just purchasing a bunch of different alcohol types, they gave

665
00:49:43,639 --> 00:49:46,519
the NPCs a few scrolls with the ability to alter

666
00:49:46,599 --> 00:49:50,639
the chemical composition of water within a container. In this case,

667
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,679
they dropped a water scroll, and the container was the trench.

668
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,719
The two NPC team spies had filled the empty middle

669
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,480
trench of the enemy with water, turned that water into

670
00:50:02,559 --> 00:50:05,679
some sort of acid, and covered it all with an

671
00:50:05,679 --> 00:50:11,159
illusion spell. The retreating enemy is confused and scared, had

672
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,639
fallen back from the first trench, only to blindly jump

673
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:18,559
into a pool of acid. It was a horrifying spell.

674
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:30,239
That is honestly brutal. Bruto, I'm not mad at it.

675
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,800
We're doing what needs doing. But I can't pretend I'm

676
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:39,000
a fan. It's a smart idea, but I get why

677
00:50:39,119 --> 00:50:50,599
victory is just like fucking Jesus Christ, you know. Yeah.

678
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:56,800
We jump then to Milk's POV. This is a bit

679
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:01,519
of a flashback because Miriam is still a live This

680
00:51:01,599 --> 00:51:07,599
is this is a really this is what Matt Deneman

681
00:51:07,679 --> 00:51:10,239
keeps doing is being like I think you think you

682
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,559
know how bad it can be. Hold On, hold on,

683
00:51:14,639 --> 00:51:16,599
hold on, hold on. I have another POV for you.

684
00:51:17,679 --> 00:51:20,480
And so every time you find out about another one

685
00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:26,000
of the deals that somebody made, it's just a fresh

686
00:51:26,199 --> 00:51:32,840
wave of horror. You know, it's just milk situation. I

687
00:51:33,039 --> 00:51:36,880
literally paused the audio book and went out to Marshall,

688
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,679
who was just sitting on the couch minding his own business,

689
00:51:39,679 --> 00:51:43,039
playing a video game, and I was like, Babe, there's

690
00:51:43,079 --> 00:51:45,920
a character and this is their deal, and this is

691
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,280
how many times they're supposed to end. This is how

692
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,920
many times it's actually happened. This is really sad. And

693
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:58,199
he was just like fuck and I was like, yeah, fuck,

694
00:51:59,079 --> 00:52:00,960
And then I just turned around on press play again.

695
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:05,559
It was just like a moment of Kenyon, Kenny, stop

696
00:52:05,599 --> 00:52:11,039
it that. But no, that's the point, that's what it's for.

697
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,840
This is what it is, and he's right to do it.

698
00:52:15,039 --> 00:52:20,480
I don't like it, but I'll allow it. So Milk

699
00:52:21,119 --> 00:52:25,480
is basically in such a profound depression that she is

700
00:52:25,639 --> 00:52:32,360
just letting herself barely exist and has found a way

701
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,960
to mute all the notifications about what's going on, not

702
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:45,239
feeding herself, not moving, and is essentially doing the most

703
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,599
extreme form of like bedrotting that I can think of.

704
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,960
And you know, we've had a lot of her in

705
00:52:54,039 --> 00:53:01,199
the The Anarchist Cookbook. She has contributed a lot. But

706
00:53:02,599 --> 00:53:09,719
what we find out she's on the fifth floor. She

707
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,199
hadn't really been paying attention this season. A pile of

708
00:53:13,199 --> 00:53:19,400
newsletters remain stacked up by the door. And let's see,

709
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,480
she hadn't had a one on one with a floor

710
00:53:21,519 --> 00:53:25,360
supervisor in over fifty seasons. What was the point? And

711
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,159
what was the point is really kind of like the

712
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:33,000
whole vibe for her, you know, it's just what's the point?

713
00:53:33,039 --> 00:53:39,360
Which been there? Absolutely been there? So this is when

714
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:45,480
she hears prepotente Miriam and uh, oh my god, what's

715
00:53:45,519 --> 00:53:52,039
the other one's name, Bianca? That's the one Bianca. Bianca

716
00:53:52,119 --> 00:53:58,280
melt the guards. So this is her like once Miriam

717
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:04,079
comes in, Milk immediately realizes what was likely happening. Miriam's

718
00:54:04,119 --> 00:54:06,880
been turned into a vampire and now she doesn't get

719
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,239
to go into Club Vanquisher anymore. They just probably told

720
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,960
her her membership has been revoked. It's not her fault

721
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:19,440
that this happened to her, but it doesn't matter. And

722
00:54:21,679 --> 00:54:25,559
you guys. There's a couple notifications, one of them being like,

723
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,039
if you've died a starvation, it's not like you escape,

724
00:54:29,159 --> 00:54:31,800
We'll just save you and add years to your indentureship.

725
00:54:32,639 --> 00:54:37,920
And then punishment can include, but is not limited to,

726
00:54:38,039 --> 00:54:41,480
additional time added to indentureship, reassignment to a combat role,

727
00:54:41,599 --> 00:54:50,880
or the worst fate undead reassignment. That's really it's giving

728
00:54:51,039 --> 00:54:54,840
you're not done yet, which I am not excited about

729
00:54:54,880 --> 00:55:02,719
getting to see that in action. So the door opens

730
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:07,519
and Milk is shocked because nobody comes in here. Nobody,

731
00:55:08,679 --> 00:55:13,039
and Bianca begins to like get ready and attack, and

732
00:55:13,159 --> 00:55:16,960
also Bianca is just like on fire and so begins

733
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,159
to light up things in the shop without even intending

734
00:55:21,199 --> 00:55:25,079
to do that, and eventually Miriam steps in and she's

735
00:55:25,119 --> 00:55:27,920
just like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. Gets Bianca

736
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,960
to like calm down, uses a salve on Milk to

737
00:55:32,039 --> 00:55:35,920
heal her arm, which Milk is shocked by because crawlers

738
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:41,360
just don't use their own resources to save NPCs or

739
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,239
help them in any way. So she's just like what,

740
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:49,800
And I really love Milk's like finding a way around things.

741
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,559
There's there's a point where she's just like you know,

742
00:55:55,679 --> 00:55:58,960
this is how it works with the guards coming. If

743
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,800
you wait too long, these guys will start to mobilize,

744
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,440
but they won't do anything. And she gets like a

745
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:05,880
notification of like you're telling them too much information. Be

746
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:14,800
careful and Prepatente says, you're a former crawler, and she thinks, interestingly,

747
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:19,000
the words were like an accusation. You were a crawler,

748
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,039
you fought you were part of something once and now

749
00:56:22,079 --> 00:56:26,280
look at you. All you do is sleep And just

750
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,119
essentially the fact that all the fight has gone out

751
00:56:29,159 --> 00:56:31,440
of her, she's really ashamed of and she thinks her

752
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:35,039
family would be ashamed of her too, But like, this

753
00:56:35,079 --> 00:56:38,000
is a very valid response. But the way she's coping,

754
00:56:38,119 --> 00:56:45,079
I get it. I understand. It feels like Matt Denneman

755
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,199
just was like, let me go interview a bunch of

756
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:51,840
like vets and tell their stories about how each of

757
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:56,719
them coped or didn't when they were finally like released

758
00:56:56,719 --> 00:57:04,519
from service and the system them down completely. It's just yep,

759
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:12,280
So I love this moment too, of I sure hope

760
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,719
you don't threaten me. I might be forced to give

761
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,960
you information like the map in the back of this

762
00:57:19,119 --> 00:57:23,079
room that I hope you don't steal from me. And

763
00:57:23,119 --> 00:57:27,400
it turns out milk is still indentured in the dungeon,

764
00:57:28,599 --> 00:57:32,360
so we might come across milk at some point, and

765
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:36,840
I'm pretty stoked about that. I wonder if they're feeling

766
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:42,119
a little bit more motivated lately. Will not be freed

767
00:57:42,199 --> 00:57:44,639
until her services are used at least three hundred and

768
00:57:44,639 --> 00:57:57,360
thirty three times times used so far six So I'm

769
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:02,599
going to just briefly touch on Donadia again. I'm out

770
00:58:02,599 --> 00:58:05,599
of time technically, and we have talked about this already,

771
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,840
but there are just a couple of like moments that

772
00:58:10,039 --> 00:58:16,480
I want to address here. Get the dress, I called,

773
00:58:16,719 --> 00:58:19,440
just in case she had more shields. One of the

774
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:23,119
clockwork's pipe swiped and the entire top of her gown

775
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:27,559
ripped off, revealing a green tinged body covered with tentacles.

776
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:32,039
They popped out like biscuit dough being released, flapping in

777
00:58:32,079 --> 00:58:36,440
all directions. The Empress sobbed as she waved her tentacles

778
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,920
about the clockwork Mongo's bit and tore at her arms,

779
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:46,960
leaking blue blood everywhere. I cast a heel scroll on her,

780
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,840
and so he marks her. Don't let them kill her,

781
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:59,320
not yet. Help Empress Donadia gurgled, somebody help me. This

782
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,920
is what happened in the end, I called out to

783
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,599
the ceiling. This is what happens to all tyrants, big

784
00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:13,719
and small. I'm not, Donadia cried, I'm not. And the

785
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:21,360
thing is like, she's not. She's not, but she is

786
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:27,280
a participant. She doesn't see Carl and Donut as real people.

787
00:59:29,519 --> 00:59:33,519
She just doesn't. That's a fact. She told another NPC

788
00:59:33,719 --> 00:59:36,239
she wasn't real, and then was like, I can't wait

789
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:40,760
to get a chance to kill these two. And now

790
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:46,199
that the tables have turned, it suddenly, Oh no, Look

791
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,480
I have sympathy for you in this moment. But you

792
00:59:51,559 --> 00:59:53,119
said what you said, and you are what you are,

793
00:59:53,119 --> 00:59:55,719
and you did what you did, and you have got

794
00:59:55,719 --> 01:00:05,360
to cope with that. She tried to hold my hand

795
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,559
and cried when Manassa was assassinated. For just a short moment,

796
01:00:08,599 --> 01:00:10,679
I thought perhaps she was one of the good ones.

797
01:00:11,239 --> 01:00:13,440
Then I'd learned she was attempting to purchase a faction

798
01:00:13,519 --> 01:00:16,079
worse spot, that she'd been trying for a long time,

799
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:20,400
that she wanted to come into the dungeon and freely

800
01:00:20,559 --> 01:00:25,679
kill people just like me, my friends. The anger that

801
01:00:26,039 --> 01:00:31,719
washed over me was so brilliantly white. All three of

802
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:38,320
my eyes burned. I'd never felt anything like this. That's

803
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,599
the ring. I'm so sorry. An anger that is so

804
01:00:41,719 --> 01:00:44,719
insane that his eyes burned, and it's like nothing he's

805
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:53,039
ever felt, one hundred percent. And in his head he's

806
01:00:53,039 --> 01:00:57,159
hearing his mother say, it's so loud, Karl, it's so loud. Quiet.

807
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:01,840
I said, he's saying to something else, but it seems

808
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:07,199
like he's saying it to Donadia. You know, it's just oh.

809
01:01:07,679 --> 01:01:10,199
This is when he tells Dona, I changed my mind

810
01:01:10,639 --> 01:01:16,639
and donut no, Carl, please no, I need you to

811
01:01:16,679 --> 01:01:20,119
step back. I needed to calm down right now. I

812
01:01:20,159 --> 01:01:24,320
got this. It's okay. I did it for my people.

813
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:31,719
Donadia whispered for your people, I asked, incredulous, No, donadi Ya,

814
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:35,199
you did it for you, and now your people are

815
01:01:35,239 --> 01:01:40,840
going to suffer because of it. Your mark has fully formed.

816
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:46,000
And there it was the edge. I saw it clear

817
01:01:46,039 --> 01:01:50,519
as can be. Right there, I stood upon it, one

818
01:01:50,559 --> 01:01:53,840
foot stretched out over open air. You can do that.

819
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,400
Sometimes you can find clarity when you need it most.

820
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:01,000
I took a step back. You can find clarity, but

821
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:03,159
you can't hold on to it. Apparently, Carl because you're

822
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:09,480
still gonna use this fucking ring, so you know, mm

823
01:02:09,519 --> 01:02:20,840
mmmm mmmmm mmmm. I'm just saying mm hmm. So the

824
01:02:21,039 --> 01:02:28,000
Mango kills her. I love that Donut frames it like

825
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,320
he's pissed about your ruling in the pet show a

826
01:02:32,159 --> 01:02:39,360
donut never change and he gets this huge like achievement.

827
01:02:42,559 --> 01:02:47,840
Gavrillo princip I'm gonna read you a Bosnian Serb student

828
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:52,760
who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro Hungarian throne,

829
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:56,480
and his wife, Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on

830
01:02:56,679 --> 01:02:59,920
twenty eighth June nineteen fourteen, set off a chain of

831
01:03:00,079 --> 01:03:02,920
events that led to the Austro Hungarian invasion of Serbian

832
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,559
the start of World War One a month later. So

833
01:03:05,719 --> 01:03:09,639
that's who that is. And basically the AI is like,

834
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:13,679
you killed somebody important, important in like a sort of

835
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,639
bureaucratic sense, but still and if you really want to

836
01:03:17,679 --> 01:03:20,000
function up, I can't wait to see some of the

837
01:03:20,039 --> 01:03:26,199
other guys that you could kill. So that's the notification

838
01:03:27,199 --> 01:03:29,719
and Mongo gets the credit for the kill, which I

839
01:03:29,719 --> 01:03:33,880
think is interesting because Mongo being Donuts Pet I would

840
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:35,920
have thought she'd get the credit. I didn't know he

841
01:03:36,039 --> 01:03:43,079
could get credit on his own. That's I just didn't

842
01:03:43,119 --> 01:03:49,920
realize that. So Michael says, probably a touch of she

843
01:03:50,159 --> 01:03:55,440
Maria too. Regarding the anger for sure, Sarah FM says, yeah,

844
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:57,599
I don't see how that is the ring, but the

845
01:03:57,679 --> 01:03:59,559
all three, in my eyes, that very much feels like

846
01:03:59,599 --> 01:04:02,960
she influence. Sarah f'm no offense, but I don't get

847
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,519
why you are so like the ring isn't doing anything

848
01:04:05,599 --> 01:04:09,159
when the AI's description says it more than once. It's

849
01:04:09,239 --> 01:04:11,639
just weird how you're like refusing to see that the

850
01:04:11,719 --> 01:04:15,679
ring is doing anything. I don't get that. Like you

851
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,480
can think whatever you want to think, but I just

852
01:04:17,519 --> 01:04:21,199
don't understand the logic. It feels like it's just said.

853
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:25,719
It's not subtext, it's actual text. I don't get it.

854
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:31,199
It's fine, but it's just weird. So now we have

855
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:35,519
to deal with the mercenaries, and they all have like

856
01:04:35,599 --> 01:04:39,199
a pink ring, but they're like is a red one also,

857
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,360
So we've got to like figure out exactly what we're

858
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,079
doing with these guys and see if we can trust

859
01:04:46,119 --> 01:04:51,000
them or you know, it's it's a ticklish situation. Because

860
01:04:51,039 --> 01:04:54,599
they're telling Carl, we didn't want to be here or

861
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,800
we didn't want to fight you guys. This was like

862
01:04:58,079 --> 01:05:01,840
something that we were just conscripted in too. And I

863
01:05:03,639 --> 01:05:07,639
believe this in theory, but I just don't really know.

864
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:12,920
It is certainly possible for the mercenaries to be promised

865
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:19,800
something else, you know. I just don't really like I

866
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,239
want in my heart, I want to believe them so bad,

867
01:05:24,599 --> 01:05:27,239
and for the most part I do. For like eighty

868
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:32,239
percent of them, I do. But the decision to be

869
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:38,719
a mercenary indicates a certain type of person. I understand

870
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:41,239
that we don't always get choices the way we'd like,

871
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,119
so I'm not trying to cast too many judgments on

872
01:05:44,199 --> 01:05:49,000
them just based on this, but there is an element

873
01:05:49,079 --> 01:05:53,320
of that in there, and I'm just I'm just I

874
01:05:53,360 --> 01:06:04,760
don't know, I don't know. We'll see. So this is

875
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:08,360
when uh, one of the Nole's, Colonel Pillbacks, no Corporal, sorry,

876
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:13,719
Corporal Pillbacks, is like explaining to him we didn't want

877
01:06:13,719 --> 01:06:18,000
to be here. But then he's like, these two lock

878
01:06:18,079 --> 01:06:19,920
John Mains are our mates, and if you kill them,

879
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:25,079
we won't be too enthusiastic about helping you. And Carl carefully,

880
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:28,400
slowly takes the ring of divine suffering off his finger,

881
01:06:29,199 --> 01:06:31,960
which seems to I won't say everybody relaxes, but I

882
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,800
will say they are watching for that, because on this

883
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:35,840
floor he can mark all of them at once, which

884
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:46,199
is just bananas. And yeah, it's uh. As he is

885
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:49,559
talking to him, all the anger I'd just been feeling

886
01:06:49,719 --> 01:06:52,239
was gone, drained out of me, like all my rage

887
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:55,039
had been ejected out of an air lock. I felt

888
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,440
painfully empty in my chest, as if part of me

889
01:06:58,679 --> 01:07:01,559
was gone now too. I'd been holding onto that anger

890
01:07:01,679 --> 01:07:04,360
for so long. I wasn't sure how I felt now

891
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,760
that she was dead. An unexpected sense of mourning hit

892
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:10,519
me all at once, and it was confusing and strange

893
01:07:10,599 --> 01:07:14,039
and completely bewildering. And I think that morning is coming

894
01:07:14,159 --> 01:07:18,440
from the rage you felt toward her was like driving

895
01:07:18,559 --> 01:07:21,280
you in a way that once it's gone, once she's

896
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:23,639
dealt with, you don't have that pushing you anymore. And

897
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:27,079
now what once you realize that, like taking care of

898
01:07:27,159 --> 01:07:31,000
this one person hasn't really solved anything. I mean, I'm

899
01:07:31,039 --> 01:07:32,880
not trying to say they shouldn't have killed her, and

900
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:36,400
it is going to be the first step in solving things.

901
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:42,480
But it's like any time that you create a big

902
01:07:42,639 --> 01:07:44,840
plan for yourself and you finally execute it and you

903
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:50,039
have a moment of oh and it's done. Oh and

904
01:07:50,159 --> 01:08:01,400
it's done. Now what you know? So he uh, finally,

905
01:08:01,519 --> 01:08:03,880
it's just like, guys, don't worry. We're not going to

906
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:07,599
kill you, at least not like now, and we're just

907
01:08:07,639 --> 01:08:10,039
gonna need you to make it to like agree, if

908
01:08:10,079 --> 01:08:12,840
any of your friends try to hurt any one of us,

909
01:08:13,719 --> 01:08:16,840
you have to kill them, which is a fair deal.

910
01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:21,479
And they are also He's like, we're going to disarm

911
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:24,760
you all and also have you guys all be separated

912
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:31,720
and let's see, Zev, this is victory. Zev wanted to

913
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:33,640
me to alert you you'll all be going on a

914
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:37,520
live round table tomorrow all the remaining war lords, including

915
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,520
Juice Box and Ferdinand, which is a first. Don't worry.

916
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:45,000
All hostilities traditionally freeze while you're away. I don't like

917
01:08:45,079 --> 01:08:53,119
that line. Traditionally. If there's anything that the past ten

918
01:08:53,279 --> 01:08:58,880
years has taught me is that tradition is nothing. Nobody

919
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:03,560
in power her respects tradition on any level or gives

920
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:08,159
a shit if it means they lose. It's nothing. And

921
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:12,720
I expect this is gonna be different this time. I

922
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:24,199
just feel like, you know, so Florin is letting him know,

923
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:27,119
Northern Side, we're gonna have to retreat and fall back.

924
01:09:27,199 --> 01:09:30,560
It's bad. And then Donut, are we gonna talk about it?

925
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:35,000
And it turns out that he is now the leader

926
01:09:35,159 --> 01:09:38,520
of the party because his strength in total has outstripped hers.

927
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:43,600
And she has a moment, but he recognizes it's kind

928
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:46,640
of for show, and that a few floors ago she

929
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:49,159
would have been genuinely pissed, but right now that's not

930
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:55,720
truly an issue. And this is when they have the

931
01:09:56,319 --> 01:09:59,319
chat conversation. You do know what came over you. I

932
01:09:59,399 --> 01:10:01,800
want you to th that ring away. It's not worth it.

933
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:06,520
It's doing something to you. You're scaring me. The words

934
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,239
were like a slap to my face. How many times

935
01:10:09,279 --> 01:10:12,680
had my mother said that to my father? Still my

936
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:17,960
finger itched. I took a deep breath. Not yet. I

937
01:10:18,159 --> 01:10:21,039
need it for just a little longer. I need to

938
01:10:21,079 --> 01:10:25,000
get stronger. It's important. It's not going to matter if

939
01:10:25,039 --> 01:10:28,520
it kills you first. That's why I need you. Donut,

940
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:30,920
you did good. Just now I'm going to need you

941
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:36,359
to help me stay grounded. Donut didn't answer. That's fucked up, Carl.

942
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:39,399
I don't like this about him. He's like, I need

943
01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:43,119
you to keep me from going nuts. That is so unfair.

944
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:46,600
She has her own mental health to deal with, and

945
01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:52,439
it's already precarious as we know. You being like I

946
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:56,119
need you to help pull me back. No, no, no no,

947
01:10:56,359 --> 01:11:00,520
don't you dare put that on her? Do you know how? Like,

948
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,439
suppose you don't listen next time, how is she gonna

949
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:09,199
take that? She will blame herself forever it is. I

950
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:14,680
don't like that response at all. The fact that she

951
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:18,279
doesn't answer him, I think indicates that she feels the

952
01:11:18,359 --> 01:11:20,640
same way I do, but doesn't really have the words

953
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:25,199
for it. If you are depending on an outside force

954
01:11:26,079 --> 01:11:29,000
to keep you grounded, because otherwise you can't be trusted,

955
01:11:30,079 --> 01:11:37,479
what happens when there isn't one there? Dude, Hello, you're

956
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:42,760
playing with I was gonna say explosives, and then I

957
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:52,359
was like, oh god, all right, I'm over time. I'm

958
01:11:52,359 --> 01:11:56,119
gonna rap thank you guys again until next time. To

959
01:11:56,319 --> 01:12:29,359
lou motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network. Pat